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What's New at Hyperion - 1994

+ +Note that many, if not most, of the links listed here are obsolete by +now. This list is kept online for historical interest only. + +
+ +

+

December 30, 1994 +
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December 26, 1994 +
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December 25, 1994 +
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  • Fixed the + foreign episode schedules + so the "to the episode list" links in guide pages accessed from them + will lead back to the appropriate country's schedule rather than + the US one. +
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+

December 22, 1994 +
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+

December 21, 1994 +
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  • Hyperion has moved its Web server to a faster host. All the URLs + should stay the same; + send us mail + if you see problems. The old server will continue to work for a + few days as well. + +
+ +

+

December 20, 1994 +
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+

December 19, 1994 +
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  • Updated the + UK air schedule + to reflect the start of season two in February 1995. +
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+

December 16, 1994 +
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  • The Guide has an even newer title picture, thanks to + EIT's talented digital artist + Scott Brisko. + Netscape users get an added bonus to make up for the browser's + meddlesome dithering. + +
  • The + onscreen credits + for + "Soul Mates" + have been uploaded. +
+ +

+

December 13, 1994 +
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December 11, 1994 +
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December 9, 1994 +
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  • A list of Babylon 5 + sponsors + based on an informal survey of four season-two episodes is available. +
+ +

+

December 8, 1994 +
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December 6, 1994 +
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  • Added more ordering information for the limited-edition + soundtrack CD. + +
  • A new version of the UNIX + B5 quote generator + has been uploaded, and its + FAQ + has been updated. +
+ +

+

December 5, 1994 +
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December 1, 1994 +
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November 30, 1994 +
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November 25, 1994 +
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November 24, 1994 +
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November 22, 1994 +
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November 21, 1994 +
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November 17, 1994 +
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November 15, 1994 +
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November 14, 1994 +
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November 13, 1994 +
+
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  • Added guide pages for several more episodes and updated the airing + order on the episode list. +
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+

November 12, 1994 +
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November 11, 1994 +
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November 10, 1994 +
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+

November 9, 1994 +
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  • A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ List + is available on the ftp server. It has been updated for season two and + rearranged somewhat. + +
  • New versions of the UK episode guide + (text + and + AmigaGuide + versions, the latter with an accompanying + readme file) + are available. +
+ +

+

November 8, 1994 +
+
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  • The past week's worth of JMS' + GEnie messages + are on the ftp server. (No, I don't know when more will be + uploaded.) +
+ +

+

November 6, 1994 +
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+

November 4, 1994 +
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  • The Lurker's Guide has a new logo, thanks to J. J. Franzen + <jfranzen@scf.usc.edu>. Let me (and him) + know what you think. +
+ +

+

November 3, 1994 +
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November 1, 1994 +
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October 31, 1994 +
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October 30, 1994 +
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October 29, 1994 +
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+

October 27, 1994 +
+
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  • AutoCAD versions of the + models + from the ftp server are now available. +
  • A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ List + is available on the ftp server. +
+ +

+

October 26, 1994 +
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+

October 21, 1994 +
+
    +
  • A separate page for the Babylon 5 + comic series + has been started. Eventually it will turn into a page similar to the + episode list. +
+ +

+

October 18, 1994 +
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  • New versions of the + PTEN Station List + and + UK Episode Guide + have been placed on the ftp server. +
  • Un-CGI + version 1.2 is available. It supports multiple form selections with + the same element name (e.g. the <select multiple> tag.) +
+ +

+

October 17, 1994 +
+
    +
  • New versions of the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles + episode guide + and + supplement + are available on the ftp server. +
+ +

+

October 16, 1994 +
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+

October 15, 1994 +
+
    +
  • The Used Software Exchange + is now open for business. If you have old software you want to get + rid of, stop by and enter it into the database. +
+ +

+

October 14, 1994 +
+
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  • A + synopsis + of + "Chrysalis" + is online. +
  • Reworked the + episode list + a little bit so it's more useful for people looking for a list + of upcoming episodes, and looks a bit nicer too (I hope.) +
+ +

+

October 13, 1994 +
+
    +
  • A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ List + is available on the ftp server. +
  • A page about the + Sinai Peninsula, + part of the presentation about my visit to + Israel, + is online. +
  • Singapore, + like the UK, won't be getting + "TKO." + The air schedule has been adjusted accordingly. +
+ +

+

October 7, 1994 +
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+

October 4, 1994 +
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  • + Now running NCSA httpd 1.3. You shouldn't notice any difference. +
+ +

+

October 3, 1994 +
+
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  • + Fleshed out the guide page for + "Chrysalis" + thanks to a diligent UK viewer who shall remain anonymous. +
+ +

+

October 2, 1994 +
+ + +

+

September 26, 1994 +
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  • + A page about + Caesarea + is online, the first of the pages with photos from a vacation to Israel. +
  • + The + Used Software Exchange + is now in beta-test. Play around with it and report any problems + you see. +
+ +

+

September 25, 1994 +
+New on the +FTP server: + + +

+

September 22, 1994 +
+ +New on the +FTP server: + + +

+

September 19, 1994 +
+New on the +FTP server: +
    +
  • + JMS Usenet articles + from July through mid-September 1994. +
  • + Updates to the + cast + and + character + lists. +
  • + A + MacBinary version + of the QuickTime movie (with short effects clips from + "The Gathering"). It's the same movie as before, just easier + to decode for Mac users. The old version is still available. +
+ +

+

September 15, 1994 +
+
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  • +A new version of the +Babylon 5 FAQ List +is available on the ftp server. The changes (marked in the file) have +been incorporated into the Lurker's Guide. +
+ +

+

September 13, 1994 +
+
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  • +Matt Ryan's guide page for +"And the Sky Full of Stars" +is online. It's actually three pages since there's so much in +the episode. +
    +I'm still looking for someone to fill Matt's shoes -- follow the +link at the top of this page if you think you're up to it. +
+ +

+

September 12, 1994 +
+
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  • +Added a note about the season-two +opening monologue +from a JMS GEnie message. +
  • +For Amiga users, some models of a few Babylon 5 ships in Imagine format, +along with sample renderings in JPEG, have been uploaded to the +ftp server. +
  • +A new version of the +Writers/Directors List +is online. +
+ +

+

September 11, 1994 +
+ + +

+

September 7, 1994 +
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September 5, 1994 +
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  • +Roughly 50 new pictures have been added to the various pages about my +visit to Russia. +A shorter presentation about +Israel +is in the works. +
+ +

+

September 3, 1994 +
+ + +

+

September 2, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +A new version of the +Babylon 5 FAQ List +is available on the ftp server. Some of the changes have +been incorporated into the Lurker's Guide. +
+ +

+

August 31, 1994 +
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+

August 30, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Channel 4 in the UK seems to be following the US airing order after all. +The +UK +and +Singapore +air schedules have been updated accordingly. +
+ +

+

August 29, 1994 +
+
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  • +Please join me in welcoming Matthew Murray, i9717029@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu, +to the Guide. He'll be writing the synopses for year two. To kick things +off, he has written a +synopsis +of +"Babylon Squared". +
+ +

+

August 28, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Updated the +US episode list +with new season-two airing information from JMS, and created new guide +pages for five more episodes (currently containing nothing but writing +and directing credits.) +
  • +The first collection of JMS messages from +CompuServe +are on the ftp server. +
+ +

+

August 27, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Added a link to some information about the new commander, +Captain Sheridan, +from JMS. +
  • +Wrote a +synopsis +for +"Eyes" +and fleshed out its guide page a bit. +
+ +

+

August 26, 1994 +
+
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  • +Added a bunch of JMS postings from Compuserve about +"The Quality of Mercy" +to its guide page. Also a brief one on +"Babylon Squared". +
  • +A short QuickTime movie with some effects sequences from the pilot is +available on the +ftp server. It was uploaded to CompuServe +by someone at Warner Bros. +
+ +

+

August 25, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +A new version of the +UK Episode Guide +text file has been uploaded. It is also available in +AmigaGuide +format (compressed with the LHA archiver) for Amiga users. +
+ +

+

August 23, 1994 +
+ + +

+

August 21, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Wrote +Un-CGI 1.0, +a program to make processing input from forms on WWW servers much easier. +
+ +

+

August 20, 1994 +
+
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  • +A couple tidbits from JMS in the +Recurring Characters +page: Na'Toth will be played by Mary Kay Adams in season two, and a new +character, Warren Keffer, will be introduced. +
+ +

+

August 19, 1994 +
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August 18, 1994 +
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August 17, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +A new version of the +Babylon 5 FAQ List +is available on the ftp server. The changes therein (mostly minor) have +been incorporated into the Lurker's Guide. +
+ +

+

August 16, 1994 +
+ + +

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August 14, 1994 +
+ + +

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August 13, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Fleshed out the episode-guide page for +"The Quality of Mercy". +The page has a slightly different format from the rest, one that will +be adopted from now on: at the top of the page is all the usual information +about guest stars and the quick description of the plot. A new section, +titled "Watch for," follows, a non-spoiler list of things to pay special +attention to while watching. Then, after a dividing line, the spoiler +section of the guide page proceeds as usual. This new format, as it's +retrofitted onto the old episodes, should make the Guide more useful when +viewing episodes for the first time. +
  • +Matt Ryan's episode-guide page for +"The War Prayer" +has been installed. +
  • +The first two days of the +travelogue +of my +visit to Russia +are prettied up and ready to read. +
+ +

+

August 12, 1994 +
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August 11, 1994 +
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+

August 10, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Split the July What's New items off to a separate page (an +index of old items is at the bottom of this page.) +
  • +A transcript of a July +radio interview +with JMS is available on the +ftp server. +
+ +

+

August 9, 1994 +
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August 6, 1994 +
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August 5, 1994 +
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August 4, 1994 +
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August 3, 1994 +
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July 30, 1994 +
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July 29, 1994 +
+
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  • +Matt Ryan's guide entry for +"Mind War" +is online. +
+ +

+

July 27, 1994 +
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  • +A new version of the +appearances chart +is available. +
  • +The +onscreen credits +for +"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1" +have been transcribed. +
  • +All the +hardware +for our faster net link is in place and the lines seem to +be working. The ftp and WWW servers here may be unavailable periodically +over the next few days as we get everything switched over; please bear +with us. +
+ +

+

July 26, 1994 +
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July 25, 1994 +
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July 24, 1994 +
+ +

+New on the ftp server: +

+ +

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July 23, 1994 +
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+

July 20, 1994 +
+
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  • +The +onscreen credits +for +"Legacies" +have been transcribed. +
  • +Several new batches of + +JMS's messages on GEnie +are on the ftp server. +
  • +Poll 5 +results for +"Eyes" +have been announced. +
  • +We have all the hardware for our new-and-improved net link. The phone +company is scheduled to install our lines on July 22, so by early next week +Hyperion should provide much faster response time. +
+ +

+

July 18, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +The guide entry for +"Legacies" +has been fleshed out a little. +
  • +The July 18 edition of the +FAQ list +is online. +
+ +

+

July 17, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +The names of actors in the episode-guide entries are now links into the +Cardiff movie database +(or rather, its mirror at Mississippi State University.) +
+ +

+

July 16, 1994 +
+
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  • +You can browse through a list of +places +I visited during my trip to Russia. The area is still under construction, +but some pictures are available. +
+ +

+

July 15, 1994 +
+
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  • +Matt Ryan's episode guide entry for +"Infection" +is in place. +
+ +

+

July 14, 1994 +
+ + +

+

July 11, 1994 +
+New on the ftp server: +
    +
  • +All the images in the +Pictures directory +are now accompanied by miniatures in the respective Thumb directories. +Previously not all images had thumbfiles. +
  • +An +experimental +Web interface +to the Pictures directory is available. If I get no negative comments +about it, it'll become the default interface. +
+ +

+

July 7, 1994 +
+ + +

+

July 6, 1994 +
+New on the ftp server: + + +

+

July 4, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Incorporated various minor changes from the new version of the +FAQ list +into various pages. Changes of note: +
      +
    • +"Chrysalis, Part II" is now titled +"Points of Departure". +
    • +Production for season two begins August 1 instead of July 18. +
    +
+ +

+

July 1, 1994 +
+
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  • +After numerous delays, +we have finally ordered all the equipment and phone lines for a much +faster net link. Everything should be up and running within a month, +fates willing. This should cut down on the long delays you've probably +noticed while browsing the Guide. +
+ +

+

June 29, 1994 +
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June 27, 1994 +
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June 24, 1994 +
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June 21, 1994 +
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June 19, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Updated the +episode list +with new second-season episode titles from JMS. +
+ +

+

June 16, 1994 +
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June 15, 1994 +
+ + +

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June 14, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Added a page for +"Chrysalis, Part II", and updated the information +in several of the other episodes' pages. +
+ +

+

June 10, 1994 +
+
    +
  • +Added the What's New page. +
+
+ +

+To the current What's New page + + diff --git a/95.whatsnew.html b/95.whatsnew.html new file mode 100755 index 00000000..cb4f2c18 --- /dev/null +++ b/95.whatsnew.html @@ -0,0 +1,1879 @@ + + +What's New - 1995 + + + + + + +

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What was New - 1995

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+

December 22, 1995 +
+ Much delayed by my lack of time, a + synopsis + of + "Passing Through Gethsemane" + is online. + +

+

December 14, 1995 +
+ A + transcript + of a December 11 Prodigy chat session with Bruce Boxleitner is + available. + +

+

December 12, 1995 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Passing Through Gethsemane" + are available. + +

+

December 10, 1995 +
+ JMS's messages from + America Online + are now being archived (see the file "latest" for the current month's + messages.) They are also searchable via the + Find + page. + +

+ The + history of Babylonia + file has been HTMLified. Thanks to Hallvard B Furuseth. + +

+ Switched to the table-based Newsflash section on the home page. + The vast majority of responses were positive; the only complaints came + from users of NCSA Mosaic for X, which has had extremely broken table + support recently. However, such users can upgrade to the latest beta + release of Mosaic, which should make the Newsflash section readable. + Users of non-table-enabled browsers probably won't notice any + difference. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Divided Loyalties" + are online. Thanks to Dan Dassow. + +

+

December 7, 1995 +
+ The flow of + JMS CompuServe messages + should be back up to speed now. + +

+

December 6, 1995 +
+ Some episode pages have been shuffled around in the past couple days. + If you select an episode and get a different episode's page, use + your browser's reload function and you should get the right page. + +

+ I'm considering a slight format change to the Newsflash section on + the home page. Have a look at the + alternate version + and let me know if you object. I know some people are pretty + religious about not using tables for formatting, but this is + tabular information. In particular I want to know if it breaks + anyone's browser; I believe I've structured it such that it'll look + fine on browsers without table support. (No need to tell me it works + in Netscape.) If you're using Mosaic for X, you might want to upgrade + to the latest beta release, which doesn't break horribly on tables like + the most recent previous releases have. + +

+

December 5, 1995 +
+ A list of + character appearances + for the first part of season three is available. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Passing Through Gethsemane" + are online. + +

+

December 4, 1995 +
+ A transcript of a + real-time chat session + with JMS on CompuServe on December 2 is available. + +

+

November 29, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ + is online. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "A Day In the Strife" + is online. + + +

+

November 28, 1995 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "A Day in the Strife" + are available. + + +

+

November 27, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + TV station address list + is online. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "A Day In the Strife" + are online. + +

+

November 23, 1995 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Convictions" + are available. + + +

+

November 21, 1995 +
+ The onscreen credits are now searchable via the + Find + page. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Convictions" + are online. + +

+ A new version of the + TV station address list + is online. + +

+

November 18, 1995 +
+ New versions of the science-fiction television + schedule + and + titles + files are online. + +

+ A full + synopsis + of + "Convictions" + is online. + +

+

November 16, 1995 +
+ The + synopsis + of + "The Long, Twilight Struggle" + is illustrated. + +

+

November 15, 1995 +
+ The + synopsis + of + "Divided Loyalties" + is illustrated. + +

+

November 13, 1995 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Matters of Honor" + are available. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Matters of Honor" + are online. + +

+ The + synopsis + of + "The Fall of Night" + is illustrated. Other recent episodes will follow shortly. + +

+ A new version of the + TV station address list + is online. + +

+ A full + synopsis + of + "Matters of Honor" + is online. + +

+

November 10, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + German B5 FAQ + is online. See also the + hypertext + version. + +

+

November 9, 1995 +
+ A schedule for + Hong Kong + is online. + +

+ The listing of past reruns has been removed from the + US/Canada episode list + and moved to a new + historical schedule + page. That should cut down on loading time for the regular episode + list. + +

+

November 7, 1995 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Fall of Night" + are online. + +

+

November 6, 1995 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Fall of Night" + are available. + +

+ A new version of the + TV station address list + is online. + +

+ New copies of the + spoiler + and + non-spoiler + chronology files are online. + +

+

November 5, 1995 +
+ A batch of + JMS GEnie messages + from September and October (mostly October) is online. If + any GEnie users out there have been saving JMS' messages, please + let me know; the archive is missing a lot of them. + +

+

November 4, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ + is online. + +

+

October 30, 1995 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Comes the Inquisitor" + are available. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Comes the Inquisitor" + are online. + +

+

October 29, 1995 +
+ The Background pages for most of the season-two episodes now contain + a more concise summary of season one. Thanks to Katrina Glerum + (kat@gol.com). + +

+

October 28, 1995 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Long, Twilight Struggle" + have been transcribed. + +

+

October 27, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ + is online. + +

+

October 26, 1995 +
+ A transcript + of the Oct. 25 America Online chat session with Bruce Boxleitner and + JMS is available. + +

+ Hyperion's Web server has been upgraded; problems with hung connections + ought to be cleared up as a result. Let me know if you have problems. + +

+

October 24, 1995 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Long, Twilight Struggle" + are available. + +

+

October 20, 1995 +
+ The last several months' worth of + JMS CompuServe messages + are now searchable via the + Find page. + Earlier messages won't be indexed for a while since they're stored + in the archive in a different format. + +

+

October 19, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + writers/directors list + has been installed. It uses tables, but is designed to look + nearly as good on browsers without any table support. (It breaks on + recent versions of NCSA Mosaic for X, which has severely buggy + tables.) + +

+

October 18, 1995 +
+ The + Cache Loader + page now exists. Visit it before you explore the Guide and you'll + preload most of the navigational images into your browser for faster + access. There's a link to it toward the bottom of the home page. + +

+ The Last Updated List is back in a much friendlier, more useful + form. See the link near the top of this page. + +

+

October 16, 1995 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Divided Loyalties" + are available. + +

+ A new version of the + TV station address list + is online. + +

+ New versions of the + cast + and + character + lists are online. + +

+

October 14, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ + is online. + +

+ A guide page for the third novel, + "Blood Oath," + is available. + +

+ The guide page for comic #11, + "The Psi Corps and You," + has been fleshed out. + +

+

October 8, 1995 +
+ New versions of the sci-fi TV + schedule + and + titles + files are online. + +

+

October 7, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + station/airtime list + is online. I have taken over maintaining the list; please send me + corrections and additions. The list is also now available via + the Air Times page + in the Reference section. + +

+

October 3, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + TV station address list + is online. + +

+

September 25, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + soundtrack index + is online. + +

+

September 22, 1995 +
+ A + transcript + of a real-time chat with Jerry Doyle and Richard Biggs on eWorld + is available. + +

+

September 18, 1995 +
+ Fleshed out the guide page for the mercifully quick conclusion of the + current comic storyline, + "Coda for Human and Narn in B Flat." + +

+

September 15, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + FAQ List is online. + +

+

September 11, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + soundtrack index + is online. + +

+

September 6, 1995 +
+ New versions of the + non-spoiler + and + spoiler + B5 Chronologies are online. + +

+

September 3, 1995 +
+ Matthew Murray's synopses for the final four episodes are online. + +
August 30, 1995 +
+ Added a schedule page for + the Netherlands. + +

+

August 21, 1995 +
+ The full, spoiler-filled versions of the guide pages for + "Comes the Inquisitor" + and + "The Fall of Night" + are online here. Many thanks to Jason Snell for maintaining them + until now. + +

+ A new version of Edwin Yau's + UK episode guide + is available on the FTP server. Presumably it contains major + spoilers for the final four episodes. + +

+

August 20, 1995 +
+ Steven Orso + <snorso@facstaff.wisc.edu> + has scoured the JMS archives from top to bottom and come + up with hundreds of new items for the "jms speaks" sections of just + about all the episode-guide pages, especially first-season ones. + See them in the + Episodes + section of the Guide. + +

+ The + Other Resources + page now has an extensive list of B5 articles in British magazines. + Thanks to Peter McQuillan. + +

+

August 16, 1995 +
+ Jason Snell's + spoiler + page for "The Fall of Night" now + has a synopsis. + +

+ A new version of the + season two appearances chart + is online. + +

+

August 13, 1995 +
+ A separate schedule for + Melbourne + is available, since it doesn't match up with the schedule + in the rest of Australia. + +

+

August 12, 1995 +
+ The + "The Episodes" + link from the home page will now take you to the appropriate episode + list for your country, if your domain name indicates which country + you're connecting from. If you get the US/Canada episode list and + there's an active schedule page for your country, please + send me mail + and I can update the guide to know where your particular domain is. + You can get to a list of countries from any schedule page. + +

+

August 10, 1995 +
+ Jason Snell's + spoiler + page for "Comes the Inquisitor" now + has a synopsis. + +

+

August 9, 1995 +
+ Fleshed out the guide page for comic issue 9, + "Duet for Human and Narn in C Sharp." + +

+

August 8, 1995 +
+ Jason Snell's spoiler pages for + "Divided Loyalties" + and + "The Long, Twilight Struggle" + are now online here. Please continue to send information about + the last two episodes to Jason. + +

+

August 7, 1995 +
+ Season one has started again in + Costa Rica. + +

+

August 3, 1995 +
+ A + transcript + of a July 20 real-time chat session with Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi) on + CompuServe is available. + +

+ Jason Snell's + spoiler page + for + "The Long, Twilight Struggle" + now has a + synopsis. + +

+

July 31, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + FAQ List is online. + +

+

July 27, 1995 +
+ A new version of + Un-CGI, + a utility to aid in the processing of HTML forms, is available. + +

+

July 26, 1995 +
+ Jason Snell's + spoiler page + for + "Divided Loyalties" + now has a + synopsis. + For your convenience there's a link to that synopsis from the + Lurker's Guide as well. + +

+

July 24, 1995 +
+ Australian users may want to try the FTP server's newest mirror site, + econ-www.newcastle.edu.au. + +

+

July 22, 1995 +
+ A new version of the B5 Quote Generator is available from the + ftp server. + +

+ There are now guide pages for the first six season-three episodes. + They're all just about empty, but they're there. + +

+

July 17, 1995 +
+ European users may want to try the FTP server's Swedish mirror site, + ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se. + +

+

July 15, 1995 +
+ The following guide pages and synopses are now illustrated: + + +

+

July 14, 1995 +
+ Hyperion's Web server should be much, much faster now; we're getting + connectivity from + Interactive Marketing Ventures, + resulting in significantly higher available bandwidth than we had + before. As a result, a lot of the links that used to point to the + ftp.uml.edu + mirror site are now local instead. We hope you enjoy the new, faster + Lurker's Guide. Please let us know if you encounter any problems + with our new setup. + +

+

July 13, 1995 +
+ Fleshed out the guide page for comic issue 8, + "Silent Enemies." + Note that it contains a spoiler for the as-yet-unaired TV episode + "Divided Loyalties." + +

+

July 12, 1995 +
+ The text-only versions of the guide pages + will now be updated automatically from the + hypertext versions once a day. + +

+ The "About the Lurker's Guide" and "Mini-FAQ" pages have been combined, + with extra additions, into the new + Lurker's Guide FAQ + page. + +

+

July 6, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + FAQ List is online. + +

+

July 3, 1995 +
+ Matthew Murray's + synopsis + of + "Knives" + is online. + +

+

July 2, 1995 +
+ A new version of the + soundtrack index + is available on the ftp server. + +

+

July 1, 1995 +
+ An alternate ordering + of the episodes is available. + +

+

June 29, 1995 +
+ + +

+

June 23, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Babylon 5 begins in Germany + on August 3. +
+ +

+

June 22, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Babylon 5 returns to Greece + in July. + +
  • New on the Behind the Scenes page: + "What's an 'executive producer?'" + by JMS; + The Three Ds of 3D + by Mojo of Foundation Imaging. + +
  • A version of the home page without the background is available. + +
  • The This Week's Episode + link from the home page should work reliably through caching + proxy gateways now. Some people had complained that their + proxy servers weren't noticing when it was changed to point + to new episodes. (It may take a little while for this change + to be noticed by your proxy, but after that there shouldn't + be a problem. If you're getting an old episode's page from + the link, try hitting your browser's reload button.) +
+ +

+

June 21, 1995 +
+ + +

+

June 20, 1995 +
+
    +
  • The summary of + Poll 5 results now includes all 41 + episodes (counting the pilot.) + +
  • The Lurker's Guide home page has been redesigned a bit, to look + spiffier (especially on Netscape 1.1, though it looks fine on + other browsers too) and to be more succinct. + Let me know + what you think. +
+ +

+

June 18, 1995 +
+
    +
  • The hole in the JMS + Usenet + archive (January - May 1995) has been + filled, thanks to Jacque Marshall. +
+ +

+

June 17, 1995 +
+ + +

+

June 15, 1995 +
+
    +
  • By popular demand, you can now look at a + list + of all the guide entries with their last modification dates. + Thanks to Uttam M. Narsu for reminding me that this could be done + without lots of work! +
+ +

+

June 11, 1995 +
+ + +

+

June 10, 1995 +
+ + +

+

June 8, 1995 +
+
    +
  • B5 has been renewed for a third season. As announced on America + Online: + +

    + Date: 95-06-08 22:22:38 EDT + +

    + Well you can all relax, break out the champagne, or + whatever your pleasure is -- we got official notification + for the third season this afternoon. We're good for 22 + more eps. Prep will start next week, and we intend to + start production in late July. The third season will + premiere in Nov. We feel pretty good here, I hope all + of you do as well. Thanks to all of you fans for + your support. We'll try to live up to your expectations. + +

    + John Copeland
    + Producer - Babylon 5 + +

    +

  • A new version of the + FAQ List + is available. +
+ +

+

May 31, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 30, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Version 1.4 of + Un-CGI, + a tool to ease processing of WWW form results, is now available. +
+ +

+

May 29, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Updated all the text-only copies of the guide pages on the FTP server. +
+ +

+

May 28, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 27, 1995 +
+
    +
  • A new version of the + FAQ List + is available. + +
  • Most of the schedule of US reruns has been added to the + episode list. +
+ +

+

May 25, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Some more + video clips + from the America Online promotion have been uploaded; many of them + have been integrated into the Guide in appropriate places. +
+ +

+

May 24, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 22, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 21, 1995 +
+
    + +
  • Added a schedule for + Colombia. + +
  • Bad news: PTEN is showing reruns until October, delaying the + last four season-two episodes until just before season three. Please + don't complain to the Lurker's Guide about this -- we have absolutely + no influence on the matter. The best thing to do is probably + to write to your local TV station. + Or plan a vacation to the + UK, + where the last four episodes will start airing in just over three + weeks. + +
+ +

+

May 20, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 18, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 17, 1995 +
+
    + +
  • The guide pages for the + comics + are now in the same format as the episode and novel pages. + +
+ +

+

May 16, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 15, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 12, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 10, 1995 +
+ + +

+

May 9, 1995 +
+
    + +
  • Upgraded the HTTP server to NCSA httpd 1.4. This should clear up + the performance problems you may have noticed lately. + +
+ +

+

May 8, 1995 +
+ + +

+

April 27 - May 8, 1995 +
+ On vacation! + +

+

April 26, 1995 +
+ + +

+

April 25, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Erik Oliver's guide page for the second novel, + "Accusations," + is online. +
+ +

+

April 24, 1995 +
+
    +
  • The + edit decision list + for + "There All the Honor Lies" + is online. Requires a browser that can display tables (e.g. + Netscape 1.1.) This new feature is courtesy of Michael Brown, + <brown@ftms.com> + and will be updated weekly. + +
  • Did some initial fleshing out of the guide page for + "There All the Honor Lies." + +
  • The Lurker's Guide is now being served by new server software + (NCSA httpd 1.4b5.) Please let me know if you have trouble with it. + +
+ +

+

April 17, 1995 (Black Monday) +
+ + +

+

April 13, 1995 +
+ + +

+

April 11, 1995 +
+ + +

+

April 10, 1995 +
+
    +
  • John Vornholt will be speaking at the University of Arizona in + Tuscon. [Details] +
+ +

+

April 1, 1995 +
+ + +

+

March 28, 1995 +
+
    +
  • The current week's episode (for the US) is now available at a + constant URL, + <http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/guide/current.html>. + You can add it to your hotlist if you like; it'll be changed once + a week. Thanks to Juliet C. Bourne for suggesting it. +
+ +

+

March 26, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Added a schedule for + Belgium. + The pilot movie is scheduled for March 27 at 7:35PM, with the + series starting the next night at the same time. +
+ +

+

March 19, 1995 +
+ + +

+

March 18, 1995 +
+ + +

+

March 15, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Added a schedule for + Israel. +
+ +

+

March 14, 1995 +
+
    +
  • A very tentative schedule for + France + is online. +
  • Added pages about the next two issues of the + comic series. + Thanks to Jack Holt. +
+ +

+

March 8, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Added a small + FAQ + detailing some of the common requests I get. +
+ +

+

March 7, 1995 +
+
    +
  • New versions of the + cast + and + character + lists have been uploaded to the ftp server. +
+ +

+

March 6, 1995 +
+ + +

+

March 5, 1995 +
+ + +

+

March 4, 1995 +
+ + +

+

March 3, 1995 +
+
    +
  • The guide page for the first novel, + "Voices," + has been greatly expanded thanks to Erik Oliver. Let him know + what you think. +
+ +

+

March 2, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 28, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 26, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 25, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Fleshed out the guide page for + "Hunter, Prey" + (though it's by no means complete.) + +
  • Created guide pages for episodes 37-40. No new information is + available, though. +
+ +

+

February 24, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 23, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 21, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 19, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 18, 1995 +
+
    + +
  • Added a link to the current (US/Canada) episode on the home page. The + link will (in theory) be updated every Monday morning, California time. + +
  • Added a + Table of Contents + page, as well as a brief page + about the Lurker's Guide. + +
  • Did a major rework of the + Making of Babylon 5 + page, breaking lots of it off into separate documents and giving + it a look more consistent with the rest of the Guide. + +
  • A + synopsis + of + "All Alone in the Night" + is online. +
+ +

+

February 17, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 16, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 15, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 14, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Started a separate series of pages for the Babylon 5 + novel series. + The first entry is still incomplete; I'll fill in more + after I've read the book! + +
  • Poll 5 results + for + "GROPOS" + are online. +
+ +

+

February 12, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Babylon 5 is now being shown in + Sweden + Sundays at 18:00. +
+ +

+

February 11, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 9, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 8, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 6, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 5, 1995 +
+
    +
  • I've been informed that KCOP, the Los Angeles B5 station, won't + be showing + "GROPOS" + this week due to other programming. Calling the station and + asking them to show it is probably a good idea if you live in LA + and want to see it. (I've also been told that it will be shown + Saturday at 8:00 and is only preempted on Thursday.) +
+ +

+

February 4, 1995 +
+
    +
  • A + synopsis + of + "The Coming of Shadows" + is available. + See the episode first - it's a doozy and you + will enjoy it more if you haven't read the spoilers. + +
  • A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ List + is available on the ftp server. +
+ +

+

February 2, 1995 +
+ + +

+

February 1, 1995 +
+ + +

+

January 31, 1995 +
+ + +

+

January 28, 1995 +
+ + +

+

January 25, 1995 +
+ + +

+

January 23, 1995 +
+ + +

+

January 22, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Converted the rest of the guide pages to the new format. +
+ +

+

January 21, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Started retooling the episode guide pages to conform to the Guide's + new look. Pages up to + "Grail" + have been updated so far; more are on their way. +
  • As part of the retooling, added a "Background" link to the guide + pages that gives a short summary of the overall storyline up to + but not including the episode you link from. The text of the + summary is mostly taken from the latest version of the FAQ List. + Useful if you're just starting to watch the show and want to know + what's gone on before the episode you're about to see. +
  • A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ List + is available on the ftp server. +
  • JMS Usenet messages + from September 1994 through (part of) January 1995 are available + on the FTP server. +
+ +

+

January 20, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Reorganized the + US episode list + page slightly, so it's more intuitive (I hope) and more compact. + Let me know if you think it's significantly better or worse; if + reaction is positive, I'll apply the same general idea to other + parts of the Guide to streamline it. +
  • The guide page for + "A Race Through Dark Places" + has been fleshed out, thanks to quick action by Dave Zimmerman. +
+ +

+

January 19, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Put Dave Zimmerman's page for + "Soul Mates" + in place. +
+ +

+

January 17, 1995 +
+
    +
  • An air schedule for + Chile + is available. +
+ +

+

January 15, 1995 +
+ + +

+

January 14, 1995 +
+
    +
  • A new version of the UNIX + B5 quote generator + has been uploaded, and its + FAQ + has been updated. +
+ +

+

January 13, 1995 +
+
    +
  • Wrote a synopsis of + "Treason," + issue 2 of the + comic series. + The rest of the page will be fleshed out shortly. +
+ +

+

January 2, 1995 +
+ + +
+

+To the current What's New page + +

+

+
Maintained by +Steven Grimm +<koreth@hyperion.com>.
+Send mail +if you have comments or suggestions.
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[Home] + +
+ + +

What was New - 1996

+ +
+ +

+

December 30, 1996 +
+ The onscreen credits for + "The Hour of the Wolf," + "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi," + "The Summoning," + and + "Falling Toward Apotheosis" + are online. + +

+ A glitch in all the credits pages has been fixed; this should make + the credits look a lot better under Microsoft Internet Explorer. + (For the technically minded, the problem was that the alignment + from the preceding <p> tag was being carried over into a + <pre> block.) + +

+

December 25, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "The Summoning" + is online. + +

+

December 21, 1996 +
+ The archive of JMS' + CompuServe + and + Usenet + messages from September through November has been split apart into + smaller files. Apologies to everyone who suffered through the + excruciatingly long download before. + +

+ A new introduction to the Background section of the episode guide + for season four is in place. (Select the "Background" link from an + episode's guide page to see a summary of the story up to, but not + including, that episode.) + +

+ The + Effects + page has been updated to reflect the fact that Foundation Imaging + no longer does B5's special effects. + +

+

December 19, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Falling Toward Apotheosis" + are online. + +

+

December 10, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Falling Toward Apotheosis" + is online. The synopsis of + "The Summoning" + should be available shortly. + +

+ A revamped version of Edwin Yau's + UK episode guide + is available. + +

+

November 26 - December 10, 1996 +
+ On vacation. + +

+

November 25, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" + is online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Summoning" + are online. + + +

+

November 21, 1996 +
+ A new version of the B5 FAQ is available: + + + +

+

November 18, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" + are online. + +

+

November 11, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Hour of the Wolf" + are online. + +

+

November 10, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "The Hour of the Wolf" + is online. + +

+ A schedule for + Mexico + is online. + +

+

November 8, 1996 +
+ A schedule for + Russia + is online. + +

+

November 5, 1996 +
+ The + Fans + page has moved from the Making Of section to the Resources section, + a more intuitive location. + +

+

November 4, 1996 +
+ A schedule for the + Philippines + is online. + +

+

November 3, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Z'ha'dum" + is online. + +

+ A + transcript + of an October 8 chat session with Jeff Conaway is online. + +

+

November 2, 1996 +
+ Several recent months' worth of + JMS GEnie messages + have been uploaded. + +

+

October 30, 1996 +
+ Lots of little changes all over the Guide today. I took the day off + work to spend plowing through some of my E-mail backlog. I've + gotten through 220 messages so far; sadly, that's not even half the + backlog, but I'll attempt to catch up before season four begins. + Please bear with me if you notice something is out of date -- it's + almost undoubtedly on my to-do list already, and more mail about it + will only slow me down further! + +

+

October 17, 1996 +
+ I'll be out of town until October 21, so if you don't see pages + getting updated over the weekend, that's why. + +

+ A new version of the B5 FAQ is available: + +

+ +

+

October 14, 1996 +
+ A schedule for + WBTV + in Central and South America is available. + +

+

October 13, 1996 +
+ A transcript of JMS' October 11 + IRC chat session + is available. + +

+

October 9, 1996 +
+ The Poll 5 votetaker is now maintaining Web pages with a + summary + of the results, and an up-to-date version of the results for the + current + episode. + +

+

October 8, 1996 +
+ Some of you have noted that the Guide isn't using inline JPEGs any + more. They'll be back! The method I was using to choose between + JPEGs and GIFs turned out to be too heavy a load on the server. + Luckily, we'll be installing a faster machine in the next couple + of weeks. And, spare time permitting, I'll shortly be implementing + a more efficient way of doing the picture selection. The JPEGs + will return when the first of those two things happens. Thanks + for your patience. + +

+

October 3, 1996 +
+ A + transcript + of a recent interview with Bruce Boxleitner, John Copeland, and + Jerry Doyle is available. + +

+ New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + +

+ +

+

October 1, 1996 +
+ Hyperion has moved to a new ISP yet again. If you see that your + browser is listing this server as "http://199.165.129.193/", your + browser is keeping old host addresses around longer than it's + supposed to. You'll want to restart it at some point (though + the old address will continue to be forwarded to the new one for + at least a week.) + +

+

September 28, 1996 +
+ The spoiler page for + "Shadow Dancing" + and its + synopsis + have been moved to the main part of the Guide. + +

+ So has the spoiler page for + "Z'ha'dum." + +

+

September 27, 1996 +
+ The spoiler page for + "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" + has been moved to the main part of the Guide, as has a + synopsis. + +

+

September 23, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + UK episode guide + is online. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Z'ha'dum" + are online. One more round of thanks to George Chauvet for + transcribing them. The + spoiler page + for the episode now contains analysis and other material. Be sure + you really want to see it! + +

+

September 22, 1996 +
+ The spoiler pages for + "Walkabout" + and + "Grey 17 Is Missing" + have moved to the main part of the Guide. The remaining + season-three episodes' pages are still being maintained separately. + +

+

September 17, 1996 +
+ The + spoiler page + for + "Z'ha'dum" + now contains a synopsis. + +

+

September 16, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Shadow Dancing" + are online. Thanks to George Chauvet for transcribing them. + +

+ The + spoiler page + for + "Shadow Dancing" + now contains a synopsis. + +

+

September 9, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" + are online. Thanks to William F. Harris for transcribing them. + +

+ The + spoiler page + for + "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" + now contains a synopsis. + +

+

September 2, 1996 +
+ The + B5 Support Page + has had a major update. (It happened on August 28, in fact.) + +

+ The onscreen credits for + "Walkabout" + and + "Grey 17 Is Missing" + are online. Thanks to George Chauvet for transcribing them. + +

+ New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + +

+ +

+ The + spoiler page + for + "Grey 17 Is Missing" + now contains a synopsis and other material. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + from the UK airing of + "Walkabout" + are online. + +

+

August 18, 1996 +
+ The + spoiler page + for + "Walkabout" + now contains a synopsis and other material. + +

+ New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + +

+ +

+

August 15, 1996 +
+ The layout of the + US/Canada episode list + has been changed slightly. Let me know if it causes problems for you. + +

+

August 3, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + UK episode guide + text file has been uploaded. + +

+ Even newer versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + +

+ +

+

July 27, 1996 +
+ New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + + + +

+

July 23, 1996 +
+ This week's + TV Guide + article on B5 is available online. (That link probably won't work + after July 29.) + +

+

July 17, 1996 +
+ We have started putting JPEG versions of some of our inline images + in place alongside the GIF versions. Our server should automatically + feed you an image type your browser can handle; if you find you're + getting garbage or a broken-image icon where you used to get a + picture, please let us know. The change will be an ongoing process + over the next several weeks. JPEG provides significant savings in + file size, and thus download time, for some images; it also looks + much better in many cases, especially on 16-million-color displays. + +

+ Not all images will be JPEGged, just those that benefit either in + appearance or size. That means most of the navigational icons will + remain GIFs even for people who can handle inline JPEGs. + +

+ This feature will probably not be available on mirror sites, which + will continue to serve up GIF images. + +

+

July 15, 1996 +
+ New versions of all the files in the B5 FAQ are online: + + + +

+

July 2, 1996 +
+ New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + + + +

+

June 25, 1996 +
+ A new + Poll 5 results summary + is available, covering episodes up to + "War Without End, Part 2." + +

+

June 15, 1996 +
+ New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + + + +

+

June 8, 1996 +
+ Babylon 5 has been confirmed renewed for a + fourth season! + This was announced Friday June 7 at 9pm EDT by producer John + Copeland in the "B5 stations renewal" folder on America Online, + and + verified Saturday June 8 + by JMS while at the science fiction convention Wolf 359. + +

+

June 3, 1996 +
+ A + German + mirror + of the Lurker's Guide is online. + +

+

May 31, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + news and schedules + part of the B5 FAQ is online. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "War Without End, Part Two" + are online. + +

+ The guide page for novel #6, + "Betrayals," + has been fleshed out. + +

+

May 30, 1996 +
+ Synopses for "War Without End" parts + one + and + two + are online. + +

+

May 29, 1996 +
+ A new mirror is online, at Digital Service Consultants in Atlanta, + Georgia. The URL is + http://www.dscga.com/lurk/lurker.html. + +

+

May 27, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "War Without End, Part Two" + are available. + +

+

May 26, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "War Without End, Part One" + are online. + +

+ A transcript + of an America Online chat session with Mira Furlan is available. + +

+

May 24, 1996 +
+ New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + + + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Interludes and Examinations" + are online. + +

+

May 23, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "War Without End, Part One" + are available. + +

+

May 18, 1996 +
+ New versions of parts of the B5 FAQ are online: + + + +

+

May 16, 1996 +
+ A transcript of an America Online chat session with + Richard Biggs + is available. + +

+

May 15, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Ship of Tears" + is online. + +

+

May 14, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "A Late Delivery from Avalon" + is online. + +

+

May 13, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Interludes and Examinations" + are available. + +

+

May 12, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Interludes and Examinations" + is online. (Yes, I know two episodes have been skipped; the + synopses should be available soon.) + +

+ By popular demand, new entries in the guide pages will now have + modification dates next to them. Items older than two weeks won't + have dates, so you can scan for the dates to see what's generally + new, then look at the individual dates to see how new each thing is. + +

+ This will only affect entries added after this announcement, but + in two weeks nobody will be able to tell the difference anyway. + +

+ The dates are in US format (month/day.) + +

+

May 11, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Ship of Tears" + are online. + +

+

May 9, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "A Late Delivery from Avalon" + are online. + +

+

May 7, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Ship of Tears" + are available. + +

+

May 3, 1996 +
+ New versions of all the files in the B5 FAQ are online: + + + +

+

April 30, 1996 +
+

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Sic Transit Vir" + are online. + +

+

April 29, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "A Late Delivery from Avalon" + are available. + +

+

April 28, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Sic Transit Vir" + is online. + +

+ The guide page for + "Ship of Tears" + has been fleshed out. + +

+

April 24, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" + is available. + +

+

April 23, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Sic Transit Vir" + are available. + +

+

April 22, 1996 +
+ Since so many people see the episodes on weekends, starting next week + the "This Week's Episode" link will switch on Tuesday morning rather + than Monday morning. That'll give people a chance to check the guide + page for the episode they've just seen without having to hit an extra + page. + +

+

April 21, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + news/schedule + part of the B5 FAQ is online. + +

+

April 19, 1996 +
+ Hyperion has switched to a new Internet service provider. You + should notice substantially faster performance, though initial + accesses to the Guide might be slow until our updated nameserver + records have been propogated. (If that's gibberish to you, don't + worry about it!) + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" + are available. + +

+

April 18, 1996 +
+ Erik Oliver's guide page for novel #5, + "The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper + of Your Name" + is online. + +

+

April 15, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" + are available. + +

+

April 13, 1996 +
+ New versions of the + general + and + news/schedule + parts of the B5 FAQ are online. + +

+

April 12, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Severed Dreams" + is available, as are the + onscreen credits. + +

+

April 8, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Severed Dreams" + are available. It is easily the highest-rated episode so far. + +

+

April 7, 1996 +
+ A + transcript + of yesterday's real-time conference with JMS on CompuServe is available. + +

+

April 3, 1996 +
+ UK users can access the new ftp.hyperion.com mirror at + www.cant.ac.uk. + +

+

April 2, 1996 +
+ Several official + press releases + about the show are available. + +

+

March 27, 1996 +
+ Updated all the links on guest stars' names in the episode guide to + point to the official location of the Internet Movie Database. + +

+

March 21, 1996 +
+ An updated + summary + of the + Poll 5 + results is available. + +

+

March 19, 1996 +
+ A new mirror site in + Greece + is online. + +

+ The + writers/directors list + has been updated. + +

+

March 18, 1996 +
+ The Babylon 5 FAQ has been split into five separate files, and + expanded with new material from the Lurker's Guide and elsewhere. + + +

+ A revised version of the + season 3 appearances chart + is online. + +

+

March 16, 1996 +
+ An updated version of the discussion of parallels between B5 and the + works of + H. P. Lovecraft + is available on the FTP server, as is an + HTML version. + +

+

March 12, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + station address list + is online. + +

+

March 7, 1996 +
+ A nicer, HTMLized version of the + Poll 5 results summary + is online. + +

+

March 5, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Point of No Return" + are available. + + +

+

March 4, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + station address list + is online. + +

+

March 3, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Point of No Return" + have been transcribed. + +

+

March 2, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Point of No Return" + is available. + +

+

March 1, 1996 +
+ Hyperion is running new Web server software. Please let us know if + you see problems. + +

+

February 28, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Messages from Earth" + have been transcribed. + +

+

February 27, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Messages from Earth" + are available. + +

+

February 24, 1996 +
+ The following synopses are now illustrated: + + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Messages from Earth" + is online. + +

+

February 21, 1996 +
+ Matthew Murray's + synopsis + of + "Exogenesis" + is online. + +

+

February 20, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Exogenesis" + have been transcribed. + +

+

February 19, 1996 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Exogenesis" + are available. + +

+

February 18, 1996 +
+ The + synopsis + of + "Dust to Dust" + is now illustrated. + +

+

February 17, 1996 +
+ The following synopses are now illustrated: + + +

+

February 15, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ + is online. + +

+ New versions of the SF TV + titles + and + schedule + files are online. + +

+

February 14, 1996 +
+ An + episode guide + (with some + documentation) + for the Apple Newton is available. + +

+ Erik Oliver's guide page for novel #4, + "Clark's Law," + is online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Dust to Dust" + are available. + +

+

February 13, 1996 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Dust to Dust" + have been transcribed. + +

+ The + synopsis + of + "Matters of Honor" + is illustrated. + +

+

February 11, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Dust to Dust" + is online. + +

+

February 8, 1996 +
+ The episode previews on the official B5 web site are now available + via a permanent link on the Lurker's Guide home page. + +

+ A recent + interview + with Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander) is available. + +

+

February 6, 1996 +
+ A discussion of the parallels between B5 and the works of + H. P. Lovecraft + is available on the FTP server. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Voices of Authority" + are available. + +

+

February 5, 1996 +
+ Previews are now available for + "Dust to Dust" + courtesy of the + official B5 web site. + +

+

February 4, 1996 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Voices of Authority" + is online, as are the + onscreen credits. + +

+

February 3, 1996 +
+ A B5 concordance/encyclopedia is available on the FTP server. + Part 1, + part 2, + and + part 3. + +

+

February 2, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ + is online. + +

+

January 30, 1996 +
+ An Australian + mirror + of the Guide is available. + + +

+

January 27, 1996 +
+ An interview with Foundation Imaging animator + Mojo + is available. + +

+

January 22, 1996 +
+ Previews are now available for + "Voices of Authority" + courtesy of the official B5 website. + +

+ The + Poll 5 Summary + has been updated to include episodes up to + "Passing Through Gethsemane." + +

+

January 21, 1996 +
+ The + synopsis + of + "Comes the Inquisitor" + is illustrated. + +

+

January 20, 1996 +
+ The Background section of the episode guide pages for season three + now have a new summary of the story so far. Thanks to Katrina + Glerum, kat@gol.com. + +

+

January 19, 1996 +
+ A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ + is online. + +

+

January 14, 1996 +
+ A new partial + mirror + (episode guide only, no images) is available for UK users. + +

+

January 13, 1996 +
+ A viewer campaign is underway to keep B5 airing on + WPTT + in Pittsburgh, PA. + +

+

January 12, 1996 +
+ The + cast + and + character + listings have been updated. There is also now a list of actors + ordered by + first appearance. + Thanks to Dan Dassow, M195722@sl1001.mdc.com. + +

+

January 7, 1996 +
+ A schedule for + Indonesia + is online. + +

+ A new version of the + Babylon 5 FAQ + is online. + +

+ B5 has resumed airing in + Sweden. + +

+ +

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+

December 30, 1997 +
+ New on the + Products + page, + Software + section: A new + Web site + for Sierra's upcoming B5 space combat game. + +

+ By popular demand, the + US episode list + page now lists air times for TNT's behind-the-scenes special as + well as the rerun times for + "In the Beginning." + See the "TNT Rebroadcast" section. + +

+

December 29, 1997 +
+ The final eight episodes of season four will be shown in + Israel + in two four-episode blocks on February 6 and 7. + +

+ Mira Furlan will be answering reader questions on + TV Guide's + bulletin + board. + +

+

December 27, 1997 +
+ On December 28, Bruce Boxleitner and Jerry Doyle are hosting TNT's + broadcast of "2001: A Space Odyssey." A behind-the-scenes B5 special + will also be airing Sunday night. See TNT's + B5 site + for details. + +

+

December 25, 1997 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Endgame" + is online, thanks to Arturo Magidin, who joins the Lurker's Guide + as a synopsis writer for season five. + +

+

December 24, 1997 +
+ New on the + Products + page: A new + Web address + for the publishers of Norman Corwin's radio shows. + +

+

December 23, 1997 +
+ Relief for more Canadian viewers: CFCF in Montreal will reportedly + be showing season five Wednesday mornings at 1AM starting + January 6. + +

+

December 18, 1997 +
+ New on the + Products + page: JMS comments on the Starfury model from Revell. + +

+ A + transcript + of Richard Biggs' Q&A session on TV Guide Online has been posted. + +

+

December 17, 1997 +
+ TNT is organizing several public viewing parties for the US premiere of + "In the Beginning." + See their + B5 site + for details. + +

+

December 16, 1997 +
+ Relief for some Canadian viewers: CFMT in Toronto will be + showing season five. Start date is likely to be Jan-Feb 1998. CFMT + asks that viewers not call them for more information; when a schedule + is decided they'll announce it. + +

+

December 12, 1997 +
+ TNT's B5 Web site + has been updated and now features QuickTime versions of their + B5 advertisements, among other material. + +

+

December 4, 1997 +
+ A + transcript + of the December 3, 1997 + "Politically Incorrect" + featuring Bruce Boxleitner is available. + +

+ The January 1998 issue of + Cinefantastique + features some B5 + articles. + +

+ Del Rey's Web site + has a + sample chapter + from the novelization of + "In the Beginning." + +

+

November 29, 1997 +
+ Peter David's novelization of the prequel movie, + "In the Beginning," + has shipped and is in some bookstores now. + +

+ Newsflash: + Ain't It + Cool News + has possible news about the status of the sequel series, + "The Babylon Project: Crusade." + The information has not been officially confirmed. + +

+

November 20, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: + The "Babylon Emporium" section of the + Official Fan Club site + is now up and running. + +

+

November 17, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: + Sierra's + B5 reference CD, + The Official Guide to + J. Michael Straczynski's "Babylon 5," + has shipped and should begin appearing in stores today. + +

+

November 16, 1997 +
+ New on the + Products + page: + G'Kar sculptures. + +

+

November 9, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" + are online. + +

+ TV Guide Online + has a short + article + about Tracy Scoggins joining B5. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Rising Star" + is online. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Between the Darkness and the Light" + is online. + +

+

November 8, 1997 +
+ New on the + Products + page: + JMS asks for help tracking + down pirate videos. + +

+

November 6, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: B5 begins in + Hungary + on November 8. + +

+ A + transcript + of JMS's November 3 chat session on TV Guide Online is available. + Contains some spoilers for season 5 and "Crusade." + +

+

November 5, 1997 +
+ New on the + Products + page: + more information on the + Columbia House video releases in the US. + +

+ A + transcript + of JMS's October 31 chat session at SciFi Con 2.0 is online. + +

+

November 4, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: + TNT's B5 Web site + is now open. + +

+ Removed the "This week's episode" link from the home page, since + B5 is off the air in the US until it starts on TNT in January. + The link will return at that time. + +

+ Removed the list of US broadcast stations from the + Air Times + page for the same reason. + +

+

October 31, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" + are online. + +

+ Another updated + letter from TNT + is available, with additional air schedule information. + +

+

October 28, 1997 +
+ JMS will be chatting live at + Sci-Fi Con 2.0 + on October 31 at 7PM Eastern. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Rising Star" + are online. + +

+

October 27, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Rising Star" + are online. + +

+

October 26, 1997 +
+ Product news in the + Video + category: Season two tapes have started coming out in Australia. + +

+ Product news in the + Miscellaneous + category: Details about the fourth-season card set from Fleer. + +

+

October 24, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: The + UK + broadcast will be moving to Thursdays starting November 6. + +

+ New product in the + Toys/Games + category: A + B5 collectible card + game. + +

+

October 23, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: The US video release of B5 from + Columbia House + has begun. It's not yet listed on their Web site but can be ordered + now. + +

+ I'll be posting notices on this page for additions and updates to the + Products + page from now on, since some people have commented that it's a hassle + to scan the page a lot. Recent entries: + +

    +
  • Books: + An upcoming B5 cookbook. +
  • Books: + The 1998 B5 calendar from Slow Dazzle. +
  • Software: + Updated info on the upcoming B5 CDs from Sierra On-Line. +
+ +

+

October 22, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Endgame" + are online. + +

+

October 21, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: JMS will be chatting live on + TV Guide Online + on November 3 at 9:30PM Eastern. + +

+ Another updated + letter from TNT + is available, with additional + "In the Beginning" + air dates and other information. + +

+

October 19, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: According to JMS and Harlan Ellison, the sequel series + "Crusade" + is nearly a done deal. The final decision should be made within a + few weeks. + +

+

October 17, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Endgame" + are online. + +

+

October 16, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Harlan Ellison will be chatting live on + CompuServe's + Book Preview Forum (GO PREVIEW) on October 17 at 10PM EDT. + +

+ An updated + letter from TNT + is available, with details on air dates, letterboxing, and more. + +

+

October 14, 1997 +
+ A + transcript + of the JMS chat session on Wild Wild Web on October 8 is available. + +

+

October 13, 1997 +
+ The following note from Dean Treadway at TNT may be cause for relief + for some viewers: + +
+ For those of you who are not getting the final four episodes of the + fourth season because your local station dropped B5 in October, we'll + see what we can do about getting those final four on some 1 am-5 am + slot sometime before Jan 19, but there's a strong possibility that it + might not happen. No promises. You'll hear about it if it happens, + through the TNT/B5 webpage, due to launch in early November. +
+ +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Between the Darkness and the Light" + are online. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Between the Darkness and the Light" + are online. + +

+

October 7, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Richard Biggs will be answering reader questions on + TV Guide's + bulletin board + starting October 13. + +

+

October 6, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: I'll be out of town October 8-14, so the guide page for + "Endgame" + will be delayed a few days. Sorry for the inconvenience. + +

+ Newsflash: JMS will be chatting live on October 8 at 10PM Eastern on + Wild Wild Web. + +

+

October 3, 1997 +
+ Mania + has an + interview + with Mira Furlan. + +

+

October 1, 1997 +
+ The print ad and episode description in next week's + TV Guide + contain more spoilers for + "Between the Darkness and the Light" + than you may enjoy knowing. Read with caution. On the plus side, the + episode was picked as an Editor's Choice, hence the more detailed than + usual description. + +

+

September 14, 1997 +
+ Harlan Ellison will be chatting live in + America Online's + Globe Auditorium on September 17. + +

+

September 13, 1997 +
+ Bill Mumy is answering fan questions on + TV Guide's + Web + bulletin board. + +

+

September 12, 1997 +
+ A + transcript + of the September 9 episode of "Politically Incorrect" featuring + Harlan Ellison is online. + +

+ Newsflash: + Harlan Ellison's September 8 appearance on + The Late Late Show + has been rescheduled to September 24 due to Princess Diana coverage. + +

+ Newsflash: The previous + satellite feed + update was incorrect; the initial feed is Fridays at 2300 Eastern. + +

+

September 4, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: The September 6 + TV Guide + has a short + article + about the remainder of season four. It includes spoilers. + +

+

September 3, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: B5's + satellite feed + has moved to a new time and channel. + +

+

September 2, 1997 +
+ Bill Mumy will be appearing on "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" on Cartoon + Network on September 12 (11PM Eastern.) + +

+

August 30, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: + "Severed Dreams" + has won the + Hugo award + for best dramatic presentation. + +

+

August 28, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: + Tracy + Scoggins + has been cast in the new role of Captain Elizabeth Lochley for season + five. + +

+ Newsflash: + Harlan Ellison will be appearing on CBS' + The Late Late Show + on September 8. + +

+

August 24, 1997 +
+ A + transcript + of the August 12 chat session with Bruce Boxleitner on + Prodigy + is available. + +

+

August 20, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Bruce Boxleitner will be appearing on the syndicated talk + show + "Vibe" + tonight. Check local listings for airtimes. + +

+

August 19, 1997 +
+ New versions of the SF TV + schedule + and + titles + files are online. + +

+

August 18, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Face of the Enemy" + are online. + +

+

August 17, 1997 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Racing Mars" + is online. + +

+

August 15, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: This week's + TV Guide + has a small + article + on Claudia Christian's departure. Contains some spoilers for season + five. There is also an + article + with Bruce Boxleitner's comments on her departure. + +

+ Newsflash: + Jason Carter guest-stars on Fox's + "Roar" + on August 18. + +

+

August 10, 1997 +
+ Bruce Boxleitner will appear on + "Home and Family" + on + The Family Channel + on August 12 at 1PM (Eastern/Pacific.) + +

+

August 8, 1997 +
+ Applied lots of spelling and punctuation fixes to some early guide + pages. Thanks to Darin Adler for poring over the pages tracking + them down. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Conflicts of Interest" + is online. + +

+

August 5, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Atonement" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: The B5 issue of + TV Guide + sold 12.5 million copies, on par with issues featuring + The X-Files, + according to JMS at a recent convention. They want to do another B5 + cover later in the year. Thanks to everyone who participated in the + buying campaign. + +

+

August 3, 1997 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "The Face of the Enemy" + is online. + +

+

July 30, 1997 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "The Exercise of Vital Powers" + is online. + +

+

July 28, 1997 +
+ The onscreen credits for the following episodes are now online: + + + +

+

July 27, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Jeff Conaway will appear on + FOX After + Breakfast + on July 28. + +

+

July 24, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: B5 has been nominated for an + Emmy + for best makeup for + "The Summoning." + +

+

July 23, 1997 +
+ The onscreen credits for the following episodes are now online: + + + +

+

July 21, 1997 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Intersections in Real Time" + is online. + +

+

July 19, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Claudia Christian will not be appearing in season 5. + The full story. + +

+

July 16, 1997 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "No Surrender, No Retreat" + is online. + +

+

July 15, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Rumors, Bargains and Lies" + are online. + +

+

July 13, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Babylon 5 begins in + Finland + on August 17. + +

+ Newsflash: A Canadian + letter-writing campaign + is underway to convince local stations to pick up season 5. + +

+

July 11, 1997 +
+ An + index + of the second B5 soundtrack CD has been uploaded. + +

+

July 10, 1997 +
+ An updated + letter from TNT + answers questions about season five, their plans for reruns, + international distribution, air schedules, and more. Check + it out before you send them mail asking for information. + +

+ Sonic Images will be releasing a five-CD set titled + "Babylon 5 - The Cult" + containing the unabridged soundtracks to the episodes + "Severed Dreams," + "A Late Delivery from Avalon," + "Walkabout," + "Shadow Dancing," + and + "Z'ha'dum." + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "No Surrender, No Retreat" + are online. + +

+

July 6, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Exercise of Vital Powers" + are online. + +

+

July 5, 1997 +
+ A new version of the B5 FAQ is available: + + + +

+

July 2, 1997 +
+ A + transcript + of JMS's June 30 IRC chat is available on + Rough Cut's + Web site. One nugget of information from that chat session: JMS says + Columbia House Video may release B5 videotapes at some point. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Intersections in Real Time" + are online. Thanks to Arturo Magidin, who has started transcribing + the episode credits for the Guide. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Moments of Transition" + are online. + +

+ There's a warning on the Lurker's Guide home page, but it bears + repeating: the recent issue of TV Guide contains major spoilers for + future episodes. Of course, you should still + go buy two copies. + +

+ Several people have forwarded a + letter from TNT + about B5. Since it's of general interest, I've reproduced it here. + +

+

July 1, 1997 +
+ The season-four finale's title has been announced: + "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars." + +

+ Newsflash: B5's online following, including the Lurker's Guide, will + be profiled on the July 3 edition of + "The Site" + on + MSNBC. + +

+

June 30, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: The + July 5 + issue + of + TV Guide + is now online. It features a B5 cover story. + This is an opportunity to help the + show! + (The B5 article contains major spoilers for future episodes.) + +

+ Updated the + US episode list + to include information about TNT's rebroadcast of seasons 1-4, as + well as the latest news about season 5 renewal. Switched the date + format to be consistent with the rest of the per-country schedules. + +

+

June 27, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Babylon 5 has been renewed for a fifth season, + according to an announcement by Harlan Ellison on "The + Late Late Show." Season five will air on cable network + TNT. + The start date, which presumably will come after the remainder of season + four airs on PTEN, is unknown; it's also unknown whether the PTEN + stations will get the first season-five episode in exchange for + "Sleeping in Light," + which will now air at the end of season five, or which episode will be + shown at the end of season four in foreign markets. More news as it's + available. + +

+

June 22, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Intersections in Real Time" + are online. + +

+ Moved the + Cast + page out of the Universe section and into the Making Of section where + it more properly belongs. The old People page is now named + Creators, + so as not to imply that actors aren't people. + +

+

June 17, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Babylon 5 is now airing in + Slovenia. + +

+ Newsflash: This month's MacUser magazine has a behind-the-scenes + article + on B5. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Face of the Enemy" + are online. + +

+

June 16, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: According to an unconfirmed report in TV Zone magazine, + season 4 will begin in the + UK + on July 23. + +

+

June 11, 1997 +
+ A guide page for novel #8, + "Personal Agendas," + is online. The page for novel #7 is in progress. + +

+

June 9, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Exercise of Vital Powers" + are online. + +

+

June 8, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: Rumor has it that the July 5 issue of + TV Guide + will feature a B5 cover story. + This is an opportunity to help the + show! + +

+

June 7, 1997 +
+ The + synopsis + of + "Atonement" + is now illustrated. + +

+ A + transcript + of a January 23 IRC chat session with JMS is available. + +

+ The summer rerun schedule for the US has been announced and is listed + on the + US episode list page. + +

+

June 6, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: The renewal announcement from Warner Bros., if one occurs, + may not happen until July, judging by a recent + message from JMS. + (The message is all the information I have; when there's more news + you'll see it here.) + +

+ The + synopsis + of + "The Illusion of Truth" + is now illustrated. + +

+ A + transcript + of the June 2 chat session on + America Online + with JMS and John Copeland is available. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Rumors, Bargains and Lies" + is online. + +

+

June 5, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "No Surrender, No Retreat" + are online. + +

+ The + synopsis + of + "Epiphanies" + is now illustrated. + +

+

June 3, 1997 +
+ Newsflashes: the June 5 issue of the Christian Science Monitor has + a B5 article, as does the June 9 issue of Newsweek magazine. + +

+ The episode guide and synopsis screenshots are now in JPEG format + rather than GIF format. In most cases, this should result in + improved load time (JPEG typically produces smaller output than GIF + for these types of images) and, for people with 16-bit (64K) or higher + color depth, much nicer-looking images. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Lines of Communication" + is online. + +

+

May 31, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: JMS and John Copeland will be chatting live on + America Online + Monday, June 2 at 9PM Eastern time. Go to keyword "Babylon 5". + +

+ Some of the inline images in the Guide will probably switch over to + JPEG format soon. I've changed the Lurker's Guide logo on the home + page to a JPEG image as a test; unless I'm deluged with complaints + the change will happen sometime in the next week. Images that work + better in GIF format, such as buttons, will stay GIF. + +

+ For those of you who're curious about this kind of thing, in the course + of making the decision I compiled a list of the most popular Web + browsers used to access the Lurker's Guide. The following are the + most popular browsers out of the last 933945 accesses to the "This + Week's Episode" link on the Lurker's Guide home page, which should be + a representative sample of the user base. Note that this just measures + fetches of that one URL; images aren't included in these totals. + +

+ + + + + + + + + +
Hits%Browser
70968275.99Netscape Navigator
17331418.56Microsoft Internet Explorer
235702.52Lynx
20480.22Unknown
19450.21Prodigy browser
15980.17IBM WebExplorer
13630.15AOL browser
+ +

+

May 26, 1997 +
+ The + synopsis + of + "Falling Toward Apotheosis" + is now illustrated. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Moments of Transition" + is online. + +

+

May 25, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Rumors, Bargains and Lies" + are online, as are + preliminary results + for + "Moments of Transition." + +

+

May 15, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Conflicts of Interest" + are online. + +

+

May 14, 1997 +
+ A new version of the B5 FAQ is available: + + + +

+

May 12, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: + Director David Eagle will be chatting live on + America Online + on Wednesday, May 14 at 9:30PM EDT. He'll be in the official B5 area's + "Eclipse Cafe." + + +

+

May 8, 1997 +
+ The following synopses are now illustrated: + + + +

+ Newsflash: NBC's "TV Censored Bloopers" + airing May 12 will feature outtakes from B5. + +

+

May 7, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: JMS has written 50 episodes in a row, a record for American + TV. A + press release + on the subject is available. + +

+

May 6, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Lines of Communication" + are online. + +

+

May 5, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: A press release + regarding Scott Adams' appearance on B5 is available. + +

+

May 3, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Racing Mars" + are online. + +

+

April 28, 1997 +
+ A version of the + character appearances page + for season four (or at least, the episodes aired so far) is online. + +

+

April 25, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Into the Fire" + are online. + +

+

April 24, 1997 +
+ Midwinter has switched to new Web server software + (Zeus, + which is far and away the fastest Web server any of us have seen.) + Please let me know if you see any problems with the Guide as a result. + +

+

April 21, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: "Severed Dreams" + has been nominated for a Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation. + "War Without End" + and + "Z'ha'dum" + also qualified, but JMS declined their nominations to avoid a split + vote. + +

+

April 20, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: JMS and Harlan Ellison will be on the Sci-Fi Channel's + SF Vortex + April 26 and 27. + +

+

April 12, 1997 +
+ Synopses for the following episodes are now online: + + + +

+

April 9, 1997 +
+ The Australian mirror has changed URLs, to + http://www.cybersite.com.au/babylon5/. + +

+

April 3, 1997 +
+ The German mirror has been replaced by a mirror at + Linköping University, + Sweden. + The mirror's URL is + http://www.lysator.liu.se/lurk/lurker.html. + +

+

March 12, 1997 +
+ Newsflash: + The Lurker's Guide is moving! + Please update your bookmarks and links to point to + http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html + instead of the Hyperion address. There was a legal dispute over the + old name, and we settled out of court (that's all we're allowed to + disclose under the terms of the agreement.) + +

+

March 4, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Atonement" + are online. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Epiphanies" + is online. Other synopses will be appearing shortly. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "The Long Night" + is online. + +

+

February 25, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Illusion of Truth" + are online. + +

+

February 22, 1997 +
+ + Transcripts of the recent live chats on AOL are online: + + + +

+ A new version of the B5 FAQ is available: + +

+ +

+

February 18, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Epiphanies" + are online. + +

+

February 14, 1997 +
+ The station list on the + Air Times + page now contains hypertext links, mostly to TV station Web pages. + The textual + station list + is now derived from the Air Times page rather than the other way around. + +

+

February 10, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Into the Fire" + are online. + +

+

February 5, 1997 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Long Night" + are online. + +

+

February 3, 1997 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Long Night" + are online. + +

+

January 29, 1997 +
+ Many people have written to point out that the guide page for + "The Long Night" + doesn't have much material yet. I'm getting over a nasty flu; the + page will be updated when I've recovered. Thank you for your patience. + +

+

January 27, 1997 +
+ A new + summary + of the + Poll 5 + results to date is online. + +

+

January 24, 1997 +
+ Added guide pages for the two B5 TV-movies to be shown on TNT: + Last of the Fallen + and + Guardians, + and moved the page for + The Babylon Project: Crusade + into the episode guide section. + +

+ Lots of long-overdue schedule updates: + Israel, + Cyprus, + Indonesia, + the United States, + and + Jordan. + +

+

January 15, 1997 +
+ The + B5 Support Page + has been updated. + +

+ A new version of the B5 FAQ is available: + +

+ +

+

January 11, 1997 +
+ More on the cookies as described in January 8's entry. It occurred to + me today that to implement the feature, it wasn't necessary + to have the Web server set cookies on every hit, which unfortunately + was my only choice given the server software we're running. It will + suffice to simply have the per-user what's new page, a CGI script, + do it. Folks who refuse cookies will be relieved to see that they + no longer have to do it for every image on every page (though I + consider Netscape's behavior in that regard a pretty serious + user-interface flaw, and Internet Explorer is no better.) + +

+

January 8, 1997 +
+ We've started running a new version of our Web server software. + You may have noticed that the Guide is now setting cookies + in your browser; there's a reason for that. I plan to use them to + put together a "What's new since your last visit" page, so you can + come to the site and jump instantly to all the latest material. To + do that, the Guide needs to distinguish you from other users, and + cookies are the most convenient way to do it. About 95% of the + Guide's users use browsers that support cookies, according to my + most recent statistics. + +

+ Some concern has been expressed that they'll be used to collect + demographic information. In fact, I have no use for that; I can't + accept ads or otherwise use the Guide to make money since it's not + officially sanctioned by Warner Bros. To the extent that I eventually + do any usage tracking beyond keeping track of the time of your last + visit, it'll be to see what the most common paths through the Guide are + so I can make it more convenient for frequent users. (But detailed + tracking like that isn't even on my to-do list yet; just the fancy + what's-new feature is plenty of work.) + +

+

January 7, 1997 +
+ The long-overdue + Universe pages + for season four are online. They should still be considered works + in progress (there are a couple portraits missing, for example) + but they should be helpful for new viewers. + +
+ +

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+

December 24, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: TNT's daily B5 reruns move to 4PM starting January 4. See + TNT's site + for details. + +

+

December 17, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + GameSpot + has a + preview + of the B5 space combat simulator, including screenshots. + +

+ Newsflash: + Ain't It Cool News + has a review of an early + "Crusade" + episode. The article also reports that Crusade might start in March + rather than in June as previously scheduled. + +

+

December 11, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Movements of Fire and Shadow" + is online, the last one that was missing. Special thanks to + Arturo Magidin for going back and filling in the holes in the + list of synopses. + +

+

December 10, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Darkness Ascending" + is online. + +

+

December 2, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Sleeping in Light" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: Season five resumes in the + UK + on December 28. + +

+

November 30, 1998 +
+ What does the future hold for the Lurker's Guide? + Find out. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Sleeping in Light" + is online. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" + is online. + +

+

November 29, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Sleeping in Light" + are online. + +

+

November 26, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Objects at Rest" + are online. + +

+ The following synopses are now online: + +

+ +

+

November 25, 1998 +
+ The guide pages for + part 2 + and + part 3 + of the comic series + "In Valen's Name" + now contain synopses. Thanks to Rich Handley. + +

+

November 24, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Objects at Rest" + are online. + +

+

November 21, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Bruce Boxleitner and Melissa Gilbert appear in the Nov. 22 + episode of + "Touched by + an Angel" + on CBS. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The River of Souls" + are online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Objects in Motion" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: The start date of + "Crusade" + has been moved to June 2 to accomodate the production of the new opening + episode and so the show won't be preempted by NBA playoffs just after it + starts. No word yet on whether the air date of + "A Call to Arms" + will be changed. + +

+

November 20, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + CNN + and + Playboy + have articles about the end of B5. + +

+

November 11, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The River of Souls" + are online. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Objects in Motion" + are online. + + +

+

November 10, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Wheel of Fire" + are online. + +

+

November 9, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Wheel of Fire" + are online. + +

+

November 2, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + "The Gathering" + will air November 9 on Channel 4 in the UK. + +

+ Newsflash: A + petition + to ask Warner Bros. to release B5 on DVD is being organized. + +

+ Newsflash: + "Thirdspace" + will air November 3 and 4 on + CityTV + in Canada. See CityTV's site for details. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "The Fall of Centauri Prime" + is available. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Thirdspace" + are online. (Apologies for the delay.) + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Fall of Centauri Prime" + are online. + +

+

October 30, 1998 +
+ Newsflash (followup to previous one): + Walter Koenig will be chatting online at + SCIFI.CON 3.0 + today at 6PM EST. At 10PM EST, he will be participating in a live + Internet radio play based on "The War of the Worlds" (also available at + the SciFi.Con site). The play will be broadcast on radio stations + across the US on October 31. + +

+

October 29, 1998 +
+ JMS has announced he'll be writing a new 24-issue comic series, + "Rising Stars." + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Fall of Centauri Prime" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: Season five starts in + Singapore + on November 25. + +

+

October 28, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + Walter Koenig will be chatting online at + SCIFI.CON 3.0 + October 30 at 6PM EST. Neil Gaiman will be there November 1 at + 1PM EST. + +

+

October 16, 1998 +
+ TV Guide's site has a + transcript + of the September 30 chat session with Peter Jurasik. + +

+ Newsflash: Peter Woodward, Galen the technomage in + "Crusade," + guest stars in the series premiere of Fox's "Brimstone" + Friday, October 23 at 8PM. + +

+

October 13, 1998 +
+ New on the + Products page: + An updated URL for the + B5 collectible card game + Web site. + +

+

October 11, 1998 +
+ A revised version of the + cast list + is online. Thanks to Dirk Kocherscheidt for updating it. + +

+

October 2, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: The weekly encore of season-five episodes on TNT moves to 2AM + Tuesday morning on October 12 and 19, then to midnight Monday + night/Tuesday morning from October 26 onward. See + TNT's site + for details. + +

+ Newsflash: Fans interested in gathering for the series finale, + "Sleeping in Light," + may want to check out + this page. + +

+

October 1, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + Ain't It Cool News + reports that a new initial episode for + "Crusade" + may be in the works. + +

+ The JMS + CompuServe + and + Usenet + message archives have been split up; they'd been accumulating in one + file for several months. + +

+

September 30, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Season five starts in + Australia + on October 8. + +

+ Newsflash: Peter Jurasik will be chatting live on + TV Guide Online + tonight at 10PM Eastern. + +

+

September 25, 1998 +
+ The fifth volume of Jane Killick's "B5 Season by Season" series, + "Wheel of Fire", + is now available in the UK. It covers all of season five. + +

+

September 24, 1998 +
+ Slow Dazzle's + 1999 B5 calendar is available for ordering. + +

+

September 23, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Martin Sheen (who stars in + "The River of Souls") + will be on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" tonight. + +

+

September 21, 1998 +
+ Harlan Ellison has been given the + Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's + Defender of Liberty Award. + +

+

September 19, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + Ain't It Cool News + reports that production on + "Crusade" + has been temporarily halted in order to implement some changes. + JMS said Saturday that TNT has provided additional funds to upgrade and + build sets, which appears to corroborate the story. He also confirmed + the existence of the memo previously reported by AICN, though at this + time "the egregious points have gone away." + + +

+

September 9, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + Ain't It Cool News + has a report on some possible interference in the + "Crusade" + production by TNT. Though it hasn't been officially confirmed (it's not + the sort of thing that would be, whether true or not) the report does + appear to be legitimate. + +

+

September 4, 1998 +
+ The latest B5 novel, + "Dark Genesis," + has just been released. + +

+ Newsflash: Season 3 begins in + Spain + on September 14. + +

+

September 3, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Season 5 begins in + Norway + on September 6. + +

+

August 24, 1998 +
+ German-speaking readers may want to visit a new site in the process + of coming online, + Der deutsche Lurker's + Guide für Babylon 5, + a translation of the Guide. It's the handiwork of some very dedicated + German fans -- as the editor of the original site all I can say is + I'm impressed and flattered. + +

+ Newsflash: + Ain't It Cool News + has a review of the final five episodes with very few spoilers. + +

+

August 21, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: The nightly TNT reruns move to 6PM starting September 7. + +

+

August 17, 1998 +
+ Netter Digital Entertainment has put out a + press + release + about the involvement of scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion + Laboratory in the + "Crusade" + production. + +

+

August 12, 1998 +
+ TV Guide Online has an + interview + with John Copeland about "Crusade." Contains spoilers. + +

+

August 11, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Babylon 5 resumes in + Sweden + on August 30. + +

+

August 10, 1998 +
+ New on the + Books/Novels + page: Authorized copies of Neil Gaiman's script for + "Day of the Dead." + +

+

August 9, 1998 +
+ Reworked the Guide's list of books. All books are now listed on the + same page (the + Books/Novels + page) instead of being split between there and the + Products + page. Books' listings now include links to + Amazon.com, + which includes a forum for reader comments and allows easy online + ordering. (See the + Help page + for a brief note about why I linked there.) There are brief + descriptions of each of the books now too. + +

+ Newsflash: Season 5 begins in + New Zealand + on September 5. + +

+ Newsflash: Babylon 5 begins nightly showings on Space: The Imagination + Station in + Canada + on September 14. + +

+

August 4, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Season 5 on TNT moves to 10PM Wednesdays starting + August 19. See + TNT's site + for details. + +

+ Newsflash: Due to illness, JMS will not be attending this year's + WorldCon (where he was scheduled to appear as guest of honor.) + +

+

July 22, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Gary Cole + (Lucas Buck on "American Gothic") + has been cast in the lead role on + "Crusade," + according to radio reports. + +

+

July 19, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Thirdspace" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: Patricia Tallman will be chatting live at + TV Guide + on July 21 at 10PM Eastern. + +

+

July 13, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Mira Furlan will be chatting live at + TV Guide + on July 14 at 10PM Eastern. + +

+

July 6, 1998 +
+ The novelization of + "Thirdspace" + has been released in the US. + +

+

July 3, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Image + Entertainment + is releasing B5 on laserdisc. Follow the "Preview" link then the + "July" link, or go directly to their + B5 + disc list. + +

+

July 1, 1998 +
+ USA Today + has a short + article + on the end of B5's initial run. + +

+ Newsflash: Shari Belafonte-Harper + ("Thirdspace") + will be chatting live on + Yahoo + tonight at 9PM Eastern. + +

+

June 30, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: TNT is adding a West Coast satellite feed starting July 1. + If your cable system picks up the new feed, you'll get B5 three hours + later than before. Not all cable systems will switch right away, so + check your local listings or call your cable company to verify. + +

+

June 26, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Movements of Fire and Shadow" + are online. + +

+

June 22, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Walter Koenig will be chatting live at the + Sci-Fi Channel + site Thursday at 9PM Eastern. + +

+

June 19, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: JMS will be showing a rough cut of one of the upcoming B5 + TV-movies at the + Wrap Party + convention in the UK in August. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Movements of Fire and Shadow" + are online. + +

+

June 17, 1998 +
+ A plea, if you'll forgive a slightly off-topic entry here: + +

+ I'm being bombarded with tons of E-mail asking me B5 trivia questions. + If you're considering asking me to help you cheat in a trivia contest, + please don't -- you may think it's a clever and unique idea to ask + the guy who runs the Lurker's Guide to help you out, but I assure + you you'll be in line behind a couple hundred other clever and unique + thinkers. It was already tiresome after the first 5 or 10; now it's + downright frustrating and is taking up a substantial part of what + little time I have to go through Guide-related mail. + +

+

June 14, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" + are online. + +

+

June 11, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" + is online. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" + are online. + +

+

June 8, 1998 +
+ B5 starts up again in + Finland + on August 30. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Darkness Ascending" + are online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Darkness Ascending" + are online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Meditations on the Abyss" + are online. + +

+

June 5, 1998 +
+ Season one has started again in + Slovenia. + +

+

June 4, 1998 +
+ A lot of people have written asking why there aren't images for + most of the episodes in season five. It's nothing nefarious, just + a result of some household rearranging a few months ago that + makes it a lot less convenient for me to digitize stills for the + guide pages. Rest assured that I do intend to put stills on the + pages that don't already have them. In the meantime, I've grabbed + some images from + TNT's site + for the most recent few episodes as placeholders. + +

+ Newsflash: Bruce Boxleitner has been named to the board of governors of + the + National Space Society. + A + press + release + is available. + +

+

June 2, 1998 +
+ B5 starts airing again in + the Netherlands + on June 6. + +

+

May 28, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" + are online (they were a couple hundred messages back in my Lurker's + Guide E-mail backlog; sorry for the delay.) + +

+ Clearing out the backlog further, synopses for the following episodes + are now online: + +

+ +

+ The B5 FAQ is retiring. Final versions of the various sections + are available (the remaining parts will be finalized soon): + +

+ +

+

May 27, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Meditations on the Abyss" + are online. + +

+

May 19, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: JMS and John Copeland will be chatting live on + TV Guide Online + tonight at 10PM Eastern. + +

+

May 17, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Sierra's B5 space combat simulator will be shown to the + public in Atlanta on May 28-30. Several cast members will be present + as well. See the + Products + page for details. + +

+ Newsflash: + "In the Beginning" + will be shown on Canada's + SPACE + cable channel on June 13 at 9PM Eastern. + +

+

May 2, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" + are online. + +

+

April 28, 1998 +
+ Another day, another problem. The permissions on the Lurker's Guide + home directory were reset late yesterday and nobody could access it. + I've tracked down the runaway script that caused that problem + and it shouldn't happen again. Sorry for the additional downtime -- + it's been a heck of a week so far! + +

+

April 27, 1998 +
+ The Lurker's Guide is back online after some extended downtime. + www.midwinter.com's SCSI controller died and corrupted not only the + disk containing the Guide, but also a critical backup tape. Luckily + one of the mirror sites was able to supply a recent copy of + all the relevant files, so the Guide is back online now. + +

+

April 19, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Channel 4 in the + UK + will be reshowing the first two episodes of season five on April 21 at + 1:20AM. The episodes may be shown uncut, but that hasn't been + confirmed. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Day of the Dead" + are online. (They got buried in my E-mail backlog -- my apologies for + the delay.) + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Phoenix Rising" + are online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Ragged Edge" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: CFCF in Montreal will be showing + "In the Beginning" + Friday, April 24 at 8:00PM. + +

+

April 9, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Ragged Edge" + are online. + +

+

April 7, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Harlan Ellison will be on ABC's + "Politically Incorrect" + tonight. + +

+ Newsflash: + TNT's site + has the official + "Crusade" + announcement. Readers without frames support may prefer + this + link. + +

+

April 5, 1998 +
+ Three parts of the B5 FAQ have been updated: + + +

+

April 4, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: JMS has confirmed that the sequel series, + "Crusade," + will begin production on July 27 for a premiere on January 6, 1999. + An official announcement from TNT is due Monday. + +

+

April 2, 1998 +
+ Season three begins in + Jordan + on April 3. The broadcast reaches Israel and other countries in the + region as well. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Phoenix Rising" + are online. + +

+

March 30, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "A Tragedy of Telepaths" + are online. + +

+

March 26, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "A Tragedy of Telepaths" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: + Season five starts in the + UK + on April 12. + +

+ Newsflash: + TNT's Web site + has a detailed rundown of their upcoming schedule, including reruns of + "The Gathering" + and the second cycle of daily reruns. Readers without frames support + may prefer + this link. + + +

+

March 25, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Harlan Ellison will be on ABC's + "Politically Incorrect" + tonight. + +

+

March 23, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Peter Jurasik and John Copeland will be chatting live in + The Sci-Fi Channel's chat area + March 24 at 9PM EST. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "In the Kingdom of the Blind" + are online. + +

+

March 19, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Tomorrow, March 20, is the last day of shooting for the fifth + season (and thus the series as a whole.) To help celebrate, + the Official Fan Club site + will have a computer on the set all day long, and people who visit the + site's chat area will be able to talk live with whichever cast and crew + members aren't busy with the actual production. + +

+

March 18, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "In the Kingdom of the Blind" + are online. + +

+

March 17, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + Ain't It + Cool News + has an unconfirmed report that TNT is considering making a commitment + to buy + "Crusade" + for the full five years up front. + +

+

March 15, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Day of the Dead" + is online. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Day of the Dead" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: The TNT rebroadcast of + "A Tragedy of Telepaths" + has been moved to the Friday 7PM EST slot, delaying the rerun of + "Interludes and Examinations." + This is a one-time change. + +

+

March 12, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Learning Curve" + is online. + +

+

March 9, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + The Saturday rebroadcast of season-five episodes on TNT changes to + 11AM EST as of + "The Day of the Dead." + +

+ Newsflash: + CITY-TV + in Toronto will be airing + "In the Beginning" + on March 23 at 9PM. CITY-TV is available on many cable systems + throughout Canada. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "The Paragon of Animals" + is online. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "Strange Relations" + is online. + +

+ The current issue of + Eon Magazine + has the first of a two-part article on B5. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Strange Relations" + are online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Secrets of the Soul" + are online. + +

+

March 5, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Secrets of the Soul" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: Jeff Conaway will appear on NBC's + "Later" + on March 10 (early morning March 11.) + +

+ Newsflash: + "The Day of the Dead" + has been moved to March 11 from April 1. The Guide's schedules have + been updated accordingly. + +

+

March 4, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + TNT + is scheduling a series of B5 exhibitions in 8 cities across the US. See + their site for details. (Users without frames support may prefer + this link.) + +

+

February 27, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Strange Relations" + are online. + +

+

February 25, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + TV Guide Online + has a + Q&A session + with JMS. + +

+

February 22, 1998 +
+ A + transcript + of Jerry Doyle's February 18 online chat session is available. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "Learning Curve" + are online. + +

+ Newsflash: A new + satellite feed + of B5 is available. + +

+ Newsflash: UK viewers can see Claudia Christian on Channel 4's + Light Lunch + Thursday, February 26 at 12:30PM. + +

+

February 19, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Learning Curve" + are online. + +

+

February 18, 1998 +
+ A + transcript + of the February 9 online chat session with Tracy Scoggins is online. + +

+

February 16, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "A View from the Gallery" + are online. + +

+

February 15, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "A View from the Gallery" + is online. + +

+

February 12, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "A View from the Gallery" + are online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Paragon of Animals" + are online. + +

+

February 11, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: Jerry Doyle will be chatting live at + TV Guide Online + on February 18 at 9PM EST. + +

+

February 5, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Paragon of Animals" + are online. + +

+

February 4, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "No Compromises" + is online. + +

+

February 1, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" + is online. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" + are online. + +

+

January 31, 1998 +
+ New on the + Products + page: A link to an + interview + with some of the designers of Sierra's B5 game. + +

+ Newsflash: Tracy Scoggins will be chatting live at + TV Guide Online + on February 9 at 9PM EST. + +

+

January 30, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" + are online. + +

+

January 27, 1998 +
+ Poll 5 + results + for + "No Compromises" + are online. + +

+

January 22, 1998 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "No Compromises" + are online. + +

+ An + article + in "Cable World" says that TNT plans to show the final 10 episodes of + season five in the fall, rather than running the entire season with + no breaks. That hasn't yet been confirmed. The article contains some + spoilers for season five. + +

+

January 21, 1998 +
+ Put the "This Week's Episode" link back on the home page (it's now + "Current Episode" + instead.) The link will move to the next episode every Wednesday night + just before the latest season-five episode airs. + +

+

January 15, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: + TNT's Web site + has QuickTime movies of the season five title sequence. + +

+ Newsflash: Harlan Ellison will be on + "Politicially Incorrect" + tonight. (A + transcript + is available.) + +

+

January 13, 1998 +
+ New on the + Air Times + page: A link to Stephen Christian's + schedule page + for viewers of CFMT in Toronto. + +

+

January 12, 1998 +
+ New on the + Products + page: the Starfury model from Revell/Monogram has been released. + +

+ Poll 5 + results + for + "In the Beginning" + are online. + +

+ Science Fiction Weekly + has a review of the first fifth-season episode, + "No Compromises." + Contains spoilers. + +

+

January 9, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: CFMT in Toronto will be starting season five on Feb. 1 at + 6PM. Watch the + Air Times + page for updates. + +

+

January 8, 1998 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "Babylon 5: In the Beginning" + is online. + +

+ A + synopsis + of + "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" + is online. + +

+ Newsflash: Bruce Boxleitner will be appearing on + "Live with Regis and + Kathie Lee" + on January 13. + +

+

January 7, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: "In the Beginning" + and + "The Gathering" + were the two highest-rated movies on basic cable last week, according + to a TNT + press release. + +

+ Newsflash: CFCF in Montreal has revised its season five start time; + they hope to start January 21, or January 28 if they don't get the + episodes in time. Watch the + Air Times + page for updates. + +

+

January 6, 1998 +
+ TV Guide's January 5 issue has a brief + article + about season five. Contains some spoilers. + +

+ New on the + Products + page: + +

+ +

+ Newsflash: Tracy Scoggins will be appearing on + "Vibe" + on January 8. + +

+ Newsflash: CFCF in Montreal didn't begin season five today. The + reason is not yet known. More information will be posted as it + becomes available. + +

+

January 5, 1998 +
+ Newsflash: According to TNT, the special edition of + "The Gathering" + will be reshown when the daily reruns cycle back to the first season + in May. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Babylon 5: In the Beginning" + are online. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for the special edition of + "The Gathering" + are online. + +

+ Sonic Images' Web site + has a page of + MIDI files + of Christopher Franke's music, including the fifth-season theme. + +

+ +

+To the current What's New page + +

+
+
+ +

+[Home] [Top] [Comments] + + + + diff --git a/99.whatsnew.html b/99.whatsnew.html new file mode 100755 index 00000000..d99ff67e --- /dev/null +++ b/99.whatsnew.html @@ -0,0 +1,575 @@ + + +What's New - 1999 + + + + + + +

[Home] + +
+ + +

What Was New - 1999

+ +
+ +

+

December 5, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + The JMS/Chris Carter project has been + scrapped + for now. + +

+

November 18, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + A + "Cleveland Live" article + claims that JMS is working on a new series with "X-Files" creator Chris + Carter. JMS hasn't confirmed it. + +

+

November 12, 1999 +
+ The B5 Fan Club + is now selling copies of the B5 writers' bible and the original + series treatment used to pitch the show to network executives when + it was first being shopped around. + +

+

November 1, 1999 +
+ The feedback has been positive, so I've put the + voice chat + device on a few more pages. Check it out! + +

+

October 28, 1999 +
+ If you're running Windows 95/98/NT and IE/Netscape 4.0 or higher, + and your PC has a microphone, check out the Lurker's Guide's new + voice chat page! + +

+

October 21, 1999 +
+ The "Crusade" soundtrack + is available now. + +

+

October 5, 1999 +
+ The third Psi Corps novel, + "Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester," + is out. + +

+

September 27, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + "Crusade" begins in + Australia + on September 30 and in + Israel + on January 8 of next year. + +

+

September 21, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + Sierra has cancelled the B5 game. See + www.firstones.com + for details about efforts to save the project. + +

+

September 5, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: "The Truman Show" has won the 1998 Hugo for Best Dramatic + Presentation, beating out + "Sleeping in Light." + Congratulations to all of this year's winners. + +

+

September 3, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: A number of people have sent mail asking if I know anything + about the fate of "Crusade." The answer, unfortunately, is no. + There are several fan efforts to get the show picked up by + another network; see the Guide's list of + Crusade sites + for some links. + +

+

August 31, 1999 +
+ The "What's New" items from 1998 have been moved off this page. + (Better late than never...) + +

+ Newsflash: JMS is apparently working on + a + new TV series. + +

+ Newsflash: Viewers in the + UK + should note that the last four "Crusade" episodes will air Saturday + and Sunday nights over the next two weekends. + +

+ Newsflash: Viewers in + Australia + should tune in September 1 at 11:05 for + "Objects at Rest," + which is on a day earlier than usual due to sports programming. + +

+

August 30, 1999 +
+ A reworked and updated + complete list of actors + is online. + +

+

August 25, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: If you're planning to attend this weekend's + Conucopia + convention in Anaheim, note that JMS's appearance has been moved + from Sunday to Saturday at 1PM. + +

+ Several people have written to ask why there haven't been many updates + to the guide pages recently. The answer is simply that I don't have a + lot of free time to spend on the site these days. I do intend + to catch up, though; expect a big update this weekend. + +

+

July 26, 1999 +
+ The guide pages for + "Ruling from the Tomb" + and + "The Rules of the Game" + have been updated. My apologies for the delay. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "Patterns of the Soul" + are online. + +

+

July 5, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: The latest issue of + "Amazing + Stories" + has a B5 story written by JMS. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Path of Sorrows" + are online. + +

+ The LogBook + has an + interview + with "Crusade" composer Evan Chen. + +

+

July 2, 1999 +
+ The guide page for "The Path of Sorrows" will be delayed -- I had a + VCR mishap and missed Wednesday's broadcast. + +

+

June 27, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: The series bible for "Crusade" is available via the + Official B5 Fan Club. + +

+ TV Guide + has a brief + story + about Carrie Dobro (Dureena on "Crusade"). + +

+

June 24, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + "Crusade" premieres in the UK on July 4 at 8PM on Sky One. + +

+ Newsflash: + GameCenter + has a brief + article + about the upcoming B5 space combat game. + +

+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Well of Forever" + are online. + +

+

June 21, 1999 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "The Long Road" + are online. + +

+

June 14, 1999 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "War Zone" + are online. + +

+

June 12, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: TNT plans to rebroadcast "Crusade" Mondays at 11PM. + +

+

June 10, 1999 +
+ If you're interested in the real scoop on Crusade's cancellation, + check out the interview with JMS in issue 58 of + DreamWatch, + in stores in the US and UK now. + +

+ A very basic guide page for + "War Zone" + is online. It'll be fleshed out more in the coming days. I'll be + covering all 13 "Crusade" episodes in the regular Lurker's Guide + format. + +

+ A revamped and updated version of the + cast list page + is online. Thanks to + Dirk Kocherscheidt + for putting a ton of work into it! + +

+

June 8, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + Sierra + is running a survey to determine which of their games (including + the B5 combat simulator) should be ported to the Mac. The poll + is on the lower right of their home page. + +

+

June 5, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: "Crusade" premieres Wednesday, June 9 at 10PM on TNT in + the US. In Canada it begins Saturday, June 12 at 7PM Eastern on + SPACE + and Tuesday, June 15 at 8PM on + CityTV. + +

+

May 29, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: Crusade for Crusade + has succeeded in raising enough money to pay for an + ad + in Daily Variety. + +

+

May 23, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: Want to help search for extraterrestrial signals using your + PC? Take part in the + SETI@home + project. + +

+

May 22, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: The fan-run + Crusade for Crusade + effort is nearing its goal of raising enough money to run an ad in + Daily Variety. + +

+ Newsflash: DVD-player owners might be interested in this + petition + to ask Warner Bros. to release B5 in anamorphic widescreen format. + +

+

May 15, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: TNT has moved B5 to Saturday mornings at 7AM. + +

+

April 30, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + TNT's Crusade site + is online. + +

+ Newsflash: TNT is temporarily suspending its daytime B5 broadcasts. + TNT's site + is holding a viewer poll to help determine B5's new timeslot. + +

+

April 28, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + Ain't It Cool News + has a bunch of "Crusade" information, including promotional artwork and + reviews of some episodes. + +

+

April 25, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: Jerry Doyle and Peter Jurasik will be + appearing + on + "Sliders." + +

+

April 23, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: "Sleeping in Light" + has been nominated for the 1999 + Hugo Award + for best dramatic presentation. + +

+

April 13, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: Ain't It Cool + News + has a report on an effort to save "Crusade." + +

+

April 12, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: JMS has been given the Science Fiction Writers of America's + Bradbury Award. + Details here. + +

+

March 26, 1999 +
+ A preview issue (#0) of JMS's forthcoming comic "Rising Stars" is now on + sale. It is packaged with a special issue of Wizard Magazine devoted to + "Fathom." To be sure you have the correct issue, look for the Wizard + Magazine with the "Fathom" cover, and then flip the packet over. You + should be able to see the "Rising Stars" preview issue through the + transparent wrapper. + +

+ Newsflash: + "In the Beginning" + re-airs this Sunday at 10:30PM on TNT. + +

+ Newsflash: + The BIG Picture + has an interview with Warner Home Video executives who say they plan to + release B5 on DVD. + +

+

March 18, 1999 +
+ Crusade will air starting June 12 on Canada's SPACE: The Imagination + Station. + +

+ Newsflash: B5 has been nominated for three Saturn Awards. + The complete + list of nominees. + +

+

March 15, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: For those who haven't seen it on TNT's site, TNT will be + showing most of the B5 TV-movies on June 9, Crusade's premiere date. + See the + US episode list + for a schedule. + +

+ Want to encourage Warner Bros. to release B5 on DVD? Here's where + to send your letters: + +

+ DVD Programming
+ Warner Home Video
+ 4000 Warner Blvd.
+ Burbank CA 91522 +
+ +

+ New in the + Making Of + section: + a list of classical literary + references in B5's ship names. + Thanks to Katrin Thier. + +

+

March 2, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: Netter Digital has put out a + press + release + about Crusade. + +

+

February 25, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: + Ain't It Cool News + reports that + "Crusade" + has been cancelled. TNT will air the 13 episodes already shot. + +

+

February 24, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: "A Call to Arms" + airs March 12 at 9PM on CFCF in Montreal. + +

+

February 23, 1999 +
+ "River of Souls" + is now available on video in the UK. + +

+

January 30, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: JMS reports that "Crusade" may be moving to a venue other + than TNT. + Ain't It Cool News + has a story with more details. + +

+

January 18, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: CFCF in Montreal will be showing + "The River of Souls" + January 23 at 2PM. + +

+

January 15, 1999 +
+ New on the + products page: + A limited-edition + B5 poster. + +

+

January 10, 1999 +
+ A new version of the + writers/directors list + is online. + +

+ Newsflash: Harlan Ellison will be on CBS' "The Late, Late Show with + Tom Snyder" the evening of January 14. Check your local listings + for the time. + +

+

January 8, 1999 +
+ A + synopsis + of + "A Call to Arms" + is online. + +

+

January 5, 1999 +
+ The + onscreen credits + for + "A Call to Arms" + are online. + +

+

January 3, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: Canada's + CITY-TV + will be showing + "River of Souls" + January 12 and + "A Call to Arms" + January 19, both at 9PM. + +

+ Newsflash: Season five begins in + Poland + on January 9. + +

+

January 1, 1999 +
+ Newsflash: Happy new year! + Ain't It Cool News + has an article about + "A Call to Arms" + (which airs this Sunday on TNT) including some rumors of changes to + "Crusade" + episodes. + +
+ +
+
+
+ +

+[Home] [Top] [Comments] + + + + diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile new file mode 100644 index 00000000..80ae869b --- /dev/null +++ b/Makefile @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +B5DIR=/home/woodstock/ftp/pub/Babylon-5 + +all: lurker-nobg.html subdirs + +lurker-nobg.html: lurker.html + sed -e 's/ BGSTART.*BGEND//' -e '/BGLINK/d' < lurker.html > $@ + +subdirs: + @(cd guide; make) + @(cd comic; make) + @(cd synops; make) + @(cd novels; make) + +tvlist: $(B5DIR)/b5tvlist.txt + +$(B5DIR)/b5tvlist.txt: reference/tvl.html + /opt/local/bin/lynx -nolist -dump http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/reference/tvl.html > $@ diff --git a/Production/buttons.tiff b/Production/buttons.tiff new file mode 100644 index 00000000..876a9b8c Binary files /dev/null and b/Production/buttons.tiff differ diff --git a/Production/buttons4.hilite.tiff b/Production/buttons4.hilite.tiff new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ef47d1cf Binary files /dev/null and b/Production/buttons4.hilite.tiff differ diff --git a/Production/lurktitles.TIFF b/Production/lurktitles.TIFF new file mode 100644 index 00000000..33e330f8 Binary files /dev/null and b/Production/lurktitles.TIFF differ diff --git a/Production/stars2.TIFF b/Production/stars2.TIFF new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6871cd8d Binary files /dev/null and b/Production/stars2.TIFF differ diff --git a/README.html b/README.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e7637321 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.html @@ -0,0 +1,602 @@ + + +The Lurker's Guide to the Lurker's Guide + + +

The Lurker's Guide to the Lurker's Guide

+ +

+There are three main components to the Guide. I'll refer to them by their +local URLs on www.midwinter.com. + +

+ +

/lurk

+ +

+The first section, which is the bulk of the site, is a directory tree +of static HTML files with a few server-parsed HTML files (for +server-side includes) thrown in. The home directory of the lurk-sf +account is the top level of that directory tree, which the Web server +knows as http://www.midwinter.com/lurk. + +

+Inside that directory are a bunch of subdirectories, mostly +corresponding to the major sections of the site. I'll get to them +individually in a moment, but first a word on some common things you'll +see in most of them. + +

gen.py

+The biggest thing to know about is a script +called "gen.py" (it's written in Python), a version of which lives in +each of the directories that contains per-episode HTML files. The +script is responsible for assembling a static HTML file out of a header +section (generated for each episode; it includes the episode's title +among other things), a body file, and a footer section. + +

+The body files contain the meat of the pages. They have the same +filenames as the HTML files, minus the .html extension. In most cases +that's just the 3-digit episode number, e.g. /lurk/guide/056.html +contains the body file "056" from the guide subdirectory. When I want +to add a new comment to the page for episode 33, for example, I cd into +the guide directory, edit the file "033", then run "gen.py 033". The +result is a new version of 033.html, with the old version moved aside +to #033.html as a precaution. + +

+One other thing some of the gen.py versions do is add timestamps to items. +The idea is that when I modify a page, I want to highlight the change so +people who've already read the previous version can quickly scroll to the +new stuff. To that end, gen.py looks for a special token "@@@" (which +must by followed by whitespace or end-of-line) in the body file. When +it finds the token, it replaces it with "@@@nnn" where nnn is the current +timestamp in UNIX time_t format. This change is made to the body file +itself. Then, when gen.py generates the HTML file from a body file, it +inserts the date in bold wherever it sees a recent timestamp. Once a day +a script regenerates all the HTML files so that the date markers go away +after a while (keeping them in makes the pages look ugly and makes it +hard to quickly locate new items). + +

+When you see a file "skel", it's a prototype body file. I copy that to +the appropriate filename when a new episode/novel/etc. comes out. + +

+In many of the subdirectories you'll see a "genall.csh" script. This +is just a shortcut that runs "gen.py" for each episode. I only use +this when I make a change to the structure of the page headers/footers +and want to apply it everywhere. + +

+Also, in the top-level directory there's a "gen" script. This runs +gen.py in each of the subdirectories. I use that when, for example, I +add a picture for an episode and want it to be displayed on all the +pages for that episode. + +

What's under /lurk

+ +

+

+
+background +
+"The story so far" for each episode of seasons 1-4. +Season 5 still needs to be written. The user-accessible files here are +all .shtml files. You'll notice there aren't any body files here. +Instead, background/gen.py uses a few other source files. There are +several different introductory summaries, which are in the sum-* +files. For example, sum-66 summarizes the story up to and including +episode 66, and is included as the first part of the backgrounds for +episodes 67 and later. After the appropriate sum-* file is included, +gen.py looks in story.html. That file contains per-episode paragraphs +that are included in the "More recently..." section of the background +pages, under the introductions. Only the paragraphs for episodes +between the summary and the current episode are included, e.g. for +episode 75, gen.py includes sum-66 and the paragraphs for episodes +67-74. + +

+

+chars +
+Bios of some of the characters. These are linked to from the +"Universe" section. Simple flat HTML files. + +

+

+comic +
+Guide pages for the comic series. Body files and gen.py. + +

+

+countries +
+The only HTML file directly under here is index.html, which is a list of +all the countries for which I have schedule information. Each country +has a subdirectory under here (the directory name is generally the +country's 2-letter country code). One pseudo-country of note is "master", +which contains the master episode list with the episodes in the correct +order (the original US airing order was slightly wrong storywise). + +

+Inside each country's directory is an eplist.html file with the schedule +for that country, plus symbolic links to the various episode-guide +subdirectories. By using relative paths in my URLs, I let the browser +remember which country's schedule the user was looking at without resorting +to cookies (which didn't yet exist as a concept when this site first +started!) For example, /lurk/countries/se/eplist.html has a link to +"guide/056.html", which is really the same file as /lurk/guide/056.html +since /lurk/countries/se/guide is a symlink to /lurk/guide. But since the +browser doesn't know that, 056.html's link back to the episode page is +"../eplist.html" which goes back to the Swedish schedule. + +

+index.html is a link to eplist.html in the country directories. +There is a "mkcountry.sh" script to set up a new country directory. There +are also skeleton episode lists for all 5 seasons (skel, skel2, skel3, etc.) + +

+When I edit a country's schedule I use the "print-weeks.py" script, which +is described later, so I don't have to hand-type dates. + +

+

+credits +
+Episode credits. Body files and gen.py. + +

+

+eplist.html +
+On the surface, just a symlink to /lurk/countries/us/eplist.html. But +the Web server is configured to alias /lurk/eplist.html to +/cgi-bin/select-eplist, which does the per-country episode list selection. + +

+

+find +
+Data files and scripts for searching the archive of JMS Usenet messages. +I use the "swish" indexing system. Since JMS's posting volume has slowed +to a trickle, this doesn't get touched by hand much any more, but the +theory is that once a month, I move the "latest" subdirectory in each +archive source (America-Online, Usenet, etc.) to a name corresponding +to that month and regenerate the master index file for that source. Then, +on a daily basis, a cron job populates the "latest" subdirectories and runs +swish on them, merging the master index files with the smaller "latest" +indices to avoid the overhead of re-indexing all the old files again. + +

+Most likely this setup should be replaced with a more modern indexing +system. + +

+The files in the archive source subdirectories are derived from the +archive files in the FTP directory, which will be discussed below. The +find/prep-files subdirectory contains the scripts used to split the +archive files into individual messages. + +

+

+footer +
+The standard page footer used throughout the site. Not used programmatically, +but I load this into my text editor when I create a new page. + +

+

+gen +
+Script that runs gen.py for an episode in each of the episode-related +subdirectories. + +

+

+gif +
+Pretty self-explanatory. All the non-navigation-related images live here. +(Some of them are JPEGs despite the directory name.) + +

+

+guide +
+The episode guide pages. Body files and gen.py. + +

+

+help.html +
+The site FAQ. It's referred to by the name "help" instead to avoid confusion +with the Usenet B5 FAQ. + +

+

+index.html +
+Symlink to lurker.html. + +

+

+internal +
+Data files used by gen.py and CGIs. + +
+ +

+

+comicnames +
+Titles of comics, one title per line. + +

+

+dom-error.html +
+Error message returned when the episode-list selection CGI program can't +find an episode list to show. + +

+

+domainlist +
+A mapping between DNS top-level domains and country directories. This +is used so that when someone clicks on the "Episodes" link on the home +page, they're taken to the schedule page for their country. (It doesn't +suffice to just use the last part of the domain name as a country name +since there are UK ISPs that use .net addresses, for example.) More on +this in the CGI section below. + +

+

+epnames +
+Titles of episodes, one title per line, starting with episode 0. +Note that there are a lot of dummy lines because of gaps in episode numbering. + +

+

+lu-footer
+lu-footer-epnum
+lu-header
+lu-header-date
+lu-header-epnum
+lu-header-guide
+lu-header-synops +
+Headers and footers used by gen.py. + +

+

+novelnames +
+Titles of novels, one title per line, used by novels/gen.py. + +

+

+otros.py +
+Library with common functions used by various gen.py versions. + +

+

+picnames +
+Names of images to display in episode guide page headers. Each of these +names is relative to /lurk/gif/XXX where XXX is the episode number. Note +that there are a lot of dummy lines because of gaps in episode numbering. + +
+ +

+

+lastmod.html +
+List of episode guide and synopsis pages, ordered by modification time. +Generated by the "lastupdate.py" utility. + +

+

+lgchat.html +
+Live voice-chat for LG users. Beats the heck out of text-only conferencing. + +

+

+lurker-nobg.html +
+Home page without the black background, since some people find custom +backgrounds annoying. This is automatically generated from lurker.html +via a cron job that runs "make" in the top-level directory. + +

+

+lurker.html +
+The home page. + +

+

+Makefile +
+Once an hour this Makefile is used to rebuild lurker-nobg.html, and once +a day it's used to make sure I haven't forgotten to run gen.py on something. +It also updates the b5tvlist.txt file in the FTP archive. + +

+

+making +
+The "Making of B5" section of the site. Flat HTML files. + +

+

+maps +
+Imagemaps for navbar. + +

+

+misc +
+Miscellaneous documents that don't fit elsewhere, e.g. a blurb about +why Claudia Christian left the show. + +

+

+nav +
+Navigational images. A secondary function is that its index.html is the +"preload your image cache here" page, which speeds up the site for folks +by letting them suffer all the pain of nav image downloading in one shot. + +

+

+novels +
+Novel guide pages. This section is incomplete -- there aren't pages yet +for the latest round of novels. Body files and gen.py. + +

+

+p5 +
+Results of the Poll 5 viewer survey for each episode. + +

+

+reference +
+The "Reference" section of the site. Mostly flat HTML files, but a couple +of the pages have server-side includes that bring in text files from the +FTP area. + +

+

+renew.html +
+Not referenced any more, but perhaps of historical amusement. + +

+

+resources +
+The "Other Resources" section of the site. Flat HTML files. + +

+

+src +
+Contains scripts and CGI source code. More on these later. + +

+

+support +
+Not used any more (but retained since there are links to it on other +sites). + +

+

+survey.html +
+A survey I ran a few times. + +

+

+synops +
+Episode synopses. Body files and gen.py. + +

+

+toc.html +
+Site map. + +

+

+universe +
+The "Universe and Characters" section of the site. Flat HTML files. Season +5 still needs to be written up. + +

+

+volunteers.html +
+An exercise in naivete; I ended up doing all this myself! + +

+

+vqt.html +
+JMS message about B5 being ranked #1 by Viewers for Quality Television. + +

+

+welcome.html +
+Introduction to the site after the switch to the current look and feel. + +

+

+whatsnew.html +
+The What's New page. When this gets to be big, I put all the old +items in archive what's-new pages and link to them at the bottom of this +page. + +

+

+winsock.html +
+Tips for Windows users who're having trouble loading the site. + +
+ +

/ftp

+ +

+The FTP archive at +ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/ +is also accessible via HTTP. There are a few aliases pointing into the +FTP directory. + +

+

+
+/ftp +
+The top-level FTP directory. +
+/b5 +
+The /pub/Babylon-5 FTP directory. +
+/b5p +
+The /pub/Babylon-5/Pictures FTP directory. +
+ +

+See the FTP index file (available in both +text +and +HTML) +for descriptions of the various files in the FTP archive. The Lurker's +Guide points to various files here -- including some server-side include +references -- and the JMS message archives here are used by the scripts +in /lurk/find. + +

/cgi-bin

+ +

+There are several Lurker's Guide-related CGI programs. The source code +for all of them may be found in /lurk/src. Some of them make use of my +Un-CGI +utility; you can distinguish those by the fact that their URLs look like +/cgi-bin/uncgi/programname. + +

+

+ +
+/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail +
+Displays the feedback form. This is CGI because it needs to look at +the referring URL and pass that on to the mail-sending program via a +hidden form field. + +

+

+/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgsend +
+Accepts input from the feedback form and sends me mail. + +

+

+/cgi-bin/lurkfind +
+Displays the search UI if called with no arguments, or performs a search +if search parameters are passed in. The site is indexed with the "swish" +search engine, the config files and applications for which can be found +in the /lurk/find directory. + +

+

+/cgi-bin/printcurrent +
+This isn't currently used, but when the show was originally airing in +the US, there was a "This week's episode" link on the home page that +pointed to this script. It looked at a symbolic link in /lurk/guide +and redirected the user to the episode the link pointed to. The link +was updated by the update-current.sh script. + +

+

+/cgi-bin/select-eplist +
+Displays one of the episode lists based on which country the user is +coming from. Uses /lurk/internal/domainlist to obtain the domain-to-country +mapping. + +
+ +

Miscellaneous utilities

+ +

+There are a few utilities whose source you'll find in /lurk/src unless +otherwise noted. Some have been discussed above, but here's a list: + +

+

+
+gen-guide.sh +
+This is run once a day from a cron job. It regenerates all the guide pages. +If a regenerated page doesn't differ from the old version, the old version +is moved back into place to preserve its modification date. The purpose +here is to expire the timestamps on new items in the guide pages (see the +discussion of +the gen.py script +above). + +

+

+lastupdate.py +
+Run once an hour from cron; this updates /lurk/lastmod.html and is pretty +self-explanatory. + +

+

+update-current.sh +
+Updates the symbolic link used by /cgi-bin/printcurrent. Not currently +in use. + +

+

+/lurk/find/update-indexes.sh +
+Once a day, re-extracts the latest messages from the various JMS message +archive files and rebuilds the keyword index so they're searchable. See +/lurk/find +above. + +
+ + +
Last update: August 27, 2000
+ + diff --git a/all_eptitles.gif b/all_eptitles.gif new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1f8d3ef4 Binary files /dev/null and b/all_eptitles.gif differ diff --git a/background/gen.py b/background/gen.py new file mode 100755 index 00000000..1ba18a9a --- /dev/null +++ b/background/gen.py @@ -0,0 +1,103 @@ +#!/usr/bin/python + +import sys,string,time +sys.path.append('../internal') +import otros + +months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', + 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'] + +for epnum in sys.argv[1:]: + curep = string.atoi(epnum[:3]) + curepno = curep + cureplong = '%03d' % (curep) + prevep = '%03d' % (curep - 1) + nextep = '%03d' % (curep + 1) + + pix = open('../internal/epnames', 'r') + for i in range(0, curep + 1): + epname = pix.readline()[:-1] + pix.close() + if epname == '': + epname = 'XXX' + + curep = `curep` + + input = open('story.html', 'r') + output = open(cureplong + '.shtml', 'w') + + output.write(""" + +Background: """ + '"' + epname + '"' + """ + + + + + + +""" + otros.pageheader(curepno, 'background', 1) + """ + +
+
+
+""") + + printing = 1 + + # + # We have concise outlines of some swaths of the story. + # + max_summary = 0 + if curepno > 24: + max_summary = 24 + if curepno > 44: + max_summary = 44 + if curepno > 66: + max_summary = 66 + + while 1: + line = input.readline() + if line == '': + break + if line[:8] == ' max_summary: + if not printing: + output.write('\n') + + if thisep < curepno: + output.write('

More ' + + 'Recently...

\n') + printing = 1 + else: + printing = 0 + if thisep >= curepno: + break + elif line[:6] == 'EPNAME': + output.write('"' + epname + '."\n') + elif printing: + output.write(line) + + + mtime = time.localtime(time.time()) + mtime_str = '%s %d, %d' % (months[mtime[1]], mtime[2], mtime[0]) + output.write("""
+
+
+""" + otros.pagefooter(curepno, 'background') + """ + +
+Last update: +""" + mtime_str + """ + +
+ + +""") + + input.close() + output.close() + + print epnum diff --git a/background/genall.csh b/background/genall.csh new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7e9435aa --- /dev/null +++ b/background/genall.csh @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +#!/bin/csh +@ ep = 1 +@ toteps = `sed '/XXX/,$d' < ../internal/epnames | wc -l` + +set list = "" + +while ($ep < $toteps) + set list = "$list $ep" + @ ep++ +end + +gen.py $list diff --git a/background/index.html b/background/index.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6c59b43d --- /dev/null +++ b/background/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ + + +To the episode list + + diff --git a/background/story.html b/background/story.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9db5f816 --- /dev/null +++ b/background/story.html @@ -0,0 +1,675 @@ + +

+This section contains a summary of Babylon 5's story arc (the 5-year +plotline) up to, but not including, +EPNAME +Note that this is chock full of spoilers! + + + +

+Season One began with +"Midnight on the Firing Line," +about 6 months later. +Lt. Cmdr Susan Ivanova replaced Lt. Cmdr. Takashima as second-in-command; +her dislike of the Psi Corps became evident when Talia Winters arrived. +A Centauri agricultural outpost was attacked without provocation by the Narns. +(In broad strokes, this episode portrayed the Narns as the "bad guys" +and the Centauri as comic relief.) Luis Santiago was reelected +President of the Earth Alliance. + + +

+A "Soul Hunter," +a member of an order which collects and preserves important +souls, found himself on the station, and attempted to collect Delenn's soul +prematurely. The Minbari, it was revealed, greatly value souls; they +prevented a soul hunter from taking the soul of their great leader Dukhat, +so that his soul would be reborn into the next generation. Delenn was +called Satai by the soul hunter, which prompted Sinclair to wonder if +something was going on, as Satai is the title used my members of the Grey +Council, the Minbari ruling body and highest religious authority. + + + + + +

+In +"Mind War," +two Psi Cops -- P12 level telepaths, including Bester +(played by Walter Koenig) -- came to the station in search of telepath +Jason Ironheart, who had achieved telekinetic abilities and was transforming +into something more than human. Ironheart warned Sinclair that the Psi Corps +is starting to pull the strings in the government back on Earth. When Bester's +partner was killed, Sinclair made a new enemy. Before departing, Ironheart +gave Talia a gift: telekinesis, and maybe other abilities as well. + + +

+"The War Prayer" +introduced members of the Homeguard, an anti-alien +organization back on Earth. + + +

+"And The Sky Full of Stars" +explored what happened to Sinclair on the +Battle of the Line, 10 years before in the Earth-Minbari War. Interrogated +and forced to relive the battle, we saw Sinclair ram a +Minbari Cruiser, only to wake up on board, interrogated by the Grey +Council. He recognizes Delenn as one of the Grey Council. After escaping +from his interrogators, he chose not to reveal to Delenn that he remembered +part of his missing 24 hours. + + +

+"Deathwalker" +was a notorious war criminal from the Dilgar War, fought by +Earth and others several decades earlier. She had a substance she claimed +granted immortality -- but only at the cost of another's life. The Vorlons +destroyed her ship to prevent Earth from gaining the secret of immortality. + + + +

+"Survivors" +pulled Garibaldi back into his alcoholism amid accusations of +sabotage. The real culprit was the Homeguard. + + + +

+"Signs and Portents" +deals with an attack by raiders on the station. The B-story, in which +Londo acquired the long-lost symbol of his empire, the Eye, was more +important. A mysterious, polite man named Morden inquired, "What do you +want?" of the alien ambassadors, and seemed to like Londo's response -- +for the Centauri to reclaim their lost empire -- the +best. The Eye was captured by the raiders, who were destroyed by a +mysterious ship that appeared out of the shadows. Morden returned the Eye to +Londo, "from friends you don't know you have." + + + + + + +

+In the two-parter, +"A Voice in the Wilderness," +it was discovered that the +planet below B5 is not as dead as was thought. The +Mars colony broke out in rebellion. A dying alien was found controlling +vast, tremendously powerful machinery on the planet below. + + +Draal, an old friend of Delenn's, took charge of the machinery in the planet, +warning away all who would try to take it for themselves. The Mars rebellion +was put down by Earth Alliance security forces. + + +

+In "Babylon Squared," +Babylon 4 -- the biggest of the Babylon stations, which +dissapeared 24 hours after coming online, suddenly reappeared. +Delenn was chosen by the Grey Council to be their new leader, but +declined because a Minbari prophecy told her that her destiny was on +Babylon 5. She left with a powerful device called a triluminary. On +Babylon 4, as time disturbances flashed back and forward to other times +(including a scene where +something was coming through the walls of the station, being fought off by +Garibaldi, as Sinclair was pushed into the crowds), the crew attempted to +evacuate the crew of B4. A mysterious alien, Zathras, appeared and told +of a great, terrible war, and the attempt to pull B4 through time to use it +as a base of operations. Zathras was looking for "The One" -- the great leader +of an effort to bring peace to the galaxy. Babylon 4 was evacuated, but +Zathras, trapped, was rescued by "The One" -- who turned out to be a much older +Sinclair, aided apparently by Delenn. + + +

+"The Quality of Mercy" +revealed a clinic run by Dr. Franklin in the +downbelow sections, as well as an alien healing machine that transfers +"life force" from one person to another. + + +

+"Chrysalis," +the season one finale, referred to the cocoon that Delenn began +to build using a mysterious crystalline machine and the triluminary. +Garibaldi uncovered a plot to assassinate the Earth President, but was shot +in the back by his right-hand man, left for dead. Morden reappeared and +offered to take care of a problem for Londo, dealing with a region contested +with the Narns. Delenn spoke to Ambassador Kosh, who revealed something to +her that verified her interpretation of a prophecy. She confronted +Sinclair about his knowledge of his interrogation, but entered into her +cocoon before they could talk. Londo was horrified to find that a Narn +outpost was utterly destroyed by mysterious forces. +The president was assassinated, and the vice +president was sworn in immediately. G'Kar left to investigate the +destruction of the Narn base. + + +

+Season two +opened in +"Points of Departure" +with the reassignment of Sinclair +to ambassadorial duties on the Minbari homeworld and the assignment of +Captain John Sheridan to command Babylon 5. Sheridan's +connection to the Minbari War was revealed; he had one of the few victories +over a Minbari warship. Lennier revealed why the Minbari surrendered; +when Sinclair was captured, it was discovered that Minbari souls were being +reborn in humans. Because Minbari do not kill other Minbari, the religious +caste called off the war to stop harming their own souls. + + + + + +

+In +"The Geometry of Shadows," +Refa, a high-ranking Centauri noble, asked +Londo to pledge his help in seizing the throne at some point. + + +

+In +"A Distant Star," +Lt. Keffer saw a Shadow ship in hyperspace and vowed to +find out what it was. + + + +

+"A Spider in the Web" +revealed a mysterious "Bureau 13" operating out of the +San Diego wastelands. An assassin, controlled by the Bureau, attempted to +thwart a peaceful settlement of the situation on Mars. Scanning his mind, +Talia saw a Psi Cop present at the operation that programmed the assassin, +but she didn't tell anybody else. Sheridan's interest in conspiracy theories +was revealed as he attempted to solve the puzzle, and the existence of a +plant among the B5 crew, code-named Control, was hinted at. + + +

+In +"Soul Mates," +Londo's three wives came to the +station; one, who knows G'Kar, tried to murder him. He divorced her and +one of the others. Talia's ex-husband, from an arranged marriage courtesy +of the Corps, tried to woo her back. + + +

+In +"A Race Through Dark Places," +Bester returned to Babylon 5. He believed +an underground railroad was smuggling unregistered telepaths +outside of Psi-Corps' control. Talia was captured by the rogue +telepaths and told gruesome stories of the Corps' true nature: forced +breeding, murder, and coercion. She and the others tricked Bester into +thinking the railroad was stopped. Dr. Franklin was revealed as one of +the railroad's participants. Talia discovered another part of Ironheart's +"gift" -- she is apparently now immune to telepathic scans. + + +

+At Refa's behest, as the Centauri emperor lay dying, Londo asked Morden to +destroy a major Narn colony in +"The Coming of Shadows." +The Narns, believing +the Centauri military responsible, declared war. Sinclair sent a message to +Garibaldi via a network of "rangers," spies, a group he apparently heads. + + + +

+In +"All Alone in the Night," +Delenn was removed from the Grey Council, and +a member of the warrior caste replaced her. We learned that Sheridan had been +secretly evaluating the loyalty of the station's command staff, and is in +league with a group (headed by General Hague, a member of the Joint Chiefs +of Staff) out to expose what they believe is an attempt by the Psi-Corps and +others to control the government. Of special note is a densely-packed +dream sequence +in which Sheridan is visited by Ambassador Kosh. + + + +

+President Clark's personal physician fled to the station in +"Hunter, Prey" +with files proving that Clark wasn't sick as he claimed when he left +Earth Force One just before it blew up and killed President Santiago. Sheridan +gave the files to a representative of General Hague. Kosh agreed to teach +Sheridan until he is ready "to fight legends" -- at which point it was implied +Kosh would reveal himself to Sheridan. + + + +

+The Narn-Centauri war hit close to home during a reporter's visit to Babylon 5 +in +"And Now For a Word" +-- the Centauri were using B5 as a transfer point +for military equipment, prompting a Narn attack. Back on Earth, the Clark +government formed the Ministry of Public Morale and the Office of Public +Information. + + +

+"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +revealed Morden's secret to Sheridan: he was on +the vessel carrying Sheridan's wife, whose crew accidentally reawakened the +Shadows four years earlier. The Shadows, Sheridan learned, are an ancient +race, "old when even the ancients were young," defeated in the last Great +War 10,000 years ago by a coalition of other ancient races known as the First +Ones, of whom the Vorlons are the last remaining member. The Shadows, +Sheridan learned, won't +risk an all-out frontal assault as long as their existence is a secret. +Earth's +new Ministry of Peace sent a recruiter to Babylon 5 to enlist people in its +citizen-vigilance program, the Nightwatch. + + + +

+The entire population of the Markab, a non-aligned race, was wiped out by a +virulent disease in +"Confessions and Lamentations." + + +

+Talia's +"Divided Loyalties" +were revealed when former station telepath Lyta +Alexander, now a member of an anti-Corps underground movement, visited the +station and discovered that Talia was a spy, probably Control. Talia's +personality was destroyed and she was shipped off the station. Ivanova +admitted the reason she's so reluctant to be scanned: she's a latent telepath. + + +

+The Narn-Centauri War came to an abrupt end in +"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +with the help of the Shadows, who eliminated the entire Narn fleet while +Centauri ships decimated the Narn homeworld from orbit. Sheridan granted +G'Kar asylum on Babylon 5. Draal, on the planet below the station, put the +great machine at Sheridan's disposal. Delenn introduced Sheridan to the +Rangers. + + + +

+Earth signed a non-aggression pact with the Centauri in +"The Fall of Night." +Unfortunately, Sheridan's sheltering of a Narn warship brought the station +under Centauri attack, and Sheridan was forced to destroy a Centauri cruiser. +When two Centauri attempted to assassinate Sheridan, Kosh intervened, revealing +himself in the process: he appeared as an angelic being of light, a religious +figure from legend -- but a different figure to every race who saw +him. Keffer located a Shadow ship. It shot him out of space, +but his recording was broadcast on the news, making the Shadows known to all. + + +

+"Matters of Honor" +brought Marcus Cole, a Ranger, to the station; he led Sheridan and Delenn to +a new ship, the White Star, a combination of Minbari and Vorlon technology. +Pushing the White Star to its limits, Sheridan destroyed a Shadow cruiser. +Londo attempted to sever his ties with the Shadows. Morden met with a Psi +Cop, apparently far from the first such meeting. + + + +

+The Centauri sent a replacement for G'Kar to the station in +"A Day in the Strife" +and threatened to persecute the families of G'Kar's supporters unless he +gave up his exile and faced trial. Meanwhile, Ta'Lon, a Narn whose life +Sheridan saved some months earlier +("All Alone in the Night") +pledged to act as Sheridan's bodyguard. Londo arranged to have Vir +sent off to Minbar as the new Centauri diplomatic liaison. + + +

+In +"Passing Through Gethsemane," +Lyta Alexander, the station's first telepath and the person who unmasked +Talia's Bureau-13-implanted personality, returned from a stay on the Vorlon +homeworld to become Ambassador Kosh's attache. The Vorlons appear to have +modified her, possibly even enabling her to carry one of them inside her. + + +

+The conspiracy of light made its move against President Clark in +"Voices of Authority" +by releasing a recording of Morden and Clark planning +Santiago's assassination. Ivanova located another race of First Ones and +secured a promise of help in the fight against the Shadows. + + +

+G'Kar learned of Londo's involvement with the Shadows in +"Dust to Dust." +He was sentenced to prison for assaulting Londo, and was visited in a +dream by Kosh, who posed as the Narn deity G'Lan. + + + + +

+In +"Point of No Return," +President Clark declared martial law on Babylon 5 after dissolving the Senate +back home. An attempt by the Nightwatch to take over the station was foiled, +barely, but Sheridan was forced to accept G'Kar's help and begin using Narn +as station security personnel. + + +

+Despite his temporary victory, Sheridan was soon forced to cut the station's +ties with Earth in +"Severed Dreams," +following in the footsteps of several secessionist colony worlds after the +bombing of civilians on Mars. +Delenn, meanwhile, confronted the Grey Council about its unwillingness to +intervene in the spreading Shadow-initiated conflicts among the nonaligned +worlds; the confrontation led to the shattering of +the Council. A losing battle for control of the station was resolved only by +the arrival of Minbari cruisers under the command of Delenn and other former +Council members, who declared Babylon 5 under Minbari protection. + + +

+In +"Ceremonies of Light and Dark," +Sheridan admitted his growing affection for Delenn. Londo threatened Refa +with death unless the Centauri broke off their relationship with Morden and +the Shadows. + + +

+Vir returned to the station after being demoted for running an underground +railroad for Narn refugees in +"Sic Transit Vir." + + +

+Realizing that the station would be better off with more protectors than just +the Minbari, Sheridan and Ivanova negotiated with several minor races to +supplement the station's defenses in +"A Late Delivery From Avalon." + + +

+Bester delivered a +"Ship of Tears" +to the station: a Shadow-bound cargo ship with hundreds of cybernetically +enhanced human telepaths. Telepaths, the crew soon discovered, can disrupt +the link between Shadow ships and their pilots. + + +

+Franklin resigned his post as chief medical officer in +"Interludes and Examinations." +Morden tricked Londo into vowing to crush Refa, and asking for Morden's help +to do it. Sheridan convinced Kosh to mount a Vorlon attack on a small +Shadow fleet. The Vorlons won the battle, but in retaliation, the Shadows +killed Kosh. + + +

+In +"War Without End," +Ambassador Sinclair received a personally addressed letter from 900 years in +the past. The note brought him to Babylon 5, where he led Delenn, Sheridan, +and others in an expedition to pull Babylon 4 a thousand years into the +past, when history recorded its role in the defeat of the Shadows. Draal, +in the Great Machine, opened a time rift, and sent his aide Zathras with +time-travel equipment and the chrysalis machine Delenn would eventually +use to become +half-human. During the time shift, Sheridan was pulled forward seventeen +years to find himself in Londo's throne room on a ruined Centauri Prime. + + +He and Delenn were thrown into a cell, where he learned that he had been +victorious over the Shadows, but only to a point, and that he and Delenn +had had a son, David. Londo, afflicted with a parasite called a "keeper" +that monitored his every move, let the two of them go, then urged G'Kar +to kill him before the keeper alerted anyone. The keeper awoke, and Londo +and G'Kar died at each other's hands, leaving Vir to assume the throne. +Meanwhile, on Babylon 4, the crew pulled Sheridan back to the present, +and Sinclair stayed behind to supervise the station's transfer to the Minbari +a thousand years before, as described in the letter from Valen -- who was +actually a transformed Sinclair. + + +

+The forces of light, with the help of Lyta and some Minbari telepaths, +emerged victorious from a direct confrontation with Shadow war cruisers in +"Walkabout." +A new Vorlon ambassador, also named Kosh, arrived on the station. + + +

+Shortly thereafter, in +"Grey 17 Is Missing," +Sheridan and his allies began openly recruiting telepaths of all races for +use as soldiers against the Shadows. + + +

+Fearing a power struggle in the royal court, Londo had Refa eliminated in +"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place." +Meanwhile, Sheridan discovered the next likely target of the Shadows. + + +

+With the telepaths deployed among the races of the Army of Light, Sheridan +assembled a strike force in +"Shadow Dancing." +His first direct confrontation with the Shadows +was a success, if a costly one; the Shadows were beaten back. Franklin, +meanwhile, returned to his duties after a brush with death. + + +

+Their defeat prompted the Shadows to send an emissary to Sheridan, inviting +him to meet with them on their homeworld, +Z'ha'dum: +his wife Anna, presumed dead. There, they tried to convince him to stop +leading the Army of Light, and revealed their purpose: to encourage +accelerated evolution among the lesser races by provoking conflict and +weeding out the weak. Unconvinced, Sheridan fled his hosts and, leaping +into a gaping abyss, summoned the White Star to self-destruct over a +huge Shadow city in a huge thermonuclear blast. + + +

+G'Kar set out in search of Garibaldi, who was taken by a Shadow ship during +Sheridan's confrontation with the Shadows, in +"The Hour of the Wolf." +Londo took up a position in the royal court, but soon discovered that the +Emperor was insane and had made a deal with the Shadows in the belief that +they would elevate him to godhood. A rescue mission was mounted to Z'ha'dum, +but Sheridan was nowhere to be found. Somehow, though, he survived, and found +himself at the bottom of the chasm accompanied by an enigmatic alien. + + +

+The alien, Lorien, claimed to be the first of the First Ones, the reason the +Shadows always return to Z'ha'dum. G'Kar never found out +"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi," +and was captured by the Centauri. Londo promised G'Kar the freedom of the +Narn homeworld if G'Kar would help him unseat Emperor Cartagia. Meanwhile, +back on Babylon 5, the League of Non-aligned Worlds splintered thanks to +Sheridan's disappearance, and Delenn summoned the Rangers to organize a +final strike on Z'ha'dum. + + +

+Garibaldi was recovered from a mysterious ship in +"The Summoning," +while Ivanova and Marcus set out in search of more First Ones. What they +found instead was a vast Vorlon fleet on a mission to destroy any world +touched by the Shadows. Lyta turned against Kosh. Sheridan returned with +Lorien, just in time to thwart an attempt by the frightened Non-Aligned +Worlds to break up the Army of Light. + + +

+In +"Falling Toward Apotheosis," +Londo learned of Cartagia's plan to allow the Vorlons to destroy Centauri +Prime, thus propelling him to godhood in a glorious explosion of fire. +Londo convinced Cartagia to first go to Narn and try G'Kar for crimes +against the Centauri; even so, Cartagia had a guard pluck out G'Kar's left +eye in a moment of pique. As the Vorlon fleet proceeded with its plan, +destroying world after world and sending refugees streaming to Babylon 5, +Sheridan and Lorien battled and killed Kosh. Delenn learned that Sheridan's +resurrection is only temporary; he has no more than twenty years left. + + +

+During +"The Long Night" +before the Army of Light's planned confrontation with the Vorlons, the +Shadows unleashed their own planet-killer, prompting Sheridan to lure them +into direct battle with the Vorlons to settle the conflict once and for all. +With G'Kar's help, Londo and Vir assassinated Cartagia; the royal court, +most unaware of the plot, elected Londo prime minister to quickly rid Centauri +Prime of Shadow influence and stave off the impending Vorlon attack. Londo +ordered the withdrawal of Centauri forces from Narn. + + +

+The Shadow War came to an abrupt end in +"Into the Fire." +Confronted by a united fleet of the younger races they were supposed to be +shepherding, the Vorlons and Shadows attempted +to force Sheridan to choose one of the two approaches to growth +and evolution. Sheridan rejected both choices; the younger races didn't need +shepherding any more, and would never again act as pawns. The Shadows and +Vorlons, convinced that their battle for philosophical dominance could no +longer continue, departed for the Rim, accompanied by Lorien and the last of +the remaining First Ones. Londo, meanwhile, destroyed the Shadow base on +Centauri Prime, earning a promise of retribution by the Shadows' allies. + + +

+Postwar euphoria was brief; with the departure of the Shadows, President +Clark turned his attention back to Babylon 5, launching a propaganda war +in lieu of a futile direct attack. In +"Epiphanies," +Sheridan was alerted to the first phase of the war by psi-cop Bester, who +demanded to be taken to Z'ha'dum in exchange for the information. The crew +arrived in time to see the Shadows' dark servants escaping with unknown +quantities of Shadow technology, just before the sudden self-destruction of the +entire planet. Their first target: Centauri Prime, where they planted a Keeper +("War Without End, part 2") +on the body of the newly-appointed Regent. After receiving a mysterious +coded message, Garibaldi resigned his post. + + + +

+Delenn returned to Minbar to begin +"Atonement" +for her cross-species relationship with Sheridan, strictly forbidden by +traditional Minbari beliefs about racial purity. Under the influence of a +mind probe, the first days of her membership on the Grey Council came to +light, including the fact that she ordered the start of the Earth-Minbari +War. More importantly, she discovered that she was a direct descendant of +Valen, and thus wasn't a racially pure Minbari to begin with -- and neither +were untold millions of other Minbari descended from Sinclair's children of a +thousand years ago. + + +

+Garibaldi, now operating as a private investigator, grew tired of the cult +of personality surrounding Sheridan. In +"Racing Mars," +he agreed to help a group that claimed to be concerned about Sheridan's +personality becoming a danger to the cause. + + +

+Tensions on Minbar continued to rise. In +"Lines of Communication," +the warrior caste began purging major cities of religious and worker caste +members. In response, Delenn was asked to enlist the aid of the Drakh, one +of the Shadow's servant races, now at large with looted Shadow technology. +No bargain was struck. + + +

+Garibaldi was offered a job on Mars, and Sheridan devised a plan to deploy the +White Star fleet as a police force to protect border areas from raiders and +the Drakh, in +"Conflicts of Interest." +Garibaldi's new employer, a medical-research magnate, came into possession of +a substance that allegedly cures a deadly genetic flaw in telepaths. + + + +

+Delenn and a high-ranking warrior caste member, Neroon, tricked the warrior +caste's leader into bringing the civil war to an end in +"Moments of Transition," +forming a new Grey Council under the majority control of the worker caste. +Meanwhile, Bester struck a deal with Lyta, giving her the appearance of +rejoining the Psi Corps. Earth forces attacked a convoy of unarmed refugee +ships, causing Sheridan to declare war. + + +

+Sheridan's forces liberated the colony at Proxima 3 in +"No Surrender, No Retreat." +Disgusted with Sheridan's guns-blazing approach to unseating Clark, +Garibaldi left the station to meet with his new employer on Mars. + + +

+Dr. Franklin benefited from +"The Exercise of Vital Powers," +in this case Lyta's ability to reawaken the frozen Shadow-implanted telepaths. +Garibaldi arrived on Mars, where Mr. Edgars, his new employer, convinced him +to try to lure Sheridan into a trap. + + +

+Garibaldi's trap was sprung, and Sheridan was captured by Clark's forces in +"The Face of the Enemy." +Edgars revealed his plan: to enslave telepaths by infecting them with a +lethal virus. Unfortunately, Bester scanned Garibaldi -- who had all along +been acting as Bester's agent, personality altered so he'd be more +susceptible to betraying Sheridan -- and discovered the plot. Edgars was +promptly murdered and the virus stolen. + + + +

+Continuing the fight in Sheridan's absence, Ivanova was mortally wounded in +"Between the Darkness and the Light." +Shortly thereafter, Sheridan was rescued by Franklin, Lyta, and Garibaldi, +who submitted to a scan by Lyta to prove he was manipulated by Bester. +The League of Non-Aligned Worlds, at the urging of G'Kar and Londo, committed +forces to aid Sheridan's fleet. + + +

+Using the implanted telepaths' ability to merge with computer systems, +Sheridan's forces defeated the defenses of Mars and Earth with few casualties in +"Endgame." +Clark committed suicide rather than face capture. Marcus used the alien +healing device +("The Quality of Mercy") +to sacrifice himself to save Ivanova's life. + diff --git a/background/sum-0 b/background/sum-0 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f45f4fe6 --- /dev/null +++ b/background/sum-0 @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +

+The pilot, "The Gathering," was set in the year 2257; +Babylon 5 had recently come online. The last of the ambassadors, +Kosh, arrived on the station, prompting an assassination attempt. Sinclair +was framed for the attempt, but was eventually cleared when the real culprit +-- a Minbari -- was discovered. Many mysteries were introduced: Sinclair's +missing 24 hours on the Battle of the Line (with the announcement by the +Minbari that "there is a hole in your mind"); the mystery of Kosh, seen +only by the doctor and the telepath; and the disappearance or destruction +of the previous four Babylon stations. + diff --git a/background/sum-24 b/background/sum-24 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4e7ad847 --- /dev/null +++ b/background/sum-24 @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ + +

+Season One +began with an attack, then backed off to allow time to introduce +most of the major characters, species, and forces and touch on most +of the themes, only to gather force again at the end with a set of intense +episodes that raise as many questions as they resolve. The prominent +threads are the Centauri-Narn conflict, the Shadows, the Psi Corps, happenings +on Earth, the Minbari surrender, what happened to Sinclair at the Battle +of the Line, what happened to the previous Babylon stations, and the Vorlons. + + +

Centauri-Narn Conflict

+ +

+As the season began, the Narns launched a preemptive and unprovoked strike +against a Centauri agricultural outpost +("Midnight on the Firing Line.") +The official Centauri response was to do nothing, but due to his personal +involvement with events there and his great desire that the Centauri show +the mettle of their former age of empire, the somewhat foppish Ambassador +Londo Mollari, with the sympathetic support of the humans and Minbari, tried to +defy his government and sanction the Narn. The two sides continued to bicker +until in exasperation Londo called for help from his new friend Mr. Morden. +The Shadows launched a preemptive and unprovoked strike against a Narn outpost +("Chrysalis") +-- and utterly destroyed it (to Londo's moderate distress.) + +

The Shadows

+ +

+The first encounter B5 had with the Shadows occured when a mysterious, polite +man named Morden arrived and asked each of the alien ambassadors, "What do you +want?" +("Signs and Portents") +Delenn suspected what Morden represented; Kosh +certainly knew; G'Kar only wanted to annihilate the Centauri. Morden seemed +to approve most of Londo's desire for the Centauri to reclaim their lost +empire, so he ingratiated himself by doing Londo a great favor. It was only +after the Shadows attacked the Narn that G'Kar made a connection between this +new enemy and an ancient enemy of lore. He traveled to the rim of known +space and found a deadly force on Z'ha'dum, a world thought to be long dead +("Revelations.") +However, his unconfirmed warnings of a great threat fell, and continue to +fall, on deaf ears in the council chambers. + +

The Psi Corps

+ +

+Almost as secretive, and certainly as nefarious, is the Psi Corps. Although +Talia is reasonable and ethical, the behavior of her superiors in the +organization is questionable. Among many who view the Corps with +suspicion, Ivanova's hatred of them is almost legendary. They +hunted Jason Ironheart to the station because after completing their +experiments on him he could see into their machinations for global domination +("Mind War.") +The Corps' security arm, the Psi Cops, as represented by Bester, appear to be a +particularly sinister breed. + +

Earth

+ +

+The idea that the Psi Corps might be manipulating the Earth government was +lent confirmation when a connection arose between them and the +assassination of the Earth President and the installment of his successor +("Revelations.") +There are other ominous signs of changes coming from Earth, +among them the anti-alien Homeguard +("The War Prayer") +and the squelching of the Mars independence movement +("A Voice in the Wilderness.") +Whatever the cause, things "back home" are becoming continuously bleaker. + +

Minbari Surrender and The Battle of the Line

+ +

+Twelve years ago humans were responsible for the death of the Minbari +leader. In retaliation, the Minbari declared war, and in the final hour, as +their ships were poised for the destruction of Earth, the Minbari Grey +Council captured one human, Sinclair, attempting to ram their ship. In the +course of their interrogation they discovered to their horror that Minbari +souls were being reborn in human bodies. Because Minbari refuse to harm +their own, and due to an ancient prophecy regarding the joining of their +souls and the fight against a great enemy, the Grey Council ordered the +Minbari to surrender. They maintained an interest in Sinclair, however, and +effectively selected him to run B5. They also invited him to Minbar as the +first Earth ambassador +("Points of Departure.") + +

+Delenn, who was present at the questioning of Sinclair, was chosen by +the Grey Council to be the leader of the Minbari +("Babylon Squared.") +So deep was her belief in the prophecy and her role to play in fulfilling it +that she not only declined the nomination but defied the Council's orders, +spinning a cocoon and metamorphosing into a Minbari-Human hybrid. +Perhaps she is right, for the instant a +"Soul Hunter" +(a caretaker of the "greatest +souls") saw her, he tried to collect her soul prematurely. + +

Previous Babylon Stations

+ +

+The first three Babylon stations were sabotaged. The fourth vanished +immediately after coming online. Four years later it reappeared and a +strange alien named Zathras explained that B4 was being drawn through time by +"The One," (a much older Sinclair aided by Delenn) to serve in a great +galactic war +("Babylon Squared.") +People on B4 experienced time shifts, and +Sinclair envisioned Garibaldi's last stand in a battle aboard B5. + +

The Vorlons

+ +

+The Vorlons are almost as much a mystery at the end of the season as at the +beginning. As Kosh arrived on the station +("The Gathering") +he was the victim +of an assassination attempt by a Minbari. Lest we think the Vorlons are +ineffectual or completely uninvolved, they enigmatically destroyed a ship +bearing the secret of immortality to Earth. Kosh also showed an interest in +Talia, to the point of making a mental recording of her +("Deathwalker.") + +

Other Issues

+ +

+The planet below B5 was found to contain vastly powerful machinery and +weapons. Delenn's former mentor Draal replaced the sentient heart of the +machine +("A Voice in the Wilderness.") diff --git a/background/sum-44 b/background/sum-44 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..032b1447 --- /dev/null +++ b/background/sum-44 @@ -0,0 +1,208 @@ +

+The Babylon Project was conceived by the Earth government in the +aftermath of the Earth-Minbari War. It was finally realized in Babylon 5, a +diplomatic outpost created to promote peaceful conflict resolution. Even +with such lofty goals, its galactic significance has quickly outstripped its +founders' wildest dreams -- let alone their ability to control. Babylon 5's +early years have been marked by a growing sense of foreboding, punctuated +by successively more immediate threats to the station's safety. Yet as +rising darkness nurtures galaxy-wide despair, the station begins to become +the focal point for a number of tiny rays of light. + +

The Shadows

+ +

+The gloom is made incarnate by the return of a mysterious ancient race known +only as the Shadows. A thousand years ago they were beaten back to the rim +of known space by an alliance which included relatively young civilizations +like the Minbari, and a number of extremely powerful older races known +collectively as the First Ones, who with +the exception of the Vorlons have all passed beyond the confines of the +galaxy -- presumably forever. On the rim, on dead deserted worlds like +Z'ha'dum, the Shadows hid and gathered their strength for another assault +("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.") +They do not act openly yet, but only through +proxies like the human Mr. Morden, and the Centauri. What do they want? +Only they know for sure. Chaos, it would seem, and control, and about two +thirds of the galaxy. + +

The Centauri and Ambassador Londo Mollari

+ +

+It is ironic for a people as dedicated to hedonism and frivolity as the +Centauri to become the facilitators of destruction and despair. Yet they +are trapped by their dreams of former Empire and the vainglorious whims of +individuals like Ambassador Mollari and the machiavellian Lord Refa. At first +Londo thinks he can use his new friend Mr. Morden to further his own career, +and is scarcely disturbed that the price is paid in Narn corpses. +Disregarding all warnings, +("The Geometry of Shadows," +"Knives") +and the best +chance for peace the Centauri have ever had, +("The Coming of Shadows") +Londo +oversaw the Centauri-Narn War from its inception as a border conflict +("Midnight on the Firing Line," +"Chrysalis") +to its culmination in the +planetary bombardment of the Narn homeworld +("The Long, Twilight Struggle.") +Yet as his dreams come closer to reality, his enjoyment of them ebbs, and it +begins to dawn on him the extent to which it is he who is being used in the +schemes of others. + +

The Narn and Ambassador G'Kar

+ +

+The G'Kar who lied brazenly about the preemptive Narn strike against an +undefended Centauri agricultural colony +("Midnight on the Firing Line,") +is +a far cry from the one who was ordered to petition Earth for sanctuary on +Babylon 5 as the last surviving member of the Narn ruling body +("The Long Twilight Struggle.") +In the intervening years he experienced a religious +reaffirmation when he discovered on Z'ha'dum the ancient Enemy spoken of by +the prophet G'Quon +("Revelations.") +He learned futility by watching his +warnings of the Enemy's return fall on seemingly deaf ears. And he learned +humility from the greatness of his enemy's emperor +("The Coming of Shadows.") +Perhaps these experiences have prepared him for the heavy +responsibility he assumes of leading his people's struggle for independence +in exile. + +

Earth

+ +

+Signs from Earth have also grown markedly bleaker in just a few years. The +anti-alien Home Guard +("The War Prayer,") +the squelching of the Mars +independence movement +("A Voice in the Wilderness,") +and the increase in +militarism back home +("GROPOS,") +soon paled in comparison to the discovery of +the conspiracy which led to the assassination of the Earth President +("Chrysalis," +"Hunter Prey,") +and the efforts of the insidious Ministry of +Peace to eradicate the faintest whispers of dissent. In its most morally +vacant act, the Earth government chose to sign a treaty of nonaggression +with the expanding Centauri Empire +("The Fall of Night") +rather than stand +up for the sovereignty of the Nonaligned Worlds. + +

The Psi Corps

+ +

+Whenever the Babylon 5 crew investigates the more disturbing situations +arising from contact with Earth, they regularly find the Psi Corps lurking +behind the scenes. Quite clearly the Psi Corps has no limits on the extent +to which it will manipulate people in its efforts to obtain power +("Mind War," +"Soul Mates," +"A Race through Dark Places.") +Among many who view them +with suspicion, Commander Ivanova's hatred for the Corps is legendary; it is +also a smoke screen to hide her fear that they will discover her telepathic +latency. Within the Corps itself, there appears to be an even more +dangerous, ultra-secret group operating under the code name Bureau 13 +("A Spider in the Web.") +Among other acts of casual manipulation and +destruction, they are likely responsible for planting the artificial +personality in Talia Winters which was sent to spy on B5 and which wiped out +Talia's true personality +("Divided Loyalties.") + +

The Minbari and Ambassador Delenn

+ +

+Powerful, honorable, the Minbari almost annihilated Earth after their first +encounter with humans, yet inexplicably surrendered in their hour of victory +and subsequently helped sponsor the Babylon Project. Of the few humans and +Minbari who know the complete story, many do not believe it. When the Grey +Council war cruiser was poised over Earth during the Battle of the Line, a +lone pilot attempting to ram their ship (Jeffrey Sinclair) was captured and +interrogated +("And the Sky Full of Stars.") +To their horror, the Council +determined that Minbari souls were being reborn in human bodies. Besides the +fact that Minbari refuse to harm their own, an ancient prophecy +claimed that a great challenge would someday arise which could only be met +when the two halves of the Minbari soul were joined. Thus, the Council +ordered the Minbari forces to surrender +("Points of Departure.") +Many +Minbari, particularly among the warrior caste, still despise this decision +("There All Honor Lies,") +and as the warrior caste grows more powerful on +Minbar, there are signs of schisms appearing in the formerly coherent society. + +

+The prophecy also mentions an individual who will lead the combined forces +of Minbari and humans. So strong is her belief that she is this Chosen One +("Comes the Inquisitor,") +that not only does Delenn refuse the Grey +Council's selection of her to be the leader of all Minbari +("Babylon Squared,") +but against its instruction to wait she metamorphoses into a +human-Minbari hybrid +("Chrysalis," +"Revelations.") +Although permitted to +remain as ambassador on B5, Delenn's confidence is severely shaken when the +remaining Grey Council decides to remove her from their company +("All Alone in the Night,") +and even further when she discovers that she is accepted by +neither humans nor Minbari +("And Now for a Word," +"There All Honor Lies.") +She has only her faith in herself, the loyalty of Lennier and her growing +bond with Captain Sheridan to depend on. + +

The Vorlons and Ambassador Kosh

+ +

+Delenn also appears to have the approval of the Vorlons -- although this is no +easy burden. Enigmatic and extremely advanced, the Vorlons rarely seem to +take the opinions of others into consideration when they act. They have +visited many worlds, but not openly, perhaps to guide the species there, and +perhaps to manipulate them. Kosh is willing to aid the few like Delenn and +Sheridan who merit his attention +("There All Honor Lies," +"Hunter Prey,") +but +they do not escape the encounter unscathed +("Comes the Inquisitor.") +Since +he arrived on the station, Kosh remained hidden inside his encounter suit +for years. When he finally revealed himself, he appeared as a glorious +being of light and lore -- different to each species who saw him. Very few +realized that it was Kosh whom they saw, but most agree that they witnessed +proof that the station is blessed +("The Fall of Night.") + +

The Conspiracy of Light

+ +

+After surreptitiously testing the attitudes of his crew for several months, +Sheridan involved Ivanova, Garibaldi and Franklin in an extremely dangerous +plot to investigate and root out the evil they see growing in the heart of +the Earth government. At first they were all alone, with the exception of +Sheridan's contact, General Hague. But as the Shadows come +and darkness grows deeper throughout the galaxy, Babylon 5 has attracted +unexpected allies for a great battle that looms heavily on the horizon. The +first is Draal, who is the Minbari heart of the great machine and extremely +powerful weaponry in the planet below the station. Assistance also comes +from the embassy on Minbar, where former station commander Sinclair leads +a growing army of mostly human and Minbari Rangers. In the vicinity of +Babylon 5 the Rangers answer to Delenn and Captain Sheridan. Yet even with +Draal and the Vorlons among them, by 2260 the fighters for the light seem +pitifully few and weak compared to the pervasive and terrifying power of +the Shadows. diff --git a/background/sum-66 b/background/sum-66 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e6d9be7a --- /dev/null +++ b/background/sum-66 @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +

Summary by Katrina Glerum (kat@gol.com)

+ +

+Thirteen years ago, humanity teetered on the brink of extermination after a +misunderstanding mobilized the entire Minbari civilization on a mission +of annihilation. The Babylon Project was Earth's attempt to prevent future +interstellar war by promoting interracial understanding. It failed utterly. +A galactic war of epic proportions engulfed Babylon 5 only five years after +its completion. In the face of overwhelming darkness and chaos, the people +of B5 found the courage to make a stand against madness and despair. Yet +the price was enormous. They lost their homes, their loved ones, their +careers -- even their lives. + + +

The Shadows

+ +

+The Great War is the handiwork of the Shadows. An ancient, terrifyingly +powerful race, the Shadows seed the galaxy with chaos like cosmic picadors, +promoting evolutionary advancement through competition and destruction. A +thousand years ago they were beaten back to the galactic rim by an alliance +which included relatively young civilizations like the Minbari, and a number +of extremely powerful older races known collectively as the First Ones. Of +these, all but the Vorlons have passed beyond confines of the +galaxy -- presumably forever. The Shadows have infiltrated several +governments, preferring secrecy because in the open their organic vessels +have one crucial vulnerability: they can be disabled by telepaths. Although +forced on the defensive when Captain Sheridan destroyed the biggest city on +their home world of Z'ha'dum, the Shadows have no intention of giving up +their goals easily, whatever those goals might ultimately be. + + +

The Vorlons and Ambassador Kosh

+ +

+The Shadows' greatest remaining enemies are the Vorlons. Enigmatic, secretive +and extremely powerful, the Vorlons have also manipulated many civilizations +for their own mysterious ends. Their sole acknowledged representative, +Ambassador Kosh Naranek, glided the corridors of B5 for years before anyone saw +him outside his bulky encounter suit. When he finally revealed himself, he +appeared as a glorious being of light and lore, of the same species as any +who saw him. + +

+Only one individual is known to have ever visited the Vorlon homeworld, the +human telepath Lyta Alexander. When she returned to act as aide and +"courier" for Ambassador Kosh, she had obviously been altered. Besides +Lyta, Kosh took an interest in Delenn, to teach, test and trust her. But his +most curious relationship was reserved for Captain Sheridan, who he pushed +and taught and chastised. Finally when Sheridan demanded that the Vorlons +take part in the war they were commanding him to fight for them, Kosh +acquiesced at the cost of his own life -- or at least most of it. Even as the +Shadows destroyed the Ambassador in retribution, a small piece of Kosh's +consciousness slipped into the Captain to guide his path in the future. + +

+The replacement Ambassador, also known as "Kosh," is more remote and more +clearly working toward ends that include no one but Vorlons. + + +

The Centauri and Ambassador Londo Mollari

+ +

+In the declining years of the great Centauri Empire, the Shadows' human +puppet, Mr. Morden, approached a debauched, washed-up, old Centauri patriot, +Londo Mollari, and offered him the chance for his people to regain their +lost might and glory. In exchange Morden asked... well, nothing, at first. +Londo took the bait and presided over the reconquest of Narn. The star of +House Mollari soared, but Londo felt that circumstances were flying out of +control. The machinations of his ally-turned-enemy Lord Refa, the urgings +of Mr. Morden's "associates" to wage excessive and pointless border wars, +the rudderless court at home, and his own desire to serve his people, all +pushed the Ambassador into a newly decisive role. Yet, tragically it +appears that it will be his destiny to lead his people into ruin and desolation. + + +

The Narn and Ambassador G'Kar

+ +

+When G'Kar first came to Babylon 5, he was a hero who had spent his entire +life fighting the Centauri. His hatred and fury knew no limits, and thus he +ironically provided the perfect target for Londo's temptation by the +Shadows. When his world was defeated, G'Kar was forced to beg sanctuary +from Babylon 5 and there he became the leader of the Narn resistance in +exile. G'Kar discovered the Shadows' return long before it became widely +known, but his warnings fell on seemingly deaf ears. Eventually he learned +the terrible truth: that Londo had masterminded the Shadow +destruction of his people, and that the Minbari and the Army of Light had +known this, and permitted it to happen. In the very instant of such +revelations he experienced a Vorlon-inspired epiphany: "Some must be +sacrificed if all are to be saved." He came to understand as well that +somehow the humans would be the key to the salvation of his people. + + +

Earth

+ +

+While reports from "back home" had never been wildly encouraging, including +the crushing of the Mars Independence movement and the Gestapo-like +Nightwatch division of the Ministry of Peace, the B5 command staff were +still appalled when they stumbled across evidence that President Clark had +had his predecessor assassinated. When this news leaked to the press, Clark +disbanded the government and declared martial law. Even as his loyal forces +hunted down rebellious ships and bombed civilian targets, Mars, Io and +Babylon 5 declared their independence. With Minbari assistance, B5 held off +a massive Earth assault. This success left the station floating in uneasy +limbo, dependent on the goodwill and self-interest of worlds who might want +to use it for trade and peace negotiations. + + +

Psi Corps

+ +

+Believing themselves to be the next evolutionary step beyond "normals," +members of Psi Corps have consistently shown disregard for the laws intended +to regulate their activities, along with disregard for the rights and +well-being of other telepaths. They hound rogue teeps to the ends of the +galaxy; they plant personality time bombs in their members as they did to +Talia Winters; they develop and distribute dangerous psi-enhancing drugs +like "dust;" and some within the Corps are even willing to hand over +rebellious telepaths to the Shadows. They manipulate, coerce, conspire and +league with the devil in pursuit of one goal -- control. However, even within +an organization so guarded, there are signs of dissent and factionalization. +In his anger over the ill-treatment of his lover, one of the Psi Corps' +strongest telepaths, Alfred Bester, has promised to lend his aid to the +station in their fight against the Shadows. + + +

The Minbari and Ambassador Delenn

+ +

+As prophesied by Valen, the Great War has brought the Minbari to the close +of an age, ending a thousand years of peaceful rule by the Grey Council. +Council member for the religious caste, Delenn was among the few who +understood and believed the many prophecies about this time. Thus she was +one of the few prepared for the terrific consequences and sacrifices +required by those prophecies as one by one they came true. + +

+The first was over a decade ago, in the terrible hour when the Grey Council +war cruiser poised over Earth in a final lull before exacting ultimate +vengeance for their leader Dukhat's death. A lone pilot, Jeffrey Sinclair, +was captured and interrogated. To their horror, the Council discovered that +he carried the soul of their greatest leader, Valen, and determined that +Minbari souls were being reborn in the bodies of humans. They immediately +and without explanation ordered their forces to surrender, to the outrage of +the warrior caste. + +

+The ancients said that the two halves of the Minbari soul must join to +overcome their greatest challenge. They also spoke of a great leader. +Believing that she was this person, Delenn underwent a metamorphosis that +left her half human -- and ostracized by both races. She rose to the challenge, +however, and when the Grey Council, which had been established to guard +against the Shadows' return, balked when the circumstances of that return +announced themselves as interspecies border conflicts, Delenn broke the +Council and led the worker and religious castes into battle. This threw +the tightly knit society into a turmoil, with Delenn in the unrelished +middle of it all. + + +

The Great War and the Army of Light

+ +

+The Great War never ends, it just stops for awhile. It is the war that +Commander Sinclair/Valen and Babylon 4 traveled backward through time to +win a thousand years ago. It is the Great War prophesied to play out again +in another thousand years. + +

+Bloody though it was, the Minbari War certainly hadn't prepared the +successful, patriotic, young Captain Sheridan for the task of commanding +Babylon 5, much less the hardships which followed. Trying to steer a path +between the political, the practical, and the ethical would have been +impossible if not for his able and like-minded command staff: Ivanova, +Garibaldi and Franklin. Initially these four came together to fight the +darkness growing within Earth Gov, but soon they found that this evil was +only a piece of the terrifying storm brewing, and they were too few alone. + +

+The first to join the Army of Light were the crack Minbari-human battalion +known as Rangers. Then, through persuasion, coercion and a show of arms, +Sheridan was able to hammer together a fragile Alliance that included many +of the Non-Aligned Worlds, and Delenn's two thirds of the Minbari. He also +found some unexpected allies, including Draal, the sentient heart of the +great machine below the station on Epsilon 3; the ancient, First One Walkers +of Sigma 957; remnants of the Earth Force resistance against President +Clark; and a promise from Psi Cop Mr. Bester. + +

+When the Alliance scored a major victory over the Shadows at last, the enemy +grew afraid. They sent Anna Sheridan, who they had captured with Mr. Morden +from the Icarus expedition, to summon John to Z'ha'dum. Even though Kosh +had warned him that he would die, and he knew it was a trap, Sheridan went +there anyway and destroyed their greatest city before plunging to certain +death in an immense chasm. + diff --git a/background/x.html b/background/x.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c74093f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/background/x.html @@ -0,0 +1,150 @@ + +

+This section contains a chronological summary of Babylon 5's +story arc (the 5-year plotline) as it has been presented so far. +Only certain episodes, believed to be of some significance, are mentioned. +Note that this is chock full of spoilers! + +

+The pilot, "The Gathering," is set in the year 2257, introducing station +Babylon 5 which has recently come online. The last of the ambassadors, +Kosh, arrives on the station, prompting an assassination attempt. Sinclair +is framed for the attempt, but is eventually cleared when the real culprit +-- a Minbari -- is discovered. Many mysteries are introduced: Sinclair's +missing 24 hours on the Battle of the Line (with the announcement by the +Minbari that "there is a hole in your mind"); the mystery of Kosh, seen +only by the doctor and the telepath; and the disappearance or destruction +of the previous four Babylon stations. + + +

+Season one begins with "Midnight on the Firing Line," about 6 months +later. +Lt. Cmdr Susan Ivanova has recently taken over the second-in-command post; +we learn of her dislike of the psi corps. The doctor and telepath from the +pilot are no longer on the station. A Centauri agricultural outpost is +attacked without provocation by the Narns. (In +broad strokes, this episode portrays the Narns as the "bad guys" +and the Centauri as wishy-washy comic relief.) Luis Santiago is reelected +President of the Earth Alliance. + + +

+A "Soul Hunter," a member of an order which collects and preserves important +souls, finds himself on the station, and attempts to collect Delenn's soul +prematurely. We learn the importance of the Minbari soul, and that they +prevented a soul hunter from taking the soul of their great leader Dukhat, +so that his soul would be reborn into the next generation. Delenn is +called Satai by the soul hunter, which prompts Sinclair to wonder if +something is going on, as Satai is the title used my members of the Grey +Council, the Minbari ruling body and highest religious authority. + + + + + +

+In "Mind War," two Psi Cops -- P12 level telepaths, including Bester +(played by Walter Koenig) -- come to the station in search of telepath +Jason Ironheart, who has achieved telekinetic abilities and is transforming +into something more than human. He warns Sinclair that the Psi Corps are +starting to pull the strings in the government back on Earth. When Bester's +partner is killed, Sinclair makes a new enemy. Before departing, Ironheart +gives Talia a gift: telekinesis, and maybe other abilities as well. + + +

+"The War Prayer" introduces members of the Homeguard, an anti-alien +establishment back on Earth. + + +

+"And The Sky Full of Stars" explores what happened to Sinclair on the +Battle of the Line, 10 years before in the Earth-Minbari War. Interrogated +and forced to relive the battle, we see Sinclair ram a +Minbari Cruiser, only to wake up on board, interrogated by the Grey +Council. He recognizes Delenn as one of the Grey Council. After escaping +from his interrogators, he chooses not to reveal to Delenn that he remembers +part of his missing 24 hours. + + +

+"Deathwalker" is a notorious war criminal from the Dilgar War, fought by +Earth and others several decades earlier. She has a substance she claims +grants immortality -- but only at the cost of another's life. The Vorlons +destroy her ship to prevent Earth from gaining the secret of immortality. + + + +

+"Survivors" takes Garibaldi back into his alcoholism as he is accused of +sabotage. The real culprit is the Homeguard. + + + +

+"Signs and Portents" +deals with an attack by raiders on the station. The B-story, in which +Londo acquires the long-lost symbol of his empire, the Eye, is more +important. A mysterious, polite man named Morden inquires "What do you +want?" of the alien ambassadors, and seems to like Londo's response -- +for the Centauri to reclaim their lost empire -- the +best. The Eye is captured by the raiders, who are destroyed by a +mysterious ship that appears out of the shadows. Morden returns the Eye to +Londo, "from friends you don't know you have." + + + + + + +

+In the two-parter, "A Voice in the Wilderness," it is discovered that the +planet below B5 is not as dead as it was thought. The +Mars colony breaks out in rebellion. A dying alien is found controlling +vast, tremendously powerful machinery on the planet below. + + +Draal, an old friend of Delenn's, takes charge of the machinery in the planet, +warning away all who would try to take it for themselves. The Mars rebellion +is put down by Earth Alliance security forces. + + +

+In "Babylon Squared," Babylon 4 -- the biggest of the Babylon stations, which +dissapeared 24 hours after coming online, suddenly reappears. Meanwhile, +off-station, Delenn is chosen by the Grey Council to be their new leader, but +declines because a Minbari prophecy tells her that her destiny lies on +Babylon 5. She leaves with a powerful device called a triluminary. As time +disturbances flash back and forward to other times (including a scene where +something is coming through the walls of the station, being fought off by +Garibaldi, as Sinclair is pushed into the crowds), the crew attempts to +evacuate the crew of B4. A mysterious alien, Zathras, has appeared and tells +of a great, terrible war, and the attempt to pull B4 through time to use it +as a base of operations. He is looking for "The One" -- the great leader of +an effort to bring peace to the galaxy. The station is evacuated, but +Zathras, trapped, is rescued by "The One" -- who turns out to be a much older +Sinclair, aided apparently by Delenn. + + +

+"The Quality of Mercy" reveals a clinic run by Dr. Franklin in the +downbelow sections, as well as an alien healing machine that transfers +"life force" from one person to another. + + +

+"Chrysalis," the season one finale, refers to the cocoon that Delenn begins +to build using a mysterious crystalline machine. +Garibaldi uncovers a plot to assassinate the Earth President, but is shot +in the back by his right-hand man, left for dead. Morden reappears, and +offers to take care of a problem for Londo, dealing with a region contested +with the Narns. Delenn speaks to Ambassador Kosh, who reveals something to +her that verifies her interpretation of a prophecy. She confronts +Sinclair about his knowledge of his interrogation, but enters into her +cocoon before they can talk. Londo is horrified to find that the Narn +outpost has been utterly destroyed by mysterious forces. +The president is assassinated, and the vice +president is sworn in immediately. G'Kar leaves to investigate the +destruction of the Narn base. + diff --git a/chars/ivanova.html b/chars/ivanova.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ee90d48a --- /dev/null +++ b/chars/ivanova.html @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ + +Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova + + + +

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Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova

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As written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski

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+ Quick sketch of Ivanova: Russian, pessimistic, wry, very sharp. She +isn't in "Believers" because there was a one-week overlap with a prior +committment on a film project, which we accommodated. +

+ Being of Byelorussian descent, I've always wanted to write for an ethnic +Russian character. Not someone with an accent, any more than I have an accent +even though I have a last name with 10,000 consonants and no vowels. There's a +wry and formal and stiff-necked and sometimes very passionate streak that runs +through the Russian spirit, and a certain rough-hewn mysticism, a sense of +absolute fatality and doom punctuated by moments of great belief in humanity. +It's a mix of traits you don't much see in American television. +

+ Which is why the new second in command is Lieutenant Commander Susan +Ivanova, who will be played by Claudia Christian, a fantastic and very strong +performer who just knocked us out of the room. Very much a commanding +presence, a little quirky when she wants to be, a shade on the pessimistic +side. +

+ Having come out of an Eastern European background, I've long lamented the +stereotyped roles usually written for that kind of character, and look forward +to drawing upon the real thing for her character. +

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+ I like Ivanova as well; she's got a very sly, very *sharp* intelligence +going there. She can deadpan you and whap you upside the head with a comment +delivered almost as an aside, or an afterthought. It's the difference between +wit and humor. She doesn't tell jokes, but she's got a great sense of wit. +

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+ There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm quoting +from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you / That you carry with a +certain pride / It's the only part / Of a broken heart / You could ever save." +That's Ivanova. [Editor's note: I'm told the song in question is +"Code of Silence," from the album "Bridge."] +

+ She's had her heart stomped on a lot. And she's been holding it in. Even +with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought back the tears. There +is one episode, which will be right at the end of the year, where she finds +she can't run from her pain anymore...can't run from the tears...and deals +with them in a scene that's very moving and absolutely brings tears to the +eyes. + +

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The Vorlons and Ambassador Kosh

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as written by J. Michael Straczynski

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+Let's talk about the Vorlons...because there ain't much we can SAY about +the Vorlons...because nobody knows anything about them. +

+In our opening movie, everyone's awaiting the arrival of the fifth and +final ambassador (four if you don't count Sinclair) from the primary alien +governments. He is a Vorlon, a race we have tried, without much success, +to learn about ever since we first picked up their transmissions. Several +scout ships were sent on First Contact missions. All of them met with +unfortunate "accidents" upon entering Vorlon space. +The Vorlons tendered their most sincere apologies. +

+And suggested no further expeditions. +

+Now, at last, with B5 becoming functional, and all of the other +ambassadors in place, it no longer makes strategic sense to continue in +their isolation. So the arrival of the Vorlon is a Big Deal. No human has +ever even seen a Vorlon. +

+And they play it right up to the hilt. The ambassador -- Kosh Naranek -- +maintains only audio contact with B5 as his ship makes the long voyage, +citing "problems" with video. He clearly doesn't want to broadcast the +Vorlon face all over the quadrant. So no problem, after all, he has to +arrive eventually, and they'll see him then. +

+Not quite. +

+The ship arrives. The Vorlon ambassador emerges from his ship...and well, +y'see, he comes from a very different environment. Lots of methane and +CO2. Our atmosphere is poisonous to Vorlons. So he emerges wearing an +Encounter Suit...which covers every square inch of his body except for his +hands -- assuming those are his hands -- with a dark faceplate in the +front. The only place he can remove all of that is in his quarters, and +there are no vids in his quarters, no way to observe him or see his true +face. +

+So...even now, no human has still ever seen a Vorlon. +

+Well, that's not entirely true. +Legend has it that one human saw a Vorlon. A pilot who crashed, off +course, on a Vorlon colony. +

+According to that legend, the human who saw a Vorlon...was turned to stone. +But, after all, it's only a legend. +

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Why are the Vorlons allowed to participate in Babylon 5?

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+ The Vorlons are the great unknown. They occupy a *huge* sector of space. +No expedition ever sent to Vorlon space has ever returned, or sent back word. +No human had ever even *seen* a Vorlon prior to Kosh's arrival on B5. Their +technology is vastly superior to just about everyone else's. To unravel the +mystery, to maybe get a *piece* of their tech, is more than sufficient +inducement, I'd think. +

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+ We will reveal what Kosh is a LOT sooner than year 5. Closer to the end +of year 2. +

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+Is Kosh what he/she/it appears to be? +

+ Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no less +and no more. At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* like what +he appears to be. +

+ These are not contradictory statements. +

+ And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the +subject, believe it or not. + +

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Londo Mollari and the Centauri Republic

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As written by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie

+ On the other end of the spectrum is Ambassador Londo Mollari, of the +Centauri Republic. Londo is the most human of all the various ambassadors, +and there's some speculation that we might be a long forgotten outpost of the +Republic. +

+ Of course, the only ones MAKING that assertion are Londo's people, who +have much to gain in trying to convince others of that. +

+ For a thousand years, the Centauri Republic was a force to be reckoned +with. Like the English empire once upon a time, it held hundreds of planets +in its control. It was a great military power. But slowly, as can happen, +they grew content, and lazy, and gradually their own empire began to slip +between their fingers. A world deciding to go rogue was troublesome, to be +sure, but it's SO far away, and it's SUCH a bother to go take care of it, when +we can easily get the same things from other places...let them go. They'll +come crawling back sooner or later. +

+ As a result, they are now down to a Republic that consists of barely a +dozen systems and thirty worlds. +

+ It was, interestingly enough, the Centauri Republic that was Earth's +first contact with another major government. The CR was well in advance of +Earth science, and we all considered them a terrible power...an illusion they +hardly tried to set right. Trade agreements were set up, and we gained an +ASTONISHING amount of technical know-how in a very short time, letting us leap- +frog a hundred years of progress in a single year. They were most curious to +get cultural stuff in return...music, art, philosophy, literature..."native" +trinkets that could be resold for more money back on homeworld. +

+ In the thirty or forty years since then, however, we've found out the +truth, that the CR is really on its last legs. And we've taken the technology +we've gotten and perfected it, and now the Earth Alliance is fast becoming one +of the dominant forces of this time. And the Centauri Republic is trying to +attach itself to us the way a ramora attaches itself to a shark...for +preservation, in this case. +

+ They are governed by an emperor, and the government works mainly through +personal and family influence. It's a very indulgent society, and Londo +reflects that. Overweight, prone to gambling constantly (null-pool is his +favorite), and fond of women and drinks, he understands his role and doesn't +try to push it. Like his Republic, he subsists on old stories and tales of +former glory, remarking -- one night, when drunk -- "my god, we've become a +tourist attraction. See the Great Fallen Centauri Republic, open nine to +five...Earth Time." He is, by turns, a comic figure, and a tragic figure. + +

What about that hair?

+ +Centauri males wear their hair in this fashion, the length of which is +determined by the person's status. Centauri women scorn such symbols of +status and go bald except for a knot of hair from the back. (Sort of a +peacock approach.) + +

+Certainly, you could wear your hair longer than your status permits, but +it's like pretending to a status you don't have, which is viewed as pathetic. + +

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Captain John Sheridan

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As written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski

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+A quick sketch +
+Since this has just been released by PTEN, and will be +on the news wires shortly (and is probably already there), +I can now announce this here. +

+ The new Commanding Officer for Babylon 5 is Captain John +Sheridan, former captain of the Earthforce military starship +Agamemmnon. It was Sheridan who won what is arguably Earth's +only real victory during the Earth/Minbari War, destroying the +Minbari war cruiser Black Star and several accompanying +vessels. He has been appointed to Babylon 5 over the strenuous +objections of the Minbari Government, by the president's +insistence that Babylon 5 has had too much influence from the +Minbari and must begin to pull back and consider Earth's +interests; Sheridan is a symbol of that desire because of his +record, which is the reason for his assignment. +

+ Captain Sheridan will be portrayed by the well-regarded +actor Bruce Boxleitner, known to many as the series lead in +"Scarecrow And Mrs. King." He has also starred in numerous +TV movies, miniseries and feature films. He is also a solid +SF fan (media *and* print), and is very excited about coming +onto the Babylon 5 team. We're equally excited to have him. +

+ +

+Have any of the other officers served with Sheridan before? +
+Only Ivanova has served with him before; Garibaldi +doesn't know him from Adam, and this will lead to some +awkwardness and questions of trust down the road. +

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+How does Sheridan regard the Minbari? +
+Sheridan is a soldier. A soldier is told, in wartime, +THIS is your enemy. You kill the enemy or your enemy kills +you. Afterward, you're in the same position American soldiers +were in after the end of WW II when it came time to reconcile +with the Germans and the Japanese. It can sometimes be very +awkward...and sometimes reconciliation takes a while. +

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+Sheridan ought to add some tension to the series. +
+[...] And you're right about the situation providing some +tension and story line possibilities; it ties into where +the story is going, and ups the ante on several emotional +levels, some personal (Garibaldi), some diplomatic (the +Minbari don't much like him). +

+ +

+Random additional information. +
+Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the +Union Army. +

+ +

+Response to an allegation that Sheridan is another Captain Kirk. +
+ For what it's worth, Sheridan is neither a "space cowboy" nor a +"gung ho type." This description has nothing to do with the character, +and I'm not quite sure where you got this. Certainly I never said or +implied it. +

+ Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the +only real victory of the Earth/Minbari War. (Which means the Minbari +don't generally like him a lot.) He did what he did because that's his +job. He's a professional soldier. For the last two years, he's been +commanding the Agamemmnon, a high-visibility Earthforce starship on deep +patrol. As such, he has had to learn to work with a number of different +races and species. +

+ In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was +the case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often seemed to +hang. Sheridan is often very thoughtful and introspective; at other +times, he can be just a bit eccentric; he leads by respecting those who +work under him, and giving them room to grow; like any career officer, he +HATES the bureaucracy with a passion, and this is the one thing that can +drive him nuts; he knows that commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but +he also knows that his presence brings certain complications with it, and +he's very ambivilant about that aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic envoy +who disappeared on his 21st birthday, running off to see (of all things) +the new Dali Lama being installed; he has a very easygoing manner, and a +great sense of humor. He quickly re-forms a friendship with Ivanova, for +whom he has great respect and professional admiration. (For a time she +served under him at Io.) +

+ He is, actually, a fascinating and intriguing character with a lot +of different shadings...none of which have *anything* to do with being a +"space cowboy" or "gung-ho type." +

+ Anyway...point being...when it was announced that there was going to +be a new Lieutenant-Commander, a number of folks went ballistic and said +the show would now be ruined. I said, in essence, look...I created +Takashima; I can create an interesting character to replace her. And I +thunk up Ivanova, who according to the rec.arts.b5 poll is the most +popular character on the show. When it was announced that Sinclair would +be STAYING with the show, after the pilot, a number of folks said this +was bad, he was wooden, he stunk, get him off...and ended up being very +enamored of him. My only reply now about Bruce...give him, and me, a +chance. I genuinely think you will like what you see a *lot*. +

+ In the course of the first season, Ivanova, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Londo, +Delenn, others...they've exploded into strong characters. You need an +equally strong character designed to hold his own, and be memorable, in +that august company. Sheridan was designed knowing we had a much +elevated playing field around the character. +

+ Obviously, clearly, and irrefutably, an actor brings a *lot* to any +role. No question. But it tends to begin with what is created. I've seen +it said here, repeatedly, that none of the characters are uninteresting; +they all have lives, and agendas, that make them fascinating to watch: +Londo, Morden, G'Kar, Delenn, Garibaldi, Ivanova...what those characters +are came out of my head, in terms of who they are, what they say, what they +believe, where they came from and where they're going. Why would I invent +a new character that was any less involving, or interesting, o +multifaceted? Particularly knowing that he's going to be a central +character? +

+ Speaking as someone who's been in fandom a long, long time, I know +there is always a tendency for panic, to assume the apocalypse is upon +us, that something is never going to be the same again. I heard this after +the Enterprise was destroyed in "The Search for Spock." I've heard this +a lot over the years. It's generally over-reaction and worry before anyone +has even seen a frame of film. +

+ Bottom line being...wait and see, then judge. I've tried very hard +not to let you down, and I think so far I haven't done so...I have no +intention of starting now. Bruce is doing an absolutely *brilliant* job +as Captain Sheridan, bringing a thoughtfulness and intensity and +charm and intensity to the part that is a joy to behold. Give him a +chance. + +

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+Why replace Sinclair? +
+Sheridan, or more specifically the need for someone *like* Sheridan +began to get through clearly toward the latter part of last season, as I +began planning out season two's progression, and kept looking at elements +of the story and trying to find ways to get Sinclair into the heart of +them. They felt contrived, for the most part; and the other characters, +like Londo and G'Kar and Delenn, were *really* moving forward in a big +way. The role of Sinclair was becoming primarily that of a "problem +solver," and when that happens, a sort of glass bell falls down around the +character, and you can't do much with him. + +

+So what the writer has to do is break that bell in one way or another; +do something totally unexpected to him, and bring in someone who has a +direct, personal connection with the storyline emerging in season two, so +it's not contrived or forced. + +

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Commander Sinclair

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+Name:  Jeffrey David Sinclair
+Rank:  Commander
+Age:   39
+Birthdate:  May 3rd, 2218, 9:15 a.m. Earth Standard Time
+Birthplace:  Mars Colony
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+Service record:
+2237     Enlisted in Earth Force Defense
+2240     Promoted to fighter pilot
+2240-1   Promoted to squad leader
+2248     Fights in the Battle of the Line (and survives!)
+2256     Becomes Commander of Babylon 5
+2257     "The Gathering"
+2258     Season One: "Signs and Portents"
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Overview

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+Commander Sinclair is recalled to Earth and discovers a long-kept secret +that leads to a new assignment. +
+ +Issue 1 (January 1995, released December 6, 1994) + +

+Setting: Between +"Chrysalis" +and +"Points of Departure" + +

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: Michael Netzer
+     Inker: Rob Leigh
+  Colorist: Robbie Busch
+  Letterer: Tracy Hampton Munsey
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Synopsis

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+A few days after being recalled from Babylon 5 (cf. episode +"Points of Departure") +Commander Sinclair is languishing in Earthdome, Geneva, waiting for someone +to tell him why he was called back. His nights, as always, are filled with +horrible dreams, replays of the Battle of the Line. He tries to prevail +on a senator to tell him what's going on, but is rebuffed, with an additional +admonition to stop spreading rumors about President Santiago being +assassinated. + +

+Then, in the middle of the night on January 6, 2259, some heavily-armed +men escort Sinclair to see President Clark. Clark introduces him to Rathenn, +of the Minbari Grey Council. Rathenn introduces himself and says he's come +to take Sinclair back to his home. Not Mars Colony, where his body was born -- +but to his soul's home. + +

+Rathenn uses a triluminary on Sinclair, who is suddenly able to recall in full +what happened after he was taken aboard the Grey Council's cruiser at the +Battle of the Line (cf. episode +"And the Sky Full of Stars.") He was +drugged, interrogated about Earth targets, and tortured after he tried to +escape. He recalls the whispers of the Grey Council as Delenn confirms +that he has a Minbari soul. + +

+Rathenn explains that every human pilot the Grey Council examined had a Minbari +soul, or part of a Minbari soul, and that the Minbari population has been +declining for the past six thousand years. At first the Grey Council blamed +the soul hunters (cf. episode +"Soul Hunter") but the decline was too +great to be accounted for that way. That day, they discovered why the +Minbari race was dying, where all the souls were going. Since no Minbari +had killed another in thousands of years, the Grey Council surrendered. + +

+Clark says that the Grey Council told the Earth government of their findings, +and that both the government and the Council agreed the information would +not be taken well by the public. Earth officials gave the Council permission +to wipe Sinclair's memory; they were on the verge of defeat and weren't +about to object to such a small demand by the Minbari. "We were dying," +Clark explains later, after Rathenn has left. "It didn't matter that it +was insane... Everything was insane. If it made them stop +killing us... well, that was fine by us." + +

+Clark tells Sinclair he's free to resign his commission with full retirement +pay. Or he can accept a new assignment, his most important one to date: +accept the Minbari government's invitation to come to their world as +ambassador. Clark promises to keep Sinclair informed about Garibaldi's +condition. As for why the Minbari wanted Sinclair, Clark speculates: +"Maybe they feel guilty about what they did to you. Maybe they're +comfortable with you. And maybe they need you. We've heard about +trouble between the Minbari religious caste and the military caste. It's +possible that... well, the religious caste might just need an experienced +soldier to talk to." + +

+Sinclair's shuttle arrives at the Grey Council's cruiser. As he waits to +be greeted, he pulls out a small slip of paper and reads. He's shortly +greeted by several hooded Councilmembers and a few members of the military +caste, and explains that he was reading a +poem +by a long-departed writer, +something he wants to share with the Council in the hopes that it will +help them understand. He is escorted away by the Councilmembers, as one +of the military looks on, expression twisted in hatred. + + +

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Unanswered Questions

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Overview

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+Ambassador Sinclair arrives on Minbar, just in time to see a new Minbari +leader sworn in... and a conspiracy plot unfold. +
+ +Issue 2 (February 1995, released January 3, 1995) + +

+Setting: Between +"Revelations" +and +"The Geometry of Shadows" + +

    Writer: Mark Moretti
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: Michael Netzer
+     Inker: Rob Leigh
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Synopsis

+ +

+In a docking bay on the station, an armed man in dockworker clothes loads +a small package onto a Minbari flyer, which departs the station three +hours later. + +

+Three days later, Babylon 5 receives a distress call from a ship in Grid +Epsilon. Keffer takes Zeta Squad to respond. In C&C, Ivanova arrives in +time to see the final distress call, which turns out to be from the +Starliner Chiyoda-Ku. The person making the call is killed by an +unseen person as Ivanova watches. Ivanova begins calling up the registration +and manifest of the Chiyoda-Ku. "These are the times I wish Garibaldi +was back on duty," she says, "but..." + +

+Garibaldi, meanwhile, is in his quarters, showing Talia his second-favorite +thing in the universe (cf. episode +"Midnight on the Firing Line.") + +

+Parsecs away, the Minbari cruiser carrying Ambassador Sinclair stops to take +on a transfer, arriving on the flyer from Babylon 5. Racine, a Grey Council +member, tells Sinclair that the period of mourning for Dukhat is over, that +the Grey Council, which has ruled Minbar since Dukhat's death, is gathering +on Minbar to install a new leader, and that the flyer is carrying a member +of the Council who was away but has returned for the Shi-Ki, the installation +ceremony. Sinclair tries to talk to the newly arrived Satai, but is +rebuffed by one of the Satai's guards, a member of the militant Star Rider +caste. + +

+Garibaldi and Talia are interrupted by a call from +Sinclair, who apologizes for not being able to say goodbye. He asks Garibaldi +to forward his regards to Delenn, who he's glad isn't going to be at the +ceremony. "There's some kind of undercurrent running through the Minbari +castes -- tension. It seems dangerous with the Grey Council and the new +leader all in one place." Garibaldi tells Sinclair that Delenn has come +out of her chrysalis, and is in fact on her way to Minbar. + +

+Keffer's squad finds the Chiyoda-Ku, a top-notch starliner. Flying close, +they can see through the windows: dead bodies, bleeding, floating in the air +inside the zero-G passenger areas. Ivanova tells Keffer to attach tow +cables to the ship and bring her back to the station. As Keffer and his +squad tow the ship back, Ivanova finally finds the ship listed in a +registry... and the file is classified. She tells Dr. Franklin to meet +her in the docking bay, and tells the C&C staff to keep everything under +wraps. + +

+Elsewhere on the station, the man who loaded the package onto the Minbari +flyer, Jason Colby (apparently a Homeguard sympathizer) manages to bypass +the station's computer security and finds out that the Chiyoda-Ku is being +brought aboard. He quickly changes into a station security uniform. + +

+The bodies are counted -- twenty-five aboard, all but one dead, some +with PPG wounds, and none with any identification. The ship's life support +didn't malfunction; it was turned off. One of the security men says he's +seen the Chiyoda-Ku somewhere before, but can't place it. As the survivor +is taken away, Colby watches. + +

+Franklin stabilizes the survivor; Ivanova has him placed under guard. +Later that night, Colby enters Medlab and discovers the survivor, conscious. +Colby tries to kill the man, but is hit by a powerful mental force. The +survivor stumbles out of Medlab, taking the dead guard's gun on the way out. +Colby recovers shortly thereafter and goes looking for the man. + +

+Ivanova discovers that the Chiyoda-Ku was confiscated by Earth Force in an +arms-smuggling bust two years earlier. Just then, Franklin calls in from +Medlab, reporting the escape of his patient and the death of the guard. +Ivanova issues a lookout for the patient; he is to be taken alive if possible, +but is armed and dangerous. + +

+Sinclair stands near a large window of the Earth Alliance embassy in Yedor, the +Minbari capital, and looks out over a gathering area in the midst +of the crystalline city. He is joined by Ambassador Delenn, whose +new appearance shocks Sinclair. She tells him he didn't see her in time, +that it's too late now. Of her transformation, she says, "I reached +a time when I could go no further... as I was. I cannot explain +more yet. I am the first of my kind ever to... become this. I am now only +half-Minbari. I am also half-human." + +

+The search for the escaped patient is going poorly. Ivanova is coordinating +search teams when Talia calls and says the man everyone's looking for is +in her quarters. Ivanova tells all the search teams to converge on Talia's +quarters... an order Colby hears, too. + +

+When Ivanova and her men burst in, Talia says the man's name is Dexter Hall, +that he's a psi-cop, and that he didn't kill the guard. He came to her +because she was a fellow Psi-Corps member. He had been working undercover, +infiltrating a pro-Earth group on the Chiyoda-Ku who blamed Santiago's +death on alien groups. He found out the group was supplying weapons for +an assassination of a head of state: the new Minbari leader. + +

+Delenn and Sinclair are talking when Kozorr, military caste, barges into +the room, two subordinates pushing a pile of boxes of Sinclair's belongings +from Babylon 5. Kozorr opens one of the boxes, revealing an Earth-made +rifle, along with a map of the new leader's coronation route -- with a +marker drawn at the point when the leader will pass closest to Sinclair's +window. He places Sinclair under arrest for conspiring to assassinate +the new leader. "When you are convicted," Kozorr continues, "be assured +we will declare war against Earth for your treason." + +

Backplot

+ + +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ + +

Notes

+ +

jms speaks

+ + +
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Overview

+ +
+As Sinclair's trial begins, Sheridan and his crew race to unravel the +mystery of the Chiyoda-Ku. +
+ +Issue 3 (March 1995) + +

+Setting: Between +"Revelations" +and +"The Geometry of Shadows" + +

    Writer: Mark Moretti
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+    Artist: Carlos Garzon
+  Colorist: Robbie Busch
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+On Minbar, Delenn visits Sinclair after the inauguration of the "Chosen One" +as leader. Sinclair is sure someone was out to frame him. He's further +puzzled when Delenn mentions that the message that told the Minbari there +was an assassin on their world came from Babylon 5. + +

+On Babylon 5, Sheridan is talking to Senator Hidoshi, who seems to believe +that Sinclair might be guilty; he mentions Sinclair's suspicions about a +plot to assassinate the president, and conjectures that maybe Sinclair +thought the Minbari were behind the plot. Hidoshi passes along a message +from Psi-Corps: Dexter Hall is to be kept isolated, under guard. An +Earthforce internal affairs officer, Colonel Rabock, is being sent to take +control of the situation. + +

+In his quarters, Jason Colby listens in on the conversation as Sheridan +objects to an outsider taking over an ongoing investigation. Hidoshi +dismisses Sheridan's claim that what Talia saw in Hall's mind indicates +that someone else nearby is involved. Hearing that, Colby prepares to +get rid of Talia. Sheridan says he intends to +continue the investigation until Rabock arrives; Hidoshi begins to tell +him that Hall is a rogue telepath known as "Cypher." + +

+Talia walks through the Zocalo, Colby close behind. She senses powerful +anger, but when she turns, Colby is gone. He has stepped into a comm booth +and is talking to a bearded man called "Webster," who tells him to get rid +of Hall, but leave Talia alone. Colby asks Webster to get him off Babylon +5; he thinks he's fulfilled his end of the bargain and wants to go home. +Webster agrees and says he'll use G'Kar to get Colby out. + +

+Meanwhile, Garibaldi doesn't believe Hall is Cypher; he thinks Cypher isn't +even a real rogue, just "plausible deniability for deep cover ops." He +also tells Sheridan there's no way Sinclair is guilty. + +

+On Minbar, Sinclair is led to trial. Delenn meets the head prosecutor: Alit +Neroon (cf. episode +"Legacies.") + +

+G'Kar has called a council meeting, outraged that the council wasn't informed +of the accusation against Sinclair. "Are our leaders in danger, +also?" he asks. Sheridan smooths things over just in time to be called +to medlab. + +

+Colby grabs Talia and pulls her into a transport tube car. She knows +instantly that he's Hall's attacker. Garibaldi appears; Colby makes a run +for it, leaving Talia behind. She and Garibaldi arrive in medlab, where +they find Sheridan. Talia agrees to do a deep scan of Hall. Ivanova +reports that Colonel Rabock's ship has arrived early; Sheridan tells her +to stall him. + +

+Talia begins her scan. She sees Hall undercover, infiltrating a group called +the Homers. They're on the Chiyoda-Ku, celebrating the death of "that +'Minbari stooge' -- President Santiago." One of the celebrants claims there's +an even bigger event coming up, that he delivered a weapon to someone on +Babylon 5 to use in the assassination of the new Minbari leader. Hall slips +away to send a warning to the Minbari, but someone notices him, and a +firefight ensues. He's hit, but reaches the cockpit and locks the door. +He orders the pilot to call for help. Before the pilot can finish, the others +break in and start shooting, hitting the pilot and the communications console. +In desperation, Hall grabs for a breather and opens the ship's exhaust vents. +The others perish in the near-vacuum, and Hall himself is half-conscious, +on the verge of death, when Babylon 5's Starfuries arrive. Much later, he +awakens in medlab to find a gun pointed at his head; he reacts reflexively, +blasting his assailant with pain, and forces himself to seek out another +telepath. + +

+As Talia reaches the end of his memories, Hall dies. Colonel Rabock barges +into medlab -- he's "Webster," the man who was talking to Colby. + +

+On Minbar, Sinclair stands before an imposing panel of Minbari. "Ambassador +Sinclair," one of them says. "You stand accused of plotting to assassinate +the Chosen One, our leader. How do you plead...?" + +

Backplot

+ +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ + +

Notes

+ + +

jms speaks

+ + +
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Overview

+ +
+Colby makes a last desperate break for freedom, as Sinclair's problems reach +a climactic finish on Minbar. +
+ +Issue 4 (April 1995) + +

+Setting: Between +"Revelations" +and +"The Geometry of Shadows" + +

    Writer: Mark Moretti
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: Michael Netzer
+     Inker: Rob Leigh
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+As Jason Colby gathers his belongings -- including a picture of his dead +wife -- his video tap shows Col. Rabock talking to Ivanova, demanding +permission to board the station. Colby recognizes Rabock as Webster. + +

+In Medlab, Rabock upbraids Sheridan for allowing Talia to scan Hall. +Sheridan retorts that Hall was about to die, that the scan has given them +a lead in the Minbari assassination plot, and that they're trying to track +down the man who attacked Hall. Rabock storms away, which strikes +Sheridan as odd. "I would've thought an internal affairs investigator would +be interested in any information we uncovered," he says. + +

+Sinclair's trial is interrupted when Delenn charges into the chambers, +claiming to have new information that might exonerate him. Neroon objects +to her presence -- her association with Sinclair invalidates anything she +might say. Delenn begins to describe what Garibaldi and Sheridan have +learned; the tribunal decides to hear her evidence privately. + +

+Rabock speaks privately with a superior over a comm channel. He tells the +mysterious man that Colby will take the fall for smuggling the weapons into +Sinclair's luggage. His superior points out that if Colby is blamed, the +cover story about Cypher being responsible will fall apart. Colby must be +killed. Rabock's superior mentions that Rabock killed Colby's wife to help +recruit Colby into the Homeguard -- an unfortunate revelation, since Colby +is listening in on the conversation from his quarters. + +

+Delenn finishes her report on the situation on Babylon 5. Neroon dismisses +it out of hand as a delaying tactic, and says that once it becomes clear that +Sinclair's friends are fabricating evidence to set him free, the warrior +caste will demand a renewed war against Earth. Delenn counters that the +war was ended the first time because some humans, including Sinclair, carry +Minbari souls, a situation which hasn't changed. Neroon scoffs at that. + +

+Rabock checks in with Garibaldi to find out how the manhunt is proceeding. +It's proceeding as planned, though as yet there's no trace of the man Talia +described. While Rabock watches, Garibaldi discovers a visual log of the +docking bay that shows Colby loading weapons onto Delenn's flyer. That's +enough for the computer to search the personnel files and determine who +Colby is. + +

+Rabock, who slipped away the moment he saw the video, arrives at Colby's +quarters as Garibaldi and Sheridan rush to the scene. As he enters, +Colby ambushes him and takes him hostage. Sheridan and Garibaldi arrive; +Sheridan agrees to let Colby get to Rabock's shuttle unhindered. As soon +as Colby is out of earshot, Sheridan orders a wing of Starfuries to +take out the ship's engine when it emerges. + +

+The shuttle leaves the station. Rabock tells Colby to put down his gun -- and +hits Colby with an intense burst of telepathic pain when Colby doesn't +comply. Colby figures it out: Webster isn't Rabock at all. He's Cypher. +Colby grabs his gun and begins firing. Unfortunately, he hits the shuttle's +systems several times; it explodes before the waiting Starfuries can fire +a shot. + +

+Neroon cites the video as evidence that Sinclair is simply part of a larger +conspiracy to assassinate the Minbari leader, and demands that such an act +of war be responded to in kind. The tribunal agrees. As its head is +pronouncing sentence, Sinclair invokes an ancient law, offering his life +in exchange for war. This infuriates Neroon, who accuses Sinclair of mocking +Minbari customs... but the tribunal rules that Sinclair's request is valid. + +

+The Minbari leader enters the court chamber, flanked by robed acolytes, +and demands to be heard. He has been watching the trial, and the fact that +Sinclair was willing to pay the steepest possible price for peace has +convinced him that Sinclair is "a good and just man." He pardons Sinclair. + +

+Later, Delenn congratulates Sinclair on the ploy. He knew that the leader, +as head of the Grey Council, would never allow the execution because of +Sinclair's Minbari soul. As Delenn bids Sinclair farewell, he surprises +her by kissing her on the cheek. + +

+Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi discuss the situation. All the principals +are gone -- even Hall's body, which had been loaded onto Rabock's ship. +Garibaldi says he still doesn't believe Hall was Cypher, doesn't think Cypher +even exists. + +

+They're interrupted by the arrival of an Earthforce officer: Colonel Tiffany +Rabock. Garibaldi is stunned -- maybe Cypher did exist after all. + +

+On Earth, in an office with a stylized, militaristic psi symbol on the +floor, a man deletes the files for Colby and Webster and asks the computer +to search Psi-Corps records for a person matching the "Cypher" program's +criteria. "Somewhere out there," he says, "a new Cypher is waiting to be +found..." + +

Backplot

+ + +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ + +

Notes

+ + +

jms speaks

+ + +
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Overview

+ +
+Security Chief Garibaldi and hotshot pilot Warren Keffer plunge into +deep space, following a cryptic clue that may explain why an alien +outpost was wiped out. Ambushed and forced to crash land on a remote +planet, Garibaldi recalls his first meeting with Babylon 5's former +commander, Jeffrey Sinclair. +
+ +Issue 5 (June 1995, released April 4) + +

+Setting: Before +"The Coming of Shadows" + +

    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+    Artist: John Ridgway
+  Colorist: Robbie Busch
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Garibaldi finds Londo and Vir in the Zocalo and tells Londo he knows that +the Narn outpost in Quadrant 37 (destroyed in +"Chrysalis") +has been the subject of many of Londo's transmissions. Londo, taken aback +that Garibaldi has been listening in on him, says he's just staying informed. +G'Kar, arriving on the scene, notes, "It seems every time you are informed +of something, others pay with their lives," pointing to the destruction of +the Narn cruiser in +"Revelations." Londo and G'Kar nearly +come to blows before Vir drags Londo away for a scheduled meeting with +Delenn. + +

+But it's not Delenn waiting for Londo; it's Morden, who tells Londo to be +more careful in his off-station communications, and asks that Londo tell him +if Garibaldi should decide to investigate further. + +

+Garibaldi is in a security office. He's sifting through ambassadorial +communications, looking for something suspicious, something he's apparently +authorized to do randomly. Shortly after Ivanova arrives, Garibaldi finds +Londo using a comm channel, though without tipping Londo off to the tap, +Garibaldi can't see who's on the other side. It turns out to be Refa; +the two discuss the Emperor's health (poor.) Londo wants to meet with Refa +in person to discuss misgivings about the "source" who helped him with +Quadrant 37; they agree to meet in two hours at some predetermined place. + +

+Garibaldi decides that Londo's source is definitely something Earth needs +to know more about. He rushes off to beat Londo to the meeting place, +whose location he learned from previous transmissions. As he's trying to +sneak out with a flyer, Keffer catches up to him and invites himself +along. "Somebody has to bring you back alive," he says. Garibaldi +reluctantly agrees. + +

+Londo is on his way to his ship when he runs into Morden. Morden tells +Londo to cancel his meeting with Refa and instead pay a routine diplomatic +visit to a Centauri colony. He demands that Londo tell him where the meeting +was going to take place. + +

+Keffer and Garibaldi emerge from a jumpgate near a planet. Asked why he +went along, Keffer says, "You needed help. You don't have many friends on +the station." Garibaldi agrees that Sinclair was the only one he knew +he could trust. + +

+While they wait for Londo and Refa to arrive, Garibaldi explains why he trusts +Sinclair in a way that he can never trust Sheridan. It was years earlier, +back on Mars Colony. Garibaldi had started a shuttle transport service, +mostly transporting people who didn't like being asked questions. He was +sitting in his office, nursing a bottle, when Lieutenant Commander Sinclair +came in with two junior officers and enlists Garibaldi's services for a +flight. He's a little apprehensive about Garibaldi's drunkenness, but +Garibaldi accepts the job. + +

+The story is interrupted by the abrupt appearance of a Shadow fighter. +Keffer heads at breakneck speed for the planet, dodging shots left and +right, but their ship is hit and goes spinning half out of control. Keffer +manages to stabilize the ship somewhat, but it's still headed for the +ground. "Hope the foam-protect still works," says Garibaldi, as the ship +disappears behind a small mountain range... + +

Backplot

+ +

Unanswered Questions

+ +

Analysis

+ +

Notes

+ + +

jms speaks

+ + + +
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Overview

+ +
+Garibaldi experiences an alien encounter chillingly similar to what he +went through years ago on Mars, when he first met former Babylon 5 +commander Jeffrey Sinclair. +
+ +Issue 6 (July 1995) + +

+Setting: Before +"The Coming of Shadows" + +

    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: John Ridgway
+     Inker: C-S. Hampton
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Garibaldi and Keffer climb out of the crashed ship and leave quickly, in +case their attacker comes looking for them. Garibaldi makes certain to set +the ship to self-destruct. As they walk away, Garibaldi +mentions that he's seen a ship like the attacker's before. Years ago, +on Mars... + +

+Two young officers, Foster and Sanchez, waited for Lt. Commander Sinclair and +Garibaldi in the Mars spaceport. Garibaldi turned out to be unconscious in +the passenger compartment of his ship; Sinclair woke him and tossed him +to Foster and Sanchez to sober up. "Earthforce may have given me this +make-work mission to keep me out of the way," Sinclair said, "but by God, I +will accomplish it." + +

+Much later, Garibaldi flew Sinclair and the two others over the surface of +Mars, searching for something. Garibaldi notes that Sinclair wasn't what +he expected -- after what he'd heard about Sinclair being a hero of the +Battle of the Line, he hadn't expected someone stiffer than a corpse. Sinclair +refused to tell Garibaldi what they were looking for, and even filed fake +flight plans so nobody else would know where they were. + +

+On the fifth day of searching, the ship's navigational systems and inertial +dampers suddenly went offline. Garibaldi managed to crashland the ship, +wrecking it, without killing everyone -- but Sanchez' leg was broken, and +Foster didn't survive. Sanchez clearly blamed Garibaldi. + +

+Sinclair and Garibaldi went to get help, a fifty-mile trek across the surface. +They weren't far when Sanchez linked in to report that all the ship's systems +had suddenly started working again -- evidence that Garibaldi wasn't at fault +after all. Sanchez picked up a dust storm on the ship's scanners; Sinclair +and Garibaldi sought cover. + +

+Keffer and Garibaldi reach the top of a large rock formation overlooking +the crash site. From that high vantage point, Keffer can see what looks like +a small Centauri settlement in the distance. But Garibaldi's attention is +elsewhere: the Shadow ship has landed next to the crash site, and humanoid +figures have emerged, +examining what little remains of the wreckage. "Did you see something like +that on Mars?" Keffer asks, staring down at the Shadow ship. "That and +more," Garibaldi answers, face full of fear. He says there's no +hope of a rescue, because he didn't tell anyone where he was going. + +

+On the ground, the remains of the crashed ship suddenly vanish without a +trace, as does the impact ditch. "They're getting rid of the evidence," +Garibaldi says. "They don't want anyone to know they were here." + +

+The figures seem to decide that someone survived the crash, and head +purposefully toward the rock formation. "Let's get the hell out of here!" +says Garibaldi as he and Keffer scramble down the other side of the formation. + +

Backplot

+ + +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ + +

Notes

+ + +

jms speaks

+ + + +
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Overview

+ +
+Lost, on the run and stranded on a Centauri outpost, Keffer and +Garibaldi are overtaken by strange aliens with the power to control +minds. +
+ +

+Issue 7 (August 1995, released June 6) + +

+Setting: Before +"The Coming of Shadows" + +

    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: John Ridgway
+     Inker: Robbie Busch
+ + +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Garibaldi and Keffer are walking across a valley, two hours away from the +Centauri city they spotted from the summit. Garibaldi reassures Keffer +that they got enough of a head-start on the aliens that they should reach +the city before their pursuers are able to catch up. As they press forward, +Garibaldi continues the story of his first mission with Sinclair. + +

+Sinclair and Garibaldi had taken shelter in a cave to wait out the dust +storm. With only five days of air and food, it wasn't easy to just wait, +but at least they were in radio contact with Lt. Sanchez aboard Garibaldi's +shuttle. Sinclair believed the worst of the storm was over. + +

+Garibaldi tired of the conversation between Sinclair and Sanchez +and moved closer to the mouth of the cave, where he started drinking. +He recalled a previous assignment, as head of security on Io, and the death +of his friend Frank Kemmer (cf. episode +"Survivors") +-- a death Garibaldi felt responsible for. + +

+Garibaldi found himself out on the surface, apparently after wandering +off in his stupor. He reactivated his commlink to find Sanchez urgently +trying to contact him. Sinclair, it seems, had noticed Garibaldi's +absence, and started to go out looking for him -- but the mouth of the +cave had collapsed, and Sinclair was pinned down just outside the cave, +almost out of air. Sanchez hadn't heard from Sinclair for five +minutes, possibly because he'd blacked out. + +

+Sanchez told Garibaldi that if Sinclair died, it would be on Garibaldi's +head. That struck home; Garibaldi immediately went looking for Sinclair, +aided by a flare fired from the ship by Sanchez. Following the flare's +lead, Garibaldi found a collapsed cliffside, and soon came across +Sinclair. He was almost too late, but eventually Sinclair regained +consciousness after Garibaldi switched air cylinders. As soon as Sinclair +came to, he wrestled Garibaldi to the ground and threatened to kill him +if Garibaldi ever did something as stupid as wandering off again. + +

+Keffer notes that in fact, Garibaldi's wandering saved Sinclair's life; +Sinclair would never have survived if he'd been at the back of the cave +when it collapsed. + +

+Meanwhile, the aliens -- humanoid, fanged creatures with feline eyes -- +have not only caught up with Garibaldi and Keffer, but overtaken them, +and enter a small forest, where they somehow meld with the trees. Keffer +and Garibaldi arrive shortly thereafter, and Keffer begins acting paranoid, +accusing Garibaldi of keeping them out in the open so they can be picked +off by the alien ship. He pulls a gun on Garibaldi and takes Garibaldi's +weapon. + +

+As Garibaldi tries to argue, he feels something try to control him, +too, get him angry at Keffer. He ducks out of the way as Keffer fires, +manages to zigzag out of the line of fire a couple more times. One of +Keffer's shots hits a tree and sends an alien flying off to the side. +That breaks the aliens' grip, and as they close in to attack, Keffer tosses +Garibaldi his gun. The two manage to kill all the aliens, but the creatures +self-destruct before the bodies can be examined. + +

+"Did you see those things?" asks Keffer. "They could have torn +us apart... but they tried to mind-warp us into killing each other instead." + +

+"Yeah," says Garibaldi. "Always work from behind the scenes... leave +no traces... leave no witnesses..." If this has anything to do +with what he saw on Mars, Garibaldi says, they're in big trouble. + +

+Because what he saw on Mars, looking on with Sinclair from the top of a +canyon, was a large Shadow cruiser, apparently excavating another Shadow +ship from beneath the surface -- while figures from a nearby building stood +and watched. + +

Backplot

+ + +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ + +

Notes

+ + +

jms speaks

+ + + +
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Overview

+ +
+Keffer and Garibaldi escape Centauri clutches in a struggle +that parallels Garibaldi's first adventure with Jeffrey +Sinclair - concluding the story of their meeting, what they +discovered... and what it may mean for Babylon 5's future. +
+ +

+Issue 8 (September 1995, released July 5) + +

+Setting: Before +"The Coming of Shadows" + +

    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+   Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
+ Penciller: John Ridgway
+     Inker: C-S. Hampton
+ +

+Warning: this comic issue contains a spoiler for the episode +"Divided Loyalties." + +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Garibaldi and Keffer make their way toward the Centauri city. As they +walk, Garibaldi continues his story. + +

+He and Sinclair were low on air and their comlinks had stopped working +suddenly. A hunch led Garibaldi toward a canyon, where to his great +surprise -- and apparently Sinclair's as well -- they found a gigantic +spidery ship apparently excavating another just like it as people from a +nearby building watched. Was this what Sinclair was sent to look for, +Garibaldi wondered? + +

+A land vehicle approached them. Garibaldi pulled a gun on Sinclair +and shot him. "Our coms were being jammed," he thought, "which, to my +knowledge, meant all communications were jammed. That meant +the other guys had to use an alternative way to communicate... and the +possibilities made my skin crawl." + +

+The vehicle came across Sinclair's body. Its armed occupants got out +to investigate. They returned to the rover to find Garibaldi waiting for +them; they were down before they could react. Garibaldi roused Sinclair +from his stungun-induced slumber. The two had suspected they might be +dealing with telepaths. Sinclair had asked Garibaldi to stun him so his +thoughts couldn't be read. + +

+Garibaldi and Sinclair quickly donned the telepaths' suits. Sinclair +explained that he was investigating possible covert human-alien activities. +Previous missions sent to investigate had found only the tip of one human ear, +nothing else. Perhaps suspecting that the earlier missions had been +sabotaged, Sinclair elected to go with Garibaldi's privately-run shuttle +service rather than through official channels. "Right now, Garibaldi, +you may be the only one I can trust," he said. + +

+Their planned escape was cut short when they discovered that the only way +back was the roadway the vehicle had come from -- straight toward the +buildings and the mysterious alien ship, still performing its excavation. +They decided to play along until they could escape, and followed the +hand signals of the people on the ground. Unfortunately, that +strategy led them straight toward the largest of the buildings. Garibaldi +got out and tried to blend in with the other people; he was directed to load +boxes onto a cargo platform attached to his vehicle. Then he was motioned +to drive into the building -- straight into the belly of the whale, he +imagined. + +

+Inside the building was a horrific sight: a huge transparent dome containing +a large alien biomechanical construct, veins and skin and bone intermingling +with tubes and panels. Passing through the organism were scores of human +bodies on a conveyer belt. The whole operation was being monitored by +technicians in a small isolation area jutting out the side of the dome, +as workers milled about the rest of the building with heavy weaponry. +Suddenly, Garibaldi could feel darkness closing in around him, self-pity +and fear building in his head. It subsided somewhat when he remembered +what Sinclair said about trusting him; he gathered enough courage to get +out of the vehicle and unload the boxes, one of which had contained something +he wanted, something with which to cause a diversion later. + +

+He walked closer to the dome and looked inside. The bodies +on the conveyer belt appeared to have energy fields surrounding +their heads. It was clearly some kind of medical experiment, but Garibaldi +couldn't figure out what it was for. + +

+His pause at the dome gave him away, or perhaps one of the telepaths happened +to read his thoughts. Whatever the cause, a large group of people started +heading his way. Luckily, he was carrying the box he wanted -- it was full +of grenades. He tossed one into the crowd, but quickly found himself +pinned down. Sinclair +came to the rescue, bursting through a stack of boxes with the vehicle and +confusing the situation long enough for Garibaldi to climb aboard. As the +vehicle raced out of the building, Garibaldi tossed out the entire box of +grenades; the resulting explosion ripped the roof off the building. They were +pursued, but not for long. Whatever was inside the building, Garibaldi +guessed, the telepaths wanted very badly to try to save. + +

+As Garibaldi finishes his story, he and Keffer are discovered by two +Centauri sentries, who lead them at gunpoint into the city. Later, the +city magistrate tells them that his investigators found no trace of a crashed +ship, or a fight in a clearing, as Garibaldi and Keffer described. But he +remembers that Babylon 5 is where Londo Mollari -- the man responsible, +Garibaldi learns, for saving Quadrant 37 from the Narn -- is stationed. +He says he'll call Londo and try to verify Garibaldi's story. + +

+Back on Babylon 5, Vir answers the call and tries to cover for Garibaldi and +Keffer, but the magistrate insists on talking to Londo. Londo also covers +for Garibaldi, but clearly isn't happy about it. He tells the magistrate to +arrange for their transport back to Babylon 5. The problem resolved, he +goes back to what he was doing: discussing something with Morden. + +

+Garibaldi tells Sheridan what happened and explains that he thinks the erasure +of his crashed ship links it to what he and Sinclair found on Mars. After +they had escaped the telepaths, Garibaldi says, and gotten out of range +of the comm jamming, they'd returned to the area with an Earthforce shuttle +and found no trace of ships, explosions, buildings, or anything. Earthforce +conducted a thorough search, but it was Sinclair and Garibaldi who found the +one piece of evidence at the site. It wasn't enough to convince anyone, +though, so they kept it to themselves. + +

+"The alien ship we saw on Mars looks exactly like the ship Keffer +saw in hyperspace when he helped rescue the Cortez," Garibaldi says. +"Something's out there, Captain, something big and dangerous. And it doesn't +want us to know it's out there. And Londo's involved. I don't know how, +but I intend to find out." Sheridan believes Garibaldi, but for appearance's +sake has to give him an official reprimand. + +

+Keffer and Garibaldi talk about the outcome of their adventure. Keffer +wonders if anyone survived the explosions on Mars. Garibaldi isn't sure; it's +hard to see how anyone could have. Sooner or later, though, he's going to +find out who owns the item he found on Mars: a Psi-Corps badge. + +

Backplot

+ + +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ + +

Notes

+ + +

jms speaks

+ + + +
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Overview

+ +
+Ambassador G'Kar is desperate to get off Babylon 5, and in his rush to +leave, ends up kidnapping Garibaldi. Now Sheridan and a strange Narn +must begin a frantic search to find the two before tragedy strikes. +
+ +

+Issue 9 (October 1995) + +

+Setting: Between +"The Geometry of Shadows" +and +"A Distant Star." + +

    Writer: David Gerrold
+ Penciller: Rebecca Guay
+     Inker: Rick Bryant
+ + +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Ivanova clears a Narn ship, the D'Vordo, for docking. An urgent call from +G'Kar comes in; he demands immediate clearance to depart the station from +bay four. When she refuses, he sets his ship to launch anyway; Ivanova warns +the D'Vordo to abort its approach. Garibaldi rushes to bay four to try to +stop G'Kar, but when he arrives, G'Kar stuns him. + +

+G'Kar takes Garibaldi with him, but Garibaldi wakes up and fires a starweb, +a sort of net made of energy, at G'Kar, entangling him. + +

+G'Kar's ship nearly collides with the D'Vordo as it rockets full speed away +from the station. + +

+Ivanova tells Sheridan that Garibaldi is nowhere to be found; she believes +G'Kar has taken him off the station. Sheridan heads for a shuttle to +pursue G'Kar. + +

+Garibaldi and G'Kar float in a cylindrical area. G'Kar is still caught in +the starweb, and Garibaldi sings annoying songs to him, threatening to +continue until G'Kar reveals what's going on. + +

+On his way to the shuttle, Sheridan is intercepted by Greegil, a Narn who +claims to be a relative of G'Kar's, newly arrived on the D'Vordo. He +says he can help Sheridan catch +G'Kar. Sheridan reluctantly brings him along. As they fly in pursuit, Sheridan +tries to find out exactly how Greegil is related to G'Kar. Greegil won't +offer any information unless Sheridan offers something in exchange. + +

+Garibaldi continues to sing. Eventually, G'Kar falls asleep. Garibaldi +wakes him up and asks where the food is; G'Kar answers that he doesn't need +to eat, as Narns can hibernate six days at a time. "I'll be happy to watch +you starve to death," G'Kar says. "At least it'll be quieter." When Garibaldi +points out that G'Kar will die, too, trapped in the starweb, G'Kar answers, +"There are worse things than death. Dishonor is one." + +

+Garibaldi continues to search for food, but he's never seen a ship like the +one he's in: no food, no controls, just solid walls encircling them. He begins +to sing "It's a Small World," which causes G'Kar to surrender. + +

+Sheridan and Greegil haggle over the value of information. Finally, Greegil +tells Sheridan how he's related to G'Kar, but the Narn familial ties he +describes are meaningless to Sheridan. + +

+G'Kar shows Garibaldi where his food, a Narn delicacy called phroomis, is +stashed. He notes that Garibaldi does seem to have some negotiating skills. +On Narn, he says, negotiation is an art. Garibaldi asks G'Kar about the +ship, but G'Kar says it's better he doesn't know. Garibaldi convinces him +to play a game of "laser-mirror-starweb," loser tells all. + +

+Sheridan and Greegil catch up with G'Kar's ship, which doesn't respond to +Sheridan's signals. Greegil tells Sheridan that G'Kar is possessed by a +Lokvar, a seizure of the mind, that may cause G'Kar to be violent. Greegil +predicts that Sheridan will have to shoot G'Kar. + +

+Garibaldi wins two games of laser-mirror-starweb, but G'Kar still refuses +to talk about the ship. + +

+Sheridan grapples G'Kar's ship while Greegil tries to get him to put up +the shuttle's shields in case G'Kar fires at them. + +

+G'Kar and Garibaldi hear a loud clanking sound from one end of their chamber. + +

+Sheridan and Greegil approach the airlock through a docking tube they've +extended from Sheridan's shuttle. They open the door. + +

+The end of the cylinder swings open as G'Kar and Garibaldi watch apprehensively. + +

+Sheridan and Greegil enter G'Kar's ship... and find it empty. Greegil +concludes that G'Kar never left the station. + +

+A cleaning robot enters the cylinder. G'Kar set his ship on autopilot; they +are actually in Babylon 5's core. G'Kar shouts that it's Garibaldi's fault -- +with just G'Kar's mass in the axis tube, the cleaning robot wouldn't have +come ahead of schedule. The two of them flee through the other end of the +cylinder, but the axis tube runs the length of the station, five miles, and +there are apparently no exits along the way. + +

+G'Kar's ship begins to self-destruct. He and Greegil flee. Greegil gets to +Sheridan's ship first, and promptly turns around and pushes the airlock door +shut as Sheridan floats toward it. G'Kar's ship explodes before Sheridan's +shuttle can escape; the shuttle's occupant screams... + + +

Backplot

+ + +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ + +

Notes

+ + +

jms speaks

+ + +
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Overview

+ +
+While G'Kar and Garibaldi +are trapped in the core of Babylon 5, Captain Sheridan races to save +them and stop a Narn assassination at the same time. +
+ +

+Issue 10 (November 1995) + +

+Setting: Between +"The Geometry of Shadows" +and +"A Distant Star" + +

    Writer: David Gerrold
+ Penciller: Rebecca Guay
+     Inker: Rick Bryant
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Sheridan breathes a sigh of relief as he barely makes it onto the shuttle. +He accuses Greegil of trying to kill him; Greegil denies it. + +

+The cleaning robot chases Garibaldi and G'Kar through the station axis. +As they somehow propel themselves forward, the robot grabs Garibaldi's +boot and pulls it off, slowing down to process it. G'Kar suggests that +Garibaldi feed it more; Garibaldi volunteers G'Kar's boots. G'Kar refuses +and suggests they play another game of laser-mirror-starweb to decide +whose boot will be next. G'Kar cheats. Garibaldi tosses a boot to the +robot and grabs G'Kar, demanding to know what's going on. G'Kar reveals +that he received a message telling him an assassin by the name of Greegil +D'Farkin was coming to Babylon 5 to kill him. + +

+Sheridan manages to stabilize the shuttle, but its diagnostics +show "massive decalibration in the external transfibulator phase controllers" +as well as damage to the oxygen recyclers. Sheridan dons a suit to go out +and fix the transfibulator antennas, and advises Greegil not to waste their +air complaining about the situation. + +

+Garibaldi and G'Kar continue to flee the robot. G'Kar notes that he promised +his clan he would die honorably; Garibaldi says he intends to die in bed, on +his 92nd birthday, in the arms of a beautiful redhead, shot by her jealous +husband. G'Kar is puzzled; Garibaldi would be doing the husband a great +service. As the robot nears, they play another laser-mirror-starweb game. +This time, Garibaldi cheats more outrageously than G'Kar does, and G'Kar +tosses a boot to the robot. + +

+Sheridan fixes the problem and finds that Greegil has locked him outside in +space. He reminds Greegil that he has the code key to operate the ship, and +uses that to bargain for information: why G'Kar fled. Greegil says his job +is to stop G'Kar from sabotaging Babylon 5. Abruptly, Sheridan is back +inside the ship. He proposes using electrolysis to produce oxygen from the +ship's water supply. + +

+G'Kar and Garibaldi float away from the robot in their undershorts; it's +still gaining. Garibaldi spots a maintenance hatch and pops it open; the +two of them leave the inside of the axis tube and hang by handrails high +above the Garden while the robot passes. Garibaldi doesn't let G'Kar back +inside until he has the truth about Greegil: he's chasing G'Kar because +of a woman, Greegil's wife, in fact. G'Kar refused to have sex with her to +seal an alliance between two clans, +even though it was his obligation as a high-ranking clansman; that was a +grave insult to Greegil, who vowed revenge. + +

+Sheridan's shuttle returns to Babylon 5; Sheridan places Greegil under +arrest. Ivanova reports that G'Kar and Garibaldi are still missing. + +

+Garibaldi somehow displays a message on the outside of the axis tube, +indicating their location to the security staff and Sheridan. When the two +of them emerge from the tube, Sheridan, Greegil, and a security team are +waiting. Garibaldi arrests G'Kar for kidnapping him. + +

+In a security station, G'Kar, Greegil, Garibaldi, and Sheridan argue about +whether Greegil should be allowed to kill G'Kar. Greegil even presents a +license, signed by the council of clans. Sheridan dismisses it as invalid +on his station. Greegil pulls out a laser pistol. Garibaldi and G'Kar +duck behind a nearby mirrored table, reflecting the laser beam. Sheridan +calls out for a starweb, which one of the security staff gladly fires at +Greegil. + +

+G'Kar and Garibaldi walk away together. G'Kar explains that sleeping with +Greegil's wife would have shifted the balance of power among the five clans... +"And besides, she wasn't attractive enough to justify a war." + +

+Elsewhere, Sheridan admits to Ivanova that they can't really press charges +against G'Kar... but keeping him busy with lawyers for a while will be +punishment enough. + +

Backplot

+ +Take with a grain of salt; inconsistencies with the series abound in this +story, and none of it should probably be considered canon. + + + +

Unanswered Questions

+ +

Analysis

+ +

Notes

+ +

jms speaks

+ + +
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Overview

+ +
+Earth's most secret agency is explained, examined, and demystified for the +average Babylon 5 resident. +
+ +

+Issue 11 (December 1995) + +

+Setting: Season two, before +"Confessions and Lamentations" + +

    Writer: Tim DeHaas
+    Artist: John Ridgway
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+This issue is in the form of an infomercial produced by +Psi-Corps. Since it isn't a story in the usual sense, the following is more +a description than a synopsis. It's not entirely clear whether the +presentation is supposed to be in print itself or if the comic is a print +rendition of a television program; this description assumes the latter. + +

+The host of the show, Diane Matthews, introduces herself as one of +the commercial telepaths working on Babylon 5. She demonstrates how +commercial telepaths aid in business dealings, sitting in on a deal between +a human and a Markab. She points out that Markab is lying about the quantity +of merchanside he has available; the human reduces his order. Next, Matthews +visits Medlab, where she assists Garibaldi by scanning an assault victim and +descibing the assailant. She points out to the viewers that she won't be +allowed to scan any suspects; she can only produce information to help point +Garibaldi toward admissible evidence. + +

+A Psi-Corps training center is the next stop, where a few psi training +exercises are shown. "Psi Corps knows how to help you achieve your innermost +desires," claims Matthews. + +

+"These days," she says later, "people have learned to trust and accept +telepaths, like this Psi-Cop." That wasn't always the case, she says, and +launches into a narrative about the founding of Psi Corps. The Corps was +founded on the basis of a single, heroic act by her great-grandfather, William +Karges. + +

+Karges discovered his talents at age thirteen. He didn't know what to make of +them, so he sought out activities that would teach him self-disciplined and +isolated. Later, he joined Earthforce; during his training he trained himself +to control his skills and use them to be a better soldier. Eventually he was +promoted and transferred to Earthforce Security. But even then, he kept his +secret, afraid he'd be locked up by the government. + +

+After distinguishing himself by stopping three terrorist plots, Karges was +placed in charge of Earth Alliance President Robinson's personal security +staff. One day, Karges and his forces were escorting President Robinson +to a campaign rally. Karges sensed a strong thought from the surrounding +crowd: "The bomb is ready!" Concentrating, he zeroed in on the man +responsible and cornered him. The man claimed to know nothing about a bomb, +so Karges forcibly scanned him. As Karges rushed off, shouting into his +link to tell his team about the man's accomplice, he was shot in the back. +With the last of his strength, Karges sent a command into the mind of the +bomber, forcing him to drop the detonator. The President was safe. + +

+In the hospital, dying, Karges admitted to President Robinson that he found +out about the bomb by reading the perpetrator's thoughs. Some time later, +President Robinson passed laws ensuring opportunities for telepaths. A +special agency already existed to monitor the recent sudden increase in +telepaths; Robinson changed its mission, to help telepaths function in society, +and the Psi Corps was born. + +

+"Nowadays, all telepaths are asked to register with Psi Corps, for their own +good," Matthews says. "That way, the Earth Alliance and Psi Corps can help +them achieve their full potential!" + +

+Some telepaths don't want to join +the Corps, Matthews admits. She visits Lisa, a lawyer, as a doctor +administers telepathy-inhibiting drugs. Lisa is delighted to receive the +injection, as numbing her psi abilities allows her to continue working in +the legal profession. "Sometimes it makes me tired, and I have to rest," +Lisa says. "But that's okay, because I can still be a successful lawyer." + +

+Matthews describes the Psi Corps' work placement programs, designed to help +telepaths who don't want to join the Corps and are allergic to the medicine. +She says she started out there, but eventually realized she wanted to be a +commercial telepath, having the adventure of a lifetime on Babylon 5. + +

+"Even far from Earth, Psi Corps has influenced all our lives," she says. +She describes a little-known aspect of the Battle of the Line: a telepathic +pilot in Sinclair's squadron, Lt. Andrew Denmark of Psi Corps, used his +powers to steady the nerves of other pilots. Without his help, Matthews +claims, Sinclair would never have lived long enough to make his legendary +attack on the Minbari cruiser. + +

+The Psi Corps helps on Mars, too, Matthews continues. When there was a food +shortage, Psi Corps rushed to get food supplies to all the hungry colonists. +Recently, a small group of terrorists began an uprising, and Psi Corps stepped +in to protect the colonists. "You could say Psi Corps' mission is to protect," +Matthews says. "Protect the future -- for those who want to make it better +and safer." + +

+"On Earth, on Mars, or on Babylon 5, you don't have to be alone. Psi Corps +is here for you! And if you or a friend discovers they're telepathic, +Psi Corps will always help." As an example, she introduces the case of +Alfred. On Earth, as a ten-year-old boy, he was a bright student at the +top of his class. But when a teacher claimed he was copying parts of a test +from someone across the room, Alfred and his friends discovered he might be +a telepath. One friend offered to take him to Psi Corps -- he had an uncle +there, and knew the Corps took good care of its members. + +

+Alfred went to the Corps and chose to stay there. Today he's one of its +most valued members: Bester. + +

+"So, if you ever feel you might be a telepath, too -- remember, kids, +you've got friends, here on Babylon 5! One of us is always stationed here to +help you. Come talk to us any time! With Psi Corps as your friend, you never +have to feel... all alone in the night." + +

Backplot

+ + +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ + +

Notes

+ + +

jms speaks

+ + +
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Overview

+ +
+The return of Babylon 4 leads the crew to a dangerous encounter and Delenn +to revelations about the life of Valen. +
+ +

+Issue 12 (January 1998) + +

+Setting: Season four, after +"Into the Fire" + +

    Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
+    Artist: Mike Collins
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Ivanova is in C&C, telling the crew about the final encounter with the +Shadows and Vorlons +("Into the Fire") +when a distress signal from Babylon 4 arrives. + +

+The senior staff meets to discuss the situation. It's definitely Babylon 4, +Ivanova says; the ID codes match. However, the signal is coming from a +different location than the last place Babylon 4 was seen. Sheridan notes +that since B4 was built on a much bigger budget than B5, there were a number +of differences. "It was equipped with the biggest ion engines ever made," +he says. "They didn't want it to be a sitting duck, like the previous three +that were destroyed during construction." + +

+Delenn reveals that after the last Shadow War, Babylon 4 was taken to a place +of rest, its final location a secret. The crew who took it there never +returned. Its fate was a mystery for nine hundred years -- until now. She +urges Sheridan to investigate, since the station might contain priceless +information about Minbari history. Sheridan agrees. + +

+When they arrive at the source of the signal in a White Star, the crew is +horrified to see Babylon 4 floating dead in orbit around a planet, battered +and barely recognizable. Scanners pick up a weak power source and the distress +signal, no signs of life or activity. + +

+Wearing EVA suits, Delenn, Ivanova, Sheridan and Garibaldi leave the White +Star and enter Babylon 4. The docking bay is full of debris, but they work +their way through it and find an entrance. Soon they're in the station's +Garden area, an empty metallic space. + +

+Or almost empty -- the crew scatters as shots are fired in their direction. +They take cover near a core shuttle, the aliens out of range of their PPGs. +Thinking quickly, Garibaldi fires at some fuel tanks in the shuttle, sending +the car flying toward the aliens and smashing them with flaming debris. + +

+Garibaldi suggests heading toward C&C -- there was no ship outside, so +whoever dropped the aliens off might be coming back to pick them up. + +

+As the crew floats away, a hand reaches up out of the remains of the core +shuttle. + +

+Arriving in C&C, the crew finds that the solar panels have been brought +online, most likely by the aliens. Sheridan speculates that they were +scavengers raiding the station, something Delenn considers sacrilege -- the +station belongs to history. "Not for long, I'm afraid," Ivanova says; +it seems the arrival of the aliens disturbed B4's orbit, and the station +will fall into the atmosphere in about 72 hours. + +

+The surviving alien, meanwhile, has slipped unnoticed out of the station. +It places an explosive charge on the White Star, which moments later is +destroyed in a spectacular burst of light. + +

+As Ivanova and Garibaldi struggle to adjust the distress signal to ask +B5 to send help -- a daunting task, since the station's controls are now +a melange of English, Minbari, and another language nobody recognizes -- +Delenn accesses the station's records. What she finds fascinates her: +the testaments of two Minbari of a thousand years ago, Nukenn of the +religious caste and Rashok of the warrior caste, both describing the +arrival and work of Valen. + +

+"Valen was of us, and not of us," intones Nukenn. "He was the spirit, and +we are his voice, his hands, his fire. He was the greatest of us because +he was more than us." + +

+"Valen was every hand that struck for freedom's purpose," declares Rashok. +"He was the eye that saw for us, the strength that fought for us, the +wisdom that conquered the unconquerable." + +

+Nukenn recalls that the Shadows had destroyed the Minbari's last starbase. +Minbari ships fled, finding no friendly ports. The Minbari were desperate, +without hope. But hope appeared out of nowhere, in the form of Babylon 4. + +

+"He gave us a weapon, a vessel into which we could pour our resources, and +from which we could launch our counteroffensives," recalls Rashok. Valen +never revealed where he or the station -- or his curious companion Zathras -- +came from. Valen had no family name, no lineage that anyone could discover: +a Minbari not born of Minbari. + +

+Nukenn describes Valen's first attempt to unite the castes, which were +divided over how to proceed and had begun to fight amongst themselves. They +wouldn't listen to Valen's entreaties, so Valen turned his back on them and +formed the Anla'Shok, a new army that recognized no castes. + +

+Zathras was a mystery to Rashok. Zathras and Valen were clearly friends, +but nobody could understand why -- Zathras was enough to drive anyone mad, +in Rashok's opinion. They began to understand a little better when the +Shadows came, and Zathras... + +

+Delenn is interrupted by Ivanova. It seems the shape of the station is +causing more atmospheric drag than she'd anticipated, slowing its orbit +faster. Her new estimate is that they have only 24 hours left -- not enough +time for their distress call to reach B5 and a ship to reach them. + + +

Plot Points

+ +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ +

Notes

+ + + +

jms speaks

+ + +
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Overview

+ +
+The return of Babylon 4 leads the crew to a dangerous encounter and Delenn +to revelations about the life of Valen. +
+ +

+Issue 13 (February 1998) + +

+Setting: Season four, after +"Into the Fire" + +

    Writer: Peter David
+    Artist: Mike Collins
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Aboard the flagship of a Tak'Cha fleet, Ramdela Cozon informs Ramde Haxtur +that a problem has arisen, requiring that they abandon their salvage of +several Pakkel ships. They have lost contact with Ende X'ton (what they +call Babylon 4) and suspect the presence of alien savages on the station. +Angry at the galaxy's capacity for violence, Haxtur recalls his salvage team +and sets out to stop the savages. However, this will mean that the Pakkel will +eventually die without their help, and so he orders their destruction as a +"mercy killing." + +

+Ivanova dozes off briefly, and is startled when Sheridan awakens her. She +chastises herself for sleeping during an emergency, vowing to stay focused. +Concerned, Sheridan checks her wrist readout and discovers that her +rebreathing gear is feeding her too much carbon dioxide. He adjusts her air +levels, and she is no longer sleepy. + +

+Sheridan invites Delenn to take a break after so many hours of studying the +tapes. She turns to him, crying, and recounts what she has learned: Nukenn, +upon learning that his son Tulan died fighting for Valen, had flown into +a fit of rage and shattered a plate glass window, cursing Valen's name. +Valen watched him do this, then asked Nukenn to accompany him to Mount +H'leya, a peak from which Valen had delivered his holy "Times to Come" +speech. Valen spoke to Nukenn of the battle, of the castes' potential +uniting, and of the Shadows' eventual return. Finally, he said: + +

+"Your son... should not have come with me," because he was a gentle soul who +was transformed by battle from something delicate to something hard and +unyielding. He offered to let Nukenn take his rage out on him, but when +Nukenn saw that Valen had somehow had the window rebuilt during the short +span of their talk, his faith in Valen was renewed. + +

+Garibaldi informs Sheridan that he has discovered rock patterns left in the +wall of the station, which he believes might be ancient graffiti. +Strangely, it is written in an ancient style of Minbari (similar to Earth's +Old English) and translates as "Z'ondar." Delenn does not know what the +word means, and so she returns to her studies of Valen's disciples as +Sheridan and Garibaldi head to the launch bay to see if any fighter ships +are still functional. + +

+Delenn finds another account from Rashok, as follows: Rashok once felt that +his people were doomed, but found new faith under Valen and relished the +chance to fight alongside him, "for he was unafraid to lead us into the +heart of the battle. It was as if he knew that triumph was inevitable. +From his confidence... flowed our own." + +

+In the name of Valen, according to Rashok's recording, the Minbari took on +the Shadows with the aid of various alien allies. Later, when Rashok tried +to tell Valen that the castes (inspired by Valen's victory over the Shadows) +had finally united, he found Valen weeping for the many who had died on all +sides during the battle. Zathras asked Rashok to wait until a later time to +tell him the news; Rashok had little use for this strange alien and +attempted to continue on to Valen, but Zathras knocked him down forcefully +and refused to let him pass. Rashok, impressed by Zathras' loyalty and +strength, conceded. + +

+Delenn stops studying the tapes to tell Sheridan that she has found many +references to a race called the Tak'Cha. She says she is not familiar with +this race. Meanwhile, Garibaldi is getting frustrated at his complete lack +of success in getting any of the fighters operational. He hits one of the +ships, and to his surprise, it starts up. Sheridan delivers the good news +to Ivanova, who replies, "That's... real good, sir... Now if you can fix +another two dozen or so within the next thirty seconds, we should be in +great shape." Sheridan looks outside... to find an entire fleet of Tak'Cha +ships facing them down. + + +

Plot Points

+ +

Unanswered Questions

+ +

Analysis

+ +

Notes

+ + + +

jms speaks

+ +
+
+
diff --git a/comic/014 b/comic/014 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..72a28234 --- /dev/null +++ b/comic/014 @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ + + +

Overview

+ +
+The return of Babylon 4 leads the crew to a dangerous encounter and Delenn +to revelations about the life of Valen. +
+ +

+Issue 14 (March 1998) + +

+Setting: Season four, after +"Into the Fire" + +

    Writer: Peter David
+    Artist: Mike Collins
+ +

+

+

+ +

Synopsis

+ +

+Ramde Haxtur leads his people in prayer to the Z'ondar, aboard the Tak'Cha +flagship. He recalls how they fell from the Z'ondar's grace long ago and +now hope to be worthy of his greatness someday. Haxtur tells Cozon to +prepare the ships for battle; he will personally lead an attack on Ende +X'ton to rid it of the alien invaders. This, he says, +will be done in the Z'ondar's name. + +

+Ivanova contemplates what Sinclair would do if faced with alien attackers +while plummeting headlong into a planet's atmosphere on a derelict space +station. Ultimately, she decides that only course of action is to bend over +and kiss herself good-bye. + +

+Ivanova counts twenty Tak'Cha ships. Sheridan takes the fighter Garibaldi +got up and running, hoping his experience with the White Stars will afford +him the skills needed to pilot it. Ivanova has her doubts, for he has never +flown a Minbari ship before. + +

+Delenn access the recording of a Tak'Cha disciple of Valen, named Ramde +Zarwin. According to Zarwin, his people joined Valen's crusade against the +Shadows and fully embraced his teachings. However, Valen felt that they had +perverted his teachings and cast them out. Zarwin himself was there for +Valen's "Times to Come" speech and was awed by Valen's Vorlon escorts, who +appeared to him as Tak'Cha gods. In Zarwin's eyes, Valen was sent by the +gods. Valen eventually based the Anla'Shok's staff on a Tak'Cha weapon +called a barrken, and Zarwin taught him to use such a weapon. Zarwin was +humbled and amazed at how quickly Valen outstripped his teacher's skills. +However, Valen was disturbed to learn that the Tak'Cha had mis-interpreted +his teachings to mean that one should relish the glory of fighting a war for +a cause. + +

+Sheridan, in an effort to stall the Tak'Cha, flies out among their ships but +then simply spins in place. The Tak'Cha are confused by the tactic, but do +not attack. Instead they watch warily until Sheridan accidentally fires on +the lead ship, mistaking the firing controls for the reverse thrusters. +Haxtur is furious at being shot at and opens fire on Sheridan's ship. + +

+Zarwin recalls how Valen called him, Rashok, and Nukenn before him. Valen +had planned to assign the three of them a mission, hoping at least one of +them would succeed in seeing it through. The mission: to hold a message for +Delenn for a thousand years, then deliver it to her in time to prevent the +Earth-Minbari War. However, his Vorlon companion wisely reminded him that +without the war, he would never gone into the past, which would have meant +no Valen, no Babylon 4, and no defeat of the Shadows. Like it or not, Valen +was powerless to alter history and prevent the deaths of millions. + +

+The Tak'Cha disable Sheridan's fighter, and he crashes the ship into the +station's Cobra Bay. There is a large explosion, but he (and Garibaldi, who +happened to be in the bay) survives. + +

+Zarwin further recalls how Valen became outraged upon hearing that the +Tak'Cha had decimated the Yolu and numerous other races who had refused to +fight in Valen's war against the Shadows. In the Tak'Cha's mind, any +unwilling to follow Valen into the fire and the darkness must be punished, +and they believed they should be the punishers, and that Valen would want it +this way. Horrified that so many innocent lives were taken in his name, he +cast them out. Ashamed, they returned home, unsure how they had failed the +Z'ondar but hopeful of one day serving him again. + +

+Ivanova informs Sheridan that their rate of descent has increased, with only +three or four hours until they burn up. The Tak'Cha board Babylon 4 and +plant explosives to flush the aliens out. However, Delenn appeals to them +with a gesture of friendship and the phrase, "Z'ondar -- Zarwin -- Tak'Cha +-- Minbari." Having worshipped her name for a millennium, they are in awe +of her and immediately break off their attack. The Tak'Cha rescue the +Babylon 5 team, and together they watch as the older station meets its fate. +As the station burns up, Delenn recalls a final recording of Valen's words: + +

+"My name is Valen... and I have served my people like no other. I led them +into fire... into darkness... into death... and they followed me without +hesitation. They acclaim my victories and hail me as a great leader. They +speak of my successes as if they are as infinite as the stars. And yet, for +all that I've accomplished... I lie awake, listening to the screams of the +dead and dying, those who are already gone, and those are yet to be born. A +few words from me could avert the Earth-Minbari conflict. A warning to +Delenn or Duhkat... But without the war, there would be no Babylon 4 and no +Babylon 5. There would be no rallying point against the Darkness... and the +Shadows would win, now and a thousand years from now. I cannot deviate from +the circle of which I am a part. I am the beginning of the story, as +Zathras said... and a prisoner of it. I dare not change the end. Still... +it's been a good life... lives... over all. Delenn, Catherine, Susan, +Michael... if any of you see this somehow.. don't cry for me. For in the +final analysis, I've always been too hard on myself. I'll be content to let +history judge me, and all that has been done in Valen's name. And as for +me... I've received my own reward, because I've found her. At long last... +I've found... her." + + + +

Plot Points

+ +

Unanswered Questions

+ + +

Analysis

+ +

Notes

+ + + +

jms speaks

+ +
+
+
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+Contents: +Overview - +Backplot - +Questions - +Analysis - +Notes - +JMS + +

+

+ +""") + else: + output.write(""" +
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[Home] + +
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+Contents: +Overview - +Synopsis - +Backplot - +Questions - +Analysis - +Notes - +JMS + +

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+""" + +print output diff --git a/comic/index.html b/comic/index.html new file mode 100755 index 00000000..c0d0397f --- /dev/null +++ b/comic/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,132 @@ + + +Lurker's Guide: Babylon 5 Comic + + + + + +

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+This is a guide to DC's Babylon 5 comic, which +features stories that complement the television show, going into issues +raised there in more detail than the show's time and budget constraints allow. + +

+Note! +Since the comic series contains stories that run concurrently with the +series, some of these pages contain spoilers for the series. In general, +an issue of the comic can be expected to reference events in episodes +aired in the US before the comic is released. Proceed with caution. + +

+

+

Current Issues

+ +

+Month of first availability is listed when exact release dates aren't known. +It often takes a week or more for comics to hit the stores after they're +released. + +

Release
+Date (US)  Issue    Title
+98/01/28     12     In Valen's Name
+98/02/25     13     In Valen's Name, Part 2
+98/03/25     14     In Valen's Name, Part 3
+
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+

+ +

Past Issues

+ +

+In the UK, compilations of the first eight issues are available in two +volumes from Titan Books. + +

Release
+Date (US)  Issue    Title
+94/12/08      1     In Darkness Find Me
+95/01/03      2     Treason
+95/02         3     In Harm's Way
+95/03         4     The Price of Peace
+
+95/04/04      5     Shadows Past and Present
+95/05         6     Against the Odds
+95/06/06      7     Survival the Hard Way
+95/07/05      8     Silent Enemies
+
+95/08         9     Duet for Human and Narn in C Sharp
+95/09        10     Coda for Human and Narn in B Flat
+
+95/10        11     The Psi Corps and You!
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"XXX"

+

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+ +Contents: +[Synopsis] - +[Backplot] - +[Questions] - +[Analysis] - +[Notes] - +[JMS] +
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+XXX +
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+Issue XXX (XXX, released XXX) + +

    Writer: XXX
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+ Penciller: XXX
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+ +

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+ +

Backplot

+ +

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+ +

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+Last update: +XXX +
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+Babylon 5 aired most recently on ORF1 weekdays at 15:40 and +10:45. ORF1 says they have no plans at present to show season three due +to low ratings. + +

+Austrian viewers may be able to watch the +German +broadcasts. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/03/24               The Gathering
+96/03/26   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+96/03/27   2    102    Soul Hunter
+96/03/28   3    104    Born to the Purple
+96/03/29   4    101    Infection
+96/04/01   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+96/04/02   6    110    Mind War
+96/04/03   7    107    The War Prayer
+96/04/04   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+96/04/09   9    113    Deathwalker
+96/04/10  10    105    Believers
+96/04/11  11    111    Survivors
+96/04/12  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/04/15  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/04/16  15    109    Grail
+96/04/17  16    122    Eyes
+96/04/18  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/04/19  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/04/22               none
+96/04/23  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/04/24  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/04/25               none
+96/04/26               none
+96/04/29  14    119    TKO
+96/04/30  17    115    Legacies
+96/05/01               none
+96/05/02  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

+96/05/06  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/05/07  24    202    Revelations
+96/05/08  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/05/09  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/05/10  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/05/13  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+96/05/14  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/05/15  29    208    Soul Mates
+96/05/16               none
+96/05/17  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/05/20  32    210    GROPOS
+96/05/21               none
+96/05/22               none
+96/05/23               none
+96/05/24               none
+96/05/27               none
+96/05/28  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+96/05/29  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/05/30  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+96/05/31  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/06/03               none
+96/06/04  37    214    And Now For a Word
+96/06/05  39    216    Knives
+96/06/06               none
+96/06/07  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/06/10  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/06/11  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+96/06/12  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/06/13  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/06/14  44    222    The Fall of Night
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+Crusade airs Thursday nights at 11:30PM on Channel 9. Start +time may vary; check your TV listings to verify. + +

+Reruns of the original series air Mondays at 8:30PM on Optus Vision. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

+Crusade + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+30/09/99    1   108   War Zone
+07/10/99    2   107   The Long Road
+14/10/99    3   106   The Well of Forever
+21/10/99    4   109   The Path of Sorrows
+28/10/99    5   110   Patterns of the Soul
+04/11/99    6   111   Ruling from the Tomb
+11/11/99    7   112   The Rules of the Game
+18/11/99    8   113   Appearances and Other Deceits
+25/11/99    9   103   Racing the Night
+02/12/99   10   102   The Memory of War
+09/12/99   11   101   The Needs of Earth
+16/12/99   12   104   Visitors from Down the Street
+23/12/99   13   105   Each Night I Dream of Home
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30/11/94               The Gathering
+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents")
+Originally aired December 3, 1994 - October 3, 1995 + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+04/10/99   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+11/10/99   2    102    Soul Hunter
+18/10/99   3    104    Born to the Purple
+25/10/99   4    101    Infection
+01/11/99   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+08/11/99   6    110    Mind War
+15/11/99   7    107    The War Prayer
+22/11/99   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+29/11/99   9    113    Deathwalker
+06/12/99  10    105    Believers
+13/12/99  11    111    Survivors
+20/12/99  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+27/12/99  13    116    Signs and Portents
+03/01/00  14    119    TKO
+10/01/00  15    109    Grail
+17/01/00  16    122    Eyes
+24/01/00  17    115    Legacies
+31/01/00  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+07/02/00  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+14/02/00  20    118    Babylon Squared
+21/02/00  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+28/02/00  22    112    Chrysalis
+
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows")
+Originally aired January 30 - July 9, 1996 + +

06/03/00  23    201    Points of Departure
+13/03/00  24    202    Revelations
+20/03/00  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+27/03/00  26    204    A Distant Star
+03/04/00  27    205    The Long Dark
+10/04/00  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+17/04/00  29    208    Soul Mates
+24/04/00  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+01/05/00  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+08/05/00  32    210    GROPOS
+15/05/00  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+22/05/00  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+29/05/00  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+05/06/00  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+12/06/00  37    214    And Now For a Word
+19/06/00  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+26/06/00  39    216    Knives
+03/07/00  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+10/07/00  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+17/07/00  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+24/07/00  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+31/07/00  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return")
+Originally aired December 5, 1996 - May 8, 1997 + +

07/08/00   45   301    Matters of Honor
+14/08/00   46   302    Convictions
+21/08/00   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+28/08/00   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+04/09/00   49   304    Voices of Authority
+11/09/00   50   306    Dust to Dust
+18/09/00   51   307    Exogenesis
+25/09/00   52   308    Messages from Earth
+02/10/00   53   309    Point of No Return
+09/10/00   54   310    Severed Dreams
+16/10/00   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+23/10/00   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+30/10/00   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+06/11/00   58   314    Ship of Tears
+13/11/00   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+20/11/00   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+27/11/00   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+04/12/00   62   318    Walkabout
+11/12/00   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+18/12/00   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+25/12/00   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+01/01/01   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat")
+Originally aired February 12 - August 13, 1998 + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+08/01/01   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+15/01/01   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+22/01/01   69   403    The Summoning
+29/01/01   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+05/02/01   71   405    The Long Night
+12/02/01   72   406    Into the Fire
+19/02/01   73   407    Epiphanies
+26/02/01   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+05/03/01   75   409    Atonement
+12/03/01   76   410    Racing Mars
+19/03/01   77   411    Lines of Communication
+26/03/01   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+02/04/01   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+09/04/01   80   414    Moments of Transition
+16/04/01   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+23/04/01   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+30/04/01   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+07/05/01   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+14/05/01   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+21/05/01   86   420    Endgame
+28/05/01   87   421    Rising Star
+04/06/01   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire")
+Originally aired October 8, 1998 - September 8, 1999 + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+11/06/01   89   502   No Compromises
+18/06/01   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+25/06/01   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+02/07/01   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+09/07/01   93   506   Learning Curve
+16/07/01   94   507   Strange Relations
+23/07/01   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+30/07/01   96   511   Day of the Dead
+06/08/01   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+13/08/01   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+20/08/01   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+27/08/01  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+03/09/01  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+10/09/01  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+17/09/01  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+24/09/01  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+01/10/01  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+08/10/01  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+15/10/01  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+22/10/01  108   521   Objects in Motion
+29/10/01  109   522   Objects at Rest
+05/11/01  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+ +
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+Babylon 5 is shown on Canal+ Belgium Wednesdays at 17:30 and +repeated Sundays at 19:00. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

98/09/02   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+98/09/09   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+98/09/16   69   403    The Summoning
+98/09/23   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+98/09/30   71   405    The Long Night
+98/10/07   72   406    Into the Fire
+98/10/14   73   407    Epiphanies
+98/10/21   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+98/10/28   75   409    Atonement
+98/11/04   76   410    Racing Mars
+98/11/11   77   411    Lines of Communication
+98/11/18   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+98/11/25   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+98/12/02   80   414    Moments of Transition
+98/12/09   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+98/12/16   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+98/12/23   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+98/12/30   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/01/06   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/01/13   86   420    Endgame
+99/01/20   87   421    Rising Star
+99/01/27   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ + +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents")
+Originally shown on VT4, March 27, 1995 - November 30, 1996 + +

95/03/27               The Gathering
+95/03/28   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/04/04   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/04/11   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/04/18   4    101    Infection
+95/04/25   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/05/02   6    110    Mind War
+95/05/09   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/05/16   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/05/23   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/05/30  10    105    Believers
+95/06/11  11    111    Survivors
+95/06/18  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/06/25  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/07/02  14    119    TKO
+95/07/09  15    109    Grail
+95/07/16  16    122    Eyes
+95/07/23  17    115    Legacies
+95/07/30  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/08/06  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+95/08/13  20    118    Babylon Squared
+
+96/11/23  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/11/30  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

+96/12/22  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/12/29  24    202    Revelations
+97/01/05  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+97/01/12  26    204    A Distant Star
+97/01/19  27    205    The Long Dark
+97/01/26  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+97/02/02  29    208    Soul Mates
+97/02/09  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+97/02/16  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+97/02/23  32    210    GROPOS
+97/03/02  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+97/03/09  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+97/03/16  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+97/03/23  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+97/03/30  37    214    And Now For a Word
+97/04/06  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+97/04/13  39    216    Knives
+97/04/20  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+97/04/27  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+97/05/04  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+97/05/11  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+97/05/18  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

96/10/06   45   301    L'etoile céleste
+                        (Matters of Honor)
+96/10/13   46   302    Convictions
+96/10/20               none
+96/10/27   47   303    Au coeur du conflit
+                        (A Day in the Strife)
+96/11/03               none
+96/11/10   48   305    Les jardins de Gethsemani
+                        (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+96/11/17   49   304    Les voix de l'autorité
+                        (Voices of Authority)
+96/11/24   50   306    Dépendance
+                        (Dust to Dust)
+96/12/01               none
+96/12/08   51   307    Exogénèse
+                        (Exogenesis)
+96/12/15   52   308    Message terrestre
+                        (Messages from Earth)
+96/12/22   53   309    Point de non-retour
+                        (Point of No Return)
+96/12/29   54   310    La fin des rêves
+                        (Severed Dreams)
+97/01/05   55   311    Renaissances
+                        (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+97/01/12   56   313    Le secret de Vir
+                        (Sic Transit Vir)
+97/01/19               none
+97/01/26   57   312    Le chevalier de la Table Ronde
+                        (A Late Delivery from Avalon)
+97/02/02   58   314    Le vaisseau des larmes
+                        (Ship of Tears)
+97/02/09   59   315    Le temps est venu
+                        (Interludes and Examinations)
+97/02/16   60   316    La guerre sans fin (1ere partie)
+                        (War Without End, Part One)
+97/02/23               none
+97/03/02   61   317    La guerre sans fin (2eme partie)
+                        (War Without End, Part Two)
+97/03/09   62   318    Le cheminement
+                        (Walkabout)
+97/03/16   63   319    Le secteur gris ne repond plus
+                        (Grey 17 Is Missing)
+97/03/23   64   320    Melodie oecumenique
+                        (And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
+97/03/30               none
+97/04/06   65   321    Instants decisifs
+                        (Shadow Dancing)
+97/04/13   66   322    Z'ha'dum
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+Babylon 5 is shown on +Space: The Imagination Station +Monday-Friday at 5PM. Space has confirmed that they plan to show +"Crusade" +starting sometime in 1999. + +

+Season five is being shown by several stations across Canada at various times; +see the B5 Information Pages link above for schedule details for your area. + +

+Pilot + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+98/09/14               The Gathering
+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

98/09/15   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+98/09/16   2    102    Soul Hunter
+98/09/17   3    104    Born to the Purple
+98/09/18   4    101    Infection
+98/09/21   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+98/09/22   6    110    Mind War
+98/09/23   7    107    The War Prayer
+98/09/24   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+98/09/25   9    113    Deathwalker
+98/09/28  10    105    Believers
+98/09/29  11    111    Survivors
+98/09/30  13    116    Signs and Portents
+98/10/01  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+98/10/02  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+98/10/05  15    109    Grail
+98/10/06  16    122    Eyes
+98/10/07  14    119    TKO
+98/10/08  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+98/10/09  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+98/10/12  20    118    Babylon Squared
+98/10/13  17    115    Legacies
+98/10/14  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

98/10/15  23    201    Points of Departure
+98/10/16  24    202    Revelations
+98/10/19  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+98/10/20  26    204    A Distant Star
+98/10/21  27    205    The Long Dark
+98/10/22  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+98/10/23  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+98/10/26  29    208    Soul Mates
+98/10/27  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+98/10/28  32    210    GROPOS
+98/10/29  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+98/10/30  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+98/11/02  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+98/11/03  37    214    And Now For a Word
+98/11/04  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+98/11/05  39    216    Knives
+98/11/06  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+98/11/09  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+98/11/10  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+98/11/11  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+98/11/12  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+98/11/13  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point Of No Return") + +

98/11/16   45   301    Matters of Honor
+98/11/17   46   302    Convictions
+98/11/18   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+98/11/19   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+98/11/20   49   304    Voices of Authority
+98/11/23   50   306    Dust to Dust
+98/11/24   51   307    Exogenesis
+98/11/25   52   308    Messages from Earth
+98/11/26   53   309    Point of No Return
+98/11/27   54   310    Severed Dreams
+98/11/30   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+98/12/01   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+98/12/02   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+98/12/03   58   314    Ship of Tears
+98/12/04   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+98/12/07   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+98/12/08   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+98/12/09   62   318    Walkabout
+98/12/10   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+98/12/11   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+98/12/14   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+98/12/15   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

98/12/16   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+98/12/17   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+98/12/18   69   403    The Summoning
+98/12/21   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+98/12/22   71   405    The Long Night
+98/12/23   72   406    Into the Fire
+98/12/24   73   407    Epiphanies
+98/12/25   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+98/12/28   75   409    Atonement
+98/12/29   76   410    Racing Mars
+98/12/30   77   411    Lines of Communication
+98/12/31   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+99/01/01   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+99/01/04   80   414    Moments of Transition
+99/01/05   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+99/01/06   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+99/01/07   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+99/01/08   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/01/11   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/01/12   86   420    Endgame
+99/01/13   87   421    Rising Star
+99/01/14   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") +
+Season five has not been purchased by Space yet. + +

99/??/??   89   502   No Compromises
+99/??/??   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+99/??/??   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+99/??/??   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+99/??/??   93   506   Learning Curve
+99/??/??   94   507   Strange Relations
+99/??/??   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+99/??/??   96   511   Day of the Dead
+99/??/??   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+99/??/??   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+99/??/??   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+99/??/??  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+99/??/??  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+99/??/??  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+99/??/??  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+99/??/??  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+99/??/??  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+99/??/??  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+99/??/??  107   522   Wheel of Fire
+99/??/??  108   520   Objects in Motion
+99/??/??  109   521   Objects at Rest
+99/??/??  110   523   Sleeping in Light
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+Babylon 5 is shown on Megavision (channel 9 in Santiago), +Saturdays at 18:30. It is usually delayed due to sports or other programming. +B5 can also be +seen on the WBTV cable channel Sundays at 20:30 and Thursdays at 20:00; +the order is erratic there. + +

+The following schedule is tentative: Megavision frequently preempts +B5 with sports, so expect these dates to change. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+96/10/06   45   301    Matters of Honor
+96/10/13   46   302    Convictions
+96/10/20   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+96/11/03   49   304    Voices of Authority
+96/11/10   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+96/11/17   50   306    Dust to Dust
+96/11/24   51   307    Exogenesis
+96/12/01   52   308    Messages from Earth
+96/12/22   53   309    Point of No Return
+96/12/29   54   310    Severed Dreams
+97/01/05   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+97/01/12   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+97/01/19   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+97/01/26   58   314    Ship of Tears
+97/02/02   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+97/02/09   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+97/02/16   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+97/02/23   62   318    Walkabout
+97/03/02   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+97/03/09   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+97/06/07   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+
+97/??/??   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ + +

Past Episodes

+ +

+Season +One +("Signs and Portents") + +

95/01/01               The Gathering
+95/01/08   4    101    Infection
+95/01/15   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/01/22   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/01/29   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/02/05   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/02/26   6    110    Mind War
+95/03/05   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/03/12   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/03/19   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/03/26  10    105    Believers
+95/04/16  11    111    Survivors
+95/04/23  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/04/30  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/05/07  14    119    TKO
+95/05/14  15    109    Grail
+95/06/04  16    122    Eyes
+95/06/18  17    115    Legacies
+95/07/02        110R   Mind War
+95/08/06  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/08/20  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+95/09/03  20    118    Babylon Squared
+95/09/10  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+95/09/17  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+95/09/24               Soul Hunter
+95/10/01               Born to the Purple
+95/10/08               The Parliament of Dreams
+95/10/15               Mind War
+95/10/22               The War Prayer
+95/10/29               And the Sky Full of Stars
+95/11/05               Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/11/12               Deathwalker
+95/11/19               Believers
+ +

+Season +Two +("The Coming Of Shadows") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+95/12/17   23   201    Points of Departure
+95/12/31   24   202    Revelations
+96/01/07   25   203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/01/14   26   204    A Distant Star
+96/01/21   27   205    The Long Dark
+96/01/28   28   206    A Spider in the Web
+96/02/11   30   207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/03/10   32   210    GROPOS
+96/03/17   33   211    All Alone in the Night
+96/03/24   34   212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/04/07   35   213    Hunter, Prey
+96/04/14   29   208    Soul Mates
+96/04/21   31   209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/04/28        213R   Hunter, Prey
+96/05/05   37   214    And Now For a Word
+96/05/12   36   215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/05/19   39   216    Knives
+96/05/26   38   217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/06/09   40   218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/06/16   42   219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/06/23   41   220    Divided Loyalties
+96/06/30   43   221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/07/07   44   222    The Fall of Night (season finale)
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+Babylon 5 was shown on Canal A (INRAVISION), Thursdays at 18:00. +It has either moved to a new time or stopped airing -- if you have more +information, please +send me mail. + +

+Canal A was showing the episodes in production order rather than +their intended broadcast order. + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+95/10/19   4    101    Infection
+95/10/26   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/11/02   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/11/09   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/11/16  10    105    Believers
+95/11/23   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/11/30   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/12/07   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/12/14  15    109    Grail
+95/12/21   6    110    Mind War
+95/12/28  11    111    Survivors
+96/01/04  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+96/01/11   9    113    Deathwalker
+96/01/18  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/01/25  17    115    Legacies
+96/02/01  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/02/08  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/02/15  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/02/22  14    119    TKO
+96/02/29  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/03/07  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/03/14  16    122    Eyes
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+Babylon 5 is shown Wednesdays at 11:00PM on +Channel 6. +The current schedule is unknown, except that they're showing season one. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents")
+Originally aired February 10-July 14 1995 + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+??/??/??               The Gathering
+??/??/??   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+??/??/??   2    102    Soul Hunter
+??/??/??   3    104    Born to the Purple
+??/??/??   4    101    Infection
+??/??/??   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+??/??/??   6    110    Mind War
+??/??/??   7    107    The War Prayer
+??/??/??   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+??/??/??   9    113    Deathwalker
+??/??/??  10    105    Believers
+??/??/??  11    111    Survivors
+??/??/??  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+??/??/??  13    116    Signs and Portents
+??/??/??  14    119    TKO
+??/??/??  15    109    Grail
+??/??/??  16    122    Eyes
+??/??/??  17    115    Legacies
+??/??/??  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+??/??/??  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+??/??/??  20    118    Babylon Squared
+??/??/??  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+??/??/??  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
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Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+99/06/09    1   108   War Zone
+99/06/16    2   107   The Long Road
+99/06/23    3   106   The Well of Forever
+99/06/30    4   109   The Path of Sorrows
+99/07/07    5   110   Patterns of the Soul
+99/07/14    6   111   Ruling from the Tomb
+99/07/21    7   112   The Rules of the Game
+99/07/28    8   113   Appearances and Other Deceits
+99/08/04    9   103   Racing the Night
+99/08/11   10   102   The Memory of War
+99/08/18   11   101   The Needs of Earth
+99/08/25   12   104   Visitors from Down the Street
+99/09/01   13   105   Each Night I Dream of Home
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+Babylon 5 airs Saturdays at 20:50 MET on +METV. +METV is broadcast from Cyprus and can be received in Israel, +Jordan, Lebanon, and possibly other nearby countries. + +

+Israeli viewers with cable might try the +Israeli +schedule. + +

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Current Episodes

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+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows")
+Originally aired January 18 - June 7, 1997 + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+97/06/28  23    201    Points of Departure
+97/07/05  24    202    Revelations
+97/07/12  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+97/07/19  26    204    A Distant Star
+97/07/26  27    205    The Long Dark
+97/08/02  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+97/08/09  29    208    Soul Mates
+97/08/16  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+97/08/23  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+97/08/30  32    210    GROPOS
+97/09/06  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+97/09/13  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+97/09/20  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+97/09/27  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+97/10/04  37    214    And Now For a Word
+97/10/11  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+97/10/18  39    216    Knives
+97/10/25  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+97/11/01  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+97/11/08  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+97/11/15  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+97/11/22  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ + +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

95/08/15               The Gathering part 1
+95/08/22               The Gathering part 2
+
+95/03/14   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/03/21   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/03/28   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/04/04   4    101    Infection
+95/04/11   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/04/18   6    110    Mind War
+95/04/25   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/05/02   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/05/09   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/05/16  10    105    Believers
+95/05/23  11    111    Survivors
+95/05/30  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/06/06  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/06/13  14    119    TKO
+95/06/20  15    109    Grail
+95/06/27  16    122    Eyes
+95/07/04  17    115    Legacies
+95/07/11  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/07/18  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+95/07/25  20    118    Babylon Squared
+95/08/01  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+95/08/08  22    112    Chrysalis
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+Babylon 5 airs Wednesdays at 20:00 on TV3. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+24/05/00               The Gathering
+31/05/00   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+07/06/00   2    102    Soul Hunter
+14/06/00   3    104    Born to the Purple
+21/06/00   4    101    Infection
+28/06/00   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+05/07/00   6    110    Mind War
+12/07/00   7    107    The War Prayer
+19/07/00   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+26/07/00   9    113    Deathwalker
+02/08/00  10    105    Believers
+09/08/00  11    111    Survivors
+16/08/00  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+23/08/00  13    116    Signs and Portents
+30/08/00  14    119    TKO
+06/09/00  15    109    Grail
+13/09/00  16    122    Eyes
+20/09/00  17    115    Legacies
+27/09/00  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+04/10/00  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+11/10/00  20    118    Babylon Squared
+18/10/00  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+25/10/00  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

01/11/00  23    201    Points of Departure
+08/11/00  24    202    Revelations
+15/11/00  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+22/11/00  26    204    A Distant Star
+29/11/00  27    205    The Long Dark
+06/12/00  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+13/12/00  29    208    Soul Mates
+20/12/00  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+27/12/00  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+03/01/01  32    210    GROPOS
+10/01/01  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+17/01/01  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+24/01/01  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+31/01/01  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+07/02/01  37    214    And Now For a Word
+14/02/01  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+21/02/01  39    216    Knives
+28/02/01  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+07/03/01  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+14/03/01  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+21/03/01  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+28/03/01  44    222    The Fall of Night
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+See Also: +AXN - +Canal Satélite Digital - +TVE - +Babylon 5 En España + +

+Channel AXN (available on the basic package of the digital satellite network Canal Satélite Digital) is airing Season 4 every Wednesday at 22:00, with repetitions Thursdays at 18:00 and the next Wednesday at 10:00. + +

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+[More Info] +TVE Seasons 1-3 historical broadcast schedule. + +

+[More Info] +AXN Seasons 1-3 historical broadcast schedule. + + +

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+Season +Four +("Sin Rendición, Sin Retirada") + +

Airtime: Wednesdays at 10PM, repetitions Thursdays at 6PM and Wednesdays at 10AM
+ +
+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+00/10/18  67    401    La Hora del Lobo
+                       (The Hour of the Wolf)
+00/10/25  68    402    ¿Qué Le Habrá Pasado al Sr. Garibaldi?
+                       (Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?)
+00/11/01  69    403    La Llamada
+                       (The Summoning)
+00/11/08  70    404    Cayendo Hacia la Apoteosis
+                       (Falling Toward Apotheosis)
+00/11/15  71    405    La Larga Noche
+                       (The Long Night)
+00/11/22  72    406    Dentro del Fuego
+                       (Into the Fire)
+00/11/29  73    407    Revelaciones
+                       (Epiphanies)
+00/12/06  74    408    La Ilusión de la Verdad
+                       (The Illusion of Truth)
+00/12/13  75    409    Expiación
+                       (Atonement)
+00/12/20  76    410    Corriendo Hacia Marte
+                       (Racing Mars)
+00/12/27  77    411    Lines of Communication
+00/01/03  78    412    Conflicts of Interest
+00/01/10  79    413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+00/01/17  80    414    Moments of Transition
+00/01/24  81    415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+00/01/31  82    416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+00/02/07  83    417    The Face of the Enemy
+00/02/14  84    418    Intersections in Real Time
+00/02/21  85    419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+00/02/28  86    420    Endgame
+00/03/07  87    421    Rising Star
+00/03/14  88    422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
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+"R" after the production number indicates a rerun; an episode number indicates +a new episode. + +

+Pilot Movie
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+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+
+96/06/27     0  0      El Encuentro
+                       (The Gathering)
+ +

Season One +("Signos y Presagios")
+ +Air Time: Weekends around 11 AM - 1PM) + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+
+96/06/29     1  103    Medianoche en la Línea de Fuego
+                       (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+96/06/30     2  102    El Cazador de Almas
+                       (Soul Hunter)
+96/07/06               none
+
+96/07/07     3  104    Nacido para el Púrpura
+                       (Born to the Purple)
+96/07/13     4  101    Infección
+                       (Infection)
+96/07/14     5  108    El Parlamento de los Sueños
+                       (The Parliament of Dreams)
+96/07/20     6  110    Guerra Mental
+                       (Mind War)
+96/07/21               none
+
+96/07/27     7  107    Oración de Guerra
+                       (The War Prayer)
+96/07/28               none
+
+96/08/03     8  106    Y El Cielo Se Llenó de Estrellas
+                       (And The Sky Full Of Stars)
+96/08/04               none
+
+96/08/10     9  113    La Muerte Errante
+                       (Deathwalker)
+96/08/11               none
+96/08/17    10  105    Creyentes
+                       (Believers)
+96/08/18    11  111    Supervivientes
+                       (Survivors)
+96/08/24               none
+
+96/08/25               none
+
+96/08/31    12  114    Por Cualquier Medio Necesario
+                       (By Any Means Necessary)
+96/09/01               none
+
+96/09/07    13  116    Signos y Presagios
+                       (Signs and Portents)
+96/09/08    14  119    KO Técnico
+                       (TKO)
+
+(Now airing at 6 - 7 AM)
+
+96/09/15    15  109    Grial 
+                       (Grail)
+96/09/16    16  122    Ojos
+                       (Eyes)
+96/09/22    18  120    Una Voz en el Desierto 1a Parte
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 1)
+96/09/23    19  121    Una Voz en el Desierto 2a Parte
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 2)
+96/09/28    17  115    Legados
+                       (Legacies)
+96/09/29    20  118    Babylon Hallado
+                       (Babylon Squared)
+96/10/05    21  117    La Virtud de la Misericordia
+                       (The Quality of Mercy)
+96/10/06    22  112    Crisálida 
+                       (Chrysalis)
+ +

+Pilot Movie
+ +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+
+96/10/12-13  0   0R    El Encuentro
+                       (The Gathering)
+ +

+Season One +("Signos y Presagios")
+ +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+
+96/10/19     1  103R   Medianoche en la Línea de Fuego
+                       (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+96/10/20     2  102R   El Cazador de Almas
+                       (Soul Hunter)
+96/10/26     3  104R   Nacido para el Púrpura
+                       (Born to the Purple)
+96/10/27     4  101R   Infección
+                       (Infection)
+96/11/02     5  108R   El Parlamento de los Sueños
+                       (The Parliament of Dreams)
+96/11/03     6  110R   Guerra Mental
+                       (Mind War)
+96/11/09     7  107R   Oración de Guerra
+                       (The War Prayer)
+96/11/10     8  106R   Y El Cielo Se Llenó de Estrellas
+                       (And The Sky Full Of Stars)
+96/11/16     9  113R   La Muerte Errante
+                       (Deathwalker)
+96/11/17    10  105R   Creyentes
+                       (Believers)
+96/11/23    11  111R   Supervivientes
+                       (Survivors)
+96/11/24    12  114R   Por Cualquier Medio Necesario
+                       (By Any Means Necessary)
+96/11/30    13  116R   Signos y Presagios
+                       (Signs and Portents)
+96/12/01    14  119R   KO Técnico
+                       (TKO)
+96/12/06    15  109R   Grial 
+                       (Grail)
+96/12/07    16  122R   Ojos
+                       (Eyes)
+96/12/08    17  115R   Legados
+                       (Legacies)
+96/12/14    18  120R   Una Voz en el Desierto 1a Parte
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 1)
+96/12/15    19  121R   Una Voz en el Desierto 2a Parte
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 2)
+96/12/21    20  118R   Babylon Hallado
+                       (Babylon Squared)
+96/12/22    21  117R   La Virtud de la Misericordia
+                       (The Quality of Mercy)
+96/12/25    22  112R   Crisálida 
+                       (Chrysalis)
+ +

+Season Two +("La Llegada de las Sombras")
+ +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/12/28    23  201    Puntos de Partida
+                       (Points of Departure)
+97/01/04    24  202    Revelaciones
+                       (Revelations)
+97/01/05    25  203    La Geometría de las Sombras
+                       (The Geometry of Shadows)
+97/01/11    26  204    Una Estrella Lejana
+                       (A Distant Star)
+97/01/12    27  205    La Larga Oscuridad
+                       (The Long Dark)
+97/01/18    28  206    Una Araña en la Telaraña
+                       (A Spider in the Web)
+97/01/19    30  207    Una Carrera a Través de Lugares Oscuros
+                       (A Race Through Dark Places)
+97/01/25    29  208    Compaqeros Del Alma
+                       (Soul Mates)
+97/01/26    31  209    La Llegada de las Sombras
+                       (The Coming of Shadows)
+97/02/01    32  210    GROPOS
+                       (GROPOS)
+97/02/02    33  211    Solo en la Noche
+                       (All Alone in the Night)
+97/02/08    34  212    Actos de Sacrificio
+                       (Acts of Sacrifice)
+97/02/09    35  213    Cazador, Presa
+                       (Hunter, Prey)
+97/02/15    37  214    Y Ahora una Noticia
+                       (And Now For a Word)
+97/02/16    36  215    Mentir por Honor
+                       (There All the Honor Lies)
+97/02/22    39  216    Cuchillos
+                       (Knives)
+97/02/23    38  217    A la Sombra de Z'ha'dum
+                       (In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+97/03/01    40  218    Confesiones y Lamentaciones
+                       (Confessions and Lamentations)
+97/03/02    42  219    La Larga Batalla Crepuscular
+                       (The Long, Twilight Struggle)
+97/03/08    41  220    Lealtades Divididas
+                       (Divided Loyalties)
+97/03/09    43  221    Llega el Inquisidor
+                       (Comes the Inquisitor)
+97/03/15    44  222    La Caída de la Noche
+                       (The Fall of Night)
+96/03/16    23  201R   Puntos de Partida
+                       (Points of Departure)
+97/03/22    24  202R   Revelaciones
+                       (Revelations)
+97/03/23    25  203R   La Geometría de las Sombras
+                       (The Geometry of Shadows)
+97/03/29    26  204R   Una Estrella Lejana
+                       (A Distant Star)
+97/03/30    27  205R   La Larga Oscuridad
+                       (The Long Dark)
+97/04/05    28  206R   Una Araña en la Telaraña
+                       (A Spider in the Web)
+97/04/06    30  207R   Una Carrera a Través de Lugares Oscuros
+                       (A Race Through Dark Places)
+97/04/12    29  208R   Compañeros Del Alma
+                       (Soul Mates)
+97/04/13    31  209R   La Llegada de las Sombras
+                       (The Coming of Shadows)
+97/04/19    32  210R   GROPOS
+                       (GROPOS)
+97/04/20    33  211R   Solo en la Noche
+                       (All Alone in the Night)
+97/04/26    34  212R   Actos de Sacrificio
+                       (Acts of Sacrifice)
+97/04/27    35  213R   Cazador, Presa
+                       (Hunter, Prey)
+97/05/03    37  214R   Y Ahora una Noticia
+                       (And Now For a Word)
+97/05/04    36  215R   Mentir por Honor
+                       (There All the Honor Lies)
+97/05/10    39  216R   Cuchillos
+                       (Knives)
+97/05/11    38  217R   A la Sombra de Z'ha'dum
+                       (In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+97/05/17    40  218R   Confesiones y Lamentaciones
+                       (Confessions and Lamentations)
+97/05/18    42  219R   La Larga Batalla Crepuscular
+                       (The Long, Twilight Struggle)
+97/05/24    41  220R   Lealtades Divididas
+                       (Divided Loyalties)
+97/05/25    43  221R   Llega el Inquisidor
+                       (Comes the Inquisitor)
+97/05/31    44  222R   La Caída de la Noche
+                       (The Fall of Night)
+ +

+Season Three +("Punto Sin Retorno")
+Air Time: Weekdays at 7 PM + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+98/09/14    45  301    Asuntos De Honor
+                       (Matters of Honor)
+98/09/15    46  302    Convicciones
+                       (Convictions)
+98/09/16    47  303    Un Día En La Contienda
+                       (A Day in the Strife)
+98/09/18    49  304    Voces De Autoridad
+                       (Voices of Authority)
+98/09/21    48  305    Cruzando Getsemaní
+                       (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+98/09/22    50  306    Polvo Al Polvo
+                       (Dust to Dust)
+98/09/23    51  307    Exogénesis
+                       (Exogenesis)
+98/09/24    52  308    Mensajes Desde La Tierra
+                       (Messages from Earth)
+98/09/28    53  309    Punto Sin Retorno
+                       (Point of No Return)
+98/09/30    54  310    Sueños Rotos
+                       (Severed Dreams)
+98/10/02    55  311    Ceremonias De Luz Y Oscuridad
+                       (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+98/10/05    57  312    Una Visita Inesperada De Avalon
+                       (A Late Delivery from Avalon)
+98/10/06    56  313    La Transición De Vir
+                       (Sic Transit Vir)
+98/10/07    58  314    Nave De Lágrimas
+                       (Ship of Tears)
+98/10/08    59  315    Interludios Y Análisis
+                       (Interludes and Examinations)
+98/10/09    60  316    Guerra Sin Fin, 1a. Parte
+                       (War Without End, Part One)
+98/10/12    61  317    Guerra Sin Fin, 2a. Parte
+                       (War Without End, Part Two)
+98/10/13    62  318    El Paseo
+                       (Walkabout)
+98/10/14    63  319    Desaparece El Sector Gris 17
+                       (Grey 17 Is Missing)
+98/10/15    64  320    Y La Roca gritó: No Hay Donde Esconderse
+                       (And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
+98/10/16    65  321    Baile De Sombras
+                       (Shadow Dancing)
+98/10/19    66  322    Z'ha'dum
+                       (Z'ha'dum)
+
+(Now airing Weekends at 6 - 7 AM)
+
+98/11/07    45  301R   Asuntos De Honor
+                       (Matters of Honor)
+98/11/08    46  302R   Convicciones
+                       (Convictions)
+98/11/14    47  303R   Un Día En La Contienda
+                       (A Day in the Strife)
+98/11/15    49  304R   Voces De Autoridad
+                       (Voices of Authority)
+98/11/21    48  305R   Cruzando Getsemaní
+                       (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+98/11/22    50  306R   Polvo Al Polvo
+                       (Dust to Dust)
+98/11/28    51  307R   Exogénesis
+                       (Exogenesis)
+98/11/29    52  308R   Mensajes Desde La Tierra
+                       (Messages from Earth)
+98/12/05    53  309R   Punto Sin Retorno
+                       (Point of No Return)
+98/12/06    54  310R   Sueños Rotos
+                       (Severed Dreams)
+98/12/12    55  311R   Ceremonias De Luz Y Oscuridad
+                       (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+98/12/13    57  312R   Una Visita Inesperada De Avalon
+                       (A Late Delivery from Avalon)
+98/12/19    56  313R   La Transición De Vir
+                       (Sic Transit Vir)
+98/12/20    58  314R   Nave De Lágrimas
+                       (Ship of Tears)R
+
+(Now airing Weekdays at 5 AM)
+
+98/12/21    59  315R   Interludios Y Análisis
+                       (Interludes and Examinations)
+98/12/22    60  316R   Guerra Sin Fin, 1a. Parte
+                       (War Without End, Part One)
+98/12/23    61  317R   Guerra Sin Fin, 2a. Parte
+                       (War Without End, Part Two)
+98/12/24    62  318R   El Paseo
+                       (Walkabout)
+98/12/25    63  319R   Desaparece El Sector Gris 17
+                       (Grey 17 Is Missing)
+98/12/28    64  320R   Y La Roca gritó: No Hay Donde Esconderse
+                       (And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
+98/12/29    65  321R   Baile De Sombras
+                       (Shadow Dancing)
+98/12/30    66  322R   Z'ha'dum
+                       (Z'ha'dum)
+ +
+
+
+ +

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AXN Broadcast:

+ +

+This page contains a historical listing of Babylon 5's +air dates in Spain through AXN (Canal Satélite Digital, dial 25). The information +on the current broadcast is in the main +Spanish episode list +for that. + +

+"R" after the production number indicates a rerun; an episode number indicates +a new episode (or a first airing of the episode on AXN. + +

First run of Seasons 1-3 on AXN: November 1998-February 2000
+(Previously aired on TVE: See TVE Broadcast) + +

Airtime: Thursdays at 10 PM, repeated Saturdays at 9:30 PM
+ +

+Pilot Movie
+ +

+98/11/05               El Encuentro
+                       (The Gathering)
+ +

+Season One +("Signos y Presagios")
+ +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+
+98/11/07   3    104    Nacido para el Púrpura
+                       (Born to the Purple)
+98/11/12   1    103    Medianoche en la Línea de Fuego
+                       (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+98/11/19   2    102    El Cazador de Almas
+                       (Soul Hunter)
+98/11/26   3    104    Nacido para el Púrpura
+                       (Born to the Purple)
+98/12/03   4    101    Infección
+                       (Infection)
+98/12/10   5    108    El Parlamento de los Sueños
+                       (The Parliament of Dreams)
+98/12/17   6    110    Guerra Mental
+                       (Mind War)
+98/12/24   7    107    Oración de Guerra
+                       (The War Prayer)
+
+(Repetition now Saturdays at 1 PM)
+
+98/12/31   8    106    Y El Cielo Se Llenó de Estrellas
+                       (And The Sky Full Of Stars)
+98/01/07   9    113    La Muerte Errante
+                       (Deathwalker)
+99/01/14  10    105    Creyentes
+                       (Believers)
+99/01/21  11    111    Supervivientes
+                       (Survivors)
+99/01/28  13    116    Signos y Presagios
+                       (Signs and Portents)
+99/02/04  12    114    Por Cualquier Medio Necesario
+                       (By Any Means Necessary)
+99/02/11  21    117    La Virtud de la Misericordia
+                       (The Quality of Mercy)
+99/02/18  15    109    Grial 
+                       (Grail)
+99/02/25  16    122    Ojos
+                       (Eyes)
+
+(Repetition now Saturdays at 6 PM)
+
+99/03/04  14    119    KO Técnico
+                       (TKO)
+99/03/11  18    120    Una Voz en el Desierto 1a Parte
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 1)
+99/03/18  19    121    Una Voz en el Desierto 2a Parte
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 2)
+99/03/25  20    118    Babylon Hallado
+                       (Babylon Squared)
+99/04/01  17    115    Legados
+                       (Legacies)
+99/04/08  22    112    Crisálida 
+                       (Chrysalis)
+ +

+Season Two +("La Llegada de las Sombras")
+ +

Airtime: Wednesdays at 11 PM, repeated Saturdays at 6 PM
+ +
Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+99/04/14  23    201    Puntos de Partida
+                       (Points of Departure)
+99/04/21  24    202    Revelaciones
+                       (Revelations)
+
+(Repetition now Saturdays at 8 PM)
+
+99/04/28  25    203    La Geometría de las Sombras
+                       (The Geometry of Shadows)
+99/05/05  26    204    Una Estrella Lejana
+                       (A Distant Star)
+99/05/12  27    205    La Larga Oscuridad
+                       (The Long Dark)
+99/05/19  28    206    Una Araña en la Telaraña
+                       (A Spider in the Web)
+
+(Extra Repetition now Wednesdays at 10 AM)
+
+99/05/26  30    207    Una Carrera a Través de Lugares Oscuros
+                       (A Race Through Dark Places)
+99/06/02  29    208    Compañeros Del Alma
+                       (Soul Mates)
+99/06/09  31    209    La Llegada de las Sombras
+                       (The Coming of Shadows)
+99/06/16  32    210    GROPOS
+                       (GROPOS)
+99/06/23  33    211    Solo en la Noche
+                       (All Alone in the Night)
+99/06/30  34    212    Actos de Sacrificio
+                       (Acts of Sacrifice)
+99/07/07  35    213    Cazador, Presa
+                       (Hunter, Prey)
+99/07/14  37    214    Y Ahora una Noticia
+                       (And Now For a Word)
+99/07/21  36    215    Mentir por Honor
+                       (There All the Honor Lies)
+99/07/28  39    216    Cuchillos
+                       (Knives)
+99/08/04  38    217    A la Sombra de Z'ha'dum
+                       (In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+99/08/11  40    218    Confesiones y Lamentaciones
+                       (Confessions and Lamentations)
+99/08/18  42    219    La Larga Batalla Crepuscular
+                       (The Long, Twilight Struggle)
+99/08/25  41    220    Lealtades Divididas
+                       (Divided Loyalties)
+99/09/01  43    221    Llega el Inquisidor
+                       (Comes the Inquisitor)
+99/09/08  44    222    La Caída de la Noche
+                       (The Fall of Night)
+ +

+Season Three +("Punto Sin Retorno")
+ +

Airtime: Wednesdays at 10 PM
+Repetitions: Thursdays at 6 PM
+             Saturdays at 8 PM 
+             next Wednesdays at 10 AM
+ +
+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+99/09/15  45    301    Asuntos De Honor
+                       (Matters of Honor)
+99/09/22  46    302    Convicciones
+                       (Convictions)
+99/09/29  47    303    Un Día En La Contienda
+                       (A Day in the Strife)
+
+(Extra Repetition now Thursdays at 3 PM)
+
+99/10/06  48    305    Cruzando Getsemaní
+                       (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+99/10/13  49    304    Voces De Autoridad
+                       (Voices of Authority)
+99/10/20  50    306    Polvo Al Polvo
+                       (Dust to Dust)
+99/10/27  51    307    Exogénesis
+                       (Exogenesis)
+99/11/03  52    308    Mensajes Desde La Tierra
+                       (Messages from Earth)
+99/11/10  53    309    Punto Sin Retorno
+                       (Point of No Return)
+99/11/17  54    310    Sueños Rotos
+                       (Severed Dreams)
+99/11/24  55    311    Ceremonias De Luz Y Oscuridad
+                       (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+99/12/01  57    312    Una Visita Inesperada De Avalon
+                       (A Late Delivery from Avalon)
+99/12/08  56    313    La Transición De Vir
+                       (Sic Transit Vir)
+99/12/15  58    314    Nave De Lágrimas
+                       (Ship of Tears)
+99/12/22  59    315    Interludios Y Análisis
+                       (Interludes and Examinations)
+99/12/29  60    316    Guerra Sin Fin, 1a. Parte
+                       (War Without End, Part One)
+
+(Airtime now Wednesdays at 10 PM)
+(Repetition now Thursdays at 6 PM)
+
+00/01/05  61    317    Guerra Sin Fin, 2a. Parte
+                       (War Without End, Part Two)
+00/01/12  62    318    El Paseo
+                       (Walkabout)
+00/01/19  63    319    Desaparece El Sector Gris 17
+                       (Grey 17 Is Missing)
+00/01/26  64    320    Y La Roca gritó: No Hay Donde Esconderse
+                       (And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
+00/02/02  65    321    Baile De Sombras
+                       (Shadow Dancing)
+00/02/09  66    322    Z'ha'dum
+                       (Z'ha'dum)
+ +Full rerun of Seasons 1-3: July-October 2000 + +
Airtime: Monday to Friday at 9PM, repetition the next day at 3PM
+ +

+Pilot Movie
+ +

+00/07/08   0      0R   El Encuentro
+                       (The Gathering)
+ +

+Season One +("Signos y Presagios")
+ +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+
+00/07/11   1    103R   Medianoche en la Línea de Fuego
+                       (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+00/07/12   2    102R   El Cazador de Almas
+                       (Soul Hunter)
+00/07/13   3    104R   Nacido para el Púrpura
+                       (Born to the Purple)
+00/07/14   4    101R   Infección
+                       (Infection)
+00/07/17   5    108R   El Parlamento de los Sueños
+                       (The Parliament of Dreams)
+00/07/18   6    110R   Guerra Mental
+                       (Mind War)
+00/07/19   7    107R   Oración de Guerra
+                       (The War Prayer)
+00/07/20   8    106R   Y El Cielo Se Llenó de Estrellas
+                       (And The Sky Full Of Stars)
+00/07/21   9    113R   La Muerte Errante
+                       (Deathwalker)
+00/07/24  10    105R   Creyentes
+                       (Believers)
+00/07/25  11    111R   Supervivientes
+                       (Survivors)
+00/07/26  13    116R   Signos y Presagios
+                       (Signs and Portents)
+00/07/27  12    114R   Por Cualquier Medio Necesario
+                       (By Any Means Necessary)
+00/07/28  21    117R   La Virtud de la Misericordia
+                       (The Quality of Mercy)
+00/07/31  15    109R   Grial 
+                       (Grail)
+00/08/01  16    122R   Ojos
+                       (Eyes)
+00/08/02  14    119R   KO Técnico
+                       (TKO)
+00/08/03  18    120R   Una Voz en el Desierto 1a Parte
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 1)
+00/08/04  19    121R   Una Voz en el Desierto 2a Parte
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 2)
+00/08/07  20    118R   Babylon Hallado
+                       (Babylon Squared)
+00/08/08  17    115R   Legados
+                       (Legacies)
+00/08/09  22    112R   Crisálida 
+                       (Chrysalis)
+ +

+Season Two +("La Llegada de las Sombras")
+ +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+00/08/10  23    201R   Puntos de Partida
+                       (Points of Departure)
+00/08/11  24    202R   Revelaciones
+                       (Revelations)
+00/08/14  25    203R   La Geometría de las Sombras
+                       (The Geometry of Shadows)
+00/08/15  26    204R   Una Estrella Lejana
+                       (A Distant Star)
+00/08/16  27    205R   La Larga Oscuridad
+                       (The Long Dark)
+00/08/17  28    206R   Una Araña en la Telaraña
+                       (A Spider in the Web)
+00/08/18  29    208R   Compañeros Del Alma
+                       (Soul Mates)
+00/08/21  30    207R   Una Carrera a Través de Lugares Oscuros
+                       (A Race Through Dark Places)
+00/08/22  31    209R   La Llegada de las Sombras
+                       (The Coming of Shadows)
+00/08/23  32    210R   GROPOS
+                       (GROPOS)
+00/08/24  33    211R   Solo en la Noche
+                       (All Alone in the Night)
+00/08/25  34    212R   Actos de Sacrificio
+                       (Acts of Sacrifice)
+00/08/28  35    213R   Cazador, Presa
+                       (Hunter, Prey)
+00/08/29  36    215R   Mentir por Honor
+                       (There All the Honor Lies)
+00/08/30  37    214R   Y Ahora una Noticia
+                       (And Now For a Word)
+00/08/31  38    217R   A la Sombra de Z'ha'dum
+                       (In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+00/09/01  39    216R   Cuchillos
+                       (Knives)
+00/09/04  40    218R   Confesiones y Lamentaciones
+                       (Confessions and Lamentations)
+00/09/05  42    219R   La Larga Batalla Crepuscular
+                       (The Long, Twilight Struggle)
+00/09/06  41    220R   Lealtades Divididas
+                       (Divided Loyalties)
+00/09/07  43    221R   Llega el Inquisidor
+                       (Comes the Inquisitor)
+00/09/08  44    222R   La Caída de la Noche
+                       (The Fall of Night)
+ +

+Season Three +("Punto Sin Retorno")
+ +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+00/09/11  45    301R   Asuntos De Honor
+                       (Matters of Honor)
+00/09/12  46    302R   Convicciones
+                       (Convictions)
+00/09/13  47    303R   Un Día En La Contienda
+                       (A Day in the Strife)
+00/09/14  48    305R   Cruzando Getsemaní
+                       (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+00/09/15  49    304R   Voces De Autoridad
+                       (Voices of Authority)
+00/09/18  50    306R   Polvo Al Polvo
+                       (Dust to Dust)
+00/09/19  51    307R   Exogénesis
+                       (Exogenesis)
+00/09/20  52    308R   Mensajes Desde La Tierra
+                       (Messages from Earth)
+00/09/21  53    309R   Punto Sin Retorno
+                       (Point of No Return)
+00/09/22  54    310R   Sueños Rotos
+                       (Severed Dreams)
+00/09/25  55    311R   Ceremonias De Luz Y Oscuridad
+                       (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+00/09/26  57    312R   Una Visita Inesperada De Avalon
+                       (A Late Delivery from Avalon)
+00/09/27  56    313R   La Transición De Vir
+                       (Sic Transit Vir)
+00/09/28  58    314R   Nave De Lágrimas
+                       (Ship of Tears)
+00/09/29  59    315R   Interludios Y Análisis
+                       (Interludes and Examinations)
+00/10/02  60    316R   Guerra Sin Fin, 1a. Parte
+                       (War Without End, Part One)
+00/10/03  61    317R   Guerra Sin Fin, 2a. Parte
+                       (War Without End, Part Two)
+00/10/04  62    318R   El Paseo
+                       (Walkabout)
+00/10/05  63    319R   Desaparece El Sector Gris 17
+                       (Grey 17 Is Missing)
+00/10/06  64    320R   Y La Roca gritó: No Hay Donde Esconderse
+                       (And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
+00/10/09  65    321R   Baile De Sombras
+                       (Shadow Dancing)
+00/10/10  66    322R   Z'ha'dum
+                       (Z'ha'dum)
+ + + +

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+Babylon 5 airs Saturdays around midnight on +TV2. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+99/10/23   89   502   Ei kompromisseja
+                      (No Compromises
+99/10/30   90   503   Londo Mollarin pitkä yö
+                      (The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+99/11/06   91   504   Eläinten esikuva
+                      (The Paragon of Animals
+99/11/13   92   505   Näkymä galleriasta
+                      (A View from the Gallery)
+99/11/20   93   506   Oppimiskäyrä
+                      (Learning Curve)
+99/11/27   94   507   Merkillisiä suhteita
+                      (Strange Relations)
+99/12/04   95   508   Sielun salaisuuksia
+                      (Secrets of the Soul)
+99/12/11   96   511   Kuolleiden päivä
+                      (Day of the Dead)
+99/12/18   97   509   Sokeiden valtakunnassa
+                      (In the Kingdom of the Blind)
+99/12/25   98   510   Telepaattien tragedia
+                      (A Tragedy of Telepaths)
+00/01/01   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+00/01/08  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+00/01/15  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+00/01/22  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+00/01/29  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+00/02/05  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+00/02/12  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+00/02/19  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+00/02/26  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+00/03/04  108   521   Objects in Motion
+00/03/11  109   522   Objects at Rest
+00/03/18  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+ + +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+97/08/17               Kokoontuminen
+                       (The Gathering)
+97/08/24   1    103    Hyökkäys pimeästä
+                       (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+97/08/31   2    102    Sielujen saalistaja
+                       (Soul Hunter)
+97/09/07   3    104    Aateluuden taakka
+                       (Born to the Purple)
+97/09/14   4    101    Taudin siemen
+                       (Infection)
+97/09/21   5    108    Unelmien kimara
+                       (The Parliament of Dreams)
+97/09/28   6    110    Surmamieli
+                       (Mind War)
+97/10/05   7    107    Vihan lietsojat
+                       (The War Prayer)
+97/10/12   8    106    Totuuskoe
+                       (And The Sky Full Of Stars)
+97/10/19   9    113    Kalmantuoja
+                       (Deathwalker)
+97/10/26  10    105    Uskonkiista
+                       (Believers)
+97/11/02  11    111    Eloonjääneet
+                       (Survivors)
+97/11/09  12    114    Keinoja kaihtamatta
+                       (By Any Means Necessary)
+97/11/16  13    116    Ennusmerkkejä
+                       (Signs and Portents)
+97/11/23  14    119    Taisteluhaaste
+                       (TKO)
+97/11/30  15    109    Graalinmalja
+                       (Grail)
+97/12/07  16    122    Silmät
+                       (Eyes)
+97/12/14  17    115    Menneisyyden perintö
+                       (Legacies)
+97/12/21  18    120    Ääni syvyydestä, osa 1
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 1)
+97/12/28  19    121    Ääni syvyydestä, osa 2
+                       (A Voice in the Wilderness part 2)
+98/01/04  20    118    Ajan vangit
+                       (Babylon Squared)
+98/01/11  21    117    Parantava voima
+                       (The Quality of Mercy)
+98/01/18  22    112    Käännekohta
+                       (Chrysalis)
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+98/01/25  23    201    Uusi johtaja
+                       (Points of Departure)
+98/02/01  24    202    Paljastuksia
+                       (Revelations)
+98/02/08  25    203    Varjojen geometria
+                       (The Geometry of Shadows)
+98/02/15  26    204    Kaukainen tähti
+                       (A Distant Star)
+98/02/22  27    205    Pahan kosketus
+                       (The Long Dark)
+98/03/01  28    206    Hämähäkki verkossa
+                       (A Spider in the Web)
+98/03/08  29    208    Ylimmät ystävät
+                       (Soul Mates)
+98/03/15  30    207    Kilpajuoksu pimeässä
+                       (A Race Through Dark Places
+98/03/22  31    209    Varjot tulevat
+                       (The Coming of Shadows
+98/03/29  32    210    Operaatio äkkikuolema
+                       (GROPOS
+98/04/05  33    211    Yksin yössä
+                       (All Alone in the Night
+98/04/12  34    212    Uhrauksia
+                       (Acts of Sacrifice)
+98/04/19  35    213    Metsästäjä, saalis
+                       (Hunter, Prey)
+98/04/26  36    215    Kunniantuntoa
+                       (There All the Honor Lies)
+98/05/03  37    214    Tilannekatsaus
+                       (And Now For a Word)
+98/05/10  38    217    Z'Ha'Dumin varjossa
+                       (In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+98/05/17  39    216    Kaksintaistelu
+                       (Knives)
+98/05/24  40    218    Tunnustuksia ja suruviestejä
+                       (Confessions and Lamentations)
+98/05/31  41    220    Kahden vaiheilla
+                       (Divided Loyalties)
+
+98/08/30  42    219    Kamppailu hämärässä
+                       (The Long, Twilight Struggle)
+98/09/06  43    221    Inkvisiittori saapuu
+                       (Comes the Inquisitor)
+98/09/13  44    222    Yö tulee
+                       (The Fall of Night)
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

98/09/20   45   301    Kunnia velvoittaa
+                       (Matters of Honor)
+98/09/27   46   302    Vakaumuksen puolesta
+                       Convictions)
+98/10/04   47   303    Valtakiista
+                       A Day in the Strife)
+98/10/11   48   305    Getsemanen tie
+                       (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+98/10/18   49   304    Esivallan ääniä
+                       (Voices of Authority)
+98/10/25   50   306    Kieltotavaraa
+                       (Dust to Dust)
+98/11/01   51   307    Avaruusloiset
+                       (Exogenesis)
+98/11/08   52   308    Viestejä Maasta
+                       (Messages from Earth)
+98/11/15   53   309    Kriittinen valinta
+                       (Point of No Return)
+98/11/22   54   310    Unelmien tuho
+                       (Severed Dreams)
+98/11/29   55   311    Hyvän ja pahan palvelijat
+                       (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+98/12/06   56   313    Yllätyksiä ja epäilyksiä
+                       (Sic Transit Vir)
+98/12/13   57   312    Vieras aikojen takaa
+                       (A Late Delivery from Avalon)
+98/12/20   58   314    Surujen alus
+                       (Ship of Tears)
+98/12/27   59   315    Välikohtauksia ja tutkimuksia
+                       (Interludes and Examinations)
+99/01/02   60   316    Päättymätön sota, osa 1/2
+                       (War Without End, Part One)
+99/01/09   61   317    Päättymätön sota, osa 2/2
+                       (War Without End, Part Two)
+99/01/16   62   318    Etsinnän alku
+                       (Walkabout)
+99/01/23   63   319    Salainen sektori
+                       (Grey 17 Is Missing)
+99/01/30   64   320    Ei pakopaikkaa
+                       (And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
+99/02/06   65   321    Varjojen tanssia
+                       (Shadow Dancing)
+99/02/13   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+                       (Z'ha'dum)
+ + +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

99/02/20   67   401    Suden hetki
+                       (The Hour of the Wolf)
+99/02/27   68   402    Garibaldin kohtalo
+                       (Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?)
+99/03/06   69   403    Kokoonkutsu
+                       (The Summoning)
+99/03/13   70   404    Syöksy jumaluuteen
+                       (Falling Toward Apotheosis)
+99/03/20   71   405    Pitkä yö
+                       (The Long Night)
+99/03/27   72   406    Tulta päin
+                       (Into the Fire)
+99/04/03               none
+99/04/10   73   407    Ilmestyksiä
+                       (Epiphanies)
+99/04/17   74   408    Totuuden illuusio
+                       (The Illusion of Truth)
+99/04/24   75   409    Sovitus
+                       (Atonement)
+99/05/01   76   410    Kohti Marsia
+                       (Racing Mars)
+99/05/08   77   411    Yhteyskanavia
+                       (Lines of Communication)
+99/05/15   78   412    Eturistiriitoja
+                       (Conflicts of Interest)
+99/05/22   79   413    Huhuja, sopimuksia ja valheita
+                       (Rumors, Bargains and Lies)
+99/05/29   80   414    Siirtymähetkiä
+                       (Moments of Transition)
+99/06/05   81   415    Katkeraan loppuun
+                       (No Surrender, No Retreat)
+99/09/04   82   416    Voimannäyttö
+                       (The Exercise of Vital Powers
+99/09/11   83   417    Vihollisen kasvot
+                       (The Face of the Enemy)
+99/09/18   84   418    Välähdyksiä tosiajassa
+                       (Intersections in Real Time)
+99/09/25   85   419    Valon ja pimeyden välissä
+                       (Between the Darkness and the Light)
+99/10/02   86   420    Loppupeli
+                       (Endgame)
+99/10/09   87   421    Nouseva tähti
+                       (Rising Star)
+99/10/16   88   422    Putoavia tähtiä
+                       (The Deconstruction of Falling Stars)
+ +
+
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+Babylon 5 is shown on Canal + +Sundays starting around 17:10. Each episode is rerun Saturday at 08:00 on C+, +18:00 on C+jaune, and 21:45 on C+bleu; and Sunday at 15:00 on C+bleu. + +

Current Episodes

+ +
98/09/07              Thirdspace
+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+98/09/13   89   502   Pas de Compromis
+                      (No Compromises)
+98/09/20   90   503   La Longue Nuit de Londo
+                      (The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari)
+98/09/27   91   504   L'animal parfait
+                      (The Paragon of Animals)
+98/10/04   92   505   Point de vue "personnel"
+                      (A View from the Gallery)
+98/10/11   93   506   Meurtres à la chaine
+                      (Learning Curve)
+98/10/18   94   507   Strange Relations
+98/10/25   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+98/11/01   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+98/11/08   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+98/11/15   96   511   Le jour des morts
+                      (Day of the Dead)
+98/11/22   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+98/11/29  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+98/12/06  101   514   Le corps est la mère, le corps est le pè
+                      (The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father)
+98/12/13  102   515   Méditation en apesanteur
+                      (Meditations on the Abyss)
+98/12/20  103   516   La montée des ténèbres
+                      (Darkness Ascending)
+98/12/27  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+99/01/03  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+99/01/10  106   519   La chute de Centauri Premier
+                      (The Fall of Centauri Prime)
+99/01/17  107   520   Objects in Motion
+99/01/24  108   521   Objects at Rest
+99/01/31  109   522   Wheel of Fire
+99/02/07  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+ +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") +
+Originally aired March 14 - December 29, 1995 + +

Air Date  Time    Air#  Prod#  Title
+97/04/26  22:50    1    103   L'attaque des Narns
+                               (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+97/05/10  22:35    2    102   Le chasseur d' âmes
+                               (Soul Hunter)
+97/05/24  02:00    3    104   Le dossier pourpre
+                               (Born to the Purple)
+97/06/07  22:30    4    101   L'infection
+                               (Infection)
+97/06/21  15:30    5    108   Le parlement des rêves
+                               (The Parliament of Dreams)
+97/07/05  15:30    6    110   Guerre mentale
+                               (Mind War)
+97/07/19  22:10    7    107   Leçon de tolérance
+                               (The War Prayer)
+97/08/02  00:25    8    106   Souvenirs mystérieux
+                               (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+97/08/16  15:20    9    113   La Brute
+                               (Deathwalker)
+97/08/30  15:05   10    105   Les élus de Dieu
+                               (Believers)
+97/09/13  22:15   11    111   Le complot
+                               (Survivors)
+97/09/27  15:20   12    114   La grêve des dockers
+                               (By Any Means Necessary)
+97/10/11  15:20   13    116   Symboles et présages
+                               (Signs and Portents)
+97/10/25  15:30   14    119   Combat interstellaire
+                               (TKO)
+97/11/08  15:17   15    109   Le Saint Graal
+                               (Grail)
+97/11/22  15:15   16    122   Le rival
+                               (Eyes)
+97/12/06  02:45   21    117   Une faute habilement rachetée
+                               (The Quality of Mercy)
+97/12/20  15:25   17    115   Héritages
+                               (Legacies)
+98/01/03  15:30   18    120   Une voix dans l'espace (1)
+                               (A Voice in the Wilderness part 1)
+98/01/17  15:15   19    121   Une voix dans l'espace (2)
+                               (A Voice in the Wilderness part 2)
+98/01/31  14:50   20    118   Babylon4, le vaisseau fantôme
+                               (Babylon Squared)
+98/02/14  15:10   22    112   Chrysalide
+                               (Chrysalis)
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/02/02  23    201    Nouveau départ
+                        (Points of Departure)
+96/02/16  24    202    Révélations
+96/03/01  25    203    La géométrie des ombres
+                        (The Geometry of Shadows)
+96/03/08  26    204    Une étoile éloignée
+                        (A Distant Star)
+96/03/12  27    205    L'ennemi du passé
+                        (The Long Dark)
+96/03/29  28    206    L'Espion
+                        (A Spider in the Web)
+96/04/06  30    207    Les télépathes de l'ombre
+                        (A Race Through Dark Places)
+96/04/12  29    208    Compagnons d'âmes
+			(Soul Mates)
+96/04/19  31    209    La venue des Ombres
+                        (The Coming of Shadows)
+96/05/01  32    210    Les trouffions
+                        (GROPOS)
+96/05/31  33    211    Seul dans la nuit
+                        (All Alone in the Night)
+96/06/14  34    212    Sacrifices
+                        (Acts of Sacrifice)
+96/06/21  35    213    La traque
+                        (Hunter, Prey)
+96/06/28  37    214    Reportage
+                        (And Now For a Word)
+96/07/27  36    215    Mentir pour l'honneur
+                        (There All the Honor Lies)
+97/01/05  39    216    Le duel
+                        (Knives)
+97/01/12  38    217    Dans l'ombre de Z'ha'dum
+                        (In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+97/01/19  40    218    Le châtiment divin
+                        (Confessions and Lamentations)
+97/01/26  41    220    Examens de confiance
+                        (Divided Loyalties)
+97/02/02  42    219    L'armée de lumière
+                        (The Long, Twilight Struggle)
+97/02/09  43    221    L'inquisiteur
+                        (Comes the Inquisitor)
+97/02/16  44    222    Crépuscule
+                        (The Fall of Night)
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

97/02/23   45   301    L'Étoile Céleste
+                        (Matters of Honor)
+97/03/02   46   302    Convictions
+97/03/09   47   303    Au coeur du conflit
+                        (A Day in the Strife)
+97/03/16   48   305    Les jardins de Gethsemani
+                        (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+97/03/20   49   304    Les voix de l'autorité
+                        (Voices of Authority)
+97/03/28   50   306    Dépendance
+                        (Dust to Dust)
+97/04/06   51   307    Exogénèse
+                        (Exogenesis)
+97/04/13   52   308    Message terrestre
+                        (Messages from Earth)
+97/04/20   53   309    Point de non-retour
+                        (Point of No Return)
+97/04/27   54   310    La fin des rêves
+                        (Severed Dreams)
+97/05/04   55   311    Renaissances
+                        (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+97/05/11   56   313    Le secret de Vir
+                        (Sic Transit Vir)
+97/05/18   57   312    Le chevalier de la Table Ronde
+                        (A Late Delivery from Avalon)
+97/05/25   58   314    Le vaisseau des larmes
+                        (Ship of Tears)
+97/06/01   59   315    Le temps est venu
+                        (Interludes and Examinations)
+97/06/08   60   316    La guerre sans fin (1ere partie)
+                        (War Without End, Part One)
+97/06/15   61   317    La guerre sans fin (2eme partie)
+                        (War Without End, Part Two)
+97/06/22   62   318    Le cheminement
+                        (Walkabout)
+97/06/29               none
+97/09/07   63   319    Le secteur gris ne répond plus
+                        (Grey 17 Is Missing)
+97/09/21   64   320    Mélodie oecuménique
+                        (And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
+97/10/05   65   321    Instants décisifs
+                        (Shadow Dancing)
+97/10/12   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +


+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+97/10/19   67   401    L'heure du loup
+                        (The Hour of the Wolf)
+97/10/26   68   402    A la recherche de Monsieur Garibaldi
+                        (Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?)
+97/11/02   69   403    Preparatifs de guerre
+                        (The Summoning)
+97/11/09   70   404    Chute libre vers l'apothéose
+                        (Falling Toward Apotheosis)
+97/11/15   72   406    L'épreuve du feu
+                        (Into the Fire)
+97/11/16   71   405    Une nuit d'attente
+                        (The Long Night)
+97/11/23   72   406    L'épreuve du feu
+                        (Into the Fire)
+97/12/07   73   407    Guerre psychologique
+                        (Epiphanies)
+98/12/14   74   408    L'illusion de la vérité
+                        (The Illusion of Truth)
+98/01/11   75   409    Le pardon
+                        (Atonement)
+98/01/18   76   410    A la poursuite de Mars
+                        (Racing Mars)
+98/01/25   77   411    Lignes de communication
+                        (Lines of Communication)
+98/02/01   78   412    Conflit d'intérêts
+                        (Conflicts of Interest)
+98/02/08   79   413    Rumeurs et mensonges
+                        (Rumors, Bargains and Lies)
+98/02/15   80   414    Moments de transition
+                        (Moments of Transition)
+98/02/22   81   415    Ni reddition, ni retraite
+                        (No Surrender, No Retreat)
+98/03/01   82   416    Le pouvoir absolu
+                        (The Exercise of Vital Powers)
+98/03/08   83   417    La face cachée de l'ennemi
+                        (The Face of the Enemy)
+98/03/15   84   418    Intersections en temps réel
+                        (Intersections in Real Time)
+98/03/22   85   419    Entre les ténèbres et la lumière
+                        (Between the Darkness and the Light)
+98/04/05   86   420    Jusqu'a la victoire Finale
+                        (Endgame)
+98/04/17   87   421    La nouvelle alliance
+                        (Rising Star)
+98/04/19   88   501    La chute d'un mythe
+                        (The Deconstruction of Falling Stars)
+ +

+Pilot/Prequel + +

Air Date               Title
+98/04/26               Premier Contact Vorlon
+                        (The Gathering)
+98/06/07               Babylon 5: Au Commencement
+                        (In the Beginning)
+ +

+Information courtesy of Eric Levesque +<Eric.Levesque@etu.univ-compiegne.fr>, +Michel Lamoureux +<100277.1476@compuserve.com>, +and +Thomas Szapiro +<thoto@chez.com>. + +

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+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

98/09/20   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+98/09/27   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+98/10/04   69   403    The Summoning
+98/10/11   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+98/10/18   71   405    The Long Night
+98/10/25   72   406    Into the Fire
+98/11/01   73   407    Epiphanies
+98/11/08   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+98/11/15   75   409    Atonement
+98/11/22   76   410    Racing Mars
+98/11/29   77   411    Lines of Communication
+98/12/06   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+98/12/13   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+98/12/20   80   414    Moments of Transition
+98/12/27   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+99/01/03   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+99/01/10   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+99/01/17   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/01/24   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/01/31   86   420    Endgame
+99/02/07   87   421    Rising Star
+99/02/14   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season +One +("Signs and Portents") + +

95/07/01   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/07/08   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/07/15   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/07/22   4    101    Infection
+95/07/29   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/08/05   6    110    Mind War
+
+95/08/12   0           The Gathering
+
+95/08/19   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/08/26   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/09/02   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/09/09  10    105    Believers
+95/09/16  11    111    Survivors
+95/09/23  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/09/30  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/10/08  15    109    Grail
+95/10/15  16    122    Eyes
+95/10/22  17    115    Legacies
+95/10/29  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/11/05  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+95/11/12  14    119    TKO
+95/11/19  20    118    Babylon Squared
+95/11/26  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+
+ +Season +Two +("The Coming Of Shadows") + +
95/12/03   23   201    Points of Departure
+95/12/10   24   202    Revelations
+95/12/17   25   203    The Geometry of Shadows
+95/12/24   26   204    A Distant Star
+95/12/31   22   112    Chrysalis
+96/01/07   27   205    The Long Dark
+96/01/14   28   206    A Spider in the Web
+96/01/21   29   208    Soul Mates
+96/01/28   30   207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/02/04   31   209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/02/11   32   210    GROPOS
+96/02/18   33   211    All Alone in the Night
+96/02/25   34   212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/03/03   35   213    Hunter, Prey
+96/03/10   36   215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/03/17   37   214    And Now For a Word
+96/03/24   38   217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/03/31   39   216    Knives
+96/04/07   40   218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/04/14               none
+96/04/21   41   220    Divided Loyalties
+96/04/28   42   219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/05/05   43   221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/05/12   44   222    The Fall of Night (season finale)
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+96/05/26   45   301    Matters of Honor
+96/06/02   46   302    Convictions
+96/06/09   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+96/06/16   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+96/06/23               none
+96/06/30   49   304    Voices of Authority
+96/07/07   50   306    Dust to Dust
+96/07/14   51   307    Exogenesis
+96/07/21        301R   Matters of Honor
+96/07/28        302R   Convictions
+96/08/04        303R   A Day in the Strife
+96/08/11        305R   Passing Through Gethsemane
+96/08/18        304R   Voices of Authority
+96/08/25        306R   Dust to Dust
+96/09/01   52   308    Messages from Earth
+96/09/08               none
+96/09/15   53   309    Point of No Return
+96/09/22               none
+96/09/29   54   310    Severed Dreams
+97/01/12   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+97/01/19   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+97/01/26   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+97/02/02   58   314    Ship of Tears
+97/03/02   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+97/03/09   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+97/03/16   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+97/03/23   62   318    Walkabout
+97/03/30   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+97/04/06   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+97/04/13   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+97/04/20   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+The first season was also shown starting in September 1994 on SKY TV, but +that broadcast left out three episodes. + +

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First SeasonGo to Page's TopGo to Second SeasonFirst Season +

. . . FIRST SEASON AIR +SCHEDULE +. . . +

"SIGNS +AND PORTENTS" +

You can get information from "Title" or synopsis from +"Prod#". +
 

+ +
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
+
Air#
+		 +
Episode Title
+		 +
Prod#
+		 +
SKAI Air Schedules
+		 +
STAR Air Schedules
+
+
1
+		"Midnight on +the Firing Line" +
103
+		 +
24 Sep '94
+		 +
1 Jul '95
+
+
2
+		"Soul Hunter" +
102
+		 +
1 Oct '94
+		 +
8 Jul '95
+
+
3
+		"Born to the +Purple" +
104
+		 +
9 Oct '94
+		 +
15 Jul '95
+
+
4
+		"Infection" +
101
+		 +
16 Oct '94
+		 +
22 Jul '95
+
+
5
+		"The Parliament +of Dreams" +
108
+		 +
23 Oct '94
+		 +
29 Jul '95
+
+
6
+		"Mind War" +
110
+		 +
30 Oct '94
+		 +
5 Aug '95
+
+
7
+		"The War Prayer" +
107
+		 +
6 Nov '94
+		 +
19 Aug '95
+
+
8
+		"And The Sky +Full Of Stars" +
106
+		 +
13 Nov '94
+		 +
26 Aug '95
+
+
9
+		"Deathwalker" +
113
+		 +
20 Nov '94
+		 +
2 Sep '95
+
+
10
+		"Believers" +
105
+		 +
27 Nov '94
+		 +
9 Sep '95
+
+
11
+		"Survivors" +
111
+		 +
4 Dec '94
+		 +
16 Sep '95
+
+
12
+		"By Any Means +Necessary" +
114
+		 +
11 Dec '94
+		 +
23 Sep '95
+
+
13
+		"Signs and Portents" +
116
+		 +
18 Dec '94
+		 +
30 Sep '95
+
+
14
+		"TKO" +
119
+		 +
25 Dec '94
+		 +
12 Nov '95
+
+
15
+		"Grail" +
109
+		 +
1 Dec '94
+		 +
8 Oct '95
+
+
16
+		"Eyes" +
122
+		 +
8 Dec '94
+		 +
15 Oct '95
+
+
17
+		"Legacies" +
115
+		 +
15 Dec '94
+		 +
22 Oct '95
+
+
18
+		"A Voice in +the Wilderness" Part I +
120
+		 +
Not Air
+		 +
29 Oct '95
+
+
19
+		"A Voice in +the Wilderness" Part II +
121
+		 +
Not Air
+		 +
5 Nov '95
+
+
20
+		"Babylon Squared" +
118
+		 +
22 Jan '95
+		 +
19 Nov '95
+
+
21
+		"The Quality +of Mercy" +
117
+		 +
29 Jan '95
+		 +
26 Nov '95
+
+
22
+		"Chrysalis" +
112
+		 +
Not Air
+		 +
31 Dec '95
+
+ +
+

 All these episodes has shown in Greece uncut, with Greek subtitles +and Mono-Sound. +

Second SeasonGo to First SeasonGo to Page's topGo to Third SeasonSecond Season +

. . . SECOND SEASON AIR +SCHEDULE +. . . +

"THE +COMING OF SHADOWS" +

As before, you can get information from "Title" or +synopsis from "Prod#". +
 

+ +
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
+
Air#
+		 +
Episode Title
+		 +
Prod#
+		 +
STAR Air Schedules
+
+
1
+		"Points of Departure" +
201
+		 +
3 Dec '95
+
+
2
+		"Revelations" +
202
+		 +
10 Dec '95
+
+
3
+		"The Geometry +of Shadows" +
203
+		 +
17 Dec '95
+
+
4
+		"A Distant Star" +
204
+		 +
20 Dec '95
+
+
5
+		"The Long Dark" +
205
+		 +
7 Jan '96
+
+
6
+		"A Spider in +the Web" +
206
+		 +
14 Jan '96
+
+
7
+		"Soul Mates" +
207
+		 +
21 Jan '96
+
+
8
+		"A Race Through +Dark Places" +
208
+		 +
28 Jan '96
+
+
9
+		"The Coming +of Shadows" +
209
+		 +
4 Feb '96
+
+
10
+		"GROPOS" +
210
+		 +
11 Feb '96
+
+
11
+		"All Alone in +the Night" +
211
+		 +
18 Frb '96
+
+
12
+		"Acts of Sacrifice" +
212
+		 +
25 Feb '96
+
+
13
+		"Hunter Pray" +
213
+		 +
3 Mar '96
+
+
14
+		"There All the +Honor Lies" +
215
+		 +
10 Mar '96
+
+
15
+		"And Now For +a World" +
214
+		 +
17 Mar '96
+
+
16
+		"In the Shadow +of Z'ha'dum" +
217
+		 +
24 Mar '96
+
+
17
+		"Knives" +
216
+		 +
31 Mar '96
+
+
18
+		"Confession +and Lamentations" +
218
+		 +
7 Apr '96
+
+
19
+		"Divided Loyalties" +
220
+		 +
21 Apr '96
+
+
20
+		"The Long, Twilight +Struggle" +
219
+		 +
28 Apr '96
+
+
21
+		"Comes the Inquisitor" +
221
+		 +
5 May '96
+
+
22
+		"The Fall of +Night" +
222
+		 +
12 May '96
+
+ +
+

All these episodes has shown in Greece uncut, with Greek subtitles and +Mono-Sound. +

Third SeasonGo to Second SeasonGo to Page's topGo to Third SeasonThird Season +

. . . THIRD SEASON AIR +SCHEDULE +. . . +

"POINT +OF NO RETURN" +

Click "Title" for information or "Prod#" +for synopsis. +
 

+ +
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
+
Air#
+		 +
Episode Title
+		 +
Prod#
+		 +
STAR Air Schedules
+
+
1
+		"Matters of +Honor" +
 301
+		 +
26 May '96 
+
+
2
+		"Convictions" +
 302
+		 +
 2 Jun '96
+
+
3
+		"A Day in the +Strife" +
 303
+		 +
 9 Jun '96
+
+
4
+		"Passing Through +Gethsemane" +
 305
+		 +
 16 Jun '96
+
+
5
+		"Voices of Authority" +
 304
+		 +
 30 Jun '96
+
+
6
+		"Dust to Dust" +
 306
+		 +
 7 Jul '96
+
+
7
+		"Exogenesis" +
 307
+		 +
 14 Jul '96
+
+
8
+		"Messages from +Earth" +
 308
+		 +
 1 Sep '96
+
+
9
+		"Point of No +Return" +
 309
+		 +
 15 Sep '96
+
+
10
+		"Severed Dreams" +
 310
+		 +
 29 Sep '96
+
+
11
+		"Ceremonies +of Light and Dark" +
 311
+		 +
12 Jan '97
+
+
12
+		"Sic Transit +Vir" +
 313
+		 +
 19 Jan '97
+
+
13
+		"A Late Delivery +from Avalon" +
 312
+		 +
 26 Jan '97
+
+
14
+		"Ship of Tears" +
 314
+		 +
 2 Feb '97
+
+
15
+		"Interludes +and Examinations" +
 315
+		 +
 2 Mar '97
+
+
16
+		"War Without +End" Part I +
 316
+		 +
 9 Mar '97
+
+
17
+		"War Without +End" Part II +
 317
+		 +
 16 Mar '97
+
+
18
+		"Walkabout" +
 318
+		 +
 23 Mar '97
+
+
19
+		"Grey 17 Is +Missing" +
 319
+		 +
 30 Mar '97
+
+
20
+		"And the Rock +Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +
 320
+		 +
6 Apr '97
+
+
21
+		"Shadow Dancing" +
 321
+		 +
 13 Apr '97
+
+
22
+		"Z'ha'dum" +
 322
+		 +
 20 Apr '97
+
+ +
+

All these episodes has shown in Greece uncut, with Greek subtitles and +Stereo (Dolby Surround) sound.. +

Fourth SeasonGo to Third SeasonGo to Page's topGo to TimeLineFourth Season +

. . . FOURTH SEASON AIR +SCHEDULE +. . . +

"NO +SURRENDER, NO RETREAT" +

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Air#
+		 +
Episode Title
+		 +
Prod#
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STAR Air Schedules
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+
1
+		"The +Hour of the Wolf" +
 401
+		 +
?
+
+
2
+		"Whatever +Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +
 402
+		 +
 ?
+
+
3
+		"The +Summoning" +
 403
+		 +
 ?
+
+
4
+		"Falling +Toward Apotheosis" +
 404
+		 +
 ?
+
+
5
+		"The +Long Night" +
 405
+		 +
 ?
+
+
6
+		"Into +the Fire" +
 406
+		 +
 ?
+
+
7
+		"Epiphanies" +
 407
+		 +
 ?
+
+
8
+		"The +Illusion of Truth" +
 408
+		 +
 ?
+
+
9
+		"Atonement" +
 409
+		 +
 ?
+
+
10
+		"Racing +Mars" +
 410
+		 +
 ?
+
+
11
+		"Lines +of Communication" +
 411
+		 +
 ?
+
+
12
+		"Conflicts +of Interest" +
 412
+		 +
 ?
+
+
13
+		"Rumors, +Bargains and Lies" +
 413
+		 +
 ?
+
+
14
+		"Moments +of Transition" +
 414
+		 +
 ?
+
+
15
+		"No +Surrender, No Retreat" +
 415
+		 +
 ?
+
+
16
+		"The +Exercise of Vital Powers" +
 416
+		 +
 ?
+
+
17
+		"The +Face of the Enemy" +
 417
+		 +
 ?
+
+
18
+		"Intersections +in Real Time" +
 418
+		 +
 ?
+
+
19
+		"Between +the Darkness and the Light" +
 419
+		 +
 ?
+
+
20
+		"Endgame" +
 420
+		 +
 ?
+
+
21
+		"Rising +Star" +
 421
+		 +
 ?
+
+
22
+		"The +Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +
 422
+		 +
 ?
+
+ +
+

TimeLineGo to Fourth SeasonGo to Page's topGo to SFGRTimeLine +

. . . T I M E L I N E . . +.

+ +
  +

- April 1994 - +
Video CoverAudio/Visual +Enterprises, releases on video "The +Gathering" (Mono-Sound). +
Click the icon, if you want to see the videotape's +cover (JPEG 1024x730 - 193kBs)... +

- August 1994 - +
SKAI Channel (pronounced SKY) airs "The +Gathering", twice (Mono-Sound). +

- September 1994 . . January 1995 - +
SKAI Channel airs the First Season. +
For unknown reasons they never aired three episodes +("A Voice in the +Wilderness" Part I & II +and "Chrysalis"). +

- July 1995 . . December 1995 - +
Trailer (AU)Trailer (WAV)STAR +Channel airs the First Season. +
You can download an old sound trailer in WAV (500kBs +- Good Quality) or AU (365kBs - Poor Quality) format, from Hellas On-Line's +server. Select the format you wish to hear from the icons... +

- August & October 1995 - +
On 12th of Aug & 1st of Oct, STAR +Channel airs "The +Gathering". +

- December 1995 . . May 1996 - +
STAR Channel airs the Second Season. +

- May 1996 . . Apr 1997 - +
STAR Channel airs the Third Season. +
From 21st of July to 25th of August, reruns the first +six episodes of the Third Season. +

- May 1997 - +
New Channel airs "The +Gathering". +

- June 1997 - +
On 4th of June, Greek Sunday Newspaper "TO +BHMA" publish a two pages article +for Babylon 5, written by B. Babouris. +

- June 1998 - +
Audio/Visual Enterprises, +releases on video "In The Beginning" (Dolby +Surround). +
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+Babylon 5 airs on TVB Pearl +Thursday mornings at approximately midnight (time varies slightly according to +the length of preceding programming.) Note that the dates below are +Wednesdays, not Thursdays, since that seems more useful. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

98/01/07   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+98/01/14   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+98/01/21   69   403    The Summoning
+98/01/28   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+98/02/04   71   405    The Long Night
+98/02/11   72   406    Into the Fire
+98/02/18   73   407    Epiphanies
+98/02/25   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+98/03/04   75   409    Atonement
+98/03/11   76   410    Racing Mars
+98/03/18   77   411    Lines of Communication
+98/03/25   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+98/04/01   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+98/04/08   80   414    Moments of Transition
+
+98/07/15   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+98/07/22   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+98/07/29   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+98/08/05   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+98/08/12   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+98/08/19   86   420    Endgame
+98/08/26   87   421    Rising Star
+98/09/02   88   501    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ + +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+95/07/13               The Gathering
+95/07/20   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/07/27   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/08/03   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/08/10   4    101    Infection
+95/08/17   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/08/24   6    110    Mind War
+95/08/31   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/09/07   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/09/14   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/09/21  10    105    Believers
+95/09/28  11    111    Survivors
+95/10/05  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/10/12  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/10/19  14    119    TKO
+95/10/26  15    109    Grail
+95/11/02  16    122    Eyes
+95/11/09  17    115    Legacies
+95/11/16  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/11/23  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+95/11/30  20    118    Babylon Squared
+95/12/07  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+95/12/14  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+ + +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

95/12/22  23    201    Points of Departure
+95/12/29  24    202    Revelations
+96/01/05  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/01/12  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/01/19  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/01/26  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+96/02/02  29    208    Soul Mates
+96/02/09  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/02/16  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/02/23  32    210    GROPOS
+96/03/01  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+96/03/08  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/03/15  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+96/03/22  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/03/29  37    214    And Now For a Word
+96/04/05  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/04/12  39    216    Knives
+96/04/19  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/04/26  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+96/05/03  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/05/10  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/05/17  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

97/02/27   45   301    Matters of Honor
+97/03/06   46   302    Convictions
+97/03/13   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+97/03/20   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+97/03/27   49   304    Voices of Authority
+97/04/03   50   306    Dust to Dust
+97/04/10   51   307    Exogenesis
+97/04/17   52   308    Messages from Earth
+97/04/24   53   309    Point of No Return
+97/05/01   54   310    Severed Dreams
+97/05/08   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+97/05/15   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+97/05/22   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+97/05/29   58   314    Ship of Tears
+97/06/05   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+97/06/12   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+97/06/19   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+97/06/26               none
+97/07/03               none
+97/07/10   62   318    Walkabout
+97/07/17   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+97/07/24   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+97/07/31   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+97/08/07   66   322    Z'ha'dum
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+This is the air schedule for season one of Babylon 5, airing +Saturdays at 17:30 MET on TV3. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+97/11/08               The Gathering part one
+97/11/15               The Gathering part two
+97/11/22   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+97/11/29   2    102    Soul Hunter
+97/12/06   3    104    Born to the Purple
+97/12/13   4    101    Infection
+97/12/20   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+97/12/27   6    110    Mind War
+98/01/03   7    107    The War Prayer
+98/01/10   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+98/01/17   9    113    Deathwalker
+98/01/24  10    105    Believers
+98/01/31  11    111    Survivors
+98/02/07  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+98/02/14  13    116    Signs and Portents
+98/02/21  14    119    TKO
+98/02/28  15    109    Grail
+98/03/07  16    122    Eyes
+98/03/14  17    115    Legacies
+98/03/21  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+98/03/28  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+98/04/04  20    118    Babylon Squared
+98/04/11  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+98/04/18  22    112    Chrysalis
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+Babylon 5 aired Sundays at 2:30PM Indonesia time on SCTV. + +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+??/??/??               The Gathering
+??/??/??   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+??/??/??   2    102    Soul Hunter
+??/??/??   3    104    Born to the Purple
+??/??/??   4    101    Infection
+??/??/??   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+??/??/??   6    110    Mind War
+??/??/??   7    107    The War Prayer
+??/??/??   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+??/??/??   9    113    Deathwalker
+??/??/??  10    105    Believers
+??/??/??  11    111    Survivors
+??/??/??  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+??/??/??  13    116    Signs and Portents
+??/??/??  14    119    TKO
+??/??/??  15    109    Grail
+??/??/??  16    122    Eyes
+??/??/??  17    115    Legacies
+??/??/??  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+??/??/??  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+??/??/??  20    118    Babylon Squared
+??/??/??  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+??/??/??  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+95/11/26  23    201    Points of Departure
+95/11/31  24    202    Revelations
+95/12/03  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+95/12/17  26    204    A Distant Star
+95/12/31  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/01/07  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+96/01/14  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/01/21  29    208    Soul Mates
+96/01/28  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/02/04  32    210    GROPOS
+96/02/11  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+96/02/18  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/02/25  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+96/03/03  37    214    And Now For a Word
+96/03/10  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/03/17  39    216    Knives
+96/03/24  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/08/03  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/08/10  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/08/17  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+96/08/24  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/08/31  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

97/01/04   45   301    Matters of Honor
+97/01/11   46   302    Convictions
+97/01/18   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+97/01/25   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+97/02/01   49   304    Voices of Authority
+97/02/08   50   306    Dust to Dust
+97/02/15   51   307    Exogenesis
+97/02/22   52   308    Messages from Earth
+97/03/01   53   309    Point of No Return
+97/03/08   54   310    Severed Dreams
+97/03/15   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+97/03/22   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+97/03/29   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+97/11/09   58   314    Ship of Tears
+97/11/16   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+97/11/23   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+97/11/30   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+97/12/07   62   318    Walkabout
+97/12/14   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+97/12/21   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+97/12/28   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+98/01/04   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

??/??/??   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+??/??/??   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+??/??/??   69   403    The Summoning
+??/??/??   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+??/??/??   71   405    The Long Night
+??/??/??   72   406    Into the Fire
+??/??/??   73   407    Epiphanies
+??/??/??   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+??/??/??   75   409    Atonement
+??/??/??   76   410    Racing Mars
+??/??/??   77   411    Lines of Communication
+??/??/??   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+??/??/??   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+??/??/??   80   414    Moments of Transition
+??/??/??   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+??/??/??   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+??/??/??   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+??/??/??   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+??/??/??   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+??/??/??   86   420    Endgame
+??/??/??   87   421    Rising Star
+??/??/??   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

??/??/??   89   502   No Compromises
+??/??/??   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+??/??/??   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+??/??/??   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+??/??/??   93   506   Learning Curve
+??/??/??   94   507   Strange Relations
+??/??/??   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+??/??/??   96   511   Day of the Dead
+??/??/??   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+??/??/??   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+??/??/??   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+??/??/??  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+??/??/??  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+??/??/??  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+??/??/??  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+??/??/??  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+??/??/??  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+??/??/??  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+??/??/??  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+??/??/??  108   521   Objects in Motion
+??/??/??  109   522   Objects at Rest
+??/??/??  110   523   Sleeping in Light
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+Crusade will air Saturdays at 23:40 on +Channel 3. + +

Current Episodes

+ +Crusade + +
Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+00/01/08    1   108   War Zone
+00/01/15    2   107   The Long Road
+00/01/22    3   106   The Well of Forever
+00/01/29    4   109   The Path of Sorrows
+00/02/05    5   110   Patterns of the Soul
+00/02/12    6   111   Ruling from the Tomb
+00/02/19    7   112   The Rules of the Game
+00/02/26    8   113   Appearances and Other Deceits
+00/03/04    9   103   Racing the Night
+00/03/11   10   102   The Memory of War
+00/03/18   11   101   The Needs of Earth
+00/03/25   12   104   Visitors from Down the Street
+00/04/01   13   105   Each Night I Dream of Home
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Previous Episodes

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+Season One +("Signs and Portents")
+Originally aired April 29 - May 29, 1996 + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+??/??/??   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+??/??/??   2    102    Soul Hunter
+??/??/??   3    104    Born to the Purple
+??/??/??   4    101    Infection
+??/??/??   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+??/??/??   6    110    Mind War
+??/??/??   7    107    The War Prayer
+??/??/??   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+??/??/??   9    113    Deathwalker
+??/??/??  10    105    Believers
+??/??/??  11    111    Survivors
+??/??/??  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+??/??/??  13    116    Signs and Portents
+??/??/??  14    119    TKO
+??/??/??  15    109    Grail
+??/??/??  16    122    Eyes
+??/??/??  17    115    Legacies
+??/??/??  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+??/??/??  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+??/??/??  20    118    Babylon Squared
+??/??/??  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+??/??/??  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming Of Shadows")
+Originally aired May 30 - June 28, 1996 + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+??/??/??  23    201    Points of Departure
+??/??/??               none
+??/??/??  24    202    Revelations
+??/??/??  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+??/??/??  26    204    A Distant Star
+??/??/??               none
+??/??/??               none
+??/??/??  27    205    The Long Dark
+??/??/??  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+??/??/??  29    208    Soul Mates
+??/??/??  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+??/??/??  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+??/??/??  32    210    GROPOS
+??/??/??  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+??/??/??  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+??/??/??  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+??/??/??  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+??/??/??  37    214    And Now For a Word
+??/??/??  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+??/??/??  39    216    Knives
+??/??/??  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+??/??/??  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+??/??/??  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+??/??/??  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+??/??/??  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return")
+Originally aired June 29 - December 14, 1996 + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+??/??/??   45   301    Matters of Honor
+??/??/??   46   302    Convictions
+??/??/??   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+??/??/??   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+??/??/??   49   304    Voices of Authority
+??/??/??   50   306    Dust to Dust
+??/??/??   51   307    Exogenesis
+??/??/??   52   308    Messages from Earth
+??/??/??   53   309    Point of No Return
+??/??/??   54   310    Severed Dreams
+??/??/??   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+??/??/??   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+??/??/??   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+??/??/??   58   314    Ship of Tears
+??/??/??   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+??/??/??   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+??/??/??   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+??/??/??   62   318    Walkabout
+??/??/??   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+??/??/??   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+??/??/??   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+??/??/??   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat")
+Originally aired March 22, 1997 - February 7, 1998 + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+??/??/??   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+??/??/??   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+??/??/??   69   403    The Summoning
+??/??/??   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+??/??/??   71   405    The Long Night
+??/??/??   72   406    Into the Fire
+??/??/??   73   407    Epiphanies
+??/??/??   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+??/??/??   75   409    Atonement
+??/??/??   76   410    Racing Mars
+??/??/??   77   411    Lines of Communication
+??/??/??   78   412    Conflicts of Interests
+??/??/??   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+??/??/??   80   414    Moments of Transition
+??/??/??   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+??/??/??   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+??/??/??   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+??/??/??   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+??/??/??   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+??/??/??   86   420    Endgame
+??/??/??   87   421    Rising Star
+??/??/??   88   501    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire")
+Originally aired September 5, 1998 - February 6, 1999 + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+99/04/09   89   502   No Compromises
+99/04/16   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+99/04/23   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+99/04/30   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+99/05/07   93   506   Learning Curve
+99/05/14   94   507   Strange Relations
+99/05/21   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+99/05/28   96   511   Day of the Dead
+99/06/04   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+99/06/11   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+99/06/18   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+99/06/25  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+99/07/02  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+99/07/09  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+99/07/16  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+99/07/23  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+99/07/30  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+99/08/06  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+99/08/13  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+99/08/20  108   521   Objects in Motion
+99/08/27  109   522   Objects at Rest
+99/09/03  110   523   Sleeping in Light
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+This is the air schedule for Babylon 5, airing +Sunday-Friday on RAITRE around 2:10AM (though the time varies). + +

+RAITRE skipped season one for some reason; it's not yet known whether it'll +be shown in the future. + + + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+99/03/03               The Gathering
+??/??/??   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+??/??/??   2    102    Soul Hunter
+??/??/??   3    104    Born to the Purple
+??/??/??   4    101    Infection
+??/??/??   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+??/??/??   6    110    Mind War
+??/??/??   7    107    The War Prayer
+??/??/??   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+??/??/??   9    113    Deathwalker
+??/??/??  10    105    Believers
+??/??/??  11    111    Survivors
+??/??/??  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+??/??/??  13    116    Signs and Portents
+??/??/??  14    119    TKO
+??/??/??  15    109    Grail
+??/??/??  16    122    Eyes
+??/??/??  17    115    Legacies
+??/??/??  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+??/??/??  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+??/??/??  20    118    Babylon Squared
+??/??/??  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+??/??/??  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

99/03/04  23    201    Punto di Origine
+                       (Points of Departure)
+99/03/05  24    202    Rivelazioni
+                       (Revelations)
+99/03/07  25    203    La guerra dei Drazi
+                       (The Geometry of Shadows)
+99/03/08  26    204    Abbandonati nello spazio
+                       (A Distant Star)
+99/03/09  27    205    L'inviato delle tenebre
+                       (The Long Dark)
+99/03/10  28    206    Il sogno di Isogi
+                       (A Spider in the Web)
+99/03/11  29    208    Soul Mates
+99/03/12  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+99/03/14  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+99/03/15  32    210    GROPOS
+99/03/16  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+99/03/17  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+99/03/18  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+99/03/19  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+99/03/21  37    214    And Now For a Word
+99/03/22  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+99/03/23  39    216    Knives
+99/03/24  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+not shown 41    220    Divided Loyalties
+99/03/25  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+99/03/26  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+not shown 44    222    The Fall of Night
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Current Episodes

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+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+98/08/28   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+98/09/04   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+98/09/11   69   403    The Summoning
+98/09/18   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+98/09/25   71   405    The Long Night
+98/10/02   72   406    Into the Fire
+98/10/09   73   407    Epiphanies
+98/10/16   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+98/10/23   75   409    Atonement
+98/10/30   76   410    Racing Mars
+98/11/06   77   411    Lines of Communication
+98/11/13   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+98/11/20   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+98/11/27   80   414    Moments of Transition
+98/12/04   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+98/12/11   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+98/12/18   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+98/12/25   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/01/01   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/01/08   86   420    Endgame
+99/01/15   87   421    Rising Star
+99/01/22   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ + +

Previous Episodes

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+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

95/10/14               The Gathering
+97/01/12   4    101    Infection
+97/01/13   2    102    Soul Hunter
+97/01/16   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+97/01/17   3    104    Born to the Purple
+97/01/19  10    105    Believers
+97/01/20   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+97/01/23   7    107    The War Prayer
+97/01/24   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+97/01/26  15    109    Grail
+97/01/27   6    110    Mind War
+97/01/30  11    111    Survivors
+97/01/31  22    112    Chrysalis
+97/02/02   9    113    Deathwalker
+97/02/03  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+97/02/06  17    115    Legacies
+
+97/02/13  13    116    Signs and Portents
+97/02/14  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+97/02/16  20    118    Babylon Squared
+not shown 14    119    TKO
+97/02/17  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+97/02/20  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+97/02/21  16    122    Eyes
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

97/07/07  23    201    Points of Departure
+97/07/14  24    202    Revelations
+97/07/21  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+97/07/28  26    204    A Distant Star
+97/08/04  27    205    The Long Dark
+97/08/11  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+97/08/18               none
+97/08/25               none
+97/09/01  29    208    Soul Mates
+97/09/08  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+97/09/15  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+97/09/22  32    210    GROPOS
+97/09/29  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+97/10/06  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+97/10/13  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+97/10/20  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+97/10/27  37    214    And Now For a Word
+97/11/03  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+97/11/10  39    216    Knives
+97/11/17  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+97/11/24  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+97/12/01  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+97/12/08  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+97/12/15  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+98/04/03   45   301    Matters of Honor
+98/04/10   46   302    Convictions
+98/04/17   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+98/04/24   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+98/05/01   49   304    Voices of Authority
+98/05/08   50   306    Dust to Dust
+98/05/15   51   307    Exogenesis
+98/05/22   52   308    Messages from Earth
+98/05/29   53   309    Point of No Return
+98/06/05   54   310    Severed Dreams
+98/06/12   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+98/06/19   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+98/06/26   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+98/07/03   58   314    Ship of Tears
+98/07/10   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+98/07/17   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+98/07/24   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+98/07/31   62   318    Walkabout
+98/08/07   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+98/08/14   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+98/08/21   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+98/08/28   66   322    Z'ha'dum
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+Contents: +Pilot - +Season One - +Season Two - +Season Three - +Season Four - +Season Five - +Spinoffs
+See Also: +Modification times + +

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+Due to production constraints and other factors, several episodes during the +run of the series were delayed, shown later in the sequence than originally +intended. The effect isn't major in most cases, but there are minor things +that make more sense if the episodes are viewed in the intended order. +JMS has given the ordering for seasons one and two his blessing. + +

+This list also inserts the TV movies into their proper chronological order; +for example, +"Thirdspace" +takes place in the middle of season four. + +

+Departures from the original US airing order are emphasized. + +

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+Pilot Movies +

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  1. Babylon 5: In the Beginning +
  2. The Gathering +
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+Season +One +("Signs and Portents") + +

    +
  1. Midnight on the Firing Line +
  2. Soul Hunter +
  3. Born to the Purple +
  4. Infection +
  5. The Parliament of Dreams +
  6. Mind War +
  7. The War Prayer +
  8. And The Sky Full Of Stars +
  9. Deathwalker +
  10. Believers +
  11. Survivors +
  12. By Any Means Necessary +
  13. Signs and Portents +
  14. Grail +
  15. Eyes +
  16. A Voice in the Wilderness part 1 +
  17. A Voice in the Wilderness part 2 +
  18. Babylon Squared +
  19. The Quality of Mercy +
  20. TKO +
  21. Legacies +
  22. Chrysalis +
+ +

+Season +Two +("The Coming Of Shadows") + +

    +
  1. Points of Departure +
  2. Revelations +
  3. The Geometry of Shadows +
  4. A Distant Star +
  5. The Long Dark +
  6. A Spider in the Web +
  7. A Race Through Dark Places +
  8. Soul Mates +
  9. The Coming of Shadows +
  10. GROPOS +
  11. All Alone in the Night +
  12. Acts of Sacrifice +
  13. Hunter, Prey +
  14. There All the Honor Lies +
  15. And Now For a Word +
  16. Knives +
  17. In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum +
  18. Confessions and Lamentations +
  19. Divided Loyalties +
  20. The Long, Twilight Struggle +
  21. Comes the Inquisitor +
  22. The Fall of Night +
+ +

+Season +Three +("Point of No Return") + +

    +
  1. Matters of Honor +
  2. Convictions +
  3. A Day in the Strife +
  4. Passing Through Gethsemane +
  5. Voices of Authority + (this was originally meant to air before + "Passing Through Gethsemane," + but since the events of this episode tie into the beginning of + "Dust to Dust," + and aren't mentioned at all in + "Gethsemane," + the initial airing order is actually an improvement) +
  6. Dust to Dust +
  7. Exogenesis +
  8. Messages from Earth +
  9. Point of No Return +
  10. Severed Dreams +
  11. Ceremonies of Light and Dark +
  12. A Late Delivery From Avalon +
  13. Sic Transit Vir +
  14. Ship of Tears +
  15. Interludes and Examinations +
  16. Walkabout +
  17. War Without End, Part One +
  18. War Without End, Part Two +
  19. Grey 17 Is Missing +
  20. And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place +
  21. Shadow Dancing +
  22. Z'ha'dum +
+ +

+Season Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

    +
  1. The Hour of the Wolf +
  2. Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? +
  3. The Summoning +
  4. Falling Toward Apotheosis +
  5. The Long Night +
  6. Into the Fire +
  7. Epiphanies +
  8. The Illusion of Truth +
  9. Thirdspace +
  10. Atonement +
  11. Racing Mars +
  12. Lines of Communication +
  13. Conflicts of Interest +
  14. Rumors, Bargains and Lies +
  15. Moments of Transition +
  16. No Surrender, No Retreat +
  17. The Exercise of Vital Powers +
  18. The Face of the Enemy +
  19. Intersections in Real Time +
  20. Between the Darkness and the Light +
  21. Endgame +
  22. Rising Star +
  23. The Deconstruction of Falling Stars +
+ +

+Season Five + +

    +
  1. No Compromises +
  2. The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari +
  3. The Paragon of Animals +
  4. A View from the Gallery +
  5. Learning Curve +
  6. Strange Relations +
  7. Secrets of the Soul +
  8. In the Kingdom of the Blind +
  9. A Tragedy of Telepaths +
  10. Phoenix Rising +
  11. The Ragged Edge +
  12. Day of the Dead +
  13. The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father +
  14. Meditations on the Abyss +
  15. Darkness Ascending +
  16. And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder +
  17. Movements of Fire and Shadow +
  18. The Fall of Centauri Prime +
  19. Wheel of Fire +
  20. Objects in Motion +
  21. Objects at Rest +
  22. River of Souls +
  23. The Legend of the Rangers +
  24. Sleeping in Light +
+ +

+Spinoffs + +

    +
  1. A Call to Arms +
  2. Crusade - + This ordering, which JMS specified, ignores the uniform change in + favor of maintaining continuity of storyline. +
      +
    1. Racing the Night +
    2. The Needs of Earth +
    3. The Memory of War +
    4. The Long Road +
    5. Visitors from Down the Street +
    6. The Well of Forever +
    7. Each Night I Dream of Home +
    8. Patterns of the Soul +
    9. The Path of Sorrows +
    10. Ruling from the Tomb +
    11. The Rules of the Game +
    12. War Zone +
    13. Appearances and Other Deceits +
    +
  3. Voices in the Dark +
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+Note: See the main +Australian episode list +page for the latest on upcoming airings. + +

+Season two of Babylon 5 aired Thursday nights at 11:05PM on Channel 7 +in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, and some other areas, on a schedule +that was somewhat different from the rest of the country. + + +

+Pilot movie + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+94/11/30               The Gathering
+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents")
+Wednesdays, 11:30PM + +

94/12/03   2    102    Soul Hunter
+94/12/10   3    104    Born to the Purple
+94/12/17   4    101    Infection
+94/12/24               none
+95/12/31   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/01/07   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/01/14   6    110    Mind War
+95/01/21               none
+95/01/28   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/02/09   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/02/16  10    105    Believers
+95/02/23  11    111    Survivors
+
+95/07/05  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/07/12  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/07/19  14    119    TKO
+95/07/26  15    109    Grail
+95/08/02  16    122    Eyes
+95/08/09               none
+95/08/16  17    115    Legacies
+95/08/23               none
+95/08/30  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/09/06               none
+95/09/13  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+95/09/20  20    118    Babylon Squared
+95/09/27  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+95/10/04  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+
+95/10/11   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

96/01/30  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/02/06  24    202    Revelations
+96/02/20  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/02/27  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/03/05  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/03/12  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+96/03/19  29    208    Soul Mates
+96/03/26  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+
+96/05/09  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/05/16  32    210    GROPOS
+96/05/23  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+96/05/30  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/06/06  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+96/06/13  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/06/20  37    214    And Now For a Word
+96/06/27  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/07/04  39    216    Knives
+96/07/11  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/07/18  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+96/07/25               none
+96/08/01               none
+96/08/08  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/08/15  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/08/22  44    222    The Fall of Night
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+Babylon 5 airs Tuesday nights at +midnight (or Wednesday mornings, depending on your point of view) +on CFCF channel 12. + +

+B5's presence on CFCF is the result of a viewer campaign; for more +details see +The Rim. + +

+Since CFCF is now in sync with the rest of the US and Canada, there is no +longer a separate schedule, though the past schedule is still listed below +for those who're interested. Refer to the +US/Canada +schedule page to find out about current episodes. + +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+95/05/09  23    201    Points of Departure
+95/05/16  24    202    Revelations
+95/05/23  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+95/05/30  26    204    A Distant Star
+95/06/06  27    205    The Long Dark
+95/06/13  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+95/06/20  29    208    Soul Mates
+95/06/27  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+95/07/04  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+95/07/11  32    210    GROPOS
+95/07/18  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+95/07/25  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+95/08/01  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+95/08/08  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+95/08/15  37    214    And Now For a Word
+95/08/22  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+95/08/29  39    216    Knives
+95/09/05  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+95/09/12        201R   Points of Departure
+95/09/19        202R   Revelations
+95/09/26        203R   The Geometry of Shadows
+95/10/03        213R   Hunter, Prey
+95/10/10  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+95/10/17  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+95/10/24  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+95/10/31  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

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+This is the air schedule for season one of Babylon 5, airing +Thursdays at 8PM on channel 4 in Mexico City. It may also be on in other +areas; if you have details, send me mail. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/10/31               The Gathering part one
+96/11/07               The Gathering part two
+96/11/14   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+96/11/21   2    102    Soul Hunter
+96/11/28   3    104    Born to the Purple
+96/12/05   4    101    Infection
+96/12/12   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+96/12/19   6    110    Mind War
+96/12/26   7    107    The War Prayer
+97/01/02   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+97/01/09   9    113    Deathwalker
+97/01/16  10    105    Believers
+97/01/23  11    111    Survivors
+97/01/30  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+97/02/06  13    116    Signs and Portents
+97/02/13  14    119    TKO
+97/02/20  15    109    Grail
+97/02/27  16    122    Eyes
+97/03/06  17    115    Legacies
+97/03/13  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+97/03/20  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+97/03/27  20    118    Babylon Squared
+97/04/03  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+97/04/10  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
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+Babylon 5 was shown on TV2 Wednesdays at 22:30. It isn't known +when new episodes will begin airing again. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+
95/05/23               The Gathering
+95/06/21   4    101    Infection
+95/06/28   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/07/05   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/07/12   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/07/19  10    105    Believers
+95/07/26   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/08/02   6    110    Mind War
+95/08/09   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/08/16   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/08/23   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/08/30               none
+95/09/06  11    111    Survivors
+95/09/13  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/09/20  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/09/27  14    119    TKO
+95/10/04  15    109    Grail
+95/10/11  16    122    Eyes
+95/10/18  17    115    Legacies
+95/10/25  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/11/01  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+95/11/08  20    118    Babylon Squared
+95/11/15               none
+95/11/22  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+95/11/29  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
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+Babylon 5 is shown on +RTL5, +Saturdays at approximately 18:00. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+00/01/29   89   502   No Compromises
+00/02/05   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+00/02/12   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+00/02/19   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+00/02/26   93   506   Learning Curve
+00/03/04   94   507   Strange Relations
+00/03/11   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+00/03/18   96   511   Day of the Dead
+00/03/25   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+00/04/01   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+00/04/08   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+00/04/15  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+00/04/22  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+00/04/29  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+00/05/06  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+00/05/13  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+00/05/20  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+00/05/27  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+00/06/03  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+00/06/10  108   521   Objects in Motion
+00/06/17  109   522   Objects at Rest
+00/06/24  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+ +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") +
+Originally broadcast September 2, 1995 - February 10, 1996 on RTL5 + +

96/06/01               The Gathering part 1
+96/06/08               The Gathering part 2
+96/06/15   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+96/06/22   2    102    Soul Hunter
+96/06/29               none
+96/07/06   3    104    Born to the Purple
+96/07/13   4    101    Infection
+96/07/20   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+96/07/27   6    110    Mind War
+96/08/03   7    107    The War Prayer
+96/08/10   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+96/08/17   9    113    Deathwalker
+96/08/24  10    105    Believers
+96/08/31  11    111    Survivors
+96/09/06  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/09/13  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/09/20  14    119    TKO
+96/09/27  15    109    Grail
+96/10/04  16    122    Eyes
+96/10/11  17    115    Legacies
+96/10/18  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/10/25  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/11/01  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/11/08  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/11/15  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows")
+Originally broadcast February 17 - May 25, 1996 on RTL5 + +

96/11/22  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/11/29  24    202    Revelations
+96/12/06  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/12/13  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/12/20  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/12/27  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+97/01/04  29    208    Soul Mates
+97/01/11  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+97/01/18  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+97/01/25  32    210    GROPOS
+97/02/01  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+97/02/08  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+97/02/15  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+97/02/22  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+97/03/01  37    214    And Now For a Word
+97/03/08  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+97/03/15  39    216    Knives
+97/03/22  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+97/03/29  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+97/04/05  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+97/04/12  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+97/04/19  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

98/06/06   45   301    Matters of Honor
+98/06/13   46   302    Convictions
+98/06/20   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+98/06/27   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+98/07/04   49   304    Voices of Authority
+98/07/25   50   306    Dust to Dust
+98/08/01   51   307    Exogenesis
+98/08/08   52   308    Messages from Earth
+98/08/15   53   309    Point of No Return
+98/08/22   54   310    Severed Dreams
+98/08/29   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+98/09/05   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+98/09/12   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+98/09/18   58   314    Ship of Tears
+98/09/25   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+98/10/02   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+98/10/09   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+98/10/16   62   318    Walkabout
+98/10/23   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+98/10/30   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+98/11/06   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+98/11/13   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

99/01/02   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+99/01/09   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+99/01/16   69   403    The Summoning
+99/01/23   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+99/01/30   71   405    The Long Night
+99/02/06   72   406    Into the Fire
+99/02/13   73   407    Epiphanies
+99/02/20   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+99/02/27   75   409    Atonement
+99/03/06   76   410    Racing Mars
+99/03/13   77   411    Lines of Communication
+99/03/20   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+99/03/27   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+99/04/03   80   414    Moments of Transition
+99/04/10   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+99/04/17   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+99/04/24   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+99/05/01   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/05/08   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/05/15   86   420    Endgame
+99/05/22   87   421    Rising Star
+99/05/29   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +
+
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+Season five of +Babylon 5 is shown on +TV2 +on Sundays at 15:30. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+98/09/06   89   502   No Compromises
+98/09/13   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+98/09/20   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+98/09/27   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+98/10/04   93   506   Learning Curve
+98/10/11   94   507   Strange Relations
+98/11/01   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+98/11/08   96   511   Day of the Dead
+98/11/15   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+98/11/22   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+98/11/29   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+98/12/06  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+98/12/13  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+98/12/20  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+99/01/10  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+99/01/17  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+99/01/24  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+99/01/31  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+99/02/07  107   520   The Wheel of Fire
+99/02/14  108   521   Objects in Motion
+99/02/21  109   522   Objects at Rest
+
+99/03/07  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+                      (NOTE: Shown at 3:10PM)
+ + +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") +
+Original run: September 3, 1995 - April 14, 1996 + +

96/04/21               The Gathering part 1
+96/04/28               The Gathering part 2
+96/05/05   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+96/05/12   2    102    Soul Hunter
+96/05/19   3    104    Born to the Purple
+96/05/26   4    101    Infection
+96/06/02   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+96/06/09   6    110    Mind War
+96/06/16   7    107    The War Prayer
+96/06/23   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+96/06/29   9    113    Deathwalker
+96/07/06  10    105    Believers
+96/07/13  11    111    Survivors
+96/07/20  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/07/27  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/08/03  14    119    TKO
+96/08/10  15    109    Grail
+96/08/17  16    122    Eyes
+96/08/24  17    115    Legacies
+96/08/31  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/09/07  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/09/14  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/09/21  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/09/28  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/06/30  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/07/07  24    202    Revelations
+96/07/14  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/07/21  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/07/28  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/08/04  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+96/08/11  29    208    Soul Mates
+96/08/18  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/08/25  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/09/01  32    210    GROPOS
+96/09/08  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+96/09/15  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/09/22  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+96/09/29  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/10/06  37    214    And Now For a Word
+96/10/13  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/10/20  39    216    Knives
+96/10/27  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/11/03  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+96/11/10  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/11/17               none
+96/11/24  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/12/01               none
+96/12/08               none
+96/12/15  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") +
+Original run: January 5 - July 13, 1997 + +

97/01/05   45   301    Matters of Honor
+97/01/12   46   302    Convictions
+97/01/19   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+97/01/26   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+97/02/23   49   304    Voices of Authority
+97/03/02   50   306    Dust to Dust
+97/03/09   51   307    Exogenesis
+97/03/16   52   308    Messages from Earth
+97/03/23   53   309    Point of No Return
+97/03/30   54   310    Severed Dreams
+97/04/06   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+97/04/20   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+97/04/27   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+97/05/11   58   314    Ship of Tears
+97/05/18   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+97/05/25   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+97/06/01   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+97/06/08   62   318    Walkabout
+97/06/15   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+97/06/22   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+97/07/06   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+97/07/13   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") +
+Original run: January 5 - July 13, 1997 + +

not rerun  45   301    Matters of Honor
+not rerun  46   302    Convictions
+not rerun  47   303    A Day in the Strife
+not rerun  48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+97/07/20   49   304    Voices of Authority
+97/07/27   50   306    Dust to Dust
+97/08/02   51   307    Exogenesis
+97/08/03   52   308    Messages from Earth
+97/08/09   53   309    Point of No Return
+97/08/10   54   310    Severed Dreams
+97/08/16   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+97/08/17   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+97/08/23   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+97/08/30   58   314    Ship of Tears
+97/09/06               none
+97/09/13   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+97/09/20   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+97/09/27   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+97/10/04   62   318    Walkabout
+97/10/11   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+97/10/18   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+97/10/25   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+97/11/01   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

97/08/31   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+97/09/07   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+97/09/14   69   403    The Summoning
+97/09/21   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+97/09/28   71   405    The Long Night
+97/10/05   72   406    Into the Fire
+97/10/12   73   407    Epiphanies
+97/10/19   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+97/10/26   75   409    Atonement
+97/11/02   76   410    Racing Mars
+97/11/09               none
+97/11/16   77   411    Lines of Communication
+97/11/23               none
+97/11/30   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+97/12/07   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+97/12/14   80   414    Moments of Transition
+97/12/21               none
+97/12/28   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+98/01/04   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+98/01/11   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+98/01/18   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+98/01/25   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+98/02/01   86   420    Endgame
+98/02/08   87   421    Rising Star
+98/02/15   88   501    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +
+
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+Crusade airs Saturdays at 1:00PM on TVNZ Channel 2. + +

+For answers to questions about the TVNZ airing of B5, contact Matthew +Crawford at +cynosure@ihug.co.nz. + +

Current Episodes

+ +

Crusade

+ +
Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+00/06/10    1   108   War Zone
+00/06/17    2   107   The Long Road
+00/06/24    3   106   The Well of Forever
+00/07/01    4   109   The Path of Sorrows
+00/07/08    5   110   Patterns of the Soul
+00/07/15    6   111   Ruling from the Tomb
+00/07/22    7   112   The Rules of the Game
+00/07/29    8   113   Appearances and Other Deceits
+00/08/05    9   103   Racing the Night
+00/08/12   10   102   The Memory of War
+00/08/19   11   101   The Needs of Earth
+00/08/26   12   104   Visitors from Down the Street
+00/09/02   13   105   Each Night I Dream of Home
+ +

Past Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+95/10/14               The Gathering
+95/10/21   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/10/28   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/11/04   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/11/11   4    101    Infection
+95/11/18   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/11/25   6    110    Mind War
+95/12/02   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/12/09   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/12/16   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/12/23  10    105    Believers
+95/12/30  11    111    Survivors
+96/01/06  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/01/13  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/01/20  14    119    TKO
+96/01/27  15    109    Grail
+96/02/03  16    122    Eyes
+96/02/10  17    115    Legacies
+96/02/17  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/02/24  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/03/02  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/03/09  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/03/16  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/03/23  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/03/30  24    202    Revelations
+96/04/06  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/04/13  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/04/20  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/04/27  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+96/05/04  29    208    Soul Mates
+96/05/11  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/05/18  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/05/25  32    210    GROPOS
+96/06/01  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+96/06/08  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/06/15  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+96/06/22  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/06/29  37    214    And Now For a Word
+96/07/06  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/07/13  39    216    Knives
+96/07/20  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/07/27  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+96/08/03  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/08/10  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/08/17  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+96/08/24   45   301    Matters of Honor
+96/08/31   46   302    Convictions
+96/09/07   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+96/09/14   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+96/09/21               none
+96/09/28               none
+96/10/05               none
+96/10/12   49   304    Voices of Authority
+96/10/19   50   306    Dust to Dust
+96/10/26   51   307    Exogenesis
+96/11/02   52   308    Messages from Earth
+96/11/09   53   309    Point of No Return
+96/11/16   54   310    Severed Dreams
+96/11/23   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+96/11/30   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+96/12/07   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+96/12/14   58   314    Ship of Tears
+96/12/21   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+96/12/28   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+97/01/04   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+97/01/11   62   318    Walkabout
+97/01/18   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+97/01/25   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+97/02/01   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+97/02/08   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+97/08/09   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+97/08/16   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+97/08/23   69   403    The Summoning
+97/08/30   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+97/09/06   71   405    The Long Night
+97/09/13   72   406    Into the Fire
+97/09/20   73   407    Epiphanies
+97/09/27   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+97/10/04   75   409    Atonement
+97/10/11   76   410    Racing Mars
+97/10/18   77   411    Lines of Communication
+97/10/25   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+97/11/01   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+97/11/08   80   414    Moments of Transition
+97/11/15   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+97/11/22   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+97/11/29   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+97/12/06   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+97/12/13   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+97/12/20   86   420    Endgame
+97/12/27   87   421    Rising Star
+98/01/03   88   501    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+98/09/05   89   502   No Compromises
+98/09/12   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+98/09/19   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+98/09/26   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+98/10/03   93   506   Learning Curve
+98/10/10   94   507   Strange Relations
+98/10/17   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+98/10/24   96   511   Day of the Dead
+98/10/31   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+98/11/07   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+98/11/14   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+98/11/21  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+98/11/28  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+98/12/05  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+98/12/12  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+98/12/19  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+98/12/26  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+99/01/02  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+99/01/09  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+99/01/16  108   521   Objects in Motion
+99/01/23  109   522   Objects at Rest
+99/01/30  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+ +
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+This is the air schedule for season one of Babylon 5, airing +Saturdays at noon on ATV. + +

+This schedule is based on the assumption that all episodes will be shown in +the correct order without interruption. If it's wrong, please let me know. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/05/18               The Gathering (part 1)
+96/05/25               The Gathering (part 2)
+96/06/01   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+96/06/08   2    102    Soul Hunter
+96/06/15   3    104    Born to the Purple
+96/06/22   4    101    Infection
+96/06/29   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+96/07/06   6    110    Mind War
+96/07/13   7    107    The War Prayer
+96/07/20   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+96/07/27   9    113    Deathwalker
+96/08/03  10    105    Believers
+96/08/10  11    111    Survivors
+96/08/17  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/08/24  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/08/31  14    119    TKO
+96/09/07  15    109    Grail
+96/09/14  16    122    Eyes
+96/09/21  17    115    Legacies
+96/09/28  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/10/05  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/10/12  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/10/19  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/10/26  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+ +
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+This is the air schedule for season one of Babylon 5, airing +Wednesdays at 10pm on RPN-9 in Manila (channel number and showtimes may be +different in other provinces.) + +

Current Episodes

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+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

97/03/12  23    201    Points of Departure
+97/03/19  24    202    Revelations
+97/03/26  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+97/04/02  26    204    A Distant Star
+97/04/09  27    205    The Long Dark
+97/04/16  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+97/04/23  29    208    Soul Mates
+97/04/30  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+97/05/07  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+97/05/14  32    210    GROPOS
+97/05/21  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+97/05/28  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+97/06/04  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+97/06/11  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+97/06/18  37    214    And Now For a Word
+97/06/25  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+97/07/02  39    216    Knives
+97/07/09  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+97/07/16  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+97/07/23  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+97/07/30  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+97/08/06  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

Previous Episodes

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+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/08/15               The Gathering
+96/08/22   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+96/08/29   2    102    Soul Hunter
+96/09/05   3    104    Born to the Purple
+96/09/12   4    101    Infection
+96/09/19   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+96/09/26   6    110    Mind War
+96/10/03   7    107    The War Prayer
+96/10/10   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+96/10/17   9    113    Deathwalker
+96/10/24  10    105    Believers
+96/10/31  11    111    Survivors
+96/11/07  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/11/14  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/11/21  14    119    TKO
+96/11/28  15    109    Grail
+96/12/05  16    122    Eyes
+96/12/12  17    115    Legacies
+96/12/19  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/12/26  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+97/01/02  20    118    Babylon Squared
+97/01/09  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+97/01/16  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
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+This is the air schedule for season one of Babylon 5, airing +Sundays at 10:05 on STN. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+96/09/15               The Gathering part one
+96/09/22               The Gathering part two
+96/09/29   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+96/10/06   2    102    Soul Hunter
+96/10/13   3    104    Born to the Purple
+96/10/20   4    101    Infection
+96/10/27   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+96/11/03   6    110    Mind War
+96/11/10   7    107    The War Prayer
+96/11/17   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+96/11/24   9    113    Deathwalker
+96/12/01  10    105    Believers
+96/12/08  11    111    Survivors
+96/12/15  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/12/22  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/12/29  14    119    TKO
+97/01/05  15    109    Grail
+97/01/12  16    122    Eyes
+97/01/19  17    115    Legacies
+97/01/26  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+97/02/02  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+97/02/09  20    118    Babylon Squared
+97/02/16  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+97/02/23  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
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+Babylon 5 airs weeknights at 10:30AM on +TVN +(which includes stations formerly affiliated with TV Wisla.) + +

+Seasons one and two aired previously, but the dates are unknown. They're +included below for reference. + +

+"A Call to Arms" +is available on videotape under the name "Babylon 5 - Alarm dla Ziemi" +(Babylon 5 - Alert for Earth). + +

Current Episodes

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+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+00/07/03   89   502   No Compromises
+00/07/04   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+00/07/05   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+00/07/06   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+00/07/07   93   506   Learning Curve
+00/07/10   94   507   Strange Relations
+00/07/11   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+00/07/12   96   511   Day of the Dead
+00/07/13   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+00/07/14   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+00/07/17   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+00/07/18  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+00/07/19  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+00/07/20  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+00/07/21  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+00/07/24  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+00/07/25  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+00/07/26  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+00/07/27  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+00/07/28  108   521   Objects in Motion
+00/07/31  109   522   Objects at Rest
+00/08/01  110   523   Sleeping in Light
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Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

??/??/??               The Gathering
+??/??/??   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+??/??/??   2    102    Soul Hunter
+??/??/??   3    104    Born to the Purple
+??/??/??   4    101    Infection
+??/??/??   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+??/??/??   6    110    Mind War
+??/??/??   7    107    The War Prayer
+??/??/??   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+??/??/??   9    113    Deathwalker
+??/??/??  10    105    Believers
+??/??/??  11    111    Survivors
+??/??/??  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+??/??/??  13    116    Signs and Portents
+??/??/??  14    119    TKO
+??/??/??  15    109    Grail
+??/??/??  16    122    Eyes
+??/??/??  17    115    Legacies
+??/??/??  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+??/??/??  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+??/??/??  20    118    Babylon Squared
+??/??/??  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+??/??/??  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

??/??/??  23    201    Points of Departure
+??/??/??  24    202    Revelations
+??/??/??  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+??/??/??  26    204    A Distant Star
+??/??/??  27    205    The Long Dark
+??/??/??  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+??/??/??  29    208    Soul Mates
+??/??/??  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+??/??/??  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+??/??/??  32    210    GROPOS
+??/??/??  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+??/??/??  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+??/??/??  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+??/??/??  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+??/??/??  37    214    And Now For a Word
+??/??/??  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+??/??/??  39    216    Knives
+??/??/??  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+??/??/??  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+??/??/??  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+??/??/??  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+??/??/??  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+99/01/09   45   301    Matters of Honor
+99/01/16   46   302    Convictions
+99/01/23   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+99/01/30   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+99/02/06   49   304    Voices of Authority
+99/02/13   50   306    Dust to Dust
+99/02/20   51   307    Exogenesis
+99/02/27   52   308    Messages from Earth
+99/03/06   53   309    Point of No Return
+99/03/13   54   310    Severed Dreams
+99/03/20   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+99/03/27   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+99/04/03   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+99/04/10   58   314    Ship of Tears
+99/04/17   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+99/04/24   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+99/05/01   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+99/05/08   62   318    Walkabout
+99/05/15   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+99/05/22   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+99/05/29   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+99/06/05   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

99/06/12   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+99/06/19   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+99/06/26   69   403    The Summoning
+99/07/03   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+99/07/10   71   405    The Long Night
+99/07/17               none
+99/07/24   72   406    Into the Fire
+99/07/31   73   407    Epiphanies
+99/08/07   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+99/08/14   75   409    Atonement
+99/08/21   76   410    Racing Mars
+99/08/28   77   411    Lines of Communication
+99/09/04   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+99/09/11   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+99/09/18   80   414    Moments of Transition
+99/09/25   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+99/10/02   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+99/10/09   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+99/10/16   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/10/23   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/10/30   86   420    Endgame
+99/11/06   87   421    Rising Star
+99/11/13   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
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+WLII is apparently reshowing season one continuously; it's not known whether +or when they'll begin showing season two. + +

+Episode names are links to the episodes' guide entries. + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+95/04/15   4    101    Infection
+95/04/22   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/04/29   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/05/06   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/05/13   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/05/20   6    110    Mind War
+95/05/27   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/06/03   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/06/10   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/06/17  10    105    Believers
+95/06/24  11    111    Survivors
+95/07/01  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/07/08  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/07/15  14    119    TKO
+95/07/22  15    109    Grail
+95/07/29  16    122    Eyes
+95/08/05  17    115    Legacies
+95/08/12  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/08/19  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+95/08/26  20    118    Babylon Squared
+95/09/02  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+95/09/09  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
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+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+95/02/26               The Gathering
+95/03/05   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/03/12   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/03/19   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/03/26   4    101    Infection
+95/04/02   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/04/09   6    110    Mind War
+95/04/16   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/04/23   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/04/30   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/05/07  10    105    Believers
+95/05/14  11    111    Survivors
+95/05/21  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+95/05/28  13    116    Signs and Portents
+95/06/04  14    119    TKO
+95/06/11  15    109    Grail
+95/12/08  16    122    Eyes
+95/12/15  17    115    Legacies
+95/12/29  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+95/12/29  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/01/05  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/01/12  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/01/19  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

96/06/15  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/06/22  24    202    Revelations
+96/06/29  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/07/06  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/07/13  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/07/20  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+96/07/27  29    208    Soul Mates
+96/08/03  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/08/10  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/08/17  32    210    GROPOS
+96/09/07  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+96/09/14  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/09/21  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+??/??/??  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+??/??/??  37    214    And Now For a Word
+??/??/??  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+??/??/??  39    216    Knives
+??/??/??  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+??/??/??  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+??/??/??  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+??/??/??  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+??/??/??  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

??/??/??   45   301    Matters of Honor
+??/??/??   46   302    Convictions
+??/??/??   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+??/??/??   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+??/??/??   49   304    Voices of Authority
+??/??/??   50   306    Dust to Dust
+??/??/??   51   307    Exogenesis
+??/??/??   52   308    Messages from Earth
+??/??/??   53   309    Point of No Return
+??/??/??   54   310    Severed Dreams
+??/??/??   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+??/??/??   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+??/??/??   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+??/??/??   58   314    Ship of Tears
+??/??/??   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+??/??/??   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+??/??/??   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+??/??/??   62   318    Walkabout
+??/??/??   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+??/??/??   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+??/??/??   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+??/??/??   66   322    Z'ha'dum
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+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

??/??/??   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+??/??/??   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+??/??/??   69   403    The Summoning
+??/??/??   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+??/??/??   71   405    The Long Night
+??/??/??   72   406    Into the Fire
+??/??/??   73   407    Epiphanies
+??/??/??   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+??/??/??   75   409    Atonement
+??/??/??   76   410    Racing Mars
+??/??/??   77   411    Lines of Communication
+??/??/??   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+??/??/??   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+??/??/??   80   414    Moments of Transition
+??/??/??   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+??/??/??   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+??/??/??   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+??/??/??   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+??/??/??   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+??/??/??   86   420    Endgame
+??/??/??   87   421    Rising Star
+??/??/??   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
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+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

??/??/??   89   502   No Compromises
+??/??/??   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+??/??/??   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+??/??/??   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+??/??/??   93   506   Learning Curve
+??/??/??   94   507   Strange Relations
+??/??/??   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+??/??/??   96   511   Day of the Dead
+??/??/??   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+??/??/??   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+??/??/??   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+??/??/??  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+??/??/??  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+??/??/??  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+??/??/??  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+??/??/??  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+??/??/??  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+??/??/??  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+??/??/??  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+??/??/??  108   521   Objects in Motion
+??/??/??  109   522   Objects at Rest
+??/??/??  110   523   Sleeping in Light
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Current Episodes

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+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+99/04/15   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+99/04/22   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+99/04/29   69   403    The Summoning
+99/05/06   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+99/05/13   71   405    The Long Night
+99/05/20   72   406    Into the Fire
+99/05/27   73   407    Epiphanies
+99/06/03   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+99/06/10   75   409    Atonement
+99/06/17   76   410    Racing Mars
+99/06/24   77   411    Lines of Communication
+99/07/01   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+99/07/08   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+99/07/15   80   414    Moments of Transition
+99/07/22   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+99/07/29   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+99/08/05   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+99/08/12   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/08/19   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/08/26   86   420    Endgame
+99/09/02   87   421    Rising Star
+99/09/09   88   501    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

Previous Episodes

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+Season One +("Signs and Portents")
+Originally aired October 1 - November 21, 1996 + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+97/11/28               The Gathering (part one)
+97/12/01               The Gathering (part two)
+97/12/02   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+97/12/03   2    102    Soul Hunter
+97/12/04   3    104    Born to the Purple
+97/12/08   4    101    Infection
+97/12/09   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+97/12/10   6    110    Mind War
+97/12/11   7    107    The War Prayer
+97/12/15   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+97/12/16   9    113    Deathwalker
+97/12/17  10    105    Believers
+97/12/18  11    111    Survivors
+97/12/22  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+97/12/23  13    116    Signs and Portents
+97/12/24  14    119    TKO
+97/12/25  15    109    Grail
+97/12/29  16    122    Eyes
+97/12/30  17    115    Legacies
+98/01/05  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+98/01/08  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+98/01/09  20    118    Babylon Squared
+98/01/12  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+98/01/13  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows")
+Originally aired November 26, 1996 - January 28, 1997 + +

98/01/14  23    201    Points of Departure
+98/01/15  24    202    Revelations
+98/01/16  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+98/01/19  26    204    A Distant Star
+98/01/20  27    205    The Long Dark
+98/01/21  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+98/01/22  29    208    Soul Mates
+98/01/23  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+98/01/26  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+98/01/27  32    210    GROPOS
+98/01/28  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+98/01/29  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+98/01/30  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+98/02/02  37    214    And Now For a Word
+98/02/03  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+98/02/04  39    216    Knives
+98/02/05  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+98/02/06  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+98/02/09  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+98/02/10  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+98/02/11  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+98/02/12  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return")
+Originally aired January 29 - March 19, 1997 + +

98/02/13   45   301    Matters of Honor
+98/02/16   46   302    Convictions
+98/02/17   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+98/02/18   49   304    Voices of Authority
+98/02/19   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+98/02/20   50   306    Dust to Dust
+98/02/23   51   307    Exogenesis
+98/02/24   52   308    Messages from Earth
+98/02/25   53   309    Point of No Return
+98/02/26   54   310    Severed Dreams
+98/02/27   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+98/03/02   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+98/03/03   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+98/03/04   58   314    Ship of Tears
+98/03/05   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+98/03/06   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+98/03/09   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+98/03/10   62   318    Walkabout
+98/03/11   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+98/03/12   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+98/03/13   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+98/03/16   66   322    Z'ha'dum
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+412.
+413.
+414.
+415.
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+417.
+418.
+419.
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+420.
+421.
+422.		The Hour of the Wolf
+What Ever Happened
+to Mr. Garibaldi?
+The Summoning
+Falling Toward Apotheosis
+The Long Night
+Into the Fire
+Epiphanies
+The Illusion of Truth
+Atonement
+Racing Mars
+Lines of Communication
+Conflicts of Interests
+Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+Moments of Transition
+No Surrender, No Retreat
+The Exercise of Vital Powers
+The Face of the Enemy
+Intersections in Real Time
+Between the Darkness
+and the Light
+Endgame
+Rising Star
+The Deconstruction of Falling
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+×òî æå ñëó÷èëîñü ñ
+ìèñòåðîì Ãàðèáàëüäè?
+Ïðèçûâ
+Ðàçâÿçêà íåèçáåæíà
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+Â ñàìîå ïåêëî
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+114.
+116.
+119.
+109.
+122.
+115.
+120.
+121.
+118.
+117.
+112.		Midnight on the Firing +Line
+Soul Hunter
+Born to the Purple
+Infection
+The Parliament of Dreams
+Mind War
+The War Prayer
+And the Sky Full of Stars
+Deathwalker
+Believers
+Survivors
+By Any Means Necessary
+Signs and Portents
+TKO
+Grail
+Eyes
+Legacies
+A Voice in the Wilderness I
+A Voice in the Wilderness II
+Babylon Squared
+The Quality of Mercy
+Chrysalis		Ïîëíî÷ü íà ëèíèè îãíÿ
+Îõîòíèê çà äóøàìè
+Êîâàðñòâî è ëþáîâü
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+Âòîðîé +ñåçîí: ãîä 2259
+Íàçâàíèå ñåçîíà: "The Coming of Shadows" ("Ïðèøåñòâèå +òåíåé")

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+221.
+222.		Points of Departure
+Revelations
+The Geometry of Shadows
+A Distant Star
+The Long Dark
+Spider in the Web
+Soul Mates
+A Race Through Dark Places
+The Coming of Shadows
+GROPOS
+All Alone in the Night
+Acts of Sacrifice
+Hunter, Prey
+There All The Honor Lies
+And Now For a Word
+In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+Knives
+Confessions and Lamentations
+Divided Loyalties
+The Long, Twilight Struggle
+Comes the Inquisitor
+The Fall of Night		Âîðîòà â âå÷íîñòü
+Îòêðîâåíèå
+Ãåîìåòðèÿ Òåíåé
+Äàëåêàÿ çâåçäà
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+Òðåòèé +ñåçîí: ãîä 2260
+Íàçâàíèå ñåçîíà: "Point of No Return" ("Òî÷êà íåâîçâðàùåíèÿ")

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+322.		Matters of Honor
+Convictions
+A Day in the Strife
+Passing Through Gethsemane
+Voices of Authority
+Dust to Dust
+Exogenesis
+Messages from Earth
+Point of No Return
+Severed Dreams
+Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+Sic Transit Vir
+A Late Delivery from Avalon
+Ship of Tears
+Interludes and Examinations
+War Without End, Part I
+War Without End, Part II
+Walkabout
+Grey 17 is Missing
+And the Rock Cried Out,
+No Hiding Place
+Shadow Dancing
+Z`ha`dum		Äåëî ÷åñòè
+Óáåæäåíèå
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+Èñïûòàíèå ãåôñèìàíèåé
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+íå óêðûòüñÿ
+Òàíöû ñ Òåíÿìè
+Çà'õà'äóì		8.33
+7.38
+7.35
+8.26
+8.12
+8.57
+6.82
+8.91
+9.21
+9.80
+8.03
+7.44
+7.60
+8.56
+9.35
+9.18
+9.33
+7.74
+6.77
+8.76
+
+9.22
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+87
+51
+58
+34
+102
+23
+15
+1
+64
+85
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+35
+7
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+8
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+
+14
+2
+ +


+
+×åòâåðòûé +ñåçîí: ãîä 2261
+Íàçâàíèå ñåçîíà: "No Surrender, No Retreat" ("Íå îòñòóïàòü, +íå cäàâàòüñÿ")

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 ðóññêîì ïåðåâîäå

+		 +

Ðåéòèíã

+		 +

Ìåñòî

+
67.
+68.
+
+69.
+70.
+71.
+72.
+73.
+74.
+75.
+76.
+77.
+78.
+79.
+80.
+81.
+82.
+83.
+84.
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+86.
+87.
+88.		401.
+402.
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+403.
+404.
+405.
+406.
+407.
+408.
+409.
+410.
+411.
+412.
+413.
+414.
+415.
+416.
+417.
+418.
+419.
+
+420.
+421.
+422.		The Hour of the Wolf
+What Ever Happened
+to Mr. Garibaldi?
+The Summoning
+Falling Toward Apotheosis
+The Long Night
+Into the Fire
+Epiphanies
+The Illusion of Truth
+Atonement
+Racing Mars
+Lines of Communication
+Conflicts of Interests
+Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+Moments of Transition
+No Surrender, No Retreat
+The Exercise of Vital Powers
+The Face of the Enemy
+Intersections in Real Time
+Between the Darkness
+and the Light
+Endgame
+Rising Star
+The Deconstruction of Falling
+Stars		×àñ âîëêà
+×òî æå ñëó÷èëîñü ñ
+ìèñòåðîì Ãàðèáàëüäè?
+Ïðèçûâ
+Ðàçâÿçêà íåèçáåæíà
+Äîëãàÿ íî÷ü
+Â ñàìîå ïåêëî
+Ïðîçðåíèå
+Èëëþçèÿ ïðàâäû
+Èñêóïëåíèå
+Ïîëåò íà Ìàðñ
+Ëèíèè ñâÿçè
+Êîíôëèêòû èíòåðåñîâ
+Ñëóõè, ñäåëêè è ëîæü
+Ìîìåíòû ïåðåðîæäåíèÿ
+Íå îòñòóïàòü, íå cäàâàòüñÿ
+Ðåàëèçàöèÿ æèçíåííûõ ñèë
+Ëèöî âðàãà
+Ïåðåêðåñòêè âî âðåìåíè
+Ìåæäó òüìîé è ñâåòîì
+
+Ýíäøïèëü
+Âîñõîäÿùàÿ çâåçäà
+Äåêîíñòðóêöèÿ çàõîäÿùèõ
+çâåçä		8.74
+8.98
+
+8.63
+ +8.74
+8.93
+9.28
+8.32
+7.45
+8.55
+7.71
+8.16
+7.96
+8.31
+8.79
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+9.24
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+ +


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+

+ +

Ïÿòûé ñåçîí: +ãîä 2262, 2282
+Íàçâàíèå ñåçîíà: "Wheel of Fire" ("Êîëåñî îãíÿ")

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+		 +

Îðèãèíàëüíîå íàçâàíèå

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+		Ðåéòèíã +

Ìåñòî

+
89.
+90.
+
+91.
+92.
+93.
+94.
+95.
+96.
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+109.
+110.		502.
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+511.
+509.
+510.
+512.
+513.
+514.
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+515.
+516.
+517.
+
+518.
+519.
+520.
+521.
+522.
+522a.		No Compromises
+The Very Long Night of
+Londo Mollari
+The Paragon of Animals
+A View from the Gallery
+Learning Curve
+Strange Relations
+Secrets of the Soul
+The Day of the Dead
+In the Kingdom of the Blind
+A Tragedy of Telepaths
+Phoenix Rising
+The Ragged Edge
+The Corps is Mother,
+The Corps is Father
+Meditations on the Abyss
+Darkness Ascending
+And All My Dreams,
+Torn Asunder
+Movements of Fire and Shadow
+The Fall of Centauri Prime
+Objects in Motion
+Objects at Rest
+Wheel of Fire
+Sleeping in Light		Áåç êîìïðîìèññîâ
+Î÷åíü äîëãàÿ íî÷ü
+Ëîíäî Ìîëëàðè
+Âåíåö âñåãî æèâóùåãî
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+Ñîí â ñèÿíèè		7.23
+8.43
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+8.43
+8.42
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+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+00/05/28   89   502   No Compromises
+00/06/04   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+00/06/11   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+00/06/18   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+00/06/25   93   506   Learning Curve
+00/07/02   94   507   Strange Relations
+00/07/09   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+00/07/16   96   511   Day of the Dead
+00/07/23   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+00/07/30   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+00/08/06   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+00/08/13  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+00/08/20  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+00/08/27  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+00/09/03  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+00/09/10  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+00/09/17  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+00/09/24  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+00/10/01  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+00/10/08  108   521   Objects in Motion
+00/10/15  109   522   Objects at Rest
+00/10/22  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+ + +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") +
+Original run: Feb. 12, 1995 - Jan. 21, 1996 + +

96/06/29   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+96/07/06   2    102    Soul Hunter
+96/07/13   3    104    Born to the Purple
+96/07/20   4    101    Infection
+96/07/27   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+96/08/03   6    110    Mind War
+96/08/10   7    107    The War Prayer
+96/08/17   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+96/08/24   9    113    Deathwalker
+96/08/31  10    105    Believers
+96/09/07  11    111    Survivors
+96/09/14  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/09/21  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/09/28  14    119    TKO
+96/10/05  15    109    Grail
+96/10/12  16    122    Eyes
+96/10/19  17    115    Legacies
+96/10/26  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/11/02  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/11/09  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/11/16  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/11/23  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows")
+Original run: Jan. 28, 1996 - June 22, 1996 + +

96/11/30  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/12/07  24    202    Revelations
+96/12/14  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/12/21  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/12/28  27    205    The Long Dark
+97/01/04  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+97/01/11  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+97/01/18  29    208    Soul Mates
+97/01/25  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+97/02/01  32    210    GROPOS
+97/02/08  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+97/02/15  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+97/02/22  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+97/03/01  37    214    And Now For a Word
+97/03/08  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+97/03/15  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+97/03/22  39    216    Knives
+97/03/29  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+97/04/05  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+98/??/??  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+98/??/??  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+98/??/??  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") +
+Original run: August 30, 1998 - January 23, 1999 + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+99/07/11   45   301    Matters of Honor
+99/07/18   46   302    Convictions
+99/07/25   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+99/08/01   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+99/08/08   49   304    Voices of Authority
+99/08/15   50   306    Dust to Dust
+99/08/22   51   307    Exogenesis
+99/08/29   52   308    Messages from Earth
+99/09/05   53   309    Point of No Return
+99/09/12   54   310    Severed Dreams
+99/09/19   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+99/09/26   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+99/10/03   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+99/10/10   58   314    Ship of Tears
+99/10/17   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+99/10/24   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+99/10/31   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+99/11/07   62   318    Walkabout
+99/11/14   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+99/11/21   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+99/11/28   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+99/12/05   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") +
+Original run: January 30 - June 26, 1999 + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+99/12/12   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+99/12/19   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+99/12/26   69   403    The Summoning
+00/01/02   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+00/01/09   71   405    The Long Night
+00/01/16   72   406    Into the Fire
+00/01/23   73   407    Epiphanies
+00/01/30   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+00/02/06   75   409    Atonement
+00/02/13   76   410    Racing Mars
+00/02/20   77   411    Lines of Communication
+00/02/27   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+00/03/05   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+00/03/12   80   414    Moments of Transition
+00/03/19   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+00/03/26   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+00/04/02   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+00/04/09   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+00/04/16   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+00/04/23   86   420    Endgame
+00/04/30   87   421    Rising Star
+00/05/07   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
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Current Episodes

+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+98/11/26   89   502   No Compromises
+98/12/03   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+98/12/10   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+98/12/17   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+98/12/24   93   506   Learning Curve
+98/12/31   94   507   Strange Relations
+99/01/07   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+99/01/14   96   511   Day of the Dead
+99/01/21   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+99/01/28   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+99/02/04   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+99/02/11  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+99/02/18  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+99/02/25  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+99/03/04  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+99/03/11  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+99/03/18  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+99/03/25  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+99/04/01  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+99/04/08  108   521   Objects in Motion
+99/04/15  109   522   Objects at Rest
+99/04/22  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+ +

Previous Episodes

+ +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents")
+Sun 9:00PM + +

94/07/03               The Gathering
+94/07/10   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+94/07/17   2    102    Soul Hunter
+94/07/24   3    104    Born to the Purple
+94/07/31   4    101    Infection
+94/08/07   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+94/08/14   6    110    Mind War
+94/08/21               (preempted)
+94/08/28   7    107    The War Prayer
+94/09/04   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+94/09/11   9    113    Deathwalker
+94/09/18  10    105    Believers
+94/09/25  11    111    Survivors
+94/10/02  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+94/10/09  13    116    Signs and Portents
+94/10/16  15    109    Grail
+94/10/23  14    119    TKO
+94/10/30  16    122    Eyes
+94/11/06  17    115    Legacies
+94/11/13               (preempted)
+94/11/20  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+94/11/27  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+94/12/04  20    118    Babylon Squared
+94/12/11  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+94/12/18  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows")
+Sat 1:10AM + +

+96/01/20  23    201    Points of Departure
+96/01/27  24    202    Revelations
+96/02/03  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+96/02/10  26    204    A Distant Star
+96/02/17  27    205    The Long Dark
+96/02/24  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+96/03/02  29    208    Soul Mates
+96/03/09  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+96/03/16               preempted
+96/03/23  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+96/03/30  32    210    GROPOS
+96/04/06               preempted
+96/04/13  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+96/04/20  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+96/04/27  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+96/05/04  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+96/05/11  37    214    And Now For a Word
+96/05/18  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+96/05/25  39    216    Knives
+96/06/01               preempted
+96/06/08  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+96/06/15  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+96/06/22  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+96/06/29  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+96/07/06  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

96/07/13   45   301    Matters of Honor
+96/07/20   46   302    Convictions
+96/07/23   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+96/07/30   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+96/08/06   49   304    Voices of Authority
+96/08/13   50   306    Dust to Dust
+96/08/20   51   307    Exogenesis
+96/08/27   52   308    Messages from Earth
+96/09/03   53   309    Point of No Return
+96/09/10   54   310    Severed Dreams
+96/09/17   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+96/09/24   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+96/10/01   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+96/10/08   58   314    Ship of Tears
+96/10/15   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+96/10/22   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+96/10/29   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+
+97/04/28   62   318    Walkabout
+97/05/05   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+97/05/12   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+97/05/19   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+97/05/26   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+97/06/02   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+97/06/09   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+97/06/16   69   403    The Summoning
+97/06/23   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+97/06/30               (preempted)
+97/07/07   71   405    The Long Night
+97/07/14   72   406    Into the Fire
+97/07/21   73   407    Epiphanies
+97/07/28   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+97/08/04   75   409    Atonement
+97/08/11   76   410    Racing Mars
+97/10/04   77   411    Lines of Communication
+97/10/11   78   412    Conflicts of Interests
+97/10/18   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+97/10/25   80   414    Moments of Transition
+97/11/01   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+97/11/08   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+97/11/15   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+97/11/22   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+97/11/29   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+97/12/06   86   420    Endgame
+97/12/13   87   421    Rising Star
+97/12/20   88   501    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
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+This is the air schedule for season one of Babylon 5, airing +Saturdays at 22:45 CET on Kanal A. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+97/05/29               The Gathering
+97/06/05   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+97/06/12   2    102    Soul Hunter
+97/06/19   3    104    Born to the Purple
+97/06/26   4    101    Infection
+97/09/23   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+97/09/30   6    110    Mind War
+97/10/07   7    107    The War Prayer
+97/10/14   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+97/10/21   9    113    Deathwalker
+97/10/28  10    105    Believers
+97/11/04  11    111    Survivors
+97/11/11  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+
+98/05/30  13    116    Signs and Portents
+98/06/06  14    119    TKO
+98/06/13  15    109    Grail
+98/06/20  16    122    Eyes
+98/06/27  17    115    Legacies
+98/07/04  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+98/07/11  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+98/07/18  20    118    Babylon Squared
+98/07/25  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+98/08/01  22    112    Chrysalis
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+This is the air schedule for season one of Babylon 5, airing +XXX + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+95/10/14               The Gathering
+95/10/21   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+95/10/28   2    102    Soul Hunter
+95/11/04   3    104    Born to the Purple
+95/11/11   4    101    Infection
+95/11/18   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+95/11/25   6    110    Mind War
+95/12/02   7    107    The War Prayer
+95/12/09   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+95/12/16   9    113    Deathwalker
+95/12/23  10    105    Believers
+95/12/30  11    111    Survivors
+96/01/06  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+96/01/13  13    116    Signs and Portents
+96/01/20  14    119    TKO
+96/01/27  15    109    Grail
+96/02/03  16    122    Eyes
+96/02/10  17    115    Legacies
+96/02/17  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+96/02/24  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+96/03/02  20    118    Babylon Squared
+96/03/09  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+96/03/16  22    112    Chrysalis
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+ + diff --git a/countries/skel2 b/countries/skel2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bcf1a18f --- /dev/null +++ b/countries/skel2 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ + +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

95/02/07  23    201    Points of Departure
+95/02/14  24    202    Revelations
+95/02/21  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+95/02/28  26    204    A Distant Star
+95/03/07  27    205    The Long Dark
+95/03/14  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+95/03/28  29    208    Soul Mates
+95/03/21  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+95/04/04  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+95/04/11  32    210    GROPOS
+95/04/18  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+95/04/25  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+95/05/02  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+95/05/09  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+95/05/16  37    214    And Now For a Word
+95/05/23  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+95/05/30  39    216    Knives
+95/06/06  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+95/07/25  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+95/08/01  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+95/08/08  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+95/08/15  44    222    The Fall of Night
diff --git a/countries/skel3 b/countries/skel3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..eb8d7a4f --- /dev/null +++ b/countries/skel3 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ + +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+11/06/95   45   301    Matters of Honor
+11/13/95   46   302    Convictions
+11/20/95   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+11/27/95   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+01/29/96   49   304    Voices of Authority
+02/05/96   50   306    Dust to Dust
+02/12/96   51   307    Exogenesis
+02/19/96   52   308    Messages from Earth
+02/26/96   53   309    Point of No Return
+04/01/96   54   310    Severed Dreams
+04/08/96   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+04/15/96   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+04/22/96   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+04/29/96   58   314    Ship of Tears
+05/06/96   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+05/13/96   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+05/20/96   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+09/02/96   62   318    Walkabout
+09/09/96   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+09/16/96   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+09/23/96   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+09/30/96   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ diff --git a/countries/skel4 b/countries/skel4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..467063bc --- /dev/null +++ b/countries/skel4 @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

11/04/96   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+11/11/96   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+11/18/96   69   403    The Summoning
+11/25/96   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+01/27/97   71   405    The Long Night
+02/03/97   72   406    Into the Fire
+02/10/97   73   407    Epiphanies
+02/17/97   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+02/24/97   75   409    Atonement
+04/21/97   76   410    Racing Mars
+04/28/97   77   411    Lines of Communication
+05/05/97   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+05/12/97   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+05/19/97   80   414    Moments of Transition
+05/26/97   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+06/02/97   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+06/09/97   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+06/16/97   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+10/06/97   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+10/13/97   86   420    Endgame
+10/20/97   87   421    Rising Star
+11/11/11   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ diff --git a/countries/skel5 b/countries/skel5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..acc093d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/countries/skel5 @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ + +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+98/01/21   89   502   No Compromises
+98/01/28   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+98/02/04   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+98/02/11   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+98/02/18   93   506   Learning Curve
+98/02/25   94   507   Strange Relations
+98/03/04   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+98/03/11   96   511   Day of the Dead
+98/03/18   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+98/03/25   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+98/04/01   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+98/04/08  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+98/04/15  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+98/05/27  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+98/06/03  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+98/06/10  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+98/06/17  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+98/??/??  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+98/??/??  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+98/??/??  108   521   Objects in Motion
+98/??/??  109   522   Objects at Rest
+98/??/??  110   523   Sleeping in Light
diff --git a/countries/skelc b/countries/skelc new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09933332 --- /dev/null +++ b/countries/skelc @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ + +

Crusade

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Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+99/06/09    1   108   War Zone
+99/06/16    2   107   The Long Road
+99/06/23    3   106   The Well of Forever
+99/06/30    4   109   The Path of Sorrows
+99/07/07    5   110   Patterns of the Soul
+99/07/14    6   111   Ruling from the Tomb
+99/07/21    7   112   The Rules of the Game
+99/07/28    8   113   Appearances and Other Deceits
+99/08/04    9   103   Racing the Night
+99/08/11   10   102   The Memory of War
+99/08/18   11   101   The Needs of Earth
+99/08/25   12   104   Visitors from Down the Street
+99/09/01   13   105   Each Night I Dream of Home
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+Old episodes of +Babylon 5 air Monday mornings around 1:00AM on +Channel 4 +and Sunday, Monday and Thursday at 9PM on the Sci-Fi Channel. + +

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+B5 is shown Sunday and Thursday on the Sci-Fi Channel at 9PM. + +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+99/11/02   89   502   No Compromises
+99/11/04   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+99/11/09   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+99/11/11   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+99/11/16   93   506   Learning Curve
+99/11/18   94   507   Strange Relations
+99/11/23   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+99/11/25   96   511   Day of the Dead
+99/11/30   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+99/12/02   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+99/12/07   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+99/12/09  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+99/12/14  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+99/12/16  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+99/12/21  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+99/12/23  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+99/12/28  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+99/12/30  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+00/01/04  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+00/01/06  108   521   Objects in Motion
+00/01/11  109   522   Objects at Rest
+00/01/13  110   523   Sleeping in Light
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99/01/14               The Gathering
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+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

99/01/17   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+99/01/21   2    102    Soul Hunter
+99/01/24   3    104    Born to the Purple
+99/01/28   4    101    Infection
+99/01/31   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+99/02/04   6    110    Mind War
+99/02/07   7    107    The War Prayer
+99/02/11   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+99/02/14   9    113    Deathwalker
+99/02/18  10    105    Believers
+99/02/21  11    111    Survivors
+99/02/22  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+99/02/25  13    116    Signs and Portents
+99/02/28  14    119    TKO
+99/03/01  15    109    Grail
+99/03/04  16    122    Eyes
+99/03/07  17    115    Legacies
+99/03/08  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+99/03/11  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+99/03/14  20    118    Babylon Squared
+99/03/15  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+99/03/18  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

99/03/21  23    201    Points of Departure
+99/03/22  24    202    Revelations
+99/03/25  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+99/03/28  26    204    A Distant Star
+99/03/29  27    205    The Long Dark
+99/04/01  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+99/04/04  29    208    Soul Mates
+99/04/05  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+99/04/08  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+99/04/11  32    210    GROPOS
+99/04/12  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+99/04/15  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+99/04/18  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+99/04/19  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+99/04/22  37    214    And Now For a Word
+99/04/25  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+99/04/26  39    216    Knives
+99/04/29  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+99/05/02  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+99/05/03  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+99/05/06  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+99/05/09  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point Of No Return") + +

99/05/10   45   301    Matters of Honor
+99/05/13   46   302    Convictions
+99/05/16   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+99/05/17   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+99/05/20   49   304    Voices of Authority
+99/05/23   50   306    Dust to Dust
+99/05/24   51   307    Exogenesis
+99/05/27   52   308    Messages from Earth
+99/05/30   53   309    Point of No Return
+99/05/31   54   310    Severed Dreams
+99/06/03   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+99/06/06   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+99/06/07   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+99/06/10   58   314    Ship of Tears
+99/06/13   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+99/06/14   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+99/06/17   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+99/06/20   62   318    Walkabout
+99/06/21   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+99/06/24   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+99/06/27   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+99/06/28   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

99/07/01   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+99/07/04   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+99/07/05   69   403    The Summoning
+99/07/08   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+99/07/11   71   405    The Long Night
+99/07/12   72   406    Into the Fire
+99/07/15   73   407    Epiphanies
+99/07/18   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+99/07/19   75   409    Atonement
+99/07/22   76   410    Racing Mars
+99/07/25   77   411    Lines of Communication
+99/07/26   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+99/07/29   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+99/08/01   80   414    Moments of Transition
+99/08/02   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+99/08/05   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+99/08/08   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+99/08/09   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/08/12   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/08/15   86   420    Endgame
+99/08/16   87   421    Rising Star
+99/08/19   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

Channel 4

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+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

99/01/03   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+99/01/10   2    102    Soul Hunter
+99/01/17   3    104    Born to the Purple
+99/01/24   4    101    Infection
+99/01/31   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+99/02/07   6    110    Mind War
+99/02/14   7    107    The War Prayer
+99/02/21   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+99/02/28   9    113    Deathwalker
+99/03/07  10    105    Believers
+99/03/14  11    111    Survivors
+99/03/28  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+99/04/04  13    116    Signs and Portents
+99/04/18  14    119    TKO
+99/04/25  15    109    Grail
+99/05/02  16    122    Eyes
+99/05/09  17    115    Legacies
+99/05/16  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+99/05/23  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+99/05/30  20    118    Babylon Squared
+99/06/06  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+99/06/13  22    112    Chrysalis
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

99/06/20  23    201    Points of Departure
+99/06/27  24    202    Revelations
+99/07/04  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+99/07/11  26    204    A Distant Star
+99/07/18  27    205    The Long Dark
+99/07/25  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+99/08/01  29    208    Soul Mates
+99/08/08  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+99/08/15  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+99/08/22  32    210    GROPOS
+99/08/29  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+99/09/05  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+99/09/12  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+99/09/19  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+99/09/26  37    214    And Now For a Word
+99/11/04  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+99/11/11  39    216    Knives
+99/11/18  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+99/11/25  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+99/12/02  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+99/12/09  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+99/12/16  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point Of No Return") + +

99/12/23   45   301    Matters of Honor
+99/12/30   46   302    Convictions
+00/01/06   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+00/01/13   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+00/01/20   49   304    Voices of Authority
+00/01/27   50   306    Dust to Dust
+00/02/03   51   307    Exogenesis
+00/02/10   52   308    Messages from Earth
+00/02/17   53   309    Point of No Return
+00/02/24   54   310    Severed Dreams
+00/03/02   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+00/03/09   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+00/03/16   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+00/03/23   58   314    Ship of Tears
+00/03/30   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+00/04/06   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+00/04/13   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+00/04/20   62   318    Walkabout
+00/04/27   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+00/05/04   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+00/05/11   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+00/05/18   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

00/05/25   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+00/06/01   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+00/06/08   69   403    The Summoning
+00/06/15   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+00/06/22   71   405    The Long Night
+00/06/29   72   406    Into the Fire
+00/07/06   73   407    Epiphanies
+00/07/13   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+00/07/20   75   409    Atonement
+00/07/27   76   410    Racing Mars
+00/08/03   77   411    Lines of Communication
+00/08/10   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+00/08/17   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+00/08/24   80   414    Moments of Transition
+00/08/31   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+00/09/07   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+00/09/14   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+00/09/21   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+00/09/28   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+00/10/05   86   420    Endgame
+00/10/12   87   421    Rising Star
+00/10/19   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

+Season Five +("The Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+00/10/26   89   502   No Compromises
+00/11/02   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+00/11/09   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+00/11/16   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+00/11/23   93   506   Learning Curve
+00/11/30   94   507   Strange Relations
+00/12/07   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+00/12/14   96   511   Day of the Dead
+00/12/21   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+00/12/28   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+01/01/04   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+01/01/11  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+01/01/18  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+01/01/25  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+01/02/01  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+01/02/08  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+01/02/15  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+01/02/22  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+01/03/01  107   520   The Wheel of Fire
+01/03/08  108   521   Objects in Motion
+01/03/15  109   522   Objects at Rest
+01/03/22  110   523   Sleeping in Light
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+Contents: + +Season 1 - +Season 2 - +Season 3 - +Season 4 - +Season 5 - +Movies - +Crusade - +Lost Tales +
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+See Also: + +Modification Times +to see which episode guide pages have changed. +
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+

The Lost Tales

+ +

+"Babylon 5: The Lost Tales" is a series of made-for-DVD movies released starting +in 2007. + +

Release Date  Title
+07/??/??      Voices in the Dark
+
+ +

+

The TV Series

+ +

+The pilot movie ("The Gathering") +and the first four seasons of B5 originally +aired in syndication on a variety of TV stations across the United States. +The fifth season aired on cable channel TNT, which also commissioned four +movies-of-the-week and aired the spinoff series, +"Crusade." +The spinoff was cancelled after JMS refused to let TNT executives interfere with +the characters and storyline. + +

+Later, the Sci-Fi Channel rebroadcast the entire series in widescreen format +and commissioned an fifth movie-of-the-week. + + +

+Season +One +("Signs and Portents") + + + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+03/03/31              The Gathering part 1
+03/04/01              The Gathering part 2
+03/04/02    1   103   Midnight on the Firing Line
+03/04/03    2   102   Soul Hunter
+03/04/04    3   104   Born to the Purple
+03/04/07    4   101   Infection
+03/04/08    5   108   The Parliament of Dreams
+03/04/09    6   110   Mind War
+03/04/10    7   107   The War Prayer
+03/04/11    8   106   And The Sky Full Of Stars
+03/04/14    9   113   Deathwalker
+03/04/15   10   105   Believers
+03/04/16   11   111   Survivors
+03/04/17   12   114   By Any Means Necessary
+03/04/18   13   116   Signs and Portents
+03/04/21   14   119   TKO
+03/04/22   15   109   Grail
+03/04/23   16   122   Eyes
+03/04/24   17   115   Legacies
+03/04/25   18   120   A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+03/04/28   19   121   A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+03/04/29   20   118   Babylon Squared
+03/04/30   21   117   The Quality of Mercy
+03/05/01   22   112   Chrysalis
+ +

+Season +Two +("The Coming Of Shadows") + +

03/05/02   23   201   Points of Departure
+03/05/05   24   202   Revelations
+03/05/06   25   203   The Geometry of Shadows
+03/05/07   26   204   A Distant Star
+03/05/08   27   205   The Long Dark
+03/05/09   28   206   A Spider in the Web
+03/05/12   29   208   Soul Mates
+03/05/13   30   207   A Race Through Dark Places
+03/05/14   31   209   The Coming of Shadows
+03/05/15   32   210   GROPOS
+03/05/16   33   211   All Alone in the Night
+03/05/19   34   212   Acts of Sacrifice
+03/05/20   35   213   Hunter, Prey
+03/05/21   36   215   There All the Honor Lies
+03/05/22   37   214   And Now For a Word
+03/05/27   38   217   In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+03/05/28   39   216   Knives
+03/05/29   40   218   Confessions and Lamentations
+03/05/30   41   220   Divided Loyalties
+03/06/02   42   219   The Long, Twilight Struggle
+03/06/03   43   221   Comes the Inquisitor
+03/06/04   44   222   The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

03/06/05   45   301   Matters of Honor
+03/06/06   46   302   Convictions
+03/06/09   47   303   A Day in the Strife
+03/06/10   48   305   Passing Through Gethsemane
+03/06/11   49   304   Voices of Authority
+03/06/12   50   306   Dust to Dust
+03/06/13   51   307   Exogenesis
+03/06/16   52   308   Messages from Earth
+03/06/17   53   309   Point of No Return
+03/06/18   54   310   Severed Dreams
+03/06/19   55   311   Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+03/06/20   56   313   Sic Transit Vir
+03/06/23   57   312   A Late Delivery from Avalon
+03/06/24   58   314   Ship of Tears
+03/06/25   59   315   Interludes and Examinations
+03/06/26   60   316   War Without End, Part One
+03/06/27   61   317   War Without End, Part Two
+03/06/30   62   318   Walkabout
+03/07/01   63   319   Grey 17 Is Missing
+03/07/02   64   320   And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+03/07/07   65   321   Shadow Dancing
+03/07/08   66   322   Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

03/07/09   67   401   The Hour of the Wolf
+03/07/10   68   402   Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+03/07/11   69   403   The Summoning
+03/07/14   70   404   Falling Toward Apotheosis
+03/07/15   71   405   The Long Night
+03/07/16   72   406   Into the Fire
+03/07/17   73   407   Epiphanies
+03/07/18   74   408   The Illusion of Truth
+03/07/21   75   409   Atonement
+03/07/22   76   410   Racing Mars
+03/07/23   77   411   Lines of Communication
+03/07/24   78   412   Conflicts of Interest
+03/07/25   79   413   Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+03/07/28   80   414   Moments of Transition
+03/07/29   81   415   No Surrender, No Retreat
+03/07/30   82   416   The Exercise of Vital Powers
+03/07/31   83   417   The Face of the Enemy
+03/08/01   84   418   Intersections in Real Time
+03/08/04   85   419   Between the Darkness and the Light
+03/08/05   86   420   Endgame
+03/08/06   87   421   Rising Star
+03/08/07   88   422   The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

03/08/08   89   502   No Compromises
+03/08/11   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+03/08/12   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+03/08/13   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+03/08/14   93   506   Learning Curve
+03/08/15   94   507   Strange Relations
+03/08/18   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+03/08/19   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+03/08/20   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+03/08/21   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+03/08/22   96   511   Day of the Dead
+03/08/25  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+03/08/26  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+03/08/27  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+03/08/28  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+03/08/29  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+03/09/01  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+03/09/02  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+03/09/03  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+03/09/04  108   521   Objects in Motion
+03/09/05  109   522   Objects at Rest
+03/09/08  110   523   Sleeping in Light
+ +

+Movies + +

+Use the +Master Episode List +to see when the movies take place in the chronology of the series. + +

00/12/17              The Gathering
+00/11/10     TNT MoW2 Babylon 5: In the Beginning
+00/12/01     TNT MoW1 Thirdspace
+00/12/08     TNT MoW3 The River of Souls
+00/12/17     TNT MoW4 A Call to Arms
+02/01/19              The Legend of the Rangers
+06/??/??              The Memory of Shadows
+ +

+Crusade + +

+This episode order is different than the original TNT broadcast order; +JMS feels that this order is best from a story point of view, even though +it means some visual inconsistencies in terms of unexplained costume changes. + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+01/04/09    9   103   Racing the Night
+01/04/10   11   101   The Needs of Earth
+01/04/11   10   102   The Memory of War
+01/04/12    2   107   The Long Road
+01/04/16   12   104   Visitors from Down the Street
+01/04/17    3   106   The Well of Forever
+01/04/18   13   105   Each Night I Dream of Home
+01/04/19    5   110   Patterns of the Soul
+01/04/23    4   109   The Path of Sorrows
+01/04/24    6   111   Ruling from the Tomb
+01/04/25    7   112   The Rules of the Game
+01/04/26    1   108   War Zone
+01/04/30    8   113   Appearances and Other Deceits
+ +

+[More Info] +The initial US broadcast schedule. + +

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+This page contains a complete historical listing of Babylon 5's +air dates in the US and most of Canada, including reruns. The information +for the current season is likely out of date; see the main +US/Canada episode list +for that. + +

+"R" after the production number indicates a rerun; an episode number indicates +a new episode. + +

+Pilot Movie +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+02/22/93               The Gathering   (title not shown onscreen)
+
+ +Season +One +("Signs and Portents") + +
01/26/94    1   103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+02/02/94    2   102    Soul Hunter
+02/09/94    3   104    Born to the Purple
+02/16/94    4   101    Infection
+02/23/94    5   108    The Parliament of Dreams
+03/02/94    6   110    Mind War
+03/09/94    7   107    The War Prayer
+03/16/94    8   106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+03/23/94        103R   Midnight on the Firing Line
+03/30/94        102R   Soul Hunter
+04/06/94        104R   Born to the Purple
+04/13/94        101R   Infection
+04/20/94    9   113    Deathwalker
+04/27/94   10   105    Believers
+05/04/94   11   111    Survivors
+05/11/94   12   114    By Any Means Necessary
+05/18/94   13   116    Signs and Portents
+05/25/94   14   119    TKO
+06/01/94        108R   The Parliament of Dreams
+06/08/94        110R   Mind War
+06/15/94        107R   The War Prayer
+06/22/94        106R   And The Sky Full Of Stars
+06/29/94        113R   Deathwalker
+07/06/94   15   109    Grail
+07/13/94   16   122    Eyes
+07/20/94   17   115    Legacies
+07/27/94   18   120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+08/03/94   19   121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+08/10/94   20   118    Babylon Squared
+08/17/94   21   117    The Quality of Mercy
+08/24/94        105R   Believers
+08/31/94        119R   TKO
+09/07/94        111R   Survivors
+09/14/94        116R   Signs and Portents
+09/21/94        114R   By Any Means Necessary
+09/28/94        109R   Grail
+10/05/94        122R   Eyes
+10/12/94        120R   A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+10/19/94        121R   A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+10/26/94   22   112    Chrysalis
+
+ +Season +Two +("The Coming Of Shadows") + +
11/02/94   23   201    Points of Departure
+11/09/94   24   202    Revelations
+11/16/94   25   203    The Geometry of Shadows
+11/23/94   26   204    A Distant Star
+11/30/94   27   205    The Long Dark
+12/07/94   28   206    A Spider in the Web
+12/14/94   29   208    Soul Mates
+12/21/94        201R   Points of Departure
+12/28/94        202R   Revelations
+01/04/95        203R   The Geometry of Shadows
+01/11/95        204R   A Distant Star
+01/18/95        205R   The Long Dark
+01/25/95   30   207    A Race Through Dark Places
+02/01/95   31   209    The Coming of Shadows
+02/08/95   32   210    GROPOS
+02/15/95   33   211    All Alone in the Night
+02/22/95   34   212    Acts of Sacrifice
+03/01/95   35   213    Hunter, Prey
+03/08/95               (none)
+03/15/95        201R   Points of Departure
+03/22/95        202R   Revelations
+03/29/95        203R   The Geometry of Shadows
+04/05/95        204R   A Distant Star
+04/12/95        208R   Soul Mates
+04/19/95        206R   A Spider in the Web
+04/26/95   36   215    There All the Honor Lies
+05/03/95   37   214    And Now For a Word
+05/10/95   38   217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+05/17/95   39   216    Knives
+05/24/95   40   218    Confessions and Lamentations
+05/31/95        205R   The Long Dark
+06/07/95        207R   A Race Through Dark Places
+06/14/95        209R   The Coming of Shadows
+06/21/95        210R   GROPOS
+06/28/95        211R   All Alone in the Night
+07/05/95        212R   Acts of Sacrifice
+07/12/95        213R   Hunter, Prey
+07/19/95        215R   There All the Honor Lies
+07/26/95        214R   And Now for a Word
+08/02/95        217R   In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+08/09/95        216R   Knives
+08/16/95        218R   Confessions and Lamentations
+08/23/95        207R   A Race Through Dark Places
+08/30/95        209R   The Coming of Shadows
+09/06/95        205R   The Long Dark
+09/13/95        210R   GROPOS
+09/19/95        211R   All Alone in the Night
+09/27/95        212R   Acts of Sacrifice
+10/04/95        213R   Hunter, Prey
+10/11/95   41   220    Divided Loyalties
+10/18/95   42   219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+10/25/95   43   221    Comes the Inquisitor
+11/01/95   44   222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

Week Of   Ep#   Prod#  Title
+11/06/95   45   301    Matters of Honor
+11/13/95   46   302    Convictions
+11/20/95   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+11/27/95   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+12/04/95        213R   Hunter, Prey
+12/11/95        220R   Divided Loyalties
+12/18/95        219R   The Long, Twilight Struggle
+12/25/95        221R   Comes the Inquisitor
+01/01/96        301R   Matters of Honor
+01/08/96        302R   Convictions
+01/15/96        303R   A Day in the Strife
+01/22/96        305R   Passing Through Gethsemane
+01/29/96   49   304    Voices of Authority
+02/05/96   50   306    Dust to Dust
+02/12/96   51   307    Exogenesis
+02/19/96   52   308    Messages from Earth
+02/26/96   53   309    Point of No Return
+03/04/96        222R   The Fall of Night
+03/11/96        215R   There All the Honor Lies
+03/18/96        214R   And Now For a Word
+03/25/96        217R   In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+04/01/96   54   310    Severed Dreams
+04/08/96   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+04/15/96   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+04/22/96   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+04/29/96   58   314    Ship of Tears
+05/06/96   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+05/13/96   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+05/20/96   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+05/27/96        310R   Severed Dreams
+06/03/96        311R   Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+06/10/96        313R   Sic Transit Vir
+06/17/96        312R   A Late Delivery from Avalon
+06/24/96        314R   Ship of Tears
+07/01/96        315R   Interludes and Examinations
+07/08/96        316R   War Without End, Part One
+07/15/96        317R   War Without End, Part Two
+07/22/96        301R   Matters of Honor
+07/29/96        302R   Convictions
+08/05/96        303R   A Day in the Strife
+08/12/96        305R   Passing Through Gethsemane
+08/19/96        304R   Voices of Authority
+08/26/96        306R   Dust to Dust
+09/02/96        310R   Severed Dreams
+09/09/96        311R   Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+09/16/96        313R   Sic Transit Vir
+09/23/96        209R   The Coming of Shadows
+09/30/96   62   318    Walkabout
+10/07/96   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+10/14/96   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+10/21/96   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+10/28/96   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +
11/04/96   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+11/11/96   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+11/18/96   69   403    The Summoning
+11/25/96   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+12/02/96        318R   Walkabout
+12/09/96        320R   And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+12/16/96        321R   Shadow Dancing
+12/23/96        322R   Z'ha'dum
+12/30/96        401R   The Hour of the Wolf
+01/06/97        402R   What Ever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+01/13/97        403R   The Summoning
+01/20/97        404R   Falling Toward Apotheosis
+01/27/97   71   405    The Long Night
+02/03/97   72   406    Into the Fire
+02/10/97   73   407    Epiphanies
+02/17/97   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+02/24/97   75   409    Atonement
+03/03/97        319R   Grey 17 Is Missing
+03/10/97        318R   Walkabout
+03/17/97        405R   The Long Night
+03/24/97        406R   Into the Fire
+03/31/97        407R   Epiphanies
+04/07/97        408R   The Illusion of Truth
+04/14/97        409R   Atonement
+04/21/97   76   410    Racing Mars
+04/28/97   77   411    Lines of Communication
+05/05/97   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+05/12/97   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+05/19/97   80   414    Moments of Transition
+05/26/97   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+06/02/97   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+06/09/97   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+06/16/97   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+06/23/97        410R   Racing Mars
+06/30/97        411R   Lines of Communication
+07/07/97        412R   Conflicts of Interest
+07/14/97        413R   Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+07/21/97        414R   Moments of Transition
+07/28/97        415R   No Surrender, No Retreat
+08/04/97        416R   The Exercise of Vital Powers
+08/11/97        417R   The Face of the Enemy
+08/18/97        418R   Intersections in Real Time
+08/25/97        413R   Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+09/01/97        414R   Moments of Transition
+09/08/97        415R   No Surrender, No Retreat
+09/15/97        416R   The Exercise of Vital Powers
+09/22/97        417R   The Face of the Enemy
+09/29/97        418R   Intersections in Real Time
+10/06/97   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+10/13/97   86   420    Endgame
+10/20/97   87   421    Rising Star
+10/27/97   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+ +

+Season Five + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+98/01/21   89   502   No Compromises
+98/01/28   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+98/02/04   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+98/02/11   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+98/02/18   93   506   Learning Curve
+98/02/25   94   507   Strange Relations
+98/03/04   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+98/03/11   96   511   Day of the Dead
+98/03/18   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+98/03/25   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+98/04/01   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+98/04/08  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+98/04/15  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+98/05/27  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+98/06/03  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+98/06/10  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+98/06/17  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+98/10/28  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+98/11/04  107   520   Objects in Motion
+98/11/11  108   521   Objects at Rest
+98/11/18  109   522   Wheel of Fire
+98/11/25  110   522a  Sleeping in Light
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Current Episodes

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+Season Five +("Wheel of Fire") + +

Air Date  Ep#  Prod#  Title
+99/05/03   89   502   No Compromises
+99/05/04   90   503   The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+99/05/05   91   504   The Paragon of Animals
+99/05/06   92   505   A View from the Gallery
+99/05/07   93   506   Learning Curve
+99/05/10   94   507   Strange Relations
+99/05/11   95   508   Secrets of the Soul
+99/05/12   97   509   In the Kingdom of the Blind
+99/05/13   96   511   Day of the Dead
+99/05/14   98   510   A Tragedy of Telepaths
+99/05/17   99   512   Phoenix Rising
+99/05/18  100   513   The Ragged Edge
+99/05/19  101   514   The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+99/05/20  102   515   Meditations on the Abyss
+99/05/21  103   516   Darkness Ascending
+99/05/24  104   517   And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+99/05/25  105   518   Movements of Fire and Shadow
+99/05/26  106   519   The Fall of Centauri Prime
+99/05/27  107   520   Wheel of Fire
+99/05/28  108   521   Objects in Motion
+99/05/31  109   522   Objects at Rest
+99/06/01  110   523   Sleeping in Light
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Previous Episodes

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+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+                       The Gathering
+97/08/31   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+97/09/02   2    102    Soul Hunter
+97/09/07   3    104    Born to the Purple
+97/09/09   4    101    Infection
+97/09/14   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+97/09/16   6    110    Mind War
+97/09/21   7    107    The War Prayer
+97/09/23   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+97/09/28   9    113    Deathwalker
+97/09/30  10    105    Believers
+??/??/??  11    111    Survivors
+??/??/??  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+??/??/??  13    116    Signs and Portents
+??/??/??  14    119    TKO
+??/??/??  15    109    Grail
+??/??/??  16    122    Eyes
+??/??/??  17    115    Legacies
+??/??/??  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+??/??/??  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+??/??/??  20    118    Babylon Squared
+??/??/??  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+??/??/??  22    112    Chrysalis (season finale)
+ +

+Season Two +("The Coming of Shadows") + +

Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+99/01/24  23    201    Points of Departure
+99/01/25  24    202    Revelations
+99/01/26  44    222    The Fall of Night
+99/01/27  25    203    The Geometry of Shadows
+99/01/28  26    204    A Distant Star
+99/01/31  27    205    The Long Dark
+99/02/01  28    206    A Spider in the Web
+99/02/02  29    208    Soul Mates
+99/02/03  30    207    A Race Through Dark Places
+99/02/04  31    209    The Coming of Shadows
+99/02/07  32    210    GROPOS
+99/02/08  33    211    All Alone in the Night
+99/02/09  34    212    Acts of Sacrifice
+99/02/10  35    213    Hunter, Prey
+99/02/11  36    215    There All the Honor Lies
+99/02/14  37    214    And Now For a Word
+99/02/15  38    217    In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+99/02/16  39    216    Knives
+99/02/17  40    218    Confessions and Lamentations
+99/02/18  41    220    Divided Loyalties
+99/02/21  42    219    The Long, Twilight Struggle
+99/02/22  43    221    Comes the Inquisitor
+99/02/23  44    222    The Fall of Night
+ +

+Season Three +("Point of No Return") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+99/02/24   45   301    Matters of Honor
+99/02/25   46   302    Convictions
+99/02/28   47   303    A Day in the Strife
+99/03/01   48   305    Passing Through Gethsemane
+99/03/02   49   304    Voices of Authority
+99/03/03   50   306    Dust to Dust
+99/03/04   51   307    Exogenesis
+99/03/07   52   308    Messages from Earth
+99/03/08   53   309    Point of No Return
+99/03/09   54   310    Severed Dreams
+99/03/10   55   311    Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+99/03/11   56   313    Sic Transit Vir
+99/03/14   57   312    A Late Delivery from Avalon
+99/03/15   58   314    Ship of Tears
+99/03/16   59   315    Interludes and Examinations
+99/03/17   60   316    War Without End, Part One
+99/03/18   61   317    War Without End, Part Two
+99/03/21   62   318    Walkabout
+99/03/23   63   319    Grey 17 Is Missing
+99/03/24   64   320    And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+99/03/25   65   321    Shadow Dancing
+99/03/26   66   322    Z'ha'dum
+ +

+Season +Four +("No Surrender, No Retreat") + +

Air Date  Ep#   Prod#  Title
+99/03/27   67   401    The Hour of the Wolf
+99/03/29   68   402    Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+99/03/30   69   403    The Summoning
+99/03/31   70   404    Falling Toward Apotheosis
+99/04/01   71   405    The Long Night
+99/04/02   72   406    Into the Fire
+99/04/05   73   407    Epiphanies
+99/04/06   74   408    The Illusion of Truth
+99/04/07   75   409    Atonement
+99/04/08   76   410    Racing Mars
+99/04/09   77   411    Lines of Communication
+99/04/12   78   412    Conflicts of Interest
+99/04/13   79   413    Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+99/04/14   80   414    Moments of Transition
+99/04/15   81   415    No Surrender, No Retreat
+99/04/16   82   416    The Exercise of Vital Powers
+99/04/19   83   417    The Face of the Enemy
+99/04/20   84   418    Intersections in Real Time
+99/04/21   85   419    Between the Darkness and the Light
+99/04/22   86   420    Endgame
+99/04/23   87   421    Rising Star
+99/04/26   88   422    The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
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+This is the air schedule for season one of Babylon 5, airing +Sundays at 22:00 on +E-TV. +E-TV appears to be following the episode order from the Lurker's Guide's +master episode list. + +

+Season One +("Signs and Portents") + +

+Air Date  Air#  Prod#  Title
+98/10/04               The Gathering
+98/10/11   1    103    Midnight on the Firing Line
+98/10/18   2    102    Soul Hunter
+98/10/25   3    104    Born to the Purple
+98/11/01   4    101    Infection
+98/11/08   5    108    The Parliament of Dreams
+98/11/15   6    110    Mind War
+98/11/22   7    107    The War Prayer
+98/11/29   8    106    And The Sky Full Of Stars
+98/12/06   9    113    Deathwalker
+98/12/13  10    105    Believers
+98/12/20  11    111    Survivors
+98/12/27  21    117    The Quality of Mercy
+99/01/03  12    114    By Any Means Necessary
+99/01/10  13    116    Signs and Portents
+99/01/17  15    109    Grail
+99/01/24  16    122    Eyes
+99/01/31  14    119    TKO
+99/02/07  18    120    A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
+99/02/14  19    121    A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
+99/02/21  20    118    Babylon Squared
+99/02/28  17    115    Legacies
+99/03/07  22    112    Chrysalis
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SINISE, A.C.E. + + Production Designer + JOHN IACOVELLI + + Director of Photography + BILLY DICKSON + + Producer + ROBERT LATHAM BROWN + + Co-Producer + JOHN COPELAND + + Written by + J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + + Directed by + RICHARD COMPTON + + BABYLON 5 + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer + DOUGLAS NETTER + + Co-Executive Producer + J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Casting by + MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Starring + MICHAEL O'HARE Jeffrey Sinclair + TAMLYN TOMITA Laurel Takashima + JERRY DOYLE Michael Garibaldi + MIRA FURLAN Delenn + + Guest Starring + BLAIRE BARON Carolyn Sykes + JOHN FLECK Del Varner + PAUL HAMPTON The Senator + PETER JURASIK Londo Mollari + ANDREAS KATSULAS G'Kar + JOHNNY SEKKA Dr. Benjamin Kyle + PATRICIA TALLMAN Lyta Alexander + + Co-Starring + STEVEN R. BARNETT Eric + WILLIAM HAYES Traveler + LINDA HOFFMAN Tech #2 + ROBERT JASON JACKSON Tech #3 + F. WILLIAM PARKER Business Man #1 + MARIANNE ROBERTSON Hostage + DAVE SAGE Business Man #2 + ED WASSER Guerra + + Unit Production Manager + ROBERT LATHAM BROWN + + 1st Assistant Director + JOHN RADULOVIC + + 2nd Assistant Director + JOSEPH N. (J.J.) LINSALATA + + Costume Designer + CATHERINE ADAIR + + Visual Effects Designed by + RON THORNTON + + Art Directors DEBORAH RAYMOND + DORIAN VERNACCHIO + Assistant Art Directors TED HAIGH + CHRIS MULLER + Set Designer COLIN DeROUIN + Set Dresser MICHAEL MORA + Key Scenic Artist RUTH GILMORE + Conceptual Artists PETER LEDGER + SUSIE WILSON + + Wardrobe Supervisor ALAN TRUGMAN + Wardrobe Key Set SUSAN ROBERTS + Key Makeup SUZANNE SANDERS + Key Hair MYKE MICHAELS + Property Master GUY PEPIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Coordinator SHANNON CASEY + Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + RICHARD PAYNE + MARK SWAIN + Special Effects Coordinator JOHN STEARS + + + Special Effects + Makeup Supervisor JOHN CRISWELL + Shop Foreman GREG ARONOWITZ + Makeup Supervisor ROB SHERWOOD + Makeup Sculpture & Application RON WILD + + Assistant Editor JOE BINFORD, JR. + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Director of Sound Services PAUL RODRIGUEZ + Supervising Sound Editor GEORGE JOHNSEN + Sound Designer HARRY COHEN + + Dialogue/ADR Editor CATHIE SPEAKMAN + Re-Recording Mixers KEN TEANEY + BILL FREESH + GEORGE JOHNSEN + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Coordinator ALYSON EVANS + Asst. Production Coordinator KAREN MEISELS + DGA Trainee CLARE DURAND + Production Accountant MARGE ROWLAND + Asst. to Executive Producer SCOTT ROSS + + Camera Operator STEPHEN COLLINS + 1st Assistant Camera STEVEN R. MONROE + 2nd Assistant Camera JAMES BALL + Sound Mixer JIM TANENBAUM + Boom Operator CINDY GESS + Gaffer JOHN K. FARR + Key Grip JAN M. HEYNEKER + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSAL + Stunts FRANK J. SPARKS + + Video Toaster Rendring System + NEW TEK, INC. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Digitally Edited on the AVID MEDIA COMPOSER + + Pin Register Transfers & Digital Optical Compositing + ACTION VIDEO, HOLLYWOOD + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORIORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) by LASER-PACIFIC + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + VARI LITE + Chatsworth, CA + + Filmed at Santa Clarita Studious + Santa Clarita, CA + + (c) 1993 PTEN Consortium + All Rights Reserved + + Country of first publication United States of America + Elliot, Friedgen & Co., Inc. is the author of this motion + picture for purposes of the Berne Convention and all + national laws giving effect thereto. diff --git a/credits/000-head b/credits/000-head new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2ab4ad60 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/000-head @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +See Also: +Special Edition credits diff --git a/credits/000a b/credits/000a new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1429c22a --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/000a @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ +Note: Differences from the original credits are indicated in [brackets]. + + + TNT presents + a special edition + of + BABYLON 5 + The Gathering + + presented in +DD SURROUND TM + + Starring +Michael O'Hare as Jeffrey Sinclair +Tamlyn Tomita as Laurel Takashima +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Guest Starring +Blaire Baron as Carolyn Sykes +John Fleck as Del Varner +Paul Hampton as The Senator +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar +Johnny Sekka as Dr. Benjamin Kyle +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Robert L. Sinise, A.S.C. + Production Coordinator John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Billy Dickson + Co-Producer George Copeland + Produced by Robert Latham Brown + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Richard Compton +[Music was by Stewart Copeland] +[Robert Latham Brown's title was "Producer"] + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski +[Joe's title was "Co-Executive Producer"] + +[closing credits] + + Co-Starring +Steven R. Barnett Eric +William Hayes Traveler +Linda Hoffman Tech #2 +Robert Jason Jackson Tech #3 +F. William Parker Business Man #1 +Marianne Robertson Hostage +David Sage Business Man #2 +Ed Wasser Guerra +[David's name was Dave Sage] + + Unit Production Manager Robert Latham Brown + 1st Assistant Director John Radulovic + 2nd Assistant Director Joseph N. Linsalata +[Joseph's name was Joseph N. (J.J.) Linsalata] + + Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed By Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra +[this section added] + + Costume Designer Catherine Adair + +Original Visual Effects Designed by Ron Thorton +[Ron's last name was Thornton] + +Original Visual Effects Produced by Foundation Imaging + Special Effects Coordinator John Stears +[Original credits included: ] +[ Computer Imaging Supervisor Paul Beigle-Bryant ] +[ Visual Effects Coordinator Shannon Casey ] +[ Animators Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz ] +[ Richard Payne ] +[ Mark Swain ] +[between Foundation Imagins and John Stears ] + +Additional Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + Supervising Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Anderson +[this section added] + + Art Directors Deborah Raymond + Dorian Vernacchio + Assistant Art Directors Ted Haigh + Chris Muller + + Set Designer Colin DeRouin + Set Dresser Michael Mora + Key Scenic Artist Ruth Gilmore + Conceptual Artists Peter Ledger + Susie Wilson + + Wardrobe Supervisor Alan Trugman + Wardrobe Key Set Susan Roberts + Key Make-Up Suzanne Sanders + Key Hair Myke Michaels + Property Master Guy Pepin +[Make-Up was spelled Makeup] + +Special Effects Makeup Supervisor John Criswell + Shop Foreman Greg Aronowitz + Make-Up Supervisor Rob Sherwood + Make-Up Sculpture & Application Ron Wild + + Special Edition Editing by Suzanne Sternlicht + Assistant Editor Joe Binford, Jr. + Post Production Coordinator Susan Norkin + Sound Designer Harry Cohen +[Suzanne's credit added] +[Original credits included: ] +[ Director of Sound Services PAUL RODRIGUEZ ] +[ Supervising Sound Editor GEORGE JOHNSEN ] +[between Susan Norkin and Harry Cohen ] + + Dialogue/ADR Editor Cathie Speakman + Re-Recording Mixers Ken Teaney + Bill Freesh + George Johnsen + + Additional Re-Recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Additional Sound Supervising Michael Payne +[this section added] + + Script Supervisor Haley McLane + Production Coordinator Alyson Evans +Assistant Production Coordinator Karen Meisels + DGA Trainee Clare Durand + Production Accountant Marge Rowland +[McLane's first name was spelled Haly] +[Production Accountant was misspelled Prodcution] +[Original credits included: ] +[ Asst. to Executive Producer Scott Ross ] +[after Marge Rowland ] + + Camera Operator Stephen Collins + 1st Assistant Camera Steven R. Monroe + 2nd Assistant Camera James Ball + Sound Mixer Jim Tanenbaum + Boom Operator Cindy Gess + + Gaffer John K. Farr + Key Grip Jan M. Heyneker + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossal + Stunts Frank J. Sparks + +[Original credits included: ] +[ Video Toaster Rendring System New Tek, Inc. ] + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Camera & Lenses + Digitally Edited on the Avid Media Composer +[Originally Camera was plural] + +[Original credits included: ] +[ Pin Register Transfers & Digital Optical Compositing ] +[ Action Video, Hollywood ] + + Color by Pacific Film Laboriories + Electronic Laboratory(TM) by Laser-Pacific + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by EFX Systems + + Vari Lite + Chatsworth, CA + + Filmed at Santa Clarita Studious + Santa Clarita, CA + + (c) 1993 PTN Consortium + All Rights Reserved +[Originally copyrighted to PTEN Consortium] + + Country of first publication: + United States of America + Elliot Friedgen & Co., Inc. is the author of this + motion picture for purposes of the + Berne Convention and all + national laws giving effect thereto. diff --git a/credits/000a-head b/credits/000a-head new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd6ba05c --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/000a-head @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +See Also: +Original Edition credits diff --git a/credits/001 b/credits/001 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..08bff1c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/001 @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "MIDNIGHT ON THE FIRING LINE" + + GUEST STARRING +PAUL HAMPTON as The Senator + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by RICHARD COMPTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +PETER TRENCHER as Carn Mollari + + Featuring +JEFF AUSTIN Centauri #1 +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +MAGGIE EGAN Newsperson +MARK HENDRICKSON Narn Captain +DOUGLAS E. McCOY Delta 7 +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director MICHAEL J. SCHILZ + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Directors DORIAN VERNACCHIO + DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + BILL FREESH + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor LISA M. CITRON + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Pin Registered Transfers & + Digital Optical Compositing + Action Video, Hollywood + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 103 + diff --git a/credits/002 b/credits/002 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4aabe2ec --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/002 @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SOUL HUNTER" + + GUEST STARRING +W. MORGAN SHEPPARD as The Soul Hunter + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +JOHN SNYDER Soul Hunter #2 + + Featuring +TONI ATTELL Med Tech #1 +JIM BENTLEY Man +MARK CONLEY Tech #1 +DAVID D. DARLING Guard #1 +TED W. HENNING Guard #2 +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #2 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director MICHAEL J. SCHILZ + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Directors DORIAN VERNACCHIO + DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Pin Registered Transfers & + Digital Optical Compositing + Action Video, Hollywood + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 102 + diff --git a/credits/003 b/credits/003 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cdf1190a --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/003 @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +MARY WORONOV as Ko D'Ath + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "BORN TO THE PURPLE" + + GUEST STARRING +FABIANA UDENIO as Adira Tyree +CLIVE REVILL as Trakis + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + Directed by BRUCE SETH GREEN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +JIMM GIANNINI Ock +ROBERT PHALEN Andrei Ivanova + + Featuring +ROBERT DITILLIO Norg +TOM LOWE Gunman #1 +KATHERINE MILLS Dancer +MIKE NORRIS Butz +LAURA PETERSON Gera Akshi +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 +MOMO YASHIMA Dr. Goyokin + + + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director MICHAEL J. SCHILZ + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Directors DORIAN VERNACCHIO + DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 104 + diff --git a/credits/004 b/credits/004 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6fdd514b --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/004 @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "INFECTION" + + GUEST STARRING +DAVID McCALLUM as Dr. Vance Hendricks +MARSHALL TEAGUE as Nelson Drake + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by RICHARD COMPTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +PATRICIA HEALY Mary Ann Cramer + + Featuring +SAV FARROW Tech #1 +DANIEL HUTCHINSON Security Guard +SYLVA KELEGIAN Tech #2 +TONY RIZZOLI Guard +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #3 +PAUL YEUELL Customs Guard + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director MICHAEL J. SCHILZ + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Directors DORIAN VERNACCHIO + DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects Coordinator JOHN STEARS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 101 diff --git a/credits/005 b/credits/005 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8c60748e --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/005 @@ -0,0 +1,163 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE PARLIAMENT OF DREAMS" + + GUEST STARRING +JULIA NICKSON as Catherine Sakai +THOMAS KOPACHE as Tu'Pari + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOY HARDIN Narn #1 +MARK HENDRICKSON Du'Rog +CALVIN JUNG Guard +RANDALL KIRBY Businessman #1 +MICHAEL McKENZIE Pilgrim +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Dome Tech +GLENN ROBINSON Head Waiter +ERICH MARTIN VON HICKS Businessman #2 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 108 diff --git a/credits/006 b/credits/006 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1c9ae490 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/006 @@ -0,0 +1,171 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "MIND WAR" + + GUEST STARRING +WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG as Jason Ironheart +FELICITY WATERMAN as Kelsey +JULIA NICKSON as Catherine Sakai + + AND +WALTER KOENIG as Bester + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by BRUCE SETH GREEN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +DON DOWE Earth Fighter +ELISA PENSLER GABRIELLI Guest Liaison +MICHAEL McKENZIE Narn Captain +KEVIN PAGE Businessman +MARK S. PORRO Security Guard + + Featuring +MACAULAY BRUTON Garibaldi's Aide +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Dome Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 110 + diff --git a/credits/007 b/credits/007 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f89f26f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/007 @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE WAR PRAYER" + + GUEST STARRING +TRISTAN ROGERS as Malcolm Biggs +NANCY LEE GRAHN as Shaal Mayan +MICHAEL PAUL CHAN as Roberts +RODNEY EASTMAN as Kiron Maray +DANICA McKELLAR as Aria Tensus + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by D.C. FONTANA + Directed by RICHARD COMPTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +DIANE ADAIR Mila Shar +RICHARD CHAVES Alvares +MARK HENDRICKSON Thegras + + Featuring +CHUCK BUTTO Security Officer #1 +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +MIKE GUNTHER Alien #1 +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Dome Tech + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director MICHAEL J. SCHILZ + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Directors DORIAN VERNACCHIO + DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 107 + diff --git a/credits/008 b/credits/008 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2f266c20 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/008 @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "AND THE SKY FULL OF STARS" + + GUEST STARRING +CHRISTOPHER NEAME as Knight Two +JUDSON SCOTT as Knight One +JIM YOUNGS as Benson +JUSTIN WILLIAMS as Mitchell + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JANET GREEK + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +JOE BANKS Guard +GARY CERVANTES Strongarm #1 +MARK HENDRICKSON Grey Council #1 +FUMI SHISHINO Security Guard + + Featuring +MACAULAY BRUTON Aide +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director MICHAEL J. SCHILZ + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Directors DORIAN VERNACCHIO + DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor LISA M. CITRON + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 106 + diff --git a/credits/009 b/credits/009 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a785374e --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/009 @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "DEATHWALKER" + + GUEST STARRING +SARAH DOUGLAS as Jha'dur +ROBIN CURTIS as Ambassador Kalika +COSIE COSTA as Abbut +AKI ALEONG as Senator Hidoshi + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + Directed by BRUCE SETH GREEN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +ROBERT DITILLIO Ambassador #1 +SAV FARROW Tech #2 +MARK HENDRICKSON Ashok +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 113 diff --git a/credits/010 b/credits/010 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e763255b --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/010 @@ -0,0 +1,159 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "BELIEVERS" + + GUEST STARRING +TRICIA O'NEIL as M'ola +STEPHEN LEE as Tharg +JONATHAN CHARLES KAPLAN as Shon +SILVANA GALLARDO as Maya Hernandez + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by DAVID GERROLD + Directed by RICHARD COMPTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN as Kosh + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director MICHAEL J. SCHILZ + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Directors DORIAN VERNACCHIO + DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 105 diff --git a/credits/011 b/credits/011 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c4d8a234 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/011 @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SURVIVORS" + + GUEST STARRING +ELAINE THOMAS as Lianna Kemmer +TOM DONALDSON as Cutter + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by MARC SCOTT ZICREE + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +DAVID AUSTIN COOK Special Agent #1 +DAVID CROWLEY Lou Welch +MAGGIE EGAN ISN Reporter +JOSE ROSARIO Nolan +ROBIN WAKE Young Lianna + + Featuring +MARK HENDRICKSON Alien #1 +ROD PERRY General Netter +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 111 diff --git a/credits/012 b/credits/012 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dcb7a5f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/012 @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY" + + GUEST STARRING +KATY BOYER as Neeoma Connally +JOHN SNYDER as Orin Zento +AKI ALEONG as Senator Hidoshi + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by KATHRYN M. DRENNAN + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +PATRICIA HEALY Mary Ann Cramer +MICHAEL McKENZIE Narn Captain +JOSE REY Eduardo Delvientos +RICARDO MARTINEZ Worker #2 +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 +FLOYD VAUGHN Worker #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 114 diff --git a/credits/013 b/credits/013 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2ba1b5bb --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/013 @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SIGNS AND PORTENTS" + + GUEST STARRING +GERRIT GRAHAM as Lord Kiro +FREDI OLSTER as Lady Ladira +WHIP HUBLEY as Raider #1 + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JANET GREEK + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ANITA BRABEC Dome Tech #3 +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JOSHUA COX Dome Tech #2 +GARRY KLUGER Man +LEE MATHIS Fighter #1 +DOUGLAS E. McCOY Fighter #2 +HECTOR MERCADO Pilot +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Dome Tech #1 +ROBERT SILVER Reno +ED WASSER Morden +LYNN RED WILLIAMS Customs Guard + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 116 diff --git a/credits/014 b/credits/014 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..24981711 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/014 @@ -0,0 +1,165 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "TKO" + + GUEST STARRING +GREG McKINNEY as Walker Smith +SOON-TECK OH as The Muta-Do +DON STROUD as Caliban +THEODORE BIKEL as Rabbi Koslov + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + Directed by JOHN C. FLINN, III + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JAMES JUDE COURTNEY Gyor +ROBERT PHALEN Andrei Ivanov +LENORE KASDORF ISN Reporter +MICHAEL McKENZIE Migo +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 119 diff --git a/credits/015 b/credits/015 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..62957431 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/015 @@ -0,0 +1,163 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "GRAIL" + + GUEST STARRING +DAVID WARNER as Aldous Gajic +WILLIAM SANDERSON as Deuce +TOM BOOKER as Jinxo +JIM NORTON as Ombuds Wellington + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer RICHARD COMPTON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by CHRISTY MARX + Directed by RICHARD COMPTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +LINDA LODGE Mirriam Runningdear + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JOHN FLINN Mr. Flinn +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist MYKE MICHAELS + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor LISA M. CITRON + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 109 diff --git a/credits/016 b/credits/016 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a758895b --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/016 @@ -0,0 +1,160 @@ + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "EYES" + + GUEST STARRING +GREGORY MARTIN as Colonel Ari Ben Zayn +JEFFREY COMBS as Harriman Gray + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +MACAULEY BRUTON Tragedy +MARIE CHAMBERS Sofie Ivanov [sic] +DAVID L. CROWLEY Lou Welch +FRANK FARMER General Miller +DREW LETCHWORTH Comedy +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 122 diff --git a/credits/017 b/credits/017 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..96089a6a --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/017 @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "LEGACIES" + + GUEST STARRING +JOHN VICKERY as Neroon +GRACE UNA as Alisa Beldon + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by D.C. FONTANA + Directed by BRUCE SETH GREEN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOSHUA COX Tech #2 +RICHARD HENRY Security Man +PATRICK O'BRIEN Cart Owner +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor LISA M. CITRON + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 115 diff --git a/credits/018 b/credits/018 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5fc6357e --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/018 @@ -0,0 +1,170 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS" + PART I + + GUEST STARRING +LOUIS TURENNE as Draal +CURT LOWENS as Varn + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JANET GREEK + +[end credits] + + To Be Continued... + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +CRAIG BARNETT Security Guard +LANGDON BENSING Derek Mobotabwe +KELLY COYLE Earthforce Liaison +KATHRYN CRESSIDA Bartender +JIM ISHIDA Dr. Tasaki +LENORE KASDORF ISN Reporter +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 +PATTY TOY PSI Corps Rep +JERRY WEIL Technician + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 120 diff --git a/credits/019 b/credits/019 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..98a69586 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/019 @@ -0,0 +1,167 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS" + PART II + + GUEST STARRING +LOUIS TURENNE as Draal +RON CANADA as Captain Ellis Pierce +CURT LOWENS as Varn +DENISE GENTILE as Lise Hampton +AKI ALEONG as Senator Hidoshi + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JANET GREEK + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOSHUA COX Tech #2 +CHIP HELLER Rowdy #1 +LENORE KASDORF ISN Reporter +MICHELAN SISTI Takarn +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor LISA M. CITRON + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 121 diff --git a/credits/020 b/credits/020 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6976377b --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/020 @@ -0,0 +1,163 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "BABYLON SQUARED" + + GUEST STARRING +KENT BROADHURST as Major Krantz +TIM CHOATE as Zathras +DENISE GENTILE as Lise Hampton + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +FRANK COSTA B4 Guard +MARK HENDRICKSON Grey Council #2 +DOUG E. McCOY Alpha Seven +TOMMY ROSALES Panicked Man +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech #1 + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DOUG CORRING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor LISA M. CITRON + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 118 diff --git a/credits/021 b/credits/021 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..148d2fc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/021 @@ -0,0 +1,166 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE QUALITY OF MERCY" + + GUEST STARRING +JUNE LOCKHART as Dr. Laura Rosen +KATE McNEIL as Janice Rosen +MARK ROLSTON as Karl Mueller +DAMIAN LONDON as Centauri Senator +JIM NORTON as Ombuds Wellington + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by LORRAINE SENNA FERRARA + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +LYNN ANDERSON Rose +PHILIPPE BERGERON Lurker +DAVID CROWLEY Second Guard +KEVIN McBRIDE Guard +CONSTANCE ZIMMER Young Woman Patient + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director DOUG CORRING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 117 diff --git a/credits/022 b/credits/022 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c8670c90 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/022 @@ -0,0 +1,172 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +MICHAEL O'HARE as Commander Jeffrey Sinclair +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +CAITLIN BROWN as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "CHRYSALIS" + + GUEST STARRING +JULIA NICKSON as Catherine Sakai + + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JANET GREEK + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +MACAULAY BRUTON Garibaldi's Aide +LIZ BURNETTE Lurker #1 +EDWARD CONERY Devereaux +MAGGIE EGAN News Anchor +CHERYL FRANCIS HARRINGTON Senator +MARK HENDRICKSON Narn Pilot +JAMES KIRIYAMA-LEM Med Tech +WESLEY LEONG Paramedic +GIANIN LOFFLER Lurker #2 +DAVID ANTHONY MARSHALL Stephen Petrov +GARY McGURK Morgan Clark +JOHN RIOJAS Guard +MARIANNE ROBERTSON Tech +FUMI SHISHINO Screaming Woman +ED WASSER Morden +BERGEN WILLIAMS Security Guard + + Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director DEBORAH RAYMOND + Property Master BARBARA COLE + Set Decorator NANCY S. FALLACE + Leadman JASON HOWARD + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Make-up Artist MARY KAY MORSE + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + + Camera Operator EYAL GORDIN + 1st Assistant Camera PETER B. KOWALSKI + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer PATRICK MITCHELL + Sound Design JON JOHNSON, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + TODD ORR + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor LISA M. CITRON + Assistant Editor MARLA K. BECHTEL + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH FISCHER + Casting Associate STEVE BROOKSBANK + + Script Coordinator REBECCA LANGENFELD + Executive Producer's Assistant TRACIE ESPARZA + Producer's Assistant KELSEY KLINE + Special Effect Contact Lenses by BODYTECH + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + 3D Visual Effects System + The Video Toaster(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1993 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 112 diff --git a/credits/023 b/credits/023 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b7950544 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/023 @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "POINTS OF DEPARTURE" + + GUEST STARRING +RICHARD GROVE as Kalain +ROBIN SACHS as Hedronn + + SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY +ROBERT FOXWORTH as General William Hague + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JANET GREEK + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JENNIFER ANGLIN Deeron +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Ambassador #1 +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +KIM DELGADO Dome Tech #3 +RUS FEGA Merchant #1 +BENNET GUILLORY Merchant #2 +CATHERINE HADER Young Woman +MARK HENDRICKSON Ambassador #2 +KRISTOPHER LOGAN Ambassador #3 +MICHAEL McKENZIE Vastor +DEBRA SHARKEY Tech #2 +BRIAN STARCHER Other Pilot +KIM STRAUSS Ensign +THOMAS VALINOTE Security Guard #2 +GREG WRANGLER Security Guard #1 + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual FX Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + On Set Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Sound Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixer TERRY O'BRIGHT + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(tm) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(tm) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 201 + + + + diff --git a/credits/024 b/credits/024 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1f02ff10 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/024 @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "REVELATIONS" + + GUEST STARRING +BEVERLY LEECH as Elizabeth Sheridan +MACAULAY BRUTON as Garibaldi's Aide + + SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY +BETH TOUSSAINT as Anna Sheridan + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +DAVID L. CROWLEY Lou Welch +MARK HENDRICKSON Narn Captain +JAMES KIRIYAMA-LEM Med Tech +GARY McGURK President Clark +MICHAEL McKENZIE Narn Navigator +WARREN TABATA Guard +ED WASSER Morden + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + On Set Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Sound Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixer TERRY O'BRIGHT + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor DAVID FOSTER + Assistant Editor MARC ELMER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 202 diff --git a/credits/025 b/credits/025 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7c51d541 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/025 @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE GEOMETRY OF SHADOWS" + + GUEST STARRING +MICHAEL ANSARA as Elric +WILLIAM FORWARD as Refa +DAVID L. CROWLEY as Lou Welch + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MIKE LAURENCE VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +KIM STRAUSS Green Drazi +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Green Drazi #2 +NEIL BRADLEY Purple Drazi +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +EDWARD CONERY Devereaux +WARREN TABATA Guard + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + On Set Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Sound Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixer TERRY O'BRIGHT + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 203 diff --git a/credits/026 b/credits/026 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4c115244 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/026 @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "A DISTANT STAR" + + GUEST STARRING +RUSS TAMBLYN as Captain Jack Maynard +DANIEL BEER as Patrick +ART KIMBRO as Ray Galus +MIGUEL A. NUNEZ, JR. as Orwell +PATTY TOY as Ogilvie + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by D.C. FONTANA + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOSHUA COX Tech +KIM DELGADO Comm Tech +SANDEY GRINN Teronn + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + On Set Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Sound Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixer TERRY O'BRIGHT + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor MARC ELMER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 204 diff --git a/credits/027 b/credits/027 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd581552 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/027 @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE LONG DARK" + + GUEST STARRING +ANNE-MARIE JOHNSON as Mariah Cirrus + + AND +DWIGHT SCHULTZ as Amis + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by SCOTT FROST + Directed by MARIO Di LEO + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JENNIFER ANGLIN Alien #1 +NEIL BRADLEY Alien #2 +JAMES KIRIYAMA-LEM Medlab Tech +KIM STRAUSS Markab Ambassador +WARREN TABATA Guard + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director JOE KONTRA + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + On Set Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Design HARRY COHEN + Sound Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixer TERRY O'BRIGHT + Sound Supervisor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor DAVID W. FOSTER + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 205 diff --git a/credits/028 b/credits/028 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..47d3b9c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/028 @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SPIDER IN THE WEB" + + SPECIAL GUEST STAR +MICHAEL BECK as Abel Horn + + GUEST STARRING +ADRIENNE BARBEAU as Amanda Carter +JAMES SHIGETA as Taro Isogi +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + AND +JESSICA WALTER as Senator Elise Voudreau + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + Directed by KEVIN G. CREMIN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +ANNIE GRINDLAY Thirteen/Psi Cop + + Featuring +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director JOE KONTRA + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + On Set Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Effects Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor MARC ELMER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 206 diff --git a/credits/029 b/credits/029 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..aa9cc89c --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/029 @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SOUL MATES" + + GUEST STARRING +KEITH SZARABAJKA as Matthew Stoner +LOIS NETTLESON as Daggair +BLAIR VALK as Mariel +DAVID L. CROWLEY as Lou Welch +CAREL STRUYCKEN as Trader + + AND +JANE CARR as Timov + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by PETER DAVID + Directed by JOHN C. FLINN, III + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +BRIAN MICHAEL McGUIRE Man + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director JOE KONTRA + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Effects Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor DAVID W. FOSTER + Assistant Editor MARC ELMER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 208 diff --git a/credits/030 b/credits/030 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..72a16dd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/030 @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "A RACE THROUGH DARK PLACES" + + GUEST STARRING +APESANAHKWAT as Telepath #1 +BRIAN COUSINS as Rick +DIANE DILASCIO as Telepath #2 +GIANIN LOFFLER as Lurker + + SPECIAL GUEST STAR +WALTER KOENIG as Bester + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography FRED V. MURPHY, II + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +EDDIE ALLEN Man +KATHRYN CRESSIDA Bartender +JUDY LEVITT Psi Cop +CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL Shooter +WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG Jason Ironheart + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director JOE KONTRA + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer DAVID H. NEALE + Key Grip RICK STRIBLING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Effects Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 207 diff --git a/credits/031 b/credits/031 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bad98e79 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/031 @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE COMING OF SHADOWS" + + GUEST STARRING +FREDRIC LEHNE as Ranger +MALACHI THRONE as Centauri Prime Minister +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan +WILLIAM FORWARD as Refa +TURHAN BEY as Centauri Emperor + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JANET GREEK + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +MICHAEL O'HARE as Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair + + Featuring +NEIL BRADLEY Kha'Mak +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Narn Pilot #2 +BRYAN MICHAEL McGUIRE Customs Guard #1 +KIM STRAUSS Narn Pilot #1 + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY "BOOBIS" SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Effects Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 209 diff --git a/credits/032 b/credits/032 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..14ddf613 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/032 @@ -0,0 +1,178 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "GROPOS" + + GUEST STARRING +PAUL WINFIELD as General Richard Franklin +DAVID L. CROWLEY as Lou Welch +RYAN CUTRONA as Sgt. Major Plug +KEN FOREE as P.F.C. Large +MORGAN HUNTER as Pvt. Kleist +MARIE MARSHALL as P.F.C. Dodger + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ART CHUDABALA Pvt. Yang +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +MAGGIE EGAN ISN Reporter +ELISA BETH GARVER Tech #2 +MOWAVA PRYOR Tonia Wallace + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Effects Editor PAUL MENICHINI + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor MARC ELMER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 210 diff --git a/credits/033 b/credits/033 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6d9e3649 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/033 @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "ALL ALONE IN THE NIGHT" + + GUEST STARRING +NICK CORRI as Lt. Ramirez +MARSHALL TEAGUE as Narn +ROBIN SACHS as Hedronn +JOHN VICKERY as Neroon + + SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY +ROBERT FOXWORTH as General William Hague + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MARIO Di LEO + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor DAVID W. FOSTER + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 211 diff --git a/credits/034 b/credits/034 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7be26e7d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/034 @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "ACTS OF SACRIFICE" + + GUEST STARRING +PAUL WILLIAMS as Taq +CHRISTOPHER DARGA as Narn #1 +GLENN MORSHOWER as Franke +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + AND +IAN ABERCROMBIE as Correlilmurzon + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +PAUL AINSLEY Centauri #1 +JENNIFER ANGLIN Narn Second +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +KATHRYN CRESSIDA Bartender +SANDEY GRINN Narn Captain +DAVID SAGE Centauri Merchant + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + Assistant Editor MARC ELMER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1994 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 212 diff --git a/credits/035 b/credits/035 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ce692f56 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/035 @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "HUNTER, PREY" + + GUEST STARRING +BERNIE CASEY as Derek Cranston +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan +WANDA DE JESUS as Sarah +TONY STEEDMAN as Dr. Everett Jacobs +RICHARD MOLL as Max + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MENACHEM BINETSKI + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +BRYAN MICHAEL McGUIRE Guard #2 +DAMON C. REISER Lurker +DEBBY SHIVELEY Aide +ROBERT SILVER Merchant + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + Apprentice Editor JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) + Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 213 diff --git a/credits/036 b/credits/036 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7041ebe8 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/036 @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THERE ALL THE HONOR LIES" + + GUEST STARRING +JULIE CAITLIN BROWN as Guinevere Corey +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + AND +SEAN GREGORY SULLIVAN as Ashan + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by PETER DAVID + Directed by MIKE LAURENCE VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +NEIL BRADLEY Minbari #3 +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Minbari #2 +VINCENT DUVALL Centauri Envoy +ELIOTT HAROLD Human Customer +MARK HENDRICKSON Human/Alien Customer +OSSIE MAIR Store Owner +MICHAEL McKENZIE Alien Customer + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director DOUG CORRING + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer NEAL SPRITZ + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 215 diff --git a/credits/037 b/credits/037 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f044736d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/037 @@ -0,0 +1,176 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "AND NOW FOR A WORD" + + GUEST STARRING +KIM ZIMMER as Cynthia Torqueman +CHRISTOPHER CURRY as Ronald Quantrell +GRANVILLE AMES as Psi Cop +JOHN CHRISTIAN GRAAS as Johnny +LESLIE WING as Mother + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MARIO Di LEO + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +JOSE REY Dock Worker + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director DOUG CORRING + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual FX Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer NEAL SPRITZ + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor DAVID W. FOSTER + Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 214 diff --git a/credits/038 b/credits/038 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6f9c1531 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/038 @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "IN THE SHADOW OF Z'HA'DUM" + + GUEST STARRING +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan +ALEX HYDE-WHITE as Pierce Macabee +ED WASSER as Morden + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by DAVID J. EAGLE + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN as Kosh + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor DAVID W. FOSTER + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 217 diff --git a/credits/039 b/credits/039 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..90f54939 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/039 @@ -0,0 +1,175 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "KNIVES" + + GUEST STARRING +CARMEN ARGENZIANO as Urza Jaddo +WILLIAM FORWARD as Lord Refa + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + Directed by STEPHEN L. POSEY + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +ELISA BETH GARVER Tech #2 +WILLIAM DENNIS HUNT Centauri Noble + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WENDY THACKERY + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor ADAM BUCKNER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 216 diff --git a/credits/040 b/credits/040 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8b11a021 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/040 @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "CONFESSIONS AND LAMENTATIONS" + + GUEST STARRING +JIM NORTON as Dr. Lazarenn + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography FRED V. MURPHY, II + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by KEVIN G. CREMIN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +DIANE ADAIR Markab Mother +ANDREW CRAIG Human +MAGGIE EGAN ISN Reporter +MIKE MANZONI Guard +MICHAEL McKENZIE Markab Victim +BLUEJEAN ASHLEY SECRIST Markab Girl +KIM STRAUSS Markab Ambassador +DAN WOREN Bartender +ROSIE MALEK-YONAN Doctor + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director JOHN RADULOVIC + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director BRAD MICHAELSON + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor ADAM BUCKNER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 218 diff --git a/credits/041 b/credits/041 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ae6501ff --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/041 @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ +Transcribed by Dan Dassow (dand@seas6.mdc.com) + +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "DIVIDED LOYALTIES" + + GUEST STARRING +PATRICIA TALLMAN as Lyta Alexander +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JESUS TREVIÑO + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +DOUGLAS BENNETT First Man +ARDWRIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +DANNY DE LA PAZ Running Man +JANI NEUMAN Med Tech +GEORGE SIMMS Security Guard + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + AND + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMAN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director BRAD MICHAELSON + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor DAVID W. FOSTER + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor ADAM BUCKNER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 220 diff --git a/credits/042 b/credits/042 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..16fb4f47 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/042 @@ -0,0 +1,184 @@ + +Transcribed by David Henderson (davidh@camelot.bradley.edu) + +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE LONG, TWILIGHT STRUGGLE" + + GUEST STARRING +JOHN SCHUCK as Draal +RIF HUTTON as ISN Reporter +WILLIAM FORWARD as Lord Refa +W. MORGAN SHEPPARD as Warmaster G'Sten + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography FRED V. MURPHY, II + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JOHN C. FLINN, III + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +NEIL BRADLEY Narn #2 +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Narn Second +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +ELISA BETH GARVER Tech #2 + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + and + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Supervisor MITCH SUSKIN + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation KEVIN KUTCHAVER + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director BRAD MICHAELSON + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 219 + + diff --git a/credits/043 b/credits/043 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..838c0692 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/043 @@ -0,0 +1,181 @@ +Transcribed by David Henderson (davidh@camelot.bradley.edu) + +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "COMES THE INQUISITOR" + + GUEST STARRING +WAYNE ALEXANDER as Sebastian +JACK KEHLER as Mr. Chase + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MICHAEL VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +DIANE ADAIR Narn Mother +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JIM CHIROS Centauri #1 +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +MARK HENDRICKSON Narn #1 +MICHAEL FRANCIS KELLY Guard +KIM STRAUSS Narn #2 +CRAIG THOMAS Human + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + and + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + Digital Effects Animation SHERRY HITCH + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director BRAD MICHAELSON + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + PETER CARLSTEDT + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor ADAM BUCKNER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 221 diff --git a/credits/044 b/credits/044 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..42043da3 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/044 @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ + +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + STARRING +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + ALSO STARRING +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +ANDREA THOMPSON as Talia Winters +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +BILL MUMY as Lennier +ROBERT RUSLER as Lt. Warren Keffer +MARY KAY ADAMS as Na'Toth + + WITH +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + AND +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE FALL OF NIGHT" + + GUEST STARRING +ROY DOTRICE as Frederick Lantze +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan +JULI DOLAND as Pilot #1 +RICK HAMILTON as Mitch +ROBIN SACHS as Na'Kal +JOHN VICKERY as Mr. Welles + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JANET GREEK + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +DONOVAN BROWN Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador +JOSHUA COX Tech #1 +ELISA BETH GARVER Tech #2 +MARK HENDRICKSON Narn #1 +JOSHUA PATTON Human/Minbari Kosh +KIM STRAUSS Drazi Ambassador + + Executive Story Editor LAWRENCE G. DITILLIO + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + and + STEVE BROOKSBANK, C.S.A. + + Unit Production Manager KEVIN G. CREMIN + 1st Assistant Director SKIP BEAUDINE + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + Sr. Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + EVERETT BURRELL + JOHN VULICH + + Art Director ROLAND ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator DANIEL A. SAKS + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director BRAD MICHAELSON + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer MARSHALL ADAMS + Key Grip JOHN "J.W." WARNER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor HARRY WOOLWAY + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT + KEITH ROGERS + Supervising Sound Editor ERIN HOIEN + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Post Production Coordinator SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant SARAH MORSE-FISCHER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + KELLY COYLE + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) and + Video Toaster Systems(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 222 + + diff --git a/credits/045 b/credits/045 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c9b6a509 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/045 @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ + +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "MATTERS OF HONOR" + + GUEST STARRING +TUCKER SMALLWOOD as David Endawi +ED WASSER as Morden + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by KEVIN G. CREMIN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +NILS ALLEN STEWART as Large Man + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Drazi Pilot +KITTY SWINK Senator +ANDREW WALKER Psi Cop + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director JAMES A. DENNETT, II + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Editor SUZANNE STERNLICHT + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Apprentice Editor JOHN BURRIS + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and/or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 301 + + diff --git a/credits/046 b/credits/046 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..48000f52 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/046 @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ + +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "CONVICTIONS" + + GUEST STARRING +PATRICK KILPATRICK as Robert Carlson +LOUIS TURENNE as Brother Theo + AND +CARY-HIROYUKI TAGAWA as Morishi + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MICHAEL VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOHN FLINN Obnoxious Man +RICK JOHNSON Security Guard #1 [Jay] +JASON LARIMORE Lurker +GWEN McGEE Med Tech +MIKE McKENZIE Drazi #1 +TOM SIMMONS Security Guard #2 + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director JAMES A. DENNETT, II + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Editor SKIP ROBINSON + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Apprentice Editor JOHN BURRIS + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratory(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + EFX SYSTEMS + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + +[Note: smaller font than usual from here to end] + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 302 + + diff --git a/credits/047 b/credits/047 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0ca93f6d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/047 @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +presented in +DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "A DAY IN THE STRIFE" + + GUEST STARRING +STEPHEN MACHT as Na'Far + AND +MARSHALL TEAGUE as Ta'Lon + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by DAVID J. EAGLE + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ANNE BETANCOURT Dr. Gonzales +NEIL BRADLEY Narn #1 +JOSHUA COX Corwin +MARK HENDRICKSON Narn #2 +LARITA SHELBY Med Tech +JOHN ST. RYAN Troublemaker +MICHAEL BAILEY SMITH G'Dok + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Editor DAVID W. FOSTER + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Apprentice Editor JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with PANAVISION(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + [unintelligible] + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + +[Note: smaller font] + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 303 diff --git a/credits/048 b/credits/048 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e2c4953a --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/048 @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "PASSING THROUGH GETHSEMANE" + + GUEST STARRING +BRAD DOURIF as Brother Edward +PATRICIA TALLMAN as Lyta Alexander +LOUIS TURENNE as Brother Theo + + Edited by SKIP ROBINSON + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by ADAM NIMOY + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +ROBERT KEITH as Malcolm + + Featuring +LYNN BLADES News Anchor #2 +NATALIE BRUNT Business Person +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +MARK FOLGER Centauri +STEVEN GOLZALEZ News Anchor #1 + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Apprentice Editor JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Assistant E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + THE SOUND OF PICTURES + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + +[Note: smaller font] + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 305 diff --git a/credits/049 b/credits/049 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..66cfc7ff --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/049 @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "VOICES OF AUTHORITY" + + Guest Starring +JOHN SCHUCK as Draal + And +SHARI SHATTUCK as Julie Musante + + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MENACHEM BINETSKI + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JAMES BLACK Security Guard #1 +JOSHUA COX Corwin +VIMI MANI ISN Anchor +GARY McGURK Vice President Clark + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Apprentice Editor JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from + Sonic Images Records + SI#8502-2 + +[Note: smaller font] + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 304 diff --git a/credits/050 b/credits/050 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1adf26c0 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/050 @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "DUST TO DUST" + + Guest Starring +JULIAN NEIL as Lindstrom +JIM NORTON as Narn Image + Special Guest Star +WALTER KOENIG as Bester + + Edited by DAVID W. FOSTER + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by DAVID J. EAGLE + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +HARRY HUTCHINSON Security Guard #1 +JOHN-FREDERICK JONES Centauri Diplomat +S. MARC JORDAN Shop Owner +JUDY LEVITT PSI Cop +GWEN McGEE Med Tech +PHILIP MOON Ashi +WALTER ONEIL Crazed Man +DAVID SHARK Man +KIM STRAUSS Vizak +DANI THOMPSON Ombuds + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Apprentice Editor JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 306 diff --git a/credits/051 b/credits/051 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c059de84 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/051 @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "EXOGENESIS" + + Guest Starring +JAMES WARWICK as Matthew Duffin +WYLIE SMALL as Jacque Lee +AUBREY MORRIS as Duncan + + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by KEVIN G. CREMIN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +JOSHUA COX Corwin +ROSS GOTTSTEIN Vendor +ERIC STEINBERG Samuel +DONALD WILLIS Trader + + Featuring +MICHAEL McKENZIE Man +CARRIE DOBRO Dr. Harrison +KAT CRESSIDA Kat +ROGER ROOK Lurker +LESLIE PRATT Woman + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editor JASON NETTER + Apprentice Editor JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 307 diff --git a/credits/052 b/credits/052 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9c625a1c --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/052 @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "MESSAGES FROM EARTH" + + Guest Starring +NANCY STAFFORD as Dr. Mary Kirkish +VAUGHN ARMSTRONG as Security Guard #1 + + Edited by SKIP ROBINSON + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MICHAEL VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +MERRIN DUNGEY Security Guard #2 +VIMI MANI ISN Anchor +LORRAINE SHIELDS Cook + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Dolly Grip KENNY "SHAKES" YAKKEL + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 308 diff --git a/credits/053 b/credits/053 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..954759b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/053 @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "POINT OF NO RETURN" + + Special Guest Star +MAJEL BARRETT as Lady Morella + + Guest Starring +MARSHALL TEAGUE as Ta'Lon +VAUGHN ARMSTRONG as Security Guard #1 +LEWIS ARQUETTE as General Smits + + Edited by DAVID W. FOSTER + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JIM JOHNSTON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +ED TROTTA as Lt. General O'Reilly + + Featuring +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Passing Minbari +JOSHUA COX Lt. Corwin +MAGGIE EGAN ISN Reporter #1 +MILTON JAMES Centauri Official +GUNTHER JENSEN Nightwatch Guard +TONY RAYNER Man + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric CHRIS "TROLL" LEWIS + Company Grip TOMMY FLANAGAN + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor ROBERT PARIGI + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 309 diff --git a/credits/054 b/credits/054 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..81d10428 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/054 @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SEVERED DREAMS" + + Guest Starring +KIM MIYORI as Captain Sandra Hiroshi +RANCE HOWARD as David Sheridan +PHIL MORRIS as Bill Trainor + And +BRUCE McGILL as Major Ryan + + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by DAVID J. EAGLE + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +JAMES PARKS as Drakhen + + Featuring +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Religious Minbari +JOSHUA COX Lt. Corwin +MAGGIE EGAN ISN Reporter #1 +MATT GOTTLIEB ISN Reporter #2 +KIM STRAUSS Narn + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric CHRIS "TROLL" LEWIS + Company Grip JAMES B. IRONS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 310 diff --git a/credits/055 b/credits/055 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..97e0986d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/055 @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "CEREMONIES OF + DARK AND LIGHT" + + Guest Starring +WILLIAM FORWARD as Lord Refa +DON STROUD as Boggs + And +PAUL PERRI as Sniper + + Edited by SKIP ROBINSON + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JOHN C. FLINN,III [sic] + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +KIM STRAUSS as Lennan + + Featuring +VINCENT BILANCO Maintenance Man +JOSHUA COX Lt. Corwin +HARLAN ELLISON Sparky the Computer +DOUG McCOY Guard +ED WASSER Morden +JIM CODY WILLIAMS Thug#1 [sic] + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 311 diff --git a/credits/056 b/credits/056 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b6ba18f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/056 @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SIC TRANSIT VIR" + + Guest Starring +CARMEN THOMAS as Lyndisty +DAMIAN LONDON as Centauri Official + + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JESU'S TREVIN~O + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JAMES JUDE COURTNEY as Narn #1 + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Company Grip TOMMY FLANAGAN + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 313 diff --git a/credits/057 b/credits/057 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cd21c7b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/057 @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "A LATE DELIVERY + FROM AVALON" + + Guest Starring +MICHAEL YORK as Arthur +MICHAEL KAGAN as Emmett Farquaha + + Edited by DAVID W. FOSTER + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MICHAEL VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +ROGER HAMPTON Merchant +DONA HARDY Old Woman +MICHAEL FRANCIS KELLY Security Guard #1 +JAMES KIRIYAMA-LEM Med Tech +ROBERT SCHUCH Lurker +JERRY O'DONNELL Security Guard #2 + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + Visual Effects Producer SHANNON CASEY + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Dolly Grip KENNY YAKKEL + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director DOUGLAS CORRING + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1995 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 312 diff --git a/credits/058 b/credits/058 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f5ae905b --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/058 @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SHIP OF TEARS" + + Guest Starring +JOAN McMURTREY as Carolyn +DIANA MORGAN as Alison + and + Special Guest Star +WALTER KOENIG as Bester + + Edited by SKIP ROBINSON + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MICHAEL VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +DEBRA SHARKEY as Med Tech + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Company Grip JAMES B. IRONS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + Fist Assistant Editor [sic] KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 314 diff --git a/credits/059 b/credits/059 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b19bd8d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/059 @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +presented in [] +DD SURROUND(TM) ' + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "INTERLUDES AND + EXAMINATIONS" + + Guest Starring +JENNIFER BALGOBIN as Dr. Lilian Hobbs +RANCE HOWARD as David Sheridan +JAN RABSON as Vendor +ED WASSER as Morden + + Edited by DAVID W. FOSTER + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JESU'S TREVIN~O + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Brakiri +MAGGIE CIGLAR Tech +GLENN MARTIN Ranger +DOUG TOMPOS Med Tech + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 315 diff --git a/credits/060 b/credits/060 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d9c90ea1 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/060 @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "WAR WITHOUT END" + Part One + + Guest Starring +TIM CHOATE as Zathras +TIME WINTERS as Rathenn + Special Guest Star +MICHAEL O'HARE as Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair + + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MICHAEL VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +JOSHUA COX Lt. Corwin +KEVIN FRY Centauri Guard +ERIC ZIVOT Spragg + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Dolly Grip KENNY YAKKEL + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 316 diff --git a/credits/061 b/credits/061 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bf03bcc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/061 @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "WAR WITHOUT END" + Part Two + + Guest Starring +TIM CHOATE as Zathras +KENT BROADHURST as Major Krantz +BRUCE MORROW as B4 First Officer + Special Guest Star +MICHAEL O'HARE as Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair + + Edited by SKIP ROBINSON + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by MICHAEL VEJAR + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +KEVIN FRY Centauri Guard +EDDIE MUI B4 Tech + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Company Grip TOMMY FLANAGAN + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 317 diff --git a/credits/062 b/credits/062 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..421afaab --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/062 @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "WALKABOUT" + + Guest Starring +ERICA GIMPEL as Cailyn +PATRICA TALLMAN [sic] as Lyta Alexander +JENNIFER BALGOBIN as Dr. Lilian Hobbs +ROBIN SACHS as Na'Kal + + Edited by DAVID W. FOSTER + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography FRED V. MURPHY II + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by KEVIN G. CREMIN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +MICHAEL McKENZIE Minbari Captain + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Company Grip JAMES B. IRONS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor GEOFF BREWIS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 318 diff --git a/credits/063 b/credits/063 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..49f9289f --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/063 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "GREY 17 IS MISSING" + + Special Guest Star +ROBERT ENGLUND as Jeremiah + +KATHERINE MOFFAT as Supervisor +EAMONN ROCHE as First Man +JOHN VICKERY as Neroon +TIME WINTERS as Rathenn + + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JOHN C. FLINN, III + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +THOM BARRY as Maintenance Worker + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Best Boy Grip BRUCE CAROTHERS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor GEOFF BREWIS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 319 diff --git a/credits/064 b/credits/064 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c5333d6b --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/064 @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "AND THE ROCK CRIED OUT, NO HIDING PLACE" + + + Guest Starring +ERICK AVARI as Rabbi Leo Meyers +WILLIAM FORWARD as Lord Refa +LOUIS TURENNE as Brother Theo +MEL WINKLER as Reverend Will Dexter + + Edited by SKIP ROBINSON + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by DAVID J. EAGLE + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +FRANCOIS GIRODAY Virini +PAUL KEITH Drigo + + Featuring +WAYNE ALEXANDER G'Dan +MARVA HICKS Singer + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Dolly Grip KENNY YAKKEL + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor GEOFF BREWIS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 320 diff --git a/credits/065 b/credits/065 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0fc91880 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/065 @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "SHADOW DANCING" + + + Guest Starring +SHIRLEY PRESTIA as Barbara + + Special Guest Star +MELISSA GILBERT as Anna + + Edited by DAVID W. FOSTER + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by KIM FRIEDMAN + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Co-Starring +JOHN GRANTHAM Thug #2 +J. GORDON NOICE Man + + Featuring +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Brakiri +JOSHUA COX Lt. Corwin +MARK HENDRICKSON Drazi Ambassador +NICHOLAS ROSS OLESON Thug #1 +DOUG COX Husband + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director RONNIE CHONG + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Dolly Grip TOMMY FLANAGAN + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor GEOFF BREWIS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 321 diff --git a/credits/066 b/credits/066 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..67318c2a --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/066 @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan + + With +PETER JURASIK as Londo + + And +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "Z'HA'DUM" + + + Guest Starring +JEFF COREY as Justin +RON CAMPBELL as Messenger +ED WASSER as Morden + + Special Guest Star +MELISSA GILBERT as Anna Sheridan + + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by ADAM NIMOY + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JOSHUA COX Lt. Corwin + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONIC FILM + ORCHESTRA + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Designed by RON THORNTON + + Visual Effects Produced by FOUNDATION IMAGING + Computer Imaging Supervisor PAUL BEIGLE-BRYANT + On Set Visual Effects Supervisor TED RAE + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + + Senior Computer Animators ADAM "MOJO" LEBOWITZ + JOHN TESKA + Composite 2D Animator SHERRY HITCH + System Engineer STEVE PUGH + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Make-up Effects Artists GREG FUNK + WILL HUFF + FIONAGH CUSH + Make-up Effects Supervisor MARK GARBARINO + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director ROLAND G. ROSENKRANZ + Set Decorator ALEXANDRA RUBINSTEIN + Property Master MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist TRACI SMITHE + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip JOHN WARNER + Best Boy Electric DAVID H. NEALE + Company Grip JAMES B. IRONS + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor GEOFF BREWIS + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer PAUL MENICHINI + Sound Effects Editor MICHAEL MOSER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor JOHN CAGGIANO + + Post Production Supervisor SUSAN NORKIN + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator CHRIS O'CONNOR + Script Supervisor HALEY McLANE + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate E.J. KAVOUNAS + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 322 diff --git a/credits/067 b/credits/067 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..9796eeeb --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/067 @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir Cotto +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan +PATRICIA TALLMAN as Lyta Alexander + + With +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + And +PETER JURASIK as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "THE HOUR OF THE WOLF" + + + Guest Starring +ED WASSER as Morden +WORTHAM KRIMMER as Emperor Cartagia +WAYNE ALEXANDER as Lorien +DAMIAN LONDON as Minister + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLICHT + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by DAVID J. EAGLE + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer SUSAN NORKIN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +MARK HENDRICKSON Drazi Ambassador +RICK RYAN Brakiri Ambassador + + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Original Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Supervisor TONY DOW + + CG Design and Animation Team SHANT JORDAN + GEOFFREY MARK + JEFF MONTRAY + PATRICK PEREZ + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Compositor BRIAN E. BATTLES + + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Special Make-up Effects Artists GABE LOZANO + LIZ DEAN + ROB SHERWOOD + Make-up Effects Supervisor MIKE MEASIMER + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Set Decorator JASON HOWARD + Property Master DARK HOFFMAN + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + Scenic Artist MATTHEW PLUMMER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist BARBARA WILDER PEARLMAN + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip ROBERT D.BLAIR + Best Boy Electric NATHANIAL ROBERTS + Dolly Grip CHARLES S. LANTZ, JR. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer HARRY COHEN + Sound Effects Editor JEFF WITCHER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor GORDON D. HOOKAILO + + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator HEIDI ERL + Script Supervisor KEN GILBERT + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate JEFFREY WILLERTH + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 401 diff --git a/credits/068 b/credits/068 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..477e167d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/068 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir Cotto +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan +PATRICIA TALLMAN as Lyta Alexander + + With +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + And +PETER JURASIK as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MR. GARIBALDI?" + + Guest Starring + +WAYNE ALEXANDER as Lorien +LENNY CITRANO as Isaac +ANTHONA DeLONGIS as Harry +WORTHAM KRIMMER as Emperor Cartagia +DAMIAN LONDON as Minister + + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Edited by DAVID W. FOSTER + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by KEVIN JAMES DOBSON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer SUSAN NORKIN + + Featuring +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +RICK SCARRY Centauri + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director DOUGLAS E. WISE + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Original Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Supervisor TONY DOW + + CG Design and Animation Team SHANT JORDAN + GEOFFREY MARK + JEFF MONTRAY + PATRICK PEREZ + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Compositor BRIAN E. BATTLES + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Special Make-up Effects Artists GABE LOZANO + LIZ DEAN + ROB SHERWOOD + Make-up Effects Supervisor MIKE MEASIMER + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Set Decorator JASON HOWARD + Property Master DARK HOFFMAN + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + Scenic Artist MATTHEW PLUMMER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist BARBARA WILDER PEARLMAN + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip ROBERT D.BLAIR + Best Boy Electric NATHANIAL ROBERTS + Dolly Grip CHARLES S. LANTZ, JR. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer HARRY COHEN + Sound Effects Editor JEFF WITCHER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor GORDON D. HOOKAILO + + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator HEIDI ERL + Script Supervisor KEN GILBERT + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate JEFFREY WILLERTH + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 402 diff --git a/credits/069 b/credits/069 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..56993ba2 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/069 @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir Cotto +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan +PATRICIA TALLMAN as Lyta Alexander + + With +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + And +PETER JURASIK as Londo Mollari + + + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "The Summoning" + + + Guest Starring + +WAYNE ALEXANDER as Lorien +WORTHAM KRIMMER as Emperor Cartagia + + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Edited by SKIP ROBINSON + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by JOHN McPHERSON + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer SUSAN NORKIN + + Featuring +KRIS IYER Dome Tech +ERIC ZIVOT Verano +RON CAMPBELL Ambassador #1 +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +JONATHAN CHAPMAN Ambassador Lethke +WILLIAM SCUDDER Ambassador #2 + + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director PAMELA EILERSON + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Original Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Supervisor TONY DOW + + CG Design and Animation Team SHANT JORDAN + GEOFFREY MARK + JEFF MONTRAY + PATRICK PEREZ + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Compositor BRIAN E. BATTLES + + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Special Make-up Effects Artists GABE LOZANO + LIZ DEAN + ROB SHERWOOD + Make-up Effects Supervisor MIKE MEASIMER + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Set Decorator JASON HOWARD + Property Master DARK HOFFMAN + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + Scenic Artist MATTHEW PLUMMER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist BARBARA WILDER PEARLMAN + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip ROBERT D. BLAIR + Best Boy Electric NATHANIAL ROBERTS + Dolly Grip CHARLES S. LANTZ, JR. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer HARRY COHEN + Sound Effects Editor JEFF WITCHER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor GORDON D. HOOKAILO + + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JOHN BURRUS + + Production Coordinator HEIDI ERL + Script Supervisor KEN GILBERT + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate JEFFREY WILLERTH + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 403 diff --git a/credits/070 b/credits/070 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0dd3110c --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/070 @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND(TM) + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +BRUCE BOXLEITNER as Captain John Sheridan +CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN as Commander Susan Ivanova +JERRY DOYLE as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +MIRA FURLAN as Delenn + + Also Starring +RICHARD BIGGS as Dr. Stephen Franklin +BILL MUMY as Lennier +JASON CARTER as Marcus Cole +STEPHEN FURST as Vir Cotto +JEFF CONAWAY as Zack Allan +PATRICIA TALLMAN as Lyta Alexander + + With +ANDREAS KATSULAS as G'Kar + And +PETER JURASIK as Londo Mollari + + + + Created by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[production credits] + + "Falling Toward Apotheosis" + + + Guest Starring + +WAYNE ALEXANDER as Lorien +WORTHAM KRIMMER as Emperor Cartagia +ED WASSER as Morden + + + Music by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + Edited by SUZANNE STERNLIGHT + Production Designer JOHN IACOVELLI + Director of Photography JOHN C. FLINN, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant HARLAN ELLISON + Co-Producer GEORGE JOHNSEN + Produced by JOHN COPELAND + Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + Directed by DAVID J. EAGLE + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer DOUGLAS NETTER + Executive Producer J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer SUSAN NORKIN + + Featuring +TOM BILLET Guard +TERRY CAIN Young Woman +ARDWIGHT CHAMBERLAIN Kosh +KHIN-KYAW MAUNG Worker + + + Unit Production Manager SKIP BEAUDINE + 1st Assistant Director DOUGLAS E. WISE + 2nd Assistant Director DAVID McWHIRTER + + Original Casting by MARY JO SLATER, C.S.A. + + Casting by FERN CHAMPION, C.S.A. + and + MARK PALADINI, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by CHRISTOPHER FRANKE + AND + THE BERLIN + SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA + + Costume Designer ANN BRUICE ALING + + Visual Effects Supervisor TONY DOW + + CG Design and Animation Team SHANT JORDAN + GEOFFREY MARK + JEFF MONTRAY + PATRICK PEREZ + Matte Artist ERIC CHAUVIN + Compositor BRIAN E. BATTLES + + + Series Make-up Effects Created by OPTIC NERVE STUDIOS + JOHN VULICH + + Special Make-up Effects Artists GABE LOZANO + LIZ DEAN + ROB SHERWOOD + Make-up Effects Supervisor MIKE MEASIMER + Make-up Effects Sculptor JOHN WHEATON + + Art Director MARK-LOUIS WALTERS + Set Decorator JASON HOWARD + Property Master DARK HOFFMAN + Graphic Artist ALAN KOBAYASHI + Construction Coordinator CURTIS LASETER + Scenic Artist MATTHEW PLUMMER + + Costume Supervisor KIM M. HOLLY + Key Costumer LINDA HUSE + Key Make-up Artist CINZIA ZANETTI + Assistant Hair & Make-up KIM M. FERRY + Key Hairstylist BARBARA WILDER PEARLMAN + + Camera Operator PETER B. KOWALSKI + 1st Assistant Camera WALLY SWEETERMAN + Gaffer "THE" JOHN SMITH + Key Grip ROBERT D. BLAIR + Best Boy Electric NATHANIAL ROBERTS + Dolly Grip CHARLES S. LANTZ, JR. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director ROSEMARIE UNITE + Special Effects by ULTIMATE EFFECTS + Special Effects Supervisor PAUL SOKOL + Stunt Coordinator KERRY ROSSALL + + Sound Mixer LINDA COFFEY + Sound Designer HARRY COHEN + Sound Effects Editor JEFF WITCHER + Re-recording Mixers TERRY O'BRIGHT, C.A.S. + KEITH ROGERS + Sound Supervisor GORDON D. HOOKAILO + + First Assistant Editor KATHIE BURR + Assistant Editors JASON NETTER + + Production Coordinator HEIDI ERL + Script Supervisor KEN GILBERT + Production Accounting + Services Provided by OBERMAN, TIVOLI & MILLER, LTD. + Production Accountant MIKE HOOVER + + Script Coordinator CAROL HENRY + Executive Producers' Assistants TRACIE ESPARZA + JOANNE HIGGINS + Producer's Associate JEFFREY WILLERTH + Special Effect + Contact Lens Consultant JONATHAN GORDING, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Lightwave 3D(R) + Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + + Color by + PACIFIC FILM LABORATORIES + Electronic Laboratories(TM) + LASER-PACIFIC + MEDIA CORPORATION + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by + ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + + DD DOLBY SURROUND(TM) + + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by + (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the + laws of the United States of America + and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition + or use may result in civil liability and / or + criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15 (2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 404 diff --git a/credits/071 b/credits/071 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..182ba4af --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/071 @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "The Long Night" + + Guest Starring +Bryan Cranston as Ericsson +Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia + + Music by Christopher FrankE + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John Flinn, III A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan EllisoN + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John Lafia + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +Mark Bramhall Centauri #2 +Ron Campbell Drazi Ambassador +Carl Reggiardo Centauri #1 +Kim Strauss G'Lorn + + Featuring +Tim Barron Humanoid +William Scudder Jester + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Supervising Animator Patrick Perez + CG Design and Animation Team Phillip Giles + Shant Jordan + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Compositor Brian E. Battles + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Liz Dean + Rob Sherwood + Make-up Effects Supervisor Mike Measimer + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Assistant Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Rosemarie Unite + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + [Sic: ROSSALl] + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Terry O'Bright, C.A.S. + Keith Rogers + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry +Executive Producers' Assistant [sic] Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + Lightwave 3D(R) Furnished by NewTek, Inc. + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 405 diff --git a/credits/072 b/credits/072 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..96261ed0 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/072 @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Into the Fire" + + Guest Starring +Wayne Alexander as Lorien +Julian Barnes as Durano +Damian London as Minister +Ed Wasser as Morden + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Fred V. Murphy II + Conceptual Consultant Harlan EllisoN + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Kevin James Dobson + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + [Co-Starring] +[Ardwight Chamberlain Kosh] + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Phillip Giles + Andrew Hofman + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositor Brian E. Battles + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Ship Design Luc Mayrand + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Mike Measimer + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Assistant Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Rosemarie Unite + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Paul Sokol + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Ken Teaney, C.A.S. + Keith Rogers + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor Jason Netter + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry +Executive Producers' Assistant [sic] Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1996 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 406 diff --git a/credits/073 b/credits/073 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..556771d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/073 @@ -0,0 +1,177 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Security Chief Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Epiphanies" + + Guest Starring +Damian London as Minister + + Special Guest Star +Walter Koenig as Bester + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Suzanne Sternlicht + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John C. Flinn III + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Victor Ludlin Psi Corps Official + Robert Patteri EA Pilot + Lauren Sanchez News Anchor + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Phillip Giles + Andrew Hofman + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Mike Measimer + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Assistant Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Rosemarie Unite + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Ken Teaney, C.A.S. + Keith Rogers + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 407 diff --git a/credits/074 b/credits/074 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a98e702a --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/074 @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "The Illusion of Truth" + + Guest Starring +Jeff Griggs as Randall +Henry Darrow as Dr. Indiri +Diana Morgan as Alison Higgins + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Stephen Furst + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Andrew Craig Client + David A. Kimball Parks + Featuring + Albert Garcia Ramirez + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Phillip Giles + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Dean Mercil + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Assistant Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Liz Sroka + Keith Rogers + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor Jason Netter + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry +Executive Producers' Assistant [sic] Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 408 diff --git a/credits/075 b/credits/075 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0e2c737a --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/075 @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Atonement" + + Guest Starring +Brian Carpenter as Callenn +Reiner Schone as Dukhat + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Tony Dow + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Robin Atkin Downes Grey Council #1 + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design and Animation Team Phillip Giles + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Mike Measimer + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Assistant Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Liz Sroka + Keith Rogers + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 409 diff --git a/credits/076 b/credits/076 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1bc72c75 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/076 @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Racing Mars" + + Guest Starring +Jeff Griggs as Dan Randall +Clayton Landey as Number Two +Marjorie Monaghan as Number One +Mark Schneider as Wade +Donovan Scott as Captain Jack + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Suzanne Sternlicht + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Fred V. Murphy II + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + _ + Directed by Jesus Trevino + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Geoff Meed Smuggler #1 + Featuring + Carrie Dobro Brakiri + Timothy Starks Guard + Brian Tahash Smuggler #2 + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Phillip Giles + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Dean Mercil + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Assistant Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Ken Teaney C.A.S. + Marshall Garlington + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor Jason Netter + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 410 diff --git a/credits/077 b/credits/077 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b4da36a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/077 @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Lines of Communication" + + Guest Starring +Marjorie Monaghan as Number One +Paolo Seganti as Phillipe +G. W. Stevens as Forell + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John C. Flinn III + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Featuring + Carolyn Barkin ISN Reporter + Jean-Luc Martin Emissary + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Dean Mercil + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Assistant Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 411 diff --git a/credits/078 b/credits/078 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..58732959 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/078 @@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Conflicts of Interest" + + Guest Starring +Tim Choate as Zathras +Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton +Mark Schneider as Wade +Charles Walker as Ben + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by David J. Eagle + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Richard S. Horvitz Mark + + Featuring + William John Murphy Man #1 + Ebony Monique Solomon Young Woman + Wiley Pickett Man #2 + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Phillip Giles + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Dean Mercil + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Assistant Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor Jason Netter + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 412 diff --git a/credits/079 b/credits/079 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..94298007 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/079 @@ -0,0 +1,180 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Rumors, Bargains and Lies" + + Guest Starring +Ron Campbell as Drazi Ambassador +Chard Haywood as Religious #2 +Guy Siner as Religious #1 +John Vickery as Neroon + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Suzanne Sternlicht + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Jonathan Chapman Brakiri Ambassador + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Dean Mercil + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Liz Sroka + Keith Rogers + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry +Executive Producers' Assistant [sic] Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 413 diff --git a/credits/080 b/credits/080 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6b29b2f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/080 @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Moments of Transition" + + Guest Starring +Bart McCarthy as Shakiri +John Vickery as Neroon + + Special Guest Star +Walter Koenig as Bester + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Tony Dow + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Christy Noonan Businesswoman + + Featuring + Scott Adams Mr. Adams + Carl J. Pfeifer Guard + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Gary Lavarack + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Dean Mercil + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor Jason Netter + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry +Executive Producers' Assistant [sic] Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 414 diff --git a/credits/081 b/credits/081 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..62fe0ae7 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/081 @@ -0,0 +1,182 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "No Surrender, No Retreat" + + Guest Starring +Marcia Mitzman Gaven as Commander Sandra Levitt +Richard Gant as Captain Edward MacDougan +Ken Jenkins as Captain Trevor Hall + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Joshua Cox Lt. Corwin + Skip Stellrecht Guard + Featuring + Neil Bradley Philby + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Gary Lavarack + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Dean Mercil + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 415 diff --git a/credits/082 b/credits/082 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3d4eebae --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/082 @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ + + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Exercise of Vital Powers" + + Guest Starring +Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton +Mark Schneider as Wade + + Special Guest Star +Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as William Edgars + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Suzanne Sternlicht + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John Lafia + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Shelley Robertson as Ms. Constance + + Featuring + Kenneth Cortland Patient + Sandy Grinn Patient #2 + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Gary Lavarack + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artists Chuck Carter + Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor Jason Netter + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry +Executive Producers' Assistant [sic] Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 416 + + diff --git a/credits/083 b/credits/083 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f6fa5473 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/083 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "The Face of the Enemy" + + Special Guest Star +Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as William Edgars + + Guest Starring +Richard Gant as Captain Edward MacDougan +Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton +Marjorie Monaghan as Number One +Diana Morgan as Alison Higgins +David Purdham as Captain James +Ricco Ross as Captain Frank +Mark Schneider as Wade + + Special Guest Star +Walter Koenig as Bester + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Featuring + Harlan Ellison Psi Cop + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Gary Lavarack + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 417 diff --git a/credits/084 b/credits/084 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea83be31 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/084 @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Intersections in Real Time" + + Guest Starring +Raye Birk as William +Wayne Alexander as Drazi +Bruce Gray as Interrogator + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan EllisoN + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John Lafia + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Featuring + Peter Brown Minister + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Gary Lavarack + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel Lozano + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Gordon D. Hookailo + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor Jason Netter + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry +Executive Producers' Assistant [sic] Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 418 diff --git a/credits/085 b/credits/085 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c87b9fe7 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/085 @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Between the Darkness and the Light" + + Guest Starring +Marc Gomes as Eisensen +Bruce Gray as Interrogator +Marjorie Monaghan as Number One +David Purdham as Captain James +Musetta Vander as Felicia + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Suzanne Sternlicht + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by David J. Eagle + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Greg Poland Guard + Featuring + J. P. Hubbel Evan + James Laing First Guard + Anneliza Scott Assistant + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Gary Lavarack + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Chuck Carter + Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel DeCunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Assistant Graphic Artist Cathy Coultas + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Liz Sroka + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 419 diff --git a/credits/086 b/credits/086 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3a5c8f31 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/086 @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Endgame" + + Guest Starring +Ungela Brockman as Earthforce NCO +J. Patrick McCormack as General Lefcourt +Marjorie Monaghan as Number One +David Purdham as Captain James +Carolyn Seymour as Senator Crosby +Julian Stone as Captain Mitchell + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John Copeland + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Maggie Egan Anchor + Karen Fineman Kelley + Rick Cramer Earthforce Officer + + Featuring + Kenneth Cortland Telepath + Gary McGurk President Clark + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tom Helmers + Andrew Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Gary Lavarack + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel DeCunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Liz Sroka + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor Jason Netter + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 420 diff --git a/credits/087 b/credits/087 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..19165e30 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/087 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "Rising Star" + + Guest Starring +Joey Dente as Luko +Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton Edgars +Rance Howard as David Sheridan +Michael Potter as General Foote +Beata Pozniak as President Susanna Luchenko + + Special Guest Star +Walter Koenig as Bester + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer George Johnsen + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Tony Dow + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + J.J. Boone Med Tech + Alex Cobo Max + Maggie Egan Anchor + Julie Ow Med Tech + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rick Jefferys III + Geoggrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel DeCunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptor John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editor Jeff Whitcher + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Liz Sroka + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistant Tracie Esparza + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 421 diff --git a/credits/088 b/credits/088 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a7915c21 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/088 @@ -0,0 +1,200 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" + + Guest Starring +Roy Brocksmith as Brother Alwyn Macomber +Alastair Duncan as Latimere +Eric Pierpoint as Daniel +Neil Roberts as Brother Michael + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Kathei Burr + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Stephen Furst + +[end credits] + + DEDICATED TO ALL THE + PEOPLE WHO PREDICTED + THAT THE BABYLON + PROJECT WOULD FAIL IN + ITS MISSION. + + FAITH MANAGES. + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Rob Elk Henry Ellis + Bennet Guillory Leif Tanner + Doug Hale Derek Mitchell + Kathleen Lloyd Elizabeth Metarie + David Anthony Smith Man + Joane Takahashi Dr. Tashaki + Ken Taylor Jim Bitterbane + Nick Toth Exeter + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Chuck Whelan + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Best Boy Grip Charles Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Carlos E. Ramirez + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Linda Giffin + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + Copyright (c) 1997 PTN CONSORTIUM + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + PTN Consortium is the author of this + film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 422 diff --git a/credits/089 b/credits/089 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2635f26d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/089 @@ -0,0 +1,189 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + No Compromises + + Guest Starring +Joshua Cox as Lt. Corwin +Anthony Crivello as John +Robin Atkin Downes as Byron + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Janet Greek + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Timothy Eyster Simon + Mauricio Mendoza Ranger + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Carla McCloskey + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of + the United States of America and other countries. + Any unauthorized duplication, copying, distribution, + exhibition or use may result in civil liability + and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV Cable Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay-TV Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production - 502 diff --git a/credits/090 b/credits/090 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..747db773 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/090 @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Very Long Night + of Londo Mollari + + Guest Starring +Ross Kettle as [???] + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by David J. Eagle + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Akiko Ann Morison Med Tech + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 503 diff --git a/credits/091 b/credits/091 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1582634d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/091 @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Paragon + of Animals + + Guest Starring +Tony Abatemarco as Verchan +Robin Atkin Downes as Byron +Kim Strauss as Drazi Ambassador + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Kathie Burr + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Daniel Bryan Cartmell Merkat + Bart Johnson Ranger + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 504 diff --git a/credits/092 b/credits/092 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c4db405e --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/092 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ + + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + A View from + the Gallery + + Guest Starring +Robin Atkin Downes as Byron +Joshua Cox as Lt. Corwin +Raymond O'Connor as Mack +Lawrence LeJohn as Bo + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Story by Harlan Ellison & + J. Michael Straczynski + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Janet Greek + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 505 + + diff --git a/credits/093 b/credits/093 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2191cff0 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/093 @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Learning Curve + + Guest Starring +Nathan Anderson as Rastenn +Turhan Bey as Turval +Brendan Ford as Tannier +Trevor Goddard as Trace +Brian McDermott as Durhan + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Fred Murphy + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by David J. Eagle + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Mongo Brownlee Enforcer + Dawn Comer Security Guard + Erica Ortega Teegarden + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Carla McCloskey + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 506 diff --git a/credits/094 b/credits/094 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0164e94d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/094 @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ + + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Strange Relations + + Guest Starring +Robin Atkin Downes as Byron +Joshua Cox as Lt. Corwin + + Special Guest Star +Walter Koenig as Bester + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Kathie Burr + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John C. Flinn III + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Clynell Jackson III Security Guard + James Lew Bloodhound Teep #1 + + Featuring + Clarke Coleman Telepath + Steven Hal Lambert Bloodhound Teep #2 + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Timothy Albee + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Dolly Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 507 + + diff --git a/credits/095 b/credits/095 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..35a1ca0d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/095 @@ -0,0 +1,194 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Secrets of the Soul + + Guest Starring +Robin Atkin Downes as Byron +Fiona Dwyer as Kirrin +Jack Hannibal as Peter +Stuart McLean as Carl +Jana Robbins as Ambassador Tal + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Tony Dow + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Roger Hewlett Thug + Skip Stellrecht Security Guard + + Featuring + William Scudder Drazi Captain + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Timothy Albee + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artist Chuck Carter + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 508 diff --git a/credits/096 b/credits/096 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..003c10d1 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/096 @@ -0,0 +1,200 @@ + + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Day of the Dead + + Guest Starring +Penn & Teller as Rebo & Zooty +Joshua Cox as Lt. Corwin +Bridget Flanery as Zoe + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by Neil Gaiman + Directed by Doug Lefler + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Special Appearance by + Marie Marshall as Dodger + Fabiana Udenio as Adira Tyree + Ed Wasser as Morden + + Co-Starring + Jonathan Chapman Brakiri Ambassador + Mary Major ISN Reporter + Skip Stellrecht Customs Officer + Ismael Kanater Brakiri Salesman + + Featuring + Harlan Ellison as Voice of Zooty + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Albee + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Dolly Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 511 + + diff --git a/credits/097 b/credits/097 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b7d91560 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/097 @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ + + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + In the Kingdom + of the Blind + + Guest Starring +Robin Atkin Downes as Byron +Neil Hunt as Minister Vitari +Damian London as Regent +Victor Love as Telepath +Francis X. McCarthy as Minister Vole +Ian Ogilvy as Lord Jano + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by David J. Eagle + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Featuring + David Darling Drazi + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Timothy Albee + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 509 + + diff --git a/credits/098 b/credits/098 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e1e3f365 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/098 @@ -0,0 +1,202 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + A Tragedy of + Telepaths + + + Guest Starring +Julie Caitlin Brown as Na'Toth +Robin Atkin Downes as Byron +Leigh J. McCloskey as Thomas +Kim Strauss as Drazi Ambassador + + Special Guest Star +Walter Koenig as Bester + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Kathie Burr + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Tony Dow + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Caroline Ambrose Lara + Freddy Andreiuo Worker + Jonathan Chapman Brakiri Ambassador + + Featuring + Tom Billet Centauri Guard + Christina Gavin Telepath + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Carla McCloskey + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Timothy Albee + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Dolly Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 510 diff --git a/credits/099 b/credits/099 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4d203612 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/099 @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Phoenix Rising + + Guest Starring +Robin Atkin Downes as Byron +Jack Hannibal as Peter +Victor Love as Telepath +Leigh J. McCloskey as Thomas + + Special Guest Star +Walter Koenig as Bester + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by David J. Eagle + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Albee + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 512 diff --git a/credits/100 b/credits/100 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..401f5ae1 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/100 @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Ragged Edge + + Guest Starring +Marshall Teague as Ta'lon +John Castellanos as Tafiq Azir +Mirron E. Willis as Brannagan + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Kathie Burr + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John Copeland + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Featuring + Mark Hendrickson Narn Acolyte + + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 513 diff --git a/credits/101 b/credits/101 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c695c89d --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/101 @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + TRUST THE CORPS + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + BABYLON 5 + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Corps is Mother, + The Corps is Father + + Guest Starring +Dana Barron as Lauren Ashley +Mike Genovese as Drake +Reggie Lee as Chen Hikaru +Dex Elliott Sanders as Jonathan Harris + + Special Guest Star +Walter Koenig as Bester + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Stephen Furst + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Brendan Ford Gordon + Don McMillan Bartender + Jeremy Thomas Man + Featuring + Michael Max Charles Ciano Roomate + Michael Jeffrie Stanton Dealer + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Carla McCloskey + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Supervisor Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 514 diff --git a/credits/102 b/credits/102 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..37a5b5c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/102 @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Meditations on + the Abyss + + Guest Starring +Ron Campbell as Drazi Ambassador +Martin Cast as Findell +Richard Yniguez as Montoya + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Featuring + Carl Ciarfalio Drazi Vendor + Vincent Deadrick, Jr. Tough Guy + Mark Hendrickson Narn Acolyte + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 515 diff --git a/credits/103 b/credits/103 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..727164b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/103 @@ -0,0 +1,187 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Darkness Ascending + + Guest Starring +Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton-Edgars +Thomas MacGreevy as Minister +Wesley Mask as Maitre D' +Edmund Shaff as Business Man +Richard Yniguez as Montoya + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Kathie Burr + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Janet Greek + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 516 diff --git a/credits/104 b/credits/104 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..129e42c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/104 @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + And All My Dreams, + Torn Asunder + + Guest Starring +Thomas MacGreevy as Minister +Kim Strauss as Drazi Ambassador + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Fred V. Murphy II + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Goran Gajic + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Jonathan Chapman Brakiri Ambassador + + Featuring + Vincent Deadrick, Jr. Brakiri + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 517 diff --git a/credits/105 b/credits/105 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fd3eaa55 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/105 @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Movements of Fire + and Shadow + + Guest Starring +Wayne Alexander as Drakh +Josh Clark as Kulomani +Joshua Cox as Lt. Corwin +Damian London as Regent +Thomas MacGreevy as Minister +Bart McCarthy as Daro +Robin Sachs as Na'Tok + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by John C. Flinn, III + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Featuring + Neil Bradley Dr. Liberano Varda + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Carla McCloskey + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Larry W. Bowman + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + H.W. Parker + Josh Prikryl + Andy Romine + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 518 diff --git a/credits/106 b/credits/106 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..74a19157 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/106 @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Fall of + Centauri Prime + + Guest Starring +Wayne Alexander as Drakh +Simon Billig as Ranger +Damian London as Regent +Robin Sachs as Na'tok + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Kathie Burr + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Douglas E. Wise + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Supervising Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Bill Arbanas + Larry W. Bownan + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + H.W. Parker + Josh Prikryl + Andy Romine + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + Chuck Carter + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Jerry Gergely + Manny Case + Gabriel De Cunto + + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 519 diff --git a/credits/107 b/credits/107 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7aa00dee --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/107 @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Wheel of Fire + + Guest Starring +Monique Edwards as Officer +Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton-Edgars + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Janet Greek + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + Supervising Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + + CG Design and Animation Team Larry W. Bownan + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + H.W. Parker + Josh Prikryl + Andy Romine + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisors [sic] Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories (R) + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect hereto. + + Production Number - 520 diff --git a/credits/108 b/credits/108 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d713513c --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/108 @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + And +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Objects in Motion + + Guest Starring +Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton-Edgars +James Hornbeck as Casey +Marjorie Monaghan as Number One + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Teleplay by J. Michael Straczynski + Story by Harlan Ellison & + J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Jesus Salvador Trevi~o + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +Jeffrey James Castillo Guard +Walter Williamson Paretti + + Featuring +Neil Bradley Tra'nil + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Supervising Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design and Animation Team Bill Arbanas + Larry W. Bowman + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + + Rich Jeffreys III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + H.W. Parker + Josh Prikryl + Andy Romine + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + Matte Artist [sic] Eric Chauvin + Chuck Carter + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Jerry Gergely + Manny Case + Gabriel De Cunto + Make-up Effects Supervisor[sic] Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + 1st Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories (R) + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and all national + laws giving effect hereto. + + Production Number - 521 diff --git a/credits/110 b/credits/110 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cd873429 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/110 @@ -0,0 +1,240 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + Sleeping in Light + +[closing credits] + + And now, for those of you + that have been archiving + this ISN Special Documentary, + the peole responsible..... + + Composer + Special Effects Make-up + Art Department + Graphics and Swing Department + Sound Department + Camera Crew + Animation and Compositing + Prop Department + Producers + Post Production + Post Sound + Special Effects Make-up + Sound Department + Stand-Ins + Production Office + Grip Department + Production Department + Script Supervisor + Accounting Department + Wardrobe Department + Lighting Department + Casting Department + Construction Department + Special Effects Department + Assitants to Producers + Stunt Department + NDEI-Office Staff + Make-up Department + Catering + Producers + + Directed by J. Michael Straczynski + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + + + + BABYLON 5 + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Mira Furlan as Delenn + + Also Starring +Richard Biggs as Stephen Franklin +Bill Mumy as Lennier +Jason Carter as Marcus Cole +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Jeff Conaway as Zack Allan +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + + + Guest Starring +Wayne Alexander as Lorien +Romy Rosemont as Publicist +David Wells as Commander Nils + + + Music by Christopher Franke + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Edited by Kathie Burr + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + Sharon Annett Mary + Dan Sachoff Aide + Lair Torrant Ranger + Kent Minault Captain of the Guard + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Doublas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Supervising Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Bill Arbanas + Larry W. Bowman + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + H. W. Parker + Josh Prikryl + Andy Romine + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Matte Artists Eric Chauvin + Chuck Carter + + Concept Designs Timothy M. Earls + + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Jerry Gergely + Manny Case + Gabriel De Cunto + Make-up Effects Supervisor Jeff Farley + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Linda Coffey, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + 1st Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Mike Hackett + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 523 diff --git a/credits/111 b/credits/111 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..09f3021c --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/111 @@ -0,0 +1,198 @@ +Note: Actors who appeared in earlier printed versions of the credits +but not in the onscreen credits are noted in {braces.} + + TNT Presents + + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + In the Beginning + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Lt. Commander John Sheridan +Mira Furlan as Delenn +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar + And +Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari +{Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova} + + Guest Starring +Theodore Bikel as Lenonn +Reiner Schone as Dukhat + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + Produced by John Copeland + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[end credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Special Appearance By +Michael O'Hare [Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair] + + Co-Starring +Robin Atkin Downes Morann +J. Patrick McCormack General Lefcourt + +Tricia O'Neil President +Robin Sachs Coplann +James Patrick Stuart Presidential Aide + + Featuring +Jason Azikiwe Captain Sterns +Yasemin Baytok Centauri Woman +Kristin Birch Woman 1 +Justin Carroll Comm Officer +Ardwight Chamberlain Kosh +Jacob Chase Luc +Tim Colceri Captain Jankowski +{Lane Davies Callier} +Timothy Davis-Reed Man 1 +Pancho Demmings Alpha 7 +Steven Ford First Officer +Mio R. Jakula Ganya Ivanov +Nick Jameson Minbari Pilot +Mike Kennedy General Fontaine +Erica Mer Lyssa +Mark Rafael Truitt Minbari Warrior + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Douglas E. Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + Senior Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + + CG Design and Animation Team Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jeffreys III + + Geoffrey Mark + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Matte Artist Eric Chauvin + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + Timothy M. Earls + +Series Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisors Jeff Farley + Mark Garbarino + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer "The" John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Carlos Torres + Best Boy Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects by Ultimate Effects + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Jeff Whitcher + Elisabeth Flaum + + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Zeke Salas + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Mike Payne + + First Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay-TV Cable Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay-TV Cable Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and all national + laws giving effect thereto. + Production No. TVM2 diff --git a/credits/112 b/credits/112 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..cb54ea21 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/112 @@ -0,0 +1,188 @@ + TNT PRESENTS + + + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + BABYLON 5 + Thirdspace + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan +Claudia Christian as Commander Susan Ivanova +Mira Furlan as Delenn +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Stephen Furst as Vir Cotto +Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander + + With +Clyde Kusatsu as Bill Morishi + And +Shari Belafonte as Dr. Elizabeth Trent + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by David W. Foster + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography John C. Flinn III, A.S.C. + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + Produced by John Copeland + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Jesús Salvador Treviño + +[end credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring + William Sanderson Deuce + Kip King Leo + Floyd Levine Alex + Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter Merchant + Joshua Cox Lt. Coriwn + Judson Mills Delta 7 + Featuring + G. Adam Gifford Guard + Jerry Kernion Builder + Valerie Red-Hors Technician + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Ronnie Chong + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Supervising Animators Shant Jordan + Patrick Perez + CG Design & Animation Team Tim Albee + Tim Everitt + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Rich Jefferys, III + Jeff Montray + Don Neudecker + Josh Prikryl + + Compositors Phillip Giles + Ken Busick + Kim Anderson + + Concept Designs Timothy E. Earls + Luc Mayrand + + Thirdspace Creature, Artifact + and City Design by Wayne D. Barlow + +Movie Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Gabriel De Cunto + Manny Case + Jerry Gergely + Make-up Effects Supervisors Jeff Farley + Mark Garbarino + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Alan Kobayashi + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Hair & Make-up Kim M. Ferry + Key Hairstylist Barbara Wilder Pearlman + + Camera Operator Peter B. Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Wally Sweeterman + Gaffer John Smith + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Grip Carlos Torres + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Dayton Osmond + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Ann Scibelli + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Zeke Salas + Sound Supervisors Mike Payne + Jeff Whitcher + + 1st Assistant Editor Kathie Burr + Assistant Editor John Burrus + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Heidi Erl + Script Supervisor Ken Gilbert + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Carol Henry + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Producer's Associate Jeffrey Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + + (c) 1997 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and + all national laws giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - TNTCF1 diff --git a/credits/114 b/credits/114 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f6f235f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/114 @@ -0,0 +1,192 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + TNT Presents + BABYLON 5 + The River of Souls + + Starring + Jerry Doyle Tracy Scoggins + as as + Michael Garibaldi Elizabeth Lochley + +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Richard Biggs as Dr. Stephen Franklin + + With +Ian McShane as Dr. Robert Bryson + And +Martin Sheen as The Soul Hunter + + Music by Christopher Franke + Edited by Suzanne Chambre Sternlicht + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + Produced by John Copeland + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Janet Greek + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Featuring +Jeff Doucette 2nd Man +Wayne Alexander Soul One +Bob Amaral Customer +Beece Barkett Woman + +Joel Brooks Jacob Mayhew +Joshua Cox Lt. Corwin +T.J. Hoban Male Hologram +Stuart Pankin James Riley + +Ray Proscia Klaus +Nikki Schieler Ziering Female Hologram +Jeff Silverman Man (Mr. Clute) +Jean St. James Sheila + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Pamela Eilerson + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Original Casting by Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A. + + Music Performed by Christopher Franke + and The Berlin Symphony Orchestra + + Costume Designer Ann Bruice Aling + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Animation + + Supervising Animators Harry Hendrickson + Jeff Montray + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + CG Design and Animation Team Bill Arbanas + Larry W. Bowman + Tim Everitt + Edward Helmers + Tom Helmers + Rich Jeffreys III + H.W. Parker + Andrew Romine + + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Tim Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven Anderson + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + + Movie Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Jerry Gergely + Gabriel De Cunto + Make-up Effects Supervisor[sic] Jeff Farley + Mark Garbarino + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artists Doreen Austria + Cathy Coultas + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Department Head for Hair Barbara Wilder Pearlman + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + Hair & Make-up Tegan Taylor + + Camera Operator Ron Francis, Sr. + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Robert D. Blair + Best Boy Electric Nathaniel Roberts + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director Alisa Matlovsky + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip Chris Nagle + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Laura Pratt + Tim Walston + Dialogue Editors Paul Curtis + John C. Stuver, M.P.S.E. + + Re-recording Mixers Larry Benjamin + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + On-line Editor Skip Robinson + 1st Assistant Editor John Burrus + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordintor [sic] Tracy Yates + Executive Producer's Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Producer's Associate Jeffery Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and all national + laws giving effect hereto. + + Production Number - TNTCF3 diff --git a/credits/115 b/credits/115 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3464dd69 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/115 @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + TNT Presents + BABYLON 5 + A Call to Arms + + Starring +Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan +Jerry Doyle as Michael Garibaldi +Jeff Conaway as Security Chief Zack Allan +Carrie Dobro as Dureena [Nafeel] +Peter Woodward as Galen + + With +Tony Todd as Captain Leonard Anderson + And +Tracy Scoggins as Elizabeth Lochley + + Music by Evan H. Chen + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Conceptual Consultant Harlan Ellison + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + Produced by John Copeland + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + +Tony Maggio Drake + + Co-Starring +Michael Harris Bishop +Scott MacDonald First Officer + + Featuring +Wayne Alexander Drakh +Carlos Bernard Communications +Burt Bulos Navigation +Ron Campbell Drazi +David Coburn Minbari Ranger +Matt Gallini Rolf +Valeria Ghiran ISN Reporter +Marjean Holden Navigation +Endre Hules Yuri +Tim O'Hare First Mage +Tom Ramirez Second Mage +LaRita Shelby-Mullen Lynne +Kayla Spell Sarah + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + 1st Assistant Director Doug Wise + 2nd Assistant Director David McWhirter + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + And Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer Tina Haatainen Jones + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Entertainment + + Supervising Animators Harry Hendrickson + Tom Helmers + Systems Engineer Larry Stanton + + CG Design and Animation Team Bill Arbanas + Larry W. Bowman + Tim Everitt + Edward Helmers + Jim Hoffman + Rich Jeffreys III + H.W. Parker + Andrew Romine + + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve R. Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Timothy E. Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven Anderson + Concept Designs Luc Mayrand + + Movie Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + Optic Nerve Studios + + Special Make-up Effects Artists Jerry Gergely + Gabriel De Cunto + Make-up Effects Supervisor[sic] Jeff Farley + Mark Garbarino + Make-up Effects Sculptors John Wheaton + Glenn Eisner + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + + Graphic Artists Doreen Austria + Cathy Coultas + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim M. Holly + Key Costume Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Department Head for Hair Barbara Wilder Pearlman + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + Hair & Make-up Tegan Taylor + + Camera Operator Peter Kowalski + 1st Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos Torres + Key Grip Chris Nagle + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + + 2nd 2nd Assistant Director David Fudge + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip John Schultz + + Production Sound Mixer Don H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Laura Pratt + Tim Walston + Dialogue Editors Paul Curtis + John C. Stuver, M.P.S.E. + + Re-recording Mixers Marshall Garlington + Juan Peralta + Ken Teaney, C.A.S. + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + 1st Assistant Editor John Burrus + Assistant Editor Jennifer Vejar + Apprentice Editor Maritza Suarez + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordintor [sic] Tracy Yates + Executive Producer's Assistants Tracie Esparza + Karen Harrell + Joanne Higgins + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Producer's Associate Jeffery Willerth +Special Effect Contact Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + Lighting & Grip Equipment Supplied by (HR) + + "Babylon 5" Soundtrack Album is available from \-^-/ + Sonic Images Records / \ + SI#8502-2 `^' + + This motion picture is protected under the laws of the + United States and other countries. Any unauthorized + duplication, copying, distribution, exhibition or use + may result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Pay TV, Cable & Network Features is the + author of this film/motion picture for the purposes of + Article 15(2) of the Berne Convention and all national + laws giving effect hereto. + + Production Number - TNTCF4 diff --git a/credits/245 b/credits/245 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..dc27ba2e --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/245 @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ + +Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. +present + +Copyright MCMLIII by the Vitafone corp. All rights reserved. + +MERRIE +MELODIES + +Reg. U.S. Pat Off. + +A WARNER BROS. CARTOON + +color by technicolor + +DUCK DODGERS +IN THE +24-1/2th +CENTURY + +Story Michael Maltese +Animation Lloyd Vaughan + Ken Harris + Ben Washam +Layouts Maurice Noble +Backgrounds Philip De Guard +Effects Animation Harry Love +Voice Characterizations Mel Blanc +Musical Direction Carl Stalling +Directed by Charles M. Jones + + diff --git a/credits/501 b/credits/501 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..201b3aa7 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/501 @@ -0,0 +1,211 @@ + presented in +DD SURROUND TM + + Crusade + + Starring +Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Daniel Dae Kim as Lieutenant John Matheson +David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson +Peter Woodward as Galen +Marjean Holden as Doctor Sarah Chambers +Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + War Zone + + Special Guest Star +Alex Mendoza as Trace Miller + + Guest Starring +Tim Thomerson as Senator McQuate + + Music by Evan H. Chen + Edited by Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E. + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Janet Greek + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +Chris Come's as Aide +Maggie Egan as ISN Anchor +Don Fischer as Captain Henson + +Mark Hendrickson as Drakh Captain +Elijha Majar as Crew #1 +Rebecca Markham as Sam +Brook Parker as Lieutenant Ross + +John Sanderford as Mr. Ames +Will Schaub as Jenson +Otto Stu:rcke as Ensign + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + First Assistant Director Doug Wise + Second Assistant Director David Fudge + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer Randy Gardell + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Entertainment + + Supervising Animator Larry Bowman + + CG Animation Team Tim Everitt + Justin Hammond + Andrew Harlowe + Edward Helmers + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Jim Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Jeff Montray + Andrew Romine + Chris Q Zapara + Playback Animator Tim Petre + + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve R. Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Timothy M. Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven-Anderson + Conceptual Designs Luc Mayrand + + Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + + Special Make-up Effects + Supervisor Shaun Smith + Key On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Jerry Gergely + On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Gabriel DeCunto + Conceptual Designer & + Make-Up Effects Artist John Wheaton + Make-Up Effects Artist Hiroshi Katagiri + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Doreen Austria + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Key Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Department Head for Hair Barbara Wilder-Pearlman + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + + Camera Operator Peter Kowalski + First Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos M. Torres + Key Grip Robert Devine + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip Reid Wheatley + + Second Second Assistant + Director Bob Acosta + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Donald H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Rebecca Hanck + + Dialogue Editors Paul Curtis + John Chandler + Re-recording Mixers Mark Fishman + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + Assistant Editors Maritza Suarez + Jennifer Vejar + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Valeria Ghiran + Karen Harrell + Producer's Associate Tracy Yates + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Special Effect Contact + Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + 3D Medical Animation + Courtesy of Blausen Medical + Communciations, Inc. [sic] + Technical Operations for NDEI Larry Stanton + + Technical Advisors Jet Propulsion Laboratory + JPL + California Institute of Technology + + Main Title Design By Copeland/Straczynski + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + + Equipment Supplied by + /cine\ + \mode/ + + \-^-/ + / \ + `^' + + This motion picture is protected under + the laws of the United States and other + countries. Any unauthorized duplication, + copying, distribution, exhibition or use may + result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, + Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication of + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & + Network Features is the author of this film/motion + picture for the purposes of Article 15(2) of the + Berne Convention and all national laws + giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 108 diff --git a/credits/502 b/credits/502 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c9f7f543 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/502 @@ -0,0 +1,203 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + Crusade + + Starring +Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Daniel Dae Kim as Lieutenant John Matheson +David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson +Peter Woodward as Galen +Marjean Holden as Doctor Sarah Chambers +Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Long Road + + Guest Starring +Alison Lohman as Claire +Scott Paetty as Lieutenant Meyers +Mik Scriba as Barkeep +Marshall Teague as Captain Daniels + + Special Guest Star +Edward Woodward as Alwyn + + Music by Evan H. Chen + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +Michael O'Connell as Worker #2 +Sophia Santi as Worker #1 +Rex Ryon as First Man + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + First Assistant Director Carla McCloskey + Second Assistant Director David Fudge + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer Randy Gardell + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Entertainment + + Supervising Animator Larry Bowman + + CG Animation Team Tim Everitt + Justin Hammond + Edward Helmers + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Jim Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Andrew Romine + Chris Q Zapara + Playback Animator Tim Petre + + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve R. Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Timothy M. Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven-Anderson + Conceptual Designs Luc Mayrand + + Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + + Special Make-up Effects + Supervisor Shaun Smith + Key On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Jerry Gergely + On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Gabriel DeCunto + Conceptual Designer & + Make-Up Effects Artist John Wheaton + Make-Up Effects Artist Hiroshi Katagiri + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Doreen Austria + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Key Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Department Head for Hair Barbara Wilder-Pearlman + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + + Camera Operator Peter Kowalski + First Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos M. Torres + Key Grip Robert Devine + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip Reid Wheatley + + Second Second Assistant + Director Bob Acosta + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Donald H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Rebecca Hanck + + Dialogue Editors Dov Schwarz + John C. Stuver, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers Mark Fishman + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + Assistant Editors Maritza Suarez + Jennifer Vejar + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Valeria Ghiran + Karen Harrell + Producer's Associate Tracy Yates + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Special Effect Contact + Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + 3D Medical Animation + Courtesy of Blausen Medical + Communciations, Inc. [sic] + Technical Operations for NDEI Larry Stanton + + Technical Advisors Jet Propulsion Laboratory + JPL + California Institute of Technology + + Main Title Design By Copeland/Straczynski + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + + Equipment Supplied by + /cine\ + \mode/ + + \-^-/ + / \ + `^' + + This motion picture is protected under + the laws of the United States and other + countries. Any unauthorized duplication, + copying, distribution, exhibition or use may + result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, + Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication of + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & + Network Features is the author of this film/motion + picture for the purposes of Article 15(2) of the + Berne Convention and all national laws + giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 107 diff --git a/credits/503 b/credits/503 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..06171122 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/503 @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + Crusade + + Starring +Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Daniel Dae Kim as Lieutenant John Matheson +David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson +Peter Woodward as Galen +Marjean Holden as Doctor Sarah Chambers +Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Well of Forever + + Guest Starring +Michael Beck as Mr. Jones + + Music by Evan H. Chen + Edited by Jeff Hodge + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by Fiona Avery + Directed by Janet Greek + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +David A. Saunders as Navigation +Joe Wandell as Communications Officer + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + First Assistant Director Doug Wise + Second Assistant Director David Fudge + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer Randy Gardell + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Entertainment + + Supervising Animator Larry Bowman + + CG Animation Team Tim Everitt + Justin Hammond + Edward Helmers + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Jim Hofman + Rich Jeffreys III + Chris Q Zapara + Playback Animator Tim Petre + + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve R. Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Timothy M. Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven-Anderson + Conceptual Designs Luc Mayrand + + Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + + Special Make-up Effects + Supervisor Shaun Smith + Key On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Jerry Gergely + On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Gabriel DeCunto + Conceptual Designer & + Make-Up Effects Artist John Wheaton + Make-Up Effects Artist Hiroshi Katagiri + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Doreen Austria + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Key Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Department Head for Hair Barbara Wilder-Pearlman + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + + Camera Operator Peter Kowalski + First Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos M. Torres + Key Grip Robert Devine + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip Reid Wheatley + + Second Second Assistant + Director Bob Acosta + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Donald H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Rebecca Hanck + + Dialogue Editors [sic] Dov Schwarz + Re-recording Mixers Ken Teaney, C.A.S. + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + Assistant Editors Maritza Suarez + Jennifer Vejar + Post Production Coordinators Pam Oseransky + Janet Kasper + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Valeria Ghiran + Karen Harrell + Producer's Associate Tracy Yates + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Special Effect Contact + Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + 3D Medical Animation + Courtesy of Blausen Medical + Communciations, Inc. [sic] + Technical Operations for NDEI Larry Stanton + + Technical Advisors Jet Propulsion Laboratory + JPL + California Institute of Technology + + Main Title Design By Copeland/Straczynski + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + + Equipment Supplied by + /cine\ + \mode/ + + \-^-/ + / \ + `^' + + This motion picture is protected under + the laws of the United States and other + countries. Any unauthorized duplication, + copying, distribution, exhibition or use may + result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, + Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication of + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & + Network Features is the author of this film/motion + picture for the purposes of Article 15(2) of the + Berne Convention and all national laws + giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 106 diff --git a/credits/504 b/credits/504 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..eb8d216e --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/504 @@ -0,0 +1,204 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + Crusade + + Starring +Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Daniel Dae Kim as Lieutenant John Matheson +David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson +Peter Woodward as Galen +Marjean Holden as Doctor Sarah Chambers +Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Path of Sorrows + + Guest Starring +Mark Blankfield as Jenson +Gary Graham as Bruder +Sophie Ward as Isabelle + And +Dawn Stern as Alison + + Music by Evan H. Chen + Edited by Jeff Hodge + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Mike Vejar + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +Daniel Guzman as XO +Kevyn Major Howard as Officer +Matt O'Toole as First Man +Patrick St. Esprit as Captain Ross + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + First Assistant Director Carla McCloskey + Second Assistant Director David Fudge + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer Randy Gardell + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Entertainment + + Supervising Animator Larry Bowman + + CG Animation Team Tim Everitt + Justin Hammond + Edward Helmers + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Jim Hofman + Kevin Gendreau + Chris Q Zapara + Playback Animator Tim Petre + + 3D Animation Producer Terry Whiteside + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve R. Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Timothy M. Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven-Anderson + Conceptual Designs Luc Mayrand + + Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + + Special Make-up Effects + Supervisor Shaun Smith + Key On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Jerry Gergely + On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Gabriel DeCunto + Conceptual Designer & + Make-Up Effects Artist John Wheaton + Make-Up Effects Artist Hiroshi Katagiri + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Doreen Austria + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Key Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Department Head for Hair Barbara Wilder-Pearlman + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + + Camera Operator Peter Kowalski + First Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos M. Torres + Key Grip Robert Devine + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip Reid Wheatley + + Second Second Assistant + Director Bob Acosta + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Donald H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Rebecca Hanck + + Dialogue Editors John Chandler + Re-recording Mixers Mark Fishman + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + Assistant Editors Maritza Suarez + Jennifer Vejar + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + [sic] Janet Kasper + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Valeria Ghiran + Karen Harrell + Producer's Associate Tracy Yates + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Special Effect Contact + Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + 3D Medical Animation + Courtesy of Blausen Medical + Communciations, Inc. [sic] + Technical Operations for NDEI Larry Stanton + + Technical Advisors Jet Propulsion Laboratory + JPL + California Institute of Technology + + Main Title Design By Copeland/Straczynski + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + + Equipment Supplied by + /cine\ + \mode/ + + \-^-/ + / \ + `^' + +[this screen omitted] + This motion picture is protected under + the laws of the United States and other + countries. Any unauthorized duplication, + copying, distribution, exhibition or use may + result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, + Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication of + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & + Network Features is the author of this film/motion + picture for the purposes of Article 15(2) of the + Berne Convention and all national laws + giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 109 +[end omission] diff --git a/credits/505 b/credits/505 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..db9b40ce --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/505 @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ + presented in + DD SURROUND TM + + Crusade + + Starring +Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Daniel Dae Kim as Lieutenant John Matheson +David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson +Peter Woodward as Galen +Marjean Holden as Doctor Sarah Chambers +Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Patterns of the Soul + + Guest Starring +Peter Deanda as General Thompson +Sharrise Baker as IPX Official +Brian Thompson as Robert Black +Eric Ware as Tim + + Music by Evan H. Chen + Edited by Skip Robinson + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by Fiona Avery + Directed by Tony Dow + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +Scott Carollo as Colonist +Nancy Linehan Charles as Villager +Curt Lowens as Old One + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + First Assistant Director Doug Wise + Second Assistant Director David Fudge + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer Randy Gardell + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Entertainment + + Supervising Animator Larry Bowman + + CG Animation Team Justin Hammond + Edward Helmers + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Jim Hofman + Kevin Gendreau + Chris Q Zapara + Playback Animator Tim Petre + + 3D Animation Producer Terry Whiteside + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve R. Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Timothy M. Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven-Anderson + Conceptual Designs Luc Mayrand + + Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + + Special Make-up Effects + Supervisor Shaun Smith + Key On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Jerry Gergely + On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Gabriel DeCunto + Conceptual Designer & + Make-Up Effects Artist John Wheaton + Make-Up Effects Artist Hiroshi Katagiri + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Doreen Austria + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Key Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Department Head for Hair Barbara Wilder-Pearlman + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + + Camera Operator Peter Kowalski + First Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos M. Torres + Key Grip Robert Devine + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip Reid Wheatley + + Second Second Assistant + Director Bob Acosta + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Donald H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Rebecca Hanck + + Dialogue Editors John Chandler + Re-recording Mixers Marc Fishman + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + Assistant Editors Maritza Suarez + Jennifer Vejar + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + [sic] Janet Kasper + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Valeria Ghiran + Karen Harrell + Producer's Associate Tracy Yates + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Special Effect Contact + Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + 3D Medical Animation + Courtesy of Blausen Medical + Communciations, Inc. [sic] + Technical Operations for NDEI Larry Stanton + + Technical Advisors Jet Propulsion Laboratory + JPL + California Institute of Technology + + Main Title Design By Copeland/Straczynski + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + + Equipment Supplied by + /cine\ + \mode/ + + \-^-/ + / \ + `^' + + This motion picture is protected under + the laws of the United States and other + countries. Any unauthorized duplication, + copying, distribution, exhibition or use may + result in civil liability and/or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1998 Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, + Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication of + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & + Network Features is the author of this film/motion + picture for the purposes of Article 15(2) of the + Berne Convention and all national laws + giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 110 diff --git a/credits/506 b/credits/506 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b3a64f4e --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/506 @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@ + presented in +DD SURROUND TM + + Crusade + + Starring +Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Daniel Dae Kim as Lieutenant John Matheson +David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson +Peter Woodward as Galen +Marjean Holden as Doctor Sarah Chambers +Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + Ruling From the Tomb + + Special Guest Star +Alex Mendoza as Trace Miller + + Guest Starring +Juanita Jennings as Lieutenant Carr +John Novak as Doctor Alain Lebecque + + Music by Evan H. Chen + Edited by Michael B. Hoggan, A.C.E. + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by Peter David + Directed by John Copeland + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +Fred Estrada as Cultist #1 +Mario Roberts as Passerby +Jason Rodriguez as Rivera +Harley Zumbrum as Bruiser + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + First Assistant Director Doug Wise + Second Assistant Director David Fudge + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer Randy Gardell + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Entertainment + + Supervising Animator Larry Bowman + + CG Animation Team Kevin Gendreau + Justin Hammond + Edward Helmers + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Jim Hofman + Chris Q Zapara + Playback Animator Tim Petre + + 3D Animation Producer Terry Whiteside + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve R. Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Timothy M. Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven-Anderson + Conceptual Designs Luc Mayrand + + Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + + Special Make-up Effects + Supervisor Shaun Smith + Key On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Jerry Gergely + On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Gabriel DeCunto + Conceptual Designer & + Make-Up Effects Artist John Wheaton + Make-Up Effects Artist Hiroshi Katagiri + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Doreen Austria + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Key Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Department Head for Hair Barbara Wilder-Pearlman + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + + Camera Operator Peter Kowalski + First Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos M. Torres + Key Grip Robert Devine + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip Reid Wheatley + + Second Second Assistant + Director Bob Acosta + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Donald H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Rebecca Hanck + + Dialogue Editor Dov Schwarz + Re-recording Mixers Michael Olman + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + Assistant Editors Maritza Suarez + Jennifer Vejar + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + [sic] Janet Kasper + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Valeria Ghiran + Karen Harrell + Producer's Associate Tracy Yates + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Special Effect Contact + Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + 3D Medical Animation + Courtesy of Blausen Medical + Communciations, Inc. [sic] + Technical Operations for NDEI Larry Stanton + + Technical Advisors Jet Propulsion Laboratory + JPL + California Institute of Technology + + Main Title Design By Copeland/Straczynski + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + + Equipment Supplied by + /cine\ + \mode/ + + \-^-/ + / \ + `^' + + This motion picture is protected under + the laws of the United States and other + countries. Any unauthorized duplication, + copying, distribution, exhibition or use may + result in civil liability and or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1999 Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, + Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication of + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & + Network Features is the author of this film/motion + picture for the purposes of Article 15(2) of the + Berne Convention and all national laws + giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 112 diff --git a/credits/507 b/credits/507 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..da3503c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/507 @@ -0,0 +1,204 @@ + presented in +DD SURROUND TM + + Crusade + + Starring +Gary Cole as Captain Matthew Gideon +Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley +Daniel Dae Kim as Lieutenant John Matheson +David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson +Peter Woodward as Galen +Marjean Holden as Doctor Sarah Chambers +Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel + + Created by J. Michael Straczynski + +[production credits] + + The Rules of the Game + + Guest Starring +Tim Choate as Polix +Timothy Landfield as Lorkan #3 +Sal Landi as Rolf Mueller +Jamie Rose as Cynthia Allen +Joel Swetow as Ris + + Music by Evan H. Chen + Edited by Jeff Hodge + Production Designer John Iacovelli + Director of Photography Frederick V. Murphy II + Co-Producer Skip Beaudine + Produced by John Copeland + Written by J. Michael Straczynski + Directed by Jesus Trevino + +[end credits] + + Executive Producer Douglas Netter + Executive Producer J. Michael Straczynski + + In memory of Mister Kitty + 198? to May 17, 1999 + Now chasing star-mice + +[closing credits] + + Associate Producer Susan Norkin + + Co-Starring +Jonathan Chapman as Brakiri Ambassador +Carl Reggiardo as Drazi Vendor +Kathe Weeks as Diane + + Unit Production Manager Skip Beaudine + First Assistant Director Doug Wise + Second Assistant Director Bob Acosta + + Casting by Fern Champion, C.S.A. + and Mark Paladini, C.S.A. + + Costume Designer Randy Gardell + + Visual Effects Produced by Netter Digital Entertainment + + Supervising Animator Larry Bowman + + CG Animation Team Kevin Gendreau + Justin Hammond + Edward Helmers + Tom Helmers + Harry Hendrickson + Jim Hofman + Chris Q Zapara + Playback Animator Tim Petre + + 3D Animation Producer Terry Whiteside + Visual Effects Supervisor Steve R. Moore + Visual Effects Art Director Timothy M. Earls + Compositors Ken Busick + Kim Hoven-Anderson + Conceptual Designs Luc Mayrand + + Make-up Effects Created by John Vulich + + Special Make-up Effects + Supervisor Shaun Smith + Key On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Jerry Gergely + On-Set Special Make-up + Effects Artist Gabriel DeCunto + Conceptual Designer & + Make-Up Effects Artist John Wheaton + Make-Up Effects Artist Hiroshi Katagiri + + Art Director Mark-Louis Walters + Set Decorator Jason Howard + Property Master Dark Hoffman + Graphic Artist Doreen Austria + Construction Coordinator Curtis Laseter + Key Scenic Artist Matthew Plummer + + Costume Supervisor Kim Holly + Key Costumer Linda Huse + Key Make-up Artist Cinzia Zanetti + Key Hairstylist Kim M. Ferry + Assistant Make-up Denise Fischer + + Camera Operator Peter Kowalski + First Assistant Camera Mike McEveety + Gaffer Carlos M. Torres + Key Grip Robert Devine + Best Boy Electric Nathanial Roberts + Dolly Grip Charles S. Lantz, Jr. + Best Boy Grip Reid Wheatley + + Second Second Assistant + Director Doug Corring + Special Effects Supervisor Mike Del Genio + Stunt Coordinator Kerry Rossall + + Production Sound Mixer Donald H. Matthews, C.A.S. + Sound Designer Harry Cohen + Sound Effects Editors Elisabeth Flaum + Rebecca Hanck + + Dialogue Editor John C. Stuver, M.P.S.E. + Re-recording Mixers Michael Olman + Liz Sroka + Sound Supervisor Michael Payne + + Assistant Editors Maritza Suarez + Jennifer Vejar + Post Production Coordinator Pam Oseransky + [sic] Janet Kasper + + Production Coordinator Celeste Healy + Script Supervisor Kate Lewis + Production Accounting + Services Provided by Oberman, Tivoli & Miller, Ltd. + Production Accountant Mike Hoover + + Script Coordinator Tracy Yates + Executive Producers' Assistants Tracie Esparza + Valeria Ghiran + Karen Harrell + Producer's Associate Tracy Yates + Reference Editor Fiona Avery + + Special Effect Contact + Lens Consultant Jonathan Gording, O.D. + 3D Medical Animation + Courtesy of Blausen Medical + Communciations, Inc. [sic] + Technical Operations for NDEI Larry Stanton + + Technical Advisors Jet Propulsion Laboratory + JPL + California Institute of Technology + + Main Title Design By Copeland/Straczynski + + Filmed with Panavision(R) Cameras & Lenses + + Color by Pacific Film Laboratories + Electronic Laboratories TM + [logo] Laser-Pacific + [ ] Media Corporation + + Digital Sound & Re-Recording by ///// ///// //// + ///// //// // + ///// // //// + The Sound of Pictures + DD Dolby Surround TM + + Equipment Supplied by + /cine\ + \mode/ + + \-^-/ + / \ + `^' + + This motion picture is protected under + the laws of the United States and other + countries. Any unauthorized duplication, + copying, distribution, exhibition or use may + result in civil liability and or criminal prosecution. + + (c) 1999 Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, + Cable & Network Features + + ALL RIGHTS RESERVED + + Country of first publication of + United States of America + + Warner Bros. Domestic Pay TV, Cable & + Network Features is the author of this film/motion + picture for the purposes of Article 15(2) of the + Berne Convention and all national laws + giving effect thereto. + + Production Number - 112 diff --git a/credits/gen.py b/credits/gen.py new file mode 100755 index 00000000..fd0341de --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/gen.py @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +#!/usr/bin/python + +import sys,string,time,os +sys.path.append('../internal') +import otros + +months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', + 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'] + +for epnum in sys.argv[1:]: + curep = string.atoi(epnum[:3]) + + pix = open('../internal/epnames', 'r') + for i in range(0, curep + 1): + epname = pix.readline()[:-1] + pix.close() + if epname == '': + epname = 'XXX' + + if len(epnum) > 3: + cureplong = epnum + else: + cureplong = '%03d' % curep + + input = open(cureplong, 'r') + output = open(cureplong + '.html', 'w') + + mtime = time.localtime(os.stat(cureplong)[8]); + mtime_str = '%s %d, %d' % (months[mtime[1]], mtime[2], mtime[0]) + + output.write(""" + +Credits: """ + '"' + epname + '"' + """ + + + + + + +""" + otros.pageheader(curep, 'credits', 1) + '

\n\n') + + try: + special = open(cureplong + '-head', 'r') + output.write(special.read()) + special.close() + except: + pass + + output.write('
\n\n')
+	output.write(input.read())
+
+	output.write("""
+
+
+""" + otros.pagefooter(curep) + """ + +
+Last update: +""" + mtime_str + """ + +
+ + +""") + + input.close() + output.close() + + print epnum diff --git a/credits/genall.csh b/credits/genall.csh new file mode 100644 index 00000000..89479bc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/genall.csh @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#!/bin/csh +gen.py [01]?? diff --git a/credits/genindex.py b/credits/genindex.py new file mode 100644 index 00000000..bd5829a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/genindex.py @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +#!/usr/local/bin/python + +import sys,string +sys.path.append('../internal') +import otros + +pix = open('../internal/epnames', 'r') +epnames = pix.readlines() +pix.close() + +seasons = [(1, 'Season One'), (23, 'Season Two'), (45, 'Season Three'), + (67, 'Season Four'), (89, 'Season Five')] +season = 0 + +output = open('index.html', 'w') + +output.write(""" + +Babylon 5 Episode Credits + + + + +

Babylon 5 Episode Credits

+ +\n\n

' + seasons[season][1] + + '

\n + +

+To the episode list + + + +""") + +output.close() diff --git a/credits/header b/credits/header new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b0d01a73 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/header @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +

[Home] [Find] [Index] [Help] + +
+ +
[Guide] [Background] ### SYNOPSIS ### [Credits] [Episode List] [Previous] [Next] + + +

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+ diff --git a/credits/index.html b/credits/index.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b2765e8c --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,136 @@ + + +Babylon 5 Episode Credits + + + + +

Babylon 5 Episode Credits

+ + + +

Season One

+ + +

Season Two

+ + +

Season Three

+ + +

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+ + +

Season Five

+ + +

+To the episode list + + + diff --git a/credits/skel b/credits/skel new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f57b1084 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/skel @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ + + +"XXX" - credits + + + + + + + + +

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+Last update: +September 2, 1995 +
+ +Maintained by +Steven Grimm +<koreth@midwinter.com>. +
+ + diff --git a/credits/ungen b/credits/ungen new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ec25fa81 --- /dev/null +++ b/credits/ungen @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +#!/bin/sh +sed -e '1,/
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+Babylon 5 Edit Decision List (419)
+
+
+
Babylon 5 Edit Decision List (419)

+If you don't know what an edit decision list (EDL) is,
+take a look at the EDL Description page.
+
+
This page contains a list of all the commercial breaks within
+Babylon 5.
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+

+
Between the Darkness and the Light

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Air Master: 8/06/97

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17:50.151:31.23Local ads
19:22.10:05.00B5 bumper
19:27.102:30.03National ads [4:06.26]
21:57.119:16.19Act 2
31:14.002:32.00Local ads
33:46.006:58.10Act 3
40:44.102:30.05National ads
43:14.175:11.03Act 4
48:25.201:01.27Local ads
49:27.171:30.02National ads [2:31.29]
50:57.176:50.00Act 5
57:47.29:15.00B5 Preview
58:02.21:37.20End Credits
58:40.11
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+
+

+Time is in min:sec.frames and uses DFTC (Drop Frame Time Code)

+The time in the [ ] is the total length of the break.
+
+

+

+
Don't forget about the Babylon 5 Soundtrack

+
+Sonic Images Records: SI #8502-2
+
+

+

+
Archive of previous EDLs now available

+
+Starting with episode 405, an archive is now available at
+vidiot.com.
+The files are in HTML, using the file name format: B5_nnnEDL.html.
+Replace nnn with the episode number.
+
+

+

+vidiot@vidiot.com

+Star Trek Web Site

+Last modified on October 4, 1997
+

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+Babylon 5 Edit Decision List Description
+
+
+
Babylon 5 Edit Decision List Description

+
+In the world of professional video editing, decisions have to be made as to
+what will end up in the final result.  Editing a television program like
+Babylon 5 is a very complicated process.  A process that is beyond the
+scope of this page.  Editing can be done off-line or on-line, where off-line
+editing will not produce the final product.  While it may produce a video tape,
+the tape will only be a rough cut and may not include any special effects, not
+even fades.  On-line editing will produce the final product.  On-line editing
+can be done manually or automatically.  The automatically is what requires an
+EDL.  An EDL is used for manually editing as well and an EDL is the normal
+result from an off-line edit.
+
+

+The EDL is the list of all the elements that make up the final result, and the
+position those elements will take in the final result.  Those elements will
+also be described in some fashion, so that the editor will know what the piece
+is (this is production house dependent).  But, the important part is that the
+EDL will contain a list of SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television
+Engineers) time codes.  Those time codes exactly describe the position of the
+elements within the final result.  The EDL for a program like B5 is very
+complicated.
+
+

+Then we get into the EDL for putting together the hour that makes up the tape
+used to broadcast Babylon 5.  This EDL is what makes up the program
+segments and the commercial breaks.  What I am providing here is a reverse
+engineered EDL, i.e., I take the actual satellite fed tape and work backworks,
+making the EDL from the final result.
+
+

+The times listed in the EDLs for the uplinked Babylon 5 episodes are
+fairly accurate, since I use professional Umatic-SP decks equipped with
+SMPTE-LTC time code.  Don't even think about trying to do an EDL from consumer
+VHS video decks, unless you have an external SMPTE-VITC time code
+generator/reader.  The EDLs provided allow you to determine when the commercial
+breaks will arrive and how long they will be.  Many of you hit the pause
+control when recording B5 from your local TV station.  I tape the Warner
+Brothers satellite feed the Sunday morning before the stations are allowed to
+air the episode (starting the following day, Monday).
+
+

+

+brown@vidiot.com

+Last modified on October 22, 1995
+

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+
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+ Cthulu in space (95-12-02 05:34:09)
+
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+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
{comparing various B5 characters to Lord of the Rings characters}
+
+     The characters and comparisons you made are basic archetypal characters
+that have long been used in all kinds of sagas...the voice of the wise
+master, the characters of action, the hero on a journey, the smaller wiser
+folk...they extend far beyond Tolkein.  We draw on the same archetypal pool,
+but there's no intended parallel between them.  What invariably gets lost in
+this is that the LoTR saga was a *quest* story, that is the heart of
+it...ain't no quest here.  The characters are part of the saga-structure that
+goes straight back to the Illiad and the Odyssey, Gawain and the Green
+Knight, Jason and the Argonauts and elsewhere.  The only common elements come
+from the fact that we have our roots in the same literary garden of
+archetypes and literary symbology.
+
+     I didn't fight for five years to get this show off the ground just to do
+LoTR with the serial numbers filed off.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/10.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/10.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS (95-12-01 17:52:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
To JMS

+95-12-01 17:52:49
+
     Hogan: thanks.  And at this point, we're in no particular jeapordy of
+being canceled; the ratings keep improving, slowly, but it's there, and the
+folks at WB have openly discussed the notion of our fourth season long before
+those words would usually ever come out of their mouths, so we'll probably be
+okay.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/11.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/11.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/11.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+VIDEOS (95-12-02 01:49:28)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
VIDEOS

+95-12-02 01:49:28
+
{about video releases}
+
+     The difference is that we want them to do it, and they don't think that
+there's a market.  You tell me how to resolve that difference, and I'll go
+for it.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/12.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/12.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/12.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Without Makeup (95-12-02 01:50:31)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Without Makeup

+95-12-02 01:50:31
+
{will actors appear without makeup?}
+
+      It's been discussed, but the actors, particularly Andreas, are dead
+against the idea, on the theory that it ruins the illusion.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/13.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/13.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/13.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Schedules and Reruns (95-12-02 05:27:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Schedules and Reruns

+95-12-02 05:27:09
+
      The rerun schedule is to accommodate the PTEN desire to have new eps
+for sweeps periods, and nothing else.  I'm sitting on a bunch of new episodes
+that're just gonna sit on the shelf until January.  (Hey, everybody come on
+over to my house, we'll have a viewing party....)
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/14.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/14.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0b29e4b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/14.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Episode #4 (95-12-02 05:28:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Episode #4

+95-12-02 05:28:20
+
{"Passing Through Gethsemane" -- the interrogation scene was disquieting.}
+
+      Yes, that's definitely the sense I was going for.  That scene frankly
+unsettles and scares me a little, because it does show our characters
+skirting the line...yes, it's absolutely necessary, every moment is precious
+if they're going to try to save Edward's life...but it's still a bit creepy.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/15.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/15.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/15.html
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Who Works For Whom (95-12-03 05:33:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Who Works For Whom

+95-12-03 05:33:02
+
     I post this here only because this was forwarded to me in private mail,
+and if this utter and absolute lie is being circulated, best to quash it
+right here and now.
+
+     The email comes originally from a certain individual on usenet who does
+not merit his name being mentioned, and this is, as stated an absolute and
+total and complete lie of the worst sort I have seen in a while.  It concerns
+my departure from rastb5, predicated in large part by actions taken by this
+individual who is running like mad to find some other reason to attribute
+this to.  The relevant quote follows:
+
+
+"And his retreat just happens to correspond to the introduction of the
+new Babylon 5 area on AOL.  And isn't it amazing how his "formal
+termination" of his presence on this group is 30 November.  Bet it
+corresponds to his new contract on AOL which starts on 1 December, and
+includes a clause regarding his participation on the Internet."
+
+     1) I have no contract whatsoever with AOL concerning my presence here.
+2) I am not being paid one thin dime for my participation on AOL.  3) Not
+only do I not receive anything for being here, I pay for my subscription here
+just like everybody else on AOL, no freebie account, nothing.
+
+     There is no contract, and no cause in that contract.  I'm happy to bring
+my AOL bill to the next convention to prove this.  (I think it was $80 last
+month.)  
+
+     It's this kind of lying behavior by a certain few demented individuals
+that made my departure from rastb5 inevitable.  This particular lie is made
+more disgraceful by the fact that it is stated as cold fact, not speculation,
+not rumor, but cold fact...and is utterly, 100% untrue.
+
+     If you folks have to pay to be here, then I'll pay to be here.  (Though,
+granted, I do have freebie accounts on GEnie and in one or two forums on
+CIS.)
+
+     Sorry for the interruption; just felt this was necessary to nip in the
+bud.  As you were.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/16.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/16.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/16.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Videos (95-12-03 05:34:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Videos

+95-12-03 05:34:14
+
{who do we write about videos?}
+
+      That info has been given out elsewhere, and it hasn't done any good, so
+we're looking into the possibility of releasing them ourselves.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/17.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/17.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/17.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Rangers (95-12-03 05:35:06)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rangers

+95-12-03 05:35:06
+
{how long have the Rangers been around?}
+
+      Yes, there'll be other Rangers in episodes here and there.  There was a
+kind of loose-knit Rangers notion back on Minbar but it didn't come into full
+bloom until Sinclair arrived and took charge of the operation.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/18.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/18.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/18.html
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:Writing (95-12-03 05:36:54)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:Writing

+95-12-03 05:36:54
+
{about writing plays}
+
+     The play format varies a little here and there; I'm addressing this in a
+rewrite I'm finishing now of the writing book.
+
+     Re: the number of episodes I write...basically, it's just the number I
+feel is right to communicate the sense of the show in that season.  One of
+the main reasons I *created* B5 in the first place was to make a show I'd
+like to watch, and to write for.  So now that it's here, I'm following up.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/19.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/19.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7faa3d57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/19.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Q about season schedule (95-12-03 05:38:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Q about season schedule

+95-12-03 05:38:09
+
{reruns before "Severed Dreams"?}
+
+      At this point, it looks like there may be a break before #10, though I
+haven't seen a final schedule on this.  It ain't what I would do...but it
+ain't my call, alas.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/2.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/2.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/2.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hope for Vir, the Furst (95-11-30 02:46:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hope for Vir, the Furst

+95-11-30 02:46:24
+
{about Stephen Furst's guest appearance on Chicago Hope}
+
+       The Chicago Hope appearance is only a two-parter, nothing beyond that.
+
+
+jms
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/20.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/20.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/20.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Coming Changes: JMS (95-12-03 05:38:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Coming Changes: JMS

+95-12-03 05:38:40
+
{changes in the EA uniforms?}
+
+      Yeah, there might be some changes here and there....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/21.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/21.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/21.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Who's Garibaldi's Second? (95-12-03 05:39:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Who's Garibaldi's Second?

+95-12-03 05:39:11
+
      Zack.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/22.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/22.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/22.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Episode #4 (95-12-03 05:41:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Episode #4

+95-12-03 05:41:23
+
      How Sheridan and Garibaldi got away with it?
+
+      "Telepath?  What telepath?  Never happened.  Can you describe her?  No?
+I see.  Well, I don't remember seeing anyone in there, Mr. Garibaldi, do you?
+We'd check the logs to be absolutely sure, because we'd hate for this sort of
+thing to happen, but we had a small glitch in the software, and the recorders
+didn't work...still, we're working on it, and we hope to have it taken care
+of in the next few months.  Would you like some more tea, Ambassador?"
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/23.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/23.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Star trek still rules (95-12-03 06:05:13)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Star trek still rules

+95-12-03 06:05:13
+
"'Without ST none of these other series would have been born."
+
+      Sounds good.  Only thing wrong with it is that it ain't true.
+
+      Prior to ST, there were the SF anthology shows such as the Outer Limits
+and Twilight Zone and One Step Beyond and Men Into Space and many others;
+just prior to ST there was Lost in Space.  (And by the way, most critics at
+the time panned ST because they said it was just a cheap attempt to cash in
+on LiS's popularity.)  So you could easily say that ST wouldn't be on the air
+except for LiS, if you're going to follow your logic to its ultimate
+conclusion.  And let's not forget Forbidden Planet, which is almost a
+template for ST.
+
+     Finally, I'd note that if ST was responsible for other shows coming
+along in that same vein, why have there been no others in 25 years until B5
+(in terms of series set in our future, with us as a spacefaring civilization,
+with a fully worked out cosmology/universe)?  Do you know why it took 5 years
+to sell B5?  Because we were told, by execs at CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, Showtime,
+HBO, and elsewhere that -- and this is a direct quote -- "There's no room for
+any other SF show of this kind other than ST.  The market won't sustain it."
+
+      ST has been used as a rationale NOT to do space SF for *years*.  We had
+to fight like mad to overcome that notion.  So you'll understand why, having
+fought for years to overcome the roadblock that ST was in terms of selling
+B5, why I can only shake my head when someone tries to attribute the presence
+of this show to ST.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/24.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/24.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Vorlons as Angels (95-11-30 02:39:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Vorlons as Angels

+95-11-30 02:39:56
+
       Also, it has not been stated anywhere that the Vorlons created the
+angel element; they could easily just have come in and tried to exploit
+it....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/25.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/25.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Ratings (95-12-02 01:46:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Ratings

+95-12-02 01:46:18
+
     Every so often, this flares up, and I have to kind of get into it.  Yes,
+Bruce would like the ratings to get better, because he feels that this show
+is at least as good as ST, if not better, and thus deserves the same ratings.
+This is not a reasonable expectation, I think; ST has almost 30 years of
+presence in the public consciousness.  You can't beat that.
+
+     What *is* important is that we have continued to get the level of
+ratings required for renewal.  You don't have to be a top-10 show, or even a
+top-20 show; that's only the very tip...there are about 250 syndicated shows
+out there, and we are invariably in the top 35-40 out of 250, the ratings are
+either constant or growing in various markets, and the demographics (the kind
+of people watching the show) are exactly what the advertisers want.
+Consequently, the ads sell for very good prices to the sponsors...and WB is
+making money on the show.
+
+     There's this recurrent wave of panic about the ratings that's really not
+merited.  The fact is that Space Rangers is off the air, Time Trax is gone,
+SeaQuest has sunk, Earth 2 has fallen out of orbit, Sliders is gone, VR5 is
+gone...of all the SF shows introduced the same time or after we were, only B5
+and DS9 are still here.  They're gone because they didn't get the ratings
+necessary for renewal.  We're here because we do.  It's really that simple.
+
+     I've never intended this show to be a Huge Landslide Success, a
+*FRANCHISE* a la ST.  I want to tell this story, and it's the kind of story
+that kinda grows on you.  If you want to get the really big numbers, you have
+to dumb up the show, bring in kids, have lots of women in skimpy outfits, and
+make it into something other than what it is.  And once you *become* a
+franchise, you get Noticed by the studio types...when you get Noticed by the
+studio types, suddenly they want to protect you...protect the show...and any
+stories with teeth in them get knocked down, all the corners get filed
+off...and you've got something soft and inoffensive and essentially
+meaningless.
+
+     If I for a *moment* genuinely thought that this show was in any measure
+of jeapordy, I'd be right here banging the drums and sounding the clarion
+call and urging everyone to go out there and move and start letter campaigns
+and make lots of calls.  You'll notice I'm not doing that.  Because it's not
+necessary.  The show is doing well enough to go on, and that means the story
+will be told, the way I feel it has to be told.  
+
+     If that should *ever* change...believe me, you'll hear about it.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/26.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/26.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATTN JMS: Feeelthy Pirate (95-12-07 05:31:04)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
ATTN JMS: Feeelthy Pirate

+95-12-07 05:31:04
+
{about pirated merchandise}
+
+      All info on feelthy pirates gladly accepted so that we may go and whomp
+them.
+
+     Thanks.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/27.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/27.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Epic Parallels (95-12-07 05:25:59)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Epic Parallels

+95-12-07 05:25:59
+
{Similarity to La Morte D'artur: Arthur's and Mordred's armies are poised
+for battle but make one last attempt to negotiate, but a soldier raises
+his sword to kill a snake and everyone attacks.  Compare this to the
+emperor's peace overture in "The Coming of Shadows."}
+
+      There's another applicable metaphor for the sword story; you'll see it
+a little later this season.  Very good catch, btw.
+
+
+jms
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/28.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/28.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The "Core" (95-12-07 05:28:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
The "Core"

+95-12-07 05:28:11
+
{God is the core of Christianity, not an emotion or a moment.}
+
+      Filops: take it to the religion topic.  That's what it's there for.  If
+you wish to write long polemics on religion, that's fine, but do it in the
+appropriate place.  I really don't want bunches of topics to get filled up
+with rehashings of this stuff.  Thanks.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/29.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/29.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/29.html
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Show me to my ghetto? (95-12-09 02:17:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Show me to my ghetto?

+95-12-09 02:17:58
+
      The issue at hand is courtesy.  I know that a lot of people here want
+to discuss other areas than religion; there is a religion topic that is where
+religion messages should go, just as notes on merchandising go in
+merchandising, and items on ratings go in ratings...it makes it easier to
+find the topics that interest you, and keeps the conversation from being
+monopolized across various folders.  
+
+     As I told you in private mail, very often your messages on religion
+really have *nothing* whatsoever to do with B5, but rather with the issues
+that are of importance to you about religion, gays, whathaveyou...and you
+thus shoehorn them in...you do it here, you've done it over in the B5 folders
+in the SF-Television areas...and what happens is that the religion wars that
+erupt, due in some measure to some of the rather inflammatory tone you use,
+tend to keep other users away who just don't want to see it One More Time.
+
+     But there are religious elements in the show that can be
+discussed...hence I made it a point to open such an area.  Use it.  That's
+what it's there for.  If someone were to put up a long note on ratings, I'd
+point them to the ratings folder, simple as that.  Yes, it is your right to
+say anything you so choose...and it is the right of myself and others to ask
+you to show courtesy to your fellow users by doing so in the appropriate
+forums.  Is not courtesy usually considered the christian thing to do?
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Gethsemane  (95-12-03 06:07:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Gethsemane 

+95-12-03 06:07:11
+
{why did Ivanova tolerate Lyta so readily?}
+
+      Real simple.  Lyta has proven that she was telling the proof about the
+traitor; and she's on the run from the Psi Corps herself, putting her and
+Ivanova on the same side; and she helped when she was asked to try and find
+Edward.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/30.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/30.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Show me to my ghetto? (95-12-09 02:22:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Show me to my ghetto?

+95-12-09 02:22:17
+
      Mythopile: okay, maybe you don't care about keeping topics to their
+intended use.  That's fine.  I have received mail from people who stress that
+they are on limited incomes, and when they come in here, they only go into
+specific forums because they can't afford to spend a lot of time on AOL.  And
+they like to be able to know that when the click into a topic on Clams In B5
+that they won't have to wade through a bunch of messages on other subjects to
+find what they're looking for.  
+
+     I have never, at any time, "thrown some guy" out of a folder.  I have
+asked, simply, and only in a very few cases, that people try the folders
+where their comments will reach the widest audience, since someone interested
+in religion will go there first, and someone interested in ratings will go to
+tha topic first, as a courtesy to the other users here.  Nobody here is going
+to force you to be courteous.  I cannot do anything about it.  I can only
+suggest courtesy.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/31.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/31.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+This folder's name again. (95-12-09 02:24:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
This folder's name again.

+95-12-09 02:24:35
+
{this is the B5 themes topic; religion is a theme in B5.}
+
+      Yes, religion is a theme in B5, Filops...unfortunately, you never
+*address* it...you only use this as a pretext to get into one of your long
+diatribes about what you consider acceptable behavior, acceptable social and
+sexual mores.  You use this only as a way to springboard into those
+discussions.  I've seen you do it repeatedly over on the SFTV forums, and it
+troubles me to see you doing it again here.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/32.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/32.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: TNT syndie question (95-12-05 03:31:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: TNT syndie question

+95-12-05 03:31:37
+
{any cuts being made for second-run syndication?}
+
+       I don't know; my guess is that we're pretty close to the right time as
+it is, so I can't see what would be accomplished by cuts.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/33.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/33.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Post to rastb5 (re:Who Wo (95-12-05 03:36:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Post to rastb5 (re:Who Wo

+95-12-05 03:36:02
+
{about the bogus "JMS is being paid to be on AOL" message}
+
+       Yeah, I suppose it can be reposted.  May stop some of this.  I hear
+people are saying, "Hey, it's okay if he makes money being on AOL," defending
+it, when it isn't true to *begin* with.  If I were doing so, if AOL thought a
+B5 presence were important enough to pay for it, heck, I'd be taking out ads
+in the Times.  But as far as AOL is concerned, I'm just one more subscriber,
+and I pay my way same as everybody else.
+
+      I just hope somebody's called the little twit on the fact that he went
+around calling others liars, then went out and posted his message about my
+alleged "contract with AOL" as though it were an absolute fact, even referred
+to a clause *within* that contract...and clearly, obviously, flatly lied
+about the existence of a document that isn't there.  It's a *deliberate*
+lie...it isn't a speculation, wasn't phrased in the form of a question, he
+deliberately went out and posted an out and out *verifiable lie* to the
+entire usenet, knowing it was a lie.
+
+      Never ceases to amaze me....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/34.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/34.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+jms:X-files w/ B5 (95-12-07 05:05:41)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
jms:X-files w/ B5

+95-12-07 05:05:41
+
{B5 reference in the X Files?}
+
+       Don't know if the beacon reference was toward us or not; but it's
+still a great show, though it's getting a little convoluted even by their
+standards lately.  Still, I'll keep watching....
+
+      Re: elevators...at risk of repeating stuff I've said elsewhere...every
+so often, I'll see a note from somebody saying that this show only gets by
+because of its effects, that without that part it ain't nothin'...and just to
+honk 'em off I'll sit down and write a killer scene with just one or two
+characters in a room, no EFX, sometimes not even any music...and I often go
+for the smallest room in the station...and that happens to be the transport
+tube.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/35.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/35.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Who Works For Whom (95-12-07 05:08:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Who Works For Whom

+95-12-07 05:08:37
+
 "(still not sure which name to call you)"
+
+     It's just Joe.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/36.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/36.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:Matters of Honor  (95-12-07 05:09:28)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:Matters of Honor 

+95-12-07 05:09:28
+
{Shadows at the bar in "Matters of Honor?"}
+
+      Yes, that was a little hint of the shadows around Morden for those
+sharp enough to catch it.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/37.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/37.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+A very different question (95-12-07 05:12:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
A very different question

+95-12-07 05:12:24
+
      I'm working on a Dell Dimension 90mhz Pentium, 2 1-gigabyte drives, 4x
+CDrom, 32 megs memory, 17" Nanao monitor, Soundblaster sound card, #9GXEpro
+64 bit video (identical system in office, I'm at home now, except office
+system has 128-bit Imagine video card)...and I'm using a US Robotics
+v.Everything Courier modem at 28.8 speed.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/38.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/38.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Question about the actors (95-12-07 05:14:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Question about the actors

+95-12-07 05:14:43
+
{how often are actors paid?}
+
+     In the case of the regular actors, and the producers, you are paid a
+certain fee per episode contracted for (22 episodes for regulars, 13 or 8 for
+recurring cast members, 22 for producers).  That amount is then broken up
+into about 50 weeks (I think maybe 40 or so weeks for actors, John Copeland
+can probably be more specific on this), and you thus get a weekly check based
+upon that.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/39.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/39.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 and DS9 (95-12-07 05:16:48)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 and DS9

+95-12-07 05:16:48
+
{White Star related to DS9's Defiant?}
+
+      The White Star was always in the plans for the series; it's an
+outgrowth of everything that has gone before.  We've seen big warships,
+dreadnoughts, smaller ships, and personal fighters.  This fits right in.  If
+you're going to have a war over a long distance, you kinda need something to
+get in and out with.
+
+      I actually don't watch DS9 as a rule, so I really can't comment on its
+current storylines.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/4.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/4.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+X Glen X (95-11-28 22:12:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
X Glen X

+95-11-28 22:12:43
+
     Tell me, Blacnignt9, how does it feel to be a racist?  Because that's
+what you are.  Oh, yes, you can be a non-caucasian and be a racist.  And you
+definitely qualify.
+
+"I must assume that there is a conscious at work and I don't find that to be
+the case."  (I assume this is a misspelling of conscience.)  If I were to say
+this about any ethnic group as a class, such as african-americans, you would
+call me a racist.  And you would be right.  And it's just as racist as to
+make sweeping comments about other races such as this.
+
+"...you are living proof that if I turned my back on you that I would die."
+If I said this about a hispanic, it'd be racist.  Same here.
+
+"I have lived a long time and the one theng that has remain constant is the
+fact the when ever you have a chance you will hurt us, and hurt us badly."
+Here you are speaking of caucasions as a race again.  This kind of sweeping
+statement is racist.  It is also wrongheaded and offensive.
+
+What about the half million white folks who died in the Civil war to end the
+brutality and monstrous practice of slavery?  More were killed in the course
+of that war than in all of our losses in every war thereafter combined.  
+
+How about the Swedes, who never even *saw* an person of african descent for
+most of their country's history?
+
+And while we're at it, what about my caucasian friend Lisa, who volunteered
+as a rape counselor in a predominantly black lower-class neighborhood, and
+was murdered for her efforts?  Yes, sir, I can sure tell that she was out to
+hurt other people like yourself, wasn't she?
+
+The heart of racism is stupidity and intolerance and classifying every member
+of an ethnic group as being the same, usually in a negative fashion.  By that
+definition, you are a racist, and I suggest before you start correcting
+others on this area, you do a little housecleaning of your own first.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/40.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/40.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS (95-12-07 05:20:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
To JMS

+95-12-07 05:20:30
+
{Don't let the Usenet folks annoy you.}
+
+      Thanks.  If it were just me, I could try to ignore some of the
+nonsense; but the problem was that it soon involved vast numbers of other
+people, who were being flamed or driven off the system, and every thread was
+contaminated by it.  A number of folks came to hang out at rastb5 because I
+was there, as many of them have stated since; that wasn't/isn't the only
+draw, theres' lots of good conversation, but that was a component...so my
+being there put people in the position of being available to be attacked,
+derided, flamed, insulted and assaulted, and I can't allow that to happen.
+And it began to have an impact on my writing, and that I *definitely* can't
+afford.
+
+      One way or another, that particular chapter in the experiment will find
+a way to continue, in the fullness of time.  I'm a patient man.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/41.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/41.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:- Throwaway Dialogue (95-12-07 05:21:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:- Throwaway Dialogue

+95-12-07 05:21:18
+
{You mentioned awhile back that some very important throwaway dialogue
+was coming up. Was it Ivanova's "know all, see all" line, or Lennier's
+"Minbari, but not born..." line?}
+
+       Ah, now I can't make it *too* easy, now can I...?
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/42.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/42.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS, I commend you... (95-12-09 01:09:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS, I commend you...

+95-12-09 01:09:27
+
       Thanks, though I'm not entirely sure I emerged from all this totally
+sane...if I had, I wouldn't be working in TV....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/43.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/43.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Star trek still rules (95-12-07 04:59:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Star trek still rules

+95-12-07 04:59:35
+
      FWIW, I've seen most of the episodes of Space, and I quite like it.
+The last one was especially good, in that I couldn't figure how they were
+going to get out of this one, and I like being surprised.  Well done; the
+show has promise.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/44.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/44.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS Rocks (95-12-09 01:07:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS Rocks

+95-12-09 01:07:11
+
     In general, I've really had to stay away from anything even resembling a
+story idea on the nets, so I don't use them, and haven't.  As for other
+shows, my sense as a fan myself is that the more quality SF on the air, the
+better; we've actually given tours and provided information on how we make
+this show to other producers so that they can use the "Babylon 5 Model" in
+helping to bring more SF to television.  The more the merrier.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/45.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/45.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Ratings and Bruce (95-12-06 04:00:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Ratings and Bruce

+95-12-06 04:00:30
+
     Just a note to mention that due to the lengthy lead times required by
+national magazines, espeically those with an entertainment bent, that some
+pieces are considered evergreens, and can be published anytime.  You build up
+material until you're ready to go.  The piece in EW with Bruce came via an
+interview conducted toward the end of the long summer slump caused by reruns.
+Hence his comments.  They improved once the new episodes came back on again.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/46.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/46.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Ratings (95-12-06 04:03:34)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Ratings

+95-12-06 04:03:34
+
{Don't call Star Trek a franchise.  They take big risks.}
+
+     AcDec...all I can say is that you should talk sometime behind closed
+doors, as I have, with many of the writers and producers who have worked, and
+still work, on the various ST versions, who WANT to tell stories with teeth,
+that challenge, but who are prevented from doing so by the suits eager to
+preserve ST as an inoffensive franchise.  Sorry, but the logic still parses.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/47.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/47.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Why I watch (95-12-09 01:03:00)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Why I watch

+95-12-09 01:03:00
+
     Lisala: Thanks.  We try to emphasize the voice of the storyteller as
+much as possible, that we are creating...well, I don't want to say creating
+new mythologies, because I don't think they are really created, they stretch
+back to the foundations of civilization, and show up repeatedly in works of
+literature...but reinterpreting and reinventing and clarifying the structure
+of myth for a new generation.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/48.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/48.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 *is* shot widescreen (95-12-07 04:55:04)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 *is* shot widescreen

+95-12-07 04:55:04
+
     Two series, and insofar as I know, *only* two series are currently being
+shot widescreen: B5 and Lois and Clark.  Here's easy verification: fire up
+the first season tape of "The Parliament of Dreams."  Fast-forward to the
+Minbari ceremony that's also used in the main title sequence.  Now compare
+the two; you see more of the shot in the widescreen opening than in the
+regular shot.
+
+      We generally compose for widescreen but protect for regular aspect
+ratio, which is how the show is broadcast currently in the US.  Sometimes it
+gets a little glitchy; in "Matters of Honor," when Marcus hands off the
+minbari fighting pike to Delenn, it's very visible in the widescreen shot,
+but you barely see it on the edge of the regular shot.
+
+      BTW, Germany and France have signed on to follow us through the
+post-production process for (trying to remember now) either season 3 or
+season 4, re-telecineing the negative stock back to the original widescreen
+aspect ratio for broadcast in letterbox format in those countries.  The UK,
+via Channel 4, is still in negotiations over this.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Story Arc (95-12-12 19:16:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Story Arc

+95-12-12 19:16:26
+
{Too many filler episodes.}
+
+     I just posted a lengthy reply to this basic thread over in the Season 3
+topic (which is where I first encountered it).  That says pretty much
+everything I wanted to say on the issue.  
+
+     This happens every season.  Some people like shoot-em'ups and don't want
+to see any other stories, deriding them as "filler" and let's get to the
+blow-stuff-up stuff.  They seem to think that anything else is "lead" which
+has to be gotten out.  Every season begins with standalone stories, from year
+one to now.  Year two has The Long Dark and A Distant Star and Soul Mates in
+the first batch up.  Then we hit the big arc stories, and everybody forgot
+about the "lead."
+
+     In season one, we had six or seven strong arc stories.  In season two,
+there were about 9 really strong arc episodes.  In season 3, as of right now,
+there are 13-14 very strong arc episodes.  In year 4, there will be about 17,
+and in year 5 they're pretty much ALL arc episodes.
+
+     The series is moving as fast as possible, and as fast as intended.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK (95-12-01 03:45:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
YOU PEOPLE ARE SICK

+95-12-01 03:45:08
+
      The reason Laurel Takashima/Tamlyn Tomita is not currently on the show
+is because the actress didn't feel really comfortable in the role of a
+military commander, and felt she might do better in other kinds of roles,
+such as that which came along about the same time in a major motion picture;
+she is now a highly-sought-after film performer.  When she opted out, I went
+instantly after Julie Nickson, an asian actress to play Catherine Sakai,
+Sinclair's love interest, a recurring role in the show.
+
+      And check my message uptopic...there's a racist here, all right, and
+it's you.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Harlan Ellison Signs (95-12-11 03:56:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Harlan Ellison Signs

+95-12-11 03:56:20
+
      To avoid duplication, check out the message in B5 Merchandising about
+Harlan signing stuff on the West Coast this coming week.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Last, Worst Hope for  (95-12-13 01:48:45)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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The Last, Worst Hope for 

+95-12-13 01:48:45
+
     Yeah, but it's very hard to do a story about preparation in the sense
+you suggest.  "Well, let's go check out the White Star."  
+
+     "Well...sure is a fast ship, all right...so, what're the Rangers doing?
+Keeping an eye on stuff?  Good..good...so, what's for dinner?"
+
+     Each individual episode must be *about* something, must have a story
+that can stand on its own, separate from the arc, while adding to it.  For
+what it's worth, "Voices of Authority," which was originally slated to run in
+the first 4, *is* a preparation kind of story...it gets into how they should
+be gearing up for what's coming, the accumulation of allies and resources,
+all that.  Had it run as planned as #4, this would be answered.  But the
+sheer volume of CGI required, which was pretty hideous, put it into the #5
+slot, which we thought would still be in the first block of episodes.  Then
+we found that #4 was the cutoff point.  
+
+     All I can tell you is that what you're asking for is *there*, plain as
+can be, right in the very next batch of episodes.  (Also, do bear in mind
+that the "shadow war" referenced in the show operates as more than just
+discussing the shadows themselves, but what's going on back home as well.)
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Last, Worst Hope for  (95-12-15 02:21:31)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
The Last, Worst Hope for 

+95-12-15 02:21:31
+
     Thanks.  No, you can't please everyone, I learned that lesson a long
+time ago.  What you have to look at are the percentages.  No matter *how*
+wonderful the work, there will always be a certain portion who won't like it
+because it isn't to their tastes.  That simple.  (I like bluegrass,
+classical, Japanese music, celtic music, hard rock, and others...can't abide
+straight-ahead country music or opera.  That's just how I'm hardwired.)  So
+basically, a work of superior quality will get about 40% who love it, 50% who
+think it's good, and 10% who hate it.  A middle of the road work gets
+30/30/30.  A flop gets the first breakdown but in reverse.  There's never
+been a novel, story, song or painting that everyone on the planet thought was
+nifty, without dissent.  So as long as the percentages favor the notion that
+we're doing right, I'm okay with it.
+
+     As far as the assessment of this latter stuff being my best work...god,
+I hope so.  I've been writing and selling since I was 17; in TV for a tick
+over 10 years, and the absolute honest truth is that I think I'm just now
+*starting* to get halfway decent as a writer.  So many years you spend just
+pumping out the bad stuff, the cliche characters, the implausible plots,
+until you finally get to the good stuff.  I write 7 days a week, 10 hours a
+day, 52 weeks a year, except for my birthday, my spousal overunit's birthday,
+christmas and new year's.  I'm in constant battle with the English language,
+slamming together different combinations of verbs and nouns and adjectives,
+hoping to provoke an explosion whose flare can illustrate a notion, or incite
+a moment of reflection.  And half the time I feel like it's a losing battle;
+the language beats you every time.  But if script #152 is just 1% better than
+script #151, well, that's progress.
+
+     And then I make the mistake of sitting down and watching something by
+Serling or Chayefsky or Rose or Corwin, and conclude instantly that I should
+get out of the profession before somebody discovers I'm a fake.  THOSE guys
+could WRITE.  Hell, they didn't just write, they thunder'd and lightning'd
+over the typwritten page, and the echoes have followed us down for decades.
+So maybe someday, if I work hard, and write to the best of my ability, and am
+sufficiently honest in what I write, I'll be good enough to carry their
+pencil cases....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Last, Worst Hope for  (95-12-16 03:18:33)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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The Last, Worst Hope for 

+95-12-16 03:18:33
+
{how can people be interested in a show that's getting cancelled all over?}
+
+     Kydreamer: what you have to remember is that the syndication marketplace
+is undergoing *huge* changes right now, and has been for the last year.  In
+most markets, you're lucky if you've got even one or two independent stations
+(non-CBS, NBC or ABC).  Between the growth of Fox, and UPN, those stations
+are now almost all locked down, and are required by contract to give
+preference to programming made by their affiliated networks.  Now you've got
+2 hours a day that are available for prime-time programs, 8-10, that's it
+(most indies usually show news from 10-11).  That's a grand total of 14 hours
+a week, and there are currently about 250 syndicated shows all competing for
+those 14 available hours.
+
+     Usually, we rate between 30 and 50 overall, which is very good in that
+crowd of 250, so in most cases holding onto the station isn't hard.  But in
+some markets, where the squeeze is on, and there's only one station
+available, if UPN or FOX pushes hard enough...the show goes.  This has,
+however, happened in only about a handful of places out of something like 198
+total stations, so we're still pretty solid.  The problem comes when 15
+people in one area all post messages that their station has dropped B5, and
+what people tend to see is that there are 15 messages about this, so it must
+be a big problem.  (And in at least two, possibly three of those cases
+another station, sometimes a *better* station, has leapt in to pick up B5's
+contract.)
+
+     We've had a number of preliminary conversations with the folks at WB to
+determine how best to adjust to this in the fourth season, which at this time
+is looking very encouraging.  Several notions have been suggested by them to
+help counter or work with the changing syndication marketplace.  Some of them
+are quite interesting, though it's too early to comment much more than that.
+
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Other Theme Possibilities (95-12-12 18:42:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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Other Theme Possibilities

+95-12-12 18:42:08
+
      Basically, any attempt to break down the B5 story into pure good vs.
+pure evil is going to fall apart sooner or later.  The thematic elements
+point to greyer areas: will you lead, or will you be led by others?  What is
+your responsibility to the world around you, and how far will you go before
+you do something drastically wrong?  The key themes in this show are choice,
+and responsibility.
+
+     How different would this story be if Londo had simply chosen *not* to go
+the easy way and go to Mr. Morden?  We are here because he made certain
+choices, and now he has to live with them.  Actions have consequences.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Oedipus Rex and Shadows (95-12-13 01:43:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Oedipus Rex and Shadows

+95-12-13 01:43:47
+
{CJ Cherryh deals with similar themes.  Will scripts be made available?}
+
+      Actually haven't read much if any of CJ's work, though I really should
+have.  The notion of hard choices, and responsibility, of course goes way
+back through early literature and into myth.  
+      Re: scripts...we do hope to make a limited number of them available
+through the fan club, once that gets going, but that's about it.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Other Theme Possibilities (95-12-14 17:11:48)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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Other Theme Possibilities

+95-12-14 17:11:48
+
{The Shadows probably don't consider themselves evil}
+
+     Good point.  The monster almost never sees a monster in the mirror.
+There can be all kinds of justifications for what one does....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Other Theme Possibilities (95-12-14 17:15:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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Other Theme Possibilities

+95-12-14 17:15:29
+
      I think that in the larger scope, many things are going to happen
+regardless...World War One would've almost certainly happened even without
+the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, but it might have happened later,
+might have taken on a different form....
+
+     But there's a great deal over which we *do* have free will.  Things
+*can* be changed; if they can't, then there's not much point to living.  The
+characters like to think they have no choice to comfort themselves with the
+decisions they've already made.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Beauty in the eye... (95-12-17 02:28:42)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Beauty in the eye...

+95-12-17 02:28:42
+
{The Vorlons aren't good, the Shadows aren't evil.}
+
+     On the other hand, to say the Vorlons are not good may also be to miss
+the point, which comes closer to the issue of control, and the question of
+being led vs. leading.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Franklin and Ivanova (95-12-11 21:16:39)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Franklin and Ivanova

+95-12-11 21:16:39
+
"...each of the alien groups have only one religion, one government, one
+appearance...."
+
+      Actually, this is quite incorrect.  It's been established that the
+Narns have competing religions (G'Quan vs. G'Lan vs. other systems), the
+Centauri have a whole pantheon of different deities -- I seem to recall the
+number was in the 70s -- with each having their own household god, certainly
+the Minbari have three very distinct castes (with some differences in
+appearances, the warrior caste having more threateningly-spiked crests, vs.
+more rounded for religious caste), so there are definitely differences within
+our various alien races.  And, of course, we've go the green drazi vs. purple
+drazi situation to contend with, and accents vary as well...not every
+Centauri has the same accent as Londo (which is more of the Old School of the
+Centauri hierarchy), and not every Minbari speaks with Delenn's accent (which
+is more from the southern region of the planet).  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Blacnight9 (95-12-03 05:55:38)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Blacnight9

+95-12-03 05:55:38
+
       Blacnight: okay, you've been hurt.  Three words: deal with it, but
+frankly, if you use this as a motivation to become just as racist in your
+descriptions of caucasians then you have totally and utterly sacrificed the
+high ground in the discussion.
+
+       Lemme explain something to you: I didn't come into the world with a
+silver spoon.  We were poor.  I'm not talking poor lower case letters, I'm
+talking POOR.  We lived in houses without roofs, without heat in the winter,
+always on the run from creditors.  You know where poor folks live, Blacnight?
+In the poor part of town, which was usually the ethnic part of town.  Most of
+my life I lived in areas that were mainly black, or hispanic, or puerto
+rican.  I lived in Newark just before the riots, as a kid, the only white kid
+on the whole BLOCK.  I've got class photos from schools as a kid, and you
+look for row after row, and in the lines of brown and black faces, you find
+one -- ONE -- white face.  Mine.  It ain't a case of "well, sure, some of my
+friends were black," ALL of them were.  Or Puerto Rican.  Or Hispanic.
+
+      And at those schools, because I was always the new kid, I got the snot
+beaten out of me on a regular basis.  Usually by kids with skin color
+different from my own.  Because that's usually all there was in the
+neighborhood.   So I got hurt, I got beat up, constantly.  Now, do I turn
+around and say that all black/hispanic/puerto ricans are bad people?  No.
+Some were great, some were real jerks.  Some helped me.  Some hurt me.  I
+deal with it *without* coming up with sweeping generalizations about whole
+groups.
+
+     For as long as you continue to make sweeping statements about caucasians
+-- and you have not responded to one of the responses I made to you before on
+this -- then you are every bit as racist and prejudiced as those you say you
+are against.  You come on, make one sweeping generalization, go away, then
+come back with another.  You don't listen, you just accuse and take the role
+of angry victim.  Well, fine, like I said, I've lost dear friends to people
+of other colors than my own...but I don't turn around and blame the whole
+group for the actions of a few.
+
+     If you're concerned about the well being of other african americans, let
+me ask what you're doing positively about it?  Working with inner city kids?
+Neighborhood programs?  What?  Or are you content to just come on here and
+complain?  
+
+     African-americans and hispanics have *got* to be brought into the
+mainstream of american political and economic life; we cannot long sustain a
+disenfranchised class determined by ethnic background.  That way lies madness
+and destruction for all parties.  On my show, I do as much as I can; on the
+side, I tithe a goodly percentage of my income to charitable causes, AIDS
+research, People For The American Way (which fights tyranny from the left and
+the right in censorhship issues), and other causes.  Because it ain't enough
+to complain; you've got to go in and DO something.  You talk the talk real
+good; how're you fixed for walking the walk?
+
+
+jms
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+THE REAL WORLD (95-12-12 18:37:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
THE REAL WORLD

+95-12-12 18:37:18
+
     Blacnight...this is really becoming pointless.  For one thing, you're
+not listening to anyone else.  You come on here, and point to A...people
+answer you, and explain or respond to some of your concerns about A, but then
+you've moved on, you don't even deal with the question of A anymore, you've
+moved on to B...and people try to respond to B, and now you point over there
+to C.  You plainly have no interest in a conversation or a discussion, you
+haven't answered any of the objections to your prior messages, you just come
+in here to state and restate your position.  You're all over the place.
+First you bring up Baywatch, then you say you don't care about Baywatch, you
+flip all over the place.
+
+     My bottom line, frankly, is that yes, of course there's racism in
+society, nobody's debating that.  If that's the point you're trying to
+communicate, then nobody here is going to dispute it.  But by speaking of all
+caucasian people the same way, accusing them of all having the same behavior,
+you are every bit as racist as those you complain about, and that's another
+issue you've danced away from.  If I came on here and said about african
+americans the kinds of things you've said about caucasians I'd be branded a
+racist, and they'd be right.  
+
+     In an early episode of season one (at risk of actually mentioning B5 in
+this conversation), Sinclair makes the comment that "when you become obsessed
+with the enemy, you become the enemy."  You have become obsessed with the
+enemy.
+
+     Anyway, this is the last response you'll get from me.  It's painfully
+apparent by now, having given you every opportunity to show otherwise, that
+you are not interested in a conversation, only in stating and restating your
+position.  So the exercise becomes pointless.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Well done, Michael (95-12-10 21:22:00)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Well done, Michael

+95-12-10 21:22:00
+
{About the B5 presentation at Westercon in Phoenix, 1992}
+
+     I remember that presentation, and it shares something special with
+LosCon right before that.  At the time of the convention, all I had was my
+word on the kind of show I wanted to do, my rep, and about 30 seconds of a
+clip showing a ship docking at a beta version of B5.  That's it.  And even
+though producers for TeeVee series are always coming in proclaiming that
+their new show is the best thing since sliced bread, even though time and
+time again we (speaking as a fan myself) it ends up being just another awful
+show with genius kids and cute robots...even with all that, and so little to
+show for what I had in mind...fans both in Phoenix and at LosCon sidled up to
+the video clip, considered it, and the few other elements I brought to the
+table...and said, basically, "Let's give the kid a chance."  It speaks
+volumes of the willingness of SF fans to extend themselves, despite getting
+repeatedly burned, when most needed.
+
+     I've always been very moved by that, and whenever I've gone back (though
+I forgot this last time), I've always asked, "Did I keep the promises I made
+back then?"  The answer has always been yes.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Divided Loyalties (95-12-10 21:23:31)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Divided Loyalties

+95-12-10 21:23:31
+
{Was Garibaldi at Lyta's ship because the Rangers told him she was coming?}
+
+     No, Garibaldi was there because the ship's ID# didn't check out, as he
+stated, and it could've been in the process of smuggling or who knows what.
+The "soldier/diplomat" comment came more from shaping where this season is
+going.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Mira's Past (95-12-10 21:24:19)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Mira's Past

+95-12-10 21:24:19
+
{What name did Mira Furlan use in earlier work?}
+
+     No, her credit there reads Furlan; that's her name.  Her husband's name
+is Goran Gajic.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Spousal Overunit's n (95-12-10 21:27:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: Spousal Overunit's n

+95-12-10 21:27:40
+
{Who's your SO?  Has she written for B5?}
+
+     Her name is Kathryn M. Drennan, and yes, she wrote "By Any Means
+Necessary" for B5.  She has written for other shows, mainly in the animation
+area, and has worked as a journalist or feature reporter for newspapers and
+magazines, including Twilight Zone Magazine, Women's World, and others.
+
+     It was difficult at times with her doing a B5 script because I kept
+second-guessing myself too much on my reactions, and I ended up making her
+jump through a lot of hoops that nobody else had to go through because I have
+a real problem with even the *appearance* of nepotism, so she ended up
+working twice as hard as was probably necessary.  So far this season she
+hasn't come across a story she'd like to write, so it's a moot point.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To Jms (95-12-10 21:28:59)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
To Jms

+95-12-10 21:28:59
+
     Only a very few stations have dropped B5, mainly because there isn't
+room any longer on their schedules due to an influx of UPN and FOX shows to
+which they have prior commitments.  These number less than about 5 or so out
+of something like 198 stations, and in several cases other stations have
+jumped in and happily picked up the contract.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+actors (95-12-11 21:05:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
actors

+95-12-11 21:05:49
+
     Generally speaking, very few actors are online; Pat Tallman is over on
+Compuserve here and there, Stephen Furst and one or two others come online
+here from time to time...bits and pieces here and there.  Mainly, if there's
+a message of interest, cast members find out by its being posted on the News
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms
+
+
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS re.the women (95-12-11 21:11:04)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
To JMS re.the women

+95-12-11 21:11:04
+
{Will there be more female leads?  Will we see the Talia/Ivanova relationship
+mentioned again?}
+
+     I do see Lyta's role growing in the show, in the hopes of her becoming a
+recurring character (main title) in time, and there are a couple of other
+female characters I'm thinking about, but I don't generally think in terms of
+quotas, 4 to 2 or 5 to 3 or whatever...you have to decide what works best for
+the show and the story.  
+
+     As for Talia/Ivanova...there's some closure to that right around
+mid-season, which definitely clarifies their relationship.  Suffice to say I
+think you'll be pleased.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATTN: JMS   Morden? (95-12-12 18:30:25)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
ATTN: JMS   Morden?

+95-12-12 18:30:25
+
     Well, to the question of where the shadows are, I think that just got
+answered...they're right here....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS - thanks  (95-12-13 01:41:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS - thanks 

+95-12-13 01:41:44
+
{Which episode will shed more light on the Talia/Ivanova relationship?}
+
+     Stacey: thanks, and look for something very significant to that
+relationship in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."  (Not as if it'll take much
+attention...it kinda jumps out at you....)
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B-5 newsgroup (95-11-30 02:49:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B-5 newsgroup

+95-11-30 02:49:24
+
{will you be leaving AOL too?}
+
+       I have no plans for leaving here anytime soon, Angelica.  I hope to be
+here for the long haul.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/70.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/70.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Questions on Pilot A (95-12-14 17:10:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: Questions on Pilot A

+95-12-14 17:10:29
+
{Re. "The Gathering," you said the person standing outside a door in one
+scene would turn out to be important.  How?}
+
+      I'm not entirely sure what this refers to; the only possibility that
+comes to mind is that when the assassin finds Del Varner, he gets access via
+a panel outside the door, and we either hear or see "Laurel Takashima,
+Cleared To Enter."
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Jms RE: Ivanova  (95-12-13 21:26:13)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Jms RE: Ivanova 

+95-12-13 21:26:13
+
{You should use Claudia Christian more.}
+
+     You're absolutely correct, which is why in the very first episode up in
+the next batch, we send Ivanova off in the White Star as its commander, and
+we involve her and her charactder more strongly in subsequent episodes as
+well.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Kudos and a Question (95-12-13 21:35:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: Kudos and a Question

+95-12-13 21:35:52
+
     One of the hardest questions for any writer to answer is where did the
+story come from.  It's often a synthesis of lots of elements that sometimes
+bursts through all at one shot, other times trickles out a bit here and
+there.  
+
+     With B5, I started from wanting to do a saga, wanting to produce an SF
+show in a fiscally responsible manner (thus encouraging more of it), and to
+do real SF.  The usual strategy used by other shows is the man or show on the
+run...going in search of new worlds, or escaping from something, or trying to
+get somewhere.  The Immortal, Battlestar Galactica, the various Treks, The
+Hulk...all these and others used that approach, 'cause it's the easiest kind
+of story to construct, and needs the least amount of work.  The downside,
+though, is that you end up creating a venue in which you are constantly
+distracting your story from your main characters by having to introduce the
+Alien Of The Week, or the Planet Of The Week, establish them, their culture,
+the problem they bring in...which leaves you very little room for real
+character development.  And I wanted also to get into some of what's
+happening on Earth, do a little extrapolative writing in politics, law,
+criminal justice, sociology, religion, and other areas.
+
+     This led me to the notion -- used in shows like LA Law or St. Elsewhere
+-- of creating a place where the stories came to you, rather than vice versa.
+This led me to the notion of a space station, a freeport in space.  Onto
+this, I began to stitch the notion of a saga, a war, certain mythic and
+archetypal constructs...anyway I was playing with all this, when one day the
+whole story just sorta exploded in my head.  I saw the whole B5 sage, start
+to finish, in one big flash.  I then spent the next year, as I gathered my
+notes, and wrote the pilot screenplay, trying to write down and clarify what
+I saw in that one moment of absolute clarity.
+
+     It's those notes, written in 1986/87, which formed the basis for the
+arc, and which I'm still using with some modifications today.  
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Previews (95-12-14 03:52:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Previews

+95-12-14 03:52:18
+
     Since the question of what's coming up in the next batch of episodes has
+arisen, I thought I'd go through and, while avoiding spoilers as much as
+possible, give some glimpses into what's yet to come.
+
+     This list is for the new episodes beginning in late January through the
+end of February, in order.
+
+     "Voices of Authority" - Earth begins tightening the screws on the folks
+at B5 to try and exert more control there.  Steps are taken to help prepare
+for the shadow conflict.  (Here, again, the "shadow war" means both the
+obvious, and the more subtle conflict brewing at home; it's description and
+metaphor.)  The White Star voyages to some territory not seen since the first
+episode, Ivanova helms the ship, a major dramatic turning point is reached,
+and there is the single funniest scene in probably the series to date.  A
+strong arc story.
+
+     "Exogenesis" - The last non-arc episode for some time.  Puts Dr.
+Franklin and Marcus together investigating some odd happenings in DownBelow
+that may indicate some kind of alien influence.  Does, however, introduce a
+thread that will play out over time.
+
+     "Dust To Dust" - Looks like a non-arc episode initially, but by the end
+it has a strong effect on the overall storyline, and makes some permanent
+changes in one of our characters.  Combines Bester, the telepathic-assault
+drug Dust, weapons dealers, and brings to a head a major part of the
+G'Kar/Londo thread.
+
+     "Messages From Earth" - This begins the three-episode min-arc within the
+larger arc that, by its conclusion, totally changes the structure of the B5
+universe.  A mega-wham episode.  Because so much comes to a head so quickly,
+little can be said about it without spoiling stuff.  Our characters begin
+making the final and irrevocable steps that will put them on a collision
+course with everything they have believed in until now.  There are four or
+five episodes this season that push the limits of our effects and CGI to the
+absolute wall; this is one of the biggest.
+
+     "Point of No Return" - The same, but moreso.  Internal strife threatens
+to tear apart the command structure of B5.  The Nightwatch thread comes to a
+crisis point.  And Majel Barrett Roddenberry guest-stars in a B-story
+involving Londo's destiny.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS re.the women (95-12-15 02:00:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
To JMS re.the women

+95-12-15 02:00:56
+
{Where are the lesbians on B5?}
+
+     Y'know, it kinda seems to me that if two women have a relationship, and
+one leaves, the other still remains, so that answers at least one of your
+questions....
+
+
+jms
+
+ 
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Q: Parliament of Dreams (95-12-15 18:50:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Q: Parliament of Dreams

+95-12-15 18:50:07
+
{How is "The Parliament of Dreams" an important arc story?}
+
+      Well, certainly, the rebirth ceremony is a direct antecedent to
+Delenn's rebirth in "Chrysalis," and we'll hear about the ceremony again.
+Mainly, I think of it as a slight arc story in terms of the Delenn stuff.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Pets (95-12-15 18:51:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Pets

+95-12-15 18:51:29
+
{Why no pets on B5?}
+
+     Where would you put pets there?  Noplace would really be safe.  It's
+really more like a very large airport than a city...most people are just
+passing through.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+World Series (95-12-15 18:53:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
World Series

+95-12-15 18:53:43
+
{Who won the sixth game of the "59 series?}
+
+     Mars won the sixth game, but it was a squeaker, 5-4.  That tied it up
+going into the seventh game, which Earth won on an RBI that Mars is still
+challenging on the belief that the guy was really out at home, but that the
+umpire was catering to pressure.
+
+
+jms
+
+ 
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS re.the women   (95-12-15 18:56:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
To JMS re.the women  

+95-12-15 18:56:02
+
{If Ivanova is with a man, she'll be perceived as straight instead of bi.}
+
+      Which, of course, is exactly *why* one cannot write to the current
+political agendas on any side of the issue, because they're transitory,
+they'll change in two weeks.  If you start saying, "Well, this kind of person
+is *now* perceived THIS way this week, so I should change the story," you'll
+end up chasing your tail (also chasing your tale) and soon you lose all sense
+of direction.  So you do what's right for the story, and let the chips fall
+where they may.
+
+
+jms
+
+ 
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 Universe Questions (95-12-15 18:57:45)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 Universe Questions

+95-12-15 18:57:45
+
{There are no shock waves in space.}
+
+      Okay, then 'splain me this: when the Pioneer space probe moved past the
+speed of sound while it was in space, the monitoring station at JPL recorded
+a *sonic boom* as the shock wave rolled over the probe as it broke the sound
+barrier.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 Universe Questions (95-12-01 03:53:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Universe Questions

+95-12-01 03:53:56
+
Mass drivers use asteroids freely available in space, accelerated and fired
+into a planetary atmosphere.  EA non-rotational ships have zero g.  EA tech
+is generally much lower in weapons tech and other areas than the Minbari and
+Vorlons, among others.
+
+
+jms
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Garibaldi Left Handed!?! (95-12-16 03:08:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Garibaldi Left Handed!?!

+95-12-16 03:08:18
+
      I believe Jerry is left-handed, yes; doesn't really matter to me if
+Garibaldi is a southpaw or not, it wasn't a stipulation ahead of time.
+(Actually a number of our cast members are lefties; funny how that happens.)
+
+
+jms
+
+ 
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Quest/suggest (95-12-17 02:21:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Quest/suggest

+95-12-17 02:21:56
+
{Lots of questions about future episodes}
+
+     Unfortunately, the answer to virtually all of your questions is no, with
+a few being "I can't tell you at this time."
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Experiencing Deja Vu... (95-12-17 02:22:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Experiencing Deja Vu...

+95-12-17 02:22:27
+
     The next batch of new eps begins airing around January 22nd.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Harlan Ellison (95-12-17 02:23:54)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Harlan Ellison

+95-12-17 02:23:54
+
{Is Ellison still working on his Dream Corridor books?  Did his story "Kadak"
+inspire Ivanova's Chanukah celebration?}
+
+     Last I heard, the Dream Corridor books will be coming out in a different
+form, in larger trade editions, with new stuff.
+
+     No, "Kadak" had nothing to do with Ivanova celebrating Chanakuh on B5;
+the ceremony far predates Harlan's story....
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 vs Star Trek (95-12-16 03:07:15)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 vs Star Trek

+95-12-16 03:07:15
+
       We've finally received the paperwork on the fan club, and one of the
+things we plan to do is sell replica communication Links manufactured by the
+same sub-contractor company that produces the actual props, so they're 100%
+authentic; same with the EA pins and patches and some other stuff.  So hang
+tight, you may get your wish.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Harlan Ellison in SF/LA (95-12-11 03:51:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Harlan Ellison in SF/LA

+95-12-11 03:51:44
+
      B5's own Conceptual Consultant will be signing copies of his new CDrom
+game, "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream," based on his award winning short
+story of the same name, at Tower Records/VIdeo this coming week: on
+Wednesday, December 13, in Los Angeles from 6-7:30 p.m. at 8801 Sunset
+Boulevard, and in San Francisco at 3205 20th Avenue on Thursday, December
+14th, from 6-8 p.m.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+different=same? (95-12-11 03:49:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
different=same?

+95-12-11 03:49:20
+
     "But what is truth?  Is truth unchanging law?  We both have truths.  Are
+mine the same as yours?"  Pontius Pilot to JC in "Jesus Christ, Superstar,"
+third act.
+
+      For whatever reason, I know just about every line of that rock opera.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/87.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/87.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Goodbye Babylon 5 (95-12-13 01:38:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Goodbye Babylon 5

+95-12-13 01:38:40
+
{Too many filler episodes.}
+
+       Thank you, Posti.  You have now posted your departing message in at
+least three different folders, probably more.  We kind of get the point.  
+
+       And it's story *arc*, not story *arch*.
+
+Jms
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol95-12/9.html b/find/America-Online/aol95-12/9.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Licensing & Your Audience (95-12-01 03:59:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Licensing & Your Audience

+95-12-01 03:59:02
+
{you're letting Creation do B5 merchandise?}
+
+     We're aware of the rep that Creation has, and I've been very open in my
+criticism of them when they've done something dumb, both in my talks with
+them privately, and on the nets.  They know that if they do a Dumb of Bad
+Thing, I'm going to call them on it.  I'll also note when they do things
+right.  And thus far, for the most part, they've done okay by B5.  I've
+worked closely with them on the licensing aspects, and some of it is really
+quite cool, and the rest is fine.  (They have come out with two recent items,
+a B5 leather jacket (a bit over-priced, I think, but extremely cool
+nonetheless), and B5 mugs with the logo on one side, and the silhouette on
+the other in silver against black that's just *killer*.)
+
+     I don't feel sufficiently comfortable at this time to do a B5 convention
+with them; but I have made an occasional personal appearance, and found that
+they are genuinely interested in trying to straighten out their rep.  A great
+deal of the problem stems from the fact that they often work with local folks
+in the area as hosts who often don't know what they're talking about.  So now
+they're cutting back a little, trying to do fewer, better, than a lot, less
+efficiently.  
+
+
+jms
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/1.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/1.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+M.B.Roddenberry Apperance (96-02-12 03:49:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
M.B.Roddenberry Apperance

+96-02-12 03:49:36
+
She appears in the last episode airing this month, before the rerun break,
+"Point of No Return."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/10.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/10.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Instant Gratification (96-02-13 05:55:54)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Instant Gratification

+96-02-13 05:55:54
+
What's being lost here, though, is that this show operates on the level of
+metaphor as much as it operates out in the open.  The shadow war is also the
+war within ourselves as much as it is Out There.  So Nightwatch, the
+political situation back home, are shadow wars of their own.  
+
+That said, however, there's shooting aplenty in the course of this season.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/100.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/100.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: White Star Symbols (96-02-28 04:31:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: White Star Symbols

+96-02-28 04:31:56
+
They're Minbari letters; yes, each race does have its own symbol or logo;
+we've used them here and there.  Will see if I can post them sometime.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/101.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/101.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Katsulas honored? (96-02-28 04:32:57)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Katsulas honored?

+96-02-28 04:32:57
+
No, I don't believe he has won an emmy...and he's long overdue given his
+skills.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/102.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/102.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: A few questions... (96-02-28 04:34:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: A few questions...

+96-02-28 04:34:53
+
1) Who writes the blurbs each week in TV Guide?  Is it someone involved with
+the show, or someone at PTEN, or just some shadow somewhere?
+
+If by this you mean the actual listings themselves...they're written by TV
+Guide staffers, as I understand it.
+
+2) Is there a timeline that lists the approximate day/month/year that each
+episode takes place?  If so, could you post it?
+
+I don't have one available outside the show, since it's very detailed and
+has, well, EVERYthing in it, past and future...but there's one at the
+hyperion website (available here via the www jumpgate) that's pretty darned
+thorough.
+
+3) You say that after B5 ends, there is a possible "spin off" that _could_
+happen, but probably won't be made into a TV series.  Have you considered
+either a novel or a series of novels?
+
+Considered and considering...but for now, I have to focus on this.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/103.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/103.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Film Stock Question (96-02-28 04:35:48)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: Film Stock Question

+96-02-28 04:35:48
+
No, we shoot in super 35 millimeter, which gives us a widescreen image which
+we crop for current domestic aspect ratio TVs.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/104.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/104.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Shuttle Dyson (96-02-28 04:36:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
The Shuttle Dyson

+96-02-28 04:36:16
+
Just a guy in the walla group who happens to sound kinda like Sean....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/105.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/105.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Tentacles again (96-02-28 04:36:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: Tentacles again

+96-02-28 04:36:52
+
Well, Londo did use them once to cheat at cards...so they're fairly
+dexterous....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/106.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/106.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS thankyou (96-02-28 04:37:48)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS thankyou

+96-02-28 04:37:48
+
The thanks are entirely mine....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/107.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/107.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+More inquiries (96-02-29 20:16:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
More inquiries

+96-02-29 20:16:58
+
{Many, many questions}
+
+I think you just won the prize for most questions that I absolutely can't
+answer at one time....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/108.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/108.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Frankly, You Amaze Me (96-02-29 20:31:19)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Frankly, You Amaze Me

+96-02-29 20:31:19
+
Cristine: thanks.  You're right, in many ways it is personal to me.  I tend
+to get passionate about the job because I never taken on any job unless I
+feel passionately about it, if that makes any syntactical sense whatsoever.
+Life's too short.  B5 is a particular case in that this is something that
+everyone involved -- from the cast, through to the crew, directors, others --
+is absolutely dedicated to.  They believe that we're creating something
+rather extraordinary here, something that'll be talked about for a long time
+after we're gone.  
+
+It took me five years to sell this show, after everyone else told me to
+forget it, that it'd never happen, that it was too ambitious...said that I
+*could* sell it if I made it sexier, less aimed at the "smart" viewers and
+more accessible to folks who just want plain action and a smattering of sex.
+I could've sold a more mainstream series with far less hassle, to any of the
+networks.  But I have to tell *this* story.  
+
+So when you're obsessed with something, it's easier to spend 24.9 hours a day
+working on it.  (I cobble up the extra 9/10ths of an hour from a
+fourth-dimensional gate in my office.)  As for the online time...that ties
+into the obsession part, in some ways, but beyond that, it's a chance to keep
+working at my #1 bugaboo, demystifying TV, being responsive (and answerable)
+to fans when it works or doesn't work...actually, it works out for me because
+when I have to stop writing and think through a story point, I don't just get
+up and walk into the living room to watch TV, where you can lose a couple
+hours at a time.  I stay at the keyboard, do a quick pass through one of the
+nets, kill 15 minutes...by which time I've worked out the story point, and I
+get back to work.  It keeps me at the computer.
+
+But yeah...in every conceivable sense, the work comes first in my life. This
+is the single biggest thing I've ever attempted in my life, in terms of sheer
+scale and scope and hours.  It has a finite lifespan.  So during that time,
+it owns me.  I can give it nothing less.  When it's finally done, then I can
+rest.  Selling and running the show is like being yoked to a train; you pull
+real hard for a long time, for five years, until it finally moves.  Then it
+picks up speed.  And then you spend the next five years of your life running
+as fast as you can in front of it, because if you slow down, it'll run over
+you.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hyperion Website (96-02-29 20:32:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Hyperion Website

+96-02-29 20:32:44
+
No, I had and have nothing to do with the Hyperion website, except to look at
+it with awe and wonder.  It's quite a site.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/11.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/11.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+G' kar as a telepath ? (96-02-13 05:56:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
G' kar as a telepath ?

+96-02-13 05:56:35
+
What, you don't think G'Kar would look good in a bikini...?
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/110.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/110.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hour 25 (96-02-29 20:35:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Hour 25

+96-02-29 20:35:52
+
I followed Harlan as host.  After Mike passed away, he gave it to Harlan, who
+did it for a year, then Harlan passed it to me, and I managed to stick with
+it for five years.  I'm trying to remember when I finally left...I think it
+was around 1992-ish.  I opted out for many reasons, among them that I felt it
+was a conflict of interest to be making an SF series at the same time that I
+was hosting a radio show that covered stuff like SF TV series.  I enjoyed
+doing the show -- a 2-hour weekly gig on a high-power radio station in LA, no
+commercials, doing anything I wanted -- but ethically I had a real problem
+continuing when B5 became a reality.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/111.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/111.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Many thanks great show (96-02-29 20:37:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Many thanks great show

+96-02-29 20:37:23
+
No, the thanks are entirely mine, for your support and kind words.  This is
+the kind of show that will never come around for me again, and it wouldn't be
+here without viewers.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/112.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/112.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Lyta to appear ??? (96-02-29 20:38:12)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: Lyta to appear ???

+96-02-29 20:38:12
+
{In which episode will we see Lyta again?}
+
+You'll see Lyta again in Interludes and Examinations, then again this season
+in Walkabout.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/113.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/113.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+nightwatch (96-02-28 04:29:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
nightwatch

+96-02-28 04:29:16
+
Here's something to consider in this.
+
+It's easy -- safe and reassuring -- to dismiss Nightwatch and the whole
+political climate on Earth at this time as referring to Nazi germany...SS,
+Stormtroopers, informers...but if we know our history, it shows that this is
+not so isolated as we might think.  If we say it was just the Nazis, then
+it's a non-repeatable phenomenon, we needn't worry about it again.
+
+But, of course, it does happen again...it did, and it will, to varying
+degrees.  Go back to the Inquisition, and forward to Joe McCarthy and the
+House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) which destroyed lives and
+reputations based on association, past history, social contacts and party
+affiliations (the items specified by Musante to the EA folks in Nightwatch).
+Stalin and to a lesser extent Lenin would have been right at home in
+Nightwatch.  Several of the leaders speaking for parties in the ruins of what
+was once Yugoslavia would also fit.  
+
+It's easy, and safe, for us to say, "Oh, we would never do that, only THEY
+did that."  But the "they" in this ARE the we on the other side...and "we"
+have done it, are doing it now, and will continue to do it.  Only when we
+*know* the history of such things, when we recognize the rhetoric of control,
+when we oppose blacklisting and scapegoating and dead-catting do we help to
+assure that they *won't* arise again.  Remember the quote: "Those who do not
+remember history are condemned to repeat it."
+
+There's a great deal of generalized historical and political metaphor in the
+show, never one-to-one because that's too easy, but disguised in one form or
+another, transumted.  The Centauri Republic isn't a real republic by any
+stretch of the imagination...any more than the Roman Republic from which it
+draws some of its political structure, particularly the Centarum, the ruling
+body.  There's a great deal of Japanese political and social structure to the
+Minbari, in their culture and art and some of their philosophy.  You can find
+parallels to the story in World War II, and the bible, among a few dozen
+others.
+
+Too little of TV these days is *about* anything...it's all context, no
+subtext.  This show is about a lot of things...but never in the mode of
+telling you what to think.  We'll ask *that* you think, that you consider the
+world around you, and your place in it...but defining that is your business,
+not ours.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/114.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/114.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The enemy is us. (96-02-29 20:08:57)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
The enemy is us.

+96-02-29 20:08:57
+
"Zack is the key figure here.  He's the one questioning if he's on the right
+side and just what his allies are up to.  I've heard some good analogies to
+present days situations kicked around on these boards, but It seems mostly
+Republicans want to accuse democrats and vice versa.  What we need is more
+Republicans willing to criticise fellow republicans and democrats willing to
+criticise fellow democrats."
+
+A very good point.  Zack is, to all intents and purposes, the Everyman
+character in this; he wants, desperately, to do what's right.  But he doesn't
+exactly *know* what's right, because he's getting conflicting
+information...or rather, a lack of *real* information and a plethora of
+agendas.  Who is he to believe?  Which wasy does he jump when he's not sure
+which pit holds the lion?
+
+When a culture become factionalized, when it becomes us vs. them, everyone
+starts setting up consistently smaller camps...first it's democrats vs.
+republicans...then it's mainstream republicans vs. conservative
+republicans...then it's conservative republicans vs. religious right
+republicans (with the democrats having equal problems on their side).  As
+soon as we forget that we're *all* US, it begins to fall apart.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Psuedo-intellectual babble (96-02-29 20:13:15)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Psuedo-intellectual babble

+96-02-29 20:13:15
+
{B5 sucks, people only want to talk to JMS to feel like they are in the
+"inner circle", your lives are pathetic, etc}
+
+Yes, Sandie, that's very nice, but you still have to finish your brussel
+sprouts or you can't stay up and watch Baywatch.  
+
+Your mother and I are *very* concerned.
+
+jms
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/12.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/12.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Psi Corps ethics (96-02-13 05:58:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Psi Corps ethics

+96-02-13 05:58:10
+
Because it takes a certain amount of power, effort and skill to get detailed
+information about someone.  A P5-P7 can get strong emotions, some details, in
+brief bursts, but they're not always  as good on the big picture.  A P10 is
+needed for strong scans, particularly if the person is resisting.  That means
+a psi cop, and they're all registered.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/13.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/13.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/13.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Londo's retribution? (96-02-13 05:58:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Londo's retribution?

+96-02-13 05:58:56
+
Correction: the terms of the surrender stated that for every Centauri
+*KILLED* 500 Narns would be executed.  Londo wasn't killed.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/14.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/14.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/14.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+possible plot to come? (96-02-15 01:19:55)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
possible plot to come?

+96-02-15 01:19:55
+
Please refrain from posing possible plots to come or story ideas; doing that
+here jeapordizes my ability to stay here, for legal reasons.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/15.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/15.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/15.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+posting of common questio (96-02-15 01:08:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
posting of common questio

+96-02-15 01:08:32
+
There's a faq (frequently asked questions) file in the library, I think.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/16.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/16.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/16.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Londo's Dream (96-02-15 01:09:01)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Londo's Dream

+96-02-15 01:09:01
+
You will learn more about the outcome of that dream, yes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/17.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/17.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/17.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Halfway Point (96-02-15 01:11:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Halfway Point

+96-02-15 01:11:52
+
The episode is in the halfway mark, and that IS its significance, because it
+signals a major change.
+
+When we were midway through that episode, the halfway mark of the whole
+series, John, Doug and I were given these spiffy leather script books with
+silver inlaid initials by the crew, to commemmorate the event.  It was really
+nifty.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/18.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/18.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..63875669
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/18.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 Problems??? (96-02-15 01:14:05)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5 Problems???

+96-02-15 01:14:05
+
I frankly have *no* idea what this refers to.  Every season we've come in
+slightly under budget, the show is making money for WB, so I don't have a
+clue, unless they're looking for some reason to play it cautious just now in
+their announcements.  I'm baffled.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/19.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/19.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dd4f697d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/19.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Better and Better (96-02-15 01:16:04)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Better and Better

+96-02-15 01:16:04
+
Thanks, Sharon.  Funny how some themes never seem to go out of fashion in the
+real world.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/2.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/2.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/2.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Number of Episodes (96-02-12 03:51:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Number of Episodes

+96-02-12 03:51:07
+
Every season of B5 has had 22 episodes, including this one.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/20.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/20.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/20.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+attn JMS: Ivanova (96-02-15 01:16:34)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
attn JMS: Ivanova

+96-02-15 01:16:34
+
We'll here more about that relationship in due time.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/21.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/21.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8e1922f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/21.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Psi Corp, Shadows, Nightw (96-02-15 01:17:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Psi Corp, Shadows, Nightw

+96-02-15 01:17:11
+
{Are Shadows, psi-corp, and Nightwatch working together?}
+
+You'll know more about this within the next 10 episodes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/22.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/22.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e944df48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/22.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS-Uploaded Previews (96-02-16 04:17:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS-Uploaded Previews

+96-02-16 04:17:17
+
Kung Fu generally has a long promo for B5, whereas B5 gets a shorter preview
+for itself.  I think the one here is the longer version shown during KF.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/23.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/23.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/23.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Letterbox format (96-02-16 04:18:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Letterbox format

+96-02-16 04:18:16
+
Can't be done for now, since the majority of the population still uses
+smaller TV sets, you'd lose viewers rapidly.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/24.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/24.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dd2d4ee8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/24.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Money Matters (96-02-17 05:20:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Money Matters

+96-02-17 05:20:36
+
Basically, it's a weekly bonus added onto their weekly salary; 50 creds is a
+pretty enticing bump, equal to about 50 pounds British.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/25.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/25.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/25.html
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Icarus (96-02-17 05:21:42)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The Icarus

+96-02-17 05:21:42
+
{Here is a question I've been thinking about for a while. If the Icarus was
+sent to Z'Ha'Dum about 3 years ago, and the Vorlons and Minbari have known
+about the Shadows return now for over 4 years, and it was also suggested
+somewhere else that Earth Gov may be involved as far back as 5 years ago, is
+it possible that Interplanetary Expeditions knew what would be found when
+they sent the Icarus to that planet?}
+
+The crew of the Icarus may not have known as much as they could've about
+their mission.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/26.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/26.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..42abfca6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/26.html
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+MacBeth (96-02-17 05:25:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
MacBeth

+96-02-17 05:25:23
+
{Just curious, but what was with all the MacBeth references in "Exogenesis?"}
+
+Just figured I'd use that description of it rather than Macbeth, to make it a
+bit more obscure, but also some actors do have a problem saying the name
+Macbeth or being around it when it's said (note: Jason isn't one of them). so
+it was also a courtesy.  (Later on, while shooting "A Late Delivery From
+Avalon," one of the hair dressers made the error of referring to Macbeth out
+loud in front of Michael York, and had to go through the whole undo-the-curse
+routine, walking around the stages three times, etc.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/27.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/27.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d6dd8c78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/27.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Capt's facial express (96-02-17 05:26:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The Capt's facial express

+96-02-17 05:26:07
+
{Is it possible to tour the B5 set?}
+
+Unfortunately, the B5 stages are off the WB lot, and we're not set up for
+tours.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/28.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/28.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/28.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+David Corwin (96-02-17 05:26:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
David Corwin

+96-02-17 05:26:53
+
Yes, David Corwin was named for Norman Corwin, whose work you should
+investigate if you do not know it.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/29.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/29.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/29.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Other TV Shows (96-02-17 05:28:48)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Other TV Shows

+96-02-17 05:28:48
+
Thanks.  We have heard that more shows are starting to adopt both our
+production methods, and doing more arc stuff, so that's a good thing.
+
+Personally, I thought "Exogenesis" was okay, but not one of our best, mainly
+for writing reasons (i.e., my fault).  But from here on out, they're spiffy.
+You're in for a real treat in a few more days when "Messages" airs.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/3.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/3.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8c5d7fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/3.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Cthulu in B5 (96-02-12 03:53:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Cthulu in B5

+96-02-12 03:53:37
+
There's a whole tapestry of related fiction of this sort...Lovecraft was one
+practitioner, so was Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth...it's a
+grand tradition of SF.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/30.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/30.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e0d2d42f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/30.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Exogenesis: Corwin's name (96-02-18 19:17:13)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Exogenesis: Corwin's name

+96-02-18 19:17:13
+
"Corwin is the main character in Zelazny's Amber series.) Not that David
+Corwin is very Corwin of Amber-like. That Corwin would more likely be a
+ranger."
+
+David Corwin was named after my friend and highly-regarded radio drama writer
+Norman Corwin.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/31.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/31.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6d9fef7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/31.html
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Eating Crow... (96-02-19 03:51:19)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Eating Crow...

+96-02-19 03:51:19
+
{A few weeks ago I posted a message stating that it would be nice to have a
+few skirmishes before the final showdown with the Shadows.  At the time I
+feared you were saving too much for the end of the season. 
+
+I just watched MESSAGE FROM EARTH.}
+
+Like we said, we know what we're doing.  You just gotta trust us.  Sometimes
+we get cranky because someone says "nothing's happening this season with the
+shadows," and we're looking at an episode like "Messages" or others
+forthcoming, and we know what IS coming.
+
+A little patience is a good thing.
+
+But you need not eat crow over it; just nibbling at the feathers will
+suffice.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/32.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/32.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/32.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Exogenesis: Corwin's name (96-02-19 03:53:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Exogenesis: Corwin's name

+96-02-19 03:53:29
+
Norman Corwin's work is nothing short of superb.  I commend it to anyone
+willing to trudge down to the local library and dig it up.  It was by hoping
+one day to grow up and become a writer like Norman that Ray Bradbury got
+started as a writer.
+
+Norman's what you call a Writer's Writer.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/33.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/33.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/33.html
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 vs ST (96-02-18 19:15:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 vs ST

+96-02-18 19:15:53
+
Just one thing to bear in mind in all this, referring to ST bashing...you
+don't have a situation here of B5 fans "bashing" ST.  What you tend to have
+are ST fans who've *always* had some concerns with the shows expressing their
+concerns here, because they also watch B5, and because to express some of
+this in other forums gets them yelled at.
+
+While there are many ST fans who have not seen B5, there are no B5 fans who
+have not seen ST.  What you have here is an internal ST situation, not a case
+of B5 fans hitting a show they don't know about or watch.  I'd venture to
+suggest that most of the concerns voiced here are ones they had long, long
+before there WAS a B5.
+
+That said, I've noted from the beginning that there was no reason to hold the
+shows up side by side; they're different series, and that just puts ST at the
+center of the fictional universe.  Let this show be its own creature.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/34.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/34.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/34.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 vs ST (96-02-19 03:48:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 vs ST

+96-02-19 03:48:10
+
Actually, Voyager is not IN the top 50.  They're generally in the basement of
+the network ratings.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/35.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/35.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/35.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Babylon 5  The MOTION PIC (96-02-18 00:49:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Babylon 5  The MOTION PIC

+96-02-18 00:49:27
+
{Why noy free ourselves from syndicators and go for the big screen?}
+
+At the moment, that's not my choice, you need a big studio backing you for a
+big movie.  Also, B5 was primarily *designed* for TV, this is the venue I'd
+prefer to work in for this.  You'd have to do 55 movies to tell the whole
+story, and you couldn't do much arc stuff in it, because it would have to be
+fairly self-contained.  The good wishes are appreciated, though.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/36.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/36.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b5a3edc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/36.html
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 Ratings Info (96-02-18 01:00:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Ratings Info

+96-02-18 01:00:52
+
The figures have come in for our first non-rerun episode, "Voices of
+Authority."  The numbers of any show always drop in reruns; something that
+some folks tend to avoid mentioning when they just post figures without
+noting these things.  But moving on....
+
+While KUNG FU, in its new episode, went from #50 to #61 for the week in
+syndicated shows (this is out of 257 syndicated shows total, btw), B5 surged
+from #54 to #41, with a 3.5 rating, well above that which is guaranteed to
+advertisers.  
+
+(DS9 continues to wobble; #16 last week, and #15 this week; they haven't been
+in the top ten for a while now.  This in reply to some who asked for a
+relative positioning.)
+
+At #41 out of 257 shows, B5 is in the top 1/6th of all syndicated shows
+overall, about the top 16% or thereabouts.  In terms of drama shows, B5 is in
+the top 10 of all drama shows for that period, at #8.  
+
+So far, so good.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/37.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/37.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Trek (96-02-18 19:10:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Trek

+96-02-18 19:10:32
+
"...without Star Trek there probably wouldn't be a Babylon 5...."
+
+This is one of the biggest misperceptions we've had to try and correct over
+time; if anything, ST has been an obstacle to getting B5 on the air.  The #1
+reason we were given, time and again, during the 5 years it took to sell B5
+for not going ahead with it, was that "There isn't room in the marketplace
+for another space show other than ST.  There's not an SF marketplace; there's
+a ST marketplace, but that's all.  ST doesn't create more SF, ST creates more
+ST."
+
+Right up until the day we aired the pilot, some folks at WB were saying,
+"This isn't gonna work, there's not enough room in the market for another SF
+space show other than Star Trek."  And suffice to say that Paramount didn't
+make things any easier for us in their inimitable fashion.
+
+If the premise as advanced in the first line were true, then why in the 30
+years since ST:TOS has there not another space-SF series that's lasted more
+than three seasons?  Why have there been so very few shows even TRYING this
+venue?  In those 30 years, with the exception of Quantum Leap, which was more
+an anthology show really, no hardcore SF series has gone beyond 3 years; that
+alone mitigates against SF being a viable market.
+
+Trust me on this; for the five years it took us to sell B5, ST was one more
+obstacle to overcome.  It's not their fault, it's the fault of the
+marketplace that doesn't understand SF.  It's unfortunate that, when a cop
+show fails, industry folks just say, "Well, that show didn't work," but when
+an SF series fails, they say, "There's no market for SF."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/38.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/38.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Psi Corps and the Shadows (96-02-18 00:43:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Psi Corps and the Shadows

+96-02-18 00:43:56
+
Wait and see...but you're close to some stuff.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/39.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/39.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Costuming (96-02-18 00:44:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Costuming

+96-02-18 00:44:35
+
We have used them a bit, just haven't had to use them much until now.
+
+That's about to change.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/4.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/4.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/4.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Who was the VofA? (96-02-13 05:50:00)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Who was the VofA?

+96-02-13 05:50:00
+
I figured that some elements of the First Ones should be consistent with one
+another; others should have specific differences.  Using Ardwight
+subliminally reinforced some of the consistencies.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/40.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/40.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+sending artwork (96-02-18 00:47:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
sending artwork

+96-02-18 00:47:43
+
Thank you.  In general, the best contact for now on B5 is the mail drop,
+which is located at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA
+91423.  Send it along to my attention.  If it's show-related, I'll try to
+find a nice home for it at the stage.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/41.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/41.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/41.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Was Exo censored? (96-02-18 19:19:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Was Exo censored?

+96-02-18 19:19:32
+
No, the only graphic scene is in the beginning, at the end of the teaser.
+Nothing was cut that I know of.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/42.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/42.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/42.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Addition to Pilot (96-02-18 19:20:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Addition to Pilot

+96-02-18 19:20:29
+
All the narratives are from a future point in time, but no one lives forever.
+How far into the future that person is telling the story will vary.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/43.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/43.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/43.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS, Night Watch, etc. (96-02-18 19:24:01)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS, Night Watch, etc.

+96-02-18 19:24:01
+
DLyulkin...exactly.  You don't just take something and transplant it
+wholecloth...you change and modify it.  Nightwatch was never meant to be on a
+one-to-one corrolation to the SS, or Stasi, or McCarthy...the whole POINT is
+that this kind of mentality crops up in new forms from time to time, in
+different names, different approaches, but at its heartmeat core the same
+thing.  By saying it's "That over there," we can relax, since that specific
+incident can't recur...making us vulnerable to the next version.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/44.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/44.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/44.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:Ivanova's left earrin (96-02-18 19:24:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:Ivanova's left earrin

+96-02-18 19:24:40
+
It's a tribute to her dead brother, both as a character, and in real life.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/45.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/45.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/45.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ JMS (96-02-19 03:43:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 JMS

+96-02-19 03:43:37
+
{Ivanova is supposed to be Jewish, right? ( Tells you I haven't been
+watching all of your episodes-grin ). Then how come her last name is 
+Ivanova as opposed to Greenberg or something?}
+
+She was born in the Russian Consortium, to Russian parents, with Russian
+surnames.  No big mystery there.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/46.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/46.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/46.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ preview (96-02-19 03:44:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 preview

+96-02-19 03:44:16
+
Many things are inserted into previews by WB that aren't actually in the
+shows.  We have no control over what they put into the previews.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+----
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/47.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/47.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/47.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Steven and stims (96-02-22 00:52:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Steven and stims

+96-02-22 00:52:52
+
{Did I miss an episode?  (I can never get our stations right out here)  Last I
+saw, Steven was getting hooked on stims, than last week he's happy go lucky
+chattin with Marcus and being a lovable goof.}
+
+It hasn't come to a head yet.  Any abuser of substances has moments when he's
+up, and moments when he's down, moments when he seems fine, moments when he's
+not.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/48.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/48.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/48.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Norman Corwin (96-02-21 01:48:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Norman Corwin

+96-02-21 01:48:17
+
I'd suggest to start with ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, and THE PLOT TO OVERTHROW
+CHRISTMAS.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/49.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/49.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/49.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Random thoughts (96-02-21 01:51:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Random thoughts

+96-02-21 01:51:27
+
Thanks.  It is, I think, a uniquely American concern, since it's long been
+common for writers in the UK to write a goodly portion of any season;
+McGoohan did much of The Prisoner (under a variety of names), and Terry
+Nation wrote the entire (and some say best) season of Blake's 7, though that
+was only 13 episodes.  (I believe the adaptation of I, Claudius, at 12 hours
+or so, was done by one writer...and it's the best thing ever made for TV, I
+think.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/5.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/5.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/5.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Can you rerun B-2? (96-02-13 05:50:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Can you rerun B-2?

+96-02-13 05:50:26
+
We're working on convincing WB to do this.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/50.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/50.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b2eeb04b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/50.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ Great Show! (96-02-21 01:51:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Great Show!

+96-02-21 01:51:49
+
Thanks...actually, to you and to Blair.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/51.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/51.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/51.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATTN: JMS, B5 Fans (96-02-21 01:55:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
ATTN: JMS, B5 Fans

+96-02-21 01:55:36
+
Eventually, yes, we do hope to sell B5 eps via the fan club.  As for UPN, we
+were never a part of UPN, though we're aired on some UPN stations, so they
+can't actually drop us.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/52.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/52.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..63a0144a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/52.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Exogenesis question? (96-02-21 01:56:21)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Exogenesis question?

+96-02-21 01:56:21
+
It was Ranger One.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/53.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/53.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f585a7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/53.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 C.D rom (96-02-21 01:57:57)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 C.D rom

+96-02-21 01:57:57
+
There's the screensaver CD rom from Sound Sources currently; the company that
+was going to do the encyclopedia cut down its list from 300 to 40 per year,
+and we were in those cut.  We're now taking bids from other companies
+interested in locking this down.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/54.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/54.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/54.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hey JMS... (96-02-22 00:58:51)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hey JMS...

+96-02-22 00:58:51
+
The vorlons were never intending to hide themselves from the shadows; they
+both know where the other can be found.  The concern was in the vorlons
+potentially revealing themselves to others, and standing openly as what they
+were.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/55.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/55.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/55.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATTN: JMS, B5 Fans (96-02-22 00:59:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
ATTN: JMS, B5 Fans

+96-02-22 00:59:10
+
It's up, should be "and running" soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/56.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/56.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/56.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: haitus (96-02-22 00:59:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: haitus

+96-02-22 00:59:36
+
{Is B5 on haitus?  If not , when do you stop filming?
+If so , when do you go back?}
+
+Filming wraps April 9th.  In theory it would begin again around late July.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/57.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/57.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b4f5de1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/57.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Messages - Fantastic (96-02-22 01:00:13)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Messages - Fantastic

+96-02-22 01:00:13
+
I think this is one of the best of the series to date.  I think there are a
+couple coming up later in the season though that will give it a run for its
+money.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/58.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/58.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Messages - Fantastic (96-02-22 01:01:12)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Messages - Fantastic

+96-02-22 01:01:12
+
Oh, and a PS..."does it get even better?"
+
+It kinda has to.  We took a blood oath that each season must be better than
+the one preceding it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/59.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/59.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/59.html
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+" Original Ideas ", etc. (96-02-22 01:04:51)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
" Original Ideas ", etc.

+96-02-22 01:04:51
+
{Yes, there are plenty of fans who would sign a waiver to give JMS free
+ownership of story ideas, but that still doesn't matter. *Someone* would
+bring suit. Someone, maybe, who holds a grudge for a real or imagined slight,
+or just because it's easy money...}
+
+The probelm is not just one fan.  People are *constantly* suing because they
+think their idea -- sometimes just that, an idea -- was stolen.  Steven
+Spielberg was sued by *three people* each one independently claiming that ET
+was based on their story.  Obviously, that three different people say the
+same thing means they're mutually contradictory...it can't be based uniquely
+on all three.  Two of them have to be wrong at minimum (and as it came out,
+all of them lost).  But they were True Believers.
+
+And yes, 98% of these cases are nonsense, and are eventually won by the
+original writer; but the process of defending such a case can literally
+consume *years* of your life.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/6.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/6.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/6.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Susan Ivanova (96-02-13 05:51:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Susan Ivanova

+96-02-13 05:51:11
+
Yes, she does, including a variation on her father's name as her middle name.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/60.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/60.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/60.html
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+" Original Ideas ", etc. (96-02-22 01:07:54)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
" Original Ideas ", etc.

+96-02-22 01:07:54
+
Here's an example of this, btw.  On another service, someone without
+considering what he was saying (not his fault, it just happened) said, in
+essence, "What if somebody on B5 found out that he had been mind-wiped, and
+used to be something awful previously?"
+
+Well, I'd had "Passing Through Gethsemane" on the wire at that time, but when
+I saw this, I had to scuttle the story.  It lay there, untouched, for over a
+year, until I could finally meet the fellow and get a signed release
+indicating what'd happened.  If that fan had not been fair and reasonable,
+that episode -- which many consider one of our best -- would never have been
+made.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/61.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/61.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c6af3f47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/61.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Screen Saver (96-02-22 01:08:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The Screen Saver

+96-02-22 01:08:43
+
Yes, I hear the Mac version will be out in April.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Original Ideas, etc. (96-02-23 03:30:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Original Ideas, etc.

+96-02-23 03:30:08
+
I've been over all this a hundred times with others, on other forums.  Or
+forii.  Yes, all of the reasons that you cite could be used in winning a
+lawsuit.  But I have no desire to spend the two years of my life fighting
+such a lawsuit.  If story ideas get posted, I turn to vapor, it's that
+simple.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/63.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/63.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Messages - Fantastic (96-02-23 03:31:33)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Messages - Fantastic

+96-02-23 03:31:33
+
Thanks.  I find relationships fascinating, in how they grow, change, develop,
+veer right or swerve left.  The ones we're seeing here are fun to play with,
+and I tend to avoid the saccherine.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/64.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/64.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+messages (96-02-23 03:33:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
messages

+96-02-23 03:33:10
+
1) There was an outsider, Kirkish, in the room.  Yes, she's helped him, but
+he's still going to hold back some info because he doesn't know what impact
+it might have on Sinclair.  He's protective of him.
+
+2) Yes, Kosh should've been there.  Kosh wasn't.  Kosh hasn't been carrying
+his weight, if you ask me.  I hope this doesn't cause a problem somewhere....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/65.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/65.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Spoilers Please (96-02-23 03:34:05)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Spoilers Please

+96-02-23 03:34:05
+
I wish I could, but they're just very cool, and I wouldn't want to give
+anything away....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/66.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/66.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hey...that guy over there (96-02-23 03:34:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hey...that guy over there

+96-02-23 03:34:52
+
Can't do it.  A cameo would destroy (for me) the illusion that is B5.  So you
+won't see me in a B5 episode.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/67.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/67.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+MFE -WHOA!!! (96-02-23 03:37:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
MFE -WHOA!!!

+96-02-23 03:37:03
+
"Was the "package" mentioned in Exo the blonde woman giving us the Mars
+Shadow info? Or was it the eggs and bacon?  Or have we not seen it yet?  
+
+Yes, the package referred to Kirkish.
+
+"It seems Sheridan is destroying his Shadow ships by using tricks - not a
+straight up battle.  At some point won't he be one on one with a Shadow and
+have to deal with it?"
+
+Sooner or later.  Right now he's outgunned hideously.  He'll have to find a
+way.
+
+"At some point won't Sheridan have to fight Earth? (I really don't expect an
+answer to this one)"
+
+Stick around.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/68.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/68.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Two Questions for JMS (96-02-23 03:39:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Two Questions for JMS

+96-02-23 03:39:16
+
{2) With six appendages for the males and six slots for the females, I kinda
+wonder if the Centauri are capable of multiple births on a regular basis.
+Care to comment on that?}
+
+No multiple births, in that sense, not any different than humans.
+
+{1) Although the capital of the Earth Alliance (Earthdome) is located in
+Geneva, it seems to me the basic legislative structure is like the United
+States, albeit in a unicameral setting (I see only the Senate). Did you plan
+it this way, and have you ever thought about doing a historical
+article/presentation on Earth history until the Babylon 5 setting?}
+
+Your analysis on the governmental situation is pretty accurate; the Senate in
+this case comprised of member nation/states, with smaller ones having less
+voice than the bigger ones (like the Russian Consortium, the North American
+Federation, and so on).
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/69.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/69.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Love the Show! (96-02-23 03:40:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Love the Show!

+96-02-23 03:40:14
+
Thanks.  Eventually eps and the pilot will be on video, it's simply a matter
+of time.
+
+To the rest...wait and see.  And thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/7.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/7.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+VOA: The "Goods" on Clark (96-02-13 05:52:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
VOA: The "Goods" on Clark

+96-02-13 05:52:02
+
As it happens, the info about Clark's doctor was also released a bit later,
+which we'll hear about by the end of this month.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/70.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/70.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Fan Fiction (96-02-24 03:50:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Fan Fiction

+96-02-24 03:50:10
+
{You could create a file entitled, "NO JMS Allowed". That should cover the
+legal stuff}
+
+1) Simply saying "NO JMS" on a folder is not sufficient; I could still go
+into any area to which I have been proven to have access.  Having access to
+the general area (AOL) access to the specific material is *automatically
+assumed* in any court of law.  Instant loss should someone post a story and
+decide later that something we did was too close to their story.
+
+2) I have asked, as a courtesy, for people to refrain from fan fiction until
+the 5 year story is over.  There are only 2 years remaining on this request.
+ST fanfic was developed as a way to keep the characters alive while the show
+was gone.  There is no such need at this time.
+
+3) If fanfic is posted to AOL, I will have to withdraw from AOL.  That
+simple.  It's even worse than posting a story idea, it's a whole *story*.  I
+have no desire to scuttle another story, or a major part of an arc, to avoid
+somebody thinking I swiped it.
+
+4) Be advised that the names, situations and characters are all copyrighted
+by Warner Bros., and if courtesy is not sufficient, any infringement of that
+copyright by fanfiction will be conveyed to the legal eagles for action.
+
+Don't do it.  I *mean* it.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+O'Hare, a bad guy? (96-02-24 23:28:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
O'Hare, a bad guy?

+96-02-24 23:28:35
+
{The real reason Sinclair is gone? RATINGS! WB didn't feel he was helping the
+ratings. They wanted a better known actor. An old story, but true.}
+
+There were only the following people in the room when Michael and I discussed
+the prospect of his leaving the show to return in another capacity at a later
+date: me, Michael, Doug Netter and John Copeland.  You are none of these.
+
+Further, at the time we had this conversation, the ratings were on one of
+their usual upswings after reruns.  
+
+You know *nothing* of this situation.  You're just going off what you assume
+to be true.  But assuming it and saying it doesn't make it true.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/72.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/72.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS. life for B5 after B5 (96-02-24 23:37:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS. life for B5 after B5

+96-02-24 23:37:56
+
{I am interested in your thoughts as to whether the will be a life
+for the surviving B5 charcters after the 5yr story arc.   You have created a
+universe that is rich and varied, and it would be a shame to see it just end
+after this much creative talent has been lent to it's birth }
+
+There's always been a side-story that could go off after the 5 years, though
+the odds are slim and none.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/73.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/73.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Thanks for the ride! (96-02-24 23:38:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Thanks for the ride!

+96-02-24 23:38:35
+
{Thank you for the delicious thrill I get each week from your incredible
+show/universe/mind!  You have tapped brilliantly into the mythic themes of
+the great epic tales - and whether I feel caught up in the great "resistance
+struggle",  moved by the profound choices which degrade Londo or ennoble
+G'Kar, thrilled by encounters with Beings of Light, horrified by though
+control police or}
+
+Thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/74.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/74.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Poetry guidelines (?) (96-02-24 23:40:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Poetry guidelines (?)

+96-02-24 23:40:49
+
As long as new elements aren't introduced into the piece, we're fine.  "Oh, I
+remember when you found the space duck / We said you were really a big shmuck
+/ The bombing of Earth was a crummy notion / Now Detroit is just a great big
+ocean."
+
+That sorta thing.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/75.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/75.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Waiting for June... (96-02-24 23:42:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Waiting for June...

+96-02-24 23:42:49
+
Some themes are universal and timeless.  In the case of Bosnia, more's the
+pity.
+
+Yes, I'll be at Blackpool.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/76.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/76.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS: Re: How we doing? (96-02-24 23:45:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
To JMS: Re: How we doing?

+96-02-24 23:45:03
+
So far, I hear we're doing well with the station-by-station renewals.  Won't
+know anything for sure for about a month or so.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/77.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/77.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hats off, JMS!! (96-02-24 23:46:25)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hats off, JMS!!

+96-02-24 23:46:25
+
Thanks, we try....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/78.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/78.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Messages from Mars? (96-02-24 23:47:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Messages from Mars?

+96-02-24 23:47:35
+
{6.  And isn't Sheridan the least bit upset that Kosh wants him to do
+everything without help, even if it costs him his life?
+7.  Can you tell me the dimensions of a Shadow ship or the WhiteStar?  I'm
+guessing that a Shadow Mother-Symbiotic-Terror Ship has a 'spine-span' of
+about 2 kilometers at least, maybe even two miles; is this close?}
+
+Don't have the shadow dimensions offhand; and yes, you'd think Sheridan might
+begin to wonder about Kosh's level of involvement.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/79.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/79.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+By the way... (96-02-24 23:48:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
By the way...

+96-02-24 23:48:30
+
{We haven't heard squat from the Grey Council since Delenn was removed, and
+replaced by Neroon. Are they talking behind closed doors about...Londo?...
+In other words, will they show up again this season sometime?}
+
+At least one of them will show up again, yes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/8.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/8.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Writing for TV (96-02-13 05:53:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Writing for TV

+96-02-13 05:53:52
+
I think it came out of the fact that Garibaldi doesn't trust ANYthing about
+Bester, and that it's not out of the realm of possibility for Bester to find
+some way to defeat the drug.  If not, then his line was basically another way
+of stating "What the ___ are you pulling and why are you doing it and why the
+hell didn't you TELL me you were going to do this before pulling it?"
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/80.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/80.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/80.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+IPX Question (96-02-24 23:49:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
IPX Question

+96-02-24 23:49:07
+
{How long has Interplanetary Expeditions been a going concern?}
+
+IXP has been in business, in one form or another, for between 50-80 years.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/81.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/81.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+"Message" Question & Comm (96-02-24 23:50:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
"Message" Question & Comm

+96-02-24 23:50:49
+
{1)  I didn't notice Lennier or Delenn doing any translations on the White
+Star.  Has the Minbari crew learned to speak English now?}
+
+Lennier was muttering his translations off-screen.
+
+That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/82.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/82.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/82.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Praise for MfE & N Staffo (96-02-27 01:52:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Praise for MfE & N Staffo

+96-02-27 01:52:17
+
{So if you have the opportunity, please pass along to Ms. Stafford my
+appreciation of her performance. }
+
+I entirely agree; I think she did a dynamite job as Kirkish.  Totally
+convincing.  When she walked into the audition, and did the part, there was
+no question...it was her.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/83.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/83.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/83.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Military Strength (96-02-25 19:42:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Military Strength

+96-02-25 19:42:18
+
I'd put Shadows and Vorlons at the top, then Minbari, Centauri, with Narns
+and Humans at about the same level, give or take.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/84.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/84.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/84.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To: JMS and DLyulkin (96-02-25 19:43:28)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
To: JMS and DLyulkin

+96-02-25 19:43:28
+
We've already established in the episode that the bodyguard is the same as in
+"All Alone."  We did that when the two had a drink in the zocalo.  It was in
+dialogue.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/85.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/85.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: TENTACLES!!!!!! (96-02-25 19:43:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: TENTACLES!!!!!!

+96-02-25 19:43:52
+
Those are his...erm...reproductive organs....
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/86.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/86.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Major Plot Twist Ahead?! (96-02-25 19:44:39)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Major Plot Twist Ahead?!

+96-02-25 19:44:39
+
The third age is involved, yes...and if I told you the first two, that would
+give you the third.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/87.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/87.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Sinclair? (96-02-25 19:45:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Sinclair?

+96-02-25 19:45:10
+
Sinclair appears in the 2-parter airing the last 2 weeks of May.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/88.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/88.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: One Word for MFE (96-02-25 19:46:15)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: One Word for MFE

+96-02-25 19:46:15
+
....i don't remember anymore....
+
+Senility is a terrible thing, but I suppose it happens to us all after a
+while.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/89.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/89.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Questions, questions (96-02-25 19:48:41)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Questions, questions

+96-02-25 19:48:41
+
Yes, Howard Stern has repeatedly endorsed the show; and yes, the shadow
+vessel was still a little wobbly from its long hibernation and the improper
+melding.  As for the title...I'm trying to avoid saying anything about it
+yet.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/9.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/9.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Help! (96-02-13 05:54:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Help!

+96-02-13 05:54:32
+
It's my understanding that the station will show the last part of the show it
+clipped right before the next new episode.  So tune in early.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/90.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/90.html
new file mode 100644
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Particular politicals (96-02-27 01:41:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Particular politicals

+96-02-27 01:41:52
+
{Are the rights suspended during times of martial law similar to our own
+(freedom to gather, habeus corpus (sp?) etc.) ?}
+
+Yes, right to assemble, free speech rights, they're all open to abridgement.
+Travel can also be restricted.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/91.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/91.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Messages from Earth (96-02-27 01:43:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Messages from Earth

+96-02-27 01:43:17
+
Certainly G'Kar has had...a revelation, I suppose is the best way of putting
+it, and that tends to transform you.  What form emerges from this remains to
+be seen.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/92.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/92.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Bwok, bwok...huh? (96-02-27 01:44:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Bwok, bwok...huh?

+96-02-27 01:44:14
+
{It did raise one little question: if Earth is only a two-day voyage away, why
+can't they get fresh eggs and bacon?}
+
+Mainly it's the expense involved per volume.  It still costs big bucks, and
+you generally need refrigeration.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/93.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/93.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Messages from Earth (96-02-27 01:45:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Messages from Earth

+96-02-27 01:45:40
+
So what *was* that blue goop everyone else had to eat in lieu of bacon and
+eggs?}
+
+Actually, I think it was blueberry yogurt.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/94.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/94.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Lady Morella's Speech (96-02-27 01:46:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Lady Morella's Speech

+96-02-27 01:46:27
+
{One question, was Lady Morella's speech regarding the emperor ment as a
+tribute to Gene Roddenberry?}
+
+There's probably a fair amount there that could apply to Gene, yes...
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/95.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/95.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+writing and spfx (96-02-27 01:47:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
writing and spfx

+96-02-27 01:47:18
+
{Joe,   Do you take into account the ability of the SPFX crew to realize a
+shot when you are writing an episode ?}
+
+Generally, I write whatever the scene requires; most times, I find out that
+the efx folks can deliver *more* than what I had in mind.  I don't think I've
+had to pull back once yet.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/96.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/96.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:HDTV Question (96-02-27 01:47:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:HDTV Question

+96-02-27 01:47:52
+
{I've read that B5 is shot in widescreen to be used later for HDTV.}
+
+Yes, we film widescreen and crop for regular aspect ratio; eventually it'll
+be released that way.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/97.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/97.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Michael York (96-02-27 01:49:13)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Michael York

+96-02-27 01:49:13
+
York finished with us quite some time ago.  Great episode, and a nice man.
+Very friendly, very polite, nothing of the "I'm a STAR" attitude one often
+gets with...well, *stars*.  He was even very nice when I gleepily asked him
+to sign my laserdisk of CABARET.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/98.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/98.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Soundtrack #2 (96-02-25 19:40:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Soundtrack #2

+96-02-25 19:40:20
+
No idea yet, though I should be getting a preliminary CD from Chris soon with
+his thoughts.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-02/99.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-02/99.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Ike and Abe (96-02-28 04:31:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Ike and Abe

+96-02-28 04:31:14
+
Evan: what a *great* analysis.  I'd nudge you in the direction of the
+Politics and History folder here in this area; I think you could add a lot to
+that one, which just started up.  Anyway, very well considered.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/1.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/1.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Eating Crow...Part 2 (96-03-01 03:23:12)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Eating Crow...Part 2

+96-03-01 03:23:12
+
{how about giving us fans one of those infamous cryptic
+previews of the things we can expect in April and March....Please!!!!!}
+
+How do you like your crow?  Medium?  Well-done?  It can't be rare because
+crows are hardly ever rare.
+
+What's coming up?  Hmmm...the world is turned upside down, other people turn
+their backs on everything they think they believe in, a voice comes from the
+distant past, there's a change in fashion sense, there's romance (intended
+and unintended), heroics, the return (as it were) of Babylon 4, revelations,
+revolutions, treaties and a whole lotta gunfire.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/10.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/10.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Frankly, You Amaze Me (96-03-03 01:33:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Frankly, You Amaze Me

+96-03-03 01:33:44
+
"...you're doing the same thing without the pain of two "bad" records."
+
+Hrmmm...I dunno about that.  There are a number of things I've done in the
+course of learning my craft that I wouldn't necessarily want to put back on
+the air just now.  It's like the first time you learn carpentry; eventually
+you can make swell stuff, but you know that hidden in the other room is the
+napkin holder you made where the angles don't come together, the glue is
+visible, the dowels don't quite fit properly....
+
+Any form of art is trial and error.  You make the same mistake 999 times, so
+the 1,000th time you don't make that mistake anymore.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/100.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/100.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS - Voices of Authority (96-03-21 03:28:45)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS - Voices of Authority

+96-03-21 03:28:45
+
{What did the Walkers say about the Vorlons}
+
+Well, this isn't a *literal* translation, because some words don't translate,
+but the *sense* of the sentence would be "the vorlons can kiss my ____."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/101.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/101.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Dawn of third age (96-03-21 03:29:39)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Dawn of third age

+96-03-21 03:29:39
+
The dawning of the third age really happens over the course of the B5 saga.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/102.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/102.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 Cast in the UK (96-03-21 03:31:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 Cast in the UK

+96-03-21 03:31:24
+
I don't think the overseas audience numbers will overly affect the decision
+either way; studios tend to look at domestic as the primary market, and
+everything else as ancillary, despite the fact that we are now a global
+electronic community.
+
+I think a few of the cast will hang about the UK for a bit while they're over
+for the cons; in general, many of our cast and crew hang out together and do
+things while on vacation...they like each other, and getting them apart is
+tough.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/103.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/103.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Tom Baker (96-03-21 03:31:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Tom Baker

+96-03-21 03:31:47
+
I'd love nothing more than to use Tom Baker on the show at some point.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/104.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/104.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+protecting your work (96-03-21 03:32:45)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
protecting your work

+96-03-21 03:32:45
+
No, there's not much point to copyrighting the work; if you're really
+concerned, you can always register it with the Writers Guild, but frankly,
+stealing is not as common as one might think.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/105.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/105.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Shadow Wars (96-03-21 03:34:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The Shadow Wars

+96-03-21 03:34:07
+
No, the whole point of a mystery done *right* is that some folks won't ever
+figure it out, a majority of them will have some vague ideas, and some *will*
+figure it out.  That's the only outcome -- a bell-shaped curve -- if you're
+playing fair with the audience.  The clues have to be out there, and if they
+are, some will notice.  If nobody gets it, you didn't play fair.  This was
+one of the lessons I learned working on MURDER, SHE WROTE.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/106.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/106.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+bad copies of b5 (96-03-21 03:35:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
bad copies of b5

+96-03-21 03:35:35
+
I have no idea, unless when the tape was duped en masse, they just got a bad
+copy and nobody QC'd it to find out.  But 90% of all stations pick up the
+downlink, so this shouldn't be a problem.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/107.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/107.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Black uniform clues/hints (96-03-21 03:35:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Black uniform clues/hints

+96-03-21 03:35:58
+
No, the black uniform you've seen here and there isn't a Psi Cop uniform.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/108.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/108.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Apologies are in order... (96-03-21 03:38:22)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Apologies are in order...

+96-03-21 03:38:22
+
Every line an actor speaks is written down in a script; the actor's task is
+to find the character in that, and breathe life into it via the performance.
+So when someone asks, "who creates the character?" one can say the writer
+creates, and the actor interprets...but at the same time, that really isn't
+indicative of the vast contribution brought by the performer.  Londo in the
+hands of any other actor but Peter wouldn't be *Londo*.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/109.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/109.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Broken Limbs... (96-03-21 03:44:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
JMS: Broken Limbs...

+96-03-21 03:44:09
+
Oddly enough, Jerry's broken arm tied *beautifully* into something that had
+happened in the course of the episode we were filming, so all it took was a
+line or two to sell it.
+
+The funny thing is...in the very next episode after the incident, there was a
+line in the script I'd written *weeks* earlier, and it freaked everybody
+out...when Garibaldi asks someone to do something, and the person responds,
+"What, you've got a broken arm or something?"  At first some people thought
+I'd put it in there to pink Jerry, but it'd been there the whole time.  
+
+Similarly, in the Claudia incident, there was a line (cut for time) where
+Sheridan says talking to the Drazi is like trying to talk to your right
+foot...and Ivanova replies "I'll have you know I have a sublime relationship
+with my right foot."  Yep, the next day...that's the foot she broke.
+
+Just recently, I was trying to explain time travel to one of the actors.  I
+used the analogy, over lunch, "Suppose you finished eating your chicken here,
+then got sick as a dog a few hours later, then got in a time machine to go
+back in time and warn yourself not to eat the chicken."  Well, a few hours
+after that...the actor got sick as a dog from the chicken.
+
+I have been asked, expressly, not to make any further mention of actors' body
+parts in scripts....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/11.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/11.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/11.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Space Potatoes? (96-03-03 01:34:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
Space Potatoes?

+96-03-03 01:34:29
+
The ship was hidden there to avoid it being destroyed during the war.  May or
+may not see General Franklin again anytime soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/110.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/110.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Game Time (96-03-21 03:44:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
JMS: Game Time

+96-03-21 03:44:44
+
No, nobody's approached us about an Ivanova-based game, but it's a great
+idea.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/111.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/111.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/111.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Mr. Morden (96-03-21 03:45:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Mr. Morden

+96-03-21 03:45:32
+
{Are Morden and his associates equals?}
+
+Well, he may sometimes *think* of his associates as equals...and my cat
+thinks he actually owns this house....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/112.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/112.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/112.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Shadows ships & bein (96-03-21 03:45:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
JMS: Shadows ships & bein

+96-03-21 03:45:58
+
You can see one of the shadows in the main titles; not too much like their
+ships.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/113.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/113.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/113.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Fan Club (96-03-21 03:47:04)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Fan Club

+96-03-21 03:47:04
+
We have an address for the fan club, but haven't finalized details of price
+and material yet.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/114.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/114.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/114.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+jms: derivation of word a (96-03-21 03:48:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
jms: derivation of word a

+96-03-21 03:48:10
+
An arc is simply a geometry; it starts at an angle, goes up, and then comes
+down, like the arc of a flare fired by a flare gun.  Similarly, a story has
+its own dramatic arc.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/115.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/115.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Any Comment on Hypernauts (96-03-21 03:49:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Any Comment on Hypernauts

+96-03-21 03:49:10
+
No, I had nothing to do with Hypernauts beyond recommending Christy; it's
+entirely their work.  It's good to see our methods and techniques used to
+bring more SF shows around; that was what we were hoping for.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/116.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/116.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: complex show (96-03-21 03:50:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: complex show

+96-03-21 03:50:49
+
Thanks.  I think you'll warm to Marcus as we go deeper in; he's a great
+character, and Jason does a terrific job of it.  
+
+Not backing away from anything re: Ivanova's diversity...we clarify something
+about her relationship with Talia very soon, in fact.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/117.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/117.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/117.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Psi Corps (96-03-21 03:51:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
The Psi Corps

+96-03-21 03:51:40
+
The initial tests can indicate if the teep is a P1 to P12, they don't
+generally start at the same level.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/118.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/118.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Open letter to JMS (96-03-21 03:52:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Open letter to JMS

+96-03-21 03:52:24
+
Fired?  I'm surprised you let him live.
+
+Next time....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/119.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/119.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/119.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Question going Waaay Back (96-03-21 03:53:55)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Question going Waaay Back

+96-03-21 03:53:55
+
They could've punched their way out, but been even less able to get a direct
+location in real space because their new position, unpredictable, could be
+hundreds of light years away, and they couldn't pinpoint exactly where they
+are.  They could then jump back, and because of the math, gotten even further
+lost.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/12.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/12.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/12.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS- And The Rock Cried (96-03-03 01:35:15)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS- And The Rock Cried

+96-03-03 01:35:15
+
"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" is a quote from the Bible, from a
+passage also used in various gospel songs.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/120.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/120.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Casting Question (96-03-21 03:54:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Casting Question

+96-03-21 03:54:23
+
I honestly don't remember what happened with that, or even if we considered
+him.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/121.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/121.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Who are you/What do you w (96-03-21 03:55:34)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Who are you/What do you w

+96-03-21 03:55:34
+
You miss the point.  It's not that there's a *correct* answer, but that
+there's an *informed* answer.  If you decide what you want, before you know
+who you are, you're likely to get something that will destroy you; if you
+know who you are, you can then ask for something that will be of greater use
+to you.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/122.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/122.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Vir's family (96-03-21 03:56:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Vir's family

+96-03-21 03:56:30
+
I can, but I'd rather show it; you'll find out a lot more about Vir and
+family relations in "Sic Transit Vir" in mid-april.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/123.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/123.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/123.html
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+An Open Letter to JMS (96-03-21 18:45:15)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
An Open Letter to JMS

+96-03-21 18:45:15
+
Good points.  I'd point you, incidentally, to an essay by Mark Twain on, I
+believe, the Boxer rebellion, in which he dissects the phrase "my country
+right or wrong," the earliest use I've ever seen of that phrase.  Also A
+Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, which has some very serious
+commentary on what *is* patriotism, what what *is* the Nation?
+
+Uncritical jingoism is as inherently unpatriotic as uncritical attacks.  It's
+important to see what a goverment does that is good, by our ability to
+perceive the good, and support it...and to find what is in need of redress,
+and fix it.  But either way, we have to be honest about what we see, and ask
+ourselves if it's right.  Even if we come back toward saying yes, it *is*
+right, at least we've thought about it, and now have reasons and objective
+criteria for *why* it's right.  Or why it's wrong.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/124.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/124.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+4th Season Status (96-03-21 18:46:21)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
4th Season Status

+96-03-21 18:46:21
+
What gives is that it's a long process, always is, every year.  We'll know
+for sure when they finally tell us.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/125.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/125.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/125.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:  Contest  (96-03-21 18:47:55)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:  Contest 

+96-03-21 18:47:55
+
I believe Canada is considered part of foreign distribution; I don't know the
+figures on income from foreign runs, 'cause by the time any of that info gets
+to us, it's been...fixed...in the books to keep any possible profit from
+showing, so I have no real idea.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/126.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/126.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/126.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Slade?!?!?!?!? (96-03-21 18:48:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Slade?!?!?!?!?

+96-03-21 18:48:52
+
Yeah, I confess I enjoy Slade quite a bit; have most of their CDs.  Wish they
+had more currency here in the US.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/127.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/127.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/127.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hey! (96-03-22 03:50:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hey!

+96-03-22 03:50:10
+
Songu, I answered something like 16 or 20 questions in a row; it's not
+possible for me to answer every single question or I'll never get the show
+made.  I'm not avoiding anyone's questions, and don't yell "HEY!" if I don't.
+It's rude.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/128.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/128.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/128.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Novels & Comics (96-03-22 03:52:33)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Novels & Comics

+96-03-22 03:52:33
+
I'm involved in the comics and novels, but the problem with the novels is
+that I get only a few days to review the manuscript before it has to go back,
+and given everything else I'm doing, sometimes I miss things.  I try to keep
+it as close to the show as I can, but there are always going to be glitches
+when you let it out of your direct supervision and into the hands of others.
+
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/129.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/129.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/129.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+VQT News (96-03-25 02:52:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
VQT News

+96-03-25 02:52:47
+
I just heard this over on CIS, and I'm trying to verify it before saying it
+officially, but it appears that Viewers for Quality Television has taken the
+next step and actually *endorsed* BABYLON 5, which is a very important thing
+for us.  If correct, this is great news.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/13.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/13.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/13.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Boom Today? (96-03-03 01:35:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Boom Today?

+96-03-03 01:35:47
+
Boom April 3rd.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/130.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/130.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/130.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:  G'Kar's Writing (96-03-23 04:19:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:  G'Kar's Writing

+96-03-23 04:19:16
+
Sometimes things slip through; the on-screen writing was done at Foundation,
+since we don't have that capability, and they did it left to right.  I wasn't
+able to be on set at the moment we shot that to check (and, likely, wouldn't
+have been able to change it if I had been there, since we had to go and it
+takes time to re-do that stuff).  Normally, however, Narns write right to
+left.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/131.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/131.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/131.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+More silly questions (96-03-23 04:20:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
More silly questions

+96-03-23 04:20:08
+
I think both those questions are better answered in the series than blown off
+here.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/132.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/132.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/132.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+New B5 book (96-03-23 04:20:57)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New B5 book

+96-03-23 04:20:57
+
Yeah, initially Dell kept going for one-word titles, and I generally don't
+like that, so I told them to have the writers come up with more interesting
+titles.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/133.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/133.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/133.html
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:  Kabalistic themes (96-03-25 02:50:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:  Kabalistic themes

+96-03-25 02:50:26
+
Thanks.  The job of the show is to ask questions and pose scenarios for
+discussion, while at the same time entertaining, which is our primary
+responsibility.  
+
+I wouldn't say there's any one dominant area here, whether Kabalistic or
+strictly Judaeo/Christian or otherwise...it's a hodgepodge of elements.  You
+can find historical, religious, social and political echoes to a lot of
+things.  In the area you mentioned, there's bits and pieces of the two areas
+you singled out, plus buddhism, moslemism, zoroastrianism, Zen, catholicism,
+you name it, because it helps to create an authentic feel to the alien
+cultures and other aspects of the show.  Similarly, there are aspects of WW
+2, WW 1, Korea, Vietnam, JFK...I try to grab from lots of different areas so
+that it avoids being about The One Thing and becomes a synthesis that is
+about *us* in all our various permutations.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/134.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/134.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/134.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Mumy on Sci-Fi Buzz (96-03-26 16:37:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Mumy on Sci-Fi Buzz

+96-03-26 16:37:56
+
I believe the clip in question was from "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/135.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/135.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/135.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Lincoln (96-03-26 16:40:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
Lincoln

+96-03-26 16:40:35
+
"the last, best hope of Earth" was from Lincoln, yes.  We quoted it in
+"Points of Departure."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/136.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/136.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/136.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Pilots (96-03-26 16:42:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Pilots

+96-03-26 16:42:16
+
The story just kinda shifted away from that for a while; I try not to stay
+too long with any one thread.  They sorta come in waves; as with this season,
+we emphasized Earth stuff for the first 11 or so episodes; then we slide back
+into the Centauri stuff, then the Minbari, then the Narn.  Aspects of the
+show rise and fall in prominence as needed for the story.  We'll get back to
+the pilots in the fullness of time.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/137.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/137.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+West/East End of London (96-03-26 16:46:39)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
West/East End of London

+96-03-26 16:46:39
+
What I'd said, and maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear, but my sense was that I
+wasn't going to change it *prior to the first US airing.*  I found out about
+the mistake -- it was a typo, I knew the difference, I just became
+momentarily stupid and wrote west when I meant to type east -- after the show
+aired in the UK, and had a couple of months in which I could've chosen to
+make the change.  But I was concerned that the dub wouldn't have the same
+power as the original performance, so I was willing to let it go until after
+it aired, so it would've had that impact, then make the change later.
+Happily, the loop came out *very* well, so it worked out.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Odd Questions (96-03-26 16:48:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Odd Questions

+96-03-26 16:48:44
+
The Ranger colony was financially supported by the Minbari; the Drazi allowed
+them to use one of their colony worlds as a base.
+
+If humans are special, and in some measure we are or we wouldn't be in the
+story, I should think it's more for what we *do* than what we *are*.  There
+is something very unique about us which comes in handily in the series.
+Delenn's already pointed this out.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/139.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/139.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Ask not. (96-03-26 16:52:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Ask not.

+96-03-26 16:52:47
+
Phil: thanks.  A wonderful and very encouraging analysis.  Sometimes I forget
+how much we're really packing into this show until I see it broken down like
+that.  Then suddenly I'm tired...but vastly pleased.
+
+As for Trent, we still plan to do that story at some point.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/14.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/14.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Actors (96-03-03 01:36:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Actors

+96-03-03 01:36:50
+
I'm directly involved in casting; all cast, guest and regular, must be
+approved through my office.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/140.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/140.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Who are you/Whaddya want (96-03-26 16:56:42)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Who are you/Whaddya want

+96-03-26 16:56:42
+
Exactly.  I think the process of transcending is much more interesting than
+*having* transcended.  The struggle is what's dramatic.  
+
+Re: n'grath...while that didn't work as well as I'd've liked, I'm still
+looking to explore some alternate ways of showing alien (non-humanoid) life
+forms.  We'll get there.
+
+BTW, I note that you use semi-colons correctly in your messages...it's a tiny
+thing, but it's the sort of thing rarely done anymore; the semi-colon seems
+to have become a form of vestigal punctuation.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/141.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/141.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+dolls (96-03-26 16:58:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
dolls

+96-03-26 16:58:35
+
If you've got a petition, then a place like Playmates, which tends to make
+action figure license deals, would be a good place to start.
+
+Otherwise, there aren't any character dolls at the time; eventually we'll get
+to it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/142.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/142.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Renewal Process (96-03-26 17:10:05)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Renewal Process

+96-03-26 17:10:05
+
The renewal process for B5 is a little different than the norm, due to the
+PTEN structure.  It works in two parts, as I understand it.  (If I'm
+incorrect on any of this, I hope that any of the onlooking WB folks will set
+me straight.)
+
+Part one comes from the stations.  Each market looks at the show, and how
+it's doing in their area, which is a combination of ratings and demographics,
+and sometimes audience support for a show, though the first two always take
+precedence over the third.  They then decide whether or not to offer to take
+the show for another season.
+
+Part two comes from WB and the national advertisers.  As the stations line up
+yea or nay, you keep a running tally of how *many* stations, when they want
+to air it, and if they want to do a double run or not.  You need a certain
+percentage of major markets, national coverage, to get national sponsors; and
+you need to guarantee them a certain number of viewers.  Best if you can
+deliver a certain *kind* of viewer, the kind advertisers look for.
+
+The last part of WB's decision is if the show is profitable for the company
+given all of these elements.  (WB gets the advertising money for national
+spots in general, while local stations can sell other spots for local
+sponsors, generating their income.)  Unlike most TV shows, which can run at a
+deficit for a number of years, on the theory that they'll make it up in
+long-term syndication, our show and Kung Fu have to show a profit *from the
+word go*.  So the bear is much closer to us at all times.
+
+The problem that all syndicated shows are currently running into is that of
+diminishing berths for their programs.  Most communities have, at most, 1 or
+2 local independent stations.  When B5 went on the air, these were all
+available to us.  Since then, the Warners Network and UPN have come into
+existence, with contractual requirements mandating x-hours per week for their
+programs.  And Fox stations have grown, expanded their range of programming.
+So now you find that there are fewer and fewer available timeslots for
+syndicated shows not affiliated with one of these weblets.  A number of new
+syndicated shows announced recently have been pulled for the simple reason
+that they can't find enough stations that have available slots.
+
+It's a noose around our neck that we're definitely aware of, particularly
+given the importance of double runs for the national sponsors, which is even
+*more* difficult given the current glut of programs and the few slots
+remaining.  The game is trying to finish the story and get out before the
+noose closes around our neck.  
+
+It's going to be tight....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/143.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/143.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Which Episode does (96-03-27 04:13:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Which Episode does

+96-03-27 04:13:37
+
I'll tell you that *after* the episode airs...if I tell you before, you'll be
+looking for it, and prepared for it, rather than being surprised.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/144.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/144.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Renewal/alternatives (96-03-27 04:15:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Renewal/alternatives

+96-03-27 04:15:35
+
I think the WB net would be very doubtful, since they're trying to create
+their own identity as a network, and taking a syndicated show would likely
+work against that; UPN is Paramount and I think they'd cut off their
+own...er...noses before taking on B5, given our relative histories.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/145.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/145.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Five MILES long?! (96-03-27 04:17:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Five MILES long?!

+96-03-27 04:17:50
+
Well, I suppose he could've said six-point-one kilometers (or whatever the
+figure would be, I'm too tired and it's too late in the evening to do the
+math), but it'd kinda spoil the flow of the sentence; and if it's total
+length works out to five miles, give or take a bit, that seems the way to go.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/146.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/146.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Minbari rings (96-03-27 04:18:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Minbari rings

+96-03-27 04:18:16
+
{whatever happened to the Minbari Rings Delenn used in
+the pilot?}
+
+The rings are still there; we just haven't yet had cause to use them.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/147.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/147.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Why Io? (96-03-27 04:20:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Why Io?

+96-03-27 04:20:09
+
{Why is there a base and jumpgate on Io.}
+
+Yes, this is the primary jumpgate for Earth.  It's positioned at Io (most of
+the base is actually in orbit outside Io, some of it on the surface, as we
+showed in "Chrysalis") to keep Earth a bit safer by removing it some
+distance, and because putting it near the huge energy field of Jupiter makes
+it more difficult for weapons to target it from a distance.  It's mainly a
+tactical decision.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/148.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/148.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Renewal & Howard Stern (96-03-29 00:55:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Renewal & Howard Stern

+96-03-29 00:55:27
+
Howard, who is a big fan of the show, spoke a bit out of turn, and WB has
+since been in contact with him about it; he'll correct the statement soon,
+I'm told.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/149.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/149.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+*Where* Jms Learned *?* (96-03-29 00:57:13)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
*Where* Jms Learned *?*

+96-03-29 00:57:13
+
I learned proper use of the * at a Shao-lin monastary after years of silent
+meditation upon a drawing of * set before me on a wall.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/15.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/15.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: PONR Questions (Spoi (96-03-03 01:38:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: PONR Questions (Spoi

+96-03-03 01:38:23
+
If I were to answer any of these questions, which will be answered in the
+very next batch of new episodes...well, there wouldn't be much point in
+showing them...
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/150.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/150.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/150.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 Fan Club and Newslette (96-03-29 00:57:57)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Fan Club and Newslette

+96-03-29 00:57:57
+
Hang tight, we'll get out the word on this soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/151.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/151.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Morden and Bester (96-03-29 00:58:38)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Morden and Bester

+96-03-29 00:58:38
+
That would be telling, wouldn't it?
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/152.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/152.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Continue (96-03-29 00:59:46)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Continue

+96-03-29 00:59:46
+
Just noticed the new folder after answering stuff here; can you either leave
+it for a bit or move the stuff over?
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/153.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/153.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS-YOUR GREAT (96-03-29 01:01:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS-YOUR GREAT

+96-03-29 01:01:03
+
{Good luck with the future sucess of the show}
+
+Thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/154.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/154.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/154.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 micro-machines/new & o (96-03-29 01:00:42)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 micro-machines/new & o

+96-03-29 01:00:42
+
I have no idea what the deal is here on this; I think there may be an error
+somewhere, but will try and find out.  And thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/155.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/155.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/155.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Sinclair is the First... (96-03-29 01:01:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Sinclair is the First...

+96-03-29 01:01:47
+
"Changes are coming; Sinclair was the first, there will be others."  He was
+referring to more changes coming.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/156.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/156.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/156.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS - another fan/questio (96-03-29 01:03:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS - another fan/questio

+96-03-29 01:03:07
+
The thing about Ivanova, as noted here and there in the show, is that while
+she was born in the Russian Consortium, she was raised mainly abroad, going
+from school to school as her mother kept her one step ahead of the Psi Corps.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/157.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/157.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Observations (96-03-29 01:05:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Observations

+96-03-29 01:05:10
+
Thanks...and yes, soldiers are soldiers, female or male.  I see no reason,
+barring some small differences in upper body strength, which can be
+compensated for, to make female characters any less active physically than
+male characters.  
+
+Frankly, in watching the Tyson/Bruno match on Showtime the other night, the
+best fight of the whole evening was the pre-fight with the two femal boxers
+who went the distance and showed incredible heart and determination.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/158.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Line from AtSFoS? (96-03-29 01:06:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Line from AtSFoS?

+96-03-29 01:06:16
+
Actually, Sinclair says "I know you" in the present, as Delenn comes toward
+him, in referring to his remembering seeing her on the ship.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/159.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/159.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Keep up the RAD Work! (96-03-29 16:30:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Keep up the RAD Work!

+96-03-29 16:30:02
+
Thanks.  The elements you cite are the reasons why it took us 5 years to get
+this thing on the air; it's something a bit different, for the US at least.
+We could've sold it a lot faster, and easier, if we'd taken some different
+approaches -- dumbed it down a little, dropped the ongoing story, made it a
+bit less ambitious -- but then it wouldn't be the story I wanted to tell.
+
+And yes, the bits and pieces add up, and gain further weight by seeing how
+they relate to different parts of the story.  It's a very careful, elegant
+little dance which I think will be seen even more clearly once we go to daily
+syndication.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+LuvSerfie  (96-03-03 01:20:42)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
LuvSerfie 

+96-03-03 01:20:42
+
Wow...I've never seen a tactical nuke used in battlefield combat before....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/160.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/160.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 is The One (96-03-29 16:31:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 is The One

+96-03-29 16:31:36
+
James: good suggestions.  One of the points of B5 is to encourage discussion
+about these areas, to be informed, to lead the examined life.  If we can add
+some impetus to read, to explore myth and history and culture, then the
+effort of making the show has been worthwhile.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/161.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/161.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+bother?? (96-03-29 16:33:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
bother??

+96-03-29 16:33:50
+
If they're the music clips off Franke's BBS, as far as I know that's fine,
+because they were made available as samples as part of his license.  Other
+sound clips...I can't endorse it, because past I think 20 seconds you run
+into legal problems.  (Actually, it's not within my authority to "endorse"
+much of anything, it's WB's copyright, I can only offer suggestions or
+guidance.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+conventions (96-03-29 16:35:41)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
conventions

+96-03-29 16:35:41
+
The San Francisco con is at the Cathedral Hill Hotel; check the B5 fan events
+folder here in this area for more info.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/163.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/163.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+conventions (96-03-29 16:36:28)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
conventions

+96-03-29 16:36:28
+
That's the Worldcon; it's the biggest convention in the world every year.  I
+don't have the info at hand, but I'm sure it's readily available.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/164.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/164.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Mood change or what? (96-03-29 16:38:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Mood change or what?

+96-03-29 16:38:18
+
The short version of the answer, as yes, I've answered this a lot: it was
+done primarily for story reasons.  I discussed the idea with Michael, to
+accommodate some changes I wanted to make to the story, he at the same time
+had some other options he wanted to pursue...so we parted ways very amicably,
+on the theory that at some point we'd link up again for a bit.  And we have,
+in this year's two parter.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/165.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/165.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 Action Figures or movi (96-03-29 16:39:21)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Action Figures or movi

+96-03-29 16:39:21
+
No immediate plans for action figures; WB has broached the idea of a movie,
+but so far it's just an idle speculation sort of thing.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/166.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/166.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Question about Kosh & She (96-03-29 16:40:05)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Question about Kosh & She

+96-03-29 16:40:05
+
{What happened with Kosh teaching Sheridan to fight the Shadows?}
+
+There's been some follow-up, but not a lot, and Kosh has kind of dropped the
+ball on some of this.  That will have to be dealt with.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/167.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/167.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+G'Quon and Valen (96-03-30 03:32:57)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
G'Quon and Valen

+96-03-30 03:32:57
+
Valen and G'Quan were not the same person.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/168.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/168.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+It's Pat (96-03-30 03:33:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
It's Pat

+96-03-30 03:33:47
+
I have no idea what this refers to, and suspect strongly that you're thinking
+of someone else.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/169.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/169.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B-5's survival (96-03-30 03:35:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B-5's survival

+96-03-30 03:35:32
+
It's always chancy on every show as you come to renewal time; the added
+problem here is that the marketplace is fast running out of slots for
+syndicated shows due to the committed time slots for WBN, UPN, Fox and
+others.  So there are a lot of factors coming at us from all sides, which
+didn't exist when we first went on the air, but we remain cautiously
+optimistic.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/17.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/17.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Any cons? (96-03-04 05:30:04)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Any cons?

+96-03-04 05:30:04
+
Yes, I'll be at the Chicago Comic Con in June in neighboring Rosedale.
+
+Am tentatively planning to be at the Syndi-Con convention in San Francisco
+over the weekend of April 12-14.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/170.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/170.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Season #1 (96-03-30 03:36:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season #1

+96-03-30 03:36:40
+
I suggest you go to the opening menu here in the B5 area, for the www
+jumpgate; then go to the Lurker's Guide, which has info on every episode of
+the series to date, well presented.  That should bring you up to speed on
+year one, since they don't plan on rerunning anything from year one until
+we've finished our run.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/171.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/171.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Narn battlecruisers (96-03-30 03:37:13)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Narn battlecruisers

+96-03-30 03:37:13
+
{Why are Narn warships painted in such a manner?}
+
+It's just their culture's idea of a good paint job on a warship.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/172.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/172.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Kosh Assassination (96-03-30 03:38:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: Kosh Assassination

+96-03-30 03:38:50
+
No, it was covered in the pilot: the assassin was a member of a radical
+military caste clan which was against Minbari involvement in B5, and figured
+they'd sabotage the whole thing from within.
+
+jms
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/18.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/18.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Inquisitor quotes (96-03-04 05:28:34)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Inquisitor quotes

+96-03-04 05:28:34
+
Thanks.  The Inquisitor was a great episode to write, and Wayne did a killer
+job with it (so to speak).  That one episode has received more mail than most
+others, particularly from those in the religious community, as well as at
+universities, crisis centers, you name it.  Something there seemed to strike
+a chord.
+
+It's easy in an SF show to cut to the EFX and let it rock; to me, the
+challenge is what's shown in those scenes: two people, locked in a room, no
+(or few) EFX, no car chases, not even much of a set...with explosions of
+dialogue and character.  Ah loves it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/19.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/19.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Messages from Earth (96-03-04 05:22:45)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Messages from Earth

+96-03-04 05:22:45
+
Allow me to disagree with you.  Re: "The Nine Billion Names of God," the
+whole purpose of that story had nothing to do with alien contact; it had to
+do with gettting all the earthbound names of God into a computer, so they
+could create the end of the world.  The monks are on B5 in an attempt at
+studying the different religions out there for the purpose of better
+understanding...or more succinctly, comparitive religious studies, which long
+predate Clarke by, oh, about 500 years.
+
+The buried shadow vessel was put there to hide it from destruction.  Are you
+suggesting that every time someone buries something alien it's 2001?  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/2.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/2.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Lyta Alexander (96-03-01 03:24:22)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Lyta Alexander

+96-03-01 03:24:22
+
{I read somewhere that Lyta is deaf.}
+
+No, the novelist didn't blow it, Joe blew it, because in proofreading the
+manuscript, Joe missed that line somehow, and didn't catch it.  It's my job
+to catch these things.  (Just spent a whole week going over the A-Z of
+Babylon 5 coming out from Boxtree Books in the UK to keep it as accurate as
+possible.)
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/20.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/20.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+praise for PoNR (96-03-04 05:25:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
praise for PoNR

+96-03-04 05:25:08
+
Tiger: thanks.  All I can say is that when you see "Severed Dreams," I think
+you'll find it was worth the wait.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/21.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/21.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Syndicated ratings: 2/11/ (96-03-04 05:19:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Syndicated ratings: 2/11/

+96-03-04 05:19:23
+
There are usually anywhere from 250 to 275 or more syndicated shows every
+week; at #43 or 38 out of that, we're in the top 15-20%.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/22.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/22.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Trek vs. B5 on AOL part 2 (96-03-04 05:34:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Trek vs. B5 on AOL part 2

+96-03-04 05:34:23
+
Jeez...I'm surprised one of them didn't write "Go back to russia where you
+came from!"  All I can offer is that that reaction is not typical of all ST
+fans, only the noisy minority who show up at cons in Spock ears and make the
+majority of open-minded, mature ST fans shake their heads in dismay.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/23.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/23.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+favorite episode (96-03-04 05:35:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
favorite episode

+96-03-04 05:35:29
+
The episode you cite was "The Geometry of Shadows."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/24.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/24.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Delenn in PoNR (96-03-07 03:04:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Delenn in PoNR

+96-03-07 03:04:26
+
Delenn was taking care of some business on Minbar.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/25.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/25.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Great episodes (96-03-07 03:04:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Great episodes

+96-03-07 03:04:58
+
Darla: thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/26.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/26.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hello??????? (96-03-07 03:05:45)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hello???????

+96-03-07 03:05:45
+
The info came from the Vorlons, and from the last war the Minbari fought
+against them.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/27.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/27.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Why didn't we see the fig (96-03-07 03:07:41)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Why didn't we see the fig

+96-03-07 03:07:41
+
We could've easily played the EFX full-screen, as WB used them in the promos,
+after all.  But it's a slow tease, a reveal.  You do it big in Messages, hold
+it back just a bit, at arm's length, in PoNR, then bring it all REAL close
+again in the next episode.  By putting it at some remove in PoNR, it makes
+the viewer almost like one of those in the Zocalo, fighting for a better
+look, stranded out far away, trying to figure out what's going on.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/28.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/28.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Religion on B5 (96-03-07 03:11:28)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Religion on B5

+96-03-07 03:11:28
+
We hope to have Harlan's script for next season.
+
+"I hope that perhaps you have done some searching in areas of your faith as a
+result of that episode."
+
+No.  Don't see any reason to do so.  I wasn't *exposed* to that episode, I
+*wrote* it, the same way I'd write a convincing show about Minbari...I don't
+have to believe they exist to write convincingly about them.
+
+I keep being astounded that others are astounded that an atheist can write
+well about religion without being religious.  Writing is writing.  Characters
+is characters.  Either you're honest as a writer, or you ain't; either you're
+telling a story, or you're using the medium for propaganda.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/29.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/29.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:LOTR and the Future (96-03-07 03:12:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS:LOTR and the Future

+96-03-07 03:12:27
+
There's a lot more here than anything like LoTR; the show uses mythic
+archetypes, so you tend to see whichever myth-cycle you're most familiar
+with.
+
+And we do certainly hope to get this story finished, yes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/3.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/3.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Point of No Return - Spoi (96-03-03 01:42:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
Point of No Return - Spoi

+96-03-03 01:42:03
+
Wendy: thanks.  We do try....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Corwin (96-03-07 03:13:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
Corwin

+96-03-07 03:13:43
+
Thanks.  Corwin's question is really one that hits a lot; you see things
+starting to fly apart, but you keep thinking it's gonna work out..then it all
+goes to hell, and you're standing there trying to figure out how it all
+slipped away.  It's a very innocent, yet universal question.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/31.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/31.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Inquiries from the Rim (96-03-07 03:15:05)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Inquiries from the Rim

+96-03-07 03:15:05
+
I'd love to see an Aggy micromachine.  As for the rest...why would I tell you
+what each of her prophecies means, thus defeating the surprise or the impact
+when they're shown?  That would be absolutely self-defeating.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/32.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/32.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ISN's role (96-03-07 03:15:39)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
ISN's role

+96-03-07 03:15:39
+
Yes, that's a very good question.  It'll be answered in *the very next new
+episode*, in fact.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/33.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/33.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 on TNT? (96-03-07 03:16:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 on TNT?

+96-03-07 03:16:18
+
TNT starts rerunning the show in 1998.  It doesn't guarantee our renewal,
+however.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/34.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/34.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Equality on B5 (96-03-07 03:21:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Equality on B5

+96-03-07 03:21:50
+
Cristine: thanks.  For what it's worth, I have always admired/been attracted
+to strong, capable, intelligent and witty women.  I like independence of
+thought, and nothing delights me more than being surprised, or topped in a
+verbal exchange.  And I've seen some women police officers and soldiers who
+could clear out a bar without even breaking a sweat.  Several women friends
+of mine are very much into the martial arts.
+
+Wimmin iz peoples too.  I don't understand why some folks have such a hard
+time with that concept.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/35.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/35.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Narn Religion (96-03-07 03:24:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Narn Religion

+96-03-07 03:24:20
+
G'Quan was the greatest of the Narns, a prophet, a religious figure of great
+proportions; G'Lan was one of those second-tier types who showed up
+afterward.  (The comparable human analog would be if G'Quan -> Mohammed,
+G'Lan -> Angel.
+
+(And yes, I know I've crossed religious structures there.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/36.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/36.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Bad transliterations (96-03-07 03:25:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Bad transliterations

+96-03-07 03:25:37
+
Yes, and "sure" should be spelled "shoor."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/37.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/37.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Misunderstanding (96-03-07 03:26:04)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Misunderstanding

+96-03-07 03:26:04
+
Nope, we did San Diego ourselves.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/38.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/38.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/38.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Battles as Tales (96-03-07 03:26:46)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Battles as Tales

+96-03-07 03:26:46
+
The only comment I would have is, be patient a bit....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/39.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/39.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+marcus and the link (96-03-07 03:30:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
marcus and the link

+96-03-07 03:30:30
+
I just summoned up Marcus in my head.  Here's what he said: "Because I won't
+wear the bloody thing, that's why.  Bad enough you've got those pagers you
+wear in 1996, no privacy, no chance to get away, always at somebody's beck
+and call.  Why not just put a leash around your neck and get it over with?
+It'd be faster and a good deal more honest.  I'm down in the bar trying to be
+inconspicuous, dangerous characters on all sides, trying not to be
+noticed...and the link goes off, and I'm dead.  Or at minimum seriously
+thumped.  No, absolutely not.  You'll never get me to wear one of those."
+
+(This is btw the reason why I absolutely *refuse* to wear a pager myself.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/4.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/4.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hour 25 (96-03-03 01:22:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hour 25

+96-03-03 01:22:27
+
Ehh...I'm not really a radio personality kind of guy...still working on ANY
+kind of personality...and I don't know if I would have much of anything worth
+saying to a national audience.  So it's pretty much a moot point.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/40.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/40.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/40.html
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+New episodes (96-03-07 03:30:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New episodes

+96-03-07 03:30:58
+
April 3rd.
+
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/41.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/41.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Just Wondering (96-03-07 03:31:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Just Wondering

+96-03-07 03:31:23
+
The good guys *always* get whacked, at some point....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/42.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/42.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hi again, JMS, thanks & a (96-03-07 03:33:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hi again, JMS, thanks & a

+96-03-07 03:33:30
+
There are no immediate plans for Talia's return...but we haven't heard the
+last of that relationship, and the reference I promised is in the very next
+batch of new eps.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/43.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/43.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Names (96-03-07 03:39:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Names

+96-03-07 03:39:29
+
Actually, it's Clark, not Clarke, so that one's not a tribute; neither is
+Morden, though it has some of the sounds of Mordred and Mordor and other
+Murderous names.  I'd actually suggest that 90% of the names used have no
+other reference than their own identity.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/44.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/44.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Shadows/Vorlons (96-03-07 03:39:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Shadows/Vorlons

+96-03-07 03:39:50
+
{does Kosh merge with his ship? Aren't the Vorlon ship
+organic too?}
+
+Yes, but only in a manner of speaking.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/45.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/45.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+stuff (96-03-07 03:47:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
stuff

+96-03-07 03:47:35
+
"For I Am Become Death" was a working title; I finally decided that "Point of
+No Return" was a more apt title for the year.
+
+If one is being accurate in Eastern-European terms, it's pronounced
+strah-chin-ski; in general Americanized terms (which is what I go by), it's
+strah-zin-ski.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/46.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/46.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+click... *click*...  CLIC (96-03-07 03:50:55)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
click... *click*...  CLIC

+96-03-07 03:50:55
+
I was the Supervising Producer brought on under Executive Producer David
+Moessinger when "Walker, Texas Ranger" was first being produced for CBS.  I
+left in fairly short order to do B5, which had already been commissioned
+prior to doing Walker, but David asked for some help, and I never decline a
+friend.  Unfortunately, the studio was Cannon TV, which is not exactly known
+for its sterling rep, so after a while I was driven mad and ran screaming out
+into the night.  "WTR" was eventually transferred to a different, better
+studio.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/47.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/47.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/47.html
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Bad transliterations part (96-03-07 03:56:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Bad transliterations part

+96-03-07 03:56:53
+
Nope, still don't buy it.  How many versions have we seen of names in Vietnam
+or China in English?  Look at an atlas for China in the 1960s, and now.
+Notice that now X is used where once Ch was used.  (Chou becomes Xiou.)
+Technically, my name is pronounced strachinski, but it's got a czy in the
+middle of it.  
+
+There's also a difference between transLATION and transLITERATION.  The
+latter is often less accurate than the former.
+
+You may choose to take any linguistic position you choose; however, the
+language as it is used does not reconcile with that stance.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/48.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/48.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/48.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Misunderstanding (96-03-09 05:15:12)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Misunderstanding

+96-03-09 05:15:12
+
How big was the San Diego Nuke?  Big enough, and dirty enough, to make the
+area officially uninhabitable for a long time.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/49.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/49.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/49.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hi again, JMS, thanks & a (96-03-09 05:16:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hi again, JMS, thanks & a

+96-03-09 05:16:44
+
I can't send you a copy of the ep; but if you use the www jumpgate at the top
+of the B5 area here, it will take you to the Lurker's Guide at hyperion.com,
+and you'll find all you need there.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/5.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/5.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f98a5a56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/5.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Sick feeling (96-03-03 01:24:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Sick feeling

+96-03-03 01:24:30
+
Thanks.  We disturb, from time to time; other times we amuse, or inform.
+That's what TV should be for.  "Be sand, not oil, in the machinery of the
+world," as someone said.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/50.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/50.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/50.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+No, no! Don't touch...ACK (96-03-09 05:18:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
No, no! Don't touch...ACK

+96-03-09 05:18:09
+
I think you're misremembering; Bester nudged up his right sleeve with his
+left hand and held it out; Franklin stuck the needle in.  I don't believe he
+held his hand (which was gloved in any event).
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/51.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/51.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To:  JMS (96-03-09 05:19:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
To:  JMS

+96-03-09 05:19:56
+
The syndicated market is changing so much I don't think it'd be feasible in
+anothr year or two.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/52.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/52.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c0e7c73b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/52.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Harlan Ellison (96-03-09 05:20:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Harlan Ellison

+96-03-09 05:20:50
+
Harlan is generally quite jovial and funny in person; but he feels outrage
+deeply when it takes place, and isn't afraid to do a deserved Jeremiad when
+necessary....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/53.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/53.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Lennier (mis)information? (96-03-09 05:22:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Lennier (mis)information?

+96-03-09 05:22:35
+
I have no idea where that came from; not from me (re: Lennier).  As for
+Sinclair, I think you'll get what you're asking for in the two-parter.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/54.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/54.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/54.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To: JMS Re: Renewal? (96-03-09 05:24:33)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
To: JMS Re: Renewal?

+96-03-09 05:24:33
+
I won't know until April/May.  The main issue, I think, is going to be the
+second-runs in most markets.  It wasn't a problem the first two years, but
+now with so much new syndicated product on the market, the logical and
+understandable reaction is, "Why should I rerun an episode of one show when I
+can put on a *new* episode of *another* show and make *more money*?"  But the
+advertising is sold based on double-runs in some cases, or at least a certain
+percentage of double runs.  So we'll have to see.  I am, for now, cautiously
+optimistic.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/55.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/55.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..626a55a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/55.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Questions, Schmestions! (96-03-09 05:25:22)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Questions, Schmestions!

+96-03-09 05:25:22
+
B5 orbits Epsilon Eridani.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/56.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/56.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ba5d5f7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/56.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Just Thinking (96-03-09 05:26:59)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Just Thinking

+96-03-09 05:26:59
+
"Since Warner Brothers does not seem to have an understanding of what they
+have on their hands,   (Don't they realize the cash potential they have?!)
+Would you object to us, (loyal following) writing to them (Snail or E-Mail)
+and expressing more promotions or recognition be given the show?   If so, can
+you publish the CEO's name and address here? (preferably, E-Mail address)"
+
+That would be Robert Daly, at WB in New York; don't have his address at hand.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Att'n JMS:  The Equalizer (96-03-09 05:28:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Att'n JMS:  The Equalizer

+96-03-09 05:28:47
+
I enjoyed the Equalizer, though I didn't see all the episodes, and it wasn't
+anywhere in my head when I was coming up with the show.  
+
+The key to *any* good character is to make them real.  You have to invest a
+lot of yourself into that process, differentiating how they move, walk, talk,
+think, believe.  It's a lot of work, but the result is worth it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/58.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/58.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Other aliens in backgroun (96-03-09 05:29:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Other aliens in backgroun

+96-03-09 05:29:30
+
It does sorta look like that, on reflection, but it ain't Sandman-esque.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/59.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/59.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Susan's revelation- a ? (96-03-09 05:30:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Susan's revelation- a ?

+96-03-09 05:30:29
+
That information was sent to Earth, where it's led directly to the series of
+current investigations that were launched...and which forced Clark's hand
+into declaring martial law to distract from all that.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/6.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/6.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Earthforce officer (96-03-03 01:25:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: Earthforce officer

+96-03-03 01:25:32
+
Wanda's tied up elsewhere, but we do plan to use more hispanics in the show,
+as well as other ethnic groups.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/60.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/60.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Z'ha'dum (96-03-09 05:30:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Z'ha'dum

+96-03-09 05:30:56
+
{Why didn't the Vorlons destroy the Shadows on Z'ha'dum}
+
+It's not that easy; you'll figure out why soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/61.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/61.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Religion on B5 (96-03-09 05:39:46)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Religion on B5

+96-03-09 05:39:46
+
I've always been a writer.  Even when I was just a kid, I was "preparing,"
+always checking out different kinds of writing instruments, collecting the
+artifacts of writing...took 3 years of typing in high school until I got to
+120 wpm...but I didn't start writing until mid-high school, when I finally
+decided I had read enough, thought enough about it, and was *ready*.  
+
+That day, I started writing finally.  I wrote a story I placed with the
+school magazine done out of one of the writing classes.  The next thing I
+wrote ended up in a small outside magazine.  Then I began writing and placing
+articles and plays and stories....
+
+I took some writing classes in college, but the only ones of value were the
+workshops, not the ones where you're taught to write the way the teacher
+*wants* you to write.  The whole theory of writing is to find your unique
+voice; if you surrender that by writing the way somebody else writes, you've
+sacrificed the only commodity you had to offer: your unique vision of the
+world.  In any event, as stated, I was writing and selling long before I took
+my first writing class.
+
+Since 1971, I have written 5-10 pages per day (the last 12+ years generally
+10 or better) every day of the week, 52 weeks a year, except for my birthday,
+christmas, new year's, and my spouse's birthday.  On my first trip to
+England, I swore I wouldn't write, I'd take some time off; I ended up
+sneak-buying a small notepad and, by the time I got back, had outlined my
+first novel, later published by Dutton.
+
+I've written over 500 published articles, dozens of published short stories,
+12 produced plays, a number of songs recorded here and there (including two
+for a prime time ABC special), 2 published novels, 1 published anthology, a
+number of screenplays (some made as TV stuff, some not produced), and 145+
+produced TV scripts, among other stuff.
+
+I write all the time.  It's not what I do, it's what I *am*.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Levels we haven't conside (96-03-09 05:40:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Levels we haven't conside

+96-03-09 05:40:20
+
{Are there higher levels in the show that we aren't considering}
+
+There aren't higher levels per se....but different levels.  You'll see.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:  Question for a frie (96-03-09 05:42:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:  Question for a frie

+96-03-09 05:42:03
+
Your friend needs to switch to a decaffeinated coffee.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/64.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/64.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Z'ha'dum (96-03-10 04:01:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Z'ha'dum

+96-03-10 04:01:36
+
Delenn and Kosh told the truth as they knew it.  And the trailer for Severed
+Dreams won't be available until closer to airtime.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/65.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/65.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Actors imput (96-03-10 04:06:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Actors imput

+96-03-10 04:06:17
+
This is a hard question to answer.  When you create a character in your head,
+you always hear them a certain way.  Sometimes, when you bring in an actor,
+you hear it a different way, and you have to adjust.  Sometimes the actor
+sounds just like what you had in mind (as with Jason Carter and Claudia).  
+
+For me, what's interesting is when an actor finds something in the text that
+was there, that I didn't recognize even though I'd written it, and
+illuminates a corner of the character.  (And sometimes I discover I've
+revealed more about myself than I'd intended in a scene, only finding this
+out when I see the actor saying the words.)  
+
+Probably the biggest impact in B5 terms was in seeing the humor that Claudia
+could bring to the part, and the vulnerability that Peter summoned up.  The
+scene in the pilot movie where Londo goes to Garibaldi and says, basically,
+yes, I messed up, and yes, I'd do it again, showed a great depth of feeling,
+of conflicting emotions that lifted that scene way beyond what was on the
+page, and showed me that I could take Londo anywhere I wanted, and the actor
+behind the character could and would take it all the way without ever
+stumbling.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Minbari Bone Ridges (96-03-10 04:07:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Minbari Bone Ridges

+96-03-10 04:07:36
+
Worker caste tend to fade into the background; we've seen them here and
+there; pilots and traders (visible in "Strife") are worker caste, and others.
+They don't have as much a stylized manner of bone-carving as the other
+castes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+writer's block (96-03-10 04:11:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
writer's block

+96-03-10 04:11:23
+
No, I've never had writer's block.  (I hate saying that; it's like saying out
+loud at the top of the 9th inning that you've got a no-hitter going...the
+universe loves to trip you up.)
+
+I think it comes from being a generalist; if I don't have a script at hand to
+think about, I flip over to writing a short story, a novel, an article,
+something else.  Also, I never sit down to write out a scene or a section
+until I've "seen" it in my head so many times that it's practically
+transcription at that point.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/68.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/68.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+re wrists and stuff (96-03-10 04:12:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
re wrists and stuff

+96-03-10 04:12:03
+
Won't work.  I've tried dictating, didn't work (despite allegations that I'm
+a dictator).  I write out of my fingers; I can't dictate the stuff.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/69.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/69.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Janet Greek (96-03-10 04:13:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Janet Greek

+96-03-10 04:13:36
+
Janet just signed onto a series -- jeez, I just forgot the name, it fell out
+of my head -- as a writer and director.  If I can drag it out of my brain,
+I'll post the name.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Withdrawels (96-03-03 01:25:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: Withdrawels

+96-03-03 01:25:56
+
Yes, I think those two will be rerun in short order.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/70.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/70.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 the Series (96-03-10 04:16:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
B5 the Series

+96-03-10 04:16:14
+
"This is better than sex!"
+
+Thank you.
+
+Now keep those hands to yourself, mister.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Conundrum (96-03-13 18:06:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Conundrum

+96-03-13 18:06:07
+
Warner Bros. is not so much a monolithic company as a series of mutually
+competing divisions.  WBN and PTEN are totally different entities, and
+there's almost no chance of overlap.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Lot's O Q's (96-03-13 17:46:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Lot's O Q's

+96-03-13 17:46:20
+
The station is about 5 miles long, so the rest you can work from there.
+
+You *can* see the length of the station from some of the living quarters,
+such as Londo's, and from Sheridan's office.
+
+Yes, the Neville Chamberlain parallel was intentional.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/73.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/73.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+PoNR - Fixed Stars! (96-03-13 17:47:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
PoNR - Fixed Stars!

+96-03-13 17:47:26
+
We've gone over this a lot; because the station rotates, you'd need a
+circular, rotating starfield that would be twice as tall as our stage ceiling
+to make it work, and it'd be hideously loud.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/74.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/74.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The creative process (96-03-13 17:48:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
The creative process

+96-03-13 17:48:36
+
Because I knew it'd have to be a multi-year format, which limits you to
+either books or TV, since you couldn't do all of this stuff in films.  (You'd
+need 55 movies.)  So...TV.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/75.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/75.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+PoNR - Fixed Stars! (96-03-13 17:50:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
PoNR - Fixed Stars!

+96-03-13 17:50:30
+
C&C is *not* in the center of the station, which is the zero-g docking bay;
+it's 1/3rd of the way down, so it has about 1/3rd gravity.  That means a 200
+pound person weights 67 pounds, so you're not exactly going to be bouncing
+around or anything.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Uniform Question (96-03-13 17:51:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Uniform Question

+96-03-13 17:51:24
+
Only time will tell.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+World Con... (96-03-13 17:51:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
World Con...

+96-03-13 17:51:49
+
Well, I'll be there; we'll see about the rest.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/78.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/78.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+No Free Will? (96-03-13 17:53:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
No Free Will?

+96-03-13 17:53:14
+
Yes, the characters surprise me...but the characters aren't real, and
+"they're" not surprising me, it's something that burbles out of my
+subconscious.  Only living beings can truly have free will.  Fictional
+characters don't.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hot Jalla (96-03-13 17:55:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Hot Jalla

+96-03-13 17:55:32
+
It's not a connection, but a resonance; jalla is made from the jalwah tree,
+and yes, G'Kar's father was hung from a jalwah tree.  But I wouldn't read too
+much more into that.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Withdrawels (96-03-03 01:28:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: Withdrawels

+96-03-03 01:28:58
+
It's perfectly okay to show this stuff in class, as far as I know, so it's
+cool.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/80.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/80.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Name that tune (96-03-13 18:04:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Name that tune

+96-03-13 18:04:47
+
I listen to just about every kind of music there is, except for hard country
+music.  It just grates; not to say it's bad, lots of folks like it, it just
+gets my teeth grinding like tectonic plates.  (The closest I get is bluegrass
+and folk, with the Red Clay Ramblers being a favorite there.)
+
+When I work, I tend to listen to different things as the mood strikes me.
+Everything from rock to jazz to big band to "new age" to classical to Irish
+music to Japanese music to Australian aboriginal music to Gregorian
+chants...you name it.  I was heavily into Japanese KODO music for a while,
+but because I was playing it all the time I kinda got KODO'd out after a
+while.
+
+Among the stuff that turns up most often on the stereo while I'm working
+these days: Meatloaf, Slade, Enya, Alice Cooper, Melissa Etheridge, Sarah
+MacLachlan, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Red Clay Ramblers.  I'll probably
+cycle through into more orchestral/instrumental stuff soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+What type of Government E (96-03-13 17:31:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
What type of Government E

+96-03-13 17:31:17
+
Each nation/state on Earth has its own government internally, and its own
+leader, who is part of the EA Senate.  One senator per nation/state.  (Mars
+is treated as a colony rather than an independent entity, same with the more
+important colonies, while other, less valuable ones are more loosely
+attached.)  Clark has full military control as Commander of Chief of
+Earthforce, though the military is funded jointly by all participants.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+My point exactly KSTEEN! (96-03-13 17:40:54)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
My point exactly KSTEEN!

+96-03-13 17:40:54
+
"Nightwatch does, in fact, have an "heraldic banner" which is in the form of
+its black uniforms."
+
+Err...I hate to correct you, but Nightwatch members do NOT have black
+uniforms.  Many of them wear armbands, but others do not.  Julie Musante did
+not wear an armband.  Neither did the snitch in C&C who turned in the Narn
+cruiser in "Fall."  B5 security members were given the arm bands as part of
+their uniform, indicating that they were serving Nightwatch in an official
+capacity, the same as you'd give a badge or ID to someone working for two
+agencies.  There are and can be others who are part of Nightwatch who don't
+wear the arm bands.
+
+Also, it's not "an heraldic."  It's A heraldic.  You only use AN if you can't
+hear the H sound; if you can, then you use A.  As in "An hour" and "A horse."
+Similarly, the use "an historic" is also incorrect.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ B5 CANCELLED (96-03-15 04:25:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 B5 CANCELLED

+96-03-15 04:25:44
+
Because, Harokin, this stuff happens *every season* at this time, and after a
+while, one gets tired of chasing down and denying every rumor that comes
+along, time after time.  I posted a brief note about this in the ask jms
+category, that should cover it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/84.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/84.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+PS to Harokin (96-03-15 04:26:42)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
PS to Harokin

+96-03-15 04:26:42
+
Don't take the tone of my prior note as indicating annoyance; it's just that
+this happens every year, and it wears thin after a while.  It's not your
+fault.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Beginnings (96-03-15 04:07:25)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Beginnings

+96-03-15 04:07:25
+
I first discovered the Red Clay Ramblers when they were the musical
+accompaniment for the Broadway show (then touring) FOOL MOON.  I thought they
+were absolutely terrific, and still do.  (And the show's terrific too; if it
+comes to your town SEE IT.)
+
+"Where did B5 start? What was the germ of the whole idea? Who were the first
+characters? Were any characters conceived as men that ended up as women and
+vice versa?"
+
+No, the men were men and the women were women (and they LIKED it that way).
+The primary "germ" of the notion was the setting in this case, a locale where
+the stories would come to us rathre than chasing new worlds every week.
+Obviously you need a command staff, and I began filling it out from there.
+Then, one day, the whole story just sorta unfolded in my head in a moment of
+total clarity.  That happens sometimes....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Fan Clubs (96-03-15 04:08:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Fan Clubs

+96-03-15 04:08:03
+
Yes, I do believe the various actors fan clubs are sanctioned by the actors
+(at least, the ones we know of; not every fan club is sanctioned, obviously.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/87.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/87.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:88 notes in your musi (96-03-15 04:09:29)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS:88 notes in your musi

+96-03-15 04:09:29
+
We never know from year to year on the B5 status, same as with every other TV
+series.  No studio will give you a 2-year buy unless you're Spielberg.  We'll
+have to see....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Station Interior (96-03-15 04:10:31)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Station Interior

+96-03-15 04:10:31
+
Yes, the interior has been mapped to great detail; as Sheridan falls, you can
+see perspective on many of the structures, due to the 3d mapping.  Don't know
+if we'll ever make a map available, at least in the short run.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/89.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/89.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Cancellation of B5!? (96-03-15 04:15:33)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Cancellation of B5!?

+96-03-15 04:15:33
+
This happens every season.  People with too much free time on their hands
+start posting rumors long before anything has even been *discussed*.  This
+happened after the pilot ("I just heard from a VERY reliable source that it's
+never gonna make it to series") after the first season ("a guy I know at WB
+says the first season was just a fluke, they got pressured, there won't be a
+second season"), after the second....
+
+Nothing is ever decided on these things until the execs meet to go over it,
+and that won't happen until late April/early May.  Anyone who says he's heard
+anything definitive before then is simply full of it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Foreign Markets (96-03-03 01:30:28)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Foreign Markets

+96-03-03 01:30:28
+
We're on in a lot of countries: France, Germany, Norway, Canada, Taiwan,
+Singapore, England, Australia, Israel, Jordan and a number of others.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/90.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/90.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Dear JMS:Starfury "Nose A (96-03-15 04:16:56)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Dear JMS:Starfury "Nose A

+96-03-15 04:16:56
+
Yes, there's nose art for most (though not all) of the furies.  Ivanova's is
+traditionally Russian, and Sheridan's is the Flying Tigers (we actually got
+permission from them to use the symbol).
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+No Free Will? (96-03-15 04:17:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
No Free Will?

+96-03-15 04:17:50
+
Ah, but it wasn't Holmes who forced himself back into the writings of Doyle;
+it was pressure from readers (real people) who refused to let it go away.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/92.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/92.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Artwork from Atlanta (96-03-15 04:18:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Artwork from Atlanta

+96-03-15 04:18:49
+
Unfortunately, the answer to both is no, unless you want to give it to one of
+the actors at Fantasticon to pass along....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Couple'a Questions (96-03-15 04:20:01)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: Couple'a Questions

+96-03-15 04:20:01
+
Now that S3 of B5 is almost done, I can finish the deal to write the Grimjack
+movie, which will take me through the next few months to finish.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Apologies are in order... (96-03-15 04:23:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Apologies are in order...

+96-03-15 04:23:35
+
This season is an unintended aberration re: writers; I hope to use others
+next season.
+
+As for your story...apology not accepted because it is unnecessary.  As it
+happens, I remember your comments, and yes, at the time, they were hurtful.
+But they came from honest criticisms of the show, rather than any particular
+agenda, and I never have a problem with honest, fair criticism.  Hell, I had
+my own problems with the pilot, which I was determined to fix in the series.
+
+What you did that counts is that you were sufficiently open-minded and fair
+to give the show a chance when it hit series, and you found that the promises
+were true.  And now have said as much.  What more can anyone ask of one?
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+My point exactly KSTEEN! (96-03-15 04:01:54)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
My point exactly KSTEEN!

+96-03-15 04:01:54
+
Nope.  Zack did wear an armband the whole time he was involved with
+Nightwatch.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Foundationalism (96-03-17 23:23:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Foundationalism

+96-03-17 23:23:03
+
The impact of other alien races on contemporary religions is a good question,
+and one that I hope to carve out some time to examine down the road a bit.
+The Foundation was a way of saying, in essence, that there aren't various
+religions, there's just *human* religion as opposed to what has been
+developed on other worlds...that every human religion is an aspect of the
+whole, like blind men describing an elephant by each holding onto a piece of
+it.  They looked to the foundation of all religions, and combined them, so
+there's aspects of nearly every major and minor belief in them.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+some questions... (96-03-21 03:23:59)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
some questions...

+96-03-21 03:23:59
+
There are no shadow vessels buried on Narn, no.  The shadow influence on the
+Psi Corps has been growing for about 7 years now.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/98.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/98.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATTN: JMS (96-03-21 03:25:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
ATTN: JMS

+96-03-21 03:25:52
+
I wasn't really happy with what we did with n'grath; it's not any fault of
+Optic Nerve, they did a bang up job, it's just...it's a subjective opinion,
+and when I looked at it, it never really worked for me.  So we may not see
+that group again.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-03/99.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-03/99.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Cancellation (96-03-21 03:27:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Cancellation

+96-03-21 03:27:26
+
At this point, we're still assuming we'll be renewed, so it's a moot
+question.
+
+The larger issue comes down to commercials, though.  To get national
+advertisers, you need X number of stations, in Y markets, carrying Z
+commercials, preferably on two nights (first run and rerun).  If you can't
+get national sponsors, paying enough money, it doesn't matter if the show is
+over, on, or under budget...you're a dead duck.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/1.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/1.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+When to Bring in New Peop (96-04-02 01:34:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
When to Bring in New Peop

+96-04-02 01:34:32
+
{What episode would be best to bring new peoplein to watch the show?}
+
+I strongly suggest you try this week's episode, "Severed Dreams."  I showed
+it at a small con/fan gathering here in LA on Saturday, before the uplink,
+and there were several folks there who hadn't seen or been moved to check out
+B5...and by the time it was over, they'd turned around.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/10.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/10.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Minbari friend quote (96-04-02 01:31:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Minbari friend quote

+96-04-02 01:31:26
+
Hrmm...I'd have to drag out the script for that, and it's tucked away in
+storage.  Will try to drag it out when I get a chance.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/11.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/11.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Gun camera (96-04-02 01:32:45)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
Gun camera

+96-04-02 01:32:45
+
The images continued to be broadcast to the distress probe after it was
+jettisoned.  The ISN team mentioned on-air they were attracted to the
+time-delay distress beacon on the probe.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Headline in New Sci  (96-04-02 01:33:12)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: Headline in New Sci 

+96-04-02 01:33:12
+
I think the case is greatly overstated.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS - WOW! - and a ? (96-04-03 02:25:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS - WOW! - and a ?

+96-04-03 02:25:37
+
{What type of guns are used on B5, and how do they function?}
+
+The guns are Phased Plasma Guns, PPGs, which fire superheated helium bursts
+(in limited amounts, you have to swap out energy caps after a fairly brief
+period) rather than slugs to avoid puncturing the hull.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/14.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/14.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+SD: Author! Author! (96-04-03 02:26:38)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
SD: Author! Author!

+96-04-03 02:26:38
+
{Severed Dreams was the best episode to date}
+
+James: thanks...I'm just endlessly pleased by the reaction to this episode;
+we worked *awfully* hard on it.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/15.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/15.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+SEVERED DREAMS (96-04-04 01:18:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
SEVERED DREAMS

+96-04-04 01:18:32
+
{When will there be models for purchase?}
+
+Nothing's been firmed up yet about models that I know about; soonish, though.
+And thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/16.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Next episodes (96-04-04 01:18:59)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Next episodes

+96-04-04 01:18:59
+
You'll have new episodes all through April and May.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/17.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/17.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Next episodes (96-04-04 01:20:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Next episodes

+96-04-04 01:20:02
+
Oh, I've got plenty of ideas for other shows after B5...just don't know if I
+want to do them; if I'd've said all I want to say for TV in B5.  It's very
+tempting to go back to writing novels and plays.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/18.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/18.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hyperspace vs.Normal Spa (96-04-04 01:21:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Hyperspace vs.Normal Spa

+96-04-04 01:21:26
+
Once in hyperspace, you can ride the navigational beams between beacons
+(narrow beam stuff, to cut through the interference, as noted in "Distant
+Star"), and by corrolating the beacons, know where you have to come out.
+
+That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/19.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/19.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+PPGs (96-04-04 01:22:15)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
PPGs

+96-04-04 01:22:15
+
{How many shots to an energy cap?}
+
+I'll have to check my notes, but I seem to recall you get about 12 PPG shots
+to a standard cap, with some recharge time.  A PPG rifle gets about 20-25
+shots, with faster recharge.
+
+jms
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/2.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/2.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS:RE: The One (96-04-01 18:37:46)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
To JMS:RE: The One

+96-04-01 18:37:46
+
No, the Triluminaries are simply not that important.  This isn't a story
+about a mcguffin, a thing that has to be acquired or protected or regained;
+also isn't a quest story.  If you look at any work of an epic, mythic or
+saga-based construction, certain elements are universal.  Those themes show
+up in all such sagas...if you look for any kind of real story correlation
+between B5 and LoTR you won't find them.  They're not in any way parallels.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/20.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/20.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Technical Manual? (96-04-08 04:29:12)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Technical Manual?

+96-04-08 04:29:12
+
Thanks.  Eventually we'll do a tech manual, but probably not until after the
+show has run its course.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/21.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/21.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/21.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Getting the word out (96-04-08 04:30:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Getting the word out

+96-04-08 04:30:32
+
A lot of local promotions is done by the stations, with co-op funding from
+WB, so they all get to determine how it's done individually.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/22.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/22.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+SD and cold chills (96-04-08 04:31:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
SD and cold chills

+96-04-08 04:31:36
+
Thanks.  Those are rank insignia on the epaulets; and G'Kar's always been
+pretty strong.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/23.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/23.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+what Susan said... (96-04-08 04:33:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
what Susan said...

+96-04-08 04:33:08
+
Yes, I do know what you mean, and you're welcome.
+
+No, as far as I know, no one from B5 will be at the big Creation con since
+it's a ST con.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/24.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/24.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Severed Dreams (96-04-08 04:34:00)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Severed Dreams

+96-04-08 04:34:00
+
No, her exact line was, "No human captain has ever survived battle with a
+Minbari fleet."  Sinclair wasn't a captain.
+
+And thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/25.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/25.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Twilight Zone (96-04-08 04:35:21)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Twilight Zone

+96-04-08 04:35:21
+
I think you're primarily speaking of the CBS version; I did only one script
+for that version, and then 10 for the syndicated version.  "By His
+Bootstraps," I understand, was too expensive to film.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/26.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/26.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+DirecTV? (96-04-08 04:36:12)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
DirecTV?

+96-04-08 04:36:12
+
Thanks, and no, there are no plans for not for any WB stuff on DTV that I
+know of.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/27.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/27.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+INCREDIBLE! (96-04-08 04:36:46)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
INCREDIBLE!

+96-04-08 04:36:46
+
The third caste is the Worker caste.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/28.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/28.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/28.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Severed Dreeams/Mira (96-04-08 04:37:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Severed Dreeams/Mira

+96-04-08 04:37:53
+
We found Mira through the casting process, when she came in along with many
+others.  And we've been happy ever after that she did.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/29.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/29.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Speechless! (96-04-08 04:40:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Speechless!

+96-04-08 04:40:02
+
The best thing to do is mail your local station and show your support there.
+And thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/3.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/3.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/3.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Keep up the RAD Work! (96-04-01 18:39:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Keep up the RAD Work!

+96-04-01 18:39:24
+
The show will eventually be stripped daily on TNT when the show's finished.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/30.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/30.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/30.html
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+SD Questions (96-04-09 04:35:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
SD Questions

+96-04-09 04:35:32
+
"Why was it impossible to jump into hyperspace (in the beginning of the show)
+and not take the Starfuries with the ship?  We've seen it done before."
+
+No, I don't believe so.  You've seen a jump GATE used, but that's different
+from a jump POINT which basically closes right behind the ship like a rabbit
+pulling its hole in after it.  If the ships stayed behind to protect its
+rear, they'd be left behind.  Ships coming out of a jump point into normal
+space sometimes will let their fighters zip out AS they're coming out,
+alongside the main ship.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/31.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/31.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/31.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 Merchandising? (96-04-09 04:36:41)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5 Merchandising?

+96-04-09 04:36:41
+
1) ALL of the B5 models currently being advertised are 100% illegal and
+unauthorized, and we are taking aggressive legal steps to shut them down.
+
+2) There will be a B5 RPG out sometime late this year/early next year.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/32.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/32.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+2 parter Title Change? (96-04-09 04:37:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
2 parter Title Change?

+96-04-09 04:37:14
+
"Wasn't the upcoming 2 parter once entitled "World Without End" instead of
+"War Without End?""
+
+Nope.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/33.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/33.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: SD, All Alone / Nigh (96-04-09 04:38:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: SD, All Alone / Nigh

+96-04-09 04:38:58
+
"Hmmmm....I'm not really sure I want to know the answer to this...."
+
+Darn, and I was just about to spill the beans...ah, well....never mind.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/34.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/34.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:RE:Grey Council & Duk (96-04-09 04:40:41)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS:RE:Grey Council & Duk

+96-04-09 04:40:41
+
"Why was the Grey Council always to be found on a cruiser? Were they ever
+located on Minbar itself? Or was the cruiser orbiting Minbar? Was it for
+their protection, or secrecy? Or has this already been answered?"
+
+We've hinted at it...the Grey Council always stays on its ship, being part of
+the universe, giving it an exotic, distant feel for its people...as though
+among the gods.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/35.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/35.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/35.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+SD:How did Delenn know? (96-04-09 04:44:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
SD:How did Delenn know?

+96-04-09 04:44:47
+
She already knew that civil war had broken out between EA ships and forces,
+and that B5 had already faced one takeover bid, and that whether or not it
+happened today or the next day, it was definitely coming.  That was
+unmistakeable.  Also, bear in mind that Lennier stayed behind.  She would
+have checked in with him en route and found out what was going on, or picked
+up the radio broadcasts of the battle in progress.  I could've shown this,
+but that would''ve blown the surprise of her arrival.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/36.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/36.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/36.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATT JMS: Renewal situatio (96-04-09 04:45:46)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
ATT JMS: Renewal situatio

+96-04-09 04:45:46
+
I responded in both forums.  I doubt any such memo exists.  And nothing has
+been said.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/37.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/37.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/37.html
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS-Morden & Videos Quest (96-04-09 19:55:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
JMS-Morden & Videos Quest

+96-04-09 19:55:37
+
Folks have already tried writing WB to change their minds about videos;
+hasn't worked.  We're working at it from this end.
+
+jms
+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/38.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/38.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The rim of known space (96-04-22 22:43:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The rim of known space

+96-04-22 22:43:20
+
Who's behind the shadows?  Nobody.  The shadows are the shadows (though
+that's not the name by which they call themselves), a race of their own.
+Question is, why are they doing what they're doing?
+
+You'll find out by season's end.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/39.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/39.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/39.html
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+If I were Sherridan:I wou (96-04-23 03:11:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
If I were Sherridan:I wou

+96-04-23 03:11:40
+
"I would round up all the destroyed EA/centauri/narin hulls/ships I could
+find.(Especially the burned out Agrippa) to intimidate others who come with
+hostile intent.  Also it would serve as a parts depot."
+
+What's there are burned, blackened husks, which you do NOT want floating
+around as they become hideous dangers to navigation, and the "spare parts"
+would eventually start banging into your station, hitting incoming ships and
+starfuries.  What can be salvaged, has been.
+
+"I would construtively use my communication command athourity to send letters
+to the families of the dead."
+
+EA has cut off access to Earth; they don't want Sheridan getting information
+from back home, or relaying instructions to forces there.
+
+"I would rig the jump gate to explode on my command."
+
+Good idea; cut off the only means of escape for the quarter million people
+there who don't have jump capable ships.  You won't stop an invasion by
+hostile ships which can make their own jump points, you just end up killing
+all your civilians.
+
+"Make a deal with Drall on the defences, and learn of all his capabilities
+also the Minbari's."
+
+This is already in process, as has been established.
+
+"Arrange an accident to happen to one of the shadow creatures on board and
+get it to Dr. Franklin or Drall."
+
+You have to find them first.
+
+"Start a propagada campaign against Clark."
+
+Better to tell the truth.  And, again, home-communications are down.
+
+"Unite the renegade ships and offer a home to the missing Narin ship."
+
+This is an obvious step already in process.
+
+"Have the Minbari make a clone of Morden."
+
+They don't have that technology.
+
+"Start a spy network."
+
+They're doing all they can to get info.
+
+"Start propaganda working the non-aligned worlds."
+
+See above.
+
+"Get some answers from Kosh or kill him(information is everything)."
+
+Yessir, that'll work out great.  The vorlons are important to winning this;
+let's torture or kill their ambassador, REAL good idea.
+
+"Have Lyta scan all the crew members for spyes and loyalties."
+
+When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.  This would be
+a Bad Thing.
+
+"Move the minbari ships out of sight(behind the planet)."
+
+Another good idea; let's put them where they have to come all the way around
+the planet, by which time B5 is a burned cinder.
+
+"Start gathering intelegence on the shadows ships.  How many, were are they
+made, how long to make"
+
+Where would you get that information?  The only real source is on Z'ha'dum.
+
+Basically, everything that can be done, *is* being done.  But people have to
+have some moments to live, or there's nothing worth fighting for.  And
+sometimes a relationship can remind us what we're fighting for.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/4.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/4.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/4.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Previews (96-04-01 18:43:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Previews

+96-04-01 18:43:36
+
I don't know what the situation is, but will inquire.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/40.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/40.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:  Harlan Ellison (96-04-23 03:12:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS:  Harlan Ellison

+96-04-23 03:12:09
+
Harlan's doing much better; up and around and walking and in general in great
+spirits.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/41.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/41.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Status reports (96-04-23 23:37:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Status reports

+96-04-23 23:37:47
+
"So, JMS... how are *you* doing through all this (Harlan, renewal, season's
+end, taxes, etc.)."
+
+I'M FINE!  ABSOLUTELY FINE!  COULDN'T BE BETTER!  I'VE ALWAYS WORN A RABBIT
+ON MY HEAD!  IT'S A FASHION THING, OKAY?  I'M FINE!  YOU HEAR ME?  FINE!!!
+
+jm(thud)s
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/42.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/42.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+In A Glass, Darkly (96-04-23 23:40:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
In A Glass, Darkly

+96-04-23 23:40:37
+
Yes, there's a certain Jungian influence in the shadows, in that the shadow
+as Jung referred to it was unbridled want, unbridled need, and that's what
+they appeal to.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/43.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/43.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: A few questions (96-04-23 23:43:42)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: A few questions

+96-04-23 23:43:42
+
Thanks.  As far as visual EFX, animators and visual artists are
+concerned...it's a world apart, one I barely understand.  I don't know what's
+really required or designed to hep succeed...though I suspect the ability to
+converse freely with squirrels is partly involved.  I couldn't advise you on
+this and have that advice mean much of anything, I'm afraid.
+
+For the rest, I can only offer my thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/44.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/44.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS - Battle of Camlan (96-04-25 00:28:41)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS - Battle of Camlan

+96-04-25 00:28:41
+
I dug through a number of recent Arthurian texts, and that date come out the
+most often; I've heard the other date, which was about 20 years later, but
+the one most often used is the 515 date, at least in what I researched.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/45.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/45.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Wide-screen and fan club. (96-04-25 00:30:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Wide-screen and fan club.

+96-04-25 00:30:36
+
I believe that France will be showing S3 in widescreen, and the episodes are
+being transferred to that format even as we speak.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/46.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/46.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Hugo (96-04-25 00:31:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hugo

+96-04-25 00:31:18
+
I wasn't given the vote counts, but it was my understanding that "Coming of
+Shadows" had received the larger number of vote counts.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/47.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/47.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+question (96-04-25 03:46:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
question

+96-04-25 03:46:44
+
The cold, hard and rather ruthless answer is...if you're not sure, if it's
+just something you're kinda thinking about...don't do it.
+
+The only ones who have a chance of making it as writers are those who can't
+*not* write.  
+
+"I am trying to find out what I can do with my life and writing sound like
+fun."  It's not fun, as you mean it.  It's agony.  It's the hardest thing I
+do.  It takes *years* of work, every single day, day in and day out, before
+you get any good at it at all.  It takes suffering and pain and paying your
+dues and fighting every single day first to prove you have talen to yourself,
+then to prove it to others, then to finally begin making a living at it.
+It's not a case of, "Well, look over there, *that* looks interesting, maybe
+I'll do that."
+
+Either being a writer means everything to you, or it doesn't.  If it doesn't,
+you shouldn't do it.  It's not a question of knowing "what you want to do."
+You *know* it.  It's just a matter of the will and strength required to *do*
+it.
+
+Unless that describes you...try something else.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/48.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/48.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Earth history and B5 (96-04-25 03:51:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Earth history and B5

+96-04-25 03:51:37
+
"What period of history interests you the most?"
+
+All of them, really, for different reasons.  The Middle Ages, the Victorian
+period, the Renaissance, pre- and post-numerical wars and a time in which we
+didn't have to number them...the present, the cruellest half of the cruellest
+century...right down to the earliest civilizations.  We can learn something
+from all of them.  
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/49.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/49.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS-What a great guy! (96-04-18 04:35:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS-What a great guy!

+96-04-18 04:35:14
+
Gordon: thanks.  As for the promos...the usual time allocated for B5 promos
+was taken by the contest, which ends this week.  The promos will return
+shortly.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/5.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/5.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Dolby Stereo (96-04-01 18:45:01)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Dolby Stereo

+96-04-01 18:45:01
+
Hrmm...usually we're pretty good about that stuff...I know there was *so
+much* audio we were mixing for "Dreams" that that one element may have been
+placed center simply because we were so busy with everything else that it
+didn't get noticed.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/50.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/50.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Severed Dreams (96-04-18 04:37:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Severed Dreams

+96-04-18 04:37:26
+
Basically, the Marines burned through the outer hull, moved into the inner
+hull (like any good vessel, this one is double hulled), then came up at a
+right angle, looking for a good wall to come through.  You *don't* want to
+come up through the floor, because then you have to climb out one or two at a
+time, which makes you a sitting duck.  Better to move off a few feet, and
+come up via a section between walls and blow your way through so you can come
+out en masse.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/51.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/51.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS' Story (96-04-27 04:33:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS' Story

+96-04-27 04:33:11
+
The other thing to bear in mind about all this is the question of a "clean
+fight."  If Sheridan were to bring in alien forces at his order to kill
+humans, it would pretty much destroy his credibility.  Delenn came in at the
+end but only after he'd made his stand on his own.  
+
+One of the things that kicked off the French Revolution was the allegation
+that the King had brought in or was bringing in Prussian troops to help put
+down dissenters.  As long as it was all more or less in the family, that was
+one thing...but to bring in outsiders was an absolute affront to them.  (One
+of the singular incidents that started the fighting itself was a group of
+Prussian soldiers sighted sitting in a cafe having lunch, which caused this
+rumor about outsiders coming in to spread like wildfire, and led to the some
+of the first major incidents of rioting.)
+
+Two brothers may fight one another, but let a third unrelated person come in
+and shove one of the brothers around, and they'll *both* turn on him.
+
+During the worst days of the civil war, even Lincoln was offered assistance
+in troops from at least one other country; he declined, because it was an
+internal matter, and had to be resolved by those involved, not outsiders.
+
+Sheridan's logic was exactly the same.  It had to be a clean fight.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/52.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/52.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Questions Ad Infinitum (96-04-27 04:34:31)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Questions Ad Infinitum

+96-04-27 04:34:31
+
No, Londo and the bugs had nothing to do with any notions about the Shadows.
+
+Sheridan is a war historian, with his main interests in the civil war, where
+one of his ancestors fought.  He's very big on Lincoln.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/53.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/53.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Guest on Season Finale (96-04-27 04:35:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Guest on Season Finale

+96-04-27 04:35:16
+
Melissa is in two episodes; light in one, heavy in the other.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/54.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/54.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Avalon references (96-04-27 04:36:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Avalon references

+96-04-27 04:36:36
+
Yes, there were several books I consulted about this...unfortunately, they're
+nowhere near at hand, so I can't drag out the names just now.  I'll try to
+remember to drag them out soonish.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/55.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/55.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: 4 questions (96-04-27 04:39:25)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: 4 questions

+96-04-27 04:39:25
+
1.  What gave you the idea to create a show with a time line?
+
+I wanted to do a saga; sagas take time to tell.  The Lensman books, the
+Foundation books, Dune, others...they can take from a few years to hundreds
+of years to tell.  (I love "A Canticle for Liebowitz," which compresses an
+amazing timeline into one volume.)  Doing decades worth of story would be
+impossible for TV's format, but a one-to-one year-to-season structure was
+do-able.
+
+2.  What were some of your first ideas for this series?
+
+I don't quite understand the question.
+
+3. How good of a chance does B5 have for being renewed?
+
+50/50.
+
+4. How is Harlan Ellison doing?
+
+Much, much better.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/56.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/56.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+writing a wild ride! (96-04-27 04:41:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
writing a wild ride!

+96-04-27 04:41:35
+
I write pretty much all the time, day or night.  I prefer night writing
+because the phone rings less often, and I can blow through a lot of work
+without interruption.  Lately, though, I find that I do get a little tired
+come around 2-3 a.m., which I didn't used to, so some of it has switched back
+to daytime or early evening.  My advice is to just find what's most
+comfortable for you as a time to write, and stick to it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/57.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/57.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Marshal Teague and Hard C (96-04-27 04:43:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Marshal Teague and Hard C

+96-04-27 04:43:02
+
I haven't seen the material, and thus can't comment.  All I know of Marshall
+is what I see on the set, and he has always been a gentle, friendly, gracious
+performer.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+MartinSubj:  Re:SoT Question (Spoilers)
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/58.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/58.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+Well, to follow the book, there still has to be a knowledge of the language.
+You need to have a dictionary around, which is what was used.  
+
+The comparison, I suppose, would be those who say that Jorge Luis Borges'
+work can only be most truly appreciated in the original Spanish.  There's a
+*translated* version, which someone has gone through and made the translation
+for you, written it all out in English...or you can learn the language, and
+then read the original manuscript.
+
+Garibaldi doesn't know Narn, so how other than with a dictionary could he
+read the original material, except by sleeping with it under his pillow and
+praying for divine intervention.
+
+jms
+
+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/59.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/59.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5
+
+
+Two questions (96-04-29 01:39:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Two questions

+96-04-29 01:39:47
+
"Avalon" and "Vir" were reversed in order to a) finish effects on Avalon, and
+b) to give a lighter episode after "Ceremonies" (also to hold York for
+sweeps).  That may account for some of your feeling here.
+
+And yes, Earthgov sees B5 in much the way China now sees Taiwan.  (Though on
+reflection that may not be the best metaphor....)
+
+jms
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/6.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/6.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Kung Fu, The Legend Ends (96-04-01 18:46:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Kung Fu, The Legend Ends

+96-04-01 18:46:02
+
I haven't heard anything more on this, but would doubt that we'd end up on
+the WB network because of jurisdictional considerations.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/7.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/7.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Insane? (96-04-01 18:46:57)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Insane?

+96-04-01 18:46:57
+
That depends on how you define "the real thing."  Check back with me after
+the next 2 episodes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/8.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/8.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Life force... (96-04-01 18:48:25)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
Life force...

+96-04-01 18:48:25
+
No, I wouldn't say there's a corrolation to life force and the shadow ships;
+they need a living organism as the central processing unit because an organic
+unit can think faster than most computer systems, and react faster in terms
+of formulating strategy and the like.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-04/9.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-04/9.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATTN JMS:  Extra (96-04-01 18:49:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
ATTN JMS:  Extra

+96-04-01 18:49:24
+
You need to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild, belong to Central
+Casting, and be on their lists for extras.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/1.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/1.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Some questions (96-05-07 04:21:31)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Some questions

+96-05-07 04:21:31
+
The only database I use is the one in my head, and some notes here and
+there....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/10.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/10.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+great love story (96-05-07 04:35:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+
great love story

+96-05-07 04:35:16
+
It's fair to say that the Sheridan/Delenn relationship has some very
+interesting times ahead.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/100.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/100.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+  Writing (96-05-30 04:19:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
  Writing

+96-05-30 04:19:26
+
All I can say is that I have always approached the writing with the
+assumption we can finish the story.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/101.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/101.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS is bad,and I'll tell  (96-05-29 03:47:39)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS is bad,and I'll tell 

+96-05-29 03:47:39
+
The delay in episodes until October ain't my idea....
+
+jms
+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/11.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/11.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Vir? Babble? (96-05-07 04:36:59)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Vir? Babble?

+96-05-07 04:36:59
+
Even the babble is pretty tightly scripted.  The hesitations and occasional
+stumble-restatements are the actor's delivery.  There's occasionally a very
+tiny bit of improv in that kind of scene, but very little.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/12.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/12.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Rules for Epics (96-05-07 04:43:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rules for Epics

+96-05-07 04:43:11
+
Actually, it's Chekov's rule of playwriting: If there's a gun on the wall in
+act 1 scene 1, you must use it by act 3 scene 3.  Similarly, if you fire the
+gun in act 3, you must show it in act one.  I do try to play fair with the
+audience, and either hint at or point to what's coming in various ways, so
+that if you back up all the episodes, it's right there in front of you.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/13.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/13.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Interludes  & Examination (96-05-07 04:47:28)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Interludes  & Examination

+96-05-07 04:47:28
+
The Delenn/Sheridan axis is proceeding, but I've been very deliberately
+holding off the kiss, and what would follow that, so I could do it in a very
+special way.  You'll see soon enough....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/14.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/14.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Seasons 4 and 5 (96-05-07 04:48:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Seasons 4 and 5

+96-05-07 04:48:08
+
There was never the intention of carrying the shadow war through seasons 4
+and 5.  That'd get boring.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/15.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/15.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Wrath Of Kosh (96-05-07 04:49:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The Wrath Of Kosh

+96-05-07 04:49:30
+
Kosh fought and fought hard.  And he did not go down easily...and one might
+say that yes, he did not go down alone...but not entirely in the way you're
+thinking.
+
+jms
+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/16.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/16.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS: Possible Triangle (96-05-07 23:35:31)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
To JMS: Possible Triangle

+96-05-07 23:35:31
+
Well, remember that we never defined what those feelings were between
+Sinclair and Delenn; she had a great deal of respect and admiration for him,
+yes.  And she had a fair measure of faith in him as well.  Question is,
+what's the root of that?  We'll learn some of that in the two-parter.  As for
+Sinclair, he was mainly involved with Sakai.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/17.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/17.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+slap heard 'round univers (96-05-08 03:20:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
slap heard 'round univers

+96-05-08 03:20:30
+
I think the contact would've been too fleeting, and too much a shock (and it
+likely hurt like the dickens) that by the time he knew it was there, it was
+too late, and she would've sensed it in either event.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/18.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/18.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/18.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Repost Worldsinger questi (96-05-09 01:45:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Repost Worldsinger questi

+96-05-09 01:45:53
+
Huh, I must've missed that in my copy of SF Universe; didn't see it.  That's
+good to hear.  No, that's the only issue of the Trek comic that I ever wrote,
+mainly out of curiosity and because I like the original characters a lot.  It
+was fun.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/19.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/19.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS: Possible Triangle (96-05-09 01:47:39)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
To JMS: Possible Triangle

+96-05-09 01:47:39
+
Yes, the voice you heard OS was Delenn; I kept her OS to avoid tipping the
+plan for her eventual change to more human physical qualities.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/2.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/2.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Marcus (continued) (96-05-07 04:22:01)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Marcus (continued)

+96-05-07 04:22:01
+
We're all hiding something or other.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/20.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/20.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/20.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Having fun? (96-05-09 01:48:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Having fun?

+96-05-09 01:48:16
+
"Are you having fun? Or has it all become a demon that must be fed?"
+
+Yes.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/21.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/21.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/21.html
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Some Questions (96-05-09 01:49:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Some Questions

+96-05-09 01:49:43
+
1.  How far will Delenn and sheridans relationship go?
+
+You'll find out in the two parter, to a large extent.
+
+2.  Why are the shadows attacking everyone?
+
+Good question.  We'll get that by season's end.
+
+3.  Is B4 going to become a big part of the storyline?
+
+In a sense.
+
+4.  Do the vorlons have a large amount of ships?
+
+Depends on your perspective.
+
+5.  Is B5 going to be renewed?
+
+We remain cautiously optimistic.
+
+jms
+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/22.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/22.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Delenn/G'Kar  in Tea (96-05-11 05:11:59)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Delenn/G'Kar  in Tea

+96-05-11 05:11:59
+
In most cases, if it's a critical scene, I make it a point to be there to
+make sure it's correct. If, however, it's a very emotional scene, I tend to
+stay away, and let the actor find the emotional core of the scene without
+seeing me lurking in the BG.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/23.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/23.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Curious About Writing (96-05-11 05:13:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Curious About Writing

+96-05-11 05:13:49
+
No scripts are in hand for next season, in any form; this is always the case
+each year as we wrap production.  We wait for WB to renew the show, then
+provide a script order.  Once we have the script order in hand, scripts get
+going.  If it's a freelance script, going from first meeting through 2 drafts
+of the outline, 2 drafts of the script, it takes about a month, plus the time
+I spend revising it; if I write it myself, it's a lot less time, because I
+know the show more than any freelancer can be reasonably expected to.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/24.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/24.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+I&E Spoiler Q's (96-05-11 05:14:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
I&E Spoiler Q's

+96-05-11 05:14:49
+
I think Kosh realized that some things have to be, and that as we've said
+from the start, there is always a price to pay.
+
+As for writing letters, copying WB as well as the local station is always a
+good idea.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/25.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/25.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/25.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Some Questions (96-05-11 05:15:33)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Some Questions

+96-05-11 05:15:33
+
No plans for Takashima; the highest rating is a P12; and the Vorlons still
+have their part to play.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/26.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/26.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/26.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Rangers obsolete? (96-05-11 05:16:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rangers obsolete?

+96-05-11 05:16:11
+
The job of the Rangers takes on a different aspect now that stuff is in the
+open, at least to some extent; you'll find it by season's end.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/27.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/27.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Ivanova's Emblem (96-05-11 05:17:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Ivanova's Emblem

+96-05-11 05:17:18
+
It's certainly a return to more traditional Russian history; the Russian
+Consortium is pretty much no longer socialist in any way, though it's still
+vastly inefficient.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/28.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/28.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/28.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Keeping Track (96-05-12 04:12:19)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Keeping Track

+96-05-12 04:12:19
+
Freelance writers know stuff on a need-to-know basis.  Yes, there's a general
+outline for the whole series, but as a rule, I just kinda keep it all in my
+head...a dark and scary place that nobody'd ever enter anyway.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/29.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/29.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/29.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:  About Franklin . .  (96-05-12 04:13:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
JMS:  About Franklin . . 

+96-05-12 04:13:09
+
Franklin would be off the council for a while; he has to go and figure his
+life out first.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/3.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/3.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/3.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Renewal (96-05-07 04:22:57)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Renewal

+96-05-07 04:22:57
+
We'll know by the middle or end of this month; it's 50/50 because of the
+changing economics of the syndication marketplace right now.  It's all nuts
+at the moment.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/30.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/30.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/30.html
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+On Questions, from jms (96-05-12 04:19:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
On Questions, from jms

+96-05-12 04:19:52
+
If I can make a suggestion....
+
+Please try to avoid packing a message with 5, 7 or 10 questions or more; the
+odds are that I won't be able to answer all of them, or even most of them.
+The problem with the AOL interface is that if I use the Read New command,
+once it pops up, if I log off the point where I came in is lost.  If I take a
+long time to answer 7 questions in one message, the odds are good that I'll
+either get bumped or have to go do B5 stuff and won't get to the other
+messages/questions, and it's hard to backtrack afterward.  It's also a bit
+more than I find manageable, given that when you combine all the services I'm
+on, about 500 messages per day flit in front of my corneas.
+
+So if we could keep the questions down to just a couple per message, it'd
+help me a lot.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/31.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/31.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/31.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Questions (96-05-12 23:43:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Questions

+96-05-12 23:43:26
+
I've never operated from any other perspective other than that we will finish
+this story.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/32.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/32.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/32.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Questions (96-05-12 23:44:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
Questions

+96-05-12 23:44:08
+
We might run into the technomages again, yes....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/33.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/33.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/33.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: A few more questions (96-05-12 23:44:51)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
JMS: A few more questions

+96-05-12 23:44:51
+
The vorlons will become more active, but in a curious way...and there are
+some more White Star class ships, yes....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/34.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/34.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/34.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Contingency plan (96-05-12 23:45:22)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS: Contingency plan

+96-05-12 23:45:22
+
See my note two messages up.
+
+And yes, all filming for this season is done.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/35.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/35.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/35.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Lyta (96-05-12 23:45:51)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
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+

+
Lyta

+96-05-12 23:45:51
+
Lyta was off-station running an errand for Kosh.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/36.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/36.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/36.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+A three-edge sword (96-05-12 23:46:19)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
A three-edge sword

+96-05-12 23:46:19
+
The three edges: your side, my side, and the truth in between.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/37.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/37.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Question and other Stuff (96-05-12 23:46:55)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Question and other Stuff

+96-05-12 23:46:55
+
No, Centauri women are bald by choice, to show their disdain for the
+showiness of the males.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/38.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/38.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+A Tell JMS mess. (96-05-12 23:47:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
A Tell JMS mess.

+96-05-12 23:47:36
+
Thanks...it's an obsession, and the encouragement helps.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/39.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/39.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Kudos and Question (96-05-12 23:48:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Kudos and Question

+96-05-12 23:48:32
+
Humor is where we find it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/4.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/4.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B5 legal status (96-05-07 04:23:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 legal status

+96-05-07 04:23:30
+
No, you only send an ambassador if you recognize something as legitimate, and
+EA will never recognize an independent B5.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/40.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/40.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+one of... (96-05-13 03:54:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
one of...

+96-05-13 03:54:16
+
{Are the Shadow Ships more sensitive to pain than the Vorlon
+ships?}
+
+I suppose you could say they are, yes....
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/41.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/41.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Re; Interludes (96-05-14 03:49:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Re; Interludes

+96-05-14 03:49:32
+
You'll see the new Vorlon within the first few new episodes, whenever they
+air.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/42.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/42.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Advancing the relationshi (96-05-14 03:50:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Advancing the relationshi

+96-05-14 03:50:43
+
I think they're still testing how they feel toward one another; if theydon'
+feel what they think they might feel, it's all a moot point and not
+worth
+their pursuit; if indeed there's something there, they have to decide that,
+then look at the other aspects.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/43.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/43.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+I&E ?- ATTN JMS (96-05-14 03:51:51)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
I&E ?- ATTN JMS

+96-05-14 03:51:51
+
I never said we'd see Lyta in I&E, so I can't answer that.  As for how this
+affects her relationship with the new ambassador...isn't it better to see it
+than have me just answer it?
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/44.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/44.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+SERIOUS Delenn problems!! (96-05-14 03:52:36)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
SERIOUS Delenn problems!!

+96-05-14 03:52:36
+
Delenn's been holding back.  More than she should.  There will be a price.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/45.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/45.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Warners & Paramount (96-05-14 03:53:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Warners & Paramount

+96-05-14 03:53:10
+
You would sooner get a mongoose and a python setting up house together in a
+cottage by the sea.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/46.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/46.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Interludes... (96-05-15 03:09:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Interludes...

+96-05-15 03:09:44
+
When they shot the scene itself...no, not a lot of emotion in the Kosh
+sequence in his quarters, because it was all very technical, bits and pieces.
+But in the hallway scene with Sheridan, and the later scene with Delenn and
+the others...yes, very much so.
+
+It was *extremely* difficult to write.  As a writer, the only way to evoke a
+feeling in your audience is to feel it yourself and communicate that honestly
+in the text.  It was just awful.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/47.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/47.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+delenn's clothes (96-05-15 03:11:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
delenn's clothes

+96-05-15 03:11:20
+
There hasn't been much occasion to drag out the little black number in a
+while.  But yes, she has new clothes along the way...the green dress she
+wears in "War" for instance, and over the course of seasons, she's gotten new
+clothes quite often, moreso than just about anyone else, really.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/48.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/48.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/48.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Everything (96-05-15 03:13:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Everything

+96-05-15 03:13:24
+
There will be models...in the fullness of time.
+
+As to sitting back and looking at the show...right now, I'm still way too
+close to it to do that.  When I look at any of the episodes, all I see are
+the flaws.  The things that could've been better.  Stuff nobody else notices,
+but I know it's there.  In time, I'll be able to look at them objectively,
+but not this soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/49.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/49.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d3f0a74a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/49.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Direct Marketing Concern (96-05-15 03:15:12)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Direct Marketing Concern

+96-05-15 03:15:12
+
I already answered your question posted here in email.  To repeat what I said
+then....
+
+The fan club will be selling only a very few items, most of it designated as
+fan club stuff (i.e., "Babylon 5 Fan Club" t-shirts or posters), on a limited
+scale.  It won't be producing nearly enough to cause even a blip in the
+direct marketplace arena.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/5.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/5.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/5.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+After the Series (96-05-07 04:24:33)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
After the Series

+96-05-07 04:24:33
+
That period is so far outside my ability to even see right now that it's
+beyond my ken.  The show is all I can see right now.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/50.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/50.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Wordsmith-WWE-I (96-05-15 03:17:43)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Wordsmith-WWE-I

+96-05-15 03:17:43
+
Actually, both those questions are answered in the next installment, so I'll
+let that answer for me.
+
+Yeah, I lov language, the way it can snake around behind you and turn into
+something else when you're not looking.  The alchemy of metaphor and the
+well-chosen allusion.  Banging words together is half the fun.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/51.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/51.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATTN: JMS -- Hootch? (96-05-16 03:06:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
ATTN: JMS -- Hootch?

+96-05-16 03:06:14
+
It takes a lot of alcohol to have an effect on them...but they enjoy it when
+they do.  Meanwhile, in moderate amounts, it just makes them happy.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/52.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/52.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Old shows (96-05-16 03:06:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Old shows

+96-05-16 03:06:40
+
Tapes will eventually be available.  No reruns of first season for now.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/53.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/53.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/53.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: parents and children (96-05-16 03:07:11)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: parents and children

+96-05-16 03:07:11
+
"where are all the moms?"
+
+Good note, and good catch.  I'll have to get into this more.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/54.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/54.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Dr.Who- Opinions JMS? (96-05-16 03:08:31)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Dr.Who- Opinions JMS?

+96-05-16 03:08:31
+
I rather enjoyed it; some of the story needed a bit of work, and the woman
+doctor was annoying at times, but I think they got a *great* actor for the
+doctor, and pilots are always uneven.  I hope they go forward; I'll watch.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/55.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/55.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Great war (96-05-16 03:09:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Great war

+96-05-16 03:09:09
+
Yes, the shadow war was never meant to consume the entire emphasis of the
+show.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/56.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/56.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/56.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Second B5 CD (96-05-17 03:59:00)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Second B5 CD

+96-05-17 03:59:00
+
I've heard, on tape, the first 15 minutes of the new CD, and it's great.
+Figure about July or so, to give Chris time to get it down just the way he
+wants it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/57.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/57.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Small critique of WWE par (96-05-17 04:00:01)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Small critique of WWE par

+96-05-17 04:00:01
+
Yep, it was misspelled, and it wasn't misspelled in the script.  When I saw
+that on the final tape, it was too late to correct it for this airing.  It'll
+be corrected later.  (Somebody wasn't being careful when they did the
+captioning.)
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/58.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/58.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+WWE spoiler question (96-05-18 04:20:40)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WWE spoiler question

+96-05-18 04:20:40
+
I'd rather let part 2 get into what exactly happened to Centauri Prime....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/59.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/59.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/59.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Ivanova and The 3rd  (96-05-18 04:21:45)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Ivanova and The 3rd 

+96-05-18 04:21:45
+
{What happened to the "Third age of Mankind" in the opening narration?
+Is its lack of any importance?}
+
+No, that'll likely show up again in year four....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/6.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/6.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Michael York (96-05-07 04:25:46)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Michael York

+96-05-07 04:25:46
+
We look around for who might be right for the role, and then who of that is
+available and within our price range.  Sometimes the actor doesn't come in,
+if the actor has a lot of credits, but most will audition.  Then we make our
+selection.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/60.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/60.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/60.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+the Whamy Kiss (96-05-18 04:22:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
the Whamy Kiss

+96-05-18 04:22:35
+
There's always hope...as you'll see in part two.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/61.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/61.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b3faefb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/61.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+A Question... (96-05-18 04:23:21)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
A Question...

+96-05-18 04:23:21
+
Usually you only get the main war council and the support staff who monitor
+the progress of the war; the ambassadors were called in on Sheridan's hunch
+that now the vorlons would get involved.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/62.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/62.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/62.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Over the top? (96-05-18 04:25:21)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Over the top?

+96-05-18 04:25:21
+
No, I don't laugh about it...it's always an interesting, sometimes
+fascinating process.  If there were any consistent error I've seen, it's the
+tendency to focus on the little tiny things, and thus miss the big things
+I've just wheeled onto the stage in full view.  If you're going to do this
+show right, you have to play fair; so the person standing way in the
+background of a scene, just passing by, an extra, isn't likely to be very
+important, for instance...but people seem to leap after that one.  I
+sometimes get cute in my foreshadowing, but I try not to be obscure.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/63.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/63.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/63.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Mira on SciFi Buzz (96-05-18 04:25:52)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Mira on SciFi Buzz

+96-05-18 04:25:52
+
The clip they showed was from "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/64.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/64.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/64.html
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Two Questions (96-05-19 04:19:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Two Questions

+96-05-19 04:19:14
+
"1.  In the unthinkable, will you wrap up the storyline this season, or is
+that too late?"
+
+After the conclusion of this season, there are basically 3 major movements
+remaining in the symphony (for lack of a better description).  They fit
+comfortably in 2 seasons, leaving room to do the usual routine of starting
+each season with 4-5 standalones, and layering in other standalones along the
+way, some non-arc personal stories, and so on.
+
+If they came to me, put a gun to my head and said, "Okay, year four is it,
+wrap it up," yes, it could be done.  You just yank out the standalones and
+interstitial stuff I put between major movements, and shove the three pieces
+together.  It's not what I'd *prefer*, obviously, but it could be done.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/65.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/65.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Real JMS please stand up? (96-05-19 04:21:20)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Real JMS please stand up?

+96-05-19 04:21:20
+
"Sitting here reading the spoilers, questions, comments and answers with my
+husband.  He doesn't believe its you answering these comments.  I, on the
+other hand, never thought about it."
+
+If the message has my initials on it, assuming it's not an imposter like the
+jerk who wandered into an IRC the other day...it's me, and ONLY me.  You'll
+note the writing style is always the same in every message, and elsewhere.
+I'd never entrust this to an assistant or anything similar, because I'd get
+the rap if something incorrect were said..and nobody else knows the show as I
+do.
+
+It's me.
+
+Whether that's good or bad remains to be seen.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/66.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/66.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ Just another compliment: (96-05-19 04:24:47)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Just another compliment:

+96-05-19 04:24:47
+
"One would find it hard to believe that episodes like "Severed Dreams",
+"I&E","A Late Delvery From Avalon" and of course, WWE could be written by the
+same guy.  The pace, dialog, everything are adapted so well for each
+episode."
+
+Suddenly I'm having an identity crisis....
+
+I like to try different styles for different moods.  I also like to vary the
+tone of the show; one will be more comedic, as with Sic Transit Vir, others
+much darker, like Ship of Tears.  I enjoy trying new things, risking a bit,
+failing on occasion, but learning in the process.
+
+"You previsouly said that after B5 you would get "back" to writing.  What in
+Gods name are you doing now?  If this isn't writing, I sure as heck don't now
+what is."
+
+Actually, the theory would be to get back into writing novels and plays,
+assuming B5 runs its full course.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/67.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/67.html
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Blown Away by WWEI (96-05-19 04:25:33)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Blown Away by WWEI

+96-05-19 04:25:33
+
Thanks...I think you'll approve of part 2 as well.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/68.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/68.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/68.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Renewed? (96-05-19 04:26:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Renewed?

+96-05-19 04:26:27
+
We should get word on renewal in a couple weeks, give or take.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/69.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/69.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/69.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+foreshadowing (96-05-20 04:49:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
foreshadowing

+96-05-20 04:49:53
+
Some folks catch double-meanings when they're there...some don't...some find
+double meanings when they're *not* there.  Art is a participatory sport.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/7.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/7.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+jms?monkmusic? (96-05-07 04:26:21)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
jms?monkmusic?

+96-05-07 04:26:21
+
No, the music was the music, it wouldn't change by the hearer.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/70.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/70.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/70.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+1 big question (96-05-20 04:50:22)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
1 big question

+96-05-20 04:50:22
+
Vorlon/Shadow tech is more or less at the same level; the Vorlons had the
+benefit of surprise.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/71.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/71.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/71.html
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Offhand lines... (96-05-20 04:52:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Offhand lines...

+96-05-20 04:52:02
+
"In WWE(1)I noticed a larger than usual group of offhand lines (ethel
+&.../wait in car.../cool-you know what I'm talking about).  Was this
+scripted?  Or was someone just ad libbing?"
+
+There's almost NO ad-libbing allowed on the show.  You can't change a word
+unless someone comes to my office and approves it, and it can't change the
+meaning.  (I.e., the actor is having a hard time saying "shibboleth" or
+something.)  Everything said in this show is scripted, offhand comments
+included.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/72.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/72.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/72.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+WWE/I (96-05-20 04:52:32)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WWE/I

+96-05-20 04:52:32
+
Incidental voices of just a line or two, for a one-time or so character,
+don't often get credited under SAG rules.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/73.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/73.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/73.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+"Are You Alright?" (96-05-20 04:53:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
"Are You Alright?"

+96-05-20 04:53:02
+
It's a lot of different things, including what's coming in part two.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/74.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/74.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/74.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Second Letter (96-05-20 04:53:27)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
The Second Letter

+96-05-20 04:53:27
+
Wait and see.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/75.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/75.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/75.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+B-5 fan Club (96-05-20 04:54:42)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B-5 fan Club

+96-05-20 04:54:42
+
Stuff will start going out soon.  For one thing, we're getting a crush of
+memberships, and rather than keep sending out dribs and drabs, we're trying
+to do stuff all at once to make it simpler for mailing, copying, printing and
+the like.  The first newsletter is finished, and should be going out shortly,
+and the poster is being somewhat redesigned 'cause I wasn't quite happy with
+what we had, it could be improved, and that's what we're doing.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/76.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/76.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/76.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Congratulations from the  (96-05-20 04:56:00)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Congratulations from the 

+96-05-20 04:56:00
+
Thanks, I appreciate that....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/77.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/77.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/77.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+To JMS - telepaths abound (96-05-20 04:57:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
To JMS - telepaths abound

+96-05-20 04:57:17
+
This question will be dealt with by the season's end.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/78.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/78.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+WWE-1 (96-05-20 04:58:01)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WWE-1

+96-05-20 04:58:01
+
I've begun to point to the question of "why," and thus having pointed to it,
+intend to answer it, by season's end.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/79.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/79.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/79.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Oh, Lucy, I'm Home.... (96-05-20 04:58:17)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Oh, Lucy, I'm Home....

+96-05-20 04:58:17
+
Justine: thanks....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/8.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/8.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f1454e39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/8.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS-B5 Origins? (96-05-07 04:28:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS-B5 Origins?

+96-05-07 04:28:35
+
The story kind of came in all at once; and yes, in a way, it's the story I've
+been preparing to write from day one.  The eclectic, weird background I have
+is what enables me to tell this story this way.  This is, I think, my seminal
+work in the field.  To invoke greater names for a moment, Heinlein wrote lots
+of books, but he's known for Stranger in a Strange Land; Frank Herbert wrote
+lots of books, but he's known for Dune.  I've done a lot before this, and
+hope to do a lot after, but I suspect that this is what I'll be most known
+for when it's all said and done.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/80.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/80.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/80.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Speaking of pawns... (96-05-20 19:25:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Speaking of pawns...

+96-05-20 19:25:07
+
The shadows looked for Morden's opinion; he's an advisor, in a sense, on
+lower-species politics.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/81.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/81.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/81.html
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:  The Scar? (96-05-20 19:25:54)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
JMS:  The Scar?

+96-05-20 19:25:54
+
He got the scar while doing his training of rangers on Minbar.
+
+jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/82.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/82.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/82.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+suggestion for plugging B (96-05-26 01:14:23)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
suggestion for plugging B

+96-05-26 01:14:23
+
We've contacted Howard's people, who say that because he likes the show so
+much, he doesn't want the folks to do his show because he'd have to rag on
+them by virtue of the nature of the show, and doesn't really want to do that.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/83.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/83.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..632ed8cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/83.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+to JMS (96-05-26 01:15:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
to JMS

+96-05-26 01:15:03
+
You'll be hearing more about the resistance a bit down the road.  And thanks.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/84.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/84.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..35ba941f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/84.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Thanks and a Question.. (96-05-26 01:17:18)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Thanks and a Question..

+96-05-26 01:17:18
+
"Would YOU categorize Babylon 5 as a Science Fiction show, or a Drama?  I
+know that it is set in a Science Fiction setting, but the storylines and such
+are really, I think, in the Drama category.  What do you think?"
+
+I have no problem calling it a science fiction, or SF (which also includes
+speculative fiction) show.  I know a number of writers in TV who hate the
+term, deny that what they're doing is SF, but I'm proud that it's SF, and
+would definitely classify it as such.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/85.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/85.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8f5c826a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/85.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Seasons episodes (96-05-26 01:18:03)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Seasons episodes

+96-05-26 01:18:03
+
Re: the cliffhanger season 3 ending...I'd rather air it in Summer also...but
+the choice ain't mine.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/86.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/86.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/86.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Metamorphosis device (96-05-26 01:20:15)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Metamorphosis device

+96-05-26 01:20:15
+
The chrysalis device originally came from Epsilon 3 with the other equipment;
+this should've been showcased more visually, but there was so much going
+on...
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/87.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/87.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b3cb3f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/87.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Three questions (96-05-26 01:21:34)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Three questions

+96-05-26 01:21:34
+
Claudia wears one earring to remember her real brother, and Ivanova's
+brother, who passed away.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/88.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/88.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..619936d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/88.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+  Praise for JMS. (96-05-26 01:22:44)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
  Praise for JMS.

+96-05-26 01:22:44
+
Thanks, we try.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/89.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/89.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5a562ef7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/89.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Who was that? (96-05-30 04:07:30)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Who was that?

+96-05-30 04:07:30
+
You'll have to wait and see who entered the room.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/9.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/9.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..23c4d794
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/9.html
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS at home (96-05-07 04:34:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS at home

+96-05-07 04:34:35
+
"I'm assuming when you are the creator/writer/executive producer of a running
+series that you must spend an enormous amount of time either "doing" things
+related to it or "thinking" about things related to it."
+
+Absolutely.  Even when I'm not actively working on it, it comes up constantly
+in conversation, or in other ways.  It never goes away, and I'm always
+jotting down notes for future use.
+
+"How does this affect your lifestyle?  Can one be in your position and still
+have a personal life - or is literally everything you do somehow involved
+with, wrapped up in or connected to "the series"?"
+
+Not if you're going to be this involved with the process.  It's really a 24
+hour a day job.  I haven't seen a movie at a theater in the 8 months
+preceding the wrap; haven't gone to a party except the B5 christmas and wrap
+parties in about a year.  For the six years it'll take to make this show --
+you count the pilot and post-production on the last year -- I went into this
+knowing that my personal life would pretty much go to hell for that period of
+time.  The show is the single dominant concern; has to be, or it won't be
+done right.  
+
+"Are you able to go out and have a good time and not think about anything to
+do with B5, or is it always there, in the back of your mind?"
+
+It's always there.
+
+"I very much admire what you do, but feel it must, at some point, drive you a
+little nuts........"
+
+Sometimes, but only a little.  I fought for 5 years to get this show on the
+air; it's a great privilege, and a terrible responsibility; WB has entrusted
+me to do this properly, and that's a great compliment.  In the media, it's
+unspeakably rare to get one singular vision on the air, without compromise or
+committee...I'm not *about* to complain about the hours.  I've got absolutely
+no grounds to complain about ANYthing.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/90.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/90.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+A Few (96-05-30 04:07:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
A Few

+96-05-30 04:07:53
+
The Vorlons were called in after B4 arrived.
+
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/91.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/91.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+WWE writing (96-05-30 04:09:02)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
WWE writing

+96-05-30 04:09:02
+
Thanks.  Actually, I keep hearing about B5 screenings becoming social events
+on an ever more regular basis.  Sometimes to "convert," sometimes to catch
+'em off satellite, or just watch them on a big screen.  I think it's great.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/92.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/92.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+G'kar of future (96-05-30 04:09:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
G'kar of future

+96-05-30 04:09:58
+
Yes, one of his eyes had been plucked out some time before.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/93.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/93.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS:  wwe I & II (96-05-30 04:10:41)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
JMS:  wwe I & II

+96-05-30 04:10:41
+
Barb: thanks, and thanks for working with your local station.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/94.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/94.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Flashforward (96-05-30 04:11:24)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Flashforward

+96-05-30 04:11:24
+
It'd be hard to work in what everybody else saw in an episode down the
+road...that becomes difficult from a story perspective.  "By the way, y'know,
+when we were on B4, I saw the darndest thing..."
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/95.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/95.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS: Writing for Babylon  (96-05-30 04:12:10)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
JMS: Writing for Babylon 

+96-05-30 04:12:10
+
Thanks.  We don't take any kind of story ideas, or spec scripts, however.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/96.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/96.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+ATTN JMS:  Please Read... (96-05-30 04:14:28)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
ATTN JMS:  Please Read...

+96-05-30 04:14:28
+
Thanks, and I remain happy to be here.
+
+On the writing and the scenes you cite...a story, *any* story, should be
+designed not just to take you through the mechanics of a plot, but to make
+you *feel* something.  Those, for me, are the elements I look for when I
+watch something, and when I write something.  If I'm not on the verge or
+tears in writing Kosh's fate, you won't be that way watching it.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/97.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/97.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Remote Control (96-05-30 04:16:07)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Remote Control

+96-05-30 04:16:07
+
That's an absolutely *wonderful* story!  Thank you for passing it along.
+
+But tell your co-worker to always duck *first*.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/98.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/98.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Cousin Brucie! (96-05-30 04:16:37)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Cousin Brucie!

+96-05-30 04:16:37
+
Yep, that was Cousin Brucie.
+
+And Melissa appears later this season.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/aol96-05/99.html b/find/America-Online/aol96-05/99.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS-A Great Story! (96-05-30 04:18:14)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
JMS-A Great Story!

+96-05-30 04:18:14
+
Thanks (actually, to you and those in-between who posted such nice comments;
+they're much appreciated).
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/1.html b/find/America-Online/latest/1.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Wimp Postcript (96-07-09 16:50:53)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Next
+

+
Wimp Postcript

+96-07-09 16:50:53
+
I suggest you see what we actually DO with the show, and that relationship,
+before making either conclusions or threats or overall statements.  
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/10.html b/find/America-Online/latest/10.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Production Resumption (96-07-09 17:23:58)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Production Resumption

+96-07-09 17:23:58
+
We start shooting on year 4 on August 26th.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/11.html b/find/America-Online/latest/11.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Help in Philly!?! (96-07-10 03:58:35)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Help in Philly!?!

+96-07-10 03:58:35
+
I've heard that they're working hard on Philly, but don't have any details
+yet.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/12.html b/find/America-Online/latest/12.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+The Babylon project RPG (96-07-11 01:14:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
The Babylon project RPG

+96-07-11 01:14:08
+
No, we consult with and give direction to all B5 licensees.  And the RPG is
+coming out from Wireframe/Chameleon.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/13.html b/find/America-Online/latest/13.html
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@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Books (96-07-11 01:14:49)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Books

+96-07-11 01:14:49
+
Dell just picked up the license to produce 3 more books, so they should be
+out probably by the end of the year or so.
+
+jms
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/2.html b/find/America-Online/latest/2.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+JMS how is it done? (96-07-09 16:54:54)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
JMS how is it done?

+96-07-09 16:54:54
+
In general, I work out the elements of each race that tends to distinguish it
+from the others as an overall unit (in which there can be some variation, I
+don't believe in totally monolithic, all-the-same races), and play those
+throughout; I also create the aspects of each individual character within
+that as a subset.  Whe I write, I just have that info in the background, and
+let the characters take me with them.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/3.html b/find/America-Online/latest/3.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Thank You JMS (96-07-09 16:56:16)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Thank You JMS

+96-07-09 16:56:16
+
Thanks...I try.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/4.html b/find/America-Online/latest/4.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/latest/4.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+What a kiss! (96-07-09 16:57:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
What a kiss!

+96-07-09 16:57:09
+
Yeah, it was a sneaky way of having a first kiss and *not* having a first
+kiss, all at the same time.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/5.html b/find/America-Online/latest/5.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/latest/5.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+please more women (96-07-09 16:58:26)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
please more women

+96-07-09 16:58:26
+
We plan to bring at least one other woman character in as a recurring
+character next season, and do more with the female characters we already
+have.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/6.html b/find/America-Online/latest/6.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/latest/6.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+I'm here.... (96-07-09 17:00:55)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
I'm here....

+96-07-09 17:00:55
+
...and taking care of some of the backlog, as best I can.  It's a lot to
+catch up on.  Things just got nuts, as they will do on a show like this.
+Address any other notes to the #9 ask jms section, as this one's about to
+fill up, I think.  Sorry for the absence...
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/7.html b/find/America-Online/latest/7.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/latest/7.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Attn JMS: arc/writing que (96-07-09 17:09:50)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Attn JMS: arc/writing que

+96-07-09 17:09:50
+
This is one of those questions that's kind of like asking the magician to
+tell you where that rabbit REALLY came from...and to look at the alternate
+universe possibiliities of the story, and I'm just barely adequate to keep
+THIS story going without looking at all the permutations, which would just
+make me get confused and fall down....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/8.html b/find/America-Online/latest/8.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/latest/8.html
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+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Rumours (96-07-09 17:13:09)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rumours

+96-07-09 17:13:09
+
"I just heard a Rumour from one fan; he mentioned that **you** were
+interested in continuing development of Space: Above and Beyond on the WB
+Network (Fox just cancelled it), and that you were going to tie in the Chigs
+with one of the secondary races of B5...in an "alternate" fashion."
+
+Funniest thing I've heard all day.....
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/9.html b/find/America-Online/latest/9.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/latest/9.html
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From:  Jms at B5       
+
+
+Story Line Suggestions (96-07-09 17:23:08)
+
+
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Story Line Suggestions

+96-07-09 17:23:08
+
"As a cure for the creative souls among us, may I humbly offer the following
+suggestion: create a new folder strictly for B5 Fan Fiction"
+
+Absolutely positively no way.  
+
+Yes, the B5 storyline is set.  Could we win any case in court?  Yes.  Do I
+want to spend three years of my life or thereabouts giving depositions,
+talking to lawyers, and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and the
+aggravation involved in all this?  No.  Not because somebody wants to toss
+out a story idea and later decide he wants to sue.  
+
+No fan fiction, no story ideas.  Or I'm outta here.  That's tough to say, and
+to hear, but that's the only request I make in exchange for being here.
+
+jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/America-Online/latest/dummy.html b/find/America-Online/latest/dummy.html
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+++ b/find/America-Online/latest/dummy.html
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+just a listtle dummy fiel to make the searches happy.
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ10.html b/find/Answers/answ10.html
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+
+   How does the narration relate to the telling of the story?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  opening  narration  future  history  past  tense
+

+

+
   How does the narration relate to the telling of the story?

+

+     My sense is that we have Sinclair narrating from some point in the
+future.  The transition of grammar takes place as we push into the station.
+from the outside in.  This was the last of the Babylon stations, and this
+particular segment of it is set in 2258.  (Season two would say, "The year is
+2259."  And so on.)
+

+     Many here will remember a show called "You Are There."  The usual
+narrator would say, paraphrasing here but keeping the grammar, "The year 1776
+was crucial to our nation's history.  The founding fathers were on the brink
+of declaring independence.  It's a moment of great importance.   The year is
+1776...and You Are There."  It's along those lines.  The purpose of the
+narrative changes to transition us into the story.
+

+     The tense shifts are intentional, and go with the scenes we're seeing.
+They're *supposed* to shift, with the visuals, in order to bring us into the
+present from the future, at which point this story is being introduced.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ100.html b/find/Answers/answ100.html
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+
+   How big is the Earth Alliance?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ea  earth  bronze  mars  moon  colony  io  centauri
+

+

+
   How big is the Earth Alliance?

+

+     The EA is fairly large, but not on a par with the Centauri at this point.
+There are various space platforms/colonies, colonies on the Moon, Mars, a
+major transfer point off Io...they've gone in and "helped" a number of
+bronze-tech worlds (that happened to have certain resources useful to EA), and
+are generally spreading like mice in a cheese factory.
+

+     You are correct in that the Earth Alliance consists in the main of
+humans.  Aliens are generally not integrated into the system, except in very
+low-level stuff.  (In some bronze-tech worlds where humans have come in and
+pulled an India/England relationship, you may have colonial governors who are
+native aliens, but are basically puppets.)  There's more than just Mars, Earth
+and the Sol colonies; there are a number of other worlds and systems out there
+into which Earth has made a dent.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ101.html b/find/Answers/answ101.html
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+
+   Will we be seeing Earth, or what's been happening on Earth, during
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  earth  politics  senate  nation  state  earthdome
+

+

+
   Will we be seeing Earth, or what's been happening on Earth, during

+        the series?
+

+     While we will not be *seeing* much of Earth in B5 (as in going there).
+what's going on back home will be a *constant* undercurrent to the series.
+You'll learn a lot about the state of Earth in 2258 in our universe during the
+course of the series.
+

+     Actually, my plan is to show a *lot* of what's happening back on Earth.
+because that will tie into what happens on B5.  Social changes, politics.
+religion, sports...again, this relates to one of the themes of B5 from my
+point of view, the continuance of our species,the thread that connects our
+past, our present and our future.  And again, that's something that'll become
+fairly evident from episode one on.
+

+     The questions concerned B5 and the political situation on Earth at this
+time.  Back home, there is an Earth Senate, which is made up of elected
+representatives from each nation-state; the larger and more powerful the
+nation, the more reps they get.  Which annoys the smaller nations no end. (And
+there's quite a bit of conflict between them; the smaller nation-states, with
+limited resources, keep grousing about why they should support B5 financially.
+as well as other space endeavors, when their economy really isn't set up to
+take as much advantage of the situation as the larger nation-states.
+

+     The Earth government -- located in Earthdome -- is basically a republic,
+with reps from each nation serving as senators or in other capacities.
+

+     Earthdome is on Earth.  In what used to be Geneva.
+

+     And of course there still *are* conflicts between Earth countries at the
+time of B5.  Including conflicts over space.  In a news broadcast featured
+prominently in the upcoming two-parter, because of another item in the
+broadcast that's important for that episode, it's noted that the
+representatives in Earthdome from several countries have pulled out in protest
+on the grounds that since they do not benefit equally from the exploitation of
+space, they should not be expected or required to help pay for it on an equal
+basis as everyone else.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ102.html b/find/Answers/answ102.html
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+
+   Who funded the Babylon projects?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  fund  economy  ea  four
+

+

+
   Who funded the Babylon projects?

+

+     The Earth Alliance funded the first few attempts exclusively; after
+they'd dumped all their money into B4, they needed outside funding to get B5
+going, and the Minbari were first to contribute money as a show of good faith.
+Then the Centauri added additional funding.  Those are the only two other
+races that've contributed significantly.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Who founded the Babylon project?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  found  babylon
+

+

+
   Who founded the Babylon project?

+

+     David...what an absolutely wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
+question.
+

+     I think I'll answer this in an episode next season.
+

+     It's something that I've known, and just filed away, but yeah, this
+should be dealt with.  And I'll do so.  (Though now you have to wait to see it
+on TeeVee.)
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What is the rank system on B5 based on?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  rank  military  navy  air  badge  uniform
+

+

+
   What is the rank system on B5 based on?

+

+     On the theory that some of the militaries have blended, the system of
+ranks is kind of a cross between the navy and the air force (at least the ones
+with which our characters will have any interaction).
+

+     All Earthforce uniforms in this division are blue; EA marines are
+olive/brown; security and other NCO areas get grey.  Within those areas, it's
+further subdivided, and is distinguishable by the horizontal bars below the EA
+insignia.  Gold is command; silver is for command staff.  (Ivanova, being in
+between, has a divided bar, half gold and half silver.)  Red is medical, green
+is security.  Yellow is for science division.  The rank bars are on the
+shoulder.
+

+     Sinclair and other officers are pure EA military, so they get the EA pins
+on the chest.  (Also the techs wear them in the dome, and others in charge of
+various divisions.)  Security is under the jurisdiction of EA, but are a
+separate component, staffed under B5 financing.  These, and medical, and
+scientific and environmental and other areas have their own symbol, which is
+worn on their chest and shoulder.  You can tell who works for EA because they
+have the EA also on their shoulder, whereas those who are employed directly by
+B5 have the B5 symbol on their shoulder.
+

+     The patches connote specialization: command is a starburst, lines that
+radiate into every area; security is a gunsight/targeting symbol; medical is a
+stylized medicine symbol, and so on.
+

+     Sinclair and Ivanova wear their officer's bars on their epaulets; not the
+triangular part per se, but the bars at the very far end of the epaulet, below
+the triangles.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ earth  alliance  ea  administration  autonomy
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  earth  alliance  ea  administration  autonomy
+

+

+     In most everyday situations B5 operates fairly autonomously; EA doesn't
+generally get involved unless there's a very good reason.  And from time to
+time, they do.  That happens right off the bat in the pilot movie, where they
+stomp down hard.  They exercise other authority from time to time --
+"suggesting" that a group of Centauri representatives be given the VIP
+treatment in order to encourage them to invest and help to defray the cost of
+running B5 (an issue that never seems to come up in TV SF...just how much DOES
+the Enterprise cost to run?), and in the series, there's considerable conflict
+planned for down the road between those on B5 and the EA officials (especially
+since not everyone is 100% behind B5, and would love nothing more than to see
+it shut down).
+

+     Wheels within wheels...that's the secret.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ sinclair  administration  autonomy  earthdome
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sinclair  administration  autonomy  earthdome
+

+

+     Sinclair functions within the parameters of Earthforce Command, but much
+in the way as a provisional governor might function.  He is answerable both to
+his superior officers in Earthforce, *as well as* the Babylon 5 Senate
+Oversight and Appropriations Committee.  A senatorial liaison often works
+between Sinclair and Earthdome (the EA capital city).
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Is the Mars Colony independent, part of Earth Alliance, or what?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  mars  colony  ea
+

+

+
   Is the Mars Colony independent, part of Earth Alliance, or what?

+

+     The status of the Mars Colony is in considerable debate in B5's time.
+It's chafing under the EA's tight controls.  I wouldn't be surprised to see it
+try to secede at some point....
+

+     The Mars Colony situation will be raising its ugly head on and off again
+for quite some time to come.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ108.html b/find/Answers/answ108.html
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+
+   Names of squadrons of Starfuries?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  squadron  patch  fighter  starfury  line
+

+

+
   Names of squadrons of Starfuries?

+

+     BTW, for those who might be interested in such things...continuing the
+Earth tradition, all of our various fighter wings have their own names.  The
+fighter unit that Ivanova belongs to, for instance, is the Ghost Riders.  The
+name of Sinclair's Earth/Minbari War Fighter unit was Death's Hand.  We've had
+patches made of these and other insignia, which get used at appropriate
+moments on their flight suits in the cockpit.  (I don't remember offhand the
+name of the primary fighter unit on B5, which is technically Delta Wing, but
+it has a specific name beyond that, and it just fell out of my head.)
+

+     BTW, today I was gifted by some folks in B5 with a collection of some of
+the patches we've used on the fighter pilot suits.  You'll see these on the
+front breast and arms (both sides of each) of the suits, if only in the
+occasional glimpse.  Even though they'll probably never bee fully seen, we
+felt the need to make 'em real looking and finish them off to the last
+stitched detail.
+

+     These include the Earth Forces Off-World patch (gold-handled sword
+against a starburst within what looks like a cross between a mobius strip and
+human DNA), Earth Force Command (similar, but minus the starburst, with
+transverse red stripes against a black background), a B5 Fighter Wing Squadron
+patch (Flying Nightmares, B5FA-1013 on the outer ring, with a B5 symbol on the
+left side outlined by up-and-down red stripes, and on the right a black up and
+down stripe bordered by 2256), a rectangular Earth Alliance Fighter
+Identification patch (five-pointed command insignia circled by red and gold.
+overlaid with gold wings over Joe Straczynski), and the insignia worn by those
+on the Battle of the Line, a triangular patch with Star Fury on the upper left
+angle in silver on black, FA-23E in silver on black on the right upper angle.
+with the inner part of the triangle divided in two by a vertical silver
+stripe, blue on the left, gold on the right, over which is the design of one
+of the fighters in full accelleration, leaving trails behind it, with the
+squadron number 361st - TFS, with UGLY beneath it, and on the lower left angle
+of the patch, in black on silver, the words BUT WELL HUNG.
+

+     Which refers, of course, to the figher craft itself.
+

+     (They hang upside down prior to launch, you'll recall.)
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Telepaths are common in the B5 universe, but not in the our reality...
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  psi
+

+

+
   Telepaths are common in the B5 universe, but not in the our reality...

+

+     Interesting, innit, how they suddenly blossomed like that...?
+

+     The whole telepathy issue is an interesting one in the universe of B5.
+There have always been attempts to prove the existence of telepathy, but in
+general the findings have been inconclusive.  But about 125 years or so ago in
+B5's timeline (2100-2110 and thereabouts) the findings began suddenly to tilt.
+and full-blown telepaths began to be discovered.  There were some abortive and
+confused attempts to legislate around this, most of which failed or were
+overturned in various courts of law.  About 2150 or so, the government
+agencies that regulated and oversaw telepaths were rolled over into the newly
+established Psi Corps, which became a clearing house for locating.
+controlling, and licensing telepaths for commercial, some very restricted
+legal, and military purposes.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Why did Londo do the narration in the pilot?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  narration  pilot  opening  londo  history  third  age
+

+

+
   Why did Londo do the narration in the pilot?

+

+     Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two full
+acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+

+     But there are reasons for everything....
+

+     "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to humans, not
+sentient aliens including his own race.  Earthers.  Which was one reason (of
+many) I wanted his character to be the narrator, someone looking in from the
+outside.
+

+     As for the Third Age, it's -- oh, darn, look at the time, have to go....
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Where do psi-corps ratings come from?  What are their legal
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  psi  telepath  rating  legal  scan
+

+

+
   Where do psi-corps ratings come from?  What are their legal

+        restrictions?
+

+     Psi Corps ratings are assigned from within the Academy, based on test
+results and personal interviews/training.  Restrictions: NO unauthorized scans
+-- you need the permission of the person, tacit permission, or written
+permission of next of kin -- and no "dipping," going into other areas not
+relevant to the current scan.  In criminal cases, psi's may not scan
+defendants during a trial or before to determine guilt or innocence, as this
+violates the right of due process.  After a conviction, a psi may be called
+upon to function in various capactities (which will be seen in "The Quality of
+Mercy").  A psi *may* scan the victim of a crime unable to remember details of
+an attack, but that information must be backed up by physical evidence, or it
+is inadmissible.
+

+     The number of psi's in each category, from 1-12, gets rarer as you get
+higher.  Lots of folks have a minimal tendency, very few have any real talent.
+

+     A Psi-rating comes through training and examination of a person's skills
+over time.  Ivanova's mother never went through the full sequence to get
+rated.  (Although they generally don't bother with P1s through P2s, so she was
+at least a P3 or above, in terms of raw ability.)  A psi rating isn't
+hereditary.
+

+     No, the accused cannot ask for a psi to validate his or her innocence;
+the trial can ONLY proceed on the basis of evidence.  This is to prevent
+abuse, trials where a Psi looks at you and determines your guilt. When a life
+is at stake, you can't risk the possibility of some hidden agenda on the part
+of the telepath.  You'd have to use a telepath to verify the first telepath's
+scan, and on and on.  Best simply to exclude them from that aspect of the law.
+

+     We're going to be doing a lot on the Psi Corps toward the middle of the
+series, btw.  There's quite a bit in D.C. Fontana's new story, "Legacies," and
+in a script I just finished, "Mind War."  The more I play around with the
+notion of legalized, licensed telepaths, the more room there is for all kinds
+of intrigue.
+

+     As Walter says in "Mind War," about rogue telepaths, "Only Psi Cops are
+qualified to bring them down, so we're afforded greater...latitude."  (That's
+a paraphrase from memory.)
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ league  non-aligned  world  empire  security  council  un
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  league  non-aligned  world  empire  security  council  un
+

+

+     There are more aliens than just the 5 major groups.  In addition to them.
+there's *bunches* of oththe classification of the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds.  The Big Five constitute what is in essence the Security Counsel.
+while the rest are the General Assembly.  We will see these groups
+participating in that capacity in "Midnight."
+

+     It was Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, Vorlon Empire
+and Earth Alliance, for anyone keeping track.  And yes, most all of them have
+some other alien species within their sphere of direct influence.
+

+     Most of the non-aligned worlds have a less technologically advanced
+society, but mainly what constitutes membership in the Big 5 is the size of
+the government in question.  If it's just one planet and maybe a sister world
+or two, that's not enough to qualify.
+

+     The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+functions in much the same fashion as the Security Council and the General
+Assembly in the U.N.  The smaller worlds and alliances can't weild as much
+power as any of the Big Five.  Together, they as a group get a vote equal to
+one of the Big Five; they can deputize one of their number to speak for them
+and cast that vote, which can often break ties or create ties.  It is not a
+terribly equitible situation, but it was the only workable solution that would
+be accepted by the other Ambassadors.  We'll see them chafing at this in
+"Deathwalker."
+

+
+
+
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+
+ peace  war  status  alliance  centauri  narn  vorlon  minbari
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  peace  war  status  alliance  centauri  narn  vorlon  minbari
+

+

+     I'll have to be a little circumspect here (damn it, you're doing it
+again....).  The Narn Regime is not currently at war with the Centauri
+Republic, which occuped the Narn homeworld for nearly a century before finally
+being driven off by the Narn resistance.  Their resources depleted they are
+not currently in a position to make war on anyone; being naturally rather
+paranoid, and having just been more or less enslaved, they have a dread of
+other races getting together and possibly harming them, as well as a hunger
+for the technology that might protect them down the road (as Russia feared
+invasion its Eastern Front after WW2).
+

+     There's a rough alliance between the Earth Alliance and the Centauri.
+since theirs was the first race we encountered.  (They told us at that time
+that they were the biggest guys around, that they ran everything, that we were
+a lost colony of theirs...which eventually was disproven by genetic
+examination.  The rest of their claims were also BS.  They were trying to
+impress the natives.)
+

+     There's some movement toward making nice with the Minbari, but also a
+GREAT deal of resistance, given the recent war.
+

+     The Earth/Minbari war started with a Minbari first encounter (by us) that
+went tragically wrong and resulted in a firefight, in which the leader of the
+Grey Council was killed.
+

+     The attack killed the Minbari leader, head of the Grey Council, Dukhat.
+the most evolved and wise soul of all the Minbari.
+

+     The only questions I can remember...the vorlons have never fought a war
+with any other race.  (At least none has ever been recorded.)  And right now
+in the Minbari race there's a big split that took place after the
+Earth/Minbari war between the religious leaders and the military leaders.
+which culminated with the suicide of the Minbari commander at the conclusion
+of the war.  They've now arrived at an uneasy truce, but with time, who knows?
+

+     The minbari warrior caste leader who committed suicide rather than issue
+the surrender command was Sineval.
+

+     ...and as far as Kosh goes, better to have him where you can see him.
+than not.  They *are* a powerful group, and it wouldn't serve to ignore them.
+We courted them for 10 years for a first contact...and now we're stuck with
+them.
+

+     The Earth/Minbari war lasted almost five years.  The terms of surrender
+were conditional; there was to be no reparation.  It was simply a cessation of
+hostilities.  It was not a clear-cut issue of being beaten or doing the
+beating; it just stopped...which left a lot of people feeling about the same
+way some did after Vietnam.  Peace with honor?  Maybe, maybe not.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Has Earth been in other wars besides the Minbari war?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  earth  ea  war  dilgar  deathwalker
+

+

+
   Has Earth been in other wars besides the Minbari war?

+

+     Earth has fougth in some other conflicts, on a smaller scale; prior to
+the Earth/Minbari war, they came to the assistance of the Non-Aligned Worlds
+against a race known as the Dilgar, which devastated whole worlds.
+

+     The Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got into, soon
+after establishing a presence in space.  We mainly entered it to try and make
+a "rep" for ourselves, then got more morally involved when we saw what was
+going on.  That and the Minbari War are the only real major conflicts Earth
+has been involved with, and Earth was not directly at risk in the Dilgar war.
+though if they hadn't been stopped, that might have changed eventually.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What was the Centauri relationship to Earth?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  earth  ea  centauri
+

+

+
   What was the Centauri relationship to Earth?

+

+     The Centauri never really got around to us.  They've been in a decline
+for a long time; the Narn occupation was one of the last of their imperialist
+rampages.  Now they're pulling back further and further.  And also as re:
+Earth...space is big.  100 years ago, we weren't putting out any radio or
+television or microwave transmissions; they can't check EVERY planet.  We got
+overlooked for a long time by lots of different groups.
+

+     While we were in an agrarian state, and an early industrial state, we a)
+were of very little use, b) had little to offer, and c) came at a time when
+the Centauri were starting to fall back into isolationism just a bit.  The
+Narn had the misfortune to be strategically well located, had many resources
+the Centauri wanted, and provided other advantages.  One doesn't just conquer
+worlds helter-skelter; it takes time, money, effort and some blood to conquer
+worlds.  You only choose those which offer you enough to make the process
+worthwhile.  That simple.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Where in the galaxy is the station located?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  station  distance  earth  star  universe
+

+

+
   Where in the galaxy is the station located?

+

+     We're still in the process of drawing up a detailed starmap with the
+distances from B5 to each of our major governments, but we're looking at
+roughly 25 light years from Earth.
+

+     We'll imply some of the geography in the series, but the interactive
+computer program coming out soon has a map of the station, and shows where
+what is in relation to everything else.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ star  location
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  star  location
+

+

+     Yes, we're trying to use real stars and constellations in our script
+references, as well as indications of new ones that may have been discovered
+in the 200 years between now and the time of B5.  (At one point, a
+tech-runner's background is being discussed, and they mention that he ran
+forbidden technology into the Vega and Proxima systems, for instance.)  Which
+star is the one Babylon 5 orbits?  One that hasn't been discovered at this
+point in time...but in about 50 years, it'll show up on the starcharts.  It's
+a fairly small star, dwarfed and hidden by several nearby binaries that
+overwhelm the spectrum visible from Earth.
+

+     Yeah, that's the ticket....
+

+     The sector of space was chosen for B5 because a) it's pretty much in
+neutral territory, and b) of the neutral territory areas, this is the one that
+seems to have nothing of value in it, so nobody will be interested in fighting
+over what's there.  This may not necessariliy be true in the future.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Does rock music still exist in the Babylon 5 universe?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  music
+

+

+
   Does rock music still exist in the Babylon 5 universe?

+

+     There's still rock and roll, plus other new musical forms that have come
+along, and still some franchises.  TZ3 is being played on various local
+stations, but not everywhere.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How about drugs?  Has marijuana been legalized?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  drug
+

+

+
   How about drugs?  Has marijuana been legalized?

+

+     It's never come up, and probably never will, but in terms of backstory.
+yes, it was legalized quite some time ago.  There are only a certain number of
+drugs not allowed on B5; those which would lead to destructive, violent
+behavior that would disrupt the station, and Dust, about which you won't be
+hearing for a while.
+

+     Near as I can figure, all grass makes you want to do is sit around eating
+pizza and watching old Lucy reruns....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ119.html b/find/Answers/answ119.html
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+
+   How does the economic system work, on Earth and on the station?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  money  economy
+

+

+
   How does the economic system work, on Earth and on the station?

+

+     The Earth economy still runs on basic capitalism; the corporations
+under-write surveying and exploitation of planets, in some cases then selling
+what they find to the government in return for a piece of the profits, or via
+direct exploitation itself.  (By law they're forbidden from exploiting or
+strip-mining worlds with sentient life.)  There is also, as we discover in one
+episode, a big market for archaeologists who dig into now-dead worlds for
+whatever technology they can find, which might have been ancient there, but
+are new to us.
+

+     Money works as in any large city.  You come in with the money of your
+place of origin (assuming you haven't made adjustments prior to arriving), and
+exchange it for prevalent Earth value credits, as determined by the current
+exchange rate.  You are issued a credit chit that has your name, ID, other
+information, including genetic information to prevent forgery, and that has
+your available credits as stored in the B5 computer.  As you pay, as with any
+credit card, you whittle away at that amount until it's gone, at which point
+you either cash in more of your money...or go broke.
+

+     The credit chits work differently depending on who you are.  If you work
+for B5, your salary is tied into your credit chit, and you pay accordingly.
+If you're a visitor from elsewhere, bringing in non-Earth currency, you
+exchange that currency (as Aldous noted in "Grail"), much as you do now.
+Difference is, you turn in the currency at the B5 exchange.  It is processed
+on the current rate of exchange. and you are issued a credit chit programmed
+with an amount equal to whatever you brought in.  You use it the same way as a
+credit card. until it runs out, then it's rejected until you "recharge" it by
+exchanging more currency.
+

+     It's also tied into your identicard, which has every available fact about
+you.
+

+     Interestingly enough, I just saw an article in, I believe, WIRED. which
+noted that Sweden had just launched on a program of using this exact same
+device, same system, on a trial basis.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What about narration for upcoming seasons?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  narration  season
+

+

+
   What about narration for upcoming seasons?

+

+     For the series, my feeling is that the intro should be as short as
+possible, almost more for mood than for information.
+

+     The rotating narrator thing was something that I mentioned en passant at
+the LosCon screening of "Midnight."  What I noted was that I was considering
+rotating the narrators each season; Londo for the pilot; Sinclair for year
+one; Ivanova for year two; Garibaldi for year three; G'Kar for year four; and
+Delenn for year five.  Haven't decided yet if I'm going to do it or not....
+

+     Yes, we will definitely be changing the narration each year; the year two
+narration will likely be shorter, with some personal touch (I'm in the process
+of writing it now), and it'll vary in phraseology with each new narrator.
+

+     Second year narration will be Sheridan.  Third year probably either
+Ivanova or Delenn.  Fourth year G'Kar.  Fifth year...possibly no one.
+

+     Yes, we'll definitely be redesigning the opening sequence visually as
+well as in the narrative.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ law  ombuds
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  law  ombuds
+

+

+     Babylon 5 is a unique environment.  There are only two basic types of
+people (speaking only of humans for now) around: those employed by EA or the
+station (conflict of interest), or travelers, who won't be around long enough
+for a prolonged trial.  So in that kind of situation, the Ombuds arose...a
+2258 version of a Circuit Court Judge.
+

+     It's absolutely in line with what's been done in our own country.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will the pilot movie of the week be broadcast again?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  pilot  broadcast
+

+

+
   Will the pilot movie of the week be broadcast again?

+

+     The pilot MOW will eventually be re-broadcast, but as of this time I
+don't know when that will be.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What was wrong with the pilot?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  pilot  problem
+

+

+
   What was wrong with the pilot?

+

+     At risk of rehashing this one more time, what's missing from the pilot is
+25 minutes of additional material that further fleshed out the characters.
+

+     Each of the characters is being solidly rounded out in the series.
+showing multiple sides to each character.  All I can say is that I think
+you'll like what we're doing.
+

+     Re: the pilot...I've hashed and rehashed this, and the bottom line is to
+see what we do in the series and judge the series by the series.  The DS9
+pilot had to explain very little that wasn't specific to the plotline: you
+already knew what a bajorran was, what a wormhole was, what the Federation
+was, what the cardassians were, on and on and on.  Because they didn't have to
+introduce any of that, they could spend time on other character moments.
+

+     We didn't have that luxury in the pilot.  We had to do what, in essence.
+ST has done over 25 years: establish our universe, painting it in broad
+strokes, as broad're done with that aspect.  And now we can do our
+character-based stories.  Which is exactly what we're doing.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Why the big delay between the pilot and the series?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  delay  pilot  series
+

+

+
   Why the big delay between the pilot and the series?

+

+     We'd always figured on going right to series, but once we had done the
+pilot, the studio said, in essence, "Well, we've got a pilot, we don't know if
+the market will sustain more than one space SF series, no other SF series has
+done well lately...maybe we ought to air the pilot first, and get the ratings.
+before committing to a series."  And that's what happened...much to our
+consternation at first, but in the long run it was a blessing in disguise.
+because that interim period allowed us to really do a lot to make the show
+better.
+

+     Actually, the funny thing is, I don't much mind if people who hadn't seen
+the pilot don't catch the rebroadcast.  What we're doing now is SO radically
+better than the pilot that I almost can't watch it now.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What happened to the old characters on the pilot, not working
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  miss  old  character  laurel  lyta  talia  kyle
+

+

+
   What happened to the old characters on the pilot, not working

+        on the series?
+

+     On a classified mission (which I hope we will be able to get into at some
+point), Laurel has been reassigned out on the Rim, and Dr. Kyle is now working
+with the EA President on the issue of alien migration to Earth, a growing
+problem to some, a benefit to others.
+

+     Pat Tallman passed on returning to the B5 project.   Our new telepath
+will be played by Andrea Thompson, with the character name Talia Winters.
+

+     Much of the Lyta arc will now go to Talia, but there's now a different
+way of getting her into that arc.
+

+     What it *does* give me, which is kinda nice, is that the only two people
+to have ANY direct contact with a Vorlon...have been transferred back to
+Earth.  Which plays wonderfully into something sinister I'd kinda like to
+develop that the Earth Alliance is working on behind the scenes....
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What is in the pilot, as it relates to the overall story?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  story  arc  pilot
+

+

+
   What is in the pilot, as it relates to the overall story?

+

+     How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot?  Some...bits and pieces.
+The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to establish, with
+all the backstory that goes with that.  As it is, it's fairly "information
+intensive," as one person put it.  We find out about the Earth/Minbari war.
+the curious surrender, Sinclair's past, the missing 24 hours, the relations
+between the various governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of
+what's to come.  This while establishing the backstory of all our characters.
+and telling a story in present time (for them).
+

+     I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the
+series present in the pilot.  Which is why it bears watching more than once;
+you'll pick up more information and more of a sense of the world the more
+closely you inspect it.  (We tried to come up with a pilot that actually
+BENEFITS from close inspection, rather than falling apart if you look at it
+too closely.)
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ chrysalis  impact
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  chrysalis  impact
+

+

+     Unrelated to anything that's preceded (thank goodness), here's a little
+something for consideration...thoughts to conjure with, when it comes to our
+season-ending episode/cliffhanger.
+

+     On Power, leaving out the things that unnerved people too much to let me
+do, I was still able, in the final episode/cliffhanger of that first season.
+to destroy the protagonist's base of operations totally and completely and
+beyond recall, set up a major change in the antagonist's appearance (the final
+mechanized stages of Lyman Taggert), eliminate all or nearly all of our
+Jonathan Power's supply lines and support personnel, totally turn around the
+direction of the show, and kill one major regular character.
+

+     So if that's what happens on a show where I'm not allowed full reign to
+do *everything* want...stop to consider for a moment what happens when there's
+no one to stop me from going all the way....
+

+     "Chrysalis" is going to be one heck of an episode....
+

+     I have just seen the director's cut of "Chrysalis," which will be the
+last episode of this season...and I think it has just displaced "Sky" as the
+most heavy-weight episode of the season.  Even knowing what was coming, I just
+sat here, stunned, at the end of it.  Seeing dailies, bits and pieces, doesn't
+really prepare you for the whole thing.
+

+     What I like most about it are two things: one, by about halfway in, you
+really begin to understand that anything can happen, to anyone, and the rules
+that normally carry you through a television episode no longer apply.  It's a
+very dangerous, dislocating feeling.  Two: you get the very real feeling that.
+after this episode, nothing is the same anymore.  The show has taken a very
+profound and *irrevocable* turn that will have lasting effects on all of our
+characters.  Of all the episodes so far, this one has the most feeling of
+being the chapter end in a novel.
+

+     The really hard part will not avoiding the temptation to show this to
+people...because it really can't be allowed to get out prior to airing. There
+are too many twists and turns and revelations that spin one off into another.
+

+     One other thing's certain: after you've seen "Chrysalis," you're going to
+want to go back and check out three prior episodes...because something that
+you will have read/interpreted one way, without question or hesitation
+accepting it as what it obviously appears to be, will suddenly be turned on
+its head, and a brand new interpretation will emerge.  And it's *real*
+creepy....
+

+     Re: the Oliver Stone thing...that's a comment made during the edit on
+"Chrysalis" as well.  I'm dying to see how people will react to what's done
+and revealed and advanced in that episode, but we have to sit on it; though
+we'll be mixing and finishing it in the next few weeks, we won't be turning it
+over to PTEN until shortly before airdate, because we don't want this getting
+all over town.  There's not a single major character who's not profoundly
+affected...or strongly set up for profound changes in the very near future.
+

+     I love it...it's my favorite of the season, without question.
+

+     I give y'all a little gift...Kosh's very last line of the season, in
+"Chrysalis."
+

+     "You have...forgotten something."
+

+     It's not nearly as straightforward as it looks, and that one line will
+carry with it *major* repercussions.  (And no, it doesn't refer to the 24
+hours.)
+

+     I am *not* teasing.
+

+     Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch "Chrysalis" again.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ demon  ellison  script
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  demon  ellison  script
+

+

+[This refers to a potential sequel to Harlan Ellison's _Outer Limits_ episode.
+"Demon With a Glass Hand"]
+

+     I thought long and hard about the question of mixing universes, and
+allowed it only in this one case, because the events that propelled Trent (the
+character from Demon) into the past (our present) don't take place for another
+thousand years or so.  Thus it doesn't do my arc any harm at all. One could
+say that the events in "Demon" will happen at some point in the future of the
+B5 universe...unless some events change them.  On this one occasion.
+therefore, I decided to allow it.  But that's the ONLY one.
+

+     We're still working out the dynamics of how these two universes would
+cross seamlessly, without doing damage to either.  We've got some solid leads.
+but this is 'way too early to get into them.  More down the road, one
+hopes....
+

+     Yes, the two Harlan scripts are temporarily on hold, due to some health
+problems earlier this season (two heart procedures), the quake and his
+injuries there, and other stuff.  He has, however, served very well as our
+consultant, and it has been more than worthwhile.  His health permitting, we
+hope to continue the relationship in future.
+

+[Ed. note: as of Aug. 94 below]
+

+     Harlan is currently writing the "Demon" sequel for us.  He is on as
+Conceptual Consultant next year, and is working closely with us.  But there
+are always people out to tear Harlan down, so I'd pretty much ignore these
+weasels.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ books  comics  canon
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  books  comics  canon
+

+

+     BTW, did I mention that DC is going to be doing a B5 comic?  And that one
+of our own locals here on the net just may have a little something to do with
+it?  And that Bill Mumy may write a bit for it, and Peter David, and me, and
+some other nifty writers?
+

+     I work directly with DC on the comics line.  I approve artwork. stories,
+script and cover art.
+

+     I'm trying to make the B5 novels and comics as much canon as I can.
+Basically, they take place within B5 continuity, as episodes that might have
+been.  The first four issues of the comic deal with issues that hit the
+series, but from another point of view/location.  The novel uses B5 as
+background of an event that makes sense within B5 continuity, and may be
+referred to in future episodes (not as a requirement, but only as
+background...no different than when you have to give background on any episode
+of stuff that's happened in the past, like Ironheart's escape. for instance,
+which we don't have to see/read about, but knowing is nice).
+

+     I *really* don't want these to be just throwaways media-tie-ins.  I want
+them to stand on their own as good work, *and* be part of our universe.
+

+     Thankfully, I no longer require sleep, and have transcended to a higher
+state of consciousness...ommmmmm....
+

+     And yes, there is complete freedome to use Sinclair in the books since
+he's not entirely gone from the storyline at all, and still will carry a part.
+

+     The comics series is free to bop forward and backward in time, all over
+the B5 universe, wherever the writer wants to take it.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How about the Earth/Minbari war depicted in a book?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  line  minbari  war  book
+

+

+
   How about the Earth/Minbari war depicted in a book?

+

+     Yeah, I had the same conversation...suggested a structure rather like the
+Winds of War, set during the Earth/Minbari War, in that we have all of our
+characters in different places, seeing the story and the war from their
+perspectives, and how their paths intersect during that time in odd or
+unlikely ways.  Dell didn't think that was the way to go, that unless it was
+set in the present, people would feel disappointed.
+

+     Oh, well...eventually we'll get around to that part of the story.
+

+

+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Why "Babylon 5"?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  name  babylon  why  myth  history  four
+

+

+
   Why "Babylon 5"?

+

+     Thing is, Babylon has become a myth that can be interpreted and
+re-interpreted a zillion ways, and can't be unmentioned forever because of one
+of those interpretations.  That's why the name has come up more times than I
+want to think about, in song and story.  (Remember the song "Babylon," by, I
+believe, Donovan?)  We did a titles search before we began production, and the
+title Babylon 1 has been used 4 times, Babylon 2 has been used twice, Babylon
+3 appears in a copyrighted song title, and Babylon 4 has also been used
+(though neither copyrighted nor trademarked, so we've taken that step). Which
+also goes to Somtow using a Babylon 5 in his story.  It's a name that merits
+lots of re-interpretations.
+

+     And here's a little something to consider.  Some have noted the location
+of B5's namesake, it's proximity to the Tigres and Euphrates, that sort of
+thing...speculated on other aspects of the show...but much of what you need to
+know about what will eventually happen in the course of the B5 story arc is
+already available to you.  In any decent desk encyclopedia.
+

+     What, you thought I pulled the name Babylon out of a hat?  Let's just say
+that there are going to be some interesting historical parallels....
+

+     You have to really dig to get any good material on Babylon; it's not a
+big topic among commercial publishers, you really have to go for the academic
+publishing houses.  (Beware of religious publishing houses in this area; they
+have their own spin on things that tends to infect the text.)
+

+     Ancient Babylon kind of began with a good idea, to form a central
+location for business, commerce, trading...and gradually went downhill from
+there.  The *idea* was solid, and that was the goal of the Babylon
+project...to form a place, a freeport, of trading, where cultures could come
+together.  And it sounded exotic.  Naturally, no one expects Babylon 5 to go
+the way of the original Babylon....
+

+     After all, we're *so* much smarter now.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What makes a good story?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  writing  believers  quality
+

+

+
   What makes a good story?

+

+     A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see what
+you put into it.  "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-religion. anti-
+religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has been interpreted. as you note,
+as pro-capital punishment, and anti-capital punishment.  We do, as you say,
+much prefer to leave the decision on what things mean to the viewer to hash
+out.
+

+     A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the
+occasional bar fight.
+

+     One lovely thing about "Signs and Portents," which you picked up on. is
+something I like to play with; implying one thing while saying the opposite.
+Look at all the shadow's main representative, Morden, does: he asks people
+what they want; he gets tossed out of Delenn's quarters; he is pleasant in his
+demeanor at all times, never yells, always smiles, and is courteous; he takes
+an action which saves one of our main characters. Londo, from disgrace and
+resignation, and helps in the process of scragging the bad guys in the
+episode.
+

+     And yet everyone walks away thinking that the shadows are bad.  Which was
+of course the intent...by the way in which they did "good."
+

+     Kosh prevents humanity from achieving immortality, scares the hell out of
+Talia, never gives anyone a straight answer, doesn't seem to mind it if people
+fear him...and we walk away with the presumption that he is good. by virtue of
+the way in which he did things that were "bad."
+

+     In "The Quality of Mercy," I play a similar subtle game; the first time
+you hear about the alien device, you're told that it takes the life force from
+one person, killing them in the process, and gives it to someone suffering a
+terminal disease to restore them.  And everybody goes "yuck, that's awful."
+But that is *exactly* what happens at the end, and the general reaction is,
+"That's good."
+

+     This is something I do a lot in my scripts, which I don't generally see a
+lot of other people doing.  You *really* have to construct the script very
+carefully to pull something like this off...a little game between me and the
+audience.
+

+     If you look at my scripts, you'll find that generally I write very tight,
+I don't leave a lot of threads hanging as a rule.  Same with the planned
+series.  No important threads will be left hanging by the end of it all.  And
+generally any really significant thread will be wrapped within a year of being
+introduced.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How did you create so many great characters?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  character
+

+

+
   How did you create so many great characters?

+

+     In a way, I kinda took a shortcut...the kind of shortcut that helps you
+make the characters more real.  I basically peeled off aspects of my own
+background and divided it up among the characters.
+

+     I have an Eastern European background; that brings with it a certain
+amount of pessimism, a somewhat sardonic humor, and a view of life that is
+somewhere between resignation and astonishment, and gave that to Ivanova.
+

+     I was raised Catholic (though it wore off, I'm happy to report), so I
+gave some of that to Sinclair, escalating it to Jesuit training; gave him some
+of my fascination with history and religion and philosophy.  I've also lost a
+lot of people over the years, and gave him some of the sadness that comes with
+that.
+

+     One of the things that has constantly gotten me in deep trouble is that
+I'm basically a smartass; I always mouth off at *exactly* the wrong moment. So
+this went right to Garibaldi. along with my basic atheism.
+

+     The alien ambassadors are less personally based, since there have to be
+some alien characteristics about them; a different culture that informs who
+and what they are.  In those cases I kind of backtracked from what the species
+was. and tried to choose as typical a representative of that as I could.
+

+     "Then explain Kosh."
+

+     Okay...you got me.
+

+     It's impossible not to have the characters change to varying degrees once
+you cast actors to play them.  Gradually, Mira's personality has grown into
+Delenn, Andreas has added a lot to G'Kar, Garibaldi IS Doyle. and Boxleitner
+is bringing a lot to Sheridan.  You get to hear the characters' voices more
+the deeper you go, season-wise, and that's great.
+

+     Re: Sinclair/Garibaldi/Ivanova basically liking each other; this will
+tend to stay, for many reasons.  One of the things that grates on mhy nerves
+about some dramatic TV is that they invent phony tensions and reasons for the
+main characters to bitch at each other, that generally don't mean a lot.
+Also, we see a lot of conflict in other shows, but not a whole lot of what
+*friendship* means.  And loyalty.  These three are friends, as well as
+co-officers; they will go to bat for one another, will if necessary die for
+one another.  I find that a lovely emotion.  There are plenty of others who
+argue with them, and plenty of other shows in which the main characters yell
+at each other all the time; why not explore the other end of the spectrum?
+

+     I will grant you that this is one of the more idosyncratic parts of the
+show; I have always placed a very high premium on friendship...my friends know
+that they can call me at midnight, and even if they're on the other side of
+the country, or the planet, I'll be there on the first plane if they're in
+trouble.  And I know I can do the same with them.  For some reason friendship,
+and loyalty, have become kind of passe in TV, and movies, and many other
+areas, as I think of it.  So for me, this becomes something worth
+communicating.
+

+     Bear in mind, though, that after this season, Sinclair goes elsewhere.
+and suddenly there's a new dynamic introduced into the show, which no one is
+entirely sure how to deal with.  It disrupts them, and that is for the good, I
+think, as they try and work it out and decide whether or not they can trust
+one another.
+

+
+
+
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+   What makes up a script?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  writing  script
+

+

+
   What makes up a script?

+

+     Yes, this is the actual text of a script.  And a script contains scene
+descriptions, dialogue, directions.  (Contrary to popular opinion, the actors
+don't just make up their lines when they hit the stage, based on loose ideas
+by somebody.)  My scripts tend to be *very* detailed, with camera movement
+suggestions, optical notes, indications of dissolves vs. cuts, on and on.
+

+     A script page, single-spaced, works out to about the same wordage as a
+double-spaced prose fiction page, about 225-250 words per.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How much is ad-libbed?
+
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+Search
+
+Keywords:  ad-lib
+

+

+
   How much is ad-libbed?

+

+     The notion of how much actors improvise on TV is *grossly* exaggerated.
+I have not worked on any show yet in which the actor is allowed to just change
+lines or wordings on set without first getting permission from the story
+editor or producer.
+

+     The reason for this is very simple: episodes are not shot in order of
+scenes, but in order of location (i.e., all the mess hall shots are done in
+there, then you move the camera crew to another location, and you do all those
+scenes, then you interweave them in editing).  It's VERY easy to lose track if
+you're shooting that way, and you can change a line in scene 9, from "He said
+it's the absolute truth" to "He said he wasn't lying," not realizing that
+*another* character in another scene has already said, or will say, "Like Mike
+said, it's the absolute truth," and now those two scenes don't match.  Meaning
+you now have to go in and edit around it and loop the dialogue.
+

+     Sometimes an actor may not fully realize that there's a clue, or a
+particular line that must be repeated.  So the rule on EVERY show that I've
+ever worked on -- particularly the more technical ones -- have the same rule:
+absolutely NO changes allowed on set without consultation with the story
+editor/producer(s).  That's the rule on B5. Murder She Wrote, the Twilight
+Zone...on and on and on.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Tell us about how you work with DiTillio and Ellison.
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ditillio  ellison  work  writing  production
+

+

+
   Tell us about how you work with DiTillio and Ellison.

+

+     We've recently, as of this past week, added a story editor to the staff.
+Larry DiTillio.  Which now makes three.  But there's an implicit understanding
+that this is a story that I want to tell, and I generally need to have final
+word on characters, stories and everything else that involves the scripts.
+Both Harlan and Larry are willing to defer to the reality that this is my
+universe.  I don't mean that to sound like an ego thing, because it's not.
+It's no different than writing a novel; I know where the story has to go when
+it hits the end, and we have to be sure not to fall off the tracks.  I didn't
+fight six years to get this show on the air to turn it over to a committee.
+

+     I know already that that is going to be probably my biggest problem when
+it comes to this series: turning over parts of it to other people.   Letting
+go.  But it's necessary.
+

+     It's important, though, to clarify the difference between letting people
+go where they want within a script, so that I can let Larry or Harlan or
+others have their own head, as opposed to general changes that might affect
+the story arc, which is a different category altogether.  The two of them have
+already had some great ideas on fleshing out some of the characters now that
+they're established, have expanded the universe and clarified many of the
+rules, the ideas, background stuff and so on.
+

+     I selected Larry as story editor because he's someone I've worked with
+dozens of times over nearly ten years; we know how one another works, to the
+point where we can shorthand a lot of stuff in meetings, which saves a lot of
+time.  He's an excellent script doctor when it comes to rewriting freelance
+scripts.  And he's one of the country's foremost role playing game designers;
+he's great on campaigns and coming up with huge sagas, and I need someone who
+can think on that kind of scale.
+

+     The other reason I had for selecting Harlan and Larry to work with, aside
+from their skills as writers, is that they're both two very strong individuals
+who won't be intimidated...*can't* be intimidated...and will fight for what
+they think is right.  I feel that's very important.  So they both give me an
+endless hard time.  Which is needed for the mix.
+

+     Harlan is our conceptual consultant.  His job is to sit perched on my
+shoulder like Jiminy Cricket and point out to me the chuckholes, detours, and
+disasters-in-the-making that I might otherwise stumble into as I galumph my
+way through this show...and to harangue me and keep me on the SF straight and
+narrow and to challenge me constantly to do better.
+

+     He also reviews stories, helped write the opening narration, has given us
+several good concepts on the running of the B5 station, and
+otherwise...well...consults conceptually.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ story  writing  credit  share  b-story
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  story  writing  credit  share  b-story
+

+

+     There's some small amount of blurring that goes on in this show; a
+freelancer turns in a script, and things get added.  For instance, there was a
+need to really tighten up the story in "Believers," which could best be done
+by bringing in a small B story, which would allow us to streamline and
+intensify the main story.  So I wrote the B story and slipped it in.   In
+"Grail," for instance, there's a courtroom scene with a character named Mr.
+Flinn that was added to the script (I won't reveal what happens, but it's very
+funny.)
+

+     And of course nearly all of the freelance scripts have been based on
+assigned stories, something that's developed in-house (particularly if it's an
+arc story) and then given to a writer to do the full outline and script. So
+far the only story developed *outside* our offices first is D.C. Fontana's
+second script, "Legacies."
+

+     In none of these, however, will you see more than one writer's name on
+the script.  Just the writer who did the draft.  This is a policy I've had for
+a long time, starting on JAKE.  It's somewhat pro forma for some story editors
+or producers to do a rewrite, or add a scene, and then slap their name on the
+finished script...which cuts into the freelance writer's residuals forever
+thereafter.  My feeling is that if you're on staff, you are being compensated
+well for your work, and should leave the freelancers alone. The residuals are
+really their only way of making any real money off these things.  So we had a
+non-arbitration policy on JAKE, also on MURDER, and now on B5.  You'll never
+see a gang credit on this show.   Having been a freelancer myself, this sems
+the only fair way to run things.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What about fan-submitted scripts?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  fan  script
+

+

+
   What about fan-submitted scripts?

+

+     Re: scripts...for the first year, there will be only two people on staff:
+me, and Harlan Ellison, as creative consultant.  So the majority of the
+scripts will be freelance.  For that first season, we've already locked down
+our writers.  They will come from one of two groups: a) a small group of
+writers who I've worked with over the years and have trained to my tastes, and
+b) another small group of leading SF writers, many of whom don't work for TV
+anymore, but will break that absence for B5.
+

+     Part of the reason for this is to establish ourselves firmly during the
+course of that first season, get our feet wet, firm up our identity, and other
+hits by the same name.  It does no good for freelancers on the outside to try
+a script until they've seen at least one season, as well.   Finally, because
+there will be a certain amount of continuity and developing storylines from
+episode to episode, that requires a certain degree of direction from in-house
+on stories.  Very often we'll go to a writer and say, "Here...in this story, X
+has to happen.  Beyond making sure that X is included, do what you want."  An
+outsider won't have access to knowing what that X is.
+

+     Still, there will be episodes totally separate from the arc, and those
+are far more wide open.
+

+     One disservice that TNG has done the SF writing community is its -- in a
+way -- tendency to *use* SF fans as idea mills.  Hundreds of scripts arrive
+each month, they're read through, good ideas are plucked out, they pay a
+couple hundred bucks for the premise, then write it in-house.  Part of the
+reason they're always so desperate for material, and driven to this length of
+soliciting scripts from fans, is that they don't have a terrific reputation in
+the writing community.  Some of it is undeserved, a hanger-on from previous
+administrations, and some of it seems to have some basis in terms of the fact
+that you will never have the chance to see your script through to the end.
+

+     That problem does not exist with B5.  Our writers are already lined up
+and ready to go.
+

+     Starting with the second season, assuming we get that far, we will open
+things up more and be willing to look at finished scripts with a release form.
+I think that providing that opportunity is important.  But it won't be such a
+cattle-call in the way it's handled.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Do the cast members know their characters' fates?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cast  future  actor
+

+

+
   Do the cast members know their characters' fates?

+

+     Some of the cast know the full extent of their character's story, some
+know a little, some know very little.  In those cases where we need to set
+stuff up for down the line, we have to explain some of these things.  Some of
+the cast want to know their future, some don't.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ ethnic  casting  minority  culture  hollywood  international
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ethnic  casting  minority  culture  hollywood  international
+

+

+     Good point, btw, about the international aspects, on many levels.   I
+think that if we're going to fairly represent Earth in the future, you have to
+go beyond the "token" minority idea.  Not just one black, or one asian, but
+*lots* of folks in a mix...and not just from those two fairly safe groups.
+When was the last time you saw a Moslem on Trek?  Or a Jew?   Did somebody
+launch a Pogrom when we weren't looking?
+

+     That's the challenge...to be *truthfully* international, AND to show a
+true vision of the future, you're going to need Native Americans, Indians.
+Arabs, Africans, Hispanics, South Americans, Australians...on and on and on.
+Not to be politically correct (which I tend to think refers more to the way a
+character is *represented* than simply acknowledging his/her existence) but
+simply to include them as part of the human race as we go to the stars.
+

+     The ethnic mix has nothing to do with any changes in the series.  We
+ended up keeping the mix intact.  Lost was one Caucasian woman, one black
+male, one asian female.  What we're adding is one Caucasian woman (Lt.
+Commander Ivanova), one black male (Dr. Stephen Franklin), and one asian woman
+(Catherine Sakai).  In addition, we're introducing a Hispanic doctor who will.
+we hope be a recurring character from time to time (look for her in
+"Believers" to start with).  And we will be doing more of this, not just in
+small parts, but larger ones as well.  We have been very careful to keep a mix
+of actors that reflects what our thesis is: that if we go to the stars, we're
+ALL going to the stars.
+

+     In fact, we just recently -- when we found out it was going on --
+instructed our casting people not to put any ethnic background information
+into the breakdown sheets that go out to actor's agents.  (In other words.
+usually you need a white male actor 30-40, with a mustache, that kind of
+specificity is commonplace in breakdowns.)  We have instituted open
+casting...anyone, of any ethnic background, is eligible for any role at any
+time.  We hope that this will *further* help us to broaden out the tapestry of
+our series.
+

+     This is a very committed show, on a lot of different levels, with the
+idea of trying to live out what we're preaching.  We have an almost equal
+breakdown of males to females in our crew and every aspect of our production.
+(I say almost equal because I'm *fairly* sure there are actually more women on
+the show, many in non-conventional jobs, than there are men.)  Our casting is
+open.  We've instituted recycling on an everyday basis.  I'm working on
+getting the styrofoam cups at the snacks table replaced by recycleable paper
+cups, and trying to set up a deal where we can give any leftover food from the
+catering truck to a shelter.  We've got women in the writer and director
+categories, and two of our three editors (a very dominantly male business) are
+women.
+

+     I don't like the way Hollywood works either.
+

+     That's why we're not DOING it that way.
+

+     We've had no problem getting the word out, or getting people to
+understand our casting preferences.  The usual reaction is pleased
+astonishment....
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Okay, how about casting females in parts usually given to males?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  casting  female
+

+

+
   Okay, how about casting females in parts usually given to males?

+

+     We do tend to try and stay open to gender stuff; usually there's a reason
+why someone is male or female, so it's cast that way.  But as an example...in
+"Quality of Mercy," the role as originally written was for a father/daughter
+combination.  In the process of casting, we thought, why not mother/daughter?
+So that's how it ended up.  In "Points of Departure," we have one of your
+requests already taken care of...a part of a war cruiser commander who
+could've been male or female...cast female.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will we find out what happened to Babylon four, three, two, one?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  four  story  squared  ditillio  thornton  three  two  one
+

+

+
   Will we find out what happened to Babylon four, three, two, one?

+

+     After the meeting, Ron Thornton and I were talking, and he said, "Okay.
+what's the deal on Babylon 4?  I mean, are we ever going to see what happened
+to it, or see it again?"
+

+     I smiled.  "Do you REALLY want to know?"
+

+     He considered it for a moment.  I think he gets nervous when I smile like
+that.  "Okay...sure."
+

+     So I told him.  And his eyes went wide as pancakes.  It was a wonderful.
+Tex Avery effect.  "Get out of here," he said, at first sure I was kidding. I
+explained that I was quite serious.
+

+     Last I saw him, he was wandering off, muttering to himself, but growing
+increasingly enchanted with the idea....
+

+     The EA has owned all of the Babylons; 1-3 were sabotaged early in
+construction, so it wasn't too much of a loss.  They dumped a BIG budget into
+B4, and when that died, barely passed the budget for #5, skimping all the way.
+cutting it down to bare bones operating expenses.  They will and would never
+approve a #6.
+

+     B4 never got as far as having a commander attached to it.  The last
+stages of construction on Babylon 4 were supervised by one Major Krantz.
+assigned specifically to that task.  He managed to get the station completed.
+and on-line, and Earthforce was just beginning the process of selecting a
+commanding officer to run the station when, 24 hours after the station became
+operational, it vanished, taking roughly 1,200 of its skeleton crew with it
+(including Major Krantz).
+

+     B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some of the
+materials from 1-3 leftover.  B5 was constructed about 3 hours (traveling time
+in real-space) from the location of B4.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will B5 crew members be featured in the show?  Will you do a cameo?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cameo  crew  netter  bruice  jms
+

+

+
   Will B5 crew members be featured in the show?  Will you do a cameo?

+

+     Actually, thus far, nearly everyone on our crew has appeared in the
+background of one episode or another, except for me.  Which is the way I like
+it....
+

+     Nope, I don't do cameos; for me, it ruins the illusion.
+

+     As a matter of fact, in a couple of episodes you'll see a photo of the
+Earth Alliance president.  The photo itself is of Doug Netter, my associate on
+the show and fellow executive producer.  (The woman running against the
+incumbent president in the election featured on "Midnight" is played, in
+photo, by our wardrobe designer, Ann Bruice.)
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Tell us about B5's composer
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  franke  line  music  composer
+

+

+
   Tell us about B5's composer

+

+     BTW, since as mentioned Stewart Copeland is going to be off touring and
+doing an album and other stuff, we've had to lock down someone else as our
+resident composer.  Someone suggested here numerous times has now been
+confirmed: Christopher Franke, of Tangerine Dream, who has done the
+soundtracks for such projects as Thief, Angel Falls, Universal Soldier.
+Tommyknockers and others.  In addition to being a solid percussion man and a
+great musician, he's a real techie, up on the latest technologies involving
+music and sound, and will be able to give B5 a VERY unique sound.
+

+     It was the discussion early on here about composers, in which Chris
+Franke's name was mentioned, that bumped him to the top of our list and helped
+motivate us to take a look.  One more way the interaction has been positive.
+

+     And yes, he will be doing the entire season.  And composing a new B5
+theme.  (I keep suggesting something along the lines of "Bali High" from
+"South Pacific."  They keep hitting me with week old halibut. "Babylonnnnnnn
+FiiiiiiIIIIve.....")
+

+     Well, we deliver our first final finished totally done episode on about
+October 8th.  Christopher Franke has some *great* ideas on how to handle the
+music, and plans a curious blending of music and sound effects in some places.
+plus instruments from other parts of the world not normally heard in the US.
+to try and create a "new music" kind of sound.
+

+     The B5 soundtrack for the series is built from many different kinds of
+pieces, synthesized (based on one of the most extensive collection of
+musical/audio samples in the world, which Christopher has been in the process
+of collecting ever since he practically hand-assembled his first Moog), and
+symphonic, since we're using the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra for some elements
+of our score.  It changes dramatically depending on the subject.
+

+     Christopher Franke is developing themes for each of the characters, plus
+themes for the station, for space in general, and for our various
+aliens...something that carries a sense of the minbari, the grey council.
+others.  He even wrote a wonderful little Narn libretto for G'Kar, a la
+Gilbert and Sullivan.  Some elements carry across shows, but in each show
+there are new and different pieces that work wonderfully.  He's nothing less
+than terrific.
+

+     Actually, only a portion of the music for any given episode of B5
+consists of synthesized music.  Much of it is performed by Christopher's
+orchestra in Berlin, which is hooked via digital lines to his studio here in
+town.  Not all, certainly, but more than you might think is from that live
+orchestra.
+

+     Frankly, in the long run, I'm *much* happier with Chris Franke.  Stewart
+was more of the "let's make a library of music and draw from it and remix a
+lot" school.  Nothing wrong with that, lots of shows do it.  Chris, on the
+other hand, uses *very* little library stuff; each episode is scored
+individually, and the music is lush, driving, powerful.  I couldn't be
+happier.
+

+
   Tell us about B5's composer

+

+     After "Grail," we had a discussion with Chris about funny music.  We do
+not anticipate further discussions.  (In a full season of music for B5, this
+is the only discussion we've had of a critical nature, which is extraordinary
+for any series; he's done a lot of wonderful work for us.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   How much stock footage is used in establishing shots?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  effect  stock  library  establish  planet
+

+

+
   How much stock footage is used in establishing shots?

+

+     We did some library stuff in the first few eps, but as we've ben (been)
+spending more time, we've built up more, and generally we have 3-4 new
+establishers per ep.  So there's less and less of it the deeper you get into
+the series.  (And when you come down to it, a shot of the station against a
+planet is going to be pretty much the same in general, unless there's specific
+activity going on around it.)
+

+     We did a lot of exterior transitional shots in the first few eps of B5 to
+reinforce where we are and what this is; it diminishes in frequency the deeper
+into the series you get.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Which episodes are heavy on effects?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cgi  signs  squared  wilderness  chrysalis
+

+

+
   Which episodes are heavy on effects?

+

+     Yeah, I'd say if you're looking for some cool CGI, you'll see it in
+"Signs."  I'd say overall that our most effects-heavy episodes are "Signs,"
+"Babylon Squared," "A Voice in the Wilderness" parts 1 and 2, and maybe
+"Chrysalis."  The first three in particular are real blow-outs.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ render  station  image  cgi  resolution
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  render  station  image  cgi  resolution
+

+

+     Also, Ron did *substantial* modifications to the B5 station itself.
+making it the biggest single object to render.  It has something like (and
+this is only my memory) 100 times the resolution of the station used in the
+pilot, so you can get right in close for paint-scraper shots.  It's much more
+detailed and substantial looking.
+

+     Not necessarily...it may have been 100-times in resolution, or it may
+have been 1000-times in resolution...actually, as I think of it (via the fog
+that's in my head) I think you're right...I knew there was a 1 and some 0s
+involved in it...and it was a big deal...so maybe it *was* 1,000x.
+

+
+
+
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+ effect  sky  detail
+
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+Search
+
+Keywords:  effect  sky  detail
+

+

+     Spent a very, very, very long day today in editing...not out of any
+problems, but because of the *astonishing* amount of detail we're putting into
+"And the Sky Full of Stars."  Leaving out all the live-action shots, there are
+25 CGI shots in one and a half minutes in one sequence alone.   (By way of
+comparison, there were 55 or so in the full two hour pilot for B5.) So we go
+frame by frame, making sure that everything meshes properly, through some
+pretty intense logistics.  You'll understand when you see it.
+

+     I've never seen the like of this particular episode before.  It's a real
+gem.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How much time is needed to render the images?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  render  time  cgi
+

+

+
   How much time is needed to render the images?

+

+     Re: time per scene rendering...you have to understand that the Toasters
+render 24 hours a day.  Ron et al set 'em going before they leave for the
+night, and the next morning come in to pick up the finished scene.  So you can
+do a LOT of CGI in the course of a week.  Generally several minutes of new
+stuff per week...and yes, that includes long, panning shots.  Trust me.
+there's a LOT of CGI in just about every episode of the series.  A couple of
+character-based stories are light, but they're more than compensated for in
+heavy-CGI stories like "Midnight," "Sky," and "Raiding Party," to name a few.
+

+     Here's a thought to conjure with.  It takes about an hour to render a CGI
+frame that's very complex; 45 minutes if it's not terribly complex.   With the
+new Screamer, we can cut down that time by about half, so that a highly
+complex scene can be rendered in 15-30 minutes.  Average length for a CGI
+scene is about 60 frames, so figure 30 hours.  You can do a full show's worth
+of CGI in about a week, give or take.
+

+     Today we turn over the raw footage for a special scene that'll be in one
+of our episodes.  (Several scenes, actually, in the same episode.)   Ron's
+elves will be rendering 24 hours a day (on automatic at night) for the next
+THREE WEEKS to do something very special with this episode.  If it's done
+right, it won't really draw attention to itself, it'll just be very, very
+cool.
+

+
+
+
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+ cgi  trek
+
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+Search
+
+Keywords:  cgi  trek
+

+

+     Here's a Joe Predicts for you: by this time next year, ST will have gone
+either completely to CGI, or 95% to CGI.
+

+     Also...apparently, at a convention, Rick Sternbach from ST said that the
+ST shows (DS9 and, subsequently, Voyager) would be shifting over to primarily
+computer EFX rather than models.  They're going to start coming over to OUR
+turf...and engaging in the usual learning curve, trial and erros, which we've
+already gone through.
+

+     Me...I just sit here and smile...and on one level, despite the way it may
+appear, I'm pleased.  It shows we were right.  And if they start doing CGI.
+it'll force both sides to again be competitive in terms of doing more, pushing
+things.  And that friendly competition is good for the blood, it should keep
+both shows on the cutting edge.  It'll also enable other shows to come in
+using CGI, meaning more SF on the air.
+

+     It also ties into what I've heard lately, that Paramount is getting
+hammered by some of the stations asking why the hell DS9 episodes often cost
+1.7 to 2 million dollars an episode to produce, where B5 is doing more, with
+half the budget.  I would love to hear the response to that.
+

+     The funny part is that Berman and Pillar, according to mutual
+acquaintances and interviews, have been swearing up one side and down the
+other that they were never going CGI, were staying models.  And now they are
+coming to play on *our* turf.
+

+     Amblin's got Amigas with ten Screamers.
+

+     We've got only one Screamer.  But we've got Ron.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   But the graphics look so darn crisp!
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cgi  crisp  blurry
+

+

+
   But the graphics look so darn crisp!

+

+     Just a note...re: the CGI looking crisp and unblurred...the blurring
+you're used to seeing is an artifact of atmosphere.  There is no air in space.
+and thus no blurring.  (Check the latest NASA footage for more on this.)
+That's of course why they put Hubble in space, to avoid the problems of
+blurring caused by atmosphere.
+

+     We probably could've put in atmospheric blurring to give it a different
+depth-of-field, but we have this bugaboo about being a -science- fiction
+show....
+

+
+
+
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+
+ cgi  quality
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cgi  quality
+

+

+     The CGI are definitely getting better.  Year One was more or less getting
+used to the software and learning what was capable.  They've now gotten more
+sophisticated in their use of the equipment, more artistic in some ways...and
+the preliminary renderings I've seen for stuff in the beginning of year two is
+*very* cool.  It has even more of a sense of mass, and weight, and solidity.
+

+     We're re-doing *all* of our computer displays for next year, using some
+nifty graphic designs.  Part of the problem is that the boys at Foundation
+were doing the displays, and they were swamped doing our main CGI, so that
+kinda fell by the wayside.  This year we've got someone who does ONLY our
+computer screens with us in-house.
+

+     Glad you liked the series font, btw; I picked it out me own self.   It's
+Serpentine Medium, for anyone interested.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   What will the first season be like? What kinds of things will happen?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  first  season  story  squared  who  what  why  answer  line
+

+

+
   What will the first season be like? What kinds of things will happen?

+

+     So far, this season you'll learn a lot about all the cultures of our
+ambassadors, especially the Big Four; you'll see the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds in action; you'll learn a LOT about the Psi Corps, Earth government and
+economics, the inner workings of Babylon 5, the history of the Babylon
+project, Sinclair's background (also a lot about Ivanova's and Garibaldi's
+past)...you'll see a darker side of Londo, a lighter side of G'Kar, a more
+ambiguous side of Delenn, some very weird sides of Kosh...and you'll come away
+with a real sense of B5 as a *place*, a habitat, where things are, what they
+do, how it works.  There will be an awful lot of action, and an even greater
+amount of humor...there are parts of the show that, even having seen them 16
+times, are still fall-down funny.
+

+     Other than that...not much to say.
+

+     Since Mike mentioned it...yes.  "Babylon Squared" answers the B4
+question...though posing new questions about *why*.  Basically, every question
+we ask going into the first season we will answer, because I don't think it's
+right or fair or smart to keep people hanging around 3 years to get a simple
+answer to a simple question.  Season 1 of B5 is what I generally call the
+"what" season...you find out WHAT the Psi Corps is, WHAT happened at the
+Battle of the Line, WHAT happened to Babylon 4, and so on...whereas Season 2
+is the "why" season...WHY did that happen to Sinclair?  And so on. New
+questions arise, and we proide new answers, generally within the course of the
+following season, but while at all times making sure that each episode stands
+alone, regardless of where and which season you enter the series as a viewer.
+

+     (It's kinda like being one of those guys on the old Ed Sullivan show.
+spinning plates on top of long, thin rods...there's a LOT to keep in motion at
+all times.)
+

+     I'd classify the pilot movie as "who."
+

+     Season one will generally answer 90% of the questions raised in season
+one; season two will answer the remaining 10%, and answer 90% of the questions
+raised in season two...and so on.  There will not be a sense of unfulfilled
+waiting.
+

+     You will find out what happened to Sinclair, for starters, during the
+Earth/Minbari war.  In that respect, the pilot movie is like the first chapter
+of a novel.  For nearly 10 years, Sinclair has worked to convince himself that
+nothing happened to him on the Line other than what seems to be the case: that
+he blacked out for 24 hours.  He's just managed to convince himself of this.
+Now, suddenly, someone comes into his life and with seven words -- you'll know
+them when you hear them -- completely unravels the self-deception.  He knows
+then that something DID happen to him, that someone DID mess with his
+mind...and he is going to find out who, and why.
+

+     This he will do.  And the ramifications of that discovery will have a
+major influence on the series, on his relationships, and the future of not
+only his character but many others.
+

+     You will see what a Vorlon is...and what it represents.  And what it may
+have to do with our own saga, and a hidden relationship to some of our other
+characters (watch the reception scene carefully).  We'll discover that there
+are MANY players in this game.
+

+     One thing that separates this show from others is that on other shows.
+very often you do things to them to make for interesting drama...you take them
+prisoner, you make them kids, whatever...in this show, it's what's INSIDE the
+characters that will pose the greatest problems...and the greatest
+possibilities for drama.  Most every major character is either running to, or
+away from something in their hearts, or their pasts, or their careers.
+Garibaldi's past will catch up with him in a very difficult way that will
+affect his role and make him a very different character for as much as a full
+season, and have lasting effects thereafter.  Lyta will take part in a voyage
+of discovery that will very much change her character.
+

+     Some of the established empires will fall.  Some will rise.  Hopes and
+fortunes will be alternately made or destroyed.  At least one major group not
+yet known even to EXIST will make its presence known, but only gradually. Some
+characters will fall from grace.  Others will make bargains whose full price
+they do not understand...but will eventually come to realize, and regret.
+

+     At the end of the first season, one character will undergo a major, MAJOR
+change, which will start the show spinning on a very different axis. The first
+season will have some fairly conventional stories, but others will start the
+show gradually moving toward where I want it to go.   One has to set these
+things up gradually.  Events in the story -- which is very much the story of
+Jeffrey Sinclair -- will speed up in each subsequent season.
+

+     Someone he considers a friend will betray him.  Another will prove to be
+the exact opposite of what Sinclair believes to be true.  Some will live. Some
+will die.  He will be put through a crucible of terrible force, that will
+change him, and alter his destiny, in a profound and terrible way...if he goes
+one way, or the other, will determine not only his own fate, but that of
+millions of others.  He will grow, and become stronger, better, wiser...or be
+destroyed by what fate is bringing his way.  In sum, it is a story of hope
+against terrible adversity and overwhelming odds.
+

+     That, in broad brush strokes, is a *taste* of what I plan to do with the
+series.  I note this here because when the pilot airs, I am going to ask for
+your continued help in supporting the endeavor for the series, and it occurs
+to me that you ought to have at least SOME idea of what you're buying, and
+being asked to support.  One should never be asked to sign a blank check on
+the bank of one's conscience.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ makeup
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  makeup
+

+

+     Makeup takes anywhere from 2-3 hours for our main characters on a regular
+basis.  In some cases, we've done something pretty close to full body
+prosthetics on G'Kar, and that is nearly double the normal time.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ mask  prosthetic
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  mask  prosthetic
+

+

+     Re: prosthetics...there are two parts, the inner area, which is taken
+from a mold of the actor's face, and the outer part, which is sculpted.  If
+you change actors, you do a different mold from the face of the actor to
+create the inner half, but you can keep the outer part the same (based on the
+sculpture).  Usually you sculpt it to stay close to and accent the actor's
+features.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ sound  surround
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sound  surround
+

+

+     Just for clarification, while Chris does a great job on the music. the
+sound mix is done in the studio with our regular sound guys, who do the
+surround mix.  We spend a *lot* of time getting the mix to sound just right,
+to take full advantage of the surround channels.  A lot of the credit here
+goes to George Johnsen, our co-producer, who is an absolute perfectionist
+about this stuff.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ gun  blast  ppg
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  gun  blast  ppg
+

+

+     Our sound designer has finished working on the gun-sounds, and they sound
+very impressive.  We've come up with a different way of handling the gun
+sequences -- firing, impact, and sound -- based more on how these things would
+actually work if they existed.  And let me tell you, if you EVER ran into or
+heard one of these things coming your way, you'd get the hell out FAST.  We
+actually sat down for hours and tried to determine the effects on impact, on
+firing, on the surrounding atmosphere, and how to avoid the 30 mph problem
+usually associated with TV lasers.  (That is, you trace the "laser" across
+screen, you see it move, which means that this beam of light is moving slower
+than a bullet...which is silly.)  By all rights, it should be nearly invisible
+and nearly instantaneous...but then you don't see anything.  We've managed to
+come up with a nifty little solution to the problem.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ walla  ditillio  zocalo  surround
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  walla  ditillio  zocalo  surround
+

+

+     BTW, for all you who ride the pause button and jack up the stereo volume
+(we're doing Dolby Surround, incidentally), I assigned Larry DiTillio to write
+a bunch of walla (background dialogue) for the Zocalo, the observation dome.
+customs and other areas.  Some of it's sane...but the rest...oh, man....
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How do you deal with the issue of "sound in space"?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sound  space  franke  music
+

+

+
   How do you deal with the issue of "sound in space"?

+

+     And just so everybody knows...so you don't gig me on this later...I have
+spent more time than I want to *think* about lately talking with our sound
+people about the sound-in-space issue.  We've literally spent HOURS locked up.
+discussing various options, middle grounds, extremes and some off-beat
+possibilities.  I still don't know what we're going to do exactly, but for
+what it's worth, believe me, this has been examined to within an inch of its
+(and my) life.  What it comes down to now is this: we will have all of the
+options we discussed available to us at the final mix-down, and we will try
+them in different combinations.  Whatever works best is what we'll go with.
+And we won't know what that is until we get there.
+

+     Today, at Christopher Franke's, I heard the music for "Soul Hunter," and
+it's brilliant.  It's very hard to describe...it's not rock, but it's
+aggressive, and powerful, not at all synth sounding.  And I think that he just
+may have resolved the sound in space question for the most part.  He tried
+some things we discussed, and it works great.  So this may be the solution
+we've been looking for.  (Though the first one who tells me there's no
+orchestra in space gets it in the eye.)
+

+     We've found that what works best is to play primarily music as our space
+action/sound bed, overlaying just a tad with tonalities that aren't sound
+effects per se in most cases, but more sound cues that suggest a particular
+effect.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ edit  shot  film  robot
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  edit  shot  film  robot
+

+

+     The editing, by the way, is a fascinating process.  Television is the
+process of making choices: you choose how to write the scene, you choose who
+you want to play the scene, the actor chooses how he wants to play the
+character, the director chooses how to stage the scene, the cinematographer
+chooses how to light and frame the scene, and then you and the editor choose
+how to structure that scene using the finished film.
+

+     What you have in your hands (not literally, since we're all computerized
+now, and hardly anyone uses film anymore in editing) is the film for a scene.
+You've got the master shot, showing everyone.  You may have 1, 2 or 3 takes of
+that shot.  Then you get the medium, close, and two-shots, as well as
+reverses.  You get 2-3 of those, times the number of characters in the scene
+(i.e., 2 close-ups of Sinclair in the scene, 2 or 3 close-ups of Garibaldi.
+plus the over-the-shoulder shots of both, on and on).  Though the staging is
+the same, the pacing of lines varies, the delivery varies, inflection, stance.
+attitude...there are subtle differences that become terribly important when
+you start cutting film.  Maybe the first close-up has the intensity you want
+in the first half, but falls off in the second part, so now you use part two
+of take two, which *does* finish with the required intensity.  But in that
+take, the actor visible in the same scene isn't quite where he's standing in
+the master shot, and you have to go back to the master for the next shot
+because that's where you need to see X entering the room....
+

+     It's a complex, complicated, exhausting process that requires you to hold
+the various scenes and shots all in your head at the same time, particularly
+if you want to do any last-minute restructuring, or "borrow" a shot from
+another scene to fill out this scene because there was a problem on the angle
+in what you've got.
+

+     But I'd be a liar if I didn't say it's an awful lot of fun.  You can make
+a scene play 50 different ways, depending on how you edit it.  And we've got
+some *great* editors working with us.
+

+     We're using some state of the art computers for our editing work, in some
+ways in advance of EditDroid.  The first line is the Avid editor, which
+digitizes all of the printed takes from an episode and stores them in
+full-motion video/audio the same way you store a .gif file.  You can have
+instant access to everything; you don't have to swap disks in or out, and it's
+all immediate.  Once you've edited the thing to where you want it, you save
+the information to the system.  Then you provide all of the required prints to
+the major computer system at the editing house which then *automatically*
+assembles the entire cut overnight.  Operates almost entirely without
+supervision.  You come in in the morning, and your cut is waiting for you.
+

+     we're able to stay further toward the cutting edge of technology because
+we're small, new, and can react faster than something that has to work through
+an entrenched studio bureaucracy that has already invested major bucks in its
+old systems, and doesn't want to re-tool since what it has basically works
+fine.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Is the show filmed at 30 frames per second[tv], or 24[movie]?
+
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+Search
+
+Keywords:  30  24  frames
+

+

+
   Is the show filmed at 30 frames per second[tv], or 24[movie]?

+

+     We *did* shoot the pilot (and will shoot anything that follows) at 30. I
+remember because somebody or other groused about the extra film costs.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Why not just broadcast the episodes in letterbox?
+
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+Search
+
+Keywords:  title  opening  ratio  letterbox  video  composition  hdtv  laser
+

+

+     Well, we've finished finalizing our main/opening titles sequence, and
+done the on-line editing, and now will put it into the process and start
+putting whole shows together.  We've decided, in order to emphasize the
+cinematic aspects of our show, that it's taking more of a movie approach to TV
+SF...to do the main titles in letterbox format.
+

+     Yes, the main titles will be in letterbox format for conventional
+televisions...we're taking the footage that we've shot in 16:9 aspect ratio.
+and shrinking it down just enough to fit, so there's black on top and bottom.
+the same way that, for instance, TNT shows movies in their full aspect ratio.
+And we've custom designed some CGI that also is in that format.  (In the case
+of series footage that we're using, there you'll be able to compare the
+regular aspect ratio of the broadcast with what's in the main titles.  In
+other words, there's a scene in "Parliament" of a Minbari gathering.  In
+regular aspect, as part of the show, you'll see it one way.  We've clipped a
+section of that for the main titles and used the full aspect ratio, and in
+that you'll see the far right and left sides normally clipped for standard TV
+aspect ratio.)
+

+     Apparently this is also done on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, I learned the
+other day, so that'll give you some sense of it.  It's very effective at
+giving a real cinematic feel to your main titles.
+

+     RE: composition...the monitor on which the director and DP can watch and
+see what the camera sees has on it demarkations to show the regular aspect
+ratio, as well as the widescreen view.  Which pretty much allows them to
+compose for both, for the most part.
+

+     We're not shooting on videotape, so it's kind of a moot point.  We're
+shooting on film, which can be converted to HDTV standards *very* easily. The
+pixel density is a function of where you go once you decide to convert the
+film.  It's now being converted to video at standard resolution; when HDTV
+comes into existence commercially, the film will be reprocessed out and
+transferred to video at that level.
+

+     We are shooting in 16:9 aspect ratio, cutting it down to normal TV aspect
+ratio for its initial broadcasts.  When a) the laserdisks are in time
+released, and b) when HDTV becomes more of a standard, the full letterboxed
+aspect ratio will be available.
+

+
   Why not just broadcast the episodes in letterbox?

+

+     Given that most household TV sets are fairly small, no, it wouldn't be
+fair or prudent to begin broadcasting the episodes in letterbox at this time.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How would B5 computer images look on the big screen?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  film  image  cgi
+

+

+
   How would B5 computer images look on the big screen?

+

+     Films are difficult because the level of resolution required to make an
+image that'll stand up to scrutiny on the big screen is still a major pain in
+the butt.  But that'll change in time.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   What kinds of stuff do we get in the second season?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  second  season
+

+

+
   What kinds of stuff do we get in the second season?

+

+     Overall title for season two: "The Coming of Shadows."
+

+     Next season's last episode will not be a cliffhanger per se, but will,
+like "Chrysalis," just escalate the hell out of the show.
+

+     Haven't yet seen or heard what the airdate schedule will be like for next
+year, but like you I hope it'll be with more new episodes straight through.
+and fewer interruptions by reruns.
+

+     There will be 22 episodes in season two.
+

+     Yes, in season two, we'll be seeing a lot of the jumpgates from up close,
+and straight through.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ schedule  day  daily
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  schedule  day  daily
+

+

+     For those who might be interested, I thought I'd pass along a quick view
+of the process of producing a show like B5, step by step (though briefly).
+

+     Day Minus 21: The script is finalized and distributed to all cast and
+crew.
+

+     Day Minus 14: The episode goes into serious pre-production, with meetings
+on visual effects, wardrobe, CGI and so on.  Props are designed and
+construction begun on both props and wardrobe and any sets that are specific
+to that episode.
+

+     Day Minus 10: Tone meeting with director and producers to make sure all
+parties see the story the same way.  Casting, begun on day 14, is finalized
+about this time.
+

+     Day Minus 6: Major production meeting with all departments, at which each
+scene is gone through in detail, examining and reinforcing what props.
+costumes, extras and lighting requirements are needed per scene.
+

+     Day One: Filming Starts.
+

+     Day Seven: Filming finishes.  Editing has been going on since day 2, as
+dailies arrive at the studio, with editors making rough assemblies of the
+scenes as they come in.
+

+     Day Eight/Nine: the director works with the editor to make the first.
+Director's Cut of the episode, relying to some degree on the preliminary
+Editor's Cut.
+

+     Day 10/11: Producers begin making their cut.  (Mainly me and John
+Copeland.)  Sit with editor and view each scene, picking out various takes and
+angles, integrating CGI.  Sometimes the cut varies a lot from the Director's
+Cut and is a whole new version...or it is very close to the Director's Cut.
+Producer's Cut finished around day 12/13.
+

+     Day 15: Producer's Cut is sent to primary editing bay for on-line
+editing, at which the frames of actual film are slugged and readied for the
+real thing (as opposed to editing computer images on the Avid).
+

+     Day 20: Episode is color-timed to make sure color values are correct.
+

+     Day 25: Spotting session...producers, sound designer, composer, dialogue
+editors meet and review the on-line edit or CTM (color timed master) to
+determine where sound and music should be placed, the kind of sound or music
+required, and number of frames/seconds duration.  Second spotting session with
+visual EFX supervisor to determine rotoscoping or other non-CGI EFX placement.
+

+     Day 39: Final mix-down of all elements: music, sound, looping, visual
+effects and other elements.  For this we sit in the mixing bay from 9 a.m. to
+7 p.m. nonstop, bringing in lunch, to determine balance of sound to music.
+music to dialogue, which elements to use or lose, and so on.
+

+     Day 46: Finished episode delivered to PTEN and in-house.
+

+     Total time required: 57 days.  And during this period, we are
+simultaneously editing at least 4-5 other shows, and have shot roughly another
+6 episodes, which are also in various stages of editing.
+

+     I've glossed over a few things, but that should give you some idea of the
+process and the highlights thereof.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Are the episodes produced in the same order they are shown?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  production  order
+

+

+
   Are the episodes produced in the same order they are shown?

+

+     The production order was determined only by production requirements, not
+the story.  The airdate schedule is the one that matters.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ162.html b/find/Answers/answ162.html
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+
+ dubbing  adr  dialog  looping
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  dubbing  adr  dialog  looping
+

+

+     How much of any episode's dialogue is looped depends on whether or not
+the line was clear on the mike, if there was on off-camera noise, and other
+factors.  Sometimes there's almost none, sometimes there's a lot.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ163.html b/find/Answers/answ163.html
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+
+   Any chance of black and white segments?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  black&white
+

+

+
   Any chance of black and white segments?

+

+     Actually, we came very close to doing a black-and-white segment this
+season, and might do so next.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ164.html b/find/Answers/answ164.html
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+
+   How does B5 manages to keep costs so low compared to other shows?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  production  cost  money  schedule
+

+

+
   How does B5 manages to keep costs so low compared to other shows?

+

+     On this whole "costs less = not as good" question, the one thing that
+galls me is the knowledge, accumulated through 120+ produced TV episodes, that
+30% *or more* of any show's budget is wasted.  It comes because you don't get
+a script until maybe 3-4 days before you have to shoot, and everybody works
+round the clock, ringing in double- and triple-overtime on EFX, costumes.
+sets, you name it.  So items that should by all rights cost maybe $150,000 end
+up costing you $300,000 or more.
+

+     In B5, we're generally 3-5 scripts ahead of ourselves at any one moment.
+Directors and crew get their scripts *weeks* before we have to shoot.  And
+even earlier than that, because I know what's coming down the road for the
+whole season, I can give someone literally *months* of advance warning on
+major EFX, or set requirements.  As a result of all this, items that normally
+cost $150,000 either cost exactly that, or we actually end up *saving* a
+little money.
+

+     A lot of television production is absolutely irresponsible.  That we are
+penalized in the press for acting responsibly is something that I just can't
+figure....
+

+     One nice thing about the way we're doing this show is that we don't just
+have to set up gags within an episode; we can set them up *weeks* ahead of
+time, as long as the payoff is self-contained, but then when you see the
+earlier shows, now you get more out of it.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ165.html b/find/Answers/answ165.html
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+
+   How is shooting for season two scheduled?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  schedule  shooting  season  two  year
+

+

+
   How is shooting for season two scheduled?

+

+     The time for prep on year two, if we were to get picked up, would be
+equal to year one, with the exception that we won't have to build all of these
+sets.  We'll have more time in that sense.  Again, the stories are pretty much
+mapped out for five years, so that's already done.
+

+     P.S.  So far the first 3-4 episodes of B5's second season are in
+real-time order, each separated by a week in story-time as well as in real
+time.  It begins a few days into 2259, and the season would end just before
+the end of that year, with season three starting in 2260.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ166.html b/find/Answers/answ166.html
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+
+ history  paramount  pitch
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  history  paramount  pitch
+

+

+     Babylon 5 was conceived in 1986; the screenplay for the pilot (which was
+more or less what was shot) was written in 1987.  Also in 1987, art was
+commissioned and used to help in pitches to networks and studios.  The full
+project -- artwork, screenplay, series bible, treatment and sample stories --
+was shopped to several places, including Paramount in 1989.
+

+     The first notes and drafts on Babylon 5 go back to 1976. though the first
+script wasn't finished until 1977/78.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ167.html b/find/Answers/answ167.html
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+
+ jms  producer  production
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  jms  producer  production
+

+

+     What do I do exactly?  Aside from writing my own scripts, I assign
+stories to other writers, and select those writers to work with.  (Because B5
+is tied to a story arc, many of our freelance scripts are based upon assigned
+stories.)  I'm also involved in every single stage of the series production:
+minus any notes from the studio (which are minimal, our last project got no
+notes at all, they're leaving us very much alone), Doug and I have final say
+over jevery aspect of the series.  (Generally Doug is more the businessman and
+deal maker, leaving most of the creative details to me.)  I do casting, work
+with the art directors on graphics, approve and work with the set designers.
+wardrobe people, prosthetics team, computer graphics team, visual effects.
+every single department.  I get final say on the editing of the shows.
+mussound effects, you name it.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ168.html b/find/Answers/answ168.html
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+
+   What is your relationship with Doug Netter on the show?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  netter  partner  producer  production
+

+

+
   What is your relationship with Doug Netter on the show?

+

+     As for Doug, he's my equal partner in the project.  Doug's been in the
+business as long as there's *been* a business, once serving as head of MGM. He
+was my producer on POWER, and he and I made a deal: he will never give me a
+creative note on that series.  And he kept that promise.  If it came in long.
+or short, or there was an effect we couldn't do, that was one thing, but
+creatively, he left me alone.  "I'm not a writer, that's your job," he said.
+There are very few people in this town who'll deal straight with you, and
+Doug's one of them.  So when I created B5, of all the choices available about
+who to partner up with, Doug was on top of the list.  He handles most of the
+business stuff, and I handle the creative stuff.  (Which isn't exactly true in
+some ways; I have to get into some of the business, and he has to get into
+some of the creative, but those are are general areas of expertise.)
+

+     His name generally appears in books about the film business, and in one
+of these books, it explains that when he was at MGM, his nickname was the
+Rattlesnake...hence, Rattlesnake Productions.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ169.html b/find/Answers/answ169.html
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+
+   What's the budget of a B5 episode?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  budget
+

+

+
   What's the budget of a B5 episode?

+

+     The details of the budget per episide are classified...but you could
+easily take DS9's budget, cut it in half, and you'd still have more than we've
+got.
+

+     Which is, again, part of the overall plan...if we can prove that you can
+do quality SF on a budget comparable to non-SF series, it'll open the gates
+for more shows down the road.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ17.html b/find/Answers/answ17.html
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+
+   Will the show feature mature themes?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  adult  nudity  mature
+

+

+
   Will the show feature mature themes?

+

+     You really have to do whatever's right by the story.  Some adult themes
+have to be handled in an adult fashion.  There are some very adult themes in
+B5.  Some you may like, some you may not.  I don't think we'll be able to go
+in for nudity or the like because I don't think the stations would permit it.
+If they did...I still don't know if I'd use it or not, because it would really
+depend on the story.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ170.html b/find/Answers/answ170.html
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+
+ final  cut  executive
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  final  cut  executive
+

+

+     And yes, in TV, it's the exec producer who generally gets the final cut.
+whereas in film it's often the director (or, in some cases, the studio).
+

+
+
+
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+
+ pten
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  pten
+

+

+     So far, the network (PTEN) is letting us do everything we want to do.
+even going for our more dangerous stories.  Which pleases me beyond anything I
+can convey to you.  They're trusting us to do what we think is right.
+

+     I think that the PRIMARY reason that B5 is as good as it has been is that
+we've been pretty much left to our own devices without much in the way of
+interference from the studio/network.  The day a studio begins messing around
+with a show is when it pretty much becomes doomed.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ172.html b/find/Answers/answ172.html
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+
+ studio  set
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  studio  set
+

+

+     Preface: as has been stated before, since no studio facility was big
+enough for our purposes (we now have 20 standing sets and 57 swing sets, some
+120' wide or more), we took over an industrial facility roughly the size of
+Latvia and built three soundproofed soundstages, costume facilities.
+construction areas, dubbing room, prosthetics wings, you name it.  It's sort
+of a Lucas Ranch operation, everything under one roof.
+

+     A number of shows have taken over and converted such facilities to shoot
+series, but I'm proud to note that this is the *first* such conversion to be
+finally, officially and formally redefined by the city as a working studio.
+It's the *first* new studio in town in something like 10 years.  There's
+nothing else like it unless you want to actually go on the lot of a major
+studio.  (And it has the advantage of being off the lot, away from people who
+might wander into your stage and, oh, start giving you notes.  If you're a bit
+away, they have to drive over, and the hassle ain't worth it.)
+

+     Ah!  Now I begin to understand.  Alas, my offices aren't on the Warners
+lot either; we're well and truly off-campus.  Next time look up north a piece
+past the Universal Black Tower, and wave, I'll see you.
+

+     The end of the central corridor was a painting; correct.  And I never
+liked it.  So over the break, we *built* another 15 or so feet to the end of
+the corridor, going up, so now it's quite real, and we can put stuff in there.
+Much improved.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ173.html b/find/Answers/answ173.html
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+
+   Who does the promos for the next episode? Why are they so inaccurate?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  promo  trailer  teaser
+

+

+
   Who does the promos for the next episode? Why are they so inaccurate?

+

+     The teasers and promos are put together by the Warner Bros. marketing and
+promotions department.
+

+     I have nothing to do with the trailers, except to sit in awe and
+astonishment, trying to recognize my episode in the trailer, which is a chancy
+business at best.
+

+     Warners sometimes feels the need to "enhance" the shows through the
+promos...and sometimes they enhance them right into an alternate dimension....
+

+     We're trying to get Warners to re-evaluate their approach to the teasers.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ174.html b/find/Answers/answ174.html
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+
+ trek  seaquest  press  publicity  audience
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  trek  seaquest  press  publicity  audience
+

+

+     Had a reporter in here the other day, and he asked if it bothered me that
+other shows were getting all the ink...meaning, I suppose, TNG and DS9 and
+SQ:DSV...and my response really said it all, I think.  It's like the Rocky
+movie.  Let the other guys get all the press, do the big flashy stuff, wave
+around big budgets...we'll just stand here in a meat locker, pounding slabs of
+meat with our bare hands....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ175.html b/find/Answers/answ175.html
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+
+ online  warner  pten  demo  computer  platform
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  online  warner  pten  demo  computer  platform
+

+

+     The one thing that I'd like to point out is that Warner/PTEN isn't in the
+programming business.  This isn't a normal part of their PR strategy. The only
+reason they have done this at all -- the B5 computer promo -- is in
+recognition of the online support here and elsewhere.  They have had to
+contract out for this, and because this isn't a proven (yet) strategy, could
+only carve out so much for it.  No, not every platform is covered; doubtless
+that will change with time.  But it's generally never done at ALL.  So I would
+just temper the discussion with that reality.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ176.html b/find/Answers/answ176.html
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+
+   What kind of impact do you want the show to have on viewers?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  impact  viewer
+

+

+
   What kind of impact do you want the show to have on viewers?

+

+     The other day, a reporter asked me what I wanted to accomplish with
+B5...and I remembered this commercial showing a viewer plastered against the
+wall opposite the TV...and that seemed about right.  I don't want viewers to
+see a show and say, afterward, "Well, that was a nice story."   There has to
+be more than that.
+

+     And while we certainly have our episodes that are paced just a little
+more slowly, less intensely, because you have to have variation, have to allow
+time for character stories...there are some episodes, like "Sky," that just
+hit the viewer right between the eyes with a 2 by 4 *real* hard and say "HEY!
+PAY ATTENTION!  WE'RE NOT KIDDING HERE!"
+

+     Take no prisoners....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ177.html b/find/Answers/answ177.html
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+
+   Will you be doing more con appearances?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  con  convention
+

+

+
   Will you be doing more con appearances?

+

+     I still plan to continue to go to cons, but probably at a somewhat
+reduced level, simply due to the requirements of exec producing this show and
+writing a smidge over half the episodes.  Probably hit the major cons.
+WorldCon and the like.  And always, *always* ComicCon.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ178.html b/find/Answers/answ178.html
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+
+ satellite  iran  iraq  babylon
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  satellite  iran  iraq  babylon
+

+

+     Re: satellite...one of the more interesting stories I've heard lately is
+that B5 is *very* popular via satellite...in Iran and Iraq, both of whom lay
+claim of one sort or another to the original Babylon.  Apparently that a
+Westerner has set a series in their well-remembered Babylon that is NOT a
+negative thing but a positive thing has got both countries quite pleasantly
+astonished.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Why is Sinclair running this station? What rank would the
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  rank  admiral  administrator  sinclair  ambassador  nitpick
+

+

+
   Why is Sinclair running this station? What rank would the

+        administrator have been if it hadn't been Sinclair?
+

+     As for Sinclair's status as both commander and ambassador...that is
+something we're going to deal with in the series.  By all rights, he shouldn't
+even BE there.  EA tried to stick an Admiral or some other high-ranking
+officer there.  The first race to sign onto the station, the Minbari, had
+approval over who was sent to that post.  They rejected everyone suggested.
+right down the line, until Sinclair.  EA Officials are still wondering why HE
+was selected.  (There is a reason.)
+

+     That post was previously designed to either include representing Earth as
+an ambassador (to avoid in-station conflicts) or as an adjunct to one. And at
+one point, an ambassador will arrive, and they will hash this out once and for
+all.
+

+     What you have picked up on are not flaws, but story points in the
+making...areas that will be explored down the road.  These questions WILL be
+answered.  It would have been very easy to make him Admiral or Ambassador
+Sinclair.  He was given this lower rank for a reason...and there are an awful
+lot of people who look at this, and wonder if Sinclair isn't just a *tad* too
+cozy with their former enemies in the war, and just where ARE his loyalties.
+*really*?
+

+     Is it a conflict of interest...yes and no.  Sinclair functions much as a
+military governor in, for instance, California's past.  Someone in this
+position may speak on behalf of his government with neighboring countrires,
+and represent others.  Does it sometimes lead into a conflict of interest?
+Yes.  Is it sometimes unfair?  Yes.  Which is kinda like life, and that's why
+I rather like putting him in an awkward position.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ18.html b/find/Answers/answ18.html
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+
+   Will seasons be ending in cliffhangers?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cliffhanger  finale  season  end  chapter  change
+

+

+
   Will seasons be ending in cliffhangers?

+

+     As for "season finale cliffhangers," that depends on how you define that.
+If you mean a cliffhanger that, once resolved at the start of the next season.
+ends up having been more or less meaningless...no, we won't be doing that. But
+the end of each planned season will make a left turn designed to bring the
+show in new directions that will have long-erm (or long-term) effects on all
+of our characters.
+

+     Whether it's a chapter ending in a book, or an act break in a TV series.
+you build to a moment of change and transition, upping the stakes at each
+turn.  That's how our season-enders are constructed.
+

+     RE: cliffhangers...not between episodes, certainly.  Between seasons.
+it's...hard to explain.  There are, or will be *changes* that happen from one
+season to another (as planned), specific events that take place that should
+bring one up short...but "cliffhanger" in the sense of leaving some guy
+hanging from a string over a lake of fire...no, no plans for such at this
+time.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ180.html b/find/Answers/answ180.html
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+
+   Can't you cut down on the narration size?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  narration  opening  pten
+

+

+
   Can't you cut down on the narration size?

+

+     Doing the intro was something that PTEN wants for all its shows; if you
+check out Trax and Kung Fu, you'll see it there, as well.  It's my hope that
+we can trim the narration down by 1/2 in second and subsequent seasons.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ181.html b/find/Answers/answ181.html
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+
+   Aren't ships subject to relativity by travelling faster than light?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  hyperspace  travel  light
+

+

+
   Aren't ships subject to relativity by travelling faster than light?

+

+     Actually, I'd argue that there's a difference between FTL travel, and
+removing oneself from the standard reference by entering hyperspace.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ182.html b/find/Answers/answ182.html
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+
+   Why do so many characters wear gloves?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  gloves
+

+

+
   Why do so many characters wear gloves?

+

+     Talia, like all Psi Corps members, wears gloves because she has to, when
+in public, to minimize physical contact and accidental scans.  As for others
+wearing gloves...sometimes it's a fashion statement...and other times, well.
+space is very very cold....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ183.html b/find/Answers/answ183.html
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+
+   Why are the doors shaped irregularly?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  door
+

+

+
   Why are the doors shaped irregularly?

+

+     Re: the shape of the doors...they're set to notch into the wall, and in
+the case of depressurization, bolts shoot through the "teeth" that insert into
+the wall, to lock it securely into place.  It's much more airtight that way
+than a conventional door that swings or opens in the middle in case of an
+accident that opens a portion of the station to vacuum.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ184.html b/find/Answers/answ184.html
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+
+   Why is Babylon 5 orbiting a planet, instead of being on a planet?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  station  atmosphere  orbit  ship  planet
+

+

+
   Why is Babylon 5 orbiting a planet, instead of being on a planet?

+

+     Many of the huge transports that'll be coming to B5 were never meant to
+operate within an atmosphere, they're strictly deep range starships, to which
+you transfer using atmosphere-capable shuttles.  We're not talking little
+flits, we're talking about ships that can be as big as a mile across. Dropping
+something that huge down into the gravity well of a planet is just unworkable.
+If you want something that can handle lots of big ships, it *has* to be in
+space...as in a station.
+

+     You could park a big ship near a planet, and use lots of shuttles to
+unload it down to the planet (gravity well, heavy cargo, lots of fuel, lots of
+time, more accidents), then haul it right back *up* again when it's sold or
+transferred...or you could build a station in zero G where your big transport
+just parks alongside, loads or unloads its cargo in zero gravity, and transfer
+it where needed.
+

+     And the atmosphere of the planet is no longer breathable.
+

+     Yes, the nearby planet will eventually figure into the storyline.  No, I
+cannot currently tell you how.
+

+     The world B5 orbits is Epsilon 3.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ185.html b/find/Answers/answ185.html
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+
+   What are lurkers? Why not send 'em back?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  lurker  homeless  station  earth
+

+

+
   What are lurkers? Why not send 'em back?

+

+     Actually...y'know...it's funny, but I've been trying to come up with a
+name for the folks who just sorta roam B5, the "homeless" or others who have
+enough resources to get there in hopes of jobs or new worlds, and don't have
+enough to get off again...and who play a running game of tag of sorts with B5
+security..."Lurkers" ain't bad....
+

+     Scenario Number One: sending the Lurkers back to Earth.  Comes a call
+from Earth Central: "Hell, no, you're NOT shipping them back here, we're
+overcrowded enough as it is, we will NOT give you permission to send them back
+here."
+

+     Scenario Number Two: turning them over to their representatives on B5.
+G'Kar: "Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention, Commander, I'll
+have him sent back at once."  Beat.  The commander leaves.
+

+     G'Kar: "Get OUT of here and don't come back!  I don't have time to deal
+with the likes of you, we're NOT paying to send you back to Homeworld, just
+get out!"
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ186.html b/find/Answers/answ186.html
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+
+   There shouldn't be all these other aliens who look humanoid...
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  humanoid
+

+

+
   There shouldn't be all these other aliens who look humanoid...

+

+     Actually, I disagree...the basic "model" of the human form is very well
+tailored and may be more general than we might suspect.  Legs for walking.
+probably two because all closed up sideways we present less of a silhouette
+for predators, and two legs are more nimble, can slip through narrower places
+than three.  Arms to lift, and hands to manipulate objects (show me a culture
+without a good opposable thumb) required for the birth of technology. Sensors
+(eyes/ears/nose) at the very highest part of the body, best for observational
+purposes, hunting and the like.
+

+     There are zillions of species on Earth, but you rarely seen anything
+above spider-level with more than six legs.  Now, I'm not saying that it's
+impossible to have other forms, not at all...only that the humanoid form may
+in fact be far more common than anyone suspects.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ187.html b/find/Answers/answ187.html
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+
+   Why do the starfury fighters look like X-wings from Star Wars?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  starfury  x-wing  star  war
+

+

+
   Why do the starfury fighters look like X-wings from Star Wars?

+

+     When we did the research on how a fighter could best operate in zero
+gravity, it seemed to require a four-wing axis with thrusters on every side.
+We've thus taken every possible step to make them NOT look like x-wings.
+particularly since there's no long, sleek forward section at *all*, it's a
+snub-nose, and the wings don't move, plus they have the unusual thruster
+combination.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ188.html b/find/Answers/answ188.html
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+
+   I thought I saw Orion.  Are you showing constellations?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  constellation  orion
+

+

+
   I thought I saw Orion.  Are you showing constellations?

+

+     For starters, the Orion constellation would not look like the Orion
+constellation from another POV, say, 30 light years from here.  Another
+cluster of stars might *look* the same, or similar, but anyone expecting to
+see the constellations as we recognize them from here is going to be
+disappointed.
+

+     As far as I know, from what Ron's said re: constellations, while it may
+look like Orion, it isn't.  It's perception, the mind looking for patterns it
+recognizes.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ189.html b/find/Answers/answ189.html
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+
+   They're using paper in the 23rd century, e.g. Universe Today?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  paper  recycle
+

+

+
   They're using paper in the 23rd century, e.g. Universe Today?

+

+     It's not a paper,but synthetic material.  A customized (to each person)
+copy of UT comes out in your quarters, you take it with you, read it, dump it
+in the recycler and get it again the next day.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ19.html b/find/Answers/answ19.html
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+
+ lie  truth  pilot
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  lie  truth  pilot
+

+

+     Matt: I like it when people lie in television, and we find out about it
+over time.  The "lost colony" routine was one such.  At one point, Garibaldi
+confronts Londo with this as reason for why he doesn't trust the Centauri.
+Londo shrugs it off as a "clerical error."  There will be a few points in the
+series when we'll get information, and we'll buy into it...and discover after
+a while that that character bald-facedly lied to the other character (and, by
+proxy, to us).  And naturally there will be consequences to this....
+

+     Actually, at one point or another, just about *everyone* lied in the
+course of the pilot...including Sinclair, who lied to G'Kar, and of course
+Delenn lying to Sinclair in the Garden...and so on.
+

+     Basically, I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.  (This
+is Joe's Theory of the Five Truths.)  There is the truth you tell to casual
+strangers and acquaintances.  There is the truth you tell to your general
+circle of friends and family members.  There is the truth you tell to only one
+or two people in your entire life.  There is the truth you tell to yourself.
+And finally, there is the truth that you do not admit even to yourself.  And
+it's that fifth truth that provides some of the most interesting drama.....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ190.html b/find/Answers/answ190.html
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+
+   Why the inconsistent meaning of the word "cycle" as a unit of time?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cycle  time
+

+

+
   Why the inconsistent meaning of the word "cycle" as a unit of time?

+

+     At one time we were working out what the time-reference would be on B5.
+One of the early things we talked about were cycles, but in fairly short order
+I decided against it because it didn't seem to mean much.   But this was.
+sadly, after "Grail" had been produced, and we couldn't dub over the cycle
+references with anything else, so it stayed.  It won't be appearing anywhere
+else henceforth.  One of our few continuity glitches.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ191.html b/find/Answers/answ191.html
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+
+   Will there be holiday celebrations on B5?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  holiday  new-year
+

+

+
   Will there be holiday celebrations on B5?

+

+     We have a New Year's celebration in one episode later this season, and at
+some point will probably show other stuff next year.
+

+     The new year's eve on B5 at the end of 2258 is definitely memorable.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ192.html b/find/Answers/answ192.html
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+
+   Will any high-ranking EA officers come to B5?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  rank  ea
+

+

+
   Will any high-ranking EA officers come to B5?

+

+     Yes, there are instances where other EA officers come aboard with
+equivilent or close ranks to our characters.  In one particular episode it
+makes for some considerable conflict....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ193.html b/find/Answers/answ193.html
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+
+   How about a SF convention on the station?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sf  sci-fi  convention
+

+

+
   How about a SF convention on the station?

+

+     An SF convention on board Babylon 5...oh dear....(slapping self, bad jms.
+*bad* jms).
+

+     I don't know, but I think I can be *reasonably* sure that there won't be
+anyone there selling Dianetics books in the dealer's room....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ194.html b/find/Answers/answ194.html
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+
+ zero  gravity  garden
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  zero  gravity  garden
+

+

+     We plan to do some such shots for the series, in the zero-g section of
+the garden, and possibly in the zero-g cargo section that rides on top of B5.
+My mandate to Ron is to come up with a way of doing it that looks good. Once
+we have that, we'll do the story.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ195.html b/find/Answers/answ195.html
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+
+ time  travel
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  time  travel
+

+

+     With only one exception, you won't see time travel anywhere in the
+five-year run of the B5 story.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ196.html b/find/Answers/answ196.html
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+
+   Sports and recreation?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sport  recreation
+

+

+
   Sports and recreation?

+

+     Sports/recreation are things we're still trying to work out; not the
+conceptual part, but the part about "okay, how do we SHOOT this?"  I'm not big
+on "virtual reality" parlors or combat...I think people will still be more
+interested in playing with real people than pixels.  So we're trying to find
+ways we can visualize, in a TV series, things like zero-G tag or football.
+other sports that use our unique space environment.  One possibility is now
+being worked on, and we'll see if we can work it out for this season.  In any
+event, it's definitely something we're thinking about...I just don't want to
+rush into doing it until I know we can do it properly.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ197.html b/find/Answers/answ197.html
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+
+   In other shows, the characters that get killed off are always the
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  dead  minor  kill
+

+

+
   In other shows, the characters that get killed off are always the

+        anonymous, unknown characters.  Will we see anybody get killed off
+        that's not just a minor character?
+

+     You'll get your wish...and you'll wish you hadn't....
+

+     Matt: the most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character;
+the second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.  Believe me, as
+you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot, I have no problem dropping
+a body.  And as far as I'm concerned, only 2 or 3 characters in this series
+are indispensible...the rest are open to all kinds of interesting fates.
+

+     The problem with episodic series is that, after a while, you know what
+the parameters are.  You know THIS character won't ever be killed, and THAT
+base has got to remain, and THIS can't change.  And you fall into a habit and
+into regular expectations.  I *love* to blow up those sorts of expectations.
+Find the one thing that NO ONE thinks you're ever going to do in your
+show...and do it.  It keeps EVERYBODY on their toes.  If you can tune in and
+never know for sure what's going to happen, knowing that everyone and
+everything is fair game, it makes the tension in the show far more real.  The
+reaction when Pilot/Jennifer Chase was killed off was astonishing...and when
+the base was destroyed with her.  I was at a con when it was shown, and one
+person finally broke the stunned silence and said, "Jesus, they're not kidding
+around, this IS a war."  Which was exactly the right response.
+

+     How this will affect B5...wait and see.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ198.html b/find/Answers/answ198.html
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+
+   Will we get to see the point of view of a ship leaving or entering
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ship  enter  leave  hyperspace
+

+

+
   Will we get to see the point of view of a ship leaving or entering

+        hyperspace?
+

+     At some point, we'll probably see what it looks like from the ship'  POV
+leaving or entering hyperspace, yes.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ199.html b/find/Answers/answ199.html
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+
+   Will there be a gay character?  When will we meet this character?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  gay
+

+

+
   Will there be a gay character?  When will we meet this character?

+

+     (And at one point, we'll introduce a character -- assuming we haven't
+already -- who will be around for quite some time, and then we'll just drop.
+quite casually, that the character is gay.  I think that this is much better
+than doing A Gay Story.  Just drop it in and move on.)
+

+     To give that information out now would defeat the dynamic of its
+revelation.  There's some stuff I can talk about, some that I can't.  That is
+one of them.
+

+     And how do you know you haven't already seen this character?
+

+     Let me put this as simply as I can...in the year 2258, nobody *cares*
+about your sexual orientation.  It doesn't come up.  No one makes an issue out
+of it.  There are no discussions, no proclamations, no inquiries, no "how will
+they react?"  It's like being left-handed or right-handed; no one really cares
+one way or another.
+

+     Can we now move on past all of this?
+

+
+
+
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+
+
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords: 
+b5_jms_answers.txt         JMS's Answers & Info about Babylon 5       09/25/94
+

+This document contains a selection of actual quotes by J.Michael Straczynski,
+creator of Babylon 5, from Usenet, GEnie, and CIS groups.  The latest version
+of this document can be found via anonymous FTP at ftp.hyperion.com.
+

+This document contains:
+  * Extractions from the more-or-less complete GEnie/Usenet/CIS JMS archives.
+  * An organized set of information & answers to questions, paraphrased here.
+  * Fun tidbits of useful and useless information you may have missed.
+  * Answers to questions you might have, so look in the FAQ and in here first!
+  * Original typos and anachronisms.  These are direct quotes, you see!
+  * Some lead-ins from quotes may be confusing based on questions asked.
+  * Minor spoilers (more like tidbits) for present and future episoded.
+  * Keywords to help you find a subject.  Search for an important word
+    (singular, not plural, and lowercase) preceeded by the ~ mark.
+    Examples :   ~delenn   ~g'kar   ~twin-peaks
+  * An index of keywords can be found at the end of the document.
+  * An update -- many additions, some deletions -- of the 5/14/94 version.
+    (most episode-specific stuff is gone; see the guide pages.)
+

+|
+|    Changes: Took out much episode-specific stuff (better off in the guide
+|    pages) and obsolete information, and added new information.  Some general
+|    information on season 2 exists, though season 1 is still the main topic.
+|
+

+This file contains material Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 by J. Michael
+Straczynski.  He has given permission for his words to be redistributed
+online, as long as they are marked as being copyright JMS. This compilation
+is Copyright 1994 by Dan Wood, and may be distributed electronically.
+

+Comments, corrections, and additions are encouraged via e-mail.  This document
+is being maintained by dan wood .  Thanks to David "jazz"
+Navas, Elana Beach, Kyle Haight, Michael "Admiral" Zecca, Michele Worley, Lee
+Whiteside, David Strauss, and the Psi Corps.  And so it begins.....
+

+

+

+   I. Story
+  II. Aliens
+         General; Language; Vorlons; Centauri; Minbari; Narn
+ III. Characters
+         Delenn; Franklin; G'Kar; Garibaldi; Hernandez; Ivanova; Kosh;
+         Lennier; Londo; n'grath; Na'Toth; Sakai; Sheridan; Sinclair
+  IV. Technology
+         Station; Ships; Jump Gates; Weapons; Communication; Medicine; Other
+   V. Universe
+         Vision; Earth Alliance; Psi-corps; Powers; Miscellaneous
+  VI. The Pilot
+ VII. The Episodes
+VIII. Books and Comics
+  IX. Show Production
+         Writing; Casting; Music; Visual Effects; Makeup; Sound; Editing;
+         Video; Production; Promos
+   X. Audience
+  XI. Nitpicks
+ XII. Will there be...?
+XIII. Products
+ XIV. JMS Himself
+  XV. Miscellany
+ XVI. INDEX OF KEYWORDS
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ laurel  pilot  abandon  story  inside  assassin
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  laurel  pilot  abandon  story  inside  assassin
+

+

+     This isn't so much a spoiler, since it concerns an abandoned story like
+(or, let me rephrase that...a modified story line).  I mention this here since
+I just mentioned it elsewhere, and might as well do so here.
+

+     Think hard about the pilot for a moment.  Whose job is it in the
+observation dome to monitor incoming ships...but apparently let the spider
+transport slip through unnoticed?  The station's skin should have (and likely
+did) detect something clamping onto it...but apparently someone over-rode that
+for the spider transport.  Someone had to PRE-arrange access via the computer
+for the assassin, since it easily palms its way into Varner's quarters.  (And
+what is the name of the person the access computer recognizes?)  Someone had
+to arrange for the transport tube to be delayed, and then *erase* that
+information from the computer system.  Someone who knew *exactly* when the
+Vorlon ship would be docking.  We see, at various times, the following people
+interacting with the assassin, in different capacities: Garibaldi, Lyta.
+G'Kar, Londo, Dr. Kyle, and of course, much later, Sinclair. Who did we never
+see in direct contact with the assassin?  Who was put in charge of the station
+after Sinclair was removed?
+

+     Do you notice a pattern developing?  Do certain things here point to a
+certain individual...who may, or may not, have been acting on her own
+volition?
+

+     And yes, this is something we planned to explore, though it wasn't on a
+*direct* line to the arc of our story.  It definitely impinged upon it, of
+course.  This has been modified due to the change in the character of the
+Lieutenant Commander, and this now won't go where it was going to go...but we
+still have some very interesting plans for our secondary character, not at all
+along the Takashima lines (which is why this isn't a spoiler), but certainly
+intriguing on their own terms.
+

+     Now, I didn't say she was a villain.  I said that certain things may or
+may not have been done of her own free will, her own volition.  What this
+means...we'll see.
+

+     The one thing that I dropped fairly completely due to the delay in
+getting the series going was the Laurel thread, which has now mutated and
+become something even more interesting, actually.  It's something that's
+enabled me to now build in a trap door that you won't see for a long time.
+even though it's sitting there in plain sight.
+

+

+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will there be tractor beams on the show?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  tractor
+

+

+
   Will there be tractor beams on the show?

+

+     B5 doesn's have tractor beams; for the most part, they don't exist in
+Earth tech of 2258, though other species might have them.  (There are
+differences in tech between races.)
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How about a planet of mimes?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  mime
+

+

+
   How about a planet of mimes?

+

+     An entire planet of mimes.....AN ENTIRE PLANET OF MIMES!?!
+

+     NUKE 'EM!
+

+     NUKE 'EM TILL THEY GLOW THEN SHOOT 'EM IN THE DARK!
+

+     YAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
+

+
+
+
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+
+   So, humans get together better in the future, is this universal?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  bigotry  earth  first  hate  crime  alien
+

+

+
   So, humans get together better in the future, is this universal?

+

+     That doesn't mean that bigotry is going to disappear, however; lilke
+religion, there is some dark impulse there -- the tribal preservation
+instinct, or somedamnthing -- that keeps turning up.  The target keeps
+changing, but the impulse remains.  So likely it'll turn toward the new
+"different" people...the outsiders...aliens.  I think you'll see a lot of
+people taking an "Earth First" (no relation to the current group) mentality.
+hate crimes against aliens, that sort of thing.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Are you going to use flashbacks to help tell the story?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  flashback  past  sinclair  running
+

+

+
   Are you going to use flashbacks to help tell the story?

+

+     Mike: we're not going to see a lot of Sinclair in the past, only what is
+necessary to understand the present...and there are going to be
+transformations, but I prefer to see my transformations take place in the
+present, pointing toward the future, than in flashback.
+

+     The difference, I suppose, is that in many shows, characters arrive at
+Point X in a series at the very beginning, and stay there for the duration.
+and we are sometimes shown what made them that way.  In B5, what I'm trying
+for is to take a certain set of characters, and move them all toward
+substantive changes in their lives, their characters, their beliefs and their
+allegiances.  Just about everyone on B5 is running to, or away from something.
+I don't want that simply as backdrop, I want that something to *catch up with
+them*.  That, to me, is where the fun starts.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will there be any stories about all-powerful beings?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  powerful  being  story  alien
+

+

+
   Will there be any stories about all-powerful beings?

+

+     Mike: you needn't worry.  I find all-powerful beings of any stripe
+incredibly boring.  I find it more interesting when ordinary people are
+summoned to do extraordinary things, and must rise above their limitations
+without losing their limitations; succeeding in spite of them.  Sinclair is a
+man, period.  He may have a great calling ahead of him, as did Churchill or
+Lincoln or Alexander or (for all we know) Rondo Hatton, but they're all just
+men in the final analysis.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ205.html b/find/Answers/answ205.html
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+
+   Will there be technology to transport matter?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  transporter  transmitter  matter
+

+

+
   Will there be technology to transport matter?

+

+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ206.html b/find/Answers/answ206.html
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+
+   Can you cast movie stars as guests?  DeVito? Lloyd? Gibson?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  movie  guest  cast  star
+

+

+
   Can you cast movie stars as guests?  DeVito? Lloyd? Gibson?

+

+     The problem, of course, with DeVito or Lloyd or (as some suggested) Mel
+Gibson or others it that their salaries would be, individually, equal to our
+entire production budget for 3-4 episodes.  Which means we'd have to shoot
+only 18 rather than 22.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ207.html b/find/Answers/answ207.html
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+
+   Will the crew wear anything besides crisp new uniforms?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  clothes  uniform
+

+

+
   Will the crew wear anything besides crisp new uniforms?

+

+     Finally...yes, there are leftover clothes.  Why not?  There are in real
+life.  What you'll often see Sinclair wearing, when he's off duty in his
+quarters, is an old scruffy sweatshirt/sweater from the EA flight school.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will there be a "Norm/Morn" type in B5?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  morn  norm
+

+

+
   Will there be a "Norm/Morn" type in B5?

+

+     What is a Norm/Morn type?
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ209.html b/find/Answers/answ209.html
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+
+   Will we be seeing more of the vegitated inside of the station?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  station  inside  garden  life
+

+

+
   Will we be seeing more of the vegitated inside of the station?

+

+     Yes, we will.  In addition to the Zen garden, and the Fresh Air
+Restaurant, we'll be seeing the Orchard, the Pavillion, and the Maze, though
+you won't see the last one there for some time.  I don't think it shows up
+until "Chrysalis."
+

+     There is some limited life within the garden...some birds (which you can
+hear sometimes), and insects, and the like.  (In one shot you can see an
+insect fly off one of our actors.  Yeah, sure, like we planned that....)  It's
+generally one season in the Garden, and plants requiring variation are raised
+in a separate hydroponics area, such as the orchard (seen in "War Prayer").
+

+     Re: the crops/parkland...no, there are no settlements there.  You don't
+waste precious land needed for farming and oxygen reclamation and hydroponic
+gardens to throw up a shack or house.  Those who work in the central Garden
+area live in standard B5 quarters.  There are some recreational areas, a hedge
+maze (as you'll see later this season), and we're adjusting some of our sets
+to reveal more of the garden area.  No one "camps out" on the surface; if they
+try, they're destroying precious crops, and are arrested.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will there be diversity among aliens, just as there are among humans?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  variation  alien  diversity
+

+

+
   Will there be diversity among aliens, just as there are among humans?

+

+     Yes, I *strongly* believe that there has to be diversity among our alien
+races...accents, political beliefs, religion, name it.  I think that is VERY
+important.  Yes, from time to time, you want the monolithic, perfectly
+homogeneous aliens, but if so, you want them to stick out a bit in contrast to
+the rest.
+

+     G'Kar has the dominant accent of his people.
+

+     So does Kosh.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ210.html b/find/Answers/answ210.html
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+
+   How about clocking technology?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cloaking
+

+

+
   How about clocking technology?

+

+     Who says you haven't already *seen* cloaking tech?
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ211.html b/find/Answers/answ211.html
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+
+ merchandizing  product  deal
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  merchandizing  product  deal
+

+

+     For me, merchandising is one of those aftershocks of the creative
+process, sort of an, "Oh, yeah, there's *that* part over there, too."  I'm not
+disdainful of it, it's just not something that I think about a lot, because
+first and foremost it's a *distraction*.  You start thinking about the
+*P*R*O*D*U*C*T* and not about the story.  Then you start bending the story to
+work in the product.
+

+     And that's something I've fought against as long as I've *been* in TV.
+When I was at Filmation, I fought tooth and nail against *any* interference in
+content from the sponsor, Mattel.  Especially when they started forcing in
+characters simply so they could market them.  That was the reason I resigned
+from Captain Power after the first season; my sense was that too much
+attention was being given to the merchandise aspect of the show, to the
+detriment of the series.
+

+     If a deal is set, I want to be part of the process afterward to insure
+the quality of the product, so it won't be a slapdash or cheap thing.  And it
+should be representative of the spirit of the show.  But that, for me, is
+about it.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What are the odds of a director's cut of the pilot being released
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  director  pilot  video  release  footage
+

+

+
   What are the odds of a director's cut of the pilot being released

+        which incorporates pilot footage which was removed?
+

+     The odds are zero, since the first version of the B5 pilot existed only
+as a computer-graphic file edited movie.  It wasn't edited on film, for real.
+until we'd pared it down.  We'd have to go in and totally re-edit and
+re-score, and I doubt that's going to happen.
+

+     The computerized cut of the pilot is now dumped out of memory, and those
+portions only exist on a few VHS tapes of marginal quality.  Also, the footage
+in computer file form is *very* low grade, like a poorly scanned gif file.
+very low resolution.  It would be useless on a laser disk.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ213.html b/find/Answers/answ213.html
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+
+   Will you be releasing scripts?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  script
+

+

+
   Will you be releasing scripts?

+

+     No plan to make the scripts available at this time, but who knows...?
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How about laserdiscs?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  laserdisc  video  release  widescreen
+

+

+
   How about laserdiscs?

+

+     I'm led to understand that videotapes of B5 will be out sometime around
+the Fall or so, from first season.  There will eventually be laserdisks, and
+the best part of *that* is that they'll be in the original letterbox format in
+which the show is actually filmed.
+

+     In fact, in preparation for that, we've begun the process of transferring
+the videotape CGI effects to film, in correct aspect ratio to match the
+original live-action film.  As we finish, this will all have to be
+quality-controlled, so though it's a burden, I've volunteered to get the first
+set of widescreen tapes so that I can screen them prior to final transfer to
+disk.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ soundtrack
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  soundtrack
+

+

+     I'm sure at some point there'll be a B5 soundtrack album, but when, I
+don't know.  My guess is that it'll wait until we have more stuff from the
+series to plug in.  I want to buy a copy for myself....
+

+
+
+
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+
+ technical  program  cd-rom  compton
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  technical  program  cd-rom  compton
+

+

+     BTW, Compton's has signed to do a CD Rom of the Babylon 5 Universe, which
+is going to be VERY comprehensive...all the alien races, including the League
+of Non-aligned Worlds, background on the war, dictionaries, other reference
+stuff, you name it; it'll also be able to take advantage of the latest
+voice-recognition software, so you can run it exactly as the B5 computer is
+run.  ("Computer, language search, "Satai.")  There will even be some original
+CG and live-stuff shot for it.  It should be a killer CD Rom. (Now if only I
+could get my system up and running....)
+

+     Re: the CD-Rom...we're planning some very cool stuff.  I've indicated on
+all pending licensing deals that I don't want them to be just one more media
+tie-in; they should have some independent value.  So in this case, I really
+want to use it to de-mysticize what television is, and how it's produced.
+Something for educational purposes.  So we'll track how the process is done.
+by taking a micro-example: from concept, to a scene in a script, to costume
+designs, production/set design, storyboards prosthetics, filming, editing.
+scoring and mixing.  As a culmination of this, there will be 5-7 brief dailies
+shosts, all from the same scene.   The job then is for the user to edit these
+dailies (establishing shot, medium close-up, close-ups, inserts and the like)
+into a *scene*.  You can literally see the dozens of ways you can create a
+scene from the same footage.  You can then play it back, possibly with some
+music, and see how it works...then play back the real scene as we did it, and
+compare and contrast.
+

+     Last date I heard was January 1995, but the main problem is that there's
+just an awful lot of information to codify and assemble, and Compton's has
+been going through some personnel changes of late.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ technical  manual  program
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  technical  manual  program
+

+

+     I believe that Ron is working to put together a possible B5 tech manual
+sometime soonish.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ218.html b/find/Answers/answ218.html
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+
+ game  rpg [role-playing game]
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  game  rpg [role-playing game]
+

+

+     No word yet on any B5 RPGs, though it would be a perfect candidate. And
+Larry's the right one to write it (assuming I'm not keeping him busy on other
+stuff).
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will Autocad documents of ship designs be made available?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  autocad  ship  release
+

+

+
   Will Autocad documents of ship designs be made available?

+

+     I really don't know if they'll be released as autocad stuff or not, but
+will try to remember to inquire.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will we see really non-humanoid aliens?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  alien  humanoid  n'grath  grail  kosh  oyster  pak'ma'ra  cgi  shadow
+

+

+
   Will we see really non-humanoid aliens?

+

+     Re: Non-humanoid...bear in mind, you still haven't seen what Kosh is
+inside that suit...others, very non-humanoid, will make their appearances down
+the road...and there's one race that has not yet been heard from, one shadow
+government so secretive its existence is only whispered about, and when *they*
+make their appearance, and you finally see what *they* look like...well, let's
+just say that I've talked at some length with our EFX people, and it'll take
+about 2 years to work out how to do this and make it credible.
+

+     What you have to understand, though, is that if you're going to have a
+character BE a character, alien or not, you've basically got two choices: put
+a human actor in makeup of some kind or other. or you use puppets or
+animatronics, and in general the technology to realize that still isn't enough
+to make it really lifelike.
+

+     Okay, but now, the only problem is...let's say we take your advice, and
+build an alien around the design of an oyster.  Now we have Sinclair having a
+converstion with an oyster.  Can you *imagine* the audience reaction?  Some
+things sound nice in theory, but when you build it, and try to play it for
+drama...it ends up very, very badly.
+

+     On the other hand, the pak'ma'ra, which you'll get a good look at in
+"Legacies," are *quite* different from earth critters.
+

+     We were going to have a CGI creature in the bar at one point, but vetoed
+it at the last minute.  So it's not there.  However, a CGI
+character/alien/critter does play a substantive on-camera role in one episode
+this season entitled "Grail."
+

+     We've had other kinds of aliens, including the CGI creature in "Grail,"
+and we're doing more non-humanoid stuff in year two. mixing prosthetics with
+CGI.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will there be a blooper reel?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  blooper  reel  christmas
+

+

+
   Will there be a blooper reel?

+

+     The bloopers reel/christmas reel we did is just for internal use, I'm
+afraid (though it's *very* funny).
+

+
+
+
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+
+ licensing  pten  warner
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  licensing  pten  warner
+

+

+     PTEN licensing is handled by the Licensing Corporation of America, which
+can be reached via Warner Bros.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How about a fan club?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  fan  club
+

+

+
   How about a fan club?

+

+     Since the series began to air, there's been a flood of mail and calls, so
+some kind of organization will be necessary to handle this, though no
+framework has been finalized yet.
+

+     We're in the process of setting up some kind of fan liaison office. which
+would do some limited sales stuff, just enough to pay its own way.  Should
+this come about, we'll sell some of the B5 scripts through this office.  (One
+difference between us and ST is that we will pay the freelance writers a
+*royalty* on any scripts of theirs we sell.)  But this is still in the works.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ223.html b/find/Answers/answ223.html
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+
+ jms  kosh
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  jms  kosh
+

+

+     "JMS reminds me a little of Kosh...or is it the other way around?"
+

+     If it helps, bear in mind in which brain Kosh was *created*, and where he
+resides in off-hours, in this big circle running around in my skull with
+Delenn, Kosh, G'Kar and Londo chasing one another endlessly, like white mice
+in a wheel....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ224.html b/find/Answers/answ224.html
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+
+   What are your favorite episodes of the season so far?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  favorite  preference  chrysalis  sky  jms
+

+

+
   What are your favorite episodes of the season so far?

+

+     By the way, if anyone's curious, here's how I'd rank the first six
+episodes in terms of my own personal preference, from 1-6: "The Parliament of
+Dreams," "Mind War," "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," and "Infection."  We'll see how close this coincides with your
+own reactions.
+

+     But I'd say that our two *best* so far are still "And the Sky Full of
+Stars" and "Chrysalis."  I just watched a cut of "Chrysalis" today which
+finally had all the CGI in it, and had to scrape my brain off the opposing
+wall, it's *that* good.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Are you satisfied with how the episodes have come out?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  satisfied
+

+

+
   Are you satisfied with how the episodes have come out?

+

+     Generally speaking, in television, you're lucky to get on screen about
+half of what you had in mind when you saw it in your head.  So far, the
+average here is about 80%.  In a very few cases, I don't think the finished
+episode delivers as well as it might on the script, but for the clear majority
+of them, the episodes come through.  And in some cases, like "Sky" and
+"Parliament" and especially "Chrysalis," I got *over* 100% of what I had in
+mind...it came out even better than what I'd had in my head when I wrote it.
+It's a confluence of many factors...the guest star and how much he/she *gets*
+it, the EFX, the direction, and other things.   But across the board, I'd have
+to say that I'm very satisfied.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ226.html b/find/Answers/answ226.html
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+
+   How would you rate the success of the show?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  success  show  rating
+

+

+
   How would you rate the success of the show?

+

+     I'm not sure, from my perspective, that there's any one definition of
+success that I'd use.  There are several:
+

+     1) How much is the project in its final form what I conceived it to be?
+This is something that Harlan keeps hammering home at me, pointing to what
+happened to him on the Starlost by way of comparison...it was dreadful, and he
+had to take his name off it. It's the show I wanted to make, made the way I
+wanted to make it, so on that level, I'm content.
+

+     2) The ratings.  Is what we conceived of interest to other people, or
+have we missed the mark?  Television, like any other medium, is aimed at an
+audience.  If the audience isn't there, then it comes down to "does the tree
+make a noise when it falls in an empty forest?"  Whether it's good or bad
+becomes nominally irrlevant.
+

+     And 3) Whether or not anyone talks about the show, or remembers the show.
+years down the road.  Something can get a lot of attention, critical acclaim.
+ratings, be what the creators envisoned...and be gone in a year, the flavor of
+the month.
+

+     If I had to pick one, it'd be #3.  As an atheist, my sense is that one
+achieves immortality by the effect one has on others.  If the show lives on
+beyond me, then I am satisfied.  Twain observed: "If you want your work to
+live forever...and by forever I mean fifty years...it must neither overtly
+preach nor overtly teach...but it must *covertly* preach and *covertly*
+teach."
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ227.html b/find/Answers/answ227.html
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+
+   Do you want to keep writing for TV?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  tv  spinoff  five
+

+

+
   Do you want to keep writing for TV?

+

+     It's hard, because as much as I enjoy TV, it's basically ephemeral; books
+stick around.  And I got into this whole gig at the beginning by writing
+prose.  Which is why, as I've noted before, if the B5 story goes its full
+length -- whether that's just 5 years, or with a possible spinoff, 10 years --
+when it's over, I'm retiring from TV.  By that point, I will have said
+everything I want to say for TV.  Then it's a house somewhere outside London
+or Cambridge, and novels.  I figure I'll be about 50 at that point (assuming
+10 years), and I'll have enough years left in me to tell some decent stories
+before it gets dark outside.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Are you keeping a record of your activities in the creation of B5?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  record  activity  genie  chronology  dailies
+

+

+
   Are you keeping a record of your activities in the creation of B5?

+

+     As for keeping a record...I try, if spottily.  Oddly enough, the very
+best record of this process exists in the multi-megabytes that have been
+exchanged here, on GEnie and elsewhere.  It's something of a living
+chronology.  I try to take photos on the set (when I remember), and I'm
+keeping 1 copy of each day's dailies, instead of recycling the tapes.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ229.html b/find/Answers/answ229.html
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+
+   What things have you worked on in the past?  How did you break
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  past  writing  break  start
+

+

+
   What things have you worked on in the past?  How did you break

+        into writing?
+

+     I've always found "how/when did you get your break into writing" to be a
+very weird question, at least in my case; like asking a doctor, "when did you
+get your break into foot surgery."  It wasn't one thing at one time.  This is
+a career that I've prepared for, and worked toward, and entered incrementally
+over a very long period.  I always knew that I would be a writer, used to
+collect pencils and paperclips and could determine the better grade of erasers
+and #10 pencils at an age when most kids were still trying to figure out which
+end to hold.  It's just a quirk.
+

+     When I was 16, after having read comprehensively in every genre I could
+get my hands on, I decided that now was a good time to start.  So I began
+writing.  Short stories, poems, playlets, articles, you name it, I wrote it. I
+didn't show anyone at first, just kept slamming words together in the process
+of learning how to make little explosions of character and action. When I felt
+ready -- six months later -- I began showing it around.  The high school I was
+attending began producing some of my one-acts, and commissioned a full play
+from me; I began selling articles to local newspapers and magazines; even
+placed a one-act with a local theater, which decided to produce it before
+discovering that I was only 17 years old.  (When I showed up, they kept
+waiting for my parents to arrive, until I pointed out that *I* was the JMS on
+the script.)
+

+     After that, it was just a process of *writing* and *sending it out*.
+There is no mystery, no big break, no sudden revelation or secret handshake.
+Bit by bit, I sold more articles, sold more plays, sold some short stories.
+and bit by bit, almost without noticing, the list of credits got longer until
+one day, people started asking me when I knew I'd Made It as a writer, when it
+hadn't ever occured to me that I *had* made it as a writer...I hadn't realized
+it'd happened.
+

+     It's the difference, I suppose, between buying a finished house, and
+there it is...and watching the house go up brick by brick over a long period
+of time.  At what point did it "become" a house?
+

+     It's probably not a helpful answer, but it's the only one I have....
+

+     Tolkien's work had a *profound* effect on me in college; as I later read
+all of the background material, the reams and reams of "history" that he wrote
+to background his novels, I began to realize that *that's* the way to do it.
+So I tried to take that kind of approach, filling out as much as humanly
+possible about the universe, characters and history.  It's the only really
+sensible way to tackle something this large.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ23.html b/find/Answers/answ23.html
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+
+   What are some of the non-aligned aliens?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  alien  drazi  abbai  fishhead  pak'ma'ra
+

+

+
   What are some of the non-aligned aliens?

+

+     Well, let's see...there's the Drazi (slightly purplish heads, the ones
+who beat the crap out of the guy in "War Prayer," and brought in the Drazi
+Sunhawk in "Deathwalker"), the pak'ma'ra (the ones who shuffle through frame
+in greenish robes, with tentacles where their mouths should be...and about
+whom there is something very weird, rather icky, which you'll see in
+"Legacies"), the Abbai, commonly known around the studio as "fishheads"...will
+post a fuller description later.  Those are the ones you see mainly in DW.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ230.html b/find/Answers/answ230.html
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+
+   What did you read growing up?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  jms  book
+

+

+
   What did you read growing up?

+

+     My favorite books when growing up: the Lord of the Rings trilogy. a
+Lovecraft anthology (The Color out of Space), and the Martian Chronicles.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ231.html b/find/Answers/answ231.html
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+
+   Why "J. Michael Straczynski"? What do people call you? What do we call
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  straczynski  jms  name  formality
+

+

+
   Why "J. Michael Straczynski"? What do people call you? What do we call

+        you?  How is it pronounced?
+

+     It's "J. Michael Straczynski" on title credits mainly because that's the
+way it looks best, frankly.  Lets you sneak up on the whole name in
+progressively larger bites.  Joe Michael Straczynski looks kinda dumb to me.
+also too long; Joe Straczynski is too short, and unbalanced in terms of layout
+(he said quickly).  My friends call me Joe.  My crew calls me Joe. One person
+on the crew kept calling me Mr. Straczynski, which you should try saying out
+loud sometime.  Even *I* can't do it.  It was so painful to listen to that
+after a while I kept calling back "Joe" at him until he got the message.
+

+     I've never been real big on formality.  And I know that typing
+Straczynski can be a fearsome thing indeed.  Fingers were never meant to move
+in that particular configuration, I think, and more than one person has had to
+dial 911 with his nose when his fingers tangled on the keyboard.
+

+     Point being..."Joe" is just fine.  If there's another Joe in a thread (as
+above), "Mr. S." is is also fine if you need to make the distinction. (One or
+two have called me Big S.  Some comment that I'm the biggest S in town...and I
+wish they wouldn't smile quite so broadly when they say it, or hold it quite
+so long.)
+

+     In any event, we're all in this together, so I think we can let formality
+slide.
+

+     Americanized version: struh-zin-ski.
+

+     Byeloruss (native) version: strah-chin-ski.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ232.html b/find/Answers/answ232.html
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+
+   Is Straczynski a household name?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  straczynski  power  lingerie  household
+

+

+
   Is Straczynski a household name?

+

+     I hate to burst any bubbles, but I can go just about anywhere in the U.S.
+and find that nobody knows the name Straczynski, and the only time I've caused
+a mob scene at a K-mart was in a tussle over the last Captain Power
+figures...or was that when I wandered into the lingerie section and...well.
+never mind.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ233.html b/find/Answers/answ233.html
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+
+ role  gerrold  believers  executive  producer
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  role  gerrold  believers  executive  producer
+

+

+     Here's one of those interesting little things that happen sometimes
+during production.  We're shooting "Believers," David Gerrold's story.   Now.
+when we break for lunch, we all eat together -- crew, cast, writers.
+producers, everybody -- in this little area behind the stage.  I try to
+encourage everybody to stick around for lunch rather than split so that we can
+maintain that sense of being a real unit.
+

+     Anyway, I'm sitting across from someone I've seen on set a few times.
+who's apparently the teacher for a young actor we're using (Jonathon Kaplan)
+in "Believers."  I don't make a big deal out of my position on the show, dress
+like everybody else, so the guy sitting across from me at the table asks, "So.
+who do you play in this?"
+

+     Unable to resist the temptation, I say, "I play the executive producer."
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Wanna be on Tee Vee?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  jms  camera  ellison  tv
+

+

+
   Wanna be on Tee Vee?

+

+     As for me...the TV camera doesn't like me, it just sorta slides over me
+and adds 10 years to me.  Complicated by the fact that when I'm shoved in
+front of a TeeVee camera, my head retracts like a turtle, my neck disappears.
+and everything goes everywhere.  Harlan, on the other hand, is comfortable
+before a camera.  The camera *loves* Harlan.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ235.html b/find/Answers/answ235.html
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+
+   How did you and Babylon 5 come through the big 1994 earthquake?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  earthquake
+

+

+
   How did you and Babylon 5 come through the big 1994 earthquake?

+

+     Came through pretty much okay, all considered.  At the house, the living
+room fireplace is now IN the living room (on the floor), the patio has
+separated from the rest of the house, there's major cracks all over the place.
+everything that was on shelves is now on the floor...but the stage came
+through okay, and we're back to shooting today, if possibly on a reduced
+schedule.  (Everyone was given the option of not coming in today, but everyone
+wanted to show support, get back on the horse again, and get going.  Some even
+came in on their own time Monday to help with cleanup.)
+

+     The worst part of the quake, really, was that my house was without
+electricity until Midnight Thursday night.  So I'd write (up against a real
+deadline because of the quake) at the office, charge up my notebook computer.
+go home, fire up the notebook, and write scripts by flashlight.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Where do you stand on religion?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  religion  spirituality  atheist
+

+

+
   Where do you stand on religion?

+

+     I am an atheist, a total atheist, and am more than happy.  What I write
+is what I write, what I am is what I is.
+

+     Yes, much of my own background goes into what I write.  In the case of
+religion, and spirituality...a writer's job is to be as honest as he can in
+telling a story.  My canvas (for lack of a less grandiose term) is the human
+condition.  And since the dawn of sentience, humanity has been trying to
+figure out its place in the universe.  The religious impulse is as much a part
+of that process as anything else, and it must be treated with integrity and
+respect, as I would have my own views respected.  I try not to exclude
+something just because I don't agree with it, because that corrupts the whole
+purpose of writing, which requires an honest look at the subject.
+

+     And as a writer, there are parts of the religious impulse that I want to
+examine, and explore, and raise questions about, just as much as I'd like to
+explore the scientific aspects of living in space, and the more personal.
+emotional repercussions of this.  It's all a part of trying to figure out who.
+and what, and *why* we are.
+

+     Actually, religion isn't totally irrelevant to B5 in that in several
+episodes we'll be dealing with, or touching upon that issue...there's a bit of
+it in "Soul Hunter," "By Any Means Necessary," "The Parliament of Dreams,"
+"Legacies," "Believers" and a couple of others.
+

+     I've never felt the need, as a writer, to be didactic about this stuff.
+No, I don't believe in an afterlife...I also don't believe in the actual
+existence of Vorlons, either, but I write about them.  I don't think it's a
+requirement.  H.P. Lovecraft was one of our best writers of supernatural
+fiction, but I very much doubt that he believed in the Old Ones, or made
+bi-weekly offerings to Cthulhu.
+

+     All areas of human endeavor should be open to exploration, discussion and
+analysis, for what we can learn from them.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ nepotism  drennan  spousal  means  necessary
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  nepotism  drennan  spousal  means  necessary
+

+

+     One thing I can mention now, since it's nearly finished: see, I have this
+real problem with nepotism.  Specifically...I hate it.  As a result, I make
+people I know work twice as hard.  The closer the tie, the more the person has
+to work to prove him or herself.
+

+     Kathryn Drennan, my Spousal Overunit, is also a writer, and has written
+for many other shows, primarily in animation, but with some forays into other
+areas.  (She was co-author on the Night Gallery series of articles I wrote for
+Twilight Zone Magazine, as one fr'instance, and was a producer with public
+televison for some time.)
+

+     Anyway, she desperately wanted to write a B5 script.  But because of my
+feelings about nepotism, I refused to give her an assignment.  (I can be a
+REAL pain in the ass.)  Something similar happened when I was working on The
+Real Ghostbusters; she loved the show, and wanted to write for it.  I put her
+through the wringer: she had to submit written premises, just like any other
+freelance writer, which were then sent on to the producers for final approval.
+They did not know of any relation between her and me; they based their
+approval only on the merits of the story.  Period.  And she ended up writing
+two episodes: "Egon's Dragon" and "The Man Who Never Reached Home." (The
+former is considered a favorite by many viewers of the show.)  Only long after
+we finished production did the exec producers on TRGBs learn that there was a
+relationship there; it was all based on the quality of the work.
+

+     But in the case of B5, I *am* the exec producer, so it became more
+difficult.  At first I said simply no.  Finally, I set into place a number of
+conditions/provisions.  NOT because she wouldn't do a great script, but only
+because I don't like the look of nepotism; I hate it, and I hate the way this
+town operates on the principles of nepotism.  The conditions were that she had
+to write the script completely on spec, no assignment; not a spec outline.
+which is shorter, but a spec *script*.   It would then have to pass muster
+in-house; if even one person thought it wasn't up to snuff, it got deep sixed.
+And revisions would not be handled by me, for the most part; she would have to
+work with Larry, who has a reputation (as Katherine Lawrence can attest) to
+not pulling his punches.   No favoritism.  Then the script would have to pass
+muster with Warners.   IF, after all that, the script was approved, then it
+would be bought, and not a moment before.  If anywhere along the line it
+didn't meet one of those criteria...then it would be a 50 page learning
+experience and nothing more.
+

+     Well, I'm pleased to say that it *did* pass muster with everyone, and "By
+Any Means Necessary" is now over halfway through production, with a number of
+people -- including Michael O'Hare -- saying it's their favorite so far.
+mainly for very odd reasons.  The premise is one that ST would never, EVER do.
+which is one thing I like about it; it also shows us more on the inner
+workings of B5, the blue-collar types who keep the whole place
+operational...and what happens when that falls apart.  The B story gets into a
+confrontation between G'Kar and Londo when Londo interferes in an important
+Narn religious observation.
+

+     Kathryn's last name is Drennan.  Her full credit is Kathryn M. Drennan.
+Not Straczynski.  Probably displaying considerable wisdom on her part.  Ten
+thousand letters, no vowels.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What's the coolest show ever made?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  favorite  television  prisoner
+

+

+
   What's the coolest show ever made?

+

+     Disagreement: the coolest show ever made is THE PRISONER.  I hope to
+capture a little of the flavor of that show, mainly by playing a little with
+surrealism, what's real and what's not...but it'll pale beside that show. THE
+PRISONER, for me, is the perfect television program.  I've never really seen
+its equal.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Are you still keeping up with the online community?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  message  comment  online
+

+

+
   Are you still keeping up with the online community?

+

+     Yes, I try to log on here about once a day, and though it's getting
+tougher, I still read through *all* the messages in this area, though at times
+I skim a bit.  From my perspective, I try not to get in the way of the
+discussion, by either encouraging or discouraging positive or negative
+comments.  If I think someone is being unfair, or is just coming in to lob in
+a firecracker, watch everyone scatter and yell, and then run away (as the
+occasional spineless mindfucker among us is wont to do), I either fire back.
+or simply ignore the post.
+

+     The one major reason I decided to begin this interaction, despite
+CONSIDERABLE discourgement and disbelief from my peers, is that I think it may
+be of some use, and because I think that one should be willing to stand
+publicly with what you create, and because though many criticisms are issues
+of taste or subjective preference, sometimes (fairly often, actually), I learn
+something from the discussion, or I'm corrected in something, and that
+realignment is eventually reflected in the show.  I'm giving some serious
+thought to either revamping n'grath or killing him off given the reaction
+(paired with my own).  I won't be dictated to, but in some cases, as with
+n'grath, I may be uncertain, but willing to try and see if the experiment
+works.  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and the general perception
+here seems close to my own.  In addition, I was initially going to gloss over
+some of the legal aspects of the Psi Corps in "The Quality of Mercy," but when
+so many people expressed interest in how that worked, and when I saw some
+measure of confusion about it, I took the time to indicate how the legal
+aspects work when it came time to complete that script, thus answering the
+questions.
+

+     Sure, there've been more hostile or abusive or insulting messages posted
+here, primarily to get a reaction...I've seen that game before, and I'm
+neither impressed nor annoyed.  The general level of the discussion -- pro AND
+con -- is still generally of a high level, and quite revealing.  The
+experiment continues.
+

+     BTW...someone dropped me an email note mentioning in passing that
+somewhere else there's a discussion going on about *this* discussion, and
+indicating that my presence here inhibits criticism of B5.
+

+     First, if I believed that, I wouldn't be here.  Second...it ain't true.
+

+     Along with logging on here and on a number of other systems under my own
+name, there are a few BBSs -- regional and national -- which have B5
+discussions giong on where I also hang out...but either under a pseudonym, or
+without leaving messages, thus no one knows I'm lurking.  I do this in order
+to get an unbiased view of the show, without my presence affecting the
+discussion one way or another.  Call it a control group, if you will.
+

+     And on those forums where I'm not known to be there, what you get are
+generally "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," about as broad as that.   Very
+little of the (to use the phrase of others) nits and detailed analyses that go
+on on the systems where I *am* known to hang out.  Since there's a conduit for
+direct feedback to the show, people here and on the other services where I'm
+on as myself tend to provide MORE criticism of the show, not less.  In some
+cases, the occasional person may feel that he HAS to find something to nit at.
+because there is the implicit request for feedback.
+

+     Nor do I try to get in the way of negative feedback; if I think that
+someone is getting personal in an attack, or making an unfair accusation, or
+blaming me for something that the show never did...I fire back.  I try to
+answer all questions as non-judgmentally as possible, and if someone asks if
+something's going to be done, point to the forthcoming episode where it *is*
+done.
+

+     I don't try to change people's opinions here (I let the show do that).
+don't try to intimidate people into silence (I don't think it's *possible* to
+intimidate this particular group in *any* event), and I have a much lower
+estimation for those who skulk off in dark corners to mutter their criticisms
+of the discussion here than speak openly.  I'm insulted by the allegation, and
+frankly think that anyone here who has been taking part in the discussion here
+should feel insulted about being portrayed as spineless and toadying, which is
+the implicit statement behind the allegation.
+

+     If I *ever* got the impression that my presence here was inhibiting an
+open discussion, inhibiting criticism, I'd log off.  But near as I can tell.
+being here *encourages* criticism, in greater volume than elsewhere.  The day
+that changes, I'm outta here.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ drazi  violent  deathwalker  prayer  survivors  sunhawk
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  drazi  violent  deathwalker  prayer  survivors  sunhawk
+

+

+     The Drazi are a very violent, ill-tempered species; they were the ones
+who first showed up in "Deathwalker" in a Sunhawk to threaten the station;
+they beat up the guy in "The War Prayer;" they show up here in "Survivors;"
+there's an episode about a form of martial arts among the aliens that has a
+Drazi going at it...if there's a fight around, you can often find a Drazi at
+the center of it or at least nearby.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What do you get from hanging out in the Babylon 5 newsgroup?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  online  newsgroup  internet  genie
+

+

+
   What do you get from hanging out in the Babylon 5 newsgroup?

+

+     What do I get from the newsgroup?  A "sense of the room," primarily, I
+suppose.  And knowing that someone's looking over your shoulder, and that this
+person is *right in your face*, and you can't avoid it, and you will havae to
+answer hard questions if you screw up, tends to keep you honest.  One can hide
+behind isolation.  One of the problems in TV is that if you get to a position
+high enough, lots of people around you start saying everything's just
+wonderful, you get "yes-men" and nobody tells you the truth anymore.  I don't
+think I have that problem here.  If anything, it's just the opposite; because
+I expect criticism...or, more accurately, because people *expect* that I
+expect criticism, that critiques are expected of them, there's MORE of it than
+on the systems where I lurk and my presence isn't generally known.
+

+     Beyond that...I've always felt that SF fans, particular SF media fans.
+are the most exploited group of viewers around.  They're expected to watch the
+show, pony up the dough for merchandise, then shut up and be good little
+viewers.  It's very difficult at times -- emotionally, and in terms of time
+and energy -- to stick around (there are currently 1,154 messages in my GEnie
+internet mailbox), but I think that it's important to keep with it.  Because
+it's a way of showing respect to the viewer, to be open and accountable and
+responsive.  Sometimes I get cranky, but I'm human, and that'll happen from
+time to time.  Usually I avoid that.
+

+     It just seems the courteous and proper thing to do.  Does that make ANY
+kind of sense to anybody...?
+

+     Best thing about the net is that it forces you to ask questions.  The job
+of the writer is to come up with every possible question about your character
+and your world, and answer it, giving both greater verasimilitude.  But nobody
+can come up with EVERY conceivable question; but on the nets, you get
+questions you never *dreamed* of.  Which helps.
+

+     Well, now, lemme defend the Internet for a second...what I find most
+interesting about it is that most of the Internet stuff comes in via major
+colleges, universities, research labs and the like.  So when you're dealing
+with a lot of people of college age, you're going to encounter rough spots.
+BUT...what you *also* get are people who are pretty sharp, have access to
+research material, are academics and scientists and research students...and
+lemme tell you, they keep you on your toes.
+

+     It's easy to hang out in a room where people are generally nice to
+you...and certainly relaxing; I tend to come here more with a sense of
+relaxing with friends, where there is some measure of "put up the persona and
+perform" on Internet...but one should be open to the tough stuff as well.
+Granted, at times it makes me cranky, and I probably respond with more heat
+than I'd like...but again, that's really more the exception than the rule.
+There's a lot of nifty people there.
+

+     "And jms seems to be doing just fine...right, Joe?"
+

+     Yeah...absolutely...fine...look, hand me those crayons, okay...though I
+don't know why...the black one's all flat and you can't make good lines with
+it and they won't let me sharpen it because the last time I used the sharpener
+I put Nurse Filbee's finger in it but that wasn't my fault, she pointed it at
+me, so if I just have the crayons, the ones with the good points, I can get
+this done, get this done, on deadline, the deadlines are important, do you
+like the peach color or the green for the rabbit...?
+

+     What was the question again?
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Have you had problems with story ideas slipping through?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  story  idea  online
+

+

+
   Have you had problems with story ideas slipping through?

+

+     I have thus far changed about 3 or 4 minor elements because someone
+posted what could constitute a story idea that came uncomfortably close to
+what we were doing this season.  Fortunately, they were small things, and
+didn't affect anything substantial, but it is kind of a pain in the ass.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ242.html b/find/Answers/answ242.html
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+
+   Has anybody online speculated correctly what's gonna happen?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  online  speculation
+

+

+
   Has anybody online speculated correctly what's gonna happen?

+

+     Nothing on any of the systems, no.  But at one convention back east, I
+was standing waiting to go on at a presentation, and a young woman came up to
+me and laid out a conjecture that was 100% right in every single aspect. She'd
+pegged it precisely.  I tried to conceal my growing horror.  Then she said.
+"But *nobody* would be crazy enough to try something like that, so THAT can't
+be it."  And with that, she toddled off...and I made no effort to correct her
+assumption.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ243.html b/find/Answers/answ243.html
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+
+   With all this criticism online, you must be immune from flaming.
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  online  flaming  offend
+

+

+
   With all this criticism online, you must be immune from flaming.

+

+     Immune from flaming?  Hardly.  I've been flamed so much, if I even so
+much as *touch* a Jiffy-Pop Popcorn shaker it goes off....
+

+     I work with Larry DiTillio.  Nothing offends me.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ244.html b/find/Answers/answ244.html
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+
+   How do you deal with all the critics in the media?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  critic
+

+

+
   How do you deal with all the critics in the media?

+

+     Here is the one and only thing I really have to say about critics (at
+least until otherwise provoked).
+

+     When "Lost in Space" went on the air, every critic hated it; they hated
+the cast, they hated the writing, they hated the sets...they panned it
+royally.  About a year later, when LiS was a big hit, and was selling magazine
+covers, a lot changed.  Then "Star Trek" appeared...and was crucified by the
+critics.  They hated the cast, they hated the writing, they hated the
+sets...TV Guide in particular.  They roundly dismissed it as an attempt to
+cash in on "Lost in Space"'s success.   Critics attacked Patrick Stewart in
+TNG for being stiff and unappealing, attacked DS9 on similar grounds.....
+

+     They *always* attack SF.  Always have, always will.  And always unfairly.
+

+     I'm hesitant to get into the question of critics, and why they say what
+they say, because obviously anything I say is going to proceed from an agenda.
+and a certain bias on my part.  So if we accept that going in, then I suppose
+I can speculate a little....
+

+     As has been pointed out here by others, SF television has a history of
+getting crummy reviews.  I haven't seen one SF show, however good or bad, that
+didn't start out getting *creamed* by reviewers.  Some of the TNG original
+reviews that've been posted here are a hell of a lot worse than most of what
+the critics have said about us.  The majority of them do not like SF, don't
+care for SF, don't understand SF, and want to stick it in a pigeon hole, "Oh.
+it's like this."  What they don't recognize, they try to make fit their
+preconceptions...or they pan it.
+

+     Also, there's the issue of pride.  A lot of critics are (now) saying that
+TNG is this wonderful show (where once they derided it).  Same with DS9, and
+that everything else is crap.  Anything that might be perceived by them as a
+threat *to their published opinion* is something that they will attack.
+

+     Mind, I'm separating out those who might not particularly like the show
+from those who are going out of their way to assassinate the series before it
+even gets going.  I'd point to the USA Today review that just came out as
+emblematic of that approach.  He says that yes, it might get the ratings, it
+might succeed, but you should in essence be ashamed if that happens.  People
+have targeted this show with *incredible* vehemence bordering on character
+assassination.
+

+     I'd separate this out from some reviews that've come in, in the LA Times.
+and Hollywood Reporter, that didn't gush, that raised concerns, some of which
+I agree with.  They were actual analyses of the show, it's strengths and
+weaknesses, which are helpful, I think, to us and to the viewer.  I've *been*
+a reviewer, and I'm sorry, but the equivilent of "IT SUCKS" isn't a review.
+It's a Beavis line.
+

+     Beyond that, deponent sayeth not.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Favorite kinds of music?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  favorite  music  country
+

+

+
   Favorite kinds of music?

+

+     I have very weird, very eccentric and eclectic tastes in music.  In
+addition to Meatloaf, I'm big on Leon Redbone, Indigo Girls, Enya, I'm
+starting to like Digable Planets...classical, jazz, big band, hard rock.
+celtic, blues, just about anything *except* country, which I couldn't warm up
+to even if I were cremated in a crate of Garth Brooks albums.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ246.html b/find/Answers/answ246.html
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+
+   What happens to Babylon 5 if...say, you're walking down the street
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  asteroid  story  arc
+

+

+
   What happens to Babylon 5 if...say, you're walking down the street

+        and a wandering asteroid crash lands on you, three years into the
+        story arc?
+

+     What happens is this:
+

+     First they scrape up my remains.  Then they put me in the morgue. After a
+cursory examination, the death is ruled an act of god, which is the ultimate
+insult to an atheist.  Then they stick a big needle in one arm, and in my
+heel, and embalm what's left of me.  Then there's a service.  All of my
+friends come.  What they do with the rest of the rows after one is filled is
+anyone's guess.  Rent them out, I guess.  Next they plant me.  I lay there for
+a while, gradually coming to the realization that when they stuck me in this
+crummy suit, they yanked the pants into my butt and now I have to go through
+all eternity with a snuggie.  In time I get really annoyed by this, my essence
+rises up out of the coffin, AND HAUNTS YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE!
+

+     Or, put another way, if you want to see the end of the story, it's in
+your vested interest to keep my ass ALIVE for the next 4.5 years.
+

+     Ever read Sheherazade?  Think about it.
+

+     My notes are in a secure place.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Do you plan on doing any more TV shows after B5?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  tv  retire  spinoff
+

+

+
   Do you plan on doing any more TV shows after B5?

+

+     It's hard, because as much as I enjoy TV, it's basically ephemeral; books
+stick around.  And I got into this whole gig at the beginning by writing
+prose.  Which is why, as I've noted before, if the B5 story goes its full
+length -- whether that's just 5 years, or with a possible spinoff, 10 years --
+when it's over, I'm retiring from TV.  By that point, I will have said
+everything I want to say for TV.  Then it's a house somewhere outside London
+or Cambridge, and novels.  I figure I'll be about 50 at that point (assuming
+10 years), and I'll have enough years left in me to tell some decent stories
+before it gets dark outside.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ248.html b/find/Answers/answ248.html
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+
+   Do you like pets?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  pet  cat
+

+

+
   Do you like pets?

+

+     Pets is okay.  Ah lahkes pets.  Pets be cool.  And cats be coolest.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ249.html b/find/Answers/answ249.html
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+
+   How good are you at math?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  math  jms
+

+

+
   How good are you at math?

+

+     Joe does not learn math in one episode.  Joe does not learn math in one
+*year*.  I took bonehead math in college three -- count 'em three -- times.
+and only passed the third semester because the class was taught by the same
+instructor, and the third time I wandered into his class, he siad, (or said).
+"Here...just go, I'll give you a C, just...leave."
+

+     MATH!  MATH!  YOU SAID THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY MATH ON THIS TEST!  I DIDN'T
+STUDY!  HOW MUCH OF MY GRADE WILL THIS BE?!  AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ25.html b/find/Answers/answ25.html
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+
+   How about the second season?  Even more aliens?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  second  season  alien
+

+

+
   How about the second season?  Even more aliens?

+

+     At this point, not much in the way of new aliens planned; we'd like to
+get away from the alien-of-the-week story (which though we didn't do it a
+*lot*, we did it enough that I want to edge away from it a bit), and
+concentrate on the aliens we already have.  If you just keep on throwing new
+aliens into the mix, soon it loses all impact.  We decided to try a whole
+bunch of aliens over season one, and pick the ones that worked, which we would
+then work to refine and integrate more fully into the storyline.   Right now.
+I think we've got about 15 races in addition to our primary groups (Narn.
+Minbari, Centauri).  Concomitant with this, we'll be working to make the
+prosthetics far more detailed and better able to be used in a dramatic
+context.
+

+     We scattergunned a lot in season one; now is the time to adjust, refine.
+focus and improve.  We'll still do the occasional new group, I just don't want
+that to begin driving the show.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ250.html b/find/Answers/answ250.html
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+
+   Are you exhausted from all this work?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sleep
+

+

+
   Are you exhausted from all this work?

+

+     I am.  I'm exhausted all the time...running on 3-4 hours of sleep a
+night, producing during the day, writing all night...but it *is* fun.   The
+only hard part is that because of my close involvement in this show, and
+creating the characters, and assigning the stories, and working with the
+actors...I have Londo and G'Kar and Kosh and Garibaldi and all the rest
+running around in my head and yelling at each other 24 hours a day, and
+sometimes that can make you just a little nuts...you wanna tell them to shut
+the hell up for five minutes...and then they look at you with this wounded
+expression...you ever see a Narn sulk?  It's not a pretty sight.
+

+     Yeah, easy for YOU to say, KAL...I've got Londo, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Kosh
+and half the Psi-Corps running around inside my head and yelling at each other
+24 hours a day...YOU try to sleep with all that racket.
+

+     I either need to find a better neighborhood, or a worse one, I can't
+decide....
+

+     "AH, my GOOD, CLOSE FRIEND, GariBALdi --"
+

+     That's it!  Everybody outta the pool......!
+

+
+
+
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+
+ hat  paramount  merchandizing
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  hat  paramount  merchandizing
+

+

+      John Copeland, our producer, shows me something that John Iacovelli came
+into the office bearing...a B5 cap.  It's a very nice Babylon 5 cap.
+Stitching's a little off, though, I notice...not bad, but noticeable.  I learn
+it's commercially available.  Well, still and all, not a bad thing, I decide,
+trying to figure out why John's smiling at me in this really weird fashion.
+People have been asking for B5 caps, and now they can buy them through, it
+seems, Creation Entertainment, as this was bought at a Creation store in
+Glendale (Sci-Fi Universe), and it's a Creation produced item, under their
+license....
+

+      Then the tag hanging from the back of the cap slips out into my hand,
+dangling from that little white-plastic-string-thingie they stick through
+labels.
+

+      And what does the label on that white-plastic-string-thingie say?
+

+      OFFICIAL LICENSED PRODUCT, PARAMOUNT TELEVISION.
+

+      We never get a break...never...ever...the horror...the horror....
+

+                                    ..eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeee........
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ252.html b/find/Answers/answ252.html
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+
+   What do Babylon 5 fans call themselves?  What do you call them?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  misc  fan  fiver
+

+

+
   What do Babylon 5 fans call themselves?  What do you call them?

+

+     Most B5 viewers that I've heard from call themselves Fivers, when they
+identify themselves as anything other than what they are, people of infinite
+taste and sensibility....
+

+     I think the term usually used to describe B5 viewers is, "People Of
+Incredible Taste, Perception and Discretion."
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ253.html b/find/Answers/answ253.html
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+
+ motto  kid  robot  filk  song [science-fiction folk-singing]
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  motto  kid  robot  filk  song [science-fiction folk-singing]
+

+

+     Re: kids/robots...the exact phrasing of that has gone through various
+permutations and paraphrasings; the specific line is "No kids or cute robots."
+The latter specifically entails entities such as Twiki (got the spelling right
+this time, thanks to whoever corrected me), who should be run down by a truck
+at the first opportunity.  (In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you
+ever DO see what passes for a cute robot on this show, keep a close eye on it.
+because you'll probably see somebody drop an anvil on it REAL fast.)
+

+     So this allows us to explore the question of robotics, but to do so in a
+fairly serious context.  Because logically, 200+ years in the future there are
+going to be some changes; robotics will be more common, though likely in some
+different form.  (If you've seen the promos or the pilot, you've seen the
+maintenance 'bot that checks out the hull of B5; it has arms, it moves, it's
+independent, it's a robot.  It just doesn't begin its report with
+"Bida-bida-bida.")
+

+     On the topic of kids...it's a deliberate decision to steer clear of that
+part, not because I think it's invalid, but because a) it's been done on
+another show, and its spinoff, rather intensively, and b) it's part of the SF
+stereotype, "We have to have kids because SF is a kid's genre."
+

+     Might there be a story about a family of refugees who come seeking
+sanctuary, or opportunity elsewhere?  Of course.  But any kids in that family
+won't be at the *center* of the story.  And they'll be gone by the end of the
+episode.  It's also a matter of context; absent the scenario just posed, this
+is a place for businessmen, travelers, mappers, traders, diplomats and others.
+it's not a place for kids.  It's also potentially a very DANGEROUS place.
+

+     Hmm...maybe I should amend it to "No cute kids, no cute robots, and no
+filkers, ever...."
+

+     Nothing personal, but given the choice between listening to two hours of
+filking, and having my eyeballs scooped out, popped, spread on toast as jam
+and fed to me for breakfast...I'll take the latter.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What is spoo?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  spoo
+

+

+
   What is spoo?

+

+     Spoo is.  What else can one say about spoo?
+

+     Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...deponds on whether or not
+you ever want to have children later....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ255.html b/find/Answers/answ255.html
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+
+ strong  women
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  strong  women
+

+

+     Re: B5's roster of strong women characters...this is something of a
+bugaboo/obsession with me.  I *love* writing strong women.  (For that matter.
+I love strong-willed, independent, smart women in real life as well; I love
+being outsmarted, love it when someone can go toe-to-toe with me on
+something.)  Generally, and this isn't entirely intentional, women on shows I
+work on tend to get some of the best lines, as is often the case with Ivanova.
+It's not a case of being "one of the boys," but being one of the *people*.
+There's a subtle difference.
+

+     The women I write are often very close to many of the women I've been
+involved with over the years.  So far, no one's sued....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ256.html b/find/Answers/answ256.html
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+
+   Are you trying to be politically correct?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  pc  politically  correct
+

+

+
   Are you trying to be politically correct?

+

+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ257.html b/find/Answers/answ257.html
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+
+ crew  softball  five
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  crew  softball  five
+

+

+     Now here's comedy...we're fielding a Babylon 5 softball as one of the
+showbiz leagues.  (Many shows in town have softball teams, and th ey've
+organized into something that has grown quite substantially into a Big Deal.)
+We're making up jerseys for the team, and on the front there will be the B5
+logo, and on the back, for the team player number, there will be 5.  That's
+all.  The only number.  Which will make calling the game a WONDERFUL
+challenge..."And on shortstop we've got number five...out in center field is
+number five...with number five pitching and catching."
+

+     Everything about this show is surreal.
+

+     BTW...our first game is against the SeaQuest team.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ258.html b/find/Answers/answ258.html
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+
+ cricket  set  film
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cricket  set  film
+

+

+     You wanna hear really dopey?  Of all the things that can bug you --
+literally, in this case -- it's always the small ones that get under your
+skin.  The goofy ones.
+

+     Take crickets for instance.
+

+     Crickets.  Cute little critters, welcoming the twilight, equipped with
+top hat and umbrella to usher Pinnochio into his long-sought humanity....
+Crickets.
+

+     Ah hates crickets.
+

+     A cricket family -- at least one that we know of -- moved into a corner
+of one of our sets.  The medlab, to be precise.  Now, when we're moving things
+around, building stuff, moving stuff, it's silent, as a cricket will generally
+be when made nervous.  But make it all nice and quiet -- as you would do for.
+say, filming -- and he becomes downright rambunctious.  And sure enough, there
+is is, deep in the audio background on a few shots.  Oh, we can hide the audio
+easily enough...but Getting The Cricket has become something of a cause around
+here.
+

+     We absolutely cannot find him.  I stood back there for ten minutes, eyes
+closed, trying to triangulate and draw a bead on the little sucker.   We've
+tried exterminators, smoke, nitrogen, assassins and psychics; we've tried
+scaring him and coaxing him, to no avail.  He is as invisible as god but with
+a MUCH louder voice.
+

+     You ever fire up a daily to hear, at the top of the take, the off screen
+director saying, as fast as he can, "Okaythecricket'ssilent,ACTION!"
+

+     Like I said...not really a problem, just one of those little things that
+niggle at you when there's nothing else going on.  So we're going to wait him
+out.
+

+     Anybody know offhand the lifespan of your average cricket...?
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ259.html b/find/Answers/answ259.html
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+
+ millenium
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  millenium
+

+

+     The turn of the century with B5's conclusion is coincidence.
+

+     Mostly.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ26.html b/find/Answers/answ26.html
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+
+   How do languages get handled in B5?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  language  alien  translation  spelling  english  ambassador
+

+

+
   How do languages get handled in B5?

+

+     There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to work
+to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For instance.
+in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then in
+Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+

+     Re: language...if you're going to America from Russia as an ambassador.
+you're expected to know English fluently.  B5 is funded by (mostly) and
+operated by Earth, and English is more or less the dominant language.  Hence.
+they know it well enough to communicate with us.  (BTW, this is already
+happening here...every airport on the planet, for example, uses english
+consistently in the control tower to planes, and more people outside
+english-speaking countries are educated in english than we are in alternate
+languages.)
+

+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+

+     We've already instituted the need for translation devices on several
+characters.  There are basically three dominant languages on B5, a kind of
+interstellar esperanto, Centauri, and English, which is the more or less
+official military/diplomatic language.  But not everyone is going to know
+those languages, so you need another way.  We have translation teams
+(referenced though not seen in "Soul Hunter"), and physical translation
+devices for use after we've had sufficient contact with a given group or
+individual to be able to decode two languages into one another.
+

+     (Incidentally, we're going with a slightly different version of English
+for things like airlocks and such, alongside the visual pictograms.  Not
+everyone who can speak english will have an immediate grasp of the intricacies
+of the language, and there have been multi cultural/esperanto like influences
+on English over the next 200 years.  So for things like Universe Today, you
+have standard conventional English, since that's primarily an Earther-oriented
+publication.  But then you have signs that read, for instance SECUR AREA, with
+an accent over the U.  We've taken the liberty of simplifying some aspects of
+english for nonhumans, as well as trying to figure out how the impact of
+multi- culturalism might affect language ovese of 200 years.)
+

+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+

+     We're trying to work out the languages to some detail, but not as much as
+I'd like, at this point.  It'll probably have to wait until the post-season
+hiatus before I can sit down and really start pulling together a rough
+dictionary of sorts.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ260.html b/find/Answers/answ260.html
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+
+ o'hare  communicator
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  o'hare  communicator
+

+

+     Funny aside...on Friday, my accountant and his 10 year old son came by
+the set for a tour.  His son was wog-boggled by everything.  At one point in
+the filming, Michael O'Hare came over and struck up a conversation with the
+kid.  The kid asked what that thing is on the back of Sinclair's hand. "That's
+my communications device," O'Hare said.  The kid looked chagrined, glanced
+around, whispered to Michael to lean down, and explained -- to save Michael
+further embarrassment in future -- that the communicator was on his *chest*.
+

+     I would give my soul for a photograph of Michael's face at that moment.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ261.html b/find/Answers/answ261.html
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+
+ o'hare  brother  f-14  starfury
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  o'hare  brother  f-14  starfury
+

+

+     As it happens, btw, Michael O'Hare's brother is a Commander in the
+Gunfighters fighter squadron, running weapons, mainly, and flying an F-14. At
+some point we'll probably stick him in a B5 cockpit, and stick Michael in an
+F-14 cockpit....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ262.html b/find/Answers/answ262.html
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+
+ stolen  g'kar  mask  makeup
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  stolen  g'kar  mask  makeup
+

+

+     Incidentally...as long as I'm here...an advisory.  We've got about as
+much security as anyone can *have* on a stage...but as with TNG and other SF
+shows, we've had our share of things suddenly vanishing.  We lost a biggie the
+other day, swiped by someone.  As mentioned, we re-examined G'Kar's
+makeup/prosthetic, and did some minor redesigning.  Prior to final approval, a
+full-size (head and neck) sculpture was done, painstakingly hand-painted.
+There's only the one.  And someone swiped it, right out of Doug Netter's
+office, where it was hanging on the wall.  I couldn't even begin to tell you
+how much it's worth; just the physical value alone would be considerable, let
+alone collector's value.
+

+     I'm putting this out here so that, if anyone here should see it at a
+convention, or a dealer's room, you should know that it's stolen merchandise.
+and should be reported to the police.  There's no chance of mistaking this for
+something else, since there's literally only the one in existence.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ263.html b/find/Answers/answ263.html
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+
+   What's this about a crew member leaving for "theological" problems
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  theological  crew  soul
+

+

+
   What's this about a crew member leaving for "theological" problems

+        with "Soul Hunter"?
+

+     One person at a post production house we've used has indicated that he
+has "theological problems" with working on that episode; not because it's
+*against* what he believes -- he's worked on horror movies and stuff with
+devils and the like -- but because it takes a point of view he doesn't much
+like...in that he has to sit and defend the whole *context* of his
+ideas...meaning, it's making him think.  He can just poo-poo the stuff against
+what he believes, support what he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure
+where this show comes down, or where it makes *him* come down. I've had any
+number of problems with people on a show before, but this is the first time
+I've run into a theological problem.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ264.html b/find/Answers/answ264.html
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+
+ nonsense  correct  destruct
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  nonsense  correct  destruct
+

+

+     If what you think I said is correct, then what you think I said is what I
+said.  If what I might have said was not correct, then what I might have said
+is not what I said, incorrectly.
+

+     This message will self-destruct as soon as anyone manages to parse the
+grammar....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ265.html b/find/Answers/answ265.html
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+
+   Will there be in-jokes?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  inside  joke
+

+

+
   Will there be in-jokes?

+

+     There are a lot of little in-jokes...but I'd rather let you see them than
+ruin the surprise.
+

+     We sneak in GEnie coordinates from time to time....
+

+     By the way...just for funsies I slipped a reference into one of our
+scripts to a location being at grid coordinates 471-18-25.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ266.html b/find/Answers/answ266.html
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+
+ fun  skirt  pajama  londo  walrus  pants
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  fun  skirt  pajama  londo  walrus  pants
+

+

+     Today was "Men In Skirts Day" for many in the Babylon 5 crew.
+

+     There are some things man was not meant to know....
+

+     Re: the crew...today was Pajama Day.  Don't ask.
+

+     Our head of post production, associate producer George Johnsen, pulled a
+number on me today that just struck me as hilarious, and I pass it on to you.
+(We do a lot of silly stuff behind the scenes.)
+

+     Take your hands.  Fold in the thumb until it's pointing in toward the
+palm of your hand, but not entirely.  Fan out your other four fingers on each
+hand as far as you can.  Now put the two hands together so that the index
+fingers touch, and the pinkies are on either side of one another (i.e., you've
+formed a crown or fan).  Raise your hands so that your wrists are settling on
+either side of the top of your head.
+

+     Now look at the person sitting next to you and say, "Live, Londo, and
+Prosper."  This is the unofficial B5 crew greeting.  Apparently some have been
+doing it when they arrive for work in the morning.
+

+     We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+

+     Funny...I sometimes make up little clips from shows and put them to music
+for myself or for convention appearances...and I was giving some serious
+thought to assembling a montage and using "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles as
+the music...and then realized that it would probably give away too much if I
+composed the pictures correctly with the lyrics.
+

+     I am the walrus...coo-coo ka choo....
+

+     During the con appearance, Jerry told a story that *I* hadn't heard
+before.  There's a scene in the script "Midnight on the Firing Line" in which
+Talia (Andrea) goes into a transport tube, finds Garibaldi, and asks some
+questions about Ivanova.  They rehearsed it several times, this being Andrea's
+first time on the set, and filmed one take.  She comes down the hall, comes to
+thepen...and Garibaldi's pants are down around his ankles. Needless to say.
+that shot did NOT end up in dailies....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ267.html b/find/Answers/answ267.html
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+
+ fart
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  fart
+

+

+     How You Know You're Finally Going Bananas, by JMS.
+

+     So there I was, lying abed, at 3 a.m., unable to sleep, and I come up
+with the Fart Classification System (FCS).  Basically, they break down into
+three categories: small farts are squibs, medium farts are crackers, and
+really huge farts are zeppelins.
+

+     I desperately need to get a life....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ268.html b/find/Answers/answ268.html
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+
+ flu  nyquil
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  flu  nyquil
+

+

+     Cooney: I wasn't offended...very little offends me...EXCEPT THIS DAMNED
+FLU THAT REFUSES TO GO AWAY, AND EVERY NIGHT IT'S FEVER TIME, AND I'M GOING
+OUT OF MY MIND, YOU HEAR?  I'M GOING MAD!  I'M SPENDING MY DAYS AND NIGHTS
+TRYING TO WRITE IN TWO STATES OF MIND: DELUSIONAL OR CONFUSED (which on the up
+side is one more state of mind than is normal for me) AND I'M TIRED OF IT, YOU
+HEAR?  TIRED OF IT!
+

+                        ....courtesy of NyQuil.
+

+     The colors, man, check out the *colllllllllllllooooorrrrrsssss*****...
+

+     ("May induce drowsiness" my ass...you're lucky if you make it across the
+room with this stuff....)
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ27.html b/find/Answers/answ27.html
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+
+   Will aliens speak in their native languages?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  native  language  subtitle
+

+

+
   Will aliens speak in their native languages?

+

+     I don't believe in monolithic aliens who all talk exactly alike, with the
+same accents, any more than I believe in humans who all talk exactly alike.
+Hence, the difference between Vir and Londo.
+

+     When they're together in their quarters, they're talking in Centauri.
+which we hear as English, as in WW II movies, the Germans are obviously
+talking to each other in German, but we hear it in English.  (The only other
+alternative is to subtitle whole lengthy segments of the show, which is both
+unworkable, awkward, and unfair to blind viewers.)
+

+     No, it won't be rare.  And that's the reason why we're NOT doing
+subtitles.  This is the difference between something sounding neat on paper.
+but not in reality, and especially not on a TV series.
+

+     If you're doing a feature film, and only have one or two shots of aliens
+talking in subtitles, for brief periods, you can do this; also if you're doing
+an SF series in which you're mainly talking to humans, and only rarely among
+your own kind.
+

+     But in B5, a LOT of our time is spent with our various alien characters.
+And sometimes the conversation can get quite detailed, quite complex or
+political.  In one script, for instance, there's a 2 1/2 minute scene with
+G'Kar and Na'Toth, followed by two lengthy scenes with Londo and Vir, and
+Delenn and Vir.  So you're talking about maybe 5  minutes here.  The
+conversation is very detailed, very elaborate.  So are you a) going to put all
+of this complex dialogue on screen, line by line, and b) use subtitles for
+FIVE UNBROKEN MINUTES?
+

+     You'd kill yourself as a series.  No one would stand for it, and they'd
+be right.  Again, not every good idea is a workable or practical idea.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ28.html b/find/Answers/answ28.html
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+
+   How does n'grath communicate?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  n'grath  language  communicate
+

+

+
   How does n'grath communicate?

+

+     It speaks in cicada-like chirps and whistles, which are translated by the
+translation device on its chest (the lighted thingie).
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ29.html b/find/Answers/answ29.html
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+
+   How does Kosh communicate?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  kosh  language  communicate
+

+

+
   How does Kosh communicate?

+

+     Now that we've finished mixing some shows, we've now seen how Kosh
+speaks, followed through to the end.  It's a very unusual system that he's got
+there, and it's *real* creepy to watch/listen to it.  The kind of thing that
+makes your skin crawl after a while.
+

+     I love it.
+

+     Correct, Christopher Franke designed Kosh's voice.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ3.html b/find/Answers/answ3.html
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+
+   What will the timeline be in the B5 story?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  date  episode  time  story  2258  year  month  day
+

+

+
   What will the timeline be in the B5 story?

+

+     I'm working it so that real-time comes close to paralleling story-time in
+the series.  The events of the series will pick up approximately six months
+after the events of the pilot.  We'll have crossed into another year, so the
+first "year" in which the series takes place is 2258, year two of the series
+(if we get that far) would be 2259, and so on.
+

+     No, we generally don't announce the day/month in the episodes, though
+sometimes dates or seasons are referred to tangentially or offhandedly. The
+real significant progression is year to year, which is why each year of the
+show will be marked in the opening narration and parallel real time (season 1:
+2258, season 2: 2259, etc.).
+

+     There will be some time between episodes in the B5 universe; in some
+cases it's about a week, in some cases much longer, as long as we end up
+covering roughly a year.
+

+     Approximately nine months have passed since the time of the pilot and the
+birth of the series.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ30.html b/find/Answers/answ30.html
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+
+   When will we know about Kosh Naranek, and vorlons in general?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  kosh  vorlon
+

+

+
   When will we know about Kosh Naranek, and vorlons in general?

+

+     There's simply nothing that I can say about Kosh just now.
+

+     We will reveal what Kosh is a LOT sooner than year 5.  Closer to the end
+of year 2.
+

+     The Vorlons are the great unknown.  They occupy a *huge* sector of space.
+No expedition ever sent to Vorlon space has ever returned, or sent back word.
+No human had ever even *seen* a Vorlon prior to Kosh's arrival on B5.  Their
+technology is vastly superior to just about everyone else's.  To unravel the
+mystery, to maybe get a *piece* of their tech, is more than sufficient
+inducement, I'd think.
+

+     Kosh doesn't need an assistant.  In fact, no one's *really* quite sure
+what it is Kosh *does* most of the day.
+

+     Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no less and
+no more.  At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* like what he appears
+to be.
+

+     These are not contradictory statements.
+

+     And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the subject,
+believe it or not.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ31.html b/find/Answers/answ31.html
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+
+ centauri  metaphor  rome
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  centauri  metaphor  rome
+

+

+     No, the closest parallel to the Centauri would, I suppose, be ancient
+Rome.  I tend not to go that much to contemporary sources for metaphor, since
+it's too obvious and over-done.  Much of what's in B5 is drawn from much older
+sources.  The only exception, the only means of creating a metaphor for the
+present, is one that will take some time before it's even perceptible, though
+by the end of the season, you'll see what it is pretty clearly.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ32.html b/find/Answers/answ32.html
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+
+   How do centauri wear their hair?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  centauri  hair  jewelry  ornamentation  bald
+

+

+
   How do centauri wear their hair?

+

+     Centauri males wear their hair in this fashion, the length of which is
+determined by the person's status.  Centauri women scorn such symbols of
+status and go bald except for a knot of hair from the back.  (Sort of a
+peacock approach.)
+

+     Certainly, you could wear your hair longer than your status permits, but
+it's like pretending to a status you don't have, which is viewed as pathetic.
+

+     Londo's people go for jewelry and ornamentation such as medals and
+sunbursts and the like.
+

+     It's a standard bed, works fine.  Though we *did* have a thing in mind
+where Londo sits up in bed, having just had wonderful sex, and his hair is now
+hanging limp...but in a sudden burst of sanity we decided against it.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ33.html b/find/Answers/answ33.html
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+
+   How many, um, tentacles do Centauri males have?  What do females have?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  centauri  sex
+

+

+
   How many, um, tentacles do Centauri males have?  What do females have?

+

+     Centauri males have six.
+

+     The awful thing is that the two women in props -- who were having FAR too
+much fun with this -- kept bringing me the tentacle to verify the shape. size,
+consistency, do we see veins or not....
+

+     Centauri females, btw, have six narrow...ummm...slots on their backs.
+three on either side of the spine, right around the base of the spine.
+

+     A sick thing that you should want to know these things; sicker still to
+come UP with these things....
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ34.html b/find/Answers/answ34.html
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+
+ minbari  caste  military  religious  religion  line
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  minbari  caste  military  religious  religion  line
+

+

+     The religious and military castes have rarely disagreed on anything.
+until the religious caste ordered the surrender at the Battle of the Line.
+Since then, things have not been proceeding as smoothly....
+

+     The three main components of Minbari society are the religious caste, the
+warrior caste, and the workers...which aren't really a caste per se, which is
+why they're not often included.  It's a very different. less influential part
+of their society.
+

+     Valen was the one who brought Minbari civilization together. he is their
+Christ-figure.
+

+     Generally, the religious caste takes precedence over the warrior caste.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ35.html b/find/Answers/answ35.html
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+
+ ornamentation  minbari  texture
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ornamentation  minbari  texture
+

+

+     Minbari don't do a lot of ornamentation, going instead for fabrics.
+textures and colors.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ36.html b/find/Answers/answ36.html
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+
+ minbari  clan  name  caste
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  minbari  clan  name  caste
+

+

+     For those who might be interested, we've come up with some name for the
+various clans of the Minbari warrior caste.  The primary five are the Star
+Riders (the oldest), the Moon Shields, the Wind Swords, the Night Walkers and
+the Fire Wings.  (The first three refer to the early Minbari version of a
+mounted force, for which you need riders with shields and swords, with #4
+referring to foot soldiers, and the last to those whose clan first used flying
+machines in battle.)
+

+     (Oh, and Star Riders refers to those mounted soldiers who were trained to
+use the stars for navigation.  Behind them came the foot soldiers, who were
+expert at traveling by night.)
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ37.html b/find/Answers/answ37.html
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+
+ minbari  head  bone
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  minbari  head  bone
+

+

+     The bone that grows out of the back of Delenn's head is exactly that, not
+a decoration, but an actual part of the physiology.  It will differ with
+various Minbari in size, configuration and texture (another Minbari seen in
+the show has a darker tint to the bone structure, it's cracked and so on). The
+thought is that it grows from the back of the skull structure, and comes
+forward with age.  You can see the "root" of thed -- the -- structure whenever
+Delenn turns around.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ38.html b/find/Answers/answ38.html
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+
+ minbari  grey  council
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  minbari  grey  council
+

+

+     For the most part, lower level types don't know the names of those in the
+Grey Council (speaking of Minbari for a moment).  They are kept fairly
+anonymous to avoid the cult of personality arising.  You'll see the full
+extent to which they preserve their anonymity in some of the upcoming
+episodes, specifically "Sky" and "Babylon Squared."
+

+     A little aside for you...at one point this season, Delenn goes to the
+Grey Council.  There's a ritual she has to observe when she joins the ranks of
+the Nine.  Part of it is this statement she makes upon entering the circle: "I
+am Grey.  I stand between the candle, and the star.  We are Grey.  We stand
+between the darkness, and the light."
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ39.html b/find/Answers/answ39.html
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+
+ minbari  number  triangle
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  minbari  number  triangle
+

+

+     Yes, I would think it fair to say that the Minbari have a thing for
+triangles and things that come in threes.
+

+     Minbari use base 11, not base 10, so twelve would be eleventy-first year,
+and so on.
+

+     Minbari base eleven includes fingers and head, from which the principle
+of mathematics comes.
+

+One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+

+Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four, eleventy-five.
+eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight, eleventy-nine, eleventy-ten.
+twelfy
+

+Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four, twelfty-five,
+twelfty-six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight, twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+

+     And so on.
+

+     Who here still has a problem with this?
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ4.html b/find/Answers/answ4.html
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+
+   How is the B5 story going to be told?  If B5 is a five-year arc,
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  arc  story  five  miss  episode  emerge  change  file
+

+

+
   How is the B5 story going to be told?  If B5 is a five-year arc,

+        will I miss out if I miss some episodes?
+

+     I've constructed the B5 writing scenario more or less as follows:
+

+     1) Each episode will be able to stand alone.  If you come in on season
+two, without having seen anything else, you'll be able to get into it.
+

+     2) Questions asked in the course of an episode or a season will be
+answered in that episode or season.
+

+     3) BUT...if you continue to watch the show, then over time a story writ
+on a much larger scale will begin to emerge.  Consider it like a triptych,
+something out of Hieronymous Bosch...each individual panel is sufficient unto
+itself, but put them all together, and suddenly you see connections and a
+whole picture that wasn't there a moment earlier.
+

+     Relationships will change.  People will live, and die.  Alliances wll
+shift.  And at one point or another, everything you THINK you know about these
+characters will be turned upside down.
+

+     You have to understand the way this show is going to be structured. There
+aren't going generally going to be a lot of loose threads hanging around.
+Episodes will resolve themselves.  It's just that, from time to time, we'll
+carom off some point that seems tangential, but which will later become
+significant.  You don't have to watch every episode.  Hell, if I do this right
+-- and this is one hell of a hat trick, lemme tell you, when it comes to
+structure -- you can even watch them out of ORDER, within a season, and still
+follow what's going on.  The trick is to make it so that if something slips
+past, the viewer doesn't trip over it.  And when you do an episode that you've
+set up before, that set-up should in some subtle, non-heavy-expository way, be
+re-established for those who might not have seen the episode.
+

+     Telling people "This is a five year arc" in a big way almost as a warning
+is actually more destructive than constructive; it might lead people to think
+that they need to commit five years of their lives to get the whole story, and
+it's hard to get people to commit to even one ten-hour miniseries. You can
+watch any part you want, and get a good, solid, independently enjoyable
+hour-show out of it.  You can come in at any point you want.  The key is that
+the more you watch, the more you will pick up on the nuances and the threads
+we're going to be playing with.  Generally, we're going to keep those threads
+a bit light in the first season, then begin to draw in more of the general
+story arc in the second and subsequent seasons.  Let's use the first year to
+get the audience comfortable with the B5 universe, and with our characters,
+and in a handful of episodes, carefully begin leading everyone where we want
+them to go, so that when we start to accellerate things in year two, those
+who've been with us from the start can get right into it, and those who come
+to the show late can play catch up without any problem.
+

+     The 5 year arc is worked out in considerable detail; 200 single spaced
+pages in a triple-encrypted file.
+

+     There is a five-year story arc, yes.  What's planned?  Cool stuff.
+

+     That said...I think the ending for the B5 storyline is pretty cool.
+

+     That said...I don't think it's really about the ending.  The ending is
+simply where the story finally stops.  Look at the ending of THE LORD OF THE
+RINGS.  Frodo back in the shire (though not entirely the same shire it was
+when he left), glad that it's all over.
+

+     Will you be satisfied by the ending?  More to the question, are you being
+satisfied by the beginning, and the journey so far?  That's the more telling
+question.  B5 is more about the journey than the destination, though you have
+to craft one hell of a climax and a solid ending nonetheless.
+

+     I think maybe 45-50% of our subtext and allusions have been noted to
+date, which is *real* good.
+

+     Actually, one follow-up...one thing we've been very careful about is that
+when something is referenced in episode 9 that took place in episode 3, you
+don't *have* to have seen episode 3 for it to make sense; the information you
+need is collapsed or somehow incorporated into the dialogue in episode 9.
+Meaning that while VCRs and repeated viewings and groups can help to *predict*
+stuff, you don't need to have seen ANY prior episodes of the show to enjoy any
+one episode of the show.
+

+     But the *more* you watch, the more you get out of it.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ40.html b/find/Answers/answ40.html
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+
+   Are the narns going to be more than just the "bad guys"?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  narn
+

+

+
   Are the narns going to be more than just the "bad guys"?

+

+     As for the Narns...yes, they are portrayed in a favorable light in many
+episodes, from "By Any Means" to "Chrysalis" and "Mind War," to name but a
+few.  Nobody is just one thing on this show.  Not nobody, not nohow.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ41.html b/find/Answers/answ41.html
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+
+ narn  religion  diversity
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  narn  religion  diversity
+

+

+     Actually, there are varying religions within the alien species as well;
+G'Kar is a follower of G'Quan, while Na'Toth's father followed G'Lan, and
+Na'Toth herself doesn't really believe in anything (this as noted in "By Any
+Means Necessary").  So that diversity isn't strictly or exclusively human.
+

+

+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ42.html b/find/Answers/answ42.html
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+
+   Why did you change Delenn's look after the pilot?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  delenn  character  makeup  prosthetic  female  mask
+

+

+
   Why did you change Delenn's look after the pilot?

+

+     Once the decision was made to make her definitely female, that led us to
+modify the makeup.  Also, the original make up was done with very little lead
+time, and some things we liked, some things we didn't.   It's now sleeker.
+more attractive, and easier to apply and take off.
+

+     Since we only really got a good look at one Minbari, it's kind of a moot
+point.  The new lines are generally consistent throughout Minbari.
+

+     We're also modifying the prosthetics a bit.  Again, because Delenn is
+definitely female, we can use a little less in the way of heavy overlays on
+the head and face to convey ile keeping the desired androgynous look.  This
+lets us get the same basic image, but make a lighter and more easily applied
+mask that will allow Mira greater degrees of comfort and free her up to act
+without being hampered in any way.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ43.html b/find/Answers/answ43.html
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+
+ video  croatia  furlan
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  video  croatia  furlan
+

+

+     I can't remember if I mentioned this here or not...but did I note that
+apparently the B5 pilot is the #1 best selling/renting tape these days in
+Croatia?  What this means I have no idea....
+

+     Mira was in a Croatian choir?!  I didn't know this.  She's never
+mentioned it.  I know that she was an actress there, but this part is news to
+me.  I must ask her about it when she comes in next week.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ44.html b/find/Answers/answ44.html
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+
+ franklin  biggs
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  franklin  biggs
+

+

+     For the role of Dr. Stephen Franklin we have found an intense and
+powerful african-american actor named Richard Biggs.  He's younger, in his
+mid- to late thirties, dedicated, sharp and...again, the word I keep coming
+back to is *intense*.  Consider a younger Dr. (and I'm going to misspell this)
+Debakke: self-assured, confident almost to a fault.  He comes largely out of
+an experimental background, so his bedside manner isn't all it should be. He's
+often impatient.  His character is the newest addition to the B5 "team" of
+characters, and this will lead to a fair amount of conflict.
+

+     Just a word or two on Dr. Franklin.  We're not bringing in someone who
+will play the role as a sloppy, floppy puppy with a ball.  Dr. Franklin is
+someone who's a little on the arrogant side, very serious, very dedicated, and
+is frequently in opposition to the military side of B5.    He's a very intense
+character, little in the way of bedside manner, invariably sure that he's
+right.  And sometimes he is going to be very, very wrong...with some difficult
+and painful consequences.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ45.html b/find/Answers/answ45.html
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+
+ g'kar
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  g'kar
+

+

+     We won't see G'Kar's mate this season.
+

+     I believe G'Kar is about 50-60 in Earth terms, which is early middle age
+for Narns.
+

+     I keep constantly fighting the urge to have G'Kar return from a trip to
+the Narn homeworld with a limp, a cane, and a (temporary) eyepatch, muttering.
+"Boy, the Thenta Makur have *no* sense of humor."
+

+     (Now we'll see how many get *that* one.)
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ46.html b/find/Answers/answ46.html
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+
+ g'kar  makeup  prosthetic
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  g'kar  makeup  prosthetic
+

+

+     We're also doing some minor modifications to G'Kar's prosthetic, making
+the chin less squared, the mouth a little broader, and the whole thing again
+easier to put on and take off.  It will also look far more realistic; parts of
+it LOOKED like a prosthetic when you got up close.
+

+     It's one thing to throw heavy prosthetics on an actor who's only going to
+wear it for the 4 weeks required for the pilot.  But to wear something day in
+and day out for 22 episodes...you have to think about that.  Our own concern
+was making it look even *better* for both of them, and we've found a way to do
+that.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ garibaldi  pilot  alcohol
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  garibaldi  pilot  alcohol
+

+

+     Regarding Garibaldi...in the first hour-script that I've turned in, we do
+learn more about his past, and what brought him here.  And yes, there were
+some lives involved, but he was framed.  Doesn't mean he didn't screw up other
+things...and doesn't mean he won't screw up NOW, either.  He's had a problem
+with alcohol, and it may come back.  But there is a strong link to Sinclair
+that prompted him to give Garibaldi what is, essentially, his last chance.
+

+     Brett: this isn't a case of jack-of-all-trades.  Garibaldi *has* to be a
+qualified fighter pilot as head of security of a *space station* where
+problems can come up in the space surrounding the station.  Also, as mentioned
+here before (I think) and certainly in one of our scripts, during the period
+between Garibaldi's last security job, and now, when eh (he) couldn't get a
+job as security chief, he was a pilot, running transport shuttles on a couple
+of ice mining operations.  (It was not a good period for him.)  Nothing is
+done arbitrarily with these characters.   All three of our main EA characters
+-- Sinclair, Garibaldi and Ivanova -- are qualified fighter and transport
+pilots.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Do Garibaldi's shoes have a custom tread?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  garibaldi  shoe
+

+

+
   Do Garibaldi's shoes have a custom tread?

+

+     Don't know if GAribaldi's shoes have a custom tread or not; it's
+possible.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Was Garibaldi's name taken from 19th century Italian hero Giuseppe,
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  garibaldi  red  italian
+

+

+
   Was Garibaldi's name taken from 19th century Italian hero Giuseppe,

+        who once led a group of soldiers called the "red shirts?" Coincidence?
+

+     The rest I can't comment upon, but for sure I took his name from the
+Italian hero you mention.
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ5.html b/find/Answers/answ5.html
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+
+   Watching Twin Peaks requires watching every episode, will B5 really
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  arc  twin-peaks
+

+

+
   Watching Twin Peaks requires watching every episode, will B5 really

+        be any different?
+

+     The comment re: Twin Peaks is correct; I loved TP dearly, but if you
+missed one episode, you were screwed.  The way the story is constructed, you
+can come in at any point, even miss episodes, and still be able to follow the
+thing.  It's just that the *more* you watch, the more you'll get out of it.
+the more things you'll pick up on.  It's a very difficult task from a writing
+point of view, but worth the effort, I think.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will Garibaldi get any relationship next year? [season 2]
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  garibaldi  relationship
+

+

+
   Will Garibaldi get any relationship next year? [season 2]

+

+     Garibaldi will get something going next season....
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ51.html b/find/Answers/answ51.html
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+
+ maya  hernandez
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  maya  hernandez
+

+

+     She's a medical doctor, running one of the many medlabs on B5.  (Dr.
+Franklin, as chief of staff, runs the primary medlab, supervising other
+doctors on-station.)
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ52.html b/find/Answers/answ52.html
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+
+ ivanova  russian  christian
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ivanova  russian  christian
+

+

+     Quick sketch of Ivanova: Russian, pessimistic, wry, very sharp.  She
+isn't in "Believers" because there was a one-week overlap with a prior
+committment on a film project, which we accommodated. --
+

+     Being of Byelorussian descent, I've always wanted to write for an ethnic
+Russian character.  Not someone with an accent, any more than I have an accent
+even though I have a last name with 10,000 consonants and no vowels. There's a
+wry and formal and stiff-necked and sometimes very passionate streak that runs
+through the Russian spirit, and a certain rough-hewn mysticism, a sense of
+absolute fatality and doom punctuated by moments of great belief in humanity.
+It's a mix of traits you don't much see in American television.
+

+     Which is why the new second in command is Lieutenant Commander Susan
+Ivanova, who will be played by Claudia Christian, a fantastic and very strong
+performer who just knocked us out of the room.  Very much a commanding
+presence, a little quirky when she wants to be, a shade on the pessimistic
+side.
+

+     Having come out of an Eastern European background, I've long lamented the
+stereotyped roles usually written for that kind of character, and look forward
+to drawing upon the real thing for her character.
+

+     Claudia has settled nicely into the role, with this great edge to her
+performance.  Pessimistic, fatalistic, occasionally sarcastic, but in a funny
+way...that can turn right around and tear your heart out.
+

+     I like Ivanova as well; she's got a very sly, very *sharp* intelligence
+going there.  She can deadpan you and whap you upside the head with a comment
+delivered almost as an aside, or an afterthought. It's the difference between
+wit and humor.  She doesn't tell jokes, but she's got a great sense of wit.
+

+     Here's what I find curious (not necessarily in direct response to
+anything you said, but in general on this topic)...is that when Ivanova makes
+her remark to Garibaldi about snapping his hands off at the wrists, many
+people have assumed that she was insulting him, berating him, being bitchy.
+truly disliking and threatening him.
+

+     But the same words, put in the mouth of another male, wouldn't have drawn
+that reaction, and would've been classified under, "kidding around" or affable
+sarcasm.
+

+     Which is exactly what it is in this case.  In this place and this time.
+they're comfortable enough to mess with each other without it being taken
+seriously (among these characters, that is).  There are times they kinda like
+to phuque with each other a bit, just for the hell of it, as comrades will
+sometimes do.  ("Babylon Squared" has a great example of Sinclair and
+Garibaldi messing with Ivanova.)
+

+     There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm quoting
+from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you / That you carry with a
+certain pride / It's the only part / Of a broken heart / You could ever save."
+That's Ivanova.
+

+     She's had her heart stomped on a lot.  And she's been holding it in. Even
+with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought back the tears. There
+is one episode, which will be right at the end of the year, where she finds
+she can't run from her pain anymore...can't run from the tears...and deals
+with them in a scene that's very moving and absolutely brings tears to the
+eyes.
+

+     Kwicker, Ivanova has *not* said stuff about being Russian "every other
+episode."  I made the error of having her say it twice in the two-parter, now
+everybody's seeing it as a big thing.  It was mentined in Soul Hunter.
+Survivors, and Voice, and insofar as I know, that's it.  (I'll allow for the
+possibility of one more, even though I don't recall any others.)  I don't
+think that 3-4 episodes in a 22 episode season quite qualifies as "every other
+episode."
+

+     The main reason for the Lt. Cmdr. distinction in most circumstances is
+because otherwise you've got two Commanders on deck, and it helps to keep
+distinct which you're addressing. But we have some different ideas in mind for
+year two.
+

+     And yes, Ivanova was born on Earth, in the Russian Consortium, though she
+was educated in large measure overseas.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ kosh  word
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  kosh  word
+

+

+     As reward for the humor, here's what Kosh will *really* say, when he
+utters the first words we hear.  He's on the Observation Dome, looking out
+through the window as a ship passes overhead, the lights shining down at him
+through a window.
+

+     "Ahhh....beautiful."   Long beat as he looks around the place.  Then: "I
+will miss this...when it is gone."
+

+     And then he exits, as Garibaldi mutters to Ivanova, "I *really* hate it
+when he does that."
+

+     The scene was trimmed for time.  It may show up again later.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ kosh  writing
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  kosh  writing
+

+

+     The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be very
+careful how much you use him, and what he says.  Too much and he loses his
+sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting fortune-cookie type
+aphorisms.  He has a very deliberate way of speaking in which everything.
+every smallest nuance and inflection means something, but sometimes not what
+it appears to mean, or comes at it from a very different angle than normal
+conversation.  So I go as minimalist as possible, to get the meaning down to
+the smallest number of words possible.  And in one scene, one of only two he
+appears in, I got him down to *one word*, and that one word -- and it's a
+totally inoffensive, neutral word on its own terms -- should scare the hell
+out of *everybody*.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ kosh  reception  vorlon
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  kosh  reception  vorlon
+

+

+     Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5 has any
+idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one race has had dealings
+with the Vorlons before.  Watch the reception at the end, and see if you
+notice anything unusual in the way the various people respond to Kosh.
+

+     And who else isn't at the reception?
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ56.html b/find/Answers/answ56.html
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+
+ lennier  mumy  minbari  makeup
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  lennier  mumy  minbari  makeup
+

+

+     Well, we finished casting for the role of Lennier, who is Delenn's
+aide/attache.  We were looking for someone who could give us the most as a
+quiet, restrained, almost monk-like character, fairly innocent in his way.
+

+     And in a very nice bit of synchronicity, the person who came in and
+knocked us out with his audition was Bill Mumy, who has now been cast in the
+role.  Aside from his work in Lost in Space, Bill is a terrific actor whose
+role, I think, may sometimes have become a stumbling block from time to time.
+as did the roles of Shatner, Nimoy and others from Trek.   Here he will be a
+very different kind of character, barely recognizeable beneath the Minbari
+makeup, and can show a very different sort of approach to his work.  We're
+very excited to have him on the team.  (I think it will also be good to have
+someone around from a prior successful SF TV series who can help our cast
+prepare for the reception this show is likely to receive...and I suspect that
+very few if any of them really understand yet what that will mean.)
+

+     Mumy's role, to answer that question, is a recurring role; I think he'll
+be in about half a dozen episodes or so for us.  To the best of my knowledge.
+this won't interfere with any other obligations Mumy has.
+

+     BTW, this week will Bill Mumy's first week on B5, and he's done a very
+nifty job as Lennier.  He brings a wonderful sense of absolute innocence...the
+proverbial innocent abroad...to Lennier's character.  The Minbari prosthetics
+look great on him, enhancing the sense he brings to the character.  He's also
+great with the cast, and keeping things up during shooting.  At one point, as
+they're leaving camera, Delenn says to Lennier, who has just arrived at the
+station, "Now tell me of home; I have been away far too long."  His ad-libbed
+off-camera response: "Beatlemania is back." (Another ad-lib for another shot:
+"Minimalls...they're everywhere," and "Well, we just got Pizza Hut and
+cable.")
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ londo
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  londo
+

+

+     Yeah, the more I delve into Londo's character, the more I find him
+intriguing.  He mourns for the loss of his beloved Empire, and this makes him
+vulnerable to some dangerous temptations.  There are a number of dark corners
+in his personality...but at the same time, a vulnerability, a sadness.
+

+     In the B5 story arc, Londo goes through some *major* changes, some good.
+some tragic, some frightening.  He becomes a major player, but not in the way
+he would ever have anticipated.
+

+     (Hold back, Joe, you've got a long stretch ahead of you here....)
+

+     Re: Londo as a romantic character...bless your heart.  You are the first
+to have nailed it absolutely on the head.  If I had to write a description of
+the character, I doubt I could have done any better than what you just wrote.
+There are a *lot* of episodes that bring this out in him, including the next
+one up, "Born to the Purple," which I suspect will end virtually all of the
+hair jokes once and for all.
+

+     Actually, no, Londo was not based on Brother Theodore, who I only
+discovered some time later on Letterman.  But Harlan and Peter David mentioned
+at the panel that Brother Theodore could make a swell brother for Londo in
+some episode, so this is something I may consider....
+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ58.html b/find/Answers/answ58.html
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+
+ cast  jurasik  garibaldi
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  cast  jurasik  garibaldi
+

+

+     Behind-the-scenes humor: because it had been so long since the pilot, it
+took a few of our actors a bit of time to get back into their characters, to
+find the characters' "fingerprints" for lack of a better term.  This is quite
+understandable given the long waiting period.  When he needed to find his
+character for a scene, Peter Jurasik mentioned that he would just stand up
+straight and yell, "MISter GariBALdi!" and he'd be right back in character.
+Sort of the B5 version of "Shazam!"
+

+     Minus the lightning bolt, of course.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ londo  hair
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  londo  hair
+

+

+     We're going to re-create an entire new hairpiece that will lay flatter
+and look better from the back, which I felt was one of its drawbacks.  Also.
+we don't want to have Peter shave his head for the whole series, as he did for
+the pilot, so we're coming up with a longer prosthetic that'll come all the
+way over the top of the head to the eyebrows, where we'll blend it in
+unnoticeably.  This will make Peter's life just that much easier.
+

+     We're not changing Londo's hair to make it anything less than what it is.
+It'll still be as outrageous as it was in the pilot.  What I was referring to
+specifically was the way it bunched up at the back of the head, just above the
+nape of the neck.  What they had done was take a conventional wig and shove
+the hair up and lock it into place; in this case, we're stringing a new.
+custom wig that will gently come up in the back, as if growing naturally in
+that direction.  The top part will be the same, it's only a matter of cleaning
+up the back, which simply didn't work aesthetically.
+

+     I find it interesting that people can accept spots, scales, fur.
+foreheads, reptiles and parasites...but not a different style of hair, used to
+denote one's rank or position (as is done in some primitive societies right
+here).  Look at the history of hair just around us in the last hundred or so
+years...long hair, powdered wigs, crew-cuts, braids, dreadlocks, spikes.
+mohawks....
+

+     Among those I've talked to, it seems that folks from other places --
+England, Europe, some from Japan -- have *zero* problem with the hair.  It
+seems genuinely an American reaction.  I was talking to someone about this
+earlier this evening, and the comment came back that Americans in particular
+are absolutely *obsessed* with not being embarrassed, or being made fools of.
+When they (we) see someone who doesn't match our view of what's the norm, we
+imagine how we would feel in that position.  And to make ourselves more
+secure, as in high school, we make fun of what would personally embarrass us.
+When the underground/subculture of the 60s got ANY chance to express its
+views, what did people focus on?  Their hair.   Sometimes other personal
+traits, but usually the hair.  "Damn longhaired freaks."
+

+     To see *hair*, of all things, being somehow less acceptable than funny
+foreheads, scales, or other aspects of alien-ness flatly astonishes me.  (It
+was also pointed out to me that in the first season of the original Trek.
+there was a *lot* of mail to Paramount about losing the pointy ears on Spock.
+that they just looked stupid.)
+

+     It just seems sad to me, and somehow informative, that people are unable
+to see past the hair to the person.  Are we really that conservative and
+ethnocentric?  I particularly feel strongly about this for Peter, who is
+absolutely *out there*, taking a great risk with this character, who is doing
+an amazing performance...and all people can talk about is the hair, as though
+that somehow diminishes the performance.
+

+     Amazing, really....
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Any chance of extending beyond five years?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  extend  beyond  more  five  series  story  thread  franchise
+

+

+
   Any chance of extending beyond five years?

+

+     What happens at the end of the five year arc?  The "Babylon 5" series
+ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do).  If something esle
+follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be the same series, or the same
+title, or really the same characters.
+

+     Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year arc, I
+take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+

+     Re: the end of the 5th year...I've noted before that there is a thread
+raised during the B5 run that could be extended into its own series.  But it
+wouldn't be B5.  The story of Babylon 5 ends at the end of the fifth year.
+regardless.
+

+     I'm being very careful not to let B5 turn into a *franchise*.  It's a
+story, created in X-parts, for television.  This thing will turn into an
+industry over my dead body.  The most that the framework will permit is a
+2-hour TV movie that caps year 5.  That's it.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What's up with Londo and his wives?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  londo  wife
+

+

+
   What's up with Londo and his wives?

+

+...moment in a script where Londo is talking about homeworld, where marriages
+are still arranged, to someone who doesn't want any part of that life. "Here,"
+he says, pointing to three photos, "these are my three wives: Pestilence.
+Famine and Death.  You think I married them for their personalities?  Their
+personalities could shatter entire *planets*.  Arranged marriages, every one.
+But it worked out.  They inspire me. Knowing they're at home, waiting for me.
+is what keeps me here, 75 light years away...."
+

+     We'll see Londo's -- spouse/spouses, I'm avoiding saying which -- in
+time.
+

+
   What's up with Londo and his wives?

+

+     Actually, sadly, that was Londo's first wife, who he was forced to
+divorce later.  Eventually I'll get into this.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ n'grath
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  n'grath
+

+

+     I would not describe n'grath as a "Mafia boss," since that's a very
+specific term.  Nor is it really any kind of organization.  He's a fixer.
+somebody you go to when you need something...a bodyguard, forged identicards.
+what-have-you.
+

+     Garibaldi is quite aware of n'grath...and knowing that if he just
+vanished, somebody'd take his place in five minutes, prefers the trouble he
+knows to the trouble he'd have to track down.
+

+

+

+
+
+
diff --git a/find/Answers/answ62.html b/find/Answers/answ62.html
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+
+ na'toth
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  na'toth
+

+

+     Replacing the character of Na'Toth could be done, but at this point she
+knows stuff that is important for us to have access to in year two.   (Stuff
+mainly happening in "Chrysalis.")
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ sakai  caroline  julia  nickson  sinclair
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sakai  caroline  julia  nickson  sinclair
+

+

+     Finally, having gone his separate ways with Caroline -- she wanted him to
+leave his job, he wouldn't -- Sinclair renews a longstanding relationship with
+Catherine Sakai, a role we are going to cast sometime fairly soon.
+

+     Catherine works for an Earth Corp surveying asteroids and planets for
+minerological exploitation, making sure they're uninhabited, and finding items
+that might present the greatest possibility for profit.
+

+     We've shot our first scenes between Sinclair and his new love interest.
+Catherine Sakai (as played by Julia Nickson).  This is a very, very strong
+character, and she brings a wonderful vibrancy to Sakai.   They have a unique
+relationship that looks and sounds like a real relationship, with all its ups
+and downs and dumb moments.  One way that I've reinforced this is that...well.
+in the first episode in which they meet again (they were involved before).
+just about every scene between them is lifted almost directly from personal
+experience.
+

+     And given some of the awkward, even painful conversations that take
+place, it was very, *very* hard to watch this being rehearsed.  (Michael and
+Julia worked over a weekend with the director to get the nuances just right.)
+When it came time to shoot the scenes, much as I wanted to be on-set, I just
+couldn't do it.  My heart just kept falling right down to my shoes.  I can't
+wait for the first person to say "I don't buy this as a real relationship"
+just so's I can whap him upside the head.  But I have a hunch that won't
+happen.  It comes across as very real, and as a very vulnerable moment for
+both characters.
+

+     "Write what you know," they said.  Right.  How about I just take a power
+drill and stick it in my ear...it'd be faster, less painful, and after a while
+I might even come to like it....
+

+     Catherine Sakai is a surveyer.  She has her own business.  She has her
+own ship.  In some episode, she has nothing whatsoever to do with the
+commander, she's off doing her own business.  In "Mind War," as one example.
+we see her for 30 seconds with the commander in the morning, with both going
+off to their respective jobs, and that's it...the rest of the story she's in
+is exclusively hers, concerning something she runs into while on a survey run.
+

+     Regarding Catherine Sakai...believe me, this ain't a consort kind of
+relationship.  It will be monogamous, but difficult in many ways.  This has
+been an on-again/off-again relationship between them for years, made up of
+three parts passion and two parts teeth.  It will be a very fiery
+relationship.  And this is a woman with her own business, her own ship, who
+comes and goes as she wishes.  You have to understand that I love writing
+strong female characters, and Catherine will be probably one of the strongest.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Is Catherine based on your Spousal Overunit?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  catherine  spousal  overunit
+

+

+
   Is Catherine based on your Spousal Overunit?

+

+     Actually, no...Catherine Sakai is based more closely on another woman of
+my acquaintance, with whom I was involved for quite some time. And that's all
+you'll get out of me on the subject.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   How critical to the B5 arc is Sheridan?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sheridan
+

+

+     I have, btw, now seen the finished (minus music and some minimal EFX)
+first episode of B5 with Bruce.  We did the producer's cut yesterday, and I
+have to say that I think it's very nice.
+

+     And Bruce does a wonderful job in the role.  He's brought a lot to the
+table, and I think people are going to be very pleased.
+

+     Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the Union
+Army.
+

+     Sheridan, the universe willing, will be there throughout the rest of the
+B5 story.
+

+     Only Ivanova has served with him before; Garibaldi doesn't know him from
+Adam, and this will lead to some awkwardness and questions of trust down the
+road.
+

+     Sheridan is a soldier.  A soldier is told, in wartime, THIS is your
+enemy.  You kill the enemy or your enemy kills you.  Afterward, you're in the
+same position American soldiers were in after the end of WW II when it came
+time to reconcile with the Germans and the Japanese.  It can sometimes be very
+awkward...and sometimes reconciliation takes a while.
+

+     Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the only
+real victory of the Earth/Minbari War.  (Which means the Minbari don't
+generally like him a lot.)  He did what he did because that's his job.  He's a
+professional soldier.  For the last two years, he's been commanding the
+Agamemmnon, a high-visibility Earthforce starship on deep patrol.  As such, he
+has had to learn to work with a number of different races and species.
+

+     "Sounds like a forumla to really PO the Minbari."
+

+     Yup.
+

+     In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was the
+case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often seemed to hang.
+Sheridan is often very thoughtful and introspective; at other times, he can be
+just a bit eccentric; he leads by respecting those who work under him, and
+giving them room to grow; like any career officer, he HATES the bureaucracy
+with a passion, and this is the one thing that can drive him nuts; he knows
+that commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but he also knows that his presence
+brings certain complications with it, and he's very ambivilant about that
+aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic envoy who disappeared on his 21st
+birthday, running off to see (of all things) the new Dali Lama being
+installed; he has a very easygoing manner, and a great sense of humor.  He
+quickly re-forms a friendship with Ivanova, for whom he has great respect and
+professional admiration.  (For a time she served under him at Io.)
+

+
   How critical to the B5 arc is Sheridan?

+

+     How critical was Aragorn to the storyline of Lord of the Rings?
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ sinclair
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  sinclair
+

+

+     As I recall, the photo and article is about Sinclair's ancestor, who
+fought in the Battle of Britain.  And the framed piece is indeed a Sinclair
+Aircraft logo.
+

+     There is some history there with Sinclair's father, but I'm not getting
+into it this season because there are some other family issues involving our
+characters that I want to delve into initially, and I don't want to step in
+the same stream too many times, as it were.
+

+     You won't see Sinclair's brother this season...and that's all I can say
+for now.
+

+

+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   How big is the station?  What parts are there?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  station  technology  size  capacity  layout  sets
+

+

+
   How big is the station?  What parts are there?

+

+     The station is a touch over 5 miles long.  It can hold roughly 250,000
+humans and aliens (many of whom are in transit at any point).
+

+     250,000 is the *maximum* number of beings who can be there at one time;
+that's not necessarily the maximum number of living quarters.  In some ways.
+B5 is like an airport; you come in, linger, then move on to your eventual
+destiny (catching a few winks in the customs area waiting for the right ship
+to come in or go out).
+

+     The blue fins at the back of B5 are, as I recall, for the purpose of
+radiating internal heat out of and from B5.
+

+     The Starfuries are launched from the rotating part of the station.
+They're launched from the cobra bays, which are the cobra shaped projections
+alongside the round front of the station, and attached to it.
+

+     Many aliens (all who require alternate atmosphere) live in the alien
+sector.  Those who can breathe oxygen can live in other areas, but tend to
+congregate with other non-humans in the oxygen sections of the alien sector.
+The ambassadors have their own environment supported quarters in the Green
+Sector, which is the high-security area for diplomats.
+

+     The interior of the station does have some farm-land, orchards, an
+open-air hedge maze, and other green areas.  We'll be seeing them in varying
+degrees of detail throughout the series.  No specs are yet publicly available.
+

+     Located above the station proper is the long zero-g cargo loading area.
+You'll see, in later episodes, ships pulling up in front of the area and
+offloading cargo.  That is accessible from many parts of the station.
+

+     The zero-g cargo section extends from the front of B5 well into the
+middle of the station, *inclusive* of red sector, which is below it.
+

+     The 2.5 million tons of spinning *metal* refers only to that part. the
+metal casing.  It doesn't include the furniture, the structures. the Garden,
+the 250,000 humans and aliens...so the total mass of the thing is MUCH greater
+than the 2.5 megatons.  Also, the body was shoved out of the area around the
+cargo bay, non-rotating, which would also cut down on the momentum (as opposed
+to shoving out out of the rotating part, where it would speed away at 1g).
+

+     On the one hand...we have more interior sets than any other series that I
+know of; 18 standing sets and 42 swing sets.  And we're building a number of
+other sets for next year, including an Officer's Club.  In addition to C&C,
+we've seen various holding cells, numerous quarters, a conference room,
+Sinclair's briefing room, the Council Chambers, the business room, two
+separate restaurants, the Zocalo, the Dark Star Club, the Casino, the Happy
+Daze Bar, Doug's Dugout Sports Bar, the Ombuds Courtroom, various DownBelow
+sectors...we've shown a *lot*.
+

+     Medlab is the smaller facility exclusively for Dr. Franklin, as Chief of
+Staff.  There are larger medical facilities, more like proper hospitals,
+elsewhere on the station.
+

+     The CO's office next season will have a view of the Garden area, as will
+some other rooms.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Who owns the station?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  own  earth
+

+

+
   Who owns the station?

+

+     The station is owned by the Earth Alliance, and if you're going to be
+staying there, you pay a fee.  Station employees are charged a fee against
+their salaries...which some of them aren't happy about.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will B5 ever be moving from its present position?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  move  position
+

+

+
   Will B5 ever be moving from its present position?

+

+     Re: B5 and movement...no, it ain't going anywhere.  Nor will it.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Though the story is locked into a five year time frame, is there a
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  season  five  year  22
+

+

+
   Though the story is locked into a five year time frame, is there a

+        chance of more than 22 episodes per season?
+

+     At this point, it's way too early to even *think* about topics like
+expanded seasons.  Obviously, yes, we could easily expand each season's worth
+of episodes from a story point of view.  That ain't no kind of problem.  As
+for the rest...only time will tell.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ rotate
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  rotate
+

+

+     The station was designed to rotate mainly because it's scientifically
+accurate.  Afterward, we realized that, as you suggest, it *does* give the
+station a very dynamic look.  Which only proves the point that if you take the
+time to actually do things correctly, to answer the next question, it works
+FOR you, not against you.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ defense  grid  weapon
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  defense  grid  weapon
+

+

+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+

+     As for defense,  you'll see a full demonstration of this in the first
+season; for now, let's just say that that smooth looking exterior is laced
+with sections that can open and reveal all kinds of interesting things.
+Imagine a five mile long Swiss Army knife....
+

+
+
+
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+
+ computer  voice
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  computer  voice
+

+

+     The computer system is quite good, based on a crystalline technology
+that's a mesh between alien and human-developed stuff.
+

+     The computer voice belongs to Haley, our script supervisor.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ inside  gravity  garden  illuminated
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  inside  gravity  garden  illuminated
+

+

+     Yes, there are definitely different levels in each section of B5.
+

+     And yes again, down the road there will be both small flyers and
+individuals with air-packs in the zero-G section at the center of the Garden.
+Ron's worked out how to do it.
+

+     How's it illuminated?  Quite nicely, actually....
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ ship  fighter  starfury  atmosphere  wing  fly
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ship  fighter  starfury  atmosphere  wing  fly
+

+

+     The fighters are the SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfuries, and B5 has four
+fighter wings, each with approximately 12 fighters.
+

+     The starfuries are *only* non-atmosphere craft, and they can't hold more
+than one person.  The other specs are over at Ron's, and I'll try to remember
+to snag them at some point.
+

+     The fighters are built on a cross-wing structure (four wings), but very
+different from either X-wing or tie fighters.  The four wings have fore, aft.
+top, bottom and side thrusters, so that they can move in any direction...they
+can fly left to right, turn backwards, and continue to fly left to right.
+flying backwards, and thus fire right to left. They're perfectly designed for
+zero-g environments.
+

+     There are a number of influences that go into the markings on the
+Starfuries.  (And not all 'furies are so marked; only those that are generally
+used by only one pilot, to whom the ship is assigned.)  We took in general the
+WW II model, where pilots used to decorate their craft with nose art to
+personalize it.  So some of it is of that flavor, while others echo more
+ancient heraldry.  (Ivanova's 'fury has an old Russian two-headed eagle in
+stylized form.)  Yes, again, an attempt to connect past, present and future.
+

+     Your message is correct; there are various "weights" of Starfuries, some
+much more massive and impressive.  The ones on B5 are light, fast, not overly
+complicated, and quick-strike machines.  Another kind, which you'll see in the
+two-parter, has cockpits fore *and* aft, a two-person ship with much heavier
+shielding and armaments; the "Black Omega" version is made for top speed as an
+interceptor with advanced stealth components.
+

+     Black Omega Starfuries are *hideously* expensive, rather like Stealth
+Bombers.  They have to be carefully maintained, and their existence isn't
+generally trumpeted.  (Like the Aurora, for instance.) They're not mainly a
+defensive system, but rather an infiltration unit used on black
+projects/covert missions.  They're not really meant for an operation like B5.
+

+     Definitely; there are additional fighters berthed inside Earthforce One,
+with a minimum four outside on constant patrol.  In addition, it's got some
+pretty hefty defensive weaponry on board, though they're worked into the
+design so that they don't appear too obvious (bad for PR).
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How do starfuries launch?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  starfury  launch  bay  pressurized  dock  grail  fighter
+

+

+
   How do starfuries launch?

+

+     The bay is pressurized, with drop doors beneath each fighter.  A ramp
+extends to the fighters individually, bringing on pilots.  The bays are
+depressurized as the pilots (in flight suits) prepare.  Then the drop doors
+open, the fighters pivot to nose-down position, and launch.
+

+     The fighters are in regular configuration when the pilot boards.   Then
+the drop doors open, the ship tilts down on a massive pair of arms, and then
+they're released, the centrifugal force of the station sending them out the
+drop doors.
+

+     The starfury fighter is launched by a drop straight out, nose pointed
+"downward," toward space.  Upon release, it flies pretty much straight out.
+still containing some of the momentum from the rotation, so it would appear to
+be going straight away from the station because its position in relation to
+the station, like a geosynchronous satellite, is still more or less correct.
+Shortly after getting out of the bay, the fighters fire up their engines.
+which lets them take any angle or direction they choose.  So they can very
+quickly head away on any trajectory.
+

+     There is nothing wrong with the launch sequence.  It causes them to move
+directly away from the station, on a slight spiral, facing out to the stars
+from the pilot's POV.  Whether or not it looks funky has little to do with
+whether or not this is the most efficient means of doing this.  I think it's
+kind of funky that the space shuttle flies upside down while in orbit, its
+cargo bay facing down toward Earth, but that's the way it's done, and there
+are good reasons for it.  We sat down for a very long time with a bunch of
+designers and techies who know physics and know math and know flight dynamics.
+we ran computer models, and the physics are right.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How do ships dock?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ship  dock  bay
+

+

+
   How do ships dock?

+

+     As you'll see in the series, we've worked out the docking bay stuff very
+clevely.  A ship enters dead center.  It is then taken and lowered into one of
+a number of different bays deeper within the station (by deeper I mean lower.
+more toward the hull).  That's how we can have a series of different docking
+bays in the first place.
+

+     There's a nifty CGI shot we'll be using at some point in the series where
+you can see the entirety of the docking bay, with the various ships arrayed
+inside.  Then there are the more secure bays areas, with restricted access, as
+when Kosh arrived.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How do starfuries dock?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  starfury  dock  bay  enter
+

+

+
   How do starfuries dock?

+

+     The fighters enter via the main docking bay, where they are shunted back
+into the Starfury launch bays.  (BTW, for those who've asked, and let it never
+be said that we're unresponsive...we asked Ron to develop a CGI sequence that
+shows how ships get from the interior of the main docking bay down to the
+customs and loading bays.  I've seen it, and it looks pretty spiffy.  Look for
+it in "Grail."
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will there be a variety of spaceships?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ship  variety  color  witch  starfury  drazi  sunhawk
+

+

+
   Will there be a variety of spaceships?

+

+     Yeah, we do a LOT of ships this season.  I have gifs of them all, and
+some of them are mind-bogglingly nifty.  What I like about Ron's work is that
+many of the space shots are works of art you could practically frame.  And
+he's done one very important thing: he's brought COLOR into space, in a big
+way.  Ships are personalized, painted, textured and made into things you enjoy
+looking at.  The Starfury nicknamed the Sea Witch is a great example of
+this...as well as a bunch of others.
+

+     Not all Starfuries are the same, btw...you'll be seeing a different
+category of them in "Mind War," and they're gorgeous.  Also very scary.   Not
+as scary, but more nifty, are the ones in "Survivors" and "Chrysalis."
+

+     Ah LOVES spaceships....
+

+     There are other kinds of fighters; it's a question of what's intended for
+use where.  The Raider ships, and the Narn heavy fighters, are both
+atmospheric and non-atmospheric ships.  Some fighters, such as B5's
+Starfuries, the Drazi Sunhawk, the Ipsha Battleglobe and others (you'll see
+the latter two in "Deathwalker") are configured only for non-atmosphere
+activities, and have different configurations.
+

+     On the ships...when Ron was pulling together the ships for that episode.
+we talked about it on the phone for a while, and I have to take the rap for
+the saucers...which I still think are cool.  I said, in essence, why the hell
+not?  Ron thought it was a great idea, and went and made it real.  I think if
+we ever see this kind of ship again, it'll need some more work, a little more
+weight and substance, some more detail, but they're okay.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   Will there be starships from earth? civilian spacecraft?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  civilian  earth  ship
+

+

+
   Will there be starships from earth? civilian spacecraft?

+

+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of ships.
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+

+     Civilian spacecraft are fairly common; they're expensive, to be sure, and
+if you're just going from point a to point b, it makes more sense just to book
+passage on something, but many folks now make their living in space, so
+transport is required.
+

+     BTW, have named an Earth Alliance Cruiser Hyperion, in notation of the
+library....
+

+     The Hyperion is not typical; it's one of the ships that survived the War.
+Not many did.  There are niftier, newer ships built in the last eleven years
+that you'll be seeing eventually.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ philosophy  holographic  story  arc  episode  image
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  philosophy  holographic  story  arc  episode  image
+

+

+     Had an interesting conversation today with one of our crew.  I was
+talking to someone else about the writing philosophy on the show, and how it's
+comparable to a tryptich...you line up the stories and you begin to see a much
+broader story after a while.  A series of interconnected images.
+

+     And this crew person said that I was wrong, that wasn't how the show is
+being done.  Now lemme tell you...we encourage people on every level to speak
+frankly, at any time, to any one, but it takes considerable cojones to say
+something like that to one's exec producer, that he has his own series wrong
+in the description.  "Oh?" says I.
+

+     He explains that what it is, is "holographic storytelling."  I asked him
+what the hell this meant.  He said that the image of pictures side by side.
+linear storytelling, wasn't right.  That after he read two scripts, he went
+back and reread the first one, and now he could see things in it that he
+hadn't seen before.  When he'd read three, again he glanced over the first.
+and new things had come out.
+

+     "What it IS," he said, "is not side-by-side images, but *overlaping*
+images, like old fashioned photographic plates stacked up one on top of the
+other.  Each has a piece of the whole picture.  When you line them all up, one
+behind the other, and look through all of them at once, you realize what the
+picture is.  It's three-dimensional storytelling."
+

+     I had to think about that one a long time, but frankly, he's right, and
+I'm wrong.  That *IS* what we're doing, and I've been describing it
+incorrectly all this time.
+

+     Holographic storytelling...well, live and learn, I say.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ ship  cost  economy
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  ship  cost  economy
+

+

+     Owning your own space ship isn't cheap, but it also isn't as expensive as
+it might be.  The investment is about the same as starting up your own
+business.  There's not a lot of civilian "touring cars," for lack of a better
+term; better to use the liners and shuttles.  But for businesses, surveyers.
+explorers, traders and the like...yeah, they're within one's grasp.  And these
+sorts of ships are pretty much all run by computer.  No crew required.  Just
+go from place to place.  If it's a scientific survey ship, then you'll have
+some more.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ vorlon  ship
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  vorlon  ship
+

+

+     And there *is* a utilitarian reason behind its design.  In addition, we
+want to show something VERY alien in design and construction...and frankly.
+there's NO reason a ship that isn't ever going to enter atmosphere needs to
+look aerodynamic.  In time, you'd move toward things that are visually or
+aesthetically interesting.  In this culture (Vorlon), art and science are
+closely allied, so this extension into the look of their ships is quite
+natural.  Concepts about what ships are have become very rigid and inflexible
+thanks to the preponderance of SF-TV shows. We want to loosen that up.  And
+that look DOES, as stated, have a practical aspect about it as well, which
+will be seen down the road.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How about the raider ships?  Why so vulnerable?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  raider  ship
+

+

+
   How about the raider ships?  Why so vulnerable?

+

+     RE: the Raider ships...they turned by a less effective system of
+thrusters put in here and there, not nearly as powerful as the systems used by
+the Starfuries.  The reason -- verifiable by the shape of the Raider ships --
+is that Raider ships are handicapped by the fact that they're made to function
+both in space *and* within an atmosphere (hence the aerodynamic wing shapes).
+which gives it something of a problem when dealing with the Starfuries, which
+are made ONLY for fighting in space, and are most ideally suited to it.  The
+Raider ships make compromises for greater utility, which is generally okay
+unless they run into superior forces of ships designed for spaceborne combat.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ jump-gate  hyperspace
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  jump-gate  hyperspace
+

+

+     "What is the principle behind the jump gate?"
+

+     Manufactured by Whammo.
+

+     (Still working out the details.....)
+

+     Re: jumpgates...I knew that multiples were used, but was still working
+out the *exact* details of how they work, and I hate to post anything until
+I'm 100% set, since this stuff tends to end up in FAQs....
+

+     Jump gates aren't instantaneous; transit within a gate is usually a
+couple of days, though it seems a bit longer to those outside.
+

+     Yes, most of the energy is expended getting in and out of hyperspace.
+with a fair amount being expended navigating through it.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ jump-gate  action
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  jump-gate  action
+

+

+     And the action *doesn't* always happen conveniently located to a jump
+gate.  Sometimes, it can take *hours* or even days to get to where a ship or
+other object is located.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How does a ship pay for use of a jump gate?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  jump-gate  ship  pay  government  bill
+

+

+
   How does a ship pay for use of a jump gate?

+

+     As soon as the ship comes through, its signature is registered and the
+fees debited against their account, if they have one at the station.   If not.
+the incoming person is asked for payment before being allowed onto the
+station.  In some cases, as with transports, corporations buy jump gate access
+in bulk, and then assign the routes to their various transports. (Believe it
+or not, this actually comes up in dialogue in "Midnight.")
+

+     Ah, but remember, the government is the one who put the jump gate in; no
+one individual or corp could afford to do that.  When your ship, if Earth
+registered, comes through, you're automatically billed, just like income
+tax...it goes against your credit.  If you're not Earth registered, you pay
+when you arrive at an Earth port or orbital transfer station.  Either way, you
+pay.  If you try to land somewhere without proper authorization, you'll be
+arrested and your ship confiscated.
+

+     Now, you could probably come through the gate, hang in space for a while.
+and go back in again (IF you're a non-Earth registered ship) and not pay
+anything...but in that case, what's the point?  It'd be like taking a
+difficult trip in a small ship across the Atlantic, and not getting out or
+going ashore once you arrive.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How are ships identified when they come out of jump gates?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  jump-gate  identify  ship  war  minbari  jump-point
+

+

+
   How are ships identified when they come out of jump gates?

+

+     1) Jump gates can only give you the frequency identification of a given
+ship some minutes prior to exiting hyperspace; just as it's about to exit, you
+can get much more detailed information, such as silhouette, mass, and so on.
+By then it's pretty much out...but at least you know as soon as it's out what
+it is.
+

+     2) You can't just shut down a jump gate like a light bulb.  It is a VERY
+powerful piece of equipment, and it takes a long time to shut down and a long
+time to start up again.  It's like a nuclear or fusion reactor in that
+respect.  If you shut it down, it'll *stay* down for some time, which may put
+you in a very bad position if you have to leave fast, and that's the only way
+out.
+

+     (During the Earth/Minbari war, jump gates created by the Earth Alliance
+were programmed only to accept certain coded frequenies that were changed
+regularly.  [That should read frequencies.]  This helped prevent Minbari ships
+using EA gates.)
+

+     3) Really large ship, such as war cruisers and long-range explorer
+vessels are powerful enough to punch their own entance into hyperspace.
+creating a jump point.  (Something you'll see happen in our first episode.
+btw.)  They can go in and out of hyperspace on their own, so they don't
+strictly need a gate, which is primarily a) for smaller craft incapable of
+generating their own jump point, and b) to help larger craft conserve energy.
+The Vorlon fleet could have come in via its own jump point, but the gate was
+there, and it allowed them to separate their smaller attack fleet while in
+hyperspace, so they could all come out together, as opposed to releasing them
+after making their own jump point.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ hyperspace  jump-gate  tot
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  hyperspace  jump-gate  tot
+

+

+     Travel from point A to point B takes some amount of time.  But when
+you're near your destination, you can wait in hyperspace and choose to come
+out at a specific moment.  There's considerable speculation that both the
+Minbari and Vorlons have ships standing by in hyperspace, at various
+locations, in case they're needed quickly.  (In the pilot movie. Laurel
+Takashima even mentions that they are probably doing this.)  It's a
+correlation to the TOT (Time On Target) philosophy; you can send ships in from
+various sectors, have them lurk in hyperspace, then all come out at once.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ effect  jump-gate
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  effect  jump-gate
+

+

+     We've made some minor modifications to the jumpgate effect, in the
+texture and color of the warp EFX.  It looks a little less computer-y, and
+some science guys suggested that there should be red-shift built into the
+thing.  So now when objects come *out* of hyperspace, and we're looking into
+the jumpgate, the warp effect is blue; when you enter the jumpgate, it shifts
+toward orange/red.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ weapon  ppg [Phased Plasma Gun]
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  weapon  ppg [Phased Plasma Gun]
+

+

+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun, and yes, the settings work about the way you
+describe.  At full settings, it burns right through the body (and you can see
+this in some shots, albeit briefly and discreetly).  We also deal with the
+reality of what such a weapon *does* to you...internal burns, clothes melting
+into the skin, that sort of thing.  We don't get gross about it, but we try to
+stay with the reality of what we're creating.
+

+     Re: the PPG firing...we talked to some high-IQ types about how a
+plasma-firing weapon might work.  There would be superheated bursts, some
+marginal escape of the gases used, and it would burn through the air, creating
+a small thunderclap-like sound.  So this is what we did.
+

+     The PPGs are Phased Plasma Guns, using superheated helium.  It doesn't
+ricochet like conventional slugs, dissipates quickly after a hit, can be
+adjusted to produce surface damage, or cut straight through the body, or to
+make a big impact without burning through.  At full strength, they burn
+straight through any kind of body, causing massive internal burns and damage
+to the internal organs.  The clothes melt right into the skin.  It's not a
+pretty thing.  Generally they're operated at a lower or less lethal setting.
+

+     The ripple is caused by heat from the discharge.
+

+     There are definitely PPG assault rifles, which are visible in  "Grail."
+They can fire faster than pistols, but I don't think they could handle the
+power-buildup to fire 3-6 per second.  That's definitely slug-thrower turf.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ story  arc  ditillio  five  lunatic
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  story  arc  ditillio  five  lunatic
+

+

+     Just recently, btw, I gave Larry DiTillio a printout with just a little
+of the coming 5 year arc...if he's going to story edit, he needs to know what
+lines not to cross, and I can't ride herd on that all the time.  He took it
+home, read it.  Called me.  Didn't even say hello.   Began the conversation
+with, "You are out of your f'ing mind."  I asked for some small clarification
+of his position.  He indicated that he thought it was absolutely great.
+something that'll really go down in the rolls when the final tally is done.
+"But you GOT to be out of your f'ing mind to try and pull something like this
+off.  It *can* be done...but it takes a lunatic to do it."
+

+     Sounds about right.
+

+     Kiwi...understand that no changes are just made willy-nilly (to use your
+term).  This is a STORY.  As with any story, any novel, you have your moments
+of surprise, of sudden turns where you kick over all of the tables and watch
+the pieces scatter.  But the writer already knows where the pieces will land.
+It's all according to plan.  Nobody's going to be screwed over.  Anymore than
+when somebody reading, say, a Stephen King book feels screwed over when
+suddenly Salem's Lot, a nice quiet little town, suddenly gets filled with
+undead and characters are suddenly going through some remarkable
+changes...it's all part of the story.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ communicate  communicate
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  communicate  communicate
+

+

+     We're using a tachyon communications system to handle the FTL problem
+regarding communications.
+

+     Communications will be instantaneous in *most* cases.  Once a ship enters
+hyperspace, however, communications can become more problematic.
+

+     I've told our people that in season two (Neilsen willing), I want a new
+Babcom or general communications standby screen...and if I ever see the old
+one again, someone's going to get hurt....
+

+
+
+
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+
+   What's that thing on the back of [Sinclair's] hand?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  communicator  link
+

+

+
   What's that thing on the back of [Sinclair's] hand?

+

+     The item on the back of Sinclair's hand is a Link, which is their
+personal communications system/powerbook/mainframe access system/pager.
+

+     It's made to be adhesive to skin, but easily removed.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   How do you envision medical technology?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  medicine  technology  surgery  math
+

+

+
   How do you envision medical technology?

+

+     Our medical advisor tells us that regen technology should be well in hand
+within the next 100 years, so you can grow back damaged internal organs and
+the like, and avoid having to do transplants.  Also that the system of surgery
+is moving toward non-invasive procedures, using light in more and different
+ways.
+

+     He went on past that, but there was some math involved...
+

+     Re: the medical tools...we brought in a medical science consultant, who
+helped us design our instruments.  His sense was that we're moving more and
+more toward light as a system of treatment, non-invasive procedures, that sort
+of thing.  No, there aren't anything like those devices in today's operating
+rooms...but this is 250 years from now.  In any event, it *is* based on the
+latest info we're getting on new science from our medical advisor.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+   Does Earth have any kind of artificial gravity?  Others?
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  gravity  tractor
+

+

+
   Does Earth have any kind of artificial gravity?  Others?

+

+     I've said that Earth tech doesn't have any kind of gravitational tech,
+including magnetic/tractor beams.  The Minbari have a much greater control
+over and knowledge of gravitational science.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ computer
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  computer
+

+

+     As for computer tech in 2258, it's something we're exploring for a story.
+Larry has an interesting idea or two on how to realize it visually, but it's
+hard to find something that's possibly accurate without making it godlike.
+Still, we're trying...
+

+

+

+

+

+
+
+
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+
+ universe  human  future  vision
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  universe  human  future  vision
+

+

+     What I want to do with this show is to connect our past, our present, and
+our future, melding familiar images with new ones.  This isn't what you're
+used to seeing.  But it's what I want to *do* with it.  Otherwise all you have
+are unattainable futures about people who we barely recognize as being humans.
+doing things we can't relate to.  I'm sorry, but that just doesn't interest
+me.
+

+     The main line I've been stressing with our writers and others who we're
+working with is the goal of making our humans more human, and our aliens more
+alien.  Much of our life is focused around things that don't generally show up
+in SF television...we cut ourselves shaving, we have to find a bathroom, our
+shoes don't fit...and these are the elements that help make a character more
+real somehow.  So yes, we're very definitely going for that aspect.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ human  language  history  future
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  human  language  history  future
+

+

+     I don't believe in the notion that, when we go to the stars, we have to
+leave behind our individual languages, and cultures, and ethnic backgrounds.
+and fashions of dress.  We bring that with us as part of who and what we are.
+It's our differences that *strengthen* us.  It's not all going to vanish in
+200 years.  There are cultures in the eastern part of the world that have
+survived with minor changes for literally thousands of years.  250 years is
+the blink of an eye.  It's really a Western phenomenon; to us, 200 years is a
+long time, the whole history of our nation.  That changes when you go outside.
+I stood on the cobblestone walks of Trinity College in Dublin, and realized
+that on those same cobblestones some eager student raced across to the living
+quarters to announce news of a big revolution in the American colonies.  I
+stood in the neolithic burial mounds at New Grange, the oldest man-made
+stuctures in the world, older even than the pyramids...and realized that in
+human terms, 250 years isn't even a blip.  We're not going to change that
+much.
+

+     250 years ago, people worked, got married, had families, separated, had
+affairs, and hoped for a better world for their children.  250 years from now.
+it will be exactly the same.  Only the chrome of technology will vary. For a
+good example of this, go find an SF movie musical called "Just Imagine" made
+in the 1930s.  Set in the 1980s, it pictured a world of people with names
+instead of numbers, pills instead of food, and birth by machine.  Much of TV
+SF makes the similar error.
+

+
+
+
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+
+ station  future  realistic  human  fantasy
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  station  future  realistic  human  fantasy
+

+

+     On your point that B5 looks and feels and, arguably, *is* something that
+humanity could build, is nominally within our grasp...this is something that
+we've been building toward for a while, is part of what we want to do with the
+show.  At a recent screening of some episodes for cast and crew, the one most
+frequent comment I got afterward was that it *felt* real, that this felt like
+how it might really be to work and live out on the fringe.  Many SF futures
+are so far beyond our grasp as to enter the realm of unattainable
+fantasy...I'd like to point to something as more within our grasp, to remind
+us that we can do this, and that maybe we SHOULD do this.
+

+
+
+
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+
+   How do you tie religion into the story??
+
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
+
+Keywords:  religion
+

+

+
   How do you tie religion into the story??

+

+     Let me just lay the foundation here for a moment in the area of religion
+and Babylon 5.  I'm an atheist, that simple.  But that's me.  If you look at
+the long history of human society, religion -- whether you describe that as
+organized, disorganized, or the various degrees of accepted superstition --
+has always been present.  And it will be present 200 years from now.  That may
+not thrill me, but when one is a writer, one must deal with realities, and
+that's one of them.  To totally ignore that part of the human equation would
+be as false and wrong-headed as ignoring the fact that people get mad, or
+passionate, or strive for better lives.
+

+     So we do deal with the questions of religion, and spirituality, and their
+definitions, without being abusive.  A couple of stories on this area, like
+David Gerrold's "Believers" may be very controversial.  On the other hand, my
+script for "The Parliament of Dreams" is a straight-ahead showcase, in which
+every species on B5 is encouraged to demonstrate his or her dominant belief
+system, as practiced back home.  So we learn more about Minbari religion, more
+about the Centauri's rather Bacchanallian form of religion, along with others.
+And Sinclair is put in the difficult position of being asked to show what
+Earth's dominant belief system is. The solution to which is, I think, kinda
+cool.
+

+     In the Babylon 5 universe, all the things that make us human -- our
+obsessions, our interests, our language, our culture, our flaws and our
+wonderfulnesses -- are all still intact.
+

+     Yes, Earth religions have had to come to grips with the existence of
+alien cultures; and religions from both sides have filtered into human an
+alien life.  We won't be dealing with that this season because we deal with
+the topic of religion a lot this season, and don't want to get too bogged down
+with it.
+

+     Garibaldi is an agnostic.  Ivanova is jewish.  Sinclair was raised
+catholic and underwent training as a Jesuit.  Dr. Franklin is a Foundationist.
+Catherine Sakai is buddhist.
+

+     What kind of Jewish Ivanova is...is something she's trying to resolve in
+her own head.
+

+     The Foundation is a new religion, started close to the year 2000, which
+gradually grew and achieved a fair amount of respectability over the following
+200 years (as with mormonism, for instance).
+

+     Great Maker is a term for the creator or god that has currency among many
+different races.  Its origins are lost in history.
+

+

+

+
+
+
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+ history  earth  2257  2258  year
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+

+     The history of Earth for about the last 100 years prior to the time of B5
+is broken out, and though it isn't laid out in detail in the series, it forms
+a reference backdrop for us, so it's all consistent when we refer to any part
+of it.  The pilot was 2257, the first year of the series is 2258, year two
+would be 2259, and so on.  The story requires 5 years of story time as well as
+5 years of real time to tell.  Things have to go through some real time lapse
+for the story to work out properly. Consequently, the narration at the top of
+the show ("...the year is 2258, the name of the place is Babylon 5") will be
+changed each season.
+

+
+
+
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+
+The search function is
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+
+ M TV & R and B5?                  (March 04, 1995 12:52:20 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: March 04, 1995 12:52:20 AM

+
     Thanks for sticking with it all this time.  It's kind of funny; Mark
+Hamill talks about how he went to several conventions just prior to the
+release of STAR WARS, and practically couldn't get arrested.  He'd sit there at
+a table, all alone, and nobody would even come by.  Six months later....
+
+     At those first few B5 panels, back when the show was still only in the
+"here's what I'm going to do" stage, before we'd aired a frame of film,
+the usual reaction was "yeah, sure," or hostility, or disbelief, or just no
+reaction at all.  But at many of the cons, there was this core group of people
+who believed in the project from the first word...who lent their belief and
+their support to something they hadn't even seen, in the hope that maybe this
+time their dilligence and faith would be rewarded.  And to those who make
+Babylon 5, those are the special ones, and we are very mindful of them.
+Stepping out on faith takes a certain degree of courage, and that's not
+something to be taken lightly.  So thanks for being one of them.
+
+     Re: your question...at this juncture, I think I'd have to choose "The
+Coming of Shadows" as the one episode I'd use to represent the series.
+That one episode came out so close to perfect, so close to what I saw in my
+head when I wrote it, that the difference is no difference at all.  It has all
+the elements I'd feature in a B5 discussion...the CGI, the characterization,
+the complexity, the politics, the language, the performances.
+
+     There are, by the way, some really extraordinary episodes coming up. The
+first one in the next cycle of new episodes, "And Now for a Word," will, I
+think, be very popular, and to my knowledge does something that has never been
+done in SF television before; "There All the Honor Lies" is a fun episode with
+some nice characterization and solid humor; "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" is an
+episode that is as emotionally raw as "Chrysalis" with some major revelations
+that force Sheridan to make the most important decision of his life;
+"Confessions and Lamentations" I'd put right next to "Believers" in intensity,
+a terrific Franklin episode; "The Long, Twilight Struggle" is probably the
+biggest episode of the entire two years to date, story and EFX and character
+wise, and will have a profound effect on the series that I'd compare to a cross
+between "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis"...and "Divided Loyalties" will
+produce a stunning revelation about one of our major characters.
+
+     The latter half of this season is all about tightening the screws until
+you hit the screaming point.  I've got to send this show over the edge,
+because THAT'S where the really interesting stuff begins to happen.
+
+     I have a big sign on my office wall.  It's a quote from Franz Kafka. (And
+by big I mean 2' x 3'.)  "The point of no return; that is the point that
+must be reached."  The latter half of this season will send us tumbling end
+over end beyond the point of no return...and taking many of our characters with
+us.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 Comics #5 and #6               (May 16, 1995 9:02:21 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 16, 1995 9:02:21 PM

+
The comics vary in applicability.  I don't see why the events in the
+current arc wouldn't apply.
+
+BTW, I'm writing a new 4-issue arc, which introduces a character who will
+be seen in the (one hopes) third season.  So this will provide all the
+canon background on the character, and have it out before the airing itself.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Za'Ha'Dum and Mind War            (May 16, 1995 9:32:01 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 16, 1995 9:32:01 PM

+
The Rim is the edge of explored or known space.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>             (May 17, 1995 8:45:21 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:45:21 PM

+
Actually, it wouldn't be the first time for a series; Blake's 7 ended by
+knocking off all the characters.  Frankly, I find that kind of thing
+vaguely dissatisfying.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <TSOZ>                            (May 17, 1995 8:45:23 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:45:23 PM

+
"I distrust any female who bites the male's head off after mating."
+
+Ah...I see we dated the same women back in college.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <TSOZ - Delenn)                   (May 17, 1995 8:45:24 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:45:24 PM

+
There is just about zero chance of B5 ever ending up on the WB network, as
+those two (WBN and PTEN) are *very* competitive with one another, and
+neither division would allow it.  (Unlike other companies, WB is set up as a
+series of competing small empires who are not required to cooperate, in the
+theory that this will make for stronger individual divisions.  Not always
+true.)
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <In the Shadow ... >              (May 17, 1995 8:45:27 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:45:27 PM

+
Re: disliking the idea of god...I don't, and don't feel its correct to
+dislike ANY idea.  Ideas are simply that: words and thoughts.  The idea
+that one sex or race is better than any other is harmless; the PRACTICE of
+treating one race or sex better than any other, and acting upon that idea, IS
+odious and wrong and must be stopped.
+
+We should never be afraid of ideas.  Good can only be properly understood
+in the context of evil, as balance points on our intellectual fulcrum.
+I've always wondered why the notion "Lead us not into temptation" was something
+to be praised.  Rather, I think it should be "lead us INTO temptation," because
+it is only when a belief, or an idea, or a faith is most fully tested, and one
+can REFUSE temptation, rather than just avoiding it, that growth takes place.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ What do Shadows want?             (May 17, 1995 8:46:00 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:46:00 PM

+
Just for the record...it's J'Quon.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:46:01 PM

+
"Joe is storing a bit of a surprise for us among the Narn."
+
+Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm....could be.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:46:03 PM

+
Yeah, I kinda wanted the current arc in the comic to come out around this
+time; it's good for showing a flashback that ties into several parts of
+the story at once.  (One biggie is yet to come, at the end of the comic arc.)
+
+I'm currently writing a new 4-issue arc, which is designed to give all the
+backstory of a new character that will (if we're renewed) be introduced in
+the third season, all of it canon, and which weaves in and out of many of the
+major events we've seen in year two.  In theory, the first issue of that would
+hit the stands about the same time the first episode of the series is aired
+(assuming the above).
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
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Date: May 17, 1995 8:46:04 PM

+
Anything I write can be reposted anywhere else (and usually is).
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 T-Shirt/Caps Info              (March 04, 1995 2:40:24 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: March 04, 1995 2:40:24 AM

+
     A while back, in discussing merchandise, I mentioned that All-U was doing
+some *great* shirts, but that they were mainly supplying direct to
+distributers.  Because of demand, they've begun selling now directly, on
+individual orders.  How long this will last is anyone's guess, but they're
+doing it now, and I figured I'd give everybody a head's up.
+
+     They're doing short AND LONG SLEEVE t-shirts and caps.  The caps are with
+the B5 symbol embroidered.  The shirts are black, with full-color artwork
+from photographs and CGI images supplied directly by Foundation. The shirs are
+of the following kind: cast with station; station with B5 logo and the words
+"the last best hope;" station, logo and the nearby planet; and station, logo
+with a starfury flying past in foreground.
+
+     They're nicely done, without the usual thickness associated with color
+inking on black shirts.  These are authorized and approved.  When we saw
+how nifty these shirts were, we ordered boxes of them for the stage, and these
+are the same kind worn around the B5 set by cast and crew.  (They practically
+flew out the door upon arriving, by the crew in particular.) They're really
+nifty.
+
+     Apparently there are CIS rules about giving out the prices of the shirts,
+so I won't, but I will say they're very reasonably priced.  Their phone
+number is 1-800-424-2558, ext. 105.  They're a very enthusiastic bunch of guys
+who love the show, and want to do it right.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Comics #5 and #6               (May 17, 1995 8:46:05 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:46:05 PM

+
Thanks.  The 4-issue arc I'm writing is fairly large in scope; it goes to
+an area near the Rim, to Minbar, Earth, Narn, Centauri Prime, Babylon 5,
+and involves the majority of our characters, plus we learn a lot more about the
+Rangers.
+
+(Why do I seem genetically incapable of just writing a simple little
+story...?)
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ BABEARLON 5 INFO                  (May 17, 1995 8:46:07 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:46:07 PM

+
That bear, by the way, also provided our best dailies...there, on screen,
+was our EFX supervisor standing against a blue screen, a cockpit window in
+front of him, and a long pole stuck up the bear's butt, slamming it into the
+glass, over and over and over....
+
+I *live* for this sort of thing.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Big Bang                          (May 17, 1995 8:46:08 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 17, 1995 8:46:08 PM

+
The Big Bang convention is not a B5 convention, and is deliberately NOT
+sanctioned or endorsed by either Warner Bros. or Babylonian Productions.
+We've taken considerable pains to distance ourselves from it.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Notes from jms                    (May 19, 1995 1:13:19 AM)
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+
 Notes from jms                   

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 19, 1995 1:13:19 AM

+
Bits of this and that....
+
+1) Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy and I will all be appearing (in separate
+appearances, I believe) at the Creation Mega-Show in Ahaheim, CA at the
+Anaheim Convention Center the weekend of May 27-28.  I don't know which day(s)
+they'll be appearing, but I'll be there that Sunday.  For more info, call
+Creation at 818-409-0960.  Should be a big convention.
+
+(Side-note: Creation has produced some *very* nifty B5 jackets, some in
+denim, others in suede/leather, with the station embroidered on the back.)
+
+2) To parents of small children who watch B5...next week's episode,
+"Confessions and Lamentations," is a very strong, intense, uncompromising
+episode.  You *may* want to watch it first, in order to better decide if it
+should be seen by them, and what you may want to discuss later.
+
+3) To sum up various threads here...yes, Warner Bros. has decided that the
+last four episodes of this season will be aired in October, in order to
+get a running start on a (hopeful) third season in November, though there has
+as yet not been any confirmation about a third season.
+
+4) For our Irish viewers, Peter Jursasik will be blipping in for a one-day
+appearance in Dublin this weekend.  Contact Gerard Keating here on CIS for
+more info.
+
+5) A number of cast .avi files have been uploaded here; they can be
+re-uploaded to other systems, and are a great deal of fun.  You may want
+to check them out.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 19, 1995 8:01:09 PM

+
The last new ep for this month is "Confessions and Lamentations," next
+week.  Then the long wait.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 19, 1995 11:37:15 PM

+
"Are people in the 23rd century REALLY this naive?"
+
+Are people in the 20th century really this naive?
+
+Answer: Senator Joseph McCarthy.  J. Edgar Hoover.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Notes from jms                    (May 19, 1995 11:37:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 19, 1995 11:37:16 PM

+
You can probably contact Creation about the jackets at 818-409-0960.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 Notes from jms                   

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 19, 1995 11:37:18 PM

+
With luck, sometime in the coming week we'll get the formal word.  The two
+sides involved in the negotiations between PTEN stations, and Warner Bros.
+will both be back in town again, and with luck they can lock down the deal
+points remaining to be settled.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 19, 1995 11:37:19 PM

+
At this point, Warners seems to think that if 1st season eps are repeated,
+folks'll get confused by seeing a different CO.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 19, 1995 11:37:21 PM

+
I have zippo control over this.  It's strictly a PTEN decision, based
+primarily on sweeps periods and the like.  The reason they don't want to
+run new eps after May is that in June-August you have the lowest HUTs
+(Households Using Television) figures of the whole year; folks are out,
+enjoying the weather, going places, on vacation.  September puts you right up
+against the major network releases, and syndicated shows get *killed*. Year
+three would, one hope, debut in November...so that leaves October, after the
+new shows have settled down, and it's a non-sweeps period.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Sci Fi and Producers.             (March 22, 1995 2:45:03 AM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: March 22, 1995 2:45:03 AM

+
     I'm constantly amazed at the quality of work coming out of Matt Wagner.
+His MAGE continues to be one of the best graphic novels out there.  And
+while I'm quite enamored of his GRENDEL series in all theirf various
+incarnations (literally), it started as a MAGE backup, and I'd like to see him
+finish the promised sequel one of these days.
+
+     For what it's worth, in case anybody's interested, the books I'm finding
+of constant interest include just about anything from Grant Morrison, Neil
+Gaiman's SANDMAN, the FLASH has gotten really kind of interesting, all the
+ALIENS/PREDATOR stuff from Dark Horse tends to be just briliant, Steven Grant's
+X, the current SPIDERMAN clone-identity stories, Stan Sakai's USAGI YOJIMBO,
+plus BOOKS OF MAGIC, SUPERMAN, the new STARMAN has potential, and it looks like
+DC may finally have gotten LEGION OF SUPERHEROES onto a track worthy of its
+origins.
+
+(Yeah, if you haven't figured it, I've got about a $40 per week habit at
+my local comics store.)
+
+								       jms*
+
+(*vainly hoping to one day see more MIRACLEMAN titles, maybe this time
+from Alan Moore.)
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 19, 1995 11:46:04 PM

+
You're making a mistake in semantics.  First, if someone is trying to
+introduce legislation based on this anti-female POV, then that is an
+action based upon the idea, and as I've said, that is where you now draw up
+sides and try to convince the majority that this idea is wrong.
+
+More importantly, the issue at hand is the right simply to *express* or
+hold unpopular beliefs.  A free society allows all kinds of ideas.  A wise
+society chooses with care which ideas it implements.  At its best, we must be
+both free and wise.
+
+								       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 4:45:04 PM

+
Not so much the future of PTEN, no; every year they go through various and
+sundry negotiations, some more intensive than others.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Tribute to Wise Guy?              (May 20, 1995 4:45:05 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 4:45:05 PM

+
No, Wiseguy did not have any influence on writing my show.  The story arc
+was written 7 years ago, long preceding that show.
+
+Nor was Ivanova's ankle-break a tribute to anything, since it was written
+in to accommodate a real accident in which Claudia broke her foot.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 4:45:08 PM

+
The grapevine's info is wrong.  We have not yet been formally or
+officially renewed.
+
+In retrospect, the only problem with having given nods of respect to other
+works of SF is that now it seems that's the main thing people look for,
+seeing it even when it's not there.  The show was never intended to be a
+pastiche, but that's how some choose to, incorrectly, perceive it.  "Oh, this
+is a tribute to the Spock/Kirk pon farr fight."  NO it's not.  Part of the
+problem may be in the frame of reference; those with backgrounds in literature
+see parallels to Homer or MacBeth; those who primarily have an SF background
+see it all as riffs on Blake's 7 or somesuch.  It's enough to make me consider
+yanking OUT all nods and references forever down the road, to avoid people
+saying, "Oh, he's just doing X" when the simple fact is that I never SAW X in
+most cases, wasn't doing X, have no DESIRE to do X, and I thunk up this scene
+myself while sweating blood at 3 a.m.  It's kind of hard to go through that
+much pain, creating a scene, and then have someone say, "Oh, he based that
+scene on the cabbage sequence in "Mighty Mouse.""
+
+     So I'm giving some measure of thought to this whole issue.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 4:45:09 PM

+
No, the UK will shows the episodes straight through, without a break, and
+will see the last 4 eps months before they're aired in the US.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 4:45:12 PM

+
No, the Warner stores generally carry little to nothing from their series,
+including B5.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 4:45:13 PM

+
I think Creation can do mail order or phone orders via their Glendale
+office, 818 409-0960.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 10:06:25 PM

+
It's legally possible for a station to do a marathon, I just don't think
+it's likely.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 10:06:26 PM

+
Right now, there's nothing much to be done until they finish their
+negotiations.  It's in the lap of the execs....
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Thanks for the AVI's              (May 20, 1995 10:06:27 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 20, 1995 10:06:27 PM

+
A few lines were suggested by WB PR, and a bunch of others I wrote.
+
+								       jms
+
+
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+

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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 15, 1995 9:12:16 PM

+
No, the Sinclair storyline would not have been introduced the same way as
+the Sheridan story vis a vis the shadows.  That was kind of my problem as
+I got into this; how to tie him to that part without straining credulity, given
+everything ELSE he was into.
+
+Science/exploration vessels are privately funded, and go into areas of
+considerable hazard.  They arrive by piggy-backing on a larger, jump
+capable ship, with an appointment X-number of days or weeks later with another
+ship to go home.  While it's gone, it's on its own.  EA can't afford to send
+out more ships into a situation like this, where they have no real idea what's
+gone wrong, and it's a private venture, any more than the US can send out the
+Coast Guard to investigate every single ship that disappears at sea halfway
+across the globe.
+
+Re: Voyager, I feel that the characters have great potential that has not
+yet been really explored.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 21, 1995 10:17:18 PM

+
Hey!  A reasonable, thought-out message!  Stop that, you know the rules on
+that sort of thing....
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 21, 1995 10:17:23 PM

+
We don't do the sound of engines droning all the time, but we do a fair
+amount of audio mapping, very subtle stuff, most noticeable if you run it
+through a good Dolby surround sound system.  If you're running it through a
+straight TV set, you may lose a fair amount of it.
+
+The UK ratings are published somewhere, but I don't have it at hand.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 22, 1995 12:41:25 AM

+
The expensive jackets are leather, and quite nice; but they also make a
+denim version as well, which should be far less.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 22, 1995 12:52:26 AM

+
On one level, this does indicate that we really *are* crazy over here at
+B5.  Here we developed this race for nearly two years.  Developed their
+culture.  Mentioned them prominently just last episode.  Had them speak before
+the full Council (in "Long Dark").  Spent substantial amounts of money making
+them the biggest single alien group we've got (some of the group shots had
+40-50 or more Marcabs, all in full prosthetics and full costume)...and now,
+never to be seen again.
+
+It couldn't be a race we've never seen before, not if it was to have the
+impact I wanted.  It had to be a group that's been with us from the
+start.
+
+In Council scenes for the balance of the season, the Marcab seat remains
+empty.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 22, 1995 7:24:22 PM

+
There's a code imbedded inside the crystal itself, which though the camera
+doesn't pick it up, can be read fairly easily by the naked eye.  If you
+try to change the code, it requires breaking the crystal, which defeats the
+purpose.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 23, 1995 1:01:31 AM

+
Well, I *did* stop in for the Tallman CO here briefly.  And yes, the
+narration should be shorter next year.
+
+									jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 23, 1995 12:17:15 PM

+
Joe:
+
+Q:  How many PTEN Executives does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
+
+A:  Two.  One to screw it in 4/5 of the way, and the other to come along four
+months later and finish the job.
+
+man, it's going to be a loooooooong Summer . . .
+
+- Steve
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 23, 1995 8:08:21 PM

+
>>Is Babylon 5 filmed in widescreen format?
+     Yes, it is, and eventually it'll be released in that format.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 24, 1995 2:56:19 AM

+
I actually couldn't believe that episode.  I hadn't watched the show in a
+very long time, and finally set aside time to look at it...and the ship is
+menaced by the deadly cheese virus?
+ How could *anyone* pitch this with a straight face?
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 24, 1995 8:32:07 PM

+
<<Send your complaints <<re B5 schedule mess>> to:
+
+Dick Robertson, President Warner Brothers Domestic Television
+Distribution 4000 Warner Blvd.  Burbank, CA  91522 United States
+
+tel. (818) 954-5877 fax. (818) 954-5820>>
+
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 15, 1995 10:04:23 PM

+
It's not possible to be on the edge of shooting the season, and not know.
+Contractually, we have to notify the cast, for instance, by no later than
+June 10th or so, or be in breach, and that won't happen.  There's just a lot of
+details right now still being worked out between the stations and Warner Bros.
+We keep expecting final word literally day by day.  Should be soon.
+
+								       jms
+
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+

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Date: May 25, 1995 8:17:04 PM

+
"No disease in human history is 100% fatal."
+
+Not correct.  The Black Death was fatal to everyone infected by it.  It
+was not, as Drafa, 100% contagious, but it *was* about 90% contagious.
+The Black Death wiped out *three-quarters of the entire European population*.
+
+Roll that around for a while.  Three-quarters.
+
+The only thing that saved areas of Europe was that there wasn't as much
+travel then as today between countries; it was reserved for those with
+enough money to afford it, which were very few.  There were also fewer means of
+entry; a river and a bridge closed to refugees was often enough to keep people
+out.  There is now MUCH freer travel.  Had there been freer travel in the 14th
+century, it's entirely possible that the entire European population might have
+been completely eradicated, with those few who might've been immune dying from
+associated diseases, hunger and other problems caused by the presence of the
+disease.
+
+One person I spoke with at the CDC (Center for Disease Control) said that,
+hypothetically speaking, the sudden eruption of a disease like this is
+possible.  How likely depends on various circumstances.  There are, for
+instance, regions in the Amazon and South America where certain kinds of plant
+and animal life can only be found; and those specific lifeforms can transfer
+diseases to humans...diseases that literally melt the flesh off your body, or
+in another case, cause worm-like infestations to burst through the skin
+covering the entire body.  (Let me tell you, researching this was just a whole
+lotta laughs.) They are *highly* contagious.  The only thing that has (so far)
+prevented a massive outbreak is the fact that by the time you can generally get
+OUT of these remote areas...you're dead.
+
+A particularly aggressive disease could perform very much like what is
+described in the episode.
+
+								       jms
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+
It would be bad luck to release the third year title until I know for sure
+if it's been renewed.
+
+								       jms
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+

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Date: May 25, 1995 8:17:06 PM

+
Perhaps the narration for year five should just be, "RUN FOR IT!"
+
+								       jms
+
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+

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+
Stephen <<Vir>> is definitely not being written out of B5.
+
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Date: May 25, 1995 10:08:08 PM

+
>>Mira Furlan should be getting more Meryl Streep-like roles.
+     Thanks.  And Mira's terrific, I definitely agree.
+
+								       jms
+
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Date: May 26, 1995 5:37:26 PM

+
Unfortunately, no.  Baseline problem: both WB and the stations want B5
+back, but there are some outstanding, and rather substantive negotiations
+still ongoing concerning financial issues and other stuff that doesn't involve
+us directly, but affects our fate.  Those negotiations have not been completed,
+and everything is still in abeyance.
+
+								       jms
+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 26, 1995 10:55:05 PM

+
On the other hand, the new series is from Morgan & Wong, the same guys who
+made the X-Files (with Chris Carter) a great show, so there's hope.
+
+								       jms
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Date: May 29, 1995 2:20:15 AM

+
"...the fact remains that more people continue to enjoy Trek than Babylon
+5."
+
+Don't you think it's just the *teensiest* bit unfair to compare a show
+with a TWENTY SEVEN YEAR HISTORY to something that's only been on the air
+less than two seasons?  If B5 and ST came on the air at the same time, then you
+could make this comparison fairly.  ST has, over nearly three decades, become
+part of the culture; B5 doesn't have that advantage.
+
+On the whole issue of so-called "Trek bashing," part of my brain explodes
+every time I see this discussion dredged up from whatever place it rests
+in between sessions.  For 27 years, many ST fans held up that show as being the
+Ultimate in TV SF.  "Well, X is okay, but it's not as good as STAR TREK!"
+"Show Y really sucks next to Star Trek."  And so on.
+
+So now somebody says, "Well, Star Trek is okay, but it's not as good as
+BABYLON 5" and suddenly I hear a lot of whining and whinging and "Tell the
+bad mans to stop making fun of us!  That's not fair!"  Seems to me it's only
+not fair because somebody other than ST fans is saying it.  (And please don't
+tell me the former stuff didn't happen; I've been on the nets since 1984 and at
+cons/in fandom since forever, and I've seen it.)
+
+Most of the ST fans, I should point out, are quite accepting of B5; what I
+see most often is those who did the most bashing of every other show
+falling entirely to pieces because now they're at the other end of it, as
+though their show should be sacrosanct.  To whom I simply say...tough.  Deal
+with it, pink boy, it's *your* turn in the barrel, and if you don't like it,
+then maybe you shouldn't have been doing it yourself all these years.
+
+This leads to comments like those from (either Berman or) Pillar in a
+recent magazine interview, in which he stated that yes, there are lots of
+other SF shows out there, but because his show has the Star Trek name on it, he
+really doesn't have to keep up with or have any sense of competition with any
+other show, since that name gives them an automatic advantage.  That speaks to
+the heart of why many ST fans are now having a problem with that show, whose
+motto seems to be, "We're Star Trek, we don't HAVE to try harder."
+(Reminiscent of the SNL routine, "We're the phone company.  We don't care.  We
+don't have to.")  It's sheer complacency.
+
+When some ST fans berate or criticize other shows, they feel they do so
+from a perspective of quality, and thus they're automatically right; if
+another fan of another show does it to them, well, by golly, that's not
+informed criticism, it CAN'T be, because ST is the True One Light, it must be
+BASHING!  Screw that.  Any show that can't take a little criticism isn't worth
+squat in the first place.
+
+And don't even *try* the notion that B5 gets by without criticism.  I see
+*plenty* of it...a certain percentage comes from misunderstanding, a
+certain percentage just making trouble...and a great deal of it is quite
+correct.  But it's *there*, believe me, I go through it every day of the week.
+If maybe people do it a bit *less* than ST, could it possibly, just maybe, be
+because we generally do fewer stupid things and make fewer dumb mistakes?  No,
+couldn't be that...it must be blind loyalty, check your cerebral cortex at the
+door and don't question.
+
+Nope.  We try harder.  Work harder.  Because we don't have the luxury of a
+27 year franchise behind us.  The only thing we have to offer is a passion
+for quality and hard work.  We can't rely on the sure knowledge that viewers
+will come back to us every week because of our name.  We have to make every
+single episode as close to a home run as we can, because we can't afford even
+*one* foul ball.
+
+"...more people continue to enjoy Trek than Babylon 5."  Yeah, and more
+people eat at McDonald's than Chateau Marmont.  So what's your point? (And
+no, I'm *not* saying that ST = McDonalds, I'm just trying to illustrate the
+numerical fallacy in the argument you proffered.)  Numbers prove nothing in
+terms of quality per se.  If it did then BAYWATCH would be the Grail to which
+all TV should aspire.  I would remind you that more people originally watched
+LOST IN SPACE than ST when it was on the air; that LiS lasted longer than ST
+out of the gate, garnered more positive reviews than ST, and ST was generally
+considered, in newspaper and magazine articles, to be just a "cheap attempt to
+cash in on Lost in Space's popularity," and a vulgar adventure show without
+substance.  That's how it was described.
+
+Seems to me that ST fans should know their history, and understand when
+they are doing to another what was done to them.  (And most do, btw.)
+
+The *hardest* part, for me, is knowing how many ST fans ARE open minded,
+and accepting, and living out what was, frankly, Gene's concept of IDIC,
+infinite diversity in infinite combinations.  And it's the majority of them who
+are nifty, bright, open people, as opposed to a very small minority of
+whiners.  I was at a Creation Convention today, and time after time after time,
+I had people come up to me to say that they like B5, in many cases more than
+ST...and many of them said it with a glance over the shoulder, as though
+nervous that somebody was going to come over and argue with them or berate them
+about it.
+
+There's nothing unpatriotic or disloyal about criticizing ST, any more so
+than criticizing any other show.  In theory, that's how shows get better.
+Assuming the people in charge are listening.
+
+In sum...this isn't a screed or a Jeremiad against ST, or ST fans, or
+anything of that nature.  It's just that I get tired of a very few people
+who seem to apply the word "bashing" to the show they've been using to bash
+other shows, and thus dismiss any merit to the critiques by redefining it in
+terms more convenient for their own beliefs.  Here you've got this multi
+billion dollar MONOLITH that is *STAR TREK*, 27 years of history, multiple
+series, movies, zillions of merchandising items...and a few people fall apart
+and get hysterical because somebody raises his hand and says, "Err, umm, I
+kinda have a problem with something ST does."  Please.  At least we have the
+sense to laugh when we see an elephant frightened by mouse, and this situation
+is not terribly dissimilar.
+
+(And, once again, the ST criticism tends to come from ST fans who also
+watch B5; there is no such thing as a B5 fan who's never watched ST and
+goes after it.  This ain't a B5 problem, it's an ST problem.)
+
+The unfortunate part of all this is that ST fandom is generally nothing
+less than terrific; they kept a show on the air, sustained a vision, and
+have been ever faithful.  It's only a very vocal few who start vibrating into
+another dimension when the show gets pinked once in a while.  The open attitude
+that I've seen displayed by the vast majority of ST fans is to be commended,
+and complimented.
+
+								       jms
+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 29, 1995 1:31:23 AM

+
What Colin misses, obviously, is that not *all* of the markabs are
+"mindless religious fanatics," in that Dr. Lazarenn was not one, but that
+was mainly because he had long been exposed to human/outsider ideas, which most
+of his reclusive people are not.
+
+Second, y'know, I get asked a lot, "Give us ALIEN aliens."  So I do. And
+then I get gigged because they don't act like we'd expect humans to act.
+Sometimes I just throw up my hands....
+
+								       jms
+
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+

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+
Thanks.  I was hoping this one would come out okay, since it's kind of
+important that it do so, and I'm pleased that it's had the reception it
+has.
+
+								       jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 15, 1995 10:04:24 PM

+
We're *frequently* in the main corridor, or the zocalo, which both have
+the rising floorline.  So I'm not sure why you're not seeing it....
+
+								       jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 27, 1995 11:04:24 PM

+
You have to listen a little closer.  The dormancy period is several days
+to several weeks, as Franklin says; once the disease *comes out of
+dormancy*, then it kills within about a day.
+
+								       jms
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Date: May 27, 1995 11:04:25 PM

+
People of all sorts have good and bad characteristics.  To show the one,
+and then the other, is not an inconsistency.  SF has been too full of
+all-good or all-bad characters for too long.  That ain't life.
+
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Date: May 28, 1995 11:30:06 PM

+
I don't think his behavior was boorish at all.  After a very long day, in
+which (he stated) he hadn't eaten a thing, he sits down in a cross legged
+position for (if you track the time in the story) 3-5 *hours*, alternately
+eating and meditating in a small, quiet room...who *wouldn't* fall asleep?
+
+As for the "golden boy" thing...I'm forever amazed at how many folks just
+don't learn the lesson.  People saw Vir come in, decided he was a comic
+character, a fop, nothing more, and complained about it...until he started to
+show his other colors over time, and to *grow into the role*.  And people said,
+"Oh, yeah, he's kinda interesting after all, isn't he?"  YES, HE IS, YOU
+LUMMOX, GIVE THE CHARACTER AND ME SOME CREDIT HERE.  (Not speaking to you,
+Anne, this is just what goes 'round in my head when the gerbil's not spinning
+the wheel.)
+
+What's the number one rule of B5?  Nobody's what they appear.  What's the
+number two rule?  Joe is interested in *process*.  You don't start out a
+character at point A and keep that character there forever; the show is about
+change and process.  Look at Luke Skywalker.  Was he in "Jedi" the same person
+he was in "Star Wars?"  No.  He went through a growth cycle and maturity
+cycle.  Look at Frodo at the start of Lord of the Rings, and at the end.  The
+classic hero's journey starts with someone who is breathtakingly unprepared for
+what's coming, and has to develop and grow.
+
+Sheridan comes to B5 with a bit of a silver spoon in his mouth and a smile
+on his face.  And he's going to get the crap kicked out of him.  And he's
+going to grow, and mature, and become someone of importance, and great
+strength, at great cost.
+
+So sometimes I lose patience -- probably incorrectly -- with people who
+look at Sheridan and, despite seeing every other character on this show go
+through major changes -- assume that what they're seeing now is all there will
+ever be.  On another level, it's kinda wrong for me to feel this way, since
+though I know where the characters are going, nobody else does, and it's unfair
+to expect people to react to something that hasn't been shown yet.
+
+What can I say?  I'm a writer.  I'm a little nuts sometimes.
+
+								       jms
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Section: News/Scheds/Cons
Date: May 28, 1995 2:29:14 AM

+
In addition to your note, the Big Bang Con has just had an ad appear in
+the current STAR WARS INSIDER stating that I will be attending their con,
+when in fact they have known for a very long time now that this is not to be
+the case.  This advertising is 100% false.
+
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+
Never said that the great war would be over this season; the great war
+gets GOING this year.
+
+								       jms
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Date: May 27, 1995 11:05:00 PM

+
Marriages are not arranged per se, but it is generally with the consent
+and blessings of your caste-leaders, to whose authority one submits.  One
+also generally tends to marry only within one's caste (warrior, religious or
+worker).
+
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Date: May 27, 1995 11:04:26 PM

+
No, this has always been part of the ongoing negotiations ever since the
+big PTEN meeting.  As for the rest...as this has dragged on longer and
+longer, I've started to get a little nervous (but only a little), because the
+longer it goes on, the more that internal politics will start to manifest
+themselves, and that always worries me.  But there isn't much of anything that
+can be done from outside, so it's just back to wait and see.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Knives confusion                  (May 27, 1995 10:49:20 PM)
+
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+
Section: The X-Files
Date: May 27, 1995 10:49:20 PM

+
Yes, "Knives" was originally intended to be shown prior to "Shadow," but
+the heavy CGI requirements of the former caused it to be shown second. It
+doesn't affect the story much, mainly it was there to re-introduce the audience
+to certain ideas and concepts (like the Icarus) before dealing with them
+big-time in "Shadow."
+
+								       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ What do Shadows want?             (May 18, 1995 1:48:23 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 1:48:23 AM

+
G'Khamazad.
+
+And G'Quon's primary follower/co-prophet was G'Lan.
+
+Remember that name.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>             (May 18, 1995 1:48:24 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 1:48:24 AM

+
"HAVE YOU EVER ANSWERED A QUESTION STRAIGHT IN YOUR LIFE!!!"
+
+Yes and no.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Za'Ha'Dum and Mind War            (May 15, 1995 10:04:26 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 15, 1995 10:04:26 PM

+
No, Sakai was never slated to vanish into shadow-lands.  This isn't a
+case of transplanting storylines.  If things were going to be done in
+exactly the same way with either character (Sinclair/Sheridan) then there would
+be no NEED to bring in another character.  Logic.
+
+Re: the two speeches by G'Kar and Delenn...yes, they were constructed
+specifically to echo one another, because the walkers at Sigma 957 are one
+of the older races that flit through but don't really pay any attention to us
+anymore.
+
+								       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ratings                           (May 18, 1995 1:48:25 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 1:48:25 AM

+
UPN is considered a network; PTEN is not; different rating systems.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <TSOZ - Delenn)                   (May 18, 1995 1:48:26 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 1:48:26 AM

+
What I've lately been led to understand is that PTEN wants to hold the
+last 4 episodes, which I'd assumed would be in July, until *OCTOBER* in
+order to use them to get a running jump on the (not-yet-oficially-approved)
+third season.
+
+Take your reaction, multiply it by a factor of 100, and you will have
+mine.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Shadow of Za'ha'dum>             (May 18, 1995 1:53:15 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 1:53:15 AM

+
"...we have less hair...."
+
+Well, boy-howdy, I must be evolving REAAAAALLY fast....
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <In the Shadow ... >              (May 18, 1995 9:24:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 9:24:14 PM

+
Okay, let's say you identify a "bad idea," to use your phrase.
+
+Let's say racism.  You, from your POV, define racism as a bad idea. Now
+what do you do about it?  Try to eliminate the bad idea?  How?
+
+Now, that's you.  That's fine.
+
+But Bob over there, at the Four Square Baptist Church, he thinks that
+feminism is a bad idea.  What should he do about that?
+
+The problem is many-fold.  Who determines what a "bad idea" is?  Are you
+willing to let another define that for you?  Or define it yourself for
+everybody else?
+
+What our system of government does is to guarantee freedom of speech and
+ideas.  Even, and especially, the ideas we hate or disagree with.  It's
+easy to protect the ideas we like and agree with.  It's the others that need
+protection.  The day we stop defending those rights, is the day somebody else
+decides that OUR ideas are "bad ideas."
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Za'Ha'Dum and Mind War            (May 18, 1995 9:24:17 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 9:24:17 PM

+
Yes, all the .avi files can be uploaded to Genie or elsewhere.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ What do Shadows want?             (May 18, 1995 8:55:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 8:55:01 PM

+
Nope.  Insofar as I recall, I have never typed it as J'Quon.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ What do Shadows want?             (May 18, 1995 9:24:15 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 9:24:15 PM

+
Damn...apparently I did misspell it...I must REALLY be tired.
+
+It *is* G'Quon.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ What do Shadows want?             (May 18, 1995 9:24:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 9:24:16 PM

+
Ignore previous message.  I *did* misspell it in my last note. Creeping
+senility.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+71016,1644#213260 >> Umm, where *is* the bear right now...?
+
+
+ BABEARLON 5 INFO                  (May 18, 1995 9:24:19 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 18, 1995 9:24:19 PM

+
I'm not entirely sure either of us really want to know that.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+     Well, it was important in the sense that there was a lot 
+emotionally at stake for the characters; if it came off as 
+arch, or over-wrought, it would fall flat on its face.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ What Do You Want?		 (May 29, 1995 4:43:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 29, 1995 4:43:16 PM

+
      To finish this story.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Govts & Embassies                 (May 16, 1995 2:07:13 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 16, 1995 2:07:13 AM

+
Certainly there are some changes coming to the Narns, though not in any of
+the same way as the rest.  And no, G'Kar has generally gone along with his
+government.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Confessions & Lam>>>		 (May 29, 1995 4:43:15 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 29, 1995 4:43:15 PM

+
     The last 4 episodes of this season are being held by 
+PTEN until October, in theory to  lead into the year three 
+(not yet approved) debut in November.  I think I finally 
+sussed out why this is being done; I heard the other day 
+that Voyager is doing the same thing.  So that means PTEN 
+is counter programming it.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Minbari Family Structure		 (May 29, 1995 4:43:13 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 29, 1995 4:43:13 PM

+
     No, what usually happens is that you sense a calling one 
+way or another early on; you are assigned to (for lack of a 
+better term) a teacher, who guides you and sees if your 
+calling is sincere (the teacher is from the caste you feel called 
+toward), and if the calling is true, you can enter that caste.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ RoB5: Bashing...			 (May 29, 1995 4:43:20 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 29, 1995 4:43:20 PM

+
     I disagree strenuously with the notion that the universe as 
+presented in the current ST series is a "brighter vision of the future."  
+It looks to me like humans have left behind everything that makes us 
+humans.  We've been bioengineered to within an inch of our lives. 
+ There seems to be no interest at all in what happens back home on Earth
+.politics, changes in culture, fashion, new music.  One's job description 
+seems to be the end-all and be-all of his or her life.  "Recreation" is 
+always the sedate card playing type, the nightmare dinner party of the 
+1950s, or living out a fantasy world in the holodeck because there's 
+nothing much in the real world.
+     Passions and spikes in our humanity have all been hammered down and 
+eliminated.  Remember "Invasion of the Body Snatchers?"  That, to me, 
+is the Star Trek future...set aside your passions, do all for the 
+collective good, it's a better world that way.  Maybe you 
+call that perfection; me, I call it a nightmare.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ RoB5: Bashing...			 (May 29, 1995 10:27:19 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 29, 1995 10:27:19 PM

+
     Of course he is, and of course he does.  Some folks think the only way 
+to get a reaction is to behave in a way that makes people angry.  Me, I 
+kinda think that's juvenile, but hey, what do I know?
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <<Confessions & Lam>>		 (May 29, 1995 10:27:18 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 29, 1995 10:27:18 PM

+
     There's another Lincoln quote that you don't hear very often, 
+I think it was about a book or play, which I think is great...
+"If you like that sort of thing, it's the sort of thing you'll like."  
+That line has gotten me out of more diplomatic situations than 
+anything else I can think of.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Narns on CNN                      (May 31, 1995 3:04:04 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 31, 1995 3:04:04 AM

+
     Actually, that is a piece relating to one of the shows for 
+later in the year.  But hey, we'll take it....
+ 
+                                                           jms
+ 
+ 
+

+
+
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+
+ <C&L and Cynicism>                (May 30, 1995 11:50:20 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 30, 1995 11:50:20 PM

+
     I dunno...I've seen much the same thing.  I think, on some 
+level, it comes from the top. Seems like every time a politician 
+appears on the horizon, propped up as the latest Knight In Shining 
+Armor, sooner or later we discover that the armor is empty and the 
+knight is off somewhere boffing the innkeeper's underage daughter.  
+Maybe we have too many politicians and not enough leaders.
+ 
+     Such cynicism can also be self-reflective, though.  We're 
+still reeling from the hangover of the Me-Generation.  Self-
+sacrifice, altruism, these have become "stooge" values, snickered 
+at, derided..."You WHAT?  You turned in the wallet you found?  
+What're you, brain-dead?"
+ 
+     Someone made an interesting observation lately, that the WW II 
+generation raised their families with the notion that their kids were 
+the most important things in the world.  The kids grew up and, well, 
+kinda believed this, and became the center of the world, with *their* 
+kids all too often afterthoughts or part of a process to make *their* 
+life richer, where it is convenient for them.  I don't think that's a 
+wide-reaching generality, but I think it's true in enough cases that 
+it merits consideration.
+ 
+     Nobody trusts anybody anymore.  We all assume the other guy's 
+working an angle somewhere.  And here, I think, the perception is 
+inaccurate, because there *are* plenty of people out there working for 
+the greater good of the commonweal; it's just that when the evening 
+news rolls around, it's the crooks and the conmen and the latest 
+Capital Hill scandal that gets the attention.  I dunno...it's a 
+conundrum, to be sure.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+ 
+

+
+
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+  C&L Date                         (May 30, 1995 11:50:16 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 30, 1995 11:50:16 PM

+
     Yeah, you're right, it probably is in October; I was going off 
+a mental countdown, just approximating.  The last 4 take place 
+between late October and mid-December, 2259.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+
+ <TSOZ - Delenn)                   (May 16, 1995 2:07:14 AM)
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 <TSOZ - Delenn)                  

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 16, 1995 2:07:14 AM

+
>>Along these lines, is there any chance we might see -- on the nets or in a
+magaizine -- a >>story on the creation of a random episode, beginning from when
+the script is written to air >>date (including pre-production, filming, and
+post-production)?
+
+If any magazine ever wants to write that article, we're up for it, but so
+far, no one's approached us on it.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Hey!  New episodes!		 (June 01, 1995 12:41:26 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 01, 1995 12:41:26 AM

+
     I imagine they're <<UK Stations>> getting masters sent
+directly to them.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Conventions (the making		 (June 03, 1995 3:38:24 AM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 03, 1995 3:38:24 AM

+
     Assuming we're renewed (we hope to finally hear next week), 
+there are plans afoot to unveil an official in-house fan club 
+operation here at B5, which would handle some convention liaison 
+stuff for other conventions, and would eventually lead to a proper 
+B5 convention which we would put together using the very same 
+folks who make the show.  Since there's the benefit of PR, we 
+wouldn't so much be looking to make a profit as just breaking 
+even and, most important, having a good time...so the sense of 
+it would be closer to a fan-run convention in tone.
+
+     But be assured, that's at *least* a year down the road.  
+Maybe more.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 17, 1995 6:07:23 PM

+
      Which is all fine, except...who said that Earth was 
+going to end up fighting the Shadows?
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+ From JMS: B5 Renewed		 (June 17, 1995 6:07:22 PM)
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 From JMS: B5 Renewed		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 17, 1995 6:07:22 PM

+
+<Congratulations!  All of us in the Star Trek graphics 
+department are excited that we'll get to enjoy another year of B5.
+
+Your renewal is good news not only for those of us who are B5 
+fans, but also for television science fiction in general.
+
+-Mike Okuda>
+
+      Thanks, Mike.  You (and the whole graphics department there) 
+have always been a class act.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Claudia/Takishima		 (June 17, 1995 6:07:21 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 17, 1995 6:07:21 PM

+
     Sinclair was in his late thirties or thereabouts.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 vs Simpsons			 (June 17, 1995 6:07:20 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 17, 1995 6:07:20 PM

+
     The Simpsons is *amazingly* well written.  I love the show.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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+ <TCoS> Ducks			 (June 18, 1995 12:22:31 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 12:22:31 AM

+
 <In the teaser for "The Coming Of Shadows", where G'Kar is 
+trying to pursuade Sheridan not to allow the Centari Emperor on 
+board B5, there is a display case behind Sheridan's 
+desk. One of the items in the display case looks like a duck's 
+head on a stand. What is it really?>
+     
+I think it's a puzzle, but until I can check the tape, I can't be 
+100% sure.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 VIDEOS (UK)			 (June 18, 1995 11:01:12 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 11:01:12 PM

+
     "...because they realized that (the videos) are only
+in stereo..."
+
+     Nope.  The master tapes are in full Dolby surround.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 6:29:22 PM

+
     Bear in mind that that "top ten" includes mainly game shows, 
+talk shows and the like; only two of them, DS9 and Baywatch, are 
+dramatic series.  In ratings you generally isolate the dramatic 
+series from the rest, and in that ranking we range between the #4 
+and #6 dramatic series in syndication.
+
+     The main problem is lack of public awareness.  Most people 
+don't know we exist.  Those who hear the name assume we're a Trek 
+show.  Roughly 55% of those who hear about the show and sample it 
+once, stay with it thereafter. The usual figure is closer to 30%.  
+It's just a matter of getting that word out.  Mostly it's word of 
+mouth.  At some point, we'll hit critical mass in the ratings; I 
+just don't know when that'll happen.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 19, 1995 2:28:06 AM

+
<Thanks for the response. I just hate to see a good show like 
+this underexposed.> 
+    Yeah, well, that goes for both of us.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 6:29:19 PM

+
     It would get rather redundent and boring after a while if 
+the same war continued for three seasons, would it not?
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 6:14:13 PM

+
     B5 need not bring in huge ratings for some at Paramount to 
+view us as a threat; in point of fact they've treated us that way 
+from day one.  The ratings overall and support for DS9 are very 
+soft.  They can't afford to lose anyone.  But they're aware that
+many DS9 fans have tuned out to begin watching B5 because, well, 
+things *happen* in this show.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
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+ UK B5: Break in series		 (June 03, 1995 3:24:25 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 03, 1995 3:24:25 AM

+
     Yeah, I get confused sometimes.  Here's why:
+
+     At any given point, while we're doing the show, 
+I'm working on thefollowing episodes *SIMULTANEOUSLY*:
+
+       I'm writing show #1
+       I'm getting the director a copy of script #2
+       We're prepping script #3 for principal photography
+       We're shooting script #4
+       The director is editing episode #5
+       John Copeland and I are doing the producer's cut of 
+       episode #6
+       We're doing the music/sound EFX spotting of 
+       episode #7
+       Visual EFX/composite shots are coming in on 
+       episode #8
+       We're doing the final audio mix of episode #9
+       We're delivering episode #10 to Warner Bros. 
+       for closed captioning.
+
+     In the course of any given day, I run from one of 
+these to the other,to the other, to the other.  After 
+a while, EVERYTHING blurs.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 11:06:06 PM

+
<A question, unrelated: Did Sinclair ever marry Catherine?
+(And who came up with the proposal, you? It was so in-character 
+it was absolutely perfect!)>
+     No, he pushed back marrying Sakai when he was reassigned.
+
+     And yes, the proposal was mine.  If my name is on the script, 
+every word of it was written by me.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 11:06:07 PM

+
     Last I heard, I'd been scheduled for two big presenations,
+<at ComicCon> that Saturday and Sunday.  There will be one separate 
+presentation for Michael, possibly two, and a panel or two with 
+both of us, plus a panel with me, Michael and Peter David.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 11:01:11 PM

+
     "We crave ACTION."
+
+     And you shall have it.  In abundance.
+
+                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 6:29:17 PM

+
<While you're passing out tidbits of info on Delenn, can you 
+tell us how the obvious romantic relationship she has with 
+Sheridan is going to be handled?> 
+
+     How will it be handled?  With discretion and dignity and 
+grace of course.  Problem is, this isn't the sort of thing that 
+collapses easily into a few-line message.  It'll have to come out 
+organically, during the show.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 6:29:20 PM

+
     They didn't cancel the tapes, as much as, we discovered, 
+never had the plans in the first place.
+
+     We are, frankly, astonished.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 20, 1995 2:45:03 AM

+
<Therefore, wouldn't it make sense for the Vorlons, whatever 
+Rangers have gathered, maybe the Narn (whatever's left - it 
+would've been better if they attacked before the war started) 
+and Delenn's friends in the Mimbari (there's got to be some) t
+o pound the heck out of the Shadows now, before they're ready?  
+If someone blew up Z'Hadum, it seems that would deal a serious 
+blow to the Shadows' plans.>
+     The forces you describe are not sufficient to take out the 
+shadows, even at this stage.  It's going to take a much larger 
+force, which is what Delenn et al are trying to gather.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 19, 1995 10:11:03 PM

+
     I think you've confused several things.  We're talking 
+about the events in "Parliament of Dreams" in which a ritual 
+she goes through with a bunch of other Minbari is referred to as 
+a) a rebirth ceremony, which sometimes doubles as a b) marriage 
+ceremony.  It was a rebirth ceremony in this case, presaging 
+"Chrysalis."
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 19, 1995 10:11:01 PM

+
     I've worked out a rough chronology for the Narn evolution, 
+but nothing nearly concrete enough to want to put out here.  
+Once I've had the chance to think about it a bit more....
+
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 19, 1995 10:11:00 PM

+
 <>> "We crave ACTION."
+ >
+ >  And you shall have it.  In abundance.
+
+     Always giving the audience what it wants, eh, Mr. Dark? <g>>
+
+      The moral lesson in the quote being...be careful what 
+you ask for.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 19, 1995 10:11:31 PM

+
     That's what's negotiated, but an actor may often be used in 
+fewer eps, as was the case with Na'Toth.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 03, 1995 3:14:18 AM

+
     No Wesley Crusher types.  Ever.  It's always a dumb idea.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: June 21, 1995 3:28:09 AM

+
     Correction: the first seasons of TNG were not done 
+cheaply; the budgets set aside were greater than for any 
+other previous syndicated series, and were equal to or 
+greater than most network shows.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 20, 1995 10:41:20 PM

+
<Since we haven't seen much of this "gathering" so far, 
+are we going to see it next season?>
+
+     That will be part of the next season, yes.
+
+                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 22, 1995 12:54:20 AM

+
     Argh, unfortunately the disk is in storage, and I don't 
+have the number at hand.  You may want to try the Lasercraze 
+laserdisk sales service here on CIS; they may have it.
+
+     I've heard something very interesting about the UK 
+airing for the final four eps (year three beyond has been 
+renewed there).  I hope to have something very positive to say 
+shortly.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 23, 1995 1:28:29 AM

+
     That's good to hear.  Last I'd heard was the possibility 
+that Ch4 might air all four remaining year two eps *the same 
+night* on July 25th, in kind of a B5 marathon.  Good in 
+one sense, though if you miss that night, you miss it all.  
+Here, spreading it out as usual, is probably better.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 22, 1995 3:20:26 PM

+
< >>  (year three beyond has been renewed there) <<
+
+ Year three beyond?  Do you mean year three _and_ beyond?!>
+
+    No, just year three; awkward syntax on my part.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Effect of story idea		 (June 22, 1995 3:20:25 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 22, 1995 3:20:25 PM

+
<The Sysops have posted again the warning about story ideas not 
+being brought up in the forum, along with the reasoning.  They 
+used as an example a storyline about a person who had been mind-
+wiped and then recovered his memory which you were (supposedly) 
+developing but tossed after it appeared in this forum.  I was just 
+curious: was that a "B" story, or did you have to make changes 
+in the arc to accomodate the loss of the story? Please tell us 
+what you can.>
+
+     It was always intended as a B-story, mainly a character story 
+about the person who was affected, and how that would affect our 
+main charactes when they found out about it (it's someone they would 
+have known for a bit).
+
+                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 World				 (June 23, 1995 9:41:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 23, 1995 9:41:15 PM

+
     Remember that the Io mission <in GROPOS> was just a cover, 
+a red herring, for the actual mission.  So there really *was* no need.
+  As for B5 background, there are some lurker's guides out there 
+that have more info than anyone could ever want.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Laser import			 (June 23, 1995 9:41:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 23, 1995 9:41:13 PM

+
<Are there any arc-bending episodes at the end of Season 2?
+(I'm not asking what they are, just *if* there are.)>
+
+     Yes.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+ Drazi Question			 (June 25, 1995 3:25:03 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 25, 1995 3:25:03 AM

+
<Are all the Drazi male?>
+
+     Actually, Drazi are asexual, carrying the attributes of 
+both, with their basic appearance reading to us like males.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Top Five List			 (June 25, 1995 1:14:25 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 25, 1995 1:14:25 AM

+
     It's really sad, but...see, on the one hand, I like filet 
+mignon, and occasionally lobster, and all the other hoity-toity 
+foods you're supposed to like and eat when you're a TeeVee 
+producer, but see...I hate even to admit this in public, but...
+I actually kinda *like* McDonald's burgers.  I don't know why, 
+but there it is.  I usually end up ducking into one 
+when I'm by myself, because the explanations...well, you see my 
+problem.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Merchandise			 (June 03, 1995 3:14:17 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 03, 1995 3:14:17 AM

+
     Actually, that mug is available now from Creation 
+Entertainment; I saw bunches of 'em at the Anaheim Convention 
+they did.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 World				 (June 24, 1995 5:08:10 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 24, 1995 5:08:10 PM

+
     You can order <The Soundtrack CD> direct from Sonic Images, 
+via information here on the B5 library.  Pegasus Publishing also 
+does some CD ordering.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ From jms re: Harlan CD		 (June 25, 1995 9:10:31 PM)
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 From jms re: Harlan CD		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 25, 1995 9:10:31 PM

+
     For those interested, Harlan Ellison has a new recording out 
+via the Harlan Ellison Record Collection, cost $16.50 & $2 
+postage/handling for the general public, $15 & $2 for members of 
+HERC (the Harlan Ellison Record Collection, which for a paltry $8 
+per year you get a newsletter, updates on what's available, access 
+to his books and prior recordings).
+
+     The new CD is his performance/reading of "Paladin of the Lost 
+Hour," which many of you may remember from its adaptation into 
+an episode of "The Twilight Zone."  It's a *terrific* reading, 
+very dynamic, and if you've never heard Harlan read one of his stories, 
+you're missing a lot.  (One prior recording was nominated for a 
+Grammy.)
+
+     Checks or money orders can be sent to: The Harlan Ellison 
+Record Collection, P. O. Box 55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ G'Quan's sex			 (June 25, 1995 9:10:28 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 25, 1995 9:10:28 PM

+
     G'Quon was a male.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 26, 1995 1:46:11 AM

+
     We've had fast food on B5, including pizzas.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Spirituality and Delenn		 (June 25, 1995 11:10:27 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 25, 1995 11:10:27 PM

+
<I heard a quotation that made me think of Delenn, and of her experience in
+Confessions and Lamentations.  I believe that this was from the Gospel of
+Phillip:  "Spritual knowledge springs from an awareness of our own capacity
+for evil."  Does it seem to you that this is meaningful?>
+
+     Not bad....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 5: Hard SF & B5		 (June 26, 1995 10:46:05 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 26, 1995 10:46:05 PM

+
     Then please explain to me why it was that, when the 
+Pioneer space probe passed the speed of sound while in 
+space, the monitoring station at JPL registered a shock 
+wave -- a sonic boom -- across its bow?
+
+     Also, fuel of any kind that exerts propulsion, 
+spewing forth substance to push it forward, puts forth 
+a medium behind it capable of carrying sound. When some 
+satellites have been launched from the shuttle, 
+the crew have heard or felt the engine thrust.
+
+     Further, a ship carries atmosphere within it.  If that 
+ship explodes, the sound will be audible within the curtain 
+of the expanding atmospheric bubble created by the rupturing 
+of the hull.
+
+     The idea of *no* sound at all in space is one of the
+great shibboleths of SF.  But in talking to many leading 
+space scientists, including some at the High Altitude 
+Observatory, and none other than Freeman Dyson, who currently 
+occupies Einstein's chair...ain't necessarily true.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ From jms re: Harlan CD		 (June 26, 1995 10:38:12 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 26, 1995 10:38:12 PM

+
     Insofar as I know, no, none of the TZ2 or 3
+<Twilight Zone> tapes are being sold.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ From jms re: Harlan CD		 (June 26, 1995 10:38:09 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 26, 1995 10:38:09 PM

+
     Actually, yes, Harlan does sing, and sing quite well; 
+there's a bit of it on one of his LPs.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Kosh & Delenn			 (June 26, 1995 10:38:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 26, 1995 10:38:10 PM

+
<When we do finally see Kosh, will we then understand why 
+Delenn felt she needed to see him before she underwent her 
+transformation?>
+  
+     Probably.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ From jms re: Harlan CD		 (June 27, 1995 9:47:05 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 27, 1995 9:47:05 PM

+
<Is he going to write that Demon w/ Glass Hand follow up 
+that you mentioned briefly at San Diego last year??>
+
+     In the fullness of time....
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Books by JMS?			 (June 03, 1995 3:14:16 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 03, 1995 3:14:16 AM

+
     I'm almost finished with the revisions on the writing book; 
+it's been hell because it's a total rewrite from stem to stern,
+and I'm adding about 200 pages of new material on top of 
+correcting all the info that is now out of date.  It's a big 
+honking piece of work on top of doing the show, but it's almost 
+done.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Games				 (June 27, 1995 9:47:06 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 27, 1995 9:47:06 PM

+
     No computer games available at present.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Trying to Find JMS		 (June 27, 1995 9:52:06 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 27, 1995 9:52:06 PM

+
<How does Kosh's susceptibility to poison rule out his being 
+an energy life-form?Were we ever told the nature of the poison?>
+
+
+     The pilot movie showed the poison being analyzed; the 
+line on the monitor read "Analyzing crystalline structure."
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Chicago ComiCon Question		 (June 27, 1995 9:52:07 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 27, 1995 9:52:07 PM

+
     Last I heard, I'll be doing presentations both Saturday 
+and Sunday.  If this stays true, your best bet is to come to 
+the one on Sunday if you can only do one or the other.  If 
+possible, try to verify this with someone as far as the two 
+presentations are concerned.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ JMS ComicCon Schedule		 (June 28, 1995 1:24:18 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 28, 1995 1:24:18 AM

+
     For those in the vicinity, I'll be putting in an 
+appearance this weekend at the Chicago ComicCon, Rosemont 
+Convention Center, Rosemont IL. Here's the schedule:
+
+     FRIDAY
+
+     3:00 A jms appearance with bloopers and other clips.
+
+     4:00 Michael O'Hare leads an acting seminar.
+
+     SATURDAY
+
+     11:00 a.m.  Q&A with Michael O'Hare
+
+     1:30-3:00   A special jms presentation.  *Be there*
+
+     4:00  A jms writing for TV seminar.
+
+     8 or 9ish p.m.  A casual B5 reception with jms, 
+     Michael O'Hare and Peter David.
+
+     SUNDAY
+
+     1-2 p.m. B5 panel with jms, Michael O'Hare and 
+     Peter David.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ From jms re: Harlan CD		 (June 28, 1995 11:54:30 PM)
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+
 From jms re: Harlan CD		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 28, 1995 11:54:30 PM

+
     Dream Corridor is a great comic, I recommend it heartily.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+ Stims & Dr. Franklin		 (June 28, 1995 11:54:31 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 28, 1995 11:54:31 PM

+
<I was wondering if Dr. Franklin's tendency to misuse the "stims" 
+when he gets swamped in med-lab indicates that they're addictive 
+-- and is this possibly going to be a problem for him when he 
+goofs due to diminished capacity under the influence, so to 
+speak?>
+     
+      We'll see....
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Games				 (June 28, 1995 11:54:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 28, 1995 11:54:01 PM

+
     There will be a screen saver from Sound Source later 
+this year.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Big Bang Convention		 (June 29, 1995 12:38:14 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 29, 1995 12:38:14 AM

+
     I heard today that, as well as a previous check to one of 
+the cast members attending having bounced, a *second* check to 
+one of the major actors has bounced.  These guys are amazing....
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+
+ Years?				 (June 03, 1995 9:08:20 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 03, 1995 9:08:20 PM

+
     They would of course be speaking in Minbari terms.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ UK B5: Break in series		 (June 03, 1995 9:08:22 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 03, 1995 9:08:22 PM

+
     It ain't easy.  You basically have to keep all the scenes 
+and all the stories sort of "uploaded" into your head at all 
+times, and just jump from one to the other.  It's kinda like 
+balancing 10 spinning plates on sticks.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Books by JMS?			 (June 03, 1995 9:08:19 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 03, 1995 9:08:19 PM

+
     My two novels and my anthology are currently out of print; 
+have also had short stories in Amazing, Pulphouse, Shadows 6 
+and the like.  The book I'm trying to finish is the update to 
+my scriptwriting book from Writer's Digest.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
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+

+
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+ New Big Bang Newletter		 (June 04, 1995 7:15:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 04, 1995 7:15:22 PM

+
     I quote your message <<From another poster>> *verbatim*, 
+word for word:
+
+
+"I spoke with one of the CMC Organizers today (Harold) and he 
+said the reason Walter Koenig hadn't received his check was 
+that he changed his address and didn't notify CMC of the change.  
+They FedEx'd his check to him and got it back as undeliverable 
+because the address was no longer valid.  Since FedEx doesn't 
+get address forwarding information like the Post Office does, 
+they could only return it to CMC.  CMC now has received Walter's 
+new address and the check has gone out (he may even have it now)."
+
+     The only problem with your message is that it isn't true.  
+Walter has never changed his address.  What happened (I just 
+verified this on the phone with Walter about, oh, 3 minutes 
+ago) was that the deadline for his check passed.  He called CMC.  
+They said it had gone out.  It didn't arrive.  He called again.  
+They said there was some kind of mistake, and they'd send it again.  
+Again, no check.  Finally, Walter insisted that if the check did 
+not arrive by Wednesday, he would have to withdraw from the 
+convention, and to send the check directly to his home.  Now, 
+finally, under threat, the check arrived.
+
+     To say that he changed his address is completely untrue.  
+To say he didn't notify CMC of a change that didn't happen is a 
+shameless and transparent fabrication.  From reports I've heard, 
+CMC has a habit of playing "the check's in the mail" with people.  
+Lying doesn't help.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
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+ UK B5: Break in series		 (June 04, 1995 7:15:18 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 04, 1995 7:15:18 PM

+
     It varies.  Internet alone takes up to 3 hours a day, because 
+of the nature of my newsreader, and the sheer volume of messages to 
+wade through (I think you get 200-400 per day just there alone).  
+CIS is a little faster, thanks to a) Tapcis and b) a smaller volume 
+of messages.  Ditto for GEnie. Basically, if you added it all up, 
+it would come out to about 2-3 8 hour work days per week.
+
+     I don't actually find the time, I *make* the time, usually 
+trying to slog through it all between midnight and 4 a.m. on 
+weekdays, afternoons on the weekends, and the like.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Sounds in space			 (May 31, 1995 9:22:12 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: May 31, 1995 9:22:12 PM

+
     In talking to a number of scientists and physicists 
+about sound in space, they came back with the realization 
+that the area isn't as black and white as first thought.  
+(Did you know that when the Pioneer probe broke the speed 
+of sound in space, it registered a shock wave across its 
+bow, a sonic boom that was monitored by JPL?  I didn't.)
+
+     As for making the starfield rotate...because of the 
+size of the window in C&C, the starfield outside is about 
+60 feet by 30 feet.  You cannot rotate something that size.  
+If you put a smaller field nearer the window, it's visible 
+for what it is.  We've gone over this, believe me.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 Trading Cards			 (June 04, 1995 7:15:16 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 04, 1995 7:15:16 PM

+
     The cards should be out from Fleer sometime around September.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Talia Leaving B5?		 (June 04, 1995 7:15:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 04, 1995 7:15:15 PM

+
     Just for purposes of clarity, what I said in my note was in 
+response to a message alledging that Warners had influenced us to 
+drop the Talia character, at which point I noted that this had never, 
+ever happened, and that they were, if anything, only vaguely aware of 
+the character in any event.  There have never been any discussions of 
+ANY kind about Talia with Warners.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+ Talia Leaving B5?		 (June 05, 1995 2:25:05 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 05, 1995 2:25:05 AM

+
     "...you don't have anything up your sleeve, by any chance?"
+
+     Constantly.
+
+     If I didn't, it wouldn't be Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 Merchandise			 (June 05, 1995 10:02:24 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 05, 1995 10:02:24 PM

+
     EA = Earth Alliance, the government.  EF = Earthforce, the main line of defense for the
+Earth Alliance.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 07, 1995 10:40:27 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 07, 1995 10:40:27 PM

+
     That's probably one of the best analyses I've seen on the 
+progress and history of the show(s).  As Dupa says, you may want 
+to consider posting this over on ST, though I'd maybe re-emphasize 
+that this *isn't* a flame (it obviously isn't that in context, but 
+it never hurts to reinforce it for those who just skim).  Certainly 
+it should lead to some interesting discussions, as long as it 
+doesn't turn into a "yeah, well MY show is better and yours 
+SUCKS" fest, at which point it's better left to die of its own 
+weight.
+
+     Certainly Paramount has gone out of its way to make life for 
+us difficult.  Getting Stephen Furst bounced off the Arsenio show 
+back when it was still around because they didn't want to promote 
+B5; making sure that Entertainment Tonight mentions it as rarely 
+as possible; naming their new PI show "Babylon," presumably to
+confuse the marketplace even further (suffice to say we encouraged 
+them to rename it, and that's been done); word that has come to us 
+from stations that program mangers were told that if they wanted 
+Voyager they had to drop B5...there are more examples.  But that's 
+what Paramount does.
+
+     But we're like Rasputin.  Shoot us, poison, stab us, drown us, 
+hang us...we just keep going.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Final four episodes		 (June 07, 1995 10:18:16 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 07, 1995 10:18:16 PM

+
     Not really.  Because even though we still haven't gotten final 
+word yet, you can't wait until that comes to start writing scripts.  
+You have to get some in the pipeline ahead of time, or you're screwed 
+when it comes time to shoot.  We like to have 6 or so scripts on hand
+the day we start rolling film.  So even though I haven't known what 
+the final disposition is, I've had to keep writing, which is sometimes 
+hard because you don't know what the deal is yet.  But at least I get 
+to make my own hours a bit more.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+ From JMS: B5 Renewed		 (June 09, 1995 2:16:00 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 09, 1995 2:16:00 AM

+
     To confirm word already leaking out via John Copeland on 
+AOL...yes, we received word that BABYLON 5 has been renewed for 
+its third season.  I got the call this evening, and have spent 
+the time in-between doing Producer Stuff, and taking care of a 
+small bug that hit last night, and has thus taken a bit of the 
+edge off the news.
+
+     Nonetheless...we've been renewed.  Shooting on year three 
+will begin around July 31st. This season will put us past the 
+halfway mark on the series total.  Expect Big Things and 
+some major changes not just in characters, but the structure of 
+the B5 universe itself.
+
+     And now...to work.  With thanks to all of our friends on the
+ nets who have stood beside us through the last two years.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Books by JMS?			 (June 09, 1995 2:26:17 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 09, 1995 2:26:17 AM

+
     The next novel wouldn't be out until after I finished 
+the B5 story.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
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+ The Gathering - Cast		 (June 08, 1995 6:15:02 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 08, 1995 6:15:02 PM

+
     While I'll let the other question slide for the moment, 
+yes, I'd like to see either Sakai or Takashima again.  Some of 
+what I'd considered for Takashima I recently transplanted into 
+more fertile ground (he said vaguely and mysteriously), but yes, 
+I'd love to do it sometime.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 09, 1995 2:26:18 AM

+
     Some of this, re: Lyta, will be answered this season.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Was that the Sandman?		 (June 02, 1995 1:44:04 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 02, 1995 1:44:04 AM

+
     No, just an alien breathing device.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 08, 1995 6:15:00 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 08, 1995 6:15:00 PM

+
     You have to step back and look at this from Paramount's 
+perspective. For 27 years, they've had a lock on space-based SF.  
+A monopoly.  They could point to all the other space-SF series 
+which went by the boards quickly, and say, "See, we've lasted, so we 
+MUST be better."
+
+     If even ONE other show in this genre not only lasts, but 
+*succeeds*, then ST isn't the Only One anymore; it's just one of 
+two, or three, or more shows set in this genre.  It isn't 
+unique (fiscally) anymore, and thus they are afraid they'll lose 
+some of its marketability, the franchise will weaken.  If you wanted 
+something from our future, in space, then for 27 years you had only 
+one place to go: Trek.
+
+     They're *terrified* of losing or softening their franchise.  
+They're aware that support for DS9 is, in general, fairly soft;
+ Voyager is still getting its sea legs, and they don't want 
+anyone else coming up alongside and blindsiding them.
+
+     For our part, we have never responded in kind.  When we 
+formed the B5 softball team, playing other shows, we happily 
+told the folks at ST that we'd love to play them sometime.  
+Thus far, no response.  Can't imagine why.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 08, 1995 6:15:04 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 08, 1995 6:15:04 PM

+
     Re: imitation is a form of flattery...Fred Allen, I believe, 
+came up with a great line, "Imitation is the sincerest form of 
+television."
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 08, 1995 6:15:06 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 08, 1995 6:15:06 PM

+
    RE: SF and ST and the like...actually, there is some 
+differentiation there to be found.  From the reports, and 
+demographics, and research that has passed over my desk 
+(most of which I try to ignore), it seems as though there's 
+a distinction: about 60% of avid ST viewers are also SF fans, 
+however nominally, in that they watch other SF shows (mostly) 
+or read SF novels/stories (fewer still).  About 40% or so 
+don't read or watch other SF; they're *specifically* ST fans.
+
+     Which is why one should always be careful making the 
+automatic assumption that if one likes ST, then one is an SF 
+fan, and thus should give B5 a chance.  There is not always a 
+corrolation.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 09, 1995 2:37:11 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 09, 1995 2:37:11 AM

+
     Here's the funny thing...every, oh, six-nine months or so, 
+I get phone interviews from major magazines asking, "So, to what 
+do you attribute this sudden boom in science fiction?"
+
+     Each time, I tell them the same thing: "There AIN'T no boom, 
+nor is there anything to attribute it to.  You've got 35 network 
+dramas on; that's business as usual.  You've got 5 SF shows, that's 
+a *boom*?  Further, most of the shows fall by the wayside fairly 
+quickly, and in a few months you'll be doing articles about "Why 
+won't SF work on TV?" and calling me on that one."
+
+     Not one magazine or newspaper has ever printed that part of 
+the interview.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 10, 1995 12:56:00 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 12:56:00 AM

+
     The similarities have receded as both shows have gone off in
+different directions.
+
+     What was given to Paramount: the B5 bible, artwork, 20+ sample
+stories, the pilot screenplay and other material.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 vs. ST			 (June 10, 1995 12:50:07 AM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: June 10, 1995 12:50:07 AM

+
     "Paramount HAS increased the avenue of approach for more
+SF/fantasy by CREATING the market with TNG."
+
+     The only thing wrong with this statement is that it isn't true.
+
+     ST creates a market for more ST, nothing else.  As one who has
+had to speak with just about every network and studio major domo
+on this subject, the overwhelming concensus has always been, "The
+market isn't big enough to sustain more than one SF series, and
+that's Star Trek."  From time to time, grudgingly, one or the other
+tries it, but almost always half-heartedly.
+
+     I heard that line scores of times in the process of trying to
+sell B5, which is one major reason why it took 5 years to sell it.
+If what you say were true, then there should have been dozens of SF
+space series by now. But there aren't.  There's only us, and we had
+to work hard to overcome the ST-Is-The-Only-Marketable-SF problem,
+combined with Paramount's little games (making sure we're relatively
+invisible to Entertainment Tonight, getting Stephen Furst kicked off
+a guest-shot on the old Arsenio show to avoid promoting B5, and other
+little tricks I could go into).
+
+     None of which is to say that ST is bad, or that the people who
+make ST are bad, this is Paramount stuff.
+
+     But we had to fight hard to overcome the stumbling blocks put in
+our way that are part and parcel of ST, so you will forgive it if the
+hairs on my neck stand up when someone CREDITS the development of
+shows like B5 to ST.  It is absolutely, positively not true.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 vs. ST			 (June 10, 1995 2:53:13 AM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: June 10, 1995 2:53:13 AM

+
     Yes, it is difficult selling anything new to television.
+But you do not usually hear, "We've got one hospital show on the
+air now, that means you can't sell any others because the market's
+full."  Yet that has been the case with ST for years.
+
+     What will cause *more* SF shows to come is, well, more SF
+shows that succeed.  Up until now, ST has been viewed (using the
+industry term) as a "non-repeating phenomenon."  And if you step
+back and look at it from a network POV, they're quite correct.
+Very, VERY few science fiction series have ever made it past the
+second or third year.  But you can point to many mainstream shows
+that have gone five, eight, twelve, even fifteen years (in the
+case of such an abombination as "Hee, Haw").  "Murder, She Wrote,"
+which I was a part of for two years, has been on the air...what?
+Eleven years? Twelve?  Not one SF show has ever done that.
+
+     As soon as you have more than one SF show that lasts more
+than, say, three or four years, then you might see more.  We are
+one of the very, VERY few to make it to its third season.  And,
+consequently, some network and studio types are thinking maybe it can
+be done, maybe you CAN have more than one around at the same
+time.  But they're still edgy, and they still use the line that there's
+only room for ST all too often.
+
+     I'm not making this up, Don.  Even once we got the series pickup,
+we were told by a WB exec, "I'm not holding out any hope for
+this.  It has never been shown that there's any market for SF other
+than Star Trek." (That person has subsequently come around.)
+
+     And as an SF fan myself...the more good SF on television,
+the more I like it.  The Morgan/Wong pair from X-Files are doing their
+new Space series, and I wish it all the best.  The more the merrier;
+competition helps the field.  I just wish the folks at Paramount
+understood that, and took a healthy competition as something good,
+not something to be attacked or destroyed in order to preserve a
+franchise.
+
+                                                            jms
+
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Section: Star Trek
Date: June 10, 1995 12:55:27 AM

+
     "Do you think that if, say, Warner Bros was in the same position,
+it wouldn't be trying to crush Trek and make sure Bab 5 was the
+only SF show on TV?"
+
+     That would require organization on the part of WB; hence,
+doubtful.
+
+                                                               jms
+
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+

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+ B5 vs. ST			 (June 10, 1995 12:50:09 AM)
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Section: Star Trek
Date: June 10, 1995 12:50:09 AM

+
     What I've said, repeatedly, is that I don't believe for a
+second that either of the creators behind DS9 would deliberately borrow
+*anything* from anybody.  What I *don't* know is the extent to which
+the development people at Paramount, who did have the B5
+material, may have influenced that development without them necessarily
+knowing the origin of the notes.
+
+     But frankly...it's old news.  There were striking similiarities
+between the DS9 pilot and ours; however, since then their show has
+gone on into very different areas, and the similarity has diminished
+further and further until there's almost no remaining comparison.
+So for me, that aspect is really not a major factor anymore.
+We move on.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 Baseball Team			 (June 09, 1995 8:50:10 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 09, 1995 8:50:10 PM

+
     We lose as often as we win at softball, but invariably we get a
+much larger turnout of B5 people to cheer on our team (anywhere
+from 40-60, as opposed to, oh, usually 20), and we have a much
+better time, I suspect.
+
+     Interestingly, when came time to create our B5 softball
+jerseys, we gave them all the same number: 5.  So you've got an
+announcer saying, "At shortstop, number 5...first base,
+number 5...second base, number 5...."
+
+     There were some initial complaints, but on checking
+the rule books, there's nothing that says the numbers have to be
+different.  So the 5s stayed.
+
+     We had a previous shipment all with #4, but it vanished
+mysteriously.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Anaheim con			 (June 02, 1995 1:44:02 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 02, 1995 1:44:02 AM

+
     I thought the Splitting Image folks did a *very* good job; 
+some of the makeups were a little "flat," in terms of the usual 
+texturing we do to make it look like actual skin, but that's a 
+very small quibble.  The makeups and costumes were extremely 
+good, and I was quite impressed.  (Stupidly, I didn't recognize 
+the last as Deathwalker initially, only because it's been so 
+long, and it was entirely my fault.)
+
+                                                           jms
+
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+

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+ Plan NOW !			 (June 09, 1995 8:50:07 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 09, 1995 8:50:07 PM

+
     If every dedicated B5 viewer got 10 people who haven't
+watched/don't watch the show, and got them to just watch the episodes
+in October and November, it'd probably have a salutory effect on
+ our ratings, and given what's in those eps, we'd have them thereafter.
+
+                                                         jms
+
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+

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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 09, 1995 11:00:03 PM)
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Date: June 09, 1995 11:00:03 PM

+
     Night Gallery was vastly under-rated and under-appreciated.
+
+                                                        jms
+
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+

+
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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 09, 1995 11:00:05 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 09, 1995 11:00:05 PM

+
     Yeah, "attempted boom" in the sense that studios try to
+figure out what audiences want, and drag out focus groups,
+and research, and plug in the "formula" (put in a kid for
+the young crowd, maybe a pet as well, make it "campy"
+since the networks can't take SF seriously, put in a
+young hunk and a babe).  Never works.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
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Date: June 09, 1995 8:50:08 PM

+
     Yeah, we've noticed that; there are a lot of parallels
+between the early history of ST and our show, all of the
+things you noted, plus some hostility from Lost in Space
+fans who thought ST was poaching on their terrain, on and on.
+Kinda funny....
+
+                                                         jms
+
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Date: June 09, 1995 11:00:01 PM

+
     On the flip side, virtually *all* of the B5 fans are
+also SF fans as well.  That's because, ratings-wise, we're
+still hitting mainly the hard core SF audience.  Where ST
+gets its ratings is from the mainstream, non-SF fan community.
+Should B5 begin to mainstream out, then that would change.
+
+                                                         jms
+
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Date: June 09, 1995 11:00:02 PM

+
     That may well be true for audiences at a young age, who
+turn onto a show like ST or something else, and seek it out,
+but for the majority of people, apparently it ain't the case.
+Most of those who seek out a book in the genre after watching
+ST to some extent...tend to buy ST novels.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:22 PM

+
     Yes, we'll change the theme again.  The theme and narration
+changes with the theme and part of the storyline we're entering.
+Some don't like the year two theme as much as the 1st because it
+doesn't summon up the same feelings; it shouldn't.  It's a
+different chapter in the story.  I've already spoken with Chris
+Franke about my ideas for the music for year three, and I think
+it'll be pretty kick-ass.
+
+                                                           jms
+
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+

+
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+ Books by JMS?			 (June 10, 1995 7:14:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:14 PM

+
     It'd have to wait until the series itself is finished; it'd
+take me about a year of dedicated work to write the next novel,
+and I can't do that while I'm making this show.
+
+                                                          jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:07 PM

+
     I kinda have to follow the structure of the story as I've
+put it together; I can't start restructuring it around airdates,
+which may get changed.
+
+                                                         jms
+
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+

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Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:03 PM

+
     Depends on who's available; some cast play, some don't, some
+play sometimes.  At various points, Jerry, Bruce, Richard, Caitlin
+and others have taken part.
+
+                                                          jms
+
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+

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+ UK B5: Break in series		 (June 01, 1995 6:17:14 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 01, 1995 6:17:14 PM

+
     Don't lets be hasty here...they don't have the tapes yet 
+because they haven't been sent yet, but should go out in a day 
+or two.  There were some additional EFX needed for "Divided 
+Loyalties," which we're finishing this week, and is the first 
+of the last batch.  "Twilight" is done and "Confessions"<< I
+think he meand "Comes The Inquisitor">> will be done mid-next 
+week, with the final EFX coming in on "Fall of Night" by the 
+end or so of next week.
+
+     So I wouldn't write it off just yet.
+
+                                                          jms
+
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+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:02 PM

+
     We're *slowly* growing to include the mainstream audience.
+Mainstream viewers go to ST first because, well, it's ST and a known
+commodity.  They don't routinely check out other SF shows.  Slowly,
+though, we're starting to draw in that audience.  I'm getting more
+letters lately than ever before saying, "I've never watched much SF
+before, but now I've started watching B5.'  That will likely
+continue.
+
+     The biggest obstacle in the beginning was the negative
+reviews that came from reviewers who expected us to do ST,
+and we didn't, and thus they perceived us as somehow doing ST
+ "wrong."  So now it's all word of mouth.
+
+                                                             jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:16 PM

+
     I've been to a total of two focus groups for B5.  I didn't
+want to go. Didn't want there to BE a focus group.  I think
+they're the tools of the devil.  They generally find these
+people at the nearest shopping mall; they're people to whom
+the $50 to come and do this is important; it's either this,
+or sell blood, I sometimes think.
+
+     We're talking here Focus Groups of the Living Dead.
+
+     At one of these...the last I was invited to...one of
+the guys on the other side of the two-way mirror said he didn't
+like B5 because it wasn't the way science fiction was supposed
+to be, it was lots of character stuff, and he didn't like that.
+"So what would you consider good science fiction?" he was asked
+by the facilitator.
+
+     "Power Rangers," he said.
+
+     I nearly went through the glass at him.
+
+                                                     jms
+
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+     <Q: Did anyone at paramount know about year 2 stuff?>
+     No, nobody knew that stuff but me.
+
+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:20 PM

+
     The problem is the medium.  If an artist wants to do art
+in the form of paintings, he needs canvas, paint and a subject.
+If an artist wants to do art in the form of television, he requires,
+oh, about $22 million, give or take.  In the case of ST, closer
+to $39 million, figuring $1.5 million per show, which is actually
+on the low side.  That's per season.
+
+     When you've got THAT much money riding on it, plus in the
+case of ST, literally *billions* of dollars in revenue from
+merchandising...well, you begin to understand why things happen
+the way they do sometimes.
+
+     We're *trying* to set a better example.  Many producers
+putting new SF shows together have come to us, and we've given them
+tours of our stage and facilities, explained how we do what we do,
+and many of them are now using the "Babylon 5 Model" in putting
+their shows together for the networks and studios.  As far as I'm
+concerned, the more the merrier.
+
+                                                            jms
+
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Section: Star Trek
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:12 PM

+
     Paramount does not actually *have* a creative side; neither do
+most studios.  They are business operations that make deals with
+creative people who create programs and movies under their unbrella.
+Studios are made up of presidents and vice presidents and
+directors in charge of media affairs, business affairs, legal affairs,
+publicity and promotion, marketing, on and on.
+
+     The creative people at ST aren't a problem, any more than we
+are a problem to them.  When either show does a particularly nifty
+looking show, for instance, our EFX people call theirs, or theirs call
+us, to say so.  I have nothing but undying respect and admiration
+for Jeri Taylor and many others over at ST.  Whenever there's a
+problem it can usually be tracked down to one of the Suits.
+
+                                                             jms
+
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Section: Star Trek
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:09 PM

+
     "Before Star Trek, there had NEVER been any attempt to bring
+serious science fiction to weekly television."
+
+     Well...not exactly true.  THE TWILIGHT ZONE did much to
+bring serious SF to American television, as did many episodes of THE
+OUTER LIMITS.  LOST IN SPACE ended UP as campy, but in the
+beginning, in the black and white episodes, there was actually
+some pretty decent stuff.  Ditto for THE TIME TUNNEL, the
+Quantum Leap of its time.
+
+     Just for purposes of clarity.
+
+     Which is not to devalue ST, nor should it be construed
+as such.  My sense is that the original ST was kind of like
+the Beatles; both were very much products of their time, both
+created something of a watershed for the form in which they worked,
+both are unique in their respective histories. Every so often,
+some new group is held up as the new Beatles; and every so often,
+some SF show is held up as the new ST.  Both fail to see the
+point, or put the source in its proper context.  The job is not
+to be the "next" ANYthing; it's to be its own creation.
+
+                                                        jms
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Section: Star Trek
Date: June 10, 1995 7:14:10 PM

+
      Yeah, people are still talking about it <paramount b5/ds9>.
+Only reason I chimed in here was because my prior statements on
+this were being slightly mischaracterized in your note (unintentionally)
+and figured I needed to clear them up.
+
+                                                      jms
+
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+

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+ Reporter Bias/Democracy		 (June 10, 1995 7:43:30 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 7:43:30 PM

+
     "Bill Clinton's involvement in the Whitewater scandal."
+
+     Except, frankly, I've now been waiting THREE YEARS to get one,
+just ONE definitive statement of what the scandal IS.  And what,
+if anything, they did.  Nobody seems able to find anything, yet
+they keep dredging this term up over and over and over.  Watergate was
+exposed in gory detail within one year of Woodward and Bernstein
+really digging in.  I've finally had to conclude it's just smoke.
+
+                                                        jms
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+ Plan NOW !			 (June 11, 1995 2:37:20 AM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 11, 1995 2:37:20 AM

+
<Can PTEN make a station which owns a show run it if it doesn't?>
+     Not insofar as I know, no.  If the fans in the area want the show,
+they have to bug the station to show it, or give the rights to another
+station in the area.  This happens frequently, btw, to other shows.
+In some cases, a station might acquire a show not because they want
+to show it, but because they don't want the OTHER station to have it,
+and since syndication is almost all on a barter situation, they don't
+have to pay much to get the show, so they lose nothing.
+(This happened to us on the syndicated Twilight Zone, in some cases.)
+
+                                                       jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 11, 1995 2:43:03 AM

+
     Actually, the baseballs *were* CGI.  Amazes me that they made
+such a big deal out of it in "Forrest Gump."  We just did it and
+threw it away.
+
+                                                       jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 02, 1995 1:48:01 AM

+
     Oops...I wuz wrong.
+
+     On the off-chance that I might commit an error (I know, 
+impossible, but there you are), I called around, and the Channel 
+4 people are out here on business.  Some digging ended up getting 
+the straight skinny on this: yes, there is going to be a break of
+a few weeks because the Tour de France is going to be going on 
+then, and anything else is going to get completely and totally 
+lost and overwhelmed in the ratings.  So they're holding back for 
+just a bit.
+
+                                                             jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 11:39:13 PM

+
     Kosh does color commentary on the game.
+
+     "Beauty...in the dirt."
+
+                                                      jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 7:43:28 PM

+
     Then again, you've got Thomas Jefferson who said, "Given
+the choice between a government and no free press, and a free
+press without a government, I would choose the latter."
+
+     The job of the reporter is to get out the facts that an
+informed electorate (emphasis on the word informed) needs in
+order to determine who to vote for, what bills to support, what
+changes to implement.  This is often inconvenient for politicians,
+who'd much prefer that they did what they did in the shadows.
+Consequently, they paint this picture of the media as a ravening
+beast, the "liberal press," when in fact virtuallly every major
+newspaper, TV station and radio station in the country is owned
+by Big Business, which is invariably conservative in nature.
+
+     Politicians and those citizens who fall for the okeydoke
+speak of the "media bias," but the media is made up of may disparate
+people, from different backgrounds, political beliefs, income levels
+and educational backgrounds as, well, the country itself.  There's no
+such thing as a collective "media bias," there are no secret cell
+meetings where the new agenda is established every year.  It doesn't
+exist except in the minds of politicians who wish to create this
+image in order to discredit the messenger when the news is
+inconvenient for them.
+
+     And the reality is that the American press today is *tame*
+considering what it has been like in the past.  There was
+absolutely NO pretense about journalism, newspapers wore their
+allegiances like banners.  Editorials and cartoons were vicious
+beyond description.
+
+     Without reporters, there would be only one source of information:
+the government story.  Period.  Where I come from, that's not only
+unAmerican, it's downright Soviet.  They may be unpleasant at times,
+they may be rude, they may sometimes fall into the unfortunate
+realm of the cult of personality, but the system is self-correcting;
+such individuals fall from grace pretty fast in journalistic circles...
+they may even be impertinent. But the simple truth is, sometimes the
+only way to get pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
+
+                                                               jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 11:39:14 PM

+
     At 66 episodes, we will have enough to syndicate, yes, though just
+barely.  About 100 episodes is preferred.  It makes our position both
+stronger and more vulnerable: stronger in that we're now a player;
+more vulnerable in that, at some point, if somebody gets fed up with
+us, they can drop the show and recoup their investment in syndication,
+which they couldn't until year three.
+
+                                                                jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 11:39:16 PM

+
     Of course they always point that <b5 not in syndicated neilsen
+top 20> out.  They also conveniently forget that the majority of those
+20 shows are sitcoms, entertainment newsmags, game shows and the like.
+I got the latest ratings summary, and as I recall we were the number
+4 dramatic series for the week in question, and the number 6 rated
+dramatic series for the year.  That ain't bad.
+
+                                                                jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 10, 1995 11:39:11 PM

+
     The bug is just a touch of the flu that seems to be
+making the rounds.
+
+     As for making a media "dynasty"...don't want to.  Assuming
+the B5 story runs its full five years, and assuming we don't do
+the possible follow-up story, my plan is to retire from TV
+and return to writing novels and plays.
+
+                                                                jms
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Section: Babylon 5
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+
     Nope.  Different actresses, as noted in the credits.
+
+                                                     jms
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+ RoB5: Reporter Bias/Demo		 (June 12, 1995 12:15:23 AM)
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Section: The Promenade
Date: June 12, 1995 12:15:23 AM

+
     Haven't heard them, but I don't listen to a lot of 
+radio these days.
+
+                                                    jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 11, 1995 6:52:17 PM

+
      Thanks.  Yeah, the idea of getting out of this part of 
+the Biz and back into novels or plays is very appealing.  
+The pace would be FAR less difficult, you write at your own 
+pace, there aren't 250 people standing behind you waiting for 
+pages.
+
+     I've been writing, first part-time, then full time, 
+since I was in high school.  Full-time since about 1979.  
+3,000 pages a year.  Writing twelve hours a day, every day, 
+except my birthday, my spousal overunit's birthday, christmas a
+nd new year's.  By the time B5 is finished, I think I could well 
+use a slightly slower pace...maybe sit by a nice, quiet little 
+stream for a while, feed the ducks....
+
+                                                     jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 12, 1995 12:15:24 AM

+
     Actually (and this is far more information that anyone 
+could conceivably want), since it's come up...yes, definitely 
+more than a few books.  The total stands at 12 produced plays, 2 
+published novels, 1 published anthology, a number of published 
+short stories, a dozen or so produced radio dramas, something 
+over 120 produced episodes of television (I'm afraid I've 
+lost count, could be 130 or so by now), and over 500 published 
+articles for places like THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, PENTHOUSE, VIDEO 
+REVIEW, LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER, WRITER'S DIGEST, TIME INC. 
+and others.
+
+                                                      jms
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Section: Star Trek
Date: June 12, 1995 1:10:25 AM

+
     Though your sentiment is good, and your heart is in the right 
+place, I don't think a treaty will do it, simply because there are always 
+new people coming and going, and going and coming ("and always too 
+soon", Blazing Saddles).  Also, I'm not sure it's appropriate to 
+ask everyone to admit to something that has not yet been 
+demonstrated, whatever my own personal feelings about it might be.  Who 
+would sign it?  Who would implement it? Would Japanese car sales be 
+factored into the equation?
+
+     And, fundamentally, as stated, it's old news.  At this point, 
+what matters is not how the series got ON the air, but what they're doing 
+now that they're ON the air.  The marketplace of free ideas is the 
+only fair and accurate judge of such things.
+
+     I think what has you upset, and sometimes upsets me, is 
+when one does have the occasional member of the ST fan community roll 
+in and yell about B5 being a ripoff of DS9...when B5 dates back 
+to 1987, which can be verified in any number of places, including 
+published interviews and books.  So naturally it causes one 
+to wish to hit back in equal measure.  And while I will correct a 
+mis-statement when someone quotes me inaccurately on this subject, 
+I'm not really sure that's the way to go.
+
+     If I had to turn to the Star Trek community, and express 
+a concern, it would be only this.  Gene Roddenberry advanced the 
+idea of IDIC.  Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.  It is 
+another word for open-mindedness. Because Babylon 5 is on the air, 
+it does not constitute a threat in any way to Star Trek.  One is 
+no more disloyal to ST by checking out B5 than one is disloyal to 
+the original Trek by watching a show using the same name but in 
+no way created by the creator of Trek (Voyager).
+
+     We are not Trek.  We have no obligation to be Trek.  Nor, 
+really, do I think anyone would want us to be Trek, because then we 
+*are* irrelevant and redundent.  We are another view of the future.  
+It's not the same as the Star Trek future, but another possibility...
+which of course gets us into philosophical areas, and some of the 
+objections some ST fans have toward B5 are, indeed, philosophical; 
+this is how they want the world to be 250 years from now.  
+Fair enough, and I don't have a problem in the world with that.
+
+     I have no problem with ANYone who gives B5 a fair shake, and 
+then decides it's not for them; anyone who actually *embraces* the 
+idea of IDIC and practices it; anyone who gives B5 the kind of fair 
+chance that ST fans wish would've been given to the original show 
+back in the 60s.  Yet all too often, when someone comes into the B5 
+section on a kamikaze run, after they've dropped the bombs, you 
+discover that, in fact, they've never seen the series, never seen 
+more than some promos, or two minutes of a show; the same people 
+who will, by their own statements, stick with a new Star Trek 
+series, even though they hate aspects of it, for whole *seasons* 
+until they figure out how to get it right.
+
+     There is NO reason for animosity between ST fans and B5 fans, 
+for the simple reason that, every day, we gain more fans who 
+began as ST fans, and in many cases CONTINUE to enjoy that show.  
+Any hostility is as fundamentally silly as fans of Hill Street Blues 
+declaring open warfare against anyone who likes NYPD Blue because 
+they both have the word Blue in the title, and HSB was there 
+first.
+
+     All that anyone wants, I guess, is that the show be given 
+a fair chance.  The lack of that chance was what helped drive 
+the original Star Trek off the air after two years initially, 
+and finally after the third.  I can't see any reasonable 
+ST fan, knowing that history, and decrying it, then doing 
+it to another.
+
+     Interestingly enough...I saw Roddenberry once, at a 
+presentation he gave in either Glendale or Pasadena, around 
+1983 or so.  He screened "The Cage," and spoke afterward.  
+The one thing he emphasized, over and over, was this: 
+Follow your dream.
+
+     STAR TREK was Gene Roddenberry's dream.  His vision.  
+He labored long years to bring it to fruition.  
+He galvanized the media fan community (sometimes to 
+the exasperation of Lost in Space fans).
+
+     BABYLON 5 springs from the same roots.  Since 1987, 
+it has been my dream, my vision, to see this story 
+produced.  It's not done by committee, it's not done 
+by suits or execs.  It's done by me, and the breathtakingly 
+talented people who work for me.  It is as pure 
+and personal a dream for me as Star Trek was for Roddenberry.
+
+     Mutual regard in that respect, at least, while not 
+blinding either side to the genuine flaws or achievements 
+of either show, would seem to be the way to go.  IDIC.
+
+                                                     jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 01, 1995 6:03:09 PM

+
     It's nothing to do with quality.  WB Network is a different 
+division of WB, and it's extremely competitive with PTEN.  We're 
+talking here massive, honking corporate politics.  They wouldn't 
+do it.  Further, WBN has *fewer clearances* in terms of TV stations 
+than PTEN, and we'd end up losing many folks who don't have WBN 
+network stations in their areas.
+
+                                                             jms
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Section: Star Trek
Date: June 11, 1995 9:38:24 PM

+
     Nope.  Still wrong.  Lost in Space preceded Star Trek, 
+and until it went campy, was exclusively SF (as much SF as 
+ST was at times, which tended to vary wildly), with the 
+same characters in the same setting every week.
+
+     Just for purposes of historical accuracy.
+
+                                                  jms
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Section: Star Trek
Date: June 11, 1995 9:38:25 PM

+
     Two corrections: there *is* a planet nearby Babylon 5, 
+Epsilon 3, to which they've traveled before, and will again.  
+Also, while B5 does not have a wormhole, it does have a 
+jumpgate beside it.  Both nominally function in a similar 
+capacity, allowing long-range travel.
+
+                                                  jms
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: June 11, 1995 9:38:28 PM

+
     "without the benefit of the depth of the established 
+Star Trek universe it's not as good..."
+
+     The Star Trek universe is the end result of 30 years 
+of history.  Do you think it's fair to compare something 
+that's got 30 years of history against a show that's got 
+only two, and use age as the primary criterion of quality?  
+If so, then NO show will ever be as good (by your lights), 
+and never gives any other show the opportunity.  To use that 
+same logic, then with only two seasons under its belt in 
+the 1960s, ST could never be any good because at that time 
+it didn't have the "depth" that it acquired (or, more 
+correctly, was attached to it) over the following 28 years.
+
+     I'd also point out that when Star Trek first hit the 
+airwaves back then, many media SF fans and critics panned 
+it as nothing more than a cheap attempt at grabbing some of 
+Lost in Space's audience (the show was very successful at 
+the time).  They said that LiS had depth, there was a family, 
+they had strong relations, it was about hanging together...
+whereas Star Trek, they said, was just a mindless shoot-em-up 
+about salt monsters (they generally gave the show a cursory glance).  
+Star Trek fans at the time felt this was *very* unfair, that 
+their show was being dismissed by fans of another show without 
+giving it a decent opportunity, and certainly they wouldn't 
+do this to another show if the situation were reversed.
+
+     But times change, I guess.  Or do they...?
+
+     And speaking of "depth of the established Star Trek 
+universe," some questions: who is currently the President 
+of Starfleet?  What's happening back home right now?  
+Have ethnic fashions survived the ages on Earth?  
+How much do you *really* know about what's in the "established
+ Star Trek universe" except what happens on the ship/station?
+
+                                                   jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 13, 1995 1:13:13 AM

+
     DC is, we think, acting precipitiously.  Current
+discussions seem to be moving toward extending the book
+another six issues to allow time to find its audience.
+More as this is locked down.
+
+     Problem is, DC is cutting back titles left, right
+and center, leaving mainly the superhero stuff.  And the
+comic biz right now is in a major tailspin overall.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 12, 1995 10:08:23 PM

+
     Re: hints about next season....
+
+     Well, how about a major change in the very
+structure of the B5 universe?
+
+     How major?
+
+     Imagine if, one day, the Enterprise crew discovered
+that their ship had actually been constructed by the Romulans,
+and that they were morally obligated to go off and serve the
+Romulan empire...and that didn't change at the end of the
+episode, it *stayed* that way for the rest of the season.
+
+     That scenario bears *no* resemblance to what I have
+planned for year three, so there's no point in riffing off
+it and looking for clues.  But that is emblematic of the
+Major Event waiting about halfway through the third season.
+
+     How's that for a start?
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ What --Persecuted??!!		 (June 12, 1995 10:08:16 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 12, 1995 10:08:16 PM

+
     The others just sort of mumbled.
+
+     One other person in the focus group started going on
+about how he doesn't like women characters who aren't *women,*
+which by his lights meant he felt there should be more
+passive, motherly figures, that somebody like Ivanova
+shouldn't be running a station, didn't like her at all....
+
+     Then there was a THUMP in the room that startled
+everyone on both sides of the glass.  Without even realizing
+I'd done it, I'd picked up the nearest pencil and thrown
+it at the glass.
+
+     Odd that I haven't been invited back since....
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 12, 1995 10:08:13 PM

+
     Good heavens, that's an awfully long way to go....
+
+     Hope you like the book.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
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+
     I kinda thought it'd be a good idea from the start,
+though in theory over time the narratiions should get shorter,
+more to the point.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 vs. ST			 (June 13, 1995 1:22:02 AM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: June 13, 1995 1:22:02 AM

+
     While I won't presume to speak for DS9, no, in my view,
+B5 is not "simply a futuristic version of Gunsmoke."
+
+     The mission in Gunsmoke was simple: protect the town from
+those nasty outlaws.  The marshall wasn't off trying to forge
+peace treaties between soldiers and native americans, the
+story wasn't constantly being affected by political events
+in Washington; the town was isolated, out of context.
+B5 is in part *about* context.  The premise in "Gunsmoke" is
+presented in the first episode, and you never really go
+anywhere from there, it is what it is.  Not the case with B5.
+
+     There are few clearly defined good guys and bad guys.
+Londo started out comic relief; he's become a tragic figure...
+G'Kar started out as the bad guy, has ended up as a heroic,
+possibly doomed figure...in "Gunsmoke," Miss Kitty wasn't
+revealed halfway through to be a carpetbagger, but we have
+no such boundaries.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 12, 1995 10:08:21 PM

+
     I think that figure counts *most* of B5...I think.
+I dunno; the only way I can keep track anymore is go back
+through all the records and see how many were written for
+each show, and add 'em up, and I'm always forgetting
+something, somewhere.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 01, 1995 6:03:07 PM

+
     A canvas painting of a starfield won't work, because the light 
+inside C&C is so bright that a painting wouldn't register through 
+the window (it's like trying to look at the stars through the 
+window of a brightly lit room). We have a star curtain with *fiber-
+optic lights* that create the stars.  You try and rotate something 
+with 500-600 delicate fiber-optic lights, and it's going to be 
+constantly breaking.  Also, 30 by 50 is fine *horizontally*; the 
+second you try and rotate that, you suddenly have something 50 feet 
+HIGH, and the ceiling isn't big enough to accommodate that.  (It's 
+wider than it is high currently because most of the angles we shoot 
+in are left/right, not up/down.)  If you shorten it for the ceiling, 
+it won't be wide enough.
+
+     Similarly, a projection onto a screen outside wouldn't show 
+through the glass, either.  It would also require a length for proper 
+rear-projection that would eliminate space badly needed for our sets.
+
+     Believe me, we've been over this and over this...there have been 
+hundreds of suggestions...none of them work.  Except for when we blue-
+screen in a starfield, there's 
+nothing else to be done.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 13, 1995 1:13:11 AM

+
     I've only seen one episode of The Tick, and loved it.
+Favorite scene: a Bad Guy has a friend, which is really a
+sock puppet over his hand, which he operates with minimal
+skill.  At one point, when the Tick doesn't appear, the
+sock puppet says, "He's off sulking like Achilles in his
+tent."
+
+     (blank stares from all the other bad guys)
+
+     "Achilles."
+
+     (blank stares)
+
+     "Homer.  The Illiad.  The Odyssesy."
+
+     (blank stares)
+
+     "READ A BOOK!!!!"
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 14, 1995 2:50:17 AM

+
     Yes, the B5 soundtrack is on sale in the UK.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 13, 1995 1:22:03 AM

+
 >> Is it just a coincidence that Jeff Sinclair, John Sheridan 
+and Joe Straczynski all have the same initials? <<
+
+     Probably not.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 14, 1995 2:50:18 AM

+
>>Talia Winters is either getting killed off or thrown in jail 
+back on earth.  She is the one who tried to kill Kosh at very 
+beginning of show.  In real life, the actress who plays her and 
+the actor that plays Garabaldi are engaged!!!  The shadows 
+attack the Narn home world and do major damage.  Vir is getting 
+killed off.I wonder if their sources are reliable.  
+We will see..............<<
+
+     I'd say overall that's the most breathtakingly jumbled 
+batch of half-rumors and quarter-truths I've seen.  You can 
+disregard, oh, 98% of it.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 14, 1995 11:31:27 PM

+
     No, it's not a Manchurian Candidate reference.  There
+really is such a thing as psycho-linguistics.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 14, 1995 11:15:17 PM

+
     Any time I come up with a story, I try to look around
+to determine where it would work best.  This one *felt*
+like it belonged to TV.
+
+     More than that, though...I went into this looking to
+create a saga for TV.  It wasn't so much coming up with the
+story, and realizing it was a TV saga, as it was, "Nobody's ever
+done a multi-year science fiction saga for television.
+As a thought-experiment, can I come up with something that
+would work in this medium?"  This led me to the structure that
+became Babylon 5.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 14, 1995 11:15:15 PM

+
     As I responded in private mail, I'm drawing upon a number
+of military influences in the show; some from WW I, in the Great
+War and how WW I sort of slid into WW II; some tactical and
+strategic elements of WW II military; and some of the political
+elements that went into the Vietnam and Korean conflicts.
+Actual tactics and battles will vary; there's a major battle
+setpiece in a later episode that uses more contemporary and
+futuristic elements such as long-distance (thousands of
+kilometers) tactics, interceptors and the like.
+
+     Also as I noted in email...I just learned today from someone
+high up in military PR in Washington that Babylon 5 is very popular
+with many branches of the military.  They call it a "force multiplier"
+(morale booster) for naval and air force and ground troops (apparently
+the show gets shipped out to bases and to carrier/battleship groups).
+It's also very popular with many folks in the Pentagon and the Secret
+Service.  (In one case, the Secret Service apparently did an analysis
+of one of our episodes as an exercise in character analysis of
+military persons under high-stress situations.)  The Flying Tigers
+have also been very supportive of the show, even allowing us to use
+their symbol in the series.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 14, 1995 11:15:12 PM

+
     Everything's fine.  But PTEN dropped *all* the ending
+voiceovers on their shows, including B5.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 15, 1995 10:33:12 PM

+
     I was at SDSU, getting my bachelor's in psychology, 
+the first time I heard of psycholinguistics.  Much of the 
+department considered it basically rubber-science, but they 
+were all hard-core behavior modification/Skinner types in 
+any event.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 15, 1995 10:33:11 PM

+
     Actually, there's 35-40 minutes of music in the pilot; 
+it wasn't wall-to-wall music.  I'm not opposed to it, but 
+at this time, nobody's licensed it.  We can't do anything 
+until somebody licenses it from a record company.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ New Big Bang Newletter		 (June 02, 1995 1:44:01 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 02, 1995 1:44:01 AM

+
     I think that if people paid extra for VIP tickets to get 
+workshops, and those workshops are now free, certainly should be 
+credited for that.  And for anything else that's not delivered.
+
+     Re: your question about cast fees...I spoke with Walter 
+Koenig today,who was supposed to receive the lion's share of his 
+fee within no less than 30 days of the convention (by contract), 
+and still hasn't received it.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 15, 1995 10:25:12 PM

+
     Vorlons/Shadows at the top of the force, Minbari after, 
+Centauri, with Humans and Narns not that far apart.
+
+     Er...what was the suggestion again...?
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 15, 1995 10:25:11 PM

+
     I don't offhand know Claudia's age (I forget this stuff 
+5 minutes after I'm told), and wouldn't invade her privacy by 
+saying anyway.
+
+     Would rather hold back on anything to say about 
+Laurel for now.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 16, 1995 6:39:18 PM

+
     Of the four remaining episodes, 1 was delivered about 
+a week and a halfor two weeks ago (which would air second 
+in the batch).  The episode thatwould air first was delivered 
+yesterday.  The episode that airs third willbe delivered today 
+or Monday.  The final episode will be delivered in in
+about 7-10 days.
+
+     So to recap:
+
+       episode 1 - delivered
+       episode 2 - delivered
+       episode 3 - Monday
+       episode 4 - 7-10 days
+
+     And that's all of it.
+
+                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 16, 1995 6:39:21 PM

+
     Actually, I think the main reason there isn't much 
+fanfiction is that I've specifically asked for there not 
+to be any until after we've finished our run.  And as is 
+generally true of the SF fan community, if you ask nice 
+and respectfully, you will generally be accommodated.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 16, 1995 11:46:10 PM

+
<On a completely different topic, I understand you have carpal 
+tunnel syndrome. What was the first thing you notice 
+that you now know was a symtom? I have been getting shooting 
+pains up the side of my arm on the side of my left 
+little finger, I was wondering if this might be a warning sign.>
+
+     Sounds like it.
+
+                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 16, 1995 6:39:17 PM

+
     I never much went in for Skinner.  When I went into the 
+psychology department initially, everything was Carl 
+Rogers, non-directive therapy, and RET.  Then somewhere along 
+the line Skinner took over, and by the time I transferred to 
+SDSU, it was all over for everything else.  Here's how bad it 
+was: I took a seminar in "Theories of Psychology."  All that 
+was taught that semester was Skinner.  Toward the end of the
+term I asked why.  "Well, there are many theories of psychology," 
+I was told by the instructor (who was also the department 
+chairman), but it seemed better to teach you the *right* one."
+
+                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ Claudia/Takishima		 (June 16, 1995 6:39:19 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 16, 1995 6:39:19 PM

+
<Just out of curiousity...
+Have you or any other B5 people been on AOL lately?>
+
+     Was on AOL a few days ago, fairly quiet.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Fighting Shadows			 (June 18, 1995 12:17:10 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 12:17:10 AM

+
     You're assuming that the relationship you saw between 
+Delenn and Sinclair was a romantic one.  It was a close one, 
+on her part in particular, but not based on romance.  
+We'll explain what that means in year three.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Fighting Shadows			 (June 18, 1995 12:26:27 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 12:26:27 AM

+
     "It's a rebirth ceremony, all right, which sometimes 
+doubles as a marriage ceremony."
+
+     Amazing how everyone went for the secondary meaning 
+and omitted the most obvious meaning in presaging the rebirth 
+Delenn went through in "Chrysalis."
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: June 18, 1995 12:22:01 AM

+
     Haven't made up my mind yet on what to bring to ComicCon.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Bab5 books			 (July 03, 1995 11:56:25 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 03, 1995 11:56:25 PM

+
     I'm involved in the books quite a bit, inclusive of 
+reading the manuscripts and approving premises.  Some stuff 
+slips past me, mainly in the small details, but the bigger 
+picture is generally consistent with the show.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Garabaldi's Eyes			 (July 06, 1995 2:51:27 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 06, 1995 2:51:27 AM

+
     It's a screwup committed by the EFX guy, who was 
+"doodling" on Garibaldi's face while he was rendering another 
+shot, and didn't think he'd saved that one frame.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Party Suggestions?		 (July 31, 1995 11:29:25 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 11:29:25 PM

+
     Pretty much the order they were shown in is okay, though again 
+Knives should precede Z'ha'dum; the rest is okay, as far as I can 
+remember.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Women on B5			 (July 31, 1995 12:45:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 12:45:22 PM

+
     There is no pre-determined male/female ratio on the show; it's 
+pretty much the luck of the draw or the script.  One thing that might 
+help, though, is that we've changed casting directors.  We kinda kept 
+nudging the one before for a greater diversity in guest roles (looking 
+for different ethnic groups, looking for men and women equally in parts 
+that can go either way), and our new one is definitely more inclined 
+in that direction, so this will doubtless improve.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Renderings on B5			 (July 31, 1995 11:29:04 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 11:29:04 PM

+
     All I know is that it's indeed now a PC/Dos environment, using an 
+exported brand of Lightwave.  You may want to leave a public message here 
+for Paul Beigle-Bryant, co-CGI maven at Foundation Imaging, who is known 
+to hang out here from time to time.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ferengi rules rumor?		 (July 31, 1995 11:40:12 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 11:40:12 PM

+
     I doubt very much anyone from B5 ever started that rumor because, 
+frankly, I don't even know what the heck he's *talking* about.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Season 3 Starts Shooting		 (July 31, 1995 11:40:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 11:40:14 PM

+
     We did indeed shoot our first day on year three today, and it went 
+very well.  We wrapped about a half hour early, about seven-ish, the cast
+is happy to be back, everyone's fallen right into step...it's a wonder 
+to behold.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+
+
+
+*******************************************************
+* SPOILERS FOR FINAL FOUR SEASON-TWO EPISODES FOLLOW. *
+*******************************************************
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<Divided Loyalties>>		 (July 25, 1995 2:13:01 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 2:13:01 PM

+
     Re: things you don't expect to happen...that's kind of one 
+aspect I was after here.  By way of comparison....
+
+     There's one great thing about The Shining, despite some other 
+flaws in the film: they set up Scatman Cruthers (sp?) as the one guy 
+who understands what's going on...he gets the Shining, he's a potentially 
+heroic character, and when all hell breaks loose, he's the one to 
+get into the snow plow, cross terrible weather, we're all sure he's going 
+to get there and fight the menace...he overcomes weather and nonsense 
+to get there...he blows through the front door, ready for action....
+and gets an axe in the middle of his chest and dies.
+
+     I *loved* that, and always kinda wanted to something of that nature, 
+where you set someone up to be that kind of character, the future, 
+whatever, then you yank it back and let the audience say, Oh, hell, 
+NOW what?
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ << Divided Loyalties >>		 (July 25, 1995 5:12:11 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 5:12:11 PM

+
     I'd say the next 3 are equal or more on a wow scale, 
+in some ways.
+
+     One other thought on Talia...one of the motifes we've played 
+with from the start was always showing Talia in mirrors...in Race, 
+in Z'ha'dum and others...always showing the reflection, her opposite, 
+just to set stuff up on an emotional/symbological level.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<DL questions>>			 (July 26, 1995 2:35:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 2:35:22 PM

+
     In the B5 universe, as a general rule of thumb, people don't just 
+come back after something like this.  "Talia" has been destroyed 
+permanently; that's what it said in the episode, and that's the way 
+it'll stay.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <<DL foreshadowing?>>		 (July 30, 1995 8:42:09 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 30, 1995 8:42:09 PM

+
     One thing you have to remember is that while Talia is in the opening 
+credits, to Psi Corps she's just one more of many programmed individuals in
+various places.  The character in "Spider" was a highly valued infiltration
+unit, with very expensive "parts."  Of the two, Talia would've been far more
+expendable.  And I don't recall that Control actually issued any death order;
+it was the Psi Corps/B13 in any event.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <<DL foreshadowing?>>		 (July 31, 1995 11:29:29 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 11:29:29 PM

+
     The problem in trying to keep something mysterious and 
+vague is thatsometimes you can outsmart yourself, and get 
+confusing.  The *theory* isthat there was the Bureau as Control 
+overall back on Earth; and a minor Control figure on B5.  And 
+Controls are always referred to as "he"regardless of the facts 
+to avoid giving any means of identification to anoutsider based 
+on gender.
+
+     So it would be
+
+                            BUREAU CONTROL
+            ----------------------|---------------------
+            |                     |                    |
+      Earthdome Control      B5 Control         Minipax Control
+
+
+     (That's a breakdown using artificial and not necessarily
+correctelements, just for illustration.)
+
+     It is, however, a confusing bit of terminology, so it's been 
+amended subsequently.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Acts of Sacrifice/Lumati		 (July 06, 1995 2:51:26 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 06, 1995 2:51:26 AM

+
     Yeah, well, you only need to watch Dole hold a pencil to 
+figure out why he came out for the disabilities act; if it's in 
+his personal interest, then he's for it; if it serves the rest 
+of the commonweal (except the big money boys, which thus also 
+constitutes a personal interest), he's a'gin it.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Divided Loyalties>		 (July 31, 1995 11:29:26 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 11:29:26 PM

+
<I wonder if you would settle an argument that has been raging about 
+the shooting at Lyta in Divided Loyalties.
+Is the hand with the gun  Left or Right?>
+
+     I don't remember offhand; I'll have to check the tape.  (I have a 
+vague memory that it was a right hand originally, flopped to shoot in the 
+other direction.)
+
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Specs				 (July 05, 1995 10:07:13 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 05, 1995 10:07:13 PM

+
     None of that information has been officially released at 
+this time; at some point down the road it may.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Convention			 (July 05, 1995 10:07:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 05, 1995 10:07:15 PM

+
     "I assume you're not against the idea of this convention?"
+
+     I'm not against many ideas, except maybe tarring,
+feathering and dead-catting, but I can't endorse it until it 
+gets to a less tenuous state.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 05, 1995 10:07:09 PM

+
     I can't technically endorse *anything* until there's a 
+business plan and things get real.  Y'unnderstand, I get asked 
+CONSTANTLY to endorse one convention or another in the 
+nascent stages, "We haven't done this before, but if you'll 
+endorse us, we know we can do it," and I'm the one who gets the 
+rap if things don't work out.  So I really can't comment in 
+any kind of official capacity until this would get real-er.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ "Infection" question		 (July 05, 1995 10:07:08 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 05, 1995 10:07:08 PM

+
     No similarity.  Icarus is a Greek name, chosen for its 
+own reasons.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ "Infection" question		 (July 06, 1995 9:24:25 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 06, 1995 9:24:25 PM

+
     There are some deliberate connotations to be derived from 
+choosing Agamemnon, yes. Particularly as re: Cassandra, given 
+that G'Kar is our nominal Cassandra figure in the 
+story...someone gifted with the power of prophecy (though not 
+literally in G'Kar's case) who was cursed in that no one would 
+never believe her until it was too late.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Emmy Nom. for B5?		 (July 07, 1995 8:20:13 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 07, 1995 8:20:13 PM

+
     I certainly hope so.  We've done all we can to help the 
+process along. We've put many of our actors up for it via the 
+application process, which is time-consuming and expensive, 
+we made videocassettes up for academy members of two of our 
+best episodes ("Coming --" and "Geometry of Shadows"), also 
+very expensive...so we can only hope they get the 
+recognition they deserve.
+
+     I think we'll have a strong shot at some of the technical 
+areas, like EFX, costuming, makeup, sound editing, music, that 
+sort of thing, IF enough academy members actually *look* at the 
+episodes, but the non-tech stuff, acting/writing/directing, are 
+always long-shots in the SF genre, sadly.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Visions '95			 (July 09, 1995 11:34:11 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 09, 1995 11:34:11 PM

+
     If you're going to be speaking with her <Mira Furlan>, 
+her name is Mira, not Miri.
+
+     Miri is a Star Trek episode.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ WB Official B5 Web page?		 (July 09, 1995 5:31:06 PM)
+
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+
 WB Official B5 Web page?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 09, 1995 5:31:06 PM

+
     The only discussions re: a B5 web page involve getting 
+the elusive fan club going, which is still in progress.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ role of Natoth			 (July 03, 1995 11:56:22 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 03, 1995 11:56:22 PM

+
     The role of Na'Toth has not worked out as well in the 
+second season as the first; I may rethink my approach on 
+this a bit.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylonians at Starquest		 (July 09, 1995 5:31:13 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 09, 1995 5:31:13 PM

+
     The Rangers will be an increasingly important presence.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Acts Of Sacrifice>		 (July 09, 1995 11:26:19 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 09, 1995 11:26:19 PM

+
+<The hand-to-hand combat between G'Kar and the other Narn looked 
+really good. Did Katsulas do any of the stunts or were they done 
+by a StuntNarn?>
+
+     It was a little of both, yes.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Garabaldi's Eyes			 (July 09, 1995 11:26:18 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 09, 1995 11:26:18 PM

+
<What !!?? DOODLING on Garabaldi's face........why, the man 
+should be fed to the shadows! <g>>
+
+     He was.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ "Infection" question		 (July 09, 1995 5:31:14 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 09, 1995 5:31:14 PM

+
<>>  What one finds depends on what one looks for, and what 
+one sees.
+
+JOE!
+
+Congratulations! That was the ONE HUNDRED THOUSANDTH question
+that you answered in a CRYPTIC and INCOMPREHENSIBLE manner.>
+
+     When the cat calls at midnight, your shorts will ignite.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Londo in AOS			 (July 10, 1995 3:41:22 PM)
+
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+
 Londo in AOS			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 10, 1995 3:41:22 PM

+
     Thanks.  He's a fascinating character to explore, and 
+the most careful balancing act of the bunch; part of the 
+character's appeal is that on a very fundamental level, 
+you *like* him, and you don't want to see him on this 
+terrible slide downward.  So every so often, you have 
+to pull him back, go in a different direction, remind us of 
+his basic humanity and potential for heroism.  He is, really, 
+any of us caught in a web of events spinning more and more 
+out of control every day.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Londo in AOS			 (July 11, 1995 3:50:24 AM)
+
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+
 Londo in AOS			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 11, 1995 3:50:24 AM

+
     The environment came first, then the broad sense of what 
+the story was going to be, then the characters, then how the 
+characters fit with the story, and how the story fit with the 
+characters.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ancient Ones			 (July 11, 1995 3:50:25 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 11, 1995 3:50:25 AM

+
<The alien on the planet (Epsilon3?) with all the miles of 
+machinery - was his race one of the First Ones?>
+
+     No, Varn was not one of the First Ones.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ancient Ones			 (July 12, 1995 2:41:06 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 12, 1995 2:41:06 AM

+
     Of course, insofar as I recall, it wasn't stated in the 
+episode that Varn's people actually *built* the Great Machine; 
+after all, if they could build it, why would the others have 
+been searching for it so frantically for the last several 
+hundred years?
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ L.Ditillio			 (July 12, 1995 2:54:31 AM)
+
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+
 L.Ditillio			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 12, 1995 2:54:31 AM

+
     Larry's greatest skill is as a world-builder, and a 
+script doctor in working with other writers.  The former 
+comes from his background as a gamer, the latter from his 
+years in TV.
+
+     Problem with B5 is that this world is already built 
+pretty completely, from one end to the other.  Also, the job 
+of a story editor is mainly to sit and listen to pitches from 
+outside writers, and to rewrite their scripts when they come 
+in.  But in the case of B5, virtually all the scripts were 
+based on presmises I'd assigned to writers; we took maybe two 
+pitches in two years.  I wrote 12 scripts in year one, 15 in 
+year two, and personally did just nearly all the rewrites on 
+freelance scripts in year two.  Bottom line, there wasn't 
+much for Larry to *do*, and there was a growing sense of 
+frustration, in that he wasn't in a position to do what he's 
+good at doing. So finally we parted ways.  Not much more to 
+it than that.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ancient Ones			 (July 12, 1995 4:00:30 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 12, 1995 4:00:30 PM

+
<Was the Great Machine built by a member race of the First 
+Ones?>
+
+     Could be.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Acts of Sacrifice/Lumati		 (July 03, 1995 11:56:19 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 03, 1995 11:56:19 PM

+
     I think one need look no further than the latest 
+communiques from Dole and Newt to get some idea on the 
+progenitors of the Lumati.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Morden and his place		 (July 12, 1995 3:50:14 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 12, 1995 3:50:14 PM

+
<In Signs and Portents (as I remember) Morden was confronted by 
+Kosh in a corridor. Kosh said "They are not for you. Leave now."
+
+We know Morden is never alone and that the Shadows with him 
+engaged in combat with Kosh (they knocked out the lights and 
+damaged his suit). What I want to know is who Kosh was talking 
+to when he said what he did? Was it Morden or the Shadows with 
+him?>
+
+     His comment would have been addressed to the shadows and 
+their current emissary.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Londo in AOS			 (July 12, 1995 3:50:17 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 12, 1995 3:50:17 PM

+
<When you came up with Londo, had you just had an encounter 
+with a REALLY obnoxious relative?>
+
+     I don't have any other kind.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ This seasons shows		 (July 12, 1995 4:00:00 PM)
+
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+
 This seasons shows		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 12, 1995 4:00:00 PM

+
     Thanks.  We've been working very hard to make each season 
+better than the one before.  The "48 Hours" approach did help to 
+explicate the show for new viewers.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ This seasons shows		 (July 12, 1995 11:05:13 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 12, 1995 11:05:13 PM

+
<EXPLICATE!!!?????  It's not in MY dictionary.<G>>
+
+     "Explicate, n, to make clear, to explain (a literary work)"
+
+     Oxford American Dictionary
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ This seasons shows		 (July 12, 1995 11:06:12 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 12, 1995 11:06:12 PM

+
     Oops.  Meant to type v for verb, not n for noun there.
+
+									
+jms
+

+
+
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+
+ Emmy nominations?		 (July 13, 1995 2:00:25 AM)
+
+
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+
 Emmy nominations?		

+
Section: Forum&Technical Hlp
Date: July 13, 1995 2:00:25 AM

+
     No, I believe the Emmy nominations are announced on July 20th.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Gen. Haig/Control		 (July 14, 1995 2:34:19 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 14, 1995 2:34:19 PM

+
     No purpose in the name echo; and Hague of 2259 has no 
+bearing on our General Haig.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 at Shore Leave		 (July 15, 1995 12:56:09 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 15, 1995 12:56:09 AM

+
<Just wanted  to share with you and the rest of the online world 
+the wonderful time we had at Shore Leave talking to  MOJO.   [...]
+
+P.S.  Any signs of a B5 Convention, esp. on the east coast?>
+
+     That's good to hear.  Glad it went well.  The only other East Coast
+ con I know of for a bit is Magnum Opus Con in Florida shortly.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ancient Ones			 (July 15, 1995 12:56:12 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 15, 1995 12:56:12 AM

+
     Varn was the custodian of Epsilon 3, the planet below B5, who was 
+replaced by Draal, a Minbari.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 at Shore Leave		 (July 15, 1995 7:29:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 15, 1995 7:29:10 PM

+
     As far as I know, Bruce Boxleitner and Patricia Tallman 
+will both be at Magnum Opus Con.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Renewal Cont...			 (July 03, 1995 11:56:17 PM)
+
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+
 Renewal Cont...			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 03, 1995 11:56:17 PM

+
     KCOP will carry the third season; B5 has been renewed 
+overall.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 and JMS in San Diego		 (July 15, 1995 7:29:08 PM)
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+
 B5 and JMS in San Diego		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 15, 1995 7:29:08 PM

+
     It'll be pretty much the same, minus the MSTB5 stuff, 
+which was done by local fans.  I definitely encourage folks 
+to be there for the 11am-1pm presentation I'm doing if you're 
+*anywhere* in the San Diego area, because the presentation 
+I'm giving won't be given again until after the new season 
+begins in November.
+
+     No confirmed cast members at this point, since they 
+only gave us the one time slot, except Bill Mumy, who 
+generally goes to SDCC every year, same as me.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 and JMS in San Diego		 (July 16, 1995 3:55:04 AM)
+
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+
 B5 and JMS in San Diego		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 16, 1995 3:55:04 AM

+
     It's that Saturday, 11-1.  I think I may be on another 
+panel or two somewhere, but that's the main event.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Fav. 2nd season moments		 (July 16, 1995 5:18:06 PM)
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+
 Fav. 2nd season moments		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 16, 1995 5:18:06 PM

+
     Actually, 18 were shown thus far, not 19.  Four remaing out 
+of 22, that leaves 18.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Big Bang Latest			 (July 16, 1995 5:18:08 PM)
+
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+
 Big Bang Latest			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 16, 1995 5:18:08 PM

+
     Bad enough that Big Bang stiffed Michael O'Hare for the 
+remaining $5,000 on his fee to attend the convention, bad 
+enough the check to Mark Hammil to reimburse his travel 
+expenses bounced, but I was just told today that the check for the 
+remainder of his fee, $10,000, ALSO bounced.  There are vague 
+mumblings about how they hope to replace the 
+check in, oh, three months or so, but nobody's holding out any hopes.
+
+     And, of course, there was the check to Walter Koenig that bounced 
+and had to be replaced (fortunately this happened just *before* the 
+convention, so he was able to make it clear he wouldn't attend if 
+it wasn't replaced immediately), the many people who still haven't 
+gotten refunds....
+
+     There were a few people here offering apologia and explanations 
+for the behavior of Big Bang/CMC earlier.  I note we haven't heard much 
+from them here of late.
+
+     This behavior is unconscionable and unforgiveable.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The Shadow and Jung		 (July 17, 1995 1:00:22 AM)
+
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+
 The Shadow and Jung		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 17, 1995 1:00:22 AM

+
      There has always been a certain element of Jungian archetypes in the 
+show, both in the shadows and elsewhere.  (Comes from having a degree in 
+clinical psych, I suppose.)  There's a *lot* of thematic/symbolic stuff 
+going on in the show, actually....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ Oxygen Masks			 (July 17, 1995 1:00:23 AM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 17, 1995 1:00:23 AM

+
<A question: I noticed for the first time while watching 'Hunter, Prey' 
+tonight that the oxygen mask that Sheridan wore while visiting Kosh in his 
+quarters is lit from the inside. I'm wondering, is it to better light the 
+actor's facial expressions inside so the camera can get a 
+better view or does it serve some other function? Maybe it prevents glare or 
+unwanted reflections on the outside of the faceplate? Thanks.>
+
+     Er, it does both.  Yeah, that's it, that's my theory, and I'm 
+sticking to it.
+
+     Though mainly it does make the actor's face clearer.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
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+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 17, 1995 9:27:19 PM

+
<Ever read this strange book by Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of 
+Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" ?
+
+He posits that we, as humans, until recently, were raving 
+schitzophrenics.  He claims that the Iliad and the people of 
+it were unconscious, schitzo, and only recently the corpus 
+callosum fully integrated to form a conscious mind.>
+
+     Yeah, I've read Jaynes' book, and was fascinated by it.  
+But then I've always found the whole issue of the function of 
+the corpus callosum to be of interest, particularly the 
+split-brain experiments of the 1970s. Fascinating stuff.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
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Date: July 17, 1995 2:46:02 PM

+
<there's an odd gadget set on the bulkhead by sheridan's 
+contact inH,P before she takes out the "whoop" anti-bug 
+shield. it seems pointedat sheridan. later, when he gives her 
+the data crystal, sheridan seemsto be holding it. neither 
+mentions it, so i don't suppose you'd like to give
+us a hint as to what it is......?>
+
+      It's a flashlight, and he's also holding one.  You caught 
+a very small glitch.  Originally, he came out, flashed twice with 
+his flashlight, giving the code; then she did the same, and 
+THEN stepped out of the shadows, putting her flashlight down on 
+the ledge beside her.  It took too long, though, interminably, 
+so when we edited it, we cut out that sequence...and 
+hoped nobody'd notice the flashlight sitting there.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Fan Club - Next action?		 (July 17, 1995 9:27:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 17, 1995 9:27:17 PM

+
     Don't wait on us; we've been fighting/negotiating for a year 
+and a half on this fan club, and it's taken this long to get even 
+to this point.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 18, 1995 1:47:29 AM

+
<I have just returned from NASFiC in Atlanta, which I have to say, 
+compared to what I heard there of Big Bang, it was the second worst Con 
+this month...
+
+	From an Exhibitor who attended BB; John Delancie was left at 
+the airport for 3 hours!
+	When he finally arrived at the Con, he was told that his 
+presentation was cancelled because he was late. He stood up to them, 
+reportedly, saying that the presentation would go on because it was 
+thru their fault, not his, that he was late.
+	When attempting to go on with the presentation, the BB people 
+shut off his lights and microphone. DeLancie then told those who were 
+interested could meet him outside and he would talk to them.
+	The auditorium where the autograph line was had been 
+sandblasted the day before. For four hours, while the Big Bang 
+Security Geeks let their *friends* ahead of everyone else, the fans 
+were breathing concrete dust!
+	Everyone was told there would be a limit to 2 autographs - to 
+which Mr. DeLancie responded by signing everything he could get his 
+hands on! BRAVO!
+	My source for this info (as he related to me) knew there was
+problems when he got in the taxi and the driver never even heard of the 
+place!
+	Gee, we at NASFiC had it made in the shade compared to that!>
+
+     Yup...and that's just the beginning of the nightmare....
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 04, 1995 4:42:29 PM

+
     Have recently grown a beard.  The two most consistent 
+comments I get:
+
+     1) "Good heavens, it's so GREY!"
+
+     2) "Oh, my (son/husband/brother) just grew a beard...
+he's going through a mid-life crisis too."
+
+     My kingdom for a nerf-bat.
+
+                                                     jms
+
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+

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+ Fav. 2nd season moments		 (July 18, 1995 1:49:16 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 18, 1995 1:49:16 AM

+
     How do you get a shot of Morden's head on a pike past 
+the censors?
+
+     Easy.
+
+     You frame the shot so the head is draped...in shadows.
+
+     If I were to be planning such a thing, of course....
+
+                                                          jms
+
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+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 19, 1995 12:39:29 AM

+
<Joe - For your information, and the information of those in this 
+Forum, a user came into both SFMEDIA and our companion Forum, SFLIT, 
+advertising a "professionally edited" tape of highlights of the 
+convention.
+
+Due to the nature of the events of this convention -- something I 
+consider to be fraud -- these messages have been pulled from public 
+view and said person will NOT be allowed to advertise Big Bang 
+materials on this Forum.
+
+Just our small way of helping get rid of this kind of stuff in 
+the future.>
+
+     Certainly inquiries should also be made as to whether or not 
+the actors gave permission for their performances to be edited and 
+sold in a profit- making capacity.  A copy of the contract should be 
+provided if so, to help avoid any liability for CIS.
+
+                                                                jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 18, 1995 3:08:26 PM

+
     It's nothing to do with support; it's the process of making the 
+deal with WB, which is like jumping rope with the rope on fire.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
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+

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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 18, 1995 3:08:28 PM

+
     It's *really* hard to quantify this stuff; the key is to make it 
+look more real overall, so in a way you don't *notice* it as much.  
+So yes, it will continue to improve; but how to quantify that, I've 
+no idea.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
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+

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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 19, 1995 12:39:00 AM

+
     You can't move the NASA zero-g trainer; it's where it is, in 
+Florida. We're in California.  Also, they don't really have a zero-g 
+trainer in the sense you mean; they have a water-tank that simulates 
+zero-g using carefully balanced counterweights and lifts.  Again, that 
+won't transport to CA.  We can't use the Vomit Comet airplane in a series 
+like this, which only lets you shoot for 30 seconds at a time, at hideous 
+cost.
+
+     We have, however, vastly improved the interior of the station, which 
+you'll see in more detail than ever before in one of the final four 
+episodes.  I think it's a *substantial* improvement.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+  To:  Z. Michael Milutinovic, July 18, 1995 3:26:04 PM
+
+<After reading Issue #8, and looking back at previous eps, I think the 
+encounter Talia had with Kosh and the ViCaR in season one make it appear 
+more interesting.  (In "Deathwalker")>
+
+     You may very well see an echo of that scene, and learn why it was 
+there in the first place, in that episode.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 19, 1995 1:52:24 PM

+
<But don't the lights in the masks also make it hard for the people 
+to see?>
+
+     Actually, our actors never seem to have a hard time getting 
+around in them, so I'd guess no.
+
+                                                              jms
+
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+

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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 20, 1995 3:25:01 PM

+
     Not to pick nits...X-FILES got nominated for Best Series, only 
+the second time this has happened (I think the first was TNG, which 
+I believe got a nomination in its final year).  So that's very 
+encouraging.
+
+     And we've gotten 3 nominations so far, and as for EFX, the 
+ballots are still being counted in this and several other areas in 
+which we think we have a good shot.
+
+     Three nominations ain't bad...Kung Fu got zero, Baywatch zero, 
+DS9 got only two, Pointman got zero, Hercules got zero....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 20, 1995 9:57:19 PM

+
     Actually, I only included Hercules because it's genre.
+
+     In going over the list, you realize how kinda special this is; out 
+of all the shows on television, network and syndicated, only 62 series, 
+movies, comedies or specials were nominated; out of that, only ELEVEN are 
+dramatic series.  And that eleven includes DS9, ST:V, X-Files and B5.  
+So four out of those eleven dramatic series are genre series, about 
+45%.  That ain't bad.
+
+     And this time at bat, B5 got as many nominations as The John 
+Larroquette Show, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Liz Taylor story, 
+Murder She Wrote, Murphy Brown, the Simpsons and the Tonight Show.  And 
+*more* nominations than Lois and Clark, Love & War, Politically Incorrect 
+and DS9, among others.
+
+     So apart from the actors situation, I don't feel in the least 
+slighted.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+
     Breast augmentation is also a science.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 Emmy Nominations		 (July 20, 1995 3:45:18 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 20, 1995 3:45:18 PM

+
      As an aside...there are other areas in which we hope to receive 
+recognition, among them directing, special effects, music and sound 
+editing. Those ballots are still being counted, however, and won't be 
+announced for another week or two.
+
+     That aside, it's *very* hard to get actors recognized for their 
+work in SF.  Ditto writing.  But we continue to improve.  The pilot B5 
+movie got one nomination; the first season got two; the second season has 
+gotten three so far, and possibly one or two more yet to come.
+
+     If we keep going at this rate, it's going to be impossible for them 
+to ignore us for long.  As is the case with X-Files.  They've begun 
+receiving nominations in areas normally reserved for mainstream shows (and 
+I'm absolutely thrilled spitless that they got the nom for Best Series; that's 
+just terrific), so that bodes well for gradual change in the industry, and 
+for B5 to start getting recognition in those same areas.
+
+                                                               jms
+
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+

+
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+
     For personal reasons, I'd urge *against* Atlanta.  
+Nothing wrong with the city, there are just personal reasons 
+why I won't go there.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 20, 1995 9:57:16 PM

+
     Scripts to date are five: Matters of Honor, Convictions, A Day in the 
+Strife, Voices of Authority, Passing Through Gethsemane, and due sometime 
+next week, Dust to Dust.
+
+                                                              jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 21, 1995 2:15:08 PM

+
     Thanks.  And yes, nothing new comes out until the first 
+week of October, then straight through to about December 14th.  
+So unless there are any last-minute changes, you'll have 
+something like 11 new eps in a row.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
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+ 3rd season scripts		 (July 21, 1995 2:15:11 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 21, 1995 2:15:11 PM

+
     No idea yet on how many I'll finally write; I usually 
+don't know until it's over.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 21, 1995 2:15:12 PM

+
     Actually, I think the rules on the EFX award *have* 
+changed, it's no longer a juried award.
+
+                                                        jms
+
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+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 22, 1995 10:54:09 PM

+
     Hmmm...if your info is correct (not saying it isn't, only 
+that I haven't heard this new bit), the "new season" that begins 
+for Voyager in August probably consists of the last 4 episodes 
+they held back from their first season.  Assuming they play through, 
+then the next month would have new season two episodes.  They 
+only started filming their season recently, so they're really going 
+to have to rush post-production to get material out there in time to 
+meet airdates.
+
+     Doesn't affect us at all (except perhaps the Mountain is hoping 
+to get a leg up a bit), but I hope it doesn't cause compromises in 
+quality to do it that fast.
+
+     (The Mountain is LAspeak for Paramount; Warner Bros. is the 
+Shield.)
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ San Diego Comic Con		 (July 22, 1995 10:54:11 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 22, 1995 10:54:11 PM

+
     I'll be doing my primary B5 presentation at 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. 
+on Saturday.  CAn't give details, but I suggest you be there.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+ New season			 (July 23, 1995 5:53:23 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 23, 1995 5:53:23 PM

+
<By the way, you have completely destroyed my calm, unruffled 
+lifestyle.  After 23 years of happy TV-free existence, B5 caught 
+us in less than 6 weeks after a loaner Tube landed in 
+our living room.  This morning we wired up our new Surround sound 
+system.  It's ALL YOUR FAULT.  Thank you, thank you, thank you.  
+(And an extra thanks to Mira Furlan.  Delenn is the one who hooked 
+me!)>
+
+     I'm simply here to serve the commonweal.
+
+     And the Dolby Surround Sound corporation.
+
+     Thankyew.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ San Diego Comic Con		 (July 23, 1995 5:53:27 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 23, 1995 5:53:27 PM

+
     It's held at the SD Convention Center down by the Harbor.  
+It's HUGE, the usual attendance is over 25,000 people.
+
+                                                                       
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 24, 1995 2:39:13 PM

+
<I read on Usenet that you're introducing a new character 
+named Marcus.  Can you tell us anything about him, the actor 
+portraying him, etc?
+
+I was also wondering if you could upload a new gif or two of 
+the station.>
+
+      I think that uploading can be done.
+
+      As for Marcus...he's a Ranger, who'll be seen a lot 
+in the coming season.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 24, 1995 10:35:04 PM

+
     I'll give more info on Marcus after we've closed the 
+deal with the actor.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ role of Natoth			 (July 04, 1995 4:33:31 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 04, 1995 4:33:31 PM

+
     I don't think Mary really *got* the notion of Na'Toth, 
+though she did try gamely.  So I'm moving in other directions.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 24, 1995 2:39:15 PM

+
     Thanks, yeah, I think we're just on the cusp of finally 
+breaking through in a big way; my sense is that we're right 
+around where X-Files was just before it broke.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Deep Space Franchise		 (July 24, 1995 10:43:09 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 24, 1995 10:43:09 PM

+
<About the line in "There All the Honor Lies">
+
+     Correct; the Deep Space Franchise line is *all* Peter's.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Deep Space Franchise		 (July 25, 1995 7:14:23 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 7:14:23 AM

+
And as I wrote it I sat there thinking, "And as Peter kisses 
+his Trek novel career good-bye...."
+
+PAD
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 & JMS books			 (July 24, 1995 10:43:11 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 24, 1995 10:43:11 PM

+
     Re: advice on getting your foot in the door.
+
+     Have a persistent foot.
+
+     Write constantly.  For anyone and everyone.
+
+     Patience, determination, direction and strength.
+
+     And never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work 
+the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls 
+up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their 
+own way.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ More third season stuff		 (July 25, 1995 1:57:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 1:57:01 PM

+
 <The same Ranger who sought out Garibaldi?>
+
+     Different ranger.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 10:39:05 PM

+
     I believe he will be in the opening credits next season, yes.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 2:27:20 PM

+
     I would not be surprised to see Sinclair in a two-parter
+this coming season, on the B5 station.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ UK airing / video taped?		 (July 25, 1995 1:57:02 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 1:57:02 PM

+
     Warners is legitimately concerned about people offering to 
+make mass numbers of copies of episodes and send them out to 
+others, whether for profit or not.  Particularly when 
+they haven't been seen in this country, such that it violates a 
+lot of laws both domestic and international.  If someone is 
+engaging in mass copying, be assured that Warners will have 
+men with badges knocking on their doors in very short order.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ UK airing / video taped?		 (July 26, 1995 10:06:26 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 10:06:26 PM

+
     Irony is generally lost on studios.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 1:57:06 PM

+
     Everyone always tells you it won't happen, you're wasting 
+your time, it's pointless...because that's how they want to think, 
+because someone achieving something makes someone who may not have 
+done so feel self- conscoius, because they KNOW you and as it says 
+in the New Testament "A prophet is without honor only in his own 
+land and among his own people," and because overall the system is 
+designed to keep you IN.  A writer by nature removes him- or herself 
+from the system of 9-5 office type work.  Over time you make your 
+own hours, your own schedule, you select who you work for... you're 
+outside the normal space/time continuum, and between you and that 
+goal is one hell of a lot of surface tension.
+
+     Every writer has been told, at some point, "You'll never make 
+it, why waste your time?"  Ninety percent of the time, they're right.  
+Ten percent of the time they're not.  But you won't know which camp 
+you fall in until you try.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Video Releases in UK		 (July 07, 1995 1:42:05 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 07, 1995 1:42:05 AM

+
     That's very weird, because they're delivered in surround, 
+and it costs no more to dupe them in that mode.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 5:12:14 PM

+
     I started writing at 14; started selling at 17.
+
+     One warning re: 300+ page books at this point...if nothing 
+happens, and it may or may not, it can be a big stumbling block to
+get over.  Don't let the smaller stories get away from 
+you either.  It's good to do a variety of things.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 10:39:08 PM

+
     The differences between screenwriting and a novel...would take 
+a book to communicate.  Suffice for now to say just that the strengths 
+of a novel are all internal (internal monologue, POV, narrative 
+descriptions), and the strength of a screenplay is all external 
+(dialogue and visuals).
+
+     Which is why the best novels often make the worst movies.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 2:27:21 PM

+
     I could probably adapt the B5 storyline very well to a novel, 
+since it would provide the chance to expand on a lot of stuff.  
+Whether or not that ever happens is anyone's guess.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 & JMS books			 (July 26, 1995 10:07:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 10:07:15 PM

+
     It took 5 years to sell B5.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 2:27:24 PM

+
     Some comics adapt well, some don't; Watchmen would be great.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Competition 4 B5...		 (July 25, 1995 2:13:00 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 2:13:00 PM

+
     I don't consider Space competition in that sense, except 
+that it will be something more motivating us to work harder 
+(like we lacked that).  From where I sit, the more, the merrier, 
+and welcome to them.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<Divided Loyalties>>>		 (July 25, 1995 5:12:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 5:12:10 PM

+
     Boy, a whole lotta questions, and not *one* I can answer at this 
+time without spoiling stuff for down the road.
+
+     Well, actually, there *is* one I can answer.
+
+     No, the B5 facilities were never flooded.
+
+     And thanks for the reaction....
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<Divided Loyalties>>>		 (July 25, 1995 10:39:02 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 10:39:02 PM

+
     Some of it's the sound of the name, some has actual roots in 
+other places (minbar is the term for the pulpit in a mosque; delen 
+is middle english for divided).
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Syndication?			 (July 25, 1995 5:12:19 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 5:12:19 PM

+
     The show is already in syndication, just not stripped daily. 
+You usually only trim network shows, which are longer than syndicated 
+shows; since we're already at that shorter length, it should be okay.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Syndication?			 (July 26, 1995 10:07:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 10:07:14 PM

+
     It wouldn't likely go daily until the 5 years are up.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 06, 1995 9:24:22 PM

+
     I *think* there's a jms gif somewhere in the files; 
+if not, it can be uploaded, as a "before" shot.  The "after" 
+shot can be found on any Post Office wall....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<DL real spoilers !>>		 (July 25, 1995 5:23:05 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 5:23:05 PM

+
     C4 is showing the eps in the right order; don't worry.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<DL real spoilers !>>		 (July 26, 1995 10:06:27 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 10:06:27 PM

+
<The Long, Twilight Struggle Divided Loyalties Comes The 
+Inquisitor The Fall Of Night>
+
+     No, they're not correct.  That's the production schedule, 
+not the preferred airdate schedule.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<Divided Loyalties>>		 (July 25, 1995 5:23:06 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 5:23:06 PM

+
     Remember, Kosh was the one who sent those images into Sheridan's 
+brain, not anybody else; he was communicating useful information that 
+may come up down the road, but in rather symbological form.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Star Fury Models			 (July 25, 1995 10:39:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 25, 1995 10:39:01 PM

+
<BTW, you do cons- ever heard the Frank Hayes song 'Little
+Fuzzy Animals?'>
+
+     No, never heard that song.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <<DL questions>>			 (July 26, 1995 10:07:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 26, 1995 10:07:17 PM

+
<Would a letter to WB about how not showing these episodes in the 
+US, but allowing them to be shown in England, has spoiled the 
+surprises you had planned for many of the biggest and most 
+supportive (but weak willed and looking for a B5 fix) fans of the 
+show do more harm than good?>
+
+     It wouldn't do a bit of good.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Bless B5 and Thank You		 (July 30, 1995 8:42:04 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 30, 1995 8:42:04 PM

+
<Thanks for creating B5.  We've had our first X Files 
+convention in Sacto, how about B5 stopping by?>
+
+     Thanks.  We're definitely growing, it seems.  And the prospect of a true 
+B5 convention is indeed a possibilitiy, though down the line a bit.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Speculation V Story Line		 (July 30, 1995 8:42:05 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 30, 1995 8:42:05 PM

+
     Introducing new story elements vs. speculating on what events already 
+shown may mean.  That's the dividing line.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Unlicensed Bumpersticker		 (July 30, 1995 9:00:08 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 30, 1995 9:00:08 PM

+
<Joe:
+
+I inadvertantly purchased an unlicensed bumpersticker from Starbase Columbus 
+thru the mail.  The sticker says "Beyond the Final Frontier lies Babylon 5" 
+with the B5 logo (trademark not acknowledged).  The sticker was produced by 
+Pegasus Publishing and shows their copywrite.<sic>  It also has a lousy 
+production quality -- that will teach me to order thru the mail.
+
+Would you like this sticker and the address & phone for Starbase Columbus?>
+
+     Yeah, I'd appreciate the info on that.  And if you've got one, all the 
+better.
+
+     Bad enough it's pirate, but to have crummy artwork...sheesh....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+[[[ EDITOR'S NOTE: MESSAGES WITH SPOILERS FOR THE LAST FOUR EPISODES CAN
+    BE FOUND IN THE FILE "spoilers" IN THIS DIRECTORY.  THEY'LL BE MERGED
+    BACK INTO THIS FILE AFTER THE US/CANADIAN AIRINGS OF THE EPISODES. ]]]
+

+
+
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+
+ Bless B5 and Thank You		 (July 31, 1995 11:29:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 11:29:01 PM

+
     Some parts of the world are in first season, some are in second.  
+It varies by area.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Party Suggestions?		 (July 31, 1995 12:45:19 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: July 31, 1995 12:45:19 PM

+
     The only thing I'd suggest is adding either And the Sky Full of 
+Stars and/or The Parliament of Dreams.
+
+     Photos or other residue can always be sent along to us, at the 
+address: 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Be sure to 
+include C/O Babylon 5 in the address.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Mailing Address		 (August 01, 1995 12:42:08 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 01, 1995 12:42:08 PM

+
     There is a growing diversification in the names and personnel 
+to whom letters are being sent via the B5 mail drop (which is not 
+the main studio address).  Consequently, it is important to be 
+absolutely sure to include the words C/O BABYLON 5 on any mail you 
+send cast or crew at this address: 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260,
+Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Otherwise it may end up being returned.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<TLTS: Shadow ships>>		 (August 03, 1995 2:05:24 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 03, 1995 2:05:24 PM

+
     The Sigma 957 vessel has no connection to the Shadows.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The name game			 (August 24, 1995 2:51:00 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 2:51:00 AM

+
     Joe Straczynski looks like a very small engine pulling a huge 
+caboose.
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+     Joseph Straczynski is too hard to say, even for me.
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+     J.M. Straczynski just looks dorky and cumbersome.
+     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+     J. Michael Straczynski, however, gives you a chance to sneak up 
+on thelast name...a little squib, one letter, nice and inoffensive, 
+then a longername, and then the big one.  It looks balanced on-screen.  
+It's fairly easyto say.
+
+     It's also a good "gatekeeper" of sorts; if the phone rings and it's
+someone who asks for Michael, I know instantly it's nobody I know
+personally.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ BIG BANG				 (August 23, 1995 9:34:19 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 23, 1995 9:34:19 PM

+
<>>Jawa #2 demands--no I mean, DEMANDS--to know who else will be script 
+writing in Season 3.
+	(Throw a name this way--she's vicious!)<<
+
+Calm down child.  Now tell us, just how many Jawas are there living 
+between your ears anyway? <GD&R>
+
+     Oh, the delightful possibilities....
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ BIG BANG				 (August 24, 1995 2:50:26 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 2:50:26 AM

+
<Will Peter David be writing for B5 this season?>
+
+     Peter and I have talked, and it remains a possibility.  Harlan 
+and I have talked, and it remains a possibility.  I'm still determined 
+to get Neil Gaiman.
+
+     Other than that, the ones in hand so far are all jms scripts.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ UK B5 Vids			 (August 24, 1995 2:42:08 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 2:42:08 AM

+
<Anyone noticed the minor problems with the cover to volume 4? 
+If not take a little look at the titles on the spine.>
+ 
+    Okay, what's the glitch...?
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <The B5 Final Four>		 (August 24, 1995 2:51:03 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 2:51:03 AM

+
<I have just finished viewing the Final Four... Man, I have to tell you; WOW!>
+
+     Gradually, we're getting this TeeVee thing figured out, I think.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <The B5 Final Four>		 (August 24, 1995 1:31:04 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 1:31:04 PM

+
     Didn't create Captain Power, only served as story editor and 
+primary writer on the only produced season.  Didn't end, just sorta 
+stopped.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Comics			 (August 24, 1995 1:31:05 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 1:31:05 PM

+
<Will this include the 4-issue arc you mentioned a couple of months ago, 
+which introduces a character who will later show up in the series?>
+
+     Yes, it includes that as well.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 5: Quickies		 (August 24, 1995 9:10:31 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 9:10:31 PM

+
<Cool. Is that why Sheridan chose it, because of the Flying Tigers 
+thing? If so that could tell us a little more about the character. 
+So, uh, is that a screamin' eagle I see on Ivanova's helmet?> 
+
+     Yes, Sheridan chose that traditional marking.  And it's a 
+traditional Russian eagle on Ivanova's helmet.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ BIG BANG				 (August 24, 1995 9:15:08 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 9:15:08 PM

+
+	<I'M strange?	
+			The Jawa
+			Kidism Patrol
+			Unarmed & Dangerous>
+
+     That was very brave of you to admit that.  Remember, 
+acknowledging your problem is the first step in dealing with it.
+
+     I think there was a typo, though, since there was a question 
+mark at the end, and it's clearly such an obviously intended direct 
+statement, given our prior experience.  I figured you'd want me to 
+point that out.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 CD: Where can I order		 (August 24, 1995 9:15:09 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 24, 1995 9:15:09 PM

+
     There's ordering info in the B5 library, section 5.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <<TLTS: Shadow ships>>		 (August 03, 1995 10:38:23 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 03, 1995 10:38:23 PM

+
<So what _was_ it then?  (Don't tell me: 'Yes' <g>)>
+
+     It was very old.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Quick Questions			 (August 26, 1995 10:10:17 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 26, 1995 10:10:17 PM

+
     Claudia is a hoot, not mistake.
+
+     The Writers Guild is the chief bargaining unit for working 
+writers in TV, film and radio in determining minimums, residuals, 
+and the like.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Comming of Shadows		 (August 26, 1995 10:10:20 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 26, 1995 10:10:20 PM

+
<In "The Coming of Shadows", what was the deal with the human and 
+two minbari in the centauri throne room as the prime minister was 
+told of the emporer's collapse?>
+
+     They were discussing possible use of a world on the fringe of 
+Centauri space for something of, they hoped, benign use.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pouchlings?			 (August 26, 1995 10:10:22 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 26, 1995 10:10:22 PM

+
     Yes, there are pouches; Narns, despite public perception, 
+are marsupials.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ SpecialFX			 (August 27, 1995 12:32:02 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 27, 1995 12:32:02 AM

+
     The B5 model in the gift shop in "Honor" is now in Sheridan's office, 
+bronzed, as is his right as captain.
+
+     Once the show is finally off the air, be assured that the model will 
+end up in THIS captain's office.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The name game			 (August 27, 1995 12:32:07 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 27, 1995 12:32:07 AM

+
     Thanks, yeah, slowly, very slowly, we're starting to crack through 
+the glass ceiling (if I can borrow that phrase) and get noticed in more 
+and more of the right places.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ AOL Chat Room for B5		 (August 27, 1995 12:32:13 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 27, 1995 12:32:13 AM

+
     It's my understanding that in the next few weeks/month, there will be a 
+separate B5 area on AOL, and I suspect this will help facilitate chat rooms.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Rerun chopped?			 (August 27, 1995 12:32:15 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 27, 1995 12:32:15 AM

+
     I couldn't tell you without seeing the actual footage.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 27, 1995 8:10:23 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 27, 1995 8:10:23 PM

+
     No, I understand the dilemma <pirate tapes existing because
+WB won't release official versions>, believe me...and on this end, 
+we're dancing as fast as we can to get WB moving.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pouchlings?			 (August 27, 1995 8:10:24 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 27, 1995 8:10:24 PM

+
     "And you called ME strange!"
+
+     Well, yes, but that was journalism....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Comic discontinued?		 (August 27, 1995 8:10:27 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 27, 1995 8:10:27 PM

+
     DC is cutting back on *all* their licensed properties; however, 
+they've committed to essentially 13 more issues to be done as one-shots,
+and 4-issue miniseries/graphic novels.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <DS9 4th season rumors             (August 03, 1995 2:05:23 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 03, 1995 2:05:23 PM

+
      "...you could ask for a MUCH smaller percentage of gross."
+
+      The only acceptable percentage of gross profits is zero.  
+Unless you're a megastar or megadirector.  Other than that, 
+nobody gets gross points.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 28, 1995 12:51:13 PM

+
      Shooting goes fine.  Just walked out onto the stage a few moments 
+ago, while they were setting up a shot.  Aircon is off, fuse went out, 
+but that should be corrected shortly.
+
+      And I'm just kidding with you.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ sq and b5			 (August 28, 1995 12:54:24 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 28, 1995 12:54:24 PM

+
     It's been established in the series that when we made first contact 
+with the Centauri, when they entered our space, they gave us a leg up on 
+technology, including jump gates, as part of a trade program.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ sq and b5			 (August 29, 1995 1:09:23 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 29, 1995 1:09:23 AM

+
<will there ever be a book availabel (perhaps a CD) which explains 
+WHAT thebackground of B5 is?
+
+Like a description of all the Alien Races etc. Their Culutre, 
+technology andso on.>
+
+     The hope is to do all that in a cd rom, which is currently being 
+considered and discussed with several possible designers.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 5 Party success!		 (August 28, 1995 11:17:26 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 28, 1995 11:17:26 PM

+
    When next you see Bill Loebs, tell him I love his work on the 
+Flash book.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ More books?			 (August 29, 1995 1:09:24 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 29, 1995 1:09:24 AM

+
     The books have sold well, and the third is coming out in the next 
+week or two.  Also, Dell has committed to 3 more at this time, including 
+one by S.M. Stirling, and another by Neal Barrett Jr.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ sq and b5			 (August 29, 1995 2:59:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 29, 1995 2:59:01 PM

+
<>>The hope is to do all that in a cd rom, which is currently being 
+consideredand discussed with several possible designers.<<
+
+Like the Interactive Technical Manual for Star Trek?>
+
+     Better.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ Babylon 5 Party success!		 (August 29, 1995 3:21:29 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 29, 1995 3:21:29 PM

+
     We're talking here William Messner Loebs, right?  So I'm confused, 
+then; I've seen his credit endlessly...I guess I'm having prolonged brain 
+fart, because I could swear it was on Flash (but you're right on the Mark 
+Waid part...senility is definitely creeping in).
+
+     Whether or not GG is making a mess in Comics Forum is not the issue 
+for me; he's *there*, and as such the forum members are vulnerable to being 
+quoted out of context, without their permission, in his mean-spirited little 
+rag, and I refuse to make that process any easier for him by being there.
+
+     You should definitely have Rob Davis call Laura Hitchcock at DC, if he 
+is interested; we're doing 13 more issues -- one-shots and 4-issue miniseries 
+-- so there's room to play.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5/Roswell ?			 (August 30, 1995 1:41:29 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 30, 1995 1:41:29 AM

+
<The facial resemblance between the aliens at Roswell <shown in the recent
+tv special> and B5's Minbari was rather striking.>
+
+     Do you really think there's that much resemblance?  I don't much see it, 
+myself, but this too is in the eye of the beholder.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Sci-Fi (Age) TV Article		 (August 31, 1995 1:23:18 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 31, 1995 1:23:18 AM

+
     I'm looking forward to seeing the article, haven't come across 
+it yet. As for posters, we can't do that, it has to come out of Warner 
+Bros. via someone licensing the product.  And yeah, we do seem finally 
+to be getting some heat out there....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 31, 1995 1:23:20 AM

+
     The emperor was referring to Londo and Refa.  And if the Centauri 
+telepaths suspected or picked up anything, to tell anyone would almost 
+certainly lead to a quick demise.  When you're that high up in the royal 
+court, you learn to keep your mouth shut.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <DS9 4th season rumors>		 (August 03, 1995 10:38:25 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 03, 1995 10:38:25 PM

+
     Because it gives you at least a shot, if the show is a huge 
+success, of eventually going in and having the right to examine 
+their books and at some far distant point, if you're willing 
+to throw away your career but there's some serious money to be 
+had, of going after them.  (Did you know that the majority of actors 
+from the original ST, outside the so-called Big Three, have over 
+30 years received only about $16,000 from ST in merchandise, profit, and 
+other areas?)
+
+     I believe it was Fess Parker who finally sued over profits 
+from his series, which after 25 years of syndication, was still 
+supposedly "in the red."  It took several years of litigation to 
+get the money he was owed from his "net."
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ <TLTS>				 (August 31, 1995 1:23:28 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 31, 1995 1:23:28 AM

+
     Agreed.  The use of different tactics and weapons at different distances 
+gives a sense that there is a *strategy* behind what's going on, that it's not 
+just two ships coming with city blocks of one another and clobbering each other.  
+Strategy implies intelligence, and to see intelligence in the shadow vessels 
+is scary indeed.....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Sci-Fi (Age) TV Article		 (August 31, 1995 12:45:23 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 31, 1995 12:45:23 PM

+
<The mag said somewhere that it's also from a branch of Warner's.  
+They ought to be able to do something about the lack of posters...  
+
+Oh, one last thing in the article.  Whoever (Dan Perez) wrote it 
+seems to think there's a good probability of doing all five years.>
+
+     From his lips to Warners' ears.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+
+
+
+*******************************************************
+* SPOILERS FOR FINAL FOUR SEASON-TWO EPISODES FOLLOW. *
+*******************************************************
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Long Twilight Struggle>		 (August 01, 1995 1:14:06 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 01, 1995 1:14:06 PM

+
<I've just finished watching The Long Twilight Struggle. Wow! 
+What can I say? By far the best episode yet.>
+
+     Thanks.  It's definitely one of my favorite episodes.  
+The intensity is terrific.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <<TLTS: CGI>>			 (August 01, 1995 3:56:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 01, 1995 3:56:17 PM

+
<I know Andreas is going to get much well-deserved praise for his 
+performance this week, but I'd like also to extend my appreciation 
+to your CGI crew - I don't think I have _ever_ seen a space battle 
+portrayed so well that I actually felt like it was real, that a 
+camera had somehow managed to record the events portrayed, as the 
+one between the Narn and Shadows.>
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, that scene is one of my favorites; a lot of work 
+went into it, and I think it shows.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<DL foreshadowing?>>		 (August 01, 1995 3:56:20 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 01, 1995 3:56:20 PM

+
<Is that the first time the camera has moved in a composite live 
+action / CGI shot?>
+
+     Oh, heavens, no...we often move the camera in composite shots; 
+all of the push-ins to the Zen garden are that way.
+
+     Hard stuff we do all the time; it's the impossible stuff that's 
+fun.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<Long Stug:Twiglght>>		 (August 01, 1995 11:23:18 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 01, 1995 11:23:18 PM

+
<I was convinved Last weeks episode was top notch. But this weeks 
+episode! WOW!>
+
+     Thanks.  It's difficult to keep topping each season, and each episode, 
+but we're dedicated to continuing to try.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Great Maker>			 (August 02, 1995 12:43:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 02, 1995 12:43:22 PM

+
<  The Long,Twilight Struggle just aired in Britain yesterday and I 
+loved it.  After stretching out our souls and hammering them with a 
+mallet in 'Confessions and Lamentations' then delivering a steel-shod 
+kick to the heart in 'Divided Loyalties', 'Long, Twilight Struggle' almost 
+finished me off.>
+
+     Thanks; the reaction to "Twilight" has been terrific, and I think it 
+bodes well for us in the coming year.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Shadow ship influence?		 (August 02, 1995 12:43:27 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 02, 1995 12:43:27 PM

+
Not really, re: stealth ships, but there is something in us all that responds 
+nervously when something large and dark and menacing flies overhead, particularly 
+close-up.  Maybe it's second-cousin to the instinct that makes baby ducks run 
+for cover when the shadow of a hawk falls over them.  Either way, it's 
+compelling, and that sense is what I wanted in that shot.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Divided Loyalties>		 (August 02, 1995 12:44:02 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 02, 1995 12:44:02 PM

+
    Yeah, I wouldn't waste much time on the gun-hand, frankly.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <<TLTS: Shadow ships>>		 (August 02, 1995 12:59:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 02, 1995 12:59:14 PM

+
     Actually, what's probably confusing is that the shadow vessels are 
+bi-level, so when two come together it looks like four or so; but it's 
+just the two.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Season 3 Starts Shooting		 (August 03, 1995 2:05:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 03, 1995 2:05:15 PM

+
     It's just something I've had to learn out of self-defense; 
+I've never actually been good with crowds, was always terrified of 
+speaking in front of a group.  But sometimes you gotta do 
+what scares you....
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <<TLTS: Shadow ships>>		 (August 03, 1995 12:00:11 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 03, 1995 12:00:11 AM

+
     Ron and I discussed the shadow designs, and he went off and developed
+this into what you see, and as soon as I saw them, I approved them, as they 
+were very close to what I had in mind.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Narn Heavy Cruisers>		 (August 03, 1995 12:00:09 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 03, 1995 12:00:09 AM

+
     There are various kinds of ships the Narns have, some older than others; 
+the ones in the first ep were older ones.
+
+                                                                jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 03, 1995 2:06:01 PM

+
     "The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  
+It failed. But in the year of the Shadow War, it becam something 
+greater: our last, best hope...for victory.  The year is 
+2260.  The place: Babylon 5."
+
+                                                     jms
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+
     Why bring up Sebastian's past?  Because it's integral to who he is 
+now, and what he's doing, and why he's doing it.  Also, there's something 
+very important here about greying up the Vorlons a little; of all the people 
+they could've chosen for this job, why THIS kind of person?  It makes them a 
+trifle more morally ambiguous, which is necessary.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
      What happened is...basically...Joe is a moron.
+
+      I did my research.  I called up the info on the encyclopedia, got all 
+the dates right, and my eyes saw East End and for whatever stupid, idiotic 
+reason, my fingers typed West instead of East, and nobody, NObody, caught it 
+until now.  I'd loop it, but alas the line is on his face, and it'd look real 
+stupid, and the delivery is *so* perfect as it is; if we looped it, 
+we'd destroy it.
+
+      So I content myself with the notion that it's west...of B5.
+
+      Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go shoot myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
	<Well, you could always say the West End fell into the ocean 
+and what used to be the East End is now the West End.<G>
+
+      Or one could say it's West of Babylon 5.>
+
+      No, no, it's hopeless...I'll have to turn in my writer's card.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
     Unfortunately (yes, we discussed this), he says the line *on camera*, 
+and the shape of the mouth for West is very different than for East; also 
+the performance wouldn't be nearly as good.  So there it is....
+
+                                                             jms
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+
     Yeah, it's always the dopey, small stuff that slips past, and nobody 
+notices until it jumps out at you when it's too late.
+
+     Should have something official about the comic shortly.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
     They SNIPPED the shot of G'Kar slicing his hand?  You're kidding!  I find 
+that quite astonishing; it was done discreetly.  I'm dumbfounded.  No wonder 
+there was confusion about that scene.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
<As regards the knife, I am sure that this was not shown on our version. 
+Perhaps C4 has been using its own knife, they have done so in the past.
+
+For some reason the British censors have a real problem with knives. Rape, 
+torture, nudity, language, you name it seems to get past the censors but 
+you never see anybody even accidentally cutting himself.>
+
+     You're right, btw; I was informed in another message here that they did 
+snip that piece of G'Kar's action.  Suffice to say I had *no* idea, and now
+that I *do* have an idea...I'm simply wog-boggled.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
     I guess I chose "Twilight" because it's just such a kick-ass 
+episode that works great with an audience.
+
+     And yeah, the whole presentation was a hoot.
+
+                                                           jms
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+
<Could we say that the Vorlon telepathy constantly being referred to in
+terms of a song is something akin to the "Heavenly Choir"?>
+
+     A choir, yes; heavenly remains to be seen.
+
+                                                           jms
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+
<>>     A choir, yes; heavenly remains to be seen.
+
+Was Karl Edward Muller's compilation of a "choir to sing me into heaven
+when I die" significant in any way that will be important later?>
+
+     Who can say?
+
+                                                           jms
+
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+
     Yes, I have a voice like five thousand moths dying simultaneously
+in a very large bowl of tea.
+
+                                                           jms
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+
     I tied him <the main characer in CTI> to a specific person because 
+in writing, you *always* try to go for specifics, because generalities don't 
+really work.  It's the difference, in prose, between, "The room smelled good," 
+and "The room smelled of cinnamon and fresh coffee."  Also, the specific 
+connotations to who and what Jack was were essential and integral to the 
+storyline.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
     Sebastian was played by Wayne Alexander, a British actor of great skill 
+who hasn't been seen much on TV before this, but should now, with this 
+performance as a calling card.  It was a stunning performance.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
     Your analysis is *exactly* correct.
+
+     Also, check Sebastian's reaction when he asks Delenn what if she's wrong, 
+"have you ever considered that?  HAVE YOU?"
+
+     She responds, softly, "....yes."
+
+     Look at his face when she says this.  It rattles him.  It's not the answer 
+he expected, but more important, it's not the answer he wanted, needed to hear.
+He needed to hear her say that she had never had the slightest *scintilla* of
+doubt, that as he had been, she was a True Believer, a fanatic, incapable of
+doubt of mistake...and thus doomed to failure.  He can't even meet her gaze; he
+turns, looks away, and suggests an "intermission" that is more for his benefit
+than hers.
+
+     There's an awful lot going on in this show, a great deal of it sub rosa,
+under the surface, implied in gestures or hesitations or looks, some implied,
+some stated outright.  He *hates* the memory of Jack; it's not his name, the
+one thing that is his...remember, he is caught up with "who ARE you?" and his
+answer to that is lost in the persona created by history...his true name, is
+what's totally forgotten to history.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
     I'd say that those are good and accurate points all around, well 
+considered.  As for locale, it was similar to, but not exactly the same 
+as the one in which the Marcabs died, though I did want to somewhat evoke 
+the memory of that when I indicated the set I had in mind.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
     Of course, his real name was never Jack Sebastian; "Jack" 
+is his working name, Sebastian could be a first or last name.
+
+                                                    jms
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Date: August 15, 1995 3:24:13 AM

+
     It wasn't intended that Delenn should touch Draal; it sorta 
+happened on the set, and no one really noticed, and it wasn't worth 
+going back and reshooting the whole thing.  My sense is that if it's 
+like a virtual reality situation, she would "feel" it even though 
+it's not there, if the image was impinging correctly on the brain.
+
+     But in either event, the image is not and should not be considered 
+to be solid.
+
+     As for Londo's shot...the director called "cut" I think a bit too 
+soon, we used every frame we had to extend that shot (and, in fact, we 
+even went so far as to freeze the final frame and extend the shot by a 
+smidge, if you look at it carefully).  Nonetheless, I think it works 
+pretty spiffily.
+
+     As for the mass drivers, the amount of energy required to move 
+something that big would generate huge amounts of heat, possibly making 
+them even white-hot, hence the glow.
+
+     Anyway, thanks for the comments; I do think it's possibly either 
+the best, or one of the best shows to that point.
+
+                                                          jms
+
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+
<_The Fall of Night_ has just finished, and all I can say is that 
+this has got to be the most 'OH MY GOD' episode ever!  I don't 
+know how you are going to top this one...>
+
+     Thanks.  That last sequence is the single biggest effects 
+sequence done for TV, insofar as I know.  There are 34 composite 
+shots in a matter of just a few minutes.  Our guys nearly went blind 
+doing it, but it's cool.  The whole feel, I think, is quite nice.
+
+                                                          jms
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+
"By the way, your dedication and commitment to your audience is the 
+coolest thing I have ever seen come from the makers of a series, 
+sci-fi or otherwise. You have no idea how much we appreciate it!"
+
+     Thanks.  I guess, really, it's just having been a fan, and still 
+being a fan in many ways, I just figure fans should be treated the way 
+I would've liked to have been treated by folks in TeeVee.  It's really as 
+much my pleasure as anyone else's.
+
+                                                            jms
+
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+
<One thing I wondered about - when Lanz made that little speech about 
+'peace in our time' I sat bolt upright, because it sounded akin to 
+what Chamberlain said when he got back from Munich in 1938, having 
+just signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany.>
+
+     Yes, it was a definite nod to Chamberlain, and a bit of foreshadowing 
+for ominous things to come.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
     Oh, yeah, I'd think that most folks will get it over here; and 
+those who don't, just won't notice it, and will take it on face value.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
     There are a number of metaphors in the show that operate on many 
+different levels; it can't be a one-to-one corrolary to WW II, because 
+that limits and makes predictable your story.
+
+     In musical terms, it's almost a tonal piece, taking elements to 
+which we respond, almost subconsciously, and then rearranging them into 
+something that is, one hopes, a new construct.  You can find here echoes of 
+Vietnam, of Kennedy, of Chamberlain, of WW II, of Korea, of the Mideast; 
+in a way, it's a thematic piece that touches how we have come to think of 
+war, and conflict, across the development of the 20th century, and the 
+role of the individual in that regard.
+
+     We have learned to think of war as something now on a huge scale, 
+an entity in itself.  Once upon a time, before the gatling gun and the 
+automatic rifle, combat was something individual, even in larger wars, 
+one person against the enemy...and that person was honored, one person 
+could turn the tide against the enemy.  In a world in which weapons of 
+mass destruction exist, where then is the individual?  Where then the 
+bravery, the struggle, the triumph...and the failure?  Where, 
+fundamentally, is the responsibility?
+
+     All of that is intertwined with the storyline, and to communicate that 
+I'm not averse to taking elements of history that resonate with that theme 
+and reworking them, knowing that on a cellular level, we *recognize* that 
+aspect, we've seen it...but now in a new context, we can see it differently, 
+discuss its implications, *learn* from it.
+
+     This is one of the things I rarely talk about, because it's the kind of 
+thing that is best left simply implied, or implicit, in the work, and because 
+if you have to draw attention to something in the work, somehow I think it 
+lessens it, because it works best unspoken.  And because I guess it sounds 
+kinda presumptuous, and high-falutin' and self-indulgent.  But it's one the 
+things that matters to me in the context of the story.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 11:53:30 PM

+
     C4 can't repeat the show in widescreen, because it hasn't been 
+delivered in that fashion, it'd require going back to the original 
+wide negatives; but they are negotiating to show season 3 that way 
+(Germany and France have already signed on for that).
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 12:59:17 PM

+
<I was right!!!
+Kosh is an angelic/christian image.
+It was made clear that he is an angel, but not which one, if that 
+can be revealed within this show.....>
+
+     Actually, no, not really; Kosh is what you see when you look at 
+him. And if a Drazi looks at him, the Drazi sees something different 
+than a Minbari; yes, a being of light, BUT....
+
+     Is that what they actually ARE, or how they have programmed us 
+to react when we see them?  As Sheridan said, have we been *manipulated* 
+to seeing them a certain way, seeing a certain image?  We may not be
+seeing what they ARE, but what they WANT us to see.
+
+     It goes a heck of a lot deeper than what it seems.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <KOSH!!!!!!>			 (August 15, 1995 3:02:03 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 3:02:03 PM

+
     Take Kosh at face value?  No, not at all, never my intent.
+
+     And yes, my spousal overunit wrote "By Any Means."
+
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ <KOSH!!!!!!>			 (August 16, 1995 1:37:11 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 1:37:11 PM

+
<>Kosh is what you see when you look at him.
+
+Does that mean that Kosh would appear different to a Hindu, a Buddist 
+and the  members of all the other human religous belief systems?
+
+Will there ever be widescreen videos of B5, and, if not, 
+when are the laserdiscs due to be released.>
+
+     Yes, there would be some amount of variation among humans, though not 
+in terms of beliefs that may have come along post-Vorlon influence.  This 
+sort of thing has been implanted almost at a genetic level, and they do 
+have a hand, or a mind, in activating it when seen.  The more people who see 
+them in different ways, the longer they must maintain that, the greater the 
+strain on them.
+
+     And someday, some happy, distant day, we do hope to have widescreen 
+laser disks, but that day is not yet in sight.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Kosh is .....>			 (August 15, 1995 6:33:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 6:33:15 PM

+
<P.S. Is it just my imagination or has Ivanova gone back to the severe hair 
+pulled back look from before her friendship to Talia began?>
+
+     Her look varies depending on mood, day, and circumstance.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 12:59:20 PM

+
<Kosh is........... an Angel???>
+
+     Is he?  Or is that how we've been manipulated to see, as Sheridan 
+notes?
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <KOSH ID, jms, SPOILERS>		 (August 15, 1995 2:47:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 2:47:17 PM

+
     Since "The Fall of Night" has now aired in the UK, and word is getting 
+out, herewith a post I left on GEnie about Kosh's now-revealed identity.  
+I thought it came out fairly well, so I'm repeating it here.
+
+*****
+
+      Okay.  Here it is.  I'm gonna do it.  I'm gonna reveal Kosh.
+
+      I'm not kidding.  Bail now if you're looking in and don't want to 
+know.
+
+
+
+
+     No backsies.
+
+
+
+
+
+     I mean it.
+
+
+
+
+     Last chance.
+
+     Okay, this is it.
+
+     "If he leaves his encounter suit, he will be recognized."  
+     "By who?" 
+     "Everyone."
+
+     "The First Ones taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim, 
+built civilizations...."
+
+     Kosh is what you're pointing at when you say "That's Kosh."
+
+     "Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth, the Vorlons have been everywhere. 
+The Vorlons *are*."
+
+     They *are*.
+
+     "For centuries, the Vorlons have helped the younger races, guiding us, 
+and --"   "And manipulating us?"  "It is, as you say, a matter...
+of perspective."
+
+     They *are*...a matter of perspective.
+
+     Each race who sees them, sees something out of their own past, their 
+own legends, religions, faiths.  A being of light, if you will, but a Drazi 
+sees the Drazi version of that, Droshalla; the Minbari see the Minbari 
+version of that, Valeria; humans see a human version of that.
+
+     It is the mirror in which we see our beliefs reflected, but is it 
+the progenitor of those beliefs...or an implanted image that overlays that 
+vision on top of the true form of the Vorlon?  Is it revelation, or is it 
+manipulation?
+
+     The Vorlons are a cypher.  The Vorlons are a matter of perspective. 
+The Vorlons are guides...or users, emissaries or puppeteers, who wish 
+to be seen a certain way, so that we will react properly.
+
+     Is this good, or is this bad?
+
+     And the truth is, even though you have seen a Vorlon, have you seen 
+THE Vorlon, the one behind the image that dances somewhere between your 
+optic nerve and your brain?
+
+     Or to quote a message I left long ago, paraphrased from memory, 
+"The hand Sinclair sees is not the hand Sinclair sees, and the hand Sinclair 
+sees is not the same hand someone else in the room sees, and is not even the 
+hand that that person sees."
+
+     The Vorlons Are.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Season Three Narration		 (August 05, 1995 12:22:31 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 05, 1995 12:22:31 AM

+
     Yeah, Chris tends to get the lion's share of the credit for 
+being online, though I've been here since 1984/85, but that's okay; 
+it's the principle that matters.
+
+     I'm glad it's helped to demystify TV, because that's been one 
+of my goals from the very start.  You can't hope to influence or 
+control something until you understand it.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <KOSH ID, jms, SPOILERS>		 (August 16, 1995 11:53:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 11:53:15 PM

+
<My impression of Kosh was one of relative weakness. I increasingly get the 
+feeling that Kosh is indecisive and weak. Kosh allowed himself to be poisoned 
+by a Minbari and, we assume, be attacked by Morden. He needed Sebastian to 
+determine the motives of Delenn and Sheridan and a Vicar to probe Talia, and
+here he needed Delenn to convince him to take action. He seems to use everyone
+else but seldom does anything himself. Here he demonstrated the ability to fly
+and somehow misdirect those watching. There might have been several ways a 
+metaphysically-enlightened being could have resolved the situation without 
+revealing himself. I assume that, for example Ironheart, could have done 
+something with a simple thought.
+
+I suppose I do find Kosh slighty "rightous" for my taste.>
+
+     Thanks.  And finding Kosh slightly righteous is pretty much the desired 
+intent.  So you're clicking on all the right cylinders.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ TFoN No spoilers			 (August 15, 1995 3:02:02 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 3:02:02 PM

+
     How do we top this?  We just do it, because we kinda have to.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Season two Finale>		 (August 15, 1995 3:02:06 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 3:02:06 PM

+
<I just want to say thank-you for all the hours of enertainment that B5
+has brought to my friends and I over the last couple of years - the
+quality of the storylines, acting and special effects has converted us 
+fromStar Trek nuts to Babylon maniacs !!>
+
+     I'm very glad to hear that, thanks.  It's a great note to go out on.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <The Fall of Night>		 (August 15, 1995 3:02:08 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 3:02:08 PM

+
<JMS, please keep up the execellent work, please pass on "OUR" thanks to 
+your production team.>
+
+     Thanks, that's truly great to here.  A lot of sweat and blood went into 
+that one.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <KOSH!!!!!!>			 (August 15, 1995 3:02:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 3:02:13 PM

+
    Londo saw what he said he saw.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Fall of Night - story>		 (August 15, 1995 3:12:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 3:12:17 PM

+
     Actually, the "snitch" was the C&C tech, NOT the pilot, they just 
+have a somewhat similar appearance.
+
+     We've established that klaxons go off elsewhere in the station 
+during an attack to warn civilians, but they aren't going off in C&C 
+because they make it impossible to concentrate, as per military tradition 
+(see "And Now For a Word" to confirm this).
+
+     There wasn't time to call Draal, and they can't begin relying on him 
+for every problem; they have to be able to hold their own.  You would only 
+bring in Draal on something really major.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 6:33:08 PM

+
<Keffer jettisoned his recording as soon as the Shadow ship started scanning
+him. But the ISN broadcast showed the Shadow ship turning and firing,
+supposedly after the recording had been jettisoned. Was the jettisoned
+recording fitted with something that enabled to continue to record up to 
+the point where Keffer's ship got wasted?>
+
+      Yeah, I kinda figured that recorders like this would be outfitted with a 
+receiver for the ship's gun camera.  This would be vital to locate ships that
+got lost, and track as long as possible what happened after the log was
+ejected, and before the recorder moved out of range.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Fall of Night>			 (August 15, 1995 6:33:09 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 6:33:09 PM

+
<The narrative at the end was novel. Was this intentional or did you 
+originally plan to do another episode?>
+
+     The narrative was a tonal setup for next season.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <TLTS: Narn Ships?>		 (August 15, 1995 6:33:16 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 6:33:16 PM

+
     Not much to the secret...they coordinated their firepower on one of 
+the ships, in hopes of doing damage.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <A Question for JMS>		 (August 15, 1995 11:34:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 11:34:13 PM

+
<Will Vir, even metaphorically, get to wave at Morden?>
+
+     That would be telling.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ U.S. video release		 (August 05, 1995 12:22:08 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 05, 1995 12:22:08 AM

+
     We're working on it....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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Date: August 15, 1995 11:34:14 PM

+
<Sebastian believed he had a destiny, so there must have been a reason 
+why he thought he was superior to other people.
+
+He threatened to stop Delenn's heart. Either he was using the frazzler, 
+or the Vorlons changed him, or he could do that before the Vorlons got him.
+
+Ironheart claimed he could do something similar, and he was part of an 
+experiment to create telekinetics using drugs. Sebastian would have had 
+easier access to more powerful drugs than we do now.  Ironheart also 
+mentioned that most TKs were insane.
+
+If there is a link between Psy-Corps and the shadows, and if the Psy-Corps 
+are investigating telekinesis in humans, does that have have any bearing 
+on why the Vorlons took Sebastian?>
+
+     Well...one out of four ain't bad.
+
+     Thanks.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Series 3?			 (August 16, 1995 2:25:17 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 2:25:17 AM

+
<Anyway, I suppose we'll find out sooner or later. Or, *horrors*! What 
+if jms has it scripted so that we never do find out much more about the 
+Shadows!!!!>
+
+     Don't worry, all will be revealed in time.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 2:34:16 AM

+
     Yes, the camera was still mounted on the Starfury, but cameras even 
+today are constantly transmitting to other locations; TV cameras don't 
+just transmit on a cable to the box they're attached to, they are uplinked 
+to other places.  Similarly, the recording device continued to receive 
+transmission fro the Starfury until such time as it either went out of 
+range or, in this case, the transmitter was destroyed.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 1:37:15 PM

+
<BTW, is Keffer doorknob-dead or what ?!?!?!>
+
+     He is an Ex-Keffer.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <<Babcom '95 revisited>>		 (August 18, 1995 7:14:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 7:14:17 PM

+
<Back when you were over here for the Babcom '95 con, you showed us a 
+tape including some goodies from forthcoming episodes. The only one 
+which we haven't seen in the Last Four [tm] appeared to show Vir falling 
+from a great height, which caused considerable anguish and discussion 
+amongst Vir-fans.>
+
+     That was from a scene we cut from an episode.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
<I have some questions as well.  It seems that Ironheart should have 
+picked up on the hidden personality inside Talia's psyche.
+
+ It seems that Talia was basicly a good person.  Which of her personalities 
+was the construct, Talia or Control?>
+
+     Control was the construct.  The alternate personality was dormant at the 
+time Ironheart was there.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
<>> Control was the construct.  The alternate personality was dormant at 
+the time Ironheart was there.
+
+I have been thinking about this. It seems to me that one would not just 
+*construct* a personality, you would have to have a starting point. 
+Was the new personality formed from Talia to begin with? Is the new 
+personalities name Isabella?>
+
+     I'd rather let this aspect slide for the moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
<I have only one burning question - that scene with Delenn and Sheridan 
+in the garden, where they're discussing the gaps in her vocabulary... was 
+that by any chance inspired by the long-running thread here about that 
+portion of Mira's anatomy? <g>>
+
+     No, the scene just came out of looking to have some fun with 
+language.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
<Was there a kiss between two characters that was edited out in 
+Divided Loyalties?>
+
+     Nope, no such scene was cut.  It's just a slightly awkward 
+match in the edited shots.
+
+                                                            jms
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+ <TLTS - Draal - bravo!>		 (August 27, 1995 12:32:18 AM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 27, 1995 12:32:18 AM

+
     Thanks.  Draal's played by John Shuck, who did a great job.  
+And yes, we'll definitely be seeing him again.  (We first met him in 
+"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+
+                                                            jms
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Date: August 06, 1995 12:52:17 AM

+
     Let me address the small points first, then go into the major 
+thesis.
+
+     What keeps B5 from becoming a "cult" series if it runs only its 
+five years?  I dunno...lots of shows run only 5 years or less.  The 
+majority of them, in fact.  I'd also point out that in the moderately-
+hard SF area -- space stuff, star travel and the like -- no show has EVER 
+gone five years except Star Trek.  Even Lost in Space went only 3 years 
+(September 1965 to September 1968).  Prior to the new incarnations of ST, 
+the original series ALSO didn't make it past 3 years.
+
+     So if you really *want* to look at the only non-Star Trek spacefaring 
+SF series to go (hopefully) five years in, oh, the entire HISTORY of 
+American television and minimize that by calling it a "cult" series, well, 
+that's certainly your right.  I don't agree with it, but one wouldn't expect 
+me to.
+
+     Twin Peaks, which only went about 2, max 3 seasons, is a short enough 
+run to be justifiably called a "cult" show.  Five seasons is a credible 
+series in *anyone's* book.  Right now, at just shy of year two, we're still 
+a cult series.  By year five we would not be; we'd be in the same ranks as 
+any successful TV series, and success is defined as 90-100 episodes in the 
+can, enough to syndicate thereafter.  So right from the git-go, the term 
+being used, "cult series," doesn't apply, I think.  It's no more a cult 
+series than any mainstream series that goes 5 seasons.  (Hill Street Blues 
+just *barely* made it to six years.)
+
+     Blake's 7 is a UK series, and to American audiences, that usually 
+becomes "cult" by definition.  And, again, B7 ran only 4 years, from January 
+1978 - December 1981.  Dr. Who, though gifted with a 20+ year run, is also not 
+much known in the US, and thus comes under a "cult" show heading by that 
+default.  (Because part of the definition of cult show is not a numerical 
+issue, as you seem to advance, but a philosophical issue, the extent to which 
+the society at large knows about the show, or elements of that show.)
+
+     But to continue using your terminology for a moment...Space 1999, which 
+you cite, ran only from 1975-1977, three years again, which once more does 
+not allow for any real momentum to be built up in making the general populace 
+aware of it.  Quantum Leap made 5 years, but since we're talking space-SF at 
+the moment, and it'sreally more of an anthology series with recurring 
+characters, that goes into a separate category for now.
+
+     If this show goes the full five years -- and it will -- it will become 
+the only non-Star Trek space series to do so in the history of American TV. 
+That is a *huge* accomplishment.  Will it become widely known and accepted by 
+the American consciousness, mainstreamed like ST, so that Jay Leno can comment 
+on Klingons and everybody in the audience knows what he's talking about?  
+Who knows?  Maybe, maybe not.  Doesn't really matter to me one way or another.  
+The show will be there.  A painting is no less a 
+painting for the number of people who pass in front of it.  It is what it is.
+
+     I could probably help matters a bit by going more for merchandising, put 
+in some scantily-clad women, doing a lot of stunts...but I've said from the 
+start, I'm not here to try and make a franchise, I'm here to tell a story.  
+Some folks will like it, some won't.  Them's the breaks.
+
+     So the thesis of your panel, in some measure, seems to be, If B5 does 
+not become as well known as ST, is it ultimately successful or important in 
+American culture?  To me, this is inherently flawed reasoning.  ST is only the 
+measure of ST, and nothing else.  I'd even argue that except for the original 
+series, there really isn't any one thing called Star Trek.  There was the 3 
+season show that Gene did in the late 60s; there was the first movie Gene did 
+in the late 1970s; the other movies that were done by other people, like Nick 
+Meyer and Harve Bennet; the TNG series that was created by Gene and David 
+Gerrold; the DS9 that was created by Berman/Pillar; and the ST:V created by 
+Piller, Berman and Taylor.
+
+     They are all, in many ways, very different creations, that share only one 
+thing: the brand name.  If you renamed B5, STAR TREK: BABYLON 5, the ratings 
+would go up instantly, and it would become more of a household name than it is.  
+It would be no different a show, but it would have that brand name behind it.
+
+     "What keeps Trek from falling into the "cult" classification is the 
+ongoing production."  Negative.  To play one side of the coin for a moment, 
+the second most of the population knows or recognizes the word "Klingon," it has 
+stopped being a cult show, *on a philosophical level*.  And that happened long 
+before TNG ever went into production.  That happened over the 20 years the 
+original three-season ST was in syndication.
+
+     To play the other side of it...I hate to break it to you, but media SF is 
+STILL considered a "cult" area, by critics, by networks, by the press, by most of 
+the population.  A very small portion of viewers watch SF, including ST.  It may 
+seem to you otherwise, because as SF fans we're nominally in the fishbowl, but it's 
+true.  In syndication, you need far fewer ratings points to survive.  Overall, 
+neither TNG nor DS9 got anywhere near decent network ratings, though there were a 
+few times in TNG's history -- the pilot and a couple others -- where it approached 
+that.  Put onto a network series list, they would both be where ST:V is right now...
+in the cellar.
+
+     So, overall, I think the entire thesis of the panel is flawed, and proceeds 
+from the trap of accepted cliche, misinformation and fuzzy thinking that has little 
+to do with the realities of TV and culture.
+
+     Now to the main point of *my* thesis here.
+
+     I'm frankly tired as hell of "ST vs. B5" or "ST/B5" panels, however they're 
+couched.  They are separate shows, they have nothing to do with one another, 
+they're as different as night and day, and the only reason to put them into the 
+same panel is to start a fracas or take a philosophical position by defined 
+contrariness.  And, fundamentally, it continues to put ST at the center of the 
+universe.  We're going on our third season now, and things look good for seasons 
+thereafter.  We've carved out our own identity. why can't we be taken or discussed 
+on our own?  Why does there always have to be this nutty feud?
+
+     Are you going to be doing ST/Quantum Leap panels?  Will there be any X-Files
+/Star Trek panels?  No, because they're nothing like Star Trek, AND NEITHER ARE WE.  
+Yet everywhere we go, ST follows us around like Marley's Ghost, rattling its chains 
+and dominating the conversation.
+
+     "Can Babylon 5 replace Trek as THE icon of SF?...without a continued run."
+First off, THE icon to whom?  To core ST viewers?  Of course not.  To core B5 
+viewers?  In many cases, it already has.  You equate numbers of episodes to 
+quality of episodes.  Many SF writers have written MORE novels than Robert Heinlein...
+but how many have written them BETTER?  And which is more an icon of SF?  Who is 
+this person who decides what a media or print SF *ICON* is?
+
+     The Oxford American Dictionary defines "icon" as, "a painting or mosaic of 
+a sacred person, *itself* regarded as sacred."  If that's the Pointy Hat under 
+discussion, I'd rather pass, all things considered.  I don't WANT this show to 
+become an ICON.  I want to tell this story, about these people.  You can't sit 
+there worrying if it's going to become a Huge Eternal Monster, or some revered 
+icon, or anything that comes after the fact. That way lies madness.  You can 
+only concentrate on telling the story, and making the program, as best you can.  If the audience finds you, and likes it, you get to stay on the air and finish 
+your story; if not, you don't.  That simple.
+
+     Nothing personal in this, btw, this isn't a flame, and I'm not annoyed,
+I'm just trying to answer the question honestly.  And yes, the info you 
+provided re: BB was most helpful.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
<First, the important stuff<g>-Did Ann Bruice get married?  I 
+noticed an additional name on her credit.
+
+All the spoilers I read didn't make much of this exchange:
+
+Delenn:...unless the Vorlons were prepared to stand against them.
+Sheridan: Are they?
+Delenn: I do not think so.
+
+That scared the h*ll out of me.  Does this mean the Vorlons won't 
+help against the shadows? If so, we're in deep trouble.
+
+The SFX was great, including the shuttle effects.  Can't wait for 
+season three.>
+
+     Yes, Anne got married.  As for the Vorlons line..."prepared" 
+should be taken in the same sense as "ready"...so they may not yet be 
+ready.
+
+     Definite agreement on the shuttle sequence, works nicely.
+
+                                                                jms
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Date: August 27, 1995 12:32:25 AM

+
<I just caught TLTS and I just wanted to thank you for staging a space 
+battle between two opposing fleets instead of just two ships.  And for 
+having the ships engage at a distance too great for them to all fit on 
+the TV screen at the same time.  You have once again raised the bar on 
+TV SF.>
+
+     Thanks.  One of the things I wanted to try was to find a way to stage 
+long-range combat. One of the things everyone says is that even though real 
+aerial combat tends to be at great distance -- and space combat would be 
+conducted over thousands of kilometers, you probably wouldn't be able to even 
+SEE your opponent at that range, just pick up the enemy ships on your scanners 
+-- you can't do that for TV because you need to have both in frame, 
+hammering each other short-range, to make it work for viewers.
+
+     But I've always liked a challenge, so I thought I'd see if I could make 
+it work.  The two sides are, as noted, thousands of kilometers apart, and take 
+most of that sequences just to catch up with each other.  And frankly, I think 
+it's probably one of the most dynamic battle sequences we've ever done, so you 
+can expect more in the future, now that I've kind of got the hang of how to 
+do this.
+
+                                                                   jms
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 31, 1995 12:45:25 PM

+
<The Narns fire an energy mine of some sort.  Was I seeing things,
+or did the Shadow ships "phase" out and then back in to avoid the
+brunt of this attack??  If so, it was a VERY interesting maneuver.>
+
+     No, they didn't phase out so much as absorb the energy, 
+at cost of great pain.
+
+                                                         jms
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+
     "Joe, you do not disappoint."
+
+     I'm trying *awful* hard not to.  Doing this show right is terribly 
+important to all of us involved in it.  I really want it to be the kind 
+of show I've always wanted to watch as a fan.  And I'm very, very pleased 
+that the writing is generally satisfactory.  Sometimes, when 
+behind the keyboard, one has grave doubts if it's good enough....
+
+                                                               jms
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+
     "Surely that sort of thing <trick accounting to hide profits from the cast 
+andproducers> is illegal, if not immoral?"
+
+      It's Chinatown, Jake.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
     Actually, it's fairly well known that Ron Goulart ghost-writes the 
+TekWar novels for Shatner.
+
+                                                                       jms
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Date: August 07, 1995 2:39:03 AM

+
<I would like to further point out the following: CompuServe is a 
+fair sampling of science fiction fandom hooked up electronically to 
+online services, and while this branch of fandom is still a minority,
+I would say it is fairly smaller but still representative cross-
+section of fandom.
+
+And on CompuServe's SF & Fantasy Media Forum, Babylon Five has been 
+the single *highest* trafficked message section since the Forum's 
+inception in October 1994.  (I don't have the figures before the split 
+off hand.)
+
+Star Trek has been, for the past six months, number three.>
+
+     Well, hell, if that's the case, then I'm owed some *MAJOR* perks 
+around here.  That official food taster never DID arrive, you know....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
     Understood.  No healing needed; it wasn't directed at you as much 
+as the topic.
+
+     I do understand your point; but I still don't think it's valid.  
+If by cult you mean, as you say, "anyone who is a fan of something that 
+is no more," not being produced, then EVERY TV series ever produced, 
+that is now no longer being produced, becomes a "cult" show.  Again, that 
+broadens the definition to the point where it's essentially meaningless.  
+Specificity In Language Is Our Friend.
+
+     The other point that I forgot to bring up in an already overlong reply 
+was this: you ask, can B5 "become the mainstream reference to SF?"  For 
+starters, it shouldn't, because then, for the mainstream SF = B5, and I don't 
+think that's correct.  The whole point of the exercise is to broaden out and 
+encourage MORE SF on the air.  What is the mainstream reference for cop shows?  
+Is it CANNON?  HILL ST. BLUES?  NYPD BLUE?  DRAGNET?  There are so many of them, 
+there isn't one clear point of reference.  That is the goal with SF, to get 
+people to understand that there isn't any one thing that is a reference point 
+to SF.
+
+     What would it be in literature?  Heinlein?  Asimov?  Clark?  Ellison? 
+Ashton-Smith?  Russell?  Simak?  Bradbury?  Anybody who says that Writer X is 
+THE reference point in SF would be laughed out of the room.  The only reason 
+that ST has kind of "been" that by default is that there hasn't been much 
+ELSE in 30 years that's been even moderately successful.  Once that changes, 
+you'll get to the *proper* definition of SF, as advanced by (I believe)
+Asimov, who said, "SF is whatever I point to when I say, 'That's SF.'"
+
+     (Which, by the way, is one of Paramount's greatest fears.  Until now, 
+they've had a lock on the genre, and ST has thus been special, and they're 
+worried that if there are lots of space genre shows around, that ST won't
+be *special* anymore, and will have to compete on its own merits.)
+
+     The other thing to consider in all this is the cultural aspect.  Will 
+there ever be another Beatles?  No.  Because as well as their artistic 
+contributions, the Beatles occupy a very special place in music history; 
+they were nominally the first really big breakthrough for what we now 
+consider modern rock.  They were the biggest.  They changed the field of
+rock forever, redefined it, gave it tools that did not exist before, gave 
+it a measure of legitimacy it did not have before.  Many other bands since 
+have sold more records, but none will ever occupy that primary, pivotal 
+position in our culture.  There cannot be another Beatles, and you cannot 
+define another group in that light, despite every six months somebody
+coming out and saying that X is "the new Beatles."
+
+     Ditto Star Trek.  It is very much a product of its time, and it fills 
+that same kind of pivotal role in SF television.  It changed SF TV back in 
+the 1960s, no mistake.  It occupies a unique niche in American television 
+that cannot be replicated.  Which is why I've always run from reporters who 
+ask if this is the next Star Trek, if I'm "the next Roddenberry," and the
+like, because there can't be either, any more than somebody is the next 
+Beatles.
+
+     The fundamental problem is that after ST went off the air, nobody
+picked up the ball they'd created and ran with it.  They chipped at the 
+stereotype of SF, and broke some of it, but nobody followed through with
+another show.  DRAGNET changed forever cop shows; prior to then, they were 
+always considered low-ratings shows, of interest only to those who like 
+police procedurals.  For all its stiffness, DRAGNET showedcops with real 
+lives, drinking problems, debts, marriages, dinners, dating...and in 
+very short order, other shows followed suit.  Had that not happened, cop 
+shows that came 20 years later would've been compared with Dragnet, since 
+that would be the only reference point.  But it *did* happen with Dragnet
+..and it *didn't* happen with Star Trek.
+
+     The larger the possibilities, the less likely ANYthing is to be a
+"reference point."  And that, to me, is the goal.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+ Who is Heinlein?			 (August 06, 1995 3:17:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 06, 1995 3:17:13 PM

+
     Heinlein is one of the great figures of SF; STRANGER IN A STRANGE 
+LAND, THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS, STARSHIP TROOPERS, THE ROADS MUST
+ROLL...the list of his works is enormous, and were pivotal in shaping 
+much of modern SF.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 2:39:09 AM

+
     I just put the titles out in the order they came into my fevered 
+brain, there's no contextual or priority order there.
+
+                                                               jms
+
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+

+
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+ B5 at general cons		 (August 06, 1995 3:17:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 06, 1995 3:17:15 PM

+
     That really honks me off; here Michael comes to be the GoH at the con, 
+and some folks object to having his work on B5 shown there because it isn't 
+ST.  Whatta buncha meroons....
+
+     Re: showing letterbox...no, because we have not yet gone back and re- 
+telecine'd the footage back to its original aspect ratio.  We strike edit 
+and master prints from the negative that are regular aspect ratio.  To 
+later make the widescreen versions we'll have to strike all new prints in 
+the original format.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Interesting Note...		 (August 07, 1995 2:39:02 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 2:39:02 AM

+
     It's hard to tell; I think SQ is certainly in megatrouble unless they 
+make substantial philosophical changes behind the desk.  If they don't, 
+well, the ocean's *real* deep, and a sub can sink and never be seen again.
+
+     Especially if its torpedoed by a network.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Sinclair - Sheridan		 (August 07, 1995 2:39:07 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 2:39:07 AM

+
     No, the Sheridan arc is completely different from the Sinclair stuff. 
+If it were just a continuation, then there'd be no need for the change.  
+The whole REASON was to do stuff we couldn't do otherwise.
+
+     Book 3 will be out later this month.  No plans on hardcover.  DC keeps 
+saying book 11 is the last, but I've been told by WB that the deal to extend 
+the comic to #24 at least has been agreed to, so I don't know what the heck 
+is going on.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 CD in LA			 (August 07, 1995 2:46:27 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 2:46:27 AM

+
     BTW, for those here in the Valley in LA, the Tower Records store on 
+Ventura near Van Nuys has about 10 of the B5 soundtrack CDs just sitting 
+there in the rack, waiting for pickup by those who've been looking for them.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 01, 1995 3:43:23 PM

+
     Who are the 4 different races who all use the term Great Maker? 
+Insofar as I recall, only the Ikarrans and the Centauri used that term.
+
+                                                                jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 4:28:05 PM

+
     Focus groups are the tools of the devil.  Nothing good EVER comes 
+out of them.  Ever.  And if they're looking, as you say, to the 4-12 year 
+old market...you can pretty much forget the show altogether.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Season 3 Starts Shooting		 (August 07, 1995 3:49:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 3:49:01 PM

+
     I guess some fears we just have to live with for a while, y'know...?
+
+     And thanks re: OtherSyde.
+
+                                                               jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 3:49:05 PM

+
     Yeah, thanks...I love the soundtrack.  Especially track 12.
+
+                                                               jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 4:28:00 PM

+
     Thanks.  Yeah, I've listened to it constantly, since it wandered 
+into my office, and continue to do so.  It's just nifty.
+
+                                                               jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 07, 1995 4:28:02 PM

+
     Yes, that's correct, season 3 will be provided to France, Germany and 
+potentially the UK in widescreen version; I thought you were asking about 
+stuff *currently* available.
+
+                                                              jms
+
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+

+
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+ Season Three Narration		 (August 08, 1995 12:44:05 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 08, 1995 12:44:05 AM

+
     I use a good old-fashioned standard QWERTY keyboard.  As it happens, 
+one reason I'm as fast as I am (100-120 wpm) is that knowing I was going to 
+become a writer, I took 3 years of typing in high school, and by the time 
+I finished I was *blazing*.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Demon on the Run?		 (August 08, 1995 12:44:08 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 08, 1995 12:44:08 AM

+
     Demon's on hold until it's finished.  No season one/arc special eps will 
+be aired prior to the debut of season three.
+
+                                                               jms
+
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+

+
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+ <<SLAP>>				 (August 08, 1995 12:44:09 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 08, 1995 12:44:09 AM

+
<I know this is a rather shallow question, but after watching "In the 
+Shadow of Za'ha'dum" again this past weekend, I was wondering how many times 
+(i.e. 'takes') Andrea got to smack Bruce in the Medlab scene?>
+
+     Only twice.  Mainly 'cause she tended to whack him real hard.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
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+ <SLAP>				 (August 08, 1995 11:22:21 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 08, 1995 11:22:21 PM

+
  <Twice?
+
+  "Zack" and Richard Biggs both flinched convincingly. Was the first 
+take the one that was used in the episode? Did Andrea & Bruce conspire 
+to do this?>
+
+     Yeah, the take you see is the first one printed.
+
+                                                               jms
+
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+

+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 08, 1995 7:21:25 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 08, 1995 7:21:25 PM

+
     For some time, I've been cautioning people dealing in pirated 
+material; videotapes, Links, PPGs, the whole gamut.  The usual 
+reaction from those involved is, basically, screw off, on the grounds 
+that there's plenty of ST pirated stuff out there, and nobody does 
+anything about it.  Well, for starters, that's because there's a lot 
+of grey about the copyright during the period during which ST wasn't 
+being produced, and the copyright wasn't being enforced.  Second...
+we're not ST.  A mistake many pirates continue to make, to their 
+detriment.
+
+     To the pirates out there, be warned: Warner Bros. is prosecuting 
+these cases to the full extent of the law.  Case in point: I saw 
+bootleg copies of B5 episodes for sale at the Chicago ComicCon, 
+confiscated them, and told the person selling them, David Scott, 
+*not* to do this anymore, because if he did, we would come down on him
+..hard.  His reaction was basically a shrug.
+
+     So this same person showed up at San Diego Comic Con, selling the 
+same B5 tapes.  WB was notified.  And the FBI showed up and seized the 
+material. And that of the other shows he was selling.  He tried to make 
+light of it at the time, nobody follows through on this stuff, after 
+all.  Wrong again.  He has been prosecuted by Time Warner Entertainment,
+with charges filed in United States District Court (case number 92-1602 
+H POR), and there has already been a judgment rendered to the tune of 
+*thousands* of dollars.
+
+     To the pirates out there: be warned.  We're not kidding around.  We 
+will take you down, hard.  Especially those selling the poor-quality 
+videotapes, and those selling supposed "real props" from the series, 
+which are simply cheap knockoffs with expensive price tags to separate 
+fans from their money.
+
+     (And to the OTHER dealer in Chicago, who was selling fake PPGs and 
+other items, from whom I confiscated the illegal goods, and has since 
+been mouthing off to other dealers that in lawfully confiscating this 
+material I "shoplifted" -- and I confiscated this stuff in front of 
+several witnesses, and put the dealer on notice as to what I was doing -- 
+by all means, continue running your mouth; you assiduously didn't have an 
+address anywhere available, and your behavior will simply make it that 
+much easier for us to find you.)
+
+     One of the reasons that I'm very careful on what we do and don't 
+license is that I want them to be done *right* when they're done; as a 
+fan, I've grown to despair over cheap knockoffs whose exorbitant price tags 
+only feed the sharks that made them.  I won't have inferior quality products 
+out there, licensed or otherwise.  We take great pains to make everything 
+involved with this show of the highest quality, and will not allow anyone 
+outside to hinder that effort.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+ MoreMicrosComing!		 (August 01, 1995 11:34:07 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 01, 1995 11:34:07 PM

+
     As it happens, we've found out, a LOT of toy stores have gotten the 
+B5 micromachines, but very few actually put them out on the racks, not 
+knowing anything about the show (our curse continues).  In general, 
+if people go into their local medium/large sized toy stores, 
+and ask them to check in the back, they appear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Harlan Ellison/TREK Book		 (August 09, 1995 11:10:05 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 09, 1995 11:10:05 PM

+
     The limited edition is numbered and signed by Harlan.
+
+     Under the terms of the Writers Guild Basic Agreement, to which all 
+the major studios are signatory, the actual physical manuscript remains
+the property of the writer, *not* the studio, under the Separation of 
+Rights clause.  So it's 100% kosher for Harlan to reproduce the material.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 09, 1995 11:10:09 PM

+
     Thanks, yes, Mira is a great lady, in the classic sense in which that 
+word is used.
+
+     As for the book, it puts forth a lot of documentary evidence, and the 
+opinions of others outside Harlan (Nimoy, Takai, Koenig, Fontana and others) 
+so it's much broader in tone than that.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 09, 1995 11:10:09 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 09, 1995 11:10:09 PM

+
     BTW, on the subject of marketing/merchandise...I've now seen the final 
+prints on the Fleer trading cards, and they're *beautiful*...also, the text 
+on the cards does a nice job of synopsizing the episodes and in a way, the 
+series overall, making them great and useful "cheat sheets" for those new to 
+the show.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 09, 1995 11:09:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 09, 1995 11:09:22 PM

+
     There were no negotiations.  He showed me a prototype jacket (little
+did I know there were a whole bunch already made up, though he told me 
+there were only two), and an associate of his showed me a prototype PPG, 
+again saying no others were out there.  I said they were promising, but they 
+would first have to contact WB and make a deal before anything could be done 
+or said.  They never did...and began selling the jackets anyway.
+
+     And I've now seen the exact same PPGs now at various conventions, and 
+we're in the process of tracking them down.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 09, 1995 11:23:06 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 09, 1995 11:23:06 PM

+
    PS...word on the street, which I'm trying to confirm, is that he's split
+for parts unknown, dropped off the face of the earth, leaving *more* people 
+unpaid (including those who provided security).
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ <Comes the old ST>		 (August 09, 1995 11:10:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 09, 1995 11:10:01 PM

+
<Having just seen some episodes of series one again I can only say: Please, 
+please, please, *more* of Vir, Lennier and Ivanova!! Bill Mumy and Claudia 
+Christian in particular had much better parts, and enriched the program because 
+of it, in series one.>
+
+     We have interesting things planned for all three this coming season, 
+rest assured.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Sand Garden			 (August 09, 1995 11:10:08 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 09, 1995 11:10:08 PM

+
     We've actually kept the Zen garden, in one form or another.
+
+     The pilot was rough in places, but still the potential was there.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 Music Videos			 (August 09, 1995 11:10:16 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 09, 1995 11:10:16 PM

+
     Professionally done by a fan of the show, John Hudgens.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Twilight Struggle>		 (August 09, 1995 11:23:05 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 09, 1995 11:23:05 PM

+
    No, B5 isn't on DSS.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Comes the Inquisitor>		 (August 09, 1995 11:10:04 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 09, 1995 11:10:04 PM

+
     I loved Picket Fences...but this last season, I dunno, something's 
+gone weird with the writing, it seems like all the characters I liked are 
+self destructing, turning unpleasant.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Long Twilight Struggle>		 (August 02, 1995 12:44:01 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 02, 1995 12:44:01 PM

+
     Yeah, we can probably put up a cast shot.
+
+     Season 3 airs in the US starting in November (with the last 
+of year two in October); I think it'll probably start in the UK 
+in the spring.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 10, 1995 1:01:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 10, 1995 1:01:13 PM

+
     Yes, the Pegasus Publishing bumpersticker has arrived here...and 
+has been forwarded to Legal Affairs...who are now bringing in the lawyers 
+who eat raw flesh and warming them up.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 10, 1995 10:30:17 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 10, 1995 10:30:17 PM

+
     There are 3 companies currently bidding on the CD rom encyclopedia of 
+B5; we'll see which gets it.  A CD rom screensaver, with some additional 
+stuff, will be out soonish from Sound Sources.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Comes the Inquisitor>		 (August 10, 1995 10:30:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 10, 1995 10:30:15 PM

+
     Yeah, I put together a little something on the side; <jms's
+recent series proposal to WB> just as glad it didn't go, as it would've 
+been a major effort, and B5 has to takeprecedence.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 11, 1995 1:24:27 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 11, 1995 1:24:27 PM

+
     Depends on how you define knockoffs.  If she walked into a store and 
+found xeroxed copies of her book for sale, that's absolute, blatant copyright 
+infringement, and can be confiscated.  This is a similar situation.  But you 
+don't just "fill your bag with the offending items and depart."  You go 
+directly to the person running it, show them the item, and tell them exactly 
+what you are doing, why you are doing it, what law they have broken, and that 
+you are confiscating this illegal material.
+
+     If they make a fuss over it, then what you do is to go find the nearest 
+security person or police officer, put them into contact with the WB Legal 
+Affairs office, and they will fax a note authorizing the police to not only 
+confiscate the material, but to seize any *related* material, AND to press both 
+civil and criminal charges against the person.  If that means bringing the 
+FBI in, so be it.  They have a whole division specifically to protect tv and 
+film product against copyright infringement, particularly video pirates.
+
+     So it's in the best interests of the person at the dealer's table to 
+cooperate.  I'm fully authorized to do this, and they don't have a legal leg to 
+stand on, and they know it.  So it's best to just warn them, and take it, and 
+hope they stop.  They get one chance to do it right.  After that....
+
+     If they choose to turn cranky, well, that's their perogative, and I won't 
+carry anything out...I'll just have their butt arrested, charged, and fined.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Comes the Inquisitor>		 (August 12, 1995 9:26:25 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 12, 1995 9:26:25 PM

+
     Well, it was understood at the start that if the other show *did* 
+get going, I couldn't and wouldn't be involved with it in the same fashion 
+as B5; I'd have to get a different person to be show-runner, and just keep 
+an arms-length involvement with the production.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Harlan Ellison/TREK Book		 (August 12, 1995 9:47:11 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 12, 1995 9:47:11 PM

+
     CITY was only published once before, in an anthology of SF play scripts, 
+something like 20 or so years ago, and has not been seen since, nor is the 
+original available.
+
+     Two things I forgot to mention: the limited edition is a numbered edition 
+SIGNED by Harlan, and the longest afterword is by David Gerrold, who I 
+inadvertantly left off the list of contributers.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Harlan Ellison/Trek News		 (August 13, 1995 3:17:10 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 13, 1995 3:17:10 AM

+
     What's also worth pointing out is that, thus far, the new producers of The 
+Outer Limits have shown no interest in doing a follow-up to Demon, which is short
+-sighted, to say the least.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Comes the Inquisitor>		 (August 13, 1995 6:04:20 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 13, 1995 6:04:20 PM

+
     It would be difficult, but do-able.  It would've run like this:
+I hire a writer/producer as show runner on the every day aspects of 
+running the series; all scripts go through me after he's done his work 
+on them for any final thoughts from me (outlines also); the show runner 
+handles casting of guest stars, but I'd be involved in the casting of 
+regular/recurring cast. We'd work together where time allowed.  But for 
+the moment, it's a moot issue in any event.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Series 3 - UK !!!		 (August 13, 1995 6:20:03 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 13, 1995 6:20:03 PM

+
     Not going to happen.  We get a broadcast schedule from PTEN that 
+tells us when new episodes/reruns will air, and we book our delivery 
+schedule accordingly; this allows us maximum time to finish tweaking 
+the episodes by taking advantage of the rerun periods.  The only way 
+C4 can run them straight through without interruption would be to start 
+running them in late February or thereabouts.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Sacramento Con 8/13 Rev		 (August 14, 1995 1:34:06 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 14, 1995 1:34:06 AM

+
     Vir is staying on as a recurring character; his appearances this year 
+will be pretty close to what he did for us last season.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <<DL foreshadowing?>>		 (August 02, 1995 12:44:05 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 02, 1995 12:44:05 PM

+
     We've done a couple of steady-cam/CGI composite shots, but not 
+that much; in "And Now For a Word," you'll sometimes see a floating
+recorder in C&C moving around...that was a steady-cam in use, and we 
+composited in the CGI.  It is, however, time-consuming, so we only do 
+that sort of thing as required.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Sacramento Con 8/13 Rev		 (August 14, 1995 1:34:05 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 14, 1995 1:34:05 AM

+
     Vir is *not* leaving the show.  We're making some room for him to do 
+his new sitcom; he's in episodes 3 and 5 so far, and more to come, of 
+season 3.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Centauri Question		 (August 14, 1995 1:40:13 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 14, 1995 1:40:13 AM

+
     They believe in a variety of afterlives; the god you worship, of the 
+centauri pantheon, holds dominion over a given "heaven" or afterworld.  
+If you appease the god sufficiently during life, it will accept you into 
+that afterworld, in preparation for the day when all heavens are united; 
+if not, you will have to be reborn and choose another until one accepts you.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <CON Report>			 (August 14, 1995 1:49:29 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 14, 1995 1:49:29 AM

+
     Creation Entertainment's main office is in Glendale, California, that's 
+an 818 area code. They're listed in the phone book, and in directory 
+information.  If you have problems with someone running a convention, you can 
+contact their main office there, and speak with Adam Malin, who with his partner 
+runs CE.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Sacramento Con 8/13 Rev		 (August 14, 1995 1:27:19 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 14, 1995 1:27:19 PM

+
     Yeah, that seems to be the tendency; each time we've introduced 
+someone, it's gotten hammered...nobody liked Ivanova in the beginning, 
+they said she was nothing but an ice maiden...they made fun of Vir, 
+said he was nothing more than comic relief, ridiculous, had no business 
+being assigned to Londo...there were grave doubts about Londo and the 
+hair...Sinclair got hammered in the beginning...Sheridan got hammered 
+in the beginning...and each time people assumed that what the character 
+seemed to be at the start was all the person would ever be.  Even when 
+it was shown that other characters grew into something other, still it 
+was hard for a lot of folks to assume that this new character would do 
+the same, and become interesting over time.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Harlan Ellison/TREK Book		 (August 14, 1995 1:27:21 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 14, 1995 1:27:21 PM

+
     The Trek book is now at the printers, I've seen the typeset pages, 
+so it has been delivered, done, and is now being bound.  So yes, it's 
+real Real.  And the cover art/wraparounds on Slippage just came in, so 
+that should be out soon as well.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Joe on Genie-3rd season		 (August 14, 1995 1:40:05 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 14, 1995 1:40:05 PM

+
     Actually, for story reasons, I've moved the discussions about the 
+two-parter so it'd fall closer to episodes 12-13.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Centauri Question		 (August 14, 1995 7:49:04 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 14, 1995 7:49:04 PM

+
     Then your soul drifts forever.  Which is one reason to worry about
+the number of gods you may have pissed off over time.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Mr. O'Hare/StarQuest '95		 (August 14, 1995 10:31:25 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 14, 1995 10:31:25 PM

+
     Thanks, I'm happy that it has gone as well as it has, and wish
+the con all good luck.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Future Episodes		 (August 15, 1995 12:48:29 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 12:48:29 PM

+
     Of course, Morden has never had any income since then in Earth 
+jurisdiction, so there's no taxes to pay.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Centauri Question		 (August 15, 1995 6:33:11 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 6:33:11 PM

+
     The religious beliefs of the majority of our alien races have 
+been worked out to varying degrees, also their sociology, culture, 
+art, methods of reproduction, relative strengths, and so on.  Seemed 
+prudent.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Unlicensed Bumpersticker		 (August 02, 1995 12:59:12 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 02, 1995 12:59:12 PM

+
     Pegasus can *say* they are protected all they want...but parody laws 
+do NOT cover the use of the B5 logo, which has been copyrighted and 
+trademarked.  If it's just text, that's one thing, but to use the logo in 
+any unauthorized way is infringement.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Germany / B5 videotaped?		 (August 15, 1995 6:48:27 PM)
+
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+
 Germany / B5 videotaped?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 6:48:27 PM

+
     Kann ich spreche deutsch?  Nein, nein....nur English, nicht 
+Hochtdeutch oder Plattdeutch....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Germany / B5 videotaped?		 (August 16, 1995 11:53:03 PM)
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+
 Germany / B5 videotaped?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 11:53:03 PM

+
     Yes, Mind War is a very nice episode, lots of stuff happens, and 
+some great character stuff.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Quickies				 (August 15, 1995 11:34:16 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 15, 1995 11:34:16 PM

+
     Look for Jerry Doyle on the Mike and Maty Show on ABC on Wednesday, 
+and on Entertainment Tonight on Friday.
+
+     Articles forthcoming in Cinescape (out now), and Cinefantastique 
+(first a regular sized one, then a cover story).
+
+     And for those who've asked...one of my better Murder She Wrote 
+episodes, "The Committee," airs Thursday on USA.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 16, 1995 1:37:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 1:37:13 PM

+
     To this day, I don't think anyone at WB has ever had any kind of 
+problem with fan computer art, freely distributed, based on the show, 
+or altering images into something new and different.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ End of Second Series		 (August 16, 1995 1:37:22 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 1:37:22 PM

+
     WB wanted to hold the last 4 for October to lead into new eps 
+in November.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ BIG BANG				 (August 16, 1995 4:08:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 4:08:16 PM

+
     Tom:
+
+     So good of you to emerge from seclusion to post this via Linda.  I 
+wish your message touched the facts at two contiguous places, but one 
+cannot have everything.  I do hope this won't be another post-and-run 
+situation, because there's much to clarify here.
+
+     So you're saying that because Michael O'Hare initially said he 
+wouldn't be coming, you fined him the $5,000 remaining on his fee, and he 
+agreed to this.  Aside from the loathesome mentality behind this excuse, 
+please explain to me why it was that on the Sunday of Chicago Comic Con, 
+Michael had been told, by you, that you would be present by 12 noon, with 
+that very same $5,000 owed as his balance...and never showed up.  If he had 
+agreed to this, then why was he still awaiting this payment, and why were 
+you saying you would have it for him?
+
+     Simple answer: because Michael O'Hare agreed to no such thing.  This 
+is a cover story to excuse non-payment of Michael's fee.  Further, you 
+told some users on this very system that Michael had been paid the balance 
+of his fees, in phone conversations, even offered to send a photocoy of the 
+canceled check (which of course never happened).  You really should work 
+more on getting your story straight.
+
+     We have begun documenting, in writing, some of the destructive and 
+hurtfulthings you have put out on the rumor mills about Michael, myself 
+and others...so your assertion that you "would never hurt" anyone doesn't 
+carry much weight at this end of the modem.
+
+     I have had a good conversation just today with Deborah Smolinski at 
+Visions, and we are working closely with them on this situation.  Certainly 
+they should notbe faulted for falling for rumors started by others.  The 
+purpose of the convention is not, and never has been, the issue.  As for 
+your statement that "I have never spoken to Bob Mcgloughlin since the Big 
+Bang show in June," Deborah said about 90 minutes ago that you and he had 
+spoken just recently about this situation.  Who am I to believe?
+
+     "JMS wants CMC and myself out of the science fiction convention 
+business."  No, I simply will not allow the offenses and incomeptence on 
+record to stand without comment.  Even after the Planet Hollywood debacle, 
+in which I sent you a several-page letter explaining what would be required 
+to fix the apparent problems, there was the spirit of cooperation until such 
+time as you began selling unlicensed B5 jackets, patches, and posters for a 
+non-existent charitable cause that used our name.  At that time, I told you 
+that Babylonian Productions was withdrawing all support from this convention, 
+and I would caution my cast in this regard, though leaving them to make their 
+own decisions.  Some of them went out of concerns for the fans who had 
+purchased non-refundable airline tickets and would be screwed otherwise.
+
+     And as long as you're here, some additional points.
+
+     Mark Hamill has been stiffed by you to the tune of $21,000.  The check 
+for his speaking fee has, he tells us, bounced.  Another check made out to 
+cover first class airfare and accommodations has also bounced.  Why hasn't 
+Mark been paid?  Why do you write checks that can't be covered?
+
+     I have received messages from many people...the photographer you hired 
+to shoot the convention, travel agents, security people...who say that they 
+have not been paid by you.  Why have they not been paid?  They come to me 
+because you promoted this as a B5 convention, so I have inherited the 
+problems you created by default.
+
+     Why did you have someone working on designs on the fraudulent Project 
+Starfury months after you had been told to cease and desist from such 
+endeavors, with this individual putting in $5,000 worth of work that has 
+now been wasted?
+
+     Why were you telling people -- and we have now written documentation 
+to that effect -- that I had been "tossed out of the Writers Guild" when 
+such is not true?
+
+     Many users here and on other systems have repeatedly asked you for 
+refunds on their tickets.  Why has this not been forthcoming?
+
+     In your newsletters, and your talks, including your May 28th meeting 
+with fans in Schaumburg, IL, you stated that one of the major features of 
+the convention would be the transformation of the Odeum theater into 
+"Outpost Odeum," with massive role-playing aspects, props, and a scripted 
+game which would include appearances by paid actors performing with the 
+"Outpost Odeum" game.  Many went for this reason.  Yet no such event 
+was presented.  You promised, in detail, a Sandman reenactment from Logan's 
+Run; what happened to *that*?
+
+     Would you care to comment on the assault on a dealer by staff, when he 
+attempted to document poor conditions in the dealer's room, which led to 
+hospitalization and surgery for severe injury to his eye?
+
+     An individual began selling video tapes of our actors appearances at 
+Big Bang.  He was told, by you, that you had contractual freedom to make and 
+distribute these tapes, when, in fact, the contracts stated clearly that 
+no such video or audio sales of the performance could be done unless a 
+seperate agreement were entered into and signed by the actors.  Why 
+was this person misled?
+
+     For months now, many people here and on the other nets have been 
+posting their dissatisfaction that what was promised by Big Bang was not 
+delievered upon.  Since you clearly have access to the nets, as shown by 
+your posting, why have you not previously addressed the concerns raised by 
+so many people who attended your convention?
+
+     Finally, let me repeat once more: my concern, ever since the Planet 
+Hollywood event, was that the Big Bang convention was being poorly and 
+incompetently run, and would hurt fans, and I wondered at the capacity of 
+CMC to deliver on its promises.  The reactions from virtually every person
+attending the convention bears out my concerns.  Cast members returned saying 
+uniformly that it was the worst-run convention they had ever seen, and some 
+had been attending conventions for over 20 years.  It was a disaster, and has 
+left a pile of debris that you have yet to clean up, and which comes to 
+*my* attention because they can't find *you*...with phone numbers that get 
+disconnected, calls that don't get returned...and always you try and 
+blame others.
+
+     Everything I have said about BB has come true; your statements, 
+however, are another question altogether.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
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+ BIG BANG				 (August 16, 1995 11:53:12 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 11:53:12 PM

+
     Except that Michael O'Hare has already been dragged into this.  
+And Tom's latest message does it again.  On the one hand, he says Michael 
+is a good man...and then, by implication, by alleging that Michael agreed 
+to do the Big Bang without receiving the second $5,000, implies that Michael 
+lied to and defrauded the fans at Comic Con.  That fundraiser was done 
+because he did not receive the balance of his payment.  According to Tom, 
+there *was* no balance of payment.  So clearly, someone here is fabricating.  
+By his message, Tom is implying that Michael lied to me, and to the convention 
+goers who came to his support.  Or that we both lied about it.
+
+     We didn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Joe on Genie-3rd season		 (August 16, 1995 11:53:00 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 16, 1995 11:53:00 PM

+
     Yes, there's a five-year arc.  The final 4 eps of this season air in 
+October, with the new season beginning in November.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ <Fall of Night>			 (August 18, 1995 1:39:27 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 1:39:27 PM

+
     I'm also on GEnie, Internet, Bix (sometimes), here, AOL, and I 
+lurk at a couple of other sites which function as control groups, 
+minus any interference by or awareness of my being there.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
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+ <Fall of Night>			 (August 18, 1995 7:15:00 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 7:15:00 PM

+
     "What're you, omniscient?"
+
+     Yes, I am.
+     And stop that.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Unlicensed Bumpersticker		 (August 03, 1995 12:00:14 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 03, 1995 12:00:14 AM

+
     We learn by doing.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
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+ <Fall of Night>			 (August 18, 1995 9:37:06 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 9:37:06 PM

+
	<I mean, Mr. Straczynski is many things, but he's not 
+omniscient.
+	I think.>
+
+     I knew you were going to say that.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ BIG BANG				 (August 18, 1995 1:39:00 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 1:39:00 PM

+
     Thank you.  Over the years, I've worked extremely hard to develop 
+a rep based on trust, and loyalty.  That this has sometimes gotten me 
+into trouble goes almost without saying.  It's one of the things that 
+matters most to me, because I've been in positions when I've been 
+screwed, and vowed never to do it to anyone when I was on the opposite 
+side of the desk.
+
+     Here, for me, is the most telling thing.  Talk to anyone who's ever 
+visited the B5 set and production office.  The one sound you hear the 
+most often, in either place, is laughter, people *enjoying* their work.  
+That is probably one of the things I'm most proud of.
+
+     Whenever you hea a producer say, "Oh, we're one big family," you know 
+nine times out of ten they're lying.  And, in fact, we're not like a family; 
+more like a bunch of guys who get together ten months out of the year to 
+have fun, make a show, play around and hang out with each other.  Everybody 
+has lunch together behind the stage, whole huge groups go off on vacation 
+together, after hours lots of them hang out, have dinner...we look after our 
+own.  We are one of the very few studios -- and this includes the majors -- 
+that provides health insurance for our employees whose premiums are 100% 
+employer paid.  During the time after the big quake, we pulled carpenters 
+off sets to help several people save their homes from water damage and other 
+problems until real construction could be done; when the fires hit, we had 
+teams ready to drive into fire zones to evacuate our DP when it looked like 
+his house might go up.  We take care of our own.
+
+     And as much as is ever possible, we try and look out for our viewers as 
+well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ BIG BANG				 (August 18, 1995 7:28:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 7:28:10 PM

+
     You really do have to be totally and completely monomanaical to do this 
+job if you're going to do it right.  So B5 is my life.  If I'm not writing 
+or directly working on it, I'm watching dailies or thinking about where to 
+take the show.  I have a pad beside my bed and frequently I wake up in the 
+middle of the night with a scrap of dialogue or a plot solution, so 
+I scribble it down and leave it where my feet land so I'll remember it's there.  
+I don't get a hell of a lot of sleep during the week, and try to crash on 
+weekends.
+
+     To the rest you cite...there isn't time for much of anything else. I've 
+seen a grand total of 1 or 2 movies at theaters in the last eight months; I 
+haven't gone to a single party for longer still; except for twice weekly 
+dinners with Harlan, we don't see anyone for dinner, I haven't had a chance to 
+read a novel since the start of the year, I barely follow the news anymore...
+it's literally a round-the-clock job.  But it's okay, because this is what 
+I've been working toward since 1987.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+ Subj:  <Shadows>			Section: Babylon 5
+

+
+
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+
+ Jump Gates and Travel		 (August 18, 1995 7:14:22 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 7:14:22 PM

+
     They have to ride the signals between beacons; you can't just 
+go wandering around or you'll get lost, so you have a highway of 
+related beacons.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 5: Quickies		 (August 18, 1995 7:15:01 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 7:15:01 PM

+
<BTW way Joe -- does Garabaldi have his own, personalized Starfury?  
+I just wondered, since (although he hasn't gone off base often) 
+the markings on it match his helmet.....after his "Daffy Duck" thing, 
+all I could think of was maybe his code name was "Tony the Tiger">
+ 
+    Yes, he does; I think it is tiger-striped, in fact.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ship Spec			 (August 18, 1995 9:37:04 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 18, 1995 9:37:04 PM

+
     No, I haven't had a chance; what might be most profitable is to 
+leave a note here or in email for Paul Beigle-Bryant (he's in the 
+directory) of Foundation Imaging, since he helped build the thing.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Jump Gates and Travel		 (August 19, 1995 11:00:02 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 19, 1995 11:00:02 PM

+
     Yes, you can follow the beacons while in hyperspace, that's 
+rather the point; but you still go from one to the other, riding the 
+"wire."
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Jump Gates and Travel		 (August 19, 1995 11:00:04 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 19, 1995 11:00:04 PM

+
<Joe,
+
+  Do you think you could add some more of the background history behind 
+the explorer ships and jump gates to an episode in the third season?>
+
+     I'll try and work it in where possible.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (August 20, 1995 4:42:26 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 20, 1995 4:42:26 PM

+
<Joe.
+
+I've got a couple of pictures taken from the show (via a TV card), 
+would there be any problems uploading them to the forum (I think I 
+have to include "Copyright 1995 Warner Bros")?>
+
+
+     I don't know for sure, I'd say probably there's no problem, 
+but the notice would have to be (c) 1995 PT<E>N Consortium.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Centauri Question		 (August 20, 1995 4:43:00 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 20, 1995 4:43:00 PM

+
     I kinda doubt that Dell would want any of the novels to become 
+more or less textbooks on alien cultures, and it's hard to bend the 
+freelancers to doing stories that touch on those areas anyway.  But 
+eventually some of this will probably find its way out, in some form or 
+other.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <DS9 4th season rumors>		 (August 03, 1995 12:48:23 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 03, 1995 12:48:23 AM

+
     You always have to be careful when a studio says it hasn't turned 
+a profit on the show.  They say this for the primary reason that certain 
+people involved with series and movies -- stars, creators, executive 
+producers -- get a percentage of the net profit.  Conseuqently, it 
+is studio and network policy to make absolutely sure that, whatever the 
+real facts might be, none of their products *ever* show a profit *on paper*.  
+You always charge something more against the income, and make sure you zero 
+out the profits to avoid sharing it with anybody else.
+
+     It's the oldest gag in the book, and in any public statement, that's 
+the party line.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Jump Gates and Travel		 (August 20, 1995 4:43:01 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 20, 1995 4:43:01 PM

+
<How like the early airways beacon system.  One of the features you 
+can still find is that every beacon is within sight of a flyer over 
+another one.  When flying was new, pilots could literally fly from 
+one beacon to the next all the way accross the continent.  Were you 
+consciously using this as a model?>
+
+     It's a model I considered, yes.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <The Fall of Night>		 (August 20, 1995 4:43:05 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 20, 1995 4:43:05 PM

+
     We shoot to protect the central area, but fill out stuff in the 
+edges, and often compose for widescreen, which is why sometimes 
+characters are a little off-center in the screen.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Comics			 (August 21, 1995 11:19:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 21, 1995 11:19:22 PM

+
     The regular series ends with #11, but DC has already committed 
+to a followup series of 12 more issues, in one-shots, and 4-issue 
+mini-series. This is a done deal.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 5: Quickies		 (August 21, 1995 11:19:23 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 21, 1995 11:19:23 PM

+
     Yes, Sheridan's icon is the Flying Tigers symbol, which is used 
+with the express permission and support of the real Flying Tigers 
+organization.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Fall of Night>			 (August 22, 1995 1:12:01 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 22, 1995 1:12:01 PM

+
     Unfortunately, I don't yet seem to have this infallibility 
+stuff down right yet....
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ BIG BANG				 (August 22, 1995 1:12:04 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 22, 1995 1:12:04 PM

+
     I've thus far not dreamed an episode; but work is often in 
+my dreams, so I guess it balances out.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ BIG BANG				 (August 22, 1995 11:12:00 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 22, 1995 11:12:00 PM

+
	<Jawa #2 demands--no I mean, DEMANDS--to know who else 
+will be scriptwriting in Season 3.
+	(Throw a name this way--she's vicious!)>
+	
+     So you're saying that if I don't give you any other names, 
+Jawa 2 will do terrible, mean, unspeakably rotten things to you.
+
+     ...
+
+    So, like, what part of this is a problem?
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Janeway in Murder.....		 (August 22, 1995 3:05:27 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: August 22, 1995 3:05:27 PM

+
<Did anyone else see a recently-aired episode of Murder, She 
+Wrote in which Kate Capshaw starred?
+
+She played the role of a wife to a rich old man who is murdered.  
+I did not watch the whole episode, but she did have incredibly 
+long hair.  Her character was very scared....she was 
+always hanging onto Angela Lansbury (a.k.a Jessica Fletcher) 
+and crying.
+
+Quite a difference from the stern Janeway that we know.>
+
+     To show what a small world it is, check out the names of 
+producers on that episode.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 5: Quickies		 (August 22, 1995 11:12:30 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 22, 1995 11:12:30 PM

+
<I presume that if you ever show city landscapes on Earth that we 
+will see old and new combined?  I mean if Europe is full of 300-500 
+year old buildings that are still functional there is no reason why 
+we can't assume that 20th century man can actually build something 
+that will last as long. . . . for instance, the Statue of Liberty or 
+the Capitol or Buckingham Palace, etc. etc.  Do you think these will 
+be still be here in 4-5 centuries?>
+
+     Yes, I definitely think they'll be here still; and in some 
+cases when we've shown BGs of Geneva, through windows, we've tried 
+to keep that.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The name game			 (August 23, 1995 9:34:18 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: August 23, 1995 9:34:18 PM

+
<I was just glancing through a couple of recent articles on B5 and 
+discovered an odd sight: your name had changed. We're used to either 
+J. Michael Straczynski, JMS, or Joe, but not odd combinations of the 
+above. Example? Saying how "Joseph Straczynski's Babylon 5" 
+may not come trippingly off the tongue.. well, they might be wright. 
+Then elsewhere in the same article they use your full triple-barreled 
+name: Joseph Michael Straczynski. Did someone forget to proofread 
+something?> 
+
+     This is doing terrible things to my sense of identity....
+
+                                                   smj
+                                          
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 01, 1995 1:13:02 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 01, 1995 1:13:02 PM

+
     Simplest way to tell: if it has the PTEN copyright notice, it's 
+usually authorized, same for any other product by other shows.  If 
+not, not.
+
+     One-offs, paintings of characters, that's one thing, but if 
+somebody's selling mass-produced stuff like links, PPGs, patches 
+without any kind of ID on them, you can be sure it ain't legit.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 vs. Trek fans			 (September 03, 1995 7:32:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 03, 1995 7:32:16 PM

+
      BTW, someone should point out to the "ST doesn't use CGI" crowd 
+that, from what I saw, LOTS of the Voyager stuff was CGI last ep, 
+including that shot where the legs extend from beneath.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 03, 1995 7:32:14 PM

+
     There are limits to what the healing device can do, for starters; 
+it can't repair physical damage to the body, mainly it works with 
+disease and basic low-energy stuff; also, bear in mind that it was a 
+device used for *capital punishment*...meaning that to save one person's 
+life, another must sacrifice his or her own, if it's that far along, 
+so it's not really something you can trot out everytime somebody gets 
+nailed.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ What's legit?			 (September 04, 1995 3:21:18 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 04, 1995 3:21:18 PM

+
     T-shirts are available from Creation and All-U, with caps and mugs from
+Creation (and there's a GREAT new mug with the station on the obverse side),
+along with a great jacket with the station embroidered on the back.  There
+are 4 micromachine sets out now, with 2 more to come.  And the trading cards
+from Fleer are due out in about a week or so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 04, 1995 3:21:21 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 04, 1995 3:21:21 PM

+
     Sheridan's obsessive streak may be the only thing that gets them out
+of this alive.  And as far as I know, the kid hasn't been born yet.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 04, 1995 3:21:24 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 04, 1995 3:21:24 PM

+
     Novel 3 is due out now, or in a week or so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 04, 1995 10:16:20 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 04, 1995 10:16:20 PM

+
     Yes, that's the correct address.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 05, 1995 11:18:14 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 05, 1995 11:18:14 PM

+
     Yeah, thanks, we're finally starting to get some attention on the show;
+I think we've come to that annoying point where it's just about impossible
+to keep ignoring us....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 04, 1995 10:16:21 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 04, 1995 10:16:21 PM

+
     I've always said...the day I approve Babylon 5 Underoos is the day
+you'll all know I've sold out....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 06, 1995 11:52:19 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 06, 1995 11:52:19 PM

+
<They'd want you to model the Underoos...>
+
+     Naah...the whole nation would be struck blind, and I don't want to be
+held accountable for that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 vs. Trek fans			 (September 04, 1995 3:21:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 04, 1995 3:21:22 PM

+
     The two machines would only be distantly related.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 01, 1995 1:19:03 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 01, 1995 1:19:03 PM

+
     Just so we're clear, the problem isn't getting WB moving on 
+licensing; ever since we got started here, I've been dragging my 
+feet on licensing stuff, because I've seen merchandising become the 
+tail wagging the dog on TV shows.  I don't want that to happen 
+here.  So as stuff comes in, I approve only a few things, selectively, 
+that I think can be done, and done well.
+
+     Re: the UK videotape situation...that's something that I have no 
+input into whatsoever, as it falls under the jurisdiction of another 
+country, and the approval steps are several steps removed from me.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 season Three			 (September 04, 1995 10:16:24 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 04, 1995 10:16:24 PM

+
     New sets: yes, and we're creating situations in which we can see more of
+Earth, Mars, our other local planets, plus Narn, Centauri, Minbari and one
+other major world.  As the Shadow War cranks into gear, you're going to need
+a place to meet in security and plan for it, so we're also building that.
+We'll see more of Draal's place on Epsilon 3.  And there's one other major
+set that we'll see in the first episode, and quite a bit thereafter.
+
+     New characters: well, there's Marcus Cole, a Ranger assigned permanently
+to Babylon 5, played by British actor Jason Carter; we'll see Lyta Alexander
+more this year; and Theo...what can I say about Theo...well, perhaps better
+to let you see for yourself.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 season Three			 (September 05, 1995 11:18:13 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 05, 1995 11:18:13 PM

+
     Theodore.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 season Three			 (September 06, 1995 11:52:20 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 06, 1995 11:52:20 PM

+
     No, since Theo is a fictional character and Theo Bikel is a real person,
+and they're two different things.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Comics			 (September 06, 1995 2:45:03 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 06, 1995 2:45:03 PM

+
     Yeah, as I understand it, because the book will be published on something
+other than a monthly basis, subscriptions don't apply, that's exclusively for
+their regular, monthly titles.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Cast & Crew view eps?		 (September 07, 1995 10:19:00 PM)
+
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+
 Cast & Crew view eps?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 07, 1995 10:19:00 PM

+
     Not really, no...sometimes, one or another cast or crew person will
+ask to screen an episode, but it's very spotty; we don't provide personal
+copies until after the episode airs, and only to direct cast and crew
+members.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Cast & Crew view eps?		 (September 08, 1995 2:29:01 PM)
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+
 Cast & Crew view eps?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 08, 1995 2:29:01 PM

+
     Well, though they haven't seen the eps, they *have* read the scripts,
+so they do know what happened in those eps.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 move in SF			 (September 07, 1995 10:19:02 PM)
+
+
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+
 B5 move in SF			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 07, 1995 10:19:02 PM

+
     Well, I'm not surprised, in that stations generally don't run promos
+when the show is in reruns; we'll see what they do closer to debut.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 @ Emmys			 (September 07, 1995 10:19:03 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 07, 1995 10:19:03 PM

+
     No, I won't be there, due to work.  The noms we've gotten are in hair,
+makeup and  cinematography.  They're up against stiff competition, though,
+so we'll see.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ John Shuck			 (September 08, 1995 2:29:02 PM)
+
+
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+
 John Shuck			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 08, 1995 2:29:02 PM

+
<I thought I recognized John Shuck as Draal, when he wasn't doing the
+Draal voice.  Is that the Commissioner's assistant from McMillan and Wife?>
+
+     Same guy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 makes "Jeopardy"		 (September 08, 1995 11:04:03 PM)
+
+
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+
 B5 makes "Jeopardy"		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 08, 1995 11:04:03 PM

+
<If you haven't already been told, B5 became a Jeopardy question 
+(answer?) last week.>
+
+     Actually, it's a repeat of an earlier Jeapordy.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 01, 1995 11:01:20 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 01, 1995 11:01:20 PM

+
     I've been involved in approving the comics, the micromachines, 
+the novels, the screen saver, the Fleer cards, and other stuff.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ The Vorlons			 (September 08, 1995 11:04:04 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 08, 1995 11:04:04 PM

+
     What, I should begin catering to prurient interests?  
+Broadcasting picture postcards (likely French) of Vorlons 
+in provocative poses, in lingerie?  A terrible thing, that 
+a nice young man such as yourself should be asking about.  
+Does your mother know you're out here doing this?  Good 
+heavens.
+
+     And who said they reproduce anymore?
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ The Vorlons			 (September 09, 1995 6:33:27 PM)
+
+
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+
 The Vorlons			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 09, 1995 6:33:27 PM

+
<"Wouldn't that Minbari bone be awfully hard on the mother?">
+
+     Like elk antlers, they grow after birth.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Walter on QVC			 (September 08, 1995 11:04:05 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 08, 1995 11:04:05 PM

+
     What's this fascination with underoos and sheets and uncut 
+something or others...?
+
+     Have you started rooming with Daniel or something?
+
+     Sigh...y'know, I remember when this was a clean place to 
+hang out, kids could play in the streets, mothers could take 
+their babies out in strollers, you could hang out on the front 
+stoop and talk to people...now it's all underoos and nudie 
+cutie Vorlon pictures.
+
+     What's the world coming to?
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Fury landings			 (September 08, 1995 11:07:15 PM)
+
+
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+
 Fury landings			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 08, 1995 11:07:15 PM

+
     We have shown, in other episodes, including "Survivors," 
+that the starfuries come back in via the central docking bay, 
+and are lowered into their proper bays from there, where 
+they are recharged and repaired.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Theo				 (September 09, 1995 6:33:27 PM)
+
+
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+
 Theo				

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 09, 1995 6:33:27 PM

+
<Not that I expect a straight answer on the first post <GDRVVF>, 
+but what sort of character is this 'Theo'?>
+
+     Here's a hint: he arrives with about a dozen of his brothers.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Theo				 (September 09, 1995 10:51:06 PM)
+
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+
 Theo				

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 09, 1995 10:51:06 PM

+
     Nope, not a technomage.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Theo				 (September 10, 1995 4:25:22 PM)
+
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+
 Theo				

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 10, 1995 4:25:22 PM

+
<If Theo is part of another brotherhood you've established on the show, 
+I think it's time to leave B5 - Pronto! <g,d,r>>
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Theo				 (September 10, 1995 11:09:01 PM)
+
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+
 Theo				

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 10, 1995 11:09:01 PM

+
     He's definitely human.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+     (Suddenly this has become "What's My Line.")
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Theo				 (September 10, 1995 4:26:02 PM)
+
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+
 Theo				

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 10, 1995 4:26:02 PM

+
<How about Theo and his brothers being 
+the first Organic ships (other than the Vorlon ship) to be 
+stationed on B5?>
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Theo				 (September 10, 1995 11:09:02 PM)
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+
 Theo				

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 10, 1995 11:09:02 PM

+
<Is he one of the singing monks in the Moment of Perfect Beauty?>
+
+     Nope.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 02, 1995 9:33:00 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 02, 1995 9:33:00 PM

+
     As with the disks, eventually we'll have tapes out, it's just a 
+matter of convincing WB that there's interest out there.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ The Dodgers			 (September 09, 1995 6:33:29 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 09, 1995 6:33:29 PM

+
     Actually, much of what's been reported is misconception or 
+actors who somewhat...misremember things.
+
+     Bill was never considered a one-shot as Lennier.  It was always 
+a recurring role.  That's what we put out in the casting breakdowns 
+that went to agents, and that was the understanding when we did 
+auditions, and when we negotiated with Bill, and did the main 
+titles.
+
+     Pat Tallman's character was *never* intended as a male; at one 
+time, I'd considered making Delenn male to start with, then female 
+after emerging from the chrysalis, but Lyta...never.
+
+     So there really hasn't been as much divergence as might seem.
+
+                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ OTHERSYDE			 (September 10, 1995 4:25:25 PM)
+
+
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+
 OTHERSYDE			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 10, 1995 4:25:25 PM

+
     Thanks.  Characters, for me, are the point of a novel, and 
+any good story.  Long after the plot becomes fuzzy in memory, you 
+remember the people...you remember Ahab and Michael Valentine Smith 
+and Charles Dexter Ward....
+
+     Re: not having adjective/adverb disease...there's something 
+funny there you wouldn't know about.  See, when I was in high school, 
+they had Career Day for the tops in various areas (dance, acting, 
+athletics, whatever).  I ended up in the Writing group.  It was held at 
+Southwestern College down by San Diego.  I was stuck in this little 
+room, and nobody came by, because who wants to see writers when you can 
+see athletes and dancers and mimes?
+
+     Finally, a short fellow with salt-and-pepper hair wandered in, 
+and went down the line of manuscripts-with-writers, paused at my table.  
+(I was writing stories in the Lovecraft/dark horror vein at the time.)  
+Took one of my stories, walked off, sat in one of the lawn chairs, 
+read it through. Came back, returned the story, took another.  Read that 
+one over.  Put it back.  Looked at me for a long moment.
+
+     Then he said: "You have a great and substantial talent for your age. 
+Two pieces of advice: one, don't ever let them stop you from telling the 
+stories you want to tell; two, cut every third adjective."
+
+     Then he walked off, and as soon as he was out the door, the faculty 
+advisor came running at me at warp nine.  "What did he say, what did he say, 
+whatdidhesay?"  I told her.  "Don't you know who that was?" she asked.
+
+     I said no, though there was something kinda familiar about him, and 
+remember it's always different when you see somebody out of context.  
+"That was Rod Serling," she said, "he's here to speak at the college later 
+today."
+
+     Had there been a gun within easy reach, I would almost certainly have 
+put a bullet into my brain.  By the time I ran out, he was gone.
+
+     That was one of three weirdnesses in my life involving Rod.  
+The other two...are stories for another day.
+
+     So when you say I've managed to keep the adjectives down...
+I'm very pleased.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ About your lighting		 (September 12, 1995 11:02:27 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 12, 1995 11:02:27 PM

+
<Why does B5 have so many 'moving spotlights'?>
+
+     They look cool....?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ OTHERSYDE			 (September 12, 1995 11:02:03 PM)
+
+
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+
 OTHERSYDE			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 12, 1995 11:02:03 PM

+
<How many people there are in the world who have as much confirmation as you
+do that they're doing with their lives what they were *meant* to do?>
+
+     I'm not sure some days if this is what I was *meant* to do...or if I'm
+simply incompetent to do anything *else*....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Joe's name plagiarized		 (September 12, 1995 11:02:30 PM)
+
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+
 Joe's name plagiarized		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 12, 1995 11:02:30 PM

+
<There's a guy with the name 'Micheal J. Superzcynski' on CompuServe>
+
+     Actually, I think I once ran into him hereabouts...small world....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The Dodgers			 (September 12, 1995 11:02:00 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 12, 1995 11:02:00 PM

+
<Re: Lennier never being considered as a one-shot character: I'll be d@mned.
+Didn't this make it into TV Guide or something?>
+
+     Yeah, it did, and I'm kinda surprised by it, since Bill should really know better.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ 'Convictions' ep title		 (September 12, 1995 11:02:13 PM)
+
+
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+
 'Convictions' ep title		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 12, 1995 11:02:13 PM

+
<Does the episode title 'Convictions' refer to strongly held opinions, or to
+the aftermath of court proceedings?>
+
+     As it happens, yes, it kinda refers to both.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 Story Line Static?		 (September 12, 1995 11:02:16 PM)
+
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+
 B5 Story Line Static?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 12, 1995 11:02:16 PM

+
     I'd be a fool not to build in trap doors all over the place, so that
+the story can continue no matter what happens to individuals...in the same
+way that the story of WW II continued, even though some lived and some died
+before the end.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Nowhere Man/Prisoner		 (September 18, 1995 10:10:00 PM)
+
+
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+
 Nowhere Man/Prisoner		

+
Section: Nowhere/DeadlyGames
Date: September 18, 1995 10:10:00 PM

+
     I approached the show with great hopes, but have stopped watching.  
+It just stretches credulity; this is a nationally famous photographer...
+have they eliminated/co-opted his publisher?  Every bookstore in the 
+country that carries his books (which doubtless also have his photo), 
+every library, every person who's ever seen his work, sent 
+him a letter...it's just too big and too improbable.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Marshall Teague/Narn?		 (September 18, 1995 10:10:01 PM)
+
+
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+
 Marshall Teague/Narn?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 18, 1995 10:10:01 PM

+
     Yes, it's the same character, and his name is Ta'Lon.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 03, 1995 7:20:08 PM)
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+
 Pirate Warning from jms		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 03, 1995 7:20:08 PM

+
     It's a different division of Warners, run by Jim Cardwell at
+Warner Home Video, that makes the decision about cassettes.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Query about Shadow Ships		 (September 18, 1995 10:10:03 PM)
+
+
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+
 Query about Shadow Ships		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 18, 1995 10:10:03 PM

+
     They have alternate means of flipping into and out of hyperspace.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Baby 5?				 (September 19, 1995 10:14:14 PM)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 19, 1995 10:14:14 PM

+
<What is your reaction to people referring to your show as 
+"Baby 5?">
+
+     Doesn't really bother me.  Bombings, ships sinking, mortar fire, 
+*that* bothers me...the rest...ehh.
+                         
+                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+
+ Nowhere Man/Prisoner		 (September 20, 1995 8:13:25 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Nowhere/DeadlyGames
Date: September 20, 1995 8:13:25 PM

+
     "In real life they do it all the time."
+
+     Really?  What was the last famous author/photographer/celebrity 
+who had his identity removed and then couldn't find anyone in the 
+continental United States who knew who he was?
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Season Three			 (September 22, 1995 1:17:10 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: seaQuest DSV/2032
Date: September 22, 1995 1:17:10 AM

+
     Haven't seen it, can't comment.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Query about Shadow Ships		 (September 22, 1995 1:17:12 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 22, 1995 1:17:12 AM

+
     I can imagine there'd be different kinds of technology that 
+can accomplish the same goals, yes.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ <Long Twilight Struggle>		 (September 23, 1995 4:40:11 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 23, 1995 4:40:11 PM

+
     "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <Long Twilight Struggle>		 (September 24, 1995 4:15:28 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 24, 1995 4:15:28 AM

+
<JMS, Father, you are wise.>
+
+     Thank you, son.  Now clean up your room before your mom gets home.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Narn v. Centauri?		 (September 23, 1995 4:40:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 23, 1995 4:40:10 PM

+
     The colonies mainly came during the Centauri occupation, first with 
+Narns transported there as slave labor or as convenient penalty (a la 
+Australia's early history).
+
+                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Mira Furlan in LA Play		 (September 24, 1995 6:01:02 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 24, 1995 6:01:02 PM

+
     Mira Furlan, best known here as Ambassador Delenn, is currently 
+starring in a production of Sophocles' classic play ANTIGONE.  This 
+modernized version is directed by Mira's husband, Goran Gajic, and 
+adapted by Deanne Stillman.  It's a chance to see Mira out of makeup, 
+and in a very different kind of role than you've seen before.
+
+     The play is currently running at the Hudson Guild Theater, 6543 
+Santa Monica Boulevard, in Hollywood.  Performances are Thursdays-
+Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7.  Tickets can be acquired by 
+calling 213-660-TKTS.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 25, 1995 2:34:22 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 25, 1995 2:34:22 AM

+
<Are any of the B5 episodes going to be release to LASER DISC??>
+
+     Eventually, yes, but no clear indication at this time of when that 
+might happen.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 01, 1995 11:01:23 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 01, 1995 11:01:23 PM

+
<Has any company requested a license for a calendar?>
+  
+     If someone comes to us with the right package, I'm sure we could 
+work that out.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Random Queries			 (September 25, 1995 10:34:18 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 25, 1995 10:34:18 PM

+
<1.  Will the WB-Turner merger affect you and B5?
+
+2.  Will we see Sarah (General Hague's messanger) again, or is Live Shot 
+taking all of Wanda De Jesus' time?
+
+3.  Rewatching All Alone in the Dark last night,rom:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#345687
+
+     I haven't actually gotten a copy of that issue of Foundation yet; are 
+there any other articles or essays in it mentioning B5?  I sent James an 
+email, but so far, no reply, on getting a copy.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+     (First time I ever wrote for a nominally "literary" publication; 
+hope I didn't come off as too much of a doofus.)
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Random Queries			 (September 26, 1995 10:36:29 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 26, 1995 10:36:29 PM

+
<Might this affect syndication?  Is there a chance of WB "selling" B5 episodes 
+to TBS for $100?>
+
+     Dunno...it's all beyond my ken.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Stunned by B5			 (September 27, 1995 1:45:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 27, 1995 1:45:10 PM

+
     Thanks.  There does seem this odd rule that when a new viewer tries out 
+the show for the first time, it's invariably one of our few dorky shows; but 
+if you stick around, the next one is usually dead-on.
+
+     What do *I* want?  To finish this story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Mira Furlan in LA Play		 (September 27, 1995 1:45:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 27, 1995 1:45:13 PM

+
     That I don't know; I imagine how long it runs will be a function of how 
+many show up.  Best to call the phone number given and ask what they are
+currently projecting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+

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+ Major B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 12:46:11 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: September 28, 1995 12:46:11 AM

+
     Before you hit the *kill* button...a thought or two in your general
+direction.  First, if you're eager for the actual news part of this message
+-- and it is kinda important -- it appears at the end of this message.  If
+you've got a second, stick around.
+
+     In every interview he's given on the subject, Walter Koenig has spoken
+glowingly of BABYLON 5, as a show he feels is fighting for genuine quality
+SF in television, with serious, mature stories for fans who grew up on STAR
+TREK and are looking for more of that quality...none other than Majel
+Barrett Roddenberry has gone on record at conventions, including Toronto
+Trek and the recent Wolf 359 convention, as saying that BABYLON 5 was "the
+only other intelligent science fiction series out there" besides the ST
+shows, and urged ST fans to support it.
+
+     If you've tried the show, and it wasn't to your tastes...fair enough.
+No one should be expected to like everything.  If you'd like to give it
+another shot, that's fine, but there is no need to defend your opinion; we
+respect it.  Not every show works for every viewer.
+
+     If you *haven't* tried the show...if you liked the original ST and the
+work of Majel and Walter and Harlan and others involved in it...if you like
+the work of Peter David, who has written for B5 and supports it...you may
+want to give it a shot in October/November.
+
+     The final four episodes from year two will be broadcast starting the
+week of October 11th, with the new year three episodes beginning the second
+week of November.  These nine episodes in a row contain some of the best
+work we have ever done.  Acting, writing, directing, effects...we stand
+behind all of them.  (The year two Final Four were held back from earlier
+broadcast to lead into the debut, so these are new to the US, although they
+have already aired to substantial praise in the UK.)
+
+     If perhaps you have been turned off by some of the more vigorous
+messages from B5 viewers, I'd only ask that you consider those comments in
+light of the fact that Paramount (NOT the people doing ST, but the studio
+itself) has done everything possible to hinder the progress of B5, which
+engenders certain reactions from everyone; and that to a man or woman,
+virtually all of the more vigorous posts have come from those who have long
+considered themselves fans of STAR TREK, voicing many of the concerns which
+are stated right here in this forum by current viewers...which they had long
+before there was a B5...  as well as some of the praises found here.
+
+     The ironic thing is that there is no problem between those who make B5,
+and those who make ST..Jeri Taylor is a friend, Majel supports the show,
+when ST does an episode with great EFX we call them, when we do a good one
+they call us...it's almost entirely a matter of perception.
+
+     So for what it's worth, direct from those of us who make BABYLON 5, if
+you haven't checked out the show before, or if you're curious to see where
+we stand now...I would like to personally invite you to check out the new
+batch of episodes starting around October 11th.  If you want to give us all
+nine episodes, that's great; if less, that's fine too.  If not at all,
+that's also fine.
+
+     Over a late dinner with Majel, I observed that after the original STAR
+TREK, which for the first time presented truly *human* characters, with all
+their flaws and frailties and bravery and nobility, in a science fiction
+series, the ball was dropped, and no one picked it up again for years.  She
+agreed with this...and it is my hope that you will find this coming season
+of BABYLON 5 to be that show.
+
+     Because it isn't an either/or, sum/zero game...one can watch, and
+enjoy, BABYLON 5 and STAR TREK equally, for different reasons, since their
+approaches are very different.  And this is the perfect time to come into
+B5, since these episodes encapsulize a lot of background, and will take you
+quickly into the background, the universe and the characters.
+
+     Which is why, I'm pleased to announce, Majel Barrett will be appearing
+as a guest star on BABYLON 5 this coming season...a gesture of support from
+her, and a gesture of respect from all of us at B5.  The deal has been
+signed, it's a done deal...she'll be appearing in episode #9, "Point of No
+Return," as Emperor Turhan's third wife, Lady Morella.  We're very much
+looking forward to her appearance in the B5 universe.
+
+     For all these and other reasons, I hope you'll give BABYLON 5 a try.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+     (P.S. For the Internet gang...please don't repost this on the 'net until
+after Jeannette has broken the news; I promised I'd let her make the
+announcement there, after she heard about it at Wolf 359 in the UK, and agreed
+to keep this secret for the last week at my request.)
+
+
+

+
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+
+ B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 12:46:12 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 28, 1995 12:46:12 AM

+
     Suggest you check out the "Major B5/ST News" thread over on the ST forum.  
+Majel Barrett Roddenberry has signed to do a guest appearance on B5's third s
+eason as a gesture of mutual respect.
+
+                                                                     ms
+
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+

+
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+ Major B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 1:20:16 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: September 28, 1995 1:20:16 PM

+
     Actually, we make as sure as possible that every episode contains the
+information required to follow it; any needed background is restated or
+contained within the episode.  You can see some, all or any other number of
+episodes and be able to follow them...in some countries, they're running the
+show *completely* out of order, except by season overall, and it seems to be
+doing okay.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Major B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 1:20:14 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: September 28, 1995 1:20:14 PM

+
     "He was nasty to the people in the crowd who tried to support ST.  He
+literally tried to make them look like idiots and talked them down."
+
+     I'm sorry, Lisa...I hate to say you're exaggerating, or being less than
+truthful, but this never happened.  I don't know if you're remembering it
+this way out of some defensiveness, but this never happened, and there were
+plenty of other people at that panel who can confirm this.
+
+     I have made it a very deliberate point, in any public appearance, not
+to put down *anyone* for watching ST.  Never have, never will.  I don't know
+if you're attributing comments made by others to me, or simply going off
+your emotions of that panel, but it never happened.  I know that Shane
+Shellenbarger (noted SF fan/writer based in Arizona) was there that day
+videotaping the panel, and I'll drop him a note asking to check the tape and
+verify this.
+
+     (I also remember very distinctly at that panel that I kept trying to
+change the topic to non-B5 shows, but kept getting yanked back to it by the
+other panelists and the audience...in large part because a) I wanted some
+info on the other shows, and b) I didn't want to blow the info that I'd come
+to use at the big presentation at a small panel, thus eliminating any sense
+of drama and becoming redundent.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Major B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 11:50:09 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: September 28, 1995 11:50:09 PM

+
     Ellen: thanks.  As for the episode in question, it's entitled "Point of
+No Return," and the role of Lady Morella was written specifically for Majel.
+I hustled to get it finished prior to the Wolf 359 convention, where I gave
+her a copy of the script.  She read it overnight, and fell in love with the
+story, the character, and what it was going to do with and to the BABYLON 5
+universe (to wit: start turning it upside down).  Next morning, she said
+"I'm in." And she is.
+
+     Yes, it's a jms script, and is one of the most pivotal of this season,
+episode #9, which with the one before it, "Messages from Earth," builds to a
+major turning point in #10, so it should be a very popular, intense and
+memorable episode in every respect.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Major B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 11:50:10 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: September 28, 1995 11:50:10 PM

+
     I *think* B5 is shown in San Diego on Saturdays or Sundays around 5 or
+6; not entirely sure.  Likely somebody else here who lives down there can
+give you the info; also, I believe there's a station list in the library
+which may have this info.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Foul Ball			 (September 01, 1995 1:13:04 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 01, 1995 1:13:04 PM

+
     The B5 baseball cap is available by phone order from Creation 
+Entertainment or at any Creation convention.
+
+     As for the sound mix...yeah, we put a great deal of work into 
+that aspect, for the surround effect.  If you fire up "Race" there's 
+a LOT going on in that one.  It takes a great deal of time, but it's 
+worth it.
+
+                                                         jms
+
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+

+
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+
+ Major B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 11:50:13 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: September 28, 1995 11:50:13 PM

+
     Thanks.  To me, emotion is the *core* of drama...an episode, a story,
+should leave you feeling something...make you worry, or think, or get mad,
+or laugh.  So the stories tend to proceed very much from an emotional core.
+Thanks for jumping in.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 4:21:27 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 28, 1995 4:21:27 PM

+
     She'll be playing a Centauri female, the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's
+third wife; also a prophetess and seer.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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+ B5/ST News			 (September 28, 1995 9:34:22 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 28, 1995 9:34:22 PM

+
     I often work on more than one thing at the same time; on B5, in
+addition to the producing jobs, I'm outlining one script, writing another,
+editing a third....
+
+     Prior to B5 (which is all-consuming), I'd often be in somewhat lower
+pressure jobs (standard writer/producer, not exec), and would be writing the
+episodes, plus a novel, plus stories, plus a screenplay, plus other stuff,
+all pretty much at the same time.
+
+     The key, though, is to FINISH what you write.  Otherwise it's useless.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+     P.S.  You misspelled "weird."
+
+
+

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+ 3rd Season opener...		 (September 28, 1995 11:50:07 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 28, 1995 11:50:07 PM

+
<Rumor is the 3rd season opener will feature Lord Refa going insane when Londo
+slips him hash-filled brownies.  And it's called, "Refa Madness.">
+
+      I won't comment on a joke I told you first....
+
+      We must now go to the WGA and arbitrate this.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: September 30, 1995 1:03:23 AM

+
      Yeah, "Messages from Earth" came out quite well as a script; can't
+wait for it to roll before the cameras.
+
+      As it happens, episodes 8, 9 and 10 ("Messages," "Point of No Return,"
+and "Severed Dreams") are kind of a triptych, linked at the hip and designed
+to pull together/blow out several major hanging plot threads once and for
+all, and send the show spinning off in an entirely different direction.  The
+hardest one to write was 10, because it's a very emotional episode for the
+characters, and for me.
+
+      And next is #11, which I begin to write this weekend...and #11, year
+three, is the *exact* midpoint of the 5 year story.  This is the hump, the
+dead center of the journey.  It took so long to get here, and suddenly we're
+halfway finished.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 12:43:07 AM

+
     Nothing's crammed; it all fits where it fits.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 12:43:04 AM

+
     As Fred Allen said, "Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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+ Major B5/ST News			 (September 29, 1995 1:16:13 PM)
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Section: Star Trek
Date: September 29, 1995 1:16:13 PM

+
     Re: "No Mrs. Troi on B5," I remember the comments when we mentioned for
+the first time that we'd have Walter Koenig on the show.  "Oh, lord, Chekov
+on B5."  Then they met his character, Mr. Bester...and nobody said that no
+more.  He instantly became one of our more popular, interesting characters.
+
+     The role Majel's going to do for us is very different than what she's
+done before...otherwise, what's the point?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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+ Major B5/ST News			 (September 30, 1995 1:03:24 AM)
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Date: September 30, 1995 1:03:24 AM

+
     All that can be done is to write your local station.  My hunch, though,
+is that this will settle down when the new episodes come on; reruns they
+invaribaly mess with.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 12:43:03 AM

+
     Thanks; yeah, that show was a hoot.  So was HOUR 25 in general.  But in
+time it just became too much of a conflict of interest.  I couldn't keep doing
+a show about SF, including media, and make a product FOR SF media.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 01, 1995 11:01:17 PM

+
     Alas, I don't have their number right at hand, but if you call 
+818 area code information, for the Creation Entertainment offices 
+in Glendale, you'll get the info.
+
+                                                         jms
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 1:03:27 AM

+
     Ah, Brian...now that you've appeared in public, allow me to give you one
+good-natured, but quite solid thump to the head.
+
+     Remember when we were leaving the hotel the morning after the
+convention, and you and your associate gave Kathryn and myself two wrapped
+gift boxes?  Well, as you recall, we were in a hurry, so we thanked you
+politely, put them in our bags (carry on only, no check through), and
+hurried to the waiting cab.
+
+     We got to the airport, and were about to go through the scanners, when
+we remembered the boxes.  First rule of international travel: no matter WHO
+gives you a package, always open it before going on board, because they'll
+ask you.  So we opened the two boxes.
+
+     Which contained letter openers.  About half a foot long.  Reasonably
+sharp.
+
+     In other words....KNIVES!  We were about to go into an international
+airline with KNIVES in our carry-on bags.
+
+     Do you know, Brian...can you *imagine* the hassle those knives cost us
+on the flight?  The conferences with security, the long explanations, the
+checking and cross-checking of passports, the knives taken away by security,
+then returned in the plane later...then going through the whole thing all
+over again at the stop-over in Chicago...having to provide passport and
+other ID, getting a Chicago airline security person who happened to know the
+show to vouch for me and sign the knives back over to us....
+
+     We had such *splendid* things to say about you during all this, Brian.
+You should've heard them.  We were half-tempted to leave the bloody things
+at the terminal.  You may want to tell your people next time to THINK before
+they give someone a package for international travel.  I can just imagine
+what would've happened if we HADN'T checked the boxes before going through
+the scanners.  "Are you carrying any weapons or any kind?"  "Nope."  "Then
+would you care to explain these items, sir?"  CLANG!  They'd throw away the
+key.
+
+     That said...if you're still up for having me at the Encounter,
+depending on terms and times, I'm up for it.
+
+     But please...no parting gifts....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 1:04:03 AM

+
     Yeah, I just noted that elsewhere...at episode 11, we're over the hump.
+Strange to think it'll be over in just another couple years.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 01, 1995 4:23:15 AM

+
     Except, of course, that there wasn't "a quick directional change by
+offering a new enemy" (in second season) because that enemy - the Shadows --
+was in there right from the git-go, in season one...in "Chrysalis," which we
+shot #12 even though it was aired #22 as our cliffhanger, and in "Signs and
+Portents," short shortly thereafter.  So it was always there, and has always
+been there...they're the primary antagonist, in a philosophical sense,
+throughout a major part of the story.
+
+     "...and the mutation of another primary character."  This, also, was in
+the outline of the story from the very first episode onward; it's
+*important* to the story, and wasn't done for any of the reasons you cite.
+(The only change here was that Delenn was originally planned to be a male
+character, if androgynous, which emerged female from the chrysalis, but we
+couldn't get the male-altered voice to sound right, so this was dropped,
+though we kept the more-human aspects.)
+
+     You seem to determine "the maturity of the show" by not offering real
+or substantive changes; but this show is *about* change, and the choices we
+make that create those changes.  There's this notion that if someone's the
+captain, he has to stay the captain all the time; which is the element that
+many ST fans criticize in TNG as to why Riker stayed first-officer for seven
+years, which would kill any other career.
+
+     So it's not a reset, it's an advancement of the storyline...look at
+Londo as we first saw him, and now; ditto for G'Kar...we're talking here
+major, substantive changes.  That aspect is at the very core of the story.
+You really can't look at this as you would a regular episodic drama in that
+one respect; "Oh, they just changed characters, so they're just starting all
+over again."  That's not the intent at all.
+
+     "the show (TNG) stayed with its basic core of characters and followed a
+similar structure...B5 episodes seem to detract from this formula."  Which
+is precisely the intent.  I don't like formula, or predictability, or to
+lock down a structure and never change it...that's not life, and I try to
+make this show emulate life.  People change, die, get promoted, demoted,
+transferred, corrupted, redeemed...change, for me, is the *drama* of the
+story; to stay static and unchanging the reverse of that.  It's *process*,
+and I find process fascinating.
+
+     "I guess patience is a virtue."  Well, I have to say that if you're
+waiting for B5 to settle down into a predictable, unchanging formula, you're
+going to have a long wait ahead of you, because that's not in the cards. The
+changes and developments only pick up greater speed and ramifications the
+deeper we go into the storyline.
+
+								       jms
+
+     (PS...as for "all or some of the credit" for the new SF shows going to
+ST, much as one might wish that were true, it isn't.  Otherwise you'd've had
+a lot more of them in the last 30 years.  I've been in meetings with network
+and studio execs, and one reason it took us 5 years to sell B5 was because,
+as we were told verbatim, "There's no market in TV for SF other than Trek;
+the market won't sustain more than one SF show like that; people don't want
+SF, they want ST."  It was used, repeatedly, to justify why you couldn't do
+these kinds of shows...and I'd point out that B5 is the FIRST SF show in 30
+years, since ST, to be set in the far future, with mankind as a spacefaring
+civilization, and with a fully worked out cosmology of other races,
+politics, and governments...and particularly one of the very few to go past
+two seasons in general.  Now you're getting more SF on the air because the
+networks have finally seen that ST does NOT have a death-grip on TV SF, and
+other shows, like B5 and X-Files *can* survive.
+
+     (Certainly it was never ST's intent for this to happen, and I'm not
+saying that it is or was; but this has definitely been the result, and the
+ST shadow has been something for other SF shows to overcome; it has not made
+the process easier, only more difficult.  How many American-made space SF
+series have gone past 3 seasons other than ST?  It's after 4 seasons that
+the networks/studios begin making back their money, and since the answer to
+that is "virtually none," you begin to see why they've been reluctant to do
+more than stick their toes in over the last three decades.)
+
+
+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 10:49:14 PM

+
     I don't tend to leave out things in my stories, particularly B5, as
+much as morph them into something else if I feel it'd work better a
+different way.  For any writer to be so hidebound to stick to every single
+tiny element of the outline, once one is at the script stage (or the novel
+writing stage) is foolish, and I can't think of anyone who doesn't diverge
+to one degree or another.
+
+     For me, an outline is basically a series of directions on a map; get
+here, turn *right*, take highway 407 to here, get off and proceed south. But
+if you get into a part of your trip, and suddenly see that there's a fork in
+the road you hadn't anticipated that'll cut hours off your trip, you'd be
+foolish not to take it.  Non-writers never understand that; they only see
+the work when it's done, not the process, which is alien to them.
+
+     If you make a course correction, you have to make sure everything still
+tracks with your goal, natch, or risk getting lost along the way...but to
+the "experience" part of your question...that's the instinct that keeps you
+ever heading toward your destination.  That comes only with time.  And I've
+been at this a LONG time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 10:49:17 PM

+
     I had exactly 90 minutes in Chicago, 87 of which were spent explaining
+to security people why I was carrying these knives in my carry-on luggage....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 10:49:23 PM

+
     Well, of course, in the best case scenario, after the series has run
+its course, the theory is to try and get *out* of TeeVee and back into novels
+and plays.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 10:31:26 PM

+
     Harlan is a *huge* fan of Pinky and the Brain.  As it happens, I know
+the actor who does one of the two voices (I can never remember if he's Pinky
+or the Brain...I think the Brain...Maurice LeMarche), and had him call Harlan
+as his character.  They did competing Brains.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+ Majel Barrett on B5		 (September 30, 1995 10:31:31 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: September 30, 1995 10:31:31 PM

+
     Thanks.  What's compelling, for me, is that the reason the original
+Star Trek worked so well is that the actors did a great job portraying those
+characters...and ended up becoming tagged as being those characters, so in
+the long run were hurt because they couldn't get other work.  But they were
+able to make these characters work so well *because they were terrific
+actors*.  So if you give a Walter Koenig or others another kind of role,
+they'll do just as excellent a job with that as with what went before.
+
+     So the part for Majel will, as stated, be quite different.
+
+     Glad you like the final four; "Inquisitor" is also very much a favorite
+of ours, and even though it has far fewer effects than the episodes on
+either side of it, lots of folks here consider it possibly our best episode.
+And yes, the impact of "Twilight" is pretty much what you describe...just
+sort of a stunned silence, and lots of people have said they didn't want to
+talk about it for a while afterward, being very moved by it.
+
+     Re: the decision to hold back the final 4...creatively, it was a pain
+in the ass, because I wanted them out in July, so people could consider the
+implications.  But WB felt that it would give us a leg up on the third
+season debut, let us build some momenum with 9 eps in a row rather than just
+6-7.  There's an element of truth to that.  So I guess it's a wash....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 01, 1995 4:23:05 AM

+
     That's weird...I'd sent this to Mary Taylor, and it ended up being sent
+to myself...I think I used a wrong commmand in Tapcis....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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+ Origins of Hokey Pokey		 (September 30, 1995 10:49:02 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 30, 1995 10:49:02 PM

+
<"The Hokey Pokey" dates back to slavery; is its use in "A Voice in the
+Wilderness" related to that?>
+
+      I've actually heard several variations on what the song means; my guess
+is that the real origins have been so reinterpreted and made-up over time that
+we may never know the actual basis...what you heard is as valid as just about
+anything else.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+
+*******************************************************
+* SPOILERS FOR FINAL FOUR SEASON-TWO EPISODES FOLLOW. *
+*******************************************************
+
+
+
+
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+

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+ Pirate Warning from jms		 (September 02, 1995 9:33:31 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 02, 1995 9:33:31 PM

+
<I have heard rumors of B5 being offered in laser disk in the near 
+future. Is there any truth to it?>
+
+     Eventually it'll be done, but there's no target date for that 
+now.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ <TLTS>				 (September 01, 1995 1:13:06 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 01, 1995 1:13:06 PM

+
<Are Shadow ships more like an animal than a StarFury?>
+
+     Well, they're organic technology, so they can feel, but only 
+after a fashion.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <<Fall o' Night Ques>>		 (September 01, 1995 11:01:18 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 01, 1995 11:01:18 PM

+
<During the battle in Fall of Night, when that part of the station 
+gets shot off, what exactly is that thing anyway?>
+
+     It's an area for helping secure ships while being offloaded 
+into the zero-G cargo bay right behind it.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <<Fall o' Night Ques>>		 (September 03, 1995 7:20:02 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 03, 1995 7:20:02 PM

+
+<Will that area be repaired in time for the third season?>
+
+     Repairs will be visible being done in the first episode.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <The Fall Of Night>		 (September 03, 1995 7:20:04 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 03, 1995 7:20:04 PM

+
     The Vorlons aren't yet ready; they can't take on the shadows by 
+themselves, and must bring together other forces.
+
+     And in each case, re: Kosh, what they saw was not the *head* of 
+their belief, but in essence a supporting being of light; it wasn't 
+G'Quon, but G'Lan that G'Kar saw, which was a being that story tells us 
+served G'Quon. So you wouldn't see the head of the religion, 
+since there can only be one of those, and lots of Vorlons, but each tends 
+to have a supporting cast, for lack of a better term.  Those are what 
+we perceive the vorlons to be.
+
+     And remember, we didn't see any other human's POV of Kosh but 
+Sheridan's.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <The Fall Of Night>		 (September 05, 1995 1:33:09 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 05, 1995 1:33:09 AM

+
     No, she wouldn't.  Again, you don't see the *top* of the echelon of any
+belief, because there can be only one of those; it's the servants of light you
+see (and even the Old Testament makes reference to such things).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <The Fall Of Night>		 (September 06, 1995 5:36:27 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 06, 1995 5:36:27 PM

+
<Who would Ivanova see?>
+
+     Orson Bean.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <Long Twilight Struggle>		 (September 22, 1995 11:14:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: September 22, 1995 11:14:10 PM

+
     Thanks.  Yes, there's a WW II parallel, not in terms of 
+justifying one or the other -- one can make compelling 
+arguments for and against the use of atomic weapons to close 
+the war, but I leave it to those who were there to have 
+made the right decision, because they had to live with it -- 
+but in terms of strategy and wartime logic.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Major B5/ST News			 (October 01, 1995 7:46:19 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 01, 1995 7:46:19 PM

+
     "I don't think that (B5) would be doing too well if it was a clone of ST."
+
+     (Actually, that should be *were*, not *was*...just to be pedantic.)
+
+     That is, in a nutshell, part of the problem we faced going in.  On the
+one hand, you have the ST fans who, understandably, hadn't heard about what
+B5 was, or that it preceded DS9 by 5 years.  (This thanks to the new PR
+philosophy at Warner Bros., which strives to create the notion of stealth
+programming...that which cannot be picked up on radar, sonar, TV or infrared
+motion detectors.)  Not their fault, in other words.  Thinking the show was
+just a DS9 ripoff, many of them opted out...again, understandably, given the
+circumstances.
+
+     Then you have those viewers who tuned in expecting to see something
+like ST, found it wasn't, and decided we weren't doing ST or SF correctly
+because of that, and did a fast fade.
+
+     Finally you had the non-ST fans, who assumed it was just like ST (in
+some cases in part because some of the comments lent themselves to that; one
+station astonishingly enough even said, "From the creators of DS9," which
+probably astonished Berman/Pillar about as much as it did me), and thus
+didn't check it out, assuming it was just more of the same.
+
+     Consequently...we fell between three chairs.  It has taken time for
+people to get the word about what the show *really* is (mainly word of
+mouth; to some extent we are still a stealth program).  As they've made that
+discovery, a task no less daunting than the first trans-Atlantic crossing by
+canoe, our audience has grown slowly but steadily.
+
+     TeeVee...it's a mug's game, Brenna.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Majel Barrett on B5		 (October 04, 1995 3:13:12 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 04, 1995 3:13:12 AM

+
     Re: "Comes the Inquisitor" (and I'm not sure whether to address this to
+you or Rae, not quite having caught the top of this)...when I wrote that
+episode, I figured it'd get some strong reactions.  What I did not expect
+was the comment, which I've now received from a number of women -- women who
+sat stoically through "Believers" and "Confessions and Lamentations" -- that
+they were in tears over "Inquisitor."
+
+     So I'd be curious to know what caused that reaction.  I think I may
+have subconsciously tapped something there -- the search for identity at its
+most emotional core, or just that it's Delenn -- and I'm trying to get a
+better sense of what that is.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ New Season			 (October 15, 1995 5:06:11 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 5:06:11 PM

+
     Originally they were done on Amigas, but the software has now been
+exported to PC platforms, so that's their venue now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+ B5 Repeat on KCOP?		 (October 15, 1995 5:06:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 5:06:16 PM

+
      No, there aren't any more repeats in LA or most markets; this is an
+overall PTEN change.  You get one chance and one only.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+ <Divided Loyalties>		 (October 15, 1995 5:06:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 5:06:17 PM

+
     Certainly, a determined teep can get that information somehow....
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+ B5 Repeat on KCOP?		 (October 15, 1995 8:43:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 8:43:14 PM

+
<I really do hate to nag, but any word on the videos?>
+
+     If there were word, you wouldn't have to ask about it.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+ B5 Repeat on KCOP?		 (October 16, 1995 11:22:24 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 16, 1995 11:22:24 PM

+
     My *guess* is that they'll show the last four again to start reruns, or
+thereabouts.  I haven't seen a final schedule yet.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+ <Divided Loyalties>		 (October 15, 1995 5:06:21 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 5:06:21 PM

+
     Oh, sure, I could tell you what *I* think is the absolute truth of the
+metaphysical aspects of the B5 universe...but what would be the fun in that?
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+ New DS9 opening = B5?		 (October 15, 1995 8:39:09 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 8:39:09 PM

+
     I've actually received email from people who say they've been harrassed
+by some of the more extreme ST fans for liking B5; one recent correspondent
+sent me a note off the usenet describing when he went into an SF bookstore
+(that also carried comics, soundtracks, other stuff), and was derided for
+wanting the B5 soundtrack, made fun of, told the disk wasn't there, finally
+found it hidden behind some other stuff, and endlessly insulted in a way
+that was very openly hostile and mean-spirited.  It happens.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ New DS9 opening = B5?		 (October 16, 1995 3:14:14 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 16, 1995 3:14:14 AM

+
     I saw your prior note, and I'd have to say that probably most of the
+items you cite as similarities in approach have to do with just about any
+space-borne science fiction.  Many colony worlds, varying tech levels,
+that's fairly generic.
+
+     Definitely agree about the differences, though.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+ New DS9 opening = B5?		 (October 17, 1995 12:41:17 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 17, 1995 12:41:17 PM

+
     Yes, I've seen the elusive Chris Franke, who is actually a 2'3" Latino
+with a broken nose and a tattoo covering both ears.  He hires this person to
+pretend he's Chris.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Horror Element		 (October 15, 1995 8:43:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 8:43:16 PM

+
     In Zone, I tried as much as possible mainly to stick to the Serling
+influence in my stories; that I felt was my primary obligation.
+
+     "Gethsemane" isn't a horror-type story at all, though it does have a
+very TZish feeling, so it doesn't owe to any of those.  Best to just let you
+see it when it airs.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5: Final Year???		 (October 04, 1995 3:31:29 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 04, 1995 3:31:29 AM

+
     What's necessary is to understand that the syndication picture has
+changed a bit since B5 hit the airwaves.  There are far more programs on now
+for stations to choose between (which is why B5 is now airing only once a
+week in most markets, to allow stations to include more and different
+programs in their line-ups).
+
+     The first year, we only had to sustain our ratings to be renewed for
+year two; in year two, we only had to grow modestly to be renewed for year
+three; in year three, with all the new programs now available, and WB and
+UPN and PTEN and FOX fighting it out for the few remaining slots, we have to
+do even better.
+
+     This is the dilemma of *every* TV series, not just B5.  You grow in the
+ratings, or you get canceled; networks or syndication, that's the rule. All
+we can do is continue to make the best show we can, and hope enough people
+hear about it to come and check it out...because if they do, in most cases
+they stick around.
+
+     So this is a *very* important time for us; if you have friends who
+haven't yet seen the show, give 'em a call and invite them to the party.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Lame Voyager Writing		 (October 16, 1995 3:14:09 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 16, 1995 3:14:09 AM

+
     Okay, here's intro lesson #5, on How Hollywood Works, by jms, age 12.
+
+     Writers, the really *good* writers, are few and far between.  Sure,
+you've got journeymen and journeywomen, people who can cobble up a decent
+story, but the percentage of really *good* writers is the same as it is in
+any other venue, a minority.  And of that sampling universe, smaller still
+is the group that can write perfectly for *your show*.
+
+     Writer A may be a great writer on series A, B and C, but when it comes
+to show D, just doesn't Get It.  Every once in a very great while, someone
+walks in the door, and absolutely nails it first time at bat.  That person
+is *exactly* suited to your show.  So it's in your best interest to grab
+that person and stick him on staff as fast as you humanly can.
+
+     If you bring him in as a staff writer, he can't rewrite others, and
+can't verbally participate in story sessions (per WGA rules) with freelance
+writers.  His utility is limited, and since there isn't that much difference
+in salary between a staff writer and a story editor, you usually bring the
+person in as story editor.  Or, if the person has a lot of credits, you
+bring him or her in as a producer.
+
+     Hence the preponderance of writer/producers in TV, which has somewhat
+become the norm.  Working through freelance scripts is a difficult thing on
+the best of days, so there's an understandable impulse to hire a whole bunch
+of writers who you know Get It, give them producer titles, and have them do
+the lion's share of the writing.  This is how most TV shows are done today.
+In a way, it's kind of diminished the title "producer," since many writer
+producers don't really produce, it's just a title with more money.  You've
+got producers, co-producers, associate producers, executive story editors,
+story editors, supervising producers and executive producers.  And even
+executive producers don't always participate in the day-to-day operation of
+a series, so they've come up with a term that creates a subset of executive
+producers, an unofficial term you'll never see on-screen, which is "Show
+Runner."  That's the one person who is running the whole darned thing.
+
+     Is all this fairly new?  Yeah, fairly.  There was a time when the
+majority of TV shows were written by freelancers, but that was when the WGA
+consisted of far fewer writers than today, and it was easier to dip into
+that pool.  Now you've got well over 9,000 Writers Guild members, of which
+roughly 50% are unemployed at any given moment.  That's a lot of people
+scrambling to beat down your door at any moment, and when you factor in the
+greater risks these days, the short orders (you used to get a full season's
+order, 24 episodes, on networks, now you get 8, then if the ratings hold, 7
+more, then a third order for the balance of episoodes, called the Back Nine,
+which means you can risk less with outsiders in your first batch), that can
+lead to a bunker mentality.
+
+     Did I start out this way?  Sorta.  I've only written two freelance TV
+scripts for dramatic series; each time I get hired instantly right
+afterward.  On other shows, I'm just hired straight off, no freelance work
+required.  I didn't actually set out to be a producer; it was never my plan,
+or my goal.  Didn't want the Pointy Hat of Authority.
+
+     But I discovered early on that the only way to make sure nobody rewrote
+me, that the words got through as I wanted them to get through, was to go up
+the ladder until I became an executive producer/show runner.  It's a hell of
+a lot of work.  If someone said, "Look, we'll make you a staff writer, pay
+you crappy money...but we won't change your words," I'd take it in a hot
+second.  But that hasn't happened, so here I am...in the cannon barrel.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
+ "Inside Trek" column		 (October 16, 1995 3:14:11 AM)
+
+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 16, 1995 3:14:11 AM

+
<Did you see this past weekend's version of the "Inside Trek" column? It
+On Saturday, they had an interview with Bruce Boxleitner.>
+
+     Yeah, thanks, I'd love to see a copy....
+
+								       jms
+
+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 16, 1995 11:22:28 PM

+
     Because you're still hooked into the way the non-B5 world does things.
+We're kind of obsessive about stuff here.
+
+     Yes, I do have approval over everything, and while a few things
+could've been better with the cards, I'm overall quite pleased.  It's a
+start.  Remember, we're still in the process of convincing people that there
+really is interest in the show, so the miracle isn't whether or not a given
+product was done well, rather that it was done at *all*.  So these so far
+are fine, and we'll continue to improve.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 17, 1995 6:36:05 PM

+
     Basically, when you go into someone else's company, as much as you may
+advise, suggest, and carry on, ultimately it's not your company, and you're
+bound by the way other people do business.
+
+     Some people can license a product, for instance, but because the show
+isn't a proven money-producer in licensing, they may want to hedge their
+bets; they may not invest as much money into production, or publicity, or
+artistic contributers of one sort or another.  So the choices you then get
+to approve may not be the ultimate best  possible in a theoretical world in
+terms of pushing the envelope or being as daring as the show.  Their
+inclination is to  play it safe.
+
+     As time goes on, and people become reassured that B5 products will work
+for them, they will be more comfortable investing more money into them,
+which in turn will attract more artistic types, which then leads to more
+daring or unique stuff.
+
+     The first few novels were, I thought, fairly prosaic; the next batch
+are, I think, more interesting...because the book company is now putting a
+little more effort and thought into the product, since the first 3 volumes
+have very much proven their worth.  And the list of writers on the next
+batch is very good, includng SM Stirling and Neal Barret Jr.
+
+     It's a growing process....
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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Section: Star Trek
Date: October 16, 1995 11:22:02 PM

+
<Many thanks for creating such a wonderful show!>
+
+     Thanks, your support is very much appreciated.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 16, 1995 11:22:08 PM

+
     1) You're assuming Bester knows everything.  Also, Bester's interest
+may have been more...carnal than PsiCorp oriented.
+
+     2) The real Talia was becoming more and more disenchanted with PC, and
+this was in time going to pull her into resistance activities, which Talia
+v2.0 would only be *thrilled* about.  The self-protection mechanism only
+kicks in when the personality's existence is threatened.
+
+     3) Remember that Ironheart was not seeing Talia under the best of
+conditions...he was fighting hard NOT to use his abilities, for any reason,
+because it created mindquakes...he was pulling everything IN.  And later he
+was shot, also not a good position.
+
+     It lays out fine, really.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 2:06:05 AM

+
     Having written the episode, produced it, edited it, seen it at least 20
+times, to synopsize it again, after all that, is something I really don't
+think I'm up to, much as I'd like to....
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 17, 1995 12:41:18 PM

+
     The shadows influence is partly the gothic horror influence overall, and
+a lot of Jungian influence.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 2:05:24 AM

+
<Drake's Cakes in CA?  Where?>
+
+     Try Slices pizza on Van Nuys in Sherman Oaks; they sell 'em by the box.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 2:05:25 AM

+
<In "The Gathering," was the data Delenn gave Sinclair on the Vorlons really
+*everything* -- including the First Ones, the Shadows, etc.?>
+
+     Yeah, there was a lot of info there...it was everything she had *there*
+at hand, but not everything the Minbari have overall.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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Section: Star Trek
Date: October 05, 1995 3:03:15 AM

+
     Thanks.  It's actually not that big a burden, since except for the Work
+I have no life that has yet been detected by modern science...
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 2:06:00 AM

+
     What many folks forget is that Serling's story were as often about
+redemption as about damnation; about hope as often as about horror.  That
+lesson is forgotten by many horror writers who claim him as influence.
+
+     The Serling influence, for me, is the strength of individual humans to
+endure much, sacrifice greatly, yet come out the other end of the struggle
+something nobler and stronger.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 2:06:02 AM

+
<Didn't Garibaldi see Talia in comic #8?  Why didn't he recognize her later?>
+
+     Nope, he was looking at the process overall; he never saw Talia.  The
+one shot of her is the omniscient POV, not his.  (And even if he had seen
+her, it would've been only a glimpse of a blonde woman, no name that he
+could see, and after so many years, given that her condition wasn't great at
+the time, he wouldn't necessarily recognize her in any event.)  But it's a
+moot point; the comic never indicated that he saw her.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 2:06:03 AM

+
<Will you be at CON-RAD?>
+
+     I've got some concerns about ConRad that I'm looking into; have to get
+into that more before I comment.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 4:15:17 PM

+
<Nice episode (TLTS)!  Does the planet have a name?>
+
+     Thanks; and the planet is Epsilon 3.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 8:24:08 PM

+
     "...picture of Talia on conveyer with red net over her face."
+
+     C'mon...you're saying anybody'd be able to recognize a flash image of 
+a woman with a red net over her face as much as 7 years later...?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 19, 1995 5:44:12 AM

+
     As I recall, the Winters, T badge was only visible in the next to last 
+panel, which is a narrative flashback, not him personally.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 18, 1995 4:15:12 PM

+
     If I were simply going to tell everyone what's going to happen, there 
+would be little point in actually making the series, true?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 19, 1995 5:44:11 AM

+
<Can I get 3D models of the ships?>
+
+     Unfortunately, we can't release that info outside the company for 
+copyright reasons.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 18, 1995 4:15:15 PM

+
     No "I told you so" involved; I've seen the galleys, there were 150 
+major typos, it couldn't be released like that.  So correcting those took 
+an additional 3 weeks.  Nothing to do with anything but production glitches
+in manufacture.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+ WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		 (October 18, 1995 4:36:04 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 18, 1995 4:36:04 PM

+
     Not backwards at all when one considers that in general B5's ratings
+have been slowly, consistently improving in non-rerun periods since it went
+on the air.  No, it didn't start out in the top figures because it didn't
+have the ST name that guarantees ratings.  It's had to find its audience,
+and vice versa.  And this it has been doing.
+
+     In LA, the first new episode of B5, aired right after a new DS9
+episode, got a 6.3 rating and a 10 share, as opposed to a 5.3/9 for DS9.
+
+     And even *absent* all that...even a lower rated show can challenge one
+artistically.  Twin Peaks never got the big numbers, but it had a major
+impact in breaking open some of the elements that others have used since, in
+shows like X-Files and American Gothic and others.
+
+     On this whole question...if you saw the DS9 2-hour debut, with the
+action scenes, you may want to check out the show airing this week.  You
+might find it interesting....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Star Trek
Date: October 04, 1995 1:13:06 AM

+
     I understand your point of view that point of view is no less valid
+than any other point of view...and note that the point of view about point
+of view offered from this end elicited "I don't necessarily agree with
+that," because that point of view is not a point of view which coincides
+with your own point of view, thus is viewed by you as a not necessarily
+valid criticism, which fundamentally reinforces my original statement, from
+my point of view.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 19, 1995 1:09:01 PM

+
<Would you have still attempted something as complex as Babylon 5 if VCRs 
+were not as common as they are now?  
+Say, ten years ago? Is it something you took into consideration at all?>
+
+     The story is the story, regardless of the medium some might use to 
+record them at home.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 1:16:22 AM

+
     I've never given much thought to the home video market; I don't get a 
+direct piece of it, and it's a secondary revenue stream as far as PTEN is 
+concerned and thus not very important, as testified to by the fact that they 
+still haven't even put any cassettes OUT in the US.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 1:16:25 AM

+
     Well, even without VCRs, eventually the show will be stripped daily 
+(one hopes, at least), once the show is over.  
+Some here have tried, as an experiment, watching them straight through, one 
+per day, and all the clues and bits and foreshadowings jump out immediately 
+that way.  So it probably works fine either way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 19, 1995 1:09:03 PM

+
     Re: your note about 500 Narns for every 1 Centauri...you may want to 
+check our own history.  During the occupation of some parts of Europe 
+during WW II, similar tactics were used.  
+In some cases the threat rose as high as 100-200 Jews or Russians executed 
+for every Nazi killed; much the same has been done in earlier history.  
+Five hundred to one is a figure relatively consistent with what humans have 
+done from time to time when we wish to instill terror.  So I find this a 
+curious quibble.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 1:24:19 AM

+
     Actually, Londo *specifies* that the 500 will include "the 
+perpetrator's own family."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 1:16:25 AM

+
<What's holding Londo to the deck? Velcro(tm)? Suction cups? The 
+w\e\i\g\h\t\ mass of his sins? Something else?>
+
+     Some races, like the Centauri and the Minbari, use drive systems built 
+to varying degrees on magnetic and gravitational forces; 
+some of them don't so much go to a planet as create a situation where they 
+are drawn toward it. 
+One of the side effects of this is a field allowing for artificial gravity. 
+Earth doesn't have this level of technology, however.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 1:24:20 AM

+
     Actually, what Delenn said was, "...the Rangers *in this area* are 
+under my direct command."  So Sinclair's post as Ranger One remains back on 
+Minbar.
+
+     And yes, Sinclair has apparently been described as the One...but you 
+must ask...the one *what*?
+
+     Expect final answers to this one late this coming season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 19, 1995 7:42:23 PM

+
     G'Kar's prayers would have been unrelated to the wounding of the 
+shadow vessel.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Repeat on KCOP?		 (October 19, 1995 4:08:25 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 19, 1995 4:08:25 PM

+
     Yes, I'm sorry, but B5 is now shown only once in most places, 
+including LA.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <Long, Twilight Ques>		 (October 19, 1995 7:37:17 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 19, 1995 7:37:17 PM

+
<Draal's hookup to the machine is similar to the game Warhammer 40,000>
+
+     No, never saw Warhammer.  The machine isn't primarily there to 
+sustain, it's basically a control mechanism.  This game is a new one on me.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+
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Date: October 04, 1995 3:14:19 PM

+
     It came out of an original announcement that Majel Barrett Roddenberry
+would be guest-starring on a B5 episode, and kinda grew from there, so the
+start of the thread was definitely ST related.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Gary Numan and B5		 (October 19, 1995 7:37:20 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 19, 1995 7:37:20 PM

+
<An English techno-pop star has albums called Babylon 1, 2, 3>
+
+     That's great; would love to hear one sometime.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ This week's sQ			 (October 20, 1995 1:16:28 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 1:16:28 AM

+
<I noticed that this week's episode of seaQuest was written by Javier 
+Grillo-(can't remember spelling).  This was the fellow who wrote the letter 
+asking for opinions on how to fix the show wasn't it?>
+
+     Since I didn't see it, I can have no real coherent thoughts (as if I 
+could on any day)....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ No vcrs?				 (October 20, 1995 8:08:05 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 8:08:05 PM

+
     Sure, I've given thought to it...<putting out B5 on videotapes> it's 
+just getting WB to go along with it; they don't think anyone would want to 
+buy them.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ No vcrs?				 (October 21, 1995 4:55:05 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 21, 1995 4:55:05 PM

+
     Unfortunately, 50% of the decision is made by the stations, which 
+don't really care what happens outside the US.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 22, 1995 4:26:25 AM

+
<In this vein, at the last with Drall, I loved the part with Drall calling 
+out for... Zathras!>
+
+     Yeah, that was a rather Draal bit of humor, wasn't it?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Repeat on KCOP?		 (October 20, 1995 8:08:07 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 8:08:07 PM

+
<Do you have any plans or thoughts on releasing a collection series?>
+
+     Sooner or later, but not soon.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Message report			 (October 20, 1995 8:08:09 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 8:08:09 PM

+
     Yes, ramoras live off shark leftovers.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ JMS: <LTS> SPOILER <?>		 (October 20, 1995 8:08:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 8:08:13 PM

+
<The Vorlons lodged an official protest.  Was that the first time the
+Vorlons acted so directly (since the eternal life episode, at least)?>
+
+     Yeah, that's pretty much the first time since the pilot where the 
+Vorlons got involved with the Sinclair situation.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Starfury Q			 (October 20, 1995 8:08:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 8:08:17 PM

+
     No, we've never had problems with the starfury design; our thought is 
+that new models of fighters always come out, and we figured we'd introduce 
+some newer models along the way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 20, 1995 8:16:21 PM

+
     It would be difficult to collapse everything into a fourth season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 04, 1995 7:04:25 PM

+
     By all means, repost away.  It's gone out now, so it's fine.  As for
+the B5 AOL site, I'm told it'll be up by mid-month.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 21, 1995 3:23:24 AM

+
      "So what you're saying is that they're the Borg."
+
+      heh.  heh.
+
+      C'mere.
+
+      No, it'll be fine, just come over here for a minute, this won't 
+hurt....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 21, 1995 4:55:10 PM

+
     "A narn resistance is going to be pretty hard to organize."
+
+     *Exactly* the issue we'll explore in "A Day in the Strife."  (Well, 
+one of many issues.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 21, 1995 4:55:11 PM

+
     The cruiser is the same size as that sent to look into Z'ha'dum; it's 
+just a matter of perspective and how close the camera gets.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+ Londo Poisoned?			 (October 21, 1995 8:57:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 21, 1995 8:57:22 PM

+
     No, we'd never do anything that basically unfair to the viewers....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 21, 1995 8:57:23 PM

+
<I am totally stunned and speechless from this episode.  Joe, let me tell 
+you, I CRIED in this episode.>
+
+     Thanks.  I'm very pleased with that episode; your response was just 
+what I was hoping for.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 21, 1995 10:49:09 PM

+
     The reason for the placement of the jump points is *very* straight 
+forward.
+
+     By virtue of their size and the tremendous forces unleashed by punching
+a hole into hyperspace, you want to form it a little distance away or risk
+being severely damaged. If they formed the points between them and the
+enemy, which was quite capable of avoiding them, it would be entirely
+possible for the shadows to get in front of the point and cut off their sole
+means of escape.  Usually, better to form them behind you, so the enemy
+can't block your way out, and take a possible hit or two to your aft
+sections than be totally cut off.  They didn't anticipate the extra weapons
+the shadows had.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Bab5 cancellation HELP		 (October 28, 1995 6:44:28 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 6:44:28 PM

+
      What you can also do, btw, is get together lots of other folks, using 
+SF and comic stores, to sign a petition and go to another station and urge 
+them to pick it up once it becomes available.  This has worked in other 
+places.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Telepathic Vorlons		 (October 25, 1995 10:16:05 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 25, 1995 10:16:05 PM

+
      They have certain potentialities, but I'd rather not go into them 
+here quite yet.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 25, 1995 10:16:06 PM

+
     Short of convincing them via pressure, I can't think of anything.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 25, 1995 10:16:08 PM

+
     No, had nothing to do with Q, it's deciding what kind of person our 
+Mr. Sebastian might've been, and working from  there.  When you have 
+a character with as vivid and powerful as his, you don't need 
+to look to ST for any ideas on character.  And unlike Q, Sebastian has no
+powers of his own, just the force of his personality.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5: Final Year???		 (October 05, 1995 3:03:12 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 05, 1995 3:03:12 AM

+
     The only reason the ratings have slipped (which they never mention in
+the trades) is that we've been in reruns since *MAY*, just running the same
+18 episodes over and over and over.
+
+     We'll get a better picture in a few weeks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Influence?			 (October 26, 1995 8:07:17 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 26, 1995 8:07:17 PM

+
     Wayne has primarily done stage work, not a lot of TV, he's kind of a 
+find.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Influence?			 (October 29, 1995 3:37:25 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 29, 1995 3:37:25 AM

+
     Okay, here's one clue for any would-be Ripperologists out there.
+
+     In all the long story of Jack, when he was out doing his nightly work,
+only one person, a woman, wrote an actual letter, published in the London
+Times, offering an *explanation* for the Ripper's work, arguing that he was
+trying to send a message, that maybe people should listen to that message.
+It was as close as anyone's ever come to an actual *defense* of what he was
+doing.
+
+     Note the woman's name, and who her husband was...a man who was twice
+interviewed by Scotland Yard, and interviewed by many Church officials, the
+transcripts of which have been *sealed* by the Church ever since, at the
+request of the family...a person who was the last man to see at least one of
+the victims alive...and who was a direct blood relative of the man who was
+living with the final victim (who was killed indoors, leading to the
+speculation that she knew her assailant)...who suffered a breakdown just
+before the murders began, was obsessed with cleaning up the Whitechapel
+area, and after whose sudden, hasty transfer, the murders stopped...and
+whose profession is tied *directly* to the only thing the Ripper was
+overheard to say to one of his victims.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Twilight Struggle >		 (October 25, 1995 10:16:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 25, 1995 10:16:14 PM

+
<Just another note of appreciation.... now that I've finally seen TLTS, I 
+can't find adequate words to describe its impact. >
+
+      Thanks...and the amazing thing is, it continues to improve....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Londo's Cough			 (October 26, 1995 12:34:30 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 26, 1995 12:34:30 PM

+
      Not that it just looked better per se, but the gunshots came from 
+right to left; the gun hand as originally shot fired from left to right.  
+It looked very funky when edited together, like it was going in a different 
+direction than the one it was fired in.  Flopping the shot corrected that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <CtI---OK>			 (October 26, 1995 12:37:18 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 26, 1995 12:37:18 PM

+
     "catch me a kvetch, find me a flarn...."
+
+                                                               jms*
+
+
+     (Who woke up this morning humming "While My G'Kar Gently Weeps")
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Videotapes from jms		 (October 26, 1995 2:18:31 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 26, 1995 2:18:31 PM

+
     In answer to your question (383177)....
+
+     As you've noted, the Powers That Be at Warner Bros. don't think there 
+is a market for B5 tapes, from the first season to present.  The *only* way 
+that they can ever be released is if the fans themselves take action.  
+That is the absolute bottom-line.  Only if the fans speak out will this 
+happen. This is not a drill, and I don't pass along this kind of information 
+lightly or often, even when requested, as was done here.
+
+     The primary contact, who can make the decision, is Mr. James Cardwell,
+Executive Vice-President/General Manager, Warner Bros. Home Video, North
+American Division, 3903 W. Olive, Building 154, 3rd Floor, Burbank, CA 91522.
+
+     I do not anticipate posting this elsewhere, to avoid the appearance of 
+encouraging a deluge.  The question has come up here repeatedly, and I
+answered finally.  If others choose to take this message from CIS and post
+it elsewhere, that's certainly their option.
+
+     At this point, since WB has no plans to rerun the first season due to 
+concerns that the presence of a different CO might confuse viewers, 
+this is about the only way for folks who saw, or missed, the first season to 
+catch up on all that went before.  (Obviously when the show is over completely,
+ the episodes will go into syndication, but that is, presumably, 3 years 
+down the road.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Videotapes from jms		 (October 28, 1995 12:13:20 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 12:13:20 AM

+
     I think giving out the fax number might tend to clog it, which they 
+might kinda object to.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Fan mail				 (October 26, 1995 2:18:00 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 26, 1995 2:18:00 PM

+
     Fan mail can be sent to all involved in making B5 at the following 
+address: c/o Babylon 5, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA
+91423.  The c/o must be included.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		 (October 26, 1995 2:18:02 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 26, 1995 2:18:02 PM

+
      The episode underlines that there are two fundamental questions in 
+B5: who are you, and what do you want?  The order in which you answer
+those two questions can either make you great...or destroy you.
+
+      As for "There...plain truth!"  Someone elsewhere noted that this is 
+how we work sometimes...we hand you our play book quite openly, we tell
+you we're coming right up the middle, try and stop us.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		 (October 27, 1995 2:07:00 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 27, 1995 2:07:00 PM

+
      Yeah, that's about the right reaction to Sebastian.  As for the next 
+week's scenes...well, at least the really major thing wasn't shown.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Vir leaving?			 (October 04, 1995 3:14:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 04, 1995 3:14:14 PM

+
     Vir appears in multiple episodes this year, working around his schedule
+on "Misery Loves Company."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <CtI -- Question>		 (October 26, 1995 8:07:14 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 26, 1995 8:07:14 PM

+
<How did Lennier know where to find Delenn?>
+
+     Well, given Delenn's position, I think she'd have let Lennier know 
+where she was, or that he'd heard Sheridan tell Delenn in the scene we 
+played the voice-over.
+
+     Thanks, it was a good show.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <CtI -- Question>		 (October 28, 1995 9:47:04 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 9:47:04 PM

+
<Where do you see Lennier and Delenn having been, and where do you 
+see the two of them going?  My commendations to Mira on her 
+acting in this one.  Thanks for a terrific episode.>
+
+     Yes, Mira's great in that episode.
+
+     As for Lennier...it's an unusual relationship, which you'll learn a 
+LOT more about in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."  Which is all I can say
+for now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Archetypes			 (October 26, 1995 8:07:15 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 26, 1995 8:07:15 PM

+
     That's the kind of thing I don't tend to dwell on overmuch, lest the 
+storytelling become self-conscious.  The more you start to over-analyze the
+work as you're doing it, the less fresh and spontaneous it becomes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644Saturday, October 28, 1995 6:44:25 
+PM
+
+     Sysops:
+
+     As a note, there's probably no reason to repost this message again; I 
+think it might be overkill, and while I felt it 
+was right to come in here once to announce this, it *is* the ST section and 
+shouldn't have to put up with multiple 
+raids of the same message.
+
+     As an aside, Majel is shooting this week on B5, and so far seems to be 
+enjoying it immensely.  She's having great fun working with Peter Jurasik 
+and Stephen Furst.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 28, 1995 2:30:25 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 2:30:25 PM

+
<I saw a mention of Bruce Boxleitner's coming on board in an issue of 
+TV Guide and decided to make an effort to check on the show -- and got 
+hooked.
+
+Episodes of Babylon5 really are like reading a chapter of a science fiction 
+novel every week.> 
+
+     Thanks, and I'm glad you made it to the show.  Bruce is nothing but 
+terrific to work with.  And I think you'll like where we're going over the
+next 6 weeks in particular....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 28, 1995 9:47:31 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 9:47:31 PM

+
<Talia is now Corps.  Whatever Ironheart gave her, Psi Corps has.
+Is that, uh, a problem?>
+
+      Logically, yes, that would eventually pose a problem.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <Comes the Inquisitor>		 (October 28, 1995 2:30:26 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 2:30:26 PM

+
<"Omigod. Omigod. Omigod. Omigod. Omigod. But you can't do that on 
+television. Nobody's ever done that on television!" ...>
+
+     You know, you say the *nicest* things....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Comes the Inquisitor>		 (October 28, 1995 6:58:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 6:58:22 PM

+
     The pain is necessary because it's easy to consider laying down one's 
+life intellectually; when the pain and the agony bring it home, it's no
+longer as easy.
+
+     And there *is* no correct answer to "Who are you?"  The only real 
+answer is no answer, because as soon as you apply someone's term for it, 
+you have limited yourself, defined yourself in someone else's terms.
+
+     Doing things in a refined, gentle, intellectual manner is the sort of 
+thing Delenn's used to, she can handle that easily...the goal of Sebastian 
+was to try and *break* her.  That's not intended to be done gently.  You
+don't break someone over a cup of tea discussing philosophical concepts and
+the nature of personal identity.  It's also not terribly dramatic to watch.
+
+     Because of her position, rank and authority, she expected to be 
+treated a certain way...which was why it was important to treat her just 
+the opposite.  It's easy to put oneself into a grand prophecy, to assume
+one has a destiny...to pay the price for that is something else again.  
+Anyone can do the former; very few can ever do the latter.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <CTI> Did Sinclair pass?		 (October 28, 1995 9:47:00 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 9:47:00 PM

+
    <Did Sinclair have to undergo a similar interrogation?  Good show.>
+
+     Bear in mind, though, that we don't yet know, when someone says The 
+One, the answer to, "The One *what*?"  When this gets answered later this
+season, you may have your answer there.
+
+     And thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <TLTS & Stuff>			 (October 28, 1995 9:47:02 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 9:47:02 PM

+
     Hey, I gotta have *some* fun here, right?  Can't make it too easy.  If 
+I just answered all the questions, wouldn't be much point in making the show,
+now would there?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Inquisitor--Mira, etc>		 (October 28, 1995 9:47:08 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 9:47:08 PM

+
     I think that, in the long run, the vorlons and the shadows will answer 
+the questions Who are you and What do you want...in that that's kind of 
+what they *are*, if that makes any sense.
+
+     Well, it will.  Eventually.
+
+     Funny thing is, how much as you note the show corresponds to some of
+the things Mira's been through...some of it intentional, knowing that if I
+dig into this area, it'll come out of her with the ring of truth...some of
+it quite unintentional.  When I finished writing "Severed Dreams," and the
+actors got it, Mira's first words to me were, "So...how long DID you live in
+Yugoslavia?"  The parallel wasn't intentional...but it fit.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ KCOP & B5?			 (October 05, 1995 3:03:16 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 05, 1995 3:03:16 AM

+
     B5 starts showing new eps next Wednesday at 9, right after DS9; check
+your local TV Guide, you'll find an ad there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Milwaukee Affiliate		 (October 28, 1995 9:47:09 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 28, 1995 9:47:09 PM

+
     Yes, most stations now are only showing the episodes once per week not 
+twice.  So if you want to get it, it has to happen the first time at bat.
+
+     "I am seething here."
+
+     So when you called the station, did that make it a seething ring?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Influence?			 (October 29, 1995 2:57:03 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 29, 1995 2:57:03 PM

+
<I've never heard this one although I've read a number of Ripper texts.  I 
+could cheat and ask for a reference, but I won't.  I'll do a little digging.>
+
+     That's because it isn't *in* any of the Ripper texts as a suspect....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Bab5 cancellation HELP		 (October 29, 1995 2:57:00 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 29, 1995 2:57:00 PM

+
     The stations that keep the show consistent do well with it, and don't 
+usually drop it.  So you're probably in good shape here.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 29, 1995 2:57:16 PM

+
      I guess also that the key to avoid something becoming cliche is to 
+turn it on its head.  Which was the case with Sebastian.  One thing I
+neglected to mention was the need to have an absolute mirror-counterpoint to
+Morden.  Here you've got the smiling, pleasant, utterly charming and good
+looking fellow who is our "mirror" if you will in which we see the Shadows
+reflected.  So now you need something dark and ominous and terrible as the
+mirror through which we briefly glimpse the Vorlons, which has to be done
+all in one episode, you can't develop it gradually as with Morden.  So
+everything about Sebastian was the opposite of Morden...and each is the
+opposite of what they represent.  As it appears to us now, anyway.
+
+      To the question of Crowley, I've read a little of his work, but only a 
+little...  I've never believed in the dictum of "Do what thou wilt shall be
+the whole of the law."  I've generally leaned in the direction of "Do what
+thou ought shall be the whole of the law." Crowley was a very strange man,
+and while clearly some of his reputation was blown out of all proportion --
+was he not kicked out of an entire country once, called The Most Evil Man Of
+All Time? -- but at the heartmeat core of it was something dark and tw
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		 (October 29, 1995 2:57:18 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 29, 1995 2:57:18 PM

+
	<<OF course, that raises the question -- Is penance enough?>
+
+	At some point, it must be.  Even the worst of us must have some
+hope for reprieve at some point.  Either let the creep out of jail, or kill
+him.  I think four hundred years of not knowing would even do justice to
+Manson. ...>
+
+     No, I think your points are all excellent, and tie right into the whole 
+question at hand.  Nothing soft about them, just very thoughtful and
+insightful.  One of the primary functions of the show, beyond entertainment,
+is to provoke questions, discussion, and the comparison of views.
+
+     I think my message titled videotapes from jms is still here with an 
+address for WB about tapes.
+
+     And thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <CTI> Did Sinclair pass?		 (October 29, 1995 2:57:20 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 29, 1995 2:57:20 PM

+
<< When this gets answered later this season, you may have your answer 
+there.>
+
+Is that this season, as in Season 2, or Season 3?>
+
+     I think I was referring here to season 3.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Comes the Inquistor>		 (October 29, 1995 8:09:22 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 29, 1995 8:09:22 PM

+
     Can G'Kar grow to forgive?  I don't think so...and yet in a way he must 
+come to something more than rage, and other than forgiveness.  There is an 
+important step in his development yet to come.  And he will have to go there
+by a very hard road.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Major B5/ST News			 (October 29, 1995 8:14:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 29, 1995 8:14:10 PM

+
<Neither my wife nor I particularly care for what seems to be never 
+ending plot lines.>
+
+      That's great, and I appreciate the honest answer.  Not every show is 
+for everyone.  Continued good luck.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <CtI---OK>			 (October 29, 1995 8:14:12 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 29, 1995 8:14:12 PM

+
< >> Actually, there *was* a scene where Lennier, concerned, tracks down Kosh 
+to inquire after Delenn's situation, which report alarms him and sends him 
+after Sheridan.  It was filmed...but cut for time. <<
+  Can you post it?>
+
+     Can't really post that kind of stuff, alas....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Avalon?				 (October 30, 1995 2:35:16 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 30, 1995 2:35:16 AM

+
<Does the episode title "A Late Delivery from Avalon" imply that Jinxo will 
+be back?>
+
+     Nope, no Jinxo.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Major B5/ST News			 (October 05, 1995 10:58:26 PM)
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+
 Major B5/ST News			

+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 05, 1995 10:58:26 PM

+
      Thanks, and I think they already have picked up a few lessons; which is
+the point of the exercise...we should challenge one another to constantly
+improve, or what's the point of being here?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Comes the Inquisitor>		 (October 30, 1995 2:35:16 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 30, 1995 2:35:16 AM

+
<When Delenn delivers her speach about "this body is only a shell", at 
+the end of it, watching Sebastion, the dissapointment on his face!  To me, 
+he looked like Delenn had just kneed his jewels up around his ears!>
+
+      Yeah, beautiful subtle work, wasn't it...?
+
+      Wayne Alexander.  Remember the name.  This guy's gonna Be Somebody.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <CtI---OK>			 (October 30, 1995 6:15:24 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 30, 1995 6:15:24 PM

+
<What was the last word in Sebastian's "What about..." litany?>
+
+      Actually, the last one, since it was going to be drowned out, was an 
+adlib, "eternity."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Fan club update?			 (October 30, 1995 6:15:27 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 30, 1995 6:15:27 PM

+
     Still processing paperwork...my life is paperwork.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Comes the Inquistor>		 (October 30, 1995 6:15:30 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 30, 1995 6:15:30 PM

+
<<gasp><awe>Thanks for the wonderful coda by the Inquisitor.>
+
+     Thanks....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 30, 1995 10:33:10 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 30, 1995 10:33:10 PM

+
<Have you won any awards for the show yet?  Kosh was spectacular.>
+
+     We've only won one Emmy and a couple of small awards for the series 
+(plus another Emmy for the pilot).  We're still working on making people
+aware that we're here, and what we're doing.
+
+     Other than that...thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <TFON - Keffer>			 (October 30, 1995 10:33:11 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 30, 1995 10:33:11 PM

+
<Is Keffer dead?>
+
+     Dead as the proverbial doorknob.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5, in general			 (October 02, 1995 12:05:27 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 02, 1995 12:05:27 AM

+
     No ill will was taken, or is extended.
+
+     Actually, it seems to me, what you're really talking about is not the
+show's maturity, but your *familiarity* with the characters, two different
+things.  The more you see them, the more backlog of information you have to
+appreciate their actions.  Very often, on many series, it's not so much a
+question of the actors getting comfortable with their characters as the
+*audience* getting comfortable with them.  Many of the same folks who
+initially didn't like Sinclair, after they got to know the character, went
+back to re-watch the first episodes and found that there's depth they didn't
+appreciate there, visible now because they know who the character is.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ KCOP & B5?			 (October 05, 1995 10:58:17 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 05, 1995 10:58:17 PM

+
     Well, y'know...it's gonna be interesting.  I was pleased to note that
+TV Guide gave B5's return next week a listing in the evening's highlights.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Shadow Ship Progression		 (October 05, 1995 10:58:20 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 05, 1995 10:58:20 PM

+
     Yes, the first batch of eps from season 3, up through 9 or so, give a
+lot more background on the shadow ships, what they are and how they work.
+And as you say, virtually everything in this show is here for a reason;
+there's an offhand remark from Garibaldi in "Infection" about his long
+struggle out of the Martian desert that pays off in both the comic, and in a
+third-season episode.  So some of the year three stuff was being set up as
+early as episode 2 of year 1, in what was designed to look like just plain
+old throwaway dialogue.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Major B5/ST News			 (October 05, 1995 10:58:28 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 05, 1995 10:58:28 PM

+
     Yeah, the rerun schedule was a pain in the butt.  And because of it,
+lots of stations began moving us around.  It's my hope that that'll change
+now that we're back with new eps, and showing 9 eps in a row without a
+single break.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 05, 1995 10:58:06 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 05, 1995 10:58:06 PM

+
     If I had to look back at season 2 and pick favorites, they'd probably
+be "The Long, Twilight Struggle," "Comes the Inquisitor," and "The Coming of
+Shadows."  "Coming" is probably the one episode I'd say is most perfect, the
+most purely B5.
+
+     In year one, I thought there were a couple/three eps that just lay
+there and begged to be shot and put out of their misery.  But I don't think
+we had even one like that in year two.  Some were stronger than others, but
+not one dropped below a certain median high point over year one.
+
+     So far, year three is another general step up, with our least episode
+this season so far being the equal of some of the better year two episodes.
+
+     What makes for a perfect episode of B5 in my view?  It's kinda hard to
+define.  It's an episode where major and irreversible events take place,
+which were absolutely set up from what went before, and which turn on the
+individual choices made by our characters; episodes that have about them the
+feel of a car absolutely out of control, that ANYthing could happen...the
+kind of episode that makes you start insinctively reaching for the brake
+pedal, but it doesn't do any good.  And, finally, those that have a nice
+visual sense of style.  I've gradually grown more consistently fond of the
+montage as a dramatic device, though I'm being careful not to over-use it.
+(I *really* liked the intercutting in the Emperor's fall in "Coming.")
+
+     I'd rather not say anything at all about "Gethsemane," because a large
+part of the plot turns on something you need to discover mid-viewing, and
+anything I might say would only detract from it.  It's a lovely, sad, very
+moving story; it's kind of my Twilight Zone story in the B5 universe, with
+some very strong emotional twists as we go along.  It's not the kind of
+story I get to do within the B5 structure very often, and I'm extremely
+pleased with this one (and Adam Nimoy did a *bang-up* job directing it; he
+thinks it may be his best work ever).
+
+     We're now shooting episode #7, "Exogenesis."  So far, to give my own
+reactions to the year 3 episodes so far:
+
+     "Matters of Honor," somewhat of a continuation of the year two season
+ender, picking up the pieces, with some great action pieces, mainly a fair
+amount of fun, which is necessary given what precedes it..."Convictions," a
+moody, atmospheric, driving piece, stylistically very different for us, with
+some hysterically funny scenes juxtaposed against some deadly serious and
+gritty drama..."A Day in the Strife," a fair number of threads, a day in the
+life episode with everything that can go wrong going wrong, some elements of
+humor but mainly a straight-ahead kind of episode..."Voices of Authority,"
+you'll see some of our characters doing stuff they've never done before, and
+we get into the whole question of the First Ones, also fairly straightfoward
+in storytelling and direction..."Passing Through Gethsemane," which again is
+just an utter knockout episode, which with "Convictions" comes close to
+being a perfect episode..."Dust to Dust," haven't seen the director's cut
+yet, but the dailies looked great...and "Exogenesis," which we just started
+filming this week, is probably our most "ordinary" story of the batch,
+though it puts a new spin on several traditional story elements.
+
+     On just about every level, I'd say that the year three episodes are an
+improvement on the year two episodes, and we've got a lot more this season
+that should be equal to or better than "Coming" and the other top three
+mentioned earlier, at least based on how they look pre-shooting..."Messages
+From Earth," and "Severed Dreams" are massive action/character set pieces on
+the scale of "The Long, Twilight Struggle"...only bigger, and more
+personal.
+
+     It's going to be great.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		 (October 05, 1995 10:58:07 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 05, 1995 10:58:07 PM

+
      The favor he calls in is not on his behalf, but on behalf of an associate.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Rick Berman			 (October 05, 1995 11:25:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 05, 1995 11:25:16 PM

+
     "The ratings for B5 never get close to the ratings for the Trek shows."
+
+     Actually, not true.  The Neilsens have often posted the B5 ratings as
+asometimes equal to or slightly above the ratings for "Voyager."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		 (October 05, 1995 11:25:18 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 05, 1995 11:25:18 PM

+
     Speaking of TPTB, here's an interesting angle on the whole Voyager/DS9
+dynamic.
+
+     Recently, more and more, the ST execs (people like Berman and Pillar)
+have been commenting publicly about the factionalization of the SF TV
+marketplace, and how this has diminished the numbers for the ST shows
+overall.  Most interestingly, one of them commented in an LA Times article
+this past week that a big problem for them is the factionalization *within*
+ST...that people may only have time to watch one version of ST that week,
+and they're being forced to choose.  And, of course, there are the debates
+between the two sides on quality.
+
+     Which dovetails precisely into the rumor running around town that
+Paramount is considering giving the axe to DS9 after this season, in order
+to force folks who want their ST to watch Voyager...because they have more
+money invested right now in Voyager, particularly in start-up, and they have
+their hopes for the Paramount network pinned to Voyager as their center.
+They don't like the idea of a syndicated show out there causing problems for
+the network on which they've spent millions and millions of dollars.  And
+DS9's ratings have been steadily on the decrease since the debut.  So the
+logic goes: take away DS9, and make those who want Trek go to Voyager as the
+sole provider of that.
+
+     Given the sources from whom this has come, I give very high credibility
+to the notion that this *is* being discussed; whether or not it will be
+implemented, that only time will tell.  If Voyager continues to decrease,
+threatening the foundations of Paramount's bid for a network, I'd think the
+chances of this happening will continue to rise.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Major B5/ST News			 (October 06, 1995 1:56:11 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 06, 1995 1:56:11 PM

+
     William: you may want to consider scaling back the Trekker hits just
+a bit; I understand the emotions, but I think we've moved beyond that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ KCOP & B5?			 (October 07, 1995 12:36:08 AM)
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+

+
 KCOP & B5?			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 12:36:08 AM

+
     The local ads are the responsibility of the local stations.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 07, 1995 12:36:12 AM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 12:36:12 AM

+
     I'd also put "Grail" in my list of least-favorite eps from year one,
+along with "Infection" and "War Prayer."
+
+     We're shooting the two-parter as 15 and 16, but airing them as 13 and 14,
+in order to accommodate the need to have the same director do both halves.
+It's a matter of working around the schedule of directors when they're
+available, and that's when Adam's available.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		 (October 02, 1995 9:12:13 PM)
+
+
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+
 VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 02, 1995 9:12:13 PM

+
     The favor is called in in season three, in one of the earlier episodes.
+It may surprise you....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		 (October 06, 1995 8:19:24 PM)
+
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+
 VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		

+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 06, 1995 8:19:24 PM

+
     Actually, let me correct myself on one point; just to be sure of my
+quote, I went back and checked the LA Times article, and the most pertinent
+comment came not from Berman/Piller but from Kerry McCluggage, who is the
+Chairman of the Paramount Pictures Television Group (i.e., the man who makes
+all the final decisions on the life and death of the Mountain's syndicated
+series, and the UPN series).
+
+     McCluggage, the article states, "pointed out that Next Generation and
+the original Star Trek series still air in repeats in hundreds of markets.
+'If you on some level buy the concept that there's a finite number of Star
+Trek viewers, who only have so much time to watch their favorite program,
+it's going to split the pie a little bit."
+
+     Offered in the interests of accuracy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		 (October 07, 1995 12:36:07 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 07, 1995 12:36:07 AM

+
     Oh, there's no question that they need to bring up the ratings on DS9,
+that's a separate issue, however.  They need the ratings up because
+Paramount sells ads based on figures determined by ratings.  They've
+promised certain levels of ratings, and if the show doesn't pull those
+numbers, they have to give money *back*.  So it's definitely in their
+interests to keep the ratings up for as long as the show is on the air.
+
+     And, again, this is more the corporate POV of the situation.  The
+potential revenue for their new network *far* outmatches what any single
+syndicated show could pull in, and if the latter poses any kind of threat to
+the former...it ain't a contest.  Even Berman, in the same article, wonders
+if they may have come close to "going to the well too often."
+
+     So we'll have to see...clearly, many of those involved with the show
+want it to continue, as do the fans...we'll have to see if the corporate
+types feel the same way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Wallpaper??			 (October 06, 1995 1:56:15 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 06, 1995 1:56:15 PM

+
     In about 4 weeks there will be an official B5 screen saver from Sound
+Source, which has 150 images/wallpaper sources, .avi and .wav files.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Katsulas/Mahabharata?		 (October 06, 1995 2:03:22 PM)
+
+
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+
 Katsulas/Mahabharata?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 06, 1995 2:03:22 PM

+
     Yikes, I haven't got a clue on that one.  When I see Andreas next, I'll
+try to remember to ask him, assuming it doesn't fall out of my head in the
+meantime, a good probability.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Aliens			 (October 06, 1995 2:12:08 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 06, 1995 2:12:08 PM

+
     Just to clarify...Sinclair was a Catholic, taught by Jesuits; Garibaldi
+is basically an atheist.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Aliens			 (October 07, 1995 12:53:13 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 12:53:13 AM

+
     "...the only B5 race that I find myself occasionally getting annoyed
+with is the Earthers."
+
+     Good.
+
+     Because anything else is 'way too easy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Re: B5 Comic			 (October 07, 1995 12:53:12 AM)
+
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+
 Re: B5 Comic			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 12:53:12 AM

+
      As noted elsewhere, there are going to be more B5 comics as one-shots
+and miniseries...Tim DeHaas is doing one set during the Earth/Minbari War (I'm
+doing a lot of consulting on that one to provide canon background on who was
+where, when, doing what), and I've begun a 4-issue mini tentatively entitled
+"The Book of the War," which chronicles much of our new Ranger character.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 07, 1995 9:54:07 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 9:54:07 PM

+
     How long to write a script varies; sometimes a couple weeks, sometimes
+just 3-4 days; sometimes less if my back's against the wall, but that's
+fairly rare.  Often the ones I write very quickly are better than the ones I
+write slowly, because I get it out before I lose track of the fingerprints
+of the characters and the passion of the story.
+
+     Once completed, it's anywhere from 3-5 weeks before shooting begins,
+which is a luxury in TV...most shows the director doesn't get the script
+until a few days before shooting.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Re: B5 Comic			 (October 07, 1995 9:53:19 PM)
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+
 Re: B5 Comic			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 9:53:19 PM

+
     I'll try to announce them as they come.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Fan Club, Magazine		 (October 07, 1995 9:53:15 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 9:53:15 PM

+
     Yes, the B5 magazine is coming out from Sendai in the next month or so.
+I've read the copy for the first issue, and what I like is that it's not an
+obvious puff piece; it asks some tough questions, and doesn't soften the
+language or image of the characters on this show behind the scenes.  I told
+them, when they got the license, right up front, nothing is taboo, write
+about whatever you want.  The first issue, by nature, is more or less an
+introduction, with profiles of most of our core cast, but my guess is that
+more in-depth pieces will be coming in subsequent issues.
+
+     We finally got the paperwork on the B5 fan club, and have to make some
+minor adjustments, but should have the contracts revised and signed within
+the next week or so.  Shortly after that, we'll have an AOL page, and not
+long thereafter a web page for signups; we'll also try and integrate those
+fan clubs already out there as official branches, should they so desire.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		 (October 03, 1995 4:25:08 AM)
+
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+
 VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 03, 1995 4:25:08 AM

+
      I'd imagine (just a guess) that B5 will restart in the UK around April
+or thereabouts.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Life spans			 (October 07, 1995 9:53:18 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 9:53:18 PM

+
     Minbari live to about 150 or so; she's about 50, very young still in
+Minbari terms (what we would consider a young woman in human terms).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Wallpaper??			 (October 07, 1995 9:53:20 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 9:53:20 PM

+
     I think it's windows 3.1 compatible.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Encyclopaedia			 (October 07, 1995 9:53:21 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 9:53:21 PM

+
     It fell by the wayside when Compton's cut back its list to 30 titles,
+and we got too busy on the show to pursue it.  There are several companies
+now bidding on the cd-rom, so we'll see what happens.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 07, 1995 9:54:00 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 07, 1995 9:54:00 PM

+
     Visually, yeah, I'd have to say TFoN is one of our biggest from year
+two, and I'm quite fond of it; the only reason that it isn't in my top three
+is because while the last half is very intense, it takes a little bit to get
+there; I like 'em intense from the first frame on.
+
+     For the growing use of montage/intercutting...it's really just a
+process of continuing to learn my craft.  So I try out and experiment with
+different techniques.  While I love dialogue, and lots of it, I'm also
+coming more and more to appreciate moments where you *only* play the
+visuals, and the music, and get out of the way of the Moment.
+
+     At this point, we have the first 5 in various stages of completion; we
+deliver 1 and 2 this coming Tuesday; we've finished all the EFX in #3 except
+for the placement of a couple of sound effects and the placement of music
+cues; we're still getting in EFX for #4, and just finished the producers'
+cut on #5.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Shadow model spotted!		 (October 08, 1995 1:42:08 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 08, 1995 1:42:08 AM

+
     Any shadow ship model -- for that matter, ANY B5 resin model -- is not
+licensed and is basically pirate merchandise.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ 12 Steps Program?		 (October 09, 1995 1:17:16 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 09, 1995 1:17:16 PM

+
     Michael's kind of stubborn and independent and doesn't generally go in
+for group sessions.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Re: B5 Comic			 (October 09, 1995 1:17:17 PM)
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+
 Re: B5 Comic			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 09, 1995 1:17:17 PM

+
     Nobody else here is sufficiently crazy to be on-line all the time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		 (October 09, 1995 1:31:21 PM)
+
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+
 WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		

+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 09, 1995 1:31:21 PM

+
     Of course, the one good thing to come out of all this is what I've been
+saying all along...that the presence of lots of SF shows will cause more
+competition between the shows, with the ultimate beneficiary of this being
+the audience.
+
+     Case in point: from day one, B5 has always shown the station very busy,
+with lots of ships going and coming.  One of the concerns voiced by many DS9
+fans, quite logically, was that if this was such a busy station, why did we
+not see any ships docking at the station, a sense of being busy?  Well,
+finally, we now see the new open to DS9 where they show a fair number of
+ships moving in and out.  We've been doing lots of scenes with huge numbers
+of ships dating back to the pilot movie; now in the season debut, they've
+come to the plate and shown big numbers of ships.  Granted that several of
+the big shots were recycled throughout the course of the episode (watch for
+the wide shot where you see a Klingon ship in front of the crowd moving
+right to left, for instance), still it's a strong effort.
+
+     Our presence gives them some competition to do more, and as they come
+up to the plate to do just that, it challenges *us* to rise to the occasion
+as well, so it's a good back-and-forth.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		 (October 09, 1995 4:55:06 PM)
+
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+
 WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		

+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 09, 1995 4:55:06 PM

+
     Fred Allen, a man considerably before your time, once observed,
+"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Shadow Ship Progression		 (October 09, 1995 1:31:23 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 09, 1995 1:31:23 PM

+
     The color of the jump gates is kept consistent with the phenomenon of
+red shift; objects moving away quickly take on a red hue, those coming
+toward you take on a blue aspect.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		 (October 04, 1995 3:13:31 AM)
+
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+
 VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 04, 1995 3:13:31 AM

+
     "Is this important?"
+
+     What isn't?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Pot Luck Party in NH		 (October 09, 1995 5:06:31 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 09, 1995 5:06:31 PM

+
     If you're going to have something this big, with that great a video and
+audio system, maybe you ought to consider holding this one week later for
+"The Long Twilight Struggle," which benefits hugely from this kind of
+treatment, and will, I suspect, have a much bigger reaction from those
+attending.  Just a thought....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 10, 1995 12:49:22 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 10, 1995 12:49:22 AM

+
     Re: craft...it's not any one area per se, really, just a lot of little
+things.  "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+Michelangelo.  So I keep trying one technique or another, working to get a
+little better, or add different tools to my toolbox.
+
+     Favorite visual moments?  The last shots in the second major action
+piece in TLTS (the through the window stuff).  The Emperor's fall in CoS.
+Delenn and Sheridan embracing, and Lennier's exit from the isolation area
+in C&L.  Some of the staging in CtI.
+
+     We just have to continue to get better, and never look back.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 10, 1995 12:49:24 AM

+
     No, "Severed Dreams" is episode #10.
+
+     I think really that "War Prayer" was so thoroughly ruined for me by the
+direction, as was "Grail," that I can't see past that aspect.  We spent
+hours and hours in the editing room, trying to make those work, and it was a
+major league pain in the butt.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		 (October 10, 1995 12:50:01 AM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 10, 1995 12:50:01 AM

+
     Absolutely not.  I don't think the audience is facionalized, really; I
+think there's *plenty* of room for SF, but it has to be SF *done well*.
+
+     See, that's the difference in how execs think (if I can use that term);
+if a cop show dies, they say, "Well, that one show didn't work."  If an SF
+series dies, they say, "There's no market for SF in television."
+
+     I think that the audience can handle lots of SF, if it's quality.
+
+     BTW, though I normally don't have a chance to catch the ST shows, with
+rare exceptions, I did manage to catch tonight's Voyager...and I have to say
+that this was probably the best I've seen to date.  The dialogue was crisp
+and funny and insightful, the story worked (even though the plot per se was
+nothing to write home about), the bits played...I quite enjoyed it.  I'd
+love to see them do more of this kind of thing.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Keeping B5 ALIVE			 (October 10, 1995 3:29:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 10, 1995 3:29:17 PM

+
     The series is fine as it is.  The changes you suggest would simply make
+into a gimmick show, action without substance.  Then it wouldn't be the show
+that people like...so what's the point?  I'd rather have it the show I mean
+it to be, and die, than compromise and go on.  What we need, primarily, is
+good PR to let people know what we're doing.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 1:33:26 AM

+
     Oh, I won't defend the delay in new episodes, because I think it's
+indefensible on many levels.  I just don't think it's appropriate to make
+the show into something less than it is to stay on the air; because then the
+show you want to keep on the air, that which makes it special, is gone
+anyway, so you've lost both ways.  Better to go out on your feet.  But we've
+made it 3 years so far, and I have no intention of letting it fall before
+finishing the storyline.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ Major B5/ST News			 (October 10, 1995 3:29:21 PM)
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Date: October 10, 1995 3:29:21 PM

+
     I agree with you 100%.  They keep promising better; we'll see.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 11, 1995 1:33:20 AM

+
     Debbie: thanks.  To avoid a lengthy recap of the O'Hare situation, I
+would point you to the B5 library, sec 5, which has a lengthy message from
+me on the subject, which should answer just about all of those questions.
+
+     As for the second half of the "Babylon Squared" episode, and all the
+questions arising from that...and your question about O'Hare returning...
+they both have the same answer.  He'll be reappearing in season three in a
+two-part episode that shows the other half of the B^2 storyline.
+
+     Thanks for the kind words.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5: Final Year???		 (October 11, 1995 1:33:18 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 1:33:18 AM

+
<What about international markets?>
+     Unfortunately, that's considered by studio execs a "secondary market,"
+of less interest, and less reward.  Also PTEN is a consortium of WB and the
+stations; without the local stations, you got zip.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+ Divided Loyalties		 (October 11, 1995 1:33:23 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 1:33:23 AM

+
     Thanks; it's a good warm-up episode for the next three biggies....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ B5 or ST, why not both?		 (October 02, 1995 9:12:30 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 02, 1995 9:12:30 PM

+
     Your motives in asking the question are beyond doubt; your intent is
+clearly sincerely motivated.  It's just that it's been asked so many times
+in broad strokes that it's become difficult and leads to flame-wars.
+
+     When one says "what's being done wrong" with another show, then you've
+instantly got a value judgement that leads right to subjective argumentation
+rather than analysis.  But if you can somehow structure the discussion so
+that is analyzes the writing of each show independently, comparing and
+contrasting certain techniques or plot elements, more power to you.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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Date: October 11, 1995 11:22:26 PM

+
     That's the point, you really couldn't pull a major thread without
+unraveling a lot of stuff.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

+
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Date: October 11, 1995 11:22:25 PM

+
     The stations have a season two poster that's quite nice; suggest you
+contact your local station and inquire if they have any left.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		 (October 11, 1995 9:53:14 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 11, 1995 9:53:14 PM

+
     Ah, I see the infamous Randy Hall of AOL is here, as well.
+
+     In citing the DS9 ratings, you carefully omit the Voyager ratings, which
+in many cases in the past have been somewhat *less* than the B5 ratings.
+Which kinda takes the air out of the argument, doesn't it?
+
+     Even so, B5 is challenging the ST universe artistically, in terms of
+what we put on the screen.  As we hope they will challenge us.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+ GARIBALDI COP STUFF		 (October 11, 1995 11:22:30 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 11:22:30 PM

+
     The actors do not input into scripts in the writing process; they
+interpret the script upon its completion.  In rare cases, they may ask for a
+line or word change for performance purposes.  But the line you cite was from
+Garibaldi's background.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 11:22:31 PM

+
     It's an old wound, and though I appreciate the question, I'd rather not
+re-open it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 11:22:02 PM

+
     The most difficult part on one level is probably the writing, because
+that's the one time I'm up on the high-wire entirely by myself; in every
+other aspect of the show, you've got other people, costume designers, EFX
+people, others who can keep you from falling.  Behind the keyboard, if you
+screw up, you've got no one to catch you.
+
+     On another level, the most physically difficult is the editing process,
+where we go over each episode frame by frame and edit it to within an inch
+of its life.  It's a very detailed and wearing process.
+
+     We definitely plan to do more with Lennier next season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 11:22:05 PM

+
     Yes, both sides can pay the same telepath, since teeps have no vested
+interest either way, and their honesty is held to the highest standards.  Or
+you can get a second teep of your own.  And yes, there have been others on
+B5, but usually passing through with the businessmen who hire them.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 11:45:01 PM

+
     Thanks, and I think you'll like where we take that relationship in the
+coming season as well....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 11:45:02 PM

+
     Remember, the *conscious* Talia did none of those things; she would
+never dream of scanning without permission.  (And in Ivanova's case,
+remember that she said she knows *instantly* if she's being scanned.  Note
+her strong reaction in "Eyes" when it happens.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 11, 1995 11:45:04 PM

+
     That's terrific, thank you...and glad to see another Dr. Pepper fan out
+there....
+
+     This one came out quite well...but compared to what's coming, man....
+
+     Thanks again, and enjoy the marathon.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 03, 1995 12:28:14 AM

+
      No, that ain't it...you'll have a better notion of the reason why the
+deeper you get into the first batch of new episodes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 1:19:25 AM

+
     There's little I could say about Jarvis' reviews for TV GUIDE that has
+not already been said about Jack the Ripper.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

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+ Ellison CITY Note		 (October 12, 1995 1:19:27 AM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 12, 1995 1:19:27 AM

+
Harlan Ellison has requested that I post this in places where those likely
+to have ordered the forthcoming CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER limited-edition
+hardcover can find it.
+
+Message begins:
+
+Here is the answerto the question of why a three-week delay in shipping THE
+CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER became necessary.
+
+A minor production glitch.
+
+Nothing more mysterious or ominous than that.
+
+Once the book had gone to Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan for printing,
+and was in production, it was discovered that more than 150 corrections to
+the text--some significant, others of a niggling nature--but all troublesome
+to a greater or lesser degree--had slipped past, and had not been
+integrated.
+
+Tom Monteleone of Borderlands Press was out of the country.  But his
+concerns for shipping on time--we've been paying the price for a premature
+announcement of this title four years ago ever since that miscalculation was
+made--were preeminent.  Nonetheless, because of my insistence that this book
+(a book of great personal importance to me) be as close to perfect as
+possible, I took the necessary action to hold the production at a pre-final
+stage till Tom returned and we could get the changes made.
+
+That has been accomplished.  Tom Monteleone has been very gracious in
+accommodating my concerns, and the book is back in the tube at Thomson-Shore
+right now.  Three weeks max is what Dave Raymond, Customer Services Manager,
+tells us.  Three weeks and the book, a beautiful beautiful package, will be
+in the hands of those who've ordered it.
+
+It is unfortunate that Tom Monteleone's interim message on the Borderlands
+Press 800-order line has been misinterpreted by some people.  All is well,
+and the CITY is on its way to waiting eyes and hands.  Thank you for
+asking.
+
+                                                Harlan Ellison
+
+

+
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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 4:20:02 PM

+
     Yeah, well, the great thing is that I've found a source for Drake's Cakes
+out here in CA...
+
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

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Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 4:20:11 PM

+
<Have you ever seen a spy movie called Charlie Muffin?  Lots of twists.>
+
+     Haven't seen that one, but I'll keep an eye out, thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 4:20:08 PM

+
     Talia v 1.0 would not have violated Ivanova's privacy during any kind
+of intimacy, as that would violate her profoundly; you can hold back, and
+Talia would have, and Ivanova would've sensed if she had tried it.  The
+theory on telepaths making love is that they both willingly drop the blocks
+they normally keep in place.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VOYAGER'S BAD TREK		 (October 12, 1995 4:37:09 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 12, 1995 4:37:09 PM

+
     Actually, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times, the
+ratings for DS9 have been dropping about one point every season.  Not a
+reflection on the quality of the show, those are just the numbers.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Lame Voyager Writing		 (October 12, 1995 4:37:11 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 12, 1995 4:37:11 PM

+
     One solution to this, though, is what made this last episode of ST:V so
+enjoyable.  Usually, when you watch a ST show, you get gang writing credits;
+it goes through the hopper and gets filtered through so many other writers
+that it loses its flavor.  Not to say they're not good writers, this is the
+case on ANY show, on ANY script; the more people who stick their snouts into
+a script, however individually talented, the overall quality of the script
+diminishes, gets watered down.
+
+     The episode this past Monday had just one name on it, and while I'm
+sure there was some tinkering here and there, it wasn't enough for anyone to
+take credit, which means the lion's share of the episode was written by this
+single writer...and that made all the difference in the world.  The dialogue
+was crisp and funny, the "voice" of the show was consistent throughout, it
+moved well...it worked.
+
+     The ST model is to work over scripts in-house to within an inch of
+their lives...but frankly, sometimes it's better to leave the darned thing
+alone.  This was a good example of that.  (I don't recall the writer's name
+offhand, but if they're smart, they'll put him or her on staff asap.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Lame Voyager Writing		 (October 13, 1995 8:52:10 PM)
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 13, 1995 8:52:10 PM

+
     Some shows just tend to have that as their guiding principle: rewrite
+the hell out of it.  Others try as much as possible to leave it alone and
+let the voice of the original writer come through.  I tend to fall more into
+the latter camp.  In some cases, I revise heavily, but only where I feel
+it's absolutely necessary.  Otherwise I leave it alone.  David Gerrold's
+script for "Believers," for instance, is about 85% his.  DC Fontana's last
+script for us was about 90% hers.  Just tweaks, mainly.
+
+     According to an interview I saw with one of the main ST producers, they
+use the "breaking the story" mode, which I've never much liked.  To wit: in
+each and every case, they take the story, and gather in a room, and start
+scattergunning ideas and arguments and plot points, which one person writes
+down on a blackboard, crossing out some items while adding others.  Yeah,
+it's a very democratic system, everybody gets their say...but I've always
+felt, on other shows, that it tends to knock off all the corners when you do
+that.  Doesn't mean good stuff can't get through -- obviously it does -- it
+just makes it harder for it to do so, and this is the case for any show that
+uses that approach.  At least, from my admittedly subjective point of view.
+But trying to tell one person how to tell his or her stories is like telling
+somebody how to make love...the advice is invariably unwanted, and usually
+inappropriate.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ To: B5 producers/writers		 (October 12, 1995 4:37:12 PM)
+
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+
 To: B5 producers/writers		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 4:37:12 PM

+
     No, nothing was cut; we had a matching problem at one point in the edit,
+where Andrea reached with her left hand in one angle, and didn't reach out
+with the other, and we had to come around for the shot on Ivanova, so it
+looked a tick off.  But nothing was cut.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <DL speculations>		 (October 12, 1995 4:37:14 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 4:37:14 PM

+
     An interesting thought...as for Bester's personality, keep an eye out
+for "Dust to Dust," episode #6, where you see Bester from a different and
+very interesting angle.  Some of what you say here, he says.  (Not about the
+corps, but about doing what's right as he sees it.)
+
+     'Course, whether or not one should *believe* anything he says is another
+question altogether.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		 (October 04, 1995 3:13:01 AM)
+
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+
 VitW pt2 - Delenn/Londo?		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 04, 1995 3:13:01 AM

+
     You'll see it in "A Day in the Strife."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Telepaths on B5			 (October 12, 1995 9:09:15 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 9:09:15 PM

+
     No, the teep you hire is not bound to *volunteer* that you're lying; if
+asked by the other person, the teep would simply refuse to answer; which is
+tantamount to saying that you're lying.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 at Farpoint			 (October 12, 1995 9:09:16 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 9:09:16 PM

+
     That's great, congratulations.  The costumes sound great.  And I enjoyed
+speaking via phone at Farpoint; if I'd known some of the others couldn't
+show, I probably would've stayed around longer.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Story Thoughts		 (October 12, 1995 9:09:17 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 9:09:17 PM

+
     Thank you.  The episodes should make you wonder about tomorrow, and
+think about the choices in our lives.  If it has succeeded in that, then the
+effort is worthwhile.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Divided Loyalties>		 (October 12, 1995 9:09:22 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 9:09:22 PM

+
     A non-telepath can learn certain tricks to make it harder to break
+through, albeit briefly, so the reaction was sufficiently ambiguous and the
+event sufficiently brief that it wouldn't raise too many concerns.  Which is
+why Sheridan dived in when he did; if she'd continue to block much longer,
+just instinctively, it would've revealed her latent potential.  It was his
+distracting Ivanova that in a sense helped Lyta break through.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Divided Loyalties>		 (October 13, 1995 11:16:10 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 13, 1995 11:16:10 PM

+
<Could Ivanova sense when someone else was being scanned?>
+
+     No, that she wouldn't really be capable of doing at her present level.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Keeping B5 Alive!		 (October 12, 1995 9:09:28 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 9:09:28 PM

+
     Well, we just this week hit the air with the final four of last year,
+and we haven't even hit the year three ratings period in November, so at
+this juncture I'd say it's premature to start worrying about some of this.
+The best thing to do, for everyone, is to keep in constant touch with your
+local stations, via letter, and let them know what you think about the show.
+Because we live and die at the station level.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 12, 1995 11:15:27 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 11:15:27 PM

+
     Each kind of takes their turn; G'Kar gets big stuff next year, and in
+the final four.  His character starts to formalize a turn that's been going
+on gradually for a while now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Mira Furlan's "Butt"		 (October 12, 1995 11:16:00 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 12, 1995 11:16:00 PM

+
     It was a long time ago, but I suspect that that's probably what I was
+referring to.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5: Final Year???		 (October 13, 1995 8:51:27 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 13, 1995 8:51:27 PM

+
     Insofaras I know, the stations don't share in the revenues from overseas
+distribution, so their interest in it is negligible.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Jack the Ripper>		 (October 13, 1995 8:52:00 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 13, 1995 8:52:00 PM

+
     Actually, I have my own suspicion about his identity, and have dug out
+quite a bit of supporting evidence.  It's not a name anyone's heard before
+in this context.  I've spoken with a few other high-credibility
+Ripperologists, and apparently there are some others who have begun focusing
+on this person.  So we'll see....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Midpoint				 (October 04, 1995 3:13:03 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 04, 1995 3:13:03 AM

+
      Yeah, a follow-up is a possibility, but the odds on it ever happening
+are slim and none, I suspect.
+
+     I think Ruby's Masks has done some new masks for Halloween.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Episodes Evaluation		 (October 13, 1995 8:52:03 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 13, 1995 8:52:03 PM

+
     You won't have long to wait for the shadows to return; 6 days, to be
+precise.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ WOTW: DS9 Imitates B5?		 (October 13, 1995 8:52:06 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 13, 1995 8:52:06 PM

+
     Actually, we just got the overnights from the first day's ratings of
+the first of the Final Four, and they're quite good...in LA, for instance,
+where DS9 got a 5.9 rating and a 9 share, B5 got a 6.3 rating and a 10
+share.  So we're getting there....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Divided Loyalties>		 (October 13, 1995 8:52:11 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 13, 1995 8:52:11 PM

+
     Overall, I'd think this is a better question *debated* by folks than
+answered by me.  (And there's no one B5 answer, as there are so many varying
+belief systems in the B5 universe.)  All I can suggest is that you keep an
+eye out for an episode called "Passing Through Gethsemane," around #5 or so;
+it may get into some of this.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ JMS: Please Read This!		 (October 13, 1995 8:59:17 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 13, 1995 8:59:17 PM

+
     I've told that story enough times; I have an aversion to typing it all
+out one more time....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5: What Gives?			 (October 14, 1995 1:09:15 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 14, 1995 1:09:15 AM

+
     You pays your money and you takes your chances; given that more and more
+folks are starting to come to the party, I suspect that maybe the story is
+doing its job.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Major B5/ST News			 (October 14, 1995 1:13:10 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 14, 1995 1:13:10 AM

+
     "With all due respect" is a term usually used (in addition to other
+places) in military life; it's a way of disagreeing with a superior officer
+without getting nailed for insubordination.  If it's used in that context a
+lot, it's because that's how it's supposed to be used.
+
+     "To be perfectly frank" doesn't serve the same purpose; the intent is,
+"I disagree with your assessment, but that doesn't violate the respect your
+position must demand of me."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <What do they know?>		 (October 15, 1995 5:06:01 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 5:06:01 PM

+
     Basically, all that was indicated in the script was that he for a beat
+isn't sure what's up...then lets it go.  I generally don't drop specific
+points explaining foreshadowing in the scripts, in case they leak out.  If a
+line like that isn't sufficiently clear for the actor's intent, they then
+come to me and I explain it verbally.  This was done in particular when we
+had to shoot "Chrysalis" before "Signs and Portents," even though the latter
+aired before the former.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Brains & Telepaths		 (October 15, 1995 5:06:02 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 5:06:02 PM

+
     No, no direct corrolary between IQ and telepathic potential; it's a
+matter of genetics, primarily.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+
+ <Inquisitor Was?>		 (October 15, 1995 5:06:04 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 15, 1995 5:06:04 PM

+
     I've always been a big fan of Alan's work, but I just couldn't get into
+this one, and gave up after the first couple issues.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+
+ Ellison CITY Note		 (October 15, 1995 5:06:08 PM)
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+

+
 Ellison CITY Note		

+
Section: Star Trek
Date: October 15, 1995 5:06:08 PM

+
     The trade, I think, is a whole separate deal, so I have no info on that
+one.  The limited delay is only another week or so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Jack the Ripper			 (October 31, 1995 10:57:19 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Jack the Ripper			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 10:57:19 PM

+
     So, in other words, if a historical, real character has been used in 
+some other venue, if the use of that same character in another, 
+wholly different world/series/show/universe is absolutely, totally and 
+completely the right thing for that story, 
+one should instead do what's *wrong* for the story and leave it out?
+
+     Sorry.  Don't buy it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Fan club update?			 (November 01, 1995 1:26:24 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Fan club update?			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 1:26:24 PM

+
     Unfortunately, for some reason my brain's hard-wired for typing.  
+I've tried dictating in the past, to a tape recorder, but nothing comes out 
+as crisp or as *right* unless I'm at the keyboard and my fingers are 
+thinking for me.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Paul M. Zukowski 102522,131
+
+
+Thanks for a Great show (22-Nov-95  13:28:25)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Thanks for a Great show

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  13:28:25

+
      Yep, they had computers back then; I used to log on on an old Kaypro, no
+hard drive, 64k memory and 128k floppies.  Ah, those were the days....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bob Danielson 73647,2247 (X)
+
+
+B5:The End???!!! (22-Nov-95  13:28:27)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5:The End???!!!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  13:28:27

+
     No, no reconciliation there.  They want the numbers to improved in season
+three over season two.  They are doing this.  (Though we're gonna get killed
+tonight by the second half of the Beatles series.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 76371,3057
+
+
+$0.04: <A Day in Strife> (22-Nov-95  13:28:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
$0.04: <A Day in Strife>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  13:28:30

+
      Thanks...and Vir will return to the station from time to time, just as
+Londo said.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/103.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/103.html
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/103.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101
+
+
+Kosh's lessons (22-Nov-95  13:28:33)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Kosh's lessons

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  13:28:33

+
      Oh, yes, I'd say so....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Alan Katz 74260,3612
+
+
+DL Query (22-Nov-95  13:28:34)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
DL Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  13:28:34

+
      There was no *proof* that it was her, just a good chance.  And the Corps
+wouldn't allow her to be just shipped off.  Pluse, she's still a citizen with
+all the rights attendent upon that; we can't just ship somebody off to Russia
+or Singapore if we don't like them.  Real life is a lot more complicated, and
+this show is patterned after reality as much as possible.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/105.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: MARK SMITH 102161,2223 (X)
+
+
+Daily News Dis (22-Nov-95  14:13:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Daily News Dis

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  14:13:30

+
      One person said, "Critics are paid to be unfair."  This piece shows it.
+Too much emphasis on being cute and biting, rather than discussing the merits
+of the show.
+
+      It's enlightening to see the dichotomy on the show on either side of the
+Atlantic...here the critics tend to dismiss the show, or get cutsie, or deride
+it...but in the UK, publications from Home Entertainment to Time Out to even
+the prestigious Radio Times have lauded the show, calling it some of the best
+SF of the last decade.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/106.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+Fleer (22-Nov-95  22:33:05)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Fleer

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  22:33:05

+
      The Fleer situation has been mutually pleasing.  I think Fleer is going
+to close down or otherwise change, so the cards may end up in the hands of
+another company at some point.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773
+
+
+B5 rerun schedule (22-Nov-95  22:33:06)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5 rerun schedule

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  22:33:06

+
      Not too much substantial in this batch...a few things, but to point them
+out would defeat the purpose.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Walter F. Hern 74201,2063
+
+
+B5: Dear Joe (22-Nov-95  22:33:13)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5: Dear Joe

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  22:33:13

+
      To have a Tie fighter come through B5 space would a) break the reality of
+the show, b) make us a pastiche or comedy, people would be too busy noticing
+and laughing at that to pay attention, and b) would be a case of copyright
+infringement, which would get us in a heap of legal trouble.
+
+      Re: the ratings...you're quite correct.  Also, what most folks forget was
+that TOS was considered a ratings flop on every level, and would've been
+canceled after its second year were it not for a huge campaign by fans.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Kenneth Porter 76161,3013
+
+
+Explosive Decompression (23-Nov-95  01:27:18)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Explosive Decompression

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 23-Nov-95  01:27:18

+
      We've shown one body after spacing, and discussed another; in each case,
+we hewed close to the facts.  Dr. Franklin pointed out that, rather than eyes
+exploding or anything of that nature, they freeze, for instance. In any
+event...yes, point taken, and we won't do that, never intended to.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Inquisitor - Bravo!>		 (November 01, 1995 1:26:14 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
 <Inquisitor - Bravo!>		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 1:26:14 PM

+
     On the "Jack sucks" threads, phrased various ways...doesn't really 
+bother me. I knew going in that some folks would react well to that, and
+some wouldn't, for an assortment of reasons, some valid, some less so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: All
+
+
+B5 at LosCon (23-Nov-95  01:27:19)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5 at LosCon

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 23-Nov-95  01:27:19

+
     Just a reminder...I'll be giving a Babylon 5 special presentation at
+LosCon this Sunday at the Burbank Airport Hilton from 1-3 p.m.  As a caveat,
+the seats are usually gone very fast, almost always before the presentation
+begins, so you may want to come a little bit early, otherwise there might not
+be any available seats.  The last several appearances have all been SRO.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Lolita  . Maddalena 102701,3447 (X)
+
+
+$0.04: <A Day in Strife> (23-Nov-95  21:07:10)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
$0.04: <A Day in Strife>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 23-Nov-95  21:07:10

+
<I loved the way the episode ended almost exactly where it started.>
+
+      Yeah...right back where we started....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Trent K. Johnson 71020,1052
+
+
+New Open! (23-Nov-95  21:07:13)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New Open!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 23-Nov-95  21:07:13

+
      "Why are starfuries firing on starfuries?"
+
+      Noticed that, eh?
+
+      Wait and see.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/113.html
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101
+
+
+DL Query (24-Nov-95  03:19:59)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
DL Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 24-Nov-95  03:19:59

+
<Up until the coup, was the EA government pretty good? They seem pretty
+non-intrusive.>
+
+      The EA was fairly easy going, but remember that people are used to a
+heavy governmental hand during the Earth/Minbari War.  It's in a way similar to
+the situation we had post WW2; the only way we could make it past that war and
+survive was through strict discipline, following orders, going along with
+rationing, conserving, everything.  And it was that positive attitude that
+those who came later would exploit in the McCarthy/Red Scare 1950s, and hit us
+sideways in the 60s.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/114.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chris Gardiner 100701,3353
+
+
+JMS: Babcom 96 (24-Nov-95  18:01:48)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Babcom 96

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 24-Nov-95  18:01:48

+
     No, I don't believe I'm slated for Babcom 96, but I will be at the
+Encounter in the UK in April or so.  (Details are in the library somewhere.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/115.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Brian Deane 100121,26 (X)
+
+
+B5 Blueprints/Models? (24-Nov-95  18:01:48)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5 Blueprints/Models?

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 24-Nov-95  18:01:48

+
<Saw an ad for a Starfury model>
+
+      Nope, this is strictly illegal.  Could you send me a copy of the magazine
+at the following address, so we can nail their heads to the wall? Babylon 5,
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. (Send it to my
+attention.)
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/116.html
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David Schirmer 76774,3310 (X)
+
+
+Pilot Episode (25-Nov-95  05:07:07)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Pilot Episode

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  05:07:07

+
     Londo does not specify Sinclair in his dialogue; that's the picture at
+that moment, but that doesn't lock us into it.
+
+     A full explanation for what happened and why is uploaded in the library
+here; do a search in lib 5, I think, for Sinclair, and you'll find it. (Rather
+than recap the whole thing again here.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/117.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+
+B5 Blueprints/Models? (25-Nov-95  05:07:08)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5 Blueprints/Models?

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  05:07:08

+
     Rage needs rest.  Rest, Rage, rest.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/118.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/118.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5db23c71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/118.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+
+Rage's Thots: Rangers? (25-Nov-95  05:07:08)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rage's Thots: Rangers?

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  05:07:08

+
     No, the Drazi was not a Ranger, only a supporter/collaborator (if I can
+use, or misuse that term.)
+
+     At this stage, the Rangers are exclusively either human or minbari.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/119.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/119.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da7113ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/119.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Larry Rosenblum 72122,1555 (X)
+
+
+B5 at LosCon (25-Nov-95  05:07:11)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5 at LosCon

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  05:07:11

+
      No standing invitations to the area, but we'll see....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/12.html
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+
+
+ <Comes the Inquistor>		 (October 31, 1995 11:46:06 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 <Comes the Inquistor>		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 11:46:06 PM

+
     Re: "...a Vir intensive script."
+
+     Just finished one.  Script for episode #13, "Sic Transit Vir."  I 
+think it's gonna be a hoot.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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index 00000000..4d8c965a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/120.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Rick Sharon 76416,2213 (X)
+
+
+B5: Dear Joe (25-Nov-95  23:01:18)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5: Dear Joe

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  23:01:18

+
<About a reply to a bogus article about ratings>
+
+     BTW, you'll notice that young master stathis took a powder after dropping
+his offensive message here, so he wouldn't have to deal with any of the
+responses.  Then after a while he'll come back and do it all again. Typical.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/121.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 76371,3057 (X)
+
+
+$0.04: <A Day in Strife> (25-Nov-95  23:01:23)
+
+
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+
$0.04: <A Day in Strife>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  23:01:23

+
<Clarification: How much time is missing from Sinclair's memory?>
+
+	     It was 24 hours.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: The Jawa / Jawa #2 76371,3057 (X)
+
+
+B5 Magazine (25-Nov-95  23:01:25)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  23:01:25

+
<More magazine issues?>
+
+      It's my understanding that there will be more issues, yes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Tapio K. Fransen 100731,1675 (X)
+
+
+Question for JMS (25-Nov-95  23:01:26)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  23:01:26

+
<Will you do another SF show?>
+
+      Dunno...the plan for now, if B5 runs its full five years, is to get out
+of TV and go back to novels and plays.  We'll see....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Sharon Foster 76360,301 (X)
+
+
+<A Day In The Strife> (25-Nov-95  23:01:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<A Day In The Strife>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  23:01:30

+
<Sheridan is being set up as a major savior figure, just like Talia was.>
+
+     Thanks.  And for "pulling a Talia" on Sheridan, that's one of the major
+benefits in *doing* the Talia thing to begin with; it makes it very difficult
+to sit back and accept that any character is going to be the key out of this
+story.
+
+     Agree on the new bumper; and the 5 fades in like a shadow vessel, making
+it even more ominous.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: William H. DiPaola 76521,1751 (X)
+
+
+Explosive Decompression (25-Nov-95  23:01:31)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  23:01:31

+
<Didn't the giant Earth ship have artificial gravity??
+
+     That was the Cortez, and yes, it rotated to create its gravity, as you can
+see quite clearly in the episode.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Rae Augenstein 72752,1653 (X)
+
+
+Cap'n Power (25-Nov-95  23:01:35)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 25-Nov-95  23:01:35

+
<I found an ep of Captain Power at Wal-Mart for $2.00. Should I buy it?>
+
+      Well, either buy it or burn it....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: William H. DiPaola 76521,1751 (X)
+
+
+Explosive Decompression (26-Nov-95  05:07:24)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 26-Nov-95  05:07:24

+
<Thanks for clearing that up for me. I don't doubt your word, but for
+some reason I just didn't recall seeing a section of that ship rotate.>
+
+      Look at the big, round section in the middle of the Cortez, that's the
+part that rotates.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael "GANDALF" Kalus 100265,3065 (X)
+
+
+Question for JMS (26-Nov-95  22:23:13)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 26-Nov-95  22:23:13

+
<So NO Silver Screen Ambitions?
+What do you think about the end of SeaQuest? And how good are your
+quotes (if this is the correct word for it)?>
+
+      Nope, no real interest in doing movies; it's really a director's medium,
+so I prefer either television or print, which is a writer's medium.
+
+      What do I think about the end of SeaQuest?  Well, it was kind of
+inevitable, wasn't it?  If they had left it alone, in the hands of the people
+who first created it, like Rockne O'Bannon, and quit pulling on it in every
+possible direction, it could've been okay.  Instead, the Suits got involved,
+and when the Suits get involved...you're dead.
+
+      "How good are your quotes?"  Don't know what this means.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/129.html
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Anne L. Warner 71513,1177
+
+
+John J.? (26-Nov-95  22:23:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
John J.?

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 26-Nov-95  22:23:17

+
<I've been puzzling in my mind ever since "And Now for a Word," what is John
+Sheridan's middle name?  And did you work on Space Rangers?>
+
+     Eek!   I had nothing to do with "Space Rangers," feh, feh, a pox, no. We
+went on with our pilots in similar periods, but no, I ain't had nothin' to do
+with that one ever.
+
+     I have two options of what the J stands for; still trying to decide
+between historical reference and personal satisfaction.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 screensaver			 (October 31, 1995 11:46:07 PM)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 11:46:07 PM

+
     It'll be out in time for Christmas from Sound Sources.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/130.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/130.html
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/130.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: peter  stathis 102477,3046
+
+
+B5: Dear Joe (26-Nov-95  22:23:18)
+
+
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+Search
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 26-Nov-95  22:23:18

+
     "Either answer in a polite way, or don't answer at all."
+
+     Peter, you came in here and started acting like a jerk.  Everyone here
+feels exactly the same way about your behavior.  I don't have to be polite if
+you're acting like a jerk; neither does anyone else here.  Around here, you get
+what you give; if you are polite, and respectful, others will treat you the
+same way.  If you come in here, guns blazing, acting like a ditz, then people
+are gonna call you a ditz.  Polite ain't got nothin' to do with it.  Take a
+little personal responsibility for your behavior.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/131.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David E. McCloud 102441,2371
+
+
+<Gesthemene> (26-Nov-95  22:23:25)
+
+
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+
<Gesthemene>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 26-Nov-95  22:23:25

+
<Of the many excellent episodes you've written, this one's the best so far. It
+left me thinking over its themes long after the show had ended.>
+
+     Thanks.  That's really the intent; to get people to talk about the issues
+raised, and to examine the issues.  We won't tell you what to think about an
+issue, because I don't have an answer myself...but if it made you stop and
+consider this stuff, and decide for yourself where you fall in the discussion,
+then it's done its job.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/132.html
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Z. Michael Milutinovic 71532,2231
+
+
+B5 Magazine (27-Nov-95  00:41:24)
+
+
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+
B5 Magazine

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  00:41:24

+
      It's from Sendai; ask your local bookstore to order it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/133.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: randall s. cavanaug 102134,760 (X)
+
+
+John J.? (27-Nov-95  00:41:25)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  00:41:25

+
<is there and internet address that cast members can be written to?>
+
+     No, no cast email addresses.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mike Fitzpatrick 73562,3437 (X)
+
+
+Synopses/ Transcriptions (27-Nov-95  00:41:26)
+
+
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+

+
Synopses/ Transcriptions

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  00:41:26

+
<Are the synopses [not referring to the Lurker's Guide ones] too detailed?>
+
+      I do think that sometimes the synopses get *too* detailed, and where they
+transcribe verbatim dialogue, are, I think, legally problematic, yes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/135.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/135.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/135.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Elyse M. Grasso 70302,3304 (X)
+
+
+<ADitS> Choices (27-Nov-95  05:55:42)
+
+
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+

+
<ADitS> Choices

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  05:55:42

+
<And Londo's comment "It's nothing personal, Vir" after his appalling
+conversation with Na'Far brought chills with its echo of the bomber's speech
+last episode.>
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, "it's nothing personal" does echo the other theme; those
+who inflict great harm tend to shrug it off that way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/136.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/136.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2db83f21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/136.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101 (X)
+
+
+DL Query (27-Nov-95  05:55:43)
+
+
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+
DL Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  05:55:43

+
<Is gun control on Earth strict enough that a military dictatorship
+couldn't be prevented from forming?>
+
+      I'd like to not reply, as this is encroaching seriously into story
+territory.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/137.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: All
+
+
+Synopsis Query (27-Nov-95  05:55:45)
+
+
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+
Synopsis Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  05:55:45

+
      Fast question...I seem to recall seeing some synopses that began with a
+telling quote from the episode, then a 1-paragraph summation, followed by cast.
+Does this ring a bell with anybody else?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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new file mode 100644
index 00000000..edd29e42
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/138.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Karen E. Bahnsen 102735,3557 (X)
+
+
+Rage's Thots:USENET Rant (27-Nov-95  06:01:03)
+
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  06:01:03

+
      Keep that up and you're going to turn my head...in this case, as far as
+Linda Blair's in the Exorcist....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/139.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/139.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8685995
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/139.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael "GANDALF" Kalus 100265,3065 (X)
+
+
+Question for JMS (27-Nov-95  17:23:28)
+
+
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+
Question for JMS

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  17:23:28

+
      Ah...what you call quotes we call ratings, and they have been very good.
+
+      Viewer response really had zip to do with the Sinclair situation; you can
+find a detailed explanation in library 5 here.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/14.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/14.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/14.html
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+
+
+ B5 screensaver			 (November 01, 1995 7:23:05 PM)
+
+
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+

+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 7:23:05 PM

+
     Don't know yet the final release date.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/140.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/140.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f7568681
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/140.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+
+Rage's Thots: Manifesto (27-Nov-95  17:23:29)
+
+
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+
Rage's Thots: Manifesto

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  17:23:29

+
<Is Harlan's Manifesto on SF shows available, or is it an ancient Vorlon
+secret?>
+
+      No, it's not currently available.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/141.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/141.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..968dcb76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/141.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Richard P. Manny 70762,141 (X)
+
+
+Synopsis Query (27-Nov-95  17:23:30)
+
+
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+

+
Synopsis Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  17:23:30

+
     No, I checked, and it ain't the Hyperion guide; it's something else I've
+seen, and I just can't put my finger on it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/142.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/142.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f7a0c226
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/142.html
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Alan Katz 74260,3612 (X)
+
+
+DL Query (27-Nov-95  17:23:33)
+
+
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+

+
DL Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 27-Nov-95  17:23:33

+
      Oh, to be sure, they'd have preferred to have Talia accidentally fall out
+an airlock rather than turn her over to the Corps...but that's cold blooded
+murder, and if they go that route, then there's no difference between them and
+their opposite number.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/143.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/143.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1d50a11a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/143.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Wendy Shaffer 71201,2200 (X)
+
+
+<ADitS> Probe Query (28-Nov-95  00:17:48)
+
+
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+

+
<ADitS> Probe Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 28-Nov-95  00:17:48

+
<Is a 500,000 megaton explosion enough to devastate a *planet*?>
+
+     No, it probably couldn't take out a planet, though it'd sure disrupt all
+communications in and out for a long time, maybe throw up a dust curtain to
+bring down the temperature quite a bit.  Certainly it'd debilitate the planet
+long enough for additional probes to be sent in.  If one can do the job, one
+does the job; if more are required, more are sent.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/144.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/144.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c8fe7025
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/144.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Charles S. Tritt 70254,131 (X)
+
+
+Question for JMS (28-Nov-95  00:17:49)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 28-Nov-95  00:17:49

+
<Rockne O'Bannon is one of the few writters that I rember from the new Twilight
+Zone.>
+
+      Don't know what Rock's doing these days.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101 (X)
+
+
+<PTG> (28-Nov-95  21:08:00)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 28-Nov-95  21:08:00

+
<I am not even going to ask about that last scene with Kosh and Lyta. Were I you
+I might consider asking folks not to talk about that for the remainder of the
+week. I saw it just as you had intended it to be seen (expecting nothing) and
+had to pry myself off the ceiling.
+
+That episode really creeped me out.>
+
+      So, in essence, you liked it, then...?
+
+      Re: Lyta...(evil smile)....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Fitz Bushnell 76435,165 (X)
+
+
+Vichy Narn? (28-Nov-95  21:08:06)
+
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+
Vichy Narn?

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 28-Nov-95  21:08:06

+
<Enjoying all the historical parallels, and the show in general.>
+
+     Thanks...we try.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Clinton Alvord 71470,3665
+
+
+Reactor Access (28-Nov-95  21:08:09)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 28-Nov-95  21:08:09

+
<In the episode "Convictions," why did the "bomb squad" have to go out into
+space in order to gain access to the fusion reactor?>
+
+     Going in the vacuum door was the fastest way to get a bunch of people in
+there, and presumably get a big object out again.  Instead of riding transport
+tubes to the core shuttle, then the core shuttle to the far end, then tubes to
+the bottom...you jump out, get picked up and dumped at the far end.  Takes 2
+minutes rather than 10 or 15.  Remember, this place is five miles long.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Elizabeth 76202,563 (X)
+
+
+B5: Dear Joe (29-Nov-95  00:45:09)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  00:45:09

+
<People like to try to annoy writers appearing in public.>
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, having served my time in and running creative writing
+classes, I've seen it too.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mara K. Malovany 102750,1414 (X)
+
+
+B5 books (29-Nov-95  00:45:10)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  00:45:10

+
<Audio versions of the B5 books?>
+
+     No one's yet discussed it, I think....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 screensaver			 (November 01, 1995 1:26:00 PM)
+
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+
 B5 screensaver			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 1:26:00 PM

+
 <Do I dare ask if it will be PC only or Mac as well ?>
+
+
+    Dunno....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: All
+
+
+B5 Screensaver (29-Nov-95  03:24:46)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  03:24:46

+
     Well, today I got my complimentary copy of the new B5 screensaver (aka the
+Limited Edition CDRom Entertainment Untility), from Sound Sources.  I have to
+say that I'm extremely pleased with it.  (And folks around here know that if I
+don't like it, I don't front for it.)
+
+     I have it running now on both my home computer, and my work office
+computer.  On the downside, it isn't exactly intuitive on the installation, and
+there's not much of a manual.  You have to figure out some stuff on your own.
+(Like when it says it installs all the wallpaper, it actually installs a
+portion; you then have the option of using the Install aspect to go back into
+the CDrom images area and getting the 150 or so other wallpaper images and
+putting them into your system, and then using the Add and Select menus to
+activate them.)
+
+     I had a memory/sound conflict on the work computer on a few of the
+modules, but no such problem on the home system (and since they're both nearly
+identical systems, it tells me something's wonky with one of the computers, and
+I have to figure this out.)  Maybe it has something to do with running Norton
+Desktop.
+
+     Those two caveats aside, and they're relatively minor...I love it. You've
+got a whole bunch of video clips complete with sounds and/or music, 150
+wallpapers, bunches of .wav files, using our actual sound library from the
+show, plus music clips...it's just gorgeous.  And well displayed, well put
+together.  It has what I was hoping for, a sense of a piece of Babylon 5 itself
+in your system.
+
+     As I understand it, there are only going to be 100,000 of these produced
+for full national distribution, and apparently the phone and mail orders are
+piling up, as are computer store orders.  So you may want to get it fast when
+it appears, 'cause it may not stay on the shelves very long.
+
+     I don't like to do a lot of merchandise, and when we do, it has to be of
+superior quality; this one definitely qualifies.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Morris L. Gavant, M.D. 74027,264
+
+
+<ADITS:Aliens 'R Us> (29-Nov-95  03:28:56)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  03:28:56

+
<What is the name of the race whose member was injured in Franklin's lab?>
+
+     I'll have to go back and check, but from memory I'm pretty sure he's a
+Llort.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David Chandler-Gick 73654,2320
+
+
+Stephen Furst (29-Nov-95  03:28:57)
+
+
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+
Stephen Furst

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  03:28:57

+
      Yes, you'll be seeing more of Stephen.  Also, the Misery Loves Company
+show for Fox was dropped, and the appearance on Chicago Hope is apparently only
+for 2 episodes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+
+Rage's Thots: rastb5 (29-Nov-95  15:13:51)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  15:13:51

+
<Sorry you're withdrawing from Usenet.  Thanks for being there this long.>
+
+      No, the thanks, and the pleasure, are all mine.
+
+      And yeah, having to do this is a pain in the butt, no mistake.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: S J NICHOLSON 76574,1663 (X)
+
+
+Science FictionAge/B5 (29-Nov-95  15:23:53)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  15:23:53

+
      Inch by inch by inch...we are taking over the world.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John MacVeigh 72467,2141 (X)
+
+
+ABC rumor (29-Nov-95  15:23:55)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  15:23:55

+
     No, absolutely not true.  ABC is doing a series called "Hypernauts" for
+Saturday morning kidvid -- live action plus cgi -- made by many of the same
+people who do B5, including Ron Thornton/Foundation Imaging, with Kevin Cremin,
+John Copeland, Doug Netter and many of our same directors.  But B5 has nothing
+to do with it, nor do I personally.  This person has confused two different
+issues/shows.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Randy Upshaw 75464,1275 (X)
+
+
+Were are the Shadows (29-Nov-95  15:23:57)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  15:23:57

+
      What we're doing in the meantime is plenty.  Originally, the fourth and
+final episode in this first batch of four was going to be "Voices of
+Authority," which deals with just this question of preparing for the war in a
+big way, has major developments, gets into the White Star...but the CGI
+requirements of that episode were hideous, so we had to move it to #5 in the
+lineup, moving up "Gethsemane."  Once we come back with new episodes, we'll hit
+the ground running hard on all this stuff.
+
+     Also bear in mind that wars aren't instant; in the real world, you have to
+line up support, get into alliances, move all your pieces around before you can
+get into it.  We're taking a similar path here.  Also, the term "shadow war"
+refers to more than just the shadows as a race; they refer to what's going on
+back on earth as well, as metaphor as well as plot point, and that's a huge
+part of the next batch of eps.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Susan  Phillips 103044,3337
+
+
+B5: Dear Joe (29-Nov-95  21:53:13)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  21:53:13

+
<Do you believe fiction writing can be taught?>
+
+     The answer is yes and no.  I've taught writing classes and workshops, and
+it is entirely possible to take someone with a good command of the language and
+make them publishable in the area of articles and other nonfiction.  Virtually
+anyone can be trained.  You can also learn some of the basic *techniques* of
+fiction.  But there's a quantum jump between what is required of the two basic
+forms.
+
+     By the time I was done, invariably people would sell in non-fiction. The
+last time I did it, within 6 months of finishing the class, the percentage of
+those who actually pursued it (as opposed to just dropping the ball and not
+trying) and published was close to 100%.  Fiction, ah, that's different.
+
+     When it comes time to make up your own stories, you either hear the music,
+or you don't.  (And even if you don't, some folks can sell one or two items in
+their lives.)
+
+     That spark, that way of viewing the world and coming up with stories,
+cannot be taught I think.  It's either there, or it ain't.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101 (X)
+
+
+<PTG> (29-Nov-95  21:53:20)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  21:53:20

+
<The Vorlons really aren't the good guys are they.>
+
+     Depends on how you define good.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Neil Blevins 102226,3566 (X)
+
+
+<Gethsemane> (29-Nov-95  21:59:39)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 29-Nov-95  21:59:39

+
     If the Centauri teep had had more time to react he probably would have
+gone after Garibaldi...but Lyta came in too fast, and she took his attention
+quickly.
+
+                                                                       jms*
+
+(*who is wondering, if he wrote an episode in which Morden was trapped on a
+cliffside, if he could title it "Ridge Over Troubled Wasser"...)
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <FON - Nature of Kosh>		 (November 01, 1995 7:29:23 PM)
+
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+
 <FON - Nature of Kosh>		

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 7:29:23 PM

+
     That's the irony, in a sense...what's inside Kosh's biomechanical 
+encounter suit...is a *perceptual* encounter suit....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Richard P. Manny 70762,141 (X)
+
+
+<Gethsemene> (30-Nov-95  01:44:03)
+
+
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+
<Gethsemene>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  01:44:03

+
<In so many ways, you
+remind me of Serling and Lovecraft.  Both strove with the gods and the devils
+to produce the best, to tell the story, to turn the word on its ear, to tweek
+the medium for all it could give, and then one more tweek.  There's another
+Lovecraftian aspect to you, beyond the story-telling word, its this enormous
+virtual circle of correspondents that you talk to each day.  Lovecraft had his
+circle which nutured the likes of de Camp, Long, Howard, and Derleth.  I wonder
+who out there in the ether is taking form as a writer by drawing nurishment
+from this circle?>
+
+      I don't think there can *be* any praise higher than to be included in the
+same sentence as Serling.  Of my personal pantheon of writers, he's right up
+there at the top.  And yeah, we've had to fight the same battles to get our
+respective shows on the air, with the integrity we feel/felt was required for
+the story.  But in the long run, the fight is worth it if it produces something
+that lasts.
+
+      About correspondents...I've heard from a number of folks, in the course
+of this prolonged conversation, who say they've had the courage to begin
+writing, or sending out what they write, because they've seen that it Can Be
+Done.  A few of them have broken through, most have not, but it's a long
+process, and there's plenty of time ahead.
+
+     If the show can inspire anyone, even one person, to do more, or better,
+then it has achieved its purpose.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mark Pruett 74133,3406
+
+
+<Gethsemane> (30-Nov-95  01:44:08)
+
+
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+
<Gethsemane>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  01:44:08

+
      The absolution scene, based on what used to be called the rites of
+extreme unction, or last rights, is now called the "celebration" of passing,
+and I went to the Catholic church's information office, and got the actual
+text.  I made a few adjustments here, condensing it a bit (on the logic that
+Edward didn't have a lot of time), and modifying a few small points here and
+there, on the second logical point that in 250 years, such might have taken
+place (as the current ritual has been adjusted a bit here and there over the
+years).  So if it felt right, it was.
+
+     Yours is the second comparison here to Serling.  I think perhaps I can die
+happy now.  To the "strong moral sensibilities" aspect...there has to be this.
+The story must entertain, first and foremost, otherwise it's useless, because
+no one will watch it.  But then there has to be something of substance at the
+core of it, which elevates or ennobles or challenges.
+
+     Re: the use of Lyta to extract the info...this is the main reason why
+there's a Psi Corps, and there are exacting rules, otherwise it can easily
+become deus ex machina.  We won't ever do this sort of thing trivially, and
+here it was definitely meant to be a little disturbing...it was a sheer matter
+of life or death, the guy was a creep, and somewhere Edward was bleeding to
+death.  Even after so many viewings, and even having written the thing, I find
+that one scene vaguely scary.
+
+     It's the best of the first four, I think.  But better is coming....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: SysOp Dupa T. Parrot 70040,104
+
+
+Rage's Thots: rastb5 (30-Nov-95  01:44:12)
+
+
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+
Rage's Thots: rastb5

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  01:44:12

+
      Re: the joke about the dumb starlet who slept with the writer...sure, and
+you know why?   'Cause she heard that in Hollywood, EVERYONE screws the writer.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Ray Pelzer 70475,1263 (X)
+
+
+Submitted for.... (30-Nov-95  01:44:13)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  01:44:13

+
<I feel safe in saying that
+your career is starting to closely parallel all the good aspects of Mr.
+Serling's career (and no, no jokes about doing Schlitz commercials after B5
+ends).  I don't think I'll be contradicted - especially in light of tonights
+show - in saying that, when the statues start going up, yours and his will be
+standing beside one another.>
+
+      Wow, that's three...I'm about ready to fall down.  High praise indeed.
+
+      Wasn't on the special because, basically, I wasn't asked.  Haven't yet
+seen it, but have the thing on tape, and will look at it later tonight.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David DeRubeis 75221,2351
+
+
+In the Shadow of JMS (30-Nov-95  04:44:35)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  04:44:35

+
      Thanks.  This is kinda what I always said...if folks will give us just a
+fair chance, no more, no less, we'll back up the talk with action, and with
+stories.
+
+      You're to be commended for giving us a second chance, and posting this.
+Thanks for giving us the opportunity.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Grabois 74737,2600 (X)
+
+
+<PTG> (30-Nov-95  04:55:54)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  04:55:54

+
<Now that you've finally been able to use the story of a mind-wiped criminal
+learning of his past, can you say something about how different the story would
+have been had you been able to do it in the first (?) season as you had
+originally planned?>
+
+      No, no nod to the person who suggested it, since this isn't a
+competition, and the suggestion cost me a year where I couldn't do the story.
+(So I wasn't in the cutest frame of mind about this for a long time, even
+though it wasn't really his fault.)
+
+     Basically, it would've been a one-shot, with two monks arriving to scope
+out B5 for the arrival of the rest later on.  (You'll notice that none of the
+other monks get into the story here; that's a hold-over from the original
+outline, which I saw no need to change at this point.)  So this would've been
+folded into an introduction to the order as they come to check out B5's
+facilities.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Burhaan  Ahmad 75754,3065
+
+
+<Gethsemane> (30-Nov-95  04:55:56)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  04:55:56

+
      Not sure he *wanted* to die, as much as he felt it was *necessary* in
+order to atone for the sins of another...his own "other," in this case.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Tom Knudsen 72347,1626 (X)
+
+
+<Gethsemane> (30-Nov-95  12:21:46)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  12:21:46

+
     The third Serling story isn't so much strange, as were the other two, but
+interesting, in that after that one first encounter with him, when I was
+working on the new Twilight Zone series, they found an outline by Serling that
+he had never put into script form...and they asked me to do the script based on
+that outline, so here, twent-some years later, I ended up sharing a writing
+credit with Serling on "Our Selena is Dying."  A collaboration, much after the
+fact.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Philip Hornsey 74053,2101 (X)
+
+
+<PTG> (30-Nov-95  12:21:47)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  12:21:47

+
     When you ask a Vorlon a question, you get what you get.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+
+Minbari line in 1st 3 ep (30-Nov-95  12:41:14)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  12:41:14

+
     Just putting the gun on the table where everyone can see it before I pick
+it up and pull the trigger...as I have done, more subtly, in a whole bunch of
+other places, right through to the first season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <FON Thot>			 (November 01, 1995 7:30:04 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 7:30:04 PM

+
     From a strictly logical standpoint, a president would not lower 
+himself to deal with this personally.  When MacArthur and Patton earned
+the disfavor of the president, it was intermediaries who pulled them aside
+and registered this.  Also, gradually more authority if being vested in
+Nightwatch and the Ministry of Peace, as that's his arm, and so he'd be
+inclined to use that since he's in most direct control.  (Just to explain
+why what was done was done.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jeff Frank 70402,3015 (X)
+
+
+Minbari line in 1st 3 ep (30-Nov-95  12:41:16)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  12:41:16

+
      Actually, it was in one of the first four episodes, not necessarily the
+first three.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Richard L. Long 76562,2757 (X)
+
+
+book question (30-Nov-95  17:29:08)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  17:29:08

+
<Book of the five-year arc?>
+
+     It's something I'll consider when we're finished with it all; right now
+it's too much to even think about.
+
+     And thanks....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Lolita  . Maddalena 102701,3447 (X)
+
+
+<Gethsemane> (30-Nov-95  22:27:49)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  22:27:49

+
<When the brother died I blew my nose and thought it was over, but then you
+bring the "new" brother to Sheridan and there I go again.  Really, it was an
+almost cruel use of beauty.  Of course until the gill scene.  Eck.>
+
+      "...a cruel use of beauty."  What a great way to phrase it.  Never heard
+that before.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Daniel Mercure 72470,3713 (X)
+
+
+Kosh Me This (30-Nov-95  22:27:49)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  22:27:49

+
<Wasn't Twikki in the opening credits of "Buck Rogers?"  Why not Kosh?>
+
+      Twikki had a better agent than Kosh.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Grabois 74737,2600 (X)
+
+
+<PTG> (30-Nov-95  22:27:52)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 30-Nov-95  22:27:52

+
<How would they have gotten the info from the Centauri in the original?>
+
+     They would've gotten the info in a different way, without resorting to a
+telepath.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <TLTS & Stuff>			 (November 01, 1995 11:19:27 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 11:19:27 PM

+
     Alas, actual history courses put me to sleep; reading is fine, 
+but to teach history...how bad would it be to see your own prof falling 
+over dead asleep at his own lecture?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ CD differences			 (November 01, 1995 11:20:02 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 11:20:02 PM

+
<I was looking through the book and saw a picture that was the same yet not. 
+ It's the picture with Kosh, G'Kar, Delenn and Londo standing in front of a 
+large fan.  
+In the LE CD, Londo looks like he's just been through a month of binge 
+drinking.  His face is splotchy and his hair is a rats nest.  In the GR CD, 
+he just looks pained.>
+
+      You caught me.  In the limited, they used a photo that I absolutely 
+*hate*, for what it does to Londo's hair.  So when the general release was
+due to come out, they couldn't change the photo, too expensive, so I had
+them put a different head on it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Comes the Inquisitor>		 (October 31, 1995 11:22:01 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 11:22:01 PM

+
<Delenn really made Sebastian realize who HE was as well.  Was this
+both-sides-of-the-coin intentional, or just happy happenstance?>
+
+     No, it was very much intentional; Sebastian learns quite a bit in the 
+course of that encounter about himself...especially when she rubs it in his 
+face as she does.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <TFON - weightless>		 (November 02, 1995 12:39:11 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 12:39:11 AM

+
     Re: the starfury drop...this has come up before, and some of the 
+better high-IQ types have said we got it right.  The fighters use
+centrifugal force to be propelled *away* from the station; yes, it's at
+a slight tangent, but the station is also rotating behind them, so it
+isn't that severe.  The furies don't actually fire their engines until
+they're a bit away from the station, using the force of the drop.
+
+     The vectors actually work out accurately.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 as radio			 (November 02, 1995 12:39:12 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 12:39:12 AM

+
     I used to work in radio drama a lot, for ALIEN WORLDS and the MUTUAL 
+RADIO THEATER, so sometimes that aspect comes out in my writing.  I think 
+it's a wonderful, and little used medium.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Inquisitor - Bravo!>		 (November 01, 1995 1:26:28 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 1:26:28 PM

+
     "it just didn't pay off in the long run."  For you.  For others it 
+did. Let's not start getting grandiose.  You feel this way, that's fine,
+but it's not the ultimate truth.  Otherwise you're totally dismissing the
+opinions of others who liked it a lot.
+
+     "Jack...has become a real cliche."  So because others have used that 
+figure in their work, well or poorly, no one should ever use this 
+historical figure ever again in the next thousand years of human history.  
+One should not do what one thinks is right for a story because of what 
+someone else did in a different story.
+
+     Sorry.  I don't work that way.  By your logic, I should not be using 
+starships or hyperspace or aliens, either, because they've been used a LOT 
+more than Jack.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <FON Thot>			 (November 02, 1995 12:35:17 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 12:35:17 PM

+
<You're right re: the joint chiefs.  It would be nice to see the formal 
+military chain of command in operation every now and then, one of the 
+things STNG did rather nicely.  
+One can only hope that Sheridan verified the JCS instructions off-line out 
+of the camera's all seeing eye.>
+
+     And the really great thing is...you're quite right about verifying 
+orders from one arm of the government with another...as we'll see in the 
+first third of the coming season.  Good call.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <spoiler: Comes the Inq>		 (November 02, 1995 10:55:07 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 10:55:07 PM

+
<So, did the Vorlons decide to stay back and help out, or were they left 
+behind by the other races for some reason?>
+
+     It's good you've been thinking about this.
+
+     'Cause this is one of those questions I'd rather answer in the series 
+than here.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ RPG?				 (November 02, 1995 10:55:31 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 10:55:31 PM

+
     No, not a gamer; I've only been dragooned into trying it a couple of 
+times, but basically I prefer making up my own stories.  Nonetheless, I
+know a lot of folks who do it, and they seem to have a great time doing it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 Episode List 			 (November 02, 1995 10:55:01 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 10:55:01 PM

+
     It's definitely at Hyperion.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+  <<DS9: Rejoined>>		 (November 02, 1995 10:55:04 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Star Trek
Date: November 02, 1995 10:55:04 PM

+
     Well, I have a number of feelings about this.  First, you'll note that 
+it's always an alien that has something "different" than the ST normal male 
+or female character...we had the aliens who were all unisexual in TNG, now 
+this.  And, of course, it wasn't *really* two women falling in love, it was 
+someone who was once a male, now in a female body, carrying on with that 
+relationship.  So there are a lot of ways out of this.
+
+     I also think they somewhat played it for the prurient interest factor; 
+we just did it, by developing a relationship over time, and when it came to 
+fruition, we didn't make a big deal about it, it's just normal and 
+accepted. And it was between two *human* characters.  It's personal taste,
+I suppose; I just prefered it the way we did it.  Doesn't make it better or
+righter.
+
+     We developed a growing relationship between Talia and Ivanova over two 
+whole seasons; paid it off, and there will be ramifications down the road 
+from this relationship.  Because it *is* a relationship in that sense, not
+just done for one hour, for sensationalism, and then you drop it thereafter.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Londo Talk From TLTS		 (November 02, 1995 10:55:12 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 10:55:12 PM

+
     <G'kar says "There is no greater power in the universe than the need 
+for freedom."  At "need," Londo blinks, and as G'kar says "freedom", Londo
+turns his head slightly to his right and I could have sworn he silently
+says  "Yes...",  out of the corner of his mouth.  Was this my imagination?>
+
+     It was your imagination.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Keyboards and Pain		 (November 02, 1995 10:55:13 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 10:55:13 PM

+
     Wish I had some nifty secrets to share on the CTS; but it's just wear 
+the wrist braces, take vitamins, do the exercises and try where possible to 
+get away from the keyboard.  So far, I'm systematic on 1.5 of those 4.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Fans Strike Again!		 (October 31, 1995 11:22:05 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 11:22:05 PM

+
     Unfortunately, no suggestions except to note that the more people in 
+an area who keep after their stations, the more things gradually change.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 3:02:27 AM

+
      Actually, I'm using (at work) a Kinesis ergonomic keyboard, and that 
+helps a bit (two recessed wells for the keys).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 5:41:26 PM

+
     The thing about the Kinesis is that for the first week I was using it, 
+my arms and wrists *really* hurt.  I thought, "This CAN'T be right."  
+I looked in the manual, and found it said approximately "For the first week 
+your wrists and arms will hurt."  Oh.  Then you get used to it.
+
+     Overall, I've gotten quite proficient with it, and the typing speed 
+hasn't diminished.  There are a few things that could've been done better, 
+but overall it's a definite improvement.  (Main problem is that I have
+rather long, slender fingers, so I often over-shoot the keys unless I'm
+paying attention.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Fall of Night>			 (November 02, 1995 10:55:15 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 10:55:15 PM

+
     Liberty is *always* at peril; only the degree of the threat varies 
+from day to day.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 04, 1995 12:21:19 AM

+
     Yes, the Shadows know that the Vorlons are still around, and that Kosh 
+is there.  That's never been any kind of secret.  They're just hoping that 
+the Vorlons and anyone who might believe them won't find out that they're 
+out and about again until too 
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <CtI---OK>			 (November 02, 1995 11:11:11 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 11:11:11 PM

+
     I think I wasn't clear...the Lennier/Kosh scene *was* filmed; it just 
+didn't make it into the final cut of the episode.
+
+     In general, we leave 2-3 minutes per episode on the cutting room 
+floor, for various reasons...pacing, structure, whatever.  Usually it's
+just line cutting, sometimes it's a small, quick scene here and there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <B5 Season 2 Finally>		 (November 02, 1995 11:11:13 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 11:11:13 PM

+
     Yeah, this is the other structure that's kind of a favorite of mine.  
+I used it also in "Coming of Shadows."  It starts out kind of slow, it
+lulls you into a sense that this is going to be a fairly ordinary story,
+nothing major...allowing me to sneak up behind you in the story and just
+*whack* you real hard when you're not expecting it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 2:59:07 AM

+
     For those who've not noticed it...in the 5 library (B5) there is a gif 
+image of Marcus Cole, our new recurring character, a resident Ranger 
+assigned to Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 3:02:26 AM

+
     Actually, I think I saw more *annoyance* at Jack being used from the 
+UK folks than the US folks, that's the main difference, I think.  
+Probably because it's a peaceful, wonderful country which is *still* paying 
+off, in the public eye, one particularly nasty creature in their recent 
+history. They're probably tired of hearing about him, and to some extent,
+correctly so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <FON>				 (November 03, 1995 3:07:05 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 3:07:05 AM

+
     "who are angelic like"
+
+     Who says that's what they actually *are*?  That's only how they want 
+us to SEE them.  There's a difference.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Season 3 #1 >			 (November 03, 1995 1:00:24 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 1:00:24 PM

+
     A little over a week has passed between the events of FoN and "Matters 
+of Honor."  The first part of the season is almost in real time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 11:22:06 PM

+
     Sacrificing oneself happens frequently...but for just one other 
+person, AND in a situation where no one else would ever know about it.  
+Bear in mind that he wasn't testing people randomly; only those who felt 
+that they were chosen of god, fulfillers of prophecy...people who assumed 
+that they were part of some grand scheme, and thus to whom an anonymous
+death is an intolerable thought.
+
+     Also, most probably never *got* that far, unable to stand the real 
+pain of being placed in this position.  Everybody can talk the talk; very
+few can walk the walk.  Most probably just yanked off the bracelets and
+split, on the theory that they weren't being sufficiently coddled or
+glorified...or because being a potential prophet isn't as much fun as
+they'd thought.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 5:33:04 PM

+
     There's also a certain amount of McCarthyism inherent in the 
+Nightwatch, the emphasis on revealing spies in our midst, enemies of the 
+people.
+
+     The problem with pointing to the Nazis or the Gestapo exclusively is 
+that it allows us the safety of saying, "Well, it happened just there, and 
+only once, *we* could never fall for that."
+
+     Wrong.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <TFON - Battle>			 (November 03, 1995 5:41:22 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 5:41:22 PM

+
     The interceptors line refers to the fact that there are so many 
+incoming bursts that the interceptors are only knocking down 90% of them at 
+this point, meaning that some of them (the incoming bursts) are getting 
+through.
+
+     Janet's busy working on the scriptwriting part of her career, so she's 
+not available now, but hopefully she'll be available back to us come next 
+year.
+
+     And thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 04, 1995 12:21:22 AM

+
     TOT, Time On Target, you launch everything you've got -- fighters at 
+close range to the target, long-range weapons firing earlier -- so that 
+they all arrive at the same spot at the same instant for maximum effect.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 04, 1995 12:21:18 AM

+
     A mass driver is a device which accellerates asteroids and sends them 
+hurtling down into the atmosphere where they arrive with the force of a 
+nuclear blast.  An ugly weapon.  It has not otherwise been known to cause
+coughing, hay fever of diptheria.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 04, 1995 12:32:10 AM

+
     Bear in mind that Sheridan specifically states that the treaty had 
+*not* been finalized yet between Earth and the Centauri, so the attack was 
+not a violation of a treaty that hadn't been signed yet.  (And very likely
+the Centauri captain was unaware of it *anyway*, just as Sheridan was taken
+by surprise by it all.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 02, 1995 10:39:11 PM

+
     Haven't seen Fall of Night yet, have you...?
+
+     And there's claiming by inference as well, setting oneself up as a 
+benign force on the side of good.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 03, 1995 1:00:25 PM

+
     Friendly disagreement is always great fun.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 04, 1995 12:22:00 AM

+
     "Good is the absence of evil...."
+
+     Is it?  Is it the *absence* or the *opposite*?
+
+     One might say (to take a christian pov for a moment) that god is the
+absence of evil.  But is this the case?  Is evil a thing, or is evil the
+potentiality to do acts of wanton destruction?
+
+     At what point did evil come into the universe, from this pov?  With the
+fall of Lucifer?  But unless the *potential* for evil existed before this
+act of pride, it would be impossible for Lucifer to fall.  The very tenet of
+free will is that there are choices to be made.  If there are no choices,
+there is no free will, quid pro quo.  Hence, in the garden, the *potential*
+for evil existed before an *act* later described as evil or rebellious.
+
+     And, hence, the *potential* for evil existed before Lucifer fell.  If
+it had not, he couldn't have fallen.  (Also, if one takes the position that
+the fall *created* evil, then a fallen angel has creative potential, which
+puts it at an unacceptably high level of power.)
+
+     It says in the book of Amos, "Is there evil in a city and the Lord hath
+not done it?"
+
+     If the potential for evil was there from the dawn of creation -- and it
+*must* have been for the actions described later to have taken place -- then
+there must perforce be the potential for evil in its creator.  (Unless one
+is willing to posit that in not having the potential for evil, god does not
+have free will, which means god is not omnipotent, and somehow gifted his
+creations with a capacity he himself was incapable of.) This doesn't mean,
+and shouldn't be taken to imply, that god *is* evil, or *has* evil, but
+rather that the *potential* is there, and has always existed.
+
+     Thus, good is not the *absence* of evil, but the *opposition* to evil.
+To use Mark Twain's example in "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," you had
+an entire town that had never known temptation, and held itself up as
+righteous...  until the first day when real temptation walked in the front
+door, and the whole place fell for it...after which the sign out front of
+the town was modified to read "Lead us INTO temptation," for only through
+temptation, through the exposure to evil, is faith and the good tested and
+made viable.
+
+								       jms
+
+
+

+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jon Wolf 76103,2541 (X)
+
+
+Link&Log (16-Nov-95  23:12:50)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 16-Nov-95  23:12:50

+
      It's a floating (air-compression) vidrecorder.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+
+B5 Magazine (16-Nov-95  23:22:47)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 16-Nov-95  23:22:47

+
      Yes, I generally reviewed most of the material; but I explicitly told
+them I don't want it to be a fluff magazine, so there's some hard stuff in
+there from time to time.  I think the final schedule of forthcoming issues is
+being nailed down now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 7:23:13 PM

+
      "It doesn't fit in with the way the Vorlons have been portrayed.  It 
+bothered me."
+
+      Good.  That was the intended result.
+
+      Part of the reason for the story was to grey up the Vorlons a little; 
+one shouldn't fall too easily for what other people *say* they are.
+
+      (One might also say much the same of the old testament god who would 
+have Job so severely tested, btw.)
+
+       One should always be cautious of taking *anyone* at face value on B5.
+
+      "...you could consider them a force for good."
+
+      Ah, but what *is* good?  And whose *version* of good are we 
+discussing?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+
+DL Query (16-Nov-95  23:22:48)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
DL Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 16-Nov-95  23:22:48

+
     Because the longer she was there, the more she'd discover (was about to
+enter into Sheridan's cell group in fact), and the more damage she'd be able to
+do.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+
+<Convictions> (16-Nov-95  23:22:50)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<Convictions>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 16-Nov-95  23:22:50

+
     Thanks; it came out very well, I think.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+Sinclair's Warning (16-Nov-95  23:22:54)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Sinclair's Warning

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 16-Nov-95  23:22:54

+
     Maybe a little of both....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael  Zitaglio 102545,641 (X)
+
+
+Four Cents: Convictions (17-Nov-95  00:52:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Four Cents: Convictions

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  00:52:30

+
      The question, of course, is...is a person 100% dark or light?  Hitler was
+a monster.  He was also a snappy dresser and, to quote The Producers, he could
+dance the pants off Churchill.  Look at the war films from WW 2 behind the
+scenes...there's Goebbels and Goering and others having dinner, laughing,
+playing little jokes, listening to music....
+
+      The monster never sees a monster in a mirror.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/54.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Ogrinz 71573,3153 (X)
+
+
+B5:The End???!!! (17-Nov-95  12:05:35)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5:The End???!!!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  12:05:35

+
     Incorrect.  Share *is* important on the local level.  When you get the
+national ratings on a syndicated program, the final figure doesn't have a
+share, only a rating.  Shares come in market by market, and since the show's
+future is determined market by market, that's crucial to our survival.  So for
+our purposes, the share per market is *very much* the more important figure.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/55.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Ogrinz 71573,3153
+
+
+B5:The End???!!! (17-Nov-95  12:05:37)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5:The End???!!!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  12:05:37

+
     Some stations are shifting to less terrific timeslots; other stations are
+giving us *better* timeslots.  There's no one trend.  The main problem is that
+each market only has maybe one or two indie stations max, and if that's a Fox
+or UPN station, you've only got 2 prime time hours per night available 8-10
+(nearly all of these show their news programs at 10 p.m.). So first precedence
+for those 14 hours per week is given to Fox or UPN programs (or WB programs,
+depending), plus all the other syndicated shows out there, from talk shows to
+game shows and so on.
+
+     The market for syndicated shows, and where you can squeeze them in, is
+getting increasingly smaller.  Hence the growth of cable.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Gerald Himmelein 100417,3703 (X)
+
+
+New Open! (17-Nov-95  12:05:39)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New Open!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  12:05:39

+
     Yeah, and that quote got me in lots of trouble; my original statement was
+that we'd kick their ass, they'd kick ours, we'd kick back, and the ongoing
+competition would guarantee better shows for viewers. Unfortunately they chose
+to use only the first part of that...and thus was a huge fracas born.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/57.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Chad Underkoffler 102512,1310 (X)
+
+
+<Rage'sThots: Cnvctns> (17-Nov-95  12:05:41)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<Rage'sThots: Cnvctns>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  12:05:41

+
     Londo and G'Kar no longer really have much to discuss; they're past that
+point, I figure.  They hate each other.
+
+     Re: the Drazi...yeah, I hear that a lot.  The most frequent comment: "I
+like the Drazi; they're just nuts."
+
+     Londo wasn't on Minbar; he was seeing someone off on a ship going to
+Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/58.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Gerald Himmelein 100417,3703 (X)
+
+
+Four Cents: Convictions (17-Nov-95  12:19:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Four Cents: Convictions

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  12:19:30

+
      I dunno...I just kinda figured that invading Poland, invading the
+Sudetenland, invading France, invading Russia, bombing Britain, eradicating
+much of the population of jews and gypsies in Eastern Europe, that kind of
+stuff comes as close as I can think of to a definition of a human monster.
+
+      Granted he fixed the economy, got Germany on a solid economic footing,
+ran a tightly organized Olympics, instituted new fashion sensibilities, and
+created some interesting architectural structures...and you couldn't beat his
+sense of theater and high drama...but I kinda think the former somewhat
+outweighs the latter.
+
+      Perhaps we are working from different definitions of what a monster is.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Ruth Ballam 100412,3457 (X)
+
+
+<Theo> (17-Nov-95  22:58:08)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<Theo>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  22:58:08

+
     Re: brewing ale...is that true?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Fall of Night>			 (October 31, 1995 11:22:08 PM)
+
+
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+Search
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+
 <Fall of Night>			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 11:22:08 PM

+
<IT DOESN'T MATTER.  THIS PLACE HAS BEEN BLESSED.
+   Wow!!  I expected this to devolve into a bitter argument
+   between different religions.>
+
+     Thanks.  I think that, with so many races around, you couldn't go into 
+holy wars or jihads at every occasion.  In a 
+way, what was seen was a validation for many...a moment they all came 
+together, instead of coming apart.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+
+ 
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/60.html
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Gerald Himmelein 100417,3703 (X)
+
+
+Four Cents: Convictions (17-Nov-95  22:58:10)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Four Cents: Convictions

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  22:58:10

+
      There can be no question that the conditions prevalent in Germany after
+WW I created the climate in which a Hitler could come into power. There was
+great resentment and anger festering over the onerous conditions placed upon
+the German government, the enconomy was in ruins, people were looking for
+someone to blame, and that creates the perfect condition for scapegoats, and
+someone who can take advantage of that.
+
+      Hitler, however, was able to perceive that, galvanize it, shape it and
+form it.  It was Hitler who organized the brownshirts and created the
+krystalnachts, who orchestrated his rise within the government until he was
+finally able to seize the reins of government, and he who was the primary
+architect of the atrocities of that period.
+
+     Of course he didn't do it by himself; there were those who willingly, even
+happily collaborated; those who opposed and said nothing; those who were of no
+opinion one way or another; and those who resisted.  If you're going to blame
+the first group, maybe the first two or three, you still have to recognize the
+fourth.
+
+     People can be driven by the madness of the crowd, or intimidated by the
+government of the gun into silence.  No one is looking to totally exonerate the
+citizenry; though one can make a compelling argument that anyone who spoke out
+
+was swiftly arrested, deported, or shot...which tends to discourage the free
+exchange of criticism.  Would WW 2 have taken place without Hitler?  Possibly;
+the conditions were right.  Would it have taken the same shape?  Probably not;
+almost certainly not.  Thus the blame for *this* war, the way it happened
+*this* time, must be laid at his feet.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+Dr. Franklin's serum (17-Nov-95  22:58:13)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Dr. Franklin's serum

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  22:58:13

+
      I'd forget it for now.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+Bio-tech weapons (17-Nov-95  22:58:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Bio-tech weapons

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  22:58:17

+
      Could be.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/63.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Alan Katz 74260,3612 (X)
+
+
+B5 Magazine (17-Nov-95  22:58:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Magazine

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  22:58:17

+
      I go over the text, yes, but I've advised those who do it to avoid
+turning it into a puff-piece.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/64.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+Book of G'Quon (17-Nov-95  22:58:23)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Book of G'Quon

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 17-Nov-95  22:58:23

+
     The leaf shown is the G'Quon-eth, the plant featured in "By Any Means
+Necessary."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/65.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jason Wong 73302,776 (X)
+
+
+New Open! (18-Nov-95  14:55:56)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New Open!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 18-Nov-95  14:55:56

+
     It's my understanding that there'll be a B5 cover in Cinefantastique in
+the next few months.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/66.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+G'Quoneth Plant (18-Nov-95  14:55:57)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
G'Quoneth Plant

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 18-Nov-95  14:55:57

+
     Nope.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/67.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Marlyn Bumpus 75117,3014 (X)
+
+
+JMS: Questions (18-Nov-95  14:56:00)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Questions

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 18-Nov-95  14:56:00

+
     Vickery is a british actor, yes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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index 00000000..798dacde
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/68.html
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+
+DL Query (18-Nov-95  21:54:23)
+
+
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+
DL Query

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 18-Nov-95  21:54:23

+
     No, she didn't know who it was, but *whoever* the person was, the longer
+that person stayed where he/she was, the greater the risk.  They didn't know it
+all along remember; several people died on Mars getting that information
+out...as soon as they had it, and knew there was a traitor aboard, they had to
+move on it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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index 00000000..86fea847
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/69.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+
+Kosh Me This (18-Nov-95  21:54:26)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Kosh Me This

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 18-Nov-95  21:54:26

+
      It's Screen Actors Guild rules; you can't have a character like this, who
+isn't actually an actor, in the opening credits.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <season's end>			 (October 31, 1995 11:22:11 PM)
+
+
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+

+
 <season's end>			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 11:22:11 PM

+
<I'm sure you will have no end of congrats on a really fantastic season's 
+end.  I thought the last show with Jack the Ripper's narration was the 
+crowning touch of that show, and now I see this.>
+
+     Thank you.  The emotions the show stirs up are, to me, central to the 
+whole point of doing it.  We can't afford to pull any punches, or the story
+falls by the wayside.  It's an *incredibly* difficult show to do, on every
+level, from writing through acting to production and everything that
+follows.  But when it works, and people notice, it's all worthwhile.  
+Thanks again.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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index 00000000..d44e65fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/70.html
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+B5 rerun schedule (18-Nov-95  22:04:09)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
B5 rerun schedule

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 18-Nov-95  22:04:09

+
      That's been the traditional rerun schedule with us; during the christmas
+weeks, the logic goes, most folks are out, not watching TV.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/71.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mike Aragona 73641,1353 (X)
+
+
+Quick Question (18-Nov-95  22:04:10)
+
+
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+

+
Quick Question

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 18-Nov-95  22:04:10

+
     Yeah, it's fair to say that that's one of our themes.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David Schirmer 76774,3310 (X)
+
+
+Thanks for a Great show (18-Nov-95  22:04:12)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Thanks for a Great show

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 18-Nov-95  22:04:12

+
      Thank you.  I don't think it's a case of hanging out with "the commoners"
+to use your term; I've been here since 1984 or so, and I enjoy the discussions,
+and I'll be darned if I'll change that just because my name appears on a TV
+screen somewhere.  I'm basically just another fan of the genre....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/73.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+B5 comic (19-Nov-95  20:57:23)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 comic

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 19-Nov-95  20:57:23

+
     Don't know the exact pub date yet; the issues should be regular sized.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Cynthia and Richard 71561,3255 (X)
+
+
+B5 Costumers win again (19-Nov-95  20:57:24)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Costumers win again

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 19-Nov-95  20:57:24

+
      Thanks, and congrats.  We've been in contact with the Air and Space
+people, and when they're ready to do a B5 exhibit, we're there; but we'd rather
+not include B5 props in an ST exhibition.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/75.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/75.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/75.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mark Pruett 74133,3406 (X)
+
+
+<The Mad Bomber> (19-Nov-95  20:57:27)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
<The Mad Bomber>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 19-Nov-95  20:57:27

+
     That's great to hear, thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/76.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/76.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Mark Pruett 74133,3406 (X)
+
+
+Four Cents: Convictions (19-Nov-95  20:57:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Four Cents: Convictions

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 19-Nov-95  20:57:30

+
     No, insofar as I know, it's an original, composed by Chris Franke.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Morris L. Gavant, M.D. 74027,264 (X)
+
+
+<Franklin's IV fluids> (20-Nov-95  01:03:45)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
<Franklin's IV fluids>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  01:03:45

+
     My sense is that if you're a german ambassador, and you're attacked and
+checked into Cedar Sinai Hospital, the chief of staff there takes care of you,
+rather than bringing in an outsider/german doctor.  Franklin's well suited to
+his task.
+
+     We could probably label the blood bags a little better.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/78.html
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: peter  stathis 102477,3046 (X)
+
+
+B5:The End???!!! (20-Nov-95  01:03:46)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5:The End???!!!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  01:03:46

+
     "...that would mean that it would be near the bottom of the ratings of
+syndicated shows."
+
+     People who don't know what they're talking about should avoid making
+comments like that.  The overall breakdown of syndicated shows runs about 10
+pages of very fine type; usually around 215 shows or more, ranked in order of
+average national ratings.  Babylon 5 is always on the first page of that
+breakdown; usually the #4 or #5 dramatic series for that week, sometimes a bit
+higher, never less than #6.  We consistently stay in the top ten of dramatic
+series.  (You don't include game shows or talk shows in the mix; that's
+comparing apples and oranges.)
+
+      If you *include* all those other shows, in one typical week, we came out
+as #38 overall, out of 215.  That is extremely respectable.  Most network shows
+that come in around the top 50 tend to stay around for a good long time.
+
+     Look, Peter, do me a favor, and get off the ratings, okay?  It's clear you
+don't understand them, and the bottom line is simply this: if our ratings
+weren't sufficiently high, we wouldn't be here.  It's that simple. We're here,
+so we're getting the numbers.  Warners is happy, and we're happy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Sharon Foster 76360,301 (X)
+
+
+B5:The End???!!! (20-Nov-95  01:03:49)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5:The End???!!!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  01:03:49

+
      Local advertisments are bought by the local station, with matching funds
+from WB.  If the show isn't being advertised in your local area, the problem is
+your local station.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <season's end>			 (November 01, 1995 7:32:02 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 <season's end>			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: November 01, 1995 7:32:02 PM

+
<The very BEST television out there - and this confirms it absolutely.>
+
+     Thanks...from your lips to the ears of the TV academy....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+Demon w\ Glass Hand (20-Nov-95  01:07:11)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Demon w\ Glass Hand

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  01:07:11

+
      It's something we're still planning to do, in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Eric D. Fether 74067,465 (X)
+
+
+2nd Babylon 5 CD? (20-Nov-95  16:53:51)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
2nd Babylon 5 CD?

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  16:53:51

+
      The first CD came out and has done quite well; it's in most record stores
+(that can keep it in stock), so it can be ordered through your local Tower or
+Wherehouse, or you can order direct from Sonic Images via their web page, or
+the address given in the B5 library (#5 or #6).
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Sharon Foster 76360,301 (X)
+
+
+B5:The End???!!! (20-Nov-95  16:53:52)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
B5:The End???!!!

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  16:53:52

+
      I probably should, but I'm a lousy organizer/filer; I know they're all in
+one place, but not indexed or anything.  Probably no direct need to get a copy;
+accept the appreciation nonetheless.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/83.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/83.html
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: David Nedrow 70004,1273 (X)
+
+
+New TNT Info? (20-Nov-95  16:53:54)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
New TNT Info?

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  16:53:54

+
      No, nothing new....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John M. Kahane 102664,773 (X)
+
+
+B5 rerun schedule (20-Nov-95  21:26:28)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 rerun schedule

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  21:26:28

+
      Yeah, I think those are the episodes covered in reruns, though at one
+point they're going to drop in "Hunter, Prey" one more time to set up the
+events to come in the next batch of new eps.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael  Zitaglio 102545,641 (X)
+
+
+Italian Garibaldi (20-Nov-95  21:26:29)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Italian Garibaldi

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  21:26:29

+
     Thanks....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/86.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+B5 fan club (20-Nov-95  21:26:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 fan club

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  21:26:30

+
     We've been working with WB on getting the paperwork finished, and it's
+nearly there, so the club should be on line in the next week or two.  I'm
+directly involved in running/owning it, with my associate Doug Netter.  It's
+not set up to be a big money machine, just doing a few things for the fans, and
+that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+<ADITS: Ask Kosh?> (20-Nov-95  21:26:33)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<ADITS: Ask Kosh?>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  21:26:33

+
     Because Delenn doesn't know that information offhand, any more than you or
+I would have casual access to detailed scientific information from our own
+world just off the top of our heads; she'd still have to go to her own
+homeworld for the info, as our characters did.  And it's not that we didn't
+have it, it was just collating it all.  And given how Kosh answers questions,
+would you really want to use his responses in this thing?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/88.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bob Fischer 73727,1774 (X)
+
+
+<ADITS Episode> (20-Nov-95  21:38:28)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<ADITS Episode>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 20-Nov-95  21:38:28

+
      My sense is that Delenn is not a godlike font of information; I don't
+think anyone, alien or human, at the station would just happen to know all the
+information required.  How much would Delenn know about molecular biology, for
+instance?  (And if you asked Kosh a question about the subject, he'd probably
+come back with "The heart does not sing with its parts."  Not exactly useful.)
+
+     Anyone there would have to go back to their own world for experts in the
+various fields...so you're back where you started.  Earth *has* the info, it's
+just getting it, and getting it fast.  If you add the overlay of going through
+another government, you're going to run out of time that much faster.
+
+     Logically, a probe like this would be sent off looking for information on
+the very cusp of technology that could pose a threat.  That's why it *didn't*
+go off when the probe presumed them to be a less developed civilization; it was
+looking for civilizations that *are* sufficiently advanced to pose a possible
+threat; Sheridan says exactly that as he walks across C&C.
+
+     Interesting aside on this, btw, in the "where do you get your ideas?"
+department.  The US House Science Sub-Committee held a series of hearings into
+the question of extraterrestrial contact during the 1970s, to determine what we
+should do in the event of contact.  The most likely scenario, the scientists
+agreed, was a probe coming into our solar system.  So what do we do in response
+to a message asking if anybody's home?
+
+     Believe it or not, it was the consensus of the Subcommittee that we should
+not respond...in case it was a berserker, just as shown in the episode.  That
+is our government's official policy on the subject.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Antonio  Fuentes 103037,2550 (X)
+
+
+Question for JMS (21-Nov-95  00:20:33)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Question for JMS

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  00:20:33

+
       That's a lot of questions, but still....
+
+       I'll go along with little increases in merchandising along the way, but
+nothing major until after we're done.  Then, when it can't contaminate the
+show, maybe more.
+
+       Talia and Ivanova were linked/did have a relationship; and there was a
+camera edit that didn't quite match, two different issues.
+
+       A book after the fact...will have to wait until I'm done for a decision.
+We hope the show will in time be out on tape/disk, and all of the major
+questions raised during the show should/must be answered during the show, you
+can't leave stuff hanging.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Fan club update?			 (October 31, 1995 11:22:17 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Fan club update?			

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: October 31, 1995 11:22:17 PM

+
     Re: "tennis wrists," or carpal tunnel syndrome...yes, I've got it in 
+spades.  I have to use the CTS gloves constantly or the arms ache badly
+within a matter of minutes; and even then they only slow down the speed
+with which they begin to hurt.  As it is, there's a dull ache pretty much
+all day, and most of the night; and after enough writing, my ring fingers
+on either hand start curling in, and my forefingers get a bit numb.  
+Toward the end of last season, the only way I could write was to write for 
+30 minutes, ice down my arms for 10 minutes, write for 30, ice for 10, and 
+so on.
+
+     No matter what precautions you take, when you write sometimes as much 
+as 20 pages per day...it's gonna happen.
+
+     (General note: I've seen virtually every article on CTS, I know about 
+the vitamins, the wrist-rests, the exercises, all that; I do what I can
+with those things that help.  So while advice is appreciated, it's not
+necessary in this case.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/90.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Paul Sulkowski 75604,2156 (X)
+
+
+Whitestar ?s (spoiler) (21-Nov-95  11:52:16)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Whitestar ?s (spoiler)

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  11:52:16

+
      Had a Minbari been running that sensor, he would've nailed it instantly;
+but Ivanova had never actually encountered that ship before, and was running
+off the initial scan reports.  (Also it was just phasing in at that point.)
+
+      The White Star uses local drive engines based on magnetic and
+gravitational principles; in a sense, it doesn't so much push itself toward
+other worlds as *pull* itself or *repel* itself.  One side effect of creating a
+powerful gravitational system is the ability to create artificial gravity.
+
+      That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs95-11/91.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Eric D. Fether 74067,465 (X)
+
+
+Question for JMS (21-Nov-95  11:52:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Question for JMS

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  11:52:17

+
     That's when the story ends.  You tell your tale and get off the stage.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bert Johnson 102476,201 (X)
+
+
+<Alien Probe> (21-Nov-95  11:52:18)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<Alien Probe>

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  11:52:18

+
      Probably not.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Lori  Eppright 75113,474 (X)
+
+
+B5 Entertainment Utility (21-Nov-95  21:32:32)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  21:32:32

+
      Yep, that's the screensaver I was talking about; it's really nifty.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
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+

+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jimmy R. Kapesis 103156,1634 (X)
+
+
+Kosh's lessons (21-Nov-95  21:42:33)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  21:42:33

+
      Sheridan has fallen away from the lessons a bit; Kosh is going to have to
+have a word with him about that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John McAuley 100260,412 (X)
+
+
+How much did Kosh know? (21-Nov-95  21:42:35)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  21:42:35

+
      Good question.
+
+      Pity you'll have to wait for the answer....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Tom Knudsen 72347,1626 (X)
+
+
+<Gethsemane> (21-Nov-95  21:42:38)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  21:42:38

+
      Two things on the upcoming episode ("Gethsemane")....
+
+      1) This is episode #5 in shooting order; I'd originally planned to end
+the first batch of new episodes with #4, "Voices of Authority," which is a
+major -- and I mean major -- wham episode.  But the EFX requirements were
+pretty hideous (though not as bad as "Messages"), so I moved "Gethsemane" into
+that slot, which is a very strong episode, though not an arc'er.
+
+      2) On the story question...yes, this was the story that someone else
+(don't want to use names, no sense in blaming anyone) had accidentally
+suggested while I was working on it early in season two.  So I had to scuttle
+the script for nearly a year.  Finally, very chagrined over what happened, the
+individual gave me a notarized form explaining the situation. At that point, I
+was able to reactivate the story.  So no, it's not any kind of "it's okay to do
+this" notion about story ideas; as it is, the story was tied up for about a
+year, and might never have seen the light of day had not the other person made
+great efforts to set the situation straight.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael  Zitaglio 102545,641 (X)
+
+
+Vichy Narn? (21-Nov-95  21:42:45)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 21-Nov-95  21:42:45

+
      It's any occupied government, really....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
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+

+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Michael Grabois 74737,2600 (X)
+
+
+<ADITS Episode> (22-Nov-95  00:29:34)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  00:29:34

+
      I just went through my stuff trying to find it...there was a formal
+report published by the Government Printing Agency in around 1978 or so.  I
+think it was entitled something like "Prospects for Contact by Extra-
+Terrestrial Intelligence," and went into the whole CETI issue at great length.
+(Back then, it was CETI, for Contact With Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence,
+changed shortly after the House hearing on the subject to SETI, Search For
+Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.)  Any GPA office should have the report on
+file.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: peter  stathis 102477,3046
+
+
+B5: Dear Joe (22-Nov-95  13:28:21)
+
+
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+
B5: Dear Joe

+
Section: Babylon 5
Date: 22-Nov-95  13:28:21

+
      Of course it's your right to say it.  You can say any foolish thing you
+choose.  My point -- underlined by your own comments -- is that you have
+absolutely no understanding of how the ratings work, where they come from, how
+they are compiled, what they mean, or where we stand in those rankings.
+
+     If you wish to continue putting out misinformation, botched figures,
+unnecessary panic, and foolish notions that have nothing whatsoever to do with
+reality, well, that's your right.  And I'm going to call you on it and if your
+comments are sufficiently stupid or misinformed, get a little testy, because
+that's *my* right.  I came back and posted the exact numbers that are made
+available.  It's not playing the ratings game except in the sense that the
+ratings are always a game...a game whose rules you don't know or understand.
+
+     For the week of 10/23 to 10/29, we were ranked #38 overall, out of a grand
+total of 220 syndicated television series, including game shows, talk shows,
+dramas, comedies, and everything else, and the 6th rated dramatic series for
+that week.  And our demographics scores put us in around 2nd/3rd position.  We
+did better than Highlander, Pointman, Kung Fu, the syndicated Tales from the
+Crypt, and other dramatic series.  Outside dramatic series, we did better than
+the Jerry Springer Show, America's Most Wanted, Sightings, Martha Stewart
+Living, Rush Limbaugh, Siskel & Ebert, Richard Bey, and Donahue...all of which
+are considered successful series.
+
+     Those are the cold, hard facts, the hard numbers as delivered the the A.C.
+Neilsen and Arbitron Companies.
+
+     If I were currently worried about the show, if I thought the numbers were
+soft, I'd be the first person sounding the clarion call and asking people to
+write letters urging the show's continuance.  I'm not doing that, because
+Warner Bros. is happy, PTEN is happy, and we're happy.  No one -- *no one* --
+is more concerned about this show's survival than I am, and if I'm relatively
+content with the situation, then we're in pretty good shape.
+
+     You cite that some stations are moving the show into weird hours.  That is
+correct.  First, it's only a very few stations out of nearly 200 stations;
+those are, for the most part, Fox stations that have contractual commitments to
+run Fox shows in prime-time, which is 8-10 p.m. Mon-Sun (they generally run
+news 10-11).  All that's left in those stations -- and many markets only *have*
+one or two independent stations -- is the non-prime time schedule.  That means
+after 11 or before 7.
+
+     You cite the Indianapolis station that dropped the show.  Yes, because WB,
+feeling strongly about the show, pressured it for a better time slot, same as
+in Grand Rapids MI.  They were locked in, couldn't give us anything better, so
+the show left...and has not been REPLACED in the Indianapolis market on WNDY.
+So once again your facts are incorrect by omission and
+inaccuracy...Indianapolis DOES have B5 back now, on better station in many
+ways, and we're in negotiations to bring it back to the two or three other
+markets where the same thing has happened.
+
+     In all the major markets, our ratings are *significantly* up.  In
+Charlotte we're up 186% over this same time last year; Cincinnati up 233%;
+Chicago up 133%; San Francisco up 135%...in Portland we blow the doors off
+altogether.
+
+     In short, Peter, you are absolutely, incontravertibly, dead-ass wrong.
+
+     "I am only doing a favor to those out there who like the show."  No you're
+not.  You're trying to whip up hysteria, get people upset, cause a crisis that
+exists nowhere but in your own mind, because that's what you enjoy doing.
+
+     And you clearly think that while you can come on here and say any thing
+you want, if I come back and say you're wrong, somehow this is wrong, this is
+only wanting to hear from groupies...as opposed to the simple fact that you're
+*wrong*.  You want to have one set of rules for yourself (anything goes), and
+one thing for me (shut up, bend over and take it without any backtalk).  I
+checked my CIS agreement; that proviso isn't there.
+
+     Anybody who comes on here and wants to express an opinion, negative or
+positive, about the show is free to do so.  Anyone who comes on and offers what
+he thinks are facts, and those facts are wrong, is going to be corrected.
+
+     There is this little club of people who think that they should be able to
+say anything they want, as addle-headed or inaccurate as may be, and that if
+they're called on it, that's wrong, and that's interfering in their right of
+expression.  Well, pal, I have a right to expression too, and guess what? The
+facts are on my side of the argument, not yours.
+
+     And they always come back with the same thing, "if it bothers you to hear
+it, well, that's just the way things are," and "I am not some groupie or some
+mindless fanatic," thereby denigrating everybody else, as if they are blind
+followers, and only you see the truth, which is I'm sure exactly what you would
+like to believe, and "you might not like to hear it, but I got a right to say
+it."
+
+     Absolutely.  You've got a right to be as asinine and incorrect and stupid
+and ill-informed and prejudicial and hysterical and wrong-headed as you wish.
+
+     And I've got the right to correct you.
+
+     Deal with it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Joe Salemi [ZD Net] 72631,23 (X)
+
+
+<Gethsemene> (01-Dec-95  13:01:12)
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+
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+
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+
      Thanks; eventually I'll get this writing thing figured out....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
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+

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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Tim Sullivan 76210,1066
+
+
+From jms: info (01-Dec-95  20:38:27)
+
+
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+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  20:38:27

+
     Les said in another message it plays in Atlanta on Saturday at 11, not 8.
+Which is correct?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
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+

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+
+ Chrysalis               (December 19, 1995 11:14:06 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 11:14:06 PM

+
     "I *liked* Laurel!"
+
+     Well, yes, that's rather the point; tragedy is only
+tragedy if it happens to  someone you care about and like.
+
+        jms
+
+

+
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+ Chrysalis               (December 20, 1995 6:28:26 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 20, 1995 6:28:26 PM

+
      <Quoting The Jawa / Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >Laurel would not have shot Garibaldi, though, right?
+
+     Yes, Laurel would've shot Garibaldi.
+
+     The tragedy rule is the #1 rule if you're going to make
+people care about your  characters.
+
+        jms
+
+

+
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+
+ From jms: info          (December 18, 1995 11:25:05 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 18, 1995 11:25:05 PM

+
      {regarding Anita's move from Boston to San Francisco
+       and her adoration of the show}
+
+       Thanks.  (And that's quite a long move, and a different
+climate.)
+
+         jms
+
+

+
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+
+ From jms: info          (December 19, 1995 4:46:16 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 4:46:16 AM

+
      <Quoting Bill Sheldon to JMS>:
+
+      >I was at SDCC for your showing of the TLTS, my 
+      >favorite episode to date.  <snip>  I saw a  really nice
+      >Duck Dodgers animation cell.  Did you get an early 
+      >X-mas present  from yourself?
+
+      No, didn't pick up that one, though I thought about it. 
+Problem is there's too  MUCH cool stuff at SDCC...which is why
+I go every year.
+
+        jms
+
+

+
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+
+ ATTN:JMS <? About B4>   (December 18, 1995 11:25:07 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 18, 1995 11:25:07 PM

+
      <Quoting Jason Wong to JMS>:
+
+      >Just curious: is the season 2 ender going to be re-run?
+      >I noticed that it was  replaced with the season 3
+      >opener at the end of this batch of re-runs, and was 
+      >curious as to why.
+
+     Actually, the season 2 opener was "Points of Departure,"
+which wasn't rerun in  this batch, but rather "Hunter/Prey,"
+chosen because it sets up some stuff in the  next batch of
+episodes.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Looking Back and Forward   (December 18, 1995 11:25:19 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 18, 1995 11:25:19 PM

+
       Jeez...where do I even start with that one...?
+
+       Okay, "how would I evaluate the work that I've done on
+the series to this  point."  (I assume this refers to the
+scriptwriting part of my duties, rather than the  producing
+part.)
+
+       The first season, I think, was pretty fair.  There were
+some rough spots here  and there.  There's a thing known to
+athletes called getting "in the zone," that's  when you're
+absolutely on target, in the groove, whatever jargon you wish
+to throw in.  In any first season of a show, no matter howmuch
+advance planning  has gone into the thing, there's a shakedown
+period as you find out what really  *does* and doesn't work. 
+There was a fair amount of that in year one.
+
+       I think I only really popped into the "zone" a few
+times, with the first real such  experience being "And the Sky
+Full of Stars."  Once I hit it, I was able to find the  target
+again a few more times that season, with "Mind War," "Babylon
+Squared,"  "Chrysalis" and a couple of others.  But that was
+about it.  I was trying to find a  new way of telling a story
+for TV, and while I'd been thinking about it for a long  time,
+there was never a chance to get in any *practice* because
+except for  Power, which had a few arc aspects to it, no other
+show WORKS like B5 in this  respect.  So there was still a
+learning curve.
+
+       Season two, I think, I started to Get It more often,
+and more consistently.  I'd  learned a lot doing year one, and
+was able to apply it. I don't think I could've  written "The
+Coming of Shadows" in year one, I just hadn't yet acquired the
+skills  that ONLY come through practice doing this very
+unusual style of storytelling.  I  think I got into the zone
+a little faster, with the last four in particular being right
+on  the mark, for what I wanted to achieve.
+
+       And as far as season three is concerned...though only
+4 have aired, I'm  finishing #17 right now.  I usually gauge
+where things are by the reaction the  scripts get around the
+set...and this season, more than any other, I've had the 
+actors and crew come by just shaking their heads in astonish-
+ment at what's  coming down in the pages.  The folks at WB
+have made it a point to call and say  that they're loving what
+they're seeing in the scripts, and that's unusual.
+
+       Subjectively -- and this opinion is the least valid,
+since it's colored by my own  perception -- I think that at
+this moment, I'm doing the best work of my career to  date. 
+There's something happening in the scripts that...I can't
+really define.   There's just something *there* that wasn't
+there before, or was there only  sporadically.  The scripts
+are completely taking on a life of their own.  (I related 
+elsewhere that something very major happened in "Interludes
+and Examinations," #15, that was never, ever in the arc, that
+I hadn't planned on doing  when I began the script...but the
+damned thing just *happened*...and all I could  do was watch
+it unfold on the page.)
+
+       Out of 17 to date, the only one that's *slightly*
+clunky is "Exogenesis,"  because it's just a little too
+straightforward for my tastes. I'd thought it was going  to be
+something other than what it was; there's a writing phrase,
+"it's too much  what it is."  But it has some great character
+moments in it, and I think that  redeems it to some extent.
+
+       But that's it, that's the only one.  "Messages From
+Earth" may be, in my view,  the best thing we've ever done. 
+And the rest are just nifty.  I'm pleased and proud  and
+utterly astonished at how well some of this stuff has come out
+this season.
+
+       (I *suspect* that part of the reason for the improve-
+ment this season is that  I'm not outlining each episode as
+much as before.  I used to sit down and break  out each act in
+detail, and then stick pretty strongly to that outline.  Now
+I just sit  down, knowing where I have to go with the story,
+and write it straight through,  letting the characters take
+control from time to time.  It takes a long time to be  able
+to trust yourself, your ability, and your characters before
+you can do that in a  show; finally I'm there.)
+
+       "what directions do you see the series going in now,
+that you might not have  considered back when you first
+started?"
+
+       Well, it's hard to say, in large measure because of
+what I've reported in the  paragraphs preceding.  The series
+has taken on a life of its own now, and while I  know where
+it's going, from time to time this great big unweildy beast
+throws me  off and goes where it wants.  And I'd be a fool if
+I refused to listen to that, and  forced it to comply with
+what I'd come up with in 1987.  Because that's the key 
+thing that I've come to understand. The structure was written
+in 1987/88...and I'm  a much better writer now than I was
+then.  I still intend to reach the destination I'd  imagined,
+but I've found FAR more interesting ways to get there than I
+could've  imagined then. Remember, since 1987 I worked on the
+Twilight Zone, Nightmare Classics, Murder She Wrote...I've
+learned a lot of stuff and acquired  some tools I didn't have
+back then.
+
+       So long answer made short...I think that the main
+difference is that the rest of  the story is going to be more
+ambitious, more dramatic, more fundamentally  *interesting*
+than I had ever hoped for.  And given what was there before,
+that's  saying a lot.
+
+       jms
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Trent K. Johnson Tuesday, December 19, 1995 4:46:16 AM
+
+      <Quoting Trent K. Johnson to JMS>:
+
+      >One of the many, many things I applaud about your
+      >writing is not only the  avoidance of technobabble, but
+      >avoiding techno-traps so prevalent in "the other 
+      >shows".
+      >
+      >A case in point from "ST: Voyager":  A writer (or
+      >writers) comes up with the idea to  land the ship on a
+      >planet. (Earhart episode)  In a subsequent episode we
+      >then  get, "Can't transport.  Can't use a shuttle. 
+      >Hey!  Let's land.  Uh, we can't because,  uh, yeah, the
+      >ground's too soft.  Yeah!  That's it!"
+      >
+      ><sigh>
+
+     "sigh" indeed....
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+ Looking Back and Forward    (December 19, 1995 11:05:01 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 11:05:01 PM

+
      <quoting Philip Hornsey to JMS>:
+
+      >we have come to the  conclusion, recently, that by the
+      >time it is over, B5 *may* be the exception that  proves
+      >that general rule.
+
+       Yes, it does feel more like a novel now than anything
+else.
+
+       (BTW, "the exception proves the rule" is a bastardiza-
+tion of the original Latin  phrase, "exceptio probat regulum"
+(from memory), which means "the exception  puts the rule to
+the test of proof.")
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+ Looking Back and Forward   (December 20, 1995 6:28:00 PM)
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Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 20, 1995 6:28:00 PM

+
      <Quoting Tom Knudsen to JMS>:
+
+      >     < (BTW, "the exception proves the rule" is a
+      >bastardization of the  original Latin phrase, "exceptio
+      >probat regulum" (from memory), which means  "the
+      >exception puts the rule to the test of proof.")>
+      >
+      >     You've been getting a lot of use out of that
+      >tidbit of knowledge lately,  haven't you?<G>
+
+       I paid for this college education, and by god I'm going
+to use it for SOMEthing.
+
+       Odd that this particular phrase has cropped up so much
+in recent weeks.   Another bugaboo of mine is the use of the
+word "less" when what the person  means to say is "fewer." 
+"There are less people here today."  No, "There are  *fewer*
+people here today."  There are very few things about which I
+will actually  correct someone in the course of speaking, not
+wishing to be overly pedantic...but this is one of them.  The
+other is when I see a sign that says FOR  "SALE"...well, is it
+for sale or isn't it?
+
+       Anal retentive?  Moi?
+
+        jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <Gethsemane Thought>    (December 18, 1995 11:25:23 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 18, 1995 11:25:23 PM

+
     Actually, Mike Vejar is directing the two-parter, and I'm
+absolutely thrilled about  it; Mike's been our mainstay for
+some time, and he's just terrific.  (He directed  "Convic-
+tions," and "Inquisitor.")
+
+       Adam was great in that he's a *very* serious director
+who sits down and  really thinks through the subtext of the
+episode, the thematic aspects, the  underlying symbology, and
+then sits with the actor and *really* works with them  so that
+they fully understand the nuances of the scene.  A lot of TV
+direction can  be rushed...you're always under the gun...so
+it's rare to find someone who really  takes his time and
+prepares the cast.
+
+       "Does the pressure come from within, or does it come
+from without and the  reaction of the fans of the series?"
+
+       From within.  There's nothing I've ever seen on any net
+that's half as critical of  this show as what's said by we who
+make it.  If you try to gauge a show, any  show, and determine
+its direction by viewer reactions, you're going to have 
+pudding, because there are too many divergent reactions.  It
+becomes one  massive committee...and committees are the death
+of any creative process.
+
+       I'm making this show, first and foremost, for myself,
+on the theory that what I  find interesting, others may also
+find of interest.  And I'm a perfectionist.  Also a  pain in
+the ass.  Also monomanaical.  Just getting a show this big,
+this involved,  this visually complex *made* is a task of
+Herculean proportions...let alone  getting it made *well*.
+
+       I've always been a very driven personality; I try never
+to settle for second best.   If it can't be done just a little
+better than what we did last week, why the hell are  we doing
+it?  There *has* to be constant evolution, constant growth,
+constant  challenge, or you're dead creatively.  You've got to
+be absolutely willing to knock  all your support pins out from
+under you, in the belief that your skills will enable  you to
+land somewhere interesting on your feet.  The moment you
+*stop* taking  that risk...you're finished.  At least, that's
+what I feel about it.
+
+       This show is probably my one real chance to leave a
+mark that I passed this  way, so it has to be as good as I can
+humanly make it.  And nothign will ever get  in the way of
+that.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+ <Gethsemane Thought>    (December 19, 1995 11:05:00 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 19, 1995 11:05:00 PM

+
      <Quoting Philip Hornsey to JMS>:
+
+      >>>> I'm making this show, first and foremost, for
+      >myself, on the theory that what I  find interesting,
+      >others may also find of interest.
+      >
+      >ROFLMAO!
+      >
+      >Joe...
+      >
+      >I *hate* to tell you this...but worded *slightly
+      >differently...that's a Rush Limbaugh  quote...
+      >
+      >I will now flee the country and leave no forwarding
+      >address.
+
+     Be advised that the only thing standing between you and
+the abyss is my  assumption that you're making this up....
+
+       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Les P. George 76162,1250
+
+
+From jms: info (01-Dec-95  20:38:28)
+
+
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+
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Date: 01-Dec-95  20:38:28

+
     Tim in another message said Saturday at 8 for Atlanta; which is the
+current time?
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Franklin's Stims        (December 18, 1995 11:36:19 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 18, 1995 11:36:19 PM

+
     Stims are a prescription drug, which makes it perfect
+fodder for abuse by  doctors (which includes Drs Rosen and
+Franklin).  And yes, Franklin has been  getting increasingly
+cranky of late for reasons related to stims.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Mo Mosely               (December 19, 1995 4:46:15 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 4:46:15 AM

+
      <Quoting David Chandler-Gick to JMS>:
+
+      >What was your initial reaction to finding out about Mr.
+      >Doyle's "embellished"  resume, and how did you "deal"
+      >with it?
+
+      Well, I just kinda figured it fit in perfectly with the
+character; that's something  Garibaldi would've done....
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Mo Mosely               (December 19, 1995 11:05:09 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 11:05:09 PM

+
      <Quoting John McAuley to JMS>:
+
+      >Did you find out before you hired him?
+
+     I found out the day he came in; I looked down and saw on
+his resume "Dance  Theater of Harlem," and said "What the heck
+is this?  Hey you, DANCE."  Since  then, he's forgotten this,
+and continues to insist that nobody ever caught onto his 
+little ploy.
+
+      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Thank you, sir.         (December 19, 1995 11:05:11 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 11:05:11 PM

+
      <Quoting David Belt to JMS>:
+
+      >I want to say thank you.  I showed my 12-13 year old
+      >deacons "Passing Through  Gethsemane" on Wednesday
+      >night.  Other than my son (who is an avid fan),  none
+      >of them watch the series.  In fact, other than my son,
+      >all of them say that  they don't like the series at all
+      >(in the less than imaginative and colorful ways that 
+      >boys that age have of disparaging that which they have
+      >never tried.)
+      
+      <snip>
+      
+      >The other adult present (who had never seen  the show)
+      >taught the lesson to the deacons quorum on Sunday and
+      >made several references to the show.  It was a great
+      >experience.
+
+     Then perhaps the next sermon/lesson should be on the sin
+of prejudging  something before actually being exposed to
+it....
+
+     Most interesting, and very encouraging to hear, thanks
+for passing that along.   As an atheist, I'm always caught
+betwixt and between when I hear about this kind  of reaction;
+as a writer, I'm pleased.  So the two of us are going to go
+ out behind  the house and slug it out.  Film at 11.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+ Questions               (December 19, 1995 11:05:19 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 11:05:19 PM

+
      {regarding suggestions for Jawa's novel}
+
+       Technical: if someone who knows scientific stuff said
+"this character can't do  this because it's technically
+impossible," I'd have to really consider it, if he could  give
+me a good enough argument.  (And even there you have wiggle
+room...what  we *think* is impossible now may not be in 200
+years.  Serious scientists years  ago said that if you went
+more than 60 miles an hour in a train or a car you'd be 
+killed by the pressure.  So as long as you can make a plaus-
+ible argument that  it's *possible,* even if it's highly
+unlikely, you can sometimes get away with  rubber science.) 
+If it's a big glaring issue, or in the present where you don't
+have  alternate options, you may be stuck hewing to it.  If
+the person suggested an  alternative, and that alternative
+worked, and kept the science valid, sure, I'd take  it. That's
+what a consultant is for.  As long as it doesn't compromise
+the integrity  of the story.
+
+       Who reads: Yes, do be careful in your selection.  Some
+people will tell you  how to write it "better," when they
+really mean "write it more like *I* would've  written it."  A
+really bad reaction to what you've written, from someone you
+like or  admire, can be an absolute soul-killer.  And they may
+not be right.  May, in fact, be  quite wrong.  What you also
+have to remember is what every writer learns: if you  put your
+work out there, and you ASK for an opinion, suddenly they feel
+that they  *must have* an opinion, and they *must find*
+flaws...so instantly that tends to  skew things toward more
+negative comments than might be the case if they just  picked
+the book up off a store shelf and read it.  If you can find an
+adult *writer* to  look at it, you may consider that...but to
+go to non-writers for technical advice or  reactions or
+suggestions on writing is often non-constructive.  Their
+reaction to  the material may be valid, but they may not have
+the language or know the writing  craft well enough to steer
+you in the right direction, and may only succeed in  muddying
+up the waters.  If I were working to be a draftsman, and 
+finished my  first big design, I'd probably show it to another
+draftsman before I showed it to my  Aunt Morgana la Fey.
+
+       Whoever you turn to for advice, always remember that
+that advice must  always be secondary to what the small, still
+voice of the writer inside you insists  is correct.  You have
+to find your own voice, and if that means not taking the other
+person's suggestions, then that's what you have to do. Either
+you'll be right, or  you'll be wrong, and you'll hear the same
+comment from dozens of others, or  those in the field, and
+then you may have to reconsider your position.  But initially, 
+follow your voice.
+
+       Magazine sales: no, your story can definitely be
+published elsewhere  UNLESS the magazine specifically indi-
+cates that it buys "all rights." Otherwise, it  will usually
+buy other rights.  First North American rights are the most
+common,  leaving you free to sell it to other magazines
+overseas, and to other magazines in  the US after a reasonable
+period has passed, or if it's to a non-competing  magazine. 
+It's pretty much unheard of these days for magazines to buy
+all rights.   (Suggestion: go to your local library and pick
+up a copy of WRITER'S MARKET,  published yearly by Writer's
+Digest Books.  They generally explain the various  rights you
+sell in such situations.)
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ DS9                     (December 19, 1995 11:14:07 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 11:14:07 PM

+
     Actually, the limited edition of Harlan's "City on the
+Edge of Forever" script -- in  its various versions, outlines,
+with postscripts by Nimoy, Koenig, Kelley, Takai and others -
+is already out, and has totally sold out.  There will probably
+be a  trade paperback version sometime next year.
+
+       jms
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Matthias Neumann Tuesday, December 19, 1995 11:14:08 PM
+
+      We hope to annouce the B5 fan club within the next week.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+ Official Fanclub        (December 20, 1995 6:28:21 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 20, 1995 6:28:21 PM

+
     Yes, one thing we've been discussing with the friendly
+folks at WB is licensing  the videos via the fan club as
+limited editions.  I don't know how limited "limited"  is yet,
+it kinda depends on our resources.  It may just be a few
+thousand each as  we gear up.  (And while we've been told we
+*can* make the deal, we haven't yet  geared up the paperwork,
+as we've been waiting for the fan club paperwork to  come in
+first.)  I'll certainly recommend 2 eps per tape when we do
+it; any more  than that, and you go to 160 minute tape, which
+is thinner, and breaks and  stretches more easily than 120
+tapes.
+
+     (We won't be able to do widescreen until WB authorizes
+the re-telecineing of  the original negative film stock back
+to its initial aspect ratio, and releases the  funds to do
+that, which are considerable.)
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Looking Back and Forward   (December 21, 1995 4:07:17 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 21, 1995 4:07:17 AM

+
     Regarding "Legacies," there's one brief blip in there
+that we're going to see  again; I'm not sure I'd call it a
+clue, but certainly a cue...a hint of something to  come.  You
+won't have to wonder what it is; it'll be shown in a flashback
+in that  particular yet-to-air episode.
+
+     What does the learning curve tell me these days?  That
+I've got a LOT of  learning ahead of me yet.
+
+     Re: season 3 scripts...I'm quite happy with them, and the
+finished episodes.   I'd put on the top of the list for this
+season (not necessarily in order) Messsages  From Earth, Point
+Of No Return, Severed Dreams, Voices of Authority, Passing 
+Through Gethsemane, A Late Delivery From Avalon, Dust To Dust,
+and Convictions; they're real favorites of mine.  I suspect
+that Ship of Tears and  Interludes & Examinations will also
+come out *very* well.
+
+        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ JMS resigns rastb5      (December 18, 1995 11:25:09 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 18, 1995 11:25:09 PM

+
      <Quoting Anne L. Warner to JMS>:
+
+      >Oh, dear!  Coming from you, such reassurance (that I'll
+      >get my wish to learn  about Valen and the Grey Council
+      >"and then some.") is very disturbing.  I'll wait 
+      >eagerly.  Do I hold my breath? or is this months or
+      >seasons in the future?
+
+
+     Figure by the end of this season you'll know a lot more
+about all this.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Notes for upcoming eps>   (December 21, 1995 3:32:30 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 21, 1995 3:32:30 AM

+
     Actually, only 1 in the mini-arc of 3 will remain after
+the next batch; the final two,  as of now, in the January/Feb-
+ruary period will be "Messages From Earth," the 1st  of the
+three, then "Point of No Return."  Only "Severed Dreams" will
+remain for the  following cluster.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: paul wood 102710,3071
+
+
+From jms: info (01-Dec-95  20:38:30)
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+
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+
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Date: 01-Dec-95  20:38:30

+
      Okay, follow-up...was there a period in the new episodes period (October
+9 - Present) when WTTY *wasn't* showing the episodes, and it wasn't being shown
+at all in Indianapolis?  I'd thought there was a gap there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ Chrysalis               (December 21, 1995 11:23:08 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 21, 1995 11:23:08 PM

+
      <Quoting Joe Smith to JMS>:
+
+      >Thanks for creating literate science fiction. 
+
+     Thanks.  The literary aspect is what appeals to me a lot,
+and creating parallels  to a lot of real-life stuff.  Basical-
+ly...it's fun.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Mo Mosely               (December 21, 1995 11:22:24 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 21, 1995 11:22:24 PM

+
      <Quoting Trent K. Johnson to JMS>:
+
+      >I think I recall reading that Mr. Doyle worked at one
+      >of the brokerage houses that  was involved in the junk
+      >bonds  <snip> Was he around during this? If so, I'd
+      >wager  he has a story or two...
+
+     Yes, Jerry was working there at the time, and I believe
+ended up testifying  about what happened.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The Encounter (UK Con)  (December 22, 1995 2:57:10 AM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 22, 1995 2:57:10 AM

+
     Actually, looking at my waistline after 6 months of
+nonstop writing, I think "spread" is *exactly* the right word.
+
+       jm(who was referred to as "a bit paunchy" by a guy in
+the UK group and was depressed about it for *days* afterward)s
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Gethsemane Thought>    (December 22, 1995 2:57:11 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 22, 1995 2:57:11 AM

+
     Yeah, perfectionism can sometimes get in the way of the
+work...which is the  point where you have to learn to finally
+just back off, let it go, and stop tinkering  with it.  "Art
+is never completed, only abandoned."
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Looking Back and Forward    (December 21, 1995 11:23:04 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 21, 1995 11:23:04 PM

+
      {Regarding "For 'SALE'"}
+
+     Generally, one puts quote marks around something to imply
+other than what  the word means.  "Yeah, an `accident,'
+right."  (Usually accompanied by raising  both hands and
+making quote marks with fingers.)  Hence, to say FOR "SALE" is
+incorrect useage.
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The Encounter (UK Con)  (December 22, 1995 9:10:19 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 22, 1995 9:10:19 PM

+
      {Regarding a request for a 7' bed for JMS}
+
+      A 7-foot bed, eh?  Good, that's just long enough for me
+and a cat foot-warmer.   Does the bed come complete with cat,
+or is cat considered extra in the UK?   (Eight inches should
+be enough room for a cat, provided it is a medium sized  cat;
+if it is a much larger cat than 8 inches across, we may have
+to purchase a  cat-mallet.)
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The Encounter (UK Con)  (December 23, 1995 6:09:20 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 23, 1995 6:09:20 PM

+
      An 18 pound kitty is no longer a kitty; it is a geologi-
+cal landmark.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ The Encounter (UK Con)  (December 22, 1995 9:10:21 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 22, 1995 9:10:21 PM

+
      {regarding final title for this season}
+
+     Point of No Return
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ The Encounter (UK Con)  (December 22, 1995 9:11:00 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 22, 1995 9:11:00 PM

+
     Actually, over long breaks like Christmas I generally
+tend to *drop* a few  pounds.  At the stage I eat a big lunch
+out back with everyone else, then make  myself a decent dinner
+when I get home, and there's always the odd doughnut  lying
+around at the stage catering table (Death With A Hole In The
+Middle).   Whereas at home, I don't generally eat a big
+breakfast, or any kind of real lunch;  just nibble a bit
+throughout the day, and then make my dinner.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Helpful Hints           (December 22, 1995 9:11:02 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 22, 1995 9:11:02 PM

+
      <Quoting Ruth Spradlin to JMS>:
+
+      >Jean Paul Vaudreuil of Thomasville, GA wrote to
+      >Entertainment Weekly:
+      >
+      >"Bruce Boxleitner's worried about Babylon 5's low
+      >ratings?  A few helpful hints:  1.   Instead of modest
+      >uniforms, squeeze Commander Ivanova into a revealing 
+      >bodysuit.  2.  Replace decipherable dialogue with
+      >incomprehensible technobabble.  3.  Rid characters of
+      >human flaws so they'll be perfect role  models.  
+      >4.  Rather than fascinate us with character evolution,
+      >keep major  players static.  5.  Merchandise like
+      >crazy:  Bab5 toothbrushes, boxer shorts, and  an
+      >endless supply of toys.  6.  Have the aliens look like
+      >humans with forehead  problems.  7.  A surefire way to
+      >increase ratings?  Put Star Trek somewhere in  the
+      >title."
+
+      >Maybe you should hire this guy as a consultant.  ;-)
+
+     Boy, he really gets it, doesn't he?  Exactly correct.
+
+     It amazes me sometimes to think that, if the words STAR
+TREK were put in  front of this show, and it was *exactly* the
+same show it is now, we'd get double  the ratings, added
+national exposure, all the rest.  Ah, the world of 
+showbidness....
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644 (X)
+
+
+New Twilight Zone (01-Dec-95  21:14:24)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  21:14:24

+
      Yes, I was involved with Twilight Zone v2.5, the 30 additional episodes
+produced for syndication, as story editor and primary writer, doing 11 of the
+total 30 episodes, plus 1 for the prior network run on CBS.  It was, all things
+considered, a great experience.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The Battle of the Line..   (December 21, 1995 11:23:04 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 21, 1995 11:23:04 PM

+
      <Quoting Alexander Shaw to JMS>:
+
+      >A major part of series 1 was based around the battle of
+      >the line, and  why the Minbari suddenly surrendered..
+      >Now that we are about to start season  three there are
+      >still some things that have not been clarified regard-
+      >ing this.. We  know (or at least think) the Religous
+      >Caste of the Minbari stopped the slaughter  of Mankind
+      >due to some Prophecy.. It would appear that this
+      >prophecy indicated  that mankind would have some major
+      >role in an upcoming struggle/war (The  Shadows I
+      >presume). 
+      >
+      >Are we ever going to have this confirmed ? Are we going
+      >to find out the exact  details of this prophecy ?
+      >Basically is the exact story of the Battle of Line
+      >going to  be revealed and cleared up as I still feel
+      >there are some qustions or nagging  doubts regarding
+      >it.
+
+     Yep.  I expect you'll have this all clarified for you by
+end of this season.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Chrysalis               (December 22, 1995 9:10:23 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 22, 1995 9:10:23 PM

+
      {Regarding Corwin getting more lines and coming out of
+       the background}
+
+     Gradually, yeah; I like to take an actor who's shown a
+potential for doing more,  and gradually *give* that actor
+more, testing the limits.  So we do a bit more with  him as we
+go along.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ From jms: info          (December 21, 1995 11:23:01 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 21, 1995 11:23:01 PM

+
      <Quoting Anita Karve to JMS>:
+
+      >I'm glad Lyta made another appearance on the show. If
+      >you've seen some of the  recent threads, you'll know
+      >we're *dying* to find out what's going on with her and 
+      >the Vorlons.
+
+     As it happens, as soon as I finish the two-parter, this
+week, the next script will  get a lot more into Lyta and the
+Vorlons and all that jazz.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The Encounter (UK Con)     (December 24, 1995 6:08:07 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 24, 1995 6:08:07 PM

+
     Well, suffice to say I'd love to see "A Close Shave." 
+But at the same time, I  have to be mindful of copyrights and
+the like.  So, basically, I suppose I'm  screwed....
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ G'kar/Cassandra         (December 24, 1995 6:08:06 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 24, 1995 6:08:06 PM

+
      <Quoting Chris Gardiner to JMS>:
+
+      >You're twisted.  <snip>    And I love you forever.
+
+     Thank you.  That's m'job.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5Convention            (December 24, 1995 6:14:15 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 24, 1995 6:14:15 PM

+
     Now that the fan club has been officially announced,
+though the organizational  aspects are just now starting, we
+may try and gear up to hold an official B5  convention in
+about a year.  What we've talked about is the idea of having
+it here  in LA, so we could have best chance of getting as
+many cast members as  possible.  We'd also try and run it so
+that it was as close as possible to a fan-run  convention in
+the feeling it created; and as well as cast members and the
+like,  there would be seminars and presentations by our people
+in prosthetics,  wardrobe, makeup, art direction, props and
+other areas, so it'd be a real learning  opportunity.
+
+     But, again, that's at least a year down the road.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  The Jawa / Jawa #2  Sunday, December 24, 1995 10:42:30
+
+      <Quoting The Jawa / Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >B5 is heading in Trek's direction: very low-key while
+      >it's on the air, and  then comes it's fame.
+
+     That's the key, I think; I have a suspicion that, like
+the original ST, our main  attention will likely come after
+we've finished our complete run. The show was  designed to be
+seen in a stripped (once daily) fashion, that's when you
+really can  see the arc moving quickly.  And on TNT, once it
+hits that distributer, it'll finally  have what it has never
+had before in this country: a national broadcaster and a 
+regular timeslot.  Once that happens, I expect that what
+happened in the UK will  happen here finally...it'll be
+Noticed.
+
+      jms
+
+
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Wednesday, December 27, 1995 8:31:31
+
+     Starting 1998, the show will appear in daily form on TNT;
+it's already been  sold to there.
+
+        jms
+
+
+
+
+ B5Convention            (December 29, 1995 9:16:09 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 29, 1995 9:16:09 PM

+
       "Nice to see you making money."
+
+       Well, WB, anyway.  I get a net profit on the series,
+which means after all the  costs have been taken out...which
+in turn means that the show will never show a  profit (on
+paper), so I ain't getting a dime of the TNT sale.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5Convention            (December 31, 1995 10:44:26 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 31, 1995 10:44:26 PM

+
     Re: studios and their income tax situations...puh-LEASE,
+show some  decorum; I deal in science fiction, not fantasy....
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5Convention            (December 24, 1995 10:42:00 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 24, 1995 10:42:00 PM

+
      {regarding how to join the fan club}
+
+     As soon as those details have been worked out, we'll post
+them.  As it is we  just *barely* got the paperwork in hand
+authorizing us to proceed; now comes  doing it.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5Convention            (December 25, 1995 2:27:24 AM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 25, 1995 2:27:24 AM

+
      <Quoting Burhaan Ahmad to JMS>:
+
+      >You said you would like to make the  tapes yourself,
+      >since WB obviously won't.  Does Babylonian have the
+      >resources  to pull it off to the quality you desire? 
+      >I know little about the industry, but it seems  to me
+      >that it would be an expensive operation.  Or would you
+      >look to lisence the  rights to someone other than WB
+      >(assuming they'd allow it)?
+
+     That's something we're trying to decide now.  If we did
+them ourselves, it'd  almost certainly be on a limited-edition
+basis, to control quality.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Toni Muller 75223,1575
+
+
+<<Gethsemane>> (02-Dec-95  01:00:07)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: 
Date: 02-Dec-95  01:00:07

+
      Thanks.  It's definitely the strongest of the first four, I think. And
+Pat is nothing less than terrific.  If there was any sense of hesitation in her
+appearance in "Divided Loyalties," it can be attributed to the fact that she
+had just given birth to her son something like 4-6 weeks prior, if that much,
+and this was pretty much her first day back in the saddle.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5Convention            (December 24, 1995 10:42:02 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 24, 1995 10:42:02 PM

+
      {regarding joining fan club, etc}
+
+     The details should be posted sometime after the first
+part of the year. Re:  Talia...it's okay to be pissed about
+that; it was intended to have that reaction.   Things *should*
+get us annoyed when Psi Corps pulls a stunt like that.  And we
+haven't heard the last of what happened to Talia, btw.  That's
+the B5 universe for  you....
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5Convention            (December 26, 1995 5:54:05 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 26, 1995 5:54:05 AM

+
      {still on fan club and convention}
+
+     We'll have more info on all this over the next few
+weeks....
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ New to B5               (December 24, 1995 6:14:16 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 24, 1995 6:14:16 PM

+
     Actually, what you'll generally find is that if you watch
+a few more eps, the  background is usually included.  Besides,
+in the next batch of new episodes, we  kind of redefine the
+very nature of the series, so in a way this is the best time
+to  come aboard.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 New to B5              

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 29, 1995 9:16:11 PM

+
      <Quoting Stevie Adam to JMS>:
+
+      >Please, is there any way to threaten Channel 4 In the
+      >UK with a Centauri takeover  to get them to show series
+      >3 here before mid 96?
+
+     I think it'll be spring, not mid-1996; also, remember
+that they don't break up the  show with reruns, they air
+straight through, and the episodes have to be  *finished* in
+time for them to air them straight through (and I think WB is
+trying to  avoid the problem last time of stuff airing in the
+UK first).  But as yet I haven't  heard a final date on this.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Publicity! Wow!         (December 24, 1995 10:42:29 PM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 24, 1995 10:42:29 PM

+
      <Quoting Anne L. Warner to JMS>:
+
+      >Here in New England, both WSBK  (Boston) and WNDS
+      >(Derry, NH) seem to have decided to try actually
+      >promoting  Babylon 5.
+
+     Thanks; that's good to know, and definitely a welcome
+change.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Zack in CoS>           (December 26, 1995 5:54:03 AM)
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 26, 1995 5:54:03 AM

+
+      <Quoting Jon Wolf to JMS>:
+
+      >I just re-watched Coming of Shadows, and I think we got
+      >our introduction to  Zack in this show. 
+
+     I'm not sure though that that's the first time we saw
+Zack; I keep thinking it was  earlier...I seem to remember him
+breaking up a fight as the first time we saw  him.
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ * *B5 in New Orleans* *    (December 27, 1995 8:31:30 PM)
+
+
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+
 * *B5 in New Orleans* *   

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 27, 1995 8:31:30 PM

+
      <Quoting Philip Hornsey to JMS>:
+
+      >We just had a *huge* shake up in affiliation down here
+      >(three stations swapped  Fox -- ABC -- WB) and I am
+      >afraid to guess at what it did to us. Have you any info
+      >on the state of B5 in the New Orleans market?
+
+      Dunno how this is gonna shake out yet....
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ USS Runnymede -Newsflash    (December 28, 1995 2:55:18 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 28, 1995 2:55:18 AM

+
      <Quoting Debbie Gardiner to JMS>:
+
+      >The Uss Runnymede is pleased to announce that on 6th
+      >January 1996, Babylon  5's  newest cast member Jason
+      >Carter (Ranger Marcus Cole), will be appearing  at our
+      >monthly meeting.
+
+     Then perhaps for the one night Jason's there you could
+rename the place the  EAS Runnymede, which is the standard
+useage on Earth Alliance Starships, as  in the EAS Agamem-
+non....?
+
+        jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <CTI - East End>        (December 29, 1995 9:16:16 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 29, 1995 9:16:16 PM

+
      <Quoting SysOp Dupa T. Parrot to JMS>:
+
+      >On tonight's rerun of "Comes The Inquisitor", I see you
+      >took the hint from the  Brits and fixed the "West End"
+      >dialog. The dubbing job was pretty well done.
+
+     Once the error was brought to my attention, I just
+couldn't let it slide.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ OffLine Readers               (December 29, 1995 9:30:17 PM)
+
+
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+
 OffLine Readers              

+
Section: Promenade Alpha
Date: December 29, 1995 9:30:17 PM

+
     What the heck is HMI anyway?
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bob Danielson 72614,737 (X)
+
+
+the year of the war (02-Dec-95  01:00:10)
+
+
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+
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+
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Date: 02-Dec-95  01:00:10

+
<Shadow war is all done by the end of the year?>
+
+      I think it's a bit broader than that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Talia/Control Nitpick   (December 29, 1995 9:30:18 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 29, 1995 9:30:18 PM

+
     {If Talia was Control, why would she order herself eliminated?}
+
+     My sense was that the Control part, which sometimes moved
+at night,  reported that the mission could be jeapordized. 
+Then B13 gave the order to  eliminate.  Nowhere does it say
+that Control said the second half of the  sentence.
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ JMS: Pls Clarify --     (December 29, 1995 9:30:19 PM)
+
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+
 JMS: Pls Clarify --    

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 29, 1995 9:30:19 PM

+
      <Quoting Robt Martin to JMS>:
+
+
+      >At the time you posted this, I took this as an expres-
+      >sion of your regard (or lack of  same) for the material
+      >that Fangoria covers, not regarding my ability as an
+      >editor.  Unfortunately, your semi-jocular observation
+      >is being parenthetically interpreted  as a blast at my
+      >abilities, for global distribution.
+      >
+      >Regarding my work at Fangoria, despite the fact that
+      >the magazine specializes in  covering some truly
+      >gawdfawful films, I remain proud of the work that I did
+      >there,  which only that magazine's regular readers are
+      >in a position to judge. Given your  apparent distaste
+      >for the magazine itself, I think I can safely assume
+      >that you only  know of my work as editor with regard to
+      >Sci-Fi Entertainment, specifically my  own interview
+      >with you, and possibly also my earlier piece on John
+      >Vulich's work.
+      >
+      >As I said, maybe I am being thin-skinned, but to have
+      >your words taken out of  context and interpreted in
+      >this manner is, if not of any real harm to my career, 
+      >really, really annoying. Can you please clarify the
+      >statement?
+      >
+      >If indeed you did mean to say that I am a lousy editor,
+      >so be it, but that is not what  I thought you were
+      >saying. Yet that is what is being sent about.
+
+     No, the (regarding Mr. Martin's editing of Fangoria) was
+mainly just intended  as a segue into the note about the
+conventions being fun, since I've attended  several of them. 
+I am not sufficiently familiar with your editing to *have* any
+opinion whatsoever.  Since messages here are discreet, I
+always try to keep  some kind of referential within the
+message.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Gerald Himmelein Saturday, December 30, 1995 9:23:24 PM
+
+      <Quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >The "pleasure treshold" line was completely destroyed
+      >in translation, btw. <sigh>
+
+     Alas, there's nothing I can do at this end about the
+translations; it's out of my  hands.
+
+       jms
+
+
+  To:  Mary-Glynn Myers Sunday, December 31, 1995 10:16:30 PM
+
+     Yes, at this point, barring any work-related emergencies,
+I've confirmed for  Necronomicon.  I'm looking forward to it;
+it'll be the first time I've been in Floida.
+
+        jms
+
+
+
+
+ Tonight's repeat episode   (December 31, 1995 10:44:21 PM)
+
+
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+
 Tonight's repeat episode  

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 31, 1995 10:44:21 PM

+
     Actually, from my perspective, it was never intended as
+a shot at Christians at  all; it was a warning shot to any
+breed of fanaticism that does not question itself,  that
+assumes, for whatever reason, that it is right and must impose
+that  rightness on others, no matter the price (usually paid
+by others).  To quote a line  from "Infection," "When you
+become obsessed with the enemy, you *become*  the enemy."  So
+I guess you could describe it as a shot at Christianity only
+if you  choose to define it in those terms; if not, then it's
+not.
+
+     Certainly, though, it does point to being sure that one
+is doing what one is  doing for the right reasons, and the sin
+of pride, which we all know has a  tendency to goeth before a
+fall.
+
+     For me, one of the important things about this show is to
+make people *think*  about what they believe.  If they come
+right back to what they originally believed,  that's fine. 
+But they've *considered why* they believe it.  In all too many
+cases,  our beliefs -- social, political, religious -- are
+just sort of *there*, invisible,  ineffable and unassailable,
+as much a part of the universe as the air around us.   We
+don't necessarily think WHY we believe it...we do.  Which is
+why, all too often,  when someone is challenged on what they
+believe, they don't have the tools to  defend it in any way
+other than force or anger.  But if you *have* considered your 
+beliefs, and you know why you feel a certain way, you can
+articulate it, explain it,  and be more self-confident in it. 
+It allows you to have discussions rathe than  arguments,
+schisms, or border wars.
+
+     Like I said, I don't have any answers...all I got are
+some questions, but they're  pretty good questions.  Our
+greatest peril is always the danger of the  unexamined life.
+
+     Re: C.S. Lewis...yes, I've read his stuff, from the
+Screwtape Letters (which are  great fun) to Perelandra and
+That Hideous Strength and others, including some  of his
+polemics and essays on christianity.  He was a good thinker
+and a facile  writer...which was sometimes good, and sometimes
+not so, because he had a  tendency to set up straw-man
+arguments, which made for more persuasive  dogma but not
+always reasonable discussion.
+
+     And yes, I've read the bible cover to cover, twice.  Some
+good moral tales, an  awful lot of blood and violence, some
+real slow parts (anyone who can make it  all the way through
+Numbers and Deuteronomy has my unbridled respect),  some real
+potboilers, a few plot holes and an inconsistent hero, but
+overall,  commendable reading.  (Though one could argue that
+any number of later  writers did a better job of pure writing
+than is present in the bible -- no  self-respecting writer
+would stop the narrative so often for a few thousand begats 
+and the discussion of cubits...well, except maybe for Herman
+Mellville, who had  far too many asides on whaling technology
+as parentheticals in Moby Dick...and  one should certainly
+think that a deity would be at least a good a writer as 
+Pynchon or Salinger or Joyce...still, there are spurts of
+greatness; the book of Job  is possibly one of the best
+stories ever written, and there's much in Psalms and  Proverbs
+to commend itself to anyone...though best to keep the Song of 
+Solomon out of the hands of kids...some racy stuff there....)
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Taking up your space    (December 31, 1995 10:44:22 PM)
+
+
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+
 Taking up your space   

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 31, 1995 10:44:22 PM

+
      <Quoting Ray Pelzer to JMS>:
+
+      >Joe:  Thanks for letting my take up so much space in
+      >your section with this whole  USENET/CIS-censorship
+      >issue.  I only considered that many people would read 
+      >the nessage if it was in Section 5, but I didn't
+      >consider the impact it was having on  B5-related
+      >messages.  Now that the ball is rolling, I'm going to
+      >move the  messages to Section 19, and thank you again
+      >for your patience with me.
+
+     No problem.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ $ to run B5             (December 31, 1995 10:44:27 PM)
+
+
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+
 $ to run B5            

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 31, 1995 10:44:27 PM

+
     Yes, it's been established that the Minbari and the
+Centauri both funded B5  early on, and docking fees and other
+charges help pay for day to day operations.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Official Fanclub        (December 31, 1995 10:45:01 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 31, 1995 10:45:01 PM

+
      <Quoting Keith R. Helms to JMS>:
+
+      >What can be done to convince WB there is a market for
+      >widescreen B5 on  laserdisc?
+
+      It would likely take nothing less than an absolute
+revelation from the  heavens....
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ East End, West End      (December 28, 1995 2:58:18 AM)
+
+
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+
 East End, West End     

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 28, 1995 2:58:18 AM

+
      <Quoting Daniel Barer to JMS>:
+
+      >I was watching "Comes the Inquisitor" with closed-
+      >captioning on tonight (easier  to ride the exercise
+      >bike while watching that way) and noticed that Sheridan
+      >now  states (correctly) the murders occured in the East
+      >End, while the captions (and  Boxleitner's lips, on re-
+      >viewing) still say West End.  Glad you fixed the slip--
+      >are the captions etched in stone?
+
+     Y'know, I'd totally forgotten about the captions.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+     Nuts.
+
+       jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Michael Zitaglio Tuesday, December 26, 1995 10:35:12 PM
+
+      {regarding Rangers being trained to fight the Shadows}
+
+     This is one of those questions that can only best be
+answered in the course  of the series; you'll learn a lot more
+about this subject this season.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+
+ Shadow Training         (December 27, 1995 4:32:28 AM)
+
+
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+
 Shadow Training        

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 27, 1995 4:32:28 AM

+
     Of course, judging from recent episodes, Sheridan seems
+to have been a bit  remiss in continuing his lessons from
+Kosh...ah, well, there'll probably be a price  to pay for that
+somewhere down the road.  Only question is who'll have to pay
+it.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Will Zathras reappear?     (December 27, 1995 8:31:26 PM)
+
+
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+
 Will Zathras reappear?    

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 27, 1995 8:31:26 PM

+
     Yes, he'll appear; no, not before the two-parter; yes,
+it'll be the same actor.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Will Zathras reappear?  (December 28, 1995 2:58:17 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 28, 1995 2:58:17 AM

+
      <Quoting Lolita  . Maddalena to JMS>:
+
+      >Tell me if I'm wrong, but Zathras has been on the
+      >planet with the old mimbari,  hasn't he?
+
+     Well, that's what Draal said earlier....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Jon Wolf 76103,2541 (X)
+
+
+<PTG: Mind Wipe> (02-Dec-95  01:00:11)
+
+
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+
<PTG: Mind Wipe>

+
Section: 
Date: 02-Dec-95  01:00:11

+
<Where was the mindwipe performed?>
+
+      We established in "The Quality of Mercy" that the equipment to handle
+mindwipes is there on-station, locked away until mandated by a court.  A court
+assigned telepath is usually brought in to do a preliminary scan before it
+happens and to verify the wipe immediately afterward.  In that same episode,
+Talia was used only because a court teep wasn't available.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Will Zathras reappear?  (December 29, 1995 9:16:15 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 29, 1995 9:16:15 PM

+
      <Quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >Comment: Zathras looked somewhat bird-like, much like
+      >an owl, a screech owl  (Kauz, in German). Now, Zathras
+      >behaves like a "komischer Kauz" (oddball). So  his
+      >behavior and appearance match, at least in German. <g>
+      >Coincidence or  cleverness on the creator's part?
+
+     Coincidence; I ain't that smart.
+
+      jms
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Burhaan  Ahmad 75754,3065 (X)
+
+
+<Rage's Thots: PtG> (02-Dec-95  01:07:36)
+
+
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<Rage's Thots: PtG>

+
Section: 
Date: 02-Dec-95  01:07:36

+
     "It's pretty obvious, really."
+
+     Heh, heh....
+
+     "Look, over there, an elephant...."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Burhaan  Ahmad 75754,3065
+
+
+B5 Screen Saver Arrived! (02-Dec-95  02:15:14)
+
+
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+
Section: 
Date: 02-Dec-95  02:15:14

+
     They're BAF files to include the wav files that accompany each and every
+image.  There's also a large number of bmp files for wallpaper, though.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 Screen Saver Arrived!      (December 03, 1995 12:52:07 AM)
+
+
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+
 B5 Screen Saver Arrived!     

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 03, 1995 12:52:07 AM

+
      Dunno about the UK availability; someone here has the 800 phone
+number, which can be used for ordering, though.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: John Yuen 72466,1621
+
+
+B5 in Hong Kong!! (01-Dec-95  13:01:13)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  13:01:13

+
<B5 is on in Hong Kong>
+
+      That's great.  My best wishes to all the new viewers down there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Ptg:Prison Station>          (December 03, 1995 12:52:08 AM)
+
+
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+
 <Ptg:Prison Station>         

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 03, 1995 12:52:08 AM

+
      No, the other brothers aren't mind-wiped.
+
+      You're mis-remembering "The Quality of Mercy."  Telepaths do NOT
+perform mindwipes.  A court appointed teep makes a scan before and after
+for purposes of comparison, but the wipe is done by a device held under
+lock and key until ordered out by a court.  The only reason Talia did it
+in QoM was because they couldn't get a court teep there in the required
+time (which was also stated in the episode).  So here the court appointed
+telepath would have come and gone by now.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Garibaldi's arm               (December 03, 1995 12:52:13 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 03, 1995 12:52:13 AM

+
      Weird thing is that Claudia broke her foot in an episode where I
+mentioned her foot (the same one, btw), and Jerry broke his arm in the
+same episode where I have someone say to him, "What, you've got a broken
+arm or something?"  Very, very weird...I've been asked *not* to make any
+further reference to body parts of our various cast members, and I'm
+*definitely* not having anything bad happen to any guest cast named
+Dick....
+
+      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Gethsemane questions>        (December 03, 1995 1:13:03 AM)
+
+
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+
 <Gethsemane questions>       

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 03, 1995 1:13:03 AM

+
<Why did it take so long for a med team to get to Edward?>
+
+      They were in a pretty distant part of DownBelow, and in B5 you don't
+have trains or cars; there's just the transport tubes, and the central
+core shuttle.  Even if they gave a damn about what happens to lurkers in
+DownBelow (and they generally don't), it would still take at least 5-10
+minutes to get a trauma team down there, and he was dead within about 3. 
+(I was once mugged half a mile from a police station and a mile from a
+hospital; took 'em 30 minutes to get there.)
+
+     Sheridan and Theo didn't *discover* that Edward was using the
+computer; Theo was concerned that he was looking into it in general.  And
+if they had blocked the computer in his quarters, he would have been able
+to access one somewhere else.  They didn't know he'd actually done it
+until after the fact.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/23.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/23.html
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+To:  Burhaan  Ahmad           Tuesday, December 05, 1995 12:48:10 AM 
+
+      {regarding B5 screen saver compatibility with win95}
+
+      Apparently the program *is* win95 compatible, at least that's what
+it says, I  haven't yet upgraded, waiting a) for the bugs to get worked
+out, and b) until I have  the time required for the learning curve of
+installation.
+
+      jms
+
+
+To:  John Sheridan                  Tuesday, December 05, 1995 7:48:09 PM
+
+      <quoting John Sheridan to JMS>:
+
+      >>The learning curve for installing WIN95 is pretty short Joe.
+      >>It's getting all of your software to run *after* you install WIN95
+      >>is where the learning curve can become quite long......<g>.
+
+      Yeah, that's the part that worries me.
+
+      jms
+
+
+To:  John McAuley             Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:12:12 PM
+
+      {regarding the losing of JMS's hair, due to pulling it out
+       over win95}
+
+      Funny.  Very funny.  Amerikanski humor.
+
+      We bomb now.
+
+      jms
+
+
+To:  Scott Withrow            Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:00:23 AM
+
+      {regarding a Mac version of the B5 screen saver}
+
+      As I understand it, the company wants to come out with a Mac version
+in a  re-release of the program sometime in the spring.  It's just hitting
+the market and  already it's doing quite well.
+
+       jms
+
+
+
+
+ Submitted for....             (December 03, 1995 12:52:10 AM)
+
+
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+
 Submitted for....            

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 03, 1995 12:52:10 AM

+
      Don't know if the new TZs are playing anywhere, actually....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Garibaldi's arm               (December 05, 1995 1:11:19 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 05, 1995 1:11:19 AM

+
      {regarding rewriting due to broken arm}
+
+     Actually just took a line or two to cover it, given what happened in
+the previous episode.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ From jms: info                (December 04, 1995 1:54:03 PM)
+
+
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+
 From jms: info               

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 04, 1995 1:54:03 PM

+
      {regarding Tuesday 10pm time slot}
+
+      This doesn't help me unless I know where it's airing; can you tell
+me *where*  it's airing in this time slot?  Thanks.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Vorlons and Shadows           (December 03, 1995 8:43:27 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 03, 1995 8:43:27 PM

+
      {regarding Vorlons and Shadows being genetically related}
+
+      Nope.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 Questions                  (December 04, 1995 1:54:04 PM)
+
+
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+
 B5 Questions                 

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 04, 1995 1:54:04 PM

+
      No, no limit on jumps, but you tend to ride the beacon from one jump
+gate to  the next to avoid getting lost.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <PTG-Bravo!>                  (December 05, 1995 1:11:05 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 05, 1995 1:11:05 AM

+
      No, showing a tape to other folks is perfectly legal as long as no
+admission  is charged.
+
+      So you're welcome to do so, and welcome in general.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ AETR: B5 Promos               (December 05, 1995 1:11:07 AM)
+
+
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+
 AETR: B5 Promos              

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 05, 1995 1:11:07 AM

+
      I don't know, but I would imagine WB has something....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/3.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/3.html
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Colin Glassey 72370,743
+
+
+<PTG: Mind Wipe> (01-Dec-95  13:01:15)
+
+
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+
<PTG: Mind Wipe>

+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  13:01:15

+
<Mind wipes were presented too positively.>
+
+      I'm not sure I presented it positively; I just presented it, didn't make
+a moral judgement about it.  Some of those in the show did, but then we had
+Edward saying it *isn't* moral, that it's a monstrous thing to do.  Like any
+form of punishment it can seem fair to those not facing it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Hubble Photos                 (December 05, 1995 1:11:13 AM)
+
+
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+
 Hubble Photos                

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 05, 1995 1:11:13 AM

+
     Actually I already downloaded the M16 shots from the Hubble web page, 
+glorious stuff.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Hubble Photos                 (December 05, 1995 7:48:14 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 05, 1995 7:48:14 PM

+
      {regarding crescent shaped ships flying near B5}
+
+      I think those are the ones attacking a Narn cruiser, so they're
+Centauri  mid-size attack craft.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/32.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/32.html
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+
+
+ Hubble Photos                 (December 06, 1995 2:00:25 AM)
+
+
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+
 Hubble Photos                

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 06, 1995 2:00:25 AM

+
      {regarding number of Narn casualties}
+
+      Actually, yes, there are millions of dead; I think that either Vir
+or Na'Far gets it right in "Strife," and the other misstates the figure in
+the same episode.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/33.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/33.html
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+  To:  Philip Hornsey, 74053,2101   Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:12:07
+PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#411909
+
+      {regarding the question of anyone saying "millions dead"}
+
+     Just went back and checked the script; Ta'Lon refers to millions in
+his  meeting with Sheridan.  (Knew I wasn't nuts....)
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+
+ B5 Screensaver                (December 05, 1995 1:11:14 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 05, 1995 1:11:14 AM

+
     Actually it's hitting stores now.  (And there may be a Mac version
+after the first  of the year.)
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/34.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/34.html
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+To:  Shelley Marshall         Tuesday, December 05, 1995 1:11:17 AM 
+
+      No, there's no conflict at all between our schedule and theirs; he's
+producing  it from here, not acting in it.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+
+ Minbari Souls                 (December 05, 1995 1:52:00 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 05, 1995 1:52:00 AM

+
      See my other note here about souls, this may clarify a bit.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 interruptions              (December 05, 1995 7:48:06 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 05, 1995 7:48:06 PM

+
      That stuff is entirely in the hands of the local stations.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 Con#1 & Latvia             (December 05, 1995 7:48:11 PM)
+
+
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+
 B5 Con#1 & Latvia            

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 05, 1995 7:48:11 PM

+
      With Doug...always worry.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/37.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/37.html
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+
+
+ <Ptg:Prison Station>          (December 04, 1995 2:10:22 AM)
+
+
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+
 <Ptg:Prison Station>         

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 04, 1995 2:10:22 AM

+
      There are templates used, with some variations.  In a government
+monitored  situation (which this wasn't, they thought he was dead),
+mindwipes are kept in  servile positions, not allowed to achieve, as that
+would be a kind of reward.   Those guys you see along the roadsides
+picking up trash and putting them in  bright orange bags?  Mindwipes.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Ptg:Prison Station>          (December 05, 1995 1:11:05 AM)
+
+
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+
 <Ptg:Prison Station>         

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 05, 1995 1:11:05 AM

+
      Man has been on Mars for just under 100 years.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/39.html b/find/CompuServe/cs95-12/39.html
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+
+
+ <Gethsemane questions>        (December 05, 1995 1:11:11 AM)
+
+
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+
 <Gethsemane questions>       

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 05, 1995 1:11:11 AM

+
      One caveat here overall...it's been complimented and commented upon
+that I  would expose a belief system in my show which I do not personally
+agree with  (presenting the face of religion even though I'm an atheist).
+That I could be this  tolerant is apparently praiseworthy.
+
+      I would just suggest that at some point, when and if I should offer
+a point of  view from another perspective, which one watching might not
+personally agree  with, the same tolerance is given, since the virtue of
+tolerating divergent attitudes  has been deemed praiseworthy...and is
+something ever to strive for....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Shelley Marshall 70751,2114 (X)
+
+
+Rod Serling Story III (01-Dec-95  13:01:18)
+
+
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+
Rod Serling Story III

+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  13:01:18

+
<What's the third Serling story?>
+
+      Actually, I just posted it the other day...rather than posting it again,
+if someone here could point out the message ID number, that would be better.
+Nothing's more essentially boring than telling the same story twice at a
+party....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Gethsemane questions>        (December 05, 1995 1:52:02 AM)
+
+
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+
 <Gethsemane questions>       

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 05, 1995 1:52:02 AM

+
"The themes of faith and forgiveness were worthy of a theologian. Are you
+sure  there isn't something you'd like to tell us?"
+
+     Never shoot pool at a place called Pop's.  Never eat food at a place
+called  Mom's.  The difference between horses and humans is that they're
+too smart to be on what *we'll* do.
+
+     And I have lost people.  Too many people.  Lost them to chance,
+violence,  brutality beyond belief; I've seen all the senseless, ignoble
+acts of "god's noblest  creature."  And I am incapable of forgiving.  My
+feelings are with G'Kar, hand  sliced open, saying of the drops of blood
+flowing from that open wound, "How do  you apologize to them?"  "I can't." 
+"Then I cannot forgive."
+
+     As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious,
+because it's only  here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and
+then it's gone forever.  No  afterlives, no second chances, no backsies. 
+So there can be nothing crueler  than the abuse, destruction or wanton
+taking of a life. It is a crime no less than  burning the Mona Lisa, for
+there is always just one of each.
+
+     So I cannot forgive.  Which makes the notion of writing a character
+who CAN  forgive momentarily attractive...because it allows me to explore
+in great detail  something of which I am utterly incapable.  I cannot fly,
+so I would write of birds  and starships and kites; I cannot play an
+instrument, so I would write of  composers and dancers; and I cannot
+forgive, so I would write of priests and  monks and minbari....
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Gethsemane questions>        (December 06, 1995 2:12:04 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 06, 1995 2:12:04 PM

+
      {regarding when JMS might publish a book on poetry}
+
+      Never; my poetry really sucks....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Gethsemane>                  (December 03, 1995 4:40:01 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 03, 1995 4:40:01 PM

+
      And, as I noted in a message just now, maybe he thinks that they
+might be  telling the truth, that maybe something *is* going on.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <Gethsemane>                  (December 03, 1995 5:48:19 PM)
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+
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Date: December 03, 1995 5:48:19 PM

+
      {regarding a connection between the Vorlons and our religions}
+
+       What, you really expect an answer....?
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Joe Salemi [ZD Net], 72631,23      Sunday, December 03, 1995
+4:39:27 PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#409726
+
+      And bear in mind that it's never just a common sense "oh, these guys
+are  lying to me from Nightwatch, they're the bad guys."  It's always
+couched in such a  way that it sounds like it *might* be a real concern. 
+That was how McCarthy and  others terrorized this country during the
+1950s.  There were plenty of people who  really *believed* that the Reds
+had infiltrated every aspect of society, as well as  those who might've
+had doubts, but figured that maybe where there's smoke  there IS fire.
+
+       jms
+
+
+  To:  Jon Wolf, 76103,2541         Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:11:12
+AM From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#411666
+
+      Re: mindwipes no longer considered people...this really is not that
+much  different from prison inmates, who are given numbers, have no real
+civil rights,  and are treated like cattle.  (And many of them deserve it;
+a few deserve worse; a  few deserve better.)
+
+      jms
+
+
+  To:  Philip Hornsey, 74053,2101   Wednesday, December 06, 1995 2:12:06
+PM From:  J. Michael Straczynski, 71016,1644#411908
+
+     On one level, I'm in favor of the death penalty.  I think that if
+someone takes  your life deliberately, they sacrifice their own in return.
+Some might say it's not a  deterrent in general...but it sure as heck
+deters that specific person.
+
+     *On the other hand*...I take that position mainly because nowadays,
+when  someone is sentenced to life, "life" means about 15 years at best. 
+If life  imprisonment MEANT life inprisonment, then I'd happily go for
+that option above  the death penalty (and that certainly does leave room
+for verdict corrections).
+
+     jms
+
+
+
+
+ <PTG: Mind Wipe>              (December 06, 1995 2:12:09 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 06, 1995 2:12:09 PM

+
      I just put the mindwipe issue out there, I didn't make a moral
+judgment about  it...in 2260, that's what's done.  I just report the
+news....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ <PTG: Mind Wipe>              (December 03, 1995 8:51:09 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 03, 1995 8:51:09 PM

+
      {regarding Christ's repenting for the sins of others}
+
+     Carol: *exactly* the right point.  In his earlier talk about
+Gethsemane, Edward  mentioned that old JC had to go through all that to
+atone for the sins of others;  when he sees Theo later, through the grate,
+he uses the same notion of  atonement for the acts of another, in this
+case, *his* other.  The logical parallel  parses pretty closely.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 03, 1995 8:51:08 PM

+
      Yes, B5 has a court system, authorized by the Earth Alliance
+Judicial System,  to conduct trials of this sort (which we've seen
+before).  And in this case, again,  there wasn't a trial per se as Ivanova
+noted; he pleaded guilty from the start, quite  proud of what he'd done. 
+So all that remained was the sentencing.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 05, 1995 1:11:21 AM

+
     If there were just one pure and unchanged unvirsal soul running
+through  everything, there wouldn't be any point in breaking itself into
+pieces and investing  itself in different species/people...it would just
+keep running into identical  versions of itself.
+
+     So the soul form in Minbari is different from the soul form in
+humans; also, in  their view, having been civilized longer than us, their
+soul form is more elevated,  more evolved...and thus the pices are more
+precious, to them, and to the Soul  Hunters.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 06, 1995 2:00:18 AM

+
      Apology accepted.  We move on.
+
+      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Screen Saver Arrived!      (December 07, 1995 2:35:16 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 07, 1995 2:35:16 AM

+
      Yes, the .avi files play full-motion video and music/sound effects.
+Check your  setup menu to make sure you've selected those files, and that
+they're in the  directory, and that they've been marked to play.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: All
+
+
+From jms: info (01-Dec-95  18:31:45)
+
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+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  18:31:45

+
      I need a little help here from US netters, 'cause something strikes me as
+a bit wonky.  I've been getting the market-by-market ratings reports, and just
+today I sat down to really study them, and something doesn't track. The market
+report doesn't seem to reflect where I *think* the shows are currently being
+aired.  So to the favor...if you're in one of these areas, let me know if the
+time given here is DIFFERENT FROM the time it actually plays in your area.
+(This seems especially curious to me since the report shows WTTY Indianapolis
+up through the past week, and it was my understanding that they had temporarily
+dropped the show until WNDY picked it up.)
+
+New York Fri 8P; Chicago TH 7P; Philadelphia Sat 8P; San Francisco Wed 8P;
+Boston Sat 8P; Wash DC Thr 8P; Dallas Wed 8P; Detroit Tue 8P; Atlanta Sun 8P;
+Houston Wed 7P; Cleveland Sat 8P; Seattle Wed 8P; Tampa Wed 8P; Minneapolis Wed
+7P; Miami Fri 8P; St Louis Wed 12M; Sacramento Sun 8P; Phoenix Wed 7P; Denver
+Sat 5P; Pittsburgh Sat 8P; Baltimore Wed 9P; Hartford Sat 5P; Orlando Tue 10P;
+San Diego Sat 4P; Indianapolis Sun 9P; Portland Wed 8P; Milwaukee Sun 11P;
+Kansas City Wed 8P; Charlotte Sun 11P; Cincinnati Sat 2P; San Antonio Wed 7P;
+W. Palm Beach Thr 8P.
+
+     Thanks for any help on this.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+[NOTE: There have been dozens of replies for just about every area JMS
+ listed -- BKB]
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 07, 1995 2:35:27 AM

+
      {regarding athiest vs. agnostic}
+
+      If all the things you describe were suddenly to happen, sure, I'd
+have to give  my position serious thought, while turning down Stephen
+Hawking's invitations  to dance and dodging the newly revived dead.  Now,
+when is this supposed to  happen?  'Cause it hasn't happened yet, and
+gives no indication of happening  anytime soon.  Which is, really, the
+point.
+
+      Let me try a different take on this whole agnostic/atheist thing, to
+see if I can  better communicate my position.  My agent calls and says,
+"Listen, the BBC  called, and they're interested in signing you up for a
+two year documentary on the  mating habits of clams."  To which I respond,
+"Great, but I'll believe it when it  happens."
+
+      I do not say that the contract may, or may not exist; it either is,
+or it isn't, and  my actions proceed from those two options.  Until I get
+the contract actually in my  hand, it doesn't exist.  Until someone puts
+the absolute proof out in front of me of  a deity, it doesn't exist. 
+That's the difference; the agnostic says, well, maybe  there is, maybe
+there isn't, who knows?  The atheist says, There is currently no  proof
+whatsoever of this assertion, thus I choose not to believe it.
+
+      There are, really, any number of schools on what atheism is or
+isn't. Some  have taken this to be the notion of anti-religion, which I
+think is unconstructive.  I  used to write a humor column for Madeline
+Murry O'Hare's publication American Atheist back in the 1970s (betcha
+didn't know that one, did you?).  Even did some  other writing, articles
+and the like...until one day I realized that this (American  Atheist
+Organization) wasn't about just providing equal respect and treatment for 
+atheists, it was about knocking down religion and attacking others' belief
+systems...at which time I resigned the magazine.
+
+      To get back on track...mine is the kind of atheism you saw most
+often around  the turn of the century, basically accommodational of
+others, positive in outlook,  stressing the basic worth of the individual,
+and the importance of the individual in  building a better society.
+
+      Because of the more...rigorous atheists out there, atheism has, I
+think, gotten  kind of a bad rap in some circles.  And a lot of it is
+unfair, though I'd be foolish to  say that the criticisms were entirely
+without merit.  But when then-President Bush  said, as he did in an
+interview in Chicago during the last election, that he  "doesn't really
+consider atheists patriots, since after all the idea is one nation  under
+god," it brings you up a little short.  The founders of this country
+weren't just  believers, they were deists and freethinkers and even the
+occasional atheist.
+
+      In any event...I hadn't meant to belabor the point.  This is simply
+what I think.  I  don't usually get into it, but the question was raised,
+so I answered it.  I don't  expect much of anyone else to agree, or to
+convince anyone to think as I do.  And  that's fine, and as it should be.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 07, 1995 2:35:17 AM

+
      {regarding athiest vs. agnostic}
+
+      Yeah, well, I've kinda given it a *lot* of thought over a *very*
+long period....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ From jms: info                (December 06, 1995 8:13:12 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 06, 1995 8:13:12 PM

+
      Alas, no tapes are currently available.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ ATTN:JMS <? About B4>         (December 07, 1995 2:35:14 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 07, 1995 2:35:14 AM

+
      {regarding Boxleitner taping "B5 Classic" intro}
+
+     To which they would reply, "Terrific, great idea, but we're not going
+to sacrifice  15-30 seconds of commercials so you can do this, so you're
+going to have to go  in and cut 15-30 seconds out of the show."
+
+     That time has to come from somewhere.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ To JMS                        (December 06, 1995 8:13:26 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 06, 1995 8:13:26 PM

+
     No, there's really just the one Minbari religion, and the warrior
+caste tends to  follow it, but not lead it.
+
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+To:  Ruth Ballam              Wednesday, December 06, 1995 8:28:00 PM
+
+     You're saying Sinclair was the chosen one...first, you don't know
+what he was  chosen FOR.  Second, if this is entirely true, why would
+Zathras look Sinclair  dead in the face and say "NOT the one"?
+
+     As for "why would he change his story"...nothing is set in stone; if
+you were a  writer, you'd know that an outline only gets you into the
+story and the main points.   I've had whole novels that I've written
+abruptly change direction halfway through  because of something I
+discovered midway that was better than what I'd planned  initially.  You
+adjust.  No outline ever survives contact with the enemy.
+
+     If, tomorrow, I decided that the rest of this story would be better
+if Sheridan  were transformed into a giant blue space moose, that's
+exactly what I'd do.
+
+     jms 
+
+
+
+
+ Max (Richard Moll)            (December 07, 1995 2:35:24 AM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 07, 1995 2:35:24 AM

+
      Thanks.  At this point, Richard's part was a one-shot, but if we
+come up with  the right role, I'd love to see him again.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 07, 1995 1:58:06 PM

+
      {regarding the .avi files having video}
+
+      No, the personnel files don't have them, only the
+battle, ship and geo files.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 07, 1995 8:37:04 PM

+
      {regarding quoting JMS's post about atheism}
+
+      By all means, quote away....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 07, 1995 8:37:06 PM

+
      {regarding religion}
+
+      I guess I'm partly leery of going into my personal views
+on this stuff too much  because I'm very conscious of the
+position of "celebrity" in our society, even as  minor a
+celebrity as that of producer, of which there cannot possibly
+be a smaller  version of celebrity.  It's possible to use
+one's position as a platform for  advancing one's own personal
+views, or propagating them, and I don't want to do  that, or
+to be perceived as doing that.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ JMS resigns rastb5      (December 07, 1995 1:58:07 PM)
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 07, 1995 1:58:07 PM

+
     You used to edit Fangoria?
+
+     So are you currently appealing the conviction...?
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Bob Alberti 70764,410
+
+
+Kosh-ersize (01-Dec-95  18:38:12)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
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+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  18:38:12

+
<What does Kosh look like when he's not exerting himself?>
+
+     He probably looks a lot like me....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ JMS resigns rastb5      (December 08, 1995 2:44:26 AM)
+
+
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+Search
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 08, 1995 2:44:26 AM

+
      {regarding Mr. Martin's editing of Fangoria}
+
+      Actually, the best thing about Fangoria are the 
+conventions....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ $0.04: <A Day in Strife>   (December 07, 1995 2:10:07 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
 $0.04: <A Day in Strife>  

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 07, 1995 2:10:07 PM

+
     And this is quite correct; WB had always wanted a well
+known actor in that  rols, so when we decided to make the
+change, WB repeated this, and urged us  strongly in this
+direction.  Happily, Bruce was known to us through Doug and 
+John who'd worked with him on other projects, and said he was
+a swell guy in  addition to a terrific actor; we met, talked,
+and that was that.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Michael Guenther Thursday, December 07, 1995 8:37:03 PM
+
+      I'd say there's some similarity in the process, yes.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+
+ Jump Points             (December 07, 1995 8:37:08 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 07, 1995 8:37:08 PM

+
     No, I'm reasonably sure that the Centauri vessels that
+came through were  considerably larger than the White Star;
+the problem, of course, is determining  size visually in
+space, where there isn't a reference point.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Another B5 Pun                (December 07, 1995 8:37:10 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Another B5 Pun               

+
Section: Promenade Alpha
Date: December 07, 1995 8:37:10 PM

+
      The Nuremberg War Crimes Committee would like a word
+with you, Mr.  Diseker....
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Gethsemane questions>  (December 08, 1995 8:28:14 PM)
+
+
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+Search
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+
 <Gethsemane questions> 

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 08, 1995 8:28:14 PM

+
      {regarding JMS's celebrity status}
+
+      Yeah, I don't really buy into the celebrity notion; what
+I do is what I do, no  different than a teacher or an archi-
+tect; both require varying levels of creativity.   Main thing
+wrong with celebrity is that people start viewing you differ-
+ently...and  Kosh help you if your own view of yourself starts
+to reconcile too much with that  new perception.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Rerun Schedule Worry    (December 08, 1995 8:35:19 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Rerun Schedule Worry   

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 08, 1995 8:35:19 PM

+
      I don't think I'll be able to change the schedule; my
+guess is that they'll do a  full run of episodes in July,
+which they did in our first year, but didn't do in our 
+second.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  The Jawa/Jawa #2, Saturday, December 09, 1995 11:14:08 
+
+     We're making 22 episodes this year; interestingly enough,
+because the  ratings have been doing quite well, there have
+been some informal talks initiated  by some folks at PTEN
+about us doing an additional 2 hours in the form of a  direct-
+to-video movie, something to hold folks over between seasons. 
+So in that  sense we'd be doing 24 this season.  It's not
+finalized, but we're very encouraged  that they're considering
+trying this with us.  We won't have any final disposition on 
+this until well after Christmas, however.  The problem will be
+in getting all the  pertinent WB divisions to work together on
+this with us, and working with PTEN in  the sense that it
+won't be aired initially until much later, which may be a 
+stumbling block...but we'll see.  Still, it's a great vote of
+confidence.
+
+      jms
+
+
+  To:  SysOp Lee Whiteside  Sunday, December 10, 1995 5:02:23 
+
+      {regarding direct-to-video B5 movie}
+
+      Yeah, it'd have to be kind of like the comics...it would
+add something to the arc, be complementary to it (like the
+"shadows past" miniseries was complementary to "Divided
+Loyalties" and stuff yet to come), but more or less  able to
+stand on its own.
+
+      Like I said, though, it ain't final yet, still in the
+talking stages....
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+
+ JMS resigns rastb5      (December 10, 1995 7:38:07 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 10, 1995 7:38:07 PM

+
      {regarding story ideas for direct-to-video movie}
+
+      I'd advise against suggesting story areas for this,
+Philip.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ JMS resigns rastb5      (December 10, 1995 7:38:02 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 10, 1995 7:38:02 PM

+
      {regarding making videos of B5 episodes}
+
+     Won't work.  Their logic (such as it is) is that if
+people have already seen the  episode on TV, they won't want
+to buy it...but a direct-to-video supplemental  episode, by
+virtue of *not* having been aired, IS commercially viable.
+
+     What can I say...?
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <PTG-Bravo!>            (December 09, 1995 11:14:11 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 <PTG-Bravo!>           

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 09, 1995 11:14:11 PM

+
      Thanks.  It's a hard thing to walk the line between not
+being effective and  being heavy-handed...I think it worked
+quite well in that respect.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Mara K. Malovany Saturday, December 09, 1995 11:14:12 
+
+     The sculpture...wasn't exactly what I had in mind, no....
+
+     Re: the Centauri...note that Edward wasn't killed where
+they found him. He  was taken and killed elsewhere, in a area
+they'd more or less secured for that  purpose.  That was the
+area he knew about.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+
+ A couple of Questions   (December 10, 1995 7:38:08 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
 A couple of Questions  

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 10, 1995 7:38:08 PM

+
     Yes, he had the momentum from his jump, plus that of the
+core shuttle itself  (which is considerable), plus the wind
+currents toward the center of the station  area/garden, which
+area also considerable.  Together that would be enough to 
+keep him moving toward the outer edge of the garden area.
+
+     No, the Narns do not have artificial gravity, which is
+why we've always shown  them belted into their seats in five-
+point harnesses.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Roger St. Cyr 73774,3303
+
+
+Video Toaster (01-Dec-95  18:38:13)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Video Toaster

+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  18:38:13

+
      Hey, I barely understand this stuff myself....
+
+      Besides, I hear they've exported all the software over to DOS platforms
+anyway, which don't use toasters.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  The Jawa/Jawa #2   Sunday, December 10, 1995 7:47:18
+
+      {regarding direct-to-video B5 movie}
+
+       Whoa, whoa, whoa...Jawa, don't mis-state the situation.
+The deal still hasn't  been set, and even if it were, it
+couldn't possibly be out "sometime after  christmas," during
+the rerun cycle.
+
+       It might be able to come out *between seasons three and
+four* is, I believe,  what I said.  Bear in mind that I'd have
+to write it, it takes 4-6 weeks to prep such  a thing, 15-16
+days to shoot it, then another 52 days to finish post.
+
+       Just to clarify...I don't want this getting picked up
+and announced as fact yet  when it ain't.  Still may not even
+happen.
+
+       jms
+
+
+  To:  Barbara Pfieffer Saturday, December 09, 1995 11:14:05
+
+     You'll be hearing more about General Hague in the next
+batch of episodes; as  for the two-parter, I'm about 13 pages
+from the end of part one, which I hope to  turn in on Monday,
+and the second part will probably be in after the Christmas 
+break.
+
+     jms
+
+
+
+ A couple of Questions   (December 10, 1995 11:24:04 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 A couple of Questions  

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 10, 1995 11:24:04 PM

+
      {regarding artificial gravity on Narn ship in the
+       novel _Blood_Oath_}
+
+      Urk...that must've slipped past me (which reminds me,
+I'd better get back to  finishing proofing the next novel). 
+And yes, we'll see more of the Narn  homeworld as we go along.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Not B5                  (December 10, 1995 11:24:03 PM)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
 Not B5                 

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 10, 1995 11:24:03 PM

+
      {regarding a show called "Vanishing Son"}
+
+     Nope, don't know a thing about it, only heard the name
+here and there.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Harlan Signs in LA/SF   (December 11, 1995 2:09:10 AM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Harlan Signs in LA/SF  

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 11, 1995 2:09:10 AM

+
     Harlan Ellison will be signing copies of his new CD-rom
+game, "I Have No  Mouth, And I Must Scream," based on his
+award-winning short story of the same  name, at Tower Video in
+two locations in the coming week:
+
+     In Los Angeles on Wednesday, December 13th, at 8801
+Sunset Boulevard  from 6-7:30 p.m. and in San Francisco from
+6-8 p.m. at 3205 20th Avenue, 2nd  floor on Thursday, December
+14th.
+
+     jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  William H. DiPaola  Monday, December 11, 1995 2:11:10
+
+      We're still trying to work this out.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+
+ G'Kar Trading Card      (December 12, 1995 3:14:17 AM)
+
+
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+
 G'Kar Trading Card     

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 12, 1995 3:14:17 AM

+
      {regarding G'Kar not being on the card}
+
+     Is this the one on the actual card, or the promo four-
+card?  I knew it was wrong  there, and I'd thought we'd caught
+it before the finished versions were out.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Chad Underkoffler  Tuesday, December 12, 1995 3:14:18
+
+      Yes, long-distance com systems like StellarCom are
+tachyon based;  communication inside hyperspace to and from
+normal space is very difficult and  problematic due to the
+differing physics involved; the beacons ships ride in  between
+jumpgates are more or less anchored to the gates at the
+hyperspace  side.
+
+      That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+      jms
+
+
+  To:  Philip Hornsey   Wednesday, December 13, 1995 7:36:14
+
+      {regarding there being physical protrusions into
+      hyperspace}
+
+     Not that anyone's discovered yet.  (Don't read into that
+more than there is.)
+
+      jms
+
+
+  To:  Mitchell Schneider  Tuesday, December 12, 1995 7:51:15
+
+     "...yeah, I was shooting the breeze with Jon just a few
+days ago. Jon's going to  try and get B2 re-run on my sugges-
+tion."
+
+     Er...it's Joe, actually.
+
+     That aside, thanks for the kind words, and we'll try to
+get it rerun.
+
+     jms
+
+
+  To:  Dan T. Davis     Wednesday, December 13, 1995 7:41:02
+
+      {regarding picking your own CompuServe name}
+
+      Actually, I haven't picked any such name...what's the
+procedure for doing this?
+
+        jms
+
+
+
+
+
+ ATTN:JMS <? About B4>   (December 14, 1995 2:16:10 AM)
+
+
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+

+
 ATTN:JMS <? About B4>  

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 14, 1995 2:16:10 AM

+
      {regarding one of the Turner stations running
+       the first season of B5}
+
+     They'll be playing the entire series, but not until the
+show has run its full  course, so around 1998.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ I Have No Mouth game    (December 14, 1995 2:16:11 AM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
 I Have No Mouth game   

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 14, 1995 2:16:11 AM

+
      {regarding "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"}
+
+      Wouldn't hurt to read the story first.  It's a great
+story.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Michael "GANDALF" Kalus Thursday, December 14, 1995
+
+     Babylons 1-3 were destroyed during the very early stages
+of construction, so  not that much was done.  They poured a
+LOT of money into B4, which was very  big...when that one went
+ south, they decided to try one last time, with a  stripped-
+down version, B5.  B4 vanished 4 years prior to the first
+season of B5.
+
+    jms
+
+
+
+
+ JMS: Best party ep?     (December 14, 1995 2:16:09 AM)
+
+
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+
 JMS: Best party ep?    

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 14, 1995 2:16:09 AM

+
      {regarding which upcoming episode would be best
+       to have a B5 party for}
+
+     If you want some fun with your wham, and there's a lot of
+fun to be had in this  one, go for the first one up, "Voices
+of Authority."  If you want serious, serious  wham, go for
+"Messages From Earth."
+
+    jms
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Shirley DeCarufelFriday, December 15, 1995 12:26:05 AM
+
+     Actually, the "cricket" sounds are the identicard
+scanning sounds used in the  pilot movie.
+
+      jms
+
+
+
+
+
+ Hague back              (December 15, 1995 5:05:20 AM)
+
+
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+
 Hague back             

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 15, 1995 5:05:20 AM

+
     At the office, I use the Kinesis keyboard, with two key-
+wells, not broken lines.   Works well.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Gethsemane Thought>    (December 15, 1995 5:05:24 AM)
+
+
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+

+
 <Gethsemane Thought>   

+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 15, 1995 5:05:24 AM

+
      {regarding "Passing Through Gethsemane" ep}
+
+      Thanks.  Adam did a great job interpreting the script on
+that one, and it's  definitely one of our most successful
+episodes...though today I took a look at  another, more
+completed version of episode 8, "Messages," and *man* is this 
+amazing...just a knockout...trouble is we keep raising our own
+bar and won't  accept anything less...so the pressure becomes
+quite astonishing after a while.
+
+     Fun, though....
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Babylon 4         (December 15, 1995 5:12:27 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 15, 1995 5:12:27 AM

+
     "wasn't nearly enough time"
+
+     If you apply 20th century construction models, sure...but
+we've advanced quite  a bit in 250 years.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: WADE R. AIKEN 102012,1764
+
+
+Were are the Shadows (01-Dec-95  18:38:15)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  18:38:15

+
<How does Bester fit into the whole Shadows-Psi Corps deal?>
+
+      This question will be dealt with in "Ship of Tears," around mid-season.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 4               (December 15, 1995 5:38:03 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 15, 1995 5:38:03 PM

+
      {regarding not enough time...}
+
+      Except, of course, there's no need to transport steel
+and other materials from  Earth...if that's your premise then
+it's seriously flawed. You mine ore from the  surrounding
+asteroids, as NASA has described for some time could be done. 
+ You could assemble the shell off Earth in pieces fairly
+quickly, use the jump gate  to get it to Epsilon Eridani, and
+mine whatever else you need there in the area  fairly effi-
+ciently.
+
+      Bear in mind that building a station like this in 2260
+uses many of the same  techniques already being used else
+where...so in many cases it's a matter of  slightly converting
+what's already being mass produced for other reasons.  
+Explorer vessels like the Cortez, for instance, are nearly as
+long as Babylon 5 (as  seen in "A Distant Star"), and its
+rotating section is nearly as wide.  And you've  got other big
+ships, many with rotational areas for gravity-positive
+sections.  This  isn't like NASA gearing up to make a one-off
+of something; this is a matter of  adjusting technology
+already in use.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 4               (December 16, 1995 1:54:17 AM)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 16, 1995 1:54:17 AM

+
      {regarding acquiring raw materials to build B5}
+
+     Aside from the hull stuff which would've been constructed
+elsewhere and  shipped in and assembled, they would've mined
+the asteroids for most of the  raw materials needed.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 4               (December 16, 1995 9:38:13 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 16, 1995 9:38:13 PM

+
      {regarding B5 winning a Cult TV award}
+
+      I know we won one, and I believe it was this past year,
+yes; a very nice  engraved glass award.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Kosh and the Shadows    (December 15, 1995 5:13:00 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 15, 1995 5:13:00 AM

+
      {regarding why they didn't kill Kosh}
+
+     Course, a dead Vorlon would be a major giveaway for
+them...best to keep a  low profile, at least for the time
+being.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <TFON - Religion>       (December 15, 1995 5:38:06 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 15, 1995 5:38:06 PM

+
      Yes, those are pretty much the two interpretations...
+that the Vorlons *created*  the myth of angels, or that they
+came in and *exploited* it for their own purposes.  In my
+view, the latter seems more logical in some ways.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <TFON - Religion>       (December 16, 1995 9:38:15 PM)
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 16, 1995 9:38:15 PM

+
+      {regarding assumption that Vorlon standardized beliefs}
+
+      On the other hand, I didn't say that was the case in all
+places and in all cases.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ What's In A Name (Kosh)   (December 15, 1995 5:38:11 PM)
+
+
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+
 What's In A Name (Kosh)  

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 15, 1995 5:38:11 PM

+
      <Quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >two days ago, I finally got around to purchase the
+      >Compact Disc release of The  Who's classic WHO'S NEXT
+      >album [remastered, with bonus tracks and new liner 
+      >notes... really nice...] from 1971.
+
+      >When I read through the fine print, I found myself
+      >gasping in surprise.
+
+      >"Original vinyl sleeve design by Kosh."
+
+      <snip>
+
+      >This Kosh appears to be a  photigrapher and designer,
+      >and he apparently went with just that name, just  Kosh.
+
+      <snip>
+
+      >my question would be whether you were aware of this 
+      >designer / photographer talent of the 70's and if his
+      >name became the inspiration for the Vorlon Ambassador.
+
+
+      No, I'd absolutely never heard this story before...I'm
+astounded....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ What's In A Name (Kosh)   (December 16, 1995 1:54:16 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 16, 1995 1:54:16 AM

+
      {regarding JMS's taste in music}
+
+     Basically, I'm a fan of *all* music, except hard-stuff
+country and opera.
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Trent K. Johnson Saturday, December 16, 1995 9:38:19 PM
+
+     We'd almost certainly go for tapes initially...videodisks
+would mean  remastering all the film stock back to its
+original aspect ratio, and we're talking  major bucks here.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+
+ Screen saver frustration   (December 16, 1995 9:46:03 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 16, 1995 9:46:03 PM

+
      To get at the files, you have to follow these steps: use
+the Install part of the  setup menu, which takes you to the
+CDrom.  Highlight the files in the Images  directory.  Then
+copy them into the correct directory on your hard drive.  Once
+that's done, you then select the images you want.  Also be
+sure that the image  categories are toggled on your setup menu
+(personal info, battle info, images  (all vs. selected) and so
+on.
+
+     I've found that every once in a while, a video piece will
+bump into my system.   What's weird is that I have two
+identical systems, one at the work office, one at  home...on
+the work office system, every single image works without
+problem.  At  home, one of the images bumps into windows and
+shuts me down.
+
+     The best way to find out which is doing this is to
+individuall select the areas  (i.e., first select just Battle
+Info, or Geological Info, and de-select all the others in  the
+setup menu).  Let those run through, and if there's not a
+problem, try the next  one.  Since they go in order, you can
+figure out pretty fast which one is causing  you a problem. 
+I did this, and now my system at home works fine, after
+omitting  one of the ship info files that, again, runs just
+fine on the work system.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Richard M. Perry Sunday, December 17, 1995 1:54:19 AM
+
+      {regarding using SW and ST doing well as an argument
+       for getting B5 eps for sale on tape}
+
+     Nope.  Doesn't work.  They see Star Wars and ST as
+valuable commodities;  they don't see us that way because they
+*know* us, and we're just a show of  theirs, one of many. 
+This is the way it *always* goes, though.  On Star Wars, they 
+gave away most of the merchandising rights because they didn't
+think anybody  would want the stuff; on ST they canceled it
+after 3 seasons and didn't bother to  protect the copyright on
+the stuff for almost ten years (which is why they often  don't
+prosecute stuff based on the first series that gets pirated)
+because they  figured it was worthless.
+
+     It's only LONG after the horse has left the barn that the
+suits ever really  understand what they've got...or had.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+
+ From jms: info          (December 17, 1995 10:27:07 PM)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
 From jms: info         

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 17, 1995 10:27:07 PM

+
     Yes, the ratings on WSBK have been up between a half a
+point and a full  ratings point over where it was, now that
+they've stabalized it.  Which is what  we've been saying would
+happen for some time.
+
+     This is probably the overwhelming problem we've had with
+the few stations  that've been shuffling the show around...
+they don't give it a stable time slot,  constantly pre-empt
+it, put it on at 3 a.m., and say it doesn't do good numbers. 
+Well, duh.  But as soon as they GIVE it a solid spot, even
+if it's only for a little  while, the difference is noticeable
+almost instantly.  And then it *does* do well for  them.
+
+     What're you gonna do....it's Chinatown, Jake....
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+To: Les P. George 76162,1250
+
+
+B-5 Action Figures (01-Dec-95  20:38:27)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: 
Date: 01-Dec-95  20:38:27

+
      No, there are currently no plans for B5 action figures.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Gerald Himmelein Sunday, December 17, 1995 10:27:14 PM
+
+      {regarding if Garibaldi's shooting was pre-planned}
+
+     No, the shooting of Garibaldi was always a very strong
+part of the story for the  end of first season; that line goes
+all the way back to the pilot, and Laurel  Takashima.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+
+
+ Ds9 Cancellation Rumor        (December 17, 1995 10:47:23 PM)
+
+
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+
 Ds9 Cancellation Rumor       

+
Section: Star Trek: DS9
Date: December 17, 1995 10:47:23 PM

+
"I agree it is rediculous but JMS reported it at a Comic
+conference somewhere  and I was giving what I consider good
+advice to all who wish to do something  positive in lieu of
+his negative comment. Read previous messages about the 
+cancellation rumor so you can direct your anger to the proper
+sources. I did not  start this and I will not speak further on
+this rumor because it is exactly what JMS  wants. He loves for
+us to argue among ourselves. Be careful, he may be reading 
+and enjoying this right now!"
+
+       Excuse me just one damned minute here.  I just found
+out about this thread,  and once again this is being totally
+and 100% distorted by you.
+
+       I have never, ever, at any time posted a rumor saying
+"Hey, DS9 is going to  be canceled."  If you can find it, and
+post it, I will resign from Compuserve  *instantly* and
+*permanently*.  But you won't, because it doesn't exist.  What
+you,  and a few others, do is take what *was* said, throw it
+out there to cause a  firestorm, which gets me in trouble.
+
+       What I said was this: that at the time all this took
+place, several months ago,  there were several articles
+published -- in TV Guide, in the Los Angeles Times,  elsewhere
+quoting people like Kerry McCluggage, the head of Paramount,
+who  was concerned that having two ST shows around was cutting
+into the potential  viewers for Voyager.  Even one of the exec
+producers over at ST commented, in  the LA Times article, that
+they may have gone to the well once too often.
+
+       At the same time as this, there was a rumor floating
+around town, which is  *still* floating around, that Paramount
+was concerned about the notion of two  shows splitting the
+potential ST audience...an audience that is necessary to 
+Voyager as the cornerstone for the Paramount Network, UPN.
+There's much to  be said for canceling one show, DS9, so that
+there's only one place to go if you  want to see Star
+Trek...Voyager.  Because Paramount has *millions* of dollars 
+more invested in their network than in the standard syndica
+tion deal for DS9.
+
+       The *possibility* was being discussed, came the word on
+the street. And  several other people in the industry, who
+work in post production and sound  editing at the other
+studios around town, came forth and supported this by saying 
+they'd heard much the same.  But it's only woolgathering,
+nothing more, and I  never said it WAS anything more than
+that.  But a few people like you and a  couple of others have
+taken that one message, which I posted only once, here,  not
+some "comics conference," and crossposted it to other forums,
+paraphrased  it, distorted it, and changed it around in order
+to make it look like I posted a rumor  that I *never* in fact
+posted, for the simple purpose of causing me grief.
+
+       While there's much to commend this electronic forum,
+what's *wrong* with it  at root is that people can come in
+here, post something like this as if it's true,  and then you
+have to respond to it and chase it down.
+
+       Knowing folks here, I'm sure *somebody* has my original
+post filed away  somewhere.  I'm happy to see that reposted,
+because it is exactly as I have  characterized it.
+
+       Look, I get in enough trouble for the things I *really*
+say without other people  putting words in my mouth and
+deliberately distorting it.
+
+       I have never, ever, at any time, said that DS9 was
+going to be canceled, or  that there was a rumor on the
+streets that DS9 was going to be canceled.  Never  happened. 
+Are we clear on this now?
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  J. Michael Straczynski December 18, 1995 1:54:05 AM
+
+>       Knowing folks here, I'm sure *somebody* has my original post filed
+> away somewhere. I'm happy to see that reposted, because it is exactly as I
+> have characterized it.
+
+Sure, no problem.
+
+People read into messages what they want to read. Human
+nature.
+
+Georg Buthe
+
+------------------------quote---------------------------------
+>%: 358451 S2/Star Trek  [SFMEDIA]
+>    06-Oct-95  06:25:18
+>Sb: #357994-VOYAGER'S BAD TREK
+>Fm: J. Michael Straczynski 71016,1644
+>To: Mary Taylor 75530,2650
+
+     Speaking of TPTB, here's an interesting angle on the
+whole Voyager/DS9 dynamic.
+
+     Recently, more and more, the ST execs (people like Berman
+and Pillar) have been commenting publicly about the factional
+ization of the SF TV marketplace, and how this has diminished
+the numbers for the ST shows overall.  Most interestingly, one
+of them commented in an LA Times article this past week that
+a big problem for them is the factionalization *within*
+ST...that people may only have time to watch one version of ST
+ that week, and they're being forced to choose.  And, of
+course, there are the debates between the two sides on
+quality.
+
+     Which dovetails precisely into the rumor running around
+town that Paramount is considering giving the axe to DS9 after
+this season, in order to force folks who want their ST to
+watch Voyager...because they have more money invested right
+now in Voyager, particularly in start-up, and they have their
+hopes for the Paramount network pinned to Voyager as their
+center. They don't like the idea of a syndicated show out
+there causing problems for the network on which they've spent
+millions and millions of dollars.  And DS9's ratings have been
+steadily on the decrease since the debut.  So the logic goes:
+take away DS9, and make those who want Trek go to Voyager as
+the sole provider of that.
+
+     Given the sources from whom this has come, I give very
+high credibility to the notion that this *is* being discussed;
+whether or not it will be implemented, that only time will
+tell.  If Voyager continues to decrease, threatening the
+foundations of Paramount's bid for a network, I'd think the
+chances of this happening will continue to rise.
+
+      jms 
+
+>Subj:  Ds9 Cancellation Rumor       Section: Star Trek: DS9
+>  To:  Georg Buthe      Monday, December 18, 1995 3:11:01 AM
+>From:  J. Michael Straczynski       #417729
+
+     THANK you.  As the message said, the topic *was* being
+discussed, but that  there was no indication as to whether or
+not that step would eventually be  implemented.  And others
+confirmed this.  Nowhere in that message was it  stated by me
+that the show *is* going to be canceled, or that I'd heard
+anyone  else say that it was going to be canceled.
+
+     With luck, this will finally put an end to the distor
+tions that get around, thanks  to some people who want to fuel
+online wars.
+
+     Thanks again for digging this out.
+
+       jms
+
+
+
+
+  To:  Stephen C. Smith Sunday, December 17, 1995 10:53:15 PM
+
+     Stephen: check my comment to Ted.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+
+ JMS: Best party ep?     (December 15, 1995 5:05:19 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 15, 1995 5:05:19 AM

+
      <Quoting Lynn Dimock to JMS>:
+
+>Why does your saying an episode is serious make me so
+>nervous?
+
+     I don't know, but it should make you *really* nervous....
+
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ JMS resigns rastb5      (December 17, 1995 10:27:08 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 17, 1995 10:27:08 PM

+
      <Quoting Anne Warner to JMS>
+
+      >Without suggesting anything that hasn't been clearly
+      >indicated on the air as  interesting history, could we
+      >give you our opinions about what "history" we'd like 
+      >to see???
+
+      >One of my votes would go to Valen and the origins of
+      >the Grey Council.
+
+
+     Then you will get your wish, and then some.
+
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Gethsemane Thought>    (December 15, 1995 5:38:08 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 15, 1995 5:38:08 PM

+
      <Quoting Philip Hornsey to JMS>:
+
+>Did Adam Nimoy direct Messages?
+
+     No, Mike Vejar directed "Messages."
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Gethsemane Thought>    (December 16, 1995 9:38:15 PM)
+
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: Upcoming
Date: December 16, 1995 9:38:15 PM

+
      {regarding Nimoy doing any others}
+
+     We're currently working that out.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ds9 Cancellation Rumor        (December 20, 1995 6:28:29 PM)
+
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+
 Ds9 Cancellation Rumor       

+
Section: Star Trek: DS9
Date: December 20, 1995 6:28:29 PM

+
      {regarding why Paramount doesn't move DS9 to UPN}
+
+     I don't know for certain, but I'd suspect that there are
+contractual elements  prohibiting this.  UPN is an alliance
+between Paramount and Chris Craft  Television; at this point,
+CCT is paying virtually all the money for developing and 
+airing the shows, with Paramount contractually able to buy 50%
+of the network  sometime in the next year or so.  (This per
+the trades and reports in industry  business journals.)
+
+     DS9 is currently owned exclusively by Paramount.  Many of
+the stations that  currently air DS9 are not necessarily part
+of the UPN network; some are Tribune  stations, or other
+independents.  If they made it part of UPN, they would then 
+have to shuffle around a lot of stations, and might end up
+losing better time slots  and it's a *lot* of hassle.  And
+Paramount would have to be willing to turn over  partial
+ownership of DS9 to Chris Craft (here I'm guessing), and they
+may not  want to do that, may possibly not be *able* to do so
+by contract.
+
+     It's a very confusing corporate web, not that unlike the
+situation which basically  prevents B5 from going to the WB
+network.
+
+      jms
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Gerald Himmelein   Monday, December 18, 1995 11:25:03
+
+      <quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >Meaning that originally, Garibaldi was going to be shot
+      >at by Laurel and since  she dropped out after The
+      >Gathering, you used Garibaldi's second in command  as
+      >a trap door? Very nicely done.
+
+     Correct, had Laurel stayed with the station, it would've
+been she who pulled  the trigger on Garibaldi.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+ Chrysalis               (December 19, 1995 11:05:04 PM)
+
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+
 Chrysalis              

+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 11:05:04 PM

+
      <quoting John McAuley to JMS>:
+
+      >Would Laurel have been a PsiCorps-personality-implant-
+      >mole?
+
+     Yes, Laurel would've been Control.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Chrysalis               (December 19, 1995 11:05:06 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 19, 1995 11:05:06 PM

+
      <quoting The Jawa / Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >Is it true that for awhile, the traitor was going to be
+      >Ivanova?
+
+     No, after the thread with Laurel was revealed, lots of
+people *assumed* that  that thread had been passed along to
+Ivanova.  It had never in fact been intended  for her, but
+when it was broached, I simply didn't reply, on the theory
+that if I said it  *wasn't* her, it'd narrow it down to who it
+*was*.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Chrysalis               (December 20, 1995 6:28:22 PM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 20, 1995 6:28:22 PM

+
      <quoting The Jawa / Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >So, like Sheridan, Ivanova wasn't a "replacement"
+      >character?
+
+     All the characters are unique; there seems to be this
+bone-headed notion, that  I frequently run into, of "Well,
+Ivanova's just Takashima renamed," or "Sheridan's  story is
+just the same as Sinclair's, same guy just renamed."  They're
+*not* and  never have been.  The story of one does not devlove
+automatically upon the  other.  If you make a change, it's
+because you have something better in  mind...otherwise why
+make it?
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Chrysalis               (December 21, 1995 4:07:15 AM)
+
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+
Section: Babylon 5: General
Date: December 21, 1995 4:07:15 AM

+
      <Quotong Robert Miller to JMS>:
+
+      >If Laurel had stayed on the show, would she have
+      >received the password by this  point in the story?  Who
+      >would then have taken over as second in command? 
+
+     If Laurel *had* stayed with the show, by the middle of
+year two the fact that she  was Control would've been revealed
+via the password incident. At that point, one  particular
+possibility was that her second in command under her -- a
+rather dour  Russian lieutenant named Ivanova -- would've been
+promoted to take her place,  while Laurel was moved off the
+chessboard. (This was planned because we  knew going in that
+Tamlyn Tomita had a growing film career, and we probably 
+could've only kept her for a couple of years in the best of
+circumstances.  So why  not turn that to your advantage?)
+
+     The position now being occupied by Corwin, Ivanova's
+second, is the position  that Ivanova would've held (though
+more prominently) if Laurel had stayed on.   (And no, Corwin
+doesn't now have that arc lurking in the background.)
+
+     See, it's easy to stick to an outline and never diverge
+if you're writing  characters in a novel; in a TV show, with
+live actors, you have to be flexible, plan  ahead, come up
+with contingency plans, and have threads that weave and 
+interlock in ways to leave you maximum flexibility while still
+proceeding toward  your destination.
+
+         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5Convention            (January 01, 1996 7:15:16 PM)
+
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+
Date: January 01, 1996 7:15:16 PM

+
      {regarding how long it took to get the "Kosh scene" just
+       right}
+
+     It took, literally, months of trial and error, design and
+redesign, which is why  we did it as the last episode of that
+season.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?   (January 01, 1996 9:43:10 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 01, 1996 9:43:10 PM

+
     No, it wasn't Bester at the Senator's office.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Chess boobs (26-Jan-96 11:58:09)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Jan-96 11:58:09

+
 Kenneth Porter <76161.3013@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can you have a surprise checkmate with two apparently
+> chess-knowledgeable onlookers? BTW, how many of the cast and crew
+> have played chess?
+
+     Actually, I play chess, though not as much as I used to...and
+believe me, there are *many* times I've been surprised and ambushed by
+a move I absolutely did NOT see coming.  (I'm also a sucker for a
+fool's mate.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Opening fly-by (26-Jan-96 22:10:21)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Jan-96 22:10:21

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Because we have to make the season 3 title sequence *very* early
+in the shooting process; we need shots to go out in the first episode
+title sequence, but we've only shot a few episodes by the time we need
+to deliver. So most shots tend to come from the preceding season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scheduling in UK (26-Jan-96 22:10:23)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Jan-96 22:10:23

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should the same situation recur, can you please encourage Warner
+> Brothers to adopt the same solution? Are the Vorlons connected
+> with the Illuminati?
+
+     You're assuming I have *any* sway with WB/PTEN about scheduling. 
+I don't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 tapes in Aus (27-Jan-96 15:33:20)
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Jan-96 15:33:20

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yup, that's Harlan for you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Military Questions (27-Jan-96 20:28:19)
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Jan-96 20:28:19

+
 Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Jack be appearing again, or will he be mentioned again?
+
+     He'll be mentioned again, yes, in the very next episode, in fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Action Fig. - 'ish! (27-Jan-96 20:28:20)
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Jan-96 20:28:20

+
 Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is this I hear that Henry Unger Associates have been
+> licenced to produce Babylon 5 statuettes? Can you tell me a bit
+> more about what they will be doing, planned release date etc.? 
+> I understand that the same firm also do action figures for other
+> licences, if they were to ask (and you are happy with their work
+> on the statuettes) would you allow them to produce action
+> figures?
+
+     I haven't heard about this yet, so can't comment.  If it does go
+ahead, I'll be involved in consulting on it, so I'll have a better
+sense of this at that time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+COS <-> MOH connection? (27-Jan-96 20:28:21)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Jan-96 20:28:21

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Wow, what a great line-up; almost makes me wish I was in NY.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bruce B. on E.T (27-Jan-96 20:28:25)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Jan-96 20:28:25

+
 Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you have any luck syndicating?
+
+     Bruce was on ET...?  Gotta check that.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Atlnta Scheduling Change (28-Jan-96 14:23:33)
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-Jan-96 14:23:33

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Ah, well....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (28-Jan-96 14:23:34)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-Jan-96 14:23:34

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That is what I've always assumed, but my wife wonders if they
+> might not actually be a cross purposes to the others? You really
+> used the entire cast, didn't you?
+
+      Thanks...we keep working to make the show better each season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The Gathering: Garibaldi    (January 01, 1996 9:50:13 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 01, 1996 9:50:13 PM

+
     No, it was intended to be chemically inoffensive...I
+think the props folks just  put out drinks on the table and
+didn't think too much about it.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Time Change in Atlanta (29-Jan-96 00:27:20)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29-Jan-96 00:27:20

+
 Les P. George <76162.1250@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does PTEN have any type of contractual say so with individual
+> stations as to when to air the episodes?
+
+     Yes, I've heard this; we've always had trouble with that station
+in terms of air schedules and availability of slots.  There's nothing
+anyone can do about it at this end; only local pressure can make an
+impact.  (And some of the worst offenders do the "low rated" argument
+to cover the fact that they just have too many prior commitments to
+other networks like UPN and/or FOX or WBN...or that they just don't
+like the show for one reason or another.  Some shows have actually been
+bought by stations and *shelved* because they didn't want to air it,
+but at the same time didn't want anyone else in the market to air it
+either.  (This happened to us on Twilight Zone on several occasions.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Organizing B5 Details (29-Jan-96 00:27:22)
+
+
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+
Organizing B5 Details

+
Date: 29-Jan-96 00:27:22

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you keep it all straight as you're writing new episodes?
+> Do you have some sort of an external memory-jog like an erasable
+> marker board (with different colored markers) or an industrial
+> suppy of Post-it notes? Or are all the details of the B5 universe
+> maintained on strictly internal storage?
+
+     As I make the changes, in large measure I just keep it all in my
+head, though a few things get written down and put on post-it notes
+around my home office monitor.  It's like a number-cruncher program;
+you make one change, hit return, and it incorporates all the
+permutations of that change down the line. That's kind of what I do in
+my head.  I change one item, let the ramifications ripple through it
+all, and now it's all there.  By doing this every time I make a slight
+modification, it lets me see what impact it may have down the line, so
+I can avoid making any changes that seriously conflict with the larger
+storyline.  It's a headache -- figuratively and literally -- but the 
+effort of doing so keeps me on track.
+
+     After that, it's mainly a process of remembering what happened; I
+treat this as the history of the Babylon station.  This is what
+"happened" in the universe I created in my head.
+
+     Problem is, this occupies all the available RAM my brain seems to
+contain.  I have zip memory for anything else that I can consider even
+remotely expendable, like appointments, remembering to pick up dry
+cleaning, bringing a magazine to a friend's house who'd requested a
+copy of something, on and on.  If it ain't involved with B5, it just
+slides outta my brain.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Organizing B5 Details (29-Jan-96 12:54:58)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29-Jan-96 12:54:58

+
 Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Bad news for John Ostrander, then?
+> Or will you make some room in your brain to fit that project in?
+
+     No, I wouldn't be doing the Grimjack project until *after* I'd
+finished this season's scripts in late February.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (29-Jan-96 12:55:01)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29-Jan-96 12:55:01

+
 Gerard Keating (Ireland) <71154.3423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Marcus's "French" comment be change for the French Language
+> Version???
+
+     No idea....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+bk 4 question (29-Jan-96 23:43:37)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29-Jan-96 23:43:37

+
 Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+     I haven't read the book since the galleys, and don't have a copy
+of the finished book yet, so this will have to wait until it arrives. 
+I don't recall the exact specifics of the paragraphs in question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Lyta in "Clarkes Law" (30-Jan-96 15:57:43)
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+
Date: 30-Jan-96 15:57:43

+
 Mike Biracree <71776.3456@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+     I don't know how that would've gotten past me...I don't recall
+seeing that in the draft...either I was tired when reading, or it was
+added later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Personal request (30-Jan-96 15:57:45)
+
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+
Date: 30-Jan-96 15:57:45

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Done and done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Divided Loyalties (30-Jan-96 15:59:54)
+
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Date: 30-Jan-96 15:59:54

+
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+
+     It's a moment of transition and awkwardness, more than anything
+else, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<We need a mind wipe>> (30-Jan-96 21:36:27)
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+
Date: 30-Jan-96 21:36:27

+
 Tony Scarpelli <71535.306@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you please get your people to put the name of the episode at
+> the end? Can they, or we, other humans, forgive such a creature?
+
+     Thanks.  The only problem with putting the title at the end of
+the episode, in the closing credits, is that many stations chop off the
+end credits altogether.  So it's best to have them in the beginning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Richard Biggs (30-Jan-96 21:36:28)
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+
Date: 30-Jan-96 21:36:28

+
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+
+     Ah...so it's out then?  I'll have to get 15 copies for the stage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Hello!                  (January 01, 1996 9:54:04 PM)
+
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+
 Hello!                 

+
Date: January 01, 1996 9:54:04 PM

+
      <Quoting Neil Blevins to The Jawa/Jawa #2>
+
+      >You're  a Jawa and not a Jawaette. Are there male
+      >Jawas? I know so little about your  species.
+
+
+     Jawanettes?  Jawaninas?  Jawanesses?  Jawarinas? 
+Jawanatrix? 
+Jawatress?
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where do baby narn come (30-Jan-96 21:36:30)
+
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+
Date: 30-Jan-96 21:36:30

+
 John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+     Yes, John, it's true.  Now finish your brussel sprouts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Richard Biggs (31-Jan-96 11:42:53)
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+
Date: 31-Jan-96 11:42:53

+
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+
+     I'm not getting *near* this one....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5: Run Around (31-Jan-96 11:59:51)
+
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+
Date: 31-Jan-96 11:59:51

+
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+
+     "57th out of 75 shows."  Just to correct you: that figure is from
+the Christmas period rerun, which was low for everybody, and second,
+it's not out of 75 shows, that's usually just the top batch they list,
+it's 57th that week out of 275 syndicated shows.  Usually we do in the
+40s out of 275, which puts us in the top 20% of all syndicated shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 31-Jan-96 11:59:53

+
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+
+     The other part, I think, is that they were kind of amused to see
+this dinky little ship getting in their face, when they *knew* the
+First Ones could blast 'em to bits....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 31-Jan-96 11:59:55

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Who said they didn't recognize it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5: Run Around (31-Jan-96 15:34:30)
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+
Date: 31-Jan-96 15:34:30

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How are we among syndicated dramas?
+> How happy is WB?
+
+     Usually we're in the top ten of all syndicated dramas; WB is
+making money on the show's advertising, which is their main concern, so
+insofar as I have heard, they're happy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Where do baby narn come (31-Jan-96 15:34:37)
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+
Date: 31-Jan-96 15:34:37

+
 John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where does she carry the baby?
+> Where does it come out of?
+> Is it a proper baby or is it a wriggly octopussy thing that turns
+> into a humanoid later? How big is it?
+> Do they live in water?
+> Do baby boy Centauri have to wear wigs?
+
+     Ask your mother.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 31-Jan-96 21:37:49

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     You can't do that; you can only have the title card once, because
+SAG, DGA, WGA and other unions have rules that regulate where their
+workers appear in relation to the title of the episode.  If you have it
+twice, you mess that up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 31-Jan-96 21:37:50

+
 Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any luck in Las Vegas marketing B5 for syndication?
+
+     Haven't heard yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 31-Jan-96 21:37:53

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yes, we'll have a female PA pick them up.  (I don't have the
+heart to tell anyone that they're usually in the Gay Men's Magazine
+section....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Gerard Keating (Ireland) January 02, 1996 3:35:04 PM
+
+      <Quoting Gerard Keating to JMS>:
+
+      >"Have we seen the last of the DeathWalkers race, The
+      >Dilgar?"
+
+     They're dead as doornails.
+
+         jms
+
+
+
+
+ Upcoming:B5 Ep          (January 01, 1996 3:09:03 AM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 01, 1996 3:09:03 AM

+
      {Regarding Majel Barrett Roddenberry going back into 
+       acting}
+
+      I'd just like to say that Majel did a great job for us
+on B5, and we are hoping  we can come up with other opportuni-
+ties for the character to return.  I know that  Majel is
+interested in pursuing other acting gigs outside ST, and I
+wish her all the  best.  I think other shows would do well to
+utilize her abilities; everyone had a  great time working with
+her, and she should be recognized for work other than  ST.
+
+       Perhaps folks should let the producers of other shows
+know that she's  available now, and interested, and that
+they'd like to see her appear on other  shows from time to
+time.  (Maybe someone could drop the folks at X-Files of 
+Space a note in their forums....)
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ From jms: info          (January 02, 1996 1:28:19 AM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 02, 1996 1:28:19 AM

+
      <Quoting Pat Russell to JMS>:
+
+      >Walter is doing a great job with Bester.  Understand we
+      >will  see him again this season.  Looking forward to
+      >it.  Tell him he does "rotten" well.   
+
+     Yeah, Walter's doing a great job with it.  So far we're
+going to see Bester twice  this season at least, which I'm
+very happy about.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ From jms: info          (January 03, 1996 4:22:14 PM)
+
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+
Date: January 03, 1996 4:22:14 PM

+
     Walter is also in "Ship of Tears."
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ From jms: info          (January 04, 1996 2:47:08 AM)
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+
Date: January 04, 1996 2:47:08 AM

+
      {regarding B5 being one of the top rated shows on WDCA}
+
+     That's good to know; WDCA has been very supportive of B5
+from the very  beginning, hence the show is, as you quote,
+"one of (their) highest rated  programs."  Those that treat
+the show well, find it *does* well.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ The One                 (January 02, 1996 8:31:13 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 02, 1996 8:31:13 PM

+
     Careful...you're straying into concrete story ideas
+here....
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Dr. Seuss version of B5.    (January 02, 1996 8:28:15 PM)
+
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+
 Dr. Seuss version of B5.   

+
Date: January 02, 1996 8:28:15 PM

+
This Message, by Kevin Freels, was posted to the RASTB5
+newsgroup a few  days ago and I repost it here with permis-
+sion.
+
+If Dr. Suess had written for Babylon 5....
+
+(...Intro music starts up when 
+we see the network of P-TEN...)
+
+We live here on Bab'lon 5
+to keep our last great hope alive.
+So far, it seems, since Season One,
+The war of Shadows has begun.
+So victory now is what we need
+if Bab'lon Five is to succeed!
+
+This Minbari, she's Delenn.
+She speaks in riddles now & then.
+She has a bone upon her head.
+She'd rather have some hair instead.
+
+Delenn:
+"Hi there! Ho there! My old friend!
+It's nice to see you once again.
+Come, let's talk of Councils Gray,
+And Crystal candles as we pray.
+I live here on Bab'lon Five
+To keep our last great hope alive."
+
+This is Delenn's friend, Lennier.
+You may ask, "Why is he here?
+He looks familiar! I know his face!
+He used to be on 'Lost in Space'!".
+Just like her, he's real verbose,
+And smells like fish-heads when you're up close.
+
+Londo:
+"I am Londo, tall and proud!
+(though some might say that I'm too loud!)
+I'm Centauri, so you see.
+My hair defies all gravity.
+We Centauri will someday rule.
+(Actually, we're just a tool.
+The Shadows really run the game.
+Alas! Such is the price of fame!)
+I like women, game, and drink.
+I drink and drink 'till I can't think!
+I live here on Bab'lon Five
+To keep my ego hopes alive.
+
+This is my assistant, Vir."
+
+Vir:
+"I would like--"
+
+Londo:      "Get out of here!"
+
+This green lizard is G'Kar.
+He has come from very far.
+
+G'Kar:
+"I'm not a lizard! I'm a Narn!
+Time is crucial! I must warn!
+We're all in danger! Londo's nuts!
+His henchmen shadows kicked our butts!
+They've driven us down to our knees!
+Send lawyers, guns and money, please!
+Ion cannons! Ruby lasers!
+Even dusty Star Trek phasers!"
+
+This is Kosh. He gives me creeps!
+He barely speaks, just whirrrs & beeps.
+
+Kosh:
+*clakkity* *clakkity*!! *whirrr* *buzz* Beep!
+"You've always been here!" *ka-chunk* *gleep*!
+
+He always says that in fog-like scenes.
+I still don't know just what it means!
+He wears that suit to hide from us.
+Does he wear it on the bus?
+
+Garibaldi:
+"They're all guilty! Every one!
+I'll bust 'em up to have some fun!
+I'll bring in those bad beserkers,
+All those liars, thieves and lurkers."
+
+He's my Chief Security.
+Testosterone flows in him free.
+He's pretty edgy. I know why.
+Since Mars was home, well, he's been dry.
+He's really hyper, so I think.
+But imagine if he had a drink!
+
+This is Susan--
+
+Ivanova:
+             "As you were!
+I'm Ivanova! And call me 'Sir'!
+I'm delicate, on one small side,
+But touch me and I'll tan your hide!
+And though to you I might appeal,
+I once faked sex to clinch a deal.
+So stand your post and keep your ground,
+Or, I promise, you I'll pound."
+
+Meet the Doctor. He stays up late,
+And works for forty hours straight!
+
+Dr. Franklin:
+"I heal aliens, those are my jobs.
+Humans and Martians, Reptiles and Blobs! 
+Wozzles and Snangles and Bug-eyed Kertunkers!
+Yellow-faced insects with Red-winged Dondunkers!
+Centauri! Membari! Vorlons and Narn!
+I'd even help creatures made out of yarn!
+So I will stay living on Bab'lon Five
+To keep all these strange little creatures alive!"
+
+Talia's a telepath.
+She once followed in our path.
+But a time-bomb in her mind
+Has made her evil and unkind.
+It's doubtful she can be our friend.
+Our trust in her is at an end.
+
+The Psi-corp has a man named Bester.
+He could be labled "Mind Molester".
+He's evil, mean, and nasty, too!
+He can read the thoughts of you.
+We must give him credit, tho.
+He drove a starship years ago.
+
+Bester:
+"I've known your kind and what to do.
+So I'll be back. Be seeing you."
+
+This man Morden, standing here.
+He is one that you should fear.
+He has shadows for his brothers.
+He doesn't play so well with others.
+
+---
+
+So that's my story. It's lonely here.
+We're so far out, there is no beer.
+
+I'm stuck out here on Bab'lon Five
+To keep our last great hope alive.
+I'm stuck out here, it's just not fair!
+It's all the fault of that Sinclair!
+He bailed out, I took the fall,
+And now he won't return my call!
+
+But...
+
+It could be worse, it's just five years.
+Or I could have Ferengi ears.
+And when all is said and done,
+I'm not Harlan Ellison!
+--
+...kevin
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Dr. Seuss version of B5.   (January 03, 1996 12:26:02 AM)
+
+
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+
 Dr. Seuss version of B5.  

+
Date: January 03, 1996 12:26:02 AM

+
     Too, too, too weird....funny, though....
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Talia/Control Nitpick   (January 02, 1996 1:28:18 AM)
+
+
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+
 Talia/Control Nitpick  

+
Date: January 02, 1996 1:28:18 AM

+
      {regarding referring to Control as "he"}
+
+      You always refer to agents in the single "he" form to
+avoid giving away  identities.
+
+      That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ ARRRRRRRRGGGHHH!        (January 03, 1996 2:49:15 AM)
+
+
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+
 ARRRRRRRRGGGHHH!       

+
Date: January 03, 1996 2:49:15 AM

+
      <Quoting Lynn Dimock to ALL>:
+
+      >I'm sorry, I know this is thread drift, but my team is
+      >getting its butt whopped at the  Fiesta Bowl and I am
+      >ready to scream. It's not so much the score as the way 
+      >three Florida guys have had to be hauled off the field
+      >so far (how many football  players do you hear of with
+      >dislocated *hips* for crying out loud), and the general
+      >attitude of the Nebraska players. And yes, if my guys
+      >were acting like that I'd still  be upset (though, to
+      >be honest, not as much).
+
+     You are not ready for victory.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?   (January 03, 1996 8:56:22 PM)
+
+
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+
 Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?  

+
Date: January 03, 1996 8:56:22 PM

+
<<No, it wasn't Bester at the Senator's office.>>
+
+This is probably one of those Questions Which Will Not Be
+Answered, but...
+
+..any reason why?
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?    (January 04, 1996 2:47:06 AM)
+
+
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+
 Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?   

+
Date: January 04, 1996 2:47:06 AM

+
     Yes.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?   (January 04, 1996 2:56:20 AM)
+
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+
 Bester PsiCorp Shadows ?  

+
Date: January 04, 1996 2:56:20 AM

+
     "To define is to kill; to suggest is to create." 
+Mallarme.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ THANKS FOREVER BOOK     (January 04, 1996 2:47:10 AM)
+
+
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+
 THANKS FOREVER BOOK    

+
Date: January 04, 1996 2:47:10 AM

+
    Actually, the reruns aren't skipping the season 3 opener,
+only (for some  reason) the season 2 closer; the first one of
+year three just aired here in LA  tonight, in fact.
+
+     And thanks....
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ ITS OVER                (January 04, 1996 2:56:21 AM)
+
+
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+
 ITS OVER               

+
Date: January 04, 1996 2:56:21 AM

+
      <Quoting Jeff Frank>:
+
+      >Just to pick a nit that drives me up the fraggen wall: 
+      >The millennia doesn't end  on December 31, 1999, but on
+      >December 31, 2000.  There was no year 0 so the  end of
+      >the first thousand years occurred on December 31, 1000.
+
+     Funny thing is, some mathematicians disagree with this
+assessment; no,  there was no year 0, but there was a year 10
+and 20 and 30 and so on (though  all, as you note, assigned in
+retrospect).  So some of them have taken the  position that
+the first century was simply short one year, rather than
+rolling every  other century back one year.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Legacies Question       (January 05, 1996 1:52:28 AM)
+
+
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+
 Legacies Question      

+
Date: January 05, 1996 1:52:28 AM

+
      <Quoting Michael Guenther to JMS>:
+
+      >I just saw Legacies last night and I have a question
+      >for you concerning the young  Telepath introduced in
+      >the story. Now that  Alison and Sinclair are on the
+      >Minbari  homeworld has Sinclair met her since then? 
+      >Will we see more of her?  I'm sure  a P10 would come in
+      >handy for the coming struggle...
+
+     There are no current plans for that character, no.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 Aliens Streib        (January 05, 1996 1:52:29 AM)
+
+
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+
 B5 Aliens Streib       

+
Date: January 05, 1996 1:52:29 AM

+
      <Quoting Bert Johnson to JMS>:
+
+      >I have been going throught the AVI files in my new B5
+      >screen saver and came  upon the Streib.  Are they named
+      >in recogntion of Whitley Streiber's aliens in his 
+      >books?  They look the same.
+
+     It's a nod, yes; and the comics were/are meant to be
+complementary, within  the B5 universe but not required to
+follow the show.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5 Aliens Streib        (January 05, 1996 3:46:10 PM)
+
+
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+
 B5 Aliens Streib       

+
Date: January 05, 1996 3:46:10 PM

+
      {regarding a new B5 novel}
+
+     Yes, there's another novel due out fairly soon, within
+the next month or so.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Official Fanclub        (January 05, 1996 1:52:31 AM)
+
+
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+
 Official Fanclub       

+
Date: January 05, 1996 1:52:31 AM

+
      <Quoting Susan Law to JMS>:
+
+      >Saw your post on rastb5 a couple of days ago - enjoyed
+      >it.  Anyhow regarding B5  merchandise that you're
+      >considering - how about the Ranger pins -  any chance 
+      >of those being available?  I'd sure spring for one.  
+
+     Not a bad idea; those would be expensive to make, though,
+so I'm not sure if  it'd work.  We'll see....
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ JMS at Necrnomicon?     (January 02, 1996 3:35:07 PM)
+
+
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+
 JMS at Necrnomicon?    

+
Date: January 02, 1996 3:35:07 PM

+
      {regarding when Necronomicon is}
+
+     October sometime.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ B5: Promoting B5        (January 05, 1996 2:10:31 AM)
+
+
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+
 B5: Promoting B5       

+
Date: January 05, 1996 2:10:31 AM

+
      <Quoting Peter Sathis to ALL>:
+
+      >Just curious, but I was wondering why none of the cast
+      >members have done the  talk show circuit? It couldn't
+      >hurt. I also heard that when Harlan was on Tom 
+      >Snyder's show he made no mention of B5 at all.
+
+     Once again you make broad statements: "none of the cast
+members have  done the talk show circuit."  Not correct. 
+Bruce has done the Stephanie Miller  show, showed up on the
+Tonight Show, the Mike and Maddie show (same there  for Jerry
+Doyle, who's done other talk shows including several network
+morning  shows, such as the the FX cable network show),
+they've all done various national  radio shows, and other talk
+shows.
+
+     So for starters you're not correct; they're doing some,
+and we're working on  doing more.  The problem is that most
+talk shows want major, recognized stars  from hit network
+shows, and syndication doesn't get a lot of attention there.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Official Fanclub        (January 06, 1996 12:20:21 AM)
+
+
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+
 Official Fanclub       

+
Date: January 06, 1996 12:20:21 AM

+
     We literally just signed the contracts; we now have to
+get a space for the  fanclub operations, set up the www page
+(which we hope will be up during the  next batch of episodes),
+hire the people we've selected to run it, and then we can  put
+the word out.  As with everything else, we always make sure
+we're prepared  before going forward with anything.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Minbari Military        (January 06, 1996 12:20:18 AM)
+
+
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+
 Minbari Military       

+
Date: January 06, 1996 12:20:18 AM

+
      <Quoting Paul Owen to JMS>:
+
+      >As we are waiting for Season 3 here in the UK I was
+      >just wondering why are the  Rangers here at all?? where
+      >is the Minbari military in all of this , ? Is this
+      >another  twist in an already superbly convoluted
+      >plot???.  Is this going to become clearer in S3
+
+     This is one of the things that's better gone into in the
+show.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ "Survivors" question...   (January 06, 1996 12:20:19 AM)
+
+
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+
 "Survivors" question...  

+
Date: January 06, 1996 12:20:19 AM

+
      <Quoting Neville White to JMS>:
+
+      >I hope you don't mind me asking, but I was wondering
+      >the other day whether  there was any come-back on the
+      >woman from Garibaldi's past that we saw in  "Survivors"
+      >back in series one... security for president Santiago,
+      >yet he got  assassinated at the end of series one...
+
+     No, we haven't established what happened to her, but we
+will in time.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ "Survivors" question... (January 06, 1996 6:13:18 PM)
+
+
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+
 "Survivors" question...

+
Date: January 06, 1996 6:13:18 PM

+
      <Quoting Gerald Himmelein to JMS>:
+
+      >{Well, we'll be waiting for her reappearance (or will
+      >she only appear in a  "throwaway line" like the
+      >resolution of the situation on Ragesh 3 in Season 1?).}
+
+     No, if we go into what happened, and where she is, it
+kinda behooves us to  show her.
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Midnight in the ...     (January 06, 1996 12:20:20 AM)
+
+
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+
 Midnight in the ...    

+
Date: January 06, 1996 12:20:20 AM

+
      <Quoting Sharon Foster to JMS>:
+
+      >Forgive me if this has been asked a dozen times by now,
+      >but a friend of mine  wants to know if Harlan's story
+      >in next month's Fantasy & Science Fiction, called 
+      >"Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral", is a Babylon 5
+      >story and if so, is it canonical.   He says it was the
+      >working title of an episode that never got made.
+
+    No, it's not a B5 story; he liked the title, and used it
+there instead.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Grand Admiral           (January 06, 1996 12:20:25 AM)
+
+
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+
 Grand Admiral          

+
Date: January 06, 1996 12:20:25 AM

+
     Knowing Bruce, *every* charity is his favorite charity. 
+Any one you pick will  likely be fine.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Famous "Who Are you?"   (January 06, 1996 6:13:13 PM)
+
+
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+
 Famous "Who Are you?"  

+
Date: January 06, 1996 6:13:13 PM

+
      {regarding the question "who are you?"}
+
+     Yeah, that's one of the primal questions, isn't it?  And
+one that we are too often  distracted from considering.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ <Ship of Tears> Stuff   (January 07, 1996 7:21:12 PM)
+
+
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+
 <Ship of Tears> Stuff  

+
Date: January 07, 1996 7:21:12 PM

+
      <Quoting John M. Kahane to JMS>:
+
+      >is there  more that you can say about this episode and
+      >the Bester role?
+
+     Could, yeah, but I'd rather let that episode reveal
+itself...there's not much I can  say about it that wouldn't
+spoil it for people.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Tonight's repeat episode   (January 07, 1996 7:21:15 PM)
+
+
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+
 Tonight's repeat episode  

+
Date: January 07, 1996 7:21:15 PM

+
      <Quoting Rebecca Eschliman to JMS>:
+
+      >Whether Centauri, Narn, Minbari, Drazi, Vorlon, If  one
+      >stops to think about the fact that these civilizations
+      >have not developed  against a background of human
+      >interactions it is a lot more difficult to assign a 
+      >morality to their actions.  Therefore one has to
+      >examine one's own ethical beliefs  is contrast to
+      >whatever reactions we have to your other civilazations
+      >and one  hopes, to think about why we believe what we
+      >do.
+
+      I think it's not enough just to *have* non-Earth
+civilizations.  First you have to  explore them, and set them
+up as real, individual forces. Second, it becomes  easy to
+say, "Well, I don't have to think about this particular issue,
+it's just an alien  thing.  Isn't it interesting that they
+should feel this way?"  It's more effective in  some way to
+make the *really* challenging issues ones that directly
+involve  humans...it doesn't leave us as much wriggle room to
+avoid considering the  issue.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Tonight's repeat episode   (January 01, 1996 9:50:14 PM)
+
+
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+
 Tonight's repeat episode  

+
Date: January 01, 1996 9:50:14 PM

+
     BTW, if you're really looking for something around which
+to base a sermon,  read Mark Twain's "The Man Who Corrupted
+Hadleyburg," available in most of  his anthologies.  I think
+the operative point will come through without my having to
+spell it out here.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ KIDIST REMARK IN "TKO"  (January 07, 1996 7:32:24 PM)
+
+
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+
 KIDIST REMARK IN "TKO" 

+
Date: January 07, 1996 7:32:24 PM

+
      <Quoting The Jawa/Jawa #2 to JMS>:
+
+      >This is a catastrophe of immense proportions!!
+      >IVANOVA MADE A KIDIST REMARK IN "TKO"!
+      >The scene: father's memorial.
+      >The remark: "...pouting in that way that only 13
+      >     can..."
+      >I don't know what to do.
+      >Ivanova seemed so *decent!*
+      >Joe, Joe, how could you let that slip PAST??
+      >What should we do?
+
+     Point One: the script was written by Larry DiTillio, not
+me.
+
+     Point Two: the comment is essentially correct; ain't
+nobody can pout like a 13  year old.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+  To:  Michael Milutinovic  Monday, January 08, 1996 1:41:22
+
+      <Quoting Michael Milutinovic to JMS>:
+
+      >Are the Sheridan, Garibaldi and the others keeping an
+      >eye on Morden?
+
+     They do when he's there, or at least they try to, but
+he's not there a lot, and  when he is...well, see for your-
+self....
+
+       jms
+
+
+
+
+ Another oldie query...    (January 08, 1996 11:56:07 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 08, 1996 11:56:07 PM

+
      <Quoting Neville White to JMS>:
+
+      ><snip>
+      >Lennier revealed to Sheridan et. al. at the start of
+      >series 2 the issue of  discovering Minbari souls in
+      >(some?) humans as the reason for surrendering at  the
+      >climax of the war.
+      >
+      >My question is:- does Sinclair know this too? Do the
+      >Minbari know how much he  knows, and if so do they mind
+      >now? If this all gets sorted out in the much  antici-
+      >pated series 3, you can just say "it's in series 3" if
+      >you like!
+
+     Sinclair knows now.  And the triluminary mark is an
+implant, which reacts that  way in the presence of shadows or
+their direct "employees."
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ "And Now a Word..."     (January 08, 1996 11:56:08 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 08, 1996 11:56:08 PM

+
      <Quoting William H. DiPaola to JMS>:
+
+      >I seem to recall in the episode from last  season
+      >titled, "And Now A Word..." that G'Kar's name was
+      >misspelled with in "H"  in place of the "K" when he was
+      >being interviewed(G'Har).
+
+     No, I'm pretty sure it was spelled right; it may just be
+the typeface used that  makes a K look a bit like an H.
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Novels               (January 08, 1996 11:56:14 PM)
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+
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+
Date: January 08, 1996 11:56:14 PM

+
     There are two more novels coming out after "Clark's Law,"
+one by Neal Barrett  Jr. and the other by S. M. Stirling.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Novels			 (January 10, 1996 11:40:03 PM)
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+
Date: January 10, 1996 11:40:03 PM

+
     His novel is about Babylon 5.  You were expecting talking mice?
+
+     (To say more is to give it away; suffice to say that Stirling's 
+book has some really nice stuff with Garibaldi, Londo and Ivanova in 
+particular, though the other characters are treated nicely as well.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Our Official Name       (January 09, 1996 2:57:22 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 09, 1996 2:57:22 AM

+
      <Quoting Rowan Kaiser to ALL>:
+
+      >What's our official name?  Star Trek buffs are 
+      >"trekkies", X-files fans are  "X-philes", MST3K fans
+      >are MiSTies, so what are we?
+
+       PITAS.
+
+       Persons of Infinite Taste And Sensibilities.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <FoN: Scarves>          (January 10, 1996 3:59:17 AM)
+
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+
 <FoN: Scarves>         

+
Date: January 10, 1996 3:59:17 AM

+
      <Quoting SysOp Dupa T. Parrot to JMS>:
+
+      >In "The Fall Of Night", in the fighter jock's locker
+      >room we see Keffer wearing a  blue scarf with white
+      >stars. Meanwhile, "Mitch" is wearing what looks like a
+      >white  scarf with red stars.  Is the scarf a squadron
+      >thing or something else?
+
+     I do believe they relate to squadrons, yes.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Ship of Tears> Stuff   (January 07, 1996 7:21:12 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 07, 1996 7:21:12 PM

+
      <Quoting John M. Kahane to JMS>:
+
+      >Isn't this the one that  has Shadow ship and stuff in
+      >it?  I don't know all that much about it, but is there 
+      >more that you can say about this episode and the Bester
+      >role?
+
+     Could, yeah, but I'd rather let that episode reveal
+itself...there's not much I can  say about it that wouldn't
+spoil it for people.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ "Survivors" question...   (January 08, 1996 11:56:16 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 08, 1996 11:56:16 PM

+
      <Quoting John M. Kahane to JMS>:
+
+      >I have always thought that Lianna Kemmer  was an
+      >important person in the life of Michael Garibaldi, and
+      >"Survivors" left a few  threads hanging.  It'll be good
+      >to see or at least find out what happened to Lianna  in
+      >the aftermath of Santiago's death.  If nothing else, I
+      >don't think she was on  board Earthforce One when it
+      >blew, since she'd be doing the work on Io station 
+      >proper, right?
+
+     That's correct; as with her arrival at B5, she would've
+been handling the  advance work on Io prior to Santiago's
+arrival.
+
+       jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Ship of Tears> Stuff		 (January 11, 1996 12:33:05 AM)
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+
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+
Date: January 11, 1996 12:33:05 AM

+
     I'll say one thing about one of those eps, but I won't say which 
+one; when people hear what it appears to be about, the immediate 
+reaction is going to be "Oh, god, they're not doing THAT are they?" 
+and there'll be a lot of sarcasm and head shaking...until the 
+episode airs, and folks see that what it's about...is *not* what it's 
+about...and I think it'll be a very popular episode thereafter.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Official Fanclub        (January 01, 1996 7:15:14 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 01, 1996 7:15:14 PM

+
      <Quoting Keith R. Helms to JMS>:
+
+      >is there someone somewhere we can write, call, fax,
+      >email, etc.?
+
+     Nope, it's been tried, without success, so we may attempt
+doing the videos  ourselves on a limited-edition basis.
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Novels			 (January 13, 1996 2:00:20 AM)
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+
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+
Date: January 13, 1996 2:00:20 AM

+
     What happens is that the company waits until they know if the 
+series is picked up for the next season before issuing more books; 
+once we're picked up, they assign more books to writers, so 
+there's always a delay.
+
+                    jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ <Ship of Tears> Stuff		 (January 11, 1996 11:57:05 PM)
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+
Date: January 11, 1996 11:57:05 PM

+
	<<"Oh, god, they're not doing THAT are they?" and there'll be
+a lot of sarcasm and head shaking...until the episode airs, and folks 
+see that what it's about...is *not* what it's about...and I think 
+it'll be a very popular episode thereafter>
+
+	So the episode we see will not be the episode we see, nor
+will it be the episode seen by anyone else???>
+
+     Go to your room.
+
+                  jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ A question about Morden		 (January 11, 1996 3:11:08 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 11, 1996 3:11:08 PM

+
<Just a thought, but was the bod who supplied The Eye in Signs and 
+Portents one of the Shadows little helpers?>
+
+     If you mean Morden, yes.
+
+                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Another oldie query...		 (January 12, 1996 2:54:28 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 12, 1996 2:54:28 PM

+
<>>And the triluminary mark is an implant, which reacts that way in 
+the presence of shadows or their direct "employees."
+
+In that case, why did it appear on Delenn's forehead during 
+Sinclair's interrogation at the Battle of the Line?  And why was it 
+on the Grey Council member's forehead at the end of "And the Sky 
+Full of Stars"?>
+
+      It's also the insignia of the Grey Council, given its long 
+tradition of safeguarding.  They use it at certain times and under 
+certain conditions.
+
+                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Fan club				 (January 13, 1996 2:00:21 AM)
+
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+
 Fan club				

+
Date: January 13, 1996 2:00:21 AM

+
     Like I said, we've barely gotten the paperwork signed; we're in 
+the process now of initiating a web site, getting the incorporation 
+papers, so we're still doing all the business stuff at this point.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ellison voice of comp?		 (January 13, 1996 2:00:22 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 13, 1996 2:00:22 AM

+
     Yes, Harlan does the voice; where did you get the notion that 
+he was going to be less involved?
+
+                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ellison voice of comp?		 (January 13, 1996 8:28:01 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 13, 1996 8:28:01 PM

+
     Harlan does whatever Harlan wants.
+
+                                    jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Ellison voice of comp?		 (January 14, 1996 4:53:12 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 14, 1996 4:53:12 PM

+
	<So basically he stands there and says, "I like that...
+that's good...I like that...<whack> Joe, what were you thinking?--
+that needs to be redone completely!"
+	Then he tells you how he thinks you should do it.
+	Am I close <G>?>
+
+     Not bad.
+
+          jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Opening credits season 3		 (January 14, 1996 4:53:11 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 14, 1996 4:53:11 PM

+
<Is their any significance to the fact that only half the cast is 
+turning their heads on the opening credits?  I believe it's 
+Garibaldi, Zack, G'Kar, and Vir.  Does that indicate that their 
+stories "turn" this year also or that the story turns around them?>
+
+     No, I don't think even I could ever manage to be that obscure.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ "Star Lost" TV Series		 (January 15, 1996 1:27:02 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 15, 1996 1:27:02 AM

+
     "...never once did he (Harlan) disown that effort (`City 
+on the Edge of Forever')...."
+
+     The only thing wrong with that statement is that it 
+isn't true.
+
+     Harlan only kept his own name on City after Roddenberry 
+pleaded with him to do so; further, it was Harlan's *original* 
+script, not the rewrite, that earned the Writers Guild of 
+America award that year...and, in fact, he has *always* 
+maintained in print, and in every interview that he's given, 
+that he is in no way responsible for the televised version.  
+You are, basically, repeating a canard that Gene repeated at 
+cons, that was not in any way, manner, shape or form the 
+truth.
+
+     If you want to get the documented facts in this case, not 
+the mythos that's grown up around it, I suggest you get the 
+Borderlands Press version of "City," which includes memos, all 
+versions of the script and outline, and afterwords by Nimoy, 
+Kelley, Koenig, Takai and others involved in the episode.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ ST Book from J Friedmann   (January 01, 1996 3:03:27 AM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 01, 1996 3:03:27 AM

+
     At last count there were only a few copies of Ellison's
+CITY ON THE EDGE OF  FOREVER limited-edition hardcover,
+containing various versions of the script,  outlines, essays
+by Nimoy and Takai and Koenig and Kelley and others.  You  can
+order one by calling 1-800-528-3310.  They're $75 plus $5
+shipping and  handling.  (And they're gorgeous, well-made
+books, btw, well worth the money.)
+
+        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Matters of Honor			 (January 15, 1996 7:52:25 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 15, 1996 7:52:25 PM

+
<I was watching "Matters of Honor" last night. In the scene where 
+Londo is telling Morden to "disappear," there is a Minbari in the 
+background who I could swear is Lennier. Has Delenn's aide been 
+shadowing the shadow man?>
+
+     Nope, not Lennier.
+
+                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Novels			 (January 16, 1996 6:30:00 PM)
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+
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+
Date: January 16, 1996 6:30:00 PM

+
     <Mind you this does bring a question to mind:  Will there, 
+assuming the series reaches the end of Year 5 on tv, and there are 
+novels during this period...will there be novels in the B5 universe 
+*after* the series has come to its end?  Is this something that you 
+wouldn't mind, or is it sometning that you wouldn't want to see, 
+because of the continuity headaches and the creation of new material 
+that likely would fall outside the context and scope of the series 
+and the "B5 Bible"?>
+
+      It's something I really haven't had time to consider at this 
+point.
+
+   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?		 (January 16, 1996 6:30:03 PM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 16, 1996 6:30:03 PM

+
     There've been discussions about a DTV project, a one-off, but 
+nothing's set yet.  The ratings are doing well; the reason some 
+(not many) stations have time-shifted the show to later hours is 
+that independent stations only have 2 hours per night of prime 
+time, 8-10 p.m., doing news at 10.  More and more they're tied up 
+with pre-set agreements with Fox, UPN and WB, so anything else has 
+to get put into later slots.
+
+                         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?		 (January 17, 1996 4:05:11 PM)
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+
 Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?		

+
Date: January 17, 1996 4:05:11 PM

+
      Well, any time you move to a later slot it's going to affect 
+the numbers.  As for WB moving the show into later slots for 
+purposes alleged in a fanzine...for starters, WB has *zero* control 
+over where the stations run the show.  It's all determined locally.  
+So for starters the story is bogus. Second, on the "expensive" 
+line, our episodes cost just under $900,000 per, as opposed to $1.2 
+to $1.6 million per episode (or more) on DS9 and Voyager. Work it out.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ Babylon 5 Movie !?!?!?!?		 (January 18, 1996 1:02:09 AM)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: January 18, 1996 1:02:09 AM

+
     Seasons one and two both came in slightly under budget; we're 
+still into this season, but three is shaping up about the same.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Studio			 (January 18, 1996 1:02:09 AM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 18, 1996 1:02:09 AM

+
	<I'll be taking a business trip to LA next week and Ill 
+have tuesday afternoon to look around.  I was wondering if the 
+Warner Studios were open then for a visit?  I dont get to LA very 
+often, It is usually San Diego. I just thought I would ask.   
+Thanks.>
+
+     We don't shoot on the Warners lot, so it's kind of a moot 
+question (the facilities we do have, across town, aren't set up for 
+tours, I'm afraid).
+
+                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Hankies?			 (January 18, 1996 1:08:17 AM)
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+
Date: January 18, 1996 1:08:17 AM

+
     You just have to brace yourself for the work, and burn through 
+it by being somewhat monomanaical and obsessive.  It takes a toll, 
+but in the end, it is or should be worth it, otherwise why do it?
+
+     I've gotten used to handling work and deadlines, so it really 
+doesn't bother me too much, unless I'm really under the gun.  Thus 
+far, I've written something like 170 *produced* TV scripts, maybe 
+a bit more, and by the end of this season will have written 49 B5 
+scripts.  This season, in writing 22 episodes, not counting first 
+drafts and revisions which would double the figure easily, I'll 
+have written about 1,000 pages in less than 10 months. That's two 
+full-sized novels.
+
+     I try not to think about that too much....
+
+                                            jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+ B5 Hankies?			 (January 18, 1996 1:17:14 PM)
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+
Date: January 18, 1996 1:17:14 PM

+
      I've been on as much as usual; sometimes I have more to say, 
+sometimes even *I* get tired of my own "voice" after a while, and 
+figure everyone else must as well.
+
+                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Hankies?			 (January 19, 1996 1:44:17 PM)
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+
Date: January 19, 1996 1:44:17 PM

+
     Not only did "Messages From Earth" come out as well as I'd 
+hoped or thought it would, it came out *better*.  It is, 
+potentially, either one of the best or the best thing we've ever 
+done in the whole series to date. There are some episodes that 
+come close this season, like "Point of No Return," "A Late 
+Delivery From Avalon," "Sic Transit Vir" (for absolutely different 
+reasons), and parts of "Dust to Dust," but so far -- at least until 
+the CGI for "Severed Dreams" is finished, which has at least a shot 
+at knocking "Messages" out of the box -- "Messages" is as close to 
+perfect as we've ever come.
+
+     Like "The Coming of Shadows" there's a real sense of a *story* 
+being told, and major events happening at breakneck speed.  It's 
+just a joy to watch.
+
+                 jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ B5 Hankies?			 (January 18, 1996 1:17:15 PM)
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+
Date: January 18, 1996 1:17:15 PM

+
      I use Movie Master for my scripts, Wordstar 7.0 for prose.  
+None of the files are very big individually, only en masse.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ ST Book from J Friedmann   (January 01, 1996 7:15:13 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 01, 1996 7:15:13 PM

+
      <Quoting GREG LASH to JMS>:
+
+      >I understand that the trade hardcover edition of THE
+      >CITY ON THE  EDGE OF FOREVER has been cancelled. What's
+      >up with that?
+
+     Borderlands Press will not be doing the trade paperback
+because it did not  have the final rights to do so, and other
+problems during the production of the  book -- the high number
+of typos and errors made that delayed the book's  publication
+-- led to the rights being taken elsewhere.
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Quick Q about Mindwiping		 (January 19, 1996 1:44:15 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 19, 1996 1:44:15 PM

+
   <I've seen messages where you explained what your position is on 
+the Death Penalty versus Life Imprisonment. I was wondering, if the 
+technology of Mindwiping was available, would you be in favour of 
+it?>
+
+     I actually don't know how I'd stand on that...to render the 
+argument correctly in the show, I've had to "convince" myself on 
+both sides of the issue.  When it happens for real, I'll have an 
+opinion.
+
+     jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Q: Laurie Anderson		 (January 19, 1996 11:05:05 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 19, 1996 11:05:05 PM

+
    <I was listening to Laurie Anderson's CD ("The Ugly one with the 
+Jewels") this evening, and a few references cropped up which made my 
+wonder if you had the CD, or had heard it??
+    Apart from the weird voice modulation (not too unlike Kosh) which 
+she calls her "Voice of Authority", she also recounts a story where a 
+little girl is told by her nutty/psychic/religious aunt that doomsday 
+is coming and that the world will end "In Fire!". (These two words 
+being given in the musical 'Voice'.) There may have been a few other 
+oddities, but these stuck out.
+    Isn't co-incidence a strange thing?>
+
+     Haven't heard the CD; yeah, some themes keep coming up in odd 
+places.
+
+    jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ GROPOS question			 (January 20, 1996 6:01:27 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 20, 1996 6:01:27 PM

+
<[Posted on behalf of <IndyCCTX@aol.com>]
+
+In "Gropos" Garabaldi tells Dodger of all the weird stuff that's been 
+happening to him, and most of the references I recognized from events 
+on the show, except when he mentions meeting a lady, "the kind a guy 
+like me normally doesn't have a chance with" (paraphrasing from 
+memory).  Who is he talking about?>
+
+     That would be Talia.
+
+                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ UK B5 20/1/96 CITV		 (January 20, 1996 6:02:02 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 20, 1996 6:02:02 PM

+
<A childrens show over here has just featured a set visit to B5, 
+what episode was being made while they were there (A clapperboard 
+has the director as John C. Flinn III and the date as 11/14/95)?>
+
+     That would be Ceremonies of Light and Dark.  What else was shown?
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+UK B5 20/1/96 CITV (21-Jan-96 15:35:07)
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+
Date: 21-Jan-96 15:35:07

+
 Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ou est la mauvaise Filles?
+
+     All an extra does is walk across a room, that's all.  There are
+no lines, no performances, just standing in a room or walking across. 
+There aren't a lot of requirements for that, it has nothing to do with
+the story, so I don't quite understand what's got you so exercised
+about this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+UK B5 20/1/96 CITV (21-Jan-96 21:47:28)
+
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+
Date: 21-Jan-96 21:47:28

+
 Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ou est la mauvaise Filles?
+
+     Basically, whether the show is a new one or an old one, it
+doesn't much enter into it...as a syndicated show we take any PR we can
+get.  We didn't go to them, they came to us and said they wanted to do
+it.  We said yes. That was kind of the end-all and be-all of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Military Questions (22-Jan-96 15:27:59)
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+
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+
Date: 22-Jan-96 15:27:59

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am very interested in the military in B5, what they are doing?
+> Does the Earth Alliance military simply follow the President, or
+> does the Admiralty have its own mind? Will the EA do anything that
+> the Senators and President says? What does the EA military feel
+> about the loss of its telepaths? What does the EA military think
+> about the station B5? You basically said the Manbire military is
+> under the control of the shadow (rather simple view I know) is
+> the earth military the same way?
+
+     1.  I am very interested in the military in B5, what
+     they are doing?
+
+All kinds of things.  Some good, some not so.
+
+     Does the Earth Alliance military simply follow the
+     President, or does the Admiralty have its own mind?
+
+Any military must respect the chain of command.  You can't have the
+military setting its own agenda.  The president proposes, the military
+disposes.
+
+     Will the EA do anything that the Senators and President
+     says?
+
+Well, the EA military must obey the President as Commander in Chief. 
+The EA government is always quibbling.  They're like that.
+
+     What does the EA military feel about the loss of its
+     telepaths?
+
+The EA military hasn't lost any telepaths that I know of.  Don't know
+what this refers to.
+
+     What does the EA military think about the station B5?
+
+"Cushy job.  And they're a bunch of loose cannons over there.  Maybe
+we better see if we can help straighten things out."
+
+     You basically said the Manbire military is under the
+     control of the shadow (rather simple view I know) is
+     the earth military the same way?
+
+No, I never said that, and the Minbari are NOT under Shadow control.
+
+     My next question is on getting your show on military
+     T.V.  The network is called AFARTS, Armed Forces
+     A(something) Radio and Television something something.
+
+     Anyway, AFARTS does not show commercials. After not
+     seeing stateside commercials for over 5 years, you
+     actually start missing them, anyway, they don't do
+     advertisements, and basically ask for the show.  DS9,
+     Bay watch etc. either give it to AFARTS or gives it to
+     them for next to nothing.
+
+     I was wondering if you were even willing to enterin the
+     ideal.  If so, we have to start a write in "beg
+     campaign" to get worthless AFARTS (actually they are
+     O.K., but it is a sailors right to complain) to talk to
+     someone.  Last big thing was getting the Rush Limbaugh
+     show, on the radio, that had to go to congress, before
+     the FoB plants/sympatiers in the pentagon/Admiralty
+     would allow it.
+
+I'm up for it, we've talked to Warners about it, but it's their call,
+not mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New eps & summertime (23-Jan-96 00:12:17)
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+
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 00:12:17

+
 Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would Warners do that?
+> Or are you afraid they'll do the same thing they did to us (and
+> you) last year?
+
+     I haven't yet been apprised of the air schedule past February, so
+I'm as much in the dark as anyone else just now.  I'm hoping for the
+best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Military Questions (23-Jan-96 00:12:18)
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+
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 00:12:18

+
 Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you don't mind, could you clarify the role of telepaths in the
+> EA military? And certainly CDR Ivanova lives in perpetual fear
+> that she'll be found out and kicked out - or is her sin in the
+> eyes of EA more in *lying* about her telepathy than in having it? 
+> (Which brings to mind something else - where do the people who
+> are "not even a P-1" end up?
+
+     The military uses telepaths on a loan-out or special intelligence
+basis, rather than within the core units of soldiers and officers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+COS <-> MOH connection? (23-Jan-96 00:12:19)
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 00:12:19

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would that happen to be the same planet the Rangers were chased
+> off of in "Matters of Honor"?
+
+     Could be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Upcoming:B5 Ep          (January 01, 1996 7:15:17 PM)
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+
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+
Date: January 01, 1996 7:15:17 PM

+
      <Quoting Daniel M. Upton to JMS>:
+
+      >Speaking of Trek/B5 crossovers did you notice that the
+      >Star Fleet Admiral who is  apparently involved in a
+      >conspiracy to take over the Federation government 
+      >because it isn't taking the Founder/Gem Haddar threat
+      >seriously enough is  played by the same actor who does
+      >Gen. Hague?
+
+      Yeah, I caught that, and the description in TV
+Guide...y'know, this is really  starting to bug me....
+
+      jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+COS <-> MOH connection? (23-Jan-96 11:38:06)
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 11:38:06

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or not, right?
+
+     You'll love it.  You'll be creeped out by it, but you'll love it.
+It's a great film.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Military Questions (23-Jan-96 11:38:07)
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 11:38:07

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When the soulhunter said "You would do such a thing?"
+> to Delenn when he peeked into her soul, was he referring to the
+> change she made in Chrysalis or *something else*? I know Neroon
+> detests Delenn, but is he likely more friendly to Ambassador
+> Sinclair? May I assume that you approved having G'Kar butcher a
+> zillion people (was 10 billion a misprint?) in the Prologue? If
+> so, should we have *any* sympathy *at all* for the Narn (I now
+> don't) and will you bring up something in the show to grey them
+> up?
+
+     You'll hear the soul hunter's line again this season, in a
+flashback, that may illuminate this; and there's more about Neroon as
+well this year. As for G'Kar...people do things in war they can always
+justify.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 tapes in Aus (23-Jan-96 11:55:43)
+
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 11:55:43

+
 Elaine E Brown <100353.3702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know how many will be released and at what intervals?
+
+     I actually don't know the release situation vis a vis the
+Australia tapes; what happens in international distribution is always a
+surprise to me, and frankly this is the first time I've heard of it. 
+I'll try to find out, though.  And thanks, for the words, and the news.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 11:55:46

+
       As y'all know, next week the latest batch of new episodes
+begins to air.  The first one up, "Voices of Authority," is an absolute
+hoot; if you've been looking to bring in other viewers, that's a good
+one to start them with, because it sets up a lot of what's going to
+happen in this episode, it has a lot of background, and it's a lot of
+fun.
+
+       The next two are somewhat more straightforward, stand-alones
+(to some extent; there's some arc stuff there, however, which becomes
+more important later).  Then the last two in this batch represent some
+of the best work we've ever done, "Messages From Earth" and "Point of
+No Return."  They follow directly on the footsteps of "Voices," so
+those three together would be great for new viewers.
+
+       Second, today is Michael O'Hare's first day of shooting here on
+the B5 stages for the two-parter, featuring his return to the station
+from Minbar, and propels him into the center of attention for most of
+the two parts. Everyone's having a great time so far, he and Bruce have
+been hanging out a lot, and the episode should be a real toad-strangler
+when it's finished.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+New Stuff (23-Jan-96 17:37:08)
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Date: 23-Jan-96 17:37:08

+
 Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Toad-strangler?????
+> What on earth is a toad-strangler?
+
+     A toad-strangler, a barn-burner, a doozy...it's a good thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+New Stuff (23-Jan-96 17:37:10)
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Date: 23-Jan-96 17:37:10

+
 The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ("What do you think of these new uniforms?"
+> It'd be like war stories, but only they could understand them.)
+> After those...six (I count six, but I'm failing Algebra), are we
+> back to repeats?
+
+     Yes, then repeats after sweeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Information Sought (23-Jan-96 17:41:36)
+
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 17:41:36

+
 Kathleen E. Ross <102747.3373@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can anyone confirm or deny this runor?
+> Does anyone know how this rumored demise will effect Bablon - 5
+> (and Kung-Fu: The Legend Continues)? Does anyone have knowledge of
+> an existing still?
+
+      PTEN is being restructured; if it should cease to be, WB
+domestic syndication will take over all shows like B5 and Kung Fu.
+
+      I'll try to put up a white star gif soonish...there may be one
+here now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Information Sought (23-Jan-96 21:57:19)
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+
Date: 23-Jan-96 21:57:19

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean such shows will continue to be syndicated
+> independantly of the WB Network?
+
+     Yes, syndication is a completely different entity from the WB
+Network.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Garibaldi/Talia ?s (24-Jan-96 12:49:01)
+
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:01

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) [Out of Story] Did you, as chief cook and bottle washer,
+> decide against persuing the G/T relationship too far because
+> Jerry and Andrea were married out here in the Real World(tm)? 2)
+> [In the Story] Did the unTalia "shunt" Talia v.1.0 away from
+> Garibaldi? If so, why?
+> Fear of discovery?
+> Optimum choice of targets?
+> 3) [In the Story] Did Talia v.1.0 just genuinely dislike Michael?
+> 4) Some combination thereof?
+> BTW, has the Orkin man paid a visit to n'grath?
+
+     Basically, the answer to all of the questions is "no."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+New Stuff (24-Jan-96 12:49:02)
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:02

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this more a Warner Brothers thing or a Babylon5 thing?
+> How many episodes away is this 2-parter?
+
+     The web as it currently exists is more of a Warners thing.
+
+     The two-parter covers episodes 16 and 17 in the schedule.  So far
+we've aired 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Upcoming:B5 Ep          (January 02, 1996 3:35:09 PM)
+
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+
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+
Date: January 02, 1996 3:35:09 PM

+
     "Imitation is the sincerest form of television."  Fred
+Allen
+
+         jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+New Stuff (24-Jan-96 12:49:04)
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:04

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or do sitcoms go to reruns as often as B5 and the treks and I
+> just don't notice since, well, they are moronic sitcoms and B5
+> isn't? Oh well - what's the run-down on the reruns - season 3 I
+> assume?
+
+     I don't know the rerun schedule yet; they tell me this stuff as
+late as possible to keep me from going ballistic, I think....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Warner B5 Web Page (24-Jan-96 12:49:05)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:05

+
 John Sheridan <70700.345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Downloaded a few of the character .AVI files (What?
+> No backup ?
+
+      Yeah, the preview ain't too bad, actually, considering how some
+of them have gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Military Questions (24-Jan-96 12:49:06)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:06

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why was Lennier chosen to serve Delenn, what set him apart?
+> Was Knight One's comment about "Maybe we're still inside"
+> something we should worry about, or just the ravings of a damaged
+> mind? What ever happened to the Home Guard?
+> Why did Jack (Garabaldi's aid not Sebastian) say "I've never met
+> a Psi Cop before" to Bester when we know he was up to his neck in
+> the Conspiracy? Lastly, what is Bester's first name?
+
+     Home Guard found other venues.  Bester's first name is Alfred. 
+And Jack was speaking correctly; his contacts were not psi-corps in
+nature.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Information Sought (24-Jan-96 12:49:08)
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:08

+
 Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that a Good or a Bad thing?
+> Will it affect the video tape gridlock in some way?
+
+     No, it'll have no effect on the videos either way, and is
+probably neither a good nor a bad thing; it should be a wash.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Q: Error in Pilot show? (24-Jan-96 12:49:10)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 12:49:10

+
 John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well?
+> Can you tell us what it was?
+> Or has it disappeared from memory?
+
+      It's the overhead shot of the courtroom; we didn't have a second
+establisher, so we used the one of Kyle even though Sinclair was on
+the stand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Clark's Law (24-Jan-96 21:35:39)
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+
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 21:35:39

+
 Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did you coordinate the book's storyline with the neighboring
+> episodes and the overall arc? Did you put together the story and
+> then give it to Mortimore to build a novel around? Did you just
+> give him a concept and some inside info he could use? Is this the
+> level of quality writing and series/book storyline integration
+> what we should expect from the next few books?
+
+     In most cases, the writer sends in a proposal to the book
+company; they then send these proposals to me to see which a) I like,
+and b) fit in with the storyline one way or another.  When the book is
+commissioned, I work with the writer to one degree or another in
+keeping things very much on track.  In the case of this book, I
+actually did very little until the actual manuscript came in, at which
+time I made my notes and suggestions. So the lion's share of any 
+compliments here must go to Mortimore.
+
+     And yes, in my view, the other coming two books are just as good.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+New Stuff (24-Jan-96 21:35:42)
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+
Date: 24-Jan-96 21:35:42

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that not so?
+
+     No, only once has that been done, running "Hunter, Prey" in this
+last batch to set up the new ones.  The rest of the time, reruns are
+set up so that the stations have new shows to run in the sweeps periods
+(February, May, (sometimes July), and November).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 24-Jan-96 21:35:42

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     I've suggested it; doubt if they'll go for it, but hope springs
+eternal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Opening fly-by (25-Jan-96 23:47:44)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Jan-96 23:47:44

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, it's a great sequence.  Overall, I'm very happy
+with how this season's main title sequence came out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gethsemane Praise (25-Jan-96 23:47:47)
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+
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+
Date: 25-Jan-96 23:47:47

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  It is a very moving scene, because of what it says about
+us, and the sugject, whether one believes it or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Voices of Authority<< (01-Feb-96 00:04:14)
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+
Date: 01-Feb-96 00:04:14

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh, BTW, did you get a picture of a rat at a computer screen?
+
+     Ah, is that what that was...I remember it, and was both amused
+and bemused by it.
+
+     What's fun, for me, about the Minipax lady, is that she *clearly*
+knows that this is a game on one level, her comment about just
+rewriting the dictionary...she knows the problems aren't *really* gone,
+they just defined them away.  But when she's in front of a crowd of
+folks predisposed to her message, she goes full-tilt.  Showmanship.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (02-Feb-96 12:29:53)
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+
Date: 02-Feb-96 12:29:53

+
 Stephen C. Smith <76150.1170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why didn't Garibaldi just remind him that Garibaldi got shot in
+> the back when he uncovered the conspiracy? Or was Zack not around
+> then and they've kept it from him because of his Nightwatch
+> involvment?
+
+     You have to remember that all Garibaldi's people knew was that a
+few guys came through the station that may have been involved in the
+assassination. That is NOT the same thing as showing that Clark is
+involved.  There was no apparent connection.  We the audience suspect
+it, from what happens, but until now there has been no evidence of it. 
+So yes, they know that Santiago is dead; that there's some indication
+that he may have been assassinated...but that's a long way from
+pointing to Clark.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Dust<< (09-Feb-96 12:58:51)
+
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>>Dust<<

+
Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:51

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Your husband has great and refined taste.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dust To Dust (09-Feb-96 12:58:53)
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:53

+
 Gary Weinfurther <71521.2352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it fasten then button, or button then fasten?
+
+      You're right; UNFORGIVEN is just incredible, his best work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (09-Feb-96 18:31:21)
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 18:31:21

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Could be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust To Dust> (09-Feb-96 18:31:22)
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 18:31:22

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is it with Unforgiven?
+
+     "He had it coming."
+
+     "Kid...we *all* got it coming."
+
+     Any movie that can produce those two lines is in my pantheon
+forever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 cover story (09-Feb-96 18:38:04)
+
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 18:38:04

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     You could've sent me a note describing the photos; I could've
+told you what they were.
+
+     Also, the statment "a Fox network series" is incorrect; some Fox
+stations carry us, but we're a PTEN series, no relation to Fox
+whatsoever. So you have double reason to complain about the insert.
+
+     I look forward to the article.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (09-Feb-96 18:38:05)
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Date: 09-Feb-96 18:38:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Generally speaking, in television, if you're not going to see
+someone, you should at least try to avoid saying his name, because
+folks new to the show won't know what you're talking about.  Those who
+know, know.  For those who don't, it shouldn't get in the way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Secret Organizations> (09-Feb-96 23:25:35)
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:35

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that the group/organization has been done away
+> with because of copyright problems and the like? And if the Bureau
+> 13 folks have been dropped, what does this do for the General
+> Hague conspiracy?
+
+     No, it's just that names change; no secret group keeps the same
+name for very long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<Upcoming B5 Eps> (09-Feb-96 23:25:36)
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Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:36

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And how goes things on the set and the filming of episodes at the
+> moment?
+
+     At this point, I'd prefer to say as little as possible about the
+last batch, to keep things quiet for the time being.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (09-Feb-96 23:25:37)
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+
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+
+     The correct answer is C.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<VoA> Space A&B (09-Feb-96 23:25:51)
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:51

+
 Phil Adams <72470.1156@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this just us, or has there been a conscious effort to "dumb
+> down" or "genericize" (new verb!) the story in order to reach new
+> viewers? 8) ); the suddenly-samurai Narn ("gotta draw blood before
+> I sheathe this baby!"); the idea of baiting an ancient race into
+> doing what you want them to do (how did they make it so far while
+> being _so_ stupid?); the name of the Vorlon/Minbari ship (the
+> White Star?!!? Minus the story arc elements, there've been a
+> number of sour faces going, "Was that a Star Trek or B5 ep?" Are
+> we just being unrealistic and too picky?
+
+       Phil...I get this at the start of every season.  Let me repeat
+what I've said, oh, about two dozen times already before.
+
+       At the start of every season, we have new people sampling the
+show. Do you want the show to continue?  If you do, then you have to
+continue to add new viewers.  If viewers tune in and they're lost in
+the overall arc, they're going to tune out again.  So you give them
+some stand-alone episodes in the beginning, shows that are a little
+more accessible, but introduce them to the characters, the situations
+and the universe so that when the arc begins to move again, they know
+enough to get into what's going on.
+
+       Sure, I could've just kept going right with the strong arc
+episodes. Which the new viewers, 90% of whom sample shows in the first
+few weeks of a new season and not thereafter, wouldn't have been able
+to follow well.  And they would've tuned out.  And it would've been a
+very big nail in the cancellation coffin.  You can bring in new
+viewers, or you can get canceled and never tell the whole story.  Pick
+one.
+
+       Second, you cannot -- CANNOT -- sustain the kind of intensity
+you have in the final four over the course of a season.  You need to
+have some lighter moments as contrast or people are going to start
+sticking their heads in ovens all across the country.  So at the start
+of a season, I try to do some lighter stuff, to bring people back up a
+little, bracing for the next drop in the roller coaster.  You need
+peaks and valleys to develop any kind of rhythm, or to appreciate the
+other side of it.
+
+       I got the same thing in season one, and season two..."Why these
+light episodes?  What's happened to this arc?"  Then by season's end,
+the chorus usually turns to "That was a GREAT season!"  So my response
+is, Unless you think I've suddenly turned stupid, or I've decided to
+betray the series I've now worked 10 years of my life to produce...will
+you for chrissakes *trust* me once in a while?  Show a little patience.
+When I introduced Vir, everybody on the planet jumped funky all over
+me.  "He's just a comic character!  It's Flounder!  He's dumbing down
+the show!  Space him!  He stinks!  Joe's losing it!"  And now, of
+course, we see what Vir is, and in many surveys he's now one of the
+most popular characters.
+
+       You know what the #1 comment from the pilot was, on the nets
+and elsewhere?  "LOSE the guy with the funny hair!  He's just
+ridiculous." Londo. Every time I've done something a little different
+in the show, I've usually been jumped on, because they're not willing
+to trust that I know what I'm doing...until they've seen it for a
+while, then they Get It, and it's "Oh, now I see it."  Great, thanks,
+now that you've been beating on my head for six months.  Next time show
+a little patience.  (And btw, ALL of the comments related above are
+real ones, many of them right here on Compuserve, from people still
+around here.)
+
+       Every story can't be an arc story at this point; you've got to
+see the characters outside the arc, in the way they live their lives,
+in other things that happen to them, or else you won't CARE what
+happens to them in the arc. No, the Purple/Green Drazi story didn't
+move the arc ahead, but it showed you a lot about Ivanova, didn't it? 
+So now if and when something should happen to her in the arc, you care
+about her.  It's the difference between just being chess pieces, and
+being *people*.
+
+       Okay, here's the breakdown.  Season 3.  You had arc episodes
+only a bit in the first batch.  "Honor," "Voices" and now a little in
+"Dust." You've got one more stand-alone next week, "Exogenesis." 
+That's the last one for a LONG time.  Episodes 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15,
+16, 17, 20, 21 and 22 are ALL arc stories, most of them heavy, none
+less than moderate.
+
+       I said, from the start, that each season would have
+stand-alones and arc stories.  About 20% in year one, 35% in year two,
+50% in year three, 70% in year four, and 100% in year five.  And the
+stand-alones tend to get pushed toward the beginning of a season for
+the reasons stated.  Is nobody paying attention when I say these
+things?  Because if so, then why do I get gigged each season at the
+start by people saying "HEY!  HOW COME THESE AREN'T ARC EPISODES?" 
+(And as it looks now, year 3 has closer to 13-14 arc episodes, so we're
+ahead a bit.)
+
+       Before people start making sweeping generalizations about the
+season, it might behoove you to see the season first.  If anything, my
+concern in looking at what's been done for year 3 is that we're too
+GRIM for the larger portion of it, and maybe a bit complex...so I'm
+working to clarify a few things here and there as I do these last few.
+
+       So that's my response to the generalizations.  To the
+specifics....
+
+       The political officer: improbable dialogue?  Most of it was
+taken direct from political statements, public ones, made by Goebbels,
+Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, Stalin, and other fanatics.  The kind of Big
+Lie dialogue people continue to fall for today.  Go to a Pat Buchanan
+rally sometime and tell me it's unlikely dialogue.
+
+       The chess maneuver: I mainly get this comment from people who
+don't play chess much.  I used to be a decent (not great, but decent)
+player, and I fell for a move out of left field sometimes.  (I'm a
+sucker for a fool's mate.)  Sheridan isn't a chess master, he's still
+rough around the edges, and Theo's been doing this a lot longer.  He
+got foxed.  It happens.
+
+       "Marcus, the walking cliche."  Heard this about Vir, Zack,
+Morden, Londo, and others.  My prediction: by season's end, Marcus will
+be one of our more popular characters.  Because you haven't seen all of
+what he is yet.  Any more than you did Vir on his first two
+appearances.
+
+       (Y'know, there are days I hate the american culture of
+immediate gratification and kneejerk condemnation and stereotyping with
+insufficient information.  So far there hasn't been an uninteresting
+character in the lot. Do you think suddenly I'm going to introduce a
+lox?  Okay, Keffer wasn't all he could've been, but that was because
+that character was always doomed, and doomed to go fast, so I think I
+put a little distance between myself and him. That doesn't apply here. 
+I said Vir was a great character, and some folks snorted and made fun. 
+I was proven right.  So trust me, Marcus is a great character.)
+
+       The two small story points...like I said, I went for a lighter
+touch in "Voices," because it was the last chance to have some light
+moments for a long, long, time.
+
+       The White Star was so named as a balance to the Black Star,
+which Sheridan destroyed.  What here is a problem?
+
+       I don't mean to rag on you, Phil...I know your interests are
+only the best.  But (expletive) it...y'know?  I was real patient the
+first time I went through this at the top of season one, patient again
+at the top of season two...and it's just wearing a bit thin.  If I knew
+what I was doing then, why should I suddenly not know what I'm doing
+now?  How many times over do I have to prove myself, and this series? 
+It seems like everything good I did in the season before gets forgotten
+because we just take a BREATH before moving on to the next stage.  And
+then suddenly it's "The sky is falling!  The show's falling apart!  The
+arc is gone!  Ohmygodohmygod!"
+
+       Patience, people.  I've been faithful, and honest, and straight
+with all of you.  I haven't let you down yet.  And I don't intend to. 
+Season three collectively represents the very best work we have done on
+this show to date. Starting with #8, "Messages From Earth," the arc and
+the story kicks into high gear, moving faster than ever before.  MAJOR
+stuff happens.
+
+       And natch, I'll go through this all over again in year four,
+because they'll say it doesn't move as fast as year three did.  You
+can't win.  I appreciate the concern, Phil.  Honest I do.  But I've
+always had a problem with people judging the season on a sampling. 
+Give it a chance.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Voices of Authority> (02-Feb-96 12:29:55)
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+
Date: 02-Feb-96 12:29:55

+
 John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> how were the ribs that day?
+
+     The ribs were great.  What can I say...barbeque day here at the
+stage is every Friday.  Choosing between ribs and a naked
+woman...that's hard after age 40.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 3 title? (09-Feb-96 23:25:52)
+
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 23:25:52

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What were the first two?
+> What are the last two?
+
+Signs and Portents.
+
+The Coming of Shadows.
+
+Now: Point of No Return.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+VOA: Lurkers (10-Feb-96 18:32:01)
+
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:01

+
 Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder, does her arrogance stem solely from her own
+> personality, or from her position in Night Watch? So just how
+> scared of Night Watch is the average Earther? Or do most people
+> believe that Night Watch is there to protect them from treason
+> and invasion, nevermind if a few rights get temporarily trampled?
+
+     Some are scared of Nightwatch, others feel it's a good thing, and
+darn it, it's about time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust To Dust> (10-Feb-96 18:32:03)
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Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:03

+
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+
+     Thanks.  The pleasure is all mine....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<VoA> Space A&B (10-Feb-96 18:32:04)
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:04

+
 Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I the <not so> silent majority?
+> Like major stuff hasn't happened yet??
+> So many subtle things we so easily miss, which are significant,
+> which are not? Is ANYthing insignificant?
+> re: dumbing down of B5?
+> Frustrating?
+> Do I wish I knew what was coming?
+> What the final end would be?
+> Where you are taking us?
+
+     Thanks.  I really think this season is just overall such a leap
+over the previous season, especially once episodes 8-10 hit.  As it
+happens, I showed a bit from 8 to some folks in the office the other
+day, one in particular being a fan of the show who sat in on an
+interview...to say their jaws were on the floor doesn't *begin* to
+describe it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 cover story (10-Feb-96 18:32:08)
+
+
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:08

+
 Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My deadlines are Monday morning, can you please take time from
+> your weekend to help?"
+
+     If it'd help make the article better or more accurate, I'm always
+available, 7 days a week.  I have no life upon which this could
+intrude.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+VoA: Pretty Bad (10-Feb-96 18:32:10)
+
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:10

+
 John A. Lewis <76740.1520@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you please help me understand one aspect of VoA that I
+> found a bit confusing? Is one or the other behaviour simply an
+> *act* that this character assumes in relation to who she is
+> dealing with?
+
+     Basically, like many manipulative people, she projects whatever
+she thinks will work best with her audience.  Appealing to Zack's
+patriotism, trying to find Sheridan's affections by flattering him
+mercilessly (on many levels), playing the straight-chinned leader in an
+address to security forces...she puts on whatever face she thinks will
+work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (10-Feb-96 18:32:12)
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:12

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> did he see the stuff with G'Lan)?
+> Are the Vorlon telepaths primarily "Dreamwalkers"?
+> Is that how they influence the other races?
+
+       Yes, it helps if the person's mind is in a different state --
+asleep, exhausted, in a heightened state of awareness -- for the
+Vorlons to make contact, which is why their presence is often
+associated with dream imagery.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (10-Feb-96 18:32:17)
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 18:32:17

+
 John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have the Shadows always lost?
+
+       "Have the shadows always lost?"
+
+       That is a far more complex question than you could possibly
+know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Sound (10-Feb-96 22:59:54)
+
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 22:59:54

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     The sources of the problem are two-fold, and we keep trying to
+get it straightened out.  When we deliver the episodes to WB, the sound
+level is where it should be.  Then we watch the show and the levels are
+a lot lower, and there's some phasing going on.  As near as we can
+determine, at some point after we've turned over the episode, when
+multiple levels of dubs are being made (for closed captioning, another
+for national spots to be inserted, and so on), the audio goes from
+digital to analog and back again. In addition, some stations tend to
+clamp our audio, but run the commercials hot.  We're working to find
+out where this is happening and stop it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadows (10-Feb-96 22:59:55)
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 22:59:55

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Right?
+> So I have to wonder, when the Shadow War ends, will the Shadows
+> still be involved with those things?
+
+     Never said that the shadow war ends this season.  I simply said
+it wouldn't run all the rest of the series.  And even when a war is
+over, the afteraffects can be felt for some time.  And there may be
+related problems still to clean up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where do baby narn come (02-Feb-96 12:29:57)
+
+
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+
Date: 02-Feb-96 12:29:57

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My wife and I nearly died laughing and my kids kept asking "What?
+> What?"
+> What are Narns like?
+> Minbari?
+> Drazi?
+> Markab?
+> BTW, how did you get away with showing that part of Centauri
+> anatomy in TQOM? Were the censors asleep?
+> Did you bribe them?
+> Or were they just clueless?
+
+     Nobody's what they seem around here...
+
+     As for the tentacles...well, there's no rules about showing
+tentacles on TV.  I think they didn't even want to deal with it.  There
+are some moments when they pretend they didn't see it, and I pretend I
+didn't write it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+About the First Ones (10-Feb-96 22:59:58)
+
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 22:59:58

+
 Damian Reaves <75373.2325@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were the Ikkarans first ones ?
+> a)did they build the battle suits to fight off the shadows ?
+> b) will we ever see Ikkaran technology again ?
+> The Shadows have been out of commission for a 1000 years so is it
+> safe to assume that the Vorlons, the Walkers at Sigma957, and any
+> other first ones still out there have caught up with them
+> technologically? Were the Takarans first ones, and if not where
+> did the great machine come from?
+
+     Neither the Ikarrans nor those on Epsilon 3 were First Ones.  And
+the level of tech between Vorlons, Shadows and Walkers is fairly close.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+>>Dust<< (10-Feb-96 23:00:02)
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 23:00:02

+
 Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A question for you: Has anyone else ever written *all* the
+> scripts for a show in one season?
+
+     No, insofar as I have been able to determine, in the history of
+TV no one has ever written every episode of a season of a dramatic
+series single handedly.  The closest would be Terry Nation, who wrote
+the first season of Blake's 7, but that was only 13 episodes, not 22.
+
+     As for what folks say about me...probably it's all of those you
+cite, and then some.  Good and bad.  You can't work at getting a
+single, personal vision on film without convincing some people you're
+great, and convincing other people you're the Antichrist.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<VoA> Space A&B (10-Feb-96 23:00:06)
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+
Date: 10-Feb-96 23:00:06

+
 Karen E. Bahnsen <102735.3557@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you see that?!"
+> BTW, in DtD, where the camera looks up from G'Kar to see Kosh in
+> his encounter suit, does that big sign on the wall behind where
+> Kosh was standing say, "WARNING!"?
+
+       Yes, the sign does indeed say warning.  Look for another sign
+right behind somebody at the end of "Severed Dreams."
+
+       In defense of Phil...who I have spoken with before, and met
+once, and who asked his question in good faith and I kinda handed him
+his head...don't take my reaction necessarily as venue to jump on him. 
+Some days, when I've been working 18 hours straight on the show, I come
+across a comment that puts me into Wet Cat mode.  That was one.  Which
+is why I made a point of trying to say that I understand the
+question(s), and whence they proceed.
+
+       There are a very few flakes and idiots and dangerous loonies
+out there in net-land...but Phil isn't one of them.  It's the
+consistent idiots you have to watch out for.
+
+       Re: the discussion group...this is one of the things that I've
+decided I'm very proud of, regarding B5.  Delenn pointed out that
+humans form communities; it's what we do.  And a B5 community has
+arisen.  Fans of the show gather in pizza parlors to watch the show,
+set out open invitations for picnics and house parties to catch shows
+off the satellite, create discussion groups...form communities.  People
+have formed lasting friendships, regular pub groups, even gotten
+married because of the show.
+
+       Others have gotten involved in social work, contributed or
+worked for charities, food kitchens, other causes.  Decided that their
+fates are in their own hands, and been inspired to move across the
+country to form new lives and pursue what they *want* to do instead of
+what they felt they *had* to do.  I hear from them frequently in email,
+and in public messages.
+
+       I'm very happy about that.  If Star Trek's shining element was
+that it got people involved in the space program, perhaps B5's shining
+element is that it gets people involved in the human program.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<DTD> (10-Feb-96 23:00:10)
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Date: 10-Feb-96 23:00:10

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  Yes, I think we've cast some great actors in the show,
+and they only continue to improve.
+
+     Many of us on the show are fans of fighter planes and military
+history, especially producer John Copeland.  So we've taken to giving
+the Starfuries nose art...in fact, the near-legendary WW II flying
+squadron the Flying Tigers actually gave us *permission* to use their
+logos on Sheridan's fighter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+<Dust to Dust> (11-Feb-96 14:10:26)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 14:10:26

+
 Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why not sooner?
+> Perhaps he needed to suffer into truth?
+
+       Because G'Kar needed to hit bottom, real bottom, before he
+would be receptive to the message...because time doesn't mean to the
+vorlons what it means to us...and because he was finally mentally
+receptive due to the dust.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Dust<< (11-Feb-96 15:18:13)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 15:18:13

+
 The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You wrote every single episode this season, didn't you?
+
+     I look forward to being bored for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Exogenesis> (11-Feb-96 15:18:15)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 15:18:15

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have big plans for him later in the season?
+> How much do his operatives know?
+> Can he get some to honor their commitment to help him when the
+> time comes if they don't know what they will be fighting or whom?
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, Exo is the last non-arc episode for a long time,
+and the last chance to catch one's breath before the big fall.
+
+     My personal evaluation of the episode is that it's okay.  The
+second half, I think, isn't as strong as the first half.  Halfway
+through writing the episode, we had a problem come up in production
+that unexpectedly took me away from the script for about a week. 
+(Nothing major, but it had to be dealt with and it took time.) 
+Usually, I write copious notes on a script before I begin writing it. 
+In this case, the story was so crystalline clear in my head that I just
+dived in, and was blasting away terrific when the hit came midway 
+through.  By the time I got back, I'd lost some of the fingerprints of
+the story, and had to kind of re-find them again.  Mainly, I think the
+expository sequence at the end could've been done better.
+
+     Needless to say, that's the last time I trusted myself without
+notes, no matter how well I "see" the episode in my head.  It'd be a
+great script for second or first season, but we have to keep raising
+the bar, every aspect has to be better than the last thing we did, so
+for my money it's not quite up to that standard.  Happily, it's the
+*only* episode this season that I feel that way about...the rest are
+all just nifty.
+
+     That said, I think it has some great moments for Marcus, Franklin
+and others...and yes, there's a lot more planned with Franklin coming
+up this season, particularly toward the latter third of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+VOA: Lurkers (11-Feb-96 15:18:19)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 15:18:19

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+    For now, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<VoA> Space A&B (11-Feb-96 15:18:21)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 15:18:21

+
 Phil Adams <72470.1156@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why am I so sure you won't be surprised to hear that?
+> Is it as grim as "1984" and "Brazil"?
+> Go to a rally where a guy drives up in a BMW and talks about
+> Americans losing their jobs (yeah, I know he and his wife sold
+> off their foreign cars after this was pointed out 4 years ago,
+> but it was a hoot when it happened)? Go to a rally where the guy
+> talks about the concerns of the middle class while making
+> 6-figure salaries off his media work?
+
+       For what it's worth, if your concern is with the suits, we
+haven't had a single writing note from WB since episode 2 or 3 of
+season 2.  Not one. Nada.  No nots at all on our cuts of the episodes. 
+Nothing.  They completely trust us, and they leave us to tell our
+story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Age of Centauri? (11-Feb-96 21:18:40)
+
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:40

+
 Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How old do Centauri get usually?
+> I mean: What's their average life expectancy?
+> At what age approximately?
+> Is the life expectancy different for male and female Centauri?
+
+     A Centauri can get to be about 150 or so, sometimes older.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (02-Feb-96 12:30:00)
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+
Date: 02-Feb-96 12:30:00

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that Eeep related to the message, or something else entirely?
+
+     It's somebody else's eep, not mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (11-Feb-96 21:18:46)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:46

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> .can we have some clues?
+
+     No, you can't have any clues.  What am I, a clues closet?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Season 3 title? (11-Feb-96 21:18:48)
+
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:48

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     No; one thing at a time.  Now finish your broccoli....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<DtD praise&nitpicks> (11-Feb-96 21:18:50)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:50

+
 Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And that piece used during the flash of images from Londo's mind
+> was perfect, was it new?
+
+      With some thematic exceptions, most of the music Chris composes
+for us each week is unique, and tailored for that episode.  So yes,
+it's all mainly new.
+
+      Re: the coat of welcoming...here's a little tidbit...we had to
+make up an entire alphabet for most of our major races (and I've been
+gradually building up a dictionary here and there for languages).  So
+they came and asked if they could embroider something in Minbari on the
+shirt Vir's wearing when he comes back.  I said sure.  Did I have
+anything in mind?  No, not really.
+
+      So I'm on the set that day, and I see the embroidered shirt, and
+I ask what these five letters spell, since I don't offhand read Minbari
+yet.  He looked up at me and smiled.  "It spells out ALOHA."
+
+      We have a very demented crew.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+John Vickery (11-Feb-96 21:18:53)
+
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:53

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> From Naroon to Welles: Nice range of acting, eh?
+> Has she appeared as an extra in other episodes?
+
+     Don't know offhand...will inquire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (11-Feb-96 21:18:55)
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Date: 11-Feb-96 21:18:55

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Correct.  They see reality, and time, and space somewhat
+differently than we do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (11-Feb-96 21:19:06)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:19:06

+
 Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would it be valuable to rewatch "Soul Hunter" and "Deathwalker"
+> again?
+
+       Soul Hunter probably wouldn't be a bad idea at some point prior
+to the middle of the season...or the two-parter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<DTD> (11-Feb-96 21:19:08)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:19:08

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you pattern the Star Fury after a war plane?
+
+       No, didn't actually pattern the starfury after a plane, but
+rather tried to see what would work most accurately in zero-atmosphere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<VoA> Space A&B (11-Feb-96 21:19:09)
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:19:09

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I agree.  We're slowly ratcheting up the tension, and this has
+got to take a toll on people.  Franklin probably wouldn't be doing as
+many stims as he is otherwise.  Actions have consequences.
+
+       And yes, having seen prior episodes adds more texture.  Still,
+one can follow the episode for what it is.  The more you watch, the
+more you get out of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WDCA 20 to move B5 (11-Feb-96 21:19:12)
+
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+
Date: 11-Feb-96 21:19:12

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great to hear, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (11-Feb-96 21:24:46)
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Date: 11-Feb-96 21:24:46

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     "Joe identified the figure Sheridan saw as the angel Gabriel."
+
+     No I didn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 02-Feb-96 22:57:00

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why are these officers not *screaming* to *everyone they know*
+> that they *KNEW IT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN*!?!? Is Sheridan/Sinclair's
+> report what cause General Hague to become suspicious? Am I simply
+> wrong, and this Conspiracy of Light is simply the reaction I am
+> asking for?
+
+     With Clark removing all the evidence, and others giving orders to
+drop it, and knowing Clark would stop any kind of investigation, what
+is there for them to do officially?  They had to begin working covertly
+to prove it, which is what they've been doing ever since "Hunter,
+Prey."  If you're a military officer, and you're given a direct order
+from your commander in chief or the Senate Oversight Committee to drop
+something, and you violate those orders, you're up on charges or fired.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (12-Feb-96 14:26:58)
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<Dust to Dust>

+
Date: 12-Feb-96 14:26:58

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ees okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (12-Feb-96 15:01:48)
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 15:01:48

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks, we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+John Vickery (12-Feb-96 15:01:50)
+
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 15:01:50

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, we can't contract with occasional actors in this fashion,
+so we have to book them ahead of time, as soon as a script lands in the
+production office.  If they're not available, sometimes we have to do
+without and make the character someone else, or juggle episodes so we
+can shoot when they are available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Age of Centauri? (12-Feb-96 15:01:51)
+
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 15:01:51

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Probably about 120 would be the oldest a human would get; there
+hasn't been that much change in that end of it.  The median age,
+though, is different, so that right now, the average lifespan is 68
+years, I think.  By 2260 you can add another 20 years to that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Good Grief - DS9 (12-Feb-96 15:06:49)
+
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+
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 15:06:49

+
 Randy Hall <74617.420@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't you know better than to try and say something good about a
+> Trek show in the B5 area?
+
+     "Don't you know better than to try and say something good about a
+Trek show in the B5 area?  I'm surprised JMS didn't come flying in here
+accusing you of having a sinister agenda and trying to do him personal
+harm."
+
+     An interesting comment from you, given that you're addressing
+this to Wayne Hall, your brother, so obviously he came in here to leave
+the message so you could then respond in this fashion, and thus attack
+me.
+
+     Also intresting in light of your comments on AOL, in which you
+were the single loudest voice screaming bloody murder whenever B5 was
+mentioned in the ST areas, and your repeated request, verging on
+demand, that people be prohibited from mentioning B5 at ST conventions,
+bitching about the mention of B5 at ST panels, and generally carrying
+on cranky whenever the show got any mention at all in a ST folder.
+
+     Whereas, on the other hand, when the B5 page was opened on AOL, I
+made it a *point* to make sure that there was a subsidiary section set
+aside for the discussion of other TV series, including the variations
+of ST, to create a more open environment.
+
+     The problem, as usual with you, Randy, is entirely yours.  You
+continue to project onto others your own problems.  You're truly a
+pathetic individual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Beyond five years (12-Feb-96 19:27:46)
+
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+
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 19:27:46

+
 JAMES A. O'BRIEN <70661.2342@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any word as to what will happen to B5 after the 5 year
+> arc has run its course? I know ratings will play a major role in
+> any decision, but has JMS ever said anything about what might
+> happen beyond the 5 years?
+
+       From the start, I've indicated that there's a side-story that
+could go off in the B5 universe after the 5 year story is up, but it
+wouldn't be B5. Frankly, however, given the current state of the
+syndication market, I'd suggest that the odds of that happening are
+slim and none.
+
+       So barring anything truly exceptional -- like someone handing
+me an anthology series -- my plan at the moment is to retire from TV at
+the end of the five years and go back to writing novels and plays.  At
+that point, I think I'll have said just about everything I want to say
+for TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey Council Question (12-Feb-96 19:34:12)
+
+
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+
Grey Council Question

+
Date: 12-Feb-96 19:34:12

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there other female council members or is it a mostly male
+> group?
+
+       No, there are and have been other female grey council members.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (12-Feb-96 19:34:14)
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 19:34:14

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, is the crux of the conflict between the Shadows and the
+> Vorlons something that we must change OUR paradigm of the above
+> to fully understand?
+
+       No, I wouldn't say that the shadows and vorlons see space, time
+and reality in the same ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Warning Bogus B5 Stuff (12-Feb-96 23:30:54)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 23:30:54

+
       It has come to my attention that someone at Capricon this past
+weekend was trying to get fans to buy allegedly "real" B5 costume
+elements for as much as $3500, attesting that he has a letter from me
+verifying its origins.
+
+       We have never released ANY costumes for sale for any reason,
+and I have certainly never written any letter affirming this, or
+allowing this. If this letter exists it is certainly a forgery, and
+this matter should be turned over to the local police department for
+investigation by their fraud and bunko divisions.  If you have had any
+contact with these individuals, beware.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<DtD praise&nitpicks> (12-Feb-96 23:42:03)
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 23:42:03

+
 Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did G'Kar take Londo?
+> Was it meant to be inarticulate, or am I missing something?
+
+       Thanks.  Emotion, for me, is the key to all drama.  If it
+doesn't make you feel something, what's the point?  The writer's job is
+to touch passion, not be burned by it, and come back to tell what it
+was like.
+
+       And what G'Kar said was, "Dear G'Quon, no more...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VOA> (02-Feb-96 22:57:04)
+
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+
Date: 02-Feb-96 22:57:04

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I take it that the 'mask' as an 'encounter suit'?
+
+     It's certainly a form of representation, an icon, rather than the
+literal entity, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (12-Feb-96 23:42:04)
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 23:42:04

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A clues closet?
+
+       Soon to be a basket case.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VoA> Space A&B (12-Feb-96 23:42:07)
+
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 23:42:07

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Heck, they're *all* on edge.  Wouldn't you be?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Advisory Council (12-Feb-96 23:42:08)
+
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+
Date: 12-Feb-96 23:42:08

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question, then, is what happened to the Narn vote?
+> Did the Centauri get it, or did it just disappear?
+> Either way, wouldn't the balance be disrupted?
+
+       The council has been more or less abandoned as infighting has
+broken out.  It gets worse.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+John Vickery (13-Feb-96 19:04:34)
+
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+
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+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:34

+
 Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were the Drazi spokesperson in Dust to Dust, the Green Drazi
+> Leader in Geometry of Shadows, and the Markab ambassador in
+> Confessions and Lamentations, all the same actor? Who is he?
+> So I'm curious as to whether I'm right that these are all the
+> same actor, and if so, who???
+
+       I'm pretty sure he was both Drazis, but I'm not certain offhand
+about the Markab.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Good Grief - DS9 (13-Feb-96 19:04:35)
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Good Grief - DS9

+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Well, yes, Randy, I'm sure I responded exactly as you thought I
+would. When one exhibits poor behavior in public, one will usually be
+corrected.  You came in here and, totally unprovoked, without any
+message from me, without even a word from me in the thread, took a
+cheap and untrue shot at me, and my behavior.
+
+       When one pokes the bear without *any* justification, except to
+do it, well, I suppose it is only natural to expect some kind of
+reaction.  If I were to pour a pint of chocolate milk on someone's
+floor, I could anticipate their reaction.  But the problem would not be
+in the reaction; the problem would be in the ill-mannered, senseless,
+stupid and uwnarranted provocation.
+
+       Still, I take this as a sign of growth on your part that you
+can now predict the kind of response your generally poor behavior
+elicits.  And, as usual, you just dive out of the way instead of
+confronting the facts of your past behavior.
+
+       Which is exactly what *I* expected of *you*.
+
+       Symmetry is a wonderful thing, is it not?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<DtD praise&nitpicks> (13-Feb-96 19:04:39)
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+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:39

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how come it looks like *the're right*?
+> Am I off base here?
+> Would Earthdome and Psi Corps interpret that incident
+> differently?
+
+       Some might, others might not.  Simple fact is, the rules of the
+Psi Corps would forbid them from engaging ANY human telepath for this
+purpose. So the only other recourse is non-humans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon Theology (13-Feb-96 19:04:42)
+
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+
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+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:42

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who *is* the Ancient Vorlon God Boojie?
+
+       Marcus was making that part up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Exogenesis> (13-Feb-96 19:04:44)
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+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:44

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...on every level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<D2D: Bester> (13-Feb-96 19:04:47)
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+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:47

+
 Fred Miller <76042.3474@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where would SF TV be these days if it were not for the quality
+> writing of B5? If so, are there, or can there be, blind telepaths?
+
+       Thanks.  And yes, they do need to visually acquire the target,
+in most cases.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A few questions (13-Feb-96 19:04:48)
+
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+
A few questions

+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:48

+
 Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you still working on "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding
+> Place"? Do you have any idea what the titles of the final two
+> scripts of the season will be? Will we *see* General Hague again
+> this season or is he still busy subverting Star Fleet from the
+> inside?
+
+       Just turned in the script for "Rock," so that leaves just two
+left to write.  I haven't decided on a title for 21 yet, out of several
+options, and the title of 22 is classified for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<We need a mind wipe>> (02-Feb-96 22:57:06)
+
+
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+
<<We need a mind wipe>>

+
Date: 02-Feb-96 22:57:06

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that supposed to serve some practical purpose for the union
+> members?
+
+     Yes.  For instance, you're a star, and you say, "I want my name
+to appear before the title."  So the next star says "Well, then I want
+mine right after the title."  Editors' credits have to go in a specific
+place in relation to the title.  And so on.  It's to help avoid
+problems of dumping people's credits where they won't be seen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Dust to Dust>> (13-Feb-96 19:04:50)
+
+
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<<Dust to Dust>>

+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:50

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Question: Is Molari aware that G'Kar got inside his head and
+> now knows of his involvement in the Centauri aggression on the
+> Narn home world?
+
+       Yes, he's aware.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+NEW B5 EPS! (13-Feb-96 19:04:54)
+
+
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+
NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 13-Feb-96 19:04:54

+
       Good news.  We've finally convinced Warner Bros./PTEN to go
+with eight new episodes in a row, starting the first week of April. 
+The new schedule, which just went out via fax to the stations today, is
+as follows:
+
+       So here now is the revised schedule:
+
+       NEW EPISODES:
+       2/12    EXOGENESIS
+       2/19    MESSAGES FROM EARTH
+       2/26    POINT OF NO RETURN              (w/Majel Barrett)
+
+       RERUNS:
+       3/4     FALL OF NIGHT
+       3/11    THERE ALL THE HONOR LIES
+       3/18    AND NOW FOR A WORD
+       3/25    IN THE SHADOW OF Z'HA'DUM
+
+       NEW EPISODES:
+       4/1     SEVERED DREAMS
+       4/8     CEREMONIES OF LIGHT AND DARK
+       4/15    SIC TRANSIT VIR
+       4/22    A LATE DELIVERY FROM AVALON     (w/Michael York)
+       4/29    SHIP OF TEARS                   (w/Walter Koenig)
+       5/6     INTERLUDES AND EXAMINATIONS
+       5/13    WAR WITHOUT END: PART ONE       (w/Michael O'Hare)
+       5/20    WAR WITHOUT END: PART TWO
+
+       We're now in the process of working to get 2 new episodes in
+July, so there are only 3 left for October.  Even so, we're very
+excited to get a chance to show eight episodes in a row, building up to
+the end of the May sweeps with our big two-parter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (13-Feb-96 21:01:44)
+
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+
Date: 13-Feb-96 21:01:44

+
 Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, re: "Sic Transit Vir" - was that intended to be a pun in
+> Latin? Or was it accidental?
+
+       It's accurate as far as it goes, and a pun on another level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (13-Feb-96 21:01:45)
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+
Date: 13-Feb-96 21:01:45

+
 Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So after the 8 episode run, there will be more repeats, a few in
+> the summer, and then we won't see the end of the season until
+> october? I'm really happy about the 8 show solid chunk with no
+> repeats, but why on earth are they posponing the season finale to
+> october again?
+
+       Because PTEN wants to hold episodes for sweeps periods. 
+Nothing more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YKYBWTMB5W.. (13-Feb-96 21:01:46)
+
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YKYBWTMB5W..

+
Date: 13-Feb-96 21:01:46

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm glad we've given people a reason to live.
+
+       Granted, it's a silly one...but what the heck...you can never
+have too many reasons to live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minipax through history (14-Feb-96 01:20:14)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 01:20:14

+
 John M. Hawkins <71742.160@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Even so, I wonder how many of us could recognize modernized
+> versions of the events leading up to the Thrity Years War, or the
+> rise of Cromwell, both in the 17th Century, about as far removed
+> from our time as we are from B5's?
+
+       Yes, we have seen it before...and we're seeing it now...and
+we're going to see it again in future.
+
+       Someone once remarked, "Of course everything has already been
+said. But since no one was paying attention, we must begin again."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (14-Feb-96 14:37:30)
+
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<Dust to Dust>

+
Date: 14-Feb-96 14:37:30

+
 Chris Carrier <72157.3334@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any ideas when Season Two, especially the episodes Drazi Do
+> Worldcon "Geometry of Shadows" and Ivanova Meets The Libertarian
+> Party of 2259 "Acts of Sacrifice" will be on videotape?
+
+       We're still working on the tapes.  We'll have info when it's
+available.
+
+       And yeah, I love the Drazi.  They're just nuts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (14-Feb-96 15:26:33)
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:33

+
 Alan Hedge <72017.3232@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You couldn't convince them to run B^2 or even AVitW?
+
+       What, it's not enough I walked on the water here...?
+
+       No, I wish I could say otherwise, but thus far I haven't been
+able to convince them to run those eps.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minipax through history (14-Feb-96 15:26:35)
+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, they did use that kind of technique on some of their
+own population.  The medical population, for instance.  Recently
+uncovered (and shown on A&E, which I sometimes think is the All Nazi
+Network, All Nazis, All the Time) were a series of "informational
+films" produced during the war and shown to doctors charged with the
+notion of eliminating the insane, the genetically flawed, and others
+not classified as jews or gypsies or poles or other non-desirable
+races.
+
+       They went through, each film gradually stating their theory
+more clearly, and explained that these poor souls weren't *really*
+alive, weren't *really* aware.  It systematically showed how it was
+better, really, in the lokng run, to put them out of their own, and
+society's, misery.
+
+       If it ever comes around again, watch it; it'll chill your soul.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon Theology (14-Feb-96 15:26:38)
+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:38

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Weren't me.  It was Marcus.  Blame him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VOA> Nightwatch=Disney (03-Feb-96 00:19:22)
+
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+
<VOA> Nightwatch=Disney

+
Date: 03-Feb-96 00:19:22

+
 Raul A. Martinez <102250.1006@compuserve.com> asks:
+> No other reason is necessary, after all, how could the boss be
+> wrong?
+
+     Yep, sounds about right.
+
+     There's a reason most folks who've been involved refer to the
+company as Mouschwitz.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 cover story (14-Feb-96 15:26:41)
+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:41

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Next time you're in a bind, btw, you may want to point out to
+someone out there that the *head* of the British Sci-Fi Channel, in an
+interview, stated that he felt that B5 was the best SF show currently
+around.  So if they want to move toward serving the UK population,
+where B5 is #6 on the sell-through video charts, they definitely should
+do more B5 coverage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Beyond five years (14-Feb-96 15:26:49)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 15:26:49

+
 Robt Martin <75663.2701@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Warner retain any authority to use B5 characters or premises
+> in other endeavors (films, novels, action figures, teddy bears)
+> without your prior approval after the five-year span? What factors
+> would you say put you in a strong position for negotiating such a
+> deal?
+
+       Warners owns the copyright to B5, just as Paramount owns the
+copyright to ST.  By contract, if there should be a spin off or sequel
+of any kind, I would have to be involved in it.  The contract doesn't
+say that there cannot be any of these; you're correct, that can't be
+negotiated.
+
+       But there are a number of common-sense things at work here, as
+much as anything involving a studio can be described as common sense. 
+Given that all our actors/service contracts are deliberately for 5
+years not the more traditional 7, continuing B5 per se past year 5
+becomes impossible, due to the hideous level of re-negotiation of
+contracts that would have to take place. The cost would skyrocket.
+
+       I've always said, from the start, that there's a side story
+that could go off after B5 is finished, but I just don't think it's
+likely for the time being.  The numbers have been good enough to
+continue the show, but it's not a blockbuster, not a
+franchise...primarily due to the fact that we don't have a national,
+regular timeslot.  (Where we *do* have that, in the overseas markets,
+the show is extremely successful.)  There've been some small talks here
+and there touching on various feature film possibilities, from 
+direct-to-video to something theatrical -- but, again, due to the
+corporate structure at the studio, which is straight out of the pre-
+Cambrian period, I doubt anything much will happen on that front for
+the time begin.  It's nice that they've broached the subject, but to
+become a reality takes a bit more.
+
+       If I were to engage in predicting the future, here's what I
+think is most probable.  The show will continue to go on, doing well
+enough in the ratings to continue for two more seasons.  A comfortable
+level.  In 1998, after we've finished our first run, we are
+contractually already sold to the TNT cable network, which is
+*extremely* excited about the show, plans to promote it, and sees it as
+a way of breaking into the SF genre.  There, for the first time, we
+will have a regular, *daily* timeslot on a national network.
+
+       Then, I think, suddenly we're going to be "discovered," much
+the same way ST was discovered in syndication after it left the
+network.  Give it about a year or two for WB to notice this (see
+pre-Cambrian comment above), then suddenly they're going to start
+running around seeing what they can do to capitalize on this.
+
+       At that point, I'm not sure which way the runes point. 
+Certainly they'll start cranking out more merchandise stuff, which by
+contract I have to approve, to make sure it's quality stuff.  If they
+want to do a feature, I'll have to be involved, and they'll have to
+negotiate with all the cast members, who by then will have moved on to
+other projects and may or may not be available.  Ditto for any
+spinoffs.
+
+       So by the time they get their brains wrapped around the
+question, it'll already be the year 2000.  By then, much of TV as we
+know it now will have changed considerably, as it has already changed
+considerably in just the last 10 years.  A spinoff or sequel may no
+longer be financially viable in the new marketplace.  Ditto for any
+features.  Certainly nothing much could be done until 2002 or 2003 in
+terms of development, pre-production, production and post production.
+
+       So as you can see, one doesn't need a contract saying you can't
+do something...in TV, entropy tends to take care of the problem very
+nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan/Sinclair JPG (14-Feb-96 17:11:03)
+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 17:11:03

+
I've just uploaded to library 5 the first JPG of Sheridan and Sinclair
+together from the 2-parter "War Without End."  The file name is
+twob5.jpg, and will be available as soon as it's cleared.  It's a
+little dark, so it may take some work to get a real strong image.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+White Star (14-Feb-96 17:16:19)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 17:16:19

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+Don't remember.  It's possible.  There was a White Star line in
+reality, once upon a time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (14-Feb-96 17:16:20)
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 17:16:20

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any idea when the "Final Three" will be shown in
+> England??
+
+       See my note here on the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing B5 (14-Feb-96 17:16:23)
+
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+
Writing B5

+
Date: 14-Feb-96 17:16:23

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  And from where I sit -- which is mainly behind my
+keyboard these days -- the idea of being bored is VERY appealing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES (14-Feb-96 17:20:05)
+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 17:20:05

+
{14th April Sunday at 6pm.}
+
+       Yes, that's correct.  The Sunday 6 p.m. timeslot will be the
+one for all of the third season, so folks won't have to run home after
+work or risk missing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Last Shadow War (14-Feb-96 20:58:50)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 20:58:50

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Earth involved?
+> Were there Shadow bases on Earth, like on the Narn homeworld, or
+> was it something else? When was the last was?
+> We know it was 1000 years ago, is that approximate, or the exact
+> date? Will you answer all of these questions straight and to the
+> point?
+
+       You'll get some of the answers here in next week's episode. 
+The rest will be handled by the end of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (14-Feb-96 20:58:57)
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Date: 14-Feb-96 20:58:57

+
{Can WB be convinced to show season one episodes during reruns?}
+
+       Tried it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VoA:The First Ones> (14-Feb-96 20:58:58)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 20:58:58

+
 Don Fort <72204.1356@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any chance we'll see what Catherine Sakai was doing at
+> Sigma 957 a season or so ago?
+
+       Sakai was doing just what she said she was doing, checking out
+the area for mining and other exploitation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where do baby narn come (03-Feb-96 19:42:26)
+
+
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+
Date: 03-Feb-96 19:42:26

+
 Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, there is no homosexuality among the Centauri then?
+
+     I don't recall saying or implying that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust To Dust> (14-Feb-96 20:59:00)
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 20:59:00

+
{Hitchcock is a fine inspiration, but please don't do a shower scene!}
+
+       We would never do that.
+
+                                                       Yrs, Norman B.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A few questions (14-Feb-96 20:59:02)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14-Feb-96 20:59:02

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has there been any more discussions about the two hour
+> direct-to-video project?
+
+       Nothing new.  Which is what I figured.  I think they want to
+get a sense of the coming renewal situation before talks go any
+further.  Which will take another month or so.  Basically, the stations
+get pitched all new show pickups at NATPE, then they go home, confer
+with their general managers and owners, and then decide finally which
+shows they will and won't pick up. We won't hear anything definitive on
+that until probably late April, possibly even early May, depending on
+circumstances.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5SciFi Univ cover story (14-Feb-96 20:59:05)
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B5SciFi Univ cover story

+
Date: 14-Feb-96 20:59:05

+
{An article compared B5 and DS9}
+ Morris L. Gavant, M.D. <74027.264@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did he do that with the DS9 cover story?
+> Is there sour grapes underneath the essay regarding the need for
+> new blood?
+
+       This is something I probably shouldn't comment upon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sheridan/Sinclair JPG (14-Feb-96 22:40:42)
+
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Sheridan/Sinclair JPG

+
Date: 14-Feb-96 22:40:42

+
 Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know why the image is so dark?
+
+       I have no idea, as we didn't provide the graphic; I can only
+assume they either got it from WB, or digitized it themselves off the
+raw footage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+       (PS, I did upload a cleaner, slightly lighter version an hour
+or two later.)
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+8 NEW B5 EPS! (14-Feb-96 22:40:43)
+
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8 NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 14-Feb-96 22:40:43

+
{Now we can get older episodes.}
+
+       You can't, not until they go on sale at some point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+LA Channel (14-Feb-96 22:40:44)
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LA Channel

+
Date: 14-Feb-96 22:40:44

+
 David Shine <75213.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which LA station broadcasts Babylon 5 and, when?
+
+       Thursdays 9 p.m., channel 13.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Tolkien Influences (14-Feb-96 22:44:54)
+
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Tolkien Influences

+
Date: 14-Feb-96 22:44:54

+
 Cameron c. Wood <103305.515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ya ever sneak a peek at the Dead Sea Scrolls, or even the old
+> gnostic stuff?   {Narratives similar to Tolkien, and to B5}
+
+       Not bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan Ellison: Cartoon (14-Feb-96 23:54:53)
+
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Harlan Ellison: Cartoon

+
Date: 14-Feb-96 23:54:53

+
       No, no, it doesn't mean what it says.  But how else can one
+announce that B5's own Conceptual Consultant, Harlan Ellison, will be
+appearing at the Cartoon Art Museum at 814 Mission Street in San
+Francisco on Friday, March 1st, from 6-8 p.m.?  This Evening with
+Ellison goes for only $15 per person, and is a benefit to raise funds
+for museum.  For more info, call 1-415-CARTOON.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Beyond five years (15-Feb-96 03:43:02)
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+
Beyond five years

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 03:43:02

+
 Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Gee, then it'll be what, ten years before the WB stores start
+> selling B5 merchandise?
+
+       Yes, I know the store...I've spent far too much money there,
+mostly on Superman stuff.  (You know you've spent too much money at the
+WB store when the clerks actually *call you* to tell you that something
+just came in that you're gonna NEED to buy.  I sometimes think I have
+the word STOOGE tattooed upon my forehead....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (15-Feb-96 14:17:56)
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<Dust to Dust>

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 14:17:56

+
 Bill Hayes <75140.2265@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see the [Drazi] ambassador again this season?
+
+       Yeah, we'll see him again at some point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+VOA: Lurkers (03-Feb-96 19:42:28)
+
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+
VOA: Lurkers

+
Date: 03-Feb-96 19:42:28

+
 Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the nightwatch going to start "cleansing" the lurkers from B5?
+> Is the book of G'Quon going to be the teachers edition with all
+> of the answers for the shadow war?
+
+      Nightwatch has bigger goals than dealing with lurkers....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Ivonova/Bureau 13 (15-Feb-96 14:17:57)
+
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JMS: Ivonova/Bureau 13

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 14:17:57

+
{Ivanova is the backup Control, isn't she?}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Beyond five years (15-Feb-96 14:17:59)
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Beyond five years

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 14:17:59

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What ever happened to customer service?
+
+       WB stores don't carry B5 stuff, or stuff from most of the WB
+shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+8 NEW B5 EPS! (15-Feb-96 14:18:01)
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+
Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:01

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you implying that it requires divine intervention to make
+> studio execs see reason?
+
+       And sometimes even divine intervention isn't enough.  By
+comparison, parting the Red Sea is easy....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Vorlon Theology (15-Feb-96 14:18:06)
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Vorlon Theology

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:06

+
+       "I think Marcus is going to work out."
+
+       Yup.  As I'd said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES (15-Feb-96 14:18:07)
+
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YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:07

+
 Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As you know the timeslot details, I take it you would know if
+> they will be showing it w/s?? Also, any news on if they will be
+> showing it in the "hi-def" (!) PAL Plus?
+
+       I haven't heard anything more on this, so my *suspicion* is
+that the answer is no.  At this stage there probably isn't time to do
+it, either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadows (15-Feb-96 14:18:09)
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+
Shadows

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:09

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The invisible alien that was in the Earth sleeper ship, was that
+> a Shadow?
+
+       Shadow servent.  Soldier of darkness.  Not a shadow, but a
+good, close friend of same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+8 NEW B5 EPS! (15-Feb-96 14:18:11)
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+
Date: 15-Feb-96 14:18:11

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       "I'm beside myself."
+
+       How then do you walk through doorways?
+
+       This seems highly dubious and very impractical.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Makeup/Prosthetics Q: (15-Feb-96 20:58:16)
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+
Makeup/Prosthetics Q:

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:16

+
 Thomas Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (For example, adding a little bit to a person's jowls to age him
+> from his actual 40 years to around 70.) Could you refer me to
+> someone on the B5 staff, or some other source, who could advise
+> me on materials used for the face molds and the prosthetics, and
+> tips on how the process is done?
+
+       Alas, I would feel inappropriate in referring you to any of our
+staff for consultation, as a) they get such requests frequently, and b)
+they're very busy on other stuff.  Probably any good makeup technician
+in the area could do the same in any event; we're not doing anything
+that hasn't been well established in the field.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 cover story (15-Feb-96 20:58:18)
+
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B5 cover story

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:18

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Do you think any of the foot dragging over at the Sci-Fi
+Channel Magazine is due in part to the fact that the SFC is co-owned by
+Paramount?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+8 NEW B5 EPS! (15-Feb-96 20:58:21)
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8 NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:21

+
 Rick Shelton [FL] <72560.3114@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did he take a bath?
+> Also, is Lou coming back at all?
+
+       The actor playing Lou Welch wanted to do other things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HE on PI (01-Feb-96 13:56:24)
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HE on PI

+
Date: 01-Feb-96 13:56:24

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yup...and it's a good point.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New to Babylon 5 (03-Feb-96 21:16:14)
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New to Babylon 5

+
Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:14

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Bless your heart...thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Ivonova/Bureau 13 (15-Feb-96 20:58:22)
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+
Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:22

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       We'll continue to see Corwin (played by Joshua Cox) for the
+balance of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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<Dust to Dust>

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:25

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the Psi Corps based on Mars, or do they only have an outpost
+> there? Is Bester a Mars or an Earth native?
+
+       There's a training facility on Mars, and a somewhat classified
+base. Bester was born on Earth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Exogenesis (15-Feb-96 20:58:32)
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+
Exogenesis

+
Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:32

+
 mitoch <103576.3032@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hi, I just have to ask ( and I don't think a spoiler is
+> necessary), but is the voice of the pilot on the shuttle Dyson
+> actually Sean Connery or is it a celebrity impersonator?
+
+       It was a voice in the walla group that basically came out
+sounding that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon Theology (15-Feb-96 20:58:33)
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+
Date: 15-Feb-96 20:58:33

+
 Asha DeVelder <76703.4322@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, you're saying you didn't write that line?
+> That the actor just ad-libbed it and you left it in?
+
+       Actor?  What actor?  I'm talking about Marcus here.  I just
+write down what he says.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon Theology (16-Feb-96 16:18:57)
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Vorlon Theology

+
Date: 16-Feb-96 16:18:57

+
 Carl Bussjaeger <102065.1635@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When can we expect _your_ characters to take over and start
+> posting directly, on their own?
+
+       Most unlikely.
+
+                                                                 kosh
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Book 4, Morden> (16-Feb-96 16:19:02)
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<Book 4, Morden>

+
Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:02

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will this finally be a case where a book has direct connection to
+> what will be coming up in the series? Will we see D'Arc on the
+> show?
+
+       Probably not, but one never knows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan & Delenn (16-Feb-96 16:19:05)
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+
Sheridan & Delenn

+
Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:05

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you can't tell me what they will become (if anything), but
+> can you let me sleep nights by letting me know you won't just
+> forget about their relationship?
+
+       I would say it's fair to say I do plan to do more with that
+relationship as we get deeper into the story.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
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Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:06

+
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+
+       Thanks (I think).  Yeah, I've said from the git-go that in my
+view the second half of Exo isn't up to the first half.  It is, in my
+view, the weakest of this season's 22.  On the flip side, that means
+the other 21 are pretty nifty.
+
+       Agree with you on Marcus.  I'm finding I have the same problem
+with him I have with Londo...getting him to shut up once I wire him up
+and let him go. He's a lot of fun to write, in that he can do the
+physical action stuff very well, he can do comedy, more dramatic
+emotional stuff...the whole range.  I can take him places and do things
+with him that I can't in some ways for the other characters, in that he
+has only one responsibility, whereas the others have larger
+responsibilities to more people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadows (16-Feb-96 16:19:09)
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+
Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:09

+
 gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Rangers, Sheridan, Sinclair, Lyta, and now G'Kar are good, close
+> friends of the Vorlons? Or more like just Lyta?
+
+       More like a foot soldier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLTS:Shadows (16-Feb-96 16:19:12)
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+
Date: 16-Feb-96 16:19:12

+
 Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> a) In the Narn/Shadows battle, a Shadow ship is damaged by a
+> combined Narn attack - The Shadow ship seems to be totally
+> immobilised, was it really this badly hurt that the loss of one
+> part of one of it's 20 'limbs' (yes I've counted them!) causes
+> this ? - how tough are they ?
+> b) Is it possible that the bit of 'limb' is still floating in
+> orbit ? - for someone to collect and analyze?
+> - or can the Vorlons just tell us everything about Shadow tech ?
+
+       It was in shock, but it would've recovered in a bit more time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New to Babylon 5 (03-Feb-96 21:16:15)
+
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+
Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:15

+
 John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did he bother with Londo?
+> What if Londo had caused a scene and "Varner" got detained by
+> security? Did someone else, with another changeling net, try to
+> kill Kosh? Was Lyta's mental vision faked by Kosh?
+> Will we find out in the very last episode of B5?
+
+      Actually, it was stated in the pilot that the assassin gave
+Londo a line of credit (later canceled) which Londo used to continue
+gambling, not that he personally stayed there the whole time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Beyond five years (16-Feb-96 16:24:56)
+
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+
Date: 16-Feb-96 16:24:56

+
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+
+       Absolutely.
+
+       And I'm looking forward to it.
+
+       I haven't summoned down thunder and lightning in a long time;
+it'll be good to get in the practice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unused scripts (16-Feb-96 22:17:41)
+
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+
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+
Date: 16-Feb-96 22:17:41

+
 Christopher R. Turn <71470.1536@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any chance (pretty please!) that the unused scripts from
+> seasons one and two (such as *The Long Night of Susan Ivanova*)
+> might be released?
+
+       There *are* no unused scripts.  This is a misnomer.  I've had a
+few titles, or premises, that haven't gone as far as a script, but no
+abandoned scripts.  So I can't upload them, since they don't exist.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Beyond five years (16-Feb-96 22:17:41)
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+
Date: 16-Feb-96 22:17:41

+
{Why do you put up with the bozos here?}
+
+       I consider it research; I work up some great lines for Ivanova
+this way as *she* deals with pinheads.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLTS:Shadows (17-Feb-96 00:07:54)
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+
Date: 17-Feb-96 00:07:54

+
{About Shadow ships}
+
+       They're organic, in a fashion, and there's a cognitive aspect,
+but not what you may think.  More in 7 days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust To Dust> (17-Feb-96 00:07:54)
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+
Date: 17-Feb-96 00:07:54

+
{Continuing the "Psycho" thread}
+
+       Oh, good, I'll go get her for you.
+
+       You'll just *love* meeting mother.
+
+                                                            Norman B.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Nightwatch / ISN (17-Feb-96 15:06:58)
+
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+
Date: 17-Feb-96 15:06:58

+
 Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where is the ISN during all this Nightwatch stuff?
+> Why aren't they investigating the Nightwatch?
+> Is the press being supressed by the MiniPax?
+> Will this become a factor in an upcoming episode?
+> Will Universe Today become a propaganda arm of Earth Dome?
+
+       You'll find more on this in the next three episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES (17-Feb-96 15:45:22)
+
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+
Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:22

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       In every great war, there are always some civilian
+casualties....
+
+       (Is there anyone who can tape it for you, to watch later?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Garibaldi Payback (17-Feb-96 15:45:23)
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+
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+
Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:23

+
 Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When are we going to see him finally kick the living crap out of
+> someone?
+
+       That can probably be arranged.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (17-Feb-96 15:45:25)
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+
Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:25

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...and the best is yet to come.  This coming week's
+episode, "Messages From Earth," is probably the best thing we've done
+on the series to this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Exogenesis (17-Feb-96 15:45:29)
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+
Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:29

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Sometimes I do like to take stories that have always
+been done one way, and turn them on their heads to see what new
+possibilites tumble out. It's fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:17

+
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+
+     If you're talking about the conference room scene...Draal wasn't
+put into the scene digitally.  You do a split screen, with the camera
+locked off.  In one Delenn walks over to a point just short of the
+line; in another you get a shot just of the wall; then Draal walks up. 
+You then use a dissolve technique to fade him into the room on his side
+of the split screen.  But he's not being put *into* the room, he's
+already there, so he's neither bigger nor smaller than he is in real
+life, since he IS in real life there, not added in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Exogenesis> (17-Feb-96 15:45:31)
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+
Date: 17-Feb-96 15:45:31

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, Marcus and Ivanova should get along
+well...assuming one doesn't kill the other first....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 14:57:41

+
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+
+       Thanks.  Bruce did an excellet job in this episode, I agree. 
+As did everyone else.  This is, in my opinion, about as flawless an
+episode as we have ever made.  It's one of those cases where the sum is
+even greater than the sum of its parts...and the sum of its parts ain't
+bad.
+
+       From here on through the next batch, the intensity level
+continues to crank up.
+
+       We definitely pushed the envelope in terms of EFX this time
+out; mixing and matching, and in sheer amounts of shots, and their
+complexity. But the result, I think, is eminently worth the effort.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (18-Feb-96 14:57:43)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 14:57:43

+
 Kevin Hill <74170.1015@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since there aren't too many Ardwrights around, can I assume that
+> this is the same person in B5? Does he write on the side to
+> suppliment his meager income from B5<grin!>?
+
+       Yes, I believe he does write as well, including some Robotech
+stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (18-Feb-96 14:57:46)
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+
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 14:57:46

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any advice on effective strategies for dealing with
+> station management?
+
+       The best techniques are always persistence, and organization;
+if you can get others involved as well, in a concerted effort, that
+always has an effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (18-Feb-96 14:57:47)
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 14:57:47

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thank you.  Working on the show, and creating this universe, is
+a task that has, in sum, taken ten years of my life thus far, and it
+means a great deal.  I appreciate the kind words.  We do try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (18-Feb-96 15:53:20)
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 15:53:20

+
       Here's something that occured to me today.  Any time you have
+someone you're trying to convince about the quality of a show, and you
+say, "Here, just watch it next week," that's always the one that comes
+a-cropper.
+
+       "Messages From Earth" airing this coming week is possibly the
+best thing we've done to that point.  It's guaranteed to grab anybody
+who watches it.  So this would be a good one to use.
+
+       Pick ten friends who you know haven't yet tried B5, or are
+diffident about it, and give them a call.  Tell them to give THIS one a
+look.  Then all you have to do is sit back, and wait for the jaws to
+drop.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (18-Feb-96 16:29:42)
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 16:29:42

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Some viewers have set up petitions at local SF-oriented
+bookstores, which can also be a good place to start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (18-Feb-96 18:07:44)
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 18:07:44

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...on all counts, really.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (18-Feb-96 18:07:45)
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 18:07:45

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm getting the feeling that this one is one that should be
+> taped, hmmm?
+
+       Taped?
+
+       Bronzed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Ivonova/Bureau 13 (18-Feb-96 18:10:26)
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+
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 18:10:26

+
 FitzGeralds <103571.3245@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did she really think she could evaluate him in such a short time?
+> What else should he have said?
+> Could he trust her?
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, I tend to find *process*...the going from one
+state to another, to be interesting.  Growth not only provides drama,
+it can often produce irony, tragedy, and comedy, and ah *loves* all of
+those.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (03-Feb-96 21:16:21)
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+
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+
Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:21

+
 Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So does that mean we have 4 more episodes untill a rerun cycle
+> and how many of these will deal directly with the story line?
+
+     Randy, I honestly don't think, after episodes 8-10 have aired,
+that you're going to have any problems with how fast the main story is
+progressing. And do bear in mind that the "main story" isn't just the
+war; if you wanted to do that, you'd just do Space A&B.  It's operating
+on a whole lot of other levels.  Nonetheless...this entire season is
+much faster overall in developing than the two before.  The first two
+seasons we were mainly putting the guns into position.  Now we're
+pulling all the triggers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Good Grief - DS9 (18-Feb-96 20:12:59)
+
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 20:12:59

+
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+
+       If you're looking for rationality here, save your time; these
+are the same two, he and his brother, who *insisted* over on AOL that I
+had sent official B5 reps to conventions to bash ST...and when
+challenged, backpedaled fast...until finally admitting that they saw a
+couple of guys on a panel who'd said bad things about ST, but were in
+NO way associated with B5 in ANY official capacity whatsoever.  They
+basically just made it up.
+
+       He just posted a HUGE and *provable* fabrication about DS9's
+ratings over on the ST section, and then has the audacity to come here
+and say that *I* speak with a forked tongue.
+
+       They seem to think that somehow I should prevent B5 fans from
+ever saying anything derogatory about ST.  I don't have that kind of
+control. They said it here again, that I "allow" this behavior.  This
+is irrational thinking at its finest, that somehow I control or allow
+viewers of this or any show to do or say ANYthing.  Their attitude is
+like a cranky child, "Make 'em stop talking bad about our show!"
+
+       Basically, accuracy and the Halls dine at separate tables. 
+You're making the same mistake I did at first with the Halls...assuming
+that you were dealing with sensible individuals interested in the
+facts.  You're not, and they're not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing B5 (18-Feb-96 20:25:10)
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 20:25:10

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of writing and the like, how is the carpal tunnel doing
+> right now in your case?
+
+       Frankly, the carpal tunnel is not good right now.  Yesterday it
+shot up from my left elbow to wrist...it's hard to describe unless you
+take a shishkabob skewer and drive it from your elbow to your wrist
+real fast a few times.  Mainly it's a dull but constant
+weight/discomfort in the wrists, fingers and forearms; the ring finger
+of my right hand is now constantly turned inward...I have to sleep on
+it flat under my pillow at nights to straighten it out by morning. 
+(The left hand just started doing the same thing a few days ago.)
+
+       This is the worst part of the year for this, at this point in
+the writing.  Last year at this time, I had to write 20 minutes, then
+ice my arms down for 20 minutes, then write 20, then ice 20.  And so
+on.  The discomfort is pretty chronic now, but not always as acute,
+because I'm doing the exercises, and wearing the wrist restraints, and
+doing all the things I should be doing.
+
+       But the bottom line...to write this season means writing over
+1,000 pages of scripts in less than 10 months.  Not counting interim
+drafts and the like.  That's the equivilent of a novel every 5 months. 
+That's going to take a toll on you no matter what you do.  (Dictating
+or voice recog doesn't work for me; I write through my fingers.)
+
+       When these last two scripts are finished, though, I'll have a
+fair amount of time to recuperate before doing it all over again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (18-Feb-96 20:25:14)
+
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 20:25:14

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Er, beg pardon, but what Robotech stuff is there left to write?
+> Then again, given my propensity for misquoting authors, whada I
+> know?
+
+       He's written some of the translated scripts for the animated
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (18-Feb-96 20:30:29)
+
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 20:30:29

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does a Shadow ship have only one crewman and can the "person"
+> leave the ship once he has bonded with it? If it is only a two day
+> jump from Earth to B5 why can't they get eggs to the station
+> before they spoil?
+
+       Basically, it's the cost involved in transporting something as
+basically trivial as eggs.  Yes, it can be done, but the cost per egg
+would be quite substantial, given limited space in ships.  Space flight
+is still very expensive.
+
+       And yes, a shadow vessel has one "core" sentient, and once in,
+it's very difficult for that person to ever get out again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing B5 (18-Feb-96 22:43:21)
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 22:43:21

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'd just distract myself....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (18-Feb-96 22:43:21)
+
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+
Date: 18-Feb-96 22:43:21

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, we try....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Messages from Earth<< (19-Feb-96 00:29:04)
+
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 00:29:04

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this planned or just one of those things?
+> Will we learn what he has written during his tenure in prison?
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, the way Sheridan removes his EA pin here is an
+echo, or a shadow, so to speak, of his moment in "Honor."  The latter
+is meant to sort of indicate what might be ahead for him, what he may
+have to do at some point along the line.  He has to give up things that
+mean something to him. (We'll get more of this philosophy in a few more
+eps, I don't want to get too specific here.)  Visual foreshadowing.
+
+       From here on in, things get very interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unused scripts (19-Feb-96 19:23:12)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 19:23:12

+
 Gerard Keating (Ireland) <71154.3423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Cound the unused "premises" be used as a basis for novels or
+> comics ???
+
+       One of them was; David Gerrold's premise was used for the
+two-part comic he wrote.  But beyond that, separated rights means that
+the author holds onto ancillary uses, so I can't go around assigning
+their outlines or premises for books and the like, only my own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (19-Feb-96 19:23:15)
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 19:23:15

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'd rather let that be answered later in this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages from Earth> (19-Feb-96 19:23:17)
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 19:23:17

+
 Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also, I enjoyed seeing "The Book of G'Kar" - maybe a new
+> testament? Is this the first episode that fairly directly ties in
+> to either the comic or the books?
+
+       Yes, what he's writing will, in time, become the Book of G'Kar.
+
+       And correct, I went for a different feel in this episode, on
+the theory that a little change is a good thing, if used to a purpose. 
+It's built like a series of waves, with quite moments in between.
+
+       This is the second so far to strongly tie into the comic, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (03-Feb-96 21:16:22)
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+
Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:22

+
 Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What more can we do?
+
+      It takes us no longer to make the episodes or the EFX really
+than it did before.  But PTEN will not air shows out of sweeps periods,
+for the most part. The episodes on hand now were finished weeks, and in
+a couple of cases over a month ago.  They sit on the shelf until PTEN
+decides to air them.  The only thing we did was swap "VoA" with
+"Passing Through Gethsemane" to give that one a little bit more time. 
+That's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marianne Robertson (19-Feb-96 19:33:24)
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 19:33:24

+
 Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder why she left?
+> It would be nice, though again it depends on why she left, has
+> anyone had any Marianne sightings on other shows? But for how many
+> episodes this season?
+
+       Marianne departed the show on her own, deciding that she wanted
+to travel and do other things.  I don't think she's acted much anywhere
+since.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing B5 (19-Feb-96 19:33:26)
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 19:33:26

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       ...selling my ears....?
+                     ~~~~
+       WHERE THE HELL DID *THIS* THREAD COME FROM?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Good Grief - DS9 (19-Feb-96 21:04:42)
+
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 21:04:42

+
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+
+       Thanks...the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages from Earth> (19-Feb-96 21:04:43)
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 21:04:43

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the spine that the White Star shot off the Shadow vessel
+> recovered?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dust to Dust, comments (19-Feb-96 21:04:49)
+
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+
Date: 19-Feb-96 21:04:49

+
 Harold Eckstein <72253.3332@compuserve.com> asks:
+> These are some questions I have about the logic or correctness of
+> some of the situations: 1) Should Sheridan have shown such little
+> anger when he catches Ivanova about to kill Bester? 2) Was that
+> right that Sheridan's staff speak before he gives them permission
+> and before he finishes? (He was laying down the law to Bester near
+> the start of the episode.) 3) Garibaldi can bring Ashi in so
+> easily, grab his hair, intimidate him a little and he caves? This
+> is the guy who has his hands in major crimes on the station? 5)
+> Why should G'Kar be so voluble with Lindstrom, revealing the Narn
+> (or his own) plans for the dust? Is a drunk driver not to be held
+> accountable for injury he causes after he drinks, because he
+> can't control himself when he is drunk?
+
+       Thanks.  The stories ebb and flow at different paces, some
+slower, some faster, depending on the nature of the story.  I try to
+give each one a separate flavor.  Where it may become a hassle is that
+some folks, myself included sometimes, tend to flip pages in a novel to
+get to the exciting stuff...but the interim parts, though slower, are
+where you get to know the characters and care for them, so that what
+happens later has consequence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages from Earth> (20-Feb-96 02:09:24)
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+
Date: 20-Feb-96 02:09:24

+
 Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One Bad point I found was How could the Hiperion Track the White
+> Star ...As Far as you have let on so far Earth force ship's are
+> unable to lock on to Mimbari Ship's as Far as tracking or fire
+> control goes ? Also With out you giving away too much Will we Find
+> out More Soon on the Buildup of Forces to fight the shadows ..Ie:
+> new war ship's or Vorlon Technology ...ect ...and if so will it
+> be soon ?
+
+       The forces will continue to build over the course of this
+season. The White Star would be detected because it was inside the
+atmosphere, where it could be picked up by its emissions, the
+disruption caused in the air by the engines, and frankly by plain
+sight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 & TNT (20-Feb-96 11:49:55)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20-Feb-96 11:49:55

+
 Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since TNT has purchased the rights to B5 for 5 years, doesn't
+> that pretty much assure that PTEN would continue B5 for 5 years? 
+> Or is this agreement flexable depending on B5's year-to-year
+> renewal and TNT would just get whatever is produced?
+
+       The agreement is flexible; WB has the option of doing just 3
+years, but I'm reasonably sure that TNT would like a lot more
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (20-Feb-96 17:44:13)
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+
Date: 20-Feb-96 17:44:13

+
 Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the episodes ever coming out on video?
+
+       Thanks.  We hope to release the videos through the fan club
+once it's seriously up on its feet.  We're booked on scripts for this
+season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Warning Bogus B5 Stuff (20-Feb-96 17:44:14)
+
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+
Date: 20-Feb-96 17:44:14

+
 Alexis Holizki <75027.1277@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On sorta the same topic, how many B5 shirts have been authorized?
+
+       The All-U shirts are definitely legit.  And nicely done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shakespear and Marcus (20-Feb-96 22:08:04)
+
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+
Date: 20-Feb-96 22:08:04

+
 Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were the Shakespearian lines in Exogenesis your doing or Jason
+> Carter's? Or did you write them specifically with him in mind?
+
+       I like Marcus quoting literature, Shakespeare included.  So
+it's something I've peppered through his character, though trying to
+avoid too much of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (03-Feb-96 21:16:26)
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+
Date: 03-Feb-96 21:16:26

+
 David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or how many *years* was it before Frederic Pohl's Heechee series,
+> Roger Zelazny's Amber series, or Poul Anderson's Flandry stories
+> played out?
+
+     RE: the arc...the way it's always been structured, given the need
+to ease viewers slowly into it, is that season 1 had maybe 4-5 really
+strong arc episodes; season 2 had maybe 8; season 3 is almost equally
+50/50; season 4 will have an even higher number of arc episodes; and
+season 5 is nothing BUT arc stories.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (20-Feb-96 22:08:05)
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+
Date: 20-Feb-96 22:08:05

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If so, what is it that clues you in that you need a small break?
+
+       No, usually it's not a problem, except when I get physically
+tired at the end of a long day.  It's a full-immersion process only
+from July through April; from April to June it's a bit slower, so I can
+recuperate then (we don't shoot April to June).  I actually have very
+little trouble living in the B5 universe with half my brain, and
+hanging out here and the other nets with the other half of my brain. 
+Granted, I don't have any brain left over for a personal life during
+this period, but my personal life has always been pretty brainless, so
+there you are.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Warning Bogus B5 Stuff (20-Feb-96 22:08:06)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Date: 20-Feb-96 22:08:06

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> but who's winning?"
+
+       That's good news, though I wish folks would drop the vs. part
+of the panel topic and just talk about the shows on their own terms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Messages from Earth<< (21-Feb-96 00:40:13)
+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 00:40:13

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Okay, then if gravities is inappropriate, 'splain to how
+shuttle and jet pilots refer to gravities in similar situations, e.g.,
+pulling 2 g's when at a certain accelleration and turn pattern.
+
+       Also, when the Galilleo probe was inserted into the Jovian
+atmosphere, and a number of scientists on CSPAN were talking about
+Jupiter, they commented that the interior of Jupiter would be twice (or
+whatever number) the gravity of Earth.
+
+       You're dealing with a much greater *mass* than with Earth, and
+thus greater gravity.  I don't see where in here is the flaw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<MFE: Jumpgate> (21-Feb-96 13:35:31)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:31

+
 Gary Weinfurther <71521.2352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why didn't Sheridan use the jumpgate trick against the shadow
+> ship like he did with the last one?
+
+       Because there wasn't a jumpgate he had access to, only a jump
+point created by the White Star.  In the prior situation, he blew up a
+standing jump gate.  The only one in the vicinity would be at the
+transfer point near Io, which if destroyed would seriously harm Earth
+interests.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Exogenesis question (21-Feb-96 13:35:33)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:33

+
 Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, what was Joshua Cox's reaction when he
+> read the script for "Exogenesis" and found out his character
+> actually got to get out of C&C?
+
+       He loved it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 & TNT (21-Feb-96 13:35:35)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:35

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In your estimation, does the fact of the syndication agreement
+> with TNT make it more likely that season 4 and 5 will be done?
+
+       It's a wash, won't make a difference either way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (21-Feb-96 13:35:36)
+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:36

+
 Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever find out who was the person who entered the ship,
+> and does it matter?
+
+       It doesn't really matter in the long run; some poor shlub who
+got conned into it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 vs ST (21-Feb-96 13:35:38)
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:38

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and thanks for joining the party.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<MfE - Garibaldi+comic> (21-Feb-96 13:35:41)
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 13:35:41

+
 Benoit Langevin <74434.3136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are the latest news on the Fan club and the video?
+
+       I believe Sheridan wasn't shown the badge in the comic; and
+Garibaldi is always cautious about what he says in front of others,
+like Kirkish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (21-Feb-96 15:38:44)
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 15:38:44

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       And then there are days when I don't remember what I had for
+lunch....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VOA> (04-Feb-96 14:30:44)
+
+
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:44

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ok, Joe, what does "Zog" mean?
+> What is this species of First Ones called?
+> That scene with Zack and Political Officer Julie at breakfast:
+> Did Zack sorta flirt with her because he had the same sort of
+> interview with her the previous day that she tried to have with
+> Sheridan the night before?
+
+     No, that wasn't the relationship between her and Zack, much as he
+might've wished for it.  As for the walkers at sigma 957...the
+recognition signal is their name, which is 15,000 letters long (we had
+to cut this line for time).  So I can't really repeat it here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages From Earrth> (21-Feb-96 21:09:52)
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 21:09:52

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who'd have thought that the man called "Starkiller" last year
+> would be walking down the hallway of a Minbar (and half-Vorlon)
+> ship with two Minbari, huh? What can one say about this poor guy,
+> who is literally about to be caught between a rock and a hard
+> place?
+
+       Thanks.  Actually, we crank up the whole Nightwatch story over
+the next two episodes, and what's happening with Earth, until it hits
+fever pitch. Things really start to move.  (There's almost a short lull
+after #10, just to let folks catch their breath a bit before the next
+big wave.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing B5 (21-Feb-96 21:09:55)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 21:09:55

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whne it gets to be this bad, what do you do for it, short of not
+> typing on the keyboard for two days? Have you considered the
+> surgery for this condition? In the meantime, take care of
+> yourself, okay?
+
+       Actually, no, the plan next season is not to write all of them;
+it only happened this season because so much gets changed that it's
+hard to bring in freelancers.  Next season, things will have stabalized
+enough to bring in freelancers again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Four Cents: "Exogenesis" (21-Feb-96 21:09:55)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 21:09:55

+
 The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Claudia Christian do this stuff in one take??
+> The Jawa Kidism Patrol 8:51 PM, Wednesday, February 21, 1996
+> Glasses help you see the screen!--who knew?
+
+       We rarely do just one take of anything; you always do more, in
+case you get something new.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+C&C lights (21-Feb-96 21:09:59)
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 21:09:59

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Basically, it's a hassle to rig the lights given that set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages From Earrth> (21-Feb-96 21:10:01)
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 21:10:01

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...I think it came out well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Stuff (21-Feb-96 21:10:03)
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 21:10:03

+
 Daniel K. Stump <104201.1460@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you discussed DAYPRO with your doctor?
+> TALIA: if she is "The future" then why is she off the show?
+> Did the Actress quit or is this all part of the grand scheme of
+> things? Kosh: What does "You have always been here" mean anyway?
+> Stephen Furst is still on the opening squence, so is Vir going to
+> be on as much as ever? Here's a joke I made up, you're welcome to
+> use it if you like, no credit nor compensation required: How many
+> Vorlons does it take to screw in a light bulb?
+
+       "If Talia is 'the future' then why is she off the show?"
+
+       Because stuff happens.  Because rocketry was the hope of the
+German Luftwaffe to win the war.  Didn't work out that way.  Just
+because a character says it, doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to
+happen at all times. A parent can look at a child and say, "He's our
+hope for the future," and the next day the kid gets turfed by a
+semi-truck.  Stuff happens.  Nothing is guaranteed in the B5 universe;
+any character -- ANY character -- is vulnerable.  That, for me, is part
+of what's exciting.
+
+       Vir is in this season about as much as last, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Messages from Earth>> (21-Feb-96 21:10:06)
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 21:10:06

+
 Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com> asks:
+> WHY do you do this to us?
+
+       If you think this is bad, wait until after next week's episode,
+when you'll have to wait until April 3rd for the conclusion of the
+three-episode mini-arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages from Earth> (21-Feb-96 21:22:14)
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+
Date: 21-Feb-96 21:22:14

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       "...I didn't think things would start moving this fast so
+soon!"
+
+       Well, this is what I kinda kept trying to tell people was
+coming, when they said things were moving too slowly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-Feb-96 00:35:04

+
 Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I haven't seen it yet, but does this mean that a human can
+> "pilot" a shadow ship and if so, would the human be sane after
+> words?
+
+       Almost certainly not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (22-Feb-96 00:35:05)
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+
Date: 22-Feb-96 00:35:05

+
 Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The question then becomes, did you even HAVE lunch?
+
+       Who can remember?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (04-Feb-96 14:30:45)
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:45

+
 David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does that work?
+> Do the stations order the show, and then if there are enough
+> orders Warner renews the series?
+
+     Correct.  There's a certain number of stations you have to have
+to make the syndication deal work financially.  You get that number,
+you get the pickup; you don't, you don't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-Feb-96 00:35:13

+
 Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And also will we ever see Iron heart again ...?
+> ?
+
+       Talia's gift was exactly what was indicated, nothing much
+hidden in there: greater capacity to shield her thoughts, and limited
+telekinesis.
+
+       No plans for Ironheart for long, long time.
+
+       We shoot episodes from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.  Rarely do we go
+overtime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Minor Minbari Question: (22-Feb-96 01:35:12)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-Feb-96 01:35:12

+
 Grady W. Smithey I <103321.2766@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long ago was it that the Minbari discovered that souls were
+> going missing?
+
+       About a thousand years, give or take.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-Feb-96 14:22:04

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.  You need a clear and present danger, and with a
+population that nearly got wiped out by the Minbari, who are skittish
+to begin with, you drag out the possibility of someone else doing the
+same thing and it makes it a lot easier to do what you want to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-Feb-96 14:22:05

+
 John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you mean that a human can not pilot/ride(?) a battlecrab?
+
+       Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Episode 321 (22-Feb-96 14:22:06)
+
+
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+
Episode 321

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 14:22:06

+
 Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will we get to find out the name of the season finale?
+> By summertime, perhaps?
+
+       I'm going to hold the title of 22 confidential as long as
+possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (22-Feb-96 18:23:12)
+
+
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+
<Messages from Earth>

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:12

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode 321 (22-Feb-96 18:23:16)
+
+
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+
Episode 321

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:16

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would that mean that the title of episode 22 is also the title of
+> season 4?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (22-Feb-96 18:23:17)
+
+
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+
<Messages from Earth>

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:17

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should we start to look with suspicion at whoever it was that
+> ordered an Earth explorer ship into a sector of space in which it
+> would encounter the Minbari ship carrying the Grey Council --
+> which would respectfully approach the Earth ship with gun ports
+> open?
+
+       No, that was an accident.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (22-Feb-96 18:23:18)
+
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+
<Messages from Earth>

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:18

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Clarks' Law> (22-Feb-96 18:23:21)
+
+
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+
<Clarks' Law>

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 18:23:21

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       ...urk...I missed that when I proofread it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VoA la France> (04-Feb-96 14:30:48)
+
+
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+
<VoA la France>

+
Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:48

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     You didn't imagine it....
+
+     Part of what appeals to me is the idea that the English/French
+animosity you often see (though clearly not in all cases) would
+continue not only into the future, but outside Earth.  Realistically,
+if you go into Europe, you find people holding grudges 500 years old,
+or more.  Seemed appropriate to carry this small one forward as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 PR (22-Feb-96 18:38:23)
+
+
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+
B5 PR

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 18:38:23

+
       Having taken steps to further help promote the show, there's a
+lot more happening.  If you're in Portland tonight watch "Good Evening"
+tonight at 7:30 p.m. on KGW and in Seattle on "Evening" on KING-TV for
+a piece on "Point of No Return."  Also, tomorrow's Showbiz Minute on
+CNN will do stuff on this episode as well.
+
+       EXTRA will be running clips this weekend, and the AP has a
+story on it, as well as the New York Times Syndicate Inside-Trek
+column.  The episode has been picked as a highlight in the Philadelphia
+press, the LA Times, and in major newspapers in Dallas, Houston,
+Chicago, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere.
+
+       Slowly, we're getting noticed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 vs ST (22-Feb-96 22:30:30)
+
+
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+
B5 vs ST

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:30

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       But it's a *good* weird.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Msgs from Earth (22-Feb-96 22:30:31)
+
+
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+
JMS: Msgs from Earth

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:31

+
 gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there something bigger than we might expect going on with the
+> Minbari? Is this true?
+> 3) Do Vorlon ships have the same (or similar) symbiotic deal?
+> 4) We've seen the mini-shadow-ship-balls, but are there various
+> sizes of big shadow ships? Can you help me feel better about this?
+
+       Well, they all could've died.
+
+       Neither situation relied on introducing new technology, only on
+taking advantage of what's known currently.  It's a simple equation:
+ship A is more powerful than ship B.  In a head-to-head situation, ship
+A (shadow) will destroy ship B (white star).  If you can't directly
+confront a stronger enemy, you have to find some way to work around it,
+outsmart it.  (And fortunately, this one was flawed, "insane," as
+Delenn put it.)
+
+       And the minbari know more than they're saying.  But then that's
+generally true of them.
+
+       And yes, the shadow ship arrived with a new "core" for the
+buried ship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Still my favorite show (22-Feb-96 22:30:36)
+
+
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+
Still my favorite show

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:36

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (22-Feb-96 22:30:38)
+
+
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+
<Messages from Earth>

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:38

+
 School of Comm Arts <103111.2445@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now is this just some sort of coincidence or deliberate?
+
+       The Eternal Vigilance line is from history, not Wing Commander.
+Ten Green Drazi points to the person who can name its origin.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 PR (22-Feb-96 22:30:45)
+
+
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+
B5 PR

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:45

+
 Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know the show needs PR to help expand the audience and improve
+> ratings & time-slots, and I do enjoy reading the occasional
+> interview, but is there any way for you to control the media once
+> they do take notice? But, if/when the media turns the spotlight on
+> B5, are we going to end up with the situation Trek faces, where
+> lazy reporters think that giving away the ending is the same as
+> writing an article? Do you think you will be able to continue
+> doing so?
+
+       If presidents, ministers and generals can't control the media,
+we have little chance of doing so.  So we just have to try to keep
+things close to the vest on our own (which is why the title for 322 is
+classified for now).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New Stuff (22-Feb-96 22:30:45)
+
+
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+

+
New Stuff

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 22:30:45

+
 Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As i see you rarly do any thing that could not have meaning later
+> on I assume it got away for a reason ..and that we will be seeing
+> it again ?
+
+       As a matter of fact, yes, you'll be seeing the Na'Kal later
+this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deja Vu (22-Feb-96 22:37:39)
+
+
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+
Deja Vu

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 22:37:39

+
       A labor action leading to a strike, with people shouting
+"strike!" and "union!" hits aboard a space station, inspired in part by
+a person of Irish descent whose ancestor was killed in the course of a
+famous strike. A government rep arrives to quash the strike, stating
+that he will use "any means necessary" toward that goal, which is
+finally achieved when the person in the middle redistributes his
+finances, giving the strikers what they want while circumventing the
+system.
+
+       Quick...is that a DS9 episode or a B5 episode?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages from Earth> (22-Feb-96 22:37:40)
+
+
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+
<Messages from Earth>

+
Date: 22-Feb-96 22:37:40

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Er, actually, you just misspelled it too.  It's not Heinline,
+it's Heinlein.  You were also off by one letter.
+
+       Simply in the interests of accuracy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Minor Minbari Question: (23-Feb-96 00:07:53)
+
+
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+
Minor Minbari Question:

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 00:07:53

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  We're giving it our best shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (04-Feb-96 14:30:51)
+
+
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+
<Voices of Authority>

+
Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:51

+
 Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps you and everyone else are correct and I am so invloved in
+> this story that I can't wait (which is the case)? Are we going to
+> see these before another rerun cycle? Are B5's ratings in an area
+> that are going to support a 5 year run?
+
+     We'll see 8 and 9 in this current cycle, yes.  #10 will be aired
+in the next batch, in late April/first of May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Local show features B5 (23-Feb-96 00:07:54)
+
+
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+
Local show features B5

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 00:07:54

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, I remember doing the interview for that one, glad it came
+out okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Writing B5 (23-Feb-96 02:17:47)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Writing B5

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 02:17:47

+
 Phillip A. Cochran <75667.241@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You mean there's *something* you don't think you own?!?!?!?!
+
+       Now, now...it's common knowledge on the nets that all B5
+viewers have my ear when they want it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Voices of Authority> (23-Feb-96 12:33:17)
+
+
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+
<Voices of Authority>

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:17

+
 Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see more First Ones in upcoming episodes?
+> Will we find out what these First Ones have against the Vorlons?
+> Will we see more of Susan using the Great Machine, will her
+> experience (other than finding First Ones) become a factor in the
+> Great War, and will those experiences color her perceptions and
+> attitudes? On a general Ivanova note: Will any more come out about
+> her relationship (if any) with Talia and will that affect any
+> relationship with Marcus ?
+
+       I think the answers to all of those tend to be yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deja Vu (23-Feb-96 12:33:19)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Deja Vu

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:19

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how come they can get away with it?
+> I know that you wont sue them, but *if* you did would they have
+> any kind of defense?
+
+       I dunno...still, I prefer to do what I do in the marketplace of
+free ideas.  There's how we did it, and how they did it.  Let the
+viewer take it from there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES (23-Feb-96 12:33:20)
+
+
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+
YES !! UK C4 B5 DATES

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:20

+
 Graham Smith <100125.1730@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you post a start date for the new C4 series?
+
+       As Brian Cooney first noted here, the projected date appears to
+be April 14th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Writing B5 (23-Feb-96 12:33:23)
+
+
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+
Writing B5

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:23

+
 Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you schedule the outside scripts to give your hands a rest?
+> Are you going to talk to Peter David about at least one??
+
+       As Ted Kennedy might say, I'll drive off that bridge when I
+come to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Messages from Earth> (23-Feb-96 12:33:29)
+
+
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+
<Messages from Earth>

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:29

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Then my job is done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<? on MfE> (23-Feb-96 12:33:32)
+
+
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+
<? on MfE>

+
Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:32

+
 Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a mistake?
+> Second, what is the symbol on the floor of the White Star?
+
+       Per accident he began writing right to left; Narn is left to
+right, so we flopped the shot.
+
+       The symbol on the WS isn't on the floor, it's the top of a
+console that can be used for holographic tactical displays.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing B5 (23-Feb-96 12:33:33)
+
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 12:33:33

+
 John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why don't you scan your ear and upload it to the graphics
+> library? What do you think folks, who votes for a gif/jpg of Joe's
+> ear?
+
+       I think it's a terrible idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages From Earrth> (23-Feb-96 17:51:30)
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 17:51:30

+
 Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I belive from what has been said the next 2 episodes will take 5
+> or 6 weeks?
+
+       Well, next week's is a new episode, so you can get that far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where do baby narn come (01-Feb-96 13:56:26)
+
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+
Date: 01-Feb-96 13:56:26

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where does the fetus develop, and from where is it born?
+> Is Minbari physiology similer to human, or significantly
+> different (such as the Centauri)? Is this accurate?
+
+     The padded out area of Centauri males is where their genitalia
+(their tentesticles) are located.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where do baby narn come (04-Feb-96 14:30:54)
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:54

+
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+
+     Yes, it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing B5 (23-Feb-96 22:33:33)
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:33

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just as a point of reference, does it actually cost less for you
+> to write an episode than it does to have someone else do it? You
+> still get paid your writer's fee when you write the episode don't
+> you?
+
+       Whether I write the episode, or a freelancer does, the fee per
+episode is exactly the same.  No money is saved in the budget.  Under
+WGA rules this is a requirement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fleer...Good Guys (23-Feb-96 22:33:35)
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:35

+
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+
+       Yeah?  Gee, now if only I could get them to fork over a few of
+the cards *I'm* missing...even I don't have a full set.
+
+       But that's been said before by others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages From Earth> (23-Feb-96 22:33:38)
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:38

+
 Doug Gordon <71610.247@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the implication supposed to be that the high energy of these
+> weapons was atomically fusing the hydrogen? Or perhaps the weapons
+> were designed to be used in vacuum, and the atmosphere was
+> scattering the energy? Or am I missing something quite obvious?
+
+       Given that we're looking at a high-energy weapon capable of
+burning through a four-mile wide Narn orbital base as though it were
+made of butter, it's putting out enough energy, I figured, to lead to a
+reaction with the hydrogen, whether it's a fusion reaction of some
+other.
+
+       We're talking a concentrated level of energy equal to a
+thermonuclear reaction on a controlled level, or a fusion weapons
+system with an energy output well beyond contemporary science to
+calculate (particularly since this system is capable of delivering the
+energy, undiluted, to targets tens or dozens of miles distant).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages From Earth> (23-Feb-96 22:33:41)
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:41

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something that explains one little gaffe that I spotted
+> in this episode? Oh, well,...I guess you can't catch every one,
+> huh?
+
+       Not a gaffe; we flopped the shot because the writing was done
+left to right, instead of right to left, which is Narnish script.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages From Earrth> (23-Feb-96 22:33:42)
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:42

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Btw, Joe, just exactly how does one write the organization name?
+> Is it "Nightwatch" or "Night Watch"?
+
+       It's Nightwatch.
+
+       The thread will diminish for a while, then return down the road
+in later seasons, after the story takes its third major turn.
+
+       By the last few episodes, pretty much all of my cards are on
+the table. But by the last episode of this season, we find that the
+game we've assumed we've been playing ain't necessarily the game at
+all.  The show takes a fairly subversive direction, and of all the
+seasons so far, the one that follows, year four, represents the
+greatest writing challenge to make this actually work.
+
+       Which is another reason why it's important to get the B4
+storyline and several other threads out in the open, and clear the
+decks, because this is gonna take every bit of whatever talent I've got
+to pull off.
+
+       Year four is the point in the novel when you're just past the
+halfway mark; you know the reader thinks he or she has got the story
+sussed out. The reader knows all your tricks by now, or thinks he/she
+does.  You've been pulling doves out of your hat for 243 pages.
+
+       Now you'd damned well better be able to pull out an alligator.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:33:46

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Stabilized, huh?
+> Does this mean that you'll be looking for a script editor once
+> more? I seem to recall that Larry DiTillio left the series, so
+> that would mean that you'd be taking over the script editing as
+> well, right?
+
+       During Larry's last year with us, I did most of the rewriting
+on freelance scripts anyway, so it doesn't really save me much on
+typing.  (If anything, the process is longer and more difficult than
+just writing 'em myself.)  Doing it this year was an interesting
+experiment, and necessary, but I don't think I'd opt to do it again
+anytime soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Joe's Ear (23-Feb-96 22:49:40)
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:49:40

+
 John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what do you think, lurkers and posters, YEA or NAY?
+
+       Let me put this to you simply.
+
+       No.
+
+       Unless you intend to drug me in the middle of the night, drag
+my limp body to a computer outlet and scan my ear while I'm otherwise
+unconscious, it simply *ain't* gonna happen, referendum or no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing B5 (23-Feb-96 22:49:41)
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:49:41

+
 The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it legit?
+
+       Both All-U and Creation make B5 t-shirts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23-Feb-96 22:49:42

+
 Lynn Dimock <74471.3131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has anybody brought up Vincent Van Gogh yet?
+
+       It was a mild Spring day, warm, clear, sunny, when Vincent Van
+Gogh picked up his easel, and some paints, and walked a mile and a half
+to an open field where he often painted landscapes.  He set up his
+easel, sat under a tree for a while, ate part of an apple, composed a
+brief note to his brother Theo.  Then he pulled out a derringer and
+shot himself in the chest.
+
+       After an hour, realizing that he was not going to die for a
+while yet, he picked himself up and staggered the mile and half back to
+Theo's house, where a few hours later that evening he passed away in
+Theo's arms.
+
+       Some say his sad ending came about because he felt he was a
+burden to his brother Theo, and the guilt did him in; others because he
+sold only one painting during his life, for 48 francs, and he felt he
+would never become a painter of any worth.
+
+       On reflection, perhaps it was the thought of people bidding for
+his ear that did it.
+
+       You wanna see the end of this story or not...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 01:42:41

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you waiting for us to see an upcoming episode before
+> releasing the season-ender title, or are you going to try to keep
+> it secret up to air-time?
+
+       For as long as I can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (04-Feb-96 14:30:56)
+
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 14:30:56

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Nothing is black and white in your Babylon 5 world, is it?
+> Who would have thought that at the end of this episode I would be
+> more frightened of Kosh than of Bester? Or maybe not...any news on
+> that front?
+
+     We'll approach McGoohan when we have a script good enough for his
+skills.
+
+     RE: Bester...thanks.  I'd decided a while ago that the next time
+we saw him, he either had to win, or he had to be right.  If he lost
+again, it'd cut his credibility out.  This gave me a chance to do some
+interesting things with him.  He's a fascinating guy...a creep, and I
+wouldn't trust him for a second, but fascinating nonetheless....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 01:42:47

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> OK, just as a point of interest, why are major plot eps called
+> "arc" eps?
+
+       Because they best convey the "arc" of the storyline.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages From Earth> (24-Feb-96 01:42:50)
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 01:42:50

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, perhaps a better word than ignite could've been used. 
+But hey, the guy was being shot at...I'd be sitting in a corner going
+bibble-bibble...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:02

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Besides, what guarantee would I have that somebody won't print
+up a copy of the ear, take it into another room, and have unwilling
+aural sex with it?
+
+       No, no, a thousand times, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages From Earrth> (24-Feb-96 19:20:03)
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:03

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages impact> (24-Feb-96 19:20:06)
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:06

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Suffice to say there are interesting things ahead....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+General questions (24-Feb-96 19:20:08)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:08

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Haven't you setup a rather impossible scenerio if - as it appears
+> - We will be saved/led from the Shadows (who appear to be far
+> superior to most other races) by humans? is/was that a reference
+> to Kosh (who was the focus of the pilot due to the assasination
+> attempt) or to Morden (who was not IN the pilot but is/was later
+> introduced in the first season) or to SOMEONE ELSE?
+
+       Exactly.  The goal would seem to be impossible.  So how do we
+do it? Is there a vulnerability that's been laid out but not picked up
+yet?  Is there an advantage we don't necessarily see yet?
+
+       We have to be smarter.  Humans are at our best when against the
+wall. And we have to do it ourselves, in the final analysis, nobody
+else can do it for us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shakespear and Marcus (24-Feb-96 19:20:11)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:11

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, he's a fun character.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages From Earth> (24-Feb-96 19:20:13)
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:13

+
 Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was she lying, or mistaken?
+
+       If I said that exact phrase, it's because the word "pilot" is
+not exactly correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Messages From Earth> (24-Feb-96 19:20:14)
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:14

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they ever use something more *positive* on cities and the
+> like?
+
+       Yes, sometimes they introduce talk shows as an instrument of
+war. Any culture which begins to see talk shows can pretty much rest
+assured that shadows are behind it, and that our time is growing short.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Messages From Earth (24-Feb-96 19:20:18)
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:18

+
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+
+       Thanks.  And you can expect more between Delenn and Sheridan
+soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 04-Feb-96 14:31:04

+
 Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was he digitally added at any point in that episode?
+
+     We shot two plates, first with him in the machine, then him out,
+never moving the camera, so it matched exactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Sigh Corps Posted? (24-Feb-96 19:20:19)
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Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:19

+
 Carl Bussjaeger <102065.1635@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you put any of the CI$ Sigh Corps posts on that bulletin
+> board at the studio?
+
+       Don't believe so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+B5 jewelry?? (24-Feb-96 19:20:22)
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+
Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:22

+
 Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you authorized pins of the Psi Corps and Earth Alliance
+> insignia?
+
+       No, any Psi Corps pins or EA insignia are *definitely* illegal.
+Can you send me the info soonest?  Thanks.  The usual address for the
+mail drop is 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA
+91423, to my attention. Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+SF convention (24-Feb-96 19:20:25)
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Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:25

+
 Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance we'll see you at the SF convention in April with
+> Claudia and Stephen?
+
+       Which convention are we speaking of?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Talia dead (24-Feb-96 19:20:26)
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Date: 24-Feb-96 19:20:26

+
 Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we hear it from the Great Maker?
+> Is it true?
+
+       It is indeed true, apparently, that John said that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Licanced B5 stuff (25-Feb-96 01:23:47)
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 01:23:47

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> B5 Micro Machines: Currently 4 sets, with 2 coming this
+> Spring/Summer #1 Space Station,Vorlon Transport, Green Ship #2
+> Vorlon Cruiser, Narn Transport, Raider Ship #3 Centauri
+> Transport, Minbari Cruiser, Star Fury #4 Minbari Flyer, Narn
+> Fighter, Babylon 5 Crew Shuttle #5 ?, ?, ? #6 ?, ?, ?
+
+       Also, T-shirts are currently available from All-U as well, very
+good quality stuff.  Ruby's is doing some B5 masks which are fairly
+decent.  And there's the Making of B5 book coming out in about a month
+in the UK from Boxtree Books, by David Bassom.  (I'm currently
+fact-checking his second B5 book, the A-Z of Babylon 5.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing B5 (25-Feb-96 01:23:48)
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Date: 25-Feb-96 01:23:48

+
 Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This isn't part of that "Joe's body parts" thread is it?
+
+> (YES, we want to see the end.) 
+
+ "This isn't part of that "Joe's body parts" thread is it? :-\"
+
+       Hey!  Don't butt in....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+8 NEW B5 EPS! (25-Feb-96 01:23:51)
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Date: 25-Feb-96 01:23:51

+
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+
+       Relax.  Smoke a cigarette.  Go out for pizza.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:48

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> have you called Guiness yet?
+
+       Nope, not calling anybody until I've actually *done* it, and
+there's still one more to go.  One doesn't mention the term "perfect
+game" while the pitcher is still on the mound in the 9th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+5 year arc (25-Feb-96 01:41:49)
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Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:49

+
 FitzGeralds <103571.3245@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that the plan to only have it on for five years?
+
+       Yes, the story lasts just five years, then bye-bye.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<Messages from Earth> (25-Feb-96 01:41:53)
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Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:53

+
 John M. Hawkins <71742.160@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You've read some history?
+
+       Yeah, there are a lot of historical parallels in here, more in
+tonality than specifics in some cases like these.  When things get
+tight, even good people sometimes don't know which way to jump.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 04-Feb-96 14:31:05

+
 Elizabeth <76202.563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there going to be another rerun break after these, or do you
+> know yet?
+
+      I think there's a break until late April/first week of May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:55

+
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+
+       Thanks.  We've featured Minbari script going straight up and
+down like Japanese, right to left with Narns, and other variations. 
+Because they would naturally occur.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 25-Feb-96 01:41:56

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the arc we're in now (MFE, PONR, SD) the first or second major
+> turn? Harder than year three?
+
+       Yes, the current mini-arc (8-10) is the second major turn in
+the storyline.  The third starts with the last episode of this season,
+going into the fourth year.  Then you've got one more big turn about
+the last quarter or one-third of year four, and then a bit of a flip at
+the end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could one of the "Side of Light" (Sheridan, Sinclair, Marcus,
+> Ivanova, Delenn) be prepared to "pilot" a Battlecrab - and
+> turning it to a powerful ship for the Good Guys? Or is a
+> Battlecrab alive and intrinsically "evil" enough to prevent this,
+> just like the One Ring could not be used for Good in Lord of the
+> Rings, no matter how good and powerful the user was?
+
+       It's certainly a *very* good question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<<Messages from Earth>> (25-Feb-96 01:42:04)
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+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which reminds me: what was the outcome of your "study" into how
+> the station-by-station numbers were being reported (falsified
+> airdates, etc.)???
+
+       We found that the research division wasn't being updated on air
+schedules; the new reports now feature accurate ratings for accurate
+times, which gives us a *much* better understanding of what's going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 25-Feb-96 04:05:13

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But would he have fired on another earth ship?
+
+       If I can, let me address one aspect of this, for your
+consideration.
+
+       Back when I was working on MURDER, SHE WROTE, we'd sometimes
+get letters saying, "This wasn't a good episode because I figured out
+the ending. It wasn't a surprise."  (Which is, to some extent, your
+point here.)
+
+       The problem we had with that particular letter was this: of
+COURSE you figured it out.  Because you were paying attention to all
+the clues we had put out there in the episode.
+
+       There seems to be this notion that nobody should be able to
+jump ahead, or else something's wrong or bad about the episode. 
+Absolutely not true.  If you're going to play fair with the audience,
+whether it's B5 or M,SW, you've got to put enough bits of information
+out on the table so that the person who's really following it can
+figure it out...so that at the end, those who *didn't* figure it out
+can back up the tape, watch for the clues or leads, and see where it
+all came from.  That's playing fair.
+
+       If NObody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+
+       If EVERYbody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+
+       The best case scenario is a bell-shaped curve.  Some don't have
+a clue what's coming, some manage to figure it out, and the majority
+have a kind of vague sense where it's going, but there are still
+surprises along the way.  If the bell-curve shifts one direction or the
+other, then you're in trouble.
+
+       So far, B5 seems to be hewing right to the bell-curve.  For
+every person who says "okay, this was expected," there's been another
+saying, "I had no *idea* this was going to happen here, or so fast." 
+(Many of these have been right on this forum, in fact.)
+
+       Finally, do bear in mind that you have an advantage here that
+99% of all the viewers don't: the discussion here on CIS, and direct
+comments from me.  For instance, I just noted elsewhere that we've got
+major turns at the end of this season, and one 2/3rds into year 4. 
+Now, if at those points, somebody says, "Well, I knew this was coming,
+that's bad," I intend to whap them, because the reason they likely knew
+it was coming was because I *said so* right here.
+
+       But that same 99% doesn't have this advantage.
+
+       This is the main difference I've noted in the mail that's come
+in: the net-folks are constantly trying to figure out what's coming up
+next, treating it like a mystery story (which, really, it's not, any
+more than ANY novel is a mystery in that you don't necessarily know its
+turns and twists as you're reading it), whereas the non-netted folks
+tend to just take it as it comes.
+
+       See, that's the other part of this.  People on the nets tend to
+treat it as though it's a mystery novel, and when it doesn't hit that
+aspect, say it's flawed as a result...when it was never INTENDED to
+function as a mystery novel.  It's a novel period.  A mystery novel
+depends absolutely on the riddle at the center of it.  This is a saga,
+which uses a different structure.  It isn't a mystery any more than
+Lord of the Rings is a mystery, even though when I first read it I was
+wondering what was going to happen next.
+
+       Also, a mystery novel is done when the mystery is finally
+unraveled. Not so the B5 story.  By the end of this season, most of the
+mysteries will be unraveled, and the pieces laid on the table for all
+to see.  It then becomes a matter of what the characters *do* about it
+thereafter.
+
+       If I'm doing my job right, and setting up things to come
+properly, and giving all the clues to it, then by definition a certain
+number of people HAVE to figure out what's coming.  As long as it's the
+smaller portion, that's as it *should* be.  So you'll understand why I
+tend to get in here for a moment when that's held up as something bad
+or poorly done. (And, again, even you note that the only reason you
+knew about the shadows on Mars was via reading it here, or others read
+it via the comics.  Again, that's a very small portion of the audience;
+most I've heard from had NO idea about that aspect of it.  If you
+hadn't read it here, you likely would have been surprised by it.)
+
+       Anyway, just something to consider in all of this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Alan Auerbach <75176.3726@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hmm, I wonder where she picked that up?
+
+     That's great.  I appreciate hearing that, thanks, and my regards
+to all three of you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:18

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       We try....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<Messages From Earth> (25-Feb-96 16:07:19)
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Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:19

+
 Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you like at least parts of THE SHINING, I was wondering if
+> he is writing the Narnish equivalent of "The quick brown fox
+> jumped over the lazy dog" over and over and over?
+
+       No, I don't think I'd go that way with him, certainly not
+yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:20

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume she's misinformed about this?
+> ?
+
+       She had to be referring to the arc overall, because if next
+year's scripts are already written, I'd sure as hell like a copy of
+each; it'd make my job a LOT easier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:23

+
 Damian Reaves <75373.2325@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the Shadow ship just a living ship or is it actually a
+> different type of Shadow?
+
+       It's not a kind of shadow, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 16:41:06

+
 Tom LeCompte <76711.572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why go out of your way to help people if you can't change the
+> outcome? Is being a satellite of one superpower really better than
+> being a satellite of the other?
+
+      You're right about the shadow war, in many senses.  The story of
+B5 is the story of B5 and its people, not the shadow war, which is a
+*part* of that story but not the whole of it.  (Remember, it wasn't
+even mentioned in the first season.)  If it's just about a war, any
+war, then something's wrong. There has to be more to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<MfE - Agamnennon> (25-Feb-96 16:07:26)
+
+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:26

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What sense do you get from the letters of when the average
+> non-netted person comes to realize that the whole series is
+> telling one specific story?
+
+       What I usually get are letters that say, "I didn't know there
+was an arc until I saw four or five episodes."  Because that's an
+aspect that really hasn't been as well promoted as it could've been. 
+But once they glommed onto it, they ran with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Licensed B5 stuff (25-Feb-96 16:07:30)
+
+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:30

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When the official fan club gets up and running, will information
+> be included how to get in contact with all these people to get
+> their products, or will the club make it available itself?
+
+       The theory is that we'll use the fan club web page to allow
+direct or indirect access to the folks who make all the other
+non-fan-club licensed stuff.  We may even have a kind of virtual Zocalo
+where you can shop....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Merchandise... (25-Feb-96 16:07:32)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:32

+
 Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone else seen anything like this, or is it just me ???
+
+       If you could send me a copy of the catalog, I'd appreciate it. 
+We have already shut down some of these companies, but others sprout up
+again, offering inferior merchandise or models that fall apart fast. 
+When we do models, and eventually we will, they will be *quality* and
+worth fans spending hard-earned money to purchase, not cheapo
+knockoffs.  (As a for instance, when we sell patches and pins via the
+fan club, they will be made by the same sub-contractor who makes them
+for the show, so they'll be high quality and *100% authentic*.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Minor Minbari Question: (25-Feb-96 16:07:38)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:38

+
 John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, would this have been before after or *during* the last Shadow
+> war, which was also around 1000 years ago? For that matter, was
+> Valen and the Grey Council formed before/during or after the war? 
+> Or will we find this out when we find out the *true* history of
+> the Triluminaries???
+
+       It'll be covered in the two-parter, to a large degree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+< Messages from Earth> (25-Feb-96 16:07:44)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 16:07:44

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Should we research the Ottoman empire, or is it _really_ just a
+> throwaway?
+
+       I'm reasonably sure those were Andreas' hands.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I've got JMS's EAR!!! (25-Feb-96 20:02:50)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 20:02:50

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I suppose you know there is nothing I can do to stop you.
+
+       I suppose you know that I will find you.
+
+       I suppose you know the drill.  It begins with the words, "You
+will know pain...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<MfE - Agamnennon> (25-Feb-96 20:02:51)
+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 20:02:51

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Also, bear in mind that Sheridan went into Earth-space knowing
+the risks.  For him to fire on the Aggy would be selfish, and wrong; he
+knew full well that this could be a one-way ride.
+
+       If you're going to have a situation where Sheridan fires on EA
+ships, it has to be the ONLY way of dealing with the situation, and it
+has to be SUPREMELY motivated, so that it's not just him or one of our
+guys who's at stake.  It has to be a big situation to merit taking the
+lives of fellow officers, in the same service.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Earthforce Ship Names (25-Feb-96 20:14:39)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:39

+
 Eugene S. Erdahl <103403.1753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Babylon 5, The Next Generation?
+> Am I right in assuming that the Earthforce warships (Agamemnon,
+> for example) bear the names of British Royal Navy ships-or is
+> this just coincidence?
+
+       Most of the Omega class of destroyers are given Greek names,
+such as Achilles, Alexander, Agamemnon and others.
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Point of no Retrun> (25-Feb-96 20:14:40)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:40

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When did Londo acquire his taste for them?
+> Perhaps when he came into possession of 20,000 shares in a spoo
+> ranch? Did she ever prophecy for Turhan?
+> Did Sheridan sucker him into trapping the NW or did Zack
+> knowingly help Sheridan? Hague's squadron mean that Franklin's
+> father is on Clark's side?
+
+       Thanks.  I think Zack was mainly nervous in that last bit,
+which may account for his twitchiness.  And yes, Morella often
+prophesied for Turhan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+< Messages from Earth> (25-Feb-96 20:14:43)
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:43

+
 Phil Herscher <71101.304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What were the effects of the Whitestar opening the Jump Point
+> within the atmosphere? Was the resulting blast assumed to be the
+> "enemy" ship being destroyed?
+
+       I think they know the White Star (aka the unidentified ship)
+got away, but they put the best face on it back home.  Which is one
+more reason why Clark's declared martial law.  Things are spinning out
+of control, he's in increasingly hot water back home, and he has to
+seize control.  Whoever was in that alien ship knows too much about his
+operations...if that were to come out, he's finished.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (04-Feb-96 20:35:51)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 20:35:51

+
 Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you do exactly the same thing in The Long twilight struggle?
+
+     Don't really remember....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Messages From Earth (25-Feb-96 20:14:46)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:46

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Maybe in her rebellious youth (if Minbari have rebellious youths)
+> she took to hanging around a Windsword dojo, mmm?
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Good to see. (25-Feb-96 20:14:49)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:49

+
 Charles Agius <72712.3572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did they do this?
+
+       Best way to change the local time slot is to write the local
+station and urge them to do so.  Good luck with it, and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<MfE - Agamnennon> (25-Feb-96 20:14:50)
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 20:14:50

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Good point.  Because the show *is* going somewhere, it's
+possible for people, knowing that, to jump ahead a bit.  90% of the
+speculations are wrong, but if 10% are right, then there you are.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<MfE - Agamnennon> (25-Feb-96 23:33:00)
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 23:33:00

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That's good honor - but can it hold?
+> Do you see my issues on this thing?
+> Oh, btw - I assume the Whitestar is the only ship that's been
+> able to achieve an in-atmosphere jump? Its been tried before with
+> disastrous results ala opening jumppoints in jumpgates?
+
+       Of course it can't hold.  And they're going to go through
+plenty of fire.  Remember, this is the first of three that accomplish
+that.  Each escalates upon what went before.  Don't worry...you'll get
+your wish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+up and coming (25-Feb-96 23:33:01)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Feb-96 23:33:01

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this the last episode and then back to reruns (making it 5
+> episodes new) or is there a sixth planned?
+
+       Yes, "Point of No Return" next week is the last new one until
+April 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>PoNR<< (25-Feb-96 23:33:02)
+
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+
>>PoNR<<

+
Date: 25-Feb-96 23:33:02

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the scoop?
+
+       Yeah, it's supposed to be a repeat.  What was in the promo you
+saw?
+
+       And thanks...the story's coming along nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>PoNR<< (26-Feb-96 01:29:40)
+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 01:29:40

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the promo make sense to you?
+
+       Okay, that's the make-believe promo they made from other
+footage. That's FON all right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<MfE - Agamnennon> (26-Feb-96 01:29:41)
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 01:29:41

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       And that is exactly the reaction you *should* have.
+
+       Such things are never easy, and are always at terrible,
+terrible cost.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Point of no Retrun> (26-Feb-96 12:02:10)
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:10

+
 Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any possibility of (or reason for) Lady Morella
+> reappearing in the future?
+
+       Always a possibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages From Earth> (26-Feb-96 12:02:11)
+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:11

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It there and *actual authentic* name for the really cool Shadow
+> monsters?
+
+       I just call them shadow vessels.  For now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Tolkien Influences (04-Feb-96 20:35:58)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 20:35:58

+
 Pat Bradshaw <71202.1532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I close?
+> Am I hallucinating?
+> Should I get a life and get out more?
+
+     What you have to understand is that virtually all of the items
+you list are generic tools used in great mythic sagas.  A lone group
+with great responsibilities, a dark force gathering strength, defenders
+of light, beings of great power who are inscrutable or difficult...the
+names change but the archetypes remain.  Tolkein used those archetypes,
+as I'm using them, as other writers have used them.  Consequently, you
+see in this show whichever myth-cycle you're most familiar with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Earthforce Ship Names (26-Feb-96 12:02:13)
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:13

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do all the Omega class destroyer name start with Alpha or was
+> this just a coincidence in your post?
+
+       Not with Alpha, since that isn't a name out of Greek mythology.
+But the first one off the production line probably would've been the
+Achilles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Licensed B5 stuff (26-Feb-96 12:02:15)
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:15

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  We're happy to spoil you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Licensed B5 stuff (26-Feb-96 12:02:18)
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 12:02:18

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long, O Great Maker, before the web page becomes a reality?
+
+       Expect late April.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Membari souls (26-Feb-96 18:30:07)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:07

+
 Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is right about Membari souls ?
+> Who is correct ?
+
+       Who is right?  Who am I to define the rightness of others'
+spiritual beliefs?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Arc" eps (26-Feb-96 18:30:09)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:09

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you consider the pivot of the arc?
+> The people or the place?
+> Something else?
+
+       The people have to be at the center of it, or it's meaningless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deja Vu (26-Feb-96 18:30:10)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:10

+
 John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that a B5 episode, or a DS9?
+
+       Yeah, given that our script was floating around for months
+before this was shot, and Foxworth had *already agreed* to do our
+episode, and his agent, and they brushed us off to do the DS9....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I've got JMS's EAR!!! (26-Feb-96 18:30:13)
+
+
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+
I've got JMS's EAR!!!

+
Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:13

+
 John R. Finnan (Ireland) <100012.3073@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What about fear????
+
+       Fear implies enough time for a warning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Messages from Earth> (26-Feb-96 18:30:18)
+
+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:18

+
 Gregory Courtright <73420.2643@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The WhiteStar looked different in this episode then in previous -
+> did you change the design?
+
+       Different camera work, mainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Messages from Earth>> (26-Feb-96 18:30:20)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:20

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of ratings, how are we comparing to DS9?
+> Do we usually beat them?
+
+       Depends on the market.  Sometimes we beat DS9, sometimes they
+beat us. It varies considerably from place to place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+"Arc" eps (26-Feb-96 18:30:24)
+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 18:30:24

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why arc?
+
+       Story arc.
+
+                                             Climax
+                              Complication            Denouement
+              Rising action Introduction
+
+       An arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (04-Feb-96 20:45:29)
+
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 20:45:29

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I infer from that statement that by the time we reach season
+> 5 we'll actually know just what that arc is?
+
+     You'll pretty much have a sense of the overall arc's direction by
+the end of this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Earthforce Ship Names (26-Feb-96 21:18:36)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:36

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or is this just a happy coincidence?
+
+       Oh.  Sorry, yes, we started with the A's.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/371.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/371.html
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+
+"Arc" eps (26-Feb-96 21:18:37)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:37

+
 Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, a friend was wondering what's the aspect ratio on the
+> credits? Is it letterbox or cinescope?
+
+       It's letterbox ratio.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Messages Question> (26-Feb-96 21:18:40)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:40

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Care to comment?
+
+       ....i don't remember anymore....
+
+       It all blurs, Lee.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+And Now...Reruns! (26-Feb-96 21:18:41)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:41

+
 JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, before I ask for a glass of whiskey, a gun, and two bullets,
+> please give it to me straight up: how many weeks of repeats
+> before we resume with new episodes?
+
+       Just next month; we come back with new eps on April 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Messages From Earrth> (26-Feb-96 21:18:45)
+
+
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+
Date: 26-Feb-96 21:18:45

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That raises another question, however: What do you consider the
+> greatest challenge in writing B5 right now? That's just it, isn't
+> it?
+
+       I think probably the hardest thing in the writing this season
+has been in pulling the story through the next level, around the
+corner, and into a new relative shape.  Some things are the same, and a
+lot of things are different the deeper you go into this season.  It's
+been a real tough act to get this boat where it needs to go, but I
+think we pulled it off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+< Messages from Earth> (27-Feb-96 00:07:25)
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:25

+
 Rowan Kaiser <74160.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ganymede would have security cameras, research cameras, etc,
+> right? So there would be a very high chance of one of these
+> cameras recording that it was the shadow vessel and not the White
+> Star, right? Right?
+
+       Of course.  But who controls those cameras?  Answer: the very
+folks who wouldn't want it to get out what they had there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<JMS: Msgs from Earth> (27-Feb-96 00:07:26)
+
+
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:26

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deja Vu (27-Feb-96 00:07:27)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:27

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that General Hague was originally supposed to be
+> in MfE, or are you refering to something else?
+
+       Foxworth was slated for "Severed Dreams" when he bailed on us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Prison Authors (27-Feb-96 00:07:30)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:30

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I just being paranoid, or are you being even sneakier than
+> usual?
+
+       It's the Book of G'Kar.  Make of that what you will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Bacon and Eggs (27-Feb-96 00:07:31)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:31

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Re: Marcus's "surprise" for Ivanova: does Marcus not know that
+> Ivanova is Jewish, and thus would not eat bacon? Or does he know
+> that she's Jewish, and sent her the bacon 'n' eggs anyway, more
+> as a joke? Or does he know that she doesn't practice her religion
+> much, and think that she'd probably eat it anyway?
+
+       Ivanova's not what you'd call orthodox under any circumstances.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (04-Feb-96 20:45:32)
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+
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+
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+
Date: 04-Feb-96 20:45:32

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> WHEN!!???!!!!
+> That means that after this group of 5 episodes we're going to
+> have NINE more weeks of reruns?? How many episodes are they going
+> to save till next year THIS time??? Seven???
+> Eight??
+> How can WB expect this show to get any decent ratings whatsoever
+> if they never show any fraggin new episodes? Can they really
+> believe that they can show 8 weeks of reruns at a time and then
+> bang, show new episodes only during sweeps periods, and expect
+> the ratings to be there as soon as new episodes start?? Why the
+> hell can't they show B5 episodes in groups of 7 or 8?? Would it
+> help if us, the fans, started a write in campaign to Dick
+> Roberton (I think that's his name) and give him a wake up call?
+
+     Dick Robertson isn't to blame for the schedule, apparently; it's
+a decision made jointly by the stations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages From Earrth> (27-Feb-96 00:07:34)
+
+
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 00:07:34

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Maybe I missed it, but is word out on behalf of WB for season 4
+> approval? But when is the verdict?
+
+       We won't know until late April.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Finished Writing! (27-Feb-96 01:47:27)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 01:47:27

+
       Well, it's done.  I have today turned in the first draft of
+script #22 for year three, which I suppose could be called a
+cliffhanger episode. This marks the first time in the 50+ year history
+of American television that one person has singlehandedly written an
+entire season of a series. (The closest record is Terry Nation, who
+wrote the 13-episode first season of Blake's 7.)
+
+       (I have no plans to do this next season, btw; this was
+necessary because of the substantive changes in the B5 universe this
+season.  Next season is a very different story...literally as well as
+figuratively.)
+
+       So far the film based on those 1,000+ pages represents some of
+our best work on Babylon 5.  There's some nifty stuff coming.
+
+       We are currently filming episode #18.  Four more after this,
+and we'll be finished shooting year three, as of April 9th.  Not long
+after, we should get the word on year four, probably by late
+April/early May.  But the writing is finished...and for the first time
+in 8 months, I will be able to go out, see a movie, play Wing
+Commander, find something that vaguely resembles a life.  This is where
+I now also become a director's worst nightmare: a writer-producer who's
+finished writing and finally has time to hang out on the set and give
+lots and lots of helpful advice.
+
+       It was a hideous task; two-thirds through I began to understand
+that there was a *reason* nobody's ever done this before...you'd have
+to be outta your ever-loving mind to even try.  But as with everything
+else on B5, if we don't know it's impossible, we just go ahead and do
+it.
+
+       The title, as stated elsewhere, is classified, though you may
+get a sense of what's coming in the two eps that precede it. 
+Regardless, the writing on year three is now complete.  Overall, I'm
+quite pleased, and I think by the time you hit this episode, you'll
+feel the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Finished Writing! (27-Feb-96 12:10:29)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 12:10:29

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       We flopped the shot because it was accidentally written left to
+right, and Narns write right to left.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Messages from Earth>> (27-Feb-96 12:10:30)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Feb-96 12:10:30

+
 Walter F. Hern <74201.2063@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On the previous week's episode, were you the flower seller???
+
+       No.  I have a policy of not doing cameos in my shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 PR (28-Feb-96 00:15:04)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:04

+
 Daniel K. Stump <104201.1460@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the dream sequence where Kosh and Ivonova reach Sheridan's
+> mind: Was Ivonova in his mind or was it all Kosh? If it was
+> Ivonova, then how did Gerbaldi get there or was he Kosh, as the
+> latter appeared as someone else in G'kar 's mind? And who was that
+> fourth person in dream? Are you going to leave the contradiction
+> about Sinclair being the last Captain of B5, as stated on the
+> Premiere, as is or are you going to work it out so that that
+> isn't a contradiction at all? Also in the premiere, wasn't
+> Delenn's attack on G'kar out of character?
+
+       It was Kosh doing it all; and the narrative in the pilot never
+named Sinclair specifically.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 script book (28-Feb-96 00:15:07)
+
+
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+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:07

+
 Deon W. Becic <102147.3271@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question: Is there a possibility that you could publish your
+> collection of complete, uncut scripts?
+
+       We may sell some scripts via the fan club, plus the one in the
+writing book.  We'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Finished Writing! (28-Feb-96 00:15:11)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Finished Writing!

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:11

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you contacted the folks at Guiness?
+> What's reason got to do with it?
+
+       Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CTS (28-Feb-96 00:15:14)
+
+
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+
CTS

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:14

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ice packs are usually good.  "Blue Ice" they call it, which can
+be repeatedly refrigerated and doesn't melt.  Wear wrist braces.  There
+are also a number of available exercises that can help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Messages From Earrth> (28-Feb-96 00:15:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<Messages From Earrth>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:17

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or doesn't it make a difference by then, as the decisions are
+> made in late April based on data picked from, say, February?
+
+       No, I think they'll be looking at info right up until the time
+they decide.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Minor Minbari Question: (28-Feb-96 00:15:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Minor Minbari Question:

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:17

+
 Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So we can also expect the trigger to be pulled somewhat regarding
+> the imbalance of power on the Grey Council? Thought we'd forgotten
+> about that, didn't you?
+
+       Oh, it's coming, all right....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<VOA> Nightwatch=Disney (04-Feb-96 20:45:33)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<VOA> Nightwatch=Disney

+
Date: 04-Feb-96 20:45:33

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     It's interesting to note that Eisner raised the ticket prices at
+Disneyland immediately upon arrival...and his salary bonus that year
+was equal to the amount of that increase for the year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/390.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/390.html
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+
+
+Good to see. (28-Feb-96 00:15:20)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Good to see.

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:20

+
 Charles Agius <72712.3572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That ship they found on mars was it dead?
+
+       It was dormant.  The core element was dead, certainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/391.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/391.html
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+
+
+<PONR & Nightwatch> (28-Feb-96 00:15:23)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<PONR & Nightwatch>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:23

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this an something that slipped by unnoticed, or is it just a
+> result of the design of the arm band?
+
+       It's probably a result of the printing on the armband as it
+goes around.  The posters are all one-word.
+
+       I think you hit the distinction between MfE and PoNR...the
+former is exciting, the latter is tense, with "Severed Dreams" a good
+blend of the two, particularly the latter.  We did our final producer's
+cut today, and man, it moves....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Marcus line> (28-Feb-96 00:15:25)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<Marcus line>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:25

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I wrote the line.  There's almost no ad-libbing on this show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<PoNR - Redemption> (28-Feb-96 00:15:26)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<PoNR - Redemption>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 00:15:26

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       As I said...all good things to those who wait.
+
+       Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SFX Magazine Awards (28-Feb-96 11:57:26)
+
+
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+
SFX Magazine Awards

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:26

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Hey, I'll take it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Messages from Earth> (28-Feb-96 11:57:28)
+
+
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+
<Messages from Earth>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:28

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are Varn's People First Ones (I *believe* you said they were
+> not)? Was the Great Machine built by a race of First Ones or by
+> Varn's People? Is the Great Machine capable of seeing *everywhere*
+> or can it be blocked (by say the Shadows or Vorlon)?
+
+       No, Varn's people aren't first ones...and the machine can be
+blocked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<PoNR - Redemption> (28-Feb-96 11:57:31)
+
+
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+
<PoNR - Redemption>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:31

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's a good episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Actor's Portrayals (28-Feb-96 11:57:34)
+
+
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+
Actor's Portrayals

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:34

+
 TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you originally set up the 5 year story-line, has the
+> performance of the actors involved enthralled you to the point of
+> changing a character's fate? How do you handle this kind of thing
+> when you want to stay true to the story, but see the rewards of
+> an actor's performance perhaps drawing more viewers? Or just being
+> darned good entertainment?
+
+       My feeling is that if you've got a great actor, and you love
+the character, you don't refrain from doing something Awful to
+them...if anything it makes it better, 'cause you'll care about it
+more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Finished Writing! (28-Feb-96 11:57:36)
+
+
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+
Finished Writing!

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 11:57:36

+
 James Kemp <101355.3704@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now when do we vote you for president?
+
+       Don't wanna be president.  Want an honest job....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Message From Earth (28-Feb-96 20:35:28)
+
+
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+
Message From Earth

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 20:35:28

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/4.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/4.html
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+
+
+>>Voices of Authority<< (01-Feb-96 13:56:28)
+
+
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+
>>Voices of Authority<<

+
Date: 01-Feb-96 13:56:28

+
 Jeff Frank <70402.3015@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it just me or were a large number of the Nightwatch members
+> looking pretty distressed about the new orders?
+
+     Now the weeding out process starts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Voices of Authority> (05-Feb-96 01:17:35)
+
+
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+
<Voices of Authority>

+
Date: 05-Feb-96 01:17:35

+
 Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, does the change in the structure of PTEN affect how their
+> control of the show?
+
+     I've no idea...TV business deals not Zathras' strength....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/400.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/400.html
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+
+
+San Diego ComiCon? (28-Feb-96 20:52:54)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
San Diego ComiCon?

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 20:52:54

+
 Christopher R. Turn <71470.1536@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you made any decision yet on attending the San Diego ComiCon
+> this year?
+
+       I'll definitely be at SDCC...it's my favorite place to shop and
+go nuts every year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/401.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/401.html
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+
+
+SFX Magazine Awards (28-Feb-96 20:52:59)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-Feb-96 20:52:59

+
 Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't you ever get really fed-up that B5 gets so much coverage in
+> the UK SF press (two big articles in SFX plus those awards, one
+> or two features a month in TV Zone, a feature every month or two
+> in Starburst) while at home you seem almost ignored?
+
+       It's annoying in terms of the US press, but it reaffirms the
+taste, selectivity and discretion of the British audience....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Prison Authors (28-Feb-96 20:52:59)
+
+
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+
Prison Authors

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 20:52:59

+
 Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does G'Kar actually think of it as *The Book of G'Kar*, or does
+> he just feel he's writing an autobiography/history of sorts? What
+> I mean to say is, does G'Kar now fancy himself as being as
+> important as G'Quon?
+
+       No, he hasn't thought of it that far yet...but it will find
+that role.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+< Messages from Earth> (28-Feb-96 20:53:02)
+
+
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+
< Messages from Earth>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 20:53:02

+
 Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is to prevent the people of Earth from believing Clarke's
+> move is exactly what it appears to be: a desperate act of a man
+> whose crimes are being brought out into the open? How can a man
+> who has been openly accused of assassination, who has some pretty
+> damning evidence backing up the accusations, and whose very
+> legitimacy is being investigated by the government, effectively
+> overthrow the government? For that matter, what are Clarke's
+> motivations? Is he just consumed by lust for power, or is there
+> something else going on?
+
+       It all depends on how you frame the issue...i.e., the attacks
+are groundless, baseless, and part of a campaign to destroy the
+government, he's the attacked innocent....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+More Patricia Tallman (28-Feb-96 20:53:05)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-Feb-96 20:53:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       We definitely plan to do more with Pat, we're very happy with
+her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/405.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-02/405.html
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+
+
+Finished Writing! (28-Feb-96 20:53:08)
+
+
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+
Finished Writing!

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 20:53:08

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...may the future bear out your assessment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The plot thickens (28-Feb-96 20:53:09)
+
+
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+
The plot thickens

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 20:53:09

+
 David P. Watkins <74663.3345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of getting tapes????
+
+       Eventually we hope to put out tapes; in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SSN. 1 Tapes - ATTN. JMS (28-Feb-96 23:43:34)
+
+
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+
SSN. 1 Tapes - ATTN. JMS

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 23:43:34

+
 Stephen T Jacobs <76132.603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, if you're here, A) do you know what I am talking about?
+> , & B) If so, is the business legal?
+
+       Technically speaking, if one is making dubs of episodes and
+sending them around, it's not legal, correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Point of No Return>> (28-Feb-96 23:51:41)
+
+
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+
<<Point of No Return>>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 23:51:41

+
 Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, does Lady Morella's Sight work for just Centauri or
+> everyone? Does this guy understand what a personal vision means?
+
+       The editorial does seem odd when you then flip to the back of
+the magazine and realize that the highest marks were *consistently*
+given to jms scripts.  That would appear to be a contradiction.  I
+think it's also a bit unwise to question the quality of a season before
+you've even *seen* it.  I suspect someone will be reconsidering those
+words by the end of the season.
+
+       Also, it wasn't like I sat down and decided to do this for my
+own benefit...this season, with so much happening, the show changing so
+dramatically, it's nearly impossible to bring freelancers into that. 
+Next season, when the chairs have stopped moving around, that can
+change and we can have other writers again.  This was necessity, not
+whim.
+
+       Elsewise...thanks for the kind comments on PoNR.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Messages from Earth>> (28-Feb-96 23:51:42)
+
+
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+
<<Messages from Earth>>

+
Date: 28-Feb-96 23:51:42

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hm, at the risk of sounding very silly, might I suggest you
+> consider doing an on-camera intro to the final episode of Season
+> 5?
+
+       Yeah, that'll *really* bring up the ratings....
+
+       "The next sound you hear will be millions of remote controls
+flipping to another channel all at once...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+And the rock... (05-Feb-96 01:17:36)
+
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 01:17:36

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where does "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" come from?
+
+     It's from an old gospel song/spiritual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<PONR & Nightwatch> (29-Feb-96 02:37:57)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 02:37:57

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Hague supposed to appear in person in "Point of No Return" or
+> was he always going to have been behind the scenes? And did
+> "Severed Dreams" have to be modified to accommodate the actor's
+> not being there?
+
+       Ask me again after "Severed Dreams."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (29-Feb-96 02:37:57)
+
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 02:37:57

+
 Suzanne l. Bainbrid <103307.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How on earth are you going to be able to maintain this quality
+> for another 2 1/2 seasons, <eg> and still keep your sanity, not
+> to mention your budgets?
+
+       Thanks...and we just have to keep making it constantly better,
+there's no going back now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<PoNR>> (29-Feb-96 15:11:04)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:04

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it ratchets things up a bit more, certainly.  The big
+stuff's just around the corner.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Starship classes (29-Feb-96 15:11:07)
+
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:07

+
 NORMAN H. JOHNSON III <103707.410@compuserve.com> asks:
+> We have seen cruisers and destroyers are those the only classes
+> of capitol ships or will we be seeing others, such as
+> battleships, in the future?
+
+       We'll probably be seeing more and different kinds of ships as
+we go in, plus support vessels of various sorts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Beyond five years (29-Feb-96 15:11:09)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:09

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and so far, there aren't any plans to change the end of
+this thing, believe me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Point of No Return> (29-Feb-96 15:11:10)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:10

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can the President dissolve the Senate, as Parliments may
+> sometimes be dissolved, prompting new elections? What is the
+> procedure for removing the President from office? Can the
+> President declare Martial Law over the entire nation without the
+> consent of the Senate? Can the President suspend the Constitution?
+> HOW IN *GOD'S NAME* CAN THE MILITARY SUPPORT THIS!?!?!?
+
+       Wait for the next episode, then we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 15:11:20

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't you think the "Traitors Can't Escape" poster was a bit over
+> the top for *public* consumption (on the wall in the bar area)?
+
+       It's not always as simple as that.  You also take a uniquely
+Western perspective.  Look around at Russia, Cuba, 1930s Germany and
+the beer hall putsch, Iraq, Iran...a leader can survive all kinds of
+opposition if he has sufficient control of the armed forces.  After the
+Gulf War, it was generally assumed that Saddam would be gone within a
+few months; now his position is stronger than ever.
+
+       Also, Clark didn't (ostensibly) declare martial law to protect
+himself, he did it because of an imminent alien threat which was
+detected long before these allegations came out, we just had Ganymede
+attacked and that's spitting distance from the primary Earth jump gate
+at Io...there is indication of collaboration and conspiracy among some
+in the Joint Chiefs (and in fact that's correct, from his point of
+view, given Hague's activities)...there's enough ammo there to justify
+martial law.  Dissolve the Senate?  Just happened a couple years ago in
+Russia, when we had tanks firing on the Senate building. Some might say
+that Yeltsin was in the same position as Clark in that his motives
+might be saving himself.
+
+       (The majorit of our posters, btw, are taken from genuine WW II
+propaganda and war-support posters that were actually in use.  We make
+some slight modifications, but the gist is there.  Yes, we do fall for
+these things, we do go for these things.  We always have.)
+
+       As for the USA-western perspective...during WW II we saw
+Japanese civilians interned in camps along the West Coast...afterward
+we saw people prosecuted for being Reds, saw careers and lives
+destroyed by even the hint of "commie" influence.  If you look at
+newsreels and documentary footage from the time, you see a populace,
+fresh out of a war, who survived by focusing on the Enemy, given a new
+enemy.  Might they have gone along with some kind fo martial law if
+they thought that if they *didn't* cooperate, the nation might be
+vulnerable to Russian nukes or invasion?  I think the climate was
+perfect for it.
+
+       Could it happen right here, right now?  No, because the
+surrounding climate isn't right.  Could it happen if the conditions
+*were* right?  Of course it could.  We're not genetically or
+evolutionarily different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans
+or the Iraquis.  If we think we'd never fall for that, we place
+ourselves in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall
+for it.  Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify
+and rationalize it as something else.
+
+       Yeah, people back on Earth still have guns.  What of it?  Right
+now, with martial law, the streets are quiet, the news is more positive
+than usual for a change, the quarrelsome jerks in the senate have been
+given a good kick in the butt, the president's getting things *done*,
+we've all still got our jobs, the muggers are hiding out, life goes on
+except for the lawbreakers. You gonna go out on your own and start
+shooting at Earthforce troops armed to the teeth with *vastly* more
+advanced weaponry?  On whose behalf?  The aliens? The troublemakers? 
+What're we rallying for?  Or against?  This'll blow over soon, it
+always does.  It never lasts.  Right now, just ride it out, wait and 
+see what happens.  Who knows...maybe Clark's right?  Who wants to be
+perceived as a traitor?
+
+       Those are the thoughts of any populace in this situation.  Just
+as when Yeltsin declared martial law in Moscow, as when Mayor Daly sent
+in the shock troops in Chicago, on and on.
+
+       Here's the number one rule: a population will always stay
+passive for as long as they perceive that they stand to lose more by
+opposing the government than by staying quiet.  It's when they have
+little or nothing left to lose that they rise up; the politicos first,
+then, more reluctantly, the general population.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Rage's Thots: PoNR> (29-Feb-96 15:45:55)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 15:45:55

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It makes me wonder: what if Delenn had been on the station when
+> the riots/Nightwatch situation erupted? Maybe the Z-man should
+> have just tossed it over his shoulder? from his cell, to the
+> lighting of the candles (rekindling of hope lost in TLTS? You've
+> had it for *months*, okay? Clarke?
+> Him and the Nightwitch (Musante) are the type of people that have
+> Earth's best interest at heart? *Corwin, by his line "What did we
+> do wrong?" Did anyone else see Susan as Wednesday Addams sitting
+> there on the couch?
+
+       "...I wanted Sheridan &Co. to cut themselves free of Earthgov,
+and they didn't."
+
+       'Course, if you were to do anything that monumental, you'd
+spike right smack in the middle of your three-part story.
+
+       One of the things about these three episodes that's again worth
+stressing is that they're really one story, linked carefully.  Each of
+the three begins *one frame* after the other.  After they've aired, if
+you sit down with a VCR and edit them together, you'll find that they
+flow absolutely SEAMLESSLY from one to the other.  So PoNR is at the
+dead center of the piece that propels you toward the last third, like
+the second act in a three-act play (which was my structure for this).
+
+       That may help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Petition Letter (29-Feb-96 19:12:38)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:38

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any ideas on what would be strong enough and to the
+> point without offending the station manager? Could I obtain a
+> copy?
+
+       Problem is, if I get in any way involved in advising on this
+stuff, it makes it look like I'm behind it, which negates the impact. 
+Your best option is to just indicate the demographics of those you've
+got on (their ages/status), and to be polite, and positive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Names... (29-Feb-96 19:12:39)
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+
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:39

+
 Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this an attempt to keep your 'public' persona separate from
+> your 'personal' one, or is it something which "just happened"? How
+> much of the information in the book is 'canon'?
+
+       I've always gone by Joe personally; J. Michael is just so you
+can get a running start on Straczynski.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+VOA: Lurkers (05-Feb-96 01:23:11)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 01:23:11

+
 Mara K. Malovany <102750.1414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, do the Vorlons really worship a god named Boojie, and why
+> does he wear a bucket over his head?
+
+      And best of all, the comment was sufficiently subtle that
+there's no way really to censor it...it's all implication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Point of No Return> (29-Feb-96 19:12:40)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:40

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should I not be?
+> How do you do business when you suddenly live in a dictatorship
+> and you use to be a democracy?
+
+       Thanks.  No, I understand the point, I'm just getting into the
+details a bit.  One last point I forgot to mention was that even for
+the US, there has never yet been a situation where we as an entire
+*species* stood on the brink of extinction by an alien race.  That'll
+definitely affect your mindset a bit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The plot thickens (29-Feb-96 19:12:41)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:41

+
 David P. Watkins <74663.3345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we about to find out some link between the Minbari, the
+> Vorlon's and the Shadows?
+
+       Who can say...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The New Ratings Game (29-Feb-96 19:12:47)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 19:12:47

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you see a ratings system as a minor annoyance, a major threat
+> to the way you wish your novel to be told, an anathema, or
+> irrelevant? On a totally different topic, will your publisher
+> (who, please?) going to be promoting your scriptwriting book
+> revision at the ABA convention in June?
+
+       I imagine that Writer's Digest'll be plugging the book in June,
+but I don't have any objective info on that.
+
+       As for the rest...the V-chip will take at least 2 years to
+begin showing up, this takes time...by the time they get their act in
+gear, B5 will have finished its run anyway, so the point will be moot. 
+My feeling is the same as ever: tell the story the way it should be
+told, the heck with the rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Point of No Return> (29-Feb-96 22:24:39)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 22:24:39

+
 Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did somebody goose him?
+> Save the eye and change your fate?
+> Morden?
+> Anna?
+> Or will there be a time travel twist here?
+
+     "I watched hte first month of Space A&B,and I liked the grim,
+gritty atmosphere.  I wish this show had more of that."
+
+     And then we'd be just like SAAB.  I'd rather we set our own tone.
+I like the jumping from humor to dark stuff...for one thing, it keeps
+the audience from collectively sticking their heads in ovens across the
+country. Second, a good dramatic piece can help create tension which
+laughter relieves, giving you a roller-coaster effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Rage's Thots: PoNR> (29-Feb-96 22:47:54)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 22:47:54

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Story idea?
+> Is there a name for this triptych, or would that be *telling*?
+> I know he's one of Harlan's faves; what about you?
+> And was Susan still reading Harlan's autobio in "MfE"?
+> Carmichael?"
+
+       Norman's been a friend of mine long before I ever actually met
+Harlan, and so yes, his name popping up was my idea.  His writing is
+pretty amazing, isn't it?
+
+       (See if your library has a copy of the audio recording of "On A
+Note of Triumph;" it'll knock you down.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Point of No Return>> (29-Feb-96 22:47:59)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 22:47:59

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...and we really must work on getting you a proper
+sig....
+
+       How about, "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no
+trifle?" -- Michelangelo
+
+       or
+
+       "The point of no return: that is the point that must be
+reached."  -- Franz Kafka
+
+       or
+
+       "A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first
+place." -- anon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+< Messages from Earth> (29-Feb-96 22:48:01)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:01

+
 Lynn Dimock <74471.3131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, is there an official scapegoat group, or are they just going
+> for generic "enemies of the State" (or of the people)? Or do I
+> just watch and find out?
+
+       Oh...probably better to watch and see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Rage's Thots: PoNR> (29-Feb-96 22:48:05)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:05

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question if they are really intended as one complete story - why
+> weren't they labeled as such?
+
+       We knew that at some juncture they'd be split, so numbering
+them as parts 1, 2 and 3 would be awkward.  And distribution hates
+having to market multi-parters, for reasons of their own.  So...three
+episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<PoNR - Redemption> (29-Feb-96 22:48:08)
+
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:08

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I loved Londo's throw-away line about politicians and
+> intelligence -- did you sit at your keyboard and cackle to
+> yourself when you wrote it?
+
+       Thanks, and I agree with those scenes.  (For me, the Vir/Londo
+scene in the tag is just hysterical.)  Re: "politics has nothing to do
+with intelligence," yeah, I kinda liked that one.  I have fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+San Diego ComiCon? (29-Feb-96 22:48:08)
+
+
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:08

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any thoughts on which of these five will be shown at the Con?
+
+       No idea yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<B5 - WWII Parallel>> (05-Feb-96 01:23:12)
+
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 01:23:12

+
 Thomas M. Conlon <73544.321@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has anyone else noticed the similarity between the Shadow Wars
+> and WWII? Remember the Secret Police?
+> Anyone care to put in their 2 cent's worth?
+
+     While yes, there are some intentional WW II parallels here, do
+bear in mind that you don't have to go all the way back to the Gestapo
+to find this kind of mentality...Sen. McCarthy would've been quite at
+home in Nightwatch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<PoNR>> (29-Feb-96 22:48:12)
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+
Date: 29-Feb-96 22:48:12

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That'll actually be in May; we get new episodes from April 3
+through the end of May, 8 episodes total, not six.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VOA> (05-Feb-96 12:01:23)
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:23

+
 Robert Miller <71501.3042@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would it be fair to say that the FO was not pleased to hear the
+> Vorlons mentioned?
+
+     Fair, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where do baby narn come (05-Feb-96 12:01:24)
+
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:24

+
 Anne L. Warner <71513.1177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do I take it from the invocation of Kosh Mode, that the issue of
+> gay Centauris is off limits?
+
+      Well, not to other Centauri....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<B5 - WWII Parallel>> (05-Feb-96 12:01:26)
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:26

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can PsiCorps members belong to Nightwatch?
+> Where did they do their recruiting for Nightwatch?
+> Are they the SS to HomeGuard's SA?
+> Do they have arrest powers, and are these "thoughtcrimes" that
+> they investigate *officially* illegal, or do they have to trump
+> up a sedition charge? What is President Clark's first name (I have
+> heard William on ANFAW, and Morgan elsewhere, including Clark's
+> Law)? Where did he get this *extreme* personal *hatred* for Luis
+> Santiago?
+
+     It's William Morgan Clark.
+
+     And yes, they have some powers of arrest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (05-Feb-96 12:01:27)
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:27

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Netter join us for a bit to explain why 9 week dry spells are
+> good for the show and such?
+
+     Doug doesn't like it either.  Not our choice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Voices of Authority> (05-Feb-96 12:01:29)
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:29

+
 Walter F. Hern <74201.2063@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Season 6?
+> Was it?
+
+     Some was new, some old.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Voices of Authority> (05-Feb-96 12:01:32)
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:32

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Good to know.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Voices of Authority> (01-Feb-96 22:25:29)
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+
Date: 01-Feb-96 22:25:29

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were you _bemused_ by the fact that people actually have pet
+> rats?
+
+     "they'll work for sunflower seeds."
+
+     Ah...I see they have the same agent I do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (05-Feb-96 12:01:34)
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 12:01:34

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  Much appreciated.  I'll get one right for him yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<B5 - WWII Parallel> (05-Feb-96 18:25:25)
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Date: 05-Feb-96 18:25:25

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Nope, not a save at all.  He says his full name in Chrysalis. 
+"I, William Morgan Clark..."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VoA> Space A&B (05-Feb-96 18:25:28)
+
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 18:25:28

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I tend to agree.  I tend to like more S:A&B episodes than not;
+there has been some very good work.  I knew almost instantly that the
+new character in this weekend's episode was going to end up dogmeat,
+but that said, the trip there was interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (05-Feb-96 18:25:32)
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+
Date: 05-Feb-96 18:25:32

+
 AsstOp Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PJ ^^^^ President, Southern Combine; Having an Out-of-Forum
+> Experience FAQ or Fiction?
+
+     Thanks.  At least it's a shorter wait this time than last.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where do baby narn come (06-Feb-96 00:05:22)
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 00:05:22

+
 Gerald Himmelein <100417.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there homosexuality among other races which have male and
+> female genders defined? A related question: Are there races in the
+> B5 universe which have transcended male / female? And another
+> related question: Are there different genders in the Vorlon race?
+
+     Yes, yes, and yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 00:05:24

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, At the risk of asking a silly question, in light of the
+> technical explaining going on here, am I correct in assuming that
+> Drall is just plain a big man?
+
+     He's a tall, stout fellow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Book #3: Blood Oath (06-Feb-96 00:05:26)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 00:05:26

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much of the Narn terminology and the like, not to mention the
+> details of the Narn homeworld, are accurate and canon?
+
+     It's accurate in some places, not in others; details slip
+sometimes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VOA: Draal> (06-Feb-96 00:05:27)
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 00:05:27

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments on this?
+
+     People said this about Londo, too.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New to Babylon 5 (06-Feb-96 02:08:26)
+
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 02:08:26

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yes, but since time and space are curved, they eventually loop
+back the way they came, and thus you will end up in the final analysis
+ahead of where you were when you first discovered the program.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Dust' AVI in lib 5 (06-Feb-96 02:11:53)
+
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 02:11:53

+
      BTW, for those interested, who have video for windows, I've
+uploaded an .avi file (full video and sound) of the teaser for "Dust to
+Dust" in library 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where do baby narn come (01-Feb-96 22:25:30)
+
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+
Date: 01-Feb-96 22:25:30

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they protrude or extend from what would correspond (on humans)
+> from the navel area or groin area? Where are the Centauri female
+> orifices located and do they have more than one?
+
+     Actually, Centauri have six.  They extend out from the sides of
+the body, and "fold" in over the solar plexus when not in, er, use. 
+(We actually saw one extended for other purposes in the first season,
+"The Quality of Mercy.") Female Centauri have six...er...slotted areas
+on either side of the spine, just above the hips, three on either side.
+
+     To go any further would probably bring in the FBI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK Ch4 (06-Feb-96 13:09:00)
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 13:09:00

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Correct.  The widescreen footage used in the titles is exactly
+the same as that shot for the show, only we crop the edges off.  You
+only have to compare the first sesaon shots from "Parliament" to verify
+that they're the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<B5 - WWII Parallel> (06-Feb-96 16:25:44)
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 16:25:44

+
 Alexis Holizki <75027.1277@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I take it the author wasn't as well-informed as he should have
+> been?
+
+     Missed that in the proofreading....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK Ch4 (06-Feb-96 16:25:45)
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 16:25:45

+
 Nigel Nixon <100666.2174@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any news on whether C4 have bought season 3 in WS?
+
+     No word yet, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Q. "Time On Target!"? (06-Feb-96 16:43:55)
+
+
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+
Date: 06-Feb-96 16:43:55

+
 Roger Stenning <101521.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just what does "Time on target" mean?
+> Help, anyone?
+
+     You fire your weapons (missiles, other stuff) not necessarily at
+the same moment, but so that it all *hits* at the same time.  Time is a
+factor for the arrival at the target.  Hence, time on target.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Voice In <VOA> (07-Feb-96 00:11:39)
+
+
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 00:11:39

+
 Dan Hayes <72303.2134@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I nuts?
+
+     It was definitely Ed Wasser.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (07-Feb-96 00:18:23)
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 00:18:23

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is he conning everyone?
+> Does he really think that everything he does is for the greater
+> good of earth?
+
+      "Dust to Dust" is what I call one of my "pretty box" episodes. 
+I set down the pretty box in front of you, and you think you know what
+it is. Then something else entirely jumps out of it at your face. 
+There's more coming here and there.  I like pretty boxes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+VoA: Pretty Bad (07-Feb-96 01:38:53)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 01:38:53

+
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+
+     Your friend should learn a few things from history.  Your friend
+should learn that virtually everything the Political Officer said was
+taken, in one form or another, from actual speeches from people like
+Goerring and Goebbels and Hitler and McCarthy and other members of the
+House Unamerican Activities Committee, stated right out in public. 
+Your friend should learn that some epidodes are meant to be lighter,
+some darker, because you can't have despair, sturm und drang every
+episode or you're going to lose viewers left, right and center.  Your
+friend should learn to speak for himself.  You should stop hiding
+behind "your friend's" comments.
+
+     That "your friend" doesn't like something doesn't make it bad,
+any more than liking something makes it good.  Your friend should learn
+that the universe does not revolve around his opinion.  Your friend
+should try writing something, and selling it, before he sets out to
+tell a writer the "better ways" that writer should be telling his
+stories.  Your friend seems to think that unless it's done *his* way,
+the "better way," then it's not good.
+
+     "jms...not having the time to find better solutions to each
+scene."  I had plenty of time to find solutions to each scene.  I chose
+the solutions that I liked.  And that most folks seem to have liked. 
+Again, if your friend would've chosen a different way, then it's your
+friend's story, not mine, and it's not "better."  Because I don't
+happen to tell my story the way your friend wants to tell a story
+doesn't make his "better."
+
+     So I guess all the people who enjoyed VoA, who enjoyed the
+dialogue, who laughed out loud at all the right places, who liked
+it...they're all fools and idiots because your friend says otherwise,
+huh?  Because clearly it's *bad*. No subjective opinions here, your
+friend says it's bad, well, then, by golly, it's bad...and the rest of
+the viewership is just plain dumb not to perceive it.
+
+     "Your friend" has clearly never been through a writing workshop,
+or learned how to present constructive criticism.  It's his way or the
+highway.
+
+     When "your friend" has written 145 produced television scripts,
+and been nominated for multiple writing awards, written columns and
+books on scriptwriting, *then* he can tell me the "BETTER" way to
+write.  Meanwhile, if he has logical concerns, questions, flaws to
+point out, mistakes that were made, I'm happy to hear them.  But anyone
+who sits there and says that he knows the *better* way to do
+everything, because his way IS the better way, and if it's not done HIS
+way then it's wrong...doesn't have the first idea what the hell he's
+talking about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+'Dust' AVI in lib 5 (07-Feb-96 18:57:49)
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:49

+
 David Nedrow <70004.1273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance you could upload these as Indeo files?
+> Or, do you mind if I do the conversion and make them available?
+
+      I'm not set up for that conversion; if you can do it, by all
+means....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+A Voice In <VOA> (07-Feb-96 18:57:51)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:51

+
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+
+      Don't know what else he's doing, actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+live action/CGI (07-Feb-96 18:57:52)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:52

+
 John McAuley <100260.412@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this because they have to use trial and error to get it to
+> look right?
+
+     The shot as filmed wasn't locked down (locked camera), and they
+had to take the film and carefully insert the material so it wouldn't
+look jumpy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<VOA> (01-Feb-96 22:25:33)
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Date: 01-Feb-96 22:25:33

+
 Barbara Pfieffer <72302.2453@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you script the look of admiration Marcus gives Ivanova after
+> she gets her answer from the Walker? Musante's speech to the
+> Nightwatch--were you reading some of Herr Hitler's speeches
+> before writing that?
+
+     Yeah, the Loki was a little nod, sort of appropriate to who she
+was.
+
+     The crew you see on the White Star doesn't reflect those in other
+parts of the ship.  Also, being fairly advanced, it doesn't require a
+big crew in command.  You could even fly it single-handedly if it came
+to that.
+
+     And yes, the historical parallels are definitely there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:55

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what about the telepath in Sinclair's squad during the Battle
+> of the Line? Was he a closet "teep"?
+> or was EA desparate for any pilot?
+> or is this just some propaganda on Psi-Corps part??
+> Say, what was that stat about teeps and teeks?
+> What do we call Talia's husband?
+> eep??
+> eek??
+> Finally, how high do the P-ratings go?
+> P-5 Commercial telepath (Lyta?) P-10 Instructors P-13 Psi-cops
+> P-?? will we ever see her at her full potential?) P-??
+
+      As I recall, it was mentioned that he was a closet teep.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+B5 - Uk? (07-Feb-96 18:57:58)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 18:57:58

+
 RICHARD D.SHEPPAR <100111.1053@compuserve.com> asks:
+> if you could tell me when Channel 4 are showing B5 in the Uk (I
+> heard something about them buying a widescreen verion)? Can you
+> shead any light?
+
+      I haven't yet heard the final disposition on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+VoA: Pretty Bad (07-Feb-96 18:58:00)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 18:58:00

+
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+
+      Ivanova wanted to get in the face of the First Ones, to say,
+"Look, you can blow me away, but damn it, listen to me."  If she'd said
+that "more reverently," as your friend noted, it would've worked
+against the logic of the scene and the resolution.
+
+     (Also, the political officer never "stormed into Sheridan's
+office." She was waiting there, quite demurely, as he entered.  So
+again, when he says that his complaint is "with Sheridan's lack of
+response when the political officer stormed into his office," and that
+never happened in the first place, you can understand why I might have
+a problem with this.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+VoA: Pretty Bad (07-Feb-96 18:58:02)
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 18:58:02

+
 Esther Schindler [EXEC] <72241.1417@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How often do you tell someone that you write, only to have them
+> tell you that they've always intended to write a novel one day? as
+> if their intention is just as valuable as the effort you really
+> put into it, as the late nights spent struggling with the nasty
+> paragraph that refuses to sound right, as your pride in
+> re-reading your text and saying, "yes, that's what I wanted!"?
+
+      Yeah, every so often, I get somebody who says, "Yeah, I could be
+a writer too, if I just had the time for it."  Yes, and I could be the
+Prima Ballerina of the Bolshoi if I just had the time for it.  They
+don't understand that it takes *years* of training, work, isolation,
+trial and error...that it's a *craft* that, like any other craft, from
+woodworking to brain surgery to playing the violin, takes years to get
+right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+VOA: Lurkers (07-Feb-96 18:58:06)
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 18:58:06

+
 Esther Schindler [EXEC] <72241.1417@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or is this a guy thing?
+
+      Her feeling was likely that it has always worked with her in the
+past. He's widowed, probably hasn't had any in a long time, he's
+vulnerable, a perfect target.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Othersyde World Tour (07-Feb-96 19:09:00)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 19:09:00

+
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+
+      Great, I never get out, but my book travels all over the place. 
+And people ask why I think there is no god....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 19:09:04

+
 Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I guess I'm so used to sinister motives that I can't tell if Kosh
+> is still manipulating, or is he sincere?
+
+      A person can be sincere and still manipulative, in Kosh's case. 
+If he believes he's right, perhaps he's willing to manipulate anyone
+toward that goal, if it's worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:04

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Btw, on the subject of the Night Watch, is this the group that
+> has taken over the role that was formerly held by Bureau 13?
+
+      No, the Bureau would've been a secret organization, a la the NSA
+or a covert military/spy group.  This is a much more public face.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Upcoming B5 Eps> (07-Feb-96 22:41:06)
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:06

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why is the episode called this?
+> How do you intent to fig the title on the screen?
+
+      Why's it called that?  Because it's quite appropos.  How do we
+fit it? Not a big deal.  Longest title up to now was one I did for
+MURDER, SHE WROTE, a quote from Moby Dick, "To The Last Shall I Grapple
+With Thee."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (07-Feb-96 22:41:08)
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:08

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have something against the ambassadorial aides or what
+> this year? Perhaps we'll learn more about this in a future
+> episode?
+
+      The female Psi Cop here *was* the same as in ARTDP, played by
+Judy Levitt, who is also Walter's wife.
+
+      Yeah, everyone turned in great performances in this one, very
+intense and layered.  And as a result of G'Kar's attack, the next
+several episodes will find him still in prison.  In the B5 universe,
+you don't just go in for a long time at the end of an ep and next thing
+you're out again.  He has to serve his time, and now we'll see him in a
+cell for a while.
+
+      And yes, you'll learn more about what happened to the Narn
+telepaths in coming months.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 01-Feb-96 22:32:35

+
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+
+     On the other hand, Zack *didn't* rat out the code 7-R stuff to
+her in any detail.  He's absolutely caught between the two sides, and
+not sure which way to jump.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+VoA: Pretty Bad (07-Feb-96 22:41:12)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:12

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+'Dust' AVI in lib 5 (07-Feb-96 22:41:17)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:17

+
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+
+     Thanks.  It kinda sneaks up on you, doesn't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Sounds like a good thing to me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:20

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, after the battering and mind-rape, is LONDO still aware
+> that G'kar possesses this knowledge, or has it slipped into a
+> "must've been a nightmare" state?
+
+      Londo knows G'Kar knows, yes.  He couldn't not know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Voices of Authority> (07-Feb-96 22:41:23)
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Date: 07-Feb-96 22:41:23

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we allowed to be having this much fun?
+
+     "Are we allowed to have this much fun?"
+
+     No.  Report to your nearest Night Watch office at once and turn
+yourself in.
+
+     You'll feel better for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 08-Feb-96 01:28:16

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      She didn't say that she was from the "B5 advisory council."  She
+said that she had been dispatched by the Senate Oversight Committee,
+which as we have established before, has jurisdiction in many ways over
+B5.
+
+      This is the difference between TV logic and Real logic.  In TV
+logic, yeah, she should've tossed her outta there...but we try to be
+rigorously real about the B5 universe.  She was sent by the Senate
+Oversight Committee, as is their province, with the backing of several
+governmental offices, in an area over which Sheridan doesn't have
+jusrisdiction: the political arena back home. In the real world, you
+can't just toss somebody out the door because you don't like them...not
+if you're a career military officer who answers to a civilian authority
+or government.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+VoA: Pretty Bad (08-Feb-96 01:36:16)
+
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+
Date: 08-Feb-96 01:36:16

+
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+
+     "...didn't seem to announce her authority well enough...the
+Babylon 5 Advisory Council...."
+
+      Once again, as I noted elsewhere, this is NOT what she said, she
+specifically noted that this was from the Earth SENATE.  How much does
+one need to explain the senate?  (Jokes aside.)  As it was, that scene
+went about 2 full minutes of carefully balanced exposition...more, to
+explain the senate, when we've been seeing senators all three years is
+silly.  It WAS announced well enough.
+
+     One simply has to pay attention.  Thus far, the "better ways"
+have struck out consistently.  Most have been based on totally
+incorrect perceptions of what was said or done in the episode; the
+others are matters of personal taste that are, frankly, just lateral
+moves.  Most, again, are simply from not paying attention.
+
+     There's a great story about the first time Van Gogh met Gaugain,
+his role model.  Gaugain looked at Vah Gogh's paintings, which had been
+hung on all the walls for his inspection, and after a moment announced,
+"You paint too fast."
+
+     To which Van Gogh replied, "No, you LOOK too fast."
+
+     Take the lesson for what it's worth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Station damage (08-Feb-96 11:41:09)
+
+
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+
Date: 08-Feb-96 11:41:09

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     It's part of the stabalizing arm used when ships move in to
+unload cargo into the zero-g bay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Rage's Thots: DtD> (08-Feb-96 13:46:42)
+
+
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<Rage's Thots: DtD>

+
Date: 08-Feb-96 13:46:42

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> *"Aren't you late for a bund meeting?"
+> My favorite lines, however, are Bester's "So you see me as a
+> pinata?" BTW, Joe, how do you write the Drazi speech pattern?
+> Drop all the articles?
+> Is that all?
+> Is this a Wm Goldman/Princess Bride nod?
+> Or am I *way* too into looking for stuff like this?
+> *Jeez, Kosh is a manipulative little <bleep>, ain't he?
+> *Bester's comment to his partner "You couldn't have gotten here 2
+> min earlier, could you?"
+
+     Actually, just to clarify the legalese, the judge sentenced him
+to *no less* than 60 days; that's the minimum, it could be more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (08-Feb-96 13:55:52)
+
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<Dust to Dust>

+
Date: 08-Feb-96 13:55:52

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this what they do?
+> ?
+> Everytime the Shadows attack they stick other races out front and
+> say "we're right behind you buddy!"???
+
+     Exactly.  I mean, in three years, what the heck have the Vorlons
+actually *done* to help "our side?"  Let the others do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Voices of Authority> (02-Feb-96 12:29:52)
+
+
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<Voices of Authority>

+
Date: 02-Feb-96 12:29:52

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  Yeah, everyone involved did a great job on that episode.
+It was a lot of fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+VoA: Pretty Bad (08-Feb-96 13:55:53)
+
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+
Date: 08-Feb-96 13:55:53

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Yeah...real horrorshow...to quote somebody else....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Station damage (08-Feb-96 17:36:14)
+
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+
Date: 08-Feb-96 17:36:14

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Basically they're new kinds of alloys, the anchors go deep into
+the top of the station; a small shuttle or medium transport comes in,
+stops between the tines, once it achieves station holding they anchor
+it to make life easier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Dust to Dust> (08-Feb-96 20:22:54)
+
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<Dust to Dust>

+
Date: 08-Feb-96 20:22:54

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did G'Kar see G'Quon or G'Lan (as portrayed by Kosh)?
+
+     The figure he was talking through during the scene appeared to
+him as his father; the very last figure, seen departing, was that of
+G'Lan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dust To Dust (08-Feb-96 22:50:36)
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+
Date: 08-Feb-96 22:50:36

+
 Mr Challeron <76420.1471@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you WRITE stuff like that?
+> How long did it take to find actors who could PLAY scenes like
+> that?
+
+       Thanks.
+
+       Implying more than one sees is something that you kinda have to
+learn over time.  It can be very effective, as here.
+
+       You just have to kinda put yourself out on a limb, as a writer
+or as an actor.
+
+       This scene *should* be very affecting.  It goes to Joe's Theory
+of Violence on TV.  To wit...that we need more of it, but it has to be
+realistic violence.  It has to show consequences.  You glorify or
+desensitize violence when you shoot somebody, and they just go down, no
+yelling in pain, no sobbing as their guts fall out onto the street. 
+It's just gunfire, loud noises, excitement and fun.  If you're going to
+show violence, then show it for what it *is*, and show it the way
+people would react to it.  Make the audience understand that this is a
+*person*, not one in a series of body counts.
+
+       (There's also Joe's Theory of Button-Fly Jeans, btw...which
+holds that when you use the men's room, you only actually *have* to
+unbutton the first three buttons...the fourth one is just for show.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+VoA: Pretty Bad (08-Feb-96 22:50:38)
+
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+
Date: 08-Feb-96 22:50:38

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone got any year two examples?
+> Demure?
+
+     Two comments, and two only.
+
+     He's still wrong.  She was waiting, demurely, when Sheridan
+entered. The argument didn't start until well afterward.  Tell him to
+run the episode again and maybe LOOK at it this time.
+
+     Second comment...I suspect that Hank has a problem with women. 
+His concerns repeatedly are with the women characters, that they're too
+much in your face, that they're not reverential enough, that they're
+"pushy," doesn't like that they can be sexually aggressive.
+
+     In short...the problem may not be the show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VOA> Question (08-Feb-96 22:50:39)
+
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+
<VOA> Question

+
Date: 08-Feb-96 22:50:39

+
 Andrew J. Puckett <75143.267@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there any change made to the opening music in "Voices of
+> Authority" (as opposed to third season episodes preceding it)?
+
+     Nope, no change in the music at all.  You're probably just more
+used to it now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Dust<< (09-Feb-96 00:20:57)
+
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>>Dust<<

+
Date: 09-Feb-96 00:20:57

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+     Thanks.  And since TV works in a vacuum for the most part, and
+it's rare to really get solid feedback...we never hear it enough. 
+Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Dust to Dust> (09-Feb-96 12:58:47)
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:47

+
 John MacVeigh <72467.2141@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The question is: do G'Kar (and Morden) still have free will?
+
+      Actually, I tend to agree with that assessment.  They've guided
+and instructed and pointed, yes...and manipulated...but they still
+haven't had to step up to the plate in other areas.
+
+      And I don't think the Narns have sacrificed nearly enough yet. 
+You can always sacrifice more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VOA> Question (09-Feb-96 12:58:48)
+
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+
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:48

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did they change the closing credit music on Dust to Dust?
+
+      Yes, we did change that.  Because we -- I -- forgot to have
+Christopher re-score it when we were re-doing the main title.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 3 title? (09-Feb-96 12:58:49)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 09-Feb-96 12:58:49

+
 Martin Higgins <72223.3441@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I haven't seen it posted anywhere - what's the overall title for
+> season 3?
+
+     Point of No Return.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Do you want a party??? (01-Mar-96 00:27:16)
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+
Date: 01-Mar-96 00:27:16

+
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+
+       "The whole time I was at Wright-Paterson...."
+
+       So, which one of those labs has the crashed UFOs, huh? huh?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (01-Mar-96 17:51:16)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01-Mar-96 17:51:16

+
 David Anderson <76560.205@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if we will ever see the one remaining Narn
+> cruiser again?
+
+       Yes, this season in fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Point of No Return> (06-Mar-96 18:32:55)
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+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:55

+
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+
+       I disagree.  When even Truman was loathe to take on HUAC and
+McCarthy, you've got a real problem.  You make the impact sound
+minimal; but people committed suicide when their careers were ruined by
+HUAC and Tailgunner Joe. I personally know writers who were at the top
+of their form and their careers who never worked again because they
+were blacklisted or greylisted.
+
+       It was also the climate created by HUAC that threatened much
+more widely than the actions of the committee itself.  Take Red
+Channels, a sleazy little rag published by the owner of a *SUPERMARKET
+CHAIN* in which he listed those he considered -- based on whim or
+divine revelation -- reds or sympathetic to reds.  Even a publication
+like that had tremendous destructive power.  I know one of the writers
+listed in Red Channels; the networks grey-listed him instantly.  It was
+*years* before he could work again.
+
+       The whole red-baiting hysteria of the 50s came as close to
+destroying the American dream as any threatened invasion.  If it had
+been led by someone a little less self-destructive than McCarthy, I
+hate to think what would've happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<The last few eps?> (06-Mar-96 18:32:57)
+
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+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:57

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I first heard about it at a con, from a member of the crew of
+the USS Enterprise.  Also, when it happened, it was reported here and
+there in a few places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Point of No Return>> (06-Mar-96 18:33:07)
+
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+
<<Point of No Return>>

+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:33:07

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You were not kidding when you said you were pulling the triggers
+> on the guns you set up were you? [Another moment of stunned
+> silance] What?! A repeat next?!
+> When in May do we get new episodes?
+
+       You get new eps in April, the first week, rather than May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Doors / AI (06-Mar-96 18:46:01)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:01

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       You can program in a variety of commands, from OPEN to COME or
+YES, though the vaguer the statement, the more probability of a
+mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Evidence of an arc <g> (06-Mar-96 18:46:03)
+
+
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+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:03

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       "Basically, it was a decision by the WB suits that was mutually
+agreed to by all."
+
+       Not correct.  It was first broached by me, to Michael, for
+story reasons; we discussed it, mutually and amicably agreed that this
+would work out for both of us, and then confirmed this with WB, to whom
+we had indicated we might do this, pending the conversation with
+Michael.
+
+       There's a long post here that was written by me and archived at
+the time; it's in one of the two B5 libraries.  It goes into great
+detail on the whole thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Point of No Return> (06-Mar-96 18:46:04)
+
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+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:04

+
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+
+       I appreciate that, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fan Club (06-Mar-96 18:46:09)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:09

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       We have a PO box now, and we'll do ads in magazines and the
+like, plus maintaining a convention presence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Doors / AI (06-Mar-96 18:46:10)
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+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:46:10

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+       Yes, there's a sensor device, just as in your local drug
+store's automatic doors when you approach.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
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+Evidence of an arc <g> (06-Mar-96 22:42:51)
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Date: 06-Mar-96 22:42:51

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+       We learn by doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+<PoNR> A complaint (06-Mar-96 22:42:51)
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Date: 06-Mar-96 22:42:51

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+       Okay, Greg, you asked for it, you got it...and it'll be in one
+of the very first batch of new episodes coming up.  I'll narrow it down
+to the first four up, to avoid spoilers.  But it's there.  In spades.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
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+
+

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+B5's 'failings' (01-Mar-96 17:51:17)
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Date: 01-Mar-96 17:51:17

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hey, Joe, why can't *your* sci-fi show finagle a special tribute
+> to itself on an awards show? Or arrange a sketch on late-night TV
+> with Jay Leno on its set, being stupid with one of its
+> characters? Or have two of its principles slum out of a camper in
+> the boondocks, appear between sections of a movie (say, "The Four
+> Seasons") on a Saturday afternoon and make insipid comments about
+> the movie, and have pleas to watch B5 interspersed, disguised as
+> network identification? And how come you can't manage to produce
+> even a single B5 episode with a tidy, formula plot and a preachy,
+> politically correct moral that's about as subtle as a freight
+> train? Creative, well-thought storylines; thought-provoking
+> exploration of important issues that resist the urge for easy
+> answers; intense drama and intelligent comedy; insight into
+> individuals and societies; dynamite special effects; complex,
+> three-dimensional yet believable characters, excellently
+> portrayed by top-notch actors: just how far do you think that
+> *these* will take you?
+
+       I strongly suspect that one of us needs to lie down for a long,
+long time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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+

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+The Future of B5 (07-Mar-96 16:06:20)
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Date: 07-Mar-96 16:06:20

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (I wonder if you see where I'm going with this.) Now, being that
+> B5 is set to be a 5 year arc, the completion of which will take
+> place in year 5, how might we expect to see things taking place
+> so far off into the future where the show's setting is concerned? 
+> Do you plan near the end of the arc to jump the current time line
+> ahead twenty or thirty years so that we will get to see what
+> happens, or will we be left dangling somehow by events that will
+> not unfold?
+
+       Well, the odds of a spinoff are few and far between to start
+with, so it's probably a moot point.  To the other question....
+
+       See, this is a puzzlement to me.  If I answer your question
+about when and how we'll see Londo's future, that ruins the show.  This
+is the puzzling part...I often get notes saying, "When are we going to
+see this happen?" Well, if I were to say, "Okay, you're going to see
+G'Kar lose his eye in episode 7 of year 4," then it *completely
+eliminates* any surprise, any tension, any shock value to it.  I might
+as well just not make the episode at that point.
+
+       So I have an answer to your question.  And we will deal with
+this point.  But to simply blow it out there would be to destroy the
+impact of anything we might have in mind.
+
+       It's funny...at conventions, actors get asked "how do you
+create this character," when the characters were created by me, and I
+get asked to reveal coming plot points that I *can't* reveal without
+kicking the props out from under the show.  I can talk in general
+terms, but anything detailed has to go by the boards.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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Date: 07-Mar-96 16:06:33

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The *speed* of McCarthy's collapse with the simple words "Have
+> you no decency Sir? At long last?"
+
+       Yes, but equally dangerous, Phil, is blindness or self-delusion
+about real failings and real problems.  Each population that marched
+off to annhilation under a dictatorship did so convinced that their
+values and their morals and their national fabric was supremely strong.
+
+       Pride has a tendency to goeth before a fall.
+
+       For additional reading check out "The Man Who Corrupted
+Hadleyburg." Check out European history.  We're not a different species
+over here on this side of the atlantic; we're just as capable of being
+foxed as the next guy in another country.
+
+       And your notion that the government wasn't responsible for what
+happened to people during the HUAC period doesn't jibe with the truth.
+It was the FBI which contacted networks and asked them for lists of
+anyone considered communist; the FBI who suggested there might be
+problems unless certain people were removed.  It wasn't just people
+who'd attended Young Communist meetings who were targeted...it was
+anyone who *knew* anyone who'd been at these things, or had in fact
+NEVER been to anything like this. People were called before HUAC and
+asked to *name names*, and if you didn't, then you were hiding 
+something, being uncooperative, facing contempt charges, so you named
+the names that had been named before, or made up new ones, gave up your
+buddies or your co workers, whatever was necessary to keep from being
+jailed or fired.
+
+       The problem was worse than just "inaccuracy."  It was rooted in
+meanness and cynicism.  I know someone who was asked during the second
+World War to make short films for the military and the newsreels, and
+to do radio shows, celebrating the US and the Soviet Union working
+together to defeat the Nazis.  All well and good, right?  Well, this
+same person, after the war, was grey-listed for having produced
+Communist propaganda MADE AT THE REQUEST OF OUR OWN GOVERNMENT at the
+time.  Meanness.  Cynicism.
+
+       To be named before HUAC was to instantly get a file at the FBI
+in your name.  As soon as that happened, you could reliably depend on
+having your phone tapped, your business associates would be questioned,
+your mail would be intercepted...no, the government didn't say
+publicly, "don't hire this person," but when all this starts to happen,
+jobs and reputations disappear. People committed suicide over the
+destruction of their careers, their *lives* being torn apart.  Did
+McCarthy pull the trigger?  No, but the people he targeted are just as
+dead as if he did.
+
+       There's the common assumption that one measures the decline of
+a democracy in body counts and increasingly inconvenient laws and
+regulations. But this is symptom, not cause.  Laws follow norms, and
+norms follow values in the political food chain.  And the values of
+HUAC were the values of terror, and spying on your neighbor, and
+looking for the enemy beneath bedsheets.  A democracy, ANY democracy,
+is based first and foremost on the notion of trust, however flawed,
+that the person beside you, however different his specific beliefs may
+be from your own, nonetheless hews to the same notions of liberty, and
+that when push comes to shove, you will be wiling to lay down your
+life to protect that person's rights.  Take that away in a paroxysm of
+paranoia, distrust, conspiracies, hearings and vague accusations, and
+everything else falls apart.  The center does not hold.
+
+       To question ourselves is not to weaken our democracy, but to
+strengthen it, because we know precisely what we believe and why we
+believe it; we're not victims if we learn from our mistakes and thus
+fail to repeat them.  If we *deny* our mistakes, or try to bury them,
+or rationalize them, then we create the potential for trouble.  We are
+at our most vulnerable when we are the most self-congratulatory and
+assured.  Because then we get blindsided.
+
+       "Fact is, the Red Scare tended to get two specific (and fairly
+small) groups of people, Hollywood actors, writers and executives, and
+people affiliated with Democratic institutions."
+
+       Yes, and the Nazis tended to get two specific (and fairly
+small) groups of people, jews and communists.  So I guess that's okay
+too.
+
+       Any attempt at repression *always* starts by first targeting
+artists, writers, and intellectuals, the ones in a position to
+verbalize and explain why what's happening is *wrong*.  You want to
+eliminate, neutralize or destroy their credibility.  This is standard
+operating procedure.  That's where it starts, but not always where it
+ends.  To assume that because we've always caught it before means we
+always *will* is, again, to set yourself up for a fall.
+
+       The manipulators always go after an easily identifiable group
+first, one which they can easily tar with the brush of responsibility
+for society's problems.  We're seeing it again today, writ smaller, in
+the constant and repeated assaults on Hollywood...attacking the
+*picture* of the problem rather than the problem itself.
+
+       Again, you demonstrate the problem.  "Well, it's just these two
+small groups, really."  Then it becomes three groups.  Then four.  Or
+you just stay with the two groups...and you harrass, chivvy, destroy,
+terrorize, humiliate, bankrupt and ultimately lead to the death of many
+of them.  But as long as it's just a couple of small groups, it's not
+that bad, really.
+
+       "Every man's death diminishes me.  So ask not for whom the bell
+tolls. It tolls for thee."
+
+       I'd also point out that when HUAC started, it was as the result
+of accusations that there were commies in the Military and the
+Pentagon; but when they found that they could get on TeeVee and the
+Newsreels by bringing in actors...that's what they did.  What does it
+do to a nation starstruck by actors to see these same shining examples
+of the American dream standing before the cameras and naming names of
+other actors, business associates, others?  You speak of the values of
+a nation...what effect does that have on our values?  What *are* our
+values if we allow this to take place...or dismiss it after the fact as
+having hurt only a few people, really.
+
+       It did great harm to the fabric of the nation, not in fines or
+jail sentences, but in the *heart* of the nation, the way we look to
+one another. Its effects reverberated long after the HUAC hearings
+stopped.  It bred a level of paranoia that when the youth culture of
+the 60s began to pop up, many of them were instantly categorized as
+commies; "Go back to russia where you came from" was a common cry to
+longhairs in that time.  Because to dissent was unpatriotic; the only
+ones who attacked the government were the commies, end of discussion. 
+The parents of kids who were teenagers in the 60s had come through
+McCarthy, had learned the wrong lessons of citizenship.
+
+       No executions?  Perhaps Julies and Ethel Rosenberg had some
+part in spying, maybe they didn't, I don't know if we'll ever know for
+sure.  But the Russians were working on a-bomb technology long before,
+and records show that they got it pretty much on their own.  They were
+executed as part of the hysteria of the times, their trial a rush to
+judgment.
+
+       No, we're not so weak a nation that McCarthy himself can
+destroy it; WE destroy it, if we allow ourselves to be convinced to
+turn one another in, to have the heart and soul of the nation sold out
+to terror and paranoia. Every nation has within its breast the seeds of
+its own destruction, within its own population; what some individuals
+do is water that seed, and fertilize it.  If it grows, it grows in us. 
+They don't do it to us, we do it to ourselves.  And given the right
+conditions, the right environment, the right soil...we could do it. 
+Even here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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+

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Date: 07-Mar-96 16:06:38

+
 Chris Land <101636.1572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who has it?
+> The Minbari?
+> Am I right?
+
+       Vorlons and shadows both have organic tech, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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+

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+Enjoying Babylon 5 (07-Mar-96 16:06:39)
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+
Date: 07-Mar-96 16:06:39

+
 Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 2 questions: 1) What does "3 first acts" mean?
+> 2) When does your script begins?
+> It seemed six years after the War, but since the last TV show
+> doesn't end with an armistice, how did you approach the beginning
+> of your show?
+
+       The last V movie ended with the armistice, as I recall; and 3
+acts means the 3 dramatic sections between commercials.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 07-Mar-96 16:13:55

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+       Then you needn't worry.  We have no plans to begin adding any
+more recurring characters at this point; we have all we need.  And, in
+fact, may start to lose a few of them in the fairly near future.  War
+is hell, you know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

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Date: 08-Mar-96 23:42:02

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you tell us what episodes she'll be appearing in for the
+> remainder of the third season, if any?
+
+       She's also in "Walkabout" this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 08-Mar-96 23:42:02

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+       Thanks.  If one watches the show "religiously," does that mean
+one must angle the TV so one faces Mecca, or is simple genuflection
+sufficient?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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+

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Date: 08-Mar-96 23:42:05

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+       Then let me put it as straightforwardly as possible: I *hate*
+loose ends, and thus the odds of very many things left dangling at the
+end of the story are fairly small.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 09-Mar-96 00:20:49

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+       We'll give the info out when we've settled for sure on what
+we're going to be charging, and offering, for the club.  (Unlike some
+clubs, which charge as much as $20 or more, we're trying to keep it
+down to something a little more reasonable, to keep it more accessible
+to people.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> So this would be a bad time to set-up as a life insurance
+> salesman on B5?
+
+       The key to writing an ensemble show is to use those characters
+that serve the story, and for no other reason, not becuase you think
+they should get more on-air time for egos or any other rationale.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 01-Mar-96 17:51:19

+
 The Jawa / Jawa #2 <76371.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Jawa Kidism Patrol 7:34 PM, Friday, March 01, 1996 "Did I
+> mention that my nose is on fire?"
+
+       For what it's worth, I tend to agree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+       Yes, Walter Koenig, Harlan Ellison and I will *all* be at
+Chicago ComicCon.  This should be most interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 09-Mar-96 00:20:56

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+       "We care what happens to these people and aliens."
+
+       Which is essential, whatever happens.  If something happens to
+someone, and you don't care for the character, it's meaningless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But where does that leave Jerry Doyle?
+> Can I offer you my life instead?
+
+       No, Jerry's great to work with, there hasn't been a problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 09-Mar-96 00:21:00

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How DO you create a character like Delenn?
+> How DID you create Delenn?
+
+       As with any character I create, I tend to peel off a small
+piece of myself to make the core of it.  There are certain aspects of
+me scattered in all the B5 characters, Delenn in particular.  Then you
+start adding elements that seem to shore up those traits.  For Delenn I
+pulled in some aspects of Zen mysticism, Japanese culture, certain
+Moslem influences in government and culture (minbar is the name for the
+pulpit in a mosque)...next comes the layering of history, where she
+came from, who her parents were, what happened to them (which, btw,
+you'll hear this season)...where she was when the war started, what she
+felt about it, what she did at the time, what happened later....
+
+       Our personalities are formed in large measure by our history,
+what we have seen and done and learned.  Once you have all those
+details, you're a long way toward building the character.  A character
+is like a well-reared child, it has aspects of its parents, but is more
+than just a reflection, and forms its own life after a while.
+
+       The final element comes in when you have an actor in the role,
+and you look at the actor and the character and try to merge them, so
+the truth of the person behind the name becomes the truth of the
+character.  For Mira, that meant hitting those aspects of Minbari
+culture which I knew would resonate with her background from the former
+Yugoslavia.  I know that if I put her in the middle of a scene in which
+she has to deal with her government unraveling, what the actor felt
+when the real thing began to happen will seep out, whether it's wanted
+or not.  Is it manipulative of the actor?  Absolutely.  Several of the
+actors have come to me and noted that the character is hitting
+something that's very close to them, and how did I know to hit them
+with this?  Half of being a writer is observation.
+
+       It's the same reason I assigned David Gerrold to write
+"Believers," even though he couldn't at first figure out why he, mainly
+noted for his light comic work, would be given this heavy dramatic
+story...until he was well into it, and -- having just adopted a young
+boy -- had to go through the emotional turmoil I wanted those parents
+to go through.
+
+       You have to be part oracle, part counselor, part parent, part
+boss and partly mad to make this show work....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it safe to say that one day we *will* see a resoution of the
+> Londo-G'Kar thread that will dispose of the dream in *some
+> manner*, even if that is Londo doing something that makes that
+> unlikely to happen?
+
+       But of course....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So this would have been made *instead* of the *amazingly*
+> pathetic series?
+
+       This would've followed the last version, and have been truer to
+the original miniseries.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       It can be for a number of reasons.  The White Star was moving
+through a highly charged atmosphere, which would leave detectable
+trails; it was being fired at by the shadow vessel, which would've
+attracted considerable attention from the flares; diving at that speed
+and coming back up there would be considerble heat on the surface of
+the ship (not normally a problem in space); and it was pretty much
+shaken up/partially damaged during the fight.  Also, at that range,
+once you're near enough, you can pick it up visually as it gets close;
+it's not a cloaking system, only a stealth system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+       The Agamemnon was not IN the Minbari war; as established in the
+show, it was one of the first of the Omega class destroyers constructed
+AFTER the war.  It's a *very* impressive battleship, as shown in its
+battle against the Streib.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+       The Lumati don't have organic tech; and a ship using this tech
+would be a combination of the two, using organic components for certain
+specific tasks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> For the record, what is the status of the security forces on B5?
+> Are they EA or are they rent-a-cops hired by Sinclair to manage
+> his security when he took over due to the problems on the other B
+> stations?
+
+       No, they're attached to the Earth Alliance and responsive to
+those commands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wouldn't doing so vastly exxagerate their importance - and be
+> just what they want? How could anything I or others on this forum
+> write be harmful to you or the show? Put it another way: is it
+> worth it? Is there any indication they have harmfully falsified
+> the posts of this forum?
+
+       No, I don't mind if my messages get reposted all over; I've
+long ago given permission for anything I write to get reposted
+anywhere.  It's just that others have been having their stuff reposted,
+without their knowing, and I find it vastly inappropriate to do so
+without the courtesy of even letting them know.  It's a real breach of
+trust.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       Thanks...and yes, a saga is just what I have in mind....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 09-Mar-96 00:41:21

+
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+
+       "Everybody involved in B5 is in it for the money."
+
+       Y'know, this with some of your other comments here -- using the
+old canard of dismissing anyone who disagrees with you as "worshipping"
+someone who creates or does a TV show -- amounts to some of the most
+cynical crap I've seen in a long time.
+
+       Here's a little revelation for you: Before doing B5, I was a
+writer producer on MURDER, SHE WROTE.  A top-ten (sometimes even top 5)
+rated megahit for CBS, with extremely high visibility.  I resigned M,SW
+to take on the reins of a syndicated series, which pays me HALF WHAT I
+EARNED WHEN I WAS ON M,SW. Not only is my producer's fee half what it
+was when I was at the network, the scripts fees are ALSO far
+less...about $15,000 as compared to $24,000 for a network script.  The
+residuals are lower in syndication, the publicity budget is less,
+people pay less attention to you in town.
+
+       Now...why don't you just sit down and do the math, and poke
+your head out of your butt long enough to consider that maybe, MAYBE,
+some people do something because they're motivated by something other
+than just being in it "for the money."  If I were "in it for the
+money," I would've stayed with a hit network series for major bucks. 
+If I were "in it for the money" I'd be pushing for more merchandising,
+I'd *NEVER* have set a ceiling of 5 years on the show, and I'd
+certainly never want to get away from TV and go back to writing novels
+when this is all over, since books pay a fraction of TV.
+
+       It's truly sad to see the world through your eyes, in which no
+one does anything for reasons other than THE BUCKS...no story wanting
+to be told, no art, no music, no committment, nothing other than sheer,
+naked greed.
+
+       Do not mistake cynicism for open-mindedness.  Yours is just
+another form of prejudice.  One can be just as close-minded by assuming
+the worst of others as by (to use your term) "worshipping."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+       No offense was taken; I was just trying to be clear; it was an
+important question, and I wanted to get across how strongly I felt on
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+       If they're from All-U or Creation, they're legit; if not, not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+       Problem isn't WB, it's the shrinking syndication marketplace
+that's making it more difficult for shows not affiliated with one of
+the webs or weblets to find a home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+As usual, Buzz Dixon's hold on reality is tenuous at best.  He is
+engaging in the same tactics that tore apart the Guild, in part because
+he was one of those directly involved in the smear campaigns involving
+the BBS in question.
+
+It's ironic...a BBS is found in which messages from WGA users have
+been slandered, their sexual, drug, personal and work habits not only
+openly ridiculed but *catalogued* in library archive
+files...constituting a de facto blacklist...and this is revealed...and
+somehow by virtue of showing how a small group of people were
+maintaining a system dedicated to slander, libel and character
+assassination itself characterizes an attack on them is mind boggling
+to say the least.
+
+Yes, a user gave me full authorization to access a particular BBS,
+where I found that members of the WGA Board of Directors, the head of
+the WGA BBS and others were involved in actions against their fellow
+members, outright libel, and in violation of Guild rules.  I reported
+this to the Guild, which for political reasons chose to do nothing,
+leaving me with no choice than to go public with this.  Because careers
+of other writers were being systematically undermined.  It was the
+right thing to do, and I'd do it again.
+
+If Buzz is saying that these messages were "selectively edited," then
+he is lying through his teeth, plain and simple.  The entire text, with
+every single comma in place, was made available to the WGA, and if
+anything had been taken out of context, all the sysops of this system
+had to do was to give the WGA access to the message base to prove it. 
+They never did this, and swiftly wiped out the libraries in question,
+purged the message base, and quickly changed the name of the BBS
+itself.  Becuase they'd been caught doing something utterly
+reprehensible and indefensible...except by those people directly
+involved, who're still trying to cover their butts, and smear others in
+order to protect themselves.  As is being done here.  Every so often,
+this thread reappears, the same BS stuff gets posted.  Ain't no big
+deal.
+
+I have not "deliberately lied about scores of other writers."  This is
+an outright lie itself.  If I had done so, I would have been sued out
+of business.
+
+The majority of the other points raised are the usual distortions,
+fabrications, petty lies and bigger ones, which are trotted out on a
+regular basis by a very small group of dysfunctional individuals bent
+on revenge because I exposed their little smear-club in front of the
+whole of the WGA. The story was reported upon in the trades, in the
+local press, even some national press.  And, in fact, it led to a
+"writer" who was in fact NOT a writer, but a convicted felon who'd
+snuck into the WGA on fake credits, being exposed and removed from the
+WGA.
+
+And yes, absolutely, several Guild members took the WGA BBS to court
+because it was engaging in illegal business practices.  It issued a
+User's Agreement which was against labor law, in that it restricted
+message topics and discussions on the WGA BBS, which as a union house
+cannot legally control or restrict information by union members on its
+property.  This prior restraint was tacitly illegal, and a simple
+attempt to restrict criticism of Guild officials.  So if you've got
+something illegal...you take it to court.  And the court was about to
+rule that it WAS illegal when the WGA abruptly dropped the UA and shut
+down the BBS in a move not unlike the current situation in Utah, where
+to avoid one student group existing, the state shut down ALL student
+groups.  The fee asked for in the suit was to cover the expense of 
+filing a suit against the Guild, which is more than $1, as Dixon well
+knows. But, again, the facts aren't at issue here.
+
+The tactics of the BBS I stumbled upon were to assemble a series of
+outright lies, innuendo, misinformation, disinformation, and bile into
+a collected form, which they could use at whim to discredit, harm, or
+otherwise smear their fellow WGA members.  I'm not at all surprised to
+see that those who were involved in that practice are still continuing
+it, and that they have dragged this out into the public again.  They
+got caught with their genitalia in the door, and they will never
+forgive the public humiliation that came when the facts came out.
+
+If I had done anything amiss, the Guild or other members had the right
+to file charges against me.  Nothing has ever happened.  Because they
+were in the wrong.  The Guild shut down its own BBS rather than allow
+members speak openly about Guild policies *as required by union law*,
+engaging in the kind of censorship and prior restraint which any writer
+must abhor.
+
+So now, all we have left is the sour grapes, bile and hatred from
+those who got exposed.  These are sad creatures, really.  I feel great
+pity for them, and do hope they seek counseling for this sometime soon.
+They know that what they say isn't true; they just hope that by putting
+it out there, that this will be enough to cause trouble, which is their
+fondest hope.  To smear.
+
+What actions I took in this were legally, morally and ethically
+correct, and it's all very old news.  Buzz should get a life. 
+Preferably one that does not involve the continued habit of his peers
+of smearing other WGA members, as he does here, with half-truths,
+untruths, distortions and nonsense.  This particular act has gotten
+*real* old.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+   Thanks.  As for the script book, a new and expanded edition will
+finally be coming out this Fall, totally rewritten and expanded (by
+100,000 words), with new chapters and info.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:28

+
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+
+       A stand-alone TV movie really can't be an arc in the same sense
+as a season of the show.  So I can't really consider it "a year."  A
+year of story time equals one year of real time.  That's the five year
+arc, which refers to the *series*, to that specific one-to-one ratio. 
+The movie I've always considered to be a preface, or introduction...The
+Hobbit, if you will, to The Lord of the Rings.  If it were going to a
+sixth year arc, then it should've covered a span of a year; but it only
+covered a few days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you going to have some sort of "Charter Membership" for those
+> of us who are standing in line on day one?
+
+       One of the things we'll be offering for the first 100 signups,
+when the details are announced, are full-color decals/stickers of the
+*alternate* B5 logo designed by Peter Ledger, never actually used in
+the show.  These are from my own personal collection of stuff we did
+during the development period. We're still looking into what else can
+be included for those first in line.
+
+       What we're also going to do is to offer the first two issues of
+the B5 newsletter free to those who signed onto the original
+newsletter, which was going to run for only 5 issues, and stopped at
+#3.  This way everyone gets their full money's worth.
+
+       (The other day I suggested that we start the newsletter with
+volume 5, on the theory that volumes 1-3 were destroyed or sabotaged at
+the printer's, and volume 4 vanished mysteriously....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:33

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many years did you have to worry about where the next meal
+> was comming from, and how many times did your *mind* tell you
+> that you were an idiot for trying to be a writer instead of
+> getting a "straight" job, while your heart wouldn't let you try
+> something else?
+
+       Quite true.  During the period where I was working to break in
+as a writer, I earned maybe $3,000 a year tops.  I used my little
+income to buy writing supplies instead of food...at one point, at 6'4"
+I was down to about 155 pounds.  Maybe a bit less.  I was getting by on
+beef jerky and soda because I couldn't afford real food.  (Water
+would've been cheaper than soda, but I needed the sugar rush to get my
+energy level up enough to write; with the result that by the time I
+crashed at night I had the shakes from lack of food and the sudden
+sugar drop.)
+
+       Everyone told me to forget it, to take a regular job, and let
+the writing wait.  But I knew that if I did this...I'd never get out. 
+It was all or nothing.
+
+       So yeah, I paid my dues.  And then some.  And if you pay your
+dues, and you work hard, and you keep to your vision, and you have
+something roughly resembling talent...sometimes things work out.  They
+did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Messages From Earrth> (01-Mar-96 20:35:22)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Messages From Earrth>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 20:35:22

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's either gutsy or *real* stupid on my part....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (10-Mar-96 15:08:36)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Enjoying Babylon 5

+
Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:36

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Incidently, was it in response to this submission that the
+> infamous "If we give the SF fans rayguns and spaceships the'll
+> show up" comment was made?
+
+       No, that comment came when I was still a reporter with the
+late, lamented LA Herald Examiner, when the V series was still in
+production, by one of the producers of the series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 - Widescreen (10-Mar-96 15:08:39)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Babylon 5 - Widescreen

+
Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:39

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Haven't heard what the disposition is yet on C4 re: widescreen
+or regular.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 T-shirts (10-Mar-96 15:08:42)
+
+
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+
B5 T-shirts

+
Date: 10-Mar-96 15:08:42

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Then they're *definitely* not legit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+From jms re:Email (10-Mar-96 19:24:19)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
From jms re:Email

+
Date: 10-Mar-96 19:24:19

+
       Every once in a while I have to put this out as an FYI, so
+those of you who know the routine, stand down...the rest of
+you...c'mere, Unca Straczynski wants a word with you.
+
+       From time to time, my personal email mailbox begins to fill up
+with questions that really should be asked in public forums, and which
+require lengthy, in-depth explanations.  (One such today asked me to
+explain, in detail, the military hierarchy of Earthforce, relative
+strengths of ships, on and on and on.  In itself, not a bad
+question...but asked in email, that means that I have to answer the
+same thing for the next guy who asks, on and on and on.)
+
+       I can't get into detailed, exhaustive discussions of the plot
+or story or characters *in private email*.  If your question is a good
+or a valid one, it should be posted in a public forum, so that others
+can benefit from the answer.  Otherwise either I end up writing pages
+of information over and over again, and nobody else gets the
+information, or I just decline to answer the question.
+
+       The *only* reason for using email is if it's a personal or a
+confidential question, or something you don't want to say on the nets
+for whatever reason.  Please help me to keep my head above water by not
+using email unless there's a valid reason for it.
+
+       If there *is* something you need to express in email, please
+use the genie address (straczynski@genie.geis.com) instead of the
+compuserve address, because the CIS emailbox can only hold 100 letters
+at a time; any more than that which arrive get bumped and sent back or
+deleted.  I lost an important piece of email regarding B5 business
+today because it got shoved out by a letter asking me to explain the
+differences in organization and accountability to oders between the
+religious and military castes of Minbari.
+
+       Bear in mind that with CTS, it *hurts* to type.  The more I
+type, the more it hurts.  (Please don't send me any more info on CTS,
+btw...I have all the available information on CTS, more than most
+doctors right now, and to type a thank you note for each one that comes
+in just makes the problem worse.)  If a question needs answering,
+better if I can answer it once, so everyone can see it, than 15 times
+for one person at a time.  Every keystroke you see from me comes with
+discomfort.
+
+       Please try and use the email address(es) only if there's a
+valid reason for it; otherwise, let others benefit from the sharpness
+and quality of your question by asking it publicly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+NEW B5 EPS! (10-Mar-96 22:44:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 10-Mar-96 22:44:30

+
       Good news.  We've finally convinced Warner Bros./PTEN to go
+with eight new episodes in a row, starting the first week of April. 
+The new schedule, which just went out via fax to the stations today, is
+as follows:
+
+       So here now is the revised schedule:
+
+       NEW EPISODES:
+       2/12    EXOGENESIS
+       2/19    MESSAGES FROM EARTH
+       2/26    POINT OF NO RETURN              (w/Majel Barrett)
+
+       RERUNS:
+       3/4     FALL OF NIGHT
+       3/11    THERE ALL THE HONOR LIES
+       3/18    AND NOW FOR A WORD
+       3/25    IN THE SHADOW OF Z'HA'DUM
+
+       NEW EPISODES:
+       4/1     SEVERED DREAMS
+       4/8     CEREMONIES OF LIGHT AND DARK
+       4/15    SIC TRANSIT VIR
+       4/22    A LATE DELIVERY FROM AVALON     (w/Michael York)
+       4/29    SHIP OF TEARS                   (w/Walter Koenig)
+       5/6     INTERLUDES AND EXAMINATIONS
+       5/13    WAR WITHOUT END: PART ONE       (w/Michael O'Hare)
+       5/20    WAR WITHOUT END: PART TWO
+
+       We're now in the process of working to get 2 new episodes in
+July, so there are only 3 left for October.  Even so, we're very
+excited to get a chance to show eight episodes in a row, building up to
+the end of the May sweeps with our big two-parter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcon/Columbus Dispatch (10-Mar-96 23:28:45)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Marcon/Columbus Dispatch

+
Date: 10-Mar-96 23:28:45

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this for real, or just Netrumor?
+
+       Yes, as of this point, I'll be at Marcon with Richard, that's
+correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Space Cases Thoughts? (10-Mar-96 23:28:49)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Space Cases Thoughts?

+
Date: 10-Mar-96 23:28:49

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any thoughts on your next step in this in-joke-a-thon?
+> Will you wait for Peter to do a year 4 script, or might something
+> crop up this year?
+
+       I haven't yet decided...though I have some ideas...and a few of
+them are *real* doozies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5:Starlog (10-Mar-96 23:36:11)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5:Starlog

+
Date: 10-Mar-96 23:36:11

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       We've always done everything in our power to assist our actors
+in taking outside work when they're not needed in the show.  We let
+Stephen Furst out of his contract enough to do "Misery Loves Company"
+for Fox, and rearranged our shooting schedule days to accommodate him;
+ditto when Peter Jurasik wanted time off to do "The Late Shift," and
+Andreas when he wanted to do a recent movie project.
+
+       The key is that we need *advance word* on these things; then we
+can adjust the scripts and schedules.  If someone comes to us at the
+last minute, we can't do much about that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club (11-Mar-96 14:33:00)
+
+
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+
Fan Club

+
Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:00

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you assembling a mailing list from people who write the PO
+> box now?
+
+       There's a mailing list being put together, yes, but what'll
+count is when the actual checks arrive, and we haven't released the
+figure yet.  BTW, we also plan to offer fan club members a 10% discount
+on all B5 merchandise produced by the club.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Point of No Return> (11-Mar-96 14:33:02)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<Point of No Return>

+
Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:02

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.
+
+       There's not a lower house in the EA, in the sense that each
+nation/state has its own various houses, and its own leader, but that
+leader is also part of the EA senate.  One per nation/state.  Each
+nation/state has its own constitution, but must not contravene the
+larger principles of the EA constitution.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<PoNR>> (01-Mar-96 20:35:25)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<<PoNR>>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 20:35:25

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Right?
+
+       Approximately, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Kim Strauss (11-Mar-96 14:33:03)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Kim Strauss

+
Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:03

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Dunno, but I'll find out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Space Cases Thoughts? (11-Mar-96 14:33:05)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Space Cases Thoughts?

+
Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oh, I have no intention of writing for the show...but the ball
+is in my corner now, and I have to return it somehow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Space Cases Thoughts? (11-Mar-96 14:33:07)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Space Cases Thoughts?

+
Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:07

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a trend you expect to see continue in the future?
+
+       We're ahead of our time, and forging a new way of doing TV, no
+question.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Grey council,more than.. (11-Mar-96 14:33:09)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Grey council,more than..

+
Date: 11-Mar-96 14:33:09

+
 Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone else think that this might be refering to the Shadows and
+> the Vorlons? Any comments ?
+
+       All I can say is...not bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Starfury Model? (12-Mar-96 00:36:18)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Starfury Model?

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:18

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, send me a copy.  I think these are the same guys we've
+already targeted, but it never hurts to be sure.
+
+       We shut them down as soon as we hear about them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (12-Mar-96 00:36:18)
+
+
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+
8 NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:18

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Has he been on before?
+
+       York's a major film actor who's starred in many films,
+including one of my personal favorites, "Cabaret."  Also in the
+"Logan's Run" movie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Two questions... (12-Mar-96 00:36:25)
+
+
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+
Two questions...

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:25

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The Playgirl with Biggs is out now here in the states; I don't
+know the issue date offhand, but it came out a couple/three weeks ago. 
+It's only a one-page or so item.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+From jms re:Email (12-Mar-96 00:36:26)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
From jms re:Email

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:26

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's true, but only until the moderated groups is up and
+running, which I hope is soon, then all internet folks will continue to
+have free access.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+FoN (12-Mar-96 00:36:32)
+
+
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+
FoN

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 00:36:32

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, the show (and individual episodes) takes on a
+different sense the more you watch it, and can look back.  It's fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 - Widescreen (12-Mar-96 14:47:29)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5 - Widescreen

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 14:47:29

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, the report is not correct.  Only the 2-hour pilot was
+filmed in normal aspect ratio; from day one, the series has been shot
+in widescreen format, cropped for current ratios.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Point of No Return> (01-Mar-96 23:16:27)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Point of No Return>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 23:16:27

+
 Joel Hilke <102354.1702@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what's your problem with that?
+
+       "B5 has gravity defying video cameras"
+
+       Only if you consider a plane or any other reasonable technology
+of flight to be gravity defying.
+
+       The video recorders are made of an extremely ultralight
+material, new alloys that in total weighs less than an ounce; it has a
+visible (and audible) air propulsion system, a high speed fan with a
+stabalizer/gyroscope that keeps it steady, and move it forward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Duck food? (12-Mar-96 14:47:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Duck food?

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 14:47:30

+
 Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did someone once say negotiating with TV executives was "like
+> being nibbled to death by ducks"? If so, who was it?
+> Have I got the context right?
+
+       I think it was Eric Severied of CBS News.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Two questions... (12-Mar-96 23:50:26)
+
+
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+
Two questions...

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:26

+
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+
+       No, no plans for feeders.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Fan Club (12-Mar-96 23:50:27)
+
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Fan Club

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:27

+
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+
+       There's a PO box, which I'll post when we're closer to doing
+this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+8 NEW B5 EPS! (12-Mar-96 23:50:30)
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8 NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:30

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> (Guess I'm dating mysel!) <BG> On another note, have you ever
+> kill off a main character in B5? If not, is that ever a
+> possibilty?
+
+       Yes, we killed Lt. Keffer, one of our starfury pilot recurring
+characters, and killed Talia's primary personality.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 PR (12-Mar-96 23:50:38)
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B5 PR

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:38

+
 Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you say, "Blessed are the cheesemakers"?
+
+       No, actually, it's neither annoying nor irritating to have all
+my posts archived.  For starters, it keeps me honest; I don't think
+I've ever been caught out in a major contradiction.  It shows the
+progression of events, and chronicles how a show is made for
+educational purposes.
+
+       (Since some are opting out of being reposted, I'm going to try
+to make my replies here more reflective, so they can be followed even
+without any supporting messages.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+8 NEW B5 EPS! (12-Mar-96 23:50:39)
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8 NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:39

+
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+
+       We knew last year that Kung Fu would only go 4 seasons, as that
+was what PTEN needed to make the production worthwhile.  88 episodes is
+a good average syndication package.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Security Forces again (12-Mar-96 23:50:41)
+
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+
Security Forces again

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:41

+
 Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the B5 security forces a civilian organization or a military
+> unit?
+
+       It's regulated as part of the military.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+8 NEW B5 EPS! (12-Mar-96 23:50:45)
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8 NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:45

+
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+
+       Thanks, we try to keep it interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Question re:First Ones (12-Mar-96 23:50:46)
+
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+
Question re:First Ones

+
Date: 12-Mar-96 23:50:46

+
 Andrew Diseker <70714.105@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, the question is: Just because the "First Ones," Vorlons, and
+> Shadows are old races, does age necessarily lead to maturity, or
+> does a race only last to become an old one by becoming mature?
+
+       A first one is a first one because...well, they're first.  But
+yes, the characters are growing.  Growth and change are at the center
+of the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Other Arc Series (13-Mar-96 12:28:06)
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Date: 13-Mar-96 12:28:06

+
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+
+       I think they have the potential to become very popular, if done
+right; if they're treated as novels, which means you're going to be
+tied to the quality of the person telling the story.  If it's just done
+as a gimmick, then arc-series won't hit it.  My sense is that since
+over the next few years series may end up having shorter runs due to
+the massive amount of available programming, why not build it to turn
+that to an advantage?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<PoNR - Redemption> (01-Mar-96 23:28:43)
+
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+
<PoNR - Redemption>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 23:28:43

+
 John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that your intent?
+
+       It's more universal than that.  Any time there's a big disease,
+we get Stupid.  The same exact thing happened with the Black Plague, as
+was mentioned in the episode...instead of blaming gays, the leaders of
+the time blamed jews and lepers.  The whole *point* is to drop politics
+and scapegoating whichEVER disease it happens to be next...and there is
+always a next...and focus on the problem: the disease.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The "whys" (13-Mar-96 12:28:08)
+
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+
The "whys"

+
Date: 13-Mar-96 12:28:08

+
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+
+       Well, you've just asked two questions disgused as one; why do
+*I* feel I need to tell this story, and why should this story *need* to
+be told.
+
+       I need to tell this story because it won't let go.  The only
+way to get rid of it is to tell it.  Because I think it may be
+important.  It needs to be told because I think it has some ideas we
+need to hear, and because it's time somebody did a saga like this to
+help reinterpret some myths at a time when we very badly need our
+myths.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+8 NEW B5 EPS! (13-Mar-96 12:28:09)
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8 NEW B5 EPS!

+
Date: 13-Mar-96 12:28:09

+
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+
+       It's too early to tell if the Kung Fu situation will have any
+impact on B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rumor: B-5 canceled? (13-Mar-96 22:57:24)
+
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Rumor: B-5 canceled?

+
Date: 13-Mar-96 22:57:24

+
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+
+       Yes, as I recall, last May we were told that year four would
+almost certainly be the last for Kung Fu.  Which is no secret; all
+parties pretty much knew that going into the renewal period.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Jumpgate dimensions

+
Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:30

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       They're pretty big...but because they're not anchored, they can
+(and do) move apart to accommodate larger ships when necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Other Arc Series (14-Mar-96 00:09:32)
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+
Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:32

+
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+
+       If B5 goes its full five years, I think I'd probably prefer to
+get out of TV and go back to writing novels and plays.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The "whys" (14-Mar-96 00:09:33)
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+
Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:33

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Of course, there are many who don't see such people in a Good
+Light; even Washington had people out smearing his name every day
+(which, among more altruistic reasons, was why he didn't want to stay
+in charge forever). We are never so greatly appreciated as when we're
+safely and conveniently deceased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+AT on JAG? (14-Mar-96 00:09:40)
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AT on JAG?

+
Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:40

+
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+
+       I have no idea what Andrea's going to be doing, or how much.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (14-Mar-96 00:09:41)
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Thought from jms

+
Date: 14-Mar-96 00:09:41

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Jumpgate dimensions (14-Mar-96 12:05:16)
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+
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+
Date: 14-Mar-96 12:05:16

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I mean, everyone knows how to build 'em, and pretty well how they
+> work, but *everybody* bough plans for the things and they haven't
+> changed in the whole history of the galaxy?
+
+       Yeah, generally, the tech is pretty standard, and universal, so
+you don't get a lot of variation with jump gates.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YEAR (sing) of shd war.. (14-Mar-96 12:12:03)
+
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YEAR (sing) of shd war..

+
Date: 14-Mar-96 12:12:03

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean it ends this season?
+> What happens then to years 4 and 5?
+
+       I think it's fair to say that the shadow war will drag on into
+at least a portion of the fourth season.
+
+       Bear in mind that in the first season, we didn't even know the
+shadows *existed* until it was almost over.  This is more than just the
+story of this particular war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Point of No Return>> (01-Mar-96 23:28:43)
+
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+
<<Point of No Return>>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 23:28:43

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ta'Lon's line about "All answers are replies, but not all replies
+> are answers" -- is that from something else (a paraphrase
+> perhaps)?
+
+       No, I don't think that's a quote from anywhere but the show, at
+least insofar as I know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 RPG? (15-Mar-96 00:15:24)
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B5 RPG?

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:24

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope, the time I spend here is on my own dime in terms of time
+invested.  Wouldn't have it any other way.
+
+       And yes, there will be a B5 rpg coming out later this year, and
+yes, as with all licensed B5 products, I'll be involved in the
+development process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Other Arc Series (15-Mar-96 00:15:26)
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+
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+
Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:26

+
 Theo Thourson <73214.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Full length or one act?
+
+       I tend to write both full-length and one-act plays, depending
+on the requirements of the topic.  I've had about a dozen produced (a
+mix of both lengths), and one published (and no, I won't tell you
+where, because I was only 18-19 when I wrote it, and that it's still in
+print leave me chagrined no end).
+
+       I actually tend to write just about anything; I enjoy working
+in, and have sold in, every form of prose: short stories, novels,
+anthologies, articles, investigative pieces, nonfiction books, even
+songs.  The one thing at which I'm *truly* awful however is poetry.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Just a Question (15-Mar-96 00:15:28)
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Just a Question

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:28

+
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+
+       Too simple.  Not it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YEAR (sing) of shd war.. (15-Mar-96 00:15:31)
+
+
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YEAR (sing) of shd war..

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:31

+
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+
+       The information about the Battle of the Line comes back into
+play twice this season, and the Minbari soul aspect is a major aspect
+we'll be getting into at one point this season as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YEAR (sing) of shd war.. (15-Mar-96 00:15:32)
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YEAR (sing) of shd war..

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 00:15:32

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean we will lose the Vorlons when the war is over?
+> Or, as a previous hypothesis of mine went, does that mean we will
+> _become_ the Vorlons when the war is over? By the way, Kosh is
+> Clarence isn't he?
+
+       You make those assumptions about the war dominating the show
+because that's the obvious way to go, and the way most shows *would*
+go.  We're many things, but obvious ain't one of them.  There's more to
+it.
+
+       But no, we don't become Vorlons at the end of the war.  They're
+who and what they are because they're millions of years older than we
+are; you don't just get that status in a box of Crackerjacks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+When is..... (15-Mar-96 00:25:47)
+
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When is.....

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 00:25:47

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Story ideas aren't safe just because this season is over (from
+a writing POV), because you can just as easily toss something out
+that's planned for year 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 RPG? (15-Mar-96 13:53:24)
+
+
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+
Date: 15-Mar-96 13:53:24

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is doing it?
+
+       Chameleon Games is doing the RPG.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 - Widescreen (15-Mar-96 13:53:25)
+
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Babylon 5 - Widescreen

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 13:53:25

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you able to say if we are ever likely to get B5 commercially
+> available in widescreen ?
+
+       Eventually, yes, B5 will be available in widescreen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 RPG? (15-Mar-96 13:53:27)
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B5 RPG?

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 13:53:27

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could this mean that by the time the games comes out you will
+> have finished showing us the aliens and are moveing along with
+> other things?
+
+       I think I can work out how much info to put in and still leave
+me with other areas to bring out new stuff, and there'll likely be
+supplements and subsequent reference works later that incorporate new
+stuff anyway.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+character initials (15-Mar-96 18:11:01)
+
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+
character initials

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 18:11:01

+
 Eric Rochkind <70671.302@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this intentional?
+> Will we later find out that both Sinclair and Sheridan have
+> middle names beginning with an "M"?
+
+       Sinclair's middle name is David, Sheridan's middle initial is
+J.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Rage's Thots: PoNR> (01-Mar-96 23:28:44)
+
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<Rage's Thots: PoNR>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 23:28:44

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering about that; so, unlike the usual pattern where
+> each show is a few weeks after the last, these three are
+> continuous over a span of a couple of days?
+
+       Not per se, no; you can have one picking up a frame later, but
+there are still time gaps in *story*.  Between 1 and 2 there's only a
+few hours; but between 2 and 3 there's several days or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (15-Mar-96 18:27:16)
+
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Thought from jms

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 18:27:16

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari warrior caste (15-Mar-96 18:27:17)
+
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Minbari warrior caste

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 18:27:17

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I have heard that you said that the warrior caste was not
+> "touched by shadows"? Is this true?
+
+       I don't think I've ever said that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Stealth (15-Mar-96 18:27:18)
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Minbari Stealth

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 18:27:18

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       As established in the show, they use gravitational and magnetic
+drives in many cases.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Jumpgate dimensions (15-Mar-96 18:27:19)
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+
Date: 15-Mar-96 18:27:19

+
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+
+       B5 is probably a bit too big, but it's a moot point, as the
+station can't move under power anyway.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Jumpgate dimensions (15-Mar-96 22:05:28)
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Jumpgate dimensions

+
Date: 15-Mar-96 22:05:28

+
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+
+       Yeah...funny, that....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Other Arc Series (17-Mar-96 02:04:18)
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:18

+
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+
+       I can't even consider the question at this point; I can only
+focus on telling the story now and finishing it for TV, rather than
+alternate routes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/196.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/196.html
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+
+Marcon/Columbus Dispatch (17-Mar-96 02:04:18)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:18

+
 Charles S. Tritt <70254.131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Katherine (sp?) be coming with you to Marcon?
+> What is she doing to stay busy these days?
+
+       Still working out my Marcon plans.  Kathryn spends a great deal
+of her time tracking all the stuff that needs to be done while I'm lost
+in the B5 writing/producing process.  I'm nudging her to get back into
+her own writing more, though having done it once she doesn't seem
+interested in another foray into writing an episode of B5.  But there
+are other options we're looking into....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Stealth (17-Mar-96 02:04:21)
+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:21

+
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+
+       If I answer that question, the Minbari warrior caste would have
+my head for revealing advanced alien tech....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (17-Mar-96 02:04:25)
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:25

+
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+
+       THE (EVEN MORE!) COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING will be
+available at most any decent-sized bookstore when it comes out this
+Fall, as well as via direct-order from Writer's Digest Books.  I
+haven't received a final price tag or ISBN number yet.  I opted to
+include the script for "The Coming of Shadows," since that seems to be
+the most favorite overall thus far, though I suspect that may change
+later this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (17-Mar-96 02:04:25)
+
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+
Enjoying Babylon 5

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:25

+
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+
+       Glad to see you over here, Shane.  Welcome to the other
+side....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<PoNR - Redemption> (01-Mar-96 00:27:17)
+
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+
Date: 01-Mar-96 00:27:17

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       The island of Drafa.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (01-Mar-96 23:32:43)
+
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 23:32:43

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Only: what permanent remedy is there?
+> Legal action?
+> And who has the time or the means to pursue that?
+> Physical violence?
+
+       There is no permanent solution; but people should be aware of
+this, in case they do have a problem with it, so that they can at least
+know it's going on...at most perhaps encourage those doing this to
+cease by virtue of complaining about it to them or to their service
+providers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Jumpgate dimensions (17-Mar-96 02:04:28)
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:28

+
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+
+       Yes, B4 has the potential for movement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 comics (17-Mar-96 02:04:30)
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:30

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is why hasn't any new B5 comics come out yet?
+> What is the delay and do you still have a contract with DC?
+
+       Basically, we hit a snag we're trying currently to work out;
+it's a jurisdictional question between B5/WB and DC.  Business stuff. 
+I haven't yet heard a final disposition on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon vs Shadows (17-Mar-96 02:04:31)
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:31

+
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+
+       Well, I'd imagine that we'd *have* to see a Vorlon/Shadow
+direct engagement sooner or later, of one size or another.
+
+       And then the fun *really* starts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 RPG? (17-Mar-96 02:04:34)
+
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B5 RPG?

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:34

+
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+
+       An RPG isn't a computer game, it's a role playing game, led by
+a game master.  So there's nothing to port over.  But we're currently
+getting bids on a possible B5 computer game.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ranger uniforms (17-Mar-96 02:04:36)
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:36

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do they decide which design to wear?
+> Is it based on rank or just personal preference?
+
+       Some elements are very traditional, and many opt for that
+aspect of Ranger clothing; others go for something more modern, or find
+a middle ground.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+_WHAT_ uniforms? (17-Mar-96 02:04:37)
+
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+
_WHAT_ uniforms?

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:37

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The basic Ranger uniform can't be *too* specific and uniform in
+every case, or it defeats the purpose of a more or less covert group. 
+But the silhouette is the cloak, the dark colors, a cowl, and the pin
+worn over the right breast.  (We'll have more on the pin and its
+meaning in the next batch of episodes.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Drazi Question... (17-Mar-96 02:04:40)
+
+
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+
Drazi Question...

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:40

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the Drazi Ambassador (Kim Strauss) have a name, and if so,
+> what is it? Ob JMSRequest: More Drazi, plis?
+
+       Yes, the Drazi ambassador has a name, and we've used it, but
+I'll be darned if I can remember it right now.  Just fell out of my
+head.  (It was used in the episode where we have the mediation by
+Delenn between the Drazi and Londo.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Just a Question (17-Mar-96 02:04:43)
+
+
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+
Just a Question

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:04:43

+
 Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> and was wondering which one it was?
+> and if this Caused a great deal of changes to accomadate the cast
+> on his Arm ?
+
+       The arm broken was his right arm and wrist; we worked it into
+the show, in a way which actually worked well with what went right
+before it. Jerry's doing fine now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Soundtrack update (17-Mar-96 02:25:37)
+
+
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+
B5 Soundtrack update

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:25:37

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Any word on *when* it'll be available this spring?
+
+       Chris mentioned that the next soundtrack *might* be available
+as early as the end of April or thereabouts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+HyperNauts ?? (17-Mar-96 02:25:38)
+
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+
HyperNauts ??

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:25:38

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, I'm not in any way a "proud papa" or *any* kind of papa
+when it comes to Hypernauts.  I had nothing more to do with it than
+recommending Christy Marx as story editor and to write the pilot, and
+offering a few suggestions when asked, which was rarely.  The H-team
+did this entirely on their own, though certainly some of the B5
+production models (meaning *how* we do things) were used to make the
+show containable for television.
+
+       A number of shows have scoped out how we've done things, and
+are learning from our experience.  This can only lead to more SF TV,
+which is in general a Good Thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/21.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/21.html
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+
+
+<Point of No Return> (01-Mar-96 23:32:44)
+
+
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+
<Point of No Return>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 23:32:44

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Agreed.  When I have to go see the dentist, the #1 item on my
+fear hit parade...I'm fragging *hysterical*, in the sense that I'm
+constantly cracking jokes.  It's the only way I can deal with it short
+of passing out.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Reruns (17-Mar-96 02:25:39)
+
+
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B5 Reruns

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 02:25:39

+
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+
+       Better for B5, though, in that TNT has a lot more coverage,
+more cable stations, and more PR than the SciFi channel.  More folks
+will be able to hear about it and see it on TNT.  (I should mention
+that TNT is *very* excited about the show, as much as we're exited to
+be going there after the first run is over, and they're planning to
+give it a regular time slot and a lot of publicity.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh's warning (17-Mar-96 19:07:10)
+
+
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+
Kosh's warning

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:10

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Kosh told Sheridan, "If you go to Z'Ha'Dum, you will die"
+> was that meant as a warning or a threat?
+
+       Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Numan Tapes (17-Mar-96 19:07:11)
+
+
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+
Numan Tapes

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:11

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you received the Gary Numan tapes I sent?
+
+       Yes, sorry, it's been busy, so I've only gotten a chance to
+listen to one tape so far.  I'll be honest and say that while I think
+it's good, it's not generally the kind of thing I tend to listen to for
+very long, in that what I've heard so far doesn't seem to have a lot of
+variation to it, it's very electronic, and after a while, for me, that
+becomes white noise.  It's the kind of music you tend not to notice
+after a while, and I like to notice my music.
+
+       Nonetheless, you went through a great deal of effort to send it
+along, and that is most definitely appreciated.  Musical tastes, like
+anything else, vary widely.  I can see why many folks would like Mr.
+Numan's work, and his background (in the clippings, for which I thank
+you again) is most interesting.  It's just not the kind of thing that
+winds my watch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Reruns (17-Mar-96 19:07:14)
+
+
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+
B5 Reruns

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:14

+
 David Nedrow <70004.1273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this give you any leverage with PTEN on renewals for
+> season's four and five?
+
+       No, the TNT situation doesn't really impact the PTEN decision
+overall, though certainly I expect they'd like to get at least 88
+episodes out of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Contacting Vorlons (17-Mar-96 19:07:16)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:16

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Lyta had so much trouble contacting the Vorlon homeworld,
+> how was G'Kar able to do it in "The Gathering"?
+
+       Contacting the Vorlon government isn't the hard part; getting
+into and out of their space is what's hard.  We showed in the pilot
+that B5 and Earth were in *contact* with the Vorlons; Lyta was trying
+to get inside their turf, and they aren't exactly neighborly in that
+respect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. Morden (17-Mar-96 19:07:19)
+
+
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+
Mr. Morden

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:19

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Morden as the same person who asked him "What do you want?"
+> " in "Signs and Portents"?
+
+       G'Kar probably has not yet put that together; remember, he only
+met Morden once, for about 4 minutes, a couple of years previous to
+this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fan Club (17-Mar-96 19:07:23)
+
+
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+
Fan Club

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:23

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The fan club was authorized a few weeks back, and we're in the
+process now of finalizing all pertinent (and impertinent) elements;
+price (we're trying to keep it under $15 to allow maximum
+accessibility), what's going into the first membership kit, setting up
+an account, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Ensemble Look (17-Mar-96 19:07:25)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:25

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, I tend to agree.  Lately we've spent a lot of time on the
+Narns and the Centauri from a cultural point of view, so the latter
+part of this season swings a bit back in the direction of the Minbari,
+allowing us to learn a little more about them, their approach to war,
+relationships, their political structure and so on.
+
+       And of course, the middle batch we've been in lately has
+focused a lot on Earth, so we can deal with the whole Nightwatch/Clark
+scenario before moving back into broader questions.
+
+       I tend to write toward (for lack of a better term) musical
+structure; one theme in the piece rises for a while, dominates, then
+slowly diminishes for a bit while another theme comes forward...then
+you have several rising all at once...interludes and
+crescendos...broken here and there by the single clear note, the
+non-arc story, which sustains us between the major pieces and greater
+musical themes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Tallman Episodes> (17-Mar-96 19:07:28)
+
+
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+
<Tallman Episodes>

+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:28

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> two more episodes this year isn't *too* bad, right?
+
+       Two more Lyta episodes is...a good start.  We'll see if we can
+boost that a bit as we go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Stealth (17-Mar-96 19:07:31)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 19:07:31

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I studied with Vorlons....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Point of No Return>> (02-Mar-96 18:56:32)
+
+
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+
<<Point of No Return>>

+
Date: 02-Mar-96 18:56:32

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       If a word comes out of a character's mouth, it's usually mine. 
+The bit about greatness was one of them; had a number of different
+subtexts going on behind it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Triluminary device (17-Mar-96 22:52:06)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 22:52:06

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If a Minbari can use the triluminary device to change as Delen
+> did, can a human do the same?
+
+       I suppose it's possible to use the triluminary and chrysalis
+device that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcon/Columbus Dispatch (17-Mar-96 22:52:07)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 22:52:07

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard if any B5 people will be there?
+> BTW, just saw a B5 shirt at a local hobby shop, what name should
+> be on the lable to see that it was an authorised printing?
+
+       Yeah, in addition to me, Richard Biggs will be there, and one
+other; unfortunately I've just forgotten who....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (17-Mar-96 22:52:08)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Mar-96 22:52:08

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Especially since the script as it's going to be published in
+the book has a lot of material omitted from the episode for time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Reruns (18-Mar-96 03:00:25)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Mar-96 03:00:25

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ANy chance TNT might move up the start of their airings?
+
+       The broadcast stations which are a part of PTEN feel that if it
+aired now on TNT as well it'd be competition that would dilute their
+ratings.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YEAR (sing) of shd war.. (18-Mar-96 03:00:28)
+
+
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+
YEAR (sing) of shd war..

+
Date: 18-Mar-96 03:00:28

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Near the mark?
+> love the 'V' script in the library, will we be seeing any more?
+
+       Close, but there's a lot more involved in the third age than B5
+or the shadows per se.
+
+       Yes, there's a full V script -- 4 hours worth -- that I wrote
+for WB, but it'll never get made; too expensive for syndication. 
+(Heck, it was also too expensive for *network*...which is one reason
+why we had to fight so hard to get B5 on the air.  V the series nearly
+torpedoed WB television all by itself due to bugetary over-runs.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+_WHAT_ uniforms? (18-Mar-96 14:02:20)
+
+
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+
_WHAT_ uniforms?

+
Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:20

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Not so much a uniform as a look, really....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (18-Mar-96 14:02:22)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:22

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Gee, there was stuff omitted?
+> Have you ever considered asking Warner to let you do a 2 hour
+> syndicated series?
+
+       We end up cutting stuff out of every episode to some extent.  I
+believe in writing long so you can take out any bits that don't work as
+well, so only the strong stuff remains, and keep the pacing fast. 
+Usually it's just line cutting within a scene, but on a few occasions
+we've snipped out an entire short scene when necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Stealth (18-Mar-96 14:02:23)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:23

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what did you teach them?
+
+       Never ask that question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Other Arc Series (18-Mar-96 14:02:25)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:25

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> More seriously, if you were to suddenly discover that Warner
+> would only pony up for 88 eps (like they did for Kung Fu), but
+> *would* do that to get a good syndication position, could you
+> finish out the story with 21 more and a movie?
+
+       Yes, if WB said there's no 5th season, period, end of
+discussion, the market has gotten too glutted, it won't sustain
+it...yes, the story could be collapsed into year four.  It would just
+mean omitting some of the personal non-arc episodes, and some segues. 
+There are basically three major movements or themes that occupy the
+last two years; best is to let them play out at a reasonable pace over
+two years, but it could be collapsed into one, if that were to ever
+become necessary.
+
+       But obviously that would not be my first choice.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Techno-monks (18-Mar-96 14:02:26)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:26

+
 Greg Munsill <76370.142@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had you caught this before?
+
+       I've heard this on and off since doing the episode...once
+again, the line between fact and fiction blurs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+San Diego ComiCon? (02-Mar-96 18:56:33)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 02-Mar-96 18:56:33

+
 Richard Cunningham <71213.3504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Okay..since I got my little sign-up guide for SDCC the other day,
+> do you know if you'll be doing a presentation, and if so, which
+> day?
+
+       Nothing's been firmed up, they haven't spoken to me directly
+yet, but invariably I do a presentation (usually they're one of the
+biggest events of the con), so I'd *imagine* nothing's changed this
+year, but at this point I don't have any real info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh's name (18-Mar-96 14:02:31)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:31

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kosh Naranek, is this Kosh's real name or does he just use it to
+> be identified by the people on Babylon 5?
+
+       His name is less a *name* and more of a description.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YEAR (sing) of shd war.. (18-Mar-96 14:02:33)
+
+
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+
Date: 18-Mar-96 14:02:33

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       V had a big cast, and a lot of location shooting, outdoor EFX,
+lots of stunts...it adds up fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh's name (19-Mar-96 00:17:19)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:19

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       My guess would be that the language in which Kosh's description
+is made would be Vorlon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Homeworlds (19-Mar-96 00:17:24)
+
+
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Homeworlds

+
Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:24

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why doesn't the Narn homeworld and Vorlon homeworld have names?
+
+       The Narn homeworld is called Narn, the Vorlon homeworld's
+nearest English equivilent is Vorlon.   The Earther homeworld is Earth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Great Space Sweepstakes (19-Mar-96 00:17:26)
+
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Great Space Sweepstakes

+
Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:26

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the fact that WB is giving away a chance to be an extra on
+> B5 which would presumable have to happen in season 4, bode well
+> for renewal?
+
+       One would think the contest would bode well...but there are
+always ways out and consolation prizes.  It guarantees nothing but we
+take some small reassurance in it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Who let the Feeders out? (19-Mar-96 00:17:27)
+
+
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+
Who let the Feeders out?

+
Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:27

+
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+
+       Stupid bureaucrats who couldn't afford to maintain a quarantine
+enforcement team in the sector.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Reruns (19-Mar-96 00:17:29)
+
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+
Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:29

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That one was The Parliament of Dreams.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:B5 on WB Network? (19-Mar-96 00:17:32)
+
+
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+
JMS:B5 on WB Network?

+
Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:32

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, the WB network is definitely *not* taking B5; the divisions
+at WB are very separate from one another, and very competitive.  The WB
+network wouldn't take a PTEN show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcon/Columbus Dispatch (19-Mar-96 00:17:33)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-Mar-96 00:17:33

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I believe Pat Tallman will also be at Marcon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Just a Question (19-Mar-96 16:19:55)
+
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+
Just a Question

+
Date: 19-Mar-96 16:19:55

+
 Michael E. MacDonal <102371.1166@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any that you think out do the others all ready aired ?
+> And How Much Did Foxworthy Backing out Realy change "Severed
+> Dreams" or for that matter "Point of no Return" ? or Did you Go
+> with a Replacement for him ? And BTW Being an old V fan ...I read
+> a Script posted here that you ? Is there any chance we might Get
+> to see him on B5 ?
+
+       The Foxworth bail resulted in a change of about three lines,
+that's about it.  You'll know which lines when you hear them.
+
+       As for the next eight...one thing I'm trying to be more careful
+about now is curbing my excitement about episodes.  If I say "X is the
+best thing since sliced bread," there's always going to be folks who
+then sit down to NOT be impressed.  Whereas if you say little, just
+hide in the underbrush and let the episode whack 'em upsided the head,
+you often get a better reaction.
+
+       So I'll try to answer but in vaguer terms than usual.
+
+       Of the next eight, I'd put 3 of them in the category of the
+best we've ever done, equal to or topping "The Coming of Shadows." 
+Those would be "Severed Dreams," and "War Without End," parts 1 and 2.
+
+       You've got two personal stories in the batch, which are more
+intimate and give us a break from the big changes in the current
+three-part sequence. "Sic Transit Vir" and "A Late Delivery From
+Avalon," that I enjoy immensely for very different reasons.  I'm very
+pleased with them.
+
+       Then you start heating up the arc again, leading toward the
+"War" two parter, with "Ship of Tears" (which I think fans will like a
+LOT), and "Interludes and Examinations," another very strong episode
+with some real surprises.
+
+       Personally, from a storytelling and character point of view, I
+think that the "War" two parter represents possibly the very best work
+we've ever done on the show, with "Severed Dreams" right behind it.
+
+       (After the major events in "War," you get two more episodes
+that act as an emotional buffer, a little quieter..."Walkabout" and
+"Grey 17 Is Missing," and of the two, I think "Walkabout" is pretty
+good; it has some moments that are maybe a bit too soft, which I'm
+going to try and strengthen in editing this week.  The last three of
+this season, "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place," "Shadow
+Dancing," and the last episode, are somewhat similar in construction to
+the mini-arc of "Messages," "Point" and "Severed," in that they build
+thematically and contextually toward a single resolution.  There's 
+a kind of nifty little visual element I use to tie them all together.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 3 and Na'Toth (02-Mar-96 19:09:59)
+
+
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+
Season 3 and Na'Toth

+
Date: 02-Mar-96 19:09:59

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A question from my friend Vince: "Now that you've written all of
+> the season 3 scripts, can you tell us how things might have been
+> different had Na'Toth stayed in the storyline?"
+
+       The story arc would've stayed the same; but the character
+would've had some good moments, and helped move it along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+YEAR (sing) of shd war.. (19-Mar-96 16:19:58)
+
+
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+
YEAR (sing) of shd war..

+
Date: 19-Mar-96 16:19:58

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you happen to know whether out of control budgets is what sank
+> "Live Shot?"
+
+       I don't really know enough about that show to comment; the only
+reason I know as much about the V series as I do is because, when they
+brought me in to write the new miniseries, I was briefed on the
+situation they'd had.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcon/Columbus Dispatch (19-Mar-96 21:28:43)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-Mar-96 21:28:43

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I'm not sure she knows quite which medium she prefers; she's in
+the process now of making that decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+We Have Always Been Here (20-Mar-96 00:03:52)
+
+
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+
We Have Always Been Here

+
Date: 20-Mar-96 00:03:52

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thank your friend for the great words, and the thoughts behind
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+First One's Age (20-Mar-96 22:26:50)
+
+
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+
First One's Age

+
Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:50

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did any of the races of the First Ones predate the rise of life
+> on Earth? Were there any space traveling races in our galaxy as
+> long ago as 1 billion years?
+
+       Well, to some degree you're limited by the amount of time it
+takes to evolve life per se, then into intelligent life, then into
+spacefaring life. You need time after the Big Bang for planets to be
+formed, cool, develop environments capable of supporting life...then
+the long haul begins.
+
+       So yes, on the one hand, you've got races that are millions of
+years older than humans, who were prowling around while we were still
+furred, fanged, and slamming bones together.  But they're not as old as
+the universe, because they can't be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 - Widescreen (20-Mar-96 22:26:50)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5 - Widescreen

+
Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:50

+
 Matt Allen <100530.232@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the computer Fx also in widescreen?
+> But as far as I know the PAR can't put down widescreen stuff
+> unless you screw around with the output resolution?
+
+       We'd pretty much have to re-render the CGI for important shots,
+while more mundane stuff where there's nothing in the upper and lower
+parts of the frame could be safely cropped and lose nothing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:B5 on WB Network? (20-Mar-96 22:26:51)
+
+
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+
JMS:B5 on WB Network?

+
Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:51

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> With PTEN going away, doesn't that mean that B5 is no longer a
+> PTEN show? Or is it just that WB won't take a show that didn't
+> originate on the WB?
+
+       We're now pretty much the province of WB syndication, a very
+different arm than WBN, so the dichotomy persists.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Death of Turhan Again (20-Mar-96 22:26:52)
+
+
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+
Death of Turhan Again

+
Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:52

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When can we expect to know about, or be able to ask about,
+> whether the death of Turhan was an assassination, and if so by
+> whom? Might a different (non-Talia) character that we have seen,
+> also been under the influence of an implanted personality,
+> partially controlling their actions in a certain episode? If I
+> specified who I was talking about and why (in-episode pointers)
+> in the last question, would I have crossed into the verboten
+> realms of plot ideas?
+
+       No, Turhan's death was exactly as stated, natural causes.  If
+it were anything else, we'd have at least nodded in that direction at
+some point. It's not fair to do so otherwise.  Ditto re: any other
+implanted person; there isn't one.  At least not that *I* know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Reruns (20-Mar-96 22:26:54)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:54

+
 David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of a video release soon???
+
+       We hope to do videos in the fullness of time.  Don't worry;
+when it happens, you won't have to ask, the info will be everywhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon space (20-Mar-96 22:26:58)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20-Mar-96 22:26:58

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that Sheridan is allied with Kosh, does he plan to ask Kosh
+> what happened to the Earth ships that went into Vorlon space? Or
+> does he believe what the Vorlons said about the ships having
+> accidents?
+
+       He would probably ask that of Kosh, if there were time, and
+circumstance to think of it.  It's hard to bring that sort of thing up
+unless it ties into an episode; otherwise it's just a forced sort of
+thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+PoNR-Hague (21-Mar-96 14:53:45)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Mar-96 14:53:45

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, there's nothing unlawful about it...and if you force the
+issue, you've got an unhappy actor, which serves no purpose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (02-Mar-96 19:10:00)
+
+
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:00

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I probably know the answer to this already, but here goes: Have
+> you ever provided fans or viewers with any such documentation?
+
+       "Have you ever provided fans or viewers with any such
+documentation?" I think I need clarification here...documentation of
+what?
+
+       Also, if you did get a copy of the original email "digest" of
+messages from here, was there an address on the point of origin, i.e.,
+who was sending them around initially?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 vs. DS9 filk story? (21-Mar-96 14:53:46)
+
+
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+
B5 vs. DS9 filk story?

+
Date: 21-Mar-96 14:53:46

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Little babies like to play little baby games...screw 'em.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mugs 'n Stuff (21-Mar-96 14:53:47)
+
+
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+
Mugs 'n Stuff

+
Date: 21-Mar-96 14:53:47

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Please, the next time you are talking with the coffee mug people,
+> would you ask them to design a B5 mug that will go into the nuke
+> for reheating??
+
+       A good thought, I'll keep that in mind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+G'Lan/G'Len??? (21-Mar-96 14:53:49)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Mar-96 14:53:49

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> was that G'Lan?
+> was that *also* G'Lan?
+> Or does there exist a "G'Len" and I'm just not hearing right?
+
+       G'Lan was one of a number of higher Narn beings who appeared to
+support G'Quan.  There is no G'Len, that's a misspelling of G'Lan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 vs. DS9 filk story? (21-Mar-96 23:07:57)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Mar-96 23:07:57

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Except I don't think it's actually a story idea, but rather
+qualifies as parody (of a sort).  Also, I've never said I'd go after
+anybody who posts story ideas, because I can't do that; I can only
+leave any forum where they come up.  I can't interfere with that. 
+Actual *published* fiction that infringes is another matter entirely,
+of course.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<The Touch of Your...> (21-Mar-96 23:08:00)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21-Mar-96 23:08:00

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       It's either their ignorance or they don't care...but you're
+correct, in the B5 universe you can't have two races interbreeding just
+like that. (In fact, I seem to recall pointing this out in my notes on
+the manuscript; odd that it hasn't been attended to, from what you're
+saying.  I can only assume that it slipped between the cracks.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+G'Lan/G'Len??? (21-Mar-96 23:08:01)
+
+
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G'Lan/G'Len???

+
Date: 21-Mar-96 23:08:01

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (aside) *ONE* of?
+> How does that sound?
+> At one time, wasn't the G'Quon/G'Lan situation outline to us
+> netted folks as similar to what happened with Islam after the
+> Prophet got "translated"? Rage Ranger of Washingdome "Book of
+> G'kar?
+
+       Oh, the Vorlons can be *very* invasive, when they want to be,
+if it suits their purposes.  There's no Vorlon prime directive...it's
+manipulation, whether small or large.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+First One's Age (21-Mar-96 23:08:04)
+
+
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+
Date: 21-Mar-96 23:08:04

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I wouldn't call that entity an energy being, though it was
+non-tangible in nature, at least on this plane.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<The Touch of Your...> (22-Mar-96 12:08:55)
+
+
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<The Touch of Your...>

+
Date: 22-Mar-96 12:08:55

+
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+
+       Gerald, the reality is that as humans, we're all flawed. 
+Errors and inconsistencies in something as big as a novel, written by
+someone who doesn't work on the show, isn't involved in it day to day,
+are gong to slip through. That is inevitable.  I try to keep track of
+it all, read as much as I can, to keep it in line, but the *only* way
+to keep it 100% canon is to invest all the time I currently spend doing
+that on the series, which is a 24 hour a day job.
+
+       A writer comes in, has a notion for a book, or gets one
+assigned to him; the writer then goes away and around that notion
+writes 100,000 words or so.  I don't see it again until the finished
+manuscript comes in, almost always at the last minute.  The *only* way
+to make sure that every word of that is canon is to work hand in glove
+with the writer through every page. The reason the B5 series is as
+consistent as it is, is because that's what I do, day in and day out.
+
+       So the broad strokes are always going to be pretty much
+consistent with the series; of the next batch, we'll probably do some
+backstory in the B5 universe taken from my notes.  But some of the
+details will always be off a bit, because you're turning the work over
+to the hands of others.  There is simply no other way to do it short of
+my adding Editor and Publisher to my list of hats.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Conventions (22-Mar-96 12:18:32)
+
+
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+
Conventions

+
Date: 22-Mar-96 12:18:32

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Just to add some info...Patricia Tallman, Stephen Furst and I
+will be at Syndi-Con the weekend of April 12th; also, Pat, Richard
+Biggs and I will almost certainly be at Marcon.  I'll also be at LACon,
+the Worldcon in Anaheim in August.  (Oh, and Syndi-Con is in San
+Francisco.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thought from jms (22-Mar-96 18:19:03)
+
+
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Thought from jms

+
Date: 22-Mar-96 18:19:03

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> which one will pass it?
+
+       My guess is that "War Without End" may well pass by "CoS" as
+all time favorite...until the next one comes along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Names... (02-Mar-96 19:10:03)
+
+
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+
Names...

+
Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:03

+
 Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So has that last name caused you problems, or has it been an
+> advantage in that people recognise it?
+
+       The name's probably been a slight disadvantage from time to
+time, but not significantly so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<The Touch of Your...> (22-Mar-96 18:19:04)
+
+
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<The Touch of Your...>

+
Date: 22-Mar-96 18:19:04

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I think you'll like all of Harlan's work, though for a
+newcomer to his work I'd probably recommend Deathbird Stories or
+Shatterday for the more recent material.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+G'Quon and the Vorlons (23-Mar-96 00:41:09)
+
+
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+
G'Quon and the Vorlons

+
Date: 23-Mar-96 00:41:09

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since a Vorlon was G'Lan and G'Lan supported G'Quon, did G'Quon
+> know about the Vorlons?
+
+       Interesting question, isn't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Yr. 4 renewal (23-Mar-96 18:00:00)
+
+
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+
Yr. 4 renewal

+
Date: 23-Mar-96 18:00:00

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, we'll likely hear late April/early May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Other Arc Series (23-Mar-96 18:00:02)
+
+
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+
Other Arc Series

+
Date: 23-Mar-96 18:00:02

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are your chances of finding out in time?
+
+       No way of telling...we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Infections (24-Mar-96 15:24:48)
+
+
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+
Infections

+
Date: 24-Mar-96 15:24:48

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were they part of the last conflict with the shadows?
+
+       It was the fear of the shadows, among others, that compelled
+them to start building up their war technology...with unfortunate
+results.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B^2 & Infection (24-Mar-96 15:24:49)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Mar-96 15:24:49

+
 Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this person *something* to do with the onslaught of Babylon 5
+> ? (When it goes BOOM!) And could it be that this person, *if* he
+> were to be attacking B5, using some sort of watered down
+> OrganicWeapon technology which EarthForce Defence/Research
+> devision got thier hands on at the end of "Infection" ?
+
+       No, if I remember correctly, the person you're seeing works
+station defense, laying down a fire line against incoming personnel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+VQT endorses B5! (24-Mar-96 15:24:51)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Mar-96 15:24:51

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'll go check it out.  It's GO ETV, I assume?  Also, I note
+that Lori identifies herself as BABYLON 5...not sure what this is
+about.  But I'll inquire.  This is great if true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon legends (24-Mar-96 22:44:22)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Mar-96 22:44:22

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that people have seen a Vorlon, Kosh, the legend that people
+> turning to stone when they see a Vorlon is wrong right?
+
+       Yes.  Not every legend is true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+What happens if... (24-Mar-96 22:44:23)
+
+
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+
What happens if...

+
Date: 24-Mar-96 22:44:23

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Joe is fine, and at this juncture, I can't even contemplate the
+question of not being able to finish the story, one way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CD-ROM (24-Mar-96 22:52:48)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Mar-96 22:52:48

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       If by "personnel avi's seem messed up," you mean the sound that
+comes with it, that chirrruping, that's the sound of the identicard
+scanner in the original pilot, which the rom folks used here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<PoNR> (02-Mar-96 19:10:06)
+
+
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+
<PoNR>

+
Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:06

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever read "Goedel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
+> by Douglas Hofstadter?
+
+       Have read some of Goedel's work, but not enough to be even
+remotely conversant about it.
+
+       Yes, a lot of stuff is coming together in the story now.  We've
+set up a lot over the last 2 years, now is the time to begin paying it
+all off, resolving threads left hanging, and moving the show to a
+different level. So a lot of stuff has to hit the fan here over the
+balance of this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unresolved plot lines (24-Mar-96 22:52:49)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Mar-96 22:52:49

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       We'll hear more on Na'Toth this season.
+
+       Laurel was, as stated in the series, transferred to the Rim.
+
+       Dr. Kyle, as stated in the series, was transferred back to
+Earth.
+
+       Talia was sent back to the Psi Corps as stated in the series.
+
+       Bureau 13 changed it's name and was absorbed into the whole Psi
+Corps covert operation.  Secret organizations are constantly changing
+their names. Homeguard has been absorbed into Nightwatch.
+
+       The fate of B4 will be shown this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Violating Your Privacy (25-Mar-96 01:36:15)
+
+
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 25-Mar-96 01:36:15

+
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+
+       As I understand it, CIS claims compilation copyright to all
+messages as a whole, but you retain the rights to your own specific
+messages, so you can repost your own stuff anywhere you like, and if
+someone wants to repost yours, all they have to do is get your
+permission, as folks here are now doing, and it's all kosher.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Unresolved plot lines (25-Mar-96 01:36:17)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Mar-96 01:36:17

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Homeguard isn't the totality of Nightwatch, but NW has absorbed
+it into its overall structure, for the most part.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Popularity & Msg Traffic (25-Mar-96 01:48:23)
+
+
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+
Popularity & Msg Traffic

+
Date: 25-Mar-96 01:48:23

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, as your stats noted, it's been pointed out to me that in
+general, B5 messages outnumber the ST messages here on CIS by a factor
+of 5-to-1 on most days, and in some cases, as you noted, almost 10-to-1
+(the 45 for DS9 and the 451 for B5 in the same period).
+
+       I think it's in part because, once the episode is over, that's
+when the fun *really* starts as folks get into the debates and
+discussions of what the episode dealt with, the quesions -- plot, moral
+and ethical -- raised in the episode, the thematic and historical
+elements, and so on.  The show doesn't operate in a vacuum (though the
+B5 station obviously does), and it's the threads that reach into other
+areas that provoke discussion.
+
+       Which is a Very Good Thing from where I sit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Tribute (25-Mar-96 01:48:24)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Mar-96 01:48:24

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Send that one to Peter David.  I dare you.  I double dare you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Yr. 4 renewal (25-Mar-96 20:19:45)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Mar-96 20:19:45

+
 Jim De Vico <72662.2765@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any contingency plans in the event that B5 is not
+> picked up at any point along the story arc?
+
+       I always have to operate on the assumption it will be picked
+up, or it'll falter; this show is an act of sheer will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lost Threads? (25-Mar-96 20:19:46)
+
+
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+
Lost Threads?

+
Date: 25-Mar-96 20:19:46

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a fair assessment?
+> Have we lost a few percent of what you originally wanted the
+> story to be because of this? On a larger scale, how many threads
+> are there that you don't know the resolution to yet? (Hey, nothing
+> is set in TV till it is aired.) How many mysteries have you not
+> decided the answer to yet, since you're still willing to use
+> something cooler that you think up later? How much may we lose
+> because you can't fit it into episodes?
+
+       Nothing dropped behind is ever essential; if it's essential, it
+stays in, and gets paid off.  A story thread that hits a
+reality-speedbump just gets modified, flows into another thread, just
+like life.  You just keep on the road until you get to the end.  It's
+just what the characters do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Andrea Thompson (26-Mar-96 00:10:54)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-Mar-96 00:10:54

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Andrea Thompson told you she was leaving the show, did you
+> consider replacing her with another actress?
+
+       Fundamentally, for reasons that become clearer later this
+season, I needed *a* telepath on the station, in one of several
+possible positions; it's what we call in TV writing "a moveable piece."
+Didn't affect things in any significant way, except to allow the return
+of Lyta, which opens up a LOT of great story areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
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+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do you think writing B5 is like writing a novel, except that
+> you have to turn it in one chapter at a time?
+
+       Yeah, it is a lot like a novel, but as you say, once a chapter
+is done, you can't go back again...so it's like writing a novel in
+steel instead of paper; you can't erase what's done.  So anything you
+modify has to be forward-directed, rather than backtracking.  It's
+quite an elegant dance, really.  And a definite challenge, just to do
+it, let alone incorporating the real-world speed bumps (an actor breaks
+a limb, isn't available for some reason at an important point,
+whatever).  So you have to keep the general outline in your head at all
+times, and be able to shift and slide but keep on going where you're
+going.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       It's two separate mechanisms; no one has been able to open a
+jump point in a jump point because of the hideous amount of energy
+needed by the ship in question.  They used the White Star to open a
+jump point within a standing *jump gate* that was already there, and
+had a secondary source of power.  The competing energies were
+impossible to control, and blew the whole thing.
+
+       And yes, I'm *that* jms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       We're working on the video stuff now.  Thanks for the support.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Edward Sykes <101632.3501@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have another question :- At the start of season 2 when Sinclair
+> was reassigned, what happened to Catherine, who he got engaged to
+> at the end of season 1?
+
+       They had to break it off...he had responsibilities that
+excluded that kind of relationship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 26-Mar-96 12:19:15

+
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+
+       What those who use ratings to bash B5 tend to forget is the
+history of ST...that the original ST limped along in the ratings
+basement for its three seasons, that fans of Lost in Space were
+constantly bashing it as an attempt to cash in on that show (some
+reviewers even noted this, in TV Guide and elsewhere), and that finally
+it got dropped as a ratings failure.
+
+       One would think that knowledge might encourage tolerance....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       One correction: I had nothing to do with writing the Hypernauts
+pilot, that was Christy Marx, I have no creative involvement with the
+show whatsoever.  It's their creation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 26-Mar-96 16:52:53

+
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+
+       Actually, a CDrom screen saver is *already out* from Sound
+Sources; info can be had in one of the B5 libraries.  Beyond that, a B5
+encyclopedia is still in the works for CDrom, though not finalized yet.
+Also, Christopher Franke, our composer, will be doing a second B5
+soundtrack and a CDrom to go with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26-Mar-96 16:53:00

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What (if any) have you seen or used to form your model for the
+> Epic Hero, as seen in Sheridan, and the rest of the good guys??? 
+> I read an artical in "SciFi Universe" that Bruce Boxleitner
+> talked about the Arthurian Legends, so do you think it would be
+> closer to the mark to look at the Arthurian Tales as opposed to
+> Greek?
+
+       Well, if you're going to look at heroic epic, sure, the
+Arthurian story is a classic...but the earliest and best of these
+remain the Illiad and the Odyssey.  Homer was definitely hitting all
+cylinders with that.
+
+       If there's an aspect that informed B5's development, it's the
+arc of that heroic epic, which if you look at it dispassionately, is as
+much about the people *around* the hero as the hero himself.  And all
+too often, the hero achieves the goal, but falls or falters or is
+changed by the end of it. Much of what passes for contemporary "heroic
+epic" assumes that it means the Good Guys Win.  Heroic here as a term
+goes back to its much earlier origins, a "heroic effort" is something
+that takes everything you have, against terrible or impossible odds.
+
+       Yes, you achieve the goal...but you fall in battle in the
+fields of Troy.  Yes, you create Camelot, but in the end you are
+destroyed and Camelot falls.  There's tragedy and mistakes side by side
+with the glory and the gains.  The accounts of Arthur's meeting with
+Mordred at Camlan field, and how the final battle began is classic
+ironic drama, a tragedy of great proportions...and an aspect of that
+fed directly into the development of the B5 backstory, as you'll learn
+later this season.
+
+       Histories are written about the soldiers who won their battles;
+but songs are sung about the soldiers who fell in battle struggling for
+a greater cause.  What inspires us is the unfinished work, the dream of
+picking up the fallen standard and taking it ten more feet up the hill,
+knowing that even if you fall, the next man in line will take it
+another ten feet, until finally the hill is taken.  Humans are
+constantly throwing their lives away on causes logic tells us are
+hopeless...but which in time become real for that reason.
+
+       It's a dangerous romance with myth, heroism, and death.  On the
+one hand, it inspires an Arthur...on another, it inspires a car bomber
+to blow himself and 27 bystanders to bits en route to an appointment
+with Allah.
+
+       What makes the heroic epic work is that it taps into all the
+myths and archetypes that have been with us for all of recorded
+history, and much of its oral history.  Where B5 gets into this area is
+in trying to look at the kinds of myths and epics that have gone
+before, and finding not the specifics, but the themes which are
+universal, the *sense* and the feel of it, which are intangible, and
+which is what makes doing an epic so hard. Either you feel the 
+structure, or you don't; if you try to hammer it down into a formula,
+a step-by-step process, it turns to quicksilver in your hands and slips
+away. You have to take it all in, then listen to the inner voice and
+write accordingly.
+
+       I remember a stanza from a poem I read a long time ago; "Love
+will die if held too tightly; love will fly if held too lightly;
+lightly, tightly, how do I know, whether I'm holding or letting love
+go?"  This kind of fiction operates on the same basis.  Substitute the
+word epic or story for love, and the logic holds.
+
+       So the epic hero or story can't be a *model*, to use your
+phrase; it can only be an inspiration for what has gone before...an
+echo in the back of your mind that whispers and guides you through all
+the dark places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       Exactly.  B5 has to be an organic process; it's a history of
+the Babylon station and the people who lived there once upon a time. 
+It should have the feeling of a real place, and real people.  Stuff
+happens to real people.  The key is to turn it to your advantage, and
+use it to make the story stronger.
+
+       It's like trying to tapdance while people are rolling bowling
+balls at you and firing burning arrows...if you can keep to the rhythm,
+and even add some interesting new steps because of all the commotion,
+while making it all feel perfectly natural...then you've got something.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Lee McNeil <101611.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the Vorlons & Shadows related in *any* way ?
+
+       Define related.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you're using a Latin title, does the fact that "vir" is the
+> Latin word for "man" have any significance?
+
+       Yes, it's sort of a double pun in that respect...thus passes
+the man, which can have many meanings, also entering manhood, or dying,
+or going away, or the more Vir transitioning, or going...lots of
+variations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:21

+
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+
+       No, the V mini I wrote was several years ago, a planned revival
+that was ultimately dropped as too expensive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:25

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any specific plans?
+> Like releasing it in novel form, or unfilmed scripts?
+
+       Let me rephrase this: I can't answer the question because I
+can't allow the question to even exist in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:10

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Alexander would be an Omega class ship, would it not?
+
+       Correct, the Alexander would've come off the assembly line a
+bit after the Aggy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that right?
+
+       Yes, that was the meaning of it, that Christy was SE and would
+write the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       Exactly.  And that's the point that a few non-writers make when
+they go after that aspect.  Writing is fluid...if you alter course a
+little, it's usually because you found a better way to do something. 
+This is done all the time, in every conceivable art form.
+
+       Also, the B5 basic storyline was conceived by me in 1986/87; I
+was a fairly good writer then, I'm better now...it's almost 10 years
+later, and I've written a lot of stuff, learned more about my craft,
+and the writer of 1996 has some better ideas of how to do things than
+the writer of 1986.  I'd be a fool to stick to every single note from
+10 years ago if I think of a better way to do it now; the goal is to
+tell the story as effectively as humanly possible, not to be rigid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+       Yes, the error was mine, I should have been more precise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26-Mar-96 23:41:34

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What, if anything, happened to the ship that originally
+> discovered the ruins of Z'ha'dum?
+
+       As will be explained later this season, the ruins at Z'ha'dum
+were detected by a long-range probe; same as the kind of probe IPX used
+to find the other planet in "Mind War."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 27-Mar-96 03:05:03

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Sin wreak-oar Mistie, Montie, PITAS, Emperor of COWDP and Kidism
+> Patroler "So the leading causes of accidents are joy, sex, and
+> old age?"
+
+9) imbalance in the Grey Council
+
+Will be dealt with this season.
+
+10) the Underground Railroad
+
+Will be elaborated upon and brought to the fore later this season.
+
+11) Lady Morella's vision
+
+C'mon..."unresolved?"  It was only mentioned for the first time in the
+last new episode.  Gimme some time here, I'm dancing as fast as I can.
+
+(Some more on this later this season.)
+
+12) What Kosh really looks like
+
+More on this later this season, in an important way.
+
+13) Sinclair not the One, but he will be
+
+Dealt with this season.
+
+14) Delenn's "cramps"
+
+In the fullness of time.
+
+15) Londo's prophetic dream
+
+More this season, in detail.
+
+16) Where Bester stands (to be decided in Ship of Tears, later this
+year!)
+
+Yes, this season.
+
+17)  Minbari souls
+
+Also this season.
+
+       See, this is the thing that I have to shake my head at when
+people use terms like "unresolved plot lines" or "dropped threads;" the
+story ain't done yet.  You only use that term when you've finished the
+book, and stuff is left hanging.  We're only midway through the book --
+not even that yet in what's been broadcast -- it's a little premature
+to start announcing threads or plots as unresolved.  There's an ebb and
+flow to the threads, they're brought in and out as needed.
+
+       You can't reference every single thread in the show in every
+episode, or you'd just have an hour of people sitting around and
+reciting updates on all the various positions.
+
+       I don't like leaving loose threads hanging around.  And I
+don't.  We will hear more about Na'Toth soon, because it's time to
+mention that again, as an important storyline element.  (Somebody
+commented that it's being mentioned because folks have been
+asking...no, I don't work that way.  It's been asked for ages now. 
+People have been asking for n'grath, and I ain't moving on that one. 
+The few who've tossed this my way, that because they asked they forced 
+me to deal with it, are like the roosters who think their sounds at
+morning are directly responsible for the sunrise.)
+
+       In any event, to this issue...be patient.  This isn't about
+immediate gratification.  There's a certain pacing in the show in the
+ways in which story elements come and go, which would be more apparent
+if the show were being broadcast more steadily, without breaks.  Yeah,
+there've been two months almost since Lady Morella's prophecy, but
+there *haven't even been any new episodes aired yet*, and it was only
+aired in the last new epsiode out of the blocks, so how can it be a
+dropped plotline?
+
+       At the beginning of year one, a lot of folks were saying,
+"Where's the arc?  Huh?  Where's this `overarching storyline' we've
+been led to expect? Huh?  It ain't here."  Then they saw it bigtime
+starting with "Sky," and eventually realized that some elements of what
+they were seeing had ALREADY STARTED the arc...they just hadn't
+realized it until they looked back.  "Oh, yeah...THERE it was."
+
+       Others said, "What happened to that alien ship that blew up the
+Raiders in "Signs?"  They were just thrown in there to shake things up,
+and then they dropped it, I hate it when shows do that.  It's a cheat."
+Oh, you mean the SHADOW VESSEL that has now formed the main core of
+year three and a lot of year two?
+
+       In this list of "unresolved plot lines" I haven't yet seen one
+that we're not either dealing with, or planning to deal with shortly. 
+I would suggest we perhaps table this approach until the work is done,
+since only at that time can you say, positively, "THIS is an unresolved
+plot line," since we've hit the resolution of the story then.  Until
+then, it's an exercise in "who didn't cross the finish line?" halfway
+through the marathon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unresolved plot lines (27-Mar-96 12:28:49)
+
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+
Date: 27-Mar-96 12:28:49

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       My point exactly.
+
+       And most folks who had the reaction you admitted, did so for
+the same reason.  In some ways, we get gigged for the mistakes of
+others, and have to prove we won't do things that way.
+
+       And don't drag the bear into this discussion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lost Threads? (27-Mar-96 12:28:50)
+
+
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+
Lost Threads?

+
Date: 27-Mar-96 12:28:50

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Regarding changes that have been made, if Pat had not become
+> available, and if AT had not chosen to leave, would Talia have
+> been Control and then come back later with an altered
+> personality, or was the Control thing a trapdoor (set up from the
+> beginning with the mirrors and such) that you *could* spring
+> *only if you needed to*?
+
+       I'm busy enough on the threads that are happening...if I get
+into all the threads that might happen I think my head will explode....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unresolved plot lines (27-Mar-96 20:39:43)
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Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:43

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  It's just as much fun for me.  To the waiting...I try,
+where I can, to resolve any question raised within the course of the
+coming year, rather than trying to stretch it out much beyond that. 
+One question gets answered, another question looms.  There've been a
+few exceptions, but overall I think we've pretty well stuck with that
+model.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey Council (27-Mar-96 20:39:45)
+
+
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+
Grey Council

+
Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:45

+
 Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or, to put it another way, how often does the Council get new
+> members?
+
+       Membership in the Grey Council is usually for life; a person
+can choose to leave but only under truly extraordinary circumstances
+(kind of like being appointed to the Supreme Court).  In Delenn's case,
+though, remember that she didn't quit, she was booted out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unresolved plot lines (27-Mar-96 20:39:46)
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+
Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:46

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you find yourself asking the question "Why the hell did
+> Sheridan do this?"
+
+       One reason for the continuity is because you don't have a lot
+of different chefs in the kitchen.  The more you divide up the
+direction of the show and parcel it out, the more contradictions are
+going to emerge.  Also, by virtue of having the whole story forwards
+and backwards in my head, when a question gets asked about a production
+element, I just sorta mentally fast-forward or backward, see how it
+fits in, and can say yes, no or give a correction.  Often on shows
+you've got people going and coming in the command chair, and they may
+not always know the background as well as they might.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (01-Mar-96 00:44:08)
+
+
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+
Enjoying Babylon 5

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 00:44:08

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, it's a lot of fun to do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shwartzkopff (02-Mar-96 19:10:12)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 02-Mar-96 19:10:12

+
 Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that Franklin is backing Clarke?
+> Will we see which side Franklin chooses?
+
+       Franklin is of the breed of officers who feels it isn't his
+place to set policy, only to execute it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+San Diego (27-Mar-96 20:39:49)
+
+
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+
San Diego

+
Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:49

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> So,....What is it with you and San Diego anyway?
+> Did you lose you luggage there or something?
+
+       I used to live in San Diego, first from 1971-1972, then from
+1974 until 1981.  It's my way of sort of nodding at my old stomping
+grounds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Knives creature (27-Mar-96 20:39:52)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:52

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this true?
+> Sin wreak-oar ` Mistie, Montie, PITAS, Emperor of COWDP and
+> Kidism Patroler You've probably wondered in the past, "How can he
+> have Montie in his sig, yet never have used a single Python
+> line?"
+
+       Correct, the critter in "Knives" was most *definitely* not a
+Vorlon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unresolved plot lines (27-Mar-96 20:39:53)
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+
Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:53

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I don't think I flamed anyone...certainly I don't think the
+person to whom I was responding felt particularly flamed.  When I set
+out to flame, there ain't a whole lot of ambiguity about it.  I was
+stating the background to the situation firmly, and indicating the
+frustration brought about by *the question*, not the person.
+
+       I did not consider the original question a flame in my
+direction, nor did I consider my response a flame in the other
+direction.  If I stated the issue strongly, it's likely because I know
+that any time I leave a message, it generally gets cross-posted to a
+zillion other systems, so in a way it becomes "talking to the room," so
+the wider audience will know the full background of the
+situation...thus helping to avoid having to go into the situation in
+great detail multiple times.
+
+       If the person to whom I was "speaking" feels flamed, he should
+let me know and I will apologize, as that was not my intent.  If not,
+then it's a moot question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Foreshadowing on B5 (27-Mar-96 20:39:57)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Mar-96 20:39:57

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, you've caught them exactly.
+
+       With Ivanova, I've tried to construct a small emotional arc, in
+that when she arrived, she was the new kid, she was a bit uncomfortable
+with the job, and responded by being very formal, very businesslike, a
+bit on the snide side.  As she's gotten more comfortable with the job,
+and the people around her, she's relaxed a bit around her
+co-workers...but if somebody crosses her, as Bester tends to do, she
+lets fly with some pretty sharp lines.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5:New pricey toys (27-Mar-96 23:46:09)
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Mar-96 23:46:09

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I don't know what this refers to; the only B5 ships currently
+being done are the Micromachines, which are only about $10 per set of
+four.  If you're referring to any kind of models, they're unlicensed,
+pirated stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS is from the Future! (27-Mar-96 23:58:37)
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-Mar-96 23:58:37

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, indeed, you've sussed it out.  I *am* from the future.
+Unfortunately, I'm only from 15 seconds into the future, so it doesn't
+do me a bit of good, except being able to more accurately cut out
+commercials while taping "The Simpsons."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+San Diego (28-Mar-96 11:39:37)
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+
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+
Date: 28-Mar-96 11:39:37

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By flattening it?
+> I take it we didn't like San Diego much?
+
+       No, I liked San Diego just fine.  If I didn't like it, instead
+of just nuking it I would've gotten nasty....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+CINEFANTASTIQUE -Morons! (28-Mar-96 11:56:22)
+
+
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+
CINEFANTASTIQUE -Morons!

+
Date: 28-Mar-96 11:56:22

+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But who's out on the net every night talking to his fans?
+
+       Kiddo, you gotta understand Da Biz, and in Da Biz, writers have
+never been given the same influence or recognition as actors, and never
+will. It's something you have to understand going in and accept,
+because there ain't much you can do about it.
+
+       And it's hard to fault that logically.  An actor's face is on
+screen; the writer is invisible.  We all see what the actor does.  Most
+folks still don't quite understand what a writer does, particularly in
+TV.  Whenever I leave town, when I'm in a cab, or (less often because
+fans are generally more informed) at a con, somebody'll hear what I do
+and say, "So do you make up the story and the actors come up with the
+dialogue?"  Some think that the TV writer puts the stuff together after
+the actors and directors make the episode.
+
+       They honestly, simply Don't Know and Don't Understand.  And you
+can't take umbrage at that; it's simply the way it is.
+
+       And whatever my participation on the nets may be, only one out
+of a couple hundred people even *have* computers, and the number of
+folks on the net are even smaller.  The general population still
+doesn't notice this area as much as they will in a few more years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Universes: ST vs. B5 (28-Mar-96 15:17:23)
+
+
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+
Universes: ST vs. B5

+
Date: 28-Mar-96 15:17:23

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, the B5 budget is about half the average ST budget,
+sometimes a bit less.
+
+       We don't apply savings in CGI to alien makeup; they're totally
+different areas, each with their own costs.  Whatever they cost is
+what they cost.  But the reason we can do what we do is that we take
+new approaches to both the EFX and the prosthetics.  Optic Nerve, who
+does the prosthetics work as a contract deal, have found ways to make
+their masks more lifelike, easier to apply, and faster to apply, than
+the norm; so you tend to get more bang for your buck.  We've had as
+many as 40 or more complete aliens -- full prosthetics and costumes --
+not just in one episode, but often in one SCENE, which would kill you
+in any other kind of show...unless you came up with some smarter ways
+of doing things.
+
+       That's one of the important things about B5...we don't tend to
+do things the way they've always been done because they've always been
+done that way.  We tend to ride the wave of technology in whichever
+area we're doing, and take whatever's newest, fastest, best.
+
+       That was ultimately the reason we went with CGI, more than any
+fiscal savings.  We can *do more* with CGI, get closer, have more
+ships, bigger scenes, make the B5 universe come alive.
+
+       (BTW, a lot of folks still compare the models used on ST with
+the CGI on B5, not aware that a fair amount of ST EFX now are done with
+CGI; some of them have even been done by Foundation, our CGI
+providers...the solar sail recently, for example.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Universes: ST vs. B5 (28-Mar-96 21:19:00)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-Mar-96 21:19:00

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, and you're quite correct, it comes down to personal
+taste for the most part.  Didn't think your message was harsh at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 00:02:20)
+
+
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:02:20

+
 Neil Blevins <102226.3566@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever tried this tactic before?
+> Do you think he will gladly hand over his list of contacts at
+> C-serve?
+
+       What you're forgetting in the conversation is the issue of
+copyright. As a poster here on this forum, everything that you write is
+the joint copyright of you and CIS.  Copyright infringement is
+punishable by law.  Now maybe one can't keep chasing down people who
+take others' messages and shut down their access to various systems,
+it's problematic...but for each time one engages in copyright
+infringement, the *minimum* penalty under the law is $100,000 per
+instance.  If one chose to pursue it that far.
+
+       It'd be no different than taking a whole section of, say, a
+Greg Bear novel, and posting it on the nets without his permission.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Talking Kosh (28-Mar-96 21:19:01)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-Mar-96 21:19:01

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can Kosh speak on his own to other people in their language or
+> does his encounter suite translate his Vorlon language for him so
+> he can be understood? Is this why in "Fall of the Night" when
+> Sheridan asked if the person who saved him was Kosh, all Kosh did
+> was nod because he couldn't speak on his own?
+
+       His encounter suit translates vorlon into english; he can
+converse just fine with other vorlons without it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5:New pricey toys (28-Mar-96 21:19:02)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-Mar-96 21:19:02

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       This is odd phrasing, as it refers to both 24 collections and 6
+collections in the same sentence.  I think something here is a
+mismatch. See, 24 collections times about $9 or so, the average price
+for a set, would be about right, almost 200 bucks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Severed Dreams' (29-Mar-96 00:41:47)
+
+
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+
'Severed Dreams'

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 00:41:47

+
       Okay, so you've got some friends who've maybe checked out B5,
+and they've kinda gone back and forth...maybe the week you asked them
+to watch was a slower episode, and they wanted something other...or it
+was a bit too much on the arc-ish side
+
+       Give 'em a call and have them watch "Severed Dreams" this
+coming week. Don't say anything more than that, just make get 'em to do
+it.
+
+       We'll take it from there.
+
+       Trust me on this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Severed Dreams' (29-Mar-96 12:50:36)
+
+
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+
'Severed Dreams'

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 12:50:36

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does Marcus Feature in this episdoe?
+
+       No, unfortunately Marcus ain't in this one.  But he does have a
+very large part in the next one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Severed Dreams' (29-Mar-96 12:50:39)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29-Mar-96 12:50:39

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Great...and thanks...even if you *are* pushing Space Cases. 
+Aren't there laws about that?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ministry Of Peace (29-Mar-96 12:50:40)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Ministry Of Peace

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 12:50:40

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's a pretty good episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5/AOL/WB newsletter? (29-Mar-96 17:26:59)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5/AOL/WB newsletter?

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 17:26:59

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know what this one's about?
+
+       No clue....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5:New pricey toys (29-Mar-96 17:27:00)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5:New pricey toys

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 17:27:00

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I don't want to criticize the Great Maker but, let's see now
+> where's that calculator? Almost $200, huh Joe?
+> Can you tell which episode this is from?
+
+       The scene was from "Ceremonies of Light and Dark."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ministry Of Peace (29-Mar-96 18:28:23)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Ministry Of Peace

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 18:28:23

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah...what I've heard from people who've watched their tapes
+daily is that it's a whole new experience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Knives creature (29-Mar-96 20:28:47)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Knives creature

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 20:28:47

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was it anything else, or are we done with it?
+
+       We're done with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+PoNR-Hague (03-Mar-96 00:02:22)
+
+
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+
PoNR-Hague

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:02:22

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, Stephen, you've got that backward.  We had booked Foxworth
+long in advance.  Later, out of the blue, a rep for the actor said that
+by accident he'd been double-booked on B5 and DS9 for the same
+period...and even though we had prior claim, because the other was a
+two-parter, more money, they went for that.  One can only wonder when
+the other offer *really* came in....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Talking Kosh (29-Mar-96 20:31:58)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Talking Kosh

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 20:31:58

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I'm currently on a debate on Vorlonspeak, so why not go to the
+> source? Do Corlon's speak in music, and the translator turns it
+> into English?
+
+       They speak in tones, almost a chorus of voices.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sci Fi Buzz Interview (29-Mar-96 20:31:59)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Sci Fi Buzz Interview

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 20:31:59

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you tell me what episode it was that they showed scenes
+> from? I notice that Sheridan has longer hair now, is that part of
+> the storyline or did Boxleitner do it on his own?
+
+       Not having seen the episode yet, I can't tell where the scene
+came from.  And the styles do get a bit looser with time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Valen and the Vorlons (29-Mar-96 20:31:59)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Valen and the Vorlons

+
Date: 29-Mar-96 20:31:59

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did the Vorlons support Valen just as they supported G'Quon?
+
+       It's not that easy a question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+VQT Ratings &Endorsement (30-Mar-96 17:00:26)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
VQT Ratings &Endorsement

+
Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:26

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Care to make a comment about this?
+> Just heard from Pigdog that VQT took a full page out in a trade
+> publication listing the endorsed shows and, well, guess what?
+
+       Yes, we had this confirmed in Friday's Daily Variety; Viewers
+for Quality Television has added B5 to its short list of qualified
+endorsed shows, along with Murphy Brown, 60 Minutes, Dr. Quinn Medicine
+Woman and about 10 others.  It's a definite recognition of the quality
+of the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+'Severed Dreams' (30-Mar-96 17:00:27)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
'Severed Dreams'

+
Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:27

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       "...your offspring...."
+
+       Thus are mutants created....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SpaceCases&Hyper. in EW (30-Mar-96 17:00:29)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
SpaceCases&Hyper. in EW

+
Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:29

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       In that case I better start expanding my wardrobe....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Universes: ST vs. B5 (30-Mar-96 17:00:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Universes: ST vs. B5

+
Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:30

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The tones are his real voice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Vorlon (30-Mar-96 17:00:32)
+
+
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+
Vorlon

+
Date: 30-Mar-96 17:00:32

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see any direct conflict between the Vorlon and the
+> Shadows in the arc? Of course we would all like to see the epic
+> space battle with the super races fighting it out ('battle of
+> five armies'), but is that the flavor of the war?
+
+       It's fair to say that sooner or later, probably sooner, the
+Vorlons are going to have to get more involved...but mark this, be
+careful what you ask for....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ivanova (30-Mar-96 19:05:43)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Ivanova

+
Date: 30-Mar-96 19:05:43

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you give us any general hints as to what you have planned for
+> Ivanova in the future?
+
+       Can I?  Of course.  Will I?  No, of course not.  Kinda takes
+all the surprise out of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+2 part episodes (30-Mar-96 19:05:44)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
2 part episodes

+
Date: 30-Mar-96 19:05:44

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you decide whether a episode will be a two parter or as a
+> series of connected stand alones like "Severed Dreams" is a part
+> of? Do you have any two part episodes planned for season 4 yet?
+
+       For the most part, it's a matter of how the episodes feel to
+me, what length they feel as if they require.  When I did the big three
+this year -- Messages, Point and Dreams -- I hadn't really figured
+they'd be as tightly connected as they ended up being.  I knew they'd
+relate strongly to one another, but in a sense, they're reallly a three
+parter.  The War Without End story I knew was WAY too big for one
+episode, but due to the structure of the story wouldn't take being
+extended for one more episode; at that point you'd just be dragging it
+out.
+
+       It's all instinct, I wish I had a more concrete answer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Point of No Return> (03-Mar-96 00:02:25)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Point of No Return>

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:02:25

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       "Even in the USSR the military would not support an attempt of
+martial law."
+
+       You mean like when Yeltsin called up the military, dissolved
+the Senate, and had tanks open fire on the Senate building to keep from
+being ousted in a coup...you mean like that?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+'Severed Dreams' (30-Mar-96 19:05:45)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
'Severed Dreams'

+
Date: 30-Mar-96 19:05:45

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How about Kosh?
+
+       Yeah...Kosh seems to have retreated a bit so far...worrying,
+that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Violating Your Privacy (31-Mar-96 14:04:43)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:43

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> At that point, I guess I would wonder out loud what difference it
+> makes if my public words are seen merely by the hundreds in here,
+> or the many hundreds or thousands "out there"? But the messages I
+> wrote with the expectation of their being read by hundreds of
+> strangers anyway??? Does the idea that hundreds *more* might see
+> them bother me?
+
+       Which is exactly the point.  If you're not bothered in the
+least, then it isn't an issue.  It just seemed fair and proper to
+notify those who *might* have a problem with it, and some did.  It just
+allows people to make informed choices.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Kosh Identity (31-Mar-96 14:04:44)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Kosh Identity

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:44

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The Vorlons are one of the last of the First Ones in our space;
+it's a race, not an individual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (31-Mar-96 14:04:47)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:47

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Two questions about it, was Delenn in the Whitestar when she came
+> to defend B5? Also, are any of the new fighters that B5 is taking
+> on the new starfuries?
+
+       Yes, the push in on Delenn revealed her in the White Star, and
+yes, a fair number of the new 'furies B5 inherited are Thunderbolt
+class.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Continuity (31-Mar-96 14:04:49)
+
+
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+
Continuity

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:49

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have anyone to research before the final script?
+> Have there been any major errors in continuity?
+> Or will you not tell if there were?
+
+       No, I kinda have to keep it all in my head.  Nobody knows the
+show more than I do, so a researcher wouldn't work.  So far, in 3
+years, I don't think there have been any real continuity goofs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+'Severed Dreams' (31-Mar-96 14:04:50)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
'Severed Dreams'

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:50

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  It's our best to date, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Minbari Physiology (31-Mar-96 14:04:54)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Minbari Physiology

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 14:04:54

+
 Fred Owens <74051.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Silly question probably but, is Minbari sexual physiology
+> completely compatible with human physiology?
+
+       No, not under normal circumstances; it'd have to undergo some
+fairly extensive genetic modifications before that could happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Minbari Physiology (31-Mar-96 15:59:33)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Minbari Physiology

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 15:59:33

+
 Bill Dugan <71016.576@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you mean that relations wouldn't be fertile, or that it would
+> be physically impossible to do it at all?
+
+       They wouldn't be fertile, no...as for impossible, the long
+history of odd human sexual behavior seems to indicate that for some
+folks, there ain't much that's impossible to mess about with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+All Alone in the Night (31-Mar-96 15:59:34)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
All Alone in the Night

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 15:59:34

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, I just finished watching my tape of "All Alone In The Night"
+> If it isn't giving anything away, could you clear up somthing for
+> me? Can you clarify this?
+
+       Ivanova is the woman in each case; and that's Garibaldi, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams> (31-Mar-96 17:02:42)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 31-Mar-96 17:02:42

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the story on the Grey Council?
+> PS, What part of Patterson were you born in?
+
+       Thanks.  The easy thing to do, the TeeVee thing to do, would've
+been to go from Sheridan's line "All ships return to base," to the
+exterior with the big ships, and fade out.  But I try to keep this show
+from doing the easy thing.  Yes, you had a victory.  Yes, it was
+necessary.  But what's the cost? We shouldn't glamorize these things. 
+Even at the end, as you notice, even at the end of the reception...we
+go out on an ominous note.
+
+       What part of Paterson?  The downscale part of town.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Point of No Return> (03-Mar-96 00:02:29)
+
+
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+
<Point of No Return>

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:02:29

+
 Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't see that that has anything to do with the b5 story line?
+> By the way were are the shadows???
+
+       "I don't believe a conservative nightwatch would be tolerated
+either."
+
+       Senator Joseph McCarthy.  The House Un-American Activities
+Committee. You can look it up.
+
+       Also, there was a PBS documentary this past week on the
+blacklist; I suggest that ANYone who thinks we would never fall for
+something like the Nightwatch should take a look at it.  It makes the
+Nightwatch look pale by comparison.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Talking Kosh (31-Mar-96 21:28:46)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 31-Mar-96 21:28:46

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope.  The man was nuts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CD-ROM (31-Mar-96 21:28:47)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 31-Mar-96 21:28:47

+
 David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh oh, oh, when, when, when??
+
+       I'd expect by around May sometime for Chris's new CD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 PR (03-Mar-96 00:32:49)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:32:49

+
 Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This discussion (about a spoiler for Point of No Return) brings a
+> question to my mind: where do TVGuide and other publications get
+> their little capsule descriptions, anyway? I don't presume that
+> TVGuide has a screening room where they watch all programs that
+> will be aired in a month or so, just to come up with little
+> five-line descriptions; wouldn't there be some sort of system in
+> which the station provides these descriptions along with their
+> schedules? And, assuming that stations themselves don't have
+> description-writing screening panels (or even advance access, in
+> many cases, I imagine), wouldn't these descriptions come from the
+> program source itself? Which brings up another question: are
+> episode titles usually provided for shows that have them, and why
+> aren't these listed? Or am I 'way off track in all this supposing?
+
+       Synopses come from one of two places: 1) a two-page synopsis
+from the studio/network, or 2) scripts provided to TV Guide by same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deja Vu (03-Mar-96 00:32:52)
+
+
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+
Deja Vu

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:32:52

+
 Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, what would be the general time, from story
+> inception to broadcast, of a typical 1-hr sf show? So is there a
+> rule-of-thumb length of time during which we can assume that plot
+> similarities could be attributable to coincidence rather than,
+> er, "homage" (to put a nicer face on it than it deserves)? Or is
+> script security in the industry so lax that the question is
+> irrelevant?
+
+       Well, there are a number of factors going into this, including
+that as we develop threads over time, they become apparent outside even
+before the script appears (as noted by some who've anticipated some
+revelations here, in broad strokes).
+
+       One other element is that B5 is only able to do what we do on
+budget because we prepare a LONG time in advance.  We have scripts on
+the deck, ready to shoot, 4-6 weeks sometimes before we roll film. 
+During that time, scripts circulate to agents and others as casting and
+other production elements start moving.  In many TV shows, the script
+often doesn't land on the stage floor until a few days before
+filming...in some cases, pages are still landing *as* they're filming.
+
+       Once an episode is filmed, a 7 day process, it takes 52 days of
+post production before it's ready to air.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 00:32:54)
+
+
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:32:54

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Okay, I *think* I know what that refers to; I wrote a long
+message on one of the services about the ratings system, but it's
+nothing I saved, I just explained it that one time as best I could.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 00:32:57)
+
+
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:32:57

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Short version: anyone with even minor celebrity -- and there
+can be no more minor a celebrity than a producer -- attracts a certain
+number of what can only be described as stalkers.  Stalkers range from
+vaguely annoying to disturbing (and disturbed) individuals.  I have
+acquired about six or so who are dedicated to one singular goal: trying
+to disrupt my life, my career and my show through a constant, chronic
+pattern of abuse, insults, outright fabrications, disinformation
+campaigns, and innuendo.  Six doesn't seem like a lot, and in the
+grander scheme, they're irrelevant; on the less grand level, because
+they are singularly dedicated to this cause, utterly tireless, they 
+can, and have, paralyzed whole discussion areas, poisoned topics and
+made places on the net unlivable for me and many others.
+
+       Several of them, if they were doing via other means -- mail,
+phone, in person -- what they are doing on the nets, could easily be
+arrested and prosecuted under any of a number of anti-stalking laws,
+for creating malicious mischief, character assassination, and other
+charges.  But the nature of the net makes it easier for these
+individuals -- who are basically cowards -- to do what they do with a
+relative (though shrinking) degree of impunity.
+
+       Their behavior is pathological at best, and it was the exposure
+on a daily basis to their virulent pathology, the necessity to respond
+each and every day to the next new charge or rumor or lie -- which, if
+unanswered, becomes assumed truth on the nets -- that in time drove me
+from rastb5.  As with most Internet newsgroups, it does not have the
+same safeguards against chronic abusive personalities that are present
+in CIS, AOL, GEnie and other systems and BBSs across the country.
+
+       A number of people who've gotten tired of the chronic abuse of
+the system, and each other, recently resolved to try and create a new
+moderated group whose purpose would be to ONLY restrict these chronic,
+abusive messages from the petty dysfunctional, while allowing a) a full
+range of open criticism and language, and b) not in any way affecting
+or censoring the original rastb5 area.  Any group of people can agree
+to come together and form a group of their own, with their own rules,
+which others may or may not choose to enter. When and if that group
+gets approved, many of the users who left rastb5 will sign on with this
+new group, myself included.
+
+       (I understand there's a discussion about this issue currently
+going on over there, using the words censorship and nightwatch.  Which
+are loaded terms designed to elicit an emotional response and muddy the
+waters. Censorship is enacted against an individual against his or her
+will; anyone who joins the moderated newsgroup, should it be approved,
+does so knowing the charter of the group, thus expressing a willingness
+to go along with that, just as anyone signing on with CIS understands
+the general guidelines here.  If someone doesn't want to work under
+those guidelines, they need not sign on, and hang out in the
+unmoderated area.  How this relatively simple logic gets muddied is 
+beyond me.)
+
+       In any event, to your question...if any of the less than
+rock-solid individuals noted three paragraphs above are asking for your
+cooperation, that decision is between you and your conscience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Point of No Return> (03-Mar-96 00:33:02)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:02

+
 Rae Augenstein <72752.1653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You've thought of everything, haven't you?
+
+       But of course....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<PoNR>> (01-Mar-96 00:44:09)
+
+
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+
<<PoNR>>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 00:44:09

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> - Haven't rewatched the tape, but was there a mention of a ship
+> called Schwartzkopf, letting Hague escape from Io? - Who blasted
+> the escorts of the Alexander, if we saw and were told they
+> escaped?
+
+       When we come back, the very next episode has a very funny scene
+re: Londo and Narn security.  And yes, that was the Schwartzkopf.
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Just wanted to say... (03-Mar-96 00:33:05)
+
+
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+
Just wanted to say...

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...yes, Marcus does seem to have a way with women of
+taste and sensibility....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 00:33:07)
+
+
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:07

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Absolutely.  You're quite right.  The other digest of my
+messages is a fine and fair thing, because I've said that my messages
+can be reposted anywhere, anytime.  It's others who have not given
+their permission, and the messages involved, that they may need to be
+made aware of.  (Darn, ended on a dangling preposition....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 3 and Na'Toth (03-Mar-96 00:33:10)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:10

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I correct in guessing that some of what would have been
+> Na'Toth's story moved over to Ta'Lon? Or did you plan on bringing
+> him back all along?
+
+       I liked Ta'Lon, and definitely wanted to bring him back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Prison Authors (03-Mar-96 00:33:11)
+
+
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+
Prison Authors

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:11

+
 Burhaan Ahmad <75754.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I suppose there is something behind this?
+
+       It's just those darn Narns...politeness isn't easy for some of
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Do you want a party??? (03-Mar-96 00:33:13)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 00:33:13

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Remember the stuff about the actual latitude and longitude of
+> "Area 51" being burned into the Newton 2.0 operating system, and
+> a CIA cryptographer found it, and they pressured Apple to remove
+> it from the time zones utility?
+
+       How odd that they would be so concerned about a base that, they
+say, doesn't even exist....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Bill Mumy on CNBC (03-Mar-96 01:04:30)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 01:04:30

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       BTW, Peter, I happened to catch the episode tonight (though I
+missed the opening and about 2-3 minutes at the top).  Nicely done.  I
+still think I preferred the commander from the test episode (now it's
+YOUR turn to hear that), but a lot has been improved, particularly the
+sets, which are very elaborate and visually interesting.  Some fun
+writing, good (if somewhat over the top) directing, and the effects
+were quite good.  This one may actually have some shelf life....
+
+       Congratulations.  You are now officially a Mogul.  Your
+certificate of membership should arrive in a few days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 01:04:31)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 01:04:31

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this sudden request related to the events of message abuse?
+
+       If Brent Barrett -- not one of the Demento Half-Dozen -- is
+asking permission to repost your messages, then he's doing this
+properly.  So if you don't mind your posts being reposted, by all
+means, give permission.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Point of No Return>> (03-Mar-96 01:04:32)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 01:04:32

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Good heavens, Karen, there was nothing in your message to be
+offended *at*.  I took the inquiry at face value, and answered it thus.
+
+       Glad you enjoyed "Point."  It sets everything up, so we can
+knock it all down in "Severed Dreams."  Now everyhing I need is right
+where I need it to be....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shwartzkopff (03-Mar-96 22:26:49)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 22:26:49

+
       Not that I know of....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 23:06:44)
+
+
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+
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+
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+
       Thank you for your forthrightness, and your honesty, and your
+dilligence in dealing with the situation.  I think your approach is a
+good model for anyone in this situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<PoNR - Redemption> (01-Mar-96 12:30:20)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01-Mar-96 12:30:20

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Incidently, what were Londo's first two choices?
+
+       Centauri are always suspicious, and if you knew you might be
+emperor after the other is dead, you might be encourage to...help that
+process along, however you might like someone.  It's just good
+business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 23:06:45)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:45

+
       Well said, Cynthia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 23:06:48)
+
+
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+
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+
       Actually, casual copyright infringement has been dealt with
+more and more lately; one of the reason you see precise instructions in
+Kinko's Copier locations, and the reason they won't copy a full
+manuscript unless you can prove you own it, is because they got hit
+bigtime over the issue. It is, as you say, an area which has been dealt
+with only casually, but which I suspect is going to get more attention,
+particularly as the nets come more fully under the scrutiny of Suits.
+
+       (I think I just made an inadvertent pun...)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 23:06:50)
+
+
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:50

+
       Not per se, but it was interesting nonetheless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 23:06:52)
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:52

+
       They do it because they ain't wired up right, Joel....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 23:06:56)
+
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Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:56

+
       Every once in a while, I get something along these lines,
+though so far usually it's enough just to tell them to please back off
+a little. Their desire is usually well-meaning, just...overly
+enthusiastic.  For a while, I was getting 7-8 messages a day from a few
+different people, in email, asking extremely detailed background
+questions, literally dozens at a time, every day.  Eventually, I had to
+ask some of them to just back away and stop it.  So far they have, some
+with greater grace than others.
+
+       A related problem I have sometimes is that people will send me
+email with 5, 8, or 20 questions (literally), each question requiring
+an elaborate explanation to be clear.  I don't think they understand
+the sheer volume of email I get on a daily basis.  If a person sends me
+one or two questions I can answer fairly briefly, they'll usually get
+an answer.  If it's something like this, I go into overload, and either
+say "sorry" or just don't reply. If I were to engage in that kind of
+detailed email correspondence, I'd a) never have time for the show, and
+b) 2/3rds of the rest of my email would never get answered.  It's hard
+to fault them, because it's clear that their messages spring from real
+interest in the show.  I just think they don't really understand how
+*much* email I get on a daily basis.  (So in general, if it's a general
+question of any sort, from which others might benefit from the answer, 
+*always* post it publicly instead of emailing it.  This also saves me
+from having to answer the same question in email 50 times.)
+
+       Then there was the one person I told to avoid sending me email
+with 15 questions...who solved the problem by sending me 15 emails with
+1 question each.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/55.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/55.html
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+
+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 23:06:58)
+
+
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Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:06:58

+
       For starters, read the message I just left here regarding my
+own email. To the question at hand...ask the reposter to please not
+repost your messages. From what I saw from Brent, he's a very
+reasonable fellow, and will oblige. Anyone else, tell them the same
+thing, if that's your decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/56.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/56.html
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+
+
+Violating Your Privacy (03-Mar-96 23:07:01)
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:01

+
       No, Brent seems okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/57.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/57.html
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+
+
+PoNR-Hague (03-Mar-96 23:07:03)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:03

+
       Nope.  There are better ways of handling this.  You'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Point of No Return> (03-Mar-96 23:07:04)
+
+
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+
<Point of No Return>

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:04

+
       I dunno....dunno if I want a funny dentist....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/59.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/59.html
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+
+
+Fan Club (03-Mar-96 23:07:07)
+
+
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+
Fan Club

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:07

+
       I imagine we'll have some info on how to deal with this soon;
+we're still sussing out all the details.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/6.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/6.html
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+
+
+<<PoNR>> (01-Mar-96 12:30:21)
+
+
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+
<<PoNR>>

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 12:30:21

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was it's final condition, and which side is Stephen's father
+> on?
+
+       Stephen's father is a by-the-book guy; he doesn't think his job
+is to set policy, only to implement policy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/60.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/60.html
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+
+
+Bill Mumy on CNBC (03-Mar-96 23:07:09)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Bill Mumy on CNBC

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:09

+
       It *WAS* the same actor?!
+
+       (thud)
+
+       I'm astonished....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/61.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/61.html
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+
+
+<PoNR, BAMN> (03-Mar-96 23:07:13)
+
+
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+
<PoNR, BAMN>

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:13

+
       We hope to have some more info on the fan club out soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/62.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/62.html
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+
+
+Earthforce Ship Names (03-Mar-96 23:07:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Earthforce Ship Names

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:17

+
       It was subconscious, but appropos.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/63.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/63.html
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+
+
+<The last few eps?> (03-Mar-96 23:07:18)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<The last few eps?>

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:18

+
       No, the Epsilon machine wasn't built by the same folks; and
+Kosh was the prime mover in G'Kar's revelation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/64.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/64.html
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+
+
+To JMS....WOW!!!!! (03-Mar-96 23:07:19)
+
+
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+
To JMS....WOW!!!!!

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:19

+
       Thanks...we try to make it a good ride....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/65.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/65.html
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+
+
+General Hague / EA Fleet (03-Mar-96 23:07:23)
+
+
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+
General Hague / EA Fleet

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:23

+
       No, most of the cruisers shot down were of the Hyperion class,
+slower and not as well equipped as the Omega class destroyers, a la the
+Aggy or the Alexander.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/66.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/66.html
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+
+
+"Point of No Return" (03-Mar-96 23:07:25)
+
+
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+
"Point of No Return"

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:25

+
       Yes, this season they're all my scripts, though that'll change
+next season.  How does one do it?  Practice.  Listening.  And you have
+to be willing to make a fool of yourself 10 times on the theory that on
+the 11th time, you'll do something terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/67.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/67.html
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+
+
+PoNR: Zocalo Optics (03-Mar-96 23:07:25)
+
+
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+
PoNR: Zocalo Optics

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:25

+
       I have no explanation...will go check.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/68.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/68.html
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+
+
+<Point of No Return> (03-Mar-96 23:07:28)
+
+
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+
<Point of No Return>

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:28

+
       Bingo....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/69.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/69.html
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+
+
+New episodes (03-Mar-96 23:07:30)
+
+
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+Search
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+
New episodes

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:30

+
       I suspect it's an automated VO on the station computer; write
+them and let them know, and they'll likely change it.  (And we get new
+eps the week of April 3rd.)
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/7.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/7.html
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+
+
+SFX Magazine Awards (01-Mar-96 12:55:26)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
SFX Magazine Awards

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 12:55:26

+
 Ruth Ballam <100412.3457@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question has to be, what's he doing in television then ?
+
+       "what's he doing in television then?"
+
+       Nailing 95 theses to the door of science fiction television.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/70.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/70.html
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+
+
+<Point of No Return> (03-Mar-96 23:07:31)
+
+
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+
<Point of No Return>

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:07:31

+
       Thanks, and the powderkeg smoldering is a good analogy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/71.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/71.html
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+
+
+SFX Magazine Awards (03-Mar-96 23:24:54)
+
+
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+
SFX Magazine Awards

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:24:54

+
       "JMS...a great mind and nice people..."
+
+       Stop that.  I have a reputation to protect, you know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/72.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/72.html
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+
+
+Your copyright (03-Mar-96 23:24:55)
+
+
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+
Your copyright

+
Date: 03-Mar-96 23:24:55

+
       Just so we're clear...the problem is primarily with the mailer
+set up by the Hall Brothers, who were picking, choosing and editing
+threads for the express purpose of providing "ammo" to use by others in
+the Let's Get B5 and JMS arena.  It's that use that had to be
+addressed, and it's spilled over into the other mailers.
+
+       The flip side is that this *is* a legitimate issue, and had to
+be dealt with one way or another.  I would also rather it hadn't come
+out in this way, but when the stuff is out there, it has the potential
+for misuse; it was inevitable that it would *be* misused...and now it
+has.  Once again, the Usual Few misuse the system and cause more grief
+and emotion in a situation that could've been dealt with differently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/73.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/73.html
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+
+
+<<PoNR>> (04-Mar-96 11:26:34)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<<PoNR>>

+
Date: 04-Mar-96 11:26:34

+
       Y'know, I think this was one of those subconscious things the
+brain does sometimes...I hadn't put it together when I put him on that
+ship.  It's a sad thing when you can't even trust your own brain
+anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/74.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/74.html
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+
+
+<The last few eps?> (04-Mar-96 11:26:35)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
<The last few eps?>

+
Date: 04-Mar-96 11:26:35

+
       Yeah, I also heard that Paramount sent the US Navy a letter
+claiming that they owned the copyright to the term USS Enterprise, and
+that the Navy should cease and desist from using that name in future.
+
+       The Navy told 'em to stick it where the sun don't shine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/75.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/75.html
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+
+
+When will they be back? (05-Mar-96 00:21:27)
+
+
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+
When will they be back?

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:27

+
       You'll see Morden and Zathras before the season is out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/76.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/76.html
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+
+
+"Point of No Return" (05-Mar-96 00:21:28)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
"Point of No Return"

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:28

+
       No, I'm not going anywhere as far as B5 is concerned; we'll
+have some freelance scripts coming in in years 4 and 5, but that's just
+the same as in years 1 and 2.  They'll almost certainly be based on
+assigned premises, and in all cases, I rewrite to make sure it all
+hangs together.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/77.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-03/77.html
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+
+
+Comic books in U.S.? (05-Mar-96 00:21:31)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Comic books in U.S.?

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:31

+
       Let me try and address a problem I'm having with this question
+and the one preceding, both of which are from folks not on CIS.  I've
+just gotten a number of emails from people saying they have a problem
+here, in the sense that they pay CIS for access to this forum, and the
+ability to ask questions publicly.  To post a number of questions from
+people not subscribers on CIS, giving them that ability, bothers some
+of the users here who have to pay a subscription for that.
+
+       Personally, for me, a question is a question regardless of
+source, and thus far, I've answered all questions forwarded from other
+services here. It's an awkward situation, because if this were a free
+service, as rastb5moderated would be, it doesn't *matter* where the
+questions come from, it's all equally free.  But I'm sort of "living"
+in CIS's house while I'm here, and on a pragmatic level I have to be
+considerate of the wishes of the people in whose house I'm hanging out.
+Especially the wishes of the other users here.  One user put it quite
+bluntly: "If they want to ask you questions on CIS, why don't they sign
+up and pay the money same as I do? This isn't fair."
+
+       So I've been debating what to do about this.  My only solution,
+poor as it is, is that questions here have to originate here.  Once the
+moderated group is open, which is free to all, anyone from anywhere can
+ask as many questions as they choose, and this won't be an issue.  For
+now, this seems the only fair solution.
+
+       In short, I'd love to answer the forwarded questions, but I
+feel I have to be responsive to the wishes of the users here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cruisers? (PoNR) (05-Mar-96 00:21:34)
+
+
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+
Cruisers? (PoNR)

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:34

+
       Ditto.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Labor Relations (05-Mar-96 00:21:36)
+
+
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+
Labor Relations

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:36

+
       Ditto.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Violating Your Privacy (01-Mar-96 15:02:45)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 15:02:45

+
       All messages entered into the Compuserve system are copyrighted
+by CIS, and the user; they cannot be posted elsewhere without the
+permission of the sender, and the system.  Mine are somewhat of an
+exception, since they can be posted anywhere, but even there I had to
+write specifically to AOL giving permission before they'd allow my
+messages from here to be reprinted. It is always required to do this;
+otherwise it's not only morally repugnant, it's illegal.
+
+       A user named Theron Fuller has just taken a great number of
+your messages posted on the DS9 and B5 folders and reposted them to the
+Internet (rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5).  Among those users whose messages
+have been taken without their knowledge or permission are Rae
+Augenstein, Anthony Davis, and Jose J. Ortiz Carlo.  There are
+apparently more.  To verify this all you need to do is go over to that
+forum and look for threads with "so you miss Joe Straczynski's
+dialogue" -- or words to that effect -- in the thread.
+
+       From Theron's own statements, these were excerpted from a
+*mailing list* which some individuals maintain for the sole purpose of
+forwarding messages they think will do me harm.  Or in general, to keep
+track of me, as stalkers do.  (This statement by Theron is also in the
+same thread there.) One individual has indicated that this mailing list
+was maintained by the Hall Brothers.  So apparently your compuserve
+messages (and AOL messages, and who knows how many others) have been
+circulated without your knowledge or permission, posted and reposted on
+other forums, and mailing lists.  And now he has begun posting your
+messages publicly.
+
+       This is a violation of both your copyright and that of
+Compuserve. It is morally and ethically repugnant.  It is illegal.
+
+       If you object, I suggest you contact Compuserve and register
+your displeasure with this, and also the postmaster at Theron's
+account, since he was the one who publicly violated your copyright, and
+took your messages without your permission.  (The users cited, btw, are
+only the ones noted in the current batch of messages he reposted; the
+odds are good that virtually *everyone* here has been excerpted and
+remailed/reposted since this mailing list has been going on for some
+time.)  I would suggest you demand to have access to the mailing list
+of all reposted messages from Compuserve (and that those on other
+services do the same).
+
+       Theron Fuller's user id is fuller@ix.netcom.com and the
+postmaster can likely be found there.  I would also suggest that the
+sysops here lodge a formal protest, and get CIS to do the same, in
+order to protect the rights not only of CIS, but of the users to post
+here and know that their words will not be excerpted, reposted, or
+otherwise used in or out of context without their knowledge or
+permission.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Demento Half-Dozen (05-Mar-96 00:21:37)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Demento Half-Dozen

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:37

+
       Not a problem, Kevin.  You've usually been quite fair.
+
+       (I agree about Penn and Teller...love 'em.  They're just nuts.)
+
+       I can see no reason not to oblige Brent and John Hardin with
+their requests for reposting from my side of it; these are, of course,
+issues of privacy, the latitude and longditude of which are
+circumscribed by the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. 
+If you don't mind, then say yes; if you do mind, then say no.
+
+       As for the masks, yes, I believe they're the licensed ones from
+Ruby.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<The last few eps?> (05-Mar-96 00:21:41)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<The last few eps?>

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:41

+
       It ain't an issue of copyright, but of *trademark*, which can
+be put on at any time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Point of No Return>> (05-Mar-96 00:21:43)
+
+
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+
<<Point of No Return>>

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:21:43

+
       Any time you do something that hasn't been done before, you
+will have people jumping on your head out of the near-religious
+conviction that they must do so for the good of the commonweal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 in SciFi Entertainmnt (05-Mar-96 00:44:52)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 in SciFi Entertainmnt

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:44:52

+
       There are a number of actors who feel that if they're in a
+story, then they should be at the *center* of the story.  Andrea seemed
+to feel that if she was in an episode, the episode should be about her
+character, and was consistently lobbying for this, despite the fact
+that it would cut into the arc, and time for the other characters
+on-screen.  Babylon 5 is an ensemble show; time on screen is determined
+by the story, not by whim or personal insistence.
+
+       Yes, we used her 8 or 9 times in a given season; but by
+contract, we paid her for a full 13 episodes, whether she appeared in
+them or not.  We were never under any obligation to give her *any*
+guarantee; we did so to make her feel comfortable taking on the job. 
+For the first year he was on the show Jeff Conaway didn't have a
+guarantee of episodes; he was used as he was needed, and that grew with
+time.  Andrea wanted time away from the show to do other projects; we
+accommodated where we could, as we do with all our cast members, but if
+a request comes in at the last moment, or conflicts with our schedule,
+we can't comply.  We feel that if we're paying someone a great sum of
+money to be available to us, for episodes they may not even appear in,
+this is not unreasonable.
+
+       Finally, it was never Warner Bros. who hired her or pushed her
+on me. WB didn't care one way or another.  I was the one who hired her,
+with Doug Netter.  If I hadn't felt she was right for the role, I
+wouldn't have hired her.  But I was also under no constraint to make
+the show into the Andrea Thompson Show.  Andreas and Peter have often
+appeared as many times in a season as Andrea, and didn't even *have* a
+guarantee for the first two seasons.  (Now they do.)
+
+       We did what we could to accommodate her without destroying the
+story arc.  I regret that she has taken out her frustrations in this
+way.  Either one is a team player, part of an ensemble, or one is not. 
+We are very proud of the fact that the cast members as they stand now
+are all ensemble, team players.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Arc answers&questions> (05-Mar-96 00:44:53)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Arc answers&questions>

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 00:44:53

+
       Not bad.  Y'know, if I wuz you, I'd send this along to the
+rastb5-info group for archiving.  Helps to answer the yahoos saying
+I've left the arc behind and gone off to Latveria to work for Dr. Doom
+or whatever nonsense is being proffered this week....
+
+       It still tracks.
+
+       Individual threads come and go, but the story still tracks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I want a poster (05-Mar-96 22:56:13)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
I want a poster

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:13

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       We may do some limited posters for the fan club, yes; that's
+all that's on the boards just now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Comic books in U.S.? (05-Mar-96 22:56:14)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Comic books in U.S.?

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:14

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, given this policy, how do you respond to questions
+> emailed to your CIS address?
+
+       It's an awful bind there as well.  Up until now, I've been
+responding to most of my email.  I guess I consider email different
+than a public posting, because anyone can direct email anyone without
+having to use an intermediary to post in a forum.  And it's a private
+communication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<<Point of No Return>> (05-Mar-96 22:56:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<<<Point of No Return>>

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:17

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> The editing was reminiscent (sp?
+
+       I get my drive from Dell Computers.  The software comes from
+the improper allignment of my grey cells.
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Finished Writing! (05-Mar-96 22:56:20)
+
+
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+
Finished Writing!

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:20

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       From your lips to Hugo's ears....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS Interview (05-Mar-96 22:56:21)
+
+
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+
JMS Interview

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:21

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think we're all getting old and cranky.
+
+       Goodness knows I am....
+
+       Unfortunately, I was also young and cranky.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Christoper Fry (01-Mar-96 17:51:15)
+
+
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+
Christoper Fry

+
Date: 01-Mar-96 17:51:15

+
 Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Carter?
+
+       I agree; Fry's work must be read or heard aloud to be most
+fully appreciated.  It has a wonderful cadence, and the vocablary is
+really quite extraordinary.  Some of his imagery is amazing.  I don't
+know if Marcus is so much in that vein as it might be, but there are
+probably some influences here and there.  Certainly when he winds up he
+can pick up some of that cadence....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Comic books in U.S.? (05-Mar-96 22:56:24)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Comic books in U.S.?

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:24

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I absolutely agree on just about every count.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Doors / AI (05-Mar-96 22:56:26)
+
+
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+
B5 Doors / AI

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:26

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       They will usually open automaticaly (from the inside); from the
+outside, you need to use an identicard.  If you ask to enter, the
+person inside has to give the verbal cue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Comic books in U.S.? (05-Mar-96 22:56:27)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Comic books in U.S.?

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:27

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah...it's a very difficult issue, and one I'm still working
+through to find The Right Thing To Do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club (05-Mar-96 22:56:30)
+
+
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+
Fan Club

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:30

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the fan club have an option for the non-netted?
+
+       Yes, the club has to serve netters and non-netters just as
+well, or it's organizationally deficient.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Arc answers&questions> (05-Mar-96 22:56:33)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<Arc answers&questions>

+
Date: 05-Mar-96 22:56:33

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, Lyta was to develop a relationship with the Vorlons from
+the start.
+
+       Some of Garibaldi's past has caught up with him; there is more
+to come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Evidence of an arc <g> (06-Mar-96 00:07:42)
+
+
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+
Evidence of an arc <g>

+
Date: 06-Mar-96 00:07:42

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Let me straighten out two issues.
+
+       On the Sinclair issue, I have never, at any time, said that the
+change was for ratings.  When we decided to make that change, WB
+indicated that they'd like the next person in that chair to be more
+well-known.  We had no problem with that, since we were considering
+Bruce at that time, as he was someone with whom both Doug Netter and
+John Copeland had worked before, and were nuts about.
+
+       Re: Pat Tallman and Lyta...after the pilot, we made an offer to
+Pat for the series.  This is a matter of public record.  Pat can verify
+this. (Which right there puts the lie to the statement that WB didn't
+want her in the series; we *offered* her the series.  We couldn't have
+made that offer if WB didn't want her there.  Pure and simple.)  What
+happened thereafter was a comedy of errors, with WB playing tough-guy
+with *all* the actors agents, and on the other side Pat getting some
+bad advice from a manager just brought on (and subsequently let
+go)...so that the deadline passed for an acceptance, and we had to move
+on.  Pat has said this at cons and online many times over the last
+several years, long before we ever contacted her again about doing the 
+show, so there's no need to take my word for this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Kosh in US History (06-Mar-96 01:44:02)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Kosh in US History

+
Date: 06-Mar-96 01:44:02

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think your friend needs two weeks off in the Martian Pleasure
+Dome.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Enjoying Babylon 5 (06-Mar-96 18:32:44)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Enjoying Babylon 5

+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:44

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  I suggest you download Tapcis and use it; it makes
+sorting through the threads a lot easier.  Welcome to the club.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+PoNR-Hague (06-Mar-96 18:32:50)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
PoNR-Hague

+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:50

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Trying to give the guy the benifit of the doubt (he's had a
+> pretty damn rough last few months after all), but would it not
+> have been professional to at least give you guys a couple of
+> scenes to tie up characters threads?
+
+       It wasn't workable, due to his schedule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Violating Your Privacy (06-Mar-96 18:32:52)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Violating Your Privacy

+
Date: 06-Mar-96 18:32:52

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think that this is some innocent person that reposted a
+> bunch of our material which was then grabbed by the Fullers, or
+> is this some twisted scheme?
+
+       You must understand that because I'm not on rastb5, my info
+comes secondhand.  My understanding, from TF's own statements, is that
+this last round came about because of a mailer generated by people who
+like trying to "mind-phuque" me, of which he is one, and is thus on the
+list.  (The term is his, cleaned up for cis.)
+
+       There are, on the other hand, other lists compiled by people
+who're fans of the show, for general information purposes.  They should
+not be considered in the same way, and as far as I can tell, they are
+going to great lengths to do this the right way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> Spoiler (01-Apr-96 14:07:46)
+
+
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+
Date: 01-Apr-96 14:07:46

+
 Brad Davis <102416.342@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will anyone back on earth recognize the White Star defending
+> Babylon 5 as the same ship that was accused of destroying the
+> base on Ganymeade?
+
+       Probably not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Talking Kosh (01-Apr-96 21:17:12)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01-Apr-96 21:17:12

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"That makes me feel *marginally* better about the universe."
+
+      Good.  So you won't mind that I gave him your address....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Fan Club (06-Apr-96 22:50:39)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:39

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do we have to do to get the fan club applications?
+> Do we have to send a letter, or do we get it if we signed up
+> online, on AOL or the web, a few months back? When should we
+> expect to receive the applications by?
+
+      I'll post the full information this coming week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Stern on B5 (06-Apr-96 22:50:40)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:40

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Howard Stern is a big fan of your show, do you plan on
+> asking him to guest star on B5 sometime?
+
+      No immediate plans for this, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (06-Apr-96 22:50:43)
+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:43

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; you're right, it's the moments that make any good show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (06-Apr-96 22:50:46)
+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:46

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Any work of fiction must, on some level, make you
+*feel* something for the characters, so it isn't just an intellectual
+exercise, or the resolution of the plot.  If you can touch the
+emotions, then you've got something very special.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (06-Apr-96 22:50:48)
+
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<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:48

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> done, is this do?
+
+      Yes, this one had more CGI than anything we've ever done before.
+And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Severed Dreams' (06-Apr-96 22:50:50)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:50

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (06-Apr-96 22:50:51)
+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:51

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  If you've got someone new to the show, who might not
+know the backstory very well, then probably the Michael York episode,
+"A Late Delivery From Avalon" would be a good one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD - Narn Sacrifice> (06-Apr-96 22:50:53)
+
+
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+
<SD - Narn Sacrifice>

+
Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:53

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, the ships kinda turned fast there, but we were just out of
+time in the episode, and had to move it along.
+
+      In any event...thanks for the great comments.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Minbari society> (07-Apr-96 13:50:47)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 13:50:47

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did that look like A'Shan in the Grey Council ship too you, as
+> well?
+
+      That wasn't Ashan, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD :-O > (07-Apr-96 13:50:49)
+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 13:50:49

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did she mean on the WS, or the Grey Council cruiser, or Minbar?
+>  -Was Sandra Hidoshi related to Sinclair's Senator contact in
+> season 1?
+
+      Several corrections to your note:
+
+      1) That was not Ta'Lon in the episode.  He didn't appear
+anywhere in this episode.
+
+      2) Jerry didn't hide his broken arm in the pocket because it
+wasn't broken at that time.  That scene was shot previous to the
+earlier scene (we shoot out of sequence, like all shows).
+
+      3) It's Sandra Hiroshi, not Hidoshi, so no relation to the
+senator.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (01-Apr-96 21:17:14)
+
+
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<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 01-Apr-96 21:17:14

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks; it's a great sequence for Delenn.
+
+      The next episode is kind of clean-up time for some loose threads
+still lying about, then a couple of smaller stories to give us
+breathing space before the next big wave (and it's a doozy).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Severed Dreams? (07-Apr-96 14:15:46)
+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:46

+
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+
+      Well I wouldn't consider the story with Mr. sebastian to be a
+wedding like scene (unless you go to some different sorts of weddings
+than I've ever been to), and the fruit scene (with Sinclair, not
+Sheridan) was primarily a rebirth ceremony, so again, I think the
+"pattern" is perceptual.
+
+      "...can we settle on the fact that the shadows are "bad" or at
+least completely and utterly selfish?"
+
+      You're putting human motivations on an *extremely* alien
+culture, which may have its own reasons for doing what it's doing. 
+(Actually, *everyone* has their reasons for doing what they're doing,
+even the Nazis used the argument of Lebensraum, living space, to
+justify their actions.)  So I won't say we can settle on this, no.
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Severed Dreams>> (07-Apr-96 14:15:48)
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:48

+
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+
+      Thanks.
+
+      Re: Marcus...yes, he was away from the station when all hell
+broke loose; we find him returning in the very next episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (07-Apr-96 14:15:49)
+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:49

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they new?
+> Whose are they?
+
+      Those are the Vree; we saw them in season one, in Deathwalker.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (07-Apr-96 14:15:52)
+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:52

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Will you give all you can give so that our battle may advance?
+> Some will fall and some will live; will you stand up and take the
+> chance?"
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, the older I get, the more I realize there are
+things you can do with silence you can't do with words, though I still
+love the form of the speech.  There was a lot of counterpoint in this
+episode, a tool I'm still playing with as a writer; eventually I'll
+figure out how to really use it properly.  (Though there's an
+interesting scene up later this season using another kind of ironic
+counterpoint which I think works pretty well.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (07-Apr-96 14:15:54)
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:54

+
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+
+      All of them....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (07-Apr-96 14:15:57)
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:57

+
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+
+      Thanks.  I agree, Bruce has definitely made the role his own. 
+It's a slow and difficult process for any actor, but he's done very
+well at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (07-Apr-96 14:15:58)
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:15:58

+
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+
+      I'd have to check my figures, which are at the office, and I'm
+at home, but I *think* we've got about 600 crew and support on a
+Minbari cruiser.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ceremonies Question> (07-Apr-96 14:16:02)
+
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+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:16:02

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" why did G'Kar not accept
+> Delenn's invitation to the Rebirth Ceremony? G'Kar been trying for
+> awhile to become part of the army of light, why would he turn
+> down a chance to get closer to Delenn?
+
+      Because he saw the actual co-running of security, and their
+duties, more important...that is physical, and concrete, and he feels
+is his surest way to win a seat in the new council.  Actions, not
+ceremonies.  He's very direct that way.  (Which is pretty much what he
+said at the time.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ceremonies-Delenn> (07-Apr-96 14:16:03)
+
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+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:16:03

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Ceremonies of Light and DarK" Lennier says that Delenn is
+> destined for another, is this part of the prophesy?
+
+      It is now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD: Praise & Questions> (07-Apr-96 14:16:05)
+
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+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:16:05

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> a) Will those Minbari warships be staying with Babylon 5?
+> b) Was that Minbari that Delenn talked to beofre meeting with the
+> Grey Council the same one as in "There All the Honour Lies"?
+
+      No, the Minbari wasn't Ashan, no.  And yes, the Minbari war
+cruisers will be staying for a while...but they know they can't rely on
+Minbari protectino forever.  They have to take control of the
+situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 - TV Guide Contest (01-Apr-96 22:03:25)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01-Apr-96 22:03:25

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Y'know...it's a wacky idea, but It Just Might Work....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (07-Apr-96 14:33:21)
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:33:21

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      "JMS is on an anti-typcasting crusade."
+
+      That's actually true, in a lot of ways.  My sense is that here
+we have many actors who created enduring works because they were good
+at what they did; they're *good actors*.  But because they were so good
+at it, they got typecast as only able to play that.  How many people
+snickered, wrongly, when they heard Walter was going to be Bester? 
+"Chekhov in the Psi Corps," was the usual lament.
+
+      Until they *saw* him.  And saw what he could do.
+
+      To work against the typecasting is simply payment on a debt to
+those who created enduring characters.  And I'll continue to do it
+wherever and whenever I can.  (Look for Robert England in an upcoming
+episode playing a very different sort of character than he's played
+elsewhere lately.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD - MAJOR error> (07-Apr-96 14:33:23)
+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 14:33:23

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How would Delenn know about B5 declaring independence, and know
+> that they needed help?
+
+      Real simple.  Lennier was still on-station.  All she had to do
+was check in with him en route and find out.  Also, she went to the
+council for the purpose of getting military support because she knew
+heavy stuff was coming down, in one form or another.  Knowing that "the
+humans are fighting one another" as she said to the council, it's
+evident that if they didn't come to B5 that day, they'd come shortly
+thereafter.
+
+      So no, not a major error at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:20

+
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+
+      We shot the last scene with the cane *before* we shot the scene
+in which Jerry broke his arm.  It costs way too much to go back and
+reshoot.  At the time we shot the later scene, he hadn't yet broken his
+arm.
+
+      And G'Kar isn't all the way in yet; he wants to be, but so far
+he's still being held at arm's length a bit...he may make an issue of
+this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:23

+
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+      No, the story is not from a novel.  It's all original.  Nothing
+from it has ever been published.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:30

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is there a reason she wanted Sheridan's part in the Conspiracy of
+> Light kept under wraps, but expected something very different
+> from the Grey Council? Wouldn't that have jeopardized the chances
+> for success for the Conspiracy of Light? Secondly, I'm curious as
+> to whether the three Minbari warships are the sum of the fleet
+> the Religious and Worker Castes have at their disposal? Anybody
+> ever tell you your stories are addictive? ?
+
+      Thanks.  The Grey Council could've taken a lot more action to be
+supportive behind the scenes, getting the warrior caste more involved
+with the rangers, giving aid to the non-aligned worlds...there was a
+LOT they could have been doing all this time that wouldn't have
+required tipping their hand. Instead they sat and did nothing.  And
+now, with B5 on the edge of falling, to say it's not their problem was
+too much.  Now is the time they have to start coming forward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:35

+
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+
+      In a sense, it's going from one emotion or thematic element to a
+very different, but equally strong one, either as bookends or through
+intercutting. Going from the high of the victory, to the sudden shot of
+the dead troops, is thematic counterpoint.
+
+      Here's another...in "Cabaret" you've got a scene where the
+performers in the Cabaret are doing the sort of German dance where you
+slap your knees and thighs and chest...and they take it a bit further,
+slapping one another, it's all for comic effect...but during this,
+you're intercutting the owner of the cabaret being beaten to within an
+inch of his life by some Brownshirts outside.  You go from comic to
+brutal and back, with the result that the happy little dance suddenly
+takes on ugly characteristics, and the beating takes on the sense that
+the participants are having a sick kind of fun, that it's all just
+another kind of dance, a ritual.
+
+      That's what you have to look at as a writer...how this scene
+works, and how it interacts with the scenes in front, behind and
+"beside" it (for things happening simultaneously).  Sometimes, with the
+proper counterpoint, you can add whole new levels of meaning to a
+scene, or make the scene much stronger than it would've been on its
+own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:39

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why have we not seen any scenes showing the people in the
+> opposing forces?
+
+      We haven't seen those scenes because we don't know anyone there
+really, and in an hour show you only have so much time, and within our
+budget we only can do so much.  Every speaking role you add costs
+thousands of dollars. Every set costs thousands of dollars.
+
+      We're doing the absolute best we can with a budget roughly 1/2
+of any of the ST episodes.
+
+      If it isn't *absolutely necessary* to the scene, it isn't in. 
+Yeah, seeing some folks in EA talking back and forth about well, maybe
+this isn't a good idea, maybe it is, well, let's get back to
+work...it'd be an interesting aside, but in addition to slowing down
+the pace of the episode, and this one had to move like a house afire,
+it's just not something I felt we could or should do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (07-Apr-96 21:49:40)
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:40

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Also, was his arm in a cast during that scene at the end?
+> Was General Hague played by Robert Foxworth in earlier episodes?
+
+      Because we shot the cane scene *before* the fight scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:42

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will we see Anna Sheridan before the end of the story?
+
+      You're absolutely right.  I didn't answer that question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Thanks back at you....
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+       A talking na'ka'leen feeder can ask a question like this...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:47

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You ignored the question, "Was what was going on in real Earth
+> History about 1000 years ago relevant?" Note, when Delan says the
+> last war was 1000 years ago, was that Earth or Minbar years? Was
+> this intentional?
+
+      No, that period on Earth was not terribly significant to the
+arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:48

+
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+
+      Harlan does pretty much whatever Harlan wants.
+
+      As for the fight, ships on either side would have FOF (Friend Or
+Foe) displays tied into the ID of their own squadrons to minimize
+friendly fire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:51

+
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+
+      It's a new bomber...and don't be misled, the next 7 episodes are
+all new.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Ceremonies<< (07-Apr-96 21:49:52)
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+
Date: 07-Apr-96 21:49:52

+
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+
+      Thanks.  What you say about relationships is quite true.  The
+slow process of getting to know somebody, the courtship, the parries
+and feints and false starts are 85% of the fun.  It's the process of
+getting into somebody's mind, discovering who they are.  And that's
+what these two are doing.  It's an awful lot of fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 00:53:26

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Because of the success of your anti-type casting, has there been
+> any kind of surge of actors wanting to be included in the B5
+> epic?
+
+      No, not really...mainly because we're still not very visible to
+most agents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Yeah.  Bill kept bugging me to put him in a scene with June, but
+I just felt it'd get in the way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:42

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> _Why_ is she doing this?
+> And what will Sheridan's reaction be if and when he finds out?
+> Also, when you said we'll see Anna soon but not in this batch of
+> episodes, did you mean we'll see her at least by the end of this
+> season?
+
+       I'm in the awful situation of not being able to answer either
+of those questions without giving away something major.  All I can say
+is that Delenn has good reasons, or what she thinks are good reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>Severed Dreams/Kurosawa (08-Apr-96 14:00:44)
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:44

+
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+
+       Thanks.  I agree with you about Garibaldi; it has to be treated
+properly and with weight.
+
+       Actually, I've never seen Ran, though it's on my list of films
+to see when I get enough round tuits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:45

+
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+
+       Thanks, and may you only continue to keep saying that....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:48

+
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+
+       I hope nobody takes this the wrong way....but I think some of
+the earlier slowness in the first season episodes has something to do
+with being ST-programmed.  It's a pacing we've all kind of gotten used
+to, lots of standing around and discussing stuff, and for everyone
+concerned, particularly the freelancers, it's a *very* hard mindset to
+break.  It took a while to work that out of everyone's system so we
+could concentrate on telling a story the way only we can.
+
+       Also, bear in mind that the first season or so we had to spend
+a lot of time establishing our universe, the politics, history and so
+on, so that the events we're seeing now would have some weight.  Now
+that we've done all that, laid the foundation, we can just rip along at
+top speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 02-Apr-96 17:52:14

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How long is a day on B5?
+> Does it take 24 hrs for B5 to rotate?
+
+       No, but it's kept to 24 hours on B5 in order to sync up with
+Earth back home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:51

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How do they protect the station from damage caused by collisions
+> with debris, and do they even attempt to gather up the remains of
+> the dead floating around out there?
+
+       We've shown clean-up crews before outside, including a hazmat
+station that goes out to clear away fuel cores or other toxic material.
+They would've been dispatched for this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:56

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Then we both wondered whether the plasma weapons tend to
+> cauterize and seal the wounds???
+
+       Correct, PPG bursts, being superheated helium, tend to
+cauterize the wounds as they go through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:00:59

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Who is loyal and who is traitor?
+
+       Actually, yes, I tend to ask for musical counterpoint in the
+show from time to time.  For instance, when Sheridan et al were going
+to the area where the crowd was waiting, I told Chris to fool us...give
+us an ominous sounding sting going into what's going to be a very "up"
+scene.  In the battle earlier on, when you'd normally do something fast
+and exciting, I asked him to give me something more somber, to pull out
+the Requiem theme in a few places. Sometimes, in other shows, I ask for
+music that works against a scene to control the emotional core of it;
+if it's a bit too silly, perhaps, then I go for a more serious musical
+cue to balance it out.  Where a scene would seem to ask for major keys,
+I go for minor chords.
+
+       It's all just part of the tapestry.
+
+       (BTW, a little secret...just for fun, I wrote a couple of songs
+that you'll be hearing in an upcoming episode.  I used to write songs
+here and there, even did a couple for an ABC prime-time special, and
+figured I'd try it again.  I wrote the lyrics, discussed the music with
+Chris, and he took care of the score, and it's about what I first
+conceived.  Came out pretty well, actually.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:02

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       True; he would, and does have other photos.  But would you
+entrust a prized photo in Mr. Morden's hands...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon cereal (08-Apr-96 14:01:04)
+
+
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+Search
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+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:04

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondering, what is your favorite brand of Cereal?
+
+       Kellogg's Raisin Bran.  (Usually laden with blueberries and
+raspberries.)
+
+       What a very odd question.
+
+       (I suspect that if I'd said Cap'n Crunch I'd've lost the
+respect of everyone in the group.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (08-Apr-96 14:01:06)
+
+
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+
>>Severed Dreams<<

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:06

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, just a member of the warrior caste making sure one he
+considered a friend *really* wanted to do this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+More SD Praise (08-Apr-96 14:01:07)
+
+
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+
More SD Praise

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:07

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, that's about what we hope we are, and will become.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (08-Apr-96 14:01:10)
+
+
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<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:10

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you ever actually write for "V" other than the script posted
+> here?
+
+       No, I had no involvement in V2 (which is simultaneously and
+appropriately the term for the series, and the German rocket-bomb that
+plagued Britain).  I just knew of Robert's work in general.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (08-Apr-96 14:01:13)
+
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<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:13

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       It would've worked, but the scene would've forever been about
+the mini-LIS reunion.  If it isn't important to the story, it shouldn't
+be there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (08-Apr-96 14:01:15)
+
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<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:01:15

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, Dukhat was killed at the start of the Minbari war (that
+*caused* the Minbari war), and the Council did without a leader for a
+long time.  She was taught and sponsored by Dukhat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Barney vs. The Shadows (02-Apr-96 17:52:15)
+
+
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+
Barney vs. The Shadows

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 17:52:15

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> but who the hell knows??
+> In getting worried?
+> Do you concur with these opinions?
+
+       Actually, I'd say the song is just about right...mostly.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+J. Michael Straczynski (08-Apr-96 14:18:27)
+
+
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+
J. Michael Straczynski

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:18:27

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, the moderated group is now up and running.  It's a
+lot of fun.  rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5: The Other Side (08-Apr-96 14:18:30)
+
+
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+
B5: The Other Side

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 14:18:30

+
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+
+       Bear in mind that if we had gone over to the other captains and
+what was going on in the other ships, to make room for those scenes we
+would've had to cut anywhere from 3-5 minutes of the other stuff.  You
+can't just add to the show's time; if that goes in, something else has
+to come out.  So you'd probably have to cut the scene between Sheridan
+and his father since that was the only stand-alone set piece.
+
+       Any time you write something, you must decide "who is it
+about?" This episode was about *our characters*, the ones we've come to
+care about, and how they deal with this.  To take away from that and
+spend time with people we've never seen before, and won't see again,
+would be to cheat our characters of the time on screen needed to pay
+off all the things we've set up over the years.
+
+       Would it have been an interesting aside to show the other
+captains? Sure.  In a movie, with an open-ended running time, I
+probably would have. But there's nothing I would want to cut out of the
+episode as it now stands to make room for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Universes: ST vs. B5 (08-Apr-96 18:53:38)
+
+
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+
Universes: ST vs. B5

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:38

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something we can expect MAY happen by the end of this
+> group of 8 episodes?
+
+       Could be....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (08-Apr-96 18:53:39)
+
+
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+
<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:39

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I was kind of afraid that after the big Stuff Blowing
+Up Episode, anything afterward would be a let down because it couldn't
+have the same level of huge action (without killing everyone making the
+show).  So the way to deal with that is to go in an entirely different
+direction; I was hoping that'd work, and glad that so far it has.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5: The Other Side (08-Apr-96 18:53:41)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:41

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of talking WB into some sort of two-hour special at
+> some highlight of the arc, or is this just too difficult in
+> syndication?
+
+       It's too difficult to sell a one-shot thing like that in
+syndication, I've been told.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams battle> (08-Apr-96 18:53:43)
+
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+
<Severed Dreams battle>

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:43

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Another thing I was wondering about was, how long is an act in
+> viewing time? What is considered an act?
+
+       An act is a discrete dramatic unit separated by commercials
+front and back.  An act can be anywhere from 6-11 minutes as a rule;
+act 4 of SD was about 8:20, as I recall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (08-Apr-96 18:53:44)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:44

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I realize that this is not another household, but my son will now
+> start raving to his friends at school, so who knows? Question,
+> will we learn more about the fate of Anna Sheridan this season? 
+> Will we see more of Sinclair after this season?
+
+       Thanks...and we'll certainly hear more about Anna Sheridan's
+fate this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comic Disappointment (08-Apr-96 18:53:47)
+
+
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+
Comic Disappointment

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:47

+
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+
+       Thanks.  As for Sandman...well, Neil's a special case in every
+sense of the word.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+J. Michael Straczynski (08-Apr-96 18:53:48)
+
+
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+
J. Michael Straczynski

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:48

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What would be the average message load if I wanted to start
+> reading the new group?
+
+       I think the moderated group has had about 1800 messages so far
+since it went on-line last week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Universes: ST vs. B5 (08-Apr-96 18:53:51)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:51

+
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+
+       Actually, though, because he *did* have his hand in his pocket,
+it let me handle the break in the next episode without stretching
+credulity too far. It was...well...I guess you'd call that part of it a
+lucky break.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Effects (02-Apr-96 17:52:16)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 02-Apr-96 17:52:16

+
 Mark <70004.1111@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What kind of medium are you dumping the 24 bit data to?
+> How much "hard drive" space does say a 10 second efx shot take
+> up? You wouldn't happen to have the raw data of a Shadow ship
+> hanging around would ya?
+
+       ...urk...math...technospeak.....(thud)
+
+       That's a Ron question.  Rendering not Zathras' skill.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Supportability Issues (08-Apr-96 18:53:54)
+
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+
B5 Supportability Issues

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 18:53:54

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Now that they are cut off from Earth, how will they support
+> themselves? How will they support these?
+> By the way, how do they get back into the station?
+
+       Fighters re-enter via the main docking bay and are recharged
+and lowered into the fighter bays.
+
+       No question, spare parts would be a problem, and they'll have
+to cannibalize a lot (plus whatever they scrounged up from the fighters
+blown apart outside).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+combat ops: StarFuries (08-Apr-96 19:04:19)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 19:04:19

+
 Rex Brynen <75040.472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Given the ease of tracking objects in space, the absence of
+> factors affecting projectile weapons trajectories, and the
+> possible use of beam weapons, wouldn't (capital) shipboard
+> countermeasures have a decisive advantage? If they don't, wouldn't
+> it be better to "swarm" ship defences with automated missiles of
+> some sort? 2) Given their size, could they really deliver much
+> firepower? If they could, shouldn't "carriers" (such as the EA
+> destroyers in SD) deploy their fighter squandrons at some
+> distance from the intended target? And screen themselves from
+> enemy counterattack? 3) At StarFury speeds, wouldn't some form of
+> guided missile be preferable to line-of-sight projectile or pulse
+> weapons for fighter-to-fighter combat?
+
+       Starfuries serve a *lot* of functions which we've shown before
+on the series.
+
+       They can take out a ship's defensive screens and
+countermeasures, allowing access by the big ships' armaments.  In a
+group, they can take out a good sized ship on their own (a la the
+Centauri cruiser in "Fall of Night"). They also serve to protect the
+station's defense grid from aggressor starfuries.
+
+       Also, a number of small support ships, including a Hyperion
+class ship came through as part of the "carrier group" that went after
+the station.  It was up to the starfuries to take care of those ships
+while B5 and the other destroyers took out the biggest threats.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SD: The Roanoke (08-Apr-96 23:11:22)
+
+
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+
SD: The Roanoke

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:22

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did the Earth Alliance destroyer, Roanoke come by its name?
+
+      Well, Roanoke is a place rich with history.  Some of it a little
+odd, given the colony's disappearance, but rich nonetheless.  (Clark
+has edged away from giving Omega class destroyers and others names from
+Greek mythology and history, toward more conventional names like the
+Clarkstown and the Roanoke.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Outstanding job (08-Apr-96 23:11:24)
+
+
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+
Outstanding job

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:24

+
 John Bendel [MA] <73447.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were they wearing new uniforms as it appeared?
+
+      Thanks.
+
+      Re: Foxworth...it was really the only thing to do.  I'd created
+the character *specifically* to have him available for this episode,
+after which he'd basically fade away while others took up his standard.
+It was all leading up to this.  Without being in this episode, there
+was nothing more to do with Hague, hence I felt quite comfortable with
+his fate, it changed nothing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ed Wasser (08-Apr-96 23:11:27)
+
+
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+
Ed Wasser

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:27

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Morden wearing a crystal was Ed Wasser's idea and not yours, will
+> the crystal have any importance to the character in the future?
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Star Furies (08-Apr-96 23:11:28)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:28

+
 Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does everyone tell enemy Furies from friend Furies?
+> Don't they all look the same?
+
+      FOF...Friend Or Foe systems on board the furies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mechanical evolution? (08-Apr-96 23:11:30)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:30

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you design your ships so that the more advanced they get, the
+> more animal-like they become? Kind of like backwards evolution, we
+> start out animal-like, then become more mechanical, then the
+> mechanics become animal-like?
+
+      Certainly as they get more sophisticated, when just *doing it*
+isn't the main goal, a certain level of aesthetics comes into play. 
+Compare an early Model T to a modern Corvette, for instance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (08-Apr-96 23:11:33)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:33

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+         Basically, the warrior caste doesn't think it's their war;
+there's also a certain amount of resentment in it, I think...they *led*
+the last war, they *did* their job, and got yanked back and forced to
+surrender.  That was a terrible blow to their pride, caused in part by
+an alien race, so their attitude now tends to be more or less, "Screw
+'em."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (08-Apr-96 23:11:35)
+
+
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<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+      But really, can *anyone* under 6'2" *really* be a manly man?
+
+                                                      jms (6' 4-1/2")
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+General Hague <Spoiler> (08-Apr-96 23:11:38)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
General Hague <Spoiler>

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:11:38

+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the show in great danger now, or did the story just happen to
+> be written at a time of some chaos, which has now passed?
+
+      The article portrayed, and somewhat overstated, the events of
+last year. (I take some of the blame for this; I may have spoken
+unwisely in a few places.)
+
+      The main problem overall right now, for *every* syndicated show,
+is that the available time slots are just totally disappearing, thanks
+to committments to WBN, UPN and Fox.  They just yanked Lonsesome Dove
+even though the ratings were good, and the show was a good show, simply
+because they couldn't find enough berths on independent stations to
+make it worth it for the national advertisers.
+
+      It's certainly a dark cloud on the horizon; we'll just have to
+see whether it blows past harmlessly or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Time on B5 (02-Apr-96 19:16:02)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Time on B5

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 19:16:02

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Isn't B5 a group effort of many worlds?
+> Why should Earth dominate?
+
+       Nope.  B5 is not "a group effort of many worlds."  The Earth
+Alliance funded the construction on all the Babylon stations, accepting
+a little extra money from the Minbari and the Centauri toward the end
+to help finish B5.  The currency is regulated in terms of Earth
+credits, the laws in the Ombuds courtroom are Earth laws (except as
+they encounter cultural laws between members of the same species), it's
+Earth Alliance Station Babylon 5, and so on.  Is it fair?  Probably
+not.  But that's how Earth wants it, and Earth runs, finances, oversees
+and built B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Cancellation RUMOR (08-Apr-96 23:25:08)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 Cancellation RUMOR

+
Date: 08-Apr-96 23:25:08

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Okay, Horse's Mouth time.
+
+      We have not, repeat, not been canceled.  Right now, WB has
+bought covers of newspaper TV magazines in over 80 cities that'll debut
+over the next couple of weeks; they've also invested a huge amount of
+money in a series of radio and TV spots that'll be airing on cable and
+indie stations over the next 6 weeks.  They're currently running the B5
+contest.  Several stations have announced that they're going to go back
+to double-running B5 twice a week.
+
+      Do you think they would do this for a show that's been canceled?
+
+      They don't.  They cut their losses and run like hell.
+
+      This is a jumble of information.  Yes, PTEN seems to be going
+away; I've been saying this on the nets for the last several months,
+and that we're going to move into straight syndication.  Someone has
+apparently taken this and blown it all out of proportion.
+
+      Every season, somebody announces that they've heard it on
+absolutely firm grounds that we've been canceled.  Hasn't happened yet.
+We've had our ups and downs, like any other show, but we're still here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (09-Apr-96 02:37:36)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 02:37:36

+
+The following information has just been released by Jim Lochett,
+coordinator for the OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB.  (Note to
+convention organizers: the address given below can now be used
+as a central clearing house for invitations to cast and crew.)
+
+                                ***
+
+                  THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB
+
+Join today and you will receive the Official Membership Kit,
+including:
+
+     A Subscription to The Universe Today: The Official Newsletter of the
+     B5FC filled with exclusive interviews, news about Babylon 5, and
+     exciting merchandise offers.
+     An 8x10 Cast Photo
+     Full Color Babylon 5 Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+     B5 Fan Club Button & Full Color Sticker
+     Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers, J.
+     Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+     Membership ID Card granting you discounts on merchandise, conventions,
+     etc., as well as access to the Members Only section of TheStation.com,
+     the B5 Fan Club Web-site (to be up May 1996).
+     Plus as a bonus, the first 100 people to join get:
+     A Limited Collection Sticker of the alternate B5 Logo as designed by
+     artist Peter Ledger.
+ ================
+
+To Give a Membership as a Gift, simply make a copy of the entry form,
+fill in the name of the person you wish to make a member, and send it
+off. (Don't forget to include your name on the Suggestions line, so
+that we can include a gift card.)
+
+Each year the Renewal Kit will offer new and different goodies,
+savings, and of course another year's subscription to The Universe
+Today.
+
+Remember, this is more than just your run of the mill fan club; the
+Babylon 5 fans time and time again have gone that extra step for the
+show, and the Babylon 5 Fan Club is our way of giving something back to
+those who've been so loyal to us.
+
+ ---------------  CLIP OR COPY AND GIVE TO A FRIEND  -----------------
+
+YES!  I want to join The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club.  Please send my
+membership kit to:
+
+Name:    ______________________________________________________________
+
+Age:     __________
+
+Address: ______________________________________________________________
+
+City:    _____________________________ State:  _________ ZIP: _________
+
+Country: _____________
+
+e-mail address: _______________________________________________________
+
+Local Station you watch B5 on: ________________________________________
+
+Suggestions: __________________________________________________________
+
+ ______________________________________________________________________
+
+ _____ I am already on the mailing list.
+
+ _____ I got this form from a friend.
+
+Enclosed is $12.95 for a U.S. membership; $14.95 for a Canadian
+membership; and $19.95 for Foreign memberships.  Orders must be in U.S.
+funds. Send check or money order (DO NOT send cash) made payable to:
+
+Babylonian Productions/Fan Club
+
+Mail to:  The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club
+          PO Box 856
+          North Hollywood, CA 91603
+
+Please allow 5-6 weeks for delivery.  Foreign and Canadian orders are
+shipped surface, please allow additional time for shipping.
+
+All returned checks are subject to a $15.00 service charge.
+
+ ----------------  CUT HERE FOR THE END OF THE FORM  -------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (09-Apr-96 02:43:13)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 02:43:13

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       That was because there were so MANY of them; our PPG bursts
+usually take a great deal of work.  If we'd given all of them in this
+scene that amount of work, we'd still be doing them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Previews (09-Apr-96 02:43:14)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 Previews

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 02:43:14

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A quick question: Do you know why WB/PTEN isn't bothering to put
+> previews for the next new episode at the end of B5 anymore? What
+> gives?
+
+       The space usually taken by the B5 preview is now being used up
+by the WB B5 contest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD, visual images> (09-Apr-96 02:43:16)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<SD, visual images>

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 02:43:16

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, this is the second time she's appeared before them in
+more colorful garb.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (09-Apr-96 02:43:17)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Date: 09-Apr-96 02:43:17

+
 Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ah, is it "the taller, the manlier"?
+> Dang, how come my 6'7" son isn't dating?
+
+       Because anything over 6'6" is unnatural.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Cancelled Rumor (09-Apr-96 12:14:00)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 Cancelled Rumor

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 12:14:00

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope.  Not true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+J. Michael Straczynski (09-Apr-96 12:14:02)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
J. Michael Straczynski

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 12:14:02

+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it just that you genuinely enjoy chatting about your show
+> enough to take the negative comments along with the praise? BTW,
+> how are the wrists doing?
+
+       Why?  Why not?
+
+       I was on CIS and GEnie long before B5 got going.  I figured,
+why change my habits just because now I was supposedly a vip?  (And I'm
+not always comfortable with that designation.)
+
+       Beyond that, my job as a writer is to know as much as I can
+about my characters and universe.  In answering all these questions, I
+learn more about those areas, which helps me.
+
+       Finally, it's a matter of being accessible and *accountable* to
+fans, as I'd wished producers had been when I was primarily a viewer. 
+SF fans are generally the most exploited sorts of fans...you're told to
+line up, watch the show, buy the merchandise, and shut up.  I didn't
+like it then, and I don't like it any better now that I'm on the other
+side of the lens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SD: Boarding Party (09-Apr-96 12:14:04)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
SD: Boarding Party

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 12:14:04

+
 Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was the decision making process behind the costuming of the
+> EarthForce boarding party? How does that go again, and who said
+> it?
+
+       Exactly.  These aren't perfect or superior people...they're
+just like us, faced with the same problems we're faced with.  What's
+inspiring is seeing that people just like us *can* overcome these
+things...at great price, yes, with great difficulty, yes, but if we
+decide to act, we can succeed.
+
+       And yes, instead of going for a sinister EA look, I wanted the
+uniforms to be something we're used to, "our side," as you say.  There
+aren't many blacks-and-whites on this show.  It's all greys...and
+sometimes olive drab.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+This season so far (09-Apr-96 12:14:06)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
This season so far

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 12:14:06

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is there a spoiler sheet for the episodes that have aired so far
+> this season?
+
+       We're not on UPN, by the way, though some UPN stations carry
+us.
+
+       Try the Lurker's Guide, http://hyperion.com, which has synopses
+of all B5 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5:New pricey toys (02-Apr-96 19:16:04)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5:New pricey toys

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 19:16:04

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, all Bandai has to do is make WB an offer, and if the
+details work, they'll do the models.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 v Star Trek (09-Apr-96 12:42:18)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 v Star Trek

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 12:42:18

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Let me tell you about a certain kind of sickness.
+
+       The sickness manifests itself in pathetic individuals who, in a
+non-electronic forum, would be lighting cats on fire to watch them
+howl, or throwing rocks through somebody's window to see them all run
+out.
+
+       A few very sad, very pathetic individuals who want to feel
+alive come into a forum and leave a message written in insulting terms
+because they like to watch everybody get all wired up.  They sit back
+and giggle and laugh and wonder gee, whatever was it I said? when they
+know exactly what they said.  It was done deliberately, to manipulate
+people and get them upset.
+
+       You have no interest in a "survey."  You're a sick, sad and
+pathetic individual with nothing more in his life than the need to
+tweak people who follow a show that for whatever disturbed reason you
+feel should be attacked in the name of Star Trek, even though that
+means violating every principle of tolerance ever advanced in ST.
+
+       Some here will probably tell you to get a life.  I would
+suggest that you have a life...unfortunately, it consists of the kind
+of life where one spends one's time pulling the wings off flies because
+you like to see them squirm around on the table.
+
+       And most pathetically, you've probably never even watched the
+show, to bolster your opinion.  Maybe a minute or two here and there. 
+But getting the facts doesn't matter.  Getting people's opinions
+doesn't matter to you, really.  Just causing a flurry of angry messages
+and upsetting people is all that really matters to you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+First Contact (09-Apr-96 17:58:04)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
First Contact

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:04

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will B5 ever address in its universe why the alien races waited
+> so long before making first contact with Earth? Did EA have to
+> pass some technology test to get contacted by the Centauri? Or,
+> did they just come across us accidently and try to exploit us for
+> their own political purposes?
+
+       Yeah, I'll probably try to get to it, but the basic reality is
+that nobody really either knew or cared much that we were here...we
+were kind of off the beaten track.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 v Star Trek (09-Apr-96 17:58:08)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 v Star Trek

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:08

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       "I tried to give people a motive to send their vote to me."
+
+       You could have accomplished exactly the same thing by just
+asking. And I'm sorry, when someone calls a show a "cheap knockoff,"
+and derides those who might actually watch it, it makes your statement
+that you "did not intend to offend" rather...unbelievable, at best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (09-Apr-96 17:58:09)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:09

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is there any chance that the fan club will start accepting credit
+> cards?
+
+       Unfortunately, we're a small operation, and not yet set up for
+credit cards.  With luck, we'll eventually be set up that way.  (Once
+the web site is up and running, it's our hope to have it credit card
+ready, so you could perhaps wait for that if it's a burden for now.  It
+should be up within about a month.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (09-Apr-96 17:58:16)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:16

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is the fan club going to have its own e-mail address?
+
+       Eventually we'll have our own web site, probably within the
+coming month, which will provide some rather nifty services....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Effects record question (09-Apr-96 17:58:17)
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Effects record question

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Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:17

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I don't know...I wouldn't *think* we beat the record...but it's
+possible that we did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Cancellation RUMOR (09-Apr-96 17:58:20)
+
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B5 Cancellation RUMOR

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:20

+
 Chris Biebel <102414.3341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that B5 will now have a standard time and day so
+> that I won't have to check the listings every week to make sure
+> it hasn't been moved?
+
+       No, scheduling still remains at the whim of the station.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (09-Apr-96 17:58:22)
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B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:22

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yeah, we could've gone for something more expensive,
+but our sense for now is to make it as accessible as possible, not to
+turn this into a big profit venture.  This will about cover the
+expenses, after a certain number of memberships, or a little less.  But
+that's okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+SD: The Roanoke (09-Apr-96 17:58:25)
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Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:25

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When is the 'Elvis' going to be leading an attack?
+
+       As soon as I can find a pair of blue suede cruisers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 at SyndiCon SF (09-Apr-96 17:58:27)
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B5 at SyndiCon SF

+
Date: 09-Apr-96 17:58:27

+
 John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know your schedule at syndiCon for the coming weekend?
+
+       I haven't heard a final schedule, but I'd imagine one day will
+be much like the next.  (Yes, planning to bring the blooper.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Severed Dreams' (02-Apr-96 19:16:05)
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'Severed Dreams'

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 19:16:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 v Star Trek (09-Apr-96 18:07:52)
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Date: 09-Apr-96 18:07:52

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       One also doesn't yell "Fire!" in a movie theater in Los Angeles
+because people will shoot at you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Universes: ST vs. B5 (10-Apr-96 00:20:17)
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Universes: ST vs. B5

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:17

+
 Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was _lucky_ ?
+
+      "...the way your mind works can be *really* scary."
+
+      Why, thank you...that's the nicest thing anyone's said about me
+in days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS question (10-Apr-96 00:20:26)
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JMS question

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:26

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What is your perspective??????
+> Do you believe that we are all here due to one big happy (or
+> unhappy) accident? From your perspective -- what is the meaning to
+> life? Where does it come from then?
+> Can I assume that at some point in your life that you did belong
+> to a religious faith? What brought you to the conclusion that
+> there is no god?
+
+      I declined to answer this privately because I'm really and
+honestly leery of spreading, or trying to spread, or being perceived as
+trying to spread my own notions about.  What works for me, works for
+me; your mileage may (and obviously does) vary.  What I do or don't
+believe shouldn't enter into it.  That's why I've deliberately left it
+*out* of the show. Otherwise you're not telling a story anymore, you're
+engaging in propagandxa.  But if you're going to press the issue....
+
+      As a writer, I don't feel it's my obligation to be fair to every
+group on the planet.  That way madness lies.  But I do feel that it is
+my absolute obligation to be *honest* in my portrayal of any group, as
+well as I am able to perceive it.  If I write about a Minbari, then I
+must be as honest I can in addressing who that character is, what he
+feels, what he believes, and so on.
+
+      So why should it seem such a leap that, as an atheist, I do the
+same when it comes to religion?  I suppose the question itself is the
+truly astonishing thing...that it should seem strange or unusual to be
+even handed and at least *try* to be honest.  Have we dropped so much
+as a culture that the absence of pushing one's own agenda, and giving
+an honest hearing of someone else's viewpoint, is considered
+extraordinary?
+
+      "The weaving of religion and scifi in your show is so well done.
+Where does it come from then?"  It comes from the characters who
+believe in whichever religion is under consideration.  If I am fairly
+rigorous in presenting the scientific or extrapolative aspects of the
+show, what then is odd about this other part?
+
+      As a writer, it's my obligation to put myself in the mind of my
+characters, and feel what they feel, and while I'm in their head,
+believe what they believe.  If I do my job right, I offer those
+opinions and thoughts and feelings with conviction, sincerity and
+strength.
+
+      Also, bear in mind that the religious impulse is not that far
+removed from the sense of wonder of a scientist on unlocking a
+particularly thorny DNA code.  (Note: science and religion are NOT the
+same thing, their methodologies are diametrically opposed, and
+creationism is NOT science, and evolution is NOT religion, however much
+some might wish to make it so by saying it is.) The emotion is the core
+truth of it all, what it *feels* like.  We've all experienced the sense
+of wonder in one form or another; it's no major task to translate it to
+another venue.
+
+      The religious impulse, and the scientific impulse, both spring
+from the same source...the desire to answer the questions, Who am I? 
+What am I doing here? and Where am I going?  Those had to be the very
+first questions we began asking when we became sentient, and we're
+still asking them.  The supernatural or religious approach to that
+question came first; the scientific approach much later.  The
+scientific approach is, "How can I figure out the answer to the
+question?"  The religious impulse leads you to, "Who can tell me the 
+answer to the question?"
+
+      The one approach is not intrinsically better than the other;
+they feed very different needs.  And the whole point of *asking* the
+question is to feed that particular emotional need for an answer.  You
+find the venue that most matches the wellspring of your desire.  They
+serve vastly different functions, are not comparable, but are no less
+valid experiences for those involved.  The core feeling of a scientist
+on receiving the first images from the surface of Mars are not far
+removed from the feelings of the newly converted upon stepping forth at
+a revival meeting.  Each gets what he *needs*.  And each is an
+honorable pursuit within its own framework.
+
+      "What brought you to the conclusion that there is no god?"  That
+I haven't yet seen one in any of our "holy books" that deserved the
+name; not one that wasn't afflicted by the same jealousies,
+pettinesses, irrationalities and meannesses of the average human.  I've
+met many humans who were better and nobler than some so-called deities,
+who sacrified their limbs, their fortunes or their lives without the
+sure knowledge that they would end up on the great white throne of
+heaven for doing so.
+
+      "Do you believe that we are all here due to one happy (or
+unhappy) accident?"  My belief doesn't enter into it.  The best
+physical evidence indicates that we evolved ourselves up from the
+ground, pulling ourselves up by our genetic bootstraps across a million
+years of struggle, evolution and blood, surviving because we were
+smarter than anything that was stronger than us.  This, to me, is
+something to be proud of; we did it ourselves, we weren't just created
+whole and complete, all the work pre-assembled at the factory. We
+walked on the moon because we *earned* it by growing smart, and
+learning -- in however inconsistent and fractured a way -- to live and
+work together more often than we fought with each other.
+
+      "From your perspective -- what is the meaning of life?"  As an
+atheist, I believe that we get just one ride on the merry-go-round, one
+shot at the brass ring before they close the park.  That's it.  As a
+result, I view life as being *incredibly* precious, a resource rarer
+than any jewel.  A resource that must be protected, nourished, put one
+step further along the road to a better road.  What we leave behind,
+our only shot at immortality, is the work we leave, the accomplishments
+that hold their place in the record books long after we've turned to
+dust, so that our names have meaning.  In 50 years, nobody will care
+much what religion Jonas Salk subscribed to; they will care only that
+he cured a terrible disease, and made the world a better place.
+
+      If we believe we are immortal, then we have wiggle-room to screw
+up, because we'll get another chance; to waste our lives on the theory
+that as long as we believe a certain way, it doesn't matter if we do
+anything of consequence, we're guaranteed an eternity of harp music. 
+If we believe the world will be swallowed by armageddon in a few years,
+then there's no reason to protect the planet, plan for the future, find
+a comfortable balance between nature and industry, so that we can
+achieve the stars without destroying the planet.
+
+      I don't have that luxury, and a luxury it is.  So I find my
+version of immortality in the words, and in the work, and in the memory
+of those I may touch, or help, or instruct, or entertain.
+
+      You may not operate that way.  And that's fine.  It's our
+differences that make us human, and our humanity that makes us
+endlessly interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (10-Apr-96 00:20:28)
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:28

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anything special being done for those of us who were
+> subscribers to the newsletter that Christy Marx edited?
+
+      Yes, those individuals will receive the newsletter free of
+charge even if they don't join the fan club, until such time as the
+remaining 2 issues are worked off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 candy (10-Apr-96 00:20:32)
+
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+
B5 candy

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:32

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quick question, what is your favorite candy bar?
+
+      Anything, as long as it's solid milk chocolate.
+
+      (Isn't this rather a silly waste of forum space?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I hope this is a rumor.. (10-Apr-96 00:20:35)
+
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+
I hope this is a rumor..

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:35

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it only rumor-mongering?
+> Or sad truth?
+> Can you even comment at this time?
+
+      No, it's just a rumor.  These things come up every year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Cancelled Rumor (10-Apr-96 00:20:38)
+
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+
B5 Cancelled Rumor

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:38

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But who will pick up with the collapse of PTEN?
+
+      In theory, should PTEN truly bottom out, we'd go out via
+straight syndication, same as most syndicated shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (10-Apr-96 00:20:39)
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<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:39

+
 Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com> asks:
+> NOW are you happy?
+
+      Beleve me, with my rate of folliclelessness, I'm not going to
+complain about anybody else....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+General Hague <Spoiler> (10-Apr-96 00:20:42)
+
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+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:42

+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  -is there any truth to the rumor that TNT has bought the re-run
+> rights for '98?
+
+      Yes, TNT has bought reruns starting 1998.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD- Special Scene> (10-Apr-96 00:20:44)
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Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:44

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, the lighting is quite nice, and very atmospheric.
+We try to give it a film-look wherever we can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (01-Apr-96 14:07:48)
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+
Date: 01-Apr-96 14:07:48

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are the Thunderbolt class Starfuries as durable as the "Thuds"
+> proved themselves in 'Nam??
+
+       The new fighters are pretty solid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Entertainment CD (02-Apr-96 19:18:16)
+
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+
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+
Date: 02-Apr-96 19:18:16

+
 Steve Augustine <102202.200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong when I try to access the
+> personnel files on the CD?
+
+       The scritttttt sound is the same sound made by the identicard
+scanners in the show; watch the start of Severed Dreams, you'll hear it
+there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (10-Apr-96 00:20:46)
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<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:46

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's okay...so are most of the women who work in the editing
+bays at B5. The first few days of this season, as his stuff started
+coming in, one of them pulled me aside, and with hand firmly on my arm,
+to let me know she meant business, said, "Listen very carefully: I want
+to see a LOT more of Marcus."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+DVD disks (10-Apr-96 00:20:48)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 10-Apr-96 00:20:48

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Right now we're still working on getting ANY video out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Cancellation RUMOR (10-Apr-96 01:26:27)
+
+
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+
Date: 10-Apr-96 01:26:27

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd say it's certainly more than has been the case...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (10-Apr-96 16:13:50)
+
+
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+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:50

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      If I can, I will....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Previews (10-Apr-96 16:13:52)
+
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+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:52

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If PTEN really exists no longer, why would such an advertisement
+> be inserted when a B5 promo could be shown in its place just as
+> easily?
+
+      No, the PTEN change wouldn't really take effect until after year
+three, assuming that goes on as it seems to be.  This year is still
+under the PTEN aegis, and thus the cross promotion is necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+This season so far (10-Apr-96 16:13:54)
+
+
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+Search
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+
This season so far

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:54

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you had any word on DSS picking it up any time soon?
+
+      No, DSS doesn't pick up individual syndicated shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Earth Gov Question (10-Apr-96 16:13:56)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Earth Gov Question

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:56

+
 Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Earth still have different nations/states with
+> presidents/prime ministers and so on, under rules from the Earth
+> Alliance gov., with its own Senate and President? Are the EA
+> senators and president elected by all earth population?
+
+      Each nation/state elects a leader, and that leader is either one
+of the Earthgov senators, in the case of a smaller nation, or appoints
+a rep to be on that body.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 3 of Babylon5 (10-Apr-96 16:13:59)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 3 of Babylon5

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:13:59

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just finished it, by all accounts, the new season is better, err
+> like how???
+
+      Thanks.  The show has consistently worked to improve, and even
+over such competition of CtI, we continue to get stronger.  Evolve or
+die....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Dreams [no spoiler] (10-Apr-96 16:14:02)
+
+
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+
Dreams [no spoiler]

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:02

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SD - ISN News question (10-Apr-96 16:14:04)
+
+
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+

+
SD - ISN News question

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:04

+
 Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how much did the reporters at ISN know, and how long have
+> they known it? Has President Clark been using the information
+> gathered by ISN's reporters (such as what is going on out in
+> space and what the people/citizens of Earth think) for his own
+> purposes? did he have someone from the political office review
+> every news script before they went on the air)?
+
+      I'm sorry, but we cannot answer your question at this time.  We
+are experincing temporary transmission problems with ISN, but hope to
+have the situation remedied very soon.  Meanwhile, you can direct any
+inquiries for information to the Ministry of Peace, and the Ministry
+for Public Information, which has been aiding all public information
+broadcasts for almost two years now.
+
+      At the tone, please leave your name and identicard number. 
+Don't worry about calling back.  We'll find you.
+
+      <beep>
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Entertainment CD (02-Apr-96 19:18:18)
+
+
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+Search
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+
B5 Entertainment CD

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 19:18:18

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Not a problem; see my other note on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams> (10-Apr-96 16:14:07)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:07

+
 Anne Stallcup <102436.203@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, as I am fairly new here, may I say how great I think it is
+> that you make yourself so accessible to your fans?
+
+      Thanks, and the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Ceremonies - well done> (10-Apr-96 16:14:08)
+
+
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+Search
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+
<Ceremonies - well done>

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:08

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  I'm doing a lot to deepen up Marcus and Lennier, to let
+people see parts of them we might not have seen before.  Everyone grows
+on the show; even at this point, compare Lennier to the wide-eyed
+innocent who first arrived at the station and couldn't even bring
+himself to look Delenn in the eyes.
+
+      Actually, no, the computer voice, Sparky, wasn't really a nod of
+any kind to Hitchhiker's.  (And 2001's HAL beat them to the punch a
+long time before that in any event.)  No, I just figured, if the
+computer system had a glitch, what would it sound like? 
+Answer...Harlan.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Writing WWE (10-Apr-96 16:14:11)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Writing WWE

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:11

+
 R. Thomas <71544.3171@compuserve.com> asks:
+> station commander/leader figure etc.?
+
+      Actually, it was no problem at all.  The similarity is only if
+you choose to define them by their narrow roles.  Their personalities
+are vastly different.  Also, Sinclair's been through a lot in the
+intervening couple of years, he's grown, he and Marcus would definitely
+have something of a relationship since he would've been there while
+Marcus was being trained, and so on.  And their roles in the story are
+very different.
+
+      It actually came out pretty well.  I'm very happy with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Ceremonies> (10-Apr-96 16:14:14)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<Ceremonies>

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:14

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I didn't see or intend any element of Lennier being racist;
+but there are definitely differences in culture and physiology between
+Minbari and humans.  Minbari are very careful about personal space, and
+they don't like to be talked to a certain way.  Marcus momentarily
+forgot himself, and acted inappropriately.  Lennier corrected him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Great show (10-Apr-96 16:14:15)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Great show

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:14:15

+
 Salvador Bravo <103121.2770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm into collecting model starships, and I was wondering if there
+> was a chance that the station as well as the rest of starships in
+> the B5 universe will be available for purchase any time soon?!
+
+      Thank you.  I'm glad you've stayed with it.  There will probably
+be models at some point down the road; right now the only models are
+illegal ones.  I want a B5 model myself, frankly.
+
+      Of course, I'd like mine on a 1-1 scale....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club (10-Apr-96 16:24:07)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Fan Club

+
Date: 10-Apr-96 16:24:07

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Unfortunately, we're not set up at the time to take credit
+cards; we're a small operation.  Also, we had a number of folks ask for
+the regular mail route for overseas vs. airmail because they wanted to
+keep the cost factor down.  So we're kinda caught between a rock and a
+hard place here.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (11-Apr-96 00:21:06)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:06

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you guys planning to use the NetSrcape Commerce (or other)
+> secure web server?
+
+      No, I absolutely agree, which is why that won't be the only
+venue for such information.  Anybody who's not comfortable with that
+will have other options.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (11-Apr-96 00:21:09)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:09

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that the original logo you put up way back when?
+
+      Yes, it's the keyhole logo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 at SyndiCon SF (11-Apr-96 00:21:12)
+
+
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+

+
B5 at SyndiCon SF

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:12

+
 John Yuen <72466.1621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, does mira have any relative in this country, one of my
+> friend saw someone today that resemble her quite a bit in San
+> Jose?
+
+      No, no other relatives that I know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+This season so far (11-Apr-96 00:21:13)
+
+
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+Search
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+
This season so far

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:13

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      As a proud ower of a DirecTV/DSS hookup (in my office, since
+it's too far off the beaten track for cable), I have to concur on the
+quality of the sound and image.  It's just breathtaking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Londo the puppet (02-Apr-96 22:05:10)
+
+
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+
Londo the puppet

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 22:05:10

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+> If so, why did you want Londo to be played by a puppet?
+
+   I've wracked my brain trying to remember if that's true or not, and
+I honestly can't remember ever having a discussion about Londo being a
+puppet. Prosthetics, yes, but not anything animatronic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Green! Purple! (11-Apr-96 00:21:14)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Green! Purple!

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:14

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      If *anyone* could be a Drazi, it's Capone....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams> (11-Apr-96 00:21:18)
+
+
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+Search
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+
<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:18

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I think we'll get the credit for what we've all done
+sooner or later....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams> (11-Apr-96 00:21:19)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:19

+
 Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Jms, do you know what was the reason for the sound limit imposed
+> by the FCC?
+
+      I used to know...I think it had something to do with preventing
+audio bleedovers, but I'm not 100% sure on that score.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (11-Apr-96 00:21:20)
+
+
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+
<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:20

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yup.  Cool shot.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<SD- Special Scene> (11-Apr-96 00:21:23)
+
+
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+
<SD- Special Scene>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:23

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  We fixed a light atop a gimble, and pre-determined the
+rotation of the starfury, then moved the lighting to match.  Gives it a
+much more realistic feel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<SD- Special Scene> (11-Apr-96 00:21:25)
+
+
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+
<SD- Special Scene>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:25

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there a reason why it was dropped?
+> Is it just because we don't see too many shots directly out that
+> window anymore or something else entirely?
+
+      Actually, we did it once, in "Messages," but not much therafter.
+The main reason is the cost of renting varilights, and the height of
+our ceiling, which is somewhat lower than where we shot the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (11-Apr-96 00:21:27)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:27

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Attractiveness is wildly subjective.  I still don't quite see
+what makes everyone fall over about Sharon Stone.  It's all just
+personal.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (11-Apr-96 00:21:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:30

+
 Jack Beckman <73227.3066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Letdown?
+> Would this have been one of his chances to redeem himself(don't
+> have the prophosy text handy)?
+
+      I don't think Londo feels he needs to be redeemed; his reasons
+as stated were quite sincere.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Straight to video movie (11-Apr-96 00:21:32)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Straight to video movie

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:21:32

+
 Marshall L. Moseley <102264.2343@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you tell us the status on the hoped-for straight to video b5
+> movie for the summer?
+
+      WB hasn't said much about the direct-to-video movie, though
+they're now discussing a true feature.  It's just the usual up and
+downs that come from the studios as they try to figure out what to do
+with us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WRITERS WANTED (11-Apr-96 00:37:38)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
WRITERS WANTED

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:37:38

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Be advised that we are definitely and strongly opposed to the
+publication of Babylon 5 fan fiction, and discourage it in the most
+vigorous terms possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari society (02-Apr-96 22:05:11)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Minbari society

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 22:05:11

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you intending to explore further the possibility that Minbari
+> civilization is stagnated and their culture may be in need of a
+> revitalization?
+
+   It's a topic I'm open to exploring, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Original Storyline (11-Apr-96 00:37:39)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
The Original Storyline

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 00:37:39

+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Obviously, JMS has had to make a lot of rather fluid changes to
+> the b5 "Grand Arc" to adjust to cast changes and so on, right? 
+> Opinions?
+
+      No, the "romance angles" aren't "late additions," but you don't
+just leap into a romance right off.  You couldn't have had the
+Delenn/Sheridan thing right in the beginning of year two, it had to be
+built, and grow gradually.  Things are introduced as it is time for
+them to be introduced. The shadows weren't even named until season two,
+and didn't make their first appearance until late in season one.  Is
+that a late addition?
+
+      To your other points...a commanding officer needs a second, it's
+that simple.  So it's not so much recasting the same part as filling
+what's required in a military role.  Draal--Drall2 isn't a different
+character, it's the same character.  Also, Lou Welch wasn't Garibaldi's
+second in command, that was the guy who shot him.  He goes away, now
+you need a new second who is a very different character.
+
+      In real life, things change.  What I *like* about B5 is that
+people come and go, the credits aren't the same from year to year. 
+Otherwise you end up in a situation like folks complained about on TNG
+where Riker didn't get a decent promotion in 7 years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SanFran Query (11-Apr-96 18:18:50)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
SanFran Query

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:18:50

+
      Question: if one were to go to dinner in San Francisco, and one
+wanted to go somewhere *very* nice, very tony, upscale, with *terrific*
+food, maybe a view of the bay or something equally spiffy, no loud
+music, something very comfortable, no pushy waiters...what would be the
+best place in town?  (It preferably doesn't require reservations weeks
+in advance.)
+
+      Follow up: if afterward one wanted to go to a great part of town
+for a cup of coffee, with little interesting shops in the area, or in a
+pretty part of town...what would one suggest?
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (11-Apr-96 18:48:20)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:20

+
 Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This is probably a no-brainer, Joe, but if WB has access to the
+> numbers for the fan club, a good response would also help
+> convince them the interest is there for videos, etc.?
+
+      I don't know what it takes to get through on this issue,
+frankly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Cancelled Rumor (11-Apr-96 18:48:23)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 Cancelled Rumor

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:23

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whatcha gonna do?
+
+      We hunt them down and keel them....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+This season so far (11-Apr-96 18:48:25)
+
+
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+
This season so far

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:25

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Maybe.  You must understand I'm speaking fairly close to being a
+layman at this stuff.  All I know is that when I look at what I get on
+cable, and what I get on the DSS, the difference is *startling*, and I
+haven't ever noticed any "artifacting."  My feeling is, if I can't see
+it, it doesn't bother me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WRITERS WANTED (11-Apr-96 18:48:27)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
WRITERS WANTED

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:27

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you.  And it's "doubt," not "dought."  Editors should
+watch such things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WRITERS WANTED (11-Apr-96 18:48:30)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
WRITERS WANTED

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:30

+
 Ron E. Burke <102601.3431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who are you?
+
+      "Who are you?"
+
+      That would be telling.
+
+      "I'm a black and frosted rosebud whom the good god has preserved
+since last October.  Take no notice."  -- Christopher Fry
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Delenn (11-Apr-96 18:48:33)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Delenn

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:33

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you.  Now that she's gone through her own personal fire,
+she's a much stronger character, and very interesting to write. 
+There's steel, and there's humanity and compassion, and she feels no
+need to defend or justify any of those traits.  What she is, she is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+UK and budgets (11-Apr-96 18:48:34)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
UK and budgets

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:34

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No TV shows are sent around on film anymore these days; it's all
+sent on digital tape.
+
+      The exact budget isn't something we give out; suffice to say
+it's under a million per episode, or about half the budget of an
+average ST episode.
+
+      We've come in a little bit under budget each year; not a lot,
+but some. A small portion of whatever money isn't spent goes into
+interim next season stuff (studio maintenance and improvements, set
+storage and repair, that sort of thing).  The rest goes back to WB as
+per our contract.
+
+      In the syndicated ratings, B5 generally falls anywhere from the
+low 30s to 40s during first run, a bit lower on long reruns.  But this
+is out of about 250 or more syndicated shows per week.  So we're in
+about the top 20% of all syndicated shows, and always in the top 10 of
+dramatic series.
+
+      I haven't actually seen any viewer numbers; I know the UK tends
+to give them, but I've never seen the figure given for X-million US B5
+viewers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 EA Shirts (11-Apr-96 18:48:39)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 EA Shirts

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:39

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, those shirts are made by our wardrobe department.  We
+hadn't ever considered selling them...maybe we should.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Continuity (02-Apr-96 22:33:17)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Continuity

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 22:33:17

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"do you run your scrips by others?  IOW, do you make sure that it will
+all make sense to others?"
+
+      You must understand several things.  First, there's no one else
+on a writing side to *run* things past here.  There's just me.  I *am*
+the writing staff this season (which will probably not be quite the
+same next season, if I can find the right people).
+
+      The other thing is that writing is really a solitary business. 
+There's the impression that in TV, stories get whomped around and
+mushed up by some faceless committee.  While this is true in some
+cases, it isn't true in all cases.  David Kelley's scripts are his
+scripts.  Steve Bochco's scripts are his scripts.  My scripts are my
+scripts.  If I don't know my craft well enough to know whether or not
+it'll make sense to others, I should get out of the business
+immediately.
+
+      As soon as I finish writing the script, alone, it goes right
+into production.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+There All Honor Lies (11-Apr-96 18:48:41)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
There All Honor Lies

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:41

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Jeez, I don't remember that exact line anymore...but your
+paraphrase is pretty close, so maybe it's not too bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams> (11-Apr-96 18:48:45)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:45

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Questions: (1) Was Dellen partially responsible for Dukhat's
+> death? (2) Does she _think_ she is responsible?
+> Or is this just an artifact of Minbari/English translation?
+> Could Dellen's anger have caused her to exagerate?
+> Does she feel that her destiny in the Minbari/Human joining
+> somehow caused the incident that killed Dukhat?
+
+      No, she doesn't feel responsible; it's an artifact of the way
+they approach certain things.  "His word is on my lips, his spirit is
+in my eyes." It's almost a way of saying he's speaking through me, back
+off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (11-Apr-96 18:48:46)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:46

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, this wasn't an opportunity for redemption.  It would be
+flagged as much more important than this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Cancellation RUMOR (11-Apr-96 18:48:48)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 Cancellation RUMOR

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:48

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great, thanks for joining the party.  I'm pleased to find
+that the show has given a number of parents and kids something they can
+watch and discuss together.  There are certainly more than enough
+things to pull us apart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Effects record question (11-Apr-96 18:48:50)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Effects record question

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:50

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Incidentally, when season 3 started here, one of the biggest
+> topics of conversation was the shot of the Starfuries firing on
+> each other from the opening credits: what could have led to that? 
+> Was that scene from "Severed Dreams", from another episode, or
+> was it made up especially for the opening credits?
+
+      The opening shot was made specifically for the title sequence,
+as (for lack of a better term) a bit of foreshadowing.  We generally
+put our cards right out in plain view for people to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sinclair's Brother (11-Apr-96 18:48:53)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Sinclair's Brother

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 18:48:53

+
 Thomas Zahler <74041.2514@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But (and seeing John's father listed in the opening credits made
+> me think about this) did you rework this to be Sheridan's wife? Or
+> is this a plotline that we will never see happen?
+
+      No, the b-story about Sinclair's brother was never intended to
+be the Anna Sheridan thing, since obviously the reference was to his
+brother still being alive.
+
+      I never just transfer stories from A to B; each character has to
+have his or her own individual arc, specific to who that person is. 
+Bits and pieces get moved around, or reassigned, but not generally that
+blatantly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 blooper reels? (11-Apr-96 23:39:21)
+
+
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+
B5 blooper reels?

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:39:21

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      "I've heard a lot of griping about hwo expensive the club is, so
+it's probably not going to be under $10 by a lon gshot.  If it's in the
+$30s or $50s, it almost isn't worth it..."
+
+      The fan club costs $12.95.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 blooper reels? (11-Apr-96 23:39:26)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 blooper reels?

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:39:26

+
 Richard J De Lotto <73353.1314@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do we sign up for the fan club?
+
+Here's the info:
+
+The Official Membership Kit includes:
+
+     A Subscription to The Universe Today: The Official Newsletter of
+the
+     B5FC filled with exclusive interviews, news about Babylon 5, and
+     exciting merchandise offers.
+     An 8x10 Cast Photo
+     Full Color Babylon 5 Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+     B5 Fan Club Button & Full Color Sticker
+     Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers,
+J.
+     Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+     Membership ID Card granting you discounts on merchandise,
+conventions,
+     etc., as well as access to the Members Only section of
+TheStation.com,
+     the B5 Fan Club Web-site (to be up May 1996).
+     Plus as a bonus, the first 100 people to join get:
+     A Limited Collection Sticker of the alternate B5 Logo as designed
+by
+     artist Peter Ledger.
+================
+
+To Give a Membership as a Gift, simply make a copy of the entry form,
+fill in the name of the person you wish to make a member, and send it
+off. (Don't forget to include your name on the Suggestions line, so
+that we can include a gift card.)
+
+Each year the Renewal Kit will offer new and different goodies,
+savings, and of course another year's subscription to The Universe
+Today.
+
+Remember, this is more than just your run of the mill fan club; the
+Babylon 5 fans time and time again have gone that extra step for the
+show, and the Babylon 5 Fan Club is our way of giving something back to
+those who've been so loyal to us.
+
+ ------------------  CLIP OR COPY AND GIVE TO A FRIEND 
+ --------------------
+
+YES!  I want to join The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club.  Please send my
+membership kit to:
+
+Name:    
+________________________________________________________________
+
+Age:      __________
+
+Address: 
+________________________________________________________________
+
+City:     _____________________________ State:  ___________ ZIP: 
+________
+
+Country:  _____________
+
+e-mail address: 
+_________________________________________________________
+
+Local Station you watch B5 on: 
+__________________________________________
+
+Suggestions: 
+____________________________________________________________
+
+______________________________________________________________________
+____
+
+_____ I am already on the mailing list.
+
+_____ I got this form from a friend.
+
+Enclosed is $12.95 for a U.S. membership; $14.95 for a Canadian
+membership; and $19.95 for Foreign memberships.  Orders must be in U.S.
+funds. Send check or money order (DO NOT send cash) made payable to:
+
+Babylonian Productions/Fan Club
+
+Mail to:  The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club
+          PO Box 856
+          North Hollywood, CA 91603
+
+Please allow 5-6 weeks for delivery.  Foreign and Canadian orders are
+shipped surface, please allow additional time for shipping.
+
+All returned checks are subject to a $15.00 service charge.
+
+ ----------------  CUT HERE FOR THE END OF THE FORM 
+ -------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 CD ???? (11-Apr-96 23:39:30)
+
+
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+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:39:30

+
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+
+      No, the .avi files work in tandem with another file, to make it
+work. You'll note that shpdta08.avi comes alongside shpdta09.dat (or
+some other extension), which contains the info.  If you install it from
+the disk, it usually works fine.  The scrittching sound on the
+personnel data is the identicard scanner sound, which goes with the
+identicard readout.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Finished Writing! (11-Apr-96 23:57:16)
+
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Finished Writing!

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:16

+
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+
+      Thanks.  As time goes on, we come to know these characters as
+friends; it's a nifty experience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 6, 7 ... (02-Apr-96 22:33:19)
+
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+
Date: 02-Apr-96 22:33:19

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you have said that Babylon 5 will run only 5 seasons, but
+> I cannot see how this can be possible? Without a season 6, to what
+> will WB tack on the last Eight or so episodes of season 5? Are the
+> upcoming 8 episodes all we're due to get until fall?
+
+      I don't know about the "after the eight" matter; it's possible
+that we could get 2 more run in July, the rest, I dunno...could be
+sooner, could be later.  We won't know this for a while yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK and budgets (11-Apr-96 23:57:18)
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UK and budgets

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:18

+
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+
+      I'm still not sure I understand the question.  The B5 videotapes
+for sale in the UK are definitely licensed.  We never sell any episode
+on film to anyone for any reason, here or otherwise.  Nothing's been
+out on disk yet.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Whats coming (11-Apr-96 23:57:20)
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Whats coming

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:20

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am wondering if we are going to see Bester as more of a good
+> guy? I am wondering if that is how I will look at B5 when it is
+> over and in reruns?
+
+      Exactly, the older shows take on more substance, weight and
+interest the more you've seen after them.  All kinds of stuff jumps out
+at you after a while.  As for Bester...no matter what, it's fair to say
+he's on nobody's side but his own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (11-Apr-96 23:57:21)
+
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<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:21

+
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+
+      Yeah, it's a long way from Captain Power.
+
+      No, no direct involvement with Hypernauts, though they're one of
+several shows now on the air or in development that are now using the
+Babylon 5 model for producing TV shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (11-Apr-96 23:57:24)
+
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<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:24

+
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+
+      Thanks.  It was a nice moment, and needed some leading-up-to,
+but I think it came out well.  It's a start.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Original Storyline (11-Apr-96 23:57:25)
+
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+
The Original Storyline

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:25

+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I think I was assuming something along these lines: Originaly you
+> had Sinclair as the lead character for the whole 5 years, right? 
+> PS- officialy, whatever happened to Na'toth and Lou Welch?
+
+      We'll be mentioning Na'Toth later this season.
+
+      Actually, the relationship with Sinclair and Delenn wasn't
+designed to be romantic; he was involved with Sakai, and would've
+stayed that way for the most part.  The relationship you saw is not
+quite what you're thinking; there is a closeness, but not based on
+romantic feelings.  You'll catch a sense of what's behind this more
+later this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Severed' pieces (11-Apr-96 23:57:28)
+
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'Severed' pieces

+
Date: 11-Apr-96 23:57:28

+
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+
+      We've shown work crews before cleaning up after big assaults;
+even a HazMat platform for clearing away fuel cores after they blew up
+the Centauri cruiser in "Fall of Night."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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UK and budgets

+
Date: 12-Apr-96 02:34:59

+
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+
+      Aha!  Okay...the reason that the tapes haven't been released by
+WB Video here in the US...is that they don't think anybody's interested
+in buying them.
+
+      Now, in the UK, the videos are usually in the top ten or so on
+the sell-through charts.
+
+      Somehow, the video folks seem capable of looking at those two
+items and fail to see a contradiction.
+
+      'Tis a wonderment to me....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (12-Apr-96 02:35:00)
+
+
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+
<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 12-Apr-96 02:35:00

+
 Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any others that you can mention offhand?
+
+      Space Cases uses a variation on the 5-year arc, a lot of what
+they're doing with their sets and CGI and other areas nods to B5...and
+there are two new shows in the works that very definitely rely on the
+B5 model, though I'm not at liberty (as a courtesy to them) to discuss
+them at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon cereal (15-Apr-96 20:44:07)
+
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+
Babylon cereal

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:07

+
 Chris Croughton <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> OK, so what's the oddest question you've been asked?
+
+      The oddest question I've ever been asked?
+
+      "What do you do if you die before finishing the full B5
+storyline?"
+
+      Well...decompose, mainly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (15-Apr-96 20:44:09)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:09

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Before I send away and import the "Making of B5" from the UK,
+> will it be available from the club?
+
+      I don't believe the book will be made available via the fan
+club, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (02-Apr-96 22:33:24)
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<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 02-Apr-96 22:33:24

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Out of curiosity, however, was Ta'Lon killed in the attack on the
+> station, or was my nearsightedness just flaring up?
+
+      Thanks, and Ta'Lon is still alive and well.
+
+      It's a good episode, no mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>Severed Dreams/Kurosawa (15-Apr-96 20:44:12)
+
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+
>Severed Dreams/Kurosawa

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:12

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you going to be doing a Sunday afternoon session at Marcon in
+> Columbus May 5th?
+
+      I haven't seen a Marcon schedule yet, so I dunno....
+
+      And yes, because anything can happen to anyone around here, it
+makes this kind of thing more interesting.
+
+      I was thinking about this the other day, and realized just how
+much some aspects of the show remind me of a role playing game; you set
+up the parameters, you know where the story has to go, and you bring in
+some characters.  Some will live, die, be hindered, succeed, fail, or
+go mad, depending on how the players react to the situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK and budgets (15-Apr-96 20:44:15)
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UK and budgets

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:15

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Matters of Honor was a good starting point, to get the
+story moving again.  The next batch are somewhat stand-alones, just to
+get the new folks up to speed with the show...but we pick up speed
+again soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+There All Honor Lies (15-Apr-96 20:44:17)
+
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+
There All Honor Lies

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:17

+
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+
+      Thanks...and I'm always hoping for more moments of perfect
+beauty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Postmortem (15-Apr-96 20:44:19)
+
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+
B5 Postmortem

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:19

+
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+
+      Over my dead body.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Actor's Knowledge (15-Apr-96 20:44:24)
+
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+
Actor's Knowledge

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:24

+
 Theo Thourson <73214.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If one of the characters, let's say Delenn for no good reason,
+> has a secret agenda, or is a traitor to the rest of the crew, or
+> something equally devious, does Mira know about it? In other
+> words, do the actors know everything the characters know?
+
+      Sometimes yes, sometimes no.  Depends on whether I want them to
+play the process or the result when leading up to that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Hmmm... (15-Apr-96 20:44:27)
+
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JMS: Hmmm...

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:27

+
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+
+      No, Earth's middle ages had really nothing much to do with the
+shadow war or the shadows; we simply weren't very important.
+
+      As for a bio of me...I can't *possibly* imagine anything less
+inherently interesting.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon screen saver (15-Apr-96 20:44:29)
+
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+
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+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:29

+
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+
+      Thanks.  It's a great program; I have it on both my home and
+office systems.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Salaries (15-Apr-96 20:44:31)
+
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Salaries

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:31

+
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+
+      We'll establish in coming episodes that they have to become more
+self sufficient; the Minbari will help some, others will also have a
+reason to help support the station for the advantages it gives them,
+the services it provides, and eventually docking fees will have to rise
+if they can make a go of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Talia and Ivanova (15-Apr-96 20:44:34)
+
+
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+
Talia and Ivanova

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:34

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this correct and will Bester try and make use of this in Ship
+> of Tears?
+
+      I would think that Talia would deliberately refrain from
+dipping; the merging during sex really is a consentual affair.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode order? (15-Apr-96 20:44:36)
+
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+
Episode order?

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:36

+
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+
+      Usually the episode airing order is right, with a couple of
+exceptions, which I can't remember just now (sigh).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow strength (03-Apr-96 01:58:22)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Apr-96 01:58:22

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is the strongest according to pure physical strength, a
+> Shadow or a human?
+
+      A shadow is *definitely* much stronger physically than a human.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK <Matters of Hono(u)r> (15-Apr-96 20:44:38)
+
+
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+
UK <Matters of Hono(u)r>

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:38

+
 Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I like the new title sequence, the new theme has just the right
+> feel of impending doom and foreboding - will Chris Franke be
+> putting it on the new CD? or is it just a figure of speech in the
+> same way that when Sheridan "takes out" a Centauri cruiser he's
+> not taking it to a candlelit dinner or the movies? Marcus Cole
+> looks like an interesting character, but from what he said about
+> how he and his brother joined the Rangers it seems as if their
+> existence is quite generally known, at least in some circles -
+> how come EA and the Shadows' agents haven't heard about them? and
+> have ISN kept quiet about them? Thanks again for another
+> entertaining programme - you keep saying you're getting better
+> all the time, but will any of your audience survive the tension
+> in season 5?!
+
+      Actually, the B5 third year theme is an expanded version,
+somewhat altered, of the "Requiem for the Line" piece, which is already
+on the current CD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Syndication (15-Apr-96 20:44:40)
+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:40

+
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+
+      I'd imagine that the rules for syndicated commercials and cable
+are about the same; it's the jump from network to syndicated that leads
+to trouble.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:43

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was Sniper one of them?
+
+      They were both true believers.
+
+      I also went just a little here for a kind of metaphorical
+approach; prior to this, Nightwatch folks have always been presented as
+starched, scrubbed, visually appealing...the face they wanted others to
+see.  Now we see their true face, the scarred, dark, empty eyes, no
+longer pretending to hide. So we kinda cast in that direction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:45

+
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+
+      "Londo is a hell of a leader."
+
+      Perfect fodder for an Emperor, no...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:47

+
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+
+      Compliments paid in mathematical terms always worry me for some
+reason.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<Ceremonies - well done> (15-Apr-96 20:44:51)
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:51

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also, given that Ivannova had *finally* found someone to be close
+> to, it it just her fate to get screwed by Psi Corps?
+
+      No, people get involved with other people for any number of
+reasons; it's not necessarily any easier to stay within one's gender
+with teeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:52

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Incidently, are we supposed to buy this "I know her destiny is
+> with someone else and I have accepted it" stuff?
+
+      Well, there was certainly that little catch in his voice, that
+hesitation, before he added "...in my heart."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you still schedualed to go to the Marcon in ohio in May?
+
+      Yes, I'll be at Marcon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:44:58

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+      No, not really.  I wanted it to have a crossed look, certain
+Minbari elements and textures, lines that are reminiscent of the
+Rangers, but also of Earthforce.  Hence, the result.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Love in CoL&D (15-Apr-96 20:45:02)
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:02

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+      Certainly various sorts of love was at the core of the episode,
+and what we do for one another.
+
+      But no, not all relationships have to end badly (despite my own
+general history in that regard).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 03-Apr-96 01:58:25

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will we find out to which castes they belong?
+> Was the council leader one of them?
+> Is it just my imagination, or was her speech more "human,"
+> perhaps due to her time on B5 or her transformation? And I ask
+> myself, "Why do people let it come to this - that they must kill
+> each other to resolve their differences?" I found myself saying,
+> "No, it can't be; JMS wouldn't do that," Then, "Wouldn't he?" Is
+> she related to the Senator?
+
+      Toni: thanks.  All of the characters shine in this one, Mira in
+particular as Delenn.  It's a nice contrast; her speech to the Grey
+Council is an intense piece of work that goes on for a while; her
+declaration to the EA ships is short, to the point, and absolutely
+deadly.  The right tool for the right job.
+
+      I'm utterly pleased and proud of the job we did here.  Partly
+because it's just so nifty on its own terms, and partly because it
+gives us a new level to try and beat.  Up until now, I've been looking
+to top "Coming of Shadows;" now the goal is to top this one...and I
+think it's possible there may be one or two even this season that'll do
+that, but tonally I think they're different enough that it might end up
+as a tie.
+
+      I definitely wanted the close-in, hand-to-hand fighting to
+personalize what's going on.  It's also very logical strategically. 
+You send in your forces to disable or overwhelm C&C, distract them,
+slip in a cadre of troops to a station that (you hope) didn't know you
+were coming...then they race to C&C and seize control from inside,
+shooting anyone they have to en route.  If Sheridan et al hadn't known
+the ships were coming in, this could've gone very differently.  But
+once they were in, they were in close quarters, and you want to get in
+closer if you're on the defensive side so that they can't use their 
+weapons without cutting down their own people.  After that you have to
+hope you can overwhelm the intruders with sheer force of numbers.  It's
+an ugly, awful way to win a fight, because it *guarantees*
+casualties...but what war doesn't?
+
+      Something to bear in mind when rewatching, btw...it was during
+this scene that Jerry fell and broke his right arm and right wrist. 
+And they still had one last scene to film.  He stuck it out and they
+rolled film, to get the shot of him and Zack at the end of the fight. 
+Next time you watch it, keep an eye on the right arm as he releases the
+helmet...it bends in directions never intended by evolution.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

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+<<<JMS THANKYOU!!!!>>> (15-Apr-96 20:45:05)
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:05

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+      Thanks...it's a good start to the season.
+
+      But we have far to go before we can rest.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:06

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> All Earth Force personnel no longer are being paid, are they?
+> Who is replenishing supplies?
+> Are things being bartered?
+> Are the Minbari picking up the slack?
+> Is that its function for the time being?
+
+      Thanks.  Dealing with the financial and support situation comes
+up next week.
+
+      And agree re: Vir.  He's a much stronger character than anyone
+might think.  He's sort of the "God's Fool" character, to get literary
+for a second, who somehow manages to make it through it all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:10

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was she able to use the pain to confirm a sense of her own
+> rebirth?
+
+      Yes, I think Mira was able to draw upon her background a lot in
+this one.
+
+      I also like the look between Marcus and Delenn as they stand in
+the customs area...he looks like he desperately wants to say more, and
+she like she desperately wants to hear it...but he turns and walks
+away, the moment lost.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      Yeah, I love the Ivanova/Vir scenes; I fall down laughing every
+time.
+
+      "the wife is always right."  Hmm...I must convey this to Ivanova
+for her reaction the next time she pops out of my subconscious.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<Rage's Thots: CoL&D> (15-Apr-96 20:45:15)
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:15

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you were trying to regain control of Babylon 5, would you
+> leave it in the hands of these nimrods? Why didn't Bochs assign
+> him a "handler"? Sniper's reaction to Delenn's "pity" speech: "You
+> pity me? However, why did he notify Susan before Garibaldi when
+> Delenn and Lennan were taken by the NWTs? Does he really dislike
+> Michael that much, or was it just to give us another AI scene? 
+> What aliens hasn't the guy played? Have we seen him as an Earther?
+> A question: Why didn't our heroes attempt to work with the
+> nudjing computer? and just WHAT was Delenn reacting to there?
+> Does everyone get them, or just command staff?
+> Yet, why are they *BLACK*?
+
+      "They're all so GOOD."
+
+      Gotta be.  No other choice.
+
+      (Actually, we had 3 more quickie scenes with the computer voice,
+but the ep ran long over time, and we were locked into some
+walk-and-talks where we couldn't make other trims.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+"Ceremonies"/too close (15-Apr-96 20:45:17)
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:17

+
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+
+      Thanks, I'm glad it hit a little too close to home for comfort.
+There's a quote, "Be uncomfortable.  Be sand, not oil, in the machinery
+of the world." We need sometimes to be a bit uncomfortable so that we
+do *exactly* what you describe doing...sitting and thinking about all
+of this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 20:45:20

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> _Sparky_ the computer??
+> _*SPARKY*_ the computer?!?!?!
+> I'm not repressed any more.") You have fun writing for him, don't
+> you?
+
+      I love writing for Marcus.  I can just come at the dialoge from
+a completely different angle.  There's a certain edge, a dark kind of
+irony that comes through his character that lets me do lines I can't do
+for anyone else except sometimes Ivanova.  He's a hoot....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:25

+
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+
+      Actually, no, the song in "Ceremonies" was not intended as a
+Prisoner riff or homage of any kind.  If the song originated with The
+Prisoner, that'd be one thing, but the song goes back a long, LONG ways
+before The Prisoner was even thought of.
+
+      What happened, actually, was this...I'm a big fan of the Red
+Clay Ramblers, a terrific group that does sort of bluegrass but very
+offbeat.  I was writing that episode, and I was playing with the
+torture aspect, and had one of their albums on.  At just the moment I
+got to that scene, up came their rendition of "Ezekiel in the Valley of
+the Dry Bones."  The notion was perfect, so I went back to the original
+version of the song, which is public domain (rather than their
+variation on it), and used it.  Synchronicity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+JMS Fav B5 CD Track? (15-Apr-96 23:57:26)
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+
Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:26

+
 Matt Allen <100530.232@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe which is your favorite track on the B5 CD?
+> Is this your favorite track as a remix of it is now the third
+> season main theme? Do you ever play the CD while writing/relaxing
+> or driving etc?
+
+      Yeah, I'd say the extended "Requiem" piece on the CD is probably
+my favorite.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+B5 - MT&R TV Festial? (15-Apr-96 23:57:31)
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Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:31

+
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+
+      I appreciate that, and the offer.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+B5 escape pod (03-Apr-96 11:40:32)
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Date: 03-Apr-96 11:40:32

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+       We're still trying to figure all this out ourselves....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+B5 - tape options (15-Apr-96 23:57:32)
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Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:32

+
 Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think if/when any video tapes of the show are sold in the
+> US that we will have a choice of format??
+
+      That hasn't been decided as of this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (15-Apr-96 23:57:35)
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Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      "I do remember it looking much worse earlier on."
+
+      Your memory is correct.  Just before he did the first episode,
+he had to shave his full beard for some commercial audition.  It hadn't
+grown all the way back, and we had to darken it down a bit to make it
+work.  It's all back now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:37

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Remember the final episode of The Prisoner ("Fall Out")?
+
+      It wasn't a Prisoner reference.
+
+      Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...and sometimes a song is
+there because it's right for the episode, and that moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sinclair's Brother (15-Apr-96 23:57:40)
+
+
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+
Sinclair's Brother

+
Date: 15-Apr-96 23:57:40

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Geez, I'm having enough hell just telling this story now...ask
+me in two years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon screen saver (16-Apr-96 02:08:41)
+
+
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+
Babylon screen saver

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:41

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When's the Mac version coming out?
+
+      Soon.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ceremonies of L & D> (16-Apr-96 02:08:42)
+
+
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+
<Ceremonies of L & D>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:42

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Problem is I'm *very* eclectic.  I listen to just about
+everything, depending on my mood, except for hard-ass country
+(bluegrass is an exception to this).  Japanese, Celtic, heavy-metal,
+classic rock, classical, big band, Enya, you name it.  They all go into
+the player at some point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Keeping me guessing (16-Apr-96 02:08:44)
+
+
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+
Keeping me guessing

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:44

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's been said that a writer must surprise himself if
+he's to surprise anyone else...and I'm constantly surprised by what
+comes out of the characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (16-Apr-96 02:08:46)
+
+
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+
<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:46

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The physical dynamics of the scar *would* have worked as seen,
+actually, mainly because that wasn't a piece of makeup, that's a real
+scar, and it does work that way.
+
+      Other than that...thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<CoL&D thoughts> (16-Apr-96 02:08:49)
+
+
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+
<CoL&D thoughts>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 02:08:49

+
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+
+      It wasn't a Prisoner reference, so you didn't miss anything. 
+Some folks see what they want to see.  (If you were at a gospel
+meeting, and they sang "Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones," would
+*that* be a Prisoner reference?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<CoL&D thoughts> (16-Apr-96 14:46:56)
+
+
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+
<CoL&D thoughts>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:46:56

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any news on Harlan's condition?
+
+       He's doing better, mainly now needs rest and quiet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/3.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/3.html
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+
+
+Copyright infringement? (01-Apr-96 14:07:49)
+
+
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+
Copyright infringement?

+
Date: 01-Apr-96 14:07:49

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       All three of those items are absolutely bogus, pirated
+material. Totally illegal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Homicidal rages (03-Apr-96 11:40:37)
+
+
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+
Homicidal rages

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 11:40:37

+
 Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever *see* alcohol's effect on a Minbari system?
+
+       No immediate plans for this, but knowing how my brain works,
+we'll probably see this sooner or later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>Sic Transit Vir< (16-Apr-96 14:46:57)
+
+
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+
>Sic Transit Vir<

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:46:57

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, I'll be there...see you then.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Syndication (16-Apr-96 14:46:57)
+
+
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+
TNT Syndication

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:46:57

+
 Bob Ingersoll <72204.2405@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In what way is B5 moving to TNT?
+
+       They're picking up reruns in 1998.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ceremonies...> (16-Apr-96 14:47:02)
+
+
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+
<Ceremonies...>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:02

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This makes me wonder which the personnel of Bablyon 5 (or anyone,
+> for that matter) will regret most: the lost moments of actions
+> wrongly taken or the lost moments of actions not taken at all?
+
+       Thanks.  I just ordered it the second the information you
+provided appeared on my screen.  Looking forward to it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Quoting Ta'Lon (16-Apr-96 14:47:04)
+
+
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+
Quoting Ta'Lon

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:04

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Well, I think we all kinda knew that Honeywell was being run by
+Narns....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (16-Apr-96 14:47:05)
+
+
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+
<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:05

+
 Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was a real scar?
+> When was Don Stroud so severely injured?
+
+       Yes, the scar is real.  He had some rough times a few years
+ago. (Actually, he also appeared with the scar as it's seen here in
+"TKO," as Garibaldi's corner man, though there it was hidden a bit.) 
+He's still doing a lot of work though.
+
+       (The funny thing was seeing the occasional comment on the nets
+saying how fake they thought the makeup looked, and why couldn't we
+manage to do something a bit more realistic looking?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 on WWCP (16-Apr-96 14:47:08)
+
+
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+
B5 on WWCP

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:08

+
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+
+       I can't imagine why they're telling folks that, when it's been
+made clear to us that WBN wouldn't take the show.  Unless they're
+looking for a cover story for why they're considering dropping it, but
+that doesn't seem very likely.  I dunno....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+How is Harlan ? (16-Apr-96 14:47:11)
+
+
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+
How is Harlan ?

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:11

+
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+
+       Harlan's doing much better.  The #1 thing he and Susan need
+right now is space and a little quiet time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ceremonies of L & D> (16-Apr-96 14:47:18)
+
+
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+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:18

+
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+
+       Okay...Things I Listen To While Writing:
+
+       (Well, this week, anyway.)
+
+       Melissa Etheridge.  Enya.  Meatloaf.  Slade.  Red Clay
+Ramblers. Alice Cooper.  Benny Goodman.  Artie Shaw.  KODO.  Sarah
+MacLachlan.  Billy Joel. Django Rheinhart.  Leon Russell.  The musical
+Chess.  And, of course, the B5 soundtrack.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<<JMS THANKYOU!!!!>>> (16-Apr-96 14:47:19)
+
+
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+
<<<JMS THANKYOU!!!!>>>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 14:47:19

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After re-running that sequence, (Trying to find if it actually
+> exploded) I noticed it sort of Flashed - and I thought I saw some
+> kind of....skeleton? And then when it was finally ripped apart -
+> it Shattered? Are my eyes playing tricks or is this how you
+> intended?
+
+       I think that was mainly the energy coursing along it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Delenn (16-Apr-96 19:16:03)
+
+
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+
Delenn

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 19:16:03

+
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+
+"...note on Lennier: "a pure, higher love"? Pshaw, I've heard that
+before and seen the results in my own life. Are Minbari so different?"
+
+      One would certainly hope so.
+
+      And there are such different kinds of feelings even among
+humans; yes, you're right, often it doesn't work out that way...and
+sometimes it does.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (03-Apr-96 11:40:38)
+
+
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+
<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 11:40:38

+
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+
+       Thanks.  We have to keep shooting ever higher or we're dead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<ceremonies - scene> (16-Apr-96 19:16:09)
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+
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+
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+
Date: 16-Apr-96 19:16:09

+
 Don Fort <72204.1356@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you specify that tableau for the distant shots of their
+> exchange or did that sort of evolve on the storyboard?
+
+      It sorta evolved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Recasting fever>>> (16-Apr-96 19:16:11)
+
+
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+
<<Recasting fever>>>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 19:16:11

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Easy.  Takashima would have been the one to be Control.  A Psi
+Corps plant.  (Her background on Mars would've been the perfect time
+for it to have happened.)  When Laurel went away, I took that one
+thread and passed it along to Talia, setting it up as early as the very
+first episode, when Talia and Ivanova first meet, and later reluctantly
+have a drink.
+
+      At one point, Ivanova says to Talia, referencing Ivanova's
+mother, "You're as much of a victim as she was."  To which Talia
+replies, "I don't feel like a victim."  And, of course, that's exactly
+what she was, though she didn't know it yet.  Ivanova's analysis was
+100% correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon cereal (16-Apr-96 23:10:35)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16-Apr-96 23:10:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I do get asked that on occasion still....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SD Withdrawing effect (16-Apr-96 23:10:36)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16-Apr-96 23:10:36

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did you do this effect?
+> Is this correct?
+> Why the initial zoom out?
+
+      Yes, the way you describe the shot (zoom/move) was correct. 
+It's what was indicated in the script, and well executed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<CoL&D thoughts> (16-Apr-96 23:10:38)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16-Apr-96 23:10:38

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Is Harlan okay?
+
+      He's doing much better now.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Recasting fever>>> (16-Apr-96 23:10:40)
+
+
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+
<<Recasting fever>>>

+
Date: 16-Apr-96 23:10:40

+
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+
+      No, Carolyn wasn't involved with the Kosh situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 v Star Trek (17-Apr-96 01:46:29)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Apr-96 01:46:29

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Star Wars unoriginal because Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon
+> preceded it? Was Hill Street Blues unoriginal because about 200
+> other police shows preceded it? Is ER unoriginal because it's the
+> umpteenth hospital show ever made?
+
+      In considering ST to be totally original, obviously he's never
+heard of Forbidden Planet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rebirth Ceremony (17-Apr-96 01:46:30)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-Apr-96 01:46:30

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was stated at the time, in the first season, that it was a
+rebirth ceremony.  Just to clarify.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ceremonies of L & D> (17-Apr-96 14:12:07)
+
+
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+
<Ceremonies of L & D>

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 14:12:07

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does Meatloaf listen better than he watches?
+> Were you aware that the studio address and phone numbers are now
+> available to lots of fans?
+
+      That information was bound to get out sooner or later.  It's
+okay.  We have Narns working security.
+
+      Yeah, Meatloaf definitely "listens better than he watches,"
+though in truth he's lost a LOT of weight lately, and looks 100% better
+than in past years.  Most of his songs (even though written often with
+or by others) tell stories, they have a lot of heart to them, they're
+sometimes very funny, and there's a tremendous, enviable energy in
+them.  You get the sense that he undrstands the only way to tell a
+story sometimes is to put the pedal to the floor and go flat out for
+the abyss, hoping to come out alive on the other side.  I commend to
+you his two latest albums, Bat Out of Hell II and Welcome to the
+Neighborhood.  There's some really nifty stuff there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Morden> (17-Apr-96 14:12:10)
+
+
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+
<Morden>

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 14:12:10

+
 Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since it's been established that some species use crystals as
+> part of their technology for data storage as well as other
+> things, is this pendant some sort of Shadow technology or does it
+> have some other sort of significance in his relationship to the
+> Shadows?
+
+      It may have its uses.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD:Garibaldi> (03-Apr-96 11:40:39)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<SD:Garibaldi>

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 11:40:39

+
 Benoit Langevin <74434.3136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And by the way for the last two week, we don't see the next week
+> preview, is it in the satelite uplink or is it our station,
+> CFCF-12-Montreal, that didn't put it on air?
+
+       No, it's a different scene than the flash-forward in Babylon
+Squared.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<CoL&D thoughts> (17-Apr-96 14:12:12)
+
+
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+
<CoL&D thoughts>

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 14:12:12

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> If we all send cards for Harlan to the B5 mail drop, will someone
+> pile them up for when he feels like reading them??
+
+      Sure.  We'll pass them along when he's home and better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Morden> (17-Apr-96 14:19:23)
+
+
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+
<Morden>

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 14:19:23

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Correct.  But since it's there, at some point I may as well use
+it for something.  Waste not, want not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (17-Apr-96 14:19:24)
+
+
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+
<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 14:19:24

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Of course the flip side of this is that you'd have to check
+every single thing you ate or drank every day, every week, for the rest
+of your natural life.  Not the kind of life *I'd* like to live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sparky the Computer (17-Apr-96 21:51:04)
+
+
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+
Sparky the Computer

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:04

+
 Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any hidden references in the Sparky the Computer gag
+> (in <Ceremonies...>)?
+
+      No, just figured it'd be a great name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+EA President (17-Apr-96 21:51:05)
+
+
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+
EA President

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:05

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is is "Clark" or "Clarke"?
+
+      It's Clark.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+BRAVO! (17-Apr-96 21:51:06)
+
+
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+
BRAVO!

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:06

+
 Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder if you will be convering the economics of what has
+> happened to B5? Who is paying those dock workers and in what?
+> Perhaps you may yet write thos volumes and include all those
+> tidbits left on the cutting room floor or topics like what
+> happened when the doctor learned his father had died? What about
+> appendixes that discuss the histories of all the known races or
+> the previous wars with the dark?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, we do get into the question now of who pays for
+what, and how.  It's a natural, logical progression.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+How are you? (17-Apr-96 21:51:08)
+
+
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+
How are you?

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:08

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm fine.  A little harried, tired and generally staggered these
+days, but fine.  Spent the day at the hospital with Harlan today, who's
+doing MUCH better, walking around, cracking jokes...a vast improvement.
+
+      I'm still hip-deep in post production, and laying stuff out for
+next year in hopes of renewal...but basically fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Cermonies of Lt&Drk> (17-Apr-96 21:51:11)
+
+
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+
<Cermonies of Lt&Drk>

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:11

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, Londo is a very sharp, cunning character.  He does what he
+does for sheer patriotism, to serve his people.  *Whatever* that may
+entail.  And Vir gets whipsawed a lot...he's a great character, with a
+wide range of characteristics I can play with, from comic to tragic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<STV - clarifications?> (17-Apr-96 21:51:12)
+
+
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+
<STV - clarifications?>

+
Date: 17-Apr-96 21:51:12

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) In the teaser, other than as a counterpoint to the "joke" Vir
+> was told, what were all the Narn doing there? Was this a bit of
+> license you took to tweak us with the teaser? Were these relatives
+> of other Narn ready to settle the score for their relatives (who
+> they've been told are "dead")? Were these Narn on the way through
+> an Underground Railroad (on *Centauri Prime*???)? 2) What happened
+> with the captured Narn at the end of the episode? Has all this
+> been handled off screen, or will we see further ramifications in
+> the future? Or, is that another comet going by?
+
+      I could've *sworn* there was a line there about the Narn
+recovering; I'm going to have to check this.  I hope I didn't
+accidentally cut it for time while doing something else.  (It was a
+LONG editing session.)
+
+      I figured the Narns were there to discuss the fates of their
+families back home, but yeah, to a certain degree it was there as a
+great end for the teaser.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>Sic Transit Vir< (18-Apr-96 16:19:12)
+
+
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+
>Sic Transit Vir<

+
Date: 18-Apr-96 16:19:12

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what DID happen to the Narn Lindesty caught?
+
+       Nothing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+General Hague <Spoiler> (03-Apr-96 15:20:27)
+
+
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+
General Hague <Spoiler>

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:27

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       We'd booked the actor long, long in advance.  At the last
+minute, he bailed to do a DS9 episode playing, essentially, the same
+character, despite our having first dibs.
+
+       So I killed off the character.  Didn't change the story by the
+smallest measure.  May actually have helped, since it raised the stakes
+in the story right from the start.
+
+       Rule #1: Never honk off the writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+EA Battle Tactics (18-Apr-96 16:19:15)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Apr-96 16:19:15

+
 Paul Frazier <103311.567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> al., turn off the jump gate prior to the arrival of the EA
+> vessels? And a related question: why did the EA ships use the jump
+> gate? What am I missing here?
+
+       The answer to both your questions is about the same.  It takes
+about a day to power down, or power up a jump gate.  It operates more
+like a fusion reactor than a light bulb.  So not only wasn't there
+enough time, even if they *had* had enough time, you'd want to leave
+the gate up and running in case you needed to evacuate for any reason;
+otherwise you'd cut off your main escape route.
+
+       For the incoming fleet, knowing the gate was active was the way
+to go, since it would let them launch their fighters prior to coming
+in; if you use a jump point, you kinda have to launch while you're
+coming out to avoid anyone being stuck behind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Interludes SPOILER> (18-Apr-96 19:13:37)
+
+
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+
<Interludes SPOILER>

+
Date: 18-Apr-96 19:13:37

+
 David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 2????
+> As in TWO????
+> Two?
+> Who could the other be?
+> ?
+> The new extra, Marcus?
+
+      You really shouldn't drop a message like that into a thread
+without a massive spoiler warning and space, given the nature of the
+subject.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Ambassador Na'fon?>> (18-Apr-96 19:16:08)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18-Apr-96 19:16:08

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is he still around, or is that a small comet that went by?
+
+      When he failed to convince the other Narns to accept him as
+their new leader -- which was the whole point to his being sent to B5
+in the first place
+ -- he had no choice but to go home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<STV: a Narn question> (19-Apr-96 01:53:32)
+
+
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+
<STV: a Narn question>

+
Date: 19-Apr-96 01:53:32

+
 Steve Ramage <74731.235@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You know -- the one lying tied up on the floor, waiting to find
+> out if he's going to be done with his own blade? Is this yet
+> another thread I'm going to have to keep in my head, or was he,
+> his contribution to this episode concluded, returned to
+> supernumerary Hell?
+
+      No, nothing happened to him; Vir wouldn't ever do that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Recasting fever>>> (19-Apr-96 01:53:33)
+
+
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+
<<Recasting fever>>>

+
Date: 19-Apr-96 01:53:33

+
 David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe , in one of the early eps there is a shadowery figure I think
+> there was some hidden group called Controll 11 or something what
+> ever happened to these individuals and is hat a dropped thread or
+> one that will come up again ?
+
+      The Bureau was incorporated into other parts of the government.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 v Star Trek (19-Apr-96 02:05:01)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-Apr-96 02:05:01

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      If I'd wanted Big Money, I'd've stayed on MURDER, SHE WROTE,
+where I was paid *twice* what I get on B5, given that it's a top-ten
+rated network show. But I left that to do this.
+
+      This isn't a random casting about for an idea that makes money. 
+For one thing, "ideas" don't make shows, characters do.  Second, if
+what you posit were true, I wouldn't have built the show so that it
+self-destructs after 5 years.  Finally, every season of this show for
+three years plus the pilot for four has pushed the envelope completely;
+we only have two years left.  Not much time to settle into complacency,
+wouldn't you say?
+
+      Maybe you should bea little less cynical and insulting about a
+field about which you do not seem terribly well informed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ceremonies of L & D> (19-Apr-96 21:55:10)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-Apr-96 21:55:10

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm familiar with BOC, but haven't really gone out of my way to
+get hold of any of their stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Was that the Jupiter 2? (19-Apr-96 21:55:11)
+
+
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+
Was that the Jupiter 2?

+
Date: 19-Apr-96 21:55:11

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it's a Vree ship, which we've seen before.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ceremonies of L & D> (19-Apr-96 22:16:47)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-Apr-96 22:16:47

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Ah....once again the topic of folliclelessness returns to the
+board...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<A Note re: Spoilers> (19-Apr-96 22:16:49)
+
+
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+
<A Note re: Spoilers>

+
Date: 19-Apr-96 22:16:49

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why??
+
+      Yes, the intros are spoken in the past tense.
+
+      But when is it in the story that they are spoken....hmmmm....?
+
+      In theory, one could speak of 2258 in 2259 and it's the past
+tense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
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Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:28

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> As an aside: Are you planning anything special for your
+> appearance at Marcon next month?
+
+       Nothing special per se planned for Marcon...I generally play it
+by ear on these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+EA President (20-Apr-96 00:27:48)
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Date: 20-Apr-96 00:27:48

+
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+
+      Now you should have both a Clark Bar and a Mars Bar, and reenact
+"Severed Dreams."  Or, of course, you could ally yourself with the
+Shadows and go for the Milky Way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Book in UK ?'s (20-Apr-96 14:48:19)
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Date: 20-Apr-96 14:48:19

+
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+
+      Wow...what're the other ascii codes for alternate
+numbers/letters that one can use online?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 v Star Trek (20-Apr-96 15:16:29)
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Date: 20-Apr-96 15:16:29

+
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+
+      No, we're still waiting on renewal, same as every show.
+
+      To take off my producer cap for a moment and put on my fan
+cap...yes, I understand your position.  Lots of people in this town
+obsess about money, and everybody wants to tell you what to do.  I know
+the problems Bellisario had with "Leap," and some of them were of his
+own making, but the majority were from the Suits at Universal.  A large
+measure of what eventually comes out of your show depends on who you
+luck into as far as a studio liaison is concerned.  We got very lucky
+in having someone who understands what we're trying to do, and hasn't
+given a single script note since episode 2 of year 2. DB didn't have
+that luxury; I don't think anyone at Universal really understood what
+he was trying to do, which was unfortunate.
+
+      My response was mainly from the other side of the statement,
+implicit or stated outright, that implies everyone working in TeeVee
+does so only for the bucks, that money talks and nothing else matters. 
+There are some of us who are dedicated storytellers, first, foremost
+and forever.  Tarring everyone with the same brush is just another form
+of prejudice, and when it appears, it needs to be corrected.
+
+      A lot of what happens out here in *The Industry* horrifies me. 
+The quest for more, bigger, money-money-money.  Yes, on one level,
+writers are vastly underpaid for what we do *in terms of* the amount of
+money that the final product actually makes.
+
+      But we are also vastly OVERPAID in terms of what people doing
+the really important jobs are being paid: teachers, nursing staff, the
+many layers of people who keep the nation going and prepare it for the
+future.  So from where I sit, NOBODY out here has ANY reason to beef
+about their money. We're hideously lucky to be working in a field where
+we can entertain, and tell stories, and be well compensated for it. 
+And I think too many people out here forget that.  Having grown up
+fairly poor for most of my life, I *can't* forget it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Nomination congrats (20-Apr-96 15:16:34)
+
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+
Date: 20-Apr-96 15:16:34

+
 Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume you withdrew TFON to avoid splitting the vote?
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, since the last time we were in Hugo contention,
+the splitting of votes cost us the award (combined votes would've been
+enough going in to win), the folks gave us the option of withdrawing
+one of the two, and since "The Coming of Shadows" seems the overall
+favorite, that one was the one kept.
+
+      One other good thing about the withdrawl of one episode was that
+it allowed Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys" onto the ballot, which
+otherwise would've been frozen out, and it deserves the recognition of
+the nomination.
+
+      We're all *very* pleased and excited by the nomination.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<STV-a few ?> (20-Apr-96 15:16:36)
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+
Date: 20-Apr-96 15:16:36

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is Vir married?
+> What is that patch on the right shoulder of the new uniforms?
+
+      At this point, with the rethinking going on back home, he's
+bethrothed and promised, the marriage arranged, but not yet fully,
+*formally* married. There's still ritual to go through.  The other
+family could still choose to withdraw the arrangement.
+
+      One of the patches is a Ranger patch; the other is the new B5
+sword and shield logo.
+
+      (BTW, on your web site, could you possibly withhold the synopses
+ -- which are provided to the stations, and not intended for general
+release -- until a little closer to the episode's airdate?  A couple of
+those you've released have caused a fair amount of consternation, and
+destroyed some of the impact I'd wanted with those episodes.  There's
+nothing I can do to stop you from posting the information -- though
+starting with "War" 2 I'm now personally editing the synopses to delete
+some stuff -- but if you could just hold back even a little, it would
+help me a lot.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Card Set in 8/96! (20-Apr-96 15:29:40)
+
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+
Date: 20-Apr-96 15:29:40

+
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+
+      Just a quick public statement of support for the cards.  The
+last batch were very good -- even ending up on some magazines' lists of
+Top Ten Cards for the year -- and all indications are that this one
+will be even better. Of all the things I'm asked to sign at
+conventions, probably the #1 items are cards from the Fleer set (ditto
+for many of the cast).  I'm definitely looking forward to seeing them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 v Star Trek (20-Apr-96 19:58:34)
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+
Date: 20-Apr-96 19:58:34

+
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+
+      Thanks.  I haven't done quite as much with alternate beliefs as
+I'd like, however, and that's something I want to get into a bit more
+in year four.  It feels a little too mainstream to me right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Book in UK ?'s (20-Apr-96 19:58:36)
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+
Date: 20-Apr-96 19:58:36

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> cents c alt+0162 pounds L alt+0163 yen Y alt+0165 copyright C
+> alt+0169 registered R alt+0174 plus or minus ? alt+0177 squared 2
+> alt+0178 paragraph P alt+0182 1/4 ? alt+0188 1/2 ?
+> alt+0189 3/4 ?
+> alt+0190 spanish ?
+> ?
+
+      Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Severed Dreams> (20-Apr-96 19:58:38)
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+
Date: 20-Apr-96 19:58:38

+
 Robert M. Schlesinger <103347.2317@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But really, can *anyone* under 6'2" *really* be a manly man?
+
+"I've always heard that it's not how much you've got, but how you use
+it..."
+
+      Sure, easy for you to say.  I'm still trying to remember where I
+left it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Sic Transit Vir> (20-Apr-96 19:58:39)
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+
Date: 20-Apr-96 19:58:39

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By the way, was the door that opens on the room full of Narns
+> real, or CGI enhanced?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, the door was quite real.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:29

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did we get cut or did you leave it to our imaginations?
+
+       No, we cut that shot pretty close, to go out on the bang.  Your
+local station didn't cut anything there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 So FL schedule (20-Apr-96 23:30:24)
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+
Date: 20-Apr-96 23:30:24

+
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+
+      Good news, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Future of SF-TV (21-Apr-96 15:33:59)
+
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:33:59

+
 Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard of any other producers/writers/directors currently
+> developing projects that should give us hope for the genre in the
+> future?
+
+      I dunno...it's hard to say.  After the first ST series, the ball
+was dropped and *nobody* picked it up again really for almost 25 years.
+After we're gone, it's hard to say if anybody'll do so.  We've gone out
+of our way to bring in other producers and folks, show them how we do
+the show, in the hope that they'll then be able to do the same and
+create more in the future. Whether or not that happens is hard to say.
+
+      Because it's not just the techniques involved.  B5 is only on
+the air because I and a couple of others stood there and fought tooth
+and nail for five years to get it on the air.  There has to be a
+certain tenacity involved.
+
+      On the other hand, Hypernauts is already using the B5 production
+model for their show, and Space Cases has adopted the five-year arc
+notion, so maybe the future is already here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Critique or Propaganda (21-Apr-96 15:34:00)
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:00

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you see this as likely?
+
+      Yes, I think it's very likely that's one reason we're more or
+less frozen out of a lot of areas.  I've seen it happen.  I used to be
+a reviewer (not a critic, I'm not that smart), and hung out with
+others; the theaters or producers with whom they had a relationship,
+they covered; those with whom they didn't, didn't get covered.
+
+      But then, as was pointed out to me a while back, critics are
+paid to be unfair, so you can't let it bother you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<TCoS: Londo's Dream> (21-Apr-96 15:34:04)
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:04

+
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+
+      All I can say for now, without massive spoilers, is that we'll
+be getting into this issue very heavily by the end of this season. 
+You'll see more of this thread.  But for now, this is simply one of
+those questions I'm going to have to refrain from answering for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Sic Transit Vir> (21-Apr-96 15:34:05)
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:05

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Tell me, is Peter's accent real?
+> Were you involved with the hiring of the actors?
+> Did you know their previous work or did they audition fpr their
+> parts?
+
+      No, Peter's accent isn't real, though he does a good job with
+it.  And yes, I hire (with Doug Netter and John Copeland) all the
+actors on the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Sic Transit Vir> (21-Apr-96 15:34:08)
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:08

+
 Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What happened to Vir's pre-nuptial gift that his fiance so
+> lovingly offered to him to dispose of at his leisure?
+
+      No, Vir would never kill a Narn, so he's fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<STV - clarifications?> (21-Apr-96 15:34:10)
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:10

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who was supposed to have said it?
+
+      It was in the observation dome scene with Ivanova; I realized
+that we'd cut a small piece for time that was expendable, but in the
+back and forth went one line too far without realizing it.  Sigh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Sic Tr Vir-my opinions> (21-Apr-96 15:34:15)
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:15

+
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+
+      Thanks; I heard about the Vir promo situation...sigh...some days
+we just can't catch a break.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<A Late Delivery...> (21-Apr-96 15:34:16)
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:16

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who wouldn't believe he was Arthur?
+> Then why was he there?
+
+      Thanks.  I *really* like this episode a lot.  The performance,
+the music, everything works; I tried to get a little artsy, try out
+some different kinds of stuff, stretch some muscles I haven't used
+enough, and it came out very nicely.  It's just nifty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Transit...> (21-Apr-96 15:34:18)
+
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+
Date: 21-Apr-96 15:34:18

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As to those problematic press releases, for whom and what purpose
+> are they originally intended?
+
+      Yeah, there's a smidge of Alizon in Lyndisty, mainly in grammar
+and word choice.  As for the releases...they're not press releases,
+they're synopses sent to the stations for only their use.  They were
+never meant for general distribution.  Happily, one source of the
+synopses has offered to stop putting them out, so that'll be a major
+help to us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (03-Apr-96 15:20:31)
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+
Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:31

+
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+
+       Yes, the Thunderbolt furies were seen both on Mars and
+attacking B5.
+
+       A normal Starfury can't function in an atmosphere environment. 
+The new Thunderbolt models have airfoils/wings that are folded back
+over the body of the ship for non-atmospheric maneuvering, and then
+extend out to full sized wings when entering an atmosphere.  (You'll
+get to see in detail how this works back and forth in "Ship of Tears.")
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bab5 Hugo Nomination (21-Apr-96 18:15:37)
+
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Bab5 Hugo Nomination

+
Date: 21-Apr-96 18:15:37

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks (and thanks for the vote).  They gave me the option of
+having the two nominations or withdrawing one of the two, and we
+decided to go ahead and withdraw "Fall," to avoid splitting the vote,
+and to allow another entry into the field, which was apparently "12
+Monkeys," which definitely deserves the recognition of the nomination.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Stealth Tech (21-Apr-96 21:38:35)
+
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Minbari Stealth Tech

+
Date: 21-Apr-96 21:38:35

+
 Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1 how much more advanced are the Centauri than EA ?
+> the Blockade Mines seemed to pick up the extremely advanced White
+> Star quite quickly and yet the older larger Minbari cruisers were
+> not detectable by the EA during the Minbari War, even Sinclair in
+> Season 1believed that they still should not have been able to
+> pick up Minbari fighters ?
+
+      No, it's slightly audible to others, but is the sort of thing
+generally lost in the crowd; we ignore stuff a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Late Delivery<< (21-Apr-96 21:38:37)
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>>Late Delivery<<

+
Date: 21-Apr-96 21:38:37

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And I thought that finally I could just feel happy about an
+> episode, but then you had to end it with the whole thing about
+> Kosh being Merlin...and who is Morgana LaFaye?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, Marcus and Franklin make a good team, it's a
+nice balance.  And Marcus did fit in well with the whole Arthur
+storyline (it's kind of an obvious but well-fitting match).
+
+      As for Marcus' line...sometimes offhand remarks are only offhand
+remarks...and sometimes they aint....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<A Late Delivery...> (21-Apr-96 21:58:53)
+
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<A Late Delivery...>

+
Date: 21-Apr-96 21:58:53

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I like this one a lot.  Not really an arc episode,
+except in going into some backstory elements, but just nicely done. 
+I'm quite proud of this one.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Nomination congrats (22-Apr-96 00:09:40)
+
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+
Hugo Nomination congrats

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 00:09:40

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a standard practice, or is it unprecedented?
+> Or am I putting a wrong spin on it?
+
+      No, apparently this option is often given.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+help: EA ships names (22-Apr-96 00:09:41)
+
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+
help: EA ships names

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 00:09:41

+
 maria kusznir <103636.2771@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It can't be some sort of in joke is it?
+> Anyone know?
+
+      President Clark got away from the tradition of using Greek
+names.  And the Roanoke was a Virginia colony that disappeared in the
+1600s.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Sic Transit Vir> (22-Apr-96 00:09:42)
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<Sic Transit Vir>

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 00:09:42

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of Londo's accent, I'm assuming that different Centauri
+> accents represent people from different areas of the planet? 
+> Anything significant in all this, or just a bit of
+> differentiation?
+
+      No, we've just always assumed that not everyone on any given
+planet is going to speak with the same accent as everybody else from
+that planet. Seems more realistic.
+
+      Certainly, among Centauri, a certain accent is more associated
+with the "old school" of court nobility and the like.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Jerry Doyle (22-Apr-96 00:09:44)
+
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Jerry Doyle

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 00:09:44

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks for the report.  Yeah, Jerry and all the cast are great
+when it comes to performing for audiences and off-the-cuff comments. 
+They're very funny when they want to be.  We're an iconoclastic bunch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Sic Tr Vir-my opinions> (22-Apr-96 16:07:18)
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+
<Sic Tr Vir-my opinions>

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 16:07:18

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any idea why they are doing this?
+> Could it simply be human error?
+
+       Yeah, I heard about this on the nets and from a reporter; they
+say they're aware of the problem and it won't happen again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<TCoS: Londo's Dream> (22-Apr-96 16:07:20)
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+
<TCoS: Londo's Dream>

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 16:07:20

+
 Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, loved the reference to "Netter's Syndrome" in _Convictions_
+> - how did Doug take it when he first heard the name?
+
+       Doug's reaction to Netter's Syndrome was...amused, chagrined,
+and the promise of swift and terrible revenge.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+stuff (03-Apr-96 15:20:34)
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+
stuff

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:34

+
 Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Is there any hope of convincing David Gerrold to write a B5
+> novel?
+
+       Thanks.  Marcus is a great character...he can go back and forth
+between deadly serious and quite funny without batting an eye, it's all
+quite smooth. He adds a lot to the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (22-Apr-96 18:59:42)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 18:59:42

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Do you have the membership info?  (If not, I should
+probably upload it to the library.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Sic Transit Vir> (22-Apr-96 18:59:43)
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<Sic Transit Vir>

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 18:59:43

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Centauri who was speaking to Vir at the beginning of the last
+> episode --did he know about what Vir was doing in funneling
+> through the Narns to safety?
+
+      No, he didn't know, and would've been horrified if he had.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (22-Apr-96 18:59:44)
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<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 18:59:44

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Also this is the Episode Jerry Doylebroke his arm in a scene?
+> Was the scence used?
+
+      The previews often have clips that don't appear in the episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Late Delivery<< (22-Apr-96 21:30:24)
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>>Late Delivery<<

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 21:30:24

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> DO you know where they got it?
+
+      Yes, it's a real sword...I'm trying to remember where we got it,
+it may have been a vendor in these things, one of many that frequent
+catalogs and Ren faires.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A look Back... (22-Apr-96 21:34:38)
+
+
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+
A look Back...

+
Date: 22-Apr-96 21:34:38

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Can I just put the lie to this once and for all?
+
+      It was never, NEVER my intention, and I never stated, that the
+Minbari were hermaphroditic, or that Delenn was then hermaphroditic. 
+It was NEVER stated that they all went through a male-female change, so
+it had NOTHING to do with the Left Hand of Darkness.
+
+      The idea initially was to use a female playing a male character
+because it added an offbeat, somewhat androgynous look to the
+character, which I thought might be good for the character.  It was
+only upon entering the chrysalis, and emerging, that Delenn would a) be
+more human, and b) be female. When I discovered that the voice change
+wasn't working as well as I'd hoped it would, electronically altering
+it, I finally scrapped that aspect of it, but kept the human/minbari
+change aspect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ejecting from a Fury (23-Apr-96 00:21:03)
+
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+
Ejecting from a Fury

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 00:21:03

+
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+
+      You can see explosive bolts going off, and a series of small
+thrusters behind the cockpit area which allow for navigation.  This
+gets the pilot away from the main body which has either been crippled,
+or is about to explode, the same way a modern fighter has an ejection
+system.  (Check the main credit sequence for a better shot of an
+ejection.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Sic Transit Vir> (23-Apr-96 00:21:04)
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<Sic Transit Vir>

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 00:21:04

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, what is the translation to the title?
+
+      thus passes Vir (it's a signal of transition)
+
+                                                              jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Late Delivery<< (23-Apr-96 15:16:00)
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>>Late Delivery<<

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 15:16:00

+
 Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this normal, or is the local station cutting them off?
+
+       No, the time required for the promo has been taken up by the
+contest commercial; now that the contest is over, the promos will
+return.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Sic Transit Vir> (23-Apr-96 15:16:01)
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+
Date: 23-Apr-96 15:16:01

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you tell us what the line would have been about the
+> bound-up Narn?
+
+       No, the only line was that "the Narn is recovering in Medlab,"
+something to that effect.  Sigh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (23-Apr-96 15:16:02)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 15:16:02

+
 Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you any information on how many people have joined the fan
+> club so far?? Also what % is US and what % is outside the US?
+> Are the numbers what you expected higher/lower??
+
+       Right now, without any advertising of note, mainly word of
+mouth, we've got over 2,000 members so far.  We're adding about 150 per
+day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Entertainment CD (03-Apr-96 15:20:35)
+
+
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+
B5 Entertainment CD

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 15:20:35

+
 Steve Augustine <102202.200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You mean even when a picture of Delenn, Vir, or the others
+> display during the screen saver, it's supposed to make that same
+> 'scritttt' sound?
+
+       No, if you're talking about the white screens with the black
+and white photos and text, no, it's all Identicard stuff.  (Check the
+pilot, and you'll see the same display used there for Lyta's entrance.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<STV-a few ?> (23-Apr-96 15:16:03)
+
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+
Date: 23-Apr-96 15:16:03

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, I wasn't happy with that aspect of the promo either
+(which was the national spot, not cut by the stations).  It's kinda
+like doing a promo for Citizen Kane, "...it all began with a child's
+sled named Rosebud...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcon Dinner for CISers (23-Apr-96 15:20:49)
+
+
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+
Marcon Dinner for CISers

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 15:20:49

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> OK, who's going to Marcon in Columbus?
+> Who's interested in a CIS get-together for dinner on Saturday
+> evening? Who else?
+
+       That should be confirmed attendence at the *con*, not
+necessarily at dinner; they've got me booked pretty solid....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Renewal or not? (23-Apr-96 15:20:50)
+
+
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+
Renewal or not?

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 15:20:50

+
 Mihai Farcas <103346.2717@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we all chill out and await a reliable reply - like from JMS?
+
+       I've said it a dozen times...*no one will know anything until
+the early part of May at the SOONEST*.  The people who make the
+decision aren't scheduled to have their meeting to START discussing it
+until then.
+
+       So ANYthing you hear, either way, on this from anyone prior to
+that time is simply unsubstantiated rumor and can be dismissed.
+
+       We remain cautiously optimistic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Melissa G. on B5? (23-Apr-96 20:05:36)
+
+
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+
Melissa G. on B5?

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 20:05:36

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, Melissa appears in two episodes this season, toward
+the latter part of the season, in an role that...it's just...well,
+words fail me. Otherwise I'd tell you.
+
+      (running like hell....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TV Guide Ad... (23-Apr-96 20:05:37)
+
+
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+
TV Guide Ad...

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 20:05:37

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The ad was placed by WB, and you can leave a note for them via
+www.babylon5.com.  It's a great ad, and as you say, about time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Question (23-Apr-96 20:05:38)
+
+
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+
Question

+
Date: 23-Apr-96 20:05:38

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's not a fractal pattern, though you're right, it does kinda
+resemble that.  And the massing along the border was to delineate the
+line between the two halves, as cut up by Morden and Londo.  That may
+change, however....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (24-Apr-96 22:18:41)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:41

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Shouldn't be long; we're still turning out some of the stuff for
+the club, like the posters; give us a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+A look Back... (24-Apr-96 22:18:42)
+
+
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+
A look Back...

+
Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:42

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nothing to apologize for; wasn't annoyed.  It's just that I've
+seen this misperception a lot lately, and finally just decided, "Okay,
+let's straighten this out once and for all."  Any vehemence was
+intended for the subject, not the poster.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/388.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/388.html
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+
+
+Melissa G. on B5? (24-Apr-96 22:18:44)
+
+
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+
Melissa G. on B5?

+
Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:44

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Two eps, eh?
+> ...uh...do we gotta wait til fall to see them?
+
+      It'll be toward the latter end of the season; haven't gotten a
+final schedule yet from WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/389.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/389.html
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+
+
+Query (24-Apr-96 22:18:46)
+
+
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+
Query

+
Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:46

+
 Will Gearhart <102147.2670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who are you?
+> And, what do you want?
+
+      I don't know
+
+      and
+
+      To finish this story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Puppets sue Babylon 5 (03-Apr-96 20:56:09)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Apr-96 20:56:09

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Go to your room....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+PATRICK MAGOOHAN (24-Apr-96 22:18:51)
+
+
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+
PATRICK MAGOOHAN

+
Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:51

+
 stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know what MacGoohan is up to these days?
+> Could you clarify this?
+
+      I don't know what he's doing these days, though happily
+Braveheart seems to have brought him out of retirement.  He's simply
+one of the best actors I've ever seen.
+
+      We'd approached him in year one with a part, and things seemed
+to be going well, until we were told he would be out of the country,
+which nixed it. We'll get him yet.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>Late Delivery<< (24-Apr-96 22:18:52)
+
+
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+
>>Late Delivery<<

+
Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:52

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, because we've played back and forth with this
+stuff before, a la the Inquisitor, it *could've* been him, which made
+it all the more interesting.  Certainly Marcus *wanted* it to be
+him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Renewal or not? (24-Apr-96 22:18:53)
+
+
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+
Renewal or not?

+
Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:53

+
 Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You wouldn't do that to us, right?
+> RIGHT??
+> That's even cuter than teddy bears (ugh!!) Uh, Joe, you wouldn't,
+> Right?!??? the baseball bat?
+
+      Wow, thanks for all of that, and for the letter(s).  They'll be
+eminently helpful.  The hard work is much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Melissa Gilbert on B5 (24-Apr-96 22:18:56)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-Apr-96 22:18:56

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Wait and see...
+
+                                                              jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TV Guide Ad... (25-Apr-96 01:05:35)
+
+
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+
TV Guide Ad...

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 01:05:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's a certain perverseness in making those on the side of
+light wear black uniforms.  It reverses our expectations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/395.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/395.html
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+
+
+Book Tours Status (25-Apr-96 01:05:37)
+
+
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+
Book Tours Status

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 01:05:37

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      ...sigh...I just wish they were better books....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Future of SF-TV (25-Apr-96 01:07:59)
+
+
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+
The Future of SF-TV

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 01:07:59

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...from your mouth to Hugo's ears....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 copied ST (25-Apr-96 01:16:29)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5 copied ST

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 01:16:29

+
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+
+      The only problem with your theory is that there was never, ever,
+at any time, any notion of copying Star Trek, and that perception tends
+to exist only in those who don't generally know the full, rich
+background of SF.  This show owes more conceptually to historical
+themes, and the kinds of sagas that come down to us in the Lensman
+books, Childhood's End, the Foundation books, Dune and others than any
+TV show, including and especially Star Trek.
+
+      The only similarity between ST and B5 is that they are both in
+the future, and both set in space.  That's it.  Are you also willing to
+state that every SF novel set in the future, in space, is *also*
+copying Star Trek? Including those published before there ever WAS a
+Star Trek?  And of course let's not even get INTO the Forbidden Planet
+question.
+
+      While I appreciate the *sentiment* of your note, I would commend
+to you your local library, and the works of Heinlein, Clark, Asimov,
+Sturgeon, Bradbury, Lovecraft, Dunsany, Russell, Smith and others. 
+Your points of reference may need some measure of enlargement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Franklin's Dad (25-Apr-96 13:42:27)
+
+
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+
Franklin's Dad

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 13:42:27

+
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+
+       Thanks.  I'm looking to find a way to bring Franklin's father
+back into the storyline now, to help resolve this.  (Note: no
+suggestions, please.)  I think he would tend to fall on the other side,
+and it'd be good to show that some people may think that yes, there's a
+problem, but you solve that problem from within, not by breaking away. 
+Could make for some nice drama....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>Late Delivery<< (25-Apr-96 13:42:29)
+
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+
>>Late Delivery<<

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 13:42:29

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, the Delenn/Arthur moment played out very well; no
+lines, not a word, just the images, and the emotions under the surface.
+
+       And thanks on the titles.  I often labor a long time on these
+things, to try and give them many layers, or turn the title in on
+itself, or do a play on words.  I can't start work on a script until I
+have a title, because the title sets the mood.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Talking Kosh (01-Apr-96 14:07:51)
+
+
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+
Talking Kosh

+
Date: 01-Apr-96 14:07:51

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       He wasa certainly feeling the strain, and not used to
+interacting physically with people, certainly not for a long, long
+time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dust to Dust question (03-Apr-96 21:11:55)
+
+
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+
Dust to Dust question

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 21:11:55

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is the second Narn that G'Kar talks to?
+> Is it his father again or G'Quon?
+
+      It's the same thing, the image of his father.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/400.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/400.html
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+
+
+Episode Order (25-Apr-96 13:42:33)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Apr-96 13:42:33

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes, that would've been the ideal order *in that* it would've
+let the first batch of eps here in the US end on an arc episode, and
+wouldn't have let that thread sit for quite so long.  But we needed the
+extra time to make the EFX right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Book Tours Status (25-Apr-96 13:42:35)
+
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+
Book Tours Status

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 13:42:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I guess I'm just kinda hard on my own stuff.  DN was
+the first novel I'd ever written, and it was a learning experience.  I
+came out of it better able to do the next one, and there are any number
+of ways I'd go back and improve the first book.  Ah, well...as someone
+once noted, "Art is never finished, only abandoned."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Book Tours Status (25-Apr-96 16:45:43)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Apr-96 16:45:43

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  Actually, there's far more bio in OtherSyde than
+probably should've been there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+PATRICK MAGOOHAN (25-Apr-96 16:45:44)
+
+
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+
PATRICK MAGOOHAN

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 16:45:44

+
 stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since it did not work out, was the part played by someone else or
+> was it dropped?
+
+       No, the part went to someone else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Melissa Gilbert on B5 (25-Apr-96 16:45:45)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-Apr-96 16:45:45

+
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+
+       Yes, you'll be seeing Theo again later this season in "And the
+Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Late Delivery> (25-Apr-96 22:17:28)
+
+
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+
<Late Delivery>

+
Date: 25-Apr-96 22:17:28

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Btw, is there any chance that we can get a date, as in month and
+> day, for this event?) Is it safe to say that the actual E-M war
+> started within the same year, or did it start a year later? 
+> Anything you can add to this would be of tremendous help.) Are we
+> actually likely to learn more about the circumstances surrounding
+> the Prometheus's attack on the Minbari ship and all?
+
+      The contact was made late in the year, and while that was the
+first blow, it takes a while for any war to really get going; you
+aren't at war instantly.  The Minbari had to pull their forces
+together, make the open declaration of war, establish supply lines and
+all the other elements needed for warfare.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Newspaper Article (26-Apr-96 00:14:11)
+
+
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+
Newspaper Article

+
Date: 26-Apr-96 00:14:11

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Who is rightous and who is just egotistical?"
+> I wonder if this critic has watched and enjoyed B5?
+
+      Could you possibly send me a copy of that review?  I'd
+appreciate it. You can send it along to me at the following address:
+
+      14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
+
+      Thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+PATRICK MAGOOHAN (26-Apr-96 21:07:26)
+
+
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+
PATRICK MAGOOHAN

+
Date: 26-Apr-96 21:07:26

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It would've been Knight Two in "Sky."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
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Date: 26-Apr-96 21:07:28

+
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+
+      Thanks, and I agree with all your points.  And yes, it's a
+lesson or a point of view worth examining, these days in particular.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Demon with a Glass Hand (26-Apr-96 21:07:29)
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+
Date: 26-Apr-96 21:07:29

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, I know how busy both you and Harlan are, and I know that
+> Harlan's main job right now is to get well, but do you think that
+> Trent will ever set foot on B5?
+
+      Dunno...we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 03-Apr-96 21:11:57

+
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+
+      Well, at this kind of range, they could eyeball the targets for
+the most part, as far as the big ships are concerned; the smaller ones
+would be much more difficult.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 27-Apr-96 01:55:55

+
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+
+      Ended up at A. Sabella's over by the Embarcadero...great place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Franklin's Dad (27-Apr-96 15:16:20)
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+
Date: 27-Apr-96 15:16:20

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is B5's status vis-a-vis people coming and going there from
+> Earth? If I wanted to go from Earth to B5 what would I have to do?
+> Vise-versa, if I wanted to go home to Earth (after the
+> deportations were over) could I get a direct fliight and how
+> would I be received?
+
+      It's very difficult now; you have to go through secondary
+routes, and travel papers take forever to get processed.
+
+      We'll actually mention this aspect later in the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Epic Bab5 (27-Apr-96 22:37:34)
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+
Date: 27-Apr-96 22:37:34

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm assuming that this was intentional?
+
+      No, so far, I'd say your analysis was quite good.  To some
+extent, you also have to go outside strict Greek storytelling structure
+in terms of saga and also go into classic Greek theater, especially the
+tragedies.
+
+      In that particular form, a character may have a destiny, or
+there's a prophecy, and the character does all he can to avoid that
+destiny, but everything he does only brings him closer to it. 
+Certainly there's a lot of that in Londo, for instance.
+
+      There's also the thematic issues of hubris, of the descent into
+the underworld, the oracle, and other elements of Greek and general
+mythic storytelling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Minbari Souls> (27-Apr-96 22:37:36)
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+
Date: 27-Apr-96 22:37:36

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If this is so, how can Minbari souls be flitting over to humans?
+> How does that sound, or do I have it all messed up?
+
+      That's close....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Actor's reaction?> (27-Apr-96 22:37:37)
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+
Date: 27-Apr-96 22:37:37

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that the actors have finished filming season 3, and are 9
+> episodes ahead of us, can you tell us what their reaction is to
+> the changes you've wrought?
+
+      Well, most of the actors have split now that filming's over for
+the season, scattering to the four winds...but I'd say overall that
+they're all very pleased at how their characters have been changed,
+what's happened, and seeing how it's been *massively* cranked up for
+next season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Avalon and 3d age> (28-Apr-96 00:27:38)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 00:27:38

+
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+
+      Yeah, there's a small clue about the third age in the discussion
+between Marcus and Franklin about the ranger pin.  I mean, it's really
+pretty blatant.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 28-Apr-96 00:30:24

+
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+
+      They're *always* surprised, it seems....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:28

+
 Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was curious as to what is used to keep the communicators on the
+> back of the B5 staffs hands? Presumably what you use IRL is
+> different from what is used in the B5 universe ? Sorry to drag
+> this up again, but when can we expect B5 to appear on laserdisc ? 
+> will it be sometime after the tv series has been completed (in
+> two years time)?
+
+      My thought is that it's a molecular compound that naturally
+adheres to the epidermis.
+
+      No word on disks yet; when there's something to announce, you
+won't have to ask about it, I'll be blasting it all over the place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Late Delivery<< (28-Apr-96 15:43:32)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:32

+
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+
+      Thanks on both counts....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Avalon and 3d age> (28-Apr-96 15:43:33)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:33

+
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+
+      Not the work per se in terms of being influenced, but the
+attitude that goes into the work, yes.  I've stood at Stonehenge at
+dawn, the place more or less empty, walked along the circular stones at
+Avebury, and stood in the deep cavernous center of a pre-bronze age
+burial mound in Ireland...when you do these things, you begin to
+understand what *time* is, and how we in this country don't really know
+what that is yet.  It can affect how you perceive a lot of things, and
+in the end, that always feeds back into the writing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03-Apr-96 21:11:59

+
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+
+      Thanks.  That's exactly the impression I wanted...you do the
+dolly/zoom move, isolating Sheridan visually...you don't cut back to
+the others as they speak, just let the camera stay on him, put the
+other voices down under the music and off to the side, just *HOLD*
+there...works great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:34

+
 JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How was she able to have his "blood on my hands" if the ship was
+> destroyed?
+
+      Franklin's line in Avalon indicates that a couple of ships were
+destroyed *and* Dukhat was killed.  You basically had one big convoy
+meeting another; the ship on which Dukhat was present was badly damaged
+but not destroyed.  Dukhat and a number of others on board were killed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (28-Apr-96 15:43:38)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:38

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now it begins, eh?
+> Just how big are the Medlabs?
+> Is it like a modern hospital with 250 beds and so on?
+> So when we see Medlabs, are we seeing the equivalent of a
+> critical care unit? Immediately, she asks, "What have you heard
+> about Babylon 5? Is it renewed?
+
+      Thanks.  That's great to hear.  (Yours is the first reaction
+I've seen to the ep.)
+
+      There are a number of medlabs, which are broken into various
+areas; each has a larger wing attached to it, which we've seen on
+occasion, such as when the young girl in "Legacies" is in the infirmary
+in bed, same with Shon in "Believers."  They each have a pretty fair
+capacity for patients.
+
+      Beyond that...thanks again.  This is a particularly good
+episode, I think, a real turning point in the show.  (And I'm pleased
+that this is one ep where I've more or less managed to keep advance
+info down to a minimum.) Everyone did a great job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<...Avalon> (28-Apr-96 15:43:41)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 15:43:41

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder how long it will be before "I take great comfort in the
+> general hostility and unfairness of the universe" starts showing
+> up in sigs?
+
+      Thanks.  I'd say more, but you kinda covered it all, and quite
+nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^** (28-Apr-96 18:40:23)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 18:40:23

+
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+
+      "BUT THEN AGAIN I WILL NEVER EVER WATCH IT"
+
+      Ah...an open mind is a wonderful thing to behold.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 18:44:34

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What might this special video-cam see in your current environs?
+
+      "What might this special video-cam see in your current
+environs?"
+
+      A monitor, a keyboard, and an obsessive-compulsive.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour 25 (28-Apr-96 22:12:13)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 22:12:13

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; maybe it's something that could be done after the
+two-parter. We'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (28-Apr-96 22:12:14)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 22:12:14

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who built it?
+> The Rangers or technicians on the B5 payroll?
+> Also, how much have the former Earth Force personel stationed on
+> B5 been told about the Shadows and the coming war?
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, everybody's agendas remain the same...but for the
+moment, they are on the same alignment.  As soon as it's over, as
+Ivanova says, he'll turn on them, no mistake.  Enlightened
+self-interest, nothing more.
+
+      The new command center was cobbled from what's on the station,
+with some additional Minbari funding.  And yes, by now, pretty much the
+whole crew knows what's at stake with the shadows.  And now that
+they're not hiding anymore, the whole *thing* is out in the open.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Ship of Tears-spoilers (28-Apr-96 22:12:15)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 22:12:15

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the alien that committed suicide and put acid all on his body
+> the same species as we saw in the dream sequence operating on the
+> woman?
+
+      Yep.  Same species.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Ship of Tears, Telepaths (28-Apr-96 22:12:16)
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+
Date: 28-Apr-96 22:12:16

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If all the Narn telepaths are dead, what happened to the Narn
+> telepaths that helped G'Quon defeat the Shadows?
+
+      Those were the last remaining ones, the older telepaths, their
+children all killed, too old now to produce any further children, and
+the technology of cloning or genetics was still way beyond them.
+
+      The story of the last crusade of G'Quan is actually quite
+interesting; I hope to get it into the show at some point.  Right now
+it's mainly background, even though I've worked it out fully.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Forgiveness & "Avalon" (29-Apr-96 12:57:29)
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+
Date: 29-Apr-96 12:57:29

+
 Vicki Mitchell <76234.1317@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Delenn has absolved the humans of their guilt in the
+> Earth/Minbari war by forgiving "Arthur"/David McIntyre -- but has
+> she forgiven herself for her role in the war? And if not, is there
+> anyone among the humans from whom she could accept absolution?
+
+       You're right, that's a good question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03-Apr-96 21:12:02

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I agree, but Jerry was determined to do it, and more time
+would've been lost arguing about it than it took to do the takes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^** (29-Apr-96 12:57:30)
+
+
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Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^**

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 12:57:30

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       "Persuade me!"
+
+       I made the show.  The show speaks for itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Ship of Tears> (29-Apr-96 12:57:34)
+
+
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<Ship of Tears>

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 12:57:34

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...it's a good one, no mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ship of Tears, Telepaths (29-Apr-96 12:57:35)
+
+
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+
Ship of Tears, Telepaths

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 12:57:35

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Would you consider writing it up as a novel, to ease your
+> transition (the one you say you want) away from TV?
+
+       One crisis at a time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club Idea (29-Apr-96 15:14:04)
+
+
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+
Fan Club Idea

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 15:14:04

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whattaya think?
+
+       The shadows will love it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/434.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/434.html
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+
+
+<Avalon and 3d age> (29-Apr-96 15:14:06)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<Avalon and 3d age>

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 15:14:06

+
 James kemp <101765.1507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What about the bath robe and the baseball bat?
+> His anti RMES litchness.What does this button do ?
+> ?
+
+       "What about the bathrobe and the baseball bat?"
+
+       That's not a baseball bat.
+
+       But thank you for saying so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/435.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/435.html
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+
+
+<Ship of Tears> (29-Apr-96 15:14:07)
+
+
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+
<Ship of Tears>

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 15:14:07

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And by the way, any word on renewal?
+
+       We won't hear on that until mid-May or so.  If there were word,
+you wouldn't have to inquire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/436.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/436.html
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+
+
+<Avalon and 3d age> (29-Apr-96 16:44:46)
+
+
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+
<Avalon and 3d age>

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 16:44:46

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Enjoying your hiatus, are you?
+
+       Can't help it...I've got stark, staring mad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/437.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/437.html
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+
+
+Shadow defeat, 1st time? (29-Apr-96 18:05:23)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Shadow defeat, 1st time?

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 18:05:23

+
 Mark <70004.1111@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How were the shadows defeated the first time around?
+> telepaths involved also?
+
+       Who can say...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/438.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/438.html
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+
+
+Franklin's Dad (29-Apr-96 21:41:08)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29-Apr-96 21:41:08

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In that outline you have in your computer or wherever (the one
+> that's triple encrypted), how much detail do you have the series
+> mapped out? Obviously the major points -- who does what to whom,
+> and where it happens -- are there, but what about the little
+> stuff? Is Season 5 mapped out in great detail or just rough
+> outline?
+
+      It varies; some aspects are extensively mapped out, some are
+left a little open to allow for spontaneity.  A lot is in a
+triple-encrypted computer file, which I consult as needed; the rest I
+carry in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/439.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/439.html
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+
+
+Hour 25 (29-Apr-96 21:52:34)
+
+
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+
Hour 25

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:34

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What day/time is Hour 25 broadcast in LA?
+
+      H25 is usually broadcast 10 p.m. to Midnight Friday nights.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/44.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/44.html
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+
+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (03-Apr-96 21:12:03)
+
+
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+
>>Severed Dreams<<

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 21:12:03

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I presume there was some dialog snipped giving him a new pinpoint
+> location for the pod?
+
+      That was because the Narns just kept right on going, even when
+he'd said "we'll wait here."  That's Narns for you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/440.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/440.html
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+
+
+Story of G'Quon (29-Apr-96 21:52:36)
+
+
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+
Story of G'Quon

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:36

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you already have the story of how G'Quon defeated the
+> shadows figured out, would you consider simply posting the story
+> on the internet?
+
+      I think I'd rather hold it for now, on the chance that I can use
+it somewhere, or in time turn it into something larger.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/441.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/441.html
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+
+
+<Avalon and 3d age> (29-Apr-96 21:52:39)
+
+
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+
<Avalon and 3d age>

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:39

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of the Ranger pin, can you please give me the spelling
+> for the Minbari word that Marcus used for the pin's surface or
+> gem?
+
+      The name of the Ranger pin is spelled Isil'zha.  I'll have to
+look up the other word.
+
+      The Minbari term for Ranger One, btw, is Entil'zha.
+
+      Z'ha'dum is where the shadows live.  Odd, that reversal....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Ship of Tears> (29-Apr-96 21:52:40)
+
+
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+
<Ship of Tears>

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:40

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whereabouts on the sound stages did you fit it in?
+
+      Since we're not using the casino much this season -- not a lot
+of room for frivolity -- we yanked it out and put up the war room on
+stage C.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/443.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/443.html
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+
+<Ship of Tears-Bester> (29-Apr-96 21:52:43)
+
+
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+
<Ship of Tears-Bester>

+
Date: 29-Apr-96 21:52:43

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Franklin able to help Bester's girlfriend or is she still on the
+> station?
+
+      It'll be a long time before Bester's ladyfriend comes anywhere
+near being whole again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/444.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/444.html
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+
+
+>>Late Delivery<< (30-Apr-96 00:25:10)
+
+
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+
>>Late Delivery<<

+
Date: 30-Apr-96 00:25:10

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It wasn't that they didn't know about the gun ports, they did,
+it's just that since the start of the war, they hadn't run into any
+Minbari warships that did this, there was no reason for it...until they
+learned what was going on.  For all they knew, it could've been
+trouble.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/445.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/445.html
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+
+<Death of Ducat> (30-Apr-96 00:32:05)
+
+
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+
<Death of Ducat>

+
Date: 30-Apr-96 00:32:05

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's correct, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/446.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/446.html
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+
+
+>>Ship of Tears<< (30-Apr-96 00:32:06)
+
+
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+
>>Ship of Tears<<

+
Date: 30-Apr-96 00:32:06

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume we will be learning more about the aliens in Carolyn's
+> visions? Was the fact that there are no telepaths left on Narn
+> part of the reason the Shadows were so eager to help the Centauri
+> destroy them? Easy prey without "weapons" - a nice first battle?
+> Will we learn what became of the other telepaths aboard the
+> transport?
+
+      Certainly, that there were no teeps on Narn made them easy
+targets, as were their ships.  They would also have a vested interest
+in subduing them because of the knowledge they have, revealed here.  If
+you'll remember, in "Matters of Honor," they mention to Morden that
+they've only been able to track down some Narn legends.  Morden's
+reply: "Well, we've taken care of that problem."  Had G'Kar not been
+out and about, they might have succeeded.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^** (30-Apr-96 19:58:58)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30-Apr-96 19:58:58

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you notice Henry Briscoe's comment to me, yesterday?
+
+      No, I agree, that a serious inquiry can merit good responses
+that lead to the person checking out the show.  It's just when somebody
+comes in and demands or tells you to "defend" the show, I've never yet
+seen a situation where the person had any interest in the answer...they
+just like to see people have to defend themselves on that which does
+not require defense.
+
+      I've been on the nets 15 years...I know all the routines by
+heart.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5Sword Logo (30-Apr-96 19:58:59)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30-Apr-96 19:58:59

+
 Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If there's no potential conflict and any one is interested, may I
+> upload it?
+
+      I suppose it could be uploaded (if included with proper link
+info to the B5 web page)...but yeah, just run it past me first so's I
+can check it out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ship of Tears> (30-Apr-96 19:59:02)
+
+
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+
Date: 30-Apr-96 19:59:02

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the teaser you saw isn't from the two-parter, it's
+from "Interludes and Examinations," which airs just before "War."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/45.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/45.html
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+
+
+General Hague <Spoiler> (03-Apr-96 21:12:05)
+
+
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+
General Hague <Spoiler>

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 21:12:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The show comes first, absolutely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Ship of Tears- Narns?> (30-Apr-96 19:59:04)
+
+
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+
<Ship of Tears- Narns?>

+
Date: 30-Apr-96 19:59:04

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, apparently the rights negotations between the production
+company and the apparent rights owner (First) ran into unresolved
+rights questions from Ostrander, who says *he* has the rights...and now
+it'll have to go into arbitration.  Since it'll take 90 days to
+conclude that arbitration, that'll eat up my window of opportunity to
+do the script before B5 would get going for year four...so it'll have
+to wait at least a year now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/451.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-04/451.html
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+
+
+JMS: gun port=respect? (30-Apr-96 23:55:55)
+
+
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+
JMS: gun port=respect?

+
Date: 30-Apr-96 23:55:55

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It goes back a long time...if you look at certain members of the
+animal kingdom, they will often flash their teeth or growl to establish
+their identity, to show equality with someone else.  You have to step
+outside a human perspective and ask how an alien would show respect,
+which may not be how we would logically do so.  (Heck, in many cultures
+here on earth, a perfectly normal habit -- crossing your legs and the
+bottom of your foot showing -- is taken as a grave insult in some
+cultures.  Certain customs are deeply rooted in cultural backgrounds or
+incidents that are often incomprehensible to us.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Story of G'Quon (30-Apr-96 23:59:19)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30-Apr-96 23:59:19

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The book was made by Mark Walters of our prop department; and
+when all is said and done...it'll likely end up in my office....
+
+      Creation hath its perks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+L.A.,April 1, 1981 (03-Apr-96 22:56:59)
+
+
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+
L.A.,April 1, 1981

+
Date: 03-Apr-96 22:56:59

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd forgotten about that part of it...thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Soul Hunters (03-Apr-96 22:57:00)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03-Apr-96 22:57:00

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I've been wondering about the Soul Hunters for a while JMS Will
+> we ever see them again? How advanced was thier tech?
+> How many are there?
+> Will they play any part in the Shadow War?
+
+      I'd certainly like to see them again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD - White Star!!> (04-Apr-96 00:54:55)
+
+
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 00:54:55

+
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+
+      Well, President Clark would know it, from the Aggy records, but
+the general population wouldn't know it yet, since those records
+weren't released. But it does give him a card to play at some point in
+the future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+L.A.,April 1, 1981 (04-Apr-96 11:54:43)
+
+
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L.A.,April 1, 1981

+
Date: 04-Apr-96 11:54:43

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What aniversary did you forget?
+> Do we all help Kathryn (sp?) beat on you with dead lemmings?
+
+       April 1st 1981 was the day I moved to LA to become a Big Shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+spoooooooooooooo! (01-Apr-96 16:37:09)
+
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spoooooooooooooo!

+
Date: 01-Apr-96 16:37:09

+
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+
+       Fun, ain't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (04-Apr-96 11:54:45)
+
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 11:54:45

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this a member of the Warrior Caste defecting with Delenn?
+> Who the hell is running the Mimbari government now?
+> Incedently, if the warrior caste was *not* in on it, where did
+> they get the warships?
+
+       At this point, with the Council broken, Delenn isn't currently
+running Minbar...there's a vacuum of power.  The system can carry on
+for a while, the balance between the castes is pretty efficient, but
+this is going to have to be resolved, and some in the warrior caste may
+suspect Delenn of doing this so she *can* rise to power.
+
+       As part of Valen's covenant, to prevent one caste from taking
+over the other, each caste has access to its own warships.  This was
+done to create trust a thousand years ago, and since then, since there
+hasn't been any conflict between Minbari, the three castes own their
+own warships still, but in general are assigned to Warrior caste as a
+courtesy, which can be revoked. As Delenn noted, the worker and
+religious castes control 2/3rds of their forces.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Press Release (04-Apr-96 12:06:44)
+
+
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B5 Press Release

+
Date: 04-Apr-96 12:06:44

+
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+
+       "...telepathy, telekinesis, prophesy..."
+
+       Basically, I wouldn't consider those technology in any form. 
+The technology on which the *show* is based is pretty
+rigorous...starfuries designed for zero gravity, a dyson-style sphere,
+rotational gravity, and so on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Press Release (04-Apr-96 13:49:44)
+
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 13:49:44

+
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+
+       (sigh...some days I have the brains of a flea).   I typed Dyson
+sphere when I meant to type O'Neill sphere or station.  Brain fart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (04-Apr-96 13:49:46)
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 13:49:46

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did some of the Military follow Delenn?
+> May we assume that Neroon did not follow Delenn?
+
+       No, 5 left the council with her.  And one can wonder, Did she
+turn down the position of leader of the Grey Council, which would be a
+balance for that role, in order to eliminate the council and become
+primary ruler? (That is what some of the warrior caste are bound to
+begin wondering after a while.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (04-Apr-96 13:49:48)
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>>Severed Dreams<<

+
Date: 04-Apr-96 13:49:48

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Each caste populates the ships in their jurisdiction with their
+own people.  Which is why those on the Minbari warships that came in,
+which we'll see shortly, are religious caste, no warriors among
+them...but even the religious caste is well trained in combat, as part
+of their education in temple.  We've seen some of this already in
+Lennier's abilities in a fight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+stuff (04-Apr-96 22:25:24)
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+
stuff

+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:24

+
 Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What about Gerrold writing a novel?
+> Can this be done?
+
+      It can be done, sure, but I think David is generally more
+interested in writing his own novels than a farmed-out concept book,
+and rightly so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+L.A.,April 1, 1981 (04-Apr-96 22:25:26)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:26

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What are you doing on line in mid-day?
+
+      I dived on for a bit from my office at the stage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gravity in core shuttle (04-Apr-96 22:25:27)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:27

+
 Phil Koltko <71604.2145@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What holds people to the seats and floor of the core shuttle?
+
+      There are mag-strips, also hand-holds, seat belts and
+foot-straps.  As you enter you hear the voice warning that this is a
+reduced gravity area, and to exercise proper precautions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Narn contribution (04-Apr-96 22:25:30)
+
+
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:30

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did the Narn contribute to the making of B5?
+
+        No, the Narn didn't contribute to the making of B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Jinxo (04-Apr-96 22:25:32)
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:32

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are there plans for seeing Jinxo on the series again?
+
+      No, no plans for Jinxo for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Physiology (01-Apr-96 16:37:10)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01-Apr-96 16:37:10

+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't G'Kar ask Lyta about interspecies mating in the pilot with
+> the intention of producing a telepathic Narn?
+
+       Yes, he did ask her about mating, and in the course of that
+discussion mentioned the genetic manipulation that would be required.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dust to Dust Problem (04-Apr-96 22:25:34)
+
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:34

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Dust to Dust" why did you have G'Kar refer to his father in
+> the third person when he said "I must honor my father's name" to
+> his father? Also why wasn't G'Kar happy and embracing his father
+> when he appeared to him right after G'Kar watched his father die
+> hanging from the tree?
+
+      Both questions have the same answer: logically, G'Kar knows that
+his father is dead.  He saw him die.  So whoever this was, wasn't his
+father, even though he was appearing that way.  Or was a spirit, and
+either way, he would've been sufficiently apprehensive about it not to
+go blithely around embracing something he didn't understand.  I sure as
+hell wouldn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams, WOW> (04-Apr-96 22:25:37)
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<Severed Dreams, WOW>

+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:37

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has Ron and the folks at Foundation picked up some new rendering
+> iron (or silicon)?
+
+      No, I just think they're getting better at using what they have.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (04-Apr-96 22:25:39)
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:39

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD- Special Scene> (04-Apr-96 22:25:40)
+
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:25:40

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup.  We designed that scene very carefully to have that impact.
+No cutaways, just *hold* on him.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Last Shadow War> (04-Apr-96 22:38:54)
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:38:54

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope, sorry, that theory couldn't possibly be more incorrect....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SD - Narn Sacrifice> (04-Apr-96 22:38:56)
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+
Date: 04-Apr-96 22:38:56

+
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+
+      What you also have to bear in mind sometimes is that *this* is
+the only way to get things done.  When the Allies stormed Normandy
+Beach, they knew that German bunkers and machine nests and fortified
+positions were right there on the beach waiting for them.  But they
+stormed out, onto the beach, and the first lines were cut down, one
+after another after another, hundreds, literally thousands of soldiers.
+But those behind were able to get through, take up position as best
+they could.  Some of them clung to the edges of cliffs as Germans above
+laughed and threw down grenades into their midst.
+
+      Sometimes there's no other way.  But you do it because those who
+command you have the moral authority to say "You probably will not come
+back, but the cause is just, and fair, and necessary."
+
+      Thus do we go off to die.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams-Classic> (05-Apr-96 01:35:16)
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+
Date: 05-Apr-96 01:35:16

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and thanks especially for the comment about Delenn.  She
+really hit home here for a lot of people, and the exchange was a good
+one.
+
+      I think we may have done something quite extraordinary here. 
+One hopes for that, of course, always...but I've finally allowed myself
+to think we may actually have done it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Severed Dreams> (05-Apr-96 01:35:19)
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+
Date: 05-Apr-96 01:35:19

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, there's an actual limit to the frequency/volume you can pack
+into an episode.  Go over the legal limit and you can get into dutch
+with the FCC.  We went real near it, but didn't pass it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Severed Dreams<< (05-Apr-96 01:35:22)
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+
Date: 05-Apr-96 01:35:22

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah...the reference was kafuffled.  There was so much going on,
+so many EFX shots, so much rearranging of shots to make everything work
+(we literally delivered this 2 hours before the process for uplinking
+started) that this slipped past.  I'll assume that Sheridan got excited
+and said the wrong name. It'd happen to anyone.  Right?  Right?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dust to Dust Problem (06-Apr-96 00:17:40)
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+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:40

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So are you possibly indicating that G'Kar could have been seeing
+> a spirit as well?
+
+      Well, G'Kar doubtless *thinks* he saw a spirit, possibly the
+spirit of his father, possibly something else...revealed later as
+G'Lan, of course, taking that image in order to give him a revelation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hiroshi (01-Apr-96 16:50:49)
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+
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+
Date: 01-Apr-96 16:50:49

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Captain Sandra Hiroshi that we saw in "Severed Dreams" related
+> to the security officer Hiroshi we saw in "Convictions"?
+
+       No intentional relation, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Senators Giving Orders (06-Apr-96 00:17:42)
+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:42

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Real simple.  For starters, both Senators are on the Babylon 5
+Oversight Committee, and the CO of B5 is answerable to that committee,
+as those in the Pentagon are answerable to the senate for senate-funded
+activities.  Also, the matters in question, such as the labor strike,
+were not strictly military matters, but *civilian* situations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Best Yet! (06-Apr-96 00:17:48)
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:48

+
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+      Thanks, and welcome out of Lurkdom.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Comic Disappointment (06-Apr-96 00:17:51)
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:51

+
 James R. Kapesis <104154.27@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anything that you can do to get DC comics to start
+> publishing new B5 comics? Aren't you concerned that the story you
+> wrote for the first few issues may never be seen by your fans? If
+> you're having trouble with DC, why don't you just let another
+> company publish the comics?
+
+      The comics may finally be getting back on line.  There will be a
+meeting in May in NY to finalize stuff there.
+
+      I will not, however, be writing directly for the comic anymore. 
+DC has a policy that they will not allow writers final say on their
+books.  Only the editors.  On all books written by other writers, as
+per their contract with DC, I via WB, have final approval.  However, if
+I function as a writer, then I must give up that right and allow myself
+to be rewritten by the editor. It's a jurisdictional matter.  Suffice
+to say I was appalled by some of the rewriting done on what I'd turned
+in on the four issue arc.
+
+      Consequently, I will not be writing that arc, or any other books
+for the DC title.  I will be happy to provide information to keep the
+story current with the series, farm out premises so it stays canon, and
+work closely with the writers in my approval status.  That way I can
+make sure the work is to our standards; if I write for the book, I
+cannot do so, because the editor insists on rewriting me to maintain
+DC's jurisdictional structure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:53

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do advertisers have to stay within those boundaries?
+
+      Advertisers generally go right up to the limits of the sound,
+but can't go over it.  They just use up *all* the frequency range, so
+it seems louder and bigger.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:57

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And Mira?
+> And the look in her eyes?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, there's definitely fire and steel in Delenn,
+which she calls upon when she needs it.  And nobody crosses her when
+that happens.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:17:58

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Yes, it's designed to get you revved up at the retreat,
+it's our natural reaction.  The TV Logic thing to do would be to go to
+black at that point, and the commercial.  But this show is about
+consequences, choices and responsibility, and to *not* have that last
+scene would be a betrayal of that.  Otherwise it's just jingoism.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:01

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Of course, one wonders how he managed to get such a plum
+> position, hmmm? When exactly did the effects get finished for this
+> episode?
+
+      All I'll say here is that there were *so* many EFX here that we
+mixed the episode a few days before delivery, and got it down there 2
+hours before the process for uplinking the episode to stations.  It was
+the hardest thing we've ever done...but it was worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:04

+
 Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So Is "Ship of tears" the next big arc episode?
+
+      Exactly.  If you're going to do something as monumental as what
+Sheridan does here re: B5's status and Earth, it can't be done lightly
+or frivolously or without sufficient cause.  It has to be an absolutely
+last resort.  If we'd done it any sooner, it would've been less
+effective, and more of a cheat.
+
+      And yes, after two breather stories, "Ship of Tears" starts the
+arc moving again, and with very few exceptions doesn't let up for the
+rest of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I agree, I think it is our best work.
+
+      So far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:09

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can you possibly top this one?
+
+      How can we top SD isn't the question.  It's when.  We *have* to
+keep constantly getting better, improving the show.  As Bob Dylan
+wrote, "Any man not busy being born is busy dying."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 01-Apr-96 16:50:50

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Paterson has an *upscale* part?
+
+"Paterson has an *upscale* part?"
+
+       Used to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:10

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that there are warrior and worker caste Minbari
+> doing religous duties in the temples and warrior and religious
+> caste Minbari doing worker caste duties as well?
+
+      No, those aspects are kept absolutely separate and
+caste-specific. It's only when you get into the warships that, by
+tradition, some warrior caste have been involved with the others,
+mainly as a courtesy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:13

+
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+
+      Except, of course, you now have an extraordinary situation in
+which the Major, through the death of his CO, was now the commanding
+officer of the Alexander.  In ordinary circumstances, this would mean
+he'd be given a field promotion.
+
+      Second, I don't recall any situation where the Major was "giving
+orders to a commander."  The aide on the deck of the Alexander was a
+Lieutenant, as I recall.  Also, if Hague indicated that he was to be
+given command as he died, that would likely be honored.  Finally, yes,
+the Major was involved in the discussions of strategy, but in *every
+case* he presented Sheridan and Hiroshi with options, and because it
+was Sheridan's neck of the woods, it was left to Sheridan to give
+orders.  He coordinated the defense, and was the only one speaking
+directly with the Agrippa.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:16

+
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+
+      Re: Foundation "adding a new flame effect"...sort of.  One
+night, we just went out into the parking lot, set up a camera pointing
+up behind a plexiglass screen, and set off a bunch of explosions above
+it.  Went great until one of the blasts was so big it melted through
+the plex *and* the camera lens....
+
+      Looked good though, didn't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+General Hague <Spoiler> (06-Apr-96 00:18:19)
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:19

+
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+
+      I think Sheridan was kinda up to his ears in matters graver than
+the Major's field promotion, though you're right, he had one coming (as
+I noted in an earlier message).  Given that they'd just broken away
+from Earthforce, and walked away from the rank structure to some
+extent, it would seem a rather indulgent exercise, since Earth
+certainly wouldn't recognize the field promotion of a renegade officer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<SD - Narn Sacrifice> (06-Apr-96 00:18:22)
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:22

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> With the station rotating for the simulation of gravity, and the
+> breaching pod attaching to to outside of the station: Should the
+> opening the pod mad have been in the floor instead of the wall?
+
+      Yes and no.  They came through the "floor" which would be the
+outer hull.  Like any good ship, the station has two hulls for
+protection, an inner hull and an outer hull.  Once breaching the outer
+hull, they moved into the inner hull, then angled up for a wall they
+could blow out.
+
+      I figured this would make more tactical sense because if they
+just blew through the floor, they'd have to *crawl* out one or two at a
+time, whereas if they angled in safely and then came in through a wall,
+they could pour in more quickly, en masse, and be less vulnerable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:23

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't that type of shot (camera pulling back as the lens zooms
+> in) a Hitchcock original (ala "Vertigo")?
+
+      Probably; the shot gets used in many films.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:25

+
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+
+      Bingo.  You hit it right on the nose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:28

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And thus my question about this on EA ships: while we are shown
+> that they have rotating compartments, what happens when these
+> ships are under acceleration (or deceleration)?
+
+      Narns are strapped in because they don't have artificial
+gravity, or rotating sections; if they weren't strapped in they'd be
+floating about.
+
+      C&C is a little over one-third of the way from the central hub. 
+This gives you about 33-35% of normal gravity, so a person weighing 200
+pounds would weigh about 66-70.  (Yes, we did the math on this.)  So
+you're not going to see anybody bouncing around the walls.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:18:31

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What happened to the fourth one?
+
+      That would've been killed off-camera.  We tried to fit in every
+ship getting nailed, but finally realized it would've required another
+half an act.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:34:37

+
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+
+      The Thunderbolts have extension wings on the sides, which extend
+to lock for full flight capacity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       "...hit between the eyes."   Yeah, that's the correct reaction,
+I'd say.
+
+       Yes, it's easy to fire on the enemy when it's a faceless
+entity; not as easy when it's someone you know.  Kinda brings it home,
+makes it personal.
+
+       We rode the audio on some sequences right to the legal limit;
+don't know if we got clamped at any point along the way, to explain the
+surround drop.  Will look into it.
+
+       Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 00:34:38

+
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+
+      Re: caring for the characters...this is exactly the point I was
+going on about a few weeks ago here.  Somebody was wondering why the
+personal stories, why not just arc-arc-arc.  You *need* the occasional
+personal stories so you learn more about the people, and grow to care
+about them *as* people, not just arc-movers, so that when stuff like
+the events in SD happen, you care about it and get involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+Universes: ST vs. B5 (06-Apr-96 14:01:29)
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 14:01:29

+
 Rob Edin <102623.2165@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 5 stations, hmmm?
+
+       Clarifications: B1-B3 were never finished, but sabotaged very
+early in construction, so the cost impact wasn't that high.  Only B4
+was completed. When it vanished, the project was almost abandoned, but
+then the Minbari and Centauri agreed to help finance the project, and
+the EA went ahead with a scaled-down version, their last shot at it. 
+Hence, B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+San Jose Merc and B5 (06-Apr-96 16:18:58)
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+
Date: 06-Apr-96 16:18:58

+
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+
+        Great, thanks for the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 16:18:59

+
 Sandra G. Bruckner <76642.3664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you mentioned the editing problems you were encountering
+> with DC in your phone conversation to the DC Gathering a while
+> back, did you notice the reaction? Everyone was apalled that some
+> comic book editor would have the nerve to want to re-write your
+> story? How can someone else write it better than you can?
+
+      Yeah, it's kind of the Red Queen's Race sort of logic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would I be wrong in assuming that he is out of the renumeration
+> range for a B5 novel?
+
+       Probably, yeah.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:04

+
 Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can I say?
+> Is this your best to date?
+> You and your entire crew (actors, special effects, casting -
+> EVERYONE) must be extremely proud of this masterpiece - as well
+> as a little aprehensive - how do you top this?? But, who are the
+> traitors? But, what of the Grey Council members that broke from
+> the council to side with Delenn? Traitors to what had been their
+> ruling body? Probably won't be enough, but at least he'd go down
+> fighting and it could help distract Clark's troops? I guess their
+> (Shadows) time of quiet preparation is over? Definitely not
+> comfortable but, who would would be? I could almost see/hear the
+> wheels turning in John's head ("this is it, no turning back, time
+> for "the" decision, it's in my hands, -my- decision" - replaying
+> events up to that point, wrestling with alternatives, "are there
+> alternatives?"
+>  - just plain numb over the weight of these events?
+> ships, situation hopeless - surrender or die?
+> "What do I tell his and Hague's wives?"
+
+        Wow, that's a lengthy examination.  Thank you for all that,
+and the effort.  Great encouragement.  I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:05

+
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+
+        No, he's just funny that way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<Rage'sThots:JS's Dream> (06-Apr-96 16:19:07)
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Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:07

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Do you know who I am?"
+> He sees himself, this possible being a question to himself along
+> the lines of "Am I dreaming?" Perhaps "You are the hand that
+> killed her?"
+
+               Not bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 06-Apr-96 16:19:10

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+       Thanks...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+B5 Abuse in Sactown (06-Apr-96 22:50:38)
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Date: 06-Apr-96 22:50:38

+
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+
+      Nuts, you're right, that *is* very unfortunate.  Especially
+given how good the episode is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 01-May-96 01:19:39

+
 Theresa Kinney <70751.3262@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who else could it have been?
+> perhaps we'll see more of the Narn Resistance in the future,
+> redesigned under the "Round Table" framework?
+
+      Actually, what I'd said was that these 2-3 eps between big arcs
+were NOT arc stories per se, but breathers.  Just to clarify....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 05-May-96 22:01:45

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Kosh know about the hidden personality within Talia Winters?
+> Does he simply distrust Telepaths?
+> Will he ever get to use this Data chrystal?
+> My memory seems to recall him giving the chrystal to Garibaldi ?
+> Abbut said somthing along the lines of "Nice doing business with
+> you Mr Kosh, A pleasure as allways" - did this mean Kosh has had
+> a lot of Telepaths scanned?
+>  - If so, did he know what Lyita knew - but didn't know what
+> Telepath was used, so had a number of them scanned?
+
+      Kosh certainly knew more about her, and almost certainly her
+second persona, than anyone suspected.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 11-May-96 22:28:00

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On another matter, are scripts from already produced episodes of
+> B5 available commercially from any source?
+
+      Daniel, you're on a slippery slide into sophistry.  Of *course*
+one can make a blanket statement about some things.  Many things, in
+fact.  I can declare, in no uncertain terms, that there are in fact no
+Minbari.  They are a fictional creation.  So right off the bat that
+negates your thesis.
+
+      And, again, you miss the point...the statement is not "X does
+not exist," that's the usual argument brought out to try and make
+someone prove a negative, which is nearly impossible.  I repeat: the
+burden of proof is NOT on the person saying "show me," the burden of
+proof is on the person making the assertion.  You say there's a god. 
+Show me objective, scientifically verifiable, quantifiable, repicable
+evidence of same.  Otherwise, I can say that there is no evidence in
+it, therefore I don't believe it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now one could attribute this change in Lyta's abilities due to
+> the Vorlons (since she has undergone some changes), but are we
+> going to find out more about this and Lyta's abilities later this
+> season?
+
+      It's fair to say that Lyta has been...aided, slightly, in her
+abilities. But I'm not ready to pull the trigger on that one for a
+while yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+JMS: Arc a Fake? (11-May-96 22:28:03)
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Date: 11-May-96 22:28:03

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't we have here a really good example of the Heisenberg
+> Uncertainty Principle shifted from the laboratory to the
+> storytelling platform? Are you ever astonished at the
+> interpretations applied like a varnish over the story as you see
+> it?
+
+      Yes, I'm often intrigued -- don't know if I'd say astonished --
+at how the story is sometimes interpreted.  But that's the interactive
+part of the process, what the viewer takes away is sometimes only
+indirectly the result of what's actually *there*.  Take modern art for
+a moment.  You show me a white canvas broken only by a single red dot
+in the lower left hand corner, I see a single red dot in the lower left
+hand corner of a white canvas, nod and walk away...somebody else takes
+a look at it, and sees a telling commentary on isolationism and the
+Communist scare of the 50s and man's basic inhumanity to man.
+
+      Anything that passes for art reflects the work's creator, and
+the viewer; it's a mirror that works in two directions, and neither
+reflection holds the totality of the work individually.  Art happens in
+the moments in-between.
+
+                             jm(could I possibly sound more effete?)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Toronto Star B5 Article! (11-May-96 22:28:07)
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+
 Guntis Glinavs <72411.1421@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Again there are a few inaccuracies - did 500,000 fans really show
+> up to a B5 con in England?
+
+      Thanks for letting folks know; I just heard about it myself, and
+am having a copy or two sent on to me for the files.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you giving out answers today?
+
+      I meant you'd see Vorlons as Vorlons, not necessarily Kosh; I
+think I phrased it that way initially.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      Thanks, and glad to have you on board for the ride....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did Morden have to open the door to Kosh's quarters before
+> his Shadowy friends could attack Kosh? Are the Shadows a variety
+> of Teep?
+
+      No, they're not a variety of teep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it supposed to be a Shadow beam or some other race's?
+
+      Sigh...no, it's a piece of stock footage from "Sky."  We don't
+make the promos.  On the other hand, they've been doing a much better
+job lately, so I'm not about to complain.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 11-May-96 22:59:28

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In other words, who's challenge will you accept, Mark Twain's or
+> Pascal's?
+
+"This is a discussion that *has* to take place on two different
+levels.  One is the purely empirical where saying "there is a God" and
+"There is no God" are both statements of nonsense devoid of real
+meaning because they both claim to describe some aspect of reality yet
+no test can be devised (again short of dying) that can falsify either
+of them."
+
+Once again, your knowledge of logic is faulty.  The attempt in logic,
+debate or science is not to "falsify" or disprove anything; the goal is
+to PROVE something.  Repeat after me: you cannot prove a negative.  The
+burden of proof of any statement belongs with the person making the
+assertion, NOT the person receiving it to disprove it.  You are simply
+misstating how science and logic work in order to make a debating point
+that doesn't hold up under scrutiny.
+
+"Without a transcendent God imposing a transcendent morality upon man
+there is no basis for rights save the state. Without a source of right
+and wrong that exists outside of the human race there is no basis,
+except for fickle human opinion, to say that Mother Teresa is better
+than Adolf Hitler."
+
+Another debating trick that also doesn't hold up to close inspection.
+
+The notion of a monotheistic god -- *GOD* -- is fairly recent in human
+terms. The Greeks managed to build an entire civilization that was
+known for its arts, its philosophy, its advancement in all areas
+(military included) using a host of household and minor deities who
+were in NO way ANY kind of guide to what was right and wrong; half of
+them were capricious and just plain nuts, the the other half were off
+mating with human women and then writing off their kids.
+
+Yes, in time Greece fell.  But so did Rome, the spearhead
+(figuratively and literally) for Christian propagation worldwide in its
+early history, so I wouldn't necessarily throw *that* into the mix.
+
+Very, very, very few people decide not to murder because God wouldn't
+like it. They don't murder (assuming they choose that) because they're
+afraid of being apprehended and sentenced under the laws made by humans
+in order to facilitate cooperation and progress and safety.  (If
+anything, people have proped up the notion of god as rationale for
+murder for centuries on all sides of the theological coin.)
+
+I'm not saying that religion is per se bad, it's like any other human
+artifact, including technology, it's what humans make of it.  But at
+the same time it's self-indulgent in the extreme for folks who believe
+to write off the whole of human history and say that if it weren't for
+their particular deity, we wouldn't know right from wrong, or positive
+from negative, that we'd just be staggering around blindly...when the
+notion of that sort of god is extremely recent in human consciousness,
+and prior to then we did okay; not perfect, we had wars and bloodshed
+and the like...and we still do.  Most of it by believers in one thing
+or another.
+
+When was the last time you heard of an atheist car bombing an embassy
+because he thought it would bring him closer to the void?  When was the
+last time you heard of an atheist murdering his entire family because
+he *didn't* hear the voice of god talking in his head?  When was the
+last time you heard of an atheist declaring a crusade or a jihad or a
+pogrom?  (And don't even try to bring the old soviet union into this;
+that was a political madness that had less to do with belief systems
+and more to do with the accumulation of personal power at the expense
+of EVERYthing, that wouldn't allow for ANY divergence from what they
+considered the norm.)
+
+You can write off "fickle human opinion" all you want, but from where
+I sit we haven't done too badly, all things considered.
+
+If my tone seems to imply I took some small offense...the operative
+word is "small," because I'm used to this.  On the one hand, I pretty
+much don't have a problem with anything anybody believes so long as
+nobody's hurt by it.  On the other, religionists tend to mutter darkly
+that if it weren't for some god-inspired notion of right and wrong, if
+we don't have that, well, we're just anchorless, as prone to murder a
+child as give somebody a gift.  That it's all caprice.
+
+Well, I happen to be an atheist, and I *can* tell the difference
+between Mother Theresa and Hitler.  And your inference that one can't
+is simply wrong and condescending.  As an atheist, I view every life as
+*incredibly* valuable because we only get one turn around the merry go
+round, and then it's over; no backsies, no second chances, no heavenly
+choir to sing one into the pearly gates no matter how terrible or
+abusive a life one's led as long as at the end one chooses to Believe. 
+Every life is rarer than the rarest diamond, and since the only future
+we have is that which we make, the only signs we were here are that
+which we create, life must be preserved, nourished and given the chance
+to grow.
+
+Because those Greeks -- you remember, the ones who didn't believe in
+your particular god, with its rules for right and wrong -- actually had
+the audacity to once define happiness.  Not in terms of right and
+wrong, but in even larger terms.  I noted them at Macon.  To wit: "The
+exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording
+them scope."  It's about the only creed I live by.
+
+Not bad.  Bet they could even figure out this whole Mother
+Theresa/Hitler thing, too....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 12-May-96 13:58:18

+
 Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, are there any other TV people who believe that?
+
+      Yes, there are definitely other TV folk who feel that way;
+difference is, you just don't hear about them a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05-May-96 22:01:46

+
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+
+      If you write to the fan club, you can get the form; and yes,
+Sinclair returns in this month's two parter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 12-May-96 13:58:20

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something that's common in TV drama?
+> Have I just not noticed it before?
+> Or is this something uncommon that you've adopted?
+
+      It's actually something I had to fight for; a number of folks at
+WB weren't sure about the notion of using the tag (which you refer to
+as the last act) in quite the way I use it.  So yeah, it's a bit off
+the usual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+<I&E - special ship?> (12-May-96 13:58:22)
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Date: 12-May-96 13:58:22

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+      Not special per se, just to establish that they have more than
+one design.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 12-May-96 19:02:05

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+
+"One of the bedrock elements of science is that for a theory to be
+taken seriously it must be falsifiable."
+
+Nope.  If that's what you're thinking, then I suggest you go back and
+check, because that's not correct in any respect.  To take the green
+penguins at the north pole scenario again, I can search for 165 years,
+and not find any, and you can say, "Well, I guess you just missed them,
+but they're there."
+
+It is not the purpose of scientific endeavor to *disprove* every
+assertion, only to prove them.
+
+Your statement is simply false.  I'm sorry.  Saying it's so doesn't
+make it so.  So everything that proceeds from that is equally flawed. 
+Any scientist or logician here will back me up on this.  You may not
+want to hear it, Daniel, but you're simply wrong on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 12-May-96 19:02:06

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+      No, I'm an atheist.  I prefer to define myself.
+
+      I don't say "maybe there is, maybe there isn't."  There isn't. 
+There is no proof to this statement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+      No, see my note to the, er, feeder...not an agnostic, an
+atheist.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 12-May-96 19:02:12

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you don't believe in God what standard do you use to judge
+> Mother Teresa better than Hitler if it isn't human? Without a
+> viewpoint that exists outside of the human race what basis do you
+> or the Greeks have for saying that one is ultimately better than
+> the other that doesn't finally come back to human opinion?
+
+      Daniel, I hate to burst your balloon, but *everything* comes
+down to a human standard, to human opinion.  Christianity as it's
+practiced today is nothing like what was originally there around 100
+AD.
+
+      For a long time, the church had no problem with the concept of
+slavery. Even used sections of the bible as proof that it was a proper
+activity.  Only later, after society began to change, did they come
+around. Why?  Because they reacted to changing human opinions.  Once,
+the proper way to deal with heretics was to burn them at the stake, or
+press them with stones.  That changed as society changed.
+
+      And I'm sorry, but I've *read* the bible, twice, cover to cover,
+and I don't see any perfect guide or example of right and wrong there. 
+I see a fictional deity that is capricious, slightly insane, petty,
+inconsistent, vindictive...jealous, by its own admission, a trait we
+would deplore in ourselves.
+
+      The whole Adam/Eve thing was a mean-spirited setup.  The tree
+was the tree of knowledge, remember; the penalty was death.  But
+insofar as we know, nothing died in the garden, certainly no other
+people had died.  So to say "you shall surely die" was a meaningless
+concept.  They were children, they didn't know what the penalty meant. 
+And the kicker is...if the tree truly *were* the knowledge of good and
+evil, and they didn't have that knowledge until after they ate the
+fruit...then THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS WRONG WHEN THEY DID IT.  They'd
+only know it was wrong AFTERWARD.
+
+      And for this they and their inheritors across ten thousnd
+generations were sentenced to pain and death?
+
+      This is the example of transcendental rightness you would hold
+before me?
+
+      Thank you, but I'll apply elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+      Here's a little interesting aside...I used to write for Madeline
+Murry O'Hare's magazine, AMERIAN ATHEIST, back when I was in college. 
+I did a humor column, the occasional article, that sort of thing.
+
+      But over time, I came to the conclusion that she wasn't just
+trying to push for rights for atheists, but in fact was working to
+*eliminate* religion, which I had a moral and ethical problem with. 
+The constitution is there to allow anyone to believe, or not believe,
+whatever they choose.  If the day comes when certain relgions are
+banned, I'll be right there on the front lines with everybody else
+fighting for the restoration of those rights (though I have a quiet
+suspicion that the same might not happen if the situation were 
+reversed).  I felt that this was supremely wrong, and resigned as a
+result.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would he?
+
+      No, actually, there's a much simpler answer to the Ironheart
+question than that.
+
+      If we all remember the episode, he was trying as hard as he
+could to control himself, lest his abilities tear the place apart.  He
+was deliberately and with great pain trying NOT to use his abilities in
+any way, manner, shape or form.  He was also in great physical pain,
+was later shot, and became transcendent...which tends to kind of
+distract one....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 12-May-96 19:02:22

+
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+
+      Thanks.  The voice-over is something I mentioned here a few
+months ago as a tool I was adding to my toolbox to use as counterpoint,
+or segue, in ways I hadn't tried before.  I use it again here and
+there, though the key with any new tool is not to go nuts and use it
+all over the place when a better one, maybe the one you already had, is
+better suited to the task.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+      I think the nature of the debate is using the wrong language
+here; I think when people are saying I'm "open-minded" it's possible --
+and I'm only suggesting this, not to put words in anybody's mouth --
+that the word being searched for is actually "fair."  Am I open minded
+about the possibility of deities?  No, in that you're correct.  Am I
+fair and/or open-minded in the treatment of religions on the show, in
+saying that for many people, it's a good thing *for them*?  I like to
+think so.  And that may be what's under discussion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
 Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> have ANY bearing on your Bester?
+
+      Yes, it's certainly a tribute to Alfie, a giant in the field.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Apparently every encounter suit is not the same, neh?
+> The message from Ivanova is beginning to come through
+> because...of the temporal rift AND because there was no guarantee
+> that the Whitestar would go 6 years into the past to save B4 from
+> the Shadow attack, right? Then was the vision Sinclair had of a
+> future B5 being attacked by a much stronger Shadow fleet a vision
+> (again) of an alternate future, where he never became ambassador
+> and remained on B5?
+
+      Thanks, and yep, you nailed the timeline just right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
+      "I hate you."
+
+      Why, thank you...then the episode had its desired effect....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At what point does anything you said address my point that a
+> standard that isn't divine must therefore be human? Otherwise what
+> stops me from decreeing that I have a "right" to everything you
+> own and backing up that claim with the fact that I am better
+> armed than you?
+
+"Otherwise what stops me from decreeing that I have a "right" to
+everything you own and backing up that claim with the fact that I am
+better armed than you?  Rights must be granted by some force greater
+than the individual. That leaves God or the state."
+
+And, of course, this is exactly what happened on a regular basis
+throughout human history until only the last couple of centuries.
+
+If it was god doing this granting of rights...where was he for the
+last six thousand years?  Snoozing off in a corner somewhere?
+
+No, the rights you speak of were won by humans, fighting for their
+right not to be trammeled upon by greater forces, and bonding together
+in common cause to make sure it doesn't happen again in this place.
+
+While many of the "founding fathers" were believers, many others were
+simply deists, or freethinkers...they didn't do what they did because
+suddenly they figured god had given them the right, but because they
+got pushed to the wall, and we were 3000 nautical miles away from King
+George, and they in their very human way got fed up with being pushed
+around and decided it was time to push back, and create a set of laws
+that would prevent the tyrant from trying it again, or rising from
+within.
+
+Sorry, Daniel, we did this on our own.  God's a credit jumper.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 BRIAN COONEY <100551.1656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After the opening, the actors names and eps title are in a
+> different text any reason way?
+
+      I suspect that this is because we provide textless sections in
+the beginning to foreign markets for various languages, so they set
+them in a different type.  I guess....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they only include things that they get as part of a festival
+> or something or can some producer or studio offer them some tapes
+> to make available for viewing?
+
+      I hadn't even thought about that aspect...it's certainly one
+that should be pursued, I agree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> While I'm sure that you never intended the comparison when you
+> wrote SoT, (I'd go so far as to lay odds that you've never seen
+> Captain Eo), were the parallels mentioned by anyone when the show
+> was being produced?
+
+      No, it's never come up before, and I think that's WAY stretching
+it. (How come everybody always spends so much time trying to find out
+what a show like B5 is *like* instead of just looking at it for what it
+is?  "Oh, it's Cap'n Eo...oh, no, it's Lord of the Rings...Dune, Dune,
+I tell you, it's Dune...no, it's this over here...no, it's Cap'n
+Crunch...."
+
+      Feh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 13-May-96 00:04:49

+
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+      Actually, no, there are probably fewer.  We have a stable of
+about half a dozen directors at any given time; some move on, some
+stay, it's the nature of the beast.  That's about par for the course,
+maybe a bit less.  I know we had more on Murder, She Wrote.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+      Which is pretty much what I told you would be the case by this
+point. (Nobody ever believes me...do I have an untrustworthy face?  Do
+I look like Robert Vesco trying to sneak back into the country
+disguised as Moe Howard?)
+
+      And yes, Bruce is a hell of a lot better than some folks were
+willing to give him credit for in the beginning.  I think that's coming
+out now as his role becomes more deep and more serious.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 13-May-96 00:04:55

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they a lot bigger now?
+> How big do they grow?
+
+      No, they're about the same height consistently; it's probably an
+artifact of the camera angles and lighting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      If we put in warnings, the impact would be reduced.
+
+      No word yet on renewal, probably in the next couple of weeks
+we'll hear something definitive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05-May-96 22:01:51

+
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+      It's got nothing to do with second class citizenship.  I'm
+sorry, but when lives are at stake, *any* justification is acceptable
+for saving them. When a ship goes down at sea, as much as possible it
+tends to be the rule that women and children go first.  It's not
+putting women and children on the same social level, that's silly and a
+misstatement of fact.  The notion is that often men are physically
+better suited to taking care of themselves in a physically dangerous
+situation *as civilians*.  Now, if you're talking military, you need
+only to watch the same episode, "Severed," and you see women combat
+soldiers slugging it out, and getting stabbed, and killed, right along
+with the male soldiers.
+
+      Some people seem to feel that if one shows compassion for any
+group, that somehow you are saying that's a lower or second class. 
+It's sad when compassion can become warped around to mean something
+else.  It's also illogical.
+
+      If the position is that women are second class citizens in this
+case, then the cry would be, "Don't fire, we've got men down here." 
+Because that would imply that the men are more important; you'd get
+"men first" on sinking ships because, as first class citizens, men
+would be more important, and thus more worth saving, yes?
+
+      In a crisis situation, where people are going to die, you try to
+get out those for whom you care, and to whom you give status.  Those
+which are important, and may be less able, physically, to deal with
+great stress or danger.
+
+      So, basically, no, the statement did not come from any agenda;
+your analysis, however, *did*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+"The "arc" is fully alive for you now, I think.  Without these
+characters living and breathing inside your mind I don't see how one
+man could write as much as you have over the past two seasons.  What I
+*have* noticed is that all the actors now seem to be responding to the
+story you're telling."
+
+Yeah, it's kind of a funny thing...the deeper we got into the season,
+as the actors saw only one name on script after script, and they began
+to understand what was coming, and it's all *very* consistent...the
+sense of this being a novel really came through for everyone in a very
+profound way.  You could really feel a change in everyone's attitude,
+though it'd be hard to put into words.  A sense of, "This is it, this
+is the story, we're moving now, we're doing something nobody's ever
+done."  They know how hard it is for anyone to write this many scripts,
+which is why it's never been done before, and I think they not only
+respected that, but felt they had to rise to the challenge and give
+just as much at that end of it.  Usually you tend to hit a slump 
+energy-wise in your third year; not here.  Everyone's just hitting all 
+cylinders.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 13-May-96 00:22:03

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The closest thing to an insulting term that I have used is to
+> call human opinion "fickle" but if that isn't a proper term for
+> the race that produced both Mother Teresa *and* Adolph Hitler,
+> George Washington *and* Bill Clinton, Babylon 5 *and* Star Trek:
+> Voyager then what is?
+
+      Dan, I know you don't understand how one could take offense at
+some of this, which is why I've more or less been riding closely on my
+reactions. Let me try and explain:
+
+      Your statement is that without a "transcendental" outside force,
+a deity, to tell us right from wrong, that we have no way of
+distinguishing good from evil, Mother Theresa from Hitler.  That's what
+you *said*.  Now, I don't buy into the deity business.  Therefore, *by
+your definition*, I'm one of those folks who can't distinguish a
+humanitarian from a mass murderer.
+
+      The problem, Daniel, is that there's so much jingoism in this
+argument that statements like the one you made are put out there almost
+reflexively, without thinking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+JMS: Arc a Fake? (13-May-96 00:22:05)
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+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this difference something that will be addressed at a later
+> date or a nice detail that will simply be a source of viewer
+> speculation? Will her reaction to his death come into play in a
+> later epidose?
+
+      The red ship was simply another variation on the standard;
+nothing too major about it...and yes, when Lyta returns from her
+errand, she'll definitely get into this, and there will have to be some
+explanations made, though not to her....
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Could you do something about it?
+
+      No, the incidents with local stations can only be affected by
+local residents, I have zip control or influence over that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      Actually, no, the replacement isn't Kosh, as you say, it's
+another Vorlon, with a very different personality...the "we are all
+Kosh" is more of a conceptual thing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<<War Without End>> (13-May-96 15:34:42)
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Date: 13-May-96 15:34:42

+
 Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you said you were going to start pulling some triggers,
+> but man, are you related to "The Rifleman", or what?
+
+      Thanks.  I like Zathras...he's just nuts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 13-May-96 16:14:47

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard anything different?
+
+      Not only haven't I heard anything new, I hadn't even *learned*
+that she was missing until about a week ago...the perils of being
+buried alive in a story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 13-May-96 16:14:49

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  The constitution (this is from memory, so I may get a
+word out of place) stipulates "Congress shall make no law respecting
+the establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof." 
+Which means the state should have nothing to say about it one way or
+the other. It's a personal matter for each individual.  It's a bit of
+wisdom that goes back about 2,000 years; "Render unto Caesar that which
+is Caesar's; and to god that which is god's."
+
+      That the line gets blurred sometimes is really in violation of
+what the bible seemed to suggest.  The pharisees were synonymous with
+hypocrites, they had allied themselves with the government of the time,
+and that was their downfall in the final analysis; the state invariably
+corrupts religion.  The overall sense was to keep away from the
+government, to strive for something higher.  These days a fair amount
+of religion has become mass theater, much in violation of the
+suggestion to "go into your closet to pray," and the suggestions that
+those who made a show of their beliefs were not exactly role models.
+
+      The state should be religion-neutral, neither encouraging nor
+discouraging.  Sometimes this is unfair to one group or another, but
+as long as it does so consistently, not favoring either side, then it's
+okay.  The best compromise is one in which neither side feels it's
+entirely won.  (Yes, some of the questions of where and when religious
+artifacts can be put up stray into grey areas...but at least the
+patriotism of those involved is not usually up for grabs.  During one
+Presidential election, then Vice-President Bush, on a campaign stop in
+Chicago, was asked about his reaction to atheists, and he said, "Well,
+that's certainly their choice, though I don't see how anybody could
+call them patriots, since this is one nation under god." Substitute
+catholics or jews or moslems or japanese or irish for atheists in that
+sentence, and you'd have a firestorm that would've brought down the
+whole campaign.  Here nobody even seemed to notice.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 13-May-96 16:14:52

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is any of this making any sense?
+
+      Exactly.  That's a *very* good point; I'd forgotten about Romans
+2:14. There are sections that imply that those who don't hear The
+Gospels will be judged by their own actions and their own conscience,
+which implies the presence of a conscience (as does the quote you cite)
+even in the absence of a "transcendental" being, that is, knowing right
+from wrong.  Excellent point.
+
+      "...the largest problem we have in this country is that we have
+moved from a justice system to a legal system."
+
+      Wow...I've never heard that put so simply and so succinctly. 
+And it's absolutely correct.  Nicely done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 13-May-96 16:14:56

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, Daniel, but you keep dancing away from the fact that the
+catholic church, and the Jewish religion, have also had changes and
+schisms and fractures, as the result of *changes in human opinion*.  If
+there were an eternal truth being practiced, then it should be
+unchanging.  But religion is *constantly* changing because of
+alterations in social mores and opinions. The role of women in the
+synagogue.  The changes from latin to english mass. The final decision
+by the church that maybe the sun *doesn't* rotate around the earth. 
+The ordination of women rabbis.  The dietary restrictions as set forth 
+in the Bible.
+
+      Heck, Daniel, the Old Testament goes on and on at great length
+to explain how the laws work, that the laws are the only ways to get
+over to the pleasant side of the afterlife...then suddenly in the new
+testament it's all, "No, no, forget the laws, THIS is how you do it." 
+What, god was just kidding for the preceding couple thousand years?
+
+      Go back to the early Catholic records, read the Dead Sea
+Scrolls, the early Roman records, and you'll find that the practice of
+Christianity today is utterly unlike its early history.  Religion
+changes as the world around it changes...or it dies.
+
+      The constant, unchanging religion you cite doesn't exist in
+reality. It's ALL a case of "it seems to me."  Every time a new pope
+comes in, you get a massive case of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Ivanova vs. The Markab (05-May-96 22:01:55)
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+      I'd rather leave the question of what Delenn saw open for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+I. & E. Opinion (13-May-96 16:14:58)
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+
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+
+      Thanks.  Yes, Delenn mentions in the tag that the Vorlons will
+be sending someone to quietly replace Kosh.  It's a bit darker
+character.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      Actually, Sebastian said that bit about dying alone to both
+Sheridan and Delenn.  Who knows, he may have known something....
+
+      Yes, if Kosh had run, which wasn't in his character in the first
+place, someone else would've paid that price.
+
+      Londo still has chances, if he doesn't blow them.  You'll see a
+bit more about this in the two-parter.
+
+      Yes, some Vorlons do appear to us as female versions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, one question about Kosh: Since the Shadows killed him, did
+> they see him in that now they know he was one of the Elder race? 
+> Or are they in the dark about the Vorlons?
+
+      Oh, no, the Shadows and the Vorlons know each other from way,
+way back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      You're right; it was a sideways reference, without name, and I
+was thinking of whether or not the character had been named since.  I
+missed that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 David Wilhelmy <73370.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kosh's ship), are there a bunch of Vorlons in that cruiser or
+> just one GREAT BIG Vorlon?
+
+      There's a bunch in the big ship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 13-May-96 16:15:09

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Where?"
+> How do you *write* like that?!?
+> Ed just exudes menace like slime, doesn't he?
+> (I mean that in the best possible way.) An interesting thought:
+> What are the standing Security orders re: Morden?
+
+      Yes, there is something thematically present about growing up,
+and parents, and coming of age that threads through the story.
+
+      And yes, there's the deliberate irony...that just as we finally
+start to really hear from Kosh...he's gone.  Snatched away just as we
+got close. Which would add to the feelings.
+
+      Good analysis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments on your earlier statement to help us feel better?
+
+      Still waiting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 and J.R.R.Tolkien? (13-May-96 20:48:14)
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Date: 13-May-96 20:48:14

+
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+
+      Odd...they reversed the Michael and the J.  Weird they'd do
+that.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Joe an atheist? (13-May-96 20:48:17)
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+
Date: 13-May-96 20:48:17

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So by what authority do you say that "A" is bad and "B" is good
+> and why should I respect it?
+
+"Alright, you and I are both humans.  We are in essence equal.  So by
+what authority do you say that "A" is bad and "B" is good and why
+should I respect it?"
+
+You respect if if there are more people than you are who believe A is
+bad and B is good, and they pass a bunch of laws requiring your
+adherence to this.
+
+Furthermore...
+
+You, as a christian, say A is bad, B is good, suggesting the
+transcendental guidance of your particular deity or prophet.
+
+A moslem says B is good, and A is bad, based on the transcendental
+guidance of HIS particular deity or prophet.
+
+So how is this resolved?
+
+See, this is one of the problems people bring to the table on this
+argument; they argue that truth always comes from transcendental
+god...omitting that they mean THEIR PARTICULAR god, that this alone is
+real truth...and the other guys are just misled.  "Ours is BETTER.  Our
+god can beat up their god."
+
+It's like those who want creationism taught in schools...oddly, when
+they bring this up, it's always the christian version of this...you
+don't tend to hear much about the one where Earth is carried on the
+back of a giant turtle....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Cheers for Mira (13-May-96 20:48:20)
+
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+
Date: 13-May-96 20:48:20

+
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+
+      Tell your husband that the Flying Tigers actually have given
+their permission for us to use their logos and artwork; Sheridan's
+helmet has a Flying Tigers logo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+season finale in October (05-May-96 22:01:56)
+
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+
Date: 05-May-96 22:01:56

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this set in stone?
+> Can nothing be done?
+> Must we really be tortured again?
+> And will the UK get the end of season 3 before we do again?
+
+         I haven't heard this myself yet formally, so I really can't
+comment until I know more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ship of Tears-Bester> (13-May-96 20:58:53)
+
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+
Date: 13-May-96 20:58:53

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Not everything in life has a clue in front of it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Interludes<< (13-May-96 20:58:55)
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>>Interludes<<

+
Date: 13-May-96 20:58:55

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you were still the producer what are the chances that the last
+> episode of the series would have been about Jessica's friends
+> using Jessica's investigative techniques to solve Jessica's
+> murder?
+
+      The odds of that story are about zip.  One doesn't do such
+things to Jessica Fletcher.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Interludes<< (13-May-96 20:58:56)
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+
Date: 13-May-96 20:58:56

+
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+
+      No, the shadows and vorlons are definitely not the same race. 
+And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<Whither Lyta?>> (13-May-96 20:58:57)
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+
Date: 13-May-96 20:58:57

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Now that Kosh is dead (still hard to accept), what happens to
+> Lyta Alexander? She was Kosh's special attache, wasn't she?
+> Or is she working with ALL of the Vorlon?
+
+      She'll now have to work with the incoming replacement Vorlon,
+who might be just a bit miffed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Doolitle's Raid (13-May-96 20:59:01)
+
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+
Date: 13-May-96 20:59:01

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Anyway, was this Vorlon attack synonomous to Jimmy Doolittle's
+> raid on Tokyo in the early days of WWII? WHat exactly has Sheridan
+> learned as of now? Will Kosh's replacement become his mentor now?
+> a Vorlette?
+
+      Sheridan has almost certainly not learned all he needed to know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<I&E Sublime>> (13-May-96 20:59:04)
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+
Date: 13-May-96 20:59:04

+
 Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How was this fight different than the one we didn't see in "Signs
+> and Portents"? Were there more Shadows this time or are they
+> getting stronger? If Kosh did take out some Shadows, will more be
+> sent to Morden as replacements? Did Kosh project to Delenn, G'Kar,
+> or anyone else besides Sheridan during the fight? Did Garibaldi
+> ever get a chance to speak with Kosh about the Talia/Abbut data
+> crystal as hinted at in "Divided Loyalties"? Besides being
+> extremely old, was Kosh an average Vorlon or particularly special
+> in terms of strength, skill, or status?
+
+To your questions:
+
+1.  Kosh died fighting, I guess, and I'm also guessing that he took
+some Shadows with him.  How was this fight different than the one we
+didn't see in "Signs and Portents"?  Were there more Shadows this time
+or are they getting stronger?
+
+They were not initially prepared to kill him.  That was a territorial
+or jurisdictional squabble.  This was retribution.
+
+2.  If Kosh did take out some Shadows, will more be sent to Morden as
+replacements?
+
+He didn't.  Hurt 'em good, but didn't take them out.
+
+3.  Did Kosh project to Delenn, G'Kar, or anyone else besides Sheridan
+during the fight?
+
+No.
+
+4.  Did Garibaldi ever get a chance to speak with Kosh about the
+Talia/Abbut data crystal as hinted at in "Divided Loyalties"?
+
+Yes.
+
+5.  Besides being extremely old, was Kosh an average Vorlon or
+particularly special in terms of strength, skill, or status?  No other
+ambassador on the station has demonstrated the clout back home to
+sortie an entire fleet at a moments notice.  Delenn and Londo have only
+called on forces from a particular faction in their polities.
+
+He was certainly well regarded...one of the older of the vorlons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 and J.R.R.Tolkien? (13-May-96 23:47:35)
+
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+
Date: 13-May-96 23:47:35

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"The best place to find out more about Joe is from the Lurker's Guide
+(http:/www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurkers.html)."
+
+      Yeah...I suppose...well, that or America's Most Wanted....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (14-May-96 13:39:20)
+
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+
Date: 14-May-96 13:39:20

+
 Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who was right, what was the proper interpretation of this church?
+> Yet, aren't Pelagius' ideas of an human-powered Christianity
+> equally as valid as the self-hating Augustinian conception?
+
+       Good points.  (And of course, there's Martin Luther and his
+fistful of theses nailed to a door....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<I&E Opinion> (14-May-96 13:39:21)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 13:39:21

+
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+
+       At this point, yes, since Ardwight tends to understand Vorlon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (14-May-96 13:39:22)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 13:39:22

+
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+
+       Yeah, and after a while I stopped doing that, because a number
+of folks couldn't distinguish between nodding to something that went
+before as an act of tribute or respect, and *doing* that story.  So I
+pointedly don't do that anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (05-May-96 22:01:59)
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+
Date: 05-May-96 22:01:59

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How difficult do you find it to change emotional strides when
+> writing stories like this? By the way, any chance I can get the
+> spelling for the two Narn words that mean "mindwalker" and
+> "destroyed" that Garibaldi mentioned at one point in that
+> discussion?
+
+      No, it's never difficult for me to go from horror to romance to
+comedy to action; they're just different colors in the artist's
+toolbox...you go from red to blue to green to yellow, and it's not
+difficult doing it, just in knowing *when* to do it, and *how* to do
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WwE1 & Zathras (14-May-96 13:39:24)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14-May-96 13:39:24

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After just watching WwE1, I have to ask: Will we ever learn
+> exactly who/what/when Zathras' people are?
+
+       Eventually, though that answer isn't terribly important.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<IaE Thought> (14-May-96 13:39:27)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 13:39:27

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The only question I have about this is will we, the audience, be
+> able to tell that there is a different Vorlon on the station,
+> other than through the personality of said character?
+
+       You'll know the difference.  Believe me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Your impression (14-May-96 13:39:29)
+
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+
Date: 14-May-96 13:39:29

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I thought Marcon was quite enjoyable.  The organizers were
+quite pleasant, and the folks who showed up were nothing short of
+terrific.  I think I can speak for Richard and Pat as well, and say
+that we all had a great time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<I&E Sublime>> (14-May-96 13:39:31)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 13:39:31

+
 Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kosh may even have been the one the Shadows' asked, "What do you
+> want?" Care to comment?
+
+       No, not really, but you're in intertesting territory.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<MFE Question> (14-May-96 13:39:33)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 13:39:33

+
 Stephen M. Demarest <70674.1405@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Santiago president 8 years ago?
+> If so, was he (or his govt) working with the Shadows?
+
+       No, Santiago wasn't involved with the shadows; certain elements
+within his government, however, *were*.  Which was one reason why they
+needed to get him out of the way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Minbari souls?> (14-May-96 22:32:39)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 22:32:39

+
 Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I in the ballpark?
+
+      You could be in the ballpark...question is, which ballpark? 
+Anything clearer than that will have to wait another week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (14-May-96 23:13:07)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 23:13:07

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Generally whichever side has the most people left alive at the end of
+the war gets to decide."
+
+Exactly.
+
+So much for eternal verities and transcendental truth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (14-May-96 23:13:08)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 23:13:08

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"The reason for the multiplication  of Old Testament laws was because
+when Moses brought down the first ten the people promised to obey them
+to God's satisfaction.  This proved that they had missed the point,
+which was that God's law is impossible for man to keep to God's
+standards because his standard is perfection and we are imperfect."
+
+So in other words, this was sort of god's version of "pull my
+finger...."
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (14-May-96 23:13:11)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 23:13:11

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Right.
+
+      And that's why they were so sad, you see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (14-May-96 23:13:13)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 23:13:13

+
 Jon A. Bell <74124.276@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it just me, or is there something wrong with this picture?
+> (Then again, I live in San Francisco, and becoming an Ordained
+> Minister of Anything in California is probably just a matter of
+> filling out a form and paying $20 to someone.) The Church of
+> Silly Walks, anyone?
+
+"My stepfather, a tax accountant, informed me that the pay of ordained
+ministers does not have Social Security taxes taken out of it, on the
+grounds that in their dotage, their flock will take care of them. Is it
+just me, or is there something wrong with this picture?"
+
+Yes, it proves that the social security system is completely flocked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ship of Tears> (05-May-96 22:02:00)
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+
Date: 05-May-96 22:02:00

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Minbari telepaths can also have an effect, as we'll see
+soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Prophetic dream (14-May-96 23:13:15)
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+
Date: 14-May-96 23:13:15

+
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+
+      The origin of that image will be discussed later this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Thoughts from Germany> (14-May-96 23:13:17)
+
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+
Date: 14-May-96 23:13:17

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Great that the CD got there...and no, Ivanova isn't a strong
+enough teep for the incoming shadow vessel to really even notice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Creative Process (14-May-96 23:13:21)
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Date: 14-May-96 23:13:21

+
 Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Here's a different kind of question for you: When you sit down to
+> work, I know you're not entirely in charge - the characters are -
+> but how do you participate? Did you *develop* a sustainable
+> creative process, or were you just always this way? In short, can
+> you train - or at least successfully invite - the Muse, and how
+> do you do it?
+
+"Here's a different kind of question for you: When you sit down to
+work, I know you're not entirely in charge - the characters are - but
+how do you participate? When I write fiction (admittedly not often), it
+either flows out onto the page as though someone else were using my
+hands on the keyboard, or nothing happens at all, no matter how long I
+sit there. You don't seem to have any "nothing" time. Did you *develop*
+a sustainable creative process, or were you just always this way?  In
+short, can you train - or at least successfully invite - the Muse, and
+how do you do it?"
+
+Hard to say...it's like any muscle, the more you use it, the easier it
+gets to use.  I think a part of it stems from the fact that I have very
+little in the way of barriers between me and the writing.  Too many
+people who want to be writers feel that when they sit behind the
+keyboard, they have to do something different or other...that somehow
+WRITING has an overlay of some sort, that it's different than talking. 
+But in many ways, it ain't any different.
+
+The best writing (IMO) is natural writing, where the words on the page
+flow very naturally, very smoothly.  Every once in a while, you pull
+out all the stylistic tricks, you thunder and lightning all over the
+page, when needed for effect...but it's the writing free of artifice
+that seems, for me, to work well.  If you hang out with writers long
+enough, the really *good* ones, you learn soon enough that most of them
+talk exactly the way they write.
+
+Lemme give you a forinstance...when Asimov was first struggling as a
+writer, he had lunch with his agent one day.  He was having a hard time
+describing things, using language to paint pictures.  The agent said,
+"You know how Hemingway would describe the sun rising in the morning?" 
+No, Asimov said, leaning in...how?  "The sun rose in the morning."
+
+There's virtually nothing between my brain and the keyboard; I'm
+hardwired that way, which is why I can't dictate scripts...I write
+through my fingers. I write pretty much the way I talk.  A lot of folks
+hereabouts have seen me at conventions, and they've noted that the me
+you see here is pretty much the me they see there, and the me that's
+just *there* all the time.
+
+If you stop thinking about *trying to write*, and just write...the way
+you have to stop thinking about the next step you make, and just
+*dance*...the way you have to forget about technique and just make
+love...it all comes together. You don't Try To Write.  You just write.
+
+As for story ideas...it's just nothing I've ever had a problem with. 
+As long as your characters are all distinct personalities, the stories
+you write will be as distinct and different as they are.  Find out who
+the character is, what he wants, how far he'll go to achieve it, and
+how far somebody else will go to stop him...and the rest takes care of
+itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 14-May-96 23:13:24

+
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+
+      That's a question that I think I could try and answer here for
+the next seven hours, and not quite get out the way I want to...it's
+one of those things you just sorta understand and do intuitively, and
+leave for the critics later to dissect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 14-May-96 23:13:27

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will we see Kosh in th epast?
+> And will we see Valerian?
+
+      Not exactly, not as you might think, but in a sense....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 14-May-96 23:13:30

+
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+
+      Someone find me a very large stick....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Cheers for Mira (15-May-96 00:59:40)
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Date: 15-May-96 00:59:40

+
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+
+      Couldn't agree with you more.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Joe an atheist? (15-May-96 01:18:59)
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Date: 15-May-96 01:18:59

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> FWIW, every time I show that post to anyone who hasn't seen the
+> show, I get the response, "What show is this? When is it on?
+
+      Thanks.  I will confess I go back and forth about getting into
+this kind of conversation on the nets; either way, it will have an
+effect on how people perceive the show.  And, basically, I'm here to
+talk about the show, and be responsive to questions, not necessarily to
+put my beliefs, attitudes or prejudices out there in other people's
+faces.  I'm not what matters here, I'm not terribly interesting...it's
+the show, and those two can't ever be allowed to get confused.  I was
+kicking myself for days for allowing myself to get dragged into this
+(and it's nobody's fault but my own that it happened).  It's not really
+my place to go around lecturing anyone or spouting off to anyone about
+what they believe, and a few times, when the debate got really warmed 
+up, I did that.
+
+      What I do or don't believe is fundamentally irrelevant to the
+discussion, as long as I can keep it out of the show.  (The one area
+where it does get through that you note -- the importance of life and
+the right to choose one's own road through that -- is there, granted,
+but there aren't a whole lot of reasonable counter-arguments to that
+one.)
+
+      Because I make this show, I have -- for lack of a better phrase
+ -- a platform from which to spout off.  People tend to at least note
+what I say, even though most of it is rather silly, though I don't for
+a second buy into the notion that people are overmuch influenced by
+anything I say here. Particularly those on-line, who tend to be a
+fairly hardy bunch, intellectually speaking.  But there's still an
+obligation not to misuse or abuse that platform, or take advantage of
+it to spout notions that don't really touch the show per se at any two
+contiguous points.
+
+      In short...sometimes I say more than I should, and should learn
+to just Shut Up once in a while.  If this time out the discussion has
+done some good, then that's great.  But I still think some days I
+shouldn't have allowed it to happen.  If somebody wants to take a pot
+shot at my beliefs, let 'em. It's only pixels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 15-May-96 01:19:00

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a parallel (intended or not) in the "effects" of Kosh's
+> death and his calling John, son; and the winged legend known as a
+> Phoenix? If so, will Kosh be re-born in one form or another?
+> Or has he already?
+> Also, what was different about Kosh's confrontation with Morden's
+> associates this time as opposed to the one in "Signs and
+> Portents"? Was it just that there were more of them this time, or
+> was there some kind of agreement reached in the earlier one?
+
+      The earlier confrontation was a jurisdictional one; this one was
+about retribution.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+<War Without End, Pt 1> (15-May-96 12:56:10)
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+>  - Isn't Delenn's sleeve different from the one shown in "Babylon
+> Squared"?
+>  - Why wasn't B5 destroyed?
+> Is it because the shadows knew they failed with B4 and so there
+> was no use in destroying B5?
+>  - Did the first three stations look similar to B4?
+>  - Why didn't Sinclair want Garibaldi along for the ride?
+>  - Is *Sheridan* The One?
+
+       B5 wasn't destroyed because it wasn't the one that would be
+taken back. Yes, the prior stations would've looked more like B4 but
+they were sabotaged *very* early in the construction process.  You'll
+learn why he didn't want Garibaldi along next ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> would he?
+> would he?
+> Not even HE is that devious, is he?
+> could he??!?
+> he couldn't, could he?
+> will he?
+> (Hmmmm, B5 repair kit?
+> The newscaster wasn't visible "below the waist", was she wearing
+> hip-boots? are the Shadows consumers and we're just consumables?
+> He's a busy man, who has time for that sort of thing?
+> But, correction Sheridan, it's not "now we have a weapon", it's
+> "now we know what kind of weapon could work" - where is Sheridan
+> going to find an Army of telepaths? could you please arrange to
+> distribute/broadcast a new B5 episode every 2-3 hours? Whatever
+> were you thinking? DO YOU HEAR ME???
+> Anxiously looking forward to next episode (but, one week?
+
+      Thanks for that...well, for *all* of that, as there was much
+good stuff and kind words therein.  Just got in from Ohio, so I'm
+bushed, but still very appreciative.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Shadows entry to B5 (15-May-96 12:56:11)
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+
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+
+       They physically come aboard.  There's no beaming-in tech in the
+B5 universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<<Interludes & Exam>> (15-May-96 12:56:12)
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+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Congrtulations on creating the single greatest hour in television
+> history, and it's supposed to get better?! Will that be explained
+> soon? 2) The fact that the Vorlons tiped their hat, and made it
+> known that they were involved with the Shadow war, seems to bid
+> ill, as in a previouse ep I seem to recall Delenn or Kosh
+> remarking how they don't have enouph forces gatherd...or am I
+> remembering wrong?
+
+       Actually, no, I never said that we'd show a vorlon as a vorlon
+this season; in time, yes, but not this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that the "pilot", or am I (as my friends maintain)
+> hallucinating again?
+
+       It's hallucinations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<Bester's Appearance> (15-May-96 12:56:15)
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Date: 15-May-96 12:56:15

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Ship of Tears" how did Bester's fighter get into B5 space?
+> And if he hitched a ride on a larger vessel with jump drive, why
+> didn't B5 detect the jump point? Is their early warning system
+> damaged or deficient in some way perhaps?
+
+       It hitched a ride; and it's far enough outside B5...about an
+hour or so in normal space...that they wouldn't have picked it up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume that might be "Walkabout"?
+
+       Yes, the new Vorlon arrives in Walkabout.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On that subject, did Ardwight do the voice for the Vorlon that we
+> saw in "War Without End, Part One"?
+
+       Yes, that was Ardwight again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<<Whither Lyta?>> (15-May-96 14:49:54)
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Date: 15-May-96 14:49:54

+
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+
+       I think a yes covers all or most of your questions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 15-May-96 14:49:57

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you at all identify as a writer with what I'm relating to you
+> here? I'm also hard on myself where my writing is concerned
+> because I constantly find myself in the spot of saying, "Why is
+> it that I can't do more than I do?!" Any suggestions?
+
+       That's the hard part, the doing.  Lots of folks have ideas, but
+they flit, or they don't have the discipline to sit down behind a
+keyboard and just *do it* for the requisite number of hours per day. 
+And that's the one thing neither I nor anyone else can help or advise
+with.  It's what Marcus said: patience, determination, direction and
+strength.
+
+       And to quote somebody else, sometimes some people mistake a
+passion for reading for a desire to write.  They're wholly different
+impulses.
+
+       Writers write.  It's what they do.  If you're struggling to do
+it, maybe it's part of your brain throwing roadblocks in front of you
+to try and tell you something.  Maybe it's a lack of discipline, or
+attention span, or something deeper, a concern about finishing, or some
+other area.
+
+       I dunno...this is one area where I can't advise worth a damn,
+because I've never had this problem.  It's Heinlein's (and Ellison's)
+rules of writing: you must write, you must finish what you write, you
+must put it on the marketplace, and you must keep it on the marketplace
+until sold. Sometimes we get caught by the *idea* of a story, but to
+actually finish writing it, the *execution* of that idea, takes a great
+deal of work, and if the basic idea is already down there, the impetus
+to write it, the steam feeding the machine, evaporates quickly.  Only a
+conscious decision to finish the damned thing can carry you the rest of
+the way, a commitment to follow through on the craft of the
+STORYTELLING.
+
+       It's the difference between two kinds of people who talk about
+how they met their respective spouses.  One says "at a party," the
+other says, "at Bob's part in Toluca Lake, and she was wearing a red
+dress, and I couldn't take my eyes off her until I got her alone for a
+minute."  Idea vs. execution, telling the idea vs. telling the *story*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Joe an atheist? (15-May-96 14:54:45)
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+
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+
+       Nah, it really isn't understatement...people who spend a day in
+my company invariably come away with the suspcion that there's
+considerably less there than meets the eye.
+
+       The invitation is, however, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+JMS: Arc a Fake? (15-May-96 14:54:47)
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Date: 15-May-96 14:54:47

+
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+
+       Oddly enough...I think there's room for arc series elsewhere. 
+What I think is killing Murder One is that we just lived *through* this
+with the OJ Simpson trial, and everybody kind of got uniformly fed up
+with it, and so just don't have it in them to go through it again in a
+fictional environment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05-May-96 22:02:05

+
 Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  - Delenn-G'Kar confrontation - Bester helping the cause?
+>  - The War Room - Humans (or telepaths) merging with the Shadows
+> ships - The telepaths-weapons against the Shadows? About that last
+> point, can you tell me the name of the colony that is attacked by
+> the Shadows? Is it a human colony?
+> Clark be upset with the Shadows?
+
+      That's Brakiri space they attacked; more on that in the next
+episode. (They're a League world.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Joe an atheist? (15-May-96 19:28:39)
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+
Date: 15-May-96 19:28:39

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you actually find this when you spend time with the folks that
+> know you online??
+
+      No, it's not that...but in person, I generally tend to be fairly
+quiet and reserved, almost verging on shy.  In groups I tend to vanish
+into the wallpaper.  You'll usually find me at the back of the room,
+observing.  I'm not terribly extraordinary looking, rather average
+really, in contrast with what some perceive of me online, as evidenced
+by an email note I got just today where someone fancied me a mix of Sam
+Kinneson and Sean Connery, based on the messages here and elsewhere.
+
+      I can gear it up when I have to go to a convention and perform,
+but the rest of the time...I'm nearly invisible.  And I mean
+*invisible*.  As some small proof of this, when I went to my 20th high
+school reunion, I knew every face and every name I saw.  Out of the
+hundreds of people who showed up, two
+ -- TWO -- vaguely sorta kind remembered me, but that's about it.  I
+passed through their ranks without leaving even a footprint.  This is
+the norm, not the exception.  Online, I can be Cary Grant...but
+offline, closer to Don Knotts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Bester's Appearance> (15-May-96 19:28:40)
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+
Date: 15-May-96 19:28:40

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you suggest some of his other works?
+> Did he write any novels?
+
+      I'd highly recommend The Stars My Destination.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Creative Process (15-May-96 22:52:13)
+
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Date: 15-May-96 22:52:13

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Joe an atheist? (15-May-96 23:09:46)
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Date: 15-May-96 23:09:46

+
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+
+      It's okay, kiddo...I'm used to it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Creative Process (15-May-96 23:09:47)
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Date: 15-May-96 23:09:47

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, I think I've seen stories about that on the news...fun
+stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 15-May-96 23:09:48

+
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+
+      Exactly.  A Heinlein hero isn't a bad description.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<War Without End>> (15-May-96 23:09:50)
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+
Date: 15-May-96 23:09:50

+
 Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is Sinclair Valen?
+> Am I even close?
+
+      Best to watch and find out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<War Without End, Pt 1> (15-May-96 23:09:53)
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Date: 15-May-96 23:09:53

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, B4 survived the prior shadow war, but in very bad shape;
+didn't last much longer after that.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<Spitfires>> (15-May-96 23:09:55)
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+
Date: 15-May-96 23:09:55

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have the Spitfires changed shape a little?
+
+      Not that I know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>War Without End: 1<< (15-May-96 23:09:57)
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+
Date: 15-May-96 23:09:57

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Me: Wanna watch Babylon 5?
+> Him: (Sound of extreme disappointment and look of consternation)
+> Why do they do that?
+
+      Inch by inch, we're taking over the world....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears Alien?> (01-May-96 12:35:15)
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+
Date: 01-May-96 12:35:15

+
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+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 05-May-96 22:02:06

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's a great episode.  And they get better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Exactly.  The quote Delenn recited in "Parliament" was the quote
+from Valen when he formed the first Grey Council.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Story Arc (15-May-96 23:10:01)
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+
Date: 15-May-96 23:10:01

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Infection," I was thinking, "Gee, what's this got to do with
+> anything?" 1) Will we see Ironheart again?
+> 2) Are Sinclair and Delenn married?
+> 3) Will we see the ship or beings that Catherine saw on Sigma 957
+> again? 4) Whatever happened to the insect-like being from Down
+> Below?
+
+      Thanks.  I've actually heard similar from others who've gone
+back and done the same thing...including some who, as you did, were
+kinda "Oh, yeah?" for the first part.  But as long as someone's willing
+to go back and look at what's there with an open mind, I don't have any
+complaints, and no apologies are ever required.
+
+      SF fans have so often been disappointed by shows that it's
+natural after a while to have "a chip on one's shoulder," as you
+say...I think it's based on a desire to defend oneself, to not get
+sucked in One More Time. It's understandable.
+
+      To your questions: no plans for Ironheart at this time,
+omnipotent beings running around my universe make me nervous...Sinclair
+and Delenn aren't married, it was stated as a *rebirth ceremony* which
+CAN sometimes double as a marriage ceremony, the rebirth being Delenn's
+upcoming change... she became more "passive," more insecure, after her
+change; that began to turn around after her encounter with Mr.
+Sebastian...and we saw the Sigma 957 ship again in "Voices of
+Authority."
+
+      Beyond that...thanks for the great words.  They help.  Pulling
+this show off is a tough job, harder than I think anyone knows, or ever
+will know, or ever *should* know, since that's irrelevant to what's on
+the screen.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 02:31:40

+
 Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is one set more valid just because it's got "production values"
+> and a storyline?
+
+      Hrmmm...I dunno...maybe.  I'll have to think about it.  I guess
+it's this particular topic, more than anything else, that has the
+potential to polarize people the most, and B5 tends to be about
+bringing folks together, not splitting them apart into camps.  We'll
+see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 16:37:35

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Surely, someone who does not question themselves, their beliefs
+> and their opinions cannot grow?
+
+       Lengthy, perhaps; confused post, no.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 16:37:36

+
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+
+       I'll put it to you this way...Kosh was old enough to have had a
+first hand familiarity with Valen.  Vorlons live a REAL long time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 16-May-96 16:37:37

+
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+
+       I don't consider them a "rival," there's room enough for
+everybody. The more the merrier.  We're glad to have them on.  As for
+my personal view, I rather like the new Doctor.  He's probably the best
+they've had since Tom Baker, who for me has always been the
+quintessential Doctor.  There were some story lapses, and the female
+doctor is a good performer but needs to be written less
+annoyingly...but all the ingredients are there.  I hope they get 
+approved to series; I'll be watching.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 16:37:39

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> .did you ever get any stick time in that part of the Wing
+> Commander universe?
+
+       No, actually, I've never gotten into the Privateer stuff...I
+have the new Wing Commander, but my joystick is screwed up (others have
+made that observation before), so it's waiting until I can yank the
+computer out of its niche and install the Fancy New Joystick I bought
+that has fifteen thousand different plug-in points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>War Without End: 1<< (16-May-96 16:37:42)
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+
Date: 16-May-96 16:37:42

+
 Terry Cotant [RSS] <70313.1103@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If what happened to Shariden was a "time" thing, how did get get
+> moved all the way from sector 14 to Centauri Prime? Must be
+> "time/space", not just "time", right?
+
+       The time-flash (which in Sheridan's case is much more
+pronounced than what we've seen before) slides you forward or backward
+in time to where you are at that moment.  At that moment, 18 years from
+now (in the story), Sheridan was/will be on Centauri Prime.  So when he
+slid along the time line, that's where he ended up.  Just as in Babylon
+Squared, when Garibaldi had a timeflash back to his time on Mars.  It
+blips your perception to another point in your life, wherever you
+happen to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:35

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You want to censor the internet, or ban guns?
+
+     Daniel, you Keep Missing the Point.
+
+      If "free speech (and) the right to keep and bear arms are God
+given rights," then why didn't God give them?  Why did it take a number
+of humans to *decide* that it was time to strive for something better? 
+The rights you speak of were never given by god, they were given by
+those who spent their life's blood in an effort to create something
+better for their inheritors. If god had anything to say on this issue,
+he should've said it in the 6,000 years preceding, and *done* something
+about it.  He didn't.  We did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Arc a Fake? (16-May-96 22:33:37)
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Date: 16-May-96 22:33:37

+
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+
+      Thanks, if you were able to suss anything out of those
+ramblings, then it's a Good Thing...and sorry about the delay. 
+Sometimes answers to old questions come when you least expect them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05-May-96 22:02:09

+
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+
+      Logically, he can't just go away indefinitely, and it's going to
+take a long time before they can get Carolyn in shape.  A very long
+time.  If he stays, he'd be noticed and hunted down by the Corps, which
+ends his usefulness.  His staying served no purpose.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS /Dr Who? (16-May-96 22:33:40)
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+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:40

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Say, would you mind if I reposted your message into the Doctor
+> Who section on SF Media 2?
+
+      Sure, anything I write can be crossposted.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:41

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any info on that project (I think you said 'GrimJack', I don't
+> get out much :) who is the author and when do you think it will
+> be out?
+
+      I'm futzing around with several projects whilst awaiting word on
+B5; nothing concrete I want to talk about just yet.  And I've grown a
+beard since the photos you saw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<I&E> Moved (16-May-96 22:33:44)
+
+
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+Search
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+
<I&E> Moved

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:44

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any reasons why you didn't do the scene that way (or was this a
+> budgetary constraint?) ?
+
+      I thought about that long and hard when writing the script, and
+I finally came to the conclusion that there was literally *nothing* we
+could show that wouldn't be disappointing...it's a conflict on another
+whole plane, and should have an almost cosmic or ethereal feel to it. 
+If we showed Kosh shooting a defensive field, or a shadow opening his
+suit with a can opener, or anything else obvious and physical, it
+would've diminished the scene.  The vorlons are mythic, indirect, you
+see them out of the corner of your eye, so it fit that the proper
+metaphor would be to handle the battle that way.
+
+      Even if we'd had ten million bucks to do that sequence...I
+would've made the same choice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<War Without End, Pt 1> (16-May-96 22:33:49)
+
+
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+Search
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+
<War Without End, Pt 1>

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:49

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did the Minbari agree to help fund B5 after getting a look at the
+> nearly finished B4 and realizing what it was?
+
+      No, because if you remember, even Delenn didn't know where B4
+came from until she came to B5, well after completion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Vorlon Thought, WWE,I> (16-May-96 22:33:52)
+
+
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+
<Vorlon Thought, WWE,I>

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:52

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There probably wasn't a credit there because it was an
+incidental voice rather than a recurring voice.
+
+      The other Vorlon also sounded different because I directed
+Ardwight in different inflections...literally stood there outside the
+booth using my hand like a baton to indicate the rising and falling
+inflections as he spoke, to give it a wave kind of sound.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>War Without End: 1<< (16-May-96 22:33:53)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
>>War Without End: 1<<

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:53

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      With this show, it's never safe to assume *anything*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>War Without End: 1<< (16-May-96 22:33:55)
+
+
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+
>>War Without End: 1<<

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:55

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You can't become unstuck in time and slide past your own
+> lifetime, can you? Or is there a difference in Sheridan's
+> "unstickiness"? Garibaldi & Sinclair get the "perceptual trip" but
+> Johnny gets the Real Thing (tm)? Help?
+
+      Well, who can say at this point *what* happens on Z'ha'dum...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Story Arc (16-May-96 22:33:58)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 Story Arc

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:33:58

+
 Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you do it?
+
+      Actually, the scary thing is...I wrote 12 the first year, 15 the
+second, and 22 the third, so that's 49 out of 66 altogether.  That's
+about 2,400 pages in 3 years, equal to 5 full-length novels.
+
+      Suddenly I have the overwhelming urge to take a nap....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE - timeline ?> (16-May-96 22:34:00)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<WWE - timeline ?>

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:34:00

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you work out in your head the sequence of events that created
+> the circular timeline, or did you just throw up your hands and
+> say, "Who cares about explaining it?
+
+      No, it all has to hang together, or it's kinda useless.  It just
+required working out the details of what was, is, and will be.  Then I
+walked on water....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE1: Familiar Shuttle> (16-May-96 22:34:03)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<WWE1: Familiar Shuttle>

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:34:03

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What brand of stick did you buy?
+> Did you go with an optical design?
+
+      Optical design?  Whuzzat?
+
+      I don't recall the make, but it plugs in at the game card, the
+mouse port, AND the keyboard port.  Frankly, it scares the hell out of
+me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ExcellenceInBroadcasting (05-May-96 22:02:10)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
ExcellenceInBroadcasting

+
Date: 05-May-96 22:02:10

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you very much for those kind words; we work hard on the
+show, and that sort of feedback is appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Arc a Fake? (16-May-96 22:41:56)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: Arc a Fake?

+
Date: 16-May-96 22:41:56

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The real drag about Twin Peaks is that, apparently, as told to
+me by some of the writers who worked on the show, they really had NO
+idea where they were going.  They just kept throwing stuff out there. 
+I was vastly disappointed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Screen Saver sound (16-May-96 22:41:57)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 22:41:57

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's not a fix; that's the Identicard Scanner sound, which
+you hear on the show from time to time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War Without End, Pt 1> (16-May-96 22:41:58)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 22:41:58

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the B1-B3 sabotages had nothing at all to do with the B4
+situation; it was just done by forces opposed to the very notion of the
+Babylon Project.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War Without End pt1> (16-May-96 22:41:59)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16-May-96 22:41:59

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Careful...we're straying into story ideas here....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: How old is... (17-May-96 01:08:57)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-May-96 01:08:57

+
 Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> OK, question though, how long ago (now being 2260 on B5) did
+> Valen live and come up with his ideas?
+
+      Valen led the prior shadow war and formed the grey council
+roughly 1000 years before B5's current time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE - timeline ?> (17-May-96 01:08:58)
+
+
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+
<WWE - timeline ?>

+
Date: 17-May-96 01:08:58

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That would certainly get in the way, yes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE1 Ships> (17-May-96 01:09:00)
+
+
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+
<WWE1 Ships>

+
Date: 17-May-96 01:09:00

+
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+
+      We've shown the saucer-shaped ship before; it's a Vree ship,
+first seen in Deathwalker.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+War I (17-May-96 01:09:00)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-May-96 01:09:00

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, next week's a corker.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Joe an atheist? (17-May-96 19:10:09)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Joe an atheist?

+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:09

+
 Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't that what we're doing here?
+
+      Yes, that's the dream...of course, there are many days when
+netspeak and the dream are far, far removed from one another.....
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: How old is... (17-May-96 19:10:10)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:10

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      All I'll say is that I have nothing to do with the previews, and
+I never see them or know what's in them until the broadcast.  I see 'em
+when you do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Quick Question (05-May-96 22:02:14)
+
+
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+
JMS: Quick Question

+
Date: 05-May-96 22:02:14

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When Sheridan and Ivanova are off galavanting about aboard the
+> White Star, who's minding the store on the station? Does
+> Garibaldi, as head of Security, run things, or would it be Delenn
+> as she's Sheridan's co-commander of the Rangers in that quadrant? 
+> Just what is the heirarchy of command on Babylon 5, now that it
+> is an independent state?
+
+      Yeah, generally it would fall to Garibaldi; it's no longer a
+rank thing as much as a "who can we trust?" question.  And Delenn
+maintains control of the Rangers in their absence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Screen Saver sound (17-May-96 19:10:12)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:12

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Has the B5 Screen Saver been released in a Mac version yet?
+
+      I've been told that the early decision to do a Mac version
+wasn't actually a decision, but a thought experiment, and for now
+they're staying with a PC version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Hole in Sinclair's Mind (17-May-96 19:10:15)
+
+
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+
Hole in Sinclair's Mind

+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:15

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> was that a sort of "bleed-through" when he was recalling what
+> happened? or did that happen the first time, when he was being
+> interrogated at the battle of the line? If it's the latter, has
+> 'Sinclair knowing who delenn was before he ever met her' been
+> addressed yet??
+
+      Yes, it was bleed-through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Interludes questions> (17-May-96 19:10:16)
+
+
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+
<Interludes questions>

+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:16

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was John thinking about his role in the destruction of the Black
+> Star, or the fact that he is now leading every race he can
+> influence into (possibly suicidal) battle with the Shadows?
+
+      In a way, each subsequent season tends to become stronger
+because now you know who these people are.  If you come to care about
+them, then the events that affect them have more power.  I've heard
+from folks who've watched the first season or two over again, and now
+that they know who these people are, found them much stronger than the
+first time through.  It's the nature of the beast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Cheers for Mira (17-May-96 19:10:19)
+
+
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+
Cheers for Mira

+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:19

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any suggestions?
+
+      A toast for a wedding, eh?  I'm not usually asked to do this
+sort of thing -- I generally avoid those morbid parentheticals of the
+human soul, weddings and funerals -- but off the top of my head....
+
+      The heart is an inland sea, surrounded on either side by
+infinities of time.  On one side, the unsteady molecule, shaken by
+storm and the unlikely perambulations of amino acids, paraded across
+the centuries until their name was man, and woman, until they created
+poetries and cities and walked across the Sea of Tranquility.  On the
+other side, an uncertain future, waiting to be shaped by hands clasped
+across that ocean of possibilities.  Looked at from here, in the
+starlight of sanctified vows, that horizon can be daunting, even 
+frightening.  But there is nothing so dark or so profound that it can
+outwit the infinity that is behind you, or undo all that went into
+creating you.  Any problems before you are temporary; but the inland
+sea of the heart is eternal. May your journey be filled with calm seas
+and clear skies, guided by the compass of your entwined souls.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Story Arc (17-May-96 19:10:23)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:23

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; foreshadowing is tough, because it implies the audience
+is going to BE there x-years down the road to Get It, and you have to
+risk the audience going "huh?" one time too many and wandering
+away...but nothing good comes without risk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War Without End pt1> (17-May-96 19:10:24)
+
+
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+
<War Without End pt1>

+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:24

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Not a problem.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<WWE - timeline ?> (17-May-96 19:10:27)
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Date: 17-May-96 19:10:27

+
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+
+      I try....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Watching the Shadows. (17-May-96 19:10:29)
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Watching the Shadows.

+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:29

+
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+
+      Bloopers and video releases aren't going to be happening for a
+bit yet. In time....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>Delein's Head< (17-May-96 19:10:31)
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>Delein's Head<

+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:31

+
 Avery C. Innis <74642.3366@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is this going to be explained away?
+
+      Won't have to, because you never saw what you think you saw. 
+All you saw was an arm.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Delenn (17-May-96 19:10:33)
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+
Date: 17-May-96 19:10:33

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Q: "What are the chances of Delenn evolving beyond her present
+> state of being?"
+
+      Depends on what he means by evolving; internally, yes;
+externally, no.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+<...Avalon> further (05-May-96 22:02:15)
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<...Avalon> further

+
Date: 05-May-96 22:02:15

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any myth-legend cycles that you are (or later became)
+> acquainted with that you wished you had room for in B5, but
+> couldn't fit in, for one reason or another?
+
+      Dunno...I don't really make a list of what I'd like to do; it's
+all just one big melting pot in the back of my head, and it all sifts
+together.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Interludes<< (18-May-96 00:43:01)
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>>Interludes<<

+
Date: 18-May-96 00:43:01

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was the physical force used on Sheridan projected by Kosh or the
+> encountersuit?
+
+      Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<War Without End, Pt 1> (18-May-96 00:43:04)
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<War Without End, Pt 1>

+
Date: 18-May-96 00:43:04

+
 Celia J. Penham <102454.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ok, this doesn't have anything to do with the current message
+> thread, but has there been any thought about a B5 novel? I mean,
+> one that tells THE ENTIRE STORY?
+
+      A lot of folks have suggested it...only time will tell if it
+ever gets done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Arc a Fake? (18-May-96 00:54:02)
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+
Date: 18-May-96 00:54:02

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Your observation is correct; the structure of B5 to a great
+extent is that of the novel, which is, after all, what's being
+attempted.  So you go from introduction, to rising action, to conflict,
+complication, climax and denouement.  A novel for TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<War Without End, Pt 1> (18-May-96 00:54:04)
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<War Without End, Pt 1>

+
Date: 18-May-96 00:54:04

+
 Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long can one person wear the same outfit???
+> say, one of the principle players, one with a bony head crest and
+> long black hair...?
+
+      Actually, Delenn probably has more outfits than just about
+anyone else; there's the blue outfit, the rose colored outfit, the
+green active-wear look, her grey cloak and white religious caste robes,
+one more change of color...so I think your observation here is flawed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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<WWE or All good things>

+
Date: 18-May-96 00:54:05

+
 Joseph Coulter <75272.3005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ?"
+> And really "Don't you trust me, John?"
+
+      That's because tachyons are unique particles; they appear to be
+moving the wrong way through time.  So they're natural for this
+purpose.  ST didn't make up the idea of tachyons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Arc a Fake? (18-May-96 20:10:08)
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+
Date: 18-May-96 20:10:08

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and it's just fun hanging around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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<<WWE, Part I>>

+
Date: 18-May-96 20:10:11

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Since when does Zack know about the White Star, and is it now
+> general knowledge among the B5 staff?
+
+      Yeah, the White Star has been common knowledge ever since it
+came in at the end of "Severed Dreams."  Certainly, by virtue of being
+Garibaldi's second in command, he'd know about it.  At this point, most
+everything is out in the open now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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WwE Part 1 Question

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Date: 18-May-96 20:10:14

+
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+
+      It was done for story purposes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 18-May-96 20:10:17

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that Kosh is dead (and I presume that you won't be bringing
+> this character back to life), what was it about the character of
+> Kosh that you really liked and really disliked?
+
+      Actually, there wasn't much about Kosh I disliked...except his
+cryptic ways...they're all annoying that way.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>War Without End: 1<< (18-May-96 20:10:19)
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>>War Without End: 1<<

+
Date: 18-May-96 20:10:19

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You are saying that *in one alternate universe* Sheridan will be
+> on Centauri Prime, just like in 8 days in one alternate universe
+> Ivanova will cry to the universe for help while the Shadows blast
+> B5 to hell and in one alternate universe Garibaldi sacrifices
+> himself for Sinclair?
+
+      There are no alternate univeses, only alternate or possible
+futures. If they didn't go back, the future in which Sinclair is there
+with Garibaldi -- having come back to see through the final battle --
+and in which Sheridan is killed, and Ivanova is calling for help...that
+future will come true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 05-May-96 22:02:17

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were there any hints?
+> Why halfway through our story do the Shadows show their hand?
+> What is that agenda?
+> Are the Shadows independent operators or do *they* answer to
+> somebody?
+
+      Good points.  In general, you always know when I'm going to
+start answering a question, because I begin to point at it in episodes;
+I'm now beginning to point to the shadows and ask, "What do THEY want?"
+
+      The answer is coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 18-May-96 20:10:20

+
 Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quick question - is the "rebirth ceremony" from Parliament of
+> Dreams what we would have seen had the full ceremony gone ahead
+> in Ceremonies of Light and Dark or are there several different
+> versions - each with their own significance? Did you know that he
+> used to be a monk?
+
+      Yes, it's the same ceremony; Delenn states as much in the
+episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<War w/o End, p1>> (18-May-96 20:10:23)
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<<War w/o End, p1>>

+
Date: 18-May-96 20:10:23

+
 Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Dosen't this blow the mystery of whether Sheridan goes to
+> Z'ha'dum? Or would that event be later in his life than his going
+> to Centauri Prime? And are we going to find out why older-Sheridan
+> was on C-prime in the first place and not off someplace
+> collecting his pension? I guess the question might be what are
+> Minbari feelings about such things?
+
+      Who said there was a mystery about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum? 
+Kosh seems to treat it as a fait accompli; so does Sheridan.  It seems
+fated that he will go...the question is when, why, and under what
+circumstances, with what results?
+
+      See, sometimes the story works in the shadows (so to
+speak)...and other times we're right out in the open, we hand you the
+playbook and tell you we're coming right up the middle.  And *that's*
+when you've got to really worry.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Series Thoughts

+
Date: 18-May-96 20:10:25

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Come to think of it, how's the business of renewal for Year 4
+> coming?
+
+      No, it seems that WB is set on airing the last batch of
+episdodes in October, to ramp up for the November sweeps, assuming
+renewal.  We won't hear final word on this for another week or two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 18-May-96 20:10:27

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The name of the station is still the same; it was built by the
+Earth Alliance.  So that's how she'd refer to it.
+
+      The rest will probably be clearer after part two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 14:08:22

+
 Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is my assumption that the different Minbari castes were on the
+> verge of destroying themselves prior to the war and the
+> appearance of Valen?
+
+      There was certainly some division among Minbari; Valen
+straightened a lot of that out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 14:08:24

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had Sinclair stayed on as B5 commander, who would have been
+> zapped to Centauri Prime to confront Londo on the destroyed
+> Centauri Prime?
+
+      I appreciate the questions, but there are so many alternate
+timelines flying around right now...I'm not sure I want to further
+complicate the issue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:08:54

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> * So is the NightWatch done for now?
+> (such as another assault on the station by EA forces)?
+> * Is Corwin and everyone else on the B5 command staff cool with
+> B5's seccession now?
+
+      All I'll say for now is that we'll obviously have to get back
+into the Earth situation sooner or later; that still has to be dealt
+with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Appreciation (19-May-96 20:08:55)
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Appreciation

+
Date: 19-May-96 20:08:55

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you for all of that.  It's a hell of a fight some days to
+get this show made, and believe me, the appreciation
+is....well...appreciated.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:08:56

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since I don't have a printer, do you think it would be perfectly
+> fine to just hand print the form to join the club, so long as I
+> give all the same information?
+
+      That'd be fine, sure.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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<War Without End, Pt 1>

+
Date: 19-May-96 20:09:00

+
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+
+      Once I finish the show, then I'll have time to consider this. 
+For now, it's just too daunting an idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Renewal (05-May-96 22:02:19)
+
+
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+
Date: 05-May-96 22:02:19

+
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+
+      We'll know later this month.  No word yet either way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>War Without End: 1<< (19-May-96 20:09:02)
+
+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:09:02

+
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+
+      Part two will clear that up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Puppet riots (19-May-96 20:09:04)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:09:04

+
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+
+      Saw it...weird....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WwE1 - recording?> (19-May-96 20:09:06)
+
+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:09:06

+
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+
+      She said it came from Draal and Epsilon 3, which has been
+monitoring the area for the last 500 years.  (It's stated in dialogue.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<<<WWE Pt 1>>>> (19-May-96 20:09:08)
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+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:09:08

+
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+
+      His clothing is different because that's the future Sheridan,
+into whom the current Sheridan has sort of slid....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (19-May-96 20:09:10)
+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:09:10

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the original version of the story where Sinclare stayed and
+> there was no Sheridan was Babylon 4 brought forward in time to
+> replace the destroyed Babylon 5? Was the ageing of Sinclare to
+> have been explained by the fact that he had given his time
+> stabilizer to Zathras? What did the Soul Hunter mean when he told
+> Sinclare "they are using you"?
+
+      No, B4 was never intended to go forward in time.  The aging was
+done pretty much as intended.  And the Soul Hunter meant they're using
+him to create their old Leader.  Still tracks.  I'll have more to say
+about all this after everyone's seen the episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<UK Dust 2 Dust>> (19-May-96 20:38:41)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:38:41

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Geez, would she REALLY have blasted Bester??
+> After that final conversation between Bester and his ascociate, -
+> is it possible that the Psi-corp PUT that Dust dealer onboard B5
+> as an excuse to come on and do some snooping? Am I man enough to
+> say I could have cryed?
+
+      Yes, she would've blasted...she gave the order to fire; only the
+fact that Sheridan gave the over-ride at the same moment stopped it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Fan Club Stuff? (19-May-96 20:38:43)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:38:43

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What's the word of Fan Club stuff?
+> And the Webpage?
+
+      We're just awaiting final word from WB before releasing the fan
+club web site; newsletters should be going out soon.  We're just
+waiting until there's a slight lull in memberships so we won't have to
+do too many multiple mailings.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<War Without End>> (19-May-96 20:38:44)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:38:44

+
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+
+      Thanks, I'm glad it's come out to be your favorite; it's a good
+ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War Without End, Pt 1> (19-May-96 20:38:46)
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+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:38:46

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these forces incidental or important to the rest of the
+> series, or can't you say? Can't you EVER be predictable?
+
+      Yes, a number of folks took speculations and began posting them
+about as True Things set to happen.  Always an error....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE 2 Paradox> (19-May-96 20:38:48)
+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:38:48

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Even if the machine that Sinclare used was a copy where did the
+> knowledge come from to build it originally?
+
+      Nope.  The machine came up with Zathras from Epsilon 3.  It
+first appeared with Sinclair, then later got into Delenn's hands.  So
+she still has that version of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Interludes<< (05-May-96 22:02:23)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 05-May-96 22:02:23

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I felt frustration and confusion at his situation (how did it get
+> this bad? why didn't he get help sooner?
+> Question: Can Londo hear the Shadows now because he has turned
+> toward the darkness, or was he allowed to hear so he'd be
+> intimidated? Our phone rang right after that scene, and I debated
+> on whether or not to answer it because I was afraid the person
+> would ask me, "What's wrong?" That battle between the Vorlons and
+> the Shadows was a joy to watch (can battle be "a joy?"
+
+      Thanks.  The Kosh stuff, his scene with Sheridan, and his
+passing, is very moving.  I showed it at Marcon this weekend in Ohio,
+and many folks, including Patricia Talman -- who hadn't seen it yet --
+were in tears at that. That, to me, is the moment when you know you've
+done something, when you can make people *feel* something.  Not just a
+plot exercise, but you hit down deep where it hurts, or can make
+someone laugh.  It's all about touching emotion...or what's the point?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Rage's Thot's:WWE, #1> (19-May-96 20:38:50)
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+
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+
Date: 19-May-96 20:38:50

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we to assume that if all goes well, the variant future of
+> Sinclair and Garibaldi's flashforwards will be wiped out of
+> existence? Are these flashforwards becoming 'unstuck in time'?
+> If so, why didn't Sinclair and Garibaldi vanish like Johnny did?
+> Is Johnny's unstuck jump *able* to be wiped out of existence like
+> the visions mentioned above? In B^2, do we ever see Sinclair or
+> Garibaldi in oldstyle EA uniforms, or just the black riot gear? 
+> (Lucy and Ethel? Was Kosh *taller* than this guy?
+> *Why does Lennier seem to always mention new functionalities of
+> the ship in the middle of combat? *Why hasn't Johnny gotten fully
+> checked out on the ship as he did with the Thunderbolts in SoT? 
+> *BTW, what phrases were thrown up on the screen behind Delenn in
+> Minbari script? Was it like Vir's Aloha shirt, or actual
+> Minbarese? * Just *when* is Johnny supposed to go to Z'ha'dum?
+> And just what does "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die" MEAN?
+> What does that MEAN?
+> why does there have to be seven days between episodes?
+> F
+
+      Thanks.  To the questions...no, we only saw the black flak
+uniforms in B2, because I knew we'd be changing them, but wanted to
+hide that fact (as I did with Delenn's line to Sinclair in B2, done
+off-camera to hide her change). And the Minbar cityscape was done by
+Eric Chauvin.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: How old is... (20-May-96 03:48:41)
+
+
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:41

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, that divisiveness has been growing lately, culminating in
+the breakup of the Grey Council which Valen formed.  There's bound to
+be some fallout....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Vorlon Thought, WWE,I> (20-May-96 03:48:41)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:41

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On a similar topic, do you have a favorite character?
+
+      They're all favorites.  If I had to pick one, it might well be
+Londo, simply because of the scope of the character, and what he lets
+me write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<War w/o End, p1>> (20-May-96 03:48:44)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:44

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I've been thinking about this quite a bit after I&E, and it seems
+> to me that we may not have entirely realized what Kosh was saying
+> (no surprise, eh? On the right track?
+> Or derailed?
+
+      Interesting speculations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<<<WWE Pt 1>>>> (20-May-96 03:48:46)
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:46

+
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+
+      There's a reason Garibaldi can't be there....
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (20-May-96 03:48:49)
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:49

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you want to wait to answer this that's OK, but did the Minbari
+> *know* that Sinclare was going to become Valen when they backed
+> his assignment to B5? Is that what Delenn meant when she said she
+> knew that they were not wrong about him? And if that is the case
+> why was Delenn told to kill Sinclare if he remembered what
+> happened to him at the Battle of the Line?
+
+      No, they didn't know at the time; most of them were still trying
+to figure the whole damned thing out; some refused to accept it, and if
+he was indeed bogus, wanted him killed to avoid becoming a false
+prophet and undoing Minbari society; some *did* believe it was him. 
+This disagreement in a sense became the first loose thread in
+unraveling parts of Minbari society.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<War Without End,pt.2>> (20-May-96 03:48:51)
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+
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:51

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But the other you'll get asked a lot and so I'll ask it now: was
+> this always Sinclair's path and if it was, was it your intention
+> (originally) to reveal it much later in the show, say season 5?
+
+      To the latter question...I think I'll hold off on commenting on
+this for a while.
+
+      Other than that...I'm happy you liked the episodes.  It's a good
+point to go out on for the break.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WwE1 & Zathras (20-May-96 03:48:53)
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+
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:53

+
 Matthew D. Woudstra <71073.540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where on earth did you get the inspiration for Zathras?
+> Was the character a product of your vision or what the actor
+> brought to the role...?
+
+      Well, Zathras appeared in Babylon Squared, so you might have
+seen him there.  Beyond that...no, the actor came to what was written
+on the page and made it come to life, but didn't invent the character. 
+I just sorta thunk him up.  It's what I do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War...I> (20-May-96 03:48:54)
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:54

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Re: G'Kar and Londo changing positions as Sinclair and Sheridan
+have done, these two moving from certainty to uncertainty in either
+direction, that ain't bad.  That ain't bad at *all*.  I like symmetry,
+and both journeys are interesting explorations.  What I've been doing
+in complex terms, you explained in an astonishingly few words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<< WWE, Pt.1 Spoilers >> (20-May-96 03:48:56)
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+
Date: 20-May-96 03:48:56

+
 Doug Quinn <76330.350@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, the question is, how long has Deleen known that Sinclair
+> was/is/will be Valen? Did they discover this when he was captured?
+> (I'd think not, else the Grey Council would not have told deleen
+> to kill Sinclair should he remember being captured.) Did Deleen
+> find out when Kosh came on board? (Kosh clearly knew what the deal
+> was, which explains why he didn't hang around the Council much
+> when Sinclair was in charge of the Station -- didn't want to
+> accidentily mess the time line up.) Did Deleen find out when she
+> came into posession of the "cocoon" machine? And here, since I
+> haven't seen the second part of this yet, I'm assuming that the
+> thing Sinclair is clearly putting a triluminary on in the preview
+> is the machine that goes into the past with him and later -- 1000
+> years later -- comes into Deleen's posession, since this explains
+> the "Valen was more than Minbari" line.) Or was she as much in
+> the dark as Sinclair himself was, right up to the moment when he
+> got a letter from his future/past self telling him what was going
+> to happen? What was in the note she received just prior to
+> Sinclair arriving on B5? What must Deleen think of this?
+> A _human_ becoming half-Minbari as the founder of her
+> civilization's government? Valen is also apparently looked up to
+> as a _religious_ figure -- how might other Minbari react to the
+> knowledge that Valen was half human? Or that Sinclair's Minbari
+> name sounds almost identical to the stone in the Ranger's pin, a
+> stone which represents the coming together of the human and
+> Minbari halves into one whole (a la Deleen's fusion, a la
+> Sinclair's coming fusion into Valen)?
+
+      On the Grey Council and Sinclair, I just left a note on this, so
+you may want to check that one rather than my repeating it here.  But
+yes, you seem to be close to it all...which is good.  All the pieces
+have been there, certainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Interludes questions> (05-May-96 22:02:23)
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+
Date: 05-May-96 22:02:23

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> could it be that the Shadows technical advantage lies in the
+> field of propulsion? First, why didn't Kosh flee the station and
+> go into Vorlon space before ordering the attack on the Shadows? 
+> Were Shadow vessels haunting hyperspace in the region of the
+> station ready to destroy him if he tried to leave? Why didn't he
+> ask Sheridan and Delenn for Ranger bodyguards? Would the Shadows
+> have simply killed them and then pressed their attack on Kosh or
+> would bringing things that far out in the open have left the
+> Shadows with no more reason not to directly attack the station? 
+> Why was Kosh able to order the Vorlon fleet to attack the
+> Shadows? Was his position in the Vorlon hierarchy higher than the
+> title of ambassador would indicate? was he, like Delenn was
+> originally, part of some kind of governing body? Why did Morden
+> and the Shadows automatically know that when the Vorlon fleet
+> attacked them that Kosh was behind it? And most importantly, why
+> are the Vorlon still "too few" to directly engage the Shadows? So
+> again, why aren't they ready? Why are the Shadows, who had to play
+> catchup in a big way, able to field a navy that has the
+> "thousands" of ships that Londo saw in his vision while the
+> Vorlons are still "too few"?
+
+      Because I think, on some level, Kosh knew it was inevitable; a
+price had to be paid.  In a way, Lincoln had the same feelings...why
+was he to live when so many had died?  In a way, he knew he wouldn't
+live much longer. Also, it would mean running...and the Vorlons don't
+run.  If he fled, another would pay the price...and that also wouldn't
+be right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War W/o End #2> (20-May-96 03:49:00)
+
+
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+
<War W/o End #2>

+
Date: 20-May-96 03:49:00

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, the Londo stuff is just incredibly powerful...very moving.
+As for the voice...well, we'll just have to wait a bit, won't we?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hypernauts Cancelled? (20-May-96 17:59:25)
+
+
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+
Hypernauts Cancelled?

+
Date: 20-May-96 17:59:25

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> If nobody else picks it up, is there any chance that the B5 fan
+> club could issue the completed episodes as videos?
+
+      There's no relation between B5 and Hypernauts, and it would be
+contractually impossible for us to do tapes of that show.  Still
+trying to work out the B5 tapes at present.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+MYSTERY ALIEN SWEEPSTAKE (20-May-96 17:59:26)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
MYSTERY ALIEN SWEEPSTAKE

+
Date: 20-May-96 17:59:26

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who won?
+
+      I haven't heard yet.  When I do, I'll post the info soonest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I&E Thought (20-May-96 17:59:28)
+
+
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+
I&E Thought

+
Date: 20-May-96 17:59:28

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this little parallel intentional?
+> And if so, is that worth noting for later or was it just one of
+> the many tools you employ?
+
+      Not an intentional parallel, no, but often to achieve something,
+one must decide if it's more important than one's life.  That's kind of
+descriptive of the whole of human history, frankly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Kosh's Ship (20-May-96 17:59:31)
+
+
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+
Kosh's Ship

+
Date: 20-May-96 17:59:31

+
 Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was his ship made/created for him??
+> and if so was it as old as he was??
+
+      It was made for Kosh, as Delenn points out, was almost a part of
+him; it wouldn't function as well, if at all, for anyone else.  There
+was nothing else to be done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Story Arc (20-May-96 17:59:33)
+
+
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+
B5 Story Arc

+
Date: 20-May-96 17:59:33

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<WWE Pt 2>> (20-May-96 17:59:35)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<<WWE Pt 2>>

+
Date: 20-May-96 17:59:35

+
 Bert Johnson <102476.201@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Two, who did Delenn see in Sheridan's quarters?
+> In the future of that timeline, did they have a daughter?
+> I think they identify with him ("No one listen to Zathras") Will
+> we see him again?
+
+      The eye was of the keeper on Londo's shoulder, you can see
+G'Kar's fingers gripping a part of it.  It woke up.
+
+      The other questions will have to wait, and be answered in the
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+op (20-May-96 17:59:36)
+
+
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+
op

+
Date: 20-May-96 17:59:36

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      They've played with some research in this area, but they aren't
+anywhere near the tech required to actually do anything with time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<War Without End>> (21-May-96 00:12:13)
+
+
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+
<<War Without End>>

+
Date: 21-May-96 00:12:13

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually...incorrect.  Whenever there's a timeflash, people see
+one thing or another.  When Sinclair and Garibaldi first came aboard,
+there was a timeflash.  We saw what Sinclair saw, we have no idea from
+that scene what Garibaldi saw.  No reason he couldn't have seen
+something from about that same period.  It wasn't stated either way at
+the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<<<WWE Pt 1>>>> (21-May-96 00:24:49)
+
+
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+
<<<<WWE Pt 1>>>>

+
Date: 21-May-96 00:24:49

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Yes, but *how* does Sinclair *know* this?
+> Will this be addressed in more detail?
+
+      Yes, in part two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ship of Tears-Bester> (06-May-96 13:27:48)
+
+
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+
<Ship of Tears-Bester>

+
Date: 06-May-96 13:27:48

+
 Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will he continue to or begin to covertly assist B5 while Carolyn
+> and the rest of the teeps are on board?
+
+       Yes, that'll be something Bester will do now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WWE Question (21-May-96 00:24:52)
+
+
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+
WWE Question

+
Date: 21-May-96 00:24:52

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why hasn't the design changed?
+> Ritual?
+> Also, where did Sinclair get the scar?
+> Could you please 'Splain this to me, Lucy?
+
+      The design *has* changed; the main section is much longer, and
+more primitive looking, less tricked out.  You can see a bit of it
+there, but you will see them in more detail in part two.
+
+      Sinclair was scarred during ranger training duties.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE2 & Kosh Naranick(sp) (21-May-96 00:24:53)
+
+
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+
WWE2 & Kosh Naranick(sp)

+
Date: 21-May-96 00:24:53

+
 David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could that have been our favorite vorlon back 1000 years ago?
+
+      Suffice to say that Kosh knew Valen from way, way back....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hypernauts Cancelled? (21-May-96 15:52:36)
+
+
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+
Hypernauts Cancelled?

+
Date: 21-May-96 15:52:36

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You've mentioned recently about trying to get things moving for
+> the UK viewrs/fans/rabid mottley crew (that's US!) over here, but
+> I've not seen anything of late: What's the score, please?
+
+       Still working at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Rage's Thot's:WWE, #1> (21-May-96 23:07:02)
+
+
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+
<Rage's Thot's:WWE, #1>

+
Date: 21-May-96 23:07:02

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's been established that there have been previous riots on
+Mars, including the food riots referenced in, I believe, the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (21-May-96 23:18:50)
+
+
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+
Joe an atheist?

+
Date: 21-May-96 23:18:50

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> This is a bit off-subject, but I was wondering: as an athiest,
+> where do you believe that life came from originally? The cell
+> theory states that all cells must come from pre-existing cells,
+> but where did the first one come from?
+
+      You tell me where god came from originally, and I'll tell you
+where that first bit of matter came from originally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<UK Dust 2 Dust>> (21-May-96 23:18:51)
+
+
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+
<<UK Dust 2 Dust>>

+
Date: 21-May-96 23:18:51

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Story Arc (21-May-96 23:18:52)
+
+
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+
B5 Story Arc

+
Date: 21-May-96 23:18:52

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I truly appreciate that, thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<WWE I etc.>> (21-May-96 23:18:54)
+
+
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+
<<WWE I etc.>>

+
Date: 21-May-96 23:18:54

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't recall the question, but Ivanova's uniform in the flash
+forward was only 8 days ahead, so it'd be the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE, part 2> (21-May-96 23:18:57)
+
+
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+
<WWE, part 2>

+
Date: 21-May-96 23:18:57

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JUST WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN MIND, YOUNG MAN???
+
+      Escalation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE-crystal formation> (21-May-96 23:18:59)
+
+
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+
<WWE-crystal formation>

+
Date: 21-May-96 23:18:59

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Or am I just seeing things?
+
+      You're seeing things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ship Of Tears> (01-May-96 12:35:16)
+
+
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+
<Ship Of Tears>

+
Date: 01-May-96 12:35:16

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, I look forward to your feeling it's an ongoing quality
+show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>Interludes<< (06-May-96 13:27:49)
+
+
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+
>>Interludes<<

+
Date: 06-May-96 13:27:49

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If that is so, then how did Morden know about her before he
+> talked with the man Vir made the arrangements with? Or was it
+> something else - something to do with Kosh? Is this because of
+> what she is hiding - like knowing what the Shadows want? How did
+> Kosh know what would happen to him if the Vorlons fought the
+> Shadows? Since he is the link between the Vorlons and the army of
+> light, did he simply realize that the Shadows would move to sever
+> that link, or is there more to it? And why couldn't Kosh
+> successfully defend himself? Was he outnumbered three to one, one
+> Shadow being equal in strength to one Vorlon? His response: "Why'd
+> you have to tell me that?
+
+       The "crystals" were diamonds, he was bribing various people to
+let him in and otherwise do things for him.  And yes, Delenn's holding
+back some information still, and Kosh was outnumbered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (22-May-96 04:37:47)
+
+
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+
<WWE II>

+
Date: 22-May-96 04:37:47

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you.
+
+      And stop sitting in the dark; you'll trip when you stand up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Joe an atheist? (22-May-96 04:47:33)
+
+
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+
Joe an atheist?

+
Date: 22-May-96 04:47:33

+
 Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Then if I told you that God always existed, you'd tell me that
+> matter has always existed as well?
+
+      Yup.  In one form or another, one Big Bang leading to a
+collapse, and another Big Bang...if one can say god has always existed,
+then one can equally say that perhaps the universe has always existed,
+in one form or another....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Screen Saver sound (22-May-96 04:47:34)
+
+
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+
B5 Screen Saver sound

+
Date: 22-May-96 04:47:34

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone have the address?
+> At least I've got the show...well...an hour next Sunday,
+> anyway...Joe, is it October before we get the remaining episodes?
+
+      Yup...October......yikes.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<War Without End>> (22-May-96 04:47:35)
+
+
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<<War Without End>>

+
Date: 22-May-96 04:47:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It was a good sendoff.  (At one point, Bruce said to me
+over lunch, with Michael sitting with us, "Hey, so how come HE gets to
+go off and become the next best thing to God and I get the crap kicked
+out of me?"  I shrugged.  "Seniority.")
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE 2 Paradox> (22-May-96 04:47:36)
+
+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 04:47:36

+
 Jerome Keating <76243.620@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have a question - remember when Ivanona when to go meet with
+> those "old ones" and they they said to come get them when it is
+> time - well isn't now a good time???? with the shadow in the open
+> attacking many races - now would seem opportune - do you plan on
+> bringing them in the fourth season?? second question - were those
+> old ones the only ones contacted by "our heros" ??
+
+      Tentatively, they'll show up in the fourth season...and they
+will have to get some more First Ones on board.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<WWE I etc.>> (22-May-96 04:47:40)
+
+
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+
<<WWE I etc.>>

+
Date: 22-May-96 04:47:40

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes.  Up until that moment, the total forces available to the
+shadows were an unknown to us...sort of like Shroedinger's Cat, is it
+alive in the box or is it dead?  It could be either one.  If they
+didn't go into the past, didn't affect the outcome, it would be one
+reality; if they did, then it'd be another.  As soon as they achieved
+one or the other of those two, the two possible results collapsed into
+the one, singular possibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Music Video (22-May-96 12:29:14)
+
+
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+Search
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+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 12:29:14

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The video is something we'd like to release eventually, but
+still have to negotiate the right to do so with actors and others
+involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (22-May-96 12:29:16)
+
+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 12:29:16

+
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+
+       Thank you.  I agree, in the beginning of the show, there was
+the occasional rough spot; when you're trying to do something nobody's
+really ever done before, there's a certain amount of trial and error. 
+But we learn *real* fast.
+
+       Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE 2> - My Head Hurts (22-May-96 12:29:17)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 12:29:17

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have I got this right: Delenn saw John attempting to synch back
+> up so gave up her stabilizer for him; this caused her to become
+> unstuck and put her in the space suit so that Zathras could give
+> her the repaired stabilizer when she appeared later; Delenn was
+> "missing" from the time she stuck her head out of the hole until
+> Zathras gave her the stabilizer and no one noticed? How long was
+> B4 in the past before the Minbari showed up to search it? 
+> Obviously long enough for the 2 Vorlons to show up, but how long
+> was that?
+
+       Yes, you're correct about the Delenn material; she left the
+ship to do this, and not that much time had passed.  It was, in fact,
+to check on Delenn that Marcus was coming out as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>Interludes<< (22-May-96 12:29:18)
+
+
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+Search
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+
>>Interludes<<

+
Date: 22-May-96 12:29:18

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Because it was they who took it back, at this point; if they
+didn't do it, then they wouldn't have done it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ship of Tears> (06-May-96 13:27:51)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-May-96 13:27:51

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's no relation between the aliens working for the shadows
+and the Streib.  The ones you saw in the flash were "doctors" of a sort
+doing the work; there was no abduction required except of course the
+covert kidnapping from the Psi Corps Re-education Center.  As for
+Bester's look behind, he was just looking to the guards behind him, and
+the ones in front of him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WWE PART ONE (22-May-96 12:29:20)
+
+
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+
WWE PART ONE

+
Date: 22-May-96 12:29:20

+
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+
+       It's not expensive per se, but it is time consuming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Renewal? Y or N? (22-May-96 12:33:40)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 12:33:40

+
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+
+       We should hear in the next few weeks; we have to know by June
+10th or so in order to pick up the actors' contracts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War Without End> (22-May-96 21:18:37)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 21:18:37

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that also the case with WwE (1 and/or 2)?
+> If so, would you be able to comment on the scenes cut or is that
+> right out?
+
+      Thanks.  There were a few small bits cut out of WWE2, but at
+this late remove, I honestly can't remember what they were now.  It's
+all a blur....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I&E Thought (22-May-96 21:18:38)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 21:18:38

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, As painful as Adera's (sp?) death was for Londo, is it
+> likely that Londo will discover the truth about Morden's
+> involvement?
+
+      Anything's possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+US tapes vs Brit tapes? (22-May-96 21:18:39)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 21:18:39

+
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+
+      WB thinks there isn't a market in the US.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE2 (slight spoiler) (22-May-96 21:18:40)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22-May-96 21:18:40

+
 Bob Hodge <74774.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One nagging question in my mind - Has Sinclair, Delenn, and
+> Sheridan gone too far?
+
+      Thanks.  No, that's not it; you're right, it'd make the story
+'way too convoluted.  But Delenn may have made some questionable
+decisions at various points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Time Travel Ques.>> (22-May-96 21:18:43)
+
+
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+
<<Time Travel Ques.>>

+
Date: 22-May-96 21:18:43

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is the time travel that Sheridan experienced to the Centari
+> homeworld different from the time flashes experienced by
+> Garibladi, Delenn, Krantz, and others on Babylon 4? If these
+> flashes are different, then is the Sheridan of 2278(?) dead,
+> lost, or just somewhere else? Does Delenn continue on the mission
+> alone?
+
+      No, Sheridan "leapt" into his future self, hence the difference
+in wardrobe and appearance.  Londo wasn't suprised to see him.  If you
+recall the Centauri guard when we first arrive in the Palace, he says,
+"I think he's awake again, would you like to see?"  The implication
+being that he's been beaten into unconsciousness, hence Londo's line,
+"Welcome back from the abyss."  It was at that moment of
+unconsciousness that he "slid" into his future self.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Joe an atheist? (23-May-96 02:11:21)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 02:11:21

+
 Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you saw a house in a forest, full of furniture, but made
+> entirely of foresty stuff, would you conclude that the house
+> formed on it's own? without a designer?
+
+      Yes, I've heard the "looking at a house" notion...and I've also
+noted the Rohrscharch test, in which you look at random drawings, and
+the human mind, which seeks out patterns, takes that which has no
+meaning and puts a meaning onto it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+US tapes vs Brit tapes? (23-May-96 02:20:58)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 02:20:58

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, to which WB "suit" may we write a letter expressing our
+> desires for B5 tapes?
+
+      Won't work.  They're immobile.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<War Without End>> (23-May-96 02:21:00)
+
+
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+
<<War Without End>>

+
Date: 23-May-96 02:21:00

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the white ray (or whatever) in WWE1related to the being that
+> got inside Sheridan during "Knives," or was it just the effect of
+> blowing up a fusion reactor?
+
+      No, that was just the result of the blast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Women on B5> (06-May-96 13:27:52)
+
+
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+
<Women on B5>

+
Date: 06-May-96 13:27:52

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       True, a woman's added body fat layer can help them cope with
+the temperatures, but if the sea is roiling and choppy, it takes a lot
+of upper body strength to stay afloat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE-crystal formation> (23-May-96 02:21:03)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 02:21:03

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> My first thought was "What is that, a Vorlon temple or embassy or
+> something?" Is that because he's been around Vorlon's too long or
+> Ranger One too long?
+
+      After a while, you get used to that from Vorlons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<WWE2 - Spoilers & ? >> (23-May-96 02:21:05)
+
+
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+
<<WWE2 - Spoilers & ? >>

+
Date: 23-May-96 02:21:05

+
 Frank J <104464.2504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is WWE2 what you were referring to?
+
+      No, when you see a LOT of vorlons together, that's when it's
+time to run like hell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>WWE: I and II<< (23-May-96 02:21:06)
+
+
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+
>>WWE: I and II<<

+
Date: 23-May-96 02:21:06

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that a Minbari in _shorts_ in the opening scenes of Minbar!?!
+> Where was Sinclair all those 900 years between his existence as
+> Valen and his birth as Jeffrey David Sinclair? Or was he nowhere,
+> existing only at the closing and opening of the loop, being born
+> in the future and dying in the past? When Zathras said he was 110
+> years old, was that human years or his own race's years?
+
+      No, I don't believe anyone on Minbar was wearing shorts.  It's
+not the season for that.
+
+      As for Valen, he died about 900 years ago, our time.  He lived
+to be well over a hundred years old.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 renewed? (23-May-96 02:21:09)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 02:21:09

+
 Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When are we going to be put out of our misery and be told that B5
+> has been renewed for a fourth season?
+
+      We should know soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE II> (23-May-96 13:50:34)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 13:50:34

+
 Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How will you surprise us with the resolution of the Shadow War
+> since we already know we will win?
+
+       It's a literary...I hate to say the word trick, but it's the
+most descriptive.  You show somebody the end right off the bat, as we
+did with the Londo/G'Kar scene.  But how do we get there?  What
+happens?  Yes, the war is eventually won...but what *was* the price? 
+And what does it mean to everyone involved?
+
+       The best magic is when it's right there in your face, and you
+can't see how it's being done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Joe an atheist? (23-May-96 13:50:35)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 13:50:35

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ah, but physics is now postulating that there's not just one
+big bang, but there have been numerous ones...perhaps an infinite
+number of them, as the universe collapses, then bangs, collapses, then
+bangs.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 23-May-96 13:50:38

+
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+       Thanks.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<WWE2> (23-May-96 13:50:40)
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Date: 23-May-96 13:50:40

+
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+       What happens with the future of Londo and G'Kar...is what you
+see. Course, how they got there is the meat of the story.
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Encounter (UK Con) (23-May-96 14:02:56)
+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 14:02:56

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did you hear this?
+> Anyone out there heard anything?
+
+       Actually, B5 is being shown *right now* in widescreen in France
+and Portugal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Some thots on <<WWE2>> (23-May-96 14:02:58)
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+
Date: 23-May-96 14:02:58

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> 1) How long has Lennier known Sinclair was Valen?
+> Why else would the Minbari reject everyone for commander of B5
+> until they got to Sinclair? Did Ivanova make the connection, too?
+> What about the other Minbari on the bridge -- was this a
+> revelation for them as well? Now that they know who Valen really
+> was, how will they react to Minbari who revere him as a religious
+> figure? Will they tell Garibaldi?
+> Will he freak out?
+> 4) Didn't ya just love the stuff between Sinclair and
+> Delenn????!!!!??? is she Sheridan's and Delenn's daughter?
+> Why, oh why did I mail all my first season tapes to Oklahoma two
+> weeks ago? 7) So now can we say, "In Sinclair's Name?"
+> instead of "In Valen's Name," as an oath?
+> 8) So, do ya think one of those Vorlons was Kosh?
+> And, ohmygosh, is Kosh *actually* Valeria?
+> Did they appear to him, or did he call them somehow?) And does
+> Sincalir know that Kosh was killed? SO where do we go from here?
+
+       To your question, yes, the scenes with Zathras pinned under the
+strut were the same scenes from B2, we didn't reshoot that material.
+
+       The hardest shot was matching the lighting and composition in
+the central corridor *exactly* for the Ivanova-on-the-link scene, and
+the walk by seconds later by Garibaldi and Sinclair.  That came out
+pretty seamless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06-May-96 13:27:53

+
 Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Geez, how many of Morella's "chances" did he blow *this* time?
+
+       Thanks.  Yes, I don't think Sinclair would've handled that
+scene in the same way; it needed someone who'd go toe to toe with
+something very old and dark and dangerous in his way.  He had to get
+under Kosh's "skin," as it were. Needle and outrage and upset him until
+he got through...whatever the cost.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Attn: JMS, Continuity (23-May-96 14:10:20)
+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 14:10:20

+
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+
+       The leather strip was also present when we shot the original,
+Babylon Squared, in year one.  I was kinda thinking at the time that
+the change was gradually being introduced in various divisions of
+Earthforce.  Krantz is from the Marines division, I believe (note the
+brown uniform), from that part which functions sort of like the Army
+Corps of Engineers, overseeing the building of space stations and the
+like.  Since it takes time to introduce a uniform change across
+divisions and light years, I figured some might have them earlier than
+others, or to try them out.  So I gave Krantz the leather strip.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+I beg forvigeness (23-May-96 14:10:21)
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Date: 23-May-96 14:10:21

+
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+
+       Welcome to the party....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<WWE 2> - My Head Hurts (23-May-96 17:33:30)
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+
Date: 23-May-96 17:33:30

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> BTW, did the photos of Rick and Pat in Marcon's Klingon jail
+> arrive?
+
+       Yes, I got the photos, thanks...they're going to go up on the
+stage wall asap.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<War Without End>> (23-May-96 17:33:31)
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+
Date: 23-May-96 17:33:31

+
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+
+       If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve, if
+deified I will not transmute....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sinclair's Scar & More (23-May-96 17:33:33)
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+
Date: 23-May-96 17:33:33

+
 Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did Sinclair's scar come from in WwE?
+> Is it a Sinclair scar, or an O'Hare scar?
+> Was this because he had a feeling he knew Sinclair's destiny...or
+> did he just have gas?
+
+       The scar came during ranger training.
+
+       Marcus's look came because he overheard the Minbari-language
+part of the discussion, and knew something was up.  It made him more
+watchful of Sinclair, which pays off in WWE2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 22:28:55

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The fact that the woman seemed to have a passkey to Sheridan's
+> quarters makes me wonder...and I would love to see the surprise
+> on folks' faces if it turned out to be Catherine Sakai...but
+> that's not likely, is it? Any thoughts on this?
+> I was rather pleased to see how Marcus reacted to Sinclair's
+> decision to go back to the past and become the leader of the
+> Minbari, and I loved seeing the actual scene with the Minbari
+> "Valen" encounter the 1,000 years ago Minbari, but couldn't help
+> but notice that we didn't get to see Kosh...or perhaps one of the
+> Vorlons there was Kosh? Other than the destruction of B5 by the
+> Shadows and the visions from Ladira that we saw in "Signs and
+> Portents," how many of these visions actually portrayed the
+> future that we will actually see? Were these actual future
+> occurrences, or were they more "what might be"s (as Ladira called
+> them in "SaP")?
+
+      Re: the Chrysalis device...it came from Epsilon 3.  There was
+one shot that should've been made more of, where we see a long box with
+a silver triangle on one side being set up, and left.  Unfortunately,
+the shot didn't make much of it (you can see Zathras putting it out
+there), and a later shot we dropped showing it again because it wasn't
+properly featured and you couldn't really tell what it was.  There was
+so much in this episode that had to be pulled off, in a short amount of
+time, that sometimes things in the background don't get framed as they
+might be.  But that's where it came from: from Epsilon 3 to Sinclair to
+Delenn, who still has it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 23-May-96 22:28:56

+
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+
+      Thanks, the pleasure is all mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 23-May-96 22:28:58

+
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+
+      As of now, all that can be done has pretty much been done and
+it's all in the hands of the stations and WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 22:29:01

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What's the point in having Corwin and the ex-Keffer as
+> characters? basically useless characters that moves the story
+> along and dies at the end?
+
+      Not at all.  Yes, a character dies...after a season of getting
+to know him.  To say, "Well, you just put in a character to kill him,"
+and citing red shirts, is really...well, a red herring and a
+distortion.  A redshirt, by definition, was usually a security guard
+who was introduced in the same episode in which he was killed, we knew
+*nothing* about him, he had maybe 2 minutes of screen time, maybe a
+word ("look out!", and then he was dead.
+
+      By the definition you apply, anyone who dies in a novel is a
+redshirt, since the author knew he was going to be killed off.  If you
+do a novel about the Civil War, and Lincoln dies halfway through, is
+that a redshirt?  Many of the characters in The Stand don't make it to
+the end...are they redshirts?
+
+      I hate to break it to you, but *everybody* dies sooner or later.
+For the purposes of this show, some die on camera, some die off, some
+die during the story, some die afterward.
+
+      Nor was Keffer's character useless; through him, we got to see
+the Starfury pilots and learn more about them, we got our first close
+look at the shadows, we met the Gropos, and the primary incident that
+began to unravel the whole thing -- Keffer's gun camera footage -- came
+about.
+
+      And Corwin's character is still very much alive, and useful in
+the story, so that kinda disqualifies *that*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 22:29:04

+
 Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did he get so...Vorlon-like in such a short period of time?
+
+      He was kinda Zen when he left, frankly...and two years living
+among Minbari, learning their language, learning to think the way they
+do, learning the whole history of the shadow war...that can have a
+pretty profound effect on you.  It obviously wasn't all hanging around
+the Hyatt Minbar and watching reruns of I Love Lennier for two
+years....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06-May-96 13:27:55

+
 Bert Johnson <102476.201@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I think it is incredibly symbolic that Kosh visited both Sheridan
+> in Interludes and G'Kar in the previous episode as their fathers
+> The one thing that bothers me is that now the Shadows and the war
+> are out in the open as of at least two episodes, why why why do
+> they let Morden walk around the station at will?
+
+       They would do so, but since the fall from Earth, as Susan
+mentioned, they've had to hire guards who may not be above bribes, as
+we saw in the teaser.  And Morden is good at covering his footsteps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23-May-96 22:29:07

+
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+
+      Thanks, and I like your explanation/rationale for the small
+differences. Works for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Story Arc (24-May-96 00:15:22)
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+
Date: 24-May-96 00:15:22

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In real life, the most difficult decisions we make are what house
+> to buy in which town in which neighborhood, or what car do we
+> want to get, or should I leave my current job and get another,
+> maybe better one? Sometimes, we make extremely crucial
+> decisions--there's a war on--should I enlist? It makes me wonder,
+> though, that if Ivanova is a latent telepath, even only a P-1,
+> would she sense the Shadows near Morden? Will you be bringing
+> Talia back at some point in the future?
+
+      Thanks; no plans for Talia for the time being.
+
+      I agree with much of what you said.  The unexamined life is a
+real peril, and literature at its best can help us to avoid that trap
+by asking uncomfortable questions.
+
+      I actually tend to think that the day-to-day questions can be
+more central, more profound, than where to buy a house.  Do you tell
+your friend that his/her spouse is having an affair?  Do you intervene
+when you see someone on the street being mugged?  Do you have an
+abortion?  Do you sacrifice buying the boat you always wanted so you
+can put your kid through college?
+
+      At some point in our lives, we have to make a baseline decision
+about whether our actions will be ethical, or convenient; do we do
+right, or do we do wrong?  Some may seem like small or unimportant
+decisions, but each one made for the wrong reasons makes it easier for
+the next bad decision to slip through.
+
+      Politicians tell us that we can find lives in which courage and
+hard decisions are not necessary.
+
+      They are, of course, lying.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 00:15:23

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Actually, I seem to recall, after that Londo/G'Kar
+scene was shown the last time, posting somewhere that folks now knew
+*what* has happened, but they don't yet know the *context*.  Very few
+picked up on that and thought to actually reverse what they *thought*
+they were seeing to what they *might* be seeing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<WWE II Spoiler / Quest> (24-May-96 00:15:26)
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+
Date: 24-May-96 00:15:26

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Coincidence that the son of Delenn and Sheridan is named
+> David, Sinclair's middle name? some of our own religious figures
+> seem to vanish rather than die according to biblical stories...)? 
+> 4) On a lighter note, what brought Cousin Brucie to the Show?
+
+      Cousin Brucie was a fan of the show and wanted to do it.
+
+      Correct, Sheridan wouldn't know anything of what happened after
+he blipped out of that future situation.
+
+      As for David, remember that Sheridan's father is also David.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 02:08:45

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are we there yet?
+> Are we there yet?
+> Are we there yet?
+
+      Keep that up, young lady, and we'll turn this car *right* around
+and go home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 02:08:46

+
 Ben Roberto <71203.1514@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) In "Babylon Squared" after Zathras hands The One 'a' time
+> stabilizer, which one was it? His or the repaired one?
+> Did he lie to them?
+> What did I miss?
+> Or was it the whole device?
+
+      Sheridan's stabalizer basically broke into two major pieces, the
+front section which fell off in the White Star, and the back half which
+was still clipped to his belt, and later came off as Zathras watched.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE2 Great Job!> (24-May-96 19:21:45)
+
+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 19:21:45

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I'd love to someday tell the story of Valen and
+Zathras in the most recent shadow war.  It's quite a tale, actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Encounter (UK Con) (24-May-96 19:21:47)
+
+
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+
The Encounter (UK Con)

+
Date: 24-May-96 19:21:47

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know whether Channel 4 here in the UK have acquired the
+> Widescreen versions or not ?
+
+      I don't believe the UK has acquired the widescreen versions, no,
+otherwise they'd be playing them currently, as is the case in France
+and Portugal.  What happens after the current run, I don't know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Eps for Newbies? (24-May-96 19:21:52)
+
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+
JMS: Eps for Newbies?

+
Date: 24-May-96 19:21:52

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+Pilot Movie (tell them it gets better) Midnight on the Firing Line
+Sky Full of Stars A Race Through Dark Places Believers Babylon Squared
+A Voice in the Wilderness 1 and 2 Signs and Portents Chrysalis
+Points of Departure Revelations All Alone in the Night The Coming of
+Shadows Hunter, Prey The Long Twilight Struggle Comes the Inquisitor
+Divided Loyalties Confessions and Lamentations The Fall of Night
+Matters of Honor Convictions Dust to Dust Ship of Tears Interludes and
+Examinations War Without End 1 and 2
+
+      If that doesn't do it, nothing will.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (24-May-96 19:21:53)
+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 19:21:53

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, it's a nifty little scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Poisoning Kosh (06-May-96 13:28:00)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-May-96 13:28:00

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did Kosh cooperate with the effort to poison him?
+
+       Kosh extended a hand...because he recognized Sinclair.
+
+       Which is all I'll say for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>WWE: I and II<< (24-May-96 19:21:55)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 19:21:55

+
 David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So total human years + mimbari years not counting accidental
+> aging = well over a hundred years? Or did he live over a hundred
+> years as a mimbari?
+
+      He lived close to a hundred years as a Minbari; they're a long
+lived race, and they did all they could to maintain his health as one
+of their truly great figures.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Some thots on <<WWE2>> (24-May-96 19:21:59)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 19:21:59

+
 Brian P. Delaney <103640.3511@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If 1 in 10000?
+> telepaths could move a penny and she was "upgraded" so far that
+> she could EMBED one into a wall I think you had big plans for her
+> that didn't work out??
+
+      The Talia situation likely could've been finessed more smoothly
+than it was, no mistake.  Sometimes there are going to be ragged spots.
+It's going to happen.
+
+      Here's the best comparison to what my position is with this
+show: Harlan Ellison has, on occasion, done this routine where he'll go
+into a bookstore and write a story in full view of everyone.  As each
+page is finished, it's taped to the wall unti it's done.  This is
+considered a pretty nifty trick, sustained over maybe 15-20 pages.
+
+      That's pretty much what I'm doing here.  It's an ongoing story. 
+I can't go back, I can only go forward.  As each page (episode) is
+finished, it's put up on the wall, and I have to go on to the next one.
+So far I've written 2,400 pages on that wall.  Again, I can't go back
+and change anything, and if there's a bump caused by a real world
+incident, it simply has to be accommodated as best I can while still
+going where I have to go.
+
+      From time to time, there's going to be a misstroke on the
+keyboard, or there's going to be a typo that I'll miss.  That's
+inevitable when you're out performing in front of a massive crowd on
+the high wire without a net.  As long as the totality of it all hangs
+together, as long as the story is told, the trick finally done...then
+that's what fundamentally matters.
+
+      That this happens on occasion should be obvious; that it happens
+as rarely as it does is the point of wonderment, I think.  Remember,
+it's all trial and error, because no one's ever done this before.  And
+right about now I understand why.  But we're making it work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair's Scar & More (24-May-96 19:22:02)
+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 19:22:02

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Sakai certainly wouldn't have wanted to get tied down to life on
+Minbar, and Sinclair knew that his life would be difficult now with the
+rangers, so they parted ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Keffer and Corwin (24-May-96 19:22:05)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 19:22:05

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I meant is he just another "unimportant" character that's going
+> to get killed off in the end?
+
+      But see, not every story has to be about the Important People. 
+We've got that in our nominal "heroes."  What tends to get omitted from
+SF are the grunts and the blue collar guys, the pilots who have to fly
+the missions called on by the Big Guys.  To say "are they important"
+is, I think, really a question that proceeds from a skewed perspective.
+Are *you* important to the overall arc of this nation, the history of
+this country?  Am I?  Probably not; I'll never sign a constitution or
+discover radium or walk on the moon, I just write stories for phosphor
+dot screens; can there be anything more ephemeral? But the
+repercussions of history are written on the faces and the lives of 
+those who *can't* change it, who have to live with the decisions made
+by those above.  Showing those people is as valid as anything else.
+
+      It ain't just the heroes that make the future, Edwin.  It's the
+carpenters and the plumbers and the dockworkers we showed in the first
+season. Now, you may think they're unimportant.  I don't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE 2> - My Head Hurts (24-May-96 19:22:06)
+
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+
<WWE 2> - My Head Hurts

+
Date: 24-May-96 19:22:06

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How long before Rick and Pat will see them?
+> Mid-summer assuming renewal?
+> Or did you call them up and brag that you had them?
+
+      I think I'll just have them discover that they're there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE2> (24-May-96 19:22:09)
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+
Date: 24-May-96 19:22:09

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm not sure if they're the bookends; everyone's part of this to
+one degree or another.  And yes, magazines arrived safely, thanks
+again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 in Millimeter Mag. (24-May-96 19:22:11)
+
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+
B5 in Millimeter Mag.

+
Date: 24-May-96 19:22:11

+
For those who want a really good picture of how we do this show, and
+how we're ahead of the technology curve, making a bit of history with
+how we do things here, this month's MILLIMETER MAGAZINE has a cover
+story on B5's production methods.  (It's *the* trade magazine for tv
+and film production.) If your local bookstore doesn't carry it, the
+library might.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE <<Major Spoiler>> (24-May-96 22:04:28)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 22:04:28

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oddly enough, there was a squib on the news the other day that
+indicated scientists were able, albeit briefly, to have the same
+subatomic particle exist in two separate places at the same time, much
+to everyone's consternation.  (They don't think something like a person
+could do it, in that we are too "quantum mechanically complex.")
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair's Scar & More (24-May-96 22:04:31)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24-May-96 22:04:31

+
 <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did it *really* come during Ranger training, or was the scar
+> *supposed* to have been inflicted by Kosh ( as we saw happen to
+> Sheridan )? Had Michael remained on the series to the present day,
+> would _that_ have been the original reason for the scar on
+> Sinclair?
+
+      No, because you'll note that Sheridan isn't scarred by it.  No,
+you have to remember that one doesn't just transplant one storyline
+onto another.  It doesn't work that way.  Sinclair has his arc,
+Sheridan has his own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+White Star Question (25-May-96 02:16:16)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-May-96 02:16:16

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will Garibaldi ever get to see the inside of the ship?
+> Will either the Minbari crew learn English or Sheridan/Ivanova
+> learn Minbari anytime soon? Any plans?
+
+      I'm sure Garibaldi will eventually end up on the White Star; and
+the Minbari will also probably begin slowly acquiring English, and vice
+versa.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Women on B5> (06-May-96 13:28:01)
+
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+
Date: 06-May-96 13:28:01

+
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+
+       Okay; understood, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<WWE I etc.>> (25-May-96 02:16:18)
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+
Date: 25-May-96 02:16:18

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, if the Minbari had records of B4's visual look, given that
+the Shadows are advanced, would they not also have the potential to
+recognize it for what it was once it was nearing completion from their
+own records?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE2> (25-May-96 02:16:20)
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+
Date: 25-May-96 02:16:20

+
 Jim De Vico <72662.2765@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What will you be tying up then?
+> Something else that this brings to mind is how many others in
+> your field want to tell a story this way, yet can't because they
+> don't have the gumption?
+
+      Thanks (and I loved Watchmen myself).  It's certainly my hope
+that our success with this will encourage others to follow in our
+footsteps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<War Without End 1&2>> (25-May-96 02:16:21)
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+
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+
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+
Date: 25-May-96 02:16:21

+
 Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com> asks:
+> why does the image of Tennyson's Ulysses (Sinclair's favorite,
+> but equally appropriate to this commander too) growing old and
+> grey watching his friends and enemies disappear flash through my
+> mind? BTW, one quick question, what does the honorific used by
+> Marcus and Rathenn to Sinclair mean? And, were my eyes deceiving
+> me, or were those two Vorlons au naturel hovering over Valen?
+
+      In a way, this question touches on the issue that got raised in
+another thread here, about who's the "important" character.  We all
+have the potential for importance, if we choose to exercise it, and
+recognize the necessity of personal commitment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE2> (25-May-96 02:27:47)
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+
Date: 25-May-96 02:27:47

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Londo does not currently have a Keeper attached to him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE2> (25-May-96 02:27:48)
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+
Date: 25-May-96 02:27:48

+
 Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you now tell us what that one element was?
+
+      The element I couldn't quite fit into War....
+
+      In B2, Krantz says they found Zathras when there was a flash,
+and he appeared in a conference room.
+
+      Now, I sketched out that scene when it came time to actually
+write the whole WWE two-parter.  What happened, basically, was that
+Zathras was passing by a room where he saw the one piece he still
+needed to finish his repairs on the time stabalizer.  He slips in, as
+best he can, unnoticed...the meeting goes on as he goes under a table
+to get the piece of equipment...he finishes just as there's another
+time-flash...as it ends, momentarily disoriented, he's discovered, and
+captured.
+
+      This would've matched what was in B2, as I'd intended. 
+Unfortunately, it added several minutes of screen time that I couldn't
+afford.  I would've had to cut something somewhere else, and that
+script was so tight it screamed as it was.  So I had to fudge how I did
+that and let the small inconsistency go.  The only other thing I
+could've cut, the one moveable piece, was Sinclair trying to radio
+Garibaldi at the end...and I didn't want to lose that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+US tapes vs Brit tapes? (25-May-96 20:21:17)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-May-96 20:21:17

+
 Edward Sykes <101632.3501@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Surely though you have Star Trek videos over there in the US?
+
+      Yes, that would be reasonable; what that has to do with how WB
+home video works is beyond me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Eps for Newbies? (25-May-96 20:21:19)
+
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+
Date: 25-May-96 20:21:19

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I thought you were supposed to be quarantined?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE, part 2> (25-May-96 20:21:21)
+
+
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<WWE, part 2>

+
Date: 25-May-96 20:21:21

+
 Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why do I feel we're starting up another roller coaster hill and
+> this one's bigger than the one we just came screaming down? But,
+> October?
+
+      Thank you.  Yeah, the critics have been...well, unfair doesn't
+quite seem to describe it.  Some of these reviewers are to legitimate
+criticism as Auchwitz is to health spas.  Still, some of them have
+actually begun to turn around.  They just totally dismissed us from all
+serious consideration right from the start, some because we were SF,
+some because we weren't ST.
+
+      There's an old saying on Broadway theater: "Nobody but the
+audience loved it."  And that's what counts.
+
+      As far as the last five are concerned...they're an interesting
+and mixed bag.  The first two are almost, but not quite stand-alones,
+each has a couple/three stories going on, and one of each tends to lean
+toward the arc. But the last three are seriously hardass.  They bring
+you right to the edge, and you can see it coming quite clearly...then
+drop you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair's Scar & More (25-May-96 20:21:24)
+
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+
Date: 25-May-96 20:21:24

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      David, you can say "it seems to me," but I'm telling you it
+wasn't, not in relation to the scar.  And Sheridan wasn't a "backup"
+for Sinclair, he was brought in specifically because I needed somene
+who could and would do things in a different way, and had a different
+arc.  If it was going to track 1-to-1 you wouldn't *need* a new
+character.
+
+      And the swipe Kosh took at Sheridan wouldn't be *nearly* enough
+to cause a huge scar like that.
+
+      You're connecting two unconnected incidents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Third Age> (25-May-96 20:21:29)
+
+
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<Third Age>

+
Date: 25-May-96 20:21:29

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, is David the Third Age Of Mankind?
+
+      Not as such.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: gun port=respect? (06-May-96 21:44:17)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:17

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bottom line, Steven...what you're doing is applying not only
+just Earth norms and standards of behavior to aliens, you're applying
+distinctly Western modes of behavior, conduct and mentality.  You're
+expecting them to think and act like we do, in the way we consider
+logical.  You can't even apply that criteria to other countries right
+here on Earth, let alone outside.  Is it logical to one day just walk
+away from all your possessions, just leave them where they are, and
+start walking, not coming back?  Here we consider that abnormal
+behavior, abandoment...in Australia, among the Aboriginal culture, that
+principle is called "walkabout" and is quite common and accepted 
+behavior.  The idea of ritually mutilating a young woman's genitals is
+a hideous, terrible notion to any sane person in this country...but in
+many African nations, it's practiced quite commonly, on an everyday
+basis as part of their notion of coming into womanhood.
+
+      Part of having *alien* aliens is that they don't think like us. 
+One big adjustment Americans rarely make when they go overseas is that
+they expect everyone and everyplace to be just like home in attitude. 
+But there are huge differences...and those differences can start wars.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War w/o End> (25-May-96 20:21:31)
+
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+
Date: 25-May-96 20:21:31

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Wow, thanks.  Great comments on it all.  Makes doing it
+worthwhile.
+
+      Re: vacation...I wish.  We're still doing post production, still
+editing, mixing, spotting for music and sound...it's a long process
+that will take us right through the prep time for year four, assuming
+renewal.  I can grab a day here or there, that's about it.  And even
+while awaiting word, I still have to begin working on year four
+scripts.  (The tentative title for the first episode of year four is
+"The Hour of the Wolf.")
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War w/o End II> (25-May-96 20:21:34)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25-May-96 20:21:34

+
 Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> These warm fuzzies of Delenn and Sheridan sleeping peacefully
+> together and having a child and winning the war and loving each
+> other for decades...JUST WHAT PRICE DO THEY PAY FOR ALL THIS??? 
+> Why do I get the impression it's going to be way too high?
+
+      Depends on how you define "too high" a price.
+
+      Oh, and yes...better stock up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+White Star Question (26-May-96 02:08:13)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 02:08:13

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Garibaldi has a big role in "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair's Scar & More (26-May-96 02:08:14)
+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 02:08:14

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Extremely well said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<"War" and Delenn> (26-May-96 14:36:39)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:39

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Delenn is in the center chair on the White Star as Sheridan
+> is lost for the second time, what causes her to go down into the
+> station at *exactly* the right moment to see and "rescue"
+> Sheridan? Was it in her letter?
+
+      Mainly just a feeling she had, best to check everything out for
+herself, make sure things were going properly, since they were getting
+right down to the wire.  Also, in case Ivanova got into trouble trying
+to get into C&C, she wanted to be closer to the situation to help, if
+necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Great Show ! (26-May-96 14:36:42)
+
+
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+
Great Show !

+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:42

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Babylon designs> (26-May-96 14:36:45)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:45

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  No, the first 3 Babylon stations never got much past
+the very earliest stages of construction, just some hull elements, that
+sort of thing, nothing that could be recognized.  Other forces took
+them out, mainly for political reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE <<Major Spoiler>> (26-May-96 14:36:46)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:46

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well, physics was not one of my strong suits, but I have to
+> wonder if it is more a question of the limitations of our current
+> timing or photograpy equipment? How did they "prove" both existed
+> simultaneously?
+
+       I dunno, but I'm *reasonably* sure there was math involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair's Scar & More (26-May-96 14:36:48)
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:48

+
 <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps it should have been called "B4, And After" ?
+
+      Wasn't offended, just trying to be clear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE2> (26-May-96 14:36:50)
+
+
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+
<WWE2>

+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:50

+
 A. Ellis <74542.2467@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Please explain one minor thing I've missed: What does Sinclair
+> mean by asking Delenn whether SHE is "airtight?"
+
+      It wasn't "airtight," it was "alright," which SHOULD have been
+"all right," but the person writing the caption got it wrong.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Poisoning Kosh (06-May-96 21:44:18)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:18

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It didn't have to get past the encounter suit; he was distinctly
+shown extending a portion of himself *outside* the suit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War w/o End> (26-May-96 14:36:52)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:52

+
 Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By the by, I have been wondering, now that the War room is a full
+> time operation, are their others in the command staff to spell
+> Sheridan, Ivonova, and Delenn?
+
+      Yes, the war room would have to have support personnel there
+when the big guys are off having fun or sleeping.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<WWE2-Vorlons?>> (26-May-96 14:36:54)
+
+
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+
<<WWE2-Vorlons?>>

+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:54

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      They'd recognize them from legends of their own past, yes.  But
+bear in mind that the Minbari and Vorlons had already been working
+together in the war effort.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlons vs. Shadows (26-May-96 14:36:56)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:56

+
 Linda B. Donahue <104574.621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What does that mean?
+> Are they of the same fabric?
+> The same DNA?
+> Are we going to learn more about the Vorlons?
+> And are we going to find out more about who the Shadows are, and
+> what it is that they want? And how do humans tie into this (since
+> humans have a great destiny)? Any word on renewal yet?
+
+      Thanks.  For now, I'll just say that you'll learn a LOT more
+about the shadows, and their relations to the Vorlons, by the end of
+the third season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+How Time Flies (26-May-96 14:36:59)
+
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+
How Time Flies

+
Date: 26-May-96 14:36:59

+
      I've been going over my notes on the show, and just thought I'd
+pass this along to the newer folks to show just how long this show has
+been in the works.  In looking it all over, I'm already kind of
+astonished at how large a chunk of my life this thing has consumed
+already.
+
+      1986: Babylon 5 is thunk up.
+
+      1987: Pilot screenplay and series treatment written, artwork
+commissioned.
+
+      1987-1991: Five years wandering in the desert of studios and
+networks, trying to sell B5.
+
+      June 1991: We place Babylon 5 with PTEN.
+
+      October 1991: B5 announced to the world.
+
+      August 1992: Filming begins on B5 pilot movie.
+
+      September 1992: Filming completed on B5 pilot, post production
+starts.
+
+      February 1993: Pilot airs.
+
+      February 1994: First season begins airing.
+
+      It's odd sometimes to consider that though this is the 3rd
+season of Babylon 5, it's been a part of my life for 10 years, about
+25% of my life; trying to sell it, selling it, making it.  And this
+month marks about 5 years since we placed it with PTEN.
+
+      Jeez, but that's a long haul....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Encounter (UK Con) (26-May-96 19:52:20)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:20

+
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+
+      No, not likely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE2-Cousin Bruce Morrow (26-May-96 19:52:21)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:21

+
 Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiousity...was there something special (like you
+> know, a "celebrity request" for a part cause they like the show,
+> and/or what were the circumstances that led to East Coast Radio
+> Legend Cousin Bruce Morrow's part in WWE2?
+
+      Thanks.  No, basically, he just kinda wanted to do it, and we
+said sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mira's words on JMS/B5 (26-May-96 19:52:22)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:22

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great, she's very generous.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<War Without End>> (26-May-96 19:52:25)
+
+
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+
<<War Without End>>

+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:25

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How about that line as a promo?
+
+      Warners'd never use it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II - YES!> (26-May-96 19:52:28)
+
+
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+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:28

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope.
+
+      Minbari *do* have more than one ceremony, after all....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War w/o End> (26-May-96 19:52:31)
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+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:31

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have a tentative title for season 4 yet, or is that
+> classified, either for spoiler purposes or until we're sure there
+> will be a season 4?
+
+      I generally hold back on the overall title until we're deeper
+into it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Jeff Sinclair (06-May-96 21:44:22)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Jeff Sinclair

+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:22

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It was a great convention, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<War w/o End II> (26-May-96 19:52:34)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<War w/o End II>

+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:34

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is Zathras the "man in the middle" from Sheridan's dream?
+
+      No, Zathras isn't the man in the middle.  Someone else is.  And
+it isn't/wasn't Sinclair, either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE 1&2> (26-May-96 19:52:36)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<WWE 1&2>

+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:36

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and thanks again a second time for giving me a GREAT
+reason for, er, *deliberately* making those little mistakes...yes,
+that's right, I had to think about not causing the end of the universe,
+after all...writer have great responsibility, yes, thinking great
+thoughts, Zathras knows what he is doing...are you going to finish
+those fries?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Sinclair/Sheridan?> (26-May-96 19:52:39)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<Sinclair/Sheridan?>

+
Date: 26-May-96 19:52:39

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I believe it was G'Kar who commented on the notion that he was
+both reassured and frightened by the knowledge that there were
+mysteries out there that could never be adequately explained, and that
+they shouldn't be, in order that there might still be mystery in the
+universe.
+
+      File this reply under that heading.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+How many Centauri...... (26-May-96 21:09:56)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
How many Centauri......

+
Date: 26-May-96 21:09:56

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, variations on that joke were told at a number of
+conventions; it's the obvious one to go for, given that for a while the
+"how many X does it take to change a lightbulb?" question was racing
+all around the nets. There were literally hundreds of them; of which,
+this or a variation on it was the most common one floating around...so
+I let it go in as a nod to the nets.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The *other* story...? (26-May-96 21:09:57)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The *other* story...?

+
Date: 26-May-96 21:09:57

+
 Automedia, Inc. <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it the Valen/Zathras story or is it the David/Future story or
+> is it something else entirely? Or is this something you'd rather
+> not answer yet?
+
+      Rather not answer yet.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sinclair's Scar & More (26-May-96 21:10:00)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Sinclair's Scar & More

+
Date: 26-May-96 21:10:00

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The secret of writing: get your character up a tree and throw
+rocks at him.
+
+      I throw big rocks.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE2> (26-May-96 21:10:01)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<WWE2>

+
Date: 26-May-96 21:10:01

+
 <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kinda curious here, but since the show is closed captioned -
+> would those lines have been included in the closed captioning? And
+> if it was, did *they* get the spelling right?
+
+      No, doubt they were captioned.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE2> (26-May-96 21:10:03)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<WWE2>

+
Date: 26-May-96 21:10:03

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And as for the little "keepers", are they a going-away present
+> from the Shadows, or are they ANOTHER item with which we must
+> concern ourselves?
+
+      You needn't concern yourself with the keeper...for a while yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<War...Part 2> (26-May-96 21:10:05)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<War...Part 2>

+
Date: 26-May-96 21:10:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good analysis, as usual.  The thematic elements are often
+overlooked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE2>Bets&other stuff (26-May-96 21:10:06)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<WWE2>Bets&other stuff

+
Date: 26-May-96 21:10:06

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Would you mind settling a bet for me?
+> Since she's willing to stake $5 on this, and I'm desperatleing
+> need of cash, I figured who better to ask than the Great Maker
+> himself...?
+
+      It's the exact same chrysalis device in both episodes.
+
+      And you win the bet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5Sword Logo (01-May-96 19:59:56)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5Sword Logo

+
Date: 01-May-96 19:59:56

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Depends on where you got it from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+season finale in October (06-May-96 21:44:24)
+
+
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+Search
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+
season finale in October

+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:24

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      All episodes of B5 are closed captioned as a rule, unless
+something goes wrong at some point.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<War w/o End II> (26-May-96 23:24:51)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<War w/o End II>

+
Date: 26-May-96 23:24:51

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do we have enough information to figure this out yet, or are
+> there more clues on the way?
+
+      No, you don't have all the info yet.  But you will by the
+season's end.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Penguins Attack! (27-May-96 20:25:38)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Penguins Attack!

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:38

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      We're keeping that information on ice for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Character Casting (27-May-96 20:25:40)
+
+
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+
Character Casting

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:40

+
 D.N. Cid (UK) <101647.250@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if this was indeed intentional?
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, we do try and cast from a variety of backgrounds,
+and allow for different accents and the like.  We haven't done as much
+as I'd like, I think we did more in season 3 than in 2, but I still
+think we can do more of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+MacUser mention (27-May-96 20:25:42)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
MacUser mention

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:42

+
 John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of modifying the rerun schedule to slip in a rerun of
+> Babylon Squared so we can rewatch it with recent revelations in
+> mind?
+
+      Alas, I have zip influence over airing schedules.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE, part 2> (27-May-96 20:25:45)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<WWE, part 2>

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:45

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You gonna be ready to reedit the show in 20 years ala Star Wars?
+
+      I'm still working on doing it, now to even think about re-doing
+it is more than my poor brain can handle....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<WWE2 - Spoilers & ? >> (27-May-96 20:25:48)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<<WWE2 - Spoilers & ? >>

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:48

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks for all that, it's much appreciated.  And don't worry
+about "running off at the mouth."  If folks around here can stand me,
+then can put up with just about anybody.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Some thots on <<WWE2>> (27-May-96 20:25:49)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Some thots on <<WWE2>>

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:49

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You mean you're actually human?
+
+      Unless you've heard something....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE2> (27-May-96 20:25:53)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<WWE2>

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:53

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When will I no longer be confused?
+
+      Well, the reason Delenn dropped the globe will be gone into by
+the end of the season; as for "when will (you) no longer be confused?"
+that's rather outside my purview.  Have you considered meditation?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-05/408.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-05/408.html
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+
+
+<War w/o End> (27-May-96 20:25:54)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<War w/o End>

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:54

+
 Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see any of them or at least hear mention of them?
+
+      Well, you see them every time you go into the set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<WWE 2 Time Flashes>> (27-May-96 20:25:56)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
<<WWE 2 Time Flashes>>

+
Date: 27-May-96 20:25:56

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What caused Delenn's time flash?
+> Also, are we to assume Sheridan didn't have any other
+> "interesting" flashes before Delenn gave him the stabilizer?
+
+      Throughout the episode, whenever there's a tachyon burst, pretty
+much everyone has a timeflash of one sort or another (as also mentioned
+in Babylon Squared).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Delenn and G'Kar (06-May-96 21:44:26)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Delenn and G'Kar

+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:26

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a nifty little scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Attn: JMS, Continuity (27-May-96 21:10:03)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Attn: JMS, Continuity

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:03

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And did we ever hear anything about the B4 crew that was
+> evacuated?
+
+      Yeah, I know about the sleeve...and actually she didn't touch
+him in WWE2.  It was one of those days when it was a hideous production
+schedule, and I wasn't on set, and it slipped by everybody else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WWE2-Cousin Bruce Morrow (27-May-96 21:10:05)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
WWE2-Cousin Bruce Morrow

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and always feel free to join in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Mira's words on JMS/B5 (27-May-96 21:10:07)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Mira's words on JMS/B5

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:07

+
 Gillian M. Nicholls <104565.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS: Just out of curiosity, where is Mira Furlan from?
+> Is it likely Babylon 5 will be back for another season?
+
+      Mira's from Yugoslavia...and no word yet on renewal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-05/413.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-05/413.html
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+
+
+How Time Flies (27-May-96 21:10:09)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
How Time Flies

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:09

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oddly enough, the suits (studio execs) have basically come to
+trust us to do this right...and that's hard won.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+How Time Flies (27-May-96 21:10:11)
+
+
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+
How Time Flies

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:11

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  That was the one thing I just didn't want to do,
+disappoint the fans, as I'd been disappointed so many times *as* a fan.
+We'll never be perfect, however much I try, there will always be
+glitches, and more glitches, and sons of glitches, but we always work
+to make it as good as humanly possible.  It's certainly the story I
+always wanted to see, and hope that others feel the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 RENEWED? YES? YES! (27-May-96 21:10:14)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:14

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, the information is *not* true, and I sent Steve a note about
+this. The meeting to renew/not renew B5 hasn't happened yet, though
+it'll be happening shortly.  Some individual stations have signed on,
+but that isn't the same thing as renewal, since WB will make its
+decision based on the final number of stations that do sign on, vs.
+those that don't, or those that put it in an unworkable timeslot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Drop-Jawed with Delight (27-May-96 21:10:16)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Drop-Jawed with Delight

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:16

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I'm happy to be here.  Just part of the service....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+First season question (27-May-96 21:10:18)
+
+
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+
First season question

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:18

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Delenn had intended to tell Sinclair much about the soul issue
+before entering the chrysalis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 and station-swapping (27-May-96 21:10:20)
+
+
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+
B5 and station-swapping

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:20

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, any other independent station in your area can pick up B5
+if the current station stops carrying it.  This has in fact happened in
+several places where stations didn't support it, dropped it, and
+another picked it up and did much better with it.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Screen Saver (27-May-96 21:10:23)
+
+
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+
B5 Screen Saver

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:23

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, I use it myself, nifty stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 on video? (06-May-96 21:44:28)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Babylon 5 on video?

+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:28

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any plans to release Babylon 5 on video?
+
+      In the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (27-May-96 21:10:25)
+
+
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+
<WWE II>

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:25

+
 Casey J. Peter <73453.2074@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any non Vorlon thoughts on that?
+
+      Thanks.  Lurker's pulled the flash because it ain't so, and I
+indicated as much to them.  Obviously they're eager, and want for good
+news to come soon, as do we all, so they can't be faulted for
+enthusiasm.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<War W/o End #2> (27-May-96 21:10:27)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<War W/o End #2>

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:27

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks; showing the end of a story at or near the middle is a
+literary device that's sometimes used by novelists that can be very
+effective, if used properly.  It shows you what happens, but leaves
+open *how* you got there, and what it means.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Time Travel Ques.>> (27-May-96 21:10:29)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<<Time Travel Ques.>>

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:29

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> talking about time travel, was the scenes with garibaldi with
+> more hair, scenes that where taped back during the first season,
+> or where they taped now? is that true and how many episodes are
+> left of season three?
+
+      Yes, the Garibaldi scenes in part 2 were all from the first
+season; and the last 5 eps will apparently be held for October to ramp
+up the ratings for the November sweeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Some thots on <<WWE2>> (27-May-96 21:10:31)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Some thots on <<WWE2>>

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:31

+
 Brian P. Delaney <103640.3511@compuserve.com> asks:
+> master plan?
+> or just a pleasant episodic dalliance?
+
+      Good heavens, no, I wasn't offended...I guess what was coming
+out was the "tone" I really tend to hold in my own internal dialogues
+when I go over the good parts and the flaws.  You must understand that
+I'm *far* more critical of this show than anyone else could EVER be. 
+So no, good grief, there was no offense taken at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE pt2> (27-May-96 21:10:34)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<WWE pt2>

+
Date: 27-May-96 21:10:34

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I will always go" and Kosh's "I will always be here"?
+> Also, I was wondering which way did Delenn slide (past or future)
+> and what did she experience? What warning was attempted to be
+> given to her? (maybe that was why he gave in to Sheridan, because
+> he knew it must come) Oh, I almost forgot; does Valen go on to
+> have a wife and childern in those 100 yrs? And if so where does
+> his line continue into? (maybe Delenn?
+
+      No, the two statements don't have any relationship; and Delenn's
+flash was a look forward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>WwE 2<<spoiler (28-May-96 11:45:30)
+
+
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+
>>WwE 2<<spoiler

+
Date: 28-May-96 11:45:30

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When we see Vir pick up the symbol of the Emperor after Londo and
+> G'Kar are dead, does he already have a keeper as Londo did?
+
+       No, Vir doesn't have a keeper.  They would, of course, try to
+take care of that detail afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE pt2> (28-May-96 11:45:31)
+
+
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+
<WWE pt2>

+
Date: 28-May-96 11:45:31

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Were these two events connected?
+> Was the Minbari warrior caste trying to change the *past*?
+
+       No, they weren't trying to change the past, and that wouldn't
+have done it.  There are always extremists in every caste, and Minbari
+are no exception.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<War Without End>> (28-May-96 11:45:33)
+
+
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+
<<War Without End>>

+
Date: 28-May-96 11:45:33

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  Lennier will be getting some more screen time shortly,
+in the next batch of episodes.  (There's some very nice stuff with him
+and both Delenn and Marcus in "Grey 17 Is Missing.")
+
+       "intellectual crack"...an interesting notion....
+
+       Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE 1 Ivanova> (28-May-96 11:45:34)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-May-96 11:45:34

+
 Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you explain this apparent inconsistency?
+> Have I (and at least one other B5 fan I have spoken with) simply
+> misunderstood Ivanova's character or are you implying that the
+> awesome might and destruction wrought by the Shadows would have
+> been enough to cause anyone to crack?
+
+       With most of their systems down, everyone around her dead,
+Sheridan dead, knowing she's about to die and there's nothing she can
+do about it, and obviously knowing full well who's out there...about to
+witness the deaths of a quarter million sentients on the station...I
+felt a bit of an outburst, a final letting go of the emotions, was not
+inappropriate for her. (Although I do think Claudia may have played it
+a bit too hysterical at times; separate the lines from the performance
+and look at it again.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 RENEWED? YES? YES! (28-May-96 11:45:35)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-May-96 11:45:35

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Screw 'em.  We've been declared dead more times than Lazarus.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Quick Question (06-May-96 21:44:33)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:33

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are the former EA personnel now part of the Rangers -- or are
+> they still separate from the Rangers themselves? Or is it just
+> kinda mish-mashed together with Sheridan technically being in
+> command of both entities, with Delenn as official co-ommander on
+> the Ranger side of things and Ivanova his second-in-command on
+> the former EA side of things? What do they call themselves now
+> anyway -- Rebels?
+
+      The patch signifies their alliance with the Rangers, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Story Arc (28-May-96 11:45:38)
+
+
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+
B5 Story Arc

+
Date: 28-May-96 11:45:38

+
 Alan Kaiser <76003.1050@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) When will we learn who Delenn saw in her flashfoward/flashback
+> (which?) when the door opens? 2) The reception here was not that
+> good...did the two vorlons we saw have Minbari faces? Are they
+> related? 3) When will we ever learn who built the Great Machine on
+> Epsilon? Has it a greater role to play in the story?
+> 4) If WWE could have been 3 episodes, would you have done it?
+> Will you be fleshing out many of those fragments down the road or
+> leave most of it "as it stands"?
+
+       There's not much point to asking me "when are we going to learn
+who Delenn saw in her flashforward."  Or similar questions.  I will not
+throw away the impact of something happening in an episode by blowing
+it out in a message.  There have to be surprises along the way.  You'll
+see it when it happens.
+
+       No, WWE couldn't have been 3 episodes.  Yes, it had enough
+story for it, and then some, but you can't take one storyline and
+stretch it out that far.  I wouldn't have done it even if I could. 
+I'd've had to introduce a B story just to break it up a little, because
+3 hours of just a straight line one-story plot is murder.  And that
+defeats the purpose of expanding it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 RENEWED? YES? YES! (28-May-96 16:55:19)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-May-96 16:55:19

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  At this point, it's all in the hands of the numbers
+crunchers; if the ratings are good enough, and there are enough
+stations on board, we go; if not, not.  We should know soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+How Time Flies (28-May-96 22:21:17)
+
+
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+
How Time Flies

+
Date: 28-May-96 22:21:17

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  At this point, all that can be done regarding season 4
+has been done, and now it's in the hands of the number crunchers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE II> (28-May-96 22:21:19)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-May-96 22:21:19

+
 Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If Delenn still has it in her quarters in 2260, having used it in
+> 2258/59, from where did Zathras get it in order to bring it along
+> to Babylon 4?
+
+      From Epsilon 3.  It was on Epsilon 3, then taken into the past
+with B4, held on Minbar until Delenn got it, and still has it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<War W/o End #2> (28-May-96 22:21:21)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28-May-96 22:21:21

+
 Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PMJI, but around which episode will you reveal what the Shadows
+> really want and their reasons for their attacks?
+
+      Toward the end of this season is all I'll say for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WwE1 & Zathras (28-May-96 22:21:23)
+
+
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+
WwE1 & Zathras

+
Date: 28-May-96 22:21:23

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I like Zathras.  He's a hoot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Time Travel Ques.>> (28-May-96 22:21:25)
+
+
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+
<<Time Travel Ques.>>

+
Date: 28-May-96 22:21:25

+
 Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What happens to the consciousness of the Sheridan of the future
+> while he is being "inhabited" by the Sheridan of the past? Does
+> the Sheridan of the future remember what has gone on?
+
+      The future Sheridan would have a little memory of what happened
+during that time, but it'd be almost dreamlike, two steps removed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Babylon designs> (28-May-96 22:21:27)
+
+
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<Babylon designs>

+
Date: 28-May-96 22:21:27

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Those aren't 3s, those are Bs in which there's a stylized 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Eps for Newbies? (29-May-96 00:02:17)
+
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+
JMS: Eps for Newbies?

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:17

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you forget Severed Dreams, or was that left out on purpose?
+
+      Oops, yeah, I forgot it...I glaze over somedays....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+How Time Flies (29-May-96 00:02:20)
+
+
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+
How Time Flies

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:20

+
 Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Knowing that you have accomplished much besides B5, I'm wondering
+> how you feel about being tagged as "Joe Straczynski, the guy who
+> created Babylon 5?"
+
+"Joe, you are already *known* for B5 and, given two more seasons and
+the repeat deal on TNT, you will only become more noticed.  Maybe this
+will change in the future, but as of 1996 when people think of you they
+will probably identify you with B5.  Knowing that you have accomplished
+much besides B5, I'm wondering how you feel about being tagged as "Joe
+Straczynski, the guy who created Babylon 5?""
+
+      It bothers me not at all.
+
+      Every writer has one seminal work for which he or she is most
+known. For Heinlein, STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND; for Herbert, DUNE; for
+Smith, the LENSMAN books; for Tolkein, LORD OF THE RINGS; for Bradbury
+THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.  I don't put myself anywhere NEAR that
+league...I'd be doing good just to carry their pencils...but my sense
+is that even though I've done a lot of stuff prior to B5, and will
+likely do a lot more after, this is almost certainly the one work for
+which I'll be most known, and remembered.  (Which is also why I'm
+working so hard to make it right.)
+
+      Doesn't bother me at all; I'm proud and pleased to be associated
+with this show, and always will be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<ISN News> (06-May-96 21:44:35)
+
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+
<ISN News>

+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:35

+
 Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Dare one ask what's happened to the two reporters that were
+> broadcasting from the ISN news center when "ISN pulled it's own
+> plug to stop the fake trasmission?" Would people believe that
+> their (well, his) report was a fake? Finally, is ISN the only
+> channel out there?
+
+      ISN is one of the only interstellar networks bounced via the
+tachyon relay systems from Earth to the outer colonies and beyond. 
+There are lots of other channels back home, but to get this far out you
+need the support of the government.
+
+      The other two reporters are, to say the least, in deep guano.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 RENEWED? YES? YES! (29-May-96 00:02:23)
+
+
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+
B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:23

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you likely to have any news for us at the 'The Encounter'
+> convention on renewal ?
+
+      Dunno, we'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 RENEWED? YES? YES! (29-May-96 00:02:25)
+
+
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+
B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:25

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I remain cautiously optimistic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 RENEWED? YES? YES! (29-May-96 00:02:27)
+
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+
B5 RENEWED? YES? YES!

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:27

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Forgiven, forgotten, gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scriptwriting Text (29-May-96 00:02:30)
+
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+
Scriptwriting Text

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:30

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      So there's sex, dolls, aliens, playing house...and me.
+
+      Seems about right.
+
+      BTW, when *is* the ABA?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (29-May-96 00:02:33)
+
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<WWE II>

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:33

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> But you answer to that will be "wait and see", right?
+> Speaking of them, was that thingy on Londo's shoulder his
+> controller?
+
+      Yes, that was his keeper.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (29-May-96 00:02:34)
+
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<WWE II>

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:34

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Actually, the final demographic report just came out
+for the second quarter of 1996, and we now officially have the *best*
+demographics of ANY dramatic series in syndication, finally beating DS9
+and Baywatch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War W/o End #2> (29-May-96 00:02:35)
+
+
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+
<War W/o End #2>

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:35

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, no Garp ending planned at this juncture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<War W/o End #2> (29-May-96 00:02:37)
+
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+
<War W/o End #2>

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:37

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      If you check out some of the more experimental South American
+magic realism and fantasy work, you'll find this used a bit more. 
+Also, I believe that Pratchett and Gaiman's collaboration kind of began
+at the ending (unless my memory is acting up again).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE <<Major Spoiler>> (29-May-96 00:02:40)
+
+
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+
WWE <<Major Spoiler>>

+
Date: 29-May-96 00:02:40

+
 Steve Brightman <73420.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After all aren't they technically superior to the Minbari ?
+
+      Time travel isn't that easy, and at this juncture it will never
+happen again in the B5 universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+IT IS DONE (29-May-96 02:26:25)
+
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+
IT IS DONE

+
Date: 29-May-96 02:26:25

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The thanks are entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: 'Drop Dead' Date? (06-May-96 21:44:38)
+
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+
JMS: 'Drop Dead' Date?

+
Date: 06-May-96 21:44:38

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When is that date this year?
+> Any word if you'll be presenting at the San Diego Comic Con this
+> year? Any suggestions?
+
+      I believe the true, honest, drop-dead date is June 10th, which
+is when we have to pick up the actors' contracts.  If it's after that,
+we lose our options on the actors.
+
+      Re: Red Clay Ramblers...I'd suggest their album "It Ain't
+Right," from Flying Fish Records in Chicago.  It's got some of their
+best stuff in it, from the title song to "Ezekiel in the Valley of the
+Dry Bones" (which was on as I wrote "Ceremonies"), and a wonderfully
+sick, twisted and funny song called "The Merchant's Lunch."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+How Time Flies (30-May-96 03:11:07)
+
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+
How Time Flies

+
Date: 30-May-96 03:11:07

+
 Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think that after this anything else will be a bit of a
+> let-down? Or is that why you want to get out of TV and do
+> something different, so you won't be competing with yourself?
+
+      My sense about getting out of TV when B5 is over is that I feel
+I'd've said most of what I want to say for television.  The only things
+that could keep me in would be an anthology, or something right on the
+cutting edge, something with which we could make another kind of
+history.  But those don't tend to come around very often....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Screen Saver (30-May-96 03:11:10)
+
+
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+
B5 Screen Saver

+
Date: 30-May-96 03:11:10

+
 Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe: Is the B5 screensaver available for the MAC, and , if so,
+> how does one acquire it? 4 MONTHS?!!!?
+
+      No, as it happens, no Mac screen saver for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS:Chicago Blues Fest (30-May-96 03:11:11)
+
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+
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+
Date: 30-May-96 03:11:11

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think they've got me scheduled up the wazoo, so I think that
+will preclude any expeditions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WwE1 & Zathras (30-May-96 03:11:13)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30-May-96 03:11:13

+
 Alan Hedge <72017.3232@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question though, Zathras say Zathras oldest living keeper of
+> Great Machine (or something like that), but why Zathras not still
+> keeper? Was Zathras keeper before (forget name, Drall's
+> predecessor)? Did Zathras do something wrong so that Zathras not
+> kepper anymore? Or did Al misunderstand what Zathras meant?
+
+      No, just that Zathras has worked on the machine, and survived
+it, the longest of all the others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair's Scar & More (30-May-96 03:11:15)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30-May-96 03:11:15

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What did you guys do with our ambassador?"
+
+      Well, Minbar isn't being very receptive to Earth at the moment,
+and will probably just put them on hold...indefinitely....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mira's words on JMS/B5 (30-May-96 03:39:59)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30-May-96 03:39:59

+
 Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ever thought about (probably post-series) novelizing the arc
+> itself?
+
+      One crisis at a time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Opening Credits SD+>> (30-May-96 03:40:03)
+
+
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+
<<Opening Credits SD+>>

+
Date: 30-May-96 03:40:03

+
 Chas T Freund <75036.160@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So why are our hero's still wearing EA uniforms?
+
+      Because changing one picture, or a credit caption, is a *heck*
+of a lot simpler than changing 4 pictures and redoing the whole thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<WWE 2 Time Flashes>> (30-May-96 03:40:07)
+
+
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+
<<WWE 2 Time Flashes>>

+
Date: 30-May-96 03:40:07

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It'd be very difficult to go back now and just drop in those
+other time flashes; it's hard to work that in dramatically.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE 1 Ivanova> (30-May-96 03:40:09)
+
+
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+
<WWE 1 Ivanova>

+
Date: 30-May-96 03:40:09

+
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+
+"You hand this woman a script and say to her, "Miss C., everyone
+around you is dead and you are in command.
+        The station is falling down around you and you're in terrible
+pain, about to die by decompression or laser burns or crushing--or
+worse, you could become a Morden and be controlled by the Shadows the
+rest of your life.
+        You have no hope of rescue.
+        You may not know where you are."
+        And then you say she was a tiny bit on the hysterical side?"
+
+      Hey...from where I sit, that's just another day at the office.
+
+      Don't know many producer/writers, do you?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<sinclair season5?> (30-May-96 03:40:11)
+
+
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+
<sinclair season5?>

+
Date: 30-May-96 03:40:11

+
 Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that we will see Sinclair again?
+> Or is this just a slight alteration of the timing of various
+> sections of the ARC?
+
+      The arc is a fluid creature when she needs to be....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ivanova vs. The Markab (07-May-96 00:41:41)
+
+
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+
Ivanova vs. The Markab

+
Date: 07-May-96 00:41:41

+
 Christian Vitroler <100042.662@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comment on the frequent mangling in German episodes?
+> So you can wonder, if he (JMS) gives us the voice beyond any
+> doubt why doesn't he show us her? But is there no such thing as
+> sort of quality control from the Executive Producer? you're out
+> once and for all once it's sold?
+
+      There is absolutely nothing I can do about this except be upset
+by it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<UK Dust 2 Dust>> (30-May-96 03:48:16)
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Date: 30-May-96 03:48:16

+
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+
+      BTW, here's something to notice when you watch DTD again.  The
+montage scene with Londo and G'Kar lasts, I think, 10 maybe 12 seconds.
+But that one piece took John and me *hours* to put together.  Go
+through frame by frame, and you'll see some of those bits are only 3 or
+4 frames long (one second is 24 frames).  We were nearly blind by the
+time we were done, but it was worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Sheridan:A Man Unstuck> (30-May-96 03:48:17)
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+
Date: 30-May-96 03:48:17

+
 <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did he appear on the Centari homeworld?
+> Why not on Earth, or Minbar, or well - deep space?
+> The Abyss of *what*?
+> The Abyss of going back in the time vortex?
+> The Abyss of deep space?
+> The Abyss of the Shadow's base on Z'ha'dum?
+> What?
+> And if he jumped to the place where his future-self was, then
+> what happened to his future-self once the present-day Sheridan
+> popped in?
+
+      Simple logic.  Sheridan slid forward in time, to wherever he was
+at that moment in the future.  He didn't just go hopping around
+aimlessly; if he flipped 10 days ahead, he'd come into his body at that
+point 10 days from now, wherever he happened to be.  At that moment, 17
+years down the road, he happened to be on Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms on radio in LA (30-May-96 03:48:18)
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Date: 30-May-96 03:48:18

+
      For those in the Los Angeles area, I'll be appearing on my old
+stomping grounds, HOUR 25, on KPFK-FM 90.7 this Friday from 10 p.m. to
+midnight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Scriptwriting Text (30-May-96 12:17:44)
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+
Date: 30-May-96 12:17:44

+
 annie <104246.3046@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Franklin be back before next year?
+
+       Franklin isn't gone from the show; he's in the very next
+episode, in a major way, and has a big part in "Shadow Dancing."  He
+just has a lot to work out right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<WWE pt2> (30-May-96 12:17:45)
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Date: 30-May-96 12:17:45

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Would stating who said hello to Delenn in her flash-forward
+> be too much of a spoiler?
+
+       Absolutely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Just curious... (30-May-96 12:17:54)
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+
Date: 30-May-96 12:17:54

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       What an interesting question....
+
+       I don't think it *has* affected me, but that's my my subjective
+point of view, and that's a self-serving analysis, so let's start from
+the assumption that that may be flawed, and proceed from there.
+
+       Main reason I think it hasn't affected or changed me is that I
+haven't had *time* for it.  Once we got the go-ahead for the series, I
+stuck my head in a B5 shaped hole in the ground and haven't had time to
+come up for air yet. Once I've finished the show, and can take a moment
+to look around, will I become a complete butthead?  Possible, but I
+don't think so.
+
+       My problem is the same as it's always been...I'm *extremely*
+self critical.  The doofus in the mirror today, 3 years into B5 is the
+same doofus I saw there 3-4 years ago.  I know the areas in which I'm a
+jerk, and the areas in which I'm golden...they haven't changed much.  I
+also have a hard time applying the reaction to *the show* to myself. 
+The show is a thing apart, somehow.  Whenever someone thanks me for the
+show, I tend to get kinda abashed about the whole thing...which is why
+you don't tend to see messages from me elaborating on someone's
+appreciation.  Usually it's just a "thanks" and we move on.  If I
+wanted to feed that, or keep it going, I could do so. But for me, the
+Babylon 5 universe has a certain reality about it, somewhere deep in my
+brain, and I'm just writing down what happens there.  (No, I can still
+tell fact from fiction...but I've just been living in that fictional 
+place so long that it becomes second nature...imagine your best friend
+walking across the den late at night, and banging his/her shin on the
+coffee table. It doesn't take a great leap of imagination to figure out
+what your friend will say in reaction...it comes naturally.  So do the
+events in B5, by virtue of knowing the characters and the universe as
+well as I do.)
+
+       I will tell you a terrible but true thing: when I go to a
+convention and take the stage...I never hear the applause.  I'm so
+concerned with what I'm going to say, the need to find some way to
+appear even *remotely* interesting when I know the reality is far from
+it, to make sure these good people get their money's worth, a
+performance...that I don't hear it, try as I might.  I want to, I would
+like to...but it's as if it's intended for someone else, and he or she
+couldn't make it, and I'm being thrust out onto the stage to substitute
+for someone interesting.
+
+       I think that if I've changed at all, it's to become a little
+more cautious and introspective.  (Witness this message.)  As that
+famous Greek philosopher Peter Parker once pointed out, "With power
+comes responsibility." Because of this show, I have an unexpected
+platform; so I have become more wary in how I use it in order to avoid
+abusing it.  With that comes the desire to find ways to use it in a
+positive fashion...to encourage other people to find their own dreams,
+to ask questions and put out good information on how TV works, so that
+people can better influence what they see and hear in this medium, and
+get what they want, not what somebody *thinks* they want.
+
+       Finally, I think I'm fairly aware of my relative position in
+society; can there be any lesser celebrity than a producer, anything
+more ephemeral than a television writer?  Between writing, prep,
+shooting, and post, it takes us about 3 months to make one
+episode...which is gone in an hour, phosphor dots sent cruising toward
+Andromeda at the speed of starlight. It's been debated here before, but
+I still hold fast to the notion that the really important people, the
+ones doing the work that will influence the next hundred years, are the
+teachers and the builders and the researchers who are creating the
+*real* future, not writing about a fictional one.  I can write 1,000 
+episodes of B5...and it won't cure one person of polio, that took Dr.
+Jonas Salk.
+
+       Television as a medium is too important to turn over to the
+visigoths, can be used to great purpose...it can ignite controversy,
+entertain, educate and ennoble; it can propel us toward the stars or
+bring down a president.  But it is always ephemeral, of the moment; it
+does not last, does not endure.  If you're very lucky, your show can
+last 10 years before it becomes dated, out of style, behind the times. 
+Where it can inspire people to do more with their lives in ways that
+make a permanent difference, then it is of greater value, and that is
+my hope for this show.
+
+       But that's the show.  Not me.
+
+       I'm still the doofus in the mirror.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:Chicago Blues Fest (30-May-96 12:17:55)
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Date: 30-May-96 12:17:55

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks; if I can, I will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Londo & G'Kar (30-May-96 12:17:59)
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Date: 30-May-96 12:17:59

+
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+
+       Will you see Londo and G'Kar together later this season?
+
+       Hmmmm......
+
+       Yes and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+How Time Flies (30-May-96 12:18:01)
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+
Date: 30-May-96 12:18:01

+
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+
+       Thanks...we'll see what happens when it happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<UK Dust 2 Dust>> (31-May-96 00:18:47)
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Date: 31-May-96 00:18:47

+
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+
+      Ah...noticed that, eh...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Avalon and 3d age> (07-May-96 00:41:45)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 00:41:45

+
 Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would they not have their own names for this place--why does
+> everyone (seem to) universally use the Minbari name?
+
+      No, it's not a Minbari name, any more than automobile is a
+Spanish word, even though it's used in the Spanish language (albeit the
+pronunciation varies just slightly).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mira's words on JMS/B5 (31-May-96 00:18:50)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:18:50

+
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+
+"You always type in riddles"
+
+      Well, I *tried* typing in Iambic Pentameter, but nobody got it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms on radio in LA (31-May-96 00:18:52)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:18:52

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> For those of us who aren't in the area, are tapes of the program
+> available?
+
+      No, tapes aren't generally available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Just curious... (31-May-96 00:18:54)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:18:54

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great to hear, and I'm happy the words touched your aunt;
+that makes it all worthwhile.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Just curious... (31-May-96 00:18:56)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:18:56

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  There's always a danger in trying too hard to teach, of
+course, and I try to avoid that.  (It's just that I actually love
+teaching.) Back a few years ago, when I still used to teach writing
+here and there, I trained my class that when I started to go off and
+start pontificating to excess, they were to say, as with one voice,
+"Shuuuuuttt uppppp."
+
+      Worked every time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Just curious... (31-May-96 00:18:59)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:18:59

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I dunno...the last time I peeked through the mirror to the other
+side all I saw was gears, wheels, fan belts and 27 pairs of yellow
+slitted eyes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+KJAZZ 14 SLC (31-May-96 00:19:05)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:19:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn's Cycles (31-May-96 00:19:06)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:19:06

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which is correct, or are they both correct?
+> How old (in standard/Earth years) is Delenn anyway?
+
+      I think it's the difference between serving the council in
+general, and being *on* the Council.
+
+      (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WWE II> (31-May-96 00:19:08)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:19:08

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE <<Major Spoiler>> (31-May-96 00:19:11)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:19:11

+
 Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Subatomic particles are tricky creatures <g> Did you know that
+> electrons can hop from place to place, yet never go through the
+> in-between?
+
+      How odd, I navigate the same way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Sheridan:A Man Unstuck> (31-May-96 00:19:13)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:19:13

+
 Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean it would have been impossible for him to have
+> become unstuck in time and reappeared in, say, his own body ten
+> minutes after he was murdered?
+
+      You hate me, don't you...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 !!@***!!@*%^** (07-May-96 18:41:43)
+
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+
Date: 07-May-96 18:41:43

+
 Jimi Vigotty <72316.2103@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you aware of any plans to release the series on Video tape?
+
+      Thanks, and tapes will doubtless come out in the fullness of
+time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE (31-May-96 00:19:15)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:19:15

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      We'll top it because that's what we do.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+^The Shadows^ (31-May-96 00:19:17)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:19:17

+
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+
+      Well...actually...none of those are it.
+
+      And as an aside...please be careful, if story suggestions or
+storylines get posted, it can cause me a problem.
+
+      That aside...good thoughts, well considered.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+War Without End (31-May-96 00:19:19)
+
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Date: 31-May-96 00:19:19

+
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+
+      Thanks; there's a break for a bit now, but I think you'll find
+the next batch quite interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Spoiler Vorlon Question (31-May-96 00:25:29)
+
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+
Date: 31-May-96 00:25:29

+
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+
+      The rumor's wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: gun port=respect? (07-May-96 18:41:45)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 18:41:45

+
 Gail Marsella <71551.3200@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I think she's right - was slavery acceptable just because it was
+> common, we practiced it for a long time, and a large number of
+> people found it convenient? Was foot-binding in China acceptable
+> just because it was always practiced on young girls who had no
+> way to say "no"?
+
+     "However, neither is it appropriate to view all alien behavior as
+acceptable just because it is different....."
+
+      Never implied it was.  In general, on the B5 station, though, if
+an alien acts toward one of its own kind in a cultural oddity (to us),
+we tend not to interfere unless so requested; if, however, an alien
+turns that cultural oddity toward one not of its own species, then the
+B5 staff would definitely intervene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+HOMer Award: B5 TCoS (01-May-96 19:59:58)
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+
Date: 01-May-96 19:59:58

+
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+
+      That's great.  Thanks to all who voted.  It's a good episode,
+and the recognition coming from CIS is especially gratifying given
+our/my longstanding relationship with this forum.
+
+      So, like, is there a statue or anything that goes with this...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: gun port=respect? (07-May-96 18:41:47)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 18:41:47

+
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+
+      True, though the female version of this, as practiced in some
+countries, is extremely debilitating and far more violent or severe. 
+Much as we are all attached to our respective genitalia, I'd suggest
+that snipping the foreskin is not quite so severe as taking a razor
+blade and cutting OFF the clitoris and parts of the labia major, as is
+done in some places.
+
+      But you're right, the practice on either side is certain of a
+piece (so to speak).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Centauri Hair (07-May-96 18:41:50)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 18:41:50

+
 John Ganofsky <73354.1057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> They were wondering how the makeup folks do the Centauri hair?
+
+      All I know is that each Centauri hairpiece is hand-woven into
+the fabric at an angle; you can't just take a wig and get it to stand
+up, you have to *hand weave* it.  It's a fairly difficult and expensive
+process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<JMS: Quickies...> (07-May-96 18:41:51)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 18:41:51

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think probably most races that have to evolve through a
+superstitious phase, at some point enter a religious phase (which is an
+organized system of superstition by strictest definition) until such
+time as the tools are there for the more scientific description of the
+universe.  So within that context, yes, most cultures would have at
+least one major figure in that area in its history.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: 'Drop Dead' Date? (07-May-96 18:41:54)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 18:41:54

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the fact that one of the prizes in the recent "Mystery Alien
+> Contest" was the chance to play an alien in an upcoming episode
+> mean that they are more likely to renew the show?
+
+      Doesn't really affect the odds either way; there's always an out
+in these kinds of things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (07-May-96 20:44:05)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 20:44:05

+
 Douglas Files Fox <74020.3260@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had Geribaldi's "found pin" suffered the same fate as Bester's
+> pin? Is the addition of the Cyber- Implants, the "Preparation"
+> Delenn was refering to in "Messages from Earth"? The crew members
+> of the Icarus, who didn't go along, were they used as Shadow ship
+> "Central Cores"? So I was wondering if Sheridan's wife could have
+> been used as a "Core" of one of the Shadow Ships?
+
+      Yes, the implants are part of the preparation process Delenn
+referred to in "Messages."  As for the rest...only time will tell,
+cause sure as hell I ain't....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears-Bester> (07-May-96 20:44:06)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 20:44:06

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> While we're on the subject, when was this little change of heart
+> for Bester planned? Was it at the start, when you did Mind War, or
+> something just this season?
+
+      Yes, this was definitely intended from the start with Bester.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Cheers for Mira (07-May-96 23:44:08)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 23:44:08

+
 Vicki Mitchell <76234.1317@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you please relay to Mira Furlan our highest compliments on
+> her scene with G'Kar in "Ship of Tears"?
+
+      I'll tell her when next I see her; thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (07-May-96 23:49:24)
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+
Date: 07-May-96 23:49:24

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's next, little miniture Shadow ships painted on the side or
+> will we see the jackets first? BTW, did someone at WB get a clue
+> (or replaced by RMES)?
+
+      Thanks, and that's great to hear about the station's reaction. 
+It's a very hopeful sign, as is the increased advertising from WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Bester> (08-May-96 02:15:21)
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+
Date: 08-May-96 02:15:21

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"If the theme of the relationship is "All Bester needed was to love
+and be loved, or he wouldn't have been the slimeball he is today", I
+will be a bit disappointed."
+
+Then you won't be.
+
+"It's just a little too simplistic."
+
+Absolutely.
+
+One mongoose can love another; that won't change its attitude toward
+pythons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (08-May-96 02:18:47)
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+
Date: 08-May-96 02:18:47

+
 Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you happen to know what this refers to?
+> Is this something you do in post, or is that done at the feed
+> site?
+
+"Noticed on the takeboards from the sat. feeds for this and a couple
+of other episodes: Textless at 1:05.  Do you happen to know what this
+refers to?"
+
+Some of the cassettes provided have the opening sequences in a
+separate section at 1 hour 5 minutes without the titles over them, so
+that they can be used in promos by the stations.
+
+"Also, they say "Color Corrected".  Is this something you do in post,
+or is that done at the feed site?"
+
+No, color correction is done in post, to make sure that all the colors
+are true, and sometimes to enhance one element or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (01-May-96 20:00:01)
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+
Date: 01-May-96 20:00:01

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But does this mean that the allies of Light are going to start
+> recruiting from among Psi Corps? Which character was she?
+> Can you tell me if there was anything that you told Andreas or
+> Mira about playing out this sequence, or was it pretty much an
+> actor playing to another actor kind of thing?
+
+      Thanks.  That's one of the things about the show that makes it
+very appealing to write; you can go from fall down funny, broad comedy
+in "Vir" to something more emotional, almost lyrical but serious in
+"Avalon," then right into something vaguely horrific in "Ship."  You
+get to use all your muscles, not just the same ones over and over.  I
+like to stretch, try something I haven't tried before.  Which means
+from time to time I fall on my face, but that's okay; it's the only way
+to learn.  I have absolutely no qualms about making an ass of myself
+and failing if it means that the next time, I can do it right.
+
+      I didn't give Mira or Andreas any instructions on that scene
+except what was in the script, which was minimal.  When you have two
+performers that solid in the room, just give them the lines and run
+like hell.
+
+      Speaking of going back and rewatching episodes...part of this
+goes right back to the *pilot*, where, you'll recall, G'Kar tried to
+seduce Lyta, mentioning that there are no Narn telepaths, and they feel
+very strongly it's important to their survival that they start breeding
+them at the first opportunity.
+
+      Ding....!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Poisoning Kosh (08-May-96 18:01:51)
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+
Date: 08-May-96 18:01:51

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I suspect that we'll learn more about this in "War Without End"?
+
+       Yeah, it's fair to say you can imply more about this after
+"War."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<ISN News> (08-May-96 18:01:52)
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+
Date: 08-May-96 18:01:52

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why am I not surprised?
+> That right or am I still off?
+
+       Yes, the ISN person was Alison.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears> (08-May-96 18:01:53)
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+
Date: 08-May-96 18:01:53

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you tell me which spelling on the name is right, please?
+
+       It's Brakiri.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 in Sac (08-May-96 18:01:55)
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+
Date: 08-May-96 18:01:55

+
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+
+       That's great to hear...the message is getting through.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: gun port=respect? (08-May-96 22:18:42)
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+
Date: 08-May-96 22:18:42

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      "Different (alien) doesn't mean illogical in my book."
+
+      I can think of a number of Zen schools of thought that you would
+consider vastly illogical...but quite human.  There are many things we
+would consider illogical to a western mind that are perfectly
+reasonable elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Upcoming EP:Walkabout (08-May-96 22:18:43)
+
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+
Date: 08-May-96 22:18:43

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will "Walkabout" deal with the Vorlons' motivations???
+
+      That would be telling....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Ship of Tears-Bester> (09-May-96 01:35:58)
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+
Date: 09-May-96 01:35:58

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I mean, out of all the people on the ship, they just happen to
+> find the one person who is significant to Bester? I can see what
+> you wanted to do, but couldn't it have worked better if, say, he
+> had been brought a list of people who were in the ship?
+
+      Yeah, they could've brought him a list...and he'd have seen the
+name instantly, and wouldn't have been hit with his own "blip" careless
+attitude right in his face...also, she needed to be already being
+defrosted at that point, and you can't defrost all of them at once.
+
+      Yeah, it was a coincidence.  Synchronicity.  It happens.  It
+doesn't happen much on this show, hardly ever.  I figured she'd be one
+of the last in, and thus the first out.  Synchronicity and coincidences
+*do* happen.  How many times have you reached for the phone to call
+someone to find the phone ringing, and it's them on the other end? 
+What're the odds of Oedipus killing his father and marrying his mother
+out of all the possible kingdoms in the area?  It happens.  As long as
+it doesn't happen to excess, it's not something I'm worried about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (09-May-96 22:04:20)
+
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+
Date: 09-May-96 22:04:20

+
 Lynne Caulfield <101647.2616@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did you get this information from?
+
+      Yes, Mara is correct.  I'm an atheist.
+
+      You got a problem with my personal beief system?
+
+      Tough.  You don't get a vote.
+
+      And if that's enough to make you not watch the show...well, the
+problem is entirely yours.
+
+      I leave my personal beliefs *out* of what I write for TV.  I
+don't try to impose my attitudes or conclusions on others, or penalize
+others for what they think.
+
+      You ought to try it sometime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Rage's Thots: Teeps> (09-May-96 22:22:05)
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+
Date: 09-May-96 22:22:05

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it means that the person has to be in their line of sight;
+they don't have to look into the person's eyes or anything as silly as
+that.  It doesn't matter if the person's head or body are covered, as
+long as there's a definite "focus" for them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh's Appearance/Form (09-May-96 22:22:06)
+
+
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+
Date: 09-May-96 22:22:06

+
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+
+      Only similarity is that the same EFX person designed Kosh as
+designed the aliens in the Abyss.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ship of Tears- Narns?> (01-May-96 20:00:05)
+
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+
<Ship of Tears- Narns?>

+
Date: 01-May-96 20:00:05

+
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+
+      No, because that would mean doing a story without our main
+characters, since G'Quan's story took place about a thousand years ago,
+and I don't think I could sell that.  (Unless I did another time travel
+number, and I only intend to go to that well once, with the B4
+storyline.)
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Using B5 names and place (09-May-96 22:22:08)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 09-May-96 22:22:08

+
 Mike Hoffmann <100321.2604@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is, whether such usage would fall under fair use or
+> be prohibited by trademarks or if it is possible to gain
+> permission from you or WB to use such a name, by giving a
+> guaranty that any sites under that name would not deliver data
+> that falls under these new indecency laws? There already happens
+> to be a vorlon.com, did they just use the name or did they gain
+> permission from WB first?
+
+      If you make it a .com name, you will eventually run afoul of WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Ship of Tears-Bester> (09-May-96 22:22:11)
+
+
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+
<Ship of Tears-Bester>

+
Date: 09-May-96 22:22:11

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By the way, any thoughts on the B5 presentation at the San Diego
+> Con this year?
+
+      Yes, I'll be at comic con, and will likely bring nifty stuff to
+show, as usual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Interludes...>> (09-May-96 22:22:12)
+
+
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+
<<Interludes...>>

+
Date: 09-May-96 22:22:12

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Let me answer this way...whenever I'm going to unveil something
+on the show, I begin to point to it in upcoming episodes.  I've begun
+pointing to the question of what the shadows want, and why they're
+doing it.  So, logically, I'm now going to have to follow up on
+that....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Interludes<< (09-May-96 22:22:15)
+
+
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+
>>Interludes<<

+
Date: 09-May-96 22:22:15

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      B5 is still a place of considerable commerce, access to lots and
+lots of other races and diplomats...it serves Londo's purposes for now,
+and there are probably lots of Centauri back home who would prefer he
+stay here.  As for the rest...better the devil you know than the devil
+you don't.  At least on B5 they can keep somewhat of an eye on him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Interludes<< (10-May-96 00:25:17)
+
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+
>>Interludes<<

+
Date: 10-May-96 00:25:17

+
 John Lawless <70262.363@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Kosh knew in advance that he would be Morden&Co.'s target,
+> why didn't he prepare defenses? Or, failing that, why didn't he
+> get in his ship and leave for as long as Morden remained on B5?
+
+      Because he knew a price had to be paid, and if it wasn't him,
+it'd be someone else.  Because he knew there was no getting around it. 
+He's too prideful to run.
+
+      Remember Gethsemane....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Interludes - Name> (10-May-96 00:25:18)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 00:25:18

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, you'll see more of Franklin, as he tries to deal with his
+problem. At first it's not too bad, but with time....
+
+      Re: titles...yeah, you got to watch out with this show,
+sometimes I put on deliberately dull titles when I want to sneak up
+behind you quietly.  The more innocuous sounding, the more you should
+worry....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<I&E: Soundtracking>> (10-May-96 00:25:20)
+
+
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+
<<I&E: Soundtracking>>

+
Date: 10-May-96 00:25:20

+
 carrie foreman <76400.1170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What might have caused the ghosting of a soundtrack?
+
+      It was probably caused by your local staion taping the show on
+the satellite downlink over the same tape they used for "Avalon."  They
+likely didn't degauss the tape first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<I&E>> (10-May-96 13:17:46)
+
+
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+
<<I&E>>

+
Date: 10-May-96 13:17:46

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it was a very moving moment for someone whose true
+face we've never seen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Interludes<< (10-May-96 13:17:48)
+
+
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+
>>Interludes<<

+
Date: 10-May-96 13:17:48

+
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+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (10-May-96 13:17:50)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 13:17:50

+
 Lynne Caulfield <101647.2616@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You're mad aren't you Joe?
+
+       "...you have so many who never question your show that you're
+not gonna miss me!"
+
+       Lynne...here is where you show your stripes repeatedly in this
+discussion.  There is a certain type of poster who is under the
+curious assumption that only he or she questions me, or this show, and
+everybody else is just a follower, never questioning.
+
+       And it ain't true.  Believe me, I see more questions, go
+through more heated drilling about this show than you can possibly
+*begin* to imagine; no one here is in the least shy about expressing
+their opinions if something doesn't strike them as being correct.
+
+       Your comment here, as all have been to date, is
+self-congratulatory when no such basis for congratulations exist.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kudos from Tampa (01-May-96 21:37:11)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01-May-96 21:37:11

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for the good words, and the encouraging news about how
+the show is doing out there.  Much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Interludes comments> (10-May-96 13:17:51)
+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 13:17:51

+
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+
+       Yeah, certainly the flash of light was an echo of Lyta's mask. 
+As for Delenn, I think she was just stunned, just emotionallly worn out
+over this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Interludes<< (10-May-96 13:17:53)
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+
Date: 10-May-96 13:17:53

+
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+
+       One can certainly argue that Franklin's actions were hasty,
+that he is basically running away from the *consequences* of the
+problem he has, as much as from the problem itself.  This will, of
+course, have to be dealt with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I&E Support (10-May-96 13:18:00)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 13:18:00

+
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+
+       Thanks...I'm just waiting for some nit to come out of the
+woodwork and announce that the real reason for what happened to Kosh
+was that Kosh had a contract dispute over money or walked off the
+show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe an atheist? (10-May-96 13:18:01)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 13:18:01

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Like I've said..if I *had* any answers, I'd be happy
+to give them in an episode.  But all I have are questions.
+
+       Television, as well as entertaining, should try where possible
+to get us TO think, not tell us WHAT to think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Rage's Thots: Teeps> (10-May-96 13:18:02)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 13:18:02

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So Bob the PsiCop *can't* scan someone behind them?
+> What about through a closed door?
+> Could Bob scan Mike if he knew Mike was in the next room over?
+> Would Bob know it was really Jill instead of Mike in the room?
+> I guess the ultimate question is, if I sneak up behind Bobin the
+> hallway, wearing a chameleon suit and really quiet shoes, will he
+> know I'm there Psiwise? If so, will he be able to scan me?
+> What if I duck behind a corner, outta LOS; can he still scan me?
+> Is it "seeing" or "knowing"?
+
+       No, if the person is behind a door, or otherwise can't be
+located visually, it's difficult to impossible to scan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Arc a Fake? (10-May-96 14:01:14)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 14:01:14

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What I cannot help but come up with is, magnificence of the
+> series and storytelling aside, are we being had? Have we been
+> subject to sales banter and are still expecting to see what we
+> expected? Have we been distracted from our original impressions by
+> the sheer brilliance of the show? (i) How come Ironheart who 'knew
+> everything' didn't see the fake personality? (ii) We saw
+> interaction between Kosh and her in (was it?) 'Deathwalker' which
+> resulted in Kosh recording something of her - what ever happened
+> to that?
+
+       It's a fair question.  I'm going to try and deal with it as
+best I can. The problem, first and foremost, is trying to explain the
+craft of writing to someone who isn't a writer.  This isn't intended as
+a slight; if a brain surgeon tried to explain his work to me, I'd be
+about as much in the dark.  I have no idea where music comes from; I
+can sit with Chris Franke for hours, trying to understand that process.
+I never will.  I'm not hardwired that way. I *am* hardwired for
+writing.  So it's not a judgment, just a minor truth.
+
+       The creative process is fluid.  Has to be.  Consider for a
+moment the position in which I find myself.  Let's say I'm writing a
+novel.  I start with a fairly clear notion of where I'm going.  Six
+chapters in, I get a better way of doing something, so I go back and
+revise chapters 1-5, so it now all fits; you never see what went
+before.  Now, compare that to a situation where you're publishing each
+chapter as you go, and you can't go back and change anything. (This is
+pretty much the situation Dickens found himself in, as he published his
+works chapter by chapter; you can never back up, only go forward.)
+
+       At the same time, because we're using actors who have real
+lives of their own, to whom things happen -- broken limbs, health
+problems that may preclude appearing in a given episode, sudden career
+changes, you name it -- you have real-life obstacles constantly in your
+way.
+
+       The closest thing I can compare this to...is if you're on
+stage, in front of a large audience, and you have to do a very
+elaborate dance...and all the while people are throwing bowling balls
+and chainsaws at you.  You either learn how to accommodate all that,
+and keep pretty much on rhythm, or you're dead.
+
+       This show was originally conceived in 1986/87.  About 10 years
+ago. Back then, all TV episodic stuff was done pretty much from one
+person's point of view, your nominal hero.  Yes, you'd occasionally
+dive outside that for a quick scene with other characters, usually to
+set up something, but for the most part, it was about that one person. 
+In MURDER, SHE WROTE, Jessica Fletcher was always at the heart of every
+episode; you had the occasional guest character with whom she'd
+interact, and the recurring supporting cast, but none of them ever
+changed, and none of them ever really took center stage for more than a
+few minutes at a time.  That's how TV has been done up until now.
+
+       Novels, on the other hand, are often omniscient in narrative
+structure, and you blip in and out of multiple points of view.  THE
+STAND, for instance.
+
+       Now, I've done both; I've written novels and I've written TV. 
+When it came time to pull together B5 initially, you go into the "okay,
+who is the TV point of view character" question.  Which was Londo's
+narration, and which was the way I'd learned to write TV all these
+years.  Once the series got going, it quickly became apparent that I'd
+have to learn a whole new way of writing TV that was a lot more like
+what I'd been writing in my novels, which were multi-POV huge stories. 
+It's a kind of writing that's never really been done before for
+American TV; and I had to somewhat invent that style or form of writing
+as I went, in front of millions of viewers.
+
+       You can't prepare for something like this, as much as you try,
+because it's never been done before.
+
+       (On reflection, probably the closest thing to what I've been
+doing here was the miniseries The Winds of War, in terms of the
+multiple viewpoints involved.)
+
+       Also, in the last 10 years, I've become a better writer,
+learned more about my craft, added more tools to my toolbox.  That
+means being able to perceive better ways of doing things now than I
+could've seen before.
+
+       So here we are.  I sit at my word processor with my notes from
+1986, and I see a better way of doing something from those notes...do I
+go with what's there, or do I strike off and do the better approach,
+PROVIDED that it still takes me where I want to go in the arc?  To
+ignore it is to be inflexible.
+
+       I've stayed fluid.  It's the same way I write a novel.  You're
+just seeing the *process* acted out right in front of you, a process
+which normally the public never gets to see.  That, I think, is some
+part of what you're reacting to.
+
+       Also, you have to be careful in how you define an arc.  There
+have been definite arcs of character all through this.  Look at Londo
+when we first met him...and look at him now.  Same for G'Kar, Delenn,
+Franklin... look at Sheridan when he first arrived: happy go lucky,
+smiling, glad to be there, fresh fruit and a hot shower, able to take
+care of anything and everything, how bad can it be?...and look at the
+dark, haunted, almost overwhelmed figure we see now.
+
+       The story has also arc'd, peeling off layer by layer.  The
+Minbari war leads to the secret of the Grey Council, which leads back
+to the first shadow war, which leads to the current shadow war, each
+really on a direct line one from the other.  The slow corruption of
+Earthgov, the death of President Santiago, the rise of Clark, the fall
+from Earth...all of it a very definite arc.
+
+       It's not just a matter of "living in interesting times."  What
+makes a story is *causality*.  A sequence of linked events.  "The king
+died, and then the queen died" is not a story.  "The king died, and
+then the queen died of grief" is a story.  It is an arc, however small.
+
+       Finally, I'd just note the posts -- public and private -- from
+folks who have sat down and watched the *whole show* as a unit, once
+per day, or several per day...and the linked aspect, the real *arc* of
+the show, becomes far more apparent when watched that way right now. 
+It's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Arisians and Vorlons (10-May-96 22:08:06)
+
+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 22:08:06

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I really hadn't been thinking of the Arisians in either
+direction when I came up with the Vorlons...just what they were, not in
+relation to anything else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+I admit I'm an idiot (10-May-96 22:08:08)
+
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+
Date: 10-May-96 22:08:08

+
 Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, anybody know where I can get videos of the first two
+> seasons? How about the pilot?
+
+      Welcome to the party.  Videos aren't currently available, though
+the second and third season episodes can get rerun over the coming
+year.
+
+      And you can always disagree with a decision...and explain why. 
+Around the stage, we have a simple policy...anybody can go up to me and
+say, "Joe, it sucks."  And tell me why.  And if they're right, they get
+to stay....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Interludes> (10-May-96 22:08:11)
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+
Date: 10-May-96 22:08:11

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was going on, who was this fellow, and what happened to him?
+> Who were these two species, have we seen them before, and are
+> they part of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds (given the hints of
+> their proximity to Brikiri space)?
+
+      Thanks.  The two aliens in the start of the episode were a
+Brakiri and a Gaim.
+
+      "Interludes" for me marks a slight transition in the story, from
+one "shape" to the next up...the demarkation between the hero-cycle and
+the myth-cycle in the arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+I&E Support (10-May-96 22:08:13)
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Date: 10-May-96 22:08:13

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was this the thing you did that caused everybody to avoid you at
+> lunch for two days?
+
+      Yeah, it's funny, out of all the awful terrible things I've done
+to our characters over these 3 years, the one that honked off the whole
+crew was the Kosh development.  On one level, they loved it...loved how
+it tightened the screws...but they still didn't want to know from me
+for a day or two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Poisoning Kosh (05-May-96 22:01:43)
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+
Date: 05-May-96 22:01:43

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has the poising Kosh thread from the pilot ever been completely
+> addressed? any answers??
+
+      What's really left to address?  The reasons given were the
+reasons; the Minbari warrior caste were very much against the Babylon
+project; an extremist clan within that caste decided to frame Sinclair
+for murder, using what little info they had on the vorlons, in an
+attempt to destabalize or defeat the goals of B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<Interludes>> (11-May-96 01:35:27)
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Date: 11-May-96 01:35:27

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Sheridan tells Kosh, "How do we know it's even you in that
+> encounter suit? Wow, is that foreshadowing or what?
+> * Is the last voyage or duty of Kosh's ship something we'll see
+> in more detail? * My husband wants to know if you're going to get
+> Dick Sergeant to play the new Kosh?
+
+      Thanks; there's a lot in the episode that plays very well on all
+the levels you mention.  A lot of meat there.
+
+      As for Kosh's ship...it headed for the nearest star, the local
+one, and basically dived into it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<Interludes Question>> (11-May-96 01:35:28)
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Date: 11-May-96 01:35:28

+
 Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did Londo not mention Adira since his original fling with
+> her, before this episode?
+> F
+
+      Basically because it's hard in an episode to just bring up
+something out of the blue unless you're going to use it.  You're stuck
+with, "Boy, I wish Adira were here...so what's for dinner?"  Which will
+mean nothing to the folks who didn't see the first season unless you
+then talk more about her, show her...and then suddenly you REALLY have
+to deal with it or it's intrusive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 article in paper (11-May-96 15:55:31)
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Date: 11-May-96 15:55:31

+
 Julia E. Linthicum <73114.3530@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Lennier as the "gentle alien"?
+> And Ivanova as "Sheridan's serious and comely colleague"?
+
+      Thanks, actually it's an AP article that's appeared all over the
+place. One can quibble with the details, but it's actually a good
+piece.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Interludes question (11-May-96 15:55:33)
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+
Date: 11-May-96 15:55:33

+
 John Hardin <74076.22@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you please post this note to either JMS, or to the
+> moderated info notesfile? Was that man Morden, or Sinclair?
+
+      It was Morden.  If it were Sinclair, the actor would've been
+noted in the credits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Interludes - Name> (11-May-96 15:55:37)
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Date: 11-May-96 15:55:37

+
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+
+      No, it's not B4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<I&E Support> (11-May-96 15:55:39)
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Date: 11-May-96 15:55:39

+
 Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> People are upset because you've killed off a main character?
+> One question: Will we be seeing the Monks again?
+
+      Yes, you'll be seeing Brother Theo in the next batch of new
+eps...and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Darn, you went and told...now it'll be all OVER the place....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Joe an atheist? (11-May-96 16:10:59)
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+
Date: 11-May-96 16:10:59

+
 Daniel M. Upton <75442.1331@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PS - Remember after the episodes about the soul hunter and the
+> one where the Minbari's belief that their souls were
+> transmigrating to Humans was revealed how all the rabid atheists
+> jumped down Joe's throat and said that if there was any room for
+> the objective existence of a "soul" in his story that it stopped
+> being science fiction and became fantasy and that he would lose
+> them as viewers?
+
+"The atheist is also denying the existence of God on faith since the
+statement that there is no God anywhere in the universe is equally
+impossible to prove (all universal statements are impossible to prove
+and therefore inherently unscientific)."
+
+That's a well phrased analysis of the situation...the only problem
+with it is that it ain't so.
+
+By your reasoning, if you say that there are green penguins at the
+north pole, and I refuse to believe it until you prove it, then I am a
+believer in non-green-penguinism.  I am, therefore, a believer in the
+negative concept of everything in the universe that has not yet been
+conclusively proven.  At which point the very notion of belief becomes
+utterly meaningless.
+
+If someone comes up to you and offers you a job if you move cross
+country, wouldn't you want a contract, some proof that the offer is
+real?  Until it's provided, are you believing in non-contractosity?
+
+Bottom line, Daniel...if you or anyone else makes a statement, the
+burden of proof is not on me to *disprove* it, it's on you to *prove*
+it.  Until that point, the question of belief doesn't enter into it. 
+Is it or is it not provable?  If not, then it isn't recognized as a
+real thing.  Belief is irrelevant.  Once you've shown me my new car,
+and I've driven in it, it doesn't require faith or belief to know it
+exists.  For my money, no one has yet proven the existence of a supreme
+or minor deity...so for me, it simply doesn't exist.  Again, belief has
+nothing to do with it.
+
+(I used the phrase belief system only because I didn't want to get
+into a prolonged discussion of it, and that seemed the simplest way of
+stating it. That'll teach me not to go for the precise terms, even if
+it means another few paragraphs of explanation.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Arc a Fake? (11-May-96 16:11:01)
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+
Date: 11-May-96 16:11:01

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The other thing to bear in mind is that I can't really be
+responsible for what expectations you bring to it, since I can't see
+inside your head. (Or if I could I wouldn't tell you...and stop that,
+you'll go blind.)  All I can do is tell the story that's in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<I&E Support> (11-May-96 16:11:02)
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+
Date: 11-May-96 16:11:02

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When it was over and I was breathing again, I wondered, was this
+> the death where the actor asked "why me?"
+
+      This was the "now me" episode.  The "why me?" episode is yet to
+come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Spoiler Vorlon Question (31-May-96 16:10:35)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 16:10:35

+
 Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I do, however, have one question (also about the Vorlon), that
+> you might be able to answer : Will whatever Kosh was doing to
+> Lyta in Passing Through Gethsemane have anything to do with the
+> overall (arc) plot at some time in the series?
+
+       Yes, primarily because what Kosh was doing with Lyta (that
+sounds vaguely suggestive) wasn't a one-time event.  There was a
+transference going on, and that aspect will be heard from again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Trading Card Game??? (01-Jun-96 02:03:50)
+
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+
Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:50

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they refuring to the next regular card set like the one we
+> saw before or is it a trading card game (none of the other stuff
+> listed on the page is anything but trading card game)? While we
+> are talking about Babylon 5 games, what is the current word on
+> the Babylon 5 RPG? Who is making it?
+> Any other stuff coming out for our computers soon?
+
+      Fleer's coming out with a brand new card set, but not a card
+game set.
+
+      The RPG will be out from Chameleon later this year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Severed Dreams> (17-Jun-96 21:18:06)
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Date: 17-Jun-96 21:18:06

+
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+
+      I actually went to a mix of schools; four different high
+schools, a dozen or so grade and junior high schools...some were
+public, some were parochial (catholic) schools.  The last time I
+stepped into a catholic school was in my first year of high school at
+St. Benedict's High School in Matawan, New Jersey.  After, oh, about
+six months they asked me to leave, on the theory that I was
+troublesome, asked impertinent questions, and had a tendency to poke
+holes in whichever theological discussion was underway at the moment. 
+So I got blipped over to Matawan Regional High School, and stayed
+public thereafter...though still getting into trouble from time to time
+for asking too many questions and refusing to take "because I said so"
+as ANY kind of legitimate response.
+
+      So yes, while I do have some experience with catholicism, I
+wasn't in any way raised, trained or educated by those intellectual pit
+bulls of religion, the Jesuits.  The last time I had anything to do
+with it at all was about the same time as the above incident, wherein I
+was told, at the first session of this religious doctrination session,
+that Confirmation was "the sacrament of free choice."  I wanted this
+clarified -- religious rules were always tricky, and you didn't want to
+get on the wrong side of anything as positive as hell (to paraphrase
+Christopher Fry) -- and asked, "So this one we can choose or not, we
+don't have to be here, right?"  The nun said yes, that's corr---
+
+      She never finished the word, as there was no longer a "me"
+standing in the room, only a jms-shaped silhouette made of the dust
+kicked up by my sudden and rocket-like departure, rather like a Warner
+Bros. cartoon, which disappeared before her eyes.
+
+      Bottom line...I have *always* been a pain in the ass.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Two Questions (18-Jun-96 01:40:41)
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+
Date: 18-Jun-96 01:40:41

+
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+
+      Basically, after seeing what he's done for the Narns, and
+knowing who Vir is all this time, and seeing his reaction of horror to
+what Lyndisty was suggesting, anybody who thinks he offed the Narn
+isn't paying attention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ABA and B5 (18-Jun-96 01:40:42)
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+
Date: 18-Jun-96 01:40:42

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's good to hear from the ABA booths.  Thanks.
+
+      Re: the fan/pro relationship (which can be difficult at
+times)...yes, I do tend to think that because many SF pros come from
+the ranks of fans, it makes them more receptive to and sympathetic to
+that side of things.  It makes me *very* annoyed to see people who've
+stood in line for 1, 2 or 3 hours for an autograph being turned aside. 
+If I have any control over this, I won't have it.  (The only time I
+haven't been in control of this was at Wolf, where a number of folks
+were turned aside, and that's something the organizers and I have to
+discuss for next time.  I also found out, after the fact, that some 
+folks were turned away from the Forbidden Planet signing because they
+brought stuff instead of buying, and that was NEVER a condition that
+I'd agreed to or even knew about, and I'm quite unhappy about that.)
+
+      Generally speaking, I don't care how long I have to sit there
+and sign, ain't *nobody* walking away empty handed if I can help it. 
+Because I've been in that position myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<Interludes>> (18-Jun-96 14:43:38)
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+
Date: 18-Jun-96 14:43:38

+
 Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't this one of the primary differances between the characters,
+> though?
+
+       Yep, that's it exactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 Radio Times (18-Jun-96 14:47:18)
+
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+
Date: 18-Jun-96 14:47:18

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       So like, what does it SAY?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Which came first? (18-Jun-96 14:47:19)
+
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+
Date: 18-Jun-96 14:47:19

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       The *Mars* excavation was years ago, the *Ganymede* one was the
+one in Messages.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Which came first? (18-Jun-96 14:47:20)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Which came first?

+
Date: 18-Jun-96 14:47:20

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The excavation came first, then martial law.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Just curious... (19-Jun-96 00:25:34)
+
+
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+
Just curious...

+
Date: 19-Jun-96 00:25:34

+
 Tom O'Hay <71264.106@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Years ago, after reading a story, I asked the children "How would
+> you like to go there?" Do you remember S Spielberg's "Amazing
+> Stories"?
+
+      Thank you, I appreciate that.  That's really all I've ever
+wanted, to tell a good story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Other races' ships (19-Jun-96 00:25:36)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Other races' ships

+
Date: 19-Jun-96 00:25:36

+
 Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What I meant was, will we see them again, and will they come in
+> on B5's side?
+
+      No, they're effectively out of the picture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<severed dreams in UK> (19-Jun-96 00:25:38)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<severed dreams in UK>

+
Date: 19-Jun-96 00:25:38

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  And you're quite right; when we lose touch with our
+myths, we have to dig them out, dust them off, and recast them under
+different names, so that people can rediscover them without thinking
+they're reading about something old and irrelevant.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Renewal!!? (01-Jun-96 02:03:52)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 Renewal!!?

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:52

+
 Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wish to know if videos will ever be released and why does
+> Warner seem to treat the show with indifference?
+
+      Thanks; and we hope to have the videos out eventually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/110.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/110.html
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+
+
+UK B5 Radio Times (19-Jun-96 00:25:40)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
UK B5 Radio Times

+
Date: 19-Jun-96 00:25:40

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what lies ahead over the next 11 episodes?
+> What do you think of that last line then ?
+
+      Thanks for the info, it's appreciated.
+
+      "What do you think of that last line then?"
+
+      What's to think?  Dominic May is a fine name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+What of Earth? (19-Jun-96 11:41:54)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
What of Earth?

+
Date: 19-Jun-96 11:41:54

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, we'll definitely get back into the Earth side of things;
+we just go in cycles story-wise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/112.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/112.html
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+
+
+JMS: thestation.com???? (19-Jun-96 11:41:56)
+
+
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+
JMS: thestation.com????

+
Date: 19-Jun-96 11:41:56

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Any ETA when the page will be on-line?
+
+       As soon as WB stops dithering about and gives us authorization
+to put it out there.  All licensed stuff has to go through their
+auspices, and they're taking their time.  We're pressing them as much
+as we can; we've had a beta site on line now since May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Other races' ships (19-Jun-96 23:59:04)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Other races' ships

+
Date: 19-Jun-96 23:59:04

+
 Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What about that lone Narn cruiser?
+> Is that due to play a part again?
+
+      We'll see the Narn cruiser again this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Technical Accuracy (19-Jun-96 23:59:09)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Technical Accuracy

+
Date: 19-Jun-96 23:59:09

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Usually they use equations, I understand...though glitches, such
+as those you note, do slip through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/115.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/115.html
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+
+
+Series Renewal (24 Jun 1996 12:05:03 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Series Renewal

+
Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:05:03 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will Janet Greek be back?
+
+       We'd love to have Janet back, but she apparently just adopted
+an infant, and isn't sure she wants to do any work for the coming year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadows are Beautiful! (24 Jun 1996 12:05:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Shadows are Beautiful!

+
Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:05:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...and I'm not sure the shadows' motivation is an "open"
+question as much as it is one open TO interpretation....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/117.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/117.html
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+
+
+Shadows are Beautiful! (24 Jun 1996 12:05:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Shadows are Beautiful!

+
Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:05:08 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that in some way different from what Elizabeth said??
+
+       It's between those two positions....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadows are Beautiful! (24 Jun 1996 21:22:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadows are Beautiful!

+
Date: 24 Jun 1996 21:22:33 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      You don't have all the information yet on which to base any
+conclusions; it's coming by season's end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Why GA deserves an Emmy (24 Jun 1996 21:36:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
Why GA deserves an Emmy

+
Date: 24 Jun 1996 21:36:23 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Since you mention the UK ratings, the newest volume of the B5
+videotape, #11, just came out in the UK...and it's #1 on the charts,
+topping the X-Files you cite.
+
+      As for the other UK ratings you mention, Channel 4 is always
+generally rated lower than BBC1 and BBC2; within the course of what C4
+airs, B5 does *extremely* well for them, and just recently came in at
+#16 in their list of programming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<War & Delenn>> (01-Jun-96 02:03:54)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<<War & Delenn>>

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:54

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Delenn has her time-flash, does she just see what happens in
+> the future, or is she actually there, like John's trip?
+
+      No, she more just saw it as a passive recipient, whereas he was
+actively There.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadows are Beautiful! (25 Jun 1996 12:56:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadows are Beautiful!

+
Date: 25 Jun 1996 12:56:48 -0700

+
 Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Defining 10 as 'kills because (s)he enjoys doing it, and revels
+> in the deaths/pain of others' and 1 as 'kills because it is
+> necessery to do so for survival/etc', where would the Shadows
+> rate? How was the Chicago Comicon, BTW?
+
+       On the 1-10 scale you suggest, and using those specific
+criteria to make a decision, I'd rate the shadows right around E or F.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Another Death? (25 Jun 1996 12:56:50 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Another Death?

+
Date: 25 Jun 1996 12:56:50 -0700

+
 Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do the future events depeticted in War Without End have to come
+> to pass, or has the future now been changed by the very fact that
+> Sheridan knows something of it? If so, do all the characters that
+> were alive in the future scenes in War Without End necesserally
+> have to be alive in that future now?
+
+       Sheridan, by taking the actions he took to keep history on
+track, has now pretty much assured that the events we see *will*
+happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/122.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/122.html
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+
+
+Series Renewal (28 Jun 1996 00:44:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
Series Renewal

+
Date: 28 Jun 1996 00:44:28 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Of course, there's a substantive difference between killing a
+character to serve the plot, or because of real-world events, and
+offing somebody without giving the person a fair chance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/123.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/123.html
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+
+
+Marcus Cole/Jason Carter (28 Jun 1996 00:44:29 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Marcus Cole/Jason Carter

+
Date: 28 Jun 1996 00:44:29 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Just one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Special B5 episode (28 Jun 1996 00:47:45 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Special B5 episode

+
Date: 28 Jun 1996 00:47:45 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Uh, huh....
+
+      *
+
+      Okay, buddy, back away from the keyboard and keep your hands
+where we can see them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 in Spain (28 Jun 1996 12:55:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 in Spain

+
Date: 28 Jun 1996 12:55:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great, thanks for letting me know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Marcus Cole/Jason Carter (28 Jun 1996 12:55:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
Marcus Cole/Jason Carter

+
Date: 28 Jun 1996 12:55:37 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Of course, if my head implodes, I won't be able to finish the
+story, now will I...?
+
+       Read "Scheherezade" lately?
+
+                                        jm(probably misspelled that)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/127.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-06/127.html
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+
+
+Another Death? (28 Jun 1996 12:55:39 -0700)
+
+
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+
Another Death?

+
Date: 28 Jun 1996 12:55:39 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oh, Delenn definitely still knows more than she's telling....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+What of Earth? (26 Jun 1996 00:33:45 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
What of Earth?

+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:45 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  It's primarily an effort to integrate the real world
+into the series.  So much of SF on television tends to take place in a
+vacuum.  The leader of the Federation is always the leader of the
+Federation, we rarely hear about squabbling, elections, economic
+problems, dissident groups breaking away...and when we do it's usually
+a misunderstanding or basically good people with a different agenda
+that can be quickly resolved.
+
+      I think that integrating all of those elements lends an
+atmosphere of verisimilitude to the story, making it all the more
+*real*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+sci fi shows (26 Jun 1996 00:33:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
sci fi shows

+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:49 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      "Neverwhere" will probably show up either on PBS or Bravo, since
+it comes off the BBC.
+
+      I've seen the "Dark Skies" pilot...it's kind of a hodge podge of
+stuff. Parts are very effective, some aspects stretch credulity...but a
+pilot can be a poor indicator of the series, so I'll definitely give it
+a shot when the regular show begins.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<War...2> Aftershocks (01-Jun-96 02:03:57)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<War...2> Aftershocks

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:57

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is whatever it is they tried to make her tell them something that
+> concerns B5 in 2260-2262?
+
+      No, what they were after from Delenn was info relevant to that
+time, some of it related to their son.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadows are Beautiful! (26 Jun 1996 00:33:51 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Shadows are Beautiful!

+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:51 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Exactly, the already had a source on Earth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Ahem... regarding Bears (26 Jun 1996 00:33:53 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:53 -0700

+
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+
+      It was supposed to have been arranged by some of the folks at
+Comic Con in Chicago.  When I got there, I asked if this had been taken
+care of (they said they knew the right people, and I'd reimburse for
+the cost involved). They said it was all going to go off as planned. 
+If it didn't...then I'm hugely annoyed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Another Death? (26 Jun 1996 00:33:56 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:33:56 -0700

+
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+
+      Many things are possible.
+
+      But that future will happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Series Renewal (26 Jun 1996 11:55:19 -0700)
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Date: 26 Jun 1996 11:55:19 -0700

+
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+
+       Yes, it's the same casting director.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Marcus Cole/Jason Carter (26 Jun 1996 12:06:18 -0700)
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Date: 26 Jun 1996 12:06:18 -0700

+
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+
+       Y'know, every time a character gets introduced on this show,
+there's always somebody who yells about killing him off.  I've been
+told by folks on the nets, variously, to kill Londo ("Who's the jerk in
+the Bozo hair?  He's a joke, he's ruining the show, space him!"), Vir
+("Flounder in space?  Give me a break, he's nothing, throw him out an
+airlock!"), Lennier and others, including Sheridan ("He smiles too
+much, what's the deal, Smilin' Jack," which was a setup for his fall). 
+Many people screamed to kill Sinclair during the first season...and
+then were the first ones wanting him back a year later.
+
+       And in each case, they went on to become some of our most
+popular characters.
+
+       Patience is a virtue.  We get to know people over time.  See
+their strengths and weaknesses over time.  There's a lot more to Marcus
+than meets the eye...and many people *do* like Marcus' character quite
+a lot.
+
+       The sad thing to me is to see folks who, if they don't
+instantly spark to someone, say "Kill him!!!"  Which seems to me rather
+cruel and intolerant for just not sparking to someone.  I wonder if
+they have friends, or if they meet someone and instantly don't take to
+them, do they wait in an alley and blow their brains out...or give them
+time to grow...or at least take a wait-and-see attitude.  I sometimes
+wonder about a society that breeds the notion that if you don't like a
+character, let's *kill* them. Not, "let's not feature him," not "write
+him out," but KILL him.  There's something rather disturbing in that.
+
+       But...if Marcus doesn't work for you, he doesn't work for you. 
+He does work for others.  And he works for me.
+
+       I think you're outnumbered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Series Renewal (26 Jun 1996 21:50:47 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:50:47 -0700

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Putting aside your total lack of time, are you interested in
+> directing?
+
+      I go back and forth on this.  Basically, no, I'm not interested
+in directing.  On the other hand, my gut (and my agent) tells me that I
+should do it at least once, just so I understand the process (a good
+idea), and to add that aspect to my resume.  I dunno...we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Series Renewal (26 Jun 1996 21:50:50 -0700)
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Series Renewal

+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:50:50 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> As an employer, how do you hire for the show in such a way as to
+> let your employees know how long they would be under your employ? 
+> How do the actors deal with this?
+
+      Thanks.  Basically, you hire actors by the season.  You hire
+someone for, say, 13 episodes out of 22.  That actor has a pay-or-play
+*guarantee* of 13 episodes.  We may only end up using him in 11, but he
+gets paid for all 13 regardless.  So that allows the actor to plan his
+year effectively.  The contract for all actors has an option for the
+following year at the producer's discretion.  When we get the word on
+renewal, we can then choose whether or not to bring an actor back,
+assuming we haven't already decided this earlier and killed the
+character off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+sci fi shows (26 Jun 1996 21:50:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:50:53 -0700

+
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+
+      Odd, I'd thought Tracy Torme was off Sliders now.  I'd heard
+that, anyway.  Let me know if he's still listed on the show in the new
+eps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Another Death? (26 Jun 1996 21:51:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:51:00 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But will the events we saw unfold as we saw them, or will they be
+> changed? Or did Sheridan exist in two time continuums at the same
+> time? Would his very knowledge of the future shade events
+> somewhat?
+
+      Events will unfold as we saw them.  Sheridan might try to use
+his knowledge to change things...but who knows, that may just bring
+them about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Ta'Lon? (26 Jun 1996 21:51:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1996 21:51:02 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Are we going to be seeing more of Ta'Lon?
+
+      Wouldn't mind seeing more of him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour 25 (01-Jun-96 16:03:45)
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+
Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:45

+
 Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I miss anything else as *spiffy* as that?
+
+      I can't remember what we discussed in the first hour...nothing
+as cool as that happened, at any rate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Another Death? (29 Jun 1996 00:25:17 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jun 1996 00:25:17 -0700

+
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+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Series Renewal (29 Jun 1996 15:44:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jun 1996 15:44:32 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Due to the timing of Warner Bros' decision to renew, does this
+> give you enough time to assign scripts, and have those authors
+> complete the job in time for filming? Or will you just take the
+> first few episodes yourself? I can not even begin to understand a
+> writer's creative process, but generally how long does it take
+> from the time of story assignment to the time the finished script
+> is submitted?
+
+      Depends on the writer.  Freelance writing almost always takes
+longer because they don't know, and can't be *expected* to know, the
+show as well as you do if you're on staff.  You can have several pitch
+meetings over the course of weeks before a good story walks in (though
+in the case of B5 the stories are generally assigned out by me, saving
+that process); then you wait anywhere from 1-3 weeks for the outline;
+you have a meeting about it; another week or so for the revised
+outline; you have another meeting; then about 2-4 weeks for the first
+draft script; then another meeting; then another 1-3 weeks for the
+second draft.  (These are *optimal* periods, sometimes it's shorter, 
+but usually it's longer.)  And then, on a show as eccentric as B5, you
+often end up rewriting large portions of it anyway.  So it can take as
+much as 2 months or more to produce a shootable script.
+
+      I can write a script in 7 days or less, that's ready to go
+before the camera as written.  Which isn't to say anything qualitative,
+only to say that it's easier and faster because I'm inside the bubble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Hyperspace vs. Distance (29 Jun 1996 15:44:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jun 1996 15:44:36 -0700

+
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+
+      No, what I said was that *time* works about the same way in
+hyperspace, not distance, nor that there was necessarily a proportional
+1-1 corrolation between realspace and hyperspace.  There's still some
+distance involved in hyperspace, yes, though again there isn't always a
+1-1 corrolation.  It takes 3 days to get to Earth.  It takes 4 days to
+get to Centauri Prime, even though CP is almost twice the distance from
+B5.  It's *extremely* confusing to navigate hyperspace, which is why
+you need the beacons and transfer points, or it's extremely easy to get
+permanently lost.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Another Death? (29 Jun 1996 15:44:39 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jun 1996 15:44:39 -0700

+
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+
+      No, of course there's free will.  But if I pull a trigger, and
+the bullet flies out hitting someone in the head, what happens between
+the moment of the trigger, and the impact, has nothing to do with free
+will.  Sheridan made the choice -- free will -- to do what was done in
+WWE.  There were two probable results, depending on whether he did or
+didn't do as asked.  Once he did that, the two probabilities folded
+into one actuality (a la Shroedinger's Cat).
+
+      Which doesn't mean to say he won't *try* to change things....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 29 Jun 1996 23:25:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Okay, the error here was mine.  I was having dinner with a
+friend a few weeks ago, and catching up on stuff (this friend also
+works in the TV biz) and names were flying around...he mentioned that
+Michael Piller was no longer involved in ST, and Tracy's name came
+up...and this is entirely my own fault, I got the two juxtaposed in my
+head.  So I misspoke myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Slowly but Surely (29 Jun 1996 23:25:44 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jun 1996 23:25:44 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, I'll take all the help I can get....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Another Death? (29 Jun 1996 23:25:46 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jun 1996 23:25:46 -0700

+
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+
+      Ah...sleeping on the couch again, are we...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Series Renewal (27 Jun 1996 02:19:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 02:19:53 -0700

+
 Michael Studte <100245.2335@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, when do we start the campaign to get the series renewed for
+> its fifth year? And is there any light on the horizon for a
+> laserdisk release of the series?
+
+      Thanks.  There's nothing much happening currently on videos or
+disks; in the fullness of time, I suppose....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+What of Earth? (27 Jun 1996 02:19:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 02:19:55 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, five seasons would be 110 episodes.
+
+      Thanks re: the producer part.  This is probably the one area I
+get asked about the least, and the hardest part of the job.  You have
+to make sure each and every element intersects correctly with every
+other element, and that takes some juggling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A laugh for ya (27 Jun 1996 02:19:57 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 02:19:57 -0700

+
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+
+      That's great...and congratulations on the win.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Renewal!!? (01-Jun-96 16:03:46)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:46

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any idea who that person is?
+
+      It's a grip who stood too close for the photo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Just curious... (27 Jun 1996 13:53:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:53:07 -0700

+
 Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you start with the place B5 and write forward, letting the
+> story evolve, or backwards from a conclusion? Are you a character
+> or plot driven writer?
+
+       I started with the place, but basically saw the story in one
+full blown moment of clarity...dunno where that sort of thing comes
+from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ta'Lon? (27 Jun 1996 13:53:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:53:10 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any regular or semi-regular characters you never want
+> to see again on the show??
+
+       Sure, but those I just don't mention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hyperspace vs. Distance (27 Jun 1996 13:53:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:53:12 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many Hyperspace hours away are the various races from Earth ?
+> do all ships travel the same speed in Hyperspace, or can some go
+> faster...meaning shorter travel times, etc ? And, finally :), we
+> know the tech order of the races, does this also equate to their
+> ships speeds ? Is this fast, or slow compared to EA ships ?
+
+       Hyperspace isn't like warp speed, you don't generally run into
+the same problems with time dilation.  It's largely the same in both
+places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE2 Question/Spo (27 Jun 1996 13:53:13 -0700)
+
+
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WWE2 Question/Spo

+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:53:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I think his message to Garibaldi was a momentary lapse, it
+wasn't something he'd planned, his emotions momentarily got in the way
+of his reason. To do so would be dangerous, so it wasn't done by him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Series Renewal (27 Jun 1996 19:51:32 -0700)
+
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+
Series Renewal

+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 19:51:32 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nice quote, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcus Cole/Jason Carter (27 Jun 1996 19:51:33 -0700)
+
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+
Marcus Cole/Jason Carter

+
Date: 27 Jun 1996 19:51:33 -0700

+
 CHRIS LAND <101750.2526@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Aragorn inspire Marcus as I have heard that you enjoyed LOTR?
+
+      Thanks.  And no, Aragorn didn't inspire Marcus.  There's a lot
+of heroic fantasy stuff that goes a long way beyond Tolkien, after all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re:Email (30 Jun 1996 14:08:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re:Email

+
Date: 30 Jun 1996 14:08:52 -0700

+
       Every once in a while I have to put this out as an FYI, so
+those of you who know the routine, stand down...the rest of
+you...c'mere, Unca Straczynski wants a word with you.
+
+       From time to time, my personal email mailbox begins to fill up
+with questions that really should be asked in public forums, and which
+require lengthy, in-depth explanations.  (One such today asked me to
+explain, in detail, the military hierarchy of Earthforce, relative
+strengths of ships, on and on and on.  In itself, not a bad
+question...but asked in email, that means that I have to answer the
+same thing for the next guy who asks, on and on and on.)
+
+       I can't get into detailed, exhaustive discussions of the plot
+or story or characters *in private email*.  If your question is a good
+or a valid one, it should be posted in a public forum, so that others
+can benefit from the answer.  Otherwise either I end up writing pages
+of information over and over again, and nobody else gets the
+information, or I just decline to answer the question.
+
+       The *only* reason for using email is if it's a personal or a
+confidential question, or something you don't want to say on the nets
+for whatever reason.  Please help me to keep my head above water by not
+using email unless there's a valid reason for it.
+
+       If there *is* something you need to express in email, please
+use the genie address (straczynski@genie.geis.com) instead of the
+compuserve address, because the CIS emailbox can only hold 100 letters
+at a time; any more than that which arrive get bumped and sent back or
+deleted.  I lost an important piece of email regarding B5 business
+today because it got shoved out by a letter asking me to explain the
+differences in organization and accountability to oders between the
+religious and military castes of Minbari.
+
+       Bear in mind that with CTS, it *hurts* to type.  The more I
+type, the more it hurts.  (Please don't send me any more info on CTS,
+btw...I have all the available information on CTS, more than most
+doctors right now, and to type a thank you note for each one that comes
+in just makes the problem worse.)  If a question needs answering,
+better if I can answer it once, so everyone can see it, than 15 times
+for one person at a time.  Every keystroke you see from me comes with
+discomfort.
+
+       Please try and use the email address(es) only if there's a
+valid reason for it; otherwise, let others benefit from the sharpness
+and quality of your question by asking it publicly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re:Email (30 Jun 1996 20:17:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re:Email

+
Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I can't dictate scripts; I think through my fingers.  Tried it,
+just can't get into the characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hyperspace vs. Distance (30 Jun 1996 20:17:45 -0700)
+
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+
Hyperspace vs. Distance

+
Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:45 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean Ships travel at different speeds in Hyperspace ?
+> And maybe the Vorlons and Shadows are so advanced they can go
+> faster, hence the WStar + Battlecruisers ??
+
+      Actually, the White Star doesn't go to Earth in "Severed," it
+goes in "Messages from Earth," and it's stated in dialogue that it
+takes 3 days in that episode as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hyperspace vs. Distance (30 Jun 1996 20:17:47 -0700)
+
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+
Hyperspace vs. Distance

+
Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:47 -0700

+
 Bill Dugan <71016.576@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it confusing for the First Ones, or just for us younger races?
+
+      Dunno, but it confuses the hell outta me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Trading Card Game??? (01-Jun-96 16:03:47)
+
+
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+
Trading Card Game???

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:47

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Meanwhile is that book coming from Boxtree called "Making of
+> Babylon 5" or "Creating Babylon 5"?
+
+      I think it's Creating B5...but I haven't gotten my copy yet, and
+that's from memory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mimbari Anti Grav. (30 Jun 1996 20:17:50 -0700)
+
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+
Mimbari Anti Grav.

+
Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:50 -0700

+
 Steven GASKELL <101700.2032@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But what if you attach a buttered piece of bread, butter-side up
+> to a cat's back and toss them both out the window? Will the cat
+> land on it's feet? Or will the butter splat on the ground?
+
+      Dropped out of counseling again, I see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Males (30 Jun 1996 20:17:51 -0700)
+
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+
Minbari Males

+
Date: 30 Jun 1996 20:17:51 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a correct assessment?
+
+      Yes, they can grow facial hair only.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Series Renewal (23 Jun 1996 22:14:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Series Renewal

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you started lining up directors yet?
+> Is Adam Nimoy slated for any in season 4?
+
+      Yes, we've begun lining up directors; will announce more as we
+get closer to finalizing stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+What of Earth? (23 Jun 1996 22:14:04 -0700)
+
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+
What of Earth?

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Second, has there been much shown in the economics of the
+> universe you've created? I've seen postings concerning the
+> relative military and technological strength of the major races
+> -- has there been any similar comparisons of economic influence? 
+> Is it something you consider part of the backstory when writing
+> episodes or is the amazingly complex factors you already juggle
+> quite enough?
+
+      There's been some on economics, not nearly enough, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: thestation.com???? (23 Jun 1996 22:14:06 -0700)
+
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+
JMS: thestation.com????

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:06 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Just how much does WB "own"?
+> I notice everything is copyrighted by WB, so you don't own any of
+> it? If you want to write a novel or make another show based on the
+> B5 universe do you now have to get WB permission? Is this typical?
+
+      Yes, on all TV series, the studio owns the copyright and all
+that entails.  That's why ST in all its forms is (c) Paramount, not
+Roddenberry.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+sci fi shows (23 Jun 1996 22:14:08 -0700)
+
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+
sci fi shows

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't generally watch any of the ST shows.  I like X-Files
+quite a bit, haven't seen virtually anything of Sliders...though I can
+tell you now that the next big, nifty show to come along in the
+fantasy/sf genre is going to be "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman.  I've seen
+a couple of episodes of it, and it's neat.  Look for it later in the
+year or spring.  (It's from the BBC.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 on WBTV in Euro? (23 Jun 1996 22:14:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 on WBTV in Euro?

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Haven't got a clue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Londo in I&E (Spoilers) (23 Jun 1996 22:14:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Londo in I&E (Spoilers)

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:14:13 -0700

+
 Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If Londo believes that Adira was killed by Refa, and wants
+> revenge, then why doesn't he just have Refa killed, like he
+> threatened to do?
+
+      Refa is a powerful guy now, with powerful allies; he needs
+money, in large amounts, and more influence, so when and if Refa would
+get it, there wouldn't be the kinds of repercussions that might
+otherwise come, as with a mafia hit, for instance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS (23 Jun 1996 22:30:49 -0700)
+
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+
JMS

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:30:49 -0700

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It seems clear that there is demand for B5 Merchandise of this
+> type - so can I ask (if I may be so bold) why there is no such
+> merchandise, other than the Micromachines and Stamp sets,
+> availalbe? Have you any information?
+> Oh - before I go, is there any information on B5 Club membership
+> in the UK?
+
+      We're going after the pirates.  On the model front...basically,
+all that has to happen is for a model company to come to us and make a
+deal to produce the models.  (A decent sized company.)  So far, none of
+them have, on the theory that only ST models sell from TV shows.  Maybe
+if they heard from consumers interested in B5 models, they'd come to us
+and make a deal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 and Star Wars. (23 Jun 1996 22:30:50 -0700)
+
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+
B5 and Star Wars.

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:30:50 -0700

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I just make a little point of observation here?
+> Micheal Statzynski into the same "Great Minds of Science Fiction"
+> category that I think they deserve to be in?
+
+      I can't think of any higher compliment than to be included in
+the same sentence as the Star Wars trilogy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Universe (01-Jun-96 16:03:50)
+
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+
Universe

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:50

+
 TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think we have a purpose in the universe, or a purpose to
+> make the best of our lives as we find them?
+
+      The purpose we have is the purpose we find, and that we *choose*
+to find.  Acting on that purpose is another topic altogether....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadows are Beautiful! (23 Jun 1996 22:30:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadows are Beautiful!

+
Date: 23 Jun 1996 22:30:53 -0700

+
 Elizabeth Elliott <100601.3142@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Doesn't anyone else think the same way about this poor, despised
+> race?
+
+      Ah, you are now the first...there will be others....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+^The Shadows^ (01-Jun-96 16:03:52)
+
+
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+
^The Shadows^

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 16:03:52

+
 Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why is this?
+
+      I've gone over the legal aspects of the story idea provision,
+oh, about 25 times...I know it's in the faq file somewhere.  Bottom
+line, I can't see or accept any story ideas, period.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+How Time Flies (02-Jun-96 14:49:58)
+
+
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+
How Time Flies

+
Date: 02-Jun-96 14:49:58

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What kind of feeling and what kind of reaction do you have about
+> this side of the B5 success story?
+
+      Actually, I've no idea...I don't socialize at all -- except for
+B5 related gatherings, I haven't been to a party in...oh, about 2
+years, maybe a bit more.  So I don't tend to hear from anyone *not*
+really involved with the show in terms of other TV writers or
+writer/producers.  I imagine I'll hear more when I get done with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WWE - Beginning??? (31-May-96 16:10:36)
+
+
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+
WWE - Beginning???

+
Date: 31-May-96 16:10:36

+
 Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just a thought, people are probbably going to hate me for asking
+> this, but where exactly does the storyline to War Without End
+> Begin?
+
+       The storyline began millions of years ago.
+
+       We're coming in in the middle of the story.
+
+       But then, that can be said of all of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Just curious... (02-Jun-96 14:50:01)
+
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+
Just curious...

+
Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:01

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't think they quite knew *how* this show was to be sold to
+the audience; the arc wasn't heavily played initially, no.  Later,
+moreso.
+
+      I hear all the time though from new viewers who just started
+watching, and are right up to speed.
+
+      Re: changing the episodic structure...no, can't really do that,
+because you have to think in larger terms, both down the road and how
+the show airs overseas, minus those breaks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any more novels contracted after #6 (love the
+> Delenn/tea ceremony bit in #6)?
+
+      They're waiting until we get formally renewed to contract for
+more novels.  That should be soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+B5 Ent Utility (02-Jun-96 14:50:05)
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Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:05

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The character-oriented wav and avi files weren't done because
+there are still pending matters to be worked out with the various
+unions -- SAG, WGA and DGA -- about how those are to be used.  It's
+still a new medium, and how you reuse footage shot contractually for
+purpose A, turned to use B, and what residual structure you follow, is
+still being worked out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:08

+
 Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, what made you get in touch with Ron Thorton?
+
+      Thanks.  John, Doug and I had originally worked with Ron on
+Captain Power, so that's where that connection comes from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+^The Shadows^ (02-Jun-96 14:50:09)
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Date: 02-Jun-96 14:50:09

+
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+
+      Apology unnecessary, but accepted.  We learn by doing.
+
+      I don't know which message reprint request or content you're
+referring to, so I really can't comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> is this a wolf in sheep's clothing story?
+
+      The Hour of the Wolf is that hour around 3 a.m. when you can't
+sleep because you're worried about one thing or another....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+FInal Scene-Severed Drea (02-Jun-96 14:50:13)
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> In the final scene of Severed dreams (the applause scene), are
+> you the guy who begins clapping first?
+
+      Nope, I don't do cameos in the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 02-Jun-96 15:56:32

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Also, our hard ratings shot up almost a full half a
+point this quarter over our last batch of new episodes, from a 3.0, our
+usual, to a 3.4, at a time when most syndicated shows were in a
+downturn, including DS9, which went down over a full point during the
+same period.  Warners is most pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 02-Jun-96 15:56:43

+
 Chris Shepard <102076.276@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If I write a show that was truly my idea, how do you defend
+> yourself from some crazed lunatic coming into court saying that I
+> stole it from him/her? How can that person prove it was theirs to
+> begin with? It's the same idea, but how could one sue the other
+> for stealing it? What about space battles in general?
+> Cloaked ships?
+> The shadows cloak themselves, but how would the Trek guys sue JMS
+> for stealing their idea about cloaking technology? Don't they have
+> enough?
+
+      Chris, the only thing wrong with your message, and your
+assumptions, is that they're wrong on just about every conceivable
+level.  Let me try to walk you through this to help you understand a
+little better.
+
+      First off...a general observation.  Story ideas are worthless. 
+It's very doubtful that you or anybody else has had an idea that nobody
+in the history of mankind has ever had before.  You can take a basic
+idea and give it to 10 different writer and you'll get 10 TOTALLY
+different stories.  What matters is execution, how the idea is
+rendered.  An idea isn't a story, and what matters is *story*, a series
+of consequences and reactions based on actions.
+
+      Most amateur writers don't know or understand that, and think
+that their story idea is something saleable, something somebody wants
+to buy, or something they need to jealously protect.  There are even
+people who will exploit that.  There was a publication a few years ago
+which would publish your story idea in a big book, on per page (which
+you paid for, natch), and sent it to the major studios and networks.
+
+      Not one of them ever sold.  None of them were worth buying. 
+None of them were really stories.  And it was thrown into the trash of
+every studio or network at which it arrived because of fear of lawsuit.
+
+      Now, to your points individually:
+
+      "For one, I would talk with the individual and arrange something
+legal so that his story idea could be used and he/she would receive
+full credit plus pay."
+
+      This is illegal.  There is no fee inside the Writer's Guild for
+"story idea."  (ST tried to get around this for a few years, but was
+finally trounced by the WGA.)  If it's a credible, WGA signatory, which
+all the major studios and networks are, they can't operate outside
+formal parameters in their agreements.  There's no category for "story
+idea," so they can't buy that, and there's a reason for it.  A "story
+idea" is sufficiently general that it can't be readily surrounded...is
+it a sentence?  A paragraph?  A page?  Two pages? You could start
+taking whole stories, swiping them, and getting the royalties
+ -- thousands and thousands of dollars -- while the originator of the
+story got a couple hundred bucks, if that much.  This provision exists
+to *protect* writers.
+
+      See, part of the problem is, you're looking at the TV writing
+business not as a writer, but as a fan, a viewer.  We who work in this
+business have had to painstakingly, and at great suffering, fight for
+protections for those who work in this business as their livelihood. 
+Creating a scenario such as the one you describe would hurt the
+profession beyond description.  Yes, you may like the show, but should
+we set into place practices and policies that will undo years of
+hard-won strikes, and create what is, in essence, the camel's nose in
+the tent...the camel -- studios who would exploit this to take stories
+and outlines for zero money -- would surely follow, on the logic that 
+if you permit this for one show, you have to permit it for all.
+
+      (Also, for the "full credit plus pay" part...again, what credit,
+and what pay?  There's no provisions set up for either.  You'd have to
+create whole new areas in the WGA for this, which don't currently
+exist; you can't just do this willy-nilly.  Pay...a flat fee?  Fee plus
+residuals?  How do you determine how much a 1 paragraph story should
+get vs. a two or three page story?  Which gets a flat fee and which
+residuals?  It's a slippery slope.)
+
+"Secondly, if I created a forum and opened it to fans who wanted to
+give their ideas for stories, etc., then I would post a message at the
+beginning of the forum stating that anything spoken and written in that
+forum cannot be protected by law."
+
+      Now you're in violation of US Copyright Law.  Anything you write
+is instantly yours under what's known as Commonlaw Copyright.  In
+addition, a forum like Compuserve copyrights all content as a communal
+copyright, owned by both parties, the poster and CIS.  (All services
+work this way.)  Also under the law, you cannot make a statement or a
+policy which removes people's rights from them...in other words, you
+can SAY that anyone posting messages gies up their rights...but that
+doesn't have *any* legal basis whatsoever, and cannot be enforced.  The
+only way would be to have each person type up a waiver, hard-copy, sign
+it, get it notarized, and mail it *for each and every suggestion*
+giving up all rights to that specific story.  It can't be done en masse
+for anything written.
+
+"Lastly, how would one prove in court that someone has stolen someone
+elses idea.  If I write a show that was truly my idea, how do you
+defend yourself from some crazed lunatic coming into court saying that
+I stole it from him/her?"
+
+      That's the hard part.  You can't.  Sure, you can win the case in
+court, but a case like this can take two or three YEARS of your life. 
+And most will hang on because most cases like this are settled,
+regardless of merit, because it's cheaper than a trial.  Do you want to
+spend two or three days a week, every week, for three years giving
+depositions, talking to lawyers, dredging out every bit of paperwork,
+turning over your computer files to lawyers, having your friends and
+co-workers deposed, your character challenged, all because somebody
+posted a story idea that was vaguely similar to what you did? I don't.
+
+"How can that person prove it was theirs to begin with?"
+
+      By showing a printup of the story as posted in the forum you
+have suggested here.  (Or another.)  Their word not good enough?  You
+subpoena the sysops here, access the CIS database, on and on.
+
+"An idea is an idea.  Buck Rogers had the idea of stargates in it's
+series. Babylon 5 uses the jumpgates. It's the same idea, but how could
+one sue the other for stealing it? What about space battles in
+general?"
+
+      See, again, here's the problem...a stargate or a jumpgate isn't
+an idea, it's a bit of technology.  You can't build a story around
+that, so it's not a story idea, again you're not clear on your terms. 
+"How about a jump gate?" isn't a story idea.  "How about a jumpgate to
+go kill the giant frog monster in sector 97" *is* a story idea.  Once
+again, you don't have a clear notion what it is you're discussing.
+
+"Cloaked ships? The shadows cloak themselves, but how would the Trek
+guys sue JMS for stealing their idea about cloaking technology?"
+
+      Shadow vessels don't cloak; they have alternate technology for
+phasing in from hyperspace.
+
+"It's plain silly and it's a waste of everyone's time."
+
+      It is...until you end up in court for it.  The ONLY reasonable
+protection is the no-story provision.  Especially in a case like B5,
+where the whole story is *already worked out*.
+
+      It's the difference in perception between an amateur writer and
+a writer who does this as a living.  (By "amateur" I don't mean bad, I
+just mean one who is either unpublished, inexperienced, or a
+hobbyist...I'm an amateur bowler, as an example.)  You don't understand
+the consequences of this sort of thing, it's not a profession to you,
+it's something you'd like to toss out there.  But it can hurt.  Marion
+Zimmer Bradley recently found herself in a *terrible* position...she'd
+worked for about 2 years writing a new novel, turned it in...and had
+the book cancled by her publisher because a fanzine to which she had
+possible access had published a very similar story and they might sue. 
+Two years of work, down the drain.
+
+      This isn't a game, or a hobby, or something where you can make
+up the rules as you go.  Writing is a *business*, a creative one, yes,
+but if you're going to make a living at it, you have to treat it as a
+business, just as if you're a carpenter or a plumber or a surgeon. 
+Those rules are there to protect writers from being expoited,
+harrassed, ripped off or sued.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+New Upcomings or Reruns? (02-Jun-96 15:56:47)
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Date: 02-Jun-96 15:56:47

+
 Jack P <102474.2071@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the producers intend to show any new continuing episodes for
+> the summer or we'll all have to wait until the fall implying in
+> the meantime we'll just watch the past season reruns? Also I don't
+> know why in the world would the LA station airing the B5 show as
+> they always have, show the week's encore of other shows(less
+> desirable) and not B5 for those that couldn't be around the first
+> time?
+
+      The produers of B5 -- viz, me -- have no control or influence
+over the scheduling of episodes or reruns.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 essential episodes (31-May-96 16:10:37)
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Date: 31-May-96 16:10:37

+
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+
+       I did it off the cuff, I don't actually have a list; somebody
+else here may have it offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
      Can't recall if I mentioned this earlier, but...in addition to
+being at the Wolf 359 convention in Blackpool this coming weekend, I'll
+be doing an autograph session at Forbidden Planet Bookstore in London
+this Thursday at 4 p.m. along with David Bassom, author of "Creating
+Babylon 5" and "The A-Z of Babylon 5."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Question of Timeline (03-Jun-96 01:13:00)
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Date: 03-Jun-96 01:13:00

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So can you clarify the dates somewhat here for me, please?
+
+      Well, she didn't go directly into Vorlon space; she left, went
+around a bit, had to find a pilot willing to take her...it was a time
+consuming process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      Yup, that's it, that's the hour of the wolf....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this anything like "The Hour Of Scampering?"
+> Or maybe "The Hour Of Running Like Hell?"
+
+      No, no, no, you're thinking of the Hour of the Plucked
+Parrot....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      Nopers....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+<< How old is Delenn >> (03-Jun-96 01:13:09)
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+
Date: 03-Jun-96 01:13:09

+
 Steve Brightman <73420.3057@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Excuse for asking but just how old is Delenn ?
+> So I guess she must be at least 900 years old ?
+
+      No, Delenn never said she held Valen when he died, she said she
+held Dukhat, the last of the Grey Council leaders, at his death.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03-Jun-96 01:36:01

+
 Cathy Holley <75204.1515@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do the studios get around buying a book to make into a movie
+> or tvshow? And didn't you sell B5 as an idea?
+> not a complete story?
+> or am I missing the point?
+
+"How do the studios get around buying a book to make into a movie or
+tv show? I mean in many cases if you compare the book to the movie,
+there isn't a whole lot left except the basic storyline."
+
+      They don't get around buying the book; they *do* buy the book. 
+No, when all is said and done, the result may not look much like the
+book, but that's a matter of creative realization of the project --
+artistic success or failure
+ -- not legalities.
+
+"And didn't you sell B5 as an idea?  Not a complete story?"
+
+      Again, define "idea."  The way Chris defined it, an "idea" is,
+"Let's do a show on a space station."
+
+      You also have to remember that like many other writer/producers,
+I'm in a position where I've shown that I'm capable of taking something
+and making it into a TV show.  But even so, like every other person
+there trying to sell a series to PTEN, I didn't just walk in the door
+with an idea.
+
+      If you're going to sell a series, you need to know the
+characters, the situations, the possible additional storylines, the
+support network and supporting characters...all of that.  What usually
+happens is that you go to a network, with a long list of credits, and
+spin out a few details of what you have in mind: the central character,
+the situation, some additional characters, how you'd get in and out of
+stories, and the like.  There's been a LOT of prior thought given to
+it, it's a LOT more than just an idea.  Then the network gives you seed
+money (called "development money") to take that proposal and flesh it
+out, writing a treatment and series bible, then a pilot script.  Based
+on ALL THAT, you then get or don't get your series.
+
+      When a writer comes in to pitch for a series already on the air,
+he or she has the beginning, middle and end of the story worked out,
+and some of the high points along the way.  Every so often, somebody'll
+come in and try to sell an idea, just a notion...and you want to hurt
+them.  I was working on MURDER, SHE WROTE and a guy came in to pitch
+his story.  "Okay," I said, "what did you have in mind?"
+
+      "Amnesia" he said, then sat back, pleased with himself.
+
+      I waited.  Glaciers slowly moved across the northern polar
+frontier. "What about it?" I asked finally.
+
+      "*Amnesia*," he said again, as though repeating it would
+suddenly make me understand.
+
+      "WHOSE amnesia?" I asked.  "Who forgets what, what's been
+forgotten, and where do we go with it?"
+
+      "Well, we'd work that out after I get the assignment."
+
+      He was never invited back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<< How old is Delenn >> (03-Jun-96 13:29:30)
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<< How old is Delenn >>

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Date: 03-Jun-96 13:29:30

+
 annie <104246.3046@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How old is Delenn?
+
+      In human terms, she's probably around her late 40s early 50s,
+which is very young still for a Minbari, who can live to be almost 200.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Joining B-5 Fan Club? (03-Jun-96 13:35:10)
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Date: 03-Jun-96 13:35:10

+
 Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone actually got the fan club stuff yet?
+
+      The first issue of the newsletter -- Universe Today -- should be
+going out this week, if it hasn't already started going out.  There
+were a few glitches in the cards from the printer that had to be
+corrected, and I wanted to make some final changes to the poster, which
+now looks better.  It's all in place now, however.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+How Time Flies (12-Jun-96 13:41:45)
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Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:45

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Unfortunately, we're not really set up to give tours of
+the set, so that's not possible for us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<WWE2>> (31-May-96 16:10:39)
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Date: 31-May-96 16:10:39

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       It's not a shadow host, no, but one of the many things that
+work for them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms in UK (12-Jun-96 13:41:46)
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Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:46

+
      I think the books will only be out via import stores.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms in UK (12-Jun-96 13:41:48)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:48

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; I just now got this, if I'd known at the time, I likely
+would've stopped by.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sidebars 1 (12-Jun-96 13:41:50)
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Sidebars 1

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:50

+
      Good points, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sidebars 2: Cabaret (12-Jun-96 13:41:53)
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Sidebars 2: Cabaret

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:53

+
      I wouldn't say Cabaret was my favorite movie of all time, but
+it's certainly one of my tops, and that one scene, "Tomorrow Belongs to
+Me" still scares the hell out of me.
+
+      If I had to delineate my favorite films overall, they'd be
+Seconds, They Might Be Giants, Forbidden Planet, The Stuntman, A
+Christmas Story, The Empire Strikes Back, Cabaret, Failsafe, Seven Days
+in May, Aliens, All That Jazz, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Glory,
+The Haunting of Hill House, Road Warrior, Terminator 1 and 2, The
+Natural, Network, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Rocky Horror
+Picture Show, Phantom of the Paradise, When Worlds Collide, The Seven
+Faces of Dr. Lao, The Shootist, War of the Worlds, Stalag 17, and The 
+Time Machine.
+
+      Those are films I can watch again and again and never get bored
+with them.  Lao is a particular favorite, it's just a beautiful film. 
+I tend to love films that break your heart or make it soar, or both at
+the same time, like Glory, or Giants.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Merchandise question (12-Jun-96 13:41:54)
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Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:54

+
      No, Psi Corps pins have not been licensed, and are thus illegal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Sorry... (12-Jun-96 13:41:57)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:57

+
 Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how negative are those feelings?
+
+      I didn't read the thread, but yes, Carl's right when he says
+that we have to be careful to avoid storylines and the like.  Don't
+worry, apology accepted; forgiven, forgotten, gone.  We learn by doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Other races' ships (12-Jun-96 13:41:59)
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Date: 12-Jun-96 13:41:59

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, have any Markab ships been shown, other
+> than the one in "Confessions and Lamentations"?
+
+      Yes, Marcabs had warships, though not a lot of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+4th Season (12-Jun-96 13:42:01)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:01

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were you given any feel as to the likelyhood of a Season Five?
+
+      Thanks, and we'll know more about Warner's plans in a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Did Sinclair get married (12-Jun-96 13:42:04)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:04

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, they didn't get married.  Wasn't time, and his new posting
+precluded that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+A B5 reflection (12-Jun-96 13:42:05)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:05

+
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+
+      That's great, thanks for passing it along.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Renewal!!? (31-May-96 16:10:41)
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+
Date: 31-May-96 16:10:41

+
 Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know yet if B5 is going to be renewed for another 1 or 2
+> seasons? If not, how are you going to decide what to do about
+> wrapping it up? I know that it's been said that you yourself
+> stated that you could finish it in one more season, but how are
+> you going to make that decision if you don't know how long you've
+> got?
+
+       We'll know soon.  We're cautiously optimistic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Series Renewal (12-Jun-96 13:42:07)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:07

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, we're very pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Renewal (12-Jun-96 13:42:09)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:09

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, the numbers and support led right to renewal.  I
+should mention that the domestic ratings have grown enough that one of
+the major station groups has committed its stations to return
+double-runs of episodes for the coming year, so Los Angeles and a
+number of other markets will be getting two showings per week again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Fabulous Costumes (12-Jun-96 13:42:14)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:14

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Yes, the costumes are great.  Ann Bruice does a
+terrific job finding fabrics which don't seem to be one thing or
+another; your eye just sorta slides off them.  It's a very tough job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Point of No return> (12-Jun-96 13:42:19)
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<Point of No return>

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:19

+
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+
+      Thanks, and Severed is even better....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim (12-Jun-96 13:42:20)
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+
Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:20

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In your "Hours of the Wolf," (with the uncertainties you must
+> deal with as a creator/executive producer of a syndicated show
+> you must have a continuing series of "Hours of the Wolf), do you
+> ever get story ideas about the B5 characters that occur well
+> outside of the the megastory you've committed yourself to tell? 
+> Would it be helpful or detrimental to start agitating at either
+> the local or WB-macro level for a guarantee (or as close as is
+> possible in the fluid dynamics of syndicated series) of a season
+> 5? Since you've indicated the possibility that you might be
+> required to compress seasons 4 and 5, is there any value to all
+> of the dedicated viewers stating up front that a compressed
+> season is not an acceptable option?
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, I sometimes do get notions for stories with our
+characters outside the B5 arc.  Earlier stuff, later stuff...you just
+sorta file it away. I'll probably never get to telling any of it, but
+it helps add truth to the writing because I know what they're doing
+elsewhere and elsewhen.  Those tales will probably never be told.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Last 5 When? (12-Jun-96 13:42:23)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 13:42:23

+
 Bob Ingersoll <72204.2405@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will they run sometime over the summer, or are they being held
+> back again until the start up of next year's season?
+
+      October.  Urk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 (12-Jun-96 21:02:35)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 21:02:35

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it updated as well?
+> Oh, will Peter David be writing any other episodes?
+> ?
+
+      Thanks.  It's a great show, and fun to work on.
+
+      To the question of the writing book...the version being
+published this October is *completely* rewritten, stem to stern, with
+new chapters and other goodies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Merchandise question (12-Jun-96 21:16:16)
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+
Merchandise question

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:16

+
 John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is is okay/legal to use the PTEN copyrighted gifs on a website?
+
+      It's been general policy for WB to look the other way on that as
+long as proper copyright notices are appended.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Renewal (12-Jun-96 21:16:17)
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+
B5 Renewal

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:17

+
 Mary Taylor <75530.2650@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does by any chance the major station group that has committed to
+> a return of double runs of the show include WPWR in Chicago?
+
+      I'm reasonably sure that WPWR Chicago is one of those that have
+committed to the new slate of double runs, but I'm not 100% sure; will
+get a list as soon as available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 congrats (12-Jun-96 21:16:18)
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+
Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:18

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and I'm glad the show is finally reaching your corner of
+the world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour 25 (01-Jun-96 02:03:41)
+
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+
Hour 25

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:41

+
 TIMOTHY R. GREEN <73023.143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you find the time to do everything you do?
+> Unless you have some way of slowing down the time flow somehow?
+
+      It helps to be an obsessive-compulsive personality....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan Disappears? (12-Jun-96 21:16:21)
+
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Sheridan Disappears?

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:21

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      He doesn't disappear completely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Celebration Time!!! (12-Jun-96 21:16:23)
+
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+
Celebration Time!!!

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:23

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since I believe you said you were not going to pull another
+> season 3 and write all the scripts yourself, who can we expect to
+> see pen some eps this upcoming season? Niel Gaiman or Halan
+> Ellison? Also, who do we need to be writing to, outside of our
+> local stations, to insure that WB gives a speedy greenlight to
+> season 5 ASAP...after all, what is one last season to a big
+> studio like them?
+
+      Nothing much to be done now for year 5, that will depend as does
+every season on the ratings for the year preceding.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Finale (12-Jun-96 21:16:24)
+
+
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+
Season Finale

+
Date: 12-Jun-96 21:16:24

+
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+
+      When I'm ready....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Celebration Time!!! (13-Jun-96 12:46:38)
+
+
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+
Celebration Time!!!

+
Date: 13-Jun-96 12:46:38

+
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+
+       Thanks, and we look forward to the coming year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Merchandise question (13-Jun-96 12:46:40)
+
+
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+
Merchandise question

+
Date: 13-Jun-96 12:46:40

+
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+
+       No, I think that's fine as well, with proper notices.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Merchandise question (13-Jun-96 12:46:41)
+
+
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+
Merchandise question

+
Date: 13-Jun-96 12:46:41

+
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+
+       You cannot make and *sell* them.  That's the difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Chicago Comicon (13-Jun-96 12:46:43)
+
+
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+
Chicago Comicon

+
Date: 13-Jun-96 12:46:43

+
 S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you (or anyone out there) know what your schedule would be
+> this weekend? Is it going to be Friday, Saturday and Sunday?
+
+       I believe my main panels are in the afternoons on Saturday and
+Sunday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sidebars 2: Cabaret (13-Jun-96 21:36:36)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Sidebars 2: Cabaret

+
Date: 13-Jun-96 21:36:36

+
 Mark Pruett <74133.3406@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Seconds...Seconds....was that the truly dark film with Rock
+> Hudson? Or am I remembering wrong?
+> You included The Shootist but not Robin and Marian?
+
+      Yes, that was the Rock Hudson film...and the letterbox Forbidden
+Planet has been out for some time on disk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+*B5 Renewed*!! (13-Jun-96 21:36:38)
+
+
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+
*B5 Renewed*!!

+
Date: 13-Jun-96 21:36:38

+
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+
+      Actually, TNT had the rights to B5 at a point after 88 episodes,
+yes, BUT...WB had the option within that contract to produce only 66
+episodes and still get the same deal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Chicago Comicon (13-Jun-96 21:43:19)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Chicago Comicon

+
Date: 13-Jun-96 21:43:19

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you bringing anything *interesting* to show us????
+
+      Mainly clips from coming shows, not any finished episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<UK Dust 2 Dust>> (01-Jun-96 02:03:43)
+
+
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+
<<UK Dust 2 Dust>>

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:43

+
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+
+      No, that has nothing to do with the redemption.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Timeline Inconsistency (13-Jun-96 21:43:22)
+
+
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+
Timeline Inconsistency

+
Date: 13-Jun-96 21:43:22

+
 John M. Kahane <102664.773@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That places "Messages From Earth" about a week after
+> "Exogenesis," right? You start to see the dilemma?
+> Which means that "Severed Dreams" takes place about the 12th of
+> April? How's that so far?
+> But what does this do with the dates for "Sic Transit Vir" and
+> "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"? So any chance of you helping out
+> with the dates for all this, and a clearing up of some of the
+> timeline here for me?
+
+      The only thing I can clear up is that Sic Transit was *not*
+filmed prior to Ceremonies, the filming order was Severed, Ceremonies,
+Avalon and Vir. Other than that, you're on your own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Publicity?? (14-Jun-96 21:34:14)
+
+
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+
B5 Publicity??

+
Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:14

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The UK was pleasant, I trust?
+> Who handles B5 publicity?
+> Is it WB or in-house Babylonian Productions?
+> Does that include talk show bookings, SNL guest hosting, and all
+> that jazz? but how do *you* feel personally as regards SNL's
+> tendency to parody the week's guest host's roles? I know you
+> dislike (or just don't want to see) fanfic B5 parodies, what
+> about parodies done by the Not Ready for Prime Time Players? have
+> you seen the RPG playtest rules and background? Is it true to your
+> vision?
+
+      WB has generally handled B5's publicity, though we've lately
+hired our own publicists to help gain additional exposure.
+
+      Parodies don't bother me.
+
+      Newsletters have begun going out; posters and fan club packets
+have had to wait until we got everything worked out.  Remember, please,
+everybody, that the FC is a new creation, was not a going concern;
+those who got in at the very beginning will have a short wait that
+those joining thereafter won't have.  As with everything else we do, we
+try and do it *right*.  If that takes a bit longer, so be it.  (I sent
+back the new poster design twice for small changes and improvements,
+which alone put things back.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Pilot Movie (14-Jun-96 21:34:17)
+
+
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+
Pilot Movie

+
Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:17

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I didn't know that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fourth season... (14-Jun-96 21:34:18)
+
+
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+
Fourth season...

+
Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:18

+
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+
+      Thanks, and we're looking forward to year four.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim (14-Jun-96 21:34:22)
+
+
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+
Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim

+
Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:22

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of covering those areas in B5 movies after the 5th
+> season is over? If not commercial features, what about
+> made-for-television ones?
+
+      We'll kinda have to see what happens when it comes round to make
+that decision; right now just telling this one story now takes up 110%
+of my time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<< WWE Questions >> (14-Jun-96 21:34:23)
+
+
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+
<< WWE Questions >>

+
Date: 14-Jun-96 21:34:23

+
 Doug Quinn <76330.350@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) On the destruction of B5 -- can I assume that the vision of B5
+> being blown to bits in in SIGNS & PORTENTS is the same possible
+> future we saw in BABYLON SQUARED and in WAR WITHOUT END? Or was
+> the vision from SIGNS & PORTENTS fortelling a different future
+> that's still out there? 2) Since Jeff Sinclair was Roman Catholic,
+> and since Jeff Sinclair became Valen, and since Valen became the
+> spiritual and political leader of the Minbari, does this mean
+> that the Minbari are Roman Catholic?
+
+      Yes, the vision of B5 blowing was the same as the one from
+Signs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sidebars 2: Cabaret (14-Jun-96 21:45:48)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14-Jun-96 21:45:48

+
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+
+      I liked "Unforgiven" quite a bit, but it isn't a film that I
+could watch endlessly, or often.  The others are films that catch me up
+and take me someplace I enjoy returning to, and if I'm channel surfing
+and happen to land on one of them, I generally tend to stay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 TV Schedule - UK (14-Jun-96 21:45:51)
+
+
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+
B5 TV Schedule - UK

+
Date: 14-Jun-96 21:45:51

+
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+
+      BTW, I heard today from the chain of command that the UK might
+*not* be broadcasting the final 5 prior to the US, at the insistence of
+WB.  Won't be able to track this down any further until next week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Making life interesting (14-Jun-96 21:45:52)
+
+
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+
Making life interesting

+
Date: 14-Jun-96 21:45:52

+
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+
+      Congratulations, you're doing *exactly* what I did when I
+dropped everything, sold what I had, and came to L.A.  Good luck.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Merchandise question (15-Jun-96 17:06:09)
+
+
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+
Merchandise question

+
Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:09

+
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+
+      No more feeders...they won't leave the female extras alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+How Time Flies (01-Jun-96 02:03:44)
+
+
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+
How Time Flies

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:44

+
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+
+      This is probably the most commonly asked question, and the
+answer remains...I dunno.  Right now, the sheer task of getting this
+show made now, for TV, is sufficiently daunting, that the idea of
+telling it again in print is enough to make me tip over.  Also, this
+show was *designed* for TV; if I'd wanted to write a nove, I'd've
+written a novel.
+
+      So for now, the answer remains "I dunno."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Series Renewal (15-Jun-96 17:06:10)
+
+
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+
Series Renewal

+
Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:10

+
 Bruno Melancon <102647.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, did you start writing any fourth season episodes?
+
+      Yup, I'm writing the first episode now, "The Hour of the Wolf,"
+and we should have 6 in hand by the start of filming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Interludes>> (15-Jun-96 17:06:12)
+
+
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+
<<Interludes>>

+
Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:12

+
 Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A question about "I&E" (Second favourite episode of season 3 so
+> far, after Severed Dreams): Did Adira's killer suffer the same
+> fate as the guard who appeared in the episode's teaser? Now season
+> 4 has been confirmed, are you going to make him put all the
+> weight back on?
+> ?
+
+      No, Adira's killer is still alive...can be useful, those folks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Communicator (15-Jun-96 17:06:13)
+
+
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+
Communicator

+
Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:13

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How does the communicator stay on the hand?
+
+      Sleight of hand.
+
+      Molecular bonding at the epidermal level.
+
+      Crazy Glue.
+
+      Pick one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim (15-Jun-96 17:06:16)
+
+
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+
Bablyon 5 Beyond the Rim

+
Date: 15-Jun-96 17:06:16

+
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+
+      No, it's a tribute to Alfie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Other races' ships (16-Jun-96 11:08:27)
+
+
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+
Other races' ships

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 11:08:27

+
 Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would they have contracted Drafa?
+
+      There would've been a very few on deep space patrols, or on
+isolated worlds that would've survived, yes, as was indicated in the
+narration at the close of the episode, but you're talking about very,
+very small numbers.  The race is still effectively dead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Series Renewal (16-Jun-96 11:08:28)
+
+
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+
Series Renewal

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 11:08:28

+
 Dimitri M LaBarge <71501.3353@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you a title for this season's episodes yet?
+
+      Yes, I have titles for this season's shows, mostly, and the
+overall title.
+
+      You'll get them in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<More of Zathras?> (16-Jun-96 11:08:28)
+
+
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+
<More of Zathras?>

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 11:08:28

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see Zathras again in a future episode or was his trip
+> 1000 years into the past his exit from the series?
+
+      I'd love to see Zathras again somehow....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Severed Dreams> (16-Jun-96 16:26:41)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<Severed Dreams>

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 16:26:41

+
 Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what is it, and what happened to it?
+
+      Clarke has inside info that ISN would be going public soon with
+info on what was *really* going on on Mars, his planned attack on B5,
+and other stuff he wanted quiet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<severed dreams in UK> (16-Jun-96 16:26:42)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
<severed dreams in UK>

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 16:26:42

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  The Television Thing to do would've been to have that
+moment of victory, Sheridan saying the crisis is over, then fade to
+black...but it was absolutely *vital* to go to the lower sections and
+see the human cost of that victory.  War is never a bloodless game.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 at an end in NY? (16-Jun-96 16:29:34)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 at an end in NY?

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 16:29:34

+
 Tim Kelly <76735.3255@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is picking up the show for a fourth season, WOR may be nixing the
+> show from their fall schedule? Now, I don't want to start a rumor,
+> but is there any truth to this???
+
+      No, NY will continue to air the show next fall.  There's always
+somebody saying they've got a "source" at WB saying one apocalyptic
+thing or another...and they're always full of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Just curious... (01-Jun-96 02:03:46)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Just curious...

+
Date: 01-Jun-96 02:03:46

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I can only hope you're right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lift question (16-Jun-96 20:57:00)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Lift question

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 20:57:00

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can the lift take someone horizontally from sector to sector?
+
+      Yes, the tubes can move at both angles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Staff of Aesculapius (16-Jun-96 20:57:01)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Staff of Aesculapius

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 20:57:01

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, we try to get the details right.  As someone once said,
+god is in the details.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Interludes>> (16-Jun-96 21:59:10)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<<Interludes>>

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 21:59:10

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it?
+
+      Certainly, one theme of the show is how we each deal with the
+traumas that beset us, and the choices we make.  The difference is in
+how we handle them.  In "Shadow" and "Interludes" both Londo and
+Sheridan have to confront somewhat similar losses: the death of a loved
+one.  But Sheridan, at the last, was willing to suck in the pain and do
+what was right, however much it grieved him, and forego
+revenge...Londo, on the other hand, has embraced revenge.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Hour 25/B5 Music (16-Jun-96 21:59:11)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hour 25/B5 Music

+
Date: 16-Jun-96 21:59:11

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Agreement on both counts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Hour 25/B5 Music (17-Jun-96 11:34:52)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hour 25/B5 Music

+
Date: 17-Jun-96 11:34:52

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       My agreement was that it should be on the next CD, and have
+noted same to Chris.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Delenn's Family (17-Jun-96 11:34:53)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Delenn's Family

+
Date: 17-Jun-96 11:34:53

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> will we ever hear about Delenn's parents/family?
+
+       As a matter of fact, yes, you'll hear about Delenn's parents in
+"Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 off air in Philly (17-Jun-96 21:00:29)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 off air in Philly

+
Date: 17-Jun-96 21:00:29

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm sure WB is looking at alternate stations.  The basic reality
+is that if the station supported the show, it did well; if not, not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 4 Narration (17-Jun-96 21:00:32)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 4 Narration

+
Date: 17-Jun-96 21:00:32

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<WWE & Geo. of Shadows> (17-Jun-96 21:00:34)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<WWE & Geo. of Shadows>

+
Date: 17-Jun-96 21:00:34

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it wasn't an intentional bit of foreshadowing, unless my
+subconscious is smarter about this stuff than I am...which is
+altogether possible, I suppose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Severed Dreams (17-Jun-96 21:18:04)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Severed Dreams

+
Date: 17-Jun-96 21:18:04

+
 Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just a little question, at the end of SD when Delenn returns with
+> the Minbari ships, what is the small Minbari ship that
+> accompanies the cruisers ?
+
+      That's the White Star, and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club (01 Jul 1996 21:46:36 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Next
+

+
Fan Club

+
Date: 01 Jul 1996 21:46:36 -0700

+
 Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a email address to inquire to the status of my
+> membership?
+
+      They're going out in batches; anyone who hasn't received one
+within the next week or two, let me know.  Somebody started sending
+them out bulk mail; they'll go out henceforth either 1st or 2nd class
+mail.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club (07 Jul 1996 22:18:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Fan Club

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:01 -0700

+
 S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any idea how much longer?
+> Could you post a message here, once the webpage is up and
+> running?
+
+      Thanks, and as soon as WB gets us the approvals, we'll be sure
+to announce the web page just about everydamnwhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Delenn question (spoiler) (26 Jul 1996 12:35:50 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Delenn question (spoiler)

+
Date: 26 Jul 1996 12:35:50 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       She wanted to see Kosh to assure herself that the Vorlons, who
+she'd never met before, were who she believed them to be, and that this
+was a true Vorlon and not a pretender.  He had to be in place as part
+of Valen's prophecy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Apology to jms (26 Jul 1996 21:29:20 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Apology to jms

+
Date: 26 Jul 1996 21:29:20 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm also the executive producer, I basically *make* the show,
+overseeing every aspect of production, hiring directors, actors,
+supervising sets, costumes, efx, you name it.
+
+      It takes 7 days to film an episode.  My favorite is probably
+"Shadow Dancing," which you haven't seen yet, mainly because I haven't
+been able to poke any holes in it yet.  It's a good ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TV GUIDE article (26 Jul 1996 21:29:22 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
TV GUIDE article

+
Date: 26 Jul 1996 21:29:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The show has been an uphill battle from the first day until
+today. After a while, you just kinda get used to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TV Zone (27 Jul 1996 14:31:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
TV Zone

+
Date: 27 Jul 1996 14:31:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Photos of me?  Oh, dear.  Now nobody'll buy it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TV-Guide B5 article (27 Jul 1996 14:36:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
TV-Guide B5 article

+
Date: 27 Jul 1996 14:36:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      What a great image....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WWE_Possible arc hole (27 Jul 1996 14:36:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
WWE_Possible arc hole

+
Date: 27 Jul 1996 14:36:07 -0700

+
 Stephen Chatwood <100522.1020@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Then at the end of WWE we see Sinclair flanked by a couple of
+> Vorlons, about 900 years before Babylon5 existed?? Any comments?
+
+      Bear in mind that there have been lots of folks named Sinclair
+in the last 900 years; that we don't know how much Valen told anyone
+about his prior life; that the Minbari had had little to no direct
+contact with the Vorlons in well over a hundred years and likely would
+not have told them what they found at the Battle of the Line until such
+time as personal contact had been made again, which only happened at
+Kosh's arrival...and there wasn't exactly time to make a report after
+he rolled into B5 for the first time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Apology to jms (27 Jul 1996 23:38:23 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Apology to jms

+
Date: 27 Jul 1996 23:38:23 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are there serious, concrete plans for this "side story"?
+
+      All I can say for now is that WB has asked us to make a
+presentation to them on a possible sequel; this has been done.  They've
+now asked us to go to the next step of making a demo reel.  In
+addition, there's some very exciting stuff going on with TNT that I
+can't talk about yet, but hope to be able to do so soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Snow White? (27 Jul 1996 23:38:26 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Snow White?

+
Date: 27 Jul 1996 23:38:26 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      ....oh, shrock....
+
+      No, don't go.  It's terrible.  Everyone dies.  Your kid will end
+up traumatized.  The surgeon general issued a report advising against
+it.  Whole communities have outlawed it.  I...I....
+
+      I was a much younger fellow when I wrote that.  I was, I think,
+about 18 or 19; I'd written a number of produced one-act plays at 16
+and 17, but this was my first commissioned play, and one of my first
+long-term produced full-length plays, running summer stock in the San
+Diego area for 16 weeks. You can't hold what I wrote at 18 against me
+now.
+
+      I don't remember anything about it.  I've flensed it from
+memory.  I can't...I....awk....
+
+      <no carrier>
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (28 Jul 1996 08:58:50 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 28 Jul 1996 08:58:50 -0700

+
The following information has just been released by Jim Lochett,
+coordinator for the OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB.  (Note to
+convention organizers: the address given below can now be used
+as a central clearing house for invitations to cast and crew.)
+
+                                ***
+
+                  THE OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB
+
+Join today and you will receive the Official Membership Kit,
+including:
+
+     A Subscription to The Universe Today: The Official Newsletter of
+     the B5FC filled with exclusive interviews, news about Babylon 5, 
+     and exciting merchandise offers.
+     An 8x10 Cast Photo
+     Full Color Babylon 5 Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+     B5 Fan Club Button & Full Color Sticker
+     Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers,
+     J. Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+     Membership ID Card granting you discounts on merchandise,
+     conventions, etc., as well as access to the Members Only section of
+     TheStation.com, the B5 Fan Club Web-site (to be up May 1996).
+     Plus as a bonus, the first 100 people to join get:
+     A Limited Collection Sticker of the alternate B5 Logo as designed
+     by artist Peter Ledger.
+
+================
+
+To Give a Membership as a Gift, simply make a copy of the entry form,
+fill in the name of the person you wish to make a member, and send it
+off. (Don't forget to include your name on the Suggestions line, so
+that we can include a gift card.)
+
+Each year the Renewal Kit will offer new and different goodies,
+savings, and of course another year's subscription to The Universe
+Today.
+
+Remember, this is more than just your run of the mill fan club; the
+Babylon 5 fans time and time again have gone that extra step for the
+show, and the Babylon 5 Fan Club is our way of giving something back to
+those who've been so loyal to us.
+
+ ----------------  CLIP OR COPY AND GIVE TO A FRIEND -------------------
+
+YES!  I want to join The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club.  Please send my
+membership kit to:
+
+Name:    _______________________________________________________________
+
+Age:     __________
+
+Address: _______________________________________________________________
+
+City:    _____________________________ State:  ___________ ZIP: ________
+
+Country:  _____________
+
+e-mail address: ________________________________________________________
+
+Local Station you watch B5 on: _________________________________________
+
+Suggestions: ___________________________________________________________
+
+  ______________________________________________________________________
+
+  _____ I am already on the mailing list.
+
+  _____ I got this form from a friend.
+
+Enclosed is $12.95 for a U.S. membership; $14.95 for a Canadian
+membership; and $19.95 for Foreign memberships.  Orders must be in U.S.
+funds. Send check or money order (DO NOT send cash) made payable to:
+
+Babylonian Productions/Fan Club
+
+Mail to:  The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club
+          PO Box 856
+          North Hollywood, CA 91603
+
+Please allow 5-6 weeks for delivery.  Foreign and Canadian orders are
+shipped surface, please allow additional time for shipping.
+
+All returned checks are subject to a $15.00 service charge.
+
+ ----------------  CUT HERE FOR THE END OF THE FORM ------------------
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+Apology to jms (28 Jul 1996 14:00:17 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 28 Jul 1996 14:00:17 -0700

+
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+
+      That breakdown is about right; and no, Minbari don't count as
+First Ones.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sic Transit Vir (07 Jul 1996 22:18:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:03 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's okay to kill the Narns , after all, it isn't as if they were
+> another sentient species is it? Finally, Claudia, (why can't she
+> come to the Wolf convention - please, pretty please - you'd hate
+> to see a grown man begwouldn't you?
+
+      That's all very encouraging, thanks.  Yeah, it's kind of a fun
+episode, all soft and fuzzy on the outside, with REAL big teeth on the
+inside.  I like that kind of episode a lot.  It's wonderfully
+subversive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TV Zone (28 Jul 1996 14:00:19 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 28 Jul 1996 14:00:19 -0700

+
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+
+      Agreed, darned careless of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TV GUIDE article (28 Jul 1996 20:51:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 28 Jul 1996 20:51:13 -0700

+
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+
+      It's common today, in our age of cynicism, to deride anything in
+which the people involved feel passionately about what they do.  We
+should all be laid back, do it for the money, just churn out sausage
+between commercials; if you get passionate about something, you're told
+to chill out, because passion is passe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Apology to jms (28 Jul 1996 21:06:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Jul 1996 21:06:03 -0700

+
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+
+      The B5 copyright belongs to PTEN/WB.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Post B5 Years... (28 Jul 1996 21:06:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 28 Jul 1996 21:06:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What exactly is a "demo reel"?
+> Is it more like a pilot episode complete with actors or more like
+> a series of highlight clips? I know the sequel is in the B5
+> universe but time-wise would it be before, after or during the
+> current timeline? Does the TNT deal have to do with the broadcast
+> of B5 reruns?
+
+      No, the TNT situation involves something else, though it relates
+to B5. More on this when things are settled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+IaE in UK (28 Jul 1996 21:06:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Jul 1996 21:06:08 -0700

+
 Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com> asks:
+> presumably Adira was actually poisoned by Mordens cronies, since
+> he was looking for a way to hurt Londo, and we saw him finding
+> out information about her? I don't remember seeing any rangers in
+> this episode - where did he come in? Will we ever find out why
+> Kosh allowed himself to be "poisoned" in the pilot episode now? 
+> What was the flash of light running across B5 when Kosh died? Does
+> Delenn know what the shadows are after (considering the war from
+> a 1000 years ago, I would have thought that the star faring
+> Minbari would have had pretty good records)? Will you tell us?
+> What happens to the information Kosh recorded about Talia back in
+> year1?
+
+Thanks...to your questions:
+
+"1. presumably Adira was actually poisoned by Mordens cronies, since
+he was looking for a way to hurt Londo, and we saw him finding out
+information about her?"
+
+Correct.
+
+"2. In the final credits, a ranger is mentioned. I don't remember
+seeing any rangers in this episode - where did he come in?"
+
+His scene was snipped for time, it was a small one, didn't add much to
+the story, but you have to keep those credits in under SAG rules.
+
+"3. Will we ever find out why Kosh allowed himself to be "poisoned" in
+the pilot episode now?"
+
+You're assuming he allowed it.
+
+"4. What was the flash of light running across B5 when Kosh died?"
+
+A non-localized phenomenon.
+
+"5. Early on, when Sheriden was talking to Delenn, he wants to know
+"what the Shadows are really after". Delenn looks like she is
+resolutely not saying anything and hoping that the conversation moves
+on before Sheriden presses for an answer... which it does. Does Delenn
+know what the shadows are after (considering the war from a 1000 years
+ago, I would have thought that the star faring Minbari would have had
+pretty good records)?"
+
+They do, and she does, and she's making a few mistakes that may come
+back to haunt her in the not too distant future.
+
+"6. Will you tell us? (answer = cryptic "YES" no doubt!)"
+
+In the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Greyest of the Grey (28 Jul 1996 21:06:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jul 1996 21:06:12 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is: given the fact that the overall plan for B5 and
+> the themes involved were pre-organized, do you ever find themes
+> that are there, but that you did not consciously plan, and, if
+> so, do those "themes trouves" influence how you write future
+> episodes?
+
+      To the two parts of this...yes, there's always been the
+undercurrent in the series that says we are our brother's keeper, that
+we have an obligation to look out for one another.  If we're bound and
+determined to seek our own destruction nothing can stop that...but
+anything less, and a kind word in the right place, an action taken at
+the right time, can bend history and help others.  This is part of the
+community sense that comes through so strongly in B5.
+
+      And yes, there are sometimes themes that come out without my
+knowing it; sometimes I wear my heart on my sleeve more than I
+intended, and stuff slips through, thematically and dialogue-wise, that
+later I see and wish I'd left out.  Sometimes it'll be much later when
+I'll realize what a character was REALLY saying when s/he whispered a
+line or two into my brain, and I'll perceive again that the characters
+are smarter than I am sometimes...and take that thematic element and
+run with it.
+
+      And no, I won't tell you which was which....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Apology to jms (29 Jul 1996 12:39:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:01 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> May one assume that, given these new potential offers, that you
+> might be willing to postpone your retirement from television for
+> a few years (please, please, PLEASE..)?
+
+       We will see what we will see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode Character Titles (29 Jul 1996 12:39:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:03 -0700

+
 AsstOp Mike Willmoth <76170.1037@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why the difference?
+
+       Because putting Ambassador at the start of each name would look
+odd after a while, and many people wouldn't get to the second name
+before it scrolled off; because Delenn and G'Kar only have the one
+name, and to break it for Londo...well, what the heck.  So the Centauri
+get screwed for a change, it's about time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+IaE in UK (29 Jul 1996 12:39:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:04 -0700

+
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+
+       A personal transport is assigned to one vorlon for life,
+changing and evolving over time.  Little fighters have a more primitive
+system.  It's not the same thing as a shadow-vessel merge.  A big
+Vorlon cruiser has a full crew.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+WWE_Possible arc hole (29 Jul 1996 12:39:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:05 -0700

+
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+
+       I think it'd be hard to just drop in Garibaldi's attitudes
+about Valen without it having something to do with an episode; if it
+doesn't move that particualr episode along, it shouldn't be there.  So
+that sort of thing is tough to pull off, making the show more
+unfriendly to new viewers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Just curious... (07 Jul 1996 22:18:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:05 -0700

+
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+
+      And there are some who would argue they're the same thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (29 Jul 1996 12:39:06 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:06 -0700

+
 Helene Northway <72370.1026@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any word for those of us who sent checks/form in in April and
+> haven't received anything yet????
+
+       There've been some problems with the post office; send a note
+to jplb5@aol.com to let him know your situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:39:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Nothing personal, Joe, but why are you soliciting membership in a
+> "fan club" when most of us who applied for membership and sent
+> money months ago haven't received anything?
+
+       No, it's not vapor.  Many people *have* received their stuff. 
+So it's there, and it's working, but there have been some glitches in
+the post office side that blindsided us.  A "vapor club" is one where
+you sign up and get nothing, because nothing's made or delivered.  Many
+people here and elsewhere *have* received their full packets, and
+newsletters, and the posters are going out shortly, now that WB has
+*finally* approved the design, which took longer than it should have.
+
+       If you haven't received the material, send email to
+jplb5@aol.com and let him know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (29 Jul 1996 12:47:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:47:36 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why should Joe be soliciting members when he hasn't taken care of
+> the ones who sent in money months ago? What guarantee do new
+> applicants have that they won't be left in the lurch?
+
+       For starters, I didn't resolicit anyone, the fan club message
+gets popped up by the system.  Second, new applicants have less of a
+chance of getting left in the lurch than the folks who dived in at the
+beginning when we were still putting all the pieces into position.
+
+       If you have *any* reservations, we will happily refund your
+money. Or you can give it a bit of time; we can't know who hasn't
+gotten their stuff until we hear from them, and/or the post office
+sends back the material, which has begun to happen.  We're dealing with
+it as fast as possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (29 Jul 1996 12:47:37 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 29 Jul 1996 12:47:37 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Nothing personal, Joe, but why are you soliciting membership in a
+> "fan club" when most of us who applied for membership and sent
+> money months ago haven't received anything?
+
+       PS...I just went down the hall to ask Jim Lockett about what
+the status of things was, and there was a huge pile of newsletters and
+packets on his desk ready to go out.  I asked about yours in
+particular, and he had it right there, about ten down in the "to-mail"
+pile.  So you should have the stuff shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:08 -0700

+
 Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Another thought that occurred to me just now - and I haven't been
+> back to the video to check it up, but in Dust to Dust didn't Kosh
+> appear in G'Kars dream as *his* father, too?
+
+       Yes, by all means, I can't exactly lay claim to a patriarchal
+system, after all.  And that's what Kosh tends to play into, the whole
+father aspect, though others might take the other approach in this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Olympics in 2260? (30 Jul 1996 14:19:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:09 -0700

+
 Eric Rochkind <70671.302@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since we have not yet seen or heard the Olympics mentioned in the
+> third season of "Babylon 5" (Granted, this could be in one of
+> those episodes we haven't seen yet) are the olympics still being
+> celebrated in the 23rd century? If not, why not?
+> Any ideas on this subject?
+
+       My gut instinct would be that the Olympics would still be
+almost exclusively an Earth/human thing, we have to keep some things to
+ourselves, as part of our unique heritage.  And they're probably still
+going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Greyest of the Grey (30 Jul 1996 14:19:11 -0700)
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+
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       On the other hand, the only way to get pertinent information is
+to ask impertinent questions....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn question (spoiler (30 Jul 1996 14:19:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I&E -Vorlon Cruiser (30 Jul 1996 14:19:15 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:15 -0700

+
 Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since its own weapon seemed to be pretty devastating why did we
+> not see it attack a Shadow vessel directly ?
+
+       I think we just didn't see those shots; it was used in the
+attack. And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Greyest of the Grey (30 Jul 1996 14:19:17 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
The Greyest of the Grey

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:17 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any idea how often you've brought tears to our eyes
+> this season? Particularly the tears shed over an animatronic
+> actor?
+
+       And that's good.  Too much of TV is just the plot/action stuff,
+not much emotional content.  For me, drama done well should make you
+feel something.  That's vitally important to me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Previously on Babylon 5 (07 Jul 1996 22:18:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Previously on Babylon 5

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:07 -0700

+
 Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you ever consider regularly putting in clips from previous
+> episodes at the start of each programme, in the same manner as,
+> say, LA Law, another programme with multi-episode storylines?
+
+      The problem with putting in clips from previous episodes is that
+we only have about 42-43 minutes to tell our story.  If we put in 30
+seconds or 1 minute of clips from last week, that leaves us with 1 less
+minute to tell our story this week, and in this show, we need every
+second we can get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Audio (30 Jul 1996 14:19:20 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Audio

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:20 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any input on this?
+
+       That happens after we turn it over to WB, during the dubbing
+process wherein they add first captions, then commericals.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+gerbals or hamsters? (30 Jul 1996 14:19:23 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
gerbals or hamsters?

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:23 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Go to your room.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms Songwriter ? (30 Jul 1996 14:19:24 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
jms Songwriter ?

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:24 -0700

+
 Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> To you, maybe, but there are dozens (hundreds?
+> How about all the blues singers who couldn't recognise a note of
+> written music but wrote those superb songs? Has it been shown yet?
+
+       No, the songs are in "Walkabout," which is the next episode up
+after "War Without End."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WWE question (30 Jul 1996 14:19:26 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
WWE question

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:26 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> First of all why does she get into the suit?
+> What the heck is that about?
+> Also, why wouldn't she try and wake Sheridan to see if he was OK?
+
+       When Delenn takes off her stabalizer and puts it on Sheridan,
+taking on his suit for whatever small protection it might offer, at
+that point he stabalized and she became lost/unstuck in time.  So it
+was she who appeared in the last sequence there.  She took the risk to
+ensure saving Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Apology to jms (30 Jul 1996 14:19:29 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Apology to jms

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:29 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does this mean there's hope that we can keep you in television
+> after B5's run is complete?
+
+       We'll see; it depends on how far they would let us go with the
+story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/135.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/135.html
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+
+
+IaE in UK (30 Jul 1996 14:19:30 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
IaE in UK

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:19:30 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What significance was the fact that one of the Vorlon ships was
+> red instead of the usual green/yellow ? Is it a prototype ?
+
+       Thanks.  The different color just goes to show some measure of
+individuality in design, and there are some hierarchies implied here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/136.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/136.html
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+
+
+Apology to jms (30 Jul 1996 22:26:18 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Apology to jms

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 22:26:18 -0700

+
 Antonia Smillie <100333.3625@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just tell me one thing - who or what are TNT?
+
+      TNT = Turner Network Television, a huge cable network here in
+the states.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Old SciFi series (30 Jul 1996 22:26:20 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Old SciFi series

+
Date: 30 Jul 1996 22:26:20 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and in theory, yes, you could carry on without the
+station itself, since the story is about the people who live there,
+rather than the place itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/138.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/138.html
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+
+
+B5 Tech & Other Stuff (31 Jul 1996 15:18:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Tech & Other Stuff

+
Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:18:13 -0700

+
 Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is 1G maintained at the interior surface or the last level (Down
+> Below?) just inside the skin? How many levels are there between
+> the outer hull and the inner surface (I'm trying to figure the
+> change in "gravity" from level to level)? What's the radius of the
+> main cylinder? By the way, had you read Gerard K O'Neill's work on
+> space habitats?
+
+       I don't have the specs onhand, but basically you've got a
+smidge under 1g in the inner levels, working out until you've got a
+smidge over 1g in the areas closest to the hull.  This helps with alien
+requirements in living quarters in those areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+IaE in UK (31 Jul 1996 15:18:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
IaE in UK

+
Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:18:14 -0700

+
 Margaret Rainey <100445.742@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Shadows are already on-station, and can blow away Kosh (of
+> all people), why don't they just rub out Sheridan, Delenn, et al,
+> in a similar manner, and solve their "problems" at a stroke? why
+> do I feel I must be over-simplifying....?
+
+       A good question, which we'll answer in the last episode of this
+season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Centari Background (07 Jul 1996 22:18:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Centari Background

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:10 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) What was the Centari's part in the last Shadow War?
+> 2) How large was the Centari Empire at its peak?
+> 3) What started the downfall of the Centari?
+> 4) What role, if any, did the loss of Narn play in that downfall?
+> 5) How was the Eye lost originally?
+
+      In short form, since this would take forever otherwise...they
+were a fairly large empire at one time, but in areas which didn't
+really connect with what was going on with the last shadow war.  They
+were more or less out of it. The downfall of the republic was mainly
+entropy, it's nearly impossible to maintain control of an empire
+covering light years (or even thousands of miles, as the early British
+Empire discovered, among others), and in that process, the Narn were
+basically the final insult.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Old SciFi series (31 Jul 1996 15:18:15 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Old SciFi series

+
Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:18:15 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I know, but I can't tell you.
+
+                                                     the new number 2
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+IaE in UK (31 Jul 1996 15:18:17 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
IaE in UK

+
Date: 31 Jul 1996 15:18:17 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I wouldn't say childish gods...that's too easy.  It has to
+be a bit more than that.
+
+       But good thoughts nonetheless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+copyrights (07 Jul 1996 22:18:12 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
copyrights

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:12 -0700

+
 Andrew Bradbury <100777.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would I put something like "Copyright Time-Warner 1996", (or am I
+> getting totally confused?), or "Babylon 5 is a trademark of {x}"? 
+> Finally, as the picture is entirely my own work, am I entitled to
+> put my own copyright on the picture (making sure I acknowledge
+> the previous trademarks/copyrights)?
+
+      The copyright is still owned by PTEN, regardless of the future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Bootlegs? (07 Jul 1996 22:18:18 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 Bootlegs?

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      ANY B5 videos of any sort being sold at conventions are bootlegs
+and illegal.  They are crummy quality, and copyright infringement.  We
+have been and will continue to prosecute anyone we find doing this. 
+And I do mean prosecute.  Serious fines are the order of the day.  For
+a second offense, we go for criminal penalties.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+spoilers (07 Jul 1996 22:18:20 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
spoilers

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:20 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have enough time living in this dimension without getting into
+what may or may not happen in parallel or alternate universes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Avalon & Delenn (07 Jul 1996 22:18:22 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Avalon & Delenn

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:22 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm curious: What exactly did Marcus/Franklin tell Delenn about
+> David in "A Late Delivery from Avalon" before she went in to
+> recover the sword? Did they tell her who he was and what he did?
+> Did they tell her what "role" the wanted her to play?
+> Did they tell her to get the sword?
+
+      She was told the whole background...including who David really
+was. She was in a way taking the pain from someone who had attacked the
+very ship she and the other Grey council members had been aboard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/19.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/19.html
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+
+
+Ship Of Tears-Mira (07 Jul 1996 22:18:25 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Ship Of Tears-Mira

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I couldn't agree more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/2.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/2.html
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+
+
+Fan Club (02 Jul 1996 21:33:06 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Fan Club

+
Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:06 -0700

+
 Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com> asks:
+> question?
+> is it up and running yet?
+
+      The web page isn't up yet, WB is taking forever on the approval.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/20.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/20.html
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+
+
+Shadow Dancing (07 Jul 1996 22:18:27 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:27 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What else would beings with eight legs want except to "shake"
+> 'em? So when can we expect to see Garibaldi in a white Disco-suit
+> singing "Staying Alive" <g>?
+
+      Never have I seen a better reason to log off and never, ever
+turn my modem on again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/21.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/21.html
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+
+
+Susan and Talia (07 Jul 1996 22:18:29 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Susan and Talia

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:29 -0700

+
 Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I miss something?
+> Was anything ever actually confirmed between the two of them or
+> was it merely hinted at as being a possibility?
+
+      They weren't shown in separate beds.  We saw Talia reaching over
+to the empty space in the bed where Ivanova had been, and finding her
+gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/22.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/22.html
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+
+
+Delenn as a child (07 Jul 1996 22:18:31 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Delenn as a child

+
Date: 07 Jul 1996 22:18:31 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever find out who/what Delenn saw as a child in that old
+> temple?
+
+      Probably.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/23.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/23.html
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+
+
+B5 Bootlegs? (08 Jul 1996 12:08:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 Bootlegs?

+
Date: 08 Jul 1996 12:08:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What should we do, next time?
+
+       Best to get their card and let me know the details; we'll take
+it from there.
+
+       There've been enough inquiries on this that I'm thinking maybe
+I ought to make some kind of general policy statement for folks to
+have.  I'll try to get to it soonish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/24.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/24.html
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+
+
+B5 Bootlegs? (08 Jul 1996 12:08:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 Bootlegs?

+
Date: 08 Jul 1996 12:08:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nah, it ain't worth your hassle.  They show up again later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Last Episode Name (08 Jul 1996 20:43:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
Last Episode Name

+
Date: 08 Jul 1996 20:43:15 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how did you manage that?
+> Didja throw teddy bears at him?
+
+      At Chicago, the assumption was still that the UK wouldn't be
+getting the final 5 until the US did.  But since now they'll be getting
+new (to the US) episodes starting in August, keeping the title quiet
+now seems kind of a moot issue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sic Transit Vir (08 Jul 1996 20:48:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sic Transit Vir

+
Date: 08 Jul 1996 20:48:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, yeah, I love the range we get on the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+J.M.S. at S.D.C.C. (10 Jul 1996 21:08:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
J.M.S. at S.D.C.C.

+
Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:08:55 -0700

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, standing and pacing for ninty minutes must be tiring,
+> couldn't they get you a bar stool?
+
+      There were chairs there, but I would've been low-eye level, and
+given that there were SO many folks so FAR in the back, all you
+would've seen from that distance would've been the table and a little
+bump for a head.  So I stayed on my feet.  Besides, a moving target is
+harder to hit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan Ellison on Snyder (10 Jul 1996 21:08:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
Harlan Ellison on Snyder

+
Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:08:57 -0700

+
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+
+      Because he and Snyder are long-term serious buddies, and he'd
+brought Harlan there to talk about his heart attack, and flog the book,
+and it just didn't occur to him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Susan and Talia (10 Jul 1996 21:08:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Susan and Talia

+
Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:08:59 -0700

+
 O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Indirectly unrelated to this, wouldn't intimate contact make it
+> more difficult for Susan to hide any psi tendencies from Talia? 
+> Also indirectly unrelated, given the previous statements by Talia
+> about the intensity of mutual telepath love, do telepaths in
+> general view intimacy with non-telepaths as a lesser experience,
+> and so typically avoid "normals" as lovers?
+
+      Well, a telepath can also hold it back and avoid dipping any
+further into someone's mind, if not permitted or asked not to do so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+severed dreams in UK (02 Jul 1996 21:33:07 -0700)
+
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+
severed dreams in UK

+
Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:07 -0700

+
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+
+      No, that's what actually happened.  He's a trooper.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 BUBBLE BUDDY (12 Jul 1996 14:17:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 BUBBLE BUDDY

+
Date: 12 Jul 1996 14:17:16 -0700

+
 William H. Vallely <103351.1752@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, Warners does have *some* proprietary interest in the show,
+> right? I mean, how can they expect to get a better deal from
+> someone else when they could publish it themselves? Stirling
+> written?
+
+       S.M. Stirling's credits are beyond reproach, and if you don't
+know who that is, or what he's done, then the loss is yours...and
+you're simply showing your ignorance here of written SF.  And we've had
+lots of other quality SF writers doing our books, like Neal Barrett Jr.
+and Lois Tilton and John Vornholt, among others.  But I guess maybe you
+don't know who THEY are either.
+
+       That's okay...they don't know who you are, either.
+
+       Re: the comic...yes, WB did want DC to do it originally, and
+they did so for some time.  But they're really not set up these days to
+do much licensed stuff, the Star Trek books and other licensed stuff
+have pretty much all gone to other publishers.  Creatively, things
+weren't working out, and in reality, WB can get more from an outside
+company that pays larger bucks for the license than with an in-house
+company which doesn't have to.
+
+       So again, your facts don't touch reality at any two contiguous
+points.
+
+       And yes, there *is* a large demand for B5 merchandise.  And if
+you used this forum for any purpose other than to issue snide
+commentaries, you would know that from *day one* on this series, I've
+stated very openly that I do not WANT a lot of merchandising on this
+show while it's in production. I'm taking the Calvin and Hobbes model
+on this one.  I said here, in front of all the users on CIS, GEnie and
+elsewhere, long before we were ever in a position to even get offers,
+that I intended to drag my feet on licensing, because I've been
+involved with, or seen too often shows in which the tail began wagging 
+the dog, where merchandise begins to drive the show.
+
+       I refuse to allow that to happen with B5.  It's real simple:
+you tell the story first.  Make the show first.  Then, when it's all
+done, if it's a hit, and ours is growing steadily, then there's all the
+time in the world to do some merchandising.  If not, it's a moot
+question anyway.  For every 10 prospective licensing deals that come
+through my hands, I appove only 1, and usually with a great deal of
+conditions involved, and direct creative supervision.
+
+       Bill Watterson could've made gazillions of dollars licensing
+all kinds of Calvin and Hobbes stuff.  His friends wanted him to, the
+company REALLY wanted him to, others couldn't understand why he
+wouldn't do it...but he understood the importance of the story, and the
+product.  Take care of that first, and the rest will attend to itself
+later.  He made a good living doing what he was doing, and I do okay
+too...how much more do you need?
+
+       I guess it's beyond your comprehension that anyone would
+actually turn down money, or want to do something for reasons other
+than money. Again, the loss is yours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn Kissing (12 Jul 1996 14:17:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
Delenn Kissing

+
Date: 12 Jul 1996 14:17:20 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> where *does* Delenn pick up those sayings like "Something in the
+> air"? Are you *serious*?
+> Did she really?
+
+       Nope, just kidding.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (12 Jul 1996 22:08:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5

+
Date: 12 Jul 1996 22:08:15 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that there's still a chance to see the books you
+> were going to write?
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Previously on Babylon 5 (12 Jul 1996 22:08:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Previously on Babylon 5

+
Date: 12 Jul 1996 22:08:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's kind of like building a text-hologram, I
+suppose....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+You are number 29! (12 Jul 1996 22:08:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
You are number 29!

+
Date: 12 Jul 1996 22:08:19 -0700

+
 Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That got me thinking: If you had the choice, how would you have
+> prefered the show to be created and distributed? Would you prefer
+> independant distribution (such as PTEN), a cable network (TNT),
+> or a broadcast network? the market penetration of a prime time
+> broadcast network slot?
+
+      It'd be either a guarantee from a cable network -- which would
+let us do a lot more in terms of language and hard storylines -- or
+syndication. This show wouldn't have lasted long on the networks, which
+invariably tend to interfere creatively, and only give short orders to
+start.  This is a very eccentric show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bored of the Rings (14 Jul 1996 21:27:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Bored of the Rings

+
Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:42 -0700

+
 Vlobb <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Seriously for a second...are you going to be writing the episodes
+> for Season 4 under the assumption that there shall be a Season 5
+> at the moment? Oh, and if you are writing them assuming that there
+> will be an S5, do you have a Master Plan to bring us the end of
+> the story should Warners fail us???
+
+        I'll have more on this once I've worked it out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ch.4 (UK) edits violence (14 Jul 1996 21:27:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ch.4 (UK) edits violence

+
Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:44 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, when you get "Shadow Dancing," I'd love to see
+how much the slice outta this one....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 in the newspaper! (14 Jul 1996 21:27:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 in the newspaper!

+
Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:46 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, any quotes you can remember from the article?  I haven't
+seen it yet.
+
+      (Or you could send a copy to me c/o Babylon 5 at the usual
+address, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Avalon Q's (14 Jul 1996 21:27:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
Avalon Q's

+
Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:48 -0700

+
 Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Will we see/hear from David/Arthur again?
+> 2) Is Morden in any way related to Mordred?
+> 3) Ivanova said (in MOH I think) that "We will all die horrible
+> lingering deaths" - is this important?
+
+      The answer to all those is, nominally, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Avalon & Delenn (14 Jul 1996 21:27:51 -0700)
+
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+
Avalon & Delenn

+
Date: 14 Jul 1996 21:27:51 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Actually, there are 5 more season 3 eps left to air, in
+October, followed by new season 4 eps in November.
+
+      Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+sci fi shows (02 Jul 1996 21:33:09 -0700)
+
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+
sci fi shows

+
Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:09 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In what context did Torme's name come up, if I may be so bold as
+> to ask?
+
+      No, everything I've heard concurs with your assessment. 
+Basically, we have a lot of mutual friends in common, and the name just
+came up in conversation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Previously on Babylon 5 (15 Jul 1996 22:56:14 -0700)
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+
Previously on Babylon 5

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:14 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, as I think I indicated, WWE is probably the one most in
+need of prior episodes, but in general, the rule applies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bored of the Rings (15 Jul 1996 22:56:16 -0700)
+
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+
Bored of the Rings

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Don't worry about it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:Budget B5 (15 Jul 1996 22:56:17 -0700)
+
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+
JMS:Budget B5

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:17 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I guess maybe Dick Robertson would be the one to write to at WB
+and thank; his address is in the faq.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ch.4 (UK) edits violence (15 Jul 1996 22:56:20 -0700)
+
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+
Ch.4 (UK) edits violence

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:20 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ASide to that how much time do Channel 4 have to do the
+> 'required' edits before it's broadcast ?
+
+      We usually get "censor-check" copies to C4 about 2-3 months
+ahead, so there's plenty of time to make any edits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Narns conquerers? (15 Jul 1996 22:56:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
Narns conquerers?

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:22 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this accurate?
+
+      They had a brief period after the Centauri got driven out where
+they were throwing their weight around, yes.  Didn't last long, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari & League Ques. (15 Jul 1996 22:56:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
Minbari & League Ques.

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:24 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When was the Earth-Minbari war ?
+> And it was the DSEV Amundsen that fired, was it not ?
+> How many (roughly) Alien races are in the League Of Non-Aligned
+> Worlds ? Are there just the ones in the B5 Counsel ?
+> Or are there a few more ?
+
+      The Earth/Minbari war ended in 2247, and there were several
+ships in the initial contact convoy, the Amundsen and the Prometheus.
+
+      The membership in the League varies widely and frequently, so a
+good count is difficult.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I&E (15 Jul 1996 22:56:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
I&E

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:29 -0700

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A race of critters who started out in hyperspace?
+> Who could have let them out?
+
+      No, they didn't exactly start out in hyperspace, but they were
+among the first to get into it, and they know a lot of tricks in and
+out and around it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE1-2 Questions (15 Jul 1996 22:56:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
WWE1-2 Questions

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:56:32 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever see more of the Centauri Prime future line (around
+> the time of Sheridan's 'visit')?
+
+      We won't actually go back to that future time again, but we will
+see the events which cause it to come about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE-Homage? (15 Jul 1996 23:02:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
WWE-Homage?

+
Date: 15 Jul 1996 23:02:46 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've never seen the Dr. Who ep you mention, and I'm at an utter
+loss to call any of Feydeau's work to mind, so that may answer the
+question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Previously on Babylon 5 (16 Jul 1996 21:42:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Previously on Babylon 5

+
Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:07 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.  I know the feeling; I get the same reaction when I read
+Jonathan Carroll's books.  It's the nearest thing I've seen in writing
+to close-up magic, it's *right there* in your face, and you can't see
+how he's doing it.  If the stuff in I&E came even close to that, then
+I'm happy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Wallace & Grommit D.F. (02 Jul 1996 21:33:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Wallace & Grommit D.F.

+
Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      pfthpft
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Bored of the Rings (16 Jul 1996 21:42:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Bored of the Rings

+
Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:08 -0700

+
 Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Contrary to other peoples worries, do you feel, that it will be
+> easier getting B5 renewed for year 5, than it was for year 4? Now
+> that WB has shelled out the money for 4 years of B5, even if
+> rating dropped slightly ( not that they will ), wouldn't it be
+> better to complete year 5 and try for a greater syndication price
+> based on a 5 year complete series than a partially completed 4
+> year run?
+
+      It's a sensible position, yes.  Let us hope they can be
+reasonable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thoughts + Positions (16 Jul 1996 21:42:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Thoughts + Positions

+
Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:13 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you get around and reply too so many messages ?
+> All I would like to know is are *all* the races, including
+> Vorlons and Shadows between 2-4 days hyperspace from B5 ? We know
+> Earth is 3 days, Centauri Prime is 4 days.Someone said the Vorlon
+> Homeword was 4 days, and Narn 2 days...can you confirm this ? Are
+> the shadows far away, just a couple of days ?
+
+      The majority of races are within that range because that's as
+far as they've gone in putting in navigational beacons, without which
+traveling in hyperspace can be extremely dangerous.  You sort of inch
+your way outwards.
+
+      And thanks...it is a massive task, moreso than most folks will
+ever know, or should ever know...but it's worth it in the end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Avalon & Delenn (16 Jul 1996 21:42:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
Avalon & Delenn

+
Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:17 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was prompted by needs that developed in the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE1 - dialog (16 Jul 1996 21:42:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
WWE1 - dialog

+
Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:42:20 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they still "speaking Minbari" with the English presented for
+> our benefit, a la "Red October"?
+
+      No, he slid into Minbari at that point to try and conceal what
+was being said from the others on the bridge.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fan Club Kit! (16 Jul 1996 22:12:30 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 Fan Club Kit!

+
Date: 16 Jul 1996 22:12:30 -0700

+
 Michael Studte <100245.2335@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if there is ANY way to get them to ship things via
+> air (to Australia)?
+
+      We're shipping all foreign orders airmail rather than surface
+and just eating the cost difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 and its Morals (16 Jul 1996 22:12:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 and its Morals

+
Date: 16 Jul 1996 22:12:31 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd actually offer that we're not a moral show at all, but
+rather an ethical show.  We don't generally tell people what to think,
+or which road they have to take.  Rather, we raise ethical issues for
+the purpose of provoking discussion so people can define their stands
+for themselves.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Praise for B5 (17 Jul 1996 13:15:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Praise for B5

+
Date: 17 Jul 1996 13:15:31 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, you've just made my day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Fan Club Kit! (17 Jul 1996 13:15:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Fan Club Kit!

+
Date: 17 Jul 1996 13:15:32 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       By next week, we'll be able to post a direct phone number for
+Jim Lockett at the fan club, and an email address.  If you haven't
+gotten anything by then, contact him directly and he'll resend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: ?? <<SPOILERS (18 Jul 1996 11:46:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: ?? <<SPOILERS

+
Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:46:36 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I can see why you can't answer questions #2 & #3, but how could
+> the age of Delenn and Sheridan's child spoil a plot? Would it make
+> a difference if he was 5 or 15 at the time?
+
+       It's not that I *can't* answer the question, I simply choose
+not to. There is no requirement here that I HAVE to answer every single
+question unless I'm specifically prohibited for some reason.  Some
+things I just prefer to hold back until a later time.  You may not know
+the reasons, but I do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Video Tapes/ Mail Order (18 Jul 1996 11:46:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Video Tapes/ Mail Order

+
Date: 18 Jul 1996 11:46:40 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, I actually don't know what the deal is on that.  It would
+have to be legit (though only for the UK) because they're being very
+open about it. It's like any mail order video company, I assume.  They
+buy in bulk, and sell it via mail for a discount.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club in the Uk (02 Jul 1996 21:33:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Fan Club in the Uk

+
Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:14 -0700

+
 Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the current status on this?
+
+      Okay, we've got a reading on this.  All overseas/foreign Fan
+Club memberships will be handled using Air Mail instead of ground, for
+the same price.  We'll just eat the difference.  So memberships from
+the UK and elsewhere can come on in now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Vs ST:Voyager (19 Jul 1996 02:20:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Vs ST:Voyager

+
Date: 19 Jul 1996 02:20:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, that's been one of the big problems, more and more nights
+are being committed to either UPN or Fox or WBN...syndicated shows are
+being squeezed out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Awards (19 Jul 1996 02:20:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Awards

+
Date: 19 Jul 1996 02:20:14 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that the Emmy nominations have been announced, and the
+> inevitable reactions from the netted are battering at you, I
+> would ask, "What award currently given to television would mean
+> the most to you?" Is there a particular award that you would find
+> most gratifying to receive?
+
+"Is there a particular award that you would find most gratifying to
+receive?"
+
+Speaking as a long-term fan...the Hugo.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: ?? <<SPOILERS (19 Jul 1996 02:20:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: ?? <<SPOILERS

+
Date: 19 Jul 1996 02:20:15 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you mean to say you "could" answer every question "if" you
+> chose, UNLESS you were specifically prohibited by WB from doing
+> so? So you just basically feel that reveling his age would be a
+> major spoiler of some kind?
+
+      Well, logically, you could backtrack from there to figure out
+exactly when Sheridan and Delenn...er...get together.  I'd rather let
+that come along at its own pace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Emmys (19 Jul 1996 16:50:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Emmys

+
Date: 19 Jul 1996 16:50:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Any Nemmy onminations?
+
+       John Flinn got a nomination for cinematograhy for "Inquisitor."
+Last year we sent videotapes of our up-for-nomination episodes, and got
+three nominations for it.  But WB got upset by this -- they don't do
+this for their other shows, we did it on our own -- and ordered us not
+to do it again.  The other shows don't need it because they're network
+shows and get good exposure; most syndicated shows (non-Trek) tend not
+to be Emmy aspirees, so it's not a problem there.  We're in between,
+and we were, in effect, producing videotapes, and they didn't want
+that.  So we had to sit on our hands and not do what we knew would
+result in getting more noms. It's very frustrating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Fan Club Email (19 Jul 1996 17:15:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Fan Club Email

+
Date: 19 Jul 1996 17:15:24 -0700

+
Jim Lockett, head of the Official B5 Fan Club, now has an email
+address which can be used for inquiries and notifications of unarrived
+stuff.  His address is:
+
+JPLB5@AOL.COM
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ch.4 (UK) edits violence (20 Jul 1996 15:57:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ch.4 (UK) edits violence

+
Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:57:50 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It is, not to put too fine a point on it...EXTREMELY important
+to see "Shadow Dancing."  If they choose to cut the nasty bits that's
+one thing, it won't affect what You Need To See, but to not run it at
+all would be a disaster of substantial dimensions.  Still, I imagine
+they'll run it; the nasty bits can be excised pretty well, if
+necessary, I should think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 and its Morals (20 Jul 1996 15:57:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 and its Morals

+
Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:57:52 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I don't think so, because that plunges you too deeply into
+the mire of situational morality or situational ethics.  Granted,
+there's always a certain element of situational judgment in these
+things ("It's wrong to kill. The martians are about to flatten the
+country.  KILL 'EM.")  But the decision making process should, ideally,
+be on what seems the *right* thing to do rather than the *convenient*
+thing to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Emmys (20 Jul 1996 15:57:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
Emmys

+
Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:57:55 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> WHAT!!!!!!?????!!!!!
+> What the HELL is the problem with those guys????
+> What are they afraid of??
+> Do they think that your sending out a few video tapes of the show
+> to the people doing the voting is going to lower the ratings or
+> something???
+
+      No comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Emmys (20 Jul 1996 15:57:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
Emmys

+
Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:57:57 -0700

+
 John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What on earth is the motivation for this, if you can comment?
+
+      I don't think I can comment without getting in just a HEAP of
+trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+"INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL (20 Jul 1996 15:58:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
"INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL

+
Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:58:01 -0700

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did they(the studio) even bother in the first place without
+> serious revisions having at least been done first??!! Have people
+> become this lame in mentality, this stupid??????? Where has common
+> sense gone by en large, and have people learned to just 'shut
+> their brains off' when they go to a theater?
+
+      Thanks.  I saw ID4 this week, and on one level, could enjoy it
+for the technical expertise (I think they ate our lunch in some visual
+areas, and now somebody else is doing Big Fleet stuff, so we have to
+work to stay ahead of the curve again).  But story wise, yeah, there
+was some massively dopey stuff in there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE2> <SPOILER> <GRIPE (02 Jul 1996 21:33:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
WWE2> <SPOILER> <GRIPE

+
Date: 02 Jul 1996 21:33:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Of course, Delenn was trying to save Sheridan from blipping off
+forever into the time stream, so it *did* serve that purpose as well,
+so it did work within the plot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/70.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/70.html
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+
+
+UK Media Articles (20 Jul 1996 15:58:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
UK Media Articles

+
Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:58:04 -0700

+
 Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Bester, the Psi Corps member with the slimy manners and bad wig,
+> is now working with Sheridan, but can he be trusted?
+
+      That's great to know, thanks for passing it along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/71.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/71.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/71.html
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+
+
+Tri-Luminary -> The One (20 Jul 1996 15:58:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Tri-Luminary -> The One

+
Date: 20 Jul 1996 15:58:08 -0700

+
 Randy Hoppe <74403.2532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we expect to see him using the Tri-Luminary in the future?
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/72.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/72.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/72.html
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+
+
+B5 Fan Club Kit! (21 Jul 1996 21:56:56 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Fan Club Kit!

+
Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:56:56 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Lockett?
+
+      Drop Jim a note.  Never hurts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/73.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/73.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/73.html
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+
+
+B5 and its Morals (21 Jul 1996 21:56:58 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 and its Morals

+
Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:56:58 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  We rarely draw events 1 for 1 from the real world; it's
+a sad thing I suppose but certain tragic themes have a way of recurring
+over the generations.  We just give them different names.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/74.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/74.html
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+
+
+Ship of Tears (21 Jul 1996 21:57:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Ship of Tears

+
Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:57:02 -0700

+
 Vivien Loveday <100705.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> protect what?!
+> Is this going to be explained in Shadow Dancing?
+> have the shadows reopened the facility that you mentioned in
+> Messages From Earth and the comics? Is this Mars link important?
+
+      Kill telepaths to protect the Machine from them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/75.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/75.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/75.html
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+
+
+Minbari Background (21 Jul 1996 21:57:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Minbari Background

+
Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:57:04 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <70530.2521@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is it done, or is it some combination of these things that
+> determine a Minbari's caste?
+
+      In "Legacies" the question of caste heritage had more to do with
+how your death is handled than what you're determined to be in life.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/76.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/76.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/76.html
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+
+
+Minbari names? (21 Jul 1996 21:57:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Minbari names?

+
Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:57:09 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this significant?
+
+      No, various families on Minbar use various common surnames,
+prefixes and suffixes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/77.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/77.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/77.html
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+
+
+Continuity Error? (21 Jul 1996 21:57:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Continuity Error?

+
Date: 21 Jul 1996 21:57:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, if they had survived the first encounter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/78.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/78.html
new file mode 100644
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+
+
+B5 Fan Club Kit! (21 Jul 1996 22:05:53 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Fan Club Kit!

+
Date: 21 Jul 1996 22:05:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Write jplb5@aol.com if you haven't received your stuff yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/79.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/79.html
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+
+
+New War Room Staff (21 Jul 1996 22:05:55 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New War Room Staff

+
Date: 21 Jul 1996 22:05:55 -0700

+
 Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I've just watched Ship of Tears, and looking at the new War Room,
+> I wondered how much the ordinary technical staff know about the
+> Shadows?, are they a selected and trusted few or are all B5 (ex
+> Earthforce) personnel now pretty much aware of what's going on ? 
+> PS who do the flying saucers belong to???
+
+      Everyone now pretty much knows what's going on.  It's out in the
+open now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/8.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/8.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/8.html
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+
+
+ATTN:JMS - Review Shows (03 Jul 1996 02:07:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
ATTN:JMS - Review Shows

+
Date: 03 Jul 1996 02:07:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Usually I carry it around in my head; if I need to quote
+verbatim from a prior episode, for a flashback or the like, then I tend
+to drag out the script and read it; it's easier than fast-forwarding
+through videotape.
+
+      I do tend to rewatch episodes as they're aired in reruns, making
+sure nothing untoward happens to them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/80.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/80.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/80.html
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+
+
+"INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL (23 Jul 1996 16:41:16 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
"INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:16 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How come we've never seen one on B5?
+> Hasn't Dicovery done one, or did we manage to miss it?
+> With Chris Franke doing the music for that show, can't you
+> contact the producers and get into their lineup? Or is this
+> another example of WB a**h***ishness?
+
+       Movie Magic wanted to do an hour on B5, but it was nixed by WB;
+we hope to do one eventually, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/81.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/81.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/81.html
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+
+
+Video Tapes/ Mail Order (23 Jul 1996 16:41:18 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Video Tapes/ Mail Order

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great to hear, thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/82.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/82.html
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/82.html
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+
+
+B5 on Video. (23 Jul 1996 16:41:20 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 on Video.

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:20 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/83.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/83.html
new file mode 100644
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+
+
+WWE1 - dialog (23 Jul 1996 16:41:21 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
WWE1 - dialog

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:21 -0700

+
 Won Bin . Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Out of curiosity, will there ever be books on B5 languages like
+> they have for Klingons?
+
+       Doubtful.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/84.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/84.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/84.html
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+
+
+B5 Fan Club Email (23 Jul 1996 22:52:31 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Fan Club Email

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 22:52:31 -0700

+
 Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: I sent a query (from my AOL acct); Is he acknowledging
+> msgs or not?
+
+      Jim's gotten a lot of email on this, but that's good, it lets us
+track down where the problems are.  But it may take him a while to
+acknowledge it all, given that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/85.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/85.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..05822170
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/85.html
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+
+
+"INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL (23 Jul 1996 16:41:16 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
"INDEPENDENCE DAY" AWFUL

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:16 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How come we've never seen one on B5?
+> Hasn't Dicovery done one, or did we manage to miss it?
+> With Chris Franke doing the music for that show, can't you
+> contact the producers and get into their lineup? Or is this
+> another example of WB a**h***ishness?
+
+       Movie Magic wanted to do an hour on B5, but it was nixed by WB;
+we hope to do one eventually, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/86.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/86.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1fa28d83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/86.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+
+Video Tapes/ Mail Order (23 Jul 1996 16:41:18 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Video Tapes/ Mail Order

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great to hear, thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/87.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/87.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7d510a6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/87.html
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+
+
+B5 on Video. (23 Jul 1996 16:41:20 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 on Video.

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:20 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/88.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/88.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..85c36a58
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/88.html
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+
+
+WWE1 - dialog (23 Jul 1996 16:41:21 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WWE1 - dialog

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 16:41:21 -0700

+
 Won Bin . Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Out of curiosity, will there ever be books on B5 languages like
+> they have for Klingons?
+
+       Doubtful.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/89.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/89.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..74530e14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/89.html
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+
+
+B5 Fan Club Email (23 Jul 1996 22:52:31 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Fan Club Email

+
Date: 23 Jul 1996 22:52:31 -0700

+
 Don Crossman <75147.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: I sent a query (from my AOL acct); Is he acknowledging
+> msgs or not?
+
+      Jim's gotten a lot of email on this, but that's good, it lets us
+track down where the problems are.  But it may take him a while to
+acknowledge it all, given that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/9.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/9.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..79a978a3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/9.html
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+
+
+Don't wanna hear that! (03 Jul 1996 02:07:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Don't wanna hear that!

+
Date: 03 Jul 1996 02:07:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      My sense is that these things tend to go in cycles; if you were
+around in the Roaring Twenties, with flappers, jazz, and (to say the
+least) a lapse in morals that went into the first part of the 1930s,
+you'd extrapolate from that to say that the 1950s, by virtue of being
+20 years down the road, would be even MORE loose, more immoral, wilder.
+But, in fact, the 50s were extremely conservative.  And most of the SF
+of the time looked to a future that was as button-down as the present
+of their writers.  Then the looser 60s and 70s, and a rebirth of some
+extent of conservatism in the Reagan 80s and for health reasons.
+
+      The day someone perfects, and distributes, a guaranteed Aids
+vaccine, I think you're going to see another sexual revolution that'll
+make the 60s look like a dinner party.
+
+      So by the time of B5, we're in a bit of a conservative swing
+again, in terms of sexual matters (which often tends to come about
+post-war).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/90.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/90.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/90.html
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+
+
+Video Tapes/ Mail Order (24 Jul 1996 21:07:43 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Video Tapes/ Mail Order

+
Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:07:43 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's wonderful...would've loved to have heard that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/91.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/91.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/91.html
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+
+
+Apology to jms (24 Jul 1996 21:14:55 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Apology to jms

+
Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:14:55 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: apologies...unnecessary.  We learn by our mistakes, and move
+on. The incident is forgotten, gone.  We move on.
+
+      To your questions...there's always been a side-story that could
+go off after the 5 years in the B5 universe, but it wouldn't be B5.  No
+reference books planned for now, or anything filmic currently on the
+boards.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/92.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/92.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..39f90568
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/92.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+
+
+entertainment utility (24 Jul 1996 21:14:57 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
entertainment utility

+
Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:14:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, we noted that one...it got past all of us until the darned
+thing came out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/93.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/93.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cb9eb9ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/93.html
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+
+
+Video Tapes/ Mail Order (24 Jul 1996 21:07:43 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Video Tapes/ Mail Order

+
Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:07:43 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's wonderful...would've loved to have heard that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/94.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/94.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/94.html
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+
+
+Apology to jms (24 Jul 1996 21:14:55 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Apology to jms

+
Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:14:55 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: apologies...unnecessary.  We learn by our mistakes, and move
+on. The incident is forgotten, gone.  We move on.
+
+      To your questions...there's always been a side-story that could
+go off after the 5 years in the B5 universe, but it wouldn't be B5.  No
+reference books planned for now, or anything filmic currently on the
+boards.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/95.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-07/95.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+
+
+entertainment utility (24 Jul 1996 21:14:57 -0700)
+
+
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entertainment utility

+
Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:14:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, we noted that one...it got past all of us until the darned
+thing came out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE-Homage? (25 Jul 1996 11:30:25 -0700)
+
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WWE-Homage?

+
Date: 25 Jul 1996 11:30:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TV GUIDE article (25 Jul 1996 11:30:26 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 25 Jul 1996 11:30:26 -0700

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Your show in an issue where Trek was also focused on??!!
+
+       I stay off the road for the good of the commonweal; it's not
+something I feel is negotiable, just personally.  It's unquestionably a
+pain in the butt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ship of Tears (26 Jul 1996 12:35:45 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Jul 1996 12:35:45 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Which book??
+
+       The story is "The Cask of Amontillado," by Edgar Allen Poe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms Songwriter ? (26 Jul 1996 12:35:47 -0700)
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jms Songwriter ?

+
Date: 26 Jul 1996 12:35:47 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 2) Who sings the songs?
+
+       No, not a career move; it's not widely known -- I guess mainly
+because I haven't ever mentioned it much -- but from time to time I've
+written songs. Mainly the lyrics; I know how the music should sound,
+but I'm incapable of reading music...I think it's the same mental
+glitch that hits me when I try to do certain kinds of math.  "X is a
+numerical value." "No, X is a letter, 7 is a numerical value."  I can't
+ever seem to make the one equal the other in my head.  Similarly, a
+black note on a piece of paper isn't the music...anyway, it's a
+glitch.)
+
+       So when I write songs, and I have a specific melody I'm hearing
+in my head, I'm invariably placed in the humiliating position (since I
+can't play a musical instrument) of humming it, or somehow trying to
+suggest it to the music-person.  Suffice to say it looks really goofy
+and stupid.
+
+       Anyway...despite this, I do sometimes write songs, and like to
+keep my hand in, as they say.  I did two songs for an ABC-TV prime-time
+Real Ghostbusters special, did a few songs that have been recorded by
+small groups (you've never heard of any of them, trust me), another
+song that, much to my chagrin, is apparently still being used in church
+songbooks (and that's all I will ever say about that)...and when I
+decided to do a show with a singer for B5, I wrote a couple of songs
+for that one, with Chris Franke providing the music.
+
+       They're bluesy, Billie Holliday kinds of songs, updated
+slightly. I'm actually very pleased with how they came out (Erica
+Gimpel, one of the cast members from Fame, plays the part and sings the
+songs).  Several folks around here want either or both songs to come
+out on the next B5 album, but I"m loathe to do so, on the theory that
+the soundtracks work better in the style we've already used, all
+instrumental.  (There've even been some inquiries from music people
+who've heard the songs about releasing them commercially, but that
+would mean adding about 30 seconds to each song to make them airplay 
+compatible, and I'm not sure I want to take on the extra hassle just
+now.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Eng Lit & B5 (01 Aug 1996 12:12:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 12:12:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I am curious to know what else is your favourite
+> poetry/literature?
+>  - but I am interested to know what else it is you like, or has
+> influenced you?
+
+       My interest in poetry is fairly eclectic, and eccentric.  I go
+from the classics to the obscure, but I'm not *really* as informed
+about poetry as I should be.  My favorite stuff comes from the
+Shelley/Byron period of English literature.  Tennyson is also obviously
+a favorite.  Coleridge.  But then I jump right over into e.e. cummings
+and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (no, I never really recovered from beat
+poetry, some of it still works for me).  I tend to go for the more
+structured poetry; free verse is okay to a point, but often gets
+misused or used as an excuse for sloppy writing.
+
+                        jm(look upon my works ye mighty and despair)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 New Season (01 Aug 1996 21:01:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 21:01:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Can someone fill me in?
+
+      Expect new eps around the first week of October, at which point
+there will be 9 new shows aired in a row.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta--Season 4 (14 Aug 1996 23:02:47 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:02:47 -0700

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How you get to those milestones is dependent on who you have to
+> play with at the time, true or no? Do you look with anticipation
+> these unexpected opportunities? Do they make your work more
+> exciting because it keeps you on your toes? But I wonder if you've
+> experienced the same thing you've experienced in writing your
+> novels, that is new characters ask to be born, others ask to die
+> and others ask to have their fates changed? I assume that is the
+> case with adding Sheridan and killing off Kosh, but was that the
+> case with Marcus? Was he planned all along?
+> Did Lyta's appearances in Season 3 and Patricia's availability
+> make Lyta's character *demand* more time? Finally, has it ever
+> gotten to the point where you literally have to rein in your
+> characters before they make a shambles of your carefully designed
+> and laid-out plot?
+
+      Actually, the progression of the B5 story has been almost
+exactly the same as the way I write my novels.  I start off knowing
+where the story has to go, what benchmarks I need to hit en route to
+the end, what my repertory group of characters consists of, and then I
+start writing.
+
+      As someone said of a battle, an outline never survives contact
+with the enemy, which in this case is the actual writing.  The outline,
+for me, is a safety net whose purpose is to keep me nominally on track
+while allowing me the freedom to bounce around the landscape, adding
+new threads, broadening out the storylines, fleshing out the
+characters, and reorganizing how the characters move in and out of the
+story.  That makes the work organic.  I still end up exactly where I
+wanted to end up, but the road there is much more interesting than if
+I'd just hewed to a very rigid structure.
+
+      It's like driving from LA to San Diego...you can just jump on
+the freeway, or knowing the freeway is there, jump off from time to
+time to grab lunch at Pea Soup Anderson's or a quick ride or two at
+Disneyland.
+
+      And yeah, sometimes I have to work to keep the characters in
+line. Londo's the worst.  He's always going off and pulling me in one
+direction or the other, he's very peripatetic...and getting him talking
+for dialogue is never hard...getting him to shut the hell UP for two
+minutes so somebody else can get a word in, tha's hard.
+
+      Writing is a very schizophrenic business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon TV Guide Letters (14 Aug 1996 23:08:48 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:08:48 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Now if the show was all about cute kids, or a cute kid or robot
+> saved the day consistently (whoops, did I say Star Trek?
+
+      Two quick notes...what I said was that we wouldn't have cute
+kids (or for that matter ANY kids) in as regular characters a la a
+Wesley or the kid from SeaQuest.  We have, on rare occasions, had cute
+kids in one-shot episodes...of course, they've generally ended up
+shipped off or conveniently deceased....
+
+      Also, just a correction: David Gerrold wrote "Believers," not
+me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout Cast (15 Aug 1996 12:09:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:09:07 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I just wondered, is Michael really in Walkabout?
+> Or have the Radio Times made a mistake with their cast listing?
+
+       It's a typo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE - Hot damn!!! (15 Aug 1996 12:09:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:09:09 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, well, what can one say???
+> The thing that really came across was how much 'face' acting
+> there was, close ups where one or two words and an expression
+> carry a scene, there were so many instances, it's hard to say
+> which really had the most impact, how did Bruce manage to look so
+> hateful / disgusted with Londo? How do you manage to get the
+> performances so consistenty high from your cast and crew?
+
+       Thanks; all the characters are great in that one, and the line
+was "never use this."
+
+       Re: "face-acting"...this is something I've been working on a
+bit lately in my scripts, letting the actor have a moment visually
+without words to carry it.  When you're starting out in a show, and
+everyone's new, you have a tendency to make sure that the emotions are
+expressed in dialogue, in case the acting doesn't carry it off.  Then,
+over time, you learn to relax and start playing the silences, using
+only a word or two here and there.  A few scenes in some year 4 scripts
+play almost like haiku.  You learn to trust your cast, and they respect
+that trust and return it.
+
+       I can't think of any of the cast who doesn't strongly believe
+in the show, and the story...they know, on whatever level, that we're
+doing something of value here, something that's going to be remembered
+and talked about for a long time after we're gone.  Lord knows it ain't
+the money, none of us are getting rich here.  They believe in the
+story, and that's truly extraordinary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Question (15 Aug 1996 12:10:01 -0700)
+
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+
Shadow Question

+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:10:01 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you, however, also think that once we find out what the
+> Shadows want, we shall agree that the methods by which they go
+> about it are justifiable? To put it another way, is the manner in
+> which the Shadows are attempting to achieve their objective the
+> only way in which they can do so, or is there another method they
+> could have chosen?
+
+       I don't think we'll find the methods appealing, but the motives
+behind it may have some justification.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Goodbye Old Friend.. (15 Aug 1996 12:10:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:10:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...a devious mind is a good thing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta--Season 4 (15 Aug 1996 12:10:03 -0700)
+
+
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Lyta--Season 4

+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:10:03 -0700

+
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+
+       No, you can see Pea Soup Anderson right from the freeway, going
+down the 5 south.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comics as a medium... (15 Aug 1996 23:52:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Comics as a medium...

+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:16 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I thought that while I was passing that along to you, I'd ask
+> what you think of comics as a medium to tell *your* stories? Do
+> comics give you the same range that a novel or a TV script does,
+> or do you find them too limiting?
+
+      In general terms, a comic allows you to do things that you could
+never afford to do in a TV series or movie.  There's the constraint of
+the artist you choose...a great artist can elevate a book, a bad one
+can sink it no matter how good the storytelling...and having grown up
+on comics all my life, and enjoyed the work of Miller and Moore and
+Gaiman and David and others, I think they're a terrific form of
+expression and storytelling.
+
+      In regards the Legion...setting aside the reality that after the
+situation with the B5 comic, which I felt wasn't being done correctly,
+and said so vociferously...if there's any book I'd love to do (after
+any of the Superman titles), it'd be the Legion of Superheroes.  It's
+gone through some tough times, mainly in the Giffin days which were as
+much a screwup of the concept as Byrne's Superman, but I have a lot of
+loyalty to the characters, having come into the title back at its
+formation out of the pages of Adventure Comics.  I'd do it in a hot
+second, but I'd want to take it a bit back to its roots, and I'm not
+sure they'd go for that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Goodbye Old Friend.. (15 Aug 1996 23:52:19 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:19 -0700

+
 Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How exactly does the triluminary thingy come into existence?
+> Paradox, no?
+
+      It originated on Epsilon 3.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta--Season 4 (15 Aug 1996 23:52:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:21 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, there's also one on the SD/LA route; I wouldn't have said
+so otherwise.  (I know, I've eaten there.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Old Archives (02 Aug 1996 00:21:30 -0700)
+
+
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+
Old Archives

+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 00:21:30 -0700

+
 Jeff Smith <76702.2572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One follow up though, would such an event as described above have
+> to occur well after the war to have such an effect, since if
+> happened while there where still Minbari alive with personal
+> experience in the war the records could still be mostly
+> reconstructed?
+
+      Certainly it would've occured in the last days of the war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Walkabout Cast (15 Aug 1996 23:52:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:23 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just wondering, do you consider the posters to this forum
+> 'friends' in the same sense you consider those on GEnie friends?
+
+      I try to follow as much of the general conversation as I can,
+but it's a lot to track.
+
+      Re: the CIS/GEnie thing...I was one of the first people around
+town to go on-line in the entertainment business.  I was logging onto
+Compuserve back in 1984, when you could only get 300 baud access, off
+the back of a Kaypro II computer with 128k floppy disks.  This was my
+first online network, and I've known a lot of the people here for 12
+years.  So there's a certain kinship here.
+
+      With GEnie, that was the first online network to give B5 a real
+chance of being anything; a topic, then two, then a whole category,
+then two whole categories were set aside for it, and they've believed
+in the show for a long time.  It took a lot longer for CIS to come
+around and even note the show, or do some of the things that GEnie was
+already doing.
+
+      Those are pretty much the main distinctions in how I see the
+two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 4 Title? (15 Aug 1996 23:52:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:52:26 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you announced the overall title for season 4 yet?
+> If so, can you share it with us?
+> Have you begun filming the next season yet?
+> And how's the writing coming along?
+
+      When I can announce the overall year 4 title, I will.  Filming
+starts August 26th.  The writing is coming well.  Actually walked the
+sets today for the first time since we wrapped in May; it's just too
+depressing to walk on a dead set.  Lots of work going on now, new sets
+being built, noise and energy and enthusiasm...much better now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Magazine Article (16 Aug 1996 15:08:51 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:51 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> maybe", flattery will get you anywhere eh??
+> It goes on, but hey, pretty damn good PR I think nes pas??
+
+       Thanks, I'd seen the article, and it's a great thing.  We're
+starting to pick up more positive articles and reviews
+lately...basicallly, I think journalists are starting to get past their
+preconceptions of what we should be, and what SF is, to see the show
+for what it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Comics as a medium... (16 Aug 1996 15:08:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:53 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I trust you won't object if I pass your comments back to the
+> mailing list?
+
+       Yeah, I've read the books during the rebuilding period, though
+I haven't had time to indulge my comics habit for about six months or
+so.  For some reason, though, it still feels wonky to me.  I confess
+that as far as names go I still prefer Sun Boy to Inferno, and some of
+the other renamings have been kinda dopey.  If you're going to change
+it (and objectively I know Sun Boy is a bit goofy), you should go for
+something a little better than, for instance, Lightning Lad to
+Livewire.  Livewire is just an awful name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Dark Is Rising (16 Aug 1996 15:08:53 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I haven't read it; will confess I hadn't heard of it until
+now, my head being entirely in the show; when I'm done with the show,
+and have some time, I will try and take a look at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Triangle on Minbari head (16 Aug 1996 15:08:56 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:56 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Let me hold off on this for a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Copernicus ??? (16 Aug 1996 15:08:57 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:08:57 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Copernicus* Earth's first and only Sublight Interstellar
+> "freezer" ?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Cast Addition (17 Aug 1996 16:55:16 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I haven't heard anything about how KVOS will be handling the
+show yet, so we'll have to see.
+
+      "Who are you for starters?"
+
+      I work craft services at the Babylon 5 stage.  I make the hot
+dogs. It's a small job, but I'm proud to be there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+(don't read credits, do you...?)
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Magazine Article (17 Aug 1996 16:55:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:18 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And isn't it also possible that journalists skipping their
+> browsers across the WWW like stones across a pond will inevitably
+> run into "cool" B5 sites, which, again, might direct their focus
+> in a more desirable direction?
+
+      I dunno...don't think enough journalists are online yet to make
+an impact that way, but who knows?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Magazine Article (17 Aug 1996 16:55:20 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:20 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nothing about the show ever gets easier...it's just the nature
+of the beast
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+IaE in UK (02 Aug 1996 00:21:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 00:21:32 -0700

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The first question that needs to be asked is why did _most_ of
+> the first ones leave? Were they tired of thousands of generations
+> of war with the Shadows? Tired of this small galaxie?
+> Or was there a general agreement to leave this place to the
+> Shadows? Could the Shadows be higher levels of natural selection?
+> If the clues we have about the death of a Vorlon support Minbari
+> theology then what do the Shadows want? What is my bet?
+
+      Some of the first ones just got bored after millions of years,
+and went off in general.  The rest, for the most part, went beyond the
+Rim for the same reason you cut down old trees to make room for new
+ones.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Snow White (17 Aug 1996 16:55:23 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:23 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Queen: "Mirror, mirror on the wall; who's the fairest of them
+> all?" Miror: "How about a weather report instead?"
+
+      I hate you...I hate you...I really, really, really hate you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Triangle on Minbari head (17 Aug 1996 16:55:25 -0700)
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Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:25 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> No call yet - to be borne in mind??
+
+      The call will come eventually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Day in the Strife (17 Aug 1996 16:55:27 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:27 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should that have been the Blackstar the ship he destroyed?
+
+      Yes, it was called the Black Star.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Goodbye Old Friend.. (17 Aug 1996 16:55:29 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:29 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, I think it's safe to say that Franklin will finally get
+the point later this season....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta--Season 4 (17 Aug 1996 16:55:31 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:31 -0700

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know of any others that might take the stage as late as
+> Season 5, or haven't they let themselves be known to you yet<G>?
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, it happened again.  I'm writing 405, "The
+Long Night," and there's something that one character was supposed to
+do in the script, that had been the plan all along, that was my intent
+even as near as 1 page from where it was going to happen...then just as
+I got to that scene, another character stepped up and said, "no, let me
+do it."  I was kinda flummoxed.  "You?!  You're the LAST person anyone
+would think to do this." The character nodded.  "Exactly."  And the
+symmetry was perfect, the impact would be greater...so that's who did
+it.
+
+      On one level, it's always wonderful when this happens; on
+another, it scares the hell out of me....
+
+      It's at the bottom of act two, you'll figure it out when you get
+there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout Cast (17 Aug 1996 16:55:34 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:55:34 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup...I was here at the dawn of the SF forum....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 at WorldCon (17 Aug 1996 23:19:59 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1996 23:19:59 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if the "A1" room will be Big Enough?
+
+      We'll have to see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comics as a medium... (18 Aug 1996 21:15:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:11 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I guess this means you haven't read the Kingdom Come series
+> yet?
+
+      Kingdom Come is about the only comic I've made it a point to get
+lately; great stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlons & Angels (18 Aug 1996 21:15:13 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:13 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do Vorlons just *use* the images of angels from the races, or did
+> they actually *create* the idea of Angels on each of the
+> homeworlds ?
+
+      In some places they may have expoited what was already there,
+and created it in other places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Centauri Home World ?? (18 Aug 1996 21:15:15 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:15 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Am I recalling the sense of your words approximately correctly?
+
+      No, the Centauri Republic is where they're from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+John Copeland on SFC (02 Aug 1996 00:24:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 00:24:55 -0700

+
      Babylon 5 Producer John Copeland will be on "Vortex," a new show
+on the Sci-Fi Channel, tomorrow evening, along with Majel Barrett
+Roddenberry.  Time you got to seem some of the other friendly folks
+involved in making this show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+C4 B5 announcement (18 Aug 1996 21:15:17 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:17 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This week however went one better, now I wouldn't like to say
+> what they were hinting at but the announcement at the start of
+> the program this week was "Special effects WITH a plot, Babylon
+> 5, science fiction as it should be", not biased or anything eh??
+
+      I hadn't heard that, that's great, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fan Club Site (18 Aug 1996 21:15:19 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:19 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a feature of not using netscape (assuming there wasn't an
+operating glitch)...you're presented with your own Babcom screen, which
+is you launch point into the rest of the site.  Again, it's still being
+added to and worked out, we haven't officially put the darned thing up
+yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta--Season 4 (18 Aug 1996 21:15:23 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:23 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  A lot of people are looking back at season 1 and
+finding it better than they remembered, now that they know the
+characters.  They also now see the little touches here and there
+pointing forward in the storyline.
+
+      The plot-recap stuff is difficult to pull off without being
+obvious; you have to slip in the backstory a line at a time, here and
+there, so new viewers can follow it but without annoying the constant
+viewer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout (18 Aug 1996 21:15:24 -0700)
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+
Walkabout

+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:15:24 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I found myself wondering if Franklin shall eventually find what
+> he seeks, or if has he already discovered it, and just needs to
+> realise that for himself? And as for the songs...well, Joe, what
+> can I say? Is it pure co-incidence that all Vorlon suits shown so
+> far, with the exception of that belonging to Kosh, are similar in
+> design? Why is his the only encounter suit that I have seen so
+> far, that is predominantly green?
+
+      Actually, the new Vorlon's encounter suit is more purple/red
+than green. The design is a matter of form following function.
+
+      And yeah, I figured it might be cool to continue the song over
+the credits.  That happens one more time this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Snow White (18 Aug 1996 21:41:19 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:41:19 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Maybe if someone can get the script a production could be put on at
+one of the big cons?"
+
+don't...
+
+you...
+
+dare....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout (18 Aug 1996 21:41:20 -0700)
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+
Walkabout

+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:41:20 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quickie question : What did Kosh2 see on the door behind Lyta?
+> They sure looked like Shadow warriors to me, but what are they
+> doing following _her_? And why did Kosh2 ignore them?
+> Surely they also followed her onto the White Star....why not
+> wreak havoc then?
+
+      They weren't following Lyta.  We were in Kosh's old quarters,
+and those images were burned into the wall when Kosh died.  Bear in
+mind that she doesn't actually meet the new ambassador until the next
+scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout (18 Aug 1996 21:41:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1996 21:41:22 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you notice Lyta was wearing her gill dress when she first
+> came on board? Who did the music?
+> Where did the Narn heavy fighter come from?
+
+      "Who did the music?"
+
+      I wrote the lyrics, Chris Franke did the music.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rerun Order (19 Aug 1996 01:55:29 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Aug 1996 01:55:29 -0700

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something that disturbs you as well, or do you take part
+> in the decision making process as to which episodes will air
+> when?
+
+      It's WB that decides on the rerun order...it's beyond my control
+or influence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout (19 Aug 1996 02:01:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Aug 1996 02:01:32 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't suppose I could ask that synopses of the episodes that
+are this detailed be kind of not-done?  Brief ones, sure, but a
+blow-by-blow breakdown of every scene is rather disheartening to see in
+a public forum, even one set aside for spoilers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout (20 Aug 1996 13:51:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:51:55 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Chris Franke did the music.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 New Season (02 Aug 1996 14:49:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:04 -0700

+
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+
+       Haven't heard anything yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout (20 Aug 1996 13:51:57 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:51:57 -0700

+
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+
+       No signicance to the eyepiece color; no reason to assume
+Vorlons only have one encounter suit their entire life.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout (20 Aug 1996 13:51:58 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:51:58 -0700

+
 Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that fine to you?
+
+       Nothing to apologize for; nothing wrong with asking for a
+synopsis, it was just the extent of it that brought me up short.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout (20 Aug 1996 13:52:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:02 -0700

+
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+
+       My concern about detailed synopses comes from a number of
+elements. One of the foremost...a not as detailed synopsis leaves some
+room for surprises. Even if you want to know what happens, to have
+every breath, every line given to you ahead of time diminishes the
+*impact* of what you're seeing.  If someone says, "In this episode,
+Kosh dies," then okay, you know it's coming...but you don't know *how*
+it's coming, and that's half the fun.
+
+       Second, when someone attempts to recreate a scene, inclusive of
+dialogue and action descriptions, the episode itself becomes a hostage
+to how well that's presented.  I can't tell you how many times I've
+gotten email from people who said, "I read a detailed synopsis of this
+episode before I saw it, and from the way it was described, it felt
+really stupid...but then I saw it, and I liked it a lot better than the
+way it was presented in the synopsis." It can mitigate against the
+impact, and the quality, of an episode if it's not well presented.  A
+simple by-the-numbers, blow-by-blow synopsis can flatten out any of the
+drama.
+
+       Will they watch it?  Likely yes.  Will the impact be
+diminished? Yes. Can people approach the episode from a prejudiced
+perspective thanks to a too-detailed synopsis?  Yes.  There are other
+concerns even beyond this, but those will do for now.
+
+       (And my problem with the other fellow wasn't so much the
+synopsizing, as that was all he ever did, moments after the show, just
+to be first, and never took part in anything else.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout (20 Aug 1996 13:52:05 -0700)
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Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Again, you don't have to apologize, and I'm not looking for
+one.  You can synopsize all you want...I was just encouraging a briefer
+one that leaves some room for surprises here and there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Rim anyone ? (20 Aug 1996 13:52:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:08 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyway, in a post once you said to me that the races had only
+> explored as far as they did because they need Navigation Beacons
+> for Hyperspace, did they get to the Rim, is the rim the edge of
+> explored space or the edge of the galaxy ? & why don't they go
+> into hyperspace, keep going for a month then come out ?
+
+       It's the Rim of the galaxy, and once you come out of hyperspace
+past the galactic rim, all your points of reference are gone, and
+getting back is tough, if not impossible...and you can't just "keep
+going" in a straight line in hyperspace, as it's not a one-to-one
+corrolation to normal space.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Still waiting... (20 Aug 1996 13:52:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:11 -0700

+
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+
+       Will check into this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+2 Q's on Walkabout (20 Aug 1996 13:52:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:13 -0700

+
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+
+       They're not that far apart in age, but yes, Kosh would be a bit
+older
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Snow White (20 Aug 1996 13:52:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:14 -0700

+
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+
+       I'll think about it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Snow White (20 Aug 1996 13:52:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:16 -0700

+
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+
+       Oh, I didn't really do it for the money, there wasn't much
+involved at the time...it's not that I wrote it for money, it's that I
+wrote it when I was *18* and when you look back at ANYdamnthing you
+wrote at 18 the impulse is to shriek and run away.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Private JMS Viewing!!!!! (20 Aug 1996 13:52:19 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:19 -0700

+
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+
+       It wasn't that I disliked the responses...most of them were
+quite funny in response to my (in jest) offer to come by and see
+them...but others said it was kinda mean (mainly in email) and as I
+pulled back and looked at it objectively, I saw that it could've
+potentially been a UM, and Unintended Meanness.  So I had to rectify
+it.  And the only way to do that was to turn the in-jest offer to come
+to my office and see them into a real offer.  You gots to do what's
+right....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Doom and Despair (02 Aug 1996 14:49:08 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:08 -0700

+
 Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have we only reached the tip of the Iceburg of despair?
+
+       There's always light at the end of the tunnel...but things have
+got to get REALLY bad first, there has to be some major stuff for
+everyone to overcome to make the light mean something.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Detroit problem (20 Aug 1996 13:52:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:22 -0700

+
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+
+       Best if the local fans get together en masse...that tends to
+work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rerun Order (20 Aug 1996 13:52:25 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:25 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But have they ever given you any justification for their
+> scheduling?
+
+       It's all a matter of running new eps during sweeps.
+
+       What's interesting -- when some fans of ST shows look for
+something to badrap B5 about, using the ST ratings as a bludgeon -- the
+ST ratings have been consistently sliding.  For the last several
+quarters, the quarterly rating on DS9 has gone from 7.1 to 6.7, 5.9 and
+as of July 4.6.
+
+       B5's ratings per quarter have gone from 2.7 to 2.9, 3.0 and
+3.1.  Why do I bring this up?  Because lately, in reruns, DS9 hit a 3.9
+rating for the first time in reruns that I can think of (usually
+they're in the 4s or low 5s) at about the same time we hit a 3.1 in
+reruns, where usually it's a bit lower. So now there's only .8 between
+us and DS9 in reruns, where the gap used to be huge.  So it should be
+*very* interesting to see what happens when new episodes hit the air. 
+I imagine they'll still be ahead, but the gap will, I suspect, be much
+smaller.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Characters' Ages on CD-R (20 Aug 1996 13:52:28 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:28 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these accurate?
+
+       I'll have to check this and get back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+walkabout questions (20 Aug 1996 13:52:30 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:30 -0700

+
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+
+       "You OWE me an explanation."
+
+       No I don't.
+
+       The series has to stand on its own, for starters, and most of
+the questions you've asked here will be addressed by the last episode
+of this season.  Suffice to say he has to trust Delenn...he knows she's
+been holding back information (even says so later this season), but
+until now, has held her in trust, that she must have her reasons.  This
+may or may not change soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout propaganda (20 Aug 1996 13:52:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:52:31 -0700

+
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+
+       There's really no need for propgaganda.  By about now,
+everybody out in this part of space knows the situation...and what's
+going on back home is secondary to winning the war.  Also, you can be
+sure that if they set up a network -- and who has time in the middle of
+a war -- you can be sure Earth would find some way to jam it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Joe vs. Bears (20 Aug 1996 14:25:04 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 14:25:04 -0700

+
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+
+       Actually, I've been remembering the script, and I'm reasonably
+sure the teddy bear was added by the director, I don't think it was in
+the script.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comics as a medium... (20 Aug 1996 21:09:29 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:09:29 -0700

+
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+
+      Though I've fallen out of my comics habit over the last 6-8
+months, I followed Cerebus since very early in its run, and enjoyed it.
+It's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fan Club Site (20 Aug 1996 21:09:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:09:31 -0700

+
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+
+      The problem as I understand it is that using Netscape will let
+us do more of the cutting-edge stuff we plan to introduce over the
+course of the coming year than the other systems...avatars, residences,
+other nifty stuff. If we go for a less sophisticated interface, we
+won't be able to do this stuff.  At least, that's what we're being told
+by the designers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Private JMS Viewing!!!!! (20 Aug 1996 21:09:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:09:32 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder why?
+
+      It's that parrot, man, I keep telling you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout propaganda (20 Aug 1996 21:28:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:28:10 -0700

+
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+
+      Okay, John, lemme ask you a question, since you keep harping on
+this issue of propaganda.
+
+      You're the leader of an isolated space station with a quarter
+million inhabitants, who need air, food, supplies, space, support.  You
+no longer have ties to Earth, no support from there, no money, so you
+have to rely on whatever docking fees you can get from other worlds. 
+You're in the midst of a war in which you have few resources, little
+money, allies that have a tendency to turn on one another, nobody's
+giving you a break, your position is tenuous as hell, you're constantly
+undermanned, shorthanded....
+
+      Now you tell me where the heck you're going to get the time,
+resources, money and manpower to launch a propaganda operation, which
+if you're going to broadcast (and what's the point otherwise?) on an
+interstellar basis is going to require extensive and expensive
+facilities, broadcast repeaters, tacyhon carrier wave generators to get
+around the time-delay aspects, writers, directors, broadcast engineers,
+spokespersons, propaganda specialists, psychologists, technicians,
+camera equipment, space in which to PUT all of this stuff...on and on
+and on.
+
+      You keep beating this particular horse, but your objection has
+nothing to do with the reality of their position.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (02 Aug 1996 14:49:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have all the Membership kits been sent yet?
+
+       They're going out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Merchandise in London (21 Aug 1996 02:39:58 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 02:39:58 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I thought it quite odd that the availability of such merchandise
+> has not been mentioned around here before, which made me wonder
+> if it is not fully legitimate...do you have control over such
+> things? Before I splash out $120 on a uniform, I would like to
+> know if these things are legit?
+
+      If the uniforms are from Janet Lawn, they're legit; no Psi Corps
+pins have been approved for anyone at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Christianity in Babylon5 (21 Aug 1996 02:44:40 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 02:44:40 -0700

+
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+
+      One doesn't have to believe in the existence of something to
+write about it effectively...there aren't really Minbari or Vorlons,
+y'know...you just decide to write about it as though it were a True
+Thing.  And that's about how I approach religious characters.  As a
+writer, you can choose to be honest in your characterization, or you
+can use the medium for propaganda and the advancement of personal
+agendas.  The latter holds no appeal for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Snow White (21 Aug 1996 21:09:23 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:23 -0700

+
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+
+      At 18 I was trying to get the hang of my craft.  I knew some
+stuff, but not a lot.  I'm a little closer to that goal now, though
+there's still a long road ahead of me.  B5 is something I'm proud of
+now, and will be in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Fan Club Site (21 Aug 1996 21:09:26 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:26 -0700

+
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+
+      Should work with Netscape 3.0 no problem.  And thanks.  We do
+want it to be cool...once it's fully operational, with all the final
+parts and pieces added in, it should be nifty indeed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Christianity in Babylon5 (21 Aug 1996 21:09:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:28 -0700

+
 Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Yeah, but how come you do so much better a job than those that
+> do? There...there AREN'T?
+> You mean, B5 isn't real life?
+
+      Never took it *as* criticism....
+
+      To the question of why more folks don't do it, or as much or "as
+well" (the last in that list being subjective and self-serving for me
+to repeat), I think a large part of the problem may be that very often,
+if you deal with religion in TV, ten gazillion pressure groups from
+either side of the political spectrum jump up and down on your head
+until it's reduced to guava jelly.  So folks get very tentative about
+the area.
+
+      Me, I've been on computer nets for 12 years, I'm used to people
+jumping up on down on my head until it turns into guava jelly...no big.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Christianity in Babylon5 (21 Aug 1996 21:09:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:32 -0700

+
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+
+      I commend C.S. Lewis to you as a writer first, and a theologian
+second. As a writer, he does some nifty stuff...the Screwtape Letters
+alone is worth his having walked among us.  The Perelandra (sp?)
+books...are okay, but a bit dry sometimes.  His strength was in more
+fantasy than SF.  As a theological writer, he had a tendency to set up
+straw man arguments a bit too often and too easily for my tastes, but
+he's certainly worth the read.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Rim anyone ? (21 Aug 1996 21:09:38 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:38 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> So when Delenn states that some of the first ones went exploring
+> beyond the rim does that mean they went off expolring the
+> billions of other galaxies in the universe or different
+> dimensions, realms etc ? Is the B5 arc painted on a Galactic sized
+> canvas (specifically the Milky Way) or does it hold consequences
+> for the known Universe ?
+
+      No, the events take place only in our own galaxy, and only in
+portions of that...it's just too big a place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Voltayre WWW Page (21 Aug 1996 21:09:39 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:39 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you visited "Encyclopedia Xenobiologica" (B5 page) on the
+> World Wide Web ? Would you consider it to be accurate ?
+
+      Dunno, I haven't seen it...will investigate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Patricia Tallman (21 Aug 1996 21:09:42 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Well, she's in the main title sequence with all the other cast
+members starting next season, how's that?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout (21 Aug 1996 21:09:45 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:45 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who was that?
+> Not me????
+
+      No, that ain't you, don't worry, that's old news.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Tech & Other Stuff (02 Aug 1996 14:49:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:12 -0700

+
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+
+       I don't think the diagram has been posted anywhere; and as for
+trouble coming in threes...most definitely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout (21 Aug 1996 21:09:47 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:47 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you see what I'm getting at?
+
+      So where is the problem with, let's say, a person putting up a
+spoiler that says what basically happens in the episode, adding, "If
+you want a more detailed analysis, email me and I'll send it along."
+
+      But bear in mind, again, folks can post here whatever they want;
+I'm not in a position to stop anyone.  If I have any moral authority on
+an issue -- dubious since I'm not sure where I left my morals anyway --
+that's fine, but I'm not going to pressure anybody to do
+anything...that ain't how I work.  How people perceive me is beyond my
+control, and when the poster here apologized for the long synopsis, I
+told him he didn't have to do so.
+
+      This really ain't a big issue, folks...I saw something, had a
+gut reaction to it, and said what was on my mind.  I can't start
+censoring what I think because someone might take it too much to
+heart...yes, the person has a right to post what they want, and I have
+an equal right to respond as I feel is appropriate.  I'm being as
+honest in my reactions as anyone else.  Who in this room has a problem
+with that?
+
+      Unless you're saying I should just shut up when I see something
+I feel strongly about...which seems to me just as bad as anything else
+being discussed here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout propaganda (21 Aug 1996 21:09:50 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:09:50 -0700

+
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+
+      John...you're getting too wrapped up in this.  For starters,
+having just had a MAJOR WAR with the Minbari, which nearly wiped out
+Earth, and many folks back home *hating* the Minbari...do you think for
+one second that they're going to believe a word of what the Minbari say
+to them?  Do you think the government would allow this to go through
+unjammed?  Hell, EarthGov would have a field day with this..."See? 
+It's all alien propaganda, just like we told you, they're trying to
+destabalize Earth."
+
+      Second, I don't think the Minbari have the propagandists,
+writers, directors, and others needed to put together a propaganda
+network, and would find the whole idea immoral to begin with...and a
+couple of paragraphs of text are meaningless...Earthgov says "it's not
+true," and it's your word against theirs.  That's why you must have
+absolute, unvarnished PROOF, otherwise it blows up in your face, which
+any journalist worth his or her salt knows.
+
+      Again your suggestions don't touch reality at any two contiguous
+points.
+
+      Also, I can't keep track of, or answer, 15 or 20 questions in
+one message; if you've got a point to make, do so concisely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Snow White (21 Aug 1996 21:23:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:23:28 -0700

+
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+
+"But he's considering letting me live"
+
+      The night is young.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout (22 Aug 1996 12:28:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:07 -0700

+
 Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wouldn't this image have been worth mentioning?
+
+       Watch the scene again; the first time the new Vorlon looks at
+the wall, he sees nothing; the next time he looks at it, the lens wide
+open, the image is somewhat distorted around the edges, and now he's
+seeing the afterflash. Only certain types can see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Christianity in Babylon5 (22 Aug 1996 12:28:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:08 -0700

+
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+
+       Good point.
+
+       It can sometimes be annoying...I know there was a fan meeting
+of a certain group in the UK at one convention last year where they
+insisted, in NO uncertain terms, that my statement about being an
+atheist was just a cover, and that I was in fact a religious person
+using that as a blind so I could get my views across.
+
+       Language is a precise thing; if you do not say what you mean,
+you can never mean what you say.  What I stated in this regard is the
+simple truth. Anybody who can't handle that...should just have a little
+faith.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:14 -0700

+
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+
+       The night is never young on that side of the Atlantic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Christianity in Babylon5 (22 Aug 1996 12:28:15 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:15 -0700

+
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+
+       Yes, but almost always in terms of *alien* religions.  ST
+frequently addresses religious issues, and yes, mostly in a negative
+light...but when was the last time you saw this about a human religion?
+See, that's the easy out. You can say whatever you want about the
+stupid religious beliefs of the blue-furred Erzani of Cromethiom
+Nine...take a shot at the Pope, and you get letters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Travel times (22 Aug 1996 12:28:18 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:28:18 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or, is the *3 day* figure just to get to the "Earth Solar System"
+> ? If yes, then what roughly *is* the length of time *in*
+> Hyperspace (outside observers) ?
+
+       Three days is the time to the jumpgate off Io.  Once you're
+within our solar system, it takes another several days or more to reach
+Earth itself. It's fairly common to keep your jump gate a bit removed
+from your "core" planet so you have warning if any agressors come out
+of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Stealth Production? (22 Aug 1996 12:41:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:41:01 -0700

+
 Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or are you guys just shy?
+
+       We're not on the lot.  We couldn't find facilities big enough
+for our needs, and if you're on the lot...you're more accessible, and
+people have a tendency to wander in and give you notes.  So we're well
+off the lot, and nobody bothers us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (22 Aug 1996 20:31:42 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:31:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Stuff is still going out; another 1500 zipped out the door
+today.  It's coming....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Info please! (02 Aug 1996 14:49:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:49:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I hate to be a bother, but could you explain some stuff to me?
+> What is the relation of these episodes to each other?
+
+       It'd be hard to explain in a few paragraphs...may I commend to
+you the lurker's guide on the internet: http://hyperion.com, which will
+bring you wonderfully up to speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Christianity in Babylon5 (22 Aug 1996 20:31:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:31:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Also, I think we're sufficiently low-profile that they just
+haven't noticed us yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Patricia Tallman (22 Aug 1996 20:31:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:31:45 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, is Ivanova in the main title sequence next season?
+
+      All of our regular characters are in our main title sequence for
+the year in which they appear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New episode airdates? (23 Aug 1996 11:47:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
New episode airdates?

+
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:47:13 -0700

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any closer idea as to when the end of Season 3 is
+> going to be shown in the US besides "sometime in October"?
+
+       Starts the first week of October, straight through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Richard Hatch (23 Aug 1996 11:47:15 -0700)
+
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+
Richard Hatch

+
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:47:15 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica read for the part of
+> Sheridan?
+
+       Trying to remember...Bruce was our first choice, but we had to
+have some backups in case he wasn't available...yeah, we saw Hatch, and
+felt he wasn't right for the role, though he's a good actor.  Saw a
+bunch of actors, most of whose names have fallen out of my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Walkabout propaganda (23 Aug 1996 11:47:16 -0700)
+
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+
Walkabout propaganda

+
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:47:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, they do...but bear in mind that the Minbari are currently
+having their own problems.  The Grey Council has fallen apart, the
+Military Caste (as we'll see in one of the next episodes) is having
+some serious doubts about how the Religious Caste is handling things,
+and that much of the support given Earth (by way of B5) has been
+covert; the White Star program was launched in secret, and the greater
+amount of the Minbari population aren't aware they're so much "in bed"
+with the humans (as it were).  As far as they're concerned, we're
+apparently necessary to the plan, but not much more than that.  So I 
+think they wouldn't be warm to the notion of extending their services
+overmuch to Earth.
+
+       You keep trying to make everything cut and dried, but in the B5
+universe, there ain't no such critter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Quakers on B5? (23 Aug 1996 11:47:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:47:18 -0700

+
 Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> With tounge (sp?) firmly in cheek I must ask "What?
+> No Quakers?
+> What civilized society wouldn't still have the Society of
+> Friends?" I guess I do have to ask, seriously, "How fair the
+> Friends in the B5 universe?"
+
+       Well, if Quakers choose not to use mechanical means of
+transportation, only horse-drawn carriages...then I would suggest that
+this may hinder their progress in interstellar travel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club Site (24 Aug 1996 00:08:15 -0700)
+
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+
Fan Club Site

+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:08:15 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's odd, since it doesn't happen when I checked it out a
+little bit ago...will check again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Quakers on B5? (24 Aug 1996 00:08:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
Quakers on B5?

+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:08:17 -0700

+
 Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or have they been forcibly supressed by EarthGov?
+
+      Yeah...ten minutes after I sent the message I did a Simpson
+"D'oh!" and realized I was talking about the Amish.  Ah, well...we're
+all entitled to one screw-up...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (24 Aug 1996 00:16:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:16:35 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiousity, how long ago did you get the newsletter?
+> last week receiving the kit?
+
+      Jim has sent a public response to the Usenet about the delay,
+and the Zocalo has also published a letter from him about it.  In
+addition, I've gone at some length here about what's been going on. 
+You may not have seen them, but there have been public replies.  The
+email list is too hideously huge to reply to individually.  But stacks
+and stacks are going out the door as fast as can be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Private JMS Viewing!!!!! (24 Aug 1996 00:16:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:16:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I'll show you my Dupa."
+
+      And the fifteen people on CIS who know Polish found this
+extremely funny.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TV GUIDE article (02 Aug 1996 21:13:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
TV GUIDE article

+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:13:41 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup...well said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Christianity in Babylon5 (24 Aug 1996 00:16:39 -0700)
+
+
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+
Christianity in Babylon5

+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 00:16:39 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Roddenberry was an athiest and very anti-religious."
+
+      And therein lay the key.  One can be an atheist for oneself, and
+not anti-religious when it comes to others.  The two need not go hand
+in hand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (25 Aug 1996 15:36:06 -0700)
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      We figured we'd get an initial membership of about 1,000-1,500,
+and staffed accordingly.  We got about 6,000, so all our planning has
+gone straight to hell in that regard.  Last I heard from Jim, the last
+batches of stuff should be out by mid-week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fan Club Site (25 Aug 1996 15:36:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:08 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Some of us may want to "roll our own" species, have you given
+> thought of how that could be done? Are there plans for that using
+> security "certificates" or plain old passwords?
+
+      Yes, there will be security once it's all officially online.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lyta--Season 4 (25 Aug 1996 15:36:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Lyta--Season 4

+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:10 -0700

+
 Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ever consider doing a "recap" show, ala the X-Files two "Secrets
+> Of" episodes?
+
+      We suggested it to WB, and were turned down, on the grounds that
+as a network, Fox can just go ahead and program what the want in those
+hours, if it's a secrets-of special or something else; but PTEN isn't
+really a network, it's a syndication division, and in syndication you
+have to sell each item separately, so they'd have to go out and sell
+that one hour special the same way they'd sell a series, and they were
+loathe to do that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Walkabout (25 Aug 1996 15:36:13 -0700)
+
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+
Walkabout

+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Would it be possible (and not too much typing) for you to post
+> those lyrics here? Maybe upload them as a library file, so that
+> they wouldn't go away? Pretty please?
+> With a virtual (no calories) hot fudge sundae?
+
+      Will try to remember to do that soonish....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Questions (25 Aug 1996 15:36:15 -0700)
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+
Questions

+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:36:15 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the "keeper in Londo, 17 years in the future, a Shadow?
+> Is the "keeper in Londo, 17 years in the future, a Vorlon?
+> The war that Dellan refers to (17 years in the future) where the
+> enemies The Shadows? The war that Dellan refers to (17 years in
+> the future) where the enemies The Vorlons? In the Babylon 5
+> storyline do the Vorlons become a bigger enemy that the Shadows? 
+> Do you think the Vorlons are cheats using time as a weapon?
+
+"Is the "keeper in Londo, 17 years in the future, a Shadow?"
+
+No.  One of their dark servants, a leftover from the war.
+
+"Is the "keeper in Londo, 17 years in the future, a Vorlon?"
+
+No.
+
+"The war that Dellen refers to (17 years in the future) where the
+enemies The Shadows?"
+
+No.
+
+"The war that Dellan refers to (17 years in the future) where the
+enemies The Vorlons?"
+
+No.
+
+"In the Babylon 5 storyline do the Vorlons become a bigger enemy that
+the Shadows?"
+
+Depends on your definition.
+
+"One that you can answer non cryptically : Do you think the Vorlons
+are cheats using time as a weapon?"
+
+No.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Richard Hatch (26 Aug 1996 17:20:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
Richard Hatch

+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:44 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Were these people you were just "considering" in your head, or
+> had they actually read for the part? Wasn't John Rhys Davies on
+> Sliders at this time or was this just prior to that? You say Bruce
+> looked like how you pictured Sheridan but just how well defined
+> was the character at this stage? Is there any chance A Martinez
+> might guest star in the future?
+
+       Many of the names we were considering don't audition; you know
+their work or you don't.  Some did.  (It's bad form to indicate which
+did what.)
+
+       While I had a certain idea of the look for Sheridan in my head,
+the one thing you learn as a producer is to keep an open mind when it
+comes to casting, because sometimes something will happen that you
+hadn't anticipated and you go with it.
+
+       While I had the name Sheridan, I hadn't locked down his ethnic
+background yet, and instructed our casting director accordingly.  I
+wanted to see a range of people.  So we saw not just Caucasian actors,
+but hispanics, african american, asian...I felt strongly after the
+first season that we didn't have enough ethnic diversity, which is one
+of the reasons we changed casting directors to one that had a wider
+background in this area. As it turned out Bruce was the best person for
+the role, but we went into the process open to whoever walked in the
+door.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Questions (26 Aug 1996 17:20:47 -0700)
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+
Questions

+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:47 -0700

+
 Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> His definition of "bigger," or that of "enemy"??
+
+       Well...yes, I suppose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWOR in NY (26 Aug 1996 17:20:50 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I don't know specifically what's going on for Sunday...but I do
+know that the station group to which WOR belongs has stated it will
+keep the second airing, and they are working to move the show into
+better time slots. So going from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. gives us a prime time
+slot, which is *much* better for us.  I don't know if they'll keep the
+Sunday rerun where it is, but there will be a rerun somewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Questions (26 Aug 1996 17:20:51 -0700)
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+
Questions

+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:51 -0700

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why do the Vorlons hate the Shadows so?
+> Will this be ansered later in the show?
+> I suppose the mystery of what the old ones are so upset with one
+> another won't be known until year 5?
+
+       After "Z'ha'dum," I think you'll have your answer to this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh/Sinclair-WWE (01 Aug 1996 12:12:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 12:12:05 -0700

+
 Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is my memory incorrect, or am I missing something?
+
+       No, you're correct...but he could only recognize him once he
+actually saw him, and that didn't happen until he arrived at B5, after
+which he wasn't in any condition to talk to anyone until after things
+were over.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+IaE in UK (02 Aug 1996 21:13:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:13:43 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What's beyond the Rim?
+
+      A really, really, really MASSIVE Baskin and Robbins....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (26 Aug 1996 17:20:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:53 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do fan club applications still continue trickle in, flow in or
+> downpour in?
+
+       The flow of applications have slowed a little, in large measure
+because we've stopped putting the information out there until we get
+caught up on what we've got.  Once we've caught up -- and I think
+virtually everything has either gone out last week or will be out this
+week -- then we'll go out and start beating the drum again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+More pics here? (26 Aug 1996 17:20:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
More pics here?

+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:56 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No reason...just the upload time involved to do it all. 
+Anything there can be reposted here.  I keep meaning to do it, but end
+up tying up my computer with writing.  The folks at WB do the uploads
+to AOL and the WB B5 site; here it'd have to be me, and it's just a
+question of finding the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+First Day of Filming (26 Aug 1996 17:20:59 -0700)
+
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+
First Day of Filming

+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:20:59 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how was the first day of filming?
+> Are you still alive?
+
+       It's frenetic, nuts, lots of running around and little fixes,
+we all get a little crazy on first days...but it'll be okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (26 Aug 1996 17:21:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:21:02 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> once the email address was published, someone should have been
+> ready to respond (why else publish it?
+
+       Lemme ask you a question...did your check get cashed?  Because
+I just went down the hall and asked Jim what the status was on Jonathan
+Kass' membership, and it wasn't in any of the files, so what I'm
+wondering is if it just never got to us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SF as it should be (26 Aug 1996 17:32:00 -0700)
+
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+
SF as it should be

+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:32:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       All of them wanted to work more after ST; very few did, many of
+the cast couldn't get arrested.  They deeply resented it.  It's not as
+if they said, "oh, well, I'm old now, I can retire."  At the time, most
+were in their 40s, with Kelley being the oldest one there.  One doesn't
+retire at 40 as an actor; you go on.  They've all talked about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Newsletter (26 Aug 1996 17:49:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Newsletter

+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:49:46 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, the first three volumes, as noted in the newsletter, were
+destroyed at the printer's; the fourth mysteriously vanished.  Who
+knows, perhaps in years to come, the fourth one will make a
+reappearance....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Chris Franke (26 Aug 1996 17:49:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
Chris Franke

+
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:49:47 -0700

+
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+
+       I think he's decided to time it to come out at the same time as
+the November debut of season 4, so he can piggyback the publicity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Christianity in Babylon5 (27 Aug 1996 14:57:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Christianity in Babylon5

+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I think in that kind of situation you have to deal in
+the straight emotions of the belief, the honest feelings of those
+involved, and how they view their lives, and that will keep you on the
+heart's true magnetic north...when you diverge into the more doctrinal
+stuff, you will always go astray.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (27 Aug 1996 14:57:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:07 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now what?
+
+       Now I go back to Jim and tell him to look again...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fan Club Site (27 Aug 1996 14:57:08 -0700)
+
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+
Fan Club Site

+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think you can change it, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Offbeat Qd. (02 Aug 1996 21:13:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: Offbeat Qd.

+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:13:45 -0700

+
 Robert Pierce <76752.717@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could the Soul Hunters out there sense when Kosh "died"?
+
+      It's not that easy a question, or that straightforward a
+situation, as you'll see soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Richard Hatch (27 Aug 1996 14:57:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Richard Hatch

+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope.  Those were some of the folks we were considering.  We
+also looked in the direction of Bruce Campbell (who had just had his
+show shot out from under him, and whose agent said he wasn't doing TV
+for a while) and several others.  Basically, you look around for who's
+available, who might be good for the role, might bring something
+interesting to it...and then pick the best person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout (27 Aug 1996 14:57:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Walkabout

+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Since I didn't write Gropos, it didn't happen there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Quakers on B5? (27 Aug 1996 14:57:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:12 -0700

+
 Jonathan Hoopingarn <73172.1065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that all the mistaken identities have been cleared up, and as
+> the final arbiter of all things Babylonian, would the Quakers
+> have made it?
+
+       I don't know...maybe...it's something that I'll have to
+consider.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rogue Teeps (27 Aug 1996 14:57:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rogue Teeps

+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 14:57:13 -0700

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> franklin helped out?
+
+       Yep, we'll be hearing about this again quite soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (27 Aug 1996 21:51:27 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 21:51:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I went to Jim's office again after your last note, and had him
+check the database again by hand; it's definitely not there.  So I've
+copied your email to him, and he should be in touch soon, or he'll go
+ahead and add it to the list.  It's conceivable that if your check got
+caught up in a bundle it might've missed being processed by us.  As far
+a I know this is the only time it's happened; but we never know about
+it until and unless someone tells us about it.  Thanks for bringing it
+to our attention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout (27 Aug 1996 21:51:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
Walkabout

+
Date: 27 Aug 1996 21:51:29 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, I kinda wear my heart on my sleeve more than I should;
+sometimes even I'm appalled at what I find my subsconscious has given
+away once I can step back and look at a script objectively.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (24 Aug 1996 15:46:22 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:46:22 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's the question that's hard to answer, because stuff is
+going out the door as fast as possible.  One batch of 1500 went out on
+Thursday.  Was yours in there?  I don't know.  Part of the consistent
+problem we're having is the Post Office.  They told us what the postage
+should be for each packet and newsletter, first class (we sent the
+first batches off bulk, and they got dumped, lost, delayed...never
+again, we'll just take the loss and deal with it).  So we use that, and
+turn it in at the post office.  Depending on which postal worker takes
+the parcels, it goes through, or they send them back for more.  So now
+we're increasing the postage to make sure they don't do this to us
+again.  It's making Jim crazy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Private JMS Viewing!!!!! (24 Aug 1996 15:46:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
Private JMS Viewing!!!!!

+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:46:25 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> By the way, do you have a cat?
+
+      Well, there's a neighborhood cat who comes around, sort of a
+rent-a-cat that gets fed and tolerated, but that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Quakers on B5? (24 Aug 1996 15:46:27 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:46:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just increased your insurance policy, didn't you?  I can
+tell....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Richard Hatch (24 Aug 1996 15:46:31 -0700)
+
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+
Richard Hatch

+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:46:31 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What was it about Bruce that made him your first choice?
+> Was it a particular quality or characteristic he expressed in a
+> previous role, or did he just have "the look"?
+
+      It was a number of things.  He looked like what I thought
+Sheridan would look like, and had the right attitude.  He had a
+reputation for being an actor associated with lightweight dramas
+(though he was capable of much more), and I knew this would play in my
+favor in that people would be set up for one thing, and then I'd yank
+it in the other direction; even made sure that I gave him lightweight
+dialogue, had a jolly attitude, for most of his first few episodes on
+the show (exempting "Revelations").
+
+      So when the first eps aired, and people were going on about
+"smiling jack," I knew I had them set up for the whack-upside-the-head
+that was coming down the road at them, and the character.
+
+      (It's sometimes like an elaborate game of chess...I try to
+anticipate the viewer reaction so I can, well, turn this on them and
+use it to my own advantage.  Look at folks' initial reactions to Londo
+and Vir as another example of this.  I've said before that I'm not
+averse to taking aspects of the actor -- Mira's background in
+Yugoslavia -- and using them for the benefit of the story, so you can
+bet I'd be willing to do that with the audience as well.  I say if
+people are going to apply their preconceptions to a character or an
+actor, then it's perfectly fair game for me to turn this around on
+them. So those who saw depth in Londo or Vir -- and were ploinked for
+it -- got to see their suspicions confirmed (good result) and those who
+thought they were just buffoons got to have their brains splattered
+when they saw the depths that emerged (also a good result).  So why not
+do this with Bruce?)
+
+      Other reasons...Doug and John had worked with Bruce before, and
+knew him to be a stand-up guy, loyal and honest and hardworking, a team
+player, and a genuinely nice man who was far more talented than the
+roles given to him before had let him show, more range and more colors
+than he had previously had a chance to display.  He's also a stone SF
+fan, both in media and literary SF, so I knew he'd have a great respect
+for the story.
+
+      I've been remembering some of the other choices we were
+considering for Sheridan...James Earl Jones, John Rhys Davies, Barry
+Bostwick, Michael York, Michael Moriarity, A. Martinez...but for me,
+Bruce *was* Sheridan, and when it came time to make a decision, it was
+him, hands-down.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE-Sinclair (02 Aug 1996 21:13:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
WWE-Sinclair

+
Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:13:47 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What I mean to say is, how was it originally written?
+
+      The Valen aspect was set up in the first season, long before
+anything was decided about Michael.  Also, I won't be at
+Fantasticon...gotta write....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (24 Aug 1996 19:56:16 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 19:56:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Our great government efficiency at work again!  Do you think THEY
+think it's coming FROM Babylon 5?!"
+
+      Dunno about that...but it sure looks to me like the Post Office
+is being run by the Shadows.
+
+      (Hmm...I wonder if they saw "Avalon" and are still smarting over
+the Post Office humor...?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Christianity in Babylon5 (24 Aug 1996 19:56:19 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 19:56:19 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"...he preaches all day on why religion should be eliminated, his
+future goals of ruling the world and wiping out such religion, and not
+only that, but arts as well, thinking they are "useless"."
+
+      Mr. Stalin, meet Mr. Hitler.  Mr. Hitler, meet Mr. Stalin.
+
+      "his future goal of ruling the world"
+
+      First though he has to stop living in his mom's basement and
+collecting balls of string and wrapping aluminum foil around his head
+to keep out the Martian death rays....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+War Council (24 Aug 1996 19:56:21 -0700)
+
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+
War Council

+
Date: 24 Aug 1996 19:56:21 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question: I was under the impression that Sheridan was the
+> military leader of the Army of Light, is this not correct? Is this
+> to be a war by committee? How exactly is the Army of Light
+> organized?
+
+      Sheridan commands the Army of Light, Delenn as second.  If the
+AOL speaks with one voice on something of importance, they have to be
+listened to. When Sheridan put himself on the front lines, he was then
+taking on the role of soldier, not commander.  They also felt it risked
+leaving them without said commander if it went wrong.
+
+      Bear in mind that their orders in *no* way compromised his
+actual mission, or over-rode his decision.  They were sending along a
+secondary mission to keep an eye on the primary mission.  I don't see a
+conflict here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Club Site (25 Aug 1996 00:53:41 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 00:53:41 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the area affiliation (Earth Force, PsiCorp, etc.) going to do
+> more than affect the graphical gizmos on the BabCom window?
+
+      We'll do more with the affiliations later on once more parts of
+the station go on line.  For instance, we'll have various chat areas
+set aside. If you're Earthforce, you can get into Earharts...if you're
+a Centauri, you can't, but you'll have another area you can get into. 
+When you get your quarters set up on B5 (you'll be able to actually
+rent a residence on the station), if you're a Narn it'll be in the
+alien sector, if you're Psi Corps it'll probably be Red
+Sector...basically, we'll try, as much as possible, to replicate what
+it would be like to actually live there.  Eventually we hope to 
+introduce avatars in the chat area so you can appear visually in the
+room as the species of your choice...with the thought that, in time,
+people will be able to upload images of themselves and use those in the
+chat area with the avatars...it's going to grow into something very
+elaborate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Richard Hatch (25 Aug 1996 00:53:45 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 00:53:45 -0700

+
 William H. DiPaola <76521.1751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wait a sec ...you wanted Bruce first???
+> Nevertheless, what made you go with O'Hare?
+> The two are like night and day for a variety of reasons, and was
+> Bruce unavailable initially? How did you learn that he was
+> interested in coming aboard?
+
+      Let me clarify, so I won't be misunderstood...Bruce was our
+first choice after the change-over from Sinclair.  Bruce would not have
+been right for the choice of Sinclair, but was right for Sheridan. 
+Michael was right for Sinclair, would not have been right for Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Private JMS Viewing!!!!! (25 Aug 1996 01:03:28 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 01:03:28 -0700

+
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+
+"It'd be a whole lot funnier if Ed Wasser hosted the flight."
+
+      Tell that to the crew of the Icarus....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+War Council (25 Aug 1996 01:03:30 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 25 Aug 1996 01:03:30 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just some comparisons to illustrate...during WW II, the head of
+naval operations for the Japanese fleet insisted on being on board
+during several of their more pivotal missions.  His subordinates
+insisted that additional ships be sent as escorts given his importance
+to war strategy.  That's a very rigid military structure, but when
+*all* the subordinates get together on something, to go against it
+causes more problems than it's worth.
+
+      Even within the context of a conventional military situation,
+there's flexibility.  If a commanding officer gives an order which is
+immoral, illegal, or against the rules of engagement, a subordinate can
+refuse to implement that order, even give a countermanding order which,
+depending on the situation (such as a nuclear missile firing) would
+take precedence over the CO's order (though you'd first have to relieve
+the CO of command, and if you do that, you'd darned well better be
+prepared to back it up with every legal and moral means at your
+disposal, or it's mutiny).  Heck, it was just this kind of dilemma that
+was at the core of the movie "Crimson Tide," and was brought up in the
+recent war crime trials going on investigating what happened in Bosnia,
+with a soldier being asked why he didn't refuse to carry out an order
+to kill civilians.
+
+      Ain't a lot of black-and-whites in the world, but a whole lotta
+greys.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (28 Aug 1996 11:58:38 -0700)
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 28 Aug 1996 11:58:38 -0700

+
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+
+       Jim's just done a hand-search of applications, and still can't
+find anything on your membership.  He's asked if you could send a xerox
+copy of your canceled check (both sides) to him at the fan club
+address.  Once we have that in hand, we'll zip everything out the door.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on tape. (28 Aug 1996 15:56:34 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:56:34 -0700

+
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+
+       In the fullness of time, they'll be out here....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Richard Hatch (28 Aug 1996 16:05:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:05:36 -0700

+
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+
+       That's good to hear, and I'm sure a number of other folks
+started with the show when Bruce came on.  Whatever the cause, I'm
+pleased with the effect.
+
+       And don't feel bad about your initial attitude (assuming you
+did); lots of folks had the same initial resistance, often out of a
+sense of perceived loyalty to ST.  We learn by doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TV GUIDE article (03 Aug 1996 15:08:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:06 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you say WB was interested in a spinoff?
+
+      Yes, they seem interested.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Richard Hatch (28 Aug 1996 23:20:37 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Aug 1996 23:20:37 -0700

+
 Valerie Williams <104047.2451@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you get asked to come back next year, will you?
+> Truth to that?
+> Any thoughts as to also releasing videos of the episodes?
+
+      Thanks.  To your questions...I haven't yet been invited back to
+Marcon (I don't know if they've finalized their list yet), but if that
+should happen, work schedule allowing, I would likely be there; and
+yes, B5 has been sold to TNT for runs after the show has gone its
+course, which will be the first time we'll have had a national timeslot
+and a big network.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout (29 Aug 1996 12:06:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Aug 1996 12:06:16 -0700

+
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+
+       Not coincidences, no, but not quite asx tightly linked as you
+suggest. Thematically indicative more than anything that points to
+story specific elements.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Richard Hatch (29 Aug 1996 12:06:17 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Aug 1996 12:06:17 -0700

+
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+
+       S'okay...that generally happens on the show.  When we brought
+in Vir, lots of folks moaned about what a mistake it was, "flounder in
+space," they said...same with Walter Koenig...there were any number of
+messages suggesting we lose Londo, and others...and after a while, when
+they see what we're doing, they turn around.  Vir is now many folks'
+favorite character, and Bruce has hit it as Sheridan for most everybody
+now.
+
+       Doesn't bother us anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+John Copeland on SFC (03 Aug 1996 15:08:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:08 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> For those of us beknighted souls whose cable companies don't see
+> the value of the Sci-Fi Channel, how about getting B5 movers and
+> shakers a gig on "Politically Incorrect?"
+
+      Actually, Harlan's been on Politically Incorrect twice so
+far....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Have a slice <G> (03 Aug 1996 15:08:10 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:10 -0700

+
 Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Zen Buddhism: What is the sound of cake baking?
+
+      Now that's comedy....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Track12 B5 CD different? (03 Aug 1996 15:08:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:12 -0700

+
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+
+      Listen to how the final track fades out; one has the strings in
+dominant form, the other has percussion.  The early version of the
+European disk came out only briefly, so if this is a recent purchase,
+it's probably the same as the US version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+IaE in UK (03 Aug 1996 15:08:15 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Aug 1996 15:08:15 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many flavors?
+> Seriously though, what is meant by "The Rim"?
+
+      The rim of the galaxy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Theory.(ATTN JMS) (03 Aug 1996 23:02:34 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Aug 1996 23:02:34 -0700

+
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+
+      It's an interesting theory.  Got nothing to do with where the
+story's going, but an interesting thought nonetheless....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Motives & Stuff (03 Aug 1996 23:02:36 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 03 Aug 1996 23:02:36 -0700

+
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+
+      Er...well, no, actually, it's not in the ball park.  But a good
+thought.
+
+      And yes, Sheridan has doubltess noticed by now that Delenn is
+holding stuff back from time to time...may even mention this in a few
+episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Old Archives (01 Aug 1996 12:12:06 -0700)
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+
Old Archives

+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 12:12:06 -0700

+
 Jeff Smith <76702.2572@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This would certainly explain why a lot of info is 'missing' that
+> one might think should be around, but why didn't the info
+> survive? If the Vorlons/Minbari fought the shadows a thousand
+> years ago, and had the FTL ships they obviously had, why don't
+> they have records from that time?
+
+       It was also a very devastating war, and one of their mistakes
+was that their were those who were entrusted to keep the past, sort of
+a more advanced version of storytellers, who put all their data in one
+basket, as it were...very possessive and jurisdictional.  When they and
+that center of data were taken out, a lot was lost.  One drawback of a
+very rigid and structued society.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Responsibility/Forgive (03 Aug 1996 23:18:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Aug 1996 23:18:09 -0700

+
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+
+      That was really excellent.  Let me explain to you how excellent
+it was: I was taking a break on CIS because I was trying to work
+through the heart of a scene between Delenn and Sheridan in script 403.
+It was a little fuzzy there in places, and I usually log off and putter
+around rather than trying to write it when it isn't all there yet in my
+head.  Your analysis helped me clarify something in my own mind which
+was there in the first place but hadn't yet racked into focus yet.  It
+would've done so eventually, it always does, but you may have saved me
+an hour or two of going back over their relationship in my head and
+pulling out the emotional and thematic undercurrents of what's been
+established over the last couple of seasons.
+
+      Good stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+TV GUIDE article (04 Aug 1996 14:57:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Aug 1996 14:57:12 -0700

+
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+
+"I figured everybody in Hollywood would be rooting to get you out of
+television"
+
+Well...*almost* everybody....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+IaE in UK (04 Aug 1996 14:57:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Aug 1996 14:57:13 -0700

+
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+
+      Jump gates go where gates have been constructed by long-range
+explorer vessels.  Nobody near our tech has ever built anything outside
+the known galaxy, or frankly through about 80% of what IS known.  Going
+beyond is a one-way ticket.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS : WWE1: Sheridan (04 Aug 1996 14:57:17 -0700)
+
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+
JMS : WWE1: Sheridan

+
Date: 04 Aug 1996 14:57:17 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When lady Morella told Londo not to kill the one that is already
+> dead, was she referring to Sheridan? IF this is so, do the words
+> of Arkady in "Second Foundation" have significance to Sinclair?
+
+      Unfortunately, I've forgotten what Arkady said, so it's kind of
+an open question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+IaE in UK (05 Aug 1996 00:17:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Aug 1996 00:17:03 -0700

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Crossing from here to say the Adromada galixy probably would take
+> a great deal of time though even in hyperspace huh?
+
+      For one thing, it's a long, LONG trip outside the known
+galaxy...it takes 3 days to go to Earth from B5, it's not
+instantaneous...so you can well imagine how much time is involved in
+getting outside the galaxy.  Second, a ship like the Aggy isn't
+configured or capable of constructing a jump gate, that's up to the big
+Explorer-class vessels.  Finally, the further you range afield from the
+established series of hyperspace beacons, the greater the odds of
+getting permanently lost out there, since points of reference outside 
+aren't on a one-to-one basis with hyperspace.  (And outside the galaxy
+you'd have little in the way of more conventional references as well.) 
+So any trip would be a one way trip, at least at this point in our
+technology.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS : WWE1: Sheridan (05 Aug 1996 12:32:42 -0700)
+
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JMS : WWE1: Sheridan

+
Date: 05 Aug 1996 12:32:42 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> She said 'A circle has no end'?
+
+       No...the notion that a circle has no end is a lot older than
+that.
+
+       And the line re: Sinclair was "he is the closed circle, he
+returns to the beginning."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS : WWE1: Sheridan (05 Aug 1996 12:32:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS : WWE1: Sheridan

+
Date: 05 Aug 1996 12:32:43 -0700

+
 Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The ship that Zathras hooked up to whitestar in looked helluva
+> similiar to one of the ships you can get in 'Privateer' - I have
+> heard that you are a bit of a Wing Commander buff, was this a
+> deliberate homage?
+
+       Nope.  Only coincidence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Eng Lit & B5 (06 Aug 1996 21:30:34 -0700)
+
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Eng Lit & B5

+
Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:34 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How about books?
+> Just curious - many thanks (will you ever write a book of How B5
+> Came to Be, and What Went Into It - people, books, skills, etc.?
+
+      Mentioning or referencing books is tougher, because any segments
+are less concise in general, less instantly recognizeable and
+self-contained. And half the fun of the poetry references is the
+lyrical aspect of it.
+
+      As for a book...maybe someday, down the road.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Possible later projects (06 Aug 1996 21:30:36 -0700)
+
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+
Possible later projects

+
Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:36 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How do you plan to change TV in these new projects?
+
+"How do you plan to change TV in these new projects?"
+
+   To quote Sinclair, "That is a far more interesting question than
+you might suspect."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow suit (06 Aug 1996 21:30:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow suit

+
Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:38 -0700

+
 Bill MacIntosh <70275.1372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When we see a "Shadow" are we seeing an encounter suit, a
+> projected imaged like a Vorlon does or a "naked" Shadow?
+
+      Well...all of the above, I suppose, would apply in various ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (01 Aug 1996 20:39:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:39:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      We don't know who did or didn't receive stuff until we hear
+back; send email to jplb5@aol.com...he's sending out batches of stuff
+all this week to those whose deliveries got screwed up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 , CC Game (06 Aug 1996 21:30:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5 , CC Game

+
Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:43 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I can't look at ANYthing related to B5 products unless and until
+they're licensed; if you're doing these without WB licensing, you're
+going to get into a heap o' trouble.  If you're serious about a game,
+then you have to get it licensed; otherwise I can't look at it, or I'd
+be spending 18 hours a day looking at possible proposals that go
+nowhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Ranger Belt Buckle (06 Aug 1996 21:30:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Ranger Belt Buckle

+
Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:46 -0700

+
 Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are the figures which make up the Ranger belt buckle?
+
+      Er...I don't remember offhand....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+War Without End (06 Aug 1996 21:30:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
War Without End

+
Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:48 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> There are a few little bits, like the repaired time stabliser
+> that The One gets from Zathros (in Babylon Squared), that's
+> Sheridan's isn't it? Did you sit down and write these episodes at
+> the same time?
+
+      Actually, that would've been Delenn who finally got the repaired
+time stabalizer.  And no, I didn't write them at the same time, but I
+did a basic outline of what the follow-up (WWE) would be, so it'd all
+match up when the time came to show that half of the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Valen questions (06 Aug 1996 21:30:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
Valen questions

+
Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:30:50 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Valen did not have any children.  And there's some difference of
+opinion over exactly what Valen's final fate was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Just some thoughts..... (07 Aug 1996 19:40:08 -0700)
+
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+
Just some thoughts.....

+
Date: 07 Aug 1996 19:40:08 -0700

+
 Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they skip over those and just release 418, or do they reprint
+> them?????
+
+"Think of how annoying it will be, in ten years time, when this stuff
+will be a valuable collector's item, and having to explain that there
+was never any issues 1-4, THEY STARTED ON 5!!!!!!"
+
+      That's *exactly* what I was thinking of....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Eng Lit & B5 (07 Aug 1996 20:13:50 -0700)
+
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+
Eng Lit & B5

+
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:13:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      What books I like....
+
+      I generally recommend the dark fantasist Jonathan Carroll to
+anyone who'll listen, his work is superb.  Beyond that, these days I
+mainly read nonfiction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 , CC Game (07 Aug 1996 20:13:51 -0700)
+
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+
Babylon 5 , CC Game

+
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:13:51 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      You would contact Warner Bros. Licensing in Burbank.  But they
+don't deal with individuals, it would have to come through a company
+that was prepared and capable of doing the licensing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh/Lyta/Kyle Question (07 Aug 1996 20:13:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kosh/Lyta/Kyle Question

+
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:13:54 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Being seen by one person is automatic, no strain involved, it's
+almost an autonamic reflex...it's extending the influence to more than
+one person that's difficult.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+War Without End (07 Aug 1996 20:13:56 -0700)
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+
War Without End

+
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:13:56 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      When there's a time-flash, everyone has a vision forward or
+backward. The vision of Lise Hampton long AFTER the one we saw
+nominally from Sinclair's POV.  We never saw specifically what
+Garibaldi saw at that same moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5: The Sequel? (07 Aug 1996 23:47:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5: The Sequel?

+
Date: 07 Aug 1996 23:47:29 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      NO!  NO, no, no, no, no....NO GUESSING ABOUT THE SEQUEL, because
+guesses about the sequel is basically putting out reams of story ideas.
+If someone comes up with an interesting notion...guess what?  I CAN'T
+USE IT BECAUSE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF LAWSUIT.  So this discussion could
+kill any hope of doing a sequel along any interesting lines.
+
+      I've already said...the sequel would be built to some degree
+around the rangers.  Let it go at that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Old SciFi series (01 Aug 1996 20:51:15 -0700)
+
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+
Old SciFi series

+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:15 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That would be telling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Your Anticipation (07 Aug 1996 23:59:22 -0700)
+
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+
Your Anticipation

+
Date: 07 Aug 1996 23:59:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm definitely looking forward to the reaction.  Today, for
+instance, we did the final audio mix of "Z'ha'dum," our third season
+ending episode. All of the EFX were in place, the sound, the
+music...and after we did the piecemeal mix, layering in things in a
+stop-and-go fashion, we did our playback, watching it straight through.
+I don't think anyone was breathing for the fourth act.  Everyone was
+just wog-boggled.  The emotional impact of it all is quite strong.
+
+      When the lights came up, and I looked around to the stunned
+faces in the room, the only thing I could say was, "Welcome to history,
+gentlemen."
+
+      Looking forward to reactions?  Oh, yeah, I suppose you could say
+that....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+War Without End (08 Aug 1996 16:37:53 -0700)
+
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+
War Without End

+
Date: 08 Aug 1996 16:37:53 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Sinclair: What...What was that?
+
+       Hey, who're you gonna believe, Krantz or me?
+
+       Besides, it could've been a sequence from the fall of B5, but
+not that exact MOMENT, so it WOULD be different, so NYAH.
+
+       (suddenly I'm five years old)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Your Anticipation (08 Aug 1996 23:29:11 -0700)
+
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+
Your Anticipation

+
Date: 08 Aug 1996 23:29:11 -0700

+
 Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Out of interest, who was there watching it?
+
+      No, the only people in the room are those involved in the mix,
+this isn't a screening, it's part of post-production.  It's me, John
+Copeland, co-producer George Johnsen, the sound editors, mixers, sound
+supervisor, a few others on the periphery.
+
+      At one point, one of the mixers was working on putting in the
+sounds as he went, hadn't yet gone through it all...and kept telling
+the sound supervisor (who was asking questions about how we wanted to
+handle some later scenes) "don't let me hear this, I don't want to
+know, I just want to see what happens next, this is great."  Which in
+this town, from folks who work on a lot of shows, is a good reaction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Your Anticipation (08 Aug 1996 23:29:14 -0700)
+
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+
Your Anticipation

+
Date: 08 Aug 1996 23:29:14 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any of the episodes that we particularly avoid the
+> spoilers on??
+
+      Certainly avoid any spoilers on the last two episodes of year
+three.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Day in the Strife (09 Aug 1996 16:51:51 -0700)
+
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+
Day in the Strife

+
Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:51:51 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 : Writing is Art? (09 Aug 1996 16:51:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 : Writing is Art?

+
Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:51:53 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this intentional in your work, or just something odd that I am
+> feeling when I encounter it???
+
+       It's definitely intentional.  The purpose of any kind of art
+should be to make you feel something.  If it's created with passion,
+then the work mirrors the intensity of emotion felt by the creator,
+passing it along to the viewer, who may not even recognize what's
+happening, or be able to pin it down...but it's there.  I write very
+passionately, and the show needs to feel passionate to be what I need
+it to be.  Otherwise what's the point?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (09 Aug 1996 16:51:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:51:54 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any other suggestions for checking on the status of an order?
+
+       He's dancing as fast as he can, another 1,000 went out this
+week.  We have 5,000 members now and just two people manning the club. 
+We hope to expand that soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Eng Lit & B5 (09 Aug 1996 16:51:56 -0700)
+
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+
Eng Lit & B5

+
Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:51:56 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> any titles?
+> is he available in the UK????
+
+       If by "he" you mean Jonathan Carroll...yeah, he's actually
+bigger in the UK than the US.  Start with "Bones of the Moon" or "The
+Land of Laughs" and take it from there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (09 Aug 1996 16:52:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:52:00 -0700

+
 Toby Johnson <104305.1442@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any other suggestions for checking on the status of an order?
+
+       It's coming....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9's Homage (09 Aug 1996 16:52:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
DS9's Homage

+
Date: 09 Aug 1996 16:52:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I see...and this, by you, is a good thing.
+
+       Well, we have very different views of the universe, that's for
+sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Kosh & Kyle/pilot (01 Aug 1996 20:51:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kosh & Kyle/pilot

+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:17 -0700

+
 Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Kyle's reactions?
+
+      No, from where I sit, he looked and spoke pretty awed.  So I
+can't account for your interpretation; certainly I think the general
+concensus was that he was massively impressed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Promoting B5 (09 Aug 1996 20:48:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Promoting B5

+
Date: 09 Aug 1996 20:48:16 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you direct me to someone who could help me go about this?
+> Also, I attended Fantasticon this past weekend and wondered if
+> you'd consider attending next year, if invited (as if you need
+> one more thing to do)?
+
+      I'll try to attend next year; I was just in writer hell this
+weekend, and had to focus on the work.
+
+      Your best bet locally is to contact the program director or,
+above him, the station manager of the station you're after.  They make
+the decisions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Soul Hunters (09 Aug 1996 20:48:18 -0700)
+
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+
Soul Hunters

+
Date: 09 Aug 1996 20:48:18 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does any race beyond the Soul Hunters know the Soul Hunter's
+> motives?
+
+      Definitely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+X Men on Babylon 4! (10 Aug 1996 21:36:49 -0700)
+
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+
X Men on Babylon 4!

+
Date: 10 Aug 1996 21:36:49 -0700

+
[Reply to message #556812, which is no longer available]
+
+      It's a door wheel which has been on that particular wall since
+year one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Promoting B5 (10 Aug 1996 22:14:42 -0700)
+
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+
Promoting B5

+
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:42 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Like, is there a promotional pack that can be mailed to the
+> station, or someone who handles new stations? Or do I just direct
+> them to Warner if they are interested?
+
+      No, we don't have any material like that at all.  That's all
+handled by WB, we're not in any way involved in distribution.  If
+they're interested, they'll know who to contact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Vorlons & Minbari (10 Aug 1996 22:14:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vorlons & Minbari

+
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:44 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the relationship between the Vorlons and the Minbari ?
+> We have seen a couple of Vorlons on Minbar, is their relationship
+> like ours and the Narn for example ? We get the impression that
+> the White Star is not as powerful as the Vorlon ships, but surely
+> as well as having Vorlon shielding wouldn't it have the powerful
+> Vorlon weapons & flower propulsion thingies (those petals) ? Why
+> is there a Minbari crew, not one vorlon insight and why do they
+> let Sheridan be the captain ?
+
+      The Minbari built the White Star, borrowing some Vorlon tech, so
+it's primarily Minbari, and built with their sensibilities, all the
+controls are in Minbari, and so on.  They allow Sheridan to command it
+because Delenn said to do so, and in battle an unpredictable human
+might have options that a more regimented Minbari might not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Disbarring a doctor (10 Aug 1996 22:14:51 -0700)
+
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+
Disbarring a doctor

+
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:51 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bear in mind, though, that we're talking Earthforce doctors, who
+are part of the military establishment, and we don't know the full
+structure of how that exists 200 years from now...certainly if
+someone's actions caused the death of 250,000 sentients and a major
+Earthforce base, I'd suggest that that could be sufficient grounds for
+ending somebody's career....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Alcohol & Minbari (10 Aug 1996 22:14:52 -0700)
+
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+
Alcohol & Minbari

+
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:52 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> In "Matters of Honor", Marcus makes a comment to Delenn and
+> Lennier about the effects of alcohol on Minbari and I was
+> curious: What are those effects?
+
+      Makes 'em paranoid, and psychotically violent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Cast Addition (10 Aug 1996 22:14:53 -0700)
+
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+
New Cast Addition

+
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:14:53 -0700

+
      Just a general announcement: Patricia Tallman, also known as
+Lyta Alexander on B5, will be joining the regular cast in year four,
+appearing in the main title sequence.  We're extremely pleased to have
+her on board.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Worst B5 Episode (10 Aug 1996 22:20:22 -0700)
+
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Worst B5 Episode

+
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:20:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the White Wolf paperback version of Harlan's "City on
+the Edge of Forever" book is *now out*, with an even further expanded
+introduction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Valen questions (10 Aug 1996 22:20:23 -0700)
+
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+
Valen questions

+
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:20:23 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Theo was named for Vincent van Gogh's brother.  Hence, Brother
+Theo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Eng Lit & B5 (01 Aug 1996 20:51:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
Eng Lit & B5

+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:20 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Lewis and Tolkien's cronies) "Taliesin Through Logres?"
+
+      Yes, I'm very fond of William Blake's work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 : Writing is Art? (11 Aug 1996 14:23:46 -0700)
+
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+
B5 : Writing is Art?

+
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:46 -0700

+
 Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't you think there are very few passion those days?
+
+      Passion, as I've noted elsewhere, has become passe.  It's old
+fashioned; the proper attitude now seems to be detatchment and
+cynicism.  It doesn't help that so much of TV is done by rote,
+recycling the same stories from place to place.  Interestingly, I think
+we're seeing *less* of that in the last few years than in the entire
+decade preceding, so maybe this is a good turn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Cast Addition (11 Aug 1996 14:23:51 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:51 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, the item referred to Lyta.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey Council Ship ?? (11 Aug 1996 14:23:53 -0700)
+
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+
Grey Council Ship ??

+
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:53 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do all the members of the Grey Council live permanently and
+> exclusively on that ship? Do they ever take vacations?
+> Does the ship have a name and a class?
+
+      They stay on the cruiser almost entirely during their tenure in
+the council, only leaving for personal family crisis/situations and the
+like.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+EA Civil War (11 Aug 1996 14:23:55 -0700)
+
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+
EA Civil War

+
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:55 -0700

+
 Alan P. Biddle <73260.1450@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you say when we will get some additional info without
+> compromising anything?
+
+      I'd say you can expect that thread to pick up again after about
+the first third of year four.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Disbarring a doctor (11 Aug 1996 14:23:58 -0700)
+
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+
Disbarring a doctor

+
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:23:58 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope.  Actually, I don't think I've ever heard of his work
+before, let alone ever read anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+More UK Media Articles (11 Aug 1996 14:24:00 -0700)
+
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+
More UK Media Articles

+
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:24:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well...sort of backhanded compliments, but I'll take them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Kosh's body? (11 Aug 1996 14:24:02 -0700)
+
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+
No Kosh's body?

+
Date: 11 Aug 1996 14:24:02 -0700

+
 Neville White <101352.1023@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this because she knows something about the nature of Vorlons,
+> or is it because she knows something of the nature of Shadow
+> attacks? Do the shadows consume their victims?
+
+      More about the Vorlons than the shadows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Comic (12 Aug 1996 17:25:10 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Comic

+
Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:25:10 -0700

+
 Brian A. Thomas <75231.1122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has there been any plans to start another run of B5 comics?
+> Can we expect another one of those anytime soon?
+
+       Several companies are circling around the rights to the B5
+comic, and are currently in negotiations.  And after some initial
+problems with the contract between WB and Sendai, they hope to begin
+putting out more issues of the B5 magazine, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+1st season questions (12 Aug 1996 17:25:11 -0700)
+
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+
1st season questions

+
Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:25:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No word yet on tapes, and no, none of the cloaking suits are
+still in anyone's hands on B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Cast Addition (12 Aug 1996 17:25:12 -0700)
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+
New Cast Addition

+
Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:25:12 -0700

+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Pat Tallman is back?
+> Joe, do you have to make many adjustments to the story line to
+> work her in?
+
+       You just gotta learn to dance while life is throwing chainsaws
+and chickens at you...after the first few cuts and pecks, it's easy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Voice in the Wilderness (01 Aug 1996 20:51:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
Voice in the Wilderness

+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Who can say...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Worst B5 Episode (12 Aug 1996 23:36:16 -0700)
+
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+
Worst B5 Episode

+
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:36:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      "Dream Corridor" is still coming out, as new graphic novels; the
+next one should be out shortly, as all the pieces are now in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+1st season questions (12 Aug 1996 23:43:11 -0700)
+
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+
1st season questions

+
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:43:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a question without a stated answer for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS on Newsgroups (12 Aug 1996 23:43:15 -0700)
+
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+
JMS on Newsgroups

+
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:43:15 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you also available on the B5 newsgroup for questions, etc??
+
+      Yes, you can find me over on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated. 
+It's a fun place to hang out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fan Club Mailing (12 Aug 1996 23:43:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Fan Club Mailing

+
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:43:17 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+        Will do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Tactics. (12 Aug 1996 23:43:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Tactics.

+
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:43:19 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, that's not it, not at present, certainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Little "one Liners" (12 Aug 1996 23:48:21 -0700)
+
+
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Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:48:21 -0700

+
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+
+      Red Five is not from Star Wars...it's standard Air Force
+designation on various teams, Red One, Blue Three, others in some
+cases, Alpha One, Bravo Two in others.  People in and out of the
+military have been color coding fighters and the like long, long before
+there was a Star Wars.  There's a danger in assuming that the first
+place you heard it was the place that invented it. There are some ST
+fans who *insist* that ST invented the term tachyon, since that's where
+they heard it first, and even have given me and other shows a hard time
+when we use this actual scientific notion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Your Anticipation (13 Aug 1996 12:00:14 -0700)
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Your Anticipation

+
Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:14 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On a lighter note....the music comment reminded me: Any timeframe
+> yet for the release of the second CD?
+
+       I think Chris is going to time the second CD to coincide with
+the new season, so he can piggy-back on the PR.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+PW Notes Screenwriting (13 Aug 1996 12:00:15 -0700)
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PW Notes Screenwriting

+
Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:15 -0700

+
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+
+       That's good to know, thanks, I'll go get it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Composition (13 Aug 1996 12:00:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:16 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> That makes me curious,since Babylon 5 is actually shot in a
+> widescreen format how do compose your outer space shots? Come to
+> think of it, how do you compose shots in general? Do you have to
+> make compromises so a scene will look good on a regular TV now,
+> as well in the future when the show is out on laser disk and
+> HDTV?
+
+       That's more a Foundation question, I suspect...basically, I
+think they all just sorta do what looks cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Little "one Liners" (13 Aug 1996 12:00:21 -0700)
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Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:21 -0700

+
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+
+       There were initially some throwaway lines to reference outside
+SF, but soon it became a hunting expedition, with people paying more
+attention to that than was correct.  It got in the way, and this show
+has to define itself in its own terms...so the practice stopped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Voices of Experience (01 Aug 1996 20:51:24 -0700)
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+
Voices of Experience

+
Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:24 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you find it more of a challenge to write from the perspective
+> of one (individual, society) who is less experienced than
+> yourself (regain lost innocence) or one who is more experienced
+> (project 1,000 to 1,000,000 forward), or is there no difference?
+
+      I don't think there's really a difference.  (Also,
+philosophically, I think one can be experienced and still retain a
+certain measure of innocence, but that's another discussion for another
+time.)  I think we all have that part of ourselves which wishes to
+believe, needs to believe in a cause or in other people , however many
+times experience slaps us in the face with the contrary position...and
+there is always the part which is tired and weary and burned out and
+refuses to trust again.  We are all these things at different moments. 
+The difference with writers is that we must be those different things
+on command, and articulate those feelings through the voices of our 
+characters as they experience them in new contexts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Worst B5 Episode (13 Aug 1996 12:00:22 -0700)
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Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:22 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, does Harlan have YOU writing anything for it yet??
+
+       Yeah, I'm supposed to adapt "Someone is Hungrier" for the book,
+when I have the time (insert crazed, manaical laughter here).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+War Without End (13 Aug 1996 12:00:24 -0700)
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Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:00:24 -0700

+
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+
+       It's too hard to synopsize here...try the Lurker's Guide.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Something big out there? (13 Aug 1996 21:56:15 -0700)
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Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:56:15 -0700

+
 Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it a Shadow ship he saw?
+> Are there types of Shadows ships as yet unseen?
+
+      At least one, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Eeek! (13 Aug 1996 21:56:17 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:56:17 -0700

+
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+
+      But what the heck does it mean...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+More Vorlon Questions ! (13 Aug 1996 21:56:19 -0700)
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More Vorlon Questions !

+
Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:56:19 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are their different sexes of Vorlon ?
+> Do Vorlons have babies, if so...how ?
+> How long can the Vorlon keep his Psychic shield up ?
+> And how did Kosh get to the Garden, to save Sheridan...did he
+> just pass through walls..? And finally, did Vorlons "invent" the
+> Angels in the different races ? oh BTW - Is there a technical man
+> from B5 on the Net whom I may contact about general tech
+> stuff....a tech advisor ?
+
+      Kosh was right there in the garden when Sheridan fell, so that's
+how he got there.  And the only tech person on B5 is me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS <Kosh> (13 Aug 1996 21:56:21 -0700)
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Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:56:21 -0700

+
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+
+      It's likely a matter of both, choosing an element which is
+strongest in the other person, which for Sheridan and G'Kar would be
+their respective fathers, who would also be authority figures to
+them...so it's both manipulation and emotion.
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5: Time to kick butt (14 Aug 1996 12:19:13 -0700)
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Date: 14 Aug 1996 12:19:13 -0700

+
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+
+       Yes, Peter, that's very good, now sit back down and finish your
+broccoli or you can't have any Neapolitan ice cream.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+New Cast Addition (14 Aug 1996 23:02:34 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:02:34 -0700

+
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+
+      Bringing actors in and out, and changing their characters, is
+more or less always a story issue, so it's never a problem.  Londo,
+which you mention, was always intended to go on his arc from comic
+relief to something darker and more tragic.  That's his story; it was
+his story long before any actors were ever hired.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TV Guide Letters (14 Aug 1996 23:02:41 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:02:41 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you read the Letters section of next week's TV Guide?
+
+      Yeah, it was great...the "Babylon Edging Out Trek?" column is
+quite a bit away from their initial reaction to B5, to wit: "...they
+hope will become a series.  Fat chance."
+
+      I have this suspicion people are finally starting to figure out
+what we're doing here....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Goodbye Old Friend.. (14 Aug 1996 23:02:43 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1996 23:02:43 -0700

+
 Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But how could you leave Garibaldi in the lurch like that?
+
+      Thanks, the Sinclair material was very moving, I thought.
+
+      As for the kiss...I knew everyone would be waiting for that
+first kiss, so I made sure it was different, that it was a first kiss
+for one of them, but not the other, that it was natural and totally
+unforced and surprising. So for Sheridan, his first kiss of Delenn was
+actually his second (by a long ways), and his second, when it comes,
+will be her first.
+
+      Just can't do anything the conventional way on this show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (02 Sep 1996 19:51:34 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:34 -0700

+
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+
+      They're going out in clumps, batches of newsletters, then
+batches of kits, and so on until they're caught up.  Apparently almost
+all of the stuff should be out within the next week or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey 17 Question (02 Sep 1996 19:51:56 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:56 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the ' Veil' ?
+
+      He croaked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dancing-Gumph! (15 Sep 1996 13:29:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:09 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Couple of questions: (1) Have we seen where Delenn dropped the
+> snow globe before somewhere? I don't recall this image in AAITN,
+> was it there or elsewhere?
+
+      Yes, the snow globe was shown as a flash-forward in "WWE-2," and
+we did see that image of Sheridan in Psi Cop uniform in "All Alone."
+
+      And thanks, it's a great ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dancing (15 Sep 1996 13:29:11 -0700)
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Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:11 -0700

+
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+
+      Great, thanks, good to hear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dancing (15 Sep 1996 13:29:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:14 -0700

+
 Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A cute kid appears on B5 and it _survives_?!?
+> or was the kid getting spaced in the 7 seconds that C4 cut?
+
+      Yeah, the Minbari greeting is a hoot...there's a lot in that
+episode I just like a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dancing (15 Sep 1996 14:01:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 14:01:13 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I ask you if the perspective was that of Anne Sheriden?
+> If it was, then why did the extra's behave as if they'd seen a
+> ghost? Is she gonna re-appear next week?
+> Or was she credited purely to allow a credit before Anne?
+> ie was the character important or was it artistic licence?
+
+      The script said the extras shouldn't make a big deal about
+seeing her. The director did that on the set.  That's not what I had in
+mind, but it isn't that big a deal...I figure she's a striking looking
+woman, maybe that's a good justification.
+
+      The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as
+much as possible) the appearance of Melissa.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dancing (16 Sep 1996 12:18:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       There was a combination of reasons, including production
+schedules, for the decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:11 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they now lying low due to the loss of Kosh, or is there some
+> other reason for their apparent lack of interest in the affairs
+> of the other races? And if there is another reason, will it be
+> addressed soon?
+
+       There are other reasons, which yes, will be addressed soon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dust to Dust question (16 Sep 1996 12:18:12 -0700)
+
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Dust to Dust question

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:12 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In what other series does what seems to be arrogance in one
+> episode turns out to be prophecy when viewed from an episode
+> further down the line?
+
+       Yeah...we're slippery that way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 visibility/popularity (16 Sep 1996 12:18:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:14 -0700

+
 Larry Rosenblum <72122.1555@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you agree that there has been a noticeable increase in
+> recognition of B5 over the last six months, and if so, to what do
+> you attribute it?
+
+       Yes, I agree that there has been an increase in our visibility
+lately. I think it stems from a number of things.  First, we've
+outlived the expectations for us.  Everybody wrote us off, said we'd be
+gone in half a season (including Entertainment Weekly).  We've been
+stomped on, panned, abandoned, derided and left for dead.  But we keep
+on going, like some kind of deranged, phosphor-dot Energizer bunny. 
+Look at the shows that, unlike B5, got lots of PR, had big names
+attached to them, were held up way above us by the fickle media...VR5,
+Earth 2, SeaQuest, Space Rangers, Space Above and Beyond, others...and
+they're all gone.  And we're still here.  We can't be ignored any
+longer.
+
+       A lot of folks are still asking, Can B5 succeed?  But in
+whatever television terms you choose to apply, we *have* succeeded.  We
+succeeded when we went three years, which is exceedingly rare in ANY SF
+series.  Had we gone only 3 years, even though the story wouldn't have
+been finished, the series itself would've been a success from a purely
+TV perspective. Remember, the original Star Trek itself only went 3
+seasons...and look where that led.
+
+       Second, I think more people have at least sampled the show, and
+from the ratings, more people have stayed with it, and seen what it is
+we're doing. The longer you're on the air, the more folks will run into
+you, even if just by accident.  Where virtually every syndicated show
+has lost ratings, B5 has grown, slowly but surely.
+
+       There comes a point where a series, any series, reaches
+critical mass in terms of public recognition.  I think we're finally on
+the cusp of that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Slight Fan Club panic (16 Sep 1996 12:18:21 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Slight Fan Club panic

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:21 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Sure, it's jplb5@aol.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Dancing (16 Sep 1996 12:18:23 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:23 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, the channel 4 reference was a nod to the UK.  Wondered if
+it'd get noticed....
+
+       Good point, when you do a battle like that...what do you do
+next that won't seem anticlimatic?  Usually you save something like
+that for your last episode of the season, not your next-to-last, or
+you've blown your big EFX show 1 show early.  It makes for a real
+challenge...what do you do to follow THAT up?
+
+       I think we figured it out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Dancing CUT (02 Sep 1996 19:51:58 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Shadow Dancing CUT

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:58 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      If they cut 7 seconds, it's likely the 7 seconds of the actual
+stabbing itself, which is implicit in what happens afterward, so it
+shouldn't have a major effect on being able to follow the story.  It's
+a reasonable edit, and about what I'd expect given the general
+attitudes on TV violence among the UK TV networks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Creature CGI (16 Sep 1996 12:18:26 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Creature CGI

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 12:18:26 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> With the Foundation situation does it mean that we won't get to
+> see these after all ?
+
+       Actually, no, the equipment now in hand is equal to or better
+than the previous stuff, so that's still a very viable option.  I just
+gotta find the story to go with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Dancing (16 Sep 1996 17:19:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:19:55 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, glad you decided to join the family....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ghosts from the past (16 Sep 1996 17:19:57 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Ghosts from the past

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:19:57 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, it's just a matter of fitting everything in, in its proper
+place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing (16 Sep 1996 17:19:58 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:19:58 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, Sheridan isn't the man in the middle...the man in the
+middle is the one out there who sent Anna.  As Ivanova says, his
+opposite number.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Dancing (16 Sep 1996 17:59:20 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 17:59:20 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       They cut that?  How curious...I didn't know that.  From what
+I'd seen of British TV, some shows use the word bastard like I use a
+comma, they're ubiquitous....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Dust to Dust question (16 Sep 1996 22:28:57 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Dust to Dust question

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 22:28:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the best "slippery" line came from Australian artist
+Peter Ledger, who before his passing helped visualize the designs of
+B5: "Slippery as a bucket of monkey's foreskins."
+
+      It's the kind of hideous line that just keeps you up at night,
+trying to pretend you never heard it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+And the Rock Cried Out (16 Sep 1996 22:28:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
And the Rock Cried Out

+
Date: 16 Sep 1996 22:28:59 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's comical...and it ain't comical...it's designed to
+elicit conflicting emotions, between what you *are* feeling, what you
+*should* be feeling, and so on.  I like uneasy laughter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I Finally got it! <G> (17 Sep 1996 02:33:53 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
I Finally got it! <G>

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:33:53 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what about that intriguing new central logo?
+
+      The logo in the center of the new poster is the one that now
+hangs in the Council chambers for the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 game? (17 Sep 1996 02:40:42 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 game?

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:40:42 -0700

+
 Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true?
+> There's a B5 wargame in the works?
+> Or is that just an off-hand reference to the RPG by Chameleon
+> Eclectic?
+
+      Yes, there's a B5 war game in the works....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Dancing (17 Sep 1996 02:40:44 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:40:44 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  With "Shadow" my hope is really to erase most (though
+obviously not all) suspicions or predictions on how the last one will
+go.  If we already had our big EFX battle, it won't be that...Anna's
+here, so it can't be that...it can't ever be a return to tabula rasa,
+an empty slate, but by doing what's normally done in the season closer
+one episode prior to that, it may help ease the way for a different
+tonality to come in.
+
+      And thanks again...you definitely won't be disappointed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 CD screen saver etc (02 Sep 1996 20:08:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 CD screen saver etc

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 20:08:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The CD rom has permission for all the cast photos used in the
+screen saver, and there are literally dozens of them there.  But under
+SAG rules, there are strong limitations on secondary use of full-motion
+clips of the actors speaking or acting in scenes from the show.  If
+they were put on this CD rom, the cost of licensing the clips from SAG
+would make it too expensive to buy or produce.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Dancing (17 Sep 1996 02:40:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:40:46 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  What matters for me is that it should feel like a real
+future, that this is happening somewhere, and these are a series of
+reports back from that place.  It's certainly real enough in my head
+some days....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>> Z'HA'DUM << (17 Sep 1996 02:44:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
>> Z'HA'DUM <<

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 02:44:36 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I was gonna say something to that effect, but last time I did,
+everybody jumped funky on me, so now I just nod in at the window, like
+a black and frosted rose left over from the spring (to paraphrase
+Christopher Fry).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Creature CGI (17 Sep 1996 11:57:48 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Creature CGI

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:57:48 -0700

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Netter Digital (?) be using Sillicon Graphics workstations?
+> Did Foundation use KPT Bryce?
+
+       You've just passed beyond the envelope of my expertise....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Late "Avalon" question (17 Sep 1996 11:57:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
Late "Avalon" question

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:57:49 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> My brother was wondering into my ear about whatever happened to
+> the sword that Michael York's character gave to Delenn in "A Late
+> Delivery from Avalon" -- what *did* she do with it? Does she still
+> have it -- use it as a back scratcher or vermin control like
+> Londo's kutare or what?????
+
+       It went back to our prop department....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 4 (17 Sep 1996 11:57:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 4

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 11:57:50 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  We started filming 3 weeks ago, and will be finished
+sometime in May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Radio Times (17 Sep 1996 12:06:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Radio Times

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 12:06:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Anything there worth repeating?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing (17 Sep 1996 14:36:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:36:48 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Apparently there's some sort of rule at C4 about showing
+American produced shows in the watershed prime-time hours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Finally got it! <G> (17 Sep 1996 14:36:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
I Finally got it! <G>

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:36:49 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  Yours is the first detailed feedback I've gotten back
+on the poster.  I designed it myself, with Jim Lockett then doing the
+actual work of putting the darned thing together from the various bits
+and pieces.  The feeling I wanted was of these old scrolls, found long,
+long after the fact, and when you unroll them, looking up at the stars,
+there are the faces of our characters, and the scroll tells their
+stories....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 visibility/popularity (17 Sep 1996 14:36:50 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 visibility/popularity

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 14:36:50 -0700

+
 Steve Arnott <70247.2614@compuserve.com> asks:
+> While it's not up there with winning a Hugo, hey, every little
+> bit helps, right?
+
+       Cool, I didn't know this...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z'Ha'dum Spoilers (17 Sep 1996 17:35:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'dum Spoilers

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:35:59 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Seems that this is going on in your story, or do you have a few
+> more aces up your sleeve?
+
+       Thanks.  The portrayal of their motives is somewhat more
+elaborate, but the sense is there, and as you yourself note, there's a
+certain cold logic there which can be agreed with at some level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Wins 1996 Hugo! (02 Sep 1996 20:08:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 Wins 1996 Hugo!

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 20:08:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      What's interesting, in noting the number of votes in the
+nominations, is that if we hadn't withdrawn the second Hugo nominated
+B5 episode, "The Fall of Night," DS9 wouldn't have had a nomination at
+all.  They moved into the nominations when we withdrew "FoN."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>> Z'HA'DUM << (17 Sep 1996 17:35:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
>> Z'HA'DUM <<

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:35:59 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       From the way it was worded, it was written by someone who's
+actually seen the thing, since the little moves and such described
+weren't in the script.  Must be an advance copy in the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Finally got it! <G> (17 Sep 1996 17:36:00 -0700)
+
+
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I Finally got it! <G>

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:36:00 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What does the alien text (Minbari) in the sword logo say and what
+> race's script is it?
+
+       The Minbari script on the left says the same thing as the
+English sentence on the right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thank you from the uk (17 Sep 1996 17:39:58 -0700)
+
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+
Thank you from the uk

+
Date: 17 Sep 1996 17:39:58 -0700

+
 Tony Cherrington <100770.3121@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have just watched Shadow Dancing, and I felt I had to finaly
+> take the plunge and say publicly *thanks*, Have you any idea of
+> what the next seven days are going to be like ?
+
+       Thanks.  If we come even close to someday being classified as
+literature, that would be a good thing; a chance to show you can tell
+a quality SF story for television.  But the day they put out a Cliff's
+Notes version of the series, I'm leaving for the Arctic Circle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Finally got it! <G> (18 Sep 1996 00:02:47 -0700)
+
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I Finally got it! <G>

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 00:02:47 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I doubt you'll be willing to answer this until after the final
+> season, but why would a Minbari/Human heraldic image be central
+> to the Council of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds?
+
+      Basically, it's the symbol that went up when the various sides
+began to join under Sheridan and Delenn against the shadows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 game? (18 Sep 1996 00:02:49 -0700)
+
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+
B5 game?

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 00:02:49 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, this is another game.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>> Z'HA'DUM << (18 Sep 1996 00:02:55 -0700)
+
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+
>> Z'HA'DUM <<

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 00:02:55 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (further paraphrase) After all, what is a halo?
+
+      Now that's writing....
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>> Z'HA'DUM << (18 Sep 1996 12:27:26 -0700)
+
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+
>> Z'HA'DUM <<

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:26 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Re: my "everybody" comment...y'gotta understand, my posts here
+get reposted/forwarded to at least 2-3 mailing lists, the Internet and
+elsewhere, so whenever I do something that's actually stupid, or
+perceived as stupid, not only do I get whomped on here, but as it
+ripples out, I get to relive the experience and re-argue the arguments,
+for *days*.  I'm not complaining, I knew the job was dangerous when I
+took it, just point out one facet of the situation and thus my comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Finally got it! <G> (18 Sep 1996 12:27:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
I Finally got it! <G>

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:28 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> At a guess, those of us who got membership kits without posters
+> will have to wait some more, yes? Is the poster shipped rolled or
+> flat?
+
+       Alas, they're shipped flat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'dum Spoilers (18 Sep 1996 12:27:29 -0700)
+
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+
Z'Ha'dum Spoilers

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:29 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       What Sheridan is told, in that episode, by them, concerning
+their motives, is absolutely true, certainly from their point of view.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Late "Avalon" question (18 Sep 1996 12:27:31 -0700)
+
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+
Late "Avalon" question

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:31 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> No -- I meant what did *Delenn* (the character in the story) do
+> with the sword?
+
+       No, you were being clear, I was just being puckish.
+
+       Well, in theory.
+
+       I actually haven't worked out what she did with the sword, or
+who has it now.  I have several options on this, all of them
+interesting, and never made the final decision.  Maybe they used it to
+make the new emblem.  Lemme dwell on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Wins 1996 Hugo! (03 Sep 1996 12:15:03 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Wins 1996 Hugo!

+
Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:15:03 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many nominations did FoN receive?
+
+       I don't know offhand; my guess is that it was #5 in the overall
+nominations list, because (I understand) they had to jump past #6 (The
+Long, Twilight Struggle) to get to #7 (the DS9 episode) to find a
+non-B5 candidate for the nominations list.  So we had 3 out of the top
+6, and apparently two more B5 episodes were high up on the list, I
+think in the top 10.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Finally got it! <G> (18 Sep 1996 12:27:33 -0700)
+
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+
I Finally got it! <G>

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 12:27:33 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       "Who will still be around to find the bottle?"
+
+       Dick Clark.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Late "Avalon" question (18 Sep 1996 16:09:21 -0700)
+
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+
Late "Avalon" question

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:09:21 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> so does this mean that there are really no loose ends on B5?
+> only things that you are still thinking about??
+> Do you know how this kind of thing pans out when you write it, or
+> is it simply fortuitous /serendipitous? Or is there more in *you*
+> than you know?!!
+
+       I try not to randomly drop in significant lines without knowing
+ahead of time where it's going to go, or where it has the capacity to
+go.  You can't just mess with the audience that way; that was where
+Twin Peaks went afoul. You just have to vary them; some things are
+obviously significant, some things only become significant in hindsight
+(or rerun).  It's a hard dance to dance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Early Word on Year 5? (18 Sep 1996 16:09:23 -0700)
+
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+
Early Word on Year 5?

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:09:23 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Assuming the ratings only go up in November, and considering WB's
+> apparant pride in the Hugo, do you think there's any chance about
+> getting the nod for year 5 any earlier than the last minute this
+> year? Say, after the Broadcasters' next shindig in Vegas (early
+> '97)? And have you handed out any scripting chores yet, or it this
+> also waiting on Nov.? Which episode number, if so?
+
+       It's way too early to judge the impact of any of that stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z and the Q (18 Sep 1996 16:09:25 -0700)
+
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+
Z and the Q

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:09:25 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Does the "explanation" in "Z'Ha'Dum" explain it all, or
+> will there still be unanswered questions about the Shadows and
+> Vorlons into next year?
+
+       Well, it sorta answers all the questions...it's hard to explain
+until you've seen the episode and the ones that follow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Necronomicon (18 Sep 1996 16:09:26 -0700)
+
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+
Necronomicon

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 16:09:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, I'll be there (and that was noted also in the latest
+Zocalo, I checked).  Should be fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 in Philadelphia (18 Sep 1996 17:24:13 -0700)
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+
B5 in Philadelphia

+
Date: 18 Sep 1996 17:24:13 -0700

+
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+
+       I haven't heard anything definitive yet, but I know they're
+working on it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Coming Of Shadows promo (19 Sep 1996 20:56:26 -0700)
+
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+
Coming Of Shadows promo

+
Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:56:26 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did it take much prodding to get WB to do this or was it their
+> idea?
+
+      It was their idea.  They're impressed that we go the Hugo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ruth gets a new job (19 Sep 1996 20:58:30 -0700)
+
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+
Ruth gets a new job

+
Date: 19 Sep 1996 20:58:30 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I missed the start of this thread...Ruth, if you see this,
+congrats on making your life interesting.  Great news.  Good luck.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Question To JMS About EA (20 Sep 1996 12:49:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
Question To JMS About EA

+
Date: 20 Sep 1996 12:49:25 -0700

+
 Z. Michael Milutinovic <71532.2231@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, do the people of the Earth Alliance know about the Army Of
+> Light and there recent battles like Shadow Dancing?
+
+       They've heard rumors, usually the ones furthest away from
+Clark's confining influence....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Stars My Destination (20 Sep 1996 12:49:26 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Sep 1996 12:49:26 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm glad you had a chance to check it out; it's a great book.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE: Vorlons in the Past (03 Sep 1996 12:15:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:15:04 -0700

+
 Bruce Probst <71154.3171@compuserve.com> asks:
+> so the Vorlons walk on, take one look at Valen, and decide that
+> he gets "the stamp of approval"?
+
+       Well, Bruce, given that there's a massive war on, they just had
+their major starbase destroyed, they were left without a platform from
+which to stage the last part of the war...and here comes someone
+offering a 6 mile long, perfectly empty and eminently useable base for
+the last phase of the war, no charge...hell, I'd take him up on it too.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ruth gets a new job (20 Sep 1996 12:49:27 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Sep 1996 12:49:27 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Whenever we step out on our own courage and dare to change our
+lives to make it more in line with what we want it to be, 9 times out
+of 10 it works out infinitely better than we (and others) expect.  Of
+course, there's always that 10th time...but the lesson obtains.  You
+can live a better life if you decide to do so and take action.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (20 Sep 1996 18:36:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Sep 1996 18:36:42 -0700

+
 David Duff <106251.3535@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Trip to Zha,dum?
+> Does Sheridan have an anti-Sheridan?
+
+       Thanks...I imagine the wait won't be easy, but it'll be worth
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Sleeping (20 Sep 1996 18:36:43 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Sep 1996 18:36:43 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or did you and just run out of time to fit it in?
+> I'm curious, did you plan to show more there and just couldn't
+> fit it in, given the enormous nature of the episode?
+
+       Basically...we've got 44 or so minutes...we could've shown the
+whole battle as shown, or shown Sheridan trying to sleep.  One would
+have to go to make room to include the other.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS's AOL Homepage. (21 Sep 1996 15:33:24 -0700)
+
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+
JMS's AOL Homepage.

+
Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:24 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I deleted it; it really wasn't worth looking at, honest, I
+wouldn't lie to you about this, I was just diddling about....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Newbie Delurks! (21 Sep 1996 15:33:25 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Newbie Delurks!

+
Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:25 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks.  The online aspect gives it an almost family feel
+somedays. Vaguely dysfunctional, but what can one do...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 4 (21 Sep 1996 15:33:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 4

+
Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Certainly, LoTR is one of the best examples of modern heroic
+fantasy ever written.  It's just brilliant; I reread it every 3-4 years
+just to walk around in that world for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Petition Worked! (21 Sep 1996 15:33:27 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Petition Worked!

+
Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's terrific, congratulations, and thanks for staying with
+the effort.  They do pay off.
+
+       What's been interesting is that lately, the reruns of B5 are
+pulling in numbers very close to the *original broadcast*.  Everyone at
+WB has noticed this, and given the number of stations that have
+recently moved B5 back into prime time, or given us back a second run,
+I think they're noticing as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Shadow Dancing> quick q (21 Sep 1996 15:33:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Shadow Dancing> quick q

+
Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:33:28 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       And then, there are just times you do it 'cause it feels more
+dramatic that way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 visibility/popularity (21 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 visibility/popularity

+
Date: 21 Sep 1996 15:38:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yes and no.  The British SF shows are a different issue.  As
+for American TV, no space-based series beyond the ST shows have gone on
+for more than 3 years since Lost in Space.  Thirty years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Narn Shadow Relationship (21 Sep 1996 20:15:45 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Narn Shadow Relationship

+
Date: 21 Sep 1996 20:15:45 -0700

+
 Chas T Freund <75036.160@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or is it something else?
+> If they aren't loyal to G'Kar, why not?
+
+      Narn is somewhat factionalized itself, as is every world; there
+are different followers of different denominations of sometimes similar
+basic beliefs.  Catholics and Protestants are both members of the same
+faith, but a Protestant doesn't recognize the power of the Pope;
+neither does a Mormon, or a Lutheran.  Similarly, not everyone invests
+G'Quon with the same amount of reverence or credibility.  And G'Kar can
+call upon those who believe similarly to send out an expedition, but
+may not have the clout in the rest of the goverment to do much more
+afterward.
+
+      And yes, initially the shadows had no interest in the Narns,
+until such time as the Narns, led by G'Quon, began to engage in
+sabotage and direct attacks to drive them off their homeworld.  Then
+the killing started.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Grey 17 is missing (03 Sep 1996 12:15:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Grey 17 is missing

+
Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:15:07 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Did you receive any impression of the general 'feel' towards B5
+> at WorldCon?
+
+       The reaction at the con to B5, at the awards and elsewhere, was
+quite amazing.  Everywhere the show was mentioned at panels, it
+appaarently got applause.  The attending fans were *extremely*
+friendly, went out of their way to be nice.  The two B5 panels I gave
+(the second one added on when the first one wouldn't fit into the room
+provided) were extremely enthusiastic. I think the two presentations I
+gave that day totaled about 2,500-2,600 people total.
+
+       When the winner was announced for Best Dramatic Presentation,
+and I headed for the stage, for a moment I thought we were having an
+earthquake, or there was a sudden thunder...but it was the fans
+applauding and stomping their feet enough to make the ground shake.  It
+was deafening down where the nominees were, and I noticed a couple of
+them looking around with a "what the hell is THAT?" look on their
+faces.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS in the Forefront (22 Sep 1996 01:32:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS in the Forefront

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 01:32:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Really?  Cool...wait until the new version comes out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 in Philadelphia (22 Sep 1996 01:35:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 in Philadelphia

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 01:35:16 -0700

+
 Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't there a way to resolve this issue?
+> I know you know because" you've always been here" so what is
+> causing all these problems?
+
+      I've also gotten conflicting stories over what's happening
+there; all I know for sure is that WB is working to rectify it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 in Philadelphia (22 Sep 1996 13:37:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 in Philadelphia

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:37 -0700

+
 Anthony R. Nollet <71232.2556@compuserve.com> asks:
+> P.S.: Will the early seasons of B5 be coming out on tape soon?
+
+      We're still negotiating for the release of the tapes...last we
+heard Nixon had 'em....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Accent (22 Sep 1996 13:37:39 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Accent

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:39 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Seriously, how come good guys rarely wear glasses on TV?
+
+      I dunno what problem others have with the ides of British actors
+as heroes or good guys.  Maybe they're still fighting the colonial
+war....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z'ha'dum (22 Sep 1996 13:37:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'ha'dum

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:41 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      "I hate you."
+
+      Thank you.  I try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum (22 Sep 1996 13:37:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  It's a lovely episode.  This is the one where, after we
+watched the final audio mix playback, prompted me to say to the other
+producers working on the show, "gentlemen, we have just entered
+history."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum> (22 Sep 1996 13:37:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum>

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:45 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I was also really expecting B5 to go, but it didn't - saving that
+> up for another time???!!
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it has some surprises, with teeth....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Alligators (22 Sep 1996 13:37:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
Alligators

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:37:47 -0700

+
 Melanie Dymond Harper <100753.754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, the question remains: was he captured, or did he volunteer?
+
+      "Was he captured, or did he volunteer?"
+
+      We'll have to see....
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SNOW WHITE CASTING CALL (22 Sep 1996 13:45:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
SNOW WHITE CASTING CALL

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:45:31 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      From the back of the room, I would like to suggest that this is
+a mind-numbingly bad idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ZHD - Cut? (22 Sep 1996 13:45:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
ZHD - Cut?

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 13:45:32 -0700

+
 Draco <101603.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can anyone confirm if C4 have cut Z'Ha'Dum ??
+> Maybe we've missed something (I've still to watch the ep again),
+> but what went on after he shot at that Shadow?
+>  - did he kill it, did he shoot at Morden while he was there?
+> (I'm pretty sure I'd have done) And how did he get away?
+
+      No, C4 didn't cut anything there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Hugo Award (03 Sep 1996 12:15:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hugo Award

+
Date: 03 Sep 1996 12:15:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Re: the debate...the one thing I'd wanted to mention in my
+closing remarks, but didn't get around to, was that religion, science,
+atheism, are all just tools, neither better nor worse than the people
+who use them.  They are part of our attempt to understand the universe
+and our role in it.  They can be used for good or ill, depending on
+who's involved and what they're after.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Final ep. is superb. (22 Sep 1996 14:50:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
Final ep. is superb.

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:50:20 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a knockout, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Z'Ha'Dum  (22 Sep 1996 14:59:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
 Z'Ha'Dum 

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:59:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  The parapet shot was one I was very particular about, I
+really wanted it to feel *high*, and impressive.  That whole sequence
+is one I run again and again, it's very moving.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ZHD - Cut? (22 Sep 1996 14:59:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
ZHD - Cut?

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:59:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Basically, my thought was that it was just the one shadow in the
+room, and there was a tussle with some others, and he started running,
+made a break for it...didn't seem worth the time to show what would've
+been only a few minutes of hit 'em and run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The man in-between ? (22 Sep 1996 14:59:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
The man in-between ?

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:59:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, the phrase is "the man in the middle is looking for
+you."
+
+      Justin describes himself as "a middle-man."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Za'Ha'Dum>> Oh Boy! (22 Sep 1996 14:59:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
<<Za'Ha'Dum>> Oh Boy!

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 14:59:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I look (or 'lurk'?) at the Lurkers Guide on the Web so I know
+> that a forthcoming ep in S4 is called 'Whatever happened to Mr
+> Garibaldi?' but I gotta know now - is he dead?
+> is he having a Sinclair experience?
+> what?
+> Will we see Sheridan again?
+>  - on this side of the Rim at least?
+> Are you sure you are an atheist?
+
+      Thank you.  (And I'm far from the last reasonable atheist on the
+planet; we're just a quiet bunch, that's all.)
+
+      As for Garibaldi and Sheridan, well, we'll have to see, won't
+we?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z'ha'dum cliffhanger (22 Sep 1996 21:25:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'ha'dum cliffhanger

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:25:31 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      This is a spoiler message in the wrong area; suggest you move it
+to 6 and delete this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thank you from the uk (22 Sep 1996 21:48:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
Thank you from the uk

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:48:52 -0700

+
 Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you realise it took half the evening before I was able to get
+> onto the B5 web page, only to find out absolutely nothing? How can
+> you do this to us?
+
+      Thanks.  For me, waiting to hear reactions to the shows is
+almost as hard as it must be to wait for them...and very pleasing when
+they come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Publicity? (22 Sep 1996 21:48:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
Publicity?

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:48:54 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you know if WB is going to do any kind of publicity here in
+> the US for the last couple of season 3 shows because of the
+> Melissa Gilbert/Bruce Boxleitner connections? Will we be seeing
+> them on Entertainment Tonight promoting the show?
+
+      I think the publicity will only come in for 322, for Melissa's
+appearance there, not in anything before that.  They only promote
+shows that fall within sweeps periods.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ WoW - Z'Ha'dum  (22 Sep 1996 21:48:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
 WoW - Z'Ha'dum 

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:48:55 -0700

+
 George Wilson <100331.723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Have the Vorlons and Shadows foreseen the consequences of
+> Sheridan's 'Leap of Faith' at the end of Z'Ha'dum?"
+
+      I think the two sides have been too caught up in their own
+agendas to realize what was happening right under their noses until it
+was too late... except for Kosh, whose last traces did what they
+did...for a number of reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Finale (22 Sep 1996 21:48:58 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season Finale

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:48:58 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well, what can I say that has not already been said?
+
+      Thanks...the final fate of the first White Star is very moving,
+like some great silver bird plunging on fire out of the sky, bringing
+retribution and striking one last time.  That kind of image is a very
+powerful one to me, and it works very well here.
+
+      As for what Morden and Justin told Sheridan...I'd say it was
+pretty much the truth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Awards (04 Sep 1996 00:00:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hugo Awards

+
Date: 04 Sep 1996 00:00:23 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Now a question (to anyone, really): Which DS9 episode is "The
+> Visitor"?
+
+      I'm reasonably sure that's the one where Sisko's lost in time
+and his son saves him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Questions for JMS (22 Sep 1996 21:49:01 -0700)
+
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+
Questions for JMS

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why do the Vorlon ships come out of the jumpgates backwards?
+> Less painful?
+> Is this "Piece" the vorlons are looking for, his living spirit?
+> In all that confusion I cant remember if Garibaldi fired six
+> shots or only five?
+
+      Vorlon ships come out backwards when possible to help
+decelerate.
+
+      Pat has interesting eyes...they're slightly larger than is the
+norm, and they take some getting used to.  Those eyes are one of the
+things that beckoned to me to cast her...they're the eyes of a
+telepath, who sees more than should be seen.  They're terrific eyes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum (22 Sep 1996 21:49:03 -0700)
+
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Z'Ha'Dum

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Haven't heard formally when C4 will air the fourth year...and
+thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The man in-between ? (22 Sep 1996 21:49:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
The man in-between ?

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Excuse my joining in, but is it not actually " the man in between
+> is looking for you."?
+
+      Nope.  It's the man in the middle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Za'Ha'Dum<< (22 Sep 1996 21:49:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
>>Za'Ha'Dum<<

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:08 -0700

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, can I ask if I am correct and John S is still alive?
+> Does this have any connection to the Season 4 episode "WHatever
+> happened to Mr Garibaldi"? Thridly, Julain - the "Old Guy" on
+> Za'Ha'Dum is the Man in the Middle? Or is he Sheridons Equal and
+> Opposite on the other side? Or is that Mr Morden?
+> So what do I think of the Shadows motives?
+> Has Chrstopher Franken got a bigger orchestra to work with now?
+> When is Channel 4 palnning to bring B5 back next year?
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Obviously the questions are better answered in the series, but I
+think you'll find the answers interesting.
+
+      As for the music, no, it's the same orchestra Chris has always
+used. I've seen times when people assumed he was using synth and
+wasn't.  He uses the Berlin Film Symphonic Orchestra for a goodly
+amount of the work for the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Za'Ha'Dum thanks (22 Sep 1996 21:49:10 -0700)
+
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+
Za'Ha'Dum thanks

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Sheriden : given that the White Star has Vorlon technology, that
+> Vorlon ships have some sentience and that there was a white light
+> flash before the nuclear explosion, can I assume (stupid
+> question, I know) that the sentient part of the White Star was
+> saving itself and Sheriden by leaving the White Star early enough
+> to catch the captain and dive deep enough to use the protection
+> of the planet's mass? Any chance of you casting some light?
+> With best wishes for next season - do I really have to wait until
+> July??
+
+      No, the White Star didn't have any substantial consciousness to
+eject before impact.  It's gone.
+
+      And thanks, on it all...G'Kar's final litany is very moving, and
+the music throughout works so well...as you say, it's going to be hard
+to beat.
+
+      But that's what we do around here.  Because if we ain't pushing
+it every day to get better, what's the point of living?
+
+      Having now seen the first two finished S4 episodes...I think
+people are going to be pleased.  What strikes me about the new season
+is that it seems suddenly very mature, more filmic...everyone's very
+excited about it here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum (22 Sep 1996 21:49:12 -0700)
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:12 -0700

+
 Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is it with you?
+> What are you going to do to Ivanova next year?
+> And Garibaldi?
+> How on earth do I avoid eight months of spoilers?
+
+      Thank you, and what you say is quite true: whatever else one may
+say about Warner Bros., however much we may feel frustrated about the
+videotape issue, or the PR, or other elements, the stone cold fact is
+that they let us make this show the way we want to make it.  They don't
+interfere, they don't give notes, they leave us alone.  They trust us. 
+I'd rather have that trust and do the story I want, than have all 3
+seasons on tape and not have it be the series I wanted to do.  If
+that's the trade-off, then I take it gladly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ep22 question (22 Sep 1996 21:49:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
ep22 question

+
Date: 22 Sep 1996 21:49:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Garibaldi programmed it from the intructions given him by
+Sheridan; it would've been set to explode at a certain point.  He gave
+it final detonation instructions when he signaled it via his link.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE (23 Sep 1996 00:37:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE

+
Date: 23 Sep 1996 00:37:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The reason for the difference in air dates in the UK and US is
+this:
+
+      Here we have reruns.
+
+      We get the broadcast schedule from WB, which makes all final
+decisions on this matter.  Then the show starts airing.  We still have
+post production to do, and the breaks for reruns give us time to finish
+the episodes.
+
+      C4 doesn't do reruns.  They run straight through.  So if they
+began the season there the same time as the US, they'd run out of
+finished episodes to air right around (thinking...) episode 10 or so. 
+Then they'd have to wait.
+
+      What C4 needs to do is figure out when the earliest is that the
+final cuts can be delivered, then backtrack that to when they can
+start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>> (23 Sep 1996 00:42:49 -0700)
+
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+
Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>

+
Date: 23 Sep 1996 00:42:49 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      One thing to also note is that when the shadows appeared, they
+swarmed all OVER B5 as fast as they could, circling it without slowing
+down much.  So if Draal *did* launch an offensive, it'd take out B5 in
+doing so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The man in-between ? (24 Sep 1996 13:52:23 -0700)
+
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+
The man in-between ?

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:23 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, that's me...and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Post-Product Question (04 Sep 1996 00:00:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
Post-Product Question

+
Date: 04 Sep 1996 00:00:26 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this length of post longer because of CGI?
+> In other words, how does this compare with a series such as
+> "Murder She Wrote?"
+
+      No, that's pretty much uniform whether it's a big CGI episode or
+not. You need time to edit it, do all the sound work, whatever EFX are
+needed, do your final color-correction, mixes...on and on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thank you from the uk (24 Sep 1996 13:52:24 -0700)
+
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+
Thank you from the uk

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:24 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, it's a lovely show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Za'Ha'Dum<< (24 Sep 1996 13:52:25 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:25 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Just a thought, but was the talking bomb a nod to Dark Star?
+
+       No.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Couple of Questions.. (24 Sep 1996 13:52:29 -0700)
+
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+
Couple of Questions..

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:29 -0700

+
 Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this due to some technical hitch, or is it intended to be
+> someone else? Did Morden get a Fatal Sun tan?
+> but what do they get out of it?
+> Now the Shadows have had a rather large setback, will the Vorlons
+> be prepared to intervene?
+
+       Actually, no, that was Kosh's voice, treated the same as
+always.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum> (24 Sep 1996 13:52:30 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum>

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:30 -0700

+
 Phil Morris <100602.3647@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question though: as you always start off a new season in
+> 'light' mode so as to gradually introduce new viewers to the Arc,
+> will you start off season 4 in 'light' mode?
+
+       Season 4 definitely starts in dark mode.  Bigtime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum (24 Sep 1996 13:52:32 -0700)
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+
Z'Ha'Dum

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:32 -0700

+
 Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what?
+> I now have to wait 6+months to see what happens next in the UK???
+
+       Thanks.  One of the things I like about the episode is the
+emotional content, as it builds toward the end of the ep.  I've watched
+it (in finished form) a half dozen times or more...but certain
+sequences never stop being interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'ha'dum (24 Sep 1996 13:52:34 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:34 -0700

+
 Marina Waring <106312.3516@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was also wondering where you get the ideas from?
+
+       Coming up with ideas is easy, as long as you know who your
+characters are and what they want and what the world is like around
+them.  It's like knowing what a good friend will say when they bump
+their shin into the coffee table in the dark; you create any given
+situation, which is itself a logical extension of the world they're in,
+then drop those characters into that situation...and the story takes
+care of itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing (24 Sep 1996 13:52:41 -0700)
+
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Under SAG rules, you must put guest stars of a certain calibre
+in the opening credits; also, for Melissa to take back-billing would
+have been a break in her work to date elsewhere.  We had no choice in
+this, it's all stuff regulated by the guilds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Z'ha'dum (24 Sep 1996 13:52:42 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:42 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> 1) Why do the Shadows and Vorlons interfere ,what do the get out
+> of it that they are willing to invest aeons of time and risk
+> their lives ? 2) The Shadows and Vorlons were supposed to be equal
+> in their approaches, was this a mutual accord between the two, or
+> did it involve other first ones ? 3) What's greener about the
+> greener pastures the other first ones have gone to ?
+
+       All those get answered in the first part of season four, so I'd
+rather leave it to that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Three. (24 Sep 1996 13:52:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:44 -0700

+
 David Duff <106251.3535@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When is it coming back!!!!!!?
+
+       I don't know yet when S4 will beginning its run on C4; I'd
+guess sometime in the late spring, around the same time it began this
+season plus or minus a few weeks.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+To Mr. JMS. (24 Sep 1996 13:52:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
To Mr. JMS.

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:47 -0700

+
 PETER WADSWORTH <106013.1551@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long ago did you get the idea though?
+> Will she be coming back in the future or what?
+> How many more seasons do you see B5 going on for?
+
+       Thank you.  The basic storyline for B5 was conceived by me back
+around 1986, the pilot movie was written in 1987, and it took us 5
+years to sell the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Would they tell you? (02 Sep 1996 19:51:36 -0700)
+
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+
Would they tell you?

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:36 -0700

+
 Antony Jackson <100025.2004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you been told if B5 will be on this new station?
+
+      No one's told me about it, and it would probably conflict with
+their standing license with C4, which has first rights to the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CLUB Email address (04 Sep 1996 11:41:26 -0700)
+
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B5 CLUB Email address

+
Date: 04 Sep 1996 11:41:26 -0700

+
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+
+       It's jplb5@aol.com.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Za'Ha'Dum thanks (24 Sep 1996 13:52:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:50 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He wondered how do the Shadows build anything with only their
+> little claws to help them ?
+
+       The other crew of the Icarus shown on Z'ha'dum were all done
+CGI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Season Finale (24 Sep 1996 13:52:51 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:51 -0700

+
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+
+       Two different things...the allies of the shadows can know about
+us, can have used influence to start infiltrating the Psi Corps, long
+before we found out about them.  And bear in mind that Earth is not
+monolithic; the FBI may not know what the CIA is doing.  That some in
+the Psi Corps may have had something going on there doesn't mean anyone
+from IPX knew about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'ha,dum (24 Sep 1996 13:52:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:53 -0700

+
 James & Deb's <101355.3704@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Just a quick question after watching your most amazing
+> episode ever.What happened to all the ships that were ment to be
+> guarding Babylon 5.All i could see used was the star furieries?
+
+       Most would've been getting repaired from their recent
+engagement. And the shadows phased in too close to B5 for either ship
+to ship combat, or anything from Epsilon 3.  Any attack on them
+would've also destroyed B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Necronomicon (24 Sep 1996 13:52:55 -0700)
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+
Necronomicon

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:55 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anything special you plan on bringing with you?
+
+       I tend to bring music videos and bloopers, some trailers/clips,
+but no finished episodes, as WB doesn't allow screenings in front of
+large audiences.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout ? (24 Sep 1996 13:52:57 -0700)
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Walkabout ?

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:52:57 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I *love* those little moments of synchronicity where I'm feeling
+> *exactly* the same thing as the characters - the three Shadow
+> vessels fade out ("bug out?" Now, a question - is the success of
+> this operation what caused the Shadows to put Anna into play? Did
+> this prove that Sheridan had to be dealt with *now*?
+
+       It's certainly gotten their attention...but it's the events in
+"Shadow Dancing" that tipped them into moving directly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Coming of Shadows PR (24 Sep 1996 13:53:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:53:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...we'll take all the help we can get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is she toast? (322 spoil (24 Sep 1996 13:53:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 13:53:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Sheridan, I'm not gonna ask you about Justin or Morden or even
+> Garibaldi - but Anna has definetly been reduced to her component
+> molecules, hasn't she?
+
+       She's an ex-Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sheridans survival (24 Sep 1996 14:16:46 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 14:16:46 -0700

+
 Neil Plucknett <101371.1144@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (1) Given that the white star was about to hit dead centre with 2
+> planet busters on-board, why did an echo of Kosh's voice tell
+> Sheridan to jump down a dirty great hole? (2) Why did the shadow
+> cruiser hijack Garibaldi c/w Starfury and take it back to the
+> homeworld ?
+
+       Well, it was either jump or get vaporized....
+
+       In that sense, as someone else once pointed out, Sheridan is a
+hero in the Heinleinian tradition.  He does the logical thing, whatever
+that is, to survive.  "Okay, I'm about to get vaporized...but if that
+hole is several miles deep, it might shield me and keep me alive for
+another 10 seconds. Yes, there's the *splat* at the end problem, but
+I'll have 10 seconds in which to figure out that problem...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mistakes in <Z'ha'dum.> (24 Sep 1996 14:16:47 -0700)
+
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+
Mistakes in <Z'ha'dum.>

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 14:16:47 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       The shadows entered through a different door/entrance; it was
+to the right of the room, which would've adjoined the room next door. 
+Anna and John came through the door on camera left.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Z'ha'dum doors (24 Sep 1996 14:16:48 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 14:16:48 -0700

+
 Christopher Harrison <101712.2401@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did anyone else notice that those stone like doors on Z'ha'dum
+> sound rather like the doors in the game Quake?
+
+       It's just a sound of stone grinding on stone.  With a slight
+animal like sound, as though entering someone's maw.  Which is what I
+wanted.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writers and Valen (04 Sep 1996 22:11:12 -0700)
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+
Writers and Valen

+
Date: 04 Sep 1996 22:11:12 -0700

+
 Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you assigned scripts to any other writers for this season?
+> If so, can you tell us who they are?
+> Also, do the Minbari have any legends foretelling that Valen will
+> return when he is needed, that sort of thing?
+
+      Yeah, there are some legends about Valen returning someday, but
+so far they've been only legends, nothing more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Slight Fan Club panic (24 Sep 1996 21:33:39 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:33:39 -0700

+
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+
+      I'll need a last name so I can personally have Jim check.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sheridans survival (24 Sep 1996 21:33:41 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:33:41 -0700

+
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+
+      Well, given that Garibaldi is any number of light years away at
+the moment at which Sheridan is dropping, I'd say any attempt to arrive
+before Sheridan would hit bottom would be less than useless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Rollercoaster (24 Sep 1996 21:33:44 -0700)
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+
A Rollercoaster

+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:33:44 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.  An emotional rollercoaster is a good image for that
+episode; it takes you in every direction and then just drops you.
+
+      Re: the Revelations scene...we actually shot that entire
+sequence, with the notion of possibly re-editing "Revelations" and
+inserting the Melissa piece instead...sort of TV by way of soviet
+revisionism...and of course it was *always* that way...what other
+version was there?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+White Star (K'Z'D) (24 Sep 1996 21:42:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Sep 1996 21:42:07 -0700

+
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+
+      Who said they were speaking English?  In a WW II movie, when you
+go to the Germans, you can understand what they're saying on the
+premise that yes, it's German, but we're hearing it as English.  On the
+other hand, if Garibaldi programmed them, then they may have been in
+English...there's no way to tell exactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Finale (25 Sep 1996 01:46:53 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 01:46:53 -0700

+
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+
+      The building was a lot bigger in the book than it should've
+been, more like a quonset hut arrangment hastily erected.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Finale (25 Sep 1996 01:46:55 -0700)
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+
Season Finale

+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 01:46:55 -0700

+
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+
+      Well, I don't know if the shadow pilot was aware of the Psi
+Corps research installation...they're not really aware of much of
+*anything*, except their orders...I'd just suggest that there may be
+something beneath that particular installation, and a reason they built
+it there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+1/3 and 2/3 and the rest (25 Sep 1996 01:49:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 01:49:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, the First Ones, Vorlons and Shadows aren't parents in any
+sense of the word...we all evolved on our own, there's no common
+genetics, and they didn't seed life here or elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+White Star (K'Z'D) (25 Sep 1996 13:29:29 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 13:29:29 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> " Who said they were speaking English?
+
+       Yes, if you have a translater in the room...but if you have two
+Narns speaking in a room, they're not going to need a translator in
+there with them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Slight Fan Club panic (25 Sep 1996 13:29:30 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 13:29:30 -0700

+
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+
+       I checked with Jim's elves, and I'm told yours went out either
+Monday or Tuesday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Club Help (25 Sep 1996 13:29:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 13:29:31 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Jim says he got your change of address after it went out; he's
+now waiting a few days to see if it comes back to us, or gets forwarded
+on to you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kick Butt Pt.III (04 Sep 1996 23:00:00 -0700)
+
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+
Kick Butt Pt.III

+
Date: 04 Sep 1996 23:00:00 -0700

+
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+
+"I'm here to express opinion like it or not."
+
+   Peter, I was trying to ignore this whole last thread, but you're
+really becoming a pain in the ass.
+
+   Lemme explain a few facts of life to you.
+
+   EVERYONE is here to express an opinion.  What happens here is that
+every once in a while, some bozo (insert your picture here) comes
+riding in here and has the notion that nobody else here is objective,
+that he and ONLY he dares say anything negative, and puffs up like a
+pouter pigeon as proclaimer of Truth, Justice and Objectivity, and all
+you poor saps out there just dang well better get used to it and get
+over it.
+
+   Seen it.
+
+   There's LOTS of positive AND negative opinion expressed here.  It
+didn't spring suddenly into being when you materialized in our midst,
+Peter.  Check out the Grey 17 thread.  A number of people were iffy on
+it, or downright negative.  I said they had a point, and agreed with
+much of it.  So right off the bat, you are proceeding from a false
+assumption, that nobody else here critiques the show.  So you're wrong
+on the face of it.  Don't believe me? Check the threads.  It's there. 
+And elsewhere.  Always has been.  Always will be.
+
+   But for you, it's necessary to think, for your own ego, that you
+and ONLY you DARE to stand up and speak ***THE TRUTH***.  It's how you
+make yourself feel important.  And the next phase of that is that you
+must now put yourself in the position of feeling persecuted for your
+statements...it's not enough that you must criticize, you must feel
+*special* for doing so, reinforce your own sad notion that only you are
+the Visionary One here.  So you come in and you insult people, deride
+them...indicate that anyone who takes issue with your hamhanded and
+abusive messages is a nut, or an idiot, or a blind, ass kissing fool.
+
+   Then you go to phase three.  It's all right in line with what we've
+seen here a thousand times before.  You may think you've invented this
+little dance of yours, but we've seen it before you, and we'll see it
+after you. You've practically become a cliche.
+
+   Phase three, when people take offense at what you say, is to shrug
+and say, "hey, it's just wit," and "chill out."  Yessir, that'll work.
+
+   There's a particularly offensive sort of netjerk who thinks that as
+long as he says what he says in a calm, flip fashion, he can say any
+stupid, offensive, chowderheaded thing he so chooses...and if someone
+gets upset about it, heyyyyyy, chill out, look how angry you're
+getting, you're shrieking, when I was just calmly talking about how
+your mother works the corner of Sunset and Vine for twenty bucks a pop,
+there's nothing wrong with that, hey, it's the world's oldest
+profession, why're you being so defensive....
+
+   That's the game you play.  And it is a game, make no mistake. 
+Difference is, some of us have been around long enough, and seen other
+yahoos like you come storming in here doing the same thing, to
+*recognize* that it's a game. And the rules of the game are as follows:
+"I can say anything I want, and that's great, but if you get upset in
+response, then that's wrong, and bad."
+
+   You want to believe that you're the Last Bastion of Persecuted
+Truth, the only person who can look at things calmly, so you get other
+people upset to prove your point...it's a very nice, self-contained
+little mobius loop designed specifically to reinforce your own
+self-image.
+
+   If you say something, that's your opinion, and you're damn well
+entitled to spraypaint that opinion all over the walls, and if anybody
+doesn't like it, screw 'em...but if the other users here exercise THEIR
+right to hold an opinion about your boorish behavior, somehow THAT'S
+wrong, that's shrieking and screaming and being an "idiot."
+
+   I would suggest that it's you who can't take criticsm, you who
+can't abide people having an opposing opinion, on one level, because
+you need to deflate it or deflect it or deride it...but at the same
+time, you *need* it, you batten off it like a blood-swollen tick, you
+respond to it with glee, because you think it makes you important in
+their lives, or at least your own.  It's like the ten year old kid
+sitting on a fence firing a slingshot at a horse, you think that
+because you got a reaction, it *means* something.
+
+   And as for saying "it's just wit," there are two primary
+requirements for wit: 1) it must be funny, and 2) it must not proceed
+from maliciousness. Neither of those conditions is operational in your
+messages.  They are mean, venal, petty, self-indulgent,
+self-congratulatory, derisive, ill-mannered and offensive.
+
+   But they're not witty.
+
+   That's just what you hide behind, you think it excuses any stupid,
+hare brained thing you choose to spout...it's just wit, just bein'
+funny.
+
+   Like I said...seen it.
+
+   Finally, for this:
+
+"Joe, you comments are cute at times, but remember I tell it like it
+is. If you want to talk to just yes men, and women then they're all
+yours. Fail them, and they'll east you alive."
+
+   No, you don't "tell it like it is."  That's more of your ego, your
+sense of god-given mission, that somehow you know the Truth and nobody
+else here has sufficiently evolved to your level yet.  Nor do I talk to
+just yes men and women.  That's again your way of dismissing other
+people here, writing off their opinions as "yes men" while insisting
+your own is more valid because you're "objective," when you're really
+just being boorish.  Nobody here is a yes-ANYthing.  There's
+disagreements, criticism, even some outright knock-downs.  But you
+don't see them.
+
+   Because the universe of Peter Stathis is *just* big enough to
+contain Peter Stathis, and nothing much more than that.  Your messages
+are intended for the greater glorification of Peter Stathis, to elicit
+persecution for the poor, embattled Peter Stathis, so that you may be
+crucified on a cross of your own making because you need the pain and
+the glory and most of all you need to be *right*.
+
+   Because you are none of those.  You are, simply, ill-mannered and
+in the final analysis utterly irrelevant.  The only thing more
+irrelevant than you, is your opinion.  But only because it rides into
+this forum stapled to a horse's ass.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum (25 Sep 1996 19:04:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 19:04:59 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Generally, I'm here for both kinds of comments...there
+are brickbats, and occasional roses, and you have to learn to take them
+both with a fair amount of equanimity.  Unless they're just simply
+being unfair and malicious, at which point you simply take their heads
+off and move on.
+
+      But in general, I've found the criticisms here to be
+even-handed, fair and often I agree with them.  The roses sustain one
+between brickbat festivals.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Those final words ..... (25 Sep 1996 19:05:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Those final words .....

+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 19:05:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, Andreas did a terrific job on the end monologue.  Very
+moving.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Starburst article (25 Sep 1996 19:05:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Sep 1996 19:05:05 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what happens??
+
+      Thanks; I think I have that issue.
+
+      Larry DiTillio made the point, while on the show, that some SF
+fans reared on ST expect everyone to talk like English earls, very
+proper.  We go for vernacular every time.  I like the rough edges, the
+hesitations, the stumbles.  In editing 402 the other day, there's
+several takes to choose from in a particular scene, but I picked the
+one where the actor slightly stumbled over the line, because it was at
+the heat of the moment, and in that kind of situation, we all get
+flustered.  It made it feel more real.
+
+      Slang and idiom have been with us forever, and always will be. 
+Now, on the other hand, I don't go full-tilt bozo with it, by peppering
+the dialogue with lots of techtalk and futureslang because I think it
+becomes intrusive. So we try to find a balance.  Some people don't like
+it, and like their SF to all sound the same.  That's fine.  Tastes
+vary.
+
+      Also, I use some dialogue styles that lean toward the
+theatrical, what you'd see on the stage, or hear in a radio drama. 
+Other times I'm right in the gutter.  You use different tools for
+different jobs.  My influences are from Rod Serling and Charles
+Beaumont and Norman Corwin and Ray Bradbury, so you're going to hear
+those colors from time to time, and because you don't hear a lot of
+that particular style in TV these days, some people think it's 
+bad...no, it's just a different approach to dialogue.
+
+      Look at Harold Pinter, then look at Christopher Fry, then look
+at Joe Orton.  Between just those three you've got three very stylized,
+consistent approaches to dialogue, not like the other two at all, and
+between them more diversity than in a hundred TV shows.  In theater,
+which is where I cut my teeth, it's *okay* to have dialogue that's
+somewhat stylized, or a bit more formal, a bit more literate, or
+whatever.  In TeeVee it's all gotta be the same.  To which I say...why?
+
+      (I've also made the mental assumption of a return to a new
+formality in 2260, since styles go in and out of fashion.  People use
+the word Mr. and Ms. more often, there's a more formal stance with
+people you often get when a culture comes out of a major war, as we did
+after WW2.)
+
+      But dialogue tastes are utterly individual; what works for one
+may not and likely will not work for someone else.  And that's okay. 
+That's as it should be.  As long as the totality works.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Found Demon Knight! (26 Sep 1996 00:12:15 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
I Found Demon Knight!

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 00:12:15 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So where do I send the books?
+> Do you have any children?
+
+      Mail can come to me at:
+
+      14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+      No kids; they'd be redundent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Those Darned Spheres (26 Sep 1996 00:12:16 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Those Darned Spheres

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 00:12:16 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it?
+> And, if it is, why is it?
+> Was it shot for each episode?
+> Since each was supposed to be of the exact same event, why risk
+> getting them different each time?
+
+      Sometimes there are practical considerations in the overall
+staging; when we shot the flash-forward, Melissa wasn't there, so when
+she was, there was some interest in restaging things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Surely Serling? (26 Sep 1996 11:34:39 -0700)
+
+
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+
Surely Serling?

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:34:39 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I correct?
+> Is that a Serling line you've honored us with?
+> Am I just nuts?
+
+       No, it's not from anything I'm aware of, though it's a concept
+that seems very natural.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Those final words ..... (26 Sep 1996 11:34:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:34:40 -0700

+
 Phil Morris <100602.3647@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or maybe it was just the lighting?
+
+       Probably the lighting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+G'Kar as Shadow ally? (26 Sep 1996 11:34:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 11:34:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think that reasoning can be applied to any side.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Tapes (26 Sep 1996 16:51:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Tapes

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:51:47 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       It just ain't gonna move WB to release the tapes; we're
+negotiating to do them ourselves.  WB Home Video almost never releases
+TV series, mainly movies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+322 Transcript (26 Sep 1996 16:51:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
322 Transcript

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:51:48 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Trying to get this episode straight in my mind, I made a
+> transcript of the episode from when Sheridan enters Justin's
+> quarters to the end(Obsessive? So, can I do this?
+
+       Yes, it would be a definite copyright issue to post that much
+material without authorization.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey 17 is missing (05 Sep 1996 14:01:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
Grey 17 is missing

+
Date: 05 Sep 1996 14:01:48 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh yeah, I was wondering: do you have any special provisions for
+> feline viewers of B5?
+
+       I'm not suprised...the cat's probably keeping an eye out for
+shadows. Cats are well-known shadow-detectors, you know.  Whenever you
+see one looking up into a corner of the room, and you don't see
+anything there, now you know what they're *really* seeing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Perks of the FanClub (26 Sep 1996 16:51:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
Perks of the FanClub

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:51:49 -0700

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that I'm a member of the b5fc, how do I get the extra perks
+> on 'the station'??? is there someone I can e-mail to ask about
+> it???
+
+       Well, you can email John Copeland about it at pigdog13@aol.com,
+but basically, we're still waiting on approval from WB before putting
+the new areas on-line, including a dedicated chat server and the Gold
+Channel area, which will be for FC members *only*, whether they choose
+to take up residence on the station or not, which has behind the scenes
+photos I've taken, and my personal journal from the filming of most of
+a season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN JMS: A B5 Novel??? (26 Sep 1996 16:54:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS: A B5 Novel???

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 16:54:47 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Indeed in May of this year you posted an excellent dissertation
+> on writting in general and writting B5 in particular, and I was
+> wondering when all of this is over, and after you take your long
+> nap, if you were going to publish the scripts as a novel? Do you
+> have any advice for a wouldbe writter?
+
+       Publishing the scripts in book form is something that I'll have
+to consider later, there will probably have to be negotiations with WB
+over it.
+
+       There's no real advice I can give to an aspiring writer that
+would mean a damn except to write, keep writing, keep sending it out,
+and don't stop.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Slight Fan Club panic (26 Sep 1996 20:34:39 -0700)
+
+
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+
Slight Fan Club panic

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 20:34:39 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Try a direct line to jplb5@aol.com, and if that doesn't work,
+lemme know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: A B5 Novel??? (26 Sep 1996 20:34:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS: A B5 Novel???

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 20:34:41 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If I may ask, what do you mean when you reference writting
+> "tools" you've developed, and how do you know when there working?
+
+      Tools are tools...learning how to use narrative in a scene, and
+narration over a scene, as different things...using visual
+counterpoint to a scene...different kinds of exposition, and ways to
+present exposition so that it doesn't *feel* like exposition...it's all
+intuitive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5ers on SF Vortex (26 Sep 1996 20:53:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5ers on SF Vortex

+
Date: 26 Sep 1996 20:53:29 -0700

+
      As a general advisory: tomorrow on the Sci Fi Channel's new
+show, SF Vortex, you will find Jerry Doyle, Bruce Boxleitner and B5
+producer John Copeland (on his return visit, the second of three, he's
+becoming so popular there that we're now nominating him for resident
+Media Sex God).  Look for them toward the latter half of the program.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 3 Title Sequence (27 Sep 1996 01:40:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 3 Title Sequence

+
Date: 27 Sep 1996 01:40:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The new soundtrack should be out in November sometime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Perks of the FanClub (29 Sep 1996 15:44:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:50 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, you need Netscape 2.0 (or compatible) to get past the demos
+screen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Perks of the FanClub (29 Sep 1996 15:44:51 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:51 -0700

+
 Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Next move is?
+
+      Next move is, I go to Jim and ask where your stuff is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Calendars (29 Sep 1996 15:44:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:53 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you think it would be bad etiquete to ask Bruce if he could
+> pass them along?
+
+      Yeah, they're great; a UK company is doing a B5 calendar for
+1997, which should be out shortly.
+
+      Generally one does not give cast member A a parcel for cast
+member B; mainly because it's never just one person who wants to do
+this, and you can end up with 15-50 items to bring back with you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Tapes (29 Sep 1996 15:44:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:57 -0700

+
 Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Weird or what?
+
+      There's always been more of a sell-through market in the UK on
+tapes, so that helps.  But the bottom-line problem is that WB Video
+mainly only handles guaranteed big sale stuff like their movies.  You
+very rarely see ANY tv show sold on cassette from WB Home Video.  I
+rather suspect they think TeeVee is beneath their notice.  We may call
+in Jimmy Carter to see if he can work out a release of the hostages.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rage's Thots: JMS' Lit (05 Sep 1996 14:01:50 -0700)
+
+
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Rage's Thots: JMS' Lit

+
Date: 05 Sep 1996 14:01:50 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you point me to where I can find out more info on this?
+
+       Thanks.
+
+       The Synanon game is (more was than is, but that
+notwithstanding...) used in drug and alcohol counseling programs.  If
+you'll check the psychology wing of your local library, you'll probably
+find information on it there.
+
+       Re: the scene you mention you'd've liked to have seen...it was
+there, actually.  The editor of the book snipped it for length.  (I
+think there were about six or seven substantive scenes deleted to bring
+it under 100,000 words, which was about right for them size-wise.) 
+With most of them you don't feel the absence; with some, you do.
+
+       My appraisal: it's a decent enough first novel.  It was
+strictly learn-as-you-go, having never done it before, and really only
+doing it to see if I could do it, and because I couldn't find the book
+I wanted to read, so I wrote the darned thing, never really figuring on
+selling it.  It sat in the closet for something like 2 or 3 years
+before my agent bugged me into letting her read it.  The second novel,
+OtherSyde, is something of an improvement, I knew a little better then
+what I was doing.  And the next novel, whenever I have the chance or
+time to write it, should be even better.  It's going to be a long one,
+a 1,000 page contemporary dark fantasy with some interesting edges to
+it.  Got a great title for it, it's all outlined, just gotta find time
+to write it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+USENET SFWA post (29 Sep 1996 15:44:58 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:44:58 -0700

+
 Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Not SFWA surely?
+
+      Organizationally, no, SFWA doesn't make a big deal about who
+sold what copies, but it *is* a point of status within SFWA -- selling
+authors tend to get more attention than non-selling authors, that's
+understandable -- and within the greater SF establishment.
+
+      And yes, Norman could win a Nebula...I only used the word
+"theoretically" to indicate that his work does fall within the correct
+parameters (prose, SF, book form) to be nominated, but that the odds
+of such a book winning would be slim at best unless the books made a
+HUGE change in direction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Sheridans survival (29 Sep 1996 15:45:02 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:02 -0700

+
 David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How could Sheridan pick up enough terminal velosity to reach that
+> hole before the White Star blew and released 1 - 1.2 gigatons of
+> nuclear devistation? Now I have to wait till the October 28th
+> Satelite feed for a new epsiode??!!
+
+      Well, if you hadn't spoiled yourself, you could enjoy new
+episodes NOW with the rest of the country, starting this week, but
+noooooo, you had to go and jump the gun, well you've made your bed,
+young man, now you have to sleep in it.
+
+      And there are shadows underneath it.
+
+      Sleep tight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Z'Ha'Dum questions (29 Sep 1996 15:45:04 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:04 -0700

+
 Gayle S. Stever <103202.3163@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were the people living on Grey 17 prisoners there or were they
+> staying there by choice?
+
+      Depends on your definition, but basically, they were there as
+part of this cult...but any good cult leader knows you should make it
+just a *bit* hard for them to get out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Delenn and Sheridan (29 Sep 1996 15:45:07 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you create that idea or was it taken from some other religion
+> or philosophy?
+
+      As far as I *know*, at least, that bit about seeing your true
+face revealed as you sleep is something I came up with on my own. 
+There's just something I like about it, and if you've ever watched
+someone's face while they're sleeping, you understand.
+
+      Though one person did comment, "So a man's true face is all
+mushed up against the pillow and drooling?"
+
+      We don't talk anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+The man in-between ? (29 Sep 1996 15:45:09 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Yep.  I checked.  I screwed up in my comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+ep22 question (29 Sep 1996 15:45:11 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:11 -0700

+
 Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, were the 'creatures' we saw - the one Sheridan shot at & the
+> pair behind Anna in the tunnel - the actual Shadows, or more of
+> their (biomechanical?) servants?
+
+      No, those were definitely shadows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Those final words ..... (29 Sep 1996 15:45:13 -0700)
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Those final words .....

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Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It left me rather optimistic, yes...and generally quite pleased.
+I wanted to sneak a peek at the reaction without being seen...until
+somebody put the camera on me.  Suddenly I felt like Mussolini standing
+in the balcony about to address a crowd, and moved away as soon as I
+could.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Z'ha'dum - sneaky!! (29 Sep 1996 15:45:15 -0700)
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Z'ha'dum - sneaky!!

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Date: 29 Sep 1996 15:45:15 -0700

+
 Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It was only on my 6th viewing of "Z'ha'dum" today (the S4C
+> transmission) that I noticed that when Kosh appears in the mirror
+> behind Sheridan, he says "If you go to Z'ha'dum, will you die?" 
+> Were you telling us that even the Vorlons don't know everything,
+> or setting us up for eight months of uncertainty and doubt?
+
+      No, he says "you will die."  Very odd...check it again.  We used
+the same audio track from before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>> (29 Sep 1996 16:00:56 -0700)
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Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>

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Date: 29 Sep 1996 16:00:56 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope, there was a very specific reason why Garibaldi was picked
+up, and there's a suggestion of it in what Justin says at one point to
+Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Sheridans survival (29 Sep 1996 21:40:34 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:34 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do Shadows go "bump" in the night?
+> Or are they more of a "ping"?
+
+      They're silent.
+
+      That's what makes them so scary.
+
+      If you hear them, you're fine, but if you hear *nothing*....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Hugo Awards (05 Sep 1996 14:01:55 -0700)
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Date: 05 Sep 1996 14:01:55 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...I'm not sure I heard much of anything that night....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+ep22 question (29 Sep 1996 21:40:36 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      They're also in the main title, and we've seen them before
+elsewhere several times.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>> (29 Sep 1996 21:40:39 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:39 -0700

+
 Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ?
+
+      That's correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>> (29 Sep 1996 21:40:41 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:41 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: I don't know whether anyone has already asked this but
+> was Justin a crew member of the Icarus ?
+
+      No, he was assigned there later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Ivanova and the Raven (29 Sep 1996 21:40:44 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:40:44 -0700

+
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+
+      No, the critter wasn't anything to do with the Exogenesis
+creatures; and no, Ivanvoa does not have an implanted personality.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5 (29 Sep 1996 21:44:14 -0700)
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Date: 29 Sep 1996 21:44:14 -0700

+
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+
+      Be advised that your simm is, insofar as I know, unlicensed and
+unauthorized, and be further advised that WB has shut down other such
+unlicensed and unapproved simms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 00:58:28 -0700

+
      As well as going on about unlicensed B5 products, a number of
+folks have been asking for info on what IS authorized.  Hence, this
+note....
+
+      One of the most popular items here at the B5 stage are the
+t-shirts made by All-U.  They're color, on black, but done so in a way
+that the ink and coloration isn't thick, but feels very natural with
+the fabric.  They look great and wear well over time.  (They are also
+the only ones making *long-sleeve* B5 t-shirts.)  We order about 3-4
+cases at the start of each season, and by Christmas they're all gone. 
+The crew loves 'em, and many of the cast also wear them.
+
+      Anyway, if you'd like more info, you can order the shirts from
+All-U at 1-800-424-ALLU.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Drink to Me Only... (30 Sep 1996 00:58:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 00:58:31 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I can only conclude that I'm a smarter guy than I'd thought....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> .....so when were YOU talking to my wife?
+
+       Do you have any idea the kind of restraint that has to be used
+when confronted with a straight line like that?  I think I hurt myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>> (30 Sep 1996 17:59:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Could I please prod you to post the song lyrics from Walkabout
+> sometime soon? Pretty please, and a virtual slice of Rosie's
+> chocolate raspberry cake???
+
+       Yeah, eventually I'll upload the lyrics, it's something I've
+meant to do for a while, I've just been distracted lately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5 (30 Sep 1996 17:59:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How will the forth coming B5 role playing game, supposedly being
+> created be Chameleon Eclectic Games, be effected by copyrights? 
+> Will everyone who runs a campaign need to be licensed and
+> authorized by WB <which seems a bit rediculous, but seems to be
+> in effect what you are saying here> or is it covered by the game
+> company's authorization? Furthermore what would happen if someone
+> were to run an online game (say in GO RPGAMES) using these rules?
+
+       The use of the Chameleon game is fully covered by their
+license.  If one is having online games using that, for which users are
+paying access time, that's something I don't know.  I'll have to find
+out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Kick Butt Pt.III (05 Sep 1996 14:17:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Sep 1996 14:17:24 -0700

+
 G S Fletcher-Brown <76534.513@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do I have your permission to use the aforementioned message
+> altered and amended to show they're your words, removing the
+> thread title and offender's name?
+
+       Sure, if it'll help elsewhere, feel free.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I think WB does something to the tapes during the transfer in
+which they insert the commercials that degrades the sound quality
+slightly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Framing a shot (30 Sep 1996 17:59:07 -0700)
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Framing a shot

+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I was wondering when your shooting do you frame the shot for the
+> best possible 16:9 widescreen ratio image and then get the best
+> pan and scan from that, or do you always go for the best 4:3
+> image and just make sure that there are no unwanted booms etc in
+> the expanded 16:9 frame ? Is it the same process for the CGI
+> sequences ?
+
+       We slide it back and forth.  Some shots are composed for
+narrow, some for the wider aspect ratio.  Sometimes a character's face
+is somewhat off center or out of frame for that reason.  It's whatever
+looks best per shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Tapes (30 Sep 1996 17:59:10 -0700)
+
+
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B5 Tapes

+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Can't.  And even if you could, you couldn't play them on
+American VHS players.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum> (30 Sep 1996 17:59:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Last ep <Z'ha'dum>

+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:13 -0700

+
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+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5 (30 Sep 1996 17:59:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5

+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:14 -0700

+
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+
+       "What can they do, sue me?"
+
+       Yup.  They've shut down several others doing this that way.
+
+       "C'mon, like they're gonna sue a 17 year old."
+
+       Nope, they'll just sue your parents.
+
+       And bear in mind, you don't have to sue someone to get a
+restraining order against them...which is what WB did to a couple of
+other unlicensed SIMMS.  You (or your parents) just end up spending a
+lot of time in court.
+
+       Don't mess with the Shield.  Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Tapes (30 Sep 1996 17:59:16 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Tapes

+
Date: 30 Sep 1996 17:59:16 -0700

+
 Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How's season 4 going?
+
+       Season 4's going well; just about to settle down and watch the
+director's cut of 403.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+WorldCon & Hugo (06 Sep 1996 01:23:05 -0700)
+
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+
WorldCon & Hugo

+
Date: 06 Sep 1996 01:23:05 -0700

+
 AsstOp Mike Willmoth <76170.1037@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My only question is where will you display it?
+
+      Thanks; I was thinking of putting the Hugo on display in my
+bedroom, but I decided it was 'way too Freudian.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey 17 is missing (06 Sep 1996 01:23:07 -0700)
+
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+
Grey 17 is missing

+
Date: 06 Sep 1996 01:23:07 -0700

+
 Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ...do you want to buy an apartment in Barcelona?
+> ...or a cat?
+
+      You cannot sell a cat, you can only lease it out.
+
+      BTW, what's that behind you?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (06 Sep 1996 12:42:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 06 Sep 1996 12:42:38 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Can you suggest my next course of action?
+> And, could you let me know--if I am to send a cc of the check--to
+> whom and what address???
+
+       Drop a line to Jim Lockett at jplb5@aol.com and let him know. 
+Again, there were some initial problems with the post office, and we
+have no way of knowing who didn't receive one of the mailed items until
+we hear from them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Award (02 Sep 1996 19:51:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hugo Award

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:38 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, no, two episodes of TNG also got Hugos.
+
+      But what *is* significant here is that in 43 years, only 7 Hugos
+have gone to dramatic TV series; 3 to the original Twilight Zone, 4 to
+Star Trek (old and new).  This is the first Hugo in 43 years to go to a
+science fiction TV series other than TZ or ST.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WorldCon & Hugo (06 Sep 1996 12:42:39 -0700)
+
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+
WorldCon & Hugo

+
Date: 06 Sep 1996 12:42:39 -0700

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Have you taken the Hugo onto the set yet?
+
+       Absolutley, I took the Hugo out on the very next day, Tuesday. 
+The whole place was very excited about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WorldCon & Hugo (06 Sep 1996 12:42:40 -0700)
+
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+
WorldCon & Hugo

+
Date: 06 Sep 1996 12:42:40 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Would you do one thing?
+> You could offer it through the fan club, as our first special???
+> Thinking a little further, maybe only the principle cast, the
+> series regulars and Turhan Bey?? Pretty please and a whole virtual
+> slice of chocolate decadence???
+
+       It'd be difficult to get those parties all together at once,
+but if it can be done, we'll try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+kick butt Pt. II (06 Sep 1996 16:41:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
kick butt Pt. II

+
Date: 06 Sep 1996 16:41:43 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ya don't say?
+> Well I'm just shocked, you mean there's aliens on B5?
+> Secondary stories?!?
+> Just how big is this skyscraper anyway?
+> A skyscraper in flatland, who'd have thought it possible?
+> Care to be reconsidered, oh great one?
+
+       By the way, you'll note that since coming on this last strafing
+run, Stathis hasn't logged on to read any of the replies.  And
+consequently hasn't responded.  Because it doesn't really matter to
+him.  He just likes to swoop in here and get people upset, then swoop
+out, amusing himself with the notion of everybody scrambling
+around...then he waits a bit, then he does it again.
+
+       A truly demented and sad individual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kick Butt Pt.III (07 Sep 1996 22:36:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kick Butt Pt.III

+
Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:43 -0700

+
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+
+"The truth is you don't like it when I take the show to task, but
+instead of getting a calm arguement, I get nasty comments."
+
+      Nope,  Not the truth.  Because the truth is that your opinion(s)
+about the show generally take up, oh, maybe 10% of your message(s). 
+The rest of your messages are all about you...about the validity of
+your opinion, the need for other people to listen to your opinion, your
+reactions to other people's reactions, your position relative to other
+people...you have no interest in discussing the show, good or bad.  The
+interest of Peter Stathis is in talking about Peter Stathis, and his
+centrality to the known universe. If what you say were the truth, you
+would not have titled the message that you were here to "kick butt,"
+given that the only butts around here are of the users of this system. 
+Check your own first message again...the "opinion" part runs about 2 
+sentences out of 25.  The rest is all about you.  Then you complain
+when the discussion becomes about you when *you* set the parameters of
+the discussion.
+
+      Egotism?  Peter, your ego could be wrapped around the sun three
+times and still leave room for a knot.
+
+      You came in confrontational, with no interest in the discussion
+itself, only in creating a discussion *about* the discussion...a
+discussion in which Peter Stathis would stand crucified on a cross of
+his own making, for his own edification.
+
+      You're worse than sad and pathetic...you're a cliche, and a
+boring one at that.  We've seen your act before, Peter, and we don't
+fall for it anymore. Go bug somebody who cares.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WorldCon & Hugo (07 Sep 1996 22:36:46 -0700)
+
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+
WorldCon & Hugo

+
Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:46 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you going to let it show up on camera somewhere??
+
+      Actually, at www.scifi.com/worldcon there's a group photo of the
+Hugo winners with the things in hand that's fairly decent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (07 Sep 1996 22:36:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:48 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Will send this on to Jim personally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey 17 is missing (07 Sep 1996 22:36:52 -0700)
+
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Grey 17 is missing

+
Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:52 -0700

+
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+
+      It's *always* scary for me to go on...I'm always sure the day
+before that nobody's gonna show up, and then I go into panic when I hit
+the stage, and it's mainly a matter of burying that so I can get
+through it and perform. These people have been there, often, for a long
+time, waiting, and they deserve nothing less than a fun, interesting,
+and sometimes maybe even useful show.  They deserve their money's
+worth, which is why I'm so adamant about nobody getting disappointed or
+cut off in line or ignored.  The second panel was a last-minute
+addition when the first one got flooded out (as it werte), and after
+giving my all on the first one, I was just whipped...but I wasn't about
+to let anyone leave disappointed.  (As it was, I think my energy level 
+was still lower than I'd've liked during the second presentation, and
+a bit more rambling in structure, especially toward the end, 'cause I
+was running on fumes, though so far it seems to have come off okay from
+the other side of the room.)
+
+      I think the day I ever *stop* being nervous about it, and get
+either complacent about it, or take it for granted, I should stop doing
+it.  But that doesn't seem terribly likely....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE: Vorlons in the Past (07 Sep 1996 22:36:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
WWE: Vorlons in the Past

+
Date: 07 Sep 1996 22:36:54 -0700

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did B4 have more firepower than even the current B5?
+
+      Yeah, B4 had more firepower, and it had one thing B5
+doesn't...engines that can move it forward if necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Creeping-itus (08 Sep 1996 14:23:24 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:24 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I love that...if you could send me a copy of that page, I'd be
+grateful; we'll put it up on the B5 stage wall with some other stuff. 
+(Our mailing address is Babylon 5, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260,
+Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.)  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey 17 is missing (08 Sep 1996 14:23:26 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:26 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks; btw, who're #1 and #2 on your list?  I'd be interested
+in seeing how they do it, maybe pick up a few hints on presentation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dead after a week? :-) (02 Sep 1996 19:51:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Dead after a week? :-)

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:40 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has the first week been that hectic?
+
+      Was offline in Anaheim for Worldcon, that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATRCONHP (08 Sep 1996 14:23:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
ATRCONHP

+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:28 -0700

+
 Julian Suddaby <106163.653@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that really the Shadows' motives?
+> The fear of other races, different people?
+
+      Nope, that ain't the motive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z - Minus 10 days (08 Sep 1996 14:23:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z - Minus 10 days

+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:31 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, the countdown aspect does add a lot to this, gives
+it a forward momentum and a kind of subliminal ominousness.  And as for
+the Refa situation presented in counterpoint...I love how that came
+out.  It's almost subversive in a way...just gives me the quiet chills.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+And the Rock... (08 Sep 1996 14:23:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
And the Rock...

+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 14:23:33 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In other words, will he, in the light of the events in this
+> episode, ever take action to stop Londo's campaign? I'm not
+> inferring that it might be major action, such as leaving Londo's
+> side, or turning against him openly, but might he now consider
+> 'dropping Londo in it', to coin a phrase? (Oh, and I take it that
+> the Minbari language is more logical than our own, in terms of
+> word definitions?
+
+      I don't know if Vir really has anywhere else to go....
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z Minus (08 Sep 1996 15:21:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 15:21:33 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, you combine the release of 2,000 prisoners, many of whom
+were likely resistance fighters, and the payback to one who
+orchestrated the bombing of Narn, and that adds up to a pretty good
+incentive to get Refa even WITHOUT Londo's presence in the deal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ep. title (08 Sep 1996 15:21:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ep. title

+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 15:21:34 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is that a 'real' song, or are you also a songwriter/composer??
+
+      No, as a rule, Harlan doesn't suggest titles; "Rock" came from
+the quote from the Bible, which was later made into a gospel song, used
+in the show.  So it's a real song, though I did write 2 for
+"Walkabout."
+
+      PS, please be careful as your message isn't spoiler protected,
+and would give away stuff.  When possible, just remember to note the
+brackets around message headers.  And thanks for the rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+WWE: Vorlons in the Past (08 Sep 1996 18:31:44 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 18:31:44 -0700

+
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+
+      B5 doesn't have engines that can move it; yes, budget cuts,
+after spending so much on the previous attempts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock -- Yes! (08 Sep 1996 22:07:21 -0700)
+
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Rock -- Yes!

+
Date: 08 Sep 1996 22:07:21 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, the obvious question: Why did everyone seem so convinced
+> that it was a major character who would die? Did the fans just
+> confuse the death of Kosh with the death of Refa and you let it
+> brew until we all had it dead wrong? Or is there still a death to
+> come?
+
+      Well, given that Refa has been around for two years, and Keffer
+was only in a few in one season, I'd hardly put them in the same
+league.  Part of all this is how you define "major."  Usually, I've
+refrained from using that term...I would say someone you've seen since
+the first year, for instance, or an important character.
+
+      Certainly I was primarily referring to Kosh in my original note
+about all this...but a lot of folks took that and extended it past that
+point, which I just let go rather than correct, because the show should
+do any correcting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock -- Yes! (09 Sep 1996 00:58:57 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 00:58:57 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, I think the message of mine you're referring to are the
+ones I wrote with Kosh in mind, not Refa.  But since I obviously
+couldn't say that at the time, some of it sloshed over into how folks
+viewed later episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATRCONHP (09 Sep 1996 13:41:14 -0700)
+
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ATRCONHP

+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:14 -0700

+
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+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock -- Yes! (09 Sep 1996 13:41:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:18 -0700

+
 Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, I take it that Refa (or at least the actor playing Refa) was
+> the one who said "Why me?" in your note about two deaths at the
+> end of the third season? If so, could you now say a little more on
+> this topic as to how the conversations went?
+
+       Yes, it was with the actor who plays Refa that I had that
+conversation. He was initially bummed out, figured I was doing what I
+was doing in "Rock" because I wasn't happy with his performance or
+something. So I pulled him aside and explained the situation, and
+indicated that we'd likely use him again as an alien character, under
+prosthetics.  If he hadn't done such a good job, this wouldn't have
+happened, because no one would've cared about the character.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Wins 1996 Hugo! (02 Sep 1996 19:51:43 -0700)
+
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B5 Wins 1996 Hugo!

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:43 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.  The Hugo is a marvelous reward to everyone who's worked
+so hard on the show these last 3+ years.  We're very proud.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z Minus (09 Sep 1996 13:41:20 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:20 -0700

+
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+
+       Except, of course, that going on at length about the death of
+Refa would require revealing what he was doing there...and I doubt very
+much that the Royal Court would like even the suspicion that one of its
+own was making deals with the Narns to become public knowledge...so
+it's extremely unlikely that there would be any retribution.  This is
+one the Centauri would prefer to sweep under the rug, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+And the rock... (09 Sep 1996 13:41:22 -0700)
+
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And the rock...

+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:22 -0700

+
 Imran Naqvi <100533.273@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't know, but the combination of seeing Delenn and John Kiss
+> in front af that Armada seemed a little...odd?
+
+       I guess it's really a matter of perspective.  It depends on
+what the fleet is *there* for, as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock -- Yes! (09 Sep 1996 13:41:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 13:41:24 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks.  When I thought of that one, I just sat there and
+grinned. It's so perverse, but yet so appropriate, all at the same
+time.  Just to further add a bit of creepiness to it, in the sound mix
+I had the editors verb up the music toward the fade out, so it had a
+slightly distorted edge to it.  The details are everything in a scene
+like that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HUGO Award (09 Sep 1996 18:01:22 -0700)
+
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HUGO Award

+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:01:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks; that was the one where we felt we really hit our
+stride.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock -- Yes! (09 Sep 1996 18:01:25 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:01:25 -0700

+
 Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have many folks who have played multiple roles?
+
+       Yeah, we've floated characters between human and alien from
+time to time; we've used Wayne Alexander as a Narn, the actor who
+played the Ombuds came back as the Markab doctor...we've basically got
+a kind of alien rep company goig here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock - minor nit ? (09 Sep 1996 18:04:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:04:27 -0700

+
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+
+       Not in the queue, but providing security within the station...
+remember, many of the Narns have joined B5 security.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock - minor nit ? (09 Sep 1996 18:04:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1996 18:04:28 -0700

+
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+
+       Nope, we're generally very careful about what aliens show up in
+what scenes.  (See my other note on this.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Found Demon Knight! (10 Sep 1996 15:33:30 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:30 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If I were to send them to you, could I impose upon you to sign
+> them and send them back?
+
+       If you sent it with a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
+mailer, yes, otherwise it'll sit here and I'll forget to get around to
+sending it back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kick Butt Pt.III (10 Sep 1996 15:33:31 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:31 -0700

+
 Michael W. Mahoney <103007.1253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He's just dull enough to convince himself that he's witty: "See
+> all the replies I got!?!"
+
+       Thanks.  Me, I don't much care for flames or insults...it's
+something I try and avoid where I can.  It's just not worth the hassle
+or the bile or the angst.  You've gotta *really* provoke me to push
+that particular button. I've gotten decent at it out of survival, and
+simply because I'm a writer; you've gotta be out of your *mind* to go
+up against any fairly decent writer in a written medium.  You won't
+win.
+
+       But for folks like the one you describe, they're not out to
+win, only to validate their existence by generating a response, proving
+they exist by the echo produced by their voices.  So in that, I agree
+wholeheartedly with your analysis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Creeping-itus (10 Sep 1996 15:33:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:32 -0700

+
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+
+       Somewhat intentional; in the long run, the show will end up
+either aired daily, or stripped weekly, so either way the 14 days until
+climax works well, as it does now for the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+WWE: Vorlons in the Past (02 Sep 1996 19:51:47 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:47 -0700

+
 Bruce Probst <71154.3171@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Except - where did the Vorlons come from?
+> In which case, the question is - why are they there?
+> What can they possibly know about B4 since, by their reckoning,
+> it's the first time it's ever made an appearance? How did they
+> know when and where it would turn up? If they can do it, what's
+> stopping the Shadows from doing it? Where does it all end?
+
+      Well, the other obvious solution, since the Vorlons were then
+out and running around and actively involved in the war of that time
+period, he just sent out a signal, and they got there first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+And the rock... (10 Sep 1996 15:33:33 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:33 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I presume John is in love but is it clouding his judgement ?
+> After spending all that time in the war room
+> worrying/fretting/planning I was expecting a more extreme
+> reaction when the 'White Stars' were revealed - maybe something
+> along the lines of 'Why the hell did'nt you tell me about this
+> before ?'
+
+       Well, as she indicates, she didn't *have* them before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Questions (10 Sep 1996 15:33:36 -0700)
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Questions

+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:36 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any plans for any books covering the technical aspects
+> of Babylon 5 ? manual ?
+> Who's been "spacefaring" longest the Minbari or the Centauri ?
+
+       No immediate plans for tech books; the Minbari have been out
+and about much longer than the Centauri.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+And the Rock... (10 Sep 1996 15:33:38 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:38 -0700

+
 Fiona McKenzie <100705.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A question:are the 6 B5 books currently out consistant with
+> plot-lines to come? What's the chance of you producing some large
+> posters of Mira Furlan (don't know if I've spelt that correctly?)
+> for my friend Marco Biagi who is currently infatuated with her?
+
+       Thanks; the books are consistent in the broad strokes, though
+some of the details veer away.  That happens when you have diverse
+hands working on a project.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<Z'Ha;Dum>>?? (10 Sep 1996 15:33:39 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:39 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could the alligator your gonna pull on us be the fact that
+> Babylon 5 is gonna get blown away at the end of season 3 or early
+> season 4? Perhaps this is Z day?
+> Will happen before the end of the 5 years?
+> Will it happen soon?
+
+       We'll have to see...obviously I won't just say what's what
+ahead of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Religion ?? (10 Sep 1996 15:33:43 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 15:33:43 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) I wonder how much of the main arc is Religion based?
+> Will the "enemy" be one of these or a 7th?
+> 3) Are the three ages of man kind based on a religious premise,
+> such as the three ages of History according to Joachim?
+
+       No, the arc isn't religion based, though it does have
+mythological underpinnings.  No 7's planned, and no, the ages of man
+aren't based on a religious premise either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+best CGI (10 Sep 1996 16:00:40 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 16:00:40 -0700

+
 Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So do you want the photo?
+
+       As long as you don't apply that cuddly description, I'll let
+you live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock -- Yes! (10 Sep 1996 18:05:21 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 18:05:21 -0700

+
 Paul Owen <100331.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "The Rock " Wayne Alexander was a Narn G'Dan, which one was he
+> ? the Narn who first met G'Kar on Narn?
+
+       He was the Narn who first met G'Kar on their homeworld; the
+only one with any lines.
+
+       Wayne has a considerably larger role in year 4 as an alien
+named Lorien.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Universe Today. (10 Sep 1996 21:29:11 -0700)
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Universe Today.

+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 21:29:11 -0700

+
 Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Please can you tell me if this is case?
+
+      No, this is still the first issue.  (Jim and his aide took a
+polaroid of the big pallet of boxes going out the other day.) 
+Basically, everyone's membership date is moved to when we got around to
+it, so nobody loses anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Storytelling Question (10 Sep 1996 21:29:14 -0700)
+
+
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Storytelling Question

+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 21:29:14 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you ever deliberately set out to commemorate people you've
+> known when you write a story? Do you find that, once you've
+> written the story, you have inadvertently commemorated people
+> you've known?
+
+      I don't know if commemorate is the right word for what you're
+asking... you wanna take another stab at that and clarify?  This can
+cover everything from Tuckerizing to homage to using friends or
+whatever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+VOA (10 Sep 1996 21:29:16 -0700)
+
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VOA

+
Date: 10 Sep 1996 21:29:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, it's conceivable....we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey-17... (02 Sep 1996 19:51:49 -0700)
+
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Grey-17...

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:49 -0700

+
 Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Neroon's revelation at the end of this episode mean that the
+> Warrior caste will now be more willing to fight alongside the
+> Religious caste, or is the blood between them a sign that they
+> are now irrevocably split?
+
+      I think he's closer to an understanding, but we'll see if the
+others all feel the same way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+General Hague (11 Sep 1996 01:11:53 -0700)
+
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+
General Hague

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 01:11:53 -0700

+
 Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you intentionally name your General Hague's ship the
+> Alexander thinking of former Nixon White House Chief of Staff and
+> Reagan Secretary of State Alexander (I'm in Control Here) Haig?
+
+      I liked the sound of the name...and I was thinking more of the
+Hague as a place, not Haig the military guy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Found Demon Knight! (11 Sep 1996 01:11:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
I Found Demon Knight!

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 01:11:55 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there other novels (besides Demon Night and Othersyde) that I
+> should know about?
+
+      Those are my only two novels (at present); there's a TWILIGHT
+ZONE anthology I wrote, but that's damned near impossible to find.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 3 Title Sequence (11 Sep 1996 11:51:17 -0700)
+
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+
Season 3 Title Sequence

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 11:51:17 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       What remarkable timing...John Copeland and I just got finished
+with the main title for year 4, which is, again, different from last
+year's. This time I wanted a whole new approach, on just about every
+level, and designed the thing myself, working with John and the editors
+to get the best shots and pull it all together.  It's *majorly* cool. 
+We showed it to some members of the crew, and they're all jazzed by it,
+they think it's our best main title ever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (11 Sep 1996 11:51:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 11:51:18 -0700

+
 Tom General <102233.2410@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you come up with a way of getting to him in person?
+> Are the major mailings over now?
+> What about the rest of us?
+
+       No, the major mailings aren't over, they're still going out.
+Everyone who signed on will get/is getting their stuff.  He's had a lot
+of email to contend with, but I do know that a lot of folks are a)
+getting their stuff, and b) getting email replies.  He's getting to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Symmetry (11 Sep 1996 11:51:19 -0700)
+
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+
Symmetry

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 11:51:19 -0700

+
 Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondering, but is symmetry a favourite concept of yours?
+> So back to the first question - a favourite concept or just a
+> convenient word at the time :-) ? (except that it is then what, 9
+> months before we see more over here?
+
+       Thanks.  Yeah, I like symmetry...both as a word, and as a
+concept. It plays into the show a lot, showing the balance that the
+universe tends to impose whether we like it or not.  What goes around,
+comes around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 3 Opening Titles (11 Sep 1996 15:18:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 3 Opening Titles

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:18:46 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it a case that this scene was created long before the effects
+> for Severed Dreams and subsequently not included or is it still
+> to come ?
+
+       No, I think the intent of my message was that it was a
+foreshadowing of the big fight around B5 in "Severed," not that that
+particular shot was going to be used.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 3 Title Sequence (11 Sep 1996 15:18:47 -0700)
+
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+
Season 3 Title Sequence

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:18:47 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> PMFJI - will there be more CDs of B5 music?
+> Are there going to be other writers in next season's eps?
+
+       Chris is looking to have the new 2nd volume of B5 music out in
+time to coincide with the November sweeps; I've heard the first 15
+minutes, and it's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 3 Title Sequence (11 Sep 1996 15:18:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 3 Title Sequence

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:18:48 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the October release date still on schedule as I expect Chris
+> must also be busy preparing to score season 4?
+
+       I think they're going to go closer to November, to capitalize
+on the PR for the sweeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rock -- Yes! (11 Sep 1996 15:18:49 -0700)
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Rock -- Yes!

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 15:18:49 -0700

+
 Martin Colloby <100137.2625@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the music another jms/Franke composition?
+
+       No, the song is an old gospel song that goes 'way back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (11 Sep 1996 17:49:49 -0700)
+
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+
B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 17:49:49 -0700

+
 Tom General <102233.2410@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you let us know when the major mailings are over, or when
+> to contact him? So, what do I do?
+> How long should I wait?
+> Come on, how much longer?
+
+       I walked down the hall to Jim's office, and asked.  Your stuff
+went out this morning, several hours ago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grey 17 is missing (02 Sep 1996 19:51:51 -0700)
+
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+
Grey 17 is missing

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:51 -0700

+
 Simon Pallett <101523.507@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much truth is there to the Minbari's beliefs, beyond the
+> spiritual truth which the religious caste believe, of course?
+
+      It has some bearing, in a way, but more in a thematic than
+literal sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Title-ATRCONHP (11 Sep 1996 17:49:50 -0700)
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+
Title-ATRCONHP

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 17:49:50 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is there anything jms *can't* do??
+
+       "Is there anything jms can't do?"
+
+       Divide or multiply fractions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Found Demon Knight! (11 Sep 1996 20:28:57 -0700)
+
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+
I Found Demon Knight!

+
Date: 11 Sep 1996 20:28:57 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would that be "Tales From The New Twilight Zone"?
+
+      Yup, that's the one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bablyon 5 Stamper Set (12 Sep 1996 00:58:58 -0700)
+
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+
Bablyon 5 Stamper Set

+
Date: 12 Sep 1996 00:58:58 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's legit.  Thanks for asking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Storytelling Question (12 Sep 1996 01:05:08 -0700)
+
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+
Storytelling Question

+
Date: 12 Sep 1996 01:05:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"So, I suppose I meant "commemorate" in the way the post office does
+ -- recognizing those who have died."
+
+      Specific persons, no.  I don't do that.  Never have.  I think,
+in the case of someone I know who's passed away, it would be rude.  I
+don't think I could handle it.  Over the years I've lost way too many
+friends, and some wounds never entirely heal.  Best to leave them
+alone, and remember those friends as they were, not as they were bent
+into fictionalizations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Found Demon Knight! (12 Sep 1996 01:05:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
I Found Demon Knight!

+
Date: 12 Sep 1996 01:05:10 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is the title of the TZ anthology?
+
+   "Tales from the New Twilight Zone," from Bantam.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (12 Sep 1996 18:42:36 -0700)
+
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B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 12 Sep 1996 18:42:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       They're all going out first class.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN:JMS Tamlyn Tomita (12 Sep 1996 18:42:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
ATTN:JMS Tamlyn Tomita

+
Date: 12 Sep 1996 18:42:37 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, now that she's on BZ, that kinda precludes it in any
+event, so it's kind of a moot point, though I'm very pleased for her
+success.  She's a fine person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (12 Sep 1996 18:42:43 -0700)
+
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B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 12 Sep 1996 18:42:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Posters only got approved recently, so they're lagging behind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rock -- Yes! (13 Sep 1996 12:12:46 -0700)
+
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Rock -- Yes!

+
Date: 13 Sep 1996 12:12:46 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Not that I'm aware of, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ghosts from the past (13 Sep 1996 16:42:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ghosts from the past

+
Date: 13 Sep 1996 16:42:05 -0700

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if/when we'll be seeing: The Walkers (Zog dudes)
+> from Sigma957 (what is their race/name, btw?) The Technomages
+> from "Geometry of Shadows"??
+
+       She didn't know what was coming, and that worried her.  She is
+most secure when she has a definite plan of action, and variables
+aren't something the Minbari are good at in any event, they're very
+rigid and structured.
+
+       And we'll be seeing the Sigma walkers again in the not too
+distant future.  And some of their pals.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+G17 & C&L (02 Sep 1996 19:51:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
G17 & C&L

+
Date: 02 Sep 1996 19:51:54 -0700

+
 Spencer Collyer [UK] <100137.230@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we going to learn more of this 'big city visit' in time, or
+> am I just barking up the wrong tree?
+
+         No, you're right that it was a big deal to them, but it
+doesn't really center in the story much, so I don't know if it'll ever
+be explored. It's just background detail at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 FAN CLUB INFO! (13 Sep 1996 21:44:07 -0700)
+
+
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B5 FAN CLUB INFO!

+
Date: 13 Sep 1996 21:44:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, the poster was only approved (finally) by WB about 2-3
+weeks ago, at which point we began to produce them and mail them out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Foundation Image Out (14 Sep 1996 21:19:05 -0700)
+
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+
Foundation Image Out

+
Date: 14 Sep 1996 21:19:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the note to lwtattler was a *private email* which
+should not have been posted publically, so let your conscience be your
+guide on letting this stay here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dust to Dust question (15 Sep 1996 00:11:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
Dust to Dust question

+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 00:11:18 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any scenes from episodes that haven't aired yet?
+
+      No, I don't think there's anything else from later eps in there.
+
+      And thanks again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Visible David (15 Sep 1996 00:11:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 00:11:19 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever *see* Sheridan & Delenn's son David (at any age) in
+> the series?
+
+      Well, I wouldn't want to preclude anything at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rock -- Yes! (15 Sep 1996 13:29:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:07 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any plan to do this?
+
+      Not currently, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing-Gumph! (15 Sep 1996 13:29:09 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:09 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Couple of questions: (1) Have we seen where Delenn dropped the
+> snow globe before somewhere? I don't recall this image in AAITN,
+> was it there or elsewhere?
+
+      Yes, the snow globe was shown as a flash-forward in "WWE-2," and
+we did see that image of Sheridan in Psi Cop uniform in "All Alone."
+
+      And thanks, it's a great ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing (15 Sep 1996 13:29:11 -0700)
+
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Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:11 -0700

+
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+
+      Great, thanks, good to hear.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing (15 Sep 1996 13:29:14 -0700)
+
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Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:14 -0700

+
 Arwel Parry <100336.623@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A cute kid appears on B5 and it _survives_?!?
+> or was the kid getting spaced in the 7 seconds that C4 cut?
+
+      Yeah, the Minbari greeting is a hoot...there's a lot in that
+episode I just like a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing (15 Sep 1996 14:01:13 -0700)
+
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+
Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 14:01:13 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I ask you if the perspective was that of Anne Sheriden?
+> If it was, then why did the extra's behave as if they'd seen a
+> ghost? Is she gonna re-appear next week?
+> Or was she credited purely to allow a credit before Anne?
+> ie was the character important or was it artistic licence?
+
+      The script said the extras shouldn't make a big deal about
+seeing her. The director did that on the set.  That's not what I had in
+mind, but it isn't that big a deal...I figure she's a striking looking
+woman, maybe that's a good justification.
+
+      The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as
+much as possible) the appearance of Melissa.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rock -- Yes! (15 Sep 1996 13:29:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1996 13:29:07 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any plan to do this?
+
+      Not currently, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5 (01 Oct 1996 12:55:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:13 -0700

+
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+
+       Best to drop a note to ken_parks@warnerbros.com and ask
+directly of the source at WB legal.  That way you'll be copacetic from
+the start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+USENET SFWA post (01 Oct 1996 12:55:32 -0700)
+
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+
USENET SFWA post

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:32 -0700

+
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+
+       All good points...might even be true.  I have nothing to do
+with 'em anymore, so it's moot in any event.
+
+       The new season starts this week.
+
+       There's one other aspect to this whole thing which was brought
+home to me in something Ellen Datlow said on MSNBC the other week.  She
+pointed out, with deadly accuracy, that once upon a time, movies tended
+to mine SF novels for their stories.  Now, it's movies and TV that
+drive novels, with endless ST books, books based on movies,
+novelizations, the whole Star Wars Empire stuff, on and on and on. 
+You'd think that an organization of SF writers would want to be more
+involved in the mass media that was changing the way their field buys
+books, and what they buy, since it has a direct effect on their 
+livelihood.
+
+       By working *with* the media, they would have a better chance of
+helping SF film and TV producers understand what SF is, and what books
+are out there they can option.  That could lead to more movies based on
+books, more option money for writers, and so on.  It's a provincial
+attitude that is going to continue to do them great harm in the long
+run.  But SFWA, for all its SF trappings, is remarkably short-sighted
+when it comes to alternate storytelling technologies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (17 Oct 1996 18:19:37 -0700)
+
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+
URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:19:37 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks to all for the advice...I'll be heading home in an hour
+or so, and will see what works.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Funny Thought (18 Oct 1996 00:44:40 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 00:44:40 -0700

+
      It's a funny thing...just to show you how sometimes even jms can
+be just a LEEETLE bit slow on the uptake....
+
+      I've known, at some level, for four years that we're a
+syndicated show, that we don't have the usual network censors to deal
+with.
+
+      Then, this season, it finally hit me..."waitaminnit...we don't
+have CENSORS!  As long as it doesn't use the words you absolutely can't
+say on TeeVee, as long as it doesn't directly involve nudity or blood
+and guts, I can take things *CONCEPTUALLY* as far as I want."
+
+      Heh.
+
+      Heh-heh-heh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (18 Oct 1996 01:02:22 -0700)
+
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+
URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 01:02:22 -0700

+
 Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> No backup?
+
+      Thanks.  Alas, some of my backup was on a Zip drive, but I
+couldn't use the Zip without Dos being present, so I was basically
+screwed.  At this point I've got the Dos directory restored (using the
+files from the twin computer at work), and so far it *seems* to be
+okay...but it also screwed up all the files in the windows system
+directory, and now I've got to go through, restore and rename all of
+them, and since I don't know offhand what they all are, it's going to
+be a slow process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rock: Lord Refa? (18 Oct 1996 01:02:24 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 01:02:24 -0700

+
 Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Why won't Lord Refa bring his own people?
+> Is he over confident?
+> Is he actually weak on man power?
+> They also are letting the last member of the Ka'Ree escape from
+> Narn? But here, these Centauri guards, are going to just walk away
+> and let Refa be killed by NARNS?!? The sort of character that
+> doesn't show up often (fortunetly) but without great vilians,
+> what chance is there for great heroism?
+
+      Bear in mind that all of Refa's people were *back on Centauri
+Prime*. He didn't bring them with him; to send word to Centauri Prime
+to bring them all the way out here, then on to Narn, would double the
+time required to get there, and by then the "rescue" would've been
+over.  That was part of Londo's scheme...he wouldn't have much time, he
+had to get in and get out.  Refa only brought a few with him, and they
+were needed to watch Londo and guard Vir.
+
+      As for the Centauri back home...you proceed from the assumption
+that all Centauri act as one.  I'm basing this somewhat on the early
+Roman civilization and government, where one side would sell out the
+other, arrange for deaths and murders, turn people over to their hated
+enemies as long as it advanced their position, or if they were allied
+with persons of power on a particular side.  Why did the Roman guards
+escorting Tiberius (a much less worthy emperor) kill the heir to the
+throne in "I, Claudius" (a much better leader, and well liked among the
+military)?  Because they were told to do so.
+
+      SF in TV has the tendency to portray aliens as monolithic...they
+put the good of their species as a whole above everything else.  Some
+do that; some do not.  Just as with humans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Rock: Lord Refa? (18 Oct 1996 14:12:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:12:12 -0700

+
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+
+       No, I wouldn't say they hate one another any less now than
+before; and yes, he would've sent word to G'Kar and arranged a private
+meeting, just the two of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HAMILTON B5 PLATES (18 Oct 1996 14:12:14 -0700)
+
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+
HAMILTON B5 PLATES

+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:12:14 -0700

+
 stoney truett <71623.2377@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something you were reviewing before it is made available
+> to the public?
+
+       The designs are just now being finalized; I think they're on
+track to be released by Christmas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Book? (18 Oct 1996 14:12:16 -0700)
+
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+
Book?

+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:12:16 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What is it, and will it be available in the UK?
+> Also, when you are writing B5, are you, in a sense, reporting
+> what you see in your mind (so that B5 continues when you are not
+> looking, so to speak!), or are you each of the characters in
+> turn?
+
+       "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting" is out, yes, and can be
+ordered from the UK via Writer's Digest Books, or www.amazon.com.
+
+       And yes, the characters do somewhat live in my head, and I
+check in with where they are at various points, and write it down. 
+It's very weird.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (18 Oct 1996 14:17:31 -0700)
+
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 14:17:31 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       To know how to rename all the hundreds of files in my
+windows\system directory, is there any way to save to a file all of the
+file names in my directory, so I can bring that one file home with all
+their names?  (I know, I should do a print screen, but the printer here
+at the office is broken, and I'd have to hook up another one from
+another office, which is a pain.)
+
+       Also, how does one uncompile a .com file?  I think I caught the
+Trojan Horse before it did anything else, but I kinda want to open it
+up and look inside in case it did anything else I should know about. 
+Don't want to go through all this and get another surprise in a few
+days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (18 Oct 1996 18:11:09 -0700)
+
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:11:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'll definitely scan the drive, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (18 Oct 1996 18:11:10 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:11:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Many thanks...it's appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+NEW SIMM GROUP FOR B5 (01 Oct 1996 20:19:22 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:22 -0700

+
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+
+      Send a note to ken_parks@warnerbros.com and inquire directly of
+legal affairs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HAMILTON B5 PLATES (18 Oct 1996 18:11:11 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:11:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       The only full-color one I've seen so far is Sheridan, and it's
+gorgeous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fighting staff (18 Oct 1996 18:11:12 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 18 Oct 1996 18:11:12 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how did you like you first trip to Fla?
+
+       Florida was fine...except that the on-and-off laryngitis I came
+down with while there morphed into an upper respiratory infection which
+I'm fighting off as best I can...on top of everything else that's been
+going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 19:41:05 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      At this point (note to all who've emailed...there were so many
+not everyone could possibly get a response), the system itself is up
+and running again, having transplanted the DOS directory from my work
+computer (an identical system) to the one at home.  I then used unerase
+to restore the Windows and windows/system files.
+
+      Alas, the only way to unerase is to give the deleted files a new
+first letter or number...and I didn't know what they might be offhand
+(there are something like 200-350 of them altogether in the windows and
+windows/system directories), so I kinda had to rename them randomly,
+just temporarily.  Now I have a list of the proper names of what the
+files *should* be, and now I'm going through the long process of
+matching them up and renaming them all.
+
+      My virus scanners are all windows based, so once it's up again,
+I'll be able to go looking around a bit more.
+
+      Thanks to all who've helped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 19:41:08 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

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Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I'm still on 3.1...who has time for the win95 learning
+curve?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 19:41:10 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:10 -0700

+
 Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do all your peripherals still work?
+
+      So far, everything's checking out....I hope this can all end
+soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 19:41:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:12 -0700

+
 Terrill L. Burlison <73631.275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you mean you downloaded it from a Newsgroup?
+
+      Unfortunately, I didn't write down the information, the poster
+said his address was on the jpg, so I didn't bother...and when it
+activated, the whole system went kablooey...it's my own stupidity,
+that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+A Funny Thought (19 Oct 1996 19:41:15 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:15 -0700

+
 Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, when did you get this revelation?
+> Before or After your computer was attacked?
+
+      I figured it out before I started writing season 4.  Look for
+some interesting stuff....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Trailer Congrats (19 Oct 1996 19:41:17 -0700)
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Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:17 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's no perceptible difference between the establishers from
+before and after, except that the newer ones are somewhat more
+detailed.  This increase has always been there each season, but we've
+often used stock from prior seasons in non-critical shots...it blends
+seamlessly.
+
+      And yes, I feel *very* fortunate to work with the people here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE questions (19 Oct 1996 19:41:20 -0700)
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Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:20 -0700

+
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+
+      That person was Grey Council, and they were concerned that a)
+Sinclair was not really who they thought, and b) if he went public with
+it, upon remembering, it would be devastating to their culture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HAMILTON B5 PLATES (19 Oct 1996 19:41:22 -0700)
+
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Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:22 -0700

+
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+
+      Dunno...I know it can be done mail order...I'll try to post the
+info when it becomes available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+CHEK Victoria (01 Oct 1996 20:19:23 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:23 -0700

+
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+
+      There's very little we can do about local situations such as
+this; the main contract period where they have to follow the schedule
+is during new episodes.  During reruns, they're often all over the map.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+TP's From Ship of Tears (19 Oct 1996 19:41:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:24 -0700

+
 Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that Sheridan is openly searching for Telepaths, will we find
+> out in a future episode what happened to the 100 Telepaths who
+> were rescued in "Ship of Tears?"
+
+      Yup.  Basically, they're still in cryo as Franklin keeps
+working.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:30 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  I don't have time for a learning curve right now; I'm
+staying with what I've got until what I've got no longer does what I
+want.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:31 -0700

+
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+
+      Exactly.  These two characters, Londo and G'Kar, are linked at
+the hips. That is their beauty and their tragedy.  And you will see
+some new colors to this in the first part of season 4.  This story is
+as much about them as anyone else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>Z< - damned?? >spoiler< (19 Oct 1996 20:08:35 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:35 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Having watched Z a few times now, I find myself thinking the
+> unthinkable, has JMS lost the plot??? While I'm playing devil's
+> advocate, what about Anna??
+
+      It seems to me that the problems you cite are really ones you've
+put onto it, frankly.  They don't really have anything to do with
+what's being *done*, only with what you're projecting *might* be done. 
+And in some cases, your information is simply incorrect.
+
+"While I'm playing devil's advocate, what about Anna??  I thought
+shadow ships only worked with telepaths, you telling me that Psi Cops
+didn't spot Anna was telepathic - I don't think so!!"
+
+      Incorrect.  Ivanova even says, "Delenn never said that was
+required." A shadow vessel can use *any* body and brain of sufficiently
+evolved form as its CPU...the whole purpose of picking up teeps was to
+start putting together ships that could withstand telepathic jamming. 
+That was the whole *point* of "Ship of Tears."
+
+"I have a fundemental problem with this, namely, that unless JMS pulls
+something absolutely extrodinary out of the bag, we are going to end
+up with a quick and dirty fix, not what I think B5 is known for."
+
+      Translation: you haven't figured out yet how I'm going to pull
+this off, so you're making an assumption based on what you can't figure
+out.  Why not wait and actually *see* what happens before judging?
+
+"Another failing, the shadow ship with Mr G's ship in, historically
+speaking we know that the shadow ships take people in, they are "wired"
+into it, that suggests a centre of operations.  For a Starfury to fit
+inside a shadow ship, it's gonna loose an awful lot of itself, I don't
+see it - sorry!"
+
+      Again, you're not paying sufficient attention, and citing it as
+a problem in the show.  Not everything it encounters is or has to be
+wired into it.  Remember "Shadow Dancing"?  You see Anna's ship being
+released by a shadow vessel and flying off.  It wasn't in the *center*
+of operations, it was held in the skin of the thing.  Look at how *big*
+these things are. They're huge.  (Compare the size of the Narn attack
+ships and the shadow vessels in "Coming of Shadows" for a good
+perspective.)  They can function almost like an aircraft carrier,
+holding ships within their skin as they fly through hyperspace, then
+releasing them on at a time, or by separating a piece of that skin and
+firing them as a group (as also seen in the show).
+
+"Maybe JMS should take 5 and step back from the problem a bit."
+
+      And maybe you should wait to see what I do first, then decide. 
+Because what you're pointing to as problems have *nothing* to do with
+what I'm planning to do with the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 19:41:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      At this point (note to all who've emailed...there were so many
+not everyone could possibly get a response), the system itself is up
+and running again, having transplanted the DOS directory from my work
+computer (an identical system) to the one at home.  I then used unerase
+to restore the Windows and windows/system files.
+
+      Alas, the only way to unerase is to give the deleted files a new
+first letter or number...and I didn't know what they might be offhand
+(there are something like 200-350 of them altogether in the windows and
+windows/system directories), so I kinda had to rename them randomly,
+just temporarily.  Now I have a list of the proper names of what the
+files *should* be, and now I'm going through the long process of
+matching them up and renaming them all.
+
+      My virus scanners are all windows based, so once it's up again,
+I'll be able to go looking around a bit more.
+
+      Thanks to all who've helped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 19:41:08 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I'm still on 3.1...who has time for the win95 learning
+curve?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 19:41:10 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:10 -0700

+
 Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do all your peripherals still work?
+
+      So far, everything's checking out....I hope this can all end
+soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 19:41:12 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:12 -0700

+
 Terrill L. Burlison <73631.275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you mean you downloaded it from a Newsgroup?
+
+      Unfortunately, I didn't write down the information, the poster
+said his address was on the jpg, so I didn't bother...and when it
+activated, the whole system went kablooey...it's my own stupidity,
+that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Funny Thought (19 Oct 1996 19:41:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:15 -0700

+
 Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, when did you get this revelation?
+> Before or After your computer was attacked?
+
+      I figured it out before I started writing season 4.  Look for
+some interesting stuff....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Trailer Congrats (19 Oct 1996 19:41:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:17 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's no perceptible difference between the establishers from
+before and after, except that the newer ones are somewhat more
+detailed.  This increase has always been there each season, but we've
+often used stock from prior seasons in non-critical shots...it blends
+seamlessly.
+
+      And yes, I feel *very* fortunate to work with the people here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SF Vortex on SCI-FI (01 Oct 1996 20:19:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, they're all remarkably unrestrained.  Which is great.  It
+makes coming to work each day a fascinating and terrifying
+proposition....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WWE questions (19 Oct 1996 19:41:20 -0700)
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WWE questions

+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:20 -0700

+
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+
+      That person was Grey Council, and they were concerned that a)
+Sinclair was not really who they thought, and b) if he went public with
+it, upon remembering, it would be devastating to their culture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HAMILTON B5 PLATES (19 Oct 1996 19:41:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:22 -0700

+
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+
+      Dunno...I know it can be done mail order...I'll try to post the
+info when it becomes available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TP's From Ship of Tears (19 Oct 1996 19:41:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 19:41:24 -0700

+
 Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that Sheridan is openly searching for Telepaths, will we find
+> out in a future episode what happened to the 100 Telepaths who
+> were rescued in "Ship of Tears?"
+
+      Yup.  Basically, they're still in cryo as Franklin keeps
+working.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (19 Oct 1996 20:08:30 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:30 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  I don't have time for a learning curve right now; I'm
+staying with what I've got until what I've got no longer does what I
+want.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rock: Lord Refa? (19 Oct 1996 20:08:31 -0700)
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Rock: Lord Refa?

+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:31 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Exactly.  These two characters, Londo and G'Kar, are linked at
+the hips. That is their beauty and their tragedy.  And you will see
+some new colors to this in the first part of season 4.  This story is
+as much about them as anyone else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+>Z< - damned?? >spoiler< (19 Oct 1996 20:08:35 -0700)
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>Z< - damned?? >spoiler<

+
Date: 19 Oct 1996 20:08:35 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Having watched Z a few times now, I find myself thinking the
+> unthinkable, has JMS lost the plot??? While I'm playing devil's
+> advocate, what about Anna??
+
+      It seems to me that the problems you cite are really ones you've
+put onto it, frankly.  They don't really have anything to do with
+what's being *done*, only with what you're projecting *might* be done. 
+And in some cases, your information is simply incorrect.
+
+"While I'm playing devil's advocate, what about Anna??  I thought
+shadow ships only worked with telepaths, you telling me that Psi Cops
+didn't spot Anna was telepathic - I don't think so!!"
+
+      Incorrect.  Ivanova even says, "Delenn never said that was
+required." A shadow vessel can use *any* body and brain of sufficiently
+evolved form as its CPU...the whole purpose of picking up teeps was to
+start putting together ships that could withstand telepathic jamming. 
+That was the whole *point* of "Ship of Tears."
+
+"I have a fundemental problem with this, namely, that unless JMS pulls
+something absolutely extrodinary out of the bag, we are going to end
+up with a quick and dirty fix, not what I think B5 is known for."
+
+      Translation: you haven't figured out yet how I'm going to pull
+this off, so you're making an assumption based on what you can't figure
+out.  Why not wait and actually *see* what happens before judging?
+
+"Another failing, the shadow ship with Mr G's ship in, historically
+speaking we know that the shadow ships take people in, they are "wired"
+into it, that suggests a centre of operations.  For a Starfury to fit
+inside a shadow ship, it's gonna loose an awful lot of itself, I don't
+see it - sorry!"
+
+      Again, you're not paying sufficient attention, and citing it as
+a problem in the show.  Not everything it encounters is or has to be
+wired into it.  Remember "Shadow Dancing"?  You see Anna's ship being
+released by a shadow vessel and flying off.  It wasn't in the *center*
+of operations, it was held in the skin of the thing.  Look at how *big*
+these things are. They're huge.  (Compare the size of the Narn attack
+ships and the shadow vessels in "Coming of Shadows" for a good
+perspective.)  They can function almost like an aircraft carrier,
+holding ships within their skin as they fly through hyperspace, then
+releasing them on at a time, or by separating a piece of that skin and
+firing them as a group (as also seen in the show).
+
+"Maybe JMS should take 5 and step back from the problem a bit."
+
+      And maybe you should wait to see what I do first, then decide. 
+Because what you're pointing to as problems have *nothing* to do with
+what I'm planning to do with the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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+BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE (21 Oct 1996 13:43:54 -0700)
+
+
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BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE

+
Date: 21 Oct 1996 13:43:54 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Here's how to work this out, for the earliest possible start
+date for S4 in the UK.  This may not be what actually works out, I'm
+not committing C4 to anything here, only indicating the *earliest* it
+could theoretically be done.
+
+       We finish shooting May 5th.  It takes about 52 days to finish
+post production on a given episode.  Figure 2 months, round it off. 
+That's July 5th for delivery on 422.  Maybe add a week or two just to
+allow for glitches. So now July 19th.  We have to allow C4 to go
+through the episodes for censor purposes, and that takes about another
+couple/three weeks, so now we're at the end of July/first week of
+August.  That becomes now the earliest you can conceivably air 422.
+
+       So now you just do the math: 22 weeks from the first week of
+August would mean that March 10th or 17th would be the absolute
+earliest that the show could debut.  If they wanted to build in a
+cushion to prevent any possible conflicts, then the ideal date would be
+around the first week of April.
+
+       But, again, I don't speak for C4, or their prior scheduling
+committments, I'm just backtracking to when it would be feasible from
+a production standpoint.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Speaking of Season Four (21 Oct 1996 18:40:44 -0700)
+
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Speaking of Season Four

+
Date: 21 Oct 1996 18:40:44 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of the new season, what episode is filming currently?
+> And which one(s) are you finishing up post work on these days?
+> Do you still feel good about all of them?
+> Do they still have that "film" quality of which you spoke
+> earlier?
+
+       Yeah, feel great about the new eps.  We're currently shooting
+#6, and we have scripts in hand through #10.  We've delivered 1 and 2,
+and will finish the audio mix on 3 next week.  John and I go in to edit
+3 on Wednesday.  The feel of it is quite extraordinary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+And the rock... (22 Oct 1996 14:43:25 -0700)
+
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And the rock...

+
Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:25 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, it was real; and Londo points out that he could easily
+have killed Refa elsewhere...as he says, the point was to do it on Narn
+so that he could dishonor his house back home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (22 Oct 1996 14:43:26 -0700)
+
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:26 -0700

+
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+
+       I'll definitely do that, thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Z'ha'dum>> - a query (01 Oct 1996 20:19:27 -0700)
+
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+
<<Z'ha'dum>> - a query

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'll do that in the show, rather than blowing it out here.
+
+      Otherwise what's the point of making the show?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Speaking of Season Four (22 Oct 1996 14:43:27 -0700)
+
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Speaking of Season Four

+
Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:27 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       All jms scripts so far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rock Cried Out (22 Oct 1996 14:43:30 -0700)
+
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Rock Cried Out

+
Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:30 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, generally, everything is scripted.  (See the "Coming"
+script in my writing book for an example.)  But the director adds a lot
+in framing and pacing and camera movement and other areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dancing (22 Oct 1996 14:43:30 -0700)
+
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Shadow Dancing

+
Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:30 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE (22 Oct 1996 14:43:31 -0700)
+
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+
BABYLON 5 SEASON FINALE

+
Date: 22 Oct 1996 14:43:31 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> From a producer/writers POV due you prefer the US half a dozen
+> then Rerun or the UK whole season in one go?
+
+       I'd love to go straight through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enjoying B5 (23 Oct 1996 01:13:07 -0700)
+
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+
Enjoying B5

+
Date: 23 Oct 1996 01:13:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...and I don't allow my own personal beliefs (or lack
+thereof) to redirect or influence the show; then it becomes propaganda,
+and I have no interest in that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rock Cried question (23 Oct 1996 18:20:45 -0700)
+
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+
Rock Cried question

+
Date: 23 Oct 1996 18:20:45 -0700

+
 Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would G'Kar even attend this meeting, given his hatred of
+> Londo and his mistrust of all Centauri? Why would G'Kar trust
+> Londo, even for a second?
+
+       I think that if Londo sent word via the Babcom unit that he
+wanted a one-to-one with G'Kar, and that thousands of Narn lives were
+on the line, he would come.  G'Kar has nothing to fear from Londo as
+long as he's on B5...and if anything, I think he'd be amused if Londo
+did try anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Wildfire Threat? (23 Oct 1996 22:59:15 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Oct 1996 22:59:15 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were any of the people involved in B5 or the studio itself
+> threatened by the current spate of wildfires?
+
+      No, it was a long, long ways from here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sun-Times B5 kudos (24 Oct 1996 20:49:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sun-Times B5 kudos

+
Date: 24 Oct 1996 20:49:45 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I'd love to get it, thanks!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Roleplaying Scenario? (24 Oct 1996 20:54:23 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Oct 1996 20:54:23 -0700

+
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+
+      Be advised that this sim group is not authorized, involves
+paying members, and will be shut down by WB, which has shut down
+others.  If you're using CIS, you will get them into trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+!!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!! (24 Oct 1996 20:54:24 -0700)
+
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+
!!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!!

+
Date: 24 Oct 1996 20:54:24 -0700

+
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+
+      See my prior note to you.  WB has shut down other unauthorized
+sims, which are violations of copyright.  If you want them to come
+after CIS, go right ahead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Grey 17

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:29 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I think it's about 3/4ths of a good episode.  Where it
+falls down, for me, is the Zarg...I just have this constant desire to
+go to everyone's house and personally apologize....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ZHD Spoiler (24 Oct 1996 20:54:26 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Oct 1996 20:54:26 -0700

+
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+
+      Nope, the White Star blowed up real good, so it couldn't save
+Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+foundation on voyager? (24 Oct 1996 23:12:59 -0700)
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foundation on voyager?

+
Date: 24 Oct 1996 23:12:59 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+      Correct, Foundation is now doing EFX for Voyager.  I wonder how
+some ST fans who put down B5's effects, saying ST's never-go-CGI
+approach made them a better show, will react to this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dance - Nits (25 Oct 1996 00:44:57 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Oct 1996 00:44:57 -0700

+
 Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Why did "The White Star" have to hang around in normal space?
+> I realize there are good dramatic reasons for putting Ivanova and
+> Marcus in harm's way, but are there good logical reasons? Couldn't
+> this have been pushed into a different episode? And what do we
+> see? I know you are pressed for time in this epsidoe, but really,
+> relationship building? romance?
+
+      Okay, a couple of responses....
+
+      "Seems to me the strategy is: wait in hyperspace "near" the
+flock of refugee ships, and when they signal for help (as they will
+when the Shadow fleet appears), pop out of hyperspace and engage the
+Shadow fleet.  The point is, the Shadow fleet is going after a known
+target (or so Sheridan guesses), if you hang around near the target,
+they will tell you when the attackers appear.  No need to for your
+ships, even a scout, to sit in normal space, the refugee ships are all
+"scout ships" in a sense."
+
+      Massive logic problem.  If you wait until they're right on top
+of the refugee ships, or very near, they'll just dive into the midst of
+the refugee ships and there's no way you can have a clean battle
+without resulting in *MASSIVE* amounts of civilian casualties.  What
+you suggest would all but insure that the refugee ships would be
+destroyed (defeating the purpose of the mission) and the piles of
+civilian ships running for cover in every direction would hinder our
+side, but not the other side, and we'd lose even MORE of our own ships.
+
+      "2) Delenn and Sheridan spend the night together and we get to
+watch... comercials. Talk about giving "short shrift" to a rather
+interesting event. Couldn't this have been pushed into a different
+episode?  I mean, here they are, alone together, in a "ostensibly"
+romantic situation, lots for them to talk about I should think.  Well,
+I'd like to know what was said... And what do we see?  Sheridan is
+already asleep!"
+
+      It's not a matter of being pressed for time.  The whole point of
+the ritual was to watch him sleeping.  We had that nice moment right
+before they took off with the fleet, and bunches of others, including
+the big kiss, right in the previous episode and throughout the whole
+thing.
+
+      "3) I think the battle could have been done with a bit more of
+an "umph" to it.  Perhaps the use of intercutting between the two plots
+was distracting in this case.  It was a good battle, just not quite as
+effective as "Severed Dreams" or "Long Twilight Struggle" (which did
+have effective intercutting)."
+
+      That's because there was more emotional content to the other two
+battles you mention; the bombing of the Narn homeworld, and EA fighting
+EA in SD.  Not all battles are created equal, it's a matter of context.
+You can't expect to get exactly the same reaction to all of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Enjoying B5 -Rock (25 Oct 1996 11:29:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Oct 1996 11:29:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, that's been pointed out to me...well, y'know, they said
+only Nixon could go to China....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (25 Oct 1996 11:29:08 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 25 Oct 1996 11:29:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       What an interesting notion...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>Z< - damned?? >spoiler< (25 Oct 1996 11:29:11 -0700)
+
+
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>Z< - damned?? >spoiler<

+
Date: 25 Oct 1996 11:29:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Okay, got it, thanks for the clarification.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+!!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!! (26 Oct 1996 21:10:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
!!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!!

+
Date: 26 Oct 1996 21:10:23 -0700

+
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+
+      I cannot give authorization, it's not mine to give, it has to
+come from Warner Bros., as part of a license.  And while you are not
+getting paid for it, the users *are* paying for access to CIS for the
+game, and that is a large part of where you're getting into trouble.
+
+      I understand that your error is one of enthusiasm, nothing else,
+and I appreciate the enthusiasm...but understand that when I say WB
+will get upset about this, they *will*.  They've done it before, and
+shut down at least one other sim group, maybe more.  I'm basically
+trying to steer you clear of trouble, and there's no way to do this
+without a license.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Encouraging Attitude (26 Oct 1996 21:10:25 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Oct 1996 21:10:25 -0700

+
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+
+      That's great, thanks for passing that along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (26 Oct 1996 21:10:27 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Oct 1996 21:10:27 -0700

+
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+
+      No, no Lumati.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The CARDS are Here! (27 Oct 1996 00:25:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
The CARDS are Here!

+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 00:25:10 -0700

+
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+
+      "Zathras won't talk to press.  Tabloids always misquote
+Zathras."
+
+      Hmmm...I didn't know Zathras worked for the Dole campaign...but
+it does explain a lot....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Missing Scene? SPOILER! (01 Oct 1996 20:19:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
Missing Scene? SPOILER!

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 20:19:32 -0700

+
 S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there a something missing inbetween these two scenes?
+
+      He was in close quarters with a small group, and fought his way
+out. This picks up right after that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The CARDS are Here! (27 Oct 1996 00:25:11 -0700)
+
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The CARDS are Here!

+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 00:25:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Maybe, for those you don't like, you can stick up the Nightwatch
+posters over their cubicles....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Trailer Congrats (27 Oct 1996 15:17:36 -0700)
+
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+
Trailer Congrats

+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:17:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+VP is a fan (27 Oct 1996 15:17:44 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:17:44 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, if he ever wants to invest some of that $600 million in a
+TV series, he knows where to find me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Shadow Dancing<< (27 Oct 1996 15:17:45 -0700)
+
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>>Shadow Dancing<<

+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:17:45 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why didn't they just jump in right on top of their targets and
+> started blasting away?
+
+      So they could drive any other ships toward the center, into the
+killing zone.  If they come in into the center, everybody splits in
+every possible direction, and that makes running 'em all down harder.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The CARDS are Here! (27 Oct 1996 15:51:26 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:26 -0700

+
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+
+      Actually, the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of
+Zathras as a political speechwriter or candidate.
+
+      "Zathras look at budget deficit, says, not good.  Stop spending.
+But no one ever listen to Zathras.  But one day, everybody listen. 
+Then, Zathras elected.  Zathras will be great president.  Someday even
+have face printed on money.  Then, everybody have Zathras face in
+pants.  It is good to be president."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deeper meanings in work? (27 Oct 1996 15:51:31 -0700)
+
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+
Deeper meanings in work?

+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:31 -0700

+
 Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Reading some of the other messages in this section,(some
+> quite old, by now) concerning academic interpertations of a
+> writers' work, I was wondering if any of "us" out here in
+> cyberspace have read anything into your works that were not
+> intended to be there when you wrote them, but, upon being pointed
+> out to you, you can now see that it does, in fact, have the
+> meaning that was "discovered"? IOW, are there deeper meanings in
+> your work that even you don't see at times?
+
+      Nothing at all insulting in the question.  It's a hard one to
+address, but I'll give it a shot.
+
+      Harlan says, when someone comes up to you and says, "Listen,
+when I read your story, I saw you had structured the whole thing around
+the Jungian notion of inner conflict vs. external conflict, and...." 
+that the proper response is, "Absolutely, and you're the first person
+to figure that out," whether it's true or not.  Let them think you're
+an utter genius.  (This was, obviously, somewhat tongue in cheek, but
+there's some truth there, I think.)
+
+      Generally, some of the "deeper meanings" attached to the work
+are less a product of what's written, as what's perceived and how it's
+perceived; it's a function of what you, the viewer, bring to the table.
+In that respect, a good story is like a Rohrscarch test (and I think I
+just hideously misspelled that).
+
+      Some of the hidden meanings or subtext (the more proper term, I
+think) are deliberately set in place during the writing process.
+
+      And there are some that slip past me, when I get ambushed by my
+own subsconscious.  Often I'm working something through myself at the
+time, or going through something, and when I'm not looking, the writing
+part of my brain shoots it out onto the page.  Then, afterward,
+sometimes minutes later or months later, I'll look at it and suddenly
+realize what was going through my mind at the time, and realize I've
+given away more of myself than I had intended.  It's an awkward
+feeling...like coming home from a party and discovering that your fly
+was undone the whole time.  There are times I'd like nothing more than
+to take my subsconscious out and give it a *really* good thwacking when
+it does this to me.
+
+      Sometimes those meanings are very personal ones, sometimes more
+general in nature, trying to figure out stuff.  The only way to stop it
+is to ride herd on the part of your brain that does the writing, making
+sure nothing slips past you...but then it becomes a more mechanical
+process.  As a writer, you learn to listen to the small, tiny voice in
+the back of your head and trust it, that it knows where it's going even
+if the logical part of your brain does not.  You have to get rid of the
+gatekeeping, get rid of what you were taught writing is supposed to be,
+get rid of what you think others want to hear from you, get rid of
+*everything* that gets in the way and overpowers that small voice.
+
+      If you do that correctly, then you are *always* surprised by
+what comes out, which is necessary; if you cannot surprise yourself,
+you have no chance of surprising an audience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing Battle (27 Oct 1996 15:51:35 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:35 -0700

+
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+
+      Good question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+First Ones (27 Oct 1996 15:51:37 -0700)
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+
First Ones

+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:37 -0700

+
 Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why or when will B5 feel the need for the other First Ones?
+> Will there be a resolution among the Minibari casts?
+
+      Re: the First Ones...be patient.  They'll show up soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (27 Oct 1996 15:51:42 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, but that tactic works only if you know you're going to be
+under attack.  If the shadows were to materialize in the midst of the
+refugee ships, they'd just scatter in every direction.  The purpose is
+to wipe out all those ships quickly and efficiently...so you start at
+the outer fringe, drive everyone inward, and then wipe them all out. 
+To jump into the middle of them makes it very hard to do this...it's
+like herding kittens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Shadow Dancing<< (27 Oct 1996 15:51:44 -0700)
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>>Shadow Dancing<<

+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 15:51:44 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why didn't they just jump in right on top of their targets and
+> started blasting away?
+
+      See my other note on this.  And, again, it isn't a settlement,
+it's a gathering of ships.  The other note explains in more detail.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I Found Demon Knight! (01 Oct 1996 23:55:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
I Found Demon Knight!

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 23:55:53 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did the books arrive?
+
+      Yes, and they're going back in a few days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Did you always know? (27 Oct 1996 20:24:37 -0700)
+
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+
Did you always know?

+
Date: 27 Oct 1996 20:24:37 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      This was all planned out from the beginning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dancing in the Dark (28 Oct 1996 02:59:47 -0700)
+
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+
Dancing in the Dark

+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 02:59:47 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's a great ep...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 4 Title (28 Oct 1996 18:16:50 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:16:50 -0700

+
 Martin Shaw <101642.505@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if you have decided on a title for series 4 yet?
+> Have you released the details of the opening narration yet?
+> Or are you planning on leaving this to the conference next
+> weekend? in the UK?
+
+       The main title will reveal itself soon enough; and yes, I have
+a title for the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Religion on <The Rock> (28 Oct 1996 18:16:50 -0700)
+
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Religion on <The Rock>

+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:16:50 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing (28 Oct 1996 18:21:47 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:21:47 -0700

+
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+
+       Well, certainly Kosh was accessing that which he could, in part
+to prove he knew what he knew, in part to set things up.  Although who
+knows, there may be more to it...that that's what they came up with
+doesn't necessarily mean that is the full extent of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dance - Nits (28 Oct 1996 18:21:48 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 18:21:48 -0700

+
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+
+       Actually, no, most refugee ships are NOT jump capable. 
+Remember, it takes a LOT of power...you've got the heavy cruisers, and
+long range exploratory vessels, and not much else.  That's what makes
+the White Star so special, that it can be as small as it is and still
+generate a jump point. The Asimov class passenger liners, for instance,
+can't jump, and have to rely on gates.  The smaller ships the refugees
+would've been using would have had to get to their local gate, and then
+line up to go through it in small groups. Which means 85% of them
+would've been trapped there, ducks in a shooting gallery.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deeper meanings in work? (28 Oct 1996 19:48:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:48:15 -0700

+
 Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> From what you said, I infer that writing is a similar
+> "relaxing/unconscious" process for you, when you are *on*...OTOH,
+> are there still days when writing seems similar to staring at the
+> keyboard until drops of blood appear on your brow?
+
+      It never gets easy...it just gets difficult in different areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (28 Oct 1996 19:48:16 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:48:16 -0700

+
 Boris -pH7- Molodyi <70322.624@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which makes me wonder: why didn't Shadows surface right in the
+> middle of refugee ships, and do their job, rather than coming out
+> at what seems to be considerable distance, and thus opening
+> themselves to attack by the Army of Light?
+
+      Just answered this twice in another thread...would hate to take
+up the space repeating it a third time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Second B5 CD (28 Oct 1996 19:57:37 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Second B5 CD

+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:57:37 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is the second music CD still scheduled for release at the same
+> time as season 4, or has it been pushed back again?
+
+      It's being released in November, but I hear they won't sell it
+to you because they say you're too loud.
+
+      Me, I don't get involved in these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Second B5 CD (28 Oct 1996 19:57:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
Second B5 CD

+
Date: 28 Oct 1996 19:57:38 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope.  I just got the liner notes to them last week, which they
+needed by Wednesday latest because they were going to press this week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/18.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/18.html
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+
+
+New Season HELP! (01 Oct 1996 23:55:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
New Season HELP!

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 23:55:55 -0700

+
 Avery C. Innis <74642.3366@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Thank goodness they are just as enjoyable the second time around,
+> but when do I get the opportunity to view new material?
+
+      This Thursday the new season starts on KCOP.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Second B5 CD (29 Oct 1996 01:28:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
Second B5 CD

+
Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:28:34 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've heard the first 20 minutes or so, and it's great stuff.  I
+should get the balance soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/181.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/181.html
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+
+
+Stern cheers B5 (29 Oct 1996 01:28:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
Stern cheers B5

+
Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:28:35 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm constantly delighted to hear about Howard.  We'd love to
+have him on the show someday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 4 Title (29 Oct 1996 01:28:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 4 Title

+
Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:28:38 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Okay, Joe (aka Kosh), I'll bite: What *is* the title for the new
+> season?
+
+      That would be telling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/183.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/183.html
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+
+
+Shadow Dancing Battle (29 Oct 1996 01:28:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Dancing Battle

+
Date: 29 Oct 1996 01:28:40 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"If this were live, you could be implanting strange dreams in my
+head."
+
+      Hmmm...guess you just haven't noticed 'em yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/184.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/184.html
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+
+
+Z'Ha'Dum (29 Oct 1996 11:54:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum

+
Date: 29 Oct 1996 11:54:29 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       This is from memory, but I think it's "nuzen fallani, en allis
+mi dron."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/185.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/185.html
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+
+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (29 Oct 1996 12:19:30 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Dance - Nits

+
Date: 29 Oct 1996 12:19:30 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       For as long as required by the script.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+gloves for CTS (29 Oct 1996 12:19:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
gloves for CTS

+
Date: 29 Oct 1996 12:19:31 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard of SoftFlex, which are fingerless gloves that help
+> to alluviate CTS?
+
+       I just ordered them as I saw your message, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/187.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/187.html
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+
+
+Season 4 Title (29 Oct 1996 17:32:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 4 Title

+
Date: 29 Oct 1996 17:32:25 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Oh, be assured, the interesting times for Londo haven't even
+*started* yet.
+
+       But they will, real soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (30 Oct 1996 13:34:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Dance - Nits

+
Date: 30 Oct 1996 13:34:00 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have to ask, what nigtmare did these things come from?
+> Also, where did you come up with the strategy, was that your own,
+> or did you get some suggestions or did you look into history?
+
+       I dunno...I just thunk it up as efficient and ruthless.  I
+guess it comes naturally when you're a producer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/189.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/189.html
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+
+
+Deeper meanings in work? (30 Oct 1996 13:34:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Deeper meanings in work?

+
Date: 30 Oct 1996 13:34:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I can't answer that, because the two elements are always the
+same to me.  It's like asking a centipede which leg goes first.  I
+don't know how I do what I do, I just kinda do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/19.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/19.html
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+
+
+Walkabout! (02 Oct 1996 13:26:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
Walkabout!

+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 13:26:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  It came out pretty well; it's exceeded by Shadow
+Dancing, Z'ha'dum and Rock, but it ain't bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/190.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/190.html
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+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (30 Oct 1996 17:38:00 -0700)
+
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+
Shadow Dance - Nits

+
Date: 30 Oct 1996 17:38:00 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But you thought up B5 before you were a producer, so what deep
+> dark part of your soul is bleeding out to make these Shadows?
+
+       I don't know, but I suspect it's best left unidentified...and
+undisturbed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Hamilton Plate Series (31 Oct 1996 12:21:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Hamilton Plate Series

+
Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:21:11 -0700

+
 David Schirmer <76774.3310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know who the Artist will be?
+> And do you know how many plates there will be in the series?
+
+       Can't remember the artists offhand, but the plates will feature
+each of our major characters in turn; Sheridan is first, then Delenn,
+then I think we've got Ivanova, Londo, G'Kar, others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (31 Oct 1996 12:21:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Dance - Nits

+
Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:21:13 -0700

+
 David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who are running around in the flying sausers (which by the way
+> seemd awfull potent)?
+
+       Them's is Vree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (31 Oct 1996 12:21:14 -0700)
+
+
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Shadow Dance - Nits

+
Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:21:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  A writer's job is to stay vulnerable, and explore
+everything in the writing...the drama, the tragedy, the comedy, the
+weirdness...it's all part of the package.  I just sometimes put a
+little too much out there, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcon in Columbus, Ohio (31 Oct 1996 12:21:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
Marcon in Columbus, Ohio

+
Date: 31 Oct 1996 12:21:15 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No one's yet extended a formal invitation, so we'll have to
+see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z'Ha'Dum x2 (31 Oct 1996 20:43:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum x2

+
Date: 31 Oct 1996 20:43:42 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, we'll try to deal with the retcon if we can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Za'ha'dume (31 Oct 1996 20:43:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
<<Za'ha'dume

+
Date: 31 Oct 1996 20:43:44 -0700

+
 Al Lipscomb <75204.2225@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 5) Why were the Shadows and the Vorlon left behind by the first
+> ones? Punishment?
+> A desire by the two races to prove a point?
+> Something in their nature that made them want to stay?
+
+      Well, most of that is on track....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dance - Nits (31 Oct 1996 23:11:58 -0700)
+
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+
Shadow Dance - Nits

+
Date: 31 Oct 1996 23:11:58 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm going to make an assumption here, but you put a little too
+> much (of yourself) out there for your own comfort? As far as
+> storytelling, which is why we're here, can you put too much out
+> there of pain, joy, fear, yearning, resentment, relief, etc.? 
+> Stripped of those elements, doesn't the story become antiseptic
+> and liable to lead to indifference in the viewer/reader?
+
+      Yeah, it's primarily a personal comfort issue.  It's kinda like
+standing naked in front of ten million of your best friends....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hug Mr. Ellison for me (01 Oct 1996 12:55:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hug Mr. Ellison for me

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:14 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks on Harlan's behalf, and I'll send him a copy of this.  I
+think he'll be pleaed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/20.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/20.html
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+
+
+The Plunge (02 Oct 1996 13:26:19 -0700)
+
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+
The Plunge

+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 13:26:19 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, the funny thing is, I kinda hinted at the answer a
+long time ago in a message here...but so far no one's put two and two
+together. So there we are.  But you only need wait a while to see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/21.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-10/21.html
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+
+B5 Tapes (02 Oct 1996 13:26:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Tapes

+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 13:26:20 -0700

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe: Have you written all of the 4th season episodes to date?
+
+       Er...yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+USENET SFWA post (02 Oct 1996 13:26:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 13:26:24 -0700

+
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+
+       I think your points are valid...the question, for me, is *why*
+they are valid.  Yes, what you describe is what the studio folks
+*think* is SF. Because they don't know any better.
+
+       Lemme take this away from SF for a moment to make the point. 
+For the last 45 years, the networks and studios thought cop shows were
+all of a piece. If you really sit back and look at them objectively,
+most cop shows were more adventure shoot-em-ups than anything else, the
+bad guy has a plot, the good guys try and stop him...they had very
+little bearing on reality. The occasional exception, like a Hill Street
+Blues, was just that, an exception and not repeated.  The networks
+thought that's what a cop show WAS.  Police Story and Jake and the
+Fatman and Cannon and all the rest.
+
+       Then along came a book...Homicide: Life in the Killing Streets,
+which was trotted over to the networks with startling speed.  It was a
+gritty, inside look at how this stuff *really* works.  And as with one
+voice, the networks said, "Oh, so THAT'S how it works," and then you
+instantly had the Homicide TV series, and NYPD Blue and others
+fast-tracking to be real cop shows.
+
+       They can course correct *real* fast if you know how to approach
+them. Do the studio heads *really* appreciate cop stories now more than
+before? No, not really, their eyes are still on the bottom line of
+finances.  But they now allow these sorts of stories to be done.
+
+       You can do the same thing with SF.  We've done a little of that
+with B5, and now there are more shows coming up with long-range story
+arcs, from Space Cases to Dark Skies to others now in development. 
+We've done stories in aresa not usually considered covered by SF, from
+religion to the death penalty to other areas.  We've educated.  Not a
+lot, I'm not exaggerating our influence, but a little...and that's a
+start.  More could be done if the SF publishing community got off its
+butt and addressed the media rather than running from it or deriding it
+or simply ignoring it, in the belief that if they close their eyes it's
+not there anymore.
+
+       SF writers, more than anyone else, should understand the
+dangers of not keeping up with changes in technology in the areas in
+which you work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Two comments (02 Oct 1996 17:20:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:09 -0700

+
 Juanma Barranquero <100044.2131@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  - Why did you use Jack the Ripper as a character?
+> I mean, are you fascinated by the story of JtR (as many of us
+> do), or simply you used him for dramatic effect?
+
+       I used Jack because he was perfect for that particular job,
+which was what the Vorlons had decided as well.  Simple as that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Dancing (02 Oct 1996 17:20:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Unfortunately, SAG rules limit your options when it comes to
+actor placements.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hug Mr. Ellison for me (02 Oct 1996 17:20:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> PMFJI, but how *is* Harlan?
+
+       Harlan's doing great, even better than he was before the
+surgery; he has more energy, he's all over the place, he's writing more
+now...it's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hug Mr. Ellison for me (02 Oct 1996 17:20:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hug Mr. Ellison for me

+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:16 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> PMFJI, but how *is* Harlan?
+
+       I sent your note to Harlan, and today received this message in
+return. Any typos that may have crept in here are my responsibility.
+
+jms
+
+*****
+
+2 October 1996 TO: Joe Straczynski FROM: Harlan Ellison Re: Posting on
+B5 General topic pursuant to your fax of 1 October 96
+
+Joe: Here's the response we discussed via telecon this morning.  If
+you would post it for me, I'd be appreciative.  - he
+
+Dear Mary Cree:
+
+       As you likely know, I am--how shall I happily put
+this?--"netless in Gaza."  That is to say, Joe Straczynski is posting
+this for me.  Had I your home address, I would have hand-typed an
+actual letter, and signed it with one of my lovely fountain pens, and
+mailed it directly to you; and you'd have had a small, but for-real,
+artifact.  Rather than this nebulous electronic simulacrum, sans human
+signature...the traditional mark of establishing that the message comes
+from the heart of the sender.
+
+       Here's the long and the short of it: I have waited thirty and
+more years for your letter.  I cannot, in any human tongue, express my
+gratitude for your comments and encomia.
+
+       I hint, in the introductory essay to CITY ON THE EDGE OF
+FOREVER, at the circumstances that conspired to jostle, prod, and
+chivvy me to the point of writing the book.  Delineating those
+circumstances would take yet *another* 45,000 word essay.  I choose to
+give *that* odious chore a regal pass.
+
+       Insofar as the reality of writing the long introductory
+material to CITY is concerned, I was an *extremely* reluctant virgin
+brought to that nuptial bed.  Had I let the whole idea go a-bornilng, I
+would probably have been just as content...and continued to live with
+that ugly little feral hatred gnawing at my composure for the remaining
+years of my life.  But the forces massed, and I wrote the book, and now
+it's out there doing incredibly well (much to my suprirse), and I guess
+it's all worth it.  Because, in some measure, I received your note.
+
+       I never realized, till I got into the writing of CITY, just how
+angry I was, nor even how deeply I'd been hurt by what happened.  The
+writing was like crawling across the most exhausting Gobi Altai one
+could imagine, only to be offered, at the oasis, not a glass of
+Perrier, but a large peanut butter sandwich.  Nonetheless, I did it,
+and it was done, and out there-- twice-- and I could cease ruminating
+on what a crappy chapter it had been in my carer.
+
+       I didn't realize I was waiting for your letter.  That I'd
+written the book *just to get your letter*.  But now I know.
+
+       Thank you, every so much.  Respectfully,
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms Songwriter ? (02 Oct 1996 17:20:19 -0700)
+
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+
jms Songwriter ?

+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 17:20:19 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this where we get 8-9 new ones in a row?
+
+       Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Tapes (02 Oct 1996 21:11:11 -0700)
+
+
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B5 Tapes

+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 21:11:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I'm chugging along just fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Grey 17 (02 Oct 1996 21:11:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Grey 17

+
Date: 02 Oct 1996 21:11:14 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One has to wonder, if the Zarg was so doggone dangerous, and such
+> a perfect preditor, how did they catch it and transport it to the
+> station in the first place?
+
+      There was a line about slipping the egg into the station...don't
+remember now if it made it through the edit or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Four: 403 (01 Oct 1996 12:55:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season Four: 403

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:15 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you're done, could you let me know (generally, of course
+> :-), how you feel it came out?
+
+       They're all coming out nicely...very different feel this
+season, which takes some getting used to, but overall, very very nice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hug Mr. Ellison for me (03 Oct 1996 00:31:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Oct 1996 00:31:54 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nutz...this got sent to Susan instead of Mary Cree...via her
+husband's account...could some kindly sysop please reroute it to the
+desired destination?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Coming of Shadows (03 Oct 1996 23:10:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Coming of Shadows

+
Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:10:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, B5 will be going up against ID4 next year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fan Club Web Page (03 Oct 1996 23:39:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Fan Club Web Page

+
Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:39:46 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Could you pass this info onto the web developers so they can try
+> to make the site a bit more friendly?
+
+      I don't understand how this can be, since I use Netscape 2.0 on
+Windows 3.1 and the java stuff works fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Z'ha'dum>> - a query (03 Oct 1996 23:39:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
<<Z'ha'dum>> - a query

+
Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:39:49 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There are days it becomes a bit much...but you just take it and
+move on. Overall, the experience is more positive than not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Melissa Gilbert (03 Oct 1996 23:39:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:39:52 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you've switched to Melissa and the series will eventually
+> be on TNT, do you now go back and edit Melissa into the Season 2
+> episode and replace the other actress? Or will we still see the
+> switch of actresses when we see it again on TNT or eventually on
+> video?
+
+      It's something we're considering; we had her do the entire
+message, and shot Bruce in those sequences, so we have that option. 
+Sort of a Soviet revisionism approach to television....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'ha'dum - sneaky!! (03 Oct 1996 23:39:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Oct 1996 23:39:54 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, that's Vorlons for you, it's all a matter of perception,
+everyone sees and hears them differently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Melissa Gilbert (04 Oct 1996 12:42:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Melissa Gilbert

+
Date: 04 Oct 1996 12:42:40 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       True...and of course the Chrysalis situation wasn't our fault;
+we delivered to WB the right pieces, but they had their satellite
+facility rebuild it after they messed up the broadcsat...and used the
+wrong piece for that shot, the pre-composite raw footage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Coming of Shadows (04 Oct 1996 12:42:41 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Oct 1996 12:42:41 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...we'll see what happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+USENET SFWA post (04 Oct 1996 12:42:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
USENET SFWA post

+
Date: 04 Oct 1996 12:42:42 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Again, I think we're more on the same side of the issue than
+not...I'd just point out a very basic truism that does, or should,
+matter.
+
+       If producers are more aware of SF novels, and SF writers, they
+will likely option more properties for film and TV.  If they're not,
+they will option fewer.  That's an absolute loss of income to SF
+writers.
+
+       But it's their business, not mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Nine Walkers (04 Oct 1996 12:46:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
Nine Walkers

+
Date: 04 Oct 1996 12:46:17 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       You're forgetting Boromir, who was killed by Orcs after trying
+to grab the ring.  Most people forget him since he never made it
+through the story...sort of the Pete Best of the heroic fantasy
+genre....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Plunge (01 Oct 1996 12:55:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Plunge

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:18 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My God, it's a jump gate, isn't it?
+> Only question is, *where* does it lead?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Support mechanism (04 Oct 1996 18:08:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Oct 1996 18:08:26 -0700

+
 Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, which is it?
+> Garibaldi or B5 itself?
+
+       Nope, I never identified Garibaldi as the support mechanism,
+only B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Season HELP! (04 Oct 1996 18:08:26 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Oct 1996 18:08:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think it starts with the first batch of season 4 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+USENET SFWA post (05 Oct 1996 23:48:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:48:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      What's the HOA?  Don't recognize the acronym...unless you mean
+Homeowner's Association....
+
+      Re: "Walkabout," thanks...of the final 5, it's not at the top,
+but it ain't bad.  If you happen to be out of the house this coming
+Thursday, and miss "Grey 17 is Missing," you miss a little, but not a
+lot.  It's okay.  But the ones after that are just *killer*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+poetry (05 Oct 1996 23:48:54 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:48:54 -0700

+
 DAVID HORTON <101615.563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> have you ever tried writing poetry?
+
+     "Have you ever tried writing poetry?"
+
+      Yeah.  I stink.  It's the one form I can't do worth a damn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout's Tallman (05 Oct 1996 23:48:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:48:56 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So you weren't able to go back and fix Patricia Tallman's credit
+> on "Walkabout"?
+
+         WHAT?!?!
+
+         Are you sure?  We changed it on my copies here.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout (No Spoiler) (05 Oct 1996 23:48:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Walkabout (No Spoiler)

+
Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:48:59 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> were you referring to the closing credits?
+
+      Yes, the song continued over the credits, but the VO here in LA
+filled up all the space until it was over.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridans survival (05 Oct 1996 23:49:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sheridans survival

+
Date: 05 Oct 1996 23:49:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a good ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Tapes (06 Oct 1996 12:54:27 -0700)
+
+
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B5 Tapes

+
Date: 06 Oct 1996 12:54:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Couldn't be better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Some questions (06 Oct 1996 12:54:31 -0700)
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Some questions

+
Date: 06 Oct 1996 12:54:31 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is the Minbari warships strong enough to go one-on-one with the
+> Shadow vessels? Since the White Star is a hybrid Minbari-Vorlon
+> ship, does that mean that the Vorlons are cooperating with the
+> Rangers?
+
+      The Vorlons were cooperating in the recent past, yes, and it
+still takes a couple of Minbari cruisers under most circumstances to
+take out an immobilized shadow vessel, though one can do it if the
+firepower is concentrated and prolonged.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout! (06 Oct 1996 12:54:33 -0700)
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Walkabout!

+
Date: 06 Oct 1996 12:54:33 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Intentional?
+
+      Thanks, and yes, I'd say this Kosh has a bit more of an edge to
+him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms Songwriter ? (01 Oct 1996 12:55:20 -0700)
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jms Songwriter ?

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:20 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is "Walkabout" the first new episode back from the long reruns?
+> I saw it on dish but wondered if new shows started the week
+> before?
+
+       No, Walkabout is the first of the final 5 held back from year
+3.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Morden on Toast (06 Oct 1996 12:54:35 -0700)
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Morden on Toast

+
Date: 06 Oct 1996 12:54:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> So.......Is Morden toast or what?
+> Was Sheridans wounds from the Shadow that he was shooting at or
+> from a fight with Morden and Co afterwards?? I thought someone
+> else was going to die? Did you mean Anna?
+> Did you see " A Close Shave" yet?
+
+      Yes, have seen and enjoyed "A Close Shave."
+
+      No comment for now on the rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout's Tallman (06 Oct 1996 19:48:04 -0700)
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Walkabout's Tallman

+
Date: 06 Oct 1996 19:48:04 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you sure?
+
+      (slow burn)
+
+      We delivered a corrected print ages ago.
+
+      Someone gon' DIE.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout Footsteps (06 Oct 1996 19:52:46 -0700)
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Walkabout Footsteps

+
Date: 06 Oct 1996 19:52:46 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good points, and the fragmentation or fractionalizing is also
+visually cued by the last shot of Franklin through the window, split
+into many versions of himself.
+
+      Re: the hand-on-shoulder gesture, from Marcus it was an
+upbraiding, stop-him motion, whereas from Sheridan it was one of
+congratulation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+USENET SFWA post (07 Oct 1996 11:35:32 -0700)
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USENET SFWA post

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Date: 07 Oct 1996 11:35:32 -0700

+
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+
+       No, no super stations carry B5 (except WWOR, and they tend to
+black that one out for syndex).  But you may be able to catch the
+uplink.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon 5 (07 Oct 1996 18:58:43 -0700)
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Babylon 5

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Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:43 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks.  No real plans for arc stuff outside the show, though
+there's a 1,000 page novel all outlined and ready to be written as soon
+as I can get to it....
+
+       Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Why is B5 still around? (07 Oct 1996 18:58:44 -0700)
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Why is B5 still around?

+
Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:44 -0700

+
 Troy Starr <74752.3172@compuserve.com> asks:
+> An interesting question struck me recently: Why are so many
+> people still on Babylon 5?
+
+       Well, that just might happen....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS on IRC (07 Oct 1996 18:58:45 -0700)
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JMS on IRC

+
Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:45 -0700

+
 Hart Trevor <100705.1222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you please tell me what is going on?
+
+       I don't know...all I know is that while I'm at Necronomicon in
+Tampa, they've got me doing an IRC on Saturday.  I'm not any more
+involved than that. Don't know any of the details.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+So Glad B5 is Back ! (07 Oct 1996 18:58:47 -0700)
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So Glad B5 is Back !

+
Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:47 -0700

+
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+
+       Valen only knew what Sinclair would've known.  Zathras wasn't
+speaking from what Sinclair had told him, but on the basis of things
+he'd figured out on his own.
+
+       Re: the new Kosh...yeah, the look is intentional.  I worked
+with Optic Nerve to get the new lines right, messed with their sketches
+until I had what I wanted.  It's very effective in some lights, less so
+in others, but the sense comes across.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Fighting staff (07 Oct 1996 18:58:50 -0700)
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Fighting staff

+
Date: 07 Oct 1996 18:58:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Really?  Wow...I gotta get me one of those.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Netter comments (09 Oct 1996 17:01:35 -0700)
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Netter comments

+
Date: 09 Oct 1996 17:01:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Can you give us any other info?
+
+       WB has asked for a treatment on a sequel, and TNT is interested
+in doing two original B5 movies set during the B5 main story arc, with
+one of them a prequel.  We'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Z'ha'dum - sneaky!! (01 Oct 1996 12:55:22 -0700)
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Z'ha'dum - sneaky!!

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:22 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Shall I sample it and upload it to the forum, incase some
+> technician has been mucking about behind your back? Maybe ol'
+> glowing eyes is back?
+
+       I've checked it, and I think it was just the actor sliding a
+vowel to make it clearer; "if you go to Z'ha'dum (ah) you will die."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+USENET SFWA post (09 Oct 1996 17:01:37 -0700)
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USENET SFWA post

+
Date: 09 Oct 1996 17:01:37 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> As Program Manager, shouldn't she *know* this stuff whether she
+> watches the show or not?
+
+                               ...sigh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Say it ain't so, Joe! (09 Oct 1996 22:29:51 -0700)
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Say it ain't so, Joe!

+
Date: 09 Oct 1996 22:29:51 -0700

+
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+
+      Obviously there's a lot I can't say...obviously the fact that
+PTEN as a functioning entity really no longer exists is a
+factor...obviously no show ever gets more than one season's commitment
+at a time, unless you're a Spielberg or the like...and there's a lot
+that I just can't say because of the position of WB, and because,
+frankly, I just don't know anything for certain.
+
+      All I can say is this:
+
+      That at the time of renewal, a number of parties at WB assumed
+that this would be our final year, in large measure because PTEN was
+vanishing, and you simply don't continue to pay out money on an
+enterprise that no longer exists; you cash out the assets, stop
+spending money, and start making profit.  I know that many people there
+operated under that assumption.
+
+      Then the later ratings started to come in...and people at WB
+began to notice that our reruns were now doing what our first-runs used
+to do...and gradually those same people began to say much the opposite.
+I can say that, as recently as last week, WB was asking about a fifth
+year, and what we would do.  As of 24 hours ago, we've been in
+considerable negotiations for 2 two hour original movies for TNT set
+during the arc, and WB is looking at the possibility of a
+sequel...which would, in theory, be set up in part during a fifth year.
+
+      So you've got some who say there won't be a fifth year, some who
+say there might be a fifth year, and some who say there *will* be a
+fifth year.
+
+      Through all this, I am constructing and honing the story to
+ensure that it will get through to its conclusion.
+
+      The assumption in all this is that anybody knows ANYdamnthing
+out here. But as William Goldman noted, nobody knows *anything*.  That
+somehow I have *THE ANSWER* to the question, and am simply declining to
+answer.  WB doesn't know, and I don't know, and anybody who says they
+*do* know is either woefully misinformed or deliberately lying.
+
+      "Saying, I would know.  Do not know, so cannot say."  -- Zathras
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Walkabout! (09 Oct 1996 22:29:54 -0700)
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Walkabout!

+
Date: 09 Oct 1996 22:29:54 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actuallyk, we never showed what the Minbari telepaths were
+looking at; for all you could tell, there could've been viewers or
+other ports above their beds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms in tampa/book out (09 Oct 1996 22:56:28 -0700)
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jms in tampa/book out

+
Date: 09 Oct 1996 22:56:28 -0700

+
      A couple of quick notices:
+
+      1) I'll be in Tampa, Florida this weekend for Necronomicon, held
+at the Chamberly Plaza Hotel and thereabouts.  I'll be bringing
+bloopers, clips from upcoming shows, and other Cool Stuph.
+
+      2) My "Complete Book of Scriptwriting" is now hitting the
+bookstores, in a totally rewritten/updated and expanded version.  It's
+$21.99 from Writer's Digest Books.  Some interesting B5 stuff there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Fighting staff (15 Oct 1996 12:55:47 -0700)
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Fighting staff

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:47 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks again for the staff; I didn't have time or circumstance
+to thank you properly at the time (or voice).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Another convert....

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:48 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks, and yes, that's a definite part of the Ranger oath.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+USENET SFWA post (15 Oct 1996 12:55:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:50 -0700

+
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+
+       There's a time bomb built into B5; instead of the usual 7 year
+options, we only took 5, building a hedge against our own greed.  If
+this show as it stands now were to go past 5, everyone would be able to
+renegotiate...actors, subcontractors, suppliers, everybody.  At which
+point it would be too expensive to produce anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Trailer Congrats (15 Oct 1996 12:55:52 -0700)
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+
Trailer Congrats

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:52 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW - how are the effects coming along?
+> Was the transition reasonably smooth?
+
+       The new CGI effects are stellar (as it were).  I defy *anybody*
+who doesn't know the difference just from knowing what's gone before to
+tell the older shots from the new ones.  (We've always reused some
+shots, usually establishers and the like.)  I sure can't tell them
+apart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Say it ain't so, Joe! (15 Oct 1996 12:55:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:55 -0700

+
 Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is TNT a prospective outlet for that show?
+
+       Thanks, we'll try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dr. Franklins Soul (15 Oct 1996 12:55:58 -0700)
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Dr. Franklins Soul

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:55:58 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is there a hidden meaning in this image or am I just reading way
+> too much into this?
+
+       It's imagery, yes, of his still being fractured, still looking
+to find himself, as it were.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>> (01 Oct 1996 12:55:24 -0700)
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Double Bluff <<Z'hadum>>

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:24 -0700

+
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+
+       Wait.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Say it ain't so, Joe! (15 Oct 1996 12:56:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:00 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Do you *want* to do a sequel?
+> 2) Or has your mind changed since the lurker guide posting?
+> 3) And more importantly, what is it that *YOU* want?
+
+       I've always kept a separate B5 project in a different
+pocket...yes, I'd love to do a B5 sequel if the story could be made
+sufficiently worth doing. And the treatment that's been turned in could
+well be that.  So we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Londo and Yueh (15 Oct 1996 12:56:02 -0700)
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Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was this your influence for Londo?
+
+       No.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 in St. Louis, MO (15 Oct 1996 12:56:03 -0700)
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Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:03 -0700

+
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+
+       That's good news.  Here in LA, our local channel has returned
+the Saturday 11 p.m. rerun of the show, which will be a big help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Fighting staff (15 Oct 1996 12:56:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:05 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hey Joe, any chance of your ever doing an appearance on the East
+> coast?
+
+       Tampa is on the east coast.  That's the only one scheduled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shuttle launches (15 Oct 1996 12:56:08 -0700)
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Shuttle launches

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you ever seen a live shuttle launch?
+
+       Nope, hope to someday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Grey 17 (15 Oct 1996 12:56:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:10 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> which leads me to ask - is "The One" literally Ranger One?
+> Or more figuratively the "Sole Leader" of the Minbari?
+> And then Valen was "The One" who was, Delenn (has now become/is
+> becoming) The One who is, and somehow we are to assume Sheridan
+> will someday become Ranger One?
+
+       Entil-Zha, whoever that is at the time, is for all intents and
+purposes the One for the Rangers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Grey 17 (15 Oct 1996 12:56:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Since Sinclair knew that the Warrior caste would refuse to get
+> involved in the current war, and have problems with having humans
+> in the order, why didn't he leave control of the Rangers to the
+> religious caste?
+
+       Because *at the time* the Warrior Caste *was* involved, and it
+would've been a slap to them to do so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rage's Thots: G17iM (15 Oct 1996 12:56:13 -0700)
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Rage's Thots: G17iM

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:13 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does Susan find him, anyway?
+> Yet, has she ever *been* Down Below before?
+> Where did Jerimiah go wrong?
+> *So what happened to the cult at the end of the ep?
+> Did Garibaldi run them all in?
+> And hey, Johnny, we effectively just added a whole UNUSED level
+> to your station-- quarters for the Rangers? More Hydroponics
+> sections for coffee? Chicken coops?
+> Teep boot camp?
+> Rental units?
+> *What was that on Marcus' wall?
+> So is it a Ranger thing?
+> A Minbari thing?
+> Lares and penates?
+> Mezuzah?
+> *Oh, and is Stephen's hidden file named after Harriet the spy, or
+> am I being far too cute?
+
+       It's Harriet for Harriet Tubman, who ran the slave underground
+railroad around the time of the Civil War.
+
+       And no matter how much Ivanvoa trains, she'll never be much
+past a P1, and that's more or less useless to them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan/Z'Ha'Dum (15 Oct 1996 12:56:15 -0700)
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Sheridan/Z'Ha'Dum

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:15 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yep.  I wanted everybody to fall for that "oh, he's a standard
+good guy, hero model type" approach...then yank their blankets, and
+deeply intensify the character.
+
+       Glad it worked.
+
+       "I had no idea you meant that literally!"
+
+       And sometimes, I'm being far more straightforward than it would
+appear. Because I know everyone overlooks the most obvious stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+AbFab & Rosanne... (15 Oct 1996 12:56:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:18 -0700

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you're a fan of AbFab -- have you heard that Jennifer
+> Sanders and JoAnne Lumley <sp?> are going to be on Rosanne?
+
+       Really?  Great, I'll watch it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<Z'ha'dum>> - a query (01 Oct 1996 12:55:26 -0700)
+
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<<Z'ha'dum>> - a query

+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:26 -0700

+
 Mark Sloan <100407.3462@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, who or what were piloting the Shadow vessels which were seen
+> on Mars? More 'servants' (like the one seen - or rather NOT seen -
+> in 'LD')? Was anyone guarding the Shadows while they slept?
+
+       Yes, they had some of their servants and allies taking care of
+things; whenever a signal was sent, and a ship found, they'd dispatch
+one of the standby ships to go and pick it up, slowly regathering their
+forces.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+WWE questions (15 Oct 1996 12:56:21 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:21 -0700

+
 Nina K. Berg <102461.2104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When did Delenn first know that Sinclair was Valen?
+> Does anyone besides those who were on the White Star know that
+> Sinclair was Valen?
+
+       She had suspicions starting from the Battle of the Line; we'll
+have more on that later.
+
+       Yes, the Grey Council knows, but the general Minbari population
+does not know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Mail to you (15 Oct 1996 12:56:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 12:56:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Unfortunately, we have *zero* influence on local scheduling;
+only local fans can do anything about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Mail to you (15 Oct 1996 22:31:00 -0700)
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ATTN JMS: Mail to you

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:31:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just sent a private reply on this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Vorlon Home World (15 Oct 1996 22:31:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:31:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There are no plans at present to show the Vorlon homeworld.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Rage's Thots: G17iM (15 Oct 1996 22:31:07 -0700)
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Rage's Thots: G17iM

+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:31:07 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you saying that Susan's psi powers won't really be a factor
+> in the story?? Wouldn't that tend to go against the gun over the
+> mantle rule??
+
+      Only if one assumes everything applies only to the Shadow war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Glitch in "The Rock"? (15 Oct 1996 22:31:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:31:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope.  Refa had a flashlight, not a gun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scripts available? (16 Oct 1996 11:57:32 -0700)
+
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+
Scripts available?

+
Date: 16 Oct 1996 11:57:32 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you involved in making this decision?
+> If not, who are you to say?
+
+       It's a moot point...yes, you can scan in a script, but a) only
+if you have access to it, and b) you still have to go through massive
+amounts of work making sure it's all properly spaced and laid out.
+
+       As of now, "The Coming of Shadows" script is available in the
+new edition of my scriptwriting book, so that's a start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Views of Possible Univ` (16 Oct 1996 11:57:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1996 11:57:35 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       You mention how ST brought people into the SF fold who
+nominally hadn't been there before...I've been noticing much the same
+phenomenon at the conventions I've been attending.  Even at the most
+recent Necronomicon, the number of people over what the convention
+normally gets (there were about 700 over their normal attendence) was
+almost exactly equal to the number of people who came there strictly
+for the B5 stuff...and the majority of them, from what we could
+determine, had never been to a convention before, and for the most part
+weren't into other SF shows...many didn't watch much TV at ALL except
+for B5 and a couple others.
+
+       You can see the new group sort of sliding itself into the
+larger "melting pot" of fandom.
+
+       Interesting to see the pattern repeating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Summary Episode? (16 Oct 1996 12:27:01 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1996 12:27:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Can't be done.  It's been discussed, turned down.  Fox as a
+network can program whatever it wants, and the stations air it; PTEN is
+syndicated, and each item has to be sold separately, and they won't
+sell that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Glitch in "The Rock"? (16 Oct 1996 12:27:05 -0700)
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Glitch in "The Rock"?

+
Date: 16 Oct 1996 12:27:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Okay, you're nitpicky.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shadow Dancing (01 Oct 1996 12:55:29 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Oct 1996 12:55:29 -0700

+
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+
+       No, since it was my idea re: Melissa.  It was a scheduling
+situation involving availabilities.  If it wasn't her, it would've had
+to be someone else...so I figured, why not?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scripts available? (16 Oct 1996 21:16:34 -0700)
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Scripts available?

+
Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:34 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      What might be interesting, next time you pick up the book, is to
+fire up a copy of "The Coming of Shadows" and go through it with the
+script in hand...it's a good way of seeing how you lay out a show
+shot-for-shot.  And since there's stuff there that was cut from the
+episode, you can also judge on what was left out, and why, and whether
+it hurt or helped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+delenn forgot? (16 Oct 1996 21:16:38 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:38 -0700

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> yes??
+> That wouldn't happen to be a piece of a vorlon or being "with
+> child" would it???
+
+      No, that replied to his promise to come see Delenn...which in
+the flurry of events he forgot until she was already in the chrysalis.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Valeria & G'lan (16 Oct 1996 21:16:41 -0700)
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Valeria & G'lan

+
Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      ....!....
+
+      Unfortunately, I can't even *start* to get into such an
+elaborate backgrounding in a message.  It would require a lengthy
+article; the answers are fairly complex.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Rock> thoughts (16 Oct 1996 21:16:44 -0700)
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<Rock> thoughts

+
Date: 16 Oct 1996 21:16:44 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, Vir has to be *very* careful...he's on the razor's edge
+these days.  The higher up you go, the more you know, the higher the
+stakes and the greater the risk of choosing badly.
+
+      Re: "funny yet chilling," those are the scenes I love most...the
+ones where you're utterly conflicted, it's grotesque or frightening on
+the one hand, and comic or absurd on the other.  It leaves you
+uncertain which way to jump emotionally, and I love that
+feeling...caught betwixt and between.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (17 Oct 1996 03:39:54 -0700)
+
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+
URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 17 Oct 1996 03:39:54 -0700

+
HELP!  I got zapped tonight!  Someone sent me what they SAID was a
+picture his kid made of a Starfury, said it'd be great if I could say
+an encouraging word or two about it.  So I downloaded the file, and it
+turned out to be a booby trap.  (No, I can't trace back the user, it's
+off the internet, and the address was an anon...didn't write it down.)
+
+Anyway, it DELETED MY DOS DIRECTORY and started to delete my Windows
+directory as well before I caught it at the last moment.  (Yes, it was
+a com file, and I stupidly didn't look to check before activating it
+with the newsreader's program.)  I've managed to restore nearly all the
+Windows directory (except for win.exe which is utterly gone).  I used
+Norton to do that part...but Norton Unerase only seems to work in a
+directory that's still there.  The DOS directory is completely *gone*. 
+Is there any way I can restore it?  I can try moving the DOS directory
+from my work computer to the home one (they're the same systems, and
+arrived within days of one another, so they should be nearly the same),
+but I'm obviously leery.
+
+When it runs through my autoexec.bat file, I get the following errors:
+
+Bad or missing C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
+
+Bad or missing C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
+
+(I figure those'll come back after DOS is restored, but I'm less sure
+about the other ones following:)
+
+HMA not available; loading DOS low
+
+Bad or missing COMMAND interpreter Bad command or file name Bad
+command or file name
+
+(I'm not altogether sure that's from autoexec. or the config.sys file,
+by the way...could be either.)
+
+This isn't the sort of thing I've ever had to deal with before, and
+will take ANY advice from someone knowledgeable.  I have scripts to
+write, and this is a major problem for me right now.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+URGENT! HELP! from jms (17 Oct 1996 18:11:34 -0700)
+
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:11:34 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks for the info; I was up until 5 a.m. restoring the
+Windows directory.  Thank goodness it didn't get much further than
+that.  My reflexes are pretty good.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (17 Oct 1996 18:11:36 -0700)
+
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+
URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:11:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm going to take the command.com file off one of my rescue
+disks that I made for this computer (alas, they can't restore the dos)
+and my hope is that that'll be clean.
+
+       And now the kicker.
+
+       There's also a text file in that directory that wasn't there
+before. It contains 3 words.  STAR TREK RULES!
+
+       Fortunately, I caught it before too much damage was done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (17 Oct 1996 18:11:41 -0700)
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URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:11:41 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I have the most current version of Norton for win3.1, but I
+couldn't see how to make it restore directories, only *sub*directories.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+URGENT! HELP! from jms (17 Oct 1996 18:11:42 -0700)
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+
URGENT! HELP! from jms

+
Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:11:42 -0700

+
 Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There is a command line argument that you can give it to clean
+> the virus from the hard drive (check the readme file or type
+> SCAN/?
+
+       Nope, wasn't a virus, it was a com file.
+
+       Thanks for the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scripts available? (17 Oct 1996 18:19:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
Scripts available?

+
Date: 17 Oct 1996 18:19:36 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The question is - why are points on net *still* being offered?
+> Are there enough rubes who go for it to make it worth a try for
+> the studios? Are they largely ignored if the other provisions of
+> the contract are sufficient? Is there a "prestige" factor to being
+> offered 5% of nothing as opposed to 2% of nothing?
+
+       Yep, they're still offered...and taken...because it's important
+to at least keep the *concept* of profit alive, however bastardized the
+form.
+
+       Fr'instance...I don't have a gross profit percentage of B5.  I
+have a small *net* profit.  Which, as we all know, means I'll never see
+a *dime* out of it.  The only part where I have a piece is an (even
+smaller) percentage of the gross is in...merchandising, the one area in
+which I've dragged my feet from day one.
+
+       My accountant thinks I've got it in for him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum - Praise (01 Nov 1996 00:43:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum - Praise

+
Date: 01 Nov 1996 00:43:52 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's some of the best work we've ever done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Z'ha'dum (02 Nov 1996 21:36:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
 Z'ha'dum

+
Date: 02 Nov 1996 21:36:38 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I thank you, and our lawyers thank you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+hour of the wolf/etc (12 Nov 1996 16:07:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
hour of the wolf/etc

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 16:07:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's a great start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Women's role in SF & B5 (12 Nov 1996 16:07:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
Women's role in SF & B5

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 16:07:19 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, the ship was what technically saved them...Lennier
+also began to fall under the influence of the shadow voice, as we saw. 
+There was some forethought on his part, but the ship activated itself
+on timer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Pilot Question (12 Nov 1996 23:26:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:32 -0700

+
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+
+      It's to protect both.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thanks (12 Nov 1996 23:26:35 -0700)
+
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+
Thanks

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:35 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The Tony Dow on the show is indeed THAT Tony Dow.  And no one's
+guessed Lorien per se.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour Of The Wolf (12 Nov 1996 23:26:37 -0700)
+
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+
The Hour Of The Wolf

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:37 -0700

+
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+
+      You're hallucinating....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Wolf general comments (12 Nov 1996 23:26:39 -0700)
+
+
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+
Wolf general comments

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:39 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"How does he DO that?"  "Do what, dear?" <my most innocent look>  "Get
+hooked into your mind like that?"  All I could do was smile."
+
+      Thanks...that's probably the ultimate compliment.
+
+"Stephen's drop in weight did cause a small argument to break out
+between me and a friend, who swears that Vir's and Londo's facial
+weight was nothing more than appliances, while I was certain it was
+their own."
+
+      You're right, they're wrong...there was never any appliance to
+add weight to them.
+
+      And thanks again for the great report.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Whatever Happens (12 Nov 1996 23:26:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Whatever Happens

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:26:43 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can I say?
+> It dawned on me today that Londo has finally answered the
+> question of, "Who are you?" Now that he knows who he is, he knows
+> that his answer to "What do you want?"
+
+      Thank you...it's a very emotional episode, and one I like quite
+a lot. Those are some great scenes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Orientation (12 Nov 1996 23:40:15 -0700)
+
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+
Orientation

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 23:40:15 -0700

+
 Carin Ekeroth <75313.3004@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would I choose a marginal position in society?
+
+"My point is that orientation, that who you fall in love with, is not
+a matter of choice! Why would I choose a marginal position in society?
+I operate very much in the mainstream as a senior executive in a large
+multinational corporation and believe me - being openly gay is not the
+most career enhancing thing I've ever done by a long shot! It is not
+chosen and I don't believe you can switch orientation like changing
+socks."
+
+      Ah, but you see, here you are revealing your *own* prejudices. 
+The gay community has adopted the "ther is no choice, this is how
+you're born" argument for many political and social reasons, some of
+them sound and reasonable, some of them less so.
+
+      You say you want to enhance choices, but in that one paragraph
+alone you are restricting the choices of others...one can not explore,
+one cannot change one way or another, one is locked in for life.  Now,
+in many cases, this may be true...but it is not true in all places, at
+all times, for all people, and the lack of tolerance for lifestyle
+choices you indicate does not speak well for you.
+
+      I have many friends who are gay.  I have many friends who are
+bi.  I know women who were involved with men exclusively for most of
+their lives, then got involved with women exclusively for a number of
+years.  Some are still there, and happy, some have flipped back again.
+
+      The far right uses political agendas to restrict the choice of
+other people..."nobody's naturally born gay, it's all teaching, and
+it's against god's law," which is nonsense...and I'd hate very much to
+see the same politicization going on at the *other* end of the
+spectrum, in which there are only gays, and straights, and no room to
+maneuver, and anybody else has something wrong with them somewhere.
+
+      You go that way, and you're just exchanging a closet for a
+straightjacket.  This, by my lights, is not progress.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Some jms rules (13 Nov 1996 01:32:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Some jms rules

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 01:32:31 -0700

+
      Okay, it's time for the usual recitation of email rules.
+
+      1) Please do not send me inquiries about the storyline in
+private email. You may think, "Well, it's just me," but at last Neilsen
+count there were about 15 million of you out there, and only one of me.
+I can't get into lengthy discussions about the plot or storylines in
+email.  I end up answering the same questions multiple times, and the
+answers go to only one person at a time.  If you have a story question,
+ASK IT IN A PUBLIC FORUM, NOT IN EMAIL, so that others can benefit from
+the answers.
+
+      2) Please, please, PLEASE do not send me story ideas in email.
+
+      3) Do not send jpgs or anything else that requires downloading;
+I was hit by a trojan horse and virus lately, and consequently I have a
+very firm no-download policy on anything else coming into me via email.
+
+      4) Private email should be used for things you cannot discuss in
+a public forum, or for which confidentiality is needed for other
+reasons.  I'm swamped with 500 messages a day...if it doesn't have to
+be sent email, please don't do so.
+
+      5) Requests for agent suggestions, or requests to read your
+scripts or stories, will be met by stony silence.
+
+      6) We cannot give studio tours, or afford to send out scripts,
+or story bibles, or actor photographs.  When the actors do this, bear
+in mind that it is a kindness *that comes out of their own pockets*, as
+there is no budget from WB to send photos.
+
+      I hate to be as brusque as this, but I'm starting to get
+overloaded with email, and an occasional pruning seems necessary.
+
+      Many thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+WHT Mr. Garibaldi? (13 Nov 1996 14:07:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
WHT Mr. Garibaldi?

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:07:17 -0700

+
 Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which side of the shadow war are you on, by the way?
+> But surprises?
+
+       Which side of the shadow war am I on?  The third side.....
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum........ wow. (02 Nov 1996 21:36:40 -0700)
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum........ wow.

+
Date: 02 Nov 1996 21:36:40 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Anna have a Keeper?
+> Was that the epidermal scarring?
+> Was she real, or was she Memorex?
+> Was this the end of John and Delenn?
+> What did Sheridan ask Garibaldi to do?
+> And what was the fourth part of the post you put on Usenet months
+> ago, when you finally broke down and gave us a synopsis of the
+> episode? Now that their plan to subvert him has failed, we may
+> find out more, eh? Then again, we don't really know what a Vorlon
+> looks like, do we?
+
+      Thank you.  You're most kind.
+
+      Funny, on the line about "started watching B5 waiting for it to
+impress me."  I've heard much the same from many others.  I think we've
+all been burned so many times by SF shows that we had a real burden
+here to prove what we could do, and how we would do it.  You kinda
+don't want to have your heart broken anymore.  I'm glad we were able to
+come through.  It's a show I'm very proud of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rage's Thots: Teeps (13 Nov 1996 14:07:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rage's Thots: Teeps

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:07:20 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Susan Ivanova a "born" or "genetic" teep, or was she
+> "infected" with telepathy due to her close mental contact with
+> her mother?
+
+       It's genetic, you can't "catch" it from someone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour Of The Wolf (13 Nov 1996 14:07:21 -0700)
+
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The Hour Of The Wolf

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:07:21 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, but those are rarely worth talking about....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fantastic Epic (13 Nov 1996 14:45:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
Fantastic Epic

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 14:45:52 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       You really are misusing the term "deus ex machina," Jim.  If
+you look up what it actually means, it refers to something that comes
+up at the end of the story, out of nowhere, and saves the situation. 
+"God in a box" as it's usually called.  It's a cheat because it isn't
+referenced or built up earlier.
+
+       Telepathy is not a deus ex machina device in the show -- it's
+been there since the pilot -- nor in SF as a genre.  Telepathy has a
+long and respected history in the SF genre, with "The Demolished Man"
+considered one of the greatest landmarks of the field.
+
+       Nor is telepathy used in the show as the end-all solution,
+which *also* negates the deus ex machina notion.  Look at "Shadow
+Dancing."  The teeps helped, but it wasn't a case of shooting
+motionless ships...it was an all-out bloody fight where our guys lost 3
+ships for every 1 they killed. That, to me, ain't deus ex *anything*.
+
+       For what it's worth, the latter half or two-thirds of year 4
+takes a much more hard SF approach to things, moving away from the myth
+cycle into other territory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Episodes are shorter? (13 Nov 1996 18:36:54 -0700)
+
+
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Episodes are shorter?

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:36:54 -0700

+
 S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why did this episode only last 5 minutes?
+> is this going to keep happening...?
+
+       Hey, could be worse, the next one is only three minutes
+long....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 at WindyCon (13 Nov 1996 18:36:55 -0700)
+
+
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B5 at WindyCon

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:36:55 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The bid motto was "What Do You Want?"
+
+       That's great....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Women's role in SF & B5 (13 Nov 1996 18:43:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Women's role in SF & B5

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 18:43:16 -0700

+
 Gayle S. Stever <103202.3163@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the show should cater to men's fantasies?
+> What about women's fantasies?
+> What about women who want to see other women explore something
+> BESIDES their sexuality and romantic life? What about women who
+> fantasize about leadership, respect, making a difference, being
+> their own person?
+
+       "What about women's fantasies?"
+
+       I'm busy.
+
+                                 jm(I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Bootleg question (13 Nov 1996 20:12:28 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 20:12:28 -0700

+
 Glen Guenther <71163.75@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's an AIDS benefit held by some local comic shops but they're
+> going to have some dealer booths which will have who-knows-what? 
+> If I see someone there selling bootleg B5 stuff (like they did at
+> the last local convention I attended) what, if anything, should I
+> do about it.? I know the owner of the main shop sponsoring the
+> convention so I can probably get a name and address for any of
+> the dealers but is there anything else I can do that would help? 
+> Do you know who I could write to at WB to urge them to release B5
+> in 1 or more of these formats?
+
+      You must go to the convention operators and explain to them that
+by allowing these bootleg tapes to be sold, they are violating
+copyright laws and risk being acted against legally by WB.  They have
+an obligation to ensure that pirated material is not sold at their
+conventions, and if they will not enforce it voluntarily, WB will hold
+them responsible, and in some cases, have already done this at
+conventions.
+
+      If you see this going on, and it's happening at the time, send
+email to ken_parks@warnerbros.com and we'll take it from there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Point Of No Return Rerun (13 Nov 1996 20:12:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
Point Of No Return Rerun

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 20:12:29 -0700

+
 Glen Guenther <71163.75@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will "Point Of No Return" (episode 3.09) be replayed and, if so,
+> when?
+
+      I imagine it'll be played eventually but don't have the dates at
+hand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Orientation (13 Nov 1996 21:03:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Orientation

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:03:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I read what you said.
+
+      Reading and writing is what I *do*.
+
+      Perhaps what you said was not what you meant.
+
+      It's my experience that unless you can say what you mean, you
+can never mean what you say.
+
+      What was written was a very intolerant message about bi's, and
+based upon that point of view, you gigged the show for not applying a
+political agenda.  I don't think something as inherently personal and
+intimate as sex should be politicized by either end of the spectrum,
+and used to dismiss one class or another because of it.  I'm an
+extremist for tolerance.
+
+      If some portion of what I quoted back to you was reprinted
+inaccurately, or paraphrased, or otherwise changed, please let me know
+and I will correct it.  Otherwise, what you said was what you said.  It
+didn't upset me, didn't make me mad, because I'm not at issue here...I
+only wanted you to understand what you were saying by sending it back
+to you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WHT Mr. Garibaldi? (13 Nov 1996 21:03:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
WHT Mr. Garibaldi?

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:03:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, as forthcoming episodes will show, that was an
+absolutely clear and unambiguous answer....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Conf 2nd Nov (02 Nov 1996 21:36:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Conf 2nd Nov

+
Date: 02 Nov 1996 21:36:42 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whilst I have your attention, do you have any plans to release
+> the blooper reels though the Fan Club, and maybe the UK fan club
+> also??
+
+      No immediate plans for the bloopers...and thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms (13 Nov 1996 21:03:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:03:06 -0700

+
 gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So can you at least be honest with us about how you are currently
+> writing the episodes for season 4? with the intention of ending it
+> in 4 or 5 years?
+
+      I have been honest, and remain so.  I have said, repeatedly,
+that at this point WB does not know.  Different departments have said
+different things, all of them mutally contradictory.  At one time it
+sounded like that might be a possibility, and some of the cast talked
+about this at the time; that was before ratings started coming in on
+the final 5 and the new eps, which have been extremely strong and
+continuing to build.  I can say that WB has, itself, initiated
+discussions about a fifth season several times over just the last few
+weeks.
+
+      What I'm doing is keeping my options flexible...the way it's
+being written now is such that it allows me to flip either way. 
+There's a certain built-in drop-dead point in that structure, but that
+isn't near yet.
+
+      This is what I've been saying all along.  I have been extremely
+forthcoming about this, telling as much as *I* know at this point.  So
+I do somewhat resent your suggesting that I do what I am doing, and
+have been doing from day one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+John in the Underworld (13 Nov 1996 21:37:14 -0700)
+
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+
John in the Underworld

+
Date: 13 Nov 1996 21:37:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      THANK you.  I've mentioned elsewhere that I was going more for
+the roots of this.  Though the Dante thread you mention is closest in
+many ways (again, you dig into archetypes you end up with similar
+structures, that's the nature of the beast), it was Orpheus going into
+the underworld for his wife, and losing her, that was in the back of my
+head when I was blocking out that part of the story.  (You can also
+toss in Christ's temptation by the devil, and descent into the
+wilderness, if you want.)
+
+      This will probably get me in trouble, but...on the one hand, I
+am always delighted and impressed with the breadth and depth of
+analyses and thought of the larger group of SF fans, and the
+insightfulness with which they apply those perceptions.
+
+      On the flip side of this discussion...for a certain percentage
+of them, that breadth and depth is only or primarily within SF and
+mainstream fantasy. The wellspring of material from which to draw when
+making comparisons is not often as broad as it should be in classical
+literature, mythology, medieval studies, and so on.  They see a drop
+into a chasm, they think "Oh, Gandalf." Not understanding that the root
+of this goes back way, way, way further...to Orpheus and his kindred
+spirits.
+
+      I was copied a note from someone on another newsgroup who
+insisted that everything in the show had an elvish/Tolkein base,
+including and *especially* the names of everyone, citing the Agamemnon
+as meaning something or other in LoTR elvish.  The symbol is RIGHT
+THERE, in the name, Agamemnon, and the whole unfortunate history of
+that character and his wife, and the Cassandra character (which is at
+the center of G'Kar's character)...and yet she says, "No, no, it's all
+a clue, it means this thing over here."
+
+      My background is as an SF fan myself, so I offer the above
+without stereotype or pejorative intent.  But as well as reading SF, I
+spent most of my early adult life reading from classical sources. 
+Goethe's FAUST informs Londo in many ways, as well as the history of
+early Rome, and Hegelian notions on the role of conflict, and the
+divine role of the emperor.  You're talking to someone who read
+Plotinus' The Aenneads just for kicks, and whose favorite character was
+Zeno and his paradoxes.  You want to talk Plato's perfect forms? The
+Socratic method of teaching?  Greek tragic structure as embodied in 
+Oedipus?   The overall work of Sophocles?  The Bible?  I've read that
+one cover to cover twice...anyone else in the room who's done that,
+raise your hands and tell me you didn't fall asleep halfway through
+Numbers and Deuteronomy, the two most boring books in the whole darned
+thing.
+
+      There was a period in my life -- from around 1976 through 1981
+ -- when I devoured everything I could in these areas.  Mythology. 
+Existentialism. Zen. 18th century literature.  I took part time jobs in
+libraries so I could get access to the widest possible range of books,
+especially new ones in areas that interested me.  A lot of the details
+have washed away over the years, but the cumulative *sense* of that
+remains.  I can still remember how excited I was when a brand new
+translation of the Inferno, the Purgatario and the Paradisio came out
+(from Penguin, I think), putting it all back into the proper lyric
+form, and I devoured them, one day each, then read them all again using
+the footnotes and marginalia.
+
+      All that time, I never knew I was preparing myself to write this
+show, because it could *only* be done with a generalist background,
+knowing a little about a lot of areas...just enough to get into
+trouble, ususally, but still the grounding is there.
+
+      Funny thing...about two, three weeks ago, I got an email from a
+woman who is a professor of medieval studies at a major university, who
+said she'd been nudged into watching the show by her graduate students,
+and is now a big fan of the show.  She said that as she watched, she
+"clicked" constantly on the sources from medieval and classical
+literature, mythology, and other deep well sources, and was pleased to
+see them being used in a contermporary or futuristic venue.
+
+      Anyway, it's what I've always said about this show...you see the
+paradigm with which you are most familiar.  Sometimes that's great,
+and sometimes it's a curse.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Women's role in SF & B5 (14 Nov 1996 01:48:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:48:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"...you are a very, very bad man..."
+
+      Okay, how the hell did I get out here in the cornfield...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rage's Thots: Teeps (14 Nov 1996 01:48:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rage's Thots: Teeps

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:48:59 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In your capacity as an executive producer of one of the most
+> innovative shows on TV, do you think a miniseries (or set of
+> miniseries) is technically possible for Neil Gaiman's SNADMAN, or
+> is SANDMAN by virtue of it's construction insanely difficult to
+> bring to the screen? What's that?
+> You'd like to show me your bat?
+> I'll just sit over here, okay, George?
+
+"In your capacity as an executive producer of one of the most
+innovative shows on TV, do you think a miniseries (or set of
+miniseries) is technically possible for Neil Gaiman's SNADMAN, or is
+SANDMAN by virtue of it's construction insanely difficult to bring to
+the screen?"
+
+      I think it'd be eminently do-able.  And I'd love to do it if
+Neil doesn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon Consciousness (14 Nov 1996 01:49:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vorlon Consciousness

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 01:49:01 -0700

+
 Colin Knowles <72152.201@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When the Vorlons separate bits of their consciousness, can the
+> bits develop individually over time? Do they remained linked to
+> the original, or are they essentially separate individuals until
+> they merge back with the original? sending only certain elements
+> to the host? How am I doing?
+> Hot?
+> Cold?
+
+      They can't survive for long on their own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Women's role in SF & B5 (14 Nov 1996 12:41:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:32 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Bill....IT WAS A JOKE.  Which she took that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Four Year Arc (14 Nov 1996 12:41:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:33 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a prelude to WB cancelling the show at the end of this
+> season, and if so why are they so interested in a Babylon 5
+> spin-off if they have concerns over a fifth year of Babylon 5 ?
+
+       That's the whole point.  That interview was conducted fresh on
+the heels of renewal, and we were getting mixed signals from WB (still
+are, actually), and different people were telling people different
+things.  It's subsequent to that interview -- remember, there's a LOT
+of lead time on these magazines -- that the ratings began to come in,
+and WB began initiating talks about a fifth season, and the sequel. 
+You don't do a sequel unless the show is doing well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SANDMAN & Production (14 Nov 1996 12:41:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
SANDMAN & Production

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:34 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever read (i think it's called) PRODUCIBLE
+> INTERPRETATIONS by Rob Hume and [somebody]? Is this the sort of
+> thing you do each day as producer? Isn't that how Dark Shadows
+> started, or am I confused?
+
+       No, you're right, you couldn't do those characters with CGI,
+it'd have to be prosthetics, or cripple the performance aspect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+female vorlons (14 Nov 1996 12:41:35 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> are there female vorlons?
+> are we going to see female vorlons in season four?
+
+       Female is an irrelevant concept to the vorlons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Future of Babylon 5 (14 Nov 1996 12:41:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Future of Babylon 5

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 12:41:38 -0700

+
 Bryan Morton <106454.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Okay, I realize you're proabably sick to the back teeth of people
+> asking you about the fifth season, but I gotta know - is this
+> report true? If so, is there any point in even *having* a fifth
+> season, given that one of the show's greatest hooks (that famous
+> arc) wouldn't be present?
+
+       I just answered this in another thread....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 4 Title (03 Nov 1996 01:42:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:42:44 -0700

+
 Kevin Butler <75034.2007@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question though; do you think that the Whitestar will be
+> destroyed, or did it survive?
+
+      White Star blowed up REAL good.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Apotheosis Hanger (14 Nov 1996 15:11:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Apotheosis Hanger

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 15:11:42 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> with another cliffhanger)?
+
+       No, it doesn't exactly end with a cliffhanger.
+
+       It does, however, end on a cliff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Old Kosh? (14 Nov 1996 15:11:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Old Kosh?

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 15:11:43 -0700

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Kosh (#1) ever go through the same "stuff" that
+> Sheridan/Sinclair is going/went trough??
+
+       No.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Four Year Arc (14 Nov 1996 23:26:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
Four Year Arc

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:26:55 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, is it possible that Warner Brothers would make a sort of
+> trade? Would they give you the sequel, which they CAN show on the
+> network, but in turn make you end the original series after 4
+> seasons?
+
+      Since your question embodies a complexity of thought I have yet
+to see from corporate WB, I very much doubt that will be a problem. 
+Further, there are NO plans or intents for the sequel, if it becomes a
+reality, to go to the WB network.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+John in the Underworld (14 Nov 1996 23:26:57 -0700)
+
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+
John in the Underworld

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:26:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I didn't go to Oxford, and I can't read Greek.  I went to 3
+junior colleges in small towns, and one college, San Diego State
+University.  And I'm doing fairly decent with English when I try, but
+except for a smattering of German, forget the rest.
+
+      Where you grew up or went to school is no reason not to go out
+and find the great wealth of material waiting for you at your local
+library.
+
+      Nor is there anything wrong with LoTR being a bridge to other
+works... provided one actually *drives across* that bridge....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr Garibaldi (14 Nov 1996 23:27:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mr Garibaldi

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:27:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, those two are terrific.  You know you can write *anything*
+for them, and they can play it.  Just terrific stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WEHtMG - wow (14 Nov 1996 23:27:01 -0700)
+
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WEHtMG - wow

+
Date: 14 Nov 1996 23:27:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, those are the moments when it all has to count.
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+John in the Underworld (15 Nov 1996 11:33:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
John in the Underworld

+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:33:19 -0700

+
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+
+       Asbury Park...I used to hang out at Asbury Park when I was a
+kid, and when it was still a fairly decent park.  How is it these days?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms (15 Nov 1996 11:33:20 -0700)
+
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+
4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms

+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:33:20 -0700

+
 gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is my logic faulty?
+> Can you clear this up for me?
+
+       I've worked out the details for 1,000 years in either direction
+for the B5 storyline in general, and in specific for 100 years in
+either direction; there's no chance of anything getting watered down no
+matter what happens...there's enough story there for several novels. 
+And WB is currently very interested in the side-story/sequel series
+that I've mentioned from the beginning is a possibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms (15 Nov 1996 11:33:22 -0700)
+
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4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms

+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:33:22 -0700

+
 Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps a no LOTR reference rule is in order?
+
+       No, that wouldn't really be practical.  If someone wants to
+*compare* it with LoTR, a compare and contrast thing, that's something
+I don't have a problem with...to be even included in the same breath
+with LoTR is a great compliment.  It's the notion that something was
+*adapted* from that, or some other work, that sometimes drives me
+crazy...but I wouldn't wish to set that forth as a rule...the rules are
+only as absolutely necessary, not for this sort of thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I need help JMS! (15 Nov 1996 11:41:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
I need help JMS!

+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:41:15 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> ARE REPEATS COMING SOON?
+> i think i need a rest.....or something?
+
+       So basically you're just a shadow of your former self....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 4 Title (03 Nov 1996 01:51:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, they'll continue to run it as long as it does well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vir speculat'n-spoiler (15 Nov 1996 11:41:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vir speculat'n-spoiler

+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 11:41:16 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How close are we?
+
+       Who can say...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Episode Titles (15 Nov 1996 22:14:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:41 -0700

+
 Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At what point do you come up with the title - before you write
+> the episode, during, or at the end? Yeats poem (the title escapes
+> me - too many years since college English literature) that refers
+> to "shadows" and "slouches toward Bethlehem"? Also, have you ever
+> read the book "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" by Joan Didion, circa
+> 1968, which, I believe, contains a fragment of the Yeats poem?
+
+      I always have to have the title before I begin writing, since it
+sets the whole tone for the episode.  I can labor for hours just coming
+up with the right title...other times it just hits me.
+
+      And I've read the Yeats poem...even had G'Kar quote that passage
+in "Revelations."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB merchandise catalog (15 Nov 1996 22:14:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
WB merchandise catalog

+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:43 -0700

+
 Mike Robison/ WA & FL <71361.1440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just one or two shirts?
+
+      The WB stores/catalog generally don't carry items from many of
+the shows produced by WB.  Only a very rare few.  And B5 isn't
+technically a WB show, it only distributes the show, so I'd say the
+odds are slim and none.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+John in the Underworld (15 Nov 1996 22:14:45 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:45 -0700

+
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+
+      Though I lived all around the country, I was born in Paterson,
+and spent many years in Newark, then Matawan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms (15 Nov 1996 22:14:47 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:47 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, and welcome to the show.  Say hello to Mr. Steed for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms (15 Nov 1996 22:14:49 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:49 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm not surprised -- why else would the universe of B5 feel so
+> real? But on a tangent, do you find that there are new characters
+> that keep cropping up in your imagination beyond the scope of the
+> current 5-year arc that nag to have their stories told?
+
+      There's always new stuff cropping up and creeping in; half the
+struggle in this show is deciding what to tell, and what not to
+tell...it just goes on and on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn's Alamo (15 Nov 1996 22:14:52 -0700)
+
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+
Delenn's Alamo

+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:52 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Garibaldi?"
+> that she was speaking in Minbari (ala the WWII movies of which
+> you spoke earlier)? Or do the minbari Rangers learn English/Human
+> as part of their training?
+
+      She was speaking Minbari.
+
+      That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ZaHaDum (15 Nov 1996 22:14:54 -0700)
+
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+
ZaHaDum

+
Date: 15 Nov 1996 22:14:54 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Claudia did a great job with that.  And yes, the
+details are what make it come alive.  As Michelangelo said, "Trifles
+make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vir speculat'n-spoiler (17 Nov 1996 01:24:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vir speculat'n-spoiler

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:46 -0700

+
 Daniel F. Evan <104377.1433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever shot more than one ending to an episode?
+
+      Not yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crossing the line (17 Nov 1996 01:24:49 -0700)
+
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+
Crossing the line

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:49 -0700

+
 Paul Hachey <76625.2644@compuserve.com> asks:
+> when did Delenn's heart "cross the line"?
+> Beings friends first is wonderfully romantic, to quote James
+> Stewart in Shenandoah "Yes, I know you love my daughter but do
+> you LIKE her?" All rambling aside, when was - to you - the
+> galvanizing moment for her?
+
+      I don't think Minbari galvanize in quite the same way...with
+them, I think it's more a gradual, growing relationship, and as many
+do, there's just one day when the closeness crosses a point without you
+almost being aware of it...and there it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z (03 Nov 1996 01:51:17 -0700)
+
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+
Z

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:17 -0700

+
 Neil J. Nagler <103522.1540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Otherwise, what's a heaven for?"
+
+      Fine.
+
+      Just fine.
+
+      Break a mother's heart....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour/Confirm? (17 Nov 1996 01:24:51 -0700)
+
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+
Hour/Confirm?

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:51 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are those entirely Wayne's eyes?
+> Is he wearing contacts, or do you just have the greatest makeup
+> artist in the world?
+
+      The eyes have metallic gold contact lenses; you can't see them
+as well in the red light, but later, you'll see them better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WHtMG? (17 Nov 1996 01:24:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
WHtMG?

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:53 -0700

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Rorschach jewelry?
+
+      Thanks...I agree on pretty much all of that.  I'm very proud of
+this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Best Gas? (17 Nov 1996 01:24:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
Best Gas?

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:55 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I take it that you chose a man with the same general physique
+> as Walter Koenig and had him wear an opaque mask (something we've
+> not seen before and that wouldn't be required if you're coming in
+> to inspect someone who'd passed-out) for a reason?
+
+      Who would do a thing like that?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Knock, Knock? (17 Nov 1996 01:24:57 -0700)
+
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+
Knock, Knock?

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:57 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Ivanova (and Delenn, and the rest, I assume) have resigned
+> themselves to Sheridan's death, has anyone bothered to try to
+> contact his family and let them know of his fate? Or is this
+> something they wouldn't want to get out to the "other side"
+> (although I don't see how they can avoid it if all of the
+> ambassadors heard the same rumors)?
+
+      That's what Franklin was doing, gathering his possessions with
+the intent of getting word to Sheridan's family.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WHtMG>--house reaction (17 Nov 1996 01:24:59 -0700)
+
+
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<WHtMG>--house reaction

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 01:24:59 -0700

+
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+
+      I try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms (17 Nov 1996 21:28:40 -0700)
+
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+
4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:40 -0700

+
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+
+      He always did have excellent taste.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. G? opinion (17 Nov 1996 21:28:42 -0700)
+
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Mr. G? opinion

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Tell your step-dad that it's a real accent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Mr G. > - God? (17 Nov 1996 21:28:43 -0700)
+
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<Mr G. > - God?

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:43 -0700

+
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+
+      The first sentient being.  He ain't god in any sense of the
+word.  That he's still puzzling out this "word/thought" business shows
+that, even after all this time, he's still trying to suss things
+out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. Garibaldi's Days (17 Nov 1996 21:28:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mr. Garibaldi's Days

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:45 -0700

+
 JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you clear this up?
+
+      It's a typo, believe it or not, which no one caught.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 4 (17 Nov 1996 21:28:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 4

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:28:47 -0700

+
 Christopher Harrison <101712.2401@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+      Nothing has been firmed up one way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z'Ha'Dum........ wow. (03 Nov 1996 01:51:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum........ wow.

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:18 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, and yeah, it was kind of serendipity about the two shows
+with "wife taken over" premises.  Can't help but lead to "compare and
+contrast."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta on her own (17 Nov 1996 21:36:33 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:36:33 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, she's starting to rebel a little against Kosh2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 episode length (17 Nov 1996 21:36:35 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:36:35 -0700

+
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+
+      I think the main difference there is in the main titles and end
+credits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. G - best congrats (17 Nov 1996 21:36:37 -0700)
+
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+
Mr. G - best congrats

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:36:37 -0700

+
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+
+      Actually, the Garibaldi intercuts like that were something that
+I came up with in the editing room, and John Copeland and I thereafter
+assembled it, with the editor.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 episode length (17 Nov 1996 23:45:31 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 23:45:31 -0700

+
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+
+      I figured, since this year was much more serial than in the
+past, you kinda *had* to put little recaps at the top...also, it gives
+it a different, narrative feel, which I kinda like.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. G? opinion (17 Nov 1996 23:45:33 -0700)
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Mr. G? opinion

+
Date: 17 Nov 1996 23:45:33 -0700

+
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+
+      We're certainly not aware of any difference, and since there's
+been nothing about this on America's Most Wanted, I will have to assume
+all is well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: Bow Letters (18 Nov 1996 13:59:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
Attn JMS: Bow Letters

+
Date: 18 Nov 1996 13:59:32 -0700

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do the "C" on the Churchill and the "M" on the Roanoke stand
+> for? Could they perhaps represent destroyer squadrons?
+
+       Probably.  I'll have to go back and check the notes on that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thirs Age of Mankind (18 Nov 1996 13:59:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Nov 1996 13:59:32 -0700

+
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+
+       We'll have to see, won't we...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Resolution? (18 Nov 1996 18:35:09 -0700)
+
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+
Resolution?

+
Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:09 -0700

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> will that be explored with Sheridan?
+> my question is: Will that part of sheridan's character be
+> explored in S5?
+
+       You have to understand that big plot questions like this I
+don't answer.  If I were to answer that with "yes," then what's the
+point of making the show?  There's no surprises left.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Mr G. > - God? (18 Nov 1996 18:35:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:10 -0700

+
 Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> or just the oldest surviving?
+
+       First, as far as he knows.  To quote from a later episode, "So
+we left, and found no others like us."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta on her own (18 Nov 1996 18:35:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:11 -0700

+
 Cindy Pegg <102550.42@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Lyta carries Kosh2 is she able to keep secrets from him, or
+> can he roam her mind at will?
+
+       She can keep secrets a little...but not if he pushes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ZDH question (03 Nov 1996 01:51:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
ZDH question

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:22 -0700

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is one I haven't seen asked yet -- what about Morden?
+> Is he now an ex-Morden?
+> For that matter, is Justin an 'ex' as well?
+
+      What about Morden?  Oh, wait about 7 days, you'll find out.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Four (18 Nov 1996 18:35:11 -0700)
+
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+
Season Four

+
Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ah...Amerikanski humor.
+
+       Very good.
+
+       We bomb now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Pasadena Convention (18 Nov 1996 18:35:14 -0700)
+
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+
Pasadena Convention

+
Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:35:14 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks...I couldn't let folks go without an autograph, and when
+I saw they were going to close it down, I had to jump in.
+
+       And that was a *very* nasty gag from Andreas...and I intend to
+pay him back bigtime.
+
+       Wait until he sees the script where G'Kar is transformed into a
+chicken for one episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Summoning (18 Nov 1996 18:43:53 -0700)
+
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+
The Summoning

+
Date: 18 Nov 1996 18:43:53 -0700

+
 Justin Withers <101650.3373@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But I have to ask: are they really (as seen in the preview) going
+> to try to kill the big, mean, nasty Vorlon Ambassador???
+
+       You'll have to wait 7 days to find out.  But suffice to say
+things take quite a turn....
+
+       And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. Garibaldi's Days (19 Nov 1996 12:09:49 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:49 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm considering revoicing it...we just didn't catch it until it
+was gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: Bow Letters (19 Nov 1996 12:09:50 -0700)
+
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+
Attn JMS: Bow Letters

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:50 -0700

+
 Bernard F. Dowdy, J <76550.347@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Alexander J Jupiter?
+> Agrippa S Saturn?
+> Olympic R Rim?
+> Nimrod G Ganymede?
+> Churchill C Colonial Fleet?
+> Roanoke M Mars?
+
+       Not bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Londo/Language (19 Nov 1996 12:09:52 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:52 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Which is why Cartagia likes Londo...he stands up to Cartagia,
+but does so in such a way that Cartagia can't touch him...doesn't give
+him any excuse or way in.  He's got nowhere to go...and in a way, he
+admires and respects that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Nature of Vorlons (19 Nov 1996 12:09:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
Nature of Vorlons

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:55 -0700

+
 John Cissna <102320.3535@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have we seen an actual Vorlon?
+
+       Not yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Summoning (19 Nov 1996 12:09:57 -0700)
+
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+
The Summoning

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:09:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Applauding (19 Nov 1996 12:10:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Applauding

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  They're four very good eps, and the next two after
+that may be the best we've done overall.  I'm very pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Londo's Bug (19 Nov 1996 12:10:03 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:03 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If Londo's quarters were being bugged regularly, why on Centauri
+> Prime didn't they bug the cells as well? And when did you notice
+> the spit? Before or after you edited the episode together?
+
+       I figured Londo would've bribed the guards to shut down the
+bugs. Also, there's reason to bug a political figure's quarters...but a
+cell in which there is just one person, who in theory has no allies
+with whom to conspire...that would likely have a low priority.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z - praise part 104 (03 Nov 1996 01:51:25 -0700)
+
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+
Z - praise part 104

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 01:51:25 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Adam also directed "Passing Through Gethsemane," and is
+unfortunately now off doing network shows, and not available to us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Directing B5 <Summoning> (19 Nov 1996 12:10:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Directing B5 <Summoning>

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:06 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW did you get those CTS gloves and do they help?
+
+       The director implements the script, as written.  They work with
+the actors to bring out subtext and the full understanding of the
+scene, but the script is written as it's written, and they know that. 
+There's no room here for messing around on set.
+
+       Where our directors tend to shine is in their visual sense.  We
+try to bring a certain amount of style to our episodes, and to
+encourage our directors to take chances, try things they might not
+otherwise get a chance to do.  The more complex the shot, the longer it
+takes to set it up, and most TV shows just concentrate on bagging the
+shot and moving on.  Others, like X-Files and a growning number of
+other shows, including B5, encourage a more filmic look.
+
+       What we want in a director is someone who understands what the
+vision is, and is oriented toward executing the text.
+
+       And yes, got the CTS gloves...they're a little soft, and don't
+provide the requisite support as well as they might, but I'm giving
+them a little more time before I decide that completely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Pasadena Convention (19 Nov 1996 12:10:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Pasadena Convention

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yeah, but it was Andreas' idea.  So he will receive the full
+benefit of my undivided attention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Getting Better? (19 Nov 1996 12:10:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Getting Better?

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 12:10:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  It really is what I said it was going to be:
+holographic storytelling.  You can look at them alone, but when looked
+at through the translucent glass of all the episodes preceding it, the
+patterns become clearer and the weight of each scene increases.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Tech (19 Nov 1996 17:38:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Tech

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 17:38:40 -0700

+
 Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Even if that Iowa class ship could be telepathically "jammed:,
+> what could those Trieme's actually accomplish with spears and
+> arrows? If the Shadows are thousands of years advanced of all the
+> races except the Vorlons, how are Sheridan's "Trieme"s" able to
+> hurt the Shadows at all? So militarily speaking, why haven't the
+> Shadows just run ruff shod over Sheridan's brave forces????
+
+       Because up until now, they haven't been out to destroy
+everyone, that's not the point...you can't sow chaos if there's no one
+around in which to sow that chaos.  And they may have some ideas on how
+B5 could be turned to their advantage....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridans Mistake (19 Nov 1996 17:38:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sheridans Mistake

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 17:38:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, I try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Applauding (19 Nov 1996 17:38:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Applauding

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 17:38:41 -0700

+
 Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the upcoming episode that Steven Furst is directing, does Vir
+> not appear? And is the upcoming director "Tony Dow" - the same
+> actor who played Leave it to Beaver's Wally Cleaver?
+
+       It seemed a bit much for Stephen to both act and direct in the
+same episode, and yes, it's *that* Tony Dow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Pasadena Convention (19 Nov 1996 21:58:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Pasadena Convention

+
Date: 19 Nov 1996 21:58:46 -0700

+
 John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You wouldn't put his eye out or anything like that now would you?
+
+      Too easy.  And over with too fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Summoning:a criticism (20 Nov 1996 18:24:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Summoning:a criticism

+
Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:24:40 -0700

+
 Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And can someone slap Ivanova silly for me?
+> Hello?
+> Lenier is not gone and surely to goodness he counts for
+> something? Hey, new computer game: mount the baddies heads?
+
+       You're right...someone should get outraged...and will.  It's
+simply a matter of picking the right time and place to *do* something
+with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (20 Nov 1996 18:49:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: season 4 = arc end?

+
Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:49:45 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is B5 going to become a franchise, and in what way did they talk
+> to you about this? A 5th season of B5 with mostly stand-alone
+> episodes? Please, could you enlighten this matter a little for us?
+
+       Once again...nothing is known.  Some folks at WB when we got
+renewed said there'd be five, some said four; come of the cast heard
+four, and repeated four...the interviews you're seeing now were
+actually done a long time ago, given lead times.
+
+       If you're confused, it's because there IS no answer at this
+time.  As I said last year at this time, and the year before at this
+time, and the year before that...nothing is ever known at this point
+until around February or a bit later.  They've initiated some
+discussions about the fifth year, as the ratings have continued to
+improve, but nothing is set either way.
+
+       If I knew, for certain, I would tell you.  But I can't tell you
+until WB makes its final decision.  That hasn't happened yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Tech (20 Nov 1996 18:49:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Tech

+
Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:49:46 -0700

+
 Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The crux of my question is how Sheridan's ships, seemingly
+> thousands of years behind the Shadows technologically, are even
+> able to "dent" the Shadow ships??
+
+       Bear in mind that the White Stars are partially based on Vorlon
+technology, which is similar in strength to the Shadows.  That helps a
+lot. Also, other ships can have an influence in sufficient numbers. 
+Even a lion can be brought down by a sufficient number of hyenas.  The
+idea that higher technology always equals victory didn't help Custer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Stern cheers B5 (03 Nov 1996 15:22:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
Stern cheers B5

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:28 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Wasn't Imus ( that other NY D.J ) in the WWE episode on B4 ?
+
+      No, that wasn't him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Change to intro? (20 Nov 1996 18:49:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
Change to intro?

+
Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:49:48 -0700

+
 Paul Hachey <76625.2644@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I hear correctly?
+
+       There was no change.  The line is the same as it always was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. Garibaldi's Days (20 Nov 1996 18:49:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mr. Garibaldi's Days

+
Date: 20 Nov 1996 18:49:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, that's the intent, and you can explain it like that, but
+I'd rather just eliminate the *need* for explanation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Summoning (21 Nov 1996 12:41:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
Summoning

+
Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:24 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it ain't bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>The Summoning<< (21 Nov 1996 12:41:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
>>The Summoning<<

+
Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oh dear, did I say ratcatcher?  I meant to say catcatcher. 
+Tell them it was nothing personal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadow Tech (21 Nov 1996 12:41:26 -0700)
+
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+
Shadow Tech

+
Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's one more thing you haven't seen, yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms (21 Nov 1996 12:41:26 -0700)
+
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+
4 or 5? Be HONEST, jms

+
Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Summoning (21 Nov 1996 12:41:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Summoning

+
Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:29 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...though, of course, the book on which JC superstar is
+based ptedates it just a tad...anyway, it's a great scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Foundation Question (21 Nov 1996 12:41:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Foundation Question

+
Date: 21 Nov 1996 12:41:31 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wasn't Foundation part of this setup?
+> Or did they loophole it due to duress around the time of the
+> layoffs? And if the Turner movies happen (Stephen said they would
+> at the Pasadena con) are they outside or inside these deals?
+
+       The Turner deals are currently in discussion; and there are
+options exercised at the discretion of the producers, not contracts per
+se.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Mr G. > - God? (22 Nov 1996 00:53:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Mr G. > - God?

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:53:45 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      He'll discuss his origins at considerable length in about 3 or 4
+more episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Literary references (22 Nov 1996 00:53:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
Literary references

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:53:47 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, there's quite a bit going on in there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum - Praise (01 Nov 1996 20:31:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum - Praise

+
Date: 01 Nov 1996 20:31:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Music Scores (03 Nov 1996 15:22:30 -0700)
+
+
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+
Music Scores

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:30 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, who decides what musical scores go into each episode?
+> or does it work that way?
+
+      We contract with Christopher Franke for the full season, and he
+provides all music cues.  We can't take outside stuff, it all has to be
+work for hire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rage'sThots: Garibaldi (22 Nov 1996 00:53:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rage'sThots: Garibaldi

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:53:50 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How off-base is this?
+> My question is this: did the scene we saw of MG in WHtMG happen
+> in "reality" or is it the deranged babling's of Michael's mind
+> trapped within a Control overlay?
+
+      No, that scene happened in reality.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rage'sThots:Technomagi (22 Nov 1996 00:53:51 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rage'sThots:Technomagi

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 00:53:51 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do the Technomages (or Technomagi, natch) have access to higher
+> than Earth Alliance technology? Or is it that their tech is aimed
+> at "looking" magical?
+
+      They definitely have access to higher tech, through TMs on other
+worlds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Summoning (22 Nov 1996 13:35:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Summoning

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:35:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       It ain't Morden's voice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fleet combat (22 Nov 1996 13:44:09 -0700)
+
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+
Fleet combat

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:44:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Your point is a good one, and something we've discussed here on
+many occasions.  There are some interesting 3D tactical things we'd
+like to try, and are only waiting a chance and the right story with
+which to do them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Nature of Vorlons (22 Nov 1996 13:45:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Nature of Vorlons

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Joe is fine....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spinoff Series-Sinclair (22 Nov 1996 13:45:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Spinoff Series-Sinclair

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:03 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would this be a new series for Michael O'Hare to lead?
+
+       Everything is currently very fluid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>The Summoning<< (22 Nov 1996 13:45:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
>>The Summoning<<

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Part of It (22 Nov 1996 13:45:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Part of It

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:06 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering: Is Sheridan's piece of Kosh still with him after
+> 402, or did that "part of the problem" go away when John chose
+> "tock"?
+
+       You'll find out in about 8 days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (22 Nov 1996 13:45:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: season 4 = arc end?

+
Date: 22 Nov 1996 13:45:07 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If WB makes their decision in February or March, will you be able
+> to adjust the story appropriately? Is this correct?
+
+       I'm covered either way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Audio Note from jms (23 Nov 1996 18:19:49 -0700)
+
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Audio Note from jms

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:19:49 -0700

+
      Just a little thought in your general direction....
+
+      After spending all Monday doing the audio mix mix on 404,
+"Falling Toward Apotheosis," which is normal, we did all but 7 minutes
+of that episode.
+
+      George Johnsen, John Copeland and I spent from about 7 p.m.
+Wednesday night until 2:30 a.m. Thursday morning doing the audio mix on
+those little seven minutes.
+
+      So for that episode, you may want to make friends with somebody
+with a really good surround sound system.
+
+      Just a thought.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 awards (03 Nov 1996 15:22:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 awards

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:32 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does WB know about all these awardsB5 is getting?
+> Were they present at the awards ceremonies?
+> Do they F@$#ing care?
+
+      WB cares about some of them, others they don't understand.
+
+      My best to your wife, and her grief hasn't started yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms co on station.com (23 Nov 1996 18:19:49 -0700)
+
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jms co on station.com

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:19:49 -0700

+
      Just a quick advisory..I'll be doing an online conference this
+coming Monday at the official B5 fanclub site,
+http://www.thestation.com ...this is our very first online major
+conference, and you're welcome to attend.  The site is open to all,
+providing chat features, messages and a station tour, with some areas
+set aside just for FC members, and more features coming on line soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Oblique References (23 Nov 1996 18:43:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Oblique References

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      As I've never seen that episode -- didn't watch much Night Court
+in any event -- the answer would be no.  I am, on occasion, capable of
+thinking up a line or two on my own, if I strain real hard....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 back early in Detroit (23 Nov 1996 18:43:10 -0700)
+
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+
B5 back early in Detroit

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's great news, thanks for the update!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Book of Dreams? (23 Nov 1996 18:43:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: Book of Dreams?

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Wasn't asked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+2nd B5 Soundtrack (23 Nov 1996 18:43:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
2nd B5 Soundtrack

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:15 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any further news on the second Babylon 5 soundtrack?
+
+      Chris fell behind due to the press of work...however, the
+artwork and liner notes are all finished, and he said this past
+Thursday that he'd have the first pass at the new soundtrack in my
+hands this coming week for approval and discussion.  So it's getting
+there...he just wants it to be done right, and as always, I'd always
+prefer it be done *right* than fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Summoning (23 Nov 1996 18:43:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Summoning

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I live to serve....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WHtoMG (23 Nov 1996 18:43:19 -0700)
+
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+
WHtoMG

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:19 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a good ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Going Native (23 Nov 1996 18:43:21 -0700)
+
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+
Going Native

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:21 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we simply adding to the "holography" of the B5 experience by
+> adding our own layers, or was this parallel actually
+> predetermined in the "magic plan?"
+
+      Certainly he came to care about us more than the vorlons
+intended.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+More Kudos for Joe (23 Nov 1996 18:43:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:23 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is his purpose?
+> Is he good or evil?
+> Have you ever read Bambi?
+
+      Wow...I hardly know what to say.  You work this hard on a show,
+and you hope that what you're doing gets noticed for what it is.  You
+hope people will understand.  Thanks for, in one message, making the
+journey worth the effort.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Questioning... (23 Nov 1996 18:43:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
Questioning...

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:25 -0700

+
 gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Are the Shadows motives really (at least) what we've learned
+> so far (chaos, evolution, what do you want)? 2) Are the Vorlons
+> motives really (at least) what we've learned so far (order,
+> evolution, who are you)? 3) Did the Vorlons actually destroy the
+> planet mentioned in Summoning? 4) Do the Vorlons really want to
+> wipe out all the worlds touched by the Shadows, and ultimately
+> eliminate the Shadows all together? 5) Is Lorien really a
+> different "thing" than Shadows or Vorlons/Koshs? 6) Is there more
+> to the Minbari working caste than we've learned so far?
+
+     Yes to all of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Truth Comes Out! (03 Nov 1996 15:22:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Truth Comes Out!

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:34 -0700

+
 Al Kuntzler <76702.1236@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How could you hold this back, Joe?
+
+      It's a terrible and ugly history.  Dozens of dead bodies left
+lying in the ring.  Referees knocked unconscious.  You don't wnat to
+know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Time to Change? (23 Nov 1996 18:43:27 -0700)
+
+
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+
Time to Change?

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 18:43:27 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Exactly how much time passed between these two scenes?
+> Was something written and/or shot that wasn't fit into the final
+> cut?
+
+      No, that's the funny thing...I've seen a number of posts about
+how his uniform was changed, but it *wasn't*.  It was exactly the same
+outfit right out of the wardrobe closet...not sewn, not cleaned, just
+dusted off a bit, by hand, the way he might've upon coming in.  You can
+clearly see that the sleeve is still torn as he's up there.
+
+      All I can figure is that the red Z'ha'dum lighting made it look
+a lot worse than it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms co on station.com (23 Nov 1996 21:07:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms co on station.com

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 21:07:52 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What time?
+
+      Sorry...6:00 p.m. Monday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Time to Change? (23 Nov 1996 21:07:53 -0700)
+
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+
Time to Change?

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 21:07:53 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oh...yeah, there was definitely time to grab a fast shower and
+change of clothes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms co on station.com (23 Nov 1996 23:31:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms co on station.com

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 23:31:26 -0700

+
 Arline Williams <102551.2346@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Eastern time?
+
+      Pacific time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms co on station.com (23 Nov 1996 23:31:28 -0700)
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+
jms co on station.com

+
Date: 23 Nov 1996 23:31:28 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+   Earth Standard Time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (24 Nov 1996 01:09:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: season 4 = arc end?

+
Date: 24 Nov 1996 01:09:22 -0700

+
 Kevin E. Koster <104761.3176@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Another question: Are you currently intending to pen all of the
+> episodes this season?
+
+      Not sure yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Audio Note from jms (24 Nov 1996 15:52:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
Audio Note from jms

+
Date: 24 Nov 1996 15:52:24 -0700

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which seven minutes?
+
+      From Lyta's entrance to Kosh's place, to Lorien's hand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Falling... (24 Nov 1996 15:52:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
Falling...

+
Date: 24 Nov 1996 15:52:26 -0700

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And everybody finally gets their wish, don't they?
+> What is going to happen in the next two weeks?
+> How can amassing the largest fleet in history stop the Vorlons
+> with their planet killer? How is B5 maintaining operations since
+> we have to assume that most trade is interrupted during the war? 
+> And, most importantly, who made the salad?
+
+      Thanks...it was an exhausting and difficult episode...but well
+worth the work, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Falling Toward Life (24 Nov 1996 15:52:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
Falling Toward Life

+
Date: 24 Nov 1996 15:52:28 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, I'm relieved...though someone will have to point out to
+them, at some point...that what goes up, must come down....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms co on station.com (24 Nov 1996 18:19:20 -0700)
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jms co on station.com

+
Date: 24 Nov 1996 18:19:20 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nothing's wrong with the site...but it takes Netscape 2.0
+minimum to get it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Day & Night on B5 (03 Nov 1996 15:22:38 -0700)
+
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Day & Night on B5

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:38 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you developed any affinity towards science fiction/space now
+> that you have written/produced an epic like B5 ? When B5 is over (
+> a very sad day indeed ), and you go onto other projects, will
+> they be science fiction/space oriented as well ? Does this mean B5
+> has a sense of day and night ? And why was Sheridan so interested
+> in the wrong door when he was told, 'no it's not that one, it's
+> over here' ? Are you ever going to release the notes/revisions you
+> have been taking on B5 since 1986 ?
+
+      Actually, I was an SF fan *long* before I ever did Murder, She
+Wrote.
+
+      And yes, there's a day/night cycle on B5, it seems appropriate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Summoning (24 Nov 1996 22:16:14 -0700)
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The Summoning

+
Date: 24 Nov 1996 22:16:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I thought HoTW was incredible, WHtMG?
+> Huh?
+> Explain, please?
+
+      Remember that often people will express an opinion as though it
+were the fact.  What we like, and what resonates with us, is
+subjective.  What you like, you like, and there's no need to defend it
+or feel pressured about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Traffic to B5 from Earth (25 Nov 1996 16:54:13 -0700)
+
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Traffic to B5 from Earth

+
Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:54:13 -0700

+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is trafic between Earth and B5 still open?
+> (Well, at least the wife did.) How is it that people like that
+> are still coming through the station in the middle of a civil
+> war?
+
+       It's difficult and limited, but yes, there's still some travel,
+just as one may travel to countries that the US does not recognize
+officially or have diplomatic relations with.  How long they continue
+to allow this...we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (25 Nov 1996 16:54:13 -0700)
+
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JMS: season 4 = arc end?

+
Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:54:13 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how many continuous episodes have you penned?
+
+       Just the 22 was a record.  At this point, it's 39 consecutive
+scripts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Summoning (25 Nov 1996 16:54:14 -0700)
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The Summoning

+
Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:54:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Just had to say something, you know?
+> Not to mention the fact that I was getting it right back -- "You
+> mean you actually *liked* that move? Couldn't you see all the
+> stuff that was wrong with it?"
+
+       Oh, no...no, no...you didn't offend anybody, I was only
+supporting your argument, and your right to feel any way you choose
+about an episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridans Mistake (25 Nov 1996 16:58:27 -0700)
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Sheridans Mistake

+
Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:58:27 -0700

+
 Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any published works before B5?
+
+       Yes...about 500 published articles, many short stories, 2
+novels, 1 anthology, 12 produced plays, 12 produced radio dramas, and
+other stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: B5 T-shirt (25 Nov 1996 16:58:28 -0700)
+
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Attn JMS: B5 T-shirt

+
Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:58:28 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       That's a great story, thanks...and I've heard elsewhere enough
+that makes me think we have a very wide audience, from every level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comments (25 Nov 1996 16:58:29 -0700)
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+
Comments

+
Date: 25 Nov 1996 16:58:29 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thank you...and believe me, the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Apologies on CO (25 Nov 1996 21:41:20 -0700)
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Apologies on CO

+
Date: 25 Nov 1996 21:41:20 -0700

+
      Very quickly...my apologies for the fiasco on thestation.com
+tonight. Our server is directnet, and...okay, you accept that at
+conventions, they always underestimate us.  They give us too small a
+room.  Then our people show up...and it's madness.  Well, same thing
+happened here.
+
+      Their conferences run maybe 100 people tops most days, and
+that's what they figured here *without asking us*.
+
+      Their memory and system allocations were therefore in that area.
+
+      Just one teensy, weensy little problem: something in excess of
+2,000 people showed up.
+
+      And I and others got frozen out of the system, the thing was
+delayed 30 minutes, it was chaos, angry phone calls were made from B5
+to directnet that fried phone lines....
+
+      Anyway...my apologies to those who showed up and may have been
+disappointed.  We've registered our extreme displeasure with
+directnet, and are strongly considering changing servers because of
+this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms co on station.com (26 Nov 1996 01:14:18 -0700)
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jms co on station.com

+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I know...I went through the same thing.  Much
+apologizings.  The server, DirectNet, was blown out by 2,000 or so hits
+at the same time, and they (stupidly) hadn't been prepared to face that
+many when they approached us and told us we could do this.  I'm
+*extremely* annoyed at this, and we're going to take some serious steps
+to correct this and make sure it never, ever, EVER happens again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+thestation demographics? (26 Nov 1996 01:14:20 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:20 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you gotten any kind of report yet as to what percentage of
+> people logging on to thestation.com are opting for Earthforce,
+> Minbari, etc.? If so, did the percentages surprise you in any way?
+
+      Haven't seen that figure yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ Z'ha'dum (03 Nov 1996 15:22:41 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:41 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I'm hoping somehow the situation there can be worked
+out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Summoning> thoughts (26 Nov 1996 01:14:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Assuming that annhilation was the goal...which wasn't exactly
+stated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Paradigm shift (26 Nov 1996 01:14:25 -0700)
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+
Paradigm shift

+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think you're right.  Interestingly, David Gerrold first pegged
+this one way back in the first season, saying that with B5, a paradigm
+shift had taken place, only most people hadn't twigged to it yet.  I
+guess he called it right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Falling> question (26 Nov 1996 01:14:27 -0700)
+
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+
<Falling> question

+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:27 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, did the part of Kosh that remained inside Sheridan still had
+> its own will? was it consulted by John and Lorien regarding what
+> there were going to do, or did J & L use what's remained of Kosh?
+
+      I'd say it was aware of this, yes...and you can hear just a
+trace of its voice just before it emerges.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+404: Falling (26 Nov 1996 01:14:29 -0700)
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+
404: Falling

+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 01:14:29 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what exactly did Lorien mean by "the last of Kosh, and some
+> of him and some of me"? Was the energy/being that ripped out of
+> Sheridan's chest not *just* Kosh? Was it part of all three of
+> them? Did Lorien also have to use some of his energy to keep the
+> piece of Kosh alive long enough to battle the Vorlon Ambassador? 
+> May I ask if we'll see any rebel EA ships in that fleet? But what?
+> And who in their right mind thinks she'll ever give up that ring
+> for a "better" one someday? How will he react to that ring on her
+> finger and her explanation of what it means? Andreas has to wear a
+> patch for the rest of the run and you *still* wanna punish him?
+
+      Thanks, and I agree with all your picks on the scenes.  It came
+out very nicely...a good one to end this batch on.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Apologies on CO (26 Nov 1996 18:12:27 -0700)
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Apologies on CO

+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Actually, turns out 6,000 total showed up...enough to crash any
+server on the planet short of Skynet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Happy families (26 Nov 1996 18:12:27 -0700)
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+
Happy families

+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:27 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I believe C4 is *currently* showing the previous seasons,
+starting with one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Zha'ha'dum (26 Nov 1996 18:12:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:28 -0700

+
 Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you elaborate on this seeming anamoly?
+
+       It's an efficient way of lighting an underground city several
+miles across; you can open or close it to allow the big vessels in for
+construction purposes, and so on.  If you build something that big, you
+need some way of getting stuff IN there, then lighting it without
+consuming vast amounts of energy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Define Apotheosis, pls ! (26 Nov 1996 18:12:29 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:29 -0700

+
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+
+       Interpretation is everything...I prefer to leave it that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HotW - quick question (26 Nov 1996 18:12:31 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:31 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this a literal statement, or is it figurative?
+
+       Well, they don't grow underground, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Missing Joshua? (26 Nov 1996 18:12:34 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:12:34 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is something up with Joshua Cox?
+> Other obligations?
+
+       Just haven't had enough for him to do to merit bringing him in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum........ wow. (03 Nov 1996 15:22:43 -0700)
+
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Z'Ha'Dum........ wow.

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:43 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, no, what happens within WWE can't be really shown in
+the current arc, only anticipated and the ground laid in place for all
+that to happen.
+
+      And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TS - Overlooked stuff (26 Nov 1996 18:18:27 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1996 18:18:27 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Continuity gaff?
+> Was he waiting for Sheridan?
+
+       Actually, Lyta never said she was a P5 in Walkabout; it was
+Delenn who said that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Summoning (27 Nov 1996 16:35:01 -0700)
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+
Summoning

+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:01 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Kosh said that there were still few, did he mean few who
+> understand? You've brought up the first rule of the fanatic a
+> couple of times, did Sinclair teach this to Kosh in the hope that
+> he would be able to bring the other Vorlons around to that
+> understanding? Maybe in the hope that the war wouldn't escalate to
+> blowing up planets as well? Did Kosh (and his cohorts) give the
+> Vorlon technology so that our heroes could register something if
+> the other Vorlons were to escalate the war to the point they did? 
+> Another thing that caught my attention, especially with Lorien
+> coming back with Sheridan, was one of the questions he asked
+> Sheridan; "Do you mind if I share your fire", exactly which fire
+> did he mean? Was Lorien refering to the fire on the ground, or the
+> fire inside of John, or both? Why do I get the feeling that
+> Garibaldi had a return visit to a certain place on Mars? Or
+> somewhere with the equipment like that used there? "Do you know
+> who I am"; who are you, why are you, what do you want?
+
+       Suffice to say that Kosh was utterly correct about the sword,
+and we'll be hearing this again soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Apologies on CO (27 Nov 1996 16:35:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+               Hmm...most interesting...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Summoning (27 Nov 1996 16:35:03 -0700)
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Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:03 -0700

+
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+
+       I thunk that up, as far as I know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms co on station.com (27 Nov 1996 16:35:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:04 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ("How big do you think the _____ will get?"
+> Will there be any kind of transcript of what went on between
+> those who successfully navigated the shoals made available? If so,
+> where and how?
+
+       I don't know if it'd be worth transcribing...too much chaos.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Delenn - Lennier? (27 Nov 1996 16:35:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:05 -0700

+
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+
+       Lennier had gone out for pizza....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+summoning (27 Nov 1996 16:35:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:07 -0700

+
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+
+       No, it was just relief, letting her guard down, allowing
+herself to feel, which she hadn't done much before this.  There's no
+romantic interest there.  You can have situations where men and women
+work together, and can care about one another, without it turning into
+more than that.
+
+       Men seem to understand this less often than women.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+FTA (27 Nov 1996 16:35:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:09 -0700

+
 John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you release suitable wide screen format JPG publicity
+> stills to the Lurker's Guide so we can fit the whole Vorlon in
+> one image?
+
+       Thanks.  We can't release anything widescreen until we can go
+back and re-telecine everything back to the original format, then
+recomposite the effects.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Selfless or Selfish? (27 Nov 1996 16:35:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:35:16 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anything you can say to help us settle this
+> disagreement?
+
+       I think both camps are probably right to one degree or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Falling... (27 Nov 1996 16:42:54 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 16:42:54 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I wonder if maybe we'll be seeing it again someday?
+
+       Remember, though, that the alien healing device isn't a
+cure-all; to save one person's life, it takes the equal life force of
+another.  It was used as a capital punishment device.  So somebody'd
+have to die for that to happen...and even then, it doesn't cure
+everything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour of the Wolf (03 Nov 1996 15:22:45 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:45 -0700

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This isn't going to be another solo year, is it?
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah, everybody's just cooking on this one, it has a
+very filmic, grand look to it.  I love it a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms & co at LosCon (LA) (27 Nov 1996 20:10:39 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Nov 1996 20:10:39 -0700

+
      Just an advisory: this Thanksgiving Sunday, there will be a 2
+hour B5 presentation at LosCon, the annual fan-run convention put on by
+LASFS (usual attendence about 1000).  The presentation/panel is slated
+for 2:30-4:30 in the biggest room they have.  I'll do the first hour,
+then the second hour will have our conceptual consultant Harlan
+Ellison, producer John Copeland, and co-producer George Johnsen joining
+in.  (There's a possibility Peter Jurasik may show up, but that's
+unconfirmed at this point.)
+
+      We'll have the very first showing of the rough cut of season 4
+bloopers, scenes from several unaired episodes, a music video or two,
+and of course the usual dog-and-pony show that has become the biggest
+draw at each year's LosCon.
+
+      Because this tends to be a big event, you may want to be sure to
+show up a bit early, to get a seat...they vanish REAL fast.
+
+      The convention is taking place at the Burbank Airport Hilton,
+just abaft from the Burbank Airport, natch.
+
+      LosCon, as a fan convention, is a lot of fun, and there's
+generally a lot of good stuff going on all 3 days as well.  If you
+haven't been to a con before, this is a good one on which to cut your
+teeth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 27 Nov 1996 20:10:43 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...we try.  And I'm happy Philly is back on board.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+First Contact vs. B5 (28 Nov 1996 02:27:42 -0700)
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Date: 28 Nov 1996 02:27:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, I appreciate hearing that.  We do try to put a lot into
+these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 28 Nov 1996 02:27:43 -0700

+
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+
+         I think Lorien is beyond concepts of male and female as they
+pertain to the Vorlons...that's our perception of them, not his.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 28 Nov 1996 02:27:46 -0700

+
 Art W. Sullivan <104630.1315@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Kosh told Sheridan, that if he went to Zha'ha'dum he would
+> die, was that just a comment on the odds of going there and
+> comming our alive, or do the Vorlons have precognition, like
+> Londo's dreams about his own death? Does that cost a station any
+> more money or can they show it as often as they want?
+
+      It was a statement of fact, one way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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Date: 28 Nov 1996 22:28:59 -0700

+
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+
+      Last I heard, last week, they were still negotiating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<Falling> question (29 Nov 1996 01:56:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 01:56:16 -0700

+
 Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, am I somewhat correct here, or am I totally off base?
+
+      Yep, that's about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Falling... (29 Nov 1996 01:56:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 01:56:18 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, is Bruce getting a little grey hair or is that just merely
+> for the role?
+
+      If you had a vorlon inside you, you'd get a little grey too....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:03:49 -0700

+
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+
+      For my money, the truly frightening thing about Cartagia is that
+he is motivated entirely by whim, by caprice...he can give you
+something wonderful one moment, then turn around and have you killed
+the next.  You *never* know which way he'll flip from moment to moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+FTA - Questions (29 Nov 1996 02:03:51 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:03:51 -0700

+
 Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Three questions, 1) Do the Vorlons have "wings"?
+> 2) What did the original doctor see in the pilot?
+> The true form of a Vorlon or the angelic form?
+> 3) Why does Morden's request make sense?
+> The Shadows are fighting the Vorlons, they know how little
+> appreciation the Vorlons are showing for "civilian" deaths, why
+> make this request?
+
+      Morden is living in denial...he's afraid, and hoping he's right.
+Centauri Prime has more civilians than any other planet or colony hit
+so far: three billion people.  The shadows are hoping a figure that
+high will daunt even the Vorlons.
+
+      The wings are just how we perceived them, to some extent, though
+we did see a hint of wings as the last of Kosh emerged from Sheridan. 
+(We also heard the wing flap sound, and the sound of Kosh's voice for
+the last time right after Lorien's "Now.")
+
+      Dr. Kyle saw the angelic form...even in its reduced state, it
+held itself together enough to maintain that form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 15:22:47 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Garibaldi because he would be the one to replace Sheridan if
+> Sheridan was killed ?
+
+      Perhaps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+BACK TO RERUNS BUT WOW (29 Nov 1996 02:09:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:09:00 -0700

+
 Randy Upshaw <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When does the rest of this season continue?
+
+"I have complained in the past about what I thought was a slow moving
+story but I now feel like we are at warp 9. No wasted eps in the last
+batch."
+
+      Told you.
+
+      Now next time maybe you'll believe me.
+
+      And finish your broccoli.  And sit up straight at the table. 
+And stop playing with your silverware, it's always funny until someone
+gets hurt....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Define Apotheosis, pls ! (29 Nov 1996 02:09:01 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 02:09:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      "To define is to kill, to suggest is to create."
+
+                     -- Franz Kafka
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 15:29:21 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      They'll be in February...and I was just having some fun, don't
+take it too seriously.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<Falling>> Thoughts (29 Nov 1996 15:29:23 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 15:29:23 -0700

+
 Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Vorlons are now hell-bent to destroy the Shadows, why
+> nibble around the periphery and not blow-up Zhadum first? If the
+> Vorlon "parenta" approach has been used for so many eons, why
+> start destroying everything in their path now? Morden must know
+> that that the Centauri are no match for the Vorlons; so why ask
+> them to send up their ships as a defense shield? I wonder if there
+> is a "Peace party" among the Shadows? Is Earth a Vorlon target?
+> Is B5 a Vorlon target?
+> How can the AoL stand up to both the Vorlons and the Shadows?
+
+      Excellent questions to which I, alas, can only reply, "wait and
+see."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 17:36:21 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we ever see Kosh again?
+> What will John do?
+
+      Yep, all trace of Kosh is gone.  He/it will never be seen again,
+in any form, exempting flashbacks, of which none are currently planned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 29 Nov 1996 17:36:22 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah...would've been nice if Londo had at least tried to do
+something about the eye that did not see Cartagia's splendor....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (29 Nov 1996 17:40:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: season 4 = arc end?

+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 17:40:09 -0700

+
 Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's up?
+
+      Nothing has yet been decided; different arms of WB are telling
+different people different things...this has been the situation from
+the first season to today.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Falling>> Thoughts (29 Nov 1996 19:01:49 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
<<Falling>> Thoughts

+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 19:01:49 -0700

+
 Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In writing your scripts, do you have a conversation with each
+> character and he/she tells you what's happening; or do you see
+> the action the character is in from their point of view; or do
+> you see the action much as the camera sees it from a third person
+> point of view, but focusing on that character?
+
+      I see the episode in my mind the same way it's seen by viewers. 
+I watch it from the camera's point of view.  It's just once in a while,
+as I'm watching it, that one of the characters will lean into camera,
+bang on the side of it, and say "Listen, shmuck, you're not doing this
+right."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New FX - no problems! (29 Nov 1996 21:56:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
New FX - no problems!

+
Date: 29 Nov 1996 21:56:21 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      What kinda bugged me was that, after having made the change,
+there were a number of people -- presumably associated with Foundation
+ -- who were running around the nets and saying that the efx were going
+to be terrible, or there wouldn't BE any efx...trying to poison the
+well.  But as always, we never do anything unless we think it'll be an
+improvement, and the new season shows that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (30 Nov 1996 18:33:58 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: season 4 = arc end?

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:33:58 -0700

+
 Dennis G. Berdanis <72072.550@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there an email address for WB where we can send our support
+> for the show or should we just keep after the local stations??
+
+      Local support is always best, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 4 Title (03 Nov 1996 17:07:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 4 Title

+
Date: 03 Nov 1996 17:07:49 -0700

+
 Kevin Butler <75034.2007@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Londo become the emperor when, and if, he takes his new
+> position on Centauri Prime?
+
+      Well, eventually, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms & co at LosCon (LA) (30 Nov 1996 18:33:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms & co at LosCon (LA)

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:33:59 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, will you be making an appearance at I-CON this year?
+
+      At this point...yes, I've confirmed that I'll be at Icon this
+year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 ruins it all . . . (30 Nov 1996 18:34:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 ruins it all . . .

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have the Twister laserdisk -- it's the only way I was able to
+see it
+ -- and that transfer looks pretty cool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Laser Disc (30 Nov 1996 18:34:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Laser Disc

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nope.  Because a) WB doesn't think there's a market for B5 on
+tape or disk, b) won't let us do it because they have the right to do
+it, even though they won't (like the proverbial monkey with its fist
+around a nut in a jar, it can't take it out and won't let go), and c)
+WB video almost never handles piddly TV stuff, only big-budget,
+sure-return movies.
+
+      We'll keep working at it.  Sooner or later, we'll win.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+404: Falling (30 Nov 1996 18:34:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
404: Falling

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, this trip with G'Kar was in his best
+interest, and Cartagia is always responsive to what's best for
+Cartagia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Wayne Alexander (30 Nov 1996 18:34:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Wayne Alexander

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+         Will do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Images (30 Nov 1996 18:34:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Images

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...those kinds of images are what we live for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New FX - no problems! (30 Nov 1996 18:34:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
New FX - no problems!

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:34:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, the first few used about the same amount of stock as
+most of our shows ever did.  And there was a LOT of new stuff...the
+Z'ha'dum confrontation with the White Star, the new establishers of
+Centuari Prime from space, plus the new ones of the city, and the big
+garden areas in "The Summoning" (all those outside sets are virtual),
+the shadow overflys in 401, Lorien's "true image" holding up Sheridan,
+the underground Z'ha'dum composites, the new B5 establishers, the White
+Star fleet coming to B5...there was a LOT of stuff there, it's just
+very subtle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Chicago ComiCon '97 (30 Nov 1996 18:39:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
Chicago ComiCon '97

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:39:45 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      At this point, I'll likely be in Chicago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New FX - no problems! (30 Nov 1996 18:39:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
New FX - no problems!

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 18:39:46 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are the effects the same or different in some respects?
+
+      Basically, if you're told to look for a difference, you'll see
+one.  I got a couple of emails saying that a couple of specific
+Centauri Prime shots weren't as good as the old ones...then pointed out
+that the ones they singled out WERE the old ones.
+
+      As for the Planet Killer, we bring it a little closer each time.
+
+      Virtually all the designs are right out of the computer files,
+so they're identical to what's been done before, using the same system
+(or slightly better) and most of the same people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Falling... (30 Nov 1996 23:47:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Falling...

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:47:10 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Calamari, anyone?
+> Are the Vorlons the greater foe?
+
+      Who is the greater foe?
+
+      It is always the one closest to where you live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Music Scores (04 Nov 1996 17:27:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
Music Scores

+
Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:41 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What does work for hire mean?
+
+      It means it's done on assignment, as part of a package, rather
+than buying something created independently and acquiring the rights.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Falling... (30 Nov 1996 23:55:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Falling...

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:55:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, she said, "I think, it's possible, someone else does."
+But she didn't specify Sheridan, and likely wouldn't have until she
+knew absolutely for certain...and until she knew a little more about
+the vorlon she was dealing with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+FTA prophecy&future (30 Nov 1996 23:55:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
FTA prophecy&future

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:55:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope, it's the corret eye.  We don't make those kinds of
+mistakes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Apotheosis (30 Nov 1996 23:55:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Apotheosis

+
Date: 30 Nov 1996 23:55:05 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In "Falling Toward Apotheosis" there is an outright assassination
+> of another of their Ambassadors, so wouldn't it stand to reason
+> that NOW the Vorlons would *absolutely* destroy the B5 Station
+> because of this latest act by the humans??
+
+      Of course, at the moment, the vorlons are a little busy...but
+given time, yes, they would do exactly that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z'Ha'Dum - Praise (01 Nov 1996 20:31:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum - Praise

+
Date: 01 Nov 1996 20:31:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Truth Comes Out! (04 Nov 1996 17:27:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Truth Comes Out!

+
Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:43 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have certainly had a varied and colorful career.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<Za'ha'dume (04 Nov 1996 17:27:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
<<Za'ha'dume

+
Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:45 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One innocuous question: In Z'ha'dum, were those Bruce & Melissa's
+> actual wedding photos, or were they special ones you had shot for
+> the show? One not-so-innocuous question: is it safe to assume that
+> Anna, Morden, and Justin were all roasted in the White Star
+> blast? so he'll be doing the season 4 opening credits, eh?
+
+      Yes, we used their actual wedding photos.
+
+      And I did see the Dynamic Druggie Duo on Roseanne (the only time
+I've ever watched it).  They were in fine form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z'Ha'Dum/Doom Itself (04 Nov 1996 17:27:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'Ha'Dum/Doom Itself

+
Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:47 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I can't imagine carrying around ALL of theses richly-drawn
+> characters in the fullness of their stories over such an extended
+> time -- are there any words to describe what that feels like for
+> you?
+
+"I can't imagine carrying around ALL of theses richly-drawn characters
+in the fullness of their stories over such an extended time -- are
+there any words to describe what that feels like for you?"
+
+It feels like a chicken giving birth to a tyrannosaurus rex.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z editing question (04 Nov 1996 17:27:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z editing question

+
Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:52 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, I did want to leave open the question of what happened to
+the others, just for a bit.
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Justin's motions (04 Nov 1996 17:27:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
Justin's motions

+
Date: 04 Nov 1996 17:27:54 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Or was that just the actor?
+
+      It was an actor's choice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Garibaldi Preview? (04 Nov 1996 20:15:43 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Garibaldi Preview?

+
Date: 04 Nov 1996 20:15:43 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Garibaldi, does the preview also contain more spoilers than
+> usual?
+
+      Dunno, I never see the preview until it airs, same as everybody
+else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Z'ha'dum (05 Nov 1996 01:59:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z'ha'dum

+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 01:59:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That will continue to be funny for just about as long as it
+takes for me to find out where you live....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Hour Packed (05 Nov 1996 01:59:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 01:59:12 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question: Do I take it that you're going to hold off a while
+> before telling us how Sheridan and Morden survived? When can we
+> expect some sort of answer as to how Sheridan managed to survive
+> so intact?
+
+      Thanks.  I'll string out the Sheridan info for a while; as for
+Morden, as he said, his associates can repair flesh, replace flesh
+(though where they got replacements from is something I don't want to
+know)....
+
+      It's definitely a packed episode.  I still find myself realizing
+that the end of act one feels like two acts.  And the next three are
+every bit as intense, if not moreso.  I love it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Purple Londo (05 Nov 1996 01:59:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 01:59:14 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't want another episode like what happened with Delenn's
+> dress, eh?
+
+      I never make the same mistake.
+
+      I just learn how to make new ones.
+
+      (And I'm very pleased with that scene...it's kinda goofy, with
+the minister in particular...he's just nuts.  Well, not as much as
+Cartagia, obviously....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+!!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!! (05 Nov 1996 21:19:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
!!B5 SIM GROUP MEETING!!

+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:19:53 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who/what actually owns the copyright to Babylon 5 and any spin
+> offs? Sure you as creator own copyright on the ideas and
+> characters, along with the stories you write, while WB have
+> copyright on the finished product? Or is it about 234 times more
+> complicated than that?
+
+      It's 573 times more complicated than that, but bottom
+line...Warner Bros. owns the complete compyright to Babylon 5, lock,
+stock and barrel, the same as with any show, as ST is a Paramount
+property.  It's the nature of the beast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+great chess game ? (01 Nov 1996 20:31:24 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Nov 1996 20:31:24 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, starting from the death of Kosh, we've been in the myth
+cycle. That now has to play itself out.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Music Scores (05 Nov 1996 21:19:56 -0700)
+
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+
Music Scores

+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:19:56 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Can someone market themselves to develop material specifically
+> for the show under those conditions? Its like saying, hey, Im a
+> musician and Id like to do some music scores for your show, do
+> you like my style, are you interested?
+
+      No, you must understand, we commit for full seasons, not per
+episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Extras (05 Nov 1996 21:20:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is extra work valuable experience in getting larger parts?
+> Is this true?
+> Has every extra on B5 completed some sort of "offical acting
+> class"?
+
+      I know little of any use about acting.  I don't know if being an
+extra helps or not; most extras I know do only that, nothing more, and
+if you have no lines, you can't progress.  Acting seminars are
+necessary and good, but the high priced exploitive ones are to be
+avoided.  Best to have her hook up with a theater and do a lot of that;
+most of our actors on the show, guest and regulars, are folks with lots
+of theatrical (stage) training and experience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z'Ha'Dum - Praise (05 Nov 1996 21:20:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:05 -0700

+
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+
+      I'll definitely keep working on it.  Thanks.
+
+      Odd...I thought "uffda" was of Swedish or Norwegian origin.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z editing question (05 Nov 1996 21:20:07 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:07 -0700

+
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+
+      You are correct.
+
+      I hope you had money riding on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Purple Londo (05 Nov 1996 21:20:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:09 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you envision the character that way, or did the actor and the
+> character merge into something wonderful?
+
+      Innocent and fragile is a good description...and certainly the
+dialogue is written that way, and we cast him because he matches that
+character.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+WOLF IS EPIC!! (05 Nov 1996 21:20:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:12 -0700

+
 S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't it have some of the first season music incorporated into
+> it?
+
+      Thanks.  It's a terrific episode.  The music now echoes season
+one because in some thematic areas, we're starting to bend back on
+ourselves, and close some circles, as you'll see soon.
+
+      That it affects the emotions is, for me, the goal.  If you can
+make an audience *feel* something, in a medium as cold as TV, you've
+done your job right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>ZHD - Thoughts<< (05 Nov 1996 21:20:14 -0700)
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>>ZHD - Thoughts<<

+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:20:14 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If, however, we are fully human in our "native" state, that is,
+> there is no where to go, then the question of "Who are you?" If
+> the Shadows are evil and bad, what happens when the "good" start
+> acting like the bad and take their eyes off their Ideal, and
+> start striving for what they want? The Vorlons manipulate races
+> genetic codes to create telepaths, they manipulate Sheridan to
+> put him in a place to head the AOL so that he will wipe the
+> Shadows away, and they are so sure that they have answered the
+> question "Who are they?" Delenn and Kosh hide the truth from
+> Sheridan, don't trust him to be who he is, and then excpect him
+> to do what they ask? In trying to stop evil, the Vorlons and
+> Minbari have fallen into the oldest trap that evil has, they have
+> become what they fought, they have become so busy asking everyone
+> else "Who are You?" while they were answering "What do you want?"
+> By forgiving one another, and by being forgiven, they can begin
+> to answer the question of "Who are they?" What do you think?
+
+      That's an extremely good and cogent analysis.  And you hit the
+theme right on the head, one we'll explore in year four with the
+Vorlon/Shadow situation...and which was presaged in "Infection," right
+in the first season, the first episode shot.  Sinclair says, in the
+ultimate moment in that conflict, "You forgot the first rule of the
+fanatic: When you become obsessed with the enemy, you *become* the
+enemy."  That is what is happening here, with these two and other
+parties.
+
+      It all comes together....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+WOLF IS EPIC!! (05 Nov 1996 21:30:23 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1996 21:30:23 -0700

+
 S J NICHOLSON <76574.1663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It reminded me of the "Zog" creature so perhaps it is something
+> that these "old ones" can produce with a Draal type of
+> technology?
+
+      Check out "Voices of Authority."  You've seen those eyes before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Z'Ha'Dum - Praise (06 Nov 1996 00:02:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1996 00:02:05 -0700

+
 Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> His refuge?
+
+      That sounds about right.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>ZHD - Thoughts<< (06 Nov 1996 00:02:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1996 00:02:07 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So is it safe to assume that the third age of mankind is wrapped
+> up in this somehow? As I write this, I begin to wonder, are we
+> seeing to some degree your own thoughts and/or strugles with
+> divinity/God/existance, or have you tried to keep those out of
+> this?
+
+      I don't know if any of it is so much my thoughts on these areas,
+as the questions I think we all have to look at.  My thoughts on their
+own wouldn't light up a cheap flashlight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS Hospital rumor FALSE (02 Nov 1996 00:20:29 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Nov 1996 00:20:29 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Kevin: by reposting this information in any form whatsoever, you
+have contributed grief to my life.  The stage was flooded with phone
+calls while I was at the editing bays about this.
+
+      There is this crummy logic in internetdom which says, "since
+information is power, my status can increase the faster I can get info
+out to others."
+
+      This kind of rumor is hurtful.  It causes me grief in running it
+down; it tied up the switchboard at work; it harrassed many people at
+work.
+
+      Understand this absolutely clearly: if anything ever does
+happen, I have people at the stage who will post specific and precise
+information.  If ever you see a rumor about this, you know *instantly*
+that it's not true, because if it were true, it would come instantly
+from those involved, and you wouldn't have to HEAR it from any other
+source.
+
+      The original poster was bad enough; reposting gossip, rumors or
+other nonsense is just as bad.  You should never have posted it in the
+first place; many people cited your message as the reason they were
+tying up our switchboard.
+
+      Never, ever do this to me again.
+
+      Am I perfectly, crystal clear?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>ZHD - Thoughts<< (06 Nov 1996 18:21:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1996 18:21:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thank you.  I can only hope that you are proven right by time,
+and that the Nobel committee hears about it....
+
+       As for answers...since I have none to give, I can't shove them
+down anyone's throats.  And if I did have them, they'd only be *my*
+answers, not anybody else's, so again, there's no point.
+
+       I'm a big believer in the power of critical thinking; don't
+just have an opinion, have an *informed* opinion, and challenge it
+yourself, be rigorous.  Even if you come back to the same opinion
+later, at least you will now be able to defend or explain your view
+rationally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Hour Packed (06 Nov 1996 18:21:15 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1996 18:21:15 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 in Newsweek (07 Nov 1996 01:21:28 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1996 01:21:28 -0700

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe-- You've probably read this already, but do you know if Bruce
+> and Jerry will still be going to the launch, now that it's been
+> delayed?
+
+      Heard about it...don't know how the current schedule is with
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcon in Columbus, Ohio (07 Nov 1996 01:21:29 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1996 01:21:29 -0700

+
 Nick Murray <70003.1112@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How far in advance did the Marcon folks invite you for this past
+> Marcon?
+
+      Have no idea anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>ZHD - Thoughts<< (07 Nov 1996 01:21:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1996 01:21:31 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So does thatmean you've formed the opinion that you have no
+> answers, or is the show part of you trying to find answers?
+
+      It means I have some ideas that work for me, but no Answers that
+could work for anyone else.  I have rules and guidelines based on what
+seems basic ethical behavior...but I'm constantly working to revise
+them, and question if they work as well as they might.
+
+      But it all comes down to what was said in Lost Horizon: "Be kind
+to one another."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+(blocked) (07 Nov 1996 19:34:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1996 19:34:04 -0700

+
 Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It appears that trying to contact you via the moderated USENET
+> newsgroup on the Internet is too hard to do using COMPUSERVE; but
+> I understand from the Lurker's guide that this is still an
+> acceptable forum? Did the Shadows, Vorlons and to a lesser extent
+> the Minbari hit a technological plateau in those thousand years? 
+> So how is Sheridan and company able to "compete" militarily with
+> the Shadows (although coming off the short end of a 2-1 kill
+> ratio is probably not exactly "competing")?
+
+      Actually, the shadows are *much* older technologically than a
+thousand years...that's just what Anna promised Sheridan we could jump
+ahead, between 1 and 10,000 years.  They're profoundly older than that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WOLF IS EPIC!! (07 Nov 1996 19:34:06 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1996 19:34:06 -0700

+
 Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What would I have to do to bribe you to tell me?
+> As for the father voice, are you trying to make us paranoid and
+> wonder if they Eyes may be Kosh?
+
+      Yeah, I almost wouldn't worry too much about the background
+stuff; this season starts some new threads that should be pretty easy
+for a newbie to jump into.
+
+      Enjoy the ride....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HotW - 2 planets (07 Nov 1996 19:34:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1996 19:34:07 -0700

+
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+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour of Wolf - No nits (08 Nov 1996 00:16:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08 Nov 1996 00:16:10 -0700

+
 Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there a note of humanity in his lines this time?
+
+      Thanks.  RE: the opening...exactly.  The B5 story is told from
+everyone's point of view, and they're all a part of it, so the opening
+now reflects that.  And it gives me the chance to do an opening that's
+sort of a prose poem, which is a nice touch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour Packed (08 Nov 1996 14:40:41 -0700)
+
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+
Hour Packed

+
Date: 08 Nov 1996 14:40:41 -0700

+
 O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By the way, would it be fair to suggest that in some ways, Justin
+> was for the Shadows what Sebastian was for the Vorlons?
+
+      Thanks.  And yeah, it's fun and interesting to see Londo now
+having to deal with being in a sense on the same side as Sheridan, but
+for vastly different reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z (02 Nov 1996 00:20:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Z

+
Date: 02 Nov 1996 00:20:31 -0700

+
 Neil J. Nagler <103522.1540@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can I say?
+
+"I'm still low, because I still want to go up from here. How Joe will
+do it is beyond me."
+
+      What, there can only be one 10 in four years?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour Packed (08 Nov 1996 22:05:06 -0700)
+
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+
Hour Packed

+
Date: 08 Nov 1996 22:05:06 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you getting soft on us<g>, or was there a reason to give us
+> the information here?
+
+      To not do so would've been vastly unfair.  And it nicely
+replaces one mystery, is or isn't he, with "who the heck is THAT?"
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Londo's Dream (08 Nov 1996 22:05:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Londo's Dream

+
Date: 08 Nov 1996 22:05:08 -0700

+
 Joe Salemi [ZD Net] <72631.23@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, now that we've seen most (maybe all?) of Londo's dream come
+> to pass, how's Peter feel about the trip from there to here? Still
+> astonished?
+
+      He's pleased, let's put it that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Drazispeak (08 Nov 1996 22:05:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Drazispeak

+
Date: 08 Nov 1996 22:05:10 -0700

+
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+
+      Ambassadors have been learning as they've gone along; I took the
+notion that the higher ups didn't have that much contact with humans,
+so their grasp of english was halting at best, but over 4 years,
+they've gotten better.  The grunts/lower echelons, though, are still
+marginal at best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Some general questions (09 Nov 1996 14:30:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Some general questions

+
Date: 09 Nov 1996 14:30:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> what?
+> I'd hope for some cinematic releases based in the B5 galaxy?
+> Pretty please?
+> Once a year or so?
+> Do you have a bitmap of a set of closed doors on the station?
+> Either to personnel quarters or to a docking bay, something like
+> that? Would you know if any such pictures are available anywhere?
+
+      I don't have any bitmaps per se of the doors, though there is a
+door like image on the B5 web page, www.thestation.com based on our
+doors (as I recall).
+
+      We may do some TV movies to expand upon the arc, show things we
+couldn't show in the series for budget reasons, but nothing cinematic
+planned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour Packed (09 Nov 1996 14:30:03 -0700)
+
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+
Hour Packed

+
Date: 09 Nov 1996 14:30:03 -0700

+
 John L. Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A somewhat annoyed Soul Hunter?
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<HotW> Wonderful (09 Nov 1996 14:30:06 -0700)
+
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+
<HotW> Wonderful

+
Date: 09 Nov 1996 14:30:06 -0700

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we shifting from hands to eyes as a theme?
+> Does he have a name, or is he so swallowed up in his identity as
+> a palace functionary that he doesn't need one? "Who are you?"
+> "Who are you?"
+> "How did I get here?"
+> "Why am I here?
+> "Well, that is the question, isn't it?"
+
+      Yes, the last piece there is kind of the key, isn't it?
+
+      I've always kept the minister just that, no name, for the
+reasons you cite.  This is someone wh's a survivor, who bends with the
+wind, and somehow keeps going by not being noticed, or taken seriously.
+
+      And yes, this season I was noticing that eyes have become a
+predominant image, from Lyta to the shadows to Lorien to some stuff
+coming in the next few episodes...funny, how this stuff creeps up on
+you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Newsgroups (09 Nov 1996 21:26:33 -0700)
+
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+
Newsgroups

+
Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:26:33 -0700

+
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+
+      rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+
+      Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour Of The Wolf (09 Nov 1996 21:26:35 -0700)
+
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The Hour Of The Wolf

+
Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:26:35 -0700

+
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+
+      Er...there was *zero* CGI in that scene.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Stern cheers B5 (09 Nov 1996 21:38:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
Stern cheers B5

+
Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:38:29 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> i have to ask you, what is your opinion of bob dole and all the
+> stuff he had to say about hollywood?
+
+      Television is a convenient target, nothing more.  In this
+respect, and some others, Dole has his head up his ass.  When you don't
+have anything else to offer, attack Hollywood.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spill The Beans (09 Nov 1996 21:38:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
Spill The Beans

+
Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:38:32 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> both positive and negative, to be an asset or a burden?
+> What is the main arc for the next 18 months?
+
+"Would YOU have continued with Babylon 5, in the way you have done so,
+without the feedback from fans?"
+
+      Absolutely.  More than anything else, I'm making the show, and
+telling this story, for myself; it's the story I'd want to see.  I'm
+doing it because I can't *not* do it.
+
+"Do you feel the critasism. both positive and negative, to be an asset
+or a burden?"
+
+      Neither.  It's a sense of the room, which is always good, but in
+general what you find is that for everything you do in a given episode,
+there will be some who hate it, and some who love it...there is no
+single strong concensus. So what you have to do is to just listen to
+the inner voice of the story and follow that, regardless.  If you start
+trying to second guess everyone's reaction...that way madness lies.
+
+      On a personal side, it can sometimes be a bit stressful, but I
+said I'd be accountable one way or another, and that promise stands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z - Sheridan (02 Nov 1996 00:20:33 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Nov 1996 00:20:33 -0700

+
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+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Four (09 Nov 1996 21:38:35 -0700)
+
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+
Season Four

+
Date: 09 Nov 1996 21:38:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> when will the new cd (soundtrack) come out?
+> will corwin get a bigger role, and a spot on the openning
+> credits? and, the names of who narrated the openning of season
+> four in the order they narrated in?
+
+"when will the new cd (soundtrack) come out?"
+
+      I'm going to be getting the soundtrack in about 10 days from
+Chris, so I can listen and approve or give notes.  That's the last
+stage; the artwork is done, the liner notes are in, everything's done. 
+So it should be fairly quickly thereafter.
+
+"will corwin get a bigger role, and a spot on the openning credits?"
+
+      There are currently no plans for that; the main cast is big
+enough as it is.
+
+"and, the names of who narrated the openning of season four in the
+order they narrated in?"
+
+      I have to do this from memory, but I think it's Bill, Jeff,
+Andreas, Pat, Stephen, Jason, Mira, Peter, Richard, Claudia, Jerry and
+Bruce.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Blown Away (10 Nov 1996 00:20:30 -0700)
+
+
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+
Blown Away

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 00:20:30 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And, "Can you believe this is on TV?
+> It's so much better than anything else?"
+
+      Thanks.  I hope, and sometimes allow myself to think, that
+you're right. This show is going to be around for a long, long time,
+and I think it's going to be remembered and talked about.  It's a great
+experiment, and my only regret is that its like will almost certainly
+not come my way again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Four (10 Nov 1996 14:50:38 -0700)
+
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+
Season Four

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:50:38 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think a year five opening would be just a still, unmoving
+camera focused on me, collapsed at my desk....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour of the Wolf (10 Nov 1996 14:50:40 -0700)
+
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The Hour of the Wolf

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:50:40 -0700

+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the fun of writing if you can't confuse and surprise the
+> audience?
+
+      Thanks.  I keep adding and trying out different tools...so far
+they seem to be working.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WEH to Mr. Garabaldi (10 Nov 1996 14:50:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
WEH to Mr. Garabaldi

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:50:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  This one's a favorite of mine as well.  On the
+Garibaldi scene, it was shot fairly conventionally, but as we got into
+editing, I said, "Let's do something we don't normally do, let's try a
+visual approach that's not usually part of SF shows."  So we put that
+sequence together.  Again, my feeling is, break your format once in a
+while or get stuck in a rut.  Take chances.  The worst that'll happen
+is that you'll fail.
+
+      It's a lovely episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Wolf>--Morden thoughts (10 Nov 1996 14:50:45 -0700)
+
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+
<Wolf>--Morden thoughts

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 14:50:45 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+WOLF IS EPIC!! (10 Nov 1996 19:27:29 -0700)
+
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+
WOLF IS EPIC!!

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:29 -0700

+
 Anne Strauss-Wiede <76614.2621@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any coincidence between how the eyes appeared to Ivonova, et al
+> and that when the Vorlonn appeared to Sheriden that he came as
+> his father?
+
+      I figured that they would both tend to use a patriarchal
+influence, which would tie into so many races having that system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Wolf>--Morden thoughts (10 Nov 1996 19:27:32 -0700)
+
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+
<Wolf>--Morden thoughts

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:32 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and thanks for rediscovering us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+What EHT Mr Garibaldi (10 Nov 1996 19:27:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
What EHT Mr Garibaldi

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:33 -0700

+
 Richard L. Long <76562.2757@compuserve.com> asks:
+> would this be to enhance the show or tell more of the story or
+> expand the story?
+
+      Primarily, more money would let us enhance certain elements, but
+the overall direction is what it is.  The money doesn't affect that one
+way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour of theWolf (10 Nov 1996 19:27:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this the intent?
+> Or, are we so much into the characters at this point that you
+> just gotta "join in when you join in" and do your best to catch
+> up?
+
+      I dunno...I hear frequently from people who've joined the show
+at much later points, and after just a couple of eps, are pretty much
+up to speed. Certainly the recap is designed to help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Z Questions, Comment (02 Nov 1996 13:54:04 -0700)
+
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+
Z Questions, Comment

+
Date: 02 Nov 1996 13:54:04 -0700

+
 Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I also love how you added yet another wrinkle to the ambiguity of
+> the time-travel paradox: Was Delenn warning Sherridan not to do
+> what he *did* do, or not to do what he *didn't* do? If the
+> Shadows' goal is to help evolution along by covertly getting the
+> various races to fight each other (which they were doing a fine
+> job of for a while there), then why did they then start attacking
+> directly? Was it because they had now decided who the winners
+> were, and were "culling" the losers? Are you saying that Sherridan
+> fought not one, but several Shadows with his BARE HANDS and got
+> away from them?? Are they so weak physically?
+> Have they no amazing mental powers or weapons with which to
+> subdue him? How did they kill Kosh then?
+
+      Well, look what happened when the shadows came out and attacked
+a couple of places...first they did so without anyone knowing it was
+them doing it, as we've shown.  So now everyone's running around like
+ants, scurrying for cover and trying to figure out what the hell's
+going on, accusing one another...then the Centauri got the credit/blame
+for it, causing further conflict...then they came out and sent everyone
+scurrying again, some to make alliances they thought would protect
+themselves (and thus enable them to make war on their neighbors, as
+shown), only to have that fall apart and they turn on themselves/each
+other.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridans Mistake (10 Nov 1996 19:27:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sheridans Mistake

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:37 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Maybe he did...maybe he didn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HotW--The Widening Gyre (10 Nov 1996 19:27:39 -0700)
+
+
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+
HotW--The Widening Gyre

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 19:27:39 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's kind of a hodge-podge of things, which I'm
+trying to look at in different ways and reinterpret, putting in other
+combinations than what may usually be the case.  It's really dancing on
+the high wire time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Whither Ivanova--Wolf (10 Nov 1996 22:38:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
Whither Ivanova--Wolf

+
Date: 10 Nov 1996 22:38:33 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's deliberate...take 'em apart, separate 'em, see how
+they react, and make everything as dark as possible in anticipation of
+some kind of dawn, though getting there will be a struggle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+captain's bar in "wolf" (11 Nov 1996 02:38:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
captain's bar in "wolf"

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:38:08 -0700

+
 JIM BUSKIRK <70571.2357@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what more could you ask for?
+> "hour of the wolf" will you confirm for the record that the
+> captain's bar that fell to the ground fell from Sheridan's chest? 
+> or could it have been dropped from the "one moment of perfect
+> beauty" 'creature' in "Matters Of Honor"?
+
+      It's not a captain's bar it's a stat bar (gold for command, gold
+and silver for command/administrative liaison, red for medical, green
+for security), and it's Sheridan's.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Wolf general comments (11 Nov 1996 02:38:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Wolf general comments

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:38:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, by building up Cartagia offscreen, it helped pave
+the way for what we do finally see.
+
+      And the only reason to not hold back Sheridan for one more ep
+was my feeling that if I held him *and* Garibaldi back, it'd be a bit
+much.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dark Night? (11 Nov 1996 02:45:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
Dark Night?

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:18 -0700

+
 Robin L. Small <76640.2012@compuserve.com> asks:
+> will the show and/or the characters be going through something
+> like that, where the tensions of the shadow war (both inside and
+> out) come to a dramatic confrontation, emerging into the
+> realization of hope??
+
+      I'd say that's about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour Of The Wolf (11 Nov 1996 02:45:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Hour Of The Wolf

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:19 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the light beams streaming from Lyta to Kosh 2 as 'he' leaves
+> were done with cel animation then?
+
+      No, the streams were done on a flint, and there were not two
+takes edited together, there was just the one continuous take.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour Of The Wolf (11 Nov 1996 02:45:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Hour Of The Wolf

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:21 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes...the CGI ref was to a fake Lyta head...and there wasn't
+one.  The streams aren't technically considered CGI as we use it. 
+That's roto work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Four (11 Nov 1996 02:45:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season Four

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:23 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Dunno, I'll find out when I hear it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<HotW>: Who's in charge? (11 Nov 1996 02:45:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
<HotW>: Who's in charge?

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 02:45:25 -0700

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the chain of command aboard B5?
+> Who's next after her -- who was in command when Ivanova was off
+> at Z'ha'dum?
+
+      That would be Major Atumbe, who's been referred to a few times,
+but not actually seen much.  And Corwin would also step in if needed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 4 Title (02 Nov 1996 21:36:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 4 Title

+
Date: 02 Nov 1996 21:36:35 -0700

+
 Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, any chance you could broadcast ALL of season 4 one night
+> this week??
+
+      Thanks.  The details are everything, in a show like this, and
+it's great when they're appreciated.
+
+      As for season one...we learned last week that when the show is
+finally over, TNT will be stripping the show, starting with the pilot
+straight through all the seasons.  Stripping means airing every day, 5
+days a week.  I think it'll be great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridans Mistake (11 Nov 1996 18:09:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sheridans Mistake

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:34 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You do this on purpose don't you?
+
+       Hey, those cards are going for $300 a pop now...if you're going
+to toss 'em, let others know where....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour Of The Wolf (11 Nov 1996 18:09:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Hour Of The Wolf

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:35 -0700

+
 SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was curious to know if you have story approval over these and
+> if the are considered B5 *canon* (for want of a better word)?
+
+       In the past, we've tried to keep them canon in the broad
+strokes, though in the details things fall out.  The new batch, though,
+are being kept much closer to continuity....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+captain's bar in "wolf" (11 Nov 1996 18:09:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
captain's bar in "wolf"

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:35 -0700

+
 Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Ivanova's stat bar gold and silver or (as I saw it) gold and
+> green?
+
+       Gold and silver.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour/Confirm? (11 Nov 1996 18:09:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hour/Confirm?

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:36 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, and it' snot the same headpiece; the soul hunter had a
+single jewel implanted in his head, nothing else.  This is more
+crown-like, and has an actual headpiece.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Orientation (11 Nov 1996 18:09:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
Orientation

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:37 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       In 2261, nobody much worries about categorizing people as one
+thing or another...some can move in and out of various kinds of
+relationships and no one thinks of it one way or another.  There is no
+political agenda here, or saying "you are this, and if you do that,
+you're not this anymore," or conversion, or anything of the sort.
+
+       One can only wish that were more true today.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Hour Of The Wolf (11 Nov 1996 18:09:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Hour Of The Wolf

+
Date: 11 Nov 1996 18:09:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       CGI is specifically graphics generated on a computer, usually
+2d or 3d animation.  Roto work like the streams from Lyta's eyes are
+done by hand, frame by frame.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season Four (12 Nov 1996 12:10:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season Four

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 12:10:40 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which reminds me, are you nearly ready to give us the new "season
+> title"?
+
+       When I'm ready....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Emperor's Journey (12 Nov 1996 12:10:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
Emperor's Journey

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 12:10:41 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Has Emperor Carpaggia (sp?) made his visit to Narn yet?
+
+       Not yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Garibaldi History (12 Nov 1996 12:10:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Garibaldi History

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 12:10:42 -0700

+
 Timothy C Schell <71174.2414@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this in the correct order?
+> Am I leaving out something?
+> Was this the base at Syria Planum or is that another installation
+> altogether? I seem to remember Garibaldi referring to
+> investigating the Syria Planum base....did he make further
+> inquiries or was the story just to coverup how he first
+> discovered PsiCorps activities? Was Garibaldi's flirtatiousness
+> with Talia genuine or a ploy to keep close to her without
+> arousing the mole personality's suspicion?
+
+       Sounds about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WHT Mr. Garibaldi? (12 Nov 1996 12:10:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
WHT Mr. Garibaldi?

+
Date: 12 Nov 1996 12:10:45 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lorien (01 Dec 1996 01:57:47 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 01:57:47 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I just kinda thought it was a cool sounding name....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh(s), clarification (01 Dec 1996 20:18:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kosh(s), clarification

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:28 -0700

+
 gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Have we now seen a real Vorlon?
+> So is the primary purpose of their encounter suits only to hide
+> their appearance? Since the yellow entity wasn't all Kosh-1, but
+> still looked like a "Vorlon", do all life-forces look the same? 4)
+> Was Sheridan dead again (after Kosh-1 et al left him)?
+
+      Yes, yes, maybe, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Diseases in B5? (10 Dec 1996 13:00:27 -0700)
+
+
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+
Diseases in B5?

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:27 -0700

+
 Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "supposed" future child?
+
+       That's why she underwent substantial genetic manipulation to
+make her more human.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Human Emotions in B5 (10 Dec 1996 13:00:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
Human Emotions in B5

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:28 -0700

+
 Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, have you ever considered creating a alien species whose
+> various emotions are totally outside the mainstream of human
+> emotion and are 100% unintelligible?
+
+       The only problem becomes using a 100% unintelligible character
+in any kind of story.  It's hard to structure something like that.  The
+closest I've come to is Kosh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Job Description (10 Dec 1996 13:00:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Job Description

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:31 -0700

+
 Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you going to define where the older races went?
+> Exactly what is beyond?
+
+       "To define is to kill, to suggest is to create."  -- Mallarme
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/103.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/103.html
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+
+
+Job Description (10 Dec 1996 13:00:33 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Job Description

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:33 -0700

+
 Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Talia going to come back?
+
+       No, no plans for Talia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/104.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/104.html
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+
+
+Motorola BitSurfrPro (10 Dec 1996 13:00:35 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Motorola BitSurfrPro

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:35 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       What software are you using for the modem, and what server are
+you using?  (I.e., Microsoft Network, IBM network, Earthlink, what?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/105.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/105.html
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+
+
+B5 merchandise (10 Dec 1996 13:00:36 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 merchandise

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, they're fairly discreet, and kinda classy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/106.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/106.html
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+
+
+Comments and praise. (10 Dec 1996 13:00:40 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Comments and praise.

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:40 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I don't see it really as a change of heart...they've always
+been very ruthless in their way.  Remember, it was the Vorlons who
+simply decided to off Deathwalker in first season.
+
+       There's some amount of escalation going on, obviously, which
+will be explained a bit more in upcoming episodes, but they've always
+been this way, it's your perception of them that's at odds.  You fell
+for what they wanted you to see them to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/107.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/107.html
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+
+
+B5 merchandise (10 Dec 1996 13:00:42 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 merchandise

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:42 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How are we going to order these, if we don't get to see the web
+> site?
+
+       I'll post the info when we're ready to go.  FC members
+generally get discounts on all B5FC merchandise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/108.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/108.html
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+
+
+Diseases in B5? (10 Dec 1996 21:34:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Diseases in B5?

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:34:08 -0700

+
 Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean that Delenn could no longer have children via a
+> Mimbari father?
+
+      Probably not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/109.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/109.html
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+
+
+New Fan (10 Dec 1996 21:34:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New Fan

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:34:10 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "That's it?!
+
+      That's a great story...thanks.  Inch by inch, we're taking over
+the planet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/11.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/11.html
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+
+
+B5 encounter... (01 Dec 1996 20:18:30 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
B5 encounter...

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:30 -0700

+
 gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At which point, the mother chimed-in and said "But you watch
+> Babylon 5 now, so you're all better?" It's been wonderful to see
+> B5 comments go from "What's that?" to "Isn't that the show with
+> the funny hair?"
+
+      That's a great story, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/110.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/110.html
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+
+
+Narn of the Above (10 Dec 1996 21:34:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Narn of the Above

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:34:12 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  - bloodlines - religious affiliation - Narn psychic midwife
+> declaration - Narn of the above?
+
+      It's usually based on religious affiliation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/111.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/111.html
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+
+
+War of the Worlds (10 Dec 1996 21:34:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
War of the Worlds

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 21:34:14 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, is this someone associated with the show or is he just
+> plugging the product?
+
+      I have no idea...it's news to me.  Is this a new book?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/112.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/112.html
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+
+
+V (11 Dec 1996 03:33:17 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
V

+
Date: 11 Dec 1996 03:33:17 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      NBC didn't reject it, it was meant for syndication after the
+network show was canceled; and most of the cast had moved on to do
+other things. Actors don't generally just hang around waiting for shows
+to get revived, they were not available in many cases, and my mandate
+was to give the show a fresh start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/113.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/113.html
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+
+
+V (11 Dec 1996 18:36:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
V

+
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:36:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/114.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/114.html
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+
+
+Human Emotions in B5 (11 Dec 1996 18:36:15 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Human Emotions in B5

+
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:36:15 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Yes, B5 is fiction...but elements of it that appear here and
+there are based on historical incident.  The CDA and other moves toward
+censoring the arts or the internet or free speech are the logical
+inheritors of Joe McCarthy's Senatorial inquisition, as well as earlier
+verions.  The Nightwatch goes right back to those roots...and anyone
+who thinks it can't happen here...it *has* happened here.  And can
+happen again tomorrow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/115.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/115.html
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+
+
+Another death (11 Dec 1996 18:36:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
Another death

+
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:36:15 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You enjoy making us twist, don't you Joe?
+
+       Except, of course, that trying to guess at it removes any sense
+of surprise, since by the time everyone's gone over all of the
+possiblilities, there's not much more to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/116.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/116.html
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+
+
+ISDN Lines (11 Dec 1996 18:36:16 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
ISDN Lines

+
Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:36:16 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What area code are you in?
+
+       I'm in the 818 area code.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/117.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/117.html
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+
+
+Alien names/ships? (11 Dec 1996 23:46:26 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Alien names/ships?

+
Date: 11 Dec 1996 23:46:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm not sure which ones you're referring to; we've got Llorts,
+Hyachs, Vree, Brakiri, and others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/118.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/118.html
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+
+
+Alien names/ships? (13 Dec 1996 13:59:55 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Alien names/ships?

+
Date: 13 Dec 1996 13:59:55 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       In order...those are Brakiri, and Gaim.  The last one is
+probably a Llort.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/119.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/119.html
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+
+
+Sheridan Speaks (13 Dec 1996 14:09:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sheridan Speaks

+
Date: 13 Dec 1996 14:09:36 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was awonderin': Since Sheridan had close contact with numerous
+> alien races before coming to B5 ("even a few Minbari") and had
+> picked up a few words of, at least, Narn ("All Alone in the
+> Night"), does he know *any* Minbari? Has he picked up any in the
+> last two to three years of close *ahem* contact with the Minbari? 
+> Do you have any plans for him to try to learn some or all of the
+> language?
+
+       When he has a bit more time, what with this pesky war and all,
+he'll almost certainly undertake this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/12.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/12.html
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+
+
+Vorlons/Shadows Motive?? (01 Dec 1996 20:18:32 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Vorlons/Shadows Motive??

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:32 -0700

+
 gopher <75410.177@compuserve.com> asks:
+> life-entity stuff, ala FTA), are the Vorlons destroying worlds to
+> get more life-entities for themselves in a hurry? And could this
+> be what the Shadows have really been doing, too?
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/120.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/120.html
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+
+
+ISDN Lines (13 Dec 1996 14:09:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
ISDN Lines

+
Date: 13 Dec 1996 14:09:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/121.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/121.html
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+
+
+Arc End.... (13 Dec 1996 14:09:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
Arc End....

+
Date: 13 Dec 1996 14:09:38 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, that's not the case, and we won't know for a while yet
+either way. No one is quoted as saying it, that's what was assumed by
+the writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/122.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/122.html
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+
+
+Sheridan Speaks (14 Dec 1996 03:16:05 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Sheridan Speaks

+
Date: 14 Dec 1996 03:16:05 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, I take it he didn't pick up much conversational Minbari on
+> his trips and contacts with the other races, eh?
+
+      Yup.  Because during the Minbari war, the Narns were selling us
+weapons, so Sheridan and other Earthforce captains had to learn at
+least a smattering of Narnish for purposes of negotiations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/123.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/123.html
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+
+
+quick requests (14 Dec 1996 20:15:45 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
quick requests

+
Date: 14 Dec 1996 20:15:45 -0700

+
      Just a couple of quickies:
+
+      1) I know it's that season, but because I don't do christmas,
+any christmas cards sent to me get roundfiled.  Invest the postage in a
+donation to a local charity.  But don't send me stuph.
+
+      2) Please do not send me binary files or uploads without first
+checking with me ahead of time.  I had my hard disk nearly killed by a
+trojan horse, and make it a practice now not to download ANYthing
+unless I know what it is and whence it comes.
+
+      And again, please, please, please do not send email with story
+related questions...you may think you're the only one doing this, it's
+just the one, but there are between 10-15 *million* people watching B5,
+and an awful lot of them are on the nets, and I can't keep answering
+the same story questions in email all the time (and many of them are
+much the same).  If you have a story related question, please post it
+in the public forums so that others can benefit from the answer, and so
+I only have to write it once.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/124.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/124.html
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+
+
+Orange County interview (14 Dec 1996 20:15:49 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Orange County interview

+
Date: 14 Dec 1996 20:15:49 -0700

+
 Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the latter, care to expand?
+> While I have your attention, could I ask something that's been
+> bothering me a bit? What languages do the various characters
+> speak, and when? I presume that the humans are all talking English
+> (is English now Earth's official language? maybe they're all
+> speaking Esperanto or LogLan?); and I can accept that when
+> various other species talk among themselves they are speaking
+> their native language but that the show expresses their
+> conversations in English for our convenience; and we have seen
+> some cases where characters speak in a language other than
+> English when language is an issue ("brickbat lingerie"), but what
+> about a situation like Sheridan and Lorien?
+
+"Now, I *know* you didn't write all the episodes in Seasons 1 and 2,
+but I wondered if there really was a connection between the planned
+series length and "the name of the place."  After all, I suppose 5 is a
+fairly arbitrary number--it could have been one or two or seventeen
+earlier stations that were sabotaged during construction--but I never
+really thought of the similarity."
+
+      No, that was never the intent, that it was called Babylon 5
+because it's 5 years of story.  The reporter just kinda came up with
+that.
+
+"The interviewer constantly uses the term "sci-fi," but, since I'm
+sure that you are well aware of the controversy over it, I would have
+presumed that you either would not have used it yourself (I don't think
+I've ever seen it in one of your messages), or else that you would have
+some particular statement-making reason.  If the latter, care to
+expand?"
+
+      No, I didn't use the term sci-fi, and NEVER use the term.  I use
+either SF of Science Fiction, but interviewers insist in putting those
+terms in my mouth because it's what they use.  I've complained to
+several of them about this already.
+
+"I'm not ruling out Babel Fish or belt-mounted Universal Translators,
+or perhaps Lorien's ability to read Sheridan's mind and learn English
+from it, but it does seem to me that things like this require at least
+a minimum of explanation. "
+
+There are several primary languages used on B5: Earth English,
+Centauri and Interlac, the latter being a kind of Esperanto (all of the
+important signs are in all three languages).  In addition, many
+species, such as the Gaim and the pak'ma'ra, use translator devices,
+since they're incapable of making human sounds.  Remember, you're
+seeing ambassadors for the most part, or aliens in the trade or
+commercial business, so they would tend to learn the dominant language
+of the place they're working in.
+
+"I'll hang on to the clipping if you want it for your scrapbook."
+
+      I'd *definitely* appreciate a copy of that one, so I can pass it
+on to WB for use in their PR, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/125.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/125.html
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+
+
+Your writing schedule (15 Dec 1996 01:41:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Your writing schedule

+
Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What are the current odds in your opinion?
+> 50-50?
+> 60-40?
+
+      I couldn't begin to guess.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Arc End.... (15 Dec 1996 01:41:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Arc End....

+
Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:06 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just so I can tell all my friends without net access, when will
+> the decision be made on season 5 and made public?
+
+      I don't know, that's a WB call.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Another death (15 Dec 1996 01:41:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Another death

+
Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Heh...yeah, snuck that one right by everybody....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+No Hiding Place (15 Dec 1996 01:41:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
No Hiding Place

+
Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a very subversive scene...I love it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Vorlon Question (15 Dec 1996 01:41:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vorlon Question

+
Date: 15 Dec 1996 01:41:12 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Are the Vorlons and the Shadows both crystaline based
+> entities? 2) Did Lorien (or his race) create the Shadows or the
+> Vorlons?
+
+      No and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New FX - no problems! (01 Dec 1996 20:18:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
New FX - no problems!

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:35 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, we kinda decided to cut back a bit on lens
+flare...because that particular one is now used in so many places, it's
+become a cliche.  We tried out a new kind of flare in the Kosh2 scene,
+when he nails Sheridan, you can just sorta see it...once everyone else
+does what we've been doing, we tend to move on to newer areas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Londo (15 Dec 1996 15:34:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
Londo

+
Date: 15 Dec 1996 15:34:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Londo had fallen to being something of a minor functionary, an
+addendum to the royal court, from the old school, assigned to one
+mid-level job or another, a reminder of what had been...and such
+reminders always improve with being sent far away.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Oh, Joe . . . (15 Dec 1996 15:34:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
Oh, Joe . . .

+
Date: 15 Dec 1996 15:34:55 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Basically, yeah, too much depression and guilt lately, and she's
+been for the most part a passive character lately, while others acted
+around her. Now it's about time for her to start becoming active again.
+There's fire and steel in *use*, and fire and steel waiting to be
+called upon...time to shift from the latter to the former.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Londo&Refa-Starlog artcl (16 Dec 1996 12:04:51 -0700)
+
+
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+
Londo&Refa-Starlog artcl

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:04:51 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       That is what Londo thinks, and that's what Peter repeated. 
+Londo doesn't yet know anything to the contrary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Oh, Joe . . . (16 Dec 1996 12:04:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
Oh, Joe . . .

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:04:52 -0700

+
 Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And people wonder why this show is so fantastic?
+
+       Thank yu...I tri to rite gud....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ISP in 818 Area Code (16 Dec 1996 12:04:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
ISP in 818 Area Code

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:04:53 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Londo & Morden<Hotw> (16 Dec 1996 12:04:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
Londo & Morden<Hotw>

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 12:04:54 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would that minion have a name?
+> Would that Minion be Morden?
+> Does better mean that he will be dead and outside the confines of
+> his flesh? Michael instead of Joe?
+
+       No, it ain't Morden.
+
+       And J. Michael looks better on a screen, mainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Walkabout Shuffle (16 Dec 1996 17:49:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Walkabout Shuffle

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 17:49:11 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Therefore, my question, considering how you probably had to work
+> to get all three of the "Babylon Squared" stars back at the same
+> time for WWE, is: Was "Walkabout" originally intended to take
+> place before the events in "War Without End"?
+
+       Correct.  Initially we'd wanted to put Walkabout in first, but
+that would have meant airing only WWE1 in that sweeps period, and
+having to wait until the fall for part 2, which seemed not only
+excessive but remarkably stupid.  So we reversed the shooting/airing
+order to accommodate that, and the fact that we knew we'd need a LOT of
+EFX in WWE1, and this would give us time to do it properly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hyperspace/Jump Gate (16 Dec 1996 22:37:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hyperspace/Jump Gate

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:37:18 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How does Hyperspace / Jump Gate technology work?
+> Does it create a bend in the space and time continuum where they
+> (ships) can travel faster than light?
+
+      It opens a way to hyperspace, which does not have a 1-1
+corrolation to our own space, allowing us to subvert the limitation of
+light speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Spinoff arc? (16 Dec 1996 22:37:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
Spinoff arc?

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:37:19 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> If the spinoff deal goes through, would it have an arc like the
+> original, or have you even planned for that eventuality yet?
+
+      It would have an arc, yes, but not as rigorous as the one in B5;
+I've kind of done that now, and would like to try something
+different...I don't like to try and walk in the same stream twice, to
+borrow a metaphor from Greek philosophy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Vorlon Question (16 Dec 1996 22:37:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vorlon Question

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:37:22 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the Shadows are Organic?
+
+      Well, yeah, they're a life form, therefore they're organic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+FTA prophecy&future (01 Dec 1996 20:18:37 -0700)
+
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+
FTA prophecy&future

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:37 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      You could.
+
+      But of course it would be hideously dangerous of you to do so.
+
+      Besides, in our soviet revisionism style, that error no longer
+exists, so there you are.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Londo&Refa-Starlog artcl (16 Dec 1996 22:37:24 -0700)
+
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+
Londo&Refa-Starlog artcl

+
Date: 16 Dec 1996 22:37:24 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The ways of actors are mysterious and transcend all
+understanding....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 T-Shirts (17 Dec 1996 11:45:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 T-Shirts

+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 11:45:57 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does anyone know where to get a child's B5 shirt or even if they
+> make them?
+
+       Ah, the shirt you describe is from All-U.  I posted the number
+here for the company a while ago, but don't have it at hand.  I'll try
+to dig it up, but in the interim, if some friendly person happens to
+have it nearby, and posts it, that would save you some time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 T-Shirts (17 Dec 1996 11:45:58 -0700)
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+
B5 T-Shirts

+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 11:45:58 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does anyone know where to get a child's B5 shirt or even if they
+> make them?
+
+       You can also try the Lurker's Guide (www.hyperion.com) which
+has a link to Uncommyn Gifts, which carries that stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Oh, Joe . . . (17 Dec 1996 18:28:48 -0700)
+
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+
Oh, Joe . . .

+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 18:28:48 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Exactly.  She needed that amount of time, so that's what she
+had to have to make it believable.  The next logical step is to show
+the other parts of her starting to come back into the foreground.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Walkabout Shuffle (17 Dec 1996 18:28:49 -0700)
+
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+
Walkabout Shuffle

+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 18:28:49 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you adjust the episode order so that TNT broadcasts it in
+> the "correct" order when they strip it?
+
+       Not really, because it doesn't make *that* much difference to
+risk confusing them about it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+War of the Worlds (17 Dec 1996 18:28:50 -0700)
+
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+
War of the Worlds

+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 18:28:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  I'd love to check out the comics.  Because of the
+press of work (and so many of the books out there started getting
+crummy, in my view), I've kind of gotten out of the comics habit over
+the last year, so I have no info on this one.  Best to send it along to
+me via the B5 mail drop, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman
+Oaks, CA 91423.  Thanks again, for the kind words and the reference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Oh, Joe . . . (17 Dec 1996 18:52:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Oh, Joe . . .

+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 18:52:01 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The question that come up as a result of this, at least in my
+> mind anyway, are; was she able too, and was he asking too much of
+> her under the circumstances, and should he have at least given
+> her some time before expecting an answer? In essence, what I guess
+> I'm asking in a nutshell is, was he expecting too much of her? 
+> After all, what if she didn't refuse because of what he had just
+> told her? Could she have lacked the courage at such a vulnerable
+> moment, thereby putting her needs on the back burner for what he
+> wanted? Even if that's indeed what happened, it still constitutes
+> love, but was it fair of him to put her in that position? Thus,
+> the question naturally therefore arises from this is, was he
+> thinking more of her at that moment, or of himself and what he
+> wanted?
+
+       Well, I think it's better for someone to know that first, then
+find out about it later.  "Oh, good, we're going to spend the rest of
+our lives together...oh, by the way, now that you've committed, you
+should know...."
+
+       Uh, uh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spinoff arc? (17 Dec 1996 22:18:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Spinoff arc?

+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 22:18:12 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Leaving aside the question of *why* you might want to do such a
+> thing, barring the sheer novelty of it, could you write
+> empty-headed drivel?
+
+"...could you write empty-headed drivel?  I mean by that, something
+devoid of the psychological depth, cultural allusions and
+variously-voiced wit that we currently appreciate in B5."
+
+      Never have before, and see no reason to start now.  Any time
+I've worked on any show, I've tried to bring something special to it. 
+Even when I was doing animation...the references in "The Real
+Ghostbusters" got blindingly obscure and arcane from time to time (we
+once referred to a group of eskimos of specific professions gathered to
+handle a spiritual problem an "inuit minyan," which I figure about 8
+people in the country got.)
+
+      One thing that tends to be true of TV writing in general, not
+just my case, is that once you know who's running and writing the show,
+you have a fairly good idea of the kind of show you're going to be
+getting, because shows tend to be direct outgrowths of the personality
+of that writer.  You can use phrases like "a Chris Carter show," which
+calls up one kind of show, or a "Carl Reiner kind of sitcom," or "a Rod
+Serling kind of show."  A jms show falls into the same category.  I
+like sharp, witty, in-depth writing; always have, always will.  So that
+can be counted on as a constant.
+
+      The other kind of writing you describe I couldn't do on a bet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+FYAmusement (17 Dec 1996 22:18:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
FYAmusement

+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 22:18:17 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who knows, maybe upon her return home she will tune in just to
+> catch the "real" wave?
+
+      You're right, that is amusing...in a nice way.
+
+      Be of good cheer (despite the season)...they're as real to me as
+they are to anyone else.
+
+      Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go stop G'Kar from
+frightening the neighbor's cat again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Oh, Joe . . . (17 Dec 1996 22:18:19 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Dec 1996 22:18:19 -0700

+
 Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, Joe, cross-culturally, how does the Minbari sleep-watching
+> ritual compare in seriousness to a human marriage proposal?
+
+      Well, I think it fair to say that with Delenn starting the
+ritual, there had already been kind of an implicit understanding that
+this was going to be more than just a fling...and there's still a long
+road ahead of them before this can be finalized.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sheridan chgd the Arc? (02 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0700

+
 Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder how much this fact has changed the original Arc?
+> For example, The flash-forward of the older Sinclair in Babylon
+> Squared - Was there a different (pe- Sheridan) 'explanation' than
+> the one presented in WWE? Did the Arc change significantly, due to
+> the change in cast??
+
+      You'd be surprised how much it *didn't* change.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Q about shadows&vorlons (18 Dec 1996 03:15:31 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 03:15:31 -0700

+
 Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't they have better things to do with their lives?
+> What happened to the shadow that Sherridan fired on?
+> Did it deflect the PPG charge like Kosh2 did?
+> How did he get past it?
+> Sherridan FOUGHT shadows --- or even one shadow -- with his BARE
+> HANDS? I realize they weren't trying to kill him, but a
+> full-fledged shadow could not subdue one puny human? How did they
+> kill Kosh then? Did Sherridan's hand get bloodied from tangling
+> with the shadow's spiky exoskeleton? I'm sorry to be so persistent
+> about this question, but everyone I watch this episode with goes
+> "Huh?"
+
+      The PPG bursts would've wounded the shadow, allowing him time to
+scramble out of there before Morden could draw.  He then had to fight
+some other humans in the area, scramble down some ridges into the cave
+areas, and then walk out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 censored in UK (18 Dec 1996 03:18:35 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 03:18:35 -0700

+
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+
+      Just a note, but so far the 4th season hasn't aired in the UK
+yet, and thus hasn't yet been censored, so this header is kind of a
+misnomer.  Also, I have no idea yet what C4 has in mind, and perhaps it
+might be a good idea to see what they do, and react to it, rather than
+jumping to conclusions based on what they *might* do....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (18 Dec 1996 16:10:03 -0700)
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 16:10:03 -0700

+
There's been a fair amount of speculation and concern about the fifth
+season, and how the story is laying out to handle the possibilities of
+renewal vs. no renewal.  Though the ratings have continued to improve
+despite the shifts and changes in the syndication marketplace -- it's a
+very different market than it was when we first debuted -- nothing is
+certain yet about a fifth season. Some at WB say yes, some say no.  My
+job is to pick my way through this minefield and make it all  work, and
+assure the story ending where is was meant to end.  So how does one do
+this?
+
+Here's the skinny.
+
+First, you have to understand that writing is a *process*, and that
+process is constantly changing.  Ask any writer, and they'll tell you
+that many times they've been working on a short story, or a novel, and
+they have to edit for space.  This applies to both fiction and
+nonfiction writers.  Sometimes it's done by the writer, sometimes by
+the editor.  On my second novel, the editor told me at the halfway mark
+that we'd have to keep the book down to 100,000 words, which was about
+75-100 pages less than I'd been planning on, so the story had to be
+adjusted to fit.  As a journalist, I've often walked into the office
+with a story in hand and been told, "Okay, you've got 15 column 
+inches," or 25 column inches, or 10 column inches...and you just learn
+to write to fit.  Every writer goes through this.
+
+And in most cases, the average person never knows.  Done properly, it
+should be seamless.  Look at Stephen King's The Stand, cut by almost
+25% by the editors at first, then later released with all the ancillary
+material replaced.  I've read both, and the latter is not appreciably
+better than the former...if you didn't know the material was there, you
+would never have missed it.
+
+This also happens on a per-episode basis.  At LosCon, I showed a
+finished scene from 405, and the daily of the master shot of the same
+scene, which had another minute or so of material cut from the finished
+scene.  We cut material all the time; if you added up all the material
+cut from the third season, you'd have enough for almost two episodes. 
+And we often slide material from one episode into another; we slid
+Ivanova's scenes in 402 into 403, and another scene from 405 into
+406...we've done that in prior seasons as well. Sometimes you go back
+and you *add* material.  Again, it's all part of the process.
+
+(Interestingly enough, I just bought the new laserdisk of "Young
+Frankenstein," which has about 15 minutes of material cut from the
+movie for time.  I watched it the other night, and of those 15 minutes,
+13 were easily expendable...only one scene was fairly interesting, but
+not really necessary.)
+
+Okay, so how does all this relate to B5?
+
+My obligation as a storyteller is to get to the end of the story in a
+satisfying way.  So after we got the year 4 renewal, and knowing that
+the PTEN business situation had the potential to impact us (when the
+network that supports you is no longer there, so now your entire
+structure is shot out from under you...you've got a problem), I looked
+at the structure for the story, and began planning adjustments so that
+it could go either way without padding anything, and without
+shortchanging the story.
+
+First thing I did was to flip out the stand-alones, which
+traditionally have taken up the first 6 or so episodes of each season;
+between two years, that's 12 episodes, over half a season right there. 
+Then you would usually get a fair number of additional stand-alones
+scattered across the course of the season.  So figure another 3-4 per
+season, say 8, that's 20 out of 44. So now you're left with basically
+24 episodes to fill out the main arc of the story.
+
+Now, that arc is very intensive, and has three primary threads: the
+resolution of the Shadow war, the situation regarding Earth, and a
+series of smaller sub-threads that feed off those main threads.  But if
+you charge right from one to the other, it's going to feel rushed,
+you're going to need some breathing room between major movements,
+particularly after the shadow war. Not so much stand-alones as episodes
+that let you begin to rearrange your pieces for the next major
+movement.  So now you're back up to about 27.
+
+Okay, so *now* what do you do?  The solution to that came in several
+unassociated pieces.
+
+First came the word of the two B5 TV movies for TNT, which were
+envisioned as taking place within the arc of our main story.  Suddenly
+I had 4 hours into which I could slide some of this material.  One
+sub-thread I'd been planning on was a 3-episode arc that would look at
+how the Earth/Minbari War started, and Delenn's situation at the start
+of the war, joining the Council, that sort of thing.  Now I was able to
+split that out.  So in the series I can, in an episode, get into
+Delenn's role in the war and go into the background of how she got to
+know Dukhat, how she got into the Grey Council, and so on...all the 
+stuff you'd need to see prior to the war. Then the two hours covering
+the rest, the progress of the war itself, could be covered in the
+two-hour movie.
+
+With the *benefit* that we'd have a little more money for the movie
+than we would for two conventional hours, so we could do *more* in the
+way of EFX, production value, and so on, which you're going to need to
+really sell the E/M war.  So strangely enough, and as tends to happen,
+this has put us in the position of doing it *better* than if I'd
+dropped it into two standard-budget episodes, as was my original plan.
+
+Another sub-thread wouldn't have been introduced until late in year 5,
+in part to set up the possibility of a sequel (which, as I've stated
+from the very earliest days of the show, was always in the back of my
+head) and which would stand on its own in any event; a thread designed
+to illustrate the notion that the duration tends to be a lot longer
+than the war. (You'll understand that one later.)  That sub-thread
+would've filled about 3-4 episodes.
+
+Now, again, having the second 2-hour movie lets me slide that piece of
+story into that category and cover nearly all of that ground in doing
+so. The remaining material could (and will, one hopes) be covered in
+the actual sequel itself.  (If the sequel never ends up going, the
+material will be sufficiently stand-alone to still work on its own.)
+
+Then, finally, you take the stand-alones you pulled out earlier (which
+nobody would miss, not knowing what was in them), and the final couple
+of sub-threads (not yet introduced or implied in the main series) and
+slide them into the sequel series, CRUSADE.
+
+So if we *had* to collapse everything into a fourth year, it would all
+fit perfectly.  If word came that there *was* going to be a fifth year,
+you commission some scripts early, drop some of the stand-alones back
+into the slot, and bring up the sub-threads that would otherwise have
+been transferred into the sequel.
+
+Bottom line is...you're covered either way.  You end up where you
+wanted to end up, the main threads get dealt with, secondary or
+tertiary threads have other venues in which they can be dealt
+with...you're solid.
+
+There's nothing particularly extraordinary or amazing in this...this
+is how all writers work, since there are always going to be varying
+constraints in length or venue.  Writing is a process, and that process
+is such that it is infinitely variable while still proceeding where you
+want it to go.
+
+So that's where I am currently.  If I know the fate of the fifth year
+by late February or early March, I can then flip either way and get out
+cleanly. Worst case scenario is that I might have to write alternate
+scenes or alternate endings for scenes in the last few episodes if the
+word comes much later than that, just to give me the flexibility to
+adjust the story in editing, which would definitely take place after we
+wrapped, at which time we have to have word by contract.
+
+None of this could've been done in three seasons...we had to have a
+minimum of four to give us the flexibility of cutting either way. 
+There's no point to reading a book that leaves you hanging for an
+ending, and B5 was meant to have an ending.  At this juncture,
+finishing off script 15, I feel very comfortable with the way all this
+is laying out.  The flow is there, and I know we'll get where we need
+to.  No matter what happens, we're covered. We can handle year 5 
+without padding, and handle year 4 without shortchanging the
+storyline. Granted it took only slightly less planning than the
+invasion of Normandy, but it works, and that's the crucial thing.
+
+Anyway...I've gone on for longer than I'd intended.  I hope that this
+will answer some of the questions and concerns raised about the
+situation, and explains how you do some of the planning for this kind
+of thing.  Again, this online experiment is about letting people
+understand the process of telling a story like this, and of making a TV
+show in general.  As I've noted before, telling a story of this nature
+for television, with all the exigencies and real-life surprises
+involved, is like doing an elaborate step-dance while people are
+throwing live chickens and chainsaws at you...but I knew that would be
+the situation going in, and it was only a matter of whether or not the 
+story was worth the grief involved in telling it.
+
+And it most definitely has been.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Your writing schedule (18 Dec 1996 23:55:34 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:34 -0700

+
 Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the show is ended in the 4th rather then the fifth year how
+> does that change the orginal arc plan- what happened according to
+> the opening on the first year sinclair was to be the last
+> comander of B5?
+
+      Actually, Sinclair wasn't identified by name in the pilot
+episode as the final CO.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+What came First/Last? (18 Dec 1996 23:55:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:36 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But it couldn't have been everything, could it?
+> So, in broad strokes, could you define the order in which you
+> created the universe/story? On the other end, was there anything
+> major in what we've seen so far that got added in after the fact? 
+> I guess that Sheridan is #1 here, now 'bout #2?
+
+      Doesn't work that way.  I can't separate out the elements like
+that, it's all of a piece.  It's like, when someone asks you to
+remember your first relationship, you don't define it or bring it up in
+terms of trips in cars, clothes you were wearing, or the like.  It's a
+whole.  And that's how I tend to tell, and how I developed, the
+story...sort of like remembering it all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spoo taste? (18 Dec 1996 23:55:38 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:38 -0700

+
 ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But the question is, what earth food is most like it?
+> Escargot?
+> tripe?
+> Scallops?
+> steak?
+
+      Meat Jello.
+
+      Served chilled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Messages from Earth (18 Dec 1996 23:55:40 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:40 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      You need to get out more.  "Eternal vigilance is the price of
+freedom" is a very famous phrase from history.  Your homework
+assignment now is to go and find it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (18 Dec 1996 23:55:43 -0700)
+
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:43 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  I think the impact of the show will only continue to
+grow with time.  In a few years, we'll be discovered, as though
+suddenly we materialized on TeeVee...but that's okay.  It's the doing
+that matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (18 Dec 1996 23:55:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:45 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, the two TNT two-hours are confirmed.
+
+      And the regular series will start on TNT right after the main
+run is finished, starting with season one.  (So if we finish new
+episodes in any given November, the show begins reruns on TNT the
+following January.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon Question (18 Dec 1996 23:55:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Dec 1996 23:55:50 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But the Vorlons are a lifeform and I thought you said they were
+> crystiline? Or are they a lifeform?
+
+      Silicon or crystalline based lifeforms are still lifeforms, just
+not the same as carbon-based lifeforms (like us).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Falliing Toward <Gulp!> (02 Dec 1996 02:48:59 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 02:48:59 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a nicely intense sequence.  And the next two are
+moreso.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spinoff arc? (19 Dec 1996 23:13:09 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> But haven't you already done the single episode format on MSW,
+> and other series you've been on? What's between the arc and the
+> stand alone shows?
+
+      Well, basically, all there *is* are either arc shows or
+stand-alone shows (or maybe somewhat stand-alones with a slight thread
+running through them).  My feeling for now is that I just don't want to
+do the same thing twice in a row...and maybe find some new approaches
+along the way to the next project.
+
+      You must understand how hideously difficult and exhausting
+telling a 5 year tightly constructed story like this is...basically,
+over the course of 4 years, I'll have written 3,000 pages all in one
+universe, primarily telling one story.  That's the equivilent of 6 or 7
+full-size novels in 4 years, telling one story.  After something like
+that, you want to do something a little different for a bit.
+
+      Four years ago, when I started carrying this elephant, I barely
+had a grey hair on my head...now it's gone almost entirely grey, I look
+as if I've aged 10 years, and people who see me after a gap of a few
+years all say the same thing: "What the hell HAPPENED to you?"  I tell
+them: Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (19 Dec 1996 23:13:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are there any plans to eventually release the B5 episodes (and
+> potential upcoming TV movies) on video tape for the home market?
+
+      In the fullness of time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (19 Dec 1996 23:13:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and I'm glad the book is turning out to be useful.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Corwin's Absence? (19 Dec 1996 23:13:16 -0700)
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Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:16 -0700

+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> David Corwin still a part of the B5 story arc?
+
+      He'll be showing up again about mid-season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The "Triangle" (19 Dec 1996 23:13:18 -0700)
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Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:18 -0700

+
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+
+      Basically, yeah, it senses the presence of the Shadows
+themselves... hence her comment, "They're back," even though we see
+only Morden.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Glass Hand question (19 Dec 1996 23:13:19 -0700)
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Glass Hand question

+
Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:19 -0700

+
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+
+      It got pushed due to the increase in the arc, but we hope to do
+something with it eventually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Oh, Joe... (19 Dec 1996 23:13:21 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:21 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you tell me anything more about this, or have we indeed been
+> left to draw our own conclusion in that regard?
+
+      I figure a) it's left to the viewer, and b) from my POV, he saw
+what he said he saw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dr. Kyle (19 Dec 1996 23:13:24 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:24 -0700

+
 Michael N. Rubinste <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He probably got all kinds of details from that scan; otherwise
+> how could he have saved Kosh? Kyle since?
+
+      It was noted in season 1 that Dr. Kyle was reassigned to
+Earthdome, under President Clark.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 censored in UK (19 Dec 1996 23:13:26 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 19 Dec 1996 23:13:26 -0700

+
 Philip Eldridge <100723.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If they do cut it would you be consulted or would it just be get
+> out the scissors and cellotape? Surely being the creative force
+> behind the series it must annoy you to see someone tamper with
+> your work? Is there any truth to the stories of TNT syndicating
+> B5? If so how will this affect a possible series 5?
+
+      TNT picks up B5 whenever it's done, whether that's 4 or 5 years,
+so it doesn't affect us either way.
+
+      My only concern on the C4 thing is that, as far as I know,
+nothing has been indicated by C4 either way on cuts of any sort, and I
+know just enough about TV folks to know that if people act before even
+*they* have reached a concensus, and may not in fact be accurate, it
+tends to move them in the opposite direction from that desired.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Falling Toward Reason (02 Dec 1996 02:49:01 -0700)
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Falling Toward Reason

+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 02:49:01 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know Delenn had to be at the Great Vorlon Battle for the sake
+> of the story, but, as the author, can you tell us why she decided
+> to go there? Was it the noise of the battle that attacted her?
+> Was she informed of the battle beforehand, and we just didn't
+> know about it? Did someone clue her in, and she ran down there to
+> witness it and/or look out for John?
+
+      Well, I think it's pretty obvious she would've known about it,
+given hr proximity to Sheridan...and if I knew something this big was
+going on, sure as heck *I'd* want to be there to see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+FTA prophecy&future (02 Dec 1996 13:48:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:31 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Danger??!!
+
+       "I've got it on tape."
+
+       Of *course* you do.
+
+       BTW, you should clean up your front room more often, it takes
+forever to find anything there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Call for Papers (02 Dec 1996 13:48:32 -0700)
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Call for Papers

+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:32 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Cool...if they only knew my GPA while I was in college...urk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+404: Falling (01 Dec 1996 01:57:48 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 01:57:48 -0700

+
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+
+      Kosh went with the new vorlon into the ship, and that final
+blast was what did the job ultimately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan chgd the Arc? (02 Dec 1996 13:48:33 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:33 -0700

+
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+
+       Well, bear in mind that the Valen transition is set up as far
+back as the first season....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Kosh's Ship (02 Dec 1996 13:48:34 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:34 -0700

+
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+
+       It was responding to Kosh2's commands to get out of there so
+he/it could enter it and escape.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlon ship problem (02 Dec 1996 13:48:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:36 -0700

+
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+
+       There wasn't enough left for that...it was just a hint of him,
+that later needed to be bolstered by both Lorien and Sheridan to hit
+even a part of its original ability.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Laser Disc (02 Dec 1996 13:48:39 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:39 -0700

+
 S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> do you think it might help if a lot of people would tell WB that
+> they'd be willing to buy B5 on LD?
+
+       No, it's a status thing, primarily...they don't like to sully
+their hands with TV, they prefer to handle the big-budget movies
+exclusively.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Laser Disc (02 Dec 1996 13:48:41 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:41 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what is the difference with WB in the UK?
+
+       Different company (each division is its own company), different
+mindset.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moving Towards... (02 Dec 1996 13:48:42 -0700)
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Moving Towards...

+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 13:48:42 -0700

+
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+
+       Yes, that's a Vorlon...and there was a physicality to them,
+shown by the fact that it could strike out and hit things.  It's not a
+ghost or anything of that nature, it can be hurt and killed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Chicago ComiCon '97 (02 Dec 1996 14:04:20 -0700)
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Chicago ComiCon '97

+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 14:04:20 -0700

+
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+
+       Actually, I won't be at either Chicago ComicCon or the Irish
+con, as it turns out, since I'm tagged as guest of honor at Westercon
+50 in Seattle that weekend.  I hope to do ChiCon next year, since it's
+a great experience, and the Irish one next time I'm in the area.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Call for Papers (02 Dec 1996 14:04:21 -0700)
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Call for Papers

+
Date: 02 Dec 1996 14:04:21 -0700

+
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+
+       What the hell does THAT mean?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (03 Dec 1996 15:16:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:00 -0700

+
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+
+       Yep, it was all worked out long ago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (03 Dec 1996 15:16:01 -0700)
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JMS: season 4 = arc end?

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:01 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who held the 22 script record?
+> Was that Terry Nation?
+> So how far do these 39 scripts go (Episode Num to Ep Num)?
+> And, better yet, how do you manage to be an Executive Producer, a
+> writer, and have a life all at the same time?
+
+       Actually, Nation's record was about 13 or 18 in a row.
+
+       And of those three elements, the personal life is the one that
+has to go out the window to make the other two work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Answers (01 Dec 1996 02:17:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 02:17:22 -0700

+
      Okay, I'm gonna keep this real short and real simple.
+
+      You wanna see the end of the story?  Huh?  Do you?  Do you?!
+                                                          ~~~~~~
+      THEN GIVE ME THE DAMNED CHEAT CODES FOR "QUAKE!"
+
+      Just that.  Okay?  And I can get back to work, and nobody gets
+hurt.
+
+                                jm(vibrating into another dimension)s
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Apotheosis (03 Dec 1996 15:16:02 -0700)
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Apotheosis

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:02 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hey Joe, have we now gotten to see exactly what a Vorlon looks
+> like beneath that suit, or was our friend Kosh2 somehow visually
+> obscured and\or distorted by the trap that had been set for him?
+
+       That's pretty much what they look like.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<Falling>> Thoughts (03 Dec 1996 15:16:03 -0700)
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<<Falling>> Thoughts

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:03 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any particular character who bangs the camera more often
+> than not? And how often does the finished product match what you
+> "saw"?
+
+       The finished film comes startlingly close to what I saw in my
+head at least 85% of the time.  The other times, it falls below, or
+goes beyond.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh(s), clarification (03 Dec 1996 15:16:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:04 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it my imagination or did the Vorlons look like the shadows?
+> And if so, would the reason the Vorlons hide in encounter suits
+> be because when they leave they have to project the right images
+> to people?
+
+       I didn't think they looked that much alike.  But then, no two
+people ever see Vorlons in quite the same way, I guess.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Answers (03 Dec 1996 15:16:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Ooh, I like that one...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan chgd the Arc? (03 Dec 1996 15:16:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:13 -0700

+
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+
+       Sheridan, or someone like him, would've been brought in around
+this time regardless, yes...but knowing this would happen, I was able
+to skew the new character to have the elements, and be in the position,
+that would most help me move the story along.
+
+       And you're right...the longer you leave someone in command
+there in the show, the more difficult and dangerous it becomes to
+remove that character. If you're going to do it, best to do it earlier
+than later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS : Dreams? (03 Dec 1996 15:16:14 -0700)
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JMS : Dreams?

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:14 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondering...you do a lot more *thinking* about B5 than
+> I....does it affect you in the same way???
+
+       Yeah, I live the show, dream the show...can't get away from it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh (03 Dec 1996 15:16:17 -0700)
+
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Kosh

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:17 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yep, at the time of that flash-forward, Sheridan has at most
+2-3 years left to live.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New char (03 Dec 1996 15:16:18 -0700)
+
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New char

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:18 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is it Lorien, somebody else, or somebody we haven't met at all?
+
+       Lorien certainly qualifies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan chgd the Arc? (03 Dec 1996 15:16:21 -0700)
+
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Sheridan chgd the Arc?

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:21 -0700

+
 Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you EVER going to tell us what the change was??
+
+       Of course not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+comments (03 Dec 1996 15:16:24 -0700)
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comments

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:24 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could that be his escape in the future?
+
+       Torture, yes...but some people consider that pleasurable...it's
+quite a dilemma....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Answers (01 Dec 1996 20:18:15 -0700)
+
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+
Answers

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:15 -0700

+
 James & Deb's <101355.3704@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Enjoy.Have you tried Duke nuckem 3D yet?
+
+      Thanks!
+
+      I've done some with Duke Nukem, but the thing's just a bit
+repetitive for me, so I haven't gotten that deeply into the game yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan chgd the Arc? (03 Dec 1996 15:16:27 -0700)
+
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Sheridan chgd the Arc?

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:27 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So MOH departure WAS unexpected?
+
+       I've always said that it was something I began to realize was
+necessary about two-thirds of the way into season 1, and as I began to
+plan out season 2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Falling Toward Reason (03 Dec 1996 15:16:28 -0700)
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Falling Toward Reason

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:28 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Probably both.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Centauri Emperors (03 Dec 1996 15:16:29 -0700)
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Centauri Emperors

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:29 -0700

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Turhan come to the throne very late in life and reign only
+> briefly? If Turhan reigned a long time, who kept the 'pain
+> technicians' busy and gave Londo (who had only been at court for
+> a short time when he talked to G'Kar) the opportunity to see
+> prisoners being tortured and vivisected for the amusement of the
+> court? Cartagia seems very over the top to us, but does he seem
+> less excessive to Centauri who look back on the days when
+> Turhan's father personally ordered the execution of 100,0000
+> Narns?
+
+       I'd say that Turhan was probably emperor for about 30 years or
+so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Laser Disc (03 Dec 1996 15:16:32 -0700)
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B5 Laser Disc

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:32 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Any idea how many letters they have received on the subject?
+
+       If ten zillion letters showed up, it wouldn't matter, I've
+finally come to understand...it's a prestige thing, not a money thing. 
+They want to handle the high-profile movies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh(s), clarification (03 Dec 1996 15:16:33 -0700)
+
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Kosh(s), clarification

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:33 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I'm not sure you're remembering this correctly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+FTA & Vorlons (03 Dec 1996 15:16:40 -0700)
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FTA & Vorlons

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:40 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> In this newest episode, have we finally seen what Vorlons really
+> look like?
+
+       Yeah, that's pretty much it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh(s), clarification (03 Dec 1996 15:16:46 -0700)
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Kosh(s), clarification

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:46 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The encounter suit was mainly to mask them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Movies (03 Dec 1996 15:16:47 -0700)
+
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+
TNT Movies

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:47 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these the two movies that TNT has requested?
+
+       No, those are other projects.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Another Kosh Query (03 Dec 1996 15:16:53 -0700)
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Another Kosh Query

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 15:16:53 -0700

+
 Bryan Morton <106454.3602@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just answering a post on that in another thread, and a
+> thought occurred to me (doesn't happen very often <g>): was FTA
+> the episode where Kosh *should* have died, had you stuck to your
+> original intentions? If so, would he have gone out in the same way
+> (helping to kill another Vorlon), or would he have been in Darth
+> Kosh's position?
+
+       Best to leave what might've been out...what is, is better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Book Advice (03 Dec 1996 19:57:56 -0700)
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B5 Book Advice

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 19:57:56 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Call a specialty SF bookstore and have them get a copy of
+CREATING BABYLON 5, from Boxtree Books in the UK.  It's terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Questions (01 Dec 1996 20:18:17 -0700)
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+
Questions

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:17 -0700

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Seeing what the production schedule is like for a 24
+> episode/season show like X-Files, I wondered if you were *glad*
+> you had only 22 eps or wished you had 24? Anyway, just how long
+> are you in production each year? Does your crew take much time off
+> for the holidays or do most work through? The opposite question
+> would be: would you wish you had *less* shows in a season? I was
+> wondering if there were any articles that would showcase the
+> complete production of a single episode, from its inception down
+> until the final sound mix (or whatever comes last)?
+
+      No, no one's done an article like that, though Stephen Smith did
+spend a week on the B5 sets for Sci-Fi Universe Magazine.
+
+      I'd much rather shoot 24 than 22, because it gives us more room
+to spread things out, and try some different kinds of stories.
+
+      We shoot from early August through May 5th, so the cast gets
+about 2-3 months off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+FTA prophecy&future (03 Dec 1996 19:57:57 -0700)
+
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+
FTA prophecy&future

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 19:57:57 -0700

+
 Mark D. Smith <70254.107@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, in other words, you retaped that dialog?
+
+     yup
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Gold Channel (03 Dec 1996 20:07:56 -0700)
+
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B5 Gold Channel

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 20:07:56 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I gather that this is just a gag?
+
+      Yeah, it's just a gag.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thanks for the Gift (03 Dec 1996 20:07:58 -0700)
+
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+
Thanks for the Gift

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 20:07:58 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The pleasure was entirely mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Early History ? (03 Dec 1996 20:07:59 -0700)
+
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+
Early History ?

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 20:07:59 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> First when the Vorlons and Shadows divided up the galaxy, who got
+> Earth? Also, did this division match the division between the
+> Shadows and Centari? In regards to Lorien's statement that he is
+> The First One, does this mean was the first sentient being, the
+> last survivor of the first sentient race, the first sentient
+> being to achieve sufficient control of life energy to be
+> "immortal"? Also, is Z'HaDum Lorien's home world and if not why
+> did he hang out there so long?
+
+      There was no clear division...they both tried to influence
+everyone they came upon, to get them to go one way or the other.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Emporer (03 Dec 1996 20:08:02 -0700)
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+
The Emporer

+
Date: 03 Dec 1996 20:08:02 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> and what of the prophetesses?
+
+      They weren't prophetesses, they were communications-telepaths,
+and the emperor can use them if he perceives the need to keep in
+contact with events in the royal court.  Cartagia could give a fig for
+what goes at home, which will be ash soon anyway....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Laser Disc (04 Dec 1996 01:07:42 -0700)
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B5 Laser Disc

+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 01:07:42 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> That's depressing...but they won't let you have the rights to
+> release them? What if we wrote about *that*...<G>?
+
+      Nope again.  They're like a monkey with its fist around a nut in
+a jar; they won't let go, and can't take it out, or let anyone else
+have it.  But we will keep working at it...sooner or later, we'll win. 
+We always do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Laser Disc (04 Dec 1996 01:07:44 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Laser Disc

+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 01:07:44 -0700

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So then why the tapes in the UK?
+> Or is that some other company?
+
+      UK tapes are under a different divsion of WB.  WB International
+and WB Domestic are wholly different divisions...WB isn't one company
+like Universal or Paramount, but a series of competing fiefdoms with
+their own rules and agendas.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Snow White Script (04 Dec 1996 11:45:25 -0700)
+
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Snow White Script

+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:45:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Sorry, it turns out that material is no longer available
+anywhere. There was a terrible fire....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS : Dreams? (04 Dec 1996 11:58:04 -0700)
+
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JMS : Dreams?

+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:58:04 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> May I ask another question?
+> I have been curious about the strange scheduling of the show in
+> the USA (I arrived here just in time for season 4), and wonder if
+> it actually *helps* the quality of the show??? What do you think
+> of this? Was this the writers exhaustion reaching the screen
+> having written all of season 3 and a huge chunk of season 2?
+
+       The long broadcast breaks don't give us a break because we
+don't stop filming during them.  We start filming at the beginning of
+August, and we shoot straight through to May, with only breaks for
+holidays and a quick one-week hiatus in the fall and spring.  It would
+be hideously expensive and difficult to stop and start shooting every
+five weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta Alexander (04 Dec 1996 11:58:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Lyta Alexander

+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:58:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Only that they'd still respect her in the morning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Laser Disc (01 Dec 1996 20:18:20 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Laser Disc

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:20 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm with you...I've bought all the various Star Wars
+incarnations on disk, and the Aliens and T2 movies the same way, right
+up through the AC3 disks.  I hate buying the same movie more than 3
+times....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (04 Dec 1996 11:58:14 -0700)
+
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JMS: season 4 = arc end?

+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:58:14 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you miss the trade off?
+> I know you love your work, and you are doing a superb job, but
+> I'm curious if you feel you're missing something?
+
+       "I'm curiuos if you feel you're missing something?"
+
+       Having had a personal life, I found it vastly over-rated.
+
+       More seriously, though...I figure it's no different than
+joining the military for five years.  Except for the running, jumping,
+shooting and getting killed bits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 04 Dec 1996 11:58:16 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how do you convey to the director and actors what you see in
+> your head? Do you make notes on the script, or do you talk it out,
+> or what?
+
+       We have tone meetings where I go over every scene with the
+director, so we both know what's required, what the subtext is, and so
+on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+B5 Book Advice (04 Dec 1996 17:06:23 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:23 -0700

+
 S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am aware, this is a completely different matter, but you
+> wouldn't have any good advice on how to get ones hands on your
+> scriptwriting book outside the U.S.?
+
+       Go onto the worldwide net to http://www.amazon.com, and you can
+order it from anywhere in the world....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:24 -0700

+
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+
+       Any work of fiction is organic and changes with time...it's
+part of the process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:25 -0700

+
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+
+       Yes, that's Andreas' head, which I personally moved over to
+where it would be beside Peter...who complained (in jest) that Andreas
+was again stealing the scene from him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Minbari lifespan (04 Dec 1996 17:06:26 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:26 -0700

+
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+
+       Minbari can easily live to about 140 or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+History recap? (04 Dec 1996 17:06:27 -0700)
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History recap?

+
Date: 04 Dec 1996 17:06:27 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Am I right so far?
+> What I'm wondering is at what point did we meet the Centauri?
+> And when did they give us the jumpgate technology?
+> Before or after the war?
+
+       No, our first contact was with the Centauri, who gave us the
+tech. We didn't meet the Minbari until long, long afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+JMS: B5 Parodies (05 Dec 1996 02:08:19 -0700)
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JMS: B5 Parodies

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Date: 05 Dec 1996 02:08:19 -0700

+
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+      I have never had any problem with parodies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Laser Disc (05 Dec 1996 02:20:26 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Dec 1996 02:20:26 -0700

+
 Daniel Barer <74033.167@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Warners have all domestic video rights in perpetuity, or
+> only while the show is in first run?
+
+      They *own* the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 05 Dec 1996 02:20:28 -0700

+
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+
+      Well, technically speaking, I suppose you could say that the
+Vorlons and Shadows are second ones, since Lorien's people came first,
+about which you'll hear more in the next batch of eps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Vindrizi (01 Dec 1996 20:18:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:22 -0700

+
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+
+      That was a one-time only.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Who knew what, and when? (05 Dec 1996 02:20:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Dec 1996 02:20:31 -0700

+
 ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you possibly tell us the "Story of Kosh?"
+> Are we ready for this information?
+> Or does it still contain hidden bits of story?
+> _Why_ did Kosh open his suit to "Sinclair?"
+> Are you going to tell me he was *actually* going to shake hands?
+> Had Kosh read up on Earthers and already gone Native?
+> And was this information provided to Sinclair by Delenn?
+> Or was that a case of Minbari dissembling?
+> What did Delenn see when she went to see Kosh, and *why* did she
+> go? Can you ___finally___ give us her prophesy?
+> Is this your story to stick with?
+
+         There's a lot more to be said of the story of Kosh, and the
+Vorlons in general...and part of me says explain it later...and another
+part says that if you explain mysteries too much, it destroys them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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+Lorien = Ken Nordine? (05 Dec 1996 13:39:16 -0700)
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Lorien = Ken Nordine?

+
Date: 05 Dec 1996 13:39:16 -0700

+
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+
+       Having never heard his work, that would tend to mitigate
+against that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05 Dec 1996 13:39:17 -0700

+
 Penny J. Legner <103643.763@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I suppose that means my life qualifies as a work of fiction?
+
+       That's what we've been saying about you for months....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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JMS: season 4 = arc end?

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Date: 05 Dec 1996 13:39:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       The way I live, kids would be redundent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05 Dec 1996 13:39:20 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume that you don't make comments during filming then
+> directly to the actors, so what do you do if you see something
+> during filming that needs to be changed?
+
+       I will, on *rare* occasions, address a note or correction
+directly to an actor while we're shooting, but in general I give any
+notes to the director on the set, who passes them on to the actor. 
+There really can't be a multiplicity of voices talking to actors on the
+set...it can become confusing, and they can get contradictory
+directions.  They can get skittish and lose concentration.
+
+       One occasion where I *did* do this recently...in the scene
+where Londo explains to Cartagia why he shouldn't be killed for being
+late, the director had Londo playing that scene submissive and nervous
+in rehearsals, didn't understand that the whole point of the exercise
+was Londo standing up to Cartagia, but doing so in a very sly way, not
+giving him any room to maneuver. Cartagia likes Londo because there's
+intelligence and steel, in a very manipulative fashion..."you think the
+same way I do," Cartagia says. So before we shot the scene, I pulled
+Peter aside and gave him the correction, and that's how we shot it.
+
+       But, again, those incidents are fairly rare.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:32 -0700

+
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+
+      We'll probably know around February.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:34 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The statue is the pilot movie version of G'Kar.  I think it's
+about 7" tall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:36 -0700

+
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+
+      Kinda, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:38 -0700

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+      Which is, of course, another good reason not to do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 05 Dec 1996 23:20:40 -0700

+
 SUSAN F. KIRN <76262.2013@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, On the flip side of the coin, do the actors ever come to you
+> for clarification or advice on how a scene is to be played?
+
+      That, yes...very often, while the actor is prepping, they'll
+come by my office, or at lunch ask about a particular passage, for
+clarification on my part, as opposed to an adjustment on their
+performance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:24 -0700

+
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+
+      Why not?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 06 Dec 1996 23:48:13 -0700

+
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+
+      Actually, depending on how long you can wait, very shortly the
+best B5 book of the batch to date, Jeanne Cavelos' story of the Icarus'
+fate, will be hitting bookstores shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 06 Dec 1996 23:53:29 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's so bad about the script?
+
+      I wrote it when I was 18.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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Date: 07 Dec 1996 21:41:22 -0700

+
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+
+      Blake's 7.  (And other stuff.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 07 Dec 1996 21:41:24 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it stand up to your 39-and-counting eps of B5?
+> But why should it?
+
+                                 Feh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+JMS: season 4 = arc end? (08 Dec 1996 02:22:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 02:22:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      What annoys the hell out of me is that I have an ISDN line in my
+office at work, but apparently you can't run ISDN on Win3.1, only Win
+95, so it sits there useless....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS' Snow White in Chgo! (08 Dec 1996 02:22:12 -0700)
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JMS' Snow White in Chgo!

+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 02:22:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Never mind.  Just heard the theater burned down, so there's no
+point in anyone going.  Real shame.  Ah, well.  Onward and upward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+B5 merchandise (08 Dec 1996 19:54:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 19:54:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Never said I never wanted to do *any* merchandising...what I've
+always said was that I wanted to do a little, here and there, adding a
+bit as we go along, but doing so gradually, so we could control the
+quality of the items, to make sure that fans didn't get stuck with
+crummy stuff.
+
+      Mainly, I approve to merchandise anything that I think is either
+very cool, or which I'd like to have myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+First ones again (08 Dec 1996 20:03:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
First ones again

+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:49 -0700

+
 Dana Wright <72627.531@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see more?
+> Will we learn more or what the others chose to do rather than
+> nurture the second ones?
+
+      Yes, you'll see more of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/88.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/88.html
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+
+
+ISDN Lines (08 Dec 1996 20:03:51 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
ISDN Lines

+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:51 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which one do you have?
+
+      I'm using a Motorola Bitsurfer, external.  No one seems to know
+how to make the damned thing work with win3.1 or 3.2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/89.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/89.html
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+
+
+Diseases in B5? (08 Dec 1996 20:03:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
Diseases in B5?

+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The B5 reference in Captain Power was just a nod to something I
+was working on...and definitely shows that it was in the works as far
+back as 1986.
+
+      Yes, we have shown diseases, particularly in "Confessions and
+Lamentations," a 2nd season episode.  But in general, my sense is that
+the biologies of aliens are sufficiently different to minimize most
+transmitted diseases.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/9.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/9.html
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+
+
+FTA - Questions (01 Dec 1996 20:18:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
FTA - Questions

+
Date: 01 Dec 1996 20:18:26 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But it won't will it?
+> Am I right?
+> Am I even close?
+
+      Not all of them....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/90.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/90.html
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+
+
+Attn JMS <Dust> (08 Dec 1996 20:03:55 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Attn JMS <Dust>

+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:55 -0700

+
 Jon Wolf <76103.2541@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it G'Kar's father, or G'Lan?
+
+      It was his father in the first part, G'Lan in angelic form,
+since after all that was G'Lan's form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/91.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/91.html
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+
+
+Mysterious Four (08 Dec 1996 20:03:58 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mysterious Four

+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:03:58 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the title for the fourth season?
+
+      When I'm ready.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/92.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/92.html
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+
+
+Irony on Review/Vorlons (08 Dec 1996 20:04:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Irony on Review/Vorlons

+
Date: 08 Dec 1996 20:04:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good points, especially the vorlon stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/93.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/93.html
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+
+
+B5 merchandise (09 Dec 1996 02:22:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 merchandise

+
Date: 09 Dec 1996 02:22:37 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      We're actually doing a few small things via the B5 fan club.  We
+just Friday took delivery of our first batch of t-shirts made in-house:
+they have the B5FC logo on the front left breast, and come in three
+colors...one in black with white lettering saying "No boom today, boom
+tomorrow, there's always a boom tomorrow" black for Ivanova's mood...a
+white one (for the angelic seeming vorlons) with black lettering, "We
+have always been here"... and a grey t-shirt with "We stand between the
+darkness and the light" (the grey here is obvious).
+
+      We should be releasing these shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/94.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/94.html
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+
+
+Job Description (09 Dec 1996 02:22:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Job Description

+
Date: 09 Dec 1996 02:22:40 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd say it's waning, and again, most have left our galaxy for
+whatever is beyond.  Only a handful remain.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/95.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/95.html
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+
+
+Mira's Head (09 Dec 1996 02:22:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mira's Head

+
Date: 09 Dec 1996 02:22:42 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Given what we know of the content of "Atonement," and given that
+> it's known that an actor has been signed to play Dukhat in that
+> episode (presumably in flashbacks), can we assume Mira is going
+> to have to get back into that full Minbari makeup again? How
+> does/did she like that idea?
+
+      Yes, Mira got into the original year-one makeup.  It's
+funny...when I walked out onto the set, and saw her in that prosthetic,
+the first words that came out of my mouth were, "It's *you*!  I haven't
+seen you in almost three years, how've you been?"
+
+      I don't think Mira quite knew what to make of me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/96.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/96.html
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+
+
+Arc Prequel (09 Dec 1996 02:22:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Arc Prequel

+
Date: 09 Dec 1996 02:22:43 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh, and Joe, speaking of the movie: Since it will deal with the
+> E-M War, do you have plans to bring in Michael O'Hare to play
+> Sinclair again?
+
+      Nothing is set yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/97.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/97.html
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+
+
+Another death (10 Dec 1996 13:00:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
Another death

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:23 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well...more than one, really....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/98.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/98.html
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+
+
+ISDN Lines (10 Dec 1996 13:00:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
ISDN Lines

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:24 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that a "Bitsurfer PRO" or just a "Bitsurfer"?
+> BTW, have you tried the ISDN forum (go ISDN)?
+
+       I have the Bitsurfer PRO, yes...and the line is all
+configured...the installation tests show a green light...I just can't
+seem to get it to work with 3.1, I couldn't find a server that handled
+ISDN in the area, so in the end I pretty much gave up and now it just
+sits there, mocking me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/99.html b/find/CompuServe/cs96-12/99.html
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+
+
+B5 Movie? (10 Dec 1996 13:00:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Movie?

+
Date: 10 Dec 1996 13:00:25 -0700

+
 W. Lee <76770.162@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+> If so, when can I expect to see it come out in the theatres?
+
+       No, there is no theatrical B5 movie planned at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/1.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/1.html
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+
+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (01 Jan 1997 18:40:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:31 -0700

+
      Actually, I was in the shower...and I don't usually have a
+computer there, as it's rather dangerous.
+
+      "I wondered if you know what you'll be doing after (B5 is) all
+over."
+
+      Depends.  WB is very interested in the sequel series, and we
+hope to have some info on that by the end of the month.  That I'd
+definitely want to do.  Barring that, I'd like to find a show or a
+structure where I could push the envelope again but in a different way.
+If I can't find a show like that, or create one, I'll go back to prose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/10.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/10.html
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+
+
+Do it all over again? (01 Jan 1997 18:40:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Do it all over again?

+
Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:46 -0700

+
      I had nothing to do with the marketing of the series itself, so
+I can't affect that either way.  What I'd do different with the
+show...I'd just love one more chance to adjust every episode, but
+that's an after-the-fact thing. What I'd do different otherwise...I
+dunno.  Maybe nothing.  You take a different tack, you just run into
+different problems, never fewer problems. So it's hard to say. 
+Overall, I'm as pleased as anyone can be with a show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/100.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/100.html
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+
+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (14 Jan 1997 12:45:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 14 Jan 1997 12:45:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, it did *really* well, and they're aware of that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/101.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/101.html
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+
+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (14 Jan 1997 12:45:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 14 Jan 1997 12:45:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, that's the standard practice in town.  Actors have sued for
+their net of shows that have been in syndication for 25-30 years, and
+been told that it's "still in the red."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/102.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/102.html
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+
+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (14 Jan 1997 12:45:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 14 Jan 1997 12:45:15 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/103.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/103.html
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+
+
+B5 TV ratings? (14 Jan 1997 18:00:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 TV ratings?

+
Date: 14 Jan 1997 18:00:45 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Here's the insidious part of all this...they say they want a
+ratings system, but of *course* it won't be used for censorship
+purposes, they just want it for informational purposes...and the system
+wasn't even in place for a week before pinheads like Rev. Wildmon were
+out there calling for a boycott of EVERY show rated TV14, on the
+grounds that it shouldn't be on TV. (Leave out the insanity that you
+only have to create a TV15 rating, make all the TV14's another
+category, and suddenly *they're* okay, the same programs would be fine,
+if there were another nastier category.)  It's the same thing that 
+happened with record ratings, which were instantly used to pressure
+some record stores into not carrying more mature fare.
+
+       It sucks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/104.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/104.html
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+
+
+B5 in South Africa? (15 Jan 1997 00:18:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 in South Africa?

+
Date: 15 Jan 1997 00:18:38 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I believe it is, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/105.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/105.html
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+
+
+Lock and Lie (15 Jan 1997 00:27:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
Lock and Lie

+
Date: 15 Jan 1997 00:27:37 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Captain felt his ships and people were in danger and fired
+> in perceived self-defense, then why on Earth would he feel the
+> need to lie about it? Did he know that the Minbari were not a
+> threat? If he did, why did he fire on them?
+> Did he learn something between the time of the incident and the
+> lie at the Earth base? Is this something that will be made clearer
+> in the upcoming movie, or is it something you can comment on
+> here?
+
+      The Minbari approached with their gun ports opened...but they
+also hadn't locked on.  They were a potential menace, but had not gone
+into the territory of definite menace...and when they fired, it was
+clear from the moment or two it took to respond that the Minbari ships
+weren't ready to attack.  So he chose to cover his butt rather than
+take responsibility for screwing up a first contact situation and
+plunging Earth into a war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/106.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/106.html
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+
+
+B5 TV ratings? (15 Jan 1997 12:49:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 TV ratings?

+
Date: 15 Jan 1997 12:49:26 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yup...I agree on about every level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/107.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/107.html
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+
+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (15 Jan 1997 12:49:26 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 15 Jan 1997 12:49:26 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I assume that you get paid a salary as well as the
+> (non-existant) net? Is there anyway you can get a better deal?
+
+       Yes, I do get a per-epsode producing fee, and script fees.
+
+       No, no chance of changing the deal, it is what it is...and no,
+I do not personally own B5 in any way, not in copyright, licensing, any
+of that. WB owns all rights.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/108.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/108.html
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+
+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (16 Jan 1997 02:07:43 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:43 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, If they're out of print, then how might we get them?
+
+      Some libraries and SF oriented bookstores still carry them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I take it this is an industry standard set up?
+> So how would you, in the future, get a bigger piece of the pie
+> you've created (such as with Crusades)?
+
+      Yep, that's how they get you, and yes, I hope that the success
+of B5 will allow for a slightly better deal on the new show, though
+again the definition of net profits will almost certainly still be such
+that it adds up to oh...about zip....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Alliance (UK Con) (01 Jan 1997 22:28:58 -0700)
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+
      Actually, I rather like most British cooking.  My problem at the
+last Wolf was that the dining room was open for only -- what? -- 15
+minutes at a shot, and never when I was either awake or not on a panel,
+so all I had for four days, except for when we chose to go elsewhere
+(and that was difficult) was fish&chips.  Four days of fish&chips.  It
+will drive you mad.  So finally, on Sunday morning, after the
+restaurant had closed (having expended its fifteen minutes of food) I
+planted myself in the restaurant regardless, and explained that unless
+I had a proper breakfast I was going to go out into the hall and do my
+version of Night of the Living Dead and start eating the flesh off the
+first person I encountered.  They saw the crazed look in my eyes, and 
+wisely fed me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

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+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So when you pitched it to them and they agreed to make the show,
+> did you get paid for the rights, or do they get the rights in
+> exchange for making the show?
+
+      They get the rights for financing and distributing the show; we
+make the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (16 Jan 1997 02:07:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:50 -0700

+
 Sue Wachowski <74743.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't it also a question of how TV views its audience?
+> What IQ do they assume we all have?
+> What grade level reading do we understand?
+> I guess that's not fair, but how mindless do we want our
+> entertainment to be? Also, what about the TV executives that have
+> to like a show first? Are executives changing?
+> Are their attitudes toward what they like swinging towards TV of
+> a higher level? So, are there things you would change about B5,
+> knowing how it's done? Is it more like, those who grew up on good
+> SF Literature are now in a position to influence the creation of
+> today's SF shows and movies?
+
+      Yes, more writers and folks at the studio/network levels do know
+a little from SF, but not as much as should be.  I think that will
+continue to change with time.  Now that B5 has broken the strangle hold
+of "no other SF than Star Trek has ever been profitable on TV," I think
+maybe it'll have a positive effect.
+
+      RE: how the networks view viewers...lemme quote something to you
+a suit at one of the networks said: "Our sense is that most of the
+viewers with money or an education have cable, VCRs, laserdisks, and
+they watch those instead of the networks.  Our programming more and
+more will have to turn to those who don't have any real education or
+money for other programming options."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (16 Jan 1997 02:07:53 -0700)
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Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:53 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Our visibility is increasing, no mistake, but we still haven't
+hit critical mass, and most viewers/reviewers are still largely unaware
+of us. But that's okay, I went into this figuring this would be a long
+haul.  Once the show is done, it's done, and nothing will ever change
+that; the only thing that will change is the size of the audience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:55 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> But you have some kind of influence when it comes to
+> merchandising arrangements, right?
+
+      I have approval over what gets licensed, and the form it takes. 
+I work closely with all our licensees.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (16 Jan 1997 02:07:57 -0700)
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Date: 16 Jan 1997 02:07:57 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A piece of the NET profit?
+> Gadzooks, so you and James Garner will be spending a lot of time
+> together at the accountants' offices, eh?
+
+      Bingo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What kind of a show would get a TV-M?
+
+      Apparently, the TV 14 is not a permanent thing...whether this
+changed after we complained, or it was always going to happen, I
+dunno...it'll change from episode to episode.  Funny thing is, NObody
+at WB knows who assigned it that rating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Just replied on this...it's ep by ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (16 Jan 1997 14:06:27 -0700)
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Date: 16 Jan 1997 14:06:27 -0700

+
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+
+       Exactly.  And of course what they tell the advertisers is
+likely a very different story.  I just about fell down when I heard
+this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (16 Jan 1997 22:01:46 -0700)
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+
 Michael R. Brehmer <75303.2242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you believe that "network suites" are following that
+> philosophy to a certain degree? Or is that many people's
+> perception that network TV used to be better mere nostalgia? Even
+> with your busy schedule, do you ever get a chance to watch any
+> network TV?
+
+      I don't get much chance to watch TV these days, for obvious
+reasons.  I try to carve out room for X-Files, Simpsons, 60 Minutes,
+The Tick, the Larry Sanders Show, Dateline, Nightline and a couple of
+others, but that's about it for the week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am curious of whether my friend's view is prevalent in the
+> industry, whether it is technically accurate, and whether such a
+> view has hampered (or maybe helped?) to some extent your ability
+> to market B5 accross the country?
+
+      All I know is that in 4 years, I've never heard anyone in the
+industry refer to B5 as a soap.  So that may answer your question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 02 Jan 1997 06:36:19 -0700

+
> I saw most of it all at once, and spent the better part of a year
+> getting it all down on paper. 
+
+The entire 1000+ years at once?  What were you doing when that
+happened?  So I am assuming the details have come as you've written the
+episodes and it was the overall scheme of things that came to you?
+
+When did you see the end of the story?
+
+Thanks for taking the time with these questions.
+
+ --Scott
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:01:51 -0700

+
 John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You ever feel that all the networks (and many companies) would
+> run better if they "inverted" the company every once in a while,
+> ie, put the people currently on the front lines in the back
+> office, and vice versa?
+
+      I dunno...sometimes I think that's the *problem*.  It used to be
+the case that network suits stayed in one place for a long time, and
+held sway for years...now you've got kids coming in who know nothing
+BUT TV running the show.  The median age at the networks is very low
+these days, and the turnover is quite high.  The longer you can stay at
+the job (within common sense limits) the more confident you can get and
+start taking some chances (until you get TOO comfortable, natch).  Now
+the rule seems to be "cover your ass and don't make trouble" competing
+with "I've gotta do something big to make a splash so I can get a
+better deal with I go to another network."
+
+      Very few people make decisions based on what they think will
+work, it's all based on research now, focus groups and other means of
+being able to point to someone else and say, "I did my job, research
+said it was a good show, it's not my fault."
+
+      Most of the really imaginative work being done in TV these days
+is happening in cable, frankly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Sneak Attacks. (16 Jan 1997 22:01:54 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:01:54 -0700

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He accepted an invitation to peace talks, bought just happen to
+> bring along two nuclear missles with him which could not be
+> detected by the enemy (and just why didn't the "Eye" detect his
+> ploy? My problem here is, after such a sneak attack, why do the
+> Minbari still rally around him? Why don't they change his
+> knick-name to "City-Killer" and go off to fight this war the
+> honorable way?
+
+      Well, you're looking at very different scenarios.  A "sneak
+attack" a la Pearl Harbor is against a nation that is not at war.
+
+      In the Black Star situation, Sheridan's ship was damaged, and
+they used that to lure in the aggressor ship (which was coming in to
+eliminate them) and destroy it.  They were already at war, and they
+were taking drastic steps to keep from being destroyed themselves.
+
+      In the Z'ha'dum situation, again, there was a war of aggression
+on, pursued by the shadows.  In wartime, one does sometimes bomb the
+capital cities of aggressor nations, from Iraq to Dresden to Tokyo, on
+and on.
+
+      But neither situation is in the *least* comparable to a sneak
+attack. Was there cleverness?  Sure.  But sometimes you need that to
+beat a technically superior enemy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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+
 John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Finally one Viacombot said "Well, how do you know the fans even
+> want an Encyclopedia? Did you do a focus group?"
+> Our producer relpied "How about the 750,000 people who bought the
+> book version?
+
+       Back at you:
+
+       WB did a focus group for B5.  Peeled of 20 folks for an in-room
+review, the rest of us watching through mirrored glass.  One guy hates
+the show vehemently, keeps saying it's not science fiction.  Finally
+the guy running the group says, "Could you tell us what you feel is an
+example of good science fiction?"
+
+       And the guy says, "Power Rangers."
+
+       I damn near went through the glass at him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       Btw, could someone over in the UK who knows somebody over at
+the CultTV awards let them know that we still haven't received the
+awards from last year's presentation...and we're building an awards
+cabinet, and they'd look great in it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 17 Jan 1997 18:05:14 -0700

+
 John Ordover-Trek Editor <72674.1362@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Thing is, they're talking about the -same- book.<G> That ever
+> happen to you on episodes, getting "too thin" from one person and
+> "too fat" from another, when they are talking about the same
+> episode?
+
+       Yeah, that's common...one person wants more EFX, another more
+character, another more arc...and if it doesn't have one of those
+things, that which works for them best, sometimes it gets written off. 
+That's one of the things you learn in workshops...that you didn't like
+it doesn't mean it's bad, only that it didn't work for *you*.  But on
+many occasions I've seen a note from someone who felt that, because it
+had no CGI in it, it was perforce bad.
+
+       Which is why, in the final analysis, one must listen to the
+small voice in the back of one's head when writing.  If networks
+comprise one sort of committee, fandom -- well-intentioned as they all
+are, and as sharp as they all tend to be -- is still another (and
+larger) committee, even more diverse. As you say, there's no one thing
+the fans want...they're not some monolithic group...they're a diverse
+and fasacinating group.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+       You never know...it's a mug's game, TeeVee....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+       Yeah, it was a good show, wish it were around more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 17 Jan 1997 18:05:18 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen "Politically Incorrect
+> with Bill Maher?" I know, I know, but what the hey, it nevers
+> hurts to dream, no?
+
+       I have no special urge to see my face on TeeVee, frankly...I'm
+a writer, and happy just with that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:36:59 -0700

+
 Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who does the licencing for B5 novels?
+
+      Dell has thus far licensed the right to do the books; the
+current three books under contract are all filled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (18 Jan 1997 01:37:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:37:01 -0700

+
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+
+      I think it may have had something to do with the three guys who
+tackled me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (02 Jan 1997 15:20:01 -0700)
+
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 02 Jan 1997 15:20:01 -0700

+
      I saw mainly the multi-year storyline of B5.  The rest I filled
+in as I went, in terms of the backstory and forestory of the B5
+universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (18 Jan 1997 01:37:03 -0700)
+
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:37:03 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has there ever, in the history of television that you know of,
+> been a hit show (a big hit, not just a show that stuck around a
+> couple of years) that was instigated/designed based upon this
+> research??
+
+      Not that I know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (18 Jan 1997 01:37:05 -0700)
+
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:37:05 -0700

+
 ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do you ever wonder if your doing ever so many episodes for
+> B5 is going to make any others following in your footsteps have
+> second thoughts about "the arc thing?"
+
+      I think a *lot* of people wonder about me.
+
+      And it doesn't have to be done by one person; the third year it
+came about because so much was changing, so much was happening, it made
+it hard to bring in anyone...in year four, I've had to structure this
+extremely elaborate tree so I can flip either way depending on whether
+or not we get a fifth year, and again you just can't farm that out in
+any realistic way.
+
+      I'm *very* much looking forward to never, ever doing this
+(writing an entire season or two singlehanded) again for the rest of my
+natural life....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 TV ratings? (18 Jan 1997 01:37:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:37:08 -0700

+
 Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When are new episodes of B5 going to air?
+
+      New eps start around the week of January 27th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (18 Jan 1997 20:27:45 -0700)
+
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 20:27:45 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Typical...and saddst of all to know that your story is not at
+all uncommon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (18 Jan 1997 20:27:47 -0700)
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 20:27:47 -0700

+
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+
+      You don't skew the group ahead of time; you get a random sample,
+some who like it, are neutral, or don't like it.  That's the public
+opinion measurement biz.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Earth-Minbari War (18 Jan 1997 20:27:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Earth-Minbari War

+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 20:27:50 -0700

+
 Richard Wakefield <100534.504@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The E-M war lasted five years (2242-2247 I believe), if the
+> Minbari were so superior technologically why did it take them
+> years to beat us back to Earth ? Will we ever see more info about
+> the war ?
+
+      The 2-hour prequel will get into the question of the war in far
+more detail.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 TV ratings? (18 Jan 1997 20:27:52 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 18 Jan 1997 20:27:52 -0700

+
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+
+      For five weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (19 Jan 1997 16:05:57 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1997 16:05:57 -0700

+
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+
+      No, the figures are correct.  DS9 does rate higher than B5,
+though it's lost about 18% of its ratings over the last year, according
+to the trades, while B5 has been gaining over the same period of time. 
+Interestingly, on a head-to-head basis with new episodes, we're
+generally only about half a point behind Voyager.  DS9 averages a
+couple of points ahead of us.
+
+      BTW, I found out the other day that apparently when Scott Adams
+had done the Dilbert cover story, he'd intended for B5 to get the
+cover, but the folks at TV Guide put Star Trek on at the last minute
+because they felt it would sell more copies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 director (19 Jan 1997 21:09:41 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:41 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.  Mike is one of our core directors; he wasn't available
+to us for the first batch of episodes because another show locked him
+down before we got renewal notice for year 4 (you can't book directors
+if you don't have a commitment), but he's directing one now, and is
+going to do a bunch more. He's a great visual stylist.  If I know we're
+going to have him as a director, I'll actually write the script a
+little differently and call for the kinds of visuals I know he can give
+us.
+
+      Funny story...turns out that in Spanish, "vejar" means to abuse,
+degrade and humiliate.  So one day, all the crew vanished from the set
+mid-day and reappeared moments later wearing bright red shirts with
+black type reading "I'VE BEEN VEJARED!"  They're still very popular.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Atn: JMS- Story Arc (19 Jan 1997 21:09:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:45 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is Crusade definate?
+
+      Crusade isn't definite yet, we should know soonish, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (02 Jan 1997 07:26:17 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 02 Jan 1997 07:26:17 -0700

+
> Two primary reasons why it was a hard sell: 1) SF has *always* gone
+> way over budget.  The "V" series singlehandedly nearly destroyed
+> Warner Bros. Television.  Producers always said they could do it, and
+> they lied, and the studios and networks were very skittish. 
+
+Ok, now you got me really curious, what is your budget and do you ever
+run over?
+
+> 2) They're skittish about SF in general, and space stuff in
+> particular.  We were told, repeatedly, in verbatim terms, "No space
+> series other than ST has ever survived more than a couple of sesaons.
+> There is no market for space SF other than Star Trek.  The market
+> won't sustain it, isn't big enough to sustain it."  That was, hands
+> down, our single biggest stumbling block. 
+
+So what finally convinced WB to do B5, especially after V?
+
+ --Scott
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+?s of Sordid Biz Nature (19 Jan 1997 21:09:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:46 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does WB tell you if they're promoting B5 at NATPE each year (this
+> year in particular, since the whole 4 or 5 season termination is
+> such a burning question)? If so, do they tell you the results, or
+> do you have to rely on industry jungle-drums to find out how B5
+> fared at NATPE?
+
+      We've never heard squat about NATPE or much of anything else
+over these four years.  Also, NATPE is mainly useful for selling new
+shows, not renewing older ones.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Opening Credits Season 4 (19 Jan 1997 21:09:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:48 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just got around to really trying to breakdown the opening title
+> sequence, haven't been lurking here for a couple of months, don't
+> see any messages, so am curious if this has been "documented" -
+> who says what? Is this right??
+
+      Not quite...rebirth goes to Lyta (since Pat had just had a kid
+recently), and Claudia got the year everything changed, to put her in
+the same grouping with Jerry and Bruce.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+3rd Age of Mankind... (19 Jan 1997 21:09:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:50 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or am I completely in left field?
+
+      Sorta kinda...close.  You won't have to wait long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. Garibaldi vs. Talia (19 Jan 1997 21:09:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:09:53 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, the Garibaldi situation doesn't relate to or act as a
+surrogate for that earlier thread.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (20 Jan 1997 13:57:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:20 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you keep from becoming ensnared in what THEY want the show
+> to be?
+
+      Fortunately, most studios don't know what they want...they only
+get into it if whatever it is, isn't working.  B5 is working, so they
+leave it alone. Also, I think they know by now that if a project I care
+about is going to be bastardized...I walk.  I've done it many times
+before, and wouldn't hesitate to do it again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (20 Jan 1997 13:57:21 -0700)
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:21 -0700

+
 Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And WB still don't want to release B5 on tape in the US?
+
+      It's got nothing to do with making money...if you look around,
+aside from the cartoon stuff, NO WB series are out on disk or tape,
+because that division prefers to deal with guaranteed big sellers
+(Batman, etc) than with TV, which they feel is kinda below them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (20 Jan 1997 13:57:23 -0700)
+
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:23 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you actually have this entire thing drawn out on paper so to
+> speak?
+
+      I figure they'll probably bury the darned thing with me...and
+I'll still be laying there and revising it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Atn: JMS- Story Arc (20 Jan 1997 13:57:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:26 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we find out about Crusade at the same time as year 5?
+> Or are they under different groups?
+> Are the movies confirmed, and will there be more movies after the
+> 2 by TNT?
+
+      The two TNT movies are confirmed; I imagine I'll hear about the
+sequel before I hear about year 5, but the difference in time will
+probably be only a few weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Audio Problems (20 Jan 1997 13:57:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Jan 1997 13:57:28 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      This is the first I've heard of it, but I've printed your
+message and will give it to George Johnsen tomorrow so he can look into
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Makeup Question (21 Jan 1997 13:46:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
Makeup Question

+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:28 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How long does it take Andreas to get made up every day under
+> normal circumstances (excluding the last couple of episodes)? What
+> does he do all that time?
+
+       Last I heard it takes about 2 hours, not too bad, actually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (02 Jan 1997 15:20:03 -0700)
+
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 02 Jan 1997 15:20:03 -0700

+
      Our budget is under $1 million per episode, and we have run
+slightly UNDER budget every season, which I think is a first for any SF
+series.
+
+      To convince WB we first had to make the pilot, show we could do
+it responsibly, and get the ratings, THEN we got the series order.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing (21 Jan 1997 13:46:30 -0700)
+
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+
Writing

+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:30 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know that you have the overall arc of the series mapped out,
+> but when you write an individual script, do you follow a
+> "template" of some sort and create the story to fit it, or does
+> the story just spring full-blown into your head, a la Mozart? Do
+> you, for example, decide ahead of time how many scenes there will
+> be and where the characters will be at the end of each? If there
+> is no set method that you use, could you, as a kindness to the
+> adoring masses of lesser mortals, try for a moment to imagine
+> that you are not a genius, and you must write a story from
+> scratch, by lunch, or its no beans for you? What would you start
+> with? Would you begin with a framework/checklist of some sort, or
+> just set a character down and see what he does?
+
+       It's a combination of things, and very hard to explain.  I come
+to a given episode knowing I have to do X...X might be "this is the one
+where I have to plant the info about the giant space ferrets," or "this
+is the one where Lennier gets nailed in bed by Londo."  Then I kind of
+check in on the characters in my head...I know what they've been going
+through, and I see how they're feeling about it, where they are, what's
+going on...then I sit down and "watch" the events in my head like
+watching a movie, or watching the news. Some scenes are vaguer than
+others, so I keep replaying it in my head until I can see the whole
+thing...then I write it all down.
+
+       In the latter case you mention, having nothing, and being under
+the gun, I always, *always* start with character rather than a series
+of incidents or plot points.  Because character is the key to
+everything: plot, structure, all of it.  All you need to know is who
+your character is, what he wants, how far he will go to get it, and how
+far somebody else will go to stop him.  The rest follows naturally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:32 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this the actor Kevin Dobson of Kojak, Knotts Landing fame and
+> currently F/X The series?
+
+       Same name, different person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Bester (21 Jan 1997 13:46:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When's the next Bester episode?
+
+       407, "Epiphanies."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (21 Jan 1997 13:46:38 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:38 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how big is this thing?
+> And what do you put on it?
+
+       It's about as big as my life these days....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (21 Jan 1997 13:46:42 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:42 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But would most studios care in other situations?
+> Where else have you walked from?
+> And, if I may ask, why do you do all of this (make the show, talk
+> with us, deal with the studio, etc)?
+
+       I walked off THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS when they decided to soften
+the characters and turn Janine into a mommy figure, off CAPTAIN POWER
+when they decided to give the sponsor (Mattel) more control over
+stories...and others.
+
+       Why do I stay on the nets?  I was here before B5, and I'll be
+here after, to one degree or another.  I see no reason to change.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (21 Jan 1997 13:46:44 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:44 -0700

+
 MrsPeel <103112.2040@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Someone in Hollywood with artistic integrity?
+
+       There are lots of folks out here with integrity; they're just
+not as colorful to write about, and they don't fit in with accepted
+cliche.
+
+       Mainly, I'm genetically a pain in the butt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (21 Jan 1997 13:46:47 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:47 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is your life natural?
+
+       You can never burn out as long as you're doing what you enjoy. 
+When it stops being fun, then you burn out.  And I'm still having fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B4 & After (21 Jan 1997 13:46:49 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1997 13:46:49 -0700

+
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+
+       You misremember.  The whole point of going back was to make
+sure the last war was won, so that the shadow fleet would have *fewer*
+ships coming up to the present, not to get more ships for our side.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (22 Jan 1997 01:49:56 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:49:56 -0700

+
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+
+"So in other words, you like it here (the Nets) and you do what you do
+(make great stories) because you're having fun, and you don't
+compromise on principle.  That must be hard in the town you're in."
+
+      Not really.  Not as long as you know what you're in the business
+for. I'm a storyteller.  The rest is superfluous.  And it's not really
+that hard because I live a sensible life...if they take it all away, I
+should still be okay, and I can go back to writing books, or teaching. 
+A story is a story, doesn't matter to me which venue it is.  Where this
+town gets you is if you're in it for the money.  Money's nice, but
+doesn't really mean that much to me...you can only sleep in one bed at
+a time, drive one car at a time, eat one meal at a time...how much do
+you *need*?
+
+"Joe, you are a truly remarkable man, much like the ancient Bards of
+old.  In my humble opinion, you are Shakespere and Homer wrapped up in
+one."
+
+      Not a chance.  If I work hard and write my brains out, then in
+20 years *maybe* I'll be fit to carry their pencil cases, but no more
+than that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sneak Attacks. (22 Jan 1997 01:50:00 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:00 -0700

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was there cleverness?
+> Again I ask, why do they follow him still?
+
+      I think the main reason the Minbari have a problem with the
+Black Star incident is mainly because it happened to *them*.  And even
+there it's mainly the warrior caste that's annoyed by it...even though
+they were en route to doing something just as reprehensible, the
+equivilent to strafing lifeboats in WW2.  Frankly, I don't think the
+warrior caste would give a fig who else it happened to...they're
+outraged because it happened to *them*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Something . . .

+
Date: 02 Jan 1997 11:13:18 -0700

+
I've been meaning to ask for a while . . .
+
+How do think that your participation on the nets has affected you,
+your writing, and B5 as a whole?
+
+Earthstar and the Drifters    T minus ?? days "Silly customer!  You
+cannot hurt a Twinkie!" Babbler, SOLD!, KP, SP, Montie, SPAMM, etc.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Another John? (22 Jan 1997 01:50:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:02 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't know what you think of the man, but have you heard that
+> John Rhys-Davies is available? Do you prefer them over
+> contemporary? TVG: What science-fiction novels have you enjoyed?
+> Would you sign up if the opportunity presented itself?
+> Wouldn't you?
+
+      Hmmm...interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing (22 Jan 1997 01:50:04 -0700)
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Writing

+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Twain was the same way; he said, "You should never start writing
+a work until you have finished it to your satisfaction."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing (22 Jan 1997 01:50:07 -0700)
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+
Writing

+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:07 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this cerebral cineplexing a learnable skill, and if so do you
+> have any suggestions as to how to learn it?
+
+      I dunno...I've always been this way, seeing it in my head. 
+Helps to have been a solitary-minded kid, I suppose, always off by
+myself.  When I first began to read novels, I saw them in my head in
+full technicolor with surround sound.  Especially with Bradbury's
+stuff, which is full of imagery; I can still summon up my mind's eye
+view of Usher 2, the Martian deserts with their silver windsailing
+vessels, the race for the ship in "The Golden Apples of the Sun"...it's
+the way I'm hardwired.
+
+      Which is why my scripts for B5 (and most shows) are *very*
+detailed; I don't just write action and dialogue, I go shot-by-shot,
+close-ups, fades, juxtaposition of shots, lighting, sound, framing of
+actors, all of it, to try and most precisely recreate the script (and
+the episode) to look like what I saw in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 01:50:10 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does the process work in choosing a director?
+> Do you have input and/or final say?
+> Just out of curiosity have you ever considered Jonathan Frakes?
+
+      Given that Paramount already pressured one director associated
+with ST not to work with us, I'd rather not take that chance again.
+
+      We choose directors based on prior work, a demo reel of their
+stuff, a personal meeting, and gut instinct.  They have to understand
+that the job is to service the text, not to rewrite or change.  We look
+for directors whose work shows a great visual style, and who are
+willing to take chances.  We get some directors who come to us because
+they can't do the kinds of things they want to do for any other show. 
+Here, we *encourage* them to experiment.  The worst that'll happen is
+that it'll fall short.  Big deal.  If you succeed, it's brilliant.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (22 Jan 1997 13:25:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:25:18 -0700

+
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+
+       The amazing thing about TV Guide is that here we are, doing
+this show for 4 years, with 2 Emmy awards, a Hugo award, a bunch of
+other awards, the fifth highest rated syndicated drama series...and in
+those 4 years we have never, ever had a B5 cover on TV Guide.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (22 Jan 1997 13:32:13 -0700)
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:32:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       So, like, you're saying I should stay away from boats....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SFX Readers Awards (22 Jan 1997 13:32:14 -0700)
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+
SFX Readers Awards

+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:32:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's great news, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing (22 Jan 1997 13:32:15 -0700)
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+
Writing

+
Date: 22 Jan 1997 13:32:15 -0700

+
 MrsPeel <103112.2040@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The next time I went in to pitch, I purposely structured my ideas
+> around the thought, What do we need to say about the characters?
+
+       And therein, I think, lay the problem....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Another John? (23 Jan 1997 01:29:06 -0700)
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Another John?

+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:29:06 -0700

+
[Reply to message #640368, which is no longer available]
+
+      More than I can tell you, I would *love* to do a film or
+miniseries version of "Canticle."  I *love* that book.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (23 Jan 1997 01:46:50 -0700)
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:46:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      My credits list is very long and very dull and very boring...can
+there be anything less interesting than somebody reciting their work
+history?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 02 Jan 1997 15:20:06 -0700

+
      It's affected me in that it has put me in touch with the
+audience, which is a rarity in TV, where all you usually get are the
+raw numbers.  It's given me a sense of the room, as it were.  It's kept
+me answerable and responsive, and that has the side effect of keeping
+you modest and honest.
+
+      It hasn't substantially affected the B5 storyline because the
+story is the story; any big committee, network or otherwise, will only
+work against you at the creative level.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing (23 Jan 1997 01:46:52 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:46:52 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you a fan of his?
+
+      Yeah, I've always enjoyed Bradbury's work, though more the
+earlier stuff than the later stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Press and Year 5 (23 Jan 1997 01:46:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:46:53 -0700

+
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+
+      It's the same we've had from the start.  Some say yes, some say
+no, and the press usually reports the no's because they're more
+interesting than the yes's.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+No Surrender! (23 Jan 1997 01:46:57 -0700)
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No Surrender!

+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:46:57 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Care to comment?
+
+      Not really.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (23 Jan 1997 22:09:32 -0700)
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:32 -0700

+
 Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> True or false?
+
+      3 to four OTHER spinoffs?!
+
+      The thud you just heard was me fainting.
+
+      No...definitely not the case.  Yikes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Another John? (23 Jan 1997 22:09:34 -0700)
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Another John?

+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:34 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is it a possibility?
+> Did anyone ever buy the dramatization rights?
+
+      Given that it's a seminal work of SF, I'm sure *somebody* must
+have the rights....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Another John? (23 Jan 1997 22:09:36 -0700)
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Another John?

+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:36 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you ever hear the NPR radio dramatization?
+
+      I caught bits and pieces of it...what I heard, I liked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Too Much Success? (23 Jan 1997 22:09:38 -0700)
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Too Much Success?

+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:38 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, the sequel and the fifth year could conceivably happen at
+the same time...or not...or one or the other...it's utterly in flux. 
+Totally fluxed up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Lensman" Series (23 Jan 1997 22:09:40 -0700)
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"Lensman" Series

+
Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:09:40 -0700

+
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+
+      Actually, they're written in order, and whoever you're buying
+them from will likely have that information, or they'll be released
+that way.  From memory, I don't have them in front of me, it goes from
+Triplanetary to Lensman, Second Stage Lensman, Grey Lensman and
+Children of the Lens...I think that's right....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (23 Jan 1997 22:16:28 -0700)
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From jms re: yr 4/5

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Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:16:28 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      If it's just shows, then there's also He-Man, She-Ra, Jayce and
+the Wheeled Warriors, Real Ghostbusters (animation all)...then the live
+stuff with Captain Power, the new Twilight Zone, Murder She Wrote,
+Nightmare Classics, Jake and the Fatman, Walker Texas Ranger and B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Press and Year 5 (23 Jan 1997 22:16:29 -0700)
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Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:16:29 -0700

+
 Stuart C. Hellinger <70402.1371@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh, btw, will TNT also show the "The Gathering"?
+
+      Yes, TNT will show the pilot movie.  The theory is to do the
+prequel first, then the pilot, then the series through one run at
+least, then the second original TV movie to freshen the cycle, then
+onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Message to Great Maker (02 Jan 1997 18:51:51 -0700)
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Message to Great Maker

+
Date: 02 Jan 1997 18:51:51 -0700

+
I'm wondering, Joe, do you at all know Harlan Ellison? I'm a fan of
+his works...
+
+As a literary SF lover, I'm sure you've read Asimov. My favorite works
+of his are the Foundation novels (atleast the original trilogy... the
+only one I liked of the later four was "Foundation's Edge", and even
+that paled in comparison with the original trilogy). I'm also an avid
+fan of his robot novels...
+
+Do you, with all your responsibilities, still have time to delve into
+the realm of literary science fiction?
+
+                                --Gabriel
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Another John? (24 Jan 1997 13:31:58 -0700)
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Date: 24 Jan 1997 13:31:58 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The deal is that what makes for a great novel is not what makes
+for a great movie in most cases; novels are internal, movies are
+external.  And often execs hear about a big SF book, they don't know
+anything about it except that it's popular or famous, and they option
+it...then find out what it is and have no idea how to make it...or what
+it was...or why it works... and after buying it for what it *is* they
+try to make it into something it's *not* because they're more
+comfortable wit what it isn't but could be than what it is and can't
+be.
+
+       And the fact that I actually understood what I wrote and was
+entirely serious in it suddenly tells me that I've been in this town
+WAY too long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Press and Year 5 (24 Jan 1997 13:31:59 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Jan 1997 13:31:59 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had you or anyone else thought about getting TNT to fund the re-
+> editing of that movie the way you originally wanted it?
+
+       We've talked with them about it, and there's still nothing set
+yet. We think we may be able to get this reworked to some extent, at
+least re-edited, with some new CG, but it isn't final yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mug Rug (24 Jan 1997 22:52:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Jan 1997 22:52:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It just came in today (well, I just got it today from the mail
+drop, nominally the same thing)...looks great, and it'll look great on
+my office desk at the studio.  Tell her thanks for me, it's nifty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+fave books ? (24 Jan 1997 22:52:19 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Jan 1997 22:52:19 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> So what are your favorite sf books ?
+> Who are your favorite writers ?
+
+      I'm somewhat a traditionlalist in my SF/fantasy
+reading...Bradbury, Clarke, Asimov, Ellison, Russell, Smith (EE and
+Clark Ashton), Lovecraft, others.  I've fallen a bit astray of the
+newer folks, though I never miss an opportunity to plug Jonathan
+Carroll's work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (26 Jan 1997 00:44:18 -0700)
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 26 Jan 1997 00:44:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      "Less than unbiased" didn't even BEGIN to cover it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Changes (26 Jan 1997 00:54:20 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jan 1997 00:54:20 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How has B5 changed me?
+
+      Re: "Never eat anything bigger than your head"...that goes back
+a long ways.  It's part of a litany of country-wisdom stuff that has a
+long history. I think the first part of it is, "Never eat anything
+bigger than your head, never eat at a place called Pop's, never shoot
+pool at a place called Mom's, the difference between horses and people
+is that they're too smart to bet on what we'll do, and a fool and his
+money were lucky to get together in the first place."  I like that last
+one particularly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CD #2 is Available! (26 Jan 1997 00:54:21 -0700)
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B5 CD #2 is Available!

+
Date: 26 Jan 1997 00:54:21 -0700

+
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+
+      So what do you think?  I've listened to it about five times now,
+counting the two times prior to approval, and I like it a lot.
+
+      Here's the interesting thing, and it shows how sometimes you can
+never quite shake the fanboy aspect in your (my) perceptions.  When I
+first listened to the CD, and I spoke to Chris, I gave him a series of
+notes, based on how much I liked the first CD, to make it more in
+keeping with that.
+
+      I went on at this for some time, and Christopher pointed out
+that it was obvious I liked the first one...but that if he went along
+with what I was saying, it would make the second soundtrack just like
+the first one...in which case, why make it?  Which was just what I'd
+been saying about wanting to do the sequel series, if it's picked up,
+in a different way.
+
+      We all come to like something a certain way, and want the next
+one to be just like the *last* one.  And I realized that he was utterly
+correct, and I let it go through without changes, trusting to his
+creative instincts.
+
+      After the finished CD came in, I listened to it again at the
+office, and called Chris.  "I'm glad you stuck to your guns," I told
+him.  "You were right and I was wrong."
+
+      Which is the other good thing about B5...nobody here is afraid
+to argue with me if they think they're right.  I expect nothing less.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS' scriptwriting book (26 Jan 1997 00:54:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jan 1997 00:54:24 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Pathetic, really, isn't it?
+
+"no animals were harmed during the typing of this message."
+
+      I would've believed this until a petition signed by 47 ferrets,
+ducks and hamsters arrived on my desk a few minutes ago....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+From jms re: yr 4/5 (26 Jan 1997 18:36:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jan 1997 18:36:16 -0700

+
 Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does one get to bid on a book contract that needs to be
+> filled? Is it possible to submit a book proposal?
+> How do you submit ideas for other types of licences?
+
+      You need to write an outline and submit it, though lately we've
+been assigning books to published authors based on a premise from
+in-house.  You can't just submit ideas for licenses...a company has to
+approach WB with an offer and a business plan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS' scriptwriting book (27 Jan 1997 03:41:46 -0700)
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Date: 27 Jan 1997 03:41:46 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"They were forced to sign the petition by a terrorist group of
+meerkats, kinkajous and bandicoots"
+
+      Oh...*them* again....
+
+      Same old story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Message to Great Maker (03 Jan 1997 02:04:18 -0700)
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Message to Great Maker

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 02:04:18 -0700

+
      Harlan's our consultant on the show, and has been my friend for
+many years.  So I definitely know his work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Press and Year 5 (27 Jan 1997 14:26:50 -0700)
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Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:50 -0700

+
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+
+       TNT will begin showing B5 after it's finished.
+
+       Crusade is in development, and will take place within the B5
+universe, but with a distinctly different plot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Long Night (27 Jan 1997 14:26:51 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:51 -0700

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many could say that now?
+
+       Thanks...and yeah, lots of folks were eager to write off Vir at
+the start.  I think they've all changed their minds by now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Press and Year 5 (27 Jan 1997 14:26:52 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:52 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have all the scenes you shot for the piolit on disk
+> somehwere? One other thing I just thought of, how long do you keep
+> the shots from the episodes on disk?
+
+       We don't keep them on disk after we finish editing; in the case
+of the pilot we're redigitizing dailies to go in and make our changes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+What's the word? (27 Jan 1997 14:26:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:53 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does he have good information, or can I write them a nasty letter
+> for making me panic?
+
+       Not having been told this myself, I can only say I'll have to
+check it out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS' scriptwriting book (27 Jan 1997 14:26:54 -0700)
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Date: 27 Jan 1997 14:26:54 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why is it everyone around here thinks you don't like cute?
+> Is there some comment that you made regarding "cute fuzzy
+> things"??
+
+       Ah hates cute....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Press and Year 5 (28 Jan 1997 11:54:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:54:55 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Correct me if I'm wrong, but everything you shoot is stored
+> digitally for final mixing and the CGI effects to be added,
+> right? So, what are dailies and how are the stored?
+> And what happens to the data after the episode is sent off?
+
+       Dailies are the actual film, developed overnight and
+transferred to video.  The videotapes are then digitized, and dropped
+into the editing machines.  Once editing is finished, the main disks
+containing the digitized dailies are wiped; we only keep the list of
+shots and frame counts for the supercomputer to use in assembling the
+film.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Changes (28 Jan 1997 11:54:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
Changes

+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:54:56 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, it goes way back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Press and Year 5 (28 Jan 1997 11:54:58 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:54:58 -0700

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean you are definitely rediting the pilot or that's
+> what you'll do if you get the go-ahead?
+
+       We've got a definite maybe, but we can't wait until the last
+moment to begin digitizing stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>the Long Night<< (28 Jan 1997 11:55:00 -0700)
+
+
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>>the Long Night<<

+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:55:00 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What I'm wondering is, the dialogue about Vir being "harmless",
+> was that written before or after you realized what should happen? 
+> In general, do you go through a lot of drafts and
+> insertion/deletion?
+
+       No, I usually go through only a couple of drafts.  The line
+about Vir seemed correct regardless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Night (28 Jan 1997 11:55:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:55:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks.  The White Star mission in that ep has definite roots;
+during WW2 to convince the Germans we weren't going to land at
+Normandy, our own agents were fed incorrect information, set
+loose...and then info was leaked to the Germans allowing them to pick
+up the agents and torture the information out of them.  This wasn't
+quite as bad as that, the crew at least knew what they were getting
+into...but there are often no good choices in war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (31 Dec 1996 10:17:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 31 Dec 1996 10:17:50 -0700

+
Why weren't others willing to take a chance with B5?  Because it was
+something new and different, or because you wanted to tell your story
+your way and they didn't like that?
+
+ --Scott
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is it my breath? (02 Jan 1997 21:59:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
Is it my breath?

+
Date: 02 Jan 1997 21:59:40 -0700

+
 (This didn't seem to be *that* bad a question, so I figure you might
+  have missed it the first time I sent it.  If you ignored it on
+  purpose, then just ignore it again -- I'll get the drift.)
+
+Joe,
+
+    Should we assume that Major Atumbe isn't part of the command staff
+of the Army of Light?  I take it that he/she's still third in command
+of the station (although why was Delenn running C&C in "The Summoning"?
+I know, Atumbe works the night shift...), but not in the command ranks
+of the AoL.
+
+    I say this, because you would think Atumbe'd be present at some of
+the important War Council meetings if he/she were involved in that side
+of things (I mean if Zack, a sergeant, is present, you'd think Atumbe,
+a major, would be present).
+
+    I realize that production-wise, it simply isn't realistic to cast
+someone to play Atumbe and, essentially, add a new regular character,
+so that's why I'm going on the assumption that Atumbe is part of the B5
+chain of command and not part of the AoL chain of command.  Is this a
+fair assumption?  Will Atumbe ever be seen or the character's role in
+things ever addressed?
+
+Thanks,
+
+  -- Brent (who, for some reason, thinks about these obscure details
+during re-run season)
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Press and Year 5 (28 Jan 1997 11:55:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:55:05 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean UPN will not be showing reruns?
+
+       UPN has nothing to do with B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Cancelled? (28 Jan 1997 11:55:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 Cancelled?

+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 11:55:07 -0700

+
 JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments?
+
+       If I had anything to say on this, I would've said it.  All I
+know is that this exact thing has happened before in previous seasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Scott Adams cameo (28 Jan 1997 17:05:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 17:05:02 -0700

+
 Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So -- what the hey?
+
+       Nope, it'll be as a human.  It's a small role but should be
+good for Dilbert fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New episode... (28 Jan 1997 17:09:10 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 17:09:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Two things....
+
+       The episode that preceded "The Long Night" aired last
+week...and bear in mind that Cartagia has never been shown to be
+weak...he's young, and Londo ain't...he takes pride in being a lady's
+man, so given that he got behind Londo, a weak position for anyone,
+it's very reasonable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr Garibaldi (28 Jan 1997 17:09:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 17:09:11 -0700

+
 matt greenslade <111111.1445@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can anyone answer why Garibaldi has a security level of
+> 'Ultraviolet Alpha' (presumably high) and yet in the same
+> conversation last series reveals that he has been dismissed from
+> his last four jobs? I mean is he a hacker, a liar or a very lucky
+> guy?
+
+       He got his clearance when he came onto B5, after Sinclair
+fought to get him the job.  And that clearance mainly pertains to B5
+stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 cancelled? (28 Jan 1997 22:13:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 22:13:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nothing is known for certain yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Night (28 Jan 1997 22:13:10 -0700)
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The Long Night

+
Date: 28 Jan 1997 22:13:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, this was always G'Kar's path.
+
+      I think it also showed the League that he was willing to
+sacrifice his own people, that he *means business*...and is prepared to
+go all the way for this, and they'd damned well better be as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New episode... (29 Jan 1997 03:54:46 -0700)
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+
New episode...

+
Date: 29 Jan 1997 03:54:46 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> While I've got your attention, any new word on renewal for season
+> 5?
+
+      No word yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scott Adams cameo (29 Jan 1997 11:54:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Scott Adams cameo

+
Date: 29 Jan 1997 11:54:08 -0700

+
 Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> For those of us with friends and aquaintances who are Dilbert
+> fans and occasional B5 watchers, can you tell us which episode
+> Adams will appear in?
+
+       I seem to remember dropping his cameo into "Moments of
+Transition."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New episode... (29 Jan 1997 11:54:09 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 29 Jan 1997 11:54:09 -0700

+
 Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm thinking of the scene when Cartagia (with his hands covered
+> with G'Kar's blood) finds Londo and Vir in the garden, and says
+> to Vir, "What are *you* doing here?"
+
+       Who knows, sometimes the characters know more about this stuff
+to come than I do....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Is it my breath? (03 Jan 1997 02:04:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
Is it my breath?

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 02:04:20 -0700

+
      I'd assume he'd mainly stay within his division; not everybody
+is in the AoL chain of command, or it'd get unweildy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+NATPE & Rumors (29 Jan 1997 22:44:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
NATPE & Rumors

+
Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:44:55 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is it possible that somebody sold you a bill of goods about the
+> value of going to NATPE? Would B5 have fared better if people had
+> been pushing it at these industry shindigs? Do you have someone in
+> WB Domestic TV seriouly honked off at you? Or is someone trying to
+> generate support, using reverse psychology, by floating a
+> cancellation rumor, so the loyal fans will rise into a collective
+> high hover and start yet another letter writing campaign, to
+> "rescue" the show?
+
+      I understand...thing is, people carried back the same reports
+from the same NATPE convention *last* year...so where does one start?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan on 'PI' (29 Jan 1997 22:44:56 -0700)
+
+
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Harlan on 'PI'

+
Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:44:56 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah,I was astounded myself.  Neither he nor Star Parker knew a
+thing about what the Blacklist was really about...I think if you're
+going to do a show like that, you should do your homework.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan (29 Jan 1997 22:44:58 -0700)
+
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+
Harlan

+
Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:44:58 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that a good thing or a bad thing do you suppose?
+> Is it true that you and he will be at Icon in New York early
+> April?
+
+      Yeah, we'll both definitely be at ICON.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Long Night (29 Jan 1997 22:45:00 -0700)
+
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+
The Long Night

+
Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:45:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was gonna be Londo right up until 2 pages before the
+scene...then Vir said, "Nope."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/214.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-01/214.html
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+
+The Long Night (29 Jan 1997 22:45:04 -0700)
+
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+
The Long Night

+
Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:45:04 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The whole scene with G'Kar and the other Narn and then to have
+> them ask, what did he endure????? And Vir, I didn't even see that
+> coming? Did he?
+> When you write, does it ever feel like that there's this person
+> inside your head who keeps bugging you to tell a story about
+> them, or do I need that vacation more than I know??? Do you have a
+> lute at home?
+
+      Certainly there's an obsession to get this story out.  And the
+characters are alive, on one level...because you have to imagine them
+as being real in order to write them.  22 times a year I crack a window
+to peer in at them....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Catherine Sakai (30 Jan 1997 02:04:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 02:04:52 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Forgive me for being out of the loop, but I was just wondering
+> (you see, I got B5 religion sort of late in life and hence missed
+> the early eps, except those I begged copies of once it hit me) if
+> anyone knows what ever happened to Catherine Sakai? Did she go off
+> to Minbar with him? Did he just go traipsing back in time without
+> so much as a phone call? Or was it just not dealt with, what with
+> the universe needing to be saved and all? Or maybe she took one
+> look at Sheridan and was too overcome by lust to remember her own
+> name, let alone Sinclair's? Whatdaya think?
+> Any chance she'll show up again, and maybe a technomage can give
+> her a one way ticket to Valen-land on the orange blossom express?
+
+      The fate of Catherine Sakai will be revealed in a coming B5
+novel from Dell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan on 'PI' (30 Jan 1997 12:31:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
Harlan on 'PI'

+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:31:55 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "He" being Maher?
+
+       He didn't know what the blacklisting was...if he did, he'd know
+that 90% of those called before HUAC had *nothing* to do with the "Evil
+Empire" of communism, and have been shown to have been innocent.  If
+anything, the hearings gave aid and comfort to the other side.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Cancelled? (30 Jan 1997 12:31:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:31:56 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm sure you would keep us well informned, but on a metter of
+> copyright/ownership if the worst came to the worst and Warner
+> Bros pulled the plug on Season 5, would you be able to take it to
+> another station/production company? I don't know how this all
+> works, but for instance could Paramount or Fox legaly allow you
+> to finish the five year arc?
+
+       No, the show can't leave WB for any reason.  It's this or
+nothing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Heroes (30 Jan 1997 12:31:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
Heroes

+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:31:57 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, I think you nailed it pretty well, anything I could add
+would just be lagniappe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+NATPE & Rumors (30 Jan 1997 12:31:58 -0700)
+
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+
NATPE & Rumors

+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:31:58 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this enemy action, or a devious friend?
+
+       Neither...I think it's just people talking to talk, to show
+they may have some inside information, whether such exists or not....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TD: Rod Serling (03 Jan 1997 05:09:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
TD: Rod Serling

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 05:09:35 -0700

+
This New Year's the Sci-Fi Channel ran a Twilight Zone marathon, and I
+watched Rod Serling's little gem called "The Monsters Are Due on Maple
+Street" for the umpteenth time, and am compelled once more to marvel
+publicly at the genius of this man. He could pack so many levels of
+meaning into a brief 30 minute screenplay, and without a single special
+effect in sight.
+
+My age hadn't quite hit the double digits when TZ first aired, so I
+guess I wouldn't have realized it then, but he did quite a lot of
+pieces that referred in some way to the Blacklist and the McCarthy era.
+And I noticed that Art Carney's character in the Santa Claus teleplay
+was named "Corwin". Did he know Norman Corwin?  Serling himself was
+never blacklisted, was he?  But clearly the issue affected him deeply.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS' scriptwriting book (30 Jan 1997 12:32:00 -0700)
+
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+
JMS' scriptwriting book

+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 12:32:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, well, when they're that small and young, they move fast,
+I couldn't get a bead on her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing (30 Jan 1997 22:42:05 -0700)
+
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+
Writing

+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:42:05 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you recommend any books on writing?
+
+      I don't keep up with the general writing books, I'm afraid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Catherine Sakai (30 Jan 1997 22:42:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Catherine Sakai

+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:42:07 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> any that are out that you might recommend especially?
+
+      Basically, my opinion on the novels is that they've been wildly
+uneven. Some were pretty good, some just fell down, for me.  A large
+part of the problem was that we went through the notion of taking
+proposals for books, and 9 times out of 10 the writer wanted to tell
+the story about his guest characters, and the main characters took a
+back seat.  I protested and yelled, and finally decided that the only
+way out was to pull novels out of my notes, and out of the series
+itself.
+
+      So novel 1 of the next batch is about Anna, Morden and the
+Icarus; in my view it's the best of the line published so far, I worked
+very hard with the author to keep it in line with the series; the
+second novel is set on Centauri Prime, from a short premise from me,
+during the time when G'Kar is kept prisoner in Cartagia's cells, and
+again our characters are in the center, though I think it isn't as
+strong as the first one in this batch of three; the third novel, which
+I haven't yet read in manuscript form, again from an assigned premise,
+follows Sinclair and Sakai to Minbar and the creation of the Rangers.
+
+      With any luck, this batch will be very strong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+><The Long Night>> (30 Jan 1997 22:42:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
><The Long Night>>

+
Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:42:10 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Di.....?'
+
+      Thanks...I'm quite happy with this episode.  It's fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+TD: Rod Serling (03 Jan 1997 16:18:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
TD: Rod Serling

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 16:18:03 -0700

+
       Everyone who came up as a writer during that time was in danger
+of being blacklisted or greylisted, or at minimum knew other writers
+and actors who had been listed and had their careers killed.  Some
+actors, like Jeff Corey, didn't work again for almost 20 years.  So
+certainly it had a profound effect on Serling and others.
+
+       As for Corwin...yes, Rod was a big fan of Norman's work, and
+cited him as a kind of writer's writer.  He began trying to do
+Corwin-like stuff, as did Bradbury and many other writers.  Norman is
+one of those writers whose work may not be known to the public as well
+as it should, but writers, any writer interested in genuine quality of
+language and vision...we know his work. People like Bradbury and Stan
+Freberg and Charles Kuralt and others have all described themselves as
+"Norman's kids" for the inspiration he has provided.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Alliance (UK Con) (03 Jan 1997 16:18:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Alliance (UK Con)

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 16:18:04 -0700

+
       Yup.  I remember.  You seemed quite fuddled to run into me
+there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Something . . . (03 Jan 1997 11:29:20 -0700)
+
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+
Something . . .

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 11:29:20 -0700

+
> It's kept me answerable and responsive, and that has the side effect
+> of keeping you modest and honest.
+
+And that's one of the main reasons we like you . . . sort of a
+symbiotic relationship, or something. . .
+
+> It hasn't substantially affected the B5 storyline because the story
+> is the story; any big committee, network or otherwise, will only work
+> against you at the creative level.
+
+Have you ever done anything on the show because of a feeling or
+request on the nets?
+
+Earthstar and the new kitty    T minus ?? days "Silly customer!  You
+cannot hurt a Twinkie!" Babbler, SOLD!, KP, SP, Montie, SPAMM, etc.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Something . . . (03 Jan 1997 16:18:05 -0700)
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+
Something . . .

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 16:18:05 -0700

+
       Nothing substantial that I can think of, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is it my breath? (03 Jan 1997 13:11:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
Is it my breath?

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 13:11:57 -0700

+
Re: Atombe
+
+    As I suspected.  Thanks.  But, did you catch the final part of my
+post? Will we ever see/hear of/from Atombe at any point in the story or
+is he just background texture?
+
+  -- Brent
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is it my breath? (03 Jan 1997 16:18:06 -0700)
+
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+
Is it my breath?

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 16:18:06 -0700

+
       Depends on if I can work it in seamlessly or not.  It's kinda
+late in the day to begin introducing characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Alliance (UK Con) (04 Jan 1997 17:11:59 -0700)
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+
The Alliance (UK Con)

+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 17:11:59 -0700

+
      Yes, well, we've all been keeping tabs on your movements, you
+know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (01 Jan 1997 18:40:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:34 -0700

+
      Two primary reasons why it was a hard sell: 1) SF has *always*
+gone way over budget.  The "V" series singlehandedly nearly destroyed
+Warner Bros. Television.  Producers always said they could do it, and
+they lied, and the studios and networks were very skittish.
+
+      2) They're skittish about SF in general, and space stuff in
+particular. We were told, repeatedly, in verbatim terms, "No space
+series other than ST has ever survived more than a couple of sesaons. 
+There is no market for space SF other than Star Trek.  The market won't
+sustain it, isn't big enough to sustain it."  That was, hands down, our
+single biggest stumbling block.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Something . . . (04 Jan 1997 10:07:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 10:07:35 -0700

+
> Nothing substantial that I can think of, no.
+
+Other than, of course, the Gethesmane incident . . .
+
+Earthstar and the new kitty    T minus ?? days "There's naught wrong
+wiv gala luncheons, lad!  And doan't you forget it!" Babbler, SOLD!,
+KP, SP, Montie, SPAMM, etc.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Something . . . (04 Jan 1997 17:12:01 -0700)
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+
Something . . .

+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 17:12:01 -0700

+
      Yes, but that was a case of *not* doing a story for fear of
+legal complications, rather than fan interaction contributing to the
+show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Nature of Shadows (03 Jan 1997 19:09:35 -0700)
+
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+
The Nature of Shadows

+
Date: 03 Jan 1997 19:09:35 -0700

+
Joe,
+
+In "Interludes and Examinations", Morden had to physically open the
+door to Kosh's quarters in order for the Shadows to enter even though
+they appeared to pass through the walls.
+
+In the the "Garibaldi's Last Stand" scene in "Babylon Squared" and
+"War Without End Pt 1," it was implied that those attacking had to cut
+through the walls in order to invade (and the hole was not
+Shadow-shaped).
+
+Why is this? Or will this be covered later this season?
+
+ -SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Technical Consultant
+ dupa@compuserve.com    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dupa
+ OzWin 2.11 O-
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Nature of Shadows (04 Jan 1997 17:12:06 -0700)
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The Nature of Shadows

+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 17:12:06 -0700

+
      Well, large boarding parties tend to cut through walls to get
+large groups through, as they did in "Severed Dreams."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Paramount STRIKES!!! (04 Jan 1997 02:30:07 -0700)
+
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+
Paramount STRIKES!!!

+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 02:30:07 -0700

+
With Christmas about to set in, people around the world were busy in
+preparation for the holiday. Out of nowhere, Viacom / Paramount
+started handing out Christmas presents to numerous web master  a legal
+warning letter to tell them close down their Star Trek Internet web
+site or else.
+
+For those of you who want to read about the letter, here is an
+abstract:
+
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+ ---------
+ ----- Re: Infringements of STAR TREK Copyrights and Trademarks
+
+Dear (name here):
+
+I write as attorney for Paramount Pictures Corporation ("Paramount").
+
+As you are, no doubt, aware, Paramount owns all the rights to the
+television series entitled STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, STAR TREK:
+DEEP SPACE NINE, STAR TREK: VOYAGER, and all theatrical releases
+relating thereto (collectively the "STAR TREK Properties"). These
+rights are protected by numerous copyrights trademarks in both the
+programs themselves and the characters, sets, and other elements
+appearing in those programs.
+
+We have recently learned that you have posted various elements of the
+STAR TREK Properties on your site at (web site address here). Your
+posting of these items is an infringement of Paramounts copyright and
+trademark rights in the STAR TREK Properties.
+
+Paramount does not, of course, object to all materials posted on the
+Internet relating to the STAR TREK Properties. For example, Paramount
+does not object to the general discussion of "Star Trek" over the
+Internet. However, when such discussions rise to the level of copying
+full scripts or excerpts therefrom, or providing detailed summaries of
+the works, suck transmissions are clear infringements of Paramounts
+rights. Similarly, posting of copyrighted material such as photographs,
+artistic renditions of "Star Trek" characters or other properties,
+sound files, video clips, books or excerpts thereform are likewise 
+infringements of Paramounts rights.
+
+Based upon the foregoing, we hereby demand that you confirm to us in
+writing within ten days of receipt of this letter that: (I) you have
+removed all infringing materials from your site, including all images,
+sound bites, and video clips; and (ii) you will refrain from posting
+any similar material on the Internet or any other on-line service in
+the future.
+
+The foregoing is without waiver of any and all rights of Paramount
+Pictures Corporation, all of which are expressly reserved herein.
+
+(Lawyers name here)
+
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -
+
+Whats Wrong? Viacom Has Every Right To Do This!
+
+True! Even I must agree. Viacom's action seems so reasonable ... and
+yet to completely idiotic as not to be believed!
+
+One thing must make clear at this point. IF a site private Star Trek
+Properties for use in commercial manner or in any other way related to
+commercial activity, then Viacoms action is a just one. But what
+happens here is very different. How can a site maintained by a 14-year
+old kid be a thread? Most sites were created and maintained by Star
+Trek fans, these sites never charged a single cent. These sites were
+created as a publicity and promotion mean to introduce others to the
+show. It is these sites that saved Paramount billions in advertising.
+It is these sites that snow ball paramounts income in the first place.
+
+Star Trek had been and shall continues to be Paramounts valuable
+asset. What makes Star Trek successful is the fans behind the show. It
+is the fans who frock to theater to see the Star Trek movies; it is the
+fans who pay for memorials; it is the fans who promoted the show to
+others. For some mysterious reason, Viacom also think it is the fans
+that is hurting their profits???
+
+Is Viacom stupid enough to believe one will settle for an poster image
+instead of the real thing? One will be satisfy by owning a 10-second
+sound clip instead of a sound track? One will opted for a 20-second
+video clip instead of the video tape or laser disc?
+
+Internet was a place for freedom of speech, and I fail to see Trekkers
+had abused their right. On the contrary, images, sound clips and video
+clips are more like a bate to seduce us to buy the real thing  and in
+return, put our hard earned cash into Paramounts pocket.
+
+I sincerely hope Viacom will come to its sense REAL SOON. Otherwise,
+the Trek community will become so hurt that it might not exist any more
+
+If you want to learn more about this disaster, use the site
+http://www.stwww.com/viacom.html as your starting point to learn more.
+
+If you feel it is time to act, please write to Viacom or Paramount and
+let them know your feelings.
+
+:) Rgds.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Paramount STRIKES!!! (04 Jan 1997 18:05:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:05:13 -0700

+
      This is a most unfortunate development.  But there are some ways
+you can try to deal with this constructively.
+
+      Last year, WB became aware of the existence of many BABYLON 5
+sites, and the Legal Affairs Department was of a mind to take similar
+action (as has been taken by other shows, including the Simpsons).  The
+reason for their desire is simple.  It's not that the sites present a
+*threat* per se, but there is the issue of copyright protection at
+stake.
+
+      To explain...and this may help you to at least understand
+Paramount's position, even if you don't agree with it...if copyrighted
+material begins to be passed around freely, and copied, and
+redistributed, and published, without the proper protections,
+eventually the material will become *public domain*. The studio no
+longer owns it.  In order to demonstrate that you own the material, you
+must make consistent, and conscientious efforts to protect your claim
+to that name and/or that property.
+
+      Many companies and individuals have actually *lost* the right to
+the copyright of material they own or created because they did not take
+steps to actively protect it.  Which is why you often see
+advertisements from companies like Xerox reminding people that it's a
+*company name*, and not a generic term for photocopying.  Otherwise
+they risk letting that name become a word, part of the vernacular, and
+as indefensible as saying "tissue paper" is a copyrightable term.
+
+      When material from a show is posted without the proper copyright
+protection, every time you allow this to happen it moves that material
+further and further into public domain.  Once it *becomes* public
+domain, the studio will not be able to profit from it, ownership
+questions come up, and outside agencies can produce anything they want,
+slap that name on it, and sell it. It's a cumulative effect, over time.
+And it *is* a real problem; don't delude yourself by saying so because
+you *want* it not to be so.  The law is the law is the law.
+
+      When this came to our attention, we (acting sort of as fan
+advocates) sat down with WB legal and discussed ways of doing it short
+of sending out these exact sort of letters to BABYLON 5 sites.  What we
+came to was the following understanding: that WB would not actively go
+after sites which used B5 photos and other material PROVIDED THAT the
+proper copyright information was appended to the material utilized. 
+They are currently in the process of verifying and evaluating sites
+before sending letters telling them to append this information.
+
+      This seems to me a fair and reasonable response to what is, in
+truth, a genuine concern.  What may help here is for system operators
+of web sites to append the copyright information, and notify Paramount
+that they are in full and complete compliance with copyright, and
+acknowledge formally that Paramount is the owner of all copyrighted
+material posted on that site.  They may, or may not, accept that, but
+it gives you a place to start.  Obviously, magazines use copyrighted
+images all the time, and Paramount makes no effort to stop that...but
+if you look in the edges along photos and the like in these magazines,
+you will see the words "photo copyright (c) 1997 Paramount Television."
+That is the difference that allows them to use this material. There is
+no immediate reason why sites should be viewed in any way differently 
+than a magazine, IF the laws are followed.
+
+      (Interestingly, there's a debate in the TV community about the
+copyright of the original ST being in some dispute, since for about 10
+years Paramount did little to protect the name of the original ST,
+until the first movie came around.  I have no actual information on
+that, however, nor can I comment beyond just remarking on the topic. 
+If there *is* any merit to it, that might further explain their
+reasonable concern about it happening with current material.)
+
+      So point is...the concern expressed by Paramount is legitimate,
+and you should abide by it, OR see if you can find some compromise
+position by adhering strictly to the copyright laws in how material is
+displayed, and what material is selected, as we have done with the B5
+sites.  You may also want to write to those currently running the ST
+franchise to see if the producers of the show can intercede on the
+behalf of ST fans as we did for B5 fans. Lawyers have little or no
+vested interest in the fan/show relationship; those involved directly
+in these shows, do have a vested interest.
+
+      Usual disclaimer: I am not an attorney, and can only speak from
+anecdotal information, and have no specific information about
+Paramount, and am in no way suggesting any difference of opinion with
+their actions.  I'm only trying to help you understand the issues
+involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 04 Jan 1997 19:24:36 -0700

+
Everything you say is correct, of course, but I'm convinced that with
+the Viacom/Paramount decision much more is at stake than the mere
+protection of their copyrights.  If that were all they were concerned
+about, less draconian action, like the action taken by Warner, could
+have been chosen.  I'm convinced that the MSN site has everything to do
+with their decision.  Many fan sites were far superior to anything over
+at Continuum (I don't belong to MSN and don't intend to, but a friend
+does for her business, and I've seen the site), and thus in direct
+competition with the exclusive, money driven MSN site.  Of course I'm
+sure you know all this, but I'm just raising the point.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Paramount STRIKES!!! (04 Jan 1997 23:23:25 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:25 -0700

+
      Urk...I'd forgotten about the MSN site.  I wonder also if there
+is any advertising at that site.  That might also prompt them to want
+to drive people there for ST material, so they can ensure there's only
+one place in town to get it, and then collect ad revenue.  Nothing
+wrong with advertising on a web site in and of itself, of course; it's
+a natural progression that will, in time, give sites greater resources
+to do stuff.  Most web sites are "dead web," interesting to look at,
+but with the resources to make the site very deep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Proper Boskonian duz JMS (04 Jan 1997 18:19:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:19:09 -0700

+
from message #631358 >>RebelCon 1997 is coming August 8-10, 1997 at the
+same Taunton Holiday Inn in Massachusetts that saw this year's
+successful convention on July 5-7, 1996. This year's announced guests
+(as of January 1, 1997) are:  J. Michael Straczynski, creator and
+producer of Babylon 5 (in one of his few East Coast appearances!);<<
+
+        Joe, I'm just curious, but do you have some kind of an
+aversion to New York? :)                I guess to see you at a
+convention I'd have to travel out of state.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Proper Boskonian duz JMS (04 Jan 1997 23:23:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:27 -0700

+
      Actually, I'm doing the Icon convention in Long Island this
+spring, so that's closer to your turf.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Proper Boskonian duz JMS (01 Jan 1997 18:40:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:36 -0700

+
      I'd love a copy, thanks, as I haven't seen it yet.  Whole or
+just the clip, either is fine.  You can send it to me via the B5 mail
+drop, at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. 
+Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+"Crusade" Spinoff? (04 Jan 1997 18:19:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:19:04 -0700

+
> It would take place after the main B5 arc.  As for specifics on cast,
+> nothing can be said until things get closer to being nailed down;
+> there's still a lot that can change on this, and it's a question of
+> what works best for the show, and who wants to move on, and other
+> aspects. 
+
+        It sure sounds like Claudia is with you if you want her there.
+<g>
+                I was encouraged by how happy she is not only to be
+with this show, but *why* she's glad to be with it, and her high praise
+for you and your ability was beyond reproach. Quite frankly, she may
+have even gotten some people within your industry a bit hot under the
+collar by what she said, which delights me to no end. However, it may
+not be in her best interest to do such things unless she's real
+confident in her ability as an actress and is not worried about
+politics standing in the way of her career.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:29 -0700

+
      Claudia is notoriously fearless.  Actually, that applies to most
+of our cast, which is fun.  If you see interviews with our cast,
+they're right out there on the edge, being outrageous...because that's
+who and what they are.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Nature of Shadows (04 Jan 1997 18:33:00 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:33:00 -0700

+
> Well, large boarding parties tend to cut through walls to get large
+> groups through, 
+
+Yeah, I can see *that*.
+
+But what about the scene in "Interludes and Examinations" where, after
+Morden opens the door, the Shadows appear to pass through the walls. If
+they can pass through the walls, why do they need an opening?
+
+ -SysOp Dupa T. Parrot, Technical Consultant
+ dupa@compuserve.com    http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dupa
+ OzWin 2.11 O-
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Nature of Shadows (04 Jan 1997 23:23:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:32 -0700

+
      They're not passing through the walls, they're just phasing into
+the visible spectrum.  It's probably something of an optical illusion
+given the distance between the walls and themselves.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sci Fi Universe (04 Jan 1997 18:19:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 18:19:08 -0700

+
Joe,
+
+        Have you read the article in the latest edition of Sci Fi
+Universe magazine? They were mostly very good to you and your entire
+team in their articles. There was one main article and several small
+ones pertaining to standout episodes. I suspect you must have seen it
+by now.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sci Fi Universe (04 Jan 1997 23:23:34 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:23:34 -0700

+
      No, haven't seen it yet...will probably get it this week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Paramount STRIKES!!! (05 Jan 1997 02:33:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 02:33:27 -0700

+
      Again, this was a conversation we had with WB, and as long as
+sites have a link to either the WB site or the official B5 fanclub
+site, we don't see a problem in coexisting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Proper Boskonian duz JMS (04 Jan 1997 23:41:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:41:04 -0700

+
> Actually, I'm doing the Icon convention in Long Island this spring, so
+> that's closer to your turf.
+
+        Excellent!
+                Can you tell me the dates and location? I really would
+like to be there for it.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Proper Boskonian duz JMS (05 Jan 1997 02:33:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 02:33:28 -0700

+
      It's the April 4th weekend, at the University of Stony Brook,
+Long Island.  Harlan will also be present, and many others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+"Crusade" Spinoff? (04 Jan 1997 23:42:37 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1997 23:42:37 -0700

+
> Claudia is notoriously fearless.  Actually, that applies to most of
+> our cast, which is fun.  If you see interviews with our cast, they're
+> right out there on the edge, being outrageous...because that's who
+> and what they are.
+
+        I tell ya, I really loved it! <g> It came right near the very
+end of the article and it was the last thing I expected to see. :)
+                                Go Claudia!! <bg>
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+G'Kar's monologue (30 Dec 1996 21:51:46 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 30 Dec 1996 21:51:46 -0700

+
> The writing of it...this is just an estimate, trying to remember, but
+> I think it took me about 10-15 minutes.  Which is actually a long
+> time for me to stay parked on any part of the page.
+
+  Well, now I don't feel so bad.  I realize my brief, occasional
+scribbles don't come close to yours (or anyone else's), but I've found
+that when I try to put pen to paper, either it comes flying out at top
+speed, or it doesn't come out at all.  That, and I tend to avoid heavy
+re-examination of what I've done - if I look at it too long, I start to
+second-guess myself.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+"Crusade" Spinoff? (05 Jan 1997 02:33:30 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 02:33:30 -0700

+
      BTW, which article are you referring to?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Alliance (UK Con) (05 Jan 1997 14:31:29 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 14:31:29 -0700

+
      You can *never* be paranoid enough.
+
+      (BTW, you left your window open again last night.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Historical reference? (05 Jan 1997 05:30:43 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 05:30:43 -0700

+
In my most recent viewing of Hour of the Wolf, I noticed that the
+metalwork in Cartagia's palace looks suspiciously like the "rising sun"
+emblem of Japan. Is there a historical significance that my meager
+knowledge of history in general and military history in particular is
+preventing me from seeing, or did it just look cool?  All I can come up
+with is a parallel between Cartagia and a kami-kazi pilot.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 14:31:30 -0700

+
      I think it's just a general sense of empire style symbols,
+nothing specific to Japan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Centauri Eye (05 Jan 1997 12:23:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 12:23:02 -0700

+
Mr Stracznski:
+
+           With the show in reruns I've been thinking about the
+Centauri Eye. How long was it missing, and its been along time since
+I've seen it, but has it been shown recently?
+
+Mike
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Centauri Eye (05 Jan 1997 14:31:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 14:31:32 -0700

+
      The eye is now safely back home and on display.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Broadcasting in order? (05 Jan 1997 14:53:24 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 14:53:24 -0700

+
Joe,
+
+Apparently someone over there at WB has finally woken up out of the
+fog because they're actually showing the repeats in the order that
+they're supposed to be shown. This is a first!
+        Were you made aware that they were going to start doing this?
+                        I'm just curious, but it's about time!
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Broadcasting in order? (05 Jan 1997 22:03:38 -0700)
+
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Date: 05 Jan 1997 22:03:38 -0700

+
      They asked us what order this latest batch should go in, and we
+made a suggestion.  It seems to be working well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Hour of the Wolf (05 Jan 1997 21:11:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 21:11:32 -0700

+
Joe,
+
+        WWOR stationed in NJ, which also happens to be my NY station,
+threw me a curve ball this week by airing B5 Saturday night at 8:00
+p.m., and then again on Sunday night at 8:00 p.m.. This has me
+wondering if they're thinking of moving the show back to its Sunday
+night slot at 8:00, which they abandoned back on September 26th when
+they moved it to Saturday nights at eight.
+        At any rate, I ended up watching the same episode back to back
+both nights, which really didn't bother me because it's a pivotal
+episode which I enjoyed. I'm writing you this because I must tell you
+that I've gotten such a kick out of the way in which he handled
+bringing Emperor Cartegia into the arc. When first we see him, he's
+sporting a new hairstyle not fitting with Centauri tradition. Right
+away this is a sort of "heads up" for the viewer to take notice of, but
+it's not clear why. Does he view this new trend which he's stirred up
+to be "chic," perhaps simply because he is young, or is he somehow 
+mentally and\or emotionally off balance? He's smart enough to assess
+Molari during the first meeting that we the viewers get to see between
+these two men, and we know he's up to something, though we're not sure
+what. It all becomes clear once he spouts his "deification" speech to
+Molari, and I must commend you on handling the scenario most
+effectively. It is not until this point that both we and Molari get to
+truly see the Emperor for what he is for the first time --insane. <G>
+When Molari first enters the room he is so alarmed, so irritated, so
+utterly frustrated by what the Emperor has done that he dares to grab
+at his arm as if he were scolding an incorrigible child. Only moments 
+later does he realize what he's truly up against, a mad ruler, and his
+utter speechlessness upon listening to the Emperor's insane notion is
+priceless! <bg> It is also a true credit to Peter Jurasik as an actor,
+who earns more of my respect for him as a performer on a seemingly
+regular basis.
+        Anyway, just a little aside about something which I
+particularly appreciated. I know that what we're looking at when we see
+Cartegia is a reincarnation of Caligula, but it's all just so much fun
+to watch. :) This episode also got me wondering about how Morden will
+meet his end, and at whose hands, Molari's or the Shadows.
+                Cheers for producing such quality entertainment!  ;-)
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Hour of the Wolf (05 Jan 1997 22:03:40 -0700)
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Hour of the Wolf

+
Date: 05 Jan 1997 22:03:40 -0700

+
      Thanks; it's a nifty little episode, and it sneaks up on one
+very nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+G'Kar's monologue (01 Jan 1997 18:40:39 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:39 -0700

+
      Exactly.  Too often, errors come when you second guess yourself.
+The scripts of mine that have always worked the best were usually
+written in just a couple of days; the ones I nurse and revise and futz
+around with for a week or so are always the ones that perform less
+well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Alliance (UK Con) (06 Jan 1997 15:41:15 -0700)
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The Alliance (UK Con)

+
Date: 06 Jan 1997 15:41:15 -0700

+
       "everybody being mean to me"
+
+       Well, there *was* that petition, after all....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Perfect Beauty Training (06 Jan 1997 20:03:12 -0700)
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Perfect Beauty Training

+
Date: 06 Jan 1997 20:03:12 -0700

+
jms -
+
+Upon rewatching "...Wolf" one slight question occurred to me:
+
+When Kosh was "tutoring" Sheridan and set up the Moment of Perfect
+Beauty, did Kosh have the Lorien experience in mind as something for
+which to prepare, or was the relinquishing of the pin leading to an
+interesting encounter more to do with authorial artistry?
+
+ -rje-
+
+I can almost feel the rustling-in of some kind of enchantment already.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Perfect Beauty Training (07 Jan 1997 12:56:17 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1997 12:56:17 -0700

+
       I think it was a more general sense than preparing him
+specifically for Lorien.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Alliance (UK Con) (07 Jan 1997 12:56:18 -0700)
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The Alliance (UK Con)

+
Date: 07 Jan 1997 12:56:18 -0700

+
       Something like *that*, you only need to do it once.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Garibaldi's Badge (07 Jan 1997 16:16:41 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1997 16:16:41 -0700

+
Hi joe,
+
+My friend dennis Queally wants to know whose police badge that was in
+Garibaldi's room in the HOTW.
+
+Thanks mike
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Garibaldi's Badge (07 Jan 1997 21:16:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1997 21:16:13 -0700

+
      It was a prop.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Mail Address (07 Jan 1997 16:49:17 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1997 16:49:17 -0700

+
Hi,
+
+Youve given me an address to send you some tapes a while back but I
+lost the file.  Could you please give that to me again. Terri has
+something she'd like to send you.  How have you been holding up stress
+wise?
+
+Thanks
+
+Mike
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Mail Address (07 Jan 1997 21:16:15 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1997 21:16:15 -0700

+
      Holding up just fine so far....
+
+      Address for me is via the Babylon 5 mail drop, 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+The Alliance (UK Con) (08 Jan 1997 11:24:10 -0700)
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The Alliance (UK Con)

+
Date: 08 Jan 1997 11:24:10 -0700

+
       One little mistake?!  Do you realize that that cat's fur will
+probably NEVER grow back?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Perfect Beauty Training (08 Jan 1997 09:23:57 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Jan 1997 09:23:57 -0700

+
> I think it was a more general sense than [Kosh] preparing him
+> [Sheridan] specifically for Lorien. 
+
+I like that "I think." Suggesting, of course, that the Great Maker can
+still be surprised or uncertain regarding his B5 creations.
+
+ -- from Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA via Amiga AUTOPILOT v1.80
+   "Wherever you go...there you go again!" -- Buckaroo Bonzo
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Message to Great Maker (01 Jan 1997 18:40:41 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:41 -0700

+
      Sure...anything I write here can be reprinted elsewhere.
+
+"how do you do it? How many years has it been since you've seen
+genuine sunlight? =)"
+
+      I think you just answered your own question.
+
+      It's easy when you don't have a life outside the keyboard
+umbilicus.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Perfect Beauty Training (08 Jan 1997 11:24:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Jan 1997 11:24:11 -0700

+
       I just report the news, I don't make it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (09 Jan 1997 00:40:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:40:06 -0700

+
      Two novels, DEMON NIGHT and OTHERSYDE, an anthology, TALES FROM
+THE TWILIGHT ZONE, all out of print, and short stories in AMAZING SF,
+PULPHOUSE and others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ISDN (08 Jan 1997 12:15:49 -0700)
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+
ISDN

+
Date: 08 Jan 1997 12:15:49 -0700

+
Joe,
+
+Any luck finding an ISP to use your ISDN modem with?
+
+Doug
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ISDN (09 Jan 1997 00:40:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:40:08 -0700

+
      Haven't really had time to deal with it yet...the show is
+keeping me kinda busy lately....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CD-ROM? (08 Jan 1997 23:15:29 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 08 Jan 1997 23:15:29 -0700

+
 I was just reading some old posts from you in the Lurker's Guide
+about a B5 CD-Rom (from Comton's?) that would be released someday
+including some cool features like voice recognition and the ability to
+build a small scene using a
+
+set of dailies.  Any word on the current status of this project?
+
+If this topic has been beaten to death, I apologize.  Just sounded
+like a real neat piece of software and I'd like to get more of an
+insight on how the creative process works on B5 (including the actual
+software you use to do your editing, mixing, etc).
+
+Thanks!
+Debbie
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CD-ROM? (09 Jan 1997 00:40:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:40:09 -0700

+
      That one has been put back, though we're doing a different CD
+rom in house currently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HELP! HELP! (09 Jan 1997 00:44:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Jan 1997 00:44:14 -0700

+
      Que Queg was the name of one of the characters in MOBY DICK, the
+harpoonist, I believe, from a South Pacific island.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CD-ROM? (09 Jan 1997 05:36:17 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Jan 1997 05:36:17 -0700

+
> That one has been put back, though we're doing a different CD rom in
+> house currently.
+
+                                                               jms <<
+
+Speaking of CD's, does Chris Franke have a definite release date for
+the second music CD yet? I know the Sonic Images web page says January
+but it's January now. Also if there is a release date is it a US only
+date or world-wide. I'm over in the states at the end of the month so
+if it is a US release date I'll have to have a look out for it whilst
+I'm there.
+
+Thanks in advance..
+Darran...
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 CD-ROM? (09 Jan 1997 12:17:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Jan 1997 12:17:22 -0700

+
       I just got the full soundtrack (58 minutes) yesterday...I'm
+going over it now and making notes and some suggestions.  Shouldn't
+take much longer to make the small changes and get this puppy out the
+door.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Killing Kosh2 etc. (10 Jan 1997 00:46:46 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Jan 1997 00:46:46 -0700

+
Hi!
+
+A couple FTA questions if you have the time:
+
+During the battle between Sheridans forces and Kosh2, why didnt they
+allow Kosh2 to escape once he broke out of his encounter suit?  Were
+they concerned Kosh2 would take them all out before he left?  Or were
+they unaware he was trying to make a getaway?  Or did Sheridan really
+want to kill him - was that Sheridans ultimate goal or would he have
+been satisfied if Kosh2 left the station when Geribaldi asked him to?
+
+And why did Kosh2 leave through the ceiling instead of the floor
+(which should be the faster way out right? -- or was he too busy
+fighting with Kosh1 to notice)?  How far can a Vorlon travel and how
+long can they stay in space without a ships protection?
+
+Also - Delenn prizes life.  How does she feel about Sheridan murdering
+one of the ambassadors?  She seemed to have a sick look on her face
+when she was watching Kosh2 being shot down.  Did she support Sheridans
+decision, and will it affect her perception of the man who has returned
+from Zhadum?
+
+Wow - more questions than I meant to ask  And I can think of 100 more,
+but Ill stop bombarding you.  I appreciate any insight!
+
+Thanks!
+Debbie
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Crusade" Spinoff? (31 Dec 1996 17:04:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
"Crusade" Spinoff?

+
Date: 31 Dec 1996 17:04:19 -0700

+
I just read about your as yet fully formed concept of a B5 spinoff
+involving the rangers. I would like to know some of your specific ideas
+regarding this proposal.  1. Does the story take place before, during,
+or after the 5 year B5 arc? 2. What characters, assuming you
+can sign up the actors, would be involved?-Dellen, Marcus, Lanier,
+Sinclair ?
+
+John Morgan Devoted B5 Fan
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Killing Kosh2 etc. (10 Jan 1997 15:39:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Jan 1997 15:39:32 -0700

+
       The idea was to force Kosh2 out of the station, to where it
+could be destroyed outside with a minimum of damage to the station. 
+Delenn wasn't happy about it, but also recognizes that war means
+sometimes having to kill somebody.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B-5 RPG (10 Jan 1997 09:52:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 10 Jan 1997 09:52:50 -0700

+
I've recently heard that the reason we haven't seen the Babylon
+Project from Chameleon Eclectic is because they never received the
+proper permission from you to create it.  Is this true or is it hung up
+for the more usual RPG-never-on-schedule reasons?
+
+If you haven't given permission, is it forthcoming or is the game no
+longer a possibility?
+
+Thanks for your time.
+
+Sue
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B-5 RPG (10 Jan 1997 15:39:33 -0700)
+
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B-5 RPG

+
Date: 10 Jan 1997 15:39:33 -0700

+
       No, the game is coming along fine, it has all the proper
+permissions. There have been some delays at my end of things, just
+because there's so much material to review, but what I've seen has been
+terrific.  So no, it's definitely coming out, and I think it's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+How many in a row? (11 Jan 1997 22:55:55 -0700)
+
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How many in a row?

+
Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:55:55 -0700

+
      They'll air 5 through 9 in the next batch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Killing Kosh2 etc. (11 Jan 1997 22:55:59 -0700)
+
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Killing Kosh2 etc.

+
Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:55:59 -0700

+
      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh1 vs. Kosh2 (11 Jan 1997 18:15:09 -0700)
+
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+
Kosh1 vs. Kosh2

+
Date: 11 Jan 1997 18:15:09 -0700

+
Joe:
+
+Some of us were wondering: Did Kosh1 voluntarily participate in the
+fight against Kosh2, or was he just a semi-conscious pawn of
+Sheridan/Lorien?
+
+Thanks.
+
+SJE
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh1 vs. Kosh2 (11 Jan 1997 22:56:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:56:02 -0700

+
      It was conscious, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh1 in charge? (11 Jan 1997 22:56:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 11 Jan 1997 22:56:04 -0700

+
      Yes, he actively participated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Hal (10 Jan 1997 23:36:25 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10 Jan 1997 23:36:25 -0700

+
I'm surprised no one noticed Sunday Jan. 12th 1997 is the day Hal
+became operational in 2001-A space odyssey
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hal (11 Jan 1997 23:06:01 -0700)
+
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+
Hal

+
Date: 11 Jan 1997 23:06:01 -0700

+
      Well, THAT explains why my computer's been acting funny, now I
+have to warn the world before it cuts me off from th
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Crusade" Spinoff? (01 Jan 1997 18:40:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
"Crusade" Spinoff?

+
Date: 01 Jan 1997 18:40:43 -0700

+
      It would take place after the main B5 arc.  As for specifics on
+cast, nothing can be said until things get closer to being nailed down;
+there's still a lot that can change on this, and it's a question of
+what works best for the show, and who wants to move on, and other
+aspects.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia CD? (11 Jan 1997 13:56:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia CD?

+
Date: 11 Jan 1997 13:56:16 -0700

+
Recently saw a graphic image of Claudia Christian on the Web which
+purports to be from her CD.  I've never heard of one.  Anybody have the
+scoop on this?
+
+Thanks, John.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia CD? (11 Jan 1997 23:06:02 -0700)
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+
Claudia CD?

+
Date: 11 Jan 1997 23:06:02 -0700

+
      Where's the photo located on the web?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (12 Jan 1997 15:29:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 12 Jan 1997 15:29:53 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does the audience NEED to be as big for a syndicated show
+> compared to a network show in order to survive? I think you
+> mentioned in your "Quick Requests from JMS" message something to
+> the effect B5 has about 10-15 million viewers -- would that be
+> enough to sustain it on one of the big three or even the little
+> two (UPN, WB)?
+
+      It doesn't need to be a BIG audience, but it does need to be big
+enough to make a profit.  And that's what they didn't know.  Since
+then, they have made a very tidy profit on B5 already.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Killing Kosh2 etc. (12 Jan 1997 15:41:55 -0700)
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+
Killing Kosh2 etc.

+
Date: 12 Jan 1997 15:41:55 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Had Kosh2 left when asked, it wouldn't have had to be done, no. 
+It was vaguely possible, but they had to plan as if he would not do so,
+which in fact was what happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Betwixt the Betweens (12 Jan 1997 22:18:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Betwixt the Betweens

+
Date: 12 Jan 1997 22:18:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (13 Jan 1997 18:41:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:41:26 -0700

+
 Sue Wachowski <74743.3703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The whole concept of knowing that the show has a beginning,
+> middle and end, and that's it, makes it more exciting as a
+> viewer...has this ever been done before? I know some shows produce
+> endings when they aren't renewed or are choosing to go off the
+> air, but are there any shows that knew the ending from the
+> beginning<g>? If the spin-offs of B5 aren't done the same way,
+> will there be that same thrill? Will you continue this way of
+> structuring a TV series? I find that I don't watch pointless TV
+> anymore...and if a series has no ending in mind, how can they
+> work towards a goal, except within episodes and scenes? I guess
+> what I want to know is, why hasn't this been done before? Why
+> doesn't TV produce more structured series like this? Will you
+> continue to create shows in this way? A TV novel, is there a term
+> for it? How about *Noveries*?
+> Is this enough of an introduction to myself?
+
+       "Why hasn't this been done before?"
+
+       To which the only answer is...because nobody's done it before. 
+(At least, here in the US...in the UK similar things have been done for
+some time, a la The Prisoner.)
+
+       I guess mostly it's because in TV, the question is always "are
+we going to last 9 weeks?" and nobody thinks that far ahead.  To set
+things up that you won't pay off for *years* takes someone a little
+insane, a) to believe you'll be on the air that long, and b) to count
+on the audience to be patient enough to wait for things to unfold.
+
+       And over time, I do think you're more likely to see more of
+this sort of thing as B5's impact grows over the coming years.
+
+       My general sense for what comes next for me...assuming the B5
+sequel goes...I've done a hard-linked and extremely intense drama with
+an adventure component...and now, having done that, and proved that it
+*could* be done, despite many who said it couldn't, my feeling now is,
+"Okay, we've done that, how can we tweak it so that the sequel has a
+different feel to it?" So I'm looking at something that's a little more
+in the adventurous mode, with a serious underpinning, with an arc to it
+that's not quite as intense in tone, but is still good drama. 
+Characters that grow and change, a definite ending, several mysteries
+enclosed inside other mysteries, with a much larger canvas, and an even
+stronger sense of wonder.  B5 I did to prove a point, to some extent;
+now I'd like to try something where, having achieved that, I can sit 
+back and, knowing the format now, have some fun with it.  Maybe turn
+it on its head in a few places.
+
+       As with everything else I do, I try to find what I'd enjoy as a
+viewer, and take it from there.  That was how B5 came about, and that's
+how the new show would come about, should it happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 TV ratings? (13 Jan 1997 18:41:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 TV ratings?

+
Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:41:28 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> And, while I've got your ear, what is your opinion on the TV
+> ratings?
+
+       I think we got stuck with a TV 14 rating...and frankly, I think
+the ratings system is massively stupid, and will be broadly ignored.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia CD? (13 Jan 1997 18:41:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia CD?

+
Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:41:31 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I got it, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (13 Jan 1997 18:41:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:41:34 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do they make a profit?
+> From syndication fees?
+> Or is there other evenue streams?
+> And, if I may ask, how do you get paid?
+
+       They get their money from commercial advertising and foreign
+sales. I get a piece of the *net* profit, and since the numbers are
+always jigged so that no TV show or movie ever shows a profit, we know
+how much that will result in...zilch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Atn: JMS- Story Arc (13 Jan 1997 18:47:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
Atn: JMS- Story Arc

+
Date: 13 Jan 1997 18:47:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Just one problem: I never SAID "Crusade" would not have a story
+arc. I have only said that it won't be as *intense* an arc as that on
+B5, because the tone is somewhat different, because I don't want to do
+the exact same thing twice.  But it will have an arc to it.
+
+       My suggestion: wait until you see what it IS before you ask me
+to make it what it's not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scotty Fired (01 Feb 1997 00:06:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:06:12 -0700

+
      Don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but since it's been in
+the trades I thought people might want to know...apparently Paramount
+was unhappy with Jimmy Doohan doing a part on Homeboys from Outer Space
+(I think that's the title) that had a scottish accent and a mustache
+and was kind of a parody of Scotty...and they pressured the production
+company to terminate his contract.  And now he's off the show.
+
+      It's hard enough for actors to find work on the best of days. 
+But this sort of thing is just appalling.  If there are fans of Jimmy
+Doohan's work who are less than thrilled with this heavy-handed
+treatment (which has many folks in the Industry out here annoyed as
+well; Bill Mumy was nearly speechless when he heard it) and who want to
+note this with the studio, you're certainly free to do so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Quick Requests from JMS (01 Feb 1997 22:08:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 22:08:59 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Certainly there are some thematic carryovers, yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 videos in the USA (12 Feb 1997 12:28:51 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 12:28:51 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I've dragged my feet on general merchandise, yeah, but never on
+tapes. B5online is confusing the issues.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kathryn Drennan (12 Feb 1997 16:57:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:21 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any other Kathryn Drennan books available?
+> Does she have an Email address for fan mail?
+
+       While she has written prose for Twilight Zone magazine, and
+other national publications, and is a Clarion graduate, this will mark
+her first novel.  It's quite good (having read most of it now),
+tracking Sinclair's journey from B5 to Minbar, taking up the role of
+Ambassador, then transitioning to head of the Rangers.
+
+       This book stands to be the first one (closely followed by
+Jeanne Cavelos' forthcoming B5 book) that's 100% canon...to be
+considered a true chapter in the B5 storyline.
+
+       What's fun about it is that it ties all the books and comics
+together with the show, and puts it all in chronological order, and
+weaves in and out of events in the second season.  I think this is
+going to be a fan favorite. The Cavelos book follows Anna Sheridan as
+she comes to join the crew of the Icarus, and the details of their fate
+at Z'ha'dum.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Wrath of Nuts (12 Feb 1997 16:57:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Wrath of Nuts

+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       "We're working on a plan."
+
+       And where you intend to get a chicken that large is beyond me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+407: <Escorts?> (12 Feb 1997 16:57:23 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:23 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How come he's got no guards on B5?
+
+       Because Londo wouldn't abide that for more than five minutes;
+it'd cramp his style.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The big pic (itf etc) (12 Feb 1997 16:57:23 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:23 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But I'm curious, shouldn't he have been looking for Sinclair?
+
+       No, Valen was a done deal, as far as the Vorlons were
+concerned; they knew that that happened/would happen.  It was Sheridan
+and Delenn who had to go through this...and in Delenn's case, more for
+her benefit, in some ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Epiphanies<< (12 Feb 1997 16:57:24 -0700)
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>>Epiphanies<<

+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:57:24 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> My boss seemed to think it has something to do with something
+> that happened in this episode, but I have no clue what he's
+> talking about, do you?
+
+       Ah...well, that explains the angry phone calls and late-night
+hangups, then....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Kathryn Drennan (12 Feb 1997 23:30:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:30:35 -0700

+
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+
+      I think the first one out, the Cavelos book, should be out next
+month.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Kathryn Drennan (12 Feb 1997 23:30:37 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:30:37 -0700

+
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+
+      The other books...in broad strokes, I accept they happened, but
+in the details, and how they're treated, and some incidentals...they
+haven't hit all the right cylinders.  This time, with this batch, I got
+more directly involved and I think they're definitely improved...though
+the Cavelos novel had the least need for input, since she *really* knew
+the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<ITF>> Frying Pan... (12 Feb 1997 23:30:39 -0700)
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<<ITF>> Frying Pan...

+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:30:39 -0700

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you want a reminder on Sunday?
+
+      Reminder about what?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Kathryn Drennan (14 Feb 1997 15:50:27 -0700)
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Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:50:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's certainly what I want....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Long Night (01 Feb 1997 22:09:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 22:09:01 -0700

+
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+
+      Nothing about it was at all accidental...he had to go pick it
+up, turn, move to Cartagia, stick it in, and then pull the trigger. 
+Nothing accidental about it.  But if we'd shown him doing all the prep,
+the shock wouldn't have been as substantial.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<ITF>> Frying Pan... (14 Feb 1997 15:51:19 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:19 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, but I think I want to hold that for a big con...my
+problem is, once I tell a story ANYwhere, it's on the nets in 50
+seconds, and I can't tell it anywhere else without boring my audience
+to tears.  So I'm looking for ways to spread stuff around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Soundtrack II (14 Feb 1997 15:51:20 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:20 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is the Babylon 5 Volume 2 soundtrack out in stores and on the
+> shelves yet?
+
+       Yeah, it's out (though you may need to have your local store
+special order it for you), and you can get it online via
+www.sonicimages.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Epi - Lyta & Sheridan (14 Feb 1997 15:51:21 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:21 -0700

+
 Colin Glassey <104224.2227@compuserve.com> asks:
+> First, the jump seems huge, how could he think that she had
+> anything to do with it? I've done so many things for you, and what
+> have you done for me? You aren't my commanding officer."?
+
+       No, Lyta doesn't officially work for Sheridan, but she has
+nowhere else to go, and is beholden to him just for everyday survival
+and protection against the Corps.  That makes her answerable to him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Epiphanies (14 Feb 1997 15:51:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:22 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> BTW, does the Regent have a name now?
+
+       Actually, though the tougher Delenn is in flashbacks in 2
+weeks, the foreground/contemporary story has her very tough, and very
+smart. Basically, the next mini-arc sequence focuses a LOT on
+Delenn...she has many facets, and while part of that is the
+relationship, there's steel there as well, and we're going to explore
+that.  As she at one point comments to Sheridan, "I appreciate that you
+have come to care for what I have become... but never forget who I am,
+or what I can do."
+
+       After this arc of hers, nobody's ever going to make that
+mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Just What I Wanted (14 Feb 1997 15:51:23 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:23 -0700

+
 David Cerreta <72630.3433@compuserve.com> asks:
+> She was quite relieved, although she had the reaction you
+> apparently wanted from your avid viewership: "Oh s**t, what now?"
+
+       That's great to hear, on all fronts...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into The Fire (14 Feb 1997 15:51:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:24 -0700

+
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+
+       Nope, the events of WWE *cemented* the events that are to come.
+What we saw in that flash-forward will now happen precisely because of
+what has been done.  That future will take place.
+
+       As for the story being over...not by a long sight.  Frankly,
+some of what's coming in the latter part of this season is more intense
+than anything we've done previously.  We really focus in on the
+characters and the after-shocks of the war, in ways usually ignored.
+
+       After all, we all know how nice and calm and civilized Europe
+was after the War To End All Wars came to an end...we hardly heard a
+peep from that part of the world thereafter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Epiph.> Throw away line (14 Feb 1997 15:51:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:51:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Give 'em time, and they'll try to buy a planet.  It's
+inevitable.
+
+       With Earth now in the present, that'd make two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing (14 Feb 1997 22:19:08 -0700)
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+
Writing

+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 22:19:08 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just wondering what sort of software you use to write
+> scripts, and if you use something different for novels?
+
+      I use Movie Master for scripts; it's a formatting program only. 
+It's quirky and buggy as hell, but it's what I learned to use at
+Universal, and it's functional.  I use Wordstar for regular prose.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<ITF>> Frying Pan... (14 Feb 1997 22:19:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1997 22:19:10 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So......is I-Con considered the next big con??
+
+      Megacon in Florida would be the next biggie.  I'll be at that
+one in Orlando March 15th and 16th.
+
+      BTW, here's one of those little things that make you go
+"hmmmmm...."
+
+      That Starlog has an anti-B5 bias has always been evident, and
+has covered us only reluctantly covered us.  There is a convention
+listing page in the current issue.  It mentions the Gallifrey
+Convention happening this weekend here in LA, lists the guests...but
+omits my name.  So you figure, "Okay, it's an oversight."
+
+      Then there's a listing for MegaCon in Orlando.  Now, understand
+that MegaCon *advertises* in Starlog.  Three pages earlier, there's a
+huge half page ad for MegaCon with my name in huge letters as the
+primary guest.  But in the convention listing for MegaCon, all the
+others are listed *except* me.
+
+      One you figure could be an oversight...two, in the very same
+magazine that has a huge ad for one of the conventions, starts to look
+like a deliberate snub.
+
+      Or, more succinctly, "Hmmmm....."
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scotty Fired (15 Feb 1997 19:42:34 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Feb 1997 19:42:34 -0700

+
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+
+      Your understanding of the situation is correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Night (01 Feb 1997 22:09:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 22:09:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...I think a lot of it there has to do also with the
+performance of the actor playing Ericsson.  He brought a real sense of
+presence to the job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Goodies (15 Feb 1997 19:42:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Feb 1997 19:42:35 -0700

+
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+
+      The 2nd soundtrack is out and available right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing (16 Feb 1997 19:48:56 -0700)
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Writing

+
Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:48:56 -0700

+
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+
+      I think a lot of SF writers stayed with it because of
+familiarity.  SF writers, and folks like me (still not entirely sure if
+I belong in that category), were invariably the first ones on our block
+to have personal computers...back when that meant a Kaypro II with 64K
+ram and 128K floppies and NO internal hard drive, and an 8" green
+monitor.  (I still have mine, incidentally, I'm too sentimental to
+throw it away.)
+
+      Back then, Wordstar was pretty much the way to go.  That's what
+I learned on, and that's why I use it.  I like the WYSIWYG approach,
+and it does feel like a typewriter.
+
+      The WS for Windows was a nightmare, and I deleted it instantly. 
+Is there any indication that they're going to be trying again any time
+soon? I'd like to use the capability that comes with windows, but I'm
+too short on time to afford the learning curve for another software
+system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Soundtrack II (16 Feb 1997 19:48:58 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:48:58 -0700

+
 Nick Murray <70003.1112@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But when I played the "Severed Dreams" track on the new CD it
+> doesn't sound like the same cue at all?? Someone had a breakdown
+> of the tracks on USENET and from what I understand the track
+> titled "Severed Dreams" is actually mostly music is from
+> "Messages from Earth"? I guess I don't understand why the tracks
+> are titled the way they are when they don't contain the music
+> from that particular episode?
+
+      I think that music appears elsewhere on the disk, in
+pieces...I'm not sure why he entitled stuff the way he did.  There's
+more "Z'ha'dum" stuff in the "Severed" track than anything else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Epiphanies - good... (16 Feb 1997 19:49:00 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:49:00 -0700

+
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+
+      The G'Kar/Londo dynamic isn't quite over yet...there's more to
+come, and that relationship is going to continue having its ups and
+downs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kathryn Drennan (16 Feb 1997 20:01:50 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:01:50 -0700

+
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+
+      The broad strokes of previous books are generally incorporated
+into canon, but henceforth the books will be *based on* canon, which
+will help take care of a lot of trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Paramount praise? (16 Feb 1997 20:01:52 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:01:52 -0700

+
 Timmorn <104444.3110@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this correct?
+> close?
+
+      It probably refers to Majel Roddenberry, who supported the show
+by coming out and acting on it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>IofT great/frightening (16 Feb 1997 20:01:54 -0700)
+
+
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>>IofT great/frightening

+
Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:01:54 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's a *very* subversive episode in that way. 
+Which is way cool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Epiphanies> All Round (16 Feb 1997 20:01:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Epiphanies> All Round

+
Date: 16 Feb 1997 20:01:56 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Garibaldi's shaving scene is a visually eerie thing
+> (foreshadowing?
+
+      Thanks...and as always, good thoughts on all this material.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Writing (17 Feb 1997 21:43:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
Writing

+
Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:33 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I use WS 7.0.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Slip Slidin' Away (17 Feb 1997 21:43:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
Slip Slidin' Away

+
Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:34 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you say?
+> Maybe after the series is over?
+
+      We'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+If people didn't leave.. (02 Feb 1997 03:00:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
If people didn't leave..

+
Date: 02 Feb 1997 03:00:38 -0700

+
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+
+      Sinclair was never intended to go to Z'ha'dum.
+
+      And it wouldn't have worked for Sakai to be the one who awoke
+the shadows and "died" at Z'ha'dum because *they were already awake* in
+the first season.  People who try to lay the one line atop the other
+tend to forget this.  We also get Garibaldi's mention of crawling out
+of the Martian desert in the very first episode...which tied into the
+whole Messages From Earth thread, putting the shadows at work for at
+least 2-3 years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Epiphanies> curious ? (17 Feb 1997 21:43:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Epiphanies> curious ?

+
Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:36 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> My one, quick, curious question is, was the "big band" style
+> music used in the beginning something written specifically for
+> this episode? Or was it something else?
+
+      Yeah, Chris wrote the music for us, in Big Band style.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+First Ones Motives (17 Feb 1997 21:43:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
First Ones Motives

+
Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:38 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The main motive for going beyond the rim...there's a heck of a
+big Taco Bell out there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+408: Timeline (17 Feb 1997 21:43:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
408: Timeline

+
Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:43:40 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you clarify the timeline for the first eight episodes?
+> Does that mean that 407 ("Epiphanies") happened sometime in Feb,
+> March or April?
+
+      There are always some time jumps in the show, since there's only
+22 weeks worth of shows, and they cover 52 weeks of a year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>IofT great/frightening (18 Feb 1997 01:07:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
>>IofT great/frightening

+
Date: 18 Feb 1997 01:07:06 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I assume they were the names of real directors, writers, and
+> actors who were blacklisted?
+
+      Yes, they're based on the real names of writers who were
+blacklisted, Dalton Trumbo and Paul Jarrico.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Epiph & prior eps (18 Feb 1997 01:07:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Epiph & prior eps

+
Date: 18 Feb 1997 01:07:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  RE: the regent...well, if you want to do something
+really nasty, you want to do it to somebody everybody kinda likes, so
+you feel for the situation.
+
+      Ah likes doing that sorta thing...dropping anvils on characters
+to see what pattern splat they make....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rage'sThots:Epiphanies (18 Feb 1997 12:42:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rage'sThots:Epiphanies

+
Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:42:02 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> * I think it's about time our Minister / Regent got a name, don't
+> you? After the Great Bab5 Computer Reboot (starring Sparky the
+> Wonder Computer), was the SPIDER IN THE WEB Control erased from
+> Bab5's files? Wasn't / Isn't Mars owned by a company, kinda?
+> Maybe he had tasted what the two of them could do when they
+> worked together instead of at each other's throat? Boy, he got
+> shut down hard a couple few times by Lyta, didn't he? A taste of
+> Martyrdom? Maybe her and Alfie, y'know, "wink-wink, nudge-nudge,
+> say no more"? I seemingly recall a mention somewhere by Pat
+> Tallman that Lyta was a lesbian, or bisexual? Is that canon, or
+> just something Pat said at a convention? And ObObviousQuestion:
+> How *much* has she been modified? A telepath would be real handy
+> for removing that stuff, don'tcha think? How immortal (for 20 yrs)
+> is he? More importantly, how immortal does he feel?
+> Rage Ranger of Washingdome "I assume my usual quarters in the
+> brig are available?
+
+       The only thing I'd quibble with there is calling Garibaldi's
+trust of Jack in season 1 a massive screwup...he had no way of knowing
+what was going on, nobody did, viewers included, until it happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+John Schuck-Draal (18 Feb 1997 12:42:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
John Schuck-Draal

+
Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:42:03 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How will this effect his part as Draal and B5's shooting
+> schedule?
+
+       It's been an ongoing series of complications relative to
+Draal's character and John's schedule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Blacklist (18 Feb 1997 12:42:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Blacklist

+
Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:42:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks...it's a period too few people really know much about,
+and it never hurts to point to the past in order to warn about the
+future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+What hpned to L Welch? (18 Feb 1997 12:42:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
What hpned to L Welch?

+
Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:42:05 -0700

+
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+
+       The actor wanted to do other things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Barometer (19 Feb 1997 20:31:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
Barometer

+
Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:31:55 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How's the production coming along?
+> What script are you up to in writing and which are they currently
+> filming? And, most importantly, how are *you* doing thesedays?
+
+      Production's coming along spiffily.  We're currently working
+with our guest star Efram Zimbalist Jr., who is going to be in 2
+episodes.
+
+      I'm getting along as well as can be expected under the
+circumstances, and a few thousand pressures....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Long Night (02 Feb 1997 03:03:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Long Night

+
Date: 02 Feb 1997 03:03:42 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Consider yourself the recipient of a cybernoogie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<ITF>> Frying Pan... (19 Feb 1997 20:31:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
<<ITF>> Frying Pan...

+
Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:31:57 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On a related note, have you seen the latest issue of Sci-Fi
+> Invasion? Needless to say this caught my eye, so I read the entire
+> article so I could get it in the right context, I mean no one
+> would be that bold, right?
+
+      So by Hans logic, any series of novels, like the Dune books or
+anything else, is "limited by the imagination" of the person
+responsible, and thus flawed...or Herbert was just full of it...same
+for Tolkein, Clarke, Asimov, Smith and others.
+
+      I think this is what's called a classic case of projection.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade (20 Feb 1997 12:20:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade

+
Date: 20 Feb 1997 12:20:35 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <100563.322@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I note that you say the virus has an incubation period of 5 years
+> so is this an indication that the series is intended to run for 5
+> years like B5.? On a side note will TNT be exclusively showing the
+> two Babylon 5 movies or do they intend to make a deal with other
+> TV companies around the world so that the likes of us in the UK
+> will be able to see them ?
+
+       I imagine that the TNT movies will be made available
+internationally, as that's how they'll make money off them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+IoT: co-conspirators (20 Feb 1997 21:29:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
IoT: co-conspirators

+
Date: 20 Feb 1997 21:29:26 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Parks (the person who's naming names) was also named after one
+of those who testified before HUAC.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The doctor's eyes (21 Feb 1997 11:46:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
The doctor's eyes

+
Date: 21 Feb 1997 11:46:10 -0700

+
 Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this what was intended?
+
+       Actually, no, he wasn't reading off a teleprompter at all.  His
+eyes may have been moving, but there was no reading involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Backlash (21 Feb 1997 22:33:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Backlash

+
Date: 21 Feb 1997 22:33:45 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What say you all???
+
+      a) One letter writer does not a backlash make.
+
+      b) How can we have a backlash when we've never even had a
+frontlash?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+IoT: co-conspirators (21 Feb 1997 22:36:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
IoT: co-conspirators

+
Date: 21 Feb 1997 22:36:53 -0700

+
 Jose Cabanillas <71020.3316@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who came up with that perspective, and was this change of tone
+> set totally in the writing or did it get enhanced on the set? Had
+> he done any directing before?
+
+      Stephen has directed before, yes, though he hasn't done that
+much episodic TV work.
+
+      The final shot was strictly described in the script; the monitor
+POV, the relative positions of everyone, the slight fisheye look and
+the absolute silence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>A Couple of Questions< (22 Feb 1997 17:12:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
>>A Couple of Questions<

+
Date: 22 Feb 1997 17:12:31 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many folks on Earth even know about the Shadow/Vorlon threat,
+> the assembled fleet, its success and the repercussions? Is this so
+> and, if so, when will we begin getting a clearer idea of what
+> that agenda might include?
+
+      For now, just the one...no, not everyone back home even knows
+there *was* a war.  Which our characters will find rather annoying....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Not the One? (22 Feb 1997 17:18:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
Not the One?

+
Date: 22 Feb 1997 17:18:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Entil-zha is the One, the specific head of the Rangers
+(known in the Minbari language as Anla-shok, meaning the application of
+force, as will be noted in one of the novels).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TV Bloopers show (23 Feb 1997 01:41:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
TV Bloopers show

+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:29 -0700

+
 Frank J. Furfaro <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were you aware that these were going to be on and chose them, or
+> did WB just include them in the show?
+
+      NUTS!  I missed it!  I knew it was coming, but didn't know it
+was tonight.  NUTS!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Illusion of Truth (23 Feb 1997 01:41:30 -0700)
+
+
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+
Illusion of Truth

+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:30 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Long Night (02 Feb 1997 21:27:58 -0700)
+
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Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:27:58 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's great to know you can write *anything*, and
+this cast can pull it off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (23 Feb 1997 01:41:32 -0700)
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Cindy LOVED Demon Night

+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:32 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any word yet on renewal or the follow on series?
+
+      Thanks on all counts...and no word yet on the rest of it.
+
+      They're pretty good books.
+
+      But the next one will be better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+He Did What?! (23 Feb 1997 01:41:34 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:34 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At first, I thought, "Hey, this is a new show, I wonder if
+> they'll have any B5 bloopers?"
+
+      Sigh...and I missed it...oh, well....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+IoT: co-conspirators (23 Feb 1997 01:41:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:36 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, that's one of the things we try to do with this show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Personal Revelations (23 Feb 1997 01:41:39 -0700)
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Personal Revelations

+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:39 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...yeah, a number of folks have come around to that. 
+That's one more reason why I wanted to get the war out of the
+way...because too many people were focusing in on the show as being
+about the war.  It ain't.  It's about the changes that happen before,
+during, and *after* a war.  And what's coming up is in some ways
+stronger because it's more personal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Illusion of Truth (23 Feb 1997 01:41:41 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 01:41:41 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's a good and creepy episode.  I like it when things
+get creepy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Lessons of 'Epiphanies' (23 Feb 1997 22:44:39 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 22:44:39 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"1. Sure the witch-hunt was probably a bad thing but let's all
+remember that Hollywood was indeed full of Commies."
+
+      Sigh...
+
+      Darwin was wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (23 Feb 1997 23:16:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:35 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm just curious, is this because the here-and-now is too
+> confining for the stories you want to tell, or SF allows you to
+> play with what we know in the here-and-now more effectively,
+> or...?
+
+      I tend to lean toward SF because that's what gets caught in my
+filter. I'm an SF fan.  Always have been.  I like other genres, and
+tend to play with them from time to time, but SF remains my first and
+foremost love.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (23 Feb 1997 23:16:37 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:37 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the next one have a title or expected publication date yet?
+
+      Title, yeah, but I'm holding that for now; no pub date, I want
+to finish it first, then auction it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:39 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...lemme check around here first, in case we can get an
+aircheck from the studio first.  If not, I'll take you up on the offer,
+thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 in MacUser (23 Feb 1997 23:16:40 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:40 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...yeah, I saw it.  Nice article.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Night (02 Feb 1997 21:28:00 -0700)
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The Long Night

+
Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:28:00 -0700

+
 Claire Nollet <71232.2556@compuserve.com> asks:
+> just how many hearts does the average Centauri have?
+> Also, I liked Cartagia's comment about humor "being subjective"
+> -- but isn't a mime a terrible thing to "waste"?
+
+      Re: heart/hearts...I figured that the two collectively are a
+whole from an emotional or spiritual perspective.  We say "a pair of
+pants" even though it's just the one, as a related example.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Illusion of Truth (23 Feb 1997 23:16:43 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:43 -0700

+
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+
+"FWIW, that was your most courageous episode yet, IMHO."
+
+      I appreciate the sentiment, so don't take this as lack of
+gratitude on my part; I'm happy you perceive it that way.
+
+      But courageous?  No.
+
+      Courageous as an apellation belongs to the South American
+writers who insist on telling the truth about their governments, who
+risk death on a daily basis for doing so...and to other writers doing
+similar work in other countries.
+
+      Yeah, it was kind of a shot to the midsection for some groups,
+with a certain element of biting the hand that feeds you, but the truth
+is, ain't nobody gonna come to my door in the middle of the night with
+death squads, take me away, and torture me.  If you want to hear about
+real courage, join PEN International, or Amnesty International.  They
+can always use the help.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lessons of 'Epiphanies' (23 Feb 1997 23:16:46 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:46 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, being a communist wasn't illegal back in the McCarthy
+period, either...they just destroyed you for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<TIoT> Ill-/De-/Coll- (23 Feb 1997 23:16:48 -0700)
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<TIoT> Ill-/De-/Coll-

+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:48 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can what Garibaldi says be counted as illusion or truth, these
+> days?
+
+      Thanks...your reaction is about on a par with most folks...that
+this ep is one that'll be discussed a lot, but not rewatched a lot,
+because it's just really hard to watch, knowing what's coming.  It
+really does tend to upset people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+IoT--cryo-cameos (23 Feb 1997 23:16:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:16:50 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'll probably be there sooner or later....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (23 Feb 1997 23:46:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1997 23:46:50 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The next novel?
+> You mean there is something coming after Othersyde?
+
+      Yeah, I started my next novel...it's going to be a slow haul,
+because I still have to give B5 my primary concern, but I've been going
+batty not doing some prose work, and I decided I finally had to start
+it, just for my own soul.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (24 Feb 1997 17:32:25 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Feb 1997 17:32:25 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't suppose you'd give us a little hint of what it's about?
+
+       Fraid not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<TIoT> Ill-/De-/Coll- (24 Feb 1997 17:32:26 -0700)
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<TIoT> Ill-/De-/Coll-

+
Date: 24 Feb 1997 17:32:26 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It beggs the question "Who watches the Watchmen?"
+> Is Garibaldi's comments to Dan Randall what you had in mind?
+
+       That's certainly the beginning of it, yeah.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (24 Feb 1997 22:32:26 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:26 -0700

+
 Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you plan to put Babylon5 into prose form (three novels I would
+> think) or do you think trying to translate into another media
+> from TV film would basterize it?
+
+      My feeling is, if I'd wanted to do 'em as books, I'd've done 'em
+as books.  The story was designed for TV, and that's probably the best
+place to leave it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (24 Feb 1997 22:32:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:28 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What's the next one going to be?
+
+      No, the next novel has nothing to do with B5, anymore than did
+my first two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:29 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLN Sound (02 Feb 1997 21:28:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:28:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Part of the problem is that they've switched satellite uplink
+services, so that now it's being uploaded in analog instead of digital,
+and if it isn't absolutely calibrated, there's some left/right
+frazzing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Truth, the Media, and B5 (24 Feb 1997 22:32:32 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:32 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we supposed to think that you believe all reporters are
+> slime, or is it just the slant that they've been given in B5
+> episodes? So I guess my main questions are these: What is your
+> attitude on the press? And will you ever portray reporters in a
+> good light?
+
+      No, I don't make any blanket condemnations of journalists.  For
+one thing, there's a difference between portraying journalism in a
+relatively free society, and one that's operating under a dictatorship,
+a la President Clark. It's the difference between journalism and
+propaganda.
+
+      In "Midnight on the Firing Line," we had a reporter there doing
+a straight-ahead story; in "Point of No Return" we had the Good
+Journalists fighting to reveal the truth even as Clark was shutting
+them down.
+
+      There have been favorable portrayals; it's just that under the
+current regime, they don't have access to the media.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>The Truth in IofT<< (24 Feb 1997 22:32:35 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 24 Feb 1997 22:32:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is there no wear and tear on space suits and space ships?
+> Don't people and equipment bump into things in space and scratch
+> letters and bend things that aren't worth repairing? Is this
+> intentional? What does the print say on the top?
+> Any of these available on the market yet?
+> Is not Sheridan bothered a little bit by the fact that the
+> reporter may be right? Who really is telling the truth just a
+> little, Delenn or ISN?
+
+      The Hubble looks pretty new and gleaming, until you get right up
+close to it.  You don't allow wear in a space suit because it'll kill
+you.  And the stuff at B5 is at *most* 4 years old, and only outside
+when needed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS's new book (24 Feb 1997 23:47:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Feb 1997 23:47:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Didn't say it to you 'cause I'd already said it, and didn't want
+to repeat myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>The Truth in IofT<< (25 Feb 1997 16:53:45 -0700)
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+

+
>>The Truth in IofT<<

+
Date: 25 Feb 1997 16:53:45 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> No rust in space, but no dust also?
+
+       You don't want to get dust into your space suit or it'll screw
+up the works and you'll die, which is a definite design flaw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+WB vs. Drop Dead? (25 Feb 1997 22:24:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
WB vs. Drop Dead?

+
Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:24:53 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have a feeling yet whether WB/PTEN will be willing to give
+> you an answer on renewal and/or the sequel after this week's
+> numbers come out and get digested? If not, do you know this year's
+> 'drop dead' date on renewal?
+
+      The renewal dates for the actors is the same every year, around
+late June/early July.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+more praise (25 Feb 1997 22:24:54 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:24:54 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's great, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Time loop? (25 Feb 1997 22:24:57 -0700)
+
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+
Time loop?

+
Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:24:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I could answer this, but if I expand the time paradox loop any
+further, I would end up not answering it because I'd already answered
+it, which means it wouldn't get answered, requiring me to answer it
+now, and pretty soon the universe implodes, and I don't want that on my
+conscience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+><The Long Night>> (25 Feb 1997 22:24:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
><The Long Night>>

+
Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:24:59 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it my drug-induced haze, or was the voice of the shadow
+> creature done by Ed Wasser?
+
+      Yeah, that was Ed's voice.  Seemed appropos.
+
+      Definitely didn't want it to end in a big explosion.  We've seen
+many of those; how many more can you see?  One is the same as the other
+after a while. And if we destroyed everything, how would that show we'd
+grown enough to create the new age?  It's a matter of evolution, not
+destruction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (26 Feb 1997 01:40:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
Cindy LOVED Demon Night

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 01:40:21 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it horror, SF, or something else?
+
+      It's SF.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Greatest 10 Seconds (26 Feb 1997 13:52:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Greatest 10 Seconds

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 13:52:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it was fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Death & Rebirth (02 Feb 1997 21:28:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Death & Rebirth

+
Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:28:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How would you respond to that?
+
+      When characters die, they stay dead.  The one and only sorta
+exception to this is Sheridan, and only for a) reasons that make sense,
+b) reasons that are essential to a mythic structure, and c) really are
+just a postponement; he's been reanimated and can last another 20
+years, but that's the max.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Conspiracy of Light Conv (26 Feb 1997 14:07:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
Conspiracy of Light Conv

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:36 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these guys for real?
+> Did I miss the description of what facility they are talking
+> about? make a reservation, but is this legit?
+> thing out?
+> crew, JMS, etc?
+> What do you know of this?
+
+       My knowledge and association is at some distance.  I met with
+some of the people putting this together while I was in Florida, and
+they include a number of folks who have been long-time online
+supporters of B5, who apparently have a good background running
+conventions.  I know that they are making a honest effort of this, and
+are doing all they can to make it a good convention.  Beyond that, I
+can't say that we're actively involved in it. It has all the earmarks
+of something that would work out, but I have no way of knowing that,
+any more than any other first-time convention...except to know the
+intentions of the people, which are good, and their experience, which 
+seems to be solid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+pen names (26 Feb 1997 14:07:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
pen names

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:38 -0700

+
       I just chose not to go the pen name route for myself, it's not
+meant as a general statement for others.  I figure if I do all the work
+creating something, it's not unreasonable to expect people to work
+their way through pronouncing Straczynski....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Epiphanies (26 Feb 1997 14:07:38 -0700)
+
+
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+
Epiphanies

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:38 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When Garibaldi spoke to Zach about his hiring him, were you
+> harkening back at all to when you hired Jeff for the role when
+> you wrote that particular scene?
+
+       Jeff has certainly had his share of rough breaks, and we were
+very happy to give him a home here on B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+409: Shades of Red (26 Feb 1997 14:07:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
409: Shades of Red

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:45 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'll have to verify what you report, but if it's there, my
+guess is that it's an artifact of the blue-screen that was behind her
+for the second shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Atonements (26 Feb 1997 14:07:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
Atonements

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:07:45 -0700

+
 John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I correct that Dukhat is the first Minbari we've seen with
+> facial hair? Is that important?
+> Did Sinclair/Valen ever realize Delenn's heritage?
+> Might this newly mentioned mystery about Valen's end foreshadow
+> it's resolution in future episodes? Did I hear correctly that
+> Calenn is Delenn's brother and they had other brothers die along
+> with Dukhat?
+
+       No, Calenn was not Delenn's brother; the grey councilor speaks
+of brothers in the generic sense.
+
+       Draal, in his first appearance, also had a small beard.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Official: No year 5 (26 Feb 1997 14:11:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
Official: No year 5

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:11:25 -0700

+
       No, the Netter release DOES NOT specifically state that there
+will not be a season 5.  It talks about the current 88 episodes in the
+can, which TNT wants to go with asap, but we've been told by WB that a
+concurrent airing of season 5 and the TNT reruns is a possibility, so
+it's still in the discussion process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Official: No year 5 (26 Feb 1997 18:12:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Official: No year 5

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:12:59 -0700

+
 Colin Knowles <72152.201@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't this pretty much completely against what you've intended
+> from day one about B5? Also, could you give us any tantilizing
+> hints about "Babylon 5: In the Beginning"?
+
+       Re: "programming franchises"...I agree.  I went and yelled on
+Doug today, because this came out of the offices of the financial guys
+in his company, and their only goal is to make everything big and
+productive sounding for their stockholders, and that's the kind of
+language they love. I didn't even see the thing until I logged on
+today...and created several new orifices for him in the area of "these
+things never go out unless I see them first!" Financial people and
+creative people have different concerns and different priorities. 
+(Which is why there were no quotes from me in this, I didn't know it
+was going out.)
+
+       So people have been yelled at on this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cindy LOVED Demon Night (26 Feb 1997 18:13:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Cindy LOVED Demon Night

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:13:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What about that paragraph about "the one" or something from
+> Othersyde? Is a novel about Sinclair/Zathras or G'Quon and G'Lan
+> still possible?
+
+       The new version of the B5 comic will have more info on
+Valen/Zathras.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+409: Shades of Red (26 Feb 1997 18:13:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
409: Shades of Red

+
Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:13:02 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any idea why bluescreen would do that sort of thing
+> to some colors? And, is there anything that can be done to avoid
+> it?
+
+       I think they had to tweak the color in the transfer to avoid
+the problem of blue against blue, and having the virtual set bleed
+through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Image of a Vorlon (27 Feb 1997 01:01:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
Image of a Vorlon

+
Date: 27 Feb 1997 01:01:47 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Because it takes concentration to pull it off, and Kosh2 was
+kinda distracted....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Gamut of Hard Things (02 Feb 1997 21:28:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
A Gamut of Hard Things

+
Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:28:07 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since he has rejected the easy sole leadership, what position can
+> he create for himself in the face of woefully uncomprehending
+> followers?
+
+      Thanks...that's a lot to keep in play at the same time, and I'm
+glad the themes all come across.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Epiphanies (27 Feb 1997 01:01:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
Epiphanies

+
Date: 27 Feb 1997 01:01:49 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ....have you ever considered the fact that between Jeff Conaway,
+> Stephen Furst, and several others, you've made B5 into a haven
+> where unappreciated and typecast actors have been able to shine
+> with their respective skills while flipping a thespian finger at
+> all those who've ignored them?
+
+      That sometimes occurs to me....
+
+      They're all fine actors who've been vastly underappreciated,
+under utilized, and typecast.  We don't cater to that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+To Sysops from jms (27 Feb 1997 02:37:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 27 Feb 1997 02:37:37 -0700

+
      Some recent rumors have come to my attention over the last few
+days, which I hope, in this forum, to put to rest.
+
+      The rumors concern messages, posted here, which may have used
+the occasional reference -- largely allowed on television, in
+magazines, on the radio and elsewhere -- words such as "pissed off" or
+"ass," that have been deleted or moved out of public view.  That is to
+say...censored.
+
+      Understand that those words are good enough for the Bible, which
+tells us that god will "cut off from His presence he who pisseth
+against the wall," and refers to the "jawbone of an ass."  Now, if such
+language is good enough for the Bible, then it seems to me that such
+terms should be good enough for Compuserve.
+
+      Now, I say "rumors" because I'm sure that the sysops will now
+come forth and explain that this was a terrible misunderstanding, that
+no such thing ever happened, and will not happen in future.
+
+      Granted, obviously, there are certain words and phrases that
+have no place in a forum such as this...the really Tough Words. 
+"Pissed off" and "ass" are not tough words...they are not even
+firecrackers in the world of harsh language, nowhere near the
+occasional cannon or howitzer that is out there.
+
+      Further, more disturbing, are the rumors that messages inquiring
+about these censored messages, which do not in and of themselves
+contain any such language, have THEMSELVES been deleted or moved out of
+public view (essentially the same thing).  That it is now inappropriate
+and unallowable to even ASK about such things, regardless of language
+used.  And that such heavy handedness has caused the resignation of a
+number of forum members here.
+
+      I say rumors, and I say unfounded rumors, because surely even
+Compuserve would not actually take such action, and I'm confident will
+now step forward to say otherwise.  Why do I believe this?
+
+      Because Compuserve has a public image to maintain, and the
+information that it was driving off users and deleting messages for
+asking questions about censored messages would cause a furor of
+substantial proportions.
+
+      Because I will be sure to post many colorful quotes from the
+Bible in this space, and when they are removed, inform the National
+Council of Churches that Compuserve is deleting material from the Bible
+on the grounds that people should not see it.  In sum, censoring the
+Bible.  This should go over extremely well in the press.
+
+      Because Compuserve and the sysops must know that if such rumors
+*were* true that I would be forced to resign from this area myself,
+rather than tacitly endorse such heavy handedness.  I would publicly
+announce that this area is not conducive to the open discussion of this
+show, and that users should apply elsewhere.
+
+      Because on a daily basis, I give interviews to major newspapers,
+magazines, television shows, radio shows, internet publications and
+other venues in which I am asked about the online discussions of
+Babylon 5; I speak at conventions across the country where these
+matters are also discussed. And if this really *were* the situation
+here on CIS, then in all of these interviews I would have no other
+choice than to talk about messages censored simply for asking about
+policies on censorship and their rationalization, let alone for
+essentially innocuous words.  I would talk about it *at length*, and 
+ensure that every newspaper and magazine and TV show and radio show
+and internet publication and convention I spoke to printed or discussed
+this information at length.
+
+      I would obtain the name of the CEO of Compuserve, and pass along
+that information to journalists so that they could verify this for
+themselves, since the idea is, as stated above, utterly
+ludicrous...that any reasonably sane person could behave in such a
+capricious and brutish manner.  If this policy were in fact being
+enforced, then I should imagine that the CEO of Compuserve would only
+be *thrilled* to defend its practice to journalists at all hours of the
+day.
+
+      Compuserve would surely know that such behavior can exist only
+in the shadows, and that nothing so illuminates the corners of such a
+discussion as a few well-aimed journalists...and where the average
+person might not have a means of getting the word out...I do.  And I
+have an obligation to the many B5 fans using this service to maintain
+the *reasonable and justifiable* limits of language that have always
+been used here in the past, and that a show which encourages the asking
+of questions will support those of its fans who choose to ask questions
+of others, including "Why was that deleted?" without having to fear
+that inquiry being itself deleted or otherwise obscured.
+
+      I expect now that the messages inquiring about deleted or
+"disappeared" messages will be restored, and reasonable discussion be
+permitted here, and this whole silly rumor discounted once and for all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Not Photogenic? (01 Feb 1997 00:23:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
Not Photogenic?

+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:29 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean you look like Peirce Brosnan in person?
+
+      On very rare occasions you may get a shot where I look
+relatively human, but they're few and far between.  The camera loves
+Harlan, on the other hand, who always looks great in shots.  Me, every
+time my photo comes out somewhere, America's Most Wanted gets calls....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Into The Fire (04 Feb 1997 15:19:12 -0700)
+
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Into The Fire

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...it's a beautiful ep....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLN: Great Job as Usual (04 Feb 1997 15:19:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
TLN: Great Job as Usual

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:13 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I mean, the aftermath doesn't look very rosy at all now, does it?
+
+       It will have its ups and downs...but things do have a tendency
+to work out sometimes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 CD #2 is Available! (04 Feb 1997 15:19:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 CD #2 is Available!

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:16 -0700

+
 Chris Croughton (UK) <100014.3217@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My system has been losing messages, could you please repost the
+> info on the new CD?
+
+       A mistake is a mistake, where's the mileage in saying it didn't
+happen? In what parallel universe did it not happen?
+
+       You can find info on the sountrack at www.sonicimages.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Into The Fire (04 Feb 1997 15:19:18 -0700)
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Into The Fire

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:19:18 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Had you always intended to try to get the same actor to play the
+> Inquisitor and Lorien, or was it serendipity?
+
+       Yeah, well, there's only so much you can do on TV and expect
+stations to still broadcast it.
+
+       We always knew only Wayne could do Lorien; no question, no one
+else auditioned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sanford Meisner (04 Feb 1997 17:53:22 -0700)
+
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+
Sanford Meisner

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:53:22 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> That got my attention, but what really sent a shiver down my back
+> (and now I understand what the word "frisson" means) was when he
+> said that Meisner instructed his students to approach a character
+> by asking the questions "Who are you? What do you want?
+> Why are you here?"
+
+       The man was obviously a Vorlon plant....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Midwest JMS (04 Feb 1997 17:53:23 -0700)
+
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+
Midwest JMS

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:53:23 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I've heard that you often appear in LA but I can't travel there
+> (afraid of turning into a pillar of salt, don't you know), and
+> wondered if you are planning to make any appearances in or near
+> the (wholesome, inexpensive and friendly!) midwest this year? I've
+> been checking the Zocalo and everything else I can find, but hope
+> I might have missed something?
+
+       Nothing in the midwest...Columbus Ohio, Orlando Florida,
+Tauntaun Mass, Long Island NY, Seattle, WA...wanted to do Chicago
+ComicCon this year, but the timetable doesn't work out, and Westercon
+got there first for Seattle as GoH.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Day of Reckoning (04 Feb 1997 17:54:15 -0700)
+
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+
Day of Reckoning

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:54:15 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What is he referring to ?
+> and why?
+
+       Well, the reckoning in the next life for his actions in this
+one, would be the best way of putting it.  That's what he expects.
+
+       (My B5 mug is sitting on my mug rug right now, on my desk at
+the stage. It gets many comments.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLN:Eye That Cannnot See (04 Feb 1997 17:54:16 -0700)
+
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+
TLN:Eye That Cannnot See

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:54:16 -0700

+
 Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And is Sheridan also creating the future he wants to avoid?
+
+       Life's funny that way, ain't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Into The Fire (04 Feb 1997 17:54:17 -0700)
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Into The Fire

+
Date: 04 Feb 1997 17:54:17 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       He'll get there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Midwest JMS (05 Feb 1997 00:43:38 -0700)
+
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Midwest JMS

+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 00:43:38 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When are you going to be in Tampa or St.Petersburg Florida again
+> ?
+
+      I'll be in Orlando for Megacon the weekend of March 14th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episodes per season (01 Feb 1997 00:23:31 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:31 -0700

+
 Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true that each B5 season was planned for 26 eps instead of
+> 22 in case one of the major networks picked it up? Are there
+> "lost" B5 eps that may surface some time in the misty future like
+> some long lost Beatles tracks?
+
+"Is it true that each B5 season was planned for 26 eps instead of 22
+in case one of the major networks picked it up?  A friend told me that
+he heard this was the case and that there are a number of entire eps
+that were written and filmed, but have never aired with no plan to air
+them anytime soon.  Are there "lost" B5 eps that may surface some time
+in the misty future like some long lost Beatles tracks?"
+
+      Nope, nope, and nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Midwest JMS (05 Feb 1997 00:43:41 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 00:43:41 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will you be in Columbus?
+
+      I'll be in Columbus the weekend of May 9th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLN:Eye That Cannnot See (05 Feb 1997 00:43:42 -0700)
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TLN:Eye That Cannnot See

+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 00:43:42 -0700

+
 Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But does Ivanova go down in mortal terror, wanting desparately to
+> live? But maybe I don't fully understand her--perhaps fear has
+> always been a major part of her life after all...either that, or
+> maybe she escapes the C&C? Does it?
+> Or can Sinclair, by his goodness, prevent such things as he
+> determined to do in "War w/o End"?
+
+      Guess we'll just have to wait and see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLN: Great Job as Usual (05 Feb 1997 18:41:51 -0700)
+
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+
TLN: Great Job as Usual

+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:51 -0700

+
 Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If he had not gone as Delenn warned, could Sheridan have avoided
+> that future? Or was it already set in stone, as you seem to
+> suggest? I find that amazing...why do you do it, if you don't mind
+> my asking?
+
+       Had he not gohne to Z'ha'dum, he would've avoided that fate,
+but caused another.  And yeah, I answer most questions that require a
+response.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Into The Fire (05 Feb 1997 18:41:52 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:52 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Some stations show the rating, some don't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Into The Fire (05 Feb 1997 18:41:53 -0700)
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+
Into The Fire

+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:53 -0700

+
 David Scarpa <73672.2136@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Only 3 things nawed at me while I watched "ITF" where was
+> Garibaldi and G'kar during all of this?
+
+       All will become clear in time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hawking..3 ages?? (05 Feb 1997 18:41:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hawking..3 ages??

+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:54 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if anything here relates to Stephen Hawking the
+> Cosmologist? Any comments, did Hawkings theory provide any ideas
+> etc???
+
+       It's a good corrolary, yeah...that wasn't the intent going in,
+but it ain't bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ITF:<Take Us In> (05 Feb 1997 18:41:56 -0700)
+
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+
ITF:<Take Us In>

+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:41:56 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we to believe that these two ancient enemies, who would fight
+> and slaughter for millions of years, would just give up after
+> talking to Sheridan and Delenn for a few minutes? Was there just
+> one Shadow there?
+
+       I think that, for me, what mitigates against that is that a) it
+wasn't just Delenn and Sheridan, it was with virtually every other
+major civilization around backing their play, and adding their support,
+their voice, even being williing to die for the sake of this
+confrontation.  If it were just the two of them...they'd be scragged. 
+The two forces needed to be shown that the others had turned against
+them, and that their true faces had been exposed.
+
+       b) The other key for me is that neither the Vorlons nor the
+Shadows saw themselves as conquerers or adversaries...both believed
+they were doing what was right for us.  And like any possesive parent,
+they'll keep on believing that until the kid is strong enough to stand
+up and say, "No, this is what *I* want."
+
+       Most wars tend to end with one singular even...sometimes it's a
+big bomb, or a series of big bombs...and sometimes it comes with a
+negotiation. The two sides meet in a room, sometimes with
+representatives of other nations, and together they hammer out a truce,
+or a peace.  There's the Nagasaki solution on the one hand, and the
+"let's meet in a room and talk about this" of Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat
+and Minister Begin.
+
+       Both work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Day of Reckoning (05 Feb 1997 18:42:01 -0700)
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+
Day of Reckoning

+
Date: 05 Feb 1997 18:42:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Please let me know if anyone else there wants one and Ill make
+> more and send them to you......or do you want to be the only kid
+> on the block with one?
+
+       Well, I gotta have *something* just for me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+HOUR 25 (06 Feb 1997 00:25:41 -0700)
+
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+
HOUR 25

+
Date: 06 Feb 1997 00:25:41 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any tapes or transcripts out there to be had?
+
+      No, there are neither tapes nor transcripts; eventually I'll
+gather it all together in book form, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Night (06 Feb 1997 23:39:07 -0700)
+
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+
The Long Night

+
Date: 06 Feb 1997 23:39:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      He asked if Ericsson was married because, if he was, that was a
+call that Sheridan would have to make, over Stellarcom or in person, to
+notify her that her husband was dead.  And, for Sheridan, I suppose
+there was a tinge of relief, knowing that at least he wouldn't be
+creating a widow as well as ordering Ericsson to do what was necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Personal Tibits (01 Feb 1997 00:23:34 -0700)
+
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+
Personal Tibits

+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:34 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...those parts are what makes the show come alive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Knives b-ball field (06 Feb 1997 23:39:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Feb 1997 23:39:10 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The field looked so real, inviting and wide open-- how'd you do
+> that? And is that B5 baseball hat he's wearing the one he had
+> Ivanova pick up in the now-defunct B5 gift shop "for his sister"?
+
+      The whole set was a virtual set, except for a few feet of
+dressing. All done in computer.
+
+      The Agamemnon cap is something we may be offering soon via the
+fan club.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Into the Fire<< (06 Feb 1997 23:39:12 -0700)
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>>Into the Fire<<

+
Date: 06 Feb 1997 23:39:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Joe: In the final scene where we see an image of both the Vorlon
+> and the Shadows, why did you not show us the Vorlon in its true
+> form without the encounter suit?
+
+      Because we'd still be rendering it.  There are 114 EFX shots in
+that episode, and as it was we just barely made the satellite uplink. 
+If it wasn't absolutely necessary, better to do it more simply.  As it
+was, we were rendering the shadow form too.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Not Photogenic? (07 Feb 1997 00:27:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
Not Photogenic?

+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 00:27:21 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Yes, there are photos of Joe in the SF Library."
+
+      In *spite* of the petitions....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Harlan on Snyder (07 Feb 1997 03:10:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 03:10:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Someone once said that writing involves constantly proving you
+have talent to those who have none.  But some suits don't want to admit
+that, and figure, if they can hold a pencil, they can write.  Because
+they have no respect for writers or the written word.  So they screw
+with it. Constantly. Which is why I consider myself very lucky with B5,
+in that they have left me alone and not interfered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ITF (07 Feb 1997 03:16:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 03:16:10 -0700

+
 John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What did the latter call Delenn?
+> Is this important?
+> Was the rock that bumped the White Star and thus Lorien, letting
+> the Vorlons and Shadows know they were being 'tapped,' part of
+> the plan or just fate that worked out ok? Could Londo asking Vir
+> to kill him to save Centauri Prime one of his chances for
+> redemption and a successful chance?! What was the 6th?
+> Now that all 6 have left, and presumably won't appear again,
+> could you tell us the names of those races (assuming you've given
+> them any) and which ships belong to each race? Is Ironheart
+> already "beyond the rim?"
+
+      I don't think the shadows speaking through Lyta referred to
+Delenn by name; they said only, "And you they have left for us."
+
+      The jostling from the asteroid was an accident, though the
+others would've figured out what was going on soon enough.
+
+      Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLN: Great Job as Usual (07 Feb 1997 11:42:18 -0700)
+
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+
TLN: Great Job as Usual

+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:42:18 -0700

+
 Derek Linden <73322.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Intriguing...now I'm really curious...what would have been his
+> (and the universe's) fate had Sheridan not gone to Z'ha'dum?
+
+       That's one of those great questions to which the universe would
+rather we not know the answer....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+VTTBOTS (07 Feb 1997 11:52:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:52:07 -0700

+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Having grown up on Irwin Allen SF, and having noticed hommages to
+> various other SF shows on B5 in the past (Most noteably the
+> Prisoner), I was wondering if this was intentional, entirely my
+> imagination, or perhaps just a case of form follows function?
+
+       It's your imagination.  And form follows function.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLN - End Music (07 Feb 1997 11:52:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:52:08 -0700

+
 Stuart C. Hellinger <70402.1371@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I apologize in advance if you were already asked this (I haven't
+> had the time to log on this week), but was it deliberate that the
+> end credit music for the "The Long Night" went back to the third
+> season theme?
+
+       It was an error...but as with many errors on the show, it
+worked to our benefit.  It's the ABA principle....Art By Accident.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New episode... (07 Feb 1997 11:52:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:52:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Everybody was in fear of Cartagia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Thanks for a Few (07 Feb 1997 17:48:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 17:48:31 -0700

+
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+
+       We vary it depending on what's going on...in general, it's best
+over the black, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TLN (01 Feb 1997 00:23:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:23:36 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 4) Promos - did you see the airing?
+> but such are the vaguaries of TV executives, right?
+
+      Certainly I would never have made a big deal about the Ericsson
+thing, because then it *does* set up certain expectations.  I didn't
+hear about the promo until you did.
+
+      There actually *was* a Lorien scene in that episode, but it got
+slid a bit when we ran out of time in that ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+ITF (07 Feb 1997 17:48:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 17:48:32 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Morden - What are you going to do, blow up the island?
+
+       Thanks...that's a favorite moment of mine as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into the Fire (07 Feb 1997 17:48:33 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 17:48:33 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it?
+
+       Thanks for the kind words.
+
+       No, no relation to Ivanova's outfit.  I just wanted a sense of
+something that was both ancient and ageless, frozen, formal, distant.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into The Fire (07 Feb 1997 23:03:49 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 23:03:49 -0700

+
 Andrew Diseker <70714.105@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it your intention for the Vorlon and Shadow reps that
+> appeared on White Star #2's bridge to sound, well, plaintive,
+> when they were talking to Lorien? Will the loss of the First Ones
+> be equally traumatic, in the story that comes after? Will some of
+> the characters begin to realize just what it means to really be
+> in charge, now?
+
+      Thanks.  There is a definite parent/child/parent dynamic going
+on there, in that Lorien is, in a way, in that role to the Vorlons and
+the Shadows, they're in that role to us, and we're in that role to
+those who will follow. It's the endless cycle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Into the Fire<< (07 Feb 1997 23:03:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Feb 1997 23:03:50 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, what was that entity that Ivanova saw in "Voices Of
+> Authority" and the "Hour Of The Wolf" (I think)? Was it the Papa
+> Shadow?
+
+      The Sigma 957 ship was one of the First One ships, yeah.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon 5 (08 Feb 1997 21:16:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:16:06 -0700

+
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+
+      There are bloopers, but we save those to show at conventions. 
+There are some illegal copies floating around, but they're always poor
+quality and we discourage people from buying them.
+
+      The 2nd CD is great, I agree.  I think the first couple of
+tracks are my favorite, particularly the extended season 1 theme at the
+top.  I'll sometimes just let that one replay several times on its
+own....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon 5 (08 Feb 1997 21:28:58 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:28:58 -0700

+
 Mark Honeyborne <106531.647@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If they are not is there any chance of them being put onto a CD
+> single perhaps with Vir and Londo's rendishion of a Centari song
+> that they sung on KNIVES?
+
+      There was never any alternate version of "War," only my notes.
+
+      The songs will surface somewhere, eventually, I'm sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Video & LDs in the US (08 Feb 1997 21:29:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:00 -0700

+
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+
+      Won't make any difference.  WB Video doesn't release *any* TV
+series on tape or disk; that it would make money, it seems, doesn't
+matter...they only want to be involved with the high-visiblity
+big-budget sure-hit movies, not piddly TV shows.  So all the letters in
+the world -- and they've received a lot of them -- apparently won't
+make any difference to these people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into the Fire (08 Feb 1997 21:29:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  So far the general reaction has been, "But...but...what
+NOW?" which is *exactly* the reaction I was hoping for.
+
+      Everybody keeps commenting, "This is the sort of episode you
+have at the end, not 6 eps into your season."  Yep.
+
+      We're funny that way....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Into the Fire<< (08 Feb 1997 21:29:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:05 -0700

+
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+
+      No, that's not a ship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Space Imagery (08 Feb 1997 21:29:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why was the being enclosed in a transparency?
+
+      The woman was in ice as a symbol of their ridigity, their
+inflexibility, "frozen in time," as the shadows say.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Deep Bass (01 Feb 1997 15:49:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 15:49:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; we put in a LOT of time in the music and sound design of
+the show, more than most shows.  I'm glad it shows.
+
+      Ironically, though, the company doing the satellite uplink was
+changed recently (we have no control over this) and they're now
+uplinking the show in *analog* rather than digital, so there's some
+frazzing now that limits the dynamic range just a tad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into The Fire- Draal (08 Feb 1997 21:29:09 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:29:09 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they yet to come?
+
+      Epsilon 3 will come up in various ways and places, and
+Draal...but in places where you won't expect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Scotty Fired (09 Feb 1997 01:37:45 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Feb 1997 01:37:45 -0700

+
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+
+"BTW, it is VERY enheartening that you speak out for the actors--good
+show!"
+
+      I think you *have* to.  The reality is that these individuals
+were the core of the ST phenomenon.  It wasn't the EFX, good as they
+were...it was the characters, and the capacity of viewers to care about
+those characters, as portrayed and given life by these actors.  They
+deserve recognition for creating something that has endured for 25
+years, and to be rudely treated by the studio seems to me vastly
+inappropriate.  (Did you know that until just recently, when the bulk
+of the original ST actors took action against the studio, they had
+individually received as little as $16,000 total as their share of the
+25 year multi-billion dollar ST franchise?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into the Fire (09 Feb 1997 01:37:48 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Feb 1997 01:37:48 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was he referring to Lyta's contact with the "eye" above Z'hadum?
+> Was the "eye" a part of the Shadow's consiousness?
+> If not, will we ever find out what it was?
+> Although I have some reservations about both the Shadows and
+> Vorlons suddenly reverting into whiney, frightened 3-year olds
+> (You're not going to leave us all alone are you?
+
+      You may not find out who built the Great Machine in the series,
+but that will be one of the features of one of the planned TNT movies. 
+And there will be more on the Valen/Sinclair transformation as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into the Fire (09 Feb 1997 01:37:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Feb 1997 01:37:50 -0700

+
 Mark K. Smith <74014.1534@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you got the idea for B5, did your wife have to lead you out
+> of the shower?
+
+      Didn't require leading out of the shower, but I didn't much come
+out of my office for a very long time thereafter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (10 Feb 1997 01:31:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:06 -0700

+
 Mark Honeyborne <106531.647@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Oh I thought the script was origanally longer from what I
+> gathered from TV ZONE but could there be a novel based on you
+> notes?
+
+"could there be a novel based on you notes?"
+
+      Several.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing (10 Feb 1997 01:31:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:09 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever used a pen name?
+
+      Nope.  Don't believe in it, at least for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Future Theo? (10 Feb 1997 01:31:11 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:11 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you be including Brother Theo and the Boys in any future
+> episodes?
+
+      It's kinda hard to work them in...I'm trying....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Long Night (10 Feb 1997 01:31:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      We're definitely keeping him in mind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into the Fire (10 Feb 1997 01:31:16 -0700)
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Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I'm kinda proud of that line.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Epiphanies<< (10 Feb 1997 01:31:19 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:19 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is he going to regret having spoken to and threatened her the way
+> he did?
+
+      Thanks...yeah, the rest of the season will actually continue to
+increase in intensity, not decrease.  "Epiphanies" for me is an episode
+where I can feel the gears changing between war and post-war just a
+bit, but overall it's not bad.  And there's some *mean* stuff coming up
+very soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 Cancelled? (01 Feb 1997 15:49:52 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 15:49:52 -0700

+
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+
+      It's really little to do with popularity or ratings...it's the
+reality of PTEN no longer existing, and contracts being tied up in a
+corporate tangle, and them trying to decide if they want the headache
+of doing all this again. We still don't know anything for certain,
+though, so all we can do is wait.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ITF:Feeling (10 Feb 1997 01:31:21 -0700)
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ITF:Feeling

+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:21 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...the sense of wonder and awe is something that's missing
+from so much contemporary SF, I'm glad we could restore a little of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<ITF>> Frying Pan... (10 Feb 1997 01:31:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:24 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  You pick up on a lot of good stuff.  I've suggested the
+use of a minor chords version of the theme music to Chris on several
+occasions, where it seemed right, here, Signs and Portents, and in
+others.  The change from minor to major chords does signal an emotional
+transition, and it works well.
+
+      The director initially didn't want to do the Londo rage scene in
+one take; it was something I felt very strongly about, and I think it
+works well.
+
+      BTW, there's another example of a long single take coming up
+soon, on Epsilon 3, which is all I'll specify.  I kinda wanted the
+scene to play itself out, without cutting, and to show just how
+amazingly capable some of our actors can be.  We're talking here almost
+4 minutes of footage, not one cut in the whole thing, very fast
+dialogue, and not a single muffed line, with the performances working
+wonderfully.  You'll know it when you see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ITF: The Right Ending (10 Feb 1997 01:31:27 -0700)
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ITF: The Right Ending

+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:31:27 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On the first viewing, like Marcus, I was thinking, "Was that it?"
+> But how can they still ask for that, when we discovered how
+> all-powerful the desire to be proven right was for each of the
+> Old Ones? The last scene, when the Shadow asked Lorien if he would
+> come with them, and when the Vorlon said, "Then we will not be
+> alone?" You have so many tragic figures in this story--Londo,
+> G'Kar, Sheridan, Garibaldi--leave us some room for joy before you
+> wrap, will you?
+
+      Thanks.  You definitely hit a lot of the symbolism right on the
+head. One could almost argue for the whole scene as a classic
+"intervention" out of psychotherapy or group counseling.
+
+      Very early on, John Copeland asked me, "Okay, bottom line it for
+me, what's the war about?"  I said, "It's about killing your parents." 
+And his eyes went wide, and I explained, "No, not literally...but at
+some point you have to step outside the control of your parents and
+create your own life, your own destiny.  That process is
+inevitable...and if there are indeed older races, and they're
+interfering, that puts them smack in the middle of that same process."
+
+      It's not about who has the biggest gun, because there's *always*
+somebody else with a bigger gun...it's about *understanding* your way
+out of a problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Into The Fire (10 Feb 1997 22:14:39 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:14:39 -0700

+
[Reply to message #647046, which is no longer available]
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scotty Fired (10 Feb 1997 22:32:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:28 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do we ask the EFX to sign autographs?
+> Do we go to conventions for laser light shows and things
+> exploding? And HE didn't get fired, did he?
+> Do you know what the latest of this is, from "inside"?
+> Are any of Doohan's buddies sticking up for him?
+> Is he protesting this?
+> Is Paramount getting truckloads of mail in protest?
+
+      There's nothing more new on this in the trades, which is all I
+know about it...everybody rolled over, apparently, and that's that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Video & LDs in the US (10 Feb 1997 22:32:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:31 -0700

+
 Russ Herschler <76300.1071@compuserve.com> asks:
+> From a legal standpoint, is there any possibility of them
+> licenceing Babylon 5 to another video company for release
+> (Columbia House or some such company...)?
+
+      We've been after them to do this, but so far it's "Well, no, we
+don't want to do them, but we don't want anyone else to do them either
+because it's our territory and if anyone should do them it's us, we
+just don't want do do them."
+
+      Nothing new there..."People will do what they will do even
+though you should burst."  Marcus Aurelieus
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into The Fire (10 Feb 1997 22:32:33 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:33 -0700

+
 Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can I say that hasn't been already said?
+> Susan's comeback also echoed my uneasy feeling of "did it REALLY
+> just happen?" but, from you?
+> The decadence of dealing with "subjective humor", the paraded
+> G'kar telling the -other- Narn to "be strong", Ericson's suicide
+> mission, "what had G'Kar sacrified?" were those Narn's blind???
+> desperate?
+> Where will you take us from here?
+
+      Thanks...and there are definitely more transitions to come....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Epiphanies<< (10 Feb 1997 22:32:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:35 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah...Sheridan's taking a different tone with a lot of people
+these days.  I guess being dead for a while does that to you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<ITF>> Frying Pan... (10 Feb 1997 22:32:38 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:38 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As if there weren't enough stuff (acting, story, CGI) to
+> anticipate...(And it takes place on Epsilon 3?!!
+
+      RE: actors and producers...it's a mixed bag.  Some producers
+prefer to have as little as possible to do with the cast.  And
+relations can be *very* strained, which leads to a lack of appreciation
+of the cast.  On B5, the cast and I hang out, we go to dinner, do
+conventions together, and I learn more about what they can do.  It
+creates an atmosphere where you want to reward them and show what they
+can do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ITF-Preview within ep (10 Feb 1997 22:32:40 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:40 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's nothing to do with me, keed...I gots nothing to do with
+that.  I can only shake my head with everybody else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+A Matter of Case (01 Feb 1997 15:49:54 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1997 15:49:54 -0700

+
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+
+      ...sigh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Epiphanies (10 Feb 1997 22:32:42 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:42 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm confused about what was happening at the table; was Bester
+> doing a very light scan? know?
+
+      He tried to scan, but she kept blocking him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+407: Afflatus? (10 Feb 1997 22:32:44 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:44 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Was there more to that scene that had to be cut for
+> time? Or am I just seeing things?
+> I take it that if there was, the dialogue wasn't terribly
+> important to the story, but do you happen to recall what was
+> said?
+
+      You got it right...there was more in that scene, but we were
+about 4 minutes over on that episode, and I was chasing about another
+minute at that stage in the editing...and it went.  Weren't nothin'
+terribly important, just this part that explained the ethical structure
+of the universe and the true meaning of life, but heck, everybody knows
+THAT one....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ITF: Questions... (10 Feb 1997 22:32:46 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:32:46 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Now that the first ones are gone, what happened to the Eye at
+> Z'ha'dum? 2) What's to prevent someone from going to the Vorlon
+> homeworld, and if they did, what would they find? 3) How
+> widespread is the knowledge of the victory? Does the Earth
+> government know what happened? And what about the people of Earth,
+> do they know? 4) NOW WHAT!?!
+
+      Oddly enough, every one of those questions is addressed in
+upcoming episodes, some as early as next week...so I'll let the show
+speak for itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Into the Fire (11 Feb 1997 15:31:52 -0700)
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Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:31:52 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Epiphanies<< (11 Feb 1997 15:31:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:31:53 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks, yeah, it's one of those great opportunities when you
+get to play to the fact that the audience knows more than the
+characters know about something.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Midwest JMS (11 Feb 1997 15:31:54 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:31:54 -0700

+
 Jeremy Bloom <73124.3263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And do you plan on attending Worldcon '98 in Baltimore, to pick
+> up your Hugo for "Into the Fire"?
+
+       Well, we'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The big pic (itf etc) (11 Feb 1997 15:31:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Feb 1997 15:31:55 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Level of Vorlon impact on the known races - can we assume that
+> Londo's inability to see Kosh in TFON was a reflection of the
+> fact that the Vorlons _never_ interfered with the development of
+> the Centauri people? Was this intentional - natural abilities
+> exceed what the Vorlons seemed to be handing out?
+
+       It's a combination of elements, Londo's fall, and yes, the
+Vorlons had a very minimal affect on the Centauri, they never were able
+to get a really strong foothold there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ITF: Questions... (11 Feb 1997 18:42:44 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Feb 1997 18:42:44 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The other siblings of the newlyweds (Psi Corp, IPX, etc) do,
+> what??? Have I got this dynamic straight?
+> And if so, does this have any resemblance to your family?
+> And finally, is the rest of the series about the Newlyweds
+> starting off, or are their some other of the underlying themes
+> you've hit on that are going to be explored?
+
+       There is such a thing as too much analysis....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+<<ITF>> Frying Pan... (12 Feb 1997 12:28:49 -0700)
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<<ITF>> Frying Pan...

+
Date: 12 Feb 1997 12:28:49 -0700

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you ever going to tell us how you got revenge for Andreas'
+> practical joke?
+
+       I'm saving that story for the next big convention....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Wrath of Nuts (12 Feb 1997 12:28:50 -0700)
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The Wrath of Nuts

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Date: 12 Feb 1997 12:28:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       You'll have to catch me first....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Official: No year 5 (01 Mar 1997 00:30:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:30:53 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what exactly is your relationship with Netter?
+> I've noted you saying you don't work for him, does Copeland?
+> And I've noticed he is an Executive Producer, does that mean you
+> two have equal "ownership"?
+
+      Yes, we both have equal ownership of Babylonian Productions, but
+Netter Digital Entertainment is his separate company, I have nothing to
+do with it, don't work for or with it or own any of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Soundtrack Vol 2 (02 Mar 1997 02:44:13 -0700)
+
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B5 Soundtrack Vol 2

+
Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:13 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's a great CD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+AgamemCon Report (10 Mar 1997 16:25:26 -0700)
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AgamemCon Report

+
Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:26 -0700

+
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+
+      Good point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Man In Between (10 Mar 1997 16:25:28 -0700)
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The Man In Between

+
Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:28 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't Londo have a prophecy about not killing the one who is
+> already dead? So, with the flash forward in WWEII we see him
+> sparing Sheridan, thereby avoiding his fate, right?
+
+      The goal was to *redeem* himself.  Sparing Sheridan was part of
+that. Then he had to surrender himself to his greatest fear: his death
+at G'Kar's hands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Delenn and the Truth (10 Mar 1997 16:25:30 -0700)
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Delenn and the Truth

+
Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:30 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why didn't Delenn tell John the truth about her trip to Minbar,
+> and won't John be slightly ticked off when he finds out the
+> truth?
+
+      "Listen, honey, while you were out I went to the store and I
+bought some new candles, you know how we're always running out, and
+Lennier took the cat in to be cleaned, and oh, did I mention I was
+directly responsible for the deaths of two hundred and fifty thousand
+of your best friends and fellow officers?  Pass the sugar."
+
+      She'll never tell him.
+
+      Because it's over...what would be the point, except to ruin what
+they have now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is The Great Maker Here? (11 Mar 1997 14:42:45 -0700)
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Is The Great Maker Here?

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Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:45 -0700

+
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+
+      I think that would give away half the fun of what's coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms in Orlando (11 Mar 1997 14:42:48 -0700)
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jms in Orlando

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:48 -0700

+
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+
+      I don't recall a 1 pm Sunday session, but it's possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms in Orlando (11 Mar 1997 14:42:49 -0700)
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jms in Orlando

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:49 -0700

+
 Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Megacon the real reason you are going to Orlando?
+
+      I find this vaguely unnerving....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Support Letters. (11 Mar 1997 14:42:52 -0700)
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Support Letters.

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:52 -0700

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is, where do we need the most pull, WB, our local
+> stations, or both? Should I trust them?
+
+      At this point, I'd hold off until we see which way this goes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+First-season reruns (11 Mar 1997 14:42:54 -0700)
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First-season reruns

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:54 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I know, I know, I know....
+
+      At least we'll get 'em finally on TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn and the Truth (11 Mar 1997 14:42:56 -0700)
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Delenn and the Truth

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:56 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"You are a sadist, you know."
+
+      Thankyew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Delenn and the Truth (11 Mar 1997 14:42:59 -0700)
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Delenn and the Truth

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:42:59 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Doesn't he suspect to some degree?
+> He knows she was on the Grey Council, he knows she knows about
+> Sinclair, isn't there the possibility he'll put 2 and 2 together? 
+> Also, doesn't she to some degree want forgiveness from him for
+> her part in the war?
+
+      The reality is...in war, one does what one does.  Afterward, as
+we heal, we try to forget what we did, and what they did.  He killed as
+many Minbari as he could; she was on the Grey Counci that directed the
+war.  One doesn't go into it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Atonement<< (02 Mar 1997 02:44:17 -0700)
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>>Atonement<<

+
Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:17 -0700

+
 Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Yes, but why did you give Ducat hair (a beard)?
+> Is it possible, BTW, that the "transformation" for Delenn worked
+> more thoroughly than the other Minbari realize because it had
+> some human DNA already in Delenn's cells to build on? And judging
+> from the stunned expressions on the faces of the other Gray
+> Council members when the trilumenary glowed, did they understand
+> that significance, and do any others now on Minbar? Finally, I beg
+> for a hint...will this information have any future bearing on the
+> plot, or is it merely "nice to know" data?
+
+      Yeah, the human DNA definitely helped...and overall, this isn't
+so much the arc as the overall story and history.  It's filling out the
+world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Who cares about truth? (11 Mar 1997 14:43:01 -0700)
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Who cares about truth?

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:43:01 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And, even if love wasn't motivation enough for her to come clean
+> with her life, shouldn't truth be? What the hell has she been
+> fighting for all this time? But truth doesn't apply to her?
+> Was it all just a convenient lie to her?
+
+      Ah, but Minbari never tell anyone the whole truth....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Is The Great Maker Here? (11 Mar 1997 22:55:54 -0700)
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Is The Great Maker Here?

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Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:55:54 -0700

+
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+
+"Can you give us any hints about what will happen to Garibaldi? He's
+acting stranger and stranger.
+
+      Well...he'll probably start acting stranger and stranger....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+And now for a word... (11 Mar 1997 22:55:55 -0700)
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And now for a word...

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:55:55 -0700

+
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+
+      I've spoken with several people regarding cons in Germany, but
+all of them take place in 1998, not 1997.  And nothing has been signed
+by me with any of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Mr. Garibaldi (11 Mar 1997 22:55:57 -0700)
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Mr. Garibaldi

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:55:57 -0700

+
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+
+"There was always irreverence and distrust before -- the irreverence
+has been retained, and the distrust cranked up..."
+
+      Ding....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Needs a Talking To.. (11 Mar 1997 23:02:06 -0700)
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TNT Needs a Talking To..

+
Date: 11 Mar 1997 23:02:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      1) The re-edit is likely going to be paid for by WB.
+
+      2) It's a VERY bad mistake to intervene in business negotiations
+between a production company and a studio...you will ONLY end up
+pissing off the people who you want to pony up the dough to do
+something, and that will be the end of that.
+
+      TNT has been *extremely* enthusiastic about the show, and doing
+all they can to promote it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Atonement (13 Mar 1997 20:22:36 -0700)
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Atonement

+
Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:22:36 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was Delenn's clan expecting her to do another transformation to
+> undo her "humanness"? Since the transformation had made her
+> "genetically compatible with the humans", isn't she now
+> genetically incompatible with Minbari? Or would she have been
+> expected to remain childless? Perhaps the equation of Sinclair
+> becoming mostly Minbari was balanced by Delenn becoming mostly
+> human, but what has this to do with migrating souls? It must have
+> migrated!)?
+
+      Yes, some Minbari on the Grey Council think that Sinclair opened
+up the "soul door," for lack of a better term, and Delenn's actions can
+be seen as a kind of back-fire, closing the door again.  Ain't
+necessarily what's true, but what they believe.
+
+      And yes, they would've had Delenn remain childless, but would be
+allowed to marry a Minbari.  And, again, it's a matter of marrying a
+non-Minbari with or WITHOUT kids...it's a very inflammatory sort of
+thing from a cultural perspective.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Was this Delenn? (13 Mar 1997 21:10:37 -0700)
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+
Was this Delenn?

+
Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:10:37 -0700

+
 Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Leguin's _Left Hand of Darkness_?
+
+      No, but I know the story...and the idea there is of a race that
+changes sex.  Minbari do not change sex as a rule, it was going to be a
+one-off with Delenn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms in Orlando (13 Mar 1997 21:10:40 -0700)
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jms in Orlando

+
Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:10:40 -0700

+
 Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Must I send you my schedule so you can it right?!
+
+      I didn't know you could still *go* to cons, given the last
+incident, and the petition, and the restraining order....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Year 5: Catch-22? (13 Mar 1997 21:10:42 -0700)
+
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Year 5: Catch-22?

+
Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:10:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Both are true, to varying extents.  The key stations are the
+major market stations, which are getting the most pressure to change,
+whereas the smaller markets are much more willing to stand pat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spot the Satai (13 Mar 1997 21:10:44 -0700)
+
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Spot the Satai

+
Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:10:44 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does Sheridan know that Delenn was Satai?
+
+      Well, Sheridan knows that Delenn was Grey Council, so he would
+obviously know she was Satai, since that's pretty much the same thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The One and the Nine (02 Mar 1997 02:44:20 -0700)
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The One and the Nine

+
Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:20 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that Dukhat (and any leader of the Minbari people)
+> is also on the Grey Council? Was Valen the first leader of the
+> Minbari people in the history of the Grey Council? Or is it
+> possible that this vacancy in the Nine was the one that Delenn
+> later filled? Or am I reading this in the wrong way?
+> Can you help me understand this a little better, please?
+
+      There's the One, and the Nine...when Dukhat was alive, there
+were 9 grey council members and him as the head of it, making ten. 
+(Look at the picture and count the number of people.)  1 and 9.
+
+      Valen called together the Grey Council, formed the first one;
+until then the castes had been in constant competition.  He wanted to
+operate outside of that a bit, so he made sure he was not one of the
+Nine.  That tradition has continued.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+"It's a looooooong jump from that to saying that SFWA 'doesn't
+consider screenwriters real writers.'"
+
+      Ah.
+
+      So, I take it that the letters that appeared in the SFWA Journal
+from SFWA members stating essentially that point did not actually exist
+in our universe, having instead filtered over via some spatial rift
+from the Bizarro Universe version of SFWA...(which would frankly be
+redundent).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+The Real Corwin (14 Mar 1997 03:44:14 -0700)
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Date: 14 Mar 1997 03:44:14 -0700

+
      For those who know that one of my chief mentors as a writer was
+(and is) Norman Corwin...who was also one of the main inspirations to
+such other writers as Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, Charles Kuralt, Stan
+Freberg and others, here's your chance to actually experience some of
+it.
+
+      A number of his radio dramas (and some scripts) have just been
+made available via The Mind's Eye.  They include performances by such
+folks as Jimmy Stewart, Vincent Price, Ray Bradbury, Elsa Lanchester,
+William Shatner, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Orson Welles,
+Jill Eikenberry, Groucho Marx, Robert Benchley and others.
+
+      You can get a catalog from 1-800-411-MIND, or from their website
+at www.lodestone-media.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:33 -0700

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+      I'll probably try it eventually, but for obvious reasons can't
+handle any kind of learning curve right now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I was just wondering, what was the last episode of Captain Power?
+> Was that the last episode?
+
+      Yup, that was the last ep, "A Summoning of Thunder," part two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:37 -0700

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+      That's what we're trying to work out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:40 -0700

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+      For all intents and purposes, the pilot *is* the director's
+cut...what we want to do is make a producer's cut of more material and
+better editing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what with all the gender related issues ?
+
+      I could've pulled it off.  Ve haff vays....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+      But, see, Mike, there's the contradiction...when you talk about
+SFWA being tolerant and inviting, you're generalizing from the
+individuals to the group.  But when I do the same, you say, "No, no,
+those are just the individuals."  When enough individuals say
+something, it becomes a group opinion, and hence an organizational
+opinion.
+
+      Basically, you're saying that if the action is *positive*, it's
+SFWA the organization speaking...if the action is *negative*, it's just
+the members talking, thus giving the group deniability.
+
+      You can't have it both ways, Mike.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:46 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you and Harlan still on for I-CON at Stony Brook, Long
+> Island, in three weeks?
+
+      I'm trying to still be there, but I'm working out some problems
+with the convention, when has stuck me on 4.5 to 6.5 hours of panels,
+presentations and the like per day, with little or NO breaks in between
+to eat or rest, and insisting that I *have* to do all of it, and that's
+just plain hideous.  If we can come to a reasonable understanding on
+this, then yeash, I'll be there...if not....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:51 -0700

+
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+
+      You should've come up and said hello, I didn't know you were
+there.
+
+      Re: the look on my face...it's a sad thing, but at 42 years old,
+having lived the life I've led, and done the things I've done, part of
+me is very iconoclastic and brash, but there's a part of me that's
+still about 12 years old and shy and...okay, I blush.  Easily.  It's
+*really* embarrassing.  (Some women tell me it's cute, which is even
+MORE embarrassing.)
+
+      And yeah, Narns are marsupial, but since Andreas keeps referring
+to himself otherwise, I used it.
+
+      And the commune story...is WAY too long to tell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+"But that doesn't mean I'll back every decision or idea or crusade or
+action he takes - and nobody SHOULD (and I bet he'd be the first to
+agree with me)."
+
+      Yup.  When I behave like a jerk here, I fully expect to be told
+so.
+
+"The issue he's brought up here is a valid one - but the method he
+started with was too confrontational by far. He should have started it
+friendly, specially without the threats of splitting, and then, if
+rebuffed, gotten brittle."
+
+      That one, I dunno...it's easy to second-guess things after the
+fact.  I knew that a number of people had *already* either been (or
+felt) forced off, or were resigning, and sometimes the only way to get
+a result is to first get the horse's attention, as the saying goes. 
+I've had a number of dealings with lots of systems and worked things
+out quietly, behind the scenes; you don't know about them *because*
+they've been worked out in a friendly way.
+
+      Then, there are days when only a howitzer will suffice.
+
+      It was my call.  I made it.  And it seems to have worked.  Would
+it have worked out with the other approach?  Again, I dunno.  I'm only
+a P3, after all....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 17 Mar 1997 20:57:54 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What did he mean by this?
+> Am I close?
+
+      Close.  They couldn't break the rules of engagement, but he
+did...and started things moving.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

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+
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+
+       Okay, Mike...so the organization speaks for itself.  Over on
+GEnie, George Martin came in, and speaking as Vice President for SFWA,
+speaking for the *group*, said, of my statement to disqualify myself
+from future Nebulas to show that this isn't part of a vested interest
+on my part but rather the principle, "Don't you have enough awards,
+Joe?"  When another fan reminded him of my statement given above, he
+said, "You cannot disqualify yourself from a Nebula, and I suspect Joe
+knew that."  (Which I didn't.)  In essense he first questions my
+motives and my ethics, then assaults my honesty, as his way of dealing
+with my raising the issue.  (I then made it plain that I will not 
+accept any Nebula in future, regardless, if that's what it takes,
+though I think most people knowing you don't want one will tend to
+discourage voting in that area.)
+
+       So now what is this, George speaking as George, or George
+speaking for SFWA the organization?  Because when he came in he sure as
+heck made it clear that he was speaking in his capacity as VP.
+
+       Sorry, Mike, but the organization acts as its members act, and
+speaks as its members speaks, and George's intemperate reaction, to
+immediately and gratuitously go for the personal attack rather than
+discussing the issue, when I had never said a WORD about any one person
+in this discussion, just shows again why many are afraid to pursue this
+issue any more.  They're tired of the petty, personal attacks, and so
+am I, from many of the members AND the organization and its
+spokespersons.  Because an organization doesn't exist as some kind of
+Platonic ideal, outside reality (though in this I sometimes wonder if
+SFWA is outside reality).  It says in the Bible, "You shall know them
+by their works."  An organization is known by what it does, and what
+it says, through its members.  So you can try and divorce the two all
+you want, but they're the same thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 18 Mar 1997 23:47:35 -0700

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+      Yes, although I'm waiting for some details to be worked out, as
+things stand now I plan to be at Marcon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 18 Mar 1997 23:47:37 -0700

+
 Becky Murphy <76131.1534@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering (since it's not in the Lurker's Guide) who
+> is/will be directing "Racing Mars", "Face of the Enemy",
+> "Intersections in Real Time" and "Between the Darkness & the
+> Light"? Also, are there any new episode titles you can share with
+> us?
+
+      Intersections is John LaFia; Darkness is David Eagle.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 18 Mar 1997 23:47:39 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Wasn't the (planned) complete destruction of every world ever
+> touched by the Shadows a "break" in the rules of engagement?
+
+      FIrst, that *followed* his trip to Z'ha'dum...so yes, the rules
+began to slip after that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+TIME NewsWire transcript (19 Mar 1997 03:53:19 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Mar 1997 03:53:19 -0700

+
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+
+      In private mail, I said the same thing to Ray; in this case, the
+sysops acted correctly.  Fair Use does not in any way cover reposting
+entire articles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      Happily, I spoke to the President of the ICON group today, and
+they seem bent on making this work, and making it right, so I suspect
+this will all work out as soon as I can see a schedule with a more
+reasonable layout.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 22 Mar 1997 18:56:34 -0700

+
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+
+"Aw, come on; tell us a story, Joooooe. <g>"
+
+      What the heck do you think I've been *doing* these last 4 years?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 22 Mar 1997 18:56:36 -0700

+
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+
+      You have far too much time on your hands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+      No, the tapes are not coming out shortly, the dealer is
+mistaken.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+
 WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> at work, at home, and at play"?
+> That sorta, kinda, leaves us out in the cold, eh?
+
+      Related question, Wes:  When a conference is promoted at the
+opening menu, does it bring in a substantial number of folks who are
+not *already* members of the forum?  I was just thinking that folks not
+into SF likely would not show up for a conference with an SF type...and
+those into SF are likely already aware of it from the on-site notice. 
+Just curious.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 23 Mar 1997 20:08:43 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                       that bad, bad man in hollywood
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 25 Mar 1997 12:05:54 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> That is, are steps taken to prevent or ameliorate this
+> degradation? Or is the question irrelevant for some other reason?
+
+       I think we've got WB more aware of the preservation issues once
+some of the original prints of shots from the pilot were eaten by rats
+while in storage facilities.  (The negatives are safe.)  We spoke to
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+       We're still awaiting final word.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Shadow War (25 Mar 1997 12:05:57 -0700)
+
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Date: 25 Mar 1997 12:05:57 -0700

+
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+       They did take part in the war, just not to the same extent as
+the religious caste, though toward the end they got much more involved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+The Shadow Within (26 Mar 1997 01:43:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Mar 1997 01:43:27 -0700

+
 Kristi Ferebee <75361.1615@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hey, has anyone finished the new B5 book "The Shadow Within"?
+> (Or can we?
+
+      The story of the Icarus as presented in this book is considered
+canon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+G'kar - Cross? (26 Mar 1997 15:09:22 -0700)
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Date: 26 Mar 1997 15:09:22 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was that intentional?
+> Also, are Narn usually strong enough to break the unweakened
+> chains, or was that just an extra bit of adrenaline or equivalent
+> on G'kar's part?
+
+       I think one can make the argument there is some symbolism in
+there from christian literature, but that kind of scene takes place in
+other belief systems as well, and historically that sort of torture was
+used in many places, including the Roman empire in general.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Prequel Plans? (26 Mar 1997 15:09:23 -0700)
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Date: 26 Mar 1997 15:09:23 -0700

+
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+
+       I've found it's generally best to *see* what one does before
+deciding whether not to be disappointed by it.  And I really have no
+interest in running the story by anyone for approval or to make sure
+they think it'll be okay, and along the way destroy any possible
+interest in *seeing* it since the story is already out there on the
+nets.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Shadow Within (26 Mar 1997 15:09:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Mar 1997 15:09:24 -0700

+
 Dr John A Purvis <100341.1147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There was some talk about a Book featuring Catherine Sekai is
+> this still mooted? Also if there is a recurrent theme of lost and
+> missing females, how about Lyta between her disappearance after
+> the gathering until her return?
+
+       Catherine Sakai is one of the major characters in the third of
+the current batch of new B5 novels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+con in Germany ? (26 Mar 1997 23:06:41 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:06:41 -0700

+
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+
+      It took me a while to run this down, but I have the info:  I
+have not been formally approached by this convention in Germany, and
+will not be going. The convention was mentioned to Bruce, but he has
+not confirmed and is not going, and is distressed that they are using
+his name.  I do not believe Andrea is going either; only Jerry has so
+far indicated that he will be there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Nine New Eps!!! (26 Mar 1997 23:13:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:13:05 -0700

+
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+
+      It doesn't bode well or poorly for a season 5; they'd hold back
+a few in either event.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Soundtrack Vol 2 (02 Mar 1997 03:15:00 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 02 Mar 1997 03:15:00 -0700

+
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+
+      I believe Chris Franke's website (www.sonicimages.com) has a
+full breakdown on the tracks and their sources.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Nine New Eps!!! (26 Mar 1997 23:13:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:13:07 -0700

+
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+
+      Actually, there'd be no rush at all in terms of getting a sequel
+into prep and out the door.  The discussions now are in the area of
+fall 97 to shoot and January 98 to air (with or without a simultaneous
+S5 of B5).  We have a lot of the stuff we'd need for the sequel
+(costumes, uniforms, some sets, prosthetics, that sort of thing), so
+the lead time would be very short.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Nine New Eps!!! (27 Mar 1997 13:38:33 -0700)
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Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:38:33 -0700

+
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+
+       The fate of the show has little or nothing to do with the final
+five, one way or another...they'll be seen regardless.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Shelf life (27 Mar 1997 13:38:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:38:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> And did the rats listen when you spoke to them?
+
+       The rats are the ONLY ones who listen to me anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+music for pilot movie (29 Mar 1997 23:00:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Mar 1997 23:00:11 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, if you re-edit the pilot, would you be asking Frank to
+> re-score it?
+
+      Yeah, Chirs would re-score it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ITF question (29 Mar 1997 23:03:20 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Mar 1997 23:03:20 -0700

+
 R. Thomas <71544.3171@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I correct in my understanding that the 6 first ones' ships
+> Lorien brought out were from species from this particular galaxy,
+> but that had already gone beyond the rim, and do not reside in
+> the galaxy at all? If so, will the walkers still appear in normal
+> space around sigma 957 from time to time?
+
+      They were all still hanging around here, for one reason or
+another, mostly to do with inertia, familiarity...but finally
+recognized that it was time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+The Raven & the Dove (30 Mar 1997 19:36:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 30 Mar 1997 19:36:09 -0700

+
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+
+      That was not the specific intended message, no....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+I-con: Time of Program? (31 Mar 1997 13:52:30 -0700)
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+
Date: 31 Mar 1997 13:52:30 -0700

+
 Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What time are you doing the B5 presentation at I-con?
+
+       I don't have the schedule with me at the moment, but it's
+mid-afternoon Saturday...though there is a second presentation on
+Sunday, apparently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Captain Power <uh oh> (02 Mar 1997 03:15:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Mar 1997 03:15:02 -0700

+
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+
+      It was a mixed bag...some good stuff, some stuff I wouldn't mind
+seeing dropped off a pier somewhere....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+To Sysops from jms (03 Mar 1997 01:08:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:12 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a way for those of us not in The Business to glom onto a
+> copy of FCC rules?
+
+      I imagine that anyone writing to the FCC in Washington DC can
+obtain a copy of the rules, since the FCC is a public agency,
+regulating the public airwaves, to ensure they conform to the public
+"interest, necessity and convenience."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+To Sysops from jms (03 Mar 1997 01:08:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:13 -0700

+
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+
+"Think it'll happen though?"
+
+      When hasn't it?
+
+      I've been told I'm a jerk before, will be in future; and in a
+sense, your message wondering if my actions were right was implicitly
+implying a potential state of Jerk...and that's okay.
+
+      You're wrong, of course....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+To Sysops from jms (03 Mar 1997 01:08:14 -0700)
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Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:14 -0700

+
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+
+      I see.  Though, that would apply only to SFMEDONE, if it got the
+PC label...you could still hold COs on SFMEDTWO, with different forums.
+In other words...let's say, worst case scenario, SF1 gets PC'd.  No
+opening menu announcements.  But SF2 is *not* PC'd.  So the CO could be
+held there; and since they're both (presumably) under the same roof, it
+all works out the same, yes?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+NEW To Sysops From jms (01 Mar 1997 00:30:58 -0700)
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Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:30:58 -0700

+
"I decided to not address that part of your message because it seemed
+moot in light of the fact that I agreed with you in regard to the
+Carlin 7, that we are reconsidering our position that we will abide by
+them, and that, in the meantime, would discontinue "backrooming" any
+messages unless they were blatantly offensive and/or broke other forum
+rules.  As for the stats you requested, I can't provide what I do not
+have.  While I admit that we pulled messages containing profanity, we
+did not do so "arbitrarily."  We pulled EVERY message that we saw."
+
+      Ah, but now that confirms what I suggested earlier.  The rules
+require you to pull one such message per every 50 messages, that was
+the part of the rule book that you, yourself, cited to me.  So if you
+pulled EVERY message, then you violated CIS rules.  So that point is
+now resolved.  Thank you.
+
+"If we decide to no longer aspire to remaining off the PC list then
+Carlin's 7 becomes moot and you will have "won" on both of your points.
+What more do you want?"
+
+      Actually, nothing...and this isn't about me winning, I don't
+have any vested interest in you losing or me winning.  Who wins if a
+situation goes from unreasonable to reasonable?  Answer: we both win. 
+You aren't stuck having to enforce essentially indefensible and
+arbitrary policies, and can instead enforce them selectively,
+logically, and in keeping with CIS policies. Which means you don't get
+people yelling at you, and you have the backing to avoid doing things
+which you, yourself, stated you don't like doing.  I don't see this as
+a particularly bad thing at all here.
+
+RE: the interview this afternoon with Sci-Fi Entertainment, in which I
+mentioned the current fracas, you say:
+
+"Thank you for indicting us in an area where we can't "confront our
+accuser."
+ Old Joe McCarthy would be proud of you for using that tactic.  I hope
+that you will "update her" if you and I conclude this discussion to
+your satisfaction."
+
+      I simply applied the same practice that was going on here, and
+backroomed the discussion with the reporter, since that seemed good
+enough for the sysops.  And you can certainly "confront your accuser"
+ -- assuming that anyone who speaks from their own experience of a
+controversial situation is automatically your accuser -- when the piece
+appears.  But to your last point...yes, I will indeed update her
+completely if this continues toward a positive resolution, as it seems
+to be doing.   Understand that I'm a pain in the butt...but I'm fair. 
+And I try to be honest.
+
+      That said...I now turn to the earlier, positive comments, so we
+can end this on a positive note...and those looking on: pay attention
+to what's said in Wes's note.
+
+      Regarding the rules under discussion, note the following:
+
+      "...we are reconsidering our position that we will abide by
+them, and that, in the meantime, would discontinue "backrooming" any
+messages unless they were blatantly offensive and/or broke other forum
+rules."
+
+      I think that this single sentence now takes care of most of the
+concerns here; if the practice of backrooming is now being
+discontinued, this is a positive step in the right direction, and
+negates about 75% of the concern shared by myself and others here.  I
+think that most people here would agree with that.
+
+      "If we decide to no longer aspire to remaining off the PC list
+then Carlin's 7 becomes moot."  A valid point.
+
+      Re: the Fair Use issue: "That isn't as definitive as I'd like,
+but seems to substantiate what other, non-legal, folks have said.  On
+the other hand, there have been others who are or have been publicists
+who claim that more than 2-3 lines quoted exceed "fair use."  Believe
+me, we're working on nailing this down."
+
+      Thank you, and I have every confidence that what you discover
+will confirm what has been discussed here.  Bear in mind that
+publicists are rarely journalists, and their job is often to discourage
+use of their client's material in excess, so they can control it, and
+when using one's quotes to publicize something, there are other very
+strict rules that come into play. If I write a review of a book, and a
+publicist wants to excerpt that review to promote someone's book to
+make them money, I'm going to be fairly hard about what's allowed to
+promote someone else's work.
+
+      This is a different situation altogether from quoting material
+in the context of a discussion.  There the Fair Use contingencies of
+copyright law come into play.  Any good book on journalism law will go
+into this at length. Good on you, though, to continue to dig into it.
+
+      "Any constructive suggestions you have would be welcomed --
+assuming we decide to continue with wanting to stay off the PC list. 
+Hell, for that matter, any constructive suggestions ANYONE has would be
+welcomed at this point!"
+
+      Which was the other point I mentioned.  By not backrooming these
+sorts of discussions, you open up the door to constructive suggestions
+on how to deal with them.  If you had said, "Listen, folks, we have a
+problem here...the use of language is getting into the
+more-than-1-in-50 limits we have to abide by, and I'm concerned about
+the quoting of material.  Could you work with me on this and come up
+with some ways to moderate the discussion a bit so it doesn't get out
+of hand, and give me some hard facts about what constitutes Fair Use"
+I'll bet you $100 you'd have tons of *constructive* comments, NObody 
+would've said you had a german accent, and you would've come out of
+this like a saint.
+
+      B5 fans are *notoriously* helpful, and understanding, and you
+can bet your shoes they would've come at you with a very different
+response.  "Here," they would've said, "HERE is somebody who respects
+our intelligence, who wants our input, who is open to at least
+*discuss* this so that we know what's at stake, and know what our
+options are, and would welcome our help to resolve a thorny problem
+he's stuck with and doesn't much like."
+
+      So given all this...to those looking on...lay back for a bit.  I
+think we are getting some positive movement here, the policy of
+backrooming has already been stopped, from what Wes has said, and the
+policy is being reconsidered, which was the point of the exercise.
+
+      I think that Wes has been very receptive here, and has made a
+good faith effort to rectify what is, for him and other sysops here, a
+difficult and obviously painful situation.  Let's now let the process
+continue.
+
+      The "Joe McCarthy" comment I will let slide personally, because
+you were upset, and we're all entitled to a moment's upset.  Instead, I
+will again simply thank you for taking the steps you have taken, and
+look forward to the final resolution of this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Okay.  You're right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Minbari facial hair? (03 Mar 1997 01:08:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:18 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How did that happen??
+
+      Other Minbari have had facial hair; including Draal v1.0 and
+Kalain in "Points of Departure."  It's certainly not common, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+email (03 Mar 1997 01:08:21 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:21 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> About how much email do you average a day?
+
+      Email...maybe 60-80 per day, sometimes more.  In public forum
+messages, on various systems...hundreds.
+
+      I try to answer as much as I can, but often the questions are
+too complex, or ask for elaborate story discussion ("Can you give me
+the history of Minbar before Earth made contact?"), or have
+multiple-subquestions to the point where I can't deal with ANY of it.
+
+      See, the problem is, everyone thinks "Well, it's just me, after
+all." Well, according to our ratings, there are between 10-15 million
+"me's" out there.  But often folks don't understand that.
+
+      For instance, a guy sent me a piece of email recently with 13
+*very* elaborate and detailed questions, much along the lines of the
+one just quoted above.  I couldn't get into any of them, there were
+just too many, and they were much too involved.  A week later, I got a
+VERY angry and agitated letter from that person saying what a jerk I
+was for not answering his questions, that he had taken the time to
+write them so I had an obligation to answer them, he's the Fan who is
+keeping the show alive and we owe this to the fans who support us...he
+got fairly abusive about it.  "It shouldn't take too much of the BUSY
+PRODUCER'S TIME to answer ONE LETTER!" he said in conclusion.
+
+      Sure, if it WERE just one letter.  But it ain't.
+
+      Other times, people will leave public or private mail
+*demanding* I answer something, as though I were under contract to
+them, or paid to be here. Suffice to say that I generally ignore such
+notes.
+
+      It's worth noting, though, that those remain the exceptions to
+the rule; most of the online crowd is well-behaved and intelligent and
+courtous, especially among B5 fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Subverting Censorware (03 Mar 1997 01:08:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:24 -0700

+
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+
+      Never said there shouldn't be guidelines.  The only question was
+the extent, the degree, and the clarity or consistency with which those
+rules are applied.  The general concensus was that the rule was being
+*over*applied. So now let's see how it shakes down before taking the
+next logical step.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:27 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What order will TNT air the episodes in?
+> In the original air order, or in the order you originally
+> intended, that for various reasons aired differently?
+
+      I'll be discussing this issue with TNT in the near future, at
+which time we'll get into the preferred air order, which probably won't
+be a problem for them to follow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Dreaming (03 Mar 1997 01:08:29 -0700)
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+
 ben dibble <105430.3170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What then is the deciding factor as to whose memories are
+> experienced by all present? Is it whoever "allows" themselves to
+> be drawn into the experience, who wills it to happen to them?
+
+         I think the order or dominance of the drug is probably
+determined by the contents of the script....
+
+                                    jm(oh, look, over there, a comet)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The One and the Nine (03 Mar 1997 01:08:31 -0700)
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+
 Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you identify this ship?
+> Is this the case?
+
+      There was the Prometheus, which was there; and others, including
+the Amundsen.  The one you saw, which looks a bit like the Aggy but
+without the rotating section, is another, smaller class of destroyer
+also seen, I believe, in "Dreams."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Van Valen (03 Mar 1997 01:08:33 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:33 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you already have him pictured in your head?
+> Did it make casting easier?
+> Who designed them?
+
+      Actually, that was Dukhat, and yeah, that's pretty close to how
+I saw him in my head.  Definitely a bigger than life fellow.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:08:35 -0700

+
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+
+      Good points.  Speaking of visual puns, someone pointed out that
+in "Epiphanies," you've got Zack leaving customs, saying of whoever
+comes through next, "it might be the Second Coming and I'm five sins
+behind on penance," and who walks in...but the Three Kings....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:35:14 -0700

+
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+
+      Y'know, I've been thinking about all this a lot over the last
+few days (what else do I have to do, run a show or something?) and
+here's the thing that gets me in the area of parental controls.
+
+      It starts with discussions over language, and nobody wants to
+say "We can't have language or other problematic items our
+conferences," because it smacks of censorship (which, in fact, it is). 
+(And, granted, some uses of language are a little more disagreeable
+than others, I'm not getting into degrees here, just the overall
+notion.)
+
+      So someone says, "Instead of doing that, let's have a Ratings
+System, which will tell parents which forums (or shows) are safe for
+their kids, and which are not, so we can have areas where you can say
+whatever you want, and other areas where it's more controlled, and
+parents know where to go."
+
+      Then the ratings go into place...but nobody wants to be tagged
+with the harsher designation.  Because that would mean a loss of
+revenue, or prestige, or visibility.  So now everyone starts doing
+whatever it takes to avoid that rating, by changing content or
+enforcing stricter rules to avoid the label, since that's somewhat
+easier to defend (even though it's exactly the same as the original
+problem, they've just moved the target to something that's less of an
+obvious flash-point as censorship).
+
+      What you therefore end up with is that all forums or shows move
+toward the safer designation, and there no longer IS a choice between
+"kid" and "adult" conversations or topics or language or subjects. 
+Because the latter has ceased to exist not for political reasons but
+for *economic* ones.
+
+      It's much like what happened in the record biz...some groups
+wanted labels put on records, have them rated so parents and kids could
+tell the hard stuff from the safe stuff, "But we're not pro-censorship,
+we just want to be informed."  Until the records started coming out, at
+which point the same parents groups began screaming about x-rated
+albums being even in the same STORE where kids could enter their orbit,
+even if protected by cellophane wrapping and warned by labels.  It
+became a basis for exclusion.
+
+      Nobody in TV right now wants to be hit with the TV-M (mature)
+rating, because of threatened boycotts.  It's the same material that
+may have been there before, but now that it has a label, that label has
+become a target.
+
+      The expressed intent is to create clarity in making choices in
+material.
+
+      The result is to *remove* choices by excluding material.
+
+      The more I look at it, the more insidious it gets.
+
+      I think I'll write something about this, one of these days....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Then it's about time, no?
+> Have you considered the odds?
+
+      Check my last note...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What caste is Lennier, and do every member of a clan belong to
+> the same caste?
+
+      Lennier is religious caste; and all members of a given clan
+belong to one caste.
+
+      There are, for instance, no religious caste members of the Star
+Riders (military caste) clan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 01:35:20 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondering, what, if anything, was involved in using the song
+> from Pirates of Penzance that Marcus was singing at the end?
+
+      Nothing, really...we just grabbed one of the audio bits from the
+day's filming and dropped it in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now if Delenn has not voted, how can there be a tie vote?
+> They needed more than a simple majority What say you oh Great
+> Maker?
+
+      Others in the Council died, as was noted when the one says, "Our
+brothers?"  "Dead," Delenn says.  So there were others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Caste, Clan, Family? (03 Mar 1997 12:05:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1997 12:05:07 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I take it, from earlier comments of yours that Delenn chose
+> her caste as a child (I believe you said it was due to her
+> "vision" in the temple), that you are not born into your clan? In
+> other words, If Delenn had chosen to be a worker, she would not
+> be in the clan she is currently in, correct? If that's the case,
+> then clans aren't necessarily organizations of relatives, right? 
+> Was her clan the "Mir" clan? Or was "Mir" her family name?
+> Is that different than the clan?
+> Is this correct?
+
+       Yes, Mir is her family; you are generally born into a caste
+unless you at some point decide that the calling of your heart is
+elsewhere, at which point you enter training for that other caste (with
+the permission of your caste leaders) until such time as it's finalized
+that that's what you want, at which time you're assigned to a clan
+within that caste.  If you choose to stay in the caste you're born
+into, you automatically are in your familiy's clan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 03 Mar 1997 12:05:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Don't take this the wrong way...it's simply an
+observation...just a thought from someone who works with words all the
+time and gets very anal retentive about these things...the dictionary
+is our friend....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 03 Mar 1997 12:05:09 -0700

+
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+
+       No, the fault was mine, not the suits.
+
+       Prior to exec producing B5, I had never edited a show before,
+never had final cut before...had never even been IN an editing room for
+more than 5 minutes before.  So here I am, given the director's
+cut...and I know it's real slow, but I haven't done this before, so I
+don't trust my instincts.  I let it go with very minimal changes.
+
+       And I've been kicking myself ever since.  I should've followed
+my instincts, but instead I deferred to the director's cut.
+
+       It's a mistake I have never made since.
+
+       Even so, that first cut just gnaws at me...I *know* I can make
+it better, stronger, even if only a bit in a few places, that would
+help salve my soul over this thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+       So then the concern about not getting opening screen promos
+because of parental controls is moot because we can't get the promos
+ANYWAY because it's not business oriented, so it's really a moot issue
+in any event...?
+
+       Fascinating.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       Yeah, we're also going to update the CGI, if we can do this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Caste, Clan, Family? (04 Mar 1997 14:00:19 -0700)
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+
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+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, am I correct in my memory that you said Delenn changed castes
+> when she was young? If so, what was her family's original caste?
+
+       No, Delenn never changed castes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:20 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hasn't Delenn learned her lesson about telling the truth, all of
+> it, to Sheridan? Are we seeing a return of the old Delenn?
+
+       Certainly Delenn has some hard things to do coming up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Thanks.  I've seen just about every article on CTS that I can
+think of, and I've got it down to a roar...sometimes it's worse than
+other times.  The Kinesis ergonomic keyboard at work helps, and I just
+sent out for a Datahand keyboard to use at home to see if that helps
+further.  It aches pretty much all the time, but it's a low, dull ache
+and I'm hardly aware of it most of the time.  It's only when I go to
+bed, and I'm still for more than 5 minutes at a time, that it really
+starts to demand my attention.
+
+      It was *much* worse last year or so, when I had to literally
+write for 20 minutes, ice down my hands/wrists for 20 minutes, write
+for 20, ice for 20, on and on.  I actually haven't had to do that this
+year.
+
+      (And yes, when I remember to do so, I use the wrist braces.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:21 -0700

+
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+
+       Yeah, that's the problem...it has to be one or the other
+Family, or Adult...and if you have any content that ain't kid-approved
+it automatically puts you in the latter category, which lots of people
+don't want for all the reasons you cite.  Something here don't make a
+whole lot of sense....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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+

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+Next New Show? (04 Mar 1997 14:00:24 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:24 -0700

+
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+       The next ep comes around May-ish, so you can sleep in for a
+while...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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+

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+TNT Air Order (04 Mar 1997 14:00:27 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:27 -0700

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the Gathering be shown before or after the Prequel Movie?
+
+       The prequel will be aired first, then the pilot, then the
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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+

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+B5 in new Ent.Weekly (04 Mar 1997 14:00:29 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:29 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Writer_s_?
+> Joe, do you have multiple personalities that we don't know about?
+
+       WriterS....sigh.
+
+       Hell, we're just happy to know they're AWARE of us....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
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+

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+Caste, Clan, Family? (04 Mar 1997 14:00:31 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:31 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The fact that Mir is the Russian word for peace wouldn't have
+> anything to do with you using it for her family name.....would
+> it?
+
+       Yeah, there's that, and it nicely intersects with the fact that
+Delenn is portrayed by MIRa Furlan.  It's kind of a bank shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Official: No year 5 (04 Mar 1997 14:00:33 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:33 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And Netter digital does the Special Effects, right?
+> So what else does Netter Digital do?
+
+       NDEI has its own projects under development, was involved in
+the Battleground Earth project with Majel Roddenberry, produces the
+occasional documentary (such as the Wild West documentary a couple
+years ago), and other projects which don't involve me at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Van Valen (04 Mar 1997 14:00:34 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:34 -0700

+
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+
+       Certainly that ties in with what Delenn said about humor being
+essential to Minbari philosophy and culture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+The One and the Nine (04 Mar 1997 14:00:37 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:37 -0700

+
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+       No, if you keep watching Dukhat comes in, followed by Delenn,
+through the opening (the empty spot) and then another Minbari comes in
+to fill that spot.
+
+       (Sudden thought...I have to check to see if we *used* that shot
+or if it was just in dailies...but if you count the Minbari there at
+the end of the scene, you'll find the count is correct.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Official: No year 5 (04 Mar 1997 14:00:40 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:40 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Has there been any word on the fate of year 5?
+> Can you give us the odds?
+
+       No, no definitive word yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Atonement (04 Mar 1997 14:00:43 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 14:00:43 -0700

+
 Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Those ships that showed up just before the humans attacked, where
+> Delenn said something to the effect that they only showed up when
+> death was near - who were those guys?
+
+       Those were Soul Hunters, who in the first season we learned
+showed up to attempt to grab Dukhat's soul...they were prevented from
+successfully boarding the ship by the Minbari, who threw up a wall of
+bodies to stop them (which is why there were few around with Delenn and
+Dukhat; Soul Hunters are a pretty advanced sort, the terror of Minbari,
+and it took a lot to stop them). After Dukhat died, Delenn went down
+and joined in, confronting them about this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

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+>>Atonement<< (01 Mar 1997 00:31:11 -0700)
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Date: 01 Mar 1997 00:31:11 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does what we (and a few Minbari) now know about the triluminaries
+> glowing in response to human DNA necessarily negate the theory of
+> the "Minari Soul Train"? Will Delenn ever tell John the truth?
+> What's going on with Delenn's/Mira's hair?
+
+      We keep working on Mira's hair...some days it's better than
+others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Sysop on CIS Rules (04 Mar 1997 18:28:35 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 18:28:35 -0700

+
       Just received this, and thought I'd pass it along for whatever
+use it may have in illuminating the discussion.
+
+jms
+
+Subj:Confessions of a CIS sysop
+Date:97-03-03 23:00:21 EST
+From:rick@hugin.imat.com (Rick Moen)
+To:jmsatb5@aol.com
+
+Here's how CIS forum-content regulation works, from the perspective of
+a (former) CIS primary forum sysop ("wizop").
+
+I used to work for a software company, and as part of my job as a
+support rep created a CIS forum to support our customers -- and then
+ran it single-handed for four years.  This meant answering all
+CIS-based customer questions from around the world, plus handling all
+forum administration.  Many wizops recruit assistants, giving them
+access to some sysop functions.
+
+As a forum (primary) sysop, one is handed a couple of big binders,
+that mostly cover technical matters, but in passing touch on content
+guidelines.  These were vaguely described, but the sysop is told he's
+obliged to keep "off" all profanity, solicitations of business for
+other online services, and some other things.  Forum members were to be
+_advised_ by e-mail if a post had been removed, and could be locked out
+(in ordinary circumstances) _only_ after a warning. (As a courtesy, I
+also sent a copy of any removed post back via e-mail, in case the
+poster wanted to edit and re-post it or send it unchanged via e-mail.)
+
+I enforced the profanity guidelines, among others, permissively, and
+always with the advisories described.  I told members up front that it
+was a _support_ forum, and that they could create a Berate Company
+Management forum elsewhere.
+
+To get to the point, several things:  (1) "Wizops" operate forums by
+contract with CIS for a percentage of user billings.  (2) CIS thus
+distances itself from both administration _and_ some legal liability. 
+(They can say "Not our fault.  We weren't running it." This, in my
+view, is CIS sysops' primary design function.)
+
+(3) The standard CIS forum contract forbids disclosure of its terms to
+any third party.   (Yes, I'm violating it.  I have reason.)
+
+(4) Many if not most forum sysops, both wizops and their chosen
+assistants, ignore the obligation of accountability to users. They do
+this for convenience's sake, and because there's little to hold them
+accountable.  My successor did this, for example. Sysops tend to see
+themselves as overworked and under-appreciated (almost always true): 
+Unfortunately, they tend to consider this an excuse for whatever
+management techniques seem most expedient.
+
+(5) CIS forum management routinely abdicates its responsibility to
+oversee sysops.  My guess is that exercising it would (most of the
+time) tend to increase their legal exposure, and they intercede only if
+there's a disaster brewing that might spill over from the sysop onto
+them.  I've known a number of cases of people appealing to CIS
+management over clear cases of high-handed sysop behaviour:  I don't
+think CIS even _responded_ to any of those users. Again, little existed
+to _hold_ them accountable.
+
+(6) The remedy:  Exactly what you're doing.  Have someone watch the
+watchers, and spotlight abuse when it happens.  Don't accept
+convenience and mishap as excuses for absurd happenings such as those
+you've described.  The responsible parties _will_ be motivated to
+elmininate abuses if faced with fair complaints from multiple parties,
+that won't go away if ignored.
+
+Thank you for pursuing the matter.  Feel free to quote this e-mail if
+you wish, and you need not omit my name or mailbox, if you do.  I stand
+behind it.
+
+ -- Cheers, Rick Moen rick@hugin.imat.com
+
+ ----------------------- Headers --------------------------------
+ From rick@hugin.imat.com  Mon Mar  3 22:59:59 1997
+ Return-Path: rick@hugin.imat.com
+ Received: (blocked)
+          emin08.mail.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id
+          WAA25626 for <jmsatb5@a
+ Received: (from rick@localhost)
+          by hugin.imat.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) id TAA06900 for
+          jmsatb5@aol.com; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 19:56:54 -0800
+ From: Rick Moen <rick@hugin.imat.com>
+ Message-Id: <199703040356.TAA06900@hugin.imat.com>
+ Subject: Confessions of a CIS sysop
+ To: jmsatb5@aol.com
+ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 19:56:54 -0800 (PST)
+ Content-Type: text </PRE></HTML>
+
+------------------------------
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+

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+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the directors cut typically different from a producers cut?
+> Is there a differnce between TV and Movies on how they would
+> differ?
+
+      A director's cut can be the same as, or vastly different from,
+the producer's cut, depending on what the director does, and how much
+in sync the director is with the producer.  But the producer gets final
+cut in TV, whereas the director gets final cut in films (unless the
+studio or a big name producer has it contractually otherwise).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+email part 2 (04 Mar 1997 23:27:13 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 23:27:13 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that mean that snail mail people are out of luck?
+> Do you also respond to those?
+
+      I try to reply to snail mail as I can, though it's certainly
+easier to do so in email.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Atonement again (04 Mar 1997 23:27:15 -0700)
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Date: 04 Mar 1997 23:27:15 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So how come this one turned out to be a lie/deception?
+
+      Those Minbari...I tell you, you just can't trust 'em....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Kick-A$$ Advertising (05 Mar 1997 02:58:44 -0700)
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Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:58:44 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I wonder who I should report this rule violation to?
+
+      That is kinda funny, since I was sent a private message here a
+month or two ago by, I believe, Chaffee, chiding me for using the term
+"pain in the ass" in a public forum...and here that word is used in a
+Member Services announcement.
+
+      I guess that means that they can't promote the Member Services
+Announcements in the Member Services Announcements section anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:58:46 -0700

+
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+
+      What airs is considered canon; in 15 years, nobody's gonna be
+hauling these messages around.  But the show will still be on the air. 
+If it airs, it's canon.
+
+      And in another one of those posts, I did mention that on just a
+couple of small occasions, I have fibbed when asked major story arc
+questions to protect future storylines from being deflated....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:58:47 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      He could have left Dukhat a message...but tampering in the
+future is VERY chancy business, and could even make things worse, for
+all we know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+to sfwa from jms (05 Mar 1997 02:58:52 -0700)
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Date: 05 Mar 1997 02:58:52 -0700

+
      (The following material -- which will be posted to other forums
+ -- is submitted on the theory that I apparently haven't gotten in
+*nearly* enough trouble lately.  So I may as well go for broke.
+
+                                                                  jms 
+
+John J. Miller
+SFWA Secretary
+Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
+(address deleted for privacy)
+
+Dear Mr. Miller:
+
+I am in receipt of your recent letter inviting me to rejoing SFWA.
+While others who have either resigned from SFWA or let their
+memberships lapse have received similar letters, I note that you
+added, in handwriting, the following: "Michael - We're particularly
+interested in encouraging writers of your stature and experience to
+rejoin."
+
+I'm posting this, my reply, both online as well as in standard mail
+to you, because the issues at hand affect others in the industry;
+because it is a good subject for public debate; and because SFWA has
+to this date refused to publish my letter of resignation from SFWA
+in its membership publication; even now, years after the fact, SFWA
+does not choose to recognize the boorishness of its behavior toward
+those of us who work in television, film and other media.
+
+To recap, for the benefit of those looking on, and for the purpose
+of historical accuracy: a number of us were troubled by the fact
+that SFWA allowed TV and film scripts in the SF genre to count for
+membership, so that our dues could be accepted, but that these very
+same scripts were not considered "real" science fiction...and thus
+ineligible for consideration for a Nebula Award.
+
+An attempt was made to restore the Dramatic Nebula, given in years
+past, in order to achieve equity with other forms of SF.  Those
+involved in the attempt included myself, Harlan Ellison, David
+Gerrold, D.C. Fontana, Michael Cassutt and others.  We believed,
+foolishly in retrospect, that SF writers -- presumably forward
+thinking and progressive -- would understand that stories can take
+new and different forms, that SF for television and film was a
+perfectly valid form.  It's still SF; it simply uses a new kind of
+technology to facilitate that storytelling.  Since SF is often
+about the foolishness of small-minded people when faced with
+changing technologies, and generally the impact of technology on
+people and art forms, we felt they would agree that the time
+was right for the reinstatement of the Dramatic Nebula.
+
+We were wrong.
+
+We were greeted by an outpouring of such virulent bigotry, such
+undisguised hostility, and such abuse as to numb the senses.  There
+was hate mail, name-calling and dead-catting; we were called (in
+person, and in SFWA's publication) "hacks" and "no-talents" and
+told that scripts aren't stories...obscene and threatening messages
+were left on my answering machine...hate mail arrived at my home...
+and the most nakedly straightforward one stated, "I work my ass off
+for a few pennies a word, while you Hollywood hacks earn big bucks
+for turning out crap.  You'll never see the Dramatic Nebula back as
+long as I'm alive."
+
+To help defuse some of the tempers, many of us were willing to
+disqualify ourselves from ever being eligible for the Nebula, should
+it be reinstated, to remove any suspicion of a vested interest.  It
+was the principle that concerned us.
+
+For an organization claiming forward-thinkers, there was more fuzzy
+thinking and illogic pouring out of SFWA than at any average meeting
+of the Flat Earth Society.  "Why should SFWA give scriptwriters a
+Nebula if the WGA won't give awards to prose writers?" some yelled
+at us, which granted was at least an attempt to put together a
+comprehensible sentence.
+
+"Because the WGA is *form* oriented, and SFWA is *genre* oriented,"
+we said, "that's why.  Any genre script can win a WGA award, as long
+as it's in the right form.  And any form of SF should be able to be
+considered for a Nebula, as long as it's in the right genre."
+
+Our point, in the final analysis, was simply this: If SFWA will not
+recognize scripts as SF for the Nebula, then they should not qualify
+for membership in SFWA.  If SFWA *does* recognize them as SF for
+purposes of membership, then they should be eligible for the Nebula.
+It was real simple: you can't have it both ways.  Pick one.
+
+But that didn't happen...the illogic, the contradiction was allowed
+to continue, with SF scriptwriters held as second-class citizens
+within SFWA.  In theory, a GOR novel could be considered for a
+Nebula...but a Babylon 5 script could never even begin to be
+considered because according to SFWA, it isn't a story, it isn't
+real writing, it isn't literature, it is absent of quality, and
+fundamentally, it ain't SF.
+
+It was this issue that finally compelled me to resign from SFWA,
+as had others before me.  That, and the insults, abuse, veiled
+and not-so-veiled threats and harrassment I received from many
+in SFWA over this issue.
+
+And now you come to me...and you ask me to rejoin.  You say this
+is because of my "stature and experience"...but what use can that
+be to SFWA if my work and the work of every SF writer working in
+television or film is dismissed as lacking in merit by virtue of
+the form in which we work?  Since the bulk of my work is in TV,
+how can SFWA consider what I have to be "stature" if it does not
+recognize that there is any quality work in SF being done in TV?
+
+I don't believe in stature, particularly and especially my own.
+I'm still the same person I was when I resigned, for good or ill.
+The only thing that matters to me, that has *ever* mattered to
+me, is the work.  The storytelling.  This genre.  I love SF.  I
+love the community of fandom that has embraced it, and given it
+life.  I love the sense of wonder that is SF.
+
+[More]
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
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+
+In order to rejoin SFWA, I would have to accept the tacit
+implication that my work is NOT SF...and this I will never do.
+
+Last year, I realized a lifelong dream, and we received the Hugo
+award for an episode of Babylon 5.  And I'll tell you a true
+thing: I'll take the Hugo over the Nebula any day, because it
+comes based on the quality of the work...it comes based on the
+understanding that fans have that SF is SF, regardless of the
+medium.  Where the pro community throws up barriers, and tidal
+waves of snobbery, and play political games by defining SF as
+whatever is most convenient for them, the fan community is open
+to the free debate of one singular question: "Is it good SF?"
+
+In light of that, what possible reason could I have for wanting
+to rejoin SFWA?  To associate with writers who disdain the form
+in which I work?  To try and educate them?  We tried that...and
+got our heads handed to us.
+
+It's not just the Nebula that's the concern...as before, I'm
+willing to permanently disqualify anything I write, now or in
+the future, from Nebula consideration, to set aside allegations
+of self-interest; it's the principle of the thing that matters,
+the desire to make this better for the next guy to come down this
+road; and it's the attitude behind the current situation that
+rankles, that worries me; the open hostility and prejudice
+against those working in the visual media.
+
+So thanks, but no thanks.
+
+SFWA has chosen to ostracize film and television...and in the
+end, has only hurt itself.  By sticking its head, ostrich-like,
+in the sand, it has failed to come to grips with these new
+media...has become isolated, so that no one in Hollywood thinks
+of SFWA members, because SFWA thinks nothing of Hollywood.
+
+The result?  Where once many SF novels were chosen as fodder for
+movies, now movies and TV shows drive a substantial portion of
+the novel market through licensing.  All too often now, books are
+based on movies, when it *should* be the other way around, which
+means that the audience is deprived of visual medium access to
+some truly excellent work.  The publishing industry has become
+more like Hollywood in many ways now, looking for the blockbuster,
+losing the midlist, one megacompany swallowing up another.  We've
+been there, done that, and could've helped.
+
+(Now *here's* an irony I hadn't considered before just this
+moment: while an episode of B5 is not eligible for a Nebula, a
+novel based on B5 *is* eligible.  Where is the logic in that
+one?  And here's another irony: one of the members who most
+vociferously opposed the Dramatic Nebula on the grounds that
+everything SF that came out of Hollywood was crap...well, his
+name showed up recently on a list of writers asking to be
+considered for an assignment to write one of the Babylon 5
+novels.)
+
+Because of SFWA's provincial attitudes toward those of us who
+work in TV and film, it has lost access to secondary markets
+and opportunities, costing its members potentially hundreds of
+thousands of dollars.
+
+If parts of this letter seem angry, or frustrated, you should
+understand that the two areas of my life which have always meant
+a great deal to me are my work in television, and SF as a genre.
+I'm proud, have always been proud, of both.  Many producers
+assigned to SF series deny they're doing SF, as though they were
+ashamed of it.  I've always embraced the idea.  I was proud to
+be a member of SFWA.  I was proud to write for television.  But
+finally I had to choose between them, and that was a very
+difficult, painful thing for me.  It still is.  It's like having
+divorced parents; you want desperately for them to get along with
+each other, somehow put it together again...but it doesn't happen
+and doesn't look like it will *ever* happen.  So you get upset.
+
+I'm not upset with you, John, or even many members of SFWA, a
+number of whom weren't even members when all this went down a
+few years ago.  It's simple frustration with a system, and a
+certain loud proportion of the membership, that is provincial
+and parochial.  A great deal of good could come out of a tighter
+coordination between those of us working in the visual media,
+and print authors.  To see that frittered away is maddenning.
+
+Television and film are as valid a forum for the exploration
+of science fiction as any short story or novel.  As long as
+SFWA persists in saying otherwise, I will never rejoin that
+organization.
+
+Let me know when you folks get serious.  Let me know when you
+are willing to consider that what we do in TV and film counts as
+SF.  Then we'll talk.
+
+But not before.
+
+J. Michael Straczynski
+Executive Producer/Creator/WRITER
+Babylon 5
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

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+
+       Thanks...we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
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+
+      Give Wes some time...he has restored the messages, and is
+currently in the position of reconsidering the situation regarding the
+rules themselves, and what actually applies within those rules.  I
+think we should be willing to give him the room to do so without an
+immediate deadline, since he has made a good faith effort here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

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+
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+
+       I agree 100%.  One of the things I've been ragging on for years
+is that you should bring in SF writers to work on SF shows.  Real
+simple logic. But the perception there is that SF print authors can't
+deal with, or are disdainful of, scripts...something SFWA perpetuated
+when many of their members said they (as a group) wouldn't be able to
+make sense of a script.
+
+       There are some terrific resources out there who would be
+invaluable to any SF series.  That's why I gave Peter David his first
+shot at a live action TV series, ditto for Christy Marx and others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it glow brighter if there is more of the DNA present?
+> did it glow really bright when held up to Sinclair after he was
+> captured at the Battle of the Line? Did they know at that time
+> that it only glowed in the presence of Valen's DNA? ever get your
+> ISDN modem to work?
+
+       Yeah, we showed it glowing when Sinclair was catpured.  Since
+it happened with Valen, they assumed it was because he had a Minbari
+soul, maybe Valen reborn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+       The only point of disagreement is that "SF on screen is
+actually more of an accomplishment."  They're equal, in different ways,
+and certainly a movie or TV show can, in time, start to look dated. 
+But a book, which exists in your head, never grows old.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+       Yeah, some are more accurate than others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:14:33 -0700

+
 Trent K. Johnson <71020.1052@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something to do with a different editing process, or does
+> it relate to the change in satellite delivery?
+
+       I'm afraid I don't know what elements you're referring to, so I
+can't answer that offhand.  On the rest...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+       Well said.  You really ought to consider giving this writing
+thing a shot sometime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+"This forum is subject to Parental Controls because the 'bot looks at
+the messages here.  Parental Controls covers forums, Web pages, and
+newsgroups, not Member Services."
+
+       Yeah, I think that contradiction is kind of the point....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So in films the director provides the thematic vision of the
+> movie, wheras in TV the producer provides that vision?
+
+       Correct.  In many films, the director is there from the start,
+working on the vision...in TV, a director comes in 2-3 weeks before you
+shoot, and walks into a situation where the vision is already set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So that's why you became an Executive Producer?
+> To protect the vision of your work and not have a director or
+> producer change it?
+
+"So that's why you became an Executive Producer?  To protect the
+vision of your work and not have a director or producer change it?"
+
+      I sure as heck can't think of any OTHER reason to do it, given
+the grief involved....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As to the SFWA, is there anything that we, the fans can do to
+> help you win this crusade?
+
+      Thanks...and as for SFWA, it's an internal matter that they will
+have to consider on their own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

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+
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+
+"The ultimate irony is that *you,* our resident atheist, promised to
+regale us with a plethora of censorable biblical quotations!"
+
+      Who better?
+
+      Y'gotta understand, I've read the thing *twice*, cover to cover.
+(And ANYone with the patience to get through Deuteronomy, Numbers and
+Leviticus has my enduring respect.)  It's actually a pretty good book,
+all things considered, and despite some misuse by some of its readers. 
+There's good drama, lots of melodrama, an overall arc (and an ark),
+some good writing and some utterly *awful* writing, blood and thunder
+and some racy material, the perfect ingredients for a
+potboiler...except that it's often redeemed by such terrific parts as
+Psalms, and parts of the Song of Solomon, and Proverbs, and the story
+of Job, which is probably one of the best stories ever written.
+
+      A good editor would've helped *enormously*, but one can't expect
+god to be all things at once....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+       "It's important to understand the difference between CIS rules
+and Forum rules."
+
+       Not a problem.  Same rules we sometimes heard growing up. 
+"Don't do as I do, do as I say."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
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+       Sure; any post of mine can be reposted elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

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+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever considered directing?
+
+"Have you ever considered directing?"
+
+      With great trepidation, and at the urging of Warner Bros., I've
+decided to direct one episode this season...not because I have any
+particular ambition to be a director, but because I think it will help
+me become a better writer by more fully understanding that side of the
+camera.  Given how massively busy I am already, this decision will
+almost certainly be called as evidence in any sanity trial that might
+take place in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      I saw a piece in one of the comics publications the other day,
+might've been Comics Buyers Guide or the like...apparently unopened
+boxes of the first B5 set are going for $150 each, originally $35 or
+so.  Not bad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      The point of my "internal matters" reply was in response to
+someone who wanted to know whom at SFWA to bombard with email about
+this.  I'm reasonably confident that no one at SFWA wants to receive
+such a bombardment, and such a bombardment would not do any good, hence
+my observation.
+
+      That's got nothing to do with the reality that SFWA's stance is
+massively stupid, and deserves to be openly discussed.  As someone
+once said, "When someone does a foolish thing you should tell them it
+is a foolish thing; they may choose to continue doing it, but at least
+the truth is where it needs to be."
+
+      I'm certainly pleased to hear that GRRM is currently SFWA's
+veep. George is a VNM (Very Nice Man).
+
+      Of course, that's got nothing to do with SFWA's general attitude
+toward this area, scriptwriters in general, or the dramatic nebula
+(they get to like George because a) he's an accomplished novelist, and
+b) he's a VNM, and ignore the rest of it if they so choose).  Still,
+it's good news for George, and I'm pleased for him.  It's a good thing
+to have George, since some others, like Harlan Ellison, also refuse to
+rejoin SFWA over the dramatic nebula question, and the treatment of
+scriptwriters in general.  George is a much more patient and generous
+man.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:12 -0700

+
 JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, Are you still participating in the CIS forum?
+> When I left a posting for the sysops, >>Who Killed JMS<< the
+> responses seemed very defensive (gee, I wonder why?
+
+      I'm here...and the sysops have generously altered the position
+of sfmedone to allow for greater flexibility, and for that I think they
+deserve considerable praise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+AgamemCon Report (08 Mar 1997 21:20:14 -0700)
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Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> But B5 fans?
+
+"My respect for fans would ratchet yet higher if it turns out that
+more than 350 of them can keep a secret .... especially online.  I
+can't imagine saying to 350 mundanes "This is just between you and me
+..."
+
+      Here's the amazing thing.
+
+      From time to time at cons, I'll decide to tell a story that for
+one reason or another I want kept off the nets.  And I'll say to the
+audience, please oblige me on this one.
+
+      I've done this about a dozen times, in front of audiences as
+large as 2,000 people.
+
+      And y'know what?
+
+      As far as I can remember, not once has anyone broken that
+agreement.
+
+      Anybody wants to badrap the fans, I tell 'em that...and it sets
+them straight real fast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Mr. Garibaldi (08 Mar 1997 21:20:16 -0700)
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Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:16 -0700

+
 <David L. Gold> <73177.1161@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this now Garibaldi?
+> Or was it Talia?
+> And if it's not Garibaldi, how long until we get back the
+> loveable lug we remember?
+
+      Mr. Garibaldi is certainly going through some rather dramatic
+changes, yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Decendents of Valen (08 Mar 1997 21:20:19 -0700)
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Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:20:19 -0700

+
 Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What would be the social status of a Minbari who was known to be
+> a descendent of Valen? What does that mean in terms of the racial
+> purity issue? Would general knowledge of Delenn as a descendent of
+> Valen help her or hurt her on the Gray Council (racial impurity
+> versus descendency from the One)? Did the other members of the
+> Gray Council understand the significance of the glowing
+> Triluminary (yes, I saw the astonishment on their faces, but that
+> might only have been surprise at the phenomenom)? Was Dukhat a
+> descendent of Valen? Is it now known among at least the Gray
+> Council that Valen was Sinclair?
+
+      No, Dukhat was not descended from Valen; yes, the Grey Council
+now knows who Sinclair was; and general knowledge of what happened
+would certainly have an upsetting effect on Minbari society, so they
+will continue to keep it indefinitely back-roomed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Who Killed JMS? (08 Mar 1997 21:25:54 -0700)
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Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:25:54 -0700

+
 JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just what the heck is going on?
+> What are you folks thinking of?
+
+      As I noted in a message to you in another thread, everything has
+worked out fine, and the sysops have adjusted the structure to allow
+for greater flexibility, for which they are to be commended.
+
+      So I'm still alive and well and here...the reports of my dearth
+are greatly exaggerated....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (02 Mar 1997 02:44:07 -0700)
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Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:07 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That line about Sheridan's head imploding was more than a little
+> autobiographical, no?
+
+"That line about Sheridan's head imploding was more than a little
+autobiographical, no?"
+
+      Just a tad....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+B5 Starfury model/drwgs (08 Mar 1997 21:25:56 -0700)
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Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:25:56 -0700

+
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+
+      The models advertised in the UK are pirate and inferior.
+
+      Authorized models will be coming out from Revell/Monogram later
+this year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:40 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, You're gonna actually do it after all?
+
+"I read the article in the latest Sci Fi Universe magazine, and
+honestly, I don't know how you do it all. God, talk about stress!"
+
+      1) I have no choice.
+
+      2) You just shrug your shoulders and you do it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+New Set of B5 Cards (09 Mar 1997 22:33:42 -0700)
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Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:42 -0700

+
 PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Don't suppose you want to buy an autograph card do you Joe ?
+> Hasn't anyone convinced Jerry "Bruce Willis' twin brother" Doyle
+> to come to Blackpool for convention in the summer ? ?
+> to make the love interest a bit more viable, or was there some
+> other thinking behind the changes ? Are you prepared for the hero
+> worship that's going to abound at the convention ?
+
+      I think Jerry has other commitments...
+
+      As for the pilot, initially Delenn was going to be a male
+Minbari who came out of the chrysalis female...but due to our inability
+to modify Mira's voice enough to make it work, we dropped that aspect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Who Killed JMS? (09 Mar 1997 22:33:44 -0700)
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Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:44 -0700

+
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+      No current plans for LD release.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Is The Great Maker Here? (09 Mar 1997 22:33:46 -0700)
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Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:46 -0700

+
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+
+      Apparently they've changed the category under which this forum
+falls to allow for greater flexibility in language...I think the sysops
+can probably explain it better than I can...sysoping not Zathras'
+strength....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Was this Delenn? (09 Mar 1997 22:33:49 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:49 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Funny, ain't it...?
+> I was wondering if you've yet sprung the off beat plot turn on us
+> yet, and if so was it one of the transformations? If not is this
+> still on the books to be done? If it was and not one of the
+> transformations what was it?
+
+      The off-beat notion was Delenn going from male to female, and
+then having a relationship with the CO.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Atonement (09 Mar 1997 22:33:51 -0700)
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Date: 09 Mar 1997 22:33:51 -0700

+
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+
+      I have NOT fibbed about past works.
+
+      Denied, denied and denied, sure, but fibbed, never.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+NEW To Sysops From jms (10 Mar 1997 02:14:24 -0700)
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:14:24 -0700

+
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+
+"He promised to "update" the reporter, though, so I presume he's done
+that and the article will accurately reflect what went on here."
+
+      Yup.  Already in process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Who Killed JMS? (10 Mar 1997 02:22:14 -0700)
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:22:14 -0700

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+      We don't have a public affairs office.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Babylon 5 CD, Volume Two (10 Mar 1997 02:22:17 -0700)
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:22:17 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> JMS, sorry to bother you but why isn't the Volume Two CD out in
+> stores?
+
+      Actually, a very few stores *have* gotten it in...but sonic
+images decided to fill all the fan orders first, and have gotten
+somewhat overwhelmed.  Once they catch up, they'll hit the stores.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+NEW To Sysops From jms (02 Mar 1997 02:44:10 -0700)
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Date: 02 Mar 1997 02:44:10 -0700

+
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+
+      As it happens, I have an answer to this.  First, it's Warner
+Bros. that would be at issue here, since they own the copyright to B5. 
+That issue aside for the moment...
+
+      This actually came up not long ago, when a person doing synopses
+of the episodes didn't just synopsize it...it included every line of
+dialogue in the episode, and extensive narrative descriptions.  WB saw
+that and said, "Tell 'em to stop it."  Which they did.
+
+      On several occasions, whole pages at a time have been excerpted
+for articles, or reprinted...a heck of a lot more than what was posted
+here...and neither WB nor I have a problem with that.  As it is, many
+of the current synopses contain *massive* verbatim quotes of dialogue,
+just not as much as the one main offender.  Nobody blinks an eye.
+
+      I'm not saying this across the board, but you asked what would
+apply in my situation, and that's it.  (Which, btw, is a kind of
+evasion...rather than dealing with the problem That Is, people create
+what they hope are similar situations and say, "Well, what would you do
+if THIS happened?"  Well, this HASN'T happened, and it isn't a direct
+corrolary to this current situation in ANY event.  Its' just a way of
+skidding the discussion off in another direction and muddying the
+waters.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Back to Z'Ha'Dum (10 Mar 1997 02:22:19 -0700)
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:22:19 -0700

+
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+
+      No, it's one of her regular dressing gowns.
+
+      And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+The Man In Between (10 Mar 1997 02:22:21 -0700)
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 02:22:21 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Lorien the man in between?
+> Was Sheridan the man in between?
+> Was Justin the man in between?
+> Okay, if you won't answer those three, then will you answer the
+> following? Was Refa the one who was already dead?
+
+      Refa was never already dead, so it can't be him.  Dead is dead,
+and the only one who fits that description would be Sheridan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:06 -0700

+
      Just to advise those in the Orlando area...I'll be at Megacon at
+the Orange County Convention Center thereabouts, giving my B5
+presentation on Saturday at 3:00 p.m., with scenes from shows not yet
+aired, bloopers, and other sundry stuff.  I *think* there's also an
+autograph thing afterward, but can't be sure offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:09 -0700

+
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+      Actually, no, once you tell someone that part of a story *ain't*
+a story no more...it tends to go away.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:11 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why were they so interested in you directing?
+> Which one?
+> Are you going to act as well to cover all the bases?
+> What does your wife think of your schedule?
+
+"Why were they so interested in you directing?"
+
+      Well, they know the show is really my vision, and they're
+curious what it would look like if it was also followed through behind
+the camera.  And as our liaison with WB said, "We like it when our
+creative people spread their wings a little."  They like the show, and
+it does well for them, and they're just generally supportive that way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:14 -0700

+
 Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But who would want to win such an award?
+> What's it mean if you let someone else win?
+
+      Well, for starters, I don't think it would be letting someone
+else win; nominees would be submitted, and the best of that batch of
+nominees would win in head-to-head competition.  We've been bypassed
+for the occasional Emmy nomination even though I think some of the work
+done that year in those areas was at least as good as anything done
+elsewhere...does that diminish the kudos to the ones who *did* win?
+
+      Beyond which...even if SFWA *were* to start working on restoring
+the dramatic nebula -- the chances of which are roughly equivilent to
+an ostrich giving birth to an iguana -- it would take them a couple of
+years minimum to do it, by which time B5 is over anyway, and who knows
+if any later work of mine will be in the SF area at that point anyway? 
+(It's likely, but one never do know...I ended up on Murder She Wrote
+for 2 years, remember.)
+
+      Either way...my concern is the principle at work here.  If
+disqualifying or refusing the Neb myself is the only way to ensure that
+this ain't a personal agenda, and thus make the road easier for
+somebody else down the road, then that's jake by me.  But, as stated,
+the odds of this are slim and none.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+      I'd be hard to pick an absolute favorite; I like all of them,
+for various reasons, and at various times.  If you put a gun to my
+head, I'd say it was probably either Delenn or Londo, because of the
+many shades to their characters.  They're like crystals, they change
+color and texture depending on how the light shines through them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SFWA issue on SFLITs (10 Mar 1997 16:25:19 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
SFWA issue on SFLITs

+
Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:19 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm sure there are, but having already been villified by Martin
+over on GEnie, speaking as veep of SFWA, I think I've had enough SFWA
+for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Edit Process (10 Mar 1997 16:25:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
Edit Process

+
Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:21 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      All I can figure out is that they must be artifacts of the
+analog commercial drop-ins they've been doing, which affect the uplink
+process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Atonement (10 Mar 1997 16:25:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
Atonement

+
Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:25:23 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      You're right.
+
+      I am dust beneath thy feet.
+
+      I shall now sit in my garden and eat worms all day as penance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Raven & the Dove (01 Apr 1997 02:36:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Raven & the Dove

+
Date: 01 Apr 1997 02:36:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not a message as such, but more an image, a mood that gives
+subtext to some stuff that happens later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 RPG...canon? (08 Apr 1997 01:16:58 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5 RPG...canon?

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:16:58 -0700

+
 Scott Belgarde <75347.2324@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I haven't played any RPGs in years, not since my college
+> days--ahhhh...I yearn for those long past halcyon days when I had
+> the time (Classes?
+
+"I'm just hoping the technical manual will be released, either in hard
+copy or on disc, it will make my task a great deal easier.":
+
+      This will be coming out as the B5 Security Manual from Boxtree
+(likely to then be reprinted by Del Rey), and in the B5 informational
+CDrom now being finished.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Psi Phi Phony jms (08 Apr 1997 01:48:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Psi Phi Phony jms

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:01 -0700

+
      To anyone one the Psi Phi mailing list or web site: someone has
+been logging on to impersonate me over this past weekend.  I have
+never, at any time, posted on this site, and any messages are to be
+discounted, deleted and ignored.  If anyone knows the sysop of this
+system, please notify them and tell them to remove that account.
+
+      There have been, and continue to be, impersonators using my name
+on other systems.  If you see something that looks suspicious, or if I
+show up on an unfamiliar system, please send email to me asking if it's
+actually me or not.  Generally the only places I post *ever* are
+Compuserve, GEnie, AOL, the usenet moderated group, and the B5 fan club
+site.
+
+      To those considering this prank: understand that whereas other
+activities are fuzzy under the law when it comes to the cyberworld,
+falsy impersonating someone is *not*, and you will be arrested.  Count
+on it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I-Con Invitation (08 Apr 1997 01:48:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
I-Con Invitation

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:05 -0700

+
 Kathleen . Keefe <102735.3416@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who was it?
+
+      I think it was just someone from our walla group.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+holding over episodes (08 Apr 1997 01:48:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
holding over episodes

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Fall would be October; they'd use the last episodes to ramp up
+whatever comes next, us or something else, for the November sweeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fans vs. Trekkies (08 Apr 1997 01:48:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Fans vs. Trekkies

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:12 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where is the line drawn?
+> How do we stay 'healthy' fans, and avoid getting mentioned in the
+> next update of Harlan's Xenogenesis?
+
+      Leaving aside the whole broader questions at work here -- and
+there are many -- I think that on balance, B5 fans would have a harder
+time falling for this sort of thing in general because B5 does not
+offer answers, only questions, and encourages viewers to think for
+themselves and question authority.  This would not make them good
+candidates for cult recruitment drives.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+King Arthur and Delenn (08 Apr 1997 01:48:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
King Arthur and Delenn

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Had he actually known...it would've been even more apt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 RPG comments (08 Apr 1997 01:48:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 RPG comments

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:15 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What gives?
+
+      They would be a *major* disruption in an environment such as B5,
+so their presence is discouraged in the sense of having an office
+there, though other teeps do pass through on occasion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I-CON (08 Apr 1997 01:48:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
I-CON

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; you should've come up and said hi...every time someone
+asked me to sign a card to Sharon, I said, "...Foster?"  Never worked
+out.
+
+      The con was a lot of fun...hard work, but overall, fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+More I-CON Musings.... (08 Apr 1997 01:48:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
More I-CON Musings....

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 01:48:20 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, good points...and yeah, I generally try to watch
+X-Files, though I've fallen a bit by the wayside lately due to a) work
+and b) the story getting kinda convoluted (yeah, like I should
+talk)....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I-CON (08 Apr 1997 02:05:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
I-CON

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 02:05:56 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I was not told that people had left the line and not been
+allowed in.  At one point, a security person pointed to the end of the
+line and told me that now that we'd begun that would be the end of it,
+but that's all. (And I kept insisting that I'd sign more than one
+thing, I'm real fast that way.) I felt that they were a little
+ham-handed in this...but at the same time, particulary Sunday, I was on
+a *very* tight schedule, and that made things tough for everyone.  But
+my policy holds: if someone's in line, they should get an autograph, no
+matter how long it takes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+I-con: Time of Program? (01 Apr 1997 02:36:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
I-con: Time of Program?

+
Date: 01 Apr 1997 02:36:56 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 8:00-9:00pm Autographs in the Gym 9:30-10:30pm Panel: Home is the
+> Strangest Place of All at Javits 102, with Harlan, Nancy Kress,
+> and ??
+
+      It's definitely going to be changed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thanks, & some questions (08 Apr 1997 12:33:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
Thanks, & some questions

+
Date: 08 Apr 1997 12:33:57 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was it your idea to have Marcus singing "I am the Very Model of a
+> Moder Major General" at the end of the last episode, or was it
+> the actor who suggested the specific song? Why has no one begun to
+> put two and two together and think about the possibility that
+> Garibaldi's change in personality may be related to the fact that
+> he he and his ship were obviously abducted?
+
+       The song was in the script; Jason then had to learn it.  And
+Andreas came in and auditioned like others, and we responded to what we
+saw during his audition.  Simple as that.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+I-CON (09 Apr 1997 01:12:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
I-CON

+
Date: 09 Apr 1997 01:12:19 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      They cut the line off *outside*, after people had been waiting?!
+
+      I didn't know.  Suffice to say I'm vastly disappointed and more
+than a tad annoyed by this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+WesterCon 50 (09 Apr 1997 12:31:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
WesterCon 50

+
Date: 09 Apr 1997 12:31:16 -0700

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> for WesterCon 50 worked-out your schedule and will you let us
+> know what it is when you do know?
+
+       No, I don't believe anything's been finalized yet, though I'll
+be sure to mention when it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms Note to German Fans (09 Apr 1997 22:22:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms Note to German Fans

+
Date: 09 Apr 1997 22:22:22 -0700

+
      I spoke to Bruce today, and apparently whatever problems may
+have existed have been worked out, and he, Richard Biggs and Jerry
+Doyle are now all confirmed for the German convention this summer.
+
+      Now, that stated, an open letter to the German fan groups.
+
+      Many on the B5 staff and I have been inundated with email from
+fans in Germany, and organizers of various fan groups, and fan
+counter-groups, and counter-counter groups, and insisting -- no,
+*demanding* -- that we get personally involved in the fan situation
+there, that so-and-so has no business working in X area of fandom, that
+this group over here isn't as right or proper as *that* group over
+there, insisting again and again that we issue statements condemning or
+repudiating one group or another....
+
+      Stop it.
+
+      For starters you're making my people crazy.  And some of the
+cast.  You do not endear yourselves with this behavior.
+
+      Second: it is not our place to intervene in fan-vs-fan disputes.
+Not only *would* we not do so, it would be wrong for us to try, and it
+would be resented by the majority of fans, rightly so.
+
+      Granted that there are always, and will always be, schisms and
+politics and back-alley metaphorical knifings between one fan group and
+another, that goes with the territory, and it happens in many
+countries.  But the ferocity of this competition, and the blizzard of
+email to my staffers and others involved with the show from those
+involved in the current dispute has gone beyond the pale.
+
+      If I know from personal experience or knowledge that a given
+convention is going to be trouble, I'll say so...but I (and we) have no
+direct knowledge of the situation in German fandom, and to ask us to
+condemn or recognize one faction or another when we are completely in
+the dark is simply wrong.
+
+      (I should mention that it's primarily those who are actually
+involved in one group or another who are making life difficult for us
+here; we have received only wonderful support from German fans in
+general, who don't get involved in the politics of local fandom.  We're
+very proud of how the show has been received in Germany, and are only
+appreciative of the great response and support and letters we've
+received.  This is primarily addressed only to the specific groups
+involved.)
+
+      The point of B5 is that hu     jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Who Killed JMS? (08 Mar 1997 21:25:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
Who Killed JMS?

+
Date: 08 Mar 1997 21:25:54 -0700

+
 JOHN GRAVES <102735.1124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just what the heck is going on?
+> What are you folks thinking of?
+
+      As I noted in a message to you in another thread, everything has
+worked out fine, and the sysops have adjusted the structure to allow
+for greater flexibility, for which they are to be commended.
+
+      So I'm still alive and well and here...the reports of my dearth
+are greatly exaggerated....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I-CON (10 Apr 1997 11:51:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
I-CON

+
Date: 10 Apr 1997 11:51:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, it seemed to us as well that he was having a bit of fun,
+being a renowned satirist, and we figured we'd play into it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Timeline question (11 Apr 1997 15:18:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Timeline question

+
Date: 11 Apr 1997 15:18:00 -0700

+
 Will Gearhart <102147.2670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> To that I would add, if the Minbari couldn't scan Sinclair, would
+> they have just finished earth off and made the whole question of
+> the battle scene, Babylon 5, 4 (all of them) moot? And what kind
+> of race would the Minbari be without Valen? And doesn't believing
+> in Mobius-like temporal paradoxes take a bit more faith than
+> believing in God?
+
+       Sinclair went back because he would always go back and always
+went back; the "alternate" timeline phrase isn't quite correct...it's
+more like the moment when the two possible wave forms of
+*possibilities* must collapse into one probability or certainty, both
+tugging at the same time.  For instance, you've got Shroedinger's cat,
+put into a box, with a 50/50 chance of a poison gas capsule opening and
+killing the cat.  At the instant before you open the box, Shroedinger
+said, the cat is neither dead nor alive, but *both*, until you open the
+box and the two possibilities collapse into one. It isn't that the cat
+had two alternate timelines, only that there were two possibilities 
+fighting it out to become the real one.
+
+       That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms Note to German Fans (12 Apr 1997 01:33:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms Note to German Fans

+
Date: 12 Apr 1997 01:33:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      ....sigh...just what I need.
+
+      Okay, somebody get me a fistful of theses, I'll get a nail....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Timeline question (12 Apr 1997 01:33:18 -0700)
+
+
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Timeline question

+
Date: 12 Apr 1997 01:33:18 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, I figure...we saw it from the cat's point of view....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 FAN TO BE SUED!! (01 Apr 1997 02:47:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Apr 1997 02:47:56 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Wearing a beard and glasses is not grounds for any kind of suit,
+or I would be in court forever.
+
+      I've been warning people for some time now, particularly those
+who abuse the copyright, that WB is cracking down.  Over two dozen
+*judgements* have been rendered in cases pursued by WB against pirates
+and hackers and others who've imperiled the copyright to B5.  If this
+windows "help" file is what I think it is, it's filled with images and
+material owned by WB, and is being mass distributed.  Whether for free
+or profit isn't the issue, it's the repackaging of material.  The
+"bearded/glasses" thing sounds like smoke to me because the person got
+caught.
+
+      On the one hand, we've gotten WB to be fairly relaxed about web
+sites and fan stuff, as long as the proper copyright info is
+appended...but at the same time, they're cracking down on those who are
+abusing the situation and unquestionably infringing on WB's copyright. 
+(Note to dealers and con organizers: they've been seriously going after
+counterfeiters and pirates, and some cons have had to pay the price for
+not properly policing their dealer's rooms for counterfeit
+merchandise.)  In most cases that I know of, the person is given a
+warning first...then hit when and if they choose to get stupid and 
+ignore the warning.  I don't know the situation with this one, but I
+would guess it's the same.
+
+      WB owns B5, and WB has an obligation to protect it from falling
+into public domain, which *will happen* unless it vigorously goes after
+parties who infringe on that copyright.  There is no corporation on the
+planet that acts otherwise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Timeline question (12 Apr 1997 01:33:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 12 Apr 1997 01:33:20 -0700

+
 Scott Belgarde <75347.2324@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of Schroedinger's Cat, ever read any Rudy Rucker?
+
+      Personally, I think they ought to leave the damn cat alone
+before he scratches somebody's eyes out....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ICON Postscript (12 Apr 1997 01:33:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
ICON Postscript

+
Date: 12 Apr 1997 01:33:22 -0700

+
      By the way...since I got the end of the story today in the
+paper, I thought I'd pass this along as a follow-up to the Icon
+coverage.
+
+      On Sunday late afternoon, I finished my last presentation and
+got into the car to head back to the hotel to pack.  Robert Kaiser,
+escort and driver assigned by the con, was driving the van and can
+verify what follows.  We were about halfway to the hotel, on the
+freeway, when I heard this very loud engine right outside, like a big,
+loud motorcycle trying to pass.  I looked to the left, nothing.  Looked
+to the right and behind.  Nothing.
+
+      Then I looked forward...and saw two airplane wheels coming down
+over the edge of the window.
+
+      In any international language you can name, this is the symbol
+for You Are Now In Serious Guano.
+
+      A private plane was literally about five feet above the van.
+
+      And coming down.  Fast.
+
+      It got a little ahead of us, because it was still moving fast,
+and it was obviously looking to try and put down on the freeway. 
+Something was wrong.  It was about three or so car lengths ahead now,
+but there wasn't room to put down, too many cars.  It suddenly lurched
+down.  "It's going to hit the deck right in front of us," I realized. 
+Then it abruptly pitched up again, as a bridge appeared in front of us,
+and banked away to the right.
+
+      The last I saw, it was banking and descending behind a line of
+trees, apparently looking for somewhere, anywhere to set down before
+the plane gave out.
+
+      I didn't want to say anything until I knew the fate of whoever
+was flying it; happily, according to newspaper reports, the three
+passengers of the plane were injured when it crashed into the side of a
+nearby house, but not killed.  They were taken to the nearby Medical
+Center at Stony Brook, there in Long Island, and are now recovering.
+
+      Took us a while to calm down.  After all the other adventures of
+the convention...they threw a plane at us.  And almost got us...within
+five feet, to be precise.  Had it gone down just roughly ninety seconds
+before it did, I would almost certainly not be here to write this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Women in the Sequel (12 Apr 1997 15:54:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Apr 1997 15:54:06 -0700

+
 Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 8) What I'm curious about is if you have given any thought to the
+> male/female ratio on the new show? Have you given any thought to
+> it?
+
+      I never ever give thought to ratios, or making a political
+statement, or anything other than the story.  If that meant using 100%
+female cast in the movie, or 100% male cast, or some variation thereof,
+then that's what it'll be.  I think the *instant* you start putting
+agendas ahead of the creative process, of saying "What is the story
+*about*?" then I think you're dead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (13 Apr 1997 01:04:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Apr 1997 01:04:03 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What sort of mutant keyboard is that?
+> Is it wireless?
+> Would you recommend this arrangement for those of us with the CTS
+> and sore neck blues?
+
+      That's a Kinesis keyboard, which I've found very useful.  It's
+cut back the discomfort quite a bit, and I recommend it, though it
+takes a bit to get used to it.
+
+      I've also just ordered a Datahand, which is a very radically
+different design, though there's apparently an 8 week waiting list. 
+I'll let folks know how that one works out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (13 Apr 1997 17:28:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Apr 1997 17:28:44 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you do for a mouse, though?
+> And how DO you handle the keyboard in your lap- do you have an
+> extra long cord, or a cordless adapter?
+
+      I still have to use a standard mouse, though I hate a mousepad,
+so I usually just run it on the top of my leg.
+
+      The keyboard cable is pretty standard, and should probably be
+longer. I just keep it in my lap, on a lap-cat (a keyboard cushion),
+and sit back and type my little brains out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Women in the Sequel (13 Apr 1997 17:28:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
Women in the Sequel

+
Date: 13 Apr 1997 17:28:47 -0700

+
 Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If I recall correctly, didn't you change casting directors
+> between the first and second seasons and wasn't one of the
+> reasons an effort to get more "cultural diversity" into the
+> casting?
+
+      Yes, there we noticed a lapse because the show was getting (and
+still tends to be) a little too white-bread for my tastes, though we've
+gotten a bit better lately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+General (13 Apr 1997 17:28:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
General

+
Date: 13 Apr 1997 17:28:48 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are the particulars for choosing the art for the books?
+> Who could she send her portfolio to?
+
+      The book is being done in-house through WB publishing, so it'd
+have to go through that.
+
+      And thanks...good to see you there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (13 Apr 1997 23:11:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Apr 1997 23:11:44 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> though then what would my excuse for getting so little done be?
+
+      BTW, before I forget, try checking out www.datahand.com for
+another kind of keyboard, the one I just ordered.  Can't vouch for it
+yet, because I haven't tried it and am trying this on faith, but it's a
+completely radical new design that was initially made for the Post
+Office, and is now being sold commercially.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Women in the Sequel (13 Apr 1997 23:11:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Apr 1997 23:11:46 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Okay, kids, stop fighting or I'll turn this car *right* around
+and we'll go home.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Illusions of Truth (13 Apr 1997 23:25:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Apr 1997 23:25:18 -0700

+
 Francis Rogers <73742.1613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, do you know if Kitman was putting us on in his overlong
+> introduction? What are your actual feelins on the matter?
+> 4, Who played the "psychiatrist" in the episode, the one
+> interviewed by Randall?
+
+      I am definitely *not* anti-reporter...I'm against the *control*
+of truth by any government or political agenda.  We are made stronger
+by a multiplicity of voices, and the more those voices are allowed
+access to a level playing field, the more often the truth will come out
+to play.
+
+      The third name was Jarrico, after Paul Jarrico, also
+blacklisted.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+UK B5 FAN TO BE SUED!! (01 Apr 1997 12:24:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
UK B5 FAN TO BE SUED!!

+
Date: 01 Apr 1997 12:24:23 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       (sudden light goes on)
+
+       I think I keel Meester Sloan now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Earth Standard Time (14 Apr 1997 17:22:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Apr 1997 17:22:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Basically, it's the time zone in Geneva, Switzerland, which is
+the seat of Earth government now, Earthdome, and since all major
+planetary councils, the Senate, the President and other official
+business goes through there, that's the area where EST is determined.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (16 Apr 1997 01:12:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:12:14 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Not to belabor this line of questioning (she says as she
+> belabors), but where do you get one of these things?
+
+      Unfortunately, I don't remember where I got it, and the label
+has long since fallen off, I only remember that it was called a LapCat.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Women in the Sequel (16 Apr 1997 01:12:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:12:15 -0700

+
 Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we stop at McDonalds now?
+
+      Ask your mother.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Personal Agendas? (16 Apr 1997 01:12:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:12:17 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So my question is: Is the placement of this story in error, or is
+> the characterization just really out of sync with the series? Or
+> is this criticism entirely unjustified from your point of view?
+
+      No, I've said that while this one is okay, the characterization
+is off, and it tries 'way too hard to be funny, ignoring the notion
+that if everything is funny then *nothing* is funny.  Unfortunately, I
+didn't get the actual manuscript until it was too late to do anything
+short of commissioning a full rewrite, which they wouldn't do.
+
+      Anyway...as I said, it's okay.  But for my money, the Anna
+Sheridan and Jeffrey Sinclair books are the two real gems of this
+batch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New episodes?? (16 Apr 1997 01:17:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:17:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When do we get out of the current batch of reruns and back into
+> the new episodes??
+
+      Next week's TV Guide lists the first new episode back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New episodes?? (16 Apr 1997 01:17:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:17:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, it's got some pretty funny stuff in it...when it ain't
+being tense....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Blacklists? (16 Apr 1997 01:17:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Blacklists?

+
Date: 16 Apr 1997 01:17:13 -0700

+
 Thomas Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Basically, were some actors who were blacklisted by the HUAC
+> proceedings able to find work afterwards under other names? Are
+> you aware if pseudonyms were used to get around the blacklists?
+
+      Some writers were able to get around it, but not the actors,
+except by leaving the US and working in England or Paris.  I think
+you're thinking of two different actors.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New episodes?? (16 Apr 1997 23:03:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Apr 1997 23:03:18 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this the one with the cameo by Scott Adams?
+
+      No, I don't believe it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Illusions of Truth (17 Apr 1997 12:45:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Apr 1997 12:45:22 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question this brings to mind, why do we never see anything
+> but ISN? How did ISN get a stranglehold on the news, and if it
+> didn't, then there are likely millions of potential news outlets
+> accessible to everyone, how does Clark keep them under control?
+
+       ISN is the one network that can handle *interstellar*
+broadcasts, which reqire a massive amount of energy, logistics,
+setup...there are other, local, planetary networks around Earth, and a
+few specialized channels for military and some commercial use...but ISN
+is the biggest, and because of that is very much in Earthgov's pocket.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (17 Apr 1997 22:53:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Apr 1997 22:53:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, I just figured that sooner or later you'd stumble onto the
+staple gun solution like the rest of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+burrowing bombs (01 Apr 1997 12:24:24 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Apr 1997 12:24:24 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> for your version that is used by the Vorlons, are they based on a
+> concept from another area of SF that I'm not familiar with? or did
+> you come up with them yourself? did you know that the US was
+> developing them?
+
+       No, that's something that we came up with here...if this is
+true, it's an interesting concept.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Does all Earth use EST? (17 Apr 1997 22:53:08 -0700)
+
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Does all Earth use EST?

+
Date: 17 Apr 1997 22:53:08 -0700

+
 Marcia Sampson <103127.1072@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That got me to wondering: is the entire planet Earth on Earth
+> Standard Time? If the whole Earth is on Earth Standard Time, does
+> this mean that in places well away from the EST meridian, most
+> people work at night and sleep/observe curfew during daylight?
+
+      No, EST is mainly for the seat of government, to which most
+military outposts are synchronized.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo News? (18 Apr 1997 23:56:25 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Apr 1997 23:56:25 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, have you any news to leak to us?
+
+      Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the
+understanding that the Hugo people want to make the announcements on
+nominations, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until
+after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I
+may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't,
+for the immediate future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo News? (19 Apr 1997 22:21:26 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Apr 1997 22:21:26 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I want to memorize this (with adaptations according to
+> situations) just for the <disengage-brain> effect it would have,
+> sort of like, "Do you feel more like you do now than when you
+> came in?"
+
+      Thanks...I think....
+
+      Though certainly if I were to comment on any nominations, it
+would be an act severed from polite behavior, and one never even dreams
+of such things.
+
+      Now let's all get out our Little Orphan Annie Decoder Rings....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS,HE on SF:Vortex (19 Apr 1997 22:21:27 -0700)
+
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JMS,HE on SF:Vortex

+
Date: 19 Apr 1997 22:21:27 -0700

+
 Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I heard that you and Harlan Ellison are scheduled to appear
+> together on Sci-Fi Vortex next week is that true?
+
+      Yep, it's true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mention of B5 (20 Apr 1997 14:29:12 -0700)
+
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Mention of B5

+
Date: 20 Apr 1997 14:29:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, what the heck does it *say*?  I'm stuck at home writing
+and can't get to a store to find out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mention of B5 (20 Apr 1997 18:09:18 -0700)
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Mention of B5

+
Date: 20 Apr 1997 18:09:18 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, we try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Modern Major Miracle (20 Apr 1997 21:27:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Apr 1997 21:27:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you.  Now go to your room before the scansion police get
+here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+John Leonard Quotes (21 Apr 1997 12:22:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Apr 1997 12:22:04 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Page 125 - "What did it mean--so many cowboys and Indians in
+> outer space, so many SWAT teams and drug-busters, and such a foam
+> and froth of humanoid diversity?
+
+       Thanks for taking the time to transcribe all that.  I figured
+just a synopsis, but you went far beyond the line of duty on that. 
+Many thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Happy Couple (22 Apr 1997 20:34:19 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Apr 1997 20:34:19 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And why do I have the feeling that, in a society with a declining
+> population, one of the last rituals before marriage may well be a
+> test of fertility? But we'll have to wait and see, won't we?
+
+      I like silly and unbecoming as long as it's believable...which
+is a fine line to walk.  We all do silly things from time to time, and
+that's okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+spoiler- new ep (23 Apr 1997 00:02:59 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Apr 1997 00:02:59 -0700

+
 Jean S McKnight <105513.130@compuserve.com> asks:
+> WHOO HOO?!
+> WHOO HOO?!?!?!?!
+
+"You, sir, are nothing but a big bearded tease!"
+
+      Thankyew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 RPG...canon? (01 Apr 1997 22:41:20 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Apr 1997 22:41:20 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Obviously there's a lot of wriggle room here because there's so
+much material covered, but at least the sense of it is canonical, and a
+lot of what they came up with was sufficiently good that I looked at it
+and said, "Okay, I can buy that."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+spoiler- new ep (23 Apr 1997 16:24:49 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Apr 1997 16:24:49 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Your spelling was correct.  And yeah...amazing the kind of
+implications you can make just by chaning one little pronoun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 S5 - A thought or two (24 Apr 1997 12:32:47 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 24 Apr 1997 12:32:47 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If word of renewal is late, is it likely that the finale may have
+> to be filmed 'just in case' - and if so - how do the cast feel
+> about that? For once, knowing the outcome, how would it affect
+> their actions for the characters?
+>  - Yeah I know - big stretch on my part, again, what do I know??
+> Last thing - my wife came up with a dandy idea - if there is no
+> season 5 - how about WB extending S4 so Joe has a couple of
+> episodes to tie things up - instead of condensing it into one ??
+>  - Freeing him up for more "expression" - Good idea (if unlikely)
+> or wot (or not )?? Thoughts people ??
+> Please ??
+
+       Ain't nobody gonna be disappointed.  That much I feel sure
+about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Ballot Announced! (24 Apr 1997 12:40:33 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 24 Apr 1997 12:40:33 -0700

+
 David Gerrold <70307.544@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Comments anyone?
+
+       David...I agree with you completely.  I find the cavalier
+treatment you've received on this to be appalling in the extreme. 
+Everyone who saw that episode knows full well that it used massive
+amounts of your material: your writing, your lines, your ideas, your
+structure...it's all there.  The new stuff is just interwoven into it. 
+That you aren't listed as one of the writers, that they never even
+*paid* you for the use of your material is nothing short of hideous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Ballot Announced! (24 Apr 1997 21:07:36 -0700)
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Hugo Ballot Announced!

+
Date: 24 Apr 1997 21:07:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I feel some proprietary interest."
+
+      Yeah...nothing like having your firstborn kid sliced up for
+someone else's dinner and then denied even the claim of parenthood.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Racing Mars<< worries (25 Apr 1997 15:19:03 -0700)
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>>Racing Mars<< worries

+
Date: 25 Apr 1997 15:19:03 -0700

+
 Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And to know how pervasive those icky shadow minions seem to be
+> (guess we'll learn more about them next week)...We saw the
+> episode on vacation and can you believe that at times I felt
+> anxious, wondering what could be bothering me, only to realize I
+> was worried about John, Delenn, Garibaldi and Babylon5?
+
+       Thanks...unsettled is just the right reaction.  And yeah,
+someone is going to start wondering soon enough about his behavior.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Ballot Announced! (25 Apr 1997 15:26:20 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Apr 1997 15:26:20 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Obvious question, though, is...are you going to bring this up
+in the ST section as well as areas mainly visited by B5 folks?  I don't
+think they know the situation among the ranks of ST fans, and they
+might be able to do more inside.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Racing Mars<< worries (26 Apr 1997 23:42:31 -0700)
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>>Racing Mars<< worries

+
Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:42:31 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I hear the line "He's not the Pope, he doesn't even look like
+> HER!"?
+
+      Yeah, you heard the "her" line.  Got a fair amount of flack for
+that one, btw.
+
+      And it's Woo Hoo.
+
+      If Yahoo wants a reference they should call me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Ballot Announced! (26 Apr 1997 23:59:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:59:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Too bad no one's considered the idea that the Hugo here could be
+viewed in another way.  That is...the DS9 episode was really a tribute
+to the original "Tribbles" episode.  That was the whole reason they
+*did* it, and the plot ties directly into that original episode.  If
+you take away the original "Tribbles" script...there's nothing *there*.
+They just weave in and out of your story.
+
+      So if the DS9 episode is a tribute to your episode, then why
+couldn't the Hugo be given *to the original episode*?  After all, it
+was good enough for DS9 to pay tribute to, and in essence, simply
+repackage it...why not follow in their footsteps and their intention?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gerrold's conclusion (26 Apr 1997 23:59:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:59:31 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"...asking Resnick about my integrity is like asking Heidi Fleiss
+about chastity."
+
+      And not nearly as funny as asking Heidi Fleiss about Resnick....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+GARIBALDI (27 Apr 1997 01:27:42 -0700)
+
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GARIBALDI

+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 01:27:42 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The character remains on the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Shadow Within/ITF (01 Apr 1997 22:41:22 -0700)
+
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+
The Shadow Within/ITF

+
Date: 01 Apr 1997 22:41:22 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was the timing of the book/episode?
+> I know books require a bit of lead time so did the author see the
+> episode before it aired or was it something you added after the
+> book was in progress?
+
+      It all just sorta came together at the same time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Racing Mars<< worries (27 Apr 1997 15:26:44 -0700)
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>>Racing Mars<< worries

+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:26:44 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's the ep that starts ramping things up again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Racing Mars<< worries (27 Apr 1997 15:26:47 -0700)
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>>Racing Mars<< worries

+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:26:47 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Suffice to say some have taken it *very* personally and have
+sent some me fairly abusive email.  But that's showbidness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+sfVortex Appearance (27 Apr 1997 15:26:48 -0700)
+
+
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sfVortex Appearance

+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:26:48 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      And I'll fill you in on the Garibaldi line.
+
+      In the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Racing Mars>/Dead Heat (27 Apr 1997 15:26:50 -0700)
+
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<Racing Mars>/Dead Heat

+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 15:26:50 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is racing Mars?
+
+      Sounds like you've got a Monopoly on the subtext here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Battleground Earth ? (27 Apr 1997 20:41:19 -0700)
+
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Battleground Earth ?

+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:41:19 -0700

+
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+
+      It ain't a ST series, it's a different show entirely.
+
+      Came out of Majel's vault, and apparently they're going to have
+to change the name to avoid any conflicts with Scientology and
+Battlefield Earth.
+
+      They'd asked if I'd be interested in running it, but I declined.
+I think they've now got Rick Okie, from Renegade, on as
+show-runner/writer basing the series on the provided material.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Query: Sheridan & Delenn (27 Apr 1997 20:47:33 -0700)
+
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+
Query: Sheridan & Delenn

+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:47:33 -0700

+
 Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com> asks:
+> epitomy when there is large quantities of destructive force in
+> play?
+
+"Why is it that the romance between Sheridan and Delenn always seems
+to reach it's... epitomy when there is large quantities of destructive
+force in play?"
+
+      Maybe that's when we most need someone to hold....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+>>Racing Mars<< worries (27 Apr 1997 20:47:35 -0700)
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>>Racing Mars<< worries

+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:47:35 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, but that (the vorlon question) is a philosophical issue. 
+You hardly ever run into problems there...what kills you is doctrine,
+based on a belief. If it weren't for doctrine, a lot of the world's
+religions would get along a lot better, because the core roots of their
+beliefs aren't that dissimilar, it's the interpretation and the rules
+that grew up around them that seem to cause all the trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair--->Delenn (27 Apr 1997 20:47:37 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Apr 1997 20:47:37 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  If you check the archives, when people said, "But what
+about the relationship between Sinclair and Delenn we see?" (and this
+is back a long time ago), I said that there is a relationship there,
+yes, but it isn't what you think it is.  Now we see what it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Fan Club Note (jms) (28 Apr 1997 00:52:04 -0700)
+
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B5 Fan Club Note (jms)

+
Date: 28 Apr 1997 00:52:04 -0700

+
      One of the most dangerous things in the world is a writer who
+has finished writing for a while, has met his deadlines, and can now
+address other issues.
+
+      One such issue that has been nibbling at the back of my
+brainstem has been the Babylon 5 Fan Club.  I've felt for some time
+that it was not living up to its potential, and has been laying fallow
+for some while.  The Universe Today newsletter was okay, but it could
+have been better.  The club was okay, but could have been better.
+
+      Okay is never sufficient.  We either move forward or we fall
+back, there is no such thing as holding position.  Especially with the
+fan club, because as a fan myself, I have to feel that people are
+getting their money's worth out of the club, and frankly, I'm not sure
+they have been.  Now that I have time to turn my attention to the
+problem....
+
+      A number of changes have been made to improve the situation for
+the current members, and for future members.
+
+      1) We are going to substantially improve Universe Today and get
+it out on schedule.  To facilitate this, we are announcing that Mike
+Zmuda, publisher of the Centaurian Sentinel, probably the best of the
+B5 fanzines out there, has been made editor of the newsletter.
+
+      Sandra Bruckner, publisher of the Zocalo, has been named
+co-editor. Both begin work effective May 1st.
+
+      Knowing the great work these two have performed individually, we
+have every anticipation that their combined efforts on Universe Today
+will make it the sort of publication we've always wanted it to be.
+
+      2) Sandra has also agreed to take over as website administrator
+for thestation.com, maintaining it and improving it and updating it as
+circumstances warrant.  The B5 Fan Club Web Site has also been
+wandering a bit, and this will correct that problem.
+
+      3) Jim Lockett, founding head of the B5 Fan Club, has moved on
+to other projects, and we wish him all the best in his future
+endeavors.
+
+      4) A more assertive position will be taken in promoting the club
+at conventions, in advertisements, and in developing merchandise
+specific to the fan club.
+
+      5) Finally, because of my sense that the members of the Fan Club
+have not gotten all that they could have out of the club during its
+debut, we are going to ROLL OVER ALL YEAR ONE MEMBERSHIPS to a second
+year.  If you joined prior to April 1, 1997, you are automatically
+comp'd in as a member for a second year without charge.  Doug and I
+will personally swallow the expense of that.
+
+      It is our desire that the Official Babylon 5 Fan Club should be
+the best entity of its kind ever created.  Now that we have made some
+mid-course corrections, we are back on track to becoming that.  And we
+think you will approve of our plans for improving and expanding the
+operation as we move ahead over the rest of 1997.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Battleground Earth ? (29 Apr 1997 10:06:13 -0700)
+
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Battleground Earth ?

+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:06:13 -0700

+
 Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if BATTLEGROUND EARTH is based on the two Gene
+> Roddenbury pilots GENESIS II and PLANET EARTH? BTW, any word on
+> season 5 of B5 yet?
+
+       No, it's got nothing to do with either project.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I-Con Invitation (02 Apr 1997 03:20:26 -0700)
+
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+
I-Con Invitation

+
Date: 02 Apr 1997 03:20:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      So what was it like seeing 24 episodes in a row?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lines of Comm. (29 Apr 1997 10:06:15 -0700)
+
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+
Lines of Comm.

+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:06:15 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> did you indicate that particular design?
+
+       Yeah, I indicated a flower-like design.  With the lethalness
+behind them, it seemed like a nice contrast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Strong Signals (29 Apr 1997 10:06:16 -0700)
+
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+
Strong Signals

+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:06:16 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder why that sounds like famous last words now, given the
+> revelations of civil unrest back on Minbar?
+
+       Thanks, and good points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Battleground Earth ? (29 Apr 1997 14:59:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:59:08 -0700

+
 Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> or were you just too busy with your current projects?
+> Did the story idea for Battleground Earth sound promising?
+
+       Thanks.  It was noted to me at the time that a
+Roddenberry/Straczynski collaboration would be very commerical, but on
+looking at the material, I just felt it wasn't strong enough; at least,
+I couldn't see where it could go, and thus felt it better to leave it
+to others who potentially would not be limited by that, and could find
+ways to make it work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Who's the Boss? (29 Apr 1997 14:59:09 -0700)
+
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+
Who's the Boss?

+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:59:09 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well, your directorial debut should be over now, right?
+> So, how did it go?
+> Or how is it going, if you're still doing it?
+> Any cute stories or other interesting happening (no spoilers,
+> obviously)? And, above all, did everyone cry?
+
+       I'm only on day 2 so far...long way to go yet before I can
+rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Racing Mars<< worries (29 Apr 1997 14:59:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 14:59:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I find it vaguely frightening that you know all this that well,
+though the scenario you paint is a good one, and I'll try to remember
+all that (though it's sorta complex...the doctrinal version of long
+division).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo Ballot Announced! (29 Apr 1997 19:27:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hugo Ballot Announced!

+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 19:27:59 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Glyer's solution is workable unless you can determine if any of
+the other writers involved are baser than you are....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season finale (29 Apr 1997 21:05:44 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 21:05:44 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm shooting the season finale for year 5 right now, and
+directing it. Assuming a 5th season, this would be aired as 522 instead
+of 422, with 501 moved into the 422 spot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5: A Soap Opera (29 Apr 1997 23:42:27 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Apr 1997 23:42:27 -0700

+
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+
+"...there's been a really startling lack of adultery, fornication,
+kinky sex, overt blackmail and the sort of tangled family tree that
+makes Sinclair/Valen/Delenn look absolutely pedestrian."
+
+      Damn, I knew I was forgetting *something*....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Racing Mars<< worries (30 Apr 1997 11:13:31 -0700)
+
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>>Racing Mars<< worries

+
Date: 30 Apr 1997 11:13:31 -0700

+
 Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why?
+
+       Joe: There is no rest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Fan Club Note (jms) (30 Apr 1997 22:58:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Apr 1997 22:58:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'll post the full info again when I feel we're ready to gear
+up.  And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+I-Con Invitation (02 Apr 1997 22:54:25 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Apr 1997 22:54:25 -0700

+
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+
+      Actually, Claudia never played Ivanova with a Russian accent.  I
+still can't figure out why people keep saying this.  She was very
+formal, but there was never, ever any accent unless she was saying a
+Russian name, but that's all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comic Books (02 May 1997 10:19:16 -0700)
+
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+
Comic Books

+
Date: 02 May 1997 10:19:16 -0700

+
 Eric Baker <76600.2605@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, is there a link?
+> Are comics readers predisposed towards TV writing, or is it just
+> another one of those causal fallacies?
+
+       I think that comics fans grow into SF fans, and from SF fans
+come SF writers and (now) SF producers.  Genre domino theory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comic Books (04 May 1997 17:33:45 -0700)
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+
Comic Books

+
Date: 04 May 1997 17:33:45 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What do you mean exactly?
+> Do you mean the new incarnation(post gritty Griffen version 4),
+> or something more recent?
+
+      I think that the thing has gone downhill ever since they redid
+them a few years ago.  They've kind of gone back to the roots of the
+book, but now it seems to be getting a bit silly, and the names of the
+characters have gotten changed, and it's gotten dopey.
+
+      Ah, well...for me, Superman died with the Alan Moore two-parter
+(now on sale as a graphic novel, "Whatever Happened to the Man of
+Tomorrow?")  That, for my money, was the best thing DC did with the
+character in decades.  I don't know who the new guy is....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 newsgroup? (27 May 1997 22:46:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 May 1997 22:46:46 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The only real newsgroup I tend to participate in is
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+S5-not renewal ? (28 May 1997 20:17:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:24 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I get that right?
+
+      Correct; specifically, "Crusade" would take place about 3 years
+after the events of season 5, in 2265.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+How will this play out (28 May 1997 20:17:29 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:29 -0700

+
 Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If 4/522 is set in 2281, what time span will "B5:Crusade" take
+> place in? 2262+ or 2281+ ?
+
+      2265-2270.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Length of TV movies? (28 May 1997 20:17:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
Length of TV movies?

+
Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:35 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> If so, what will be the films' length?
+
+      TNT is a commercial cable network, so there will be commercials.
+As I recall, the running time to which I wrote the scripts was 94
+minutes 10 seconds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments--Question (28 May 1997 20:17:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:36 -0700

+
 Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why couldn't Lyta's lie-detecting abilities be used to oversee
+> the negotiations between the station command and the smugglers
+> who are bringing in suppiles? Why should they care that Lyta
+> doesn't have the stamp of approval of an Earth organization that
+> was in cahoots with the Shadows? Or are there plentiful telepaths
+> of their own races available for hire on B5? Could Neroon have
+> walked out after saving Delenn? Was there something about the
+> Wheel that prevented the last person from exiting? If not, why did
+> Neroon feel that HE must die after having the revelation that his
+> heart is religious? Guilt over not seeing the "truth" sooner?
+
+      Because telepaths only function in very limited ways due to
+privacy laws.  You couldn't just use them broad-based as lie detectors
+in the way you suggest, because it first requires getting the
+*permission* of those involved, and you can be reasonably sure that
+smugglers aren't going to want people poking around in their heads;
+second, there was a large group there, and a midrange teep can usually
+handle only one or at most two people with any degree of accuracy; it
+goes down dramatically after that.
+
+      I specifically set up rules for telepaths to avoid letting them
+become the deus ex machina, the easy solution to any problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+News on Pilot/2ndy Chars (28 May 1997 20:17:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
News on Pilot/2ndy Chars

+
Date: 28 May 1997 20:17:37 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should we expect the final word on re-editing the pilot to occur
+> with the renewal decision notice, or is there news on that front? 
+> Refa, Morden, Neroon: Have you always been this hard on secondary
+> characters, or is this a side effect of B5's epic structure?
+
+      No new on the recut yet...and yeah, it's a hard show on the
+recurring and secondary character.
+
+      Ain't been much of a picnic for the big guys, either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shows (30 May 1997 11:45:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shows

+
Date: 30 May 1997 11:45:48 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PS: Do you have a hamock in your office?
+
+       I find it scary that somehow I must have known this...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comic Books (04 May 1997 20:07:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
Comic Books

+
Date: 04 May 1997 20:07:35 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I haven't done that much comics reading lately; I've been a fan
+since the early 60s/late 50s, as soon as I learned how to read.  Mainly
+DC stuff. The market's gone to hell over the last year or two, so I've
+kinda lost interest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+One pebble's vote (04 May 1997 22:22:18 -0700)
+
+
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+
One pebble's vote

+
Date: 04 May 1997 22:22:18 -0700

+
 Mark K. Smith <74014.1534@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Avalanche, anyone?
+
+      Go with Kosh, my son....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Die Hard Conflicts (06 May 1997 14:13:40 -0700)
+
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+
Die Hard Conflicts

+
Date: 06 May 1997 14:13:40 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As I was watching the Daffy Duck cartoon, I wondered, "Given how
+> hard it is to fit all the good stuff into the forty some-odd
+> minutes of a given episode, why is Joe leaving this thing on for
+> so long?" Did you simply remember that cartoon, did you look for
+> it, or was it just coincidence? And what kind of drugs were you on
+> when you asked for those (not-so-)stock external CGI shots? If so,
+> why? Different actor for Lise?
+> Or did you want to get the *real* farewell, not the one with an
+> unstuck Garibaldi? Does this telepath virus happen to have any
+> connection to the spin off?
+
+       Re: the cartoon...I'm a big WB cartoon fan, and knew that one
+very well, and there were two places where it would've fit with the
+story; the other one, which I almost used, was when you see two Daffy's
+arguing with each other.
+
+       Re: the CGI...we've been fairly conventional with the CGI in
+recent seasons, we're trying to get a bit more adventurous.
+
+       The Lise flashback material is all exactly as was filmed for
+"Babylon Squared."  I think we used a few more pieces of the original
+footage, but it was all stet.
+
+       Re: Delenn...these episodes happen close to one another in
+time, so you have to allow travel time for her to get to Minbar.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+this week's ep, no spoil (06 May 1997 14:13:41 -0700)
+
+
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this week's ep, no spoil

+
Date: 06 May 1997 14:13:41 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How could anyone have *ever* even entertained the idea that all
+> the excitement was over when the Shadow War ended?
+
+       Heck, for my money, what follows in the rest of this season is
+more exciting and more intense than anything we did during the shadow
+war... because it's a lot more personal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: Islam on B5 (06 May 1997 14:13:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Attn JMS: Islam on B5

+
Date: 06 May 1997 14:13:42 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       We've shown moslems by dress in the background, and featured
+them in "Parliament of Dreams."  The mecca question is a good one;
+you'd probably have to orient yourself toward Earth...but the station
+rotates you away every 60 seconds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Homosexuality (06 May 1997 14:13:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
Homosexuality

+
Date: 06 May 1997 14:13:44 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I don't think Earthforce cares about sexual orientation; the
+reason we just set it out there without comment is that, having come
+through the realization of other non-human races...a little thing like
+sexual orientation, nobody even cares about anymore.  It ain't an
+issue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Conflicts of Interest  (06 May 1997 15:52:40 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 May 1997 15:52:40 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Re: Lise...well, everybody can't be a fighter; we've had guys
+and the occasional female character who isn't used to being shot at.  I
+daresay I'm not terribly used to being shot at, and someone who's
+mainly a civilian would probably react about that same way.  It's just
+a matter of showing that diversity realistically rather than saying,
+"Okay, let's have a helpless female now."  Having every female (or
+male) hard-nosed and laughing off PPG bursts is as unrealistic as its
+opposite.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+White Star 16, a lemon? (06 May 1997 15:52:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
White Star 16, a lemon?

+
Date: 06 May 1997 15:52:41 -0700

+
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+
+       Of course, you have no way of knowing how many previous hits it
+took during the fight, and are assuming it only got two.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lines of Communication (07 May 1997 01:16:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Lines of Communication

+
Date: 07 May 1997 01:16:06 -0700

+
 Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At any rate, he did ask a question that I thought was relevant:
+> In the end, Delenn's White Star fleet completely overwhelms the
+> Drahk's - so why did she initially "retreat" in the first place?
+
+      As she states in the episode, they were at that time
+*surrounded* and if they turned to fire, would get destroyed. 
+Firepower doesn't solve every problem; one good hand-held Lancet
+missile can put down a full-sized cruiser if it hits right.  They were
+in the MIDDLE of the Drakh, just as they said, and that's NOT a
+defensible position.  They had to get away, outside that group, so they
+could mount an offensive.  This they did.
+
+      So re: Jenoff's comments...another example of a self-styled
+critic who faults the show when the information is right there...the
+problem is the perceiver, not the perceived.  I can't be held
+responsible for critics not thinking through what's said right there on
+camera.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Racing Mars<< worries (02 May 1997 10:19:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
>>Racing Mars<< worries

+
Date: 02 May 1997 10:19:17 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       "They shot him a week later."
+
+       Well, when in doubt....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Racing Mars<< worries (07 May 1997 01:16:08 -0700)
+
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+
>>Racing Mars<< worries

+
Date: 07 May 1997 01:16:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> From who?
+
+      From some extremist Catholics...and also got some flack from
+Born Again Rigtists over my comments in TV Guide about being an
+atheist.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+this week's ep, no spoil (07 May 1997 01:16:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 May 1997 01:16:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I know you've been telling us that for a while now, but for some
+reason, a few people still acted like they didn't believe you. <g> I'm
+sure they have been disabused of their false sense of calm and order
+and anti-climax after the last couple of episodes."
+
+      Heck, Sharon, what you've seen ain't *nothing*...this is just
+the warm-up....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Secure Communications (07 May 1997 01:16:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Secure Communications

+
Date: 07 May 1997 01:16:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      In that scenario, there is no such thing as ANY kind of secure
+communication, which puts us pretty much back where we started.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Conflicts of Interest  (07 May 1997 12:42:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
Conflicts of Interest 

+
Date: 07 May 1997 12:42:33 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do any of these guys have offices in D.C.?
+> PS: Did you see the "Ellen episode?"
+
+       That's exactly what happens.  Happened to Peter David on Space
+Cases; the nitwits at Nickelodeon came in and made a great number of
+stupid changes, which only hurt the show...the ratings went down
+because of those changes, and this led them to conclude the show just
+didn't work (rather than admit the changes were stupid) and thus
+canceled the show.
+
+       Same thing happened on The Real Ghostbusters; we had the #1
+rated animated show on the air at the time.  Then the Experts and the
+Consultants came in to fix it.  Massive and stupid changes.  I could
+either swallow them, or leave.  I left.  And the show went down the
+toilet.  After that, they kinda came around and said that maybe the
+changes were, sorta, kinda, wrong, see...and would I do a few more
+freelance the way it was supposed to be and put it back?  There at
+least they were sufficiently mensches to do the right thing, and be
+open about it.  I have a great deal of respect for them as a result.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+this week's ep, no spoil (07 May 1997 21:22:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 May 1997 21:22:57 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      (stunned silence)
+
+      ...*another* holo-character?
+
+      Jeezus....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Conflicts of Interest  (07 May 1997 21:22:58 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 07 May 1997 21:22:58 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wow, an exec admitted they were wrong?
+> Was there some sort of comet or eclipse or something???
+> End result, fans shaking their heads going, "Are you bloody
+> nuts?" PS: Joe, you're one of the few who might actually have an
+> interesting take on this, so here goes: If a person with multiple
+> personalities threatens to kill himself, is this a hostage
+> situation?
+
+"It all makes me wonder if somedays you don't go running down the hall
+screaming Ahhhhhh at the top of your lungs!"
+
+      Done that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season finale (12 May 1997 01:30:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season finale

+
Date: 12 May 1997 01:30:54 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nothing has been decided yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Whadda ya say, Joe? (12 May 1997 01:31:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Whadda ya say, Joe?

+
Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:00 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you still alive?
+> How did it go?
+> Did you remember to say, "Cut!"?
+
+"I'm sincerely curious about how you found the experience of directing
+your baby -- of being responsible for creating, writing, producing
+*and* directing it."
+
+      My main goal was not to embarrass myself overmuch.  I think I
+came out okay.  I've now seen an editor's assembly of the material, and
+it plays real nice.  Now I get to go in and make the director's cut,
+which will to all intents and purposes also stand as the producer's
+cut.
+
+      The main thing is...this one is *exactly* the way I saw it in my
+head. It has a somewhat different feel than prior episodes, though hard
+to quantify. But I think it came out nicely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+S5-not renewal ? (12 May 1997 01:31:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
S5-not renewal ?

+
Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:03 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will their knowledge of the ending have adverse effects on the
+> acting from this point forward? Also, if you've neatly tied
+> everything up, what does that really leave for season 5? Filler,
+> non-arc stories?
+
+"You have spent the last 4 years keeping your actors in the dark as to
+their final fates (for the most part).  Will their knowledge of the
+ending have adverse effects on the acting from this point forward?  I
+expect the answer is they are good at their jobs and will continue to
+be outstanding in their performances, but many of them have mentioned
+that the lack of knowledge of their future had  played a part in their
+performances."
+
+      Not really, no more so than seeing G'Kar and Londo strangling
+each other as early as year one...but we didn't know what that *meant*
+until later.  And there's still a long, long way between that episode
+and where we leave off at 421.  A lot happens there that nobody else
+knows, inclusive of the cast.
+
+"Also, if you've neatly tied everything up, what does that really
+leave for season 5?  Filler, non-arc stories?  This has been my biggest
+fear.  That season 5 will now be farmed out to other scriptwriters, who
+don't have the intimacy with the story that you have, and that the
+quality of stories will take a nose dive with filler material."
+
+      Without giving too much away, season 5 would be empire building.
+It wouldn't be filler at all, but a logical extension of what has gone
+before.
+
+      Basically...I often get messages from people worrying about what
+might be...then they see what *is* and it's, "Oh...okay, got it." 
+Generally speaking, I think it's better to react to what is rather than
+what might never in fact be an issue.  I ain't let you down yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Autographs (12 May 1997 01:31:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:07 -0700

+
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+
+      I don't know if the Claudia deal is correct, but I'd assume it
+is since I believe the page operates with her blessings.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Science Fiction (03 May 1997 00:26:39 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 03 May 1997 00:26:39 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Could you please elaborate a little for me?
+> Since I want to read a little more science fiction, could you
+> reccommend something of Harlan's that you think I might enjoy?
+
+      Just about ANY of Harlan's books are worth reading, though
+Strange Wine and Shatterday (available at most SF stores) are personal
+favorites, and his latest Edgeworks volume just came out.
+
+      Sci-Fi vs. SF...the former is flash-n-dazzle, monsters eating
+people, ID4, lots of action and not much thought.  SF is Blade Runner,
+the first Alien movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Seconds, Charley,
+others. Science Fiction means it examines the impact of technology on
+people, or in some way extrapolates to the future in new and
+interesting or innovative ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+What qualifies for sign (12 May 1997 01:31:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:08 -0700

+
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+
+      It's only a problem if the item is mass produced and sold.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Conflicts of Interest  (12 May 1997 01:31:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:10 -0700

+
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+
+      Funny thing...was returning from Marcon and on the plane was me,
+Tracy Torme (Sliders) and Bryce Zabel (Dark Skies).  I noted as we took
+off that if the plane went down, the SFTV universe would be ceded to
+Piller and Carter by default.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Conflicts of Interest  (12 May 1997 01:31:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:13 -0700

+
 O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it a conscious decision NOT to show Lise's husband when he
+> contacted Garibaldi? Is it perhaps that in a century in which
+> video communication is the rule, the outrageously rich and
+> powerful deliberately choose not to show themselves to
+> insignicant people when sending messages?
+
+      As we'll learn shortly, he doesn't want his face seen around.
+
+      But we'll see him soon enough.
+
+      (And the voice belongs to Efram Zimbalist Jr.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Daffy! (12 May 1997 01:31:15 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 May 1997 01:31:15 -0700

+
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+
+      No, no "save budgets" episodes using Vor are planned...besides,
+they always end up being more expensive anyway....
+
+      Re: Daffy...I knew that cartoon, and had that definitely in mind
+when I wrote the script.  Took some maneuvering to get WB to let us use
+that much of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+S5-not renewal ? (13 May 1997 01:53:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 May 1997 01:53:28 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> And, should there not be a season 5, this would go into the
+> spinoff?
+
+      In large part, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Conflicts of Interest  (13 May 1997 01:53:30 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 May 1997 01:53:30 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> So did you compare notes with Torme and Zabel?
+
+      A little, yeah, and found that our experiences weren't that far
+apart, particularly Bryce, who struck me as a very nice fellow indeed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+S5-not renewal ? (13 May 1997 14:52:29 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 May 1997 14:52:29 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This would be empire building that takes place *after* the final
+> scene of the final episode that you have said more than once you
+> have *clearly* in your mind? If so, would it be fair to
+> characterize a hypothetical Season Five as a 22 ep prelude to
+> "Crusade"?
+
+       Negative; season 5 would take place in 2262, 19 years before
+the "final scene" you mention.  And no, I wouldn't want season 5 to be
+just a setup for the sequel; it was sketched out long before that
+became any kind of possibility, and I have no interest in doing that
+sort of thing.  We'd do one or two small things, but no more than that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 13 May 1997 14:52:30 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Always looking on the bright side aren't we Joe?
+
+       Whaddaya want from me, I'm Eastern European in ancestry, we're
+born depressed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (13 May 1997 14:52:31 -0700)
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 13 May 1997 14:52:31 -0700

+
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+
+       If there were anything I could say, that I knew, I would say
+it.  I don't.  Knowing, I would say.  Do not know.  So cannot say, as
+someone once commented.
+
+       And thanks for the continued support.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon5 Omnipedia (13 May 1997 22:25:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 May 1997 22:25:01 -0700

+
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+
+      We're doing a CDrom inhouse, a slightly subversive guide to the
+B5 universe, which we hope to have out by fall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comic Books (03 May 1997 00:26:41 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 May 1997 00:26:41 -0700

+
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+
+"When do I start writing <G>"
+
+      As soon as the restraining order expires.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rumors... (13 May 1997 22:25:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 May 1997 22:25:03 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it a case of him having already been through that in his
+> head, or was it a case of them helping his thoughts along? Or was
+> it just a weird coincidence? Did I notice Ivanova's eyes flicking
+> back and forth like she was reading a teleprompter? But could it
+> be addictive? But this isn't quite the same Sheridan, is it?
+
+      Yeah, we had Claudia use a teleprompter there to add to the
+sense of having to read something...and enjoy the happy-go-lucky
+Sheridan...it's the last you'll see of him for a long time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:03 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how do you do a Season 5 if Season 4 is already in the can?
+
+       Season 5 just follows season 4...don't understand the question.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+open letter to jms (15 May 1997 16:43:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:05 -0700

+
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+
+       Stop sending this to me.
+
+       Let me be clear: I have received letters on this situation from
+just about every side, each con accusing the other of being somehow
+inferior, or screwed up, and each asking me to "take sides" in this.
+
+       I do not know the German situation enough to comment any
+further. And I will not, let me repeat that, WILL NOT be pulled into
+fan feuds or convention disagreements, unless I happen to have
+*personal* experience with the situation.  I do not.
+
+       This is the last reply I will make on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon5 Omnipedia (15 May 1997 16:43:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:06 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Slightly subversive?
+> So, who gets it first, the UK or the US?
+
+       It'll come out in the US the same time as the UK or slightly
+before.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:07 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> should we presume that there was something important in that
+> message from Lise that Garibaldi deleted unread?
+
+       No, nothing you need worry about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<CoI> Power Play (15 May 1997 16:43:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Great points and observations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Conflicts Question (15 May 1997 16:43:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:11 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyhow, quick question on the missing daughter - please don't
+> interpret this as criticism of the actress, but I gotta ask - was
+> that the person who won the walk-on last year (as I remember it,
+> there was a contest with Delenn where someone was going to win a
+> 4th season walk on, but I don't remember hearing much about who
+> won, or what episode they'd be seen in)??
+
+       No, that had nothing to do with the contest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Rumors<< (15 May 1997 16:43:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Be careful, though...there are still some surprises coming in
+this thread.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Behind The Scenes Video (15 May 1997 16:43:15 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 16:43:15 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it ever broadcast and considering it is 3 years old (only
+> Season 1 featured) are there any more B5 Behind-the-scenes
+> programs out there or planned?
+
+       I think that's the one made for the US and broadcast here prior
+to season 1 (with Walter Koenig, yes?).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+S5-not renewal ? (15 May 1997 21:22:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 21:22:04 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you possibly give us a feel as you what you think the odds
+> are of the sequel happening, or do you not want to jinx it by
+> doing so?
+
+      My opinion on the fate of that and S5 changes on a daily,
+sometimes an hourly basis...best to say when I know more for sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 May 1997 00:26:43 -0700

+
      So they could see him and know by seeing him that he arrived
+safely; a text message could be sent by *anyone* who could've
+intercepted them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 May 1997 21:22:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  The Sheridan stuff was fun, in that I got to play
+Sheridan as the one being manipulative for a change, smart for a
+change...not just Londo or the usual suspects.  It made for a nifty
+change of pace.
+
+      And yeah, Mira brought a lot of truth to this episode...and will
+bring even more in next week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (17 May 1997 00:49:46 -0700)
+
+
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From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 17 May 1997 00:49:46 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"could there be 10 _Joes_?"
+
+      Would certainly go a long way toward explaining things....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon5 Omnipedia (17 May 1997 00:49:48 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 May 1997 00:49:48 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, one episode coming up in this batch is, according to
+John Copeland, the single most subversive thing we've ever done on the
+show.  It's a *mean* episode and completely, unabashedly underhanded in
+its way of illuminating certain things.  While, oddly enough, ending in
+a positive fashion, despite George Johnsen's comment at playback during
+the audio mix, "Okay, what sadistic m-----f----- wrote this thing?"
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Conflicts Question (17 May 1997 00:49:51 -0700)
+
+
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+
Conflicts Question

+
Date: 17 May 1997 00:49:51 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the result of the contest made public?
+
+      Yeah, it was, and I know there was some press covering it...just
+didn't get a lot of exposure.  It was a guy who came out and played a
+Minbari.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Rumors> and Lennier (17 May 1997 00:49:54 -0700)
+
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+
<Rumors> and Lennier

+
Date: 17 May 1997 00:49:54 -0700

+
 Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Lennier the true bridge between races?
+
+      No, I wouldn't say Lennier is a bridge in any sense along those
+lines.
+
+      Delenn, you must understand, is a True Seeker, and among the
+religious caste there isn't much more admirable than that...combined
+with the fact that she *did* fulfill prophecy, she *was* the chosen of
+Dukhat, she *did* help end the Shadow War...yeah, she's had some
+problems here and there, but what important leader doesn't?  Any one of
+those items would be a sufficient crown on a lifetime of
+achievement...the cumulative effect is quite daunting and impressive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Rumors> and Lennier (17 May 1997 16:02:12 -0700)
+
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<Rumors> and Lennier

+
Date: 17 May 1997 16:02:12 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Do you feel that anyone else in your story would
+> qualify as a True Seeker (for other reasons, or even the same
+> reasons)?
+
+      There are elements of the true seeker in many of our characters;
+Sinclair for one, G'Kar certainly (now that he's been enlightened a
+bit), and Sheridan didn't start out that way, but in his own stumbling
+way has slowly begin growing into that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+our open letter to JMS (17 May 1997 16:27:24 -0700)
+
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our open letter to JMS

+
Date: 17 May 1997 16:27:24 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      You still don't seem to get it.
+
+      Let me take off the kid gloves for a moment and explain it to
+you.
+
+      I work 20+ hours a day on B5.  You came on here and began
+demanding I investigate claims made by a German convention.  I didn't
+have time initially to get into it, and in response there was letter
+after letter here demanding that I look into this, even though I had no
+firsthand knowledge of the situation, and then more or less condemning
+me for not getting personally involved in this.
+
+      You (and others involved in this) continued emailing me and
+posting public messages on this, and began emailing members of our
+cast, our crew...becoming, frankly, a pain in the ass.  Email demands
+for me to take a stand, to investigate, to proclaim something, began
+showing up in more than one of my accounts, which are already flooded
+with other requests.
+
+      Finally, I had the chance to sit down with Bruce and a few other
+actors (who were, at that time, already annoyed with the demands for
+explanations put on them by yourself and several other German fans) and
+said, "Are you going to this con?"  I then posted what they told me,
+assuming that would be the end of it...and AGAIN you came at me for it.
+
+      One reaches a point where one says, at last, "A pox on *both*
+your houses."  Or, as the Brits say, "Bugger off."
+
+      You have been rude to myself, and my cast, and several of my
+staff. You have harrassed us with email and demands for our attention
+and our involvement in something we have no direct involvement in.
+
+      If a convention is advertising guests who in fact are not going
+to appear, that is fraud.  Fraud is prosecutable under German laws.  If
+they show up, then it's not fraud.  If they don't, then it is, and they
+can be taken to court.  Our job is not to interfere with German
+jurisprudence or make statements that could GET US SUED under German
+law about people we do not know.
+
+      If you want confirmation about whether or not a guest is coming,
+you can find that out through the actor's agents or find means of doing
+this other than harrassing me about it.
+
+"We don't understand why this is such a big problem to him?"
+
+      Because you're being a pain in the butt, *that's* why, and
+making demands on us that we do things that a) we're not authorized to
+do, b) don't have time to do, c) are best done in Germany, d) you and
+others have been yelling in our ears and filling our email boxes and
+making demands and carrying on cranky and throwing around accusations
+of disinterest in the affairs of our fans now for at *least* three
+months, and frankly neither I nor any of my cast or crew want to hear
+it anymore.
+
+      If you have a local problem, it should be *solved* locally,
+through the means you have there at your disposal.  I am not your
+lapdog to run around and take care of your errands and I am not going
+to jump every time you make demands on my time.  We care *deeply* for
+our fans, who are worldwide, and we do all we can to assist them.  We
+have gone far beyond the call of duty in ways you will never know.  But
+every once in a while, someone shows up who is obnoxious and demanding
+and won't take "please go away" for an answer, and who by their rude
+behavior gives all fans a bad name.
+
+      Neither Babylon 5, nor Babylonian Productions, nor Warner Bros.
+has any direct involvement in this or any other German convention.  Our
+cast sign on as free agents, as individuals.  We do not, and will not,
+get involved in any convention situation unless I *personally* have
+direct knowledge of something involving a con which I will be
+attending.  Not only would it be inappropriate, it would also be
+impossible...our cast members are attending cons now in hundreds of
+cities and many countries around the world.  I can't keep track of it
+all, and shouldn't be expected to.  My cast members are grown adults,
+and the fans in each area should pursue whatever local resources they 
+have in determining a con's legitimacy.  The only way I get involved
+directly in conventions is if I attend personally, or if we should
+reach a point where Babylonian Productions endorses a convention, which
+to date has not happened.
+
+      My problem, in short, is not with the German fans.  It is
+specifically and directly with *you* and a few others who have far, far
+exceeded the limits of polite behavior, harrassed me, harrassed my
+cast, and taken up space on this forum to no good end.  That was the
+intent of my prior note.
+
+      Resolve your local problems locally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon5 Omnipedia (18 May 1997 19:17:47 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 May 1997 19:17:47 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if this "view-it-and-weep (or throw something --
+> viewer's choice)" ep is among the currently batch or is among the
+> final four being held over until next October?
+
+      I've forgotten which we were discussing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<RB&L> Donkey's 2x4 (18 May 1997 21:40:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 May 1997 21:40:11 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One oddball question: Are tears a normal Minbari physical
+> reaction, or is weeping (for Delenn) one of the changes mandated
+> by her chrysalitic experience?
+
+"Are tears a normal Minbari physical reaction, or is weeping (for
+Delenn) one of the changes mandated by her chrysalitic"
+
+      We've seen Delenn cry before, when she and G'Kar were in her
+quarters and she was explining why she did not get involved in the
+Narn/Centauri war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon5 Omnipedia (18 May 1997 23:43:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 May 1997 23:43:27 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Ah...yes, that one will air in this batch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Science Fiction (03 May 1997 18:46:57 -0700)
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+
Science Fiction

+
Date: 03 May 1997 18:46:57 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How do you rate Star Wars in this?
+> Or the 6 million dollar man?
+
+      Star Wars: space fantasy.  6 Million Dollar Man: began as
+something close to SF, collapsed shortly thereafter into just plain
+awfulness.  The idea of advanced prosthetics incorporated into a living
+human is an interesting idea...but frittered away here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+production schedule? (19 May 1997 14:29:23 -0700)
+
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+
production schedule?

+
Date: 19 May 1997 14:29:23 -0700

+
 Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you film episodes as they appear to us, that is a discrete
+> entity or do you try to combine things so the filming and SFX for
+> several episodes are combined?
+
+       Every once in a great while we'll nail a scene for one episode
+while we're shooting another, by bringing in the director for that
+episode for just half a day or so, but generally we tend to avoid it
+because it creates complications with the guilds, and it takes a while
+to get the waivers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+production schedule? (20 May 1997 12:29:12 -0700)
+
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+
production schedule?

+
Date: 20 May 1997 12:29:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Oh, heck, we can get a LOT more subversive than that...and we
+intend to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Moments> question (20 May 1997 16:10:29 -0700)
+
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+
<Moments> question

+
Date: 20 May 1997 16:10:29 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you choose the name Bester because it sounds like B-st-ard?
+> My question is, were any of the members of the new Gray Council
+> on the old Council?
+
+       Yeah, some of the new council would've been on the old one.
+
+       And Bester was named for a well-known SF writer, now gone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+How will this play out (21 May 1997 10:57:36 -0700)
+
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+
How will this play out

+
Date: 21 May 1997 10:57:36 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If, as you and all of us firmly believe, the Season five decision
+> won't be made till July, what plans have you put in place to
+> ensure that your story gets told? Will you show the last episode
+> (Farewell or Sleeping in Light) in S4 and will that allow you to
+> do Season 5 as you want or will it force some major re-writes
+> thereby causing you to change the arc a little?
+
+       It's an easy answer.
+
+       The final 4 would get aired in October.  If there's no season
+5, then the fourth one aired is 422, "Sleeping in Light."
+
+       If there is a season 5, 422 is yanked out of the mix and moved
+down to occupy 522's slot, and we shoot 501 and get it done in time to
+air in place of 422 in October.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+production schedule? (21 May 1997 15:52:33 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 21 May 1997 15:52:33 -0700

+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> uh, ARE you working for our side?
+
+       Maybe...maybe not....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+How will this play out (21 May 1997 17:13:46 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 May 1997 17:13:46 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       There's no need for confusion.  Season 4, as you know, takes
+place in 2261.  Season 5 would take place in 2262.
+
+       422, or 522, depending on the breaks, takes place in 2281.  So
+it plays just fine either way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+production schedule? (21 May 1997 23:05:15 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 May 1997 23:05:15 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> LOTS more subversive??
+
+      Good...'cause I think you'll like it.
+
+      There is one drawback to some of this, though...I've heard that
+some folks on far right/extremist radio stations have looked at some of
+the stuff in the show lately and decided that it constitutes an
+endorsement of the position that the government is fascist, and that
+their pirate stations (voices of the resistance) are the way to go.  I
+can only shake my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+more <Moments> questions (21 May 1997 23:05:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 May 1997 23:05:16 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, 1) was Delenn in secret communication with Neroon on Minbar?
+> or was it all worked out in advance?
+> 2) were the instructions for Lennier meant to be carried out if
+> she dies in the starfire pit?
+
+      They were worked out in advance, and yes, the instructions were
+for posthumous use.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+422 (22 May 1997 12:39:17 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 22 May 1997 12:39:17 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, if there is a season 5 and 422 becomes 522, wouldn't that
+> leave season 4 with only 21 eps? is that OK with the contracts?
+
+       No.  To repeat what I've said here several times, we would move
+501 into 422's slot and make that the cliffhanger ending, then 502
+becomes the first episode of season 5, and 422 is the last.  So each
+season works out to 22 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+more <Moments> questions (22 May 1997 12:39:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 May 1997 12:39:18 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Delenn's instructions include a message for Sheridan?
+
+       Almost certainly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Comic Books (03 May 1997 18:46:59 -0700)
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+
Comic Books

+
Date: 03 May 1997 18:46:59 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Don't you hate what they've done with Legion lately...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+422 (22 May 1997 21:04:34 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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422

+
Date: 22 May 1997 21:04:34 -0700

+
 Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> the slightest bit interested in the content and development of
+> the art forms they are broadcasting -or would they be just as
+> happy with hours of Mickie Mouse cartoons every night if sponsers
+> would pay for it? Do they ever watch the shows or have any
+> concepts to contribute?
+
+      They want the money from the commercials, and whatever sells
+commercials is fine by them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments (22 May 1997 21:04:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 May 1997 21:04:36 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of which - was that the same fellow who played Dukat?
+> What happened to his backbone?
+
+      Thanks, on all counts...and no, that was a different actor than
+the one who played Dukhat.  Starting from this episode the intensity
+builds and never lets up for the rest of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan's Intro on PI (22 May 1997 23:03:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 May 1997 23:03:11 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, one of Harlan's new books is "Babylon 5 Slippage," is it?
+
+      It was an "oops."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+422 (23 May 1997 02:27:58 -0700)
+
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422

+
Date: 23 May 1997 02:27:58 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Curious question: How much more difficult is it tackling things
+> from syndication at the very onset as opposed to going the
+> network route?
+
+      Carl...it's a crap shoot.  There ain't no logic to explain. 
+It's a mug's game, and the rules and the money changes day to day, and
+I can't figure it out on the best of days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+MOMENTS (23 May 1997 16:30:51 -0700)
+
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MOMENTS

+
Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:51 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> FIRST A QUESTION I HOPE YOU CAN ANSWER - Was / Is there something
+> wrong with Walter Koenig? ANOTHER QUESTION - some of us
+> knuckleheads have been off arguing over who is / was Control -
+> was Control Talia? Was that established?
+> Or is there still another "traitor" in their midst?
+> Oh and did you hear / would you believe the voice-over teaser
+> right before the episode started in LA said "Delenn surrenders to
+> the Warrior Caste, and Sheridan declares war on Earth"????
+
+       Thanks.  As for Walter...he made the decision to play Bester
+with a deformed or useless hand, which he's compensating for as a teep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments (23 May 1997 16:30:52 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:52 -0700

+
 S.G. Menzel <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it possible that Reiner Shone was formerly known as Reiner
+> Schone (and even before that as Reiner Schone)?
+
+       Have no idea offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 (23 May 1997 16:30:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:53 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So have you already written that episode?
+
+       No, 501 isn't written yet, won't be until we get the final
+word.  We could certainly get it finished in time for the US airing in
+422's spot, and as for getting it done in the UK, assuming a mid-July
+start for season 4, means you'd run episodes through late October/early
+November so again you're okay.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Audio (23 May 1997 16:30:54 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:54 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I don't think it's the stations so perhaps the problem comes from
+> your end?
+
+       No, it's the new satellite uplink facility WB is using, which
+is analog rather than digital, which was the case in the past.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rebo and Zooty (23 May 1997 16:30:56 -0700)
+
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+
Rebo and Zooty

+
Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:56 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If all broadcasts are being jammed to B5 except ISN, how could
+> everyone have seen the Rebo and Zooty episode that Londo was
+> talking about in RB&L?
+
+       Easy.  The incident Londo is mentioning happened prior to the
+blackout. He never said it *just* happened, he said the *last* time
+Rebo and Zooty did their routine, everybody was doing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Moments>: Bester (23 May 1997 16:30:59 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 May 1997 16:30:59 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Am I right in assuming that it was Bester who told Edgars
+> that Garilbaldi is hiring Lyta, having gotten that information
+> from his mind?
+
+       Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Secure Communications (03 May 1997 18:47:02 -0700)
+
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+
Secure Communications

+
Date: 03 May 1997 18:47:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The issue of waste of bandwith is not as big a deal to an
+advanced technology (from today's standards); also, any really good
+telepath could rip out those codes and keys in about 10 seconds. 
+Further, they would've had a password to use (as in "the board," which
+he used) to verify that he was all right and not being forced to make
+the call.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Audio (24 May 1997 16:34:34 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 24 May 1997 16:34:34 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of getting WB to change back?
+> Do you have any say in this?
+> Perhaps Zathrus could be called in for technical support?
+
+      Alas, I have no say in this, despite having tried to have a say
+in it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments... (24 May 1997 16:34:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 May 1997 16:34:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and that's as good a description for that moment as
+I've seen.
+
+      In a way, it was the second half of G'Kar's sentence...that life
+can be broken down into moments of transition and moments of
+revelation...and there with Neroon at the end we had both.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rebo and Zooty (24 May 1997 16:34:39 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 May 1997 16:34:39 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is "Rebo and Zooty" a tip o' the hat to anyone in particular?
+> Or are they merely inspired fictional characters?
+
+      No, not intended as tributes to anyone, just a cool sounding
+pair of names (but also annoying sounding).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Moments>: Bester (24 May 1997 16:34:41 -0700)
+
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<Moments>: Bester

+
Date: 24 May 1997 16:34:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not a chance.
+
+      Edgars is played by Effrem Zimbalist Jr., which by itself
+precludes that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments... (25 May 1997 02:38:29 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 02:38:29 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did he REALLY have an epiphany and realize he belonged to the
+> religious caste? Or, did he just come to believe in Delenn and her
+> "rightness" to lead the Minbari so much that he was willing to
+> die and renounce his caste to prove her point for her and allow
+> her to survive?
+
+      Whether it was true or not, he knew his actions would bring the
+castes back together...so out of respect for the dead, best to leave
+the issue unresolved, and accept his gesture for what it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+MOMENTS (25 May 1997 02:38:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 02:38:31 -0700

+
 Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If Bester's left hand is useless, though, how does he get his
+> gloves on?
+
+      Ask Walter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Voyager/B5 parallels (25 May 1997 14:47:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 14:47:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      What I love -- knowing that our EFX guys are now doing the EFX
+for Voyager and to some extent DS9 -- is seeing a ST fan's letter in
+the current SF Universe saying how much he hates B5's EFX and prefers
+Voyager's because we use CGI which looks faker than ST's EFX...which
+are, in fact, being done in large measure in EXACTLY the same way, with
+the SAME EFX that we pioneered, by the SAME PEOPLE.
+
+      You just want to go up to him and plink him in the nose...just
+one finger, just a plink, that's all....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+MOMENTS OF TRANSITION (25 May 1997 14:47:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 14:47:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Bear in mind that Edgars also has Wade working for him right
+there on the station, and he is more or less Garibaldi's liaison with
+Edgars, so logically that would be his source of information.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Product Placement (25 May 1997 19:44:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:10 -0700

+
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+
+      I hadn't noticed that...hmm...they're supposed to avoid slipping
+in real stuff in the props department...must have a word or two.
+
+                                                                 jms*
+
+(*who wouldn't know good wine from rat whizz)
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+moments (25 May 1997 19:44:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Terri has a question, why did you pick 2258 to start all of this?
+
+"why did you pick 2258 to start all of this?"
+
+      That's when it all happened.
+
+      I just report the news, I don't make it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mars Traffic (03 May 1997 18:47:04 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 03 May 1997 18:47:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a little busier than usual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+MOMENTS (25 May 1997 19:44:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:14 -0700

+
 Meryl Yourish <103470.2703@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm about to mourn the loss of the (sigh) greatest baritone voice
+> we have on B5, but I have a question for you: Does the loss of
+> Neroon indicate we may be seeing John Vickery return in his
+> Nightwatch role?
+
+      No, not as that role, but we're definitely open to using him in
+other roles, as with Wayne Alexander.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments... (25 May 1997 19:44:17 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:17 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I think this concentrated effort has helped me to
+become a better writer, though I still have a LONG way to go before I'm
+qualified to carry Serling's or Corwin's pencil box.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<MoT> Starfireworks (25 May 1997 19:44:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:20 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, the Grey Council stucture, visually, is designed to bring
+the Starfire wheel to mind.  Valen, being something of a smart cookie,
+figured it would be wise to tie in whatever he was doing to the
+traditions that preceded him.  So they're arranged in a circle, with a
+series of lights above them, and the one central light (for Dukhat, for
+instance) reserved for the one who had endured and grown to leadership,
+but through a somewhat less violent means.
+
+"Finally, the diversity of cultures on Babylon 5 must be a
+satisfaction for you as a writer to have so many different voices to
+express. "MoT" for me was almost like seguing between playwrights --
+Damon Runyan (Garibaldi) to Oscar Wilde (Bester) to Aeschylus (Minbar).
+One of the things I have found most appealing about Babylon 5 as a
+whole is that the language is similar to the language of the stage. 
+That seems rare in a television milieu defined for the most part by
+diseases-of-the-week, talk-show spew and courtroom maneuverings."
+
+      Yeah, I like that part a lot, being able to write in lots of
+different voices, lots of different styles.  You have to remember that
+I cut my teeth writing dialogue back when I was writing plays and
+getting them produced.  I love theater, love plays, and love really
+well done or rich dialogue.  So it echoes that now...which as you say
+isn't necessarily the style of dialogue seen on most television (which
+is why a few react weirdly to it), but I like it, and it's my show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Moments> question (25 May 1997 19:44:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Moments> question

+
Date: 25 May 1997 19:44:23 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, Jonathan Carroll, who does dark contemporary fantasy, is
+someone I'd definitely recommend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Product Placement (26 May 1997 03:27:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Product Placement

+
Date: 26 May 1997 03:27:04 -0700

+
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+
+      The Zima thing was a gag...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments--Question (26 May 1997 03:27:05 -0700)
+
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+
Moments--Question

+
Date: 26 May 1997 03:27:05 -0700

+
 Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Couldn't Lyta have gone to Sheridan or the Command Staff for help
+> instead of taking the Psi-Corp deal? Will Zack & Lyta become an
+> item?
+
+      I think Lyta had just emotionally gotten to the place where she
+had to do something on her own rather than continuing to rely on the
+kindness of strangers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vir question (26 May 1997 14:05:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vir question

+
Date: 26 May 1997 14:05:08 -0700

+
 Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a reason why Vir has been absent for so many episodes?
+> Was that a deliberate choice on your part, to have him be a sort
+> of "faceless" enemy and have his intructions carried by minions
+> (as in "Epiphanies") or is there something more sinister in it
+> and Clark is himself being manipualted?
+
+      Yes, I wanted to keep Clark more a force than a person...and Vir
+has just been off doing his usual Vir stuff...he's back this coming
+week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments of Transition (26 May 1997 23:11:59 -0700)
+
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+
Moments of Transition

+
Date: 26 May 1997 23:11:59 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Worked great <g> Anyways, I was wondering, if you had been sure
+> that there would be a season 5, and stretched these eps out,
+> would this ep have been the finale for 4?
+
+      No, this could never have been the finale for 4.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Rumors> and Lennier (27 May 1997 22:46:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Rumors> and Lennier

+
Date: 27 May 1997 22:46:41 -0700

+
 Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> To clarify: I guess I meant to ask if Lennier is unusual for a
+> Minbari? Or, is his almost Zen-like attitude, coupled with a fine
+> sense of humor, and remarkable ability to "stretch" the truth,
+> mark him as a new generation of Minbari, bringing the best of
+> both races to his people?
+
+      No, many Minbari share in those traits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moments of Transition (27 May 1997 22:46:44 -0700)
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+
Moments of Transition

+
Date: 27 May 1997 22:46:44 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> it sounded good <g> Which ep would have been?
+
+      Well...I don't usually comment on this, but...if I had known
+*with absolute certainty* that there would be a season 5, then season 4
+would have ended with 418, "Intersections in Real Time."  So you only
+pull 4 episodes forward, really.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 (31 May 1997 21:48:55 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 31 May 1997 21:48:55 -0700

+
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+
+"Is the cast under contract for season five, should it happen?.  Now
+that you've wrapped the final episode, is there any danger of losing
+Bruce, Claudia, Jerry, Mira, etc to other committments while you wait
+to see if season is a go?"
+
+      No, the contracts have nothing to do with that episode, we still
+have options on all our cast members.
+
+"You mentioned that you were already shooting Thirdspace, the first B5
+movie. Wasn't "In The Beginning" the Minbari war story going to be
+first?"
+
+      The prequel is aired first, but produced second, because B5
+didn't exist during the prequel time period, so rather than tear and
+and rebuild sets, we're doing Thirdspace first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+C4 Web Site (01 Jun 1997 16:08:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
C4 Web Site

+
Date: 01 Jun 1997 16:08:05 -0700

+
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+
+      I haven't been on the C4 web site in almost a year...if someone
+is there saying it's me, it ain't.  Can you clarify this?  (And leave
+me the web address since I've probably lost it?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Guest Editorial (17 Jun 1997 00:05:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Guest Editorial

+
Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:43 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (they even gave a picture of him) The question posed was, "What
+> makes someone a fan of science fiction?"
+
+      Actually, I'd more or less forgotten having done the article,
+and then when I remembered having done it after your comment, took me a
+while to remember what the heck I'd said.  (This is why I'm a terrible
+liar, and thus stick almost exclusively to the truth...I ain't smart
+enough to be a very good liar.)
+
+      Anyway...thanks.
+
+      The question was one that I get a lot, and I finally decided to
+redefine the question and attack it from my own perspective.  I'm glad
+it came out reasonably coherent.
+
+      And as for being a fan...yeah, that about covers it.  This is a
+show for fans, by fans.  Which is why it works.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (17 Jun 1997 00:05:45 -0700)
+
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+
Face of the Enemy

+
Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:45 -0700

+
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+
+      I have to watch it at least 6-9 times just in the production
+process as we edit, make changes, mix, all that...then 3-4 times
+afterward just so I can get the process out of my head and be able to
+"see" it for the first time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (17 Jun 1997 00:05:47 -0700)
+
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+
Face of the Enemy

+
Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:47 -0700

+
 Anne Stallcup <102436.203@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And when is Ivanova going to learn to quit saying things like
+> "We'll be OK as long as nothing goes wrong."?
+
+      Thanks...and I've always been a big believer in the notion that
+we can purchase redemption if we are willing to go to the wall, not for
+ourselves, but for someone else...so there's a chance for all of
+them....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<FotE> telepathy (17 Jun 1997 00:05:49 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:49 -0700

+
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+
+      Obviously some, like the Minbari, dealt with it more easily than
+others; and in some places it came through Vorlon interference, while
+in others it came about naturally.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Sad Time (17 Jun 1997 00:05:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
A Sad Time

+
Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:05:52 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I mean, he has nothing else really to live for at the moment,
+> does he? I really wonder what the rest of our heroes were doing
+> during the several days (judging by his beard growth) that
+> Sheridan was in captivity? Could he be a vision as well?
+> As Delenn was a reminder of John's hopes and dreams, might the
+> Drazi be a reminder of his dreads and nightmares? Was there a
+> conscious decision on your part to cast Wayne for a role in an
+> episode that had such an obvious common theme with his first role
+> in the series? Won't everyone be royally pissed when you reveal in
+> 419 that John was really in a CyberNet all along?
+
+      The Drazi was really there...has to be, or the ep loses some of
+its teeth.
+
+      And yeah, we kinda liked the symmetry of Wayne being in this ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+sequel (17 Jun 1997 01:49:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Jun 1997 01:49:11 -0700

+
 Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What made you change your mind on the sequel now that you're
+> pushing for a sequel about the Rangers?
+
+"As I recall, previously, you said that you wouldn't do any Babylon 5
+sequels and that you would go to other projects like writing novels &
+etc.  What made you change your mind on the sequel now that you're
+pushing for a sequel about the Rangers?"
+
+      Nope.  I said that the B5 story per se ended in 5 years.  I have
+also said, *from the very start*, as the old timers here, and at
+conventions, will testify, that there was always a side-story that
+could go off and be a different novel set in the same universe.  So
+you'll understand why I can't really defend a statement that I never
+made.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (16 Jun 1997 12:45:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Jun 1997 12:45:31 -0700

+
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+
+"I thought the fight was a bit too long for much the same reason as
+you. All I can suggest is that John's metabolism isn't "normal" any
+more, and perhaps this had an effect. (And maybe the bullyboys were
+doing less damage than we think, simply to prolong the "fun".)"
+
+       1) It was for dramatic/stylistic effect.  Not everything done
+with some style has to have a scientific explanation.
+
+       2) Having been mugged myself, time expands and slows down.
+
+       3) It's the TV cliche that fights are over in a second.  Ask
+anyone who's ever been in a real knock-down fight.  It goes on a heck
+of a lot longer than we showed here.  When I got mugged it went on for
+10 minutes.
+
+       One of the ironies in other messages on this (not this one here
+specifically) is that some have noted the fast-paced editing, which is
+supposedly associated with music video/short attention span
+material...and then turn around and say it wasn't over fast enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rerun redux... (19 Jun 1997 21:21:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rerun redux...

+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:03 -0700

+
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+
+      The schedule of new episodes is designed to accommodate sweeps
+periods.
+
+      As for the coming reruns, the theory there is to back up from
+419 to the number of weeks preceding it so that the reruns ramp up to,
+and run right into, 419 (first new ep back) so that folks who dived in
+late will be able to catch up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+More Novels? (19 Jun 1997 21:21:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
More Novels?

+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:05 -0700

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is DELL planning any more novels past the latest one?
+
+      They have always licensed 3 at a time, waited for renewal news,
+then licensed 3 more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Fan Club Note (jms) (19 Jun 1997 21:21:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Fan Club Note (jms)

+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:08 -0700

+
 Sanjiv S. Purba <102735.1770@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do we join the fan club?
+
+      You can get info at www.thestation.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+BESTER?!! (02 Jun 1997 03:07:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
BESTER?!!

+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 03:07:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> My instantaneous thought was " Bester!??"
+> Then the camera cut to Kirk and McCoy, and I thought, " What the
+> heck are they doing on Minbair?
+
+      I *think* that's a good thing....
+
+      What's been great about B5 has been the chance to give many
+talented actors like Walter and others a chance to show the many other
+hues and colors they are capable of delivering, but which were rarely
+seen because the material didn't allow them the opportunity.  I know
+Walter's loved it, and it's been great for us as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (19 Jun 1997 21:21:11 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:11 -0700

+
 O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this line inspired by some of the recent Neanderthal finds?
+> Or was this part of your orignial conception for the story?
+> Did Edgars really believe the Earthgov propaganda that Sheridan
+> was operating under the malignant influence of aliens? Is Bester
+> really done with Garibaldi? Was this a deliberate historical
+> reference? Any further developments in the works here?
+> By the way, I think that Marcus' plaint, "Susan!?"
+
+Wade had a great line about the clash of homo sapiens and Neanderthals
+in Carthage.  Was this line inspired by some of the recent Neanderthal
+finds? Or was this part of your orignial conception for the story?
+
+      Not recent stuff, just a general knowledge of this area.
+
+Did Edgars really believe the Earthgov propaganda that Sheridan was
+operating under the malignant influence of aliens?
+
+      Nope.
+
+Is Bester really done with Garibaldi?
+
+      For the moment.
+
+One of the captains of the Earth vessels is named Leo Frank.  Was this
+a deliberate historical reference?
+
+      Not intentionally.
+
+Franklin and Number One seem to have cooled their relationship.   Any
+further developments in the works here?
+
+      Any more personal stuff got set aside when Franklin showed up a)
+with another female, and b) she was a teep.  When #1 calms down, they
+might take another shot at it.
+
+Lastly, there is a bit of irony in the fact that the stage for
+Sheridan's capture is set when he steps aboard his old ship, the
+Agamemnon.  Agamemnon was the supreme commander of the Greek forces at
+Troy, who survived that long war, but who was betrayed and murdered by
+his wife when he returned home. He blindly and arrogantly stepped into
+a trap, as Sheridan also seemed to do.
+
+      Yeah...that's one of many reasons why I picked that
+image/reference. It plays on a LOT of levels in the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (19 Jun 1997 21:21:13 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:13 -0700

+
 Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there anymore a fan can do help bring about a season 5?
+
+      Thanks...it's a good one.  We'll have to see how soon we can
+find any reassurance....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Guest Star (19 Jun 1997 21:21:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:16 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...and my best to Barbara.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Guest Star (19 Jun 1997 21:21:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:18 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do guest stars just look at roles like these as "another day in
+> the office"? Do the guests ever comment about that, do they even
+> notice any difference?
+
+      Usually guest stars show up with "another job" in their
+head...but by the time they leave we've converted 'em, and we often get
+notes from them saying how great the experience was, and wanting to
+come back.  Sometimes they become part of the extended family, and just
+come by to hang out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Intersections (19 Jun 1997 21:21:21 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:21 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that your intention?
+> Also, what's to stop Clarke asking Psi Corp to alter Sheridan's
+> mind, somehow reprogramme him, to confess?
+
+      Because they don't want him reprogrammed; as William says,
+another teep could see that he'd been altered.  They want him
+*sincerely broken*.  Not just rewired.
+
+      And yeah, I wanted this to function almost as a play in
+structure.  In fact, when we shot it, we did it in full-act chunks. 
+The actors would come in in the morning, rehearse it as they would a
+play, then we'd shoot it the way we'd shoot a play, straight through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+This is ITS story (19 Jun 1997 21:21:23 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:23 -0700

+
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+
+      Each narration is from that character's point of view, it's not
+an auctorial intrusion.  And each is specific *to that time*.  It's not
+a policy statment.  It's a means of tracking the show at various points
+over the five year arc.  If it's JUST about keeping peace...then you
+don't have an arc.
+
+      The show is about change.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Great Stuff - 418 (19 Jun 1997 21:21:26 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:26 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> We're left with the uneasy question -- how many times can this
+> loop play out before he edges toward despair?
+
+      Thanks.  I like this one a lot.  It takes some real chances, and
+it has some nasty twists and turns.  I like that in a story....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Intersections (19 Jun 1997 21:21:28 -0700)
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Intersections

+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:28 -0700

+
 John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now we've got 3 cliffhangers: 1) What happens to Sheridan?
+> 2) How long do we have to wait to find out?
+> 3) Do we get season five or will Joe wrap this in just 3 more
+> episodes, at least one of which is already in the can?! Are
+> _Between the Darkness and the Light_ and _Endgame_ being deferred
+> to maintain wriggle room still for season 5, are they done, or
+> did you film enough so you could edit them down to work with
+> either 4 or 5 season runs after the cast was done shooting?
+
+      Best to wait and see what's in mind for those later episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlons in new novel (19 Jun 1997 21:21:30 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:30 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, now that it's been established in the novel that Vorlons
+> have names, is it correct to say that Kosh 2 actually have
+> another name but he wouldn't let people know? also, is the other
+> Vorlon on Minbar the same one that was in WWE?
+
+      Yes, he had another name or designation (Naranek is actually a
+title, not a name, hence why they both had it) and was primarily being
+a pain in the butt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cliffhangers -- Why? (19 Jun 1997 21:21:33 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:21:33 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what is the payoff for the author?
+> What benefit outweighs the breaking of the
+> storytelling/storyviewing dynamic?
+
+      It's basically a means to get the audience, which has been away
+for a long time, to come back to resolve a hanging point and jump-start
+them into the episodes.  If it ends cleanly, apparently a lot of folks
+in any series will just forget to tune in the following season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+< NS,NR > L&G (02 Jun 1997 11:22:42 -0700)
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< NS,NR > L&G

+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:42 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I'm not sure there *is* anything scarier than a mom uttering
+those words; even the shadows would run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+It had to happen..... (19 Jun 1997 21:36:48 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:36:48 -0700

+
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+
+      Would love it if you could send me a copy of the clipping; I'll
+give it to Mira myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+(Address as always is me via B5 at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260,
+Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.)
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK Videos - S3 (19 Jun 1997 21:36:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1997 21:36:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Apparently they took the episode from an early copy delivered to
+PR, not the final version with all the comps in it.  It'll be corrected
+down the road...consider it an inadventant collector's item.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Intersections Kudos (20 Jun 1997 13:06:56 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:06:56 -0700

+
 Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was going on with Ivanova?
+
+       Thanks...you hit all the subtleties right on the head.
+
+       "You understand the concepts of breaking down a human psyche."
+
+       (shrugs)  Well, sure...I work for Warner Bros.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Intersections (20 Jun 1997 13:06:57 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:06:57 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But don't all teeps, official ones anyway, work "for" Clark?
+> so why does it matter?
+> also do they still have the technology that reprogrammed Talia,
+> or did that go away with the Shadows?
+
+       It matters because there are plenty of alien teeps out there as
+well as human ones, and you can always get a rogue in there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<FotE> Holy $#%! (20 Jun 1997 13:06:58 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:06:58 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       You're wrong.  The costumer has never even *seen* the Prisoner,
+as far as I know, and the suit he wore was one of our standard earth
+suits which we've used before on the show, just tailored it to fit his
+form.  And the set design is just your basic black room with chairs,
+nothing more.  I also doubt muchly that Flinn has ever seen The
+Prisoner...which was a very well and brightly lit show, whereas this
+played to darkness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I, ROBOT (20 Jun 1997 13:06:59 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:06:59 -0700

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Have you given any consideration to producing I, ROBOT based
+> on Harlan's script?
+
+       No, I don't produce other people's work.  Personally, I think
+Whoopee Goldberg would be perfect as Dr. Calvin, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vorlons in new novel (20 Jun 1997 13:07:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Jun 1997 13:07:02 -0700

+
 David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Um, do you mean Naranek is a name, and Kosh is a title, or am I
+> just confused?
+
+       Kosh Naranek and Ulkesh Naranek; Naranek is a
+title/designation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Warner Brothers Address (20 Jun 1997 17:45:40 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Jun 1997 17:45:40 -0700

+
 Philip Friel <100647.753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do Warner Bros pay any attention to the opinions of overseas
+> viewers, or are only the opinions of viewers in the US taken into
+> consideration? In other words, would it be a waste of time writing
+> to them, or would it do some good? Also, what is preferable, an
+> email, or a written letter? If your answer is in the affirmative,
+> could you please give me the email or snailmail address (and
+> name) that it would be most useful to send the letter to?
+
+       Thanks, and I think you're right about the long-term success of
+the show.
+
+       As for WB, strangely they almost exclusively consider the
+American market when making their decisions; they still view European
+markets as an after-market.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (20 Jun 1997 17:45:41 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 20 Jun 1997 17:45:41 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was that tube on Edgars' compound?
+> Was Garibaldi acting under the influence of his telepathic
+> instructions and leaving anyway as to get word to Bester?
+
+       If anybody could slip away, Garibaldi could.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:41 -0700

+
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+
+      No, it was never re-edited later...it's a screwup on WB's part
+in getting the wrong version out there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Surrender No retreat (02 Jun 1997 11:22:43 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:43 -0700

+
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+
+       Good point about Joan of Arc...too many people forget that sort
+of thing.
+
+       Which, on reflection, may be the problem in ways a lot larger
+than just B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (21 Jun 1997 23:03:43 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:43 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also, at the end of the episodes will we see a preview of the
+> next episode like we do now? After TNT runs Bablon 5, would you
+> ever consider doing a Babylon 5 motion picture?
+
+      Of all the questions, the only one I know offhand is the last
+one, and yeah, I'd love to do a B5 feature, and have discussed this
+with WB for down the road a piece.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Intersections (21 Jun 1997 23:03:45 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:45 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...our cast invariably comes in knowing full scenes, and
+can hit them without breaking or blowing a line.  So we have a tendency
+at times to just let the master play out, keeping the intensity, which
+can sometimes be broken by too much cross-editing.  (Note that the
+Zathras/Ivanova scene a few episodes back is *entirely* one shot, four
+minutes.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Intersections (21 Jun 1997 23:03:48 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:48 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why was this episode titled "Intersections in Real Time"?
+
+      Each act took place in real time, no time jumps...the
+conversation happened as it happened.  Since you had act breaks in
+between them, those became intersections...in real time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:50 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What's always been difficult for me to grasp in the ancient hero
+> myths has been "What does this have to do with me?" (Or was that
+> "Brave New World"?
+
+      Thanks...the message is just that, that we *all* have to choose
+to resist from time to time, and that one individual can fight the
+system.  And we are all that individual at one time or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+City of Sorrows (21 Jun 1997 23:03:52 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 21 Jun 1997 23:03:52 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the scene of William's death, the part where it begins "Where
+> is the shuttle craft? Please tell me again how much you were
+> involved with the story line; did you just say "let's do a story
+> with Sinclair on Minbar" and Kathryn came up with all the
+> threads?
+
+      I gave Kathryn a bare-bones stucture on the Marcus thing -- the
+death of his brother, his trip first to B5 and then to Minbar -- but
+she took on the rest on her own.  The process was pretty much as I
+describe it in the intro, asking what X meant, how A related to B, and
+then her pulling all the threads together in a story that filled in all
+the blanks.  The credit is entirely hers on this.  I consulted and
+read, but she did all the creative work on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Questions (22 Jun 1997 22:01:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Has B5 been renewed for a fifth season?
+> And why do I see people on B5 wearing glasses and using paper and
+> pen? What ever happen to corrective (lens) surgery and a paperless
+> society?
+
+      Nothing has been decided yet, formally, on season 5.  As for
+wearing glasses in the future...not everybody's going to want to get
+corrective eye surgery.  I could get it right now...but I don't let
+*anybody* touch my eyes for any reason, it's probably the one phobia I
+have.  (Every year when my optometrist has to do the standard glaucoma
+test, requiring touching my eye with a blue dot thingie, he dreads it,
+because he knows one of us is going to go through the wall...probably
+him.)  As for a paperless society...every time somebody says we're
+coming into a paperless society, as Ivanova once said, I get 10 more
+forms to fill out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Intersections Kudos (22 Jun 1997 22:01:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Intersections Kudos

+
Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      You got every single one of the points of that one.
+
+      And that's one reason (among many) that I kept Sheridan silent
+for the most part; a) because the less he says the better overall from
+his position, and b) the audience would want to respond for him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Intersections Kudos (22 Jun 1997 22:01:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly.  The banal face of evil.  You look at most of the guys
+who ran Treblinka, or Bergen-Belsen, and they're largely ordinary
+looking guys, who could be accountants or repair men or car salesmen. 
+They're *us*...and this was designed to remind us of that.  The evil,
+mustache-twirling villain is too easy, and too far from the truth of
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<IiRT> K-Martyr (22 Jun 1997 22:01:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:15 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...there was a lot of give-and-take in that episode, and
+at times maybe the interrogator was near the truth, or a form of
+it...but always distorting it, using it for his benefit.  Slippery
+slopes indeed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Truth (22 Jun 1997 22:01:18 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:01:18 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Where do these notions of yours originate?
+
+"Theres alot of truth to your notion of the TRUTH.  It raises points
+I'd rather not think about.  Where do these notions of yours
+originate?"
+
+      Usually at 3 in the morning when I can't sleep....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kathryn Drennan's Novel? (02 Jun 1997 11:22:44 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kathryn Drennan's Novel?

+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:44 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I believe it will be out in a few weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+City of Sorrows (22 Jun 1997 22:13:16 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Jun 1997 22:13:16 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why is this important?
+
+      I'll pass that along.
+
+      On the technical nit...you're right.  Another fan brought this
+up, and she couldn't believe she screwed it up, because she'd *done*
+the research on this.  So she went back and checked her research, and
+she'd basically transposed the two, being tired and on deadline.  She
+plans to correct it in the next edition.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Intersections: Good Eyes (23 Jun 1997 03:30:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Jun 1997 03:30:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"One of the guards, I believe, was the fellow who shot Garibaldi in
+the back in Chrysalis."
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>415-418<< (23 Jun 1997 23:03:34 -0700)
+
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+
>>415-418<<

+
Date: 23 Jun 1997 23:03:34 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's been a good run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Questions (23 Jun 1997 23:23:30 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 23 Jun 1997 23:23:30 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      There are discussions about this, but I can't say more for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Last Episode (23 Jun 1997 23:23:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
Last Episode

+
Date: 23 Jun 1997 23:23:32 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"He asked me to pass along his congratulations to you and to the
+actors and to tell you that you are just as disturbed as that episode
+for making it the "cliffhanger.""
+
+      Why, thank ye kindly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+From jms re: yr 4/5 (24 Jun 1997 13:29:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
From jms re: yr 4/5

+
Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:29:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's all in the hands of the network gods now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+City of Sorrows (24 Jun 1997 13:36:22 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:36:22 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       The coming comic will deal with some of the situation after
+Sinclair became Valen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New episodes (24 Jun 1997 22:34:50 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 24 Jun 1997 22:34:50 -0700

+
 Cherns Major <75026.3723@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I thought that this was very insightful and fairly subtle social
+> commentary, but now I wonder: was this theme also directly
+> related to the "nature red in tooth and claw" philosophy we later
+> found espoused by a certain other, shadowy, crowd? Or, maybe, just
+> showing that certain ideas pop up all over? Oh, yeah: one more
+> question: is the character Captain Jack a reference to the Billy
+> Joel song of the same name? Later, after seeing _Intersections in
+> Real Time_: did I see, in a scene near the end involving a
+> gurney, a tip of the hat to a scene, also towards the end, in a
+> Frankenheimer film, recently released to video, that you've
+> mentioned admiring?
+
+      I think those are pretty much no's across the board.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Legacy? (25 Jun 1997 21:39:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Legacy?

+
Date: 25 Jun 1997 21:39:13 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Of what would you feel most proud as a legacy of B5 to the
+> television culture?
+
+      I'd say the introduction of an epic or saga-like structure to
+the TV format.  A novel for TV, using all the literary devices of
+fiction, over the course of years.  I think, in the long run, that's
+what B5 will be most noted for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Future Thread (25 Jun 1997 21:39:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
Future Thread

+
Date: 25 Jun 1997 21:39:15 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Might this be a thread for year 5?
+> Or the sequel?
+> Or is it not cinematographic enough (episodes of people staring
+> at each other), and thus scheduled to occur between the two
+> series (possibly to be used in a later movie)? Or should I just
+> wait for October? Also, is your talk scheduled yet at next month's
+> San Diego Comic Con yet?
+
+      I don't introduce threads I don't plan to play out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Surrender No Retreat (02 Jun 1997 11:22:46 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:46 -0700

+
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+
+       No, I wasn't in the military, just having missed the Vietnam
+draft. The points you mention are all the ones I wanted to get into
+with that episode, and the ones a lot of folks have overlooked in
+suggesting that it should have been an episode about slicing-and-dicing
+the enemy (the enemy in this case being our own species).  The show, at
+root, is about ethics, among other things, and the ethical choices will
+continue to get more difficult the deeper you go.  There is a very fine
+line that Sheridan's walking in all this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ship names (25 Jun 1997 21:58:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jun 1997 21:58:57 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah...I won an auction....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn`s background (26 Jun 1997 12:47:49 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1997 12:47:49 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is that just my imagination?
+> Just how much do we know about Delenn's background?
+> Does John know more?
+> Are they out there somewhere, and I just missed them?
+> Is there a bio of her in the lurkers guide?
+
+       Your perception is basically correct; I kept Delenn's
+background more vague to add to her mystery, and made Sheridan's more
+specific and grounded to tie him more to Earth and more accessible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Updates from jms (27 Jun 1997 01:40:16 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1997 01:40:16 -0700

+
      A number of items, from fairly important to not at all.
+
+      If you are anywhere in the Atlanta area, I suggest -- fairly
+strongly -- that you exert every effort to be present at the B5
+Presentation on Sunday afternoon (I think it's 1 or 2 p.m.) featuring
+B5 producer George Johnsen. He will have the usual assortment of
+bloopers, clips from the two movies now in production, and other
+stuff...and the "other stuff" is something folks should be around for.
+
+      You may possibly also want to tune in to Entertainment Tonight
+tomorrow (Friday) night.
+
+      And definitely buy a copy of the TV Guide issue that hits the
+stands Monday on the West Coast, and Saturday on the East Coast.  In
+fact, I suggest you buy two.
+
+      All of this will make sense in the fullness of time.
+
+      Also...on a wholly different note...we're continuing our updates
+on the B5 Fan Club.  The new edition of the newsletter is in its final
+stages, and will likely hit the printers next week.  We're going to be
+releasing some new items from thestation.com, including the new set of
+B5 trading cards from Fleer at a very competitive price, with another
+bunch of them for sale with the box autographed by some guy named
+jms...and next week we should be putting up our first in a series of
+B5-special ball caps, this one the exact same cap, made by the same
+people, used in "Knives": Sheridan's Agamemnon cap, which has 
+a silhouette of the Aggy and its ship construction ID number below. 
+It's *very* spiffy.  More caps will be forthcoming.  (The cards are now
+available via thestation.com, and the caps will be available there next
+week.)
+
+      We're also totally redesigning the membership kits for those
+joining in the next few months, and are planning a massive facelift for
+thestation.com as well.  We'll be announcing more improvements over the
+next 4-5 weeks.
+
+      Keep watching the skies....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+book <The Babylon Files> (27 Jun 1997 12:25:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1997 12:25:12 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, do you have any comments on Andy Lane's unofficial book "The
+> Babylon Files"? how does it compare to the Lurker site?
+
+       Since it's unauthorized, I really can't comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn`s background (27 Jun 1997 12:27:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1997 12:27:41 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Now is Mir mother, father or some other?
+> (Clan founder comes to mind as a possible "other.") Is it fair to
+> try to pin you down that far?
+
+       It's the family Mir, not daughter of Mir.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Updates from jms (27 Jun 1997 12:27:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1997 12:27:42 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> can you show any?
+
+       I will definitely be bringing clips to Blackpool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+E.T.'s announcement (27 Jun 1997 15:59:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1997 15:59:32 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this official?
+
+       Alas, I'm still in a position where I can't comment officially
+until WB makes an actual, *official* pronouncement.  Corporate
+structure hath its privileges.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 - tnt and WB (27 Jun 1997 17:45:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1997 17:45:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I can't comment in specifics until WB issues its formal press
+announcement on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on ET 5th Season Info (27 Jun 1997 17:49:33 -0700)
+
+
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B5 on ET 5th Season Info

+
Date: 27 Jun 1997 17:49:33 -0700

+
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+
+       In the Beginning will air in January, on a Sunday, in a 4 hour
+block the other half of which is the original B5 pilot, and then it
+will go to daily M-F runs of the first 4 seasons at 6 or 7 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Best 5 episodes/Newbie (27 Jun 1997 23:39:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Best 5 episodes/Newbie

+
Date: 27 Jun 1997 23:39:11 -0700

+
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+
+"It's Johnny who's "alone in the dark", facing unrelenting pressure to
+give up, knowing that if he dies under torture his friends may never
+know for certain what happened to him."
+
+      Which is what the Inquisitor said he would have to face.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+NS, NR (02 Jun 1997 11:22:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
NS, NR

+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 11:22:48 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How could G'Kar, who has gone through great revelations, not see
+> the validity to Londo's proposition?
+
+       Thanks...if G'Kar came around too easily or quickly, it would
+ring false; it had to go through some time and reflection.  But even
+though one could certainly agree with his anger over what's happened,
+G'Kar has to try and overcome that and even transcend it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on ET 5th Season Info (28 Jun 1997 01:59:40 -0700)
+
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B5 on ET 5th Season Info

+
Date: 28 Jun 1997 01:59:40 -0700

+
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+
+      No, the TNT contract is not in any way affected; WB will be done
+with the show this fall, as far as syndicated stations is concerned,
+and then it goes to TNT.
+
+      And the prequel will segue right into the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 (28 Jun 1997 15:59:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5

+
Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, the movies are TNT only for now...and we're fully booked on
+stories.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 - tnt and WB (28 Jun 1997 15:59:11 -0700)
+
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B5 - tnt and WB

+
Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> As soon as you can comment, would you please tell us who at TNT
+> we should send our thank you's to?
+
+      Thanks should probably be conveyed to Brad Siegel, president of
+TNT, who fought hard to get the show, initially beating the Sci-Fi
+Channel out in a bidding war for the reruns, and who believes very
+strongly in what we're doing for the future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 on ET 5th Season Info (28 Jun 1997 15:59:14 -0700)
+
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+
B5 on ET 5th Season Info

+
Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The prequel/pilot pair up is slated to air in January.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Garibaldi (28 Jun 1997 15:59:16 -0700)
+
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+
Garibaldi

+
Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:16 -0700

+
 Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is is true that Jerry Doyle does not appear in the TNT TV movies?
+
+      We weren't able to work out a deal with Jerry for the two
+movies, but he will be in the fifth season, and a third TV movie which
+TNT has indicated they'd like us to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+E.T.'s announcement (28 Jun 1997 15:59:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
E.T.'s announcement

+
Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:17 -0700

+
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+
+      It's next week's issue, for July 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congrats and Questions (28 Jun 1997 15:59:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
Congrats and Questions

+
Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:59:20 -0700

+
 Les P. George <76162.1250@compuserve.com> asks:
+> actual run time minus commercials)?
+> Will Season 5 have room for Harlan's sequel to "Demon with a
+> Glass Hand"?
+
+      Future episodes would be the same running time as the current
+versions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS in Seattle July 4th (30 Jun 1997 03:49:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS in Seattle July 4th

+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 03:49:01 -0700

+
      BTW, a quick note to all in the Pacific Northwest...I'm slated
+to be one of the Guests of Honor at Westercon in Seattle over the
+coming (4th) weekend, so I'll see you there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Updates from jms (30 Jun 1997 04:02:41 -0700)
+
+
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+
Updates from jms

+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:41 -0700

+
 Batman <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Makes sense?
+> Other than it's about damn time those pin-heads at TV Guide woke
+> up and realized there's more to Sc-Fi TV than Star Trek? Is this a
+> hint that there will possibly be two different covers???? How
+> about the B5 ball cap worn by Sheridan during batting practice
+> (or is this what you were talkng about)????? Was that KNIVES?
+> The one where he gets "possessed"????
+> How about T-Shirts, or long-sleeve T's printed up to look like
+> the "Army Of Light" Uniforms? Or how about T-Shirts with the B5
+> Sword logo on them? And when may we expect the line of action
+> figures?????
+
+      Yes, the ball cap is the same one he wore at batting practice. 
+(Wore it today, in fact, meeting Neil Gaiman and Harlan for dinner.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 - tnt and WB (30 Jun 1997 04:02:43 -0700)
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B5 - tnt and WB

+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:43 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does this mean that your (you the entire organization) residuals
+> will actually bring in some money?
+
+      Thanks...and cable residuals are only a fraction of regular,
+broadcast residuals.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 (02 Jun 1997 17:51:04 -0700)
+
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+
Season 5

+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 17:51:04 -0700

+
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+
+       They're strictly TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+E.T.'s announcement (30 Jun 1997 04:02:48 -0700)
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+
E.T.'s announcement

+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:48 -0700

+
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+
+      One heart attack at a time, please....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congratulations & Thanks (30 Jun 1997 04:02:50 -0700)
+
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+
Congratulations & Thanks

+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:50 -0700

+
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+
+      Thank *you*...because the story exists to be told to you.  Thank
+you for being there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+You the man (30 Jun 1997 04:02:53 -0700)
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+
You the man

+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:53 -0700

+
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+
+      I've just spent the better part of the evening laying out the
+basic structure of S5, uncorking all the notes I set aside for 5 in
+case we got the renewal, playing off the themes and incidents we
+brought up in year 4...and believe me, filler it *ain't*.
+
+      And thanks.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sweeping Question (30 Jun 1997 04:02:54 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sweeping Question

+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:54 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you happen to know off-hand if TNT will continue the same
+> pattern of new/repeat/new/repeat that WB/PTEN used? I haven't, in
+> the past, watched TNT enough to know, but do they follow the same
+> ratings sweeps practices as other networks?
+
+      They want to show it straight through, no repeats.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Directing big screen (30 Jun 1997 04:02:57 -0700)
+
+
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+
Directing big screen

+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:02:57 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Now that you have some directorial experience under your belt,
+> would you reconsider if you could both write and direct?
+
+      Don' wanna direct no movie.  Wanna live.  Writer.  Not director.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Surrender No Retreat (02 Jun 1997 19:24:45 -0700)
+
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+
No Surrender No Retreat

+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 19:24:45 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did the trip to Z, his death, and Lorien shape his feelings
+> on this?
+
+       He's certainly gotten harder, which may be necessary to what's
+ahead.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/19.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/19.html
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+
+Neroon, NS, NR (02 Jun 1997 19:24:46 -0700)
+
+
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+
Neroon, NS, NR

+
Date: 02 Jun 1997 19:24:46 -0700

+
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+
+       It's certainly an issue I care about quite a lot, and the
+delicate balance between orders and conscience, between what you think
+you should be doing vs. what you feel you *must* do, is the heart of
+99% of all drama.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/2.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/2.html
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+
+Converted Ones (31 May 1997 21:48:58 -0700)
+
+
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+
Converted Ones

+
Date: 31 May 1997 21:48:58 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So this past week she was here for a visit and the first thing
+> she asks is "so what's up with those people on Babylon 5?"
+
+      That's wonderful, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Minbari Rangers (03 Jun 1997 14:19:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
Minbari Rangers

+
Date: 03 Jun 1997 14:19:45 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are there any Minbari rangers, or are all the Rangers human?
+
+       We've shown Minbari rangers from the first time we introduced
+the concept.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lorien (03 Jun 1997 14:19:47 -0700)
+
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+
Lorien

+
Date: 03 Jun 1997 14:19:47 -0700

+
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+
+       See, Burhaan, this is what makes me nuts.
+
+       When we have shows like "Rumors" or "Epiphanies" lots of people
+post message saying, "What's wrong with the show, it was going great
+and now it's slowed down."  Then we have a show like "Fire" or
+"Surrender" and then lots of people start posting messages saying
+"What's wrong with the show, it's going too fast."
+
+       It's like having a driver sitting behind you in the car
+alternately saying "Speed up!  Slow down!  Faster!  Slower!"
+
+       Yes, some threads have been isolated from year 5 a bit, but all
+in the accelleration has not been overmuch; year 4 would've ended at
+418 in the original notes, so you're only looking at 4 episodes
+difference.
+
+       This is the latter part of the story no matter how you look at
+it; so you have to start speeding things up a bit in places because
+that's what the latter half of a novel is *for*.  Let's all remember
+basic literature 101: introduction, rising action, complication, climax
+and denouement.  It gets tenser and faster the deeper you get into it.
+
+       Why this is striking people as unexpected is utterly beyond me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vital Powers (03 Jun 1997 14:19:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vital Powers

+
Date: 03 Jun 1997 14:19:49 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or were they?
+> Edgars' miracle drug is actually a poison or virus, eh?
+> BTW, is Sheridan off-station now for the rest of the season?
+
+       Yeah, it's a very different feel...leisurely, in a way, but no
+less tense.  A good addition to the mix.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+EVP Review (03 Jun 1997 18:16:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
EVP Review

+
Date: 03 Jun 1997 18:16:04 -0700

+
 Kristi Ferebee <75361.1615@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this where technology is heading?
+> Are we going to abolish animal testing only to have corporations
+> start doing human testing? *Is this little lab of horrors the
+> truth that Edgars is going to show Garibaldi when he brings
+> Sheridan in? Why would they have wanted him to hate telepaths?
+> Or is he a plant in Edgars' organization, with the PsiCorps
+> watching through his brain or something? *Exactly what _is_
+> Sheridan planning to do with the telepaths on B5? One thing:
+> Wouldn't Franklin be obligated to tell Lyta what she's reviving
+> her "comrades" for? *Whatever this top-secret telepath project of
+> SHeridan's is, does Delenn approve? "_Think_ _Like_ _Them_?!"
+> "Yes," "_No!_") Will Delenn even find out before Garibaldi takes
+> Sheridan to Mars? True, Clark would begin to put on the pretense
+> of a trial, but who's gonna stop him from hiring a loyal
+> brainwashed Earther to become a crazed assassin? * On the
+> commercial: But who's really in control? PsiCorps, Shadowfriends,
+> Clark, or an unknown enemy? Garibaldi?
+> Bester on the trailers?
+
+       Actually, Garibaldi's said he doesn't trust telepaths ever
+since the pilot movie.  It's a question of degrees at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+News on Pilot/2ndy Chars (03 Jun 1997 18:18:31 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
News on Pilot/2ndy Chars

+
Date: 03 Jun 1997 18:18:31 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I've been here since 1984/85...I have always been here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lorien (04 Jun 1997 13:45:15 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Lorien

+
Date: 04 Jun 1997 13:45:15 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Hadn't considered that prospect; who knows, you could be right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+BESTER?!! (04 Jun 1997 13:45:16 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
BESTER?!!

+
Date: 04 Jun 1997 13:45:16 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, will do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/27.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/27.html
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+
+
+Season 5 (04 Jun 1997 13:49:51 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5

+
Date: 04 Jun 1997 13:49:51 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       The movies will almost certainly be released overseas, and
+since I think TNT is carried on Sky TV, that would in theory mean that
+it would hit there the same time as here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/28.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/28.html
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+
+
+JMS/B5 in Newsweek! (05 Jun 1997 02:37:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS/B5 in Newsweek!

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 02:37:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      TNT has come in and has begun getting us some long overdue
+publicity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/29.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/29.html
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+
+
+Fan Club (05 Jun 1997 02:37:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Fan Club

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 02:37:03 -0700

+
 John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the URL?
+
+      www.thestation.com.
+
+      Welcome to the madhouse.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/3.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/3.html
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+
+
+News on Pilot/2ndy Chars (31 May 1997 21:49:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
News on Pilot/2ndy Chars

+
Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Speaking of cuts, I asked this question of all and sundry, but people
+don't seem to know... Will B5 be released on LaserDisc or DVD ever?
+Even if there are no current plans for such, what do you think of the
+idea / chances?"
+
+      I have every confidence it'll happen in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/30.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/30.html
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+
+
+<NSNR> Tight Focus (05 Jun 1997 02:37:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<NSNR> Tight Focus

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 02:37:05 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> G'Kar seems to know that it's Mollari at his door -- why else
+> would he wait so long to call, "Enter?" But how did he know -- was
+> it an official request by Londo? Both characters' natural
+> inclination is to the bombastic, but both operated in a quite
+> muted fashion -- does this indicate honesty?
+
+"G'Kar seems to know that it's Mollari at his door -- why else would
+he wait so long to call, "Enter?"  But how did he know -- was it an
+official request by Londo?"
+
+      If you recall, when Garibaldi visited Vir, Vir mentioned that
+Londo was arranging a meeting with G'Kar, so it was definitely set up
+in advance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/31.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/31.html
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+
+
+Irritation Threshold (05 Jun 1997 02:37:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Irritation Threshold

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 02:37:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      We try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/32.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/32.html
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+
+
+Length of TV movies? (05 Jun 1997 23:15:24 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Length of TV movies?

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:15:24 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+How far along are you into filming "Thirdspace"?
+
+      Day 12.
+
+Will it continue throughout the month of June?
+
+      Another couple of days.
+
+And when will filming of "In the Beginning" start.
+
+      The very next day, wrapping on June 30th.
+
+And approximately when will these movies air on TNT?
+
+      January 1998 for the prequel, the second movie either 18 or 36
+weeks thereafter.
+
+One more question...Will these movies chronicle the path of all the
+characters(past & present)to B5?
+
+      Two hours ain't enough time to fit them all in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/33.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/33.html
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+
+
+JMS/B5 in Newsweek! (05 Jun 1997 23:26:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS/B5 in Newsweek!

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm with you...TNT has been nothing but great in how they're
+handling B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/34.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/34.html
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+
+
+'Drop Dead' Date? (05 Jun 1997 23:26:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
'Drop Dead' Date?

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:13 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that we're close to it, what's the last day that the renewal
+> news must get to you by, to continue the actors' options? Is it
+> after the two movies wrap?
+
+      Because Warners is working on several options to keep the show
+on the air in the absence of PTEN, and a crowded syndication market,
+they've asked for, and received, a 30 day extension on the drop dead
+day from the cast.  So now they have until July 15th to make it work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/35.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/35.html
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+
+
+Vorlon Homeworld (05 Jun 1997 23:26:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Vorlon Homeworld

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      People can *try* to go there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/36.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/36.html
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+
+
+News on Pilot/2ndy Chars (05 Jun 1997 23:26:16 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
News on Pilot/2ndy Chars

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"So the Vorlons really look like you, then :-)"
+
+      Well, when *I* look at them, yes....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/37.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/37.html
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+
+
+No Surrender No retreat (05 Jun 1997 23:26:19 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
No Surrender No retreat

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:19 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Not a problem...and yes, that is *precisely* the dilemma faced
+by any military officer in this kind of situation.  There is no easy
+answer, and rarely a *right* answer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/38.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/38.html
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+
+
+Fan Club (05 Jun 1997 23:26:21 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Fan Club

+
Date: 05 Jun 1997 23:26:21 -0700

+
 John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ever hear of a hockey team called "The Detroit Red Wings"?
+
+      I'm sorry, but that *does* constitute a story idea, please
+refrain from this in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/39.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/39.html
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+
+
+JMS/B5 in Newsweek! (06 Jun 1997 03:26:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS/B5 in Newsweek!

+
Date: 06 Jun 1997 03:26:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I get Newsweek by subscription, and the weird thing about the B5
+article was that it was *not* listed in the Table of Contents!"
+
+      It was a Shadow article....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/4.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/4.html
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+
+
+No Surrender No retreat (31 May 1997 21:49:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
No Surrender No retreat

+
Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:02 -0700

+
 Bob Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And Sheridan goes on to say that it's going to get harder??
+> What gives?
+
+"It seems to me that the White Stars (particularly in the numbers I
+perceived in this Ep)  should have been able to deal with the Earth
+ships like lamb to a slaughter."
+
+      Yeah, if all you want is to slaughter fellow humans and
+officers; if you want to try to minimize the body count of your fellow
+officers, who you want to eventually side with you, it's more
+difficult, you have to keep the kid gloves on...which endangers you in
+the long run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/40.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/40.html
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/40.html
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+
+
+The Big Day! (06 Jun 1997 03:26:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The Big Day!

+
Date: 06 Jun 1997 03:26:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The info was wrong.  The new date is July 15th.  WB asked for
+and got an extension from the cast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/41.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/41.html
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--- /dev/null
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+
+
+logo copyright? (06 Jun 1997 12:42:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
logo copyright?

+
Date: 06 Jun 1997 12:42:09 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> the B5 logo, and put it on a T shirt and wear it myself, then
+> it's OK, as long as don't mass produce and sell it? what about
+> using actual screen shots from the TV on a Tshirt?
+
+       That sounds about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/42.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/42.html
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/42.html
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+
+
+The Big Day! (06 Jun 1997 12:42:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The Big Day!

+
Date: 06 Jun 1997 12:42:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Well, it's the first time they've done it.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/43.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/43.html
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/43.html
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+
+
+Irritation Threshold (06 Jun 1997 12:42:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Irritation Threshold

+
Date: 06 Jun 1997 12:42:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Tell her to hold on for just a bit more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/44.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/44.html
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+
+
+'Drop Dead' Date? (07 Jun 1997 21:32:16 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
'Drop Dead' Date?

+
Date: 07 Jun 1997 21:32:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      If there were not hope, WB wouldn't have asked for the
+extension.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/45.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/45.html
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+
+
+'Drop Dead' Date? (08 Jun 1997 03:53:44 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
'Drop Dead' Date?

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:44 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it isn't really a problem...the worst that could happen is
+that the show might have to go on in January rather than November, but
+that's only a small gap.  The stations haven't locked down their
+January schedules yet, and there's always fallout from what goes out in
+November, so there are still many possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/46.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/46.html
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+
+
+Grey Council composition (08 Jun 1997 03:53:46 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Grey Council composition

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:46 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      While I was aware of the pre-Revolutionary French parliament, to
+be honest, no, that wasn't the model I was using for B5.  Unless my
+subconscious is far smarter than I have been led to believe all this
+time.  Also sneakier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/47.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/47.html
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+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/47.html
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+
+
+Official Web Site (08 Jun 1997 03:53:48 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Official Web Site

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:48 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How doing something like that with just you talking to the fan
+> club members at thestation.com?
+
+      We're looking into some stuff like that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/48.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/48.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/48.html
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+
+
+Newsweek (08 Jun 1997 03:53:51 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Newsweek

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:51 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you know the writer?
+> Will TNT be doing similar types of hype as we get closer to
+> January, 1998?
+
+      No, didn't know the writer prior to the article.
+
+      TNT has a big campaign planned for the January launch...for the
+first time, really, B5 is getting the full-fledged PR campaign it (in
+my opinion) has deserved for a long time.
+
+      TNT has been nothing other than terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/49.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-06/49.html
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+
+
+TNT Movies (08 Jun 1997 03:53:53 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
TNT Movies

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:53 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can you tell us about the filming so far?
+> How has that impacted the overall production?
+
+      Actually, we don't really have that much more money.  Each
+episode costs a tick under $1 million; for purposes of discussion,
+let's round that up to 1. So you're now talking 2 million for 2 hours. 
+Now you've got another million to spend.  *But* ALL the prices go up by
+union scale and whatever else can be negotiated.  Actors fees go up,
+writers fees go up, directors fees go up, crew fees go up...so at the
+end of the day, you find you have a *little* more to spend, but not
+really that much.
+
+      As for how everyone's handling it...really no different than the
+series. Actors learn their lines, directors do their shots, the
+atmosphere on set really isn't much different.  The only substantive
+difference is that, because we know we won't be airing these until
+January and March/April, at soonest, we have more time in post and can
+therefore do more EFX.
+
+      George calculated that there are as many EFX in "Thirdspace" as
+in the entire first season of B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Surrender, No Retreat (31 May 1997 21:49:05 -0700)
+
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No Surrender, No Retreat

+
Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, the Londo/G'Kar stuff was nifty...and yes, he's struggling
+toward redemption as best he can, making a real effort, which is
+important, because if he's going to end up with a Keeper on him
+eventually, as we've seen, best to feel for him, which you can't if
+he's a bad guy.
+
+      Set 'em up, knock 'em down....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lorien (08 Jun 1997 03:53:56 -0700)
+
+
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Lorien

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:56 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was a perfectly *fine* question...don't worry about it.  My
+reply was more oriented toward the recent series of inquiries than
+yours. Remember, sometimes the only way to get pertinent information is
+to ask impertinent questions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lorien (08 Jun 1997 03:53:59 -0700)
+
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Lorien

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:53:59 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"the way in which you broaden themes by making apparent antagonists
+sympathetic while consistently creating a plausible future history  is
+nothing short of amazing."
+
+      Thanks.  That really is a large part of the fun for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+5th Season/EVP (08 Jun 1997 03:54:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 03:54:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      When I know, believe me, you'll know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Drop Dead' Date? (08 Jun 1997 16:16:56 -0700)
+
+
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'Drop Dead' Date?

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 16:16:56 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the final four of season 4 are committed to airdates in
+October, that's inviolable, whichever happens to be the last one, 422
+or 501.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Newsweek (08 Jun 1997 16:16:58 -0700)
+
+
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+
Newsweek

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 16:16:58 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, they're great at TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Movies (08 Jun 1997 16:17:00 -0700)
+
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+
TNT Movies

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 16:17:00 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Chris be doing anything special for the movies, new score,
+> themes, etc? Any chance there will be a new CD with music from the
+> movies?
+
+      He'll be scoring the movies, but nothing's set yet for a
+soundtrack for either of them (commercially).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A question on influences (08 Jun 1997 16:17:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
A question on influences

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 16:17:03 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this instigated by you, or did they approach you with the
+> idea? Given that you commented that you have never heard of this
+> happening before - how did it make you feel when you found out? 
+> surprised / relieved? Her constant moan being that she forgets the
+> timeline of certain parts of the story because there is so much
+> to it, "was that Season 2 or 3 - eh?? one?
+
+      Thanks for all the kind words, from you and your wife.
+
+      Yes, my philosophy, from what you've said and others have said,
+seems close to Pal's, in that if you leave creative people alone, and
+give them the creative freedom to go nuts, they'll do more for you than
+if you bash them down all the time.  It's a simple notion but for some
+reason unfathomable to many suits.
+
+      As for the extension, that was something WB asked for, it didn't
+originate from our side.
+
+      And I'm very happy that the show has gotten the reception it
+has; makes it all kinda worthwhile.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Big Day! (08 Jun 1997 23:58:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Big Day!

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:03 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Care to give me a clue?
+
+      It's a means of making time for them to work out the limitations
+of the PTEN contract, and the new syndicated market, which has been
+going through massive changes in the last year or two; basically the
+market has collapsed or been driven out (depending on the market you're
+in) by all the new networks and program glut.  Virtually every
+syndicated show has dropped from last year to this year; the only ones
+that have improved over last year are B5 (7%) and Xena (18%).  Just
+about everything else has dropped bigtime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+'Drop Dead' Date? (08 Jun 1997 23:58:06 -0700)
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'Drop Dead' Date?

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:06 -0700

+
 Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> all of year four's shows in year four?
+
+      Because TV defines a year as being from November to November, so
+you jump across a year in the process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Newsweek (08 Jun 1997 23:58:08 -0700)
+
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+
Newsweek

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:08 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does TNT broadcast in stereo?
+
+      Good question...I dunno.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Next Season in Future? (31 May 1997 21:49:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Next Season in Future?

+
Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:07 -0700

+
 Debra dwnSo <104412.1664@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they know something I don't know?
+
+      Your friends are all wrong.
+
+      One episode, "Sleeping in Light," takes place 20 years down the
+road. The B5 series itself is contiguous, so S5 would be in 2262.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Movies (08 Jun 1997 23:58:09 -0700)
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TNT Movies

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> This makes me think of a question -- and I'm not trying to be
+> nosy here, just curious -- when you pull double-duty on an
+> episode, like when you write the episode as well as produce, and
+> in one case even direct, are you paid for each job?
+
+      There is a script fee that one receives as a writer, and if you
+are also a producer there is a separate negotiated fee.  The former is
+set by the WGA, and can be improved by negotiation; the latter is
+strictly a matter of negotiation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Isometic <Excercise...) (08 Jun 1997 23:58:13 -0700)
+
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+
Isometic <Excercise...)

+
Date: 08 Jun 1997 23:58:13 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Stephen's assurance of "You're safe; no-one's gonna hurt you," is
+> ironic -- who knows how further damaged they will be after what
+> Sheridan has planned for them?
+
+      Thanks...again, excellent points.
+
+      One thing on the line Wade speaks...the actor consistently got
+the line wrong.  It read, "Everything is illusion, Mr. Garibaldi;
+constructs of light, language, metaphor," rather than concepts.        
+~~~~~~~~~~
+                                 ~~~~~~~~
+      There is a subtle but distinct difference.  But the points you
+raise obtain in any event.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh2 Ship Message (09 Jun 1997 16:38:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kosh2 Ship Message

+
Date: 09 Jun 1997 16:38:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What was the message?
+
+       "Welcome to Hawaii."
+
+       There was apparently a hideous malfunction...they never talked
+about it thereafter....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Paperback Books (09 Jun 1997 16:38:14 -0700)
+
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+
Paperback Books

+
Date: 09 Jun 1997 16:38:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, Which of the paperback books is true to the story?
+
+       The Drennan book, just hitting the stands now, is 100% canon;
+the Cavelos book, out for a bit now, is about 90% canon.  (Those are
+books 7 and 9.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The age of a Minbari (10 Jun 1997 14:58:52 -0700)
+
+
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+
The age of a Minbari

+
Date: 10 Jun 1997 14:58:52 -0700

+
 Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can this be?
+
+       She saw an *image* of Valen, not Valen in physical form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Movies (10 Jun 1997 14:58:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Jun 1997 14:58:55 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       CGI will certainly continue to become more affordable and more
+flexible in its uses, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Face of Enemy> question (10 Jun 1997 14:59:43 -0700)
+
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+
<Face of Enemy> question

+
Date: 10 Jun 1997 14:59:43 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have a question; the things that Lyta told Stephen, was that
+> what Bester was threatening her as her "past", back in
+> Epiphanies?
+
+       No, Franklin's comment to Lyta didn't involve her past, though
+we will find out more about that in a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Influence (11 Jun 1997 03:28:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Jun 1997 03:28:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      As a writer, the influences would really tend to be early ones,
+so I'd cite Eric Frank Russell, HP Lovecraft, Bradbury, Ellison,
+Tolkein, Clarke and "Doc" Smith as being at the top of the roster.  In
+terms of television, it'd be Serling, Matheson, Corwin, again Bradbury
+and Ellison, and Charles Beaumont.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mr. Chamberlain (11 Jun 1997 03:28:04 -0700)
+
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+
Mr. Chamberlain

+
Date: 11 Jun 1997 03:28:04 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any plans to use his very distinctive voice in the
+> future?
+
+      If the opportunity arises, we'll use him, rest assured.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sick Telepaths (11 Jun 1997 18:04:04 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 11 Jun 1997 18:04:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Were these scars from removal?
+
+       No, just standard lesions.
+
+       Remember, a man as smart and rich as Edgars can surely afford
+private lesions for his "kids."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+< NS,NR > L&G (31 May 1997 21:49:09 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 31 May 1997 21:49:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...I like the quiet moments a lot...and Londo's trying
+*so* hard.
+
+      Peter does a great job as Londo, even absolutely silent.  You
+can't stop watching him, just to see what he does.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (11 Jun 1997 22:46:58 -0700)
+
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+
Face of the Enemy

+
Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:46:58 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did that happen?????
+
+      Thanks...I do think this is one of our best to date.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The age of a Minbari (11 Jun 1997 23:03:25 -0700)
+
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+
The age of a Minbari

+
Date: 11 Jun 1997 23:03:25 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      What Delenn says, if we all go back to the episode in question,
+that a Minbari appeared to her, when she was a child lost in the city
+and wandered into the temple; a vision, telling her that "I will not
+allow harm to come to my little ones here in my great house."  (Note:
+"my little ones" being a coy bit of foreshadowing to her being a child
+of Valen, but never mind that for now.)
+
+      Obviously there were many drawings and pictures and records of
+Valen, but most were destroyed in the Great War.  And those that
+survived have been, over a thousand years, idealized and distorted by
+whichever caste is currently claiming him as theirs.  (Valen refused to
+belong to any one caste.)
+
+      Which, btw, is also what Delenn referred to in season one, when
+she was lost and in fear of death, and she looked to Sinclair with
+reverence and said, "I knew you would come for me."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (12 Jun 1997 13:38:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Jun 1997 13:38:13 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you read "The Sandman" and if so, what do you think?
+
+       I loved "The Sandman," though I haven't read it lately (haven't
+read much of anything lately).  Gaiman's a tremendous talent, and I
+will always go out of my way to find his stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The age of a Minbari (12 Jun 1997 13:38:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Jun 1997 13:38:14 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how far back DID Delenn know that Jeff Sinclair was Valen??
+
+       You'll find out in the TV movie.
+
+       And there's some measure of difference between what she *knew*
+and what she *suspected*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 (13 Jun 1997 00:25:52 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1997 00:25:52 -0700

+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you are going to tear down the sets, what are you going to
+> film Season 5 on (Suits willing)?
+
+      By "tear down" I simply mean move off the stages so we can move
+the other sets in; we don't destroy them, just fold-n-hold.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The age of a Minbari (13 Jun 1997 00:25:53 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1997 00:25:53 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The letter that Sinclair/Valen sent to Delenn from the
+> past......did she get it just before the events of WWE, or did
+> she have it for some time before that?
+
+      No, she got the letter at the time of WWE.  Remember, though,
+that she was at the Battle of the Line when Sinclair was scanned and
+found to contain a Minbari soul...so that would be the basic start of
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The age of a Minbari (14 Jun 1997 16:46:15 -0700)
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Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:15 -0700

+
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+
+      You'll get some more on this in the prequel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (14 Jun 1997 16:46:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:16 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's a hoot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Face of the Enemy (14 Jun 1997 16:46:18 -0700)
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Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:18 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...I agree that it's probably one of the best we've done. 
+I've now watched it at least a dozen times in finished form, and it
+still works for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<FotE> Holy $#%! (14 Jun 1997 16:46:20 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:20 -0700

+
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+
+         Thanks.  One thing I've been doing with the latter part of
+season 4 is to experiment a little more, try different things.  I feel
+that we need to push visually to try new things, the sort of visual
+techniques you don't see much in SF-TV, which for the most part is
+fairly prosaic as these things go. And to push the writing, to try some
+things that may succeed, or may fail, but you learn something either
+way.  In its way, next week's ep is just as experimental, but in a very
+different direction.
+
+      Mike Vejar definitely did a great job with this episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS vs. The Beatles (01 Jun 1997 16:08:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Jun 1997 16:08:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> With that in mind, how about a B5 job application?
+> Hey, JMS-won't you use my script?
+
+      Careful...my only response here would be either Helter Skelter
+or the last few stanzas of Norwegian Wood....
+
+      Scripts make a very pretty fire....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 14 Jun 1997 16:46:24 -0700

+
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+
+      Re: your kind words about the episode...thank you.
+
+"On a completely different and impertinent tack, I am curious to know
+if you feel any impact from being perhaps the most visible atheist
+since Ms. O'Hair?"
+
+      Not really.  I think that a large sector of the religious
+community is still trying to figure me out...because yes, I'm an open,
+avowed atheist, but I've done stories about religion and spirituality
+that -- if the mail from priests and rabbis and ministers and even a
+few folks from other, non-western religions is to be believed -- are
+more fair and respectful than just about anyone else in TV is doing,
+even according to last week's Christian Science Monitor.
+
+      They openly ask, "How is it that an atheist is able to get
+stories of great faith on the air when nobody else will do it?"  To
+which I generally have started replying, "Only Nixon could go to
+China."
+
+      I think that if I were using my show as a bludgeon to convey my
+own personal beliefs, or lack thereof, as an atheist, that would be a
+whole different kettle of fish.  But I don't.  I have an obligation as
+a writer before anything and everything else...that means that if I
+create a character who is religious, I must treat that character with
+respect and, just as importantly, *authenticity*.  I must, in short, be
+*fair*.
+
+      Where this works to my benefit is that if I, as an atheist, do
+an episode showing a religious character in a positive light, the mail
+comes in thanking me for being fair to points of view I don't agree
+with.  Then, when I do a show implying Ivanova and Talia were briefly
+lovers, or when you have Marcus and Franklin undercover as a married
+couple, they start to go to the keyboards to complain...then remember
+what they said about fairness to other points of view.
+
+      As a result, even with all the very subversive and challenging
+shows we've done in four years, and even being an open atheist, I can
+count the harrassing religious fringe-mail on one hand.  (Thinks for a
+moment...okay, maybe two hands, but that's all.)  As long as I stay
+honest with the writing, I'll be okay.  The moment I start to use it as
+propaganda, they'll be all over me...and rightly so.
+
+      BTW, on the issue of Madalyn O'Hair...or O'Hare, I can never
+remember which it is...interesting thing is, I worked for her magazine
+for a while, doing a couple of columns and articles.  At the time, I
+did so because I felt (and still to some extent feel) that atheists are
+easy targets in society. You will never see an avowed atheist in the
+White House or Congress, whatever it may say in the constitution about
+this being a secular government with separation of church and state. 
+When then-Vice President Bush could say, at a press conference at an
+airport in Chicago, "Well, I don't really see how an atheist can be a
+patriot, this is after all one nation under God," then you see how bad
+things can get.
+
+      But in working for her magazine, I gradually figured out that
+she wasn't oriented toward equal respect on both sides, for atheism and
+religion, which is where I am...she was anti-religion and looking to
+sabotage that element of society, which I do not condone.  It's simply
+wrong.  I've always said, the day they try to shut down the churches,
+I'll be the first one on the firing line to fight back...I just hope
+that the other side will join me when they try to shut down the
+libraries.  Which, finally, is why I resigned from her magazine.  I'm
+pro-tolerance, and don't have time for bigots of any stripe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (15 Jun 1997 01:48:48 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 01:48:48 -0700

+
 Kirk R. Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think it was a matter of the programming that kept him
+> from stopping the fight?
+
+      Also, Wade specificially says Lise wasn't there when they got
+back, so that eliminates her from the scenario.
+
+      BTW...there's apparently going to be a positive review of 418,
+"Intersections in Real Time" in the Monday USA Today.  I haven't seen
+it yet, though, so don't know what spoilers it may contain.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Nope.  You're just seeing what you've seen before as your point
+of reference.  We don't tend to do that intentionally.  We're in
+Rohrscharch territory here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Face of the Enemy (15 Jun 1997 14:44:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:11 -0700

+
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+
+      Yep...and he's bugged, and we'll see where *that* goes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Face of the Enemy (15 Jun 1997 14:44:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:14 -0700

+
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+
+      There's a web page with the full text; don't have the info at
+hand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<FotE> Holy $#%! (15 Jun 1997 14:44:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:16 -0700

+
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+
+      Nope, not a Prisoner homage at all, in any way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New FX... (15 Jun 1997 14:44:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:18 -0700

+
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+
+      Nope, just the constant striving for perfection that is typical
+of all our production elements.  We get better or we die.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face - congrats (15 Jun 1997 14:44:20 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 14:44:20 -0700

+
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+
+      Zimbalist did a great job for us...he took huge gobs of
+exposition and not only delivered them, he made them interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ivanovas 'Talent' (15 Jun 1997 16:43:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 16:43:14 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, assuming to big "IF's" - IF season 5 is a go and IF Claudia
+> agrees to stay for S5, will her talent be explored in any depth,
+> or is it just a character trait, she has it but no-one will know
+> to what level it goes?
+
+      That element of her personality will come in to play eventually;
+there ain't much waste on this show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (15 Jun 1997 16:43:16 -0700)
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Also, they wanted it to look like it was done by the Resistance;
+too much "attention" to his death would've drawn attention to the
+Corps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+NS, NR (01 Jun 1997 16:08:02 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 01 Jun 1997 16:08:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Got a question for ya: Where the heck is Proxima 3?
+> And is it a planet?
+> A moon?
+> How long has it been an Earth colony?
+> What's the population?
+
+      Thanks...those scenes really worked for me as well.
+
+      Proxima 3 is in the Proxima Centauri system, next door to
+Proxima 2, but no one goes there because the tourist season is way too
+short.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CD Vol. 2 (15 Jun 1997 22:46:21 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:21 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Franke used?
+
+      Don't know offhand which instruments were used, but I'll convey
+the praise to its source.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (15 Jun 1997 22:46:22 -0700)
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+
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      They're not that close.  Certainly not on a first date to a bar
+like that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:24 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the first act after the opening credits when Sheridan is on
+> the bridge of the White Star, did we see the "automatic repair
+> systems" at work on the wall next to where he was standing, or
+> was that just some sort of display?
+
+      Yes, those were the autorepair systems at work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<FotE> Face-off/Face Off (15 Jun 1997 22:46:26 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:26 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+""The Face of the Enemy" might represent the flipside of young
+Delenn's claim in "Atonement" that the most dangerous enemy is the one
+you know nothing about.  Now the face of the enemy is the one you know
+all too well, one which you take for granted until it's revealed that
+the face is actually a mask."
+
+      Yep.  It's one thing facing implacable, vast enemies...it's
+quite another when you friend betrays you.  That's personal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<FaceOfE-Song (15 Jun 1997 22:46:29 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:29 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Dunno offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Enemy" - congrats (15 Jun 1997 22:46:31 -0700)
+
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+
"Enemy" - congrats

+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:31 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Gradually, we're learning and acquiring more tools to
+use in the storytelling process...refining what we have, and every so
+often, we try to use them in new ways.  It's an experiment, and a risk,
+but one worth taking when it gets a reaction like this.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Guest Star (15 Jun 1997 22:46:33 -0700)
+
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+
Guest Star

+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:33 -0700

+
 Douglas Piligian <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was he familiar with the show prior to getting the guest role?
+> If not what, if any, information do you provide to a guest about
+> the story to date? Zimbalist?
+
+      Nope, just figured he'd be great for the job, and cast him
+without audition.  He didn't know anything about the show before that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Intersections (15 Jun 1997 22:46:36 -0700)
+
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+
Intersections

+
Date: 15 Jun 1997 22:46:36 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yep...it is that.  At last I have a proper cliffhanger and a
+proper wait afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Intersections (16 Jun 1997 13:42:25 -0700)
+
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+
Intersections

+
Date: 16 Jun 1997 13:42:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"You must have known, or at least suspected, they'd hold back the last
+4 again.  I think I've figured out one of the reasons you're as good a
+writer as you are.  You can take your story and mold it into the shape
+you need it to, in order to tell it, regardless of the blockades,
+changes, whims and opportunities the current syndication market throws
+at you.  You're the most flexible damn writer I've ever seen.  Then
+again, no one's ever HAD to do the things you're doing either."
+
+       All I'll say is that no one will ever truly know how difficult
+this process has been.  And no matter what they throw at us, we catch
+it, turn it around, figure out how to use it for our own purposes, and
+somehow make the story better for it.
+
+       It ain't easy, though, m'friend...it ain't easy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Face of the Enemy (16 Jun 1997 16:55:51 -0700)
+
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+
Face of the Enemy

+
Date: 16 Jun 1997 16:55:51 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, no, you're right, ther isn't that much direct,
+personal violence in the show.  My feeling is that if you do that a
+lot, it loses any potential for impact.  You only pull out that card
+when you really need it, to best effect...don't waste it.  It's like
+harsh language, after you've heard someone going on using all the more
+remarkable Anglo-Saxon words for a while, it loses all impact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn`s background (30 Jun 1997 11:58:30 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 11:58:30 -0700

+
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+
+"Considering how they refer to "The Children of VALEN" and don't
+bother to mention the name of the WIFE of Valen, I'd say patriarchal."
+
+      Or they pick the more well-known of the two.  We often say "Mick
+Jagger's kid" because he's the more well known of the pair.
+
+      Or they could be rather subtly ignoring what they might consider
+just a bit of scandal....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on TNT (01 Jul 1997 02:15:43 -0700)
+
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+
B5 on TNT

+
Date: 01 Jul 1997 02:15:43 -0700

+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In hindsight, do you think that a deal like you've got now with
+> TNT would have helped the show if you'd gone that route in 93/94? 
+> Or is that, like, a totally stupid question?
+
+"In hindsight, do you think that a deal like you've got now with TNT
+would have helped the show if you'd gone that route in 93/94?"
+
+      Oh...probably, but only about 200%.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Pathfinder pix? (25 Jul 1997 14:30:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:48 -0700

+
 Hugh Kennedy <70042.710@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I seem to remember that your CGI people were able to work in some
+> hubble shots as backcloths for some of the earlier scenes? Is
+> there any chance of featuring a certain well known piece of Mars
+> territory? Its just nice to tell sci-fi averse people, ok - its
+> just a story but how can it be purely sci-fi when the backdrops
+> are real?
+
+      We do get lots of Mars shots from the Space folks, and those
+have been used in the establishing shots this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scripts; 501/422 (25 Jul 1997 14:30:50 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:50 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, 1) will 501/422 have season 4 or 5 title screens?
+> 2) since you're shooting S5 straight through, is it going to cost
+> less money?
+
+"1) will 501/422 have season 4 or 5 title screens?"
+
+      It will be a season 4 title sequence.
+
+"2) since you're shooting S5 straight through, is it going to cost
+less money?"
+
+      No, we're not shooting any differently than we ever do.  We
+always start in the Summer, usually July, then have a one week hiatus
+midway toward Christmas, then there's the Christmas break, then we come
+back in January, and shoot through to the conclusion with one more
+one-week hiatus, which are given to keep from burning out the crew. 
+TNT will be airing them straight through, without breaks for reruns, so
+we're going to have everything done ASAP to meet those deadlines.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hour of the Wolf (25 Jul 1997 14:30:53 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:53 -0700

+
 Tom Boon <100334.657@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were any publicity shots taken of G'Kar wearing Garibaldi's hat?
+
+"Were any publicity shots taken of G'Kar wearing Garibaldi's hat?"
+
+      None that I know of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Clauduia (25 Jul 1997 14:30:55 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:55 -0700

+
 Bruce "Firestorm" S. <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is a creative note kind of like a warning or an order?
+
+      A creative note is often, "Can you clarify this scene a little
+so that new viewers will get it?"  That was, I believe, the last
+creative note we got, back in episode 2 of year 2.  They're mainly in
+the form of story suggestions, rarely if ever a Do It Like This
+situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (26 Jul 1997 15:22:11 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Jul 1997 15:22:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it's almost impossible for an actor to be a regular on two
+shows at the same time; to make the Stephen Furst thing work, for
+instance, allowing him to be a regular on "Misery Loves Company," we
+had to support his request, and we were happy to do that.  Most
+producers would rather not.
+
+      In terms of guest stars, though, it's pretty wide open.  Armin
+has even auditioned for B5 on one occasion.  And some of our regulars,
+like Pat, have done work on ST, as well as Andreas, who reprised his
+character there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (26 Jul 1997 15:22:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Jul 1997 15:22:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"JMS was simply not at that fatful alledged meeting between Claudis
+and managment (or at least I've never seen him claim to be there) so he
+only knows what others have told him about that meeting."
+
+      There was no such meeting.
+
+"Now Claudia was alledgely present at that alledged meeting where they
+are alledged to have told her to find another job."
+
+      Again, there was no such meeting.  Claudia was in the UK, at the
+same convention I was attending, when all this went down.  And *I* was
+the one who told her that she had to have her agent contact WB to tell
+them she was in, or they'd withdraw the offer.
+
+      Kinda sticks a pin in that particular balloon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia C fired! (26 Jul 1997 15:22:17 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Jul 1997 15:22:17 -0700

+
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+
+"case in point - Claudia's cut-of date was last week - yet Joe claimed
+that he had written stories that would have to be re-fitted around
+claudia and he didn't have time... but if thats so then he never had
+any intention of writing her in - so there is a whole there."
+
+      No, the date is incorrect.  This all happened at Blackpool,
+which was over the weekend of July 10th-13th.  The Friday deadline that
+we have been discussing was July 11th.  The weekend of the 17th I was
+in San Diego, which is when Claudia started talking about this at a
+convention elsewhere.
+
+      I could not have been sitting in a hotel pub with her on
+Thursday night in Blackpool if I was in San Diego at the time.  All
+this went down while we were in the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ok, how about this... (26 Jul 1997 15:22:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ok, how about this...

+
Date: 26 Jul 1997 15:22:19 -0700

+
 Randall A. Schanze <74724.762@compuserve.com> asks:
+> CC has 2 major plot threads hanging over her, right?
+> Is it plausible?
+> Is it paranoid?
+> Is it likely?
+> Is it totaly stupid and inane?
+
+      Gone off the Prozac again, I see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (27 Jul 1997 00:57:24 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:24 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"reminds me very much of what I was told by someone with good reason
+to know about the loss of Michael O'Hare from the show i.e. that the
+people in charge of the purse-strings basically made the decision."
+
+      See, here's what kills me about all this.
+
+      When the Michael situation took place, I came out very openly
+and I said, "No, this was my decision, working with Michael," and very
+few held *me* accountable, they tried to blame WB...here, I came out
+openly and said I tried everything I could to keep Claudia on the show,
+and that her eventual departure was not my decision, it was hers, and
+I'm being given the rap for it.  I didn't get it when I *did* make the
+decision (with Michael), and I'm getting it now when I *didn't* make
+the decision.
+
+      Some days it's enough to make me lose my hair.
+
+      Waitaminnit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia C fired! (27 Jul 1997 00:57:27 -0700)
+
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Claudia C fired!

+
Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:27 -0700

+
 Philip Friel <100647.753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And the coupla guys that I notice giving you a load of crap
+> around here - I don't ever recall seeing you give *them* any crap
+> (if you had, it might've been different, 'cos then it's
+> *personal* - guns at fifty paces, and all that <bg>), so just
+> what *is* their problem?
+
+"I won't say that there won't ever be an SF show as good as B5, as
+you've now set the yardstick, and the rest have something to aim at.
+Maybe, someday, someone will reach or pass it"
+
+      I'm looking forward to that.  I'll be the first one to stand up
+and cheer when it happens.
+
+"I'll say one thing about Trekkies, even though B5 fans often beat up
+on them <g,d,&r> - if Gene Roddenberry were alive today, and were
+active online, I just couldn't see him taking even a fraction of the
+flack from online Trekkies as you do from these excuses for B5 fans"
+
+      Noooo...I don't think so...ask Majel about some of this
+sometime. Believe me, if Gene were online, he'd get the same thing. 
+It's the medium, not the person, that's the problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Last 4 - have to redo? (01 Jul 1997 12:43:51 -0700)
+
+
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+
Last 4 - have to redo?

+
Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:43:51 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I hadn't noticed that in the article...well, interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Tim's Apology (27 Jul 1997 00:57:29 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:29 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yep, that's what precipitated the discussion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Tim's Apology (27 Jul 1997 00:57:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
Tim's Apology

+
Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:31 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      What smug?
+
+      You said that if I asked people not to talk about it, they would
+automatically stop.  I've been on the nets a long time, and that sort
+of thing is so unlikely as to engender the response I noted.  Hence my
+question.
+
+      As if my saying, "Now, stop that" would work.
+
+      How much power do you think I have?
+
+      The problem isn't what I'm saying, it's your sensitivity over
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Third TNT film??? (27 Jul 1997 00:57:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
Third TNT film???

+
Date: 27 Jul 1997 00:57:34 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+
+      Yes, that's correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+An Open Letter (27 Jul 1997 22:54:21 -0700)
+
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+
An Open Letter

+
Date: 27 Jul 1997 22:54:21 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, to everyone on the J&D mailing list.  There's been quite
+a bit of positive feedback lately, which has certainly helped.
+
+      I'm considering strongly pulling back from the nets for a while.
+What a number of people don't seem to understand is that amidst all
+this, with all the name-calling and dead-catting and
+tar-and-feathering, I have to launch the fifth season.  I have to write
+these first 5-6 episodes, and make them not just as good as year 4, but
+better.  The only way I can write is to push away all the other voices
+until I can hear the small, still voice at the back of my head that
+speaks in the place of the characters.  There has been so much going on
+(see above) that this has become difficult at best.
+
+      Come January, if the shows are crap, from crap scripts, and
+people yell, "How come the stories suck?" it does no good for me to
+yell back, "BECAUSE EVERYBODY WAS YELLING AT ME!"  That is a pretty
+silly excuse.  The bottom line is: angry email is ephemeral; the shows
+will be on the air for a lot longer. And that is where I have to put my
+emphasis right now.
+
+      So I'm not yanking the modem out of the wall, but my presence
+will be somewhat reduced over the next little bit, because I've fallen
+*desperately* behind due to all the turmoil over this.  If people think
+they're upset over Claudia leaving, and the grief this has caused, the
+truth is they have no idea what those words mean until they've sat
+behind my keyboard and tried to push through it to find the words.  And
+then to get yelled at for things I'm not responsible for...I can either
+read it, and get angry, or take a break and get the show in place. 
+Even the positive email, welcome as that's been, and there's been a
+lot, has been a reminder of the whole situation, so I basically just
+have to pull back for a bit.
+
+      I'll be here...but quietly, until I'm caught up.  Similarly,
+with regrets (and as soon as I can find the darned email address for
+them), I'm going to have to cancel out on RebelCon in Massachusetts in
+order to try and catch up.  I can't justify the time away when we're so
+close to the bone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+DS9 = Babylon 5 (28 Jul 1997 00:14:22 -0700)
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Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:22 -0700

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+
+"But then I never watched B 5 even if Chekov was on it.  I always
+thought of it as a copy of DS9 because DS9 was in the works longer."
+
+      Just to correct: DS9 was not developed until about 1991/1992
+(I'll have to go check which one for sure)...B5 was being shown around
+town in full pilot-script and artwork form dating back to 1987.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (28 Jul 1997 00:14:25 -0700)
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Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:25 -0700

+
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+
+      Re: Turhan...yeah, everybody on the set yelled at me when we had
+to kill off Turhan's character.  He was one of the genuinely sweetest
+and nicest persons to come work on the show, and they all fell in love
+with him.  If there's EVER a way I can figure out how to bring him
+back, I'm up for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (28 Jul 1997 00:14:28 -0700)
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Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:28 -0700

+
 John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com> asks:
+> how did the British rags figure out what she was GOING to say
+> while she was still saying "I'll be there"?
+
+      No...let me stress this again: there was never any meeting here.
+
+      The meeting you *might* be thinking of was the one where we
+brought in the actors to explain to them the differences in syndication
+vs. cable residuals formula.  That took place some weeks before.
+
+      If it helps, let me break down the dates for you a bit:
+
+      July 9th: the Variety and Reuters pieces appear saying Claudia's
+has left the show.  WB wants to know where Claudia stands, and we need
+to know because at this point I've finished writing the new 422, and am
+about to start on 502 (actually the first S5 episode).  I hear about
+this when Claudia, I and the rest of the cast are in the UK at
+Blackpool.  The WB need for urgent clarification is conveyed to
+Claudia's agent.
+
+      July 10th: I reinforce to Claudia, at the pub in the DeVere
+hotel, that unless she confirms through her agent by noon Friday, the
+11th, that she wants to be on the show, the offer will be withdrawn,
+that she will have, to all intents and purposes, passed on the offer.
+
+      July 11th: there was no "final comment," no meeting...again, we
+are still in the UK.  For there to be a final comment, she or her agent
+would have had to actually *speak* to someone.  But no call came from
+either Claudia or her agent.  There was NO response at all.  Thus, the
+offer was finally and reluctantly withdrawn because we were simply out
+of time, and having been told that silence = a pass on the offer, there
+was no longer any reason to maintain the offer.  She passed.
+
+      July 12th: Jeff goes to Claudia and on his own, tries to
+convince her to try and work this out on Monday, that if her agent
+makes contact first thing, maybe this can be worked out.  This is not a
+position that I told him to advance to her, he did this entirely on his
+own, hoping that she could still come back from her decision.  Bruce
+and other cast members also try to talk to her about this, concerned
+about her decision.
+
+      July 14th (Monday): Claudia leaves the convention mid-day,
+announcing that she is going to go to a photo shoot.
+
+      The weekend of July 19th-20th: I'm at ComicCon in San Diego,
+where I learn that Claudia, at another convention, has announced that
+she was fired from B5.  And that, to paraphrase, is where the blitz hit
+the fans.
+
+      I know you keep trying to find some way that maybe I wasn't
+there, perhaps to save me from the situation...but I was there for
+every bit of it; having the room 4 doors down from Claudia at the time,
+I couldn't be *more* in the thick of it unless I slept on the floor of
+her room.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:32 -0700

+
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+
+      Ray: extremely, extremely well said.  Better than I could have
+said it, and probably better than I *have* said it.
+
+      You really ought to give this writing thing a shot sometime,
+y'know...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Claudia C fired! (28 Jul 1997 00:14:34 -0700)
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Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:34 -0700

+
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+
+"Before coming to this forum today I was reading through a ST
+newsgroup on the internet. John Ordover was busy defending himself
+against criticism for things like ignoring rude messages. I'm sure you
+don't find this at all surprising."
+
+      Yeah, well, John also announced *definitively* (and with
+considerable joy, I suspect) on AOL that B5 had been canceled, and
+there would be no fifth season, so I'm probably the last person to ask
+about this....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Tim's Apology (28 Jul 1997 00:14:39 -0700)
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Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:39 -0700

+
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+
+"Surely you have the power to not reply to certain messages?"
+
+      Of course I do.  And I do frequently.
+
+      The problem is that the nets are best able to spread complete
+misinformation even faster than they can spread real information.  If
+something is stated once in error -- like the person who thought the
+deadline was the 19th rather than the 11th -- others pick it up and
+within a matter of a day or two, there are 10,000 people all with the
+same wrong information, and if you go back to them to correct it later,
+they say, "Well, no, that's not what I heard," even though they may not
+be able to remember where they got that info from.
+
+      On the nets, the line between "speculation" and "fact" is very
+blurry on the best of days.  My feeling has always been that in that
+kind of situation, you put out the facts as best you can, on the theory
+that the folks interested in the discussion are sharp enough to suss
+out the truth, and those not interested in it wil simply not bother to
+read the threads.
+
+      Also, bear in mind that there was a request put out to email
+bomb me by people concerned about Claudia's situation.  A request put
+out *by* Claudia and her people.  Now, I can either spend ten thousand
+hours a day responding to each one of those in email, or by public
+messages put a lot of those concerns to rest and save a fair amount of
+hassle when I'm *trying* to put on a show here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Couldn't you have John Vickery portray a nephew or cousin or even
+> a son of Neroon, who also became a ranger?
+
+       We'll keep our eyes out for a way to bring him around again,
+same as with Wayne.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Your Pasadena payback (28 Jul 1997 00:14:42 -0700)
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Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:42 -0700

+
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+
+      Well, certainly the more folks retell the story at cons, the
+less I can tell it, so there's that...but the joke has gone about as
+far as it's going to.
+
+      Until I can think of something better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Onward and upward (28 Jul 1997 00:14:45 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Jul 1997 00:14:45 -0700

+
 Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Cavellos' book (I certainly didn't find anything that jumped out
+> at me as contrary to the tv series)?
+
+      I'd say that the Cavelos book is pretty canonical, yes...I
+didn't work with the author as closely as with #9, but I agree with
+just about all of the major strokes there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 29 Jul 1997 20:51:10 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, that would be me...and the finale's been filmed, so it's
+out of my encrypted file at last.  Look for it at the end of season 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 29 Jul 1997 20:51:11 -0700

+
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+
+      The show starts the weekend of January 4th on TNT, first with a
+newly filmed prequel, "In the Beginning," then the original pilot, then
+the next day, Monday, it starts from the very first episode of season
+one and goes straight through, Monday through Friday, 5 nights a week,
+at 7 p.m. Eastern. The fifth season starts mid-January.
+
+      With the new airings on TNT, we will run through the entire
+first 4 years in 18 week cycles, so everyone will have a chance to
+catch up and see the whole thing.
+
+      But this thread more properly belongs in the B5 section, so any
+further questions should probably go there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 30 Jul 1997 00:57:30 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Boy shaves his head.") Is there any way for me to strengthen this
+> authorial muscle? Advice?
+> Hints?
+
+      Basic approach: if you know your characters, then find out what
+they want, how far they will go to get it, and how far someone else
+will go to stop them.  From this comes structure, and from this comes
+plot.
+
+      Put them in *motion*.
+
+      As someone noted, "The king died and then the queen died" is not
+a story; "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a story. 
+Cause and effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Bailing on Rebelcon? (30 Jul 1997 00:57:33 -0700)
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+
Date: 30 Jul 1997 00:57:33 -0700

+
 Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe...is that a definite that you're now NOT going to do
+> Rebelcon?
+
+      Yeah...I notified the con people the other day.  I'm *really*
+distressed by this, because it's the first time I've ever had to bail
+on a con due to work commitments (or any OTHER reason, there's never
+been one before this). But given the distance, the work involved, the
+deadlines looming up ahead of me, and all the rest...I can't justify
+doing it.  The show has to come first.
+
+      And I'm *really* bummed because it's John Flinn's first
+convention, and I really wanted to be there to see his reaction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 30 Jul 1997 19:37:29 -0700

+
 Chad Underkoffler <102512.1310@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Out of curiousity, what do you think of Dibell's PLOT?
+
+"Out of curiousity, what do you think of Dibell's PLOT?"
+
+      Dunno, never read it.
+
+      Don't read books on sex, either.
+
+      Some things you have to learn on instinct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:43:52 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you have gotten a TNT like deal back then?
+
+       Since TNT wasn't making those kinds of deals back then, the
+point is moot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do you or did you write anything besides science fiction or
+> consider to write it? I think you would write excellent "global
+> adventure", I mean something like Frederik Forsait (sp?
+
+       Yeah, I've often done non-SF stuff...comedy, cop shows, mystery
+shows, historical stuff, horror, essays, articles...a little of
+everything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:43:58 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question: For the move In The Beginning, which is then to be
+> followed immediately by The Gathering on TNT in January, how will
+> you be handling the makeup? Will it be some kind of blend between
+> the pilot and the series? Closer to the series and forget that it
+> looks different from the pilot?
+
+       No, we're using the series makeup, rather than add one more
+permutation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:44:00 -0700

+
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+
+       I'm cutting back on salt, I never see the sun anyway, and the
+showgirls can take care of themselves.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 01 Jul 1997 12:44:01 -0700

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+
+       It'll only be on cable, that's correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
      Waitaminnit...just looked at the name again...is this *the*
+James Morrow?  As in the writer?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+The 5th Season (01 Jul 1997 22:40:53 -0700)
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Date: 01 Jul 1997 22:40:53 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...not too bad for a day's work....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Last 4 - have to redo? (30 Jun 1997 11:58:32 -0700)
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+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 11:58:32 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you now have to rewrite/refilm the last 4 episodes?
+
+"Will you now have to rewrite/refilm the last 4 episodes? I assume
+they were ending the arc and now you have another year."
+
+      No, there's just the replacement for 422, that's all.  There's a
+difference between *ending the arc* and providing a *sense of
+resolution.* By the end of 421, things had been settled in a lot of
+areas...but far more were made very clear as being Out There.  You
+could view it as an epilog, or a set-up for more down the road,
+depending on whether or not there was a fifth season.  Hell, there's a
+great big fat setup for season 5 right smack in the middle of the
+Franklin/Lyta scene on Mars in "The Face of the Enemy."
+
+      This isn't directed at you so much, Vadim, as in general...some
+days I wonder what the hell I'm doing on the nets.  We busted our butts
+to get year 5, same as we do every year (though moreso this year),
+because it would be *the most satisfactory way to end the story*.  It
+*could* end in year 4, I was prepared to do that if necessary, but it
+wouldn't be as satisfactory to all concerned as year 5.  So now we have
+year five.  And right out of the woodwork come people -- such as a
+particularly twit-like message forwarded to me from one of the usenet
+groups -- saying that the fifth season was going to be just filler now,
+that the story was over, used up, it's all tied up, there's nothing but
+"dumb old personal stories."  No more arc.
+
+      And I would love nothing more than to just thump them.
+
+      I sometimes wonder if they think I was walking down the street
+one day, and I came across this Arc laying in the road.  And it's a
+finite package, and once it's used up, it's used up.  People, I THOUGHT
+THIS STUFF UP.  You watch it, but I make it...and I'm not doing this
+for my health, I didn't fight this hard to do a season of filler. 
+Where's the common sense here?  My vested interest in making this a
+solid story is a hell of a lot higher than ANY viewer could POSSIBLY
+bring to the table.  But again and again, not to you Vadim but in
+general, it's "Oh, it's all done now, it's just filler."
+
+      Yes, I fought and bled to get a season 5 so I could do filler,
+instead of going back to a network show where they'll pay me double
+what I get on B5. Absolutely.  That makes a LOT of sense.
+
+      I dunno...maybe I'm over-reacting...hell, I probably *am*
+over-reacting, but it seems like they never let you rest.  The end of
+the Shadow War came, and folks said, "Oh, the arc is over now, nothing
+interesting can happen now," and I said there was MORE interesting
+stuff even than that coming up, and sure enough that happened, and it's
+"Oh...okay," and this happens time and time again, and now we have a
+fifth year, and it's "Oh, the arc is over, nothing interesting can
+happen now."
+
+      You'd think that by now we would've proven the point...but every
+year it seems like we have to prove ourselves again and again and
+again.  The confetti has barely hit the ground and they move in the
+funeral draping.
+
+      I just get tired of it some days.
+
+      Jerks.
+
+      (Not you, Vadim, a very nice man, just venting.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 02 Jul 1997 13:44:58 -0700

+
 Alan Mulvie <100566.1444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Whats the score with Mr Garibaldi?
+> Ditto Valen/Sinclair - his descendants?
+> How did Babylon 5 get destroyed?
+> (from flash forwards) Who/what was on the ship escaping?
+> Will the Narn and Centari find peace?
+> Who where the enemys referred to in War without End (Delann in
+> the future) Does Sheridan Die (in 20 years) or evolve Like
+> Lionheart? Whats the score with Lionheart?
+> Did the Vorlons genetically engineer Telepaths?
+> What else did they genetically engineer?
+> Will Clark get booted out?
+> What happens to Centari Prime (in the future - war without end)
+> What will Sheridans Son be like- Do? If Lyta can be "enhanced2 by
+> the Vorlons, what did the shadows do to their servants? How does
+> the army of Light cope with that? If "Mankind" has some of that
+> technology, what will we do with it? Whats "The Rim" and whats
+> beyond it? Why wont there be a Babylon 6?
+> Will Mars become independent or unify with earth?
+> Now the big boys have gone, are the children gonna fight?
+> Will JMS let someone else write a script?
+> And their are plenty of other loose ends if I take time to think
+> about it, so the question isnt if you will have a season 5 of
+> fillers, but will you have enough episodes to wrap up everything
+> by the end of season 5?
+
+       At least a third of those are resolved in the next batch; and a
+bulk of the rest in the fifth season, plus a lot of other threads you
+missed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 02 Jul 1997 13:44:59 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       No big books, though I've had two medium-sizednovels published
+so far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 *only* on cable now?? (02 Jul 1997 21:36:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Jul 1997 21:36:22 -0700

+
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+
+      I don't know the Canadian situation yet, but can't imagine that
+they would let that market go by the boards for long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Now this is Scary... (02 Jul 1997 21:36:25 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 02 Jul 1997 21:36:25 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And I didn't think the father that rabid of a fan?!?
+> Remember the Pinky & the Brain's Beany & Cecil spoof?
+> What are you REALLY creating here???
+
+      Give me them until they're 10 and they're mine for life...insert
+evil cackle here....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Honor the achievement (02 Jul 1997 21:36:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Jul 1997 21:36:27 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...y'know, someone else said that the other day, a
+reporter during an interview, that there were now two paradigms of the
+best SF ever prouduced in this country: ST and B5.  That's a weighty
+compliment, and my first reaction was to get really, really tired...but
+bottom line, we did what we set out to do, kept every promise we made,
+and nothing can ever take that away. We went the distance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+What might be different? (02 Jul 1997 21:36:30 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Jul 1997 21:36:30 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This has been bugging me a bit every since the great news about
+> the fifth season got reported, and I can't help but wonder ....if
+> you had been assured of a fifth season going into season four,
+> are there many things you would have done differently? Is season
+> five a mixed blessing for you, coupled with any regret about
+> having had to expedite the arc to end by season four, a year
+> ahead of your predetermined five year game plan?
+
+"...coupled with any regret about having had to expedite the arc to
+end by season four, a year ahead of your predetermined five year game
+plan?"
+
+      This is, again, a misnomer.  The arc didn't *end* in year 4, nor
+did I end it.  Which becomes utterly evident once you see the final
+episodes.  All I did was to more or less isolate the incidents in year
+5 from the preceding year, so we could go into them or not.
+
+      What you have to do, which I've noted before, is to step back
+for a moment and look at the series as a whole.  Every season, we do
+basically the same thing: we end on a cliffhanger, then the first 4-5
+episodes of the next season resolve the threads and the cliffhanger
+from the prior season, and then we're off onto the next thread.  They
+overlap by about 4-5 episodes.
+
+      So what I did was to pull those 4 episodes from the start of
+season 5 into season 4, which would otherwise have ended at 418 as the
+cliffhanger. So there wasn't really that much crammed into 4, and
+everything that was going to be in 5 is still there, with room for
+about 3-4 standalones, which will be a nice break.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:20:54 -0700

+
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+
+"When you look back and reflect on what you've accomplished down the
+road, I hope the reality matches the vision you had when you were
+pitching the idea lo those many years ago."
+
+      A few glitches notwithstanding...it *exceeds* the vision.  I'm
+happy. It's the main piece that I will end up putting on the mantle to
+remind folks I was here.
+
+"Now, when you're done, could you please do a fantasy series, so I can
+find a job for the troll in the well at the bottom of the hill near my
+barn?  He's irritating the hoses and I think he'll work for scale. . ."
+                           ^^^^^
+
+      Irritating the hoses?
+
+      May I suggest, rather than fantasy, perhaps a version of "Enema
+Mine."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+makeup in new movies (03 Jul 1997 03:20:57 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:20:57 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In that case, for the newbies, will there be some explanation of
+> why Delenn changes looks from In the Beginning to The Gathering
+> and then back for the episodes?
+
+      Well, I could run a crawl on the bottom of the screen...or
+insert a commercial explaining it...otherwise, I think just letting it
+go would be best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:20:59 -0700

+
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+
+      Columbia House will be releasing the show on cassette via
+mail-order this Fall, I believe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 finally on Video.DVD? (03 Jul 1997 03:21:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:21:01 -0700

+
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+
+      We're *talking* to the DVD folks, and things look positive, but
+that's still a long bit down the road.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Last 4 - have to redo? (30 Jun 1997 16:11:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:11:14 -0700

+
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+
+       I know, I know, I know...I think it's just the way we're all
+hard wired.  You can get 100 plaudits, but it's the one meroon who
+busts your chops for something you didn't even *do* that sticks in your
+mind.  Never met anyone yet that was different.  Ah, well...onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Tapes and DVD (03 Jul 1997 03:21:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 03 Jul 1997 03:21:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, Columbia House has called to get graphics, so I would
+suggest that it's confirmed on tapes.  Don't know the status on the
+movies, but I would imagine they'd be included...DVD is still in
+discussions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Thanks...there's an awful lot in those characters and
+situations.  I've tried, as best I can, to create a living, breathing
+universe, with stories you follow in any direction and find something
+interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+General (03 Jul 1997 13:36:56 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Jul 1997 13:36:56 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why?
+> You don't drink, do drugs, etc?
+
+"I know that season 5 won't be filler, because that's not what a
+Master of his craft does.  You wouldn't tolerate it from anyone else,
+so you surely will not do it yourself."
+
+      Bingo.  Sometimes when I try to describe what's happening on my
+side of things, I don't find the right words.  Thanks for doing so.
+
+"You don't drink, do drugs, etc?"
+
+      Also don't smoke or gamble.
+
+"Wow, talk about the clean cut, all american boy! <g>  No vices, eh?"
+
+      Two: Chocolate and coffee.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Season 5 (07 Jul 1997 02:49:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:07 -0700

+
 John F Davis <73455.43@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is season 5 going to be broadcast where I can see it or am I
+> going to have to break down and buy cable?
+
+      If you're in the US, it's only available on TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Congratulations & Thanks (07 Jul 1997 02:49:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+"And I notice that one episode made the TV Guide list of the top 100
+shows ever."
+
+      No...don't think so, though it's a great idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, but if it were easy, I guess everybody'd do it.
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:15 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will they still be aired by the syndicated stations or will TNT
+> show them?
+
+      No, the final 4 of S4 will show in October, on regular stations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 *only* on cable now?? (07 Jul 1997 02:49:17 -0700)
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Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:17 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will this be something like Columbia House's special collector
+> subscriptions? For example, you sign up and get a B5 tape every
+> four weeks? Or would they offer the tapes individually or each
+> season as a boxed set?
+
+      Dunno.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 *only* on cable now?? (07 Jul 1997 02:49:19 -0700)
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Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:19 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Insofar as I know, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 - tnt and WB (30 Jun 1997 16:11:14 -0700)
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Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:11:14 -0700

+
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+
+       Yes, TNT is definitely a better home.  For one thing, B5 would
+get lost on the SciFi channel among all the other shows; here, TNT will
+treat it as something special.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Renegade??? (07 Jul 1997 02:49:21 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:21 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you write the episode of Renegade that aired (well...cabled)
+> tonight on USA? Or did my ears deceive me?
+
+      I don't write for Renegade, and thus have no information on this
+other than what you just told me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+S5 in the UK? (07 Jul 1997 02:49:23 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:23 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think it likely that TNT will be showing S5 in the UK?
+
+      I haven't been apprised of the UK situation in full yet, but
+imagine that it'll go through WB as before, not TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Script Smart (07 Jul 1997 02:49:25 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:25 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This was a technical manual, wasn't it?
+
+      Thanks...I'm very proud of that book.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+General (07 Jul 1997 02:49:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 02:49:28 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you do the gourmet coffee?
+> Joe, any chance that you'll be at the big B5 convention in
+> Pasadena in November?
+
+      No one's talked to me yet about a B5 con in Pasadena in October,
+so I dunno.
+
+      And yeah, I do the gourmet coffee thing.  Big on Arabian Mocha
+Sanani, and Silewesi, and Sumatran.  It's the one "trendy" thing I
+allow myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Updates from jms (07 Jul 1997 03:03:25 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 03:03:25 -0700

+
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+
+"Basically, Warner Bros. was not willnig to fund a fifth season of B5
+for syndication."
+
+      Incorrect.  Not just incorrect but *massively* incorrect.
+
+      In the past, the PTEN deal had WB and the indie stations putting
+up the money for B5.
+
+      For year 5, TNT *and* WB are both footing the bill for the fifth
+season. WB *wanted* to do the show, but was finding trouble in the
+current syndicated marketplace with more and more stations, and
+timeslots, being committed to other programs and networks like UPN. 
+TNT provided a window, and WB went through it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+season5 cast (rumor) (07 Jul 1997 03:03:27 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 03:03:27 -0700

+
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+
+      Jerry Doyle will be in season 5 of B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Last 4 - have to redo? (07 Jul 1997 20:45:06 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 20:45:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The two novels are currently out of print.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Even more congrats (07 Jul 1997 20:45:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 20:45:07 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Do you envision writing the entire 5th season?
+> 2) Whose idea is that "AOL Keyword" stuff at the end of the
+> show??
+
+      No, no desire whatsoever to write all of S5, nor is there a need
+to.
+
+      And the difference is that AOL has set aside an entire *area*
+just for B5, so they get the notation.  It would be as if they renamed
+the sfmedone section the B5 section, there's a massive difference in
+commitment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mars Pathfinder (07 Jul 1997 20:45:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 20:45:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's nothing I can say about the current Mars mission that
+cannot be summed up in the word "cool."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+General (07 Jul 1997 20:45:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Jul 1997 20:45:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Creation counter-programed Loscon?
+
+      That bites.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+You the man (30 Jun 1997 16:11:16 -0700)
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+
Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:11:16 -0700

+
 Scott Baker <76072.1744@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you be writting all of season 5, or is the remarkable streak
+> soon to end?
+
+       No, I have no intention of writing all of S5...I'll probably do
+about what I did in S1-2, writing 11-15, with the rest being assigned
+out of the arc.  And Neil Gaiman has said he's now in a place where he
+can tackle one, so I hope to work out something with him, a story worth
+his doing, to make that happen at last.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+San Diego Con plans? (08 Jul 1997 02:10:02 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 08 Jul 1997 02:10:02 -0700

+
 Michael Grabois <74737.2600@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the difference between the Saturday show and the
+> Friday/Sunday ones? And is anyone else from the show scheduled to
+> be at the con?
+
+      I don't actually know what the difference is, except that I
+think the Friday/Sunday presentations involve the videos, and the
+Saturday one *may* just be me running my mouth.  (I just sent a note
+asking about this, btw.)
+
+      I think they've learned what other cons have learned: that it's
+best to take extraordinary measures to deal with B5 presentations. 
+People show up. LOTS of people.  And a cuter and more inherently spiffy
+bunch I can't imagine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+jms in san diego (16 Jul 1997 21:10:29 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Jul 1997 21:10:29 -0700

+
      Just a quick note to let folks know that I'll be in San Diego
+this coming weekend for ComicCon, at the convention center downtown. 
+I'll be doing two (fairly identical) major B5 presentations Friday and
+Sunday at 11 a.m., and a "spotlight on jms" presentation (whatever the
+hell that is) Saturday at 1:30.
+
+      A word to the wise: in the past, these have always been the
+largest events held at ComicCon, which has about 25,000 guests on
+average.  The room they set aside for B5 stuff tends to hold about 2400
+people, so seating is kind of at a premium.  Translation: try and get
+there early.
+
+      I'll be bringing the season 4 bloopers, clips from upcoming
+shows, some nifty videos, and trailers for the two new B5 TV movies for
+TNT.  Also, the official B5 fan club will be making its debut at a
+table in the dealer's room this weekend at SDCC, selling some nifty
+stuff including bunches of the Agamemnon cap worn by Sheridan in
+"Knives."  It's identical to the prop in just about every way.
+
+      See you there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Updates from jms (16 Jul 1997 21:50:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Jul 1997 21:50:50 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How can I sign up to the fan club?
+> Also, how can I get one of these boxes signed by someone going by
+> the handle "jms?"
+
+      You can get info on the boxes, and the fan club, at
+www.thestation.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congratulations & Thanks (16 Jul 1997 21:50:52 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Jul 1997 21:50:52 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I know all about the project...they'd asked me to write
+it, and I read the material, but finally had to pass.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Internet World Article (16 Jul 1997 21:50:53 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 16 Jul 1997 21:50:53 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the story they have true?
+
+      Yeah, it happened.  I haven't seen the article, but apparently
+they chide me for not using a virus checker...but what did the most
+damage was the trojan horse program that use deltree to systematically
+start deleting my hard drive, and no checker can find those.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms in san diego (20 Jul 1997 21:10:50 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:10:50 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's okay, I know what date they hit the place, so I can be out
+of town when it happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms in san diego (20 Jul 1997 21:10:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:10:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.  I don't do any convention with a direct link to Trek in
+its name, so that would leave Toronto Trek out, despite many friendly
+talks with the con organizers.  Bottom line, I get gigged by ST fans
+for "poaching," and it just ain't worth the grief I get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Credit Card (20 Jul 1997 21:10:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:10:56 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that true?
+
+      It's been discussed with other ideas, but nothing more.
+
+      The Agamemnon caps made their debut at San Diego Comic Con, and
+were a huge hit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 - The Cult (20 Jul 1997 21:11:00 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:11:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Hmmm...I don't know.  I'll have to check.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia C fired! (20 Jul 1997 21:11:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:11:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      You must understand that Claudia is one of 10 or so actors on
+the show. The other actors understood and understand that we cannot
+renegotiate contracts in mid-stream, and they are *supportive of the
+show*, and gave us extensions on their contracts so that WB could have
+time to make the TNT deal work.  They are all, to a man and woman, on
+board otherwise.
+
+      Claudia opted to not give the extension, where the other cast
+did, and now wants (or says she wants to) renegotiate, now that all the
+other cast members are locked down.  To do so in her case, when she did
+not give us the extension, and deliberately embarrassed WB by having an
+article appear in the trades saying she was out and looking for other
+work, would be an insult to all the other cast members who have worked
+with us to date.
+
+      Further, yes, she's right, in that the contract could not be
+changed so that she could go out and do movies at a moment's notice. 
+By contract, we must have first call on an actor's services.  That is a
+requirement of ANY TV contract with an actor who is a series regular. 
+That cannot be changed for ANY actor, ANYwhere.
+
+      That said...I already *told* Claudia that, even though we
+couldn't put it in the contract, I would be happy to work with her
+*informally* on this, and that if she said she needed to be gone from
+X-date to Y-date, I would write her out of those episodes so that she
+could do the movies.  SHE ALREADY GOT FROM ME THAT PROMISE.  I've
+already done similar things for her and other cast members on the show,
+which is how many of them have appeared in other projects.  So this is,
+for me, a non-issue.
+
+      No, from my standpoint, she wanted off the show, and I have no
+idea why she is running up the fans like this unless she wants to avoid
+responsibility for this.
+
+      Again, this isn't a case of my word against hers.  EVERY SINGLE
+CAST MEMBER was there when this went down, and MANY of them tried to
+talk her out of walking off the show.  If you don't want to take my
+word for it, ask any one of them who was there, especially Bruce or
+Jeff.
+
+      I would suggest the fans *not* get into this, because a) you're
+not getting solid or reliable information from Claudia, and b) it is
+simply too late.  She opted to pass on season 5, whether she wants to
+admit this or not, whether she's running from responsibility from that,
+I don't know...but it was her choice.  I sat with her on Thursday night
+at Midnight and told her, flat out, that I would accommodate her
+request on a personal basis, and that she *had* to either contact WB
+herself or have her agent do so the next day, or she was off the show,
+because we HAD to get the show going.  The train was leaving, and she
+could be on it or not as she chose.  She chose not to get on board.
+
+      What you also don't understand is that we start shooting season
+5 in less than one month.  We're in the process of writing scripts
+*right now*, and have been since we got the production order right
+about the time we went to Blackpool.  You can't whipsaw the writing
+back and forth -- is she in, isn't she in, maybe she is, maybe she
+isn't -- and hope to have anything in shape to shoot.  That was why we
+had to know at that date.  Normally we have a longer lead time; this
+time we didn't, and this has already put the scripts back a bit.  The
+script with the new character is written and in; if I take it out now I
+have to replace it, and there isn't *time*.
+
+      Claudia knew this.  WB knew this.  We were up against it.  She
+had to choose to be in, or out.  She chose out.  It's no longer our
+responsibility, and it's flatly too late to bring her back.  The door
+is closed on season 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Guest Editorial (01 Jul 1997 02:15:34 -0700)
+
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Date: 01 Jul 1997 02:15:34 -0700

+
 Richard M. Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There are generally two questions I get that are on this level:
+> "Why do you like *that* stuff?" (after answering "yes" to "You
+> really like that stuff, don't you?") and "Why are you involved
+> with Boy Scouts?" On a somwhat related note, did you happen to get
+> the Kingdom Come limited edition slipcover? Whose will be done?
+
+      Exactly.  And the question is phrased to put you on the
+defensive when there is *nothing* one needs to be defensive
+about...it's "how long have you been beating your wife?"  You have to
+redefine the question to something a tad closer to reality.
+
+      Re: the Kingdom Come ltd. edition...no, I didn't know about
+that.  Will definitely go out and pick it up next chance I get; that
+was one of the few series I read this year, and I liked it a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      I answered this in the other thread.  Once you read it, you may
+think differently.
+
+      As for your tone, please take it elsewhere.  I have no interest
+in hearing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+C Christian in Season 5? (20 Jul 1997 21:35:00 -0700)
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Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:35:00 -0700

+
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+
+      I personally told Claudia that we would work out the time for
+her to do a film project prior to the deadline coming for her decision.
+Other cast members knew this, and confirmed it to her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 20 Jul 1997 21:35:01 -0700

+
 Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ask yourself this: why would I have done the TNT promos for the
+> 5th season if I did not want to be involved? This fax was received
+> on Friday, so what kind of game was being played by giving me
+> false hopes throughout the weekend in England?
+
+      1) This confirms what I said in my note to Brian, that I
+personally assured Claudia of the chance for time off (so Kevin, bugger
+off).
+
+      2) Neither I nor anyone else in B5 told her that she had until
+Monday. I sat with her Midnight Thursday and said she had to talk to
+her agent and get this to WB *the very next day*, Friday, or that was
+it.  Jeff took it upon himself to try and talk Claudia into trying to
+work it out on Monday, out of his concern and a hope that this could be
+saved.
+
+      3) Her agent was notified several days prior to the deadline
+that it was in place by WB business affairs.
+
+      4) As noted in my other message, there wasn't time to sit down
+leisurely after Blackpool and discuss this.  The first script had to be
+in on July 6th. The second on July 12th.  The third one on July 18th. 
+Those are the hard and fast deadlines in order to meet production
+requirements for season 5.  It is not July 20th.  By the time anyone
+could "sit down" we'd be deep into episode 5 or 6, and then what do we
+do?  Rewrite all 5 or 6 at the last minute?
+
+      It's an unfortunate situation.  Nobody's denying that.  But what
+happened, happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's hell being popular, ain't it?
+
+      Finally I'm popular....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+"I do have a question though.  Why did you opt for a new character,
+instead of simply promoting Corwin?  Was this simply to save changing
+Corwin's role in S5 or is there another reason?"
+
+      It involves some things that happen later this season that
+require a certain grade officer in place in S5, and would require
+Corwin to jump several ranks.  He's too young and inexperienced for
+that job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 22 Jul 1997 01:54:39 -0700

+
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+
+      The information on residuals is not correct.  NO ONE was aske to
+give up residuals on season 5 forever.  That simply never took place.
+
+      To explain:
+
+      There are different residuals formulas for the various forms of
+TV. The best one is for network, where the fee paid per rerun is quite
+high; then you have syndication, which starts at a much lower level;
+then there is the basic cable residual, which is lowest of all.  In
+year 5, B5 is going from syndication to basic cable.  That means it
+must now use the basic cable residuals formula.  But the cast had to be
+informed of this, and agree to it, otherwise there could not BE a fifth
+season.
+
+      The basic cable deal is spelled out very clearly in the Screen
+Actors Guild (SAG) agreement, which is standard for all parts of the
+Industry.  The rule is that the amount paid to an actor over
+double-scale is *credited against* residuals.  Once that amount is
+earned out, the residuals come again. That is standard for basic cable.
+(The closest parallel would be a print author, who is paid an advance
+against royalties; once that advance is earned out, the royalties come
+to the author.)
+
+      So to make it clearer: let's say for the sake of argument that
+scale is $5,000 per episode.  (It isn't that exact figure, but I don't
+have the SAG book in front of me; still, that's close.)  Double scale
+would be $10,000 per episode.  So if an actor is paid, let's say,
+$12,000 per episode, then $2,000 over double scale per episode is
+credited against residuals, for a total of $44,000.  That amount would
+get burned through pretty fast, and then the actor would again start
+getting residuals.
+
+      That was the situation explained to *all* the actors.  NO ONE
+was asked to permanently give up S5 residuals.  That simply never
+happened, and *could not* happen under SAG rules.  And the rule as
+specified above can be verified in the SAG agreement.
+
+      BTW...it was stated to Claudia's people that WB *could* drop her
+down to 18 episodes if she wanted to be paid for only those 18
+episodes, but her reps demanded that she should be paid for all 22
+regardless, and didn't take that deal.
+
+      You must understand that this sort of thing is common.  For
+instance, when Stephen Furst wanted to do fewer episodes so that he
+could appear as a regular in the sitcom "Misery Loves Company," he
+said, "Look, I really want to do this, so if you could cut me down to,
+say, 8 episodes, and just pay me for those 8 instead of the contracted
+13, that'd be great."  And that deal was made, and made quickly.  If an
+actor wants to be reduced in the number of episodes, but still be paid
+for the full number, that makes things difficult for a studio to go
+along with.
+
+      And as of now, it's a moot point.  The boat has left the pier. 
+This is no longer an issue that can be altered.  She opted out, for her
+own reasons. Heck, that was announced in the trades long before we knew
+what was going on. We have had no choice but to move on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+
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+
+"In the back of my mind, I wonder why Claudia, her agent, Joe, and the
+WB/TNT folks couldn't sit down together (or conference call, or
+whatever) and talk with each other on that final day."
+
+      I did.  That Thursday night, I sat with her for half an hour,
+urging her to call her agent, and have her agent call WB.  Didn't
+happen.  We never even heard anything from her or her people until
+literally 1 week after the deadline for scripts to start coming in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 22 Jul 1997 17:51:09 -0700

+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the actors who played Major Ryan or Captain McDougal being
+> considered to replace Claudia? Or would that be telling?
+
+      I'd prefer to put a female in that position, to keep the cast
+relatively balanced.  I've actually come up with some very interesting
+ideas on this, which are kinda fun...a way to put a lot more conflict
+into the inner circle, if you will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, this would be much simpler if it *were* a
+communication breakdown.  But it ain't.
+
+      Onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 22 Jul 1997 17:51:14 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If, in the past, you've given your word to someone regarding
+> something specifc, and you've kept it, why all of a sudden is
+> your word not good? How many in your profession would extend that
+> courtesy?
+
+      Thanks.  Yeah...ask any cast member, and they'll tell you that
+when I make a promise, it's kept, no matter what it takes.
+
+      On the reaction...it goes with the territory.  What's been
+difficult have been the emails that have come in suggesting that I
+"watch my back" at the next few conventions I attend.  Disagreement or
+discussion is one thing; threats are another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      I was planning to speak to both those folks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There was no pay cut for the fifth season for the cast.  And the
+residulas formula is standard for basic cable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 22 Jul 1997 21:46:04 -0700

+
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+
+"Joe could write sa character out of an episode or 4, yet the suits
+could insist that the actor be present on the set anyway (or be in
+breach of contract)!"
+
+      Nope.  Wouldn't happen.  Has never happened.  Would never
+happen.  WB has not even given us a creative *note* in almost 2 years.
+
+      This one's a non-starter.  That would simply not happen.  If
+you're not in the script, there's no need for you to be there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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Date: 23 Jul 1997 20:47:27 -0700

+
 Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will they be available through the club via mail order?
+
+      Yes, the caps can be purchased through the fan club, and
+thestation.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 23 Jul 1997 20:47:31 -0700

+
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+
+      One of the problems not just in this, but in general, is that
+there is so much mythology about how TV is done, and so much bad
+information.  Any time that can be cleared up, the better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 23 Jul 1997 20:47:32 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm just as disappointed as everyone else, but it happens, yes?
+> Why can't everyone just appreaciate you for the sick, twisted,
+> lovable, demented, tortured, bizarre, clever, witty, devious,
+> genius that you are? PS: Being as I'm only 5'2", it will be
+> difficult for me to watch you're back and see what's coming also,
+> perhaps my 6'5" boyfriend will help?
+
+"Why can't everyone just appreaciate you for the sick, twisted,
+lovable, demented, tortured, bizarre, clever, witty, devious, genius
+that you are?"
+
+      Kill me...just kill me now and get it over with....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will they be available through the club via mail order?
+
+      They're probably available right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  -bpg- Uncle-at-Large "....'Great Maker', huh?"
+
+"They wouldn't like it, but they had to let a certain Mrs Roddenberry
+set a precedent..."
+
+      1) Majel isn't a series regular, with the contract requirements
+thereof.
+
+      2) Nobody messes with the Roddenberrys.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There is nothing amiss with an actor seeing work as a
+contingency if the current show is not renewed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:08 -0700

+
 Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If that's the case, then why wouldn't/couldn't he put it into
+> writing?
+
+"If that's the case, then why wouldn't/couldn't he put it into
+writing? So far as I can tell, that's because although he can do
+everything in his power to keep Ivanova out of four episodes, there are
+higher powers within WB/TNT who could say otherwise.  They're the ones
+who hold CCs contract, not JMS."
+
+      Every studio holds the contract on its actors; that's the same
+for every show.
+
+      Nothing could be put into writing in the form of a renegotiation
+because all of the actors are on a favored nation basis...if one
+renegotiates in his/her favor, they all get to renegotiate.  Any of our
+cast can take fewer episodes if they agree to be paid for fewer
+episodes since that favors WB.  Or they can come to me and we'll do it
+unofficially, as has been done with every single cast member for 4+
+years now.  Peter wanted to do "The Late Shift," I wrote him out for a
+couple of episodes to accommodate that; Andreas wants to do a movie, he
+asks, and I write him out.  This has never, ever been a problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+"Again, I'm not saying that JMS did anything wrong, but if the studio
+can supercede Joe (i.e. Joe can verbally say 'I'll do it', but the
+studio still has the right to say 'no'), then I can't blame CC for
+wanting something in writing <shrug>"
+
+      Any studio can supercede the authority of an executive producer.
+
+      The question, though, is one of logic.
+
+      If Character X is not in an episode, is not written in an
+episode, there is no grounds on earth for a studio to force the actor
+to hang around the studio for that episode.  Never been done to my
+knowledge on ANY show, anywhere, at any time.  Nor would there be any
+reason to do so here.
+
+      And WB doesn't write the scripts.  I do.  And they don't bother
+us on that one.  We haven't had a creative note since year 2, episode
+2, and that was mainly on a scene they wanted clarified.
+
+      In the past, with every actor on the show, I have said, "Come to
+me, and we'll work out unofficially time for you to get away."  There
+are some occasions when I say, "Look, I *need* your character for this
+episode, I can't do "Severed Dreams" without Sheridan," but that
+doesn't happen too often.  We have never had a problem with WB over
+this.  And never once have I given my word to an actor about being
+available, and not had it work out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+"I say do that same thing you did when you first had this idea-write
+for yourself. Focus on what you want to express. Develop those ideas
+you deem important."
+
+      That's the only way I can do this; only way I ever have or ever
+will.
+
+"And if you ever need a break, drop by Vegas and share some Corona's,
+limes, and a can of salt with me. We can laugh at the world together in
+the summer sun, watch some showgirls, and throw some bucks at the
+blackjack table."
+
+      I don't drink, don't smoke, don't do drugs, don't gamble...I
+write. Sad, innit?
+
+"I'll steer you away from any Tyson boxing matches, though."
+
+      I'm just *waiting* for him to get mad at somebody, and have that
+person reel back saying, "Hey, sorry, jeez, don't bite my head off,
+man."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (24 Jul 1997 00:52:14 -0700)
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Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:14 -0700

+
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+
+"In her message, CC has quoted Copeland as saying that if TNT/WB want
+her to do the 22 episodes, there's nothing that can be done about it."
+
+      What John said was that if she wanted to be paid the full amount
+(the 22 episode fee) she had to be in all 22.
+
+"However, there still seems to be a question as to whether or not she
+was informed of the correct deadlines or if WB/TNT withdrew whatever
+offer was on the table before that deadline arose."
+
+      She was.  They didn't.
+
+      On the Thursday before the final Friday deadline, I sat in the
+bar of the DeVere Hotel in Blackpool with Claudia and said, "Claudia,
+the press has announced your departure from the show.  WB takes it
+seriously, and I have to start writing *yesterday*.  We have to know if
+you're in or out, and we have to know by mid-day (noon) tomorrow.  If
+we don't get an indication from your agent that you're in, the offer
+will be withdrawn."
+
+      The offer was withdrawn at mid-day Friday, as indicated. 
+Because to wait any longer would damage the show, and our chances of
+getting going without missing airdates.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (24 Jul 1997 00:52:18 -0700)
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Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:18 -0700

+
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+
+"CC trusts that JMS will do what he can, but feels that things might
+be out of his hands and puts the question to Copeland who tells her
+(via her agent) that what JMS offered is "Not possible."
+
+      It is not possible only if one wishes to be paid for all 22.
+
+"5.  A deadline is set for CC to get in touch with WB to confirm S5.
+According to CC, she was told this by Conaway and not informed via
+normal channels (i.e. via agent, manager, WB).  She tries to contact
+her agent regarding this but they miss each other over the weekend."
+
+      Ken Parks of WB Business Affairs informed her agent.  I
+personally informed her as well.
+
+"JMS says she had a Friday deadline.  CC says she was told Monday by
+Conaway and that neither her agent or manager were informed of this
+deadline."
+
+      After the Friday deadline passed, Jeff took it upon himself to
+try and convince her to go back to the show.  He went to her and said
+that if she or her agent contacted WB on Monday, there might be a
+chance to patch things up. That was the full extent of it.  Jeff does
+not represent the show, and was not asked to convey this to Claudia,
+and was acting on his own good will to try and help her out.  It had
+nothing to do with deadlines.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (24 Jul 1997 00:52:20 -0700)
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Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:20 -0700

+
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+
+      Nothing was said about any of this online until Claudia began
+talking about it at a convention Toronto and indicating that she had
+been fired, which was not the case.
+
+      She passed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      We'll probably start casting in the next 7 days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The only 3 women that come to mind are: Lyta (unlikely but we can
+> expect anything from you, can't we? I assume that the idea of
+> keeping this affair to humans is still in effect, isn't it?
+
+      Nothing to do with being "politically correct," this is the
+least PC show on record.  I just like to have a mix of male and female
+characters, and when it tilts too much in o, including Claudia, who has
+three or four web sites devoted to her.  She's not exactly out in the
+cold here.  Her comments at the convention were here instantly, the
+Variety and Reuters articles were here very quickly, and her online
+note showed up within hours.  I don't exactly see that as only one side
+being presented.
+
+      Second, your observation is cynical and untrue.  I've been
+online at CIS since 1984-85; I was one of the first people on CIS on my
+block.  I've been here for going on 13 years.  I got on here to hang
+out with fellow fans, and talk about shows, and meet people.  I'm still
+here now for the same reasons. You can speak to events and specifics
+all you want, but stay out of my motives unless and until you can hire
+a teep to probe around in my cerebellum.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Claudia C fired! (24 Jul 1997 00:52:33 -0700)
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Date: 24 Jul 1997 00:52:33 -0700

+
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+
+"I merely wanted to point out that JMS has seemed to USE this forum to
+put over a very onesided point of view."
+
+      You're right.  I put across one side.  Mine.  You put across
+yours. How many people are supposed to inhabit my body?  It's not my
+place to speak for Claudia or you or anybody else.
+
+      I have not used words in the same way you have used them,
+either; unlike you, I have not characterized the people here.  You have
+called me arrogant without a) any meaning of the word, or b) anything
+to back that up other than bile and spirit messages.  I have not called
+anyone in this stupid, or malicious, or arrogant.
+
+      In reviewing your messages here, however, I'm nearly prepared to
+make an exception to the rule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+"I do not have to sound like I'm in control ALL THE TIME."
+
+      I don't think you will find anyone in this forum who feels, on
+reading your messages, that you're in control.
+
+      Mission objective achieved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Couch Critic-Jeff Ja (24 Jul 1997 00:52:38 -0700)
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+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There's a compliment in there somewhere...but for whom?
+
+      I think it's the closest he will ever come to speaking well of
+the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 John M. Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why then, was the deadline for Claudia to make up her mind left
+> so short? Is the problem the lack of reruns (meaning you have to
+> get further ahead in case you fall behind without the planned
+> holds in the countdown)? (Also, will Claudia appear in 501 aring
+> as 422, and how does she get paid for 422, since that whole
+> residual problem raises its ugly head?
+
+"With the exception of 501 (airing in the 422 slot), you should have
+about 2 extra months to get the episodes in the can.  They won't, after
+all, air until January, when they previously aired in November.  Why
+then, was the deadline for Claudia to make up her mind left so short?"
+
+      Because you can't just come in and shoot one episode, then tell
+everyone, "Okay, we're taking a break for two months."  The moment you
+begin shooting, the clock is ticking.  SAG regulates the span of time
+you have the actors, equipment is rented...on and on.  We had to come
+back in time to shoot 501/422, and it's going to be close as it is.  It
+takes 52 days of post to finish an episode once it's filmed, so with
+501/422 shooting August 18th, just do the math to see how close this is
+going to be.
+
+      And once we pull the trigger on 501, we have to go immediately
+into 502. And on and on.
+
+      Even if this were not an issue with the 422 business, we would
+*still* have to start shooting in August because of the schedule of
+holidays, and TNT's desire to run S5 *straight through* without reruns
+or breaks.  That means you have to start early and be finished with a
+lot of shows, and vault them, to be able to then run through them all
+sequentially in 22 weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Clauduia (24 Jul 1997 00:52:44 -0700)
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+
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+
+"Even if Claudia had no doubt that Joe could steer her around any
+trouble with the suits, the verbal agreement wouldn't carry any weight
+in the outside world."
+
+      <thud>
+
+      Y'know, up until this very moment, the whole 4-eps-in-writing
+thing hadn't made sense to me, I couldn't get my brain around it.
+
+      I don't know if that's it, but it's a helluvan interesting
+thought.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Warners... (01 Jul 1997 02:15:41 -0700)
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+
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+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Actually, the show didn't REALLY change hands, did it?
+> This was more of a lateral than a punt....true?
+
+      Not really, no...because the two organizations are *affiliated*
+but they continue to operate as wholly different companies, and neither
+side takes orders from the other.  TNT *actively pursued* both the
+reruns (before the companies merged) and the fifth season.  And they
+fought like hell to make the deal work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Yeah, it's another chance to make the show even more
+interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Thanks...it'll be an interesting addition to the mix, given what
+happens in the latter part of the season.
+
+      And no, she won't be "dead and gone forever."  There's the third
+TNT movie, and a possible feature film, and if she wants to approach us
+about those projects, we'll be more than happy to have the discussion. 
+That's precisely why I'm not recasting the role.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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Date: 24 Jul 1997 20:42:21 -0700

+
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+
+"all I was really saying is that he should keep the business side  of
+the show off of this forum."
+
+      Then you miss two important points.
+
+      1) This came up at Claudia's convention appearance, and the
+result has led people to ask questions.  As in, "What the hell's going
+on?"
+
+      2) The whole reason I'm *here* is not publicity, but to create
+and maintain a dialogue about How Television Is Done and Why Things Are
+Done The Way They're Done.  The business side of it has comprised about
+60% of the discussion from day one.  To answer questions about all the
+other business aspects, but pointedly *not* answer them here, goes
+against the reason I'm here, and would imply there's something to hide.
+
+      Besides, last I heard, you didn't define the range of what can
+be discussed here, that's up to the sysops.  If it's jake by them, it's
+jake by me.  The problem is yours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+New Character (24 Jul 1997 20:42:23 -0700)
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+
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+
+      The Sisters of Zathras...now *there's* a convent worth joining.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (25 Jul 1997 14:30:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:28 -0700

+
 Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question then is, what about the supposed conversation between
+> CCs agent and Copeland? Did this never take place?
+> is the agent lying?
+
+      The conversation was not fully reported.  If an actor wants to
+be paid for 22 episodes, then yes, it is impossible for ANY studio to
+put in writing that they will pay for 22 while getting only 16 or 18. 
+None of them will ever do that.  Now, if an actor wants to 16-18 and be
+paid for only 16-18, then that's another issue.  But the former is not
+possible, and that was what John was addressing.  He's kind of gotten a
+bad rap in this, without cause.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (25 Jul 1997 14:30:31 -0700)
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+
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+
+      I have little to quarrel with in any of that, though I will make
+the point that there isn't really *that* much dissimilarity in our
+reports, as others have pointed out...it's the behind the scenes stuff
+and conversations and dates that get jumbled up in some of the reports.
+
+      It's also a matter of perception...here you perceive that my
+"side" of it, if you want to call it that, is getting more support. 
+But on other nets, I've gotten a hideous amount of hate mail, and some
+threats, disguised and outright.  So it's a matter of what you see, vs.
+what is.  (Kinda like the overall situation.)
+
+      Finally...as you say, you have no reason to give more weight to
+one side or another in this.  But there is one aspect of this to bear
+in mind. People can argue after the fact about how a tossed coin came
+down, can debate whose coin it was, whether it was a dime or a quarter,
+who said what about the ground it came to rest upon...and no one down
+the road may have any reason to believe one report or another...but it
+*did* come down, and it *did* come down either heads, or tails.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia Opts Out-JMS (25 Jul 1997 14:30:34 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Claudia Opts Out-JMS

+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:34 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"No offense, but it's your word against hers, and my point is that we
+don't have any reason to believe either one of you over the other."
+
+      Actually, that's not quite correct.  There were approximately 10
+actors there in Blackpool when all this went down...and they can all
+verify the account that I have described in all this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Tim's Apology (25 Jul 1997 14:30:41 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Tim's Apology

+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"I am still of the opinion that this business side of the show should
+be kept under wraps and that a simple request for such, on this forum,
+by yourself would have dealt with this matter more swiftly."
+
+      (sound effect: hysterical laughter)
+
+      New to the nets, ain'tcha?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia C fired! (25 Jul 1997 14:30:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia C fired!

+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I'll try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-07/99.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-07/99.html
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+
+
+Claudia C fired! (25 Jul 1997 14:30:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia C fired!

+
Date: 25 Jul 1997 14:30:45 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Every character but Ivanova has undergone great changes, I
+> presume that her's were to come now with the challenges and
+> stresses of the battle with Psi Corp/Earth and her assumption of
+> Army of Light command? Will the new character be used, more or
+> less, to complete Ivanova's development or will her thread be
+> dropped? Will the new character only have a lifespan of nine
+> years? Could he be assistant king/commander?
+
+      Whatever you're drinking, you're either not drinking enough of
+it or too much of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+wolf 359 (01 Aug 1997 01:56:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
wolf 359

+
Date: 01 Aug 1997 01:56:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I would like to express my appreciation for the way that you and all
+the members of the cast at Blackpool gave no hint of the turmoil going
+on over that weekend."
+
+      Thanks.  You are kinder than honesty would warrant.  We were all
+more than a bit upset as we watched things unravel in front of our
+eyes; Bruce was about as upset as I've ever seen him, although he
+buttoned it up beautifully when the fans came around, because they
+deserved only the best.  I did my best there, but there were lapses...I
+was sharper tempered than I should have been with a couple of stewards,
+because I was more at the direct center of the whole situation, and
+immensely frustrated and bugged at the whole thing. I guess that's why
+I'm a writer and not an actor.  But it's been nagging at me ever since
+I left, frankly, because they had no way of knowing what was going on,
+or why I was in that state, and they certainly didn't do anything to
+merit that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5FC Merchandise (03 Aug 1997 14:10:32 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5FC Merchandise

+
Date: 03 Aug 1997 14:10:32 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Meanwhile, on the subject of merchandise, I assume the
+> collectible card game I just plunked down pre-order money on is
+> legit? comments than "What's that?"
+
+      Thanks, and yes, the collectible card game is legit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/100.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/100.html
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+
+
+The Future (28 Aug 1997 13:24:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Future

+
Date: 28 Aug 1997 13:24:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, no plans to put B5 into book form; it was designed to be
+told for TV, and that's where it should stay...and the sequel is still
+being negotiated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/101.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/101.html
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+
+
+Ep 502 (28 Aug 1997 13:24:26 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Ep 502

+
Date: 28 Aug 1997 13:24:26 -0700

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm assuming the info there is correct?
+
+       Yep, the info is correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/102.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/102.html
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+
+
+Vir on a diet? (28 Aug 1997 17:47:53 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Vir on a diet?

+
Date: 28 Aug 1997 17:47:53 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, he's worked hard to lose weight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Creative Screenwriting (28 Aug 1997 22:34:55 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Creative Screenwriting

+
Date: 28 Aug 1997 22:34:55 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks (thanks three times, actually).  Good luck to all of you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Indigo Slam (29 Aug 1997 15:18:46 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Indigo Slam

+
Date: 29 Aug 1997 15:18:46 -0700

+
 Ruth Spradlin <73477.3155@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you a mystery fan?
+
+      That's funny, I hadn't known Bob had done that.  (Bob Crais is a
+friend.)  Gotta remember to thank him next time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+->402 (03 Aug 1997 14:10:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
->402

+
Date: 03 Aug 1997 14:10:37 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm keeping DC and David in my hip pocket for the moment; there
+are an awful lot of writers who've wanted desperately to write for the
+show in the last few years, who couldn't because I did two seasons
+alone.  I have kind of a moral obligation to give those folks a shot,
+and since there are only about 5 open assignments, I have to be very
+selective.  If I can in good conscience give one to David or DC, I will
+definitely consider doing so.  But the new guys deserve a shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Last Four of Season 4 (04 Aug 1997 21:04:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Last Four of Season 4

+
Date: 04 Aug 1997 21:04:14 -0700

+
 Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do the PTEN stations have an obligation to show the remaining
+> episodes of Season 4? I have not called the station yet, but if
+> they (and other stations) have decided to not show any more
+> episodes, will the debut on TNT in January take care of this
+> problem? Would TNT begin with the last four episodes of Season 4
+> and then go immediately into Season 5?
+
+      No, the final four contractually belong to the local stations;
+they may not be showing it *now*, but should be showing it in October.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+->402 (04 Aug 1997 21:04:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
->402

+
Date: 04 Aug 1997 21:04:16 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One thing that has me curious -- when another writer does a B5
+> ep, and you feel the need to ask for revisions, does it tend to
+> be because they don't have the characters' "voices" quite right,
+> or do they throw in elements that skew your arc? In other words,
+> is it character or plot that more frequently needs adjusting
+> before going to film?
+
+      It's never any one thing...it always varies from writer to
+writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Shadow Within> <COS (05 Aug 1997 16:28:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
Shadow Within> <COS

+
Date: 05 Aug 1997 16:28:21 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> could you comment on what isn't?
+> I'm pretty sure I get what that means, can you comment on whether
+> that figures in to the remainder of the TV series?
+
+      "Going beyond" was left deliberately vague...we may see
+something of this in time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/15.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/15.html
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+
+
+Bureau 13 Question (06 Aug 1997 23:02:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
Bureau 13 Question

+
Date: 06 Aug 1997 23:02:36 -0700

+
 Michael Nelson <70403.1270@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any plans for Bureau 13?
+> Has it been mentioned in any episodes after its introduction?
+
+      No, Bureau 13 was subsumed into the larger organizations.  After
+we did the episode, we learned of a rpg called bureau 13, and decided
+not to use it again just to avoid confusion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/16.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/16.html
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+
+
+The Casting Process (07 Aug 1997 13:50:58 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Casting Process

+
Date: 07 Aug 1997 13:50:58 -0700

+
 Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> mission, sheep farm and/ or afterlife)?
+
+       It's a different character, not a recast...Ivanova's away on
+another assignment.
+
+                       jms (who still remembers the new Darrin)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/17.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/17.html
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+
+
+the Summoning - doink! (08 Aug 1997 12:51:15 -0700)
+
+
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+
the Summoning - doink!

+
Date: 08 Aug 1997 12:51:15 -0700

+
 Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this what they meant when they said 'we are not ready yet'?
+> Where they waiting to get this monster grown/finished/whatever?
+> Don't believe in half measures, do they?
+
+       Thanks...we do try.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Third TNT film??? (08 Aug 1997 12:51:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
Third TNT film???

+
Date: 08 Aug 1997 12:51:16 -0700

+
 Laurence Moroney <100546.50@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any details available?
+
+       Lemme get S5 off the ground, then I'll deal with this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/19.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/19.html
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+
+
+<NSNR> <EVP> (08 Aug 1997 13:07:56 -0700)
+
+
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+
<NSNR> <EVP>

+
Date: 08 Aug 1997 13:07:56 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Thanks...the key is to always stay true to what the *character*
+thinks is true...whether that came genuinely, or he convinced himself
+of a certain position, you have to advance that position honestly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Casting Process (01 Aug 1997 01:56:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Casting Process

+
Date: 01 Aug 1997 01:56:12 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since the you are undoubtedly being besieged by "you should cast
+> <insert name of choice> for your new character," could you shed
+> light on the casting process, whether it be for a regular or a
+> guest shot? You've said that you (as execprod) wait for someone to
+> come in and knock you socks off (or something to that effect),
+> but is there a sort of cabal of casting directors (now there's a
+> term of venery for you <g>) who get together from time to time
+> and trade promising people ("Whoziwhatsis wasn't right for the
+> show we're casting, but he/she might be dynamite for your
+> show...")? Do casting directors actively seek out actors they've
+> seen do guest shots on other shows, or do they wait for the more
+> savvy actors' agents to do their thing?
+
+      Our casting director, Fern Champion (and I can't tell you the
+amount of humor we have with that name), like all casting directors,
+makes the rounds of theaters and movies and TV shows to see who's hot. 
+So she has her own list. On top of that, once a role comes out in a
+script, it goes out to actor's agents in what's called a "breakdown," a
+two- or three-paragraph description of the character: age, sex,
+attitude, the part itself, guest or recur or regular...all that.  The
+various agents then send the info on to their clients who seem to fit
+the bill.  Then if the actor is interested, the agents sends "sides,"
+meaning pages from the script in which the character appears.
+
+      If the actor likes the sides, and the character, the agent then
+contacts the casting director and tries to get their client into the
+audition.  There's some prescreening...if we see the resume ahead of
+time, and actor X doesn't have the training or experience, we move
+on...but in the end, we get anywhere from 5-9 people in for an
+audition.  If we like one of those, we cast that person.  If we're
+caught on two, we do a callback with those two and decide. (We = the
+CD, me, John, Doug and the director.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Casting Process (08 Aug 1997 23:02:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Casting Process

+
Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:02:29 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Will we be hearing about her from time to time throughout
+> the season?
+
+      No, there are no plans for Ivanova to appear in S5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+S5 Episode Titles (08 Aug 1997 23:02:31 -0700)
+
+
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+
S5 Episode Titles

+
Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:02:31 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, just that since I ain't doing that story, the title became
+available, and it was most apt for this episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Summoning: Translation (08 Aug 1997 23:02:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
Summoning: Translation

+
Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:02:33 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Hatrack would, of course, be a loose interpretation of the bony
+crest at the top of a Minbari's head.
+
+      (long pause to see if he buys it or not)
+
+      Okay, okay...bear in mind that if you misuse the language you
+can create words that don't actually exist.  In German, for instance,
+they create new words by adding suffixes and prefixes to previous words
+(as Mark Twain said, they eventually acquire a perspective, like a
+train receding into the distance).  The fact that Ivanova came up with
+that word -- taking English in her head and trying to find Minbari
+equivilants -- doesn't mean that it *is* a word to the Minbari.  I can
+say, "uberfleidermaus," which would mean "the supervising bat," but
+that ain't a word the Germans would recognize, even though it is in
+German.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:02:36 -0700

+
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+
+      Harlan is working on something now, and suggested something that
+I then based an episode on, so we share story credit on "A View from
+the Gallery."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Casting Process (08 Aug 1997 23:12:44 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:12:44 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Will we be hearing about her from time to time throughout
+> the season?
+
+      She'll be mentioned here and there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Big Picture (08 Aug 1997 23:12:45 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 08 Aug 1997 23:12:45 -0700

+
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+
+      There will be closure provided to that relationship.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+->402 (10 Aug 1997 22:24:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Aug 1997 22:24:08 -0700

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Trent or totally unrelated?
+
+      It's an unrelated story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (10 Aug 1997 23:39:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 10 Aug 1997 23:39:07 -0700

+
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+
+      B5 was created in 1987; the pilot was shot actually before the
+DS9 pilot was shot, but they rushed their version out before B5 could
+air.  There were only a few weeks between the airing of the two pilots.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Son of B5 Benchmark (10 Aug 1997 23:39:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Aug 1997 23:39:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, a number of shows are now adapting the B5 storytelling
+model, with an overarching arc and shows that keep it going.  The new
+Roddenberry series has a five year arc of its own, apparently.  More
+will follow, now that we've broken the ice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Son of B5 Benchmark (11 Aug 1997 21:25:47 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Aug 1997 21:25:47 -0700

+
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+
+      I honestly don't know how important the web has been because
+frankly, if you added up all the web-users out there, it wouldn't be a
+blip on the ratings charts.  That said, our audience has definitely
+increased over the last 4 years, one of the few syndicated shows that
+has grown while nearly all the rest have fallen.  Xena has grown, and I
+think one or two others, but that's it.
+
+      It just takes any show a while to find its audience, or in this
+case, for our audience to find *us*, given scheduling.  We've begun
+doing that, and are nearly at critical mass.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 01 Aug 1997 01:56:15 -0700

+
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+
+      I could write all of S5, but at this point there is no *need* to
+do so, so why do it?  Just for the record?  No...I'm just as happy to
+bring in a few outside scripts.  Not many, only about 5, just to break
+it up a little.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Son of B5 Benchmark (13 Aug 1997 11:58:39 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:58:39 -0700

+
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+
+       There's a follow-up story in the works...we'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Cast Member (13 Aug 1997 11:58:40 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:58:40 -0700

+
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+
+       No, we're still in the process of casting.  We have some
+interesting prospects, but nothing's been finalized yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Son of B5 Benchmark (13 Aug 1997 18:11:36 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Aug 1997 18:11:36 -0700

+
 Carol Naylor <100645.2613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ever since I realised that you'd been on-line long before B5 got
+> off the ground, I've wondered whether your on-line participation
+> as the show's producer was something you'd conciously decided to
+> do or whether it was something that, like Topsey, just 'growed'?
+
+       No, it was just a natural extension of already being online. 
+The only deliberate decision involved was, "Do I *change* my life and
+what I do for pleasure just because I'm more well known now than
+before?"  I'm still the same person, so the answer was no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Story Arc challeges (14 Aug 1997 03:49:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1997 03:49:55 -0700

+
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+
+      One of the first things I had to do, in plotting out the
+storyline, was to set aside trap doors for *every single character*,
+because you never know when or how the real world is going to impinge
+upon you.  An actor can quit, or get hit by a car, or slammed by a
+meteor...there's no way to control the characters the way you do in a
+novel.  That's a given.  But you can't bring X-million viewers along to
+a certain point, then say, "Well, all the stuff we were going to do we
+can't because X isn't here."
+
+      So in a way, the structure of the story is kind of like a
+computer game tree...pull out a piece along the way, and it goes down a
+different path, but ends up at exactly the same point at the end.  It's
+the difference between different *results* and different ways of
+*getting* there.
+
+      You can do a story about a platoon in WW II, for instance, and
+some of the platoon may live, die, be injured, whatever...but the story
+of WWII is the story of WWII.
+
+      Beyond that, a challenge is just that: a call to see just how
+good you *really* are, kid.  If you've ever seen GLORY, there's the
+scene in which one of the Massachusetts 54th is being taught to shoot. 
+He does just fine, hits the target, reloads fine...when nobody's
+shooting at him.  At which point the colonel starts firing a revolver
+right next to his head, teling him to try and do it NOW, and do it
+FAST, with ten thousand guns firing at him.
+
+      That's when the art comes in, that's when the skill comes
+in...in dealing with what you *don't* expect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Summoning: Translation (14 Aug 1997 03:49:58 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1997 03:49:58 -0700

+
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+
+      Danke.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1997 17:40:05 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are these legal?
+> Are they being sold legally?
+> Would appreciate any info you might have and if you or one of the
+> cast is presented with one of these, would it get signed or would
+> I get a smack in the head?
+
+       No, these scripts are *not* legitimate or legal.  I know they
+say they buy from "script dealers," but that translates out to "people
+who stole scripts from studios."  WB is aware of this one, and
+preparing to go after them.  The actual ownership of the physical
+*script* itself is shared and/or alternated by the studio and the
+writer, and it *cannot* be sold without the permission of the writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Story Arc challeges (14 Aug 1997 21:42:17 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1997 21:42:17 -0700

+
 Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you considered writing it once you are finished with the
+> series (assuming your time doesn't get monopolized by the next
+> show)?
+
+"It would be interesting to read an outline of the original arc, and
+the various changes which you have had to make along the way. I'm sure
+there is quite enough inside information for a book. Have you
+considered writing it once you are finished with the series (assuming
+your time doesn't get monopolized by the next show)?"
+
+      One heart attack at a time.
+
+"You might consider a writing a more general book rather than one
+directed towards aspiring scriptwriters. You'd have a lot more
+competition, but a considerably bigger potential audience."
+
+      See above.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Bruce on Pol. Incorrect (15 Aug 1997 14:09:13 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1997 14:09:13 -0700

+
 Stephen Burrow <70640.40@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What happened, and was it any big deal?
+> Have you ever been invited on PI?
+> Would you even be interested?
+
+       Yes, the union came in on season 3, on a Wednesday, if I
+recall, and by the end of the week it was resolved, and that was the
+extent of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you do the marketing thing, will you be making any of the
+> scripts available, or is that one of those things that you
+> haven't really been able to give a lot of time/attention to?
+
+       Selling B5 scripts is something I'd like to do, with the
+difference that the writers involved -- David, Larry, Peter, everybody
+ -- would get a percentage, just as with a book publication.  That's the
+way it *should* be done.  These guys who sell scripts through stores
+and mail order don't give a penny to the creators or writers whose work
+they are selling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1997 14:09:15 -0700

+
       For those who've wanted to hear another point of view on the CC
+thing, check out http://www.tvguide.com/tv/circuits/0815A.htm for Bruce
+Boxleitner's comments, since Bruce was there when it all went down, and
+saw everything firsthand.  His comments are as straightforward and
+uncensored as ever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Any chance of another Peter David Script???
+
+      Yes, Peter David and Bill Mumy will jointly be writing at least
+one script.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1997 21:20:17 -0700

+
 Jimmy K <110435.632@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you decided what the new B5 novels from Dell will be about?
+> Will they be more canon, like Book #9 was?
+
+      There's something very exciting in the works for the next batch
+of B5 novels, but I can't or shouldn't say anything until the
+announcements come at WorldCon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Bruce on Claudia (15 Aug 1997 21:20:19 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1997 21:20:19 -0700

+
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+
+"I went over to the site with the address you gave and got a file not
+found on server error.  I ended up just using
+www.tvguide.com/tv/circuits and then clicking on the Bruce B. story
+from there.  I looked at the url at that point and saw
+"www.tvguide.com/tv/circuits/0815a.htm".  The only difference I see is 
+that small "a" after the 0815, where you had a capital.  I don't know
+if that's what the problem was or not."
+
+      Yeah, apparently that makes all the difference...so anyone
+looking on, make the a lower case not upper case, or just go to the TV
+Guide main menu.
+
+"From what I've seen of Bruce B. on shows like PI and the like, he
+must be one of the most unpretentious TV stars I've seen.  I wonder how
+much this has to do with him working with James Arness."
+
+      I don't know if it's specifically that, but yeah, Bruce does
+have a kind of outspokenness and frankness and "ah, hell," attitude
+that comes from his long association with westerns.  He's absolutely a
+straight shooter.
+
+"I can't imagine what B5 would have been like without Bruce.  Bruce
+has brought a LOT to the show.  You, and the fans, really lucked out by
+Bruce getting on board."
+
+      Bruce has done a great job.  He loves the role, he *is* the
+Captain, and around the stage he's the show's cheerleader, team
+captain, and resident bright spirit.  Peter also does a lot of that, as
+does Rick, but Bruce is just an amazing team player.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bruce on Claudia (15 Aug 1997 21:20:22 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Aug 1997 21:20:22 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Huh...I totally missed that one...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1997 15:52:30 -0700

+
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+
+"Am I out of touch, but doesn't the Basic Agreement with the Guild
+give the writer the exclusive to sell the physical copies of the work? 
+Or is that something that died with the Strike of '61?"
+
+      Yes and no.  For instance...my script for "The Coming of
+Shadows" is being published in the UK by Boxtree, and subsequently in
+the US.  There is no ancillary payment for this other than the general
+licensing fee that goes against the overall merchandising revenue
+stream.  (Showbiz talk, folks, pay no attention.)  So I don't get any
+kind of royalty on the script book per se at all.  I called the WGA,
+and this is entirely within their purview.  Also, Fox is selling
+X-Files scripts by their writers, and I believe the arrangement is the
+same, or close to it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia's replacement (16 Aug 1997 15:52:33 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia's replacement

+
Date: 16 Aug 1997 15:52:33 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No; we're still in the process of casting, and no offer has been
+put forth yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Son of B5 Benchmark (16 Aug 1997 23:54:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Son of B5 Benchmark

+
Date: 16 Aug 1997 23:54:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Sound like anybody we know??
+
+      I haven't seen much of Buffy, due to work schedules, but what
+I've seen, I've liked.  I also commend Tales from a Parallel Universe
+on the Movie Channel to you...great stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bruce on Claudia (17 Aug 1997 00:02:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Bruce on Claudia

+
Date: 17 Aug 1997 00:02:59 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, Bruce is definitely a history buff, from the civil war
+period up through WWII and beyond.  That's one thing he and John
+Copeland share, a real interest in WWII history and the like.  Bruce,
+being something of a cowboy in real life, also has a substantial
+interest in, and familiarity with, the old west and native american
+histories.  He also reads and enjoys SF.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia's replacement (17 Aug 1997 16:06:58 -0700)
+
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+
Claudia's replacement

+
Date: 17 Aug 1997 16:06:58 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, you've written the first 4-5 scripts, but don't have the role
+> cast? How much slack do you have to cast and begin shooting?
+> Or, can you write the character out of 501 if there's a delay in
+> casting?
+
+      No, you almost always write the character long before you have
+the actor; you just find the actor that fits the character, then slowly
+the two begin to merge once the role is cast.  When Bruce came on
+board, I think we already had the first 4-5 scripts in hand.
+
+      In the case of Lochley, she isn't in 501 anyway, that's the 422
+replacement...she's in 502, and we still have time on that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia's replacement (17 Aug 1997 16:07:01 -0700)
+
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+
Claudia's replacement

+
Date: 17 Aug 1997 16:07:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"One of the magazines have said that Bill Mumy and Stephen Furst will
+NOT appear in front of the camera for season five....Say it aint so
+Joe..."
+
+      Ain't so.  They're both in 503, and will appear thereafter as
+well. Also in the main credits as usual.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5, TNT, and Censorship (17 Aug 1997 16:07:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5, TNT, and Censorship

+
Date: 17 Aug 1997 16:07:03 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will TNT silence out words unacceptable to their bizarre
+> standards from the original episodes of B5 (pilot and seasons one
+> through four) and from the new fifth season and it's
+> "made-for-cable" movies?
+
+      Dunno...nobody's said boo to us about this one yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Casting Process (03 Aug 1997 01:51:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Casting Process

+
Date: 03 Aug 1997 01:51:02 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So <g> ...any ideas so far concerning who may stand to replace
+> Claudia?
+
+      No, we're totally open to whoever walks in the door for the
+part.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Word on Fifth Season (17 Aug 1997 20:42:26 -0700)
+
+
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+
No Word on Fifth Season

+
Date: 17 Aug 1997 20:42:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      PTEN is more or less defunct as of this year.  The syndicated
+stations that normally carried B5 were not available.  TNT rode to the
+rescue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Scripts (17 Aug 1997 22:08:58 -0700)
+
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+
Scripts

+
Date: 17 Aug 1997 22:08:58 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Oh...got it.  Yes, the places that are under discussion, like
+scriptshop.com, which sell scripts without the permission of the
+writer, who does control the physical script, are ripping the writers
+off.  Yes, they are definitely in violation of the basic
+agreement...but then, they aren't signatories, either.  They're just
+crooks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B'more Sun Article (17 Aug 1997 22:09:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
B'more Sun Article

+
Date: 17 Aug 1997 22:09:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+         Thanks, I didn't know it was out, will check it asap.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The future of Draal (18 Aug 1997 00:18:50 -0700)
+
+
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+
The future of Draal

+
Date: 18 Aug 1997 00:18:50 -0700

+
 Jimmy K <110435.632@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the actor that plays him available for the show or has he
+> permanently left to do other things?
+
+      The actor is on Broadway playing in Hello, Dolly, which makes
+his appearance in Hello, Draaly improbable for the moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bruce on Pol. Incorrect (18 Aug 1997 15:45:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Bruce on Pol. Incorrect

+
Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:45:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Like virtually all syndicated shows, we were non-union below
+the line (meaning not counting actors, directors, and writers).  There
+actually wasn't a syndicated TV contract in existence...which is why
+most shows shoot out of LA, because they were afraid to work something
+out with the union. So we then negotiated the first syndicated TV
+contract that I'm aware of for shooting here in LA, and which is now
+being used to bring other shows back to LA that had left previously.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bruce on Claudia (18 Aug 1997 15:45:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Bruce on Claudia

+
Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:45:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Certainly a number of cast members are very upset with her, so
+we'll have to see where that goes.  We're finalizing the casting now on
+the part of Lochley.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scripts (18 Aug 1997 15:45:08 -0700)
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+
Scripts

+
Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:45:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Because we're siccing Warner Bros. on 'em instead...and letting
+the other studios know about it.  Let the big boys go in there and slug
+it out with 'em.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Stathis in Cinescape!!! (18 Aug 1997 15:45:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Stathis in Cinescape!!!

+
Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:45:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Guess who turned up in Cinescape magazine's letters column?
+> Is this guy for real?
+> Has he paid any attention to the actual practice of TeeVee?
+
+       He's a bitter, mean-spirited person who feels he has to tear
+down the show.  It's his obsession.  Trying to explain it rationally is
+like trying to play golf without those tiny holes in the ground, you've
+got no basis for the conversation to take place.
+
+       As for his prediction...back when B5 was first getting going,
+and I was at a convention in San Francisco that actually booed me when
+I said that this show might eventually give Star Trek a run for its
+money, one woman in the audience -- two Presidential elections ago --
+yelled out, "Yeah, right, and Clinton will be President."
+
+       'nuff said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bruce on Claudia (19 Aug 1997 00:19:28 -0700)
+
+
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+
Bruce on Claudia

+
Date: 19 Aug 1997 00:19:28 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Either a) it's been replaced, it's a daily column, or b) try a
+lower-case a in the address, not a capital A.  Either way, if you do a
+search on the names involved, the article will show up in the archives.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>) (19 Aug 1997 15:11:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>)

+
Date: 19 Aug 1997 15:11:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I think it would be the wrong choice because she played a very
+similar role over on SAAB.  I'd rather go for someone who hadn't been
+that closely identified with another military space series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Casting Process (03 Aug 1997 01:51:05 -0700)
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+
The Casting Process

+
Date: 03 Aug 1997 01:51:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, our casting director at the time (not the same as
+Fern) apparently didn't feel Wayne had enough credits for our show, and
+it took John Copeland (who'd seen his work) finally pulling rank to get
+him in the door to where I could see him.  Once in...that was that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>) (19 Aug 1997 21:23:17 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>)

+
Date: 19 Aug 1997 21:23:17 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wouldn't she be too young for the part anyway?
+
+      You're quite correct, she's definitely too young to be
+realistic. Which is why all the actors we're seeing are in their late
+30s to early 40s range.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Action Figures (19 Aug 1997 21:23:19 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Action Figures

+
Date: 19 Aug 1997 21:23:19 -0700

+
 Richard P. Manny <70762.141@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this correct?
+
+      Yep, they'll be out soonish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+August 29th 1997 (20 Aug 1997 12:09:49 -0700)
+
+
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+
August 29th 1997

+
Date: 20 Aug 1997 12:09:49 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Re: Judgement Day....
+
+       Oh...is *that* what that sound was...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UT vs. Shadow Within (20 Aug 1997 15:40:27 -0700)
+
+
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+
UT vs. Shadow Within

+
Date: 20 Aug 1997 15:40:27 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you shed some light on which way this really works?
+
+       Nuts...I missed that when I went over the text.  I guess I got
+so used to seeing him in relation to the Aggy that I just went past it.
+No, the mining incident took place when he was first officer on the
+Lexington, under Captain Sterns.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 sims (20 Aug 1997 15:40:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1997 15:40:32 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, it's WB's position that sims constitute copyright
+infringement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 sims (21 Aug 1997 11:39:29 -0700)
+
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+
B5 sims

+
Date: 21 Aug 1997 11:39:29 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Since the copyright rules are made by Congress, no, I'd imagine
+not.
+
+       "Whenever a copyright law is to be made or changed, the idiots
+assemble."
+
+       "One thing is impossible for god: to make sense of any
+copyright rule in any country in the world"
+
+                                       (both from Mark Twain)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TLN - Minbari phrase (21 Aug 1997 11:39:30 -0700)
+
+
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+
TLN - Minbari phrase

+
Date: 21 Aug 1997 11:39:30 -0700

+
 Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you tell me what the minbari phrase was that Ericsson used
+> at the end of the conversation, and again just before he died?
+
+       The Minbari phrase was the standard way for Rangers to end a
+conversation, with a salute to the Entil-zha, the head of the Rangers,
+which is Delenn in this case.
+
+       And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Big Picture (21 Aug 1997 22:58:37 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Big Picture

+
Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:58:37 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I expect that new fans who are introduced to the show by 522
+sequential episodes - daily - are going to be in dire need of
+industrial strength tranquilizers."
+
+      Cool....
+
+                                  jm(getting kickbacks from the AMA)s
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Gathering done? (21 Aug 1997 22:58:39 -0700)
+
+
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The Gathering done?

+
Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:58:39 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I assume the re-editing and re-scoring is complete and you have
+> delivered it to TNT?
+
+      No, TNT still hasn't commissioned the re-edit and re-mix of the
+pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Angela (21 Aug 1997 22:58:42 -0700)
+
+
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+
Angela

+
Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:58:42 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What was it like working with Angela Landsbury?
+> Had you heard that too?
+> Would you work with her again?
+> Any chance she could do B5 or Crusade?
+
+      The improvements were instituted when David Moessinger was
+brought on as Executive Producer.  He did a year of the show and then
+left when Angela was named exec.  The improvements were already in
+place by then.
+
+      Re: Angela...I have to say I enjoyed working with her.  She
+struck me as a woman of tremendous integrity and honesty, not to
+mention skill.  As an example...when she took over as exec, there was
+one episode being directed by her son, who had been doing them here and
+there for about a year.  As I watched the dailies, I found he had
+gotten the episode *completely* wrong and was, in my view, undercutting
+the whole episode.
+
+      I went out, very upset and angry, and confronted him in front of
+the whole crew.  Suffice to say it's bad form (I was angry, it was
+stupid, I make no excuses) to do after a director in front of his crew
+in *any* event, even if you are a writer/producer but to go after the
+*son* of the *star and executive producer*?
+
+      I got back to the offices and everybody was just
+dead-white...they said, "You're going to be fired the second she hears
+about this."  About an hour or two later, the phone rang, and she
+wanted to see me.  I went to her office, and she asked, "What happened,
+and why did you do what you did?"
+
+      I explained the situation, why I was upset, and explained how
+the episode was being killed in the directing because he didn't
+understand a large part of it.  She considered it for a moment...and
+finally nodded.  "You did the right thing," she said, and that was the
+end of it.
+
+      That took a lot of guts and integrity on her part.  She knew me
+well enough to know that I leave my ego at the door, and all that
+concerns me is doing what's best for the show, and the story. 
+Sometimes, on some shows, that ain't enough.  With her, it was.  'nuff
+said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Outside proj/scripts? (03 Aug 1997 01:51:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Outside proj/scripts?

+
Date: 03 Aug 1997 01:51:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The problem over there isn't the material, it's the restraints
+put *on* the material by Paramount.  Jeri Taylor is one of the best
+writers and best show runners in town; give her room to flex her
+muscles, and she can flatten any show around and blow the doors off SF
+TV.  Unfortunately, due to the Paramount heavy-handedness and
+restrictions on all their writers, you have a situation with a Ferrari
+sitting in a garage and never allowed to go more than 20 miles around
+the block.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+'Science Fiction Age'Mag (21 Aug 1997 22:58:46 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
'Science Fiction Age'Mag

+
Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:58:46 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It was a very flattering editorial, and they are very kind over
+at SFA. As are your comments.
+
+      Re: shooting...yes, it started on Monday the 18th and is
+proceeding apace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 TV Guide (22 Aug 1997 15:09:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 TV Guide

+
Date: 22 Aug 1997 15:09:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How the heck did he know that I was going to get water stains on
+> my first copy?
+
+       Actually, the B5 cover has become an instant collector's item,
+selling for anywhere from $20-50 in some places, and more overseas, so
+those who bought multiple copies now have a good little investment on
+their hands.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 sims (22 Aug 1997 15:19:40 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
B5 sims

+
Date: 22 Aug 1997 15:19:40 -0700

+
 JOEL ARAUJO <76016.122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It is not a against copyrights to post everything and anything
+> about the series on any given website but it is totally agaisnt
+> copyrights to host a sim? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?
+
+       Because posting material already existant about a show is one
+thing (and WB requires that the proper copyright be appended to all
+such web sites in any event).  A different situation is a sim, which
+*uses* copyrighted characters and situations, creating a *game* which
+is not licensed, which also results in *story material* that also
+infringes on the copyright and could create further complications.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+To Kill a Cow? (22 Aug 1997 15:19:41 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
To Kill a Cow?

+
Date: 22 Aug 1997 15:19:41 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since the machine obviously works on alien life, why wouldn't it
+> work on, say, cattle? Why couldn't some sort of animal raised for
+> food (such as cattle) be used on the "killing" end to save (or at
+> least help) a dying patient? I mean, the animal would be killed
+> anyway for its meat, so why not? And, BTW, how's Captain
+> Freakdaddy doing now that filming has started again?
+
+       I think that one could argue that the life force of a sentient
+creature is considerably different from that of a cow or dog...unless
+one wanted one's loved one to start moo'ing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Gathering done? (22 Aug 1997 17:29:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Gathering done?

+
Date: 22 Aug 1997 17:29:02 -0700

+
 Kevin P. Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But has it been rescored, as it has been re-edited, in
+> preparation of a late commissioning? If not, might it be?
+> BTW, is the price tag still around the previously mentioned
+> $150K?
+
+       No, the re-editing has not been completed; the editors jumped
+in and did some of it, based on my notes, in their spare time, because
+they want to see it done, but the actual
+sitting-with-the-editors-and-slogging-through-it that John and I do is
+yet to be done, and that's where the main part of the work happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 sims (23 Aug 1997 03:15:47 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 sims

+
Date: 23 Aug 1997 03:15:47 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What about hosting an RPG using a website AND using the properly
+> licensed RPG The Babylon Project? Wouldn't that be seen as a
+> proper use of the game? Or, does the fact that it's on the Web
+> mean you're publishing a new story?
+
+"What about hosting an RPG using a website AND using the properly
+licensed RPG The Babylon Project?  Wouldn't that be seen as a proper
+use of the game?"
+
+      My guess is that yes, that would be kosher...but then, I ain't a
+lawyer and am basically pulling that answer out of my butt....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/76.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/76.html
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+
+
+B5 TV Guide (23 Aug 1997 22:42:18 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 TV Guide

+
Date: 23 Aug 1997 22:42:18 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You *are* joking, right?
+
+      Nope, quite true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Enigmatic Credits (24 Aug 1997 00:47:34 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Enigmatic Credits

+
Date: 24 Aug 1997 00:47:34 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How does one sort out the creators from the funders in this
+> salad?
+
+      One really can't tell these things from the credits...it's kind
+of an industry-wide concern, actually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/78.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/78.html
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+
+
+B5 TV Guide (24 Aug 1997 00:47:37 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 TV Guide

+
Date: 24 Aug 1997 00:47:37 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you starting to catch up with season five?
+> How's the stress?
+
+      Racing as fast as I can to keep up...got hit with a flu bug for
+a few days, which put me behind, but working now to catch up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (24 Aug 1997 02:03:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
DS9 = Babylon 5

+
Date: 24 Aug 1997 02:03:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Originally, the creators of B5 went to the ST folks with the concept.
+They thought it would be easier to launch the B5 concept in the ST
+Universe. However, after much talk, the Trek folks turned it down. 
+Soon after, DS9 was launched."
+
+      This has been repeated elsewhere and needs to be corrected.
+
+      1) B5 was *never* at any time submitted to anyone at Star Trek.
+
+      2) B5 was *never* considered by me, or anyone involved with B5,
+or discussed with anyone, as taking place in the ST universe.  This
+story could flatly and simply not take place within the confines of the
+ST universe as set up and maintained.
+
+      3) B5 was *never* turned down by the ST folks for reasons 1 and
+2 above.
+
+      4) B5 *was* submitted (treatment, artwork, series bible, pilot
+screenplay) to Paramount Television, which did review the material for
+some time before deciding to try other avenues.
+
+      Just to clarify....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5FC Merchandise (03 Aug 1997 02:10:16 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5FC Merchandise

+
Date: 03 Aug 1997 02:10:16 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"A three week turn-around time for mail order isn't too shabby but I'm
+getting spoiled by online merchandise vendors. I'd like to see the B5FC
+offer merchandise online using current technologies.:"
+
+      Already in process; we just changed providers at thestation.com
+in search of a really stable and safe charge system, and should have an
+online credit charge system up and running very shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (24 Aug 1997 17:51:41 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
DS9 = Babylon 5

+
Date: 24 Aug 1997 17:51:41 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, the concept for DS9 was not put forth to Paramount
+until about 2 months after the announcement was made in the trades
+about B5 going into production as a pilot.  The B5 material was in
+Paramount's hands in 1989. Just trying to keep the timeline straight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+!intense Garibaldi News (24 Aug 1997 17:56:51 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
!intense Garibaldi News

+
Date: 24 Aug 1997 17:56:51 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The only thing that is intense about this news is that it's
+massively untrue.
+
+      Jerry is *in* the fifth season...he just finished shooting his
+stuff for 501, and has a major personal arc throughout the first part
+of this season, another toward the end of the season, and is on board
+for all 22 episodes.
+
+      He didn't make it into the movies because of agent stuff, but
+that's only the two movies, and we have every intention of having him
+in the third one.
+
+      This is one of the problems with the internet...someone mishears
+something, posts it, and because it came from "an authoritative
+source" in this case Peter, it gets picked up as real.  And then I have
+to spend days correcting and "contradicting the cast, so who's telling
+the truth?"  You misheard.  He's *in*.  Has been from day one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fanclub Merchandise (25 Aug 1997 00:11:58 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 Fanclub Merchandise

+
Date: 25 Aug 1997 00:11:58 -0700

+
I have the information a lot of folks have been asking for on the
+merchandise being put out by the B5 fan club.  Orders can be sent to
+the Babylon 5 Fan Club, P.O. Box 856, North Hollywood, CA 91603.
+
+T-SHIRTS - B5 club logo on front, saying on back, shirt color
+indicated:
+
+FCS-01 "We have always been here."  Black on white.
+FCS-02 "We stand between the Darkness and the Light." (black on grey)
+FCS-03 "No Boom Today, Boom Tomorrow.  There's Always a Boom
+Tomorrow." White on black.
+
+Cost: (blocked)
+members, $18.95 non-members
+
+FAN CLUB POSTER
+
+Sent rolled $8.00 members, $10 non-members
+
+SOUNDTRACKS
+
+Original sountrack, and "Messages from Earth" available.  Each selling
+for $14.95 members, $16.95 non-members.
+
+EPISODE SOUNDTRACKS
+
+Chris is now releasing soundtracks for each individual episode on its
+own special CD: "A Late Delivery from Avalon," "Z'ha'dum," "Shadow
+Dancing," "Severed Dreams" and "Walkabout."  $11.95 members, $13.95
+non-members.
+
+AGAMEMNON CAPS
+
+Worn by Sheridan in "Knives."  Has the silhouette of the Agamemnon
+embroidered on the front, on a grey cap, with the ID# of the Aggy
+beneath (OCG-05, standing for Omega Construction Group, Hull 5) and the
+name above the silhouette.  $16 members, $18 non-members.
+
+Members should include membership number on all orders.  The Fan Club
+can do Visa and Mastercard as well as check, but be sure to include the
+expiration date, total amount to be billed, and daytime phone number.
+
+Shipping and handling: (blocked)
+$35.01-50        $8.50 $50.01-75        $10.50 $75.01-100      $12.95
+Over $100       $15.50
+
+For 2nd day air add $10, for Next Day Air add $15.
+
+We will have prices and info on international shipping soon.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fanclub Merchandise (25 Aug 1997 12:39:22 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 Fanclub Merchandise

+
Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:39:22 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Aren't these being put together in a single compilation?
+> Or is this our only chance to get them?
+
+       Selected bits of music from these have ended up in the first
+two main soundtracks, but these contain *all* the music, sequentially,
+from the episodes named.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CC (25 Aug 1997 12:39:23 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CC

+
Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:39:23 -0700

+
 Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Ivanova be in "Sleeping in Light"?
+
+       We already shot her in SiL, so yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (25 Aug 1997 12:39:24 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
DS9 = Babylon 5

+
Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:39:24 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I believe that some development execs at Paramount may have
+guided the development process along parallel lines, without those at
+ST knowing what was going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fanclub Merchandise (26 Aug 1997 13:34:20 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 Fanclub Merchandise

+
Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:34:20 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> No, I mean, aren't all 5 going to be released in a collection?
+
+       No, the Cult soundtrack is from a variety of TV series, using
+only a piece of each, and not the original music from Chris in this
+case.  It's another party just re-recording the music (and not as
+well).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fanclub Merchandise (26 Aug 1997 13:34:23 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 Fanclub Merchandise

+
Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:34:23 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any info as to when they will actually be available?
+
+       They can be ordered now via the fanclub.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+!intense Garibaldi News (26 Aug 1997 13:34:27 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
!intense Garibaldi News

+
Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:34:27 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I understand, and that's fine, but then you should have posted
+the message as an inquiry, not an annoucement of "news."  Because too
+many people take what they read on the nets uncritically.  The way I
+first found out about your message was through a number of *extremely*
+angry, offensive and insulting emails I got on another account saying
+how dare I "get rid of" both Ivanova and Garibaldi in the same season,
+accusing me of trying to sneak the "firing of Garibaldi" under the
+radar while everyone was off looking at the Claudia situation...so I
+spent a great deal of time calming people down, then backtracking it to
+the original source (which would've been faster if I'd just done a
+tapcis sweep here, but the notes all came to me from the internet,
+from those with shared CIS accounts, or who knew someone who had a CIS
+account). The root for all of them was your note, or someone who'd seen
+your note and went ballistic.
+
+       People need to understand that when they post unverified
+information as "news," and it's wrong...and it's wrong about 9 times
+out of ten... ultimately, I'm the one who pays the price for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ep 502 (26 Aug 1997 13:34:29 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ep 502

+
Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:34:29 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How did her first day go ???
+
+       Her first day is today.  She's working out swimmingly. 
+Everyone is finding her a real joy to work with.  She took home about
+30 tapes of prior shows to watch over the weekend, has buried herself
+in homework studying scripts and articles about the show, and has
+basically impressed the hell out of the cast and crew.
+
+       And no, I can't tell you yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5FC Merchandise (03 Aug 1997 02:10:19 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5FC Merchandise

+
Date: 03 Aug 1997 02:10:19 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"We haven't ordered anything from the B5 Fan Club website because we
+can't get into it without Netscape..."
+
+      This is one of the things we're now correcting, with the change
+in providers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fanclub Merchandise (26 Aug 1997 13:41:49 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 Fanclub Merchandise

+
Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:41:49 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> No, I mean, aren't all 5 going to be released in a collection?
+
+       Oops, confused Chris's the Cult with the CultTV
+soundtrack...never mind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Into the Fire (26 Aug 1997 22:13:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
Into the Fire

+
Date: 26 Aug 1997 22:13:32 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, when Emperor Turhan asked Kosh "How will it all end?"
+> Is that why the episode where the Vorlons left called "Into the
+> Fire" or was it just a coincidence?
+
+      One of the reasons, yeah.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+!intense Garibaldi News (26 Aug 1997 22:13:34 -0700)
+
+
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+
!intense Garibaldi News

+
Date: 26 Aug 1997 22:13:34 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, he wasn't named after a fish, rather he was named after a
+famous Italian war hero.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+what next? (26 Aug 1997 22:17:26 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
what next?

+
Date: 26 Aug 1997 22:17:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Judith...the TNT only rule applies only to the US.  WB
+International will be selling the show to broadcast stations in Canada
+and all other countries.  This ONLY affects the U.S.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (27 Aug 1997 16:54:50 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
DS9 = Babylon 5

+
Date: 27 Aug 1997 16:54:50 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Actually, this is not "a stupid rumor," in that Paramount did
+have the material dating back well before DS9 was conceived.  It's a
+rumor if it comes from somebody outside.  It's my show, I was there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WorldCon and B5 (27 Aug 1997 22:25:22 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
WorldCon and B5

+
Date: 27 Aug 1997 22:25:22 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or maybe not?
+
+      We'll have to see...should be interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ep 502 (27 Aug 1997 22:25:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ep 502

+
Date: 27 Aug 1997 22:25:24 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The news should be out in the next 24 hours or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/97.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-08/97.html
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+
+
+Wrong Spoiler apology (27 Aug 1997 22:25:26 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Wrong Spoiler apology

+
Date: 27 Aug 1997 22:25:26 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Over and done with.  We move on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Creative Screenwriting (28 Aug 1997 02:44:56 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Creative Screenwriting

+
Date: 28 Aug 1997 02:44:56 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, I didn't know the review was there...can you pass along the
+comments, if they were brief?  (If long, I'll go out and try to find a
+copy.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Get outta my GALAXY! (28 Aug 1997 02:44:57 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Get outta my GALAXY!

+
Date: 28 Aug 1997 02:44:57 -0700

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So no more Shadows?
+> No more Vorlons?
+> No more First Ones?
+
+      Thanks...it's an amusing little entertainment....
+
+      Now (well, after a few episodes designed to provide a bit of a
+break) it gets serious.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS on SFVortex (01 Sep 1997 19:47:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS on SFVortex

+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 19:47:24 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's Harlan...that's how he is most of the time.  And yeah, I
+got in my stuff earlier.  When Harlan gets a full head of steam going,
+best to just get out of the way and watch with wonder.  I think it's a
+couple of months old, though I don't know if this is a first or second
+run of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Fanclub Merchandise (02 Sep 1997 16:06:08 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
B5 Fanclub Merchandise

+
Date: 02 Sep 1997 16:06:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       We didn't know how much demand there would be for the
+stuff...now we know a little better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Whatever Happened to B5? (27 Sep 1997 00:02:43 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Whatever Happened to B5?

+
Date: 27 Sep 1997 00:02:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Yeah, I've been waiting for the 'you're just a trekkie with nothing
+better to do than bash B-5' or 'Oh, look!  Another drive-by flamer'
+comments. But as you said, Martin did outline his points quite nicely!"
+
+      So in other words, you object to the sort of person who
+uncritically goes after someone for giving a negative opinion.
+
+      Okay, that's fair.
+
+      I would also point out, however, that in all the time I have
+seen your posts here, it seems like the only time you come out of the
+woodwork is to uncritically support someone who says somethilng
+negative about the show. Doesn't matter if they say it's too fast, or
+too slow...you're right up there the instant it's posted cheering it
+on.  Not the positive reactions, ONLY the negative ones, insofar as I
+have ever seen, and on every possible issue.
+
+      I would say that the one uncritical kneejerk response is just as
+wrongheaded as the latter...wouldn't you?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Whatever Happened to B5? (27 Sep 1997 15:54:43 -0700)
+
+
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+
Whatever Happened to B5?

+
Date: 27 Sep 1997 15:54:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Because I believe first in foremost in the right of everyone's
+opinions to be considered equally.  That *is* my opinion."
+
+      I disagree.  It is the right of everyone's *informed* opinion. 
+If someone were to come in here saying that all (pick an ethnic group)
+were slovenly, lazy and genetically inferior to (pick an ethnic group),
+I suggest that you would object, because it's bigotry and not an
+informed opinion.
+
+      The B5 forum has its share of strafers...people who buzz in,
+drop an inflammatory message, and zoom back out again, letting the
+bombs crash and the arguments that follow...and have no interest in any
+kind of discussion. Often they never even come back, as was the case
+with the person who said the show was boring.  I notice that none of
+the replies to his messages had the (X) that says it was received by
+him.
+
+      So the quote above is untrue on the face of it.  Also, it does
+sound as if you're saying it's good to be negative, but to be negative
+*about* the negative statement, that needs to be fought back
+uncritically, regardless of the validity of the original statement. 
+The result is that you sign a blank check on your conscience and
+credibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CC Situation (29 Sep 1997 11:37:40 -0700)
+
+
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+
CC Situation

+
Date: 29 Sep 1997 11:37:40 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Yeah, there are reasons someone can fall into disfavor, but
+this was not the case with Claudia...if it were, everyone here, myself
+included, would not have been so upset by her leaving, or tried to hard
+to persuade her to stay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms absent a bit (29 Sep 1997 17:36:35 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms absent a bit

+
Date: 29 Sep 1997 17:36:35 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Believe me, I fully understand....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+1998 Calander (30 Sep 1997 11:32:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
1998 Calander

+
Date: 30 Sep 1997 11:32:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       There will be two calendars coming out shortly for 1998, one
+from Slowdazzle, the other from Antioch...and if you forced me to say
+which was better, I'd say it was the Antioch calendar, which from a
+design point of view is just absolutely spectacular, probably one of
+the best pieces of licensing done yet in the pubishing area.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CC Situation (30 Sep 1997 11:32:07 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
CC Situation

+
Date: 30 Sep 1997 11:32:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I guess it's fair to say you don't know which to buy...I'd just
+note that in 5 years of being online and talking about the show, good,
+bad and indifferent...in thousands of postings over five long years...I
+have never yet been caught out in a contradiction or a fabrication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS to get royalties ??? (30 Sep 1997 11:32:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
JMS to get royalties ???

+
Date: 30 Sep 1997 11:32:08 -0700

+
 PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So Joe, are you gonna get hefty royalties for Voyager Season 4
+> then ?? Where is Gerry's hair going ?
+
+       "Where is Jerry's hair going?"
+
+       Same place as mine...beyond the rim....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Congratulations (02 Sep 1997 16:11:46 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Congratulations

+
Date: 02 Sep 1997 16:11:46 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Thanks, and welcome to the party...it's okay to come late as
+long as you enjoy yourself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+!intense Garibaldi News (03 Sep 1997 12:35:25 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
!intense Garibaldi News

+
Date: 03 Sep 1997 12:35:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       I've got the original Baltimore one, so I have it covered,
+thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (03 Sep 1997 12:35:27 -0700)
+
+
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+
DS9 = Babylon 5

+
Date: 03 Sep 1997 12:35:27 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I was irritable about it at first.  Very much so, since it
+jeapordized B5 ever being picked up as a series.  We had a huge battle
+to fight on the premise that there was room enough for two space SF
+series (virtually all the studios had conceded that one), then to say
+that there was room for, and the market could sustain, two *space
+station* SF series, well, suffice to say it caused us a lot of hassle.
+
+       But in the final analysis, you come down to some basic
+fundamentals. First, it comes down to making a good show.  I'd rather
+compete in the marketplace of free ideas; if we make a good show, it'll
+succeed...if not, not, and it's a moot point.  Second, as much as I may
+suspect that the development of DS9 was guided by some of the execs at
+Paramount who had access to all our material, I don't *know for sure*
+that it was...and if you're going to be fair you *have* to allow for
+the possibility of simultaneous, independent creation.  So I'm fairly
+sanguine about it, as much as can be, anyway.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 Main Title (03 Sep 1997 22:16:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 Main Title

+
Date: 03 Sep 1997 22:16:21 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you still thining of using silence during the opening
+> credits?
+
+      Playing with several options....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>) (03 Sep 1997 22:41:20 -0700)
+
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+
Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>)

+
Date: 03 Sep 1997 22:41:20 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"But we *don't* have to follow the US Navy command structure, or
+faithfully capitulate the command structure of ANY historical service. 
+B5 is a fictional universe.  And I maintain that by the internal logic
+of that fictional universe, a younger captain would not entirely be out
+of line."
+
+      Speaking as the guy who made up that internal logic and that
+fictional universe...there is a profound difference between the
+examples you were citing from the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and the
+situation in B5.  To command a starship you have to have experience in
+combat situations, and also in how to be level-headed enough to talk
+your way out when you have to.  The average career military person may
+enter at 18 years of age, or wait until finishing college or OTS
+(Officer Training School) at 20-21.  You may enter respectively as an
+ensign, or as a Lieutenant, and be assigned to your first unit at that 
+point.  This has nothing to do with any particular country's military
+scheme as simply with the math involved.
+
+      Promotion in EVERY military is based in large measure on combat
+experience.  (Which is why women officers are fighting so hard to get
+access to battlefield postings.)  Working your way up the ranks simply
+takes *time*.
+
+      There's a profound difference between an Air Force captain, who
+is responsible only for his own plane, and a Captain of a large vessel
+who must command a staff and be responsible for the lives of hundreds
+of crew members. Before they will entrust you with that responsibility,
+you have to have proven yourself over the long-haul.  This is all the
+more true with something like B5, where the CO also operates as a
+military governor of sorts.  With a quarter-million lives on the line,
+a person in his or her 20s simply does not have the years of experience
+required for the job...and there is no way to gain that experience
+other than with time.  It's not strictly a question of maturity, it's a
+question of experience as well, and the bureaucracy that comes with
+*any* military structure that says "you must pay your way, and earn 
+your stripes."
+
+      Just because something is SF doesn't mean we must throw away
+*external* logic in our attempt to make the *internal* logic into
+something just because we want it to be so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>) (03 Sep 1997 22:41:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 03 Sep 1997 22:41:23 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it isn't specifically or exclusively based on the US Navy,
+no, but also bear in mind that if you're going to look outside the US
+military system, you will find that promotions generally take even
+*longer* than in our own system...so that may not be in the best
+interests of your argument.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (04 Sep 1997 18:14:29 -0700)
+
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Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!

+
Date: 04 Sep 1997 18:14:29 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       You're mixing up your terms.  You don't use "better" in the way
+that you are using them here.  You look for the actor who most embodies
+the character you're looking for.  When we were casting Cartagia, for
+instance, there were several actors who you could look at and say,
+"Okay, this actor has more technique than *that* actor."  But that
+ain't the issue.  Wortham Krimmer is mainly noted for being an actor on
+daytime soap operas, and he was competing against people trained at the
+Royal Shakespeare Academy in some cases.  The latter may have been more
+classically trained...but Wortham WAS Cartagia.
+
+       And we knew it in the first five minutes.  The hard part was
+then sitting through all the other auditions knowing that we had
+already decided instantly on Wortham.
+
+       The casting director's job is to winnow down the list to those
+who are real prospects.  So by the time they get to me, the selection
+is already very solid.  When Tracy walked in, we instantly felt, "Okay,
+this is the character."  One other person came in and was also the
+character, with a somewhat different take.  So we brought both of them
+back and had them audition one after the other, so we could compare and
+see which worked best for the character.  It was Tracy, hands down.
+
+       The casting process was no different for this character as any
+other. We knew within moments.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (04 Sep 1997 18:24:42 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 04 Sep 1997 18:24:42 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       And of course there's the red-headed Leeta on DS9, and the
+red-headed Lyta on B5....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+5th season (04 Sep 1997 18:24:43 -0700)
+
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5th season

+
Date: 04 Sep 1997 18:24:43 -0700

+
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+
+       Lochley is going to be anything *but* a sex kitten....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia's Leaving? (01 Sep 1997 19:47:27 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 19:47:27 -0700

+
 Francis Rogers <73742.1613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would she do this?
+> Was it a desire for more money, to have her part beefed up, or
+> what? In view of the fact her character seems to be pretty
+> popular, could you give her a second chance or something, or is
+> it too late?
+
+      She asked for things that were not in our power to give, and
+when they were not received, she passed on the offer to return.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ghostbusters goes PC (05 Sep 1997 03:05:45 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Sep 1997 03:05:45 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What the heck is this?
+> Why?
+
+      Sigh....
+
+      Oh, well, thus does the past glow brighter in memory....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (05 Sep 1997 15:23:12 -0700)
+
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Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!

+
Date: 05 Sep 1997 15:23:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       No, you don't seem to understand the point.  Of course the
+actors you cast have technique.  Where did you get this from? 
+Especially the "some actors are just being themselves" part in this
+context.  Wortham wasn't "just being himself" as Cartagia, nobody is. 
+Neither is Andreas, and neither is Scoggins.  She didn't just walk into
+the room and do herself, she created a character.  Lochley is nothing
+like Scoggins.  Scoggins made a number of actor's choices, and when she
+entered the room, she *was* Lochley.
+
+       I don't mean to be rude, but it's hard to have this
+conversation when it's clear you don't really know what's involved in
+casting or acting or creating a character, and are using your
+misunderstandings to justify ragging on Scoggins.  Andreas was
+neck-and-neck with Morgan Shepard for the role of 
+G'Kar...fundamentally, Andreas' approach was more in line with what I 
+envisioned.  Tracy was the same way.  We cast the person who was right
+for the role.  If the person's not right, we don't cast them.  The only
+time it hasn't worked out as well as I'd've liked was when we cast Mary
+Kay Adams, who was very strong in the auditions, and then made an
+actor's choice to play the character very quiet, to not push against
+Andreas...but you fade into the woodwork if you do that.  So it's not a
+question of technique there, but of choice.  She was right in the
+audition, but her choice later wasn't what we'd initially hoped for.
+
+       And Tracy is *great* as Lochley in all the dailies.
+
+       But basically, this is a stupid conversation.  You're obviously
+hoping to get me to be defensive about her, and there's no need.  Every
+sesaon the same thing happens, a cast member comes in or goes out, or
+there is another change, and some people cry that the sky is
+falling...and in the end, the choices have been right.  There is
+nothing to defend.  Either the work succeeds, or it does not.  And that
+will be borne out in the episode, not the talking.  I had to deal with
+this with Bruce, Stephen, even Claudia, I would point out, from the
+Takashima fans out there, which a lot of folks have conveniently
+forgotten.  Lots of folks online were saying that Tamlyn was a strong
+female character and that in casting Claudia we were just putting in a 
+"babe," and pilloried me for it, and at the end of the day, when they
+actually *saw* what she was doing, they were fine with it.
+
+       So I'm kinda tired of playing that game.
+
+       See what she does first, *then* we'll talk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on CNN Headline News (05 Sep 1997 15:23:14 -0700)
+
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+
B5 on CNN Headline News

+
Date: 05 Sep 1997 15:23:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> They mentioned something that I did not know; that B5 is one of
+> the very few (or perhaps only?
+
+       The original ST won two years running, and just before that, TZ
+won three years running.  In the 30 years or so since the original ST,
+no other show has gotten 2 in a row, correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Voyager: Hugo Stumping (05 Sep 1997 15:57:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
Voyager: Hugo Stumping

+
Date: 05 Sep 1997 15:57:47 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       No, frankly, I don't think Paramount cares about the Hugo, or
+even knows what it represents.  I don't believe (though I could be
+wrong) that they even *had* anyone at the Hugos in case they'd won. 
+No, Paramount's concern is that the franchise shows are losing ratings,
+and they're doing everything they can to bolster them and make them
+more exciting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SPOILER (05 Sep 1997 15:57:48 -0700)
+
+
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+
SPOILER

+
Date: 05 Sep 1997 15:57:48 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Sheridan really become a president???
+
+       The spoiler is not correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (06 Sep 1997 17:01:46 -0700)
+
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Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!

+
Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:01:46 -0700

+
 Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm missing something- who is Tracy Scoggins and what role is she
+> cast in?
+
+      Scoggins is on board for season 5 as Captain Elizabeth Lochley,
+who is going to full the void in the command structure left by Ivanova.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (06 Sep 1997 17:01:49 -0700)
+
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+
Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!

+
Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:01:49 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Maybe I am naive to say that I don't think that you are 100% in
+charge of your destiny on the show, naive to say that there are outside
+presures that effect some of the decisions you have to make, and naive
+to say that budget and time contraints effect who you cast or when you
+cast them."
+
+      Okay, you're naive.
+
+"Maybe I just don't understand."
+
+      A distinct possibility.
+
+"If I am naive, then when it comes down to it,everything that is less
+than brilliant on the show is your responsibility:  everything."
+
+      I'll accept that only if by the same token I am responsible for
+everything that is *more* than brilliant on the show.  Otherwise it's
+lopsided.  And both statements are inaccurate.  If an actor blows a
+line on the set, if a director doesn't get his coverage, if a prop
+breaks seconds before it was supposed to be used, if a lens doesn't
+show up from Panavision in time for a particular shot...no, I'm not
+responsible for those things.
+
+      For those things that are done deliberately, by choice, by me,
+on the show, I will take full responsibility, whether they work or not,
+except insofar as that may result in stealing thunder from any of our
+actors or crew, in which case the good stuff was their responsibility.
+
+"But then maybe you do think the show is perfect, that when you say
+that there is still room for improvement you don't really mean it..."
+
+      Nope.  That I think your statement is flawed does not mean that
+I think my show is not flawed.  Two vastly different issues.  If it
+were perfect, I would not be struggling every year to make the show
+better than the previous year.  We learn by doing.
+
+      As you just did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ghostbusters goes PC (06 Sep 1997 17:01:52 -0700)
+
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+
Ghostbusters goes PC

+
Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:01:52 -0700

+
 Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> YOU wrote for The Real Ghostbusters?
+
+      Wrote for it, heck, I story edited the first network season and
+the syndicated season *simultaneously*, for a total of 78 episodes, and
+wrote 22 episodes (5 of which came after that first season) including
+the Halloween ABC special for which I wrote a couple of songs.  It was
+a great deal of fun to work on, until they messed up Janine, which is
+why I left.  Later, when they realized that had been an error, they
+asked me to write some more with her pretty much as she had been, and
+then to fix the continuity error in an episode called "Janine, You've
+Changed."
+
+      Some of the ones I wrote were Xmas Marks the Spot, Mr. Sandman
+Dream Me a Dream, Citizen Ghost, Ragnarok and Roll, The Thing in Mrs.
+Faversham's Attic, No One Comes to Lupusville, Chicken He Clucked,
+Doctor Doctor, and a bunch of others.
+
+      TRGBs is now playing on syndication again, in the Amazing
+Adventures package...uncut, as far as I can tell.  (I think it airs
+Sundays at 2:30 here in LA.)  It was a hoot, and it's one of the things
+I'm still very proud of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on CNN Headline News (06 Sep 1997 17:01:55 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:01:55 -0700

+
 Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is winning a Hugo news?
+
+      Actually, CNN aired the Hugo news last year as well, before TNT
+got into the picture.  That's because a lot of the folks over at CNN
+are big B5 fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ghostbusters goes PC (06 Sep 1997 17:08:11 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Sep 1997 17:08:11 -0700

+
 Rob Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> YOU wrote for The Real Ghostbusters?
+
+      BTW, when they did the second season without me, they introduced
+the odious "Junior Ghostbusters," and at one point asked me if I'd be
+willing to write a script using them.
+
+      "Only if I get to drive a truck over them," I replied.
+
+      They never asked me again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 Main Title (01 Sep 1997 19:47:29 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 19:47:29 -0700

+
 Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you finished the Season Five one, or is it too early?
+> Have you saved the best for last?
+
+      No, I'm in the process of designing the S5 titles now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (07 Sep 1997 17:45:36 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Sep 1997 17:45:36 -0700

+
 colin heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> At that time Claudia *seemed* to be in for S5, now that's not the
+> case, do you intend to shift the ability as another part of a
+> different character, or will it be one of life's little
+> mysteries? (You know - like why is there always 1 spoon left in
+> the bowl after washing up? On another issue, (sorry if you've been
+> over this before), but I just read in SFX that you won't be
+> attending anymore Wolf conventions due to "queueing?" and
+> "treatment of the fans" ?
+>  - Could I ask if that was for sure, or could we all persuade you
+> that you are worth lining up for? Anyways, in parting, can I just
+> say, season 4 is "doing my head in" as we say hereabouts, you
+> don't believe in static characterization do you?
+>  - Anyone asked about yur reaction to Diana's death yet?
+
+      The stuff Ivanova would've done this season will be shifted in
+part to another, but not Lochley.
+
+      Re: Wolf...no, I won't be doing any further Wolfs due to my
+ongoing concerns with the way they are being run, the way that the fans
+are being treated, the unreasonable lines, and other genuine concerns I
+have with Brian and the organization.  They promised that all illegal
+good would be kept out; the dealer's room was *chockablock* with
+unlicensed, pirated stuff, forcing me to have to go and police the
+thing, which was not what I was there for, and put me in some difficult
+situations...they promised that the lines would be dealt with fairly,
+and they were not...I had yelled before at Brian for showing 4th season
+material, as yet unaired in the UK, at conventions, he said he would
+not do so, and yet the music videos were full of this footage (he says
+he only promised not to show full episodes, so that isn't the same
+thing, which is nonsense...he says that he got the videos from others
+so they're not his fault, which is also nonsense)...I have asked him,
+repeatedly, to follow through on his offer to let us inspect the
+records of the charitable donations made by the convention, because I
+have heard that a goodly amount the money never reached its proper
+destination, and I would like to know the facts one way or the other,
+but thus far he has consistently refused to do so, even after having
+said at first that they were available for inspection...I've heard
+enough times that he has been muscling other conventions by telling 
+people he has a lock on our cast that I'm concerned... and so on.
+
+      I have an obligation to associate myself and this program only
+where I feel things are being done properly.  My concern here is that
+they are not, and thus I cannot and will not involve myself or
+Babylonian Productions with any further Wolf conventions.  My cast are
+free agents, and can do what they wish, but there will be no further
+cooperation with Babylonian Productions until these areas are addressed
+and fixed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Thanks...yeah, wrote two other books, OtherSyde (novel) and an
+anthology, Tales from the New Twilight Zone, as well as short stories
+appearing in Pulphouse, Amazing Stories, Midnight Grafitti, Shadows 6,
+and a brand new (and rather long) story coming out next Spring in the
+Death Out West anthology edited by Martin Harry Greenberg
+(mystery/crime stories), called "We Killed Them in the Ratings."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 on CNN Headline News (07 Sep 1997 17:45:42 -0700)
+
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+
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+
+      Thanks...it's enlightening to have all that put into
+perspective.  Most interesting.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Books (07 Sep 1997 17:45:45 -0700)
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Date: 07 Sep 1997 17:45:45 -0700

+
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+
+      Del Rey has signed a deal with WB to do the B5 novels
+henceforth, and as part of that will be doing a series of three, 3-book
+arcs (for a total of 9 in addition to stand-alone B5 novels) which will
+feature an overall story that I'll assign to the writers involved.  The
+goal is to keep them within canon, but allow the writers some degree of
+freedom, and to fill in some of the corners in the B5 universe.  For
+instance, one 3-book arc may be the story of the fall of Centauri
+Prime; another might be the history of the Psi Corps and what made
+Bester what he is; and the third set strongly on the B5 station itself.
+
+      These stories are still being determined, natch, so this ain't
+final.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+scoggins as lochley (07 Sep 1997 17:45:46 -0700)
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Date: 07 Sep 1997 17:45:46 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...we always try to get better each season, no matter
+what.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+5th season (07 Sep 1997 23:48:56 -0700)
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Date: 07 Sep 1997 23:48:56 -0700

+
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+
+      The article re: Andrea is essentially correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Ghostbusters goes PC (07 Sep 1997 23:54:58 -0700)
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Date: 07 Sep 1997 23:54:58 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was one of yours, wasn't it?
+
+      Yeah, "Dream Me a Life" was one of my TZs and as it happens one
+of the TZs I'm most proud of, followed by "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+"Our Selena is Dying" and "Rendezvous in a Dark Place."  Eddie Albert
+did a terrific job in "Dream."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (07 Sep 1997 23:55:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Sep 1997 23:55:00 -0700

+
 Phyllis Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is captain lochley supposed to be the captain of one of the earth
+> force ships that defect? Who is Diana?
+> What about her death?
+
+      No, Lochley's ship did not defect.
+
+      And the Diana of whom others are speaking is Princess Di.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congratulations (07 Sep 1997 23:55:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Sep 1997 23:55:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> BTW, is this the first consecutive winning award or did TOS or
+> TNG do this before? What episode will you propose when you go for
+> the threepeat? G Give MEmphis Tennessee What the heck is a
+> Tennessee Oiler? Does anybody really care?
+
+      Classic Trek won twice in a row, the original TZ did three in a
+row.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (08 Sep 1997 13:59:43 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Sep 1997 13:59:43 -0700

+
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+
+       I'd mainly rather look at them myself at this stage, and I want
+to emphasize here that I'm not saying they've done anything *wrong,*
+rather that very little has been done *right* in some very crucial
+areas.  The distinction is an important one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Hemi-Demi-Semiotics (01 Sep 1997 19:47:32 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 19:47:32 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> does a storyteller such as yourself or others you admire ever
+> start from the semiotic and discover characters that can express
+> it, or is it the more natural process to have the characters tell
+> their stories and later find out that they have semiotic
+> resonance simply because the storyteller has read enough and seen
+> enough that the semiotic bit comes without thinking?
+
+      I really don't think you can think in those terms, either way. 
+You pick up the tools of the *story*, not the tools of the *analysis of
+the story*, and as you begin to line them up, you may have a sense of,
+"Okay, this character is something of an archetype, so I need certain
+elements to come into this, but only in service of the story."  I find
+that what truly makes for myth does not come from conscious effort, but
+from *unconscious* effort, this is where Jung's notion of a collective
+unconscious comes into play.  We may not know *why* a sword raised by a
+bloodied soldier over a battlefield strewn with bodies has power with
+us, it's enough to know that it *does*.  When you ride a bicycle,
+you're not thinking about pressure vs. force or force = propulsion, or
+how many cycles per minute equals X-speed, you're just Riding The
+Bike.
+
+      I just Write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+SPOILER (08 Sep 1997 13:59:44 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Sep 1997 13:59:44 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> isn't it a standard in american movies/shows that "bad guy"
+> always dies at the hand of a "good guy" and doesn't public always
+> know that it would happen?
+
+       Please refrain from story suggestions in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08 Sep 1997 13:59:45 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> the physical presence of the actor tells you she's the one?
+> or do you mean as soon as the actor opens her mouth to speak as
+> herself, or as soon as she goes into the audition routine as the
+> character?
+
+       The funny thing is, you usually know within, oh, 25-30 seconds
+of the actor actually starting the audition if this is the wrong person
+or not. And in that same amount of time, someone else can either nail
+it completely, or end up on the short-list for callbacks.  It's totally
+subjective and intuitive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+SPOILER (09 Sep 1997 14:30:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1997 14:30:55 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Is that a sufficient disclaimer?
+
+       Actually, no, it's not.  Disclaimers don't work.  If they
+appear too much when I'm around I'll have to leave.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Writing Wish List (09 Sep 1997 14:31:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1997 14:31:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       We have two different views of what the characters should do
+and who they are.  We agree to disagree.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1997 21:35:57 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is one of those the one that Rod Serling started and you
+> finished?
+
+      "Selena" is the one I wrote based on Rod's outline.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:25:52 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Shane just asked about you collecting your own short stories?
+> In the same vein, would you consider (after year 5) authorizing
+> an anthology of fan fiction about B5?
+
+       I'm open to all sorts of fiction prospects down the road, once
+the show is out of production.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:25:53 -0700

+
 T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that the proposed process to be used on Delenn's voice?
+> And also did Mira's contralto voice give her an edge to be cast
+> for Delenn?
+
+       No, the process on the Minbari voice wasn't the same as the one
+we were going to use on Delenn...and Mira's voice was secondary to her
+overall performance in casting her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Abandon Ship (10 Sep 1997 17:25:53 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:25:53 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks, and I'll see you on the net....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (10 Sep 1997 17:25:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:25:55 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> That begs the question does B5 need a professionally run
+> convention? What do we fans get if we don't get Wolf 359 type
+> conventions?
+
+       I've always preferred the fan-run convention format to the
+other sort, so there has to be a way to maintain that structure, and
+I'm looking into that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 IS A COPY ! (10 Sep 1997 17:32:43 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:32:43 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       That's correct...but it's a matter of a space station, with a
+female in command, that is a trading outpost, with a religious leader
+in the midst of it, next to a gateway, with a shapeshifter in its
+pilot, with a name followed by a number...well, one could go on...it's
+the specifics, not the generality, that is of interest.
+
+       BTW, you apparently announced over on AOL with some enjoyment
+that B5's fifth year had been canceled and was not going to happen.  In
+future you might refrain from prognostication until properly qualified
+by the gypsy of your choice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kristen Cloke on B5 ;>) (01 Sep 1997 23:02:54 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:02:54 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, Carl is correct.  If you're going to be realistic, a
+captain in this position would be in her late 30s or early 40s, which
+definitely puts Kristen out of the running.  I don't want to do a
+Wesley and stick somebody way too young into an unrealistically high
+position.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Ghostbusters goes PC (10 Sep 1997 22:37:45 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1997 22:37:45 -0700

+
 Shane S. Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance that you'll be collecting the short stories?
+
+      Collecting which short stories?  Mine?  Eventually...when there
+are enough of them for a collection.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+

+
5th season

+
Date: 10 Sep 1997 22:37:47 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"It's surprising that anyone would ever think of a five-year story arc
+ - keeping it moving forward despite changes in the cast must be almost
+as hard as putting it together in the first place. It must have been
+one of those things you realise nobody can do after you've done it."
+
+      Boy, you got that right....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 IS A COPY ! (11 Sep 1997 02:25:27 -0700)
+
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DS9 IS A COPY !

+
Date: 11 Sep 1997 02:25:27 -0700

+
      I meant to say female *second-in-command*, both were in command
+though during the attack on the station in both pilots.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ST:Voyager (11 Sep 1997 02:25:29 -0700)
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ST:Voyager

+
Date: 11 Sep 1997 02:25:29 -0700

+
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+
+      Didn't see it, so can't comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (11 Sep 1997 20:27:36 -0700)
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Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!

+
Date: 11 Sep 1997 20:27:36 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Can the producers of shows run fan events as well?
+> What if fans' reactions do not agree with the official line?
+> How many hats can you comfortably wear?
+
+"Can the producers of shows run fan events as well?"
+
+      No, nor was that the intent of my message.  We've talked about
+doing just one, a one-off convention, here in LA at some point in the
+future, but that's all, we can't and wouldn't want to get beyond that. 
+No, my only point was that maybe something can be done to make the
+profit conventions hew more closely to the rules by which the fan run
+conventions operate, and perhaps we can try to influence that in
+future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (12 Sep 1997 00:06:47 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:06:47 -0700

+
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+
+"I am looking forward to this season's arc on retaking DS9."
+
+      From a conversation I had the other day with a DS9 actor, this
+thread is resolved by episode 6, so it won't go a season, but duration
+is not the issue, the quality of approach is what matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (12 Sep 1997 00:06:49 -0700)
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Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!

+
Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:06:49 -0700

+
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+
+      Speaking of which...John Copeland and I just did the producer's
+cut on 502, the first S5 episode...and Tracy it *terrific*.  I think
+she's going to to over like gangbusters.  It's a solid episode, and her
+presence adds a great deal to the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (12 Sep 1997 00:06:52 -0700)
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Lochley=Tracy Scoggins!

+
Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:06:52 -0700

+
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+
+"What does concern me is the future of the fan convention which, I
+understand, is particularly strong in the Uk compared to the US which
+is mainly professionally run conventions ( Correct me if I have
+misunderstood the situation in the States.)"
+
+      That's definitely, 100% incorrect.  The professional conventions
+are only a very small percentage of the overall conventions that take
+place in the US.  Most are local, fan-run conventions, and a large
+number of regional or state conventions, and those covering several
+states.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grand Theft, drama! (12 Sep 1997 00:06:55 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 Sep 1997 00:06:55 -0700

+
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+
+"I completely disagree. B5's Mindwar was HARDLY an original concept
+and was, in fact, ripping off other material. Akira for instance."
+
+      In 43 years, I have never seen more than 5 seconds of Akira, and
+generally have no idea what the story is about.  Anime is one of those
+things that does nothing for me.
+
+      To rip off is to steal intentionally.  I suggest you use that
+term sparingly in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+ST:Voyager (12 Sep 1997 17:32:12 -0700)
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ST:Voyager

+
Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:32:12 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know that Jeri Taylor is a friend of yours, but who the heck
+> has control and is making these aweful decisions?
+
+       I'd seen the 5-minute South Park pilot, and last week's episode
+was the first one I'd watched through.
+
+       Sick and twisted and funny....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Action Figures (01 Sep 1997 23:02:56 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:02:56 -0700

+
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+
+      The Revell kit isn't out yet, so be careful that you're not
+buying a knockoff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Leesons Learned (12 Sep 1997 17:32:13 -0700)
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+
Leesons Learned

+
Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:32:13 -0700

+
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+
+       I think what I learned was, never ever do this again....
+
+       It's hard to pin it all down, really.  Since no one's ever
+really done this sort of thing before, you have to make up the rules as
+you go. Every day is a new decision, a different fork in the road...I'm
+not even sure how I'd pin it down to any one thing in specific.  It's
+like saying "what did you learn different going from an automatic
+transmission to a manual?"  It's just different ways of thinking and
+working.
+
+       And it was the EAS Furies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Can you check something (12 Sep 1997 17:32:16 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:32:16 -0700

+
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+
+       Last I heard he was still planning to be there, but that was a
+bit ago. He's left for the day, will try to remember to ask when I see
+him next week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (14 Sep 1997 02:07:56 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Sep 1997 02:07:56 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> So you think you can run a BIG fan convention well enough to
+> satisfy gusets and attendees on purely voluntary labour?
+
+"So you think you can run a BIG fan convention well enough to satisfy
+gusets and attendees on purely voluntary labour?"
+
+      Happens all the time.  About a month or two ago, I was at
+Westercon in Seattle, about 3,000 people showed up...and it was one of
+the most efficiently run conventions I'd ever attended...all on
+voluntary work by those involved (who were comp'd into the convention).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on CNN Headline News (14 Sep 1997 02:07:59 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Sep 1997 02:07:59 -0700

+
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+
+      Weird thing is, about next year's Hugo possibilities, I keep
+forgetting No Surrender, No Retreat, possibly one of our best eps from
+this season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on CNN Headline News (14 Sep 1997 02:08:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Sep 1997 02:08:00 -0700

+
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+
+      Much as I like IiRT, I agree that it ain't Hugo stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Convention Concerns (14 Sep 1997 02:08:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Sep 1997 02:08:03 -0700

+
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+
+"Actors usually charge a much higher appearance fee than a fan
+convention can shell out."
+
+      Actually, a lot of our cast do fan run conventions...Jerry and
+Richard were at Shoreleave and a cruise, Rick has been to Marcon, a
+slew of other local fan-run conventions as well as others overseas,
+Stephen was at Rebelcon a few weeks ago, Pat does an assortment of fan
+conventions, so this ain't as true as might be assumed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Convention Concerns (14 Sep 1997 15:14:45 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Sep 1997 15:14:45 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.  My main concern at these things is always with the
+fans.  My belief is that these people came a long way, and paid a fair
+amount of money, and they deserve to get what they paid for with the
+least amount of inconvenience.  I tend to be very hands-on when my name
+is attached to ANY convention.  At my first Wolf, for instance, I made
+it a point to check out the area where we'd be doing our main
+presentations the night before, and found that a number of the chairs
+had been set up behind pillers and supports so that their view would
+be, essentially, blocked.  When I talked to one of the people doing the
+arranging, and was told that no, that was the way it had to be ("that's
+why we've got some monitors back there, so they can watch it on 
+TeeVee," I was told, which was a completely unacceptable response), I
+(and Kathryn) got in there and personally began rearranging the chairs,
+spending a fair amount of time doing so until we found a configuration
+that would let people see the stage.  (We drew quite a few startled
+glances from some fans who happened to wander in at one point.)
+
+      Having been (and still being) a fan for most of my life, I can't
+condone anything which, in my view, ends up with the fans getting
+shafted. If that means being a pain in the ass on occasion, them's the
+breaks.  But I'd rather do that than something that violated my
+conscience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Convention Concerns (14 Sep 1997 15:14:48 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Sep 1997 15:14:48 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, Pat and Bill are, I think, our only cast members who had
+any real convention experience prior to B5, which is why I've taken
+pains to try and help them understand the whole fan scene...which is
+where the "nobody gets cut off the autograph line" notion came from,
+for instance.  By helping them understand the venue, they're more
+comfortable with it, and thus spend time not just hiding in their rooms
+as is often the case with other shows, but instead go down to the bar,
+the lounge, the room parties, and hang out with the fans.  (The tales
+of Richard Biggs dancing on tables at Marcon, Bill Mumy at the parties
+in the UK, others...they go on and on.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 IS A COPY ! (14 Sep 1997 20:29:57 -0700)
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Date: 14 Sep 1997 20:29:57 -0700

+
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+
+"And as for B5 being the number one Sci-Fi show, does it really come
+any close to the worldwide popularity of The X Files?"
+
+      Oddly enough, the show tends to do much better overseas than it
+does here.  Well, not oddly, actually, since overseas it tends to end
+up on actual networks, which give it a regular time period, whereas
+here you have to have a hunting dog and a Ouija board to find the
+darned thing.  The videotapes are invariably in the top-10
+sell-throughs overseas, in fan polls it comes out ahead of X-Files
+(having just won the SFX Magazine poll for best SF series of all time),
+and the ratings are comparable.  If anything, X-Files has gotten a bit
+soft lately, while B5 has been improving.  Most of the B5 licensing to 
+date has been overseas, with a huge line of books in the UK, along
+with a monthly magazine.
+
+      That's expected to change when the show hits TNT, with a regular
+schedule, starting in January.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 14 Sep 1997 20:30:00 -0700

+
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+
+"Either (a) it's right or (b) it's wrong to make such
+accusations....you can't have it both ways. <shrug>"
+
+      Incorrect.  It's right if it's true, and wrong if it's not.  The
+statement itself is neither wrong nor right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (01 Sep 1997 23:02:58 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:02:58 -0700

+
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+
+      I played a scene of Tracy's at WorldCon this weekend, and the
+audience responded *very* favorably.  I think this is gonna work out
+just fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+When TNT reruns... (15 Sep 1997 01:31:44 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1997 01:31:44 -0700

+
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+
+      That's an interesting question.  When I sat down to write In the
+Beginning, my feeling was that I should look at the long term.  Would
+the hole in Sinclair's mind be the same mystery it was in season one,
+or would it be kind of known thereafter?  If so, then do you want to
+play with the mystery, or set up what actually happened?  I figured,
+okay, let's go for the latter...let's let the audience know (which will
+mostly know by now anyway), and set up the background, with the
+characters not knowing the first season. I took basic greek tragedy as
+my model, with ItB functioning more or less as a Greek chorus that sets
+things up.
+
+      If you want to play it as a strict mystery, then no, probably
+don't go near ItB...but frankly, if I were going to start someone off
+on B5, I'd definitely want to start with ItB, which sort of skims in
+and out of the overall storyline in a beautiful fashion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta inconsistency (15 Sep 1997 21:17:18 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:17:18 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, it's an inconsistency; because humans are inconsistent. 
+But it's only an inconsistency subject to Lyta's
+rationalizations...which are quite reasonable.
+
+      She didn't know the Centauri; she knew Garibaldi...they knew
+beyond a shadow of a doubt that Brother Edward's *life* was in
+jeapordy, and that this person may hold the key to saving his life and
+every instant they waited meant he could be dying, whereas there is no
+such crisis in the Garibaldi situation...they were able to hide her
+identity from the Centauri whereas they would not be able to do so with
+her and Garibaldi....
+
+      The decision to scan or not to scan is essentially a moral or
+ethical decision.  When someone's life is on the line, that raises one
+ethical concern, as opposed to Zack just having a vague suspicion about
+Garibaldi's character and asking her to engage in a fishing expedition.
+There is a quantum difference between the two of them.
+
+      Would a physician give someone the tools necessary to end his
+life? No. Would he do so if the person were chronically ill and in
+constant, terrible pain?  Very possibly.  It's the *context*.  You
+can't expect people to act the same in every situation regardless of
+context, context is everything.
+
+      People are not robots, they rationalize, they are inconsistent,
+but they generally have *reasons* for it that they can justify.  As
+somebody once said, rationalizations are more important than sex,
+because you can *go* a day without sex....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ST:Voyager (15 Sep 1997 21:17:21 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:17:21 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> If the studio is holding back the writing on Voyager, why aren't
+> they doing the same for DS9?
+
+      I think Paramount is now more concerned with Voyager than DS9
+because DS9 is a syndicated show whereas Voyager is the linchpin of
+their network. The more visible you are, the more they want to..."help"
+you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Grand Theft, drama! (15 Sep 1997 21:17:23 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:17:23 -0700

+
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+
+      You keep saying proof, but what sort of proof do you require? 
+The fact is that you say "proof" in such a way that no such proof can
+be supplied outside of a courtroom.  What constitutes proof?  If you've
+said this is what you want, then you must now define it otherwise it's
+unfair.  And it has to be reasonable proof...bearing in mind that there
+are no smoking guns, no videotapes, no bloody gloves here.
+
+      What can be suggested, in the case of B5, is to provide certain
+facts, which are next door neighbors to truth.  It is a *fact* that
+Paramount was given the B5 bible, treatment, sample screenplay, and
+artwork.  This is not open to dispute; we have the paperwork from the
+Paramount development execs.
+
+      It is a *fact* that Paramount and WB were both trying to launch
+networks at the same time, UPN and PTEN, and that there is a *fierce*
+competition between them that has been well and widely documented,
+enough so that Paramount would have a vested interest in attempting to
+co-opt anything that Warner Bros. was doing.  One way to do this (enter
+supposition stage left) would be to put out their *own* space station
+series, under the ST banner, which would hopefully undercut the other
+show and drive it (and PTEN) out of the marketplace.
+
+      It is a *fact* that the development of ANY TV show for a studio
+is guided by that studio's development execs.
+
+      It is a *fact* that the two pilots for DS9 and B5 are extremely
+similar on major, non-generic points.  It is also a fact that the two
+diverge quite a bit therafter, showing that the writers there were
+capable of doing their own stuff, putting us back again at the studio
+level.
+
+      It is a *fact* that I have never, at any time, implied, stated
+or said that either of the individuals who created DS9 had ever seen
+the B5 material, or consciously took it.  I think that if asked to do
+so, they would have declined.  What I have always questioned, or
+strongly suspected, was the degree to which the development or
+inception of that show was guided by the Paramount development execs. 
+So I have NOT accused either of them of "ripping off" B5, and thus
+don't fall prey to your accusation of being unfair, whereas Joel's
+comment about Mindwar *was* a statement about a story being ripped
+off, hence my reaction.  There is not a contradiction there.
+
+     From day one, Paramount has done everything conceivable to
+subvert, sabotage, and drive this show out of the market short of
+firing a LAWS rocket into the middle of stage A.  They hate us over
+there, because they want to have the exclusive lock on space SF.  So
+yeah, I'm quite willing to believe that they could've decided to co-opt
+our format...and it almost worked, too, when WB wondered if the market
+could sustain two space station series, and we came within an inch of
+losing the show before we'd even shot a frame of film...but I've never
+accused either of the two folks who created DS9 of deliberately ripping
+us off because I don't believe they did so.  I have no reason to
+believe they are anything other than honorable, stand-up men.  My area
+of concern has always been in the area of corporate influence and
+intent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Original "Final Four"??? (15 Sep 1997 23:36:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Sep 1997 23:36:03 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you know if they are planning to broadcast the "original"
+> final four episodes that were done before Season 5 was renewed? Do
+> they have a special deal or are they just confused?
+
+      No, they'll be showing "Deconstruction" as the last S4
+episode...the rest is just silliness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+When TNT reruns... (16 Sep 1997 11:19:59 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1997 11:19:59 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       It's mainly the war, doesn't get into the shadow stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Calendars (16 Sep 1997 17:41:32 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1997 17:41:32 -0700

+
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+
+       Dunno, that's done by WB and I never see 'em until they're put
+out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Severed Dreams DVD (16 Sep 1997 17:41:35 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1997 17:41:35 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that just idle gossip as I've seen nothing on it since ?
+
+       The release of SD on DVD is still not confirmed, though we're
+still in discussions and it looks good.  There was talk about a
+widescreen version of WWE on tape but I don't know what the current
+status of that is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Severed Dreams DVD (17 Sep 1997 01:19:24 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1997 01:19:24 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I just recently got DVD, and I have to say I'm very impressed. 
+I'd thought that it would be a marginal difference...but it's actually
+a quite substantial difference.  The resolution on-screen is amazing. 
+When I'm watching a laserdisk, I'm still aware of this being a film of
+the thing; here, it's just the thing...like watching a glossy photo
+that moves.  It has more features, better quality, killer audio, more
+flexibility, and costs less than LDs.  I'm sold.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 = Babylon5 So what? (17 Sep 1997 12:15:19 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1997 12:15:19 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       Here's the "so what" part of it....
+
+       If we allow for the moment, just the moment and no more, that
+perhaps it did happen as I and others think it might have
+happened...that Paramount influenced the development of DS9 to co-opt
+B5....
+
+       Imagine that you have just spent five years building a custom
+car. And before you can even take it out of the garage, someone nabs
+it.  And every day thereafter, they drive it up and down your street,
+and everyone talks about what a great car it is, and how the other car
+you still have is okay, and should't we be happy that the neighborhood
+has *both* cars to look at?
+
+       And if you commented on it, and someone told you, "so what?" I
+wonder what your reaction would be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley=Tracy Scoggins! (01 Sep 1997 23:03:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:03:01 -0700

+
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+
+      I wouldn't cast someone who was less than ideal for the role. 
+If you don't find the right person, you just keep going until you *do*.
+We had a goodly amount of time on this one, and we saw a LOT of very
+talented people. But she rose right to the top.  We put her in
+secondary auditions with our other top contenders, and she blew *them*
+out.  Then we put her in a scene with Jerry Doyle, in one of their
+nose-to-nose, toe-to-toe confrontational scenes, and I told her to pull
+out all the stops and try to bury her...and Jerry can be a very strong
+presence when he wants to be.  She held her ground and gave back as
+good as she got, maybe more.  And at the end, even Jerry said, "It's
+her."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Severed Dreams DVD (17 Sep 1997 17:58:17 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1997 17:58:17 -0700

+
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+
+       Well, eventually...but when that will be is anyone's guess.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Severed Dreams DVD (17 Sep 1997 17:58:19 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1997 17:58:19 -0700

+
 O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does DVD have reverse and forward still frame and reverse and
+> forward slo-mo?
+
+       It has 2x and 8x forward and backward, with perfect clarity of
+picture, and perfect still frame.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Atonement (17 Sep 1997 18:06:31 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1997 18:06:31 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> HOW did they do so much damage?
+
+       They targeted visually, it was close enough to do so.
+
+       A hit with full guns of a major destroyer and accompanying
+ships will kill damn near any single ship that does not have some kind
+of defensive screen going (fighers or counter-lasers or missiles or the
+like).
+
+       The fightes wer launched in main while on approach.
+
+       Franklin and Marcus *were* strapped in, which if you look more
+closely you can see.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 = Babylon5 So what? (17 Sep 1997 22:55:51 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1997 22:55:51 -0700

+
 Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think Paramount's development of DS9, as opposed to airing
+> B5, hurt you financially--would you have better distribution,
+> ratings, and/or profits if not competing with DS9 for stations?
+
+      Well, I have a piece of the net of B5, which means that there
+will never BE any profits to me from the show itself, except the
+standard writers guild residuals and a little merchandising.  (In TV
+and often movies, the studios make sure that, on paper at least, no
+show EVER shows a profit, so they never need to pay out anything.)
+
+      The two shows being side by side didn't help us, I think, only
+hurt us. Yes, there was some press about two such shows at the same
+time, but it's kind of like having lots of articles about how you were
+partially eaten by a shark...all things considered, you'd rather have
+avoided the situation in the first place.  It hurt us because they
+rushed their show out onto the air first, so that a lot of people
+assumed *we* were copying *them* when in fact we'd been around for five
+years preceding, trying to sell the show.  It hurt us because some
+stations felt they had to choose between us, and there were a number of
+reporters who came to us with stories of stations being told by 
+Paramount that they had to choose between B5 and DS9, advertisers
+being told that our show was going to be crappy with lousy EFX and that
+they shouldn't buy commercials on our show, editors being told that if
+they covered B5 that DS9 interviews would be withheld...the first two
+years were just nonstop trench warfare by Paramount, which seemed
+determined to drive us into the sea so that they'd have a monopoly on
+this area.  Finally, by year three, they seemed to grudgingly accept
+that we were here, and we weren't going anywhere.
+
+      One producer working on another SF project with Paramount called
+John Copeland after a meeting with one of the top execs at the studio,
+to relay what happened when -- after having some problems with the EFX
+on the project they were working on -- he suggested maybe using the
+same EFX company that B5 used.  The exec reportedly went on a five
+minute rampage about B5, quite profane, saying "It took us 25 years to
+build up this franchise, and those (expletives deleted) are screwing it
+up!  Nobody who works on that show will EVER work for Paramount."
+
+      So yeah, it's been tough...at the corporate level, even though I
+know a number of people who are associated with both ST shows on a
+creative level, and we get along fine.  All the problems have emanated
+from the corporate brass, not the creative people.  We were at ground
+zero for a long, long time...but we're still here, in spite of it all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Silly Question (17 Sep 1997 22:55:55 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1997 22:55:55 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Say Joe, do you know if there will be a September Windows
+> wallpaper calendar or not?
+
+      Dunno...I think they've kind of let us fall between the cracks
+here with the shift over to TNT, and some turnover in the WB online
+division.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms in Tulsa (17 Sep 1997 22:55:56 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1997 22:55:56 -0700

+
      For those in the vicinity of Tulsa, Oklahoma, I'll be at DefCon
+this weekend, to be held in the vicinity of the Adams Mark Hotel.  Will
+be bringing clips from the final batch of episodes, plus clips from the
+two movies, a bit of Tracy Scoggins stuff from S5, bloopers and other
+fun stuff. The main presentation is 1:00 Saturday, with another on
+Sunday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Severed Dreams DVD (18 Sep 1997 12:52:57 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Sep 1997 12:52:57 -0700

+
 Roseann M. Caputo <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know will it just be SD on the DVD or will it be packaged
+> with a second episode? Do you know what background info, if any,
+> will be included? Are you involved at all in the decision making
+> process on this?
+
+       I don't know...all our discussions to date have just concerned
+SD, so we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 = Babylon5 So what? (18 Sep 1997 12:52:58 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Sep 1997 12:52:58 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       You should not apologize when you have done nothing to
+apologize *for*. We're talking here, and we learn by doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Severed Dreams DVD (18 Sep 1997 12:52:59 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Sep 1997 12:52:59 -0700

+
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+
+       Trying to remember, I'm at the office...I think I got the
+Toshiba. There isn't really that much difference between the various
+models.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 = Babylon5 So what? (18 Sep 1997 23:33:09 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Sep 1997 23:33:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, issue 2 is out just now, in fact...it's coming out monthly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS on SFVortex (01 Sep 1997 23:03:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Sep 1997 23:03:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the Sci-Fi Channel has approached Doug and I about
+maybe doing something for them as a dramatic series while the other
+shows are ongoing. Will advise as (and if) that develops.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Del Rey B5 Trilogies (22 Sep 1997 22:44:46 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:44:46 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What has me curious is will each trilogy be penned by the same
+> author (which seems the natural thing to me) or will each book of
+> the trilogies have a different author (which seems strange, but
+> something I can imagine due to the increasing oddities of the
+> publishing business)?
+
+      Each three-book arc will be written by one author, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Captain Power (22 Sep 1997 22:44:48 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Captain Power

+
Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:44:48 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's news to me...I have nothing to do with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Congrats (22 Sep 1997 22:44:50 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Congrats

+
Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:44:50 -0700

+
 robert simmons <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> PS Approx how long before series 4 is released on video?
+
+      Thanks...don't know yet when S4 will be released to video....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/93.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/93.html
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+
+
+DVD tech talk (22 Sep 1997 22:44:52 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
DVD tech talk

+
Date: 22 Sep 1997 22:44:52 -0700

+
 O. C. Alexander <72623.3472@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which brand and model is this, may I ask?
+
+      I believe I got the Toshiba, baseline model, on the theory that
+they'll upgrade soon, and went for a mimimum investment for the moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/94.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/94.html
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+
+
+CC Situation (24 Sep 1997 13:44:22 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CC Situation

+
Date: 24 Sep 1997 13:44:22 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> She claims there was no offer for 18 episodes made to her --
+> maybe her agent didn't pass such an offer along? Jeff Sigh Corps -
+> Pat Tallman Division Great Maker huh?
+
+       "She claims there was no offer for 18 episodes made to her."
+
+       That's correct, and not correct.  What was relayed to her was
+that if she wanted to be in just 18, and wanted to be paid for just
+those 18, then that was fine...her people insisted that she be paid for
+the rest of the episodes, constituting a per-episode pay increase,
+which couldn't be done without violating the contracts of all the other
+cast.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/95.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/95.html
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+
+
+Franklin Closure (24 Sep 1997 21:38:52 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Franklin Closure

+
Date: 24 Sep 1997 21:38:52 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Im not saying Paul Winfield's guest starring specifically, but
+> any dialogue??? Have you gotten similar feedback from fans?
+> Was that creature everyone killed a shadow?
+> Plan on comming to Ny, NJ, or PA anytime soon?
+
+      I'm still leaving General Franklin's line open for the moment;
+the creature with Amis was a shadow servant...and I'll be in Baltimore
+and Taunton, Mass next spring for conventions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/96.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/96.html
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+
+
+CC Situation (26 Sep 1997 23:24:55 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CC Situation

+
Date: 26 Sep 1997 23:24:55 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      She was definitely not booted.
+
+      There was absolutely no reason for ANYone to boot her.  No one
+has yet provided one plausible reason why anyone at this side would
+want her gone.  I certainly didn't want the character to go away, WB
+didn't want the character to go away...she left when we couldn't give
+her what she wanted.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/97.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/97.html
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+
+
+From Babylon 5 Magazine (26 Sep 1997 23:24:57 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
From Babylon 5 Magazine

+
Date: 26 Sep 1997 23:24:57 -0700

+
 Mark Derrick <72317.3662@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true that the serialized comics in the back will soon
+> feature new stories? If so, I wonder if they will be published in
+> the US?
+
+      The new B5 comic to be serialized in the B5 UK magazine will be
+gathered in a graphic novel and published in the US by DC in January.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms absent a bit (26 Sep 1997 23:24:58 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
jms absent a bit

+
Date: 26 Sep 1997 23:24:58 -0700

+
      Just to let you know...I haven't been online at all in the last
+2 days, and may not be on for a bit over the next day or so, or at most
+sporadically. I threw my back out badly last Sunday, and didn't know
+how much damage I'd done until it reached the point of nearly
+incapacitating me by Wednesday.  So what little time I can put in
+behind the keyboard over the next few days, until the medication can do
+its job, will mainly be spent on writing episodes. It's just a muscle
+thing (fortunately) and I have all the right drugs I need, so it's
+simply a matter of time and healing.
+
+      What apparently complicated matters was that it happened about
+90 minutes before I was scheduled to do my second presentation at a
+convention in Tulsa (I slipped in the shower) and refused to cancel the
+presentation or the 90 minute autograph session following, knowing that
+some folks had come as far as 5 hours drive-time to be there.  Ah,
+well...live and learn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/99.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-09/99.html
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+
+
+CC Situation (26 Sep 1997 23:50:44 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CC Situation

+
Date: 26 Sep 1997 23:50:44 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Jeff Sigh Corps - Pat Tallman Division Great Maker huh?
+
+"Sounds just like I figured it was.... her agent(s) screwed her by not
+passing the offer along to Claudia.  <sigh>"
+
+      Nope again.  I was there, in Blackpool, with her and the other
+cast members, and I sat across from her in the hotel pub at midnight
+and told her that unless we got a yes or no by the next day, after all
+that had gone in during the preceding days, the offer put out to her by
+WB would be withdrawn.
+
+      She had all the information.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS to get royalties ??? (01 Oct 1997 00:29:33 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
JMS to get royalties ???

+
Date: 01 Oct 1997 00:29:33 -0700

+
 PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just wondered if Peter was stealing it for a new hair piece for
+> Londo ?? How's season 5 going ?
+> Have you let Stephen direct any more episodes and if so has he
+> developed a 'mean streak' yet ?
+
+      Stephen has directed 501, and I think is on tap for at least one
+more at this point.  Overall filming is going great, and I think this
+may be one of our best, certainly one of our most interesting seasons
+to date.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Help Me Promote Season 5 (02 Oct 1997 17:05:25 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Help Me Promote Season 5

+
Date: 02 Oct 1997 17:05:25 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       There's really nothing you can tell these people that will
+work. They will always doubt and say it's doomed...then see what comes
+along, and go "...oh..." and then the next thing will happen, and
+they'll do it again, on and on.  When Stephen came in, when Michael
+went out, when the shadow war ended, when we got year 5...I'm more or
+less used to it by now.
+
+       Give them something to believe?
+
+       I did.
+
+       The fifth season.
+
+       Either it's there, or it ain't...and anything I say doesn't
+mean a damned thing, since there's always somebody who'll counter,
+"Well of COURSE he'd say that."  The show stands on its own.  Always
+has.  Always will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+421: Garibaldi (28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
421: Garibaldi

+
Date: 28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quick question: Are Garibaldi and Lise now married?
+> What's the scoop?
+>  -- Brent
+
+      No, they're not yet married.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Luchenko returns? (29 Oct 1997 14:03:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Luchenko returns?

+
Date: 29 Oct 1997 14:03:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Would love to use her again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Last episode # (29 Oct 1997 22:51:06 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Last episode #

+
Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's officially tagged as 422.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rising Star (29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Rising Star

+
Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700

+
 Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How long do Minbari live?
+> Does Lennier have a chance after Sheridan's time runs out?
+
+      Minbari can live to about 120, with some rare exceptions going
+beyond that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-10/104.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-10/104.html
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+
+
+Gathering re-edit? (29 Oct 1997 22:51:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Gathering re-edit?

+
Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"What was wrong with the original?"
+
+      I was new at exec producing, and deferred 'way too much to the
+director, whose cut was, frankly, slow and left all the best character
+moments on the cutting room floor.  We lost 14 minutes of good stuff,
+which is now going to go back and we're going to tighten and make it
+better, the way we do our cuts on all the episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-10/105.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-10/105.html
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+
+
+ATTN: JMS Taken in Vain (29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
ATTN: JMS Taken in Vain

+
Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700

+
 Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the SF R/T there still running and are you still as active as
+> you used to be or either CIS or AOL more or less your "homeports"
+> now?
+
+      I'm still kind of everywhere...and they've got much faster
+access over at GEnie now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Another conversion (29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Another conversion

+
Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:07 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Roseann "Does the noise in my head bother you?"
+
+      Thanks...that's how it happens, one by one by word of mouth....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Rising Star> Bravo (29 Oct 1997 22:51:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Rising Star> Bravo

+
Date: 29 Oct 1997 22:51:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and from our current position, 12 scripts (and 9 shot
+so far) into S5, I think you're going to be pleased at what's coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylonian Model/Movie (30 Oct 1997 00:34:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Babylonian Model/Movie

+
Date: 30 Oct 1997 00:34:07 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should you get the go-ahead (under acceptable terms to you) to do
+> a B5 feature film, would you be able to do it at the current
+> Babylonian facilities, or would the scope of such a project force
+> you to relocate? And, as a corollary, would you be able to apply
+> the "Babylonian model" of efficient production to a feature film,
+> or does it best serve the interlocking demands of a TV series?
+
+"Should you get the go-ahead (under acceptable terms to you) to do a
+B5 feature film, would you be able to do it at the current Babylonian
+facilities, or would the scope of such a project force you to
+relocate?"
+
+      We'd do a lot of the indoors stuff here, to take advantage of
+standing sets for some of it, but for other parts we'd have to go on
+location and other stuff.
+
+"And, as a corollary, would you be able to apply the "Babylonian
+model" of efficient production to a feature film, or does it best serve
+the interlocking demands of a TV series?"
+
+      Yes, but in different ways.  For instance, the CGI is not
+rendered at a level greater than can be handled by TV screens
+(including HDTV) because it's a waste, you'll never see the
+difference...but for a feature you'd have to render at a higher
+resolution.  So there's a lot that would apply, and some that wouldn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rising Star (30 Oct 1997 00:34:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Rising Star

+
Date: 30 Oct 1997 00:34:07 -0700

+
 Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  thinking her character wasn't expendable.
+
+"I wonder if, knowing she was to in command of B5 for the 5th season,
+made her overconfident in negotiations, thinking her character wasn't
+expendable."
+
+      jms hums quietly to himself, looking around the room, saying
+nothing
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Help Me Promote Season 5 (03 Oct 1997 13:52:52 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Help Me Promote Season 5

+
Date: 03 Oct 1997 13:52:52 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+       Nope...no intentions of doing that.
+
+       I have something MUCH better in mind....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Endgame (30 Oct 1997 10:54:07 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Endgame

+
Date: 30 Oct 1997 10:54:07 -0700

+
 Steven K. Andeweg <72143.674@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you started the computer program that ran the CGI for that
+> episode, just exactly how many homeowners in southern California
+> lost power? I mean, the Agamemnon coming through that flaming
+> explosion?
+
+      Thanks...a hideous amount of rendering power and time went into
+that episode, and the result is all there on-screen.  The only bigger
+CGI feast is in the prequel, which is approximately 21% EFX, most of it
+pure CGI and composites.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Rising Star> Ivanova VO (30 Oct 1997 10:54:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
<Rising Star> Ivanova VO

+
Date: 30 Oct 1997 10:54:07 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Christian?
+
+      Does kinda resonate, doesn't it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Last ep (wow) (30 Oct 1997 21:21:14 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
The Last ep (wow)

+
Date: 30 Oct 1997 21:21:14 -0700

+
 Randy <75464.1275@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can this story ever end??
+
+      And of course we had those who wondered what else there would be
+to fill in a fifth year...not understanding that I have this story
+worked out in at least broad strokes for the next 1,000 years....
+
+"How can this story ever end??"
+
+      The story never ends.  It's this part of the telling that will
+end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gathering re-edit? (30 Oct 1997 22:02:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Gathering re-edit?

+
Date: 30 Oct 1997 22:02:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Basically, it's new scenes with the characters, new CGI in many
+places, and new music.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Rising Star> Bravo (30 Oct 1997 22:02:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Rising Star> Bravo

+
Date: 30 Oct 1997 22:02:05 -0700

+
 Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the pilot and the first few eposides you say that Sinclair is
+> the last commander of Babylon 5- I find that very confusing??? Do
+> you plan to bring him back for another eposode?
+>  Spinoza too) I haven't had this much fun with a series for a
+> long, long time.
+
+      Actually, Sinclair is never specified by name as the last
+commander.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+to nitpick or not (30 Oct 1997 22:02:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
to nitpick or not

+
Date: 30 Oct 1997 22:02:04 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why should I tell you how to do yours?
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      I think a lot of the nitpicking comes out of people feeling they
+*have* to express an opinion about something.  It's something you learn
+as a writer; if somebody goes into a bookstore and buys a book, they
+bring it home, read it, and if they like it, they like it; if they
+don't, they don't, and that's really kind of it, just the broad
+strokes.  If you write a book and give it to a friend, the friend will
+feel s/he has to go through it and give you critical responses..."I
+just didn't buy it when John bought the vanila ice cream cone on page
+47, a guy like that would buy chocolate."
+
+      Once the creation of the show is over, I think that it'll fall
+back into the general reaction category.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deconstruction (31 Oct 1997 11:42:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Deconstruction

+
Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:42:05 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just how much of it has been altered or edited to satisfy the
+> sensibilities or agendas of a given time? How will Watergate look
+> in 2072? How did WWII *really* look?
+> And again - how much of what we read in the news has been altered
+> or spun by the authors, their papers or networks, etc.? Di Conlin,
+> Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of Discipline, TUS (AKA Tigger)
+> Great Maker, huh?
+
+      The interesting thing about revisionism is, as you say, that so
+much of it goes on already.  John Copeland over lunch the other day was
+outraged over a situation where new Japanese textbooks are being
+introduced indicating that the rape of Nanking never happened, and that
+the bombing of Pearl Harbor was in retaliation for Hiroshima.
+
+      I'm constantly amazed....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deconstruction (31 Oct 1997 11:42:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Deconstruction

+
Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:42:06 -0700

+
 Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 2262 (ISN NightSide): Was it just my imagination, or did the
+> Paris speechwriter seem an awful lot like James Carville? Wonder
+> why Delenn lives so long, considering that Minbari live to 120,
+> tops, and humans live less than that? 2762 (propaganda holograms):
+> My, we humans don't improve with age, do we? he doesn't know his
+> own history, does he? I noticed the little roman numerals that
+> kept appearing in the lower left hand corner of the screen - I'm
+> guessing they referred to cameras? Part of the automatic tracking
+> system that Brother Alwin mentioned? More clues here, too: "the
+> blessed Sheridan, who lived and died and lived again and who was
+> taken bodily into heaven"? "Marcus the Purehearted," anyone?
+> I wonder if the Rangers are all recruited on Earth, or if a lot
+> of them come from the old colonies? So, humans are now energy
+> beings, with encounter suits? PJ ^^^^
+
+      Good comments.  One note:
+
+"The credits were interesting.  Claudia Christian has been almost
+completely excised from them, which, considering that Jason Carter
+still has a credit, seems kinda petty."
+
+      WB called us after we'd done the credits for that episode, about
+5 days before the uplink, after realizing that if her credits were in
+that episode, AND in "Sleeping in Light" which appears in S5, that it
+could very possibly trigger another salary payment, which is
+substantial.  So we could credit her in one or the other, and since she
+wasn't in DoFS, it's S5, that was the one to take out.  Since Jason
+wasn't in "Sleeping," it was okay to leave him in.
+
+      It was a WB mandate from business affairs, nothing more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylonian Model/Movie (31 Oct 1997 11:58:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Babylonian Model/Movie

+
Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:58:09 -0700

+
 Terry C <70313.1103@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, what are the chances of a feature film?
+
+      There have been talks, but we'll have to see what happens.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Last ep (wow) (31 Oct 1997 11:58:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Last ep (wow)

+
Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:58:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+1998 Calander (04 Oct 1997 18:36:05 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
1998 Calander

+
Date: 04 Oct 1997 18:36:05 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder if THIS is why we haven't seen any new calendar
+> wallpaper pages in the B5 web page Special_Elements area???
+
+      No, it's because with the departure of Troy, and B5 being a lame
+duck show in WB's view, there's nobody at the helm over there right
+now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+the "old" Anna (31 Oct 1997 11:58:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
the "old" Anna

+
Date: 31 Oct 1997 11:58:09 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have/Will/Can you change that?
+
+      It's one of those things we'll do when we get enough round
+tuits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star (31 Oct 1997 12:09:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rising Star

+
Date: 31 Oct 1997 12:09:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"it came down to contractual language vs personal assurances (thats as
+short a summation as I've ever seen of this :) )... and CC  / agent
+were more concerned with the former, and jms thought the latter should
+be adequate"
+
+      It was also contractual language on other sides, since giving
+what was asked for would've violated our contracts with every other
+member of our cast, and we couldn't do that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Logo on Ace Awds (31 Oct 1997 12:09:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 31 Oct 1997 12:09:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      For those planning to watch the Cable Ace Awards this
+weekend...be on the lookout, there's going to be a clip from B5 (with a
+twist at the end) which will lead off with a new B5 logo which we're
+introducing for the fifth season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS to get royalties ??? (04 Oct 1997 18:36:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS to get royalties ???

+
Date: 04 Oct 1997 18:36:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does that mean that you will be finish filming season 5 before
+> the serie starts on TNT? Can we expect a new B5 episode once a
+> day?
+
+      No, we'll be shooting through March, and the new eps go on in
+January.
+
+      You definitely won't be seeing *new* B5 eps once per day; you'll
+get the first 4 seasons daily, and a new S5 episode once per week for
+22 weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Great songs (04 Oct 1997 18:36:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5 Great songs

+
Date: 04 Oct 1997 18:36:10 -0700

+
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+
+      It's an old gospel song, been around since the 1700s.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS to get royalties ??? (05 Oct 1997 00:29:45 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS to get royalties ???

+
Date: 05 Oct 1997 00:29:45 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the new schedule has been set for S5 episodes at
+Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Western, which is a terrific
+slot, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No season 4 ender (05 Oct 1997 00:29:47 -0700)
+
+
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+
No season 4 ender

+
Date: 05 Oct 1997 00:29:47 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What prompted the new B5 Forum?
+> How's that for fan dedication?
+
+      Good luck with the dish, and I look forward to hearing your
+reactions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+1998 Calander (05 Oct 1997 01:26:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
1998 Calander

+
Date: 05 Oct 1997 01:26:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"HQ people have never heard of B5, and since they overloaded on Star
+Trek merchandise which didn't sell, they figured it was more of the
+same."
+
+      This kills me...and I've heard it before...because when we went
+on the air, some places didn't want to carry our stuff (like the
+micromachines) because it wasn't (or wasn't like) like Star Trek and
+only Star Trek sells...and now they are reluctant to carry us because
+they think we're like Star Trek and Star Trek DOESN'T sell anymore....
+
+      Some days you just can't win.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CC Situation (05 Oct 1997 01:26:16 -0700)
+
+
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+
CC Situation

+
Date: 05 Oct 1997 01:26:16 -0700

+
 Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I've never known her to lie, have you?
+
+"She also says she was never told she could do 18 shows at 18 episodes
+of pay. (whether it was her agent that didn't tell her or someone else,
+I don't know)"
+
+      Actually, if you read her statement, she does NOT say that.  She
+says only that she was told that the contract would read she would have
+to do 22 (if she were being paid for 22).  The 18-payment issue was
+never addressed by her in any of her messages one way or another. 
+You're reading something in that was never actually stated.
+
+      Meanwhile...let me put this to you concisely.  Her manager was
+told about the 18/22 situation in no uncertain terms by John Copeland. 
+Now, I have an agent, same as Claudia has an agent.  When I'm in
+negotiations with someone, as we're currently in negotiations with WB
+for the sequel series, the agent takes detailed notes and relays
+everything back to the client on terms and conditions.  Everything.  An
+agent doesn't just say, "Oh, I think I'll tell my client about A, B and
+C but not D, because s/he doesn't need to know that."  It simply
+doesn't happen.  And at no time has Claudia EVER said, "My agent didn't
+tell me this." She's simply never mentioned this aspect in any of her
+posts.
+
+"I've never known her to lie, have you?"
+
+      Not to say otherwise, but...how long have you known her that you
+can say this?  Have you known her...or have you known the character? 
+I'm not saying she did here...because an omission is not a lie...I just
+find it a curious thing for you to say.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+CC Situation (05 Oct 1997 01:26:20 -0700)
+
+
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+
CC Situation

+
Date: 05 Oct 1997 01:26:20 -0700

+
 Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So she was psyched for season five at a con, then something
+> happened a month later that is ambiguous at best and this means
+> she was lying about being psyched for seaons 5?
+
+"That's just it, Carl.  They're your *conclusions*.  Unless I have
+evidence to the contrary, I'll take someone's stated facts over what
+happened to them over the conclusions of someone who's using second
+hand knowledge any day."
+
+      A statement is not a fact.  If that were true, then my statement
+would be a *fact*, and someone else's would be a *fact*.  And in that
+case, nothing is true anymore.
+
+      Let me put this to you for a change, Sue: you keep saying you
+want "evidence."  Just to be brusque for a second...what the hell do
+you mean by "evidence?"  What would qualify to you as "evidence?"  Be
+specific.  Be as concrete as you're asking others to be.
+
+      The cast, Bruce and Jeff and Stehen and others, have supported
+everything I've said here, right down the line.  Okay, that's not
+enough for you.  What is?
+
+      You keep asking for "evidence," so you must have some concrete
+notion as to what constitutes evidence.  Because short of producing
+audio tapes of phone conversations (none exist), there IS no such
+evidence, and you're asking for things that either do not exist, or
+would violate confidenatiality (i.e., notes between Claudia and her
+agent).
+
+      You keep demanding evidence, Sue.  Okay, now I'm asking you: if
+my statements, and the statements of those who were in the UK when all
+this happened, are not enough...statements from credible witnesses,
+myself included, that would stand up as testimony in court but are
+apparently not enough for you...then what, realistically, is evidence
+that could reasonsably be obtained?
+
+      Because I think you're deliberately asking for things that don't
+exist, so you can continue to split hairs and make everybody else's
+opinion *just* an opinion, while you state *facts*, at least in your
+mind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+It's Getting Dark (01 Oct 1997 00:29:36 -0700)
+
+
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+
It's Getting Dark

+
Date: 01 Oct 1997 00:29:36 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you finish it?
+
+      OtherSyde is actually the better book of the two, in my view.
+
+      It's Getting Dark I shelved when I came up with a better
+story...which I will write in that wonderful moment when I have
+sufficient time.  About the only extracurricular project I can slip in
+now on a fairly regular basis is a play I'm working on....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+from jms: merchandise (05 Oct 1997 01:26:22 -0700)
+
+
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+
from jms: merchandise

+
Date: 05 Oct 1997 01:26:22 -0700

+
I'm putting this in a few different places, so forgive any
+redundency....
+
+We're starting to pull together the licensed B5 merchandise being put
+out by the fan club, and I'm very pleased by it...especially the pins,
+as noted below.  For a long time now, pirate dealers have been putting
+out fake B5 Earth Alliance pins, and they've been crummily made, either
+flimsy or breakable or thick and clumsy, and charging fair-sized bucks
+for rotten, inferior products.  No more.  Now you can get the real
+things, identical to the acual props in every single respect, and
+overseen directly by Babylonian Productions to ensure that they're
+accurate.  (Along with everything else here.)  But that's been a real
+sore point for me for a long time, and I'm glad to have it taken care
+of once and for all.
+
+The following products are now available via the Fan Club website,
+located at http://www.thestation.com (I'm omitting prices as per CIS
+policy, but will say that the fanclub members get a discount on all
+items).
+
+1)  product # FCM - Fan Club Membership
+
+This gets you the quarterly Universe Today, access to the Gold Channel
+personal logs on thestation.com, and discounts on all FC products.
+
+2) product # FCTC-01 - Fleer/Skybox Special Edition box with JMS
+autograph
+
+3) product # FCTC-02 - Fleer/Skybox Special Edition box with Bruce
+Boxleitner autograph.
+
+4) product # FCJ-01 - Earth Alliance Pin
+
+Baked Enamel blue and gold-tone pin, just like the real ones.
+
+5) product # FCS-04 - "The Great Maker" T-shirt
+
+When I directed "Sleeping in Light" (422), during lunch a substantial
+number of cast and crew disappeared from the set, and returned wearing
+these shirts as a surprise.  A lot of people asked for these to be made
+available, and now they are.  Front reads, "Shh...The Great Maker is
+Directing". The back reads, "And on the seventh day we wrapped".
+
+6) product # FCP-02 - Recognition Chart Poster
+
+This one I like a lot because it's just stinking cool...it's a perfect
+replica of the recognition poster seen in pilot ready room on B5,
+struck from the same master.  It has Minbari, Shadow, and Earth ship
+silhouettes, as you'd see on a WWII battleship.
+
+7) product # FCH-01 - Aggie Hat
+
+The product number may be revised.  This is the crew cap for The
+Agamemnon, Sheridan's ship prior to being assigned to B5, seen in
+"Knives" and which will be seen in the fifth season as well.  (And
+thosext item:
+
+8) product # FCH-02 - Psi Corps Hat
+
+This is another one we've been asked to produce by fans.  The cap is
+black with the Psi Corps logo on front. "The Psi Corps is your friend"
+is embroidered on the back.
+
+9) product # FCBK - Antioch Babylon 5 Calendar 1998
+
+This is possibly the best graphic product associated with B5
+publishing to date.  It's just gorgeous, with montage prints, quotes
+from the series, photos galore, and many of the major events in the B5
+storyline noted by date.  This is a limited edition with serialized
+numbers. We have the lowest numbers available on the market.
+
+And there are the CD's available from us, done by Christopher Franke:
+
+  product # FCCD-01 - Original Soundtrack
+  product # FCCD-02 - Messages From Earth
+  product # FCCD-03 - Avalon
+  product # FCCD-04 - Z'Ha'Dum
+  product # FCCD-05 - Shadow Dancing
+  product # FCCD-06 - Severed Dreams
+  product # FCCD-07 - Walkabout
+
+Again, all this can be obtained via the Fan Club site, which has an
+order form.  Some of this has yet to be added to the form, so in the
+case of short or limited orders, this will let you get a jump on things
+before they're sold out.
+
+What we're doing here is what I think should be done with this stuff:
+you make what you personally would want just because you think it's
+just cool....
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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Date: 05 Oct 1997 15:59:25 -0700

+
 Hero Games (Sue) <75162.372@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Me> "I've never known her to lie, have you?"
+> You> Not to say otherwise, but...how long have you known her that
+> You> you can say this? Have you known her...or have you known the
+> You> character? Did Claudia want to do season five?
+> You> Why should I believe she doesn't?
+> You> Is there some reason that a new contract couldn't be drawn
+> You> up for a few episodes such as has been done with Tracy Scoggins?
+
+      I note in the beinning that nowhere in your note did you cite
+what you would consider "evidence."  So please refrain from doing so in
+future, since apparently you can't define it.
+
+"If someone were to tell me that *you* were lying in this situation, I
+would be just as offended and just as strong in defending you."
+
+      Sue, by taking the position you have taken in this, you are de
+facto calling me a liar.  I have said clearly that the situation was X.
+You have said, repeatedly, that the situation could be Y.  If it's Y
+then I'm a liar. You may think this is just an academic exercise in
+intellectual fairness; you are, however, calling my honesty into
+question.
+
+"I don't know any of the people involved, and therefore I'm not going
+to draw any negative conclusions about anyone unless there is a first
+hand account."
+
+      Yes, you *do* know at least one of the people involved, you know
+*me*, and I *do* have a first hand account.  There ain't much in the
+show that is MORE first hand than me.  You don't seem to grasp here
+that I *run* Babylon 5. No offers are made to agents or actors that I
+don't know about.
+
+"If you were to say "I told Claudia she could do 18 episodes for 18
+pay" then I would see a direct conflict."
+
+      Then there's a direct conflict because that is EXACTLY what she
+was told.
+
+"Claudia says she was never offered 18 episodes at 18 episodes of
+pay."
+
+      No, she doesn't say that.  Look back at what you posted again. 
+I quote you quoting her.
+
+      "I was never offered 18 episodes at a different price."
+
+      Not the same price.  A DIFFERENT PRICE PER EPISODE.  That's what
+I've been trying to get you to understand for months now.  There was a
+desire on their part to get her a pay raise per episode, which would
+violate our contracts with the other actors.  She wanted to do 18
+episodes for the 22 price.  That only confirms what I have been saying
+here from day one.
+
+"You keep saying that *I* don't think your statements are enough. 
+I've never contradicted or disbelieved your statements."
+
+      Yes you have, by implication.  Maybe you don't see it that way,
+but I and others here do.
+
+"1.  Was Claudia told that she could do 18 episodes for 18 episodes of
+pay. If you say "yes, I told her" or "I was there when she was told" or
+"My good friend Bob who I know and trust told her" then fine, I would
+be prone to take your word for it."
+
+      YES, SHE WAS TOLD THAT.  FOR THE TEN THOUSANDTH TIME, SHE
+THROUGH HER MANAGER WAS TOLD THIS.  WHAT PART OF THIS SENTENCE IS IN
+SWAHILI?
+
+"However, so far as I can tell, there has been no statement from
+anyone who can say that she was informed."
+
+      Sue, I sat across from her in a pub in the UK.  I talked to her
+at length.  This was referenced in the conversation by me.  She was
+aware of it.
+
+"2.  Did Claudia want to do season five?  She stated before, during
+and after that she wants to do B-5.  Why should I believe she doesn't?"
+
+      I think -- and this is speculation -- she wanted to do S5, but
+she wanted a pay raise, something confirmed by her comments in the TV
+Guide Online magazine.  Go read it, she wanted an increase that none of
+the other cast members were getting.  (And as part of that interview,
+she says that all the other male actors were paid more than her, which
+is, by the way, an absolute and outright fabrication.)
+
+"Is there some reason that a new contract couldn't be drawn up for a
+few episodes such as has been done with Tracy Scoggins?"
+
+      If she wouldn't go for 18 episodes at 18 episodes pay, why
+should she go for 8 episodes at 8 episodes pay?  At the point we're
+talking about, we got every indication that she did not want to return
+to the show, period. There were no phone calls from her or her people
+saying so, nothing, absolute silence.  Now, you'll pardon me for being
+realistic, but I've got a show to run, and that means we have to have
+scripts ready 4-5 weeks prior to shooting, and the first one was due
+the day we GOT this information.
+
+      What was I supposed to do?  Say, "Oh, no, wait around for a few
+months, until right before filming, so we'll have plenty of time for
+her to come back to us.  We won't have any scripts, of course...."  No.
+I needed that gap in the command structure filled from the very first
+episode.  So now what do I do?  Bring in a character for 2 episodes,
+then turn the show upside down AGAIN and get rid of Tracy?  Because we
+don't make this show for a hell of a lot of money; every dime goes to
+the show.  If we brought back Ivanova for 8, we'd have to fire Tracy.
+
+      No...it's real simple, Sue.  Whatever was in her head at the
+time, the reality is that she walked off the show.  She made a
+deliberate, conscious decision to go.  My obligation is to the 10 other
+members of our cast, the 200 people in our crew, and the 5 million
+viewers to move on and make the best show I can.  There were no
+misunderstandings here.  It was a business decision on her part.
+
+      Now can we please, finally, drop this, so I can put in the time
+I'm spending arguing here back into making the show?  Or do you still
+want to doubt the veracity of me, my crew, John Copeland, and others
+just so you can give Claudia the benefit of the doubt?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 05 Oct 1997 23:37:41 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I thought, "Huh?"
+> Which brings me back to the beginning sort of: what prompted me
+> to call Galoob about the B5 Micro Machines?
+
+      The problem, as I heard it, was that the stores simply wouldn't
+put them out.  They'd sit in the back room because the owner didn't
+know what B5 was, and didn't want to take up the shelf space.  The nets
+are full of tales of people who were told there were no B5 micros, then
+after having the back room checked, found 'em...bought 'em...but the
+rest never hit the shelves, just sat back there until they could be
+sent back.
+
+      Meanwhile, Galoob was being deluged with phone orders for the
+things. They ran out fast, then as the store sets started to come back,
+were able to fill orders of stuff that had been out of stock before.
+
+      On the other hand...these are the sorts of stories you tell
+years later at conventions...like when Mark Hammil sat for 3 hours at a
+comics convention and nobody talked to him because no one had yet heard
+anything about this "Star Wars" movie....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 05 Oct 1997 23:37:44 -0700

+
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+
+      I guess you're right...we've done all we can at this end, from
+here on out it depends on the fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+"Change happens.  Sometimes it's good, sometimes not.  We (the fans)
+still don't know how this change will affect the show."
+
+      Lemme tell you a true thing.
+
+      And I'll bank my rep on this one.
+
+      The Lochley character has added so much to season 5, I can't
+even begin to describe it.  Everyone who's seen her, has responded very
+well, and likes the character enormously.  Where Ivanova's character
+was sometimes a hammer to the head, Lochley is a stiletto blade between
+the eyes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Help Me Promote Season 5 (06 Oct 1997 14:00:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 06 Oct 1997 14:00:11 -0700

+
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+
+       Yeah...you'd think some people would figure that out by now.
+
+       But in this case, don't worry...what I have in mind is
+absolutely discreet and classy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+      I'd hold off on that decision for just a bit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> issue of Dreamwatch?
+> Do you *really* expect us to believe that you don't just throw
+> scripts together the day before shooting like the DS9 production
+> staff apparently does?
+
+      Actually, this is the one area (since you brought it up) where
+we tend to shine.  Our scripts are finalized usually 4 in advance of
+shooting, so the director has about a month to plan out his or her
+episode.  We've found this makes all the difference in the world on
+budget, and the whole look of the show.  The only changes that
+generally get made are in set locations, to make things easier for the
+art department.  But beyond that, there aren't massive changes (often
+any changes) to dialogue, story, character, any of that; we rarely get
+past 2 drafts, and again, those are mainly for production reasons.
+
+      We've kind of fallen a bit behind this season, due to my back
+and other problems, but we're catching up again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
+       Well, Corwin is technically Lochley's XO, but she's definitely
+involved in the day-to-day stuff.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Help Me Promote Season 5 (07 Oct 1997 11:33:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
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+
+       It's discreet...but not obscure.
+
+       And best of all...it's eternal...and the whackos who've bugged
+me for five years are not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
+                                 Judas Iscariot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+DS9 = Babylon 5 (08 Oct 1997 03:33:28 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Oct 1997 03:33:28 -0700

+
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+
+"I think B5 has had a similar effect on science fiction. And the
+viewer like myself has benefited."
+
+      This has been our clarion call for the last 4-5 years.  I have
+felt strongly from the beginning that the more SF on television, the
+more there is competition, the less shows can rest on their laurels. 
+Everybody will have to work hard to produce the best show possible when
+there is competition, and the ultimate beneficiary of that is the
+viewer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      I will confess that there are momets when I'll be looking at an
+outside script with multiple names on it, and think, "It took TWO of
+you to write this?"
+
+      I think the reliance on big writing staffs is an error.  It
+leads to the frequent creation of little "pocket universes" where each
+staffer has kind of his vision or version of the show, and because it's
+political at that level, nobody wants to step on anybody else's
+toes...and you get a very uneven show, where everyone's also pulling at
+everybody else's script, and delays result.
+
+      The best shows of the past tended to have one writer/producer or
+one story editor at the core of it, not big writing teams.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08 Oct 1997 03:33:32 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you, in S5, be giving us any more of the sense of history
+> for the Drazi, Gaim or Pak'Mara that you have given us for the
+> Narn, Minbari and Centauri?
+
+      Interesting timing on that question...one thing I'm getting into
+this season, which I didn't have time to do before, is the other races
+we've seen but haven't delved into much...the Hyach, the pak'ma'ra, a
+bit more on Minbari culture, others...they've tended toward being
+window dressing, and I'd like to fix that just a tad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+B5 in LA: Sat or Sun??? (09 Oct 1997 00:49:44 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Oct 1997 00:49:44 -0700

+
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+
+      It gets broadcast again later that same Sunday, at Midnight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:26:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are they susceptible to telepaths like the shadow vessels were?
+> I forget, will there be a Aggy model?
+> Do John Copeland and Bruce B have an interest in airship history?
+
+"These new EA ships with Shadow tech...Are they susceptible to
+telepaths like the shadow vessels were?"
+
+      Negative...they don't have living beings as CPUs, they're still
+working at adapting the basic tech, the other stuff is still a bit
+advanced.
+
+"By the way, the EA adaptation to the shadow tech is accurately done.
+Keep the basic Omega design and modify where needed."
+
+      Got it in one.
+
+"Do John Copeland and Bruce B have an interest in airship history?"
+
+      Please...these guys are the biggest airplane buffs I've ever
+met.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Current Station List? (14 Oct 1997 16:35:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Oct 1997 16:35:07 -0700

+
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+
+       I don't have a list like that...maybe the Lurker's Guide does.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congrats on the Forum. (09 Oct 1997 01:07:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 09 Oct 1997 01:07:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I know there are still a few official glitches to get
+out of the way, but this is a great idea, and it's an honor to have a
+forum here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+New Forum Logo? (09 Oct 1997 01:22:09 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 09 Oct 1997 01:22:09 -0700

+
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+
+      I'm logging on via Tapcis, and didn't know until I read this
+stuff that my face was on this.
+
+      Well, that'll send users away in droves....
+
+      The horror, the horror....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+New Forum Logo? (10 Oct 1997 21:44:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Oct 1997 21:44:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did you get the copy of "Over the Hedge" I mailed you?
+
+      Comic strip received and copied and placarded on the wall of
+stage B. Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Welcome! (09 Oct 1997 01:22:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Oct 1997 01:22:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Just sent you a private note on how this may be fixed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+CC Situation (01 Oct 1997 12:37:01 -0700)
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Date: 01 Oct 1997 12:37:01 -0700

+
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+
+"We have an alleged meeting which she says she was booted and you say
+never happened."
+
+      John...let me try this again.
+
+      The weekend this supposed meeting took place Claudia was in
+Blackpool, in the UK, in front of 3,500 fans who can verify she was
+there, and not in the US, let alone at a meeting with WB.  It's not "me
+vs. her" on this... there are 3,500 people who saw her that weekend,
+8,000 miles from the WB offices.
+
+       This has nothing to do with who do you listen to, it's just
+looking at the logistics and the realities that have nothing to do with
+any personalities whatsoever.
+
+       Unless she is capable of transubstantiation and nobody told me,
+there WAS no meeting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Will we see CIS credits? (09 Oct 1997 01:07:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Oct 1997 01:07:07 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Very glad thats changed, now do we get any publicity?
+
+"Very glad thats changed, now do we get any publicity? :)  And di d
+this go through quickly cause CIS and AOL are now one big happy
+family?"
+
+      1) We can but hope, 2) actually, it's complicated things...but I
+hope it'll all work out fine in the long run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Sierra software? (11 Oct 1997 21:34:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Oct 1997 21:34:01 -0700

+
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+
+      The first thing out the gate is going to be the B5 guide CDrom,
+which will be out next month or so.  It was done in-house by us, and
+Sierra is distributing it.  It's the authoritative guide to the races,
+weapons, ships, and the world of B5 itself, the locations, other
+stuff...with a LOT of video from the show, and your choice of three
+different guides.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Sierra software? (12 Oct 1997 15:10:00 -0700)
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Date: 12 Oct 1997 15:10:00 -0700

+
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+
+      The other game is still being developed, and it's too early to
+get into the details yet.  Christy Marx is involved, though.
+
+      RE: the guides...in the informational CD rom, you arrive by
+shuttle at the station, and at customs you can choose from three
+different guides: the official station tour guide (rather stuffy,
+formal, only encourages you to go to the nice places), a rather shady
+character who knows all the best (worst) places, and a Gaim.  The
+commentaries on the places you go vary from guide to guide.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Sierra software? (13 Oct 1997 01:26:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:26:08 -0700

+
 Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we be able to order this one via the fanclub Emporium?
+
+      Yes, the fan club will also carry a limited number of the
+CDroms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Sierra software? (15 Oct 1997 02:19:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1997 02:19:09 -0700

+
 Terry C <70313.1103@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Then what's the title that's on the shelves today?
+> It says "Limited to 100,000 units" (that's limited?
+
+      That's not a strategy game...it's primarily a screen saver with
+a small game element as an added feature.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1997 22:28:12 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the B5 Guide CDRom the one you considered putting passwords &
+> locks into to release spoiler information as the new seasons
+> progressed?
+
+      No, this was something we couldn't work into this
+version...though there is one little extra hidden in the disk
+somewhere...sort of an easter egg, something that won't come around for
+almost a year in the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Petition for Ivonava (12 Oct 1997 15:19:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Oct 1997 15:19:08 -0700

+
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+
+      And to whom would you send the petition?  And when?  It wasn't
+WB's decision that she leave, it was hers.  She was offered the same
+deal as the rest of the cast, at the same salary bumps as everyone
+else...she wanted more than could be given without a renegoatiation
+that would violate our favored nations contracts with everyone
+else...so here are your choices, there are no others:
+
+1) You give her the increase (18 episodes for 22 eps pay, in the
+contract), and violate the contracts of all your other actors, and
+anger them and destroy the sense of fairness you've worked hard to
+create over 5 years.
+
+2) You choose to be fair and renegotiate *everyone's* contracts, and
+end up without enough money to make the show anymore.
+
+3) You offer the same deal as all the other cast members have, with
+the same salary increases guaranteed in their contracts for each
+season, and leave it to her to decide whether or not to come back.
+
+We did #3.  She chose to walk away.  So if you're going to send a
+petition, you may as well send it to her because it was *her* decision,
+not WB, not TNT's, and not mine.
+
+Finally, I'm finishing script #12 right now, we're more than halfway
+through the writing season.  Frankly, it's too late for petitions, and
+they wouldn't have any effect in any event, because it was never our
+choice.  It was hers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:37:03 -0700

+
 Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wanna know why?
+> You don't want to believe JMS?
+> But you DO believe Claudia?
+
+      Oh, please, send this to (Hero Games) Sue...at last, a witness
+that can verify what I've been saying from day one...thank you, thank
+you, thankyew... I owe you my firstborn child....
+
+      Can I repost this?  Finally, I have someone, SOMEone, outside
+the company who can confirm what I've been saying, someone who doesn't
+have a vested interest in the situation....
+
+      Thank you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:26:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, it's a nice, quiet little episode.
+
+      Well, at least, in comparison to what's coming....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1997 01:40:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think you just paraphrased most of the Book of Job....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS to get royalties ??? (01 Oct 1997 12:37:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Oct 1997 12:37:02 -0700

+
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+
+       Thanks..."Racing Mars" and "Lines of Communication" are more or
+less transitional episodes to get the pieces in place for the rest of
+the season. But once things start cranking, they don't let up for the
+rest of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1997 23:59:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well, it is the best written book in the Bible."
+
+      Well...the best *story*, with some of the best writing...but
+there's stuff in Proverbs, Psalms, and the Song of Solomon (which
+sometimes gets a bit over-written and racy) that can give it a run for
+its money.
+
+      There was some good writing back in the old testament...before
+it got all showbiz and high-concept....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+420: Victory! (13 Oct 1997 01:26:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Oct 1997 01:26:08 -0700

+
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+
+"...the symmetry and symbolism in how you structured that final
+battle.  The story of Babylon 5 basically started with the Minbari
+fleet coming to Earth to destroy it at the Battle of the Line.   To
+have the Minbari fleet return to Earth, not to destroy humanity, but to
+save it, especially along side Earth fighters and capital ships was
+stunning."
+
+      Noticed that little touch, did you....?
+
+      What goes around, comes around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+D&L: Sheridan=Christ? (16 Oct 1997 01:41:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1997 01:41:00 -0700

+
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+
+"...as I am a visual artist, I tend to notice lighting and
+structure,etc., especially on the second (or 3rd) viewing, and the
+thorny crown was striking to  my eyes, as was the sad,
+dark-circles-under-the-eyes, immensely tired look on his face, which
+lent to the illusion."
+
+      It's interesting when that happens.  There's a halo around
+Sheridan's head at one point when he's yelling at Delenn in the big
+room in "Z'ha'dum," and, just as a pointer to something you won't see
+for another year....
+
+      When I was directing "Sleeping in Light," there's a scene with
+Sheridan and a mirror.  (That's all I'll say about it, so there's no
+spoiler info there.)  As John Flinn lit the shot, and angled the
+mirror...I froze at what I was seeing on the monitor.  I called John
+over, and pointed to it.  "Do you see what I see?"  It took him a
+moment, but then his eyes went wide, and by his own reckoning, "the
+skin on my arms crawled."  He turned to the guys dressing the set and
+said, in a very loud, clear voice, "NOBODY TOUCHES THAT MIRROR!  YOU
+HEAR ME!?  NOBODY!"
+
+      It's not a big...but it's a pretty cool unintended illusion
+(though once we saw it, we kept it).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+      Apparently, Hamilton tested the plates in their usual areas
+(with regular consumers and ST fans) and this "research" told them
+there wasn't any kind of market for B5 collectibles.
+
+      I let this pass without comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gathering re-edit? (16 Oct 1997 22:28:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1997 22:28:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Could you confirm/deny?
+> Also, what changes exactly will be made?
+
+      Yep, we're working on the re-edit now.  There's still just so
+much that can be done, we can't shoot new material...but it's still
+going to be tighter, with additional material, new music, and new CGI
+in many places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+BTWN Darkness/Light (16 Oct 1997 22:28:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1997 22:28:13 -0700

+
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+
+"If we want to be logical here, it really seems improbable that a
+White Star could run into a piece of debris.  Ok, the pilot (Marcus)
+wasn't paying attention, they were at high speeds and visability was
+poor."
+
+      Well, if you want to go back and listen to what's being said in
+the episode, Marcus calls out that the navigational system was damaged,
+and they were trying to repair when the big chunk of debris hit them. 
+They couldn't get out of the way for that reason.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Compliment : Endgame<< (16 Oct 1997 23:59:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Oct 1997 23:59:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's about the right response....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+>>Compliment : Endgame<< (18 Oct 1997 16:04:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:04 -0700

+
 David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does a possible resolution have the ring of truth, or is it a
+> contrivance or cop-out? If Marcus were to use the machine, but
+> survive, what would be the consequence of his decision?
+
+      Exactly.  As for Marcus, that's precisely the point.  If we do
+what we do to Ivanova, then let her get bailed out, then do the same
+for Marcus, it becomes a double-cheat, and that's not fair to do to the
+audience.  If you bail her out but only at great cost to someone else,
+it's not a cheat on either level.
+
+      And yeah, generally, if you follow the threads, you can pick up
+on where things are going.  It's something I learned on Murder, She
+Wrote, where at the end, when the killer's been revealed, you should be
+able to back up the tape, watch it again, and this time see all the
+little bits that point to his (or her) identity.  It's basically about
+playing fair with the audience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>>EG: Where's Delenn?<< (18 Oct 1997 19:18:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
>>EG: Where's Delenn?<<

+
Date: 18 Oct 1997 19:18:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Re: Delenn's business...it's in the next episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CC Situation (02 Oct 1997 03:43:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
CC Situation

+
Date: 02 Oct 1997 03:43:24 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"...her stated view is that she was told it was 22 eps. or nothing by
+the Turner people.  No possible time off."
+
+      Again, this is only a partial statement.  She was told that if
+she wanted to be *paid* for 22 episodes, then the contract would have
+to stipulate that she was hired for 22 episodes.  The probelm was that
+she wanted to have the contract read that she was being paid for 22
+episodes, but appearing in 18, which constitutes a per-episode pay
+increase, which would invalidate our contracts with all the other cast
+members, who are on a favored-nation basis. Had her people said, "Just
+pay us for 18 episodes and we'll just do 18 episodes," there would
+never have been a problem.  We did the same thing for Stephen Furst.
+
+"Yes, when she didn't /couldn't agree to that, she was  "booted"."
+
+      One clarification.  You cannot fire someone who does not work
+for you. That is the one part of this conversation everybody keeps
+forgetting.  As of June 15th, when Claudia did not give the extension,
+her contract expired and she no longer worked for B5, or WB; neither
+had any call or hold on her. What had to happen then was for WB to put
+an offer on the table for her services. This was done.  A deadline was
+finally put on for a Friday, because of the pressures of production. 
+She did not accept the offer, and by that Friday, the offer was
+withdrawn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Gathering (18 Oct 1997 16:04:03 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
The Gathering

+
Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:03 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I noticed that in Dean Treadway's latest press release he makes
+> reference to the "RE-EDITED, RE-SCORED pilot movie 'The
+> Gathering' " as being set to premiere in January on the same
+> night as "In the Beginning," so I guess it's safe to assume that
+> you guys finally got the official go-ahead with that, correct?
+
+      Yes, TNT has approved us to re-edit parts of The Gathering, and
+to re-do the music and much of the CGI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon Project: Crusade (18 Oct 1997 16:04:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Babylon Project: Crusade

+
Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:03 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has the situation now changed?
+> Is it now a done deal for us seeing the new spinoff series in the
+> upcoming future?
+
+      With luck, we hope to have this puppy finally negotiated and a
+Real Deal within the next few weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+My license plate :-) (18 Oct 1997 16:04:04 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
My license plate :-)

+
Date: 18 Oct 1997 16:04:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, that's great for now, but once the war starts, you're
+going to be seen as a sympathizer....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Endgame (19 Oct 1997 22:45:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Endgame

+
Date: 19 Oct 1997 22:45:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"BTW --- I would like to see a female portrayed as an "evil dictator"
+once in a while. We've gotten to the point where we can routinely
+portray women in power...but we seem to have a problem believing that
+somehow they are immune to the same faults that a man in power can
+have."
+
+      Ah.
+
+      So...still single, then?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Darkness (19 Oct 1997 22:12:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Darkness

+
Date: 19 Oct 1997 22:12:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and welcome to the party.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+421/Empire of Light (19 Oct 1997 22:12:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
421/Empire of Light

+
Date: 19 Oct 1997 22:12:10 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> P.S. Minneapolis?!  :-)
+
+"If this had been it, I would've walked away with a great big smile
+and a full heart."
+
+      Exactly..it doesn't *end* the story, as people kept saying, "Oh,
+the arc is being finished in year 4," it provides a sense of
+*resolution*, which is different altogether, and leaves plenty of room
+for other planned stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+421/Empire of Light (20 Oct 1997 23:42:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
421/Empire of Light

+
Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:02 -0700

+
 David Kuhn <73532.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was anything different done for that cgi scene?
+
+      Thanks...the only really different thing about the shot is the
+length of it; usually our shots average 5-8 seconds; that one was about
+15 seconds, so you have more time to get used to what you're seeing,
+and absorb it, and make it real.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Endgame Critique (20 Oct 1997 23:42:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Endgame Critique

+
Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:02 -0700

+
 Ron Chusid <74756.3150@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was he good guy or a bad guy?
+
+      Exactly.  Lefcourt does not think that his job is to set policy
+or overthrow presidents.  The military executes orders that emanate
+from the head of the government, through the chain of command.  Once
+that chain of command was changed, the orders were no longer valid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Soul mates (endgame) (20 Oct 1997 23:42:03 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Soul mates (endgame)

+
Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:03 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was this by design or accident?
+
+      I think tyrants all tend to have one thing or another in common.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Gathering (20 Oct 1997 23:42:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Gathering

+
Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will the re-mastered version of The Gathering be released on
+> Video here in Europe ???
+
+"Will the re-mastered version of The Gathering be released on Video
+here in Europe ???"
+
+      I've no idea if it'll be released that way anywhere, here
+included.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS to get royalties ??? (02 Oct 1997 03:47:25 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS to get royalties ???

+
Date: 02 Oct 1997 03:47:25 -0700

+
 Scott Miller <70562.3656@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is, was an entire 22 episode package sold to each
+> station--in which case KMSS is choosing not to air four episodes
+> which they've presumably paid to air--or were the final four sold
+> as a seperate package to the stations?
+
+      I don't know the situation on a station-by-station basis,
+unfortunately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Green Mars? (20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Green Mars?

+
Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700

+
 David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has Mars been terraformed to the point where the pressure is
+> similar to very high altitudes on Earth?
+
+      My feeling is that there's been some small terraforming, which
+has helped a little, but there's still a long way to go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+You know what I want? (20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
You know what I want?

+
Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's so trivial in the overall scheme of things, but who the heck
+> cares? Is there any chance at all of us seeing, in season five, my
+> absolute favorite guest character, Ta'Lon? What the heck has
+> happened to the guy?
+
+      I'm considering a way to slip him back in again for a bit....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Endgame Question (20 Oct 1997 23:42:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Endgame Question

+
Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:03 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How then did Marcus manage to get a computer link to B5 to dig up
+> the information on the Alien Healing device?
+
+      Because Marcus sent the signal to B5 before the fleet jumped
+into hyperspace, leaving Mars, toward Earth.  We in hyperspace for the
+result, the search being concluded based on what was downloaded.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Comic Book tidbit (20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Comic Book tidbit

+
Date: 20 Oct 1997 23:42:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      So what's in it?  I can't get to a comics store for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia (22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700

+
 Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> do you read the files in here?
+> Will this never end?
+> So what would be the point of bringing Claudia back?
+> If Claudia really wanted to stay, why did she demand more money
+> for less work then, while everyone else accepted a cutback due to
+> the reduced budget (caused by the shift to TNT)? Losing Sinclair
+> didn't take away from the show, did it? Don't you think that he
+> can create more interesting characters? That the new character
+> played by Tracy Scoggins will probably turn out to be equally
+> interesting - didn't Sheridan turn out to be a good character? 
+> I guess you are a "Babylon 5" fan, aren't you? Or rather a Claudia
+> Christian fan?
+
+"If Claudia really wanted to stay, why did she demand more money for
+less work then, while everyone else accepted a cutback due to the
+reduced budget (caused by the shift to TNT)?"
+
+      One of the annoying tragedies of this whole thing is that the
+above misinformation has gotten coin.  Nobody was asked to, or
+accepted, a cutback in salary.  Every cast member got their salary
+bumps this year.  The ONLY change in that respect is that series
+produced for cable operate on a different residuals structure than
+network (big residuals) or syndication (medium residuals)...in cable,
+the amount an actor receives over double-scale is applied as an advance
+against royalties.  Once that advance is burned through, which in the
+case of some actors on B5 happens in just a few runs of the show, the
+residuals kick in again.
+
+      Thanks again for standing up for the facts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Green Mars? <<Endgame>> (22 Oct 1997 22:51:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Green Mars? <<Endgame>>

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, there was no change to the gravity...what should we see to
+show that the gravity was still less?  Someone like Garibaldi is still
+going to weight about 75 pounds, so he's not about to go around
+floating or bouncing, that's pretty solid.  I don't see many
+13-year-olds walking around like they're on the moon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia (22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700

+
 Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> do you read the files in here?
+> Will this never end?
+> So what would be the point of bringing Claudia back?
+> If Claudia really wanted to stay, why did she demand more money
+> for less work then, while everyone else accepted a cutback due to
+> the reduced budget (caused by the shift to TNT)? Losing Sinclair
+> didn't take away from the show, did it? Don't you think that he
+> can create more interesting characters? That the new character
+> played by Tracy Scoggins will probably turn out to be equally
+> interesting - didn't Sheridan turn out to be a good character? 
+> I guess you are a "Babylon 5" fan, aren't you? Or rather a Claudia
+> Christian fan?
+
+"If Claudia really wanted to stay, why did she demand more money for
+less work then, while everyone else accepted a cutback due to the
+reduced budget (caused by the shift to TNT)?"
+
+      One of the annoying tragedies of this whole thing is that the
+above misinformation has gotten coin.  Nobody was asked to, or
+accepted, a cutback in salary.  Every cast member got their salary
+bumps this year.  The ONLY change in that respect is that series
+produced for cable operate on a different residuals structure than
+network (big residuals) or syndication (medium residuals)...in cable,
+the amount an actor receives over double-scale is applied as an advance
+against royalties.  Once that advance is burned through, which in the
+case of some actors on B5 happens in just a few runs of the show, the
+residuals kick in again.
+
+      Thanks again for standing up for the facts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Did I see a Vulcan? (22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS: Did I see a Vulcan?

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, no Trek ears, no Vulcans.  Wrong universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Engame COmments (22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Engame COmments

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 22:51:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"I've been thinking about the rapidity of her return to ISN.  I agree
+that there wasn't time to break her out of prison and get her old
+dressing room back for the morning news"
+
+      When the Soviet Union fell, and the prison doors were thrown
+open, a number of reporters who had fallen out of favor with the Party
+and were sitting in cells walked out, went across the street, and went
+on the air within a matter of hours.
+
+      Humans are resilient and determined sorts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+EndGame (22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
EndGame

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for the info...interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS to get royalties ??? (02 Oct 1997 16:59:27 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS to get royalties ???

+
Date: 02 Oct 1997 16:59:27 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is that the 501 that is now in place of 422, or the first new TNT
+> ep?
+
+       That's the new 422.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Endgame (22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Endgame

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700

+
 Martin Toggweiler <74041.2400@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It seemed strange that those coming to arrest Clarke did not have
+> to fight through any guards, or were these his once most loyal
+> troops who turned on him in the end? Are there many if any scenes
+> from season 4 that never made it to TV, but could be edited in
+> for release on video? Is this Greenwich Mean Time?
+> Geneva Time?
+
+      Yes, EST = GMT.
+
+      And this episode wasn't rushed; it's what you do when you're
+bringing any story to its climax.  It's like watching Aliens, going
+away before the last 20 minutes, coming back and saying, "Well, it
+moved awfully fast."  It has to, you're in the big moment.  No, there
+isn't time for everything, there is NEVER time for everything, there's
+always stuff we might want to see...but what's in Endgame is what was
+always going to be in Endgame.  If I'd known there would be a 5th
+season at the time, I still would've written it exactly the way it was
+written.
+
+      The collapsing was done for the most part *long* before we ever
+got to this part of the season.
+
+      It's just fast because that's what you need to do at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star (22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700)
+
+
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Rising Star

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:59:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a good resolution to one thread, while setting up
+what's still to come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star (22 Oct 1997 17:59:03 -0700)
+
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Rising Star

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 17:59:03 -0700

+
 Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that filmed for this spot, or recycled?
+>  Worlds, or LAW... <g>
+
+      No, that's a new shot (Claudia at the window).  She was shot for
+that episode for that voice-over...we just changed one line.  The basic
+thrust was that she was going to take some time to *decide* whether to
+take on B5, or to take on a Warlock class destroyer.  So we just went
+with the decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia (22 Oct 1997 18:13:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 18:13:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"That's where I'm hopeful...that we can let the studios know our hopes
+to see her in any future movies or Crusade.  Encourage other fans to
+write, but to pair enthusiasm with courtesy...<G>."
+
+      Two things:
+
+      1) It wasn't the studio's choice in the first place, it's not
+like they wanted her gone...she left, so there's not much point in
+writing them.
+
+      2) It's not their call in many ways on future projects in ANY
+event; they basically let me write whatever I want, so it's my call.
+
+      What the fans need to know...is that by constantly bugging me
+about this and haranging me and hassling me about it...they are not
+leaving me well disposed toward that prospect.  I have a tendency, when
+pushed and generally honked off, to go in the exact opposite direction
+of where I'm being pushed.
+
+      Yeah, it's probably stupid and immature, and I should deal with
+such hassling better...but I'm human, rumors to the contrary...and in
+that respect, writers are like violins...finely tuned and highly
+strung.  Don't mess with the strings.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Soul mates (endgame) (22 Oct 1997 18:13:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Soul mates (endgame)

+
Date: 22 Oct 1997 18:13:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      You're thinking of "Anthem for the Common Man."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia (23 Oct 1997 22:57:13 -0700)
+
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 23 Oct 1997 22:57:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Sorry got that mixed up...."
+
+      Not your fault.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Green Mars? <<Endgame>> (23 Oct 1997 22:57:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Green Mars? <<Endgame>>

+
Date: 23 Oct 1997 22:57:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Were these things addressed before?
+
+      One thing we've noted is that there's been some minor
+terraforming on Mars over the 175 or so years we've been there.  It's
+still a hostile climate, but not as bad as it is right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Green Mars? <<Endgame>> (25 Oct 1997 22:57:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Green Mars? <<Endgame>>

+
Date: 25 Oct 1997 22:57:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Worth spending 30 seconds on it?
+> Isn't artistic license good for anything anymore?
+> Did I miss some dialog in past episodes that established him as
+> obeying an order to kill civilians? Can you tell us yet what "The
+> ascension of the ordinary man" meant to Clarke?
+
+"If you had time to spare in the episode (ho ho), you might have
+suggested the different ratio of inertial mass to weight by having
+character's feet skid out from under them when stopping, bouncing off
+walls while turning corners, overbalancing on turns, or catching things
+they had dropped two seconds after dropping them.  Maybe tossing a CGI
+grenade."
+
+      Except, of course, this would've looked awfully silly on camera.
+
+      BTW, remember that Number One and Garibaldi, as well as Lyta,
+have experience with living on Mars, so they would automatically
+compensate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN: JMS Taken in Vain (25 Oct 1997 22:57:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
ATTN: JMS Taken in Vain

+
Date: 25 Oct 1997 22:57:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      All good points...you may be right (on most of them).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+501: Or is it 422? (26 Oct 1997 01:16:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
501: Or is it 422?

+
Date: 26 Oct 1997 01:16:11 -0700

+
 David DeRubeis <75221.2351@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you catch the dedication at the end?
+> Also, did notice that the episode was described as "Sleeping in
+> Light" when the satellite feed first came on, before changing at
+> the last second to the correct title? Fess up, Joe, where you
+> having a bit of fun with us? David
+
+"My personal nit is that JMS has the sun going nova in only a million
+years. This seems several orders of magnitude too soon for me."
+
+      Actually, the computer voice specifies that it is continuing to
+note atypical solar emissions...atypical meaning something unusual is
+going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+1998 Calander (02 Oct 1997 17:05:24 -0700)
+
+
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+
1998 Calander

+
Date: 02 Oct 1997 17:05:24 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> US or Brit???
+> Will we be able to get both here in the States?
+
+       The Antioch calendar is a US calendar, the Slowdazzle calendar
+is a UK calendar.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rising Star (26 Oct 1997 15:39:05 -0700)
+
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+
Rising Star

+
Date: 26 Oct 1997 15:39:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"I'd just like to know why this info was important enough to pass
+along to the ambassador of minbar... :)"
+
+      Because Lennier is quite familiar with the concept of unrequited
+love, and because hope burns eternal.
+
+      Which is probably the most damnable part of unrequited love.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+501: Or is it 422? (26 Oct 1997 01:16:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Oct 1997 01:16:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"My personal nit is that JMS has the sun going nova in only a million
+years. This seems several orders of magnitude too soon for me."
+
+      Actually, the computer voice specifies that it is continuing to
+note atypical solar emissions...atypical meaning something unusual is
+going on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Endgame (26 Oct 1997 15:39:05 -0700)
+
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+
Endgame

+
Date: 26 Oct 1997 15:39:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well, unless its a coincidence, the "circled doodled message left by
+madman after he commits suicide" is VERY similar to what happens in Dr.
+Strangelove. Again, maybe its JMS's homage to Kubrick (like the "2001"
+style spacesuit that appeared in a second or third season episode, I
+forget which, of B5)."
+
+      Just to clarify this....
+
+      Re: the note...the script as written calls only for the finding
+of a note with the words "scorched earth" on it.  It was John
+Copeland's idea to do the note as shown, and yes, he's said quite
+openly over on AOL that it was his nod to Strangelove.  (John directed
+that episode.)
+
+      Re: the suit...that wasn't an intentional 2001 nod...we went to
+Modern Props to get a space suit for Babylon Squared, and the only one
+they had on hand that would work for us was one left-over from 2010,
+which I asked the folks in costume to change as much as
+possible...though it was pretty much what it was regardless.  So that
+one wasn't intentional.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+GIF arrived (27 Oct 1997 11:39:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
GIF arrived

+
Date: 27 Oct 1997 11:39:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, it did...thanks...lots of fun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Endgame (27 Oct 1997 11:39:07 -0700)
+
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+
Endgame

+
Date: 27 Oct 1997 11:39:07 -0700

+
 Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> She thoroughly enjoyed it, as did I, but she was baffled by some
+> medical questions: IV bags? Garibaldi having his wound sutured?
+> Ivanava in a head restraint?
+> She couldn't help but ask, if this is 300 years (give or take a
+> few) in the future, why do the medical sets look more like 20th
+> century medicine than 23rd century? Bob
+
+      Our shipment of medsupplies from the 23rd century hasn't arrived
+yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Marcus> [spoilers...] (28 Oct 1997 12:51:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Marcus> [spoilers...]

+
Date: 28 Oct 1997 12:51:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you...it was hard doing that to the character, but it was
+the only way to handle the situation with any integrity and honesty. 
+Very hard to write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Con in Pasadena, CA (28 Oct 1997 12:51:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Oct 1997 12:51:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Last I heard, as of last week, yeah, he was going.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+421: Structure (28 Oct 1997 22:42:01 -0700)
+
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+
421: Structure

+
Date: 28 Oct 1997 22:42:01 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would it be at all possible for you to help clarify the structure
+> of the new Alliance for us? Or is this something that will be made
+> clear in the series?
+
+      The Rangers are independent in authority, answering only to
+Delenn and Sheridan and the members of the Alliance council and
+advisory board.  (In roughly descending order.)  But their jurisdiction
+is exclusively in interplanetary situations between various member
+races.  Each member race has the sovereign authority to govern its
+people in its own way.
+
+      The closest comparison is that overall, the states are free to
+enact their own laws, but the US Government has sole claim over
+international matters.  Except here the states would have far more
+autonomy than is currently the rule; more like pre-Civil War America.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>> Rising Star End << (28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
>> Rising Star End <<

+
Date: 28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you had known that a fifth season was coming would you have
+> done Delenn's speech differently, and if so how?
+
+      I don't know if I would've done hre speech differently or not,
+to be honest...knowing it now, I'm not sure how I'd improve it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>> John and Delenn << (28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
>> John and Delenn <<

+
Date: 28 Oct 1997 22:42:02 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyway after watching, John and Delenn in bed my wife looks over
+> at me and asks "Do you suppose that her side of the bed raises up
+> since she doesn't like to sleep lying down?"
+
+      They will alternate, as you'll see soon....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Logo on Ace Awds (01 Nov 1997 22:26:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:26:06 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What day/time will it be?
+
+      Oops, I may have the wrong date, it may be next weekend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Decon->/Recon-struction (02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Decon->/Recon-struction

+
Date: 02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...as always, thoughtful and cogent and pulling together a
+lot of the threads introduced in the show.
+
+      Stop that, you know the rules on being sensible on the nets....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia (23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700)
+
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Claudia

+
Date: 23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The part of Lochley is very different from any of those roles;
+it was almost certainly the character you were responding to.  Having
+now seen her in a number of episodes, I think she's one of the best
+additions we've had on the show, quite honestly.  And she's going to be
+very popular...though in an offbeat sort of way, because of who *this*
+character is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Columbia House tape (24 Nov 1997 00:26:05 -0700)
+
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Columbia House tape

+
Date: 24 Nov 1997 00:26:05 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It's really making me crazy - please, what does it say???
+> Di Conlin, TUS , Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of Discipline
+> Supreme Dominatrix, RMES "Great Maker, huh?
+
+      Sic transit ingloria mundi...thus passes the glory of the world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Columbia House tape (24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700)
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Columbia House tape

+
Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Did the sign actually say "ingloria?"
+
+      It does say gloria...sorry, I had a brain-fart...see, there's a
+famous New York Times headline pun that appeared the Monday that the
+subways went on strike that slips into my brain whenever I write the
+original latin version; the headline read SICK TRANSIT, INGLORIOUS
+MONDAY.
+
+      It's like one of songs you get in your head and it won't go
+away.
+
+      (The other famous Latin pun they did was on a building being
+demolished, which read EDIFICE WRECKS.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Directors (24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700)
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+
Directors

+
Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> While you're on the subject, what about Janet Greek?
+
+      Janet has done work for us this season, including "No
+Compromises," the debut 5th season episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Claudia (24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700)
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Claudia

+
Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does Tracy have an e-mail box at thestation?
+
+      I'm not sure; if not, she will soon.  We've been trying to get
+her online officially...I know she lurks about, and has an eye on AOL
+and others, but I kinda need to nudge her out into the light a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Creation Convention (24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Bruce mentioned about a week or two ago that he would be at
+Creation this weekend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+directors (24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700

+
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+
+"Fatigue Psychosis, obviously!   YOU MUST SLEEP NOW...."
+
+      Boy, don't I know it...worked all weekend on 515, "Meditations
+on the Abyss," finished it at 2 a.m. last night (Sunday night/Monday
+morning), turned my attention to finishing the outline for the second
+B5 novel in the Psi Corps trilogy coming out next year from Del Rey
+until 4 a.m., then from 4-4:45 a.m. viewed the director's cut of 510
+and made my notes so I could go in this morning, getting up at 9 a.m.
+to do my producer's cut.
+
+      I hate Mondays.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+a recommendation (24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700)
+
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+
a recommendation

+
Date: 24 Nov 1997 23:11:08 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any coffee houses, hole-in-the-wall restaurants with really good
+> food, anything like that you can recommend we check out?
+
+      For hole-in-the-wall, try Salome Indian Restaurant at the corner
+of Magnolia and Lankershim in Studio City...what I like about it is
+that it doesn't back up and bite you an hour after eating it, which
+(for me) a lot of Indian food does, though I'm very fond of it
+nonetheless.  You don't go for the decor, but the food is great.  Try
+the Chicken Tikka, the meat samosa for appetizer, or the Dal soup, the
+Beef or Chicke Korma, Poori bread, maybe some nice vegetable biryani. 
+I tend to eat there regularly.  (Another terrific Indian restaurant is
+Taj Majal on Ventura Boulevard in Encino, around the 16000 block or so.
+They do a mango-corn chowder that's terrific, and just about everything
+else is good as well.)
+
+      For Chinese, the Panda Inn in Glendale, at Wilson and Brand. 
+They turned into a chain, but this is one of the original Panda Inns,
+and the food is spectacular.  I recommend the Lemon Chicken, the Hot
+Braised Sliced Fish, the Panda Beef (crispy, very nice), the Crab/Corn
+soup, and if you like shrimp, the walnut shrimp is very nice.
+
+      For coffee shops, Priscilla's in Toluca Lake (all these
+references are in the Valley...I don't get out much) near Riverside and
+Hollywood Way is a common hangout for studio types, and the Horseshoe
+Cafe on Ventura near Van Nuys Boulevard is a trendy college place. 
+Both make great mochas.
+
+      Beyond that, I don't tend to go to clubs or trendoid places, I
+stay home and I write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode Guide (25 Nov 1997 13:58:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Nov 1997 13:58:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There are 4 more new season 4 episodes coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I am not a Number !!!! (25 Nov 1997 13:58:14 -0700)
+
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+
I am not a Number !!!!

+
Date: 25 Nov 1997 13:58:14 -0700

+
 PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's up Joe, hectic schedule or too many late nights on the web
+> ?
+
+"Touchy, touchy!  What's up Joe, hectic schedule or too many late
+nights on the web?"
+
+      No, I do sometimes get annoyed by people whose worldview is so
+small that they think that interrogation began with "The Prisoner" TV
+show and don't seem to know anything about the real world...and want to
+narrow you down to their view by saying that what you did springs from
+there, rather than the aforementioned real world.  Fine, I'm glad that
+you've seen the Prisoner...now read a book or two about what happens to
+political prisoners in the real world.  Then we'll talk.
+
+     Further, as a writer you strive to create something
+original...and when someone comes along and says, of something based on
+the real world, on research, on stuff I encountered while getting my
+degree in clinical psychology, on years spent supporting PEN and
+Amnesty International, "Oh, you were just doing "The Prisoner"...it
+tends to grate.
+
+"So where did the inspiration for the interrogators attire come from.
+You know dark suit, the hint of gold trim and buttons on the collar."
+
+      Well, if you paid attention to the show you'd know that's a
+standard business suit which we've used many times before and
+thereafter; we literally pulled it off the rack in wardrobe.  You saw
+that as a Prisoner suit because that's what you wanted to see.
+
+      The problem isn't in the object being perceived; the problem is
+in the narrow world view of the perceiver who bends everything to fit
+what he knows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Endgame:Teep & ? (02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700)
+
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+
Endgame:Teep & ?

+
Date: 02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700

+
 Jose Cabanillas <71020.3316@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Second - will we ever see Major Morris again?
+> Actor problems?
+
+      The other teep was an extra, and extras generally go uncredited,
+and there wasn't time to work in the other Major at this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I am not a Number !!!! (26 Nov 1997 12:57:13 -0700)
+
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I am not a Number !!!!

+
Date: 26 Nov 1997 12:57:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  Yes, there are themes that are eternal and metamorphose
+and are reinvented regularly; that's the point of myth and the art of
+storytelling, so I agree with your premise.  Each generation sees these
+elements differently.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I am not a Number !!!! (26 Nov 1997 12:57:13 -0700)
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I am not a Number !!!!

+
Date: 26 Nov 1997 12:57:13 -0700

+
 PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, why the problem with being 'associated' with The Prisoner
+> anyway ? From The Prisoners 'Rover' killer beachballs, to the
+> 'Glade' air freshener used as the drive section for the
+> Liberator, so have we lost the ability to differentiate
+> lampoonery from ridicule ? Do you think the producers of Voyager
+> will be pleased or miffed to have parallels drawn between the
+> 'year of hell' and B5 ?
+
+      The *problem* is that it didn't happen that way, for starters,
+and it makes it into something more appropos for a fanzine.  Basically,
+if you spent all summer building a car, and somebody said you just
+bought it from somebody else, no matter how nice that other car might
+be, how good it would be to be associated with it...you put in a hell
+of a lot of work building it, and to be offhandedly told otherwise is
+annoying.
+
+      And, again, it just diminishes the implications, makes it
+safe...it's not about the real world, it's just about the Prisoner.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Between (29 Nov 1997 03:30:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1997 03:30:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"What was needed was at least talk of a major Mars resistance attack
+occuring at the same time to draw off the security."
+
+      There was.  Go back to the scene on the Apollo when the first
+word of attacks comes in...it says specifically that they're hitting a
+number of places *including* a White Star hitting that particular base.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+LOSCON: Sunday Still On? (29 Nov 1997 23:03:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1997 23:03:05 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (My guess...) Will you still be there for the main talk Sunday?
+
+      Yes, the Sunday 1:30 presentation is still on.  What follows
+after is not clear; I'm supposed to be autographing, but the program
+mentions the HE interview, so I'm not sure what's up there.  The
+opening ceremony was over quickly, so you missed it...but I did a
+couple of other panels during the day, as well as a quick blip-in at
+Hour 25.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<<DFS>> -Crusades? (03 Nov 1997 00:15:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 00:15:00 -0700

+
 John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is about?
+
+      Thanks...no, that part isn't the crux of the Rangers series,
+because that takes place 'way down the road, but monks have always been
+around on the show, starting with Brother Theo, so I imagine we'll see
+them in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Last ep (wow) (03 Nov 1997 23:19:11 -0700)
+
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+
The Last ep (wow)

+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:19:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was this a deliberate act on the part of _Man_?
+> they caused Sol to explode?
+> Your input?
+
+      If you play back the segment, the computer notes that the
+"atypical solar emissions" are getting stronger...so clearly something
+not natural is going on with the sun.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Last episode # (03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this true?
+> If so, why is B5 being discontinued?
+
+      Nope, it's still going on...S5 begins next January on TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DoFS (03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700

+
 Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What say ye?
+> If you have time, after watching this ep half a dozen times, what
+> were you attempting to convey?
+
+      Your friends should understand that the actors credits are
+always given in an episode; so no, that wasn't Jason.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Gathering re-edit (03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Gathering re-edit

+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the 14 minutes being restored to "The Gathering" include
+> Marianne Robertson's "hostage" scene?
+
+"Will the 14 minutes being restored to "The Gathering" include
+Marianne Robertson's "hostage" scene?"
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The One <Deconstruction> (03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is Sheridan the "One Who Will Be" because he stops the
+> Vorlon/Shadow war and ends the reign of the First Ones? Is it
+> because he is the founder of the new Interstellar Alliance? Or is
+> there yet another (currently unrevealed) reason? Did Zathras see
+> the founding of the new Alliance, or just the end of the
+> Vorlon/Shadow war? Does "The One" take on a different meaning
+> beyond the Sinclair/Valen-Delenn-Sheridan trilogy in the
+> *future*?
+
+1.  Is Sheridan the "One Who Will Be" because he stops the
+Vorlon/Shadow war and ends the reign of the First Ones? Is it because
+he is the founder of the new Interstellar Alliance?  Or is there yet
+another (currently unrevealed) reason?
+
+      That's part of it, and what he grows into.
+
+2. Did Zathras see the founding of the new Alliance, or just the end
+of the Vorlon/Shadow war?
+
+      I think he had a sense of it.
+
+3.  Does "The One" take on a different meaning beyond the
+Sinclair/Valen-Delenn-Sheridan trilogy in the *future*?
+
+      Depends on how you look at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The One <Deconstruction> (03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:04 -0700

+
 Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I have a couple problems with deconstruction- I watched it twice
+> and still can't figuer out how the future was transmitted? was it
+> a sheridan dream and not a real future? The time periods seemed
+> disjointed perhaps it needed two or three programs to develop? 
+> There is also the one who is to come in the Grey council's circle
+> of Naroon?
+>  Phyllis
+
+      The future wasn't being transmitted back; we were seeing the
+records of the past from the point of view of the final character, one
+million years hence, who has come to collect them prior to the final
+chapter in Earth's history.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deconstruction (03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:03 -0700

+
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+
+      No, Stephen also directed The Illusion of Truth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Logo on Ace Awds (01 Nov 1997 22:26:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:26:07 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it possible that the Cable Ace awards are taking place this
+> weekend but being televised at a later date? I could find no
+> reference to them for this weekend in the TV Guide (and what with
+> chasing B5 eps all over the schedule one becomes a rather intent
+> reader of TV Guide <g>)?
+
+      I think it's next week, I screwed up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Logo on Ace Awds (03 Nov 1997 23:47:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 23:47:02 -0700

+
 Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> what, what????
+> You screwed up????
+
+      Of course I make the same mistake.
+
+      I just never make the same mistake *twice*.
+
+      I go on to find new ones....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Darkness (04 Nov 1997 21:21:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 21:21:12 -0700

+
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+
+"Well it's been a great ride and I have used up a lot of pantyhose!"
+
+      Then I will be brief.
+
+"What if anything do you have in store for us series or movie wise in
+the future?"
+
+      Well, there's Crusade (the follow-up series), the B5 prequel,
+the 2nd B5 TV movie ThirdSpace, a third TNT movie now in development,
+and several other series notions I have in various stages of
+development, a couple of novels I'm working on, a play, WB wants to
+talk about a B5 feature film....
+
+      Other than that, not much.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Deconstruction (04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700)
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Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700

+
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+
+      The painted letters were on the *right* side of the shuttle as
+it went in.  The CGI inside the bay showed the left side.
+
+      We don't miss these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deconstruction (05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What was the insignia on the Human "vorlon" ship as it apparently
+> went with humanity beyond the rim? Is there a need for symbols in
+> 1,000,000 years? Do the humans take their social grouping needs
+> beyond the rim?
+
+      It's a Ranger symbol.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Censors (04 Nov 1997 22:11:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What scenes, if any, have you written in reference to that?
+> IOW, what have you written that takes advantage of the lack of
+> censors?
+
+      Mainly it's been in terms of the violence and language...I don't
+think we ever could've done G'Kar's whipping scene on network TV, for
+instance.
+
+      What I was thinking of at the time I said it, though, was the
+sudden realization that I could have Cartagia talking to a bunch of
+heads on his desk....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Sierra software? (04 Nov 1997 22:11:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:02 -0700

+
 George N. Ortiz <110060.613@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I think I already know the answer to this question but will ask
+> it for the people who are not masochists and have Macintosh's;
+> When will a Mac version of the B5 CD-Rom come out? I imagine a
+> year after the Windoze version?
+
+      The mac and pc versions of the B5 informational CDrom should be
+out at the same time; they were designed for both platforms going in.
+
+      They should be for sale around the 15th or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Live chats OnLine (04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700

+
 Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you by any chance sell prepaid admission tickets for the next
+> one? One of the things I was gonna ask you,is: How's your back?
+
+      The back is better, though I'm being careful.
+
+      Now if only I could get over the last of the Martian Death
+Flu....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> If WB is involved in making production decisions, why don' t they
+> carry the show in their primary market? Is this a marketing
+> decision, or was 5 years the predetermined duration of the
+> original story line?
+
+      B5 was always designed to be, and announced as, a 5 year story.
+
+"If WB is involved in making production decisions, why don't they
+carry the show in their primary market?"
+
+      I don't know what you mean here by "primary market," since
+"market" is usually taken to mean a particular area or region, so the
+term is being used here incorrectly.  If you mean syndication, the
+influx of new shows and the other mini-networks has chewed up available
+time-slots...and remember, TNT is now owned by WB, so one could argue
+about what is now their "primary" venue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700

+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is TNT still trying to twist your arm to do a *sixth* season?
+
+      I think they finally realized it's not something I want to
+do....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Gathering re-edit (04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"What else are these re-introduced cuts?"
+
+      Watch and see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deconstruction (01 Nov 1997 22:35:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:35:07 -0700

+
 Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Three-camera setup?
+> Or just a well-done sim?
+> The female senator?
+
+      Stephen filmed that sequence by having all of the cast on the
+set at the same time, running multiple film cameras to get each version
+"live."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<DOFS> - Bro. Theo (04 Nov 1997 22:11:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:05 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this what was intended - in the passage of time this became
+> only routine? Was the line played the way you intended?
+>  - Was the incident 500 years earlier the "Great Burn" Theo is
+> helping Earth recover from? Could one speculate that the "Great
+> Burn" affected Earth terribly, but not all the colonies?
+>  interstellar community?)
+
+      Yes, it was mainly Earth that bore the burden of the great Burn,
+and yes, that was the one Garibaldi got into....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+faith manages (04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700

+
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+
+      I think you can look at a *lot* of the pieces of that episode
+and find some resonance there....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<<DFS>> -Crusades? (04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:04 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question, in light of the events of DoFS, is, isn't the climax
+> of Crusade a foregone conclusion? I mean won't knowing how it will
+> end ruin the suspense for people? But are there that many people
+> who would feel the same?
+
+      I don't think it's anticlimatic at all; putting on our logic
+hats for the moment, do you really think that I intend to wipe out all
+of humanity and decimate the earth in Crusade?  No.  In any show, this
+is going to be a given, the question is how do you *get* there?  The
+premise exists to push us out on a mission...it's what happens in
+pursuit of that mission that's going to be especially interesting.
+
+      As with Londo/G'Kar, you saw them strangling each other...but it
+was in the learning of *how* and *why* this happened that the fun
+started.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700

+
 Nick and Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If and when will we learn what this is all about?
+
+      When I write it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1997 22:11:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Some general stuff....
+
+      Today, John Copeland and I finished re-editing "The Gathering,"
+the B5 pilot movie.  While there were some areas we couldn't get into
+because of the complexity in redoing the mix, virtually every scene got
+tinkered with to one degree or another, and most important, the roughly
+14 minutes of footage left out of the original version is now back in. 
+The whole thing is tighter and faster, and there's more recent CGI,
+we'll have Chris Franke re-score it, and it's just in general a lot
+better.  (Some parts of it even make more sense now.)
+
+      One additional change: because of the desire on PTEN's part to
+have as many commercial breaks as possible, the 6-act script was
+jerry-rigged and broken down into 9 acts.  One side-effect of this is
+that 9 acts wears on you, and wears you out, more than the standard 6. 
+You start to get a feeling of being led up to things too often, and
+there isn't time to dwell on the acts you're in.  I was finally able,
+with this re-edit, to move scenes back around again to what I
+originally wanted in a 6-act structure (you'll see a number of scenes
+juxtaposed from their original order).
+
+      Anyway...the TNT Special Edition is much improved over the
+original.
+
+      Other stuff: the fanclub site continues to expand and improve. 
+If you haven't been around in a while, you may want to check it out
+again sometime soon (http://www.thestation.com).  The chat room is
+running better than ever before, there are new graphics, and the B5
+Emporium should be online in a matter of days allowing purchase of B5FC
+stuff online with credit cards. (Mail order stuff is still being
+processed.)
+
+      Latest additions to the lineup: Psi Corps hats and pins, patches
+of various sorts, Earth Alliance pins, Ship Recognition charts in
+poster form, and others.
+
+      Finally, I'll be a Guest of Honor at this year's LosCon, held
+Thanksgiving weekend in L.A. at the Burbank Airport Hilton.  My 2-hour
+B5 presentation will be Sunday afternoon, where I'll be showing clips
+from the two TNT tv-movies (including lots of stuff from the finished
+prequel), from upcoming S5 episodes, new bloopers and so on.  I'll also
+be joined by John Copeland, producer, and Harlan Ellison, our
+conceptual consultant.  This is always an SRO venue for us -- LosCon
+has been a part of B5 from the start -- so you may want to get there
+early.  (Or even go the day before; it's a fun convention.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will you be the same when you go big business?
+> Will you remeber to call home?
+
+"Will you be the same when you go big business?"
+
+      I suppose one could make the argument that I'm already "big
+business" since the show is on worlwide and there's so much going on:
+figures, models, books, soundtracks, you name it....
+
+      But to your question....I'm too old and cranky to start changing
+now. I is what I is.  Which is as scary a thought as I'm allowed to
+have on medication....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star (05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will TNT be promoting the actors who did not survive the entire 5
+> year arc in their ads? WIll they be involved in any active TNT or
+> Babylonian promotions? Where's Zack?
+> Where's Draal?
+
+      Funny thing is, while re-editing the pilot this afternoon, there
+was Sinclair saying, "Babylon 5 is more important than any of her crew,
+am I CLEAR?"
+
+"Will TNT be promoting the actors who did not survive the entire 5
+year arc in their ads?  WIll they be involved in any active TNT or
+Babylonian promotions?"
+
+      Dunno...will be getting a clearer view of this in the coming
+weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Baseball 1,002,662 (05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1997 02:20:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Wasn't that an Atlanta Braves emblem on the side of the Human
+> "vorlon" ship as it went beyond the Rim? Any time for another
+> Sheridan batting practice on B5's field in S5?
+
+"Wasn't that an Atlanta Braves emblem on the side of the Human
+"vorlon" ship as it went beyond the Rim?"
+
+      Even Zathras say, Braves suck.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1997 12:55:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, no, it wasn't an urban myth...the web site he found
+the info on actually posted the pages of the textbook, as I recall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcus Aurelius (05 Nov 1997 12:54:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1997 12:54:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Can you please give me any insight on this book?
+> PS, What was Jason Carter's reaction to his character being
+> killed off?
+
+      Kathryn's the big fan of Marcus Aurelius, though I'm familiar
+with his work.  I can't recall offhand which part she was referring to,
+though, but will ask.  (She tends to quote him to me all the time...I
+think she's working on my moral and ethical development.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deconstruction (01 Nov 1997 22:26:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:26:07 -0700

+
 Doug Gordon <71610.247@compuserve.com> asks:
+> a direct decendant of Brother Theo's order on Babylon 5?
+> And, if it doesn't reveal any great secrets, is there any chance
+> we'll see Brother Theo in Season 5?
+
+"By any chance, is the post-apocalyptic religious order shown in
+"Deconstruction . ." a direct decendant of Brother Theo's order on
+Babylon 5?"
+
+      It's altogether possible....
+
+      And Theo is only awaiting a story worth bringing him in for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Marcus Aurelius (06 Nov 1997 01:44:11 -0700)
+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> is a good example?
+
+      Actually, I was watching a debate on PBS a few weeks ago, and
+they made the point that Christianity may have been the *cause* of the
+fall of the Roman Empire, rather than its saving grace...apparently it
+began to take the church structure as its own model in how to operate
+(when its own infrastructure began to collapse), and put religious
+leaders into positions they should never have occupied for reasons of
+simple incompetence, and in short order things began to fall apart.
+
+      I wish I could've made that paragraph more sensible, but I was
+writing while listening, and I only got the sense of it...perhaps
+someone else out there who heard it can fill in the gaps, but that's
+the gist of the idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Sierra software? (06 Nov 1997 01:44:10 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:10 -0700

+
 Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will they be available via the Fan Club, as well?
+
+      Yes, the informational CDrom will be available through retail,
+through Sierra directly, and through the fan club (FC members will get
+a discount).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Will we see it again? (06 Nov 1997 01:44:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:12 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, that's the point...there will always be short-term
+setbacks, but as long as we climb back a few inches higher than we were
+before we fell down, we keep moving toward the goal of becoming a
+better people, and getting off the planet.  Taking our place among the
+stars.  While it's vaguely possible that I may *see* a Mars colony
+sometime within my lifetime, I know that I will never live there...but
+that ain't the point, it isn't a victory if *I* do it, and a failure if
+*I* don't, it's if *we* do it or not.  Maybe we'll do it today, maybe
+we'll do it tomorrow, the point is to decide to DO it, and then by god 
+DO IT.
+
+      And yeah, that little closing card is going to remain on the
+show for its life...which will be long, long after its detractors (and
+admittedly myself) have gone to dust.  On the one hand, it is a
+statement of hope to anyone else out there who has a dream, to follow
+it no matter who speaks against you, no matter the odds, no matter what
+they say to or about you, no matter what roadblocks they throw in your
+way.  What matters is that you remain true to your vision.
+
+      On the other hand, for the reviewers and the pundits and the
+critics and the net-stalkers who have done nothing but rag on this show
+for five years straight, it is also a giant middle finger composed of
+red neon fifty stories tall, that will burn forever in the night.
+
+      In billiards, we call that a bank-shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:11 -0700

+
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+
+      Why did the story of Ishmael end at the last page of Moby Dick?
+
+      Because that's when the story ended.
+
+      A story is a slice of a continued and continuous world; the
+world exists before, and continues after.  The story never ends; you
+just pull out pieces of it long enough to tell to other humans, who are
+finite and cannot wait for infinity to unravel itself and tell us what
+everything meant. Certainly, amazing things would continue to happen in
+the B5 universe.  But our telling of this piece of the story, is
+finite.
+
+      We are finite.  Zathras is finite.
+
+      The story is eternal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bar-Raising (06 Nov 1997 01:44:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:44:11 -0700

+
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+
+      I understand what the difficulty with that would be, and I'm
+glad they stuck with it...it's gorgeous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 TNT Site (06 Nov 1997 01:48:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1997 01:48:14 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it connect anywhere?
+
+      The TNT site is not ready for anyone, and the information should
+not have been released; they're just trying out the software, and the
+log-ons are causing them problems (and some annoyance).  Please (to all
+looking on) hold off on the TNT site until it's ready; there's nothing
+there yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06 Nov 1997 12:59:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> If "Deconstruction" was written as a hedge against the fifth
+> season not being produced (as indicated in another comment),
+> doesn't it disrupt the original story line? Where would the fourth
+> season have ended if TNT had renewed the series earlier?
+
+"lt writing a 5-year series if you're left hanging at the end of every
+season. If "Deconstruction" was written as a hedge against the fifth
+season not being produced (as indicated in another comment), doesn't it
+disrupt the original story line?"
+
+      You've got it backward; "Deconstruction" was written AFTER we
+got word about the S5 renewal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Marcus Aurelius (07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you read Elaine Pagels book, "The Gnostic Gospels?"
+
+      That's an odd perspective since so much of Medeival christianity
+ran on money...pilgrims providing a constant stream of money to various
+churches and shrines to saints, leading to competitions between
+shrines, and (of all things) the "sub-letting" of shrines by taking the
+bones of saint A and sending on bone to shrine B, another to shrine C,
+and generating money in those regions.  And of course the buying of
+spiritual favors, patrons, the rich folk sending others to do penance
+for them...it was all about money.
+
+      (Source: Finucane's MIRACLES AND PILGRIMS, a fascinating book,
+btw.)
+
+      Interesting aside...for the last 6-8 months, I've been doing a
+fair amount of research into medieval England, especially the medieval
+church, for a play I'm writing (which may become a novel if I'm not
+careful).  Dumped several hundred dollars on a massive order from
+Amazon.com back a few months ago to fill out what I needed.  That was
+what tangentially led me into the post-Burn sequence in
+"Deconstruction."  My brain has been full of monks for the last 8
+months or so, and knowing the role they played in maintaining secular
+knowledge from about 500 AD and for some time thereafter, that seemed 
+the perfect route to go that would also resonate with the look of the
+Rangers and the religious caste Minbari and the whole feel we were
+setting up.
+
+      It was only when I was about halfway into the act that I
+thought, "Oh, crud, this is the same area Canticle explored."  And for
+several days I set it aside and strongly considered dropping it, or
+changing the venue (at one point considered setting it in the ruins of
+a university, but I couldn't make that work realistically...who'd be
+supporting a university in the ruins of a major nuclear war?  Who'd
+have the *resources* I needed?  The church, or what would at least LOOK
+like the church.  My sense of backstory here is that the Anla-shok
+moved in and started little "abbeys" all over the place, using the 
+church as cover, but rarely actually a part of it, which was why they
+had not gotten their recognition, and would never get it.  Rome
+probably didn't even know about them, or knew them only distantly.)
+
+      Anyway...at the end of the day, I decided to leave it as it was,
+since I'd gotten there on an independent road, we'd already had a
+number of monks on B5, and there's been a LOT of theocratic science
+fiction written beyond Canticle...Gather Darkness, aspects of
+Foundation, others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Peter in N.S.N.R. (07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700

+
 Colin Heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Eh???
+> Wassat??
+>  - What about you??
+
+      Thanks...will pass that along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1997 00:02:04 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of which.....is there any news on Crusade yet?
+
+"Speaking of which.....is there any news on Crusade yet?"
+
+      Did you think I would forget to mention it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Logo (01 Nov 1997 22:26:06 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Nov 1997 22:26:06 -0700

+
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+
+      I was advised to repost this here rather than the technical
+section...
+
+      A new Season 5 B5 logo will be debuting on the Cable Ace awards
+in a snipped from the show...just a word to the wise....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<DOFS> - Bro. Theo (07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1997 00:02:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Some probably would offer to help...but if technology is now
+suspect, some might not want that help...other colonies might be of the
+"screw 'em, they got what they deserved" perspective...often politics
+gets in the way of charity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Destruction" from CIS? (07 Nov 1997 11:37:09 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1997 11:37:09 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> inspired you to write this episode?
+
+      One can find any number of pains in the butts reflected in that
+show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Marcus Aurelius (07 Nov 1997 12:06:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Nov 1997 12:06:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What period is the book you just cited about?
+> I'd bet it was from Roncesvalles (sp?) to the Rennaisance, or
+> maybe 1000 to 1500? In your reading about medieval England, did
+> you get Georges Duby's "William the Marshall?"
+
+      You're correct; the part where the money got to be bigtime for
+the church was in the 13th-15th centuries.  That was where the saint
+business went bigtime, to the point where the church bosses had to
+start hammering the local branches where the saints were getting too
+powerful, and began creating challenges to the main line of authority.
+
+      I love the competition that broke out among them...some saying
+that their saint was better at miracles than the one down the road, and
+if you're stupid enough to *go* to the one down the road, why, things
+could actually get worse for you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deconstruction (08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700

+
 DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that what you had in mind, or am I sitting too close to the
+> screen again? Doug
+
+      One can read that scene in many ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Live chats OnLine (08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700

+
 Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You've got that too Joe?
+
+      Yeah, I've got the last of it, and that was a big part of it,
+the total and absolute fatigue.  Combined with only getting a few hours
+sleep here and there, it's kinda taken a toll, but fortunately I'm at
+the tail end of the thing finally, and should be back up to snuff in a
+few days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Live chats OnLine (08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700

+
 Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You've got that too Joe?
+
+      PS...chewable Vitamin C and Zinc lozenges.  Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sol going nova (08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Nov 1997 01:36:03 -0700

+
 Stephen Burrow <70640.40@compuserve.com> asks:
+> doing as the Vorlons and Shadows did when they left the galaxy,
+> and destroying their home planet to prevent the younger races
+> from obtaining their technology? Also, I have seen it suggested by
+> others, but not confirmed by you: were the humans in fact leaving
+> the galaxy, or simply relocating? Stephen Burrow
+
+      No point in leaving the galaxy; stars go nova, it only affects
+the immediate vicinity (big as that is).  By this point, they were in
+the position of the Vorlons, and now have to take their (our) place
+guiding the younger races, the next wave, while not getting in the way
+and remembering the lesson of the shadow/vorlon conflict.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deconstruction (09 Nov 1997 02:43:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Nov 1997 02:43:06 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is it OK to ask how many of the remaining episodes are written at
+> this time?
+
+      I'm writing #14 right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Live chats OnLine (09 Nov 1997 22:47:01 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 09 Nov 1997 22:47:01 -0700

+
 Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  -Gardner L. Harris
+
+      The zinc lozenges are absolutely positively the #1 item to have
+as soon as you start to feel a cold or flu coming on.  Trust me, I've
+learned the hard way on this one (and they can alleviate the symptoms a
+bit once you've got it).  You can get the cherry flavored ones, which
+take some of the onus off it (the throat-candies with zinc aren't as
+effective, btw).  Alternate zinc lozenges (NOT the pill form, letting
+the lozenge dissolve slowly in the mouth) and the vitamin C (ditto) as
+often as you can, eating to counteract any acidic effect...and lemme
+tell you, it makes a HUGE difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rebo & Zooty (10 Nov 1997 23:19:06 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 10 Nov 1997 23:19:06 -0700

+
 Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were these two on your wish list or were they suggested by
+> someone else? Is there something that they've done that I/we know
+> about?
+
+      Their name came up in discussions, and they just seemed a
+perfect match.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Logo on Ace Awds (02 Nov 1997 19:45:13 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Nov 1997 19:45:13 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Ace Awards have honored such genre shows as The Outer Limits,
+> if I'm not mistaken, so am I right in thinking that they might be
+> more open than the Emmys to considering B5 for the more
+> first-tier awards such as acting, writing and directing?
+
+      I think we'll have better shots at everything, across the board,
+once we're over on TNT.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star (11 Nov 1997 12:44:07 -0700)
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Rising Star

+
Date: 11 Nov 1997 12:44:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Things can sometimes be black and white without being right or
+wrong. If I say a thing is hot and dry and you say it is wet and cold,
+those are bipolar distinctions; neither is morally right nor wrong, but
+there is a very definite and demonstrable difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Marcus Aurelius (11 Nov 1997 13:38:13 -0700)
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Marcus Aurelius

+
Date: 11 Nov 1997 13:38:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Neroon's description of it "We fight, they work, you pray." was
+lifted whole from the church's description of proper societal roles.
+You took it word for word (which I assume was the intention)."
+
+      Actually...no, I wasn't even aware of that until you mentioned
+it just now.  But I can see how it would fit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gerrold's Tribute... (11 Nov 1997 13:38:13 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Nov 1997 13:38:13 -0700

+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can you say no to someone who has such big sad brown eyes?
+> ...are you going to stand for sort of thing?!
+
+      There's nothing I can possibly say about that tribute that could
+not be better said in open court before a jury.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rebo & Zooty (11 Nov 1997 13:38:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Nov 1997 13:38:14 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you willing to tell us if both characters have lines or not?
+
+      Do both characters have lines?
+
+      Yes and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Marcus Aurelius (12 Nov 1997 13:52:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 Nov 1997 13:52:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Jeff Sigh Corps - Pat Tallman Division Great Maker huh?
+
+"Personally, I'm quite amazed that he and the rest of the cast were
+able to keep themselves from spouting off on the last day in
+Blackpool."
+
+      More or less.  I was talking to Julie Caitlin Brown the other
+day, who commented that she saw Bruce shortly after learning of
+Claudia's decision, and he was upset, angry, nearly in tears over the
+whole thing.  A lot of people in the cast were very upset over her
+decision.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Logo on Ace Awds (12 Nov 1997 13:52:10 -0700)
+
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New B5 Logo on Ace Awds

+
Date: 12 Nov 1997 13:52:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this the same logo that appears on TNT's web site?
+
+"Is this the same logo that appears on TNT's web site?"
+
+      Negative.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sinclair (12 Nov 1997 23:01:05 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 12 Nov 1997 23:01:05 -0700

+
 Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the whole thread regarding Sinclair over with?
+> Theres bound to be someone asking, "Whatever happened to
+> Sinclair?"
+
+      I generally try to avoid closing doors definitively.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Will we see it again? (12 Nov 1997 13:59:09 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Nov 1997 13:59:09 -0700

+
 Ronald Legro <75136.2066@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Trek speaks to "what do you want?"
+> Bill "Jump" Gates, "where do you want to go today?"), while B5 is
+> "who are you?"
+
+      Agreement on every point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star (12 Nov 1997 23:01:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 Nov 1997 23:01:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I'm not sure in this case that it was necessarily a "morally" right
+or wrong position on either side"
+
+      I'm back and forth, but on balance, yeah, I agree with that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+roman-a-clef (13 Nov 1997 12:05:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Nov 1997 12:05:08 -0700

+
 Brian Kornfeld <75703.1340@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I be the only one to catch these 2 things here?
+> Can a certain "conceptual consultant" with the same initials be
+> the inspiration for this character? Coincidence?
+
+      No, Henry Ellis was not in any way named for Harlan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+faith manages (02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 02 Nov 1997 19:45:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Exactly (and thanks).  A few people have interpreted the final
+card as "meanspirited" (when it's on one level a reaction *to* five
+years of constant carping and meanspiritedness from lots of sectors,
+from the nets to the press and elsewhere)...but what it is, is a
+statement of hope.  That whenever you try something different, there
+are going to be naysayers, and people who say it can't be done, and
+certainly can't be done by *you*.
+
+      It ain't just B5, it's any dream out there.
+
+      And in the end, they are wrong.
+
+      Faith manages.
+
+      That's the message of the card.
+
+      That, and the truth that in 10 years the naysayers will be
+forgotten, and made irrelevant...but the show, the *show*...goes on. 
+And will be around long after they and I have gone to dust.  And all
+people will know when they see that card, 50 years from now, was that
+some jerks said it couldn't be done, and they were wrong, because they
+are *always* wrong.  If you have the dream, the ability and the
+passion, you can bring your dreams to life despite overwhelming
+opposition.  That's the message.
+
+      But for those on the other side, they will never see anything
+other than meanspiritedness because that's all they can *ever*
+see...because that's all they can bring to the table.
+
+      There's an old saying about books, which I'll rephrase to
+include B5: Babylon 5 is like a book, and a book is like a mirror: if
+an ass peers in, you can't exactly expect an apostle to peer out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Merchandise - New (14 Nov 1997 12:20:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Nov 1997 12:20:00 -0700

+
 Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has there been any more word?
+> Does anyone know when that will be???
+> Will these be available through the Fan Club, as well?
+
+      The card game should be out shortly; the Sierra CD rom will be
+available via retail, from Sierra directly, and from the B5 fan club at
+a discount to members (and generally to non-members).  We should have
+it in hand by the first of next week.  Keep an eye on the B5 fan club
+website for more information (www.thestation.com), which will shortly
+have an on-line credit card emporium to make ordering simpler.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DOFS - THANKS! (14 Nov 1997 12:49:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Nov 1997 12:49:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Re: speechwriters and others hanging around after the
+fall...look at the remains of the Soviet Union.  After the fall of the
+communist party, you'd think they would all have been run out of town
+on a rail.  But many of them just shifted over and found similar
+positions, or kept the communist party going, after everything they'd
+done.
+
+      The problem with most people is that they don't hold a grudge
+near long enough.
+
+      I'd have to check, but yeah, I believe we stuck a ranger symbol
+on the encounter suit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+characters (14 Nov 1997 01:25:02 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 14 Nov 1997 01:25:02 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When you create a character for a book, is it different when you
+> create it for TV? When creating a character in a book, because
+> you're not going to see it on the screen, you would tend to be
+> more descriptive, yes? Does this make any sense?
+
+      No, no difference at all, from my perspective.  You find out who
+the character is, what they want, how far they'll go to get it, and how
+far someone else will go to stop them...and the rest attends to itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Videos (16 Nov 1997 18:32:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the tapes are for now only available through Columbia House.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DOFS - THANKS! (16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I think one of the problems in N. Ireland is some people hold a
+grudge for way too long."
+
+      Granted.
+
+      I was talking to one of the guys who worked on the shoot for
+"The Quiet Man," filmed in Ireland.  At the end of the shoot, they were
+going to have a huge wrap party, all the stars, crew, studio folk, the
+whole bit.  A big deal, lots of money.  The guy was setting it up
+through his aide over the phone from England, and after everything was
+all set, just a few days before, he called himself just to make sure
+everything was going ahead on schedule. The person in Ireland said it
+was all fine, and could he have the name of the person to whom he was
+speaking?
+
+      "Cromwell," the guy said.
+
+      They canceled the whole thing the instant he said that name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+roman-a-clef (16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Have you determined the ultimate fate of Alfie Bester?"
+
+      Yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcus Aurelius (16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"The fight work pray cycle representing Knights, Serfs and Clergy and
+written *word for word* as Neroon said it is about *eight hundred*
+years old.  I'll see if I can dig up an exact reference. I was certain
+you cribbed it from the Dominicans."
+
+      Nope...though the knights/serfs/clergy thing makes sense in that
+context of work/serve/pray.  It's also warrior/worker/religious caste. 
+It just kinda made sense when I thought it up.
+
+      So now I have to figure out if I'm ahead of my time or behind my
+time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcus - ADD?(<Endgame>) (16 Nov 1997 18:32:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, did you create the character of Marcus to
+> be an ADD person?
+
+      Vas machst du, "ADD person?"
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+New B5 Logo (16 Nov 1997 18:32:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Nov 1997 18:32:06 -0700

+
 Jan Robb <110543.731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it really there somewhere?
+
+      Sigh...here's the situation.
+
+      I am an idiot.
+
+      I was told they wanted the clip for the Cable Ace Awards.  And
+they did. And it was shown.  But apparently it went out on the
+*unbroadcast* night, the day before, rather than the one they aired. 
+They wanted to split up the B5 stuff for maximum result, so thaty had a
+clip on the non-broadcast night, and Bruce for the broadcast night.
+
+      Me, I'm just in perpetual night.
+
+                                                yrs, the idiot,
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Videos (17 Nov 1997 23:02:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Nov 1997 23:02:13 -0700

+
 Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> rather than VHS tape?
+
+      One can only hope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+faith manages (03 Nov 1997 00:15:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 00:15:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Happily your note could only be read as mean-spirited by someone
+feeling a bit guilty. It is a mirror: you get out of the comment what
+you put into it's creation. You see it as a redemption/accomplishment
+of a plan, I see it as a confirmation of my own fandom, and a critic
+will see it as an insult on his/her own unkind words."
+
+      Something for everyone....
+
+"But have you had many negative comments about it? I hope not as many
+as you've had positive."
+
+      No, not that much...and what there is, is mainly from the
+weasels for whom it was somewhat intended.
+
+"BTW: was my interpretation of the fiery emergence of the Agamemnon an
+over-interpretation on my part? Or will you remain enigmatic - it
+means whatever it means!"
+
+      It seemed an appropriate placeholder when WB told us we had to
+omit Claudia's credit because she also appears in (the new) 522,
+"Sleeping in Light," to avoid incurring fees.
+
+"It's been said B5 represents a paradigm shift in science fiction -
+and we're all better for it."
+
+      Sometimes I think maybe we've actually done it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Marcus Aurelius (17 Nov 1997 23:02:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Marcus Aurelius

+
Date: 17 Nov 1997 23:02:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, he didn't set up the castes, but he did come up with a
+better way for them to work together constructively.  And yeah, that
+model would fit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New B5 Logo (18 Nov 1997 22:54:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New B5 Logo

+
Date: 18 Nov 1997 22:54:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, that ain't the new logo.  Ah, well...all in good time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+letter (20 Nov 1997 18:18:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
letter

+
Date: 20 Nov 1997 18:18:14 -0700

+
 Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also have you noticed that teh Babylon website has not been
+> updated for 3 months?
+
+      The Warner Bros. B5 site hasn't been updated, but the main B5
+fan site, www.thestation.com is constantly being updated.  If you
+haven't gotten your stuff yet, send a note to reelkosh@aol.com and
+it'll be taken care of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Request from Harlan (21 Nov 1997 00:09:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Request from Harlan

+
Date: 21 Nov 1997 00:09:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Many thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+directors (21 Nov 1997 00:09:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
directors

+
Date: 21 Nov 1997 00:09:02 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who picks the director for the show?
+> How is that done?
+> Do you ever use fairly new people even though they might be young
+> and have little experience? How much are you involved in the
+> process? Have you heard of it?
+
+      I and John Copeland select all of the directors on the show.
+
+      Parenthetical to this: there are only 3 people who are in charge
+of this show: me, my partner Doug Netter (who mainly gets into the
+business aspect and casting), and producer John Copeland.  That's it. 
+Ain't nobody else.  We're very producer light on this show.
+
+      End parenthetical.
+
+      We go for directors whose work we know as a rule.  In some
+cases, an agent will send us a reel (clips) of a director whose work we
+don't know, and if the material looks good, we'll sit down with the
+director (whichever way he/she came in) and see if their philosophy of
+production is the same as ours. If so, we give 'em a shot.  If they
+work out, they do more; if not, not. We've actually got a pretty good
+track record on picking directors, and have rarely made a mistake we
+couldn't recover from.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Columbia House tape (21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Columbia House tape

+
Date: 21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the tape of 'The Gathering' from Columbia House going to
+> include the new footage and new score, or is it going to be as
+> originally aired? Di Conlin, TUS , Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of
+> Discipline Supreme Dominatrix, RMES "Great Maker, huh?
+
+      No, it'll be the original pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+directors (21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
directors

+
Date: 21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much longer do you shoot for?
+> When do you break for the holidays and for how long?
+> How much is left of the shooting season when you come back?
+
+      We'll be off for Thanksgiving weekend, then we shoot until
+December 19th, which takes us through 514.  We're on hiatus until
+January 2nd, then we come back and shoot 515-522 (actually the 21st
+episode of S5 since 422 is now 522 and 501 was made 422), wrapping
+production on March 20th.  Then we take a few weeks off to let the cast
+and crew catch their breath, and shoot the third TNT TV-movie in April.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+directors (21 Nov 1997 22:06:01 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
directors

+
Date: 21 Nov 1997 22:06:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the third movie has yet to be shot.  Thirdspace and the
+prequel are already filmed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+letter (21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
letter

+
Date: 21 Nov 1997 15:28:00 -0700

+
 Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you find time to answer so many letters and messages, as
+> well as write, produce, direct etc the best show on TV?
+
+"Wow, a letter from the great maker himself!  How do you find time to
+answer so many letters and messages, as well as write, produce, direct
+etc the best show on TV?"
+
+      Multiple personalities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+STOP PRESSES!! (21 Nov 1997 21:42:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
STOP PRESSES!!

+
Date: 21 Nov 1997 21:42:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Apparently, this is news to the producers....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+A Call for Help (03 Nov 1997 00:00:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
A Call for Help

+
Date: 03 Nov 1997 00:00:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd just like to add that I've met Cecelia, and we've exchanged
+any number of emails, and I've been following her condition for some
+time.  If anybody out there is able to help, consider this a definite
+encouragement to do so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I am not a Number !!!! (21 Nov 1997 21:42:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
I am not a Number !!!!

+
Date: 21 Nov 1997 21:42:11 -0700

+
 PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 'Where has Garibaldi's hair gone ?'
+
+      Do me a favor.
+
+      Join PEN International some time, as I did years ago.  Read the
+accounts of how journalists and dissidents are put in small rooms, and
+mentally, emotionally and physically turned inside-out by
+interrogators. You'll find the same techniques used in this show
+described in considerable detail there. Join Amnesty International
+while you're at it, and read more about how this sort of thing is done
+every day in dozens of countries around the world.
+
+      And while you're at it...join the real world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Where did B5 go? (22 Nov 1997 23:05:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Where did B5 go?

+
Date: 22 Nov 1997 23:05:11 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has anyone else heard something similar?
+
+      Nope, totally untrue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Voice-over on TNT ads (22 Nov 1997 22:53:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Voice-over on TNT ads

+
Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:53:13 -0700

+
 Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Is the voice-over on the TNT ad's being done by Ken Nordine
+> of WORD JAZZ fame?
+
+      I've actually no idea, TNT produced them and I didn't get that
+info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Emporium & ordering? (22 Nov 1997 23:05:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Emporium & ordering?

+
Date: 22 Nov 1997 23:05:11 -0700

+
 Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments,suggestions?
+
+      Send a note to reelkosh@aol.com with the full info, and it'll be
+taken care of.
+
+      BTW, the B5 emporium received 100+ orders in just the first 24
+hours of operation, without any real publicity about it.  And all
+orders went out the very next day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+directors (22 Nov 1997 22:53:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
directors

+
Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:53:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"any idea when Channel 4 in the UK will show the movies?"
+
+      No, that information has not yet found its way to me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Last ep (wow) (22 Nov 1997 22:53:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
The Last ep (wow)

+
Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:53:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks; it's one of the things I try to do sometimes...I
+basically give you my playbook, I tell you I'm coming right up the
+middle, which makes the challenge on this side that much harder...you
+already know where I'm going to be, now I have to do it in such a way
+that it comes as a surprise regardless.
+
+      This is actually more a literary device than a TV device; there
+are any number of books (and some movies) which start at the end,
+proceed to the middle, and end on the beginning.
+
+      Because my background is in theater and prose, my natural
+inclination is to play with the form as much as possible.  So each
+season there's been at least one episode that's "off-format" for
+us...Intersections was one, And Now for a Word was another, The
+Illusion of Truth, Deconstruction...and in S5 so far almost half the
+episodes have been off-format in one fashion or another. With this as
+the last year, I figure I may as well go for broke and try some unusual
+things.  If you can't do these things when you're starting out, because
+it's too odd, you should at least do them when you're doing well and 
+can afford the risk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+directors (22 Nov 1997 22:53:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
directors

+
Date: 22 Nov 1997 22:53:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"This sounds like the basis for a Danny Kaye patter song..."
+
+      "The vessel with the pestle has the potion with the poison, the
+flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true...."
+
+      Something is seriously wrong with me that I know that by heart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-11/97.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-11/97.html
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+
+
+Directors (23 Nov 1997 15:44:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Directors

+
Date: 23 Nov 1997 15:44:06 -0700

+
 Phil Lenton <100572.61@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Michael Vejar going to be directing any upcoming episodes of
+> B5?
+
+      Yup, Mike is doing a number of S5 episodes for us.  And he
+directed the prequel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Emporium CD-ROMs? (23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Emporium CD-ROMs?

+
Date: 23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700

+
 Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Sandy...will Emporium be offering the SoundSource CD-Rom
+> Entertainment Utilities (esp the new one!) and the Interactive B5
+> Guide?
+
+      The informational CD rom is available at thestation.com...look
+again under Media, it's toward the bottom.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-11/99.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-11/99.html
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+
+
+Emporium & ordering? (23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Emporium & ordering?

+
Date: 23 Nov 1997 20:59:08 -0700

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, do you know if the fan club will have tables at either
+> LosCon or the Creation Con next weekend?
+
+      There should be a B5 fan club table at LosCon, yes.  Probably
+not Creation Con.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/1.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/1.html
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+
+
+Between (30 Nov 1997 20:45:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Between

+
Date: 30 Nov 1997 20:45:01 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why were there no cameras monitoring Sheridan?
+
+"Why were there no cameras monitoring Sheridan?"
+
+      Torturers rarely videotape their work, thus assuring that it can
+never be used against them should things not go their way all the time.
+This is kinda pro forma in South America, for instance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/10.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/10.html
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+
+
+New Logo? (04 Dec 1997 12:47:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New Logo?

+
Date: 04 Dec 1997 12:47:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Diamond's December catalog has a modified B5 logo (standard
+> Babylon 5 logo with the words "Earth Alliance Space Station") on
+> the page with the new 6 inch action figures (yay!) -- is this the
+> new logo you mentioned or is it one I've just never seen? Jeff
+> Sigh Corps - Pat Tallman Division Great Maker huh?
+
+      No, that ain't it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I got my pin! <G> (05 Dec 1997 02:19:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
I got my pin! <G>

+
Date: 05 Dec 1997 02:19:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The club's gotten about 400 orders in the last week, and we're
+getting them out as fast as possible...a huge batch went out today, and
+we're pretty much caught up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+I got my pin! <G> (05 Dec 1997 02:19:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
I got my pin! <G>

+
Date: 05 Dec 1997 02:19:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, we can finally put those pirated pins out of
+business, there's no way they can produce the same quality pins as you
+just got.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Between (05 Dec 1997 00:04:08 -0700)
+
+
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Between

+
Date: 05 Dec 1997 00:04:08 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And wouldn't Sheridan qualify more as a legally detained prisoner
+> than a political prisoner?
+
+      Yeah, he's legally detained, but he's being *illegally*
+tortured. That's the distinction.  Nothing here is being done for the
+prisoner's benefit, but for the interrogators.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS new Series? (06 Dec 1997 20:50:11 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Dec 1997 20:50:11 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Stephen Furst mentioned at Creation last weekend that he just
+> signed a 5 year extension - is that standard stuff?
+
+"Just a curiousity side question... Stephen Furst mentioned at
+Creation last weekend that he just signed a 5 year extension - is that
+standard stuff?"
+
+      No, that was a result of having amended Stephen's contract when
+he did "Misery Loves Company" a while back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thanks to the cast (06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700

+
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+
+      They're a good bunch.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Link comm device (06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700

+
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+
+      Cool...I want one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5ers do it very late. (06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Dec 1997 20:50:12 -0700

+
 Peter Deeks <113213.3222@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do I get the impression you get the same problem in the States?
+> It's crazy, isn't it?
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Bear in mind that the C4 programmers put it late because they
+received many calls from B5 viewers asking for a later slot, since they
+said C4 was treating the show as a kid's show...so this is a situation
+where C4 gets yelled at whichever way it goes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Dec 1997 21:08:00 -0700

+
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+
+      It's utter crap, like all such rumors.  These people put them up
+and come up with ways to make it sound real, but it's crap.  TNT is in
+love with what they're seeing, we've had no problems with them, they've
+given us the biggest PR campaign in their *history* to launch the new
+show and reruns... these rumors are put there by people who enjoy
+making others jump around and respond to them, and put out fires. 
+They're no different than the kinds of folks who light grass fires near
+homes and watch from cover giggling as the firefighters come out to
+deal with it all...makes them feel important, because their lives are
+sad and pathetic and basically irrelevant.
+
+      Like the rumor that I had a heart attack on the way to the
+stage; the phone calls that came into the stage tied up phone lines and
+ended up as a huge hassle for everyone.
+
+      Look, it's really this simple...and I'm not mad at you, I'm mad
+at them...if there's a problem, I WILL TELL YOU.  I've been doing that
+for five years now.  Every time one of these rumors comes up, everybody
+goes running around like chickens with their heads cut off until I can
+calm everyone down, and then two weeks later it's the same thing over
+and over, one manufactured crisis after another that takes up your time
+and my time in responding.
+
+      So this is just one more BS stupid rumor by an online jerk, of
+which there are many.  Just take that line and cut and paste it on the
+next stupid BS rumor.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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Date: 07 Dec 1997 15:34:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"But I'm not certain that in this case the people putting up the posts
+are the jerks responsible for the rumors.  In at least one case I'm
+pretty sure it was a somewhat panicky *fan* of the show who heard
+something and didn't think it through to see how ludicrous it was."
+
+      I've been on the nets for a long, long, very long time, and I've
+yet to see a case of this where the person actually *heard* this, until
+after it had long gotten into the fan community.  People *say* they
+heard these things just to give it some credibility and someone to
+blame so they don't have to take the rap for it themselves.  If they
+*really* heard it from someone, then post that person's name.  They
+were willing to post the rumor, which caused hurt and confusion and
+distress, why not post the person's name who said it, so that this
+person can be enlightened and corrected?  But they never do, because 
+there never IS "the other person."
+
+      They're sickos, liars, flakes, yoyos, yipyops, yahoos, bozos and
+kadodies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Illegal Script sales (01 Dec 1997 00:42:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Illegal Script sales

+
Date: 01 Dec 1997 00:42:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      This is an iffy area; if someone has just one copy of a script,
+it tends to fall into the area of collectibles.  It's when someone is
+making up multiple copies of scripts that we generally go and nail
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Interestingly enough...I saw what they were doing for
+commercials initially, and it wasn't really what I had in mind, it was
+the same basic actino stuff WB did that didn't get the right audience. 
+So I wrote up a commercial and had our editors put it together.  I sent
+it to TNT and said this is kinda what I had in mind.  I also showed it
+at a couple of conventions as an example of what I thought the promos
+should be like.
+
+      To TNT's credit, they decided that our approach was better, and
+went in that direction.  This is really quite extraordinary, as most
+corporations get very entrenched and it's their way or no way, but TNT
+wants to do right by this show, they believe that we know the show well
+enough to know how to promote it, and make it, and they've given us
+tremendous leeway and support.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 Dec 1997 22:24:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Yes, but what do you *really* think of them?
+
+      Not your fault, you have nothing to apologize for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+"...well half of this one was probably true from what i've heard
+nobody liked the pilot as aired including JMS."
+
+      Well, actually, if NObody liked the pilot we *wouldn't* have
+become a series.  But the ratings were very good, and a lot of folks
+*do* and did like the pilot.  It just could've been better, which is my
+take on it, and now that we've gone in and adusted it it, is *is*
+better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rumors (08 Dec 1997 12:53:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Dec 1997 12:53:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Go to your room.
+
+      It's the one with the alligators.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Status check? (08 Dec 1997 12:53:00 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 08 Dec 1997 12:53:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How is filming coming?
+> What episodes are done?
+> etc.?
+> How is the special effects work going?
+> Is anything new or interesting happening there?
+
+"How is filming coming?  What episodes are done?"
+
+      Filming is going great; we're shooting 513 as I speak, with John
+Copeland directing (John did "Endgame").  We shoot through 514 then we
+break for Christmas, coming back on the 4th.  The first 6 episodes have
+been completely finished (technically mixing the sixth one tomorrow,
+but it's a fine distinction), and delivered to TNT, which has had
+nothing but praise for the stuff this season.
+
+"How is the special effects work going?  Is anything new or
+interesting happening there?"
+
+      Fine there; the most interesting stuff has been in the prequel,
+and now in Thirdspace as we start producing stuff for that, since both
+movies are very ambitious.  We're doing more compositing stuff for the
+series, trying some new things, getting progressively closer to the
+objects in the show to give a dynamic realism to them.  But most of the
+interesting stuff this time around tends to be in the story and the
+personal relationships, and changes everyone's going through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Dec 1997 01:11:07 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of watches, have you seen Men In Black yet?
+
+      Yeah, same watch on all counts, it's the Hamilton Ventura.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/26.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/26.html
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+
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+
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+
 Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I may be missing something but I haven't seen any adds for the
+> show in the paper or promo's(but I don't watch tv often)-where
+> are they?
+
+      There are ads all over the place...especially on TNT.  You'll
+see more as we get closer to air.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I got my pin! <G> (09 Dec 1997 01:11:06 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Dec 1997 01:11:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's the same design and materials used in the ones being sold
+by the fan club.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Also flips, twists, gleeps, geeks and creeps.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DotD Schedule question (09 Dec 1997 12:08:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 09 Dec 1997 12:08:02 -0700

+
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+
+      We shot it out of story-sequence to give us more time to prep
+512, which was a big episode.  So it'll actually be aired as 513.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/3.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/3.html
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+
+from jms on stuff (01 Dec 1997 22:44:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Dec 1997 22:44:03 -0700

+
 John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where do I find out information on attending LosCon and schedule?
+
+      It's over, it was this Thanksgiving weekend.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ll (09 Dec 1997 12:08:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Dec 1997 12:08:02 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you know that the executives at Paramount didn't want to do
+> that? How do you not take them in a head lock down the hall and
+> hold their heads in the toliet and flush it a few times? Do they
+> not *know* how to market the shows or what?
+
+      Here's the stupid thing about the syndication worry: it's
+nonexistent. The stations invariably grab shows in production order
+unless something is specifified to the contrary on the inventory
+sheets.  Every so often, some of the animated shows I worked on years
+ago will show up...and they're *still* being played in correct order,
+and I doubt very much the station is trying to do so, it's just a
+matter of going in numerical order off the charts.  This is a concern
+that goes back to very early syndication that doesn't hold anymore.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/31.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/31.html
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+
+
+ll (09 Dec 1997 23:04:10 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 09 Dec 1997 23:04:10 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this the only way they can feel important?
+> So, can we do a JMS and Harlan in 2000 for the white house?
+
+"So, can we do a JMS and Harlan in 2000 for the white house? <just
+kidding>"
+
+      If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve, if
+impeached I will burn the tapes, write a book, build a library and
+become an elder statesman.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Marshall Teague returns? (09 Dec 1997 23:04:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Dec 1997 23:04:10 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that true, is Ta'Lon making another appearance?
+
+"Is that true, is Ta'Lon making another appearance?"
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, they also plan on bus posters, billboards, subway posters,
+you name it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Link comm device (09 Dec 1997 23:04:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Dec 1997 23:04:09 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You don't happen to know if they still sell them, do you?
+
+      Yeah, they still sell 'em.  Interesting history...the Hamilton
+Ventura was the first electric watch produced.  When the art deco case
+went out of fashion (as if art deco *ever* goes out of fashion), they
+discontinued it. As I understand it, and this is only based on what
+I've been told, I have no first-hand knowledge here, back a few years
+ago, when I bought mine, they had found some of the original parts and
+pieces and casings and released a small number of them.  They were all
+snapped up, and Hamilton decided it might be a good idea to release
+them for real in a newly manufactured line.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Books, Music & ??? (12 Dec 1997 12:55:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Books, Music & ???

+
Date: 12 Dec 1997 12:55:14 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He's a pretty smart kid, but a little emotionally immature (but
+> after all he is ten), would the B5 books be "over his head" or do
+> you think he would grasp it? Any suggestions on other titles I
+> could get for him?
+
+      That's an okay one to start with...I'd also suggest the Hobbit,
+and if you can find it the Mad Scientists Club and A Wrinkle in Time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/36.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/36.html
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+
+
+B5 Dolls (12 Dec 1997 22:17:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Dolls

+
Date: 12 Dec 1997 22:17:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The ones under discussion, the 6" figures, are killer...they're
+even closer in appearance, sleeker, their faces are great...and
+apparently they'll be available from both Toys R Us *and* Diamond (via
+comics stores).  These are definitely the ones that'll go on my desk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TNT's Rumor Responce (12 Dec 1997 22:17:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
TNT's Rumor Responce

+
Date: 12 Dec 1997 22:17:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"What about the one that jms isn't really from this planet, and TNT is
+knowingly collaborating with (albeit) benevolent alien races that just
+dig good scifi"
+
+      Oh, well, that one's true...but how did YOU find out?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/38.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/38.html
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+
+
+Great Maker Photo (12 Dec 1997 13:13:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Great Maker Photo

+
Date: 12 Dec 1997 13:13:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does Andrew Porter have a time machine?
+> Have you seen the photo of yourself on page 15 of the November
+> Science Fiction Chronicle? What's that about?
+
+      No, I haven't seen it yet.  Will look it up.  On the other
+project, not much to say until paperwork comes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/39.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/39.html
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+
+
+Superlatives fail me.. (12 Dec 1997 13:13:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Superlatives fail me..

+
Date: 12 Dec 1997 13:13:12 -0700

+
 Neville White <100335.2721@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you care to share any pointers about what might have
+> happened to the character Ivanova in the future?
+
+      Thanks...as for what Claudia would've been doing this season,
+some bits of that have been sliced off and put into other characters,
+so I can't comment until it hits the air.
+
+      And thanks again...it's a good end for the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/4.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/4.html
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+
+
+LOSCON Presentation (01 Dec 1997 22:44:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
LOSCON Presentation

+
Date: 01 Dec 1997 22:44:03 -0700

+
 John Creigh <75270.423@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that something you put together for TNT as a teaser?
+> Do you have her interacting with G'Kar much in season 5?
+
+      The third one I showed was a music video I commissioned a while
+back to pull together the show overall for TNT and conventions.
+
+      We haven't had many scenes between Lochley and G'Kar yet, but
+that will likely change.  And yeah, Tracy's doing a great job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/40.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/40.html
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+
+
+Official Guide CD-ROM (13 Dec 1997 02:22:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Official Guide CD-ROM

+
Date: 13 Dec 1997 02:22:01 -0700

+
 Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I could be wrong,but I'm pretty sure jms himself even said
+> so,since he still uses 3.1? To any of you who already have it,does
+> it run *at all* on Windows 3.1? Am I just being silly to think
+> that there's even a small chance that it'll work?
+
+      No, it's specifically for Win 95.  A version I got for proofing
+stuff was for 3.1 but for release purposes, it has to be one or the
+other to have all the bells and whistles.  Virtually *everything* out
+now is for nothing less than Win95.  (Just bought Riven, the Myst
+sequel, and can't play that either until I upgrade, which I'll do when
+I have time.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/41.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/41.html
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+
+
+Great Maker Photo (14 Dec 1997 00:55:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Great Maker Photo

+
Date: 14 Dec 1997 00:55:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I haven't been able to find the issue; can you tell me
+what specifically it said?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Cd-ROM Comments (13 Dec 1997 22:48:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Cd-ROM Comments

+
Date: 13 Dec 1997 22:48:01 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who chose the characters for the directory?
+> Could you give a bit of a hint where I should start looking?
+
+"Who chose the characters for the directory? There are a few noteable
+exceptions that probably should have been included. I'm talking about
+Bester, Talia, Morden and both Koshs."
+
+      The conceit of the disk is that it's a guide to the station as
+of the end of the 4th season.  That's why neither Vorlon is listed,
+since they're gone by that time, ditto for Morden who was never
+actually a resident or officially a part of B5 and wouldn't be listed
+in any event, and of course Talia was gone a while back.
+
+"You mentioned that there is kind of an easter egg hidden on the disk
+somewhere. Could you give a bit of a hint where I should start
+looking?"
+
+      Just keep poking around until you find something that sounds
+right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/43.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/43.html
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+
+
+Rising Star (14 Dec 1997 15:22:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rising Star

+
Date: 14 Dec 1997 15:22:01 -0700

+
 Colin Heaps <100622.3610@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As for Ivanova's departure, isn't it amazing what a 10-second
+> voice-over can achieve? One complaint though, what am I going to
+> do with my time until season 5 comes around?
+
+      Thanks, and after we're gone...well, yer on yer own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+re: jms email (14 Dec 1997 23:51:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
re: jms email

+
Date: 14 Dec 1997 23:51:07 -0700

+
      Just a note to remind folks that my email address is to be used
+only for stuff that can't or shouldn't be discussed publicly, for
+personal stuff. It's starting to fill up with general questions about
+the themes of the show, plot stuff and the like, questions which would
+serve better in the open forums where the answers would profit other
+people, and save me from having to answer the same question X-times
+privately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+the wedding (15 Dec 1997 11:36:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
the wedding

+
Date: 15 Dec 1997 11:36:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it was never shot, so there's no still from it either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TNT Ads (16 Dec 1997 23:16:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
TNT Ads

+
Date: 16 Dec 1997 23:16:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...with luck I'll get a copy soonish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 ITB TNT trailers (16 Dec 1997 23:22:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 ITB TNT trailers

+
Date: 16 Dec 1997 23:22:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"JMS indicated once the budget for these movies wasn't much greater
+than the shows (basically that of two episodes if I remember right). I
+don't believe it! It looks a lot better... do I have some wrong info or
+something?"
+
+      We did the movie for less than $3 million, which *technically*
+is 3 episodes worth to pay for 2 episodes worth of running time,
+*except* that rates tend to go up across the board for movies, so when
+you adjust for that, yeah, it ain't much above episodic stuff.  What
+you're seeing is the result of what we've been learning as we've gone
+along over the 4 years of the show. Remember, our blood oath has been
+the same from the start: each year we *have* to do better than the year
+before, we don't have the luxury of any sort of established name,
+quality is our only recourse.
+
+      We implemented more of the lessons we've learned there, and in
+the fifth season.  It's more a philosophical thing, in how we do what
+we do, than a money thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 ITB TNT trailers (17 Dec 1997 13:55:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 ITB TNT trailers

+
Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:55:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Which makes me wonder if you've ever heard from a viewer that they
+started watching due to Boxleitner or someone...?"
+
+      Lots of folks, actually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/49.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/49.html
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+
+
+Columbia House old/new (17 Dec 1997 13:55:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Columbia House old/new

+
Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:55:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've no idea if CH will do the special edition or not...my guess
+is not, since TNT will likely want to remain the only place to find it
+for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/5.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/5.html
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+
+
+Between (04 Dec 1997 00:55:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Between

+
Date: 04 Dec 1997 00:55:13 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Understood, but why were there no surveillance cameras watching
+> (not taping) such an important prisoner, especially when he
+> wasn't being "interrogated"? Did they just not think of it?
+
+      Mainly because, in the research I'd done, it's just rarely if
+ever done in real life, and real life was my template here.  There's TV
+logic, and there's what tends to happen in the real world, and I tend
+to err in the direction of the latter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ThirdSpace (17 Dec 1997 13:55:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
ThirdSpace

+
Date: 17 Dec 1997 13:55:13 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <100563.322@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments ?
+
+      No, it would be about mid-fourth season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/51.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/51.html
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+
+
+Last episode # (19 Dec 1997 00:15:07 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Last episode #

+
Date: 19 Dec 1997 00:15:07 -0700

+
 Stephen Edwards <101741.771@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you do not want to do a sixth season of B5 but are you
+> planning to do any spin off's set in the B5 universe, Like Star
+> Trek did with Voyager ??
+
+      Yes, there are plans for a follow-up series.  A back issue of
+Dreamwatch has a lot of info about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/52.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/52.html
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+
+
+Premiere Parties (21 Dec 1997 18:04:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Premiere Parties

+
Date: 21 Dec 1997 18:04:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Short answer before the long one...obviously I cannot go into
+any establishment, or have TNT do so, and have them contravene their
+usual policies on smoking or drinking on our behalf...that's not
+something that's in my purview.
+
+      I got the list of places last week that will be part of the
+series of open parties, and I'm pretty sure they're all bars of one
+sort or another, for the primary reason that they all have
+satellite/TNT feeds, and have the resources for a party other than one
+that is catered.  Most average restaurants don't have those kind of
+facilities.  Jeffrey Willerth advised me about this in a memo, because
+he knows my feelings about alcohol.  So I asked hilm (he's the one in
+touch with the folks at TNT) to try and find some additional, non-bar
+venues.  Whether or not this is possible, especially at this late date,
+remains to be seen, but TNT was nice enough to say they'd try and find
+something.  The problem, as noted above, is finding places that have 
+the necessary facilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Toronto, Canada (21 Dec 1997 18:04:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Toronto, Canada

+
Date: 21 Dec 1997 18:04:03 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you are going to be in NY, it's such a short hop to T.O.,
+> would you consider coming up here to do promo if the offer is
+> reasonable??
+
+      I'll generally go anywhere to help the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Toronto, Canada (22 Dec 1997 12:26:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Toronto, Canada

+
Date: 22 Dec 1997 12:26:08 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So where does one start to contact you about appearances for
+> promos?
+
+      They would go through TNT publicity.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/55.html b/find/CompuServe/cs97-12/55.html
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+
+
+Last episode # (22 Dec 1997 12:26:08 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Last episode #

+
Date: 22 Dec 1997 12:26:08 -0700

+
 Schmulenson <72447.224@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is dream watch and where do we get it?
+> A friend(ex's sister had a book dedicated to her(Asimov's
+> Bicential man) she is also a writer and a Friend of Fari Ackerman
+> (Naomi Gordon(Magazner) ) want's to know if you have any plans of
+> doing anything with Bicentenial man?
+
+      Dreamwatch is a magazine in the UK.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Superlatives fail me.. (22 Dec 1997 22:26:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Superlatives fail me..

+
Date: 22 Dec 1997 22:26:04 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, if it was tampered with [ie, had it's mass or gravity
+> (and yes, I'm an engineer and I know these two things are usually
+> intimately related] increased) in an effort to increase it's
+> output, who know's WHAT is possible? If the human decendants a
+> million years from now are as advanced as they seem, who know's
+> what technology they could have mastered?
+
+      And what if you, say, interfered substantially with the mass of
+the sun by, say, causing a series of jump points to open up *inside*
+the sun across several days?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Deconstruction of Sol (23 Dec 1997 22:33:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 23 Dec 1997 22:33:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Would that amount to injecting some hefty chunks of hyperspace?
+
+      You'd also substantially decrease the mass of Sol, which as I
+understand it, would result in the sun going nova.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Guide my Gatherings? (23 Dec 1997 22:33:11 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 23 Dec 1997 22:33:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Do you recommend viewing it first,before seeing the newer re-edited
+version looming on TNT?"
+
+      No, see the new one first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gathering Additions (23 Dec 1997 22:33:11 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 23 Dec 1997 22:33:11 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you spare a few words on how you went about the re-edit?
+> Did you start with what you wanted to get back in, or trying to
+> find out how much time you could recapture? I see in the Lurker's
+> Guide you originally had 25 extra minutes of material to re-add:
+> did this trim down to 14, or was that all the room you could
+> make? (or were the other minutes not on the A-list?) Of what you
+> wanted to do, how much were you able to?
+
+"Can you spare a few words on how you went about the re-edit?  Did you
+start with what you wanted to get back in, or trying to find out how
+much time you could recapture?"
+
+      The first thing I did was to sit down with the editor assigned
+to the re-edit, Suzie, and go through the original script for the
+pilot.  My first words to her were, "Put everyhing in that ain't
+there."  To that end, she redigitized all of the footage from missing
+scenes, and had available all of the available footage of the other
+scenes for digitizing as we went.
+
+      Note that I said all the *available* footage.  The folks at WB
+who held custody of the film (we don't keep that stuff, we're not
+allowed to by contract, they store film, negative, prints, all that
+stuff) put the negative canisters into storage...and at one point in
+the intervening 4 years, there had been water damage, and on another
+occasion, apparently rats had gotten in there and chewed some of the
+original negatives (and in most cases there weren't positive struck of
+those takes).
+
+      Take your reaction to the foregoing, put it in front of the
+Hubble telescope, and you will have mine.
+
+      However, we lucked out...where there were some takes that are
+gone, we were able to find enough others (masters instead of a
+two-shot, or a close-up instead of an over-shoulder) and B-camera
+footage that we were able to build solid versions of those scenes.  We
+didn't always have as many choices as we're used to but there was more
+than enough for our needs.
+
+      Suzi then dumped all of the newly edited additional scenes into
+the existing pilot, and that gave us the new running time (we added
+about 14 minutes).  So at that point, John and I went in and worked to
+slice down the previously existing scenes, doing what we do with B5:
+tightening every loose screw and nut as much as we could.  One or two
+incidental, unimportant scenes in the original pilot went out, because
+they added nothing and shouldn't have been there in the first place (a
+total of about 3 minutes).  The remaining 11 minutes we made up in just
+tightening scenes, which were *so* lax and slow that it's amazing at
+times.
+
+      In some cases, we substituted one take for another in the
+pre-existing pilot when we had a better reaction, or played scenes
+closer for more intimacy.  (One of the problems with the pilot is that
+it kept the audience far from the action, and the actors far from each
+other, something we changed in our shooting style for the series...here
+we tried to change it when we could and when we had the coverage.)
+
+      Tiny example: when Kosh falls down upon arriving at B5, that
+sequence ends with a big honking wide downshot of a nearly empty
+docking bay, with Kosh far from us, and Sinclair looking down (away
+from us) when he says "Damn." Then we go from that to a wide shot of
+the medlab.  Same framing. So I had Suzie look for a take where we
+panned up from a close on Kosh, to a close on Sinclair for that line,
+so it's more immediate, more personal, and the jump to the next scene
+doesn't feel like the one before.
+
+      See, directors like to stay wide in their cuts, so you can see
+their nifty camera angles, see the set, the lighting...but after you've
+established where we are, most people want to see the *characters*, not
+the walls or how the camera moves.  That was what we tried to fix where
+we could.
+
+      We couldn't totally re-edit the pilot, because we hadn't been
+given the money for something that intensive (the main expense is in
+opening up all the audio stems in the sound mix).  But all the stuff I
+wanted back in, is now in, and the scenes I wanted to fix, I fixed.
+
+      I also got the thing back to its original format.  All TV movies
+are 6 acts.  Because PTEN wanted more commercial breaks, I had to
+re-jig the structure of the thing into 9 acts, which meant moving some
+scenes into places where they weren't as effective, and frankly after 9
+acts you just get tired of watching.  Here I was able to move scenes
+around and get back to the original 6 act structure that was intended
+for the thing, and that alone makes a huge difference in how the film
+feels.
+
+      One of the biggest changes is the one least immediately
+apparent. After we finished the original pilot, some folks at WB felt
+that Laurel was too...strong.  They will rarely put it in terms quite
+as blatant as that, but that was the message...she was "unlikeable,
+unsympathetic, harsh."  Meaning some of the guys felt she was too
+strong, let's cut to the chase, okay?
+
+      They wanted her to loop her lines, soften their (her) delivery. 
+I fought this tooth and nail.  I fought this until finally I was pulled
+aside and it was communicated to me that B5 was, after all, still an
+unknown property, could be a big failure, and if we ever wanted to see
+this thing on the air, we'd accommodate this note (which was, I have to
+admit on balance, one of the few they had).  The advice was, in
+essence, "Pick your battles."
+
+      So, reluctantly, I let it get looped by Tamlyn.
+
+      But now, when the re-edit was commissioned, and with the person
+at the studio who insisted on this now no longer AT the studio, I told
+Suzie, "Screw it, put back her original production track and trash the
+loops."  Instantly, Laurel's energy level comes up, the performance is
+better...it just *feels* more natural now.
+
+      So basically, we did a lot...some of it may not be immediately
+apparent (improving a sound here, altering coverage, adding additional
+sound layers, redoing a composite shot of the garden), but over the
+duration of watching it, it's just *better*.  It's still a *tad* slower
+around the middle than I would've liked, but that's a WP (writer
+problem), nothing that can be fixed in an edit.  It's just
+exposition-dense there, and nothing of a sort that can be cut.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+CD-ROM (04 Dec 1997 01:12:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
CD-ROM

+
Date: 04 Dec 1997 01:12:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, it came out well, I think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Conference (24 Dec 1997 15:48:14 -0700)
+
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+
Conference

+
Date: 24 Dec 1997 15:48:14 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering if you are planning on doing any online
+> conferences on Saturday, January 3?
+
+      Nothing's been scheduled, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+from jms on stuff (26 Dec 1997 00:01:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Dec 1997 00:01:00 -0700

+
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+
+      There are 9" figures out currently at Toys R Us, and 6" figures
+due out any time now.  Also, the Starfury model is apparently out in
+stores now from Revell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair (26 Dec 1997 00:01:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 26 Dec 1997 00:01:01 -0700

+
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+
+      There's a faq about this in the library.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 ITB TNT trailers (26 Dec 1997 00:01:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Dec 1997 00:01:01 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you see Star Trek listed...do you see a seperate section for
+> B5? to all of this, did you find it interesting that the biggest
+> objection that the Trekkies had to First Contact was that Picard
+> actually *showed anger* about having been kidnapped, mutilated,
+> and forced to assist in the destruction of his own race?
+
+"You may soon wish to reconsider this POV. IMHO you will soon be
+bigger than Star Trek (why am I suddenly reminded of the Beatles?)."
+
+      It's certainly a wonderful thought, but here's why I think it
+won't happen.
+
+      At its core, B5 is a thinking man's (and woman's) show.  A
+viewer has to bring a lot to the table, pay attention, and be willing
+to be reflective to get out of it all that the show has to offer.  That
+pretty much precludes it from being a big pop-culture phenomenon.  I
+think we'll always do well, and we'll be around for a long, long
+time...but as a cult show, as the Prisoner is a cult show.
+
+      Which is absolutely aces by me.  I got to tell my story, and
+make something that'll endure, and that's why I entered the race in the
+first place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Dolls (26 Dec 1997 00:01:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
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+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will their be a JMS action figure, and will it have a Kung-Fu
+> Grip (tm)?
+
+      Given my luck when still dating, perhaps there should be a jms
+"no-action" figure....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sinclair (26 Dec 1997 19:33:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 26 Dec 1997 19:33:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"It does, however, make it interesting in that I think this is the
+first incidence of an AMERICAN made show surviving the loss of it's
+lead actor."
+
+      Actually, not correct...there have been many cases of this, from
+MASH to Bewitched to other shows.  It's not common, certainly, but not
+unheard-of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Guide (26 Dec 1997 21:42:12 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Dec 1997 21:42:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this a first?
+
+      I didn't catch the credit, but if so, yeah, that'd be my first
+as Joe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+My new home theater (27 Dec 1997 01:05:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
My new home theater

+
Date: 27 Dec 1997 01:05:04 -0700

+
 Elyse M. Grasso <70302.3304@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What are the good brands of S-VHS tapes, and what are good places
+> to find them at reasonable prices? What are people's favorite
+> surround-effect scenes in seasons 2 through 4 (which are the ones
+> I have on tape)?
+
+      Don't forget the subwoofer....
+
+      I generally go for the TDK SVHS tapes, in general I've had fewer
+problems with those than any other brand.
+
+      We had good surround when Sinclair is getting "What do you
+want?" bounced back and forth at him, also when Talia is listening to
+the many voices in "A Race Through Dark Places."  Overall, you'll get
+most or all of the ship-bys we do, and you'll get the nice separation
+of voices in the S5 title sequence.  We use the surrounds to give a
+sense of place, and ambiance, more than anything else.  Pop in any
+really busy action sequence and you'll get a good sense of movement.
+
+      In general, the basic pro-logic setting is usually fine for B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Hi (27 Dec 1997 22:34:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hi

+
Date: 27 Dec 1997 22:34:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Better yet, is there somewhere I can go to get the low-down on all
+this?  I want to buy stuff!"
+
+      http://www.thestation.com
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sinclair (27 Dec 1997 18:01:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Dec 1997 18:01:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Bewitched changed Darrens, and he was as much a major character
+as Elizabeth's character was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Airship Photos (04 Dec 1997 01:12:02 -0700)
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+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Dec 1997 01:12:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What would the best way be to do that?
+> Dont know if its propoer etiquette to ask you to pass them Bruce?
+
+      You can send them on to me via the B5 mail drop, 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  I'll see they get to
+Bruce and John.  (Or you can send them directly to John and Bruce via
+that address.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Guide To B5 on TNT (27 Dec 1997 18:01:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 Dec 1997 18:01:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's a struggle, and hard work, no mistake, but we also
+have our fair share of fun as well.  What makes it more bearable is
+that we've instituted a humane system of film-making.  Most shows shoot
+16 hour days and then some.  We shoot 12 and that's it.  If you plan
+out what you're doing properly, and don't get reckless, you can do
+that.  The Directors' Guild has been fighting for 12 hour days for
+years, and been told that it couldn't be done.  Then recently they
+heard about us, and their jaws dropped, and they're coming out to do an
+article that says, in essence, see, it CAN be done.  And has been done
+successfully for 5 years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Guide To B5 on TNT (27 Dec 1997 22:44:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Dec 1997 22:44:04 -0700

+
 Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Doesn't the sound of all those jaws dropping give you a headache?
+
+      I think the only reason we're still amazing them is that they're
+only now finding *out* about us.  We're doing what we've been doing for
+5 years now, it's just taken folks this long to notice us (which is
+about what I figured would be the case going in).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Guide (27 Dec 1997 22:44:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Dec 1997 22:44:04 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can I assume that this was a different Patrick Stewart?
+> Was the Joe Straczynski - Master of the Universe header an inside
+> joke (considering your He-Man stint), or just a strange
+> coincidence?
+
+      Yeah, that's a coincidence, they either didn't know about that
+prior stint, or it just didn't occur to them.
+
+      I find I'm alternately pleased and chagrined by the attention. 
+When I saw that part of it, I kind of cringed, but what they tell me is
+that this is the sort of thing that's useful to promoting the show in
+general.  The firsts represented by B5 mainly come from the
+storytelling aspects of it, and that it's really one vision in an
+intense sort of way not really done much before. So that's something
+they can pin their promotion on.  It comes out of their real respect
+for what we've done here.
+
+      It's very weird to look around one day and discover, by doing
+what you've been doing in fair anonymity for as long as you can
+remember, that suddenly you're a celebrity, even a minor-league one. 
+You're talking to a guy here who couldn't get a date in high school,
+for cryin' out loud....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Guide (28 Dec 1997 04:06:13 -0700)
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TNT Guide

+
Date: 28 Dec 1997 04:06:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"It looks as if TNT will not give B5 anymore respect than the
+independent TV stations did as to when they will air it.  They have to
+be bettter than WSKB though.  This torked me off too."
+
+      This only happened due to the game.  There won't be games coming
+on before the episodes themselves, so we'll be on time.
+
+      And believe me, they've *already* given this show more respect
+than the syndicated stations did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Guide (28 Dec 1997 21:26:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
TNT Guide

+
Date: 28 Dec 1997 21:26:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You too?
+
+"betcha the girls that used to know you are more chagrined than the
+ones that used to know me..."
+
+      Keed, take my word for it, having gone to my 20th reunion a bit
+ago, none of them even remembered me to *be* chagrined....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon Project: Crusade (28 Dec 1997 21:34:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Babylon Project: Crusade

+
Date: 28 Dec 1997 21:34:05 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any updates about the status of Crusade?
+
+      There's nothing I can say about Crusade for the moment.
+
+      Soon, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Guide To B5 on TNT (29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
The Guide To B5 on TNT

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I agree...it's just common sense, really.
+
+      Who knew it was in such short supply?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Guide (29 Dec 1997 21:37:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
TNT Guide

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Oddly, the newspapers had it right, TV Guide didn't.
+
+      But they're going to be airing the Guide sandwiched in between
+the two TV movies airing next Sunday, so we're golden.
+
+      (ItB got a great review in TV Guide...called it "stunning" and
+"riveting.")
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+"The Guide" on TNT (29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
"The Guide" on TNT

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The scary thing is to look at the promos John and I did for WB
+for the pilot and first season.  I didn't have a grey hair on my head,
+and there was more of it; John had a few, but has since gone totally
+grey-white from the rigors of this show, all in five years.
+
+      Thing is, though, I look at the promises we made in those early
+interviews, and by golly, we kept every one of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon Project: Crusade (29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Babylon Project: Crusade

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:09 -0700

+
 Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> True,untrue?
+
+"I have heard that Thirdspace might be the pilot or lead-up to
+Crusade. True,untrue?"
+
+      Untrue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS new Series? (04 Dec 1997 01:14:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS new Series?

+
Date: 04 Dec 1997 01:14:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      A first season hasn't been committed to, at least in contractual
+terms to me, and I can assure you that the series would be
+season-by-season, like any other show.  It's never been broached to us
+as a five-year deal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 on DVD (29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 on DVD

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      There may be one episode to test the waters, but nothing's been
+discussed yet about anything broader.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Guide To B5 on TNT (30 Dec 1997 02:21:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
The Guide To B5 on TNT

+
Date: 30 Dec 1997 02:21:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's both.  Even in the first two years of the show, we kept to
+12 hour days by virtue of making sure we were always 3-4 scripts ahead
+of where we were shooting, which is what makes all the difference in
+the world (on most shows you're lucky if you're one ahead, and
+sometimes pages are landing on the stage while you're shooting).  You
+get your writers working early, and make your notes clear, to minimize
+mistakes.
+
+      Also, bear in mind that with the exception of maybe a half-dozen
+scripts, most of them by Larry, all but one of the freelance S1-2
+scripts were based on premises I assigned to the writers...which in
+turn were based on my notes, which I give to John each season as a kind
+of crib sheet for the overall production of that season's shows,
+allowing our people to have months of cognitive lead time (where
+possible) on sets, costumes, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Each Episode Intro (29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Each Episode Intro

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nowhere available but the episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TNT Guide (29 Dec 1997 21:37:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
TNT Guide

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I suppose now would not be the time to bring up the old one about the
+starlet who was so new to Hollywood she slept with the writer..."
+
+      But that was only because she heard that in Hollywood,
+*everyone* screws the writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 ITB TNT trailers (29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 ITB TNT trailers

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I know you did this story for people like us, but I suspect you may
+open wider the gates of speculative fiction in doing so."
+
+      If that should turn out to be the case, then all the effort was
+worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Dolls (29 Dec 1997 21:37:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
B5 Dolls

+
Date: 29 Dec 1997 21:37:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well you could give it "attributes" and show all the girls what they
+were missing..."
+
+      Too dangerous...the accompanying magnifying glass could get
+broken during shipping.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TNT Guide (30 Dec 1997 02:26:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
TNT Guide

+
Date: 30 Dec 1997 02:26:04 -0700

+
 SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> is that from ITB?
+> (if so, he sure lost a LOT of hair between ITB and The Gathering
+> <g>) Or did Londo do Rogane? is that from a season 5 episode?
+> Or is B5 hosting the World Cup?
+
+"Regarding the one shot of Londo with hair down to his forehead... is
+that from ITB? (if so, he sure lost a LOT of hair between ITB and The
+Gathering."
+
+      Yeah, well, so did I....
+
+"Also, the scenes of what looks likes a riot on the station... is that
+from a season 5 episode? I don't recall those scenes in season 4."
+
+      They're from Thirdspace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TNT Guide (30 Dec 1997 23:33:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
TNT Guide

+
Date: 30 Dec 1997 23:33:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have a directTV satellite dish, and I have to tell you I would
+*never* go back to cable.  The quality is substantially better, you
+have far more options, it never goes out, the per-month charges are
+about the same, for more services, and the initial cost of the setup
+has dropped dramatically in the last few months to just a couple
+hundred bucks for a basic system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TNT Guide (30 Dec 1997 23:45:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
TNT Guide

+
Date: 30 Dec 1997 23:45:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      And in an NC-17 movie everybody gets the girl and one guy gets
+the guy and everybody feels bad about it later while they sit around in
+a French cafe reading Kirkegaard....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia (04 Dec 1997 01:12:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Claudia

+
Date: 04 Dec 1997 01:12:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...the spinoff is still in negotiations, but going well
+there.
+
+      And I can't wait for January either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+season 5 (01 Jan 1998 23:32:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
season 5

+
Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:12 -0700

+
 Catherine Becic <73414.2603@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Q: With the rebroadcast of S1-4 on TNT, how will you handle NEW
+> fans who suddenly want to ask you all the same questions we've
+> been asking you through the first runs? Will you repeat yourself,
+> keep a lower profile and send them to review the Lurker's Guide,
+> what? Is The Gatherine still scheduled for right after In The
+> Beginning?
+
+      Yes, the Gathering will be aired after In the Beginning.  I
+think they'll run the Guide again in-between, though.
+
+      I'll deal with the new fans as I have with the old timers...with
+as much courtesy as I can, because I owe them no less.  One thing that
+*would* help is if people continue what they've been doing, and if a
+question comes up where the answer is known, or the questioner can be
+pointed to a faq, if they can continue to dive in and point the person
+to the relevant info, thus saving me the effort, that would be
+wonderful as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Magazine Error (04 Jan 1998 22:51:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Magazine Error

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 22:51:02 -0700

+
 Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, was there a specific reason that the original DeLenn facial
+> prosthetics were not more closely duplicated for the prequel?
+
+      It made more sense to put it in line with the series, since
+there's 22 of the first season, and only 1 of the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Vorlon's Attitude. (16 Jan 1998 12:51:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Vorlon's Attitude.

+
Date: 16 Jan 1998 12:51:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a cover.  They want to seem aloof and disinterested,
+because they want to hide their activities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+In The Beginning (17 Jan 1998 17:49:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
In The Beginning

+
Date: 17 Jan 1998 17:49:03 -0700

+
 Steve Ringley <73727.1202@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Minbari kill him before he fulfills his destiny as it
+> were, doesn't everything change?
+
+      Yes, it would change history, if it happened...but since it did
+not happen, history was unchanged.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ITB and The Gathering (17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
ITB and The Gathering

+
Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any seconds?
+
+      Yeah...that's the ticket...that's what I meant to
+say...doubleplus good.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+In The Beginning (17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
In The Beginning

+
Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Absolutely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Uniforms (17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Season 5 Uniforms

+
Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:03 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> will we be seeing Vir's wife this final season?
+> any chances of Harlan sitting down with DM, since he's already
+> been on Politically Incorrect so often?
+
+      No, no plans for Vir's wife this season.  He has enough troubles
+to deal with....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+S5 Intro: Model Request (17 Jan 1998 22:10:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
S5 Intro: Model Request

+
Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:04 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, is there any chance of Revell adding it as a decal to their
+> station model? How about a sheet of optional model decals via
+> thestation.com?
+
+      Yeah, it does kinda break the fourth wall just a bit...but
+again, I figure, what the heck, why not?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Commercials and TNT (17 Jan 1998 22:10:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Commercials and TNT

+
Date: 17 Jan 1998 22:10:02 -0700

+
 SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does TNT run fewer commercial minutes per hour than the PTEN
+> stations did?
+
+      I think they may run fewer, yes, but haven't done a precise
+comparison to be sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/107.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/107.html
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+
+
+PTEN Intro Music (20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
PTEN Intro Music

+
Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700

+
 Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who owns the rights to that PTEN intro music now that PTEN is
+> defunct???
+
+      No, that belongs to PTEN, which is now defunct...it announced
+the distributer.  TNT is the new distributer, so it's gone...as you
+wouldn't see the NBC logo if ABC started carrying the former's show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+In The Beginning (20 Jan 1998 02:49:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
In The Beginning

+
Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:49:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      We all rationalize this stuff every day...and we are never quite
+as good, at all times, as our PR and self-image would suggest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Intro (20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...took a bit to pull that one together, but I like it a
+lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ItB - Zowie! (04 Jan 1998 20:33:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
ItB - Zowie!

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 20:33:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's a terrific little story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lyta and the Vorlons (20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Lyta and the Vorlons

+
Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:49:03 -0700

+
 Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will Lyta ever reveal what she knows about the Vorlons?
+
+"Will Lyta ever reveal what she knows about the Vorlons?"
+
+      You may have your answer sooner than you expect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Official Guide CD-ROM (20 Jan 1998 02:29:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Official Guide CD-ROM

+
Date: 20 Jan 1998 02:29:05 -0700

+
 Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> On the B5 CD you said there was an 'Easter Egg', is this the
+> little clips spread around the CD, like Londos Bar Guide, or is
+> there something special to try and find?
+
+      No, it's somewhere else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/112.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/112.html
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+
+
+Official Guide CD-ROM (20 Jan 1998 14:19:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Official Guide CD-ROM

+
Date: 20 Jan 1998 14:19:08 -0700

+
 Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any clues whatsoeveras to where or what the 'egg' is?
+
+      Look in the least interesting part of the cd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/113.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/113.html
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+
+
+Season 5 Intro (21 Jan 1998 17:06:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 21 Jan 1998 17:06:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think the newbies will be fine...unless and until you know the
+context of the scenes from S1-4, they're just pretty pictures.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/114.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/114.html
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+
+
+Season 5 intro (21 Jan 1998 14:12:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5 intro

+
Date: 21 Jan 1998 14:12:13 -0700

+
 Lennier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where did they see it?
+> Will there be a movie clip of it uploaded onto this forum?
+
+      You can find the clip at the tnt site,
+www.tnt.turner.com/babylon5, or you can watch it tonight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sheridan, the Messiah? (21 Jan 1998 14:12:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Sheridan, the Messiah?

+
Date: 21 Jan 1998 14:12:13 -0700

+
 WhiteWitch <104047.2451@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this intentional?
+> Or have I been watching King of Kings, Ben Hur, and that lot way
+> too much?
+
+      There's certainly a messianic streak running through the
+character, though he himself might challenge that notion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/116.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/116.html
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+
+
+A thought... (21 Jan 1998 17:07:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
A thought...

+
Date: 21 Jan 1998 17:07:11 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Turhan - "How will this end?"
+
+      It all interweaves, don't it...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/117.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/117.html
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+
+
+No Compromises (21 Jan 1998 22:54:07 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
No Compromises

+
Date: 21 Jan 1998 22:54:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"That last one is what hooked me. I figured you'd be spending the next
+few weeks explaining how you really hadn't broken the cardinal rule of
+B5 by introducing little Simon."
+
+      That means you went for the okeydoke...and thus didn't see the
+last bit coming.  That was the intent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Question about Kosh (21 Jan 1998 22:54:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Question about Kosh

+
Date: 21 Jan 1998 22:54:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      If I can, I'll try to work that in someday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<NC (501)> thoughts (22 Jan 1998 00:41:07 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
<NC (501)> thoughts

+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 00:41:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> After seeing the Signs and Portents rerun tonight, we see Lochley
+> ask *the* question of Byron - "What do you want?" Had we ever seen
+> what a Gaim looked like without the mask before? Will the "public"
+> ever find out that the entire oath of office taken by Sheridan
+> was "Put your hand on the book and say 'I do'"? We now know that
+> Sheridan washes his own socks, but we still don't know the real
+> issue -- sock sock shoe shoe or sock shoe sock shoe?
+
+"Does anyone know whether Byron's "The geometries that circumscribe
+your waking life draw narrower until nothing fits inside them anymore"
+came from anywhere. My first (rather obvious) guess was that it was a
+line from Byron."
+
+      No, that was me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/12.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/12.html
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+
+
+from jms on stuff (04 Jan 1998 22:51:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
from jms on stuff

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 22:51:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, that was the logic, but we never showed it before...I didn't
+know if it'd be confusing at that point, since we were a new show.  So
+I decided to drop it in here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/120.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/120.html
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+
+
+Season 5 Intro (22 Jan 1998 01:45:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 01:45:06 -0700

+
 Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that a glitch in post or intentional on your part?
+
+      We've always done that with the jumpgates.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+No Compromises (22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
No Compromises

+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...yeah, Tracy's doing a bang-up job for us, and fits
+right in. So much for the few who worried we'd bring in a "babe" with a
+softer, more submissive attitude, which I heard endlessly in some
+corners.  Amazing how often people are willing to dismiss stuff out of
+hand.  She's gonna be great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Intro (22 Jan 1998 11:46:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:46:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, that the Clark aspect is mentioned several
+times over the course of season 5.
+
+      Basically, it seems to me a tad over the top to expect that the
+new season 5 episodes should not contain information that's a spoiler
+for 1-4; you may as well not MAKE the show on that basis.  If you're
+going to tune in to S5 after not seeing 1-4, you're going to learn
+things you didn't know; that can't be helped, and I can't see the
+wisdom in hobbling the show for all the rest of the years to come to
+protect a few newbies in the current season who, if they're THAT
+concerned about being spoiled, shouldn't be watching.
+
+      This seems to me at times a bit like the v-chip discussion...do
+we have to protect everybody all the time and let them never assume any
+kind of responsibility for their own actions?  Seems that deprives them
+of free will and free choice, all in the name of "protecting" them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Intro (23 Jan 1998 12:41:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:41:13 -0700

+
 Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, I loved that Lorien's question, "Do you have anything worth
+> living for?"
+
+      If they don't want any reference to what happened in S4, why are
+they watching S5?  That line is no more specific than any other
+discussion about the fall of Clark in S5 episodes.
+
+      This is a silly conversation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Londo and G'Kar (22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Londo and G'Kar

+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700

+
 Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was it difficult to find these characters in the casting line?
+> What lead you to make these important choices?
+
+      When they came in the door, they *were* those characters as they
+read the script.  It was a no-brainer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/125.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/125.html
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+
+
+<NC (501)> thoughts (22 Jan 1998 19:56:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<NC (501)> thoughts

+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 19:56:12 -0700

+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you get mistaken for dead poets that often?
+
+"Do you get mistaken for dead poets that often?"
+
+      Only when they see my picture.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/126.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/126.html
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+
+
+Formulaic Television (22 Jan 1998 19:56:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Formulaic Television

+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 19:56:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You're a hell of a storyteller; what made you choose television
+> as the medium?
+
+      I picked TV because this sort of saga has been *done* for print
+before, but nobody's done it for TV in the US before.  It's more of a
+challenge to do it here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/127.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/127.html
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+
+
+Season 5 - Final 10? (23 Jan 1998 02:06:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5 - Final 10?

+
Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:06:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Any truth to this report?
+> Am I reading too much into this, or are we going to get a "bonus
+> episode" somewhere along the line in S5?
+
+      No, this season you get 22 episodes, no extras in the series.
+
+      Re: the schedule...it was brought to our attention that the NBA
+coverage would lead to episodes being shunted around and pre-empted for
+a number of weeks.  Obviously this concerned us, and would concern
+viewers, so we discussed it with TNT, and they came back to us with the
+notion that we would continue new episodes until hitting #100, break
+for the NBA games, then come back (starting with another possible
+half-hour special) afterward at the same time to finish the season.
+
+      It was either this, or get shuffled around the schedule due to
+the NBA, and the former is infinitely preferable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Intro (23 Jan 1998 02:06:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:06:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thing is, I think we're taking the term "spoilers" and taking it
+to a new level of definition that simply isn't valid.  A spoiler means
+getting information on an episode that hasn't aired yet in one's area,
+it doesn't refer to things that a) have happened long ago, or b) one
+may not have seen the first time it aired.  I just don't think it's a
+valid approach on the face of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Intro (23 Jan 1998 12:41:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:41:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...each season's intro ep is a bit easier going, designed
+to bring newbies into the show by introducing the characters and
+universe and backstory...the next one is pretty darned intense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+from jms on stuff (04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
from jms on stuff

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Kosh's voice always becomes clearer with the passage of time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<NC (501)> thoughts (22 Jan 1998 19:56:12 -0700)
+
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<NC (501)> thoughts

+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 19:56:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There is, but it's something you kind of have to put together
+after meeting more of his folks...it's not necessary to the storyline,
+it's just a little something I put in.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+NC/Main title (22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 22 Jan 1998 11:47:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Compromise or No (23 Jan 1998 02:13:14 -0700)
+
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+
Compromise or No

+
Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:13:14 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But you've driven me nuts with the music box -- character quirk
+> or portent of something?
+
+      Thanks...it's a good stew.  I've got the ingredients in place
+now, all that remains is to start stirring the pot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Won't Show All...? (23 Jan 1998 02:13:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
TNT Won't Show All...?

+
Date: 23 Jan 1998 02:13:14 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Sure, they push it like crazy, but they tend to start it slightly
+> off the top of the hour, run inane little tie-in clips that
+> insult the show (transporters for the Rough Cut crew?
+
+      This came out of discussions with TNT when it came out that we
+would have to be pre-empted and shuffled around for the NBA playoffs. 
+It made more sense to let them go through unobstructed, then come back
+afterward in the same slot rather than forcing fans to go hunting
+again.  It's not a big.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Compromises (23 Jan 1998 12:41:14 -0700)
+
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No Compromises

+
Date: 23 Jan 1998 12:41:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...she's a good character and a fine performer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Formulaic Television (25 Jan 1998 00:29:07 -0700)
+
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+
Formulaic Television

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Has it, ultimately, been worth the struggle for you?
+
+      Has it been worth it for me?  Yeah, I think it has...it's been
+tough, but worthwhile.  What matters is if, in the long run, viewers
+will think it was worth it.  Me, I was gonna be here anyway, and the
+story was gonna tell itself in my brain anyway, so I may as well have
+gone along with it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Formulaic Television (25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700)
+
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Formulaic Television

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> expand?
+> So, tell us, is Netter already thinking along these lines?
+
+      Certainly, it's our intent to keep the production team together
+on Crusade, once that gets going...if I sold any other shows, we've
+discussed the possibility of splitting the team in half, bringing in
+some new guys on the current show (whichever that is), and putting half
+our current team on the new show, so that both can learn from one
+another....
+
+      But in terms of doing other writers' shows...that's not
+something I'm interested in doing.  It's just too damned hard to do all
+this for someone else's story.  I don't want to be the exec supervising
+somebody else's show; that would turn me into a Suit, and that would be
+the end of me.
+
+      NDEI, as a separate entity, is better able to handle some of
+this sort of thing, but I'm not directly involved with any of that.  I
+know they've got another project of their own that's nearly solid now,
+called Rail Runners (steampunk SF), and I'm confident that they will
+use the lessons we've learned on B5 in doing that show, or any others
+down the road.
+
+      We're having an effect on TV more by osmosis than by making it
+ourselves in terms of doing other shows...the term 5-year arc is
+showing up more and more, first in Dark Skies then Earth: Final
+Conflict, and now others in the works...the CGI we pioneered for TV is
+now showing up in a lot of other series...and other shows are studying
+our methods.  The Directors Guild magazine has already done one major
+article on some new things we're doing, and another one is due out
+soon.  We've given tours to other producers to show them how we do what
+we do.  And our directors, some of whom were fairly new to dramatic TV
+(having done documentaries and afternoon specials and the like) before
+coming to B5 have now become in demand on other shows (you'll note
+that a lot of B5 directors are now doing ST shows because they've
+learned our methods...which is kinda ironic since no ST directors have
+done B5 because of studio pressure not to)....
+
+      So the impact is already there, and will continue to grow over
+the coming years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 Intro (25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700

+
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+
+      That's Sinclair's reading.
+
+"My only criticism is that the end of it is a bit too Sheridan heavy,
+and it would have been nice to have a Garibaldi line somewhere,
+although I can't think of one offhand which would have fit."
+
+      Neither could I...which is why it ain't there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+I prefer Star Trek f/x (24 Jan 1998 23:54:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
I prefer Star Trek f/x

+
Date: 24 Jan 1998 23:54:10 -0700

+
 Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do other people think?
+
+      I always find remarks like yours amusing...since the Star Trek
+shows are currently using the same systems, CGI, and in many cases, the
+same animators who worked on the first 3 years of B5 via the same
+company that we helped to set in place, Foundation Imaging.
+
+      The difference is not in the perceived, but in the perceiver.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ITB: Minb. ship trashed? (24 Jan 1998 23:54:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
ITB: Minb. ship trashed?

+
Date: 24 Jan 1998 23:54:10 -0700

+
 Daniel Barer <74033.167@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean that Sheridan's was not the only ship that
+> destroyed a Minbari battleship during the war? Was his the only
+> ship to do so and survive? Or did the Minbari ship actually
+> survive, albeit with a big hole in the middle? What do you think?
+
+"In the "2 years" montage in "In The Beginning", we see an Earth
+Alliance ship ram a Minbari cruiser amidships, blowing a hole through
+its middle. Does this mean that Sheridan's was not the only ship that
+destroyed a Minbari battleship during the war?"
+
+      Sheridan was the only one to score a *victory* against a Minbari
+war cruiser.  Meaning he survived.  Ramming one, and dying in the
+process, ain't a victory...at best it's a draw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congrats on ITB (04 Jan 1998 22:51:03 -0700)
+
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+
Congrats on ITB

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 22:51:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Congratulations on a superb movie."
+
+      Thanks, it's a good one.
+
+"Far better than many of the "blockbuster" films that appeared  in the
+theaters this past year.  Hmm, I wonder what you could do with $200
+million for one movie?"
+
+      I don't know offhand, but for that kind of money you should
+expect at least a 50% cardiac arrest scenario....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Compromise (25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700)
+
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+
No Compromise

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My question is, are we to assume G'Kar actually did the things he
+> is given to do in the books?
+
+      I don't think any characterization of the Narns as simply
+victims is correct...even in the series, we showed that the Narns, once
+free of Centauri oppression, turned around and were in the process of
+doing to others what had been done to them.  They did a lot of awful
+things, no mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Compromise (25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700)
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+
No Compromise

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of Narns, what is G'Kar's position now?
+> Has the Ka'Ri been reestablished?
+> Is he finally First Circle?
+
+      A lot of that will be established this season, but technically,
+he's still the Ambassador from Narn.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hairy decisions (25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700)
+
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+
Hairy decisions

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Who decided that Garabaldi should be bald this season and that
+> Sheridan would have a beard? In general are hair-style decisions
+> for television characters made in the same way as wardrobe
+> decisions? Did Delenn's makeup take longer before or after her
+> transformation? On another matter, how do you collaborate with the
+> book authors?
+
+      Jerry has been shaving his head, getting shorter each year, and
+it worked for where his character is going, so I let it stay...Bruce
+would love nothing more than to get rid of the beard (I suspect Melissa
+doesn't like it also), but for me it's important to make the character
+visually different, and to give him a more mature look, so Bruce
+graciously indulges me.
+
+      Re: the novels...in the first few, the writers came up with
+outlines and then manuscripts which they ran past me.  I subsequently
+decided that this didn't work because too many non-canonical things
+were slipping in, and if I was reading the ms. late at night I'd miss
+things, and generally they didn't feel like the show.  The last few
+from Dell, and the new ones from Del Rey, will proceed from outlines
+assigned out from my office, based on my notes about the B5 universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Of course I was wrong (25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700)
+
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+
Of course I was wrong

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Gracious apology just as graciously accepted.
+
+      It's happened before.  We're pretty much used to it by now.  But
+we just don't create uninteresting characters or choose uninteresting
+actors to play them.  Never have, never will.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Of course I was wrong (25 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0700)
+
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+
Of course I was wrong

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0700

+
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+
+"I'd hate to see what you do with B5's janitor! <bg>"
+
+      Don't laugh...wait about 5 episodes and you'll find out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In praise of MO'H (25 Jan 1998 00:45:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
In praise of MO'H

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:45:14 -0700

+
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+
+      A lot of folks are coming to that conclusion now...and I kinda
+wish they could've seen it then, because I can tell you that a lot of
+the criticism Michael endured (rather stoically, I have to say) was
+unfair and hurtful and needlessly mean-spirited.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+"No Compromises": 2 q's (25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700)
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"No Compromises": 2 q's

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700

+
 Michael Rubinstein <74012.147@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Faith manages, right?
+> Isn't the Psi Corps still formally a branch of EarthGov?
+> If so, then wasn't Captain Lochley duty-bound to report Byron's
+> people to the Psi Cops as soon as she found out that they were
+> rogues? Or is she really not working for Earth anymore?
+> If that is the case, then why the EarthForce uniform?
+> If the interests of B5 and of Earth should ever diverge, then
+> whose interests is Captain Lochley *supposed* to serve?
+
+      You're correct; we always start out slow each
+season...especially in this case, knowing that we're going to get a lot
+of new viewers, I structured the show so it would bring folks up to
+date asap on who everybody is, and where things stand.  Believe me,
+there's plenty of tragedy and pathos lurking right around the corner. 
+It picks up at the end of the season, after some very rough things for
+the characters, because I can't end it all on a downer, but at the same
+time, it has to have meat to it.
+
+"Isn't the Psi Corps still formally a branch of EarthGov? If so, then
+wasn't Captain Lochley duty-bound to report Byron's people to the Psi
+Cops as soon as she found out that they were rogues?"
+
+      You'll find that question answered soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 Intro (25 Jan 1998 00:29:09 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:09 -0700

+
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+
+      No reason to change until something formally gets worked out.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+No Compromises (25 Jan 1998 00:29:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's easy to mistake the actor for the character in
+situations like this.
+
+      It's a vastly different character from Ivanova also, not meant
+to fit in the same place, do the same things, or be the same person. 
+They're both strong characters, but different in their approach. 
+Ivanova tended to be a shouter, and on the impatient side...Lochley is
+a thinker, and more inclined to the blade than the ball-bat.  But both
+are equally lethal.
+
+      Lochley, I think, also has the maturity of character you need to
+rise to the rank of captain in the military, and the voice of moral
+authority, which both Sinclair and Sheridan had, in comparable
+positions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oh, she has a sense of humor...but we don't see it here in this
+episode any more than when Ivanova first came in, because both are in
+new situations and that requires a certain degree of seriousness. 
+We'll see some of her humor along the way...it's also different from
+Ivanova's, more a sly kind of humor, the sort that slips past you and
+ricochets around the corner half an hour later to nail you between the
+eyes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ITB & TG:SE (04 Jan 1998 23:03:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
ITB & TG:SE

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:03:10 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, does this mean the shadow-helpers didn't actually do the
+> destruction? Perhaps the Centauri did it trying to drive them out?
+
+      That Kosh, always a mumbler.
+
+"Londo said "...look what _we_ did to _ourselves_...." when he looked
+out the window.  So, does this mean the shadow-helpers didn't actually
+do the destruction?  Perhaps the Centauri did it trying to drive them
+out?"
+
+      You'll get the answer to that one soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+No Compromises (25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
No Compromises

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700

+
 Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He asked - if a telepath walked into a bathroom and someone was
+> "hidden" behind a shower curtain, could that telepath do anything
+> to that person?
+
+      Depends on the strength of the telepath.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SaP & TKO (25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
SaP & TKO

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:08 -0700

+
 Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> morden visits Delenn, what was that glowing triangle?
+> Morden?
+> Regarding TKO, he grabbed me in the office the day after it aired
+> and asked, "What's with the "Bloodsport" rip off (the movie with
+> Jeanne Claude von Damme)?
+
+"In SaP, when Mr. morden visits Delenn, what was that glowing
+triangle?  He thinks he recalls also seeing it in ItB and he thinks it
+has something to do with the Triluminary, but he hasn't  seen it since.
+What did it mean in the case of Mr. Morden?"
+
+      It's something the Grey Council have that allows them to sense
+the arrival of the Shadows and their minions.
+
+"Regarding TKO, he grabbed me in the office the day after it aired and
+asked, "What's with the "Bloodsport" rip off (the movie with Jeanne
+Claude von Damme)?  I didn't care and thought it was well done but I
+told him I'd ask you on his behalf."
+
+      Dunno...didn't write it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+No Compromises (25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
No Compromises

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:10 -0700

+
 SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You once said that season 5 would be all "Wham" episodes; is that
+> still your plan? So does this mean that B5 will invade the Super
+> Bowl?
+
+      Thanks...haven't actually seen the cheeseheads one, though I had
+to rewrite the copy (and the other one with the football player)
+because they didn't quite get the show or the character.  Don't know if
+they stuck with my changes or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Leadership (25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Leadership

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 00:29:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's certainly an approach that would benefit the chain
+of command in a lot of situations.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<NO COMPROMISES> Spoiler (25 Jan 1998 22:54:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
<NO COMPROMISES> Spoiler

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 22:54:00 -0700

+
 Akua Lezli Hope <71220.1665@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The resounding of familiar visual themes: the asassin reminded us
+> of the shadow-agent, especially in killing the "Queens" (was that
+> their name? having to deliver it himself?
+> Of course he was hungry, hadn't he gone without sleep and
+> sustenance to create the unsaid words? Will we ever get to read
+> the oath of office, or was this a sublimely clever device to
+> spare JMS from creating one?
+
+"Why couldn't the young telepath just broadcast his discovery to the
+others, vs. having to deliver it himself?"
+
+      Line of sight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Cards/Comic Due Soon (25 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Cards/Comic Due Soon

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 18:48:11 -0700

+
      Just a general FYI...the Fleer S4 card set has just come in, and
+should be appearing soon at stores.  They're gorgeous cards, with not
+only the pictures on one side, but also on the same side, a line of
+dialogue associated with that character that can only be seen if you
+tilt the card; plus some nice (but not excessive in number) chase
+cards...real nice.
+
+      And the first issue of the DC comic Valen miniseries just got
+into my hands; should be hitting stores the coming week or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Cards/Comic Due Soon (25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Cards/Comic Due Soon

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you ever consider doing something like this with the Valen
+> character somewhere down the line for television, such as in
+> "Crusade"?
+
+      I think there may be some way to tell the story of Valen down
+the road in one form or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Formulaic Television (25 Jan 1998 23:09:07 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Formulaic Television

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:09:07 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you been watching Earth: Final Conflict?
+> Ya wanna be a actor Joe?
+
+"Ya wanna be a actor Joe?"
+
+      Not if you hung me by the short-and-curlies off the World Trade
+Center on a windy day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Formulaic Television (25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Formulaic Television

+
Date: 25 Jan 1998 23:09:08 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Suit have to lose?
+
+      Phil, honest and true, I'd rather have a root canal....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+"Big Screen B5"? (26 Jan 1998 23:18:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
"Big Screen B5"?

+
Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is there any truth to this story?
+> Will you be at the London premieres?
+> Should I start planning trips to London in July and October?
+
+      No one's said anything to me about it thus far...the first I
+heard of it was in that article.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ItB Questions (04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
ItB Questions

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you know at the outset of Season 2 that Franklin, G'kar and
+> Sheridan had met before? If so how come no mention was ever made
+> of that fact?
+
+      Yeah, in my notes on Sheridan I had him meeting Sheridan before,
+but never did much with it at the time...we never see the first time
+Sheridan and Franklin meet in the second season, and when we do they're
+hanging out pretty casually, as people who've met each other before
+might.  Bear in mind, also, that there's about 11 years between the two
+incidents, and at best they were casual acquaintances on one mission.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+No Compromises (26 Jan 1998 23:18:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
No Compromises

+
Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:06 -0700

+
 Kirk Darling <73063.3115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> jms, does that imply that in some future eps, Lockley will be
+> right and Sinclair will be wrong?
+
+"jms, does that imply that in some future eps, Lockley will be right
+and Sinclair will be wrong?"
+
+      Assuming you mean Sheridan here...the answer is yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+EYES guest star (26 Jan 1998 23:18:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
EYES guest star

+
Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, he just did the one for us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ivanova Question...again (27 Jan 1998 12:18:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ivanova Question...again

+
Date: 27 Jan 1998 12:18:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"This was unfair to the B5 brass and said no. CC was in England
+promoting the show, the time-limit on the contract signing passed, and
+she was fired and replaced."
+
+      Just to clarify...since she had declined to sign the same
+extension the rest of the cast signed, she was no longer working for B5
+at that time, and hadn't been for over a month.  You can't fire someone
+who isn't working for you.  All WB could do was make an offer, which
+she could accept or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ivanova Question...again (27 Jan 1998 21:06:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Ivanova Question...again

+
Date: 27 Jan 1998 21:06:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No question you were being neutral, and admirably so...I was
+just looking to clarify one point.  You did great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+acheron (26 Jan 1998 00:27:14 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
acheron

+
Date: 26 Jan 1998 00:27:14 -0700

+
      Actually, the Acheron is the river of woe....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+acheron (26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
acheron

+
Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It helps to have a background in the classics...I was reading
+greek mythology while still in grade school, and minored in philosophy
+in college.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+No Compromises (26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
No Compromises

+
Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's a reason behind that name...though that wasn't it, it's
+a nice bit of lagniappe.
+
+      And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+No Compromises (27 Jan 1998 20:59:04 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
No Compromises

+
Date: 27 Jan 1998 20:59:04 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How about the title of the episode, Joe?
+> Any reason other than the theme which might have prompted your
+> choosing it?
+
+      I picked "No Compromises" because that was my approach for this
+season: we aren't going to give an inch on the quality of the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+501: Crooked? (26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
501: Crooked?

+
Date: 26 Jan 1998 23:18:07 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> looks a little crooked," or should I get my hearing checked?
+
+      It was an inside bit of humor on his part, yeah, but that's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+EYES guest star (27 Jan 1998 12:25:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
EYES guest star

+
Date: 27 Jan 1998 12:25:01 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is he no longer allowed to do B5 by virtue of pressure from "The
+> Mountain"?
+
+      No, there's been no pressure there, just a matter of finding the
+right role.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ITB> and <TG (04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
ITB> and <TG

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 23:03:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+"I know you probably couldn't have made a movie about the
+Earth-Minbari War without giving away the ending, but I was kind of
+hoping the details would be left more vague than they were for the
+benefit of new viewers."
+
+      I came to that part of my decision-making process, and realized
+that in 2, 5 or 10 years, the secret ain't gonna be secret anymore...so
+why not play into that, and make the audience aware up front, which
+adds a different kind of tension, like seeing the bomb under the table
+when the characters eating dinner don't know it's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Formulaic Television (28 Jan 1998 03:38:02 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Formulaic Television

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 03:38:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I can't say, all I know is that it happens, and it's pretty much
+ignored when it does.  It's the biz.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Last 10 in Canada? (28 Jan 1998 03:38:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Last 10 in Canada?

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 03:38:03 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, if TNT is holding back on the last 10, are you still going
+> ahead with the production ? if so, are you going to deliver to
+> them regardless of the hiatus?
+
+      Yeah, we're still proceeding along with production.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Last 10 in Canada? (28 Jan 1998 11:35:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Last 10 in Canada?

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:35:09 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And you will continue to deliver them to TNT without a break?
+
+"And you will continue to deliver them to TNT without a break? thanks"
+
+      That's what I said.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Cards/Comic Due Soon (28 Jan 1998 11:35:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Cards/Comic Due Soon

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 11:35:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, there's a full cast set of autographs.
+
+      I just heard today that all 800 cases of the B5 cards have sold
+out before even being shipped, which is the first time that has
+happened in the history of the Fleer entertainment division.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cards/Comic Due Soon (28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Cards/Comic Due Soon

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700

+
 Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the following parts be shipping weekly or monthly?
+
+"Will the following parts be shipping weekly or monthly?"
+
+      I suddenly realized that I don't know...my guess is monthly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Official Guide CD-ROM (28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Official Guide CD-ROM

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> RE: the "Easter Egg" - is it the "fourth question"?
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/176.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/176.html
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+
+
+No Compromises (28 Jan 1998 20:49:03 -0700)
+
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+
No Compromises

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 20:49:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, given that these are one-time-only aliens, it seemed unwise
+to spend all the time and attention to create a detailed language for
+them.
+
+      And thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/177.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/177.html
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+
+
+TVLNOLM (28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700)
+
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TVLNOLM

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 20:49:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'll have that corrected asap.
+
+      Sigh...it never ends....
+
+      And yeah, good ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/178.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/178.html
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+
+
+TNT Shedule & Quick Qs (29 Jan 1998 02:03:14 -0700)
+
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+
TNT Shedule & Quick Qs

+
Date: 29 Jan 1998 02:03:14 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you have someone check and clarify this?
+> Quickies: G'Kar's replacement eye: this wasn't because of Andreas
+> starting to have problems with the contacts, was it? Will Lockley
+> or anyone that stayed loyal to Clark ever answer the question
+> about what they expected to happen to Clark? Or was Edgar's
+> description all we'll get? Perhaps the answer is too simple to
+> relate: they thought it would clear up somehow, and just didn't
+> want to get involved themselves...?
+
+      No, the contact omission was kept because of the story and the
+character; it'll be dealt with down the line in more detail, but for
+now, that's why it's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TVLNoLM (28 Jan 1998 23:38:13 -0700)
+
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TVLNoLM

+
Date: 28 Jan 1998 23:38:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...I'm proud of that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/18.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/18.html
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+
+B5 in Canada (05 Jan 1998 00:22:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 00:22:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      CFMT and one other Canadian network will be carrying the show
+shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+TVLNoLM (29 Jan 1998 13:19:06 -0700)
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+
TVLNoLM

+
Date: 29 Jan 1998 13:19:06 -0700

+
 Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could Delenn have interceded and prevented the Rangers from
+> accepting Lennier? Obviously, she absolutley *would* not, but
+> could she have?
+
+      Thanks...and yes, she could have...but it would have devastated
+him and undermined the Ranger structure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TVLNOLM (29 Jan 1998 13:19:06 -0700)
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TVLNOLM

+
Date: 29 Jan 1998 13:19:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...like you, I'm fascinated by the relationship between,
+and the characterizations of Londo and G'Kar.  Writing those two is the
+most fun I can have with my clothes on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/182.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/182.html
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+
+502: Ummm... Wow. (29 Jan 1998 22:57:09 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Jan 1998 22:57:09 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When the episode opened with Sheridan and Delenn in their
+> quarters, I asked, "Is this going to be the way every episode of
+> season five starts?" But can Delenn let it go so easily?
+> Londo knows about John's twenty years?
+> Just how common is this knowledge?
+> Boy, when you say that the first episode is just to get the new
+> viewers up to speed, and then you take off in the second, you
+> ain't kiddin', are ya?
+
+"Boy, when you say that the first episode is just to get the new
+viewers up to speed, and then you take off in the second, you ain't
+kiddin', are ya?"
+
+      Rangers never bluff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/183.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/183.html
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+
+TVLNoLM (29 Jan 1998 13:19:05 -0700)
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+
TVLNoLM

+
Date: 29 Jan 1998 13:19:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/184.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/184.html
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+
+TNT Shedule & Quick Qs (29 Jan 1998 22:57:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 29 Jan 1998 22:57:08 -0700

+
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+
+         No, the delay is only until the playoffs are over, then we're
+back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/185.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/185.html
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+
+
+<VLN> Heartbreak Hotel (29 Jan 1998 23:12:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 29 Jan 1998 23:12:04 -0700

+
      Thanks.  It's a somewhat off-format for us, and those are always
+fun and nervous-making.  I'm really glad it worked out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/186.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/186.html
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+
+Claudia (30 Jan 1998 15:54:07 -0700)
+
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 30 Jan 1998 15:54:07 -0700

+
 Frank McCloy <74541.3464@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hmmm, They must have ironclad contracts, hey?
+
+"I, for one, would like to see the Ivanova character return.  I don't
+know if it's possible, but I would still like to see it."
+
+      a) Wasn't my decision, b) given that I'm writing 522 right now,
+I'd say that the odds are zero, barring "Sleeping in Light," shot last
+year and held over to this one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/187.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/187.html
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+
+Claudia (30 Jan 1998 23:34:03 -0700)
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 30 Jan 1998 23:34:03 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are we gonna see/hear about little David before Sleeping in
+> Light? Any chance?
+> Pretty please?
+
+      Sorta kinda.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/188.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/188.html
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+
+
+Previews (30 Jan 1998 23:34:04 -0700)
+
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+
Previews

+
Date: 30 Jan 1998 23:34:04 -0700

+
 George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this change permanent?
+> Or is this even anything you have any control over?
+
+      I think the preview now is actually between acts 3 and 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/189.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/189.html
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+
+Mira Furlan Signed Card? (30 Jan 1998 23:34:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mira Furlan Signed Card?

+
Date: 30 Jan 1998 23:34:04 -0700

+
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+
+      The real cards have a white area at the bottom for signatures;
+none of the other cards have that white area.  If it's anything other,
+it's a fake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/19.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/19.html
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+
+Congrats on ITB (05 Jan 1998 13:28:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:07 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Di Conlin, TUS , Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of Discipline
+> Supreme Dominatrix, RMES, your fearless leader "Great Maker, huh?
+
+      Thanks...always hated the Zoo scene myself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/2.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/2.html
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+
+
+NAV Crew Pays Homage (01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700)
+
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+
NAV Crew Pays Homage

+
Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, I'll look for it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/20.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/20.html
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+
+
+Claudia (05 Jan 1998 13:28:05 -0700)
+
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Tracy Scoggins, but it's a very different role.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/21.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/21.html
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+
+Claudia (05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700)
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Trap doors have always been in place for all the characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/22.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/22.html
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+
+Congrats on ITB (05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/23.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/23.html
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+
+Congrats on ITB (05 Jan 1998 13:28:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:08 -0700

+
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+
+      Here's another thought: $200 million = ten years of the B5
+series and 8 TV movies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/24.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/24.html
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+
+
+In the Beginning (06 Jan 1998 15:47:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
In the Beginning

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's a very moving and emotional movie in a lot of
+places, which was the goal.  If it doesn't touch you, there ain't much
+point to doing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/25.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/25.html
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+
+B5 Calendar (05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Calendar

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700

+
 Peter Godfrey <100545.3607@compuserve.com> asks:
+> By showing this on equipment obviously supplied from the future,
+> mean that the time line was disturbed ?
+
+"By showing this on equipment obviously supplied from the future, mean
+that the time line was disturbed ?"
+
+      Good grief, if that's true then I'm seriously out of phase, and
+at any second I could completely disappea
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/26.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/26.html
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+
+
+PPG science follows art! (05 Jan 1998 13:28:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
PPG science follows art!

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Always ahead of our time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/27.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-01/27.html
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+
+In the Beginning (05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
In the Beginning

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...if we don't keep trying to get better, what's the
+point?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In the Beginning (06 Jan 1998 15:47:11 -0700)
+
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+
In the Beginning

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      And the thing is..."In the Beginning" cost us a tick under $3
+million bucks, which is almost nil in terms of budgets for TV movies. 
+It looks like it's a $12 million feature film.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In the Beginning (06 Jan 1998 21:23:10 -0700)
+
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+
In the Beginning

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      We got the ratings, and I can't release them yet, that has to
+come from TNT, but suffice to say they're dancing in the aisles over at
+TNT.  Again, I can't give specifics yet, but they had a very specific
+rating in mind that they felt was the best we would probaby get, which
+we beat handily, and they felt that the pilot, being a rerun, wouldn't
+do that well...and it ended up doing as well as the maximum they'd
+hoped the prequel would get.
+
+      They're stunned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TZ Marathon (01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700)
+
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+
TZ Marathon

+
Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700

+
 SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you catch any of the classic Twilight Zone shows on the SciFi
+> Channel's TZ marathon?
+
+      I saw some of it, was working most of the time.  They did shoot
+a few select shows on videotape, as an experiment, which they later
+dropped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ITB and TG:SE (05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700)
+
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ITB and TG:SE

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> ITB used the current uniform, why wasn't it filmed using the old
+> TG uniforms? Will TNT show the original version of TG?
+
+      No, I don't think TNT plans to show the first version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<ITB> thoughts (06 Jan 1998 15:47:12 -0700)
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<ITB> thoughts

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Londo's "What do you want?"
+> Is it possible he would've been firmer with the Captain about the
+> orders to avoid contact they had received, and that the entire
+> incident and thus the war might've been avoided? At what age do
+> Centauri boys have their hair start to stick up? How do they know
+> this? Do they have additional information they're not mentioning
+> about Minbari war strategy? Are they just guessing?
+> Or are they just making it all up as propaganda, thinking that it
+> will motivate the Earth Forces to fight harder?
+
+      Londo's first wife was a dancer, who he was forced to divorce by
+his family.
+
+      Adira reminds him of her a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In the Beginning (05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700)
+
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+
In the Beginning

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, it's been a real struggle, and we've had to overcome a
+lot to get to this point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+One Gathering (05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700)
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One Gathering

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 13:28:06 -0700

+
      Thanks...it's much improved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ItB - Zowie! (05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700)
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ItB - Zowie!

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, there was supposed to be a commercial there, but instead
+TNT ran straight through into act 2, and inserted a commercial in act
+6, right before they go to see Sinclair.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+ItB and The Gathering (05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700)
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+
ItB and The Gathering

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700

+
 SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, are ya planning to go to Australia in 1999?
+> Is that correct?
+
+      That was his interior monologue, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<ITB> thoughts (06 Jan 1998 02:03:13 -0700)
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<ITB> thoughts

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 02:03:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it's been established that Londo's first wife was a dancer,
+who he was forced to divorce by his family.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<ITB> thoughts (06 Jan 1998 16:14:08 -0700)
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<ITB> thoughts

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 16:14:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"But that still doesn't explain the "cared for them all deeply" part
+in relation to the other three... <bg>"
+
+      We remember what, and how, we choose to remember.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<TG> Zoo Scene (05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700)
+
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<TG> Zoo Scene

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:03 -0700

+
      The idea was just to go through the sector, pass some aliens,
+see the exteriors of some quarters...the director made it into a zoo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In the Beginning (05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700)
+
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+
In the Beginning

+
Date: 05 Jan 1998 23:48:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 in the news (01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, thanks, I'm looking forward to seeing the article and
+review.
+
+      They had MY picture in there?  Oh, dear, there go their sales
+figures, down the toilet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ItB: Dilgar War ?  (06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There's a fair amount about the Dilgar in "Deathwalker," first
+season. And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Marcus....why (06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...as for the alien machine, no, it definitely won't work
+on a dead person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia (06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700)
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 15:47:10 -0700

+
 Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Assuming Sheridan and his wife will still be main characters????
+
+      Oh, Sheridan and Delenn will definitely be sticking around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Claudia (06 Jan 1998 21:23:08 -0700)
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Claudia

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:08 -0700

+
 Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I can't remember his real world name(sin of sins, I know), but
+> when Seridan replaced Sinclair, was that planned from the
+> beginning? I mean, did the actor leave the show, for some reason?
+
+      No, that's something that developed over time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gathering re-edit (06 Jan 1998 21:23:11 -0700)
+
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Gathering re-edit

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:11 -0700

+
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+
+      I've no idea why they didn't promote that aspect of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ItB - Zowie! (06 Jan 1998 16:14:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 16:14:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I nearly cried when the President asked the military to "hold the
+line" so that a pitiful few hundred could escape. In that single
+moment, you feel that even if the Minbari had done it, those few
+refugees would have sired a people who, eventually, would have made it.
+Just at that moment, you see the echo to the ball of light flying into
+the encounter suit a million years hence."
+
+      It's a very moving scene, even for me.  There's something in
+particular about a female president making that request, and giving
+those orders, that is especially strong.  I don't know why that should
+be, but somehow it is. We as a people tend to forget our own strength,
+and as Londo says, our stubborn nobility.  We only seem to remember it
+when we stand on the edge of the abyss, when it's almost too late to do
+anything about it.
+
+"I always have felt this show is about him."
+
+      Yeah, in many ways, it is.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Also, the reworking of Sinclair's narration of the Battle of the
+Line, with Requiem for the Line and the battle transmissions was just
+gripping, it really showcased Michael O'Hare's strengths as an actor."
+
+      Yeah, that was an experiment I wanted to try.  When we did the
+audio spotting (me sitting with the sound folks, Chris, others), I
+explained what I wanted done with that scene, and they kinda got it but
+were a little dubious as to whether or not this could or would work. 
+When we came to the day of the audio mix, it was kind of a jumble...so
+I worked with the music and the voices to basically fill in the gaps
+between Sinclair's words.  Then I backed up and chose the ones that
+most related to what he had just said, or was about to just say.  It
+took about half an hour to get that 30 second piece down pat.
+
+      One of the least visible things I do is mess with the music and
+how the music lays out on the track.  I'm often at the front of the
+mixing room, working with the mixers, bringing up one instrument
+(percussion, for instance), bringing down the horns for one piece, up
+in another.  In "In the Beginning," for instance, there was percussion
+all through the Battle of the Line itself...and we had big EFX of guns
+and explosions going off, and the two muddied together.  So I went with
+the explosions for the first of it, then replaced some of the
+gunfire/explosions with percussion, then ducked down the SFX altogether
+and just let the music take it.  You kind of have to be a conductor in
+these instances.
+
+      (Which is why the astute will notice a slight change in the main
+title music starting with 507.  I was down sick when they had to do the
+main title mix, and couldn't get into it.  When we had to modify some
+voice stuff for 507, I went in and pulled out all the music stems and
+rebalanced stuff to bring out the themes more, which kind of got buried
+a little in places.  All the same individual pieces are there, but in
+different perspectives.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Kosh (Spoilers to ITF) (06 Jan 1998 21:23:09 -0700)
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Kosh (Spoilers to ITF)

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:09 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) Is Naranek a title and if so what does it mean?
+> 2) Is Kosh a title and if so what does *it* mean?
+> 3) Why are all Vorlon Kosh?
+> 4) What was the relationship between Kosh 1 and Kosh 2 (they
+> always seem to be together, as on B4, in Dukhat's quarters,
+> backing each other up on B5), and if they were close, it that why
+> Kosh 2 was such a hardass in the aftermath of Kosh 1's death? Am I
+> close?
+
+      Zha is the usual reference for the future, whose meaning changes
+depending on whether it's a suffix or a prefix, and what it's up
+against. Isil-zha usually means change, changing the future, coming of
+a new age; entil-zha is the one who creates or guides the forces
+creating the future; and z'ha'dum (with the broken zha) is the death of
+the future, or the dark future.
+
+      And yes, Kosh and Ulkesh were contemporaries, though Ulkesh was
+the more military of the two, very isolationist, while Kosh was the
+curious one, interested in the younger races, and more willing to
+extend himself (with sometimes unfortunate results).  Kosh always
+worried what Ulkesh would do without his moderating presence...and
+ultimately had to be the one to take him down to allow the younger
+races to step forward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:10 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did Kosh set the Vorlons *and* the Shadows up?
+> Was he sick of the conflict and so arranged events, that he was
+> *certain* that the outcome would be a final end to it all?
+
+      You're right, as far as it goes...I think Kosh came late to the
+table. I don't think he came to B5 with that intent, but it grew in him
+over time that this cycle had to end, and he could be instrumental to
+that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Earth Firsters and Truth (06 Jan 1998 21:23:09 -0700)
+
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Earth Firsters and Truth

+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Any organization like that has to proceed from a stance that
+either has the potential to make sense, or can sound reasonable.  So
+yeah, one can make an argument for their position.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Kosh (Spoilers to ITF) (01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will we ever learn more about Kosh I and why he was more
+> sympathetic to the Second Ones than Kosh II, or is the Vorlons'
+> place in the saga over?
+
+      That's a good question, and one of the things I'd like to do
+(but which I can't see any way to do in the series) is the whole story
+of who Kosh was, how he got to be who and what he was, why he felt the
+way he did toward humans (part of it was knowing Valen)...maybe this
+will have to go into one of the novels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Jan 1998 21:23:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this trip still on, and if so, do you have any info about it?
+
+      I'm having to buckle down and finish writing S5 and getting the
+third movie written, so I'm stuck out here.
+
+      It's a curious thought...I just turned in 519, which means with
+just these last 3 scripts, I'm done writing the Babylon 5 series.  (The
+third movie is outside the series in terms of one-hour episodes.) 
+After ten years, I'm 3 scripts away from being done with this thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Joy of Resonance (07 Jan 1998 02:05:06 -0700)
+
+
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The Joy of Resonance

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 02:05:06 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the Soul Hunters (as a civilization) actually *wrong* in
+> "preserving" souls? So, is Lorien's "preservation" of Sheridan
+> really that different?
+
+      That's the question I wanted to ask in writing TSH...is it a
+Good Thing, or is it a Bad Thing, to retain these essences?  So yeah,
+that was always a part of it...and as for the resemblance, that's a
+valid point also, since when I met with the costume and prosthetics
+divisions, I mentioned that I wanted a soul-hunter sort of feel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia promo (07 Jan 1998 02:05:06 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 02:05:06 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When were the Ivanova promos that run at the end of the season 1
+> shows filmed? Before or after the contract difficulties?
+> If after, does this mean we really might see some guest roles for
+> Christian? If before, do you have to get additional permission (?)
+> or pay actors for these promo spots in addition to their
+> contract?
+
+      Those promos were shot during the end of the fourth season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+In the Beginning (07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700)
+
+
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In the Beginning

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There were a number of big fans of the show in TNT programming
+who kept bugging management to pick up the show, do the movies...and
+whose necks were on the line if it didn't work...who are now dancing in
+the aisles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<TG> Zoo Scene (07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, I'm real happy with that sequence, starting with the top
+of the act and straight through to the President's speech...I think
+it's one of those moments when we committed art.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh (Spoilers to ITF) (07 Jan 1998 12:26:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:01 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were they friends?
+
+      No, I wouldn't call them friends.  They had a certain respect
+for one another, but Ulkesh always thought Kosh was soft, and Kosh
+always worried that Ulkesh was dangerous.  In their own ways, both were
+right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In the Beginning (07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700)
+
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In the Beginning

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Turns out we virtually tripled our regular audience, and *built*
+each quarter hour, which means folks were jumping in all through, and
+those who came, stayed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congrats on ITB (07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700)
+
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Congrats on ITB

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Eowyn?  I may be wrong, but it sounds like somebody's a Tolkein
+fan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congrats on ITB (07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700)
+
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Congrats on ITB

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I named them Shadows after the Jungian notion of the Shadow,
+which is the part of the mind which is all desire, and is destructive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In the Beginning (07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700)
+
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+
In the Beginning

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you say if you broke and cable network records?
+
+      No, didn't break records, but we didn't have to and didn't
+expect to.
+
+      We just had to succeed.
+
+      We did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TZ Marathon (01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700)
+
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+
TZ Marathon

+
Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Didnt you meet him once?
+
+      Yes, I did meet Rod once, though it wasn't until it was too late
+that he was identified to me, at which point he'd left (typical).  He
+was the best of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh (Spoilers to ITF) (07 Jan 1998 12:26:01 -0700)
+
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+
Kosh (Spoilers to ITF)

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:01 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Kosh and Ulkesh seem to have the authority to dictate
+> Vorlon policy from what you've said, can we assume that they were
+> near the top of the Vorlon heirarchy (whatever THAT may be)?
+
+      It's not a hierarchy as you or I would understand it...and the
+weird thing is, though I kinda know how it functions, I'll be damned if
+I can figure out how to explain it in words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In the Beginning (07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
In the Beginning

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:26:03 -0700

+
 Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance on rebroadcasting the re-edited pilot given the
+> suprisingly high ratings? Also, will the re-edited version of "The
+> Gathering" ever be released on video (VHS, DVD or Laserdisc)?
+
+      I think the rebroadcast will happen in a couple of months on TG;
+the rest is in the works but nothing's happening in the short run.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+cudos & such (07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700

+
 Mark Fountain <74023.221@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you consider putting the scene of the hunter confronting the
+> Minbari at the battle of the line into the movie? Was that a once
+> considered story line that didn't make the cut?
+
+"Did you consider putting the scene of the hunter confronting the
+Minbari at the battle of the line into the movie?"
+
+      Yeah, for some time, in fact...but the logistics involved in
+staging a full-scale assault, dozens of soul hunters, the fight itself,
+would've taken up about 10-15 minutes minimum, which would have had to
+come out elsewhere, and I can't find 15 minutes in that movie that's
+expendable.  One can only do so much in the amout of space, and time,
+and money, one has.
+
+"One is a picture of what appears to be a soul hunter craft crashed
+into a jungle scene beside a Mayan looking temple.  At the time I just
+assumed that eventually an episode would bring that to light, but
+nothing ever has."
+
+      No, that's an image Ron did on his own, had nothing to do with
+the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star: boffed (07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 23:56:01 -0700

+
 Terry Berkes <75050.2767@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the scene with Franklin and the very upset Ivanova, when she
+> uses the word "boffed" (like Marcus), was this intended as just a
+> cute scene or a hint that the transfer would have had lasting
+> effects?
+
+"In the scene with Franklin and the very upset Ivanova, when she uses
+the word "boffed" (like Marcus), was this intended as just a cute scene
+or a hint that the transfer would have had lasting effects?"
+
+      No, nothing more was intended than what was seen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Ratings (07 Jan 1998 23:59:12 -0700)
+
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+
TNT Ratings

+
Date: 07 Jan 1998 23:59:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      If the release is up, then by all means, repost it.
+
+      And thanks...we did killer numbers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Overwhelmed (08 Jan 1998 16:57:10 -0700)
+
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+
Overwhelmed

+
Date: 08 Jan 1998 16:57:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's so strange to see the show starting all over
+again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Soul Hunters (08 Jan 1998 16:57:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 08 Jan 1998 16:57:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Omission?
+> Something that is on the cutting room floor?
+
+      No, there wasn't time to do it in the movie...it would've taken
+about 10-15 minutes to set it up and pay it off properly, and I
+couldn't find 15 expendable minutes in ItB.  There's a brief window
+after the body's death where the soul hunters can still move in, so
+there was time...we showed their ships moving in in Atonement, and to
+do so again here would get in the way and really confuse new viewers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+101 thru 104 (I think) (09 Jan 1998 21:55:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
101 thru 104 (I think)

+
Date: 09 Jan 1998 21:55:07 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Di Conlin, TUS , Wielder of the Lesser Salmon of Discipline
+> Supreme Dominatrix, RMES, your fearless leader "Great Maker, huh?
+
+      It's uneven in places, but yeah, there's some good stuff there
+amid the dross.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A moment of B5 beauty (09 Jan 1998 21:55:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Jan 1998 21:55:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's so odd, to in a sense go through it all over
+again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Airship Package (11 Jan 1998 00:26:05 -0700)
+
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+
Airship Package

+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:26:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, much appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Were four sections okay? (01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Jan 1998 23:32:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't think I've much noticed or cared what sections there
+were, or how many there were.  I just mainly look at what messages come
+to me directly, and what new ones there are, using Tapcis...there could
+be 50 sections or 5, the number of questions tends to remain the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Centauri... REPUBLIC?? (11 Jan 1998 00:34:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:34:06 -0700

+
 Pat Frank <102016.1015@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why chose the word "republic" if it isn't one?
+
+      Why call the United States a democracy when it's a republic?
+
+      You must understand that there is always some difference between
+what a country calls itself, and what it actually is...further, though
+the Centauri Republic may have been more of a republic than it is now,
+it almost certainly wouldn't change thousands of years of history books
+just to accommodate a slight shift in direction.  No matter what form
+its government takes, it will always call itself the Centauri Republic,
+because that's their whole identity, their history.  We lie to
+ourselves all the time...that's what most governments are built on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Aganemnon/ Shadow Models (11 Jan 1998 00:34:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:34:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      There are currently no shadow or vorlon ships licensed to
+anyone; Revell will likely do them in future, but at this point, anyone
+out there who sees or hears of any other models, know that they are
+pirated kits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Missing Hour? (11 Jan 1998 00:26:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:26:06 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what I'm asking here is, which is correct?
+> The episode or the movie?
+> Or can both be correct?
+> Did Londo call them before the hour was up?
+> Was he referring to other prisoners?
+
+      We're really only talking about an hour's distinction
+here...time is fluid in dramatic terms.  (How many times have we seen a
+bomb timer showing 3 minutes, and the process of defusing the bomb
+takes 15?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In The Beginning (11 Jan 1998 00:34:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 00:34:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"There was one notable flashback scene that did not make it into the
+movie, in which Sinclair rushes Delenn and pulls her hood off.  Also we
+never saw Sinclair surrounded by the Grey Council and blasted by the
+staff.  Given how "In the Beginning" progressed I'm not sure how those
+scenes could have fit in."
+
+      This happened shortly after the events shown.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In The Beginning (11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700)
+
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+
In The Beginning

+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What arrangements does a production make with an actor like
+> Michael York or Michael O'Hare when footage shot for one episode
+> is used in another?
+
+      You just call up their agent and work out an arrangement.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Good TV Again ! (11 Jan 1998 19:14:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Good TV Again !

+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      TNT did some market research prior to the launch of B5, and the
+two questions they wanted answered were, what does a new viewer need to
+tune in to B5, and what do the current viewers need to bring them in to
+watch again?
+
+      The research told them all the things they had to include, and
+do, and say, to get the new viewers...and then when they got to what
+the current viewers need:
+
+      "They just need to know when it's on."
+
+      I think that's when they began to sense something rather massive
+lurking just beneath the radar nets....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia (11 Jan 1998 19:14:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why did Sinclair leave and Sheridan take over B5?
+
+      Check the library...I've answered this question a zillion times,
+and some kind souls have archived it all in the library.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh (Spoilers to ITF) (11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Kosh (Spoilers to ITF)

+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was Kosh II really Ulkesh?
+> Why call himself Kosh?
+
+      The new Vorlon was Ulkesh, yes...the Kosh thing was meant in a
+Vorlon philosophical sense.  They ain't wired up like the rest of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Did I _really_ see...? (11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Did I _really_ see...?

+
Date: 11 Jan 1998 19:14:10 -0700

+
 Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this just a figment of my overactive imagination, and a desire
+> to get more B5, or is there something more to it? PPS - is it true
+> that the BtVS crew whipped the B5 crew at paintball?
+
+      Optic Nerve, the ones who do B5 prosthetics, also do them for
+Buffy, so there some understandable similarities from time to time
+(like when they used a good chunk of n'grath for one shot).
+
+"PPS - is it true that the BtVS crew whipped the B5 crew at
+paintball?"
+
+      Nope.  We beat them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Centauri... REPUBLIC?? (12 Jan 1998 00:19:14 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Centauri... REPUBLIC??

+
Date: 12 Jan 1998 00:19:14 -0700

+
 Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So are we looking at civil war, or a Narn invasion?
+> Maybe that's all to be explained in S5?
+
+      It's coming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+StarFury Model Found (03 Jan 1998 00:17:10 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
StarFury Model Found

+
Date: 03 Jan 1998 00:17:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not warlord.  Warlock.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+In The Beginning (12 Jan 1998 11:37:08 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
In The Beginning

+
Date: 12 Jan 1998 11:37:08 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, I presume the original contracts with all the actors
+> specified residuals for the first "X" broadcasts, and that since
+> TNT will actually be broadcasting the episodes beyond that limit
+> (where PTEN probably wouldn't), that all involved are seeing
+> money they'd otherwise hope for but not expect? Am I right in that
+> (convoluted as it may be <g>)?
+
+      This is all standard stuff with the various guilds.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In The Beginning (12 Jan 1998 11:37:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
In The Beginning

+
Date: 12 Jan 1998 11:37:09 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I wrong to ask you about this, or do you see it at all
+> similarly?
+
+      No, he spoke to me about his approach to the role in WWE, and he
+said that he wanted to play it distant, that in a way, Sinclair had
+already gone beyond, was more mystical and reserved.  Hence the
+difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Did I _really_ see...? (12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Did I _really_ see...?

+
Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700

+
 Kevin Wood <100337.272@compuserve.com> asks:
+> MOI, how do you handle things like this?
+> Do you copyright the appearance of certain races, or what?
+
+      The way it usually works is this...most such companies do
+recycle stuff, it's a given.  They are just under the obligation to
+change 50% minimum between what's done for a different show and the new
+item.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Newton's Laws... (12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Newton's Laws...

+
Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Shouldn't the exterior portion of the station counter-rotate in
+> relation to the interior portion? Or did I miss something and the
+> inner section is divided into two halves that spin in opposite
+> directions? Or should I not eat spicy food late at night just
+> prior to going to sleep??
+
+      There is a counter-rotating flywheel configuration...it only
+looks like it's stationary because it's maintaining that relative speed
+against the rotation of the lower section.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Marcus....why (12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Marcus....why

+
Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:13 -0700

+
 Sam Waas <73052.2644@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And when B5 finishes its run (sob) we are on the lookout for the
+> JMS touch in other projects -- maybe you'll be involved in
+> another feature film?
+
+"And when B5 finishes its run (sob) we are on the lookout for the JMS
+touch in other projects -- maybe you'll be involved in another feature
+film?"
+
+      I dunno...film really isn't my venue.  In TV, the writer is in
+charge; film is conceded as a director's medium.  I'm too cranky to
+turn it over to a director, and too busy writing to direct...so I guess
+that leaves me to TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+In The Beginning (12 Jan 1998 23:09:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
In The Beginning

+
Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"That would be the only place they would fit, but then I wonder why a
+Grey Council member would blast Sinclair after they already know he has
+Valen's soul."
+
+      Remember that Sinclair was going for them at that moment, and
+the blast didn't hurt him, only knocked him out...they were
+deliberately *not* trying to hurt him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Be These Truly Reruns? (12 Jan 1998 23:09:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Be These Truly Reruns?

+
Date: 12 Jan 1998 23:09:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Very occasionally one catches a nuance that was  missed on the first
+go-round.  But with the B5 reruns it's an entirely new experience,
+because one doesn't catch a mere nuance, but entire leitmotifs that may
+have been originally delineated, but are only fully visible in
+retrospect. The best of TV or movies have a 3-dimensional feel from the
+depth of the characters moving in an engrossing plot....B5 more and
+more feels like a flamin' tesseract!  It is truly amazing to sense the
+layers from later episodes blooming from incidents and statements in
+early episodes like a Web-page with all of the hyperlinks "active"
+simultaneously."
+
+      And lemme tell you something...this has been INCREDIBLY hard to
+pull off.  If I'd known just how hard, I don't know if I would've tried
+to tackle it.  The only reason this got done was that I didn't know it
+couldn't be done until I'd already done it.
+
+      One of the hard things was putting this stuff in, and having a
+number of folks at the beginning say, "Where's the story?  Where's this
+so-called arc? It's nothing."  I knew it was there, and knew that
+they'd know it was there...but like life, we don't see the patterns
+until afterward.  That was a real risk.  But I always wanted to plan
+this story for the long-haul, timing it and measuring it out with the
+knowledge that -- though it ran on a weird schedule for each of its
+original years -- in the long run it would show every day for years. 
+So it had to serve two masters, the short term goal and the long-term
+one.
+
+      It's what I promised when I talked about holographic
+storytelling 4 years ago...the more you see, the more you can see
+*through* the layers to the patterns they form, one behind the next. 
+It's not a form that's really been done much before, so I kinda had to
+find ways to make it work on the fly.  You have to have a mind like a
+rabbit warren to keep all the pieces together, running simultaneously,
+to write this stuff.
+
+      What's been rewarding is seeing so many people now coming
+forward to say much the same thing as you just said.  It means I did it
+right.  I gambled on the intelligence of viewers, and that gamble has
+paid off.
+
+      All of which is one big reason why I'm going to be glad to be
+finished with B5, as much as I'm going to miss it.  It's been a hideous
+struggle to get all this down on paper, and to stay ahead of the
+Machine, the camera, which chews through stories at the rate of 24
+frames per second.  In a way, now I kinda know what John Henry felt
+like, going up against the steam engine.  Just a few more steps, and
+I'll have beaten the damned thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Returning Fan (13 Jan 1998 15:58:07 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Returning Fan

+
Date: 13 Jan 1998 15:58:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"It's a very clever ploy, but it had the danger of turning off those
+of us who didn't realize that there was an underlying plan."
+
+      Yeah, it was a risky thing to do...but I figured that if we did
+it right, that would turn around eventually.  You just have to hold
+true to your plan and not get discouraged and wait until the rest of
+the world catches up to you.
+
+"In retrospect, it's *all* right there, but initially, I had to many
+prejudices to allow myself to see it.  I expected an attempt to copy
+Star Trek by someone who didn't understand SF, and I was going to see
+that, no matter what."
+
+      Don't worry about it...this happened to a *lot* of people.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Returning Fan (13 Jan 1998 21:49:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Returning Fan

+
Date: 13 Jan 1998 21:49:01 -0700

+
 Pat Frank <102016.1015@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe: Are you guys aware of what kind of mind share you're getting
+> right now, in the _meanstream_ audience?
+
+      Yeah, we're getting in the demographics, and they're terrific so
+far. TNT is pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Status check? (14 Jan 1998 12:36:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Status check?

+
Date: 14 Jan 1998 12:36:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, Bruce is definitely an SF fan.  He tends to show up every
+so often at a couple of SF bookstores here in LA, startling the hell
+out of everybody, picking up the latest stuff.  And he and Jerry have
+built up a great working relationship with NASA, having gone out to the
+Cape to watch several launches and help promote the space program on
+their own time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Magazine Error (04 Jan 1998 20:33:12 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Magazine Error

+
Date: 04 Jan 1998 20:33:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Feh....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+In The Beginning (15 Jan 1998 22:37:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
In The Beginning

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:37:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"At the end of A Sky Full of Stars which aired tonight, a Minbari
+tells Delenn Sinclair must be killed if he remembers the encounter. 
+One of my friends considers this the greatest gaffe in the series."
+
+      Here's the reasoning on this.
+
+      First, understand that Minbari believe in reincarnation.
+
+      Second, as noted in ItB, if the Sinclair/Valen/soul issue got
+out, it would likely tear Minbari society apart.  The repercussions
+would be devastating on every possible level, if it came before they
+could be prepared properly.
+
+      In light of that, with or without a Minbari (or Valen's) soul,
+better to sacrifice Sinclair (who will be reborn anyway, and maybe next
+time in a proper Minbari body) than see Minbar damaged.  Remember, they
+don't know about the time loop, they see it as a straight-line
+progression.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Intro (15 Jan 1998 11:47:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 Intro

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 11:47:00 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And was that your name I saw painted on the butt of the station
+> as if it were a great big bumper sticker?
+
+      Thanks...yeah, this in some ways is my favorite title sequence. 
+It took a long time to make it, and it was very difficult to assemble. 
+Usually I can design the title sequence on paper, and the working with
+the editors part doesn't take that long...here it took a Long Time to
+painstakingly choose the images, use counterpoint dialogue, pick the
+high moments and make it all flow from one year to the next, sort of a
+Cliff's Notes version of the history of the show.  And the music is
+terrific...very mature, solid sounding.
+
+      As for the back of the station...y'know, those damn taggers are
+everywhere, aren't they?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Starfury Question (15 Jan 1998 11:47:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Starfury Question

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 11:47:00 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Should those be open all the way through, or should the be closed
+> off partially through the tunnel? Or does it not make a bit of
+> difference?
+
+      Shouldn't really make any difference...you can close 'em if you
+want, but it's okay either way.
+
+      Revell did a good job and they were very patient...we kept
+coming back to them with corrections, and even when they didn't have to
+do them, as the deadline came up, they made the changes anyway.  I
+can't speak highly enough of them.
+
+      If you want to own a starfury, folks, now's your chance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Starfury Question (15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Starfury Question

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What's the story with these ..."models"?
+> Are they available through order over the internet?
+
+      I dunno...you'd have to check with Revell on that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Space Battle Scenes (15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Space Battle Scenes

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Given that a long battle would range all over the place, with
+multiple ships acting simultaneously, sometimes miles apart from one
+another, I think it would be nearly impossible to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 5 Title Sequence (15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 Title Sequence

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...in about two dozen comments so far about the S5 title,
+only one has been negative, the rest loving it.  It helps to place each
+season for the new viewers, recaps things, hits the high points, and
+the new music gives it a more mature sound.  I'm pleased.  (Since I
+designed it, I guess I'd better be....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ITB and The Gathering (15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
ITB and The Gathering

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The shipment of com links from Earth to the new B5 was delayed,
+and --
+
+      Look, a comet!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 Uniforms (15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 Uniforms

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is it going to remain like this?
+> wouldn't Franklin feel weird, being the only one still with the
+> "Delenn" uniform?
+
+      It's a mix-and-match world this season, showing the disparate
+parts of the B5 world after the various worlds as they have kind of
+blown apart, as they gradually come back together again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 Uniforms (15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 Uniforms

+
Date: 15 Jan 1998 22:53:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is it going to remain like this?
+> wouldn't Franklin feel weird, being the only one still with the
+> "Delenn" uniform?
+
+      PS, Zack is also in the black uniform.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Formulaic Television (16 Jan 1998 12:51:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Formulaic Television

+
Date: 16 Jan 1998 12:51:05 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you think about the possibility that Babylon 5, a program
+> that dared the throw away the industry formulas and cliches, is
+> becoming a new industry formula and cliche? But how do you feel
+> about the possibility of so many others emulating your style, not
+> because they want to be creative, but because they want to jump
+> on the bandwagon of what is looking to be a successful concept
+> and application?
+
+      I don't feel we've yet achieved sufficient visibility on the
+Hollywood radar screens for that to be much of a problem at the moment,
+and at this point I only have time for problems of the moment....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+S5 Title (01 Feb 1998 17:42:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
S5 Title

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, knowing that the Voices of Authority track
+> was the only mostly original one on the 2nd CD, did you sort of
+> have it picked out as the S5 title 'just in case?'
+
+      Yep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+G'Kar vs. Delenn (02 Feb 1998 23:20:02 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
G'Kar vs. Delenn

+
Date: 02 Feb 1998 23:20:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was it ever revealed why a member of the Kah'Ri was playing a
+> "lowly ambassador" on Babylon 5? Or is that something yet to be
+> revealed?
+
+      G'Kar's position was widely known; the Kha'ri is a large group
+like Parliament, as opposed to a 9 person, secretive ruling body.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia (02 Feb 1998 23:20:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 02 Feb 1998 23:20:02 -0700

+
 Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you have to "adjust" anything to explain her sudden
+> reappearance...?
+
+"Did you have to "adjust" anything to explain her sudden
+reappearance...?"
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Story Line (03 Feb 1998 11:24:10 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
The Story Line

+
Date: 03 Feb 1998 11:24:10 -0700

+
 Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Scary?!?
+> Yes?!?!?
+
+      Essentially, yeah, that's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TNT & accuracy (04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
TNT & accuracy

+
Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700

+
 Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (Actually caught myself saying the other night, "DS9?
+> Was that on tonight?
+> Sherman?
+
+      TNT is doing what it can to improve in all those areas.  We're
+working with them on it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Claudia (04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia

+
Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700

+
 Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, What are your feelings, now that the final episode of your
+> "brainchild" is stored in your computer, and nearing birth?
+
+      I'm so caught between different emotions, I can't even begin to
+sort them all out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Paragon (04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Paragon

+
Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I like the declaration a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Paragon (05 Feb 1998 16:56:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Paragon

+
Date: 05 Feb 1998 16:56:11 -0700

+
 Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This was really a writer's episode, wasn't it?
+
+      The funny part of it is...the editors made a point of dropping
+in my writing credit just when G'Kar says his muse is talking to
+him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TPoA: Powerful Themes (04 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
TPoA: Powerful Themes

+
Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You thought we wouldn't notice that you cast G'Kar to play you,
+> did you? Are you referring to recorded human history here?
+> Wouldn't he really like to know how they feel?
+
+      Byron's feelings about mundanes comes out later in more
+detail...I wouldn't call it a hatred.  A resentment, yes, and certainly
+there's a sense of having been mistreated...but he's surprisingly not a
+violent person, as we'll find.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Episode numbers... (04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Episode numbers...

+
Date: 04 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which is it?
+> Will SiL also be 422?
+> Or will it be 522?
+
+      It'll be 522a.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Beyond Season 5 (05 Feb 1998 16:56:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Beyond Season 5

+
Date: 05 Feb 1998 16:56:10 -0700

+
 Frank McCloy <74541.3464@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any chance that B5 will be renewed for seasons beyond
+> Season 5 or have you written a definitive END to the series?
+
+      B5 was written to end in year 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Mira Furlan Signed Card? (01 Feb 1998 17:42:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mira Furlan Signed Card?

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:14 -0700

+
 Tim <106273.3321@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you sure about this?
+> That doesn't seem like very many?
+
+      Oh...the CCG cards...I thought you were referring to the Fleer
+cards.
+
+      Then ignore what I said; I'm an idiot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Voice in the Wilderness (05 Feb 1998 16:56:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Voice in the Wilderness

+
Date: 05 Feb 1998 16:56:10 -0700

+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If TNT is showing episodes uncut, does that mean that the above
+> scene was deleted from the US broadcast?
+
+      I talked to TNT about this, and apparently a technician plugged
+in the wrong timecode for the act out.  Nothing more than that; nothing
+else has been snipped, it was a one-time incident.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Any Seas.1-4 re-edited? (05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Any Seas.1-4 re-edited?

+
Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> May I ask if any of the Season 1-4 episodes have been re-edited
+> for TNT re-broadcast?
+
+      No, we haven't had a chance yet to get into any revionist
+editing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<tPoA> Piece of Work (05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
<tPoA> Piece of Work

+
Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Isn't part of clinical depression a sense of dislocation from
+> one's surroundings? Random Moments -- Sheridan's impression of
+> Mollari was delightful -- Garibaldi's "never met a fact I didn't
+> like" made me remember the "Deconstruction" byplay of "goodfacts"
+> -- your introduction of ambiguity in the stupidity of Sheridan's
+> decision vis-a-vis the telepaths foretold in "Deconstruction"
+> (was his mistake to allow them to live on the station, to allow
+> them to be used as info-operatives, or something we have yet to
+> see?
+
+      A really very nice analysis of the themes and counterpoints in
+the thing.  I hope somebody's collecting these things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Paragon> thoughts (06 Feb 1998 00:59:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Paragon> thoughts

+
Date: 06 Feb 1998 00:59:10 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are any teeps the tactical/intelligence geniouses that Garibaldi
+> is? Do they have the charismatic leadership abilities of Sheridan
+> or Delenn? Can they heal people as well as Franklin?
+
+"I wouldn't be surprised to see Byron realize that the mundanes have
+talents that teeps generally do not."
+
+      Clog dancing...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TPoA: Delenn... (05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
TPoA: Delenn...

+
Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:12 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that wine I saw both Sheridan and Delenn drinking at dinner?
+> So I take it the minbari inability to consume alcohol went away
+> with her transformation?
+
+      Nonalcoholic wine, at worst...I sometimes have it myself, since
+I don't drink.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<Paragon>thought blocks? (05 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Paragon>thought blocks?

+
Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Quick question: regarding what Byron said about the amount of effort
+it takes to block out the thoughts of mundanes, I was wondering--have
+any non-teep humans given thought, time, or effort to creating any sort
+of artificial 'shielding' device to keep their thoughts to themselves? 
+Is it impossible, or just not something they would bother with,
+figuring it's up to the teeps to deal with it?"
+
+      Some of them have trained at it a bit, and learned little tricks
+that can help...one such tries it later this season.
+
+"As for Lyta, I felt like she was sort of an abused child, always
+looking for that benevolent authority figure."
+
+      Yep, that's what she's doing, looking for someone to believe in.
+
+"I don't know if I buy the idea of death of the soul, but if it
+explains Bester, I guess I can swallow it.<g>"
+
+      Bear in mind, though, that Lyta also said that that's the mind's
+only way of interpreting what it's seeing, not that it *is* what she's
+seeing, so it doesn't necessarily validate or invalidate the notion of
+a soul.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+The Paragon of Animals (05 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Paragon of Animals

+
Date: 05 Feb 1998 23:44:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      He does tend to play Drazis a lot, primarily the ambassador, for
+purposes of continuity, unless he's not available.
+
+      Re: Hamlet...one of the wonderful aspects of Shakespeare's work
+is that it lends itself to reinterpretation and reinvention; cynical
+lines can be read with hope, and vice versa, and somehow, the darned
+thing tracks.  One recent version of Hamlet mounted by Joseph Papp
+starred a woman actor in the title role, and it worked beautifully.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Director Kevin Dobson (08 Feb 1998 00:03:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Director Kevin Dobson

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:03:09 -0700

+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Garibaldi" the same person who starred in "F/X: the Series"?
+
+      No, the actor is a different person from the director.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B2 (08 Feb 1998 00:03:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
B2

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:03:10 -0700

+
 Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you don't explain what's going to happen regarding B5, but
+> can you elaborate on this scene? When in time did this scene
+> occur, where, and what happened?
+
+      No, as it stated in WWE, the point is to *prevent* that future,
+which they did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Paragon (08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700)
+
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Paragon

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is important is what are we going to do about it?
+
+      That's fine, if this were a constitution or something based on
+coming out from under an opressive government, as the colonies did. 
+This is an incremental process; get the principles in place, and then
+build the laws and the constitution on that.  Get them on board for one
+thing they can sign, and then use that as a platform to get them to
+sign the more restrictive stuff. And bear in mind you only heard part
+of it; the full thing would go on for many many pages.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Story Line (01 Feb 1998 17:42:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Story Line

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:11 -0700

+
 Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you keep things straight with so many threads and
+> characters over the course of the full arc? Babylon 5 has a
+> Cannon, but how does a written document account for
+> plot/character shifts over the years? Perhaps you have a vast
+> story board of post-it slips and yarn connecting push-pins to
+> keep things straight?!?
+
+"How do you keep things straight with so many threads and characters
+over the course of the full arc?  Babylon 5 has a Cannon, but how does
+a written document account for plot/character shifts over the years? 
+Perhaps you have a vast story board of post-it slips and yarn
+connecting push-pins to keep things straight?!?"
+
+      This may sound kinda scary, but aside from my original notes, I
+keep it all in my head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Paragon of Animals (08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Paragon of Animals

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> JMS, 1) was Mira told in seaon 1 about Delenn's role in the
+> Earth-Minbari war? 2) how long is a "cycle"?
+
+      Remember though that the purpose of the teeps is to gather
+covert intelligence.  There are two operative words there: covert and
+intelligence.
+
+      Intelligence against whom?  Logically, this would involve in
+part keeping tabs on worlds not in the Alliance...and some that *are*
+in the Alliance.  If you think the Drazi are up to something, and you
+have Drazi telepaths on your team...are they going to cooperate against
+their own government?  If you leave them out, won't they find out if
+they're in the company of the other teeps on a daily basis?  The covert
+part also goes out the door.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Paragon of Animals (08 Feb 1998 19:11:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
The Paragon of Animals

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 19:11:04 -0700

+
 Scott J. Epstein <71514.2733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But if the hypothetical Drazi teeps are Rangers, would they have
+> loyalty to the Drazi government, or to Entil'zha? And are there
+> any telepathic Rangers?
+
+"But if the hypothetical Drazi teeps are Rangers, would they have
+loyalty to the Drazi government, or to Entil'zha?"
+
+      Maybe they would..one hopes they would...but why take that
+chance if you're in Sheridan's shoes, trying to make this thing work?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT Orders 4th Movie! (08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
TNT Orders 4th Movie!

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can you verify this sneaky revelation?
+> Also, what is the genre for the optioned miniseries?
+> Mystery, horror, sf?
+> And it gives me pain to bring it up, but might you be checking
+> with Claudia's people to see if she is willing to be in at least
+> one of these last two movies at the available price? Or is that
+> situation still too painful?
+
+      Two of the points I can't comment on; on the third, the original
+miniseries I just sold is based on a true story about a year
+researching some time ago.  I've been trying to find the right market
+for a long time, and finally came across the right company, which
+believes in telling this story. There's still mountains to cross before
+it can get produced, lots of things can still go wrong, but now at
+least a studio is involved and spending money, that's a big jump.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+>> Future First Ones<< (08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700)
+
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+
>> Future First Ones<<

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which brings me to my question, did the Minbari, the Narn, or the
+> Centari also achieve the evolutionary state of the first ones?
+
+      The Minbari eventually make it; the Narn and Centauri do not. 
+They don't die out, they just don't hit a state of First One-ishness,
+which is darn close to immortality (barring violence).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Londo's Journey (08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Londo's Journey

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      He can learn, yes, and he can better himself...but because of
+his actions, so many have died, so much grief has occured, that perhaps
+no amount of self-revelation can cover the blood on the floor.
+
+      There's an excellent moment in the Night Gallery movie, where a
+prison camp commandant has fled to Brazil and, years later, is trying
+to live out his life in peace, realizes that mistakes were made, is
+actually trying to find a better life...but as one man dies at his
+hands says, "You have hung too many Christs on crosses for any god to
+forgive you."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Paragon of Animals (08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700)
+
+
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The Paragon of Animals

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, I'm sure that some Minbari teeps could be trusted...but
+would they function well in a covert situation?  They're mainly out in
+the open.
+
+      One other thing I forgot to mention in my note to Nancy...if you
+put out the word that you want 2 teeps from each world...that kind of
+kills any chance of putting together a group of telepaths that's going
+to operate IN SECRET, a covert unit, yes...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+tPoA:Imphili (08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
tPoA:Imphili

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Coincidence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Any Seas.1-4 re-edited? (08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Any Seas.1-4 re-edited?

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700

+
 Robert R. Wiggins <76703.3036@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that include the credits?
+> Since I know credits are usually fiercely negotiated, was this a
+> magnanimous gesture on Peter's part, or did Andreas' agent kill
+> Peter's agent?
+
+      No, Bill had a credit from the start; and each year, Andreas and
+Peter trade off the last position in credits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Delenn's role in war (08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700)
+
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+
Delenn's role in war

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 00:57:07 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, 1) was Mira told in seaon 1 about Delenn's role in the
+> Earth-Minbari war? 2) how long is a "cycle"?
+
+"1) was Mira told in seaon 1 about Delenn's role in the Earth-Minbari
+war? coz Delenn looked like she was lying about something when talking
+about the war."
+
+      She was told some...but not all, only what was needed for that
+scene: that she was holding stuff back.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<tPoA> Piece of Work (08 Feb 1998 18:55:10 -0700)
+
+
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<tPoA> Piece of Work

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 18:55:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Shakespeare...Hamlet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+I prefer Star Trek f/x (01 Feb 1998 17:42:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
I prefer Star Trek f/x

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I might've been able to get a piece of Foundation, and I was
+offered a piece of the new company set up to take over, but I declined,
+on the theory that to make honest decisions, based on what's best for
+the show and nothing else, I couldn't afford any other agendas...I had
+to approach this stuff with, as Balzac said, "clean hands and
+composure."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Marcus....why (08 Feb 1998 03:41:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Marcus....why

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 03:41:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, never spoke to Lucas, only saw him once at the Emmys, from
+the back; that's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Great Acting (08 Feb 1998 19:11:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Great Acting

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 19:11:05 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering did he get any pointers from Peter for that line
+> or has he just picked that up on his own over time?
+
+      EVERYone does Londo on the set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Story arcs - way fwrd?! (08 Feb 1998 22:56:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Story arcs - way fwrd?!

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 22:56:02 -0700

+
 Simon Grierson <100407.2075@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do others think?
+
+      Actually, having seen the original material (I was asked
+initially if I would work on E:FC in terms of writing/rewriting the
+pilot), there wasn't really a worked out arc on that; this is something
+you can credit to the other producers currently working on the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+More models on the way! (08 Feb 1998 22:56:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
More models on the way!

+
Date: 08 Feb 1998 22:56:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Those models are unlicensed and illegal.  No one has the rights
+to produce a White Star, no model company other than Revell/Monogram is
+licensed to produce models.  Anyone else is a pirate.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia on "Highlander" (09 Feb 1998 23:57:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia on "Highlander"

+
Date: 09 Feb 1998 23:57:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Since you have now surfaced again....
+
+      1) Photos were taken of myself, cast and crew at your behest for
+a full print run, signed by everyone, for sale to benefit charity.  You
+said that every person who participated would receive copies of this
+photo.  To date, several of those involved, myself included, have not
+yet received copies. When do you intend to fulfill your promise?
+
+      2) These photos were to be sold to benefit charity.  Can you
+supply me with the number of photos sold, and the amount of money
+raised, and to which charity they have gone?  And how many others
+remain in your custody?  As one of those who participated, at your
+request, I have the right to this information.
+
+      3) You have stated in the past that your books on charitable
+donations are open to inspection.  I have now asked, at least half a
+dozen times, for you to provide me with copies of that information. 
+You said after my last request that it would take several months for
+you to assemble that data.  It has now been almost a year.  I have not
+yet received the promised accounting on this, or the prior Wolf
+convention, where I participated to help you allegedly raise money for
+charity.  When will this accounting be forthcoming?
+
+      4) You have been repeatedly instructed not to show, or
+facilitate the public showing, of episodes in the UK prior to their
+official airing.  I am reminding you of your obligation not to do so,
+or to use clips from said unaired episodes at your conventions.  If you
+do so, I cannot be held responsible for the consequences.
+
+      5) You stated that pirated merchandise would not be available at
+the prior conventions.  Yet in both cases, substantial amounts of
+illegal merchandise was being sold openly at your conventions.  Will
+you, or will you not, honor your obligation to keep out illegal
+merchandise in future conventions?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Claudia on "Highlander" (10 Feb 1998 02:46:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Claudia on "Highlander"

+
Date: 10 Feb 1998 02:46:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Negative.  Rick delivered John's, that was all that he was
+given.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Stephen Furst, Director (10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Stephen Furst, Director

+
Date: 10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700

+
 Paul McElligott <70007.3154@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anything to this, or is it just a coincidence?
+
+      It's been the luck of the draw, but yeah, Stephen has chanced to
+do the lion's share of our off-format shows; I commented on this to him
+not long ago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Great Acting (10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700)
+
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+
Great Acting

+
Date: 10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One other thing, whose idea was the accent?
+> Didn't some bit player (Centauri Minister of Intelligence) once
+> say "the details are everything"? hey Joe...so how long *did* you
+> work for the CIA?
+
+      We were open to accents and non-accents on all the roles...Peter
+came up with one that worked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<tPoA> Piece of Work (10 Feb 1998 02:44:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
<tPoA> Piece of Work

+
Date: 10 Feb 1998 02:44:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust?
+
+      Yup...and the quote becomes more apt when reproduced in full.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+hello old friend(s) (10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 10 Feb 1998 00:20:13 -0700

+
 Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Just out of curiosity, when is your next visit to sunny Florida
+> going to be?
+
+      Welcome back....
+
+      Yeah, caught the Uncle Sam book, and liked it a lot.  I haven't
+had much chance to read comics lately, but when I saw the Alex Ross
+stuff, I knew I had to pick it up.  (Currently trying to catch up on
+the Astro City arc.)
+
+      Thanks for all that...it's a nifty little season.
+
+      A 4.0 average?
+
+      Listen to my voice...watch more TeeVee...you will watch more
+TeeVee... you will forget all about Barnabas....
+
+      Oops, wrong show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Formulaic Television (01 Feb 1998 17:42:11 -0700)
+
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Formulaic Television

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:11 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...I hope history will bear out your reaction.  We try 
+and make it a moving, personal show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Another circle completes (11 Feb 1998 02:00:00 -0700)
+
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Another circle completes

+
Date: 11 Feb 1998 02:00:00 -0700

+
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+
+"Nice bit of closing the circle 4 years later there..."
+
+      What goes around, comes around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+hello old friend(s) (11 Feb 1998 18:28:02 -0700)
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hello old friend(s)

+
Date: 11 Feb 1998 18:28:02 -0700

+
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+
+      Entering rant mode....
+
+      Of course the president screwed around...hell, it's one step
+away from being a requisite for the job.  Every president does...what
+the heck's the point of BEING president otherwise?  Some get caught,
+some don't, that's the only difference.
+
+      If you were to remove every member of the senate and house who
+was screwing around, you'd end up with maybe a dozen people, including
+Strom Thurmond, who *would* be screwing around except that the
+necessary parts withered up and fell off 15 years ago along with what
+little remained of his common sense.
+
+      Frankly, I don't care who the president screws as long as it
+ain't the country.  And right now, the country is doing better than
+it's done in the last 20 years.  That's what will be noted in history. 
+The rest is marginalia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+hello old friend(s) (12 Feb 1998 01:53:13 -0700)
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hello old friend(s)

+
Date: 12 Feb 1998 01:53:13 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> He may have a 79% approval rating, but is this what we really
+> want running the country? Didn't Richard Nixon get ousted because
+> of an obstruction of Justice by trying to cover up a third rate
+> attempt at a robbery after he found out about it? Why shouldn't
+> the same standards apply here?
+
+"What's really at issue concerning this latest scandal is whether or
+not he *suborned perjury* and *actively engaged in an obstruction of
+Justice,* and I think we both know the answer to that question."
+
+      No, actually, we *don't*.  We have a great deal of rhetoric, but
+that's the full extent of it.  One of the things about the American
+justice system is that it is based on the concept of innocent until
+proven guilty.
+
+      You say scandals...but after eight years, and $30 million of my
+(our) tax money spent, not one servicable charge against Clinton has
+come out of Whitewater.  Not one.  You spend $30 million on lawyers and
+you can get something on darn near anyone in the country...but they
+*still* haven't been able to tag him with anything.  Now we have this
+new batch of unproven charges and allegations, which for all anyone
+knows is as bogus and trumped up as the Whitewater situation.
+
+      I would also suggest that there is a difference (by several
+orders of magnitude) between (possibly) having an affair with someone
+on the one hand, with or without any later concerns about it, and on
+the other hand Nixon with the systematic utilization of dirty tricks,
+wiretapping, character assassination, burglaries, and general thuggery
+practiced by Richard Nixon and his cronies.  The harrassment of campus
+dissidents by FBI, break-ins following the leak of the Pentagon Papers,
+fake press releases issued under Muskie's name on his stationery during
+the election, the Democratic National Headquarters break-in, kickbacks
+and bribes made to Spiro the Zero Agnew (and it didn't take 8 years and
+$30 million to document that one), the creation and maintaining of
+enemies lists, use of the IRS to harrass political enemies, and 
+deliberate destruction of evidence (the 18.5 minute gap), among many
+others.
+
+      Nixon was a mean, venal, destructive creature who used the
+system to destroy his enemies.  At his worst in this situation, if
+guilty, Clinton was massively stupid and exercised poor judgement.
+
+      There's a substantial difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gallery (11 Feb 1998 23:30:04 -0700)
+
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+
Gallery

+
Date: 11 Feb 1998 23:30:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, it's one of my favorites as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Provoking Discussion (12 Feb 1998 13:00:00 -0700)
+
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+
Provoking Discussion

+
Date: 12 Feb 1998 13:00:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Corey: <<If your style of provoking discussion is to say
+> outrageous things that you don't really believe yourself, please
+> let me know so I can refrain from responding.>> Vadim: << What
+> would be the point of provoking a discussion if noone responds? 
+> What would be the point of answering a question with a question? 
+> What would be the point of disputing an outrageous opinion that
+> not even the poster believes? Bester as a "a nice guy"?
+> Goodnik?
+> Corey: >>RMES Minister of Cathode Ray Inspection and Appreciation
+> << Vadim: What does it mean?
+
+      Bester is NOT a nice guy...but not everyone sees him in that
+light, which is why I did one episode from inside the Psi Corps this
+season, to show how others in the PC see him....
+
+      Even Hitler painted roses.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Provoking Discussion (12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700)
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Provoking Discussion

+
Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How do you make characters so real and so likeable so quickly?
+> Are they Rebo and Zooty?
+
+      No, thank *you*...and yeah, it's gonna be odd when this ends....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley has just lost me (12 Feb 1998 23:55:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:55:04 -0700

+
 Anthony J. Bryant <71233.3035@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does she not have any idea what Covert means?
+
+      No, there's nothing secret in Garibaldi being head of covert
+intelligence, any more than it's secret who the head of the CIA is. 
+There was no reason she couldn't say that in front of them, or anyone
+else; it's common knowledge.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Gallery Comments (12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700)
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Gallery Comments

+
Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> You just love that cavalry at the last minute thing dont you?
+> Where were the League ships at?
+> Same for Robin?
+> Did Bruce and John like the airship photos?
+
+      They LOVED the photos; John in particular ooh'd and ahh'd over
+them. They were big hits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+<tVftG> Prismatic View (12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The main thing you show us in "View" is a change in perspective,
+> which is the inherent possibility of the holographic viewpoint,
+> no? Given that "View" was written much earlier, would you ever
+> have imagined that your "rumors" Bo & Mack conversation (although
+> delightfully reflective of the whole
+> casting/cash/Internet-response dynamic)would wind up to be so
+> eerily concise a statement about the sate of our "ISN?" Who among
+> us would not be a better person for expanding their range of
+> acceptible possibilities?
+
+      Thanks...as always, you catch all the nuances, and pick up on a
+few things that I wasn't consciously aware of doing (the subconscious
+is a sneaky, subversive thing that cannot be trusted).
+
+      One of the things I always do is look for ways to turn the
+series format on its head, and show us our characters from other
+perspectives, since perspective is so much at the heart of the show. 
+Whether that's jumping forward in time, or an ISN documentary, or
+seeing everything through the eyes of a third party (or two), it's
+always a risk, because it's never what one expects to see, and a lot of
+people like to see what they expect to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+thanks for the gift (12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Feb 1998 23:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+TVLNoLM (01 Feb 1998 17:42:12 -0700)
+
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+
TVLNoLM

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks.  I think a writer has to constantly challenge the last
+thing he did if he's to be worth a damn to the audience.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1998 00:36:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, it's still a problem for some groups of fans...the core of
+it is, you have to do some strong character stories amid the arc
+stories, because if you don't, if you don't continue to make the
+characters into people you *care* about, then the arc stuff doesn't
+matter.
+
+      We had a couple of arc-light episodes to start off this season,
+in part due to knowing that we were going to get a lot of new viewers
+who had to be brought up to speed, and due to introducing Lochley, and
+there's this group that goes over the edge saying that the arc is
+faltering, it's going too slow....
+
+      But then you turn around, and if you do 3-5 arc episodes in a
+row, the same group goes over another cliff saying that it's all moving
+too fast.
+
+      If something's resolved in 6 episodes they say it should've been
+done in 8; if in 8, they say it should have been 6...if it isn't a
+strong SF-based story it shouldn't be in the show at all...if it
+doesn't hew to our format, it's frivlous and self-indulgent and a
+waste, get back to the arc....
+
+      One could go mad, quite easily.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The View (14 Feb 1998 00:36:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1998 00:36:05 -0700

+
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+
+"1) Back in a college creative writing class my professor expressed
+that a person would have to be either a fool, a genius or insane to
+write a story from the POV of a minor charters.  Which do you consider
+yourself?"
+
+      Your professor's worst nightmare.
+
+"2) Last week you pointed out that your writing credit was put up as
+G'kar was talking about his muse.  This week it Mac was saying "Let's
+go eat" when you credit was displayed.  Any comment?"
+
+      It didn't mean anything that I could see.
+
+"3) Can Zac arrest the Rough Cut guy?  He impersonates a doctor, and
+busts into Sheridan's office.  There has to be some offence he's
+committed (other than insulting our intelligence and your show).  Or,
+better yet, lets see him in the vacuum of space already!"
+
+      We try....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thank You (14 Feb 1998 15:06:06 -0700)
+
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+
Thank You

+
Date: 14 Feb 1998 15:06:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate all of that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Official Guide CD (14 Feb 1998 15:06:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1998 15:06:07 -0700

+
 J_Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where is the virtual shuttle that leaves every 10 minutes?
+> Is the BABCOM supposed to malfunction?
+> Also, though you may not be able to help with this one: How come
+> the Music CD won't play on my computer, though it plays in my CD
+> stereo system (note, other CD's play music fine in my computer)?
+
+      Don't know the music answer...as for Babcom, yes, it's a broken
+unit, which when you tap it with the mouse, allows you to eavesdrop on
+bits and pieces of converstion around the station.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1998 15:06:06 -0700

+
 Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The Lurker's Guide asked the same question that was in my mind
+> after viewing this Ep - where was the Great Machine in all of the
+> desperate fighting? Twice now B5 has been in danger of destruction
+> (Zha-ha-dum was the first) and yet where was Draal?
+
+      I don't think Draal wants to be bothered each and every time B5
+is in a hassle.  He specifically said he wanted to be left alone. 
+Otherwise you also get into a "god in the box" deus ex machina
+situation where, "Oh, we're in trouble, quick, get Draal."  Truth is,
+if they called him every time they got in trouble, he'd never get ANY
+sleep.
+
+      Now, if B5 had failed in stopping this advance force, and the
+main fleet came in, then yeah, they might very well call him.  But this
+was just an advance force, and she knew they could take it, and she was
+right...so where's the need for Draal?  He should be a last resort
+ONLY.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Skybox rip off (15 Feb 1998 00:47:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 15 Feb 1998 00:47:03 -0700

+
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+
+      I would suggest that maybe it's the luck of the draw.  I make it
+a point, when the cards come out, of getting some regular boxes out of
+the distribution line to check.  Although one was a bit light, in the
+other two I checked, I got a complete set of the basic cards, and all
+but maybe 6-8 of the chase cards, and one autographed card.  That seems
+pretty reasonable to me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bo and Mack remind me of (14 Feb 1998 15:06:06 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1998 15:06:06 -0700

+
 Dave Latorre <76172.473@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But tell me, was the "Bo and Mack get caught in the cross fire"
+> scene a wink in an obvious direction?
+
+      Thanks.
+
+"But tell me, was the "Bo and Mack get caught in the cross fire" scene
+a wink in an obvious direction?"
+
+      If it was, I didn't know about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 15 Feb 1998 00:57:13 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, how long did the actors portraying Bo and Mack sit around
+> with you and Harlan in order to pick up on your respective
+> personalities?
+
+      No, they didn't.  What they did do...they got along famously,
+the two actors, and they spent their off-hours rehearsing the scenes,
+over and over, until they got it down to a patter, very natural.  They
+loved the roles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Official Guide CD (17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Official Guide CD

+
Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700

+
 J_Graham <74166.3727@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now where are Mac and Bo when I need them?
+> Also, is there supposed to be some sort of virtual shuttle or
+> not?
+
+      No, there's no virtual shuttle; that's just the arrival section.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley has just lost me (17 Feb 1998 03:32:14 -0700)
+
+
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Lochley has just lost me

+
Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:32:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Well, actually she still wouldn't discuss it in public."
+
+      What public?
+
+      These are two STATION PERSONNEL, who work for her, who are part
+of the military command structure, who have the same loyalty oaths as
+she has.  They didn't have this conversation in the Zocalo, in front of
+civilians, it was in a closed area with two other STATION PERSONNEL,
+who are entrusted with a high enough security clearance that they can
+work on C&C firing consoles during heavy action, in a situation where
+every second counts in getting things ready for the next wing of an
+imminent attack.
+
+      This is a non-starter issue, frankly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Cards/Comic Due Soon (01 Feb 1998 17:42:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Cards/Comic Due Soon

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 17:42:13 -0700

+
 Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Will the cards be offered through www.thestation.com?
+
+      Some boxes will come through there, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<tVftG> Prismatic View (17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
<tVftG> Prismatic View

+
Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've been bugging her to do more...we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Price of Revell Starfury (17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Price of Revell Starfury

+
Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      There's nothing I can do about a local store overcharging you,
+I'm afraid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+VFtG (17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700)
+
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+
VFtG

+
Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:33:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Hmmm, wouldn't Draal likely be aware of what was happening so close
+anyway? And would it not be possible that he may also be aware of how
+strong the force was, how soon the white stars would arrive, etc, and
+thus know if he was needed as a last resort?"
+
+      You're not describing Draal, you're describing God, and he ain't
+in this show.  For one thing, we couldn't afford him....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<VftG> thoughts (18 Feb 1998 03:37:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
<VftG> thoughts

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 03:37:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"The "let them attack someone else, just not us" was actually a little
+startling to me. If they were going to blow these guys up, I kinda
+wished they'd put a little more effort into it rather than just
+foisting them off onto the next, perhaps less-fortunate people."
+
+      Given that this is a little-known, distant, entire *race* out
+preying on weaker races, of which this was just an expeditionary force,
+how (short of planetary genocide) would you have stopped them? 
+Moreover, is that really Lochley's (or B5's) mandate, to eliminate
+every hostile race out there?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Price of Revell Starfury (18 Feb 1998 03:37:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Price of Revell Starfury

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 03:37:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Well, then there we are going to have to disagree.  Virtually
+every other person I've heard from who's bought the starfury has
+thought it was extremely well made.  We worked very hard with Revell to
+assure the quality of the model in every detail, and it's a solid,
+quality model.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+VFtG (18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
VFtG

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700

+
 Fred Topol <76626.774@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As a military officer, wouldn't one of Lockley's objectives be to
+> win any battle with the minimum amount of casualties?
+
+      True, but is it *her* resource to do with any time she wants? 
+It is a separate institution and operation, that has said, politely and
+not terribly politely, that on balance it would prefer to be left
+alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Price of Revell Starfury (18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Price of Revell Starfury

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700

+
 PAUL SHEWARD <100256.1563@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How's your back Joe ??
+> Remember at Blackpool when you asked how many of us had seen
+> Season 4 episodes before Channel 4 had started the TV run ?
+
+      The back is better...I still have to be careful, but it's
+better.
+
+      Nothing's been formally set yet re: the UK screening.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Price of Revell Starfury (18 Feb 1998 22:03:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Price of Revell Starfury

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 22:03:13 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> With this possibility of a UK screening of 'In The Beginning',
+> does a film print actually exist of the movie, as it's my
+> understanding that although shot on film all the post production
+> stuff, editing, fx etc is done on video?
+
+      Not at this time, no, it'd have to be a video projection system,
+same as we had for the cast and crew screening.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Price of Revell Starfury (18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Price of Revell Starfury

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 12:46:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I vaguely doubt that that's the case, but in any event...if I go
+to my local comics store and buy stuff from the UK, it's always a lot
+more expensive than when I buy it IN the UK, even with the exchange
+rate.  It's the nature of the export/import business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Acting Question (18 Feb 1998 12:45:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Acting Question

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 12:45:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What do they talk about?
+> DO they have little script to follow?
+
+      When there's no dialogue written because it will never be heard,
+the actors just wing it.  Since it's all background stuff, from time to
+time I hear it gets kinda...whacky.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TVLNoLM (01 Feb 1998 23:46:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
TVLNoLM

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 23:46:01 -0700

+
 SysOp_Dupa_T_Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are the remaining two a sign and/or portent of things to come in
+> season 5 (he asked foolishly)?
+
+      Could be....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Mr. Bester (18 Feb 1998 22:03:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mr. Bester

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 22:03:12 -0700

+
 Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Bester an homage?
+
+      Yep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Turhan Bey (sp?) (18 Feb 1998 22:03:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Turhan Bey (sp?)

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 22:03:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will we see his character again?
+
+      We'll have to see.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+506: The Three (18 Feb 1998 22:08:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
506: The Three

+
Date: 18 Feb 1998 22:08:11 -0700

+
      I deleted this from the board because it had information that
+was not in the episode that just aired, and that's unfair, since people
+would think this would be a safe thread to read, having just aired,
+only to find out it contained information from later episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Mr. Bester (20 Feb 1998 02:14:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mr. Bester

+
Date: 20 Feb 1998 02:14:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"who is wondering to himself where jms finds the time to reply to all
+these questions..."
+
+      I keep a spare box of time in my desk.  Only problem is when the
+sand runs out all over the floor, and the mice begin aging backwards.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Enjoying the series (19 Feb 1998 12:39:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Enjoying the series

+
Date: 19 Feb 1998 12:39:07 -0700

+
 Kevin Mack <75424.2124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you feel that the medium was a bit of a constraint here?
+> Was this something you intended?
+> Was this the inspiration for Bester's label?
+> What other TV shows or films has he appeared in?
+> How closely did his voice match up to what you "heard" when you
+> created Kosh? How did you go about finding an actor who had the
+> vocal qualities you were looking for? 4) Have you had a chance to
+> see some of the better sci-fi features in the past couple of
+> years, such as "The Arrival" or "Contact", and what did you think
+> of them? What's your opinion of this series?
+
+      The Lyta-outsider view was to further reinforce her on the
+outside of the group...Ardwight looks just like Kosh only slightly
+taller...thought "Contact" was better than "The Arrival," but enjoyed
+both.  I actually don't get much chance to see movies at theaters, only
+one in the last year, so I have to catch them on satellite.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Speculation/Spoilers (19 Feb 1998 23:07:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Speculation/Spoilers

+
Date: 19 Feb 1998 23:07:05 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why would she be angry with him if any of those other
+> possibilities were true? Was that planned on your part, or was it
+> just an accident?
+
+      Who knows where this stuff comes from?  Sometimes I think it's
+all being beamed into my head along with the Martian bozo-rays.
+
+      One thing, however, is that I have *no* intention of handling
+this in a conventional soap-opera fashion, because that's precisely
+what will be expected.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+506: The Three (19 Feb 1998 12:52:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
506: The Three

+
Date: 19 Feb 1998 12:52:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It wasn't labeled as speculation, but rather as fact, and since
+this info is out there on a spoilers page, that's where I assumed that
+it came from.  Had it been labled speculation, that might've been
+different...but it was stated as fact, and that's a different
+situation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley has just lost me (20 Feb 1998 12:54:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Feb 1998 12:54:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That might apply in a straight hierarchical organization, but
+Garibaldi is not her superior; they are on parallel lines of command,
+not vertical, he doesn't answer to her, she doesn't answer to him.  She
+has total and complete authority over the station and is answerable
+only to Earthdome and, in political matters, to Sheridan.
+
+      You may not think this sort of thing happens, but it does, and
+it would. You're talking to the only producer to go out and berate
+Angela Lansbury's son who was then directing an episode of Murder, She
+Wrote, in front of his whole crew, and still remain employed afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+which eye? (20 Feb 1998 18:23:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
which eye?

+
Date: 20 Feb 1998 18:23:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What speculation has there been for what this signifies?
+> And when will we find out for sure?
+
+      No, it's the left eye...trouble is, the patch, a rag, kept
+slipping, and it's hard to read that part of it...but it's the same
+eye.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley has just lost me (21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"That sounds like a compliment to Angela Lansbury."
+
+      Actually, it is.  After I came back from yelling at her
+son/director, everybody was white as a sheet..."You're gonna be fired."
+Within the hour she called me into her office (she was then exec
+producer) and asked me what that was all about.  I told her, very
+specifically, how I felt he had completely gotten the intent wrong on
+several scenes, lost some clues, and otherwise was blowing it on this
+one important sequence.  She listened, considered it, and finally said,
+"You did the right thing."
+
+      It was *extremely* classy on her part, and I've never forgotten
+that. Never will.  It was a good example to me of how to conduct myself
+when I got to this position.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Warrior Women (01 Feb 1998 23:48:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Minbari Warrior Women

+
Date: 01 Feb 1998 23:48:05 -0700

+
 Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It seems that the warrior caste of the Minbari is mostly male; or
+> have I just missed seeing the female members of the warrior
+> caste?
+
+      It's more male than female, but they're there.
+
+      (I can see it now...Xenonn, Warrior Princess....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Starfury (21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that when Revell has a better sense of how this one has
+sold, that that's the time to bring up the other possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A view from the gallery (21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 21 Feb 1998 18:32:11 -0700

+
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+
+      While there was a little of Harlan in Mack, there wasn't
+intentionally any jms in Bo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode is Great (23 Feb 1998 00:45:02 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Feb 1998 00:45:02 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, I hope you're right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Checks? (25 Feb 1998 12:28:10 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 25 Feb 1998 12:28:10 -0700

+
 Mike Deck <75712.2517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any B5 checks for, you know, writing checks for bills
+> and stuff?
+
+      Nope, not yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Politics, sort of (25 Feb 1998 21:20:06 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 25 Feb 1998 21:20:06 -0700

+
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+
+      Re: Nixon as one of our "best presidents"....
+
+      Tell me, I'm just curious...what color is the sky in the world
+where you live?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Politics, sort of (26 Feb 1998 00:38:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Feb 1998 00:38:05 -0700

+
 Robert A. Matern <70012.3660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Tell me, I'm just curious...what color is the sky in the world
+> where you live? How many even understood it at the time?
+
+      That Nixon got his butt on a plane and went to China doesn't do
+a whit to change the fact that he damn near tore the country apart.  If
+anything, he was pushing the foreign aspects of his administration
+because he simply couldn't lead here at home...everything he did, he
+did for Nixon, and Nixon's perceived place in history.  He was a mean,
+spiteful, venal little man who was also more than a little bit nuts. 
+No president since him has stirred so much chaos and hatred at home, or
+seen such dramatic social turmoil erupt as the result of his actions. 
+It started with LBJ, who just couldn't handle the burden of it all, but
+it spiraled out of all control with Nixon.
+
+      The tone of a country is set in some measure from the top, and
+this was a tone that empowered the Howard Hunts and the Joe Haldemans
+and the Gordon Liddys, the creeps (historical pun intended) and the
+thugs who used the FBI to harrass anyone who spoke out against the
+administration, bugged offices illegally, broke into psychiatrists
+offices, and created the us vs. them paranoia that set the stage for
+Kent State.  Under red-baiter Nixon, if you criticized the government
+for any reason, you were a Commie stooge, and should be treated
+accordingly.  He engendered an atmosphere of fear and distrust the 
+likes of which I have never seen since, and hope never to see again in
+my lifetime.
+
+      Up until Nixon, there was still a vague, tenuous sense, or hope,
+that the government was still sorta kinda on our side...his behavior
+pretty much drove a stake into the heart of that idea, and the events
+of Watergate so tarnished the office that it bred a cynicism about our
+elected leaders that is still profoundly present in the American
+consciousness.
+
+      Whatever Clinton did or didn't do in this current situation --
+and let us still remember the policy about innocent untli proven
+guilty, odd how those who most support the constitution forget that
+part of it when it is convenient -- NOTHING he has done has torn the
+country apart so vividly and so violently as what Nixon did during his
+years in office.
+
+      To me, this isn't a democrat/republican, liberal/conservative
+thing; I had little patience with Carter, who was a good man but
+absolutely inept as a president, Ford was a crash-test dummy ahead of
+its time, basically harmless and good natured but a doofus, the less
+said of Reagan the better, Bush just didn't get it, and Clinton's about
+middle of the road for presidents, in my view, kind of in the
+Eisenhower mold, maybe...for me, this is a reality thing and a non-
+revisionist thing.
+
+      I remember the Nixon years...and this ain't *nothing* like them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Strange relations (26 Feb 1998 19:05:02 -0700)
+
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+
Strange relations

+
Date: 26 Feb 1998 19:05:02 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will we see that episode?
+
+      It'll be one of the first eps up after the NBA playoff delay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thirdspace - WHEN? (26 Feb 1998 23:38:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Feb 1998 23:38:02 -0700

+
 Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyone happen to know when Thirdspace is supposed to be aired?
+
+      I believe it's July 6th.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thirdspace - WHEN? (27 Feb 1998 21:23:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Feb 1998 21:23:14 -0700

+
 Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that REALLY necessary?
+
+      Clarification...I checked my figures, and apparently it's either
+the 9th or the 19th of July for Thirdspace...they've moved it up at TNT
+from their original November plans as sort of a way of giving a present
+to B5 fans after having to wait for the NBA Playoffs to finish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thirdspace - WHEN? (03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> another one?
+> These the ones already in the can or is TNT just going hog wild?
+> Have you asked if they would be willing to give you two hours to
+> go out on and make up the additional time with something like a
+> big wrap up of the making of the show?
+
+      No, the episode is the episode; the only reason I could get in
+15 minutes back in the pilot was because I could find 15 minutes to cut
+*out* to make room for it easily, and still maintain the same basic
+running time.  SiL is as tight as it's ever gonna get.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Secrets of the Soul (05 Mar 1998 01:54:10 -0700)
+
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+
Secrets of the Soul

+
Date: 05 Mar 1998 01:54:10 -0700

+
 Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Has that show been moved up to March 11?
+> How does this relate to how the Centauri did the same thing to
+> the race that developed in parallel with them? ("What did the last
+> (parallel-Centauri-race) say as he died?
+
+      Yes, Neil's episode is up next...and as for the Xon, the
+difference is that the Centauri main-line clashed with the Xon when
+both were primitive and fighting for food, resources, that sort of
+thing, similar to our Neanderthal - Cro Magnon struggle, whereas the
+Hyach did it when they were more advanced, and it wasn't a struggle,
+more of a program of extermination.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode resuffle (06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just curious as to why Day of the Dead has been moved
+> forward to March 11th?
+
+      We felt it wise to adjust the airing order so we could ramp up
+the following episodes prior to the NBA delay without having any
+interruption in the tone of the episodes (i.e., 2 tense, 1 funny, 2
+tense vs 1 funny and 4 tense in a row).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SotS> Soul of Secrets (06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Good stuff, as always...btw, the pak'ma'ra used a translator
+before in "Legacies."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rebo & Zooty (06 Mar 1998 13:11:05 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:11:05 -0700

+
 Ballpark <74541.3464@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When is the famous (uh Infamous) "Rebo & Zooty" episode set to
+> air?
+
+      It's next week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Secrets of the Soul (06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Mar 1998 13:11:06 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Who was broadcasting Lyta's memories while she was making love to
+> Byron? Was Lyta's mental "power" so strong that the other teeps
+> couldn't help but "hear" it? Was the "joining" of Lyta's and
+> Byron's minds such a strong force that it "leaked" into the other
+> teeps minds? Or was Byron broadcasting what should have been very
+> private information without asking Lyta for permission first?
+
+      It was everything being stimulated, and coming to the surface,
+mainly from her, but echoing off him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Secrets of the Soul (08 Mar 1998 00:03:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Mar 1998 00:03:12 -0700

+
 Gardner L. Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In that society is love making not considered a private/personal
+> matter? A more mundane question: was the scene difficult to shoot;
+> was Pat concerned about doing a nude scene or was it shot so that
+> a body double was used for all nude/semi-nude shots? Any comments?
+
+      I had the group there to further reinforce their tightness, and
+that it's a different way of living...as for Pat, no, no body double
+was used.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SotS> Soul of Secrets (08 Mar 1998 00:03:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Mar 1998 00:03:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      1) It wasn't filler, it's setting up one of the major arcs of
+the story.
+
+"It sucked, IMHO, and I expect you to do better from now on! <grin>"
+
+      2) "grin" at the end of a note does not excuse bad manners.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Progress of Year 5 (08 Mar 1998 22:05:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 08 Mar 1998 22:05:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...I agree with pretty much everything in your note.  The
+thing about this show, one of many, is that I do tend to look at each
+season as a separate volume in the story, and I try to give each season
+a unique and distinct flavor...from the main titles (the book's "cover)
+to the stories, and the *way* those stories are told.  The first few
+episodes are always the transition point, the plateau, where the
+changes are worked out.
+
+      The other thing is that in the past, I've generally said "this
+is part of the arc" by doing a lot of finger-pointing, flag-waving and
+jumping up and down.  I figured that after 4 years of seeing that the
+first third of the season is generally setup for the consequences that
+will follow, that I wouldn't have to do so much "fireworks-pay-
+attention" to this stuff...but I may have been wrong in that respect. 
+No, I haven't *said* "this is meaningful" even though it is, and will
+be more obviously so in hindsight, because I figured by this time in
+the game everybody knew the routine and I wouldn't have to red-flag it
+in advance.
+
+      I was talking about this to some of the folks on the show, and
+they had the same reaction, offering: this is a history, and sometimes
+when a major event takes place, nobody knows it's happened yet.  On the
+day the stocks began to fall, could someone have stood up and said,
+"And from this came the great depression?"  When Archduke Ferdinand was
+killed, could someone have said, that day, "And from this comes World
+War One and World War Two and the Cold War."  You only see the pattern
+in hindsight.
+
+      What's being laid out in the first part of this season are the
+threads that will become increasingly important, and fundamentally
+change the lives of everybody in the show...but because it's not being
+flagged as such, some people tend to dismiss it as filler.
+
+      As one person noted to me today in email, it's as if someone
+wrote to Tolkein and said, "Listen, the book is okay, but on page 248
+why the hell did you spend so much time on hobbits when the story is
+about Aragorn?  What the hell is it with you and hobbits?  I'm not
+saying that I'm going to stop reading the book, but unless you get back
+to Strider fast the story is going to suck and wander."
+
+      Bottom line...I'm doing now exactly what I have done with the
+show from day one: I'm writing this to please myself, to tell the story
+that *I* want to see.  If others want to see that, great; if others
+don't, that's fine too, because the exercise is getting the story told
+the way I want it told.  And that I have done.  And in the long run,
+that's what's pulled people to this show: it's a singular vision, a one-
+man story, told the way one person wants it to be told, as in any novel
+off the shelf.
+
+      I just hope, when all the shouting and hand-wringing is done,
+and the season is over, and all the threads of the story lead right
+back through to the beginning of this season, showing the filler to be
+nothing of the sort, that these same folks will come out and say they
+were wrong, as those who said at the time that there was no arc in
+season 1 have done since the show has gone into reruns and the arc has
+become totally evident.
+
+      I can hope that because I specialize in writing fantasy, you
+know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Strange relations (08 Mar 1998 22:05:13 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 08 Mar 1998 22:05:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Good question...I don't know.  I will have to inquire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Interesting Quote (28 Feb 1998 22:37:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Feb 1998 22:37:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Could you tell me what page that's on?  Because I have that
+issue, but couldn't find the ST article that's bannered on the cover.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<tVftG> Prismatic View (08 Mar 1998 22:05:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 08 Mar 1998 22:05:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dramatic Structure (09 Mar 1998 00:14:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Mar 1998 00:14:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...the denouement or falling action is where you get to
+show the consequences, that's often where a lot of the more interesting
+things happen. Otherwise, it's just "okay, it's over" and that's it. 
+I'm a big subscriber to the notion of proper dramatic structure, and I
+try to hew to it on a large scale with the overall arc, and each
+individual episode.  You can track every episode, and every season,
+from the progression of introduction, rising action, complication,
+climax and denouement.  I figure it's a solid literary framework that
+has worked for several thousand years, it's *got* to be good enough for
+TeeVee....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Robin Atkin Downes (09 Mar 1998 00:14:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Robin Atkin Downes

+
Date: 09 Mar 1998 00:14:05 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did that first appearance lead to the subsequent roles?
+> was he cast as Morann first or Byron first?
+
+      We were impressed by his portrayal of Minbari, and that led to
+him coming in for Byron.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Ratings (09 Mar 1998 15:51:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Ratings

+
Date: 09 Mar 1998 15:51:07 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (The militant Trekker agitators over there are out to milk this
+> one for whatever mileage they can get out of it.) While I've had
+> the good sense not to get involved in their ongoing scuffle
+> concerning this, I find myself wondering about one thing with
+> respect to B5's ratings now that it's being shown on cable: are
+> the two separate airings of the season 5 episodes tabulated
+> cumulatively, or separately?
+
+      No, the ratings are added for the two showings in a week.
+
+      As for the ratings...we are TNT's second-highest rated show. 
+Where does it say we have to be in the top 15 of everything on cable or
+it's not a success?  Voyager's and DS9's ratings would put it at the
+bottom of the network pile, but it's closer to the high-middles in
+syndication.  The only ratings figure that matters is this: have the
+ratings been high enough for the show to stay on the air, and let me
+tell the story that I wanted to tell?  And the answer to that is yes. 
+And now the show is out there; nobody cares 10 years from now if it was
+in the top 15, or 5, or 50...the show is the show is the show.
+
+      And those who come in from the Trek camp to badmouth B5 because
+of the ratings should be reminded that the original Star Trek was
+canceled in its third year because of poor ratings...and was considered
+a failure by the networks and the studio.  But the show was the show
+was the show, and now it has grown.
+
+      As will B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Ratings (09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Ratings

+
Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Much the opposite; for a fanatical portion of them, this is a
+religious war, and the more B5 succeeds, the more they become unhinged.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Ratings (09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 Ratings

+
Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      B5 has *killer* demographics, substantially better than Lois and
+Clark, which did very good demos.
+
+      But see, this is the trap...you let the other guy define the
+argument for you, and the second they do that, they win the argument. 
+"Unless B5 does as good as ST, then it ain't worth squat."  Well,
+you're comparing a 5 year show against a 30 year franchise...apples and
+oranges.  Now, if you want to compare B5 in its 5 years against the
+original ST...then B5 wins, because we're on two years after they were
+CANCELED.
+
+      The fight is a dopey one on the face of it...caused by people
+who want a fight between the shows, and want to define the argument
+such that it makes everybody feel they have to defend something that
+does not require *any* defense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Secrets of the Soul (09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Secrets of the Soul

+
Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:59:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+         Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh figures (09 Mar 1998 23:59:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kosh figures

+
Date: 09 Mar 1998 23:59:08 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS,do you have a date for the Kosh (& Ivanova) figures?
+> are they just 9" ones?
+
+      No date that I can remember...but I know they're coming out
+(both in 9" and 6", and a whole line of B5 chracters in pewter figures,
+which are gorgeous).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Kosh figures (10 Mar 1998 22:04:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Kosh figures

+
Date: 10 Mar 1998 22:04:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Any date for pewter figures?
+
+      Should be soon, I've already approved the final versions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Note in a Bottle (10 Mar 1998 22:04:04 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Note in a Bottle

+
Date: 10 Mar 1998 22:04:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thing is, I stared at that message, and tried to draft a reply,
+for 10 minutes...I can't think of any decent answers.  I think I'm
+zoned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thirdspace - WHEN? (02 Mar 1998 00:04:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Thirdspace - WHEN?

+
Date: 02 Mar 1998 00:04:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just got clarification and verification: Thirdspace does indeed
+air July 19th, and another B5 TV movie airs November 23rd, and one more
+on January 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Your religious past? (11 Mar 1998 20:27:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Your religious past?

+
Date: 11 Mar 1998 20:27:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Have you ever studied Gurdjieff or Sufism, or any of the Eastern
+religions like Bhuddism?"
+
+      I think studied is too formal a word...I've read just about
+every religious book out there, in whole (the Bible) or in part (the
+Gita, others). It's a good idea to be well-rounded.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+DotD Writing Question (12 Mar 1998 13:33:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
DotD Writing Question

+
Date: 12 Mar 1998 13:33:03 -0700

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you give them a framework and let them run with it?
+> How do you maintain the continuity while working with someone
+> from the outside?
+
+      It varies, I get involved to different degrees with different
+writers; with Neil, it was more "What do you want to write?"  He
+noodled around with some ideas, ran one past me that he liked, and I
+liked it...he asked for a truckload of scripts for reference, picked
+the characters he wanted to use, researched them, we talked on the
+phone and via email a number of times as he refined his ideas further,
+then wrote the script.  I tucked and nipped a little here and there,
+but pretty much left it alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Day of the Dead (13 Mar 1998 00:07:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Day of the Dead

+
Date: 13 Mar 1998 00:07:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Neil kept the humor sort of off-base...operating on the
+assumption that there are some things that become au courant or funny
+because of context: Steve Martin's "excuuuuse me," for instance.  Now,
+it ain't funny, it's just annoying...at the time, EVERYbody was saying
+it and laughing.  R&Z are similar cultural phenomena...their "with a
+machine" catchphrase, for instance, which the crowd new and reacted to.
+To us, and Lochely, it didn't mean anything. Lochley's reaction was
+tailored to be EXACTLY the same as most women's (and some guy's)
+reaction to the Three Stooges: either it's funny, or you can't figure
+out why people are laughing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+News from AOL? (13 Mar 1998 00:07:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
News from AOL?

+
Date: 13 Mar 1998 00:07:14 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this correct?
+> Have you already made your choices regarding the casting of both
+> of the new movies and the new series? Is there anything you can
+> comment on here?
+
+      This is not quite correct, but that's all I can say for now. 
+There are one or two actors who might slide to Crusade, depending on
+circumstances, and we have spoken to them on the QT about it...which is
+probably why this was said, because I asked the actors in question not
+to say anything until we got closer to seeing how things were going to
+work out; the inquiries were mainly of an "if we had this role, would
+you be interested in doing it?" nature, checking avails and
+possibilities so we could plan accordingly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rebo & Zooty (14 Mar 1998 23:11:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rebo & Zooty

+
Date: 14 Mar 1998 23:11:05 -0700

+
 Sam Waas <73052.2644@compuserve.com> asks:
+> area?
+> How did this guest appearance evolve?
+> I mean, you couldn't sit down at your computer to write the
+> episode and say to yourself "Let's see -- I need some external
+> thread to bind the episode together as a plotline B to supplement
+> the Day of Dead plotline A -- mmmm -- Why not have Penn & Teller
+> guest star?" In other words, how could you write the characters of
+> Rebo & Zooty into the script without prior communication from
+> P&T? You modified the character to fit the guest stars, right?
+
+      Neil wrote for R&Z, and we looked around for casting...it
+occured to someone -- may have been me, maybe casting, I don't remember
+ -- that it might be better to use a real comedy team than create one. 
+B5 called P&T, and they said yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Day of the Dead (14 Mar 1998 23:11:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Day of the Dead

+
Date: 14 Mar 1998 23:11:05 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was the laughter mostly acting or mostly genuine?
+
+      Depending on which take was being shot...half and half.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Episode Name Change? (15 Mar 1998 00:50:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Episode Name Change?

+
Date: 15 Mar 1998 00:50:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Cat and Mouse)" part simply because this was the working title
+> that we've all seen on the upcoming episode lists, or is there
+> something more to it? Is there anything to the "Tradgedy"
+> spelling, or is it a TNT mistake?
+
+      It's a typo on their parts...and Cat and Mouse was a) a working
+title which I kept out there to b) avoid possible spoiling of various
+directions for as long as possible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Day O' Dead Mistake? (17 Mar 1998 00:09:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Day O' Dead Mistake?

+
Date: 17 Mar 1998 00:09:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> When we got the first look at the gold comet symbols that the
+> group was hanging around the station, did you mean for them to
+> look like they did?
+
+      It was...it was...plastic surgery, see...yeah, that's what it
+was, plastic surgery, that's the ticket....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode Name Change? (17 Mar 1998 14:54:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Episode Name Change?

+
Date: 17 Mar 1998 14:54:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah...I figured, a flock of geese, a herd of buffalo, a tragedy
+of telepaths...actually, though, the credit for that must go to John
+Copeland, who came up with it over lunch one day.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Richard Biggs (17 Mar 1998 14:54:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Richard Biggs

+
Date: 17 Mar 1998 14:54:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...they're all great folks, and Richard's a real kick.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Interesting Quote (02 Mar 1998 00:24:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Interesting Quote

+
Date: 02 Mar 1998 00:24:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Trivia...actually, the original Latin phrase (if I have this
+right from memory) is "exceptio probat regulum," a colloquialism which
+actually means "the exception puts the rulte to the test of proof." 
+It's the bastardized interpretation which comes out to "exception
+proves rule."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rebo & Zooty (17 Mar 1998 23:35:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rebo & Zooty

+
Date: 17 Mar 1998 23:35:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Was it always part of the script for Zooty to speak through a
+machine, or was that something added so that Teller won't have to speak
+on camera?"
+
+      The latter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 hiatus in Toronto (19 Mar 1998 16:37:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 hiatus in Toronto

+
Date: 19 Mar 1998 16:37:02 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this a deal made by Warner?
+
+      Yeah, I'm sure it was done to ensure that the US doesn't lag too
+far behind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ItKofB (19 Mar 1998 16:42:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
ItKofB

+
Date: 19 Mar 1998 16:42:01 -0700

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Had you toyed with the idea of including a quick peek?
+
+      No, I think some things are best left to the imagination.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Extended Thanks (19 Mar 1998 22:31:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Extended Thanks

+
Date: 19 Mar 1998 22:31:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Will do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Congratulations (20 Mar 1998 23:36:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Congratulations

+
Date: 20 Mar 1998 23:36:09 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you feel now that the 5 year arc is completed?
+> How was the feeling on the set today while filming "Wheel of
+> Fire" compared to "Sleeping in Light"? What do you plan to do now
+> that the series has been completed?
+
+      Thanks, for all that.
+
+"How do you feel now that the 5 year arc is completed?"
+
+      Exhausted, but relieved; we made it to the end.  We did what we
+said we were going to do, and nobody and nothing can take that away
+from us.
+
+"How was the feeling on the set today while filming "Wheel of Fire"
+compared to "Sleeping in Light"?"
+
+      The last ep filmed today is "Objects at Rest."  The attitude was
+a bit different than SiL, because there was some hope of a fifth season
+that took some of the edge off SiL...but here it's clear: I said this
+was a 5 year series, and it ends at five years, so everyone knew this
+was it, at least for the series.  There were a lot of tears, hugging,
+some speeches...it was hard.
+
+"What do you plan to do now that the series has been completed?"
+
+      Make the next TV movies, and get going on the next project.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Severed Dreams (20 Mar 1998 23:36:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Severed Dreams

+
Date: 20 Mar 1998 23:36:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I didn't have any particular battle in mind, no, but I have a
+passing familiarity with battle tactics, and wanted to create that
+sense in a battle of pieces...you never really see the whole battle,
+each soldier sees his or her part of it, and at the end, we call it the
+battle of X.  That sense of out-of-control events.  It was something I
+wanted very much to get right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Congratulations! (22 Mar 1998 00:11:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Congratulations!

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it was a long and hard road, but we finally got here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Corwin (22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Corwin

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700

+
 Brian F. Swisher <74642.2701@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it something to do with the still-independent nature of B5's
+> status, or is there some other reason? Or is there something going
+> on behind the scenes that we're not aware of?
+
+      Actually, I seem to recall he got a promotion from LT junior
+grade to full lieutenant a couple of years ago...he'd probably get one
+in year six.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Severed Dreams (22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Severed Dreams

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think it comes from being a depressing person to be around.
+
+      "Oh, look, you got a present!"
+
+      "Yeah, well, I'll probably get a paper cut opening it...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+End of the run (22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
End of the run

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Interesting Quote (01 Mar 1998 14:26:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Interesting Quote

+
Date: 01 Mar 1998 14:26:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Got it, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Loose Ends (22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Loose Ends

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 00:11:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...there are times I've felt the same way, not wanting to
+deal with it because I knew this was it.  It's natural and
+understandable. Endings are always hard.  And, of course, beginnings
+are also hard.  Then again, middles are particularly hard.  So I guess
+if we consider it all hard, then one shouldn't be any worse than the
+other.
+
+      Fitting too that the last day of shooting was the first day of
+spring, a new beginning....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Congratulations (22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Congratulations

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> TV, books, play?
+
+      Thanks...though there's no nap yet, with what all else needs to
+get done.
+
+      It's been a heck of a ride, no mistake.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 in UK? (22 Mar 1998 23:27:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 in UK?

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 23:27:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Maybe earlier....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Extended Thanks (22 Mar 1998 21:12:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Extended Thanks

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 21:12:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Corrupting the kiddies (22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Corrupting the kiddies

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and that's the darndest thing...I never anticipated
+that kids that young would get into it.  Or even *get* it.  Who'd'a
+thunk it?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Severed Dreams (22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Severed Dreams

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 21:12:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Given the amount of lousy TV around, you must be an optimist, since
+you dug into the manure and found the pony."
+
+      Damn thing bit me, too....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+casting minor characters (22 Mar 1998 23:30:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
casting minor characters

+
Date: 22 Mar 1998 23:30:02 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, do you personally interview all the actors who had speaking
+> roles?
+
+      Yes, I'm there for 99% of all auditions; the final decision is
+mine, Doug's, John's and the Director's (3 out of 4 is all we need). 
+Only the really, really minor characters -- two words, one sentence,
+that's all -- get past me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 6? (23 Mar 1998 16:58:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 6?

+
Date: 23 Mar 1998 16:58:03 -0700

+
 Lenier <101671.630@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know, or thought I knew that B5 followed a 5 year arc, so what
+> is the truth?
+
+      No, there is no season 6, whatever you may have read in SFX
+(which also got the facts wrong with the Caitlin Brown interview).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+PPG Prop Gun (23 Mar 1998 16:58:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
PPG Prop Gun

+
Date: 23 Mar 1998 16:58:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Hey, JMS, Since filming is over could I buy one of the PPG prop
+> guns for REAL?
+
+                                       no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lyta/Mars Rebs mistake? (23 Mar 1998 16:58:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Lyta/Mars Rebs mistake?

+
Date: 23 Mar 1998 16:58:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Lyta did go through the Resistance, but didn't *tell* them she
+was a teep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thirdspace - WHEN? (02 Mar 1998 00:04:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Thirdspace - WHEN?

+
Date: 02 Mar 1998 00:04:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just got clarification and verification: Thirdspace does indeed
+air July 19th, and another B5 TV movie airs November 23rd, and one more
+on January 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Script Standards? (23 Mar 1998 22:47:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Script Standards?

+
Date: 23 Mar 1998 22:47:07 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you write a script intentionally just a bit over, since it
+> would be easier to edit down than to scramble to add the
+> necessary after editing? If so, have you ever written a script
+> that came in *exactly* as you wrote it?
+
+      You never know exactly how long it's going to be on film; you
+ballpark the page count, and sometimes you come in a bit long,
+sometimes you come in a bit short.  We're usually pretty close to time,
+and only have to do small line cuts.  Easier to trim than to add after
+the fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Word on Severed DVD yet? (24 Mar 1998 22:31:02 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Word on Severed DVD yet?

+
Date: 24 Mar 1998 22:31:02 -0700

+
 Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any word on the "Severed Dreams" DVD yet?
+> If you do go ahead with the DVD, do you know if it will be
+> released in 16:9 "anamorphic" widescreen (aka enhanced wide
+> screen)? Does that mean that the character name will be cut off
+> when viewed in widescreen? Do you have any idea if/when Babylon 5
+> is released there will be 3 episodes on each DVD?
+
+      Haven't heard anything new, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Arthur on Narn (25 Mar 1998 22:47:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Arthur on Narn

+
Date: 25 Mar 1998 22:47:09 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we hear about any of "Arthur's" exploits in the Narn
+> resistence?
+
+      It's one of those stories I doubt we'll hear much about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 after TNT? (26 Mar 1998 13:02:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 after TNT?

+
Date: 26 Mar 1998 13:02:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Interestingly, one of the requirements of the shows that began
+under PTEN is that they must show a profit *the very first year*,
+rather than having to wait for the long run...so B5 has been turning a
+profit for WB since the first day.
+
+      Not that my statement reflects this, natch, and never will,
+because then they'd have to actually *pay* me some of those profits....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 after TNT? (26 Mar 1998 23:36:01 -0700)
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+
B5 after TNT?

+
Date: 26 Mar 1998 23:36:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I look forward to the final chapters, and especially to getting
+> onto to the TNT board and saying, "*Now* do you see what he was
+> doing?!" Without saying too much, I've heard that we should keep
+> our ears open around April 2? Should we?
+
+      Exactly.  What a number of people tend to overlook is that if
+you look at the structure of the show, the bigger the zetz that you're
+about to get, the more I allow you a bit of breathing time in between
+zetzes.  So it's a safe bet that the longer the breathing time, the
+bigger the ball bat....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon Squared (26 Mar 1998 23:36:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon Squared

+
Date: 26 Mar 1998 23:36:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      We did deal with the B4 issue in a later episode, War Without
+End.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Newbie comments (26 Mar 1998 23:36:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Newbie comments

+
Date: 26 Mar 1998 23:36:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+TNT ALERT S5 Schedule (29 Mar 1998 22:06:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
TNT ALERT S5 Schedule

+
Date: 29 Mar 1998 22:06:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      You're correct; a number of folks have told TNT that they're
+waiting until seeing all the S1-4 episodes before watching season 5, so
+they're timing the new cycle of S5 eps, starting from the beginning, so
+these folks can catch up after the end of the S1-4 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon Project: Crusade (29 Mar 1998 22:06:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon Project: Crusade

+
Date: 29 Mar 1998 22:06:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      One part or another of that may be accurate; one part or another
+may not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Vir's wife (29 Mar 1998 22:06:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vir's wife

+
Date: 29 Mar 1998 22:06:08 -0700

+
 Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Vir still married?
+
+      He was never married, she came to B5 for a pre-marriage visit,
+but remember that it got postponed indefinitely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-03/7.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-03/7.html
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+
+
+Interesting Quote (02 Mar 1998 00:24:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Interesting Quote

+
Date: 02 Mar 1998 00:24:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Trivia...actually, the original Latin phrase (if I have this
+right from memory) is "exceptio probat regulum," a colloquialism which
+actually means "the exception puts the rulte to the test of proof." 
+It's the bastardized interpretation which comes out to "exception
+proves rule."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thirdspace - WHEN? (03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Thirdspace - WHEN?

+
Date: 03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700

+
 Michael L. Wonch <73373.3533@compuserve.com> asks:
+> After all that great B5 stuff, any plans for the Big Screen of a
+> periodic return with the occassional movie after the Season 5
+> run?
+
+      We'll have to see on that one; I'm in no major rush.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+"Big Screen B5"? (03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
"Big Screen B5"?

+
Date: 03 Mar 1998 11:39:02 -0700

+
 Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also, I heard WAY back that there was a possible third movie in
+> the plans that might touch on the Valen/Sinclair story?
+
+      There have been discussions, but nothing firm as of this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/1.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/1.html
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+
+
+I&E - Unwoven threads (01 Apr 1998 20:44:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
I&E - Unwoven threads

+
Date: 01 Apr 1998 20:44:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> First, since "War Without End" takes place AFTER "Interludes",
+> wouldn't Kosh have already known that he was destined to die on
+> that day (learning this from the "history of the future")? Knowing
+> that his death was necessary AT THAT VERY MOMENT, why be so rough
+> with Sheridan when Sheridan was playing the part that he always
+> had played and always would play? Second, if Kosh didn't know that
+> he had to die *that night*, was he really planning to go to
+> Z'ha'dum with Sheridan later? What was he planning to do there?
+> What could he have accomplished on the Shadow homeworld?
+> Was he planning to speak to Lorien?
+> Were/are we ever going to find out what that was?
+> And third (and the most puzzling), if the Vorlons only know the
+> "future" up to the time Sinclair goes back in time, how did Kosh
+> know that Sheridan was going to die at Z'ha'dum?
+
+      Kosh may have known that this moment would come, but knowing the
+price that he would almost certainly have to pay...it wasn't easy, and
+one can forgive Kosh for his outburst.  I think, in the end, he was
+afraid, for a moment, a human thing...but he did what was necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 6? (05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 6?

+
Date: 05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Vast amounts of your information are incorrect; WB owns B5, for
+starters.  Additionally, TNT puts up a portion of the production
+budget, WB puts up the rest, same as with any network show.  There was
+some initial talk of a sixth season by some folks over there, but I
+made it clear that this is a five year story, and it ends in five
+years, and asked them to respect my wishes.  They did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Accomidating Adverts (05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Accomidating Adverts

+
Date: 05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700

+
 Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have strict guide lines saying "Advert every 10mins" for
+> instance , or is it a bit more free form ?
+
+      It's not free-form, but it's not by the minute, either.  We have
+an overall running time of about 42 minutes (plus credits), and that
+gets divided into teaser, 4 acts and a tag.  The duration of those
+varies; an act can be 8 minutes or 12, as long as the aggregate is
+within the limits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/12.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/12.html
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+
+
+L.A. B5 mall tour Ques. (05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
L.A. B5 mall tour Ques.

+
Date: 05 Apr 1998 23:57:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I haven't heard anything to that effect, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+DS9 title ripoff (06 Apr 1998 16:45:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
DS9 title ripoff

+
Date: 06 Apr 1998 16:45:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The phrase "A Call to Arms" goes back several centuries, and is
+not owned by anyone, DS9 did not invent it.  You can only "rip off"
+something that is specific to that item or thing; if they came up with
+a title "Chief O'Brien's Hairdresser Dreedle," and we used that, then
+you'd have a point. But this is, frankly, a case of fan myopia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/14.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/14.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (06 Apr 1998 12:19:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 06 Apr 1998 12:19:07 -0700

+
      Today the news hit: CRUSADE: THE BABYLON PROJECT (a new series
+set in the B5 universe) is a go for production starting July 27th, to
+go on the air January 6th on TNT.
+
+      Also: if you can get a copy of tomorrow's Hollywood Reporter, do
+so: they have dedicated the issue as a special B5 issue, and there is
+going to be a lot of coverage of the show.  The issue will almost
+certainly become a hard-to-find item in future, and is a testament to
+the success not only of the show, but recognition within the industry
+of what we've done to improve the way television is made.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/15.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/15.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (06 Apr 1998 16:49:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 06 Apr 1998 16:49:04 -0700

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the Hollywood Reporter a general newsstand pub, or do you
+> pretty much have to be in LA or the biz to get it? Will you begin
+> working on casting very soon, or is that something for further
+> down the line?
+
+      You can find the Reporter at many larger newsstands in big
+cities.  And we won't get to any real casting until the first few
+scripts are in-hand, so we know what we're getting into.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/16.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/16.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (06 Apr 1998 16:49:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 06 Apr 1998 16:49:05 -0700

+
 Michael Gillman <100724.1646@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Anyway to get the 'Hollywood reporter' in the UK <G>?
+> Also, do you know if there are any plans for Kathryn Drennan to
+> Write another B5 novel?
+
+      I keep bugging her about doing one...it's up to her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/17.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/17.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (07 Apr 1998 01:30:01 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:01 -0700

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you find outside writers?
+> You're a fan of his and vice versa, but for other potential
+> writers do you solicit resumes/writing samples/outlines?
+
+"With Neil Gaiman, it was obvious. You're a fan of his and vice versa,
+but for other potential writers do you solicit resumes/writing
+samples/outlines?"
+
+      Usually, I know the writer's work, so it's just a matter of
+getting them in and handing them a premise (or in some rare cases,
+asking them to come up with a story pitch).  If it's someone whose work
+I don't readily know -- and this is rare for me to do on a first
+season, when I know that every episode has to kick -- I'll call the
+person's agent and get some samples of their prior produced work.
+
+      Since there are only 11 available slots for this season, that
+doesn't leave a lot of room right off the bat, and I have about 6-7
+writers in mind for the rest, so it's already close to being locked
+down before we've even started.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/18.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/18.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, I want it to be as much on the edge as B5,
+but in a slightly different way.  Why can't an SF show be as much on
+the cutting edge in its storytelling as a Homicide or NYPD Blue?  So
+I'm going to gradually start playing with the format, and see where it
+takes me.  If it ain't gonna be better than what we did before, ain't
+much point to doing it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/19.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/19.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It'll have a five year arc, but not as rigorous as the B5 arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/2.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/2.html
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+
+
+IaE (01 Apr 1998 20:44:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
IaE

+
Date: 01 Apr 1998 20:44:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/20.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/20.html
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+
+
+Any new pieces into old? (06 Apr 1998 16:49:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Any new pieces into old?

+
Date: 06 Apr 1998 16:49:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think we've done it a couple of times, and in other cases
+recreated scenes in earlier episodes that we knew we would play out in
+later episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/21.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/21.html
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+
+
+Peter David and ITB book (07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Peter David and ITB book

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, Peter added that stuff on his own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/22.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/22.html
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+
+
+The Rock Cried Out (07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Rock Cried Out

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 01:30:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, it's an offbeat favorite of mine....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/23.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/23.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance Kathryn Drennan will be one of those writers?
+
+      It's something I've discussed with her...if she comes up with a
+story she wants to tell, she's said she'll do one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/24.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/24.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I imagine we'll keep about 95% of the production crew on the
+move to Crusade.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/25.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/25.html
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+
+
+The Rock Cried Out (07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Rock Cried Out

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have a lot of favorites...too many to break out, and one
+should favor all one's children equally...even the occasional idiot
+child.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/26.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/26.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 07 Apr 1998 23:19:02 -0700

+
 Phil Herscher <73107.3470@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But don't you ever take a vacation?
+> Or are the stories so insistent about getting made?
+
+      As best I can determine, my first real free time (a week or
+better) is in May 1999.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Any new pieces into old? (08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Any new pieces into old?

+
Date: 08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oh...in that case, no, that hasn't been done (must've
+misunderstood the question).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/28.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/28.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (08 Apr 1998 23:07:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 08 Apr 1998 23:07:11 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ;) Still, do you _ever_ just sit back to smell the roses or watch
+> a sunset?
+
+"Still, do you _ever_  just sit back to smell the roses or watch a
+sunset? I find myself wondering where you would find the time."
+
+      I would like to, some time...my fantasy is having just one day,
+to go out and do nothing...no deadlines hanging over my head...no
+frenzied phone calls from actors or agents or studios or networks...I
+realized how much I'd like this when I was writing Londo's speech in
+"In the Beginning," about giving anything for just five minutes on a
+beach...and I realized that it wasn't entirely just Londo talking.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Walter Koenig's book (08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Walter Koenig's book

+
Date: 08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, it was a play, The Boys in Autumn, but I'd wanted to
+work with him long before then.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/3.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/3.html
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+
+
+TNT ALERT S5 Schedule (01 Apr 1998 20:44:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
TNT ALERT S5 Schedule

+
Date: 01 Apr 1998 20:44:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, do you know if they're rerunning all 17 before they move on
+> to the last five?
+
+      Yes, they're rerunning all 17 before the final 5, so the folks
+who've been waiting can catch up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/30.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/30.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 08 Apr 1998 23:07:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Nah...occasional wistfulness notwithstanding, I wouldn't have it
+any other way.  Understand that I'm in the best position imaginable:
+people are paying me for something I'd have to do for free, because I
+can't not write. I get to write, and tell my stories my way, and make a
+decent living.  How much more can anyone ask for?  And with all that,
+it seems inappropriate to complain about the hours.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/31.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/31.html
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+
+
+The Progress of Year 5 (12 Apr 1998 14:53:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
The Progress of Year 5

+
Date: 12 Apr 1998 14:53:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm used to it.  Happens every year.  Then the next year is the
+sucky one, and last year was cool.  It's pro forma.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/32.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/32.html
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+
+
+VALAN (14 Apr 1998 11:27:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
VALAN

+
Date: 14 Apr 1998 11:27:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It was a typo; that name shouldn't have been in the message, it
+slipped past.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/33.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/33.html
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+
+
+The Rock Cried Out (14 Apr 1998 00:42:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
The Rock Cried Out

+
Date: 14 Apr 1998 00:42:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Rock is an old spiritual going back to the Civil War; the bar
+song was developed by Chris Franke; and Byron's little ditty was
+something I came up with.
+
+      Some of the songs (as from Walkabout) are on the CDs.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/34.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/34.html
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+
+
+Vorlon-Shadow Conflict (15 Apr 1998 00:57:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Vorlon-Shadow Conflict

+
Date: 15 Apr 1998 00:57:09 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So what I've been wondering is this: Did the Shadow's try to work
+> their evolutionary magic on the Vorlons and the other first ones
+> while they were still young races? Is this the explanation for
+> Delenn's statement that the first ones have battled the Shadows
+> over millions of years? Would this indicate that the Vorlons
+> stayed behind because they were the most militant of the anti-
+> Shadow faction or perhaps the race least able to evolve beyond
+> the eye for an eye concept?
+
+      No, the shadows definitely didn't try their advancement routine
+on the vorlons; they were cases of parallel evolution at similar
+periods.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/35.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/35.html
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+
+
+Potentially Epitaphical (17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Potentially Epitaphical

+
Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...as words to live (and die) by, those ain't bad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/36.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/36.html
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+
+
+TeeVee technical query (17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
TeeVee technical query

+
Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700

+
 Carrie Foreman <76400.1170@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I know you pay actors a second time when previous footage is
+> reused, is that true for the Season 5 opening credits, for Ed
+> Waser & Walter K?
+
+      Yeah, they get re-use fees every time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/37.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/37.html
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+
+
+No more UK Fan Club ? (17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
No more UK Fan Club ?

+
Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The UK fan club was never "official."  They were never a branch
+of the official B5 fan club.  We do not have, and have never had, the
+authority to convey official status to ANY outside fan group, only WB
+can authorize such things through an official license.  We were
+concerned in that the UK group was being perceived as such by fans
+there, some of whom had begun sending us (and me) email with complaints
+or general notes about the UK fan club asking me to deal with it since
+this was an officially sanctioned fan club, so it became important to
+clarify that.  You cannot "disenfranchise" someone or something that
+was never a part of the "franchise" (a term I hate) in the first place.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/38.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/38.html
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+
+
+Babylon, California??? (17 Apr 1998 17:17:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon, California???

+
Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:06 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, This has been bothering me on and off for a good two weeks
+> now, so I've simply got to ask you if an article published in the
+> April 6th Issue of National Review, titled "Babylon, California"
+> written by Rob Long refers to you or not?
+
+      To my knowledge, I've never spoken with Mr. Long, so that kind
+of narrows down the possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/39.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/39.html
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+
+
+Season 5 ep order in UK (17 Apr 1998 17:17:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Season 5 ep order in UK

+
Date: 17 Apr 1998 17:17:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It should be aired in the originally intended order, as will
+subsequent reruns of the show here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/4.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/4.html
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+
+
+I Hate nasty Rumors (01 Apr 1998 21:54:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
I Hate nasty Rumors

+
Date: 01 Apr 1998 21:54:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      See, here's what I don't understand in all this.
+
+      It's not that the cast was let go, THE SHOW IS OVER.  You can
+only "let go" of an actor if the show continues and the actor is out. 
+THE SHOW IS OVER. I've been saying for five years, "This is a five year
+story.  When it's over, it's over."
+
+      I think part of the problem was that some in the cast didn't
+want to ever deal with the reality of that until it hit them.  I read
+many interviews where they said, "Well, Joe says it's a five year
+story, but I don't see any reason why this can't go on."  If you
+cushion yourself from it, then it can only hit you in the face later. 
+(On the last few days of shooting, several people asked, "Why couldn't
+it have been a *six* year arc?  Why the arbitrary five?"  It is what it
+is.
+
+      Toward the end of filming, we spoke to all the cast, apprised
+them of the work progressing toward a feature film, the likelihood of
+additional TV movies before then, and so on.  But we also said,
+specifically, "Babylon 5 the series is over."
+
+      But you must admit that it's quite a jump between "the series is
+over" and "the actors were fired."  Technically speaking, EVERYONE is
+fired when a show is over.
+
+      As for Crusade, there are a couple of people who might
+transition over, but that is *a different series*.  And must have its
+own identity (should it go into production).  You maybe do one or two
+B5 feature films, with the whole cast, as Crusade runs on a separate
+track on TV.
+
+      As for John Flinn...same situation.  John was the DP on B5 for
+all five years, minus those episodes DPd by Fred Murphy.  Babylon 5 is
+now over, and so that task is over.  Crusade (see previous disclaimer)
+should have an entirely different look from B5, to make it its own
+show, and that generally requires a different DP.  That's pretty much
+standard in the business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/40.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/40.html
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+
+
+Sakai Query (17 Apr 1998 21:26:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sakai Query

+
Date: 17 Apr 1998 21:26:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> at the end was Sinclair referring to Catherine Sakai?
+> And if so did she arrive before or after he did?
+> CT, so what else is new?
+
+      She arrived after.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/41.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/41.html
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+
+
+Corps is Mommy, Daddy (17 Apr 1998 23:03:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Corps is Mommy, Daddy

+
Date: 17 Apr 1998 23:03:02 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many conversations have you had with cows?
+
+"How many conversations have you had with cows?"
+
+      In or out of the TV business?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/42.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/42.html
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+
+
+The Gathering, Next Week (19 Apr 1998 14:59:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
The Gathering, Next Week

+
Date: 19 Apr 1998 14:59:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> is this the "special edition" or the original version?
+
+      It's the special edition.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/43.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/43.html
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+
+
+Scares PsiCops? (19 Apr 1998 22:32:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Scares PsiCops?

+
Date: 19 Apr 1998 22:32:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't consider it a mistake at all...you never heard much of
+other Psi Cops talking about Bester, and they would have more knowledge
+of him than anyone else.  As with Dirty Harry, some of the other
+officers above and below him liked him...and he scared the crap out of
+others.  Same here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/44.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/44.html
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+
+
+Signature Tune (19 Apr 1998 14:59:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Signature Tune

+
Date: 19 Apr 1998 14:59:10 -0700

+
 Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Am I right in assuming that you are trying to reflect a "new
+> world order" even form the signature tune ?
+
+      Each season's music reflects the content of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/45.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/45.html
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+
+
+No more UK Fan Club ? (21 Apr 1998 12:29:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
No more UK Fan Club ?

+
Date: 21 Apr 1998 12:29:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will this "clarification" effect the operation of the UK club in
+> any way?
+
+      Not that I'm aware of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/46.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/46.html
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+
+
+Signature Tune (21 Apr 1998 12:29:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Signature Tune

+
Date: 21 Apr 1998 12:29:02 -0700

+
 Ian Clasper <113131.2620@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A very good touch too, How many main themes are there ?
+
+      There are five themes, one per year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/47.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/47.html
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Schedule (26 Apr 1998 14:32:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5 Schedule

+
Date: 26 Apr 1998 14:32:03 -0700

+
 David Crader <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we see THIRDSPACE before this, or is that going to be held
+> for a prime-time fall spot, leading into the "final five"?
+
+      ThirdSpace will air July 19th, with The River of Souls airing
+November 22nd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/48.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/48.html
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+
+
+UK Showing - ep 502 (26 Apr 1998 20:36:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
UK Showing - ep 502

+
Date: 26 Apr 1998 20:36:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'd say from the way that Sheridan replied -- "You didn't ask
+where I stood during the big fight back home" "You're right, I didn't" -
+ - the implication is there that he knows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/49.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/49.html
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+
+
+Ever want to do Lit Clas (27 Apr 1998 13:58:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ever want to do Lit Clas

+
Date: 27 Apr 1998 13:58:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I'd rather do my own stuff, for the most part, and for now,
+though if a classic book landed in my lap, and it was a favorite, I'd
+be hard pressed to say no....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/5.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/5.html
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+
+
+Na'toth - yay (02 Apr 1998 23:20:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Na'toth - yay

+
Date: 02 Apr 1998 23:20:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, no plans for Na'Toth at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/50.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/50.html
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+
+
+Ellison recommendation ? (30 Apr 1998 00:42:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ellison recommendation ?

+
Date: 30 Apr 1998 00:42:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Of his previous titles, I suggest SHATTERDAY, DEATHBIRD STORIES,
+or STRANGE WINE, all of which are available at any decent SF bookstore.
+(His stuff is also being reprinted in the Edgeworks volumes.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/6.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/6.html
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+
+
+I Hate nasty Rumors (02 Apr 1998 23:20:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
I Hate nasty Rumors

+
Date: 02 Apr 1998 23:20:03 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You said it once yourself -- you write with passion, otherwise,
+> why bother?
+
+      Absolutely, there's no question that I'm going to be hit by
+those with an interest in hitting me on any side of these issues. 
+Crusade would be done because I want to have some *fun* after doing 5
+years of angst...so there are bound to be those who say it's selling
+out because it's not the same as B5 in that respect...if I have a
+primarily new cast, I sold out the old cast, if I have a primarily old
+cast, I'm being afraid of change...if it's too much like B5 some will
+complain, if it's too different some will complain....
+
+      Which is why, at the end of the day, you can never let the
+complaints (or, for that matter, the praise) tilt you one way or
+another.  The only thing you can do is follow the small, still voice at
+the back of your head that tells the stories, and write for yourself. 
+If you write well, enough people will stay around to keep you on the
+air...if you don't, they won't. That's always struck me as the fairest
+bargain around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+L.A. B5 mall tour Ques. (03 Apr 1998 16:35:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
L.A. B5 mall tour Ques.

+
Date: 03 Apr 1998 16:35:00 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Mall stop this weekend?
+> Has he cancelled, or was never a positive to go?
+
+      No, at this point it's Jerry Doyle, then Rick Biggs, then Jason
+Carter on Saturday from 12-3:30 or so, then on Sunday it's Tracy, Peter
+and (I think) Jeff from 12-3:30, both at the Glendale Galleria.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Psi-Corps Warning/Advice (03 Apr 1998 16:35:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Psi-Corps Warning/Advice

+
Date: 03 Apr 1998 16:35:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, that should be "I wish I *were* an orphan," if one
+wishes to be technically correct....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/9.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-04/9.html
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+
+
+B5 doll (03 Apr 1998 16:26:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 doll

+
Date: 03 Apr 1998 16:26:10 -0700

+
 Susan <100537.1517@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does EVERY doll carry that tag, meaning that it is one OUT OF
+> 12.000 ones or are they actually numbered 1 through 12.000?
+
+      Yeah, they all carry that tag.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lighting of season5 (02 May 1998 20:03:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Lighting of season5

+
Date: 02 May 1998 20:03:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The color of the sets varies by location; DownBelow tends to be
+more in the red end and brown end of the spectrum (hence the term Brown
+Sector that sometimes applies), where most of the command sectors are
+blueish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/10.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/10.html
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+
+
+CC Debate: Over (08 May 1998 03:31:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CC Debate: Over

+
Date: 08 May 1998 03:31:03 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comment on those assertions, or at least a word on why you
+> won't comment on them?
+
+      I have commented on them.  Understand that this is an ensemble
+show. We have (and have had) anywhere from 11-14 regular/recurring
+characters, and it is common for any number of them in a crowd that big
+to feel that they are being under-utilized.  I use each of the cast
+members as much as the story requires.  That's all I *can* do, because
+nothing else makes sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CC Debate: Over (08 May 1998 13:28:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CC Debate: Over

+
Date: 08 May 1998 13:28:08 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Guess what?
+
+      Bingo...that is as true a statement as I have ever read about
+this stuff in general, and this case in particular.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New Show (10 May 1998 00:52:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New Show

+
Date: 10 May 1998 00:52:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's the funniest rumor I've seen in months.
+
+      Where do they GET these things?  And why on earth don't they
+just ASK ME before printing something as silly as this?
+
+      It's not like I'm hard to find....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/13.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/13.html
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+
+
+San Diego Comic-Con? (10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
San Diego Comic-Con?

+
Date: 10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Again, that's not 100% sure yet, it's all kind of in a state of
+flux. What's the latest the folks at SDCC would have to know either way
+on this?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Kosh Poison (10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Kosh Poison

+
Date: 10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Following up on my Kosh question, had Kosh learned what was
+> coming from Valen?
+
+      Thanks...and there are some questions I'd like to pass on for
+now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thanks/Regrets (10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Thanks/Regrets

+
Date: 10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...there's been much that was annoying in the online
+conversation, but more that was positive and enjoyable, and in the long
+run, that's what matters.  I don't regret having made the decision to
+stick with it and stay accessible.  It's been a trial, no mistake...but
+I'm glad I did it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 10 May 1998 00:48:12 -0700

+
      Victories come in all sizes; in some ways, this is a small one,
+in other ways this is a big one.
+
+      For four years, we bugged Warner Bros. Home Video about
+releasing B5 on videocassette in retail outlets.  But WB has never
+released a series before on tape, it's not something they *do*, not
+sufficiently prestige when compared with their big movies.  Eventually
+they were persuaded to let Columbia House try it for mail-order, for
+the first season.
+
+      And CH was *swamped* with orders.  Phones rang off the hook, and
+tapes were back-ordered to try and fill the demand.
+
+      And Warner Bros...noticed.
+
+      And this month, they made a big announcement about the coming
+release of Babylon 5 on video through retail outlets all over the
+country.  I've seen the cover designs for the first batch, and they're
+extremely good looking montages, each specifically designed for that
+tape.  They're putting a lot of thought and effort and time into this,
+and a big campaign.  I believe the first batch hits the stands in July
+or August, somewhere in there.
+
+      This is a big victory for us.  On a grand scale, it may seem
+minor, but it's the most direct statement of "you were right" we've
+ever had from WB, and they were sufficiently mensches to say so, and
+act on it.
+
+      If these go well, they're also talking laserdisks and DVDs down
+the road, and should THAT happen, I'm going to push like hell to have
+them release the widescreen versions.
+
+      But that's the next campaign.  For now, this is a big victory
+for us, and we're mighty pleased.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CC Debate: Over (11 May 1998 23:40:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CC Debate: Over

+
Date: 11 May 1998 23:40:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, I don't feel I need to defend it...but a lot of people made
+a big deal about who you should believe...and now it's clear what was
+going on at the time was what I said it was...and a few folks are
+saying, "Well, now it doesn't matter."  Well, it does matter, when it's
+my integrity and honesty that's at issue.  If the original question was
+worth some folks making a big deal out of it, then getting the facts
+straight should merit as much attention.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+More Good News (13 May 1998 00:34:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
More Good News

+
Date: 13 May 1998 00:34:01 -0700

+
      TNT has moved up the airdate for "The River of Souls" to
+November 8th (from November 22nd) so that a) B5 fans won't have so long
+to wait, and b) to make sure both that and Sleeping in Light both get
+equal promotion, and one doesn't get lost in the other.
+
+      Also...when the fifth season begins again from "No Compromises"
+in the first week of July, it will coincide with the debut of TNT's new
+satellite relay which means that the 5th season episodes will air at
+the same time on both the East and West coasts (I think 8:00 p.m., I
+haven't heard the final on that yet)...AND they're adding a repeat of
+each new episode the same night at 11 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CC Debate: Over (14 May 1998 02:06:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CC Debate: Over

+
Date: 14 May 1998 02:06:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"It just seems to me that in the final analysis you have nothing to
+fear. History will be kind to JMS."
+
+      In light of the circumstances of most of my life, it would be a
+kindness both welcome and uncommon.
+
+      I will, however, hope for the best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ Kosh Poison (02 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
 Kosh Poison

+
Date: 02 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Kosh actually poisoned or did he just fake it for the
+> natives?
+
+      No, he wasn't faking it.  Understand that their appearance as a
+being of light is only how they want to appear; they are life forms
+much the same as many others, and can be poisoned if one knows the
+right combination of substances.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lennier the traitor (15 May 1998 15:33:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Lennier the traitor

+
Date: 15 May 1998 15:33:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Maybe you ought to wait to see what happens this season, and act
+from an informed point of view, than from gossip.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (15 May 1998 23:31:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 15 May 1998 23:31:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Actually, you have better resolution on a good PC monitor than
+the average TV, so it's bound to be sharper there than on the TV.  (I
+have a DVD player in my new system, and it's amazing....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (15 May 1998 22:07:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 15 May 1998 22:07:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's two episodes per tape, and I think it's about $14.95 per
+tape.  As for DVD, that's going to be a long ways down the road, so I'd
+grab these while we can.  (And if they do well, the odds of DVD
+increase.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Level 12 Blocks (15 May 1998 22:07:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Level 12 Blocks

+
Date: 15 May 1998 22:07:08 -0700

+
 Michael Zitaglio <102545.641@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since Lyta was able to break them thanks to Vorlorn modification,
+> cant she also break Garibaldi's current block ( not being able to
+> kill Bester )??
+
+      You'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (17 May 1998 00:57:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 17 May 1998 00:57:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think a second audio/commentary thing might be do-able down
+the road, but only for certain select episodes, not all of 'em.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/25.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/25.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (17 May 1998 00:57:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 17 May 1998 00:57:08 -0700

+
 Paul Weddell <110213.1364@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you considered putting those scenes back in for the video
+> releases - a sort of director's cut - or were the shows that
+> aired exactly as you wanted them?
+
+      No, we can't put the scenes in because it would mean a full
+audio remix, which is very expensive.  The director's cut (which is
+often extremely changed when John and I go in to do our version, so
+you're basically getting the producer's cut from which we then cut
+lines and bits) only exists on computer disk, not on film.  We'd have
+to go back into the thing and that would take a massive amount of
+money.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (17 May 1998 19:36:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 17 May 1998 19:36:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I love AC3...and we've arranged that when we do Crusade, we'll
+be doing a THX quality mix with full 5.1 separation...it's gonna be
+bitchin'....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/27.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/27.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (18 May 1998 02:47:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 18 May 1998 02:47:14 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How are you going to transport the AC-3 signal over the Channel?
+> Or is this for the DVD / LD release only?
+> IF you find a way to send it over normal ways, will it also be
+> available in countries outside the US?
+
+      It's my understanding that this is one of the things that will
+be facilitated by the changeover to HDTV format.  But either way, the
+delivery is up to WB, we're just focusing on making it as good as we
+can in this respect, so we're ready for whatever comes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (17 May 1998 19:36:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 17 May 1998 19:36:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The funny thing is, the DVDs already cost less than laserdisks,
+and will continue to come down, simply because they're smaller and
+easier to produce.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (17 May 1998 21:29:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 17 May 1998 21:29:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, the WB tapes will also be available via online
+ordering, through their site and thestation.com, so it'll be just about
+as easy to do so, and cheaper.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+My Email (02 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
My Email

+
Date: 02 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700

+
      A reminder to all and sundry:
+
+      My private email box is only to be used for confidential or
+deeply personal matters.  It is not to be used for jokes, uploads
+without asking permission or informing me in advance (I have had my
+hard drive trashed by viruses sent to me), plot questions or the like. 
+You may decide, "Oh, that's a funny joke, I'll foward that to Joe," but
+if 500 of you do that my mailbox becomes completely unmanageable and
+important stuff scrolls off.
+
+      If you have a general question or comment or something to pass
+along, please do so in the public forums, where others can benefit from
+the answer. The private mail box should be used only as a last resort,
+for truly personal or confidential matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 3 voiceover (17 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Season 3 voiceover

+
Date: 17 May 1998 19:56:01 -0700

+
 Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com> asks:
+> My sister turned to me and asked, "Why does she say that?
+> Isn't peace more important than victory?"
+> As one person put it, we're just about swimming in the
+> interpretations at this point, so I'd like to ask you: what was
+> your intention with those lines?
+
+      Peace can be a surrender as well as an achievement, especially
+when facing an enemy dedicated to something unpleasant.  Chamberlin
+returned from a visit to Germany with a so-called agreement in his
+hands, and announced that by granting concessions to Hitler, he had
+achieved "peace in our time."
+
+      Peace is a byproduct of victory against those who do not want
+peace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (18 May 1998 02:48:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 18 May 1998 02:48:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will Columbia House still offer the B5 tapes?
+
+      I don't know; I think they had a one-year trial on this thing
+for the first season's worth of tapes, and with WB getting into it, I
+don't know how this will break out down the road when that trial
+expires.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 3 voiceover (18 May 1998 14:17:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Season 3 voiceover

+
Date: 18 May 1998 14:17:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, but liberty is never given, only won.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (18 May 1998 14:17:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 18 May 1998 14:17:11 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you film B5 in theater dimentions so that it would represent
+> an easily available series which could provide HDTV content for
+> the new stations which will be scrambling for it?
+
+      Yes, B5 was filmed in widescreen and cropped for contemporary TV
+format; same will be the case for Crusade.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New Show (18 May 1998 22:13:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New Show

+
Date: 18 May 1998 22:13:10 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You don't hide under the bed anymore?
+
+"You don't hide under the bed anymore?"
+
+      Not since the monsters moved in down there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Balancing Act (18 May 1998 22:13:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Balancing Act

+
Date: 18 May 1998 22:13:10 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And, as you're preparing Crusade, are you aware of an optimum
+> cast size, or is it that you see the story, and the story
+> dictates the cast size? In other words, the main difference I've
+> seen between B5 and other series attempting to establish long-
+> term storylines is that other series seem to require continuing
+> guest appearances -- so, how much was the larger cast size of B5
+> (and presumably, Crusade) dictated simply by the story you wanted
+> to tell or your awareness as someone experienced in TV production
+> of the best regular cast-size to accomplish long-term
+> storytelling?
+
+      There's really no best regular size.  B5 generally had about 9-
+11 regulars and recurring (i.e., in the main credits) actors in any
+given season, which was necessary because you had 4 different,
+competing forces, each of whom required some representation (Earth/B5,
+Minbar, Narn, Centauri Prime). With an ambassador plus aide, that's 8
+minimum, plus at least one or two others for station operations.
+
+      In Crusade, we're really dealing with one force encountering
+others on a per-episode basis (mostly), so we've got 6 regulars/recurs,
+with a subset of reappearing characters (a la Morden, Bester or Corwin
+in B5).  That feels about right to me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms TV Guide Online Chat (19 May 1998 03:24:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
jms TV Guide Online Chat

+
Date: 19 May 1998 03:24:13 -0700

+
      FYI...John Copeland and I will be doing a live chat on the TV
+Guide online site today (Tuesday) at 7:00 p.m. Pacific, 10:00 p.m.
+Eastern.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, as far as I know, the only two shows that were shooting in
+widescreen was us, and Lois and Clark.  To my knowledge, though I'm
+willing to be corrected, nobody else is doing it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New Show (19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
New Show

+
Date: 19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will we be seeing any of these monsters in the first season of
+> Crusade?
+
+      Depends on their agents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is the stage being build?
+> How is this with B5 or was this toally bullshitting ?
+
+      What I think they're referring to is the level of detail put
+into finishing a set; there are imperfections you'll never see on the
+average 27" TV screen that will be huge and obvious on a 35' movie
+screen.  So that may be what they mean.  It's common to go for the
+former level of detail than the latter on most TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms at MIT Monday (03 May 1998 11:19:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms at MIT Monday

+
Date: 03 May 1998 11:19:11 -0700

+
      For those in the Boston area, I'll be speaking at MIT on Monday
+the 4th from 7-10 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (19 May 1998 23:49:12 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
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+
Date: 19 May 1998 23:49:12 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Yes, and how is this handled with B5 and soon to come Crusade ?
+
+"Yes, and how is this handled with B5 and soon to come Crusade ?"
+
+      It will be handled...well, of course.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Lochley - No Of episodes (19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Lochley - No Of episodes

+
Date: 19 May 1998 14:00:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I think she ended up doing about 10 for us.  And "Corps" was
+Bester's last episode for B5 the series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Season 6? (19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Season 6?

+
Date: 19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Then be of good cheer, there's the CRUSADE follow-up series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+unauthorized books (19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
unauthorized books

+
Date: 19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm surprised...no, astounded, really, that you would ask me
+this.
+
+      What you are saying is that you want me to help your friend to
+find a way around the problem of publishing an unauthorized book that
+would not exist were it not for Babylon 5, but for which your friend
+does not want to share any of the money or profit for that book with
+the studio and entity that created it.  Granted that my portion of any
+of this is barely enough to register...nonetheless, he is going to be
+basing those trivia questions based on characters, dialogue and
+situations that I created...but he does not see any reason why I, as
+the person responsible for the material he is going to print, should
+benefit from this book.
+
+      If your friend wants to do a B5 trivia book, then I suggest he
+take the very simple steps involved in doing so in an authorized, legal
+and responsible fashion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Loveunrequited lennier (19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Loveunrequited lennier

+
Date: 19 May 1998 23:49:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, Lennier is in next week's episode...and as for the outraged
+few: frankly, if folks go around reading spoilers that are taken wildly
+out of context and get bugged by what they see (but don't
+understand)...they got what they deserved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (21 May 1998 01:19:05 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
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+
Date: 21 May 1998 01:19:05 -0700

+
 Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question Joe: When you shoot on wide screen do you block so that
+> the primary action is centered for the 4:3 TV screen or does post
+> have to do a pan and scan process to make it work on today's TV?
+
+      We protect for the center of frame, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+unauthorized books (20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
unauthorized books

+
Date: 20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What would someone have to do if he would be interrested in
+> writing a part of the B5 Universe history?
+
+      That's something we're discussing in-house.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+More Good News (20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
More Good News

+
Date: 20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700

+
 Guy Schwartz <103343.116@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that add to $$$ for WB, or you, or do they allready pay for
+> the right to air twice, thrice, etc?
+
+      No, they paid for the rights for a given period of time, during
+which they can run it as many times as they want.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+unauthorized books (20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
unauthorized books

+
Date: 20 May 1998 11:38:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I considered that, but the original message was exploring WB's
+"level of comfort" with an unauthorized book, you don't inquire about a
+"level of comfort" if you're just going to go ahead and do something
+authorized.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade Pilot? (21 May 1998 01:29:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade Pilot?

+
Date: 21 May 1998 01:29:03 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> You said recently that 'A Call to Arms' was a lead-in to Crusade
+> and not a pilot, does this mean will be doing another feature
+> length pilot for Crusade or will the first episode be of normal
+> length ?
+
+      No, the first episode will be of normal length.  A Call to Arms
+is primarily a B5 movie, which sets the incidents in place that lead to
+Crusade, which then hits the ground running with its first episode,
+regular length, same as the other 21 TNT has signed for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon Emporium Help! (03 May 1998 22:18:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Babylon Emporium Help!

+
Date: 03 May 1998 22:18:08 -0700

+
 David Belt <72142.1365@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Could you please have him or her contact me?
+> Do you have any idea what Mira Furlan's next project is and what
+> Bruce Boxlietner's next project is?
+
+      Thanks...and try reelkosh@aol.com that may work.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+unauthorized books (21 May 1998 01:29:03 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
unauthorized books

+
Date: 21 May 1998 01:29:03 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Final question: can you point him in the right direction with a
+> name/phone/email or whatever so that he can attempt to become
+> 'authorized"?
+
+      There's not much secret that Del Rey Books is doing the licensed
+B5 books these days.  That would be the place to go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Creating Crusade? (21 May 1998 01:29:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Creating Crusade?

+
Date: 21 May 1998 01:29:04 -0700

+
 Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a chance something like that might come to fruition?
+
+      I'm sure somebody will do it eventually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/52.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/52.html
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+
+
+Lochley - No Of episodes (21 May 1998 01:29:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Lochley - No Of episodes

+
Date: 21 May 1998 01:29:04 -0700

+
 Don Berg <74147.1753@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does this mean the Garibaldi / Bester arc is left hanging?
+
+      Yes and no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/53.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/53.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (21 May 1998 18:06:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:08 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much of a cost does that impart?
+
+"That was smart. How much of a cost does that impart?"
+
+      It's negligible, it's mainly a little more time-consuming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/54.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/54.html
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+
+
+Crusade Pilot? (21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Crusade Pilot?

+
Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700

+
 Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will you start filming Crusade?
+
+      We start filming around the end of July/first of August.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/55.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/55.html
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+
+
+A Word of Support (21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
A Word of Support

+
Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks...it's been a hard road, but in the final analysis, it
+was the right thing to do.
+
+      But it does illustrate the weaknesses in the Usenet system,
+however well intentioned, that I've practically *never* had to post a
+note like that here on Compuserve, which doesn't allow such behavior.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/56.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/56.html
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+
+
+More Good News (21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
More Good News

+
Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So there's no real roadblock to the B5 Network?
+
+      I like it...All B5, All the Time....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/57.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/57.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      On the other hand, as far as I know, Columbia only acquired the
+rights to sell the first season, because they weren't sure how it would
+all work out. So it might dovetail well into the WB tapes for the
+episodes thereafter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/58.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/58.html
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+
+
+Season 6? (21 May 1998 18:06:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Season 6?

+
Date: 21 May 1998 18:06:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've no idea at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/59.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/59.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't think misled is the word...I think they were intent upon
+acquiring them down the road, but now that WB is doing all of them,
+that may become more problematic.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/6.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/6.html
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+
+
+Crusade Confirmed (03 May 1998 22:18:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Crusade Confirmed

+
Date: 03 May 1998 22:18:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Many thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WorldCon (22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
WorldCon

+
Date: 22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      If I can swing by, I will, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/61.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/61.html
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+
+
+B5 video release (22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 video release

+
Date: 22 May 1998 17:43:09 -0700

+
 FRANK J. FURFARO <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that how WB is handling the release, or will they also be
+> available individually? Also, do you know how many eps are going
+> to be in the first release?
+
+      I think the 3 pack is the initial release, but all will be
+available individually.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/62.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/62.html
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+
+
+More Good News (23 May 1998 23:25:00 -0700)
+
+
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+

+
More Good News

+
Date: 23 May 1998 23:25:00 -0700

+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But what about Crusade?
+
+      Funny thing is...I've written about 200 or so produced episodes
+of TV. Assuming a bit over one third of that is animation, figure 80
+half hours and 120 one-hour shows...that's 160 hours of TV...the
+average network programs series from 8-11 p.m. 7 days a week, that's 21
+hours a week...so it would fill 8 weeks of prime-time programming on
+one network, plus the five B5 movies.
+
+      Suddenly I have the profound urge to take a nap....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+No more Bester? (22 May 1998 17:43:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
No more Bester?

+
Date: 22 May 1998 17:43:10 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true?
+> Will he be in Crusades?
+
+      It's possible that Bester would appear elsewhere, whether in a
+TV movie or elsewhere, maybe even Crusade, we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/64.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/64.html
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+
+
+B5 in Toronto, Canada (25 May 1998 23:37:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 in Toronto, Canada

+
Date: 25 May 1998 23:37:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I haven't really been plugged into this, and while on the one
+hand I can see how it's a pain in the butt, at the same time I can
+understand why TNT would feel this way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/65.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/65.html
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+
+
+Easter Egg in Guide? (26 May 1998 01:22:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Easter Egg in Guide?

+
Date: 26 May 1998 01:22:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Play in the alarm sounds area.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/66.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/66.html
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+
+
+More Good News (26 May 1998 01:22:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
More Good News

+
Date: 26 May 1998 01:22:05 -0700

+
 Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now, was that the animated "Ghostbusters" that aired back in the
+> eighties?
+
+"Now, was that the animated "Ghostbusters" that aired back in the
+eighties? My memories are dim because I was only maybe seven at the
+time (showing my youth here) but my brother and I absolutely loved the
+animated "Ghostbusters"."
+
+      Yeah, that was my show.  I did the first network season of 13
+episodes, and the syndicated season of 65 episodes...of which I wrote
+something like 16 or 18 episodes.  Left it when they insisted on
+changing Janine into a mommy character and knocked all the edges off
+the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/67.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/67.html
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+
+
+Easter Egg in Guide? (26 May 1998 16:45:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Easter Egg in Guide?

+
Date: 26 May 1998 16:45:13 -0700

+
 Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there two versions of the Guide?
+> So, are they just a little slow in thier reviews or is their a
+> new version?
+
+      They're just a little slow...there's only the one version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/68.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/68.html
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+
+
+More Good News (26 May 1998 16:45:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
More Good News

+
Date: 26 May 1998 16:45:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thing was, the show was successful *across the board*...all
+ages.  It was ABC's number one rated animated series.  That's when they
+came to the "Well, anything can be improved...let's call in some child
+psychologists and consultants," which is when the whole thing went to
+hell.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/69.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/69.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (26 May 1998 22:56:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 May 1998 22:56:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'm with you, I want 'em on DVD myself (have also made the
+transition, and have to say I love the format, it's massively cool).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/7.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/7.html
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+
+
+San Diego Comic-Con? (05 May 1998 00:32:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
San Diego Comic-Con?

+
Date: 05 May 1998 00:32:08 -0700

+
 Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> and will you be giving a B5/Crusade presentation?
+
+      At this point, I don't know if I can do SDCC or not this year; I
+had to cancel out one convention already around that time, because of
+the need to gear up Crusade.  I'd assumed that I wouldn't have anything
+going this Summer, so I booked a number of conventions all in the same
+two month period of time, kind of a post-B5 blitzkreig.  Then all hell
+broke loose.  So I may either not go (first time for that in 12 years)
+or just pop down on one day for a quick Dealer's Room run-through and
+out.  I can't just go for the one day if I do my full
+presentation...I'm too whacked afterward for shopping at the DR, and I 
+can do so beforehand because I'm prepping for the presentation.  So
+I'm kinda unsure right now what to do, and what I'll have time for.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/70.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/70.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (27 May 1998 01:56:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 27 May 1998 01:56:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      And btw, good to see you back around the old cyberhearth
+again....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/71.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/71.html
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+
+
+No more Bester? (27 May 1998 22:00:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
No more Bester?

+
Date: 27 May 1998 22:00:02 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it mean you haven't decided or you just don't want to tell
+> us? BTW, out of curiosity - how old are you (at least the age
+> group)?
+
+      Meaning I know but I ain't telling.
+
+      And I'm 43.
+
+      Funny story there...I had occasion to take a cab recently, and I
+get in, and the driver is this Russian guy, medium-accent.  He looks
+back, and he says, "I am trying to decide which of us is older, you or
+me."  Jokingly, I suggest that it's probably me, and he says, "No, it
+is probably me.  I am 52. I am guessing you are...48."
+
+      "Actually, I'm 43," I said.
+
+      "FORTY THREE?!" he says...and damn near drives off the road.
+
+      I shrug.  "I've had a hard life."
+
+      "Must be," he said, shaking his head.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/72.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/72.html
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+
+
+No more Bester? (28 May 1998 23:20:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
No more Bester?

+
Date: 28 May 1998 23:20:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It would take a hell of a lot more than greying hair and
+wrinkles to make me look respectable.
+
+      And yeah, the show has definitely aged me.  I recently saw a
+friend whom I haven't seen face to face since about year 1 of B5, and
+the first words out of his mouth were "Jesus Christ what happened to
+YOU?"  (Thanks, great to see you, too....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/73.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/73.html
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+
+
+No more Bester? (28 May 1998 23:20:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
No more Bester?

+
Date: 28 May 1998 23:20:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      All my characters are in some way based on stuff I either see in
+myself, or would like to see in myself were I a nobler and smarter
+person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/74.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/74.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (27 May 1998 22:00:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Date: 27 May 1998 22:00:01 -0700

+
 Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you have any suggestions on how to convince WB to release B5
+> on DVD?
+
+      If the tapes sell, they'll almost certainly do DVD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/75.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-05/75.html
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+
+
+More Good News (27 May 1998 22:00:01 -0700)
+
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+
More Good News

+
Date: 27 May 1998 22:00:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I go for what someone at the BBC once said: "There are some
+people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lochley - No Of episodes (27 May 1998 22:00:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 May 1998 22:00:02 -0700

+
 Laura <102701.3660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But, what about Garibaldi?
+> How is he going to get back at Bester if Bester isn't going to be
+> on the show anymore?
+
+      Watch, and learn.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cast Decline Crusade (28 May 1998 04:02:00 -0700)
+
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Cast Decline Crusade

+
Date: 28 May 1998 04:02:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      To clarify:
+
+      Jerry was never offered a contract on Crusade.  When he
+negotiated his deal on "A Call to Arms," WB attempted to get an option
+on him for the series, as a matter of due course.  They did so for
+everyone appearing in the movie, including Jeff and Tracy, since it is
+in many ways a set-up for Crusade.  This is a pro-forma thing done in
+such situations by any studio when they're dealing with a new series
+being set up.  It doesn't exclude any kind of appearance in Crusade on
+a guest basis or more than that.
+
+      Frankly, I think Jerry would do better on a per-episode
+negotiation (and would be better featured that way) than to get tied up
+with an option. And told him so when he approached me for advice on
+whether or not to let himself get saddled with an option.
+
+      The best possible situation would be a central core of new
+characters who can move through the B5 universe, and run into our
+familiar characters, on an as-needed basis, as determined by the story.
+It gives the story maximum flexibility, and lets the actors negotiate
+sort of "a la carte," if you will, which means they'll almost certainly
+get more than if they get locked down and have to do X-number of
+episodes at a pre-negotiated price.
+
+      And that seems to be pretty much what we're heading toward.  In
+addition, I think we need to have the B5 cast available for a feature
+film that is getting more and more probable by the day.  That, to be
+honest, is where they're finally going to make the kind of money
+they've all earned by staying with this show for this long.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Cast Decline Crusade (28 May 1998 12:53:10 -0700)
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Cast Decline Crusade

+
Date: 28 May 1998 12:53:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      One last follow-up to underline why I suggested Jerry not go for
+the option.  A CONTRACT is a *guarantee* that you will pay X actor Y
+dollars to appear in Z episodes.  An OPTION ensure's the studio's
+*right* to your services, but does not *guarantee* them.  So you can be
+under option, and at the last moment, the studio can decide not to
+exercise that option...and you get nothing.
+
+      Why is this important?  Because all of the actors are out now
+looking to build on what they've established in their careers over 5
+years of B5, with possibilities of leads on other better-paying network
+gigs, features, who knows.  But if you go to network A and they want
+you, but find out that someone else has an option on you that may
+preclude you from working for them, then they're going to find someone
+else.
+
+      An option like this ties you down, with the possibility of not
+getting any other work, and in the end may not even be exercised. 
+Coming hot off the big fifth year promotion, I can see why this might
+not be high on someone's list of possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Cast Decline Crusade (28 May 1998 14:11:04 -0700)
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Date: 28 May 1998 14:11:04 -0700

+
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+
+      As far as I know they'll be handled by WB international, same as
+B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Confirmed (05 May 1998 00:32:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 May 1998 00:32:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, A Call to Arms isn't a Crusade pilot, it's a B5 movie that
+somewhat sets the stage for the new show, but is not a part of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Meditations on the Abyss (28 May 1998 12:43:05 -0700)
+
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Meditations on the Abyss

+
Date: 28 May 1998 12:43:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 video release (30 May 1998 17:52:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 May 1998 17:52:00 -0700

+
 David Crader <104635.1044@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How many episodes per tape???
+> Will they go the excellent Fox route ala The X-Files and put two
+> on a tape, or will they take the Paramount Star Trek screw-job
+> route and have only one?????
+
+      It's two per tape.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon Project: Crusade (31 May 1998 23:10:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 31 May 1998 23:10:04 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering who owns the rights to Crusade, Warner Brothers
+> or TNT? How is Crusade's development going?
+
+      WB owns the rights to Crusade...and we're in serious
+preproduction now on Crusade (casting, design work, other stuff).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+CC Debate: Over (06 May 1998 23:34:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 May 1998 23:34:01 -0700

+
      Okay, from the beginning of the Claudia Christian departure,
+I've been saying that she quit.  At the time, she said she was fired. 
+And a lot of people said, "Well, we'll never really know."  This
+despite all the basic facts being confirmed by both sides.
+
+      I quote from an interview with Claudia just published in the
+Summer issue of Sci Fi Invasion:
+
+      Question: By you quitting, Straczynski lost Ivanova.  He
+couldn't have been happy about that.
+
+      Claudia: I think he feels like I put them out or something by
+quitting the show, when in essence I don't really think it affected
+anything.  (small snip)  I just didn't think there'd be a lot for me to
+do, and I didn't want to be relegated to one more year of not having my
+any challenges.
+
+      She has finally confirmed it: I told the truth from the
+beginning.  She quit.  She wasn't fired.  She quit.
+
+      This debate is now over.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Furst directing (01 Jun 1998 18:08:06 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Jun 1998 18:08:06 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> " Was that intentional on your or his part, or accidental?
+
+      It just sorta worked out that way; it wasn't something we did or
+he asked for intentionally.  Some things happen through a weird,
+organic kind of synchronicity.  That's one of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (04 Jun 1998 03:29:14 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 04 Jun 1998 03:29:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"so that means they were in the loop at some point, and WB knew about
+it..."
+
+      That's certainly the party line, being spouted on the Wolf web
+site, and repeated by you almost verbatim.
+
+      But nobody ever said Wolf wasn't in the loop...obviously they
+were in contact with various people at WB in the first place or the
+screening couldn't have been planned in ANY event, at cost or
+otherwise.  So this new comeback is utterly silly and absolutely
+meaningless.
+
+      The question at hand is how well they were handling the loop.
+
+      Obviously some folks are trying to save face any way they can,
+regardless of whether the latest statement actually makes sense or
+not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Darkness Ascending (04 Jun 1998 12:38:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 04 Jun 1998 12:38:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I know...if I do a bunch of arc episodes in a row, certain
+people say it's "obviously rushed."  If I take a more leisurely pace to
+develop certain characters and themes, the same folks say it's
+"wandering, lost its way."
+
+      The show is what the show is, and what the show is, is what I
+wanted to write.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 04 Jun 1998 12:38:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I go by Joe.  Call me Joe.  Joe is fine.  Joe is simpler to
+spell, quicker to type, friendlier on-screen, one syllable.  Michael is
+two syllables, and I don't respond to it.
+
+      Straczynski, pronounced just right and with the proper force
+behind it, can actually strike a cow dead at twenty paces.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Darkness Ascending (04 Jun 1998 21:35:11 -0700)
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Darkness Ascending

+
Date: 04 Jun 1998 21:35:11 -0700

+
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+
+      Having spent a lot of time on Earth at the end of S4, I'd rather
+do a few other things this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Darkness Ascending (05 Jun 1998 14:56:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jun 1998 14:56:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      s'okay....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Darkness Ascending (05 Jun 1998 14:56:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Jun 1998 14:56:14 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, I tend to agree...they are indeed very hard to pull off,
+and we only get a few here and there.
+
+      The remarkable thing is...there are at least 4 or 5 of them in
+the next 3 episodes alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Darkness Ascending (06 Jun 1998 22:27:06 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 06 Jun 1998 22:27:06 -0700

+
 Marte Brengle <76703.4242@compuserve.com> asks:
+> how *would* a human and a Narn mate, anyway?
+
+      Well, as G'Kar said in the pilot, there would have to be rather
+substantial genetic manipulation and adjustment to allow for the
+different DNA structures to mix.
+
+      After that, it would require the usual: dinner, flowers, and
+being willing to sit through a chick-flick....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Creating Crusade? (09 Jun 1998 12:43:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Jun 1998 12:43:01 -0700

+
 Jim Levy <105315.155@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is the sketch of the 'Excaliber' shown in the June issue of 'Cult
+> Times #33' gonna basicly be what we see in the show? ...or is this
+> a initial rough draft shot?
+
+      It's an early conceptual design; we've modified it a fair amount
+since then.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Darkness Ascending (10 Jun 1998 00:44:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Jun 1998 00:44:13 -0700

+
 Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In space?
+
+      That might be a more reasonable concern if it were more of what
+one would consider a standard crew that would be concerned about such
+things.
+
+      Which is all I can say about it for now.  More in two weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+An Effect Goes Astray? (10 Jun 1998 21:57:12 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10 Jun 1998 21:57:12 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Even if the fighters shown were only part of the escort, leading
+> Redstar 9 away, shouldn't they have been a bit more active? What
+> was your intent?
+
+      No, they were fighting...they were just more running away than
+they were fighting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (01 Jun 1998 16:17:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Jun 1998 16:17:00 -0700

+
      The London screening of "In the Beginning" late in July was
+always intended to be a free screening.  When I learned that twenty
+pounds and more was being charged per ticket for a free screening, I
+and Warner Bros. got into this situation, causing a bit of a stir with
+the organizers who insisted that this was the way it was supposed to
+be, first trying to fob off the money as being for the actors, then
+saying that WB wanted the money.
+
+      Well, WB has just confirmed the following: the Wolf con
+organizers have been taken out of the loop; the screening is now free,
+as it was intended to be; any monies paid will be refunded; and
+tentatively, Bruce has agreed to stop by one or both of the screenings
+without cost to the fans (this last bit depending on his
+schedule/arrival times in the UK).
+
+      This event was always meant to be free to the UK fans as
+recognition for their support.  And now it is what it was meant to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Director's Viewpoint (10 Jun 1998 21:57:12 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10 Jun 1998 21:57:12 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Given (for those of us who have read your TCOS script in your
+> scriptwriting book) that you give quite detailed visual details
+> in your scripts (angles of shots, focus-points, mood), what is
+> the contribution of the director as far as the visual outcome?
+
+      It was shot for shot what I wrote...but at the same time, a
+director can realize that well, or poorly.  I thought that Goran did a
+terrific job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Latest Ep 6/10/98 (11 Jun 1998 22:43:00 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 11 Jun 1998 22:43:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, do bear in mind that the events in "War" were 17 years
+after the fact, so the shadow allies could have come at any time;
+Sheridan didn't fully understand what a keeper was, and also bear in
+mind that there is no reason to suspect anything in this situation. 
+People can indeed start wars without having keepers on them, you know. 
+We do it all the time.  He would have to have some overwhelming
+proof...and even then, if he says anything to Londo, he might risk
+changing the timeline, and that would have potentially disasterous 
+consequences.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Director's Viewpoint (11 Jun 1998 13:10:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 11 Jun 1998 13:10:06 -0700

+
 Tom Knudsen <72347.1626@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was Goran's episode??
+
+"I have to say this was one of the best episodes of the entire series.
+If this is any indication of what the rest of the season is
+like.......watch out."
+
+      Well, the next episode is even more so...and the one after that,
+more so still.  You get a slight breather for an episode or so -- still
+very strongly arc, though, just not as in-your-face hardhitting -- and
+then the last are whammers.
+
+"I suspect a stream of apologies to your are about to begin."
+
+      Yeah, right, and pandas will fly out of my butt.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on UK Sci-Fi Channel? (11 Jun 1998 13:10:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 on UK Sci-Fi Channel?

+
Date: 11 Jun 1998 13:10:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, the Sci Fi channel in the UK/Europe have indeed acquired
+the rights to show B5, which I think will begin in the fall or
+thereabouts, and we've been told that they will show the series uncut.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Director's Viewpoint (11 Jun 1998 13:10:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 11 Jun 1998 13:10:07 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am, however, moved to ask, are you getting a lot of repeat
+> business from the naysayers?
+
+      Oh, I still hear plenty from the naysayers...they can't argue
+with the quality of the episodes now, so they say, "Well, it's too
+little, too late," totally ignoring all that went before to set this
+up.
+
+      Screw 'em.  This season, there wasn't any pressure, there wasn't
+any fighting for renewal since we knew this was gonna be it, so I wrote
+exactly the show that I wanted to write.  As long as more folks like it
+than don't, which is precisely the case here, that's all that matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Director's Viewpoint (11 Jun 1998 22:49:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Jun 1998 22:49:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, that was a visual pun written into the script, the other
+shoe dropping...but also reflecting that kind of low energy thing in
+the morning, when you put one slipper on, and you just *don't* want to
+leave...and you just let the energy drain away, and the slipper falls
+from your hand...which also overlaps the gavel dropping, as scripted.
+
+      I took a great deal of care in blocking out every shot in that
+one, as opposed to some other cases, as with Mike Vejar, where I wrote,
+in "The Face of the Enemy," "They pull down Sheridan like a pack of
+wolves bringing down a lion" knowing that he would then take that and
+turn it into art.  And he did.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (11 Jun 1998 22:49:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Jun 1998 22:49:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't know how tickets are now available; I suspect they'll go
+to those who had originally volunteered to pay for them, but I don't
+know that for a fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Latest Ep 6/10/98 (12 Jun 1998 02:11:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Latest Ep 6/10/98

+
Date: 12 Jun 1998 02:11:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The fifth season ends in 2262.
+
+      The telepath war: 2264/5.
+
+      Crusade: 2267.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Latest Ep 6/10/98 (12 Jun 1998 15:23:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Latest Ep 6/10/98

+
Date: 12 Jun 1998 15:23:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, we will know...some things...about how the telepath war
+ended. It's certainly moved a number of the pieces around.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (13 Jun 1998 23:38:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1998 23:38:09 -0700

+
 Ansawdd <113556.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> could "In the Beginning" be the first B5 movie?
+> And another thing - a screening in July?
+> Which year?
+> I suppose that this is mostly down to the use of Computer
+> Graphics?
+
+      ItB is the B5 prequel TV movie, which aired here in the US in
+January, and will be released on tape in the UK shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (02 Jun 1998 12:55:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Jun 1998 12:55:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have no idea.  But they're going to be at the convention, are
+they not?  And virtually everyone who got tickets is also going to the
+convention, as far as I've heard.  Either way, though, I  haven't heard
+one way or another on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1998 23:38:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I come from a similar background.  Hence the truthfulness in
+some of this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 (14 Jun 1998 21:09:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Jun 1998 21:09:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate that.  And actually, there are 5 more eps
+to go; 501 was moved to the end of year 4 as "Deconstruction," so
+you've got this next one, then the wait, and the final four.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Darkness> glitch (16 Jun 1998 13:11:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Jun 1998 13:11:03 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who is responsible for these little mistakes?
+> the director?
+> editor?
+> actor?
+
+      Such things are tracked by the dialogue/continuity editor on-
+set, but they can also occur when you trim up a scene a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Darkness> Lyta/G'kar (16 Jun 1998 23:40:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
<Darkness> Lyta/G'kar

+
Date: 16 Jun 1998 23:40:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, that Lyta has no reason to think that G'Kar
+is lying, and she considers him a friend or at least a potential ally,
+and that alone would mitigate against the need for any scan.  She
+doesn't go around scanning everybody she talks to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch (17 Jun 1998 02:17:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Jun 1998 02:17:05 -0700

+
      For those who get the Sci-Fi Channel, the series MASTERS OF
+FANTASY will be doing a half-hour show on Harlan Ellison (Thursday at
+5:30 and 9:30, don't know if that's broken down by time zone, and the
+following Wednesday at the same times).
+
+      Interviewed were me, Robin Williams, Willam Gibson, Leonard
+Nimoy, and other folks.  It actually came out pretty cool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Actress? (17 Jun 1998 13:05:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Jun 1998 13:05:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, they're the same person, Beata Poznia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Garibaldi's Song (17 Jun 1998 23:02:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Jun 1998 23:02:06 -0700

+
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+
+      No, it's a song that's been around for a long time, and been
+used in many places.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where's the WHAM????? (17 Jun 1998 23:02:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Jun 1998 23:02:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> And we have to wait FOUR MONTHS to find out what happens
+> NEXT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
+
+      Well, it's kinda what I've been saying all along...the bigger
+the planned wham, the longer the quiet ramp-up.  And, again, the arc
+was there when it didn't seem to be: this whole thing started when the
+raids started to take place, which goes back quite a ways.  And Lyta
+would not be in this position, not this assertive with her abilities,
+had she not gone through the fire (literally and figuratively) with
+Byron, whose fate more or less kicked her out of her shell.  The old
+Lyta would never have just up and gone to the Drazi homeworld on her
+own; but the money, needed to follow her and Byron's dream, propelled
+her.
+
+      It was ALL there, more or less in plain view.
+
+      And without it, without all that careful and deliberate setup,
+this episode (and especially those that follow) would never have played
+as well, if at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch (17 Jun 1998 23:02:06 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Jun 1998 23:02:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"you are a perniciously base wickedly depraved conniving vile
+detestably abhorrent..."
+
+      Why, thankyew.
+
+"...and utterly undenieably blindingly brilliant author."
+
+      And you were doing SO well there for a moment.
+
+      I gather this episode has had the desired effect....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Movements (17 Jun 1998 23:56:10 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 17 Jun 1998 23:56:10 -0700

+
 Rick Sharon <76416.2213@compuserve.com> asks:
+> and you do that to them?
+> or are going to do to them <maybe, next episodes>?
+> Hey, after all the sweet talking I did to you at the start of
+> this note, when do the fall episode (full) previews begin? Huh?
+> Huh?
+> huh?
+> can-ya can-ya can-ya?
+
+      Thanks...it's a cool one, exceeded only by those yet to come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (02 Jun 1998 12:55:11 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 02 Jun 1998 12:55:11 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Pardon, any chance that we will see such an event in Germany?
+
+      I don't know, that's something that will have to be looked into
+by the WB video division in Germany.  Maybe if fans push for it there,
+they may be able to do something.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch (18 Jun 1998 13:43:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 13:43:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      We didn't become friends until years later.  Some time
+thereafter, I recounted that incident to him.  He distantly remembered
+it, and asked "Did I offend you?"  I said, "If you'd been wrong I
+would've been offended."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch (18 Jun 1998 17:21:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 17:21:04 -0700

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Which of his books would you recommend I start out with?
+> Why oh why did TNT have to leave us hanging with *that* one??!!
+
+      I'd try Shatterday, or Strange Wine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Darkness> glitch (18 Jun 1998 13:43:00 -0700)
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+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 13:43:00 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How in the hell do things like that get on broadcast?
+> Are their tiers of editors?
+> Do these guys have a journeyman while B5 got a master?
+> I understand that they have essentially the same budget as you
+> (in the neighborhood of a million an ep give or take), so what's
+> the deal?
+
+      Not knowing the situation, it would be inappropriate for me to
+comment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where's the WHAM????? (18 Jun 1998 14:32:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 14:32:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Actually, it's possible that this is all just a coincidence of
+timing. After all, JMS didn't write these episodes knowing when the
+breaks in the season would take place. On the other hand, I hate
+coincidence and this is one hell of a big one..."
+
+      Funny thing about that.  When I wrote this, this was the first
+part of a very tight two parter (well, actually, it's part 4 of a five
+parter; if you watch them straight through, one dovetails right smack
+into the next, it's one really huge episode).  Anyway, for the fifth
+one, the next one to air, I decided to do a recap in the teaser, a
+"Previously on Babylon 5..." compilation.  Hadn't done it with the
+others, but just decided to do it with this one, since it picks up
+seconds after the other.
+
+      Later, after putting it together, in a phone call with TNT, they
+told me about the decision to put in a break after this episode.  "So
+you may want to consider putting a recap into the teaser, since this is
+a two-parter and it's been a long time and that's something you didnt'
+anticipate."
+
+      "Well, actually...I already did that."
+
+      A long pause.  "How did you know?"
+
+      "I didn't."
+
+      Scared 'em real good with that one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Movements... HOLY COW (18 Jun 1998 14:32:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 14:32:03 -0700

+
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+
+"and i guess we now know why the attacking centauri vessels wouldn't
+have noticed lennier exchanging a little breathing--since they weren't
+really using it thmselves."
+
+      Ding!
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Movements... HOLY COW (18 Jun 1998 23:17:09 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 23:17:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"It's almost as if you do some of these things on purpose.  I can see 
+it now......"This'll get those little nitpickers.  They'll think I've
+screwed up for a few weeks and then I'll make them eat crow."<G>"
+
+      Not that, no, but when some people do jump on these things,
+figuring it's a screwup on my part, I can't help but think..."don't you
+know what show you're dealing with here?  This is Babylon 5, we don't
+MAKE those kind of mistakes."
+
+      I recognize that that's a very self-indulgent thought...but at
+the same time, it's true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Movements (18 Jun 1998 17:21:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 17:21:04 -0700

+
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+
+      A man must have hobbies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where's the WHAM????? (18 Jun 1998 23:17:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Where's the WHAM?????

+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 23:17:09 -0700

+
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+
+      There are some long-range plans for the teep crisis, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode WHAM!!!! (18 Jun 1998 23:17:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Episode WHAM!!!!

+
Date: 18 Jun 1998 23:17:10 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does every post here that goes, "You SADIST, you set us UP, blah,
+> blah, blah" bring you the sheer orgasmic joy of knowing just how
+> well you pulled this off? Please tell me you're human enough to
+> enjoy that little self-righteous glow of, "DAMN, I'm good!"????
+
+"Does every post here that goes, "You SADIST, you set us UP, blah,
+blah, blah" bring you the sheer orgasmic joy...."
+
+      Not while I'm sitting at the keyboard.  I just *bought* this
+system....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch (19 Jun 1998 14:57:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jun 1998 14:57:04 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is is my imagination or did some choice comments on "City on the
+> Edge of Forever" end up on the cutting room floor?
+
+      Dunno....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (02 Jun 1998 12:55:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Date: 02 Jun 1998 12:55:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Also, when you say Warner Brothers, to which company are you
+> referring to?
+
+      I'm sorry, but there is only ONE Warner Bros.  There are offices
+of the company, as with any company, but they are all owed by Warner
+Bros. in the United States, here in Burbank, and it was from the main
+office that this has come.  There are some folks involved here who are
+trying to muddy the situation by saying there are all these different
+companies, but there aren't. There is only one IBM, and only one Ford,
+and only one Warner Bros. And it's that main office that I've been
+dealing with on this.
+
+      Sorry, I am *not* confusing the situation.  It's others who are
+trying to blur the facts here.  Perhaps if you were less obviously
+trying to justify their activities, you might be able to see that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Process Servers (21 Jun 1998 00:50:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21 Jun 1998 00:50:03 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this something that you've passed on to your actors and tech
+> people?
+
+      To a certain extent, yes, plus I've always encouraged our people
+in every department to come out into the spotlight and take the credit
+and applause for what they do, so we encourage them to do the comlink
+stuff and other appearances.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Movies (21 Jun 1998 02:50:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21 Jun 1998 02:50:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Will this movie be dependent on any of the season 5 episodes?  I've
+been watching the reruns and have only seen through season 4."
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch (22 Jun 1998 00:07:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Jun 1998 00:07:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"FWIW, and I speak from no direct knowledge, only overheard
+scuttlebutt, Paramount *couldn't* film what Harlan wrote.  They simply
+didn't have the budget.  It got "hacked", I grant you, but it got
+hacked into a filmable format.  The world's best screenplay is
+worthless if it can't be filmed."
+
+      Except that in this case, it *was* filmable...the rest is the
+mythology that's grown up around it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiFiChannel:Harlan (22 Jun 1998 00:17:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Jun 1998 00:17:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I also thought it was terrific for all -your- new fans, who finally
+got to see the face and hear the voice that go with the heart and soul
+of what we lovingly call B5 :-)"
+
+      Yeah, and the next sound you hear will be millions of remote
+controls turning the channels on millions of TV sets around the country
+to find something less frightening....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Free New B5 Screening UK (22 Jun 1998 00:07:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Jun 1998 00:07:06 -0700

+
      Six years ago, we screened a rough cut of the pilot B5 TV movie
+"The Gathering" at Wishcon on the East Coast here in the US.  Those who
+saw it have said ever after, "I was there."
+
+      For the first time since then, I'll be screening a work in
+progress at the Wrap Party conventin in the UK in August.  This will be
+either "The River of Souls," with Martin Sheen and Ian McShane, or "A
+Call to Arms," the segue TV movie to Crusade, which introduces some of
+the new characters.  (Which I'll bring with me will depend on which is
+most done.)  This will be shown free to all convention members.  (Any
+kind of screening is going to require a venue in which to show it, and
+equipment; the Wrap Party is donating space at a convention that was
+already a going event in order to allow me to hold this free screening
+for attendees.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (22 Jun 1998 16:21:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS and "Ghostbusters"

+
Date: 22 Jun 1998 16:21:08 -0700

+
 Julie Mehta <113367.1506@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does anybody know how extensive JMS's involvement with the
+> cartoon "Ghostbusters" actually was? Did he write many episodes?
+
+      I think I wrote close to 20 or so episodes for that one.  I left
+when they decided to make Janine into a mommy-character instead of a
+strong character, then did a few more later when they realized they'd
+made a mistake and wanted her pulled back again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (23 Jun 1998 00:30:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Jun 1998 00:30:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"JMS also had his claws into an episode or two of Captain Power:
+Soldier of the Future. Perhaps the less said about that the better (the
+show had issues - but it actually tried to be more than a kiddie show  -
+but it was gruesomely tied down to a toy that they were forced to
+market for). I think JMS was just a writer - though I believe Doug
+Netter was a producer (he also of B5 fame).
+
+      I was story editor on that one (wrote 11 episodes), Larry
+DiTilio (also of B5 and elsewhere) wrote a bunch, Doug Netter was co-
+exec producer, and John Copeland was producer, with some EFX work by
+Ron Thornton and set design by John Iacovelli.  It was, in many ways, a
+test/launching pad for what would become B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dreams/Asunder Title (23 Jun 1998 00:24:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Jun 1998 00:24:10 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the title for "All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" derive from a
+> quotation? If it doesn't derive from a quotation, how about a
+> quotation derived from it?
+
+      No, as far as I can remember, it's just something I thunk up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiFiChannel:Harlan (23 Jun 1998 00:24:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Jun 1998 00:24:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Nonsense, there are much more scarier things on television these
+days. Case in point: Fox's "When <insert-entity-here> Attack""
+
+   Next on FOX:
+
+                     "WHEN WRITER-PRODUCERS ATTACK!"
+
+      "Well, er...um...nobody notices...so maybe we shouldn't...never
+mind."
+
+   NEXT ON FOX....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan/jms on Sci-Fi Ch (23 Jun 1998 00:24:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Jun 1998 00:24:09 -0700

+
 Shane Shellenbarger <104305.3404@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Is there a good chance that Harlan will be on board for
+> B5:Crusade?
+
+      I'd say so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (04 Jun 1998 00:57:05 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 04 Jun 1998 00:57:05 -0700

+
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+
+      That I don't know...I can guess that the folks who had signed up
+to pay for them will get them by default, but I don't know that for a
+fact.  (I try to stick to what I actually know to be true on these
+things.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (23 Jun 1998 20:22:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 23 Jun 1998 20:22:11 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, between that and the animated shows I worked on, it gave
+me a real wariness toward merchandising.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does that explain your treatment of the shortlived "Babylon 5
+> Souvenir Shop" in the Zocolo? Or could you just not resist
+> "Bearbylon 5"?
+
+      That informed that story a bit, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Really?<startled> I can see the beginnings of Mr Thornton's CGI
+> designs, but the sets were not much like B5<G> (to many pieces of
+> polystyrene rock for my taste<slightly embarrassed g>) Is this a
+> reflection of the behind the scenes development rather than the
+> visual elements? what actually WAS going to happen in captain
+> power? I know you had said that the suits would become defective,
+> and the group would be in a lot of trouble, but is it possible to
+> point me at any place where i can see how the planned 3 year arc
+> would have come out?
+
+      I think there's a CP site out there somewhere (try Yahoo) that
+has the full message I posted about the long-term arc.
+
+      RE: the different art direction between CP and B5...it's not so
+much development as choosing the right look for the right show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (25 Jun 1998 22:32:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jun 1998 22:32:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Were there merchandising issues with Ghostbusters?"
+
+      Moreso with other shows I did, like HeMan and SheRa and Jayce;
+in TRGBs we just ignored whatever the toy company wanted.
+
+"BTW: always wondered, who thought up the movie-within-the-cartoon
+thing with the Ghostbusters toon? I just loved they showed scenes from
+the movie in one of the episodes..."
+
+      I wrote that one.  I *think* it was called "Take Two."
+
+      To this day, as a result, there are bunches of kids who *swear*
+up and down that the animated series came first, THEN the movie, much
+to the dismay of their siblings and parents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Town Has Turned to Dust (24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+"So, what do YOU think, Joe?  Do you think Rod Serling would approve
+of the new adaptation or his name being attached to it?"
+
+      Unfortunately, I haven't seen it, and tend to shy away from
+making any kind of sweeping comments about things I haven't seen.  If I
+can take your description as accurate, then my answer would probably be
+no.  I would think that by now, we could do the story as he had
+intended it to be done. Certainly every generation stories get
+reinterpreted; I once saw Two Gentlemen of Verona produced in a 1920s
+context, and if the Bard can be shuffled about in time, anybody can.
+
+      That is somewhat different, however, from altering the text or
+the dramatic intent.  Herein lay the dilemma.  Do we have any copies of
+Rod's original work, as he had intended it to be done?  Or were they
+working off the only version, the altered one?  If so, then it's
+altered one more iteration from something that was not the proper
+version anyway, so yes, it's off course, but is it demonstrably more
+off-course than the original softened version?
+
+      On the other hand, if they did have the original version, it
+would have been better served to go with that...however, if they did
+so, the odds are that the SciFi Channel would never have produced it,
+since there's nothing SF about it.
+
+      I dunno...again, I haven't seen it, so I'm trying to be measured
+in my comments.
+
+"Also, to get this somewhat back on topic, do you agree with Harlan
+Ellison's "scorched earth" policy with regard to unfinished works?  If
+you had suffered a fatal stroke a year or so ago, would you have
+approved of someone else stepping in to finish B5 "just the way Joe
+would've wanted it" or for B5 to have died with you?  Would you want
+your unfinished works archived, with the ever-present possibility that
+someone might later acquire "rights" to produce them, or used as fuel
+for your funeral pyre?"
+
+      I don't want anybody rifling through my stuff and putting it out
+there after I'm gone, especially in unfinished form.  I come to this
+opinion by a hard road; when doing Twilight Zone, I was assigned to
+write a teleplay based on one of Rod's unproduced outlines, and for me
+that was one of the highlights since it let me kind of see into his
+creative process a little, and the story was a good one.  At the time,
+the issue of posthumous literary use really hadn't occured to me. 
+Since then, I've had a great deal of time to think about it, and have
+finally come down on the side of "no."  If I had expired prior to
+finishing B5, I would rather let it end at that than have someone else
+finish it for me, in a way not what I would've wanted...as a painter 
+would not generally let someone else finish his painting after his
+passing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Free New B5 Screening UK (24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+      However there are a lot of hidden costs in the Wolf conventions.
+For instance, at the SFX awards, we (John Copeland and I) were under
+the impression that that was just a part of the convention's overall
+umbrella, only to discover that the fans attending sprung for an
+additional 30 pounds each to be at the tables.  (When we discovered
+this, rather to our horror, John and I decided we had better be damned
+more entertaining, and used our drink chits to take care of the table
+all night, so it would balance out at lesat a little.)  At the end of
+the day, when you add up the hidden costs, it works out about the same,
+as when they tried to charge for the ItB screening that was supposed to
+be free to convention attendees.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700

+
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+
+"To this day, when I am trying to explain B5 and it's attention to
+detail to newbesI just show them that RGB and say "this guy is so
+obsessed about details he couldn't stand not explaining why the cartoon
+characters looked different and were voiced by different people.""
+
+      "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+
+                     - Michelangelo
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700

+
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+
+"What was Jayce?"
+
+      An adventure/SF series "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors," a dopey
+concept I again hijacked in an attempt to make it into something more.
+
+"BTW: what was the situation with that other Ghostbusters show?"
+
+      Dunno...they revived it, I heard about it, they dumbed it up,
+that's all I know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+One for the Wish-List (26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      One more for the list....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Art of Babylon 5 (27 Jun 1998 22:35:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1998 22:35:08 -0700

+
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+
+      I believe the book is currently on hold at this end.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon Project: Crusade (04 Jun 1998 00:57:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Jun 1998 00:57:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Appreciative treatment by TNT, a follow-on series, two episodes
+> on a tape and maybe a movie? What is this?
+> Excellence on television - being *rewarded*?
+> What's the world coming to?
+
+      Thanks...yeah, I can't figure it out either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (27 Jun 1998 22:35:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Jun 1998 22:35:08 -0700

+
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+
+"You seem to have a lot of exposure to cartoons and/or kids shows.
+Would you ever go back?"
+
+      Only if it were my show, top to bottom, and no toy company
+creative input.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (30 Jun 1998 01:06:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 30 Jun 1998 01:06:07 -0700

+
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+
+"Just had a really twisted thought - the only way that Joe can stop
+anyone marketing a toy simply called BaBearlon (no logos or anything)
+is to trademark the name."
+
+      Well, it's the only way only IF you set aside the use of certain
+medeival torture instruments applied in utterly innovative and
+colorful ways.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Episode Order (again) (28 Jun 1998 19:17:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jun 1998 19:17:04 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Therefore would it make more sense to have 'Day of the Dead'
+> after 'The Ragged Edge' and before 'Corps..'?
+
+      We'll probably juggle this about down the road, once we're into
+reruns full time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Inspiration (28 Jun 1998 19:17:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jun 1998 19:17:04 -0700

+
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+
+      I think that's great.  Best to upload them here, so that others
+can see them as well.  I look forward to seeing them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Showers&Baths (29 Jun 1998 00:11:03 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 29 Jun 1998 00:11:03 -0700

+
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+
+"PS: This is something that gnaws at my subconscious...  In one of the
+very 1st episodes wasn't the gender of Santiago given as female by an
+ISN reporter speaking about the coming election?  There are so few
+flubs in the story arc that I almost feel sure it is my immagination
+BUT it gnaws..."
+
+      It's your imagination; that was the candidate running against
+Santiago, not the guy himself.  I know because we used Doug's picture
+for Santiago, and a picture of our wardrobe designer for the
+opposition.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (29 Jun 1998 00:11:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Jun 1998 00:11:03 -0700

+
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+
+"I think he meant the Filmation thing taken from the Forrest
+Tucker/Larry live show that got into all the legal hassle over the
+naming (I think you once said that was why you added "Real" into the
+name)."
+
+      Oh, that...yeah, there was a live-action show called
+Ghostbusters that those two (Larry Storch) did, which sued over the
+name Ghostbusters, and won the right to do an animated series by that
+name.  Which is why ours was called The Real....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"To this day, when I am trying to explain B5 and it's attention to
+detail to newbesI just show them that RGB and say "this guy is so
+obsessed about details he couldn't stand not explaining why the cartoon
+characters looked different and were voiced by different people.""
+
+      "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+
+                     - Michelangelo
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700

+
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+
+"What was Jayce?"
+
+      An adventure/SF series "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors," a dopey
+concept I again hijacked in an attempt to make it into something more.
+
+"BTW: what was the situation with that other Ghostbusters show?"
+
+      Dunno...they revived it, I heard about it, they dumbed it up,
+that's all I know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+One for the Wish-List (26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Jun 1998 21:33:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      One more for the list....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Town Has Turned to Dust (24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+"So, what do YOU think, Joe?  Do you think Rod Serling would approve
+of the new adaptation or his name being attached to it?"
+
+      Unfortunately, I haven't seen it, and tend to shy away from
+making any kind of sweeping comments about things I haven't seen.  If I
+can take your description as accurate, then my answer would probably be
+no.  I would think that by now, we could do the story as he had
+intended it to be done. Certainly every generation stories get
+reinterpreted; I once saw Two Gentlemen of Verona produced in a 1920s
+context, and if the Bard can be shuffled about in time, anybody can.
+
+      That is somewhat different, however, from altering the text or
+the dramatic intent.  Herein lay the dilemma.  Do we have any copies of
+Rod's original work, as he had intended it to be done?  Or were they
+working off the only version, the altered one?  If so, then it's
+altered one more iteration from something that was not the proper
+version anyway, so yes, it's off course, but is it demonstrably more
+off-course than the original softened version?
+
+      On the other hand, if they did have the original version, it
+would have been better served to go with that...however, if they did
+so, the odds are that the SciFi Channel would never have produced it,
+since there's nothing SF about it.
+
+      I dunno...again, I haven't seen it, so I'm trying to be measured
+in my comments.
+
+"Also, to get this somewhat back on topic, do you agree with Harlan
+Ellison's "scorched earth" policy with regard to unfinished works?  If
+you had suffered a fatal stroke a year or so ago, would you have
+approved of someone else stepping in to finish B5 "just the way Joe
+would've wanted it" or for B5 to have died with you?  Would you want
+your unfinished works archived, with the ever-present possibility that
+someone might later acquire "rights" to produce them, or used as fuel
+for your funeral pyre?"
+
+      I don't want anybody rifling through my stuff and putting it out
+there after I'm gone, especially in unfinished form.  I come to this
+opinion by a hard road; when doing Twilight Zone, I was assigned to
+write a teleplay based on one of Rod's unproduced outlines, and for me
+that was one of the highlights since it let me kind of see into his
+creative process a little, and the story was a good one.  At the time,
+the issue of posthumous literary use really hadn't occured to me. 
+Since then, I've had a great deal of time to think about it, and have
+finally come down on the side of "no."  If I had expired prior to
+finishing B5, I would rather let it end at that than have someone else
+finish it for me, in a way not what I would've wanted...as a painter 
+would not generally let someone else finish his painting after his
+passing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Jun 1998 03:16:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> OK, so is anyone going to try to pass *this* one off as non-arc
+> "filler"? You'd think the Royal Court asking about the other races
+> shipping schedules would be a dead giveaway on that one - what
+> legitimate reason could they *possibly* have for asking about
+> that? And what the *hell* was going on with Lyta and Garibaldi's
+> dream? Was she just in the dream, or was she actually involved in
+> some fashion? And, either way, what does it mean?
+
+"OK, so is anyone going to try to pass *this* one off as non-arc
+"filler"?"
+
+      Exactly.  See, that's where I get nuts about some of the other
+comments. A number of folks said last week's was just filler...but last
+week we saw the process by which Lennier was sent to White Star 27,
+what he was looking for, and why...we were introduced to the captain,
+the mission...and now this week it pays off.  It seems like the
+*result* is considered arc, and the set-up is considered "filler."
+
+      Similarly, Lyta's actions in this episode (and those that are
+going to follow) are a direct result of the whole Byron thread, which
+is going to spiral further in some interesting directions.  Some said
+the Byron stuff was just filler...but it was there to move Lyta into a
+whole new direction that will have a substantial effect on the show and
+her character (and at least one other).
+
+      It seems to me that repeatedly, people dismiss something new in
+the mix as filler or non-arc...when in fact it's ABSOLUTE arc stuff
+once you've seen the whole thing.  (Except for those who only seem to
+feel that results are arc, not setups, which is as nutty a view as I've
+ever heard.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 24 Jun 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      However there are a lot of hidden costs in the Wolf conventions.
+For instance, at the SFX awards, we (John Copeland and I) were under
+the impression that that was just a part of the convention's overall
+umbrella, only to discover that the fans attending sprung for an
+additional 30 pounds each to be at the tables.  (When we discovered
+this, rather to our horror, John and I decided we had better be damned
+more entertaining, and used our drink chits to take care of the table
+all night, so it would balance out at lesat a little.)  At the end of
+the day, when you add up the hidden costs, it works out about the same,
+as when they tried to charge for the ItB screening that was supposed to
+be free to convention attendees.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does that explain your treatment of the shortlived "Babylon 5
+> Souvenir Shop" in the Zocolo? Or could you just not resist
+> "Bearbylon 5"?
+
+      That informed that story a bit, yeah....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 25 Jun 1998 20:13:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Really?<startled> I can see the beginnings of Mr Thornton's CGI
+> designs, but the sets were not much like B5<G> (to many pieces of
+> polystyrene rock for my taste<slightly embarrassed g>) Is this a
+> reflection of the behind the scenes development rather than the
+> visual elements? what actually WAS going to happen in captain
+> power? I know you had said that the suits would become defective,
+> and the group would be in a lot of trouble, but is it possible to
+> point me at any place where i can see how the planned 3 year arc
+> would have come out?
+
+      I think there's a CP site out there somewhere (try Yahoo) that
+has the full message I posted about the long-term arc.
+
+      RE: the different art direction between CP and B5...it's not so
+much development as choosing the right look for the right show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS and "Ghostbusters" (25 Jun 1998 22:32:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
JMS and "Ghostbusters"

+
Date: 25 Jun 1998 22:32:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"Were there merchandising issues with Ghostbusters?"
+
+      Moreso with other shows I did, like HeMan and SheRa and Jayce;
+in TRGBs we just ignored whatever the toy company wanted.
+
+"BTW: always wondered, who thought up the movie-within-the-cartoon
+thing with the Ghostbusters toon? I just loved they showed scenes from
+the movie in one of the episodes..."
+
+      I wrote that one.  I *think* it was called "Take Two."
+
+      To this day, as a result, there are bunches of kids who *swear*
+up and down that the animated series came first, THEN the movie, much
+to the dismay of their siblings and parents.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+UK B5 Screening Now Free (30 Jun 1998 14:39:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
UK B5 Screening Now Free

+
Date: 30 Jun 1998 14:39:12 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you now accept that you were actually wrong to accuse Wolf in
+> THIS matter?
+
+      Gerard, I have already told you, weeks ago, in response to your
+emails, that I will not respond to you further.  Take it somewhere
+else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-06/9.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-06/9.html
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+
+
+Darkness Ascending (04 Jun 1998 03:16:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Darkness Ascending

+
Date: 04 Jun 1998 03:16:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I wouldn't say she has any sexual interest in G'Kar...she had
+her pleasure threshold expanded with Byron just recently, and as for
+her parting comment, I think it came more under the category of "you
+ain't getting it, but since you were still wondering..."  A friendly
+plink.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/1.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/1.html
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+
+
+Rebelcon/Worldcon (01 Jul 1998 14:10:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rebelcon/Worldcon

+
Date: 01 Jul 1998 14:10:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you made any decisions on this?
+
+      There's nothing definite set yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sentient Sphincters (06 Jul 1998 00:45:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Sentient Sphincters

+
Date: 06 Jul 1998 00:45:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's taking an act of god to get it done...and since I'm an
+atheist, I'm in serious trouble.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Hello, old friend (05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Hello, old friend

+
Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700

+
 Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of Spidey, did you catch the "Identity Crisis"
+> storyline? So, when are you going to talk to Stan Lee about
+> getting you to write for Spidey?
+
+      That's the key: find what excites you, and do it.  Follow your
+joy; the rest will take care of itself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/12.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/12.html
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+
+
+The Corps (05 Jul 1998 21:06:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
The Corps

+
Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:06:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Babylon means Gate of God.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/13.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/13.html
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+
+
+Chron. of the Lensmen V1 (05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Chron. of the Lensmen V1

+
Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was your quotation done for the book cover or for the SFBC?
+
+      The quote appears on the book.  It's kind of lovely, since that
+was one of the first books that got me hooked on sagas...and now I can
+turn around and return the favor and help to get it out there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/14.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/14.html
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+
+
+Crusade Cast Address ?? (08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade Cast Address ??

+
Date: 08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> 1) Will snail-mail for the cast work with the same mail drop
+> address as the old B5 one? 2) Will the new cast members have e-
+> mail addresses @thestation.com? 3) The {USA} latest Starburst says
+> that Carrie Dobro has been signed for the role of Dureena for
+> Crusade? Is that correct?
+
+1)  Will snail-mail for the cast work with the same mail drop address
+as the old B5 one?
+
+Yes, though I'd suggest using the fan club mail address rather than
+the Sherman Oaks drop.
+
+2)  Will the new cast members have e-mail addresses @thestation.com?
+
+Almost certainly.
+
+3)  The {USA} latest Starburst says that Carrie Dobro has been signed
+for the role of Dureena for Crusade?  Is that correct?
+
+She played in the pilot, but we never confirm for series until after
+we pick up an actor's contract.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade Cast Address ?? (08 Jul 1998 23:53:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade Cast Address ??

+
Date: 08 Jul 1998 23:53:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Will you post the cast here, after it's settled?
+
+      Yeah, I'll post the info when I can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sentient Sphincters (08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sentient Sphincters

+
Date: 08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Interesting...thanks for the info, apparently this guy is even
+more of a twist than I'd first thought.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Joe: Music recommendatio (08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Joe: Music recommendatio

+
Date: 08 Jul 1998 15:33:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Will check 'em out, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sentient Sphincters (09 Jul 1998 16:02:06 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Sentient Sphincters

+
Date: 09 Jul 1998 16:02:06 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It this someone who has given trouble before or is it a *new*
+> nutball? What sorta stuff is he doing?
+> I mean, I know he's sending you lots of email, but is there any
+> content? Does he have an agenda?
+
+      No, apparently said nutball did the same thing to others, who
+have sent me email mentioning receiving as many as 14,000 emails from
+this guy who feels that anyone who is fan of, or involved with, B5
+should behave toward him in a certain way, or he will teach them a
+lesson.
+
+      The content of the email is long and rambling and designed, I
+think, to be inoffensive...it's that there are 1,000 of them at a time
+that is the issue.  Fortunately, there haven't been any problems in the
+last 48 hours or so, so I conclude that AOL took care of it...it's just
+that they never tell you when they've done this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (10 Jul 1998 01:40:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 10 Jul 1998 01:40:09 -0700

+
 Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> just wondering.. what dvd format does WB uses?
+
+      Huh?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/2.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/2.html
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+
+
+Sentient Sphincters (07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Sentient Sphincters

+
Date: 07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Unfortunately, the geek was using AOL, and they're notorious for
+not doing anything...though the last 24 hours has been quiet, so either
+he's laying low for now, or they nailed him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/20.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/20.html
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+
+
+More B5 Fans (11 Jul 1998 23:20:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
More B5 Fans

+
Date: 11 Jul 1998 23:20:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Very cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/21.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/21.html
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+
+
+Crusade: Pre Production! (12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Crusade: Pre Production!

+
Date: 12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700

+
 WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What have you in the way of juicy items and tasty tidbits to
+> share? Are you ready for August 3?
+
+      Well, the Excalibur set is finished, cleaned up after the
+shooting of A Call to Arms, and we're building the rest of the interior
+of the ship, halls, a medbay, the flight deck, a bullet car for moving
+around the place, and other locations.  Also in the final stages of
+casting for the various regulars.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Mexico (12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mexico

+
Date: 12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I honestly don't know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/23.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/23.html
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+
+
+B5 and PDAs (12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
B5 and PDAs

+
Date: 12 Jul 1998 17:51:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, John Copeland has that B5 guide on his Palm Pilot, and
+uses it a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ivanova (13 Jul 1998 01:26:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Ivanova

+
Date: 13 Jul 1998 01:26:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Bear in mind, though, that the debate on whether or not she was
+fired or quit -- she originally said that she was fired -- is over, as
+she finally admitted in a magazine interview that she was the one who
+quit.  So that part is at least over and done with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade Casting (13 Jul 1998 00:49:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Crusade Casting

+
Date: 13 Jul 1998 00:49:05 -0700

+
"Also rumors that Tracy Scoggins might play Dr. Lochcly. The Captain's
+Twin Sister. I hope that is wrong"
+
+      Utterly and totally untrue.
+
+      Never believe everything you read on the nets.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/26.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/26.html
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+
+
+Crusade: Pre Production! (14 Jul 1998 16:42:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade: Pre Production!

+
Date: 14 Jul 1998 16:42:08 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does the Excalibur (we need a shorthand for this ship folks)
+> figure in aCtA?
+
+      Yes, it's there, and its sister ship, the Victory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/27.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/27.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video Does B5 (14 Jul 1998 23:02:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
WB Home Video Does B5

+
Date: 14 Jul 1998 23:02:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Haven't got a clue.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Third Space (15 Jul 1998 11:24:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Third Space

+
Date: 15 Jul 1998 11:24:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've heard, though have not yet confirmed, that C4 may delay the
+final 5 until they can air closer to/just after/simultaneous with the
+US airings. But I've only heard that from UK fans who've heard it from
+C4, I have no direct info on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade Casting (15 Jul 1998 11:31:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Casting

+
Date: 15 Jul 1998 11:31:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Here's the problem...and SFX is probably the one magazine most
+vulnerable to fall for this, though others do it as well.
+
+      Somebody on the net posts something utterly wrong-headed...i.e.,
+"I was at this convention and Jeff Conaway said that he'd been signed
+to appear in Crusade."  (This is an actual example, btw, on the
+Gallifrey website, I believe.)  For starters, what Jeff and others
+signed were *options* on their services in case we should choose to use
+them, which were applied ACROSS THE BOARD to anyone and everyone
+appearing in "A Call to Arms," because it's pro forma for such movies
+that are either pilots or segues to new shows.  That's all it is.
+
+      But now it gets picked up and repeated on other web sites...and
+then the magazines start printing it, saying, "But we saw it on the
+web, we have a source for it."  Other web sites see the magazine, and
+pass on the info, saying, "But we saw it in a magazine."  And it just
+goes on and on, a self renewing implausibility generator...all this
+because one fan didn't understand what he was hearing, or got it wrong,
+because he didn't understand what an option is or what it means...and
+suddenly we're getting calls from agents asking what the hell is going
+on, and I have to spend time straightening it out.
+
+      The tendency to cite web sources in magazines has been one of
+the most troubling aspects of the cyberworld lately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Sentient Sphincters (07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Sentient Sphincters

+
Date: 07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I realize that it's sort of a barn door/horse issue right now,
+> but have you considered getting another e-mail address someplace
+> and keeping it private from everyone who doesn't need it for
+> business?
+
+      Thing is, I use the main address for email interviews with
+magazines and the like...and as soon as I gave that address to one
+reporter, everybody'd have it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/30.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/30.html
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+
+
+Another one?! :-) (20 Jul 1998 12:54:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Another one?! :-)

+
Date: 20 Jul 1998 12:54:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Frmph.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/31.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/31.html
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+
+
+Artifact Construction (21 Jul 1998 00:09:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Artifact Construction

+
Date: 21 Jul 1998 00:09:10 -0700

+
 Will Caraway <73671.2434@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One thing I wasn't clear on: Did the Vorlons build the artifact
+> or did they find it?
+
+      The Vorlons built it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/32.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/32.html
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+
+
+B5 Crusade Web Page (22 Jul 1998 03:16:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 Crusade Web Page

+
Date: 22 Jul 1998 03:16:11 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering is this web address going to be the official
+> Crusade web page? When will you be announcing the cast of Crusade?
+> Has there been any news regarding a possible Babylon 5 theatrical
+> movie?
+
+      More when I can talk about this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/33.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/33.html
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+
+
+River of Souls (26 Jul 1998 00:30:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
River of Souls

+
Date: 26 Jul 1998 00:30:07 -0700

+
 Kevin Kenney <104102.352@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that you wowed us with Thirdspace, and mentioned on Usenet
+> that it came from your desire to do something Lovecraftian, can
+> you say anything about what your purpose was behind, or what we
+> should look forward to in River of Souls? I don't know how you
+> afforded all the effects in Thirdspace, and wonder, due to less
+> cast members being involved, if the budget's a bit less on River?
+
+      The budget on all 4 of the TNT movies is the same.  As for
+"River," it's a much more in-depth script than "Thirdspace," which was
+mainly just for fun. River gets into the question of identity, the
+nature of the soul, it has some very funny but also some very moving
+stuff...while there are some things I prefer about "In the Beginning,"
+in some ways "River" is a better movie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/34.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/34.html
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+
+
+Ch4: Series 5: Last 4Eps (28 Jul 1998 14:30:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Ch4: Series 5: Last 4Eps

+
Date: 28 Jul 1998 14:30:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Wasn't their choice; I believe WB took the position that they
+shouldn't air the final 5 there until they were aired here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/35.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/35.html
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+
+
+Wolf 359/ The Crusade (28 Jul 1998 14:30:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Wolf 359/ The Crusade

+
Date: 28 Jul 1998 14:30:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have any of those who went experienced an American Creation Con?
+> Or even one of the early '95/96 Stargazer cons?
+> Dealers rooms - a very nice selection of items for sale, except (
+> you knew that there had to be an except ) why do they always put
+> the tables so close together?
+
+      This goes pretty much along with what I've heard from others who
+were there, if a bit harder in places.  The general concensus I'm
+getting back is that many of the areas I felt were in need of
+improvement, and said so, vocally, have indeed been improved, from the
+general organization, to the treatment of stewards and fans, and the
+way autographs are set up.  (I suspect they gave the bigger room to
+autographs because either a) that's where they make the lion's share of
+their money from selling photos, or b) to handle the long lines.)
+
+      There are obviously still areas that can be improved, but this
+does seem to indicate progress.
+
+      However, I have still to hear any definitive response to the
+requests by me and others who lent Wolf their names about the profits
+that were supposed to go to charity.  As far as I've heard, unless a
+check was made out directly to the charity by the attending fan, as
+during the auctions, nothing ever got there.  If that's incorrect, I'd
+like to know about it, but the continued silence, even and especially
+stating that the information would be provided, is ominous.
+
+      That aside, at least organizationally they seem to have made
+some of the improvements a lot of people, myself included, felt were
+necessary.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/36.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/36.html
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+
+
+Crusade Logo Font (29 Jul 1998 00:47:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade Logo Font

+
Date: 29 Jul 1998 00:47:10 -0700

+
 Alan L. Ravitch <73627.3126@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Hi Joe....a quick question for you....just as you told us the B5
+> font was serpentine, can you tell us the font used in the new
+> Crusade logo on the new web site?
+
+      Don't remember....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/37.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/37.html
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+
+
+Twin Brother? (29 Jul 1998 17:22:04 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+

+
Twin Brother?

+
Date: 29 Jul 1998 17:22:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I hear that a lot; each community seems to have one guy who
+looks just like me (or one guy who gets around a lot).  Actually, I
+have a cousin who is a dead ringer for me, living in or around New
+York.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/38.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/38.html
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+
+
+River of Souls (29 Jul 1998 17:22:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
River of Souls

+
Date: 29 Jul 1998 17:22:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is Peter David doing a novel of River?
+
+      No, Yvonne Navarro is adapting River of Souls, and Robert
+Sheckley is adapting A Call to Arms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/39.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/39.html
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+
+
+River of Souls (29 Jul 1998 23:13:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
River of Souls

+
Date: 29 Jul 1998 23:13:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, that's great to know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/4.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/4.html
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+
+
+Sentient Sphincters (07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Sentient Sphincters

+
Date: 07 Jul 1998 02:15:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I can't begin to imagine the grinding aggravation it must be for
+you."
+
+      And then some.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/40.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/40.html
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+
+
+Gary Cole (29 Jul 1998 23:13:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Gary Cole

+
Date: 29 Jul 1998 23:13:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      We start shooting on Monday, with the series; Arms was shot in
+June.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/41.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/41.html
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+
+
+Gary Cole (30 Jul 1998 00:23:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Gary Cole

+
Date: 30 Jul 1998 00:23:12 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since the first day of shooting is so near, can we expect a full
+> cast announcement within the next few days?
+
+      One can expect many things...how many of them happen, who can
+say?
+
+                                                                 jms*
+
+      *(down with pnumonia, gooned on codeine)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/42.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/42.html
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+
+
+B5 on Laserdisc (30 Jul 1998 15:18:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
B5 on Laserdisc

+
Date: 30 Jul 1998 15:18:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, we're in discussions now with Image and WB Home Video
+to see if we can nudge them toward widescreen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/43.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/43.html
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+
+
+Gary Cole (30 Jul 1998 15:29:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Gary Cole

+
Date: 30 Jul 1998 15:29:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've done all the doctor stuff, taking the antibiotics, chugging
+cough syrup with codeine (the colors, man, check out the
+collllloooooorrrrrsssss), doing half-days at the office until I'm up
+and at 'em again.
+
+      But in this somewhat drugged state, I can only *imagine* what
+the script I'm writing is gonna look like when it's done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/44.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/44.html
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+
+
+River of Souls (30 Jul 1998 15:29:01 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
River of Souls

+
Date: 30 Jul 1998 15:29:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, Jonathan is an amazing writer....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/45.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/45.html
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+
+
+Alien Voices live radio (31 Jul 1998 01:05:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Alien Voices live radio

+
Date: 31 Jul 1998 01:05:05 -0700

+
 Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you ever thought of having the B5 cast do something like
+> this?
+
+      Actually, Peter and Andreas just did a radio drama for the sci-
+fi channel, which should be available shortly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/46.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/46.html
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+
+
+PTG (31 Jul 1998 22:09:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
PTG

+
Date: 31 Jul 1998 22:09:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, it's a good one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/5.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/5.html
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+
+
+Lyta & the Drazi (07 Jul 1998 11:37:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Lyta & the Drazi

+
Date: 07 Jul 1998 11:37:00 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How much were you influenced by this movie when you wrote the
+> part of Lyta (particularly the character development)? Or is my
+> imagination running on overtime again?
+
+      No, you're just seeing similarities in performance; all I wanted
+was a strong performer, and I saw one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/6.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/6.html
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+
+
+Sentient Sphincters (07 Jul 1998 11:37:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Sentient Sphincters

+
Date: 07 Jul 1998 11:37:00 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So waddaya think, a netstalker or a 9 year old trekkie with a
+> shiny new modem?
+
+      Net-stalker.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/7.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/7.html
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+
+
+Babylon 5 LD question (05 Jul 1998 21:01:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Babylon 5 LD question

+
Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:01:05 -0700

+
 Gregory Carnes <103400.444@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Also if the LDs are coming out does that mean there will be DVD
+> editions also?
+
+      As this is the first I've heard about it...your guess is as good
+as mine.  We'll get into it, though, to do all we can to make sure this
+is as good as it should be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/8.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/8.html
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+
+
+Babylon 5 LD question (06 Jul 1998 00:45:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Babylon 5 LD question

+
Date: 06 Jul 1998 00:45:09 -0700

+
 Brian Prothero <76711.663@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think I should hold out for DVD?
+
+      I don't know the full situation yet, so can't advise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/9.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-07/9.html
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+
+
+Sentient Sphincters (05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sentient Sphincters

+
Date: 05 Jul 1998 21:01:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The crummy part is he's also spamming my cis account, so I can't
+get any new email here either.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-08/1.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-08/1.html
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+
+
+B5 on Laserdisc (01 Aug 1998 22:08:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 on Laserdisc

+
Date: 01 Aug 1998 22:08:07 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But are there actually fully edited widescreen versions of the
+> entire series?
+
+"But are there actually fully edited widescreen versions of the entire
+series?"
+
+      Yep, everything but the pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-08/10.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-08/10.html
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+
+
+jms out of worldcon (05 Aug 1998 14:42:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
jms out of worldcon

+
Date: 05 Aug 1998 14:42:09 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did you get any more money per ep to make this series?
+> Also, is it going to be more expensive not to have the crutch of
+> the fixed B5 sets (I know your set designer was sorta a genius at
+> creating mix and match theater style sets)?
+
+      We have a bit more money...though not a lot.  We'll do things as
+we always do: smart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-08/11.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-08/11.html
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+
+
+520 - Title? (05 Aug 1998 14:42:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 05 Aug 1998 14:42:10 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any comments?
+
+      Wheel is the correct title.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK Showing - ep 517 (05 Aug 1998 17:40:08 -0700)
+
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UK Showing - ep 517

+
Date: 05 Aug 1998 17:40:08 -0700

+
 Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Quick q's (with a slow answer, I suspect): did you 'see' the
+> Lyta/Byron thing back in the beginning? And, given the cast
+> changes over the seasons, would it have been Lyta at this point,
+> or someone else - a 'revived' Talia, say, or Ivanova?
+
+      It's no secret that I would've had Ivanova becoming somewhat
+linked to Byron romantically (she would see him as a character like
+Marcus, which is why there are certain similarities, and she would take
+a chance only to find it wrong this time, underlining that she'd missed
+her one major opportunity thus far for a good relationship).  This was
+expressed to Claudia toward the last part of S4, so she knew at that
+time that her latent ability would be coming out, and that she'd have a
+big part in S5.
+
+      In this scenario, Lyta would have become a devoted follower of
+Byron's, much as she has, but it would have been more love from afar:
+protective, somewhat unrequited but hoping for more...so that when he
+met his fate, Lyta would end up right where she is now, just by a
+different road.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+jms out of worldcon (05 Aug 1998 23:31:11 -0700)
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Date: 05 Aug 1998 23:31:11 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will the new Crusade sets be added to the existing B5 sets or
+> will you have to put some of the older sets in storage?
+
+      Most of the B5 sets are now in storage.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+jms out of worldcon (06 Aug 1998 15:44:12 -0700)
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jms out of worldcon

+
Date: 06 Aug 1998 15:44:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's just a matter of preparation and forethought; 30% of
+any series budget goes on waste, frankly.  We cut that down to
+basically zero.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Garibaldi (07 Aug 1998 15:08:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 07 Aug 1998 15:08:14 -0700

+
 Mike Lovitt <75021.1731@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did he and Sinclair meet?
+> Why hasn,t he talked more with Dr. Franklin about Bester's
+> telepathic block?
+
+      They met on Mars, as chronicled in one of the comics.
+
+      Garibaldi has/will try a different approach to his problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+sNoW whiTe RedUx (08 Aug 1998 23:24:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Aug 1998 23:24:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I have only done one cute thing in my life.  That was it.
+
+      Continue this discussion and I keel you slow....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+B5 at Bucky (08 Aug 1998 23:24:04 -0700)
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Date: 08 Aug 1998 23:24:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Great report, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Hugos (09 Aug 1998 18:59:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Aug 1998 18:59:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, he's correct.  Basically, B5 episodes took up the slots
+from 6 through 11; nearly every episode got nominations.  Any two of
+them put together would've put it atop the nominations.  They were just
+too many episodes that got noms, and spread the thing out too far.
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Hugos (09 Aug 1998 23:22:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Aug 1998 23:22:04 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If a B5 episode or one of the movies makes the Hugo ballot next
+> year, are you going to Australia?
+
+      If I'm up for a Hugo, I'll go anywhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gary Cole (01 Aug 1998 22:08:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Aug 1998 22:08:07 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Or is that just another Hollywood legend ?
+
+      No, that one's true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+sNoW whiTe RedUx (10 Aug 1998 12:17:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Aug 1998 12:17:02 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What...pray tell...is "The Shy Stegasaurus of Cricket Creek"?
+> Joe...did you write something "for kids"?
+> ...did you sell out?
+
+      No, didn't sell out...it just came out looking a hell of a lot
+cuter than I had been led to think, and it's kind of a cute
+story...hell, it is what it is....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+History (10 Aug 1998 12:17:02 -0700)
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+
History

+
Date: 10 Aug 1998 12:17:02 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And for the last five years, I've been trying to develop a
+> dialogue with the SF communityNot just, "Here's what I'm doing,
+> here's the show, watch it, give us ratings, and be quiet," but
+> rather, "Here's what I'm doing...how close is this to what you've
+> been wishing someone would do? What are you tired of?
+> What do you think of this part over here?"
+
+      Boy, if I'd only known what I was setting myself up for....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 10 Aug 1998 23:07:14 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will you continue to do this with Crusade?
+> In the same way?
+> More selective?
+
+      No, I'll be pulling back quite a bit after B5 is over.  It's
+that or go mad.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Recommendation (10 Aug 1998 14:52:00 -0700)
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Recommendation

+
Date: 10 Aug 1998 14:52:00 -0700

+
      Okay...I told you about Squirrel Nut Zippers, and Portishead
+(those of you with good taste got that one, feh on the rest), and
+Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy before most anybody
+else...and South Park just a bit before they broke out....
+
+      Well, here's another recommendation, in the direction of the
+surreal and the very funny and very weird.
+
+      Sifl and Ollie.  MTV, weeknights at 12:30.  When you see what it
+is, you'll think I've lost my mind to recommend it.  But just trust me
+on this. Give it a chance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ComicCon (10 Aug 1998 23:07:14 -0700)
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+
ComicCon

+
Date: 10 Aug 1998 23:07:14 -0700

+
 SysOp Lee Whiteside <76711.2660@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the likelyhood you'll feel up to making it down to San
+> Diego this Saturday for your ComicCon presentation? Or should we
+> expect a telecommuting jms presentation?
+
+      I should be able to make it down for ComicCon, though just for
+the afternoon of the presentation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+History (11 Aug 1998 15:42:12 -0700)
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History

+
Date: 11 Aug 1998 15:42:12 -0700

+
 WizOp Wes Meier <76703.747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> UseNet?
+> AOL?
+
+      I'll still be here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+jms out of worldcon (13 Aug 1998 14:01:01 -0700)
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jms out of worldcon

+
Date: 13 Aug 1998 14:01:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Are you sleeping at least 8 hours /night?
+
+      Had a bit of a rebound, for that reason, haven't been getting as
+much sleep as I should've wit the first weeks of filming...not
+monstrous, but vastly annoying.  It's exactly what I was told would
+happen, but not as bad as it would've been if I'd've gone to WorldCon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+jms out of worldcon (14 Aug 1998 20:54:00 -0700)
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jms out of worldcon

+
Date: 14 Aug 1998 20:54:00 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, Joe, did anyone save a Bucconeer doubloon for you?
+
+      No, don't know anything about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 at ComicCon Canceled (14 Aug 1998 13:38:12 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1998 13:38:12 -0700

+
      I've left email for the folks at San Diego Comic Con, but
+haven't yet heard back, and I want folks to have the most time to
+adjust their schedules.
+
+      As the doctor predicted, the pneumonia -- after a week of
+feeling a little better -- has rebouned with a vengeance.  Going back
+in today for a follow-up exam and more workups.  It's not as bad as it
+would've been had I gone to WorldCon (that's what they keep telling me;
+feeling as I do I have a hard time believing it because if it's true, I
+can't even imagine what that would be like given what it's like *now*),
+but it's laid me pretty low.
+
+      Consequently, I won't be able to do the B5 presentation at San
+Diego Comic Con on Saturday, or be there for the autographing session. 
+There isn't any way to set up a replacement person and material, so
+it's going to have to be canceled outright.
+
+      SDCC is one of my two favorite conventions, that and LosCon; I
+haven't missed either in something on the order of 12 years.  (If
+nothing else I go to SDCC just to shop in the dealer's room for cool
+Superman stuff.)  But this record has to be broken, much to my
+considerable dismay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Real-life B5 technology (17 Aug 1998 02:29:03 -0700)
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+
Real-life B5 technology

+
Date: 17 Aug 1998 02:29:03 -0700

+
 Paul Worthington <112063.2437@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Perhaps the developer was taking notes while watching Babylon 5?
+
+      Cool...we're ahead of our time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gary Cole (01 Aug 1998 22:08:08 -0700)
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Gary Cole

+
Date: 01 Aug 1998 22:08:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm starting to worry about WorldCon...this thing isn't letting
+go as fast as I'd've liked.  I'll be seeing a doctor again on Monday to
+let me know if I'm in any condition to go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+looking for quote (17 Aug 1998 02:29:03 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Aug 1998 02:29:03 -0700

+
 JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any suggestions?
+
+      I wouldn't even know where to start.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+THE OFFICIAL UK FAN CLUB (28 Aug 1998 01:08:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
THE OFFICIAL UK FAN CLUB

+
Date: 28 Aug 1998 01:08:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Just one correction: the UK fan club is a local UK group, and is
+not official in any way, manner, shape or form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Music and Magic (27 Aug 1998 14:51:00 -0700)
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+
Music and Magic

+
Date: 27 Aug 1998 14:51:00 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How are you feeling?
+> Did you have fun at the Wrap Party without making yourself
+> sicker?
+
+      Thanks, it was fun...still a little weak around the edges, but
+better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Cross Stitch (31 Aug 1998 00:34:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 31 Aug 1998 00:34:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...will check it out when I can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dark Genesis (31 Aug 1998 12:49:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 31 Aug 1998 12:49:00 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, could you tell us how closely you are involved in the
+> Psi_Corps trilogy? the concept and name of the "kith", was that
+> from you or the author?
+
+      The kith idea came from the author, and was a perfect way of
+exploring the relationships there.
+
+      Basically, I wrote detailed outlines for all three books, and
+Gregory went away and wrote the books.  Frankly, I think this first Psi
+Corps novel may be the best one to date, and that's saying a lot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 on Laserdisc (03 Aug 1998 13:51:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 on Laserdisc

+
Date: 03 Aug 1998 13:51:06 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why not the pilot?
+> Is the movie not in Widescreen available?
+> are already available for a Widescreen release?
+
+"Why not the pilot? Is the movie not in Widescreen available?"
+
+      Wasn't shot that way.
+
+"Also I read somewhere that B5 has been broadcasted in Widescreen in
+Portugal, does this mean that all the SFX etc. are already available
+for a Widescreen release?"
+
+      That's correct.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+River of Souls (04 Aug 1998 00:50:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
River of Souls

+
Date: 04 Aug 1998 00:50:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"In all honesty, I suspect that scene cut a little too close to home
+for some guys.  I know it left me squirming uncomfortably in my chair
+wanting it to just end."
+
+      Then it had the desired effect.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+UK Showing - ep 517 (04 Aug 1998 02:05:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
UK Showing - ep 517

+
Date: 04 Aug 1998 02:05:13 -0700

+
 Julie Mehta <113367.1506@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any more details in it about the devices that might be
+> useful to know?
+
+"I agree the coldness was disturbing, but I feel this reveals the deep
+emotion she feels at Byron's death and her consequent ruthless
+determination to achieve his goals."
+
+      This was the point I was going for with people who were saying
+that the Byron thing was totally extraneous.  To get Lyta to this point
+as a character -- remembering her "I'll sue" tirade as the last time
+she even sorta kinda got mad -- she would *have* to go through the
+fire, and lose something that meant enough to push her to this point. 
+So you had to let the relationship with Byron go full term, follow it
+over time, and see what it meant to her to justify and motivate what
+happens to and with her in the last part of the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms out of worldcon (04 Aug 1998 00:50:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
jms out of worldcon

+
Date: 04 Aug 1998 00:50:08 -0700

+
      This is a short version of what I sent to the Internet earlier
+today. In brief, as most folks hereabouts know, I got hit about a week
+ago with walking pneumonia, and have been taking serious antibiotics
+and other stuff to get past it, in the hope of being able to attend
+WorldCon.
+
+      A follow-up today with my doctor resulted in him saying that
+even though I'm past some of the worst of it -- though weak as a kitten
+ -- I'm in that perilous situation where if I push it at *all*, if I add
+stress, I will almost certainly go right into acute or bacterial
+pneumonia, which would result in certain bedrest or even
+hospitalization.  Right now was the worst time to push it.
+
+      So basically, I got bushwacked.  Even Harlan threatened dire
+results if I even tried to board a plane.
+
+      More than anything, I've been looking forward to this, because
+as a fan, I know what it means to be a Guest of Honor at a WorldCon;
+it's one of those once-in-a-lifetime things, and the perfect end to the
+B5 5 year arc. But if I go, I seriously risk falling down, and if I
+fall down, the company falls down, and I *can't* do that.
+
+      So with regrets...I can't go.  The one positive light: we're
+sending B5 fan club director Julie Walker (also previously the head of
+the MST3K fan club) to the con, equipped with all the videotapes I
+would otherwise be showing, so there will be a presence there, and
+you'll see all the stuff I would have been showing.
+
+      So there's that...but I'll confess that I'm seriously bummed
+about this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms out of worldcon (04 Aug 1998 17:38:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
jms out of worldcon

+
Date: 04 Aug 1998 17:38:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Because we're shooting this week, the first few days on Crusade,
+I'm still coming into the office, but taking it easy and not pushing
+it.  The main problem was the trip and the stress of a full-blown
+convention, the recirculated hotel air, shaking hands with a whole lot
+of people who may have colds and the like...it was a disaster waiting
+to happen under the current situation.
+
+      At least filming is going well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Dust to Dust (05 Aug 1998 12:33:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Dust to Dust

+
Date: 05 Aug 1998 12:33:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, it wasn't meant to be in 3D...and I don't have any plans to
+let anyone release those books for a bit; I'd rather my first new book
+out be, well, a new one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-09/1.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-09/1.html
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+
+
+Mail Drop (01 Sep 1998 21:17:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Mail Drop

+
Date: 01 Sep 1998 21:17:00 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is that still possible?
+
+      Yes, it's still there for that, but it's better overall to go
+for the fanclub mail address.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade Crisis?????? (19 Sep 1998 16:38:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade Crisis??????

+
Date: 19 Sep 1998 16:38:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The TNT memo was apparently real; however, the egregious points
+have now been withdrawn, and on top of that, TNT has allocated a big
+chunk of change to let us build some new sets and expand stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Crisis?????? (19 Sep 1998 22:59:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Crusade Crisis??????

+
Date: 19 Sep 1998 22:59:11 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Joe, how is everything going with production?
+> And, more importantly, how are you feeling?
+
+      Things are going well overall; we've filmed 5 episodes, and have
+just extended a planned 1 week production hiatus (we take two such
+hiatuses -- hiati? -- every year, one in the fall, one in the spring)
+and added three paid weeks in order to allow time for construction on a
+number of new sets.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade Crisis?????? (19 Sep 1998 22:59:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Crusade Crisis??????

+
Date: 19 Sep 1998 22:59:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that to dwell on the thing would be to just open wounds
+that are better left healed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-09/13.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-09/13.html
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+
+Crusade Crisis?????? (20 Sep 1998 15:07:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Crusade Crisis??????

+
Date: 20 Sep 1998 15:07:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+> The TNT memo was apparently real; however, the egregious points have
+> now been withdrawn, and on top of that, TNT has allocated a big chunk
+> of change to let us build some new sets and expand stuff. 
+
+> Hey!  That's WONDERFUL news!
+
+      What we've done is to try and expedite this so we can have the
+new stuff in hand for the maximum number of episodes as quickly as
+possible.  We always take a one-week hiatus in every block of episodes
+we shoot, all the way through B5's history and now.  One week around
+the start of October (depending on the start of filming), then the
+Christmas break, then another one-week hiatus midway through the last
+10 episodes.
+
+      So what we did here was to add on three weeks to the hiatus,
+starting Tuesday.  Well, three paid weeks off for most of the crew
+directly involved with the actual filming, anyway.  Construction, art
+department, props, wardrobe and other departments will still be working
+away to build and dress the sets and stuff so we can get right back
+into shooting on with the new stuff in place.
+
+      We're talking here improvements to the corridors, to the
+quarters to enlarge them, adding a wardroom/mess hall, an exercise
+area...other stuff. We generally add sets each season, and wanted to do
+these down the road, but now we have the chance to do them now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Music (20 Sep 1998 22:22:14 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Music

+
Date: 20 Sep 1998 22:22:14 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is Christopher Franke still part of the team, or do you bring in
+> someone new?
+
+      We haven't yet set a composer for Crusade; we're giving a shot
+to Evan Chen, a chinese-born classical composer with a strong jazz
+background, on A Call to Arms.  How that turns out will determine much
+that follows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Music (21 Sep 1998 00:25:11 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Music

+
Date: 21 Sep 1998 00:25:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Evan's an amazing composer...he came out of Shanghai, studied
+music in Russia and Germany, was fast becoming a leading, classically
+trained composer, and discovered jazz in his twenties, dropped
+everything to come to Chicago and study under some of the best jazz men
+around (even if it meant washing dishes to get by).  His stuff is the
+most amazing blend of asian influence, classical instrumentation, jazz
+and rock backbeats I've ever heard, even using asian scales (somewhat
+different from western musical scales) in unexpected places to make
+western music sound totally different.
+
+      For a show as different as this, I wanted a completely
+different, totally unique sound, something I've never heard before, and
+Evan Chen has it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Music (21 Sep 1998 23:17:11 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Music

+
Date: 21 Sep 1998 23:17:11 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is he working with any groups that are recording?
+
+      Not that I'm aware of.  I think we got in and found him before
+anybody else could get their hands on him.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade Crisis?????? (21 Sep 1998 23:17:10 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
Crusade Crisis??????

+
Date: 21 Sep 1998 23:17:10 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Withdrawn?
+> I realize you probably can't elaborate too much on the
+> circumstances, butdid they back down because of YOUR fury,
+> because of viewer complaint, or did you go the quick and easy
+> route and sic Harlan on 'em?? On a note of more immediate urgency,
+> how is your recuperation going?????
+
+      All that matters is that wisdom prevailed.
+
+      And I'm well past the pneumonia, and doing much better now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+WB Home Video (23 Sep 1998 12:56:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video

+
Date: 23 Sep 1998 12:56:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      They'll handle all five years.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-09/19.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-09/19.html
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+
+
+Mimbari Language (23 Sep 1998 12:56:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Mimbari Language

+
Date: 23 Sep 1998 12:56:07 -0700

+
 Rick and Cindy <71561.3255@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there a mimbari word that Means Titanic?
+
+"Is there a minbari word that Means Titanic?"
+
+      Trk'voy-ahgr.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Dark Genesis standalone? (09 Sep 1998 12:31:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Dark Genesis standalone?

+
Date: 09 Sep 1998 12:31:03 -0700

+
 Mike Bjorkman <71603.3207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I'm looking forward to reading Dark Genesis, and I'm also
+> wondering - would it make sense to someone who had never watched
+> B5? That is, would it make a reasonable introduction to the B5
+> universe for friends who haven't yet been turned on to the show?
+
+      Actually, it's more accessible to a new reader than any of the
+prior B5 books...it's a totally self-contained work that begins long
+before any of our regular characters are born.  I wanted this to be a
+solid novel that could exist entirely on its own, absent any knowledge
+of B5, but which would tie into the arc for anybody who knows the show.
+I think it succeeds admirably.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Mimbari Language (24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Mimbari Language

+
Date: 24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Message text written by JMS: >> "Is there a minbari word that
+> Means Titanic?"
+
+"Well it's taking a bloody long time to sink to the bottom."
+
+      That Celine Dion just *won't* let go, will she?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/CompuServe/cs98-09/21.html b/find/CompuServe/cs98-09/21.html
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+
+
+WB Home Video (24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
WB Home Video

+
Date: 24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700

+
 Steve Kuziel <74150.350@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will it also include the movies subsequent to "The Gathering"?
+
+      No, I was referring to the WB deal, which was what you asked
+about.  I do know that the WB home video covers all five seasons, I
+don't know about Columbia House for sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Joe- Spec vs Story Idea? (24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Joe- Spec vs Story Idea?

+
Date: 24 Sep 1998 20:59:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"So, how do you want to work wild-eyed speculation on plots for a
+program that hasn't hit the airwaves yet?  Or shall I sit on my twisted
+speculation (ouch!) until January?"
+
+      Well, since nothing's aired yet, I think speculations are
+probably best suited until after one sees the show...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Mimbari Language (25 Sep 1998 22:14:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Mimbari Language

+
Date: 25 Sep 1998 22:14:03 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, who (or what) would you choose to sing the B5 theme song (if
+> any)?
+
+"BTW, who (or what) would you choose to sing the B5 theme song (if
+any)?"
+
+      Billy Joel.  No contest.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Dark Genesis spoilers (26 Sep 1998 21:41:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Dark Genesis spoilers

+
Date: 26 Sep 1998 21:41:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it's a great book, thanks...I really wanted it to be one
+that stood entirely on its own.  If you never saw a frame of B5, you
+could pick up this book and enjoy it.  It's a kick.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Mimbari Language (26 Sep 1998 21:41:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 26 Sep 1998 21:41:07 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The obvious next question: Is there a B5 theme song?
+> Or is this waiting for "Babylon 5: The Musical?"
+
+"The obvious next question: Is there a B5 theme song?"
+
+      If there is, it's probably aired on Dr. Demento by now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ponderings of a B5 fan (27 Sep 1998 15:42:00 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Sep 1998 15:42:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      1) He was speaking metaphorically.  You're being too literal.
+
+      2) No.
+
+      3) There are language derivations in common dating back to prior
+encounters.
+
+      4) He would've gotten security to assist with this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minbari Language (27 Sep 1998 20:57:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Sep 1998 20:57:06 -0700

+
      Or from Fastball....
+
+      "You can see the Shadows wandering off somewhere
+      They won't make it home but they really don't care
+      They wanted the highway
+      They're happier there today...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Crisis?????? (09 Sep 1998 17:09:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Sep 1998 17:09:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      At this time, officially, I cannot confirm or deny the report.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Crisis?????? (10 Sep 1998 16:19:04 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1998 16:19:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"...now all those old uniforms are going to go to waste more than
+likely, meanwhile, they're a hell of a lot better than that cheesier
+new design they've come up with; a pity."
+
+      Funny, everybody said that about our Earthforce uniforms when
+the first pictures appeared.  Now they're the preferred standard.
+
+      Further, those uniforms are specific to the mission of the
+Excalibur, as uniforms vary within the real military.  The regular
+Earthforce uniforms are still very much in use in the Crusade universe.
+
+      Y'know, I'd've thought that, after learning the lessons on B5
+about not judging things too quickly -- the costumes are stupid, who's
+the guy with the big hair -- that people would have learend to not
+prejudge things before they actually see them on film.
+
+      Guess I was wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Uniforms (10 Sep 1998 16:19:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10 Sep 1998 16:19:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Let me suggest that the photo does not show the uniforms off to
+best advantage.  They are based strongly on West Point uniforms, with
+some variation.  The photo is an awful photo, it looks like a polaroid,
+and makes them look pretty flat and unattractive.  On actual film, lit
+well, they look very nice.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dark Genesis standalone? (11 Sep 1998 16:35:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Sep 1998 16:35:10 -0700

+
 Michael J. Kersey <73642.3137@compuserve.com> asks:
+> It worked for me in Ken Burns "Civil War" documentary, how about
+> fiction?
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, it's pretty damn canon.  The rest, we'll see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Uniforms (12 Sep 1998 21:00:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Sep 1998 21:00:05 -0700

+
 Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW - how are YOU feeling?
+> How long do we have to wait now?
+
+      I've been looking at that photo some more, and the more I stare
+at it, the more it bugs me, because it's just awful in how it was
+taken: you can see the shadows from the flashbulb, it's not composed
+well, it looks like a snapshot taken by somebody non-professional, and
+the more I think about it, the more I'm not sure where the hell that
+shot came from.  We sure as heck didn't provide it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Gideon Symbolism (13 Sep 1998 23:48:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Sep 1998 23:48:11 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So was the biblical reference related to the genesis (pardon the
+> pun) of this character's name?
+
+      There are certain reasons for that name choice, yes, which is
+all I'll say for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (general) (17 Sep 1998 20:04:03 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 17 Sep 1998 20:04:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Wasn't any kind of particular inspiration, just hard work on a
+concept until it made sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lyta Question (01 Oct 1998 23:58:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 01 Oct 1998 23:58:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why did Lyta train as a Psi Cop if she was only a P5?
+
+"I was under the impression teeps needed to be at least P10 before
+becoming Psi Cops. Why did Lyta train as a Psi Cop if she was only a
+P5?"
+
+      You are misremembering.  She said she interned with the Psi
+Cops, not that she was training to be one.  Psi Cops need people
+beneath them at various levels as assistants, collectors of evidence,
+and all the more ordinary stuff they don't have time to do as the
+elite.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+S5book tells all (11 Oct 1998 22:46:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Oct 1998 22:46:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yeah, it was published ahead of schedule, and we're all kinda
+pissed about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+S5book tells all (12 Oct 1998 15:39:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Oct 1998 15:39:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      WB does have that control over publishing as well...the thing
+was published by accident, there was a drop in communication and it
+happened when everyone was looking elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+EW disses B5 (12 Oct 1998 22:58:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 12 Oct 1998 22:58:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      On the other hand, the actual description they used for the show
+was nothing other than glowing...beats the heck out of me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Exec Producer powers? (13 Oct 1998 23:43:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Oct 1998 23:43:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It variers; in some cases, an exec producer is just the money
+person; in other cases, it can even be a studio person assigned to a
+project; there can be numerous exec producers with various
+responsibilities.  Some sell the show, move on, and just collect fees.
+
+      That's why the term exec producer has become almost meaningless
+in terms of knowing what the person actually *does*, and why it's been
+replaced in many ways with the term "show runner."  That's the person
+who actually runs the show, determines the creative direction for the
+series, writes and oversees scripts, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+EW disses B5 (13 Oct 1998 13:09:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 13 Oct 1998 13:09:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Or maybe they were working in base 50....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Vertical Vertigo (13 Oct 1998 23:54:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Oct 1998 23:54:10 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As someone who's had dealings with agencies of one of the four
+> vertical-integration giants cited (Time-Warner), would you align
+> yourself with the "many creative types" who "decry vertical
+> integration, seeing it also as a major reason for the decline in
+> the quality of TV shows?" Since you've previously mentioned that
+> you have other projects in development, is the possibility of
+> getting any of them to market made more difficult by vertical
+> integration?
+
+         ....joe does not understand vertical integration...joe
+wonders if that means that all standing people all have the right to
+use the same washroom and the same fountain and stand in the front of
+the bus...joe not business type...barely understands these things...joe
+will read article, fall down, try to reply at a later date....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+                                                 (brother to zathras)
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 in Siberia? (20 Oct 1998 11:37:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Oct 1998 11:37:07 -0700

+
 Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's with TNT relegating season 5 to Siberia?
+> 12 o'clock mid-night for the rest of the season?
+> Can you shed some light on this (no pun intended regarding the
+> last ep)?
+
+      The first new S5 ep is on next Wednesday at 10, not midnight; I
+don't know what you're referring to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+new jms comic (26 Oct 1998 16:53:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Oct 1998 16:53:04 -0700

+
      Posted this over on another system, figured I'd put it here as
+well.
+
+     Just thought I'd get this thread moving, though it's still a bit
+  early, since news has started to break in other places.  Basically:
+I've
+  always loved comics (no secret there), and have always wanted to do
+a
+  title of my own, try to make it something special, as B5 was/is
+special.
+
+      I created the premise, went to Top Cow (my first and only choice
+on
+  this one), we met, we agreed...and now RISING STARS is set to debut
+next
+  April.  I've already turned in the first script (for the preview
+issue),
+  and will be getting down to writing issues 0 and 1 shortly.
+
+      The story follows the events after the small town of Pederson,
+  Illinois, is struck by a mass of energy from an unknown, but non-
+  terrestrial source.  Everyone who was in utero at the time of the
+flash
+  is affected, resulting in 113 individuals who develop abilities of a
+most
+  unusual and highly individual form.  (The power is to some degree
+shaped
+  by who they are, just as they are shaped to some degree by the
+power.)
+
+       It is set in a realistic universe, timed to real-world events
+(it
+  covers a span of about 60 years, starting in about 1969), where
+there
+  have never been super-powered individuals before.  It looks at how
+the
+  world reacts to them, and how they react to the world.  We follow
+these
+  characters through their early years, into adulthood and to the ends
+of
+  their lives, mapping all the changes they go through, and how they
+change
+  the world.
+
+       It's an extremely ambitious 24 issue miniseries (with the
+potential
+  to go back and further develop any of the stories presented earlier
+along
+  the way).
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+new jms comic (27 Oct 1998 13:27:00 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Oct 1998 13:27:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Well, they'll have the scripts in plenty of time, so I can't see
+any reason why there would be any problem in schedule.  I've learned in
+B5 how to maintain a schedule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+new jms comic (27 Oct 1998 13:27:00 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 27 Oct 1998 13:27:00 -0700

+
 Ed Brandt <100274.2672@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Will they be made into a graphic novel, i.e as In Valen's Name,
+> seemed to be?
+
+      Probably, but that's down the road a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+acting systems (02 Oct 1998 16:55:02 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Oct 1998 16:55:02 -0700

+
 Rick and Cindy <71561.3255@compuserve.com> asks:
+> whats your opinion on the Stanislavski system, and the actor who
+> use it?
+
+      I don't know enough about it to have an intelligent opinion....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+new jms comic (27 Oct 1998 23:07:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Oct 1998 23:07:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...what's great is that I've already heard from a number
+of folks who don't generally buy comics, but will do so for this
+particular title, so given B5's coverage, it may mean a good influx of
+new people to discover the comics world.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thank you (28 Oct 1998 23:03:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Thank you

+
Date: 28 Oct 1998 23:03:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, thank *you* for the kind words, and for being part of the
+family.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+new jms comic (28 Oct 1998 20:32:00 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Oct 1998 20:32:00 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any possibility that we'll be able to purchase it from
+> the Emporium? BTW, when are they going to update the Emporium?
+> What's the deal with that?
+
+      There's been some problems with the company providing the web
+site, and we're working to address that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+new jms comic (28 Oct 1998 20:32:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
new jms comic

+
Date: 28 Oct 1998 20:32:00 -0700

+
 Andrew S. Troth <74663.3614@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, do you mind if I repost this announcement over in the Comics
+> & Animation Forum?
+
+      Sure, by all means.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Prodution probs......??? (04 Oct 1998 02:09:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
Prodution probs......???

+
Date: 04 Oct 1998 02:09:04 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I wonder if this will ever reach some sort of critical mass, and,
+> if so, what the result will be?
+
+"Whether it be in CIS fora or on the wider Net, it seems that more
+people are spreading more rumors more widely with more reaction.  I
+wonder if this will ever reach some sort of critical mass, and, if so,
+what the result will be?"
+
+      A slight but measurable increase in the greenhouse effect....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Music (04 Oct 1998 20:31:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Music

+
Date: 04 Oct 1998 20:31:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, nothing commercially available.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+What Book to believe (06 Oct 1998 22:56:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
What Book to believe

+
Date: 06 Oct 1998 22:56:00 -0700

+
 Joel Araujo <76016.122@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is cannon when two books contratict themselves?
+
+      Where there is a contradiction, defer to City.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Zathras Confused (06 Oct 1998 22:57:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Zathras Confused

+
Date: 06 Oct 1998 22:57:02 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      You can never count out the Zathri....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+re: jms email (07 Oct 1998 10:11:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
re: jms email

+
Date: 07 Oct 1998 10:11:09 -0700

+
      Just a note to remind folks that my email address is to be used
+only for stuff that can't or shouldn't be discussed publicly, for
+personal stuff. It's starting to fill up with general questions about
+the themes of the show, plot stuff and the like, questions which would
+serve better in the open forums where the answers would profit other
+people, and save me from having to answer the same question X-times
+privately.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Zathras Confused (08 Oct 1998 12:20:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Zathras Confused

+
Date: 08 Oct 1998 12:20:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      He also never *stops* saying things....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Who's going to V.O.R. (11 Oct 1998 00:17:14 -0700)
+
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+
Who's going to V.O.R.

+
Date: 11 Oct 1998 00:17:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Be advised that Tracy Scoggins will not be there, and that
+others may not be there, and that this is not an official, sanctioned
+convention (many have emailed me to say that they thought it was
+sanctioned).  The companies listed as "sponsors" -- Precedence
+Publishing and Sierra FX -- are making it clear, and making VorCon make
+sure it's clear, that they may be sponsoring events at the convention
+but they do not endorse the convention itself; also, Optic Nerve will
+not be bringing down an exhibit of any sort.  In addition, by now they
+either have received or are about to receive official warning from 
+Warner Bros. regarding the showing of *any* video material from the
+show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Londo's Tragic Fate (02 Nov 1998 15:43:12 -0700)
+
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+
Londo's Tragic Fate

+
Date: 02 Nov 1998 15:43:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yes, the capital was getting beat up, but there's a difference
+between thousands of dead and billions dead...Londo sacrified himself
+to save the lives of billions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WoF>Sheridan's memory (06 Nov 1998 17:06:05 -0700)
+
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+
<WoF>Sheridan's memory

+
Date: 06 Nov 1998 17:06:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Y'know, this discussion kinda baffles me to some extent.
+
+      For starters, Sheridan was only in the future briefly; he was
+being beaten and was confused and not sure how much of it was real; he
+doesn't know if his going to Z'ha'dum *changed* any of that
+future...the events he did see were 20 years down the road, and there's
+no way for him to know (as we know, the audience) what connects to
+what...he sees only destruction, and that could have happened two weeks
+before (there's no rule that says a capital city can be bombed only
+once)...no way to know if the keeper may have been implanted days or
+months before.  To try and impose a quick understanding of events 20 
+years down the road on things happening right now, without knowing the 
+context, would be madness...you don't need a keeper to start a war, or
+half our own leaders here would have had keepers on them.
+
+      As for Delenn...yes, he heard her talk about their son, but at
+the same time, again, that's 20 years down the road.  Their son could
+be any age, so the news that she's pregnant will still be a shock
+whenever it comes; you may know that you're planning to have kids, that
+the doctor says its possible, but when you actually hear the news, it's
+a stunner every time.
+
+      His question is a natural one...he doesn't know if the kid in
+the future had to be taken out of utero to be sustained until it came
+full term, doesn't know if extreme measures had to be taken...his
+question is a sensible and justifiable one.
+
+      People are assuming that what *they* know as the audience,
+Sheridan knows, which he does not...and assuming that he knows
+everything that is to come, or what it means, or how it happens, or in
+what context, which he does not.
+
+      His memory is not faulty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+River of Souls: Shyster (09 Nov 1998 12:15:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
River of Souls: Shyster

+
Date: 09 Nov 1998 12:15:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Oh, and then some....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<WOF>> Garibaldi (09 Nov 1998 16:56:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
<<WOF>> Garibaldi

+
Date: 09 Nov 1998 16:56:01 -0700

+
 Jonathan Kass <74130.443@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the question is, are we going to see in the last 2 episodes
+> before SIL what Franklin's answer to that question was?
+
+      Franklin's solution really wouldn't have worked...only a teep
+can undo the damage here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Hey, Joe! <ROS> (10 Nov 1998 12:28:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Hey, Joe! <ROS>

+
Date: 10 Nov 1998 12:28:00 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> ...What did Tracey say when she saw the lengths you went to to
+> get her into a bustier and garters?
+
+      Her reaction on reading the script was to go on an immediate
+crash diet, saying, "I want to make the boys cry."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hey, Joe! <ROS> (11 Nov 1998 14:10:09 -0700)
+
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+
Hey, Joe! <ROS>

+
Date: 11 Nov 1998 14:10:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, nobody seemed to think twice about it...and it's
+another nod to the reality that there are all kinds of people out there
+of divergent interests.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Another two cents.... (11 Nov 1998 20:47:13 -0700)
+
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+
Another two cents....

+
Date: 11 Nov 1998 20:47:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Why is the inevitable always a surprise when it happens?
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate that...the characters are a lot of fun to
+play with.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+River of Souls: Shyster (11 Nov 1998 20:47:13 -0700)
+
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+
River of Souls: Shyster

+
Date: 11 Nov 1998 20:47:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS/B5 Flashback - 1991 (15 Nov 1998 23:18:09 -0700)
+
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+
JMS/B5 Flashback - 1991

+
Date: 15 Nov 1998 23:18:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"And just to make you all--and me!--feel old, I was only ten when that
+message was written <G>"
+
+      If you need me, I'll be up on the roof....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+River of Sheen (15 Nov 1998 21:51:04 -0700)
+
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+
River of Sheen

+
Date: 15 Nov 1998 21:51:04 -0700

+
 Brent Barrett <75063.3305@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If this really was what Sheen was doing, was this something he
+> came up with or did you have any say with how you saw the
+> character of the Soul Hunter being approached?
+
+      What we had discussed (actor, director and me) was that soul
+hunters don't generally get much chance to hang out and talk to people;
+they can empathically sense the language, however, when they encounter
+others.  At first, he didn't know the language very well, and gradually
+became more able to express himself.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Soul Hunter q (SFLIT) (18 Nov 1998 17:45:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Soul Hunter q (SFLIT)

+
Date: 18 Nov 1998 17:45:05 -0700

+
 Bancroft Gracey <100532.1747@compuserve.com> asks:
+> when, at the end of Soul Hunter (season 1), Delenn is releasing
+> 'souls', is she only releasing minbari 'souls', or all the
+> 'souls' in the renegade Soul Hunter's collection?
+
+      It would be any and all so imprisoned.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Who's going to V.O.R. (02 Nov 1998 15:43:12 -0700)
+
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+
Who's going to V.O.R.

+
Date: 02 Nov 1998 15:43:12 -0700

+
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+
+      No actors were ever told they could not attend; never happened. 
+And my problem with the Wolf conventions and some of their organizers
+is their *lack* of organization, and their refusal to honor such ideas
+as not using clips without permission, and otherwise making a mess, and
+refusing (after promising to make them available) to provide copies of
+the books to verify that the charities they say they promote actually
+received any of the profits from the con.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Objects at Rest (18 Nov 1998 21:39:13 -0700)
+
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+
Objects at Rest

+
Date: 18 Nov 1998 21:39:13 -0700

+
 DougP <70760.2440@compuserve.com> asks:
+> when Sheridan and Lorien are together and Lorien asks him "do you
+> have any reason worth living?" Did you make any special notes in
+> the script of Objects at Rest?
+
+      Yeah, my instructions to Chris were the same there as for
+another scene next week, "break our hearts."  And the two themes are
+actually pretty much the same, since they proceed from similar
+contexts.  That section of "Rest" just puts me away every time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Objects at Rest (23 Nov 1998 17:31:00 -0700)
+
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+
Objects at Rest

+
Date: 23 Nov 1998 17:31:00 -0700

+
 Ray Pelzer <70475.1263@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  Rest" be available to us on CD?
+
+      Nothing's been set yet on the next CD.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 (25 Nov 1998 22:14:05 -0700)
+
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+
Babylon 5

+
Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I have thoughts aplenty...but they are for the quiet moments
+tonight. Thank you....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+It's over. (25 Nov 1998 22:14:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
It's over.

+
Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, thank you...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SiL (25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700)
+
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+
SiL

+
Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SiL - tears (25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
SiL - tears

+
Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yeah, that's the scene that gets me too, every damned time.
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+SiL - tears (26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700

+
 Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you recall what was going on in your mind for that scene?
+> Is it not too personal that you are willing to share it?
+
+      It's too hard to put into words...I looked around, knowing that
+this could well be it, the last time I'd see this place.  It was just
+real hard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Well done, sir. (25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700)
+
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Well done, sir.

+
Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700

+
 Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was that, or was that not, you as the tech who shut off the
+> lights?
+
+      Thank you, I appreciate hearing all that...and yeah, that was
+me....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+SiL (25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"On a personal note, I have been dreading this last episode, not so
+much because of the story, but more because of it's being the end of
+Babylon 5. Now that I have watched it I must tell you that I don't feel
+depressed or sad. Yes, it was a very moving episode but also an
+uplifting story, and I actually feel good.  Like I just finished a good
+book, which of course I have except that I watched it rather than read
+it."
+
+      That's pretty much the reaction that others have had, which is
+what I was hoping for...because in a strange way, as much as it's an
+ending, it's also about hope and new beginnings and renewal.
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+SiL, Z'ha'dum and Thanks (25 Nov 1998 22:14:07 -0700)
+
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SiL, Z'ha'dum and Thanks

+
Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for the kind words, and my best to your wife.  What the
+eye sees is always second to what the heart sees in any event.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Another two cents.... (04 Nov 1998 15:18:12 -0700)
+
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+
Another two cents....

+
Date: 04 Nov 1998 15:18:12 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Heard that Jeri Taylor left Star Trek, any chance that she'll
+> come and work with you on Crusade? Any chance that you will work
+> with Angela Landsbury on Crusade? Do you know what a vacation is?
+> Have you ever owned, been owned by or currently residing with any
+> cats and if so, got any good stories for us? Is that just on the
+> 'Net or here as well? Is there anyone in the business (actor,
+> director, writer, etc) that you haven't yet worked with, but
+> would like to?
+
+1.  Heard that Jeri Taylor left Star Trek, any chance that she'll come
+and work with you on Crusade?
+
+      No, she's hoping to move to Northern California and enter
+semi-retirement with her husband, also a friend of mine.  After X-
+number of years in the business, we're all entitled to escape.
+
+2.  Any chance that you will work with Angela Landsbury on Crusade?  I
+think she's pretty cool.
+
+      I don't think she does cable episodic.
+
+3.  Do you know what a vacation is?
+
+      Does it have fur?
+
+4.  Have you ever owned, been owned by or currently residing with any
+cats and if so, got any good stories for us? (you write about them as
+if you know them well)
+
+      Yes, but the cat cabal is very chary of its secrets, and if I
+betray them they will come after me.
+
+5.  I know that you plan on pulling back regarding your online
+presence.  Is that just on the 'Net or here as well?
+
+      Mainly pulling back on the newsgroups, somewhat here.
+
+6.  Is there anyone in the business (actor, director, writer, etc)
+that you haven't yet worked with, but would like to?
+
+      Yeah, but it wouldn't be fair to name folks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
unanswered questions?

+
Date: 25 Nov 1998 22:14:07 -0700

+
 Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "Will we ever find out what happened to the missing day in
+> Sinclair's life, and will we ever find out what happened to
+> Babylon 4?" now, the show is over - but did I miss something?
+> the "little surprise" Londo left Sheriden & Delenn for their
+> child - whatever happens to it? does Londo & G'Kar meet their
+> mutual end, as "fortold" in War without end?
+
+      Seems to me we answered all those questions except for the David
+one in the course of the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS Thank you (26 Nov 1998 00:01:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:01:07 -0700

+
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+
+      Thank you, and good luck with your own stories.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL - A Couple Things (26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, there's symmetry there, to be sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+That was a good story (26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thank you...for the kind words and the flashback.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bravo!! (26 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0700)
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+
Bravo!!

+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's been great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700

+
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+
+      No, Vir did not have a Keeper.  He helped to free Centauri
+Prime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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That was a good story

+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, and yeah, it was definitely pretty intense on-set for
+that ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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Many thanks

+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's been a terrific ride.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+How did it feel? (26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700)
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How did it feel?

+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+      As noted elsewhere here...it was just real hard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:31:08 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you going to stick to pretty much writing your own stuff or
+> will you still consider guest writing for any other shows? Would
+> you consider asking Chris Carter to write and episode of Crusade? 
+> Have they asked you yet?
+
+      I don't believe anyone has spoken to me about Icon yet...as for
+other shows, I'm kinda spoiled...I don't like to have my words mucked
+about with, and on somebody else's show, that's inevitable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL (26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, and I suggested the wave 'cause it's what he would do. 
+Stephen agreed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL (26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700

+
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+
+"My boy toy was saying he couldn't believe that you had Sherridan go,
+but not have DeLenn with him; but I found it appropriate that he would
+do that.  My guess was (correct me if I'm wrong), that like David, he
+didn't want anyone to remember him any other way.  He wanted their last
+thoughts of him to be not of him dying but who and what he was before
+that."
+
+      Exactly.
+
+      And thanks for the kind words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's hard to let it go, but every book has a back
+cover.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700

+
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+
+      It'd be hard to pick up the David arc since he'll only be about
+4 years old at the time Crusade starts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SIL / B5 (26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL and a Question (26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700

+
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+
+      It was the station blowing up, and the shuttle leaving, and the
+coda, and the sunrise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The End of a Dream (26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700

+
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+
+      The thanks are all mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, and you're right, it's in many ways the story of the
+station. Which is why it's such a moment when it goes up.  That is the
+icon, and the way into so much of what happens in the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL (26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700)
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SiL

+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Yeah, that was me...and rewriting somebody else is as easy or
+hard as the other person makes it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, it's appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Nov 1998 17:31:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Organized?  If they had an opposable thumb and could hold a
+screwdriver, we'd all be doomed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Giving Thanks for B5 (26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700)
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Giving Thanks for B5

+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks; a lot of folks have come out of lurker-zone on this one,
+and it's been great to hear the voices.
+
+      As for Eep, I guess I picked it because it's so small that you
+might miss it, it was vague enough not to get me in trouble, and it's
+kind of a mouse sound.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:04 -0700

+
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+
+      We didn't have the 1997 Hugo when this was filmed.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Bravo!! (26 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0700)
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:31:03 -0700

+
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+      Thanks...it's been great.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
 John Bovenmyer <73567.1341@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Your idea or Stephen's?
+> Was it the producer, writer or director who talked the creator
+> into becoming an actor?
+
+      Thanks, and I suggested the wave 'cause it's what he would do. 
+Stephen agreed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700

+
 Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am purposely avoiding any spoilers for Crusade so I can enjoy
+> the episodes as I see them, but since I've read there is some
+> connection between B5 and Crusade, can you tell us whether the
+> David arc will be picked up in Crusade? Do you also appear in one
+> of the Producers photos just before the closing credits?
+
+      It'd be hard to pick up the David arc since he'll only be about
+4 years old at the time Crusade starts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700

+
 Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The sole remaining question is - did Vir have a Keeper?
+
+      No, Vir did not have a Keeper.  He helped to free Centauri
+Prime.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was Delenn looking out at the sunrise this scene?
+> If so it why would it provoke that sort of reaction?
+> If this was not the final scene, what was it going to be?
+
+      It was the station blowing up, and the shuttle leaving, and the
+coda, and the sunrise.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Um, that was you, right?
+
+"My boy toy was saying he couldn't believe that you had Sherridan go,
+but not have DeLenn with him; but I found it appropriate that he would
+do that.  My guess was (correct me if I'm wrong), that like David, he
+didn't want anyone to remember him any other way.  He wanted their last
+thoughts of him to be not of him dying but who and what he was before
+that."
+
+      Exactly.
+
+      And thanks for the kind words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Moving Out (04 Nov 1998 23:34:07 -0700)
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Moving Out

+
Date: 04 Nov 1998 23:34:07 -0700

+
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+
+      That's a good way of looking at it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700

+
 Roseann <103510.1542@compuserve.com> asks:
+> That was you that turned off the lights?
+> Knowing how much it bothers you to have your work edited and
+> rewritten by others, was it/is it tough for you when you have to
+> do that to a collegue? It must be a necessary evil in some cases,
+> yes? Do you tend to or try to keep it to a minimum?
+> Or does it depend on the story, writer's experience, etc?
+> Has it ever been an intimidating experience for you?
+
+      Thanks....
+
+      Yeah, that was me...and rewriting somebody else is as easy or
+hard as the other person makes it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Many thanks

+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's been a terrific ride.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700

+
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+
+      The thanks are all mine.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, it's appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I am sure you got this message at least a 100 times, but how did
+> it feel to flip the switch that everything ended, after 4 years,
+> and how was the feeling after you could carry on with your Story?
+
+      As noted elsewhere here...it was just real hard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks...it's hard to let it go, but every book has a back
+cover.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, and yeah, it was definitely pretty intense on-set for
+that ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 13:47:07 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, and you're right, it's in many ways the story of the
+station. Which is why it's such a moment when it goes up.  That is the
+icon, and the way into so much of what happens in the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Using snips and quotes (05 Nov 1998 11:53:01 -0700)
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Using snips and quotes

+
Date: 05 Nov 1998 11:53:01 -0700

+
 Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is this accomplished?
+> Is there some giant archive somewhere where people can type in
+> key words and get a list of movies where that word/phrase is
+> used? Are there experts who just know all this stuff?
+
+"How is this accomplished? Is there some giant archive somewhere where
+people can type in key words and get a list of movies where that
+word/phrase is used? Are there experts who just know all this stuff? It
+seems like finding a character saying exactly the right sentence out of
+the thousands of movies in existence would be a difficult and laborious
+task."
+
+      No, none that I'm aware of.  You just happen to know something,
+and if you can license that snip, you acquire the rights to use it. 
+The DD stuff was just stuff that I knew 'cause I'm a cartoon nut.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks; a lot of folks have come out of lurker-zone on this one,
+and it's been great to hear the voices.
+
+      As for Eep, I guess I picked it because it's so small that you
+might miss it, it was vague enough not to get me in trouble, and it's
+kind of a mouse sound.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 26 Nov 1998 23:09:04 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Where was the 1997 Hugo hidden?
+
+      We didn't have the 1997 Hugo when this was filmed.  And thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700

+
 Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Let's see, where's that Indian restaurant?
+
+      It's never been done before; and likely won't again, at least
+for a long time.  But the interaction, for me, has been worth it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...and that's the desired sense of it, that this is a
+place that goes on, and we saw this part of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:11 -0700

+
 Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why was the station destroyed?
+> A hazard to navigation?
+> Why?
+> And why wouldn't it be kept as a permanent museum?
+
+      Remember how much money and maintainance it would take to keep a
+5 mile long station running.  They could barely do it when there was a
+lot of tourism and business coming through; absent that, it's unviable,
+and you don't just want to leave it there for folks to come in and take
+over.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Objects in Plain Sight (29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Wasn't much else hid...few have noticed the Hugo so far...and
+yeah, that was a shot glass...just playing the irony of his finding it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+More soggy tissues :-) (29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 29 Nov 1998 23:24:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, to you and all the other folks up north who just got the
+end of the story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A little bit of history (30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
A little bit of history

+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700

+
 Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's the moral of this?
+> Who knows?
+
+"The biggest difference I noticed in your old posts was the "tone" --
+you seemed more "upbeat". I guess the past 5 years of working 26 hour
+days, dealing with online jerks, and fighting with the various suits
+over renewal EVERY DAMN YEAR have taken a toll on your overall
+outlook."
+
+      It was a number of different factors, really...those wars, the
+daily grind of writing and producing this show, the online experiment
+(which was 90% terrific and 10% nutcases)...over time, it all takes a
+real toll.
+
+      (Somewhat related aside...I was redoing my list of credits the
+other day for the PR file, which goes to reporters, and started adding
+up how much of what I've written has been produced, on a per-hour
+basis.  These are just the produced TV episodes -- half-hour and hour --
+and TV movies, nothing else.
+
+      (Came out that if you started watching it all, no repeats, 8
+hours a day, it would take you slightly over 3 weeks to see it all.  I
+went to lie down for a while after that one.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+From my husband... (30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700)
+
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+
From my husband...

+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700

+
 Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> There were several years of wondering "who the hell are the
+> Shadows" (and the Vorlons) and what do they want? What else can I
+> say, but "a job well done"? Do you get tired of the constant
+> accolades from your fans? If this has been an experiment, after
+> seven years what are the results?
+
+      Thanks for the kind words, and good luck with your ventures.
+
+      What's the final result?  I hope a document, thousands of pages
+long, that chronicles the making of a show on every level, so that
+average folks can better understand the process and, thus, better
+communicate what it is they want, on the theory that you can never have
+what you want until you know how to ask for it, and what your options
+are.
+
+      That, and maybe making some people think...if even that is
+accomplished, then the experiment was worthwhile.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WoF> Lyta (05 Nov 1998 16:27:04 -0700)
+
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+
<WoF> Lyta

+
Date: 05 Nov 1998 16:27:04 -0700

+
 Rebecca Costello <71045.3050@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can we interpret from this that teeps in general aren't her
+> people; just those who aren't willingly Corps?
+
+      This is, of course, the key to the whole reason for the Byron
+thing. If it had not gone on as long as it had, had not had the impact
+it had on her, she would not be where she is now in the storyline.  You
+really needed something *major* to bring her to this point, and that
+was it.  Some couldn't figure why the emphasis...well, now they know.
+
+      Everything points somewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SIL Credits (30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700)
+
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+
SIL Credits

+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 00:06:10 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was wondering is TNT not going to run a voice over or squish
+> the credits at the end of the broadcast?
+
+      Dunno....
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+<WoF> Lyta (05 Nov 1998 22:25:07 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 Nov 1998 22:25:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      If you saw the arrows initially, then they would have been 'way
+too obvious.
+
+      And yeah, the wheel of fire visually has spokes proceeding out
+from a central flame; the center burns outward.  And several of the
+fires smoldering lately have done that; with Byron it was a literal
+flame that has now gone out along the spokes and had substantial
+repercussions, with more to come years down the road.
+
+      It's also a Shakespeare quote, "I am bound upon a wheel of fire,
+that mine own tears do scald like molten lead."  Which tends to
+describe Londo's situation as well.  (King Lear)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thank you (05 Dec 1998 22:11:01 -0700)
+
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+
Thank you

+
Date: 05 Dec 1998 22:11:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and for the Crusade question...that's going to have to
+wait, but I've found a way to do it, in spades.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL (05 Dec 1998 22:11:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Dec 1998 22:11:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      You couldn't tow something as massive as a 5 mile long station
+like this through hyperspace; it'd tear apart.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+More soggy tissues :-) (07 Dec 1998 15:09:07 -0700)
+
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+
More soggy tissues :-)

+
Date: 07 Dec 1998 15:09:07 -0700

+
 Bill Hirst <104106.431@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What am I saying?
+
+      That's wonderful, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Thank you JMS (07 Dec 1998 15:09:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Thank you JMS

+
Date: 07 Dec 1998 15:09:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you for those terrific words, they're appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+missing Sil credits (08 Dec 1998 14:54:13 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 08 Dec 1998 14:54:13 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it a problem with distribution?
+>  separated out?
+
+      I don't know...I'll have to check.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL:Pakh'mara singers (08 Dec 1998 23:13:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 08 Dec 1998 23:13:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      My sense was that in general, most folks didn't want to know,
+they just wanted it to happen as it happened.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL (09 Dec 1998 13:41:07 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 09 Dec 1998 13:41:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It can be moved, sure, but can it *survive* the move?  Also,
+you'd have to bring B5 through a jump point in order to bring it
+anywhere, and the stresses involved in that would be hideous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Swords? (10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700

+
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+
+      We just go for the coolest blades....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade (10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+O.C.D in Babylon 5 (10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 10 Dec 1998 15:42:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, all that stuff is still there.  We're not going to evolve
+past all that in just 200 years, any more than we did from 1799 to
+1999.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+level of satisfaction (12 Dec 1998 18:25:12 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Dec 1998 18:25:12 -0700

+
 Joseph Schierer <76326.3124@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, now that it is done - just how big a feeling of satisfaction
+> did it give you? with the benefit of hindsite, would you do it all
+> over again?
+
+      It's an immense satisfaction to get it all done, and out the
+door, when nobody thought it could be done.  Would I do it again?  I
+don't know...I had no idea how hard this would be when I got into it. 
+The only way it got done was that I didn't know it was impossible at
+the time.  I think I would, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Dropped Into The Abyss (12 Dec 1998 18:25:12 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 12 Dec 1998 18:25:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great, thanks...and if it does stimulate conversation,
+then the goal was achieved.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Arragont Response (15 Dec 1998 13:28:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Dec 1998 13:28:04 -0700

+
 Mark McGehee <75720.2420@compuserve.com> asks:
+> However, I receieved a very "flip" response from somebody named
+> Michael?????
+
+      It wasn't me.
+
+      And I didn't need to have this copied to me in email because you
+can't read an address line to see who sent you mail.
+
+      And it's arrogant.  Not arragont.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 in Dec. Macworld mag (17 Dec 1998 15:31:13 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 17 Dec 1998 15:31:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Coolness....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: IMage Laserdisks (20 Dec 1998 23:45:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Re: IMage Laserdisks

+
Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:11 -0700

+
 Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Question: Is the cut of "The Gathering" the original version or
+> your re-mastered and re-edited version shown on TNT this past
+> year?
+
+      I think it's the original....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+A little bit of history (20 Dec 1998 23:45:09 -0700)
+
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+
A little bit of history

+
Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I appreciate hearing that...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Got my Link & PPG!!! (20 Dec 1998 23:54:12 -0700)
+
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+
Got my Link & PPG!!!

+
Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:54:12 -0700

+
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+
+      If you've purchased a PPG, it's unlicensed.  And if the link
+came from aywhere other than the official B5 fan club, that, too, is
+unlicensed.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade name (20 Dec 1998 23:45:11 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:11 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, it is still "Crusade, the Babylon Project"?
+
+"JMS, it is still "Crusade, the Babylon Project"? just wondering what
+the "Babylon" is doing there if it doesn't deal with the station."
+
+      It's just Crusade.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cross Stitch (20 Dec 1998 23:45:10 -0700)
+
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+
Cross Stitch

+
Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Gotta get there to look...thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+what would you say? (20 Dec 1998 23:45:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Dec 1998 23:45:10 -0700

+
 Rob & Nancy Carr <73200.2754@compuserve.com> asks:
+> This person asks you "What do I need to know?"
+> What would you say?
+
+      I wouldn't even know where to begin....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: IMage Laserdisks (21 Dec 1998 21:46:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Re: IMage Laserdisks

+
Date: 21 Dec 1998 21:46:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Sonuvagun...thanks for the info.  I'd better go look at the
+darned thing myself.  I've watched "In the Beginning" on disk, and
+thought it looked gorgeous...practically a luminous copy, struck from
+fresh masters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade name (23 Dec 1998 18:04:13 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Dec 1998 18:04:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The intro movie, "A Call to Arms," is still slated for January
+3rd; the series initiall was going to go in January, then they moved it
+to June 2nd to make room for the NBA playoffs, and now that it looks
+like the playoffs may not happen, I'm hearing March/April.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: IMage Laserdisks (23 Dec 1998 18:04:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Re: IMage Laserdisks

+
Date: 23 Dec 1998 18:04:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> *sigh* Any word on a possible DVD release?
+
+"Even more than the weekday strip, *this* is the way the series was
+made to be watched.  Without interruptions, without a 24 hour (still
+less 7 day or several month) gap between episodes it becomes a whole
+different experience. And the earliest episodes look different when
+watched again after each season."
+
+      This is pretty much the reaction of everyone who's sat and
+watched the show through in a concentrated form; it's a whole other
+show.  It's all contiguous, even when it looks like it ain't, and the
+artificial breaks were pretty much ignored in the writing.
+
+"This is a staggering achievement, especially within the confines of
+American commercial television.  I don't think anyone yet realizes what
+you've done here. And when they get the first dim glimmers of the idea,
+and try to copy it, they'll only see the surface mechanics of a
+continuing story and never see the sheer *work* that went into crafting
+almost every line and gesture of each of each show so that it could pay
+off two or three years down the road."
+
+      I'm okay with that; I always said that B5 wouldn't really be
+appreciated for what it is for several years down the line.  This is a
+part of the reason for that.  It has to run through several times, and
+become a part of the general consciousness, and be perceived for what
+it is.
+
+"This is the first series I've ever seen that *can't* be fully
+appreciated the first time through.  Reruns aren't a commercial
+byproduct of this show, in a curious way they are the point.  I'm
+finally starting to see what you meant long ago when you mentioned a
+"four dimensional hologram.""
+
+      (Actually the term was holographic storytelling, but the point
+obtains.) Usually, reruns are considered an aftermarket...here the show
+was written with that in mind to some extent.  It was written for the
+long haul, so to speak.
+
+      I'll be very curious to see the perception of the show ten years
+hence.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: IMage Laserdisks (28 Dec 1998 23:39:08 -0700)
+
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Re: IMage Laserdisks

+
Date: 28 Dec 1998 23:39:08 -0700

+
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+
+      It might just be that particular disk; all the ones I've seen
+are just gorgeous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: IMage Laserdisks (28 Dec 1998 21:17:07 -0700)
+
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+
Re: IMage Laserdisks

+
Date: 28 Dec 1998 21:17:07 -0700

+
 Ken Adams <74065.751@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Thanks, Joe. If you find it IS the TNT version, could you post a
+> word here?
+
+      The Gathering is, apparently, the TNT version on disk.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: IMage Laserdisks (29 Dec 1998 15:17:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Re: IMage Laserdisks

+
Date: 29 Dec 1998 15:17:00 -0700

+
 SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Okay, NEXT question - will Columbia ever have the TNT version of
+> The gathering?
+
+      Dunno...nobody tell me nathink....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Start Date Slips (30 Nov 1998 12:18:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Start Date Slips

+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 12:18:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, Call is still slated for January 3rd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thanks JMS! (30 Nov 1998 22:25:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Thanks JMS!

+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 22:25:11 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, I very much appreciate the generous words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hugo? (30 Nov 1998 12:29:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 12:29:00 -0700

+
 George Gillburg/CA <73137.1733@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Speaking of which, in the scene where General Ivanova (and thanks
+> for getting her back for this last episode) receives here
+> summons, was that a Hugo award on her desk?
+
+      Yeah, that was our first Hugo...just sorta slipped it in with
+Ivanova's other awards.  It was kind of a nod back to our fans...and I
+think the first time that a Hugo has been shown on-screen in a series
+that has *won* a Hugo.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL (30 Nov 1998 22:46:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Nov 1998 22:46:06 -0700

+
 Koslosky <102365.2062@compuserve.com> asks:
+> We LOVED SiL, BUT, my newly converted office mate fans of B5
+> asked me to query you regarding this ep - why did you leave SO
+> many questions unanswered? The Drak and Centari Prime?
+> Londo?
+> Lyta?
+> Bester and the Psi Corps?
+> G'Kar?
+> Garibaldi and Bester?
+> B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
+> Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended
+> keeper? Are we to assume we'll never know the answers to any of
+> these questions?
+
+The Drak and Centari Prime?
+
+      Vir is Emperor now.  Londo asked Sheridan to free his people; we
+can assume he did this...but we will also be showing this in the
+Centauri Prime trilogy of books in more detail.
+
+Londo?
+
+      We saw Londo's fate in War Without End Part 2.
+
+Lyta?
+
+      The telepath crisis and events surrounding it will provide a lot
+of the background to Crusade.
+
+Bester and the Psi Corps?
+
+      Ditto.
+
+G'Kar?
+
+      We saw his fate in WWE2 also.
+
+Garibaldi and Bester?
+
+      This will be covered in the Psi Corps trilogy, of which volume 1
+is out now, and volume 2 is in my hands for editing.
+
+B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
+
+      Neither needless nor useless.  It was built cheapest of all the
+stations, and it takes a lot of money to maintain it.  With trade
+routes now going around it, there isn't enough income to support it. 
+So do you leave it intact, for others to occupy or raid for weapons
+systems and other systems too difficult to yank out?  Or take it out,
+the same way we implode buildings now?
+
+Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended
+keeper?
+
+      This will also be covered in the Centauri Prime trilogy...but if
+you sit back you can do some of the work to figure out a large part of
+this. As Londo states, his situation in WWE2 (Sheridan and Delenn
+captured on Centauri Prime) takes place 18 years after the events in
+2260, which would put it at 2278. The urn, given to Sheridan in 2262,
+is supposed to be given to the heir at the occasion of his/her 16th
+birthday, by Centauri tradition.
+
+      That would put the urn presentation at...ding!...2278.
+
+      In 2278, Sheridan and Delenn have been drawn to Centauri Prime. 
+We know their son is involved, because Delenn says "David is safe."  So
+they were somehow able to save him, because we know that in 2281, David
+is alive and well and serving in the Rangers (SiL).
+
+      You can see the shape of the events there...once again the clues
+are more or less in plain sight...but again, this will be drawn out in
+the books in more detail.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+SIL - Babylon 5 (02 Dec 1998 15:32:01 -0700)
+
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+
SIL - Babylon 5

+
Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SIL - Babylon 5 (02 Dec 1998 15:32:01 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:01 -0700

+
 Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since SIL was filmed in season 4, was there anything that you
+> would have changed had you known ahead of time that B5 was
+> renewed for season 5 with respect to Ivanova and Lochley and
+> others?
+
+      I had the option to change stuff if I'd been so inclined...but
+felt it was right as it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<SiL> - ship (02 Dec 1998 15:32:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:02 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, the ship that Sheridan took, is that the new Earth/Minbari
+> ship? is it still a White Star?
+
+      It's a smaller, personal version of a White Star.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL:Pakh'mara singers (02 Dec 1998 15:32:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
SiL:Pakh'mara singers

+
Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:32:02 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> BTW, did SiL remain completely untouched in the can during the
+> fifth year?
+
+      Yeah...everybody figured the pak'ma'ra were just a waste...which
+is why this seemed so right.
+
+      And yes again...SiL was untouched since I finished my producer's
+edit at the end of year 4.  No need.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS did not reply to me (02 Dec 1998 15:41:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS did not reply to me

+
Date: 02 Dec 1998 15:41:03 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Understand: I get several HUNDRED messages a day.  Every day. 
+Day in and day out.  Public and private.  I cannot reply to all of
+them, and there is no requirement that I must reply to each of them. 
+If I feel it requires a response, I do so; if not, I don't. 
+Complaining about it to the forum is not the appropriate response.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dreaming in Light/Thanks (03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's sometimes odd for me to consider that a number of
+folks have grown up on my work over the years...suddenly I feel old....
+
+      Nonetheless: thank you for the kind words.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL (03 Dec 1998 21:11:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      All three of the Psi Corps books are by J. Gregory Keyes, from a
+jms outline.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+About Final Episodes (03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700

+
 Andy Ihnatko <72511.204@compuserve.com> asks:
+> No more, for they made the same frustrated laments: "But what
+> about Londo and G'Kar? Did Garibaldi...?
+> And will David...?"
+> (aside: Why is it that all of the shows in this last category
+> seem to have one-word titles and be about former standup comics?
+
+      Thanks...and you're right on all counts.  Additionally, you have
+to really decide *Who is the story about?*  You can really only track a
+couple of characters to the end...here we tracked a number there or
+nearly there. This story is a history -- told from a future perspective
+ -- about the events of the Babylon station, and those who passed
+through it, during a specific period in its history.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS did not reply to me (03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
JMS did not reply to me

+
Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Over and done with them.  We move on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (03 Dec 1998 21:11:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:08 -0700

+
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+
+      Many thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+SiL:Pakh'mara singers (03 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But, was that the same thing Sheridan heard during his "momement
+> of beauty?"
+
+      No, that was something else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Garibaldi's Drinking (03 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Dec 1998 21:11:10 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...it's a point that can't be made too often.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dreaming in Light/Thanks (04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah?  How'd the CP figures come out in the poll?
+
+      (Knew I should've bought some more of them....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Have you ever or will you ever do an interview with him?
+> Has he ever tried to make contact with you or any of the cast?
+
+      We are proud of all our fans.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 franchise? (04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Dec 1998 13:42:14 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  your comments?
+
+      They're nitwits.
+
+      Look...first off, nobody *has* to buy anything.  If you want to
+learn more about the characters after the duration of the show, and you
+want to buy the novels or whatever, fine, you have that option.  But
+you didn't have to buy them to enjoy the series...and I'm working hard
+to make sure you don't even have to have watched the series to enjoy
+the novels.
+
+      There are two fundamental choices here, given that fans want
+more stuff in the B5 universe.  Either you do novels that have nothing
+to do with anything, or you make them canon.  Fans wanted the books
+canonical, as do I. That's the point of a coherent, consistent,
+sustained universe.
+
+      The Psi Corps novels, for instance, track Bester's life from
+birth to death, and the development of the Corps.  Is that essential
+reading to follow any of the B5 episodes?  No.  Is it cool if you want
+to learn more about it and enrich the experience?  Yes.  So where here
+is the problem?
+
+      Look...some folks have always looked for an excuse to rag on
+this show, so they could bug me and anybody who likes the show.  First
+it was that B5 couldn't possibly be as good as Trek because there
+wasn't any merchandise; now there's merchandise and they say now THAT
+means it can't be good.
+
+      If you never bought a single book or outside material, you could
+still enjoy the series.  None of it is required.  So the complaint is
+unjustified and silly.
+
+      Should we not give fans of the show a chance to acquire more
+info about the B5 universe and characters because a few folks complain
+that it's a franchise?  Nonsense.  The problem is theirs, nobody
+else's.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
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+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:51:00 -0700

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+      Thanks, I think he did a great job.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> How much less likely are they to care about preserving something
+> as ephemeral as a TV show?
+
+      This was a problem on the pilot; WB stored the film and
+negatives, and rats got to a number of film cans, chewing through
+prints and negatives alike. As we found when we went to re-edit, some
+takes are gone forever.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 04 Jan 1999 23:06:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Isn't it reassuring to know that some things *never* change?
+
+      I suppose we could've stayed with the safe choice, with Chris,
+or done a nice, safe, droning Voyager style score that you don't even
+notice, but we're looking to take chances, and that means some people
+will like what you do, some won't.  Some won't like it because it's
+different.  Neil Gaiman told me that a number of fans of any form,
+including his own, say they want something new and challenging that
+takes chances...but it they don't like the form of that chance, they
+blame you for somehow doing it wrong...and they want the next new thing
+to be just like the last thing you did.
+
+      I can't tell you the number of people who said "why can't you
+just do the John Williams style music instead of this?"  Because it's
+been done, and it's cliche, and by god we're going to push what's
+"expected" to try some new things.  Otherwise what the hell's the
+point?
+
+"Of course, you've been through this before.  I seem to recall a lot
+of people complaining when Christopher Franke replaced the composer for
+the pilot.  I don't doubt that a lot of the people screaming loudest
+now are the very ones who complained about Franke when he started."
+
+      I don't know about the latter, but I can sure confirm the
+former.  And that's why I sometimes wish the viewer responses were
+logged as much as my own have been.  When we brought in Chris to
+replace Stewart Copeland, you can't *believe* how much email I got from
+people saying to trash him, fire him, it's that "euro-trash techno-
+crap" most called it.  "He uses sounds and banging instead of music,"
+people complained (which he did mainly in the first two seasons), "it's
+distracting and it's not appropriate, get rid of him."
+
+      But we didn't.  I told people to give him time to settle into
+the show, and on the other hand to let them get used to a different
+kind of sound than what they expected.  ("I guess you couldn't afford
+to hire a real composer like TNG uses," was another popular line.)
+
+      Evan ain't Chris, nor should he be, nor should he *have* to be. 
+He is a brilliantly talented composer.  This is his first shot at a
+dramatic series, and as he settles in (as Chris settled in), I think
+people are going to be as loyal to what he's doing in Crusade as they
+were to Chris in B5. He's a classically trained composer, who threw it
+all away to come study jazz under some of the best jazz men in
+Chicago...washing dishes to support himself when he had been at the top
+of his field in China...because he loves music, and loves to
+experiment.
+
+      In the course of Crusade, we're going to see some places we've
+never seen before...and thanks to Evan, we're going to hear some things
+we've never heard before.  He's a find, and a genuine, fresh talent,
+and I stand behind him 100%.
+
+      And the people who say they are fans of Chris Franke's should
+think twice before doing to him what so many people did so rudely to
+Chris when he first came aboard.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Nick and Toni Muller <75223.1575@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A year's worth of his doing the dishes maybe?
+
+      I'm glad it went over well...it's a fun movie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Thank you...it's a deeply moving episode for all of us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+      Actually, Chris Franke is sufficiently impressed with Chen --
+who has never scored a TV show before, this is his first shot and he
+shows much potential, we're very happy -- that he's going to release
+Chen's score to ACtA and later episodes via his own label.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+"Is Franke gone then with the end of B5 and is Chen the Man behind
+Crusade's music? Or is Call an interim step music?"
+
+      Yes and no.  If there are any other B5 TV movies, or features,
+we'll almost certainly use Chris.  For Crusade, it's Evan.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Submitted for your consideration: sometimes the music and sound
+> effects became confused - was that a weapons discharge/hit, or a
+> techno-percussion note? Were the repeated clashing/crunching
+> sounds at the end of the battle mood conveying music, or the
+> sound of the Drahk hatches opening to spew out the bio-weapon?
+
+"Submitted for your consideration: sometimes the music and sound
+effects became confused - was that a weapons discharge/hit, or a techno-
+percussion note?  Were the repeated clashing/crunching sounds at the
+end of the battle mood conveying music, or the sound of the Drahk
+hatches opening to spew out the bio-weapon?  I also thought that the
+music was occasionally mixed too loudly."
+
+      The first part of that is a common problem in an action show;
+most of the really interesting music happens at the bottom, using the
+lower frequencies.  But the lower frequencies are also where you'll
+usually find explosions, clashing, crunching, banging and the like...so
+sometimes the two get muddy.  You clear out one or the other as much as
+you can, but sometimes it overlaps and you get fuzziness in the track.
+
+      As for mixing it loudly...yeah, I've generally done that on B5. 
+I like my music loud.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 David Manders <100641.1115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How, in general, are the 'frequent irregulars' contracted, and
+> how are their parts shot? Are they contracted to be 'on call' or
+> are all their scenes for a series shot in one set of sessions, or
+> perhaps a mixture of both?
+
+      You contract with an actor for 8, 13, 18 or 22 episodes.  You
+then use them for those episodes within a given period of time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      FYI, it's Dureena Nafeel.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
+      Thank you, I appreciate hearing that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+      I'm content to wait until the SW movies are done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was this deliberate, or was it just an outgrowth of Chen's
+> different style? Or was it just my imagination?
+
+      I spot the music on everything, from movies to the episodes. 
+That means sitting with the composer and saying "music in at 1:07:13
+(one minute, seven seconds, 13 frames), out at 2:23:18."  When we did
+the pilot, I wasn't sure how much music it did or didn't need, never
+having done this before, so I went drier than I should have.
+
+      In the case of CtA, I knew we were going to have some wall-to-
+wall music later, so I held back a bit earlier on, otherwise you do way
+too much to fit in, and you over-burden the composer.  River was also
+spare at the top.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ramming Speed?
+> What the heck is that?
+
+      Ramming Speed.
+
+      If you are approaching a target at speed X, you still have a
+chance to peel away at the last moment.  If you are approaching a
+target at the top speed your engines can provide, such that you cannot
+turn away or be deflected, that's speed Y.  Speed Y is ramming speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> March, right?
+
+      I haven't heard firmly on that yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1999 14:11:06 -0700

+
 Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What the heck is up with TNT?
+
+      I am in total darkness when it comes to understanding TNT's
+philosophy of promotion.  They did little for this, I guess because it
+was the last of B5 in someone's view, promoted the hell out of the
+Houdini flick, which cost about 3 times more than we did...and we ended
+up getting exactly the same ratings.  With a little real promotion, we
+could've done even better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If you don't mind my asking --and I'm glad to hear that the movie
+> performed well-- but just what were the numbers?
+
+      It did 2.8, which was a higher number than they were expecting
+(they'd sold the ads at 2.7, which means they made money off it), and
+equal to the Houdini movie.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
 (blocked) asks:
+> (Interesting note: One post asked "What $@%&# idiot hired this
+> guy, anyway?"
+
+      It kind of goes to show you how thin the layer of trust
+goes...you'd think by now, after doing 5 years of B5, people would
+think to cut a little slack and give a chance, assume that there's an
+intent here, rather than saying suddenly I'm an idiot for not putting
+in the kind of music they expected.
+
+      What's most interesting, and in some ways most galling, is the
+number of posts I've seen in the last day or so from people who watched
+CTA again, and said, "On second viewing, the music didn't bother me as
+much, and I kind of like it in places."  Maybe they should've been a
+little less quick on the trigger and the condemnation.
+
+      As for some of the comments I've seen, basically saying he
+should be killed (literally, someone suggested putting a gun to his
+head and pulling the trigger) to some *very* xenophobic comments about
+his being asian and that's the problem, with *that kind* of
+music...they do not even merit a reply.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      Re: Lyta in SiL...okay, if they mentioned Lyta, I'd get nailed
+for not mentioning Na'Toth...or Sinclair...or Keffer...or somebody
+else.  You can't do five minutes of roll call in a TV show.  That would
+be deadly.  They each picked one character to name, because they had a
+close relationship in some way with that character.  Who among them
+really had a close relationship with Lyta?  Name me that person.  (Not
+directed at you, just generally.)
+
+      Had Zack been there, then yeah, maybe he would've named Lyta (or
+not, given what happens with her later).  THAT would have been
+appropriate.  But it would NOT have been appropriate to have her named
+just because somebody wants to hear her name called.
+
+      The persons named were ones to whom they had an emotional
+attachment... Vir to Londo, Garibaldi to G'Kar, Ivanova to Marcus,
+Sheridan to Londo, Delenn to Lennier.  Lyta did not have that
+connection to anyone at that table that would be on an equal footing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
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+
+      A woman of infinite taste and discretion...but we knew that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Call to Arms

+
Date: 05 Jan 1999 21:56:04 -0700

+
 Dave Vincent <75460.1133@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Why not maximum speed or full speed ahead?
+> Does EF rules provide for ramming of other starships?
+
+"Seems an odd order.  Why not maximum speed or full speed ahead?  Does
+EF rules provide for ramming of other starships?"
+
+      Because it also implies "...and we're going to HIT that ship." 
+Ramming speed says both.  You could say, "Give me maximum speed, set a
+course to RAM the ship," or you could say "Ramming speed."  Same exact
+content, shorter terms.  Brevity is our friend.  Pedantry is not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Thanks (01 Jan 1999 22:27:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Jan 1999 22:27:08 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Call To Arms (05 Jan 1999 21:56:04 -0700)
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A Call To Arms

+
Date: 05 Jan 1999 21:56:04 -0700

+
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+
+      It was produced contractually as a B5 movie under the order TNT
+gave for 4 such movies.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+ACTA (06 Jan 1999 00:02:01 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 06 Jan 1999 00:02:01 -0700

+
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+
+      We have covered all three of the virus concerns in the way we
+built this particular virus, thanks to help from the Jet Propulsion
+Laboratory, which consulted with us on its design.  Trust me, it's
+solid, and totally thought-through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+That Music Hubub (05 Jan 1999 21:56:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 05 Jan 1999 21:56:05 -0700

+
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+
+      I like the music.  I like the edginess of it.  I wouldn't do
+that particular style on a regular basis, because I think it would wear
+thin after a while, but for this movie it was right.  He's doing more
+thematic stuff for the series, but keeping the approach of using a
+variety of styles, including Chinese scales and stuff, which makes the
+episodes sound nifty and exotic.
+
+      So yeah, I like it...but I also like the kind of edgy, growly
+stuff Ry Cooder did for LAST MAN STANDING, so go figure.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+academic study (06 Jan 1999 13:59:00 -0700)
+
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academic study

+
Date: 06 Jan 1999 13:59:00 -0700

+
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+
+      There's also a book of academic papers published in the UK based
+on an academic conference on B5 last year.  It's called THE PARLIAMENT
+OF DREAMS, published by Foundation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Review - Hurrah (06 Jan 1999 14:10:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Jan 1999 14:10:02 -0700

+
 Evan Zucker <73067.1455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this her first role on the big or small screens?
+
+      That's the character; the actress is Carrie Dobro.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: IMage Laserdisks (08 Jan 1999 14:18:12 -0700)
+
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+
Re: IMage Laserdisks

+
Date: 08 Jan 1999 14:18:12 -0700

+
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+
+      I couldn't agree more.
+
+      We (John Copeland and I) just finished designing and building
+the main title for CRUSADE...and it may be the best one we've done to
+date.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Call to Arms (09 Jan 1999 23:08:00 -0700)
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Call to Arms

+
Date: 09 Jan 1999 23:08:00 -0700

+
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+
+      BTW, regarding Wolf, which you mention...I've now heard that a
+number of our cast members got stiffed for all or part of their fees
+for the Vorcon convention...Michael O'Hare, Peter Jurasik, Pat, Mira,
+others.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+What's canon? (10 Jan 1999 23:02:06 -0700)
+
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+
What's canon?

+
Date: 10 Jan 1999 23:02:06 -0700

+
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+
+      That question would take me hours to answer...more of it is now
+than was before, because I started to get more hands-on with it. 
+Certainly the new novels from Del Rey that I'm writing the outlines for
+are canonical, the Drennan novel is nearly all canonical, much of the
+Cavelos novel is canon, and so on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylonian Productions (14 Jan 1999 13:43:02 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Jan 1999 13:43:02 -0700

+
 Michael J. Kersey <73642.3137@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I was just curious if Babylonian productions has been looking at
+> producing any outside (B5) projects or if it has been focusing
+> just on "Crusade"?
+
+      It's all we can do to focus on one project at a time just now,
+particularly at the launch of a new show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars (16 Jan 1999 20:59:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Jan 1999 20:59:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...no, the book is my own creation, a 24 issue miniseries,
+and I'll be writing all 24 of them.  Issues 1, 0 and the Preview Issue
+script are all in, and they're planning to make it their main big event
+for the year.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 5 Cards (01 Jan 1999 22:27:09 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 01 Jan 1999 22:27:09 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know if the cards will be available through the usual
+> retail sources?
+
+      Yeah, they'll be out.  I've seen the final versions, and I think
+this may actually be the best set to date.  What they do, which none of
+the prior sets do, is to choose one key image per episode, and put the
+key phrase from that episode on the back...so that each card kind of
+recreates the feel of the episode.  They're very very cool.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Rising Stars (17 Jan 1999 22:33:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Jan 1999 22:33:04 -0700

+
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+
+      I think #1 is slated for May or June.
+
+      Because the Wizard Top Cow issue is coming out a month sooner
+than they had anticipated, apparently the 0 issue will have the Preview
+script, and the Preview issue will have the 0 script, 'cause it's
+essential that the Preview come out first, one way or another.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Cross Stitch--Boom Today (17 Jan 1999 22:33:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 17 Jan 1999 22:33:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, will have to check it out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars (18 Jan 1999 17:30:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Jan 1999 17:30:10 -0700

+
 Rick Shelton <72560.3114@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Wow, you don't take too much time off, do you?
+
+"Wow, you don't take too much time off, do you?"
+
+      Not since I was 17.  That was when I started writing, at a level
+of 10 pages per day, and I haven't stopped running since.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars (19 Jan 1999 16:02:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1999 16:02:03 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Didn't you tell me last year that after season five wrapped that
+> you were going to make more of an effort to take some time off
+> and enjoy some of the simpler things in life that you never have
+> time for, such as watching a sunrise or something?
+
+      No, for me it's never a problem as far as the writing goes. 
+It's usually all the OTHER stuff that makes me nuts...the dealing with
+studios and networks and suits and the like.  The writing is the reward
+for dealing with the rest.  In particular as far as RISING STARS
+goes...this is a form that is still fairly new to me, so it's an
+ongoing learning experience, and that's great, it uses parts of the
+brain that don't normally get used in this way.
+
+      I don't think you can ever get burned out on something you love
+doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 19 Jan 1999 16:02:03 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So the "Top Cow" issue will have the preview?
+
+      The Top Cow/Wizard issue will have the script for the preview
+issue, which will be published as issue 0...and the book that will be
+published as the preview will have the script for what would be issue
+0...the thing is to make sure that the various parts and pieces come
+out in the correct sequence.
+
+      They're both 16 pages, both similar in all the same production
+elements, it's just the sequence of the story we're trying to make sure
+stay right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS would never ruin B5 (20 Jan 1999 23:40:11 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 20 Jan 1999 23:40:11 -0700

+
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+
+      There are continuing references to B5 in the series...we just
+finished shooting one last week that brought the Excalibur to B5
+itself, in fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars (21 Jan 1999 14:26:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1999 14:26:01 -0700

+
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+
+"My new Crusade hat is off to you!"
+
+      Available now at www.thestation.com.....
+
+      Thankyew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS would never ruin B5 (21 Jan 1999 14:26:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Jan 1999 14:26:01 -0700

+
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+
+      VISITORS FROM DOWN THE STREET is a very funny and very unusual
+episode that kind of puts the conventions on their head...and for
+another reason, which I won't even comment on for now, because it kinda
+has to be seen to be appreciated.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+JMS would never ruin B5 (22 Jan 1999 00:40:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 22 Jan 1999 00:40:08 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> A visit to the old homestead?
+> How much of an increase has been necessary to allow for the
+> continuing requirements of new sets for the locations in Crusade?
+
+      There was a slight increase in budget for Crusade, but all in it
+averages out to only about $20,000 per episode.  We're still mainly
+doing things smart, not expensive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Jan 1999 00:40:08 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Joe, Will we be able to purchase RISING STARS online once it gets
+> released? Will it be available through the Emporium perhaps?
+
+      What you have to remember is that at one time or another, with
+the rare exception of celebrities, every published novelist was an
+unknown, unpublished novelist...every screenwriter or television writer
+was an unknown, untested writer.  I came to LA with no friends or
+contacts in the industry.  I came out of the streets of New Jersey and
+elsewhere, sans silver spoon in mouth.
+
+      The work, and the quality of the work, is what ultimately makes
+the difference, if you're willing to stay with it and if the qualitiy
+is, in fact, there.  I'm an annoying person; I'm a perfectionist; I'm
+cranky and far from politic.  By all rights I should be hard-core
+unemployable; I've always been this way.  And I've always worked. 
+Because when the moment comes to put black marks down on a white sheet
+of paper...I do it fairly well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Thank you ... (02 Jan 1999 18:07:09 -0700)
+
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+
Thank you ...

+
Date: 02 Jan 1999 18:07:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thank you, and my best to you both.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars (23 Jan 1999 18:15:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Jan 1999 18:15:12 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah...it's always a mug's game.  I've been fairly lucky that
+way; I'd say that about 80% of what I've written has been either
+published or produced. The one area where things have sold or been
+optioned but never produced has been in the area of non-TV movie
+screenplays.  I guess it's in part because my heart isn't in it as much
+as television, and because the stories I tend to do in screenplay form
+tend to be little character stories, which are fun, but not big
+smash'up adventures, which seems like all they're buying these days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS would never ruin B5 (25 Jan 1999 22:20:01 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 25 Jan 1999 22:20:01 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> does that mean you had to rebuild B5 sets?
+
+"does that mean you had to rebuild B5 sets?"
+
+      No, we still have the lion's share of the main ones available to
+us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+
+GEnie (25 Jan 1999 21:29:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 25 Jan 1999 21:29:05 -0700

+
      I know this is the wrong service to ask on, but...does anybody
+know what the heck happened to GEnie?  I've been trying for days to get
+on, via various access numbers, and none of them seem to be working.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 sim (26 Jan 1999 20:28:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Jan 1999 20:28:11 -0700

+
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+
+      I believe it's slated for July.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Psi Corps Book thanks (27 Jan 1999 01:01:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Jan 1999 01:01:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, it's one of our best books to date...and the second one,
+which features Bester throughout, is a total knock-out.  I'm very
+pleased with them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars (26 Jan 1999 20:28:11 -0700)
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Rising Stars

+
Date: 26 Jan 1999 20:28:11 -0700

+
      I just got back from a meeting at Top Cow (a division of Image),
+which is publishing RISING STARS, a 24 issue miniseries I'm writing. 
+I've turned in the preview issue, issue 0, 1 and 2...and they've
+decided to make this their number one priority for this year.  Some
+copies of the preview script have been leaked to a few places by TC,
+and the reaction has been enormous. A number of comics retail chains
+are going to throw their weight behind it, several magazines are
+planning major stories on it, there have already option inquiries by
+studios...anyway, it's fun.  This is an arena I haven't played in that
+much, and the reception that the material is getting is just nifty.
+
+      For those who've inquired, here's more of the skinny: the
+preview issue, and issue 0, will be published in March/April.  The
+former will be packaged free with bagged copies of Wizard Magazine
+(it'll be the Top Cow issue).  It really gives you a sense of the book,
+and where it's going.  So if you want to check it out, I'd strongly
+suggest getting the preview book.
+
+      The first actual issue appears on newsstands in June.  They want
+the two months for heat to rise after folks see what's in the preview
+and the zero issues.
+
+      Basically, what I've tried is to do in the comics form what we
+did with B5...and so far, it seems to be working.  A few reporters I've
+spoken to who've seen the material think it may be the big event of the
+year in comics (which is very flattering, but I'm always skeptical of
+such pronouncements; only the readers can decide that).
+
+      Anyway, for those who are B5 or comics fans and want to check it
+out, them's the figures.  There may be shortages, I'm told, even though
+they're going for a huge print run on issue 1 and the preview issue, so
+you may want to place an order with your local comics store to hold 'em
+for you.
+
+      The great thing, for me, is that even though we're doing this
+story for adults, with a lot of hard hitting stuff, it's a) at heart,
+in the end, an optimistic story, and b) though it has adult themes, and
+some elements that may be controversial, they're handled in a way that
+parents shouldn't worry about their kids seeing 'em, as B5 dealt with
+themes in such a way that they crossed generational lines.
+
+      Anyway, if you couldn't tell, I'm *real* proud of the book, and
+wanted to pass that along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+GEnie (27 Jan 1999 20:55:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jan 1999 20:55:01 -0700

+
 Paul Weddell <110213.1364@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Did I hear you're on Prodigy as well?
+
+      Never been on Prodigy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars (27 Jan 1999 20:55:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Jan 1999 20:55:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for providing that; hopefully some kind soul will place
+that info elsewhere, such as the newsgroups, so they won't get shorted
+when the things hit.  Thanks again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Psi Corps Book thanks (28 Jan 1999 22:26:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1999 22:26:08 -0700

+
 Brian Makuch <104125.736@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any word on the release date for volume II?
+
+      It should be out literally at any time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+GEnie (28 Jan 1999 22:26:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 28 Jan 1999 22:26:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The area code changed to 323, that's what threw me, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms - SiL - thanks (03 Jan 1999 19:15:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Jan 1999 19:15:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, that was me...I couldn't do it before the very last ep for
+the reasons I'd always stated, and because I was holding it out for
+this moment. Of course I couldn't *say* that since it would give stuff
+away....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+More Crusade rumors.... (29 Jan 1999 22:38:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
More Crusade rumors....

+
Date: 29 Jan 1999 22:38:12 -0700

+
 FRANK J. FURFARO <74031.1005@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance of you setting us straight on this latest rumor?
+
+      The plug has not been pulled by TNT, which cannot pull the plug
+because we don't work for TNT, we work for WB.  TNT is a distributer.
+
+      All I can say for now is that, like Oliver Stone's project for
+TNT, Witchblade, we have found that TNT (known primarily for westerns,
+historical dramas and wrestling) is not SF-friendly in terms of really
+getting what SF is about, and it may not entirely reconcile with what
+their core audience expects from them...and that a new, more SF
+friendly venue is being explored.
+
+      So if folks wanted to drop an encouraging note to, let's say,
+the Sci-Fi Channel, for instance, that would certainly be okay by me.
+
+      But in the interim...no, we're not canceled.  We're taking off
+next week to allow WB to work its magic, but that's about it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The End (03 Jan 1999 19:15:04 -0700)
+
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+
The End

+
Date: 03 Jan 1999 19:15:04 -0700

+
 David Manders <100641.1115@compuserve.com> asks:
+> May I add my congratulations?
+> Assuming that your cameo of turning off B5 was among the last
+> scenes shot, that must have been quite an emotional moment for
+> you - or are you too involved in films or spin-off programmes (
+> History of the Alliance, or Mollari's 'Career' perhaps )<g>?
+
+      Thanks...and yeah, it was tough to do.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Call To Arms (03 Jan 1999 21:07:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:07:05 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> May we assume that there will be no more B5 specific TV movies
+> while Crusade is in production?
+
+"May we assume that there will be no more B5 specific TV movies while
+Crusade is in production?"
+
+      As far as I've been told.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Call To Arms (03 Jan 1999 21:13:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 03 Jan 1999 21:13:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What didn't I like?
+
+"(BTW, Joe, is Evan Chen doing the music for Crusade?)"
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+More Crusade rumors.... (31 Jan 1999 20:20:01 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 31 Jan 1999 20:20:01 -0700

+
 Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So where does SF fit in?
+> Meanwhile, maybe there is enough demand for you to go directly to
+> video?
+
+      No, you can't do a series to video, it has to be aired.  And DTV
+is considered a poor man's venue, for stuff that couldn't make it
+elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Faith Manages (13 Feb 1999 22:58:01 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Feb 1999 22:58:01 -0700

+
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+
+"I just watched Deconstruction of Falling Stars for the 6th time and I
+have to tell you a lot of people are predecting gloom and doom for
+Crusade but I belive that it will be shown and I belive that It will be
+as good as Babylon 5"
+
+      Same crap happened when we did B5..."it's just a DS9
+ripoff"..."it's going to be another stupid SF show with dopey people
+and lousy writing and EFX..."
+
+      Been there, done that, got the series....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Faith Manages (14 Feb 1999 21:52:12 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 14 Feb 1999 21:52:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I appreciate it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Next book (18 Feb 1999 22:44:13 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Feb 1999 22:44:13 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Should be out in a couple of weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon foreshadowing (18 Feb 1999 20:36:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Feb 1999 20:36:00 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you ever get sick of this?
+> WHAT GOD@MN PART OF SUCCESS DON'T THESE IDIOTS WANT!?!??!
+
+      The job of being a writer means constantly proving your talent
+to those who have none.  I'm used to it.
+
+"On top of that, did you notice in the last Voyager "movie" the Borg
+planning to assimilate Earth by introducing a nano-based plague that
+would take a few years to do the job...gaaaaagghh"
+
+      Say what...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon foreshadowing (19 Feb 1999 15:04:08 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 19 Feb 1999 15:04:08 -0700

+
 Philip Hornsey <74053.2101@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Given life in the Federation, WHO THE HELL IS *GONNA*
+> NOTICE!?!?!? Do you get royalties for this stuff?
+
+      Terrif.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+AICN says no Crusade =( (26 Feb 1999 16:09:10 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Feb 1999 16:09:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      All 13 eps produced so far will be shown; we'll be doing post
+production (CGI, music other stuff) through April 22nd.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Why the change of heart? (26 Feb 1999 16:04:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 26 Feb 1999 16:04:05 -0700

+
 Janetch <112013.1636@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What happened?
+> Why the sudden change of heart?
+
+      One element to the whole discussion is that B5 was already an
+entity in its own right, and taking on the fifth year entailed
+basically buying what was already there, as opposed to becoming
+involved with the creative process of influencing a new series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Gone For Now (26 Feb 1999 13:12:04 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 26 Feb 1999 13:12:04 -0700

+
      Well, we took our best shot.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it
+don't.
+
+      The SciFi Channel programming guys wanted the show; they wanted
+it a lot.  They crunched numbers for almost two weeks trying to make it
+work.  But at the end of the day, the problem was that they had already
+allocated or spent their budget for the year, and couldn't come up with
+the huge chunk of change necessary to get an entire season.  Had this
+come up prior to January 1st, things would almost certainly have gone
+differently.  But they have their budget, as we have ours, and it was
+already allocated.
+
+      So TNT will now air the full 13 produced, and that's the end of
+it for now.  I say for now because WB has told us to fold and hold all
+the sets, rather than scrap them, because they believe strongly in the
+show, and feel that when the ratings come in we may well be able to
+pick up a second season. We'll see.
+
+      Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off, and deciding which of a
+number of offers from networks and studios, sitting on my desk since B5
+finished, to pick up.  I had declined to go that route so I could do
+Crusade and keep playing in this universe, but absent that, there's no
+reason not to go back to the networks and apply there some of what
+we've been able to do in B5 and Crusade.
+
+      My thanks to all those who wrote, and called, and emailed, and
+lent their support to the process.  And I think that when you see the
+show, you'll be quite pleased by what we did.  We're all very proud of
+it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Gone For Now (26 Feb 1999 21:50:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 26 Feb 1999 21:50:11 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Well, next time you do better, eh?
+> So, has the success of B5 brought more offers than before?
+
+"So, has the success of B5 brought more offers than before?"
+
+      Definitely.  It showed that I could run a series and keep it on
+budget and make it an international success.  Right now those elements
+are in heavy demand at the networks.  Even though the pay is half in
+cable what you get at the network level, I was content to stay with
+Crusade if it meant keeping our team together, and playing in the B5
+universe a bit longer.  Absent that, then there's every reason to take
+up one or two of those offers.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Gone For Now (27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700)
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Crusade Gone For Now

+
Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One question: do you think that the success of such writers as
+> Carter, Kelley and Whedon on the regular networks will make it
+> easier for you to win battles of artistic control in future
+> projects? "Are you trying to Londo me?"
+
+"One question:  do you think that the success of such writers as
+Carter, Kelley and Whedon on the regular networks will make it easier
+for you to win battles of artistic control in future projects?"
+
+      Probably not.  Those are always fought one at a time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+I'll Write SciFi Channel (31 Jan 1999 20:20:02 -0700)
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I'll Write SciFi Channel

+
Date: 31 Jan 1999 20:20:02 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

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+AICN says no Crusade =( (27 Feb 1999 18:29:07 -0700)
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AICN says no Crusade =(

+
Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:07 -0700

+
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+
+      Last I heard they're still on-target for June 2nd or thereabouts
+on the 13 made so far.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Why the change of heart? (27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700)
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Why the change of heart?

+
Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700

+
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+
+"Now is the time to turn this to advantage.  The offers you have may
+give you a chance to produce some quality material for a larger market.
+Please keep your little family here posted on what you decide to do."
+
+      Will do.  One thing has already hit; as word got out Friday, one
+of the networks called and asked me to write a non-SF TV movie for them
+to shoot late summer/fall, with a name star.  I said sure, so that's
+now in process. Can't talk much about it for now, though.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you have any idea what kind of promotion TNT will give the
+> show? Do you mean picked up by TNT or by SciFi?
+
+"Joe, I am so amazed that you can still have any kind of faith in the
+business of television the way you've been jerked around from the
+beginning of Babylon 5 and now this. Every season you've had to
+struggle to stay on the air, but you've kept at it and kept at it.
+We're really looking forward to your work on the other projects you've
+said you've been offered.  You must have the tenacity of a bulldog."
+
+      You just accept certain things about the business going in.  You
+can't look to anybody else with faith to give you want you want, you
+have to be willing to work for it.  The faith has to be in the work,
+and only in the work, because in the end, that's the only thing that
+matters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+Crusade Gone For Now (27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700)
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Crusade Gone For Now

+
Date: 27 Feb 1999 18:29:08 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> One *or two*?
+> How do you make the time?
+> Or are the duties "lighter" in the network jobs?
+
+" > Absent that, then there's every reason to take up one or two of
+> those offers.
+One *or two*?  How do you make the time?  Or are the duties
+"lighter" in the network jobs?"
+
+      There's different kinds of deals, timings of deals, and
+different kinds of positioning (first position, second position,
+contractual stuff) that can give you the flexibility to have a couple
+of different gigs going at somewhat the same time.  The TV movie I
+mentioned uptopic for instance doesn't interfere with anything else.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+Write to networks (31 Jan 1999 23:23:13 -0700)
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Write to networks

+
Date: 31 Jan 1999 23:23:13 -0700

+
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+
+      WB Network is out of the question, due to the way WB is
+structured. It's a very long, corporate story, just take my word for
+it...SFC is the best option for us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Write to networks (01 Feb 1999 21:29:08 -0700)
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Write to networks

+
Date: 01 Feb 1999 21:29:08 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  contract with Warner International?
+
+      No, it should have no impact on that market.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+More Crusade rumors.... (01 Feb 1999 21:29:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Feb 1999 21:29:08 -0700

+
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+
+      Those are one-shots, very different than a regular series.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 03 Feb 1999 20:43:01 -0700

+
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+
+      Cool, I didn't know about the GO COMICS forum.  Yeah, that
+should make it easier to get the things, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 03 Feb 1999 20:43:01 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you mentioned you had consulted with NASA on various
+> scientific details, I wonder if authors of the novels have the
+> same benefit? or are they entirely on their own when it comes to
+> scientific research?
+
+      No, often the authors send along questions, those get relayed to
+us, and in some cases, as with Keyes first book, they get referred to
+JPL which then answers 'em.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+More Crusade rumors.... (03 Feb 1999 20:45:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 03 Feb 1999 20:45:14 -0700

+
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+
+> For the life of me, I STILL don't what some people see in a bunch of
+> big sweaty loud-mouthed men in fluorescent spandex throwing each
+> other around a ring!
+
+      Sorry, I'm lost, I didn't know that the subject had changed to
+Congress....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+Babylon foreshadowing (13 Feb 1999 22:58:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Feb 1999 22:58:01 -0700

+
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+
+      The awful thing is that the line is a "HUNTING dog and a Ouija
+board," not a "honey dog."  I don't even know what that is....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:17:07 -0700

+
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+
+      I will almost certainly be out of the TV room during the
+presentation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+jms comic preview out (23 Mar 1999 22:50:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 23 Mar 1999 22:50:01 -0700

+
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+
+      Cool, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 01 Jul 1999 22:39:02 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks, this one is a favorite of mine as well.  It was one of
+the scripts written while we were still shooting the first 5, before
+TNT got into the process.  When that happened, they made it clear that
+they *hated* this story, felt that nobody would be interested in all
+this backstory...and asked for it all to be taken out, let them run
+into this alien and make him an evil character, an emotional vampire
+who drives them insane.
+
+      This was one of the first scripts where I dug in my heels
+bigtime and refused to do what they asked.  I knew it would be
+powerful; they thought it would be utterly uninteresting.  They were
+wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:39:03 -0700

+
 Dan T. Davis <71121.1254@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Now that I know how you held out, let me also praise the
+> inclusion of the non-sequiter Apocalypse Box - why should every
+> "emotion revealed" by the forgiveness being "only" emphasize and
+> reflect on plot points we are aware of?
+
+      Re: the Matheson scene...that one was cut back by about 40%
+because the episode ran long.  (That sometimes happens on dialogue-
+intensive episodes.) The original version had it go over a longer
+period of time, and showed him coming over gradually.  It is a bit
+abrupt as it is now, though I still think it plays.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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Path of Sorrows

+
Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:39:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks...and yeah, Daniel is just terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:39:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Deriving sustenance from *giving* forgiveness?
+> From experiencing others receiving forgiveness?
+> From experiencing others forgiving themselves?
+> Were you implying that he simply didn't have time to warn the big
+> shots, or didn't have time if he wanted a seat on the Last Flight
+> Out, or that he shared the captive's distaste for PC veeps and
+> wanted them to burn? If you're in a mood for answering multiple
+> questions, why cut the transponder out of her skin if she only
+> had to send a thought to activate it? To convince Matheson that he
+> had better flee? Was that explosion the whole telepath war in ten
+> seconds, or is more to come? Do you have a strong feeling either
+> way about regarding the critter as analogous to Catholic
+> confession?
+
+      A device that small would run out of power if it were on all the
+time, and might be detected.  My feeling was that it was switched off
+and had to be removed to power it up, then the telepathic signal would
+activate the beacon and bring in the troops.  You'd have a two-stage
+process to a) avoid detection, and b) ensure that if it *were* found it
+couldn't be used by anyone else to stage a trap.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 01 Jul 1999 20:15:10 -0700

+
 Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What's up with that Shadow vessel?
+> Was it a Shadow vessel?
+> Or was it an experimental EarthForce ship (considering the
+> intensity of the interr....errr....debriefing)?
+
+      That remains to be revealed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 02 Jul 1999 22:39:04 -0700

+
 Craig M. Bobchin <102354.3246@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this that ep?
+> If so what happened that prevented using Lyta in this role?
+> For the curious of us out here was the new ship we saw a Shadow
+> ship?
+
+      Yeah, Lyta would've been in that ep but Pat was on a movie at
+the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+
Date: 05 Jul 1999 17:17:02 -0700

+
 Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you, or any other member of the Forum know of any online store
+> I can pick it up?
+
+      I believe you can subscribe via their website.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
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+www.thestation.com? (06 Jul 1999 22:03:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Jul 1999 22:03:06 -0700

+
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+
+      It's down while it's being overhauled, changed, modified, and
+one hopes, improved in terms of service.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
Date: 06 Jul 1999 22:06:09 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, I saw the piece, it's short but nice.  And the book is fun
+(see my post just sent to all re: Rising Stars).  Even if you're not a
+comics fan per se, I think you'll like this book.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+jms rising stars info (06 Jul 1999 22:03:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Jul 1999 22:03:06 -0700

+
I posted this elswhere, and figured I'd put it here as well, even
+though it's not technically B5 per se.
+
+A quick update on the latest RISING STARS news:
+
+I've now seen the inked and colored final pages on issue 1, and I have
+to say that I'm very, very pleased by the final result.  It took a bit
+of doing to get there, but the result is quite nice.  It has the *feel*
+of a very different sort of book than everything else out there,
+something a bit special.
+
+That first issue of RISING STARS, "Nova Placenta," will debut at the
+Chicago Comic Con in two weeks, where I'll be attending and signing
+stuff and talking and the like.  (My main presentation has been moved
+from Sunday to Saturday at around 5ish, I think.)
+
+It will hit comic stores/newsstands around the 28th of this month.
+
+Advance orders have already topped 100,000 (before re-orders) and it
+looks like that may not be enough.
+
+This is a comic that I feel very strongly about, it's something I've
+wanted to do for a long, long time.  I think it's something that will
+appeal to most B5 folks, because it has many of the same elements in
+the sense that it treats the genre seriously, tries new and different
+approaches to characterization, has an overall story arc with a
+beginning, middle and end (24 issues from now), and so on.  I think
+it'll appeal equally to non-comics fans and those familiar with the
+form.  It's also something that I think can be read by a variety of age
+ranges, all of whom will get something different out of it.
+
+In any event...I'm very happy with the thing, and wanted to put the
+word out there about it.
+
+I'm especially pleased that the first issue will have a forward by
+Neil Gaiman, a name that should be familiar to both B5 folks ("Day of
+the Dead") and comics readers around the planet.
+
+The book is being published by TOP COW (a division of Image Comics,
+publisher of SPAWN), also the publishers of FATHOM and DARKNESS.  It
+should be available at any goodly-sized comics store, and there are
+several places on-line where one can find comics.
+
+It's gonna be a fun book.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms comic preview out (23 Mar 1999 22:50:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms comic preview out

+
Date: 23 Mar 1999 22:50:01 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  design work. Does the artist present you with sketches for  your
+> approval?
+
+      Yes, Keu does a rough pencil sketch, it's run past me for
+approval, then it goes to inks, after any changes, if needed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms rising stars info (08 Jul 1999 17:24:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
jms rising stars info

+
Date: 08 Jul 1999 17:24:01 -0700

+
 Brad Walrod <76702.1043@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Since you've got so many pre-orders, do you think Image might
+> consider offering a subscription (don't know if they do that with
+> their other stuff)?
+
+      I actually don't know if they do subscription or not...I think
+you can also order it from www.anotheruniverse.com.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Okay, I don't get it!? (03 Jul 1999 20:08:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Okay, I don't get it!?

+
Date: 03 Jul 1999 20:08:06 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Turner is a Time Warner company, so WHY is it up to TNT to decide
+> if they prolong the series??? Couldn't Warner (IF they believe in
+> the series) not simply push it through?
+
+      Because they're totally independent organizations (that's how
+Time/Warner is structured), and one division cannot force another to
+do anything.  It is, in my view, just a tad dysfunctional.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Okay, I don't get it!? (04 Jul 1999 23:12:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Okay, I don't get it!?

+
Date: 04 Jul 1999 23:12:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Normally I would say this is good, but if the parent company is
+loosing money through this, you would imagine that the parten company
+steps in.... Well, maybe I am too positive about this"
+
+      Part of the WB/B5/TNT hassle has always been getting caught in
+the switches on who IS the parent.  Time/Warner says we own TNT (which
+they do), but then TNT says the biggest shareholder in TW is...Ted
+Turner (which is also true).  Part of this massively ugly struggle has
+been that fight for power, and we've been kind of the football on many
+occasions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Okay, I don't get it!? (05 Jul 1999 23:59:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Okay, I don't get it!?

+
Date: 05 Jul 1999 23:59:00 -0700

+
 Michael Kalus <100265.3065@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any chances that they might consider to put it on the
+> WB Network?
+
+      No, for much the same interdivisional reasons.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Path of Sorrows (05 Jul 1999 23:58:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Path of Sorrows

+
Date: 05 Jul 1999 23:58:14 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      We'll learn  more about the box as we go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Path Ratings? (06 Jul 1999 00:02:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Path Ratings?

+
Date: 06 Jul 1999 00:02:11 -0700

+
 Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, can you tell us what the ratings were for Path of Sorrows?
+
+      I haven't heard on the ratings yet, because everybody kinda
+split early for the 4th holiday, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if
+it came in well under a 1 rating, since it didn't air until midnight on
+the East Coast, a number of folks didn't know it had been moved and
+tuned in at the usual time, and many of those who did know about the
+change gave up on waiting on the draft's conclusion.  GIven all that, I
+would be *vastly* surprised if it did even a .7 or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Schedule Change (06 Jul 1999 20:37:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
Schedule Change

+
Date: 06 Jul 1999 20:37:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Yes, he's Peter's father.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Path of Sorrows (06 Jul 1999 20:37:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Jul 1999 20:37:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      He was referenced as an Ensign in the Cerberus scene, and a
+Lieutenant in the box scene...hence the box came later.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Patterns of the Soul (09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Patterns of the Soul

+
Date: 09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700

+
 Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Besides, why go to Sheridan when he's able to work out a solution
+> on his own?
+
+      Bear in mind also that Sheridan is totally *outside* Gideon's
+chain of command.  His authority goes up to the president of the Earth
+Alliance, not the ISA.  It would be like a field commander in NATO
+going to Clinton with a problem.  He has to go through the chain of
+command first.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Path of Sorrows (09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700)
+
+
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+Search
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+
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+
Date: 09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"As for "all lies", the only lie he saw was secret execution of rebel
+leaders, which, BTW, makes perfect sense."
+
+      I don't think it was so much the *lie* about them as the
+executions themselves that were rather the point....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms comic preview out (06 Apr 1999 20:17:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Apr 1999 20:17:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that it's available via Forbidden Planet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms rising stars info (09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Jul 1999 23:14:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I'm glad to hear that, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Patterns of the Soul (11 Jul 1999 14:43:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Jul 1999 14:43:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"This is the Gideon that I think that you've created for us.  He's a
+lot like Sheridan, making his own decisions based on his own real-time
+understanding of the situation at hand.  He's also a lot unlike
+Sheridan, playing his cards close to the chest and willing to "cheat"
+as a first solution rather than as a fallback position.  Sheridan was
+Ben Cartwright. Gideon is Brett Maverick. <g> Am I close? :-)"
+
+      'zactly.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rising Star issues (11 Jul 1999 15:13:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rising Star issues

+
Date: 11 Jul 1999 15:13:13 -0700

+
 John Bendel <73447.741@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, who's right?
+> More importantly, if they are out where can I get them?
+
+1. Rising Star #0 and #1 were out but are no longer available.
+
+      The 0 issue was published in the Wizard Magazine FATHOM special
+a couple months ago and can still be found; the Preview issue was
+published in a special limited edition around the same time and is
+harder to find.
+
+2. They are very late and there is no release date.
+
+      Issue 1 was put back one month so it could debut at the Chicago
+comic con next weekend (where I'll be attending).  It will hit comic
+stores July 28th.
+
+3. They aren't being published.
+
+      Bull ka-ka.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Patterns of the Soul (11 Jul 1999 22:10:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 11 Jul 1999 22:10:13 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, since Dr. Chambers is visable on the ship before it's seen
+> to be destroyed, is she also officially dead? or perhaps that
+> footage would not be seen by anyone else so it doesn't matter?
+
+      It's only ever going to be seen by the general, and bear in mind
+that in that shot Chambers was WAY in the background, it was only seen
+for a moment on the monitor, with the General more concerned about
+what's happening in FG, and in any event he would have to instantly
+recognize her by sight, and he didn't know her.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Stephen Furst's audition (13 Jul 1999 16:13:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Jul 1999 16:13:06 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Were you present?
+> Peter Jurasic was there too (as well as Wortham Krimmer - the 3
+> Centauri emperors!), he's never heard of the story and blurted
+> out something very much like the punch line, "Is there any doubt
+> who Vir is?"
+
+      That was probably the pre-casting session, which is held before
+the final auditions for the producers (me et al).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Path of Sorrows (13 Jul 1999 16:21:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Jul 1999 16:21:09 -0700

+
 Vadim Naroditsky <72133.1175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What can one do with enemies if they won't stop fighting except
+> destroy them? Would Corps kill them if they voluntarily gave up
+> fighting and came back to Corps? How can a person advance from a
+> civilian to a first officer so fast? If it is not a secret, will
+> we see Bester in Crusade?
+
+"If it is not a secret, will we see Bester in Crusade?"
+
+      You would have, in episode 15, "Value Judgments," by Avery. 
+Walter considered it one of the best Bester scripts to date.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Path of Sorrows (14 Jul 1999 20:28:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Jul 1999 20:28:14 -0700

+
 Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any news on that front?
+
+      No news to report.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Gideon's ring (14 Jul 1999 20:32:04 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Jul 1999 20:32:04 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is it anything special?
+> Earthforce Academy class ring or something?
+
+      It's his Earthforce Academy graduation ring.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Drew Carey B5 Bits (19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> My question is this: Did the Carey show producers have to get
+> your (or somebody's) permission to use the B5 stuff in this ep? 
+> Did you know about it?
+
+      Actually, those WERE our costumes and prosthetics, loaned to
+them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Happy Birthday JMS (19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Happy Birthday JMS

+
Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, and a bah humbug to you, too.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+(45...blech)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SFWA Bradbury to JMS (13 Apr 1999 00:30:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 13 Apr 1999 00:30:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a niceness.  And given that I've managed to honk off about
+80% of SFWA's membership at one point or another, you know it sure as
+hell ain't a popularity contest thing....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Ruling From The Tomb (19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Ruling From The Tomb

+
Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:08 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, was I seeing things or not?
+
+"I noticed the fellow with the "Copeland" sign early in the show. I
+saw another sign-holder who was out of focus and that sign looked like
+"Straczynski." So, was I seeing things or not?"
+
+      Yes on the first, no on the second.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+<Path of Sorrows> ship (19 Jul 1999 00:50:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:09 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, the mystery ship in <Path of Sorrows> reminds me a lot of
+> the Burgess Shale fossil "Hallucigenia" (the upside-down
+> interpretation of it.) Do you know if it was an inspiration for
+> the design?
+
+      Not that I'm aware of.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Any official word? (19 Jul 1999 00:50:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Jul 1999 00:50:09 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Has there been any official decision?
+> Is another season still possible?
+> Is it desirable?
+> Is there any balance possible that gives you a life, and us
+> Crusade?
+
+      Have the actor's options expired?  Yes.  Does this close the
+door?  No, another channel could say yes even after #13, it would just
+mean negotiating new contracts, which is quite do-able.  If it happens
+I can deal with it; if not, I have plenty of other options.  I've never
+been a one-trick pony.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
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+
+Any official word? (19 Jul 1999 16:41:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Any official word?

+
Date: 19 Jul 1999 16:41:06 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I think part of what I was trying to ask is, what do *you* want
+> about Crusade? Do you really want to continue it, or would you be
+> just as happy to move on? You've been answering "who are you?"
+> So I'll still ask, "what do you want?"
+
+"I think part of what I was trying to ask is, what do *you* want about
+Crusade?  Do you really want to continue it, or would you be just as
+happy to move on?  You've actually had several months in "moving on"
+mode, it seems.  I don't think I'm getting my questions out of
+sequence.  You've been answering "who are you?" in this forum since
+before I joined.  So I'll still ask, "what do you want?"  In a very
+limited context."
+
+      You have to understand that the only thing I want, the only
+thing I've *ever* wanted, is to tell good stories about interesting
+characters.  I'm fairly simple that way.  I would love to continue
+telling stores in the B5 universe...but then, I'd love to tell stories
+in *other* universes.  If one market stays open, I'll stay there...if
+it closes, I move on.  It's what I've always done.
+
+      Would I like to keep doing Crusade?  Sure, but not under the
+conditions that made these 13 eps so onerous.  I have a real simple
+philosophy: if it ain't fun, don't do it.  Because this job is too hard
+to do it if you're not enjoying the process.
+
+      It's all about story.  Since Crusade stopped I've been offered a
+couple of exec producer gigs on other shows, but passed on them because
+they weren't really stories I either wanted to do or that I felt I
+could do a good job with.  One gig that I *did* want I just missed out
+by an inch because at the last moment some big names came into the
+scenario and they got the gig (and they will probably do very well with
+it).  Them's the breaks.  You wait for a show to come along you would
+like to do, meanwhile you try to get your own show off the ground.
+
+      Which is where I am now.  I'm in the final stages of negotiating
+a deal for one series pilot (98% mainstream 2% speculative fiction)
+that would be as innovative as what I did with B5...it's a story
+nobody's ever done before, and it's been fast-tracked.  I literally
+thought it up two weeks ago, had one meeting about it with a major
+entity (known to everyone), did a rough treatment, and 3 days later
+they called to start negotiations on the deal. If that goes, I'll be
+excited, because it's something utterly on the bleeding edge not just
+storywise but in terms of production and EFX and it's on a huge scale.
+
+      In any event, as I said, in the end, it's simply about telling
+stories, in conditions that allow me to do my best work.  "The exercise
+of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording them
+scope," to quote the Greek definition of happiness.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+"B5" on DVD (20 Jul 1999 21:39:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
"B5" on DVD

+
Date: 20 Jul 1999 21:39:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> "Several others"???
+> will presumably want to remaster the episodes for HDTV broadcast
+> anyway (wasn't this one of the reasons you shot the show the way
+> you did?) why should the time and expense be an issue? While I
+> would very much like to see "Crusade" return, I'm just as excited
+> at the prospect of something totally new from your pen (word
+> processor, whatever.) Any chance you could do *both*? Or shouldn't
+> I wish that much work on anybody <g>?
+
+      Interesting...all I can say is that I gave up trying to
+understand the ways of Warner Bros. years ago.  None of it makes much
+sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Wizard World (20 Jul 1999 21:39:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Wizard World

+
Date: 20 Jul 1999 21:39:00 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What did you show there?
+
+      Not much, just a music video and took questions; they only had
+me in there for 45 minutes so there wasn't much time.  Mainly there to
+promote Rising Stars.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ama-a-azing stories! (20 Jul 1999 22:00:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Ama-a-azing stories!

+
Date: 20 Jul 1999 22:00:00 -0700

+
 Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (in a good way!) BTW, will he ever realize what was meant by
+> "saving the eye that does not see?" Am I correct in guessing that
+> you learned it mainly from writing screenplays?
+
+"I paid a price for my eagerness in reading this story before any of
+the others in this issue. You can say so much in so few words, that
+afterwards I found myself a bit impatient with the wordiness of a
+couple of the other stories, which lessened my enjoyment of them. I've
+learned to make every word count from the rigorous demands of article
+word limits.  Am I correct in guessing that you learned it mainly from
+writing screenplays?"
+
+      That's about half it, the other half being a background in
+journalism, where you learn to get to the point quickly and
+efficiently.  I'm actually quite pleased with the story.
+
+"I've also just read the page proofs of Final Reckoning to review it
+for B5 magazine. I would have read it  in one sitting, except that
+around page 175 I had to take a break. I was afraid I would start
+hyperventilating. 'Nuff said, until we can all talk about it here."
+
+      It really is a kick in the gut, isn't it?  When I was outlining
+it for Greg, I remember thinking a) I don't envy him the job of making
+this happen, and b) feeling really excited about what was going to
+happen.  It's about the closest I've come to Greek tragedy outside the
+Londo arc.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rules of the Game (21 Jul 1999 22:10:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rules of the Game

+
Date: 21 Jul 1999 22:10:06 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> I presume that Mr. Kitty was yours?
+
+"I presume that Mr. Kitty was yours?"
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rules of the Game (22 Jul 1999 22:15:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Rules of the Game

+
Date: 22 Jul 1999 22:15:14 -0700

+
 Michael Beemer <71551.1670@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who played the "concilatory" Lorcan at the end?
+
+      No, it wasn't Wayne, and the name slips away at the moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+How's Peter? (23 Jul 1999 23:05:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
How's Peter?

+
Date: 23 Jul 1999 23:05:07 -0700

+
 Lee Gordon <75030.1144@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How is he doing?
+
+      I've spoken with him a couple of times since then, and he seems
+to be doing great.  Also had lunch with Jeff Conaway a few days ago,
+and he said pretty much the same thing.
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Gone For Now (13 Apr 1999 00:34:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Crusade Gone For Now

+
Date: 13 Apr 1999 00:34:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+       I haven't heard on this one way or the other.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Who is Fiona Avery (25 Jul 1999 14:47:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
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+
Date: 25 Jul 1999 14:47:04 -0700

+
 Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Can (will) you tell us about Fiona Avery's connection to B5 and
+> Crusade?
+
+"Can (will) you tell us about Fiona Avery's connection to B5 and
+Crusade? I just picked up the first PsiCorp novel and she was in the
+dedication. Got me to wondering..."
+
+      We brought Fiona aboard during the last part of S5 as a
+reference editor to keep the continuity straight, and for Crusade
+(about which more in a bit). There was a growing problem keeping the
+licensees and licensed material accurate; stuff slipped through the RPG
+books and elsewhere (this was before she got here).  She was brought on
+to stop the problem, and to annoy the licensees in the sense that it's
+often easier not to get things right, and she has to stay on top of
+them and make them crazy in order to ensure that the accuracy the fans
+(and I) expect is maintained.
+
+      She was also brought on with an eye toward Crusade because she
+has a degree in Archaeology and Crusade's an archaeological SF series. 
+Along the way, she began writing spec scripts for Crusade which ended
+up being good enough to buy, and we bought 4 of which 2 were produced,
+Well and Patterns. The last one she did, Value Judgments, was probably
+the best of the bunch; it's a Bester script that Walter considered one
+of his best roles, and would tie in directly with the Psi Corps books.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars Debuts 7/28 (27 Jul 1999 23:31:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rising Stars Debuts 7/28

+
Date: 27 Jul 1999 23:31:13 -0700

+
      For those keeping track...the first issue of RISING STARS hits
+comics stores this Thursday.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+South Park (01 Aug 1999 23:15:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
South Park

+
Date: 01 Aug 1999 23:15:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I thought the Cartman ep was terrific, didn't see the latest,
+and the movie is a kick.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 (02 Aug 1999 14:14:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5

+
Date: 02 Aug 1999 14:14:11 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there plans for a Babylon 5 2000 Calendar?
+> Have you had the opportunity to watch the progress of the Babylon
+> 5 Space Combat Simulator? Are there any plans for new merchandise?
+
+      Yes, there's going to continue to be new merchandise coming
+out... there's a new set from Fleer, another company just acquired the
+license to do limited edition pewter and gold figurines (good sixed
+ones) of the varius B5 ships (and the Excalibur), more novels, special
+collector's cards with a sound chip imbedded that play 30 seconds of
+stuff...and so on.  I don't know about a calendar yet, we usually don't
+get those things in until around September.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Appearances & Deceipts (29 Jul 1999 23:51:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
Appearances & Deceipts

+
Date: 29 Jul 1999 23:51:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"But since this was one of the episodes that was probably shot first
+(as evidenced by the uniforms), I must say that I'm a little surprised
+that the actors seemed more at home here than they did in other
+episodes that were probably shot later."
+
+      Actually it was the very last one shot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Have you been poking fun (30 Jul 1999 15:07:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Have you been poking fun

+
Date: 30 Jul 1999 15:07:11 -0700

+
 Randy Pastrone <76436.2204@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In the last episode were all the references to color schemes and
+> the new uniforms a deliberate poke at Star Trek? Excalibur?
+
+"In the last episode were all the references to color schemes and the
+new uniforms a deliberate poke at Star Trek?  The colors of the new
+uniform are a cross between the jackets that Captain Picard wore and
+the colors of the cadet's uniforms.  And the reference to being able to
+breath in the high collars which were part of the NG uniform from about
+season 2 on.  I don't know if it was intentional but you got a snicker
+out of me."
+
+      No, it had nothing to do with ST, it was a shot at TNT.
+
+"Also more out of curiosity were you aware that the new ship in the
+Star Trek New Frontier book series which started in 1997 is call the
+U.S.S. Excalibur?"
+
+      I didn't know this until well into the process, and basically,
+screw 'em, they don't own Camelot.
+
+      This is not a Trek-centric solar system.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Have you been poking fun (01 Aug 1999 23:15:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Have you been poking fun

+
Date: 01 Aug 1999 23:15:06 -0700

+
 Arthur Stoppe <73710.2014@compuserve.com> asks:
+> "In the last episode were all the references to color schemes and
+> the new uniforms a deliberate poke at Star Trek? Was this the
+> intent?
+
+"I thought the designer character  was played a lot like the Victor
+Spinetti TV director character from "A Hard Days Night", -you know, the
+same kind of fidgety nervous quirkiness, which I thought was really
+cool.  I thought its was too similar to be anything other than a
+tribute of sorts and not merely a coincidence.  Was this the intent?"
+
+      No.  Never even occured to me.
+
+      I *am* capable of making up my own characters, you know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade So Far (30 Jul 1999 15:07:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade So Far

+
Date: 30 Jul 1999 15:07:11 -0700

+
 Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How do you feel (personally) about the ratings so far?
+> Is this about what you expected?
+> Better?
+> Worse?
+> Then the question that everyone's asking (couldn't help
+> it)...what do you feel about it's chances on being picked up by
+> SciFi (or someone else)?
+
+      The ratings are about what I'd expect given the level of support
+(you'll note they're not even providing TV Guide with loglines any more
+for the listings, something that would've been decided upon weeks ago
+given the lead time of a magazine like that).  All during production
+they kept talking about the first six episodes being their main
+interest, which signaled then what's happened since, that they wouldn't
+support it past the first 6, which is the bare minimum required.
+
+      I have no information yet on whether it'll finally end up
+somewhere else; could be, might not, no way to know.  Either way, I'm
+sanguine.  All I can do is make the show that I feel I have to make for
+reasons of conscience, to the best of my ability to make it.  I did
+that.  There are other projects in the works, so if it doesn't go, or
+if it does, either way I'm covered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Appearances & Deceipts (02 Aug 1999 20:56:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Appearances & Deceipts

+
Date: 02 Aug 1999 20:56:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      No, the episode was written that way from the git-go, there was
+no prior version.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Lost Clue? (04 Aug 1999 16:50:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
A Lost Clue?

+
Date: 04 Aug 1999 16:50:09 -0700

+
 Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this a reference to the Plague/Cure?
+
+"As Gideon was preparing Greenberg's body for Airlock'nLoad,the
+alienwithin was pleading:"Don't do this! Iknow what you're looking
+for!" Was this a reference to the Plague/Cure?"
+
+      Yep.  But since the body couldn't talk aloud, it couldn't
+communicate this effectively.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+SFWA Bradbury Award (13 Apr 1999 00:34:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
SFWA Bradbury Award

+
Date: 13 Apr 1999 00:34:07 -0700

+
 Thomas W. Rackers <72047.1207@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So this is only the second time the award has been given?
+> And what have *I* accomplished in those years?
+
+      Thanks, and yeah, I've seen Babylon Park...most funny.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+A Lost Clue? (04 Aug 1999 21:48:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
A Lost Clue?

+
Date: 04 Aug 1999 21:48:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, that's exactly what it was.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Racing the Night (05 Aug 1999 21:29:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Racing the Night

+
Date: 05 Aug 1999 21:29:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade's Future (05 Aug 1999 21:32:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 05 Aug 1999 21:32:02 -0700

+
 Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are you legally able to tell us how Crusade would have ended and
+> share some of its secrets? Would you be able to outline a set of
+> books similar to what you did with PsiCorp and the Technomages? In
+> other words, do you own the unwritten parts of Crusade or does
+> TNT?
+
+      Not knowing the final word, I really can't get into this...but
+if there were to be no more eps, I'm not sure that I would want to get
+into a long dissertation of what would've been...because what would be
+the point?  It was made to be *done*, not talked about.  In addition,
+for myself, it would be better to move on to other projects at that
+point rather than stay immersed in that one universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Crusade's Future (06 Aug 1999 15:21:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 06 Aug 1999 15:21:07 -0700

+
 Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you think Del Rey would - would be able to - put out a series
+> of novels?
+
+      Dunno....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Stars (07 Aug 1999 15:38:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 07 Aug 1999 15:38:07 -0700

+
 Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (this week's episode changed their opinion though) A question
+> from class, in the scene where we see Gideon and Lochley heading
+> toward the shower together, did you intentionally pick that
+> specific ship to dock with the station? The ship docking was
+> obviously placed for its subliminal value, but did you
+> intentionally use that ship design? Who was Mr. Kitty?
+> Was he your cat?
+> How are things going with you?
+> Have you played the South Park or Star Wars Racer games yet?
+> When you play as Jesus and he gets hit, his comment is "You don't
+> want to go to hell, do you?" What else can you say about racing
+> your friends at 600 MPH? So, when is the next time you'll be in
+> Florida? Is Top Cow bringing you back to Megacon next March?
+> (Maybe next year though) Speaking of which, have you gotten back
+> into your comic book habit yet? What books are you reading lately?
+
+      Don't know about Marcon yet; nothing's set.  As for the image of
+the ship docking at that particular moment...yeah, that was most
+definitely deliberate.  When I, er, inserted it during editing, the
+editor just *looked* at me and said "you are just sick and wrong."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Racing the Night (07 Aug 1999 15:40:06 -0700)
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Date: 07 Aug 1999 15:40:06 -0700

+
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+
+      "Things change...long time gone."
+
+      And in later instances when the box talks, it's Gideon's/Gary's
+voice. You may take that as foreshadowing if you wish.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Racing the Night (08 Aug 1999 14:51:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 08 Aug 1999 14:51:11 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW, why didn't we see anything of the box in the "first"
+> episodes?
+
+"BTW, why didn't we see anything of the box in the "first" episodes?"
+
+      You did, in Path of Sorrows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Racing the Night (08 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0700)
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Date: 08 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Also, no one else on the crew knows about the box.  Well,
+officially. One other person knows about it, but he's not supposed to
+know.  And Galen suspects something amiss from his passing comment at
+the end of the ep.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Racing the Night (09 Aug 1999 16:21:09 -0700)
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Date: 09 Aug 1999 16:21:09 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that make sense?
+
+      Remember, you're seeing things with the broadcast order all
+kafuffled due to the TNT situation, so it would've been better layered.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Racing the Night (10 Aug 1999 16:57:03 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Aug 1999 16:57:03 -0700

+
 Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do we find out who this is in the remaining four (*sniff*)
+> episodes? And if not, can you give us a little hint?
+> On the other hand, that uses up all the "he's" doesn't it?
+
+"Do we find out who this is in the remaining four (*sniff*) episodes? 
+And if not, can you give us a little hint?"
+
+      Nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+SFWA Bradbury to JMS (15 Apr 1999 00:43:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Apr 1999 00:43:08 -0700

+
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+
+"Congratulations - be nice if a Crusade ep wins the reinstated drama
+award..."
+
+      Not in any Star Wars year...won't happen.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+Racing the Night (08 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0700)
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Date: 08 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0700

+
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+
+"Well, that was TNT's doing, not Joe's, though I wonder if they would
+have had this episode ready to air first anyway because it was so SFX
+heavy."
+
+      Racing was finished last December.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 08 Aug 1999 15:09:12 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But it begs the question, "How long do you keep being polite when
+> there are billions of lives at stake?"
+
+"I disliked the actions of the EA strip mining the planet at the
+expense of the people living there, and liked Gideons solution to it. 
+But it begs the question, "How long do you keep being polite when there
+are billions of lives at stake?"
+"That's the potential of the arc that has been set up here.  As time
+passes, the EA is going to be under more and more pressure to find a
+cure by any means possible.  That may mean by violent means at times. 
+This will mean conflicts between the members of the IA and even
+conflicts within the EA itself."
+
+      Exactly.
+
+      As Eilerson said, "Wouldn't you sacrifice a hundred Narns to
+save Earth?"  It was a question Gideon didn't answer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Crusade and WB Network (09 Aug 1999 16:21:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 09 Aug 1999 16:21:10 -0700

+
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+
+"If Warner Bros. really believes in the future of Crusade, then why
+don't they just save the show themselves and put it on the WB Network?"
+
+      Because there IS no one Warner Bros.  It was constructed as a
+series of competing and structurally independent fiefdoms...WB Domestic
+TV competes with the WB Network and so on.  Each division actively
+competes and to a large degree won't *cooperate* with other divisions. 
+A network also wants its own stamp on the development process, so they
+simply wouldn't take another show they didn't develop, from a competing
+division.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Racing the Night (10 Aug 1999 17:08:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Aug 1999 17:08:10 -0700

+
 Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And in a way, the darkest part is Gideon's flashback, when the
+> ambassadors, looking after their own interests as usual, force
+> him into this devil's bargain of abandoning his search in 4 years
+> if he's unsuccessful (Too bad, I used to like the Brakiri
+> ambassador!) It makes me wonder whether, if push came to shove
+> and the cure hadn't been found at the end of 4 years, Gideon
+> would actually keep his word?
+
+"JMS has hinted elsewhere that the cure might be found before the end
+of the series. He's also said the show we think we're watching will
+turn out not to be the show we're actually watching.  Put these two
+together, and I wonder greatly if, had the next few years played out,
+he might have gradually uncovered some other, greater theme or conflict
+that would overshadow the plague, and take over the plot for the last
+year or so."
+
+      If not sooner....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+The Memory of War (11 Aug 1999 21:10:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Aug 1999 21:10:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+""The Memory of War" by JMS brings a level of intensity to Crusade
+that is surprising for what would have originally been the second
+episode."
+
+      That's because we knew what the show was from the git-go.
+
+      Second one we shot, and we were already fully up to speed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Memory of War (14 Aug 1999 22:20:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Aug 1999 22:20:10 -0700

+
 SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are they?
+
+      I've no idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Crusade scripts (16 Aug 1999 14:22:12 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1999 14:22:12 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But what about the 4 scripts that are already written?
+> will you be able to sell the scripts, publish them somehow?
+> If the series does get a new home, will the finished scripts be
+> the start of a new season?
+
+"JMS, you have indicated that you have no interest in continue to work
+with the Crusade storyline if it doesn't get picked up. But what about
+the 4 scripts that are already written? will you be able to sell the
+scripts, publish them somehow? I think I can speak for all the fans
+that WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!"
+
+      The only one that I know will be available: this Friday at
+NASFIC (at a table set aside for SFFNET folks) Fiona Avery will be
+selling a limited number of copies of her script for "Value Judgments,"
+the unproduced CRUSADE script featuring Bester (which Walter considered
+had some of the best Bester stuff to date).  I believe it's in the
+afternoon at some point.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Crusade scripts (16 Aug 1999 21:07:08 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1999 21:07:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Just to clarify...she'll be selling 'em at 11:30 that Friday
+morning, though folks should check the schedule to confirm.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade in syndication? (16 Aug 1999 21:07:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Aug 1999 21:07:11 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> If the Sci Fi Channel doesn't pick up "Crusade" as some people
+> fear won't happen, would you consider trying to prepare the show
+> for the syndicated market for next year?
+
+      Unfortunately, the syndicated market has become much more
+crowded and much tighter since B5 went on the air, with Tribune and Fox
+and UPN and others now claiming vast tracts of exclusive airtime. 
+Which is a long way of saying there's no room in syndication.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Your new Movie (18 Aug 1999 17:56:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1999 17:56:10 -0700

+
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+
+      No, actually, it's a murder mystery story.  Fairly
+straightfoward, not a lot of deep meaning, written mainly for fun.
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Severed Dreams" on DVD? (16 Apr 1999 18:25:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Apr 1999 18:25:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      No, it ain't on DVD, none of them are at present, though all the
+show is being released on VHS and LD in stages.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Roddenberry's new shows (18 Aug 1999 18:01:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1999 18:01:08 -0700

+
 Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard much about any of the three?
+> Do have any thoughts about them?
+
+      Don't know much of anything about 'em, sorry....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fiona Avery (18 Aug 1999 22:31:10 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 18 Aug 1999 22:31:10 -0700

+
 Michael R. Marks <104504.455@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you watch Crusade when it airs?
+
+      No, if that were to happen, it won't make a major difference,
+since at most a few hundred people will ever see the script, and that
+ain't hardly a blip on the ratings.  More folks than that see a script
+when it's sent out for actors to use for auditions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Needs of Earth (21 Aug 1999 19:35:10 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 21 Aug 1999 19:35:10 -0700

+
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+
+      I think you also need only read the ongoing battle over the
+National Endowment of the Arts to realize that the battle is still an
+ongoing one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+What was up TNT's butt (20 Aug 1999 17:52:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1999 17:52:04 -0700

+
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+
+      That's way too long an answer for me to go over again...there's
+probably a long dissertation on this over on the Lurker's guide. 
+Suffice to say that the short answer to the question in your heading
+is: me.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Going down w/ the Ship (20 Aug 1999 17:52:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 20 Aug 1999 17:52:04 -0700

+
 John Morgan <71513.2510@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  can still pick up the show for next season?
+
+      Dunno....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+What was up TNT's butt (22 Aug 1999 14:17:02 -0700)
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What was up TNT's butt

+
Date: 22 Aug 1999 14:17:02 -0700

+
 Seanchai <75754.3567@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How can you stand being up there like that?
+
+">>Suffice to say that the short answer to the question in your
+heading is: me.<<
+   How can you stand being up there like that?"
+
+         I brought a flame-thrower.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Audio Books? (25 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 25 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's a great idea, don't know if they'll do it or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Amazing Stories (27 Aug 1999 18:21:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 27 Aug 1999 18:21:04 -0700

+
 Anita Karve <73653.3253@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But, with your schedule maybe we should just enjoy this one,
+> right?
+
+      Thanks, the story was fun.  I have another, a Lyta/G'Kar story,
+coming out in abouta month in AS also.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+NASFIC schedule (27 Aug 1999 18:21:05 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 27 Aug 1999 18:21:05 -0700

+
      Just an FYI to let folks know that my apperance at NASFIC in
+Anaheim has been moved from Sunday to Saturday (tomorrow) at 1:00 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Amazing Stories (29 Aug 1999 00:06:10 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 29 Aug 1999 00:06:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, it'll be in the issue after the next one; the next one
+is a Star Trek issue, and they figured it might not be appropriate....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+have you wrote any plays (21 Apr 1999 20:18:13 -0700)
+
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+
have you wrote any plays

+
Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:18:13 -0700

+
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+
+      I first began writing dramatic stuff by writing for the stage;
+I've had about 12 plays produced, a combination of one-acts and full-
+length, though none are currently out there, with the exception of one
+thing I did a long time ago that got published in book form.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+What was up TNT's butt (25 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700)
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What was up TNT's butt

+
Date: 25 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700

+
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+
+      "Appearances" was written to explain the change from black to
+grey; after the 5 grey-uniform eps in 116 Gideon arranged for a
+hideous...accident to happen to the grey uniforms, so they'd go back to
+the black ones again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Visitors (26 Aug 1999 21:18:05 -0700)
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Visitors

+
Date: 26 Aug 1999 21:18:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I'm glad to see somewhat else comment on the 'Y' in the window. That
+was absolutely classic -- and pure Joe!"
+
+      Y makes it the show right next door to that other show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Saving the Best for Last (11 Sep 1999 17:14:02 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 11 Sep 1999 17:14:02 -0700

+
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+
+"I have seen that concept before, but with the last five supposedly
+being the first five intending to be shown, how do they rationalize the
+uniform change? The order shown has them going from the nice looking
+dark uniforms to the ugly things of late.  Were they going to change
+back or were they really shown in order, just not the production order
+(or the 'preferred' order)?"
+
+      It's not a "concept," it's what happened.  "Appearances" was
+written to set up the change to the grey original uniforms, and we
+would've gone to black again in "To the Ends of the Earth."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+DVD (11 Sep 1999 21:12:14 -0700)
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+
DVD

+
Date: 11 Sep 1999 21:12:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Were you qouted accurately?
+> If so, can you add anything to the initial report?
+> (Aspect ratio, number of eps per disc, supplementary material?)
+> Any idea when we can expect an official announcement from Warner
+> Home Video? Will you be invited to participate in preparing the
+> DVD release (unlike the LDs?) If so, will you have the time?
+
+      All I know is what I've been told...that the DVDs will be out
+sometime next year; I don't know in what format; I do know they're
+going to be releasing "River of Souls" in full widescreen in the UK
+(don't know if that's DVD or tape) and if it does well they'll do
+widescreen elsewhere (same disclaimer); and no, haven't been asked to
+participate in the thing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Excalibur's fighters (14 Sep 1999 15:31:13 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 14 Sep 1999 15:31:13 -0700

+
 Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+> whats the name of those space/atmospheric star fury type
+> fighters?
+
+      Thunderbolts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+transitions (14 Sep 1999 15:31:12 -0700)
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+
transitions

+
Date: 14 Sep 1999 15:31:12 -0700

+
 Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Keep the website, or maybe expand it; I'd love to have and e-mail
+> address at like rmperry@thestation.com, how cool would that be? 
+> (of the tail wagging the dog) I wonder how the member discount
+> will work if there isn't a formal membership? How much pain are we
+> willing to suffer? into death?"
+
+      I appreciate all of that...at the same time, however, what you
+suggest would mean, in a sense, taking advantage of the fans to some
+extent, charging for not getting much, and a) I can't do that, and b) I
+think the majority, however attached to the show, would not want that
+situation.
+
+      In time, if we can get the thing into the black, we will
+certainly revisit the structure of the thing and see what can be done
+at that time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Excalibur's fighters (16 Sep 1999 00:00:14 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1999 00:00:14 -0700

+
 Bruce Scandariato <72571.1722@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  season 4-5?
+
+      Pretty much the same model, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sci Fi Channel Poll (16 Sep 1999 23:09:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1999 23:09:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"I read in SFX August 99 the only response I've heard from TNT. They
+claimed they were promised, and though they were buying, a high paced
+action series, and got something a lot slower. So that's why they
+cancelled it."
+
+      You've seen the final five (the first five produced, and the
+show the way we wanted to make it)...do YOU think it was a slow
+program? That it wasn't high-paced action?  If not, then one begins to
+wonder at the honesty of the statement.
+
+      Though anything in SFX regarding B5 or TNT is going to be
+specious at best.  When they exceeded the snark-limit, early when
+Crusade was still in production, with endless cheap personal shots and
+the like, we phantom zoned them, meaning they were cut off from press
+kits, photos, and interviews... after which they would take any
+possible opportunity to go after me or my shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
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+
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1999 16:10:08 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do these messages mean that you're disbanding the Fan Club?
+
+      To a certain degree...the forthcoming Universe Today will have
+all the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Sci Fi Channel Poll (16 Sep 1999 23:09:05 -0700)
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+
Date: 16 Sep 1999 23:09:05 -0700

+
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+
+      The only thing wrong with your argument is that it doesn't have
+anything to do with why and what TNT did, which stems from incompetence
+and testosterone, not logic or business.
+
+      Re: the B5 reruns...yes, the ratings dropped, because they would
+run 5 in a row, then rerun the same five right afterward, rather than
+giving it a good run, so you're showing eps that just aired a few weeks
+earlier, and which everyone's seen.  And on top of that, you have your
+on-air ads announce "all new episodes," when they're those very same
+reruns, and you can onlyh pull that crap so many times before people
+give up...and on top of THAT they began moving it all over the schedule
+to the point where even *I* didn't know when it was on at various
+points....
+
+      The series had done well enough in the ratings, and had grown,
+across four seasons.  When did it run into problems?  When it hit TNT. 
+The primary reason that it was initially going to end with S4 was
+because PTEN was gone, the WB network didn't want competition in the
+marketplace, and the distribution mechanism was effectively gone. 
+That's why TNT *bought* a fifth season, because it had been doing well.
+And it's done extremely well, up to and including S5, everywhere else
+on the planet *except* TNT.  That kind of points to the reality that
+the problem was in how TNT handled it.
+
+      As for Crusade...because we wouldn't make it the show TNT wanted
+ -- Baywatch meets Wrestling in Space -- they wrote it off and did
+everything they could to make damned sure it wouldn't succeed, because
+if it DID succeed, it would prove that we were right and they were
+wrong, and they absolutely would not allow that to happen.  And since
+they never coughed up much in the way of production money -- leaving
+nearly all of that to WB to pick up -- they had nothing to lose in
+doing so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 in Amazing Stories (21 Apr 1999 20:18:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 in Amazing Stories

+
Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:18:13 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, are your 3 stories going to be in consecutive issues of
+> Amazing Stories?
+
+      I don't know; I think so but don't know for sure.  There's an
+amazing stories website that may have the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sci Fi Channel Poll (18 Sep 1999 18:33:14 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 18 Sep 1999 18:33:14 -0700

+
 Bob Ingria <70373.1164@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What is it with SFX regarding B5/Crusade?
+> Was there any specific event that triggered this?
+
+"What is it with SFX regarding B5/Crusade?  I've noticed that, aside
+from rare lapses into good taste, they seem to adopt a hostile, or at
+best, cool tone towards you/the show.  Was there any specific event
+that triggered this?  It was quite noticeable and rather puzzling."
+
+      As noted in my prior message, it's specifically because we
+phantom zoned them because many of their articles were, quite simply,
+unfair and sometimes cheap shots masquerading as objectivity.  I don't
+mind if somebody does or doesn't like a show or an episode, I got no
+beef with that...but some of what was being done by them was wrong, I
+felt...and finally, they were cut off from all PR material for Crusade.
+At which point they went balls out to attack the show, or myself, at
+any given opportunity; it's got nothing to do with journalism and
+everything to do with being pissed-off jumped-up fanboys.
+
+      By contrast, Dreamwatch has often had both good and bad things
+to say about the show, but always one gets a sense that they're being
+fair about it, and that their criticisms are well considered and as a
+result are often hard to argue with.  As opposed to SFX, which takes
+cheap ad hominum shots at anyone who even writes in to dare and say
+they like B5 or Crusade.  You can tell that it's personal with
+them...and the moment it becomes personal, you can kiss goodbye even
+the pretension to journalistic integrity.
+
+      When the situation came out about some B5 cast members not being
+paid for their appearances at VorCon, Dreamwatch went out and
+independently verified the situation.  SFX, because it's close with
+some of the people involved with VorCon, did not.  This is typical of
+their bias.  And that bias and that open negativity is, I think, why
+their circulation is reportedly shrinking while the circulation of some
+of the other magazines, notably Dreamwatch, is increasing, especially
+here in the States.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sci Fi Channel Poll (21 Sep 1999 15:41:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 21 Sep 1999 15:41:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Which brings us to the "Short Attention Span Theater" syndrome.  Most
+of the complaints I saw were from people who were expecting something
+else and were unwilling to wait and see what developed.  This is often
+the norm for TV viewers and explains why we get a lot of the cr@p we
+do."
+
+      This is, unfortunately, all too often all too true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Game cancelled??? (22 Sep 1999 20:54:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Game cancelled???

+
Date: 22 Sep 1999 20:54:03 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Yup, their restructuring hit a number of games, and this was one
+of them.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Value Judgements (25 Sep 1999 15:54:04 -0700)
+
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+
Value Judgements

+
Date: 25 Sep 1999 15:54:04 -0700

+
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+
+      Except of course that would totally destroy Garibaldi's
+character.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Value Judgements (27 Sep 1999 22:41:13 -0700)
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+
Value Judgements

+
Date: 27 Sep 1999 22:41:13 -0700

+
 Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance that the other unproduced Crusade scripts might become
+> available to your insatiable fans?
+
+      It's something we're considering.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Even Chen CD? (28 Sep 1999 14:58:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 28 Sep 1999 14:58:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      The cover artwork is sitting on my desk for approval; once
+that's done, it should be out soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+RISING STARS #2 OUT (29 Sep 1999 15:48:14 -0700)
+
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+
RISING STARS #2 OUT

+
Date: 29 Sep 1999 15:48:14 -0700

+
      As an FYI to those who've been waiting, RISING STARS #2 makes
+its appearance this week at a comics store near you.  It's a good one,
+concerning invulnerability, what it *really* would mean, what good or
+bad results would come of living with it...and the mystery of how you
+kill someone who can't be killed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Final Reckoning (03 Oct 1999 20:54:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 03 Oct 1999 20:54:08 -0700

+
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+
+      Yeah, it's a heckuva book...and we did plan to get into some of
+the Bester storyline in the show.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Final Reckoning (04 Oct 1999 16:31:00 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Oct 1999 16:31:00 -0700

+
 SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So I can safely assume Bester's story is canon, right?
+
+"So I can safely assume Bester's story is canon, right?"
+
+      Absolutely.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Crew Jackets Here (05 Oct 1999 17:55:02 -0700)
+
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+
B5 Crew Jackets Here

+
Date: 05 Oct 1999 17:55:02 -0700

+
      Pitchman mode on:
+
+      One of the main questions I get at conventions, when I show up
+flying the colors, is "Where can I get that jacket?"  As those've
+who've been there will attest, my answer has always been, "You can't. 
+They're only for cast and crew."
+
+      So there've been a lot of requests for this particular item over
+the years...so for this month only, www.thestation.com will be offering
+a limited number (about 200) of B5 jackets.  These are essentially
+identical to the other crew jackets, same material, same manufacturer,
+same detailed logo embroidered on the back.  It's a *nice* jacket (and
+available for a hell of a lot less than the $500-1000 some of them have
+been sold for in the past on ebay and convention auctions).
+
+      But they're going to go fast.  Same as with the Gathering
+script, which was only available in September, and is now off market. 
+(The next one for sale, this month only, is the script for Midnight on
+the Firing Line.)
+
+      Pitchman mode off.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade Gone For Now (02 Mar 1999 00:17:07 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Mar 1999 00:17:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Your words are most kind, and appreciated...thank you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Severed Dreams" on DVD? (21 Apr 1999 20:18:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:18:12 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But "Severed Dreams" on DVD?
+
+      They're releasing them in groups, so eventually it'll be out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Crew Jackets Here (05 Oct 1999 23:13:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 05 Oct 1999 23:13:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Note to self: you are an idiot.  What you MEANT to say was that
+CRUSADE jackets are available, but you WROTE B5 jackets...one might
+almost think you had a glitch in your brain in that regard.
+
+      Not only THAT, but it turns out that the Gathering is going to
+be available until October 8th because the web site was down for about
+a week.
+
+      Can't you get *anything* rite?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade cancellation (06 Oct 1999 17:42:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Oct 1999 17:42:04 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> 1) when TNT stopped production 2) when the cast contracts expired
+> 3) after the airing when no one picked it up 4) still some hope
+> left??
+
+      In technical terms it's always when you're told to stop
+production and that's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5/Crusade Keyrings? (14 Oct 1999 19:45:05 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Oct 1999 19:45:05 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I don't *think* they're official, but I can't be 100% sure. 
+Certainly they never came through for approval, which makes me think
+they're not official.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5/Crusade Keyrings? (15 Oct 1999 17:03:08 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 15 Oct 1999 17:03:08 -0700

+
 Andrew S. Troth <74663.3614@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Really?
+
+      The B5 keychains are legit; the question was in regards to
+Crusade keychains.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is there a Best Episode? (18 Oct 1999 18:36:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Is there a Best Episode?

+
Date: 18 Oct 1999 18:36:03 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> What episode(s) of Crusade deserve consideration for this?
+
+"As you know, the SFWA reinstated the Dramatic Nebula.  What
+episode(s) of Crusade deserve consideration for this?"
+
+      I dunno...maybe THE MEMORY OF WAR, though if anything deserves
+it, it's THE MATRIX.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Final Reckoning (19 Oct 1999 14:22:06 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Oct 1999 14:22:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"SiL was written and filmed before Season 5 and would have been the
+final episode of Season 4 had Season 5 not happened.  In that light,
+this comment more likely refers to the problems they had in Season 4
+than any as-yet-untold problems."
+
+      Except of course that Garibaldi's whole future arc was known to
+me; whether or not there was a S5, his future was his future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is there a Best Episode? (19 Oct 1999 14:27:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Is there a Best Episode?

+
Date: 19 Oct 1999 14:27:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"The only nomination so far is a Swedish porn flick that is only
+incidentally SF.  The group that nominated that one want to embarrass
+the organization into re-abolishing the award.  It's a very sorry
+mess."
+
+      Of course.  It's SFWA.
+
+      Never have I seen a group that writes about technology so
+frightened of a form of technological storytelling.  They're the writer-
+equivilents of Luddites.  (Meaning the ones pulling this crap.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is there a Best Episode? (20 Oct 1999 20:01:05 -0700)
+
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+
Is there a Best Episode?

+
Date: 20 Oct 1999 20:01:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"As to "The Matrix", I think you may be betting on the winner there,
+but strangely I found the story a trifle weak.  Perhaps because it was
+so overshadowed by the extravagant visual effect.  I'd hate to have to
+pay the tab for just 10 seconds of that film."
+
+      The story is fairly straightforward and parts of it do not bear
+close scrutiny, but the mythology of the thing is very well done, and
+obviously the action stuff is the best I've ever seen.  The DVD is
+particularly cool; it has the movie, commentaries, the ability to dive
+out of the movie to see the sequence done segment by segment, then see
+the whole thing, and you can see it from script to storyboard to filmed
+end-product.  I've probably watched the whole thing through about 4-5
+times.
+
+      As much as I have a personal investment in Crusade and all
+things Babylonian, I can't think of much that could compete with the
+Matrix in terms of quality.
+
+      (And to the question of what episode I'd consider...absent the
+Matrix for a moment, it occurs to me that A Call to Arms and River of
+Souls are both also elibigle for this year.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Final Reckoning (20 Oct 1999 20:12:13 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 20 Oct 1999 20:12:13 -0700

+
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+
+"By the way, I note that SiL clearly does refer to 'events that had
+not yet happened when SiL was filmed '.  For example, there's Lennier's
+death. (Remember that Lennier is toasted as one of the 'absent friends,
+in memory still bright'.)  Franklin being the head of Xenobiology back
+on earth. Garibaldi being head of Edgar's Industries (although this is
+implicit in 'Rising Stars')."
+
+      Exactly so.  Franklin's situation even predates any thought at
+all about Crusade as a series.
+
+      Garibaldi's death (a much quieter passing than he would have
+imagined waiting for him), Franklin's final fate on a distant,
+unexplored planet, Delenn's final journey (a quest involving Valen,
+though no one else around her believes it), Lennier's sacrifice...it's
+all mapped out, on the theory that whether or not it ever gets used,
+*I* had to know it.
+
+      (Incidentally...in a coming issue of the B5 magazine, there is a
+canonical timeline that covers the history of the B5 universe from the
+Big Bang to a million years in the future...and it's really nifty to
+see the whole thing laid out like that, to realize that, sonuvagun, it
+really does work.  I commend it to everyone in the highest possible
+terms.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Final Reckoning (23 Oct 1999 16:53:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Oct 1999 16:53:10 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Except, of course, that as I recall (and my memory could be off
+here), Bester's parents were never part of the Corps, and thus would
+not have had their DNA on file there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Amazing Stories (21 Apr 1999 20:24:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21 Apr 1999 20:24:03 -0700

+
 Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know how one might subscribe to Amazing Stories?
+
+      There's a website for Amazing Stories magazine, though I don't
+have the URL about.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Babylonia Method (30 Oct 1999 15:59:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Babylonia Method

+
Date: 30 Oct 1999 15:59:02 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have your heard of any more new series (or old) that have adopted
+> the Babylonian method of organized production?
+
+      Not that I've heard, in terms of production, though in terms of
+story arc, the guys who do E:FC have said in print that they want to do
+a B5 style arc, and a few others are doing the same.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Columbia House Videos (30 Oct 1999 15:59:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Oct 1999 15:59:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I don't have any direct knowledge of this, only what other fans
+have conveyed, which is that for whatever bizarre reason, CH doesn't
+"have access" to those episodes.  I don't know or understand why that
+would be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Babylonia Method (01 Nov 1999 17:25:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 01 Nov 1999 17:25:02 -0700

+
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+
+      Nope, never seen it, no time for much TV these days.
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Babylonia Method (02 Nov 1999 15:23:03 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Nov 1999 15:23:03 -0700

+
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+
+      Funny stuff, thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rumor Mill (02 Nov 1999 21:11:03 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rumor Mill

+
Date: 02 Nov 1999 21:11:03 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you heard anything about this?
+
+      No, I haven't heard anything about it; I suspect it's just a
+rumor.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Sightings (09 Nov 1999 23:03:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Nov 1999 23:03:08 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Who edits this thing anyway?
+
+"However, the real hoot for me is that Joe is dressed in a sport coat,
+turtle neck, and *blue jeans*.  Just my kind of outfit.  A snappy
+dresser to the end :)"
+
+      It was either that or wear proper slacks with a Superman tie.  I
+just can't take anything seriously....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star 11/22/99 (09 Nov 1999 21:18:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
Rising Star 11/22/99

+
Date: 09 Nov 1999 21:18:10 -0700

+
     Just as an FYI, the next issue of RISING STARS will be out at
+newsstands around the 22nd.  It's a particularly good one, following
+the story of pyrokinetic Lee Jackson after he fled at the beginning. 
+We also learn a very possible motive for the series of murders.  It's a
+good one.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Bible/Treatment! (09 Nov 1999 21:18:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 09 Nov 1999 21:18:11 -0700

+
Also posted to the net:
+
+For the last six years, I've been asked repeatedly -- in email and at
+conventions -- "Are you ever going to make the original B5 series
+writers' bible available?"  My general reaction was to simply
+say...maybe someday.
+
+After considerable reflection, and as a Solstice present to B5
+viewers... we're finally going to make it available.
+
+TWO such *its*, to be precise.
+
+First: The original Babylon 5 Series Treatment
+
+This is the 23 page document, written in September 1988, that was used
+to sell the series for the five years it took to find a buyer.  It has
+different characters than were ever seen in the show, such as Dr.
+Chakri Mendak (a role that later became Dr. Stephen Franklin) and more
+background on Vice-Commander Laurel Chang... Sinclair's background is
+also quite different from what we eventually ended up with... Delenn
+was a male...the Vorlons were warlike, squabbling aliens....
+
+This was the first attempt to put B5 down on paper, in a process that
+would change and evolve over the next 5 years. Ideas that were never
+used, characters who would never be seen again, the first stirrings of
+the Minbari War story (including a never used alternate explanation for
+why they surrendered), Delenn was a male character... Kosh had a mate
+who came with him to B5...on and on and on.
+
+Second: The original Season One Babylon 5 Writer's Bible
+
+This massive tome weighs in at over 60 pages, with comprehensive
+backgrounds on all the characters as well as guidelines for writing SF
+for TV in ways that would be different than all of our predecessors. It
+lays out the first year of the arc and warns potential writers away
+from areas we plan to explore in later years, has additional
+backgrounds on regular characters never actually used in the series
+(such as a strange fellow named Mr. Jones who would have been
+alternately a bane and ally to Garibaldi), stories that would
+eventually be filmed, other stories that would never be used,
+information on the the history and technology of the B5 universe, Psi
+Corps, Earthforce, the various governments, and other areas...this is
+the Big One, the Grail of the B5 fictional world.  The table of
+contents alone covers 2 pages.
+
+This bible was ONLY given to prospective writers, who were in turn
+asked to keep the material totally confidential. The treatment was ONLY
+given to network/studio. heads and others in a position to buy the
+series.
+
+In addition, BOTH of these documents will be peppered with the
+original illustrations by Peter Ledger used to sell and visualize the
+series in its earliest stage, including the original keyhole logo, many
+of them reproduced in full color, others b&w.  Some of these images
+have shown up in various places, but others will be seen here by the
+world at large for the first time.
+
+I debated long and hard about whether or not I would ever make these
+available, but finally decided to give in to the many requests for the
+release of this material.
+
+This material will shortly be made available at www.thestation.com and
+via phone orders. I don't know how long we'll make them available, but
+I suspect it may not be very long.
+
+In reading through the documents, it's like taking a trip back through
+time to what was, to the very beginnings of the series, what would be,
+what might've been, what never was...what got abandoned on the side of
+the road, what was kept. At times the material is coy, informative,
+deliberately misleading in a couple of places where I wanted to avoid
+leaks, rude and sometimes it actually makes a rough kind of sense.
+
+They're going to cost a bit more than the scripts, because at 60+
+pages in the case of the bible, and with the color illustrations,
+they're more expensive to produce, and we're only doing a limited
+number of these.
+
+Expect the full info to go up on thestation.com in a few days.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star 11/22/99 (10 Nov 1999 17:07:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 10 Nov 1999 17:07:14 -0700

+
 SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this issue 2 or 3?
+
+      It's issue 3, 2 came out last month.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+New 2 HR B5 Movie? (18 Nov 1999 23:20:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 18 Nov 1999 23:20:05 -0700

+
 John Morgan <71513.2510@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  true & what is the general plot?
+
+      I haven't heard anything about it, and thus don't think it's
+true.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hollywood Video promo (23 Apr 1999 20:21:01 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 23 Apr 1999 20:21:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Can they DO this?
+> Speaking of DVD rentals <g> - any news?
+
+      I can't see any reason why they couldn't, since it was a
+promotional thing, as opposed to a piece of mass-marketed merchandise
+for sale.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Art of Collaboration (18 Nov 1999 23:20:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Art of Collaboration

+
Date: 18 Nov 1999 23:20:05 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What do you feel are your strengths in a collaborative effort,
+> and what do you look for in a collaborator? What are the pitfalls
+> to avoid, and what are the benefits?
+
+      I'm actually the worst person to ask about this, because I
+almost never collaborate with another writer.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+New 2 HR B5 Movie? (19 Nov 1999 17:18:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 19 Nov 1999 17:18:08 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Those rumors are *always* coming...doesn't mean anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+New 2 HR B5 Movie? (20 Nov 1999 15:47:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 20 Nov 1999 15:47:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Probably wishful thinking on the part of the originators."
+
+      Except, of course, that the *originators* KNOW that it's not
+true.  It may be wishful thinking on the part of those who *hear it*,
+but the person who tells a fib knows that he is telling a fib.
+
+      On the internet, inside information is currency, and there will
+always be counterfeiters among us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade's Future (21 Nov 1999 22:43:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21 Nov 1999 22:43:06 -0700

+
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+
+      It's nothing to do with Crusade as a *product*.  It's Crusade
+and the writing thereof as an *art form* that is at issue here.  If a
+composer was stopped from finishing a symphony, and someone said,
+"Well, can you talk about what you *would* have done?" it's an
+impossible question...a symphony is meant to be *heard* not talked
+about.
+
+      Further, it would mean my spending a great deal of time dwelling
+on something that I won't be able to *do*.  For me, it's not an
+academic exercise, it's a point of great personal frustration...why in
+heaven's name should I choose to enhance that any further by dwelling
+on all the cool things I could've/would've done had TNT not pulled the
+plug?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Crusade's Future (24 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0700

+
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+
+      No, I know where the story was going to go, that ain't the
+point; the point is in spending that much emotional time going over
+something that somebody canceled.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 on home video (24 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 24 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Does anyone at WB know what they're doing?
+> Who is in charge over there?
+
+      I'm astouned that they would do that to the two movies...there
+was no reason to do so unless they just didn't want to spend the
+additonal money on two more transfers.  I'm afraid the ways of WB
+utterly defy explanation....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star 11/22/99 (30 Nov 1999 14:12:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 30 Nov 1999 14:12:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The book, I'm told by TC, will definitely be out this Wednesday;
+the holiday kind of cut into their schedule.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star 11/22/99 (01 Dec 1999 21:10:09 -0700)
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+
Date: 01 Dec 1999 21:10:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's officially out now....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star 11/22/99 (02 Dec 1999 22:39:06 -0700)
+
+
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+
Date: 02 Dec 1999 22:39:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      There are 24 issues slated for the run, planned at 1 per
+month...or at Top Cow's production schedule, that should bring us
+through 2010....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star 11/22/99 (04 Dec 1999 14:27:09 -0700)
+
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+
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+
Date: 04 Dec 1999 14:27:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It takes me a week or three to write a comics script because I'm
+still kinda learning the form...after that production seems to take
+about a year and a half...
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Again, congrats (25 Apr 1999 16:37:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
Again, congrats

+
Date: 25 Apr 1999 16:37:11 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any chance you'll be squeezing in dropping in on Book Expo
+> America in Anaheim before you head out to receive the SFWA award?
+
+"I've seen the grousing (as you undoubtedly have) that "SiL" received
+the nomination only because it was impossible to give the nomination to
+the entire series and that it doesn't stack up against the other
+nominated works for brilliance in advancing the SF in SF dramatic
+works."
+
+      My response would be two-fold: first, that I didn't know that
+advancing SF in SF dramatic works was the requirement, only that it BE
+SF.  The Truman Show, also nominated, doesn't present any new
+ideas...heck, I did a TWILIGHT ZONE episode in 88 that had *exactly*
+the same story and structure (simultaneous creation, I'm not saying it
+was cribbed, it wasn't). ST:Insurrection likewise doesn't exactly
+advance the field of SF by bringing in new ideas...it's another ST
+movie, and the core is the fountain of youth idea, not exactly
+innovative.  Pleasantville has its roots in the Purple Rose of Cairo,
+the Last Action Hero and others.  Of all the other entries, I'd say 
+only Dark City really does anything really innovative.
+
+      But all are equally in the genre, and thus equally viable
+candidates.
+
+      As to what SiL might bring that advances the SF in SF dramatic
+works, I'd say that it brings something quite new: an ending.  This is
+the preplanned ending toward which the 5 years of B5 have been working.
+We said at the beginning that B5 has a beginning, a middle, and an end.
+All SF shows have a beginning, most have a middle...but this is
+something new, an ending toward which all has been leading.  This
+really hasn't been done before in SF TV.  B5 introduced the concept of
+the 5 year arc to TV...this is the end of that arc, to which all has
+been pointing.
+
+      (Funnily enough, I think this is the first time that a Hugo
+nominated entry has actually had a Hugo visible *in* it.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star 11/22/99 (05 Dec 1999 23:21:04 -0700)
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+
Date: 05 Dec 1999 23:21:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I appreciate it, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Rising Star 11/22/99 (06 Dec 1999 22:39:10 -0700)
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+
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+
Date: 06 Dec 1999 22:39:10 -0700

+
 Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And what was it, a year after the announced release that Wing
+> Commander III finally hit the shelves? Did you get Batman War on
+> Crime?
+
+      Yeah, got War on Crime...I mean, c'mon, it's Alex Ross, to NOT
+get it would be sacrilege.  As always, he does a great job, though I
+thought the script was not quite on the same level as the art.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+MegaCon 2000 (06 Dec 1999 22:39:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 06 Dec 1999 22:39:10 -0700

+
 Richard M Perry <76461.2737@compuserve.com> asks:
+> (I already booked a room at the Marriott) Is there any chance
+> that Top Cow, or Harlan, will be dragging you along with them
+> this year? Top Cow is there every year and I thought they might be
+> working on you to go again to promote the current issue of Rising
+> Stars which should be what 5 by April?
+
+      Nothing's really been set yet as far as I know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 versus ST:TNG (14 Dec 1999 00:03:08 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 14 Dec 1999 00:03:08 -0700

+
 Carolyn Dodson <76337.3460@compuserve.com> asks:
+> In all fairness I will admit to one problem I have in B5 plotdom
+> and I would like to know if this bothers anybody else? Has anyone
+> ever raised this issue or read an explanation from JMS on this -
+> Mr. Straczynski, are you out there - what's the deal? Is this
+> going to be elaborated on in the "Legions of Fire" series?
+
+"In all fairness I will admit to one problem I have in B5 plotdom and
+I would like to know if this bothers anybody else? Why doesn't Sheridan
+remember that Londo has a freakin Keeper. How can you go forward in
+time and remember that Delenn says "do not go to Z'ha'dum" but you
+forget that a one-eyed, ugly, creepy looking sucker is sticking out of
+someone's neck. I mean I don't think that is something I would forget.
+I mean Franklin found a Keeper on Mars and I assume he put it in a
+report which I assume Sheridan read - he should be able to put 2 and 2
+together. Has anyone ever raised this issue or read an explanation from
+JMS on this - Mr. Straczynski, are you out there - what's the deal? Is
+this going to be elaborated on in the "Legions of Fire" series? Just 
+wonderin'"
+
+      It's real simple.  That vision was almost 20 years in the
+future.
+
+      At what point should Sheridan assume the Keeper landed on Londo?
+For all he knows, it got there a week before.  Nothing in Londo's
+behavior in the present B5 storyline says "keeper."  People start wars
+all the time without the necessity of having keepers.  Londo has
+certainly had his changes and swings in mood prior to having a Keeper. 
+WE know this because we have privileged information which Sheridan does
+not.
+
+      If Londo had said "I got this thing in x-year," then that's one
+thing, but absent that...there's no way for Sheridan to know that he
+didn't get it 10 or 15 years down the line...and, equally, no way to
+know what future events he might change -- possibly for the worse -- by
+trying to warn Londo. (And, in fact, if he did try to tell Londo about
+this, the Drakh would realize that Londo had been compromised, and they
+would probably simply kill him and bring someone else into that
+role...so Sheridan's right in that respect.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unauthorized books? (21 Dec 1999 22:29:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 21 Dec 1999 22:29:09 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think that unauthorized books fall into a grey area; on the
+one hand, they're exploiting a known commodity (a show) but none of the
+creative people involved with the project actually benefit from the
+book; that's sort of the bottom-feeder aspect to the thing...on the
+other hand, an unauthorized book can sometimes (but may not always) be
+more objective in telling the story of a given show.  I've generally
+tried to make sure that anything associated with B5 is more than just
+fluff; the B5 magazine is probably the best example of this, and
+they've shown both the warts and the good stuff, and have in fact 
+published any number of very critical articles and reviews of episodes 
+(teeth-grindingly so, in some cases, but I let it go through on
+principle).
+
+      The Lane books fall into the "may not always be more objective"
+category stated above, especially the second one, in which the author,
+feeling that the series didn't go the way *he* would've wanted it to
+go, totally distorts situations and events to underscore his theme,
+even at the expense of honest reporting.  The whole book is, frankly,
+skewed and even fans have considered it mainly a personal
+attack/fannish venting than a book about the show...it's about the
+author's frustrated desires and not about the show at all, in the final
+analysis.  There's a lot of incorrect information in the book, which
+in an authorized book could have been caught, but here there was no
+safeguard against misinformation and personal opinion disguised as
+fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unauthorized books? (22 Dec 1999 20:45:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 22 Dec 1999 20:45:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"But, like you, I was rather taken aback by the attitude of the author
+in the second book.  He was clearly miffed and allowed that to color
+what could otherwise have been a well done second book.  Clearly, the
+objectivity was gone."
+
+      Yup.
+
+"Still, he did manage to put in a couple of things worth seeing.  In
+particular, he quoted the entire 'Declaration of Principles' from
+'Paragon of Animals'."
+
+      Which a) he didn't write, b) I did, and get nothing for the
+reuse of my material, c) is widely available online, and d) can be
+transcribed by anyone from the episode, so you don't need the book to
+do that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+CBS special (02 Jan 2000 00:35:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
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+
Date: 02 Jan 2000 00:35:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's apparently going to be tomorrow (Sunday) morning during CBS
+Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CBS special (02 Jan 2000 22:45:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CBS special

+
Date: 02 Jan 2000 22:45:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+Message text written by George & Lynn Dimock: "Hope it went well."
+
+It was okay...I never much like the way I look or talk on TV.  I
+always suspect that the next day America's Most Wanted will start
+getting phone calls saying "THAT'S HIM!  THAT'S THE GUY!"
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CBS special (06 Jan 2000 23:10:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CBS special

+
Date: 06 Jan 2000 23:10:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+Message text written by Troy Starr: "Does NASA have a time table for
+building their Star Furies?  Or were they just asking permission for
+the indefinite future? "
+
+In general.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CBS special (06 Jan 2000 23:11:03 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
CBS special

+
Date: 06 Jan 2000 23:11:03 -0700

+
 Karen S. Hayes <112230.2454@compuserve.com> asks:
+> How did they hook up with you for this segment?
+
+Message text written by Karen S. Hayes: "How did they hook up with you
+for this segment? I ask out of professional curiosity, because I know
+that often--not always, but often-- finding the right interview subject
+for a piece is pure luck and serendipity on the part of the
+interviewer. "
+
+Apparently the segment producer was a big B5 fan, so she called one
+day.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Again, congrats (26 Apr 1999 15:17:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Again, congrats

+
Date: 26 Apr 1999 15:17:04 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      In the opening of act one, the camera pans around Ivanova's desk
+to reveal her.  In foreground in that shot is a small area with several
+of what look like medals or frame.  In the midst of that is a long
+rocket pointing upward, on a round bronze disk.  That's the Hugo.  The
+camera continues on past it to reveal her, so it's in the first few
+moments of the act.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rising Stars 4 is out (10 Jan 2000 23:43:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rising Stars 4 is out

+
Date: 10 Jan 2000 23:43:08 -0700

+
Just as an FYI, this past Thursday the fourth issue of Rising Stars
+came out. It's kind of a fun issue.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Rising Stars 4 is out (13 Jan 2000 17:41:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Rising Stars 4 is out

+
Date: 13 Jan 2000 17:41:13 -0700

+
 Carolyn Dodson <76337.3460@compuserve.com> asks:
+> BTW noticed your post time - do you suffer from Delayed Sleep
+> Phase Syndrome also?
+
+Message text written by Carolyn Dodson: "BTW noticed your post time -
+do you suffer from Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome also?  "
+
+No, I just sleep whacky hours.  I generally work in the evenings until
+about 3 or so in the morning, then crash.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Boon or Bane? (17 Jan 2000 20:24:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Boon or Bane?

+
Date: 17 Jan 2000 20:24:14 -0700

+
 Rebecca Eschliman <76072.2345@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does it seem like a whole new crateful of chainsaws to juggle?
+
+Message text written by Rebecca Eschliman: "I'd be interested in your
+reaction as either (or both) a writer or producer to the AOL/T-W
+merger, not as it applies to B5 specifically, but what it bodes for the
+future in getting new shows launched and supported.  Does it seem like
+a whole new crateful of chainsaws to juggle? "
+
+Unfortunately, I really don't know/understand enough about the
+situation to have an informed opinion.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Gallifrey Convention (21 Jan 2000 23:19:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Gallifrey Convention

+
Date: 21 Jan 2000 23:19:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Do you know when your presentations/events are scheduled yet?
+
+Message text written by Martin Roth: "I spotted your name on the guest
+list for Gallifrey next month, and by an amazing set of coincidences
+I'm actually going to be there part of the time.  Do you know when your
+presentations/events are scheduled yet? "
+
+I'm told Sunday at 4.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade on eBay (16 Feb 2000 23:45:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
Crusade on eBay

+
Date: 16 Feb 2000 23:45:11 -0700

+
 Graham Smith <74010.764@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this legit, or has someone ripped off something?
+
+Message text written by Graham Smith: "There is a Crusade "Workprint"
+copy of "Racing the Night" for sale on eBay, Item# 244480063.
+
+Is this legit, or has someone ripped off something? "
+
+It's definitely not legal for people to be selling that stuff.
+
+jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+New 2 HR B5 Movie? (16 Feb 2000 23:46:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
+- Previous - Next
+

+
New 2 HR B5 Movie?

+
Date: 16 Feb 2000 23:46:05 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Is this true & what is the general plot?
+> and then produce something lame withOUT you at the helm?
+> Do you have any form of insurance against "creative pollution"?
+
+Message text written by Rick Corey: "Is there even a remote, horrid
+possibility that WB could say "Since we own all rights to B5, we're
+going to put out a B5 movie" ... and then produce something lame
+withOUT you at the helm? "
+
+Odds are slim and none.
+
+jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Futurerama penned by JMS (27 Apr 1999 18:54:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Futurerama penned by JMS

+
Date: 27 Apr 1999 18:54:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I'd love to do one, just haven't been asked...hadn't even
+thought about it.  We're certainly alike in that we've both been
+through the wars on our respective shows.  I dunno, we'll have to see.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TNT schedule change ! (28 Apr 1999 19:27:12 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
TNT schedule change !

+
Date: 28 Apr 1999 19:27:12 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      It's really a rather cruel joke.  According to the latest on the
+website, they're looking at 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. M-F.  And they want input
+on this poll from fans who are given nothing for options on where to
+put it.
+
+      If anyone were to ask me, I'd be *happy* to tell TNT where to
+put it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deep Space 9 (28 Apr 1999 19:24:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Deep Space 9

+
Date: 28 Apr 1999 19:24:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I haven't seen 'em...only have heard that the last DS9 ep is
+pretty much the same as what we did in SiL.  Don't know that for a
+fact, but the word on the street is that Sisko goes off with the
+ancient ones, never to return, and the station gets blowed up.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deep Space 9 (02 May 1999 17:53:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Deep Space 9

+
Date: 02 May 1999 17:53:01 -0700

+
 David L Trahan <110714.3375@compuserve.com> asks:
+> No offense, sir, but could you please put a spoiler warning next
+> time you give spoilers for non-B5 shows like that?
+
+"No offense, sir, but could you please put a spoiler warning next time
+you give spoilers for non-B5 shows like that?  I mean, I know this is a
+B5 forum, but some people here, such as me, watch shows like DS9, and
+do not want to know stuff like that about episodes yet to air."
+
+      Sorry, figured it couldn't be much of a spoiler since we'd
+already done it on our show....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deep Space 9 (03 May 1999 20:42:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Deep Space 9

+
Date: 03 May 1999 20:42:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I seem to recall reading in one of the B5 magazines that when JMS was
+first trying to sell the idea of B5, he was aware that DS9 was also in
+the pipeline, so to say that DS9 is a knock-off is not strictly true
+although some of the later story lines are similar."
+
+      Negative.  We began trying to sell the B5 series to everyone in
+town, including Paramount, 5 years prior to getting a Go order.  The B5
+series was announced in early November of that year.  There was NO set
+ST series by that point.  Over the following Christmas weekend, I got a
+phone call from someone very closely involved with Trek, who said,
+"They just decided what the new Trek show is going to be.  It's about a
+space station that's a center of commerce, with a travel gate nearby."
+
+      So your information is quite incorrect.  Nor did it come from
+the B5 magazine (there's only one).
+
+"Still JMS must be quite pleased if it is a knock-off, as to copy ones
+ideas is the greatest form of praise."
+
+      Let me steal your car and see if you feel the same way
+afterward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Why the change of heart? (02 Mar 1999 21:17:05 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Why the change of heart?

+
Date: 02 Mar 1999 21:17:05 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Those matters can never be addressed contractually before the
+start of a project.  They only come up in the process of making a show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Rock Star! (04 May 1999 17:51:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Rock Star!

+
Date: 04 May 1999 17:51:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The info from Kitt Peak Observatory also mentioned that the
+asteroid has "a moderately eccentric orbit."  Suffice to say this has
+been cause for some considerable humor around the office....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deep Space 9 (06 May 1999 13:37:02 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Deep Space 9

+
Date: 06 May 1999 13:37:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"...infact I think it first aired about 6 weeks before the B5 pilot."
+
+      Yeah, they pushed through their post production specifically to
+beat us into the marketplace.
+
+"I can certainly understand you being "devastated" to find out about
+DS9 and am surprised, given the penchant for court action in the USA,
+that you have never started legal action for plagiarism."
+
+      It was discussed with WB for some time, but they felt that it
+would be like getting into a protracted land war in Asia, and the
+litigation might prevent B5 from getting a fair shot by being embroiled
+in a conflict right out of the gate.
+
+"As far as stealing your car is concerned, if your car was stolen you
+would not have use of it. You still retained use of the B5 idea and the
+fact that it is similar <g> to DS9 did not prevent it being produced."
+
+      Actually, it almost did.  WB came within an inch of canceling
+the whole thing because they weren't sure the market could sustain two
+space station series.  It also hurt us in that fans thought that *we*
+were the copycats, since we aired second.  And Paramount played a lot
+of games with the stations to try and keep us off the air so they'd
+have the field to themselves.  It took us almost two years to really
+recover from the damage, it's still an annoyance that we seem to be
+providing DS9 with R&D free of charge, and we still have a lot of fans
+who think we copied them since our pilot aired second.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+A HOMer for SiL (08 May 1999 19:56:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
A HOMer for SiL

+
Date: 08 May 1999 19:56:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      That's great news, thanks.  It's a wonderful thing, and I'm duly
+grateful.
+
+      BTW, I've never actually *seen* a Homer before...what's it look
+like?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+A HOMer for SiL (09 May 1999 22:44:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
A HOMer for SiL

+
Date: 09 May 1999 22:44:00 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you recall receiving it?
+
+"You should have received a HOMer certificate for "The Coming Of
+Shadows" sometime in May, 1996. Do you recall receiving it?"
+
+      Not offhand.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade eps on TNT site (14 May 1999 21:16:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade eps on TNT site

+
Date: 14 May 1999 21:16:14 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, who wrote the synopses on the Crusade eps at the TNT site?
+
+      I've no idea....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+4 weeks to Crusade (14 May 1999 21:27:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
4 weeks to Crusade

+
Date: 14 May 1999 21:27:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I swear, the folks at TNT are being shown different versions of this
+stuff than the rest of us.  It's the only way to explain some of this."
+
+      We've gotten used to it.  Their promotions department is one of
+the most inept I've ever seen.  I finally snagged the Crusade promo,
+and not only did they make terrible selections of footage, a) about
+half the footage isn't even FROM Crusade, it's from B5 and A Call to
+Arms (inclusive of Keffer getting gakked in season 2), and b) the
+little Crusade footage they DO use is repeated several times (first one-
+frame each, then again, mostly people just standing around).
+
+      We've delivered virtually all of the episodes, there's plenty of
+stuff to draw on...why on *earth* would they go to B5 for footage?  And
+why on earth would they use the same uninteresting Crusade footage
+repeatedly, all this in a 20 second promo, where every second counts?
+
+      The only possible answer I can come up with is that these
+promotions people are totally and completely inept...which would
+explain why the majority of their shows are doing terribly right now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+4 weeks to Crusade (15 May 1999 18:25:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
4 weeks to Crusade

+
Date: 15 May 1999 18:25:01 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"The only thing I can think of is that they hope to catch the eye of
+existing B5 fans by showing the footage."
+
+      Given that the footage used was absolutely unremarkable --
+guards standing outside the B5 council chambers, a woman in a starfury
+cockpit from ItB, Keffer getting burned, a few others -- that prospect
+seems thin at best.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Rock Star! (16 May 1999 21:48:09 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
JMS: Rock Star!

+
Date: 16 May 1999 21:48:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"The bad puns must be oh, several feet deep by now on the floor..."
+
+      Right alongside the punsters....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Deep Space 9 (19 May 1999 17:17:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Deep Space 9

+
Date: 19 May 1999 17:17:07 -0700

+
 Tim <106273.3321@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So whats stopping you from starting litigation now ?
+> Personally I would love to see the mountain having its peak
+> lopped off <g> At the very least you could use the publicity to
+> correct all those misinformed sci-fi fans out there ?
+
+      Because, again, I do not *own* B5, not now, not before, not once
+WB bought it.  The copyright belongs to WB, and they don't like to get
+into these kinds of tussels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade promo (19 May 1999 17:17:08 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade promo

+
Date: 19 May 1999 17:17:08 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Cool, I'll try to find it...is it available on newsstands?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+13 worth watching? (02 Mar 1999 21:17:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
13 worth watching?

+
Date: 02 Mar 1999 21:17:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I think they stand up just great on their own.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade promo (20 May 1999 19:40:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade promo

+
Date: 20 May 1999 19:40:06 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> The usual address?
+
+      Yeah, that's be great, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade promo in Canada (22 May 1999 16:49:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Crusade promo in Canada

+
Date: 22 May 1999 16:49:04 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do they give you copies of this stuff?
+
+      Haven't seen it, no.  Interesting....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 on PBS show (23 May 1999 00:15:00 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
B5 on PBS show

+
Date: 23 May 1999 00:15:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      What's interesting is that there was an apparent incident
+reported in the news lately where some Star Trek fans showed up en
+masse to picket and pick a fight with a line of Star Wars fans waiting
+to get into a screening of TPW because they didn't like the publicity
+SW was getting.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Mail Reroute (24 May 1999 21:19:13 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Fan Mail Reroute

+
Date: 24 May 1999 21:19:13 -0700

+
      Just a quick note: the mail drop for all B5 cast and crew is
+being shifted from the Ventura Blvd. mail drop to the official Fan Club
+address, which is PO Box 856, North Hollywood, CA 91603.  All mail for
+those folks should go to that address henceforth.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Fan Mail Reroute (25 May 1999 19:52:14 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Fan Mail Reroute

+
Date: 25 May 1999 19:52:14 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Does that include you?
+
+      I'll keep the Ventura Blvd. box open for my own stuff for a
+while, but it will eventually be closed down.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+4 weeks to Crusade (27 May 1999 12:58:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
4 weeks to Crusade

+
Date: 27 May 1999 12:58:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      The marriage was going great until the wacky inlaws showed up
+with Cousin It from Atlanta....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+4 weeks to Crusade (31 May 1999 15:48:11 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
4 weeks to Crusade

+
Date: 31 May 1999 15:48:11 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Actually, I've finally figured out TNT's marketing strategy for
+Crusade, and I've come to realize that I'm wrong, it's an utterly
+innovative and unprecedented campaign.
+
+      See, the more PR you put out there about a show, the more you
+are going to prejudice a potential audience for or -- possibly --
+against the program. So the best way to combat this is to put out
+little or no PR so that the audience can come to the show without *any*
+prior preconceptions whatsoever.
+
+      It's breathtaking, I tell you...breathtaking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+(PS, there's a very good Crusade article in the current issue of
+Dreamwatch Magazine, from the UK but available out here, that really
+gets into the nuts and bolts of what happened.)
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+4 weeks to Crusade (03 Jun 1999 00:53:06 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
4 weeks to Crusade

+
Date: 03 Jun 1999 00:53:06 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      I've actually been just about as busy now as before, so who has
+time?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Going to Wolf 359 ???? (04 Jun 1999 18:06:01 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Going to Wolf 359 ????

+
Date: 04 Jun 1999 18:06:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I was also wonder of the "mix" of people going, is it mainly B5
+> people?
+
+      Since you're (as usual) fronting for Wolf 359 and Brian Cooney,
+may I inquire as to whether or not the B5 cast members who got stiffed
+the *last* time by Brian's VorCon (a situation verified independently
+by Dreamwatch Magazine) -- such as Peter Jurasik, Mira, Bill, Jerry and
+others -- ever got paid what they were due for their appearance fees?
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Episode order? (07 Jun 1999 01:33:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Episode order?

+
Date: 07 Jun 1999 01:33:07 -0700

+
 Neil S. Turkenkopf <102664.3532@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Was this your decision,like the eps were shot out of sequence for
+> some reason? Or if not,then what does it mean?
+
+      The numerical sequence was massively juggled due to changes and
+stuff...so ignore the production numbers *entirely*.  We start at 108,
+then go all over the place, with the final 5 being 103, 101, 102, 104
+and ending on 105.  Just go by the titles.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+13 worth watching? (03 Mar 1999 21:06:04 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
13 worth watching?

+
Date: 03 Mar 1999 21:06:04 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+> JMS, Have you thought about telling the story in any other way,
+> if no more TV shows are to be made?
+
+      Not planning to do so, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Episode order? (08 Jun 1999 14:19:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+

+
Episode order?

+
Date: 08 Jun 1999 14:19:07 -0700

+
 Gar Harris <76657.3333@compuserve.com> asks:
+> But you are saying that dispite the numerical sequence being
+> disordered, Crusade remains a contining story rather than
+> standalone episodes? Also would you answer the question I asked
+> about storyboards not being used in episodic TV?
+
+"But you are saying that dispite the numerical sequence being
+disordered, Crusade remains a contining story rather than standalone
+episodes?"
+
+      They're somewhat stand alone that was introducing characters and
+setting up the details that would kick the arc into gear with #14.
+
+"Also would you answer the question I asked about storyboards not
+being used in episodic TV?"
+
+      We used them all the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Another Crusade Promo (08 Jun 1999 14:19:07 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
Another Crusade Promo

+
Date: 08 Jun 1999 14:19:07 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      That's great, though I don't need a copy, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 in Academe, Again (09 Jun 1999 17:02:04 -0700)
+
+
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+
B5 in Academe, Again

+
Date: 09 Jun 1999 17:02:04 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Most cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+CRUSADE (09 Jun 1999 17:08:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
CRUSADE

+
Date: 09 Jun 1999 17:08:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      My take on #1 is that this is the weakest of the bunch, because
+this is the only one written at the behest of TNT; it's exposition
+heavy, too much swaggering macho stuff, no real depth, just stuff
+blowing up.  The ones that follow are much better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+CRUSADE (10 Jun 1999 00:15:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
CRUSADE

+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:15:10 -0700

+
 SysOp Deonaha M. Conlin <102531.2627@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And the passing reference to SOMETHING happening with the teeps -
+> Will we ever find out what that something was? That Drakh - Wayne
+> Alexander? That new twist - "Who do you trust?"
+
+      All that exposition is what TNT wanted...and one of the reasons
+was that they weren't going to rerun ACtA before it...then they were,
+which made it all unnecessary...then they ran ACtA AFTER the ep...which
+makes NO kind of sense.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CRUSADE (10 Jun 1999 00:15:10 -0700)
+
+
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
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+
CRUSADE

+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:15:10 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+"The mutiny was clumsy, but I like Gideon, Galen, Dureena and Trace.  
+(And from the way it opened, my first thought was, "this must be some
+of the extra violence TNT wanted.  Ugh.")
+
+      Ding.
+
+"Will we find out why Gideon wouldn't have his exec scan the Drakh?"
+
+      The rules about unauthorized scans still apply.  Matheson has to
+operate even under stricter rules re: privacy now than before.  You'll
+see more on this later.
+
+"The only really weak spots, to me were the " Earth in a panic"
+scenes, which looked an awful lot like newsreel footage"
+
+      TNT note: we need to SEE Earth in turmoil, if we just hear about
+it nobody's going to get it.  They had us insert that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CRUSADE (10 Jun 1999 00:19:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
CRUSADE

+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:19:02 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"The opening scene cracked me up. Look there's a fight, as close to
+wrestling as you can get on a starship."
+
+      Yep.  That's one of the mandates they put on the first ep...they
+wanted to start with a fist-fight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+CRUSADE (10 Jun 1999 21:54:13 -0700)
+
+
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+
CRUSADE

+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:54:13 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> I do have one question; how much of the riot scenes were real new
+> footage?
+
+      It was all real footage.
+
+      As for the exposition...one reason they asked for so much was
+because they said it was going to air months after ACTA, and nobody'd
+remember, and it wouldn't get rerun...then after we shot WZ they
+decided they *would* rerun ACTA before WZ...then a few weeks ago they
+decided to run ACTA -- which has all the info needed for WZ -- AFTER
+WZ.
+
+      Now perhaps you get a small sense of what we've been up against.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CRUSADE (10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
CRUSADE

+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"Somehow I get the feeling that the reason the Detroit Free Press
+reviewer said that Crusade looked "like it came from the planet Cheez-
+Whiz" can be summed up in 3 letters.... TNT.  Unfortunately, if the
+first episode were all I had to go by I'd have to agree with him."
+
+      And I would as well.
+
+      That's the thing about all this...in the negative comments about
+War Zone -- and actually there have been far fewer than I'd anticipated
+ -- there ain't much that I'd disagree with.  If anything, they've
+tickled me because they reflect EXACTLY what I'd said when these things
+were asked for.  It's been a massive validation.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CRUSADE (10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
CRUSADE

+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"And the differences were SO transparent (the fist fight, the earth
+scenes, the posturing, etc.)  I sure wish I could have seen a JMS
+script as opposed to a "JMS with TNT" script."
+
+      The other 12 fit the bill.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Crusade Movie Rumour (09 Mar 1999 15:40:09 -0700)
+
+
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+
Crusade Movie Rumour

+
Date: 09 Mar 1999 15:40:09 -0700

+
 Darran Williams <101656.2143@compuserve.com> asks:
+> As this has only appeared on the Ch4 website and noone else seems
+> to know anything about it, I suspect its just someone joking
+> about but has anyone here heard anything ? Joe ?
+
+      This is the first I've heard of it, so the likelihood of this
+having any basis in fact is about zip.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CRUSADE (10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
CRUSADE

+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:54:14 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> Was this scene editted back together from separate filmings?
+
+"In the scenes with the Senator on Mars I wasn't sure Cole was in the
+same room with the other two during the dialogue.  Too many cuts back
+and forth and his eyes seemed to move around oddly.  Was this scene
+editted back together from separate filmings?"
+
+      At one point in editing we needed some close-ups, and there
+weren't any in that part, so we kind of borrowed some from earlier in
+the sequence. We do this a lot, when there isn't coverage of some parts
+of scenes, rarely does anyone notice the eyeline difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+CRUSADE (10 Jun 1999 21:55:00 -0700)
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CRUSADE

+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 21:55:00 -0700

+
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+
+      Thanks....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+My take Crusade (10 Jun 1999 00:19:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Jun 1999 00:19:02 -0700

+
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+
+"Will a CD on Chen's music be put out>  I can't wait..."
+
+      Yep, in fact, I have it right here, having gotten the first
+pressing of the thing for approval.  Chris's company will be putting it
+out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+CRUSADE (11 Jun 1999 21:04:03 -0700)
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CRUSADE

+
Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:04:03 -0700

+
 Dan Deckert <74156.1432@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Have you set the bar too high?
+
+"She had trouble understanding Crusade ep 1, and she's smarter than I
+am.. Have you set the bar too high?"
+
+      Nope.  Check out next week's for proof.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+CRUSADE (11 Jun 1999 21:10:07 -0700)
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CRUSADE

+
Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:10:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"And yet I don't recall a scene in B5 in which you fragged the head of
+ITN or any other network."
+
+      No, but there were occasional little hidden messages in the
+episode, as when a character says, "We've had to make some compromises
+to get this show on the road."  No one noticed that one, despite being
+rather literal.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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CRUSADE

+
Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:10:07 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> "Or, WHERE is ship security?!"
+> Did they at least give you a blindfold and a cigarette?
+
+"Did they at least give you a blindfold and a cigarette? <wry>"
+
+      Not orally, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+CRUSADE (11 Jun 1999 21:10:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 11 Jun 1999 21:10:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      I've seen it, thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+CRUSADE (12 Jun 1999 16:32:01 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 Jun 1999 16:32:01 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks for the info.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Crusade over here (12 Jun 1999 16:32:02 -0700)
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+
Date: 12 Jun 1999 16:32:02 -0700

+
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+
+      It'll be on SkyTV, I'm told.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Crusade Ratings In! (12 Jun 1999 16:32:02 -0700)
+
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+
Crusade Ratings In!

+
Date: 12 Jun 1999 16:32:02 -0700

+
 Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is this true?
+> Is this good?
+
+      It's a good start...I think they were anticipating less, and so
+was I, given the nearly total lack of PR.  It also built every
+quarter...it went from 1.8 to 1.8 to 1.9 to 2.0 by the end of the show,
+which means we held our audience and built.
+
+      The real test will be next week...from what I understand, a lot
+of folks didn't even know it was on until after the fact.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+Crusade cross stitch (10 Mar 1999 14:04:07 -0700)
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+
Date: 10 Mar 1999 14:04:07 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, I'll check it out (and have seen the others, good work).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 14 Jun 1999 22:08:11 -0700

+
 Doug Allen <75020.3071@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is there any other place than SciFi Channel we should write
+> letters to encourage them to pick up Crusade ?
+
+      Not that I know of, no.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:14 -0700

+
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+
+      Much amusings....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:13 -0700

+
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+
+"Did you agree with this?"
+
+      Nope.
+
+"I admit, I'm one of the folks who didn't particularly warm to the
+footage. It seemed not to fit."
+
+      It didn't.  Moreover, the order for that stuff came in about two
+days before we were supposed to begin shooting, so we had to hurriedly
+redesign the set to include the wall monitor, and change other aspects
+of the filming, then hurriedly find some footage that would work
+(sorta).
+
+"I suppose there were few options."
+
+      None.  What you have to understand is that we were at this
+point, in the writing of this episode, on hiatus...awaiting the okay to
+go back into filming.  And though it was never said overtly, there was
+always the undercurrent of "If TNT doesn't get this one script the way
+they want it, they may not give the OK.  So give them what they want
+just this one time."
+
+      I did what I could with what they demanded, and tried to fight
+as much as I could.  For instance, in one scene, where Gideon tells the
+others to meet him in the conference room, the TNT note was, "How does
+Gideon know where the conference room is?  We should have a scene where
+he's shown the conference room."
+
+      My reply: "He knows where the conference room is because when
+he's escorted to the bridge by Matheson, *HE CAN SEE IT FROM HIS
+CHAIR*."
+
+      (It was one of those bang-your-head-against-the-wall moments.)
+
+      The overall problem, which many folks don't understand, is that
+in a script you have a finite number of minutes and pages.  Let's say
+42 pages. Now, the script is written the way you want, kinda, with some
+nice character moments and stuff.  Then they want more exposition.  You
+can't just append it to the page count, you have to stay at 42 pages. 
+So you have to cut stuff *out* to make room for the stuff they want put
+*in*.  The first thing out the door is character, followed quickly by
+humor.
+
+      There was, for instance, a nice clash with the senator and the
+intelligence guy over Gideon's background, why he's the wrong person
+for the job, why Sheridan picked him specifically for the job...which
+had to go in order to put in more exposition (and lengthen the opening
+fight scene in the teaser by about a third, another TNT request).
+
+      For me, a lot of what makes an episode fun are the character
+moments, but there was no longer room for them...they had to go out to
+make room for dry expositional stuff or stuff blowing up.
+
+      Which is why I picked "The Long Road" as the one to follow in
+the broadcast order...it's one big character piece, with a fair amount
+of humor, and just fun.  A little expository in the second act, but
+nothing unreasonable.
+
+      Stil, I'm proud of what we did with "War Zone," because it was a
+little like someone handing you an inner tube and a tree branch and
+telling you to make a radio telescope out of it.  It ain't pretty, but
+it does the job we had put in front of us.
+
+      (One aside...some folks on the net picked up my comments about
+War Zone made here earlier and said I was apologizing after the fact
+for the episode, once the reactions came in...but the date stamp on the
+message, here and on the nets, clearly indicate that I made those
+statements BEFORE the episode aired.  I know *exactly* where the faults
+are in the eps, where they work and where they don't work, and have
+always tried to be the first one on record about them because that
+seems right to me.  This is, after all, about the process of educating
+people about how TV works, the decisions that get made and how you deal
+with them.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1999 21:33:06 -0700

+
 JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ummm, ok....why?
+
+"      There was, for instance, a nice clash with the senator and the
+intelligence guy over Gideon's background, why he's the wrong person
+for the job, why Sheridan picked him specifically for the job...which
+had to go <
+
+Ummm, ok....why?"
+
+      Because something had to go time-wise to make room for other
+stuff.  If we'd kept *that*, then something ELSE of similar time would
+have to go, such as Dureena's scene in the cell with Gideon, or the
+like.  The amount of air time we have per episode does not change.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+CRUSADE (13 Jun 1999 21:37:10 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1999 21:37:10 -0700

+
 JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Ummm, ok....why?
+
+      Also...they said the senator scene was too long (which it
+*wasn't* before the big montage/video/the senator explains it all for
+you sequence was added in), and to cut stuff out of that scene and add
+it to the fight in the beginning.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 14 Jun 1999 22:08:11 -0700

+
 JudyL <72520.216@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Actually, I meant why is he the wrong person for the job and why
+> did Sheridan specifically pick him for the job, but I imagine
+> (hope) we'll be filled in on that little story along the way?
+
+      Sheridan picked him for the qualities that made him exactly the
+*wrong* person from their point of view...obstinate, difficult,
+independent, not prone to following orders from home, not politically
+astute...but he'll get the job done.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:14 -0700

+
 Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Are there any more materials on Crusade coming out?
+> Comics?
+> Have you considerd continuing the story as a series of books?
+
+      I just finished reviewing his sountrack CD demo, and I like it. 
+I think it'll go over well.
+
+"Are there any more materials on Crusade coming out?  Comics?
+Cards....  Have you considerd continuing the story as a series of
+books?  The Del Rey publications have been nice."
+
+      The technomage trilogy follows Galen through his training,
+becoming a full-fledged technomage, through the shadow war exodus, and
+into the events of Crusade...and the Centauri trilogy also gets into a
+lot of Crusade territory, both trilogies involving a secret behind
+Galen's involvement in our story.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Exactly...check my note to Zapnudo elsewhere in this thread.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+CRUSADE (13 Jun 1999 16:38:13 -0700)
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:38:13 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+         Yeah, those are also applicable.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+About tha book series... (13 Jun 1999 21:33:09 -0700)
+
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+
Date: 13 Jun 1999 21:33:09 -0700

+
 Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it true?
+> What happened to the Role-Playing game?
+> Have you considered another comapny?
+> Perhaps generic role-playing games supplements, where some
+> guidelines are given to adapt the material to other systems? Are
+> you into Role-Playing at all? Have you ever considered a visual
+> dictionary for Babylon 5, like the ones done by DK for Star Wars?
+
+      Peter David is doing the Centauri trilogy, Jeanne Cavelos the
+Technomage trilogy, and I believe the RPG company went out of business.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Writing "Crusade" (12 Mar 1999 13:38:01 -0700)
+
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Writing "Crusade"

+
Date: 12 Mar 1999 13:38:01 -0700

+
 (blocked) asks:
+> "If they make a season 2 of 'Crusade', will you come back and
+> write it, or will someone else write it? And, if I can sneak in a
+> question of my own, anything new on a possible "B5" DVD release? 
+> Widescreen? Supplements?
+
+      One thing at a time; as Ted Kennedy (might've) said, I'll drive
+off that bridge when I come to it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+About Role Playing (14 Jun 1999 22:08:11 -0700)
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+
Date: 14 Jun 1999 22:08:11 -0700

+
 Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Any other company showing interest in a posible RPG?
+
+      I think there have been some inquiries, but nothing substantive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+About Role Playing (15 Jun 1999 15:50:06 -0700)
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+
Date: 15 Jun 1999 15:50:06 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"All the fans at the office asked me to express how much they love
+your creations.  One of them asked if you plan on writing any of the B5
+novels yourself.  Thant would be a thrill..."
+
+      Right now it's been all I can do to get out the 9 outlines for
+the 3 B5 trilogies....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
Date: 14 Jun 1999 22:08:10 -0700

+
 Carl Cantarella <105030.3700@compuserve.com> asks:
+> And if you don't mind my asking, have there been any promising or
+> potentially promising developments regarding getting "Crusade"
+> back into production again for another network?
+
+      The word "limited" was their choice to try and put a positive
+spin on things from their side, "Oh, we meant to do it this way."
+
+      And we probably won't have any clearer ideas on the future of
+the show until the very last minute, around the second week of July. 
+That's typical TV business stuff these days.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Road (spoilers) (16 Jun 1999 22:27:00 -0700)
+
+
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The Long Road (spoilers)

+
Date: 16 Jun 1999 22:27:00 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      Thanks, it's a favorite of mine...nice character and humor
+stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Road (17 Jun 1999 17:22:00 -0700)
+
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The Long Road

+
Date: 17 Jun 1999 17:22:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Thanks, yeah, they're both fun characters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Tecnomages (17 Jun 1999 17:22:00 -0700)
+
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+
Tecnomages

+
Date: 17 Jun 1999 17:22:00 -0700

+
 Jeff Peterman <75361.430@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Maybe, but what about their technology?
+> By that I mean have the technomages always had abilities just
+> slightly ahead of their contemporaries (and used in a way to
+> APPEAR miraculous), or have they had the benefit of technology
+> from another civilization?
+
+"By that I mean have the technomages always had abilities just
+slightly ahead of their contemporaries (and used in a way to APPEAR
+miraculous), or have they had the benefit of technology from another
+civilization?"
+
+      This is a question that we were going to build, and answer, in
+the latter part of the first season...a lot of which will also be in
+the 3 technomage novels.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Tecnomages (18 Jun 1999 22:54:09 -0700)
+
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Tecnomages

+
Date: 18 Jun 1999 22:54:09 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+      It's beyond even what technomages know.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Road (spoilers) (17 Jun 1999 17:18:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Long Road (spoilers)

+
Date: 17 Jun 1999 17:18:05 -0700

+
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+
+      Yes, there was a definite "chomp" there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Long Road - Ratings (18 Jun 1999 22:54:10 -0700)
+
+
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+
The Long Road - Ratings

+
Date: 18 Jun 1999 22:54:10 -0700

+
 Peter Kazmir <112055.402@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Do you know what the ratings were for The Long Road?
+> Do you know where one can get them without pestering you?
+
+      We got a 1.4 on The Long Road, which from what we're being told
+was down because of being up against the first night of the NBA Finals;
+the East Coast was down as a result, so the numbers dropped even though
+they were about right for the west coast.  And the demographics are
+great.  (Everything on TNT's lineup and elsewhere got hit by the
+Finals, and of all that, we got hit generally the least of everyone.)
+
+      Interestingly enough, I just got a note from one of the people
+at SPACE, the Canadian channel carrying Crusade, and he says that the
+ratings on WarZone *doubled* the usual B5 ratings (which were very good
+to start with).
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS, why do they do it?? (21 Jun 1999 23:55:00 -0700)
+
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+
JMS, why do they do it??

+
Date: 21 Jun 1999 23:55:00 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+1.  I understand how a blue screen is used for optical effects. Many
+    times on Entertainment Tonight (or other shows in this genre) they
+will
+    do a behind-the-scenes story and I notice that a green screen is
+being
+    used.  Why use a green screen over a blue screen?
+
+      Green is often used for video, blue for film.  And if you have
+blue uniforms, you can't shoot bluescreen behind them.
+
+2.  A strange questions concerning commercials, TV shows, and movies. 
+When
+    a car is shown driving on a road, the road appears to have been
+hosed
+    down with water.  On one hand, it may have rained before shooting
+began.
+    But on the other hand, what are the odds that it always rains
+before a
+    commercial is filmed!!  Do they water down the road to improve
+lighting?
+
+      It looks cooler.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms comic preview out (22 Mar 1999 15:09:12 -0700)
+
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+
jms comic preview out

+
Date: 22 Mar 1999 15:09:12 -0700

+
      So for those who've asked....
+
+      The current issue of WIZARD MAGAZINE, hitting the stands this
+week, has a long article about, and a preview issue of, "Rising Stars,"
+my new comic from TOP COW, a division of IMAGE comics, publishers of
+Spawn and Fathom.
+
+      This is gonna be fun....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Well of Forever (25 Jun 1999 18:25:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
Well of Forever

+
Date: 25 Jun 1999 18:25:12 -0700

+
 Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> What I wanna know is, how did Matheson get to such a (relatively)
+> high rank so quickly? Just a few short years ago, teeps weren't
+> allowed to join EarthForce, so where did he get his experience?
+
+      The original air order would have spread out the Galen episodes,
+so that he would appear every second or third episode...that changed
+with the short order, and they all got bunched together.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+CRUSADE Bible Available (25 Jun 1999 18:25:12 -0700)
+
+
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+
CRUSADE Bible Available

+
Date: 25 Jun 1999 18:25:12 -0700

+
      To all interested:
+
+      For the many who have asked over the years for such material,
+copies of the Writers Bible for CRUSADE are now available at
+www.thestation.com.  This is the actual series bible (with some digital
+photos inserted) used in Crusade, and contains a fair amount of
+information that will be revealed in the later episodes.  This is the
+first time we've made a writer's bible available from the B5 universe.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 (27 Jun 1999 00:03:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5

+
Date: 27 Jun 1999 00:03:05 -0700

+
 Shawn D. Ratner <73753.175@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Is it possible to have Babylon 5 moved back into syndication?
+> Would it be possible to move Crusade into syndication?
+> Have your plans for making a Babylon 5 Theatrical Movie been
+> moved because of Crusade?
+
+"Is it possible to have Babylon 5 moved back into syndication? I'm
+sure many networks would give B5 the respect it deserves. I know the
+local station here always supported B5 from the beginning. They also
+advertised it on the network many times. The reason I ask this is
+because I have seen ER in syndication on a local network while its also
+shown on TNT."
+
+      No, I think they bought it exclusively,
+
+"Have your plans for making a Babylon 5 Theatrical Movie been moved
+because of Crusade? I've read that you are waiting till all the Star
+Wars movies are released before considering a B5 movie."
+
+      I'm in no rush.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sam Spade (27 Jun 1999 00:03:05 -0700)
+
+
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+
Sam Spade

+
Date: 27 Jun 1999 00:03:05 -0700

+
 SysOp Dupa T. Parrot <70040.104@compuserve.com> asks:
+> So, how does it feel to be warping the minds of future
+> generations?
+
+      Coolness....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Well of Forever (28 Jun 1999 00:15:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Well of Forever

+
Date: 28 Jun 1999 00:15:02 -0700

+
 Pam Jernigan <75540.2554@compuserve.com> asks:
+> Would you be able to reassure her?
+
+      No, it doesn't end on a cliffhanger.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Well of Forever (28 Jun 1999 00:15:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Well of Forever

+
Date: 28 Jun 1999 00:15:02 -0700

+
 T.P.Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
+>  replace by "seducing with sex" ?
+
+      Yup.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+------------------------------
+
+

+
+
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+
+Schedule Change (28 Jun 1999 00:13:02 -0700)
+
+
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+
Schedule Change

+
Date: 28 Jun 1999 00:13:02 -0700

+
      Just an advisory: the next Crusade episode will air at 11:30
+p.m. Eastern time and 8:30 p.m. Pacific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Z'ha'dum" derivation? (28 Jun 1999 20:22:11 -0700)
+
+
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+
"Z'ha'dum" derivation?

+
Date: 28 Jun 1999 20:22:11 -0700

+
{original post unavailable}
+
+      Not really, no...I always imagined that Z'ha'dum was originally
+the Minbari word for the place, and the Z'ha has echoes in Entil-zha
+and Isil-zha. The dum (doom) part is obvious.  Not to say I wasn't
+aware of Khazad-dum, but it wasn't on my mind at the time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Well, Whatever (29 Jun 1999 19:55:14 -0700)
+
+
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+
Well, Whatever

+
Date: 29 Jun 1999 19:55:14 -0700

+
{original post had no questions}
+
+"I'm very curious where Joe's going with Galen's character."
+
+      Actually, Galen has quite a secret he's carrying around with
+him.  It formed the basis of scripts 114 ("To the Ends of the Earth")
+and 116 ("End of the Line," which would've been the cliffhanger).  It's
+also a major element of the coming technomage novels.  There's a very
+small reference to it in the episode airing this week, when Galen
+mentions that he and someone else have been "betrayed by our own kind."
+
+      It also ties into why they were in such a rush to get the hell
+out of known space during the shadow war.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Amazing Stories (30 Jun 1999 22:34:00 -0700)
+
+
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+
Amazing Stories

+
Date: 30 Jun 1999 22:34:00 -0700

+
 Roberto Micheri <102701.435@compuserve.com> asks:
+> When will this issues be coming, or came, out???
+
+      It's hitting stores this week.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+------------------------------
+
+
+

+
+
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+just a listtle dummy fiel to make the searches happy.
diff --git a/find/GEnie/index.html b/find/GEnie/index.html
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+
+
+The search function is
+here.
+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms92-01/1.html b/find/GEnie/jms92-01/1.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 20 1991
+
+[GEnie postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
+  That Which Cannot Be Named has finally been named, and the name is BABYLON
+5.  An action-adventure SF series set in space.  To premiere sometime next
+year with a two-hour TV movie, soon followed by regualar episodes if ratings
+are good.  J. Michael Straczynski has said that people always complain about
+SF not being done right on TV, well now it has a chance.
+
+This series has a shot of making it if has the support of fandom.  So leave
+your comments here and perhaps JMS will leave news and info here as the series
+develops.
+
+Soaron
+
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 03 1991
+
+[GEnie postings by JMS]
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+

+
+     Thanks.  As mentioned, I'll probably layer out one character or setup per
+month, rather than shoot it all out at once.  So for now, I'll be talking
+about the world of Babylon 5, the background, Earth history and the like.  For
+now, I'll say that there are basically five major Earth Alliance characters
+who run the station, and four representatives, each from the other alien
+confederations.
+
+     And for those who've been asking repeatedly on another show for a woman
+in a position of great responsibility, wait until you meet Laurel Takashima in
+a month or two.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 04 1991
+
+[GEnie postings by JMS]
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+

+
+     I know what happened to B-4.  And to B-3, 2 and 1.
+
+     Bear in mind, this thing has been in secret development for three years.
+During that time, with the script and artwork and bible finished, all I COULD
+do was background the story to the Nth degree.  I now know far more than I
+ever thought I would about the universe of BABYLON 5.
+
+     And what happened to B-4 will at one point come back to, um, "haunt"] B-
+5.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 05 1991
+
+[GEnie postings by JMS]
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+

+
+     Hmm...I'd appreciate any more info you may have about those patches (from
+computer or video).  Could be very handy.
+
+     As for the REAL GHOSTBUSTERS episode, yeah, that one -- "Janine, You've
+Changed" -- came out pretty well.  One of my personal favorites.
+
+     I don't think the collected CAPTAIN POWER episodes will *ever* be made
+available, sadly.  I don't think even *I* have a complete set; I have those I
+wrote, or co-authored, and maybe one or two others, but I'm missing a few here
+and there.
+
+     As for actors...we will be using standard channels.  We will have a
+casting director chosen by the first part of the year, and that person will be
+available to agents same as any actor or casting director.  The drill is well
+known.  As co-exec producer on the show, I will have quite a bit of input into
+casting, based on what's recommended to me.  I would mainly concentrate on
+classically-trained actors with a lot of stage work behind them, some film/tv
+work, but who aren't yet over-exposed.
+
+     The only role that I've cast in my head is that of the station's resident
+telepath (NOT an empath, a telepath, who is available to sit in on business
+negotiations, sort of a "Rent-A-Telepath," to make sure that the man on the
+other side of the table isn't lying to you).  There's an actress I've seen
+who's *perfect* for the role, and has some genre experience, though she isn't
+over-exposed yet.  (Memo to myself: I have to call her agent tomorrow and see
+if I can set up a meeting.)  Beyond that, the field's wide open.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 05 1991
+
+[GEnie postings by JMS]
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+
+     Well, lemme comment on that.  One of the reasons -- and there are many
+others -- for coming out here like this and, as you say, putting myself and
+the work on the line is my belief that this is right, and this is the kind of
+show that the fans have been looking for.
+
+     And I'm willing to stand behind that, and be open about it, without
+giving away the real surprises in the project.
+
+     For the better part of a decade, I've been on panel after panel, and gone
+to convention after convention, and listened to the fans talk about what
+they'd like to see in an SF series.  How they want solid characters,
+imaginative stories, no kids or cute robots, using science the way it should
+be used, not talking down to the audience.  That desire has been noted.
+
+     I think there is a certain frustration among a large percentage of media
+fandom that they aren't listened to.  This is my way of saying that you HAVE
+been listened to, somebody HAS been paying attention.  What forms the stories
+and the characters must, perforce, come from one voice, you can't create
+anything worthwhile with a committee...but in terms of tone and sophistication
+and attitude and range, that's where you can be open to giving the fans what
+they want, and what they have been asking for now for a long time.
+
+     This is simply one more effort undertaken to make the fan community a
+part of the process.  One noteworthy thing about the creative and production
+team that we've assembled is that they're ALL fans of the SF genre.  They've
+grown up on it, and they want to give something back to it, to stand on the
+shoulders of the giants that preceded us and try and do something *different*.
+
+     I stand foursquare for communication.
+
+     For this series to be special, it helps for the communication to be just
+as special, and open.  This is a part of that process.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1991
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+     Well, the other day I got to see the official Warner Bros. -- well, I
+don't know what to call it, exactly, it's a lot more than a brochure, but not
+a book, and not a flyer...it's what they've made to send to the various TV
+stations (allied and non-allied), and for the Warner Bros. salesmen to take
+around with them to the stations, and for the overseas market.
+
+     It's a three-part foldover on slick, card stock, photographic grade
+stock.  The front piece has the main B-5 artwork of the station in space, a
+binary sun in BG, a planet, and several surrounding ships coming in to dock,
+beneath the final version (for now) of the B-5 logo.  It's reproduced in
+stunning color.  You open that up, and you find text on the inside of the
+flap, and continuing down inside are character descriptions and the artwork on
+each of the main characters.  The second flap (folded beneath the first) is a
+cut-out all along on side, the cut-out conforming to the profile of the B-5
+station.  Open up that flap, and you find the artwork of the interior of B-5.
+
+     It's absolutely *gorgeous*, full color, and everyone who's seen it has
+gone nuts for it.  The overseas folks, normally reserved, are already asking
+for dibs.  We're getting a terrific response.  What was also fun for me,
+personally, was turning the whole thing over and seeing, there by the Warner
+Bros. logo, "Rattlesnake Productions in Association with Synthetic Worlds,
+Ltd."  (The latter is my production company.)  Cool.
+
+     Having worked on this for so long, it's taking a while for it to come
+through to me that this is finally REAL, that every day more and more people
+are getting involved with something that came out of my head one day, that
+folks in England and Italy and Japan and other countries are getting into the
+picture, that layout and graphics guys are putting together whole campaigns
+around the program...jesus, it's amazing.
+
+     Also received a preliminary copy of the final budget, and it looks good.
+Now we're looking at real money, and the responsibility starts to really come
+through.  Now we have to DO IT, and do it the way we've been planning all
+these years.
+
+     I think I'll go lie down for a while....
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 11 1991
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+     Two responses: on the input side, we don't have a strong network hand to
+worry about on the material.  Thus far, they've had zero creative notes.  One
+individual had one suggestion, which made sense, and has been implemented.
+That's it.  Nothing from Warners at all.  My associate on the project, Doug
+Netter, also tends not to get involved in story.  "I'm not the writer, you're
+the writer, you figure out what you want to do with this" is his usual
+comment.  When we worked together on CAPTAIN POWER, he said he would never
+give me a creative note because he wasn't a writer, and he held to that
+promise.
+
+     So to all intents and purposes...it looks like I'm going to be pretty
+much left alone.  If we succeed, great, if we fail, this time I'll have no one
+to blame but myself.
+
+     As for alien-aliens vs. humans with bumps...bear in mind that as much as
+we'd like to use REAL aliens, thus far we haven't encountered any.  So all of
+the roles will have to be portrayed by humans, and we'll do as much as we can
+to make them look as alien as possible.  And in some cases, as mentioned, we
+won't ever SEE them because they'll be concealed inside atmosphere-controlled
+encounter suits.  In the background, and where we can, we'll pepper really
+unusual looking aliens into the show, but bear in mind that if we're going to
+relate to these characters, and have our main cast relating to them, they have
+to be understandable (to varying degrees), and because they'll have to emote
+to one degree or another, we will have to leave some facial aspects free.
+
+     But within those parameters, we're going to try some interesting stuff.
+None of us much likes the "humans with head bumps" look, and we are all
+dedicated to doing as much as we can to change that and come up with something
+new.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1991
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+     Yeah, we're trying to come up with new ways of doing stuff.  Makes it
+more interesting.
+
+     Quite a day today for B-5...exhausting.  First in come the color
+portfolios at last, then we have THE FOCUS GROUP!
+
+     I know, I know...you're wondering what a focus group is.
+
+     The studio pays lotsa bucks to engage a research group to bring in two
+groups, one group of women, one group of men.  They are then given synopses of
+the movie, the series episodes, the characters, all the stuff that for now
+can't be posted here.  And they get to react, giving us some parameters in
+terms of marketing and, to a smaller extent, the story and presentation.
+
+     Going in, we were told how it would probably break down: "The women will
+love the character stuff, the relationships, and hate the action, and the men
+will love the action, but hate the character stuff and the relationships as
+'soap opera.'"
+
+     Sonuvagun, but that's how it turned out.  And after having worked for so
+long to convince studio heads that SF fans want other than EFX, there were
+these guys saying, "Oh, yeah, special effects is the most important thing to
+me...and action, heck, science fiction MEANS action, fights and stuff."  I'm
+surprised they couldn't hear me banging my head against the wall through the 2-
+way observation mirror.
+
+     That stuff aside, though, we tested VERY positively, and even got some
+good ideas out of it.  It was strange, as the person who created all this, to
+look out through a 2-way mirror and see, for the first time, "civilians"
+discussing the characters and situations of Babylon 5.
+
+     One more step on the long road set before us....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1991
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+     Believe me, I have no patience with or interest in focus groups or
+research or anything of that nature.  My feeling is quite simple: in the early
+stages of a project, you should be willing to at least *listen* to anyone.
+Because sometimes good ideas come from the damndest places.   But you can't
+WRITE that way.  You take all the input, but finally you as the writer have to
+sit down and use what makes SENSE in the story.   The day I abdicte that
+responsibility is the day I get out of the business.
+ I've never seen a project that was Made by research or studio suits.  If it
+works, it's because the project stems from one clear vision, and one clear
+voice.
+
+     Just as one example...while I didn't agree with many reactions of the
+"civilians" -- especially since they were working off a summary, not the
+complete script -- the one point that *did* strike home was that it takes a
+while to get going.  We set up suspense, and a lot of time introducing the
+characters.  But a nice little hook at the beginning, I realized, just a
+little fillip, would be a good idea to goose things a bit.  Now, I may change
+my mind when I get behind the keyboard to revise the script over the Christmas
+break (mainly for myself, and my own desire to strengthen the script, which
+has been around, after all, for quite some time, and I've learned a lot since
+that initial draft), I may decide to jettison that notion, I don't know.  But
+it's worth considering at the very least.
+
+     Fundamentally, if you're going to create a series, write and produce it,
+you've got to follow your instincts.  Besides, the whole POINT of the exercise
+is so that you won't have anyone making decisions for you  anymore, you do
+what YOU want to do with it, and let the chips fall as they may.  To do
+otherwise, given the angst involved in getting a series this far, is dirt-
+stone-stick stupid.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1991
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+     Btw...for those who might be interested, apparently -- and I haven't seen
+it, I can only relay what I've been told -- there will be an article on
+NewTek, our computer guys on B-5, in the next STARLOG SPECTACULAR, and the
+article will contain a half-page or so photo of Babylon 5.  (This is probably
+one of the early, rough versions of the station, so I don't know exactly the
+configuration.
+               
+                                                           jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 21 1991
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+     Babylon 5 is the name of a particular place where our story takes place.
+
+     It is numbered 5 because 1 through 3 were sabotaged/destroyed, and 4
+mysteriously vanished within days of becoming operational.  No one knows what
+happened to it.  All of which makes those involved with #5 just a trifle
+uneasy.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     P.S.  It might be useful if one of the sysops could move the initial
+announcement message (or, rather, copy it) here for archival purposes.
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1991
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+     Yes, at this stage, we're going to use computer-generated images for the
+exterior of Babylon 5.  Done right, you won't notice the difference between
+that and a model.  (In fact, some of the SFX guys to whom we've shown a later
+version of the demo tape were absolutely unaware that they were looking at
+computer EFX; they thought it was a model...and these guys are experts.  They
+also thought it must've been one hell of a miniature, given the detailing and
+depth of the thing.)
+
+     The cost is *slightly* less than with a model...but what it gives us is
+truly ASTONISHING options.  For instance...we have a ship waiting outside B-5,
+awaiting the word to proceed into the docking bay.  We can go from the POV of
+the ship to B-5, out of the ship, approach the station, go up to a viewing
+port, through which we see our characters in a live, filmed scene, and push
+THROUGH the port RIGHT INTO THE SCENE, all in ONE CONTINUOUS CUT.  And what's
+cool is to see them from the space side of the "glass" first, and we can't
+hear what's being said, since there's no sound in space.  Then just as we push
+through into the room, THEN we suddenly hear the dialogue, as if we've
+penetrated a membrane.
+
+     There are some really amazing things that we can do that, again, have
+never been seen before, using the technology that's come along in the last few
+years.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1992
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+     Since it is now January 1st, time for another piece of information about
+the B-5 storyline, which as mentioned will be parceled out one per month (and,
+again, I'm talking about the *major* points, each of the main characters and
+the backstory, though the plot of the movie will be kept confidential).
+
+     Here's an interesting bit of backstory.
+
+     The story of BABYLON 5 takes place in 2257.  In 2236 or thereabouts, the
+Earth Alliance made First Contact with a race known as the Minbari.   They
+were, at that time, only the second major civilization we'd encountered,
+though we had certainly come across a number of non-aligned worlds and smaller
+governments, one or two worlds each.  The Minbari represent a *major* force on
+every level, resources, technology, sheer number of worlds involved, on and
+on.
+
+     The Minbari are the oldest of the different alien civilizations, and
+largely kept to themselves.  Their interests were (and are) in attaining
+perfection: physical, mental, spiritual, emotional.  They answer to a Council
+of Elders, whose pronouncements are considered law in an almost biblical
+sense.  Though deeply religious in their way, they have also pursued the ways
+of technology, and as such they are easily the most advanced of the various
+alliances.  But they view technology as transitory, a means to an end rather
+than an end in itself.  Like Tom Bombadil in LORD OF THE RINGS, they can hold
+the Ring of Technology but it has no hold over them.                      
+
+
+     And from 2236 until about 2247, we were at war with them.
+
+     The Earth/Minbari war began as a misunderstanding.  The first time a
+Terran ship encountered a Minbari starship, they studied each other closely.
+The Minbari ship made a move that they thought would be considered non-
+threatening.  It wasn't.  Even in the present of our story, no one is quite
+sure who fired first.  The Minbari ship was greater in power, but taken by
+surprise, was destroyed, and the Earth ship limped back to base with tales of
+a terrible new enemy.  Minbari ships, arriving to investigate, were
+interpreted to be the first wing of an invasion force by the base commander,
+and ships were launched in response before receiving formal authorization from
+Earth Central.
+
+     The war put a great strain on the Minbari, who have always been strongly
+divided between the religious caste, and the military caste, who were now
+forced to work together.  The religious caste were quietly opposed to the war,
+but were generally vague about their reasons when asked.
+
+     The climax of the war was the Battle of the Line.  Earth had all but lost
+the war.  In a last-ditch attempt to save Homeworld, every available ship left
+in the armada was positioned around Earth itself.  It was, everyone knew, a
+suicide mission.  And that's, indeed, how the Battle of the Line started out
+to be.
+
+     In the course of that battle, a lone ship -- a one-man fighter with very
+little in the way of armaments -- took several heavy hits.   His instruments
+failing, other ships blowing up all around him, he aimed his ship at the
+nearest Minbari cruiser, deciding to ram it in the hopes of destroying at
+least that one ship.  He kept his ship on course for as long as he could hold
+out.  Then, abruptly, he blacked out.
+
+     When he awoke, he was still in his ship.  Drifting.  He fired up the
+engines, ready to continue, only to discover two things: first, that he had
+been out of it for a full 24 hours.
+
+     Second...the war was over.
+
+     And, incredibly, the Minbari had surrendered.  On the very verge of
+success in the war, they had rolled over and sued for peace.  No one in the
+Earth Alliance quite knew why, but they weren't about to debate the issue, and
+accepted minimal compensation for the war.
+
+     Now, ten years later, the Earth Alliance is no closer to figuring out why
+the Minbari surrendered.  It is, in fact, one of the great puzzles of that
+era, debated on a hundred different worlds.  Only a few strange clues have
+slipped out.  One is that the military genius who led the Minbari into the war
+committed suicide the day of the surrender, though it is unclear if his death
+took place before or after the surrender.  And the rift between the military
+and religious castes apparently came to some sort of climax, with the
+religious caste taking complete control.   There are rumors of some sort of
+religious vision, of a prophecy of great things, and a prophecy of complete
+doom.  But since almost nothing is known of Minbari religion, what this might
+be, no one knows.
+
+     At the conclusion of the war, those Terrans who fought in the Battle of
+the Line were proclaimed heroes.  One of these men was Captain Jeffrey
+Sinclair...the pilot who still cannot account for the 24 hours he was out of
+contact with Earth Central.
+
+     Commander Jeffrey Sinclair has come far in the 10 years since the war.
+He's had some rough times, but overall he's progressed.  And he has at last
+been given a major assignment, perhaps the most important job of his life,
+concomitant with his promotion to Commander.
+
+     Jeffrey Sinclair is the Commander in charge of the Babylon 5  space
+station.
+
+     Although the station (and its prededessors, Babylons 1 through 4, which
+were either destroyed (1, 2 and 3) or mysteriously vanished (4)) was always
+intended as a sort of mini-U.N. as well as a free-port, with an Ambassador
+from each different alien alliance present, the Minbari refused to name an
+ambassador until the station commander was named first.
+ Shortly after Sinclair was named Commander, the Minbari assigned their first
+ambassador to the station.
+
+     His name is Delenn.  And he stays very close to Commander Sinclair.
+
+     Some say he is keeping a close eye on Sinclair.
+
+     Some say he is Sinclair's friend.  And some say there may well be
+something very lethal behind those unreadable Minbari eyes.
+
+     And there are quite a few others, including a shadow-group in the Earth
+Alliance, who would very much like to know what happened during the 24 hours
+that disappeared from Commander Sinclair's life.
+
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Small typo in the preceding: it should read that the Earth/Minbari war
+lasted from 2236 to 2247, not 1147.
+
+     This, by the way, represents only one small segment in the overall
+history of the world of Babylon 5.  I've literally worked out a couple hundred
+pages of condensed notes.
+
+     So...whadaya think?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I would very much like to go for a soundless explosion...though logically
+the shock wave from any near-proximity explosion would cause some disruption
+in anything nearby, I would think.  So if, for instance, something exploded
+near B-5, the ext. space shot of the blast would be soundless, but if we cut
+to the int. of B-5, there would be some sort of vibration or similar
+disruption, I should think.  (Hmm, I'd better look into that further,
+since...well, never mind why.)
+
+     Yes, some of this will be in the 2-hour movie, just enough to set the
+stage.  As for Delenn, yes, he is of a somewhat philosophical bent, but he
+takes great pleasure in his emotions, which is another difference.  And he
+will look quite different.
+
+     I've been trying to come up with a very off-beat plot turn to pull in
+seasons 3 or 4 (assuming we ever GET that far, again, I'm working all this out
+in advance and hoping for the best), and this morning I came up with something
+SO neat, SO unusual, I practically slipped in the shower.  It's something that
+has never, EVER been done in an SF series involving a major character.  And
+boy, will this have major ramifications!  Too bad I have to wait so long to
+pull it off.
+
+     Oh...I forgot to mention one other thing about (then) Captain  Sinclair's
+curious incident above (and yes, this will come up peripherally in the movie).
+When he lost consciousness, he had 16 hours of oxygen left in his ship.  When
+he awoke 24 hours later...he had 12 hours of oxygen left in his ship.
+
+     Funny, ain't it...?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 04 1992
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+     There are, in fact, a number of splinter groups in the world (or the
+universe, I suppose) of B-5.  There are individuals who claim residency in no
+particular group or government, they're free-traders of the purest sort.
+Within the Earth Alliance, things are structured more or less along the lines
+of the Commonwealth of Independent States we're seeing now, with one
+monolithic voice that speaks in tersm of foreign policy, but within the
+framework of everything else -- domestic policy, economics and the like -- the
+independent state makes its own rules.
+
+     So their are colonies and fringe areas that consider themselves  by and
+large independent.  And, from time to time, there will be sparks of secession
+and the like.  I've never much liked the Gleaming Steel Of A Perfect
+Federation approach; I like things a little more tentative, less sure.  And
+for that matter, even WITHIN the E.A., there are factions and problems and
+power struggles and the like.  Wheels within wheels.
+
+     As for locations inside B-5...we've designed a number of very different
+looks and locations to give it a non-claustrophobic feel.  By virtue of being
+patterned physically after the work of such scientists as Gerard K. O'Neil,
+the absolute center of the elongated station (which revolves to provide
+gravity) is a sort of hollow-world look, with fields and hydroponic gardens
+along the 386-degree circular section (which is about a half-mile, or a mile
+across)...and as you get closer to the absolute center, where a transport tube
+cuts from one end of the station to the other, naturally you get less and less
+gravity until you can literally hang suspended.
+
+     And there are living areas designed to accommodate different
+environments and atmospheres and conditions.  The alien sectors are off-limits
+to humans without protection (breathing gear and other measures).  Similarly,
+a heavy CO2 breather or methane breather would have to wear an encounter suit
+to travel among the humans on the station.  In addition, the B-5 station is
+actually made up of several independent (though connected) sections, each
+revolving at a different speed in order to create alternative areas of
+gravity.
+
+     Parts of the station are still under construction, and parts are
+finished.  Some sections are in daylight, some in night, alternating by level
+and sector.  On the very outer ring, the viewports are in panels ON THE FLOOR,
+so you're looking down and out into space, revolving beneath your feet.
+
+     BTW...the Babylon 5 station isn't just floating there.  It's at the L-5
+point in a binary star system between a moon and a barren, lifeless planet.
+
+     Well, a *theoretically* barren and lifeless planet, anyway....
+
+     But that's Year Two....
+
+                                                              jms
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+    Cam: yes, exactly.
+
+    Psion: whoof!  What a bunch of questions!  Some of the areas you hit are
+areas we're still discussing.  We *will* have jump-drive technology using
+hyperspace.  About 5 klicks away from B-5 is a...well, I haven't yet decided
+WHAT to call it...it's a jump-point through which most ships enter normal
+space to approach B-5 from hyperspace.  There are two constructs, about a half-
+mile long each, paralleling each other, and both fairly thin, which produce a
+dampening field that helps ships decelerate as they come out of hyperdrive.
+The effect as the ships come through the jump point should be quite
+spectacular.
+
+     We do plan to touch on some of the medical/biological issues you raise,
+though that'll have to wait for the series, naturally.  I thnk that's a VERY
+fertile area for not only scientific and story exploration, but sets some
+profound moral and human questions as well.
+
+     The technology on ships and weaponry will not be consistent.  I think
+this is very important.  In ST, the technology levels are all pretty
+standard...phasers/disrupters, and warp drives and transporters...except for
+the packaging they could all be buying from the same K-Mart.
+
+     We're devising as many new technologies as we can, and dividing them up
+between the different species/groups.  Each group is constantly trying to
+upgrade to the next level, and get the other group's technology.  We even have
+tech-runners, smugglers who trade primarily in data.
+
+     As for the look of things...I like things bulky and functional.  I want a
+gun that looks like it WORKS.  I want uniforms with POCKETS.  A too-clean
+future doesn't interest me.
+
+     How's that for a start?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     If we didn't think we could do the show up right for the money we've got,
+we wouldn't be doing it.
+
+     Given that I can log on here even in the midst of production on the show
+I'm currently doing, MURDER, SHE WROTE, I figure I can keep on showing up
+throughout the B-5 production.
+
+     To the question of vision...yes, this is entirely my baby in that
+respect.  There has to be direction, firm and complete, from the top for ANY
+show to be successful, I think.  But what you then have to do is get people
+you trust involved AND LISTEN TO THEM.  You tell your tech guys, "Okay, what I
+want to do in this scene is X, how can we do that?" and they give you options.
+Let them run with it.  Then take whatever works best visually and for the
+story.  By giving every person the freedom to be creative, the show works
+better, the attitude is better, and it all accrues to the benefit of the
+person running things.
+
+     We don't at this time have a science advisor per se, though that's
+something we're considering when we get to series.  There's certainly a solid
+brain-trust available at JPL, which is practically down the street.  (Curious
+thought...we don't normally expect SF writers to hire science advisors, they
+tend to do their OWN work...and I think that as much as possible, I'd like to
+try and hew to that standard.  I'm not a major science guy, but I know enough
+to hold a conversation, and by going to writers who ALREADY ARE SF WRITERS, I
+think that will go a long way toward taking care of the problem.  But one way
+or another, we're still thinking about it.  We already have a visual
+consultant, and we'll have a creative consultant when we get to series to make
+sure we don't accidentally duplicate any stories already in the SF
+literature.)
+
+     One last note re: the B-5 logo.  Again, that's an early version.  The
+finished (for now at least) version is in, and it's being used on all of our
+mailings and the like.  It's the same basic design, but it's in burnished
+copper and gold against jet black, and it looks like it's been carved out of
+solid steel, with a slightly 3-D look.  That symbol, btw, will also be used IN
+the show.  The upper, pyramidal section will be incorporated into rank
+insignia, with a separate bar below finishing off the symbol.  The symbol will
+be altered to fit various professions and status.  That, at least, is the plan
+for now.
+
+     Almost 2/3rds finished revising the movie script.  I hope to have the
+darned thing finished soon.  We can't do SQUAT until it's in hand.  So here I
+am, an exec producer, waiting impatiently for the damned writer to finish his
+rewrite...and it's me.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Mayhap it was the parrot that threw them off....
+
+     As for language...most times, since other groups know that they're going
+to a station run by the Earth Alliance, they'll take time to get the basic
+language down.  But, of course, there are always equivilants of the Ugly
+American who doesn't have the time.  In those cases, there will be a
+computerized translator, under which we will faintly hear their actual
+language.  And, from time to time, it could be fun to have two different
+species at an impasse because neither understands the other.
+
+     One of our regular characters will normally use the second method of the
+computerized translator because we will never see his....
+
+     Oops.  Too soon.
+     Never mind.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Here, after many consultations with Wise Men Who Weild Great Power, is
+where things stand for now, I think.
+
+     1) Apparently, B-5 met with a *very* positive reception at the INTV
+conference in San Francisco.
+
+     2) Our contract with WB and the independents stations guarantees our
+production as a movie, with the series still very solid.
+
+     3) The B-5 movie is going to air this year, in the fall/winter.  There is
+no conceivable way that anyone else can beat us to the punch on that.  It WILL
+be made, and it WILL be aired on schedule.
+
+     4) Given that there is going to be a lot of PR attendent upon the airing
+of B-5, it would seem counter-productive for any other studio to watch a well-
+publicized movie being aired in 1992, and then come out with a similar concept
+in 1993.  There would be no question as to who was there first, and the
+newcomer would, I think, be viewed as less than original.
+
+     So for now, we're hanging fire and waiting.  In two weeks is NATPE the
+*main* marketing gathering for independent TV stations.  And stations will
+have to decide whether they want a show that's ready to go NOW, or something
+very tenuous that will take another year.  And, again, we are LOCKED IN to the
+stations that form the consortium, and they include many of the top stations
+and top markets in the country.
+
+     So we'll see.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Haven't heard of POINT CENTRAL, and I think I'll avoid it for the time
+being, for obvious reasons.
+
+     In terms of "literary or visual influences," frankly...well, I thunk it
+up.  Somebody has to start SOMEwhere.
+
+     Where it began, really, was an Einsteinian thought-experiment.  I'd seen
+SO many SF shows ruined by backing into a budget that ended up always being 2-
+3 times what they'd said it would be, that I sat down, very deliberately, and
+said, "Okay, let's see if we can come up with a show that's SF, that isn't one
+of the TV Generics (Man On The Run, Man In  Search Of New Worlds, Man Trying
+To Find His Way Home), and that can be contained."
+
+     The major source of expense on a show is creating new worlds every week.
+So I figured, this should be stationary.  I thought about the sorts of shows I
+liked in TONE...Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, even M*A*S*H, and in each
+case, there was created a center of operations and YOUR STORIES CAME TO YOU.
+Look at L.A. LAW (which I can't abide)...you set up a law office, and people
+with problems come to you.
+
+     So: a stationary locale, where people in trouble come to you.  This led
+me to also think of post WW II Germany, where American, French and British
+forces (and, I think, some Russian) patroled equally to make sure that no one
+side got the upper hand.  It also put me in mind of the early free-ports of
+the 19th century, which were noted for some pretty rough characters, for
+adventure, for intrigue and smuggling.
+
+     Put those various elements together...and you've got BABYLON 5.
+
+     That's where it came from.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+We live to serve.
+
+=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
+     Well, now that the official announcement has been made, here's the
+straight skinny on BABYLON 5.
+
+     For the last three years, this project has been in secret development
+with some of the Major Players at Warner Bros.  Because everyone realized the
+potential of what we had, we all played things VERY close to the vest.   Part
+of the reason for secrecy was that it was slated to be one of several projects
+that would spearhead what is, essentially, a new network formed between Warner
+Bros. and a consortium of TV stations, similar in some ways to Fox
+Broadcasting.  And that deal as well had to be kept secret.  It, too, was
+announced today at the conference.
+
+     I created the concept of BABYLON 5 somewhere in between working on
+CAPTAIN POWER and TWILIGHT ZONE.  I'd seen so many SF shows by then that
+backed into a budget, and thus went forever OVER budget, that I wanted to
+challenge myself to develop a show that met several important criteria:
+
+     1) It would have to be good science fiction.
+
+     2) It would have to be good TELEVISION, and rarely are SF shows both good
+SF *and* good TV; there're generally one or the other.
+
+     3) It would have to take an adult approach to SF, and attempt to do for
+television SF what HILL STREET BLUES did for cop shows.
+
+     4) It would have to be affordable, done on a reasonable budget.
+
+     5) It would have to look unlike anything ever seen before on TV, and
+present not just individual stories, but present those stories against a much
+broader canvas.
+
+     The result was BABYLON 5.
+
+     After creating the bible and writing a 2-hour script, I commissioned
+artwork for the series, knowing full well that it would be difficult for most
+execs to fully understand what I was trying to communicate unless they could
+see it with their own eyes.  I then linked up with my producer from POWER --
+who had previously run MGM studios -- and we formed a partnership to get the
+show produced.  He and I will both serve as Executive Producers on the
+project.
+
+     Our first thought was syndication, and took it to the head of one of the
+biggest consortium of stations around.  We didn't at that time know that this
+group was putting together the Warners project, and in short order they
+snapped up the material.  Because the fate of B-5 was linked to the new
+"network," of sorts, we had to wait for that deal to go through.  Which  has
+gone through various permutations, on-again, off-again, for three years.  They
+never gave up on us once, and we never gave up on them.  Our support came from
+the very top of both operations.
+
+     It was our initial thought to begin with either one or two television
+movies, and then proceed onto the series.  The reason for the movies had to do
+with 1) a desire to bring down the per-show budget by building the lion's
+share of our sets via the movie(s), and 2) because we wanted to hit the
+airwaves with a big story, more an event via a movie than the series pilot,
+which at one hour would probably get lost.
+
+     And after three years, this has finally come to pass.  Phase One of
+BABYLON 5 has been approved to production, and the financing is now in place,
+and we have an approximate airdate and production schedule.  We have assembled
+a REMARKABLE production team, some of whom are classified (on current projects
+that they will leave to come work on B-5), but they include some of the best
+EFX and art direction people around, including many responsible for HONEY, I
+SHRUNK THE KIDS and the Henson-shop-supplied DINOSAURS.  People are coming out
+of the woodwork to work on this show, threatening us with dire consequences if
+they aren't allowed to work on it.
+
+     As for the storyline and characters of BABYLON 5...I'm going to hold off
+just a little while longer, until I know how much I can say at this point.
+Some of it we're trying to keep fairly secret, but some other parts we can
+probably talk about.  I just want to be sure I stick to protocol.
+
+     I *will* say that it's set in the future, in space, that it isn't a
+battle-oriented show, though it has more than its share of action.  One person
+described it (for commercial purposes) as CASABLANCA in space, though that
+doesn't quite hit the mark.
+
+     More will be revealed as I am able to do so.
+
+     The only other thing I will say is that we are going to need as much
+support as we can get from the fan community.  By choosing to go the route of
+a movie first as a pilot, we basically have one shot at the ratings.   It's
+better than a single pilot, but still chancy, so we will need support and
+every ratings point we can get our hands on to guarantee the number of
+episodes ordered subsequent to the movie.
+
+     For years, at conventions, I have heard fans lament, and even sat in on
+panels entitled WHY CAN'T THEY GET IT RIGHT?  This, I firmly believe, is a
+chance to do exactly that...to Get It Right, to take SF seriously, to build
+characters for grown-ups (not a Wesley in the bunch), to incorporate real
+science but keep the characters at the center of the story.  Over the next 11
+months, they will have ample opportunity to voice their desire to finally Get
+It Right.  And I hope they will.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     J.LAHUE....clearly you haven't been getting NEARLY enough sleep.   Does
+your mom know you're doing this?
+
+     Regarding the WW II stuff...bear in mind that was the feathering of my
+mind in the early stages.  That does not represent where the show is NOW, only
+what process took me to this.  While I don't like any sort of analogy to what
+went before -- only because it creates images and expectations that may not be
+exactly the same, and for that matter should not be exactly the same -- the
+"Casablanca In Space" log-line is the most accurate.
+
+     As for SF influences in more general terms...I don't want to leave the
+wrong impression.  I LIKE SF, and grew up reading it.  I don't have any
+particular school (Analog vs. F&SF) that I belong to, I just find what I like
+and read it.  I suppose you could find the scope of the show in my
+appreciation from youth of such books as the LENSMEN and FOUNDATION books, and
+the CHILDHOOD'S END material.  That is the KIND of saga that I'd like to
+present.  Too-hard, meaning too technical SF doesn't terribly interest me.
+The technology is a means into the story, and should not (in most cases)
+BECOME the story, unless you've got something really extraordinary on your
+hands.  The story is how it AFFECTS someone.  (Kurt Vonnegutt's "Report on the
+Barnhouse Effect" being a good comparison.)
+
+     I suspect, as the program progresses, you'll catch little influences of
+Bradbury, and Serling, and THE PRISONER (there's a certain surrealness in some
+later stories I've planned out), with a healthy dollop of Clarke and Asimov
+and Ellison.  But I don't think there's enough of any ONE to make a clear
+distinction.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     At this point, we're looking at same-diameter sections rotating at
+different speeds.  My feeling is...if you can buy hyperdrive, you can buy that
+we've got some spiffy new construction technologies.
+
+     Regarding the NewTek tape...did the video you saw feature a ship entering
+the docking bay of the station?  And were there huge solar collectors at one
+end?  Were sections rotating at different speeds?  If so, then yes, that was
+BABYLON 5.  (Though that must be an odd copy, or they've done some strange
+color correcting, because B5 is steel grey in color, augmented by black in
+some areas and the solar collectors are a metallic blue, though not garish.)
+My *suspicion* is that yes, that was BABYLON 5, especially since you mentioned
+the flickering stars, which are present in the rough test demo (was there also
+a ringed planet in the background)?
+
+     What I'm *pretty sure* you must've seen was the very first test demo of
+the Babylon 5 station.  Later, the length of the video was expanded, we
+layered in an early version of the B5 logo, music was added, plus the shot of
+a single ship docking.  (That was for perspective; for those who might see
+this, the ship at the beginning of the sequence is about the size of a Boeing
+727...and when we first see it from a distance approaching the station, it
+looks practically like a fly until you zoom in on the docking bay.)
+
+     So, based on what you saw, I gather you approve?
+
+     Regarding ads and publicity, yes, thus far I've been consulted, as was
+the case with the color brochure.  As we gear up more, I'll be further
+involved in all aspects of publicity, in order to control the image that goes
+out.  I'm not that involved in the NATPE stuff mainly because that's a
+specialization of the marketing guys, and they know that aspect more than I
+do.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     I don't yet know which stations in Canada will be carrying B5.  Once I
+have a comprehensive list of stations, I'll post it.
+
+     Okay, folks, listen up:
+
+     You say you've been hearing about this Babylon 5 station.  You say you'd
+like to know what it's gonna look like.  You say you'd like to know how big it
+is.  Well, step right up, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, here's your
+chance to see just what the heck we're talking about.
+
+     Proceed immediately to your nearest magazine rack.  Pick up issue #4 of
+STARLOG SPECTACULAR, which just hit the stands.  Turn to page 54.  And there,
+in full color, is a half-page photo of the Babylon 5 space station from a
+frontal three-quarter angle shot.  The little ship about to pull into the
+docking bay is about the size of a 727, and the station is built to scale.
+You can see the main airlock starting to iris open, and the blue things right
+on the very edge of the picture are the solar collectors.
+
+     You'll notice the modular sections, for the varying gravities, as
+discussed.  And there are ports, an observation deck, and the like.
+
+     Now mind you, this is a *fairly* early version of the station, so it's a
+bit cleaner than what we'll see in the final version.  But this is pretty
+close.  (We'll also make the station a bit darker, closer to steel grey...the
+photo has it kind a bit lighter than that.)
+
+     Anyway, there is it.  Anyone who'd like to digitize it and upload it here
+as a GIF file is welcome to do so.
+
+     (Note: the photo doesn't identify the station as B5 because at the time
+the article was being prepared, B5 was still TWCBM, That Which Couldn't Be
+Mentioned.  Top-secret.  And we didn't yet know what the time-frame was.
+NewTek is permitted to use the material to show its capabilities, but at that
+time was not allowed to identify it.  In future, that proviso will not be in
+force.)
+
+     It's rough, and it's being revised, but it's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Thanks for the info.  And yes, that spaceship-breaking-orbit shot is also
+from the B5 demo.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+     I will pass this on to our tech guys, who can probably answer most of it
+better than I can.  Two things that I can comment on: the crops grown in the
+very center of B5 will be grown under artificial lighting conditions to
+replicate natural light.  Heck, we've already got lights that can be used
+underground and in nurseries for that purpose...and creating such an
+environment that way is easier than a complex system of mirrors and windows
+(and windows are at best problematic, now matter how strong they are).
+
+     Second it *does* take quite a bit of time to fully decelerate for
+docking.  One option you have to save time is the energy-dampers positioned
+quite a ways outside B5.  We're still working out the technology on that one,
+but it *seems* to hold up.
+
+     Oh...and yes, we're looking at a gravity range from 0 to 2Gs.  Anybody
+not content with that can bloody well deal with it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+     "Babylon 5: We're A Space Station, Not The Club Med In Space"
+

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+     Why not?
+
+     Besides, don't forget that humans have to be able to at least GET into
+some of these areas if necessary, even though it may be extremely
+uncomfortable.  (So okay, maybe 3Gs.)  Otherwise you find yourself in a
+situation where an alien can do something destructive, escape to the high-G
+sections, and no human can follow.  Seems kind of impractical.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Okay, for those interested, I now have a more specific schedule to work
+from, based on our latest discussions with all parties.
+
+     I finish my revisions on the 2-hour screenplay (entitled "The Gathering,"
+for those interested) by February 1, about two weeks, give or take.  Then two
+weeks to get in the notes from Warners.  Two more weeks to attend to whatever
+suggestions they may have.  The screenplay is then locked down by March 1st.
+
+     We go into design and casting March 1st.  Production design, art
+design/directing and tech teams begin work.  We begin checking out the
+director we're going to use.  First part of April we begin blueprinting of
+sets and construction.
+
+     We finalize cast and director by the end of May, and begin shooting June
+1.  We finish shooting June 26th.  We go into editing and post production, and
+come out with the finished film by early or middle October, and deliver to
+Warners and the stations.  (By the first part of October we also deliver a
+three-minute trailer to the stations for use in promoting B5.)
+
+     BABYLON 5: The Gathering then airs the third week in November, during
+sweeps.  Probably on a Tuesday night.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Thanks, any publicity helps.
+
+     The NewTek scene being shown around is the early stage of the B5 concept.
+There won't be a full-scale model built, it will exist entirely within the
+computer EFX realm.  And the latest stuff I've seen is photo quality; you
+can't tell.  I showed the new material to SFX guys who know the field inside
+and out, and not ONE of them picked up on the fact that it was computer
+generated until I told them.  They all thought it was a model.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     BABYLON 5 is a deep-space station located in a strategic sector of space
+that is heavily traveled, a jump point for journeys, with representatives from
+various civilizations on board.
+
+     DEEPSPACE 9 is a deep-space station located in a strategic sector of
+space that is heavily traveled, a jump point for  journeys, with
+representatives from various civilizations on board.
+
+     Funny...I don't see what's similar about them at ALL...even if there ARE
+some other points of comparison that I can't reveal for fear of compromising
+my OWN story.
+
+     As for the reason for rebuilding B5...it was an idea that was right, and
+those responsible refused to knuckle under to what was, in effect, terrorism.
+During WW II, someone asked Winston Churchill what he would do if a V-2 took
+out Big Ben.  "We shall rebuild it," he said.  And what if they knock THAT
+down?  "We shall rebuild it again, and again, as many times as is required.
+Because it is not theirs to destroy, it is OURS."
+
+     B5, at this crucial time, is the last, best hope for peace, and there are
+people dedicated to pursuing that peace, whatever the cost, however many times
+others may try to destroy it.  Those aboard B5 know the risk, but come because
+they believe in what it stands for, just as U.N. observers go into a country
+knowing fully that they may be killed.
+
+     Why rebuild the Enterprise?  Why make more shuttles after one blows up,
+even though you KNOW that the odds indicate that at least one more will go,
+sooner or later?  Why continue with the Gemini space program even after those
+astronauts died in that terrible fire?
+
+     Because the universe doesn't reward you for doing what's safe, and easy.
+Because courage and persistence is what pulled us out of the seas and onto
+land and dragged us through millions of years of evolution.   What sets the
+human race apart from everything else is our persistence, the stubborn, noble
+dignity that propelled Washington's men, when offered the chance to stand down
+during the revolutionary war, when they were tired and bleeding and
+frostbitten, to refuse to knuckle under, and to go on.
+
+     During WW II, again, there were cases of planes sent in to bomb strategic
+sites...and when one batch was shot down, another wing went off.  And another.
+And another.  Until finally SOMEONE got through.   Because it had to be done.
+The consequences were too terrible otherwise.
+
+     We have come into an age when it seems passion is passe, when the very
+common coin of our shared humanity, the willingness to put our lives on the
+line for a cause or a belief, seems somehow suspect.  Why do people rebuild
+BABYLON 5 even though it's not safe?  Why do they go there when it's not safe?
+
+     Because the Earth/Minbari war ALONE almost wiped out humanity.  We can't
+afford NOT to be there.
+
+     And these people are willing to put their lives on the line to see' that
+that never happens again.  Because they damn near won the first time, and the
+next bunch might well finish the job.
+
+     One of my favorite pieces of verse is from Tennyson's ULYSSES.  And it is
+at the core of what BABYLON 5 is about.  It concerns the final voyage of
+Ulysses...older, tired, who has lost his family and most of his kingdom and
+most of his men, betrayed and saddened...and he gathers up those few surviving
+members from his earlier journey, and as they prepare to push off, he
+concludes with a final benediction: "Though we are not now that strength that
+in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are: one equal
+temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate but strong in will, to
+strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Some other info that I've been cleared to state:
+
+     Phase One of BABYLON 5 -- the movie -- should air around October of  the
+coming year.
+
+     Phase Two -- the series -- is now slated for the following March.  We
+figured close to that, but now it's on the dockets.
+
+     Stations set to carry the project include: WWOR New York KCOP Los Angeles
+WPWR Chicago KBHK San Francisco WDCA Washington D.C. KTXA Dallas KTXH Houston
+WUAB Cleveland WTOG Tampa KMSP Minneapolis WDZL Miami KPLR St. Louis KRBK
+Sacramento KUTP Phoenix WNUV Baltimore WTXX Hartford KPTV Portland, OR WSTR
+Cincinnati KSMO Kansas City
+
+     More stations will be added as we go.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Because of Babylon 5's function as a free port, the laws are a bit dodgy.
+Outside B5 it's neutral territory, it's only when you set foot inside the
+station that you fall under Earth Alliance regs.  Even so, you have to tread
+carefully.  You raise some good points, and that is an issue that's going to
+have to be dealt with.  Some sort of preventive measure would seem to be in
+order...it's just a question of figuring out WHAT.
+
+     Thanks for the comments...and the opinion, which is one that a lot of
+others are coming to share re: the situation with That Other Show.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     BTW...this Friday's HOUR 25 will be dedicated to the question of how one
+gets a show on the air, the rigors and traps involved therein, and will follow
+the long history of BABYLON 5 as an example.  (What a coincidence!)  Joining
+me and my co-host Larry DiTillio will be B5 line producer John Copeland, and
+EFX wiz from NewTek, Ron Thornton.
+
+   Anyone in the LA area, feel free to tune in.  And if anyone wants to comment
+on anything, the phones are open midway through the show....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     For info on HOUR 25 -- the SF talk show I host, with others on
+alternating nights -- check out the topic in Cat 19.  Topic 3.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 22 1992
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+     Yes, it was BABYLON 5 in the CNN Showbiz Today clip from Newtek.   For
+those who missed it (*I* didn't know it was on until I heard it on another
+system!), it'll be on again tonight at 2 a.m. Pacific, 5 a.m. Eastern time.
+
+     I *think* I know what you're referring to re: Jello aliens, and will
+check out the message.  If it is what I think, I may have another comment on
+all this.
+
+     Interestingly enough...originally the new TREK show was supposed to begin
+PRODUCTION in Spring 93 for a debut Fall '93.  When we announced that we were
+going to air the B5 movie in Fall '92, suddenly they moved the airdate for
+*their* show to January 1993.
+
+     This is, honestly, NOT a coincidence.  And I'm going to be amused to
+watch them try to catch up...we've got a screenplay, a production team, visual
+concepts, a bible, EVERYthing...and I *know* that they have only a
+treatment...no series bible, no screenplay, nothing.
+
+     This is getting more interesting by the moment....
+
+                                                           jms
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+     Okay, I just read the pertinent notes on 21/21 regarding the new TNG
+spinoff, and the "Jell-O Man," clearly (as indicated in the prior messages
+there) a morph/shapechanger.
+
+     Guess what?
+
+     As I mentioned in 21/21, there was also a shapechanger on the B5 station
+in the screenplay that Paramount has had now for some time.
+
+     What *I* like is the fact that in the current version of the script, I'm
+omitting the shapechanger because that technology is, in my view, overexposed
+right now.  By the time it hits the air, morphing will be so common that it's
+old hat.  (It WASN'T old hat when I wrote the original screenplay several
+years back.  That was the goal with the current rewrite...to make the script
+as far in advance NOW as it was when I first wrote it.)
+
+     And the coincidences just keep on coming....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     We're keeping all of our options open at this time.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Regarding the NewTek B5 demo...no, that wasn't done with the Video
+Toaster.  In this case, NewTek is noted because it's the company that MADE the
+VT, but this isn't an aspect of that, insofar as I know.  They've come up with
+some startling new technologies for computer-generated EFX, and in fact Ron
+Thornton, our one-man brain trust, is completely REWRITING THE CODES
+specifically to accommodate B5.
+
+     When the opening sequence is completed, the trailer will be one
+continuous take of the starship pulling away from the planet, scooting across
+space, then we pan in from FIVE MILES OUT, join up with the ship as it enters
+the docking bay, and go THROUGH the docking bay...ending up right on a live-
+action face of one of our characters inside.
+
+     And yes, we'll be slowing down the animation a bit, partly for
+aesthetics, partly because real objects should have mass and weight and
+shouldn't move *quite* that fast.  Also, I have some additional ideas on how
+the B5 station should look, and we'll be incorporating those in as well.  The
+*basic* form and shape will, I suspect, stay pretty close to what you've seen.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, the ship arcing away from the planet, as you describe, is part of
+the B5 demo.  The sequence is reversed; first the ship leaves the planet, THEN
+it arrives at B5.  Look carefully at the front of B5 and you can see it
+pulling in.
+
+     I initially roughed out what I wanted in the station; basic shape and
+configuration, the use of rotating sections, docking bay at the front, that
+sort of thing.  Peter Ledger then did the preliminary artwork, and then Ron
+Thornton did the computer version.
+
+     I have to tell you, it was way cool to turn on the TV and see the Babylon
+5 station on CNN after all this time.  Even with the hassles, it was kinda
+nifty.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     B5 is a "hollow-tube" type station, similar in some ways to the  Gerard
+K. O'Neil stations.  And I don't know what platform is being used,
+unfortunately.  (Metal?  Wood?  Just kidding...)
+
+                                                         jms
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+     Sorry for the absence; was up to my ears in alligators.  Just time for a
+quickie...the show has now been sold into a LOT more markets, and I should be
+able to post the new station list here in the next week or so.  It met with a
+VERY enthusiastic response.  Nothing but continued support.
+
+     Will bring in some new info in another week or so also regarding the show
+per se.  And while I'm not sure exactly what's meant by "expand" the idea, I
+*do* like a show that grows and changes a little from time to time.  Shifting
+relationships, the occasional character who goes off or gets croaked, changes
+in character that catch you by surprise, so that will definitely be the case.
+
+     My problem right now, in looking over the B5 screenplay, "The Gathering,"
+is one of personal overload.  There's so much that I want to get into this,
+but if you lay in *too* much backstory and exposition, you get dull REAL fast.
+So that points you in the direction of action.   Too much action undercuts the
+character/backstory/offbeat stuff that will make the project DIFFERENT.  It's
+got to be accessible enough for reg'lar folks, at least for the movie, but
+strange/SFish enough to let the fnas (or fans) of the genre now we mean
+business.  Agh!
+
+     I think I'll go lie down....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     For those into computer stuff, you may want to check message 403 in my
+topic on Cat 8 for some info on what's being developed here in that area.
+
+     In brief, we're going to be taking a completely different approach to EFX
+than has ever been done before, using cutting-edge technology in creating the
+images.  We've received massive support from one of the computer EFX companies
+that's on the very edge of this stuff, one of the largest around.  We've
+assembled quite a brain-trust.
+
+     And here's a surprise for you: if you will find a copy of MILLIMETER
+magazine -- I think it's either this month or the one just preceding it -- you
+will find a computer-generated photograph that is described only as "a work in
+progress" for an SF series.
+
+     That is the first published photograph of BABYLON 5.
+
+     (You see how sneaky we've been?  How quietly this has been going on?)
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Actually, Eric, you're right one one important count...the hydroponics
+will be at the center of the station, as you describe...and that section will
+indeed be known as The Garden.  Which has both resonance from the original
+Gardens of Babylon, to a certain Judaeo/Christian myth, both of which will
+gain more resonance as the story develops over the long term.
+
+     Found a way around the problem I'd mentioned, and now things seem to be
+back on track.  Also found out Friday that a really NIFTY effect I'd hoped for
+can, indeed, be done for the show.  I won't elaborate except to say that we
+can show a ship arriving like nobody's ever seen before.  It's gonna be nifty.
+
+     Also got some other good news on Friday from NATPE, but I'll have to wait
+a few days before I can announce anything about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     As stated, the picture of B5 in Starlog is from a VERY early stage of
+development.  The actual version, in later renditions, is darker and -- for
+lack of a better term -- more *massive* in its feel.  And there will be
+considerable polishing in terms of how it looks.
+
+     This is *strictly* my own opinion (though it's a pretty solid one, I
+think)...but frankly, I don't think it's even REMOTELY possible for the Other
+Show to begin filming in June.  At present, there's neither a bible nor a
+script for it.  If you're going to start filming in June, you need a script
+NOW.  Or at least by the first of February (which is when "The Gathering" is
+due).  You need to run your script past the studio, then start conceptual
+design (and in our case, we're ahead and it's STILL going to be tight),
+construction, casting...and none of that can happen until you've got a script.
+
+     I don't see that happening (filming) on the Other Show until the fall or
+VERY late summer.  Even at that late date, though, there's still every chance
+that they could hit air by February '93.
+
+     And bear one other thing in mind: if they could shoot in June, they could
+release in November, when B5 airs.  And they're not.
+
+     So phooey on them.
+
+     Just finished another act on the script.  Closing in on the end.  The fun
+part of this is trying to imagine the future, and trying to come up with ways
+in which things can be done differently for TV, ways no one has really dealt
+with in TV.  One of our recurring characters (not a regular, in that sense,
+but someone we'll see from time to time) is a woman who is, for lack of a
+better term, a Rent-A-Telepath.  She works for B5, but she is available for
+businessmen who need to make sure that the person across the table can really
+deliver what's promised.  (Note: she is not the only one, they're pretty
+common in business at this time in the future.)
+
+     Not an empath, by the way, but a proper, licensed (Psi-Corps, Level 5)
+TELEPATH.  Bound by all the regs of the P-C.  No random scanning, no access to
+the gaming tables, no unauthorized dipping, all deals must be on record.  And
+there's the privacy question that TNG has never really dealt with.  A telepath
+peeping into someone's mind or emotions without that person's permission (or
+that of the next of kin) can likely have his or her license revoked.  It's a
+basic right of privacy...whereas a Certain Other I can think of is constantly
+peeping into people's emotions and feelings without so much as a by-your-
+leave.  And, again, this will be the very exacting reading of thoughts, rather
+than a, "I sense discomfort" sort of thing.
+
+     In the focus group, that character elicited considerable interest from
+the subjects.  I suspect the idea of a Rent-A-Telepath is appealing for a LOT
+of reasons....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Actually...we're using hand puppets.
+
+     I'll get the specs and try to put the info here as soon as I can get it
+in a form I can understand.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Actually, I hadn't yet given the planets in the neighborhood of B5 names
+yet, only numerical designations.  Hmm.  I have to confess I rather like
+Tigris and Euphrates.
+
+     As for the jump-point...as it turns out, I moved it out QUITE a bit from
+the station after my original posting.  The more I thought about it, the more
+it seemed best to move it back.  (For one thing, I need to buy about five
+hours from the moment A Certain Ship arrives through the jump-point, until it
+decelerates enough to dock at B5, so that seems to indicate pushing it away a
+bit.)
+
+     Finally, as regards t-shirts...maybe.  Will advise.  How about this: the
+B5 logo (the FINISHED version, which is 'way cool) on the front, and ACCEPT NO
+IMITATIONS on the back...(smile, couldn't help myself).
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I think someone else here might have the info on the GIF file.
+
+     As for characters and story...that remains the first concern.  The
+discussion here got a little EFX/tech heavy, but ain't nothing wrong with
+that.  Bear in mind, also, that I can only reveal so much here without
+compromising the movie.  There will already be, doubtless, folks who've seen
+so much here that what would ordinarily have been suprising when the movie
+airs will now seem expected...because they read it here.
+
+     I'll pass on what I can, as I can.  Be assured, as a writer, story is and
+will always be my first concern.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I'm trying to decide if I actually want to upload the final version or
+not.  Well, not so much if I *want* to...I do...but whether or not I should.
+The problem, basically, is one of control.  How can you tell if something -- a
+flyer, a release, a piece of art or a shirt -- is an authorized piece from B5
+Central, or something counterfeit?  That logo is a pretty good means of
+telling the difference.
+
+     Once the final image is uploaded, it becomes easily distributed, and that
+*may* open up difficulties.  It's something I'm going to have to think about a
+bit longer.  In the interim, take what's there and imagine it rendered in
+solid, stainless steel, with a silver trim running around the edge of the
+whole thing, giving it a 3-D look, and instead of solid colors, as it is now,
+the colors look airbrushed or reflectorized, as though made of coppor and gold
+catching the light and throwing it back.  THAT is the final (for now) version.
+If that undergoes further changes -- I'm giving thought to making the word
+BABYLON bigger, as though cut from a solid steel template -- then I will have
+no compunction about putting up Logo 2.0.
+
+     Does that make sense?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     YAAAAAGGGGHHHH!
+
+     Stop-stop-stop-stop-stop.
+
+     One hard-nosed Absolute Enforceable here: tech stuff is one thing, but
+the telepath discussion is ranging into concrete story ideas, and that opens a
+LOT of danger for me, particularly since a couple of things hit upon here are
+in the script as it stands now.  (Answer: yes, I *am* ahead of you, Correa.)
+
+     Please, that's the only request I have to make in this regard: NO STORY
+IDEAS OR SUGGESTIONS.  We are in deeply litigious times.  Just today I
+received a legal piece of paper from a pinhead in Georgia who thinks I swiped
+his idea for a ZONE, and that's probably going to involve lengthy legal stuff
+to prove that I didn't do it.  (The script, and the material on record BEFORE
+the script predates his material by a long, long, LONG time.  He knows this,
+but is going ahead anyway in hopes of harrassing the studio and me into making
+a settlement to dispense with this...which AIN'T gonna happen.)
+
+     Anyway, the point being this becomes very problematic.  So while we will
+let stand what's here, please, no more on this approach.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     I'm not worried overly about anything here thus far, I only wanted to cut
+it a little short before it got too problematic.  (Especially since one of the
+points suggested is actually one of the main events in the movie.)  Don't mean
+to inhibit anything, just a reminder, that's all.  And the Tigris/Euphrates
+thing is something that's intriguing, and is still being considered, as is a
+great deal of the tech stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     B5 doesn't use fusion.  It uses *nothing* but the very FINEST in fairy
+dust.  (Actually, I haven't stated, though it *does* have solar collectors,
+big ones.)
+
+     KL, please give me 24 hours notice before you archive this topic so's I
+can do a fast download me own self.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Insofar as we can tell, the EFX work via computer will be easier and
+faster.  The B5 demo that's floating around was done literally in about a
+week, by one guy working part time.  Look at that and imagine what we can do
+once we get our full team working full-time.
+
+     I don't know if you'll see more or less such EFX on B5 as opposed to TNG
+because I haven't really counted.  We'll use them as required by the story.  I
+think the mix on "The Gathering" is a little light on EFX, because so much of
+this story is establishing the characters and the relationships.  So we'll
+take what efx we DO have in that episode and make them REALLY spiffy.
+
+     I'm *pretty* sure that Ron Thornton told me we can generate 5-8 NEW
+minutes of EFX every week once we get to series.  Bear in mind that many of
+the space EFX you see on a show like TNG are recycled or composited using a
+mix of old and new film.  We can do all that PLUS put out a very substantial
+amount of new EFX.  And we'll be using those EFX in interesting ways that I
+think will be fairly original in look and feel.
+
+     One thing that I'm planning toward now is a mid-season crisis, and we'll
+be squirreling away bits of EFX for that episode early on, since the script
+will be finished well in advance of the shooting.  What I want to do -- and
+again, this is the series part -- is have one episode where we just kick over
+the table and go for it: a major, armed conflict between dozens, maybe even
+HUNDREDS of individual ships.  Think some of the sequences in RETURN OF THE
+JEDI as a boilerplate.  And what will be cool, what the EFX guys have sketched
+out for me, is that we can begin from the POV of one ship, move away as it's
+blown up, move THROUGH AND BETWEEN the other ships, change direction, and pull
+back to the B5 POV, all in one continuous take.  It means preparing WELL in
+advance, but I suspect that the result is going to be worth it in spades.
+
+     Which is, again, one of the benefits to working things out on a show or
+film far in advance, as with a novel.  Instead of lurching from one script to
+another, never knowing what's coming next, we'll have a full time-line to work
+from...what approximate EFX will be required, what sort of sets we will need
+down the road, that sort of thing, which means we can make things look better
+overall.
+
+     I just wish we were PAST the movie already, and moving on.  But one
+crisis at a time....
+
+                                                          jms
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+     There is going to be a VERY strong female character.  Although there is a
+male who operates as the titular head of BABYLON 5, and is more or less a de
+facto representative of...a certain group, BABYLON 5 itself is actually *run*
+on a day to day basis by (oh, what the heck, give her name) Vice-Commander
+Laurel Takashima.
+
+     Now, this may not mean much until you understand what BABYLON 5 the
+actual *place* is, and how it works.  Which will come soon enough.  If I were
+to look at that OTHER sf show, hers is a much more authoritatve and
+independent role than, say, that of Riker.  And there are other very strong
+female characters.
+
+     I have a tendency to gravitate toward female characters in stories.
+Those who might remember CAPTAIN POWER will recall that the lion's share of
+personal stories were about Jennifer Chase, and those were generally our best
+stories.
+
+     As for cast...we're not going to go for big names, in large part because
+we don't want to bring on people with a lot of baggage from other shows.  (No,
+no Gil Gerard.)  New faces to television, but with a background in classical
+training.  We want ACTORS, with CHARACTER in their faces, not models or
+"hunks."
+
+     See, by virtue of working on a number of SF shows, and knowing others
+who've been involved in still others, I've had the chance to find out what
+does, and doesn't work, and how to capitalize on that.  By talking to the
+fans, and appearing at cons, and using this and other systems, I've been able
+to find out what the fans want, and to combine that with my own personal
+vision.  So when I'm asked, "Will there be strong females?" I think of TNG,
+and "Why can't there be a female #2 or captain?"  And I remember the other
+concerns, from BOTH sides of the fence.
+
+     Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.  Life's too
+short for those kinds of mistakes.
+
+     Which is why, from the very beginning of this project, three years ago, I
+sought out and began laying the foundation for bringing on the best and the
+brightest, to give the project a look unlike anything ever seen before on
+television.
+
+     But frankly...talk is cheap.  Judge us by what we *do* now what we say.
+SF fans have heard this stuff before...and have been disappointed.   I'm
+determined not to go that route...but don't want ANYONE to take my word for
+it.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Regarding jump-points and how they're used...I'm going to hold back on
+that for now.  In talking to our EFX people and the usual neepers, I've come
+up with a really cool technology and a visual to go with it, and given that
+there's another show, I shouldn't mention names, you should never speak ill of
+the...anyway, ANOTHER that will use a sort of transit point/wormhole effect,
+I'm sitting on that info for now.
+
+                                                                   jms
+------------
+
+     Also you're a day early.  February has 31 days.
+
+                                                        jms
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+     Agree re: female characters.  I very much want to see a woman in a
+position of power who is perfectly well-adjusged, has good relationships, the
+same basic number of character flaws as any other individual in the show...in
+other words, a Person, not a stereotype.
+
+     As for being "in the planning stage" above...incorrect.  We've been IN
+the planning stage for three years.  Now we have a Go order for production,
+which will commence in the spring on Phase One.
+
+     As for the location...no, it's not a saloon or anything of that nature.
+
+
+     And regarding the various characters...I *like* a mix of good and not-so-
+good characters as regulars, people who are flawed, who you might enjoy
+talking with, but you wouldn't necessarily turn your back on them.
+
+     In terms of explaining the show, I've decided that the best way to use
+this particular medium is to schedule out information.  We have about 10 or 11
+months before Phase One hits the airwaves (which is actually fairly short for
+a show of this scale).  Since there are 9 main characters in B-5, plus the
+location itself, I figure one big release of info per month will carry us
+through to broadcast.
+
+     So on or about December 1st, I'll post here the info about exactly what
+(and where) (and why) BABYLON 5 is.  Then one character description per month.
+I'll also post a revised list of TV stations some time prior to broadcast to
+handle the added locations.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     For those who might be interested, I have just uploaded a file -- #3085 --
+into library 5.  It's a .PCX graphics file that contains the BABYLON 5 logo.
+I did the scanning myself, so it's a little rough around the edges, and it's
+based on the initial draft of the logo, which is now being cleaned up.  But
+this is fundamentally it.
+
+     One note: please understand that this logo is both trademarked and
+copyrighted, and is uploaded here ONLY for individual viewing.  Any other use
+is strictly prohibited.
+
+     Most graphics display programs like Compushow (CSHOW) will work just fine
+on the file, as will Microsoft Paintbrush.
+
+     For the show, the logo will be split at a diagonal, raggedly.  We will
+see the two parts in space, rotating toward one another.  The line where the
+two should join will begin to glow.  Music rises.  The two halves come
+together with a FLASH of light, and we get a metallic looking complete logo,
+looking like it's made out of heavy-gauge steel.  We then PAN OVER the logo to
+reveal Babylon 5 in all its glory.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+     Thanks for the vote of confidence.  I don't think you'll be disappointed.
+
+     And now, at last, some hard info.
+
+     The date: 2257 A.D.
+
+     We have gone to the stars, and found that we are not alone.  We have
+moved quickly out, establishing relations with other civilizations that has
+let us leapfrog technologies via an information and cultural exchange with at
+least one other culture.  Many contacts have been friendly.  Some have not
+been quite so benign.
+
+     From 2250 through 2252, war raged between the Earth Alliance and the
+Minbari, an alien federation.  The EA was losing, badly.  As a last resort, a
+suicide perimeter was set up around Earth, known as the Line.  Every last ship
+we had was on the Line, in a desperate defense of Homeworld.
+
+     And on the brink of winning the war, just as they were breaking through
+the Line...the Minbari surrendered.  To this date, no one knows why.  They
+could have won, but chose not to.  The secret behind their surrender will
+gradually play a part in our story.
+
+     But that was now 5 years ago, in our story.  There is now an uneasy peace
+between the Earth Alliance and the four other alien federations.  To help
+cement that peace, the EA has constructed BABYLON 5.
+
+     BABYLON 5 is a five-kilometer-long space station in neutral space more or
+less central to all five of the different alliances, human or alien.  To get
+to one or the other, you have to pass through this sector of space.  Thus,
+Babylon 5 has been created as a sort of port-of-call for travelers, statesmen,
+emissaries, traders, refugees and other, less savory characters.  Five
+kilometers long and two kilometers wide, Babylon 5 is divided into separate,
+discreet sections that rotate at differing speeds to provide different
+gravities to accommodate those who come to the station.  There are also
+sections with alternate atmospheres.
+
+     The station boasts living quarters, customs areas, docking bays, meeting
+areas, a casino, several bars/nightclubs, command and control spheres fore and
+aft, and a decent defensive grid.  In addition, each of the various
+federations has one official representative aboard the station (with the
+station's commander representing the Earth Alliance), so that it also
+functions as a sort of mini-U.N.
+
+     It is home to humans and aliens in various roles, some arriving or
+departing every day, others working there full-time.  They live on the very
+edge of the frontier, in the sense that if they get into trouble, there's no
+one who can arrive in time to help them.  Because of the nature of the
+travelers, they bring their stories with them to Babylon 5 rather than having
+to seek them out.  The stories are of people in flight, seeking sanctuary;
+stories of smugglers, assassins, traders, mappers, dignitaries and others, all
+on urgent missions of one sort or another.
+
+     If STAR TREK was "Wagon Train to the Stars," then BABYLON 5 is Casablanca
+in space.
+
+     It is humanity's last hope for peace, a single hope in the middle of an
+uneasy, fragile peace.
+
+     And it *is* fragile, and dangerous.  It is called BABYLON 5 because the
+first three efforts to build the station were sabotaged and  destroyed.  The
+fourth one disappeared without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational.
+No one knows what happened to it.
+
+     And *that*...is only the beginning of our story.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     It's pro forma never to announce more than one phase at a time, so that's
+why they're concentrating on the movie in terms of PR.  You don't start
+flogging the series until you're in production...just as they didn't start
+flogging the movie until we hit a point of beginning preproduction, with a
+firm airdate.
+
+     No, drat it, my new computer didn't arrive Saturday.  The guy who's
+building it for me was delayed over the weekend out of state.  Promised to
+have it in for me this weekend.  I learned that the system I designed for him
+to build for me is essentially identical to the system being used by the
+International Bank of Japan.
+
+     Turned in the next version of the B5 script, with the new Bigger And
+Better final scene...boy, if this looks *half* as big on screen as we think it
+might, it's gonna be a hoot.  May have some good news to announce soon
+regarding a big article in a certain magazine...will advise.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     ...good heavens, I'm quoted re: TNG?  Where?  How?  And where was the
+"blight upon the earth" comment?  I know I was interviewed by some paper or
+other about that, but for the life of me I can't recall which.
+
+     Well, I never said I was subtle....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Oh, okay, THAT article.  I thought since it was a while ago that it
+wasn't the one mentioned, but rather something new.  Okay, thanks.
+
+     And now for something completely stupid....
+
+     While my 386 was down and I was trying to log onto GEnie using my laptop,
+if y'all recall, I couldn't get on.  FINALLY realized that it was because I'd
+lately changed my password, put it on the macro for my main computer and
+hadn't changed the one on the notebook...so I was trying to log on under the
+old password.
+
+     Sigh...I sometimes I think I haven't got the brains god gave a
+doorknob....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     No, those times aren't accurate.  Our *firm* airdate for the movie is
+November 17, 1992.  That has been agreed upon by all parties, and was part of
+the announcement in NY the other week.  Which means some of the sales guys
+either aren't getting the latest info, or something's getting distorted/lost
+in the translation.  I'll double back with the Warners distribution people to
+look into this.
+
+     We're looking into various forms of making the image of the show
+technologically different, and some 3D aspect has been considered.  The
+technology is there now for some fairly subtle stuff that doesn't require
+glasses or anything of the sort.  Although the movie is too early, we're
+giving some thought to shooting the series for HDTV, but again that's well
+down the road.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
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+      Those stations that agreed to carry B5 early on are all still
+ carrying the program, plus a bunch of other stations that've been lined
+ up subsequent to NATPE.  A full list will be appended soonest.
+
+      The speculated-upon similarity to Japan was not unintentional.
+
+      Regarding sub-light speeds...we're working that out with the tech
+ crew.  Actually, EVERYONE is getting in on that aspect.  One design for
+ a B5 defensive ship (kept in a high-security hangar concealed within the
+ station just in case they might ever be needed...and they will...) runs
+ like this...and I emphasize this was just his speculation, but it's
+ kinda cool, whether or not it actuall gets used.  (It also came with the
+ designer's sketch of the ship.)
+
+      The ship is the Northrodyne C31-03 "Patriot," suited for both deep
+ space and atmospheric flight.
+
+      POWERPLANT: 1 Messerschmitt Ram-scram 23,000 kg thrust turbo
+                  2 Commonwealth hyperspace ion-warp drives
+                 24 Jumo 500 kg C02 thrusters
+
+      PERFORMANCE max speed 10.75 C.P.H. (Light speed per hour)
+                   stall speed minimum 400 K.P.H. on foils alone at 1 Earth
+                        atmosphere sea level
+                   Can achieve full-hover using Bokelman anti-grav
+                   Max range fully loaded: 1200 parsecs
+
+      WEIGHT: Standard earth gravity: unloaded, 35,000 kg; loaded, 114,000 kg
+
+      DIMENSION: Length: 37 meters; Span: 43 meters; Height at max diameter:
+                       8.43 meters
+
+      ARMAMENT: 8 antimatter lasers
+               18 "Blackhole" missiles with 1.5 megaton warheads
+                2 explosive projectile 85mm ruger spiral-feed cannons
+                4 "Reagan" class dumb-fire missiles
+                3 pulsed accellerator long-range missiles
+
+      CREW: 2, plus back-up crew for long-distance missions.
+
+      Again, that may not end up being what's actually used in the show, but
+ it's one of our speculations by some of the tech people.  Kinda fun.  One
+ other ship that's been designed is the Blohm Und Voss-IBM BV142 V493
+ "Nervenklau" class interceptor with ram-fusion turbos.  (It's a smaller
+ ship than the "Patriot" class, made for speed and bite.)
+
+      Are we having fun, or what?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Whew, that's a lot of comments.  Let me try and deal with the major
+issues rather than point-by-point.
+
+     Re: sound in space...there's more than one way of doing that, and I think
+I have an idea that will let me satisfy BOTH camps.  I won't know if it
+actually *works* until we get into a sound room with footage on screen, but
+there may be a third alternative.
+
+     Re: the TNG "forehead" problem...here's what I think is a major point of
+distinction between the two shows.  TNG often becomes the Alien Of The Week
+show.  If you're going to have a guy come through the show just once, you tend
+not to spend an awful lot of time on the prosthetics/appliances.   On a TV
+production schedule, there simply isn't that kind of time.  So you compromise,
+and come up with something that'll suffice...and the easiest thing to do is to
+effect  the area you will see most on the screen, the face or forehead.  (You
+could, I suppose, provide flippers instead of feet, but how often would you
+see them in a shot?)
+
+     One of the interesting things about B5 is that, with some exceptions from
+time to time, we'll be drawing most of our players from one or more of the
+five different groups (four alien, one human).  So we know, in advance, that
+we're going to be using the same "look" many times during a given season.
+Which means that we can spend a lot of time up front in designing more
+elaborate appliances or prostheses since we'll be using them more often, thus
+amortizing the cost and time and effort.
+
+     Londo is the most human of the bunch.  They get progressively more
+unusual as we go along.  When we do feature someone not from one of the major
+groups, we want to know about it well enough in advance that we can do it up
+right.  John Iacovelli, our production designer (from HONEY, I SHRUNK THE
+KIDS) would love to experiment with some insectoid designs, with limbs that
+move in the opposite way they're supposed to...to play with size in other
+aliens, having some *substantially* taller or smaller than Earth-norm.  And
+from time to time, there will be some life-forms that you'll just see out of
+the corner of your eye that'll be quite different.
+
+     You see, in TNG, if you have something REALLY bizarre on screen, you more
+or less have to justify why it's there, and what it's doing there, and thus it
+becomes a major plot point, and thus it has to be played by a human actor,
+which brings you right back to the forehead problem.  But on B5, *anything*
+can pass through.  Which gives us latitude to do things with mechanicals and
+high-tech puppeteering.  (Some of our guys have come over from the Henson
+Creature Shop, with some *amazing* ideas.)
+
+     Once again, it all comes down to *advance planning*.  Which has always in
+my view been the one aspect lacking in 99% of all TV SF series.  This show, as
+reported, has taken us 4 years to get going, and believe me when I say that
+that time has NOT been spent just sitting around.
+
+     Re: what I learned on my trips to conventions and appearing on WHY CAN'T
+THEY GET IT RIGHT? panels...what I came away with was a general sense of
+frustration from people who felt that in most cases, a show ends up being
+either good SF and bad television, or good TV but bad SF, and why can't you
+mix the two?  They pointed to the lack of character conflict in TNG, noting
+(correctly) that conflict is the core of ANY drama.  They wondered --
+repeatedly -- why it is that every time a decent concept comes along, someone
+has to hobble it with kids or cute robots.
+
+     It was just a general sense of frustration that while SF in print (and to
+SOME extent films) has grown up into adulthood, TV SF was still perceived AND
+EXECUTED as though for kids, or without the grittiness or maturity of the work
+you'd associate with Gibson or Sterling or Clarke.   ST was, by and large, an
+anomaly in that it treated SF with a modicum of respect.  There's not been
+much of that, the audience tended to feel.
+
+     Which made me all the more determined to try and bring SF into the
+mainstream not by compromising the SF, but by -- as it were -- bringing the
+mountain to Mohammed by incorporating elements that mainstream vieewers  have
+come to expect from non-SF series: adult characters with adult relationships,
+sexual and otherwise; interpersonal conflict; marriages and divorces and
+pregnancies and all the other elements that are the common coin of our shared
+humanity.  People who live in a world that, unlike the antiseptic Enterprise,
+requires courage and struggle and hope and joy and effort, exactly as those
+elements are required in our own lives.
+
+     As I think I stated once before LONG uptopic...my model on this is, in a
+way, DRAGNET and HILL STREET BLUES.  There was a time in the TV industry when
+cop shows were viewed the same way SF shows are viewed now: of interest only
+to people into police procedurals and mysteries, which  was considered a very
+small proportion of the audience.  The along came DRAGNET, which for the first
+time showed cops going on dates, having divorces, barbeques, fights...and that
+show went through the roof because it fleshed out the characters (for that
+time...yes, they're stiff and cardboard now, but at that time they were
+revolutionary, and if you check your TV history, you will find that DRAGNET is
+still considered the most successful cop show ever produced for TV).  HILL
+STREET BLUES was the final culmination of that process, a model from which
+came shows like LA LAW and ST. ELSEWHERE and others.
+
+     There is absolutely NO reason on earth why that same process cannot apply
+to SF.  And that is what we are pledged to do on this show.  I expect either
+to succeed -- astonishingly -- or fail, just as astonishingly.
+  But there won't be a middle ground.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Two quickies...on the tech of the "Patriot" ship...please, once again,
+bear in mind that that was passed along mainly for the fun of it.  The
+designer who came up with it isn't a scientist, and was engaging in a bit of
+"rubber science."  The main thought there was the idea of a range of weaponry,
+most of it extensions of either modern stuff (projectile weapons) and
+futuristic stuff.  BeLIEVE me, anything we finally come up with -- and it may
+bear no resemblance to the ship discussed -- will go firmly through the hands
+of the tech people who'll check and double-check for this stuff.
+
+     As to keeping around Laurel Takashima...believe me, I have every
+intention of doing so.  The reason Pilot was killed off in C.P. was due to the
+actress's desire to take on some film roles and leave the show.  So I decided,
+"Okay, if we're going to lose a character, let's not wimp out and have her
+transferred, let's kill her, but kill her in a dramatic way that changes not
+only the characters, but the nature of the show itself."   Which is why, when
+she went, she took the whole base of operations of our main characters with
+her.  (Season Two would've been completely different from season one, with our
+guys on the run, no permanent base of operations.)                        
+
+
+     The problem with episodic series is that, after a while, you know what
+the parameters are.  You know THIS character won't ever be killed, and THAT
+base has got to remain, and THIS can't change.  And you fall into a habit and
+into regular expectations.  I *love* to blow up those sorts of expectations.
+Find the one thing that NO ONE thinks you're ever going to do in your
+show...and do it.  It keeps EVERYBODY on their toes.  If you can tune in and
+never know for sure what's going to happen, knowing that  everyone and
+everything is fair game, it makes the tension in the show far more real.  The
+reaction when Pilot/Jennifer Chase was killed off was astonishing...and when
+the base was destroyed with her.  I was at a con when it was shown, and one
+person finally broke the stunned silence and said, "Jesus, they're not kidding
+around, this IS a war."  Which was exactly the right response.
+
+     How this will affect B5...wait and see.
+
+     And here's a little something to consider.  Some have noted the location
+thing...speculated on other aspects of the show...but much of what you need to
+know about what will eventually happen in the course of the B5 story arc is
+already available to you.  In any decent desk encyclopedia.
+
+     What, you thought I pulled the name Babylon out of a hat?  Let's just say
+that there are going to be some interesting historical parallels....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Quick afterthought...considerable difference, isn't there, in the
+discussion *here*, as opposed to the DS9 topic?
+
+     Personally, I find it *very* rewarding.
+
+     Oh, and I forgot one thing about Londo.  He has a wife, his third,
+actually, on Centauri Prime, and seven kids.   And he would sooner hurl
+himself into the sun than go anywhere near ANY of them.
+
+                                                                 jms
+    And then on the other hand, sometimes the BIGGEST surprises require the
+most in planning...Hiroshima, Pearl Harbor and Normandy Beach being good
+examples....
+
+                                                             jms
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+     nic:
+
+     Thank you.
+
+     You have expressed your opinion.  I have expressed mine.  I will continue
+to express my opinion, and you will continue to express your opinion.  If it
+makes you uncomfortable, you may want to Per this topic.   This is after all a
+matter of some importance to me, and you have no conception of the trauma
+visited upon me by the events subsequent to December 1992.  Alas, I am not a
+vulcan, and can feel, and those feelings come out through this topic, which
+is, in a way, an ongoing letter or conversation about what's happening right
+now with the B5 topic.
+
+     If you don't like it, that's unfortunate, but there's nothing I can do
+about that short of restricting my beliefs, and being less then honest in my
+postings here, and I won't do that.  (And by the way...if B5 is on a lineal
+descent from TNG, then TNG is on a lineal descent from FORBIDDEN PLANET.  And
+just FYI, the genesis in my notes for B5 extends to 1986 and 1987, *before*
+TNG went on the air.)  Your estimation of the value of my work -- worth a
+nickel or otherwise -- is interesting but ultimately irrelevant.
+
+     Apparently you are solidly in TNG's camp.  That is fine, and good, and I
+have no quarrel with that.  SF television needs every possible support in
+order to survive.  That you may not want to hear something you don't like is
+rather beyond my control; life is full of things we don't like to or want to
+hear.  Your statement that what's been said here is only "inflammatory BS" is,
+in my view, insulting.  Something that I don't want to hear...because I know
+the situation from the inside.  You do not.   Period.
+
+     If being a TNG fan means that you must attack people, then that is most
+unfortunate...since the very philosophy of IDIC means Infinite Diversity in
+Infinite Combinations.
+
+     That includes the things you don't want to hear.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     nic, you persist in this notion that what's been said here is
+unsubstantiated.  Which parts?  That B5 has been in development for years is a
+matter of public record.  (In fact, being the kinda hairpin I am, I've slipped
+references to it all over the place...Soaron, if you're reading this, check
+the episode of CAPTAIN POWER where Tank faces off with a guy from the same
+genetic engineering facility as himself and note the name of the
+center...check my novel OTHERSYDE where I slipped in a quick reference to B5
+being on the air that night...plus the copies on file at the Guild and at
+Warners and everywhere else.)
+
+     When was B5 announced?  Check the trades.  November 21st, several
+articles appeared with the info.  When was DS9 developed?  That, too, is a
+matter of both record and other information.  Was B5 brought to Paramount?
+ Yes, it was, and I have the correspondence to prove it.  Were some of the
+development people at Paramount who read the B5 screenplay and saw the series
+treatment and bible also involved in the DS9 development?  It seems that this
+is indeed the case.  That's not unsubstantiated "bs" as you say, and I really
+don't care what you think on that subject.  All of that is a matter of record.
+
+     Were Pillar and Berman aware of B5 at any time?  No.  Of that I am also
+confident.  The only question in my mind is to what degree did the development
+people steer them?  One scenario is that they did not steer them at ALL...but
+knowing of B5, and knowing how swell it would be if they could co-opt B5, if
+Pillar and Berman came up with a space station on their own, they would likely
+say nothing, even though they might be viewed as being under a moral
+obligation to say something.  Another scenario is that they gave direction to
+the creative folks without telling them the origin of that direction.
+
+     There are several ways of dealing with this.  One is to launch a major
+suit with full powers of discovery.  The result is that DS9 gets tied up for
+months, maybe even years in litigation, and maybe the show doesn't go forward.
+It also means hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by Warners and me and
+others pursuing this...not to mention the sense of ill will that will fly back
+and forth.
+
+     And while all options are still open, the general concensus for now seems
+to be to live and let live.  (I assume you want to see DS9, do you not?  If
+you'd like me to take this out of the realm of discussion and into the courts,
+there's a better than even chance that we could kill it -- is that what you
+want?)  We are content to try and let the market decide which is the better
+program...or allow both to continue on and on indefinitely, in the hope that
+they will be sufficiently different that both can succeed.  There is nothing
+
+new in this information, I have posted EXACTLY the same in a public message to
+Mike Okuda in 21/21.
+
+     That we have decided -- for the best interests of all -- for the time
+being to take a mature, "let's move forward" approach does not mean that I
+have to pretend nothing happened.  Or shut my mouth about it.  If there is any
+(to use your term) winking and nudging going on, it's on the level of "Okay,
+YOU (Paramount) know what happened, and *I* know what happened, but let's try
+to be grownup about it for now," though I must say that the shapechanging
+thing nearly tipped me back over the edge again.  If there are no more major
+similarities that crop up in the next few weeks or months, with luck we can
+continue that way.
+
+     I've always believed that the best solution to any problem is being
+forthright.  I felt it proper for people to see the development process here,
+and be aware of what the actual events were, and let them reach their own
+conclusions.  And, in part, this is to insure a complete record.  Because one
+probable result of silence is that B5 gets broadcast to an audience which
+might be unaware of it, as movies tend to slip past more readily than series.
+Then DS9 airs as a series.  Then B5 airs as a series...and everybody thinks we
+ripped off DS9.
+
+     Maybe you don't think it's important to establish which was here first.
+I do.  In the forty-plus years that television has been around, no one has
+done a series on a space station/port of call.  Now suddenly we have two
+within two months of each other being announced.
+
+     So what do you want, nic?  Do you want me to launch every legal missile
+I've got in an effort to kill DS9?  Because that's the only other alternative
+that I've got to just talking about it...and on the question of
+unsubstantiated bs, frankly, you're off base and I still find that insulting.
+
+                B5 has a paper trail four years long.  And unless you have access to that --
+as I do -- please refrain from spouting off about things you don't know.
+Despite very strong feelings about this situation, I'm trying to be mature
+about all this.  Comments like yours just tempt me to say, "Okay, screw it,
+you want substantiation?  Let's party, let's get in the lawyers."
+
+     This is the topic for discussion of B5.  In all its aspects.  If you find
+the conversation uncomfortable...there are other topics for you to explore.
+Meanwhile, please try and refrain from characterizing my post as "bs".  You
+can't get any closer to the inside scoop on something like this than from the
+creator/executive producer/writer.
+
+     I have adopted a live and let live attitude re: DS9.  I will try and
+adopt one toward you.  Please don't cause me to regret either decision.
+
+     End of sermon.
+
+     Finally, to Ellen's request re: prior credits...I've worked in TV for
+about ten years now...first in animation, on such programs as THE REAL
+GHOSTBUSTERS, to live-action SF such as CAPTAIN POWER, and I was primary
+writer and story editor on the syndicated TWILIGHT ZONE.  I was writer and
+story editor on JAKE AND THE FATMAN (or as we called it, THE LAME AND THE
+HALT), and am currently on M,SW as writer/producer.  I adapted THE STRANGE
+CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE for Showtime (which received both Ace and
+Writers Guild Award nominations for writing), wrote a new "V" miniseries which
+will not be filmed for budgetary considerations, recently finished a
+SF/adventure/comedy screenplay for Ivan Reitman, and have published two novels
+and one anthology and numerous short stories.  There's more beyond that, but
+those are some of the highlights.
+
+     Sorry to have gone on so long with this.  We now return you to your
+regularly scheduled programming.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     But only with a condom.
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+     Are there Quayle-class dumbfire missiles?  Probably.  But those are for
+export only....
+
+     And yes, to a question uptopic, that was me at the Brighton WorldCon
+doing a presentation on TRGBs and CP.  That was actually a lot of fun.  I
+still chuckle at some of the astonished reactions to "The Collect Call of
+Cthulhu"....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Expect fewer posts from me over the next few days or so...I have to
+finish the current draft of "The Gathering" by Friday (Monday latest) so we
+can start serious prep.  And just FYI...watch for news items next week,
+between Wednesday and Friday.  There's going to be a big press conference in
+NY with the Big Guns from the studio and the new network.  Don't know at this
+point if I'll be there or not, it depends on my time here and imminent
+deadlines.  Things are starting to heat up.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+      Taking a brief break (only 22 more pages to go....):
+
+      What I have in mind is kind of a synthesis of the two approaches to
+ storytelling in TV.  Each episode is crafted such that it can stand on
+ its own.  But the totality of each episode adds up over time into a story
+ arc of its own.
+
+      The best way to think of it, I've found, is the novel comparison.
+ Each year of the series (should this last that long) is one "chapter" in
+ the story.  (The 2-hour movie is basically a prologue.)  As a novel
+ writer, I know that major plot changes must take place at the end of
+ each chapter.  And that's how the series will be structured.
+
+      For instance, and let me state unequivocally that THIS IS NOT GOING
+ TO BE USED, BOYS AND GIRLS, THIS IS FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ***ONLY***,
+ Year/Chapter One grounds us in the series and characters with minimal
+ changes, but we begin layering in aspects of certain mysteries that we
+ want to develop further.  Year/Chapter Two takes that assumption and turns
+ it around as we suddenly discover that, say, two governments we THOUGHT
+ were deadly enemies are in fact allies, and suddenly everything's up for
+ grabs.  Year/Chapter Three ups the ante with the threat of, or possibly
+ the reality of war...and the death of one major character.  By now, one
+ character we thought was a minor character has suddenly become a MAJOR
+ character...and the Major Character from before is undergoing significant
+ changes a la Joseph Campbell.  And so on.  That's the *kind* of thing you
+ can do with a show that presents individual stories but which evolves
+ over time into something unusual.
+
+      And, of course, there's all that swooshing to deal with....
+                                       ~~~~~~~~~
+                                                                  jms
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+     I hope to post a full list of stations in the next 7-10 days.
+
+     Re: the sound-in-space question...like I said, I think I can satisfy both
+camps.  I won't know for sure until I get some footage and can get into a
+sound room and start playing around with some ideas, but I *think* it'll work.
+
+     Ten pages to go....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+ were deadly enemies are in fact allies, and suddenly everything's up for
+ grabs.  Year/Chapter Three ups the ante with the threat of, or possibly
+ the reality of war...and the death of one major character.  By now, one
+ character we thought was a minor character has suddenly become a MAJOR
+ character...and the Major Character from before is undergoing significant
+ changes a la Joseph Campbell.  And so on.  That's the *kind* of thing you
+ can do with a show that presents individual stories but which evolves
+ over time into something unusual.
+
+      And, of course, there's all that swooshing to deal with....
+                                       ~~~~~~~~~
+                                                                  jms
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+     I hope to post a full list of stations in the next 7-10 days.
+
+     Re: the sound-in-space question...like I said, I think I can satisfy both
+camps.  I won't know for sure until I get some footage and can get into a
+sound room and start playing around with some ideas, but I *think* it'll work.
+
+     Ten pages to go....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+	For those who were asking about the neeperish aspects of the show....
+
+     BABYLON 5 will utilize as much state of the art EFX as possible.   It
+will combine mattes, live-action, miniatures and computer graphics imagery in
+the Toaster environment using its video frame grabbing capability.  There will
+be three massive Amiga workstations with multi- gigabyte capability, rendering
+simultaneously via an Ethernet network, as well as a Macintosh II, which will
+run Adope Photoshop for complex texture map creation.  The Lightwave 3D
+software program will also be used.
+
+     The result will be sophisticated texture maps, and realistic looking
+ships and objects with streaking, tinting and defects.  All objects rendered
+will maintain an equal 1:1 ratio even between objects of differing size and
+mass and speed.  The beauty pass and the matte pass will both be rendered in
+the Toaster/Lightwave environment, then combined with live action via a
+Quantel Harry (whatever the hell THAT is).  The result will be such
+capabilities as that of moving from 50 kilometers away from B5 to within 10
+yards, all in one shot -- which would be impossible using models.
+
+     I understand *most* of what I've just typed here.  Our tech guys provided
+me with this.  I'm now going to lay down for a while....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     There's some talk of novelizing the V 2-hour miniseries script, and
+there's a leading SF writer interested in the job, but right now it's ONLY
+talk, and I can't comment further.  As for cons in the northeast, yes, there
+are some plans for that, but nothing yet concrete enough to announce here.
+Will advise.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     By that do you mean who is the casting director, who makes
+recommendations, or the ones who actually *decide*?  If the former, we haven't
+settled on a specific person yet, though we have several to choose from.  If
+the latter, that would be me and my co-exec producer.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     David: thanks!  That'll help.
+
+     Samuel: (sly smile) Then you may have some idea of the direction I have
+in mind.  We're gonna have fun, fun, fun.
+
+     Well, tonight I typed FADE OUT on "The Gathering" screenplay, which after
+being revised SIGNIFICANTLY to catch up on some changing technologies and some
+improvements in my own writing since I originally wrote it is in many ways a
+whole new script.  The story is essentially the same, but the characters have
+grown considerably, there's more humor in places, more action in other
+places...it's way cool.  (And I dropped the idea, in my original screenplay,
+of a character who's an actual shape-changer because a) I found a better way
+of handling a particular plot point, and b) when Warner Bros. did the focus
+group study on B5, which at that point included the shape-changer, the UNIFORM
+reaction from the group -- especially now, after the Michael Jackson shape-
+changing, and that technology becoming SO commonplace -- was that it was a
+dumbness, and why would ANYONE want to do that since it's been done so much
+now, especially in TERMINATOR 2?
+
+     (I agree.  They're right.  Why would any show want to include a shape-
+changer on a regular basis now that the technology has been SO over-exposed?
+Heh, heh....)
+
+     Anyway: I'm very pleased with the script.  It's a little wordy in places -
+- I always over-write -- and at 113 pages it'll have to be cut back a little
+for time, given the requirements of TV, but overall I'm happy with it.  It
+goes in to the studio on Monday.  I'll probably keep revising right through
+shooting, as new ideas come to me, though it'll all have to be character
+stuff; once the script's in, the effects stuff will have to be locked down in
+order to get it done in time.
+
+     Got it done just in time, too...the carpal tunnel syndrome is starting to
+flare up again, I think I'm falling prey to the flu that's going around, and I
+have to start the next batch of M,SW scripts this coming week, as well as
+finish (AT LAST) the changes to the writing book, long overdue.   And next
+week, finally, I get my new computer system which should really help my output
+climb out of the doldrums....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Make *A* backup?  Izz you craaaaaazy?  Three at least!
+
+     Mentioning Amiga reminds me...did I mention that it looks like we'll  be
+featured in an article in COMPUTE?  Also, POST magazine (which is all about
+post-production in TV) started off doing an article about how they do these
+neat effects in A Certain Other SF Show.  Then they backtracked, heard about
+B5.  Talked to our guys.  And now the slant seems to be, "Hey, why can't a
+certain other show do EFX like B5 is gonna do?  Huh?  Howcum?"
+
+     I have nothing to do with this, folks.  Ain't feeding nothing, ain't
+encouraging nothing, I only just heard about it myself.
+
+     There's *supposedly* an article for STARLOG in the works, but I've not
+heard much lately on that score.  As additional stories start coming out, I'll
+advise.
+
+     Meanwhile, a request.  This coming Thursday/Friday there should be a fair
+amount of news coverage regarding the Warners Consortium and thed -- make that
+THE -- shows they'll be doing, including B5.  If you come across any of these
+couldja let me know?  We haven't got a clipping  service yet.  Every person
+who sends me an article in which B5 is mentioned will get a FREE transparent
+sticker with the *new* B5 logo in living color.  (Obviously, this only applies
+to the first of any one paper that arrives...ten zillion copies of the DETROIT
+FREE PRESS ain't gonna do it.)  Put it in your window, on your car...baffle
+and dazzle (or daffle and bazzle) your friends!  Make it a conversation piece!
+A quick and easy icebreaker at bars, where it will help you pick up babes!
+(Or guys.)
+
+
+     Looking into the B5 patches and t-shirts, btw.  Will announce when  we've
+made a decision.  (Translation: when either WB or Me kicks loose some dough.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Luis: thanks, actually I get the major papers -- AP, UPI, Reuters, and
+others -- via That Other CIStem.  My main interest is in any local papers that
+might pick up on the story.
+
+     Ratz: If I were prudent, I would never have gotten into teevee.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Haven't checked out that keyboard yet, but may look into it.
+
+     Definitely meant original articles, not wire-copy relays.  If you find
+one, drop me a note in E-mail and I'll send along the address.  I'd post it
+here, but the address will vary depending on where I can be reached at any
+given time.
+
+     As for the computer...it's a custom job and will arrive already set up,
+so there won't be nearly the same level of tinkering going on, though there
+will be some of that inevitably.
+
+     Looks like I've definitely been blindsided by the flu.  Usually I'm
+pretty immune, but the workload recently, and not much sleep, has probably cut
+down the defenses.  Taking it easy today, just doing the B5 revisions a little
+at a time (meaning cuts and trims and the like) in preparation for delivery
+tomorrow.
+
+     Hmmm....I began this message with something specific in mind that I
+wanted to mention...and it just fell out of my head and rolled under the desk.
+Must be time for sudafed....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Finished with the final cuts/revisions.  Hah!  Done!
+
+     To answer Drumhead's question above...here is our Official Status:   We
+*do* have a go on the series, contingent upon only one thing: bringing the 2-
+hour movie in on budget.  The plan was to approve 3 series for the consortium.
+TIME TRAX and the new KUNG FU, being more easily grasped and not as EFX
+oriented, were given Go's for series.  When we showed them what we had in
+mind, they just didn't believe that we could do it.  My philosophy has always
+been the same: let me put my money where my mouth is.  We'll do the movie, and
+prove our point.  When that's done, we get the full pickup.
+
+     The ratings, it turns out, aren't even that important since, because it's
+a new consortium, they know that EVERYTHING they put on is going to be low-
+rated, just as Fox was in the beginning.  As one exec put it, "You have a Go
+for series if you're on budget and in focus."
+
+     We can do both.
+
+     Which is why Warners has decided (as will be announced formally next
+week) to make BABYLON 5 their *flagship* program, the first program to be
+broadcast via the consortium.  B5, "The Gathering," will air late  November
+(the 17th), months ahead of everything else.  In a meeting at Warners Friday
+afternoon, plans are already being put into effect regarding locking down the
+cast for the series, pattern budgets, and other things that you don't even
+BEGIN to consider until you're approved for series.
+
+     Are we *officially* approved for the movie?  Yes.  Are we *unofficially*
+approved for the series?  Yes.  It's a question of what you can announce,
+when, and our showing what we can do.  BABYLON 5 was the *only* program that
+every single member station in the consortium was able to agree that they
+wanted as a series, the other two coming with some dissension.
+
+     There will be a series.  Count on it.
+
+     Which is why all the WB publicity material does not describe "The
+Gathering" as a pilot, rather as a "debut."  The difference is substantial.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Save the wahoos for a while.  We still have to make the movie.
+                                    jm(one crisis at a time)s 
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+     I don't think they've yet finalized what it's going to be called, the
+working name is the Warner Bros. Consortium...whether that in time becomes the
+Warners Network is anybody's guess.
+
+     Nope.  Wasn't at Woodstock.  But often I'm as confused as though I had
+been.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     No, Arne, that was my evil twin Sparky.
+
+     Mike: yes, it *is* a new network, like Fox, so you're now officially very
+surprised.  The thing will go on line, as did Fox, with one night of NEW
+programs per week...in this case, Tuesday nights.  The plan then is to add one
+new night per year, again as Fox did.  This means that programs will air at
+the same times across the country, same as Fox.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I'm saddened.  I'd only corresponded with Eric here a few times, but he
+seemed always to be enthusiastic and friendly and cordial.
+
+     It's a double shame when decent people like Eric leave us, and creeps
+like Reagan go on, and on, and on like some sort of demented Energizer bunny.
+
+     Very sad.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+     (Yes, we do have a NYC station, but the list's at home.)
+

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+
+     Brook...he'd mentioned Conduit to me, but hadn't yet gotten around to
+sending along anything specific.  Would still be interested in taking a look
+and seeing what can be done.  Send me the info via Universal.  If you don't
+have the address, let me know and I'll send it along email.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 13 1992
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+     Well, actually, on reflection, there's no reason why I can't give my
+office address here.  That's ME, at MURDER, SHE WROTE, Universal Studios, 100
+Universal City Plaza, Building 422, Room 203, Universal City, CA
+ 91608.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Well, the big news took several forms, and I suppose I should've
+clarified that the news was more news to folks not on this system.  In large
+part, it referred to the big conference this week in NYC held to formally
+announce that B5 and other Warners/Consortium projects are now going into full-
+fledged production, and to formally announce the air date of B5 "The
+Gathering," of November 17th.  (There's also some growing pressure to get the
+series to follow up and running a little quicker than we'd
+anticipated...mainly because it becomes problematic to hold actors for too
+long on option.)
+
+     Good thought on the guns/energy weapons.  I want weapons of that sort to
+have a REALLY lethal look and sound and feel.  I liked the heft of the guns in
+ALIENS, for instance.  I'm tentatively calling the guns PPGs, for Phased
+Plasma Guns, but that may change.  Nasty suckers, but you have to be careful,
+since you're in an enclosed space.
+
+      Power supply on my current computer at home blew last night, so I have
+to get another one, and that puts me back on some stuff.  (Logging on via
+another computer at work.)  Pain in the butt.  Ah, well.
+
+                                                       jms
+

+
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+     YAAAGGHHH!  (There, I feel much better now...it's like holding one's
+breath for a long time.)
+
+     The home computer is still out, and I'm thus logging on from work.
+(Stayed home all day Tuesday for the power unit to come in FedEx, and it
+didn't.)  Some quickies while I'm here:
+
+     1) Yes, we *do* have more stations on line, though alas I've left the
+list at home.  I know we've added Philadelphia and Detroit and Atlanta and a
+bunch of others, but which ones in particular will have to wait until I can
+grab the list from home and bring it here, or get my home computer on-line
+with GEnie again.  (I don't know what the problem was, except that the
+internal modem on my Zeos couldn't get past the U#: request without giving me
+a No Carrier response, even *with* the right protocols, parities and the
+rest.)
+
+     2) GOOD thoughts about the weapons.  I *like* the thunderclap idea.
+Will pass this on to the tech boys.
+
+     3) Regarding using one or two ST actors on the show...for starters, we're
+not talking about regular parts.  One or two guest spots in a year or so.  And
+let us all remember that an actor's an actor, and it seems a shame to waste
+good actors becaues they've gotten typecast from another series.  That's been
+one of the injustices to come out of ST's success, so many good actors found
+it hard to get work afterward.  (If you haven't  seen George Takai in
+PRISONERS OF THE SUN, you've missed something really wonderful.)  In
+addition...this is kind of a way for Certain People to show their feeling that
+B5 is a better legacy and recipient of the ST fan's attention than other
+stuff.  Which will annoy a studio out there no end.
+
+     I'll probably post the new stations tomorrow sometime.
+
+     Meanwhile, things continue to heat up.  Met with the tech boys on Friday
+to review the script, and they had some WONDERFUL ideas on how to make this
+even bigger than I'd thought was possible in terms of EFX and some of the
+action planned for the movie.  I'm now in the process of incorporating all of
+that into the script, which will now be turned in around next Monday, computer
+hassles permitting.  Will also be at the Gallifrey convention at the LA
+Airport Hilton this Saturday to do a B5 presentation (1-2:30).
+
+     There's some growing interest and pressure from some involved at the
+studio/station syndicate level to move faster on the series than was first
+discussed.  This bodes well.  We're also fleshing out parts of the B5 station
+itself from a production standpoing, incorporating as many valid technological
+issues as we can.  One of the problems we encountered with a station that uses
+centrifugal force to create gravity is that you can't have any windows at
+waist level, since space is below your feet.  Well, our production whiz Ron
+Thornton came up with a spiffy solution to that which is gonna look neat.
+
+     Anyway, just a note to let you know that all is proceeding apace, and
+starting to gather momentum.  It's a strange feeling to be in the position of
+talking about something, of being one of maybe a handful of people who even
+know the NAME of what you're proposing...and suddenly there are quite
+literally dozens of people on the phone, and in meetings, talking about it,
+calling YOU about it, coming in with design elements and publicity strategies
+and the like...you keep fighting the urge to say, "But how did YOU know about
+that?  That's just something I've created in my head."  It's both rewarding
+and constantly surprising.
+
+     More info as I can log on here to convey it.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Eric: we have to find you a hobby....
+
+     Well, boys and girls, Today I Yam a Man.  I yanked out the power supply
+on the old trusty Northgate all by my own self, put in the new one, replugged
+the ten zillion wires...and it's up and running.  Didn't even have to bug the
+guys at Northgate to do it via phone.
+
+     And so, with no further ado, a list of some of the additional TV stations
+that've signed on to carry the B5 movie, and subsequently, Mojo willing and
+the crick don't rise, the series:
+
+     WPHL Philadelphia; WSBK Boston; WXON Detroit; WATL Atlanta; WSTW Seattle;
+KDVR Denver; WOFL Orlando; WTTV Indianapolis; and WVTV Milwaukee.   The only
+NY station that we have to date, that I *know* of, at least  (meaning they
+might've added another and not told me yet) is WWOR.
+
+     More as I get the completed lists.
+
+     Meanwhile...I'M BACK ON LINE...and woe to the wicked!
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Will look into Memphis and get back to you.  Meanwhile, I appreciate the
+invitation, but it looks like MidSouthCon is out for the time being, due to
+other committments.  Perhaps next time, once we're up and running....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Steve...just curious, what's the scuttlebutt there about the project?
+I'm interested to know what the stations are hearing, vs. what we're  trying
+to get across.
+
+     Rick: we won't be shooting on the Warners lot, but rather off the lot.
+(More and more shows are doing this now because of the HUGE fees involved --
+overhead and the like -- in shooting on the lot.  We're now in the process of
+scouting out some other locations.  Since the show is basically a park-and-
+lock, mainly interiors, you can literally get a  large warehouse, gut it, and
+build your stages there.  (And sometimes you can do this and get a LARGER
+facility, overall, than what you could get at a studio, with the competition
+there for large stages.)
+
+     What's also good about shooting off the lot is that, once the movie is
+finished, if we're on the lot we'd have to strike the set, do a fold and hold,
+then put it all back up again for the series.  The studio can't afford to let
+a soundstage remain dormant for very long.  Here, however, we can just leave
+the sets standing as long as required.
+
+     Re: slug or projectile-type weapons of the needler form...the only
+problem with those is that if you have to use them on a person, you basically
+shred them to itsy, bitsy pieces...which may be a bit much for television.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Marty: KBHK will carry B5 in San Francisco.
+
+     Steve: We begin rolling film on the B5 movie on June 1st, and we wrap on
+June 26th, after which we go into post-production.  The movie airs November
+17th, and the series has several windows in terms of how quickly it goes after
+that...it could begin as early as the spring, or later in the summer.  We have
+to move *fairly* quickly because the actors' contracts will let us hold them
+on option for up to 9 months after PRODUCTION is finished, not after the
+broadcast.  So in theory, we should have to begin the series no later than the
+following February...but that's still open to several factors.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     For most of the stuff, we'll be shooting and editing on film, though when
+we have EFX shots, especially when using an overlay of live action, then we'll
+naturally have to integrate tape into this.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Just a reminder to those in the L.A. area...I'll be doing a B5
+presentation at Gallifrey 3 at the L.A.X. Hilton from 1-2:30 in Pacific
+Ballroom B on Saturady afternoon the 22nd.  Should start hitting the out-of-
+state cons in March or thereabouts.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 23 1992
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+     Any station can potentially carry B5.  Some of those who have signed are,
+in fact, part of the Fox network.  The lines between networks and  syndication
+are growing blurrier by the day.
+
+     Gave the B5 presentation today to a modest group at Gallifrey Three
+convention here in town.  Went pretty well.  My problem is that as I go
+through the artwork and character stuff, I forget to mention stuff like -- oh -
+- the airdate, which station is going to be carrying it, that sort of stuff.
+
+     Tomorrow, with luck, my new computer system arrives.  Way cool.
+
+                                                           jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 26 1992
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+     Figures.  Because we're starting with a movie, we tend to get lost in the
+shuffle.  Regarding the tape...the snow vehicle ain't part of B5; if the space
+ship you mention is beside a rocky planetoid, then yes, that's ours...if not,
+it ain't.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 29 1992
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+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
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+

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+     As I mentioned before, there's *official* commitment, and what you can
+thus announce...and what you can't.  It is my understanding that all we have
+to do is bring the movie in on budget, and we're go for the series, we'll have
+proven that we can do the kind of show that we promised.  And we can.  And we
+will.  The show will follow, trust me.
+
+
+
+     David: where exactly did this article appear?  This is very troubling.
+
+     From the beginning, B5 has always included a casino, the subtle presence
+of a brothel, customs areas, a marketplace, business areas, a nightclub/bar
+and so on.  If this latest has any semblance to reality, this may have gone
+too far.
+
+     Please indicate the source, and date.  Thanks.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     So let me see if I've got this straight
+
+     BABYLON 5 (a name followed by a number) for four years was always a space
+station headed by an unmarried commander, at a major transit point for travel,
+with representatives from different races on board, with a shapechanger a
+pivotal story point in the movie, and with a variety of facilities including a
+bordello and a casino.
+
+     And now...as the story emerges....
+
+     DEEPSPACE 9 (a name followed by a number) has become a space station
+headed by an unmarried commander, at a major transit point for travel, with
+representatives from different races on board, with a shapechanger a pivotal
+story point in the movie, and with a variety of facilities including a
+bordello and a casino.
+
+     ...
+
+     I was going to leave a much longer message, but the heart just went out
+of me.  Will come back on line later.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     All I can say at this point is that something will be done.  In the
+interim, anyone who wants to drop Paramount a letter is welcome to do so.
+
+     I think the reason that we're in this situation, as opposed, say, to a
+novel, is that we're in the same media.  When it comes to TV, the Paramount
+attitude seems to be, "But...WE own space!"
+
+     Hang fire, folks.  And get the word out.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     Comalite; yes, that scenario has indeed occured to me.  And that is one
+of the things I fear most...that people will see DS9 and think that WE ripped
+off THEM.  Which is why I'm glad that the folks here saw how this has
+progressed.  At least now I have witnesses.
+
+     And to the message above...yes, it's not inappropriate to think that a
+station might have a casino and a bordello.  The problem, to me, is the NUMBER
+of items.  They are both a) deep-space stations b) positioned at primary
+transit points beside travelers and businessmen c) presumably dead planets
+that is a d) port of call for) features representatives from various
+governments, with f) a casino and g) a bordello, which is run by h) an
+unmarried man with the rank of i) commander, and that a j) shapechanger
+figured prominently in the opening story about a station with a k) name
+followed by a number....
+
+
+     Oh, well...at least my 486 Megasystem arrived today, at last.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     Matt: if you can reassure me...do so.  Otherwise, yes, there are ways to
+find stuff out, but they're more time consuming.
+
+     And to the above note...yes, we're still slated to come up first, with
+the airdate still solid at November 17th.
+
+     Just returned from another meeting with our EFX and production guys.
+  The team is getting bigger with each meeting, as more guys are added on in
+various capacities.  Today was a discussion of prosthetics, makeup, ship
+design elements and the like.  The preliminary sketches are REALLY
+interesting, and have a look unlike anything I've seen before on TV.   We're
+especially setting aside time to work out how the B5 station will work, and
+look, and it's undergoing some radical design changes that make what's out now
+on the tape look like nothing.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and will post some new speific info as soon as I can; it
+'sbeen nuts these last few days.
+
+
+                                                          jms
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+     At this time, there are no immediate plans for lawyers on B5.  We will
+instead emphasize dealings with *civilized* life-forms.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Oh...glad you reminded me.  I'd forgotten.
+
+     Will post something in the next 24 hours or thereabouts.
+
+     BTW...one amongst us here has seen much of what B5 is going to be
+about...characters, the bible, artwork, all that stuff.  If he would like to
+comment -- as an objective point of view -- he's certainly more than welcome
+to do so.  My thought, always, is that anything I say has to be considered
+suspect because I have a vested interest, whereas if it comes from someone
+else, it carries more weight.  (I ask others always to PROVE IT when someone
+makes a claim, it behooves me to do the same.)
+
+                                                           jms
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+     Brad: in Washington DC, B5 will be on WDCA-TV.
+
+     And yes, pre-production has begun on "The Gathering."  Production and
+prostethics designs have started, most of the high-tech equipment we'll need
+for computer design has been ordered and should be arriving this week, a
+director has been selected (though he's not yet locked down contractually, so
+I can't announce who at this time), some production assistants have been
+hired, others have been put on line...so the actual, physical process has
+indeed begun.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Will investigate the Arkansas situation.
+
+     And thanks re: the B5 video via Newtek.  And yes, it's going to be a LOT
+more impressive.  Part of this comes from dealing with the technical and
+scientific/extrapolational questions of such a station.  How would it really
+*work*?  If you want a situation in which you have windows at eye level as
+well as under your feet (required by centrifugal force), how would you do it?
+How would ships dock?  How do you divide up sectors and arrange for various
+rotation speeds (and thus gravities) without the whole thing tearing itself
+apart at the seams?
+
+     By hewing closer to the realities of such questions, I think we get a
+very *authentic* looking show.
+
+     The computer EFX station will be arriving within the week, and it's
+REALLY something.  Newtek is working with us, and with our designer Ron
+Thornton, to give us some amazing stuff, rewriting codes and coming up with
+new ways to do things.  Though it will, alas, come too late for the bulk of
+the EFX we're doing, apparently there's one additional component being
+developed now that would, when plugged into our new station, give us the
+capacity of a Cray computer times 1.2.  We might miss that for the movie, but
+it'll definitely be available for the series.  As it is now, what we have now
+will allow us to do REAL-TIME rendering...and those out there who understand
+what that means will grasp how amazing that will be on a movie like this.
+
+     On the plus side of Another Controversy, it's my understanding, from my
+few sources, that DS9 and B5 -- though essentially the same in terms of format
+-- will be vastly different in terms of approach and storytelling.  DS9 will
+be, well, like TNG, just in a different environment, in terms of tone and
+attitude and storytelling.  Which will make B5 *very* different by comparison.
+I do take some comfort in that.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Hmmm...y'know, that ain't a bad idea...arrange for a test screening and
+stack the deck with SF fans, especially from here...hmmmmmmmmmm....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Could be....
+
+     Let us remember that the Medusa is a *legend*, the Minotaur is a
+legend...legends are our way of dealing with things we don't fully understand.
+Which ain't to say it ISN'T disinformation, or ISN'T in some way grounded in
+some incident or other, only that all things are both possible and logical.
+
+     More meetings today at Warners re: B5.  Tremendous enthusiasm for the
+script.  Some money will begin flowing into the production budget from Warners
+next week, and we figure on having the director locked down the first part of
+the week.  Some discussion about whether or not we begin with a teaser...in a
+way, a cold opening that grabs you up from the start, THEN later segues into
+the opening titles ain't a bad idea.
+
+     We're starting to get busy on this...memos flying around, lots of people
+being hired and coming aboard, discussions about how many grips and sound guys
+and wardrobe people and honey wagons we'll need...a show like this just sort
+of sits around for a long time while everyone makes up his mind what to
+do...and then when it begins grinding to life it REALLY starts to pick up
+speed fast.
+
+     One of our greatest concerns right now is the *look* of the show, now
+that the script is finished.  We want something very unique, not quite film
+noire but certainly a second cousin...texture, light against shadow...and the
+whole concept of what the future will look like.
+
+     Yikes.
+
+     So what am I doing HERE?  I should be working!
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Yeah, there's kind of a good break-point about 6-7 pages into the script
+that can be sliced off and used as a teaser, ending as it does with a bit of
+an action scene.
+
+     Re: weapons, we're sticking with the blaster/laser style gun, rather than
+a projectile weapon, for several reasons: 1) a projectile weapon is MUCH
+messier, and 2) you can set the intensity on a beam-style weapon so that it
+can cut through flesh but not the metal of the hull...whereas a projectile
+fired in a closed, metallic space that MISSES will richochet all over the
+damned place.
+
+     The key, then, becomes to do the beam effect DIFFERENTLY.  And we seem to
+have a cool way of doing that.  I've discussed it with the EFX people, and
+they seem to think it's do-able.  What I need now is some more tech info from
+a couple of folks I know who are into the more scientific stuff, one of whom
+is a physicist, to find out, if there WERE such things, how would they act?
+The answers I've gotten thus far are very interesting, and open up all kinds
+of possibilities.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Oops, cross-posted with KL...yes, I plan on doing a B5 presentation at
+ComicCon, which with luck will include some rough footage.  In theory, I can
+bring some test or rough footage to any convention I attend subsequent to
+about August/September.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     There will definitely be varying degrees of technology, which is why we
+have Tech-Runners ferrying embargoed or prohibited technology from one race to
+another.  Some go to great lengths to CONCEAL their level of technology...only
+to spring it on the "target" at the right moment.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Regarding language...yes, there will be some completely alien languages
+spoken.  The generally used names -- Vorlons, Minbari -- are the nearest Human
+equivilants in some cases, or have other backgrounds.
+
+     In *general*, the resident language is English, or Terran, since this
+station is, after all, nominally run by the Terrans.  And on average, you take
+a little time to learn the language, just as you would if you knew you were
+going to be visiting France for an extended period.  Hence, the ambassadors
+are more or less fluent.  It's all downhill from there.  You have the alien
+equivilant of the Ugly American, who doesn't bother to learn the language, or
+the customs, and doesn't much care.  (And which can thus lead to some dicey
+situations.)
+
+     (Another reason behind this, btw, was the realization that one language
+generally arises as the language of commerce.  Every commercial airline in the
+world, whenever it approaches a control tower, wherever that tower may be in
+the world, generally opens communications in English, just as once in our past
+Latin was considered a "generic" language in commerce.)
+
+     In any event...yes, there will be a multiplicity of tongues, in varying
+situations and to varying degrees, depending on who's involved.   Good
+thoughts on the beam weapons, btw.  Fairly close to what we have in mind.
+
+   (Btw...and I hate to repeat this from my other topic, but I've been asked to
+do so...my last episode of MURDER, SHE WROTE for this season airs this Sunday
+night.  Just FYI.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+    Thanks.  I kinda had fun with that M,SW episode, and trying to get the
+flavor and language of the Irish dialect was both challenging and a great deal
+of fun.  (It looks like I'll be writing a follow-up Irish episode for next
+year.)
+
+     And re: virtual reality/cyberspace...I was the first to commission a
+virtual reality/cyberspace episode for television *ever*, on POWER, and be
+assured I'll eventually get into that on B5 as well.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Yeah...it was a decent show, all things considered.  (Just curious, how
+many tapes did you find?  To the best of my knowledge, only six were
+commercially released...about 1/3rd or 1/2 of the total of 24 episodes.)
+
+     As for a being that is an actual *shapechanger*...screw it, let the Other
+Guys have him/it.  Who says I'm not reasonable?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Okay, here's an updated station list.  The only one we've signed that I
+don't have in front of me is Pittsburgh.  There are still more to come beyond
+that.  Meanwhile, here's the latest:
+
+NEW YORK -- WWOR LOS ANGELES -- KCOP CHICAGO -- WPWR PHILADELPHIA -- WPHL
+BOSTON -- WSBK SAN FRANCISCO -- KBHK WASHINGTON DC -- WDCA DALLAS -- KTXA
+DETROIT -- WXON HOUSTON -- KTXH ATLANTA -- WATL CLEVELAND -- WUAB SEATTLE --
+KSTW TAMPA -- WTOG MINNEAPOLIS -- KMSP MIAMI -- WDZL ST. LOUIS -- KPLR
+SACRAMENTO -- KRBK PHOENIX -- KUTP DENVER -- KDVR BALTIMORE -- WNUV HARTFORD --
+WTXX ORLANDO -- WOFL SAN DIEGO -- XETV INDIANAPOLIS -- WTTV PORTLAND, OR --
+KPTV MILWAUKEE -- WVTV CINCINNATI -- WSTR KANSAS CITY -- KSMO RALEIGH -- WLFL
+GRN-SPR-ASH -- WHNS NORFOLK -- WGNT SAN ANTONIO -- KABB OKLAHOMA CITY -- KOOB
+HARRISBURG -- WPMT W. PALM BEACH -- WTVX SYRACUSE -- WSYT ROANOKE -- WJPR DES
+MOINES -- KDSM PORTLAND, ME -- WPXT SPOKANE -- KAYU BATON ROUGE -- WGMB WACO --
+KWKT SANTA BARBARA -- KADY MONTEREY -- KCBA AUGUSTA -- WFXG LAFAYETTE, LA --
+KADN COLUMBUS, GA -- WXTX YAKIMA -- KCY ODESSA -- KPEJ
+
+     Phew...all those letters, I think I got them right.
+
+     More info as it becomes available.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 16 1992
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+     Well, I think Herman Melville might have a word or two to say on his work
+being quoted being a STAR TREK riff...he predates them by just a tad.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Well, all I can really suggest, if your area isn't covered, is to write
+to the programming department at your local *non-network* TV station(s).
+Those are the ones who are either being, or have been approached by Warners.
+Suggest that they contact Warners, or indicate your interest in seeing the
+program, based on what you've heard.
+
+     And if, by the way, as an aside, you liked the look of THE EQUALIZER,
+that kind of texture...the director we think we've settled on was largely
+involved in that look, and did considerable directing work on that series, as
+well as others...nice shadows, textures, profiles...as well as work on many
+features.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Actually, one of the things we're going to be playing with, once we get
+to series, is the idea of weather.  If you're in a station like this, which is
+basically an enclosed, self-contained world,  you're going to want some
+variations in weather, particularly in the inner section.  So there are plans
+for a Bio-Environmental Engineer type whose job it is to vary the weather a
+little here and there, and to look out for issues of resource conservation and
+the like.
+
+     And there will be some aspects of that "smoky" photography at time...the
+main thing, as the director put it, is that so many SF shows "light and shoot
+the walls; what we want to do is light and shoot the ACTORS."
+
+     With the director taken care of, we're now setting up our wardrobe
+person, casting director, and line producer.  Hope to have those nailed down
+in the next week or so.  Should also be getting the revised specs on the New
+And Improved B5, and some of the ships we'll be seeing, in the next few days.
+Our EFX guy, Ron Thornton, is cooking up some strictly wonderful and strange
+stuff, chuckling over the guys who were so blown out over what was on the
+original NewTek tape..."If THAT blew their brains out," he said, "wait until
+they see *this*!"
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     That's a good idea, and one that's been discussed.  Look for an RTC
+somewhat closer to airdate than the present, to make best use of it.  So
+figure around September-ish....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Fox network stations can carry it because it's on a Tuesday night for
+starters, when Fox isn't sending out a network lineup.
+
+     In perhaps the longest delayed-reaction in a while...if you have cable,
+and get WOR, and none of your stations locally carry B5, you can pick it up
+off WOR.  It's only when WOR brings the show into a local area where another
+station carries it that it gets blacked out.  So you can either lobby your
+local stations to carry it, or be sure that your cable operator carries WOR.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Tuesday is the night we're lock into at this stage, which is why November
+17th (a Tuesday) was chosen.  Now, it's *possible* that the series might end
+up on a different night, should the consortium decide to add another night to
+the schedule, but that's still *very* much up in the air.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 20 1992
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+     Not officially, Jay.  Not yet.  I'll announce as soon as I can, which
+can't be until after papers are signed.
+
+     Lawrence: yes, it *is* a substantial burden.  Which is why there will be
+a slight shift in responsibilities once the series gets going.  The screenplay
+has a line from Sinclair indicating that there *was* an Earth ambassador on
+the station, but the ambassador fell ill and had to return home, during which
+time Sinclair is nominally filling that role.
+
+     So now he's wearing two hats, as it were, and Laurel is wearing one.
+When the series gets going, he will be wearing one hat, and she will be
+wearing one hat...and a lot of SF fans are going to get something they've been
+asking for for a long, long, long time.
+
+     At least, I *think* that's what I'm going to do...though I'm still
+working out some of the permutations...it's a fairly recent decision, and I
+have to look over the 5-year storyline to make sure it doesn't compromise
+anything...if it does, then I'll have to find another solution.
+
+     Was this at ALL helpful?
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 23 1992
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+
+     Ah, I mistook your Roanoke comment for something else, to do with
+speculation about B4...guess that means I'll have to retract my comment that
+you were closer to the truth than you knew...(sly smile).
+
+     BTW...just in case anyone's interested...there's a piece in the Arizona
+Speculative Fiction Society's publication, CONNOTATIONS, about B5, courtesy of
+Lee Whiteside that talks about B5, drawing from notes here.  Also, if you get
+(or your library gets) Broadcasting News Magazine, there was a two-page color
+ad from Warners to announce the four projects of the new consortium, which
+includes B5.  (I believe that was the February 24th issue.)  It bills all four
+as Commencing Production.  There are a few more articles due out soon, will
+try to advise all of them closer to publication.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Nope, just busy with production details.  More meetings scheduled, and
+being scheduled for this week...sound, casting, EFX and the like.
+
+     I think we've got the weapons question fully licked; and the solution is
+neither one, nor the other, but *both* (and I'll let you chew on that one for
+a while).
+
+     As we get closer to rolling film, I'll be skewing my "reports" here
+slightly more toward production information and away from creative stuff, for
+a variety of reasons, though from time to time we'll get into some of that.
+At the moment, our main concern is getting the new, revised B5 onto film and
+out of the computer.  We should have the first segments out and onto film in
+the next 10 days or so.  (For those who are interested, there's as much
+"surface" in the first one-fifth of the station as there was in the original
+total B5 shown on the earlier demo.  That will literally enable us to get
+within 100 feet of the thing with perfect clarity.)
+
+     More as I can release it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     ...yes?  And?  What does it say?  I mean, HONestly....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Y'all might want to check out Message 602 in my topic (Cat 11, Topic 25)
+for a preliminary schedule of some of the conventions that I'll be hitting
+over the spring/summer.  Will add more as they're confirmed.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 29 1992
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+
+     My apologies for the long silence here...you hit a stage in the
+preproduction process where, at various points, you fall off the face of the
+earth...a lot is happening awfully fast, and the press of all that tends to
+wipe out everything else.  (M,SW has also kept me busier than usual, finishing
+off one outline, and getting the premises approved for two more...one of which
+is going to be just a *knockout* in the ratings, it's something so nifty that
+I can't even talk about it just now.  If you thought the Psycho house
+crossover was promotable, wait till you see what is coming down the pike this
+time!)
+
+     I should be able to see the new, revised B5 rendering on screen this
+coming week, probably the first part of the week.  Will also be finalizing
+certain aspects of the revised budget, and meeting some of the new members of
+the production crew that've been added, including the director of photography,
+camera operator, line producer and the like.
+
+     Have decided to bite the bullet and commission a limited number of B5 t-
+shirts that'll be given out at conventions where I'm appearing.  I figure
+it'll be a fairly small order, maybe 500 or so to start with, and see where
+that takes me.  It'll probably end up with the B5 logo on the front (either
+small, over the left breast, or full-size in front) with the possible addition
+of ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES on the back.  Those of you who've seen the logo, how
+does silver on a black T sound?  The other choice would be black on a grey T
+shirt.  (I *hate* white T's and just won't wear them, let alone inflict them
+on others.)
+
+     At this point, there won't be enough (or time or resources) to mail out a
+bunch at this time...but I give you my word that when we have a large order
+made up, the Loyal And Faithful Few here will be first to hear about them.
+(Hmm...just had a funny idea...maybe when the rest are made up from the big
+order, I could pay to have an altered set made up for the GEnie-ites who
+supported it...with everything else on the shirt the same, except for the
+words "I Was There At The Beginning" added in front or back...hmmm...I'll have
+to play with that notion for a while.)
+
+     Anyway, as stated, try not to take silence as any indication of lack of
+movement.  As a rule, the more I can write here, the more time I have, meaning
+that the faster things are happening, and the more that's going on, the more
+I'll tend to fall silent here unless provoked by a message of my own
+conscience.  One tends to get very tunnel-visioned about these things....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Okay, black and silver it is.  Will go for the full-size logo in front,
+in silver, and red slogan in back (I hadn't thought about the use of
+red...cool idea).  Thanks for the input.
+
+     BTW...for those interested, there's a decent-sized notice about B5 in the
+current issue (#163) of STARBURST magazine, on page 7.  It gives some of the
+background stuff as well as some good words about how it'll do.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Actually, on the M,SW subject, I checked with some computer folks, and
+the scenario as presented would work.  1) A number of people do leave their
+computers on 24 hours a day, partly because the biggest problem with computers
+is blowing a power source due to lots of turning on/off, and partly because
+more and more computers are coming with internal fax cards, and thus they're
+leaving them on to catch late-night or early morning faxes.  I imagine that
+Jessica Fletcher would go for about the same modem setup I just bought, a
+14,400 v32 bis that could exchange a LOT of information quickly.  In addition,
+if the program slipped into her computer operates like my Windows or Norton
+backup, it can be set to send out ONLY the newly-created or edited files...so
+the whole process could take place in about 5-10 minutes.
+
+     So NYAH!
+
+     As for B5 casting...we'll be starting that in a few weeks, probably
+around the 3rd week of April or 1st week of May, depending.  So figure on some
+sort of announcement here around middle or late May.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 01 1992
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+     Okay, two things: I put in the order today for the shirts (which, on
+seeing what was there, I decided at the last would look better on royal blue
+than black, with the emblem in white).  Those of you who need to hedar -- er,
+hear -- further details, will.  Watch your private mail in the next two weeks.
+(You know who you are.)
+
+     And now something very, very serious, folks, and I want you all to listen
+good.
+
+     I have a favor to ask.
+
+     I need those of you who have any real interest in seeing B5 hit the
+airwaves to check into this topic at least twice a day between now and Friday
+morning/early afternoon.  I may need something from you, in a big way.  This
+is *important*, people.  I can't go into detail at this time, and maybe the
+situation will fix itself...but for now let's just say that you may have a
+chance to influence a major situation.  I don't know how large the B5 group of
+shock-troops is, but there may be a major role for every single one of you to
+play.
+
+     I don't want to sound apocalyptic.  I *do* want to convey to you that
+there is something very important in the works and, as they say, to Watch This
+Space.  The call may never need to go out, but if it does, stay tuned.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Many thanks to all the volunteers.  All I can say is to stand by.   The
+next 24-36 hours are make-or-break.
+
+     The outpouring here is very much appreciated, and very warming.  Thank
+you.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     No reason to feel foolish.  The cause and situation is quite real, and
+believe me, I would not be doing this if there weren't sufficient cause.
+
+     And check-ins needn't be during prime-time, that's something I should
+have mentioned, but didn't.  And yes, I will very *definitely* note here when
+and if the crisis passes.     
+
+     Please continue to bear with me.  This is, as someone noted, truly an
+extraordinary situation...and there may be a chance to take part in a
+democratization of the process of television that may be something of a
+benchmark.
+
+     Thanks again, and as soon as I can come out with the full story, I  will
+do so immediately.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Several things...first, thanks to one and all, especially the lurkers (so
+where've you BEEN all this time?).
+
+     Second, it *looks* as if the deadline for the resolution for the current
+situation has been extended to Monday, which lets us all take a moment to
+breathe.  So you needn't check in on the twice-daily schedule for the next
+couple of days, though I strongly suggest a check-back on Monday.  
+
+     In the interim, because there's some time, and because we've now gone
+through so much set-up, I think it is incumbent upon me to kind of explain a
+*little* of the situation.  Mind, I can't say a lot; I have to be circumspect
+because that's the nature of the business.  At least, I have to be circumspect
+at the moment...we'll see what Monday at the close of business day brings.
+
+     What I *can* say is this...that from the very first day, as those of you
+who've been around the longest know, everyone associated with B5 has dedicated
+him/herself to doing this one *right* in every possible sense of the word.
+Budget, effects, the deal, control, the script, you name it, we've been *very*
+careful, and very dedicated to that singular proposition.
+
+     In any situation like this, if you're worth your salt, you come to one
+pivotal moment when you have to be willing to put *everything* on the line, to
+risk it all on one throw of the dice.  In order to get the last elements we
+need, that's what I've had to do...we will either do this show right, on every
+level, or....
+
+     You get the idea.
+
+     I've put it all up to a roll of the dice...four years work, my team,
+everything.  In order to do it *right*, or not at all.  One of my prize
+possessions is a RAF wing-insignia from WW II.  The motto read only, "Who
+Dares, Wins."  And I believe that.
+
+     If I can mix my gambling metaphors for just a moment, in this little game
+of chance I have one card up my sleeve...and that's all of you.  If the
+balance begins to tip, those of you who believe in what we're trying to do
+will all have your part to play.  And it may be *extremely* instrumental.
+That's all I can say at the moment.  My decision to put everything up for
+grabs, winner-take-all, has been supported by all th ose involved with B5, and
+that's immensely gratifying.  It's a very, *very* dangerous game, but with a
+little luck, and with a sudden possible ride by the cavalry over the hill,
+it's *just* possible thatt we'll pull it off, and make a little history in the
+process.
+
+     So stay watchful, though a little less often between now and Monday, and
+we'll see what happens.  And know that your support and your interest means
+more than I can possibly describe.
+
+     Thanks again, and as soon as I can explain further, or make an
+announcement one way or another, be assured that it'll be here within minutes.
+
+
+     (Oh...and before I forget...the t-shirts are being silk-screened even as
+I type this, and will be ready within about 10 days, at which time there will
+be a system whereby those whats wants 'em will be able to get them without
+charge.  This batch will be set aside only for use at and distribution at
+conventions, and to the 470/18/22 folks who've been here from the start.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Two marginally off-topic replies...DS9 will film in August for a early
+spring 93 airdate.  That's solid.  And no, there's no involvement here with
+Angela's other project, which at this time is dormant anyway.
+     That said...there's news.
+
+     What propelled this current situation was a confluence of things: the
+importance of getting some foot-draggers to move so we could still hit the
+November play-date and other details, but *most* important was the issue of
+the creative focus, the long-term plan for the show, and control over what we
+felt the show could become.  Without that, you've got nothing on a project
+like this.
+
+     I'm leaving a lot out, of necessity, but from the foregoing it should be
+clear that what was at stake was the creative and organizational *heart* of
+the show, as well as other things.
+
+     So at some point in the game, you've got to push all your chips onto the
+table and turn the game into winner-take-all.
+
+     This was then conveyed.  There was resistance.  At 11:45 this morning, a
+call came indicating that if this was indeed the stance, then it looked like
+the project was dead in the water.  My agents wondered if maybe there should
+be some flexibility.  My associates were willing to stand by our decision.
+
+     "Let it ride," I said.
+
+     If it has to die, then let it die here and now.
+
+     As the clock ticked on, I began to think about the people we'd involved
+in this project, the years of work, the dedication that so many have already
+shown B5 within the team of production staff we've brought aboard.  Had my
+inflexibility ruined something for all of them?
+
+     At 12:20, 35 minutes later, the phone rang again.
+
+     They blinked.
+
+     We're on...and all the provisos I'd held out for were accepted.
+
+     It's a terrible thing to look into the abyss...and thus a wonderful thing
+when you realize that you're not going to fall after all, that you've somehow
+skated past the precipice and come out alive at the other end.
+
+     The crisis is over, the situation fixed, and now at long last, we can
+settle down to the business of casting and building and rolling film.
+
+     The "we" who won in this situation is, I believe, everyone...thanks in
+large measure to people at Warners and at the Television Consortium who
+believe in this project, have believed in it from the beginning, and
+understood what it was that was at stake...and came through for us at the end.
+
+
+     And thanks as well to those here, who Quixotically volunteered to go
+forth and attack dragons in service of a place they had never even seen, which
+is, I suppose, the higest calling one can aspire to, to fight not for
+acquaintances, or the familiar, but for an *idea*.
+
+     So once again, my utmost appreciation.  That the goal was achieved
+without the necessity of firing a shot does not in any way diminish the thanks
+due the volunteers in this extraordinary company.  When next we assemble, I
+hope, it will be in the cause of celebration.
+
+      And today I have amended the B5 bible to include the following notation:
+"The Babylon 5 station is located in neutral territory, in grid epsilon, at
+coordinates 470/22/18."
+
+     Onward!
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Whew...40 messages since yesterday...yipes!  (And to the question of my
+prior work, you might want to add 11 episodes of the new TWILIGHT ZONE, and my
+adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," for Showtime,
+which got a bunch of nominations, including the WGA Award nomination.)  And on
+the question of music...yeah, that's something I've already been working on,
+picking an appropriate kind of music for the various species.  I'm going to
+have to sit down with some real sharp composer and just start trying things
+out.
+
+     Meanwhile....WOW!
+
+     Ron Thornton just left here a little while ago, having brought over the
+*NEW* and pretty much final version of B5...both in photos off thde video, and
+on tape.  If you've seen the B5 demo on the NewTek tape, you can forget
+it...this is *so* much better, so 3-dimensional, so real and detailed that
+it's absolutely astonishing.  It makes the earlier B5 look like a hand-puppet.
+We've worked out most of the tech on it, including a new way to handle the
+centrifugal force question...and yes, to whoever inquired 'WAY up-topic, there
+are heat dissipators and optical routing panels on the station to channel cool
+light inside...and we've dropped the solar panels, incorporating the idea of
+edges rising out of the sides with the heat dissipators.  It's also been
+created in such a way as to provide a) Earth normal gravity, b) various
+incrementally greater gravities, and c) a completely weightless environment
+not only at the center, but in one other area as well.  And we've worked out
+most of the problems inherent in docking with a moving object.
+
+     The point being...it looks really, really, *REALLY* cool.  This is the
+version that I'll be shlepping around to cons this Spring, though by then the
+footage will probably be a bit longer and more elaborate, with music and the
+series logo and ships and other spiffinesses layered in.
+
+     Anyway, I'm now even more confident that when you see this thing, it's
+not going to be like *anything* you've ever seen before.
+
+     Oh...and I also saw, while Ron was here, the cover of VIDEO TOASTER
+magazine, the issue that'll be out, I think, next week...and the whole cover
+is taken up by a shot of the earlier B5 shot.  It looks absolutely stunning
+there, and Ron is featured in the article, which will explain a lot more about
+how we're doing stuff.  (In other words, hard core neepery.)
+
+     The momentum is gathering as we move toward Day One of filming.
+
+     Which is about 2/3 months from now.  We're going to have a photog on
+stage every day to chronicle production, and may link up with someone to film
+a "making of" short.  During production, I'll try to log on here every couple
+of days (expect me to vanish a *lot* when we're filming) to provide updates
+direct from the stage.
+
+     Onward...and just *wait* until you see the new, Even Better Babylon 5.
+Yikes!
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Thanks for the thoughts, all.  One thing I forgot to ask Ron while he was
+here -- and perhaps some of you Amiga-types can supply the info -- is for a
+contact phone number for Video Toaster Magazine.  It occured to me after the
+fact that some folks here might want to order up a copy of that issue.  So if
+I can't dredge it up in the next few days, if someone who knows could post the
+info, it'd be much appreciated.
+
+     Something else I forgot to mention was that I saw the preliminary color
+designs on the Vorlon ship as well, though they haven't been set down on video
+yet.  Again, a *very* different sort of look....
+
+     I just sat here and tried to come up with some way to describe it without
+giving away the specifics of the design, and the closest I got was "If Close
+Encounters had been designed by H.R. Giger," but even *that* isn't it. Ah,
+well.  Y'all will see it soon enough.
+
+     As I've said before (repeatedly) about casting, that won't happen until
+early or mid-May, so hang loose on that one.  We have to do things in *order*.
+That means locking down some of the additional production positions this week
+and next week, finalizing production designs so we can begin transferring them
+to blueprints for construction purposes, and we're ALL going to have to sit
+down for as much as two very long days just starting our discussions on props
+and the look of the future...remember, we have to build a world from scratch
+and determine what it'll look like.
+
+     Cast is just about the last thing you worry about and deal with; first
+come a million and one other details that have to be designed well in advance.
+It takes time to build a set, and an actor generally comes pre-constructed.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     To whomever inquired uptopic (so many flash past I can't remember now who
+said what), I may have agreed to an interview for Synthesis, and if they say
+it, I probably did...this is one of the problems in having the basic memory
+capacity of a small kitchen appliance....
+
+     To Arne, if you're looking on...thanks!  And BTW, I'm rethinking some of
+our prior discussion, and maybe something can be worked out after all in terms
+of supplementary venues for the story.
+
+     On music, I'm frankly torn between Copeland, something like Ennya, or
+Brad Fiedel's work (T2).  I like the latter's use of "metal" sounds, of
+machinery in works, which would fit well in a station like this.
+
+     This week, we'll begin storyboarding the opening title sequence, and
+we've worked out a *really* nifty approach to, again, give it a very different
+look.  (I scrapped my prior notion in favor to something nifty that Ron
+thought up, something that the tech will allow us to do that I never
+realized.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Thanks, all.  One note about a preceding message...I've indicated that
+I'm *not* looking for specific ideas from outside, for the very legal reasons
+you mention.  Rather, this is an area kind of used for airing ideas about
+technology, and music, and sound, and EFX, sort of a roundtable bull session.
+Once or twice someone has suggested a specific idea or story, and I've had to
+put on my Harsh Producer's Hat and step in fast.   And within that context,
+the discussions have proven *very* useful in airing what fans of the genre
+want, don't want, and what technical and scientific points require addressing.
+
+     Which is rather like a conversation I had this evening with the well
+known writer of SF and other forms who has agreed to work on the B5 series as
+Creative Consultant.  (Not the movie, the series, just to clarify.)   I
+outlined, over dinner, the broad strokes of the 5-year storyline, with some
+elements that *no* one has heard before, not even my associates on the show.
+And I got a but when, once discussed, were absolutely right and brilliant
+suggestions...and added a whole new layer to the project.
+
+     With luck, I'll be able to announce the identity of the Creative
+Consultant before year's end.  I just don't want to announce the name until we
+have money flowing and the series is in production and so on.  Suffice to say
+that those who know me may also know this writer as well.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Not to get too off into this tangent, but there *is* 3-D sound, though it
+has mostly been used for radio dramas and other all-sound productions.
+
+     The foremost piece of tech used for this is the (and I *hope* I'm
+spelling this right) Kuntskopf Binaural Sound System...essentailly a plastic
+"head" with speakers in either ear, which is literally taken to locations in
+question and the actors or actions move around it, with the result that when
+you put on headphones, you can hear the sound moving on either side, in front,
+and *behind* you, passing clearly in a circle.
+
+     It can actually be a fairly unnerving experience the first time you
+experience it.  If you contact ZBS Media out on the East Coast, you *might*
+still be able to get their production of Stephen King's THE MIST, which used
+this technology.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+the world, different layers of the world that I hadn't even *thought* about,
+
+     Re: the details of the last go-around...once things have quieted down, it
+generally serves *no* good cause to start throwing the details all over the
+place.  All parties concerned must work together, and to do as you ask would
+be to throw a monkey wrench into that process.
+
+     As for new inside stuff on the project itself...will post some on the
+coming weekend.  You'll understand if things have been a bit hectic and I've
+been a tad distracted over the last few days....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+     Trying to think of the next character bit I can lay out here...have I
+mentioned either Carolyn Sykes or Ambassador Jackarr here thus far?  I can't
+for the life of me remember....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Actually...no, the name of the rent-a-telepath is Lyta Kim, and we will
+be hearing more about her later.
+
+     Carolyn Sykes is Commander Sinclair's...darn, what's the right word these
+days?  Signifcant other?  Lady-friend?  Lover?  Main squeeze?  (I keep having
+this recurrent flash from "Young Frankenstein," as Frau  Blucher calls out,
+"He vas....my BOYFRIEND!")*
+
+     Carolyn has been romantically involved with Sinclair for a couple of
+years when we meet her.  She knows quite a bit about him, but there are some
+things he still hasn't told her.  They have a very adult, sexual relationship,
+and they are both independent and equal.  She is the owner, and pilot, of the
+trading vessel ULYSSES...a self-made woman who's an established and respected
+trader in a variety of goods.  She works mainly within the Earth Alliance
+colony worlds, though in the last few years she's added routes in the Centauri
+sector.
+
+     She's sophisticated, sharp, and no-nonsense...screw around with her too
+much, change the terms of your agreement in hopes of taking unfair advantage
+of her, and she'll jettison the cargo right into the sun.  She has a
+reputation to protect, and would rather lose the deal than be dealt with
+unfairly.  It sets a bad precedent...and on some of the worlds she has to deal
+with, the perception of strength is vital.
+
+     Her feelings about Sinclair's position are mixed.  On the one hand, she
+feels that he's the right man for the job, and he's doing a terrific job.  On
+the other hand, she knows that part of him longs to be back in the pilot's
+seat of a starship, and when things start to get bad, she offers him that
+chance...to tell them all to piss off, and the two of them will pool their
+resources, buy a bigger ship, and go off on their own.
+
+     Because of their schedule, she must find time together when they can,
+
+stolen hours before the next run to another world, another system.  They are
+both supportive of each other, though that doesn't remove the occasional
+conflict common to any relationship.  She isn't dark and driven, she's a
+strong female character who's *happy* in her work, she enjoys it -- the
+freedom, being responsible -- and wouldn't change it for the world.
+
+     They are very much involved with each other, but because of their
+different lives, both know that there's every chance that this might all end
+between them.  So they don't often deal with that question, though it's a
+thought that is sometimes expressed in the bedroom, at night, in soft tones.
+They might drift apart, find someone else, or something co uld happen to one
+or both of them; their jobs are not exactly conducive to longevity.  So they
+seize every moment and enjoy it as best they can.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+
+                                           * (whinnnnnnny!)
+

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+     Re: CP, yes, the base in question was built on the ruins of Detroit
+(which makes a lot of sense, if you stop and think about it), and Power's HQ
+was indeed in the rockies...though I don't think we ever specifically picked
+which one, just beneath one of the mountains.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     What do the ships look like?
+
+     They look like this (he said, holding up a sheet of paper with a Vorlon
+ship on it in all its glorious color).
+
+     What?  You can't see it through the monitor?  Oh.
+
+     Although there are very few areas that I'm keeping mum about, that's one
+of them.  See, what happened is, one afternoon, I was sitting across the table
+from Ron Thornton, who sat slumped forward, hands cupping either side of his
+face, elbows on table, glowering out at me from partially opened eyes.  In
+other words, he was in Mad Genius mode.  We could tell he was percolating, and
+adopted a courteous silence.  Did I mention that Ron is English?
+
+     Anyway, finally he leans forward and says, "You know what every damn
+bloody show on Star Trek *doesn't* have that we can do?"
+
+     "What?" we said.
+
+     "It would be really cool."
+
+     "What?" we said again.
+
+     "I mean, they can't even come close, they've never even *thought* of it,
+but it's so bloody simple."
+
+     "WHAT IS IT?"
+
+     So he told us.  And one by one, a light bulb went on over each of our
+heads (except for Doug Netter, the other exec producer on the project; a
+candle went on over his head....why, we still don't know).
+
+     One thing, though...Ron was right.  It *was* really cool.  So cool that
+if we tell *anyone*, they'll think it's cool, too.  Lots of people, all
+*kinds* of people would think it's cool.
+
+     So *this* we're keeping to ourselves.
+
+     Suffice to say for now that we're astonished that no one else has thought
+of this yet, and that it's going to look absolutely unlike what you've seen
+before.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and it's *really* cool.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Whew...okay, let's see....
+
+     That we're going to see the bathroom on B5 is not news, I've mentioned
+that before.  Insofar as the ships are concerned, what I'm referring to,
+however vaguely, is the *look* of the ships, design elements and the like.
+Once Ron said it, it was so absolutely obvious an omission that we knew it was
+perfect.
+
+     As for clothes...you have to divide those into two different areas:
+clothes for the B5 human regulars, and those on everybody else.
+
+     Yes, there will be an assortment of clothes for the former, and some for
+the latter as well.  I'm leaning in the direction of really kickass uniforms,
+punctuated by more casual, almost civilian clothing.
+
+     As for the alien stuff...we're looking now at a costume designer who has
+come up with some *astonishing* new techniques not just for design, but for
+the fabrics used.  There's one fabric she's developed that -- how do I
+describe this? -- it's not any color you recognize.  It's very much affected
+by lighting, and folding, but it's *not* that very reflective, shimmery crap
+you tend to see...it's very subtle and subdued and your eye just sorta slides
+right off it.  It's really the most alien looking stuff I've ever seen...as if
+someone said, "We've just discovered a new color," and somebody asked you to
+describe it after looking at it.
+
+     It's fairly expensive, and difficult to produce in quantity, so it'll
+probably be used sparingly, as highlights in most cases, and occasionally in
+larger sections or whole costumes.  There will be, overall, a good use of
+color and design, in some cases taking our cue from the protective coloration
+nature gives out freely (but which we'll have to pay for).
+
+     I should be getting some preliminary costume sketches around the end of
+the month, and should be able to discuss this in more detail at that time.
+(At least, as much detail as I can chance.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I don't think you're anywhere close, Ken...so what's this cool idea (or
+both of them) that you've been struck by?
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+     P.S.  Oh, I forgot to mention...the New And Improved video demo of the
+New And Improved Babylon 5 station has now been seen by the execs in charge,
+and the result is *fantastic*.  They're absolutely blown-out by it.  The PR
+folks are bringing in top-flight illustrators to do detailed renderings of the
+new station for all their outgoing artwork, and the whole place is abuzz about
+it.  The most amazing thing about it, I think, is the incredible *detail* on
+the thing, the subtle use of colors, and the rigorous attempts that Ron and
+our tech folks are going through to try and build what something like this
+would actually look like...working out the crucial points involved in creating
+varying areas of rotation and gravity, counter-weights, balance points, zero-g
+sections inside and outside, heat dissipation and light conservation, energy
+resources, storage questions, everything.
+
+     I asked an associate at JPL to examine the video, and after studying it
+for the better part of an hour, and discussing how it would work, he finally
+concluded that yes, if we had the technology to get all the parts and pieces
+there, this is *exactly* how it would be built (or at least one
+version...there are plenty of possibilities).  But this was absolutely solidly
+grounded.
+

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+     Will: yes, that sounds kinda close to the effect...now imagine it used in
+a fabric, and you'll be at least a little close to the effect.
+
+     Good ideas on the non-gravity ships, though that's not what we'll be
+doing.  (Nicely composed.)  Apparently the one person who *does* know Ron's
+work has a good idea of where we're going, though....
+
+     To answer Peter's question, and expand a bit on it, check out the current
+issue of Video Toaster Magazine, which just hit this week.  (I haven't seen
+the issue yet, but it arrived at the office.)  The cover story on B5 gives
+good info on how we'll be using the Toaster (and efx that are literally months
+old in terms of their technology) for the show.  Those into neepery will find
+plenty there to draw your interest.  Again, when you see the cover, remember
+that this is the Prior version of B5, not the new Improved version (though
+it's *still* way cool).  To get what we needed for this show, we literally had
+programmers rewriting codes customized to our needs, which go beyond what this
+stuff has ever been used for before.
+
+     If anyone here reads the piece (which is 3+ pages long, in addition to
+the cover), lemme know what you think.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Actually, David, you're closer than you know...but I can't go any further
+than that.  We have to keep some stuff quiet until we hit the air.  Which is,
+frankly, my only other concern here...that as a result of this much
+communication, one of two things can happen: 1) no matter HOW good it is,
+expectations will be raised to a point that it's not up to the perceived hype,
+or 2) the surprises are gone.
+
+     So other issues aside, that's why some things have to be held back.
+
+     I'm very cognizant of how these things tend to work...fans are fed the
+usual line of how this is going to be New and Different and Spiffy, and what
+you end up with is the same-old same-old, or nothing *near* the actual
+product.  I'd like to try and walk that line a little more closely, so that we
+deliver *more* than we promise, but promise enough to get folks interested
+while not giving away any surprises.
+
+     Yikes!
+
+     There are no plans to change this line of communication, but please try
+to understand that that is the conundrum I constantly face when here.
+
+     That said....
+
+     A few days ago, I sat down with our line producer, John Copeland, and
+production designer John Iacovelli, and we were talking about the need to move
+quickly on some stuff, and how painful the process is to have the whole story
+in your head, already told, really, and then have to make it all over again so
+we can put it on film.  "You think you've got it bad," I noted, "I've already
+worked out the last scene in the last episode of the last season (#5)...and
+I've still got to make Movie #1."  They called me on it and asked what that
+scene was.
+
+     Just to see their reaction, I told them.
+
+     They looked at me as if I'd suddenly sprouted three heads and feathers.
+It was worth it.  (Happily, they're sworn to secrecy.)  It was also good
+because I think that, even without filling in the beats in between, it gave
+them a good sense of where the series was going to go.
+
+     Meanwhile...as I type this, I'm wearing this spiffy new shirt, royal
+blue, with this funny triangular symbol on it...can't read it upside down like
+this...it says something like BABYL-- something.  I hear there are only a few
+hundred others like this.  Hmm.  I wonder where it came from...and what on
+earth I'll do with them....hmmmmmm.....
+
+     Because of the need to parcel them out carefully, a certain number will
+initially go out to randomly selected Old Timers here first.  To those
+individuals...keep an eye on your e-mailboxes for instructions.
+
+     They look really, really, REALLY boss.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     Something a submarine doesn't have also...hmm...what doesnt' a submarine
+have...well, feathers, big floppy clown shoes, a merry go round....
+
+     This is actually rather amusing.  It's going to be *so* obvious when you
+see it.
+
+     Yes, there will be a botanical area...actually, this is going to be a
+*very* special and integral part of the show.  It's the Garden, and it is at
+the center, lengthwise, of B5.  If you've seen the O'Neil station concepts,
+you can look straight up to the other side of the rotating section.  Lining
+the circular wall are fields and trees and greenery and artificial lakes and
+the rest.  (A shuttle runs through the center of the garden, in the zero-g
+section where there is no rotation.)  It's going to be an amazing setpiece for
+the show.
+
+     Funny thing...as with other shows, when you start creating a show in the
+future, you have to Create The Future, down to the last detail.  I was
+thinking about silverware, and utility, everyday items...and we were out at a
+store and I saw a *very* unusual set of tumblers/glasses that are almost
+freeform sculptures, just gorgeous and very strange looking.  I picked one up
+immediately, and I suspect that these will be used in the show.  Absolutely
+utilitarian, but just very different looking.
+
+     Spent yesterday sketching out a cool piece of communications hardware for
+personal use on the show.  Again, trying to think out what might actually be
+useful that far down the road, which took me in some directions very different
+from the communicators we're used to seeing.  I definitely plan on
+commissioning the prop guys to make one extra of these gadgets just so I can
+have it (one of the perks of running a show).
+
+     I begin to see now the process whereby, to quote history, a pair of salt
+shakers can become medical scanners....creating the future out of the present.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+
+     Hmm...I suddenly get the sense that I've lost control of our merry little
+group....
+
+     No point in further speculation, though again one or two of you came
+close.  Nothing will be confirmed or denied in any event.
+
+     One thing, though...yes, we *will* be able to go in through the windows
+of ships and B5 itself.  And to see what's inside.
+
+     Mark...will get that file and take a look.  I keep wondering what a "B5
+uniform" will look like since we haven't made *our* version yet.  On that
+point, I have some ideas, mostly in the area of practicality of use and that
+they should look fairly tough.  And stylish.
+
+     BTW...saw the Lawnmower Man yesterday, and now I finally understand what
+the heck Ron Thornton was trying to communicate to me about some of the things
+that we can do with the new technologies we'll be bringing to bear.  It
+totally turned around my thinking to new possibilities.  And as Ron pointed
+out, much of the tech used in L.M. is now a couple  years out of date.
+Apparently, he thinks we can do equal to or better than L.M.
+
+     I must go away and think now...this could be most interesting....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The Grid Epsilon graphic is neat.  Good work on that.  Re: the final B5
+logo, it's done, and has been for a while, but I haven't yet moved the scanner
+card into my new system so I can scan it over into a PCX file.
+
+     One of the first things we'll be doing soon is working out all of the
+"environmental" stuff, meaning insignia, rank, government, and other symbols
+so we can use them in costume and background stuff.  When I have all that
+collected, and my scanner back on line, I may put together a file containing
+it all, or most of it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 13 1992
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+     (tapping a ball-bat against the palm of one hand...don't make me come up
+there...just wait until your father gets home...one more peep and we'll turn
+this car RIGHT around and go home....)
+
+     Now where was I?
+
+     Corridors...yes, all kinds corridors, different shapes and areas and
+atmospheres...some small, one or two REALLY BIG ones.  Don't know about fast
+food joints, but we have something that I think you'll like just about as
+much.
+
+     By the way...can SOMEBODY here tell me how the heck to send more than one
+carbon copy in EMAIL at a time?  I'm trying to send out, umm, certain
+*instructions*, and it's taking me forever to do it one CC at a time.
+
+     Thanks.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     I don't know about the syndex situation, but suspect it's probably
+something well out of my control.  As to how many people live on B5 at any
+given point...jeez, *lots*, given that there's always folks coming and going.
+It's about 5 miles long, and frequently crowded, so you're talking about a
+goodly-sized community.
+
+     Have pretty much nailed down the SF writer who'll do the novelization of
+the B5 movie.  I'd wanted to do it myself, but time constraints just don't
+allow that.  He agreed, we agreed, now we just have to let the business guys
+work out the details.  Given the venue, the need to emphasize humor, action
+and characterization at various times, I think it's a perfect choice.
+
+     And known to all and sundry.  Watch this space for the news over the next
+few weeks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Oops, a cross-post...briefly, the B5 buttons and the B5 t-shirts are both
+limited pressings, just 500 of each, all made at my own personal expense,
+supervised by yrs truly, and thus separate from other Warners publicity or
+giveaways or Cool Stuff yet to come.  These are the only ones of their kind
+that will be made; subsequent shirts, for instance, will probably not have the
+Accept No Substitutes line on back, and the logo was changed after the silver
+buttons were made, so those also won't be duplicated as originally made.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+
+     BTW...I've tried hard to make sure that nearly everyone who's posted
+substantially in this topic is on the list.  After scanning a 500 message
+packet (eyes melting), I think I've got everyone.  If, after a few days, you
+find you haven't gotten a note...please try not to take it to heart; there are
+only so many to go around.  (And if you're a Constant Poster who's slipped
+through the net, drop me a private note.)
+
+     Info should go out tonight, system willing.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+
+     Kath...tried using the cc function, but if I put it all on one line, it
+came back with Line Too Long, Try Again...and if I put it on separate lines,
+it ended as soon as it hit the carriage return.
+
+     Anyhow, I think I got it licked now....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+
+     A one-page summary, eh?  Hmm...okay, I'll see what I can do.  If I don't
+put the info up in the next day or two, drop a note here to remind me, you
+know how I am, one thing always pushing out another....
+
+     (And a genuine Marvel No-Prize to anyone who can figure out THAT
+reference.)
+
+     Oh, and Kath, since the folks at Rattlesnake know you, you can pick one
+up directly, if you prefer (use my name, and have John call if there's a
+problem, but there won't be, so why do I worry these things to death, never
+mind, it was a rhetorical question and I'm going to lay down for a while....).
+If you prevail upon John or Susan you can *maybe* get one of them to show you
+the new B5 demo, otherwise it'll wait until Christy gets here.
+
+     (Why am I having a private conversation here?  In public?  Surely these
+people have better things to do than watch all this scroll past.)
+
+     We expect to be setting up and moving into the new B5 offices in that
+same building in the next few weeks, as more staffers are hired.  We'll
+basically be taking over one-half or so of a floor in the TV Academy Building,
+so I'll actually be shuttling between *three* offices, my office at Universal
+(a spiffy new office they moved me into in the main producers  building), the
+B5 office in North Hollywood, and the office on the B5 stage, which is located
+at....
+
+     Oops.
+
+     State secret.
+
+     Until tomorrow, Comrades.  I'm now retiring for the night.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Good, all.  I know the stuff got out, so we're clear from here on.
+
+     Mark: Jeez, but that's fast!  Yes, you caught the reference.  (And here I
+thought it was *so* subtle.)  That's really amazing.
+
+     As for commercialism or future products...when we do use them, we're
+taking the approach that over 200 years, a lot of new companies have come up,
+and a lot of older ones have merged, sometimes in unlikely pairings.  So you
+might have Sony-Grumman (sp?) Starship Construction Company.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+
+     Thanks for the kind words, folks.  Sometimes, writing for TeeVee, you
+start to think you're writing into a vacuum...you rarely ever get any sort of
+feedback (99.9% of all letters go to the stars, as, I suppose, is proper).
+Anyway, thanks.
+
+     To the questions:
+
+     The suggestion above about names was a good one.  Overall, I'd say don't
+worry about it too much, we'll figure it out.  Just send it as you would
+normally, we'll figure it out.
+
+     (The preceding paragraph, lacking a noun, rather using the pronoun "it"
+refers to money orders.)
+
+     Regarding the last scene/last episode note, and "is every single episode
+mapped out," I should explain.
+
+     I know where each season will end, and where the next season will begin.
+Those episodes are locks.  Within each season, I have set aside
+benchmarks...certain events that much happen at some point in that given
+season.  Assuming a 22 episode season, about half, or 11 out of each 22, will
+be benchmark episodes.  The other 11 will be up for grabs in terms of the
+general arc of the show.  I think you *have* to be open to what some
+freelancer hits you with unexpectedly, be open to surprises and things you
+never considered.
+
+     It's a very fine line.  The goal is that if you didn't know about the
+show, had no sense of history or any of the characters, you could tune in to
+Episode 18, Season 3, and be able to enjoy the show *immediately*.  The
+problem with a show like, say, TWIN PEAKS (which I enjoyed enormously, by the
+way), was that if you missed an episode or two, you were pretty much lost.
+Each and every episode of B5 ***must*** be able to stand completely on its
+own.
+
+     What happens is that you start laying down threads that, over time, as
+you watch more and more episodes, tells a much larger story.  The more you
+watch, the more you'll get out of it.  If you watch one, you'll be able to
+enjoy that one strictly on its own terms.
+
+     It's a trick I learned while writing/story editing, of all things, The
+Real Ghostbusters.  Those were written on two levels; one for younger viewers,
+one for older.  If you didn't get the older stuff, it didn't get in the way of
+enjoying the show.  If you *did* get the more sophisticated stuff, it added
+another *layer* to the experience.
+
+     Another comparison, out of my league as it might be, would be the
+Hieronymous Bosch painting, Garden of Earthly Delights.  You can go in to any
+panel or section of that triptych, and that could almost be a painting on its
+own terms, it's so detailed.  When you pull back, though, you begin to see a
+much larger story, a wider and more varied tapestry.
+
+     It's a challenge, from a writing point of view, but it's eminently do-
+able.  We started to do some of that in Power; that show changed dramatically
+at the end of season one, and we were starting to develop threads that, in
+toto, would tell a much different story.  There were clues all over the place.
+(Soaron saying, of his programming, "There is something in my program I do not
+understand...there is something in the dark," referring, as we would later
+discover, to a program that would force him to kill Dredd; the fate of Power's
+mother; the *real* agenda behind what was going on; wheels inside wheels
+inside wheels....)
+
+     Maybe it's my Eastern European heritage, but I *love* sagas, and B5 will
+present a chance to tell that kind of saga.  When I was assigned the V
+miniseries job, I took a similar approach, trying to create a whole and
+consistent world.
+
+     But this is hardly revelation; the world of SF print has been doing this
+now ever since the Lensman books.  The job now is translating that approach to
+television, and bring it up to, oh, at least where SF was 20 years ago....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Oh...one other thing...it might not be a bad idea for some erstwhile
+sysop or forum leader to, say, advise the friendly folks running GEnie about
+all of what's going on around here...the Grid Epsilon Irregulars, the Grid
+Epsilon/470-18-22 coordinates, that sort of thing.  Might be an article in
+this somewhere....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Re: WorldCon in Orlando...I don't have any plans at the moment, but I
+suppose they could always be added.  When does it take place?  If it's after
+the initial airdate, that could be why I flensed it from memory.
+
+     As far as Laurel is concerned, her job differs in that Sinclair's is more
+diplomatic/political, and is involved with the Big Picture of running B5,
+where Laurel is hands-on in terms of the day-to-day operations of actually
+managing the station.  If an ambassador has a problem with what the E.A. is
+doing, he'll go through Sinclair first; if that same ambassador is annoyed
+that his resupply ship isn't being allowed to dock because they won't comply
+with the silly request for a weapons scan, that tends to be Laurel's problem
+to deal with.
+
+     Naturally, there is some overlap and shifting of responsibility.  If the
+station is ever attacked, she is as qualified to sit in the command chair and
+organize/dictate the defense as Sinclair.  Having run Mars Colony Security for
+five years before coming to B5, she's quite capable of handling the tough
+stuff.
+
+     As for the earth/minbari war, yes, its repercussions will still be felt
+throughout the show, and in time will form a major plot point.  There are also
+some deep resentments remaining on both sides that we'll have to deal with.
+What we show of it will depend on many factors, but I wouldn't be surprised to
+see some scenes from it down the road...maybe late in the first season.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Two quickies:
+
+     1) I wanted the station to have a real kickass look, so if in the right
+light it looks forbidding, all the better.  Glad you like the new design.
+
+     2) A word about the t-shirts....
+
+          a) the XXL's won't be in until Monday, just FYI.  The others
+     are going out now.
+
+          b) Joe screwed up.
+
+     As I mentioned, I went through about 500 messages and pulled out names I
+saw of regulars, and just about everybody else.  In a separate file, I had the
+60 or so names that were in one message here during the Loud Period who had
+volunteered to help, and had been compiled.  In my mind, I kept cross-
+referencing between them, making sure that there was no duplication, and no
+one was missed.
+
+     My error was in doing this at 2 a.m.
+
+     There are about 4 or 5 people who *should* have been included, and were
+not...only through oversight.  (At least, 4 or 5 that I know of.)   Two were
+regular messagers whose name I'd seen so many times that I just assumed it was
+on one or the other of the lists.
+
+     Point being...if you've been here, posting, since the early days, and you
+haven't received the information...please leave me a private note.  There is
+no snubbing going on, it's just Yr Obedient Servant's own error and sloppiness
+in trying to get this stuff out fast.
+
+     My apologies to any of our regulars who might have been unintentionally
+omitted.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 17 1992
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+     Bubble-views (or real ports) ain't a bad idea at all.  And the points
+about fighters are well taken.  And there will definitely be strategy in some
+of what happens, if a series of ships should decide to engage a larger foe.
+
+     BTW, Larry, did Ron show you the rough on the Vorlon ship?  Just curious.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I think Dabney should get together with Bob Walker's aliens....
+
+     BTW, spoke today with the leading SF writer who I approached about doing
+the B5 novelization of "The Gathering."  It's a job I'd very much wanted to do
+myself, but the time factor won't allow for that.  So of all the writers I
+could think of, this was my first choice.  Was very curious to see his
+reaction, since this would be the first time anyone well known in the SF
+writing community has seen the thing.
+
+     Let's just say that he's agreed to do the novelization, and that he
+thinks it's terrific.  And that the novelization should be no tribble at all.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Boy, but messages fly thick and fast here...the Business Affairs people
+still have to set the terms of the deal, but tentatively the novel will have
+to come out probably late October.
+
+     Interestingly enough, at one time our Xenobiologist was Indian, named
+Chakri Mendak.  It was only after careful deliberation that I decided to
+change the character to an african-american, which was done for several
+reasons, not the least of which being that it would let me bring in some
+Indian characters in other roles that could be quite interesting.   And yes,
+overall I want to draw from a number of different ethnic groups and heritages,
+because they each add something new to the mix.  And the context throws into
+relief the fact that those OTHER guys are all aliens, but we -- whatever the
+ethnic background -- are all equally human, and I think that will do a lot to
+ease or even eliminate racism.
+
+     At least, within the human species.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     And spoil the thrill of self-discovery?
+
+     Regarding Warners...yes, they're all part of the overall package of
+shows.  Just as when you sign onto a network, you carry all of their shows as
+a package.  As for the Paramount presentation...haven't seen it, and thus
+can't comment (and probably wouldn't in any event).
+
+     BTW...and before I forget again...I finally got my hands on the issue of
+Video Toaster with the B5 cover story.  Anyone who'd like to get a copy should
+contact that magazine at 21611 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA 95014.  It's
+the April/May issue.  The cover price is $4.00, but I don't know what they
+might require for postage and handling on a single-issue order.  (Note: the
+b&w photos inside are *not* at this time part of B5, but rather other examples
+of related work.)  The colors are a bit off in repro as well, but not
+seriously so.  (Mainly the ship, which is a bright orange/red, which is
+different from the demo, from which the photos were composited.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 18 1992
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+     I will tell you a true thing: in Hollywood, the one thing you hear over
+and over again is the wish to direct.  Camera-men want to direct, writers want
+to direct, actors want to direct, producers want to direct, cinematographers
+want to direct....
+
+     Me, I *don't* wanna direct.
+
+     No interest in it, no aptitude for it.
+
+     I'm a *writer*, period.  As it is, the only reasons I decided to move up
+the ladder and become a producer are:
+
+     1) So nobody rewrites my stuff.
+
+     2) To create the kinds of shows that I would want to write for.
+
+     3) To acquire control over the physical production of my writing by being
+the one who HIRES the director.
+
+     That's the totality of it...I became a producer simply as an act of self-
+defense and to protect the material.  I *hate* dealing with numbers, and
+dollars, and haggling with business affairs guys, and worrying about budgets
+and hirings and corporate structures and completion bonds and film stock costs
+and how many Teamsters we're gonna need...but it's the only way to get the
+control of my writing that I really want.
+
+     The one thing I hate more than almost anything in the world is taking
+Stupid Notes from somebody.  The solution?  Become a producer.  That way you
+get to GIVE the stupid notes....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Well, excitement galore...and I may be off-line a bit because of it.  Big
+winds in the valley last night, and at 3 a.m. the sun came up in the form of a
+power cable that came down in my back yard, sparking and arcing and spitting
+blue-red-white light.  Right now, the whole house is dead, and has been since
+last night.  I'm logging on now via my notebook, but I don't know how long the
+batteries will last.  (Jeez, sounds like a distress capsule ejected from a
+ship, doesn't it?)  Anyway, will be on again when the power returns.  Expect
+me when you see me.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Ah, Luis, it arrived.  Good.  Sufficiently neat?
+
+     Have got the ol' 486 back on line, power's back, at least for the time
+being.  We'll see.
+
+     So now it's back to work...too bad, I supposse, I was *finally* getting
+around to reading the latest Lewis Thomas book on language.  Ah, well...later
+for that, I guess.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, I was referring to Etc/Etc...a wonderful piece of work.  Who else
+can make the history of the word "sew" absolutely entrancing?
+
+     We've selected a studio for audio post production, but can't release the
+name at this time.  Soon.
+
+     I suspect -- Mojo willing and the crick don't rise -- I'll be able to
+release a *lot* of production information by the end of this coming week.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+
+     Mt. Joe, thanks for the info.  We'll see what now becomes of it all.
+
+     I don't have Memphis or Little Rock on the list in front of me, but I
+know they've added some stations in recent weeks.  Will bug the guys at
+Warners for a more complete list.  The only super-station that I know of
+currently signed to carry B5 is WOR New York.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 19 1992
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+     Understood.  Well, we'll stay on top of this, I'm confident it'll work
+out one way or another.
+
+     BTW...along with some of the things that have been discussed here that we
+*are* going to be doing, I thought I'd pass along one thing that we will NOT
+be doing.
+
+     We've been slotted in on a number of conventions, and as things pick up
+speed, others will be coming.  But one convention that I've decided we will
+*not* be a part of is any of the Creation Conventions.
+
+     Granted, they've covered other shows beyond TREK, including the
+Terminator, Quantum Leap and others...but frankly, I've heard *so* many horror
+stories from fans about them, they're *so* commercially oriented, treating
+people like cattle, just to separate them from their money, and having had
+some less than salutory experiences with them myself simply as One Of Many
+Congoers, I feel that in all good conscience, I can't lend my support to that
+organization.
+
+     Fans are not sheep awaiting shearing.  And that, I feel, is the Creation
+Con mentality.
+
+     Keep it.  We'll go elsewhere.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Thanks for the support re: the con decision.  It does seem the right
+thing to do.
+
+     On the Wild West...no, I'm not involved with that, the only connection is
+that it's being done by the same company with whom I'm doing B5.
+
+     Finally, regarding the illustration in the double-page ad...I should
+clarify.  B5 has gone through *several* stages of visualization.  The very
+first thing done to help sell the show was a painting of the B5 station done
+by Peter Ledger, a leading graphic artist/illustrator.  THAT is the
+illustration you saw, NOT what's being done now.  (That drawing is about four-
+five years old.)  Stage 2 of the B5 station development was the video demo on
+the NewTek tape, which many here have seen (and which bears little resemblance
+to the original illustration).  Stage 3 was the new and pretty much final
+version that Lawrence Conley and I and a very few others have seen.
+
+     Now that video slides have been made of Stage 3, *that* is the only
+version that will be used in illustrations and ads henceforth, either through
+the slide itself, or an artist's rendering of that slide/image.   The
+publicity people at Warners went bonkers when they saw the final version, just
+loved it and have located a top-flight illustrator to do various renderings of
+that image.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Yes, I definitely intend to hit a number of other cons in the course of
+this year, some large, some medium-sized...it's a question of time, market
+(whether or not the area will be covering B5), resources, and the usual
+scheduling conflicts...there are several conflicts that I have to  choose
+between.  And much as I want to hit them all, it's a) expensive, and b) I
+suspect that CBS would occasionally like me to WRITE on a weekend (I know,
+what an inconvenience...).
+
+     I hope to finalize travel plans for the summer/fall in a few weeks, and
+will post that info as soon as it's availaable.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 20 1992
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+
+     Jay: damn...I *told* them that the xxl's were coming in this week.   If
+you want to send it back, I'll have them send you a new one.
+
+     Oh, man, hope they haven't sent others like this...damn....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Just a quick response to one point above...the only reason I haven't said
+who's doing the illustrations for PR purposes is 1) I don't know the name, and
+2) it's not anyone who'd be known to the SF world anyway, as far as I know.
+Just a top-flight graphics illustrator.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Okay.  For the rest...only 3 XLs went out instead of XXL's, so we pretty
+much caught it in time.  If you got one and it ain't right, send it back.
+
+     (I've got to put some B5 info up soon, lest this turn into the All T-
+Shirt Channel....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+     Always interested in letters for the Suits.  Today alone we got in 25,
+which we'll hold on file for an opportune moment.
+
+     On other matters, and not to go into specifics (which are boring and
+irrelevant to any viewer), while most of the time the process of getting a
+show on the air is fun and exciting and interesting...at other times, I tell
+you in all honesty, it's like trying to stack marbles in a corner or nail
+Jello to a wall...man oh man....
+
+                                                                       jms
+

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+     About the details...there's just a lot of backing-and-forthing with
+business affairs and contracts and paper work and the like...I wasn't so much
+bringing it up as just sort of thinking out loud...which I probably shouldn't
+do unless I intend to be more specific.
+
+     As for the B5 photo on the magazine...what you're looking at is a shot of
+the docking bay in the front of B5 Phase Two.  The independent sections you
+see in a sort of grid behind it are the rotating sections that create gravity.
+At the sort of right-bottom corner, that corner of blue you see is part of a
+system of solar panels which have subsequently been dropped from the design.
+The ship (orange, which is actually sort of brown-silver in the video demo) in
+front is just sorta there, taken from another shot (which kinda throws off the
+perspective a little).
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Boy, a lot to cover in just a few hours...before which, a quick
+disclaimer...if you've sent a private note to me in the last few days, it may
+take me a while to respond (assuming I don't just forget, in which case, if
+it's a timely matter, re-message me) since I'm generally logging 15 or so
+letters per day in mail.
+
+     To the questions, in no particular order....
+
+     Do I believe there's life out there?  I dunno...it would seem to me
+unlikely that there would NOT be some sort of life elsewhere.  Intelligent?
+  Well, that's the $64,000 question, isn't it?  The question I hear a lot is,
+"If they're intelligent, why haven't they contacted us?"
+
+     Frankly, if they were intelligent, they probably *wouldn't*.  Keeping in
+mind that we're beaming Wally George and Howard Stern and World Federation
+Wrestling into the general ether at the speed of starlight, I wouldn't be
+surprised if sooner or later Pioneer came across a series of floating orange
+cones with yellow tape strung between them reading DO NOT CROSS -- THESE FOLKS
+ARE NUTS.
+
+     Will we eventually go to the stars?
+
+     Do we have a choice?
+
+     In another few hundred years, we will outstrip the earth.  We must move
+on or die.  To ask "Will we go to the stars?" is to ask "Will the eagle crack
+out of its shell?"  Yes...or it will die.
+
+     On other topics: yes, I do plan to be at Media*West, though what sorts of
+freebies I'll be bringing, if any, is still an open issue.  Our first and
+foremost concern now is getting the show on the air; most of the goodies will
+come later.  But I will be giving a B5 presentation there, and maybe appearing
+on a couple of panels as well, depending on schedule.
+
+     I've had WishCon mentioned to me today; any further information, let me
+know and I'll look into it.
+
+     Do I get the Warner Bros. Catalog?  DO I GET THE WARNER BROS. CATALOG?
+  Here...look at these cel reproductions lining my hall!  Here!  Look at this
+Flash mug, this Bugs Aviator Flight Jacket, these shirts with the Looney Tunes
+characters stitched in...this Acme Products T-Shirt, these pins,
+this......YAAAAAGGGHHHHH!
+
+     When it comes to the Warners catalog, I'm a doomed man.
+
+     Finally, to the education issue...yes, that's something that has
+attracted me to this medium and this topic from the beginning.  Although
+creative *decisions* have to be internal, what this technology allows is the
+chance to bring others in and see how that process functions, to make SF fans
+a part of that process through the interchange of ideas, by seeing How Things
+Work (minus the dull business/contracts/negotiations stuff).
+
+     Whether it's been in my writing book, the WD column, or here, I've always
+worked from an agenda that says, in essence, Let's be open, and let's get the
+process out where people can see it, and thus de-mystify it.  When I started
+out as a writer, absolutely unaware of the processes involved, I would have
+KILLED for this kind of information...and thus figured it could be of value to
+others.  I think that those who get through the barbed wire and the mine
+fields and the machine gun turrets have a rough obligation to at minimum
+*inform* those who follow about the traps and hurdles ahead.
+
+     If all one gets out of this topic is entertainment, and diversion, that
+is sufficient (and more than sufficient).  If it actually ends up helping one
+or two people down the road, all the better.
+
+     So believe me, I will continue to report in here throughout the
+process...from set construction through casting, pre-production, shooting,
+editing, scoring, dubbing, publicity and finally preparations for broadcast.
+The result, I hope, will be a step-by-step documentation, or manual, on how a
+show is assembled, from concept to final product.
+
+     Which is why the questions here have been so very helpful.  Often, when
+you're working in a fishbowl, you can't SEE the fishbowl anymore; in this
+case, I often don't know what information is most useful to anyone.  Also,
+some of the questions have been challenging, and have made me think about
+things I might not otherwise have considered, so let me assure you that this
+has been as helpful to me as to anyone else.  Look back and you'll see
+discussions of telepathy, biology, religion, fashion, social structure,
+language, music, weaponry, on and on...and by putting my feet to the fire on
+some of these issues, a great good has been done, and I've come up with
+answers I didn't know I had...answers that will now go into the B5 mix.  (For
+instance, I hadn't given that much thought to how a beam-weapon would sound
+until the question was asked here, and I had to sit down and talk to some high-
+IQ types, whose background and skills helped me refine a good answer to that
+question.)
+
+     Anyway, the point being that the process will continue until y'all get
+bored with it.  For me, it's part of the democratization of  television...and
+an enjoyable process, at that.
+
+     It's tough...as I write this, it's 1 a.m., and I'm exhausted from a long
+day of haggling and reading and scriptwriting and meetings and everything
+else, but I figure it's probably every bit as tiring at your end of the modem,
+and I'm game for as long as you are.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     The gesture is appreciated, but the problem with electronic
+communications is that there's no way to verify that the person typing on
+screen under a given name is actually that person, absent actual hardcopy
+signed by the person at hand (and even THERE it's oen to -- make that open to -
+- challenge).
+
+     Technology...Our Friend.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Dave, if you ordered an XXL, then it'll be a while longer; there's been a
+delay, and those won't be arriving or going out until Friday.  So it may not
+be the P.O. system.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     There are definitely a lot of areas to consider regarding medicine, and
+it probably wouldn't be a bad idea to run some of this stuff past a medical
+advisor...and I probably will.
+
+     Insofar as crew relations are concerned...bear in mind that on any show,
+a *lot* of that comes about as you introduce the characters, and the actors
+get to know each other.  Chemistry can't be predicted.  What we  do have, for
+now, is that Laurel Takashima met Cmdr. Sinclair when she was working Mars
+Colony security, and because she refused to go along with kickbacks to some
+corrupt E.A. officials, was being held back.  He was transferred there in an
+advisory capacity, saw her potential, and pulled her back from some
+potentially dangerous (and self-destructive) stuff she was getting into out of
+frustration at being passed over repeatedly for promotion.
+
+     He's also known Garibaldi, the B5 security chief, for some time, but has
+never actually worked with him for any prolonged period of time.  He has
+elected, over the objections of Earth Central, to give Garibaldi this
+position, and it's his last chance to make good.  But from time to time, the
+requirements of a security chief don't reconcile with the needs of the
+commander.  He's only recently begun working with the resident xenobiologist
+and the newly-arrived station telepath.
+
+     Is there conflict between them?  Yes, at times severe.  They all deeply
+respect one another, but conflict arises as it must given the situation, and
+the close proximity, and the problems they encounter.  The basic requirement
+of ANY good drama is interpersonal conflict.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     To the cross-post...yes, Laurel will be very close to her roots; she' s
+the most earth-oriented of all those at our core.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     On continuity: you bet.  I'm as big a stickler for that as anyone.   You
+get inconsistency when you're casting about in every possible direction,
+without a clear vision.  If you're telling a continuous story, the odds of
+being consistent are better.
+
+     As far as Suits are concerned...I've always divided it up into two areas.
+There are Studio Execs Who Care, people like Dick Robertson at Warners, and
+Evan Thompson at Chris-Craft TV, whose unflagging support of B5 has made it
+possible to get this far.  They are our patron saints.
+
+     And they are NOT "suits."
+
+     A "suit" is basically that...a suit of clothes with nothing inside, no
+personality, no judgment, no creativity.  It's not what's worn, it's what's
+*inside*.  Every studio has suits...people who are frightened of making any
+judgment, who obfuscate and don't give an opinion, who are roadblocks on the
+journey to getting ANYthing done, who are cynical and  interested only in not
+making waves.  An empty suit.
+
+     Two very different classes.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     There's a fair amount of the backstory behind B5 that will make it into
+the pilot, but not near as much as later.  The problem with ANY pilot for ANY
+television show is that you're going to have breadth, but not depth.  After
+you subtract the commercials, you have well under two hours in which to: 1)
+Establish 9 major, recurring characters; 2) Establish four minor characters;
+3) Establish the history of the Earth/Minbari war; 4) Establish the
+relationships between the various ambassadors, 5) Establish exactly what B5 is
+and how it works, 6) Establish the physical operations of a station like this
+who don't know from SF (gravities, atmospheres, technology and the like); 7)
+Establish the main plot for this particular movie; 9) Set aside some amount of
+time for action as well as the exposition needed to establish 1-8; 10) Set up
+the series to follow.
+
+     That's an *awful* lot to establish in about 100 or so minutes.
+  Especially when you're dealing with a story as potentially complex as
+Babylon 5.
+
+     It also has to be done in a fairly accessible fashion, so that non-SF
+fans can Get It, and then slowly be led into the more esoteric stuff in the
+series.
+
+     Which is why I've always tried to maintain here that you should hold
+diminished expectations for the movie, and build up from there.  It ain't
+gonna have ALL this stuff in it (being the context and content discussed here
+over the last several months) simply because there isn't time to do all that
+AND establish our characters, situations, etc.
+
+     What the movie is designed to do is to build a platform or foundation
+upon which we then build the series.  So I'm in the position of a real estate
+developer who's been promising you this bright, gleaming, architecturally
+gorgeous art deco building, and I call you to tell you that Phase One has been
+completed, and you hurry down to the site to see what is, in essence, a great
+big hole in the ground.  Where's the art deco?  Where's the gleaming steel and
+glass?  Where's the elevators and murals and...and....
+
+     They will come.  But you've *got* to start with a solid foundation first.
+And often it ain't pretty.  But if it isn't there, your building is gonna fall
+over in the first good wind.
+
+     And if that prolonged reply doesn't metaphor all of us right into a coma,
+I don't know what will.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Thought is going into the ships, and forms of propulsion, but that's
+still in flux as we determine the needs of the show, and the station, and get
+our tech people working on stuff that goes far beyond what I can ever hope to
+understand.
+
+     And yes, there's *definitely* an economy...both in terms of those coming
+to do business on B5, and the resources available.  B5 is a necessary element
+to preserving the peace, but that doesn't mean it's free from bureaucratic
+meddling and cost-cutting.
+
+     Remember, again, that unlike the Federation, this is not a monolithic,
+all-controlling entity (Earth Central).  There's a *lot* of factionalizing and
+splintering and wheels-within-wheels, so that leaves lots of room for
+conflict.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 27 1992
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+     By the way, appropos of the Creation Con discussion earlier in this
+thread....
+
+     This past Friday, my guest on the SF radio show that I host, HOUR 25, was
+David Gerrold.  My co-host, Larry DiTillio, brought along his brother and a
+friend of his brother who he thought might be interesting to have on that
+night during the "nattering" part of the show (the first 15-20 minutes we put
+in on news and small-talk).  "He just came from Nimoy's place, where he
+directed a photo shoot to promote a traveling show Nimoy's doing with
+Shatner."
+
+     A shrug, I dunno if that's worth the time, any stories he might have.
+
+     "He's also one of the main guys running Creation Cons," Larry said.
+
+     Imagine, if you will, a pause vast as space.  "Oh really?" says I.
+"Sure, put him on."
+
+     So we go on the air, live, we natter, we bring in this guy, stick him in
+front of a mike, we chat a bit about this nine-city tour Nimoy and Shatner are
+going to be doing, then from left field: JMS - "So, would you like to comment
+on why Creation Con has such a crummy reputation among the fan community, the
+way it treats fans like cattle, the high prices, the rotten commercial
+attitude it takes toward its conventions?"
+
+     Let's just say, of the rest of the 10 minutes before we moved on to the
+heart of the show, was more fun than I've had on that show in a long time.
+
+     Are we having fun yet, or what?
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Is it still fun?  There are moments when you shouldn't ask me that
+question.  On the topic of television, and trying to get ANYthing done, Eric
+Severeid once commented that the process is "like being nibbled to death by
+ducks."  So yeah, that plays a part from time to time.
+
+     But on balance, most of the time, yeah, it's fun.  The part of the
+process that I think I like the most is seeing what happens when you get other
+people involved with the project, and what they develop.  The first time I saw
+the sketch of a Vorlon ship by Ron Thornton, which absolutely surprised
+me...the reactions by the SF community...the media campaign put together for
+NATPE...it's the fun of creating a universe, and sending it spinning out into
+space for others to play in.
+
+     The rest...ehhh.  It's business.  You try not to let it get you down or
+make you crazy.
+
+     As for the Creation guy...not very many highlights, just a general sense
+of...fun.  When I brought up the first statement, he came back with, "I didn't
+know we were gonna talk about Creation Conventions."
+
+     "Of course not," I said, "that's half the fun."
+
+     There's much to be said, I'm learning, for ambush journalism.
+
+     Some of the complaints he tried to dismiss as "baseless."  I pointed out
+that I'd personally seen some of it.  He tried to get around it.  And I have
+to hand it to him, he comported himself real well.  And he openly acknowledged
+(after a bit) that yes, there *have* been problems...and ended by promising
+that they *will* do better in the future.
+
+     We'll see.
+
+     At the end of the show, after we all went out for a bite (to show him
+there were no hard feelings, and on the theory that you must administer the
+rod and the sugar cane in equal proportion if you're going to get anything
+done), he added, on parting, that the main job that now awaited him was
+"getting the barbecque sauce and fish-hooks" out of his ass.
+
+     There are moments I love this job.
+
+     Severeid's ducks notwithstanding.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Okay...since SOMEone here is monitoring this topic for Creation, and
+since SOMEone high up in Creation is such a weasel as to blame one of his
+employees for *my* bushwacking said unwitting employee on the air, when it was
+NOT his fault, let me make something perfectly clear:
+
+     The person who showed up on my show is not at fault.  He came in and I
+lit a firecracker under him NOT for anything that he had done, but for the
+problems that I and others have had with those running Creation; probably the
+same weasel who's now upset about all this.
+
+     Our last-minute guest that evening knew nothing of this, and did a
+commendable job defending what would be hard for ANYone to defend.  He
+defended Creation well, indicated that while there had been problems in the
+past, those were all now history, and spoke well of his bosses and indicated
+that all the problems had been dealt with and things would go swimmingly in
+future.
+
+     He did an admirable job for someone who didn't know he was going to get
+hit upside the head with a ball-bat.  I'm not sure *I* would have done as good
+a job under those circumstances.  (And I suppose it was less than mature of me
+to have gone on here at such length about it.)
+
+     Point being that our last-minute guest did a fine job, under very
+difficult circumstances, should NOT be penalized for it, and if certain
+weasels were to a) mind their own business, b) develop a sense of humor, and
+c) run a convention properly (as they will in future, I hear), these
+situations wouldn't arise in the first place.
+
+     And this ESPECIALLY goes for the weasel(s) monitoring this topic and
+running off to Creation with it.
+
+     Ain't like this topic contains anything top-secret...the radio show is
+heard from as far south as San Diego, and as far north as Bakersfield, so I
+fail to see the point.
+
+     (All of which just confirms the rightness of my decision not to take B5
+to Creation.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Yikes, that'll teach me not to log on for the balance of the day to get
+some work done....
+
+     Agreement with the sentiments above in the sense of letting the issue die
+down.  Point's been made, no sense in belaboring anything, at least not here.
+Any good that DOES come out of confrontation is, I've learned, lost if you
+dance in somebody's face for the next 24 hours.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 29 1992
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+     Just checking in to say...er...nothing much to say.  We're in what can
+best be described as the eye of the storm period...deal stuff and other issues
+have been taken care of, we're lining up various pieces, and the real Busy
+Stuff won't come for a little while yet.  I think we'll see the finished
+motion tests on B5 this week or next, and the storyboard for the opening
+sequence.
+
+     Exhausted otherwise, having turned in my first M,SW script for the coming
+season.  A real toughie to write, and ended up working non-stop the last 48-72
+hours or so to get it turned in before hiatus starts.  I figure, last season,
+my first really writing mysteries, I learned how to skate more or less in a
+straight line.  Now I'm trying to do some basic circles, see if I can write
+any better this season than last.
+
+     So this'll be brief...gotta go sack out.  Hope to have some interesting
+info by week's end, but I ain't promising at this point.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Note to myself: talk to some international economists, maybe raid a local
+university....yikes...nobody told me there was gonna be math involved....
+
+     GREAT looking gif file, Luis.  I like the color useage a lot, and it has
+given me much to consider.  (The current version has the triangular part in
+burnished/airbrushed copper, the 5 in gold...but there's much to be said for
+red and black.)  Hmmmmm.....
+
+     Insofar as I know, the overseas stuff is already taken care of, to a
+large degree.  I *do* know that it was well received in any number of
+countries, but don't have specifics.  Will try to remember to look into that.
+I suppose I should know where it's playing....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Actually, that's been a vital part of B5's design from the very start.
+The dead center of B5 is The Garden, similar to an O'Neill  station, with food
+and other crops grown on the 360-degree walls.  It runs through the center of
+B5, so the very VERY center is zero-G.  It's through this center that the
+shuttle runs.
+
+     A small joke in the script finds Delenn (the Minbari ambassador) in the
+Garden, and someone asks him about it.  He'd thought that Sinclair had named
+it after just what you suggest, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which he's
+read about...but it seems Sinclair named it after some other garden...a Square
+Garden of Madison, or something like that...and he's trying to find the
+cultural references and figure it out...probably thinks it's something to do
+with mythology....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Getting mentions is very tough, we're discovering.  And we're still
+trying to figure out *why*.
+
+     As for "Time Trax," it's a Harve Bennet show for the same consortium of
+stations as B5.  It's about a guy from the future who comes into the present
+hunting down Bad Guys from the future.  TERMINATOR 1 and 2 meets Soldier meets
+Demon With a Glass Hand meets....well, you get the idea.
+
+     Oh, forgot one thing on the Madison Square Garden reference...it leaves
+Delenn doubly confused since this garden is *round*.
+
+     I *think* that's the first and so far only direct reference I've made to
+what happens specifically in the 2-hour script.  Have to remember to keep
+those down to a mild roar....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
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+

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+     Things are okay here, seem to be quieting down.  The amazing thing was
+going into the Universal backlot, way at the top of the hill, and looking out
+over the LA basin...and seeing a wall of black smoke.  When I saw it, lining
+the horizon as far as the eye could see, like some terrible black shroud, the
+only thing I could think was, "Mordor."
+
+     That, and "Okay, who brought the marshmallows?"
+
+     (Hmm...how about a Tolkienesque detective series...a wizened old P.I. and
+his short companion..."Mordor, She Wrote.")
+
+     I'm now going to run very far and very fast, before the bricks and mordor-
+shells start coming in...and if you're all *very* good, I'll tell you about
+Ambassador Jackarr tonight or tomorrow....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     For those taking notes, you'll remember Ambassador Londo Mollari, of the
+Centauri Republic...likened in some ways to the fading Roman or British
+empires.  At one time, their fist could be felt across most of what is now
+inhabited space.  Now...they live on old stories and fading glories.
+
+     The Narns once were very much under Centauri control, and they received
+in many ways the most brutal treatment of any "protectorate" in Centauri
+jurisdiction.  A little under a hundred years ago, as the power of the
+Centauri Republic was fading, the Narns broke their chains in open revolution
+and expelled the occuping army, achieving independence.
+
+     The way they were able to achieve independence was through a strong
+military mindset and sense of pride...which though useful then, has since
+become something other...something darker and more menacing.  Still smarting
+from two centuries of occupation, they launched a major effort to build up
+their own forces.  They strip-mined their economy to get their hands on the
+latest weapons tech, most of it illegally obtained.   They began slowly to
+convince themselves that they had a Destiny among the stars...a destiny of
+conquest.
+
+     And over the last few decades, they have been tentatively extending
+themselves, taking over unalied planets here and there on the fringe of the
+Narn system, small places that offered strategic and economic value, but which
+were too far away to fight for, and of too little importance to (in many
+cases) the Centauri republic, which was busy dealing with its own internal
+problems.
+
+     The Narn Regime now is in many ways the X-factor, the new kid on the
+block with something to prove.  They're growing awfully strong, awfully fast.
+They're cunning, and determined, and quite deadly.
+
+     Which brings us to Ambassador Jackarr (pronounced JAH-karr), of the Narn
+Regime, married to a female war hero, whose fathers on both sides were also
+distinguihed veterans of a hundred campaigns.  In the main, his task is to use
+the facilities of B5 wherever possible to Narn advantage == from arranging
+tech-smuggling to military objectives and so on -- while doing all possible to
+interfere with the basic purpose of the station, to create the peace.  Peace
+is not in their best interests, though they give the opposite impression.
+They want to keep all sides divided and at each others throats so that they're
+occupied while the Narns grow and expand quietly in the background.  The last
+thing they want is an alliance aimed against them before they're ready.
+
+     One last note about Jackarr...I wanted to create someone specifically who
+folks would gradually come to expect is behind anything that goes wrong or
+afoul.  "Oh, he's the bad guy."  And to a large extent, for the first part, he
+will be...then something quite surprising will happen, and everything you
+THINK you know about Ambassador Jackarr will be turned completely upside down.
+We've all seen the SF standard of The Villain Who Chews Scenery...I wanted to
+take that and use it just long enough to get folks comfortable with the
+convention...then pull the rug out from under them.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Jackarr's past is...a contradiction that I'm going to hold back on for
+the time being.  There's what he *says*, there's what's on the official
+records...and there's the truth.  And that, along with some other surprises,
+is what will turn the character and a goodly part of our story around.
+
+     So for the nonce...I'll pass on any more detailed answer to that
+particular question.
+
+     As for the XXLs, they *still* haven't come in yet, I'm sorry (and vastly
+annoyed) to say.  Something about difficulty finding the required number, in
+that size, in Royal Blue.  Worse case scenario, they may end up black...making
+them special editions WITHIN a special edition.
+
+     As for Londo, I know he was discussed *somewhere* uptopic, maybe someone
+else here has the specific message number.
+
+     So let's see...I think I've covered all of the Ambassadors: Londo,
+Jackarr (I'm thinking of re-spelling his name G'kar), Kosh and Delenn.   I've
+covered Commander Sinclair, Vice-Commander Laurel Takashima, the telepath Lyta
+Alexander, and I *think* I've mentioned Security Chief Michael Garibaldi, so
+that leaves Xenobiologist Benjamin Kyle, is that right?  Just so I know where
+to pick this up.
+
+     BTW...to those who are associated with Con-Fiction in Utah, please relay
+the following: Reluctantly, and kinda as I figured, I won't be able to attend.
+I'd hoped to be able to send along some material to be used at the con, but as
+matters stand now, many of the designs and materials are in a BIG state of
+flux, and there's some business stuff that I've got to attend to that could
+affect some of our plans in a small way, so due to all of that, I alas can't
+even send anything along.  This will all be remedied in time for Media*West,
+happily, but not for Conduit (Oops, I misspoke myself in the first line of
+this paragraph, I said confiction when I meant to say Conduit...sorry.)
+
+     My regrets on this matter, and my best to the con organizers.  Next year,
+however, be assured that there will be a big B5 presentation made available to
+Conduit.  On my word.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Yikes...111 messages since I left...okay, several points.  I'm going on
+no sleep in -- let's see -- over 24 hours now, so if there are typos, or it
+gets sloppy, or brief, please bear with me.
+
+     One quick piece of business out of the way: the XXLs are *finally* in.
+They'll arrive at the office Monday, and will start going out this week.  And
+yes, they ran out of blue, so they'll be in black.  Haven't seen them yet, but
+I hear they look terrific.
+
+     Okay...so where have I been?
+
+     I haven't been away from a keyboard, not working, for more than two days
+at a time in over 4 years.  With B5 gearing up, and another season of M,SW to
+take care of along the way, I needed to escape and clear my head and prepare.
+I also needed to do some research on areas of use to B5, and to get a sense of
+*time*, odd as that may sound.
+
+     So for 11 days I was in Ireland, mainly in Dublin, then down south of
+there in (and I'm gonna mess up htis name bigtime) Glendalough (or
+Glendaloch), and then up north in New Grange, visiting the neolithic burial
+mound that was 1,000 years old when Stonehenge was being built; it's the
+oldest human made edifice on the planet, older even than the pyramids.
+ Stood in the very center of the burial chambers.  Talk about getting a sense
+of time....
+
+     Then finished there, and spent a few days in London before returning
+today to L.A. nonstop from Heathrow.  (The Irish had considerable cause for
+amusement at my name...the usual reaction I got was a widening of eyes, a
+shaking of heads, and a muttered, "God bless you" said with something  between
+pity and awe.  So after a while I started saying it was Gaelic.  I don't think
+they believed me.)
+
+     To the message way uptopic...stra-chin-ski or stra-zin-ski are both
+equally acceptable; the former is Old Country, the latter the New World
+pronunciation.
+
+     One bit of information I should pass along:
+
+     The plan, initially, was to air B5 on November 17th, with the other two
+series/projects to air in February.  Now this has always been a little
+problematic, not from a production standpoint -- we've been ready to go for a
+long time -- but logically, if you're running a new consortium of  stations,
+it kinda behooves you to start it all at once.  Because we would be ready
+early, and the other two shows, which got later starts, wouldn't be, the
+initial decision was to split them as mentioned above.
+
+     As of this time, all three will be airing at the same time, in February,
+instead of splitting them.  I will admit that I wasn't exactly thrilled about
+the delay, for obvious reasons (mainly because it would put us head to head
+with another certain show, rather than giving us a head start), but grudingly,
+it does make a certain sense: you put it all on line at the same time, you get
+more bang for your PR buck, there's cross promotion, and in the final analysis
+it'll probably bring *more* viewers to B5 than would have seen it on its own.
+There are also a number of good business reasons for it as well, including
+details about actors options and the like.
+
+     The new airdate for the B5 movie will probably be in the third or so week
+of February, whenever Sweeps happens to be.  We've re-adjusted our production
+schedule to accommodate the new airdate, and on one level, even that works
+out.  It'll give us more time to polish the effects and maybe do even more
+than we'd planned.
+
+     Not a crisis, not a problem, just business.  And while I'd like to be
+cranky about it, it *does* make considerable sense.  (And I have reason to
+believe that at February, we'll *still* beat DS9 to the punch, given that
+there's still not even a completed script, or wasn't when I left two weeks
+ago.)  So we're now scheduled to begin filming the second week of August.
+Tomorrow (Monday), I meet with one of the candidates for cinematographer, and
+will see the new designs that were developed in my absence for approval.  The
+final edits (mine, mainly, plus a few cuts for time) on the script go in on
+March 24th.
+
+     Meanwhile, on all other fronts, things continue to go well.  The studio
+still has no script notes, loves the draft, has approved our final budget, and
+we're hiring more people.  Figure casting at about early or middle July.  (And
+to an earlier query...yes, we'll be casting mainly actors who are good,
+classically trained performers, but who may not be household names...yet, as
+was the case was Jonathan Frakes and others.)
+
+     As to the question above, how do you prevent B5 from becoming space
+opera...define "space opera" a little more in detail and I'll let you know.
+
+     Anyway, that's it for now.  I'm physically exhausted, absolutely dead on
+my feet, but mentally refreshed, which is what I needed before launching into
+the main prep work on B5.  Also took the opportunity to just *think* about the
+show, and the script, and work out some more details in my head that I'd
+missed in the current draft.  Saw many interesting things (went up to the seat
+of the old High Kings on the hill of Tara in Ireland, and generally had a fine
+time).
+
+     Will post more info once I've had some sleep, and have had a chance to
+check in with my associates and see what's transpired in my absence.   ("Ron?
+Who said anything about putting 1950s fins on a Narn ship?  Ron?   Ron?")
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     I hope you're right, Soaron...I just got my Media*west mailer, and the
+ONLY things on it were two Sunday panels, one on TRGBs and the other on BBSs,
+*nothing* for B5.  And a second letter (this was all in the mail I picked up
+today, which filled a 3x3' box) from the video guy said he  only now heard
+that I'd be bringing the B5 movie (!?), and it wasn't on the schedule, but I
+could run it by  myself after 10:30 pm if I so desired.  Obviously, someone's
+miscommunicating.
+
+     If there isn't a B5 presentation scheduled, there's absolutely no point
+to my going...so if anyone here can clarify this (calling Lori got me nothing,
+she knew nothing of it), I'd appreciate it, because otherwise I'll have to
+cancel.  I ain't flying to Michigan to do the two above panels alone.
+
+     About up and down...there won't be one really in this show, because
+remember, the B5 station *rotates*.  So we will always be reminded of this
+fact.  Ships coming in to dock will have to adjust their rotation to match
+that of the station.
+
+     Had a bunch of B5 meetings today with the ever-growing production
+team...including the director, Ron Thornton, and the guy we're considering for
+director of photography, who we think is right.  To cap the meeting, Ron
+showed the Vorlon ship(s) on video.  Now, I'd just been expecting still
+frames, no motion...and then it came on the screen, and it MOVED.   And it did
+stuff that no other ship I've seen before on TV has ever done (yes, back to
+that again).
+
+     I have to tell you -- and this isn't hype, even though *I'm* hyped at
+this moment over it -- I was just absolutely wog-boggled, as was every person
+in the room.  Ron Thornton is an absolute *genius*, I swear to you.   And the
+ship is simply the most alien-looking thing that I have ever seen.   (Which
+makes sense, since Ron is about as close to an alien mind as you will find.)
+I had them keep running it back and showing it again, over and over.  It's not
+just technically interesting, it's actually *beautiful*, in a strange and
+wonderful way, and you just enjoy watching it.
+
+     It's *so* neat looking.  I can't stand it.
+
+     We also got to see the first actual B5 movement tests, with the various
+sections rotating.  And a good shot of the Vorlon ship against the background
+of the planet and moon in the vicinity of B5, and the planet also looke nifty.
+It's just amazing stuff.  If you know Ron's work at all (and some of you do),
+you know that what he brings to this kind of project is not just the
+scientific background on how it should work, but he ALSO has the tech
+background on computer graphics, AND he's an incredible artist.  Put those
+elements together with a mind that has clearly escaped from the Hitchhiker's
+Guide to the Galaxy, and you have something wonderous indeed.
+
+     Now that the studio has approved our director, I guess I can now announce
+who he is: Richard Compton, an *extremely* well-regarded director from both
+film and TV, who has just fallen in love with the project.  He has been
+working with us to make it more visual, he'll be involved in the casting
+process, and he's absolutely brilliant.  For television, he's directed such TV
+movies as "Desperado" (very nice stuff there), ST:TNG, a whole *bunch* of
+episodes of "The Equalizer" (which is close in some ways to the look we want
+for B5), "Hill Street Blues" (lots of those, too) and other shows and movies
+and TV movies.
+
+     This is a very exciting time right now on the project.  In a way, we will
+also be served by the new airdate because we'll still be delivering the
+finished film before the end of the year, so that gives us about 6 to 8 weeks
+to let the stations publicize the film, and get reviews, and show either
+portions or the whole thing at conventions between December 28th (our delivery
+date), and the final airdate in February.
+
+     Anyway, just thought I'd pass all that along.  Much better today, was
+semi-conscious at best when I posted the other note.  More news as it
+develops.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     The motion tests are *complete*, fully ray-traced, full color, the whole
+bit.  That's what makes it so spectacular.
+
+     I'll see Ron this afternoon, and will ask about a Genie RTC.  I'm sure
+he'd be up for it, probably sometime later in the year, closer to airdate
+would be best.
+
+     May have something interesting to upload later today.  Or not.   Depends
+on what Ron has for me.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+    Okay, everybody, here's something spiffy.
+
+     I just uploaded two GIF files to the televison library here in the SFRT.
+They are numbers 4238 and 4239.  The first is a shot of the planet around
+which B5 orbits, and the moon, and just emerging out of shadow...a Vorlon
+ship.  It's a little dark around the ship, and that's deliberate, because
+there are some details we're trying to keep, um, fairly secret from prying
+eyes.  But this should give you a pretty good idea.
+
+     The second file is a shot of the new B5 station itself.  It's a nearly
+straight-on shot, with the docking bay in the foreground, the station trailing
+away in the distance, against space.
+
+     These are not, I hasten to mention, simply illustrations or paintings,
+these are the actual shots from the film.  I mention that because they're SO
+gorgeous that it's hard to believe that they'll actually move.  But they do.
+
+     The files will be available as soon as the sysops clear them.
+
+     Let me know what you think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     To avoid charring this topic, I'm going to leave my screed about
+Media*West in that topic.  Those involved there can check it out.  The
+rest...stay tuned here.  I mention this here only because of the B5
+presentation originally "slated" to take place there.
+
+     We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Well, Katherine, you're always welcome to come by the house or the office
+to see the actual video anytime, y'know....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Mind, this isn't a 24 bit Amiga image, though it *began* that way,
+certainly, but it would take an hour to download.  So it's been converted to a
+standard 640x480 (or in one case, 751x520) 256 color image.  But it still
+looks pretty spiffy, though the blue nebula got a bit "chunky" in the
+transition to a Gif image.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     The shirts arrived this past Monday, the 18th.
+
+     I guess CSHOW, available on most BBSs, will work even on a 16 color
+monitor, though I don't know how good it'll be.  Might be okay.  Regular 256
+color VGA is pretty good, though a little ragged.  Looked at here, on an NEC
+4FG and an Orchid Fahrenheit card with 1 meg video memory, it looks terrific.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     I'll talk to Ron, see about a 24-bit JPEG.  My main thought was not so
+much in excellence of individual gifs, but to get the most accessible files to
+the most amount of people in the least amount of time.  (I get the feeling
+that there's a math equation in there somewhere....)
+
+     A funny aside, btw...it's an uphill battle getting the word out about B5
+to *most* places...but you would not believe how many TNG production people
+have been calling over the last week or so, offering to jump ship.  So I guess
+SOME people are hearing about it....
+
+     I'm *really* looking forward to reactions to the photos here.  I've been
+rattling on about all this stuff for so long, and the majority of you here are
+pretty much taking me at face value, which is okay, but I think it's so much
+better when one can PROVE the point.  As stated: talk is cheap.  Now just
+about any person with a color VGA monitor (or even a CGA, I suppose) can
+actually get a visual sense of what we're doing, and SEE for themselves at
+least a little of what we have in mind.  And to me, that's exciting.
+
+     So now that the Media*West stuff has finally been ironed out, I'm really
+looking forward to seeing the reactions there when I trot out the new
+tape...with a moving B5 station...and a moving Vorlon ship...and some other
+neat stuff.  We *really* want to knock people's socks off, Ron most of all.
+Every night, he goes to bed muttering to himself, "Emmy...Emmy...
+Emmy...Emmy."
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Yep.  The numbers I had for them were 4238 and 4239.  I'm in the process
+of finalizing some edits on the script, tightening a bit here  and there, a
+nip, a tuck, cleaning up the dialogue, all by hand on the manuscript, and I
+keep the Vorlon gif on my monitor while I work to keep me "inspired."
+
+     I've got to get a life....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The reason that the sections are round is because that's the most logical
+and accepted scientific approach that we can figure out.  Which is something
+also different about this show, and the look of the station: though some of
+the inner sections will be flat floors, by and large all of the main corridors
+will be *rounded* or curved.  Hence, a curved exterior.
+
+     Glad you're enjoying the "view" -- and, again, just a reminder that these
+aren't illustrations, but actual video from the project.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Thanks for the thoughts.  (And I wish I'd had that info on the Orchid
+Fahrenheit before I spent DAYS trying to find a program that would show gifs
+with it, ending with VPIC at last.)
+
+     The upper right hand portion of the station is the cargo loading and
+unloading area, which is in zero-g.  If you look at it, you realize that the
+flat top that runs the length of the station is connected at either end, so
+that the components revolve, but the top remains motionless, rather like a
+barbeque spit.  (There will be a counterweight at the end to balance it
+out...our techhies say that this is the correct way to build such a
+station...remember the ship from 2010, and the counterweight there.)
+
+     As for the Vorlon ship being a bit dark...remember, that's actually
+deliberate.  I picked the one shot of them coming out of shadow and into
+light, and had it further darkened down just enough to conceal some stuff that
+I don't want revealed for the moment.  But enough remains clear that as others
+have noted, it's still pretty cool looking.
+
+     The rectangular opening in the front is the docking bay, and ships
+approaching will adjust their own rotation to match that of the opening so
+that it appears to be motionless from their POV.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Thanks, all...now you're starting to understand what I've been trying --
+inadequately at times -- to convey all this time.  And bear in mind that I'm
+only letting out the *least* of the images we now have on hand.   Take the B5
+image, get it moving, layer in the planet in the background, have it
+surrounded by ships moving in and out like bees, and NOW you're talking.
+
+     Remember when I said this show would have a look unlike anything you've
+ever seen before on television?  Now you have at least some indication that I
+was telling the truth.
+
+     If you haven't gotten your shirts yet, it's probably because you ordered
+XXL, and those only came in this week, and they're now in the process of going
+out.  Be patient.  If you don't get  your stuff by the end of next week, lemme
+know and I'll look into it.
+
+     After that, I may open up a window for others to purchase the shirts
+straight out -- about $10, I guess, including shipping and handling -- until
+they're gone.  The other half of the order I'm keeping for handing out at
+conventions.
+
+     Had a great meeting today at Warners.  Showed them the new tape, and they
+were just astonished.  When we first proposed this project, there were a lot
+of folks who didn't think we could actually DO it, at least not  without
+spending billions on the budget.  (And I can't blame them in the least...what
+we proposed was, and still is, pretty amazing...inclusive of stuff that I
+haven't even MENTIONED here, because I want *some* things to be a
+surprise...so that skepticism was absolutely warranted.)  But now that they're
+actually seeing what we've been doing, they've become some of our strongest
+supporters.  One fellow in the room, who's worked on quite literally *dozens*
+of SF projects for the studio, after viewing the new tape said, "I've NEVER
+seen anything like this.  Amazing."  We've really broken through a whole new
+level of technology...Ron estimates we're at least two years ahead of nearly
+everyone else in the country, and one  year ahead of ILM, which is the only
+one that comes close to what we can do.
+
+     There are, I confess, times that I just sit here and smile.  Makes up for
+the four years of effort and grief that it took to get here.
+
+     Mostly.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Quick aside...if you're going to MWC, you'd best check out that
+topic...where I'll probably be stoned to death momentarily.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     To the two questions raised above...as indicated before, B5 will use a
+mix of storytelling elements.  I'm a strong believer in the notion that each
+episode of a series MUST be able to stand on its own.  Although I loved it
+dearly, that was the problem with TWIN PEAKS.  If you missed even one episode,
+you didn't know WHAT the heck was going on.  And, further, that show asked
+questions that it never seemed willing to answer.
+
+     I've constructed the B5 writing scenario more or less as follows:
+
+     1) Each episode will be able to stand alone.  If you come in on season
+two, without having seen anything else, you'll be able to get into it.
+
+     2) Questions asked in the course of an episode or a season will be
+answered in that episode or season.
+
+     3) BUT...if you continue to watch the show, then over time a story writ
+on a much larger scale will begin to emerge.  Consider it like a triptych,
+something out of Hieronymous Bosch...each individual panel is sufficient unto
+itself, but put them all together, and suddenly you see connections and a
+whole picture that wasn't there a moment earlier.
+
+     Relationships will change.  People will live, and die.  Alliances wll
+shift.  And at one point or another, everything you THINK you know about these
+characters will be turned upside down.  But there won't be cliffhangers or
+that sort of thing between episodes.  There may be such between seasons, but
+not in the course of a season.
+
+     Funny thing...there are two characters in the show whose roles are going
+to be COMPLETELY reversed by the middle of the run.  But I wasn't absolutely
+clear on how to do that, I had only a general notion in my head.  Then, in
+Ireland, while standing on the hill of Tara, in the seat of the old High
+Kings...it hit me.  And the last bit of information I needed came through.
+
+     There will be continuity.  I've mapped out what will happen, in general,
+in about half the episodes in any given season...incidents that will
+eventually form the tapestry of the larger story.  But the other half of any
+given season are left completely open to what our writers might come up with.
+I like being surprised, and want the show to remain open to changes in tide
+and wind.
+
+     As for the Toaster stuff...Ron would know more about that than I would.
+All I know is what I saw when I visited his digs the other day: he's got --
+let's see -- six? seven? computers, all with 3 accellerators each, hooked up.
+There's new cards and devices and programs that very literally didn't exist
+two weeks ago; he's having them designed to his specs.  Speed-wise, in terms
+of rendering, it now functions as fast as a Cray computer.  Walking into that
+place was like walking into Frankenstein's lab...amazing stuff.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     Quickies: in the Vorlon gif, yes, the ship is moving from left to right.
+And regarding the B5 gif...bear in mind that there are no other objects in the
+frame to give it a sense of perspective.  Absent that, there is no way to tell
+how big it is, which is why there will be stuff there at all times later on.
+The actual dimensions we've worked out in terms of length is that B5 is ten
+kilometers long.  The rest you can work out from there.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The components are spherical, yes, arranged one after another with
+bridging between.  Rounding kilometers to miles, if you figure on about 5
+miles length, the width is about 2 or 2.5 miles, so it's fairly rectangular.
+
+     Marymom: just send the note and the money to the same address, and tell
+Susan the situation, saying you checked with me and it was okay.  No problem.
+(And just $10, please, not $11.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Long day, so this'll be quick, but I just wanted to let y'all know that
+there's an interesting mention of B5 in the current (June) issue of STARLOG,
+in Kerry O'Quinn's "From the Bridge" column.  Kinda reinforces what we've been
+saying all along in terms of our attitude and approach on this show.
+
+      Other than that...I'm bushed.  Very productive and good day, some major
+stuff got done.  Will try to get through some of the issues raised on a later
+post.  And will talk to Ron about getting a 24-bit image at some point in the
+future.  Right now he's mainly focusing on getting the main B5 stuff done, and
+anything else is a distraction.  Give me time.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     On average, neither TNG nor DS9 come up in topic much over at the B5
+offices.  When it does at all, it's often in the sense that they seem to have
+grown rather complacent.  Really, when you come right down to it, they haven't
+had much competition over these last five years, and that's bound to lead to a
+sense of complacency.
+
+     We hope, very shortly, to release a mouse in the elephant's cage.
+
+     Imagine if there were only one cop show on the air.  No competition, and
+a nominally captive audience...if you like cop shows, this is the only game in
+town.  The first time something else comes along, though, it forces you to
+maybe work a little harder, do a little better.  It challenges you and that's
+always a good thing, I believe.
+
+     As I think I mentioned before, as soon as all the personnel are ensconced
+in their offices, I plan to have a large metal sign made up, which will go
+right over the inside front door: IF YOU'RE NOT HERE TO KICK ASS, GET OUT.
+Though I don't think that will be much needed, given the team we're
+assembling.  That attitude comes through in many ways.  In both the Vorlon and
+B5 gifs, for instance, you'll notice the blue nebula in the background.  Blue
+is very difficult to deal with in EFX.  It's a flare to all concerned.  Ron
+points to that and to the objects in the foreground and keeps smiling as he
+says, "See?  NO MATTE LINES!"
+
+     It's that kind of attitude that, I think, will lead to the general
+betterment of BOTH sides.  Nothing makes your mind work with astonishing
+clarity than to suddenly find yourself being chased around the room by a
+lunatic with a ball-bat....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     What will happen next year...only next year can tell.  Who knows, I may
+be on the corner of Hollywood and Vine selling pencils.
+
+     By the way, on Friday David Gerrold and D. C. Fontana came by the house
+to see the new B5 effects (moving Vorlon ship, moving B5, other stuff) on
+tape.  They were both absolutely stunned, and said so.  David in particular --
+having also read the script -- has taken up the task of spreading the word,
+telling people that this is "the show TNG should have been."  Coming from two
+of the primary lights of the original Trek, their support means quite a lot.
+
+     I've gotten a number of private messages and calls from people asking
+what they can do.  And really, it comes down to two things: 1) Tell your
+friends.  As many as possible, *if* you like what you're seeing.  We don't
+have as well-known a name as TNG, or the ST coat-tails to ride on, all we have
+is the goodwill of the fan community, and word of mouth.  And 2) When the show
+finally airs, and if again you like what you see, then it is of the utmost
+importance that you communicate this to the television station in your area
+that broadcast B5.  This one is absolutely crucial to continuing to enjoy the
+amount of creative freedom we've experienced so far.
+
+     Rarely in life are we afforded an opportunity to make a difference.  I
+believe, down to my marrow, that B5 can make that difference.  And I equally
+believe that the viewing/fan community can make every bit as big a difference
+in supporting that endeavor, and getting the word out to others.
+ That, to me, would be the best gift of all.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+    I see no conflict with being able to attend, and since we'll have just
+finished filming about a week earlier, I should have all KINDS of stuff to
+bring.  What I have to do now is contact the programming people there and try
+to set it up.  Given the magnitude of the con, it's one that I think I should
+definitely attend.
+
+     Basically, what I plan to do during filming is to set aside certain
+scenes from dailies as we see them, and thus cumulatively build up a demo reel
+as we go.  Then lay in the EFX shots (some of them, anyway), and by the time
+we're finished, the demo should be ready to go.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Ray...given what came back to me about your earlier "discussion" with Mr.
+Gerrold, don't you think you ought to stay out of his face for a while?
+
+     (cross-posting is so much fun)
+
+     BTW...by the end of this coming week, we should be able to announce the
+full production staff.  We have all but the casting director and one of the
+line producers, who we'll lock down this week, but have been holding back
+announcing the others until contracts are signed.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     All sorts of ships use the B5 facilities.  It's the only game around for
+several light-years in any direction, so it's a vital place for travelers.
+(Well, maybe "light years" might be a slight exaggeration, but you get the
+idea.)  Some military ships come through, from all sides, but there are VERY
+strict regulations...anyone coming on board must be scanned for weapons.  None
+are allowed on the base.
+
+     Most of the ships at this time are set for interstellar travel, but there
+are exceptions or variations.  For instance, a military mothership would come
+into that space bearing the short-range fighters which would then come out.  A
+lone fighter might not be able to make it back without that support.
+
+     As for the Vorlon ship -- believe me, it ain't comic relief, in any sense
+of the word.  I've seen what it can do.  And there *is* a utilitarian reason
+behind its design.  In addition, we want to show something VERY alien in
+design and construction...and frankly, there's NO reason a ship that isn't
+ever going to enter atmosphere needs to look  aerodynamic.  In time, you'd
+move toward things that are visually or aesthetically interesting.  In this
+culture (Vorlon), art and science are closely allied, so this extension into
+the look of their ships is quite natural.  Concepts about what ships are have
+become very rigid and inflexible thanks to the preponderance of SF-TV shows.
+We want to loosen that up.  And that look DOES, as stated, have a practical
+aspect about it as well, which will be seen down the road.
+
+     As for conventions, yes, I'll announce them here.  There's currently
+Westercolt, and SD Comic Con, and as more are lined up, I'll note them here.
+Will write to Priscilla about MagicCon asap.  And I'm always at LosCon...that
+convention saw the very first presentation of the show, and will probably be
+among the first to see something very close to a finished product, given its
+November schedule.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     Jeez, what a day...between MURDER, SHE WROTE and B5, coming back from
+hiatus has been a trip.  Today was my first full day back on both
+projects...and the B5 stuff is looking good.
+
+     Met today with the woman we're pretty sure we're going to use as our
+casting director, and as planned, we're not going for "name" actors, no
+"hunks" per se, no one with a lot of SF baggage (no Gil Gerards or Marc
+Singers).  We're going for actors with character in their faces, who have some
+classical or general theatrical training...we're going to be scouting L.A.,
+Chicago, New York and London for performers.  Big emphasis on fresh faces.
+
+     Also met again with the director, and other members of the production
+staff, got the EFX schedule and budget nailed down, and so on.  As you  begin
+to gear up in earnest, you begin to realize how many decisions there are to be
+made...seemingly a million, some days.  It's fun, in a rather tiring way, but
+still exhilirating.  (The casting director *loved* the script, and commented
+that it was the first time in over three years that a script has sent her to
+the dictionary to look up new words.)
+
+     Onward!
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+     What came out of the meeting was some good stuff, and strong support for
+some needed areas, and as you can tell I'm limited to generalities.   Some
+meetings and conversations have to respect privacy.  If execs think that what
+they have to say is going to be splashed all over systems, they have a
+tendency not to have meetings.
+
+     Don't know if Houston is on the list or not, but I'll look into it as far
+as casting is concerned, and a con.
+
+     Absolutely bushed today.  In the midst of everything else, I got a call
+from one of my editors at Writer's Digest, asking if I'd be willing to
+contribute an article to their scriptwriting issue, due out in November.  It'd
+sort of be the thematic article that ties all of the other articles together.
+I wondered if he REALLY wanted me to tell the truth.  He said absolutely.  So
+I came home, and pounded out 3,000 words that will either inspire a lot of
+folks, or scare the hell out of them.
+
+     We'll see.
+
+     More meetings the rest of the week.  Will advise as there's anything
+specific to report.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I don't know the impact yet that the Fox move will have, if any, on the
+B5/Warners lineup, but I'll inquire when I'm over at the studio this Friday.
+It's almost a sure bet, though, that Fox sped up its schedule in order to try
+and block the Warners move.
+
+     Y'know, I have worked on a lot of shows.  A LOT of shows.  And I have
+NEVER seen a situation like this where it seems everyone on the planet is in
+our face...that Other Show, Fox, the press (which keeps forgetting we
+exist)...David and Goliath, I don't mind.  David and a LOT of Goliaths is a
+*real* pain in the butt.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Just a quote from David Gerrold over on another system: "The (B5) effects
+that I've seen are the best I've ever seen done for television, and better
+than many of the effects done for major feature films."  This after viewing
+the most recent reel.
+
+     Meanwhile, our director flies to New York next week, during which time
+he'll start scouting around for possible cast.  As cast members are nailed
+down during the next month, I'll pass them along here as soon as we can
+confirm with Warners that it's okay to release the names (meaning that the
+contracts have been finalized).
+
+     What I'm going to say now is going to sound a little strange, but there
+are reasons for it.  Though we already have some ideas, when we end up casting
+the actor for the part of Delenn, that is the only role and the only actor
+that I will try very hard NOT to announce prior to airdate.  So that's one
+topic that I'm afraid I'm going to have to keep mum about for as long as
+conceivably possible.  (No, it's not likely to be a Big Name, anyone you're
+familiar with, so that's not the reason.)
+
+     When the time comes, you'll understand why.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Actually, funny thing about the WD article...the focus of the piece, and
+the issue, is "Breaking In."  I was told the deadline was the end of July.
+But the more I thought about it, the more I began to see what I really wanted
+to say.  I jotted down a couple of notes.   Then an opening paragraph.  Next
+thing I knew, I was well into it, and burned through the 3,000 words almost
+all in one sitting.
+
+     Whether or not it's what anyone really wants to hear, I'll find out, I
+guess.
+
+     (And I *did* catch the reference, Sue.  So, YOU'RE the one who reads my
+column....)
+
+    BTW, there's something familiar about your name, but I can't place it for
+some reason...though maybe I'm just hallucinating again.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     There's a text file in the library here that should function as a press
+release, I think...that is, I *think* I uploaded it...take a look, and if
+there's not a release file, let me know and I'll upload it.
+
+     The Gifs may be further uploaded, with the copyright information
+contained in the library here attached.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     On the shirt, Elissa...I'm about to log off, so if you can leave me a
+note in mail, I'll send you the info.
+
+     On the topic of the LA visit in June...I'd have to say that's really up
+in the air.  I don't know yet what my schedule is going to look like.   My
+suggestion: once you get into town, call me at Universal Studios.  If nothing
+else works, we can say hi over the phone.  If things aren't as crazy as they
+tend to be, maybe we can do it in person.
+
+     I *suspect* that the B5 picture in AmigaWorld is the earlier version of
+the station, though I haven't seen it.  If it's grey/white, then that's what
+it is.  Still cool, but not as cool as the current version.  But I'm glad to
+know it's there, and the word is getting out.
+
+     Will see what I can do about putting up some information on Ben Kyle
+sometime soon.
+
+     Up to my butt in meetings today re: B5.  All good stuff.  Met with our
+director again, who's going out of town for a bit, to discuss the latest
+revisions on the script that I've made.  Also met with the studio exec who's
+our liaison, and -- well, this probably isn't going to make much  sense to
+anybody, but see, all this time, I've been using my own script binder for the
+B5 screenplay, the color logo, that sort of thing.  Well, when the studio exec
+showed up, he'd brought along a copy of the script as generated by Warner
+Bros.' script department, with the WB logo, and all of the things that come
+with a studio's name...and it was just cool, it made it seem strangely real
+all of a sudden.
+
+     And speaking of becoming real, we're gearing up more and more, with
+additional hirings and stuff.  By June 10th, we're actually going to have our
+SET MODELS!  Our production designer has been busily constructing them and
+sculpting them and doing floor plans and blueprints, and within two weeks,
+we'll actually be able to see three-dimensional renderings of what the station
+is going to look like.  We then have about a week to futz with the designs,
+then it has to be nailed down so we can begin actual set construction.
+
+     *Everybody's* jazzed.  Everyone loves the script, we've got a great crew
+assembled -- top-flight from top to bottom, some of the best and the brightest
+-- the EFX are stunning, all that remains now is the cast...the sense you get
+from everybody is that this one is *different*, it's got something special
+about it.  And the work everyone's putting into it really demonstrates that.
+Everyone's going above and beyond the call of duty, beginning even before
+they're being paid, just to be able to spend that much more time working it
+out and getting it just *right*.  In a town where it seems everyone's out for
+the bucks, to see people saying, "Look, it's gonna take a week to set the
+deal, how about if I just start now, screw the payments right now," is just
+astonishing.
+
+     This is *such* a kick.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Hmmm....maybe it IS the current version...I must investigate.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     That's one of the good things about Ron...he knows the Toaster and
+related technologies inside out.  In addition, he has an associate -- I
+believe provided by NewTek -- who is providing new codes, and new systems, and
+new hardware customized per Ron's requests.  Stuff that no one had ever
+thought to put into a computer because there'd never been a call for it
+before.  As a result, Ron has capabilities and software that very literally
+did not exist two months ago or, in one particular case, two WEEKS ago.
+
+     The other result will be in everyone's benefit, in that this stuff is
+fast becoming VERY advanced, much more powerful than anyone had previously
+conceived.  Which fundamentally benefits the consumers.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
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+     ComiCon is August 13-16.  We begin filming on August 10th, so it's hard
+to know exactly what sort of footage (if any) we'll have to show at that time;
+that's awfully fast.  But there will certainly be the current EFX reel, plus
+whatever new stuff Ron has come up with by then, and we may have some slides
+as well...we'll see.  (You mean I'M not enough?)
+
+     The core group of stations carrying B5 are themselves paying part of the
+production costs, so that's an interesting development in terms of delivery
+and who'll carry what.  (This to a question about 11 messages ago.)
+
+     BTW, we'll have a film crew on premises during our *own* filming, for a
+Making Of documentary.  Gee, suddenly I'm a star....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     At this point, it looks like I'll be arriving on Thursday, and returning
+on Sunday.  I *imagine* that the B5 presentation will be on Saturday, at least
+that's what I'm going to push for.  Once I know for sure, I'll post the info
+here.  I just learned this evening that the B5 presentation at WesterColt is
+going to be on a Saturday, though I don't yet have a firm time.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I've already talked to Ron about doing an RTC sometime closer to airdate,
+and he's agreed.  Frankly, I'd rather he continued pounding away at the EFX
+than here, for the time being.  (I can afford to take the time, the script's
+already written...all I have to do now is, oh, produce the damned
+thing...besides, I'm just plain nuts.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 03 1992
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+     Ah, THAT explains why the picture wasn't in the issue I picked up (June).
+Will look for the new one next week.
+
+     In addition to our main casting director, we've now nailed down our
+supplementary casting directors in New York and elsewhere.  Scouting starts
+next week.  Don't expect any announcements on cast soon; for one thing, it
+should go through Warners first, and for another, we're going to be VERY
+picky.  We don't have to rush, and we're not going to.  Sets you can change,
+lighting you can modify, but your cast is your cast.
+
+     BTW, one of your number will be seeing the B5 script *and* the B5 demo
+tomorrow afternoon.  If he sees this and would like to comment at all
+(necessarily vaguely on the script, please), he's welcome to do so.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     BTW, for those who might be interested in finding out what your loyal
+correspondent has gotten himself into THIS time, if you're on the East Coast,
+check today's (Wednesday's) BOSTON GLOBE, or yesterday's NEW YORK TIMES page
+12 (art theft info, which ties into the Globe), or the trades or USA Today
+over the next day or two.
+
+                                                     jms
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+     I'm hesitant to put the name of our casting director up here, only
+because I'm afraid she'll be flooded.  If people want to inquire in mail, I'll
+pass it along, however.  When there get to be too many requests, I may at that
+point stop.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 05 1992
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+     There are indeed times that TREK has been, to varying degrees,
+Paramount's only real profit-maker.  It is, in essence, a license to print
+money.  Put the ST symbol on something, and it sells.
+
+     Which is, fundamentally, the reason behind DS9 in the first place.   One
+thing I've kind of avoided was talking much lately about DS9, even though I've
+been hearing a *lot* from people inside Paramount lately.   But the one
+overwhelming fact is this: TREK is what's called in this business a
+"franchise," like McDonald's or Burger King.  (In more general terms, a
+franchise is a cop show, or a doctor show...you get the idea.   Every studio
+or network looks for a certain number of "franchise shows" before then setting
+out to look for New Stuff.)
+
+     Anyway...and I know some people are going to yell at me, but this really
+is the truth...DS9 is basically a fiscal repackaging of TNG.  For the
+following reasons:
+
+     1) Stations don't like to get one show that runs too long, over the six-
+seven year mark.  It becomes unweildy for them, and the cost of buying a big
+show package is just a lot larger.
+
+     2) A series only begins to make money for the studio when it goes into
+full-syndication (meaning they stop making new episodes and just rake in the
+cash).  This is particularly true when a show has been on the air for a long
+time.  See, each year, programmed increases in salaries and other areas go up
+and up and up.  By year six, you're paying a HELL of a lot more than you paid
+for year one.
+
+     So how are they saving money by doing a NEW series?
+
+     3) Pay scales for production staff and cast are always lower for a new
+series.  It's sort of the studio Going Rate.  Apparently a number of TNG
+production people have been told that if they want to stick around after TNG
+is finished, and go onto DS9, they're going to have to take cuts in salary.
+Actors fees will be lower overall.  So you're starting at a lower baseline,
+and the really expensive show (TNG) is now over, and in full syndication,
+earning back some money.
+
+     When you take all of that into consideration, and factor in the fact that
+the series takes place in the same universe, with the same basic scenario,
+same races, same Federation, even some of the same characters, what you come
+down to is essentially this: that DS9 is a repackaging of the same thing,
+under a different name, for basically economic reasons.   There is no sudden
+new vision behind it, it's just a less costly extension of the old show.
+
+     Which is not to say it ain't gonna be a good show.  It might be a  very
+good show.  If it is, that's terrific, the more good SF around, the better.
+It's important for anyone reading this to make that distinction: this issue is
+completely apart from quality, it's strictly economics.   This is the reason
+there IS a DS9.  Where they go from that point _ good, bad, or indifferent _
+is another discussion entirely.
+
+     There's nothing wrong with re-selling the same show to somebody under a
+different name if you liked the original show in the first place.
+
+     Which is really all I can say, or have to say, about DS9 at this
+juncture.  I already heard that they're going to push for January.  I also
+know that it's going to be just about impossible for them to do that (plus the
+marketing folks at Paramount would much prefer the show debut in February,
+during Sweeps).  This is in some degree an effort to beat B5 onto the
+airwaves.
+
+     And from what I hear, that's going to be next to impossible.  They only
+got a good, workable draft in about a week or so ago (and, to be fair, I hear
+from my sources there that it's "pretty good," and that's fine), and it just
+takes *time* from that script to sets to casting to the shoot itself.  One
+concession to time, apparently, is that there's going to be a LOT of time
+spent on the Enterprise, since those sets are already finished and available,
+so it'll be more like an expanded TNG episode than a real pilot.  It's what
+they already do there: the Enterprise encounters a new situation, a new
+location, deals with it, and moves on.  The difference is, we will now have
+characters who remain on that place and follow them.
+
+     The only way they can beat B5 to the air is if they really go toward
+making it an extended TNG episode, and make the EFX as minimal as possible.
+ Which is, after all, their purview.  It's their show, and their right.   If
+they want to do it with hand-puppets, that's their prerogative.
+
+     I was going to go on originally and talk a little about a small shoot
+tomorrow (a film for the marketing guys on B5, which with luck I'll be able to
+bring to cons), and some casting stuff, but this has already gone on longer
+than I'd anticipated.  Next time.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Ah, but you've always been such a seductress....
+
+     Some nifty stuff going on, boys and girls, some of which I can't talk
+about yet, but hope to soon.  See, at this stage of the game, the magic box
+opens, and suddenly all SORTS of people are let into the process...agents,
+casting associates on both coasts and in the midwest, licensing guys,
+marketing guys, advertisers...and usually the response to a new show is,
+"Okay, yeah, sure, come back to us after you've been on for a while."  I can't
+betray anything just yet, but let's just say that that has NOT been the case
+here...the phone is practically ringing off the hook.
+
+     People are Getting It.  Some of them are even coming to us, having heard
+about the show on the grapevine.
+
+     There's a point when a show begins to hit critical mass, when you've
+spent four years trying to get people excited, and suddenly there are excited
+people coming out of the woodwork at you, and now everyone begins to get some
+sense of what we've got here.
+
+     (God, I'm *dying* to tell you what one of those calls was...this is so
+spiffy, so neat, so BIG...wait, Joe, be patient, wait until the ink dries,
+keep your mouth SHUT for once, fer chrissakes....)
+
+     Tomorrow I go On Camera.  Warners _ which is really supporting us in a
+big way _ is sending over some of their people to do an on-camera interview
+with me, Ron Thornton, possibly a couple of others, and include some of the
+EFX we've developed.  The film is to be shown at a large gathering of execs,
+advertisers, marketing guys, the whole bit.  I'll probably nab a copy to slip
+into the reel I've been making that shows the progress of B5, from early
+artwork to the first EFX reel, the new stuff, now this...eventually I'll add
+on new EFX, then maybe some actor stuff, and as we get into shooting, some
+snippets here and there, so that the reel is always absolutely current for
+conventions.
+
+     What you get the sense of, finally, when something like this really gets
+going, is of an army of people, and you have to play Patton, getting everyone
+where they're supposed to be, when they're supposed to be there.   (Or maybe
+army ants would be a better comparison.)  There's silence for a very long time
+at the beginning, then gradually it gets louder,and louder, and after a
+while...yikes!
+
+     For years, nobody knows you...you start to look for your face on milk
+cartons...then suddenly everybody wants to talk to you.
+
+     Y'know what?  It's fun.
+
+     By the middle of next week, I should start getting video of actors
+auditioning in NY, and the 3-dimensional renderings of the set.  Today I had
+to pick out the "audition sides," meaning those pages (sides of pages) of the
+script that an actor goes through in a session with the casting director to
+see if s/he's right...so you have to pick what amount to mini-scenes, and they
+have to be separate enough so that the actor can get a grip on it, but
+important enough to the plot to see how they handle exposition, and emotional
+enough to see how they project feelings of anger or joy or fear...all in 2-3
+pages a shot.
+
+     It's tough being a writer, but I gotta tell you, it's a walk in the park
+compared to being an actor.  It's rough work, and I have an endless respect
+for those who do it well.
+
+     Gotta crash now...have to look good on camera tomorrow.  If that doesn't
+qualify for a miracle, I don't know what does....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The novelization process has begun.  I wish I could've adapted it myself,
+but time constraints prohibit that.  The writer who's agreed to take on the
+project is one of the best, though, and a well-known SF writer to boot.  More
+on this as it develops.
+
+     We've finally locked down our line producer/unit production manager, who
+rides herd on the physical production side...comes to us straight from JEDI
+and INDIANA JONES and other high-profile films.
+
+     Meanwhile....WOW!  Had the largest production meeting yet: me, my
+associate and the other exec producer Doug Netter; producer John Copeland;
+production designer John Iacovelli; Ron Thornton; our new line producer, and
+others.  And the newly finished sketches and blueprints for the sets were
+rolled out.
+
+     I had no idea....
+
+     See, Iacovelli's been promising me a new, different, radical look for the
+show.  I've had a kind of general idea in my head from what he said, but it
+came nowhere NEAR the reality of what he unrolled onto the table in front of
+my boggled eyes.  Take BLADE RUNNER, mix in a little ALIEN, add a touch of
+Japanese design, some deconstructionist architecture, and an eye for colors,
+and you've got something absolutely nifty.  He's also made the most ingenious
+use of soundstage space that I've ever seen; he has really pioneered some new
+ways of doing things involving forced perspective, elevated sets, new uses for
+trance lights, gymbaled sets, you name it.
+
+     Anyway, it's *really* cool.  The amount of thought he's put into this,
+into making this absolutely new and different, is staggering.  See, if you're
+doing a new TREK, for instance, a lot of the homework is done for you.  The
+doors open like THIS, in the middle...a turbo lift looks like THIS when it's
+in operation.
+
+     But because this is a different show, in a different universe, we have to
+go back to ground zero and think of ways we'd do this stuff based on new tech,
+and different ideas.  John came up with a new way of doing doors, and ports,
+and transport tubes.  Endless ingenuity.
+
+     After the meeting, Ron Thornton and I were talking, and he said, "Okay,
+what's the deal on Babylon 4?  I mean, are we ever going to see what happened
+to it, or see it again?"
+
+     I smiled.  "Do you REALLY want to know?"
+
+     He considered it for a moment.  I think he gets nervous when I smile like
+that.  "Okay...sure."
+
+     So I told him.  And his eyes went wide as pancakes.  It was a wonderful,
+Tex Avery effect.  "Get out of here," he said, at first sure I was kidding.  I
+explained that I was quite serious.
+
+     Last I saw him, he was wandering off, muttering to himself, but growing
+increasingly enchanted with the idea....
+
+     The shoot today (the behind-the-scenes preview shot at the office for
+publicity purposes) went well.  I *hate* being filmed, but I think I got my
+main points across.
+
+     One other interesting thing Ron mentioned: apparently the GIFs from here
+have been uploaded onto the Star Trek Echo Network (or whatever it's called)
+BBS system, where apparently it's causing quite a stir.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I'll announce as soon as I can.  If you haven't yet recieved your shirt,
+after ordering one, re-contact the same address and check with Susan.  Gently.
+We don't want to startle her.
+
+     Still lining up cons on the East Coast.  I've kinda unofficially agreed
+to be at WishCon in NY, so that's a start.  Will expand from there.  The hard
+part is stealing time away from work here on two shows at the same time.
+Thank Mojo for notebook computers....
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Yes, Warners is distributing B5 through the newly-formed Warner Bros.
+Consortium of Stations.  WWOR New York has just been purchased and added to
+the Chris-Craft line of stations that's at the core of the consortium, so
+doubtless they'll be carrying B5 as well.
+
+     I'm already on tap for a con over Labor Day, so that let's out Tri Con,
+and as for Shorleave...for reasons that are probably obvious, I'm trying to
+avoid cons which have a prime connection to ST at this time.  First, I don't
+think all parties concerned would be comfortable with it.  Second, we're
+trying to establish our own image, and don't want to piggyback on anyone else.
+So my general rule of thumb is that if the con has the words ST in its title,
+or that title derives from ST, then we steer clear.  There are plenty of
+others, though, that will fit the bill nicely.
+
+     International distribution is being taken care of by, natch, Warner
+Bros. International Distribution, and though I haven't yet received the
+specifics, I have heard that it's been doing EXTREMELY well in that regard.
+When I have more details, I'll pass them along.
+
+     Over the last week, we've really been getting into the details of
+creating our universe, and sometimes it's overwhelming the extent of it all.
+How do we tell where we are on the station?  Okay, so we color code the
+sections, so that rather than saying "I'm in sector seven, level five," you
+say, "I'm in blue-five," and the background _ occasional color-coded panels _
+can visually confirm this.
+
+     What about language?  Signs?  Ron's having a guy come up with a whole
+raft of alien fonts to use.  If you have directional signs in the halls, what
+do you do with them?  (Remember, this is a freeport, so you're going to have a
+lot of folks coming through, not all of whom can communicate well with one
+another.)  So do you have one sign in one language showing where you are,
+where you've been, which way to the bar...or several?  If several, which do
+you choose?  (We've worked this out kind of ingeniously, so I'll let it go at
+that for now.)
+
+     There's just an awful lot to consider...decisions of the smallest sort.
+What do the cups look like?  The tables?  The ports?  How do you handle
+lighting?  How do you avoid the standard configuration rooms we've seen a
+hundred times before in SF-TV?  How does the construction of the station
+affect architecture, design, function?  What sorts of things would someone be
+allowed to bring with them from Earth or wherever?  Are the quarters made from
+natural or synthetic materials?  Are all the quarters the same, or
+different...if different, how, and along what lines, given that there should
+be some consistency in rationale.
+
+     This is one of the things that really sets tv aside from fiction.  In
+fiction, you can describe a control room or observation deck in a few words,
+and move on, letting the reader's mind fill in the gaps.  Same with radio.
+But in TV, you have to BUILD it.  You can't just say, "He sits at his desk."
+What does the desk look like?  What does the chair look like?   Does he use a
+pen and paper?  Computer?  How do you do the communications console
+differently than before?  What sort of decoration does he have on the desk?
+Pictures?  Holograms?  Souveniers?  Awards?  Models of ships?  Then after you
+decide, you have to MAKE them all, and make sure they look real.
+
+     It can get daunting after a while.  That's why you've GOT to surround
+yourself with people you can trust, so that when they bring ideas and designs
+to you, you don't just go nuts and throw it out, but you know that what they
+bring will be good, and may just need a suggestion or two to bring it more in
+line with what you want.  Then they go away and do it.
+
+     As an exercise, just look around any room in your house, and ask
+yourself, "What do I have here that I would not have 200 years from now?
+What's not here that I *would* have 200 years from now?  How would it look?"
+There's not a square foot of space that's not somehow affected by that
+scenario.
+
+     I think I'll go lie down for a while....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Thanks, Joe.  Glad you're enjoying it.
+
+     Joe...hmm...that reminds me....
+
+     I've never been real big on formality.  And I know that typing
+Straczynski can be a fearsome thing indeed.  Fingers were never meant to move
+in that particular configuration, I think, and more than one person has had to
+dial 911 with his nose when his fingers tangled on the keyboard.
+
+     Point being..."Joe" is just fine.  If there's another Joe in a thread (as
+above), "Mr. S." is is also fine if you need to make the distinction.  (One or
+two have called me Big S.  Some comment that I'm the biggest S in town...and I
+wish they wouldn't smile quite so broadly when they say it, or hold it quite
+so long.)
+
+     In any event, we're all in this together, so I think we can let formality
+slide.
+
+                                                         jms
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+     Actually, that's something we've discussed...what if someone only sees in
+the ultraviolet spectrum?  Or infrared?  For those individuals, the color
+coding is different...though you won't be able to see it on your television
+screens, because YOU can't see in the ultraviolet range, but it'll be there.
+
+     Would this face lie?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+
+     Okay, okay, I can take a hint....
+
+     Dr. Benjamin Kyle is Babylon 5's resident xenobiologist.  He's in his
+late forties or early fifties, black, very thoughtful, very dignified...with a
+sly sense of humor (not sarcasm) that tends to catch one off guard.  He began
+as a physician on Earth, and was a leading researcher into xenobiology there,
+gaining a quick grasp of the ins and outs of the few alien cultures that we
+(then) were in contact with.
+
+     Naturally inquisitive, early on as a much younger man he began to "hitch-
+hike" onto deep-space ships, always hungery for new information that could be
+used by humans and outworlders alike.  (His deal was that he would act as
+ship's physician without charge, in exchange for a bit of freedom whenever
+they made planetfall somewhere.)
+
+     He has seen, catalogued and operated on more alien lifeforms than just
+about any other Earther in this time.  And had his share of close scrapes, as
+well.  Some races consider is sacrilege for any other race to "enter" their
+bodies through surgery...Ben will take the risk if it means saving a life.
+
+     He's detailed, methodical, single-minded...and if one route is closed,
+he'll go another, even if it means getting into a fair amount of trouble.
+(Which happens in the pilot.)
+
+     One scene omitted from the script for purposes of time is kind of
+illustrative of Ben's humor.  During a crisis _ there's someone in the
+medical area (I'm being deliberately vague) who's in trouble, and Ben's on
+stims, staying awake to see the patient through _ he at one point has to talk
+to Sinclair.
+
+     Sinclair is asleep, Carolyn beside him, when the call comes in via the
+bedside monitor.  Noting Carolyn's state of undress, Sinclair tells the
+monitor to receive the call, "audio only."  Ben starts in on his report...then
+stops.  He can't see Sinclair.  Sinclair, noting Carolyn who stirs beside him,
+says, of the monitor, "Slight malfunction."   
+
+     "Ah," Ben's voice comes..."Hello, Carolyn."  He knows she's there, and
+tells Sinclair c'mon, let me see you while I'm talking to you...I'm a doctor,
+I'm not going to see anything I haven't seen before.
+
+     With a shrug from Carolyn, Sinclair switches on the video.
+
+     Ben's face appears on the monitor.  He looks over to Carolyn.  Smiles.
+ "Nice tan."
+
+     Carolyn's response...is best left unstated.
+
+     Ben volunteered to come to Babylon 5 for several reasons: as the best in
+his field, he's most capable of dealing with any emergencies, and this is the
+sort of place where that is most needed.  In addition, he's getting a little
+old to be hitch-hiking on starships...why not settle down somewhere where the
+aliens come to *you* instead of the other way around?
+
+     He's single, his wife having passed away some five years ago, one more
+reason he's come to B5.  There's nothing left at home for him now that she's
+gone.  He has two grown children, one of whom is successful, the other...well,
+less so.
+
+     He's been offered research grants from some of Earth's biggest
+corporations, universities have offered him important posts, the government
+would LOVE to have him come work for them (where, he suspects darkly, they
+would have him work on alien biological warfare)...but he's said no to all of
+them.  His place is as a working physician and xenobiologist, at a place where
+he will have ample time to study the new species they encounter, and do his
+part for peace.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     What else they would call it...hmm..........home?
+
+     I have some names for y'all, for those keeping track.  We've finished
+assembling our crack first team on the production side, and I can pass along
+most of the names now.  We're astonished at the sheer level of quality we've
+gotten on this stuff.  And tickled to have them.
+
+     Director: Richard Compton.  One of the prime directors for The Equalizer
+and Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice.
+
+     Director of Cinematography: Billy Dickson.  Billy has an amazing eye for
+color and shadow and composition that many of you may have seen on the
+Desperado programs.  First-class.
+
+     EFX Director: Ron Thornton.  Main EFX fellow behind The Addams Family,
+Highlander II, Plymouth, Dr. Who The Movie and others.
+
+     Production Designer: John Iacovelli.  Award winning production designer
+direct from Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and other projects.
+
+     Production Manager/Line Producer: Bob Brown.  Previously producer or
+production manager on War of the Roses, Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom,
+Return of the Jedi, Iceman and the three Childs Play movies.
+
+     Casting Director: Mary Jo Slater.  Mary Jo has cast untold numbers of
+movies and TV programs, from the revived Dark Shadows to the recent Intruders
+mini-series to Star Trek VI.
+
+     Plus others we've nabbed from James Cameron's company, Steven Spielberg's
+company, George Lucas' company, Jim Henson's company, and others.  Names as I
+can release them.
+
+     This is a team that most any movie or TV series would *kill* for, and
+we're very happy to have them all aboard.
+
+     Today I saw the new suite of offices we've acquired.  People begin moving
+in this week.  The numbers of people involved are expanding with astonishing
+speed.  I strolled about in my new office, and that's when things begin to
+become very real.  Have to acquire new furniture to fill it.  That'll make
+three offices: my home office, my office at Universal, and my office at the
+Babylon 5 location, plus a smaller office at the set which I'll be sharing
+with my other executive producer, Doug Netter.
+
+     It is now exactly 2 months to the day when we will begin rolling film.
+From this point on, the clock is ticking, and there's a LOT to be done.  But
+we're in very good shape, and I'm looking forward to it immensely.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     The boxed episode was wrong; several of my episodes (not the best ones,
+but okay) appear in the other volumes of CP episodes; only about one-third
+made it onto cassette.
+
+     As for how Carolyn got a tan...she's a trader, remember, and she's
+frequently planetside during her travels.  So NYAH!
+
+                             jm(I think of everything)s
+

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+     Doug Netter is Exec Producer on BABYLON 5.  I am Co-Executive Producer.
+I worked with Doug on several projects in the past, including CAPTAIN POWER,
+where he was, again, producer.  He's irascible, and every bit as much of a
+pain in the butt as I am.  He grouses, carries on... one day I expect to
+wander into the offices and find him wearing a patch over one eye, a knife
+between his teeth, talking to a parrot and preparing to board the building
+next door.
+
+     And I trust him implicitly.  Doug is a straight-shooter.  I have three
+rules I live by when I work on a project: I never lie, I never BS, and I
+never, EVER bluff.  Doug's the same way.  When he tells you he will do X, it
+happens.  Period.  He's a pro, and was previously the head of production at
+MGM.
+
+     When we were working together on CP, Doug made me a promise.  He said,
+"Look, Joe, you know me, I'm not a writer, that's not what I'm good at.  So I
+will never give you a creative note.  Production notes, hell yes.  Creative
+scripts notes...no."
+
+     And he kept that promise.
+
+     Which is why, when it came time to show someone what I'd come up with on
+BABYLON 5, instead of going righ off the bat to a big studio or a network...I
+went to Doug.  He liked it, and we formed a partnership to pruce the movie and
+the series.  He's invested a lot of time and effort over the last 4 years,
+when it seemed it would never happen, but he never lost faith in the project.
+
+     We have a great relationship: we insult each other shamelessly.  I've
+even learned to somewhat mimic his voice, so I can return fire with his own
+words, in his own voice.  When our casting director met with us for the first
+time and started going over how much she *loved* the script, he broke in, "No,
+no, no, jeez, what're you saying, you can't say that, we NEVER say that, I'm
+telling you you can't work with the man if you say that kind of thing.  You
+gotta tell him it's *sufficient*, but just barely, and with luck we can save
+it in post.  Jeez, no, don't ever do that again."
+
+     He's a very funny man.
+
+     I'm having him roughed up on Friday.
+
+     THAT'S who Doug Netter is.
+
+     Meanwhile...interesting things are happening.  See, normally, when you do
+a syndicated show, it's tough finding the actors you want, because syndicated
+rates are across the board lower than network.  That's a given on ANY show.
+So all parties were prepared for a long, hard search.
+
+     Scripts started going out Monday.
+
+     Growing since, then and particularly in the last 48 hours as scripts have
+arrived at homes, actors have been coming out of the woodwork at us, from all
+sides.  Not just newcomers, we're talking *name* actors who read the script
+and fell in love with one or more of the characters and want to play them.  My
+jaw fell at some of the names I heard over the phone today...actors who will
+do it for what we have, and want to do it very much.
+
+     Big name or newcomer, though, we're going to see and consider everybody.
+You don't want to cast a Big Name just because he's a Big Name if he's wrong
+for the part...you screw yourself over bigtime if you do that.  Similarly, if
+you don't cast a newcomer for a part even though he's *perfect* for the role,
+you again screw yourself over.
+
+     But it looks like our range of choice is going to be a *lot* bigger than
+I'd expected.  A *lot* bigger....
+
+     Meanwhile...think good thoughts.  I've always had one composer in mind
+for this show.  People thought I was nuts.  But we've got a good, not a great
+but a *good*, chance of nailing him.  If we can, I'll be in heaven.  Won't
+know for a while, though, so don't expect word on this one anytime soon.
+
+     Boys and girls, THIS is the fun part!
+
+     (In the voice of Dr. Smith, "'We can save it in post' indeed.  Hmf!   Oh
+the pain, the pain...come here, you clattering, clanking concatonation of
+useless cogs!")
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     When we get to the series, there will doubtless be guest stars, some of
+whom have already been arranged for.  But not in the movie; we want to
+concentrate on our regulars and the ensemble at this point.
+
+     The scene cut for time won't be filmed; you don't film what you know
+you'll have to leave on the cutting room floor.  Later, though, when the
+series gets going...who knows, it might surface.
+
+     I was sure I'd spoken more about Garibaldi.  Okay, remind me in, say, 3
+weeks (top of July) and I'll go into more detail.
+
+     About Frank Welker...I've actually enjoyed working with him over the
+years on TRGBs.  Extraordinarily funny.  By himself, he could get things so
+funny that we'd have to stop down, nobody could stop laughing.
+
+     The absolute *worst* such incident _ and thus the best _ came on the
+last episode of mine.  See, we had to always keep Maurice, Frank and _ ogod,
+the new Peter, I've forgotten the actor's name _ apart, because if they sat
+together, this weird comedy loop would start, and they'd get funnier, and
+funnier, and soon all hell would break out.  (Once, when Lorenzo Music was
+still doing the show, Frank learned to mimic his voice.   So one day, in
+taping, when Lorenzo missed his cue, Frank supplied  his line...in his voice.
+Lorenzo looked around with a "What the hell was THAT?" look on his face.)
+
+     Anyway...on this one day...all three of them were seated together, Frank,
+Maurice and the Other Guy Whose Name I Can't Remember.  And they started
+improvising.  And they went into Celebrity Farts.  What would the farts of
+various celebrities sound like?  (We're talking in the middle of a taping, for
+chrissakes.)  Soon, Frank took the lead...Cher's fart,  Twiggy's fart, Raymond
+Massie's fart, the Pope's fart....
+
+     ...and then...and then...he let fly with...William Conrad's fart.
+
+     And flattened the entire place.
+
+     People were *literally* on the floor.  No one could talk.  Laughter and
+shrieking and carrying on for Twenty Minutes.  Someone would try to get out a
+line...and just dissolve.  And every time we *thought* we had it in control
+again...out would come another William Conrad Special.
+
+     I thought I would die.
+
+     Wonderful thing is, I have that on videotape, I think.
+
+     I think I'll go find it....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     David Coulier, right-right-right, that's the guy.
+
+     Took a look at the videotape, and remembered one other thing.  It took
+nearly 20 minutes to get things calmed down after Welker let fly.  We had to
+take a break so everyone could get their heads screwed back on again.
+Everyone went back into the recording studio.  Sat.  A moment of silence as
+they get ready....
+
+     And there comes Frank Welker's voice, "Y'know...you ever wonder what
+Charlton Heston's fart would sound like...?"
+
+     The director lunged for the studio mike, "DON'T....YOU...***DARE***"
+
+     He just smiled.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Paula...being only nominally computer literate, that's a question far
+beyond my understanding.  When Ron Thornton does his RTC with me prior to B5
+airdate, you might want to address that question to him.
+
+     I seem to recall that the Conrad incident was *after* I'd finished
+working on the show, which made it just that much funnier.  I mean, it just
+went on and on and on...windows were blown out...birds fell from the
+sky...women went into labor...animals keeled over and died...passing airplanes
+momentarily lost power...dogs for five miles in any direction suddenly looked
+around and wondered "What the hell was THAT?"....
+
+     I can't believe it...I've degenerated my *own* topic into fart jokes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+
+     "What about sin?"
+
+     Personally, I'm for it.
+
+     And all of the areas you mention will fall under the eye of B5 from time
+to time.  There's nothing more boring than someone who's overcome all his or
+her vices...so all of our characters will be prey to one problem or another.
+Ambassador Londo Mollari has a BIG gambling problem (and a secondary problem
+with women), Garibaldi has a history with alcohol and other substances that
+almost got him kicked out of his prior jobs...I find the most interesting
+people those who are always fighting to be better, to be more, to avoid
+falling into vice despite terrible temptation.
+
+     And some will not survive that temptation.
+
+     At the central core of our humanity is the fact that we are flawed, and
+it's overcoming those flaws that makes for real drama.  Or, in some cases,
+being overcome BY those flaws.
+
+     You have to understand the key issue that has always been, and will
+always be, at the *heart* of Babylon 5.  In 99.9% of all SF-TV in the last
+twenty years or so, there have always been the Noble Good Guys and the Awful
+Bad Guys.  I don't buy that.  Whether it's 20 years from now or 200, we will
+still be humans.  Some will be better or more noble than others, and some will
+be constantly on the lookout for the next scam, the next vice, the next thrill
+or danger or target.
+
+     In Babylon 5, I want to hew as closely as possible to how REAL people
+would react in this situation.  I haven't labored at this for four years to do
+one more Good Guy In Shoot-Em-Ups With The Bad Guys Show.
+
+     Garibaldi will lapse in his rehabilitation.  Londo will get in very
+serious trouble because of his vices.  Laurel will have a run-in with certain
+chemicals.  Even Sinclair will fall prey to a weakness of his own.
+ The question is...what do each of them now DO about it?  THAT is what makes
+it interesting.
+
+     There's a short story entitled "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," by
+Mark Twain.  In that story, we meet a town of people who have put up a sign
+outside their town, "Lead Us Not Into Temptation."  And they have scrupulously
+avoided temptation for years.  One day, into this town of self-proclaimed and
+self-satisfied virtue comes temptation, in the form of a bag of gold which
+someone, offering the right phrase, is supposed to collect.  The man who
+really left it (and we find later it's lead), gives the town's most virtuous
+people fake phrases, to see if they will try and collect that which is not
+theirs.
+
+     Every one of them fall for it...and the town is embarrassed and
+ashamed...and many are wonderfully vindicated by this.  And now the sign in
+front of the town reads, "Lead us INTO Temptation."  Because it's only when we
+are truly tested that our virtue means a damn thing.
+
+     "The human heart in conflict with itself," William Faulkner said, is the
+only thing worth writing about.  Mainstream shows explore that question in
+hospitals, in police stations, in lawyers offices, on the frontier.  Now B5
+will explore it on the frontier of space, in a self-contained world of its
+own.  If that wasn't the whole point, I'd have given up on this a long long
+time ago.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Dan Quayle badmouthing the "elite" ... right ... a sissyfied, pantyassed,
+country-club-and-golf-swinging rich daddy's boy who couldn't knot his tie
+without an instruction manual and three aides calling somebody ELSE "elite."
+Well, at least we all know that "culturalelite" is not one word the way he
+says it, but two words.  What a waste of genetic material.  The man's an
+intellectual cul-de-sac and ought to be dropped down a sewer.
+
+     It doesn't bother me.
+
+     Meanwhile...I think it would be an error to blame the "non-internal-
+conflict" mode on the "suits."  In the case of TNG, that came straight from
+Roddenberry, for instance.  It is *still* firm policy that those aboard the
+Enterprise cannot _ CANNOT _ have internal doubts or fears.
+
+     The execs at Warners never once mentioned anything about that, and have
+been unstintingly supportive of the project.  Understand: I've now put the
+script through 3 drafts, all on my own initiative, and we have not gotten
+*one* note from Warners.  We had a meeting on the last version, and except for
+a thought that it still might be a few pages too long, they had no suggestions
+at all.  They WANT a different vision, something with teeth.  And they've been
+endlessly supportive of that.
+
+     B5 toys?  Well, there's been contact with the licensing people.  I sure
+hope so, I want some myself.
+
+     As for Walter Koenig...I've already asked if he'd be willing to a) write
+a script for us (he's done a LOT of TV writing, something not generally
+known), b) guest-star in an episode, and c) do a cameo early on with, um, some
+other people you'd recognize.  (sly smile)
+
+     BTW...I've been thinking about it, and what do y'all think of the idea of
+a B5 newsletter?  Nothing fancy, VERY bare-bones, but just something in
+writing that chronicles the inside info, profiles those involved, maybe shows
+some of the early designs, that sort of thing?  What would be good about that
+is that it would thus be accessible to people who don't have a modem...if you
+want to turn somebody on to what's going on, you let him know about, or sign
+him on for, the newsletter.
+
+     Would there be enough interest to support that?  I don't know if
+contributions should be requested when subscribing, or just send it out
+freebie (or if there's enough interest for anyone to want to shell out a
+couple bucks for it).  I happen to know somebody who does newsletters (hi, you-
+know-who), and have been considering hiring her to do the job if there's
+enough interest.  At this point, probably just one per month to start, maybe
+getting fancier as we go.
+
+     If it's even a good idea.
+
+     What do y'all think?
+
+     Oh...and there's a new B5 logo in the works.  The more we've looked at
+the current version, the more we've thought maybe something else would work
+for the show.  (We'd still use the old one, but for other purposes.)   I gave
+Ron a write-up of what I thought would look *really* cool, and he is working
+on it now.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Yikes, 21 messages since last night...okay, I think I'll go ahead and
+investigate the newsletter issue seriously.  (Spoke to someone last night who
+can do the job, so we'll see.)  As for the "should I/shouldn't I?" stuff...I
+actually wasn't being cute or ingenuous; I sometimes use this forum for
+thinking aloud.  I really hadn't decided one way or another when I posted my
+message.  Was actually looking for an opinion (and boy, did I get them!).
+
+     The one thing I'm going to have to consider further along these lines is
+the fee question.  One thing that I swore at the beginning of this whole
+process, long before I ever posted a single word about B5 (back even before it
+was That Which Could Not Be Named), was that I was very, very, VERY unhappy
+with the way media fans have been shilled and ripped off and exploited over
+the years, and that I would NOT do the same.  Thus I have to be very careful,
+simply for my own peace of mind.
+
+     Once the show gets up and going, running regularly, that's one thing.
+But right now, a newsletter almost benefits *this* end more than any other,
+because the show hasn't aired yet.  (Yes, as you can see, I'm thinking aloud
+again.)
+
+     So the *best* way to handle this might be as follows: it'll be nominally
+free for the time being.  (Because printing costs and the cost of actually
+putting it together will be absorbed by Yr Obdnt Srvnt, not Warners, it won't
+be really fancy, but the guts will be there.)  If somebody wants to contribute
+a buck or two, that's fine, but optional.   Nor should anyone send in ANYthing
+until receiving one issue at least and determining at that time if it's worth
+it.  (As I've said here before: take NO ONE, including me, at face value; be
+critical consumers.)
+
+     Once we're on the air regularly, at some point it'll probably go into
+subscription mode (at the least possible fee, just enough to cover production
+costs).  But not until then.
+
+     I *think* that's fair.
+
+     Anyway, for the moment, do nothing.  I've got to make some phone calls
+and some arrangements.  We already have a decent sized mailing list from those
+who've received shirts, so you're already on-line.  At some point, we'll open
+it up and have anyone else who's interested send their addresses.  But not
+until I have everything set up.
+
+     Like I said...it won't be fancy.  Just informative.
+
+     (As for the schematics, I know that Ron has some cool ideas along the
+lines you mention, but I don't know the details yet.  Will post when I do.)
+
+     Somebody the other day, noting the enthusiasm in the fan community for a
+virtual outsider, described B5 as "the Ross Perot of science fiction
+television."  I don't know if that's good or bad....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Agreed, the simpler the better.  No ads for now.  Just info.
+
+     Phil, send me the B5 text file, and I'll approve it ASAP, just want to
+make sure I didn't say anything a) stupid, or b) no longer correct.
+
+     I'm giving thought to opening up the shirts for general order at cost.
+When I decide on that one way or another, will post that info (and the
+address) here.  Just being careful...there's only 500 of those things, and I'm
+not sure how many I'll be lugging to conventions.
+
+     The "Making Of" documentary will be made during the filming of B5, so
+where it'll be appearing or when is an open question.  I imagine it'll be
+supplied to E! and ET and other news organizations, and to the TV stations
+carrying B5 as promotional material.  Since we don't want to blow our wad too
+early, I can't imagine it'd appear in general distribution anytime before
+December/January, though if I can get my hands on it, it may appear at a
+convention or two....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 16 1992
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+     Excuse me while I fall down....
+
+     It has been a *looooooooooooong* day.
+
+     Met with some execs and showed them our progress...blew them away.   They
+had no *idea* we had come so far, or were capable of so much.  Also during
+this, they (and I) got to see the foam-core models for the first time of the
+B5 sets.  They're really something else.  We're taking a completely different,
+but very logical approach to building the sets than anyone is going to expect.
+Everything about them, the angles, the composition, is unique.  Really cool
+stuff.
+
+     Then went over sound stuff and other production details.  For those
+keeping track, it does seem that we're going "non-whoosh" for our space
+sounds, to keep it closer to reality.  Went over alien langauges, how we're
+handling sound in environmental respects, that sort of thing.  And THEN met
+with the wardrobe designer we've selected, who kept laying out designs and
+photos and magazine pictures and ethnic clothing styles from various
+countries, "Is it like this?  Or more like this?"  And you're confronted with
+shadings and degrees and liens, and what is going to be the style 200 years
+from now?
+
+     It's just a blur of decisions, and you're constantly surrounded by five
+or six people who need the answers to what the world looks like NOW so they
+can begin building it.
+
+     After a while, you can't even see straight anymore, and all you want to
+do is go somewhere *far* away for a long long time.
+
+     Not that it ain't fun, and not that it ain't exciting, but yikes!
+
+     Will be seeing the audition tapes from New York tomorrow.  We have
+already found some nice prospects.  Will advise when I have a better idea.
+Going to collapse now.
+
+                                                          jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 17 1992
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+     By all means, go ahead with the badge et al.  Sounds cool.
+
+     Who are some of the actors we're getting in terms of shows?
+
+     (Again, these are just *auditions,* not confirmed people; in fact, some
+we know we won't use at this point, but it's interesting to see who we're
+getting.)
+
+     Got a call on the last bunch of people to come through, all of them very
+good.  Person read down the list of names, and when I heard one of them I
+stopped dead.  "WHO?!" I asked.  She read the name again, and _ assuming, I
+suppose, that I didn't recognize it _ noted, "You know, from THE
+AVENGERS...?"
+
+     Oh.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 18 1992
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+     No further comments on casting for the time being.  And just FYI, I've
+formally changed Jackarr's name (as I once considered here, again thinking
+aloud).  It's now spelled G'Kar, more in line with the way it's pronounced.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 19 1992
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+     Still thinking about music.  And sound.
+
+     Tomorrow will be an interesting day.  We're doing a read-through.   What
+that means is, we assemble the *full* production team: line producer,
+production manager, production designer, art director, director, director of
+cinematography, writer/producer (me), efx director, wardrobe person, and a
+bunch of others, along with several actors (just for that job, not on the
+series) who then read through the entire script, page by page, and everyone
+gets a chance to stop it and ask questions and discuss what's needed.  It's a
+long and painstaking process that will probably take at least half the day.
+
+     As well as doing all the production stuff with the rest of the team, I'm
+going to be listening very carefully to the dialogue, since this will be the
+first time I've heard the whole thing spoken aloud.  Invariably, once you see
+how your words fit in somebody's mouth, you trim, rearrange, and otherwise
+futz with things.  The goal to make the whole thing as airtight as possible.
+
+     Sat and talked for a long time with the director today, Richard Compton,
+and he's even more excited about the project than when he began and he was
+pretty excited *then*.  And found out something I didn't know until we spoke.
+
+     Our script was "published" a week ago Wednesday.  (Published here means
+that the script has been broken down and each scene numbered for production
+purposes, and that draft, now called the shooting script, is given to all
+production staff, sent to agents locally, that sort of thing.)  The following
+day, Thursday, Richard arrived in New York to  help with casting.  What he
+discovered was that suddenly he was getting calls from practically every
+actor's agent in town about the show, AND THAT THEY ALL HAD THE SCRIPT AND HAD
+ALL **READ** THE SCRIPT!
+
+     These were agents to whom we had not SENT the script.  Apparently, as
+near as he was able to determine, the script was being bootlegged all over
+town, faxed and messengered and people were demanding copies.  It's sort of
+"the" ticket in town now is to get a copy of the script.  And the agents, and
+their clients, went nuts.  I'd heard that people were coming out of the
+woodwork (and I'd mentioned it in passing here), but I had no idea really how
+it was happening.  Actors were circulaing copies of the script among
+themselves and calling their agents and the casting director trying
+everywhichway to get in on the auditions, convinced from what they saw in the
+script that it was going to be a hit.
+
+     None of this I knew in detail until today.  I was astonished.  The
+director just sat there and smiled.  "You've never heard your script read,
+have you?" he asked.  I allowed as how I hadn't.  That smile again: "You're
+always mentioning how much you know of the story that isn't in the
+script...well, there's things *in* the script that I'd bet even YOU don't know
+are there, because they're things you put in subconsciously...but an actor can
+find them.  And during the auditions, they did.  They just chewed the
+dialogue, savored it.  Loved it.  Found all these wonderful little corners and
+subtext.  Wait," he said, "just wait until you see the audition tapes
+tomorrow.  You'll die."
+
+     This sounds awful, I know, but the truth is, I just sat there and beamed.
+
+
+     Sonuvabitch...y'know, this might actually *work*.
+
+     We've decided, btw, to extend casting another 2 weeks.  We've got some
+GREAT prospects, but Richard feels, and I agree, that since we've got the
+time, don't rush.  Make the best choice possible.  We've got the script, we've
+got the production team, we've got the EFX, we've got the director, we've got
+a terrific design on the sets...the last thing and the most important thing we
+need is the cast.  If we can pull that part off...we've got it nailed.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Someone who has no flaws to overcome is, in my view, a pretty crappy role
+model.
+
+     You have to stop for a moment and ask yourself, seriously, what a role
+model *is*, or should be.
+
+     Is a "role model" someone of privilege, or station, who is utterly absent
+of self-doubt or flaw?
+
+     Someone, in other words, who is almost alien to us?
+
+     Or is a real role model someone who has gone through the same things we
+have, experienced the same problems and frustrations and dead-ends as we have,
+but who has managed to overcome those problems and lead a life of dignity and
+grace?
+
+     It's like saying which is the better role model for an explorer: someone
+who's ranged all over the plains, fallen down, gotten lost, cut his feet, but
+managed to find his way back safely...or the guy who reads plenty of maps, but
+never leaves his living room?
+
+                                                               jms
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+     We'll probably end up getting an intern via one of the local
+universities.
+
+     (Wonder if it'd be better to go for a creative writing student than a
+film student...the latter can be such a pain....)
+
+     When did I get over being nervous and anxious at someone reading my
+words?
+
+     Well, I'll tell you the truth: as soon as I hit that point, I'll let you
+know.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 20 1992
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+
+     Thanks, all.  I suspect that Warners will splash the "Making Of" thing
+all over the place, and will thus leave that to them.  As for the newsletter,
+I've pretty much made up my mind, but still have to at least run it past
+Warners as a formality.
+
+     Had the run-through today, with actors on hand reading through the whole
+script (sort of a reader's theater rendering).  Every so often, we'd stop and
+discuss how to do this effect or that sequence, but the interruptions were
+few.
+
+     It was really a blast, I gotta tell you.  See, when it's just in your
+head, you *think* you know how it'll work, but even then there's no way of
+knowing it'll work when it hits the stage.  There's always some doubt.  Barely
+slept at all last night, wondering, worrying the script in my head the way a
+dog worries a bone.  Dragged my ass in early this morning, met the actors who
+were going to read through it with us, met everybody else (some of whom I
+hadn't met before...it was a *big* room and a *big* crowd from every branch of
+our production), grabbed a bagel and water (I don't think I could've handled
+coffee this morning), and sat at the long table facing the actors, hoping for
+the best.
+
+     And like I said...it was a blast.  See, a script is *meant* to be
+performed.  It's still an art form unto itself, while it's on the printed
+page, but it's *meant* to be spoken, the way you can appreciate a musical
+score on a page, but it's only really alive when an orchestra gets its hands
+on the notes and brings it out into the world.
+
+     Today I heard the birth cry of Babylon 5.
+
+     The characters spoke, out loud, for the first time.
+
+     In short, it went an *awful* lot better than I had dared to hope.
+
+     The character stuff worked, the humor worked wonderfully (the whole room -
+- people who'd read the script dozens of times by now _ broke up repeatedly,
+and after one long laughing fit, one of the actresses called to me, "You are a
+very sick puppy.  I like that in a man"), and the action was paced much faster
+than I'd thought, just seeing it on the page.  (If anything, I may have to
+extend the scenes just a little during some of the action set-pieces...if it's
+too short, it feels perfunctory.  I wanted it to move fast-fast-fast, but now
+I see that I can take just a beat or two more to give it more weight in
+places.)
+
+     Some members of the crew felt that they'd finally "seen" the story for
+the first time, and everyone left the meeting absolutely jazzed.
+
+     We wrapped at about 2:00.  Five hours straight, and not one person left
+to go to the bathroom or stopped for a break.  Nobody *wanted* to stop.   
+
+
+     Today was a very good day.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     ...and, Arne?  What was the reaction?
+
+     As for the new logo...I love it a lot.  Won't be uploading it for a
+goodly time, because like I said, I want to hold some things back.  But it's
+*way* cool.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 23 1992
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+
+     Located quite some distance away from B5 (a safe distance in case
+something goes wrong) is the jump point, which is a device which creates an
+"exit-point" from hyperspace.  It's tremendously powerful, allowing smaller
+ships to use the system without lugging around the massive amount of
+equipement and power sources to burst back in.
+
+     The area itself is several miles across.  You go into one at point A, and
+emerge at point B.  Big ships _ BIG ships _ can create their own entrances
+and exits (which explains how the gates or jump points got somewhere), and
+they construct the gates as exploration continues, leaving gates the way you'd
+leave bread crumbs.
+
+     At least, that's the theory.
+
+     Meanwhile, spent 6 hours watching tapes of actors auditioning,and sat in
+on some live auditions as well (the tapes were from New York).  We have some
+REALLY good candidates.  The hardest to cast, I figured, would be Delenn, for
+many reasons...but we may have lucked out right out of the _ um_ gate.
+
+     There are times when you see a face, and just go, "Nahhh, that ain't it"
+and fast-forward...but you really do feel for these actors, the work it takes
+to get in the front door.
+
+     Anyway, if we find nothing else, we've got strong prospects for at least
+half our cast, and two weeks more to go on casting, so we're in very good
+shape.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Here's an important lesson:
+
+     When someone comes to videotape you, and they tell you to sit back in
+your chair, SIT BACK IN YOUR CHAIR!  Augh.  I saw the videotape of the behind-
+the-scenes piece Warners did on us.  And it's fine, really, it's got good
+stuff, it looks nice, it's just...everybody else sat back, so they used a lens
+with a slightly fisheye effect to bring them forward, but I have this tendency
+to get passionate when I talk, and I sit forward, and _ well _ I look like I
+gained 50 pounds at *least*.  Combine that with the tendency of television to
+make you look heavier to begin with, and yikes!
+
+     Anyway, that aside (I may never eat a pizza again), it came out well.
+
+     More meetings today, costume and prosthetics and wardrobe and the like.
+Have some interesting new techniques we're going to try; don't know if they'll
+work yet or not, we have to do some tests, but if they do, it'll be cool.
+Also saw a still of the Narn ship for the first time.  Not bad.
+
+     This will be brief; have been on the go since forever today, and am about
+ready to fall flat on my face.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 25 1992
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+     To a prior message...yes, I'll be at Comic Con.  I'm slated to do the
+Westercon/Westercolt presentation on that Saturday at 1:00.
+
+     I sometimes think that EVERYBODY knows somebody who's auditioning for B5.
+Good look to him.  We've found a good prospect, but we're keeping our minds
+open.  (We found a *very* interesting prospect for Londo the other day.)
+
+     This is going to sound awful, and I shouldn't take pleasure in it, but I
+*swear* it's true, there were other people in the room, I wouldn't make
+something like this up...COULDN'T...I was sitting in on auditions the other
+day, hiding behind the camera, didn't want the actors to know that the
+writer/producer was hanging around.  So this one actor comes in to audition,
+saying all these wonderful thigns about the script, and then pulls a sour face
+and says, "Yeah, I was auditioning yesterday for that other show.  DeepSpace
+Whatever.  Man, what a piece of sh!t."
+
+     I practically fell out of my chair.
+
+     Forgive me.  I'm a sick man.
+
+     (And, of course, there's every possibility that he said EXACTLY the same
+thing in reverse.  The one thing I'm learning is never to take  easy
+compliments too seriously.  That way lies madness.)
+
+     Anyway....
+
+     Interesting prosthetics discussion the other day.  We're trying to find
+different or offbeat things to do with the look of characters, and their
+wardrobe...which is *tough*, because so much has been done over time.  We've
+absolutely ruled out the Forehead approach, but then you've got other problems
+to consider.  See, that's the one part of an actor's head that's relatively
+unused (boy, what a straight line).  For instance, you don't want to cover the
+eyes or the mouth, since that's where an actor does 90% of his or her work.
+So you start looking at other options: cheeks, necks, arms, head-shapes,
+coloration, texture, on and on, while trying to avoid the obvious dumbnesses
+(no metallic skin coloration, it either doesn't show up well on camera, or
+looks like something out of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea).
+
+     There's the question of how MANY alien species you're going to see on
+camera, how many of each, what sizes, do you use appliances that take less
+time than straight makeup?  How many costumes are required?  If a race has
+several representatives on board, do they all dress exactly the same (more
+cost effective), or do they all dress with variations of the same (more
+expensive)?  Do you mix mechanicals with costumes?  How do you deal with the
+lighting as it affects makeup and wardrobe?  How much color do you want to go
+for?  How will wardrobe vary depending on location of the set?
+
+     The process of asking those questions entailed locking me in a room with
+our EFX guys, the director, prosthetics and wardrobe people, and they just
+kept hitting me with this stuff for about 2 or 3 hours.  (You get kind of
+punchdrunk after a while..."What did you have in mind when you described the
+(blank)?"  "I had in mind *exactly* what the wardrobe guy is going to give us
+because I knew intuitively, being able to see into the future, that he would
+know *exactly* what I meant, he wouldn't require further explanation, and once
+
+
+     (Sometimes they hit me.)
+
+     Fortunately, they all *do* seem very much in tune with what I saw in my
+head when I wrote the script, so it went fairly smoothly overall.
+
+     May have some interesting licensing news to pass along soon.
+
+     Meanwhile, we now begin the process of further organizing our PR with
+Warners so we can get the most bang for our buck, and coordinate our efforts.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Yeah, we're looking at that kind of approach as well.  I think the best
+way to go is a mix of things, different techniques and looks.
+
+     S.Schaper...dead on re: the military/tactical stuff.  And you will get to
+see some of that in the pilot.
+
+     Man, it's a sharp crowd around here....
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 26 1992
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+     Boy, another long day, and lots of questions here.  I think I'll tackle
+the questions first, then some news.
+
+     Yes, there will be classes of ships, and we've come up with some
+interesting ideas on how to play some of that.  You will *definitely* see some
+of those variations in the 2-hour pilot.
+
+     And yes, more than one-on-one.  That's all I can say for the moment on
+those two topics.
+
+     I imagine, down the road, we'll be more flexible on the forehead
+issue...it's just that, to start, we want something that's consistently
+different.  One of the most important aspects to all of this is that we
+establish a completely different identity to anything else around.  So we
+make some concessions to that.  But over time, we'll be flexible.
+
+     Re: a B5 roleplaying game...if someone at a roleplaying company wants to
+license one, or for that matter if ANY licenser (toys, games, whatever) wants
+to license B5 stuff, they should go through the Licensing Company of America,
+Warners' in-house licensing company.
+
+     Yes, I was adjacent to the Penguin's Lair set, which was across from my
+office at Universal.  Got to hang around the set and stuff.  My (then)
+secretary stopped appearing at her desk after a while, and could almost
+invariably be found down at the penguin tank, feeding the birds.
+
+     The budget is, natch, classified.  At least for the time being.  But we
+are absolutely staying within the budget allocated.  The difference between
+any other SF show and this one is that we're doing things in a very different
+way, looking at ways of making sets or using our resources such that we get
+more bang for our buck.  There's an *awful* lot of waste in TV.  We're putting
+every dollar up there on the screen, and our people have found some
+wonderfully ingenious ways to make everything bigger, better, and more
+flexible.  In addition, most times a budget gets out of control is when you
+back into your set design, you start making changes, throw out one thing or
+another....
+
+     We've had four years to plan this out.  And that advance planning is
+showing in every aspect of the show, including set design, production, EFX,
+prosthetics, you name it.  We've already locked down the blueprints for all of
+our sets.  That's well in advance of where most shows are at this point.  We
+already know in advance roughly how many episodes in the first season we will
+be using various characters, so that helps us set the acting budget.  Why pay
+an actor for 22 episodes if you're only planning to use him for 11?  Most
+times, nobody KNOWS how many shows an actor is going to appear in, and pay him
+for the run of the show, only to use him for half the episodes.  Happens all
+the time.
+
+     Most shows are not run terribly responsibly.  I believe right down to my
+socks that if someone is going to give me several million dollars to go make
+something, it behooves me to use that money *responsibly*.  And in this case,
+because *so* much is known ahead of time about the requirements of the show,
+it's eminently easy to work to a budget, and yet wind up with something that's
+not simply acceptable, but which will simply blow your socks off.
+
+     On to the news:
+
+     More casting today.  Saw a *dynamite* Sinclair.  And, for the first time,
+a *really* good Lyta.  (Oh, and by the way...since the actors all come in with
+different pronunciations, I figured it might not be generally known...it's
+pronounced "Leeta.")  Also had a meeting with the publicity people at Warners,
+who're starting to gear up for the B5 publicity campaign.  Not much has been
+done until now because we don't hit the air until February, and nobody wants
+to blow the momentum ahead of time.
+
+     Managed to get a copy of the short B5 promo film with interviews, and
+will add that to the convention tape I bring around.
+
+     And now, as for the newsletter: it's now a go, having checked with
+Warners to be sure we didn't overlap.  No working title yet.  (Hmm...how about
+this: the person who comes up with the best title for the BABYLON 5 newsletter
+gets one of the rare, early B5 color portfoios?  If you decide to go for it,
+post the stuff here, but try to put several into one message, rather than a
+bunch of separate ones.)
+
+     The editor/writer of the XXXX, The Official Newsletter of Babylon 5, is
+Katherine Lawrence (known to locals as sf-lawrence).
+
+     I'll have her get the current mailing list of folks who've gotten t-
+shirts from the B5 offices.  We plan on adding as many of the convention
+programmers from around the country as possible.  How she wants to add other
+names from here is up to her...whether she wants them now, via email, or
+later, or what.  (KL: don't have 'em come via the B5 offices, we'd be
+swamped.)
+
+     Target date for Issue #1 is August 1st.
+
+     That said...it's now out of my hair.  I'll let Katherine handle any and
+all inquiries about the newsletter.  I don't wanna know from it for a while;
+I'm up to my ears in production at the moment.
+
+     There's a lot more news breaking, but I'll save some of it for another
+time.
+
+     One kind of fun thing...I was playing with the set models today at the
+office, and found that if you pick them up, and peer through the plastic
+portholes and/or entrances, you can sort of get a camera's eye view of the
+thing...like actually being on set in miniature.  Talk about a thrill...I
+can't *imagine* what it's gonna be like to actually stand on the set of the B5
+observation dome when it's finished.  (These sets, by the way, are *big*, boys
+and girls; I'm talking BIG.)
+
+     Onward!
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Yes, there will be married couples.  And singles.  And unmarried couples.
+And sex.  And on and on.
+
+     Interesting ideas..."The Tower of Babylon 5" ain't bad, but we've got a
+long ways to go until we get a final title.  (I think that "Straczynski's Log"
+is...well...a little *personal*...not to brag, of course....)
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Some good names here; some I rather like.
+
+     The circulation of the newsletter is going to be much broader than just
+to Genie-ites; if that were the extent of it, then we wouldn't  NEED a
+newsletter.  It's to plug in the...er..un-plugged-in.
+
+     Saw some more actors today, some more cool EFX, and for the first time,
+sketches of the prosthetics we'll be using for some of the actors.   WAY neat.
+G'Kar is especially interesting.
+
+     Long day (those who listen to HOUR 25 know why), so this'll be brief.
+Good things coming.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     All suggestions are equally considered...even the loony ones.
+
+     Yes, when I'm finished with the B5 movie, I'll continue with M,SW (as I
+am now, in fact), until the season concludes in February...which is about when
+we'll dig in seriously on the B5 series.  What that means is that I'm really
+doing double duty...I steal a few early-morning hours for B5, then go to M,SW,
+put in a full day, leave around 5ish, then go to B5 and don't return home
+again until sometimes 10 or 10:30 p.m.  (And of course there are days when I
+have to be at B5 all day, for casting and other reasons.)  So I'm sometimes on
+the go as much as 18-20 hours a day, depending on what's up.  Fortunately, the
+producers at M,SW are fully aware of the situation, and support it, and as
+long as I continue to handle my workload, have no problem with it.
+
+     There is a tendency to forget where one lives sometimes, though....
+
+                                                           jms
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+     Trying to decide what and where to go now that Lady K. has opted out.
+Sigh.  One more decision.....
+
+                                                              jms
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+     (pant-pant-pant) Barely a few minutes here to log on and update.
+
+     Meetings galore.  Today we locked down the actual, physical look of our
+main alien characters, and man, they're great.  Just great.  We've got Steve
+Burg, one of the main conceptual designers behind Terminator 2, and John
+Criswell, one of the main guys from the Henson Creature Shop, linked to handle
+prosthetics and related areas.  They've both always wanted to cut loose with
+what they can do, and we're hoping to give them that opportunity.
+
+     So now the look of Londo, G'Kar, Delenn and Kosh is (are?) set.  I think
+you'll approve (sly smile).
+
+     Will lock down some of the cast in the next few days; the rest of the
+cast in the next 7-10 days.  Set design has been approved by the studio.
+We're now in the process of making deals for actors, construction firms, efx
+shops and the like.  We're *really* starting to move now.
+
+     That's the funny thing about a production like this...it takes a long
+time to get moving; it's like slowly pushing a huge boulder inch by inch until
+gradually it begins to pick up momentum...goes faster...and then it's all you
+can do to keep it from speeding out of control, which is something you always
+have to guard against when you've got *so* many people running in different
+directions, doing different things.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                            jms
+

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+     I'll answer that question the second week in August.  Trust me, I have a
+reason for delaying the answer.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
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+

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+     Well, if we go with that, it'd have to be ONWARD: The Official Newsletter
+of Babylon 5 (or somesuch).  Still considering.
+
+     We think we've locked down (in our own minds, at least) all but two of
+our main characters.  Put their photos all up together on the wall of my
+office in the B5 wing, and they look good together...a nice mix of faces,
+varying age ranges, not a "pretty-boy" or bimbo in the bunch.  They all have
+faces with character, the majority of them come from classical training,
+Juliard or the Royal Shakespearean company...really a good bunch.  With luck,
+we'll have these nailed down by sometime next week, though I won't be able to
+announce anything until Warners is ready to do so...we have to coordinate this
+stuff.
+
+     Had one minor production-heart-attack today, but I think it's nothing we
+can't get over.  Meanwhile, the EFX are looking better and better and better.
+Next week I meet with the sound guys to start mapping out our strategies.
+
+     And for those in the Phoenix area...the B5 presentation is scheduled for
+WesterColt on Saturday at 1 p.m.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+ 
+     Catherine Adair ended up with another gig, so we now have Ann Bruice, who
+was tied in our decision for a costumer for the pilot, but in that case she
+was busy on another project.  Now she's available, and she is doing *terrific*
+work.  Just amazing stuff...her work on the Grey Council is particularly nice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+_____
+Second SF&F RT
+
+     Tim: no one's said a word about it to us, and I don't think it'll really
+have an effect on us, one way or another.
+
+                                                                jms
+_____
+Second SF&F RT
+
+     Probably late summer.  We have an awful lot of time before airdate, so
+there's really no rush to get the cameras running, which is nice.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I'll be at Comic Con for a couple of days; I go for the shopping....
+
+     Don't know yet about the other cons...as for the military, we're trying
+to keep it correct.  As it happens, my Spousal Overunit is a military
+historian (a *major* one, able to recite considerable information about every
+major battle of the Civil War and discuss strategy in the Carthaginian battle,
+you name it).  She's been very detailed in nagging me to stay correct when it
+comes to this stuff.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Just curious...did you see the old white station, or the new blue station
+in motion?
+
+                                                               jms
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+     In space there is no up and down (though I *think* the station was, from
+our perspective, right-side up...haven't looked at it in a while).
+
+     Well, as of tomorrow, Monday, we are exactly one week from filming.   Our
+costume designer pointed out that making a project like this is a lot like
+making Thanksgiving dinner...you set a dozen different things going at
+different times, and hope they all come together at the right moment in the
+right way.  So far, I think we're on track.
+
+     Costumes are almost finished; we'll have all the command uniforms by
+Tuesday or so, and the rest by week's end.  Most of the on-screen displays
+you'll see live on consoles in the observation dome and suchlike are finished
+(and are really amazing in their detail)...there's one shot where they do a
+navigational location on Kosh's ship that's really quite lovely.
+
+     One thing that I haven't mentioned to date is the lighting, because we
+were looking at our options; everything else in the show is state of the art,
+and we wanted to find something equally innovative.  It took a while, but we
+found a company that does very different sorts of lighting, and will give the
+show a unique look and texture in most every shot.
+
+     Construction is finished on most of our primary sets, and now they're
+being painted and dressed.  We've spent a lot of this past week going over
+props...guns and glasses, displays and dice, you name it.  There are a number
+of things that can actually transfer pretty well to the future without
+modification, but a lot more that have to be redesigned or modified.
+
+     Prosthetics are in place.  The full cast assembles either tomorrow or
+Tuesday and we begin rehearsals.  The shots have already been blocked out by
+the director, A.D. and cinematographer.  We were getting a little cramped for
+space on the sets, so we've co-opted another soundstage, and now there's a
+real spacious feel to some of this stuff.
+
+     The miniature of the Garden (with its infamous Death Pizza cap) is about
+finished, and most of the other physical items are done.
+
+     I'm going through the script tonight, and tomorrow, one last time to
+adjust lines, make them stronger, scratch for every possible inch of
+characterization.  Then we'll lock it down Wednesday, so from that moment on,
+there shouldn't be any further changes of substance.  Which is great for the
+cast, since they don't have to constantly be learning new lines.
+
+     Monday is our last major production meeting before filming starts.
+After that, it's simply a matter of holding on and hoping for the best... even
+under the best of conditinos, something can screw up at the lasat _ last _
+moment, and I live in dread of that.  And as a writer, you can never be 100%
+sure that what works on the page will work on the stage until you get there.
+(Just glanced up; contitinos could be conditions four lines up.  Sorry for the
+typos, long day.)
+
+     I try to get very zen about these things.  It's like firing the arrow;
+you do all you can to line it up, but once you let go of the arrow, you have
+to also let go mentally.  You've done all you can, now live with it.  Our
+director has indicated that he's going to spend most of the Sunday before we
+begin filming sleeping...on a project of this size, that means a lot of short
+night and long days, so that's important.   Me, I'll probably spend the whole
+night staring up at the ceiling, eyes like poached eyes, looking like a still
+from the Ren and Stimpy show or a Tex Avery cartoon.
+
+     I'll close with a funny story told to me by one of our crew.  He was
+working on a project in New York with a producer, and in the producer's office
+was this elaborate grid of vertical and horizontal boxes, laid out on a large
+sheet of paper.  He asked the producer what it was, but the producer only
+shrugged, adding that he'd find out in time.
+
+     About two weeks later (he *swears* to me that this is true), he was in
+the other room when the producer yelled for him to get inside.  The producer
+was standing at the window, which overlooked a hotel right across the street,
+and was very close to this office.  Now it became clear...the paperwork grid
+corresponded to the rooms in the hotel across the street.  "Three up, two
+across," the producer said.  The guy checked the grid, found the room, and
+looked across the streeet at the corresponding room.
+
+     In the hotel room, a lone guy had come in, had taken off all of his
+clothes, and taken a seat by the window where he was...er...wanking off.
+Overlooking the street.  The producer gave it just a moment, then checked the
+grid, found the room number, called the hotel's front desk, asked for room
+311.  They could see the guy in the hotel room reach for the phone (with his
+other hand).
+
+     In his deepest voice, the producer said, into the phone, "THIS IS GOD!!!
+CUT IT OUT!"  And hung up.
+
+     This, apparently, was how he liked to spend his afternoons....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Those of you into films may know the work of John Stiers, who's done most
+of the physical SFX for the James Bond films, for Outland and other films.
+He's an academy award winner who *never* works in television, out of choice.
+Turns out, he heard of what we were doing with B5, and asked to see a copy of
+the script, not believing what he'd heard, that anyone would even TRY
+something like this for television.  Read the script...and he's aboard B5 in
+that capacity.  Turned down a film job that would have paid 3 times as much.
+At the production meeting today, he commented that he hasn't seen a group of
+people, or an operation, or an attitude like this in television EVER...and
+that the last time he ran into something like this in film was on the first
+James Bond movie, where everyone knew they were creating something special.
+
+     It really is astonishing, the calibre of people we're attracting, and
+have attracted.  We've got academy and emmy award winners working right
+alongside what are practially kids, pulling together to create something
+special.
+
+     Funny stuff, btw...over the weekend, a bunch of the guys (Ron, our
+director Richard Compton, the prosthetics team, and some guys from our crew,
+including UPM Bob Brown, who came to us from Lucasfilm) shot some, well, for
+lack of a better term...commercials.  They'll run on monitors in some of the
+corridors and business areas.  If you have a VCR and tape this show, you may
+want to run it back and pay closer attention to some of what's going on in the
+background.  It's *very* funny stuff, and only occasionally sick and twisted.
+
+     (And again, that's indicative of our team...we didn't *have* to have this
+sort of thing...it's a hassle, the prosthetics team out there en masse, doing
+some location stuff out in the desert in 100+ degree heat, all on their own
+time, giving up a weekend without pay, just to *do* it and make something
+neat.  And only occasionally sick and twisted....)
+
+     Nobody else would be crazy enough to DO this on television.  Some of the
+stuff they filmed...oh, man.  Wait until you see it.
+
+     But that, again, is part of the point...letting creative people like
+these do stuff that nobody else will LET them do.  It's very nice.  And it
+doesn't worry me a bit.  No, really.  Well, maybe the alien faith healer just
+a *tad*...and...well, never mind.  Some things are too weird to even TRY and
+describe.
+
+     Tomorrow we start rehearsals in earnest.  I've turned in the last few
+revisions for pink-pages, in some cases just changing one word on a page, if
+that made it the *right* word.  And adding in one new scene.
+
+     And for those who liked the other funny story, here's another, also true:
+a prosthetics guy was running behind on another film, designing one of the
+most crucial puppets of the piece.  Finally, in desperation, the producer went
+down to the prosthetics guy, got right in his face, and bellowed, at the top
+of his lungs, "EITHER THAT PUPPET'S READY BY TEN O'CLOCK TOMORROW MORNING, OR
+I'M GOING TO COME TO YOUR HOUSE, PAINT YOU GREEN, STICK MY HAND UP YOUR ASS
+AND **YOU'RE** THE PUPPET!"
+
+     Needless to say, the puppet was ready.  At 9:59 a.m.
+
+     I love this business....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Make that two of us.
+
+     Ah, well....
+
+     BTW, if anyone would like to, oh, I dunno, get on a mailing list for the
+Babylon 5 Newsletter (name to be announced soon), send a POSTCARD _ not a
+letter, a postcard _ with your name and address to BABYLON 5 NEWSLETTER, c/o
+Moonfire Productions, Box 2325, Oakhurst, CA  93644.
+
+     Right now, we're shooting for mid-September for the first issue, around
+the time we finish filming.
+
+     It is now T-minus 6 and counting....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     No, if you were on the T-shirt list, you're already on the B5 newsletter
+list.
+
+     And while I'm thinking about it...Katherine...I've been running off at
+the mouth here about how remarkable the EFX are that we're doing, but clearly
+I have an agenda, and a stake involved, and there's no reason why anyone
+should take my word for it (skepticism is a virtue).  Now, you've seen some of
+the new FX...so as an objective voice, did you want to go into any detail
+(without getting *too* specific) about what you saw, and what you feel is
+different about it, or anything like that?
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     And you didn't even mention the nifty screen displays....
+
+     Okay, so it's a given: anything I say here has to be considered from the
+point of view that I have an agenda.  And is thus suspect.  So with that out
+of the way...I saw the pilot for "Space Rangers" the other day, a network star
+cops type series.  ILM did some CGI space effects for the pilot, and I was
+curious to see it.
+
+     Oh, man...what a piece of...well, this is a public forum.  On a writing
+level, it's one of those scripts that mistakes banter for dialogue, and
+annoying, stupid people for characterization.  Just awful.  As for the CGI
+stuf...there were only a handful of shots, they looked prosaic for the most
+part, one or two were very nice, and one or two were dreadful.  (By
+comparison, where they did 5-6 CGI shots for that one-hour show, we're doing
+51 CGI shots for our two-hour show.  And it will cost half of what ILM
+charged.  And look better.)
+
+     Really annoying.
+
+     Anyway....
+
+     Today we assembled all but one of the cast members of B5 for a *full*
+read-through of the script for the first time.  We'd done scenes before, and
+had an early run-through with generic actors doing the lines, but this was the
+first time we went from FADE IN to FADE OUT with pretty much the entire cast.
+When you do a rehearsal like that, invariably you make changes, there are
+awkward moments as the cast settles into the roles.
+
+     My pen hit the paper a total of five times, each just a word here or
+there.  That's it.  And the wonderful part is that there was a chemistry among
+the full cast right from the word Go.  It was as though they had been working
+together for years already.  We cast *just* right.  And they're a nice,
+professional bunch of people, not a prima donna ni the bunch.  (Make that *in*
+the bunch.)
+
+     It went so well that, even though we'd set aside Friday for further
+rehearsal, our director thinks, and I agree, that they won't need it; they hit
+everything _ dialogue, attitude, delivery, pacing _ just right.  (You always
+block out and work through a scene before you shoot it, on the stage, this is
+different.)  You always go into any situatoin with the expectation that no one
+is going to really Get It.  Here, they all got it, and I don't think Richard
+asked for more than three or four re-dos of scenes with different attitudes.
+And on those where he did, they Got It immediately on the second try.
+
+     This is *so* rare.  I can't tell you.
+
+     T-minus 6 and counting.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     CGI = Computer Generated Imagery.
+
+     Re: bloopers and commercials...yes, there will be a Christmas reel for
+crew with some of this stuff...don't imagine it'll get out...(Hah!   I've seen
+how this stuff spreads!).
+
+     If your address has changed, yes, send a new one to the address given
+above.  And yes, it's okay to post that address elsewhere.
+
+     I'm going to continue to try to post at least once every couple of days
+during filming.  Can't guarantee it, but that's my target.
+
+     Makeup, wardrobe and camera tests over the next 2 days.  The cast will
+walk the sets for the first time.  After today's meeting, the atmosphere all
+over the place is overwhelmingly positive...from every side...the cast, the
+production team, Warners, people on the outside tracking the show for
+magazines and elsewhere...comes the sense that we've really GOT something
+here.
+
+     What it really shows, I think, more than any one other single element, is
+the fact that just about everyone on this show *loves* the science fiction
+genre...these are people who grew up on Forbidden Planet and Lucas and
+Spielberg and Zone and everything in-between, and that care is going into
+every frame.  And they don't want to leave.  One fellow who's been doing some
+of our computer displays found out his contract was about over.  He didn't
+want to leave the show, even though there were other job prospects
+elsewhere...he was willing to do anything, be a runner, a production
+assistant, a gopher, anything, paid or otherwise, just to stay with it as long
+as he could.  (And we found something for him, for pay; that kind of attitude
+is worth ten times the financial value of the work itself.)
+
+     If this show doesn't kick serious butt...I'm getting out of the business.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     For reasons I can't go into now (all of them good), I can't answer that
+question just now.  But I will.  Soon.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Hurm...actually...a word about Magicon....
+
+     We finish shooting on September 4th.  There's likely to be a wrap party
+that night.  Which means I'd either have to take the red-eye to be in Florida
+by the next morning...or get a 5 a.m. flight out, either way arriving a wreck
+for the Saturday presentation.
+
+     Meantime, something else has come up.
+
+     I've been contacted (again) by Creation Entertainment, and there have
+been a number of phone calls between us.  I've been very straightforward about
+my concerns, the things that I've heard from fans, all the things that I've
+stated here on this forum.  They have gone out of their way to be
+accommodating, and to make clear that they are aware that there have been
+problems in the past, but that they have been corrected.
+
+     So I'm going to give it a shot _ my suspicions intact _ and see how it
+works out.  If it does, terrific, everybody wins.  If not...then at least it
+was given a fair shot, and I have always tried to be fair.
+
+     Consequently, to those of you in the San Francisco area...I'll be doing a
+B5 presentation at the Creation Con over the weekend of September 5th and 6th.
+(A short hop up to San Francisco is a LOT more palatable than an excursion
+cross-country.)  I'll be able to bring a lot of neat stuff with me to show at
+the convention.
+
+     Now I have to let Magicon know.  And my regrets to those who may have
+been anticipating the presentation there; I'd planned on just gritting my
+teeth and, on the last day of shooting, getting no sleep and just bulling my
+way through it...but I know I'm gonna be absolutely dead by then, and it's
+just too much to put what's left of my body through at that point.
+
+     T-minus 5 and counting.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+     The main reason is strictly personal.  As I said, the Magic Con is on
+Saturday, that's when my presentation was scheduled, around noon.  Now, we
+finish shooting the day before, on Friday.  As it's scheduled now, we will
+probably finish the actual shoot around 7 or 8 o'clock, longer if we need any
+pickup shots.  Then will come the wrap party, which has to be that night
+because the day after, everyone goes off in different directions until we get
+moving on the series.
+
+     Which gives me only two options: 1) Take the redeye out of LAX and arrive
+in Orlando around 2 a.m. (assuming that I could even get it), or 2) get zero
+sleep, catch a flight out of LAX at the crack of dawn, get to Orlando with
+maybe an hour to spare, rush to the hotel, rush to the presentation, find the
+room....
+
+     Madness.  Especially knowing the shape I'm going to be in when we finish
+shooting.  By contrast, San Francisco is a half-hour or so flight, I can take
+it late in the morning on Saturday, and all will be well.
+
+     It's simply a question of *time* and *distance*.  It's not a matter of,
+"Why choose THIS convention over THAT convention," I'm not choosing EITHER
+convention; I'm choosing a location, and not killing myself in the process.
+If the Magic Con were in San Francisco, or even Phoenix, or Portland, that'd
+be different.  It's just flying cross-country under those conditions that has
+finally pushed me in this direction.  My spousal overunit has been nudging me
+for weeks now on this, "You KNOW you're not going to be in any shape for a
+cross-country flight the same night you finish filming," that kind of thing.
+And, finally, I realized that she was right.  I have a tendency to try and
+push myself beyond what I should, and I simply realized that this was what I
+was doing.
+
+     That is the entirety of my reasoning.  I'm going to be a wreck ANYway, no
+matter where I am...since I'll probably get no sleep at all during the last
+two days of filming...but at least it won't be *as* bad this way.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Just an addendum...the concerns I raised with the Creation people were
+not on my own behalf, but upon those who come to the cons, voicing what I've
+heard here and elsewhere.  It's their determination that they have fixed these
+concerns that prompted me to give them a chance.  (If I weren't doing that con
+that weekend, frankly, I'd probably stay home and try to recover).  Anyway,
+it's not been an easy decision, but it's the only one that makes any kind of
+sense at this time.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     K.NOTO: Yes.
+
+     Re: the Fox station mentioned...have them contact the Warner Bros.
+Television Consortium via Warners Domestic Television.
+
+     Currently am planning to be at Westercon.
+
+     (I think that covers the main questions.)
+
+     It has been a long, and very astonishing day, first with meetings, than
+at the soundstage all day for makeup and wardrobe and camera tests.   First,
+just to let y'all know, the E! channel will be doing a half-hour "Making of
+Babylon 5" documentary (which will also air on the commercial stations
+carrying B5 prior to broadcast).  We went over the territory today, decided
+which days they'd be on-set to cover, and showed them some of the new EFX (and
+they were amazed...commenting that it looks like a high-budget feature film).
+
+     Went to the stage after that.  Oh, man...the place is really buzzing now,
+this close to filming.  Carpenters and painters finishing up their work,
+costume and makeup people running around, and for the first time that I've
+seen it there (though it was there yesterday when I was busy at MURDER)...a
+*camera*.  The green screen is up, the massive main corridor is almost
+finished (and I do mean *massive*, almost 120 feet long), the council chambers
+are virtually finished...and to try variations with the look of the lighting,
+they pumped in a little haze to see what happened.   (Looks cool.)
+
+     And today...I saw aliens.  An actor in full Narn wardrobe AND
+prosthetics...the first time I'd seen it.  The narn is absolutely dynamite.
+Major prosthetics work.  And the costume is *gorgeous*, rich and textured.
+Also saw Delenn today, and at first, it wasn't quite right, and we had to try
+some variations in coloration and texture before finally deciding on a look.
+Now I think we're all happy with it.
+
+     Kosh also came in today.  Peered out at us through his iris.  We liked
+it.  He left.  Kosh doesn't say much.  Kosh doesn't have to.
+
+     Also saw the wardrobe and make up test on Lyta  Alexander, and she looks
+terrific.  Ditto for the tests (which were on dailies...our first dailies!) on
+Garibaldi, Sinclair and Carolyn Sykes.   Looks great.
+
+     One other casting piece now to announce...the role of Commander Jeffrey
+Sinclair.  The actor cast in that role is Michael O'Hare, who we discovered
+while casting out of New  York, and who we have flown out to L.A. for this
+role.  He's a classically trained actor, a graduate of Juliard, who just
+knocked us out when he came in to audition.  He has a tremendous presence, and
+a voice vaguely reminiscent of Clint Eastwood at times.  His face has a
+curiously haunted look, but at the same time is (I'm told by the women who go
+"yum" whenever he enters the room) quite appealing.
+
+     Michael has appeared in such films as "By a Thread," "Short Term Bonds,"
+"Into Thin Air," "Pursuit," "The Promise," and others, as well as on
+television in "Blue Revolution," "Case of Deadly Force," "Rage of Angels,"
+"The Adams Chronicles," and in such episodic television shows as "The
+Equalizer," "L.A. Law," "Kate and Allie" and others.
+
+     He is also a VERY accomplished stage actor, having appeared on Broadway
+to tremendous reviews in "A Few Good Men," "Players," "Man and Superman" and
+"Galileo," among many, many others.
+
+     The one thing we did NOT want, which we knew from the start, was one more
+pretty-boy TV actor...we wanted someone with character in his face, with a
+broad dramatic range.  And we got all of it in Michael O'Hare.
+
+     Only one more piece of casting to announce _ Ambassador Delenn _  and
+when that happens in a few days, I think you'll be most...intrigued.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Moving the date of the presentation seemed marginal at best...and
+would've entailed catching a redeye BACK and screwing up Monday.  Bear in
+mind, I'm working two shows simultaneously...both of them full time jobs....
+
+     How many people are now involved with B5?  Jeez...I know it covers about
+5-6 pages of crew, so that's at least 75-100 people minimum, probably
+more...plus the main cast, which is about 15, plus day players, about another
+20, plus anywhere from 35-50 extras for some scenes.  Then you have to add on
+the people you DON'T see...those who aren't directly part of the crew, but are
+hired out to work on costumes and the like.
+
+     This doesn't even include the sound crews, the editing people, the
+composer, others...man, we're talking here several hundred people when all the
+bills come in, though the *core* would be, I'd say, maybe a bit over 100.  It
+amazes me sometimes to think that something I came up with one afternoon could
+now, almost five years later, so directly and significantly affect the lives
+of so *many* people.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     I think the E! documentary will air about a month after they do the
+filming...so figure about 6-8 weeks.  Then again on commercial stations
+shortly before the B5 airing.
+
+     You don't have to buy Comic Con tickets in advance, they can easily be
+purchased the day you arrive, for all or part of the con.
+
+     Height: roughly 6'4", maybe a smidge over.
+
+     On music...as I've mentioned here before (really, Stephen, all you'd have
+to do is download the previous 3000 messages, and you'd know all this
+stuff...), the LAST thing I want is one more self-indulgent, bloated, pseudo-
+classical pompous John Williams ripoff.  I enjoy all forms of music (except
+country/western, a man's got to have SOME standards)...soft rock hard rock,
+SOME heavy metal (but not a lot), classical, Japanese, Eastern European,
+(some) New Age, folk rock, Gilbert and Sullivan...I'm very eclectic in my
+tastes.  So I'm really open to just about anything.
+
+     I *do* know that I want something that's really kickass, driving, with a
+strong percussive backbeat.  I loved the Stewart Copeland theme for "The
+Equalizer," and Brad Fiedel's score for T2, and those would certainly be
+appropriate for our show as well in terms of the type of music.  I wouldn't be
+averse to making it slightly rock-oriented, PROVIDED that we could avoid
+dating ourselves in the process.  (Or go for something driving yet
+traditional, like the "Glory" or "Red October" soundtracks.)  I just think
+it's time for science fiction television to admit that there's been some good
+music composed after the 18th century.
+
+     (If we could afford it, I would LOVE to have, playing in the background
+in the casino, something alien...and then segue into a Beatles song or some
+Buddy Holly or some Motown...that stuff will be with us forever, and will go
+with us into space.)
+
+     (Sudden thought...I wonder if Ennya is available to do soundtracks?)
+
+     Busy day today.  We're on the Friday before the Monday morning on which
+we begin rolling film, and there's a LOT yet to be done.  Did the final hair,
+makeup and prosthetics tests on Londo...and I have to say, when I first saw
+the complete effect, I was...startled, to say the least.  And I really wasn't
+sure, even though the actor *loved* it, and everyone else was just going nuts
+for the thing.  But after a while, the longer I looked at it, the more I began
+to like it.  It's extreme, but it fits the character.
+
+     More camera and lighting tests, the construction crews hurrying to get
+everything done in time.  Even though it's busy, more than one person
+mentioned how surprisingly calm everyone is...it's all going as it should be,
+there aren't any major crises, it's just *busy*.
+
+     Saw dailies on the makup/wardrobe/prosthetics tests we ran the other day
+on Delenn, G'Kar, Lyta and Laurel Takashima.  Very nice stuff.  G'Kar is just
+astonishing.  Of all the wardrobe/makeup we're doing, it's the most colorful,
+the most elaborately detailed, and probably the one that will start showing up
+first in convention masquerades.
+
+     By late this evening, I was exhausted, and went up into the B5 central
+corridor, climbed up the steps to the second level, and sat there for a while,
+watching as they moved the lights up and down and sideways, casting filtered
+beams of light through catwalks and grids to form curious shadows on the
+floor...amid the sound of hammers banging and saws shearing through wood, and
+the constant drum of footsteps on the set below...sitting in the Babylon 5
+station, having now seen all of the major aliens and characters in the flesh,
+on screen, in full regalia, thinking that all of this _ and all that it
+represents for those who are now involved with the Babylon 5 project _ began
+with one sentence:
+
+FADE IN:
+
+EXT. BABYLON 5
+
+     People on the set keep coming up to me and asking, "Is this exciting for
+you?"  And I don't know what to say in response.  More than anything else
+(when I'm not being tired and wishing I was asleep somewhere), I'm quite
+simply *stunned*.  It all has a vague air of unreality about it.   I imagine
+that I'll be excited when it's done, when I can actually hold a cassette of
+the show in my hand, and see the reaction it gets in front of an audience.
+
+     What usually happens during the day is that I go into the production
+offices at the studio, sit in my room in the back, and play Godfather: people
+come to me and ask questions.  I give them answers.  And then t hey go
+away...and I turn into this statue.  Just stunned.  Until someone else comes
+in with a question.  Then I go out onto the soundstage.  And sit.   Stunned.
+Then I go home.  Stunned.
+
+     Every so often, though, when I can force myself out of the haze, I find
+myself thinking, "This is really going to be SOMETHING.  I mean, really,
+really, SOMETHING."
+
+     T-minus 3 and counting.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Yikes, 28 messages since last I logged on.  This is going to get
+consistently tougher as more time is taken by production.
+
+     To try and answer some of the preceding messages....
+
+     Yes to the idea of trying an article, go for it.
+
+     On the article about B5 now in the ST newsletter...I'd love to hear more
+specifics about it.
+
+     I imagine we'll have a first, rough cut of "The Gathering" by the end of
+September.  What's interesting is that Ron will have ALL of the computer EFX
+finished within the next 10 days.  So we don't have to wait around for EFX to
+be delivered, slowing the editing process, we'll have them well in advance of
+our completion of principal photography.  (Which is also good for the actors,
+since they can know EXACTLY what it is they're reacting to, rather than having
+to look at a blank screen and react to a guess.)
+
+     How would I describe it in a TV Guide log-line?  At this stage, I don't
+know that I could.  I'm just too close to it right now.
+
+     Will get a station list up soonest; I know some stations have been added
+to the list, so there's some hope.
+
+     The credits sequence is still being storyboarded, will advise when we
+have it finalized.
+
+     Meanwhile....
+
+     It is now just a tick over T-minus one and counting.  We'll hit that as
+soon as the second hand clicks past midnight.  Spent all day today at the
+soundstage, checking, trying not to get in the way, watching and giving
+suggestions when asked.  (Funny sight...a newly painted set outside which
+someone had posted a sign, "Wipe Your Feet Before Entering!   (Especially
+Aliens!)")  They're doing lighting checks, finishing painting some of the
+sets, setting up dolly tracks and doing camera checks for angles and lighting.
+Not really that much for me to do anymore; it has now reached terminal
+velocity, having gathered its own momentum over time, and there's a certain
+point where you just have to stand back or impede the process.  So I spent a
+little time with the wardrobe guys, making the logical progression of rank
+insignia we'll be using.
+
+     (For those who know of "Captain Power," Sven Thorson, who played Tank in
+that show, came by the stage to say hello and inquire about where the babes
+were, and to ask where the hell his part is...he'll play an alien, a fern,
+whatever...as long as the part calls for a Danish accent.)
+
+     On Monday, we (in directorial terminology) "pull the trigger."  I won't
+be at the studio Sunday...at that point I know I'm going to be just a little
+twitchy, and better to take that time to rest, knowing what's ahead of
+us...lots of long days and longer nights.
+
+     What's nice is that, where you normally get a still photographer for only
+a few days out of a shoot, at most half, we're going to have one on set for
+every day of the shoot, to chronicle the whole thing for the archives.
+Warners, as with us, has come to the realization that this is going to be
+something different, and they want to record it.
+
+     The actors are gearing up, reading lines together, getting ready for the
+first scenes to be filmed (two meetings of the Babylon 5 Advisory Council, at
+which someone's fate is decided, and a bunch of stuff in the central corridor
+set).  They're primed and ready to go.
+
+     The kind of lighting we're using, by the way, has never before been used
+to this extent on any other television series.  It's going to look  quite
+dramatic.
+
+     And then there's Ambassador Delenn.  He, as you know, is the Minbari
+ambassador assigned to B5.  His makeup/prosthetics has taken the longest to
+work out, but now we're happy with his look.  And the performer who will play
+Ambassador Delenn is Mira Furlan, whose work is extremely well known in
+Europe.  A native Yuglosavian who has appeared in such highly regarded films
+as "When Father Was Away On Business" (which received the Palme D'Or at
+Cannes, as well as an Oscar nomination), "Three For Happiness" (which took the
+Grand Prix at the Valencia Film Festival), "Dear Video," "Southbound," "The
+Condemned," "The Beauty of Sin," and nearly a dozen others, ALL of them
+starring roles.  There have also been starring roles in major European
+productions and half a dozen major film awards.  BABYLON 5 will be Mira
+Furlan's entry into American television.
+
+     (pausing, waiting as the brain cells work....)
+
+     T-minus one and counting.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Well, I was wondering who'd come close to picking up on this, and Tal
+comes closest.  Yes, if you look at the message in which I introduce the actor
+playing Delenn, there are no pronouns used except as they describe the
+character.
+
+     Ideally, what you want to do when you create an alien character is to go
+for a look that's, well, *alien*, something that's not quite right about it.
+You can do this from the outside in, with really weird makeup, or from the
+inside out.  We have some of the former, and Delenn is one of the latter.
+
+     What we have, basically, is a female actor playing a male character.
+Women simply *move* differently than men do; the gestures, the tilt of the
+head, the smile, it's just a shade different.  So you now take that, and wrap
+it inside a male character, aided by prosthetics to make the face and body
+more masculine.  Now, when you look at the finished product, you are looking
+at a male, but there's something wrong about it somewhere, and it makes you a
+little uncertain.  The first time I saw Mira in full makeup, it looked great.
+And there was something very unusual about it, that sense that your eyes and
+your brain are in conflict somewhere about what you're seeing.
+
+     That was a decision made early on, and that's what's different about
+Delenn (to respond to Tal's comment).
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     P.S.  Nearly forgot...got the galleys in yesterday for my new short
+story, "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," which will be appearing in Pulphouse in
+September.  (This was not a plug, it was an incredible simulation.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 10 1992
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+     The series question is taking care of itself at this point.  Will advise
+as this develops.
+
+     Meanwhile, I am sitting here going quietly bananas.  I expected that the
+night before I'd be in quite a state, but man...I wish I could describe it for
+those looking on, but it's not any one thing.  Yes, there's a certain amount
+of excitement mixed with anticipation, terror, fear, uncertainty...it's like
+going out on a first date, and you go back to her place, and you suddenly
+realize that you're going to be going to bed for the first time together, and
+you're wondering if your mouthwash is still holding up, if she's protected, if
+you're protected, if those handcuffs beside her bed are really just for
+show...and whether or not you forgot to lock the car door downstairs....
+
+     I keep playing every scene, every line, over and over in my head, making
+sure it's all there...worrying about the makeup, the prosthetics, if the
+actors are comfortable with it all, if the sets will register properly on
+film, if I made the right decision on one of the costumes...
+
+     Argh.
+
+     I really hate this part of it.  It's great, don't misunderstand me, it's
+just...you understand.  I was sitting earlier, trying to read, and my spousal
+overunit announced that if my foot were shaking any faster, it would vibrate
+right off my leg and smash out a window across the room.
+
+     I'm fine.  I'm cool.  It doesn't bother me.
+
+     If you need me, I'll be up on the roof....
+
+     T-minus 9 hours and counting.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 11 1992
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+     I'm sure that at some time in the past, I have been more tired than I am
+right now, but I'm darned if I can think of it.
+
+     Got zip sleep last night.  Would wake up almost every ten minutes, my
+brain chewing on something or other, wondering if everything's in place,
+worrying over the hair on one of the characters (honest), if it was too
+extreme...constant bedspins.
+
+     Dragged my butt out early this morning and down to the studio by an
+ungodly hour of the morning.  Makeup and prosthetics took their usual time,
+and some time was taken up re-rigging some of the video in the set we were
+using today, adjusting some other stuff along the way.  (Richard Compton, our
+director, picked one of the most visually difficult scenes to start with,
+figuring that if we could get past this one, the rest would be a piece of
+cake, except for the one big scene toward the end of the shoot.)
+
+     We pulled the trigger and got off the first shot on-camera at about 9:30
+a.m.  I tried, where possible, to stay out of the line of fire, since by this
+time I was vibrating enough to slide into another dimension, and didn't want
+to infect anybody else.  Went off perfectly.
+
+     The main thing, for me, was that today the whole world came alive at the
+same time (the world of B5).  Up until now, it's been pieces...we see the
+actors.  We see the sets.  We see the costumes.  We see the actors in the sets
+but not in costume.  We see the actors in costume but not on the sets.
+Finally, there it was at last...all of our characters, in full  costume or
+uniform (and the uniforms look DYNAMITE!), on the sets.  It was finally,
+fully, completely *real* at last.
+
+     Andreas Katsulas took a great approach to Ambassador G'Kar, which is a
+VERY dynamic looking alien, very intimidating...giving him an educated,
+mellifluous voice, a wonderful counterpoint to his appearance.  Peter Jurasik
+was terrific as Londo Mollari, playing even the Advisory Council scenes as
+though half in the bag and trying not to show it.  Delenn was exotic and
+mysterious, Tamlyn Tomita was senSATIONAL at Laurel, great strength of
+character and presence...and I cannot begin to tell you what star material
+we've found in Michael O'Hare.  He's got a voice and a presence that could
+give Sean Connery or Clint Eastwood a run for their money.  Jerry Doyle was
+great as Garibaldi, as was Johnny Sekka as Dr. Kyle.  (We've cast two strong
+leading men in Doyle and O'Hare, and they are dynamite together...and there's
+a *very* nice chemistry emerging between Sekka and O'Hare as well.)
+
+     Our Warners liaison came by today for the first time to the set, and he
+couldn't believe the sets, how much we've done, the details, the elaborate
+stuff we've pulled off.  He was absolutely blown away.
+
+     Long story short...it went *great*, better than I'd hoped.  Richard was
+magnificent behind the camera, coming up with some very difficult and
+challenging shots, great angles...it's going to look wonderful.  Very
+cinematic, almost film-noir in its use of textures and shadows.
+
+     Later in the day, I had some friends come over, whose opinion I trust,
+and who are very well versed in SF for television and film.  (These included
+Marv Wolfman and Len Wein, known to the comics fans here, and Craig (Mr. SF)
+Miller, who was involved with the first STAR WARS, and is not generally easily
+impressed.)  They knew of B5 only peripherally, and were in NO way prepared
+for what they saw on the set.  Add to that the new EFX that I showed them
+today...their eyes melted right out of their sockets.
+
+     Got back just a little while ago (it's now about 11:30 p.m. as I type
+this).  Got some M,SW work to do before I can crash for the night, and begin
+the whole thing again tomorrow (where I'll finally see the dailies from
+today's filming).
+
+     Day One finished.  On time, on schedule, on budget.  And it looks spiffy.
+
+     I am a happy man.  Exhausted, right down to the marrow, but happy.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     P.S.  Boy, oh boy, have I got something wonderful to show at the Comic
+Con...a little something Ron handed me today...heh, heh...you say talk is
+cheap?  Well, wait until you see what *I've* got this Saturday....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Some interesting things are happening re: the broadcast debut of the B5
+pilot.  Good things.  Will advise.
+
+     As to how Richard directs...pretty much like most directors, he walks
+through the scene with the actor(s), having already a fairly clear idea in
+mind how he wants to play the scene.  Blocks out each of hte _ the _ moves,
+rehearses them a few times, and then shoots it.  Then goes in for coverage
+(overs and unders, close-ups and mediums, that sort of thing).
+
+     Day Two went quite well, after a slow start.  (A people mover we planned
+to use _ nicknamed the  Being Mover, since it's used by others than humans _
+didn't work out as well as planned, so rather than go with something less than
+perfect, we scrapped it and yanked it...which took an hour or so, and then we
+were able to get down to filming.)
+
+     We used our Big Impressive Set today, and suspect it'll look pretty cool.
+Also saw dailies from yesterday's filming, and for the first time the cast got
+to see themselves on film, and see how it was being filmed, and they're all
+*very* jazzed.  It looks like a motion picture.  Rich textures, nice use of
+shadows, good depth of field...very nice.  The uniforms and prosthetics come
+out wonderfully on film, and the performances are sparkling.  Some good drama,
+and some *very* funny stuff as well.
+
+     Anyway, all continues to go well.  We remain on schedule.  The cast is
+happy.  Warners is happy.  We're happy.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 13 1992
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+     Sorry I haven't been able to log on in over a day; things are going well,
+and the main problem was that last night I came home to edit together some
+Neat Stuff to show at Comic Con, and I'm not very good at it, and it took me
+HOURS to pull it together, by which time it was all I could do just to fall
+into bed.
+
+     But there's gonna be some fun stuff seen at Comic Con....
+
+     A few responses to the preceding:
+
+     Not a few of the Warners reps are carrying around old or incorrect
+information, as evidenced by the guy saying that the show would be on in
+November (that got changed a LONG time ago).  The other information is also
+incorrect.  We're aware of the problem, and it's being (shall we say) attended
+to.  It's really a communications problem, which happens in the early stages
+of a project as big as a new network.
+
+     What makes the lighting different?  Well, the reason I'm not saying what
+the *specifics* are is so that some other show won't find out about it and
+start using it.  Suffice to say for the moment that no other show has used
+this, certainly not to this extent.  (I'll comment more fully on the lights
+in, say, a month.  So re-ask the question at that time.)
+
+     There's actually a fair amount of rehearsal that goes on, first in full
+read-throughs, and on the set.  First a walk-through, then a camera rehearsal,
+so by the time we roll film, the actor has said the lines in that particular
+scene (which could be as short as 30 seconds) five or six times, in addition
+to reading through the scene backstage before we bring them out.  What's great
+about this particular team of actors is that they are all *thorough* pros, and
+they show up knowing every line, every word, there's virtually no coaching on
+the lines, they just come out and NAIL it.
+
+     Re: taping the Comic Con presentation...the answer to that is a big No,
+*especially* during the film part of the presentation.  If I see a red light
+anywhere in the audience, I'm going to stop the clip immediately and that'll
+be it.
+
+     What's interesting to me is watching the actors as they grow into their
+parts.  The greatest degree of prosthetics are on Andreas Katsulas, and he's
+commented that instead of being a burden, the "mask" of the headpiece has
+freed him...and he's *wonderful*.  Every time he comes on set, he just
+energizes everyone.
+
+     And the actor's craft in action is fascinating to behold.  There is a
+scene (well, two, actually) in which Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik) has very
+little to say.  But you always have to do a close-up for coverage.   And
+despite the fact that he has nothing much to *say*...he totally and completely
+and wonderfully steals the scene.  Subtle, small things that register
+magnificently on the screen.
+
+     I have a strong hunch that Londo and G'Kar are going to be real break-out
+characters.
+
+     So far, we've shot scenes in the main corridor, the outside of the
+casino, the council room, various quarters, the conference center and a few
+other places.  We're really steaming along nicely.
+
+     I'll be down in Comic Con, and thus unavailable here for a few days, but
+will log on when I'm next near a keyboard.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+
+     Just got in...absolutely bushed (it's 106 degrees outside, a real
+killer).
+
+     I've only skimmed the reactions here, will discuss more later, but in
+brief...just a reminder that what was shown was culled from only the first 2
+days of dailies.  The more exotic-looking aliens come in other scenes.
+
+     And again, my apologies for the darkness of the dailies clip; these were
+many generations down: from the film, to a 3/4" tape, to a VHS, to another VHS
+onto which I made the edited cuts, and then onto a final VHS to add the music.
+Four generations down.  (I'd wanted to do only 3 generations down, but I
+couldn't find a way to totally knock out the soundtrack on the edited footage,
+so had to transfer it again and mix in the music at that time.)
+
+     Overall, I was fairly pleased with how the presentation went.  I'm always
+hyper-critical of my own performance, wondering if I'd gotten out all the
+important information.  I'd thought I'd have 90 minutes, but only had 60, and
+that kinda closed things down a little bit.
+
+     Anyway, too bushed now for much more, just a quick check-in.  Will sign
+on again either later today or at the end of day tomorrow, after another day
+of filming.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 17 1992
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+     The ship you refer to is known in the script as the spider transport,
+though it looks a little more tick-ish than spider-ish.  (BTW, there wasn't a
+problem with the lights, it turns out...some idiot thought it would be fun to
+turn them on and off during the presentation.  Which is why it stopped when I
+saw a shadow toward the back of the room at the controls and commented that if
+someone was messing with the lights, I'd hurt him...bad.)
+
+     As for the lens flare, yeah, it's just one of the extras Ron's cooked up
+to make things more real, though we over-used it a bit at the start.  The
+reasoning behind it was simply giving the sense of a camera out in space,
+again replicating what a real lens would pick kup.
+  (Or pick up.)
+
+     You know you're tired when you're too tired to type....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     (sitting here, saying nothing, hands jammed over mouth, unable to say
+what I know, just as I could say nothing when the Babylon 5 project was only
+That Which Could Not Be Mentioned, but knowing what was coming down the road,
+and the news was good, *is* good, but he can't say, not yet, not until he's
+allowed to...but trust me, QC, all is well.)
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie).  
+
+
+
+     One nifty thing in today's dailies...I have to say that Patricia  Tallman
+makes one heck of a telepath.  Wonderful.  One thing I've never liked much
+about most treatments of telepaths on TV is that they've never really SOLD the
+idea...meaning, made it visual and dynamic, it's usually someone putting their
+hands to their head and muttering about images or feelings.  Sort of your dime
+-
+store psychic stuff.
+
+     In the script, I came up with a way of making the process dynamic and
+mysterious and visual, but without breaking the reality (if one could call it
+that) of how the process would or should work.  Didn't know for sure if it
+would work until I saw the dailies today.  Oh, man....it's lovely.  And
+powerful as hell.
+
+     Some very nice scenes today with Sinclair and his love interest, Carolyn
+Sykes.  Nice grown-up adult relationship stuff.
+
+

+
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+     Hello?  Is there really a world out there?  Haven't had a chance to log
+on until now.  Lots of interviews as well as production to worry about.
+Broadcasting Magazine again for a follow-up, then CNN/Showbiz Today this
+afternoon, on and on.  Don't know yet when some of this will be hitting the
+stands or the airwaves (respectively), but will advise when I do.
+
+     There's a lot of good stuff coming down the road, some exciting news
+brewing...but as with the time when this was That Which Could Not Be Named, I
+can't say anything.  Let's just say that the disparitites between the coverage
+between B5 and the other series (and the reason for same) should evaporate
+very soon.  In addition, promos are now being shot to air on all the TV
+stations set to carry B5 which will include scenes from the movie.  These may
+begin airing as soon as a month or two from now.
+
+     Just two more days of filming left.  It's sometimes hard to believe; it
+took us five years to get here, and now this part of it will be over in just
+two more days.  But as is so often said in television, boys and girls, there
+is more to come....
+
+     The footage continues to look spectacular.  David Gerrold came by this
+evening to pick up a few things for the Worldcon auction, and saw some of the
+footage (efx and dailies).  His comment: "Every so often, the science fiction
+media world undergoes a paradigm shift.  There was one with Star Trek, another
+with Star Wars...and what I just saw amounts to a major paradigm shift."
+
+     Newsletter is coming together, most of the interviews are concluded, and
+I expect it to be out sometime around the end of the month, so those who've
+sent postcards, watch your mailboxes around the first part of October.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+
+     The last two days, we've been shooting stuff in the observation dome,
+basically the B5 command and control room, which has a huge port that looks
+out into space.  (The design is kinda, but not really, reminiscent of the
+Spirit window from the strip of the same name.)  Saw the dailies today, and it
+looks great.  And there's something nifty about standing there in the middle
+of this thing, looking out at space, black and white and the blue of a nearby
+nebula, rendered outside the port so we can do some of this in-camera.  It
+feels very real when you're inside.
+
+     Last day for the pilot shoot tomorrow.  And probably one of our most
+lavish sets as well.  Will log on after we've finished the last shot.  Really
+tired, but we've got just about everything in the can now, and it's all 99.9%
+of what I originally saw in my head, or in many cases, better.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
+     Er, actually, any reposts of my messages should only be noted as
+copyright by me.  Just a formality.
+
+     Just returned from the San Francisco con, and about ready to drop, which
+sums up pretty well my status for the last few days.
+
+     We wrapped Friday night at 2 a.m., and there wasn't a party (we were all
+too bushed) but a general well-wishing sort of thing.  Didn't get home until
+nearly 3:30 a.m., or asleep until 5 a.m....and then could only grab two or so
+hours sleep before having to get up and nab the plane in time for the B5
+presentation in San Francisco.
+
+     Emotions were really riding high Friday night as we got off the last shot
+of the pilot.  No one really wanted to leave, despite the late hour.  They're
+a good bunch.
+
+     Anyway, I'm going to go and put my feet up, try to eat around my broken
+tooth, take some aspirin, and try to get better.  It's as if my body were able
+to stand the strain just long enough to finish the job of the last four weeks,
+and then imploded....
+
+     Later.
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 12 1992
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+     It occured to me that I hadn't left a really *substantive* post since we
+finished filming last Friday.  There's a certain burn-out that happens after
+you finish a major project like this; you just sort of shut down for a while
+and stare at the walls a lot.  So between that and catching up on M,SW
+work...you understand.
+
+     Most everyone is now taking a sorely needed rest from the grueling
+schedule; Michael O'Hare and Mire Furlan have headed back to New York, and the
+rest are out here, working on other stuff while we gear up for Phase Two on
+B5.  The film is now being edited together, and the editor is now close to
+finishing the first rough assembly.  (They've been doing some of this all
+along.)  The assembly will be in-hand Tuesday, but that's for our director's
+eyes only.  Right now, we're running a bit long, but the cuts, I hear, are
+*very* loose, and can be trimmed quite easily.
+
+     The editor is quite astonished at what he's seeing; the scope of the
+thing, the look of it.  I share that feeling.  What happens when you make a
+project like this is that you spend a whole day on one set, doing X-number of
+scenes in that set.  Then the next day, you watch the dailies from that set.
+And soon you lose track, a bit, of how it will all look when you cut it
+together, and you're in LOTS of sets, and scenes.  It's like thinking of your
+house ONLY in terms of the kitchen, or the dining room, without putting it all
+together in your head into a dynamic system...a home.
+
+     And that's what happens during editing.  I spent the first part of the
+week going over ALL of the dailies, tape after tape, pulling out shots to be
+used in promos.  And so for the first time saw the WHOLE movie, not
+necessarily in order, but all of the scenes, all of the sets, the whole look
+of the thing.  And the overwhelming sense that I get is of the sheer,
+seductive feel involved, the sumptuous sets, the gritty darker stuff...thanks
+to Richard and John Iacovelli and so many others, it's really a feast for the
+eyes.  I honestly, truly believe that it's going to leave a lot of people
+boggled.
+
+     We're trying to continue the momentum now that we have film to show.
+Watch for a big photo layout in the next STARLOG SPECTACULAR, and a *huge*
+story, 20 pages or so, with lots of photos, in CINEFANTASTIQUE around
+December/January.  (There'll be a smaller piece in, I believe, the next issue,
+with a photo or two from the set.)  I'm pretty sure that BROADCASTING MAGAZINE
+will also have a story in next week or so.
+
+     In a way, this is the really hard part...you've *made* the film, so by
+all rights this is where you should be able to relax and savor it, but there's
+a lot of ground to cover, a lot of work to get out the word about the show,
+lots of post-production to do...and we haven't even gotten to the sound for
+the show, audio mapping,any of that.  (I hope to be able to announce a
+composer in the next week or so; I think you'll all be quite pleased by who we
+think we've got, pending the fine points in the deal being nailed down.)
+
+     There's an *awful* lot of movement going on behind the scenes, all of it
+wonderful, but I can't say anything about it for the time being.
+
+     Picked up the Don McLean CD collection today, and was surprised to hear
+his song "Babylon," which I'd practically forgotten.  The song triggered off
+an image that just slammed into my head; it comes not from anything IN the
+song per se, but the tone, the mood, and I think I'm going to work an entire
+episde around that image, maybe year 3 or so.
+
+     Meanwhile, as indicated, we're currently in the eye of the storm, the
+quiet between the end of filming and the delivery of the first  real cut.
+Expect to see a *lot* of activity when the eye passes and we're back in the
+thick of it.
+
+     (Final aside...in looking at the scenes, there's one in which Londo is
+mourning the loss of the great Centauri empire, and talking about  how they've
+gone from running everything to being just a few worlds, living on memories
+and stories, selling trinkets...and I found myself wanting to tag on that line
+from THE PRODUCER, "...AND I'M WEARING A CARDBOARD BELT!")
+
+     Oh...and there *is* a blooper reel.  I've seen the first part of it.
+ Very funny stuff...sick and twisted, but funny.
+
+                                                          jms
+

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+     To the query above, yes, BABYLON 5 has a definite beginning, middle and
+end.  I've always enjoyed shows like that, such as THE PRISONER, which has a
+beginning (he arrives at the village) and an end (he escapes from the
+village...sorta), and good stuff in between.
+
+     All of this effort is so that we can tell A Story.  A very long and
+involved story, about one person, mainly, but how that person's future can
+affect the course of history.  A saga.
+
+     The key is to do that without making it impossible for the viewers.   I
+dearly loved TWIN PEAKS,  but if you missed an episode, you were screwed.
+Similarly, you can't make the end of every episode a thematic or plot-
+cliffhanger, leading directly into the next episode.  Each episode MUST stand
+on its own, and it should be structured so that you can come into it at any
+point, and be able to track what's going on, no matter what season it is.
+It's very much a writer's challenge, but I love challenges.
+
+     (Now, of course, the saga continues in my own head long after the end of
+the five-year storyline, because they're real people to me, and their lives
+and the lives of those they touch continue, but at this point that's more than
+I even want to think about.  Let's get this puppy on the air first, then we'll
+see if we even last two years, let alone five.)
+
+     On Monday afternoon, I'll be seeing a good cut of the BABYLON 5 pilot.
+Will let you know if it lives up to expectations.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     What are you missing?  The stuff about the story that only I know.
+
+     Re: the 10 years and 1-4 Babylon stations.  Remember, first, that they
+were not completed.  In one case only the superstructure was completed, in
+another inferior materials were used (deliberately), and so on.  So it's not
+like they built 5 fully operational stations.  Only B4 actually made it to
+operational status.  B5 was/is intended to be the last effort.  If this one
+doesn't make it...screw it.
+
+     Applying the resources from the full EA was deemed vital because, as
+stated, we as a race were almost wiped out in the Earth/Minbari War.  We might
+BE wiped out by a technologically superior race next time it happens...IF we
+allow it to happen.  B5 is the first line of self defense, and from our close
+call, everybody knows it.
+
+     Re: shipping materials, I posted somewhere upline how the jump points
+work.  In brief, large ships (cruiser and above) can generate their own entry
+points to hyperspace; gates are used mainly for smaller ships without their
+own field generators, and larger ships that want to conserve power.  So all
+that was required was to drop 1 jump point when they started building B1, and
+that was it.  There was no long supply line.  (To clarify, the larger ships,
+Explorer class, leave behind 3 or 4 jump gates at pre-arranged points as they
+move through space.)
+
+     As for Sinclair's status as both commander and ambassador...that is
+something we're going to deal with in the series.  By all rights, he shouldn't
+even BE there.  EA tried to stick an Admiral or some other high-ranking
+officer there.  The first race to sign onto the station, the Minbari, had
+approval over who was sent to that post.  They rejected everyone suggested,
+right down the line, until Sinclair.  EA Officials are still wondering why HE
+was selected.  (There is a reason.)
+
+     That post was previously designed to either include representing Earth as
+an ambassador (to avoid in-station conflicts) or as an adjunct to one.  And at
+one point, an ambassador will arrive, and they will hash this out once and for
+all.
+
+     Your question proceeds from the assumption, "How can everyone agree that
+this is the right thing to do?", which is understandable, given how monolithic
+some shows make the future.  But in the case of this show, there is constant
+disagreement, and there are a LOT of people in the Earth Alliance who think
+that this is NOT the right thing to do,and will try to take action to
+"correct" it....some for understandable reasons, some out of another agenda
+entirely.
+
+     What you have picked up on are not flaws, but story points in the
+making...areas that will be explored down the road.  These questions WILL be
+answered.  It would have been very easy to make him Admiral or Ambassador
+Sinclair.  He was given this lower rank for a reason...and there are an awful
+lot of people who look at this, and wonder if  Sinclair isn't just a *tad* too
+cozy with their former enemies in the war, and just where ARE his loyalties,
+*really*?
+
+     I've always taken pride in the fact that my stories are generally
+airtight.  I hate loose ends and unanswered questions and inconsistencies.  So
+feel free to poke and prod.  It'll either be something I've deliberately built
+into the show, or something that I should attend to.
+
+     As for the question above about how long this access will continue, only
+time will tell.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Well, I saw the first cut today.  Overall...not bad.  The one drawback to
+doing a screening like this is that you can't just sit back and enjoy/watch
+the show.  You have to look for problems, have to keep reminding yourself not
+to get sucked into it and lose objectivity.  You don't go to have a good time,
+you go to find ways to give yourself grief.
+
+     Fortunately, it all seems to hang together nicely.  There were a few
+scenes and partial scenes that need to be cut, that're fun but don't advance
+the plot.  (It's a tad long, so we could use the cuts.)  And a few shots need
+to be restructured for clarity.  But overall...it's good.   (It's also one of
+those situations where you've now seen something 15 or 20 times, and you lose
+all sense of perspective.)
+
+     I imagine we'll have the revised cut in by week's end.  Tomorrow our
+tentative composer views the cut.  Will advise as soon as I know how this
+finally works out.
+
+     In the interim, some scenes were dubbed with bits of music, whatever they
+had on hand...and it's amazing how much music adds to a scene.  Just makes the
+whole thing come alive.
+
+     Once we have the next cut in hand, I think I'm going to show it to a few
+selective people, all of whom are very critical of my work, and invite them to
+beat the crap out of it.  The tougher we make it, the better the odds of
+survival out in the world....
+
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+     I am trying very, very, *very* hard not to lose it at this moment.
+
+     Someone put the copy of the current ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY in my hands,
+with the DS9 cover story, and said "I think you should see this."  And I saw
+some full-head makeup prosthetics that look an *awful* lot like ours.   But
+worse yet...the sets.  The Promenade looks amazingly like our bazaar; their
+casino/bar looks a lot like our casino/bar, on and on and on....
+
+     This is getting just a *little* out of hand.  The visual aspect comes on
+top of the story aspect...that both shows are about a space station that
+functions as a port of call for businessmen, smugglers, diplomats and others,
+located near a jump-point/worm-hole, has an open marketplace, a casino, a bar,
+hookers, original draft screenplays in which a shape changer played a
+substantial role, a female second in command, a head of the station with the
+same initials (J.S.) both with the rank of Commander, and an attack scene near
+the end with the female second in command being in charge of the defense...oh,
+yeah, and both commanders carrying a trauma from a recent war or battle.
+
+     And there are more points of similarity, those are just the ones that
+spring immediately to mind.  And now they will even have much the same look,
+similar sets, similar makeups....
+
+     I'm calm.  I'm quiet and collected.  How that desk got tossed out the
+window is anybody's guess.
+
+     Well, at least there's some good news.  We screened the rough cut of B5
+for the composer we'd like to work with, and he seemed to go for it.
+ Now we just have to see how our mutual schedules mesh.  (This is a very
+special composer, and so there's a fair amount of courtship going on.)
+
+                                                               jms
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+     (Entering calm, philosophic mood....)
+
+     Personal involvement aside, I'd say that B5 looks *better*.  And I just
+got the news this afternoon, now that the final production report is in (minus
+what's set for post).  We've come in UNDER budget.
+
+     Hey, Paramount!   Phthpfttttt!
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Television is like a train; once it leaves, you then know how long it
+will take to get from A to B.  We could've still made the November airdate if
+we'd gotten the go when originally discussed.  That didn't happen.  Given when
+we started, it's simple math to determine when we can air.  (And remember, we
+aren't all by ourselves here; Warners has to consider many factors, like the
+rest of the network, and where we fit in in that area.)
+
+     We will have a pretty solid cut in about 2 weeks.  A fine-cut by the end
+of October.  We start spotting (looking for music cue locations) November 3rd.
+Scoring will take place around December 14th.  We'll deliver shortly before
+Christmas.  Nothing can happen then until January or February.  And the Prime
+Time Network goes on line in February, and they want B5 to air during the
+February sweeps, where it will get the most attention and exposure.
+
+     Sweeps also puts us up against the MOST deadly competition; that's when
+the networks, syndicators and cable outfits pull out their big guns in stunts
+and high-profile programs to kill off everything else in sight.
+ So we're very much walking right into the lion's den, with everything in the
+world stacked up against us.
+
+     Seems like fair odds to me....
+
+     And it wouldn't be the first time.
+
+                                                                jms
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+                        *** YES! ***
+
+     The composer we've wanted, who we've been courting, has seen the rough
+assembly and likes what he sees!  He wants to do it!  Insofar as I know,
+there's only one deal point remaining to be resolved.  Once that's done, and
+Warners has approved, I can probably make some sort of announcement, all
+things being equalized.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     As I write this, we are starting to come out of the lull between storms.
+First there was the production itself, then things quiet down while the
+editors and our director assemble their cut, which is now ongoing.  The closer
+the cut comes to being finished, the more things begin to pick up speed.
+
+     We're starting to pick up a *little* on the PR stuff.  Gave some
+interviews to different magazines, and remember, the E! channel 30 minute
+Making Of documentary should be hitting the air in the next few weeks to a
+month.  Now that we have something to show people, it's a bit easier to get
+their attention.
+
+     On Tuesday I'll be seeing one of the four-minute promos for the show.
+The fellow handling that aspect over at Warners is *very* excited by the look
+of the thing, and commented today that the task we'd had was to make a TV
+movie as a pilot.  What we ended up with, in his view, is a Motion Picture
+that just happens to have been made for television.  "The best I can describe
+it is, imagine if someone had made STAR WARS just the way it was made, but for
+television," he said.
+
+     That's one of the problems with working on a project for so long; after a
+certain point, you're no longer capable of really viewing it or evaluating it
+objectively.  To some degree, you don't even SEE it anymore, there's no
+surprise after you've seen each take 5-10 times at least.  So we all kind of
+take it for granted; it's only when someone sees the whole thing for the first
+time that we can even begin to gauge the film.
+
+     We're getting absolutely amazing support from Warners, which is just in
+love with the project and really smells something special.  And that's nice.
+They're still amazed that we came in under budget (the precise figure: $1,190
+under), given that a certain OTHER show, with fewer sets, fewer EFX, a wealth
+of standing sets (the ship-board stuff), established uniforms and some
+prosthetic precedents, has apparently, as George Martin mentions above, gone
+WAY over budget even at having been budgeted at something between $9-12
+million, which is hideous even to start with.
+
+     The key to that, frankly, is something where we have a definite edge:
+planning.  We weren't rushed, we had the script a long time in advance, and
+were able to schedule our set construction and other areas to control the
+costs.  And this will apply to the series as well; we know roughly what half
+the stories will be about, so we can spread out the construction, start in on
+the required EFX well in advance, so that they look good, and aren't
+rushed...simple, basic planning.
+
+     At the core of that is something that occured to me today, the one thing
+that no one can take from us, and which no one can touch: the other show is
+about a space station at which stories take place; ours is a show about one
+particular story, one saga, which happens to take place on a space station.
+If there is any one thing that distinguishes B5 from everything else, that's
+probably it.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+     An aside, hopefully the last one for a while on the Other Show, only
+because I know it's being discussed elsewhere, along with the question of why
+it SHOULD be discussed...so I thought I'd take a moment to deal with it here.
+Some of it appeared in the now-deleted message, but presented here in calmer
+terms.
+
+     There's always disagreement between genre fans regarding shows; some like
+TNG over TOS, some vice-versa, some like STAR WARS but not TREK...and there
+will doubtless be that same discussion between B5 and DS9.  Which is all fine
+and good, and had nothing much to do with the topic at hand.
+
+     What it comes down to, really, is history and context.
+
+     BABYLON 5 is the culmination of five years of work, five years of my
+life, and that of many others.  Five years of meetings, of pitches, of return
+meetings, of second pitches, of raised hopes and bitter disappointments.  It
+would have been very easy, at any point, to just pack it in.  I cannot even
+begin to convey to you the grief and hte heartbreak when the deal seemed
+absolutely solid...only to fall apart at the very last second.  The long
+nights of frustration, of people (wiser than I) saying, "Look, let it go, it's
+not going to happen, it's consumed four years of your life, you could probably
+sell another show a lot easier...give it up."
+
+     But we refused.  I refused.  And in between pitches and meetings and
+deals in the offing, I stole hours from other work, from desperately needed
+sleep, to write out character descriptions, to write down the five year story
+arc, the history of the BABYLON 5 universe, two hundred single spaced pages
+and more, because I *believed* in this project, because I had a story to tell.
+
+     To see that five years of work jeapordized or threatened....
+
+     Let me put it in terms that might clarify the situation.
+
+     Let's say that, the same month that the original STAR TREK went on the
+air, some other network debuted SPACE TREK, about a starship on a five year
+mission...a starship with a tubular hull connected to a saucer section at one
+end, and two nacelles at the other...commanded by a Captain Clerque, and his
+alien first officer Smock....
+
+     How would you have felt?  Perhaps more to the point, how would
+Roddenberry have felt?
+
+     And that, really, is the context in which this discussion has to be
+framed.  It's not competition, it's not sniping, it's a serious issue that has
+to be confronted.  With one last aspect to be considered:
+
+     One of the reasons that this show was so hard to get going was that it
+was so unique, so challenging to television, so different in many ways, some
+of which you will only begin to see in the series.  And I know full well that
+even if the Warners PR machine got working 24 hours a day on this, half of all
+viewers will see this show, coming out after DS9, and think it's just a last-
+minute knockoff or ripoff of DS9.
+
+     And for a *writer*, any writer, especially if you take any degree of
+pride in the originality of your work, that appearance is hurtful in the
+extreme.
+
+     Anyway, that's really all I have to say about this whole issue at this
+time.  There's much going on (the hints to which the previously referenced
+sysopatrix alluded to), and there's all kinds of news coming down the pike.
+All of it good.
+
+     As stated before, the post-production lull is just about over....
+
+                                                             jms
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+     One can but hope.
+
+     Incidentally, and not entirely as an aside, I spoke to Michael O'Hare
+today, who's in New York at the moment.  (Michael, you'll all remember, is our
+lead, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair.)  Basically called to bring him up to speed
+on a few things, and we got to talking about heroes.  And how much he wants to
+bring out that aspect, for his own kid, and for others.  One thing that
+Michael and I have in common is that we both resolutely and stubbornly
+continue to believe in heroes, and the need for same.  Not bluff-and-bluster
+heroes, but ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances, and
+rise above what they believe are the limits of their endurance.
+
+     Someone said recently of HILL STREET something rather profound, I thought
+at the time.  That it was about the redefinition of heroes; the hero as
+bureaucrat (Furillo), the hero as ordinary man (Hill and Renko), the hero as
+psycho (Belker), the hero as sleazebag (Buntz), and that genuinely struck me
+as the core of that show...that heroes aren't always what we think they're
+supposed to be, and that there is that spark that can be found in the
+unlikeliest of places.
+
+     Anyway, just your Thought For Today....
+
+                                                            jms
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+      If it were only a matter of set design, you wouldn't hear
+ a peep from me.  For what I hope will be the last time, here's
+ how it lays down:
+
+              BABYLON 5                       DEEP SPACE 9
+ Commander Sinclair                        Commander Sisko
+ Casino                                    Casino
+ Bar                                       Bar
+ Female second in command                  Female second in command
+ Shapechanger in original script           Shapechanger in pilot script
+ Located near a jump-point (warp)          Located near wormhole (warp)
+ Number-designated space station           Number-designated space station
+ Hookers                                   Hookers
+ Similar prosthetics                       Similar prosthetics
+ Similar sets                              Similar sets
+ Female 2nd fending off attack at end      Female 2nd fending off attack
+ Bazaar                                    Promenade
+ Cmdr. haunted by recent war               Cmdr. haunted by recent battle
+ Cmdr. is unmarried                        Cmdr. is (now) unmarried
+ Freeport/port of call                     Freeport/port of call
+ Travelers/diplomats/smugglers             Travelers/diplomats/smugglers
+
+      Those are the highlights.  There's more, but this point has
+ been belabored far more than is reasonable at this point.  With
+ one bit of new information...I've heard that Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
+ has been quoted as saying that B5 has borrowed from DS9...now I
+ can't personally confirm this, I wasn't there, but if those who
+ sent me private mail testifying to this want to come forward, they're
+ welcome to do so (though no onus is attached if they don't).
+
+      Can such things happen by accident?  That's more a question for
+ others.
+
+      Now, again, I don't want to go on about this in extremis.  The
+ only reason I replied was because you asked, and seemed to think that
+ the only similarity was in the set design.  As has been stated
+ (repeatedly), they will be very different shows, in many ways, in
+ terms of the stories and the characters and the fact that we just
+ operate in a completely different fictional universe.
+
+      So that said...let's move on.  In future, if anyone wants to
+ get the details, they should be referred to this message.  There's
+ going to be a lot to discuss, and a lot of new stuff coming down
+ the road in terms of B5, and I'd hate for this topic to end up
+ just a constant rehashing of point-by-point similarities.  Best to
+ talk of B5 in terms of B5, not via comparison to others.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+NOTE: This is right after the GEnie SFRT split into three groups, creating a
+Babylon 5 category in the process.
+
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+

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+     Actually, there *is* such a logo already uploaded as a GIF file in the
+library.
+
+                                                               jms
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+      Thanks for the reminder.  I'll probably bring a copy of the show with
+me, and may try to drag our director or a cast member to the con, to answer
+questions.  This is, btw, the first time I've ever been a guest of honor at
+ANY convention...and that it's in San Diego, where I got my real start as a
+writer, is a special thrill.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I've saved the megafile to disk, so no need to resend at this point.
+
+     Don't yet know about Media*West, mainly because of scheduling stuff.   My
+*guess* would be no, but we'll see.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 13 1992
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+     Yes, you need to subscribe to get the remaining 4 issues.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 18 1992
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+     Is that 9:30 eastern, central or pacific?  Just as a reminder, some cable
+stations don't repeat at the same times in different areas, so when posting
+this sort of info, please be sure to mention whether that's in all areas, or
+just in some.  Thanks.
+
+     (Remembering to set my own VCR....)
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I wonder sometimes if everyone has problems with their PR.  The E! piece
+(which should show up every 3 hours or so for the next little while) was okay.
+My main concern with it was that they concentrated on the
+prosthetics/makeup/puppetry because that's easiest to do.  If I were at home
+watching, having had no familiarity with the show, I don't think I would have
+learned anything from this.  It was...cute.  I hate cute.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 19 1992
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+     The more I've had a chance to think about it, the more I've gotten
+comfortable (minus my own loudmouth comments) with the Cinefantastique
+article(s), and the more I've gotten annoyed with the E! piece.  It never
+fails...people who don't know anything about the genre ALWAYS go for the cute
+stuff...when they cover conventions for TV, they *always* find the one guy
+with the spock ears, and when they cover a show with prosthetics, they
+*always* go for the critters.  They turned B5 into a puppet show, and that
+annoys me; used characters that have NOTHING to do with our show, who don't
+appear in it, and THAT annoys me.
+
+     It's my lot, I suppose....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Correct on the two points above.  The creature they used, which they
+nicknamed "Bad Bob" (they refers to the prosthetics guys) appears in about two
+seconds of the show, same with the other critter you see, neither of them
+speaking, just background stuff.  And here, that came to be what the promo was
+ABOUT, implying that's what the SHOW was about.  It basically ignored the
+*show* in deference to playing with toys.
+
+     I've tried overall to leave the media guys alone, just let them wander,
+go where they will.  We have nothing to hide and everything to be proud of.
+Then someone goes off on this tear...it's very discouraging, and I'm going to
+have to seriously rethink this approach.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     The set where Richard and I were interviewed is the central corridor, or
+at least a corner of it; it's so large that you really can't see that much of
+it in any shot.
+
+     Yes, we're adjusting Mira's voice in post to make it masculine.  I've
+seen the tests, and it definitely twists your mind around.  The look is
+neutral, and when the voice is female, your mind buys female; when you change
+the voice, the voice is male, the look is neutral, and the *moves* are
+female...and now your brain doesn't know WHAT to make of it.  It's actually a
+little unsettling...which is the goal.
+
+     RE: Lyta's eyes...yeah, that's what drew me to her for this role from the
+start.  They're HUGE, which is what I always figured you'd get from a
+telepath, that sense of seeing right through into your soul.  She's great.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Well, it looks like there will be some changes made in the E! piece (he
+said, setting down his baseball bat, the one with the nails stuck through it).
+Comprehensive changes.  Will advise when and how the new one will be shown and
+made available.  (Which makes the one airing now a collector's item, I
+suppose, since eventually it'll be replaced and, if I have anything to do with
+it, never seen again by human eyes.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Yes, it is a bad joke...and deliberate disinformation.  Please let me
+know who posted that piece of...information.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     BTW, since y'all might not check, TRGBs fans should check out cat 16,
+topic 2, message 125 for something really rather annoying about the show's
+current run on USA.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 30 1992
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+     Specific comments should probably go in the spoilers topic.  One request:
+please try not to give away the "beep" stuff since it functions best with a
+surprise element.
+
+     Still recovering from the con...the reception was terrific.  I'll let
+others comment on the specific crowd reactions, because I've tried in general
+to avoid that...it's just too direct a hype, I feel.
+
+     But it was a very gratifying weekend.  Thanks all.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Well, Pat had been to other cons before, so it wasn't that new an
+experience for her, ditto for Mojo (Pat's connection came via her work on
+Romero films).  It was Jerry's first experience, though, and he did seem quite
+astonished by it all (as much as Jerry is astonished by anything, which ain't
+much).  But they all seemed pleased and gratified by the reaction.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Well, here's the situation....
+
+     My timing has always been off, and the story of Babylon 5 has been one of
+struggle against odds from the very first chapter.  WhereEVER did I get the
+notion that this would change?
+
+     A little history for those looking on...last year, when we brought B5 to
+the stations involved in the Consortium, and to Warners, everyone was hot and
+ready, having just formed this new consortium, to get things moving.  They
+were all ready to commission a B5 series right off the bat, until one or two
+people near the top said, in essence, "Look, this sounds totally unproduceable
+for television, something on this scale can't be done for TV, maybe there
+should be a pilot made *first*, just to show that it can be done.  Then we'll
+go with the series if it can come in on budget and on schedule."  There was
+some disagreement, but eventually that came to be what was done.
+
+     So now, it's a year later.  As well as B5, the new network commissioned
+two series, Kung Fu and Time Trax, and a Wild West Miniseries.  Over the last
+few days, everyone was re-convened in the hopes of moving ahead now on B5 and
+one other project.  Just one problem: human psychology.,
+
+     If you add up the amount spent on series, B5, miniseries, publicity,
+other expenses, you're up to the $25 million range and counting.  That's a lot
+of dough and thus far none of it has been aired.  And to come to them now and
+ask for more...well, it wasn't the time.  They've bought shows, and they want
+to know _ correctly, one must come to understand _ that those shows will
+WORK, that the money spent so far has been a wise investment.
+
+     Consequently, everything is now ratings (like it ever wasn't, when it
+comes to TV?).  We're so close to airdate now _ two months _ that the
+general concensus was, "Let's see how it does in the ratings."  Then we will
+get the go.
+
+     It's frustrating, but Warners has made it clear that they continue to
+stand behind the show, that this really has nothing to do with B5 at all
+because no other shows were picked up during the meeting, which was part of
+the desire, it's simply a matter of people having spent a lot of money wanting
+to know that they invested wisely.
+
+     That's showbiz.
+
+     Which means that now, once again, all of you play an important role in
+this saga.  The word has to continue to go out, that's a given...but perhaps
+even more important, if you like what you see when B5 airs, it's absolutely
+vital to write or fax both your local TV station and Warners to let them know.
+It's the stations who have the voice on this, and the one voice they hear
+clearest is yours, as the viewer.  (Or use the GEnie system to fax stuff,
+which may be quicker and easier.)  Not now, after the airing.
+ If you *don't* like what you see...then don't.  What matters is doing it only
+if it's right.
+
+     More on this as it develops.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     All that info will be available at the time.
+
+     Just to clarify...the ironic thing is that this really has nothing to do
+with B5.  The reaction conveyed back to us from the stations was nothing short
+of overwhelmingly enthusiastic.  The question to be decided was, "Do we open
+up a second night of programming (of which B5 was only one of SEVERAL shows to
+be picked up during that meeting) or do we wait to see if the *first* night of
+programming works out?"
+
+     By way of comparison, it would be as if you bought a car, and the
+salesman tried to sell you a *second* car before you'd even taken the first
+car out of the driveway.  It's personally frustrating, but when you come right
+down to it, you really can't fault that reasoning.
+
+     Meanwhile, nothing has changed...the B5 pilot goes on in February, and
+apparently there will be a press tour arranged by Warners because of their
+continued excitement, merchandising is continuing, there's going to be a big
+PR push in January...that it's going to be a series has never been a question,
+once we met the on-schedule/on-budget requirement; it's only a matter of a
+couple months difference.  The only reason an early push for a second night
+was made was because of the excitement about B5, and the desire to use it as
+an anchor for that second night...if you go back into the original message
+base, we talked then about the importance of letting the stations know your
+feelings after it airs.  We thought we might be able to strike even before
+that, so we pushed early.  The stations, in a very understandable position,
+want to at least put some shows on that first night before commissioning #2.
+
+     I wish I could find some fault in that reasoning, but I can't.
+
+     So we press on.  As Harlan said when I spoke to him about this earlier,
+"It's not SUPPOSED to be easy."  You look back at the nightmare of yes/no,
+maybe/maybe not, interference, grief and nonsense that preceded TWILIGHT ZONE,
+STAR TREK, OUTER LIMITS, and you begin to realize that when you come right
+down to it, we've actually had it pretty easy.
+
+     It's just part of the process, boys and girls.  Nothing's changed.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Warners *is* committed to the show, that isn't the question.  What has to
+be remembered is that this (the Prime Time Network) is a new venture...people
+have spent a lot of money on programming, and the stations (NOT Warners) want
+to show some of it before proceeding.  The meeting was originally called BY
+Warners primarily because they ARE excited about B5, and were hoping that they
+could use it to open up a second night *earlier than had been planned*.  The
+stations decided that they would rather keep to the original schedule.
+
+     These things happen.  It's *not* a step back...we tried to take two steps
+forward at once, and found that we have to go the old fashioned way...one step
+at a time, which has been how this show has been from Day One.
+
+     After five years of one-step-at-a-time, you learn....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I appreciate the sentiments, but let me emphasize that this *ain't* that
+big a deal.  It doesn't actually change anything.  In and of itself, it
+probably wouldn't be worth mentioning except for the fact that I've promised
+here that I'll try and report the news in general, good, bad or indifferent,
+which should sorta help control rumors overall (and has, so far).  The other
+purpose, of course, is to use the forum to show the various ins and outs, ups
+and downs, and details involved in a project such as this.  Just one more of
+the same.
+
+     Bottom line...there's a lot of excitement about the project, so much so
+that a lot of people tried to make things move faster than scheduled.   The
+general sense is, "Let's stay with the schedule."  Not exactly the sort of
+thing one can get all wound up about....
+
+     Meanwhile, the final stages of B5 production are nearing.  We do the last
+of the looping over the next 7 days, and the sound efx guys are working out
+the last details in that area.  We'll deliver the finished pilot _ no more
+tweaking, no backsies _ around January 1st, which will  give the stations
+nearly two months to preview the show and promote it.
+
+     At some point we'll have a screening for cast and crew, and we're giving
+*some* thought to opening up whatever seats are left over to local fans.  If
+we go that route, will advise.  It'd be kind of nice to see B5 in a real
+theater....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I'll put it this way...if anyone wants to write to anyone prior to the
+airdate, I have no opposition to that idea.
+
+     Re: cast and crew...this doesn't cause any complications at all, since,
+again, this still conforms to the original schedule.  Insofar as I know,
+everyone is contractually covered for the series through the period of time we
+thought we might have to deal with, which is what we still have.  It isn't a
+change of timing, it's the same timing that we've had all along.
+
+     BTW, I just changed modems, and anyone out there who has a Practical
+Peripherals 14400 FXSA v.32 bis modem, and uses Smartcom Exec, if you could
+answer a question or two, I'd really appreciate it.  I can log on here using
+the standard network stuff provided, but as faor (for) dialing up local BBSs,
+it just won't connect.  It hears only "silence" at the other end, even though
+I can clearly hear it connect via the speaker.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 05 1992
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+     Just so it's clear...I've tried EVERYTHING...PC Plus, WinComm, QuickLink
+II, Smartcom Exec, NOTHING I use can get me onto some local modems, especially
+the WGA-BBS (for which at least some are doubtless grateful).  I'll try the
+new initialization string to see if that makes a difference, but I kinda doubt
+it.  It baffles me....
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Okay, I finally got the thing to work by slipping a command into the init
+string (I'd been typing the whole string into the provided window, not
+realizing that the window ADDED to the original string, rather than replaced
+it, which is what I'd thought I was doing...so I was ending up with two
+strings at once which just confused the hell out of the modem.   Anyway, it's
+all better now (I think).  Many thanks for the assists.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1992
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+     I don't know yet what the schedule is going to be re: promo interviews, I
+imagine that's something that'll get resolved in the next couple of weeks.  As
+soon as I know the details, I'll pass them along here.
+
+     Re: Tom Shales...knowing he's a fan of SF, I figured on sending him a
+copy of the show on the chance he might like it.  Any advance bugs in his ear
+are all to the good...basically, anybody out there who wants to write a
+letter, make a call, more power to you.
+
+     Just finished my column for the second issue of the B5 newsletter, which
+I'll be modeming off to Christy later tonight or tomorrow.  The theme: "With
+Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" (quoting Peter Parker).  It's about
+viewers.  You'll see it in a few weeks, with any luck.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     Re: Harlan's involvement with the show...it's on two levels.  First, he
+is currently writing a Manifesto for the show.  If you've seen CITIZEN KANE,
+you'll remember that the first thing Charles Foster Kane did on taking
+possession of a newspaper was to publish a Declaration of Principles,
+outlining what a good newspaper should strive for, the standards it should try
+to achieve.  Harlan is doing the same thing with the Babylon 5
+Manifesto...setting the standards and pointing out the things an SF tv series
+should strive to accomplish, and the dumbnesses to avoid.
+
+     Second, once the series is up and running, he will be involved as a
+Creative Consultant.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Sure.  Why not?
+
+                                                     jms
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+     Just a follow-up, something I've been thinking about lately.
+
+     A couple of days ago, I got a letter in my mailbox here on GEnie.  Not
+real news there, I generally find 2-4 every time I log on.  This one asked
+"How can I help B5?"
+
+     And I've been thinking about that...and it reminded me of something.
+Back at one of the early conventions I went to, to promote B5 after it had
+been announced, I voiced an opinion that this could be fair competition for
+DS9.  And a woman in the audience said, "Yeah, right, and Clinton will be
+president."
+
+     Now, in retrospect, it's funny, because of how that's all turned out.
+But it's emblematic of the reality of the situation we're in at this time: up
+against a monolith, with very little press, and not a lot of people aware yet
+that we even exist.
+
+     So to the question of, "How can I help B5?" that got this train of
+thought going...it really comes down to grassroot activities.   Twentieth-
+Century Fox had originally thought STAR WARS would be a flop, and gave it
+*very* little support, just threw it out there to die.  But on opening night,
+there were people lined up around the block for the first showing...because
+word had gotten out, and around.
+
+     If, based on what you've read here, on the photos that have now begun to
+appear, the promos, the presentations (and we're trying to get as much Out
+There as we can so nobody will have to take my word for anything, but can
+rather judge for themselves) that BABYLON 5 is something you want to support,
+then there are two very important things that one can do:
+
+     1) Spread the word.  Tell everyone you can about it.  Here on GEnie it's
+easy to forget that this is a fairly insular environment, and that in reality
+only a fraction of people log on here.  It has to go outside.
+
+     2) When B5 airs, if your opinion is the same, to tell the stations
+(specifically, the station in your area) what you feel.  Because the stations
+are directly involved in the process here, the more support they have after it
+airs, the more they'll return the favor.
+
+     I often find myself whipsawed between tremendous optimism and excitement
+when I see what we're actually *doing*...and tremendous pessimism and
+unhappiness when I see how few people still don't know we even exist, and how
+little coverage we're getting in a media that's set to promote shows that come
+with pre-packaged and recognizeable names.
+
+     I know that many of you are already doing this, and this note isn't for
+you so much as the new folks we've gained.  This has always been a project
+which has held SF fandom in respect, and tried to be true to its origins.
+Five years on "Why Can't They Get It Right?" panels at SF conventions really
+helps you understand what fans of the genre want.  We've tried very hard to
+deliver on that.  In return for which, we need your voice if we are to
+continue to be YOUR voice (to quote Clinton).
+
+     Anyway, there it is, for what it's worth...midnight ramblings from
+somewhere aboard Babylon 5....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Don't know if WB will be sending any more promos, but I would guess that
+they will.  Will advise if I hear about any more.
+
+     Phil: I'm still going over the new material (25 pages?! single spaced?!
+oh, man!), but insofar as I can tell, it looks fine.  I may add a bit here and
+there, but overall, looks great.  And I'll be curious to hear your reactions
+to the promo when you see it.
+
+     This weekend, btw, I'll be at Wishcon (for those who don't yet know) to
+talk about B5 and give a presentation.  If you know anyone who's going,
+suggest they especially clear out Saturday early afternoon.  I've given
+several B5 presentations, but I'm very much looking forward to this one.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Just got in a little while ago from Wishcon, and overall it was a
+terrific experience.  There was just one blemish on the weekend.
+
+     Prior to the B5 presentation, someone mentioned to me that Majel was
+furious that B5 was being given any exposure there, and that something would
+be done about it.  I dismissed this upon hearing it, figuring it was the usual
+rumor-stuff that invariably encircles cons like this.
+
+     The progression was a panel by Wil, a panel by Majel, then the B5
+presentation.  Wil ran about 5-10 minutes over.  Majel went 5 over.  Then 10.
+Then 15.  Then 20.  The con organizers were indicating to her to wrap it up.
+She refused, saying that she wasn't going to give up the microphone.  25
+minutes.  She noted my presence, commented upon it, but kept on going.  30
+minutes plus, and finally she surrendered the stage.
+
+     What happened next comes to me from people who were there.  One of the
+con organizers apparently went to Majel, who was signing autographs outside,
+and asked point-blank if she'd done that on purpose to try and foul up the B5
+presentation.  She smiled, very satisfied, and refused to comment.  "What did
+you think we'd do?" he asked her.  "Cut the presentation off?  Or in half?
+Won't happen.  All you've done is to cut into the auction, and all that does
+is hurt the kids."  (Wishcon is part of a fundraiser for the Oak Hill School
+for the Blind and the Make a Wish Foundation, for terminally ill children.)
+She still only smiled and didn't answer...and the auction lost 15-20 minutes
+of fundraising time.   It would have lost more, but I cut my own comments
+short at the end, even though I wanted to say more to the large group, and
+instead moved to a smaller room.  (I would've originally had 15-20 minutes in
+the big room before moving over, if the schedule had been kept.)  Better that
+I should have a little less time than cut further into the fundraising
+efforts.
+
+     I'm not angry about it, more saddened that a good cause, with the
+interests of terminal children at heart, would be held hostage to someone's
+pique.  And astonished that she'd do this so plainly in front of over a
+thousand witnesses, plus all the people standing in line outside for the
+latter part of the story.
+
+     Ah, well.  As was said in "Phantom of the Opera," these things do happen.
+
+     That incident pales, though, before the reaction to the B5 presentation.
+One of the con organizers told me subsequently that in the con's history,
+including showing "Unification" prior to broadcast, no such preview has ever
+gotten a standing ovation.  It left me utterly flummoxed, and pleased, and
+grateful.  It was at that point that I began to think that maybe, just maybe
+we had something here.
+
+     Because truth is, you never know.  You're too close to the situation to
+be objective anymore.  So the response to the presentation has provided a
+considerable boost in energy and enthusiasm, which has been conveyed back to
+my associates already.
+
+     It was fun meeting all the GEnie-ites (even Cindy...I think) (oh, and by
+the way, Tamlyn isn't as young as you mentioned; she's in her early 30s, which
+is a fine age for that kind of job, she just looks very young, darn it, said
+the fellow who was looking old long before his time).  To put faces with names
+is always a fascinating experience.  It's a strange sensation...to come into a
+town where you don't know anyone, to find that you know people.
+
+     Anyway, good to meet y'all, and thanks for the support.  It was a hell of
+a weekend.
+
+     (Oh, and before I forget, to respond to the note above about the name of
+Babylon...it was only later in its history that it gained the rep that has now
+come down to us.  It was a place of great plans for commerce and culture.  The
+name Babylon comes from Bab El, which means the Gate of God, hardly an evil
+place.  But it declined, and eventually was overthrown.  Will B5 go through a
+similar arc?  Who knows...?)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     It's a reference to the Warner Bros. Roadrunner cartoons.
+
+     (And, well, as a matter of fact...that's *exactly* what it is.)
+
+                                                             jms
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+      I don't care about revenge.  Not interested in it, frankly.  All that
+matters is the work.  Which is why, despite the timing on the E.W.
+article...to me, it doesn't matter.  I've said it before, I said it at
+Wishcon, and I'll say it again here: if DS9 and B5 are both around and healthy
+and successful 5 years from now, that's terrific.  The world is big enough to
+support more than one view of the future.  That's the whole notion behind B5,
+that SF fans, after 25 years, might like another view of a spacefaring mankind
+in the future.  So the flip side is also true; the more the merrier.
+
+     I should mention that if I kept a low profile at Wishcon, it wasn't for
+lack of ambition.  On Friday, I flew out in the morning, and due to a plane
+going nonfunctional at the boarding gate in DFW, didn't change to another
+plane for a long time, and thus didn't arrive in Springfield until around
+11:30 or thereabouts.  Planes just beat the crap out of me physically, so I
+crashed.  Didn't adjust well to the time difference, and what with being
+nervous about the presentation, and then the 90-minute "town meeting"
+afterward, was just gonesville.  Next time, I hope to be more amiable...and
+closer to home.
+
+     I didn't blush at the ovation, did I?  Really?  I *hate* it when that
+happens.  I have a very low blush threshold, and it is constantly a sore
+point.  Ah, well...(embarrassed sigh).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Don't know yet, but hope to find out SOMEtime soon.  Will post the info
+here as soon as I have it.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Majel should have no reason to be frightened; as I said, it would be only
+wonderful for me (and, I suspect, viewers) if both shows were around and
+healthy five years from now.
+
+     And so we move on, in a spirit of conciliation.
+
+     BTW, I don't suppose anyone *taped* that interview on the sci-fi
+channel...?  Would love to get it for the B5 archives.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+
+     I kinda agree; the "beep" stuff is a private joke, and probably shouldn't
+clutter up the forum.
+
+     As for how the picture looks on a regular TV...it looks great.  We've
+looked at it on screens of all sizes, and you don't reallly lose anything.
+
+     It's good that we worked it out so it'd look equally okay on both small
+and large screens (in fact, we were less sure it would look good on a big
+screen, given how great it looked on a standard monitor) since there's already
+some serious inquiries about releasing it as a theatrical film overseas.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Whew, that's a lot of stuff to digest.  In brief, since the bulk of your
+message has scrolled past my screen, a number of the points you raise are
+things we've noted in-house.  The plan is to have a big post mortem meeting
+some time around early December to go over every detail of the show and decide
+which elements worked, and which didn't.
+
+     Only about two points stick in my mind offhand...on costumes, one of the
+problems that we ran into was jettisoning one costume designer, and then
+bringing in the other with like 4 weeks to go, not *nearly* enough time to
+design all the required elements.  More will be done with that in future, now
+that we have enough time.  Part of the problem is that in this kind of show,
+you've got HUGE amounts of people, all from different worlds, and you've got
+to dress them ALL.  So it really adds up fast.
+
+     As for the doors...oddly enough, they're very functional.  We talked to
+some design guys, who indicated that in a situation where one level or another
+might lose pressure, you want VERY strong doors all over the place that can
+serve as pressure doors.  The jagged look comes from the fact that once a door
+closes, large pins extrude into the sections that are covered, making it a
+VERY solid door.  (Sound effects will further help explain that.)  That
+design, we're told, is the most practical for that reason.  And yes, there is
+some question about aliens as well; we have some very large, and very non-
+humanoid shapes coming through, such as Kosh, or larger/stranger, and
+consequently the doors should accommodate that.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     Thanks, yeah, I *love* the uniforms, though we're going to do some minor
+redesigns on some things here and there, just to make them a bit stronger.
+The uniforms and other costumes are by Catherine Adair, most recently from
+Mann and Machine, and she's *quite* good at what she does.
+
+     And if I attempt to give her the prescribed big kiss, she'd likely deck
+me, so I may pass on that part of it....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     That's already the plan, re: episode titles.  And groundswell or no, I've
+been thinking about it, and suspect that Warners would probably nix the bumper
+stickers thing.  All I can suggest is that people write to Warners and ask to
+be put on mailing lists for merchandising and catalogs and suchlike when the
+show gets going.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Except, of course, B5 ends at the five year mark....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Doesn't matter.  The Babylon 5 story ends at the final episode of year
+five.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Speculation will get you nowhere.  And there will never be a Babylon 6.
+
+     Nyah!
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     BTW, I'll be giving a Babylon 5 presentation at Loscon on Saturday the
+28th at 2:00 p.m.  I'm going to try to get a cast member to come along, maybe
+the director, depending on circumstances, but can't promise anything at this
+time.  We'll see.
+
+                                                                jms
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+      I'm told there should be a new newsletter out in a couple of weeks, or
+thereabouts.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     It's five years our time.  How many are now working unofficially...
+varies.  And it's very likely that the official word will come after the
+delivery of the final mix, yes.  (Have I equivocated enough, d'you think?)
+
+     Don't yet know the final shape that the B5 presentation will take at
+Loscon.  But will advise when I do know for sure.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Young, feh...some days I feel 90.  Mainly because of the effort involved
+in getting B5 to the screen.  I showed up the othe day at Harlan's for dinner,
+and he looked at me, eyes wide, "My GOD you're getting grey," he said.  It's
+happened a lot in a little time, kind of like the way Clinton went grey in the
+one year of the campaign.  And now I've had to get multiple pairs of
+glasses...regular, reading, and computer (with one pair of bifocals to go from
+reading to computer)...feh, I say, feh!
+
+     I'm 38.  Hurtling rapidly toward 40.
+
+     "Many decades of JMS."  Hey...don't you threaten ME!
+
+     Now, where the hell was I?  Oh, yeah....
+
+     Basically, everything about the Earth Alliance is fractious, one side
+threatening to pull the whole thing apart, and this applies not only to worlds
+and colonies, but the nations that remain after the E/M War.   That's one of
+the reasons I chose the term "Alliance," because it's anything BUT.  It's at
+best a shaky coalition.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Various and sundries to report....
+
+     Today I, other exec producer Doug Netter, and director Richard Compton
+went over to Stewart Copeland's place to hear about 80% of the music for B5.
+It's *really* terrific stuff that just drives the show like a sonuvagun.
+Cross BLADE RUNNER with EQUALIZER in tone and you've got something *close* to
+what Stewart's done for us.  Brilliant stuff.
+
+     Apparently the B5 cover story in Cinefantastique is coming out; Ron and
+his crew got a copy or two (even though I, Chief Babbler, did *not* get one),
+and I haven't yet seen it, though a few pages got faxed to me from Ron's.  I
+think it's okay, though again I've only seen a part of it.   I read parts of
+it through my fingers...and even now, from the other room, where my spousal
+overunit sits reading the article, comes this VOICE in a pitch sufficient to
+shatter lead, "I can't BELIEVE you SAID that!!!"
+
+     Sigh.  I've gotten better, really I have.  And now, when I have to give
+an interview of a couple hours duration, I can be as diplomatic as anyone
+could ask for.  In the case of the CFQ article, we basically gave the reporter
+carte blanche...he could go anywhere, talk to anyone, hang around as long as
+he wanted to...and sometimes, when things are going well, the enthusiasm hits
+you, or you come up with a funny line that you say in an incautious moment.
+Nothing big, just enough to remind me that there is much to be said sometimes
+for Shutting One's Mouth.
+
+     BTW, tomorrow (Tuesday) night, on the Discovery channel, they're goign to
+be broadcasting a show about the video toaster, that I hear will have some B5
+stuff in it.  It's their "Inventions" show, and it airs, I believe, at 9
+eastern/western, 8 central.
+
+     From the other room:  "You said WHAT?"
+
+     I think I have to go now....
+
+                                                          jms
+

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+     Marilyn...I just downloaded and saved the Jack London quote to disk.
+That's definitely a keeper.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, nanotech is something I'd like to get more fully into.  My basic
+problem is that I'm not as up on the literature as I should be (one reason why
+we'll probably be taking on a scientific advisor on the show, to keep us
+honest and answer these kinds of questions).  We have to find logical and
+interesting ways to make{ use of that tech, but *without* getting bogged down
+in explaining what the heck nanotch IS every time we use it.~r  It{{ {is,
+after all, a difficult concept for a lot of folks to grasp (or seems to be,
+anyway).  But in any event, to the question at hand, yes, we do plan to
+incorporate it, how and where and to what extent has not yet been determined.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Ah, well...one can but hope.  I'd thought they would show some, and am
+surprised they didn't.
+
+     Re: the Wishcon presentation...the idiots with the flash cameras were not
+so much a problem, except that they annoyed those around them, and whited out
+the screen (thereby guaranteeing that the cretins who can't follow directions,
+who have no qualms about being rude to others, didn't get a thing for their
+efforts...I *hate* that kind of thing).  The one thing that guaranteed, in my
+mind, a complete shut-down would be if I saw anyone running a video camera.
+At one point, I thought I saw someone, and moved across the room...only to
+discover, much to my relief, that it was someone with a red LED on her
+earring.  Had it been a video camera, I would have had no choice but to stop
+it, and was fully prepared to do so.
+
+     I don't bluff.  Ever.
+
+     Re: the comment above about no insecurities...sounds great, I just wish
+it were true.  Never stopped believing in the dream, but as for my potential
+to realize it...constant insecurity.  And frankly, I think that if I ever
+*stop* being insecure, stop doubting, I may as well pack it in and get out of
+the business.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yeah, I understand Mojo was either going to show up, or has shown up, but
+no confirmation yet.
+
+     BTW, I've now seen the rest of the B5 article in Cinefantastique, and
+it's basically okay.  Some factual errors here and there, and a few misquotes,
+but nothing terminal.  (One note...the caption writer, whenever he had a shot
+of someone holding something that he didn't recognize,  described it in the
+caption as a 'tricorder,' when in one case it was a gun, in another case it
+was a security palmtop passkey device, allowing access to certain areas; we
+don't HAVE tricorders, thank you very much).
+
+     Other than that, seems pretty good, and there's certainly a lot of stuff
+from the show you haven't seen before (and a couple of things you shouldn't
+have seen, but that's life), the budget information is not even close to being
+correct (we had more than they indicate), and it gives you a real sense of the
+people who are involved behind the scenes, the lengths they went to to make
+the show work and look good, and our ideas behind the design and stuff.
+Mistakes notwithstanding _ and I've never seen an article yet that got it
+100% in any magazine, there's always something that's not quite right (calling
+him Captain Sinclair in the article instead of Commander), it's still probably
+the best article to appear yet on B5.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Re: the 5 year arc...no network has ever, or will ever, commit to a run
+that long.  It'll all be dependent upon how we do.  And that's the tricky
+part.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yeah, it's quite an involved article (or series of articles).  Some funny
+stuff, too.
+
+     To the question before...yes, the actors are signed (via option) to do
+the series; yes, I am writing material that will be used in the series.  Re:
+the series pickup...I know more than I can say, and as a rule it seems I say
+more than I should.  Something official probably can be said after December
+2nd.  That's all I can say.  For now.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     No comment.
+
+     (But it's a *polite* no-comment!)
+
+                                                           jms
+

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+     Just FYI, I agree with every point about the E! show, and have  drafted a
+note telling them so.  It's just awful.
+
+     The CFQ article(s), however, I like more as I read them.  Once the shock
+wore off....
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     Ron: one crisis at a time, please....
+
+     Jeff: in large part, the question of timing is outside of our control or
+influence.  Here is the situation: we are part of a new network.  That network
+requires shows.  We were initially on tap to be one of the first two shows out
+of the gate (they work in two-hour blocks of shows per night, that's the
+deal).  But in a way, we fell victim to our own dreams...what we were
+promising seemed *so* impossible to do for television that we were asked to
+prove that it could be done at ALL, let alone done well, before a series
+commitment would be made.  As a result, two other shows went into the two
+available slots to be first out of the gate.
+
+     Meanwhile, we went on to try and prove our point, that a show on this
+scale *could* be done.  And we not only delivered to Warners what we promised,
+we delivered more, and we delivered better.
+
+     Only now here's the catch...that one night of programming that the
+network was to begin airing, the two hours, are set.  So now what do they do
+with us?  Basically, you have two options: 1) Remove one show from the lineup,
+or 2) open up a second night of programming.  Just one problem; you can't open
+up a second night of programming with just one show, you need two.  I'm sure
+there are other options that I've missed, but those are the two biggest.
+
+     It isn't like an established network which can drop you in on any night
+of the week.  This is a new concern, like the Fox network in its early days,
+and we have to adjust.  Once the decision is made about how this is going to
+be done, and how soon, is something that will have to  wait for a general
+announcement.  (Would a second night start in the summer, for instance, or the
+fall?  That would depend in large part on how fast the stations wanted to gear
+up, and how fast the second program for that night could get into production.)
+
+     All I'm saying is that there are a LOT of factors at work here, and
+though it looks obscure from the outside, it all makes sense from in here, and
+believe it or not, it's all very positive.  And I hope to not only say more,
+but be *very specific* about it all in a couple of weeks.  At that point, I
+should be able to answer any and all questions about timing without, as you
+say, "equivocation."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     P.S.  If you don't normally check, and you live in LA, be sure to note
+message 90 in topic 5.
+
+                                                               jms
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+                        *** Announcement ***
+
+      The most current edition of BABYLON 5, the full two hours, will
+      be shown at LosCon on Saturday, November 28, from 4-6 p.m.  The
+      cut in question has been color-corrected and includes all of the
+      EFX scenes and other visuals, but still lacks the sound effects
+      and Stewart Copeland's soundtrack (though I may find a way to at
+      least indicate some of what it will sound like).
+
+      Insofar as I know, this will be the ONLY preview to be shown at
+      a convention on the west coast prior to broadcast.
+
+      The room only seats about 300, so if you're in LA and plan on
+      attending Loscon (at the Los Angeles Airport Marriot), you may
+      want to get there early.
+
+      Oh...and those who saw the Wishcon presentation are now free to
+      discuss it at length, but please try and keep the discussion in
+      the B5 spoilers topic.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+            YAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+      Luis...jeezus, you can see how rumors take off...my 665 yell was in
+response to 664, and Ron's suggestion (tongue in cheek) that we "make each
+episode (of the series) two hours."  Just knowing how much angst goes into
+making 22 *one* hour shows, at the idea of doing 22 *two* hour
+shows...YAAAAGGGGHHHHH.
+
+     Got it?
+
+     Context is everything.  If there's a message you don't get, check the one
+preceding.
+
+     Amazing...the rumor mill just cranks out this stuff....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+     Okay, I have now received a copy of the rumor, which started over on
+Usenet, then jumped to Internet, and now here.  And it was not intended as a
+joke.  The person who wrote the original message _ the name on the message
+was Woody Harper, but I doubt very much that's a real name, unless anyone here
+can indicate otherwise _ claimed to be quoting an actual article in Variety.
+Not that he'd heard something, but that he himself had seen the article, and
+then proceeded to "quote" from it at length.
+
+     It's malicious, destructive, sick disinformation of the worst kind.
+We've had some of this before _ I haven't talked about it because it's not
+the kind of thing I think we need to bother people about _ and it's mostly
+from aberrant Trek fans who perceive a threat and want to try and screw us up,
+destroy the word of mouth building about the show.
+
+     (One sure way to tell about these things...the only time I've been
+referred to in print as Joe Straczynski has been in SF stuff, most recently in
+Cinefantastique, and it's doubtless no coincidence that this rumor surfaced
+within days of the CFQ piece coming out.  Whenver I've been mentioned in
+Variety or the other industry trades, it's *always* been as J. Michael, NOT
+Joe.  So that alone would be suspicious...and all anyone has to do is go down
+to the nearest library and check Variety; no such article ever appeared.  But
+rumors have a life of their own, and nobody bothers to check, and hysteria
+results.  Apparently a number of folks on Internet and Usenet actually
+*believed* the story.)
+
+     There is a very destructive, very sick minority in fandom, of which this
+is a part.  I am now in the process of tracking down the alleged Woody Harper.
+And he and I are going to chat.
+
+     And I suspect that I will enjoy it far more than he will.
+
+     Meanwhile...just to head this sort of thing off at the pass in future,
+bear in mind that I have now been on this and one or two other systems for
+just over a year talking about B5.  Whether the news has been good, bad or
+indifferent, I've been right out there with the facts.  If something like this
+had happened, or were even within the REALM of possibility _ which it ain't,
+simply by virtue of my contract with Warners, if nothing else _ you would
+have heard about it directly from me, here.  If you come across something
+bizarre, you can be sure it's bogus unless it's been mentioned here.  There's
+no *need* for these kinds of rumors; they usually arise only when there's no
+access to the persons involved.  But access here is 24 hours a day.
+
+     Having said he saw the article, and quoting it himself "verbatim,"  the
+crank in this case has left no room for saying it was just a mistake.   And he
+has upset a lot of people.  Me, I don't get upset.  I am, however, a carrier.
+This is just one more stupid fan prank, there will doubtless be more.  That's
+the one drawback in achieving even a modicum of visibility in SF, particularly
+SF media...it brings out the loonies who think that this is Good Clean Fun.
+Which is why a lot of SF writers and actors don't do cons anymore, and why
+I've been cautioned against putting myself out so openly on the nets.  But the
+10% who are morons are far outweighed by the 90% who are great, so I have no
+intention of letting this kind of stuff, or the other behind the scenes stuff,
+interfere with this experiment...a direct communication between the makers of
+a show, and the viewers of a show, on this kind of scale.
+
+     Anyway, just wanted to clarify where all this came from.  I'll take it
+from here....
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Some things one prefers to do oneself.  This one I'm looking forward to.
+
+     (BTW, anyone know anything about the Memory Alpha BBS in Phoenix,
+Arizona?  If so, please respond privately.  If not...pretend you never saw
+this message.)
+
+     Heh.
+
+     As for the question of access, and the amount of same, by curious
+coincidence I was interviewed about an hour ago by a reporter doing a short
+piece for the LA Times Magazine about this little experiment, and the most
+common question asked was, "WHY?"  Most other shows tend to put an
+intermediary out there, at best, or just ignore the nets at worst.
+
+     And I explaned my feelings about the situation, the desire to have an
+open attitude toward SF viewers, to hear what they don't want to see anymore
+on TV, and all that.  But to be honest, the single greatest reason for doing
+this, to my  mind, comes from the long work I've attempted to do in
+popularizing and de-mystifying the scriptwriting and production process.
+
+     What you have, in this topic/category, from November of last year, until
+today, is a day-by-day accounting of how a show goes from concept to pre
+production to production to editing, every stage is discussed at some length.
+And it's my hope that the archiving of this information may be of use to other
+writers who are trying to understand the process involved, and thus not be
+scared of it.  I hope it will be a useful document.  If so, then the
+investment was worth it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Let me state this more clearly: there was no humor meant in the posting.
+It was strictly malicious character assassination, and libleous, and
+potentially damaging.  This person quoted a fake article in the trades
+designed to sound authentic.  Maybe someone might think this is funny...how
+funny would it be if you signed on one day to find messages about how your
+mother had just died overnight, or you had been fired from your job, or your
+wife was having an affair.  And none of it was true, it was posted only to do
+you harm.  This is evidence of a sick mind.
+
+     There is nothing funny about it.  This is one of the problems in fandom,
+finding excuses for this kind of behavior.  I'm not yelling at you, Leviathan,
+but rather the context.  A certain group of obnoxious fans have a tendency to
+do brutal, rude, or malicious things, and other fans, with the best of
+intentions, say, "Well, it's not a big deal," and thus become enablers,
+allowing the behavior to continue.  When one SF writer had warm vomit thrown
+in his face by a "fan," half of those who saw the incident tried to find some
+excuse for it, to play it down.  This is a recurrent problem in the fan
+community, and speaking *as* a fan, if the fan community never takes any
+action or tries to just dismiss the problem, it will *never* be dealt with.
+
+     Which is why I don't ask the fan community to do anything when this sort
+of thing (or the other little nasties that have been visited upon us by rabid
+Trek fans) happens.  Hands-on is good enough for me.
+
+     Not that it doesn't take time away from the work, either; do you know how
+MANY W. Harpers there ARE in Arizona?  I do.  One by one by one....
+
+                                                              jms
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+     The warm vomit story is true, and has been described in the SF press.
+
+     Meanwhile....
+
+This is probably the last word I'm going to have on this whole issue, and I'm
+doing this only to (one hopes) close the issue and let us move on.
+
+Here is what I found in my mailbox.  I've removed the name of the person who
+sent it on to me as a courtesy.
+     Apparen                            *    *    *
+
+Date:  24-Nov-92 10:18 PST From:   Subject: This was posted to the
+newsgroup... Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 12:16:43 CST From:
+
+Joe, this was posted...  any comment?  With all the work you have done I'd
+hate to see you go.  I know rumors abound.  If you have no cemment.. just say
+so..  This has a lot of people scared who  have been following the progress of
+the show...
+
+___ Forwarded Message
+
+Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 13:08:52 -0500 From: mab@buphy.bu.edu (Michael Burstein)
+Message-Id: <9211241808.AA16142@buphy.bu.edu> To: b5@iastate.edu Subject: JMS
+gone?
+
+I read the following on the USENET. Can anyone confirm this? _________
+_____________________ From
+bu.edu!olivea!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!telesys!
+wierius!memalph!system Tue Nov 24 13:06:11 EST 1992 Article: 4954 of
+rec.arts.sf.tv Path: bu.edu!olivea!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ennews!telesys!
+wierius!memalph!system From: system@memalph.UUCP (Woody Harper) Newsgroups:
+rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current
+
+Subject: New Babylon 5 Production Crew Message-ID: <6uoPuB1w165w@memalph.UUCP>
+Date: 23 Nov 92 21:43:28 GMT Organization: Memory Alpha BBS - Phoenix, AZ -
+Lines: 17 Xref: bu.edu rec.arts.sf.tv:4954 rec.arts.startrek.current:17796
+
+Just out of the latest Variety:
+
+Straczynski OUT Kricfalusi IN!
+
+Warner Brothers, parent of the upcoming Prime Time Network  has announced the
+replacement of Joe Straczynski as the head  of the new science fiction
+teledrama Babylon 5. Straczynski's  replacement will be John Kricfalusi,
+formerly of the Nicelodeon  channel owned by HBO productions. Executives at
+Warner Brothers  said that the decision to sack Straczynski was based on
+"artistic"  and "directional" differences. John Kricfakusi is expected to
+bring a nouveau, surreal edge to the show in an attempt to capture  the Twin
+Peaks, Northern Exposure audience. There have been no  public comments by
+Straczynski since the announcement and John  Kricfalusi was unavailable for
+comment.
+
+             Memory Alpha BBS (memalph.UUCP), Phoenix, AZ
+                    -= The Sum of All Knowledge =-
+
+                           *     *     *
+
+Me again.  As you can see, there was nothing of comic intent in the message,
+only a desire to spread deliberately false information and unsettle a lot of
+people (which apparently succeeded, at least in part, judging from the mail
+I've received).
+
+This is the kind of thing I've encountered in the past, and this is the reason
+a lot of SF pros (writers, actors, others) have been driven off systems by the
+10% who screw it up for the remaining 90%.  About a year, two years ago, there
+was one real psycho who began innocently enough, targeting me and David
+Gerrold.  Some of those who looked on thought it was all just fun.
+
+It wasn't, and it escalated...he began coming at us from various systems,
+smearing our careers with false information (we weren't working on any
+projects together, we were just the two who came to his attention).  It went
+past destructive to downright dangerous. So finally I had no choice but to
+take action...I chased him down through 3 national systems and half a dozen
+local BBSs until I finally nailed him, via his mother's phone number, which
+he'd used to get verification on the first system he logged onto.
+
+The rest of the story...is not for delicate ears.  Suffice to say he went
+away.  Since then, I've just had to adopt a stance that says that if someone
+goes out of their way to deliberately plant false, damaging information out of
+sheer maliciousness, then I will do whatever is necessary to shut them down.
+I don't like it, it's time consuming, but the only other alternative is simply
+to stop using systems like GEnie and Compuserve, and I refuse to be driven off
+by a handful of destructive people.
+
+Anyway, I hope we can now move on.  This will be dealt with in the fullness of
+time, I only wanted to clarify a little bit.  There is too much good going on
+right now _ and too much more waiting in  the wings _ to let this interfere.
+
+Onward.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     Meanwhile, in other news....
+
+     Heard the last of the main soundtrack work being done by Stewart Copeland
+today, and now he's cleared to finish his mix.  It's very exotic in places, a
+cultural mix that goes from classical to choral to seemingly random to
+incorporating Masai chants...on and on.  Which is what we very much wanted.
+
+     Spent last night writing alien walla.  What, you ask, is alien walla?
+Well, when you have a crowd scene, you should be able to hear bits and pieces
+of conversations, just in background, also voices on intercoms, that sort of
+thing.  And you can't just have people making the stuff up as they go, during
+looping.  So somebody has to write it.   That would be me.  So there I am, a
+grown man, writing lines of dialogue like "Ni tupa, dogaren?" for page after
+page, and trying to be consistent and build an informal interlac dictionary.
+And you start to get goofy after a while...in the customs area, I had someone
+saying "Riten venyoo finewerk," which looks non-english until you say it aloud
+and it comes out, "Write when you find work."
+
+     I need a vacation.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     Ron, DON'T fly out here just for that, you'll see it soon enough on da
+teevee....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Don't currently know if there will be any chance to show B5 at any
+midwest/mideast conventions between now and airdate...after Thanksgiving,
+everything of size pretty much shuts down, and there isn't much going on that
+I'm aware of in January, and then boom, the show airs in February.
+
+     I always get twitch when I hear that someone is going to fly in, or drive
+2 or (in at least one case) 8 hours just to see the B5 thing.  My ever-present
+nightmare is that someone will go through all this effort, see the show, and
+as the lights go up, I'll hear "WHAT?  THAT'S *IT?*  I DROVE EIGHT HOURS FOR
+THIS PIECE OF CRAP?!  I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!"
+
+     This nightmare ranks right up there with dreaming I've broken a tooth or
+my readyteller card won't work and I'm stranded in the worst part of the city.
+
+     I will probably spend most of Friday night at home, throwing up.   Which
+is what I did before Wishcon.
+
+     After five years...wouldn't you?
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     BTW, for those in the LA area, there will be a short piece in the Palm
+Latitudes section of the LA TIMES Magazine next week or so about this little
+experiment...direct contact on this scale between the makers of a show, and
+potential viewers, via computer net.  Also, I don't know if it's been
+mentioned, but Issue #2 of SF Age has a piece on B5, though I haven't seen it
+yet.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     BTW, the copy to be shown at LosCon won't be color-corrected after all;
+the new transfer was going to be made on Friday, but because of the holiday,
+got moved 24 hours to Saturday...which means it won't be ready in time for
+LosCon.  But it's still a very good print.
+
+     And there may be some extras, just to make up for it....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Well, we'll think about it...but I refuse to have your children.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Apparently there *will* be some marketing prior to the pilot airing in
+February, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some patches, pins and suchlike
+making its way through the stores.
+
+      Re: the Blue-tint Delenn...that particular makeup lasted, oh, about ten
+minutes until the director and I saw it.  Nothing to fault The Amazing
+Criswell and his team of elves, they were pushing the envelope, which is what
+we told them to do.  But on further consideration, we pulled it back to a
+different tone.
+
+     And yeah, I've lost a bit of weight over this thing...though I'm getting
+a bit of it back.  I lost about 1 pound per day as we were actually shooting.
+
+     BTW, re: Loscon...it's confirmed for 4-6 p.m. Saturday, and as well as
+being there myself, also present will be Patricia Tallman, Jerry Doyle, Ron
+Thornton, the alleged Mojo, and possibly one or two others.  But the first
+four are confirmed.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1992
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+     Sorry if I've been rather quiet the last few days; I'm somewhat waiting
+for some news to come in, and that kind of makes me forget to post.  "Well,
+I'll wait until *this* comes up, then I'll drop a note."   Like Mr. Ed, I try
+to talk only when I have something to say.
+
+     (Oh, btw...Mr. Harper has been found.  He hid behind a hyphenated name to
+make it hard to find.  Didn't work.  'Nuff said.)
+
+     Today it looks as though Warners has closed the first substantive
+merchandising deal for a B5 computer game (or is about to close it).  When I
+have more details, I'll pass them along.  If preliminary reports are correct,
+it's a good company.  In addition, there will be some additional marketing
+efforts made in the next month or two, some of which may be quite interesting.
+(And I hope *finally* to be able to say something about a B5 comic.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Cross-posted there...about the question of color: this is something that
+Ron and I discussed earlier and at some length.  If space in time becomes as
+accessible as the local freeway, people are going to start to look at their
+modes of transportation as more than just plain-white people-movers.  There
+will be color.  And color will vary by species, by ability to see various
+hues, what's considered offensive by some will be quite proper to others.
+
+     The only part of space that's blue-ish is the nearby nebula, which is as
+close as you can get to being astronomically correct.  If you were at that
+distance, that's how it would look.  Some nebulas are truly beautiful in terms
+of their coloration, and they're *huge*, can fill a large part of the sky from
+the right POV.  Everything else, though, is jet-black.  (The nebula is far
+clearer in the color-corrected copy, and space is much blacker.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Nothing that I can say about the game for now, except that it is a very
+good company.  Right now, all that is being worked out is the actual licensing
+of the Babylon 5 name; nothing of the game itself has been worked out yet.
+I'll be directly involved with the game design, so it'll be kept consistent
+with the general B5 storyline.
+
+     As to the Aliens comparison...no, not really, at least not from my POV.
+I didn't want this to be a non-stop action show...that's more SPACE RANGERS.
+My goal with this was a science fiction dramatic series, so the tack required
+is different.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Yes, the effects have been tweaked a bit, made clearer and better.
+
+                                                         jms
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+  
+
+                  I guess the package arrived....
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Alien walla goes on a separate page, just to give to the voice guys when
+people come in to do looping.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+
+     Hmm...*I* still haven't received a copy of this alleged apology, so would
+be interested in a copy.  As for V, whether or not that eventually gets
+novelized is an open question, and not one on the top of my list just now.
+When and if anything gets set up, I'll be sure to post the info here.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Because everything downward from the core is down, you're always walking
+on a level surface.  And it's Delenn.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     Yeah, the layout (red/blue, etc) in CFQ is basically correct (it should
+be, we supplied it), but there was a small glitch in the script that didn't
+incorporate that.  Down the road, we'll be more rigorous about that.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Yes, the grey and brown (slummier) sections are a deliberate design going
+in; just like in the early days of cross-Atlantic transit, you'd have the
+wealthy folks who could afford to go first-cabin, and the folks who went
+steerage down deep in the hold, looking for a new life and new opportunities.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 06 1992
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+     Yeah, in general, I'm quite pleased by the article(s).  It/they really
+give a sense of the details involved in the show.  In some cases, the details
+are so small that sometimes you can only just make them out, but subliminally
+they add to the sense of realism.  Any other specific comments/questions about
+the CFQ piece?
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1992
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+     You bring up a good point re: Delenn's makeup.  "Those who don't remember
+the past are doomed to repeat it."  In remembering the very real problems
+Leonard Nimoy had post-Trek _ in which it was him in every way  except for
+the ears, making him at once recognizeable but yet typecast as an alien _ I
+talked to our prosthetics people early on about making very specific designs
+to counter-act that.  Neither Andreas as G'Kar nor Mira as Delenn can even be
+recognized outside their makeup, so that will help to avoid typecasting for
+them.  Londo is very human, and that which is not "normal" is so outrageous
+that when you take it off, you change the whole profile of the actor.  So
+again, it shouldn't have any typecasting effects.  And certainly there's no
+seeing past Kosh....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, we're trying to use real stars and constellations in our script
+references, as well as indications of new ones that may have been discovered
+in the 200 years between now and the time of B5.  (At one point, a tech-
+runner's background is being discussed, and they mention that he ran forbidden
+technology into the Vega and Proxima systems, for instance.)  Which star is
+the one Babylon 5 orbits?  One that hasn't been discovered at this point in
+time...but in about 50 years, it'll show up on the starcharts.  It's a fairly
+small star, dwarfed and hidden by several nearby binaries that overwhelm the
+spectrum visible from Earth.
+
+     Yeah, that's the ticket....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Re: language...English is the basic language of B5, since it's run by the
+Earth Alliance.  But it's also multi-lingual; there are signs in English,
+Interlac, and Centauri, and as we get into later stories, the question of
+language and communication will play a larger role (and the non-language signs
+are designed to be cross-species in nature).
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     There's a lot that can be said about the history of the various races,
+and others out there that we may not yet know about as of the time of the
+series...unfortunately, I'm not at liberty to comment.
+
+     Re: the "joke"...this is what people say after the fact to excuse stupid
+or mean-spirited behavior.  When they're caught out and exposed, they come
+back with, "Hey, I mean, I was only joking."  I don't buy it.   Nor does it
+reconcile with other information.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Well, I figured I might as well start this topic, since it'll have to get
+going one way or another.  Basically, it's for all the stuff that I barely
+understand myself.  Good luck, and stay out of the line of fire.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     I don't know if the efx were sped up for the Toaster demo, and agian, (or
+again), that's only early stuff.  Apparently when some EFX are made, they're
+produced at 30 frames per second, and then slowed to 24 fps to match the other
+footage.  I think....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I'm not sure...I *do* know that Ron has gotten a LOT of beta-stuff that
+won't be released anywhere for a while yet, and has put it all to good use.
+We've got all kinds of nice little secrets we're waiting to spring.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     I think I got my figures screwed up.  We *did* shoot the pilot (and will
+shoot anything that follows) at 30.  I remember because somebody or other
+groused about the extra film costs.  My error.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 09 1992
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+     Okay...in brief, the way standard space EFX are done is that they create
+a plate of a starfield; over this, they put a plate of a planet, then finally
+overlay a plate of, say, a ship going by.  Nothing is really to size or in
+perspective.
+
+     What Ron has done is to create, in the computer, a sector of space about
+as big as a solar system.  He's put the star *here*, Babylon 5 there, the
+bookend planet and moon over there, and anything that enters that system _
+ships or anything else _ are sized to scale.  It's ALL created to the actual
+scale involved.  So that when an object moves through that sector of space,
+it's moving through "real space," with everything in its proper perspective.
+Consequently, the eye accepts it as more real, more 3-dimensional.  Things
+moving away recede into the proper size and distance, and approach growing in
+correct size and perspective.   It's really a stunning effect.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 10 1992
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+     Good comments, will pass them on to Ron.  Only points that I can respond
+to: I think the blue sections are just coloration, to help tell the various
+parts apart from a distance, so it isn't monochromatic and visually dull; and
+the jaggies you detect in the starlog photos are from the low-res photos they
+used in places.  Some shots are high-res, some are low; the jaggies are
+generally in the low-res photos.
+
+     Will convey the rest.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     We'll be able to use a LOT of new footage (EFX) in every episode of the
+series, unlike TNG, for instance, which generally uses the same shots  with
+different planetary backgrounds, and the same fly-by shot.  On average, we'll
+be able to do 3-4 *new* minutes of footage for every show, and can build up
+from there.  Combined with the stock that we will have and which will grow as
+we go, that'll give us a heck of a look.
+
+     Some astronomical data went into the design of the starscape and the
+nebula; how much, I don't know offhand, that's Ron's area.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1992
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+     I'm working on it, I'm working on  it....
+
+                                                       jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 13 1992
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+     BTW, though Ron isn't on now, there's some speculation that Mojo may
+start making appearances here.  Whether this is good or bad, who knows...?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 15 1992
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+     The long shot of the B5 Garden was indeed computer-generated.  We'd built
+a full-size model _ about 10 feet long, in fact _ but it just didn't give us
+the look we needed.  In retrospect, we're not completely satisfied either with
+the look of what we got, so we're going to take some different approaches to
+it in the series.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 19 1992
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+     "Ron has faith in me to represent B5."
+
+     Excuse me for a moment..............................
+
+     ......................................................!thud!
+
+     (someone wake me when it's over)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 25 1992
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+     "Anyone care to argue with that?"
+
+     Yeah.  Me.
+
+     You got a problem wit' dat?
+
+     It can always be better, Mojo.  And it will be.  Let's start with the
+spider transport, shall we...?
+
+     "Rico, Morello, hold him down...we just wanna talk ta him a minnit, don't
+we boys?"
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 28 1992
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+     Fit on the back seat of a Honda Accord?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1992
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+     I can't elaborate, but the first script that I've turned in for an hour-
+episode has an *extremely* elaborate EFX sequence (several of them, actually,
+which are linked) which goes considerably beyond anything we demonstrated in
+the pilot.  Ron went over the sequence, and apparently it poses no problem.
+Beyond that, we have general plans to push this new technology to the absolute
+edge of its capabilities.
+
+     The pilot was a test...the GOOD stuff is still to come.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 03 1992
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+     It's a fine question.  The answer is yes and no.
+
+     In most everyday situations B5 operates fairly autonomously; EA doesn't
+generally get involved unless there's a very good reason.  And  from time to
+time, they do.  That happens right off the bat in the pilot movie, where they
+stomp down hard.  They exercise other authority from time to time _
+"suggesting" that a group of Centauri representatives be given the VIP
+treatment in order to encourage them to invest and help to defray the cost of
+running B5 (an issue that never seems to come up in TV SF...just how much DOES
+the Enterprise cost to run?), and in the series, there's considerable conflict
+planned for down the road between those on B5 and the EA officials (especially
+since not everyone is 100% behind B5, and would love nothing more than to see
+it shut down).
+
+     Wheels within wheels...that's the secret.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 04 1992
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+     Well, you can find a comprehensive cast list in the first message in the
+"Behind the Camera" topic here.
+
+     Briefly: Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare); Lt. Commander
+Laurel Takashima (Tamlyn Tomita); Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (Jerry
+Doyle); Dr. Benjamin Kyle (Johnny Sekka); Ambassador Delenn (Mira Furlan);
+Ambassador G'Kar (Andreas Katsulas); Ambassador Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik);
+Telepath Lyta Alexander (Patricia Tallman); Sinclair's love interest, trader
+Carolyn Sykes (Blaire Baron); Ambassador Kosh...an open question.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Communications will be instantaneous in *most* cases.  Once a ship enters
+hyperspace, however, communications can become more problematic.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 08 1992
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+     The character of Laurel Takashima, and the actor Tamlyn Tomita, ain't
+going NOWHERE.
+
+     (An incredible simulation of a producer putting his foot down.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 09 1992
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+     There is a certain degree of ageism and sexism going on here, I think.
+Tamlyn is within striking distance of the ages of Shatner when he first
+appeared as captain of the Enterprise, and of Frakes when he first appeared as
+2nd on the NG Enterprise.  No one seemed to think it was a problem with them,
+since they were men...so why is it inappropriate for a woman?
+
+     This is probably the dopiest (my regrets, but that's my opinion) problem
+I've come across regarding this whole thing.  We cast for the role of Laurel
+Takashima from across a wide age range, from 30s up through the late 40s and
+up a bit.  The BEST PERFORMER was Tamlyn Tomita.  She just knocked us through
+the back wall.  Am I or any producer supposed to say, "No, we can't hire her,
+she looks too good"?  Are we supposed to buy the okeydoke _ proferred by a
+sexist society _ that a woman can't look good and be smart?  Certainly the
+men in our show, if the "yum's" I heard from a lot of women are any
+indication, are attractive.  Should we cast only gnomes?
+
+     The stone cold fact, apart from opinions, is that it is absolutely valid
+that a person in his or her 30s could command that task aboard Babylon 5.
+Whether or not it doesn't fit with someone's political agenda is irrelevant.
+I'm not here to reinforce ANYone's political agenda.  My task is to find the
+best stories, and the best performers to render that story.
+
+     I've made a concerted effort, and will continue to do so, to find as many
+varied actors as possible for the show...ethnic backgrounds, a 50/50 mix of
+sexes and ages.  One character which will recur in the series will be a Latin
+American woman in her late 40s or early 50s, who is in charge of the
+environment aboard Babylon 5, a monumentally vital task.
+
+     There were some concerns that casting Johnny Sekka as Dr. Benjamin Kyle
+would be problematic; born in Africa, educated in England, he has a very
+pronounced accent, and we already have other accents in the show.  We heard
+the concern that he might not be accepted.  I ignored that because he was the
+best person for the role.  Period.  I got hit with the "make him more
+streetwise" notion from some people (not at Warners), since that's what one
+tends to see these days.  But it's important, I think, to show a variety of
+approaches to black (and white and asian and latino) characters.  You tend to
+see few black actors in dramatic roles in television, and I think that's
+scandalous.
+
+     That was why I wanted to make the second in command Japanese, to try and
+counter the Japan-bashing, to make it clear that we're one world.  And now the
+same old stereotypes and divisiveness rears its ugly head.
+
+     There are only two kinds of actor in the world: good actors and bad
+actors.  To take fault in someone's performance is absolutely the right thing;
+to look at someone's genetics or sex or age and say "She's too old" or "She's
+too pretty" or "He's too old"...nonsense.  How old was Amelia Earhart when she
+made solo transatlantic flight?  33.  And she was 30 when she risked being a
+passenger on such a flight.  There are women the same age as Lt. Cmdr. Laurel
+Takashima training and working now in ops on the space shuttle.
+
+     Politics and prejudice make poor partners when linked with drama.  And I
+can't even believe I'm spending time responding to this.
+
+                                                                 jms*
+
+     (*who had his first stage play produced while still in high school, had
+written _ on contract _ his first TV script at 18, his first movie script
+under contract by 21, and was working for the Times and TIME, Inc. by middle
+twenties.  Or, as Tom Servo says in MST3K, "Deal with it, pink boy!")
+

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+     Cindy...wait.  You're taking something that wasn't meant the way you're
+responding to it.
+
+     The only way that B5 has been able to turn into something of quality is
+because everyone involved checked their egos at the door.  What you have to
+do, in an environment like that, is to invite everyone to express an opinion.
+But you have to remember that it's a two-way street; some of the best things
+about the show came out of arguments that were absolute knock-down drag-outs,
+not against each other, but against or for ideas and concepts and approaches.
+That we all respected each other was a iven,  so we were free to just argue
+relentlessly with each other and we knew it was never personal.
+
+     Everyone down to the guy who make the meals was free to tell me I was
+full of it (and did, often, btw), and I was free to do the same.  What I have
+always respected most is someone who can intellectually counterpunch.  You
+made a point.  Strongly.  I disagreed.  Strongly.  Now don't tell me you're
+hurt, stand your ground and tell me WHY I'm wrong.   You can be hurt and
+wrong, or you can be hurt and right.  You shouldn't be hurt because it wasn't
+meant personally, and was strictly a response to the ideas and context and
+concepts you suggested.
+
+     Neither you, nor I, should have to softpedal our opinions here, because
+as soon as that happens, it becomes about ego rather than about what's
+actually *right* in any given situation.  You felt strongly about your
+opinion.  I could have come back with a "Gee, I'm hurt by that," which btw
+would have been marginally true...and totally irrelevant.  What I had to do
+was come back at you, just as strongly, with why I felt that you were wrong.
+Now it's your serve.
+
+     I don't view this as a game, btw, but rather the ONLY way in which
+anything decent ever gets done.  Case in point...when I was working on TZ, I
+wrote up a first draft of a script that I thought was just spiffy, endlessly
+terrific.  Gave it to my Spousal Overunit to read, expecting she'd love it.
+She did...but had a real problem with the ending.  It just didn't work.  And
+we went round and round on that for DAYS, and gradually, she whittled down the
+arguments and punched holes in some fuzzy logic on my part, and finally I
+stormed off to my office and looked at the script, and was sufficiently
+provoked into taking a different and better approach.
+
+     If you feel every bit as strongly now about your point of view as you did
+then, then say so, and go over my reply and tell me why I'm full  of it.  If
+you can't convince me, I'll come back just as strongly, and if we're actually
+having a DISCUSSION, rather than just trying to score points...if what we're
+after is what's correct, then sooner or later one of us will convince the
+other.
+
+     This is one of the dangers in soliciting opinions.  To an opinion that
+takes exception to the work, there are several responses.  The best and
+easiest is "Yes, you're right," and there've been plenty of those; both the
+day of the presentation, and in the Sunday discussion, some very good points
+were brought up.  Another response, usually an attempt to get rid of someone,
+is "I'll think about it."  Which is just a way to shrug off dissident
+opinions.  I respect a contrary point of view too  much to just dismiss it.
+Better to argue it out, find the strong points or weak points in the argument,
+and see if it holds water.
+
+     If a point of view crumbles under heat, it wasn't strongly held or
+properly explained.
+
+     Joey and others mentioned the viewer, at the promo screening, who took
+great umbrage in my comments that this would run five and no more.  He offered
+his opinion, and seemed genuinely upset that, having said no to studio
+opinions and fought hard to have this my OWN voice, that I wouldn't let myself
+be swayed on this point by HIS voice.  It's okay to fight someone's opinion if
+that person works for the studio or the network; when its the guy in the
+audience, he reacts with "Hey!  Wait a minute!" and gets offended.
+
+     You and others are free to say anything and everything you want; I take
+no criticism personally, however strongly voice.  And it's got to run both
+ways.  If you feel strongly about something, and I come back, it isn't a slap
+in the face, it's a discussion.  Heated, perhaps, but that's all it is, and
+somehow, with luck, the truth will emerge.  Do you want me to softpedal my
+responses or lie out of politeness?  My guess is not.  And I feel the same;
+the first person to softpedal a criticism to me should bug out now, because at
+that point the dialogue has become useless.
+
+     Fight for what you think is right.  I will.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Just to differentiate here a bit...I loved Twin Peaks dearly, but if you
+missed an episode, you were utterly lost.  (And I did.)
+
+     What maddened me about TP _ wonderful as it was _ is that it never
+answered any of the questions it raised, and as stated, it was VERY easy to
+get lost.  By contrast, each episode of B5 will stand alone, and every
+question raised will eventually be answered.  Not immediately, in some cases,
+but all will be resolved.  (Generally, questions raised prominently in an
+episode will be resolved that episode; questions raised prominently in a
+season will be resolved that season; and questions that develop over the 5
+year arc will be resolved by the end of the arc.)
+
+     I make that distinction because some questions won't become apparent to
+some viewers until they watch a lot of episodes, and something begins to occur
+to them.  And then they get the answer.  By contrast, someone who watches only
+once in a great while won't think to ask the question...but will eventually
+get the answer along with the rest when it comes up.
+
+     We're talking a VERY tricky writing challenge, sort of a hat-trick, and
+if we can pull it off _ and I wouldn't be doing this if I thought we couldn't
+_ it'll be quite interesting.
+
+     As to whether or not the writing style itself can begin to compare with
+TP, that's for others to determine, not me.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Yes, the rocks have meaning.
+
+     And the owls are not what they seem....
+
+                                                             jms
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+     As it happens, Joan Chen was considered, but not available.
+
+     And as stated above, we are going to have a mix of things on the
+show...older women, older men, as much as possible.  (I have yet to hear
+anyone complain about the drop-dead *guys* on the show, btw.)  My own sense is
+that they look good, but they're neither hunks on the one hand, or bimbos on
+the other.  Yes, they're attractive, sometimes in quirky ways.  Sinclair has a
+dent in his forehead, his nose has been broken, he's craggy looking...but it
+works, and comes across attractively.
+
+     One thing that I want to reinforce here is that this is a *pilot*, and is
+not intended to represent what will be done in every single show.   It's
+intended mainly to get the ball rolling and introduce the main characters and
+the world they inhabit.  And, one hopes, tell a story.   Be assured that over
+the course of the series, there will be PLENTY of diversity.  What you're
+asking for is something that's already been considered, worked out, and
+implemented.
+
+     (A pilot also exists, btw, so you can fall on your face in some places,
+learn from the error, and move on, correcting them in the series.)
+
+     Overall, I think we came out quite well.  Most of the concerns that I've
+heard are more along the lines of seeing MORE.  And one can't get a five-year
+story into one movie, you have to spread these things out.  That it makes
+people want more of one thing or another, I think, speaks well.
+
+     Two last points: to the implied question above, yes, I compose all of my
+replies on-line, off the cuff.  If I didn't, I'd never reply at all.
+
+     Also, I just want to make sure that our director, Richard Compton, gets
+sufficient credit for what has been seen.  Much of the visual style and
+sensibility _ the majority of it, in many cases _ is his.  We absolutely
+could never have done it without him.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 10 1992
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+     Regarding Richard Compton, what we'd like to do is to bring him on as a
+director-producer, as is done, for instance, in a lot of the Bochco shows.
+Such a person directs every third episode, and works with the other directors
+to *insure* a continuity of vision, consistency in the look of the film and
+the performance of the characters, and generally making sure all goes
+smoothly, taking full advantage of all the stuff that a marginal outsider
+might not know about.  I'm a bit of a continuity-bug, and that has been shown
+to be a remarkably efficient way of keeping it all together.
+
+     Regarding the arcs...the best way I can explain it is that every other
+episode will be used to propel the five year storyline (that's a rough
+estimate; sometimes it'll be two in a row, or one in three, but you get the
+idea).  This means that half of our shows in any given season are developed by
+outsiders, in the select group we'll be using, and that will help to keep us
+fresh and open to new ideas.
+
+     The way it'll work is something like this: you set something up in
+episode 7, for instance, and then pay it off in episode 13.  But you do so in
+a way that incorporates the information passed along in #7, so that if you
+missed #7, you can still follow the story.
+
+     I've always believed in the importance of challenging oneself; and I've
+tried to do it on everything I've written, books, stories and TV.   This is
+probably the most textured approach to TV storytelling that I've ever tackled,
+requiring scale and subtlety at the same time.  What you end up doing is
+telling your A story, your B story, and giving people the thread of a C story
+without them KNOWING they're being given a third story...then paying off the
+3rd story, the C story, without making people think they've missed something
+in case they didn't pick up on anything the first time out.
+
+     From a creative perspective, it's kind of like juggling chainsaws,
+playing a kazoo and frying eggs, all at the same time...for five years.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1992
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+     Sure, yeah, easy for YOU to say...I was doing just *fine* until Cindy
+asked for bacon.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1992
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+     Not to be a smartass, really, but if I *ever* suggest a story where our
+main characters become children...someone whap me upside the head with a
+ballbat.  Shades of Muppet Babies....
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1992
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+     BTW, to those who saw it, what'd you think of Ambassador Kosh?
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (P.S.  Do you realize that there have been almost 900 messages posted in
+this category since it went up on the 3rd?)
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 12 1992
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+     Yes, the origins of various of our races will be explored, and their
+histories and cultures and backgrounds and languages.  And just a note on the
+"hand" question...it wasn't Lyta's pov of Kosh's hand, it was Kosh's pov of
+Kosh's hand...maybe.  Not everything is what it seems to be.
+
+     Especially the owls.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 13 1992
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+     Cindy...lemme give you a little reality check.  You said you were hurt by
+a cavalier message about a message that took you, oh, what?  Ten minutes to
+write?
+
+     Now you're a performer.  You've worked *years* to perfect your craft.
+ You take a great deal of pride in your work.  You work long hours, long
+beyond when you're being paid, and study nights to learn every single comma in
+a script you're performing in.
+
+     And someone you don't know suggests you be stuffed in a blender.
+
+     How about some proportion and sensitivity here?
+
+     Don't ask for others to give you what you won't give in return.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 13 1992
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+     One can argue that Cindy was confusing herself with the message she wrote
+as well.
+
+    What if I had responded with, "Cindy in a blender.  Cindy meets Freddy.
+Cindy gets her eyes chewed out by ants."
+
+    Whether it's based on a message, or based on a performance, it just seems
+a little bit much to me, and cruel to the person.  Not one person faulted her
+performance; even Cindy admits as much, she just isn't what Cindy's ideal
+would be.  Fine, point taken.  And the "Laurel in an airlock" was funny for
+about five minutes.  Now it's getting just a bit much, and I feel it's
+incumbent to point that out.  Cindy felt she had been hurt by my note; how
+much more would Tamlyn be hurt by her messages here?
+
+     Just my two cents worth.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I like to think that our crew has come a little beyond judging people by
+their appearances.  The "she has to prove herself to be one of the guys" stuff
+has been done and done and done with women characters, and I'm simply not
+going to do it again, especially with this character.
+
+     I don't have a problem with Cindy having a problem with a character (even
+though she's in the minority here).  The ONLY and I repeat ONLY thing that's
+bothered me is the constant death-of-Laurel stuff, which I'm starting to find
+distasteful.  If someone comes on here, and storms off in a rage, saying she
+found a message "hurtful" because she thought it was personal, and takes
+people to task for it, and then turns right around and takes after someone
+else, consistently, in a very  personal fashion, should either a) be more
+willing to accept same oneself, or b) not be doing so.
+
+     It's easy to forget, on a BBS, that we're talking to people.  That was
+Cindy's problem in part, she felt (if I can presume to interpret for a moment)
+that I'd forgotten that I was talking to a person, rather than just writing
+words.  Fair enough.  It's equally possible to forget that performers are not
+just phosphor-dots on a screen, but real people.
+
+     Look, here's my bottom line: I don't have a WORD to say about anyone
+criticizing anything about this show, my writing, my cast, the EFX, ANYthing,
+as long as it's constructive and not just attacking for the sake of attacking.
+And I'll even let THAT slide for a time.  The only thing that I have asked is
+for a little sensitivity and proportion equal in amount to that which was
+asked of me and others.  To speculate gleefully about someone's demise, and to
+portray an actor's work in what amounts to a destructive and hurtful fashion,
+is not pleasant to witness, especially having worked with that performer for
+over a month, having seen her stay past midnight working to get a scene
+exactly right.
+
+     It had just gone over the top, and was getting ugly in here, and I felt I
+had to respond.  Neither am I going to change the shape of my show because one
+person thinks a character is too good looking.  Cindy went ballistic because I
+said the idea of that was "dopey."  She said that it was tantamount to calling
+her dopey, that it's one and the same.  So what then is she saying of Tamlyn
+in HER messages?
+
+     This is an open forum for constructive and frank discussion of  Babylon
+5.  It is not a place to sit there safe behind one's keyboard and snipe, over
+and over and over.  I let it slide the first half-dozen or so times.  I'm not
+letting it slide anymore.  Either we are adults, or we're here to name-call
+and be "fannish" in the worst sens of the word, and I happen to think that
+this crowd in particular is a hell of a lot better than that, and that
+INCLUDES Cindy.  Throughout this process, from November on to now, a year
+later, we've had consistently wonderful and constructive conversations.  I'd
+like to keep it that way.  Because I have no desire to participate in anything
+less.
+
+     I hate to come off sounding hard-assed about it, but that's how i feel.
+You're responding strongly to Cindy's comments and position because you've met
+her; I'm on the opposite side, but in the same position.  All I'm asking is
+for proportion here, and some sensitivity to the fact that we are talking
+about real people, and there's no need for sniping along these lines.  Let's
+keep it constructive and specific.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     It was not the joke that I minded, as much as the repition of same at
+some length, and the elaboration thereupon.  That said, we can move on.
+
+     One side-light to all this, as I mentioned before (but likely it got
+missed in the flood of messages) we *are* going to have a wide range of ages
+on both side of the sexes.  The head of the environment for B5, a very
+important post, given that a change could have disasterous effects, is a life-
+sciences expert who is a female hispanic in her late 50s.
+
+     Dr. Ben Kyle is our *chief* physician, but there are actually a number of
+other doctors on board B5; you'd need that for as many people and aliens as
+we've got.  And I'm playing with one story now that features a female doctor
+in her late 40s early 50s.  And some older guys as well.
+
+     You're dealing, really, in the B5 pilot, with the first act in a 110 act
+play.  Trust me, there is more to come.  (And at one point, we'll introduce a
+character _ assuming we haven't already _ who will be around for quite some
+time, and then we'll just drop, quite casually, that the character is gay.  I
+think that this is much better than doing A Gay Story.  Just drop it in and
+move on.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 14 1992
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+     Yeah, the Pied Piper is a *great* analogy.  I thought that was handled
+wonderfully.  (I confess I'm a comics addict; a $40 a week habit, and about
+6,000+ comics.)  A good character, and I liked the way they dealt with the
+lifestyle question.
+
+     Hmm...the witchcraft thing just sent a little bell ringing...y'know, I
+figured on the continuity of most major religions, and carrying on a few newer
+(and maybe even eccentric) ones, but y'know, there's much to be said for some
+retro...would contact with other species lead us back into our own
+pasts...goddess religion revivals, druids, that sort of thing.   And, of
+course, there's going to be the influence of alien religions on humans hungry
+for new stuff (and vice versa, which I touch upon in one script already).
+Hmm.....
+
+     You'll excuse me, the wheels have begun to turn....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     On the area of religion...basically, I'm an atheist.  But what has always
+intrigued me is the range of methods people use to try and understand
+themselves, the world, and the universe they inhabit.  If one is honest with
+oneself, that has to include science, philosophy, and religion (among others).
+I don't have to agree with the *conclusions* of any of them to nonetheless
+respect the fact that for some people this is a very valid and important means
+of Understanding.  (One of the best texts I've found on this is Durkheim's
+"Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.")
+
+     So yes, that has to be dealt with and explored.  What B5 is about (in
+addition to a number of other things) is Asking The Next Question, whether
+that's about living environments for the outside (alternate atmosphere
+quarters, f'rinstance, for aliens) to different living environments for the
+INside.  What *would* the reaction be if, upon making Contact, we found a
+culture with a fascinating, involved, textured religion that had been around
+for tens of thousands of years, proffered by a race well in advance of our
+own?  If some science-fiction writer can come up with a system of belief on
+his own time and sell it into one of this country's biggest money-making
+franchises (and we all know of whom we speak), can you even imagine the impact
+something like THIS would have?  You'd likely have converts by the bucket, as
+well as a LOT of anger from the Terran religious community as backlash, as
+they lost converts of their own (though in turn, they would likely make
+converts among the aliens...can you imagine the controversy behind the
+selection of the first Minbari pope?  I _ hey, wait a minute!  That ain't ba_
+er....never mind.  Forget this conversation, it never took place.)
+
+     In any event...he said, changing topics...Monday I get to do Show and
+Tell with Stewart Copeland, and hear the majority of what he'll be doing for
+the B5 soundtrack.  I'm *reallly* looking forward to this, and will give a
+full report later.  I think we do the actual scoring session later this week
+or the first part of next week.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 16 1992
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+     Without question.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 18 1992
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+     No, absolutely not...the "ideas are for public consumption" has been
+tried, and failed.  It opens one up to massive suits.  I know that you're
+responsible, will keep your word, but the next guy to do so might change his
+mind...or not get the word...it's just too much of a risk.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 19 1992
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+     Actually, it's Psi as in the Greek letter Psi, which is the root of
+Psychology, which makes you *both* right.
+
+     As it happens, initially the role of Lyta was considerably smaller.
+Then one day I saw Pat Tallman in the "Night of the Living Dead" remake, and
+was blown out of my chair.  I knew at that moment I had to use her in
+something, and kept her in mind for this role.  When we got the go, I expanded
+the role with her in mind.  Funnily enough, in the 2 years since I first saw
+her in the NoTLD remake, I was at a couple of parties at which she was also
+present (including the Horror Hall of Fame tapings over at Universal).  I
+wanted to say, "Hello, my name is JMS, and I'm a producer, and I'd love to use
+you sometime in a movie," but _ well, you can see how that sounds.  So I said
+nothing, and just waited.  Talk without action is meaningless.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 19 1992
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+     Not insofar as I know, no.  And Pat was my choice a LONG time before we
+started discussing stuff here.  We will be using a wide range of actors and
+characters, however, so be sure that you'll see this in time.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 21 1992
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+     Just liked the sound of it, really.  Sounded exotic.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 23 1992
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+     Check topic 1, Luis...Katherine Lawrence posted a schedule there a few
+days ago.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 06 1992
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+     This is an area I've discussed with our prosthetics guys, and we're going
+to do more with it.  I think it's an omission.  At first, Delenn was going to
+have something of a buzz cut, but that got sidetracked somewhere along the
+line.  But it'll show up on others....
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1992
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+     It's Centuari Prime.  (In the corridor, though you can't see it on
+screen, there's an advertisement inviting people to visit Centauri Prime.)
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1992
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+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 15 1992
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+     Let's not get too cute here, boys and girls....
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 19 1992
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+     I asked for people to respect a request I made at that time not to
+describe what was shown, how much was shown, and what scenes were shown
+especially in terms of plot.  It's my request, Phil, for the time being, so
+I'm going to have to say that nothing can be said at this time.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     No, I don't think it's unfair, as long as it's not being trumpeted (and
+that's something I have kind of asked to cut back on).  But I do agree that
+perhaps we can hold back on the inside remarks and keep them to the spoilers
+category.  Good enough?
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 19 1992
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+     Now, now, one and all...c'mon.  Play nice.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 20 1992
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+     It'll be from 4-6 p.m. on Saturday.  And I may have something more to say
+about it in the next day or so.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     BTW, for those in the L.A. area, in case you missed this in the top
+topic, I'll be doing a B5 presentation at Loscon this coming Saturday
+(Thanksgiving Weekend) from 4-6 p.m.  Not only will a lot of B5 stuff be
+shown, but we will have (tentatively, at least) several others involved with
+B5 present, possibly the director and one or two cast members.
+
+     This may, or may not, be similar to the Wishcon presentation; I'll know
+in the next 48 hours.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Check the announcement re: Loscon in topic 2, by the way.
+
+     Thanks for the reference re: the writing book.  I'd very much _ VERY
+much _ wanted to get the thing rewritten and updated before getting swamped
+by B5 stuff, but I'm something of a perfectionist, and the process thus began
+taking longer than I'd slotted in the schedule, and the next thing I knew, the
+deadline passed.
+
+     I *hate* missing deadlines, I like to be responsible.  Which is why I've
+just turned in a column to Writer's Digest that, basically, invokes a leave of
+absence to get B5 up and running.  (Lawrence DiTillio will be subbing until my
+return.)
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Rico, I don't think I understand the question.  Can you clarify?
+Thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Just to clarify (and I swear one of these days I'm gonna put this on a
+macro)...because of the need for consistency and to get ourselves established
+firmly, the first season will be written by two small groups of writers: 1) a
+select group I've trained over the years to my own tastes, and 2) an equally
+select group of leading SF writers.  I don't want anyone spec'ing out scripts
+for that first season...it makes no sense to do so until the show has run
+about a season.  (We've already gotten some people sending in stories, which
+get fired back with a stamped note on the outside, which I've made up, which
+reads ...AND DON'T DO IT  AGAIN!  (This is the only way to deal with
+*unsolicited* scripts; the process is one I've repeated before, Always Contact
+the Producer FIRST.)
+
+     Our second season, however, we will be more open to outside stuff.
+
+     Just FYI, most shows these days are almost 100% staff written.  I have
+always believed in the opposite.  Consequently, there will be only two people
+on staff on the series: me, as exec producer, and Harlan Ellison, as creative
+consultant.  That's it.  The rest of the show will be freelance.
+
+     And yes, the format is the same...a dramatic script is a dramatic script,
+regardless of the genre.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     You can probably write to Christy and tell her your tale of woe.  It
+might even work....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     BTW, although I have as yet no confirmation of this, supposedly WPMI-TV
+in Mobile, Alabama is going to carry B5.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Don't tell me, tell your local stations.  They have the Power.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     WWOR *does* carry B5, but yes, not on the national feed, only local.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I hope so, but do not as yet know of any such stations.  Will advise if I
+hear otherwise.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     WPWR Chicago.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
+      Tell me where you saw what you saw and I'll tell you what it was; there
+are several things you could be referring to.  (One note...in the promo, you
+see a red-haired woman standing over a casing in the isolab; that's Kosh.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     That's...well, I can't say that's "him" because such terms may not even
+apply.  But yes, that's Kosh.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     There are three phases to the presentation: an early Warners promo for
+the show, the live-action footage that I assembled on my home VCR, and the CGI
+EFX reel put together by Ron's elves.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Regarding the promo...the explosion stuff (not Delenn) has been seen in
+lots of places via the downlink, so it's okay to discuss.  The only thing I
+would ask is some degree of being circumspect about plot details until after
+it airs.  But I'll try and leave it to your discretion.  One very nice thing
+about the B5 crew around here is that we keep promises.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Correct.  Your eyes are sharp indeed.  Yes, the bar is shaped like a
+large 5, the same stylized 5 used in the title.  The title sequence, and the
+ending shot that pulls back 10 kilometers from B5's observation dome window in
+one take is the one that required 3 hours or so per frame for the computer to
+render.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     The recorders float on air-jets.  There are two kinds, the solid models
+that sit in one place (which, if you look inside, you can see the basic
+"workings" of the air-thrust system) and the CGI recorders that actually move
+around in the air.
+
+     We may play a little with the design on the observation dome (or command
+center).  The rotating lights are for two purposes: to designate the center of
+power and authority, and to act as sensors...you'll notice that the lights are
+kept fairly dim, to better see all the instruments, and to be able to look
+clearly out into space through the window without being washed out by glare.
+When someone comes in, Laurel turns to address them, and a light automatically
+descends upon her to illuminate her for purposes of the conversation.  When
+she turns back to her command console, the light fades out.  (If you watch
+closely when the pilot airs, you'll see this happening.)  This was better done
+automatically than to have her do it manually every time.
+
+     The window is made of individual sections, joined together by a very
+strong metal alloy in order to better take the strain than one large plate
+glass window.  Hence the different contours and sections of the window.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Some very good observations.  And as for Londo, it's Londo's voice we
+chose to do the narrative at the top of the show.  Would YOU choose someone
+who was just a fuzzy and funny character...or someone who was more than he
+seemed?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     I think it's based  in part on his own European background, but I'll have
+to check....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Yeah, the more I delve into Londo's character, the more I find him
+intriguing.  He mourns for the loss of his beloved Empire, and this makes him
+vulnerable to some dangerous temptations.  There are a number of dark corners
+in his personality...but at the same time, a vulnerability, a sadness.
+
+     In the B5 story arc, Londo goes through some *major* changes, some good,
+some tragic, some frightening.  He becomes a major player, but not in the way
+he would ever have anticipated.
+
+     (Hold back, Joe, you've got a long stretch ahead of you here....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     There will *definitely* be specific rules and limitations for Lyta, and
+there are currently planned 3 first-season episodes which deal very strongly
+with her, and with the whole background of the Psi Corps, how they run, what
+they do, and so on.  This is something I very much want to, and look forward
+to exploring.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     "Bad Bob" is not seen in the show, except as one of many such alien
+critters WAY in the background, and has nothing to do with the show, and thus
+doesn't need to be shoved out an airlock, since it was never inside to begin
+with.
+
+     Does Lyta need to touch anyone to scan them?  No.  Not at all.   You'll
+notice that she doesn't during the business meeting.  You will notice that she
+wears gloves, and long-sleeved jackets, and always is careful to avoid
+physical contact, though.  The way it works is this:  she can scan fairly
+accurately without contact.  If someone is shielded, and she has permission or
+a court order to scan further, it may require some physical contact to
+"ground" her, if you will.  It's not something she likes to do, however.
+
+     As to the other classes of P-ratings...you'll see them soon enough; there
+are at least 2 stories planned for the first season that deal with this area,
+in quite some detail.  They will deal with quite a few of the issues raised
+here in the last batch of messages.
+
+     Regarding Garibaldi...in the first hour-script that I've turned in, we do
+learn more about his past, and what brought him here.  And yes, there were
+some lives involved, but he was framed.  Doesn't mean he didn't screw up other
+things...and doesn't mean he won't screw up NOW, either.  He's had a problem
+with alcohol, and it may come back.  But there is a strong link to Sinclair
+that prompted him to give Garibaldi what is, essentially, his last chance.
+
+     Because we've created a nice range of characters, I've tried to set aside
+at least two stories apiece for each of the major and supplementary
+characters.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Actually, he's not just standing there..he checks down the length of one
+hall, then checks an intersecting hall, to make sure that no one else is there
+before sealing the place off (and assuring himself that Garibaldi hasn't
+followed this far).  THEN he takes off, finishing the last of the order as he
+runs.  A commander's responsibility is to look after the welfare of his
+people.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Just a quickie note here...yes, I did attend CVHS.  It's one of four high
+schools I attended: St. Benedict's, Matawan NJ; Matawan Regional High; Lennox
+High, Los Angeles; and Chula Vista High School, San Diego area.  I actually
+finished from CVHS in '72.
+
+     Re: makup costs/prosthetics...we've already built 40 different species,
+so we're set for quite some time....
+
+                                                jms
+

+
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+     I'll try and keep this in mind next time I need someone shoved out of an
+airlock....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Skip: yeah, we like to have fun.  And alas, he didn't make the final cut
+(though there's a shot of him during the opening montage), but who knows, we
+may fix that in time.
+
+     Fenn: I suppose we could have you ejected, but at this early date, it
+might be a case of premature ej_ er, never mind.
+
+                                                              jms
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+      To get the ball rolling, here's a PRELIMINARY list of credits for
+ those involved in producing BABYLON 5.
+
+                             BABYLON 5
+                        Production Credits
+
+ STARRING:
+         Michael O'Hare
+         Tamlyn Tomita
+         Jerry Doyle
+         Mira Furlan
+
+ GUEST-STARRING:
+         Blaire Baron
+         Paul Hampton
+         Peter Jurasik
+         Andreas Katsulas
+         Johnny Sekka
+         Patricia Tallman
+
+ CO-STARRING:
+         Steven R. Barnett
+         John Fleck
+         William Hayes
+         Linda Hoffman
+         Robert Jason Jackson
+         F. William Parker
+         Marianne Robertson
+         David Sage
+         Robert Spillane
+         Ed Wasser
+
+ COSTUME DESIGNER: Catherine Adair
+
+ PRODUCTION DESIGNER: John Iacovelli
+
+ VISUAL EFFECTS DESIGNER: Ron Thornton
+
+ MUSIC BY:  Stewart Copeland
+
+ EDITED BY: Robert L. Sinise, A.C.E.
+
+ DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:  Billy Dickson
+
+ LINE PRODUCER:  Robert L. Brown
+
+ CO-PRODUCER:  John Copeland
+
+ CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:  J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:  Douglas Netter
+
+ WRITTEN BY:  J. Michael Straczynski
+
+ DIRECTED BY:  Richard Compton
+
+ CASTING BY:  Mary Jo Slater, C.S.A.
+
+ UNIT PRODUCTION MANAGER:  Robert L. Brown
+
+ 1st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: John Radulovic
+
+ 2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Joseph N. Linsalata
+
+ ART DIRECTORS:
+         Deborah Raymond
+         Dorian Vernacchio
+
+ ASSISTANT ART DIRECTORS:
+         Ted Haigh
+         Chris Mueller
+
+ ART DECORATOR:  Deborah Raymond
+
+ SET DESIGNER:  Colin DeRouin
+
+ SET DRESSER:  Michael Mora
+
+ ON SET DRESSER:  Diane Spahn
+
+ KEY SCENIC ARTIST: Ruth Gilmore
+
+ SCENIC ARTISTS:
+         Linda B. Noland
+         Burton Rencher
+         Lisa M. Whaley
+
+ CONCEPTUAL ARTISTS:
+         Peter Ledger
+         Susie Wilson
+
+ WARDROBE SUPERVISOR: Alan Trugman
+
+ WARDROBE KEY SET: Susan Roberts
+
+ COSTUMERS:
+         Donna D. Casey
+         Kelli Hurley
+         Michael Varnen
+
+ KEY MAKEUP:  Suzanne Sanders
+
+ ASSISTANT MAKEUP:  Cristina Criswell
+
+ KEY HAIR:  Myke Michaels
+
+ PROPERTY MASTER:  Guy Pepin
+
+ ASSISTANT PROP MASTER:  Miranda Amador
+
+ VISUAL EFFECTS PRODUCED BY:  Foundation Imaging
+
+ VISUAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR:  Ron Thornton
+
+ SYSTEMS SPECIALIST/DESIGNER:  Paul Beigle-Bryant
+
+ VISUAL EFFECTS COORDINATOR:  Shannon Casey
+
+ ANIMATORS:
+         Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz
+         Richard Payne
+         Mark Swain
+
+ SPECIAL EFFECTS COORDINATOR:  John Stears
+
+ SPECIAL EFFECTS ENGINEER:  Russell Peters
+
+ SPECIAL EFFECTS MAKEUP SUPERVISOR: John Criswell
+
+ SHOP FOREMAN:  Greg Aronowitz
+
+ MAKEUP SUPERVISOR: Rob Sherwood
+
+ BACKGROUND CREATURES: Asao Goto
+
+ MAKEUP SCULPTURE & APPLICATIONS: Ron Wild
+
+ MODEL MAKER:  Ron Mendel
+
+ MECHANICS:
+         John Frassrand
+         Dave Kindlon
+
+ GENERAL EFFECTS:
+         Scott Sirag
+         Dave Snyder
+
+ ASSISTANT EDITOR: Joe Binford, Jr.
+
+ POST PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Susan Norkin
+
+ DIRECTOR OF SOUND SERVICES: Paul Rodriguez
+
+ SUPERVISING SOUND EDITOR: George Johnson
+
+ SOUND DESIGNER:  Harry Cohen
+
+ SOUND EFFECTS EDITORS:
+         Ann Scibelli
+         Ricardo Broadus
+         David Farmer
+
+ DIALOGUE/ADR EDITOR:  Cathie Speakman
+
+ ASSISTANT DIALOGUE EDITOR:  Ben Beardwood
+
+ FOLEY MIXER:  Brian Geer
+
+ FOLEY ARTISTS:
+         Vince Nicastro
+         Greg Barbanell
+
+ RE-RECORDING MIXERS:
+         R. Russell Smith
+         George Johnson
+
+ RE-RECORDING ASSISTANT: Tony Sereno
+
+ SCRIPT SUPERVISOR: Haley McLane
+
+ PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Alyson Evans
+
+ ASSISTANT PRODUCTION COORDINATOR: Karen Meisels
+
+ DGA TRAINEE:  Clare Durand
+
+ PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT: Marge Rowland
+
+ PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS:
+         Steve Kornacki
+         Madeline Falco
+
+ ASSISTANT TO EXECUTIVE PRODUCER:  Scott Ross
+
+ RUNNERS:
+         Mike Bagg
+         Rick Suggett
+
+ CAMERA OPERATOR: Stephen Collins
+
+ 1ST ASSISTANT CAMERA: Steven R. Monroe
+
+ 2ND ASSISTANT CAMERA:
+         James Ball
+         Jennifer Gilroy
+
+ VIDEO PLAYBACK OPERATORS:
+         Paul Contegialomo
+         Steve Irwin
+         Ted Schelling
+
+ SOUND MIXER: Jim Tanenbaum
+
+ BOOM OPERATOR:  Cindy Gess
+
+ GAFFER:  John K. Farr
+
+ BEST BOY:  John G. Raymer
+
+ KEY GRIP:  Jan M. Heyneker
+
+ BEST BOY GRIP:  Gary A. Williams
+
+ STUNT COORDINATOR:  Kerry Rossal
+
+ STUNTS:  Frank J. Sparks
+
+ CONSTRUCTION FOREMAN:  Curtis Laseter
+
+ CONSTRUCTION ELECTRICIAN:  Russell H. Champa
+
+ VIDEO TOASTER RENDERING SYSTEM: New Tek, Inc.
+
+ Filmed with Panavision (r) Cameras and Lenses
+
+ Edited on the Avid Media Composer
+
+ Pin Registered Transfers & Digitial Optical Compositing
+         Action Video, Hollywood
+
+ Color by Pacific Film Laboratories
+
+ Electronic Laboratory - Laser Pacific
+
+ Digital Sound & Re-Recording by EFX Systems
+
+ Vari-Lite, Los Angeles, CA
+
+ Filmed at Santa Clarita Studios, Santa Clarita, CA
+
+ Production Services Provided by Elliot Friedgen
+
+ A Rattlesnake Production, in association with
+
+ Synthetic Worlds, Ltd.
+
+ Distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution
+
+
+
+
+      (Note: all preceding credits are preliminary only.)
+                                                       jms
+

+
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+     To a large degree, starring/guest-starring designations are handled
+during negotiations with agents, and in somc cases yes, do reflect whether or
+not a character is regular (in each episode) or recurring (in one-third, half,
+or two-thirds of episodes).  Here it's a little of both.
+
+     I actually don't know much about Johnny Fleck, so unfortunately can't say
+much except that he did a great job for us as a character named Del Varner.
+
+     Was at Stewart Copeland's today, taking care of last-minute spotting to
+adjust for some minor changes in the first act or two, and he played one
+section of the music for me...an early version of what the music will sound
+like in one sequence, the Vorlon docking.  Oh, man...it's *amazing* what a
+difference music makes just in general, how it makes a scene come alive...and
+all the moreso when it's as good as what I heard just a few hours ago.  It's
+everything I wanted...driving, percussive, mysterious, exotic...perfect.  He's
+going to do a dynamite job for us.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     If you are referring to the scene where he explains "why Babylon 5,"
+that's Lyta Alexander, our resident rent-a-telepath.  Scott Bakula?  Ewwww.
+  Most people have compared him to a younger Gary Cooper.
+
+     And yeah, Jerry Doyle does look a little like Willis...we rag on him
+endlessly about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     The bone that grows out of the back of Delenn's head is exactly that, not
+a decoration, but an actual part of the physiology.  It will differ with
+various Minbari in size, configuration and texture (another Minbari seen in
+the show has a darker tint to the bone structure, it's cracked and so on).
+The thought is that it grows from the back of the skull structure, and comes
+forward with age.  You can see the "root" of thed _ the _ structure whenever
+Delenn turns around.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+                          Yes.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Hey, I didn't bring it up, y'know.
+
+     Now that we're moving into a new phase on B5, there's one very important
+lesson that I've been trying to drive into my skull, and it's simply this:
+"Shut Up."  Yes, it's completely possible for me to spill the beans on
+everything in this show...and sure, that'd satisfy your curiosity...but now
+what's left for the series?  What surprises are left?
+
+     And it little serves to put ideas out there in the public eye before
+you've done them, on the off-chance they wind up elsewhere.
+
+     I have to be circumspect about a few things.  Problem right now is, I
+have to be circumspect about a *lot* of things.  We go through phases of that;
+between the last day of filming, and the start of real post production, there
+was a lull...then it picked up.  There was a lull just before we started
+filming, lots of "Well, we had another meeting" messages.  In between was
+chaos and lots of interesting info from behind the scenes (at least, that's
+what I like to think).  We'll be coming into a new phase soon enough.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     It's "Kosh" as in "gosh."  Having been on-site during some of the E!
+shooting, the scenes you refer to were indeed rehearsals, though I *think*
+they did some shooting during our shooting of the medlab scene.
+
+     Re: Kosh's look...the general look of the thing is courtesy of Steve
+Burg, the conceptual designer who came to us from Cameron's T2 crew.  When it
+came time to make the design functional for what we needed to do with it in
+the show, I and the costumers and the prosthetics guys got into it, and we got
+into the stained glass idea, which I think was suggested by either me or Greg
+Aronowitz, I'm not sure now which.  It's one of the designs that, like G'Kar,
+reveals more the closer you get to it; usually it's the other way around, the
+closer you get, the worse it looks.  (Keep a close eye on Londo's
+uniform...the little scarabs and decorations that are on it all mean different
+things, same with G'Kar's and Delenn's clothing.)
+
+     When Kosh was first unveiled, the director insisted on taking a shot of
+it with me.  I normally frown on this _ there are VERY few shots of me on set
+doing stuff, most of the shots I supervised are of others, since it's *very*
+important to me to underline that this is a team effort _ but I went ahead
+and posed anyway.  The photo has now become something of an intellectual
+exercise..."Which of these is the alien?"
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Don't know anything about the Zentraedi or the Paranoids, so I can't
+really comment.  Re: the uniforms, yes, there are two kinds, the day uniforms
+and the dress uniforms.  Dress uniforms are used for official events,
+receptions, hearings and the like; day uniforms are used the rest of the time.
+We will be making some *slight* modifications to the uniforms, but the basic
+look will remain about the same.  What helps the uniforms overall, in terms of
+the day uniforms, is to wear them *open*, which in most casual situations
+would be the case.  And we tried to get people to wear them open, which was
+part of the design, but they felt it was important to be official all the
+time, so they stayed closed, which made them look a little more monochromatic
+than should've been the case.   So we're going to adjust it...either by having
+them a bit more varied, or getting the cast to wear them open, or some
+combination.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+                     Go to your room.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+                             Yes.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+            
+
+
+               (In the voice of Bugs Bunny)
+               Mmmmmmmmmm............could be......
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Let me reverse the opposite question: how do you know if a villain (or a
+good guy) is gay or not?  Unless you show someone in bed, it seems to me that
+anyone could be anything.  Why is it even an issue?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+                        ...and that's always the problem, isn't it?   Keeping
+it going for, oh, more than 10 minutes at a time....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+     RE: sexual bigotry, or racial bigotry for that matter...you have to
+understand the potential psychological consequences of contact with not just
+one, but literally dozens of different species from a hundred worlds.   We are
+singular in our heredity and our humanity, and I think that when you stop to
+look at something 8 feet tall, with feathers, fangs and fur, coming down the
+hall toward you, you have a LOT less of a problem with the person to your left
+who happens to be of a different color or sexual persuasion.
+
+     That doesn't mean that bigotry is going to disappear, however; lilke
+religion, there is some dark impulse there _ the tribal preservation
+instinct, or somedamnthing _ that keeps turning up.  The target keeps
+changing, but the impulse remains.  So likely it'll turn toward the new
+"different" people...the outsiders...aliens.  I think you'll see a lot of
+people taking an "Earth First" (no relation to the current group) mentality,
+hate crimes against aliens, that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     As it happens, I was trying to get to sleep last night, and this question
+was rolling around in my head.  (I spend so much time with these characters
+every day that when it comes time to collapse, they're still running around
+and chatting in my head, and I have to finally yell WILL YOU PLEASE SHUT THE
+HELL UP SO I CAN SLEEP HERE??
+
+     (Not that they listen, of course....)
+
+     Anyway, I was running the question of how to introduce this aspect, and
+suddenly it came through.  I think I've twigged to a means of doing it that'll
+satisfy everyone.  Subtle, but unmistakeable and to the point.
+
+     And fun.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Actually...not quite.  We're deliberately holding off on the next issue
+in hopes of having some...well, some news to slap in it that may be of
+interest.  So figure another week or so.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     No, the modem's fine, because it connects to everything else.  What I
+*think* I need is some way to turn off the MNP aspect for the one BBS that I'm
+having the hardest time with...only I can't figure out how to do that.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+
+     The guns are the one thing I'm just not very happy with, and we're going
+to rethink the look, as well as the function of them.  At some point after the
+final cut is...er...finalized, there will be a big production meeting of all
+the various departments to do a post mortem on those things that worked, those
+that didn't, and what we should/shouldn't do in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     We're going to make the EFX of the guns move as fast as possible, to
+match even slightly the real speed that would be involved (which in complete
+reality would probably be too fast even to see, but one does what one can).
+
+     We've also tried to be fairly rigorous on the question of security.   On
+other shows, they only call up security guys when there's a problem.   If you
+watch the pilot, there are about 7 or 8 security people at the customs
+scanner, and you *constantly* see them moving down the corridor or through the
+bazaar...armed.  Not a big presence, but as you say, with 4 other stations
+lost or destroyed, you have to be careful.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     It's still the original special.  It takes time to change things.
+
+     Jeff...you're taking this much too calmly....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     I think I'm about 6'5" in shoes.  Out of shoes, about 3'2".
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     With luck, maybe I'll see that particular story myself one of these days.
+Meanwhile, as before, if anyone who's seen the promo(s) or the previews wants
+to convey their feelings to their local station, I sure as heck ain't gonna
+stand in the way....
+
+                                                             jms
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+     The pilot airs the last week in February.
+
+     The guns used are called PPGs (to answer another question), and any space
+battle sequences will use CGI effects for weaponry there as well.
+
+     There may have been a question I missed.  If so, my regrets; there's 64
+new messages since last night (yikes!)!
+
+     Oh, yeah, there was one more...it ain't making Warners watch the promos
+that'll hasten B5 the Series onto the air.  It's deciding, as stated, if it'll
+be in a second night of PTEN programming, or on the same night if something
+doesn't work out, or some other option.  It's the timing that's being
+determined.
+
+     Once the ratings are all in on all the shows, we'll know more.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1992
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+     Frodo...you've wandered off the road.  It goes ever on, but you can't get
+back to it without the facts.  Rather than rehash, just get back into this
+topic and go back to 1 and read forward.  All will become clear to you.  There
+will be a series.  Be patient.
+
+                                                    Gandalf
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 20 1992
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+     The B5 "starter kit," to use that phrase, consists really of two GIF
+files in the library and some of the files compiled by Posner and the brief
+release that I put in some time ago.  That should give a fairly good
+background on the show.  Then you can dive in on the rest.
+
+     Is it my imagination, or have we added a LOT of new folks in the last few
+weeks?  If so, I'm curious to know what brought y'all here.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 22 1992
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+     Re: message volume...I usually log on about twice a day, and each time
+I've done that the last week or so, there's been 55-65 new messages each time,
+which means between 110 and 130 messages a day, which is rather
+astonishing...and definitely up.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 25 1992
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+     BTW, I spoke today with the promotions people at KBHK San Francisco about
+the B5/DS9 spots, and what they explained is that they have linked all of
+their shows (sf) in one trailer as well as doing individual spots.  In one of
+them, they go from Kung Fu to Time Trax to B5 to DS9.  So it's not a question
+of using B5 material to promote DS9, simply that they appear in the same spot.
+She's going to check their spots just to verify, but that's the explanation.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1992
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+     Definitely more discussion here than on the other CiStem.  Largely, I
+think, because it's easier to keep track of discussions here, and the messages
+don't scroll off.  Discussion there is fairly sporadic and limited.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 28 1992
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+     Eeeek!  Phil...you mean I didn't get back to you?  I coulda SWORE I did!
+Eeeek!  Yes, Phil, please, by all means, the file is approved.  My apologies.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     (the grinding of teeth like tectonic plates)...there is no "Bob" in the
+show, not nohow, not noway, that was a background prosthetic critter that the
+E! folks grabbed and used to intro their piece.  It's got nothing to do with
+our show.
+
+     (I'm calm, calm, perfectly calm....)
+
+     Re: the photo...it's amazing how many people tell me, "You know, you look
+JUST LIKE so-and-so."  Just one of those faces, I guess.  Thankfully very few
+people to whom I've been compared have elected to sue....
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1992
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+     Yeah, thanks, if you could tape it and send it, that'd be great.  I spoke
+to the promotions people, and they assured me it's separated out; so if you
+could send it along, that'd be great, thanks.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1992
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+     The TV Guide writer saw the pilot, as well as the other pilots, so that's
+how that happened.  And you'll note how they approach SF; they want the slang,
+they want to know who the Bad Guys and the Good Guys are, and feel no
+compunction at all about giving away the ending.  Imagine if the shows were
+mystery, what the reaction would be.  SF is treated and viewed differently.
+
+     And re: the date for new shows given in the CFQ article, that ain't
+accurate.  Fact is, as I've noted before, we can be filming new shows within 8
+weeks of getting the word.  If the response on airing is high enough, and with
+other circumstances with the network itself dealt with we could be on the air
+by the end of this summer.  And that remains a very likely possibility.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Don't know who's doing the sfx on Rangers.  I know they've gone through
+several different teams, but that's about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 31 1992
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+     Sue...yeah, there's a lot of traffic here.  Given the usual ratio of
+posted messages to lurkers, there are now probably (and this is just a
+personal guess) 1800 to 2000 people hanging around these days in this
+category.  It might go higher than that, but I'm being conservative, based on
+what's standard in terms of posters/non-posters ratios.
+
+     Re: the CNN piece, it's probably the interview they conducted the last
+day of filming.  There we were, trying desperately to finish the movie, and
+the same day descend the camera crews from CNN, E!, Warners and some other
+places.  It was a *madhouse*.
+
+     BTW, I hear that the music on That Other Show sounds rather like ours.
+
+     I have to make a mental note to go back and re-read the David and Goliath
+story....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I was at a party today at Pat Tallman's place, along with some other B5
+cast members, and we screened some of the pilot for the guests who hadn't seen
+anything before (to considerable ooohs and aaahs), and on the way home, my
+thoughts turned to this forum, as they often tend to.
+
+     I often get asked what it's like to do this show and see the result; the
+reaction tonight got me thinking about the Old Timers here on the B5
+discussion, the ones who've been here over a year now, and those who came
+later, who've seen this go from the secret That Which Cannot Be Discussed
+(remember that one?) to first word of shooting, the countdown to photography,
+the daily reports from the set, the discussion of the characters and the
+world...to now a point where you're finally seeing the result on commercials
+and promos and will shortly be seeing the finished product (and, of course,
+the number of you who have already seen most of the finished product)...and I
+guess I was wondering what it's like from YOUR perspective...?
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The story of Babylon 5 will echo the history of the original Babylon.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     I've just gone through the last 24 messages, and I very much want to
+thank you for the responses and the compliments; that honest-to-god wasn't
+what I was going for when I asked the question, it wasn't "fishing."  See, to
+me, because you all *have* been a part of the process of Babylon 5 _ some in
+bigger ways than you might expect _ there should indeed be some sense of
+participation and proprietariness (is that a word?).  And mainly, I just
+wanted to know if that came through, if you were feeling as I did as the thing
+unfolds.  Because that's important.
+
+     Equally important, for me, is that this whole discussion stand as a kind
+of textbook in terms of how a show gets made, to give those who'd like to get
+into the Biz more fully understand what's involved.  And if, when one sees _
+say _ a shot from outside going into the station, one knows now what's
+involved, how the EFX were done, what headaches are behind it, then I think
+that's a positive thing.
+
+     Anyway...I'm blathering.  Many thanks for the warm thoughts; they were an
+unexpected bonus to the day.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+     Will, jeez, that's amazing...you should've said something, the B5 family
+would've been there with cards and letters.  How're you doing now?  I know it
+can be a very traumatic experience, even once you're physically 100%.
+
+     One more thing, Will.  Email me your address.
+
+     On other fronts....
+
+     One week from today, we will (or should) be finished with
+sound/music/looping edits and the B5 pilot will be complete.  It's both
+exhilirating to think about that...and there's also that post partum
+depression that hits whenever I finish a big project, a novel, or an episode
+of a series.  In my head, all I can play over are the things we should've or
+could've done to make it even better...the scenes we should have trimmed, the
+scenes we should've dropped back in again, THIS angle on a fight instead of
+THAT one...you can play with these things forever.   At some point, you just
+have to let go.
+
+     Then the next phase _ the series _ rests in large measure in your
+hands, in terms of how fast we can get this puppy in gear.
+
+     It's kind of funny, meanwhile...I've gotten a number of private responses
+to stuff I asked here, and one person told me a rather remarkable story,
+alongside Will's...without naming names, he'd taken it upon himself to
+proselytize about the show as much as possible, to tell as many people about
+it as he could.
+
+     Apparently, he was on one system, and saw a young woman on-line, and
+called her into chat, something he was normally to shy EVER to do before.
+ They began talking about the show _ she'd apparently heard a little about
+it, but not much _ and over time they began corresponding, and, in the words
+of the person who sent me the note, "We fell in love with each other."
+They've now met, and it looks like it might get serious indeed.
+
+     Amazing.  (When the person gives me his permission, I'll post the full
+note; he's a little sheepish of her finding out he said anything.)
+
+     I think it's really kind of cool.
+
+     Oh...one last thing.  Several people have inquired privately how to send
+notes or stuff hard-copy.  An address where I can be reached is 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                            jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+     What an amazing group of posts...I'm speechless.  It's gratifying to see
+that the process works, that this medium can be used to such good effect.
+Something that has always been important to me is de-mystifying the process.
+Lee mentioned somewhere uptopic that the on-line stuff has been going on for a
+long time, across various shows, from RGBs and Power through Zone and now to
+this.  To de-mystify writing, Harlan writes in bookstore windows...I do this.
+
+     I just got a private note today (oh, and speaking of notes, just address
+hard-copy mail to my name; it's a private mailing address, not a studio) from
+one fellow who just managed to get a development deal with a studio.  It ain't
+big, but it's a start...and because of the discussion here, and elsewhere over
+the years, he has a better idea of what to expect, and how to prepare.
+
+     This is an extremely tough business to crack.  And the largest part of
+the problem is just getting accurate information.  When I came to LA
+originally, I didn't know squat, and a long time _ a LONG time _ was wasted,
+time I now very much regret losing, because I just didn't fully  or accurately
+understand How Things Worked.  If this process can make the entry easier for
+another writer, or de-mystify what happens behind the screen, then all the
+better.
+
+     And, selfishly, it has been great to get the input, to hear the
+questions, especially those I can't answer...because down the road you just
+KNOW that that question will come up eventually, and better to be hit with it
+now than blindsided later on.  It's a rewarding, fascinating and challenging
+exchange.  I suspect that a LOT of shows would be considerably improved for
+this kind of direct communication.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and re the newsletter...if you ask Christy nice, I'm sure
+she'll send you the back issue.  Tell her I said it was okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     That would be telling....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     "And they were carried off to Babylon...."
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1993
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+     I really don't know how to make an e-mail mailing list, and it would seem
+inappropriate to ask anyone here to go through the hassle of doing it for all
+1800-2000 people here to accommodate the handful with dishes.  Or silverware,
+for that matter.  If someone here would like to be your "Dish Buddy" and send
+you a note when it goes on, that might be one way of doing it.
+
+     Re: kids/robots...the exact phrasing of that has gone through various
+permutations and paraphrasings; the specific line is "No kids or cute robots."
+The latter specifically entails entities such as Twiki (got the spelling right
+this time, thanks to whoever corrected me), who should be run down by a truck
+at the first opportunity.  (In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you
+ever DO see what passes for a cute robot on this show, keep a close eye on it,
+because you'll probably see somebody drop an anvil on it REAL fast.)
+
+     So this allows us to explore the question of robotics, but to do so in a
+fairly serious context.  Because logically, 200+ years in the future there are
+going to be some changes; robotics will be more common, though likely in some
+different form.  (If you've seen the promos or the pilot, you've seen the
+maintenance 'bot that checks out the hull of B5; it has arms, it moves, it's
+independent, it's a robot.  It just doesn't begin its report with "Bida-bida-
+bida.")
+
+     On the topic of kids...it's a deliberate decision to steer clear of that
+part, not because I think it's invalid, but because a) it's been done on
+another show, and its spinoff, rather intensively, and b) it's part of the SF
+stereotype, "We have to have kids because SF is a kid's genre."
+
+     Might there be a story about a family of refugees who come seeking
+sanctuary, or opportunity elsewhere?  Of course.  But any kids in that family
+won't be at the *center* of the story.  And they'll be gone by the end of the
+episode.  It's also a matter of context; absent the scenario just posed, this
+is a place for businessmen, travelers, mappers, traders, diplomats and others,
+it's not a place for kids.  It's also potentially a very DANGEROUS place.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Rumors are exactly that...and as I've indicated, anything that  happens
+of substance _ good, bad or indifferent _ you'll hear it from the source.
+
+     How can PTEN be dead when it hasn't even AIRED yet?  I've hered this same
+rumor from others, and have to say that if Creation is spreading this that
+they are being *highly* irresponsible.  The facts again are these: the first
+night of programming goes on later this month.  B5 airs the following month.
+Based on the ratings for all of the shows, they will then open a second night,
+or modify the first.  And that will determine where (and when) B5 lands.  It's
+a logistical question about when to expand.
+
+     If anyone wanders back in that topic's direction and would like to re-
+post this as an official rebuttal, you're welcome to do so.
+
+     I also hear they're showing the E! piece...guys, if you want to help us,
+there at Creation...don't
+
+                                                                jms
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+     My sense (what there is of it) is that in every show, you have to make
+choices.  What, fundamentally, is the story you are telling?  Who is your
+story about?  Is it for adults, or children?  I don't watch LA Law regularly,
+but I sort of poke my nose in from time to time, and I don't see a lot of
+kid's stories.  One could well go to the producers of that show and say, "Why
+aren't you doing kid stories?" to which the only answer is, "That's not our
+show."
+
+     I already said above that if families come through, there may be kids
+along.  The point of clarification for me is that I don't want to do shows
+with kids at the center.  First to distinguish us from other shows, and second
+because that's not the area that I want to concentrate on just now.  Of course
+people still have kids, and of course some will come through B5; it's where
+one places them in the story that's at issue.
+
+     It's often kinda funny...people say, on the one hand, "Yeah!  Fight them
+studios!  Don't let them tell you the kind of stories you oughta do!" Then,
+"But you've GOTTA do a story with kids!" or "This is the sort of story you
+HAVE to do."
+
+     The only answer to that _ said without sarcasm, honest _ is "Do what I
+did...sell your own show."  I don't mean that in any way harshly, I'm very
+serious about that.  Whether it's a novelist, or a short story author, or a TV
+writer, or a screenwriter, we each of us has to decide fundamentally what it
+is we want to write about it, and define our choices.  Would you call Larry
+Niven and say, "Listen, while you're in the middle of the Mote In God's Eye
+sequel, we need a really good section about kids."  You let the man tell his
+story his way.
+
+     This, for me, is just one of those areas on which I have planted my feet
+and sunk roots clear to the center of the planet.  Now, it's altogether
+possible that some day long down the road, one story will occur to me, and
+I'll deal with that when and if it happens.  But in the interim...it's vital,
+from my perspective, to make B5 a show by, for and about adults in adult
+relationships; not to invalidate the other stuff, but only as a sense of where
+this show's emphasis is.  It's time to let the studios and the suits and the
+networks know that an SF series can survive without putting in the required
+child or teenager.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Postscript to the preceding: that doesn't mean that I (or any other
+member of the B5 team) shouldn't be challenged on stuff like this.
+Challenges are good.  First, they keep you on your toes.  Second, it makes one
+verbalize why one has taken a certain stance, and it's at that point that
+weaknesses and fallacies in the argument become apparent.  "The unexamined
+life" and all that.  As I've noted before, sometimes the only way to get
+pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
+
+     I love a good philosophical knock-down-drag-out.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other fronts...
+
+     I will tell you the truest thing I have learned about television in the
+process of making the B5 pilot.  That quality is rare is not really
+remarkable; what's remarkable is that it gets done at ALL.  Any show,
+regardless of quality.  There are millions of details, the tiniest things that
+require constant shepherding.  You're in the midst of doing one thing and
+somebody calls involved with another part of the show and says, "Look, we've
+got some question about whether the doors should go SHOOP! or BLOOP!, George
+thinks SHOOP, and we think he's right...unless you'd rather come listen to
+them youreself."  And it's very easy to say, "Okay, just take care of it,"
+then find yourself sitting there a month later and saying, "Damn, why did we
+end up with a SHOOP! effect?"
+
+     It's physically impossible to be in every place at all times, and you
+particularly don't want to be in a position where you start giving your people
+less room to play and be independent.  There are just so many details that
+it's very easy to say, "Okay, fine, deal with it," or to not bother with
+something, that it becomes quickly apparent why it's so hard to find real
+quality out there.  That kind of attention is a major pain in the butt.  When
+you see it from this side, you're just amazed  that it gets done at ALL.
+
+     Just a thought for the day...
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested (all four of you), the very last
+episode I wrote for this season's "Murder, She Wrote" will air this coming
+Sunday.  I haven't seen anything on it _ no dailies, no rough cuts _ so I
+have no idea how it came out, though I *hear* it came out well.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     RE: cliffhangers...not between episodes, certainly.  Between seasons,
+it's...hard to explain.  There are, or will be *changes* that happen from one
+season to another (as planned), specific events that take place that should
+bring one up short...but "cliffhanger" in the sense of leaving some guy
+hanging from a string over a lake of fire...no, no plans for such at this
+time.
+
+     RE: kids...boy, that one sure hit a nerve on both sides, didn't it?
+That's good.  An argument like this is what a show or story should do, get
+people discussing the issues.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other areas....
+
+                             ****WOW****
+
+     I was in the editing bay today during the pre-dub of B5 (which I'll
+explain more , which btw has a nifty huge projection screen, twelve or fifteen
+feet across, so I got to see some of the show as if at a theater...plays
+pretty well.
+
+     Anyway...what a pre-dub is, is this: those who saw the earlier version of
+the pilot will remember, for instance, the scenes in the main corridor of the
+station (well, one of them, anyway).  You have Sinclair and Garibaldi talking.
+It's an un-mixed scene...just as filmed, there are just two guys talking.  All
+the rest of the set is silent.
+
+     But now...NOW...you're in the editing bay, and now you add in the
+background voices, human and alien...mechanical sounds nearby...an intercom
+voice advertising station services...then layer in the music, and suddenly
+it's a MOVIE!  Someone said that sound is half of a movie, and you forget that
+until it hits you in the face.
+
+     The pre-dub is where you layer in the voice tracks (original, from the
+production; adr (automatic dialogue replacement) for lines that were not
+sufficiently audible or need to be looped; incidental dialogue  (computers,
+background characters) and walla (general crowd sounds).  You decide how much
+of any of these is too much, how much more you need, what the balance is...if
+you need to use the surround capability to put this voice HERE or THERE....
+
+     Then we previewed some scenes with music, and did a little of the same
+there (we'll do more during the final mix Thursday through Tuesday).   For
+instance...most music cues are anywhere from a few seconds long to maybe a
+minute or more.  Ours tend to be longish...the longest is a cue that lasts 7.5
+minutes, and goes inside the station, outside the station, to different
+*parts* of the station, and the music continues throughout.  We figured that
+we needed to better differentiate the sound inside vs. outside the
+station...so in the music cue, we drop the electric guitar out of the mix for
+the inside scenes, and put it back in for the outside scenes, for instance.
+
+     The result, basically, being that it becomes a *M*O*V*I*E* for the first
+time.  And boy, it cooks, lemme tell you.  There are moments of absolute and
+inutterable self-doubt in a project like this, especially when paired with the
+monumental press machine from elsewhere which is doing everything possible to
+bury us in the interests of preserving an economic monopoly and critics who
+figure we're a clone of another show.   But then you turn around and see
+something like this, and you know it's going to work...and it really helps.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Ah, except, Gary, for the reason I picked that particular metaphor; this
+ain't Sudden Death, as with football.
+
+     This one's going to the judges at the end of the round, and the case will
+be decided...win, lose or draw...on the merits of the performance in the ring,
+not on hype (on either side), not on good feelings, but on the quality of the
+work, which is as it should be.  Only thing I've ever asked at any point in my
+life is a fair fight on a level playing field.  Then let things fall as they
+may.
+
+     And as for the judges...look in the mirror.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Well...it's not walking distance, that's for sure....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     A "religious/home shopping" network?  Pieces of the One True Cross on
+sale, 35% off?  Some guy dressed as Moses suggesting that "We'll part the Red
+Sea to give you the best price anywhere on our products"...?
+
+     Thanks re: the photo.  I generally do *not* photograph well at all.
+They get one head *in* focus, the other's out of focus, it takes forever to
+airbrush out the horns, and the tail I don't even want to talk about.   I had
+to finally have some b&w's professionally done (by a woman who concluded that
+the only way to make me loosen up in front of a camera was to dangle toys in
+front of my face, just like she does with 5-year-olds) just to have SOMEthing
+to give out.
+
+     Well, I suppose we all have our cross to bear.  (Now marked down 20%,
+move fast, we only have 5,000 left in inventory.)
+
+     Oh...and Kosh sorta walks/glides.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     To some degree, yeah, I can't say a *lot* about this, but in general,
+yes, these are all areas that we plan on exploring.  The economics of trade,
+the effects of the war, all of this.  Again, what we're striving for in B5 is
+to always ask the next question.  Like, "Who pays for B5?"  That's a question
+you don't usually run into in SF show...who foots the bill for all these
+starships running around the galaxy?  With 4 other Babylon stations decimated
+(three before becoming operational, one after), the Earth Alliance skimped on
+the current version, rather like the Shuttle.   They want to see if it will
+last before sinking vast amounts of money into it.  Which is why, in one hour-
+script finished already, there's a reference made to giving some visiting
+Centauri businessmen the Grand Tour in hopes of getting some investment from
+them in B5 to counter the costs absorbed by the EA.
+
+     Economics and the like are things you can happily ignore if your show has
+nothing to do with the real world.
+
+                                                        jms
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+     Insofar as I know, B5 airs the last week in February; January 20 is when
+the network overall goes on line.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Yes, that's pretty close to being correct.  We're in the very comfortable
+position of knowing what 50% to 75% of every season's episodes are going to
+be, so you can, for instance, go to a writer on the level of a DC Fontana, for
+instance, and say, "Here, this is the story where X happens.  We need to see
+the following elements introduced in this episode.  Outside of that, you're
+pretty much on your own."  Then you also leave room for outside ideas to
+become episodes as well, and let the writers pitch ideas you may never have
+come up with alone.  One makes sense AND fits within the universe that's
+established, you buy it.
+
+     Nine times out of 10, when you see a lot of names  script done
+consistently, what you have is a situation where they don't really have a firm
+grasp on where they're going.  The producers buy a notion or an idea, they
+then take it in-house, it goes through one draft, that writer can't make it
+work, so they go to another in-house writer, it sits on a shelf after that,
+then finally goes back to the other writer, and finally gets yanked out of
+cold storage 5 days before prep and hurriedly put into production when another
+script falls out.  That's generally what happens.
+
+     As for the "go" on B5, that will come with reaction to the whole PTN
+arrangement.  The greater the ratings, the better the reaction, the faster we
+get into production.  Which is why it's *very* important that if you like the
+show, you write to your local station and Warners to tell them so.  It will
+not only help move things along faster, but will give us more clout in doing
+Our Own Thing without changes.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Many thanks for the offers.  I'll post the full Warners address a little
+closer to the scheduled airdate.  May also provide the fax number, since
+that's easier for many who are modemed into services like GEnie.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, there will eventually be a B5 tech manual, which I believe Ron
+Thornton will supervise.
+
+     Re: telling stations what you think if you've seen the pilot...that's
+something I really hadn't thought about.  On the merits of about ten seconds
+worth of thought, it looks like a good idea.  So yeah...if anyone who's seen a
+preview of B5 (the whole thing) wants to tell your local station that you
+liked it, feel free.  The more heat the better.
+
+     By gosh, the ideas that come up in a place like this....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     It ain't that they think B5 is a risk.  The situation is simply this:
+they've booked up the first night of the network with two series.   That's
+what they have room for.  Question now is, do they open up a second night, for
+which B5 would be the anchor, or do they replace one of the other shows should
+one of them not perform to expected levels (which is the risk on any network)?
+They won't have the information to make that decision until B5 *and* the other
+shows hit the air.
+
+     That's really the full extent of it.
+
+     Re: music and sound...the music is finished.  About 50 minutes worth,
+sections of which are interpolated and cycled through various portions of the
+movie.  Which for TV is a *lot*, by the way; in final form, it gives you
+almost wall-to-wall music.  (An average TV movie gets maybe 30 minutes worth.)
+I've heard most of the sound effects, and we're now in the process of a)
+finishing the looping, and b) locking down the sound EFX.  We do the final mix-
+down starting January 4 and ending January 8.
+
+     On January 11, I will have two copies of the final, complete B5 movie in
+my hot little hands.  On SVHS.  One for home, one for the archives.  In full
+surround sound.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     We're trying several approaches to the sound of the weapons; some of them
+incorporate the powering-up/air burn aspect.  We'll see which work best.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     It's not a big deal if you're just a viewer.  If it's your show, which
+you've nursed and watched over and hoped for and fought for over five long and
+grueling years...it's a big deal.
+
+     Re: ownership...yes, the show is actually *owned* by Warners under the
+terms of the contract, which is standard.  (Which is why you see, on old ST
+and new TNG stuff, copyright by Paramount, not by Roddenberry.)  I have some
+separation of rights in very specific areas.
+
+     Re: sound...yes again, it's in full surround sound, so if your local
+station handles surround, you've got it made.  And do crank it up; I've heard
+sections of it, and it works *real* nice.  (There's this little black box
+we've adapted from fighter plane audio that, for the series, may let us
+*localize* the individual sounds in a 3-D fashion, but we'll have to see if we
+can make the technology downward-compatible first.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     There's a sign in the docking bay/customs area of B5 which makes it clear
+to visitors that B5 operates on Earth Standard time (or Earth Median time, or
+somesuch, I forget the exact wording).  Just to give it some sense of order.
+
+     Re: changing costumes...that's the funny part.  See, every one of the
+costumes was made to come apart, to be recombined in various ways.   Our
+problem was the cast, who loved the ensemble look of each item, and insisted
+on wearing the whole thing.  Take Londo, for instance...his outfit came with
+the grand coat (his one really good coat), three shirts, three vests, two
+pants, a cape and different boots.  But he wanted to wear the coat at all
+times, and butoned up...so you can't really SEE the change in clothes.  The B5
+personnel (Sinclair, Garibaldi, others) also kept wearing their clothes, which
+were made to be opened, take the jacket off, relax...completely closed 99% of
+the time.
+
+     This will be changed.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I honestly don't know what the individual syndex rules will be as they
+apply to various stations.  Your best bet there is to go straight to the
+source...the station itself.
+
+     As for the details of sound and sound effects...maybe the "average
+viewer" (whatever the heck *that* is) will or won't notice, but *I* will know
+it's there.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Ron: yes!  That's the black-box I was talking about.  Thanks for the
+clarification.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Which convention?
+
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+     Joey: no comment.  (You want I should blow the surprise?)
+
+     Re: comments here...if I found it annoying, I wouldn't be here.
+
+     If this were just about flak, about hyping a series, what you'd get would
+be what you got when they used other systems to plug "Sneakers," for
+instance...a quick or several-month blitzkrieg, a one-way (for the most part)
+outflow of information, and then it stops.
+
+     For me, the best part of writing is *dialogue*.  I'm fascinated by
+dialogue...interpersonal, political, social, electronic, you name it.  And for
+the last five years, I've been trying to develop a dialogue with the SF
+communityNot just, "Here's what I'm doing, here's the show, watch it, give us
+ratings, and be quiet," but rather, "Here's what I'm doing...how close is this
+to what you've been wishing someone would do?  What are you tired of?  What do
+you think of this part over here?"  Not so much specific advice, but
+attitudes, sort of getting a sense of the room.
+
+     My feeling is that SF fans are consistently the most abused and taken-
+advantage-of group around.  Especially when it comes to media.   Every six
+months or so, somebody comes in to shill for a new show, they get everyone's
+hopes up, then either walk away if the show is a hit, or flat out lie.  I
+know, I've been in the audience.  And as a result, many SF fans have grown
+understandably cynical about the whole process, they seem now to *expect* to
+be lied to, to expect that it's going to be  same old crap they got before.
+
+     And to me, this process is about changing that perception.
+
+     In most cases of publicizing a show, there is a buffer between the
+creator or head of a show, and the viewers.  There is no buffer in this case;
+if the show fails, I'm right out here with a "Kick Me" sign on my back.  If it
+works, I convey that back to the other creative people involved.  From
+standard Hollywood perceptions, that is a very risky and dangerous thing to
+do.  For me...it's dialogue.
+
+     SF fans have always stood by their shows and been loyal, often to be
+repaid by being shilled and hyped and thought of as (as one studio person put
+it) vegetables witbooks...as long as they keep buying the products, the
+merchandising, and stay quiet, that's fine.
+
+     I would like this process to be part of a rapproachment, to be more open
+and to encourage a two-way conversation.  That conversation was had during the
+years this show was waiting to spring forth, and will contin afterward.  (When
+I did the LosCon presentation, during the Q&A following, one fellow asked if
+this would stop once the show got on the air, once we had gotten what we
+wanted: ratings.  And that has been the case in the past.  For as long as I
+can type and plug into a modem, that will not be the case here.)
+
+     Like any dialogue, there are moments of conflict and frustration, and
+moments of revelation.  So on all levels, this has been a fascinating and
+intriguing conversation.  I have benefitted from it, and enjoy it despite the
+occasional hassles, and look forward to doing so in future, as long as the
+audience will want to continue the dialogue.
+
+     I hope that somewhere in that flurry of words I've answered your
+question.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 20 1992
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+     For some reason, some letters got lost from my message preceding; the
+abusive studio phrase should be "vegetables with pocketbooks."  It's an ugly
+thought indicative of the ways SF fans are generally taken for granted.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 21 1992
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+     I guess the one way in which the feedback has been the most useful has
+been in asking questions that I hadn't thought of.  When you put a show like
+this together, you try to second-guess problems or questions down the road.
+What's been fun here is that I've often been blind-sided by questions that I'd
+never considered.  I then have to find an answer to those questions, which
+then sticks.  There have been questions of sound in space, kinds of weapons
+technologies, that sort of thing.  One person asked about the jump-gates, and
+how they got there, which led me to formulate the idea that big ships
+(cruisers) are big and powerful enough to form their own entry point into
+hyperspace, while smaller ships have to rely on jump-points...so it's the job
+of some of the bigger ships to leave jump-points behind them like bread
+crumbs, enabling us to move further out into space.
+
+     In other words...I come up with pertinent information by being asked a
+lot of impertinent questions.  Which is as it should be.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 23 1992
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+     Oh.
+
+     <blink, blink>
+
+     Emily Letilla voice: "Never mind."
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Don't know about the ad content, since I haven't seen it yet, but hope to
+soon.  (Producer-types are always the last to know.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     So far, the show has struck well with both SF fans and non-SF fans, which
+bodes well.  We deliberately exposed the show to people who don't much care
+for the genre, and they were very much taken.
+
+     BTW, about 1/2 the ads for the B5 pilot are now sold, a fair amount of
+time early.  The network folks figured if they had half of the ads sold by mid-
+January, given the economy and how these things go, especially with new
+programs, they'd be doing good.  To be at this point over two weeks early is a
+very positive sign.
+
+     As I write this, a 50 minute cassette is playing here in my office, the
+soundtrack for Babylon 5.  I got a copy of the full soundtrack to a) verify
+that some changes we'd requested were made (they were), and b) to see how the
+soundtrack stood up just on its own terms.  It's very nice stuff.  Stewart
+played with a variety of things, including sampling voices to use in some
+scenes, played almost like an angelic chorus.
+
+     In the next 2 weeks, we will be essentially finished with all of the post-
+production on the movie...1 year and 2 months from when I first announced the
+project here on GEnie.  What a ride....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+      Yep, Stewart's on-line for the series as well.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 25 1992
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+     Well, in the interim a friend who's running a show has asked me to come
+in and help out for a little while (wrote a 21 page outline overnight the day
+after I said yes to help meet the production crunch), and I've started my
+third novel, which is actually good timing.  For me, the first 100-200 pages
+of a novel are the hardest; after that, it's a lot easier.   My hope is to
+have some or all of that part done by the time we really get going seriously
+on B5 the series, so that I can continue at a reduced speed from that point on
+until the book is finished.  (I figure it'll take about a year, a year and a
+half to write the book, which I expect will be about 1,200 to 1,500 pages in
+length.)  If I were to wait until B5 began in earnest to start writing the
+novel, it'd never get past the first few chapters because of the other
+pressures.  This is my one window of opportunity to start the thing.
+
+     So that's the main work now: B5 post, the new show, the novel, doing my
+BBSing...oh, yeah, and I've started a few short stories, and obviously will
+continue to do interviews and other promotional work for B5, as well as
+developing the long-term 10-hour project I mentioned a while before, which I
+should hear more about in the next few weeks.  I've been asked to write a
+network pilot, which is kind of interesting, and may tackle that  as well,
+just to see if I can do it.
+
+     Other than that, it's real slow right now.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1992
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+     Slow in the sense that I generally have 1-3 more projects going at any
+given moment than is the case just now, but that's mainly due to the holidays,
+and passing on some other gigs.  It's just that I get twitchy if I'm not
+working on something at all times.  I *write*.  It's what I do.  Ten hours a
+day, seven days a week, all year round excluding  Christmas eve (for my
+spousal overunit's sake, mainly), New Year's, and my birthday.  If I stopped,
+I'd go bananas.
+
+     Stephen: the network pilot is mainstream, and the 10-hour project
+is...not.  Which is all I'd prefer to say about it now until we get some firm
+news.
+
+     Generally speaking, I've been very fortunate in that I've never been
+"typed" as one kind of writer or another; I've done comedy, horror, science
+fiction, cop shows, fantasy, mystery, mainstream, originals, adaptations,
+animation, live action, you name it, I've probably written it.  It helps a lot
+the way the business is going these days to be able to show up wearing
+whatever color hat is required for the job.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     I don't think there is a bibliography contained in any message here, or
+for that matter, anywhere.  It would be just a major pain in the butt to
+compile...there's been a lot of published/produced work, and it's scattered
+all over the place.  I'm not even sure if it's 100% do-able, since there are
+copies of things I've lost or misplaced over the years (I've had something
+like 500 articles published, as one example, and I've always tried to get and
+keep copies of them, but I know there are some holes in the collection where
+copies didn't come through.)
+
+     Let's deal with B5 first, meanwhile, before we even begin talkilng (or
+talking) about what follows.
+
+     Re: a vacation...I've taken exactly two in my whole life.  Both entailed
+trips to England, the latter with a few weeks also spent in Ireland.  Both
+times I promised to leave the writing at home.  And both times I ended up
+secretly purchasing small spiral-bound notebooks and scribbling down ideas and
+stories...I outlined sections of my second novel in bathroomverunit wouldn't
+know I was writing when I said I wouldn't, and I outlined a full length (2
+act) play while I was over in Ireland (and, alas, haven't been able to find
+the notes since returning; I'm sure it's around here somewhere).
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1992
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+     The last five years, eh?      
+
+     oboy....
+
+     Let's see...that's 30 columns plus maybe 7-10 major articles for Writer's
+Digest...okay...1987 would include POWER, which means about 12 episodes on
+that (counting stories, and it *may* be higher than that, I'm doing this from
+memory)...12 total Twilight Zone episodes...4 or 5 episodes of Jake and the
+Fatman (plus 1 co-written 2-hour MOW)...the Jekyll and Hyde adaptation for
+Showtime's Nightmare Classics show (which earned Ace and Writers Guild
+nominations for writing)...4 or 5 episodes of the Ghostbusters animated
+series, plus the musical prime-time special... seven episodes of Murder, She
+Wrote...an episode of CBS Storybreak ("The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek,"
+adaptation, which to this day I've never seen)....
+
+     I think that's *most* of the produced stuff, though I'm pretty sure I'm
+missing a few items (oh, yeah...and Babylon 5, natch).
+
+     On the unproduced side, we've got the 4-hour V miniseries, a feature film
+written for Ivan Reitman, another feature written for London Films, another 4
+or 5 unproduced Jake and Murder episodes, another Nightmare Classics
+adaptation for Showtime, several unproduced pilots (live action and animation)
+for various studios...6 scripts, 4 outlines and 10 premises written to put
+together an anthology series which didn't fly...five or six spec feature
+screenplays, and some other stuff, again this is all off the top of my head.
+
+     Then there have been articles in the late lamented L.A. Herald Examiner,
+the L.A. Times, cover stories for the L.A. Reader, articles appearing in Video
+Review and Penthouse...oh, yeah, and a dozen or more articles about Night
+Gallery appearing in Twilight Zone Magazine ("A Viewer's Guide to Rod
+Serling's Night Gallery") co-written with my spousal overunit...short stories
+in Amazing Stories, Shadows 6, Midnight Graffiti, Pulphouse....
+
+     Then there have been the two novels, Demon Night and Othersyde, both from
+Dutton, and the Twilight Zone anthology for which I adapted my TV scripts into
+short stories....oh!  And comic books!  How could I forget that?  One issue of
+the Star Trek book, "Worldsinger," an issue of Teen Titans Spotlight ("Face to
+Face to Face to Face," pitting Cyborg against Two Face), and an issue of the
+Twilight Zone comic.  Jeez, I almost forgot that stuff.
+
+     And for almost all of those 5 years I was host of the weekly radio talk
+show, Hour 25 (first alone, then with a cohost, then with a cohost and
+alternating weeks the last year or two), 2 hours of talk with SF writers,
+actors and directors, among others.  Somewhere in there, along with the WGA
+and Ace nominations, I picked up nominations for the Bram Stoker Award for
+Demon Night, and for a Gemini Award (the Canadian equivilent of an Emmy)
+nomination for an episode of Power.
+
+     That's a partial list of the last 5 years.  I've missed a lot, but that's
+probably the major stuff, in any event.  (Under the category of "unproduced,"
+I also adapted Elfquest to a series for CBS, along with a co-writer, but can't
+just now remember if that was 87 or 86.)  If anything else comes to mind, I'll
+drop it in later.
+
+     But that's really as specific as I can be without dragging out boxes and
+other stuff...I hardly remember titles anymore, or which month which articles
+appeared where.  Eventually I'm going to have to get someone in here to
+straighten it all out and put it all in order.  Because there's literally
+stuff that I've done that I've *completely* forgotten about; I'll be rummaging
+through tapes or boxes of manuscripts and come across something I'd utterly
+forgotten about.  Senility, I suppose....
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     Oh, yeah...as it turns out, that was 11 original scripts and 5-6
+collaborations on Power for a total of 16 episodes.  And one of my GB episodes
+was the one that got the show nominated for an Emmy for best animated series.
+
+
+     I also forgot the movie developed for Shelley Duvall, another feature
+screenplay for DIC (unproduced), also in the unproduced category an animated
+series for ABC of my own creation, plus an early development (bible and two
+scripts) for a Batman series for the same network.
+
+     That's the major stuff.
+
+     I think....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Actually, my percentage of produce to unproduced, and published to
+unpublished, is rather high in favor of the former in each category.  I've
+been quite fortunate that way.  The main unproduced stuff comes under the
+category of screenplays, and that's par for the course.  Only about 1 out of
+100 scripts ever gets NEAR production.  I have friends who've been writing
+nothing BUT screenplays, all on assignment, all unproduced.  They get very
+frustrated after a while.  That's one of the benefits of working in
+television, the odds are better.  During the 91-92 season of MURDER, for
+instance, I wrote six scripts, of which 5 were shot.
+
+     One thing that didn't occur to me to mention is the fact that during
+these five years I've been on staff (story editor/producer) on five and a half
+projects.  My main responsibility when on staff is to do what I refer to as
+"dialog-ectomies," where the structure is fine on a freelance script, but the
+dialog just isn't cutting it.  So I go through and replace all the dialogue,
+leaving the structure intact.  These are completely new scripts in that sense;
+they're rewrites from page one through Fade Out.
+
+     If I were to have arbitrated any of those scripts (attempted to put my
+name on them as co-writer, for which you only have to show that you've
+contributed 50% of the material), there'd be another 20 or 30 scripts out
+there with my name on them.  But I strongly don't believe in doing that.
+There's a lot of credit poaching in this town, and it hurts the freelancer.
+ When I'm on staff, I'm getting a salary in addition to script fees, while the
+freelancer only has script fees in addition to residuals, and if a producer or
+story editor puts his or her name on the script, that cuts the residuals by
+half.  I don't think that's right.  Out of something like 200 scripts that
+I've edited, I think I've put my name on about 5, each under very specific or
+unusual conditions.
+
+     It's tough enough for writers to make a living in this town without
+contributing to picking their pockets.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Haven't written any SF novels.  When I work in prose, I tend to favor
+dark fantasy.  Which is the same genre as the new novel I'm now working on.  I
+just have a preference for contemporary dark fantasy in my reading _ Jonathan
+Carroll, and many of the South American writers of "magic realism" _ so
+that's what I tend to write, in prose.
+
+     Haven't yet seen any of the promos on 13, but I've heard from others who
+have seen them.  (Including the preceding note from Prof Mark.) I'm looking
+for this stuff as eagerly as everybody else.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+
+     The most recent M,SW that I wrote was a ghost story set in Ireland, which
+aired about a month or so ago, maybe two.  The last one that I wrote for the
+current season will air sometime this month, I believe; it's about an old
+friend of Seth's, an actor, who returns to Cabot Cove to begin his theatrical
+career again.  I think Peter Donat is the guest star; it was shot after I'd
+left M,SW, so I have *no* idea how it turned out.  The title of the episode is
+"Final Curtain," apt since it was my last for this season.
+
+     The pay differential between live-action and animation is QUITE
+substantial, starting with the fact that there are no residuals in animation.
+If I got residuals on all the animation I've written, I could retire tomorrow.
+Also, there's no one set fee in animation, whereas the fees in live-action are
+mandated by the WGA.  Animation scripts can pay as little as $1500 or $3000,
+and again, no residuals.  My going price is $6,000 to $10,000 per script in
+animation.  (That's half-hour.)  The price for a one-hour network show is
+about $20,000 and with residuals, that can add up fast (the second rerun on a
+network brings in about  another $13,000, and it scales down bit by bit from
+there).
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1992
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+     It definitely does.  And that's the trap.  You come here to make it, but
+it costs so much to stay that it eats away at anything you get, so you're
+stuck on the treadmill.
+
+     Rod Serling talked about that in his script for "The Velvet Alley," where
+someone's talking to a TV writer, new in town, and explaining how It All
+Works.  Paraphrasing: "They pay you astonishing amounts of money for what you
+do...then gradually your standard of living goes up, and up, and up...until
+finally you HAVE to have that level of income just to get by, day by day...and
+then they threaten to take it away unless you behave.
+ And then, *then* they own you."
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+     The script to the V mini is in my computer, and there aren't many copies
+floating around.  At this point, I'd prefer to keep it that way.
+
+     As for not being dead from exhaustion...I dunno...it's just what I do.  I
+don't really give it much thought (though the last week or so of actual
+filming on B5 was pretty awful, from a physical standpoint; damn near did me
+in).
+
+                                                               jms
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+     It may well be adapted to a novel down the road, either by me or by
+somebody else.  It ain't a bad story.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1992
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+
+     How do I stay sitting down that long, you ask?
+
+     You ever own a staple-gun....?
+
+     Re: the "Stegosaurus" adaptation...yeah, it was fun, and based on a fun
+character, although the network didn't actually want the specific story,
+something new using it.  So I got to play in that world a little.   My
+favorite moment, a scene I came up with: the steg is always sneaking up on
+this one kid, and finally the kid's reacion is how can somethilng big sneak up
+on anyone?  The steg thought about it a second, shrugged (as best a steg CAN
+shrug), and said, "You watch rabbits for a hundred thousand years...you
+learn."
+
+     Oh...re: TV Guide...they indicated that B5 came first, not the other way
+around.  It's Newsweek that got it backwards.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Really?  Have to remember to set the VCR....
+
+                                                        jms
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+    
+
+                  I *HATE* being statesmanlike....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     When someone asks, "What kinds of specific things have you gotten out of
+this interaction?" I think I will point to the question just uptopic about
+food.  I've given this a *fair* amount of thought, mainly in the sense that
+there are hydroponic gardens (referred to in the script) and other areas for
+oxygen reclamation, I'd figured that there were also areas where alien-
+environment food was to be raised, and finally a third area where food that is
+simply impractical to grow on B5 would be synthesized.  But the question opens
+up additional areas that I haven't given that much thought to...and many
+possibilities.
+
+     Let me (so to speak) stew on this and get back to you.
+
+     Thanks for yanking my blanket.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Jonathan....please, for my sake, one question at a time...pick one.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     K'wicker (than a speeding bullet?)...I ain't fussy.  My friends just call
+me Joe.  (Usually preceded by, "That Pain In The Ass")
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     The station is owned by the Earth Alliance, and if you're going to be
+staying there, you pay a fee.  Station employees are charged a fee against
+their salaries...which some of them aren't happy about.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+     Dolphins are another area that I haven't gone into in any great degree
+since the odds of any of them showing up at B5 are minimal, for production
+reasons.  Dolphins make for difficult actors, and their agents are even worse.
+
+     The homeless question brings me to a difficult point in the discussion _
+generalities are okay to discuss, Jonathan, but the more specific the
+questions get about plot points of the series, the less I can say.  The five-
+year arc is triple-encrypted in my computer for a *reason*.  And, as much as
+it pains me, I know that printups of this category go to a certain other
+studio...and would rather not give too many specifics for obvious reaons.  I'd
+like us to do them first.  Alas, we're not having this conversation in a
+vacuum.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+
+     Just as with the early days of ocean travel, you would generally have
+three levels of travel: first class, one just below, and down deep below
+decks, those traveling steerage.  A small group can also pool all their
+resources, for instance, charter a ship one-way just far enough as B5, and
+hope to find work or new opportunities on far-away worlds.  When this doesn't
+happen, they linger...sometimes for a long time.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Dave: Bingo!
+
+     And re: genetic moofky-fooky...yes, it's a definite issue, and is
+referenced at least once in the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     BABYLON 5 meets ATTACK OF THE GIANT CRAB MONSTERS, I like it....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Actually just handled this up in topic 1.  Rumors are the bane of science
+fiction...and people at conventions who speak should try and get their facts
+straight first.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     There's been some disagreement over that...I prefer the idea that he's
+uplifted.  (It's between me and the prosthetics design team.)
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     Hey, there's an idea...come up with a totally bogus B5 five-year arc and
+let it get accidentally uploaded and distributed to throw folks off... except
+of course folks might well believe it, which would work against us in the long
+run.  Ah, well....
+
+     Any telekinetics on board Babylon 5?  you ask?
+
+     No.
+
+     At least, not yet.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Pets is okay.  Ah lahkes pets.  Pets be cool.  And cats be coolest.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     There's haze in some scenes where you've got a lot of traffic, and food
+cooking, and braziers, and the like.  The quarters don't have that.
+
+     As it happens, Pat Tallman has pets...two bunnies and two chinchillas.  I
+pointed out to her that she now has both food and clothing concerns taken care
+of.  She's still not speaking to me.
+
+     Saw the DS9 pilot tonight.
+
+     Heh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Katherine: oh, snarf you....
+
+     Bear: a 16 pound cat?  Wow...some good eatin' there....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Eric...imagine two boxers in the ring, each bloodied and exhausted after
+11 grueling rounds.  It's now the last round.  You've each got one last shot
+in your heart.  Your opponent comes in with a big name, with the sports
+critics approval, with fancy clothes and a twelve million dollar windup.  He
+pulls back and lets you have it with everything he's got.       
+
+     Then you look around...and you're still standing.  And you're thinking
+"THAT was their best shot?"
+
+     Because everything he had was intent on one hard shot to knock you out of
+the ring...speeded training, massive amounts of promotion, just to knock you
+out.
+
+     And you're still standing.  And you smile.
+
+     Because now it's YOUR turn.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I can't remember when I was last this tired.  (Well, that's a lie, it was
+during the last 2 days of filming on B5, but the former made for a better
+opening line.)
+
+     After getting zero sleep (nervous with anticipation, running the pilot
+through my head over and over again to prepare for today), I went in with a
+number of the production people today on the first day of the final
+sound/dialogue/music mix.  Ten straight hours, one half-hour break during
+which we ate at the mixing tables.  Trying different combinations, re-showing
+scenes with slight modifications, over and over and over, until your eyes _
+focused for 10 hours on the same focal distance, blinking against bright
+lights so you can make notes _ start to melt out of your sockets.  And there
+are three more days to go of this....
+
+     But man, this thing is really coming together.  It's exciting to watch it
+happen.  To the question about music...the music in this thing is just
+terrific...dynamic, evocative, moody, exciting...and while it took me a while
+to get it into my head (as with the theme from the Equalizer, which has
+similar resonances), the theme definitely stays with you.
+
+     Along wund editors, Stewart Copeland came by, as well as various of the
+film editors, the cameraman, others...and Richard Compton, our director, was
+also at the helm for the whole ten hours, as was our line producer John
+Copeland (no relation).  People just wanted to come by and see it.
+
+     It's gonna be a hoot, ladies and gentlemen....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I imagine that we'll do some interacting (actors/cgi) as noted, but we
+will also do some actual ship-building.  For instance, in the pilot, when Kosh
+arrives in the docking bay, there's a shot past him into the bay, where you
+can see part of his ship (we actually built a fairly large section of it,
+though only a small part is visible).  I think that shot is in the CFQ
+article.  We also built (and then trashed) a spider transport to match the
+CGI, though again you can't really tell because it's pretty demolished by the
+time the actors get to it.  There will be more of this done down the road.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Rico: both, for different reasons.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Mmmmmm....maybe.  And there are some shots that do so in clearer terms;
+in the council chamber are CGI "recorders," floating devices that record video
+and audio of the proceedings.  They float above the heads of the characters,
+and later one of them goes between two characters as they walk out the door.
+So yeah, there's some, just not on the scale of looking at starships...well,
+except for the scene in the garden, which is CGI....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     I don't think so...there *were* solid models made (which didn't move),
+and CGI versions which *did* move...and I don't think you can tell them apart.
+If anything, the CGI ones look better.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     The sections of CGI shown at Wishcon were part of a non-color corrected
+print, which left it all a little darker and muddier than is now the case.
+Also the projection system muddied some of the shots, which come out much
+sharper on a regular TV.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Combination of air jets and magnetics.
+
+     Would this face lie?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Cost.  And the degree to which they would show up on camera; very often
+the lighting required to illuminate an actor just washes out an LCD screen,
+regardless of quality.  Probably by 2357 they will have some that will stand
+up to that level of lighting, but so far no one's shipped any back for our
+use....
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+
+     Wait, I thought we *did* shoot this show at 30 fps.  I'm confused....
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     They're not transferred, they're kept on video.  Since the stations want
+deliver either on 3/4" or via sat-link, there's no need for the thing to be on
+film.
+
+     Re: the recorders...one should broaden one's scope of SF beyond the
+latest television shows.  Orbs, recorders, transcribers, floating TV cameras,
+on and on, they have all had a long history in SF.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Will: I don't think I'm getting through.  Perhaps I wasn't clear.
+(Which is the likely prospect.)
+
+     It's not a case of putting CGI efx on film via paintbox or that sort of
+thing.  In cases of full-CGI only in a shot, the computer generates  each
+frame of the sequence, which is then transferred direct into a laserdisk
+recorder for maximum video quality.  This is then transferred  to videotape.
+It never touches film.
+
+     In the case of mixing CGI with live action, the scene in question is
+digitized, transferred into the computer, and mixed there with the CGI, then
+sent back into the laser disk recorder.  Again, it never touches film.  And we
+deliver the final product on videotape, not film.
+
+     If we end up distributing the film theatrically overseas, at THAT point
+it will all be transferred to film, and the quality, I understand, will be
+terrific.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Actually, you could be right, it could be 1"...sometimes the Voices talk
+to me all at once, and I get confused and fall down....
+
+                                                             jms
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+
+     Yeah, I caught the referenc to Cavorite as well.  Always loved "First Men
+in the Moon," and have it on disk.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+
+     I use Windows a little more than I used to, but overall I suspect (well,
+know, really) that I'm not getting the most bang for my buck because I don't
+understand the mechanics of configuring either Windows or the computer itself.
+I'm sitting here with a killer megasystem, and...the best comparison I can
+think of is an australian aborigine who's found an F-16 figher plane and
+mainly uses it to shelter his sheep and goats under the wings when it
+rains....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I've tended to lean more in the direction of individual computers _
+multi-gigabyte systems small enough to fit on the wrist, which also serve as
+communications systems called Links _ that are generally networked into the
+B5 database/central computer system.  Ninety percent of any information you're
+likely to need you probably already have in the Link; anything additional you
+need, or if you need a direct interface with Babylon Central Computer, that
+can be accomplished with a simple voice command.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Just as a point of clarification, Links are only used by station
+personnel, not visiting aliens, or any visitor, human or otherwise, for whom
+multi-use terminals have been set up in their quarters.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+
+     Basically, I think that there should be something on-screen if there
+NEEDS to be something on-screen.  For instance, in both Sinclair's quaters and
+the briefing room, you'll see monitors on the wall in BG and later used for
+important stuff.  (That should be quarters, not quaters, which is what you
+find on the moon.)  When not *actively in use* they display only the B5 logo,
+sort of a carrier wave.  When a signal comes in from local, you get the BabCom
+logo, then the signal.  When a signal comes in from a ship, or the computer
+provides information, you go right from the B5 symbol straight to the display.
+When it's over, you go back to the static symbol until it's needed again.
+
+     The only real exceptions to this are a) the consoles in the observation
+dome, which are going at all times to monitor incoming and outgoing ships, and
+b) displays in the business areas which show the internal B5 Newscast and
+commercials.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Actually, though his looks seem to imply otherwise, G'Kar is a mammal.
+(Costume designer Catherine Adair decided that the newborn Narns live in a
+pouch in the father's body, and designed the costume with a slight suggestion
+of that, a bit of a sling-look in the lower part.)
+
+     Don't ask, it wasn't my idea....
+
+     Re: G'Kar and Lyta, two things: 1) It's got nothing to do with romance,
+strictly genetic business, and 2) what's not in the CFQ quote from the script
+is the section where G'Kar mentions the need to alter the genetic structure to
+make any offspring possible.  "We still have to merge your genes with our
+own," he says.  Left alone, such mating is about as likely as a fish mating
+with a bicycle to produce a walrus.  But if the person(s) involved were
+willing to go through *major* genetic restructuring, or be cloned and allow
+*that* to be restructured, then it's possible, though still chancy at best.
+Mixed species offspring are nearly unheard of in the B5 universe.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Just to clarify, the pouch is for *after* birth, not before; the newborn
+Narn leaves the mother's body and enters the father's pouch.  (At least,
+that's what Catherine Adair came up with...it ain't canon yet, I haven't
+decided if that's a Good Idea or not.)
+
+     Re: Non-humanoid...bear in mind, you still haven't seen what Kosh is
+inside that suit...others, very non-humanoid, will make their appearances down
+the road...and there's one race that has not yet been heard from, one shadow
+government so secretive its existence is only whispered about, and when *they*
+make their appearance, and you finally see what *they* look like...well, let's
+just say that I've talked at some length with our EFX people, and it'll take
+about 2 years to work out how to do this and make it credible.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 14 1992
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+
+     Well, hmm....I guess I can come out with this now.  As you know, it was
+our plan to go for a very androgynous Delenn _ a male voice (which was to be
+computer/electronically altered), female mannerisms, and a very ambiguous
+makeup.  We've now gone through about every possible electronic alteration,
+and frankly, none of them sound as convincing as I'd like.   Many of them
+sound *okay*, but we've taken a hard and fast position on this show that
+"okay" is simply not sufficient.
+
+     So we've decided to leave Delenn female, with the performer's original
+voice intact and unaltered.  Interestingly enough, when the performance was
+shown at Wishcon and LosCon, the audience responded very positively to her
+natural voice, urging that it be left alone.  Which is now what we're going to
+do.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Doesn't change a thing in the arc....
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1992
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+     Nope.  Nothing changes.
+
+     Because Delenn was *always* going to end up female eventually, one way or
+another.  Start male, end up female.  Using the same performer with some
+adjustments to the prosthetics after the change.
+
+     Which is why I haven't commented upon the gender-change stuff being said
+here.  Some of you guessed right.  So instead of waiting a few months and
+making the change mid-season, we start off with Delenn female.  No changes to
+the overall arc.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1992
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+     The consideration I brought to the issue was largely this: when the
+planned male/female shift took place, there should have been substantial
+differences such that the change MADE a difference; if Delenn came out talking
+just the same, sounding the same, then the change becomes trivial.
+ It isn't saying "male voices sound this way," it's s go from A to B, the
+difference should be noticeable."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Yes.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 16 1992
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+
+     We're making up a number of alien languages, and the plan is to use
+multiple terran languages in the series as well, though there wasn't time or
+opportunity to do so in the pilot.  One can only cram so much into a pilot.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1992
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+
+     Garibaldi is a security chief, and not into karate or stuff on that
+order.  Just a good roundhouse blow.
+
+     When I said "cute robots" (which I still stand behind firmly), I was
+referring largely to things like Tweaky from Buck Rodgers.  We will get into
+the question of robotics and artificial intelligence on the show, but I'm
+going to try for a different take on it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     It's hard to know WHAT Jerry's background is...his resume is filled
+with...um...well, stuff like how he belonged to the Dance Company of Harlem,
+and never did...so your guess is about as good as mine.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 20 1992
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+
+     Yeah, we kinda suspected it.  And he told us so right up-front, there was
+actually no intent to fool anybody, it was just all in there to get some
+attention.  What mattered was what came across.  And he came across
+wonderfully in the audition.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+      Actually she's sitting at a table NEXT to someone reading "Universe
+Today."  Well, let's see...John Iacovelli is in the opening montage at the bar
+with another production designer (John's the one in the beard) when the
+narrator mentions "businessmen and travelers"...Christy Marx can be seen, if
+barely, in a couple of casino shots...you can barely make out Mojo in one
+shot...we had a shot of the Spousal Overunit in another, but that was
+cut...running the wheel of fortune is John Stears (in the beard) and Paul
+Bryant (black sash and tux accompanying him)...Ron Thornton can  be seen as
+one of the two homeless people sitting on the floor in the Brown Sector (he's
+on the right)...one of our production assistants is a hooker just visible
+behind them...there are a bunch of others in other casino shots...there's an
+attractive blond woman sitting at a table in the bazaar who's our stunt-
+woman...and that's all I can think of offhand.
+
+     And to the obvious question: no, I'm not in any of the shots.  Neither is
+our director.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Nope.  Not a chance.  Because in large part, I'm telling this story for
+me, to do the show that *I'd* like to see on TV...and if I see me on tv, it
+shatters the illusion.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     They'll let anyone use a modem these days, won't they?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1992
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+
+     Gary...sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.  Twelve stars were all that
+could fit in the available space.
+
+     BUT...you're right in general, however.  There were very few who survived
+the Line, not as few as 12, but less than 100.  So believe me, it IS a big
+deal.  (Which is also why a lot of folks back home are looking askance at
+Sinclair...how could he survive, unconscious, for 24 hours in a ship floating
+through a war zone without being blown out of the sky?)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Paula:
+
+     Yup.  That's absolutely what would happen.  And I ain't saying a WORD
+beyond that.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1992
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+
+     No, physical contact is not required.  Lyta hasn't tried to read
+Sinclair's mind-block because he doesn't know it's there...yet.  Yes, psi
+ability is genetic, and appears in other races.  There are non-Psi Corps
+members who have the ability, and are not licensed and bonded, and the PC
+would very much like to do something about that.
+
+     Psi rating is based on strength of ability.  The general ranking is P1
+through P10.  Psi Cops _ sent to engage and take out rogue telepaths _ are
+P12s.  They don't talk much.  They don't have to.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Curiously, unions and the inner running of the station is something that
+Harlan wants to get into once the series is up and running, so I'll leave that
+to him.
+
+     Re: the other Psi questions...I'll have to pull back because that touches
+on some areas that I want to develop later.  Suffice to say that the questions
+you raise will be answered.  (And no, they're not part of the military...at
+least, not officially....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     The answer to most of the questions preceding is "yes."  Yes to politics,
+yes to divisions, yes to shields, yes to undergrounds.  And beyond that I'm
+getting into areas I can't talk about just now.
+
+     As far as non-Psi Corps telepaths...you have to remember what I said at
+Wishcon: no one is stomping down non-PC telepaths (at least, not officially).
+Telepaths are recruited for the PC, and the attraction there is that your
+abilities will be honed, and you will be given what amounts to permanent job
+security: you're bonded, you can testify as an unimpeachable witness in court,
+you function as a sort of mental Notary Public, there are an awful lot of
+benefits, plus working with others of your kind.
+
+     If you're a non-PC telepath, you do what you want.  IF you are found to
+have violated someone's privacy and stolen information (and this is hard to
+prove on the best of days), then there are laws under which you may be
+charged.  When you license something like telepathy, there have to be laws on
+privacy.ere diLaws on electronic eavesdropping didn't exist before the devices
+themselves came into existence; once we knew they were there, we legislated.
+
+     Is this at times unfair to telepaths?  Absolutely.  And this is one thing
+that I have to hammer at hardest...this is not the perfect, benign Federation
+style government.  It's flawed, and may not at all times be operating in the
+best interests of its citizens.  There are wheels within wheels, agencies
+within agencies.  After 25 years of Federation-think, people say, "Well, why
+would they do this to this group of people, that's not right."  No, it's not.
+Ours is a different universe.  And this will lead to pressure cooker
+situations.  And conflict.  Which is at the core of good drama...and which
+underlines the present as well, in that things aren't perfect or fair now,
+either.  If everybody agreed on how everybody  else should be treated, we
+wouldn't require courts.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Jonathan....you have an uncanny knack for asking the very specific
+questions that I can't answer without revealing more than I feel that I can at
+the moment.  Yeesh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     After a crocodile named Leviathan?  Er...I think that it's likely a
+reference to the book of Job, where he is asked by god, "Canst thou draw out
+Leviathan with an hook; or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"
+(JOB 41:1)
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+     They don't exactly get along, that's for sure.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     There's a mid-season story that deals *precisely* with this issue.
+
+     Hence...I'm forced to remain mute for the moment.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Ta-daaaa...Gary, take another look at the pilot.  Every time you see
+Lyta, you will notice a silver insignia on her lapel.  It's the Psi symbol set
+against a bronze background.  That is, indeed, the preferred form of
+reference.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Bill Warren suspects more than he knows, and knows less than he suspects.
+And any resulting opinions are simply that, and though written are nowhere
+near writ, holy or otherwise.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+
+     The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+strength.  Lyta at P5 needs a little help.  A P10 could nail you from across
+the room.
+
+     And I want to have some fun with the commercial funding aspects of
+B5...ads, gov't support, commercials, all that stuff.  That's an issue that I
+feel really needs to be addressed...who pays for this neat stuff? And what
+happens when the money runs out?
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Yes, we'll definitely see them in their civvies, and there will be a
+range of entertainment possibilities, including TV (again, there are shots of
+an internal newscast on B5, and commercials as well).  Thee's _ er, there's _
+one little thing that I'm gonna do the first episode or so to establish that
+that's so off-beat and (one hopes) funny that I'm sure you'll like it.  If
+only I can get Warners to release the footage....
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     Yeah, that was the hard part with the actors...they're so used to seeing
+one costume actors in SF that even though they HAD other stuff to wear, it was
+hard to shoe-horn them into it.  But that'll change.
+
+     As for skivvies...who knows...there's a shot of Sinclair emerging from
+bed wearing just about nada until he gets his robe on that several women on
+the show kept re-running, saying "yum...".
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 07 1993
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+     I can't remember height ever even being discussed, except once, when we
+were debating about two possibilities for a given role.  I don't think it
+really matters.  As it happens, it probably won't ever come up because both
+Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle (and I think Johnny Sekka) are all well over 6'
+tall.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 09 1992
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+     Straczynski the Great was Larry DiTillio getting me back for DiTillio the
+Dwarf in "Ragnarok and Roll," which was me getting him back for Straczynski
+the Butler in "Galaxy High," which was him getting me back for...well, you get
+the idea...we have a friendship based on mutual antagonism and abuse.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 10 1992
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+     You can have it...cheap.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 18 1992
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+     What shaketh is that Joe got up to his ears in alligators and put off
+writing a brief intro to the current issue.  However, it got turned  in this
+week, and Christy is in town tomorrow to go over my last minute revisions on
+the current issue (faxed to me by her, it's all done otherwise), after which
+she will get it to the printer probably within the coming week.  Expect it
+shortly after Christmas.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 20 1992
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+     Actually, I didn't much like the "next Gene R" stuff.  That line has
+appeared in a lot of places, and while it may help reporters get a grip  on a
+Story Angle, it's misleading and just makes me wince.  Was Rod Serling "the
+next Norman Corwin?"  (If you don't know who that is, find out.)  Was
+Roddenberry the next Joe Stefano?  Is Orson Scott Card the next Piers Anthony?
+(Hmm.....)
+
+     In the voice of the Ren and Stimpy Cartoon Horse, "No, sir, I don't like
+it.  Don't like it at all."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Kath: did Christy get the message I left at y?
+
+                                                              jms
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+                     ...oh, rapture....
+
+                                                                jms
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+T.ORTH [Mr. Rico]            at 06:43 EST
+Sub: Where is Babylon 5? TV stations...   
+
+Babylon 5 is a cornerstone of Warner's new Prime Time Network. Here is where
+one can find the station information....
+239 message(s) total.
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1992
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+     The Prime Time Network goes on line January 20th.  The airing of B5 is
+still slated for the last week in February.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 18 1992
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+     What's the other station in San Diego now carrying B5?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 06 1993
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+     Leviathan...as a local, mayhap you could ring up Dana Hersey and fill him
+in on the background, just so's he knows it ain't a DS9 riff.
+
+     This is probably the single biggest problem I know we're gonna have with
+reviews.  On every other level, we'll stand on our own; I just don't want that
+inaccuracy surfacing and skewing the review.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 10 1992
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+     This discussion seems to be getting awfully rancorous....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I think you're talking cross-purposes, the first one-hour episode vs. the
+two-hour movie....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The logic on the door is this (sayeth our designers): the section into
+which the door slides is jigsawed.  When the door closes, pins extrude between
+the walls into the jigsaw sections of the door that fit into the wall.  This
+creates an absolutely *solid* pressure door, much more so than a door that,
+for instance, closes in the middle.  If the whole side of the door had to go
+into the slot, it would be nearly impossible to move given the angles
+involved.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     Sue, if you're finding tall people ALWAYS sit in front of you, and you
+sit on the aisle, you may want to consider the fact that these two events are
+related.
+
+     See, I stand about 6'4" or 6'5" (I can never remember which), and going
+to a film can be an amazing experience.  I never knew my knees could actually
+go on either side of my ears.  To minimize this, I (and most tall people I
+know) sit on the aisle, so we can stick our legs out the side while
+desperately trying to avoid tripping anyone.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Re: the Lyta face stuff, yes the scene as describes takes place, and is
+definitely deliberate, and was a fairly elaborate effect that only lasts a few
+seconds.  We went through several tests before we got one we were happy with.
+Definitely a story point.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     If I see one more message with a one-liner on top and then ten zillion
+lines of white space, which at 2400 baud go by too fast for me to read the
+damn thing, so I have to then go back and find the number of the message, and
+replay it time after time while hitting ^S to try adn stop it before it
+scrolls past again, I am going to do someone serious damage.
+
+     (Well, everyone ELSE was having a tirade....)
+
+     Paula...you're responding to and arguing with something that only you
+heard because it doesn't exist in the pilot.  The line that Sinclair says is,
+"I managed to take out a fighter before they hit my stabalizers.  I was losing
+control, I'd lost my team...." etc.  Not vertical stabalizers.   Just the
+device that keeps the ship from spinning end over end by  controlling the
+various thrusts.  No matter WHAT system you're using, you have to be able to
+go from A to B, and the minute adjustments required, particularly if you're in
+the midst of battle, are too complex for one person to make on the fly.  It
+has to go through a computer.  If the  system _ hydraulics, pneumatics, air
+thrust, fusion, whatever power you happen to prefer _ is damaged, it's going
+to screw you up.
+
+     THAT was the line.  And the Line.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I keep hearing Alladin's more of a pain than it's worth, which is why I
+generally do all my writing/reading on-line.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Just one other little item you're forgetting, Paula...these are
+individual fighters, which are made to operate in and out of an atmosphere.
+                                                                  jms
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+     Several reasons...first, she wouldn't be able to tell for sure if his
+memory had or had not been "doctored" to eliminate the memory of the action.
+(An upper-level Psi could notice the seams in the memory; she's basically a
+business-transaction person who's a teeny bit over her head in what she's
+doing, and she knows it.)  Second, I'm playing constantly with how our society
+will deal with this kind of telepath.
+
+     The idea is always "innocent until proven guilty."  Now, you can bring
+someone to trial, and a psi can scan them, and boom, you know one way or
+another.  But does that violate our judicial tradition of a trial BY JURY, and
+put 'WAY too much power in the hands of telepaths?  Because bear in mind, we
+still have to take their word for what they "see" in someone's mind.  They can
+function as key witnesses, but it's my sense that they would be SPECIFICALLY
+PROHIBITED from going into the mind of an accused person to determine their
+innocence or guilt, *even if so invited*.
+
+     There are others, but those are, in my mind, the key reasons for this.
+It's a matter of trying to be logical and consistent in how these things are
+used; you don't want to have something (or someone) become the Magic Wand that
+solves every problem, a Deux Ex Lyta, so to speak.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Yes, Lyta's always had an affinity for alien races from a telepathic
+standpoint.  As for telling reality from subjective; as soon as it goes in
+your eyes, it becomes subjective.  So that's the only POV from which she can
+act.  It's easiest when it's straightforward visual or auditory impulses, not
+much open to coloring by the subjective aspect.  If the person being scanned
+is unbalanced, then 1) it becomes VERY uncomfortable for the psi, and 2) there
+are signature aspects of the scan (colors, hallucinations, delusions) that
+would tip off any good psi that this may not be a very valid perspective.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, there are shields available, mainly implants, sometimes drugs, and
+cyberalteration techniques to mind-wipe people temporarily so they can't be
+read easily.
+
+     Re: perjury, there are Psi review boards, as with the AMA (and of equally
+debatable power) that could be called into play in the case of suspected
+perjury, as well as other abuses of the Psi-Corps authority.   If a review
+board or other PC arm finds you're in violation of standards, the next step is
+the psi-cops.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     I'm finishing B5 post production this coming week, and writing my third
+novel, and am helping out a friend on another series (said friend having
+gotten in over his head a bit, through no fault of his own) doing rewrites and
+a few scripts.  Just something to keep me busy while waiting to gear up for
+the series.  (Also took time to write out a synopsis of each of the first 22
+episodes for B5's first season, which will then be assigned as needed,
+interposing new ideas as they're suggested by other writers.  Also finished an
+hour-length B5 script, which will be one of the mid-season shows to be shot.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     All I can say is when Warners gives us the production go, we'll be ready.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     That'll probably be decided by forces wiser than I.  And just FYI, all
+the PTEN shows are given 22 episode committments per season.
+
+                                                       jms
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+                                Who...?
+
+                                                                jms
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+     That's simply a standard unit of measure.  Some series do more than 22,
+but those are more rthe MURDseasons generally ran 22 episodes.
+
+     22 x 3 seasons is 66, which is enough for long-term syndication, if
+barely.
+
+     And there won't be a Joe Jr.  One doesn't go through a vasectomy for lack
+of anything better to do on a Friday night....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Nope, B5 is shot right here in LA County.
+
+     It helps that my Spousal Overunit is also a writer, and understands what
+it means when I come out, eyes like poached eggs, staggering towrad the coffee
+pot, mumbling, "Deadlines...deadlines...."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     They sure do cost a lot.  We plan to do some such shots for the series,
+in the zero-g section of the garden, and possibly in the zero-g cargo section
+that rides on top of  B5.  My mandate to Ron is to come up with a way of doing
+it that looks good.  Once we have that, we'll do the story.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The series standard opening will be a variation on Londo's narration at
+the top of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two full
+acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
+     But there are reasons for everything....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Okay.  That's it.
+
+     I'm running away from home.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Y'know what's funny, though?  The crossover points illustrate better than
+anything I could say the kinds of things we *won't* have, the kinds of things
+we *will* have, and the difference in philosophy between the two shows.
+
+     No whiz-kids saving ships, no Q's....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1992
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+     No fanfic for the time being.  I have to back up KL on this one.
+
+     We'll see Londo's _ spouse/spouses, I'm avoiding saying which _ in
+time.
+
+     Looking at this crossover stuff brings to mind a decision I had to make
+early on.  I at one point thought, "Wouldn't it be great if we could make B5
+the nexus point between ALL SF television and film universes?"  So you could
+head down toward the customs area, and find somebody with a light sabre, walk
+past a cylon, that sort of thing.  And part of it was very appealing, if
+legally a nightmare given what would be required to get permission.  But
+finally decided that the show has to be its own universe, unique and distinct.
+
+     But part of me still longs to see a British phone box just sitting in the
+middle of the central corridor....
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 28 1992
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+     Suffice to say that this is a question that we will indeed be dealing
+with.  What you'd probably get is a "mirrored" effect, where you are making
+love, and seeing it from both sides.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1992
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+     Yes, but strong feelings can bleed through.  And it's easier for a more
+advanced Psi to shut it all out; Lyta, at P5 rating, is about in the middle,
+and B5 is her first major assignment.  Her position (in terms of psi-rating)
+is one reason why she wears gloves and long-sleeved outfits that cover as much
+as possible; it makes it easier to shut things out if there's no direct
+contact.  When and if she makes it up to a P7 or P8, it becomes less of a
+problem.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1992
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+     Yes, precisely.
+
+     Sinclair will have a steady relationship with one woman for most of the
+first two seasons; same for a couple of other characters as well.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1993
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+     Actually, I said that Sinclair will have a steady VERTICAL relationship
+with....
+
+     Don't hit me, I'm a sick man.
+
+     And nothing in life is permanent, not even relationships.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 08 1992
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+     BTW, speaking of ancient Babylon, with all the people interested in
+what's going to happen in Babylon 5, I'm surprised more haven't gone into
+their history books and tracked the history of the station's namesake.  It
+isn't *all* there...but a lot of it is.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 16 1992
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+
+     Since I have access to you computer whizs (whizes? whizzes? whizi?), let
+me pose a question.
+
+     For my sound card, I have the Media Visions Thunderboard for Windows.
+Now, it works fine on such DOS programs as "Carmen San Diego"  (though a
+couple it seems to have a problem with).  But when I try to use it in Windows
+(for which after all it was intended), nothing happens.  It hums for a second,
+but that's all.  For instance, when I run After Dark, it clicks for a second,
+but nothing comes out.
+
+     I moved the system.ini interrupt for the driver to 2 from 9, but that
+doesn't seem to work either.  I installed the driver, but that doesn't work.
+I tried to run a sound program off a floppy (the pro demo that comes with the
+card) and the first time, it worked.  The second time, I got two error
+messages; the first said "selected MIDI out port is not available or is in use
+by another application."  The MIDI in port also got the same message.  When I
+then used the MIDI setup on the floppy, it said "General protection fault in
+module timemidi.dll."  And the thing crashed.
+
+     I went through system.ini and the only thing I could find that looked
+like a midi port control was MIDI=msadlib.drv, which I deleted, and tried
+again.  Same result.
+
+     Any suggestions?
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 17 1992
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+     But I *did* that.  I went into Windows drivers, picked the new driver,
+put Windows disd 3 in, loaded it on, and selected that as the driver.  Still
+nada.  I *don't* understand.  So I may pick up Microsoft Sound, having heard
+it's easier to use.  Otherwise...I'm doomed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 23 1992
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+     No story suggestions, please.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 23 1992
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+     What's this yellow snow doing here?
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1992
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+     "Even if it succeeded in court...."  In that one little phrase is
+encapsulated a year, possibly two, of depositions, interrogatories, counter-
+interrogatories, legal fees up the yinyang, court appearances, and legal
+maneuvering that can kill months of time that should otherwise be used in
+writing.
+
+     People can be crazy sometimes.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 07 1993
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+     I've lost all track of how much time I spend on BBSs; two-three hours a
+day here, plus 1-2 per day on CIS, and then other services.  I'm on several
+where I don't post messages, and the folks there engaged in SF-TV discussions
+don't know I'm looking over their shoulder.
+
+     Why?  Because if people know you're there, they tend to speak more
+politely about you, and your projects.  They're free to be brutally
+honest...and lemme tell you, it brings one up short sometimes.  But I think
+that's both good and essential.  Sort of a control group approach...see what
+the opinion is like of folks who don't have direct access, and only hear stuff
+second-hand.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1992
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+     For those keeping track of new items in the press about B5....
+
+     * Expect a round up of new SF series, including B5, to appear in USA
+Today in the next 7-10 days.
+
+     * Another round up of shows, including B5, is tentatively slated to
+appear in the January 9 issue of TV Guide.
+
+     * The piece on the B5/Genie connection for the LA Times Magazine "Palm
+Latitudes" section should likely appear December 20th or 27th.
+
+     (Not directly related to B5, but I just *have* to mention it
+somewhere...my short story, "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," which appeared
+recently in both Pulphouse and the Midnight Grafitti softcover anthology ended
+up in the Recommended Stories section of the December Locus.  It was the only
+story selected from that issue of Pulphouse, and it's right alongside stories
+by Brian Aldiss and John Varley and others.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1992
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+     Yes, "Quigley" originally began as a TZ script, which the studio (MGM)
+loved, my exec producer loved...EXCEPT they thought the subject matter _
+incest _ was too controversial.  (Many of the folks at MGM operated out of
+the conventional wisdom that says that SF should not have anything to do with
+the real world, should be nice bunny fantasies about neato aliens and strange
+but funny people-weeples who live in scary but basically good houses and
+YYYYAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!
+
+     (Sorry, that was my head exploding.)
+
+     Anyway, they said they'd produce the episode IF I removed that  aspect of
+the story.  Which, to me, was the *point* of the damned thing.   So I pulled
+it, gave back the money, and squirreled it away until I could adapt it to
+fiction later.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 14 1992
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+     Yes, that's a gun, a PPG.  I'm not thrilled with the way it looks, and
+we're going to re-design it for the series.  They don't strike that pose in
+the pilot, but that's from an actual sequence, yes.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1992
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+     Check my original message; I believe I typed PPG, not PPC.  PPG is what's
+in the script.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1992
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+     Don't know if I've mentioned this, but Computer Gaming World will be
+doing a cover story on B5 shortly.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 28 1992
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+     The basic logo is my design.  We'd gone throug none of which were quite
+right, and finally I wrote a memo to Ron Thornton about what I thought would
+be correct.  I described the word Babylon in silver appearing backlit by a red
+laser shooting across frame, with the 5 in black behind it.  Big metallic
+silver letters, and a much darker, jet-black metallic 5.  "The main thing," I
+said in the memo, "is that it should look way cool on a leather jacket."  Ron
+then executed the logo as described, it came out right, and it *does* look
+swell on a jacket.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1992
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+     Maybe twelve or so.  Just for the EFX team, me, my spousal overunit, our
+director and another producer.  (They were a gift from Ron.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1992
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+     Yes, there is a separate B5 commercial, which will begin airing around
+mid- or late-January.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+     Aquila: give me the name of the paper and the reporter who wrote the
+article.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 23 1992
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+
+     I believe it stands for Phased Plasma Gun.
+
+     Re: the jump-ship scenario described just above...since the "exit ramp"
+jump-gate is usually (but not always) under the control of a nearby base, as
+B5 is tied into its local gate, it could *probably* contact the local base and
+request activation of the gate.  But it's a good point to consider, and I want
+to dwell on that for a while before I lock it down.
+
+     It opens up some interesting possibilities.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1992
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+     Yes, you would.  Yes, they have tried.  No, they have not succeeded.
+Probes tend to meet with unfortunate "accidents"....  They also use a tight-
+beam form of communication, rather than the more broad-based radio waves.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1992
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+     I'm sure I covered it somewhere...somewhen....
+
+                                                            jms
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+
+     So they tell me....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+
+     Will, jeez, that's amazing...you should've said something, the B5 family
+would've been there with cards and letters.  How're you doing now?  I know it
+can be a very traumatic experience, even once you're physically 100%.
+
+     One more thing, Will.  Email me your address.
+
+     On other fronts....
+
+     One week from today, we will (or should) be finished with
+sound/music/looping edits and the B5 pilot will be complete.  It's both
+exhilirating to think about that...and there's also that post partum
+depression that hits whenever I finish a big project, a novel, or an episode
+of a series.  In my head, all I can play over are the things we should've or
+could've done to make it even better...the scenes we should have trimmed, the
+scenes we should've dropped back in again, THIS angle on a fight instead of
+THAT one...you can play with these things forever.   At some point, you just
+have to let go.
+
+     Then the next phase -- the series -- rests in large measure in your
+hands, in terms of how fast we can get this puppy in gear.
+
+     It's kind of funny, meanwhile...I've gotten a number of private responses
+to stuff I asked here, and one person told me a rather remarkable story,
+alongside Will's...without naming names, he'd taken it upon himself to
+proselytize about the show as much as possible, to tell as many people about
+it as he could.
+
+     Apparently, he was on one system, and saw a young woman on-line, and
+called her into chat, something he was normally to shy EVER to do before.
+ They began talking about the show -- she'd apparently heard a little about
+it, but not much -- and over time they began corresponding, and, in the words
+of the person who sent me the note, "We fell in love with each other."
+They've now met, and it looks like it might get serious indeed.
+
+     Amazing.  (When the person gives me his permission, I'll post the full
+note; he's a little sheepish of her finding out he said anything.)
+
+     I think it's really kind of cool.
+
+     Oh...one last thing.  Several people have inquired privately how to send
+notes or stuff hard-copy.  An address where I can be reached is 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+
+     What an amazing group of posts...I'm speechless.  It's gratifying to see
+that the process works, that this medium can be used to such good effect.
+Something that has always been important to me is de-mystifying the process.
+Lee mentioned somewhere uptopic that the on-line stuff has been going on for a
+long time, across various shows, from RGBs and Power through Zone and now to
+this.  To de-mystify writing, Harlan writes in bookstore windows...I do this.
+
+     I just got a private note today (oh, and speaking of notes, just address
+hard-copy mail to my name; it's a private mailing address, not a studio) from
+one fellow who just managed to get a development deal with a studio.  It ain't
+big, but it's a start...and because of the discussion here, and elsewhere over
+the years, he has a better idea of what to expect, and how to prepare.
+
+     This is an extremely tough business to crack.  And the largest part of
+the problem is just getting accurate information.  When I came to LA
+originally, I didn't know squat, and a long time -- a LONG time -- was wasted,
+time I now very much regret losing, because I just didn't fully  or accurately
+understand How Things Worked.  If this process can make the entry easier for
+another writer, or de-mystify what happens behind the screen, then all the
+better.
+
+     And, selfishly, it has been great to get the input, to hear the
+questions, especially those I can't answer...because down the road you just
+KNOW that that question will come up eventually, and better to be hit with it
+now than blindsided later on.  It's a rewarding, fascinating and challenging
+exchange.  I suspect that a LOT of shows would be considerably improved for
+this kind of direct communication.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and re the newsletter...if you ask Christy nice, I'm sure
+she'll send you the back issue.  Tell her I said it was okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     That would be telling....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     "And they were carried off to Babylon...."
+

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+     I really don't know how to make an e-mail mailing list, and it would seem
+inappropriate to ask anyone here to go through the hassle of doing it for all
+1800-2000 people here to accommodate the handful with dishes.  Or silverware,
+for that matter.  If someone here would like to be your "Dish Buddy" and send
+you a note when it goes on, that might be one way of doing it.
+
+     Re: kids/robots...the exact phrasing of that has gone through various
+permutations and paraphrasings; the specific line is "No kids or cute robots."
+The latter specifically entails entities such as Twiki (got the spelling right
+this time, thanks to whoever corrected me), who should be run down by a truck
+at the first opportunity.  (In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you
+ever DO see what passes for a cute robot on this show, keep a close eye on it,
+because you'll probably see somebody drop an anvil on it REAL fast.)
+
+     So this allows us to explore the question of robotics, but to do so in a
+fairly serious context.  Because logically, 200+ years in the future there are
+going to be some changes; robotics will be more common, though likely in some
+different form.  (If you've seen the promos or the pilot, you've seen the
+maintenance 'bot that checks out the hull of B5; it has arms, it moves, it's
+independent, it's a robot.  It just doesn't begin its report with "Bida-bida-
+bida.")
+
+     On the topic of kids...it's a deliberate decision to steer clear of that
+part, not because I think it's invalid, but because a) it's been done on
+another show, and its spinoff, rather intensively, and b) it's part of the SF
+stereotype, "We have to have kids because SF is a kid's genre."
+
+     Might there be a story about a family of refugees who come seeking
+sanctuary, or opportunity elsewhere?  Of course.  But any kids in that family
+won't be at the *center* of the story.  And they'll be gone by the end of the
+episode.  It's also a matter of context; absent the scenario just posed, this
+is a place for businessmen, travelers, mappers, traders, diplomats and others,
+it's not a place for kids.  It's also potentially a very DANGEROUS place.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Rumors are exactly that...and as I've indicated, anything that  happens
+of substance -- good, bad or indifferent -- you'll hear it from the source.
+
+     How can PTEN be dead when it hasn't even AIRED yet?  I've hered this same
+rumor from others, and have to say that if Creation is spreading this that
+they are being *highly* irresponsible.  The facts again are these: the first
+night of programming goes on later this month.  B5 airs the following month.
+Based on the ratings for all of the shows, they will then open a second night,
+or modify the first.  And that will determine where (and when) B5 lands.  It's
+a logistical question about when to expand.
+
+     If anyone wanders back in that topic's direction and would like to re-
+post this as an official rebuttal, you're welcome to do so.
+
+     I also hear they're showing the E! piece...guys, if you want to help us,
+there at Creation...don't
+
+                                                                jms
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+     My sense (what there is of it) is that in every show, you have to make
+choices.  What, fundamentally, is the story you are telling?  Who is your
+story about?  Is it for adults, or children?  I don't watch LA Law regularly,
+but I sort of poke my nose in from time to time, and I don't see a lot of
+kid's stories.  One could well go to the producers of that show and say, "Why
+aren't you doing kid stories?" to which the only answer is, "That's not our
+show."
+
+     I already said above that if families come through, there may be kids
+along.  The point of clarification for me is that I don't want to do shows
+with kids at the center.  First to distinguish us from other shows, and second
+because that's not the area that I want to concentrate on just now.  Of course
+people still have kids, and of course some will come through B5; it's where
+one places them in the story that's at issue.
+
+     It's often kinda funny...people say, on the one hand, "Yeah!  Fight them
+studios!  Don't let them tell you the kind of stories you oughta do!" Then,
+"But you've GOTTA do a story with kids!" or "This is the sort of story you
+HAVE to do."
+
+     The only answer to that -- said without sarcasm, honest -- is "Do what I
+did...sell your own show."  I don't mean that in any way harshly, I'm very
+serious about that.  Whether it's a novelist, or a short story author, or a TV
+writer, or a screenwriter, we each of us has to decide fundamentally what it
+is we want to write about it, and define our choices.  Would you call Larry
+Niven and say, "Listen, while you're in the middle of the Mote In God's Eye
+sequel, we need a really good section about kids."  You let the man tell his
+story his way.
+
+     This, for me, is just one of those areas on which I have planted my feet
+and sunk roots clear to the center of the planet.  Now, it's altogether
+possible that some day long down the road, one story will occur to me, and
+I'll deal with that when and if it happens.  But in the interim...it's vital,
+from my perspective, to make B5 a show by, for and about adults in adult
+relationships; not to invalidate the other stuff, but only as a sense of where
+this show's emphasis is.  It's time to let the studios and the suits and the
+networks know that an SF series can survive without putting in the required
+child or teenager.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Postscript to the preceding: that doesn't mean that I (or any other
+member of the B5 team) shouldn't be challenged on stuff like this.
+Challenges are good.  First, they keep you on your toes.  Second, it makes one
+verbalize why one has taken a certain stance, and it's at that point that
+weaknesses and fallacies in the argument become apparent.  "The unexamined
+life" and all that.  As I've noted before, sometimes the only way to get
+pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
+
+     I love a good philosophical knock-down-drag-out.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other fronts...
+
+     I will tell you the truest thing I have learned about television in the
+process of making the B5 pilot.  That quality is rare is not really
+remarkable; what's remarkable is that it gets done at ALL.  Any show,
+regardless of quality.  There are millions of details, the tiniest things that
+require constant shepherding.  You're in the midst of doing one thing and
+somebody calls involved with another part of the show and says, "Look, we've
+got some question about whether the doors should go SHOOP! or BLOOP!, George
+thinks SHOOP, and we think he's right...unless you'd rather come listen to
+them youreself."  And it's very easy to say, "Okay, just take care of it,"
+then find yourself sitting there a month later and saying, "Damn, why did we
+end up with a SHOOP! effect?"
+
+     It's physically impossible to be in every place at all times, and you
+particularly don't want to be in a position where you start giving your people
+less room to play and be independent.  There are just so many details that
+it's very easy to say, "Okay, fine, deal with it," or to not bother with
+something, that it becomes quickly apparent why it's so hard to find real
+quality out there.  That kind of attention is a major pain in the butt.  When
+you see it from this side, you're just amazed  that it gets done at ALL.
+
+     Just a thought for the day...
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested (all four of you), the very last
+episode I wrote for this season's "Murder, She Wrote" will air this coming
+Sunday.  I haven't seen anything on it -- no dailies, no rough cuts -- so I
+have no idea how it came out, though I *hear* it came out well.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     RE: cliffhangers...not between episodes, certainly.  Between seasons,
+it's...hard to explain.  There are, or will be *changes* that happen from one
+season to another (as planned), specific events that take place that should
+bring one up short...but "cliffhanger" in the sense of leaving some guy
+hanging from a string over a lake of fire...no, no plans for such at this
+time.
+
+     RE: kids...boy, that one sure hit a nerve on both sides, didn't it?
+That's good.  An argument like this is what a show or story should do, get
+people discussing the issues.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other areas....
+
+                             ****WOW****
+
+     I was in the editing bay today during the pre-dub of B5 (which I'll
+explain more , which btw has a nifty huge projection screen, twelve or fifteen
+feet across, so I got to see some of the show as if at a theater...plays
+pretty well.
+
+     Anyway...what a pre-dub is, is this: those who saw the earlier version of
+the pilot will remember, for instance, the scenes in the main corridor of the
+station (well, one of them, anyway).  You have Sinclair and Garibaldi talking.
+It's an un-mixed scene...just as filmed, there are just two guys talking.  All
+the rest of the set is silent.
+
+     But now...NOW...you're in the editing bay, and now you add in the
+background voices, human and alien...mechanical sounds nearby...an intercom
+voice advertising station services...then layer in the music, and suddenly
+it's a MOVIE!  Someone said that sound is half of a movie, and you forget that
+until it hits you in the face.
+
+     The pre-dub is where you layer in the voice tracks (original, from the
+production; adr (automatic dialogue replacement) for lines that were not
+sufficiently audible or need to be looped; incidental dialogue  (computers,
+background characters) and walla (general crowd sounds).  You decide how much
+of any of these is too much, how much more you need, what the balance is...if
+you need to use the surround capability to put this voice HERE or THERE....
+
+     Then we previewed some scenes with music, and did a little of the same
+there (we'll do more during the final mix Thursday through Tuesday).   For
+instance...most music cues are anywhere from a few seconds long to maybe a
+minute or more.  Ours tend to be longish...the longest is a cue that lasts 7.5
+minutes, and goes inside the station, outside the station, to different
+*parts* of the station, and the music continues throughout.  We figured that
+we needed to better differentiate the sound inside vs. outside the
+station...so in the music cue, we drop the electric guitar out of the mix for
+the inside scenes, and put it back in for the outside scenes, for instance.
+
+     The result, basically, being that it becomes a *M*O*V*I*E* for the first
+time.  And boy, it cooks, lemme tell you.  There are moments of absolute and
+inutterable self-doubt in a project like this, especially when paired with the
+monumental press machine from elsewhere which is doing everything possible to
+bury us in the interests of preserving an economic monopoly and critics who
+figure we're a clone of another show.   But then you turn around and see
+something like this, and you know it's going to work...and it really helps.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Ah, except, Gary, for the reason I picked that particular metaphor; this
+ain't Sudden Death, as with football.
+
+     This one's going to the judges at the end of the round, and the case will
+be decided...win, lose or draw...on the merits of the performance in the ring,
+not on hype (on either side), not on good feelings, but on the quality of the
+work, which is as it should be.  Only thing I've ever asked at any point in my
+life is a fair fight on a level playing field.  Then let things fall as they
+may.
+
+     And as for the judges...look in the mirror.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Yeah, I agree, the pointing-rods-and-magically-changing-colors on hair
+and stuff is kinda old (though it surfaced in Total Recall).  No plans for it,
+that's for sure.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
+     Ninety percent of the stations taking the PTEN lineup have news from 10-
+11, so that only leaves 8-10 for programs.
+
+     The deal is that the stations and Warners pay 50/50, as I understand it
+from the trades, for the shows, and I don't think Warners would want to set
+the precedent of paying 100% for any given number of shows.  And because
+they're 50/50 partners, it would be politically inappropriate for one arm to
+unilaterally order X-episodes of anything.  As for the rest, there are options
+on top of options, all in our favor.
+
+     Re: post production timing and budget...we budgeted plenty of time and
+money for post production.  When the sound folks came back and asked for an
+additional day, just so we can be sure we have time for whatever little
+corrections are required by then, that wasn't a problem.  As it is, we'll be
+delivering the show next Thursday to Warners, and it won't even go out on the
+satellite to the stations for a full month, and doesn't air for nearly six
+weeks from the time of completion, so we're WELL ahead of schedule in that
+respect.  They only actually needed the show 4 weeks ahead for
+screening/reviewer purposes; we extended that by two full weeks.
+
+     Another busy day in post today...but it's coming together well.  We have
+basically just two more acts to finish, and will probably give all of Monday
+to one of them, since it's massively complex.  (Usually you can do at least
+two or three acts in a day.)
+
+     BTW, and totally aside...I finally saw the tape of my last MURDER, SHE
+WROTE episode, and it actually came out quite well, minus one or two very
+minor glitches.  It airs Sunday.  (And there's a bonus to the Captain Power
+fans contained in the name of one of the characters....)
+
+                                                                jms
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+      I can understand about the feeling re: coming information and the wait
+until February.  It's very easy to post info as we go into production, and
+during production...but once it's finished here, which it will be as of this
+coming Tuesday, the process is more or less complete.  I've tried hard over
+this process not to blather on, but to say something if there's something
+worth hearing.  I hope I can find new items to keep the topic(s) going as we
+near airdate.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+     (P.S.  The current newsletter is finished, and will be going out in the
+mail this week, I'm told.)
+

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+     I have no problem with married couples, none whatsoever, serving the EA.
+And, as I've said before, there is no problem having a kid in the background,
+as one of a family passing through, for instance, but I do not wish to center
+a whole *story* around one.  Someone said "But they can do it on TNG and DS9,"
+which is one more reason for NOT doing it here, to keep the identities
+separate and distinct.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+      Mark, I've answered this question about as many times as I intend
+to...if you want to go back into the discussion and read the info, you're
+welcome to.  That article, for starters was put together LONG before the
+general meeting with the stations at which point a true reading was gotten re:
+the show.  Warners *cannot* commit unilaterally on any series without the go
+from the stations, and that won't come until they've got a fix on how ALL the
+shows are doing.  You're asking Warners to do something they wouldn't do for
+ANY show at any time.
+
+     I'm not cranky, it's just that I've now answered this about six times
+here.
+
+     Now exiting harrumph-mode.
+
+     Re: supernatural elements...not per se, no.  There is some element of
+mysticism and spirituality, but (one hopes) not quite so ham-handed.  My
+feeling is that if it's there, DO something with it other than use it as a way
+into (and out of) a plot device, thereafter dropping it.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I don't think we have to worry about Warners, folks, really...it's okay.
+And we've got contingencies up the wazoo.  All is well.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     You can jump into the B5 story at *any* point...only thing is, the more
+you watch, the more you get the nuances.  PICKET FENCES is a great example of
+this.
+
+     And if the waiting to hear when and under what umbrella B5 will be picked
+up is killing YOU....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+     (Umbrella = same night/second night, not to start any rumors.)
+

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+
+     I am NOT stubborn.  I don't care WHAT you say, I'm not changing my
+opinion about that, I'm NOT stubborn.
+
+     And yes, the plan is to definitely have the PTEN expand to additional
+night, just as Fox has done.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+     There's been some talk of my appearing on H25 the Friday before the
+broadcast, but nothing firm.  And offhand...I'm sorry, but I don't  recall the
+date of the show with Ron.  I'm sure it's written down somewhere...but you've
+never actually SEEN my desk, have you?
+
+     Then again, as I think of it, *I* haven't seen my desk lately....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The inter-relationships between FOX, PTEN, the FCC and any and all other
+acronymical organizations is utterly beyond my ken, and I would no sooner try
+to explain it or understand it than I would attempt to build a tesseract in
+the back yard.
+
+     In what I *hope* will be a relatively definitive word on this kid
+topic...yes, I can write a story with kids.  I've done it...I did it for the
+Twilight Zone and other shows.  The question is still one of making choices.
+Is that what this series is ABOUT?  You could drop in a chapter on badminton
+techiques into The Lord of the Rings or Debbie Does Cleveland, the question
+is, does it BELONG there?  Is that what the show or the story is attempting to
+address?
+
+     If there were no other shows with kids around, then I would be more
+inclined to do one with kids at the center.  But there are plenty of them
+around, particularly in SF...you've got kids aplenty on TNG, on DS9, I just
+saw a kid story on Space Rangers...this is simply a different kind of show.
+
+     My point is simply this: B5 is meant, in a very real sense, as noted in
+my message on 2, to be an SF novel for television.  If it were just random
+stories skittering hither, thither and yawn, that would be one thing.  But as
+any novelist can tell you, you have to ask, "Whose story is it?" and stick
+pretty close to that, even though you may swerve in and out of other POVs and
+indulge in omniscient narrative.  That requires certain choices about tone and
+attitude and what you include, and what you choose to exclude.  Doesn't
+invalidate one type of story or another, it only says "THIS is what my story's
+about."
+
+     There are plenty of other SF shows with kids.  Let's have something a
+little different.
+
+     (That's one of the ironies that crops up about this show...often people
+say "We want innovation," and when asked for specifics, they ask to make it
+more like other shows.  "Well, TNG does this kind of story, why can't you?"
+We can, but we're not.  Because we're not TNG.  Just as we will do some
+stories that I *guarantee* you ST wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Yes, there's considerable training involved.  In the pilot, Lyta talks
+about it in one exchange, about the "years of training" required for a P5
+classification, and that most of those who try "burn out."
+
+     As for the Fox station question...bear in mind that most stations that
+broadcast Fox shows are not actively OWNED by Fox, they are only loosely
+AFFILIATED with Fox.  They're still independent stations that have a deal to
+buy X-number of programs from Fox Television.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Actually, JoJo's...uhm...outfit is probably the best thing about the
+show...not for pure asthetics, of course, just...I dunno...I just kinda like
+the dynamics of it...
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Indeed, they might withhold such participation, which the PC would be
+obligated to honor.  Non-PC telepaths would be a different situation entirely,
+of course...and a danger...which only a PC (or one of the other government's
+own 'paths, if any) could work against.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The "Making of B5" piece is being re-edited; originally, the E! piece was
+going to be the one shown, but...well, no need to rehash all of that.  The
+piece is being recut, and new stuff put in to replace the old stuff.  It
+should be finished next week, I hear, and then provided to the stations.
+
+     Great news about Arisia, Arne.  Any other reactions come to mind?
+
+     Re: using my posts for articles...by all means, proceed.
+
+     BTW, it appears that the deal for a B5 game has been closed, and the
+winner is Electronic Arts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+     This goes back to a very basic philosophical question: can you have
+thought without language, or language without thought?  At one point in our
+evolution, we became conscious...was there language, or did language then come
+as a *result* of consciousnes?  Or did the slow development of language *lead
+to* the development of true consciousness?
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     I'll know more about the game in the weeks ahead.
+
+     Apparently, Creation has licensed some stuff...mainly shirts and mugs and
+patches and the like, nothing major, but it's there.  I got the first t-shirt
+design roughs today, and have some notes, but nothing too major.  More as this
+is developed.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if there are any SF conventions this coming weekend
+in Dallas?
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     Licensing Corporation of America.  Based in New York.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+     When someone asks, "What kinds of specific things have you gotten out of
+this interaction?" I think I will point to the question just uptopic about
+food.  I've given this a *fair* amount of thought, mainly in the sense that
+there are hydroponic gardens (referred to in the script) and other areas for
+oxygen reclamation, I'd figured that there were also areas where alien-
+environment food was to be raised, and finally a third area where food that is
+simply impractical to grow on B5 would be synthesized.  But the question opens
+up additional areas that I haven't given that much thought to...and many
+possibilities.
+
+     Let me (so to speak) stew on this and get back to you.
+
+     Thanks for yanking my blanket.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Jonathan....please, for my sake, one question at a time...pick one.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     K'wicker (than a speeding bullet?)...I ain't fussy.  My friends just call
+me Joe.  (Usually preceded by, "That Pain In The Ass")
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+     The station is owned by the Earth Alliance, and if you're going to be
+staying there, you pay a fee.  Station employees are charged a fee against
+their salaries...which some of them aren't happy about.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1993
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+     Dolphins are another area that I haven't gone into in any great degree
+since the odds of any of them showing up at B5 are minimal, for production
+reasons.  Dolphins make for difficult actors, and their agents are even worse.
+
+     The homeless question brings me to a difficult point in the discussion --
+generalities are okay to discuss, Jonathan, but the more specific the
+questions get about plot points of the series, the less I can say.  The five-
+year arc is triple-encrypted in my computer for a *reason*.  And, as much as
+it pains me, I know that printups of this category go to a certain other
+studio...and would rather not give too many specifics for obvious reaons.  I'd
+like us to do them first.  Alas, we're not having this conversation in a
+vacuum.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Just as with the early days of ocean travel, you would generally have
+three levels of travel: first class, one just below, and down deep below
+decks, those traveling steerage.  A small group can also pool all their
+resources, for instance, charter a ship one-way just far enough as B5, and
+hope to find work or new opportunities on far-away worlds.  When this doesn't
+happen, they linger...sometimes for a long time.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Dave: Bingo!
+
+     And re: genetic moofky-fooky...yes, it's a definite issue, and is
+referenced at least once in the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     BABYLON 5 meets ATTACK OF THE GIANT CRAB MONSTERS, I like it....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+     Actually just handled this up in topic 1.  Rumors are the bane of science
+fiction...and people at conventions who speak should try and get their facts
+straight first.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     There's been some disagreement over that...I prefer the idea that he's
+uplifted.  (It's between me and the prosthetics design team.)
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     Hey, there's an idea...come up with a totally bogus B5 five-year arc and
+let it get accidentally uploaded and distributed to throw folks off... except
+of course folks might well believe it, which would work against us in the long
+run.  Ah, well....
+
+     Any telekinetics on board Babylon 5?  you ask?
+
+     No.
+
+     At least, not yet.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Pets is okay.  Ah lahkes pets.  Pets be cool.  And cats be coolest.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     There's haze in some scenes where you've got a lot of traffic, and food
+cooking, and braziers, and the like.  The quarters don't have that.
+
+     As it happens, Pat Tallman has pets...two bunnies and two chinchillas.  I
+pointed out to her that she now has both food and clothing concerns taken care
+of.  She's still not speaking to me.
+
+     Saw the DS9 pilot tonight.
+
+     Heh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Katherine: oh, snarf you....
+
+     Bear: a 16 pound cat?  Wow...some good eatin' there....
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     Eric...imagine two boxers in the ring, each bloodied and exhausted after
+11 grueling rounds.  It's now the last round.  You've each got one last shot
+in your heart.  Your opponent comes in with a big name, with the sports
+critics approval, with fancy clothes and a twelve million dollar windup.  He
+pulls back and lets you have it with everything he's got.       
+
+     Then you look around...and you're still standing.  And you're thinking
+"THAT was their best shot?"
+
+     Because everything he had was intent on one hard shot to knock you out of
+the ring...speeded training, massive amounts of promotion, just to knock you
+out.
+
+     And you're still standing.  And you smile.
+
+     Because now it's YOUR turn.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I can't remember when I was last this tired.  (Well, that's a lie, it was
+during the last 2 days of filming on B5, but the former made for a better
+opening line.)
+
+     After getting zero sleep (nervous with anticipation, running the pilot
+through my head over and over again to prepare for today), I went in with a
+number of the production people today on the first day of the final
+sound/dialogue/music mix.  Ten straight hours, one half-hour break during
+which we ate at the mixing tables.  Trying different combinations, re-showing
+scenes with slight modifications, over and over and over, until your eyes --
+focused for 10 hours on the same focal distance, blinking against bright
+lights so you can make notes -- start to melt out of your sockets.  And there
+are three more days to go of this....
+
+     But man, this thing is really coming together.  It's exciting to watch it
+happen.  To the question about music...the music in this thing is just
+terrific...dynamic, evocative, moody, exciting...and while it took me a while
+to get it into my head (as with the theme from the Equalizer, which has
+similar resonances), the theme definitely stays with you.
+
+     Along wund editors, Stewart Copeland came by, as well as various of the
+film editors, the cameraman, others...and Richard Compton, our director, was
+also at the helm for the whole ten hours, as was our line producer John
+Copeland (no relation).  People just wanted to come by and see it.
+
+     It's gonna be a hoot, ladies and gentlemen....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Leslie, the stuff you mention is in either the computer EFX topic in this
+category, or the B5 science topic, one or the other.
+
+     My messages can by all means be sent elsewhere; just not anyone else's
+unless you secure permission.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     There's something about the Lyta/Garibaldi dynamic that I like, as others
+here have noted as well.  I keep playing with one scene I'm dying to write,
+where he's trying to pick up on her, and says, "Listen, what do you say we go
+by my quarters, I'd like to show you my favorite thing in the whole world."
+She gives him THAT look.  "Okay-okay-okay, my SECOND favorite thing in the
+whole world."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Right...and there was a lengthy discussion of how the Links tie into the
+B5 central computer, and how it operates in relation to those Links (which are
+computer segments themselves) in either the SFX or the B5 Science topics.
+
+     BTW, a thought, for anyone to jump in on who wants to...as noted uptopic,
+on Tuesday my job is basically done.  The B5 pilot will be finished.  Between
+now and the show's airing 5 or so weeks from now, what areas would you be
+interested in discussing?  What things would you like to see done here?  (I
+briefly considered the idea of uploading one page of the script per day
+between now and the time B5 airs, but then I realized that a lot of folks
+would probably prefer to see it produced, not see the script -- the ultimate
+spoiler -- and thus jettisoned that idea.)  I guess my main fear is being
+dull...not that that's *too* likely to happen with this crowd...but I take the
+"okay, so now what?" note uptopic somewhat to heart.
+
+     Or we can just keep doing what we're doing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     I'll have to check w/Wareners re: the script thing, but under the WGA
+contract, I own the physical script and its disposition.  Maybe the idea of
+excerpts -- filmed stuff, or stuff we cut, missing scenes -- might be the best
+way to go.  (And even at the rate of 1 page per day, you'd only get through
+the first third of the script by the time it aired anyway.)  Will advise.
+
+     To the question of promotion above...Warners will begin a real push on
+this subsequent to the 18th of January.  They want to concentrate  their
+efforts on the month just prior to airing.  So far, we've been dragged into
+articles often on the basis of the controversy between the various shows...but
+both Warners and I feel strongly that it's important to establish our separate
+identity, not in relation to anything else.  Now that the other shows have
+aired, we can now have an easier time doing this.
+
+     What can I ask others to do?  Mainly to just keep the word out there; if
+you see a local article mistakenly labeling B5 a copy, to let the guy know the
+facts.  But probably the single *most* important thing is what can be done
+when the show itself airs...and that's to write to both your local station and
+Warners to let them know your feelings.  But that's if and ONLY if you
+genuinely like what you see, and for no other reason.
+
+     Will think about this stuff some more, maybe post some thought later.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Synopses of upcoming episodes....?
+
+     No.
+
+     I'd much prefer to see them first on B5 than elsewhere.
+
+     All good things come to those who wait...or as someone once said, "Good
+news can wait, and bad news will refuse to leave."
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: sign off tags...pruff...that stuff's for sissies.  The jms is
+sufficient for my needs (and looks kinda like a revolver pointed right).
+
+     Have seen the whole movie now with final EFX, sound, music, dialogue, all
+that jazz.  Looks better than I'd hoped possible.  Will be cleaning up a few
+spots in the next two days, and then watching the final product one more time,
+this time on a regular TV set rather than the studio's projection system and
+sound system, to better gauge what will and won't be audible on a home TV.
+
+     By mid-day Wednesday, we be done.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 12 1993
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+      Haven't yet seen Time Trax, so can't comment.  I don't see "a lot" of
+shows "taking place on space stations," at this point, only two, unless you
+count the outpost stuff in Space Rangers.  Personally, my feeling is that the
+more good SF, the better.
+
+     It's my understanding that very likely B5 *will* be released theatrically
+overseas as a feature.  More on this as I can talk about it.
+
+     Guest stars?  Of course.  Many and varied.
+
+     Re: scripts...for the first year, there will be only two people on staff:
+me, and Harlan Ellison, as creative consultant.  So the majority of the
+scripts will be freelance.  For that first season, we've already locked down
+our writers.  They will come from one of two groups: a) a small group of
+writers who I've worked with over the years and have trained to my tastes, and
+b) another small group of leading SF writers, many of whom don't work for TV
+anymore, but will break that absence for B5.
+
+     Part of the reason for this is to establish ourselves firmly during the
+course of that first season, get our feet wet, firm up our identity, and other
+hits by the same name.  It does no good for freelancers on the outside to try
+a script until they've seen at least one season, as well.   Finally, because
+there will be a certain amount of continuity and developing storylines from
+episode to episode, that requires a certain  degree of direction from in-house
+on stories.  Very often we'll go to a writer and say, "Here...in this story, X
+has to happen.  Beyond making sure that X is included, do what you want."  An
+outsider won't have access to knowing what that X is.
+
+     Still, there will be episodes totally separate from the arc, and those
+are far more wide open.
+
+     One disservice that TNG has done the SF writing community is its -- in a
+way -- tendency to *use* SF fans as idea mills.  Hundreds of scripts arrive
+each month, they're read through, good ideas are plucked out, they pay a
+couple hundred bucks for the premise, then write it in-house.  Part of the
+reason they're always so desperate for material, and driven to this length of
+soliciting scripts from fans, is that they don't have a terrific reputation in
+the writing community.  Some of it is undeserved, a hanger-on from previous
+administrations, and some of it seems to have some basis in terms of the fact
+that you will never have the chance to see your script through to the end.
+
+     That problem does not exist with B5.  Our writers are already lined up
+and ready to go.
+
+     Starting with the second season, assuming we get that far, we will open
+things up more and be willing to look at finished scripts with a release form.
+I think that providing that opportunity is important.  But it won't be such a
+cattle-call in the way it's handled.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, I've asked David (and he's agreed) to write the novelization, which
+will probably commence within days of the series go being given.   And there
+have been many screenplays published over the years, in script form/via
+paperback or hardcover; I have a rather extensive collection of same
+(including the aforementioned T2 book, which is extraordinarily good).  It
+might be a good idea to do one for B5, with annotations, but not including the
+"how to write for tv" material mainly because that's a) covered in my writing
+book, which b) I intend one of these days to finish updating to Writers Digest
+Books can stop yelling on me.
+
+     Some random observations and thoughts which might be of interest....
+
+     We've pretty much finished the final mix, as stated, which we'll review
+tomorrow morning to be sure that it sounds okay on a small set.   But for
+those of you out there with surround systems, and stations that will broadcast
+in surround...me boyos, have YOU got a treat coming your way.  We did a *lot*
+of work on this thing to emphasize the surround.   One act had over 100 passes
+to make the sound as layered as possible (an average show has maybe 30 per).
+The movement is quite distinct and compelling.  The sound EFX are also quite
+good...the sound made by the weapons is also quite good.
+
+     One thing we did with the weapons is to try, again, to be fairly logical.
+If it's a BIG weapon -- rifle size or better -- then you're going to have a
+quicker recharge time (if any) between firings, though you may have to change
+packs more often.  At one point, you'll see a smaller, hand-sized gun being
+fired a few times.  And each time, you'll hear a power whine as it builds up
+the required power to fire off another round.  A gun that small simply
+wouldn't have the capability to fire off one after another after another
+without some power buildup that might not be present in a larger gun.
+(Smaller guns are generally things you'd want to smuggle on board, and might
+be as useful, in those ways, as a Derringer, which could only fire one or two
+shots, as opposed to a machinegun  or gattling gun brought openly into battle,
+and which is  intended to be used a lot.)
+
+     Someone mentioned the positive aspects to building the maximum population
+of a space station around available supplies and other very real
+considerations.  We're trying, consistently, to ask "How would this work in
+reality?  What are the SCIENCE considerations in doing SF?"  In general, we've
+found that if you Ask The Next Question and try to be logical, you get MORE
+options, and you get more INTERESTING options than if you just throw all that
+to the winds.  (Often networks say, "Ah, screw the science on it, you'll just
+limit yourself."  Not true.)
+
+     During the final mix-down, a group of cub scouts came through the mixing
+facility on a tour.  So we invited them in for the play-back on the next-to-
+the-last act...this is the one where we kick over the table and it's pretty
+much nonstop action.  Wanted to see the reaction of kids to the show, because
+if there's a more relentlessly honest audience than kids that age, I don't
+know what it is.  The fidget factor is enormous when they get bored.
+
+     They didn't BUDGE.  For some of the shots, they sat there, slack jawed,
+at what they were seeing.  Which is also good to know, that the show can
+appeal to kids as well as adults WITHOUT making any dumb compromises (i.e.,
+writing down, sticking in kids) to that audience.  I heard them later talking
+about it among themselves, and though one kid was a bit unnerved by the whole
+thing, the rest just went on and on about it..."awesome"..."cool"..."that was
+great."  So far, so good.
+
+     Onward.
+
+     In thinking a little about the discussion, and what role I've tried to
+play (and if I've seemed a bit brief or short of late, my apologies; the
+workload is immense just now), and I don't want anyone to think that I'm
+playing coy or just teasing about the series when questions about same come
+up, insofar as story possibilities or plot stuff is concerned.
+ Obviously, I don't want to give out stuff that would constitute the Ultimate
+Spoiler.
+
+     But there are generalities that I *can* talk about.  When this topic
+first began, I was able to talk a little about what was hoped for in the
+movie...to let people know what we were talking about, and what to expect in
+exchange for the interest.  (I've always believed that you have to put your
+money where your mouth is and earn loyalty by keeping promises and being
+straightforward in what you do.)
+
+     So what *can* be said about the series, what would you have to look
+forward to?
+
+     You will find out what happened to Sinclair, for starters, during the
+Earth/Minbari war.  In that respect, the pilot movie is like the first chapter
+of a novel.  For nearly 10 years, Sinclair has worked to convince himself that
+nothing happened to him on the Line other than what seems to be the case: that
+he blacked out for 24 hours.  He's just managed to convince himself of this.
+Now, suddenly, someone comes into his life and with seven words -- you'll know
+them when you hear them -- completely unravels the self-deception.  He knows
+then that something DID happen to him, that someone DID mess with his
+mind...and he is going to find out who, and why.
+
+     This he will do.  And the ramifications of that discovery will have a
+major influence on the series, on his relationships, and the future of not
+only his character but many others.
+
+     You will see what a Vorlon is...and what it represents.  And what it may
+have to do with our own saga, and a hidden relationship to some of our other
+characters (watch the reception scene carefully).  We'll discover that there
+are MANY players in this game.
+
+     One thing that separates this show from others is that on other shows,
+very often you do things to them to make for interesting drama...you take them
+prisoner, you make them kids, whatever...in this show, it's what's INSIDE the
+characters that will pose the greatest problems...and the greatest
+possibilities for drama.  Most every major character is either running to, or
+away from something in their hearts, or their pasts, or their careers.
+Garibaldi's past will catch up with him in a very  difficult way that will
+affect his role and make him a very different  character for as much as a full
+season, and have lasting effects thereafter.  Lyta will take part in a voyage
+of discovery that will very much change her character.
+
+     Some of the established empires will fall.  Some will rise.  Hopes and
+fortunes will be alternately made or destroyed.  At least one major group not
+yet known even to EXIST will make its presence known, but only gradually.
+Some characters will fall from grace.  Others will make bargains whose full
+price they do not understand...but will eventually come to realize, and
+regret.
+
+     At the end of the first season, one character will undergo a major, MAJOR
+change, which will start the show spinning on a very different axis.  The
+first season will have some fairly conventional stories, but others will start
+the show gradually moving toward where I want it to go.   One has to set these
+things up gradually.  Events in the story -- which is very much the story of
+Jeffrey Sinclair -- will speed up in each subsequent season.
+
+     Someone he considers a friend will betray him.  Another will prove to be
+the exact opposite of what Sinclair believes to be true.  Some will live.
+Some will die.  He will be put through a crucible of terrible force, that will
+change him, and alter his destiny, in a profound and terrible way...if he goes
+one way, or the other, will determine not only his own fate, but that of
+millions of others.  He will grow, and become stronger, better, wiser...or be
+destroyed by what fate is bringing his way.  In sum, it is a story of hope
+against terrible adversity and overwhelming odds.
+
+     That, in broad brush strokes, is a *taste* of what I plan to do with the
+series.  I note this here because when the pilot airs, I am going to ask for
+your continued help in supporting the endeavor for the series, and it occurs
+to me that you ought to have at least SOME idea of what you're buying, and
+being asked to support.  One should never be asked to sign a blank check on
+the bank of one's conscience.
+
+     Reactions?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     What happens at the end of the five year arc?  The "Babylon 5" series
+ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do).  If something esle
+follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be the same series, or the same
+title, or really the same characters.
+
+     Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year arc, I
+take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Thanks, all.  My only mortal dread in putting this stuff out there is
+based upon the fact that the basic *story* of the pilot movie is fairly
+straightforward, the way you make a prologue to a novel fairly simple, but
+plant the seeds for that which will follow.  My terror is that people will
+look at it, expecting ***GALACTIC EMPIRES IN COLLISION!*** and see a rather
+basic story, and say, "Huh?  Where's all the other stuff?"
+
+     It's in the series.  Trust me.  I wouldn't lie on you.
+
+     In a way, it's a question of establishing context.  Take, for instance,
+the two TERMINATOR movies.  The plots of both are incredibly simple, and
+essentially identical: Character A comes out of the future to kill Character
+B; Character C also comes out of the future to stop Character A.  When you
+come *right down to it*, that's all the story there is.  But it introduces the
+background, and the context, and that informs the story.  The actual *story*
+in the B5 pilot is similarly basic (also for the reason that it became easier
+to slip past folks)...it's the context and the characters that are introduced
+that matter.
+
+      And there's a *lot* to introduce...a new universe, new technologies, new
+races, NINE regular characters, histories, wars, alliances...there ain't much
+room for anything too complex.
+
+     It's like a foundation poured of concrete; it ain't pretty, but it's
+*solid* enough to hold one hell of a house.
+
+     And speaking of which....
+
+     Basic fact: all you can do is the *best* you can do.  You do your job,
+second-guess yourself into hysteria, and hope it works.
+
+     Which is a long way of saying...the B5 pilot is now complete.   Nothing
+remains to be done.  We had the final run-through and playback on TV set
+speakers (modifying a few things here and there, but not much), and now it
+goes to the studio, and from there, the stations.
+
+     There was only one other modification I made today: remembering some of
+the confusion and uncertainty here about how the Kosh hand scene was framed --
+why it was the way it was, he said vaguely -- I decided at the last minute to
+bring in Pat Tallman to record one additional line of dialogue to clarify
+things.  Once again, the discussion here has directly affected something in
+the pilot.  The criticisms, I felt, were accurate, and needed to be addressed.
+This was done.
+
+     That said...it's a strange feeling knowing that this stage is now
+complete.  No take-backs, no second chances, nada.  The film lives or dies now
+on its merits, as it should be.  There's exhiliration, and a measure of -- I
+dunno -- hollowness, I suppose.  And now the need grows to get Phase Two
+going.  And one way or another, it *will* get going.
+
+     For five years, people told me that B5 could never be made, that even if
+you could find a studio to back it, it might never get aired; and even if you
+got both those two, you'd never be able to exercise the creative control
+required to make it worth the agony.  Five years is just a whole lotta NOs.
+But it got done.  And, of course, the chorus returns about the series...but it
+will get made, if I have to move heaven and earth to do it.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Re: using the background TVs to show newscasts of recent events... what
+an utterly, utterly, majorly COOL idea.  The frown on my face is only from
+wondering why the hell none of US thought of that.  (Hmm... y'know, there were
+invariably one or two guys in the crew running around videotaping everything
+and anything...if you could have them also videotaping scenes as we were
+filming them...splice in EFX footage as needed...wrap the whole thing around
+the B5 Newscast Logo (and yes, we have one, it's in the pilot, albeit in BG),
+it'd give you something nifty to have going on, and would make sense.
+
+     What a wonderful and simple and effective idea....
+
+     Thank you.
+
+                                                                jms
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+the other day, and as we were watching it, he kept shaking his head at all the
+things he would've done differently if he'd known then what he knows now, and
+if he'd had the programs/techniques then that he has now.  Just the few months
+since we finished photography have given him  a number of tools that he didn't
+have then.
+
+     We talked a little about what's capable now, what he can do now, and
+what's coming up, and it makes what's in the pilot look like nothing by
+comparison.  (A lot of the critics talked about the extensive work that went
+into the DS9 jello-man effect, not to mention the cost involved; he turned his
+associate Paul into the same thing in a test that worked just as well and took
+one night and no money, just a little while behind the keyboard.)  Once we get
+the go, he and I are going to spend a couple of days just sitting and talking
+about what can be done now, so that I can take full advantage of this new
+stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     "Bob" will never be seen talke, for any reason,
+in B5.  I'll personally run a truck over him first, newscast or not (unless I
+think I can get a good gag out of it...).
+
+     Re: my mental state...I'll know better in a week or so.  I try not to get
+too personally involved with my own life.  Basically, itf
+in ever-------
+
+     BTW, to correct an erroneous statement of mine earlier, there is not a
+species named Vee'lons that will be introduced on DS9.
+
+     The Vee'lons will be introduced on Space Rangers.
+
+     Some days, I just can't get a break....
+
+                                   s
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+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of  ships,
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+
+     Re: talking vs. action...there's a shade more exposition than I'd like in
+the pilot, mainly because there's so damned MUCH background to establish, so
+much ground to lay...it'll be more evenly proportioned in the series.  I like
+action.  For me, the #1 crime of any TV show or movie is that it should bore.
+When in doubt, kill somebody.
+
+     Or blow something up.
+
+     Re: technology...yes, the point about the sudden jump via new
+technologies is exactly dead on.  It *did* have a tramautic impact, and to
+varying degrees still does.  The effect of technology, and the desire for
+same, will be a recurrent thread.  There are some technologies that are
+considered too radical for some species, and are thus kept off limits, with
+prison sentences or even death sentences for smuggling certain kinds of
+technologies.  One such tech-runner appears in the pilot.  The parallel, I
+suppose, would be our current concerns with the spread of nuclear technology.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I use Windows a little more than I used to, but overall I suspect (well,
+know, really) that I'm not getting the most bang for my buck because I don't
+understand the mechanics of configuring either Windows or the computer itself.
+I'm sitting here with a killer megasystem, and...the best comparison I can
+think of is an australian aborigine who's found an F-16 figher plane and
+mainly uses it to shelter his sheep and goats under the wings when it
+rains....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I've tended to lean more in the direction of individual computers --
+multi-gigabyte systems small enough to fit on the wrist, which also serve as
+communications systems called Links -- that are generally networked into the
+B5 database/central computer system.  Ninety percent of any information you're
+likely to need you probably already have in the Link; anything additional you
+need, or if you need a direct interface with Babylon Central Computer, that
+can be accomplished with a simple voice command.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Just as a point of clarification, Links are only used by station
+personnel, not visiting aliens, or any visitor, human or otherwise, for whom
+multi-use terminals have been set up in their quarters.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Basically, I think that there should be something on-screen if there
+NEEDS to be something on-screen.  For instance, in both Sinclair's quaters and
+the briefing room, you'll see monitors on the wall in BG and later used for
+important stuff.  (That should be quarters, not quaters, which is what you
+find on the moon.)  When not *actively in use* they display only the B5 logo,
+sort of a carrier wave.  When a signal comes in from local, you get the BabCom
+logo, then the signal.  When a signal comes in from a ship, or the computer
+provides information, you go right from the B5 symbol straight to the display.
+When it's over, you go back to the static symbol until it's needed again.
+
+     The only real exceptions to this are a) the consoles in the observation
+dome, which are going at all times to monitor incoming and outgoing ships, and
+b) displays in the business areas which show the internal B5 Newscast and
+commercials.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 10 1993
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+     Isn't Lexicor the company owned by Lex Luthor...?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+     After a crocodile named Leviathan?  Er...I think that it's likely a
+reference to the book of Job, where he is asked by god, "Canst thou draw out
+Leviathan with an hook; or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"
+(JOB 41:1)
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+     They don't exactly get along, that's for sure.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+     There's a mid-season story that deals *precisely* with this issue.
+
+     Hence...I'm forced to remain mute for the moment.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Ta-daaaa...Gary, take another look at the pilot.  Every time you see
+Lyta, you will notice a silver insignia on her lapel.  It's the Psi symbol set
+against a bronze background.  That is, indeed, the preferred form of
+reference.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Bill Warren suspects more than he knows, and knows less than he suspects.
+And any resulting opinions are simply that, and though written are nowhere
+near writ, holy or otherwise.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+strength.  Lyta at P5 needs a little help.  A P10 could nail you from across
+the room.
+
+     And I want to have some fun with the commercial funding aspects of
+B5...ads, gov't support, commercials, all that stuff.  That's an issue that I
+feel really needs to be addressed...who pays for this neat stuff? And what
+happens when the money runs out?
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Yes, we'll definitely see them in their civvies, and there will be a
+range of entertainment possibilities, including TV (again, there are shots of
+an internal newscast on B5, and commercials as well).  Thee's -- er, there's --
+one little thing that I'm gonna do the first episode or so to establish that
+that's so off-beat and (one hopes) funny that I'm sure you'll like it.  If
+only I can get Warners to release the footage....
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     Yeah, that was the hard part with the actors...they're so used to seeing
+one costume actors in SF that even though they HAD other stuff to wear, it was
+hard to shoe-horn them into it.  But that'll change.
+
+     As for skivvies...who knows...there's a shot of Sinclair emerging from
+bed wearing just about nada until he gets his robe on that several women on
+the show kept re-running, saying "yum...".
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I can't remember height ever even being discussed, except once, when we
+were debating about two possibilities for a given role.  I don't think it
+really matters.  As it happens, it probably won't ever come up because both
+Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle (and I think Johnny Sekka) are all well over 6'
+tall.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Lonnie, let us not tempt the universe....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Jack...er...so, you noticed those initials, eh?  Probably noticed that
+Garibaldi's first name is Michael, too, huh?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     The two tallest are Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle...and I think they're
+about the same height...unless Jerry's just a squidge taller.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Just checked their resumes, and their heights aren't indicated.  I will
+have to get back to you on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     The current newsletter is due out this week, and any who sent in subs
+requesting #1 will probably receive them at the same time.
+
+     Re: merchandising...we have several deals in the works, the only one I
+know for sure involves a computer game from a major company.  There will be
+some supplementary stuff...shirts and mugs and hats and patches and
+stuff...around the time of the pilot, at least so I'm told.  Luckily, my
+contract with Warners requires my consultation on marketing, so nothing
+embarrassing will come out if I have anything to say about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Don't know yet; will probably have more info in a few weeks.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The software company involved is a good one, and the designers are first
+rate.  As soon as I can announce the details, I will.
+
+     And yeah, I get one of everything.  I may need a bigger house....
+
+     The best way to make sure one gets in on any upcoming marketing is
+probably to write Warners marketing (I believe it's the Licensing Corporation
+of America...maybe someone here has an address) and ask to get on a mailing
+list for info.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Great, Rob, many, many thanks.  So yeah...anybody who wants to get on a
+mailing list for merchandise related to B5, drop a note to the address
+contained in message 187.  Be the first on your block....
+
+                                                       jms
+

+
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+     Yep...the "beep" stuff will all be clear by the end of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     Leviathan...as a local, mayhap you could ring up Dana Hersey and fill him
+in on the background, just so's he knows it ain't a DS9 riff.
+
+     This is probably the single biggest problem I know we're gonna have with
+reviews.  On every other level, we'll stand on our own; I just don't want that
+inaccuracy surfacing and skewing the review.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     WVTV Milwaukee.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I'm scheduled for Gallifrey One Goes Forth?
+
+     Oh....
+
+     Er...when exactly is that, again?
+
+                                                                      jms
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+
+     If I see one more message with a one-liner on top and then ten zillion
+lines of white space, which at 2400 baud go by too fast for me to read the
+damn thing, so I have to then go back and find the number of the message, and
+replay it time after time while hitting ^S to try adn stop it before it
+scrolls past again, I am going to do someone serious damage.
+
+     (Well, everyone ELSE was having a tirade....)
+
+     Paula...you're responding to and arguing with something that only you
+heard because it doesn't exist in the pilot.  The line that Sinclair says is,
+"I managed to take out a fighter before they hit my stabalizers.  I was losing
+control, I'd lost my team...." etc.  Not vertical stabalizers.   Just the
+device that keeps the ship from spinning end over end by  controlling the
+various thrusts.  No matter WHAT system you're using, you have to be able to
+go from A to B, and the minute adjustments required, particularly if you're in
+the midst of battle, are too complex for one person to make on the fly.  It
+has to go through a computer.  If the  system -- hydraulics, pneumatics, air
+thrust, fusion, whatever power you happen to prefer -- is damaged, it's going
+to screw you up.
+
+     THAT was the line.  And the Line.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I keep hearing Alladin's more of a pain than it's worth, which is why I
+generally do all my writing/reading on-line.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Just one other little item you're forgetting, Paula...these are
+individual fighters, which are made to operate in and out of an atmosphere.
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     Several reasons...first, she wouldn't be able to tell for sure if his
+memory had or had not been "doctored" to eliminate the memory of the action.
+(An upper-level Psi could notice the seams in the memory; she's basically a
+business-transaction person who's a teeny bit over her head in what she's
+doing, and she knows it.)  Second, I'm playing constantly with how our society
+will deal with this kind of telepath.
+
+     The idea is always "innocent until proven guilty."  Now, you can bring
+someone to trial, and a psi can scan them, and boom, you know one way or
+another.  But does that violate our judicial tradition of a trial BY JURY, and
+put 'WAY too much power in the hands of telepaths?  Because bear in mind, we
+still have to take their word for what they "see" in someone's mind.  They can
+function as key witnesses, but it's my sense that they would be SPECIFICALLY
+PROHIBITED from going into the mind of an accused person to determine their
+innocence or guilt, *even if so invited*.
+
+     There are others, but those are, in my mind, the key reasons for this.
+It's a matter of trying to be logical and consistent in how these things are
+used; you don't want to have something (or someone) become the Magic Wand that
+solves every problem, a Deux Ex Lyta, so to speak.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Yes, Lyta's always had an affinity for alien races from a telepathic
+standpoint.  As for telling reality from subjective; as soon as it goes in
+your eyes, it becomes subjective.  So that's the only POV from which she can
+act.  It's easiest when it's straightforward visual or auditory impulses, not
+much open to coloring by the subjective aspect.  If the person being scanned
+is unbalanced, then 1) it becomes VERY uncomfortable for the psi, and 2) there
+are signature aspects of the scan (colors, hallucinations, delusions) that
+would tip off any good psi that this may not be a very valid perspective.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Yes, there are shields available, mainly implants, sometimes drugs, and
+cyberalteration techniques to mind-wipe people temporarily so they can't be
+read easily.
+
+     Re: perjury, there are Psi review boards, as with the AMA (and of equally
+debatable power) that could be called into play in the case of suspected
+perjury, as well as other abuses of the Psi-Corps authority.   If a review
+board or other PC arm finds you're in violation of standards, the next step is
+the psi-cops.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     The background on that business meeting is similar to all such uses of
+telepaths: both sides agree to the presence of a telepath to monitor the
+negotiations.  If one were to demur, the deal would be off because the person
+clearly has something to hide.  Which is why there is a good market for
+various kinds of shields that don't LOOK like or feel like shields unless the
+telepath knows what to look for.  You can also just try and hide it and hope
+that the telepath isn't looking too deep or isn't really paying attention,
+which is what that guy was doing.  (May have been reciting the "tensor" rhyme
+trying to keep his brain occupied.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     How much combat is in the movie?  Not terribly much...I wanted more of a
+dramatic series with action than an action series with drama.  The series will
+alternate...some with lots and lots of action, some with less.
+
+     The budget is classified.
+
+     Re: the total population of B5...this is something that I went round and
+round with as the designers and I worked on this thing.  They haven't given me
+an exact figure yet; I imagine I'll get it eventually.  It's in the *area* of
+a couple hundred thousand, though.  I *think* they said the max capacity was
+around 250,000 but I could be wrong.
+
+     (This is one of those things where the writer can't just set a figure and
+wave a magic wand.  B5 is a particular given size...now you have to figure out
+how much space is required by hydroponics, station systems, infrastructure and
+so on...subtract that from the total available volume, determine how large the
+individual living quarters are, with some variance, and then finally zero in
+on how many people that could accommodate without squeezing everyone in like
+sardines.  All I know is that there's math involved....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     No, they're not.
+
+     And someone trained to know what to look for in a scan would pick up on
+it...but those are few and far between.
+
+     Ah hates math.  I failed bonehead math twice in junior college, and only
+passed the third time when the professor, seeing me one more time in his
+class, said in despair, "Just...go.  I'll give you a C-, just go."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I can more or less hold my own in math UNTIL such time as suddenly we're
+dealing with numbers AND letters.  For some reason, I'm absolutely hard-wired
+for language.  Letters are part of a word, a number is for math.  When someone
+says "A = 9" my immediate response is, "A what?  *A* dog?  *A* horse?  What?"
+I know what the theory is on all this, that there are groups, sub-groups,
+universes, all that jazz...the theory is fine...but when I look at a number
+AND a letter in an equation, my brain goes into vapor lock, I get confused and
+fall down.
+
+     I don't even want to TALK about the scams I ran in order to pass my
+semester of Statistical Psychology to get my B.A. in clinical psych.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+         .
+          .
+           .
+            .
+             .
+               <thud>
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1993
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+     To get past the language requirement, I took two semesters of German.
+German I and German II.  Simultaneously.  From 9-10:30 twice a week we were
+nice and safe and snuggly in a very basic German class...and from 10:30 to 12
+noon twice a week (same days), we were dropped screaming like souls into
+Dante's Ninth Circle masquerading as German II, where the instructor would
+ONLY speak to us in German.  Which we didn't understand.  It was kind of a
+trial run, an experiment to see if it would work, and the conclusion at the
+end of the semester...at which point half of us were stark, staring mad, and
+the other half were plotting to annex the Sudetenland...was that it didn't
+work.  My basic problem (even though I passed) was that I was always week on
+English grammar...so when I had to slam a word through the various forms and
+declensions, I would...well, you've seen what happens when someone throws an
+equation at me...it's a lot like that, only with a bunch of umlauts thrown in
+for color.
+
+     That was the same semester in which I realized that I wanted to get the
+hell OUT of college and into writing full time, and started cramming courses.
+I think I had something on the order of 23 or 27 credits that semester alone,
+in violation of university limits (I crashed courses that were beyond the
+proscribed limits).  And they weren't monkey classes, either, lemme tell
+you...6 units of German, plus classes in Statistical Psychology, Biology,
+Literature, Philosophy, and some other stuff (along with the 1-2 writing
+workshops I took every semester).  To this day I'm still amazed that I
+actually got THROUGH that semester.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+      There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to
+work to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For
+instance, in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then
+in Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     There are about as many as now...with a few extras developed on the Mars
+and other colonies.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+     Re: asking telepaths on a date...it would be verbal, assuming we're
+talking PC hrized scans are illegal, and thus they would not be "dipping" to
+know your intentions.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+
+     (A job like that could take YEARS....)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+

+
+
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+     I'm finishing B5 post production this coming week, and writing my third
+novel, and am helping out a friend on another series (said friend having
+gotten in over his head a bit, through no fault of his own) doing rewrites and
+a few scripts.  Just something to keep me busy while waiting to gear up for
+the series.  (Also took time to write out a synopsis of each of the first 22
+episodes for B5's first season, which will then be assigned as needed,
+interposing new ideas as they're suggested by other writers.  Also finished an
+hour-length B5 script, which will be one of the mid-season shows to be shot.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     All I can say is when Warners gives us the production go, we'll be ready.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     That'll probably be decided by forces wiser than I.  And just FYI, all
+the PTEN shows are given 22 episode committments per season.
+
+                                                       jms
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+                                Who...?
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 05 1993
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+
+     That's simply a standard unit of measure.  Some series do more than 22,
+but those are more rthe MURDseasons generally ran 22 episodes.
+
+     22 x 3 seasons is 66, which is enough for long-term syndication, if
+barely.
+
+     And there won't be a Joe Jr.  One doesn't go through a vasectomy for lack
+of anything better to do on a Friday night....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Nope, B5 is shot right here in LA County.
+
+     It helps that my Spousal Overunit is also a writer, and understands what
+it means when I come out, eyes like poached eggs, staggering towrad the coffee
+pot, mumbling, "Deadlines...deadlines...."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     They sure do cost a lot.  We plan to do some such shots for the series,
+in the zero-g section of the garden, and possibly in the zero-g cargo section
+that rides on top of  B5.  My mandate to Ron is to come up with a way of doing
+it that looks good.  Once we have that, we'll do the story.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     The series standard opening will be a variation on Londo's narration at
+the top of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two full
+acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
+     But there are reasons for everything....
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     Re: the voices....I can't do it, I can't tell him....
+
+     Re: the narration at the beginning...actually, I suppose there's no
+reason why I can't put it up here.
+
+     LONDO (older voice): "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of
+Mankind.  It was the Earth year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the  Babylon
+stations, located deep in neutral space.  It was a port of call for
+businessmen, smugglers, diplomats, businessmen and travelers from a hundred
+worlds.  It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because
+Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.  Under the leadership of its
+final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form...a dream of a galaxy
+without war, where species from other worlds could exist in mutual respect...a
+dream that was endange one man on a mission of destruction.  Babylon 5 was the
+last of the Babylon stations.  This...is its story."
+
+     That's from memory, and as I look at it, some of it ain't *exactly* right
+(that should be "species from different worlds" not "other worlds," for
+instance, but the sense of it is correct, and it's probably 90% textually
+correct.  (I also see I repeated businessmen twice...which means I left
+something out, but having now been up about 20 hours, I'm too tired to
+remember what or to look it up in the script.)
+
+     I'll try to remember to dig out the exact wording and put it up, if
+anyone's interested.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind.  It began in the
+Earth Year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations, located deep
+in neutral space.  It was a port of call for refugees, businessmen, smugglers,
+diplomats and travelers from a hundred worlds.  It could be a dangerous place,
+but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.
+Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream, given
+form.  A dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds
+could exist, side by side, in mutual respect...a dream that was endangered, as
+never before, by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction.
+
+     "Babylon 5...was the last of the Babylon stations.  This...is its
+story...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     That is the only narration in the show.  When we get to the series, I
+plan to adjust the narration and keep it as a stet opening.  Probably it'll be
+something along the lines of, "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of
+Mankind.  It began in the Earth year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the
+Babylon stations.  This is its story...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+      Oh, yeah, the "mission of destruction" thing ONLY relates to this
+particular episode, the pilot.  It'll be gone from regular episodes.
+
+     For the series, my feeling is that the intro should be as short as
+possible, almost more for mood than for information.
+
+     The intro may also change slightly each season....
+
+     As for software, I use plain old Word for my writing, though I just got
+7.0 and will change over as soon as I decide I have nothing else of value in
+my life to deal with.  I am but a simple man from a simple land of simple
+values....
+
+     The computer itself is kind of a hum-dinger...a 486/50mhz, 330 meg hard
+drive, 650 meg rewriteable optical drive (for a total on-line of about 1
+gigabyte), NEC 4FG monitor, 64 megs of RAM, SCSI 32 bit system, and due to
+arrive any day now, the 6-disk Pioneer CD-ROM jukebox.  Also have the
+Thunderboard sound card, Diamond Speedstar 14F video card, and a bunch of
+other goodies.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Actually, there's a weird typo in there; it should be Wordstar 5.5, not
+Word (ecch).
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     The background visuals for the narrative will be much the same for the
+series as the pilot...a montage of the station, people and locales.
+
+     Difference between an exec producer and a producer?  A producer can be a
+line producer, who handles mainly production problems, or a writer producer,
+who mainly writes, sits in on casting and stuff.  An exec producer is the guy
+In Charge...otherwise referred to as a Show Runner, who sets the direction for
+the series or project, makes final decisions on casting, music, sets, all that
+jazz.  On B5, I share exec producer status with Doug Netter...basically, we
+divide it up that Doug handles most of the deal making (which he loves) with
+agents, other business stuff, and I get to play.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to humans, not
+sentient aliens including his own race.  Earthers.  Which was one reason (of
+many) I wanted his character to be the narrator, someone looking in from the
+outside.
+
+     As for the Third Age, it's -- oh, darn, look at the time, have to go....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I only said that the story will *concentrate* on B5 the first two years
+in terms of locations.  We'll branch out, certainly, after that.
+
+     Mike: your Third Age thought is very close to being correct.  It's only
+the object of your sentence that's incorrect.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, it's repetitive.  Yes, it's deliberate.  It brings you back to the
+beginning of the narrative, which is a space shot that more or less matches
+the other shot.  (Makes a visual loop, in other words.)
+
+     Telestro: certainly one of our characters might go the way of
+Saruman....and one might go the way of Aragorn...and Gandalf...ah, well,
+that's always uncertain, isn't it?  "Expect me when you see me."
+
+                                                                jms
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+     And then again...maybe not.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT PLANET GAWOOMPKI?!  EGADS!  THERE'S A LEAK IN OUR
+OPERATION!
+
+     (Actually, there *is* a leak in our organization...the funny thing is
+that it's me.)
+
+     Re: Sinclair and Ambassador-ship...there's a very logical questoin (or
+question) that has to be dealt with.  (Again, we go back to that same point,
+asking the next question.)  Why is a *Commander* serving on the station, and
+the Advisory Council, and representing Earth?  Wouldn't they have a regular
+Ambassador present?
+
+     This is a question that we will resolve.  As well as the one implicit in
+the foregoing: why is a *COMMANDER* -- lower in rank than a Captain --
+entrusted with this responsibility, rather than an Admiral or some other high-
+ranking individual?
+
+                                                                       jms
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+     BTW, ironically, this is the only area that worries me in showing the
+pilot.  People are going to say, "Waitaminnit!  This doesn't make any sense!
+Why is a COMMANDER running this thing?  And what about this bit over here...?"
+It's kinda risky to deliberatly program in what look like errors, but are
+story points that will be raised and resolved later.   Ah, well...you gotta
+take chances....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yeah, I'm *pretty much* staying to Naval terms, mainly because the
+introduction of starships will probably be under that heading as vessels, and
+that seems to follow.  Additionally, if all of the various major militaries of
+various countries were combined into one Earthforce, then there would be some
+standardization, and naval terms *seem* to be more standard than others across
+services, but my research there isn't as deep as it probably should be.  Would
+be nice to work in some variations, however....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The EA is governed by political figures, just as today, though some of
+the structures have altered to accommodate a more world-spanning form of
+government.  (Instead of senators elected from states, they're now elected by
+country, and so on.)
+
+     As for language...the DICTIONARY defines language, PEOPLE screw with it
+until distinctions blur...as with the distinction between "fewer" and "less."
+"There were less people in attendence this week."  No.  There  were FEWER
+people in attendence.  This is what people do.  This is your language.  This
+is your language in people...any questions?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     That's an extremely good point about species/races; I'll be careful about
+that.  I don't *think* that came up in the pilot, and now it won't in the
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     BTW, it's my understanding that the monitor screens on TNG are not
+inserted in post; they're regular TV screens with edges that come out and
+cover any bends in the tube, thereby giving it a flat look.  At least, that's
+what I hear....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I agree re: universal translators.  Most everything in the ST universe is
+bent toward making the process easier, less challenging; I want to show the
+process of overcoming.  I think it's great if an alien shows up from a
+previously unvisited planet, and they spend days trying to communicate with
+it.  I think that some computerized stuff might work, as in the case where
+someone programs a machine to go from one specific language to another (sort
+of a species-specific interpreter), but thats about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+
+     Re: language in general...I agree that all languages must be "living
+languages" in that they are free to grow and expand and add new terms.   There
+is a difference between this and a *collapsing language* in which the
+distinction between terms (the aformentioned less and fewer) becomes degraded,
+and meanings blur through misuse.  Ase gradually becomes less precise.  A
+language should be graded on how well it manages to communicate the thoughts
+of one to the other.  If it begins to fail in that regard, then it is not a
+living but a dying language.
+
+     (Another example: the way that "anxious" and "eager" have come to mean
+the same thing.  "Anxious" carries with it some degree of worry or dread or
+fear; "eager" is a pleasant term, connoting something wonderful and nice for
+which one is longing.  So when someone says, with a smiling and expectant
+attitude, "Yeah, I'm really anxious to see the new Lucas movie," it's a misuse
+of the term, unless there's some reason for worry.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     In terms of the EFX, I think it's all Amigas, with some IBMs being used
+for general computing (letters, schedules, etc.).
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: TRON v2.0....I'd rather write kids in space.
+
+     Re: places of origin...my sense is that they have their own unique names.
+We don't call our planet Terra (well, not really), or Hum (for Human) or
+Planet Human.  Because some of the names are difficult to pronounce, the
+logical approach is to note them by designation, i.e., "And shall be shipped
+off to the Narn homeworld."  That is the only time or I should say context by
+which we refer to their places of origin.  The only exception to this, and I
+don't recall if this is in the pilot or not, is the Centauri homeworld,
+designated Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, there are definitely other human settlements...colonies and outposts
+and co-operative projects on other worlds with other species.   It's mainly
+from this overlap that the EA draws its non-human members, though a few worlds
+have chosen to ally themselves directly with the EA.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I...no...never mind...forget it...some things are too gross even for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Suddenly sounds began emitting from the producer's office...witnesses
+later described them as twin shrieks....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Kosh as in "gosh."  There's actually a last name, btw...Naranek.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Pronounced Nuh-RAH-nek.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Actually, I said that Sinclair will have a steady VERTICAL relationship
+with....
+
+     Don't hit me, I'm a sick man.
+
+     And nothing in life is permanent, not even relationships.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
+     I've lost all track of how much time I spend on BBSs; two-three hours a
+day here, plus 1-2 per day on CIS, and then other services.  I'm on several
+where I don't post messages, and the folks there engaged in SF-TV discussions
+don't know I'm looking over their shoulder.
+
+     Why?  Because if people know you're there, they tend to speak more
+politely about you, and your projects.  They're free to be brutally
+honest...and lemme tell you, it brings one up short sometimes.  But I think
+that's both good and essential.  Sort of a control group approach...see what
+the opinion is like of folks who don't have direct access, and only hear stuff
+second-hand.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Yes, GEnie is still my first choice.  You'll note I didn't call the
+locale for B5 Central Interstellar System or anything dopey like that; only
+referring to it (in bible now, eventually in script) as Grid Epsilon (GE).  I
+post only a few messages there per week; this is home.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Yes, we'll definitely see some EVA suits of various kinds, human and
+alien.  In the pilot, though it's farther away than I would've liked, you can
+see a shot along the side of B5, with a couple of ships streaking past, and a
+flashing light up in the upper left-hand corner on the hull of the station.
+Freeze the frame, and look closely, and you'll see th at it's a guy in an EVA
+suit repairing a micrometeor puncture (or some other problem) with a welder of
+sorts.
+
+  We'll do more, better, and closer, later on.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Apparently, it's not difficult at all to digitize an actor's face and put
+it inside an EVA suit's facemask.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+
+     Someone back a while ago suggested "Fivers," and that's kinda nice.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...yeah, that's a show that is an example of what to
+strive for, and how sometimes good intentions can get derailed.  We genuinely
+wanted to come up with a long-term story, and by and large, we succeeded.  The
+problem was the marketing in front of the show, and the merchandising behind
+the show...we got killed from both sides.
+
+     There's an entire second season of unproduced CP scripts, story edited by
+Larry DiTillio, in which he follows up on the arc that I and others
+established during the first season.  You would have found out what Dread
+became, what happened to Power's mother, where Eden was (and there would be
+direct contact), what the secret was in Soaron's programming, and so on.
+
+     It was a good experience, though, and it let me cut my teeth on multi-
+season story construction.  It was the experience on Power that led me to
+believe that something like B5 could be done.  (And yeah, I still have much
+the same reaction to the last episode...it's a real tough one to watch...which
+was the point.)
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...it aired in 1987/88 in syndication.  Was set in the
+future, after the MetalWars, in which one man, who caused the war (in the best
+interests of humanity) decided that to save humanity it must be digitized and
+stored in machines for the day when perfect metalloid bodies could give
+mankind immortality.
+
+     Re: Twilight Zone...yes, I worked on the syndicated version.  Among the
+episodes I wrote (I was also story editor) are "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+with Bruce Weitz; "Dream Me a Life," with Eddie Albert; co-wrote "The Curious
+Case of Edgar Witherspoon," with Harry Morgan, and co-wrote "Our Selena is
+Dying" posthumously with Rod Serling, from a long lost TZ outline.  Other TZs
+that I wrote around that time, but whose stars I can't consistently recall:
+"The Wall," "The Call," "What Are Friends For?" "Something in the Walls,"
+"Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," and have
+another shared writing credit on "The Trance."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     No, I wasn't previously aware of "Agony" (except what I've gone through
+these last six months), but will look for it in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Aquila: give me the name of the paper and the reporter who wrote the
+article.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Rob:  from where?  Re: telepaths...there are definite limits, and I most
+definitely do NOT wanta it to be a deus ex machina, the solution to every
+problem.  If anything, it IS a problem itself.
+
+     M.Morgan...yes, absolutely, that's what I had in mind all the time. Yeah,
+that's it, that's the ticket....
+
+     And tachyons...can't forget those pesky tachyons....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     The computer system is quite good, based on a crystalline technology
+that's a mesh between alien and human-developed stuff.  As for defense, you'll
+see a full demonstration of this in the first season; for now, let's just say
+that that smooth looking exterior is laced with sections that can open and
+reveal all kinds of interesting things.  Imagine a five mile long Swiss Army
+knife....
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+     Yes, the middle section of the station is the Garden, and is still an
+O'Neill type environment.  And over the course of the series, it's my
+intention to bring in all the various organizations and sub-organizations
+required to make a place like this work.  I really want to try and convey the
+sense of a Working Environment, not a set.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Doctrines and Covenants?  Are we talking here Mormonism or Scientology?
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 06 1993
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+     HEY!  NO FAIR!  NOBODY TOLD ME THERE WAS GOING TO BE MATH INVOLVED!   I
+DIDN'T STUDY!  I WASN'T TOLD THIS WAS GONNA BE ON THE TEST!  AAAKKKK!
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+     I forget....
+
+                                                              jms
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+     I'm still hammering down the rules on hyperspace...what can and can't be
+done.  My first thought was that they travel blind, but given that it's
+heavily traveled, I realized after a while that you'd *have* to be able to see
+your surroundings in order to avoid collisions.
+
+     The point you raise is quite conceivable.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+     Keyboards are still in use, mainly because there are always going to be
+things that you don't want someone to hear, so you'll always need some kind of
+non-verbal input system.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     I dunno...I kinda like glasses...but I know the reality is that it may be
+fixed by then...there are some in the pilot, in BG.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     It looks cool.
+
+     Also, bear in mind that often different gravities require different
+atmospheres; alternating atmospheres between floors in the same section is a
+bit more difficult than setting aside one whole sector that would be, say, for
+methane breathers, and which has a varied gravitational level as a further
+accommodation.  (If they require standard 1g, there are other areas.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Yep.  You'll see 'em in both the pilot and the series.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I agree.  I wear glasses.  I could go to contacts (glass or plastic), try
+surgery, all this stuff...but ain't nobody going near my eyes with pieces of
+glass or knives or lasers, I don't care HOW safe it is.  Just my luck to hit
+the one in a million power surge and I'll end up looking backward out where my
+brain stem used to be.
+
+     It's interesting to see how in pop SF, there is a tendency to assume that
+Major Changes will take place.  Take a look sometime at a film -- the first SF
+musical motion picture -- called "Just Imagine," produced during the 30s.  It
+talked about a future world in which everyone would have personal flyers, no
+one would have names any longer, only numbers, children would be manufactured
+and people would eat pills instead of food.
+ The time-frame in which all this amazing stuff was to take place?  The 1980s.
+As somebody said, the future ain't what it used to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter  craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     The two things on front -- the spikes, as it were -- are on either side
+of a second loading bay, this one expressly for cargo held in the zero-g cargo
+hold.
+
+     The vanes in the back are heat radiators, as I recall from the original
+design notes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+
+     Great!  A hi to all the folks who've come out and introduced themselves.
+Good to have you aboard.  It's interesting to know who all is out there...the
+varied backgrounds and fields and "what brought me me here" is intriguing.  A
+fine buncha folks....welcome.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+     Actually...y'know...it's funny, but I've been trying to come up with a
+name for the folks who just sorta roam B5, the "homeless" or others who have
+enough resources to get there in hopes of jobs or new worlds, and don't have
+enough to get off again...and who play a running game of tag of sorts with B5
+security..."Lurkers" ain't bad....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Hey, Mark, good to have another H-25er around.
+
+     Pat: I taught at Grossmont College for about one semester, it's a pretty
+good place.  (Went to San Diego State and  meself.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I taught writing (what else?)...I *think* it was around 1979 or 80.
+After a while, everything blurs.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: SDSU, no, I had very little to do with the cinema/telecom dept.
+there.  I crashed two courses -- mainly because I wanted to learn from a
+particular instructor, Norman Corwin -- and had one or two others, but that's
+it.  My interest was in other areas...one degree in Clinical Psychology with a
+minor in Philosophy; another in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing,
+that sort of thing.
+
+     BTW, if you go down to the offices of the Daily Aztec, and ask to see the
+archive volumes of the paper around 1977/78 or thereabouts, you'll see several
+zillion articles by me in there.  At more or less the same time, I was the
+resident book reviewer, film reviewer and theater reviewer, had two weekly
+humor columns ("A View from the Rabbit Hole" and "A Modern Cynic's
+Dictionary"), as well as regular feature articles and profiles, and the
+occasional investigative article, including one on the CIA.  The frequency of
+articles led some to describe the paper as The Daily J. Michael.  At the same
+time I was doing cover stories for the San Diego Reader, the Daily
+Californian, features for the SD edition of the Los Angeles Times, and
+entertainment reviews for KSDO-AM Newsradio.
+
+     But the Daily Aztec stuff was great fun.  I worked without pay, the only
+one on staff who did, in fact...because I didn't want to be beholden to
+anybody, could write what I wanted, nobody had any leverage.  Which was all
+for the good, given the massive numbers of angry letters and the occasional
+bomb threats elicited by what I wrote.
+
+     Can't imagine why....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Yes, a VERY large blunt object.
+
+     The one point of any possible interest to draw from this comes from
+something I tried to beat into incoming students when I was an orientation
+counselor at SDSU: if you go to college, and all you see are the class rooms,
+the bathrooms, the parking lot and the cafeteria, you will cheat yourself of
+99% of your possible education.  Any university or college has vast
+opportunities for writers and others.  In the former case, write for the
+university newspaper, or the university theater (and most schools have an
+ongoing one-act production program)...take classes in acting or film, to get a
+sense of history, or the hands-on process of being on stage...the range of
+experience open to you is enormous.  Don't just follow your major to its
+conclusion.  There is a world of experience you can get while you're there
+*that you may never have the chance to experience again*.   Take it.
+
+     End of sermon.  I shouldn't even be here, frankly, this is for the new
+folks and others to sign in and introduce themselves...both for the interests
+of our own private party, so we know who's come into the room, and for any
+possible future mailings or opportunities.
+
+     Let's hear from y'all.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     I'll have to be a little circumspect here (damn it, you're doing it
+again....).  The Narn Regime is not currently at war with the Centauri
+Republic, which occuped the Narn homeworld for nearly a century before finally
+being driven off by the Narn resistance.  Their resources depleted they are
+not currently in a position to make war on anyone; being naturally rather
+paranoid, and having just been more or less enslaved, they have a dread of
+other races getting together and possibly harming them, as well as a hunger
+for the technology that might protect them down the road (as Russia feared
+invasion its Eastern Front after WW2).
+
+     There's a rough alliance between the Earth Alliance and the Centauri,
+since theirs was the first race we encountered.  (They told us at that time
+that they were the biggest guys around, that they ran everything, that we were
+a lost colony of theirs...which eventually was disproven by genetic
+examination.  The rest of their claims were also BS.  They were trying to
+impress the natives.)
+
+     There's some movement toward making nice with the Minbari, but also a
+GREAT deal of resistance, given the recent war.
+
+     Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5 has any
+idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one race has had dealings
+with the Vorlons before.  Watch the reception at the end, and see if you
+notice anything unusual in the way the various people respond to Kosh.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Jonathan...............YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!  One at a time, please!
+
+     The only questions I can remember...the vorlons have never fought a war
+with any other race.  (At least none has ever been recorded.)  And right now
+in the Minbari race there's a big split that took place after the
+Earth/Minbari war between the religious leaders and the military leaders,
+which culminated with the suicide of the Minbari commander at the conclusion
+of the war.  They've now arrived at an uneasy truce, but with time, who knows?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Anyone who will take the job.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 10 1993
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+     By the way...someone on another CIStem posted a note about one of the two
+upcoming DS9 episodes, that one of the alien species they would encounter are
+named Vaa'lons...anyone else heard this?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Heh...I like that....I have sudden images of two aliens, one in a
+mustache, curly black hair, glasses and a big mustache...the other in a
+triangular cap, curly black hair, pushing an ice cream cold-box...his name is
+pronounced Chee-KO, the other Gro-CHooo..."Getta you tootsey frootsey ice-a
+cream, getta you tootsey frootsey ice-a cream...."
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Actually, for the pilot in particular, Kosh only has to move very stately
+and slowly from point A to point B, so there wasn't much that needed to be
+told.  For a longer period, on the series, he would be played more as a
+cypher...the less that can be revealed, the better.  The only people directly
+involved who had to know was the director (for certain attitudes) and the
+costume designer (to incorporate certain elements and leave room in
+appropriate sections).
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1993
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+     On the other hand...maybe it might be better if our Sysoptrix took the
+last, oh, 100 or so messages from 1 about this and transplanted 'em here.  Get
+the whole context in place.
+
+     And lord knows, it's not like she has anything ELSE to do, other than
+nudzhing me....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     The inter-relationships between FOX, PTEN, the FCC and any and all other
+acronymical organizations is utterly beyond my ken, and I would no sooner try
+to explain it or understand it than I would attempt to build a tesseract in
+the back yard.
+
+     In what I *hope* will be a relatively definitive word on this kid
+topic...yes, I can write a story with kids.  I've done it...I did it for the
+Twilight Zone and other shows.  The question is still one of making choices.
+Is that what this series is ABOUT?  You could drop in a chapter on badminton
+techiques into The Lord of the Rings or Debbie Does Cleveland, the question
+is, does it BELONG there?  Is that what the show or the story is attempting to
+address?
+
+     If there were no other shows with kids around, then I would be more
+inclined to do one with kids at the center.  But there are plenty of them
+around, particularly in SF...you've got kids aplenty on TNG, on DS9, I just
+saw a kid story on Space Rangers...this is simply a different kind of show.
+
+     My point is simply this: B5 is meant, in a very real sense, as noted in
+my message on 2, to be an SF novel for television.  If it were just random
+stories skittering hither, thither and yawn, that would be one thing.  But as
+any novelist can tell you, you have to ask, "Whose story is it?" and stick
+pretty close to that, even though you may swerve in and out of other POVs and
+indulge in omniscient narrative.  That requires certain choices about tone and
+attitude and what you include, and what you choose to exclude.  Doesn't
+invalidate one type of story or another, it only says "THIS is what my story's
+about."
+
+     There are plenty of other SF shows with kids.  Let's have something a
+little different.
+
+     (That's one of the ironies that crops up about this show...often people
+say "We want innovation," and when asked for specifics, they ask to make it
+more like other shows.  "Well, TNG does this kind of story, why can't you?"
+We can, but we're not.  Because we're not TNG.  Just as we will do some
+stories that I *guarantee* you ST wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Something I forgot to mention uptopic, when asked if I can write a story
+with kids...it's appeared in a lot of my prose.  The two leading protagonist
+in my most recent novel, OTHERSYDE, were around 16...the lead character in one
+of the first short stories of mine ever to be published ("Your Move," in
+Amazing SF) was about 13, and the second story of mine published ("A Last
+Testament for Nick and the Trooper," Shadows 6)  featured two kids maybe 19.
+
+     Provided only for the sake of completeness.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Absolutely.  I love being proven wrong.
+
+     Though there are few survivors to carry the story....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I'll know more about the computer game next week or so.  Best thing in
+general is to write to Licensing Corporation of America to get on their
+mailing list for future B5 promotional stuff and merchandising.
+
+     The Creation designs for shirts look okay, if a tad prosaic...there has
+got to be one central image to promote this show, but I'm darned if I can
+figure out what it is at this stage.  The logo looks swell, though, in any
+event.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Actually, JoJo's...uhm...outfit is probably the best thing about the
+show...not for pure asthetics, of course, just...I dunno...I just kinda like
+the dynamics of it...
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Indeed, they might withhold such participation, which the PC would be
+obligated to honor.  Non-PC telepaths would be a different situation entirely,
+of course...and a danger...which only a PC (or one of the other government's
+own 'paths, if any) could work against.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The "Making of B5" piece is being re-edited; originally, the E! piece was
+going to be the one shown, but...well, no need to rehash all of that.  The
+piece is being recut, and new stuff put in to replace the old stuff.  It
+should be finished next week, I hear, and then provided to the stations.
+
+     Great news about Arisia, Arne.  Any other reactions come to mind?
+
+     Re: using my posts for articles...by all means, proceed.
+
+     BTW, it appears that the deal for a B5 game has been closed, and the
+winner is Electronic Arts.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     This goes back to a very basic philosophical question: can you have
+thought without language, or language without thought?  At one point in our
+evolution, we became conscious...was there language, or did language then come
+as a *result* of consciousnes?  Or did the slow development of language *lead
+to* the development of true consciousness?
+
+                                                              jms
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+     I'll know more about the game in the weeks ahead.
+
+     Apparently, Creation has licensed some stuff...mainly shirts and mugs and
+patches and the like, nothing major, but it's there.  I got the first t-shirt
+design roughs today, and have some notes, but nothing too major.  More as this
+is developed.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if there are any SF conventions this coming weekend
+in Dallas?
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Licensing Corporation of America.  Based in New York.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     You say, "New characters and sets apparently do not work."  The basic
+problem, you seem to feel, is that it's the same show, and how do we go about
+making B5 different?
+
+     I think that the question is more accurately phrased as, "How does one
+make DS9 more like TNG?"  I'm going to do this absolutely as non-pejoratively
+as humanly possible, because this is fundamentally the truth.
+
+     When TNG first went on the air, a lot of the legwork was done for them
+already.  Much of the universe was established: phasers, the Enterprise,
+starfleet, klingons, warp speed, doors, terminology, on and on.  There was
+additional material added on, but the basic *foundation* is the same.  This is
+neither good nor bad.  One can do (and there have been) good stories within
+this format.  What it *is* is a continuation of the same universe.  You can do
+good stuff with that, but it's still fundamentally the same universe.
+
+     Now comes DS9, and again, it's much the same situation: it builds upon
+and integrates what went before.  We have the Federation, stuff introduced in
+TNG (Bajorans, Cardassians), some overlapping characters, and a carry-through
+of many pre-existing stories and themes.  Once again, and let me be clear
+about this, this doesn't mean you can't do good stories here.
+
+     It's just that it's the same universe.  It's not a question, really, of
+"sets and characters," it's a question of the universe overall, and the fact
+that it's really a repackaging of the same show, with some modifications.
+
+     B5 simply does not take place within that universe.  Every frame of film
+reminds you of this.  Without making a qualitative judgment for a moment,
+consider ST vs. Battlestar Galactica.  Both are space shows, but very
+different in tenor, tone and universe.  (BG and Star Wars is, of course, a
+very different discussion.)
+
+     The comparison I've always made has been to say "What if all the space
+science fiction stories ever published were written by Larry Niven?"
+ Yes, they would be fine stories...but one kinda wants something different
+after a while.  He might change characters, create different empires, but it's
+still a Niven point of view.
+
+     And that -- to get to the heart of your question -- is the point re: B5.
+It's a question of *voice* as well as all the physical elements you see on
+your television.  The *voice* is the underlying philosophy of a show and its
+creators, the perspective they bring to it.  Babylon 5 brings in a whole
+different voice.  Better or worse, that's a question for the viewer to
+decide...but it IS different.
+
+     We don't really have to try to be different from DS9 or TNG because we
+were never like them in the first place.  As opposed to DS9, which is linked
+to another show, and proceeds from the same producers/writers, and to which
+they have an obligation to make it, to whatever degree, much the same as TNG.
+
+
+     Those who have seen the two shows have no problem telling them apart.
+And future B5 stuff will continue to remain separate and fresh for the same
+reason that the pilot is different and fresh: because it proceeds from another
+voice.  Just as Clarke's stories have always been different from Asimov's has
+been different from Ellison's have been different from Bova's have been
+different from...well, you get the idea.
+
+     No comparison of quality implied there, only as examples of voice.   (One
+final note: B5 has always been conceived as, fundamentally, a five year story,
+a novel for television, which makes it very different as well.)
+
+                                                              jms
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+     That's not a bad notion.  As it is, the date given in each season of the
+show will change.  I.e., "I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.
+It began in the year 2257."  Then, "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age
+of Mankind.  It was the year 2258."  And so on.  So it not only tracks the
+storyline, it'll be easier for folks to know which season they're coming into
+as soon as they tune in.
+
+     BTW, y'know, I was thinking about this discussion as I sat chewing my
+lemon sesame chicken at the Good Earth Restaurant in Glendale this evening (my
+Spousal Overunit insists that I eat something healthy once in a while,
+apparently not believing that one can actually SURVIVE on beef jerky and
+little chocolate donuts and Crystal Pepsi)...and I was thinking about how this
+on-line discussion has now generated -- what? -- 7,000+ messages even before
+the show airs.
+
+     So I got to thinking...what's going to happen AFTER this sucker airs?
+ I kinda suspect that either a) we will see a lot of "I WUZ ROBBED!" notes
+followed by a silence vast as space, or b) this category is going to explode
+in the biggest blast since Tunguska.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     So, Denny, any comments of David's that you'd like to repeat here, or
+provide for PR use?  If not, that's okay.
+
+     Yeah, I'm inclined to think that there will be an upswing in interest.
+ What intrigues me is the notion that we actually will have two audiences out
+there: those who've followed this discussion, and will be able to read into
+things the various background information posted here...and those who will see
+it totally absent any background on the characters or the universe.  An
+offhand comment in the pilot would have more meaning for those who've been
+following this, and can fill in the blanks.
+
+     As a writer, though, you can't expect anyone to bring prior knowledge of
+your story TO the story, it has to be self-sufficient, so we'll see how well
+it functions on that level when the new folks arrive.
+
+     I'm sorry if it seems like there's an awful lot of self-examination going
+on here...my tendency is toward being hyper-critical of the work, rather than
+to try and make excuses for it.  And again, I must selfishly admit that I
+learn a *lot* from these exchanges, and the diversity of opinions here, and
+the depth of the answers to questions asked, is quite striking and most
+invaluable.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Funny thing is, I hadn't checked to see when the pilot would be aired in
+L.A.  Kind of amusing...and appropriate, given the probability that the
+audiences will overlap.
+
+     (The article to which Brett refers, btw, is a piece in the Palm Latitudes
+section of the LA Times Magazine that hit the newsstands today, which talks
+about the discussion here on GEnie, and has a photo of yr obdnt srvnt stuck
+inside a computer monitor which should probably be burned...the photo, that
+is...and as if that weren't bad enough, it's a Mac.)
+
+     One other aside...Denny's friend David is the *first* civilian on theh
+planet to see the totally completed B5 pilot, with sound, music and credits.
+Hence the current sub rosa exchange.
+
+     Katherine: yeah, I know there's a Good Earth in Studio City...was hoping
+Spousal Overunit wouldn't find out about it, but she did...sigh.   By gosh,
+give me a hamburger, fries and a chocolate shake!  The heck with this so-
+called health food.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Hah!  Phooey!  Why do you think I grew up...as much as I did, anyway?  So
+I wouldn't have to eat that stuff anymore.  When I'm found dead at 90 in front
+of my TV watching Babylon 5: The Next Generation, let it be with a coke in one
+hand and a chocolate bar in the other.  As Mark Twain said, "If you can't get
+to 70 by a comfortable road, don't go."
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     BTW, I'm giving some thought, since I'm going to be appearing at Con-Dor
+in San Diego this March as GoH, to bringing along some of the scenes we ended
+up cutting from the pilot, just to see folks' reaction to the stuff.  (Filmed
+and cut, not cut before filming.  There are about half a dozen extensive
+scenes available.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Don't know if these will ever show up down the road; in a few cases,
+where they're set pieces, we may actually be able to take one whole scene
+which is pretty much independent of the plot and drop it into an episode as
+part of a teaser.  (One, for instance, is an encounter with an alien hooker,
+the other invovles a smuggler.)  They were cut for reasons of time: we were 25
+minutes over length, and something had to go.  Several somethings,
+actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Correct, that's the shot seen in the magazine.
+
+     Re: the B5 commercials...please drop me a line reminding me of this prior
+to con-dor, or I'll forget.  (Jeez, between the commercials and the cut
+scenes, this is starting to add up to some considerable viewing time.)
+
+     Coke, Pepsi, who cares as long as it's got caffeine?
+
+     Katherine: I made a discovery, a better deli than Jerry's or Arts:
+Solley's, on Van Nuys two blocks up from Ventura, in the same complex as the
+multicinema.  A good deli, and a great restaurant, with stuff I haven't seen
+elsewhere.  (Corned beef and fried egg sandwich...might as well inject the
+cholesterol right into your veins and get it over with.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     How the various shows interface, and how one is linked to the other, is
+best understood only by deities and studio guys; we'll have to see.
+
+     Only problem with coke is that they changed the formula and now use
+sweeteners other than sugar.  Though apparently they put out kosher Coke at
+passover.  Eventually I'll have to get a proper dispenser with Coke syrup and
+seltzer, since the syrup apparently *does* still have the s ugar in it.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     No, I have no knowledge of the article in question; could you upload it
+to me in email?
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     Katherine: my condolences on your recent assignment to a previously
+undiscovered circle of Dante's Inferno.  Surely your current task is
+prohibited under the Geneva Convention....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     So, I like the number 5.  Actually, the length was something set with Ron
+at the time, and he produced the 5 miles figure (which is a bit short, in
+fact, of the "actual" length as it came out).
+
+     And I didn't make up the L5 stuff...hey, it's synchronicity.  Ohmygosh --
+and I've been typing this with five fingers on either hand (well, nine
+actually, the left thumb doesn't actually DO anything that I'm aware of).
+
+     Re: NATPE...Warners DID have a presentation doing on B5 there.  Not a big
+presence, because they've already sold it to just about all the stations
+that'll be carrying it, and selling is pretty much the point of NATPE, but in
+any event, it was there.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     (BTW, Walter Koenig saw the pilot and said it was "a winner," adding that
+he thinks it "should get a lot of the Trek fans, plus a lot of more mainstream
+viewers.")
+
+     How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot?  Some...bits and pieces.
+The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to establish, with
+all the backstory that goes with that.  As it is, it's fairly "information
+intensive," as one person put it.  We find out about the Earth/Minbari war,
+the curious surrender, Sinclair's past, the missing 24 hours, the relations
+between the various governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of
+what's to come.  This while establishing the backstory of all our characters,
+and telling a story in present time (for them).
+
+     I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the
+series present in the pilot.  Which is why it bears watching more than once;
+you'll pick up more information and more of a sense of the world the more
+closely you inspect it.  (We tried to come up with a pilot that actually
+BENEFITS from close inspection, rather than falling apart if you look at it
+too closely.)
+
+     Had a meeting the other day with the folks who're going to be doing the
+B5 games.  (As to platform...variations are being planned for ALL of the
+various platforms...CD-ROM, IBM, Amiga, Mac, Sega and so on.)  It was a
+terrific meeting, with top of the line people.  What was interesting was the
+fact that they seemed shell-shocked from dealing with other producers, the
+heavy restrictions, the interference, the hassles...my attitude on this show
+has always been, "Here...we're creating a whole universe for you to go and
+play in.  Do so."  So they're going to have a lot of freedom to come up with
+stuff.  I *want* to be surprised.  Hell, I want to play the games.
+
+     Because of the need to avoid any substantial conflicts with the general
+arc of the story, I gave them a peek into the five year arc, a few things that
+had to happen.  As long as things didn't cross into these areas, the territory
+was completely open.  And knowing that going in, there are no surprises down
+the road to sabotage them.  They seemed...well, there were a lot of very wide
+eyes when I explained some of what we were going to do.  They also saw the
+pilot at the screening that night, and apparently loved it.  We're cooking
+along, folks....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     "Bob" will never be seen talking anywhere, at any time, for any reason,
+in B5.  I'll personally run a truck over him first, newscast or not (unless I
+think I can get a good gag out of it...).
+
+     Re: my mental state...I'll know better in a week or so.  I try not to get
+too personally involved with my own life.  Basically, it's lots of fatigue.
+During the five days of editing, there was so much going on (the
+music/sound/dialogue edit), I was so obsessed with making sure it all fit
+together, that for two nights out of that I got no sleep at all, not so much
+as a minute...I'd crash, and just stare at the ceiling, brain chasing itself
+in ever-smaller circles, until gradually light started to come in through the
+window slats.  (Did you know that Danger Mouse is on at 6:30 a.m. out here?
+I'd wondered where that show had gone.)  This happened two nights in a row, so
+by the end of the fourth day, without really any sleep at all, I had elevated
+to a whole new plane of consciousness.  The day after we finished, I slept for
+something like 18 hours straight.
+
+     I tend to live crisis to crisis, and I guess right now my mental state is
+mainly one of concern for how the show does when it airs.  First was the
+concern about getting the show made; then the concern about getting the show
+made RIGHT; then the conern about post-production; then the concern
+about...well, you get the idea.
+
+     There's this great character in Eric Frank Russell's "Men, Martians and
+Machines" about a photographer who, on return starflights from the ship's
+exploratory missions, sits and does nothing but worry about his pictures
+coming back intact.  The one time he DIDN'T worry, they were destroyed.  So
+now that's what he does: sits, stares, and worries.  That's about how I get
+through on shows like this.
+
+     BTW, for those interested, the magazine Aboriginal SF has an article by
+Susan Ellison about B5, including an extensive commentary from Harlan about
+his involvement with the show.  (The issue just hit the stands.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     BTW, to correct an erroneous statement of mine earlier, there is not a
+species named Vee'lons that will be introduced on DS9.
+
+     The Vee'lons will be introduced on Space Rangers.
+
+     Some days, I just can't get a break....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of  ships,
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+
+     Re: talking vs. action...there's a shade more exposition than I'd like in
+the pilot, mainly because there's so damned MUCH background to establish, so
+much ground to lay...it'll be more evenly proportioned in the series.  I like
+action.  For me, the #1 crime of any TV show or movie is that it should bore.
+When in doubt, kill somebody.
+
+     Or blow something up.
+
+     Re: technology...yes, the point about the sudden jump via new
+technologies is exactly dead on.  It *did* have a tramautic impact, and to
+varying degrees still does.  The effect of technology, and the desire for
+same, will be a recurrent thread.  There are some technologies that are
+considered too radical for some species, and are thus kept off limits, with
+prison sentences or even death sentences for smuggling certain kinds of
+technologies.  One such tech-runner appears in the pilot.  The parallel, I
+suppose, would be our current concerns with the spread of nuclear technology.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Matt: the most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character;
+the second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.  Believe me, as
+you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot, I have no problem dropping
+a body.  And as far as I'm concerned, only 2 or 3 characters in this series
+are indispensible...the rest are open to all kinds of interesting fates.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     P.S.  If you want," check out the Captain Power two-parter I wrote,
+"Retribution."  That should answer the question....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, I *strongly* believe that there has to be diversity among our alien
+races...accents, political beliefs, religion, name it.  I think that is VERY
+important.  Yes, from time to time, you want the monolithic, perfectly
+homogeneous aliens, but if so, you want them to stick out a bit in contrast to
+the rest.
+
+     As has been noted, there's a *big* split currently going on between the
+Minbari warrior and religious castes, for instance.  More will come later.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     What happens if something happens to one of the actors?
+
+     We'll deal with that when it happens.
+
+     (Was that okay, Mr. Director...?)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     "Do not tempt the hand of fate...."  Gee, I'm getting good at this.
+There may be a political career ahead of me.
+
+     The best way to help the show get the attention it deserives, and to get
+feedback on everyone's efforts, is to contact your local station and Warners
+after the show airs.  (Er, that should be "deserves" above.  One of these days
+I'm gonna try Aladdin.)  Right now, it's all in the hands of the one-eyed god
+of television PR....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     BTW, before I forget, in addition to the People Magazine ads (and others
+that'll be popping up soon enough), there's an article on Andreas Katsulas
+(G'Kar) in the current Starlog, which came out pretty well, and an A.P. story
+that features B5 that should show up in various papers in the next day or so.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     The comment re: Twin Peaks is correct; I loved TP dearly, but if you
+missed one episode, you were screwed.  The way the story is constructed, you
+can come in at any point, even miss episodes, and still be able to follow the
+thing.  It's just that the *more* you watch, the more you'll get out of it,
+the more things you'll pick up on.  It's a very difficult task from a writing
+point of view, but worth the effort, I think.
+
+     Re: the actors...yes, there was a great degree of comitment on their
+part.  The head/hairpiece for Londo worked fine, but just to add to the
+authenticity, Peter Jurasik shaved his head for the duration of the shoot.
+ All of the actors did research into their characters, got books on SF if they
+didn't know much about the genre, on and on.  They *very much* got into it,
+down to consulting about their wardrobe and having input into prosthetics (to
+some degree).  We want them to be comfortable, otherwise they can't do their
+best work.
+
+     They're all certainly committed to doing the 5 year stint; as for being
+forever inserted into SF...there's the question of typecasting, and we've
+tried to circumvent that in some sneaky ways (who's going to recognize Mira or
+Andreas outside of their makeup?).  Nimoy had problems because it was his face
+and head, just a pair of ears stuck on.  If we have lots of alien makeup, we
+try to hide the actor's face (while allowing for varied expression) so they
+can do other stuff.  I think it's important to try and think of your actor's
+well being and career...because then you create a good and healthy environment
+for them, and it serves you well in the long run.
+
+     I've not been consulted re: closed captioning, and must confess that I
+don't have the info on this.  Will see if I can find out.
+
+     Yes, I was consulted about the ads, and while accepting the graphics,
+provided alternate copy for the ads, which I thought were a tad heavy handed.
+But overall, I'm quite happy with the approach that's being taken.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I think that talk would be premature; let's see if it GETS that kind of
+attention, or if folks want to run us out of town.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+      A video index...oh man...you're *deliberately* trying to make my
+ life a living hell, aren't you?  (More than it is already.)
+
+      We'll see.  It's something I'll mention, and see how they react.
+
+      Meanwhile, here's a little something I came across in my computer
+ this evening.  I had always sensed that the Londo introduction/narration
+ at the top of the pilot was the way to go.  But it never hurts to try
+ other avenues...you discover the darndest ideas that way.  Anyway, I came
+ up with an alternate introduction, just to see if it worked or not.  I
+ rather liked it...and still do, to some degree...but finally opted to go
+ with the Londo intro instead, which is what we'll stick with.
+
+      But since it's not going to be used, I figured...why not let y'all
+ take a look at what would've been an alternate opening for the pilot?
+
+                             BABYLON 5
+                          Insert/Prologue
+
+ FADE IN:
+
+ ON STATIC.  Then: a BLACK SCREEN, OVER which we HEAR the FEMALE
+ voice of a news broadcast in progress:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                -- continue to bring you updates on
+                the Interplanetary News Network.
+
+ And now, gradually, a PICTURE begins to emerge from the darkness
+ -- grainy, slightly washed out, a VIDEO IMAGE of Babylon 5.
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                In other news, the Earth Alliance
+                space station Babylon 5 celebrates
+                its first year in operation with the
+                imminent arrival of an ambassador
+                from the Vorlon Empire.
+
+ And now: a MONTAGE of shots from within B5, and some EFX shots
+ from outside...the casino, the customs area, the bazaar and other
+ areas.  During this, the IMAGE BEGINS TO SHRINK, to recede into
+ the distance, and gradually the stars begin to come out on all
+ sides of the picture, framing it.  This UNDER:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Located in neutral territory, Babylon
+                5 has exceeded all expectations in
+                dealing with the many life forms that
+                pass through the five mile long
+                station.  As a result, Earth Central
+                has approved an appropriations bill
+                to keep the orbiting freeport open to
+                travelers, businessmen and diplomats
+                for another five years.
+
+ And now the image shifts, and the picture continues to recede
+ into the distance, now only a few inches across...a grainy black
+ and white image:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Meanwhile, a new binary star
+                discovered by Mars colony scientists
+                has been named Kennedy Proxima, after
+                20th century president John F.
+                Kennedy, born 340 years ago this
+                week.
+
+ And now, in the small picture framed by stars, receding more
+ rapidly from view, we SEE footage of JFK speaking before the
+ Democratic convention the eve of his presidential nomination:
+
+                              KENNEDY
+                I believe that the times require
+                imagination, and courage, and
+                perseverance.  I'm asking each one of
+                you to be pioneers toward that New
+                Frontier.  My call is to the young at
+                heart, regardless of age; to the
+                stout of spirit, regardless of party;
+                to all those who respond to the
+                scriptural call, "Be strong and of
+                good courage.  Be not afraid, neither
+                be dismayed."  For courage, not
+                complacency, is our need today.
+
+ UNDER this, Kennedy's image recedes further into the distance,
+ growing smaller and smaller until he is now one of the many
+ surrounding stars splashed across the blackness of space.  A
+ moment, and the MUSIC RISES, brave and martial, as we
+
+ TILT and PAN ACROSS to reveal Babylon 5 itself, up close and
+ personal in all its huge splendor.  PUSH IN on the station as
+ a ship approaches, and we HEAR:
+
+                              LAUREL (vo)
+                Confirmed, Delta Gammer Niner, you
+                are clear for docking.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     That should be Delta Gamma Niner, not Gammer Niner.  Typo.  Sorry.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Generally speaking, I agree with the sentiments expressed, and what
+you've picked up on are the reasons that I decided against using this
+particular form, even though there are things I like about it.  What was, for
+me, the #1 reason for not using it is that it's...for lack of a better term,
+fairly prosaic.  A news cast as opposed to the voice of the story teller, a
+sense of future-history you get through Londo's voice and the identification
+of him as the storyteller.
+
+     Although I agree about the Kennedy tie, and that it can be somewhat
+problematic, what I like about it is that it fed into what I've been after
+with this show from day one...to tie our past, our present and our future.
+Done properly, it could've been fairly classy, I think.  And there's Kennedy's
+voice -- I have the tape of his speech -- which rings powerful and true in
+that speech.  It set a tone.  But as has been noted here before, writing and
+acting and directing are fundamentally about making choices...this move rather
+than that, this attitude over that attitude.  The Londo choice was the
+*better* of the two, even though there's much about this version to commend
+it.
+
+     (A quick aside re: the MURDER question...the episode you cite was one
+done under my watch, but not the one I mentioned as the last I'd have anything
+to do with for this season.  That one, which I wrote, aired about two weeks
+ago.  The one you saw this weekend was from last season, as is the one coming
+up this Sunday, an episode of mine called "The Committee," a fairly gothic
+episode that actually came out quite well.  The mystery element may or may not
+be that strong, but for me, MURDER was always a character story first, onto
+which you graft a puzzle.)
+
+     Well, review copies of the pilot are going out, and have gone out.  I
+heard through back channels that a major reviewer for a major magazine saw the
+pilot on Thursday last and his head exploded, thought it was terrific.  The
+one comment that I keep hearing back from people is that it redefines SF on
+television.  Now, that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing since
+sliced bread, but in terms of character and SFX and the general, more adult
+approach, it redefines what you can get away with.  Which is all to the good.
+
+     As for what I'm doing now...writing a script for a friend who's in a
+bind, ratcheting up the PR on the show a little more, giving interviews and
+suchlike, trying to get a leg up on my next novel so I'll be able to  continue
+with it once this thing gets going to series, and some other stuff that, for
+the moment, is classified.
+
+     It's now less than a month until this thing shows nationally.  And just a
+tick over two weeks until those with satellite dishes pull the show out of the
+general ether.  By February 22nd, I fully anticipate being a complete and
+total basket case.
+
+     Fortunately, it's unlikely anyone will notice....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Rob: the scenario you posit is a viable one.  Nuff said.
+
+     RE: the making of stuff...rather than a half-hour show, the stations
+(which in some cases had a hard time breaking loose a full half hour) will be
+getting promos from a minute-thirty to 20 minutes in length, which they can
+drop in as they wish, giving them more flexibility.
+
+     It *may* go out to them along with the B5 downlink, but I'm not sure.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     (What the hell am I doing up at 4:15 a.m. my time?  Watching B5 for the
+ten zillionth time.  Picking it apart.  Making notes.  This is nuts.   I'm
+going to bed.  See you all in the afternoon.....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Artisan: I think j.roy's got some graphics that qualify; nudge him into e-
+mailing them.
+
+     Nothing to pick at?  Oh, dear.  Stand with your face half an inch from
+the mirror, and tell me you see no imperfections.  We all see the things
+others miss.  Tell you what...at some point after the pilot's aired, after
+things have settled down, I'll go through my list of things to do better in
+the series, things we should've done different in the pilot, on and on.  But
+that's the *purpose* of a pilot, to try a show out for size, see how it fits,
+and make adjustments.
+
+     But no matter how good it gets, everything is open for improvement in
+some way.  You have to keep constantly questioning and re-evaluating.   The
+unexamined life and all that jazz.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Hmm...y'know, given the reaction here, maybe I'll fax the intro over to
+Warners PR and see if they can use it for a promo.  Like I said, I liked it as
+well, it just wasn't up to the level of the rest of the show, I thought.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     From the Associated Press article by Scott Williams on the new crop of SF
+TV series (specifically here, DS9, Space Rangers and B5), quoting David
+Gerrold.  "I've seen the pilot, and it's [Babylon 5 is] the best looking of
+the three.  I really do think that Babylon 5 will be the one for grownups to
+watch."  (Article appeared in various newspapers over the last few days across
+the country.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+
+     "The Committee," which airs Sunday, is an episode of Murder, She Wrote,
+for which I was producer/writer until recently.  Sorry, thought I was clearer.
+
+     BTW, I recently made a horrific discovery about GEnie posting.  In the
+past (since I compose on-line), I'd hit the carriage return at the end of a
+line...and nothing would happen.  I'd wait.  Hit CR again.  Then I'd get the
+new line...and figured it just took a second to kick in.
+
+     Turns out that every time that happened, apparently the buffer or
+something was getting full, and half the line wasn't getting through each time
+it happened...so there have got to be some sentences of mine that make even
+less sense than usual.  Now that I'm aware of it, I'm going back and revising
+the line when I see the delay at CR.
+
+     I'm meeting Friday with the computer game design people for a few hours
+to kick around the structure for the thing.  Should be interesting; main thing
+will be determing the degree to which this thing should interface with the
+overall acr of the story, or exist totally outside of that arc.
+
+     To the question raised 'way uptopic about comics -- yes, there may in
+fact be one.  And I'm actually quite pleased with the idea (being a comics
+fan).  Imagine what could be done by a Neil Gaiman or a Grant Morrison could
+do with the B5 concept.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Y'know, when I posted the original idea for an introduction, I had no
+idea it would generate so many different responses.  And all with some merit.
+Rob, the points you raise are correct: I've always felt very strongly that in
+this show, and in SF in general, it helps to connect the future to the
+present, to show the continuity of the species, of the common coin of our
+shared humanity, our cultures, our languages.  I think  there are other ways
+of doing it, and will do so.  But given the "pro" response, maybe there might
+be some way of using this thing, whether it's as a promo or somehow using it
+in the show.  (Y'know, it *could* be used in the course of a regular episode,
+as I think of it; no reason why it couldn't....)
+
+     Well, one thing's for sure...if it ever DOES get used, it'll in large
+part be because of the reaction here.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+     Well, it's almost 4 a.m.  I was going to give you three guesses as to
+what I've been watching -- again -- but I figure by now that's kinda
+pointless.  I know, I know, obsessive/compulsive.  Sue me.
+
+     It's now 2 weeks and 1 day until those of you with satellite dishes see
+the pilot.  I'll be very interested in seeing (well, reading) your reactions.
+I must confess that as this dialogue continues, I find myself learning more,
+and questioning more, and digging deeper for information that had been glossed
+over before.  I very much appreciate your comments, your suggestions, even the
+occasional outbursts of Attitude.
+
+     There will shortly be a private screening of the pilot on a real movie
+screen, just for cast and crew.  The only time that I know of that this thing
+will be shown in the US on a big screen.  Have been going over what I'm going
+to say to the assembled folks...how does one properly thank another for the
+fulfillment of a dream?  How do you quantify five (now six) years of struggle,
+now given life by people you had hardly met one year before, but have given
+their blood and time and effort to see  someone else's dream realized?
+
+     During the filming, as I would be standing on stage, off camera, and we'd
+take a break between shots, invariably someone -- the camera  operator, the
+costumer, an actor, a carpenter -- would come up alongside and say, "Is this
+close to what you saw when you wrote it?  How are we doing on the dream?"
+They knew what it meant, the long road to get here, that it wasn't just a
+*job* for me and many others; it was something we wanted to do out of passion.
+And they responded to that...slept nights on the set rather than going home,
+produced work above and beyond the call of duty...how do you properly thank
+someone for reaching into your head and pulling out a vision and giving it
+form and weight and light and substance?  I don't know.  I don't know.
+
+     Whatever the future holds -- win, lose or draw -- I think we've done
+something special here.  And it's interesting to see how that sense pervades
+everything...the casting, the production...and now even this.  I have noticed -
+- I do a LOT of bbsing, much to my spousal overunit's dismay -- that the tone
+on this category seems vastly different than it is elsewhere.  I don't
+know...a give and take, no flame wars, a sense of community, the VERY SAME
+sense present on the set, in the dressing room, behind the camera.
+
+     In the cold light of morning (when I manage to see it, when I'm not
+coming at 4 a.m. from the opposite direction), I tell myself it's just a
+television show, and six months from now, or ten years from now, no one will
+notice or remember.  At night, as I watch the show again for I no longer know
+how many times, I allow -- just for a second -- the notion that we've carved
+out a little piece of history.  Win, lose or draw, we got it on film, when
+everyone said we couldn't.
+
+     And now it's yours.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Bear: you're an evil man.
+
+     I like that.
+
+     Re: "Night of the Living Dead," yeah, that's Patricia Tallman in the lead
+role.  Which is where I saw her for the first time, and decided at that moment
+that I *had* to use her in something.  She's dynamite.  I saw her at a number
+of gatherings in LA, including the Horror Hall of Fame parties at Universal,
+but didn't say anything because...well, when someone comes up to you and says,
+"Hi, I'm a producer, I'd like to use you in my next big project," it's
+invariably perceived as a come-on.  So I waited until the right opportunity
+arose.
+
+     Knowing she'd be perfect for B5, I had her called in to audition.  As she
+was waiting in the hall, nervously practicing her lines, I stepped outside to
+tell her that I'd seen her work, that she was terrific, and that I looked
+forward to working with her.  Apparently she didn't have any idea who I
+was...but found out when she was brought in to do the actual audition a few
+moments later.  There was never any question in my mind about her doing the
+role, and it was one of the smartest decisions I made in this thing.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Re: the Trek story...no, that was very much of its form and of that
+universe; it wouldn't fit in the B5 universe.
+
+     Anything else in the past to compare with B5?  Probably the closest has
+been the novel writing, especially the one I'm working on now.  But overall,
+no, this is the biggie.  If it works, it'll probably be the single largest
+task of my career.  If there's any one thing that I'd want to be remembered
+for, it's a B5 series.
+
+     BTW...just a general note for those who are cycling in and out of the
+conversation...be sure to be around a week or so before the airing of the
+pilot.  Many folks have asked how they can help; at that point, I just may put
+you to work, and take you upon that generous offer...
+
+                                                                jms
+     (that should be up on, not upon...)
+

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+      EEEEEEEEEKKK!!!!!
+
+      I just read the first eight messages in the new topic 19 (mine).   Jeez,
+what a flashback.  What redundencies.  Did I really sound that gleepy?  Oh,
+man.  It's like looking at your high school yearbook photo.   Are you guys
+*really* sure you want to do this?
+
+      Eek, I tell you, Eek!
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Agreed on LBJ...he was something of a thug.
+
+     Flat-out wasted tonight...we had a private screening this evening for
+cast, crew, some critics and some Warners execs.  About 400+ people at the
+theater in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood (in
+the shadow of a 50 foot Emmy).  I don't think I've ever been as nervous,
+because here's where all the people who worked their butts off get to see if
+we screwed it all up for them or not.  Everyone liked it bigtime.  The few
+critics who said anything (most headed out, as is standard, you don't want to
+tip your hand) loved it...one CNN person said he hoped it would run for 10
+years, another critic said it was the best SF television pilot he'd seen in
+the last 10 years...I think they liked it.
+
+     Sitting here now with a MASSIVE headache from fretting over all this, so
+will probably make this short tonight.  (Harlan kept hitting me in the
+shoulder after the screening, smiling and saying, "Will you for chrissakes
+ENJOY this?  It's your night!  It's a hit!  It's wonderful!  This kind of
+night only comes once in your life!  Enjoy it!"  I will...as soon as we get
+the series Go.  Nothing can be allowed to distract from that.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The sound system at the theater was great; we ran it off the D2, the
+master tape, and it came out very well.
+
+     The point you raise re: Starlost is one Harlan's made to me.  When I was
+at times feeling a bit low -- I want the series NOW -- he would point out that
+no matter what happens, we made my show the way I wanted it made, no
+interference...as opposed to what happened with Starlost, which just yanked
+his heart out.  And it's a valid point.
+
+     Thing is, it took five years to get this made, and that it HAS been
+made...it's almost an act of sheer will.  I decided five years ago that no
+matter what happens, this pilot WILL be made.  You have to focus in on the
+goal like a laser beam (tm Bill Clinton).  That's been done.  Now the next
+step: the series WILL be made...and now I have to focus in on that one with
+equal conviction.  It's quite literally the only way ANYTHING ever gets made
+in this town.  Ask George.  He's been down the same road.
+
+     As for the question of the show working with non-SF fans...we've actually
+shown it to a number of people who don't know from SF, and the result has been
+that they've liked it enormously.  The reason, basically, is that it's not a
+hardware-driven story.  It's a character drama with a mystery story element.
+The solution doesn't come from cross-wiring the ramaframmit with the
+zigamakawanna, and computing the resonance factors.   (And I have to confess
+that those kinds of stories bore me to tears.)   You start and end with
+character, and drama...and if you're true to those elements, the audience will
+follow you even into unfamiliar terrain.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     (btw...anyone here know of any major conventions between now and February
+22nd around the country?)
+
+     What has been said that's *negative* about the show?  Do you actually
+believe I'll provide *NEGATIVE* information about my own show?
+
+     You do?  Oh.  Then okay.
+
+     Probably the number one comment, when there are any negatives voiced, is
+that the first half-hour is slow when compared with the rest of the episode.
+And I have to agree...there's SO much to establish, so much  ground to cover,
+that the first half hour is very dense.  Once we've established the
+foundation, that changes fast, because we now have a common ground of
+understanding about the universe in which the story is taking place.
+
+     Let's see...one fellow from Starburst Magazine who was at the preview
+said that if it were his, he would've rearranged the last few shots.  The
+current sequence is, Action Scene, Transition with Kosh, Confrontation with a
+Major Character and Sinclair, the Reception, Delenn and Sinclair in the
+Garden, and the final shot with Laurel in the observation dome.  He would've
+put the Confrontation with a Major  character as the LAST scene, and cut the
+shot of Laurel altogether.  His sense is to end on a big scene...my sense is
+that it's better to end on a note that sets up the series to follow.  Not so
+much a negative as a difference of opinion.
+
+     Let's see...some didn't like the gun designs (others loved it), some felt
+we didn't do as much as we could've with the background aliens (some thought
+we did too much)...mainly they've been matters of taste, rather than someone
+finding something that Just Doesn't Make Sense, or an EFX shot that looks
+crummy.  There aren't any Real Big Plot Holes, and insofar as I know, nothing
+major to pick on which is *objective*, only differences of opinion.  (As we've
+seen here with the Kennedy stuff; some liked it, others didn't.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I'll be getting in touch with Mr. Jonas.
+
+     Re: the uniforms...yes, there's a certain traditional look to them, and
+this is deliberate.  Look at any uniform from 200 years ago, and you have
+certain lines and forms that repeat, and which stay part of the uniform.
+There is a STRONG sense of tradition and history in any branch of the
+military.  Heck, the navy not long ago went BACK to a more traditional dress
+after making some modifications.  The basic dress uniform for your basic
+soldier on leave looks about the same now as it did during WW II.
+
+     Much of what passes for SF uniforms/costuming in the future simply
+pretends that all that history and tradition just suddenly came to a
+screeching halt.  In B5, we're trying to connect our past, our present and our
+future, to show the continuity of the human species.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     While we may indeed have a CGI character down the road, it most assuredly
+*won't* be a shapechanger.  I don't like to swim in somebody else's pond.
+
+     Re: observatories...we'll be introducing the many other specialists who
+work at B5 as we go along, from environmental techs to astrophysicists, so
+we'll definitely find a place for this.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 22 1993
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+     Insofar as I can remember (problematic on the best of days), I never
+cited that the CGI character would be a shape-changer.  Because such is not
+planned...though I suppose I could've been momentarily possessed by an
+idiot...it could happen.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 25 1993
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+     My reaction...it's an interesting idea, yes.  It's also a story
+suggestion, but one K.L. should let slide because I don't think it's a B5 kind
+of story...more of a TNG story.  But the notion of different forms of
+communication than what we have come to accept or recognize as such is
+certainly valid and filled with dramatic possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The hardest thing, of course, is making the muscles beneath the skin move
+realistically and correctly.  That apparently has just been licked, though.
+Ron mentioned the other day that he just got some new software in that will
+let him do for TV what Spielberg's whole computer operation  is required in
+order to do Jurassic Park.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 26 1993
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+     I'll ask re: Ron's new stuff.  As for the changing technology, I'd like
+to keep things looking *pretty* much the same, so there isn't a big or
+noticeable jump, but things just sorta look clearer and better and more real
+over time, rather than changing things per se.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 20 1993
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+     Yep...the "beep" stuff will all be clear by the end of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 27 1993
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+
+      Hmm...two 3.5 floppies, that's...2.4 megabytes...my last novel was about
+600k, so that's....FOUR NOVELS!?
+
+     Okay, that's it.  Everybody pony up a quarter....
+
+     Yikes!
+
+     I was far less tired before I read that.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     (Hmm...that sounded vaguely like a threat....)
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     I'm scheduled for Gallifrey One Goes Forth?
+
+     Oh....
+
+     Er...when exactly is that, again?
+
+                                                                      jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 21 1993
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+     Yes, we've got WOR, which will only be blacked out if your local station
+requests it.  If no one locally is carrying it, then it might indeed be
+available that way.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 23 1993
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+
+     Okay, here's the deal on the "Making Of" stuff.  Many of the stations
+indicated that they might have a hard time knocking loose a half hour on TOP
+of the 2 hour running time for B5.  So Warners is providing shorter pieces --
+90 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 minutes and 20 minutes -- to the
+stations, giving them some flexibility.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Don't know the answers to the questions, but will post as soon as I do.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     If you're seeing promos for KF and TT, then yes, you'll probably get B5
+on the same station.  As for the 2 1/2 hour feed...I don't know for certain,
+but it's *likely* that the making of clips will be included in that feed.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1993
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+     To the questions about airdates and times...there's no one central source
+for this information, alas; the best thing to do, unless someone else here
+happens to have the information, is just to give your local station a call and
+ask the programming or publicity departments.  They'll be happy to supply the
+information.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     BTW, a belated but *substantial* thank you to Jim Partridge for sending
+in the KBHK tape.  Yep, they used B5 footage to promote DS9, all right.  We
+just got it over to the Big Boys, and they'll take care of it from here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Enough stations *are* airing them together that it still causes a
+problem.  Additionally, a "second night" also has financial meanings; the
+doubling of resources to acquire two more programs, making four series rather
+than two.  So it applies in both ways.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Yeah, I'd gotten it, I was just swamped.  (Also there was no letter
+inside, and I had to tear through bags of discarded envelopes set to be
+recycled to find the mailing label with the correct info.)  Would've mentioned
+it before, it's just...my head explodes sometimes, y'know...?
+
+     Gary: that's *great* news re: KUSI.  San Diego's my old home town, so
+it's good they're pushing it.  Wish I'd known about the promo, I could have
+bugged some people down there to tape it for me.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+      There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to
+work to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For
+instance, in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then
+in Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     There are about as many as now...with a few extras developed on the Mars
+and other colonies.
+
+                                                          jms
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+
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+     Re: asking telepaths on a date...it would be verbal, assuming we're
+talking PC hrized scans are illegal, and thus they would not be "dipping" to
+know your intentions.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     (A job like that could take YEARS....)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     It's a very difficult area, and I thank Katherine for making the call for
+me...it becomes hard at this end sometimes to call.  My sense, really, is that
+if there are VERY SPECIFIC plotlines put forth, then it becomes an issue
+suddenly.
+
+     As an aside, though, one thing I did hear from the message was the
+Vorlons as Minbari question.  This I can say definitively ain't so.  They are
+two completely different species, with no common points of origin.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     Cindy: smug because I've *GOT* the script?
+
+     Cindy baby, I *WROTE* the script!
+
+     I have not BEGUN to smug....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     BTW, it's my understanding that the monitor screens on TNG are not
+inserted in post; they're regular TV screens with edges that come out and
+cover any bends in the tube, thereby giving it a flat look.  At least, that's
+what I hear....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+
+     I agree re: universal translators.  Most everything in the ST universe is
+bent toward making the process easier, less challenging; I want to show the
+process of overcoming.  I think it's great if an alien shows up from a
+previously unvisited planet, and they spend days trying to communicate with
+it.  I think that some computerized stuff might work, as in the case where
+someone programs a machine to go from one specific language to another (sort
+of a species-specific interpreter), but thats about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+
+     Re: language in general...I agree that all languages must be "living
+languages" in that they are free to grow and expand and add new terms.   There
+is a difference between this and a *collapsing language* in which the
+distinction between terms (the aformentioned less and fewer) becomes degraded,
+and meanings blur through misuse.  Ase gradually becomes less precise.  A
+language should be graded on how well it manages to communicate the thoughts
+of one to the other.  If it begins to fail in that regard, then it is not a
+living but a dying language.
+
+     (Another example: the way that "anxious" and "eager" have come to mean
+the same thing.  "Anxious" carries with it some degree of worry or dread or
+fear; "eager" is a pleasant term, connoting something wonderful and nice for
+which one is longing.  So when someone says, with a smiling and expectant
+attitude, "Yeah, I'm really anxious to see the new Lucas movie," it's a misuse
+of the term, unless there's some reason for worry.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     In terms of the EFX, I think it's all Amigas, with some IBMs being used
+for general computing (letters, schedules, etc.).
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: TRON v2.0....I'd rather write kids in space.
+
+     Re: places of origin...my sense is that they have their own unique names.
+We don't call our planet Terra (well, not really), or Hum (for Human) or
+Planet Human.  Because some of the names are difficult to pronounce, the
+logical approach is to note them by designation, i.e., "And shall be shipped
+off to the Narn homeworld."  That is the only time or I should say context by
+which we refer to their places of origin.  The only exception to this, and I
+don't recall if this is in the pilot or not, is the Centauri homeworld,
+designated Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Yes, there are definitely other human settlements...colonies and outposts
+and co-operative projects on other worlds with other species.   It's mainly
+from this overlap that the EA draws its non-human members, though a few worlds
+have chosen to ally themselves directly with the EA.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     The command level uniforms (Sinclair, Laurel, Garibaldi) are pretty much
+the same in cut, though Garibaldi's (and all of securityard grey more than
+blue.  Medical uniforms have a somewhat different cut and lean toward charcoal
+grey.
+
+     There's a slightly different cut for grunt-level security, and a slightly
+greener look.  Station techs (maintainance crews and the like) generally get
+yellow outfits with the B5 logo (and are not directly part of the EA
+structure; they work at and for the station per se).  Control techs, in the
+observation dome, for instance, generally don't wear jackets on duty, but
+rather shirts with the B5 logo.  The shift commander, though, does wear a
+jacket with his uniform.  (When B5 opens, you see Laural give a command to the
+shift commander, who then relays it to others.  You can trace the line of
+command in the dome from there.)
+
+     There are, and will be, other variations in uniform, but those are pretty
+much the ones you'll see in the show.  (In addition, of course, to more
+conventional clothing such as that worn by casino workers, marked only by a
+glitter-B5 logo.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     If the Garibaldi outfit you refer to is on page 30, that's the same cut
+of uniform as Sinclair's on 34, just a different angle on it.  (And there's no
+white shirt under the outfits on page 28; those are high  collars with gold
+braid.)  Now, there *is* another outfit that both he and Sinclair wear, it's a
+black outfit (pants and long shirt) under a grey flak-jacket, which is a
+combat uniform.  (The flak jackets are composed of various reflective
+substances that help refract and dissipate some of the impact of energy
+weapons.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Oops!  Nope, you're right, yes, there *are* shirts under the jackts
+(actually, there are shirts under ALL the jackets, as you'd expect of
+clothing).  I thought you were referring to the collar.  My error.
+
+     Actually, *ALL* of the costumes are layered.  G'Kar can remove six
+different layers of his outfit, Londo can wear the jacket with or without the
+vest (which can also be removed for the shirt below), the Minbari wardrobe is
+equally layered and can be played with as well, on and on.
+
+
+                                                       jms
+

+
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+
+     Rob: so what would you suggest?
+
+     If B5 succeeds, there will be comics published in the same basic
+universe, as well as novelizations.  These will be specifically encouraged to
+go in different directions, partly for selfish reasons, so they won't mess
+with my time/character line, and partly because I'd like to see what others
+can do with this universe...sort of like a shared world anthology.  So yes,
+there's room to play, and with luck, we'll see it there and elsewhere.
+
+     What other options would you suggest?  If I've missed something, let me
+know.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Rob...my friend, it took me five years to get this one show into
+production.  The rest...I'll leave those to somebody else.
+
+     Re: colors and uniforms...we decided against using color that much as
+service designation (red for security, and so on) for two reasons: one is that
+it's so associated with Trek.  We're not Trek.  We allowed a touch of it in
+the insignia, but in a very limited way.  Second reason, you're dealing with
+aliens who see various colors and don't see others, and alien sectors where
+the lighting may wash out or totally change the color codes, which is why we
+went for specific *symbols* for different areas (security, maintainance,
+command and so on).  If you're in the alien sector that uses red light
+heavily, and you need help fast, you don't want to try and figure out of
+that's a blue stripe or a purple stripe  when asking somebody for help.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     Kosh as in "gosh."  There's actually a last name, btw...Naranek.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Pronounced Nuh-RAH-nek.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Yep.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1993
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+
+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...it aired in 1987/88 in syndication.  Was set in the
+future, after the MetalWars, in which one man, who caused the war (in the best
+interests of humanity) decided that to save humanity it must be digitized and
+stored in machines for the day when perfect metalloid bodies could give
+mankind immortality.
+
+     Re: Twilight Zone...yes, I worked on the syndicated version.  Among the
+episodes I wrote (I was also story editor) are "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+with Bruce Weitz; "Dream Me a Life," with Eddie Albert; co-wrote "The Curious
+Case of Edgar Witherspoon," with Harry Morgan, and co-wrote "Our Selena is
+Dying" posthumously with Rod Serling, from a long lost TZ outline.  Other TZs
+that I wrote around that time, but whose stars I can't consistently recall:
+"The Wall," "The Call," "What Are Friends For?" "Something in the Walls,"
+"Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," and have
+another shared writing credit on "The Trance."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     No, I wasn't previously aware of "Agony" (except what I've gone through
+these last six months), but will look for it in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     Shot on 35mm film.  Transferred to tape for post.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I think you'll see the biggest push 7-10 days before, yes; and given that
+the PTEN ratings have been quite good overall, it's kinda hard to argue too
+strenuously with that approach.  I imagine that reviews and stuff will be
+coming out about the same time.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     BTW, I've been hearing more and more from our Warners liaison that the
+reviewers who've gotten copies of the B5 pilot have had their corneas melted
+by what they've seen.  Half a dozen have already scrapped plans for other
+covers in their weekly television magazine/supplements in deference to a cover
+story on B5 (and this during Sweeps Week, no less!).
+
+     Keep your eyes peeled, folkses...the stuff should start hitting the
+streets in the final week of our countdown.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Getouttatown...really?  I know Somtow, and I'm surprised he didn't tell
+me he snuck this in.  That's funny....
+
+     Oh SOMMMMMMtow...c'mere...I wanna talk wit'cha....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter  craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     The two things on front -- the spikes, as it were -- are on either side
+of a second loading bay, this one expressly for cargo held in the zero-g cargo
+hold.
+
+     The vanes in the back are heat radiators, as I recall from the original
+design notes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Yes, there are definitely different levels in each section of B5.
+
+     And yes again, down the road there will be both small flyers and
+individuals with air-packs in the zero-G section at the center of the Garden.
+Ron's worked out how to do it.
+
+     How's it illuminated?  Quite nicely, actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     250,000 is the *maximum* number of beings who can be there at one time;
+that's not necessarily the maximum number of living quarters.  In some ways,
+B5 is like an airport; you come in, linger, then move on to your eventual
+destiny (catching a few winks in the customs area waiting for the right ship
+to come in or go out).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+       Yes, if a big ship went into hyperspace on its own power, it would
+likely have to accellerate first, but if it were near B5, it might well just
+use the jump-gate that's already there to save on energy and fuel.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     I'll ask Ron.
+
+     This is one of those areas in which I'll have to defer until such time as
+we get a regular science advisor on the show.  I know *some* of this stuff,
+but fact is, I ain't a techie, and this genre is best served by getting that
+kind of information from someone who knows what the hell he's talking about.
+
+     (Which means we *will* be getting a science advisor once this thing gets
+rolling, btw...no one's set yet, but will probably cull from one or two strong
+possibilities over at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  My plan is to also bring
+on a freelance linguistics consultant to invent a few languages for us...and
+that may be somenoe I encountered right here on GEnie, as a matter of fact,
+but will wait until something Happens to give more info on that.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     As to what happens to their inertia/velocity when they come out, if they
+accelerate going in...yep, we deal with that.  It's in the pilot, and we make
+it clear that they have to take time to decelerate prior to docking.  I think
+in Kosh's case it took something like 2-3 hours to decelerate.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     MATH!  MATH!  YOU SAID THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY MATH ON THIS TEST!  I DIDN'T
+STUDY!  HOW MUCH OF MY GRADE WILL THIS BE?!  AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     That's actually fairly close to what we were planning...have you been
+hanging around Ron again...?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+
+     Disagreement: the coolest show ever made is THE PRISONER.  I hope to
+capture a little of the flavor of that show, mainly by playing a little with
+surrealism, what's real and what's not...but it'll pale beside that show.  THE
+PRISONER, for me, is the perfect television program.  I've never really seen
+its equal.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     I'd expect a comment like that from someone who watches GI Joe....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
+     Nope, the music is all original to our composer, Stewart Copeland.
+
+     And it be WAY cool.
+
+     (On the B5 blooper reel, there's a shot of all these alien faces, and
+that rock song with the lyric, "Everyone's strange, when you're a stranger,
+faces look strange, when you're alone" going on in BG.  Very funny.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     That's probably something that'll have to be worked out between the
+Language Person and Warners.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     Okay, okay, I got the lyrics wrong, but I got 'till *right*.
+
+     Thing is on the language stuff...it honestly isn't my choice.  There is a
+little thing called "separation of rights."  Publishing rights would probably
+accrue to whoever does the language stuff.  It's not my call.  I would be
+giving away something that ain't mine to give.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Just for clarity, I don't want to "slip Prisoner elements in" in the way
+described.  Was only referencing the show as the kind of show to emulate with
+a beginning, middle and end, and a sometimes surreal aspect that leaves you
+questioning what's real and what isn't.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Hey, Mark, good to have another H-25er around.
+
+     Pat: I taught at Grossmont College for about one semester, it's a pretty
+good place.  (Went to San Diego State and  meself.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     I taught writing (what else?)...I *think* it was around 1979 or 80.
+After a while, everything blurs.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     Re: SDSU, no, I had very little to do with the cinema/telecom dept.
+there.  I crashed two courses -- mainly because I wanted to learn from a
+particular instructor, Norman Corwin -- and had one or two others, but that's
+it.  My interest was in other areas...one degree in Clinical Psychology with a
+minor in Philosophy; another in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing,
+that sort of thing.
+
+     BTW, if you go down to the offices of the Daily Aztec, and ask to see the
+archive volumes of the paper around 1977/78 or thereabouts, you'll see several
+zillion articles by me in there.  At more or less the same time, I was the
+resident book reviewer, film reviewer and theater reviewer, had two weekly
+humor columns ("A View from the Rabbit Hole" and "A Modern Cynic's
+Dictionary"), as well as regular feature articles and profiles, and the
+occasional investigative article, including one on the CIA.  The frequency of
+articles led some to describe the paper as The Daily J. Michael.  At the same
+time I was doing cover stories for the San Diego Reader, the Daily
+Californian, features for the SD edition of the Los Angeles Times, and
+entertainment reviews for KSDO-AM Newsradio.
+
+     But the Daily Aztec stuff was great fun.  I worked without pay, the only
+one on staff who did, in fact...because I didn't want to be beholden to
+anybody, could write what I wanted, nobody had any leverage.  Which was all
+for the good, given the massive numbers of angry letters and the occasional
+bomb threats elicited by what I wrote.
+
+     Can't imagine why....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Yes, a VERY large blunt object.
+
+     The one point of any possible interest to draw from this comes from
+something I tried to beat into incoming students when I was an orientation
+counselor at SDSU: if you go to college, and all you see are the class rooms,
+the bathrooms, the parking lot and the cafeteria, you will cheat yourself of
+99% of your possible education.  Any university or college has vast
+opportunities for writers and others.  In the former case, write for the
+university newspaper, or the university theater (and most schools have an
+ongoing one-act production program)...take classes in acting or film, to get a
+sense of history, or the hands-on process of being on stage...the range of
+experience open to you is enormous.  Don't just follow your major to its
+conclusion.  There is a world of experience you can get while you're there
+*that you may never have the chance to experience again*.   Take it.
+
+     End of sermon.  I shouldn't even be here, frankly, this is for the new
+folks and others to sign in and introduce themselves...both for the interests
+of our own private party, so we know who's come into the room, and for any
+possible future mailings or opportunities.
+
+     Let's hear from y'all.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     KBHK Channel 44 in San Francisco.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Shane...imagine, if you will, a slow fuse being lit...as I stare at the
+name, thinking, "There was something...something I was supposed to do,
+something...writing?"  Then, finally, the fuse works its way through the dense
+foliage I laughingly call my cerebral cortex and explodes with the words "THE
+ARTICLE, STUPID!  YOU NEVER FINISHED PROOFREADING THE ARTICLE HE SENT YOU!"
+
+     A thousand apologies, Shane.  The piece came in right when I was in the
+midst of finishing B5 and leaving M,SW, my life was degenerating into stark,
+staring madness, and I put it down, intent upon taking care of it that
+evening, and next thing I know...I see your message here.
+
+     Hope I didn't screw anything up....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+      I forget...which one of us was wearing the rabbit outfit that night?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 23 1993
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+     Yeah, you kinda need binocular vision for survival purposes and the
+utilization of tools.
+
+     Re: alien plans...that's something that we'll have to work out down the
+road with our prosthetics people.  I don't think we used the full range of
+aliens (both versions) as well as we might have in the pilot.   We get only
+one medium-long shot of Black Eyes, for instance, and that's one that I feel
+came out VERY well and should be highlighted more.  Some of the others were
+less effective, but were kept to the background.
+
+     I'd like to keep a mix going, about 50/50.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     An entire planet of mimes.....AN ENTIRE PLANET OF MIMES!?!
+
+     NUKE 'EM!
+
+     NUKE 'EM TILL THEY GLOW THEN SHOOT 'EM IN THE DARK!
+
+   YAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 28 1993
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+      till (til) conj. & prep until
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+                                        Oxford American Dictionary
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
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+     Your teacher was wrong.  The dictionary accepts till.  If required, I can
+call Mrs. Nash, assuming she survived the process.
+
+     Re: aliens...yeah, there was a somewhat naturalistic look to the things
+that I'd like to experiment with come the series.  This was a deliberate
+choice on Criswell's part.  And by and large, it worked out okay.  I just
+think that for the series, it would limit us.
+
+     Criswell's elves actually did a *lot* of research, trying various
+textures and color combinations drawn from nature.  Of course, that's all
+nature as would evolve in an oxygen atmosphere, 1g.  We have to go beyond
+that, and I think there's some nifty stuff that can be done down the road.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1993
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+     On the other hand...maybe it might be better if our Sysoptrix took the
+last, oh, 100 or so messages from 1 about this and transplanted 'em here.  Get
+the whole context in place.
+
+     And lord knows, it's not like she has anything ELSE to do, other than
+nudzhing me....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 17 1993
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+
+     Something I forgot to mention uptopic, when asked if I can write a story
+with kids...it's appeared in a lot of my prose.  The two leading protagonist
+in my most recent novel, OTHERSYDE, were around 16...the lead character in one
+of the first short stories of mine ever to be published ("Your Move," in
+Amazing SF) was about 13, and the second story of mine published ("A Last
+Testament for Nick and the Trooper," Shadows 6)  featured two kids maybe 19.
+
+     Provided only for the sake of completeness.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     Absolutely.  I love being proven wrong.
+
+     Though there are few survivors to carry the story....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 22 1993
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+     Ah LAHKES Crow an' Tom Servo....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 25 1993
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+     If you can find Harpo, we'll book him on the show....
+
+     Or Chico, or Groucho...but definitely not Zeppo...or Flammo, the Marx
+Brother who ended up on the cutting room floor.
+
+     "Getta you tootsie-fruitsie ice-a cream...."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+      Rob: that was very funny stuff.  And believe me, I know from Gummo;
+ the Flammo reference was from a play by Louis Phillips, "The Last of the
+ Marx Bros. Writers," very surreal, where they mention Flammo.  The play
+ is about...well...the last surviving Marx. Bros. writer, who is living in
+ a one room flat, doesn't go out, and keeps having delusional conversations
+ with God.  "Make Me Laugh," God says.  The writer starts a joke.
+
+      "Heard it," God says.  Which is, of course, the problem...he's heard
+ ALL of them.
+
+      BTW, if you're a true-blue Marx Bros. fan, you might want to find (if
+ you already haven't) the book "Flyweel, Shyster and Flywheel," which
+ contains many of the radio scripts of that Marx Bros. show, no surviving
+ audio copies of which have survived.  Very, very funny stuff.
+
+      "How much do you charge to perform?"
+      "Ten dollar."
+      "How much to perform but leave out the rehearsal?"
+      "Twenty dollar."
+      "How much not to perform at all?"
+      "Oh, no, boss, you couldn't afford it...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     KL: though it galls me to quote commercials, I heard something on one the
+other day that's actually quite telling...some restaraunter quoting something
+his father told him: "The guy who says he never had a chance, never TOOK a
+chance."
+
+     What you say is correct: write it, send it out, write another, send it
+out, write another...on and on and on...if it's good, sooner or later
+somebody'll notice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I'll know more about the computer game next week or so.  Best thing in
+general is to write to Licensing Corporation of America to get on their
+mailing list for future B5 promotional stuff and merchandising.
+
+     The Creation designs for shirts look okay, if a tad prosaic...there has
+got to be one central image to promote this show, but I'm darned if I can
+figure out what it is at this stage.  The logo looks swell, though, in any
+event.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Jack's message is correct.  The only "sale" aspect was that the GEIs in
+question had to send $1 to help cover postage; the shirt was free.  (I hear a
+few have shown up at auctions for sale; $50 for one, in fact.)
+
+     And yes, the triangle logo has been pretty much officially dropped.
+Whether or not we'll find another use for it down the road is an open
+question, but for now...yep.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Oh, yeah, before I forget (again)...look for ads in People Magazine and
+elsewhere to start appearing in the next few weeks.  And local TV reviewers
+are going to start getting their copies this week.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Well, this IS a science fiction topic.....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     BTW, for anyone going to NATPE -- wherever the hell it is -- this coming
+week, there's going to be a big B5 display at the Warners booth,  and some
+posters available.  I've asked to get one of the posters for my archives.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Boy, those time distortion fields are tricky, aren't they?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Go ahead....YOU tell G'Kar he's ToTo.  Me, I wanna live a while....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+
+     The death penalty question is one I've been debating in terms of B5 for
+quite some time.  Look at the math involved...if you find someone guilty of
+murder, do you spend all the money and time and effort and so on to ship them
+to a penal colony?  The cost would be ENORMOUS.  Do you keep them imprisoned
+on B5?  If so, eventually you'll run out of room.  So the question becomes, Do
+you space them?  Kill them humanely?
+
+     There's a B5 story I have in mind that will explore this question, but
+I'm not yet sure which way I want to go on it.
+
+     And to the question above...some stations air PTEN shows on different
+nights, yes, there's some flexibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Ah, but you see, for starters, the issue may not be one of reform; okay,
+A kills B, so we transform A into a better person...this by you is a
+punishment?  What is the purpose of the law, to reform or to avenge?
+
+     Plus you run into the other problem...what of the other species out there
+who may require death for certain offenses, such as murder of their own
+species?
+
+     And consider this: A kills B.  B happens to be your little sister, age
+12.  A gets transformed by the psychs.  And you're now living side by side
+with A, you see him every day, in a closed station...would thisn ot lead to
+MORE murders?
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Yes, but of course the problem *there* (making them work it off) is that
+it begins to institutionalize slavery.  How can you safeguard against
+situations leading to indentured slavery...Person A is *falsely* accused of a
+crime for the purpose of shipping him off to the work colony where he will
+slave away for the Company indefinitely?
+
+     In a way, when you're dealing in this context -- far space -- the
+question of "is murder humane?" is really less and less the operative
+question.  (By "murder" I mean the death penalty in the above.)  You're living
+in *very* small quarters, when you get down to it.  It costs quite a lot in
+time and money to get there.  And to send someone away.  How  much time and
+money do you allocate for extradition across, potentially, x-number of light
+years?
+
+     The best metaphor, I suppose, is a boat at sea.  There are ten people in
+the boat.  A kills B.  You don't really have the resources to rehabilitate
+there.  And barring that option, there's no way of knowing if A won't kill C
+in his sleep...or that D, B's friend, won't kill A at the first opportunity.
+Meanwhile, you've got to put your attention to getting this ship to port
+without totally disrupting operations and sinking before you reach port.
+
+     On Earth, if someone commits a crime, you send them to prison upstate,
+out of sight, out of mind.  But where do/can you send them in such closed
+quarters?  I raise this mainly because what I've always tried to do with B5 is
+to Ask The Next Question.  Very often the answers to those questions aren't
+easy, or comfortable...but they have to be asked, and answered, if your
+universe is to make any sense or have any degree of consistency.
+
+     (And just in general, btw, everyone who comes to B5 operates under EA
+laws, so Earth laws have jurisdiction under *most* circumstances.  But there
+are always exceptions.  And those would be a *real* test.)
+
+     As to the idea that the death penalty costs more than life...yes, that's
+true as far as it goes on Earth...but a station wouldn't have time or money or
+resources for those kind of endless appeals.  Justice wold (would) have to be
+fairly swift, or the entire operation would come to a screeching halt.  So
+what happens to civil rights?  To the question of cruel and unusual
+punishment?  Where does one draw the line?
+
+     They're very hard questions.  And the thing is...there IS no right
+answer.
+
+     On to other things (meanwhile, feel free to keep this discussion
+going...there are a lot of sides to this argument, and it's good to hear all
+of them).
+
+     Yes, there are starmaps around, some are visible in Sinclair's briefing
+room, although they got kinda washed out to a light blue and you really can't
+see them well.  We'll fix this later.
+
+     There are weapons, and we'll see them eventually.  Can the station move?
+Yes, but only marginally, as required to maintain its L5 position.   As for
+the engine room...since this isn't a starship, the engine room is not exactly
+the same.  There's not much of an engine per se; it was built IN one place to
+STAY in one place.  There are maintainance areas and operational sections, the
+blue-collar stuff, though, and that we will be seeing.
+
+     Had something great happen today.  Got a call from a friend, and there
+was a guy in town from Magazine X (I can't give the title), which covers
+computers, and SF, and other related areas.  He wanted to see B5 and do a
+quick interview/review.  Now, this guy is very skeptical and not a little
+cynical, even by his own admission.  I said okay, and he came to the house
+where I cranked up the system and showed him the finished pilot.
+
+     This is the first time a civilian has seen the *completed film*, sound,
+music, pic all.  And a reviewer, no less.  His responce, (response), when the
+pilot was over?  He pronounced it the best SF pilot ever made, the "most
+significant SF event" he had ever seen.  He was just croggled by it.
+
+     I am a happy man.  It's a start.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     And there I agree...in our current situation, I much prefer live (er,
+life) imprisonment to the death sentence, first because it allows for more
+time to correct errors if the person's innocent; and second, if the person's
+guilty...deny him an easy way out.
+
+     But again, that's *here* and *now* and may not necessarily reflect  the
+sorts of problems and considerations that may exist on a station such as B5.
+
+     Leviathan: you say that the law should "protect, not avenge."  But
+protect how?  How do you protect against the lover who, in a fit of jealous
+rage, knifes his fiancee to death?  Do we have cameras in every room of every
+house, monitoring for potentially dangerous behavior?  What is the dividing
+point between privacy and endangerment?  Is not the aspect of protection or
+prevention hinged upon the idea of retribution if  caught?  If there is no
+avengement, where then is the prevention?  If there is any privacy at all,
+where is the protection?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I think that, to avoid a western-centered show, you have to work from the
+assumption that the EA has incorporated laws other than those of the good old
+US of A.  Which will add some color to things.
+
+     As for how dangerous a place B5 is...the comment about the prior Babylon
+stations is a good and telling one.  There are almost two levels of
+understanding on this...the sense of those who work there and maintain the
+environment, who know just how fragile this situation really is, and the sense
+of those who come and go, whose sense of safety has to be reinforced if B5 is
+to be commercially viable.  Which opens up some interesting moral and ethical
+dilemmas for some of the crew....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Little Guy: there is, admittedly, a certain advantage to throwing a topic
+out there, and watching a number of intelligent, articulate people who know SF
+debate the thing...it opens your mind to many possibilities.
+
+                                                                jms
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+      Jim...hmm...interesting...an inquisitorial system could make for a good
+adjunct to something I'd been thinking of...something Harlan suggested,
+actually, during our first B5 brainstorm session last year.
+
+      Which I'll elaborate on at some point in the future, but in the
+interim...good idea.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Re: the use of psi's in the judicial system...there was a whole long
+discussion of this in another topic...which answered all of the questions
+asked.  In fear of being redundent...does anyone out there remember where that
+discussion took place, so we can send this fellow to the right message(s)?
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     The command level uniforms (Sinclair, Laurel, Garibaldi) are pretty much
+the same in cut, though Garibaldi's (and all of securityard grey more than
+blue.  Medical uniforms have a somewhat different cut and lean toward charcoal
+grey.
+
+     There's a slightly different cut for grunt-level security, and a slightly
+greener look.  Station techs (maintainance crews and the like) generally get
+yellow outfits with the B5 logo (and are not directly part of the EA
+structure; they work at and for the station per se).  Control techs, in the
+observation dome, for instance, generally don't wear jackets on duty, but
+rather shirts with the B5 logo.  The shift commander, though, does wear a
+jacket with his uniform.  (When B5 opens, you see Laural give a command to the
+shift commander, who then relays it to others.  You can trace the line of
+command in the dome from there.)
+
+     There are, and will be, other variations in uniform, but those are pretty
+much the ones you'll see in the show.  (In addition, of course, to more
+conventional clothing such as that worn by casino workers, marked only by a
+glitter-B5 logo.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I taught writing (what else?)...I *think* it was around 1979 or 80.
+After a while, everything blurs.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: SDSU, no, I had very little to do with the cinema/telecom dept.
+there.  I crashed two courses _ mainly because I wanted to learn from a
+particular instructor, Norman Corwin _ and had one or two others, but that's
+it.  My interest was in other areas...one degree in Clinical Psychology with a
+minor in Philosophy; another in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing,
+that sort of thing.
+
+     BTW, if you go down to the offices of the Daily Aztec, and ask to see the
+archive volumes of the paper around 1977/78 or thereabouts, you'll see several
+zillion articles by me in there.  At more or less the same time, I was the
+resident book reviewer, film reviewer and theater reviewer, had two weekly
+humor columns ("A View from the Rabbit Hole" and "A Modern Cynic's
+Dictionary"), as well as regular feature articles and profiles, and the
+occasional investigative article, including one on the CIA.  The frequency of
+articles led some to describe the paper as The Daily J. Michael.  At the same
+time I was doing cover stories for the San Diego Reader, the Daily
+Californian, features for the SD edition of the Los Angeles Times, and
+entertainment reviews for KSDO-AM Newsradio.
+
+     But the Daily Aztec stuff was great fun.  I worked without pay, the only
+one on staff who did, in fact...because I didn't want to be beholden to
+anybody, could write what I wanted, nobody had any leverage.  Which was all
+for the good, given the massive numbers of angry letters and the occasional
+bomb threats elicited by what I wrote.
+
+     Can't imagine why....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Yes, a VERY large blunt object.
+
+     The one point of any possible interest to draw from this comes from
+something I tried to beat into incoming students when I was an orientation
+counselor at SDSU: if you go to college, and all you see are the class rooms,
+the bathrooms, the parking lot and the cafeteria, you will cheat yourself of
+99% of your possible education.  Any university or college has vast
+opportunities for writers and others.  In the former case, write for the
+university newspaper, or the university theater (and most schools have an
+ongoing one-act production program)...take classes in acting or film, to get a
+sense of history, or the hands-on process of being on stage...the range of
+experience open to you is enormous.  Don't just follow your major to its
+conclusion.  There is a world of experience you can get while you're there
+*that you may never have the chance to experience again*.   Take it.
+
+     End of sermon.  I shouldn't even be here, frankly, this is for the new
+folks and others to sign in and introduce themselves...both for the interests
+of our own private party, so we know who's come into the room, and for any
+possible future mailings or opportunities.
+
+     Let's hear from y'all.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     KBHK Channel 44 in San Francisco.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Shane...imagine, if you will, a slow fuse being lit...as I stare at the
+name, thinking, "There was something...something I was supposed to do,
+something...writing?"  Then, finally, the fuse works its way through the dense
+foliage I laughingly call my cerebral cortex and explodes with the words "THE
+ARTICLE, STUPID!  YOU NEVER FINISHED PROOFREADING THE ARTICLE HE SENT YOU!"
+
+     A thousand apologies, Shane.  The piece came in right when I was in the
+midst of finishing B5 and leaving M,SW, my life was degenerating into stark,
+staring madness, and I put it down, intent upon taking care of it that
+evening, and next thing I know...I see your message here.
+
+     Hope I didn't screw anything up....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+      I forget...which one of us was wearing the rabbit outfit that night?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Yeah, you kinda need binocular vision for survival purposes and the
+utilization of tools.
+
+     Re: alien plans...that's something that we'll have to work out down the
+road with our prosthetics people.  I don't think we used the full range of
+aliens (both versions) as well as we might have in the pilot.   We get only
+one medium-long shot of Black Eyes, for instance, and that's one that I feel
+came out VERY well and should be highlighted more.  Some of the others were
+less effective, but were kept to the background.
+
+     I'd like to keep a mix going, about 50/50.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     An entire planet of mimes.....AN ENTIRE PLANET OF MIMES!?!
+
+     NUKE 'EM!
+
+     NUKE 'EM TILL THEY GLOW THEN SHOOT 'EM IN THE DARK!
+
+   YAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+      till (til) conj. & prep until
+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
+                                        Oxford American Dictionary
+
+                                                                       jms
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+     Your teacher was wrong.  The dictionary accepts till.  If required, I can
+call Mrs. Nash, assuming she survived the process.
+
+     Re: aliens...yeah, there was a somewhat naturalistic look to the things
+that I'd like to experiment with come the series.  This was a deliberate
+choice on Criswell's part.  And by and large, it worked out okay.  I just
+think that for the series, it would limit us.
+
+     Criswell's elves actually did a *lot* of research, trying various
+textures and color combinations drawn from nature.  Of course, that's all
+nature as would evolve in an oxygen atmosphere, 1g.  We have to go beyond
+that, and I think there's some nifty stuff that can be done down the road.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     On the other hand...maybe it might be better if our Sysoptrix took the
+last, oh, 100 or so messages from 1 about this and transplanted 'em here.  Get
+the whole context in place.
+
+     And lord knows, it's not like she has anything ELSE to do, other than
+nudzhing me....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Something I forgot to mention uptopic, when asked if I can write a story
+with kids...it's appeared in a lot of my prose.  The two leading protagonist
+in my most recent novel, OTHERSYDE, were around 16...the lead character in one
+of the first short stories of mine ever to be published ("Your Move," in
+Amazing SF) was about 13, and the second story of mine published ("A Last
+Testament for Nick and the Trooper," Shadows 6)  featured two kids maybe 19.
+
+     Provided only for the sake of completeness.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Absolutely.  I love being proven wrong.
+
+     Though there are few survivors to carry the story....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Ah LAHKES Crow an' Tom Servo....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     If you can find Harpo, we'll book him on the show....
+
+     Or Chico, or Groucho...but definitely not Zeppo...or Flammo, the Marx
+Brother who ended up on the cutting room floor.
+
+     "Getta you tootsie-fruitsie ice-a cream...."
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+      Rob: that was very funny stuff.  And believe me, I know from Gummo;
+ the Flammo reference was from a play by Louis Phillips, "The Last of the
+ Marx Bros. Writers," very surreal, where they mention Flammo.  The play
+ is about...well...the last surviving Marx. Bros. writer, who is living in
+ a one room flat, doesn't go out, and keeps having delusional conversations
+ with God.  "Make Me Laugh," God says.  The writer starts a joke.
+
+      "Heard it," God says.  Which is, of course, the problem...he's heard
+ ALL of them.
+
+      BTW, if you're a true-blue Marx Bros. fan, you might want to find (if
+ you already haven't) the book "Flyweel, Shyster and Flywheel," which
+ contains many of the radio scripts of that Marx Bros. show, no surviving
+ audio copies of which have survived.  Very, very funny stuff.
+
+      "How much do you charge to perform?"
+      "Ten dollar."
+      "How much to perform but leave out the rehearsal?"
+      "Twenty dollar."
+      "How much not to perform at all?"
+      "Oh, no, boss, you couldn't afford it...."
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     KL: though it galls me to quote commercials, I heard something on one the
+other day that's actually quite telling...some restaraunter quoting something
+his father told him: "The guy who says he never had a chance, never TOOK a
+chance."
+
+     What you say is correct: write it, send it out, write another, send it
+out, write another...on and on and on...if it's good, sooner or later
+somebody'll notice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     I'll know more about the computer game next week or so.  Best thing in
+general is to write to Licensing Corporation of America to get on their
+mailing list for future B5 promotional stuff and merchandising.
+
+     The Creation designs for shirts look okay, if a tad prosaic...there has
+got to be one central image to promote this show, but I'm darned if I can
+figure out what it is at this stage.  The logo looks swell, though, in any
+event.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Jack's message is correct.  The only "sale" aspect was that the GEIs in
+question had to send $1 to help cover postage; the shirt was free.  (I hear a
+few have shown up at auctions for sale; $50 for one, in fact.)
+
+     And yes, the triangle logo has been pretty much officially dropped.
+Whether or not we'll find another use for it down the road is an open
+question, but for now...yep.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 23 1993
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+     Oh, yeah, before I forget (again)...look for ads in People Magazine and
+elsewhere to start appearing in the next few weeks.  And local TV reviewers
+are going to start getting their copies this week.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1993
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+     Well, this IS a science fiction topic.....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1993
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+     BTW, for anyone going to NATPE _ wherever the hell it is _ this coming
+week, there's going to be a big B5 display at the Warners booth,  and some
+posters available.  I've asked to get one of the posters for my archives.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 25 1993
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+     Boy, those time distortion fields are tricky, aren't they?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 26 1993
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+     Go ahead....YOU tell G'Kar he's ToTo.  Me, I wanna live a while....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 26 1993
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+     The death penalty question is one I've been debating in terms of B5 for
+quite some time.  Look at the math involved...if you find someone guilty of
+murder, do you spend all the money and time and effort and so on to ship them
+to a penal colony?  The cost would be ENORMOUS.  Do you keep them imprisoned
+on B5?  If so, eventually you'll run out of room.  So the question becomes, Do
+you space them?  Kill them humanely?
+
+     There's a B5 story I have in mind that will explore this question, but
+I'm not yet sure which way I want to go on it.
+
+     And to the question above...some stations air PTEN shows on different
+nights, yes, there's some flexibility.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 26 1993
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+     Ah, but you see, for starters, the issue may not be one of reform; okay,
+A kills B, so we transform A into a better person...this by you is a
+punishment?  What is the purpose of the law, to reform or to avenge?
+
+     Plus you run into the other problem...what of the other species out there
+who may require death for certain offenses, such as murder of their own
+species?
+
+     And consider this: A kills B.  B happens to be your little sister, age
+12.  A gets transformed by the psychs.  And you're now living side by side
+with A, you see him every day, in a closed station...would thisn ot lead to
+MORE murders?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Yes, but of course the problem *there* (making them work it off) is that
+it begins to institutionalize slavery.  How can you safeguard against
+situations leading to indentured slavery...Person A is *falsely* accused of a
+crime for the purpose of shipping him off to the work colony where he will
+slave away for the Company indefinitely?
+
+     In a way, when you're dealing in this context _ far space _ the
+question of "is murder humane?" is really less and less the operative
+question.  (By "murder" I mean the death penalty in the above.)  You're living
+in *very* small quarters, when you get down to it.  It costs quite a lot in
+time and money to get there.  And to send someone away.  How  much time and
+money do you allocate for extradition across, potentially, x-number of light
+years?
+
+     The best metaphor, I suppose, is a boat at sea.  There are ten people in
+the boat.  A kills B.  You don't really have the resources to rehabilitate
+there.  And barring that option, there's no way of knowing if A won't kill C
+in his sleep...or that D, B's friend, won't kill A at the first opportunity.
+Meanwhile, you've got to put your attention to getting this ship to port
+without totally disrupting operations and sinking before you reach port.
+
+     On Earth, if someone commits a crime, you send them to prison upstate,
+out of sight, out of mind.  But where do/can you send them in such closed
+quarters?  I raise this mainly because what I've always tried to do with B5 is
+to Ask The Next Question.  Very often the answers to those questions aren't
+easy, or comfortable...but they have to be asked, and answered, if your
+universe is to make any sense or have any degree of consistency.
+
+     (And just in general, btw, everyone who comes to B5 operates under EA
+laws, so Earth laws have jurisdiction under *most* circumstances.  But there
+are always exceptions.  And those would be a *real* test.)
+
+     As to the idea that the death penalty costs more than life...yes, that's
+true as far as it goes on Earth...but a station wouldn't have time or money or
+resources for those kind of endless appeals.  Justice wold (would) have to be
+fairly swift, or the entire operation would come to a screeching halt.  So
+what happens to civil rights?  To the question of cruel and unusual
+punishment?  Where does one draw the line?
+
+     They're very hard questions.  And the thing is...there IS no right
+answer.
+
+     On to other things (meanwhile, feel free to keep this discussion
+going...there are a lot of sides to this argument, and it's good to hear all
+of them).
+
+     Yes, there are starmaps around, some are visible in Sinclair's briefing
+room, although they got kinda washed out to a light blue and you really can't
+see them well.  We'll fix this later.
+
+     There are weapons, and we'll see them eventually.  Can the station move?
+Yes, but only marginally, as required to maintain its L5 position.   As for
+the engine room...since this isn't a starship, the engine room is not exactly
+the same.  There's not much of an engine per se; it was built IN one place to
+STAY in one place.  There are maintainance areas and operational sections, the
+blue-collar stuff, though, and that we will be seeing.
+
+     Had something great happen today.  Got a call from a friend, and there
+was a guy in town from Magazine X (I can't give the title), which covers
+computers, and SF, and other related areas.  He wanted to see B5 and do a
+quick interview/review.  Now, this guy is very skeptical and not a little
+cynical, even by his own admission.  I said okay, and he came to the house
+where I cranked up the system and showed him the finished pilot.
+
+     This is the first time a civilian has seen the *completed film*, sound,
+music, pic all.  And a reviewer, no less.  His responce, (response), when the
+pilot was over?  He pronounced it the best SF pilot ever made, the "most
+significant SF event" he had ever seen.  He was just croggled by it.
+
+     I am a happy man.  It's a start.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     And there I agree...in our current situation, I much prefer live (er,
+life) imprisonment to the death sentence, first because it allows for more
+time to correct errors if the person's innocent; and second, if the person's
+guilty...deny him an easy way out.
+
+     But again, that's *here* and *now* and may not necessarily reflect  the
+sorts of problems and considerations that may exist on a station such as B5.
+
+     Leviathan: you say that the law should "protect, not avenge."  But
+protect how?  How do you protect against the lover who, in a fit of jealous
+rage, knifes his fiancee to death?  Do we have cameras in every room of every
+house, monitoring for potentially dangerous behavior?  What is the dividing
+point between privacy and endangerment?  Is not the aspect of protection or
+prevention hinged upon the idea of retribution if  caught?  If there is no
+avengement, where then is the prevention?  If there is any privacy at all,
+where is the protection?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I think that, to avoid a western-centered show, you have to work from the
+assumption that the EA has incorporated laws other than those of the good old
+US of A.  Which will add some color to things.
+
+     As for how dangerous a place B5 is...the comment about the prior Babylon
+stations is a good and telling one.  There are almost two levels of
+understanding on this...the sense of those who work there and maintain the
+environment, who know just how fragile this situation really is, and the sense
+of those who come and go, whose sense of safety has to be reinforced if B5 is
+to be commercially viable.  Which opens up some interesting moral and ethical
+dilemmas for some of the crew....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1993
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+     Little Guy: there is, admittedly, a certain advantage to throwing a topic
+out there, and watching a number of intelligent, articulate people who know SF
+debate the thing...it opens your mind to many possibilities.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 25 1993
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+      Jim...hmm...interesting...an inquisitorial system could make for a good
+adjunct to something I'd been thinking of...something Harlan suggested,
+actually, during our first B5 brainstorm session last year.
+
+      Which I'll elaborate on at some point in the future, but in the
+interim...good idea.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: the use of psi's in the judicial system...there was a whole long
+discussion of this in another topic...which answered all of the questions
+asked.  In fear of being redundent...does anyone out there remember where that
+discussion took place, so we can send this fellow to the right message(s)?
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The command level uniforms (Sinclair, Laurel, Garibaldi) are pretty much
+the same in cut, though Garibaldi's (and all of securityard grey more than
+blue.  Medical uniforms have a somewhat different cut and lean toward charcoal
+grey.
+
+     There's a slightly different cut for grunt-level security, and a slightly
+greener look.  Station techs (maintainance crews and the like) generally get
+yellow outfits with the B5 logo (and are not directly part of the EA
+structure; they work at and for the station per se).  Control techs, in the
+observation dome, for instance, generally don't wear jackets on duty, but
+rather shirts with the B5 logo.  The shift commander, though, does wear a
+jacket with his uniform.  (When B5 opens, you see Laural give a command to the
+shift commander, who then relays it to others.  You can trace the line of
+command in the dome from there.)
+
+     There are, and will be, other variations in uniform, but those are pretty
+much the ones you'll see in the show.  (In addition, of course, to more
+conventional clothing such as that worn by casino workers, marked only by a
+glitter-B5 logo.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1992
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+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 topic.  The posts are copyright 1993 by 
+J. Michael Straczynski with compilation copyright by GEnie. 
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+     Will, jeez, that's amazing...you should've said something, the B5 family
+would've been there with cards and letters.  How're you doing now?  I know it
+can be a very traumatic experience, even once you're physically 100%.
+
+     One more thing, Will.  Email me your address.
+
+     On other fronts....
+
+     One week from today, we will (or should) be finished with
+sound/music/looping edits and the B5 pilot will be complete.  It's both
+exhilirating to think about that...and there's also that post partum
+depression that hits whenever I finish a big project, a novel, or an episode
+of a series.  In my head, all I can play over are the things we should've or
+could've done to make it even better...the scenes we should have trimmed, the
+scenes we should've dropped back in again, THIS angle on a fight instead of
+THAT one...you can play with these things forever.   At some point, you just
+have to let go.
+
+     Then the next phase _ the series _ rests in large measure in your
+hands, in terms of how fast we can get this puppy in gear.
+
+     It's kind of funny, meanwhile...I've gotten a number of private responses
+to stuff I asked here, and one person told me a rather remarkable story,
+alongside Will's...without naming names, he'd taken it upon himself to
+proselytize about the show as much as possible, to tell as many people about
+it as he could.
+
+     Apparently, he was on one system, and saw a young woman on-line, and
+called her into chat, something he was normally to shy EVER to do before.
+ They began talking about the show _ she'd apparently heard a little about
+it, but not much _ and over time they began corresponding, and, in the words
+of the person who sent me the note, "We fell in love with each other."
+They've now met, and it looks like it might get serious indeed.
+
+     Amazing.  (When the person gives me his permission, I'll post the full
+note; he's a little sheepish of her finding out he said anything.)
+
+     I think it's really kind of cool.
+
+     Oh...one last thing.  Several people have inquired privately how to send
+notes or stuff hard-copy.  An address where I can be reached is 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     What an amazing group of posts...I'm speechless.  It's gratifying to see
+that the process works, that this medium can be used to such good effect.
+Something that has always been important to me is de-mystifying the process.
+Lee mentioned somewhere uptopic that the on-line stuff has been going on for a
+long time, across various shows, from RGBs and Power through Zone and now to
+this.  To de-mystify writing, Harlan writes in bookstore windows...I do this.
+
+     I just got a private note today (oh, and speaking of notes, just address
+hard-copy mail to my name; it's a private mailing address, not a studio) from
+one fellow who just managed to get a development deal with a studio.  It ain't
+big, but it's a start...and because of the discussion here, and elsewhere over
+the years, he has a better idea of what to expect, and how to prepare.
+
+     This is an extremely tough business to crack.  And the largest part of
+the problem is just getting accurate information.  When I came to LA
+originally, I didn't know squat, and a long time _ a LONG time _ was wasted,
+time I now very much regret losing, because I just didn't fully  or accurately
+understand How Things Worked.  If this process can make the entry easier for
+another writer, or de-mystify what happens behind the screen, then all the
+better.
+
+     And, selfishly, it has been great to get the input, to hear the
+questions, especially those I can't answer...because down the road you just
+KNOW that that question will come up eventually, and better to be hit with it
+now than blindsided later on.  It's a rewarding, fascinating and challenging
+exchange.  I suspect that a LOT of shows would be considerably improved for
+this kind of direct communication.
+
+     Oh, yeah...and re the newsletter...if you ask Christy nice, I'm sure
+she'll send you the back issue.  Tell her I said it was okay.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     That would be telling....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     "And they were carried off to Babylon...."
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1993
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+     I really don't know how to make an e-mail mailing list, and it would seem
+inappropriate to ask anyone here to go through the hassle of doing it for all
+1800-2000 people here to accommodate the handful with dishes.  Or silverware,
+for that matter.  If someone here would like to be your "Dish Buddy" and send
+you a note when it goes on, that might be one way of doing it.
+
+     Re: kids/robots...the exact phrasing of that has gone through various
+permutations and paraphrasings; the specific line is "No kids or cute robots."
+The latter specifically entails entities such as Twiki (got the spelling right
+this time, thanks to whoever corrected me), who should be run down by a truck
+at the first opportunity.  (In fact, I can say without hesitation that if you
+ever DO see what passes for a cute robot on this show, keep a close eye on it,
+because you'll probably see somebody drop an anvil on it REAL fast.)
+
+     So this allows us to explore the question of robotics, but to do so in a
+fairly serious context.  Because logically, 200+ years in the future there are
+going to be some changes; robotics will be more common, though likely in some
+different form.  (If you've seen the promos or the pilot, you've seen the
+maintenance 'bot that checks out the hull of B5; it has arms, it moves, it's
+independent, it's a robot.  It just doesn't begin its report with "Bida-bida-
+bida.")
+
+     On the topic of kids...it's a deliberate decision to steer clear of that
+part, not because I think it's invalid, but because a) it's been done on
+another show, and its spinoff, rather intensively, and b) it's part of the SF
+stereotype, "We have to have kids because SF is a kid's genre."
+
+     Might there be a story about a family of refugees who come seeking
+sanctuary, or opportunity elsewhere?  Of course.  But any kids in that family
+won't be at the *center* of the story.  And they'll be gone by the end of the
+episode.  It's also a matter of context; absent the scenario just posed, this
+is a place for businessmen, travelers, mappers, traders, diplomats and others,
+it's not a place for kids.  It's also potentially a very DANGEROUS place.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Rumors are exactly that...and as I've indicated, anything that  happens
+of substance _ good, bad or indifferent _ you'll hear it from the source.
+
+     How can PTEN be dead when it hasn't even AIRED yet?  I've hered this same
+rumor from others, and have to say that if Creation is spreading this that
+they are being *highly* irresponsible.  The facts again are these: the first
+night of programming goes on later this month.  B5 airs the following month.
+Based on the ratings for all of the shows, they will then open a second night,
+or modify the first.  And that will determine where (and when) B5 lands.  It's
+a logistical question about when to expand.
+
+     If anyone wanders back in that topic's direction and would like to re-
+post this as an official rebuttal, you're welcome to do so.
+
+     I also hear they're showing the E! piece...guys, if you want to help us,
+there at Creation...don't
+
+                                                                jms
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+     My sense (what there is of it) is that in every show, you have to make
+choices.  What, fundamentally, is the story you are telling?  Who is your
+story about?  Is it for adults, or children?  I don't watch LA Law regularly,
+but I sort of poke my nose in from time to time, and I don't see a lot of
+kid's stories.  One could well go to the producers of that show and say, "Why
+aren't you doing kid stories?" to which the only answer is, "That's not our
+show."
+
+     I already said above that if families come through, there may be kids
+along.  The point of clarification for me is that I don't want to do shows
+with kids at the center.  First to distinguish us from other shows, and second
+because that's not the area that I want to concentrate on just now.  Of course
+people still have kids, and of course some will come through B5; it's where
+one places them in the story that's at issue.
+
+     It's often kinda funny...people say, on the one hand, "Yeah!  Fight them
+studios!  Don't let them tell you the kind of stories you oughta do!" Then,
+"But you've GOTTA do a story with kids!" or "This is the sort of story you
+HAVE to do."
+
+     The only answer to that _ said without sarcasm, honest _ is "Do what I
+did...sell your own show."  I don't mean that in any way harshly, I'm very
+serious about that.  Whether it's a novelist, or a short story author, or a TV
+writer, or a screenwriter, we each of us has to decide fundamentally what it
+is we want to write about it, and define our choices.  Would you call Larry
+Niven and say, "Listen, while you're in the middle of the Mote In God's Eye
+sequel, we need a really good section about kids."  You let the man tell his
+story his way.
+
+     This, for me, is just one of those areas on which I have planted my feet
+and sunk roots clear to the center of the planet.  Now, it's altogether
+possible that some day long down the road, one story will occur to me, and
+I'll deal with that when and if it happens.  But in the interim...it's vital,
+from my perspective, to make B5 a show by, for and about adults in adult
+relationships; not to invalidate the other stuff, but only as a sense of where
+this show's emphasis is.  It's time to let the studios and the suits and the
+networks know that an SF series can survive without putting in the required
+child or teenager.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Postscript to the preceding: that doesn't mean that I (or any other
+member of the B5 team) shouldn't be challenged on stuff like this.
+Challenges are good.  First, they keep you on your toes.  Second, it makes one
+verbalize why one has taken a certain stance, and it's at that point that
+weaknesses and fallacies in the argument become apparent.  "The unexamined
+life" and all that.  As I've noted before, sometimes the only way to get
+pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
+
+     I love a good philosophical knock-down-drag-out.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other fronts...
+
+     I will tell you the truest thing I have learned about television in the
+process of making the B5 pilot.  That quality is rare is not really
+remarkable; what's remarkable is that it gets done at ALL.  Any show,
+regardless of quality.  There are millions of details, the tiniest things that
+require constant shepherding.  You're in the midst of doing one thing and
+somebody calls involved with another part of the show and says, "Look, we've
+got some question about whether the doors should go SHOOP! or BLOOP!, George
+thinks SHOOP, and we think he's right...unless you'd rather come listen to
+them youreself."  And it's very easy to say, "Okay, just take care of it,"
+then find yourself sitting there a month later and saying, "Damn, why did we
+end up with a SHOOP! effect?"
+
+     It's physically impossible to be in every place at all times, and you
+particularly don't want to be in a position where you start giving your people
+less room to play and be independent.  There are just so many details that
+it's very easy to say, "Okay, fine, deal with it," or to not bother with
+something, that it becomes quickly apparent why it's so hard to find real
+quality out there.  That kind of attention is a major pain in the butt.  When
+you see it from this side, you're just amazed  that it gets done at ALL.
+
+     Just a thought for the day...
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested (all four of you), the very last
+episode I wrote for this season's "Murder, She Wrote" will air this coming
+Sunday.  I haven't seen anything on it _ no dailies, no rough cuts _ so I
+have no idea how it came out, though I *hear* it came out well.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     RE: cliffhangers...not between episodes, certainly.  Between seasons,
+it's...hard to explain.  There are, or will be *changes* that happen from one
+season to another (as planned), specific events that take place that should
+bring one up short...but "cliffhanger" in the sense of leaving some guy
+hanging from a string over a lake of fire...no, no plans for such at this
+time.
+
+     RE: kids...boy, that one sure hit a nerve on both sides, didn't it?
+That's good.  An argument like this is what a show or story should do, get
+people discussing the issues.
+
+     Meanwhile, on other areas....
+
+                             ****WOW****
+
+     I was in the editing bay today during the pre-dub of B5 (which I'll
+explain more , which btw has a nifty huge projection screen, twelve or fifteen
+feet across, so I got to see some of the show as if at a theater...plays
+pretty well.
+
+     Anyway...what a pre-dub is, is this: those who saw the earlier version of
+the pilot will remember, for instance, the scenes in the main corridor of the
+station (well, one of them, anyway).  You have Sinclair and Garibaldi talking.
+It's an un-mixed scene...just as filmed, there are just two guys talking.  All
+the rest of the set is silent.
+
+     But now...NOW...you're in the editing bay, and now you add in the
+background voices, human and alien...mechanical sounds nearby...an intercom
+voice advertising station services...then layer in the music, and suddenly
+it's a MOVIE!  Someone said that sound is half of a movie, and you forget that
+until it hits you in the face.
+
+     The pre-dub is where you layer in the voice tracks (original, from the
+production; adr (automatic dialogue replacement) for lines that were not
+sufficiently audible or need to be looped; incidental dialogue  (computers,
+background characters) and walla (general crowd sounds).  You decide how much
+of any of these is too much, how much more you need, what the balance is...if
+you need to use the surround capability to put this voice HERE or THERE....
+
+     Then we previewed some scenes with music, and did a little of the same
+there (we'll do more during the final mix Thursday through Tuesday).   For
+instance...most music cues are anywhere from a few seconds long to maybe a
+minute or more.  Ours tend to be longish...the longest is a cue that lasts 7.5
+minutes, and goes inside the station, outside the station, to different
+*parts* of the station, and the music continues throughout.  We figured that
+we needed to better differentiate the sound inside vs. outside the
+station...so in the music cue, we drop the electric guitar out of the mix for
+the inside scenes, and put it back in for the outside scenes, for instance.
+
+     The result, basically, being that it becomes a *M*O*V*I*E* for the first
+time.  And boy, it cooks, lemme tell you.  There are moments of absolute and
+inutterable self-doubt in a project like this, especially when paired with the
+monumental press machine from elsewhere which is doing everything possible to
+bury us in the interests of preserving an economic monopoly and critics who
+figure we're a clone of another show.   But then you turn around and see
+something like this, and you know it's going to work...and it really helps.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Ah, except, Gary, for the reason I picked that particular metaphor; this
+ain't Sudden Death, as with football.
+
+     This one's going to the judges at the end of the round, and the case will
+be decided...win, lose or draw...on the merits of the performance in the ring,
+not on hype (on either side), not on good feelings, but on the quality of the
+work, which is as it should be.  Only thing I've ever asked at any point in my
+life is a fair fight on a level playing field.  Then let things fall as they
+may.
+
+     And as for the judges...look in the mirror.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Yeah, I agree, the pointing-rods-and-magically-changing-colors on hair
+and stuff is kinda old (though it surfaced in Total Recall).  No plans for it,
+that's for sure.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Aquila...let me try this again, since you may have missed it in other
+postings.  Our current situation is ironic in that it has nothing really to do
+with our show, but rather with the network.
+
+     The chronology, and our situation, is simple.
+
+     1) November 1991: Time Trax, Kung Fu and B5 contend among each other for
+the first night of programming on the new network.  There are ONLY TWO SLOTS
+AVAILABLE, two hours.  B5 and TT have the inside track, but there's a question
+as to whether or not B5 can be done for TV *at all* given what we were
+promising (a huge saga, state of the art EFX, a large cast, that sort of
+thing).  So we have to answer that question by making a pilot.  The other two
+shows go into series production at that time.
+
+     2) They start filming episodes in August, about the same time we start
+the pilot.
+
+     3) We finish the pilot (barring our current last phase of post
+production).  Warners LOVES the show.  The stations, which have always been
+big on the show, WANT the show.  Warners tries to convince the local stations
+to open up a second night of programming, with B5 as the anchor.  The stations
+love the idea...but don't want to open up a second night until they get the
+ratings on ALL THE SHOWS.  Not just B5.  If all the shows are big hits, then
+they open the second night with Bt as the anchor.  If one doesn't perform,
+then B5 becomes the replacement.
+
+     Point being...and I can't stress this enough...there is no _ repeat, NO -
+- problem with Warners or the stations in terms of confidence or anything
+else.  They're chomping at the bit to go with it.  The only problem is that
+their "box" in which to put programs currently can only fit two one-hour
+shows.  Either they take one out, or get another box, but they can't give us a
+go until one or the other  happens.  It's not like a big network that has 7
+days of programming a week and can just drop in a show wherever it wants...or
+a straight-ahead syndicated show.  This is part of a new network, and is
+dependent upon the internal workings of  that network.  Which is fine by me,
+it's just the way things are just now.
+
+     Does that address your question?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Ninety percent of the stations taking the PTEN lineup have news from 10-
+11, so that only leaves 8-10 for programs.
+
+     The deal is that the stations and Warners pay 50/50, as I understand it
+from the trades, for the shows, and I don't think Warners would want to set
+the precedent of paying 100% for any given number of shows.  And because
+they're 50/50 partners, it would be politically inappropriate for one arm to
+unilaterally order X-episodes of anything.  As for the rest, there are options
+on top of options, all in our favor.
+
+     Re: post production timing and budget...we budgeted plenty of time and
+money for post production.  When the sound folks came back and asked for an
+additional day, just so we can be sure we have time for whatever little
+corrections are required by then, that wasn't a problem.  As it is, we'll be
+delivering the show next Thursday to Warners, and it won't even go out on the
+satellite to the stations for a full month, and doesn't air for nearly six
+weeks from the time of completion, so we're WELL ahead of schedule in that
+respect.  They only actually needed the show 4 weeks ahead for
+screening/reviewer purposes; we extended that by two full weeks.
+
+     Another busy day in post today...but it's coming together well.  We have
+basically just two more acts to finish, and will probably give all of Monday
+to one of them, since it's massively complex.  (Usually you can do at least
+two or three acts in a day.)
+
+     BTW, and totally aside...I finally saw the tape of my last MURDER, SHE
+WROTE episode, and it actually came out quite well, minus one or two very
+minor glitches.  It airs Sunday.  (And there's a bonus to the Captain Power
+fans contained in the name of one of the characters....)
+
+                                                                jms
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+      I can understand about the feeling re: coming information and the wait
+until February.  It's very easy to post info as we go into production, and
+during production...but once it's finished here, which it will be as of this
+coming Tuesday, the process is more or less complete.  I've tried hard over
+this process not to blather on, but to say something if there's something
+worth hearing.  I hope I can find new items to keep the topic(s) going as we
+near airdate.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+     (P.S.  The current newsletter is finished, and will be going out in the
+mail this week, I'm told.)
+

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+     I have no problem with married couples, none whatsoever, serving the EA.
+And, as I've said before, there is no problem having a kid in the background,
+as one of a family passing through, for instance, but I do not wish to center
+a whole *story* around one.  Someone said "But they can do it on TNG and DS9,"
+which is one more reason for NOT doing it here, to keep the identities
+separate and distinct.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+      Mark, I've answered this question about as many times as I intend
+to...if you want to go back into the discussion and read the info, you're
+welcome to.  That article, for starters was put together LONG before the
+general meeting with the stations at which point a true reading was gotten re:
+the show.  Warners *cannot* commit unilaterally on any series without the go
+from the stations, and that won't come until they've got a fix on how ALL the
+shows are doing.  You're asking Warners to do something they wouldn't do for
+ANY show at any time.
+
+     I'm not cranky, it's just that I've now answered this about six times
+here.
+
+     Now exiting harrumph-mode.
+
+     Re: supernatural elements...not per se, no.  There is some element of
+mysticism and spirituality, but (one hopes) not quite so ham-handed.  My
+feeling is that if it's there, DO something with it other than use it as a way
+into (and out of) a plot device, thereafter dropping it.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I don't think we have to worry about Warners, folks, really...it's okay.
+And we've got contingencies up the wazoo.  All is well.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     You can jump into the B5 story at *any* point...only thing is, the more
+you watch, the more you get the nuances.  PICKET FENCES is a great example of
+this.
+
+     And if the waiting to hear when and under what umbrella B5 will be picked
+up is killing YOU....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+     (Umbrella = same night/second night, not to start any rumors.)
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+     I am NOT stubborn.  I don't care WHAT you say, I'm not changing my
+opinion about that, I'm NOT stubborn.
+
+     And yes, the plan is to definitely have the PTEN expand to additional
+night, just as Fox has done.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     There's been some talk of my appearing on H25 the Friday before the
+broadcast, but nothing firm.  And offhand...I'm sorry, but I don't  recall the
+date of the show with Ron.  I'm sure it's written down somewhere...but you've
+never actually SEEN my desk, have you?
+
+     Then again, as I think of it, *I* haven't seen my desk lately....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The inter-relationships between FOX, PTEN, the FCC and any and all other
+acronymical organizations is utterly beyond my ken, and I would no sooner try
+to explain it or understand it than I would attempt to build a tesseract in
+the back yard.
+
+     In what I *hope* will be a relatively definitive word on this kid
+topic...yes, I can write a story with kids.  I've done it...I did it for the
+Twilight Zone and other shows.  The question is still one of making choices.
+Is that what this series is ABOUT?  You could drop in a chapter on badminton
+techiques into The Lord of the Rings or Debbie Does Cleveland, the question
+is, does it BELONG there?  Is that what the show or the story is attempting to
+address?
+
+     If there were no other shows with kids around, then I would be more
+inclined to do one with kids at the center.  But there are plenty of them
+around, particularly in SF...you've got kids aplenty on TNG, on DS9, I just
+saw a kid story on Space Rangers...this is simply a different kind of show.
+
+     My point is simply this: B5 is meant, in a very real sense, as noted in
+my message on 2, to be an SF novel for television.  If it were just random
+stories skittering hither, thither and yawn, that would be one thing.  But as
+any novelist can tell you, you have to ask, "Whose story is it?" and stick
+pretty close to that, even though you may swerve in and out of other POVs and
+indulge in omniscient narrative.  That requires certain choices about tone and
+attitude and what you include, and what you choose to exclude.  Doesn't
+invalidate one type of story or another, it only says "THIS is what my story's
+about."
+
+     There are plenty of other SF shows with kids.  Let's have something a
+little different.
+
+     (That's one of the ironies that crops up about this show...often people
+say "We want innovation," and when asked for specifics, they ask to make it
+more like other shows.  "Well, TNG does this kind of story, why can't you?"
+We can, but we're not.  Because we're not TNG.  Just as we will do some
+stories that I *guarantee* you ST wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, there's considerable training involved.  In the pilot, Lyta talks
+about it in one exchange, about the "years of training" required for a P5
+classification, and that most of those who try "burn out."
+
+     As for the Fox station question...bear in mind that most stations that
+broadcast Fox shows are not actively OWNED by Fox, they are only loosely
+AFFILIATED with Fox.  They're still independent stations that have a deal to
+buy X-number of programs from Fox Television.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     Actually, JoJo's...uhm...outfit is probably the best thing about the
+show...not for pure asthetics, of course, just...I dunno...I just kinda like
+the dynamics of it...
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Indeed, they might withhold such participation, which the PC would be
+obligated to honor.  Non-PC telepaths would be a different situation entirely,
+of course...and a danger...which only a PC (or one of the other government's
+own 'paths, if any) could work against.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 17 1993
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+
+     The "Making of B5" piece is being re-edited; originally, the E! piece was
+going to be the one shown, but...well, no need to rehash all of that.  The
+piece is being recut, and new stuff put in to replace the old stuff.  It
+should be finished next week, I hear, and then provided to the stations.
+
+     Great news about Arisia, Arne.  Any other reactions come to mind?
+
+     Re: using my posts for articles...by all means, proceed.
+
+     BTW, it appears that the deal for a B5 game has been closed, and the
+winner is Electronic Arts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+     This goes back to a very basic philosophical question: can you have
+thought without language, or language without thought?  At one point in our
+evolution, we became conscious...was there language, or did language then come
+as a *result* of consciousnes?  Or did the slow development of language *lead
+to* the development of true consciousness?
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     I'll know more about the game in the weeks ahead.
+
+     Apparently, Creation has licensed some stuff...mainly shirts and mugs and
+patches and the like, nothing major, but it's there.  I got the first t-shirt
+design roughs today, and have some notes, but nothing too major.  More as this
+is developed.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if there are any SF conventions this coming weekend
+in Dallas?
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     Licensing Corporation of America.  Based in New York.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+     When someone asks, "What kinds of specific things have you gotten out of
+this interaction?" I think I will point to the question just uptopic about
+food.  I've given this a *fair* amount of thought, mainly in the sense that
+there are hydroponic gardens (referred to in the script) and other areas for
+oxygen reclamation, I'd figured that there were also areas where alien-
+environment food was to be raised, and finally a third area where food that is
+simply impractical to grow on B5 would be synthesized.  But the question opens
+up additional areas that I haven't given that much thought to...and many
+possibilities.
+
+     Let me (so to speak) stew on this and get back to you.
+
+     Thanks for yanking my blanket.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Jonathan....please, for my sake, one question at a time...pick one.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     K'wicker (than a speeding bullet?)...I ain't fussy.  My friends just call
+me Joe.  (Usually preceded by, "That Pain In The Ass")
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+     The station is owned by the Earth Alliance, and if you're going to be
+staying there, you pay a fee.  Station employees are charged a fee against
+their salaries...which some of them aren't happy about.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1993
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+
+     Dolphins are another area that I haven't gone into in any great degree
+since the odds of any of them showing up at B5 are minimal, for production
+reasons.  Dolphins make for difficult actors, and their agents are even worse.
+
+     The homeless question brings me to a difficult point in the discussion _
+generalities are okay to discuss, Jonathan, but the more specific the
+questions get about plot points of the series, the less I can say.  The five-
+year arc is triple-encrypted in my computer for a *reason*.  And, as much as
+it pains me, I know that printups of this category go to a certain other
+studio...and would rather not give too many specifics for obvious reaons.  I'd
+like us to do them first.  Alas, we're not having this conversation in a
+vacuum.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Just as with the early days of ocean travel, you would generally have
+three levels of travel: first class, one just below, and down deep below
+decks, those traveling steerage.  A small group can also pool all their
+resources, for instance, charter a ship one-way just far enough as B5, and
+hope to find work or new opportunities on far-away worlds.  When this doesn't
+happen, they linger...sometimes for a long time.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1993
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+     Dave: Bingo!
+
+     And re: genetic moofky-fooky...yes, it's a definite issue, and is
+referenced at least once in the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     BABYLON 5 meets ATTACK OF THE GIANT CRAB MONSTERS, I like it....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+
+     Actually just handled this up in topic 1.  Rumors are the bane of science
+fiction...and people at conventions who speak should try and get their facts
+straight first.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     There's been some disagreement over that...I prefer the idea that he's
+uplifted.  (It's between me and the prosthetics design team.)
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+
+     Hey, there's an idea...come up with a totally bogus B5 five-year arc and
+let it get accidentally uploaded and distributed to throw folks off... except
+of course folks might well believe it, which would work against us in the long
+run.  Ah, well....
+
+     Any telekinetics on board Babylon 5?  you ask?
+
+     No.
+
+     At least, not yet.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Pets is okay.  Ah lahkes pets.  Pets be cool.  And cats be coolest.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     There's haze in some scenes where you've got a lot of traffic, and food
+cooking, and braziers, and the like.  The quarters don't have that.
+
+     As it happens, Pat Tallman has pets...two bunnies and two chinchillas.  I
+pointed out to her that she now has both food and clothing concerns taken care
+of.  She's still not speaking to me.
+
+     Saw the DS9 pilot tonight.
+
+     Heh....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Katherine: oh, snarf you....
+
+     Bear: a 16 pound cat?  Wow...some good eatin' there....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Eric...imagine two boxers in the ring, each bloodied and exhausted after
+11 grueling rounds.  It's now the last round.  You've each got one last shot
+in your heart.  Your opponent comes in with a big name, with the sports
+critics approval, with fancy clothes and a twelve million dollar windup.  He
+pulls back and lets you have it with everything he's got.       
+
+     Then you look around...and you're still standing.  And you're thinking
+"THAT was their best shot?"
+
+     Because everything he had was intent on one hard shot to knock you out of
+the ring...speeded training, massive amounts of promotion, just to knock you
+out.
+
+     And you're still standing.  And you smile.
+
+     Because now it's YOUR turn.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+
+     I can't remember when I was last this tired.  (Well, that's a lie, it was
+during the last 2 days of filming on B5, but the former made for a better
+opening line.)
+
+     After getting zero sleep (nervous with anticipation, running the pilot
+through my head over and over again to prepare for today), I went in with a
+number of the production people today on the first day of the final
+sound/dialogue/music mix.  Ten straight hours, one half-hour break during
+which we ate at the mixing tables.  Trying different combinations, re-showing
+scenes with slight modifications, over and over and over, until your eyes _
+focused for 10 hours on the same focal distance, blinking against bright
+lights so you can make notes _ start to melt out of your sockets.  And there
+are three more days to go of this....
+
+     But man, this thing is really coming together.  It's exciting to watch it
+happen.  To the question about music...the music in this thing is just
+terrific...dynamic, evocative, moody, exciting...and while it took me a while
+to get it into my head (as with the theme from the Equalizer, which has
+similar resonances), the theme definitely stays with you.
+
+     Along wund editors, Stewart Copeland came by, as well as various of the
+film editors, the cameraman, others...and Richard Compton, our director, was
+also at the helm for the whole ten hours, as was our line producer John
+Copeland (no relation).  People just wanted to come by and see it.
+
+     It's gonna be a hoot, ladies and gentlemen....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 09 1993
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+
+     Leslie, the stuff you mention is in either the computer EFX topic in this
+category, or the B5 science topic, one or the other.
+
+     My messages can by all means be sent elsewhere; just not anyone else's
+unless you secure permission.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     There's something about the Lyta/Garibaldi dynamic that I like, as others
+here have noted as well.  I keep playing with one scene I'm dying to write,
+where he's trying to pick up on her, and says, "Listen, what do you say we go
+by my quarters, I'd like to show you my favorite thing in the whole world."
+She gives him THAT look.  "Okay-okay-okay, my SECOND favorite thing in the
+whole world."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 10 1993
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+
+     Right...and there was a lengthy discussion of how the Links tie into the
+B5 central computer, and how it operates in relation to those Links (which are
+computer segments themselves) in either the SFX or the B5 Science topics.
+
+     BTW, a thought, for anyone to jump in on who wants to...as noted uptopic,
+on Tuesday my job is basically done.  The B5 pilot will be finished.  Between
+now and the show's airing 5 or so weeks from now, what areas would you be
+interested in discussing?  What things would you like to see done here?  (I
+briefly considered the idea of uploading one page of the script per day
+between now and the time B5 airs, but then I realized that a lot of folks
+would probably prefer to see it produced, not see the script _ the ultimate
+spoiler _ and thus jettisoned that idea.)  I guess my main fear is being
+dull...not that that's *too* likely to happen with this crowd...but I take the
+"okay, so now what?" note uptopic somewhat to heart.
+
+     Or we can just keep doing what we're doing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     I'll have to check w/Wareners re: the script thing, but under the WGA
+contract, I own the physical script and its disposition.  Maybe the idea of
+excerpts _ filmed stuff, or stuff we cut, missing scenes _ might be the best
+way to go.  (And even at the rate of 1 page per day, you'd only get through
+the first third of the script by the time it aired anyway.)  Will advise.
+
+     To the question of promotion above...Warners will begin a real push on
+this subsequent to the 18th of January.  They want to concentrate  their
+efforts on the month just prior to airing.  So far, we've been dragged into
+articles often on the basis of the controversy between the various shows...but
+both Warners and I feel strongly that it's important to establish our separate
+identity, not in relation to anything else.  Now that the other shows have
+aired, we can now have an easier time doing this.
+
+     What can I ask others to do?  Mainly to just keep the word out there; if
+you see a local article mistakenly labeling B5 a copy, to let the guy know the
+facts.  But probably the single *most* important thing is what can be done
+when the show itself airs...and that's to write to both your local station and
+Warners to let them know your feelings.  But that's if and ONLY if you
+genuinely like what you see, and for no other reason.
+
+     Will think about this stuff some more, maybe post some thought later.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Synopses of upcoming episodes....?
+
+     No.
+
+     I'd much prefer to see them first on B5 than elsewhere.
+
+     All good things come to those who wait...or as someone once said, "Good
+news can wait, and bad news will refuse to leave."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Re: sign off tags...pruff...that stuff's for sissies.  The jms is
+sufficient for my needs (and looks kinda like a revolver pointed right).
+
+     Have seen the whole movie now with final EFX, sound, music, dialogue, all
+that jazz.  Looks better than I'd hoped possible.  Will be cleaning up a few
+spots in the next two days, and then watching the final product one more time,
+this time on a regular TV set rather than the studio's projection system and
+sound system, to better gauge what will and won't be audible on a home TV.
+
+     By mid-day Wednesday, we be done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 12 1993
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+
+      Haven't yet seen Time Trax, so can't comment.  I don't see "a lot" of
+shows "taking place on space stations," at this point, only two, unless you
+count the outpost stuff in Space Rangers.  Personally, my feeling is that the
+more good SF, the better.
+
+     It's my understanding that very likely B5 *will* be released theatrically
+overseas as a feature.  More on this as I can talk about it.
+
+     Guest stars?  Of course.  Many and varied.
+
+     Re: scripts...for the first year, there will be only two people on staff:
+me, and Harlan Ellison, as creative consultant.  So the majority of the
+scripts will be freelance.  For that first season, we've already locked down
+our writers.  They will come from one of two groups: a) a small group of
+writers who I've worked with over the years and have trained to my tastes, and
+b) another small group of leading SF writers, many of whom don't work for TV
+anymore, but will break that absence for B5.
+
+     Part of the reason for this is to establish ourselves firmly during the
+course of that first season, get our feet wet, firm up our identity, and other
+hits by the same name.  It does no good for freelancers on the outside to try
+a script until they've seen at least one season, as well.   Finally, because
+there will be a certain amount of continuity and developing storylines from
+episode to episode, that requires a certain  degree of direction from in-house
+on stories.  Very often we'll go to a writer and say, "Here...in this story, X
+has to happen.  Beyond making sure that X is included, do what you want."  An
+outsider won't have access to knowing what that X is.
+
+     Still, there will be episodes totally separate from the arc, and those
+are far more wide open.
+
+     One disservice that TNG has done the SF writing community is its _ in a
+way _ tendency to *use* SF fans as idea mills.  Hundreds of scripts arrive
+each month, they're read through, good ideas are plucked out, they pay a
+couple hundred bucks for the premise, then write it in-house.  Part of the
+reason they're always so desperate for material, and driven to this length of
+soliciting scripts from fans, is that they don't have a terrific reputation in
+the writing community.  Some of it is undeserved, a hanger-on from previous
+administrations, and some of it seems to have some basis in terms of the fact
+that you will never have the chance to see your script through to the end.
+
+     That problem does not exist with B5.  Our writers are already lined up
+and ready to go.
+
+     Starting with the second season, assuming we get that far, we will open
+things up more and be willing to look at finished scripts with a release form.
+I think that providing that opportunity is important.  But it won't be such a
+cattle-call in the way it's handled.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, I've asked David (and he's agreed) to write the novelization, which
+will probably commence within days of the series go being given.   And there
+have been many screenplays published over the years, in script form/via
+paperback or hardcover; I have a rather extensive collection of same
+(including the aforementioned T2 book, which is extraordinarily good).  It
+might be a good idea to do one for B5, with annotations, but not including the
+"how to write for tv" material mainly because that's a) covered in my writing
+book, which b) I intend one of these days to finish updating to Writers Digest
+Books can stop yelling on me.
+
+     Some random observations and thoughts which might be of interest....
+
+     We've pretty much finished the final mix, as stated, which we'll review
+tomorrow morning to be sure that it sounds okay on a small set.   But for
+those of you out there with surround systems, and stations that will broadcast
+in surround...me boyos, have YOU got a treat coming your way.  We did a *lot*
+of work on this thing to emphasize the surround.   One act had over 100 passes
+to make the sound as layered as possible (an average show has maybe 30 per).
+The movement is quite distinct and compelling.  The sound EFX are also quite
+good...the sound made by the weapons is also quite good.
+
+     One thing we did with the weapons is to try, again, to be fairly logical.
+If it's a BIG weapon _ rifle size or better _ then you're going to have a
+quicker recharge time (if any) between firings, though you may have to change
+packs more often.  At one point, you'll see a smaller, hand-sized gun being
+fired a few times.  And each time, you'll hear a power whine as it builds up
+the required power to fire off another round.  A gun that small simply
+wouldn't have the capability to fire off one after another after another
+without some power buildup that might not be present in a larger gun.
+(Smaller guns are generally things you'd want to smuggle on board, and might
+be as useful, in those ways, as a Derringer, which could only fire one or two
+shots, as opposed to a machinegun  or gattling gun brought openly into battle,
+and which is  intended to be used a lot.)
+
+     Someone mentioned the positive aspects to building the maximum population
+of a space station around available supplies and other very real
+considerations.  We're trying, consistently, to ask "How would this work in
+reality?  What are the SCIENCE considerations in doing SF?"  In general, we've
+found that if you Ask The Next Question and try to be logical, you get MORE
+options, and you get more INTERESTING options than if you just throw all that
+to the winds.  (Often networks say, "Ah, screw the science on it, you'll just
+limit yourself."  Not true.)
+
+     During the final mix-down, a group of cub scouts came through the mixing
+facility on a tour.  So we invited them in for the play-back on the next-to-
+the-last act...this is the one where we kick over the table and it's pretty
+much nonstop action.  Wanted to see the reaction of kids to the show, because
+if there's a more relentlessly honest audience than kids that age, I don't
+know what it is.  The fidget factor is enormous when they get bored.
+
+     They didn't BUDGE.  For some of the shots, they sat there, slack jawed,
+at what they were seeing.  Which is also good to know, that the show can
+appeal to kids as well as adults WITHOUT making any dumb compromises (i.e.,
+writing down, sticking in kids) to that audience.  I heard them later talking
+about it among themselves, and though one kid was a bit unnerved by the whole
+thing, the rest just went on and on about it..."awesome"..."cool"..."that was
+great."  So far, so good.
+
+     Onward.
+
+     In thinking a little about the discussion, and what role I've tried to
+play (and if I've seemed a bit brief or short of late, my apologies; the
+workload is immense just now), and I don't want anyone to think that I'm
+playing coy or just teasing about the series when questions about same come
+up, insofar as story possibilities or plot stuff is concerned.
+ Obviously, I don't want to give out stuff that would constitute the Ultimate
+Spoiler.
+
+     But there are generalities that I *can* talk about.  When this topic
+first began, I was able to talk a little about what was hoped for in the
+movie...to let people know what we were talking about, and what to expect in
+exchange for the interest.  (I've always believed that you have to put your
+money where your mouth is and earn loyalty by keeping promises and being
+straightforward in what you do.)
+
+     So what *can* be said about the series, what would you have to look
+forward to?
+
+     You will find out what happened to Sinclair, for starters, during the
+Earth/Minbari war.  In that respect, the pilot movie is like the first chapter
+of a novel.  For nearly 10 years, Sinclair has worked to convince himself that
+nothing happened to him on the Line other than what seems to be the case: that
+he blacked out for 24 hours.  He's just managed to convince himself of this.
+Now, suddenly, someone comes into his life and with seven words _ you'll know
+them when you hear them _ completely unravels the self-deception.  He knows
+then that something DID happen to him, that someone DID mess with his
+mind...and he is going to find out who, and why.
+
+     This he will do.  And the ramifications of that discovery will have a
+major influence on the series, on his relationships, and the future of not
+only his character but many others.
+
+     You will see what a Vorlon is...and what it represents.  And what it may
+have to do with our own saga, and a hidden relationship to some of our other
+characters (watch the reception scene carefully).  We'll discover that there
+are MANY players in this game.
+
+     One thing that separates this show from others is that on other shows,
+very often you do things to them to make for interesting drama...you take them
+prisoner, you make them kids, whatever...in this show, it's what's INSIDE the
+characters that will pose the greatest problems...and the greatest
+possibilities for drama.  Most every major character is either running to, or
+away from something in their hearts, or their pasts, or their careers.
+Garibaldi's past will catch up with him in a very  difficult way that will
+affect his role and make him a very different  character for as much as a full
+season, and have lasting effects thereafter.  Lyta will take part in a voyage
+of discovery that will very much change her character.
+
+     Some of the established empires will fall.  Some will rise.  Hopes and
+fortunes will be alternately made or destroyed.  At least one major group not
+yet known even to EXIST will make its presence known, but only gradually.
+Some characters will fall from grace.  Others will make bargains whose full
+price they do not understand...but will eventually come to realize, and
+regret.
+
+     At the end of the first season, one character will undergo a major, MAJOR
+change, which will start the show spinning on a very different axis.  The
+first season will have some fairly conventional stories, but others will start
+the show gradually moving toward where I want it to go.   One has to set these
+things up gradually.  Events in the story _ which is very much the story of
+Jeffrey Sinclair _ will speed up in each subsequent season.
+
+     Someone he considers a friend will betray him.  Another will prove to be
+the exact opposite of what Sinclair believes to be true.  Some will live.
+Some will die.  He will be put through a crucible of terrible force, that will
+change him, and alter his destiny, in a profound and terrible way...if he goes
+one way, or the other, will determine not only his own fate, but that of
+millions of others.  He will grow, and become stronger, better, wiser...or be
+destroyed by what fate is bringing his way.  In sum, it is a story of hope
+against terrible adversity and overwhelming odds.
+
+     That, in broad brush strokes, is a *taste* of what I plan to do with the
+series.  I note this here because when the pilot airs, I am going to ask for
+your continued help in supporting the endeavor for the series, and it occurs
+to me that you ought to have at least SOME idea of what you're buying, and
+being asked to support.  One should never be asked to sign a blank check on
+the bank of one's conscience.
+
+     Reactions?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     What happens at the end of the five year arc?  The "Babylon 5" series
+ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do).  If something esle
+follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be the same series, or the same
+title, or really the same characters.
+
+     Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year arc, I
+take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Thanks, all.  My only mortal dread in putting this stuff out there is
+based upon the fact that the basic *story* of the pilot movie is fairly
+straightforward, the way you make a prologue to a novel fairly simple, but
+plant the seeds for that which will follow.  My terror is that people will
+look at it, expecting ***GALACTIC EMPIRES IN COLLISION!*** and see a rather
+basic story, and say, "Huh?  Where's all the other stuff?"
+
+     It's in the series.  Trust me.  I wouldn't lie on you.
+
+     In a way, it's a question of establishing context.  Take, for instance,
+the two TERMINATOR movies.  The plots of both are incredibly simple, and
+essentially identical: Character A comes out of the future to kill Character
+B; Character C also comes out of the future to stop Character A.  When you
+come *right down to it*, that's all the story there is.  But it introduces the
+background, and the context, and that informs the story.  The actual *story*
+in the B5 pilot is similarly basic (also for the reason that it became easier
+to slip past folks)...it's the context and the characters that are introduced
+that matter.
+
+      And there's a *lot* to introduce...a new universe, new technologies, new
+races, NINE regular characters, histories, wars, alliances...there ain't much
+room for anything too complex.
+
+     It's like a foundation poured of concrete; it ain't pretty, but it's
+*solid* enough to hold one hell of a house.
+
+     And speaking of which....
+
+     Basic fact: all you can do is the *best* you can do.  You do your job,
+second-guess yourself into hysteria, and hope it works.
+
+     Which is a long way of saying...the B5 pilot is now complete.   Nothing
+remains to be done.  We had the final run-through and playback on TV set
+speakers (modifying a few things here and there, but not much), and now it
+goes to the studio, and from there, the stations.
+
+     There was only one other modification I made today: remembering some of
+the confusion and uncertainty here about how the Kosh hand scene was framed _
+why it was the way it was, he said vaguely _ I decided at the last minute to
+bring in Pat Tallman to record one additional line of dialogue to clarify
+things.  Once again, the discussion here has directly affected something in
+the pilot.  The criticisms, I felt, were accurate, and needed to be addressed.
+This was done.
+
+     That said...it's a strange feeling knowing that this stage is now
+complete.  No take-backs, no second chances, nada.  The film lives or dies now
+on its merits, as it should be.  There's exhiliration, and a measure of _ I
+dunno _ hollowness, I suppose.  And now the need grows to get Phase Two
+going.  And one way or another, it *will* get going.
+
+     For five years, people told me that B5 could never be made, that even if
+you could find a studio to back it, it might never get aired; and even if you
+got both those two, you'd never be able to exercise the creative control
+required to make it worth the agony.  Five years is just a whole lotta NOs.
+But it got done.  And, of course, the chorus returns about the series...but it
+will get made, if I have to move heaven and earth to do it.
+
+     Onward.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Re: using the background TVs to show newscasts of recent events... what
+an utterly, utterly, majorly COOL idea.  The frown on my face is only from
+wondering why the hell none of US thought of that.  (Hmm... y'know, there were
+invariably one or two guys in the crew running around videotaping everything
+and anything...if you could have them also videotaping scenes as we were
+filming them...splice in EFX footage as needed...wrap the whole thing around
+the B5 Newscast Logo (and yes, we have one, it's in the pilot, albeit in BG),
+it'd give you something nifty to have going on, and would make sense.
+
+     What a wonderful and simple and effective idea....
+
+     Thank you.
+
+                                                                jms
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+the other day, and as we were watching it, he kept shaking his head at all the
+things he would've done differently if he'd known then what he knows now, and
+if he'd had the programs/techniques then that he has now.  Just the few months
+since we finished photography have given him  a number of tools that he didn't
+have then.
+
+     We talked a little about what's capable now, what he can do now, and
+what's coming up, and it makes what's in the pilot look like nothing by
+comparison.  (A lot of the critics talked about the extensive work that went
+into the DS9 jello-man effect, not to mention the cost involved; he turned his
+associate Paul into the same thing in a test that worked just as well and took
+one night and no money, just a little while behind the keyboard.)  Once we get
+the go, he and I are going to spend a couple of days just sitting and talking
+about what can be done now, so that I can take full advantage of this new
+stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     "Bob" will never be seen talke, for any reason,
+in B5.  I'll personally run a truck over him first, newscast or not (unless I
+think I can get a good gag out of it...).
+
+     Re: my mental state...I'll know better in a week or so.  I try not to get
+too personally involved with my own life.  Basically, itf
+in ever___
+
+     BTW, to correct an erroneous statement of mine earlier, there is not a
+species named Vee'lons that will be introduced on DS9.
+
+     The Vee'lons will be introduced on Space Rangers.
+
+     Some days, I just can't get a break....
+
+                                   s
+

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+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of  ships,
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+
+     Re: talking vs. action...there's a shade more exposition than I'd like in
+the pilot, mainly because there's so damned MUCH background to establish, so
+much ground to lay...it'll be more evenly proportioned in the series.  I like
+action.  For me, the #1 crime of any TV show or movie is that it should bore.
+When in doubt, kill somebody.
+
+     Or blow something up.
+
+     Re: technology...yes, the point about the sudden jump via new
+technologies is exactly dead on.  It *did* have a tramautic impact, and to
+varying degrees still does.  The effect of technology, and the desire for
+same, will be a recurrent thread.  There are some technologies that are
+considered too radical for some species, and are thus kept off limits, with
+prison sentences or even death sentences for smuggling certain kinds of
+technologies.  One such tech-runner appears in the pilot.  The parallel, I
+suppose, would be our current concerns with the spread of nuclear technology.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I use Windows a little more than I used to, but overall I suspect (well,
+know, really) that I'm not getting the most bang for my buck because I don't
+understand the mechanics of configuring either Windows or the computer itself.
+I'm sitting here with a killer megasystem, and...the best comparison I can
+think of is an australian aborigine who's found an F-16 figher plane and
+mainly uses it to shelter his sheep and goats under the wings when it
+rains....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I've tended to lean more in the direction of individual computers _
+multi-gigabyte systems small enough to fit on the wrist, which also serve as
+communications systems called Links _ that are generally networked into the
+B5 database/central computer system.  Ninety percent of any information you're
+likely to need you probably already have in the Link; anything additional you
+need, or if you need a direct interface with Babylon Central Computer, that
+can be accomplished with a simple voice command.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Just as a point of clarification, Links are only used by station
+personnel, not visiting aliens, or any visitor, human or otherwise, for whom
+multi-use terminals have been set up in their quarters.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Basically, I think that there should be something on-screen if there
+NEEDS to be something on-screen.  For instance, in both Sinclair's quaters and
+the briefing room, you'll see monitors on the wall in BG and later used for
+important stuff.  (That should be quarters, not quaters, which is what you
+find on the moon.)  When not *actively in use* they display only the B5 logo,
+sort of a carrier wave.  When a signal comes in from local, you get the BabCom
+logo, then the signal.  When a signal comes in from a ship, or the computer
+provides information, you go right from the B5 symbol straight to the display.
+When it's over, you go back to the static symbol until it's needed again.
+
+     The only real exceptions to this are a) the consoles in the observation
+dome, which are going at all times to monitor incoming and outgoing ships, and
+b) displays in the business areas which show the internal B5 Newscast and
+commercials.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Isn't Lexicor the company owned by Lex Luthor...?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+     After a crocodile named Leviathan?  Er...I think that it's likely a
+reference to the book of Job, where he is asked by god, "Canst thou draw out
+Leviathan with an hook; or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?"
+(JOB 41:1)
+
+                                                          jms
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+     They don't exactly get along, that's for sure.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     There's a mid-season story that deals *precisely* with this issue.
+
+     Hence...I'm forced to remain mute for the moment.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Ta-daaaa...Gary, take another look at the pilot.  Every time you see
+Lyta, you will notice a silver insignia on her lapel.  It's the Psi symbol set
+against a bronze background.  That is, indeed, the preferred form of
+reference.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Bill Warren suspects more than he knows, and knows less than he suspects.
+And any resulting opinions are simply that, and though written are nowhere
+near writ, holy or otherwise.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+strength.  Lyta at P5 needs a little help.  A P10 could nail you from across
+the room.
+
+     And I want to have some fun with the commercial funding aspects of
+B5...ads, gov't support, commercials, all that stuff.  That's an issue that I
+feel really needs to be addressed...who pays for this neat stuff? And what
+happens when the money runs out?
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, we'll definitely see them in their civvies, and there will be a
+range of entertainment possibilities, including TV (again, there are shots of
+an internal newscast on B5, and commercials as well).  Thee's _ er, there's _
+one little thing that I'm gonna do the first episode or so to establish that
+that's so off-beat and (one hopes) funny that I'm sure you'll like it.  If
+only I can get Warners to release the footage....
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Yeah, that was the hard part with the actors...they're so used to seeing
+one costume actors in SF that even though they HAD other stuff to wear, it was
+hard to shoe-horn them into it.  But that'll change.
+
+     As for skivvies...who knows...there's a shot of Sinclair emerging from
+bed wearing just about nada until he gets his robe on that several women on
+the show kept re-running, saying "yum...".
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I can't remember height ever even being discussed, except once, when we
+were debating about two possibilities for a given role.  I don't think it
+really matters.  As it happens, it probably won't ever come up because both
+Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle (and I think Johnny Sekka) are all well over 6'
+tall.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Lonnie, let us not tempt the universe....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Jack...er...so, you noticed those initials, eh?  Probably noticed that
+Garibaldi's first name is Michael, too, huh?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The two tallest are Michael O'Hare and Jerry Doyle...and I think they're
+about the same height...unless Jerry's just a squidge taller.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Just checked their resumes, and their heights aren't indicated.  I will
+have to get back to you on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The current newsletter is due out this week, and any who sent in subs
+requesting #1 will probably receive them at the same time.
+
+     Re: merchandising...we have several deals in the works, the only one I
+know for sure involves a computer game from a major company.  There will be
+some supplementary stuff...shirts and mugs and hats and patches and
+stuff...around the time of the pilot, at least so I'm told.  Luckily, my
+contract with Warners requires my consultation on marketing, so nothing
+embarrassing will come out if I have anything to say about it.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Don't know yet; will probably have more info in a few weeks.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The software company involved is a good one, and the designers are first
+rate.  As soon as I can announce the details, I will.
+
+     And yeah, I get one of everything.  I may need a bigger house....
+
+     The best way to make sure one gets in on any upcoming marketing is
+probably to write Warners marketing (I believe it's the Licensing Corporation
+of America...maybe someone here has an address) and ask to get on a mailing
+list for info.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Great, Rob, many, many thanks.  So yeah...anybody who wants to get on a
+mailing list for merchandise related to B5, drop a note to the address
+contained in message 187.  Be the first on your block....
+
+                                                       jms
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+     Yep...the "beep" stuff will all be clear by the end of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Leviathan...as a local, mayhap you could ring up Dana Hersey and fill him
+in on the background, just so's he knows it ain't a DS9 riff.
+
+     This is probably the single biggest problem I know we're gonna have with
+reviews.  On every other level, we'll stand on our own; I just don't want that
+inaccuracy surfacing and skewing the review.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     WVTV Milwaukee.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I'm scheduled for Gallifrey One Goes Forth?
+
+     Oh....
+
+     Er...when exactly is that, again?
+
+                                                                      jms
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+     If I see one more message with a one-liner on top and then ten zillion
+lines of white space, which at 2400 baud go by too fast for me to read the
+damn thing, so I have to then go back and find the number of the message, and
+replay it time after time while hitting ^S to try adn stop it before it
+scrolls past again, I am going to do someone serious damage.
+
+     (Well, everyone ELSE was having a tirade....)
+
+     Paula...you're responding to and arguing with something that only you
+heard because it doesn't exist in the pilot.  The line that Sinclair says is,
+"I managed to take out a fighter before they hit my stabalizers.  I was losing
+control, I'd lost my team...." etc.  Not vertical stabalizers.   Just the
+device that keeps the ship from spinning end over end by  controlling the
+various thrusts.  No matter WHAT system you're using, you have to be able to
+go from A to B, and the minute adjustments required, particularly if you're in
+the midst of battle, are too complex for one person to make on the fly.  It
+has to go through a computer.  If the  system _ hydraulics, pneumatics, air
+thrust, fusion, whatever power you happen to prefer _ is damaged, it's going
+to screw you up.
+
+     THAT was the line.  And the Line.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I keep hearing Alladin's more of a pain than it's worth, which is why I
+generally do all my writing/reading on-line.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Just one other little item you're forgetting, Paula...these are
+individual fighters, which are made to operate in and out of an atmosphere.
+                                                                  jms
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+     Several reasons...first, she wouldn't be able to tell for sure if his
+memory had or had not been "doctored" to eliminate the memory of the action.
+(An upper-level Psi could notice the seams in the memory; she's basically a
+business-transaction person who's a teeny bit over her head in what she's
+doing, and she knows it.)  Second, I'm playing constantly with how our society
+will deal with this kind of telepath.
+
+     The idea is always "innocent until proven guilty."  Now, you can bring
+someone to trial, and a psi can scan them, and boom, you know one way or
+another.  But does that violate our judicial tradition of a trial BY JURY, and
+put 'WAY too much power in the hands of telepaths?  Because bear in mind, we
+still have to take their word for what they "see" in someone's mind.  They can
+function as key witnesses, but it's my sense that they would be SPECIFICALLY
+PROHIBITED from going into the mind of an accused person to determine their
+innocence or guilt, *even if so invited*.
+
+     There are others, but those are, in my mind, the key reasons for this.
+It's a matter of trying to be logical and consistent in how these things are
+used; you don't want to have something (or someone) become the Magic Wand that
+solves every problem, a Deux Ex Lyta, so to speak.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Yes, Lyta's always had an affinity for alien races from a telepathic
+standpoint.  As for telling reality from subjective; as soon as it goes in
+your eyes, it becomes subjective.  So that's the only POV from which she can
+act.  It's easiest when it's straightforward visual or auditory impulses, not
+much open to coloring by the subjective aspect.  If the person being scanned
+is unbalanced, then 1) it becomes VERY uncomfortable for the psi, and 2) there
+are signature aspects of the scan (colors, hallucinations, delusions) that
+would tip off any good psi that this may not be a very valid perspective.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Yes, there are shields available, mainly implants, sometimes drugs, and
+cyberalteration techniques to mind-wipe people temporarily so they can't be
+read easily.
+
+     Re: perjury, there are Psi review boards, as with the AMA (and of equally
+debatable power) that could be called into play in the case of suspected
+perjury, as well as other abuses of the Psi-Corps authority.   If a review
+board or other PC arm finds you're in violation of standards, the next step is
+the psi-cops.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     The background on that business meeting is similar to all such uses of
+telepaths: both sides agree to the presence of a telepath to monitor the
+negotiations.  If one were to demur, the deal would be off because the person
+clearly has something to hide.  Which is why there is a good market for
+various kinds of shields that don't LOOK like or feel like shields unless the
+telepath knows what to look for.  You can also just try and hide it and hope
+that the telepath isn't looking too deep or isn't really paying attention,
+which is what that guy was doing.  (May have been reciting the "tensor" rhyme
+trying to keep his brain occupied.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     How much combat is in the movie?  Not terribly much...I wanted more of a
+dramatic series with action than an action series with drama.  The series will
+alternate...some with lots and lots of action, some with less.
+
+     The budget is classified.
+
+     Re: the total population of B5...this is something that I went round and
+round with as the designers and I worked on this thing.  They haven't given me
+an exact figure yet; I imagine I'll get it eventually.  It's in the *area* of
+a couple hundred thousand, though.  I *think* they said the max capacity was
+around 250,000 but I could be wrong.
+
+     (This is one of those things where the writer can't just set a figure and
+wave a magic wand.  B5 is a particular given size...now you have to figure out
+how much space is required by hydroponics, station systems, infrastructure and
+so on...subtract that from the total available volume, determine how large the
+individual living quarters are, with some variance, and then finally zero in
+on how many people that could accommodate without squeezing everyone in like
+sardines.  All I know is that there's math involved....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     No, they're not.
+
+     And someone trained to know what to look for in a scan would pick up on
+it...but those are few and far between.
+
+     Ah hates math.  I failed bonehead math twice in junior college, and only
+passed the third time when the professor, seeing me one more time in his
+class, said in despair, "Just...go.  I'll give you a C-, just go."
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     I can more or less hold my own in math UNTIL such time as suddenly we're
+dealing with numbers AND letters.  For some reason, I'm absolutely hard-wired
+for language.  Letters are part of a word, a number is for math.  When someone
+says "A = 9" my immediate response is, "A what?  *A* dog?  *A* horse?  What?"
+I know what the theory is on all this, that there are groups, sub-groups,
+universes, all that jazz...the theory is fine...but when I look at a number
+AND a letter in an equation, my brain goes into vapor lock, I get confused and
+fall down.
+
+     I don't even want to TALK about the scams I ran in order to pass my
+semester of Statistical Psychology to get my B.A. in clinical psych.
+
+                                                                jms
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+         .
+          .
+           .
+            .
+             .
+               <thud>
+

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+     To get past the language requirement, I took two semesters of German.
+German I and German II.  Simultaneously.  From 9-10:30 twice a week we were
+nice and safe and snuggly in a very basic German class...and from 10:30 to 12
+noon twice a week (same days), we were dropped screaming like souls into
+Dante's Ninth Circle masquerading as German II, where the instructor would
+ONLY speak to us in German.  Which we didn't understand.  It was kind of a
+trial run, an experiment to see if it would work, and the conclusion at the
+end of the semester...at which point half of us were stark, staring mad, and
+the other half were plotting to annex the Sudetenland...was that it didn't
+work.  My basic problem (even though I passed) was that I was always week on
+English grammar...so when I had to slam a word through the various forms and
+declensions, I would...well, you've seen what happens when someone throws an
+equation at me...it's a lot like that, only with a bunch of umlauts thrown in
+for color.
+
+     That was the same semester in which I realized that I wanted to get the
+hell OUT of college and into writing full time, and started cramming courses.
+I think I had something on the order of 23 or 27 credits that semester alone,
+in violation of university limits (I crashed courses that were beyond the
+proscribed limits).  And they weren't monkey classes, either, lemme tell
+you...6 units of German, plus classes in Statistical Psychology, Biology,
+Literature, Philosophy, and some other stuff (along with the 1-2 writing
+workshops I took every semester).  To this day I'm still amazed that I
+actually got THROUGH that semester.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+      There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to
+work to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For
+instance, in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then
+in Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     There are about as many as now...with a few extras developed on the Mars
+and other colonies.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     Re: asking telepaths on a date...it would be verbal, assuming we're
+talking PC hrized scans are illegal, and thus they would not be "dipping" to
+know your intentions.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     (A job like that could take YEARS....)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+STArt new topic,  #,#-# read prior
+PERmanently ignore this topic
+MARk or UNMark this topic
+or <RETURN> to continue ?
+

+
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+     I'm finishing B5 post production this coming week, and writing my third
+novel, and am helping out a friend on another series (said friend having
+gotten in over his head a bit, through no fault of his own) doing rewrites and
+a few scripts.  Just something to keep me busy while waiting to gear up for
+the series.  (Also took time to write out a synopsis of each of the first 22
+episodes for B5's first season, which will then be assigned as needed,
+interposing new ideas as they're suggested by other writers.  Also finished an
+hour-length B5 script, which will be one of the mid-season shows to be shot.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     All I can say is when Warners gives us the production go, we'll be ready.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     That'll probably be decided by forces wiser than I.  And just FYI, all
+the PTEN shows are given 22 episode committments per season.
+
+                                                       jms
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+                                Who...?
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 05 1993
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+     That's simply a standard unit of measure.  Some series do more than 22,
+but those are more rthe MURDseasons generally ran 22 episodes.
+
+     22 x 3 seasons is 66, which is enough for long-term syndication, if
+barely.
+
+     And there won't be a Joe Jr.  One doesn't go through a vasectomy for lack
+of anything better to do on a Friday night....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Nope, B5 is shot right here in LA County.
+
+     It helps that my Spousal Overunit is also a writer, and understands what
+it means when I come out, eyes like poached eggs, staggering towrad the coffee
+pot, mumbling, "Deadlines...deadlines...."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 07 1993
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+     They sure do cost a lot.  We plan to do some such shots for the series,
+in the zero-g section of the garden, and possibly in the zero-g cargo section
+that rides on top of  B5.  My mandate to Ron is to come up with a way of doing
+it that looks good.  Once we have that, we'll do the story.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     The series standard opening will be a variation on Londo's narration at
+the top of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two full
+acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
+     But there are reasons for everything....
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Re: the voices....I can't do it, I can't tell him....
+
+     Re: the narration at the beginning...actually, I suppose there's no
+reason why I can't put it up here.
+
+     LONDO (older voice): "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of
+Mankind.  It was the Earth year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the  Babylon
+stations, located deep in neutral space.  It was a port of call for
+businessmen, smugglers, diplomats, businessmen and travelers from a hundred
+worlds.  It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because
+Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.  Under the leadership of its
+final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form...a dream of a galaxy
+without war, where species from other worlds could exist in mutual respect...a
+dream that was endange one man on a mission of destruction.  Babylon 5 was the
+last of the Babylon stations.  This...is its story."
+
+     That's from memory, and as I look at it, some of it ain't *exactly* right
+(that should be "species from different worlds" not "other worlds," for
+instance, but the sense of it is correct, and it's probably 90% textually
+correct.  (I also see I repeated businessmen twice...which means I left
+something out, but having now been up about 20 hours, I'm too tired to
+remember what or to look it up in the script.)
+
+     I'll try to remember to dig out the exact wording and put it up, if
+anyone's interested.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind.  It began in the
+Earth Year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations, located deep
+in neutral space.  It was a port of call for refugees, businessmen, smugglers,
+diplomats and travelers from a hundred worlds.  It could be a dangerous place,
+but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.
+Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream, given
+form.  A dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds
+could exist, side by side, in mutual respect...a dream that was endangered, as
+never before, by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction.
+
+     "Babylon 5...was the last of the Babylon stations.  This...is its
+story...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     That is the only narration in the show.  When we get to the series, I
+plan to adjust the narration and keep it as a stet opening.  Probably it'll be
+something along the lines of, "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age of
+Mankind.  It began in the Earth year 2257.  Babylon 5 was the last of the
+Babylon stations.  This is its story...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+      Oh, yeah, the "mission of destruction" thing ONLY relates to this
+particular episode, the pilot.  It'll be gone from regular episodes.
+
+     For the series, my feeling is that the intro should be as short as
+possible, almost more for mood than for information.
+
+     The intro may also change slightly each season....
+
+     As for software, I use plain old Word for my writing, though I just got
+7.0 and will change over as soon as I decide I have nothing else of value in
+my life to deal with.  I am but a simple man from a simple land of simple
+values....
+
+     The computer itself is kind of a hum-dinger...a 486/50mhz, 330 meg hard
+drive, 650 meg rewriteable optical drive (for a total on-line of about 1
+gigabyte), NEC 4FG monitor, 64 megs of RAM, SCSI 32 bit system, and due to
+arrive any day now, the 6-disk Pioneer CD-ROM jukebox.  Also have the
+Thunderboard sound card, Diamond Speedstar 14F video card, and a bunch of
+other goodies.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Actually, there's a weird typo in there; it should be Wordstar 5.5, not
+Word (ecch).
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The background visuals for the narrative will be much the same for the
+series as the pilot...a montage of the station, people and locales.
+
+     Difference between an exec producer and a producer?  A producer can be a
+line producer, who handles mainly production problems, or a writer producer,
+who mainly writes, sits in on casting and stuff.  An exec producer is the guy
+In Charge...otherwise referred to as a Show Runner, who sets the direction for
+the series or project, makes final decisions on casting, music, sets, all that
+jazz.  On B5, I share exec producer status with Doug Netter...basically, we
+divide it up that Doug handles most of the deal making (which he loves) with
+agents, other business stuff, and I get to play.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to humans, not
+sentient aliens including his own race.  Earthers.  Which was one reason (of
+many) I wanted his character to be the narrator, someone looking in from the
+outside.
+
+     As for the Third Age, it's _ oh, darn, look at the time, have to go....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     I only said that the story will *concentrate* on B5 the first two years
+in terms of locations.  We'll branch out, certainly, after that.
+
+     Mike: your Third Age thought is very close to being correct.  It's only
+the object of your sentence that's incorrect.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, it's repetitive.  Yes, it's deliberate.  It brings you back to the
+beginning of the narrative, which is a space shot that more or less matches
+the other shot.  (Makes a visual loop, in other words.)
+
+     Telestro: certainly one of our characters might go the way of
+Saruman....and one might go the way of Aragorn...and Gandalf...ah, well,
+that's always uncertain, isn't it?  "Expect me when you see me."
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     And then again...maybe not.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT PLANET GAWOOMPKI?!  EGADS!  THERE'S A LEAK IN OUR
+OPERATION!
+
+     (Actually, there *is* a leak in our organization...the funny thing is
+that it's me.)
+
+     Re: Sinclair and Ambassador-ship...there's a very logical questoin (or
+question) that has to be dealt with.  (Again, we go back to that same point,
+asking the next question.)  Why is a *Commander* serving on the station, and
+the Advisory Council, and representing Earth?  Wouldn't they have a regular
+Ambassador present?
+
+     This is a question that we will resolve.  As well as the one implicit in
+the foregoing: why is a *COMMANDER* _ lower in rank than a Captain _
+entrusted with this responsibility, rather than an Admiral or some other high-
+ranking individual?
+
+                                                                       jms
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+     BTW, ironically, this is the only area that worries me in showing the
+pilot.  People are going to say, "Waitaminnit!  This doesn't make any sense!
+Why is a COMMANDER running this thing?  And what about this bit over here...?"
+It's kinda risky to deliberatly program in what look like errors, but are
+story points that will be raised and resolved later.   Ah, well...you gotta
+take chances....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yeah, I'm *pretty much* staying to Naval terms, mainly because the
+introduction of starships will probably be under that heading as vessels, and
+that seems to follow.  Additionally, if all of the various major militaries of
+various countries were combined into one Earthforce, then there would be some
+standardization, and naval terms *seem* to be more standard than others across
+services, but my research there isn't as deep as it probably should be.  Would
+be nice to work in some variations, however....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The EA is governed by political figures, just as today, though some of
+the structures have altered to accommodate a more world-spanning form of
+government.  (Instead of senators elected from states, they're now elected by
+country, and so on.)
+
+     As for language...the DICTIONARY defines language, PEOPLE screw with it
+until distinctions blur...as with the distinction between "fewer" and "less."
+"There were less people in attendence this week."  No.  There  were FEWER
+people in attendence.  This is what people do.  This is your language.  This
+is your language in people...any questions?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     That's an extremely good point about species/races; I'll be careful about
+that.  I don't *think* that came up in the pilot, and now it won't in the
+series.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     BTW, it's my understanding that the monitor screens on TNG are not
+inserted in post; they're regular TV screens with edges that come out and
+cover any bends in the tube, thereby giving it a flat look.  At least, that's
+what I hear....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I agree re: universal translators.  Most everything in the ST universe is
+bent toward making the process easier, less challenging; I want to show the
+process of overcoming.  I think it's great if an alien shows up from a
+previously unvisited planet, and they spend days trying to communicate with
+it.  I think that some computerized stuff might work, as in the case where
+someone programs a machine to go from one specific language to another (sort
+of a species-specific interpreter), but thats about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+
+     Re: language in general...I agree that all languages must be "living
+languages" in that they are free to grow and expand and add new terms.   There
+is a difference between this and a *collapsing language* in which the
+distinction between terms (the aformentioned less and fewer) becomes degraded,
+and meanings blur through misuse.  Ase gradually becomes less precise.  A
+language should be graded on how well it manages to communicate the thoughts
+of one to the other.  If it begins to fail in that regard, then it is not a
+living but a dying language.
+
+     (Another example: the way that "anxious" and "eager" have come to mean
+the same thing.  "Anxious" carries with it some degree of worry or dread or
+fear; "eager" is a pleasant term, connoting something wonderful and nice for
+which one is longing.  So when someone says, with a smiling and expectant
+attitude, "Yeah, I'm really anxious to see the new Lucas movie," it's a misuse
+of the term, unless there's some reason for worry.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     In terms of the EFX, I think it's all Amigas, with some IBMs being used
+for general computing (letters, schedules, etc.).
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Re: TRON v2.0....I'd rather write kids in space.
+
+     Re: places of origin...my sense is that they have their own unique names.
+We don't call our planet Terra (well, not really), or Hum (for Human) or
+Planet Human.  Because some of the names are difficult to pronounce, the
+logical approach is to note them by designation, i.e., "And shall be shipped
+off to the Narn homeworld."  That is the only time or I should say context by
+which we refer to their places of origin.  The only exception to this, and I
+don't recall if this is in the pilot or not, is the Centauri homeworld,
+designated Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Yes, there are definitely other human settlements...colonies and outposts
+and co-operative projects on other worlds with other species.   It's mainly
+from this overlap that the EA draws its non-human members, though a few worlds
+have chosen to ally themselves directly with the EA.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I...no...never mind...forget it...some things are too gross even for me.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Suddenly sounds began emitting from the producer's office...witnesses
+later described them as twin shrieks....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Kosh as in "gosh."  There's actually a last name, btw...Naranek.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Pronounced Nuh-RAH-nek.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Actually, I said that Sinclair will have a steady VERTICAL relationship
+with....
+
+     Don't hit me, I'm a sick man.
+
+     And nothing in life is permanent, not even relationships.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
+     I've lost all track of how much time I spend on BBSs; two-three hours a
+day here, plus 1-2 per day on CIS, and then other services.  I'm on several
+where I don't post messages, and the folks there engaged in SF-TV discussions
+don't know I'm looking over their shoulder.
+
+     Why?  Because if people know you're there, they tend to speak more
+politely about you, and your projects.  They're free to be brutally
+honest...and lemme tell you, it brings one up short sometimes.  But I think
+that's both good and essential.  Sort of a control group approach...see what
+the opinion is like of folks who don't have direct access, and only hear stuff
+second-hand.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Yes, GEnie is still my first choice.  You'll note I didn't call the
+locale for B5 Central Interstellar System or anything dopey like that; only
+referring to it (in bible now, eventually in script) as Grid Epsilon (GE).  I
+post only a few messages there per week; this is home.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, we'll definitely see some EVA suits of various kinds, human and
+alien.  In the pilot, though it's farther away than I would've liked, you can
+see a shot along the side of B5, with a couple of ships streaking past, and a
+flashing light up in the upper left-hand corner on the hull of the station.
+Freeze the frame, and look closely, and you'll see th at it's a guy in an EVA
+suit repairing a micrometeor puncture (or some other problem) with a welder of
+sorts.
+
+  We'll do more, better, and closer, later on.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Apparently, it's not difficult at all to digitize an actor's face and put
+it inside an EVA suit's facemask.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+
+     Someone back a while ago suggested "Fivers," and that's kinda nice.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...yeah, that's a show that is an example of what to
+strive for, and how sometimes good intentions can get derailed.  We genuinely
+wanted to come up with a long-term story, and by and large, we succeeded.  The
+problem was the marketing in front of the show, and the merchandising behind
+the show...we got killed from both sides.
+
+     There's an entire second season of unproduced CP scripts, story edited by
+Larry DiTillio, in which he follows up on the arc that I and others
+established during the first season.  You would have found out what Dread
+became, what happened to Power's mother, where Eden was (and there would be
+direct contact), what the secret was in Soaron's programming, and so on.
+
+     It was a good experience, though, and it let me cut my teeth on multi-
+season story construction.  It was the experience on Power that led me to
+believe that something like B5 could be done.  (And yeah, I still have much
+the same reaction to the last episode...it's a real tough one to watch...which
+was the point.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...it aired in 1987/88 in syndication.  Was set in the
+future, after the MetalWars, in which one man, who caused the war (in the best
+interests of humanity) decided that to save humanity it must be digitized and
+stored in machines for the day when perfect metalloid bodies could give
+mankind immortality.
+
+     Re: Twilight Zone...yes, I worked on the syndicated version.  Among the
+episodes I wrote (I was also story editor) are "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+with Bruce Weitz; "Dream Me a Life," with Eddie Albert; co-wrote "The Curious
+Case of Edgar Witherspoon," with Harry Morgan, and co-wrote "Our Selena is
+Dying" posthumously with Rod Serling, from a long lost TZ outline.  Other TZs
+that I wrote around that time, but whose stars I can't consistently recall:
+"The Wall," "The Call," "What Are Friends For?" "Something in the Walls,"
+"Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," and have
+another shared writing credit on "The Trance."
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     No, I wasn't previously aware of "Agony" (except what I've gone through
+these last six months), but will look for it in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Aquila: give me the name of the paper and the reporter who wrote the
+article.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Rob:  from where?  Re: telepaths...there are definite limits, and I most
+definitely do NOT wanta it to be a deus ex machina, the solution to every
+problem.  If anything, it IS a problem itself.
+
+     M.Morgan...yes, absolutely, that's what I had in mind all the time. Yeah,
+that's it, that's the ticket....
+
+     And tachyons...can't forget those pesky tachyons....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The computer system is quite good, based on a crystalline technology
+that's a mesh between alien and human-developed stuff.  As for defense, you'll
+see a full demonstration of this in the first season; for now, let's just say
+that that smooth looking exterior is laced with sections that can open and
+reveal all kinds of interesting things.  Imagine a five mile long Swiss Army
+knife....
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1993
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+     Yes, the middle section of the station is the Garden, and is still an
+O'Neill type environment.  And over the course of the series, it's my
+intention to bring in all the various organizations and sub-organizations
+required to make a place like this work.  I really want to try and convey the
+sense of a Working Environment, not a set.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 05 1993
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+     Doctrines and Covenants?  Are we talking here Mormonism or Scientology?
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 06 1993
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+     HEY!  NO FAIR!  NOBODY TOLD ME THERE WAS GOING TO BE MATH INVOLVED!   I
+DIDN'T STUDY!  I WASN'T TOLD THIS WAS GONNA BE ON THE TEST!  AAAKKKK!
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 06 1993
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+     I forget....
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 08 1993
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+     I'm still hammering down the rules on hyperspace...what can and can't be
+done.  My first thought was that they travel blind, but given that it's
+heavily traveled, I realized after a while that you'd *have* to be able to see
+your surroundings in order to avoid collisions.
+
+     The point you raise is quite conceivable.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 10 1993
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+     Keyboards are still in use, mainly because there are always going to be
+things that you don't want someone to hear, so you'll always need some kind of
+non-verbal input system.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 10 1993
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+     I dunno...I kinda like glasses...but I know the reality is that it may be
+fixed by then...there are some in the pilot, in BG.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 11 1993
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+     It looks cool.
+
+     Also, bear in mind that often different gravities require different
+atmospheres; alternating atmospheres between floors in the same section is a
+bit more difficult than setting aside one whole sector that would be, say, for
+methane breathers, and which has a varied gravitational level as a further
+accommodation.  (If they require standard 1g, there are other areas.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1993
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+     Yep.  You'll see 'em in both the pilot and the series.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1993
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+     I agree.  I wear glasses.  I could go to contacts (glass or plastic), try
+surgery, all this stuff...but ain't nobody going near my eyes with pieces of
+glass or knives or lasers, I don't care HOW safe it is.  Just my luck to hit
+the one in a million power surge and I'll end up looking backward out where my
+brain stem used to be.
+
+     It's interesting to see how in pop SF, there is a tendency to assume that
+Major Changes will take place.  Take a look sometime at a film _ the first SF
+musical motion picture _ called "Just Imagine," produced during the 30s.  It
+talked about a future world in which everyone would have personal flyers, no
+one would have names any longer, only numbers, children would be manufactured
+and people would eat pills instead of food.
+ The time-frame in which all this amazing stuff was to take place?  The 1980s.
+As somebody said, the future ain't what it used to be.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter  craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     The two things on front _ the spikes, as it were _ are on either side
+of a second loading bay, this one expressly for cargo held in the zero-g cargo
+hold.
+
+     The vanes in the back are heat radiators, as I recall from the original
+design notes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+
+     Great!  A hi to all the folks who've come out and introduced themselves.
+Good to have you aboard.  It's interesting to know who all is out there...the
+varied backgrounds and fields and "what brought me me here" is intriguing.  A
+fine buncha folks....welcome.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 10 1993
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+     Actually...y'know...it's funny, but I've been trying to come up with a
+name for the folks who just sorta roam B5, the "homeless" or others who have
+enough resources to get there in hopes of jobs or new worlds, and don't have
+enough to get off again...and who play a running game of tag of sorts with B5
+security..."Lurkers" ain't bad....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 17 1993
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+     Hey, Mark, good to have another H-25er around.
+
+     Pat: I taught at Grossmont College for about one semester, it's a pretty
+good place.  (Went to San Diego State and  meself.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+     I taught writing (what else?)...I *think* it was around 1979 or 80.
+After a while, everything blurs.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+     Re: SDSU, no, I had very little to do with the cinema/telecom dept.
+there.  I crashed two courses _ mainly because I wanted to learn from a
+particular instructor, Norman Corwin _ and had one or two others, but that's
+it.  My interest was in other areas...one degree in Clinical Psychology with a
+minor in Philosophy; another in Sociology with a minor in Creative Writing,
+that sort of thing.
+
+     BTW, if you go down to the offices of the Daily Aztec, and ask to see the
+archive volumes of the paper around 1977/78 or thereabouts, you'll see several
+zillion articles by me in there.  At more or less the same time, I was the
+resident book reviewer, film reviewer and theater reviewer, had two weekly
+humor columns ("A View from the Rabbit Hole" and "A Modern Cynic's
+Dictionary"), as well as regular feature articles and profiles, and the
+occasional investigative article, including one on the CIA.  The frequency of
+articles led some to describe the paper as The Daily J. Michael.  At the same
+time I was doing cover stories for the San Diego Reader, the Daily
+Californian, features for the SD edition of the Los Angeles Times, and
+entertainment reviews for KSDO-AM Newsradio.
+
+     But the Daily Aztec stuff was great fun.  I worked without pay, the only
+one on staff who did, in fact...because I didn't want to be beholden to
+anybody, could write what I wanted, nobody had any leverage.  Which was all
+for the good, given the massive numbers of angry letters and the occasional
+bomb threats elicited by what I wrote.
+
+     Can't imagine why....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     Yes, a VERY large blunt object.
+
+     The one point of any possible interest to draw from this comes from
+something I tried to beat into incoming students when I was an orientation
+counselor at SDSU: if you go to college, and all you see are the class rooms,
+the bathrooms, the parking lot and the cafeteria, you will cheat yourself of
+99% of your possible education.  Any university or college has vast
+opportunities for writers and others.  In the former case, write for the
+university newspaper, or the university theater (and most schools have an
+ongoing one-act production program)...take classes in acting or film, to get a
+sense of history, or the hands-on process of being on stage...the range of
+experience open to you is enormous.  Don't just follow your major to its
+conclusion.  There is a world of experience you can get while you're there
+*that you may never have the chance to experience again*.   Take it.
+
+     End of sermon.  I shouldn't even be here, frankly, this is for the new
+folks and others to sign in and introduce themselves...both for the interests
+of our own private party, so we know who's come into the room, and for any
+possible future mailings or opportunities.
+
+     Let's hear from y'all.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1993
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+
+     I'll have to be a little circumspect here (damn it, you're doing it
+again....).  The Narn Regime is not currently at war with the Centauri
+Republic, which occuped the Narn homeworld for nearly a century before finally
+being driven off by the Narn resistance.  Their resources depleted they are
+not currently in a position to make war on anyone; being naturally rather
+paranoid, and having just been more or less enslaved, they have a dread of
+other races getting together and possibly harming them, as well as a hunger
+for the technology that might protect them down the road (as Russia feared
+invasion its Eastern Front after WW2).
+
+     There's a rough alliance between the Earth Alliance and the Centauri,
+since theirs was the first race we encountered.  (They told us at that time
+that they were the biggest guys around, that they ran everything, that we were
+a lost colony of theirs...which eventually was disproven by genetic
+examination.  The rest of their claims were also BS.  They were trying to
+impress the natives.)
+
+     There's some movement toward making nice with the Minbari, but also a
+GREAT deal of resistance, given the recent war.
+
+     Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5 has any
+idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one race has had dealings
+with the Vorlons before.  Watch the reception at the end, and see if you
+notice anything unusual in the way the various people respond to Kosh.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Jonathan...............YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!  One at a time, please!
+
+     The only questions I can remember...the vorlons have never fought a war
+with any other race.  (At least none has ever been recorded.)  And right now
+in the Minbari race there's a big split that took place after the
+Earth/Minbari war between the religious leaders and the military leaders,
+which culminated with the suicide of the Minbari commander at the conclusion
+of the war.  They've now arrived at an uneasy truce, but with time, who knows?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Anyone who will take the job.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     By the way...someone on another CIStem posted a note about one of the two
+upcoming DS9 episodes, that one of the alien species they would encounter are
+named Vaa'lons...anyone else heard this?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Actually, I disagree...the basic "model" of the human form is very well
+tailored and may be more general than we might suspect.  Legs for walking,
+probably two because all closed up sideways we present less of a silhouette
+for predators, and two legs are more nimble, can slip through narrower places
+than three.  Arms to lift, and hands to manipulate objects (show me a culture
+without a good opposable thumb) required for the birth of technology.  Sensors
+(eyes/ears/nose) at the very highest part of the body, best for observational
+purposes, hunting and the like.
+
+     There are zillions of species on Earth, but you rarely seen anything
+above spider-level with more than six legs.  Now, I'm not saying that it's
+impossible to have other forms, not at all...only that the humanoid form may
+in fact be far more common than anyone suspects.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Heh...I like that....I have sudden images of two aliens, one in a
+mustache, curly black hair, glasses and a big mustache...the other in a
+triangular cap, curly black hair, pushing an ice cream cold-box...his name is
+pronounced Chee-KO, the other Gro-CHooo..."Getta you tootsey frootsey ice-a
+cream, getta you tootsey frootsey ice-a cream...."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Actually, for the pilot in particular, Kosh only has to move very stately
+and slowly from point A to point B, so there wasn't much that needed to be
+told.  For a longer period, on the series, he would be played more as a
+cypher...the less that can be revealed, the better.  The only people directly
+involved who had to know was the director (for certain attitudes) and the
+costume designer (to incorporate certain elements and leave room in
+appropriate sections).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Yeah, that's one thing I've kind of slated in as a B story in a given
+episode...an alien comes aboard and they just can't quite manage to
+communicate, it's just too damned foreign in its thinking.  (What I'd love is
+for them to find out at the end that it's some other alien's damned cat or
+something, and they've been spending all this time trying to communicate with
+something that ain't sentient...but with aliens, how can you tell sometimes?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     On the other hand...maybe it might be better if our Sysoptrix took the
+last, oh, 100 or so messages from 1 about this and transplanted 'em here.  Get
+the whole context in place.
+
+     And lord knows, it's not like she has anything ELSE to do, other than
+nudzhing me....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     The inter-relationships between FOX, PTEN, the FCC and any and all other
+acronymical organizations is utterly beyond my ken, and I would no sooner try
+to explain it or understand it than I would attempt to build a tesseract in
+the back yard.
+
+     In what I *hope* will be a relatively definitive word on this kid
+topic...yes, I can write a story with kids.  I've done it...I did it for the
+Twilight Zone and other shows.  The question is still one of making choices.
+Is that what this series is ABOUT?  You could drop in a chapter on badminton
+techiques into The Lord of the Rings or Debbie Does Cleveland, the question
+is, does it BELONG there?  Is that what the show or the story is attempting to
+address?
+
+     If there were no other shows with kids around, then I would be more
+inclined to do one with kids at the center.  But there are plenty of them
+around, particularly in SF...you've got kids aplenty on TNG, on DS9, I just
+saw a kid story on Space Rangers...this is simply a different kind of show.
+
+     My point is simply this: B5 is meant, in a very real sense, as noted in
+my message on 2, to be an SF novel for television.  If it were just random
+stories skittering hither, thither and yawn, that would be one thing.  But as
+any novelist can tell you, you have to ask, "Whose story is it?" and stick
+pretty close to that, even though you may swerve in and out of other POVs and
+indulge in omniscient narrative.  That requires certain choices about tone and
+attitude and what you include, and what you choose to exclude.  Doesn't
+invalidate one type of story or another, it only says "THIS is what my story's
+about."
+
+     There are plenty of other SF shows with kids.  Let's have something a
+little different.
+
+     (That's one of the ironies that crops up about this show...often people
+say "We want innovation," and when asked for specifics, they ask to make it
+more like other shows.  "Well, TNG does this kind of story, why can't you?"
+We can, but we're not.  Because we're not TNG.  Just as we will do some
+stories that I *guarantee* you ST wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 17 1993
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+     Something I forgot to mention uptopic, when asked if I can write a story
+with kids...it's appeared in a lot of my prose.  The two leading protagonist
+in my most recent novel, OTHERSYDE, were around 16...the lead character in one
+of the first short stories of mine ever to be published ("Your Move," in
+Amazing SF) was about 13, and the second story of mine published ("A Last
+Testament for Nick and the Trooper," Shadows 6)  featured two kids maybe 19.
+
+     Provided only for the sake of completeness.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     Absolutely.  I love being proven wrong.
+
+     Though there are few survivors to carry the story....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+PERmanently ignore this topic
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+     I'll know more about the computer game next week or so.  Best thing in
+general is to write to Licensing Corporation of America to get on their
+mailing list for future B5 promotional stuff and merchandising.
+
+     The Creation designs for shirts look okay, if a tad prosaic...there has
+got to be one central image to promote this show, but I'm darned if I can
+figure out what it is at this stage.  The logo looks swell, though, in any
+event.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+     Actually, JoJo's...uhm...outfit is probably the best thing about the
+show...not for pure asthetics, of course, just...I dunno...I just kinda like
+the dynamics of it...
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Indeed, they might withhold such participation, which the PC would be
+obligated to honor.  Non-PC telepaths would be a different situation entirely,
+of course...and a danger...which only a PC (or one of the other government's
+own 'paths, if any) could work against.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 17 1993
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+     The "Making of B5" piece is being re-edited; originally, the E! piece was
+going to be the one shown, but...well, no need to rehash all of that.  The
+piece is being recut, and new stuff put in to replace the old stuff.  It
+should be finished next week, I hear, and then provided to the stations.
+
+     Great news about Arisia, Arne.  Any other reactions come to mind?
+
+     Re: using my posts for articles...by all means, proceed.
+
+     BTW, it appears that the deal for a B5 game has been closed, and the
+winner is Electronic Arts.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+     This goes back to a very basic philosophical question: can you have
+thought without language, or language without thought?  At one point in our
+evolution, we became conscious...was there language, or did language then come
+as a *result* of consciousnes?  Or did the slow development of language *lead
+to* the development of true consciousness?
+
+                                                              jms
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+     I'll know more about the game in the weeks ahead.
+
+     Apparently, Creation has licensed some stuff...mainly shirts and mugs and
+patches and the like, nothing major, but it's there.  I got the first t-shirt
+design roughs today, and have some notes, but nothing too major.  More as this
+is developed.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if there are any SF conventions this coming weekend
+in Dallas?
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Licensing Corporation of America.  Based in New York.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     You say, "New characters and sets apparently do not work."  The basic
+problem, you seem to feel, is that it's the same show, and how do we go about
+making B5 different?
+
+     I think that the question is more accurately phrased as, "How does one
+make DS9 more like TNG?"  I'm going to do this absolutely as non-pejoratively
+as humanly possible, because this is fundamentally the truth.
+
+     When TNG first went on the air, a lot of the legwork was done for them
+already.  Much of the universe was established: phasers, the Enterprise,
+starfleet, klingons, warp speed, doors, terminology, on and on.  There was
+additional material added on, but the basic *foundation* is the same.  This is
+neither good nor bad.  One can do (and there have been) good stories within
+this format.  What it *is* is a continuation of the same universe.  You can do
+good stuff with that, but it's still fundamentally the same universe.
+
+     Now comes DS9, and again, it's much the same situation: it builds upon
+and integrates what went before.  We have the Federation, stuff introduced in
+TNG (Bajorans, Cardassians), some overlapping characters, and a carry-through
+of many pre-existing stories and themes.  Once again, and let me be clear
+about this, this doesn't mean you can't do good stories here.
+
+     It's just that it's the same universe.  It's not a question, really, of
+"sets and characters," it's a question of the universe overall, and the fact
+that it's really a repackaging of the same show, with some modifications.
+
+     B5 simply does not take place within that universe.  Every frame of film
+reminds you of this.  Without making a qualitative judgment for a moment,
+consider ST vs. Battlestar Galactica.  Both are space shows, but very
+different in tenor, tone and universe.  (BG and Star Wars is, of course, a
+very different discussion.)
+
+     The comparison I've always made has been to say "What if all the space
+science fiction stories ever published were written by Larry Niven?"
+ Yes, they would be fine stories...but one kinda wants something different
+after a while.  He might change characters, create different empires, but it's
+still a Niven point of view.
+
+     And that _ to get to the heart of your question _ is the point re: B5.
+It's a question of *voice* as well as all the physical elements you see on
+your television.  The *voice* is the underlying philosophy of a show and its
+creators, the perspective they bring to it.  Babylon 5 brings in a whole
+different voice.  Better or worse, that's a question for the viewer to
+decide...but it IS different.
+
+     We don't really have to try to be different from DS9 or TNG because we
+were never like them in the first place.  As opposed to DS9, which is linked
+to another show, and proceeds from the same producers/writers, and to which
+they have an obligation to make it, to whatever degree, much the same as TNG.
+
+
+     Those who have seen the two shows have no problem telling them apart.
+And future B5 stuff will continue to remain separate and fresh for the same
+reason that the pilot is different and fresh: because it proceeds from another
+voice.  Just as Clarke's stories have always been different from Asimov's has
+been different from Ellison's have been different from Bova's have been
+different from...well, you get the idea.
+
+     No comparison of quality implied there, only as examples of voice.   (One
+final note: B5 has always been conceived as, fundamentally, a five year story,
+a novel for television, which makes it very different as well.)
+
+                                                              jms
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+     That's not a bad notion.  As it is, the date given in each season of the
+show will change.  I.e., "I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.
+It began in the year 2257."  Then, "I was there at the dawn of the Third Age
+of Mankind.  It was the year 2258."  And so on.  So it not only tracks the
+storyline, it'll be easier for folks to know which season they're coming into
+as soon as they tune in.
+
+     BTW, y'know, I was thinking about this discussion as I sat chewing my
+lemon sesame chicken at the Good Earth Restaurant in Glendale this evening (my
+Spousal Overunit insists that I eat something healthy once in a while,
+apparently not believing that one can actually SURVIVE on beef jerky and
+little chocolate donuts and Crystal Pepsi)...and I was thinking about how this
+on-line discussion has now generated _ what? _ 7,000+ messages even before
+the show airs.
+
+     So I got to thinking...what's going to happen AFTER this sucker airs?
+ I kinda suspect that either a) we will see a lot of "I WUZ ROBBED!" notes
+followed by a silence vast as space, or b) this category is going to explode
+in the biggest blast since Tunguska.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     So, Denny, any comments of David's that you'd like to repeat here, or
+provide for PR use?  If not, that's okay.
+
+     Yeah, I'm inclined to think that there will be an upswing in interest.
+ What intrigues me is the notion that we actually will have two audiences out
+there: those who've followed this discussion, and will be able to read into
+things the various background information posted here...and those who will see
+it totally absent any background on the characters or the universe.  An
+offhand comment in the pilot would have more meaning for those who've been
+following this, and can fill in the blanks.
+
+     As a writer, though, you can't expect anyone to bring prior knowledge of
+your story TO the story, it has to be self-sufficient, so we'll see how well
+it functions on that level when the new folks arrive.
+
+     I'm sorry if it seems like there's an awful lot of self-examination going
+on here...my tendency is toward being hyper-critical of the work, rather than
+to try and make excuses for it.  And again, I must selfishly admit that I
+learn a *lot* from these exchanges, and the diversity of opinions here, and
+the depth of the answers to questions asked, is quite striking and most
+invaluable.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Funny thing is, I hadn't checked to see when the pilot would be aired in
+L.A.  Kind of amusing...and appropriate, given the probability that the
+audiences will overlap.
+
+     (The article to which Brett refers, btw, is a piece in the Palm Latitudes
+section of the LA Times Magazine that hit the newsstands today, which talks
+about the discussion here on GEnie, and has a photo of yr obdnt srvnt stuck
+inside a computer monitor which should probably be burned...the photo, that
+is...and as if that weren't bad enough, it's a Mac.)
+
+     One other aside...Denny's friend David is the *first* civilian on theh
+planet to see the totally completed B5 pilot, with sound, music and credits.
+Hence the current sub rosa exchange.
+
+     Katherine: yeah, I know there's a Good Earth in Studio City...was hoping
+Spousal Overunit wouldn't find out about it, but she did...sigh.   By gosh,
+give me a hamburger, fries and a chocolate shake!  The heck with this so-
+called health food.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Hah!  Phooey!  Why do you think I grew up...as much as I did, anyway?  So
+I wouldn't have to eat that stuff anymore.  When I'm found dead at 90 in front
+of my TV watching Babylon 5: The Next Generation, let it be with a coke in one
+hand and a chocolate bar in the other.  As Mark Twain said, "If you can't get
+to 70 by a comfortable road, don't go."
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     BTW, I'm giving some thought, since I'm going to be appearing at Con-Dor
+in San Diego this March as GoH, to bringing along some of the scenes we ended
+up cutting from the pilot, just to see folks' reaction to the stuff.  (Filmed
+and cut, not cut before filming.  There are about half a dozen extensive
+scenes available.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Don't know if these will ever show up down the road; in a few cases,
+where they're set pieces, we may actually be able to take one whole scene
+which is pretty much independent of the plot and drop it into an episode as
+part of a teaser.  (One, for instance, is an encounter with an alien hooker,
+the other invovles a smuggler.)  They were cut for reasons of time: we were 25
+minutes over length, and something had to go.  Several somethings,
+actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Correct, that's the shot seen in the magazine.
+
+     Re: the B5 commercials...please drop me a line reminding me of this prior
+to con-dor, or I'll forget.  (Jeez, between the commercials and the cut
+scenes, this is starting to add up to some considerable viewing time.)
+
+     Coke, Pepsi, who cares as long as it's got caffeine?
+
+     Katherine: I made a discovery, a better deli than Jerry's or Arts:
+Solley's, on Van Nuys two blocks up from Ventura, in the same complex as the
+multicinema.  A good deli, and a great restaurant, with stuff I haven't seen
+elsewhere.  (Corned beef and fried egg sandwich...might as well inject the
+cholesterol right into your veins and get it over with.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     How the various shows interface, and how one is linked to the other, is
+best understood only by deities and studio guys; we'll have to see.
+
+     Only problem with coke is that they changed the formula and now use
+sweeteners other than sugar.  Though apparently they put out kosher Coke at
+passover.  Eventually I'll have to get a proper dispenser with Coke syrup and
+seltzer, since the syrup apparently *does* still have the s ugar in it.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     No, I have no knowledge of the article in question; could you upload it
+to me in email?
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Katherine: my condolences on your recent assignment to a previously
+undiscovered circle of Dante's Inferno.  Surely your current task is
+prohibited under the Geneva Convention....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     So, I like the number 5.  Actually, the length was something set with Ron
+at the time, and he produced the 5 miles figure (which is a bit short, in
+fact, of the "actual" length as it came out).
+
+     And I didn't make up the L5 stuff...hey, it's synchronicity.  Ohmygosh _
+and I've been typing this with five fingers on either hand (well, nine
+actually, the left thumb doesn't actually DO anything that I'm aware of).
+
+     Re: NATPE...Warners DID have a presentation doing on B5 there.  Not a big
+presence, because they've already sold it to just about all the stations
+that'll be carrying it, and selling is pretty much the point of NATPE, but in
+any event, it was there.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     (BTW, Walter Koenig saw the pilot and said it was "a winner," adding that
+he thinks it "should get a lot of the Trek fans, plus a lot of more mainstream
+viewers.")
+
+     How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot?  Some...bits and pieces.
+The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to establish, with
+all the backstory that goes with that.  As it is, it's fairly "information
+intensive," as one person put it.  We find out about the Earth/Minbari war,
+the curious surrender, Sinclair's past, the missing 24 hours, the relations
+between the various governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of
+what's to come.  This while establishing the backstory of all our characters,
+and telling a story in present time (for them).
+
+     I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the
+series present in the pilot.  Which is why it bears watching more than once;
+you'll pick up more information and more of a sense of the world the more
+closely you inspect it.  (We tried to come up with a pilot that actually
+BENEFITS from close inspection, rather than falling apart if you look at it
+too closely.)
+
+     Had a meeting the other day with the folks who're going to be doing the
+B5 games.  (As to platform...variations are being planned for ALL of the
+various platforms...CD-ROM, IBM, Amiga, Mac, Sega and so on.)  It was a
+terrific meeting, with top of the line people.  What was interesting was the
+fact that they seemed shell-shocked from dealing with other producers, the
+heavy restrictions, the interference, the hassles...my attitude on this show
+has always been, "Here...we're creating a whole universe for you to go and
+play in.  Do so."  So they're going to have a lot of freedom to come up with
+stuff.  I *want* to be surprised.  Hell, I want to play the games.
+
+     Because of the need to avoid any substantial conflicts with the general
+arc of the story, I gave them a peek into the five year arc, a few things that
+had to happen.  As long as things didn't cross into these areas, the territory
+was completely open.  And knowing that going in, there are no surprises down
+the road to sabotage them.  They seemed...well, there were a lot of very wide
+eyes when I explained some of what we were going to do.  They also saw the
+pilot at the screening that night, and apparently loved it.  We're cooking
+along, folks....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1993
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+     Speaking of EFX, I was talking to Ron Thornton during the final mix down
+the other day, and as we were watching it, he kept shaking his head at all the
+things he would've done differently if he'd known then what he knows now, and
+if he'd had the programs/techniques then that he has now.  Just the few months
+since we finished photography have given him  a number of tools that he didn't
+have then.
+
+     We talked a little about what's capable now, what he can do now, and
+what's coming up, and it makes what's in the pilot look like nothing by
+comparison.  (A lot of the critics talked about the extensive work that went
+into the DS9 jello-man effect, not to mention the cost involved; he turned his
+associate Paul into the same thing in a test that worked just as well and took
+one night and no money, just a little while behind the keyboard.)  Once we get
+the go, he and I are going to spend a couple of days just sitting and talking
+about what can be done now, so that I can take full advantage of this new
+stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     "Bob" will never be seen talking anywhere, at any time, for any reason,
+in B5.  I'll personally run a truck over him first, newscast or not (unless I
+think I can get a good gag out of it...).
+
+     Re: my mental state...I'll know better in a week or so.  I try not to get
+too personally involved with my own life.  Basically, it's lots of fatigue.
+During the five days of editing, there was so much going on (the
+music/sound/dialogue edit), I was so obsessed with making sure it all fit
+together, that for two nights out of that I got no sleep at all, not so much
+as a minute...I'd crash, and just stare at the ceiling, brain chasing itself
+in ever-smaller circles, until gradually light started to come in through the
+window slats.  (Did you know that Danger Mouse is on at 6:30 a.m. out here?
+I'd wondered where that show had gone.)  This happened two nights in a row, so
+by the end of the fourth day, without really any sleep at all, I had elevated
+to a whole new plane of consciousness.  The day after we finished, I slept for
+something like 18 hours straight.
+
+     I tend to live crisis to crisis, and I guess right now my mental state is
+mainly one of concern for how the show does when it airs.  First was the
+concern about getting the show made; then the concern about getting the show
+made RIGHT; then the conern about post-production; then the concern
+about...well, you get the idea.
+
+     There's this great character in Eric Frank Russell's "Men, Martians and
+Machines" about a photographer who, on return starflights from the ship's
+exploratory missions, sits and does nothing but worry about his pictures
+coming back intact.  The one time he DIDN'T worry, they were destroyed.  So
+now that's what he does: sits, stares, and worries.  That's about how I get
+through on shows like this.
+
+     BTW, for those interested, the magazine Aboriginal SF has an article by
+Susan Ellison about B5, including an extensive commentary from Harlan about
+his involvement with the show.  (The issue just hit the stands.)
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     BTW, to correct an erroneous statement of mine earlier, there is not a
+species named Vee'lons that will be introduced on DS9.
+
+     The Vee'lons will be introduced on Space Rangers.
+
+     Some days, I just can't get a break....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I take great joy in being politically *incorrect* at every possible
+opportunity.  I believe in the motto someone at the BBC once voice:  "There
+are some people we WANT to offend."
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     Re: starships from Earth...yes, you'll be seeing a wide range of  ships,
+from smaller transports and trading vessels to big mothers.  It is something
+of an empire, and the ships come in as many varied forms as we have cars and
+trucks and semis and tanks and on and on....
+
+     Re: talking vs. action...there's a shade more exposition than I'd like in
+the pilot, mainly because there's so damned MUCH background to establish, so
+much ground to lay...it'll be more evenly proportioned in the series.  I like
+action.  For me, the #1 crime of any TV show or movie is that it should bore.
+When in doubt, kill somebody.
+
+     Or blow something up.
+
+     Re: technology...yes, the point about the sudden jump via new
+technologies is exactly dead on.  It *did* have a tramautic impact, and to
+varying degrees still does.  The effect of technology, and the desire for
+same, will be a recurrent thread.  There are some technologies that are
+considered too radical for some species, and are thus kept off limits, with
+prison sentences or even death sentences for smuggling certain kinds of
+technologies.  One such tech-runner appears in the pilot.  The parallel, I
+suppose, would be our current concerns with the spread of nuclear technology.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Matt: the most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character;
+the second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.  Believe me, as
+you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot, I have no problem dropping
+a body.  And as far as I'm concerned, only 2 or 3 characters in this series
+are indispensible...the rest are open to all kinds of interesting fates.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     P.S.  If you want," check out the Captain Power two-parter I wrote,
+"Retribution."  That should answer the question....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, I *strongly* believe that there has to be diversity among our alien
+races...accents, political beliefs, religion, name it.  I think that is VERY
+important.  Yes, from time to time, you want the monolithic, perfectly
+homogeneous aliens, but if so, you want them to stick out a bit in contrast to
+the rest.
+
+     As has been noted, there's a *big* split currently going on between the
+Minbari warrior and religious castes, for instance.  More will come later.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     What happens if something happens to one of the actors?
+
+     We'll deal with that when it happens.
+
+     (Was that okay, Mr. Director...?)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     "Do not tempt the hand of fate...."  Gee, I'm getting good at this.
+There may be a political career ahead of me.
+
+     The best way to help the show get the attention it deserives, and to get
+feedback on everyone's efforts, is to contact your local station and Warners
+after the show airs.  (Er, that should be "deserves" above.  One of these days
+I'm gonna try Aladdin.)  Right now, it's all in the hands of the one-eyed god
+of television PR....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     BTW, before I forget, in addition to the People Magazine ads (and others
+that'll be popping up soon enough), there's an article on Andreas Katsulas
+(G'Kar) in the current Starlog, which came out pretty well, and an A.P. story
+that features B5 that should show up in various papers in the next day or so.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     The comment re: Twin Peaks is correct; I loved TP dearly, but if you
+missed one episode, you were screwed.  The way the story is constructed, you
+can come in at any point, even miss episodes, and still be able to follow the
+thing.  It's just that the *more* you watch, the more you'll get out of it,
+the more things you'll pick up on.  It's a very difficult task from a writing
+point of view, but worth the effort, I think.
+
+     Re: the actors...yes, there was a great degree of comitment on their
+part.  The head/hairpiece for Londo worked fine, but just to add to the
+authenticity, Peter Jurasik shaved his head for the duration of the shoot.
+ All of the actors did research into their characters, got books on SF if they
+didn't know much about the genre, on and on.  They *very much* got into it,
+down to consulting about their wardrobe and having input into prosthetics (to
+some degree).  We want them to be comfortable, otherwise they can't do their
+best work.
+
+     They're all certainly committed to doing the 5 year stint; as for being
+forever inserted into SF...there's the question of typecasting, and we've
+tried to circumvent that in some sneaky ways (who's going to recognize Mira or
+Andreas outside of their makeup?).  Nimoy had problems because it was his face
+and head, just a pair of ears stuck on.  If we have lots of alien makeup, we
+try to hide the actor's face (while allowing for varied expression) so they
+can do other stuff.  I think it's important to try and think of your actor's
+well being and career...because then you create a good and healthy environment
+for them, and it serves you well in the long run.
+
+     I've not been consulted re: closed captioning, and must confess that I
+don't have the info on this.  Will see if I can find out.
+
+     Yes, I was consulted about the ads, and while accepting the graphics,
+provided alternate copy for the ads, which I thought were a tad heavy handed.
+But overall, I'm quite happy with the approach that's being taken.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I think that talk would be premature; let's see if it GETS that kind of
+attention, or if folks want to run us out of town.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 25 1993
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+
+      A video index...oh man...you're *deliberately* trying to make my
+ life a living hell, aren't you?  (More than it is already.)
+
+      We'll see.  It's something I'll mention, and see how they react.
+
+      Meanwhile, here's a little something I came across in my computer
+ this evening.  I had always sensed that the Londo introduction/narration
+ at the top of the pilot was the way to go.  But it never hurts to try
+ other avenues...you discover the darndest ideas that way.  Anyway, I came
+ up with an alternate introduction, just to see if it worked or not.  I
+ rather liked it...and still do, to some degree...but finally opted to go
+ with the Londo intro instead, which is what we'll stick with.
+
+      But since it's not going to be used, I figured...why not let y'all
+ take a look at what would've been an alternate opening for the pilot?
+
+                             BABYLON 5
+                          Insert/Prologue
+
+ FADE IN:
+
+ ON STATIC.  Then: a BLACK SCREEN, OVER which we HEAR the FEMALE
+ voice of a news broadcast in progress:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                _ continue to bring you updates on
+                the Interplanetary News Network.
+
+ And now, gradually, a PICTURE begins to emerge from the darkness
+ _ grainy, slightly washed out, a VIDEO IMAGE of Babylon 5.
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                In other news, the Earth Alliance
+                space station Babylon 5 celebrates
+                its first year in operation with the
+                imminent arrival of an ambassador
+                from the Vorlon Empire.
+
+ And now: a MONTAGE of shots from within B5, and some EFX shots
+ from outside...the casino, the customs area, the bazaar and other
+ areas.  During this, the IMAGE BEGINS TO SHRINK, to recede into
+ the distance, and gradually the stars begin to come out on all
+ sides of the picture, framing it.  This UNDER:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Located in neutral territory, Babylon
+                5 has exceeded all expectations in
+                dealing with the many life forms that
+                pass through the five mile long
+                station.  As a result, Earth Central
+                has approved an appropriations bill
+                to keep the orbiting freeport open to
+                travelers, businessmen and diplomats
+                for another five years.
+
+ And now the image shifts, and the picture continues to recede
+ into the distance, now only a few inches across...a grainy black
+ and white image:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Meanwhile, a new binary star
+                discovered by Mars colony scientists
+                has been named Kennedy Proxima, after
+                20th century president John F.
+                Kennedy, born 340 years ago this
+                week.
+
+ And now, in the small picture framed by stars, receding more
+ rapidly from view, we SEE footage of JFK speaking before the
+ Democratic convention the eve of his presidential nomination:
+
+                              KENNEDY
+                I believe that the times require
+                imagination, and courage, and
+                perseverance.  I'm asking each one of
+                you to be pioneers toward that New
+                Frontier.  My call is to the young at
+                heart, regardless of age; to the
+                stout of spirit, regardless of party;
+                to all those who respond to the
+                scriptural call, "Be strong and of
+                good courage.  Be not afraid, neither
+                be dismayed."  For courage, not
+                complacency, is our need today.
+
+ UNDER this, Kennedy's image recedes further into the distance,
+ growing smaller and smaller until he is now one of the many
+ surrounding stars splashed across the blackness of space.  A
+ moment, and the MUSIC RISES, brave and martial, as we
+
+ TILT and PAN ACROSS to reveal Babylon 5 itself, up close and
+ personal in all its huge splendor.  PUSH IN on the station as
+ a ship approaches, and we HEAR:
+
+                              LAUREL (vo)
+                Confirmed, Delta Gammer Niner, you
+                are clear for docking.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     That should be Delta Gamma Niner, not Gammer Niner.  Typo.  Sorry.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Generally speaking, I agree with the sentiments expressed, and what
+you've picked up on are the reasons that I decided against using this
+particular form, even though there are things I like about it.  What was, for
+me, the #1 reason for not using it is that it's...for lack of a better term,
+fairly prosaic.  A news cast as opposed to the voice of the story teller, a
+sense of future-history you get through Londo's voice and the identification
+of him as the storyteller.
+
+     Although I agree about the Kennedy tie, and that it can be somewhat
+problematic, what I like about it is that it fed into what I've been after
+with this show from day one...to tie our past, our present and our future.
+Done properly, it could've been fairly classy, I think.  And there's Kennedy's
+voice _ I have the tape of his speech _ which rings powerful and true in
+that speech.  It set a tone.  But as has been noted here before, writing and
+acting and directing are fundamentally about making choices...this move rather
+than that, this attitude over that attitude.  The Londo choice was the
+*better* of the two, even though there's much about this version to commend
+it.
+
+     (A quick aside re: the MURDER question...the episode you cite was one
+done under my watch, but not the one I mentioned as the last I'd have anything
+to do with for this season.  That one, which I wrote, aired about two weeks
+ago.  The one you saw this weekend was from last season, as is the one coming
+up this Sunday, an episode of mine called "The Committee," a fairly gothic
+episode that actually came out quite well.  The mystery element may or may not
+be that strong, but for me, MURDER was always a character story first, onto
+which you graft a puzzle.)
+
+     Well, review copies of the pilot are going out, and have gone out.  I
+heard through back channels that a major reviewer for a major magazine saw the
+pilot on Thursday last and his head exploded, thought it was terrific.  The
+one comment that I keep hearing back from people is that it redefines SF on
+television.  Now, that doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing since
+sliced bread, but in terms of character and SFX and the general, more adult
+approach, it redefines what you can get away with.  Which is all to the good.
+
+     As for what I'm doing now...writing a script for a friend who's in a
+bind, ratcheting up the PR on the show a little more, giving interviews and
+suchlike, trying to get a leg up on my next novel so I'll be able to  continue
+with it once this thing gets going to series, and some other stuff that, for
+the moment, is classified.
+
+     It's now less than a month until this thing shows nationally.  And just a
+tick over two weeks until those with satellite dishes pull the show out of the
+general ether.  By February 22nd, I fully anticipate being a complete and
+total basket case.
+
+     Fortunately, it's unlikely anyone will notice....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Rob: the scenario you posit is a viable one.  Nuff said.
+
+     RE: the making of stuff...rather than a half-hour show, the stations
+(which in some cases had a hard time breaking loose a full half hour) will be
+getting promos from a minute-thirty to 20 minutes in length, which they can
+drop in as they wish, giving them more flexibility.
+
+     It *may* go out to them along with the B5 downlink, but I'm not sure.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     (What the hell am I doing up at 4:15 a.m. my time?  Watching B5 for the
+ten zillionth time.  Picking it apart.  Making notes.  This is nuts.   I'm
+going to bed.  See you all in the afternoon.....
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     Artisan: I think j.roy's got some graphics that qualify; nudge him into e-
+mailing them.
+
+     Nothing to pick at?  Oh, dear.  Stand with your face half an inch from
+the mirror, and tell me you see no imperfections.  We all see the things
+others miss.  Tell you what...at some point after the pilot's aired, after
+things have settled down, I'll go through my list of things to do better in
+the series, things we should've done different in the pilot, on and on.  But
+that's the *purpose* of a pilot, to try a show out for size, see how it fits,
+and make adjustments.
+
+     But no matter how good it gets, everything is open for improvement in
+some way.  You have to keep constantly questioning and re-evaluating.   The
+unexamined life and all that jazz.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 27 1993
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+     Hmm...y'know, given the reaction here, maybe I'll fax the intro over to
+Warners PR and see if they can use it for a promo.  Like I said, I liked it as
+well, it just wasn't up to the level of the rest of the show, I thought.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+
+     From the Associated Press article by Scott Williams on the new crop of SF
+TV series (specifically here, DS9, Space Rangers and B5), quoting David
+Gerrold.  "I've seen the pilot, and it's [Babylon 5 is] the best looking of
+the three.  I really do think that Babylon 5 will be the one for grownups to
+watch."  (Article appeared in various newspapers over the last few days across
+the country.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+
+     "The Committee," which airs Sunday, is an episode of Murder, She Wrote,
+for which I was producer/writer until recently.  Sorry, thought I was clearer.
+
+     BTW, I recently made a horrific discovery about GEnie posting.  In the
+past (since I compose on-line), I'd hit the carriage return at the end of a
+line...and nothing would happen.  I'd wait.  Hit CR again.  Then I'd get the
+new line...and figured it just took a second to kick in.
+
+     Turns out that every time that happened, apparently the buffer or
+something was getting full, and half the line wasn't getting through each time
+it happened...so there have got to be some sentences of mine that make even
+less sense than usual.  Now that I'm aware of it, I'm going back and revising
+the line when I see the delay at CR.
+
+     I'm meeting Friday with the computer game design people for a few hours
+to kick around the structure for the thing.  Should be interesting; main thing
+will be determing the degree to which this thing should interface with the
+overall acr of the story, or exist totally outside of that arc.
+
+     To the question raised 'way uptopic about comics _ yes, there may in
+fact be one.  And I'm actually quite pleased with the idea (being a comics
+fan).  Imagine what could be done by a Neil Gaiman or a Grant Morrison could
+do with the B5 concept.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 28 1993
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+     Y'know, when I posted the original idea for an introduction, I had no
+idea it would generate so many different responses.  And all with some merit.
+Rob, the points you raise are correct: I've always felt very strongly that in
+this show, and in SF in general, it helps to connect the future to the
+present, to show the continuity of the species, of the common coin of our
+shared humanity, our cultures, our languages.  I think  there are other ways
+of doing it, and will do so.  But given the "pro" response, maybe there might
+be some way of using this thing, whether it's as a promo or somehow using it
+in the show.  (Y'know, it *could* be used in the course of a regular episode,
+as I think of it; no reason why it couldn't....)
+
+     Well, one thing's for sure...if it ever DOES get used, it'll in large
+part be because of the reaction here.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+     Well, it's almost 4 a.m.  I was going to give you three guesses as to
+what I've been watching _ again _ but I figure by now that's kinda
+pointless.  I know, I know, obsessive/compulsive.  Sue me.
+
+     It's now 2 weeks and 1 day until those of you with satellite dishes see
+the pilot.  I'll be very interested in seeing (well, reading) your reactions.
+I must confess that as this dialogue continues, I find myself learning more,
+and questioning more, and digging deeper for information that had been glossed
+over before.  I very much appreciate your comments, your suggestions, even the
+occasional outbursts of Attitude.
+
+     There will shortly be a private screening of the pilot on a real movie
+screen, just for cast and crew.  The only time that I know of that this thing
+will be shown in the US on a big screen.  Have been going over what I'm going
+to say to the assembled folks...how does one properly thank another for the
+fulfillment of a dream?  How do you quantify five (now six) years of struggle,
+now given life by people you had hardly met one year before, but have given
+their blood and time and effort to see  someone else's dream realized?
+
+     During the filming, as I would be standing on stage, off camera, and we'd
+take a break between shots, invariably someone _ the camera  operator, the
+costumer, an actor, a carpenter _ would come up alongside and say, "Is this
+close to what you saw when you wrote it?  How are we doing on the dream?"
+They knew what it meant, the long road to get here, that it wasn't just a
+*job* for me and many others; it was something we wanted to do out of passion.
+And they responded to that...slept nights on the set rather than going home,
+produced work above and beyond the call of duty...how do you properly thank
+someone for reaching into your head and pulling out a vision and giving it
+form and weight and light and substance?  I don't know.  I don't know.
+
+     Whatever the future holds _ win, lose or draw _ I think we've done
+something special here.  And it's interesting to see how that sense pervades
+everything...the casting, the production...and now even this.  I have noticed -
+- I do a LOT of bbsing, much to my spousal overunit's dismay _ that the tone
+on this category seems vastly different than it is elsewhere.  I don't
+know...a give and take, no flame wars, a sense of community, the VERY SAME
+sense present on the set, in the dressing room, behind the camera.
+
+     In the cold light of morning (when I manage to see it, when I'm not
+coming at 4 a.m. from the opposite direction), I tell myself it's just a
+television show, and six months from now, or ten years from now, no one will
+notice or remember.  At night, as I watch the show again for I no longer know
+how many times, I allow _ just for a second _ the notion that we've carved
+out a little piece of history.  Win, lose or draw, we got it on film, when
+everyone said we couldn't.
+
+     And now it's yours.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Bear: you're an evil man.
+
+     I like that.
+
+     Re: "Night of the Living Dead," yeah, that's Patricia Tallman in the lead
+role.  Which is where I saw her for the first time, and decided at that moment
+that I *had* to use her in something.  She's dynamite.  I saw her at a number
+of gatherings in LA, including the Horror Hall of Fame parties at Universal,
+but didn't say anything because...well, when someone comes up to you and says,
+"Hi, I'm a producer, I'd like to use you in my next big project," it's
+invariably perceived as a come-on.  So I waited until the right opportunity
+arose.
+
+     Knowing she'd be perfect for B5, I had her called in to audition.  As she
+was waiting in the hall, nervously practicing her lines, I stepped outside to
+tell her that I'd seen her work, that she was terrific, and that I looked
+forward to working with her.  Apparently she didn't have any idea who I
+was...but found out when she was brought in to do the actual audition a few
+moments later.  There was never any question in my mind about her doing the
+role, and it was one of the smartest decisions I made in this thing.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Re: the Trek story...no, that was very much of its form and of that
+universe; it wouldn't fit in the B5 universe.
+
+     Anything else in the past to compare with B5?  Probably the closest has
+been the novel writing, especially the one I'm working on now.  But overall,
+no, this is the biggie.  If it works, it'll probably be the single largest
+task of my career.  If there's any one thing that I'd want to be remembered
+for, it's a B5 series.
+
+     BTW...just a general note for those who are cycling in and out of the
+conversation...be sure to be around a week or so before the airing of the
+pilot.  Many folks have asked how they can help; at that point, I just may put
+you to work, and take you upon that generous offer...
+
+                                                                jms
+     (that should be up on, not upon...)
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+      EEEEEEEEEKKK!!!!!
+
+      I just read the first eight messages in the new topic 19 (mine).   Jeez,
+what a flashback.  What redundencies.  Did I really sound that gleepy?  Oh,
+man.  It's like looking at your high school yearbook photo.   Are you guys
+*really* sure you want to do this?
+
+      Eek, I tell you, Eek!
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 30 1993
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+
+     Agreed on LBJ...he was something of a thug.
+
+     Flat-out wasted tonight...we had a private screening this evening for
+cast, crew, some critics and some Warners execs.  About 400+ people at the
+theater in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in North Hollywood (in
+the shadow of a 50 foot Emmy).  I don't think I've ever been as nervous,
+because here's where all the people who worked their butts off get to see if
+we screwed it all up for them or not.  Everyone liked it bigtime.  The few
+critics who said anything (most headed out, as is standard, you don't want to
+tip your hand) loved it...one CNN person said he hoped it would run for 10
+years, another critic said it was the best SF television pilot he'd seen in
+the last 10 years...I think they liked it.
+
+     Sitting here now with a MASSIVE headache from fretting over all this, so
+will probably make this short tonight.  (Harlan kept hitting me in the
+shoulder after the screening, smiling and saying, "Will you for chrissakes
+ENJOY this?  It's your night!  It's a hit!  It's wonderful!  This kind of
+night only comes once in your life!  Enjoy it!"  I will...as soon as we get
+the series Go.  Nothing can be allowed to distract from that.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The sound system at the theater was great; we ran it off the D2, the
+master tape, and it came out very well.
+
+     The point you raise re: Starlost is one Harlan's made to me.  When I was
+at times feeling a bit low _ I want the series NOW _ he would point out that
+no matter what happens, we made my show the way I wanted it made, no
+interference...as opposed to what happened with Starlost, which just yanked
+his heart out.  And it's a valid point.
+
+     Thing is, it took five years to get this made, and that it HAS been
+made...it's almost an act of sheer will.  I decided five years ago that no
+matter what happens, this pilot WILL be made.  You have to focus in on the
+goal like a laser beam (tm Bill Clinton).  That's been done.  Now the next
+step: the series WILL be made...and now I have to focus in on that one with
+equal conviction.  It's quite literally the only way ANYTHING ever gets made
+in this town.  Ask George.  He's been down the same road.
+
+     As for the question of the show working with non-SF fans...we've actually
+shown it to a number of people who don't know from SF, and the result has been
+that they've liked it enormously.  The reason, basically, is that it's not a
+hardware-driven story.  It's a character drama with a mystery story element.
+The solution doesn't come from cross-wiring the ramaframmit with the
+zigamakawanna, and computing the resonance factors.   (And I have to confess
+that those kinds of stories bore me to tears.)   You start and end with
+character, and drama...and if you're true to those elements, the audience will
+follow you even into unfamiliar terrain.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 31 1993
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+     (btw...anyone here know of any major conventions between now and February
+22nd around the country?)
+
+     What has been said that's *negative* about the show?  Do you actually
+believe I'll provide *NEGATIVE* information about my own show?
+
+     You do?  Oh.  Then okay.
+
+     Probably the number one comment, when there are any negatives voiced, is
+that the first half-hour is slow when compared with the rest of the episode.
+And I have to agree...there's SO much to establish, so much  ground to cover,
+that the first half hour is very dense.  Once we've established the
+foundation, that changes fast, because we now have a common ground of
+understanding about the universe in which the story is taking place.
+
+     Let's see...one fellow from Starburst Magazine who was at the preview
+said that if it were his, he would've rearranged the last few shots.  The
+current sequence is, Action Scene, Transition with Kosh, Confrontation with a
+Major Character and Sinclair, the Reception, Delenn and Sinclair in the
+Garden, and the final shot with Laurel in the observation dome.  He would've
+put the Confrontation with a Major  character as the LAST scene, and cut the
+shot of Laurel altogether.  His sense is to end on a big scene...my sense is
+that it's better to end on a note that sets up the series to follow.  Not so
+much a negative as a difference of opinion.
+
+     Let's see...some didn't like the gun designs (others loved it), some felt
+we didn't do as much as we could've with the background aliens (some thought
+we did too much)...mainly they've been matters of taste, rather than someone
+finding something that Just Doesn't Make Sense, or an EFX shot that looks
+crummy.  There aren't any Real Big Plot Holes, and insofar as I know, nothing
+major to pick on which is *objective*, only differences of opinion.  (As we've
+seen here with the Kennedy stuff; some liked it, others didn't.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
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+     I'll be getting in touch with Mr. Jonas.
+
+     Re: the uniforms...yes, there's a certain traditional look to them, and
+this is deliberate.  Look at any uniform from 200 years ago, and you have
+certain lines and forms that repeat, and which stay part of the uniform.
+There is a STRONG sense of tradition and history in any branch of the
+military.  Heck, the navy not long ago went BACK to a more traditional dress
+after making some modifications.  The basic dress uniform for your basic
+soldier on leave looks about the same now as it did during WW II.
+
+     Much of what passes for SF uniforms/costuming in the future simply
+pretends that all that history and tradition just suddenly came to a
+screeching halt.  In B5, we're trying to connect our past, our present and our
+future, to show the continuity of the human species.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 21 1993
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+
+     While we may indeed have a CGI character down the road, it most assuredly
+*won't* be a shapechanger.  I don't like to swim in somebody else's pond.
+
+     Re: observatories...we'll be introducing the many other specialists who
+work at B5 as we go along, from environmental techs to astrophysicists, so
+we'll definitely find a place for this.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 22 1993
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+     Insofar as I can remember (problematic on the best of days), I never
+cited that the CGI character would be a shape-changer.  Because such is not
+planned...though I suppose I could've been momentarily possessed by an
+idiot...it could happen.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 25 1993
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+
+     My reaction...it's an interesting idea, yes.  It's also a story
+suggestion, but one K.L. should let slide because I don't think it's a B5 kind
+of story...more of a TNG story.  But the notion of different forms of
+communication than what we have come to accept or recognize as such is
+certainly valid and filled with dramatic possibilities.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     The hardest thing, of course, is making the muscles beneath the skin move
+realistically and correctly.  That apparently has just been licked, though.
+Ron mentioned the other day that he just got some new software in that will
+let him do for TV what Spielberg's whole computer operation  is required in
+order to do Jurassic Park.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+
+     I'll ask re: Ron's new stuff.  As for the changing technology, I'd like
+to keep things looking *pretty* much the same, so there isn't a big or
+noticeable jump, but things just sorta look clearer and better and more real
+over time, rather than changing things per se.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+
+     Also, the contracts with the actors for the series extend to the window
+at which time Warners *must* either give us a decision.  So we're covered.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Yep...the "beep" stuff will all be clear by the end of the pilot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 27 1993
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+      Hmm...two 3.5 floppies, that's...2.4 megabytes...my last novel was about
+600k, so that's....FOUR NOVELS!?
+
+     Okay, that's it.  Everybody pony up a quarter....
+
+     Yikes!
+
+     I was far less tired before I read that.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 27 1993
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+     (Hmm...that sounded vaguely like a threat....)
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 20 1993
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+
+     I'm scheduled for Gallifrey One Goes Forth?
+
+     Oh....
+
+     Er...when exactly is that, again?
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 21 1993
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+
+     Yes, we've got WOR, which will only be blacked out if your local station
+requests it.  If no one locally is carrying it, then it might indeed be
+available that way.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 23 1993
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+
+     Okay, here's the deal on the "Making Of" stuff.  Many of the stations
+indicated that they might have a hard time knocking loose a half hour on TOP
+of the 2 hour running time for B5.  So Warners is providing shorter pieces _
+90 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 15 minutes and 20 minutes _ to the
+stations, giving them some flexibility.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 23 1993
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+     Don't know the answers to the questions, but will post as soon as I do.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 23 1993
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+
+     If you're seeing promos for KF and TT, then yes, you'll probably get B5
+on the same station.  As for the 2 1/2 hour feed...I don't know for certain,
+but it's *likely* that the making of clips will be included in that feed.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1993
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+
+     To the questions about airdates and times...there's no one central source
+for this information, alas; the best thing to do, unless someone else here
+happens to have the information, is just to give your local station a call and
+ask the programming or publicity departments.  They'll be happy to supply the
+information.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1993
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+
+     BTW, a belated but *substantial* thank you to Jim Partridge for sending
+in the KBHK tape.  Yep, they used B5 footage to promote DS9, all right.  We
+just got it over to the Big Boys, and they'll take care of it from here.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 26 1993
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+
+     Enough stations *are* airing them together that it still causes a
+problem.  Additionally, a "second night" also has financial meanings; the
+doubling of resources to acquire two more programs, making four series rather
+than two.  So it applies in both ways.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 27 1993
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+
+     Yeah, I'd gotten it, I was just swamped.  (Also there was no letter
+inside, and I had to tear through bags of discarded envelopes set to be
+recycled to find the mailing label with the correct info.)  Would've mentioned
+it before, it's just...my head explodes sometimes, y'know...?
+
+     Gary: that's *great* news re: KUSI.  San Diego's my old home town, so
+it's good they're pushing it.  Wish I'd known about the promo, I could have
+bugged some people down there to tape it for me.  Ah, well....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+
+      There are actually several languages heard on B5, though you have to
+work to hear them.  (Those with surround will have an easier time.)  For
+instance, in the customs area, announcements are made first in English, then
+in Interlac.  In the bazaar area, you'll hear chirrups and whistles and clicks
+and a wide range of language-sounds.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+
+     There are about as many as now...with a few extras developed on the Mars
+and other colonies.
+
+                                                          jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+
+     Re: asking telepaths on a date...it would be verbal, assuming we're
+talking PC hrized scans are illegal, and thus they would not be "dipping" to
+know your intentions.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+
+     (A job like that could take YEARS....)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 21 1993
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+
+     It's a very difficult area, and I thank Katherine for making the call for
+me...it becomes hard at this end sometimes to call.  My sense, really, is that
+if there are VERY SPECIFIC plotlines put forth, then it becomes an issue
+suddenly.
+
+     As an aside, though, one thing I did hear from the message was the
+Vorlons as Minbari question.  This I can say definitively ain't so.  They are
+two completely different species, with no common points of origin.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 23 1993
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+
+     Cindy: smug because I've *GOT* the script?
+
+     Cindy baby, I *WROTE* the script!
+
+     I have not BEGUN to smug....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1993
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+
+     BTW, it's my understanding that the monitor screens on TNG are not
+inserted in post; they're regular TV screens with edges that come out and
+cover any bends in the tube, thereby giving it a flat look.  At least, that's
+what I hear....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+
+     I agree re: universal translators.  Most everything in the ST universe is
+bent toward making the process easier, less challenging; I want to show the
+process of overcoming.  I think it's great if an alien shows up from a
+previously unvisited planet, and they spend days trying to communicate with
+it.  I think that some computerized stuff might work, as in the case where
+someone programs a machine to go from one specific language to another (sort
+of a species-specific interpreter), but thats about it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+
+     The language facilities of aliens will vary; probably the most fluent (by
+virtue of necessity) are the ambassadors, whose english is perfect or nearly
+so (cyberlink to the brain dumping the English equivilants of their own
+language and grammar directly into the brain, very expensive and not a little
+painful).  The drawback is that some cultural references or some contextual
+areas may not be as clear as required.  (Londo wondering about ramoras, Delenn
+unsure for a moment about poetry....)
+
+     Re: language in general...I agree that all languages must be "living
+languages" in that they are free to grow and expand and add new terms.   There
+is a difference between this and a *collapsing language* in which the
+distinction between terms (the aformentioned less and fewer) becomes degraded,
+and meanings blur through misuse.  Ase gradually becomes less precise.  A
+language should be graded on how well it manages to communicate the thoughts
+of one to the other.  If it begins to fail in that regard, then it is not a
+living but a dying language.
+
+     (Another example: the way that "anxious" and "eager" have come to mean
+the same thing.  "Anxious" carries with it some degree of worry or dread or
+fear; "eager" is a pleasant term, connoting something wonderful and nice for
+which one is longing.  So when someone says, with a smiling and expectant
+attitude, "Yeah, I'm really anxious to see the new Lucas movie," it's a misuse
+of the term, unless there's some reason for worry.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     In terms of the EFX, I think it's all Amigas, with some IBMs being used
+for general computing (letters, schedules, etc.).
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+
+     Re: TRON v2.0....I'd rather write kids in space.
+
+     Re: places of origin...my sense is that they have their own unique names.
+We don't call our planet Terra (well, not really), or Hum (for Human) or
+Planet Human.  Because some of the names are difficult to pronounce, the
+logical approach is to note them by designation, i.e., "And shall be shipped
+off to the Narn homeworld."  That is the only time or I should say context by
+which we refer to their places of origin.  The only exception to this, and I
+don't recall if this is in the pilot or not, is the Centauri homeworld,
+designated Centauri Prime.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     Yes, there are definitely other human settlements...colonies and outposts
+and co-operative projects on other worlds with other species.   It's mainly
+from this overlap that the EA draws its non-human members, though a few worlds
+have chosen to ally themselves directly with the EA.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     The command level uniforms (Sinclair, Laurel, Garibaldi) are pretty much
+the same in cut, though Garibaldi's (and all of securityard grey more than
+blue.  Medical uniforms have a somewhat different cut and lean toward charcoal
+grey.
+
+     There's a slightly different cut for grunt-level security, and a slightly
+greener look.  Station techs (maintainance crews and the like) generally get
+yellow outfits with the B5 logo (and are not directly part of the EA
+structure; they work at and for the station per se).  Control techs, in the
+observation dome, for instance, generally don't wear jackets on duty, but
+rather shirts with the B5 logo.  The shift commander, though, does wear a
+jacket with his uniform.  (When B5 opens, you see Laural give a command to the
+shift commander, who then relays it to others.  You can trace the line of
+command in the dome from there.)
+
+     There are, and will be, other variations in uniform, but those are pretty
+much the ones you'll see in the show.  (In addition, of course, to more
+conventional clothing such as that worn by casino workers, marked only by a
+glitter-B5 logo.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     If the Garibaldi outfit you refer to is on page 30, that's the same cut
+of uniform as Sinclair's on 34, just a different angle on it.  (And there's no
+white shirt under the outfits on page 28; those are high  collars with gold
+braid.)  Now, there *is* another outfit that both he and Sinclair wear, it's a
+black outfit (pants and long shirt) under a grey flak-jacket, which is a
+combat uniform.  (The flak jackets are composed of various reflective
+substances that help refract and dissipate some of the impact of energy
+weapons.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Oops!  Nope, you're right, yes, there *are* shirts under the jackts
+(actually, there are shirts under ALL the jackets, as you'd expect of
+clothing).  I thought you were referring to the collar.  My error.
+
+     Actually, *ALL* of the costumes are layered.  G'Kar can remove six
+different layers of his outfit, Londo can wear the jacket with or without the
+vest (which can also be removed for the shirt below), the Minbari wardrobe is
+equally layered and can be played with as well, on and on.
+
+
+                                                       jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 31 1993
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+
+     Rob: so what would you suggest?
+
+     If B5 succeeds, there will be comics published in the same basic
+universe, as well as novelizations.  These will be specifically encouraged to
+go in different directions, partly for selfish reasons, so they won't mess
+with my time/character line, and partly because I'd like to see what others
+can do with this universe...sort of like a shared world anthology.  So yes,
+there's room to play, and with luck, we'll see it there and elsewhere.
+
+     What other options would you suggest?  If I've missed something, let me
+know.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Rob...my friend, it took me five years to get this one show into
+production.  The rest...I'll leave those to somebody else.
+
+     Re: colors and uniforms...we decided against using color that much as
+service designation (red for security, and so on) for two reasons: one is that
+it's so associated with Trek.  We're not Trek.  We allowed a touch of it in
+the insignia, but in a very limited way.  Second reason, you're dealing with
+aliens who see various colors and don't see others, and alien sectors where
+the lighting may wash out or totally change the color codes, which is why we
+went for specific *symbols* for different areas (security, maintainance,
+command and so on).  If you're in the alien sector that uses red light
+heavily, and you need help fast, you don't want to try and figure out of
+that's a blue stripe or a purple stripe  when asking somebody for help.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     Kosh as in "gosh."  There's actually a last name, btw...Naranek.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Pronounced Nuh-RAH-nek.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 28 1993
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+     Yep.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1993
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+     Definite no on the question of matter transmitters.  That's a little too
+much in the magic/science-fantasy area for my preferences.  Space travel is
+done in ships.
+
+     Re: Captain Power...it aired in 1987/88 in syndication.  Was set in the
+future, after the MetalWars, in which one man, who caused the war (in the best
+interests of humanity) decided that to save humanity it must be digitized and
+stored in machines for the day when perfect metalloid bodies could give
+mankind immortality.
+
+     Re: Twilight Zone...yes, I worked on the syndicated version.  Among the
+episodes I wrote (I was also story editor) are "The Mind of Simon Foster,"
+with Bruce Weitz; "Dream Me a Life," with Eddie Albert; co-wrote "The Curious
+Case of Edgar Witherspoon," with Harry Morgan, and co-wrote "Our Selena is
+Dying" posthumously with Rod Serling, from a long lost TZ outline.  Other TZs
+that I wrote around that time, but whose stars I can't consistently recall:
+"The Wall," "The Call," "What Are Friends For?" "Something in the Walls,"
+"Acts of Terror," "Special Service," "Rendezvous in a Dark Place," and have
+another shared writing credit on "The Trance."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1993
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+     No, I wasn't previously aware of "Agony" (except what I've gone through
+these last six months), but will look for it in future.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 27 1993
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+     Shot on 35mm film.  Transferred to tape for post.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 28 1993
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+     I think you'll see the biggest push 7-10 days before, yes; and given that
+the PTEN ratings have been quite good overall, it's kinda hard to argue too
+strenuously with that approach.  I imagine that reviews and stuff will be
+coming out about the same time.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     BTW, I've been hearing more and more from our Warners liaison that the
+reviewers who've gotten copies of the B5 pilot have had their corneas melted
+by what they've seen.  Half a dozen have already scrapped plans for other
+covers in their weekly television magazine/supplements in deference to a cover
+story on B5 (and this during Sweeps Week, no less!).
+
+     Keep your eyes peeled, folkses...the stuff should start hitting the
+streets in the final week of our countdown.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 31 1993
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+     Getouttatown...really?  I know Somtow, and I'm surprised he didn't tell
+me he snuck this in.  That's funny....
+
+     Oh SOMMMMMMtow...c'mere...I wanna talk wit'cha....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1993
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+     The defense system for B5 consists of a system of moderate level
+defensive grids, hull-mounted weaponry (which is generally concealed behind
+large plates, which would be blown off with explosive bolts to reveal the
+weapons beneath), and a small number of individual fighter  craft stored in a
+docking bay at the rear of the station.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 19 1993
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+     The two things on front _ the spikes, as it were _ are on either side
+of a second loading bay, this one expressly for cargo held in the zero-g cargo
+hold.
+
+     The vanes in the back are heat radiators, as I recall from the original
+design notes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 21 1993
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+     Yes, there are definitely different levels in each section of B5.
+
+     And yes again, down the road there will be both small flyers and
+individuals with air-packs in the zero-G section at the center of the Garden.
+Ron's worked out how to do it.
+
+     How's it illuminated?  Quite nicely, actually....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 22 1993
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+     250,000 is the *maximum* number of beings who can be there at one time;
+that's not necessarily the maximum number of living quarters.  In some ways,
+B5 is like an airport; you come in, linger, then move on to your eventual
+destiny (catching a few winks in the customs area waiting for the right ship
+to come in or go out).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1993
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+       Yes, if a big ship went into hyperspace on its own power, it would
+likely have to accellerate first, but if it were near B5, it might well just
+use the jump-gate that's already there to save on energy and fuel.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1993
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+     I'll ask Ron.
+
+     This is one of those areas in which I'll have to defer until such time as
+we get a regular science advisor on the show.  I know *some* of this stuff,
+but fact is, I ain't a techie, and this genre is best served by getting that
+kind of information from someone who knows what the hell he's talking about.
+
+     (Which means we *will* be getting a science advisor once this thing gets
+rolling, btw...no one's set yet, but will probably cull from one or two strong
+possibilities over at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  My plan is to also bring
+on a freelance linguistics consultant to invent a few languages for us...and
+that may be somenoe I encountered right here on GEnie, as a matter of fact,
+but will wait until something Happens to give more info on that.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     As to what happens to their inertia/velocity when they come out, if they
+accelerate going in...yep, we deal with that.  It's in the pilot, and we make
+it clear that they have to take time to decelerate prior to docking.  I think
+in Kosh's case it took something like 2-3 hours to decelerate.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 25 1993
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+
+     MATH!  MATH!  YOU SAID THERE WOULDN'T BE ANY MATH ON THIS TEST!  I DIDN'T
+STUDY!  HOW MUCH OF MY GRADE WILL THIS BE?!  AAAUUUGGGHHH!!!
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-01/992.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-01/992.html
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+     That's actually fairly close to what we were planning...have you been
+hanging around Ron again...?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 26 1993
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+
+     Disagreement: the coolest show ever made is THE PRISONER.  I hope to
+capture a little of the flavor of that show, mainly by playing a little with
+surrealism, what's real and what's not...but it'll pale beside that show.  THE
+PRISONER, for me, is the perfect television program.  I've never really seen
+its equal.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I'd expect a comment like that from someone who watches GI Joe....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 28 1993
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+
+     Nope, the music is all original to our composer, Stewart Copeland.
+
+     And it be WAY cool.
+
+     (On the B5 blooper reel, there's a shot of all these alien faces, and
+that rock song with the lyric, "Everyone's strange, when you're a stranger,
+faces look strange, when you're alone" going on in BG.  Very funny.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     That's probably something that'll have to be worked out between the
+Language Person and Warners.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Okay, okay, I got the lyrics wrong, but I got 'till *right*.
+
+     Thing is on the language stuff...it honestly isn't my choice.  There is a
+little thing called "separation of rights."  Publishing rights would probably
+accrue to whoever does the language stuff.  It's not my call.  I would be
+giving away something that ain't mine to give.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 31 1993
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+     Just for clarity, I don't want to "slip Prisoner elements in" in the way
+described.  Was only referencing the show as the kind of show to emulate with
+a beginning, middle and end, and a sometimes surreal aspect that leaves you
+questioning what's real and what isn't.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 17 1993
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+     Hey, Mark, good to have another H-25er around.
+
+     Pat: I taught at Grossmont College for about one semester, it's a pretty
+good place.  (Went to San Diego State and  meself.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Tim: no one's said a word about it to us, and I don't think it'll really
+have an effect on us, one way or another.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     Actually, my plan is to show a *lot* of what's happening back on Earth,
+because that will tie into what happens on B5.  Social changes, politics,
+religion, sports...again, this relates to one of the themes of B5 from my
+point of view, the continuance of our species,the thread that connects our
+past, our present and our future.  And again, that's something that'll become
+fairly evisode on.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Prof Mark...you may want to go lie down with a cool, moist towel across
+your forehead until this passes....
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Gerry: I think GEnie must've eaten part of my message.  I suspect it was,
+"fairly evident from episode one on."
+
+     Either that or I've started speaking in tongues again....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Perianne: later this summer.  That's all I can say for the moment.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     You really have to do whatever's right by the story.  Some adult themes
+have to be handled in an adult fashion.  There are some very adult themes in
+B5.  Some you may like, some you may not.  I don't think we'll be able to go
+in for nudity or the like because I don't think the stations would permit it.
+If they did...I still don't know if I'd use it or not, because it would really
+depend on the story.
+
+     Pandering, I think, is when you put it in regardless of whether or not it
+is actually *important* to the story.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+     Insofar as I know, no, we're not using them.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     No, we'll have bumpers, but they'll just be the series/station logo.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (What you're thinking of is a series recap at the top of show, which we
+won't be doing, no, because we're not a *continuous* story in quite the same
+way.)
+

+
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+
+     Catherine Adair ended up with another gig, so we now have Ann Bruice, who
+was tied in our decision for a costumer for the pilot, but in that case she
+was busy on another project.  Now she's available, and she is doing *terrific*
+work.  Just amazing stuff...her work on the Grey Council is particularly nice.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Probably late summer.  We have an awful lot of time before airdate, so
+there's really no rush to get the cameras running, which is nice.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+
+     You still have to create some kind of wardrobe, you can't just have folks
+show up in levi's and kill the color.
+
+     As for Doug, he's my equal partner in the project.  Doug's been in the
+business as long as there's *been* a business, once serving as head of MGM.
+He was my producer on POWER, and he and I made a deal: he will never give me a
+creative note on that series.  And he kept that promise.  If it came in long,
+or short, or there was an effect we couldn't do, that was  one thing, but
+creatively, he left me alone.  "I'm not a writer, that's your job," he said.
+There are very few people in this town who'll deal straight with you, and
+Doug's one of them.  So when I created B5, of all the choices available about
+who to partner up with, Doug was on top of the list.  He handles most of the
+business stuff, and I handle the creative stuff.  (Which isn't exactly true in
+some ways; I have to get into some of the business, and he has to get into
+some of the creative, but those are are general areas of expertise.)
+
+     His name generally appears in books about the film business, and in one
+of these books, it explains that when he was at MGM, his nickname was the
+Rattlesnake...hence, Rattlesnake Productions.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     In posting this info elsewhere, it occured to me that I didn't remember
+if I'd mentioned it here or not.  So in case I didn't...I'm working it so that
+real-time comes close to paralleling story-time in the series.  The events of
+the series will pick up approximately six months after the events of the
+pilot.  We'll have crossed into another year, so the first "year" in which the
+series takes place is 2258, year two of the series (if we get that far) would
+be 2259, and so on.
+
+     "And the Sky Full of Stars" is, I think, going to be our biggest episode
+of the first season, followed close behind by "Midnight on the Firing Line."
+It's a very complex script, and it has a LOT of effects in it.  It's also our
+most intense episode to date, since it deals with the Battle of the Line and
+some of its after-effects.  Ron figures that this one episode will have more
+CGI than the entire 2 hour movie.
+
+     I've also seen some new storyboards for some of our action and CGI
+sequences, and we're carrying through on the image of this place being BIG.
+(Our main storyboarder was Lucas' main storyboarder for some time.)  Some of
+the scenes are just breathtaking.  I keep looking at them and asking, "Are you
+SURE we can do this?" and they tell me yes.  The scope of some of this stuff
+is just incredible.
+
+     And not only that, but I got my official B5 business cards in the other
+day, which makes it all very real..."Executive Producer" and all that
+jazz...though I can't help but think of Steve Martin calling out, "The new
+phone books are here!  The new phone books are here!"
+
+     It's all starting to get very exciting...and very real.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Alan: sure, go ahead.
+
+     I actually don't *have* a .gif of the SW logo.  I must remember to put
+that on my list of things to do....
+
+     As for "season finale cliffhangers," that depends on how you define that.
+If you mean a cliffhanger that, once resolved at the start of the next season,
+ends up having been more or less meaningless...no, we won't be doing that.
+But the end of each planned season will make a left turn designed to bring the
+show in new directions that will have long-erm (or long-term) effects on all
+of our characters.
+
+     Whether it's a chapter ending in a book, or an act break in a TV series,
+you build to a moment of change and transition, upping the stakes at each
+turn.  That's how our season-enders are constructed.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Hope to have more shortly.  Pat Tallman will, of course, be returning.
+And so far, stations; I imagine it'll be pretty much the same bunch, but
+that's only me speaking.
+
+                                                        jms
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+     I'll be able to say more about casting over this coming weekend.
+
+     The pilot movie should be rerun in, I think, November.
+
+     A TV Guide blurb for Episode One would be...telling too much at this
+early stage of the game.  This, again, is my dilemma...I want to keep the
+dialogue going, but some things we just have to sit on for the time being.
+Not until airdate, certainly; but not this quickly.  Basically, as time goes
+on, I will be able to talk more as we go, because then we'll be in a position
+where no one else can jump on the bandwagon.
+
+     All I can say about episode one is to say that it has Narn warships, lots
+of action, some surprising character revelations, several people who want to
+kill each other, a foretelling of things yet to happen, and the introduction
+of some new characters.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     I never said that the Narn warships were menacing Babylon 5.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Each new season will advance one year in story time, to parallel real
+time, yes.
+
+     We're getting a terrific list of guest stars who want to do the show,
+including many well known to SF viewers.  I should be able to pass along some
+of these names fairly soon, as we decide where and when to use them.
+
+     Now that we've definitely decided that Delenn is female, we're in the
+process of designing new costumes for her, some very exotic, but always in the
+dignified Minbari style.  Her aide, Lennier, will have a very monk like look,
+very subdued.
+
+     We're also modifying the prosthetics a bit.  Again, because Delenn is
+definitely female, we can use a little less in the way of heavy overlays on
+the head and face to convey ile keeping the desired androgynous look.  This
+lets us get the same basic image, but make a lighter and more easily applied
+mask that will allow Mira greater degrees of comfort and free her up to act
+without being hampered in any way.  We're also doing some minor modifications
+to G'Kar's prosthetic, making the chin less squared, the mouth a little
+broader, and the whole thing again easier to put on and take off.  It will
+also look far more realistic; parts of it LOOKED like a prosthetic when you
+got up close.
+
+     It's one thing to throw heavy prosthetics on an actor who's only going to
+wear it for the 4 weeks required for the pilot.  But to wear something day in
+and day out for 22 episodes...you have to think about that.  Our own concern
+was making it look even *better* for both of them, and we've found a way to do
+that.
+
+     Same with Londo.  We're going to re-create an entire new hairpiece that
+will lay flatter and look better from the back, which I felt was one of its
+drawbacks.  Also, we don't want to have Peter shave his head for the whole
+series, as he did for the pilot, so we're coming up with a longer  prosthetic
+that'll come all the way over the top of the head to the eyebrows, where we'll
+blend it in unnoticeably.  This will make Peter's life just that much easier.
+
+     As mentioned before, we learned an awful lot about how to do this show
+because of the po implement what we learned to make every aspect, from
+wardrobe to prosthetics to CGI right across the board, better than before.
+The usual road in SF-TV is that you dump all your quality into the pilot, and
+then the series is a bit less spiffy than the pilot, but by then you've got
+your audience.  Here we want the series to be *substantially* and noticeably
+BETTER than the pilot, and so far I think we're doing it.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Rob: it makes a difference.
+
+     We're not changing Londo's hair to make it anything less than what it is.
+It'll still be as outrageous as it was in the pilot.  What I was referring to
+specifically was the way it bunched up at the back of the head, just above the
+nape of the neck.  What they had done was take a conventional wig and shove
+the hair up and lock it into place; in this case, we're stringing a new,
+custom wig that will gently come up in the back, as if growing naturally in
+that direction.  The top part will be the same, it's only a matter of cleaning
+up the back, which simply didn't work aesthetically.
+
+     Re: episode one...no, episode one is episode one, the pilot was the
+pilot.  You have to have a clear vernacular.  An episode is one hour; the
+pilot was a movie.  If we'd gone directly into series at that time, then yes,
+it would've counted.  But since we've had to re-jig some things to accommodate
+the transition across time, we're making that distinction.
+
+     I don't know how B5 will affect Pat's appearances on DS9/TNG, though I
+suspect that that may come to an end.  We don't have a problem about it, but I
+can't speak for Paramount.
+
+     We're making a pretty fair assortment of background Narns, Centauri and
+Minbari, in addition to picking a number of other aliens and making multiples
+of those.  And we're being careful to give them definitely different looks and
+personalities.  We're finding a lot of room for variation and individuality.
+
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Correct.  Just as you change your watch to match up with wherever you're
+going, in different time zones, when you come to B5 you operate on Earth Mean
+Time.
+
+     By the way, David Gerrold has turned in a lean, mean little story that
+does have a kid in it, though in a subdued sort of fashion.  This is a very,
+very *tough* story, very much unlike anything David's done before, and I think
+it'll be terrific.
+
+     Marc Scott Zicree has also turned in a story in which Garibaldi's past
+catches up to him...with some fairly disasterous consequences that will linger
+long after the episode is finished.
+
+     D.C. Fontana's script should be in on Monday. 
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I have a simple policy: I don't ask Pat anything about her work over on
+other shows.  I don't think it's correct to put her in that position, and she
+doesn't volunteer anything...which is as it should be.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Corgi: very doubtful.
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+                                                                 jms
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+     Here's something with which to occupy your time for a bit, while I'm
+between things we can announce...one thing we're considering is bringing in
+actors known to the SF genre elsewhere, or people known to SF who may not
+necessarily be actors to do cameos, as opposed to featured roles.  An example
+of the former (these are just my thoughts we have NOT contacted anyone, these
+are examples *only*) would be someone like Mark Hammil, an example of the
+latter would be Arthur Clarke.  If you had a wish list, of just one or two
+people (to keep it from becoming a flood) you'd like to see in B5, what would
+they be?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     To explain, when we were discussing this, it was only intended as an
+occasional thing to do, and not as a gimmick.  Our feeling is that we can get
+any number of good, solid actors for our shows.  We will always cast the best
+person suited for the job.  In among these, the thought occured that there are
+a few performers (to stick with that for the moment) who are solid actors, not
+necessarily known for one role, who have worked in SF who people might like to
+see used in a different kind of role.
+
+     The worst thing in this town is a little thing called "stereotyping."
+It's the reason people like Shatner and Nimoy and Koenig and others couldn't
+get work after Trek...everybody said, "Oh, he's too well known as the guy with
+the ears," and here's an actor who has given to the genre, who has helped
+create a marvelous show...and he can't get work.  This happens a lot more than
+you might think.  And it seems to me that we kind of owe an obligation to
+these people, who were actors long before,and long after, they played X on Y
+series.
+
+     We would never have an actor come onto B5 and do a character from another
+show; or even anything close to it.  Our universe is our universe, period.
+But to say, "No, you shouldn't use that actor because he was X character in Y
+series," is, to my mind...cruel.  If he created a great performance, it means
+he's a quality actor.  So let's find the one or two who fans of the genre
+would like to see again, in a very different kind of role -- since we can't do
+a lot of this -- and give them a chance to show what they can do in a very
+different sort of role.
+
+     If B5 has a debt to fans of the genre, it also has a debt to those who
+came before.  And I will not allow it to tamper with the B5 universe, I will
+not let it become a gimmick...but if I can use this show to repay, just a
+little, that debt, then I'm happy to do so.  It  seems to me a simple
+courtesy.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1993
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+     So let me see if I understand you: if an actor works in a series, and
+creates a character, then he should never be used again because it would
+destroy the illusion of the story?  Actors build up their skills by doing lots
+of work over time.  An actor is a regular in one series one year in dramatic
+TV series...a year or two later appears as a regular in another dramatic
+series...William Conrad (for a bad example) is first Cannon, then something
+else, then the Fatman...and that's okay.  So why is it not okay in SF?  Why
+this feeling that an actor who's worked in one SF series should never appear
+in another?  Why don't the rules that the rest of the world applis to dramatic
+series be somehow invalid for SF?
+
+     I sometimes think that this perception stems from the "the actor IS that
+character" point of view.  And as for the MST3K thing, that was a thought
+about seeing the 'bots, which was only half-serious...and those are very
+specific to their show.  Which is why we're not doing it.
+
+     I'll confess I'm really astonished by this.  Viewers of non-SF dramatic
+series seem to have no problem accepting an actor playing another character,
+as a regular, recurring or guest character in another series in the same
+genre...why is this a problem for some SF viewers?
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Cameos was what I was NOT referring to.  For instance...with Walter, who
+will be playing a character named Knight One in "And the Sky Full of Stars,"
+he's there for the whole episode, and the character is very different from
+what we've ever seen before...very dark.  And very strong.
+
+                                                                jms*
+
+     (*who did not do a cameo in the pilot, and definitely won't do any in the
+series; this sort of thing should be left to professionals.)
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+     A bit of new info....
+
+     Not long ago, we decided to change prosthetics companies, not for any
+problem with the first company, they did terrific work, but because we wanted
+to go for more than they were really set up to handle.  We went over to
+another group that has a long history of great prosthetics, and have been
+working with them in designing stuff.  And for those of you who have been
+asking for more than funny foreheads...you're going to get it bigtime.  They
+are absolutely pushing the envelope in terms of the size, the scale, and the
+complexity of prosthetics.
+
+     Also the number involved.  We're making anywhere from 5-8 background and
+guest Minbari, and equal numbers of Narns and Centauri, plus on top of THAT,
+multiples of other alien groups.  So from now on, you won't just see singles
+of any race, you'll see multiples.  Each different.
+
+     And I saw a little something today that'll scare the hell out of you.
+ Our prosthetics people have absolutely outdone themselves.  No one has ever
+done anything on the scale they're doing, not for television.
+
+     We've got one of George Lucas' favorite storyboarders lined up to do our
+EFX storyboards, and a few more conceptual artists to draft some of our more
+alien technologies.
+
+     This show is going to have an *amazing* look to it....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1993
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+     I picked this up in mail off Internet from David Navas, but got bumped
+and don't know how to respond via GEnie to Internet...so I thought I'd post
+this here, since it may be of general interest, figuring that someone could re-
+post it there.
+
+     The questions concerned B5 and the political situation on Earth at this
+time.  Back home, there is an Earth Senate, which is made up of elected
+representatives from each nation-state; the larger and more powerful the
+nation, the more reps they get.  Which annoys the smaller nations no end.
+(And there's quite a bit of conflict between them; the smaller nation-states,
+with limited resources, keep grousing about why they should support B5
+financially, as well as other space endeavors, when their economy really isn't
+set up to take as much advantage of the situation as the larger nation-states.
+
+     In the 10 years (not 17 as Navas suggests) since the Earth/Minbari war,
+there haven't been any major dictatorships, but we've strayed awfully close on
+more than one occasion.  As for the nature of B5, yes it is a (let me try this
+again) there is a military component to it, but for the most part it is a
+civilian operation.  In the same sense that, in the early history of our
+country, you sometimes had a military governor assigned to a state or
+province.
+
+                                                         jms
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+     Nope, I was nowhere in the pilot, not under makeup, not nohow, not no-
+way.  Nor will I do so in the series.  That just ain't my thing.
+
+     By the way, here's something interesting: an outline got turned in this
+week for an episode which I won't identify just now.  Came in from one of our
+writers, based on an assigned premise.  It's something you've never seen done
+in ANY SF-TV series, and I don't think has ever been done in TV overall.  A
+very daring little story.
+
+     Word finally came back from our liaison with PTEN.  "Number one, this is
+absolutely against the demographics on the show.  Number two, no studio or
+network executive in his right *mind* would EVER approve this story in a
+million years.  Number three...it's a hell of a story, I love it, let's do
+it."
+
+     This has been emblematic of our relationship with PTEN: they've left us
+alone, and are trusting us in our storytelling.  We want to go right out to
+the very edge, and they're letting us, which is wonderful.  They've been, and
+continue to be, terrific to work with.
+
+     If the end of this particular story doesn't absolutely floor you, nothing
+will.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Nope.
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 20 1993
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+      I have a few things to say about the new issue of TV Guide that is
+hitting the stands.  About half a dozen things that I'd like to say.  But I
+can't.  So let me just remark that it's unfortunate that when a book like TV
+Guide does a roundup of SF shows, it has to break them all down by Who's the
+Good Guy, Who's the Bad Guy, What's the Gimmick on and on...all of the things
+they never do with a dramatic TV series.  One also wishes that the people they
+assign to do an article on SF television would have a background in SF that
+extends earlier than Star Trek.
+
+     Beyond that, respondent sayeth not.
+
+     The article does give away some information, though, that I feel I should
+comment upon, since it involves our cast.
+
+     When you cast a television series, what you look for, among other things,
+are compatibility, chemistry, energy and synergy.  This is all the more vital
+when you're producing an *ensemble* series.  The individual cast members may
+be wonderful performers; may have turned in fine performances.  The question
+becomes, when you put them all together in the same room, does the energy
+level go up, or down?  Is the whole more or less than the sum of its parts?
+
+     After we produced the pilot, as stated before, we did a long and very
+frank in-house analysis, which had one point and one point only: how do we
+make the series even *better* than the pilot?  Everything was on the table:
+efx, music, writing, directing, costuming, set design, and all went through
+changes that will make the series even better.  Casting was also on the table,
+along with everything else.  It has to be.
+
+     As stated, we were very happy with the individual performances.  The
+question that remained, though, was *can it be better*?  Is it possible to
+increase the energy, the chemistry, between the various roles?  The answer,
+after long and considerable debate, was "yes, it is."
+
+     As a result, modifications were made.  Which, again, should not be taken
+as a reflection on anyone.
+
+     The modifications affected three roles: the lieutenant commander, the
+doctor, and Sinclair's love interest.  We're not recasting those specific
+roles (in other words, there won't be a new Sykes), but other actors playing
+other characters.  This is in part because we would like to at some point in
+time bring back one or more of the original actors in other capacities as
+guest stars for an episode or two.  Because they did good work.  The matter at
+hand is what's the best *combination*?
+
+     Here's the new breakdown.
+
+     Being of Byelorussian descent, I've always wanted to write for an ethnic
+Russian character.  Not someone with an accent, any more than I have an accent
+even though I have a last name with 10,000 consonants and no vowels.  There's
+a wry and formal and stiff-necked and sometimes very passionate streak that
+runs through the Russian spirit, and a certain rough-hewn mysticism, a sense
+of absolute fatality and doom punctuated by moments of great belief in
+humanity.  It's a mix of traits you don't much see in American television.
+
+     Which is why the new second in command is Lieutenant Commander Susan
+Ivanova, who will be played by Claudia Christian, a fantastic and very strong
+performer who just knocked us out of the room.  Very much a commanding
+presence, a little quirky when she wants to be, a shade on the pessimistic
+side.
+
+     Having come out of an Eastern European background, I've long lamented the
+stereotyped roles usually written for that kind of character, and look forward
+to drawing upon the real thing for her character.
+
+     For the role of Dr. Stephen Franklin we have found an intense and
+powerful african-american actor named Richard Biggs.  He's younger, in his mid-
+to late thirties, dedicated, sharp and...again, the word I keep coming back to
+is *intense*.  Consider a younger Dr. (and I'm going to misspell this)
+Debakke: self-assured, confident almost to a fault.  He comes largely out of
+an experimental background, so his bedside manner isn't all it should be.
+He's often impatient.  His character is the newest addition to the B5 "team"
+of characters, and this will lead to a fair amount of conflict.
+
+     To balance out his personality, we plan to introduce another doctor (one
+of many who work under Franklin, since he is medical chief of staff on B5,
+which has several medlabs in different locations), an older Hispanic doctor.
+
+     Finally, having gone his separate ways with Caroline -- she wanted him to
+leave his job, he wouldn't -- Sinclair renews a longstanding relationship with
+Catherine Sakai, a role we are going to cast sometime fairly soon.
+
+     Catherine works for an Earth Corp surveying asteroids and planets for
+minerological exploitation, making sure they're uninhabited, and finding items
+that might present the greatest possibility for profit.
+
+     On a classified mission (which I hope we will be able to get into at some
+point), Laurel has been reassigned out on the Rim, and Dr. Kyle is now working
+with the EA President on the issue of alien migration to Earth, a growing
+problem to some, a benefit to others.
+
+     We believe that the synergy between these new characters will be
+genuinely terrific.  Some very funny things are coming out of it, and some
+very moving, personal stories are also coming out.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Tom: yup.
+
+     While I was on Twilight Zone Mark III, Christy Marx did a story for us
+that had a hard, tough ending (the episode was "Cat and Mouse").  An absolute
+killer of an ending.  That's what this script is...it takes no prisoners.
+It's very tough, a very hard episode.  And it's a killer emotionally.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I can't think of any actor who, upon not getting the series gig,  would
+be willing to come in for one episode at the top of the show to say goodbye,
+unless s/he had been on the show for X number of seasons.  Also to follow that
+model means we have to deal with 3 characters going, and 3 characters coming,
+for 6 exchanges, in a one-hour episode, which leaves little time for a decent
+plot.  It's simply not workable.
+
+     We will, though, be phasing in the changes over time; Ivanova in the
+first episode, Dr. Franklin in the second, Catherine well down the road.
+This spreads out both the exposition and the impact, and lets us focus on the
+stories, where our attention really needs to be placed.  There was an awful
+lot of exposition in the pilot, and I'd rather not fall down that particular
+rabbit-hole again for a while....
+
+                                                                      jms
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+     Hi, all, was out of state for a few days, just got back and am catching
+up.  Re: story alterations in changing cast...won't be any.  The basic layout
+remains the same, only a few small pieces get rearranged in terms of the
+overall 5-year arc.  We get to the same place in the end.
+
+     This is very much what happens in a novel, having written a few: y ou
+start out with X characters, and at some point discover that you need to skew
+things to or away from certain characters once you get into it.  Same thing
+here.
+
+     Still planning on using Copeland for the scoring, plus some of his people
+to round out incidental music.  And yes, I worked on TZ 3 as a story editor,
+and did a freelance episode for TZ 2.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Actually, if you are talking specifically shows created for syndication,
+the *first* one, and the one which blew open the doors for many other shows,
+was "He Man and the Masters of the Universe," which was out around 1983.
+Granted it's animation, but it *was* specifically produced for syndication,
+and was very successful.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Digger: yes, what you report is correct.  Also if we allow for some
+Russian/American or Russian/English intermarrying, you could end up with Susan
+Ivanova, with a middle name much as you indicate.  That's  also one of the
+differences between an ethnic Russian, and a Russian born outside the country.
+The first name on my birth certificate, and the first name I was referred by
+colloquially within my family were very different for quite some time.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Re: B5 and movement...no, it ain't going anywhere.  Nor will it.
+
+     Re: panoramic Rama-like vistas...that's fine if you've got an unlimited
+budget and can build on a huge scale for visual effect, but the reality is
+that even in the future, there are budgets to be dealt with, and neat as the
+view is, it's wasted space in many ways.  Form follows function; this place is
+set up as a way station, which means you have to squeeze every possible inch
+of useable space out of the place.  You have a few exceptions to that, such as
+the Garden, but that's it.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Yes, I spoke with Walter earlier today, and he seems to be holding up
+well.  We're trying every trick we can to move back the episode he was going
+to do for us, in order to accommodate this.  It came as quite a shock to all
+of us, but knowing Walter, he'll come through great.  He's stubborn and
+strong.
+
+     I know that I've been noticeably silent the last week or so, because
+things are moving along out here, and I wish there were more that I could say.
+Again, we're keeping things close to our collective vest for the time being.
+I wish you could see the scripts that are starting to come in, could see the
+new blueprints for sets, see the rough storyboards and  EFX designs coming
+from Ron's place.  The series is going to be just amazing, and *much* stronger
+than the pilot.  As word gets out to the street about what we're planning on,
+we're getting an amazing list of actors expressing interest in doing an
+episode.  We'll definitely be using David McCallum in one of our first
+episodes.
+
+     It looks like we're coming into a pretty clean breakdown where you get
+one or two very serious episodes, then a light one to balance it out.   And a
+lot of our stories are dealing with issues of significance without  getting
+didactic or preachy about it because we're trying to keep them very *personal*
+stories.
+
+     There are times I feel like the first guy over this big mountain, and I
+can see what's on the other side, and I'm torn between yelling back to
+describe it all, and waiting silently to avoid spoiling the surprise.
+
+     It's going to be a fun show.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+      Phil: the info on Internet was first posted here, so I don't think we
+need to repeat.
+
+      Re: Walter...I didn't comment one way or another on the surgery here.
+Simple reason.  I spoke with Walter when he called me from the hospital on
+Wednesday.  He then told me that he would be going into  surgery very soon.
+Respecting Walter's privacy, I held back that info, figuring that was the
+thing to do.  One of the problems that comes when you gain any kind of
+notoriety -- as I'm slowly learning in my own case -- is that you absolutely
+lose all privacy.  Your smallest business becomes public knowledge.  If I were
+to pass on a *fraction* of what I hear from some of the people I know...they
+wouldn't trust me again, nor should they do so.  It's the differencof
+someone's work, and being a *friend*...they carry different obligations.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The alterations in cast didn't affect the scripts very much, since while
+the through-line for the series has long ago been worked out, the individual
+scripts didn't start getting written until after we'd made our decisions.
+
+     What's great so far about the scripts is that they all have a point of
+view, but they're not didactic or preachy about it.  (And sometimes the point
+of view isn't what you'd expect it to be.)  We're definitely going to take on
+some difficult issues here.
+
+
+moment in a script where Londo is talking about homeworld, where marriages are
+still arranged, to someone who doesn't want any part of that life.  "Here," he
+says, pointing to three photos, "these are my three wives: Pestilence, Famine
+and Death.  You think I married them for their personalities?  Their
+personalities could shatter entire *planets*.
+ Arranged marriages, every one.  But it worked out.  They inspire me.
+Knowing they're at home, waiting for me, is what keeps me here, 75 light years
+away...."
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     There is some connection, yes.
+
+     As to how I came up with the new characters, it was done the old
+fashioned way: I thunk them up.  This series doesn't work like many others;
+this isn't done by committee, we don't bat stuff around on this kind of level.
+(And, in fact, until recently adding Harlan, there *was* no one with whom to
+bat stuff around, this has been a one-man writing and editing team.)  I knew
+the functions these characters had to fill, and tried to come up with what I
+thought would be strong, interesting characters.  People I'd be interested in
+watching.  And from that came the characters.
+
+     We've recently, as of this past week, added a story editor to the staff,
+Larry DiTillio.  Which now makes three.  But there's an implicit understanding
+that this is a story that I want to tell, and I generally need to have final
+word on characters, stories and everything else that involves the scripts.
+Both Harlan and Larry are willing to defer to the reality that this is my
+universe.  I don't mean that to sound like an ego thing, because it's not.
+It's no different than writing a novel; I know where the story has to go when
+it hits the end, and we have to be sure not to fall off the tracks.  I didn't
+fight six years to get this show on the air to turn it over to a committee.
+
+     I know already that that is going to be probably my biggest problem when
+it comes to this series: turning over parts of it to other people.   Letting
+go.  But it's necessary.
+
+     It's important, though, to clarify the difference between letting people
+go where they want within a script, so that I can let Larry or Harlan or
+others have their own head, as opposed to general changes that might affect
+the story arc, which is a different category altogether.  The two of them have
+already had some great ideas on fleshing out some of the characters now that
+they're established, have expanded the universe and clarified many of the
+rules, the ideas, background stuff and so on.
+
+     I selected Larry as story editor because he's someone I've worked with
+dozens of times over nearly ten years; we know how one another works, to the
+point where we can shorthand a lot of stuff in meetings, which saves a lot of
+time.  He's an excellent script doctor when it comes to rewriting freelance
+scripts.  And he's one of the country's foremost role playing game designers;
+he's great on campaigns and coming up with huge sagas, and I need someone who
+can think on that kind of scale.
+
+     The other reason I had for selecting Harlan and Larry to work with, aside
+from their skills as writers, is that they're both two very strong individuals
+who won't be intimidated...*can't* be intimidated...and will fight for what
+they think is right.  I feel that's very important.  So they both give me an
+endless hard time.  Which is needed for the mix.
+
+            
+                                                                 jms
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+     Larry has designed a number of games, some way back when he was working
+for Flying Buffalo, but his most well-known games were for (and are still
+available from) Chaosium.  He worked on "Call of Cthulhu," he wrote (or co-
+wrote) "Masks of Nyarlathotep," "The Grey Knight" and a bunch of others.
+
+                                                             jms
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+                      ...heh....
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+                                                          jms
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+     Which is Katherine's not-terribly-subtle way of saying I get killed a
+lot, and quickly.  Which is why I don't do it much.
+
+     ETA for B5 the series to be 1994.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Okay, time for some news.
+
+     Some of you have noted my marked absence here the last month or so, just
+the occasional quick note, and gone again.  There's a reason for this that I
+haven't revealed until now.
+
+
+     To the question, "When will we begin filming?" the answer is...some time
+ago.  We started shooting mid-July.  I've withheld that information so that
+our crew and cast could get started in less of a pressure-cooker environment,
+without feeling that the world was peering in over their shoulders.  It's a
+very tense process to get a series up and running, and the more breathing
+space you can give your people, the happier they'll be.
+
+     I didn't want to withhold that information, but I felt that it was best
+for the team.  Getting the show made has to take precedence, and you have to
+do right by your people.
+
+     We've been rolling film for some time now, and as of this moment we are
+on schedule, and on budget, and the performances we're getting are absolutely
+wonderful.  The shows are coming in with energy, they're crisp, they're
+funny...there's some VERY dramatic stuff, good action and good character drama
+going on.  I've been chomping at the bit to give you some insights into and
+reports from the front lines...and now I feel comfortable in doing so.
+
+     (And I'd like to parenthetically thanks J.HUDGENS and K.A.LAWRENCE for
+keeping their lips zipped.  Both visited our sets, the latter a day or so
+before we were actually slated to begin filming, and I asked of both that they
+not mention this until later.  So Katherine, NOW you can make the observations
+that I yelled on you about posting last time....)
+
+     The cast is working wonderfully together.  Jerry and Michael are a great
+team.  And there are some scenes, in which Jerry has to be very serious, when
+he just lights up the screen.  And as for Michael...I think that after you've
+seen what he's doing now, nobody's going to use the term "stiff" ever again.
+He's strong, and personable, and likeable, and the character is really coming
+out strongly.  Delenn is absolutely terrific; elegant and mysterious and
+exotic.  And our new additions are going to be very popular, I think,
+particularly Claudia Christian as Ivanova, who has a very wicked, mischievous
+take on the character.
+
+     We've got episodes already in the can, being edited in post production,
+and they're tight, and fast-paced, and the look is *very* different from the
+show in that now we have time to get the look of each shot right.  Our
+director of photography is John Flynn, who was the main DP on Hill Street
+Blues, who's brought a wonderful, moody look to the show, a great deal of
+style, playing with lights and colors and shadows.   On every conceivable
+level, it's a quantum improvement over the pilot.
+
+     But the most important news, again, is that we're *filming*, and have
+been, and the stuff is terrific.  I don't think anyone here is going to be
+disappointed in the results.  THIS is the show I've been working six years to
+bring off.  In the months to come, I'll try to bring you bits and pieces of
+background stuff about the shooting, as I did on the pilot, though not in as
+concentrated a form.
+
+     The train has again left the station, and this time we're on for the long
+haul...twenty-two episodes.  And if what I've seen on film so far is any
+indication, it is gonna be one hell of a ride.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Bear in mind, though, we're not shooting in the order in which th e shows
+will be broadcast.  Also, the one we're currently shooting is one of the few
+classified titles.  Next up is "Midnight on the Firing Line," that much I can
+say.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Licensing is still in progress.  Haven't heard any firm info yet, but
+apparently there's some interesting stuff cooking.
+
+     We have a VERY long lead-time; we'll be delivering finished episodes
+nearly 4 months before airdate in some cases.  This is not typical of much of
+TV.  Also, where most series usually have, at best, 2-3 scripts on hand, we
+now have 10 final scripts in hand, practically half the series, which gives us
+mountains  of time in which to prep, making sure each episode is as good as
+possible.
+
+     What's very interesting is seeing how more than one director handles the
+series, the different approaches they take.  Same for the writers we're using.
+One thing that's fun for me as the creator of this thing is letting others
+play in this universe; I like to be surprised, and from time to time one of
+our writers will hit on something that never occured to me about our
+characters, but which makes perfect sense.
+
+     It's very hectic, but exciting.  The main thing is that you're just tired
+all the time; I get to the stage early, which for me is between 9 and 10, and
+I'm there until 8 p.m. minimum, sometimes later.  Today I didn't get home
+until around 10:30.  I tend to try to lock myself in my office, because if I
+stick my head out, there's always any number of people who want opinions or
+decisions or need to know what was intended with one thing or another, because
+they're dedicated to getting the show right, down to the smallest elements.
+When I can, I try to get over to the stage, just to keep an eye on filming.
+Now that everyone's had a chance to think about their characters, and do some
+more work in that universe, the characters are *really* starting to come out,
+as the actors become more familiar with their roles.  And they're starting to
+add a lot from their own personalities as well.
+
+     It is a hoot.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Just wrapped another episode today, and tomorrow we begin work on
+"Midnight on the Firing Line."  This one also has all of our major ambassadors
+-- Kosh, Delenn, Londo and G'Kar -- as well as Lond's new aide, Vir, played by
+Stephen Furst.  In this episode, you will hear Kosh speak for the first
+time...and what he says may not bode well for B5.
+
+     G'Kar's makeup has been greatly refined, and now looks like real skin;
+it's very eerie.  Also, "Midnight" will have as much as 5 minutes of
+CGI...basically, it has 60% as much CGI as was used in the entire pilot, all
+of it new stuff.
+
+     There's a great excitement on the set that hasn't diminished now that
+we've been rolling for a while; every finished episode is met with applause
+and high-fiving and the like.  The director who just finished is Jim Johnston,
+who's a very highly regarded actor, an award winner, who is VERY good with
+actors.  Also signed to direct, starting with "And the Sky Full of Stars," is
+Janet Greek, who did a lot of Northern Exposures, among other shows, and is a
+*stone* SF fan.
+
+     We're shooting on a lot of new sets never seen in the pilot, so we have
+all the breaking-in required of a new (and sometimes very complex) set...but
+the result should be a locale that looks even larger and more city-like than
+the pilot.  If you saw the last ST movie, you'll recognize the lead of one of
+the shows we just finished: Morgan Shepherd, who was the warden of the prison
+planet Kirk and McCoy were sent to.  He's a fine actor who brought a regal
+touch to the episode.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The current crop of directors we're using include Richard Compton, Bruce
+Seth Green, Jim Johnston and Janet Greek.  All are terrific directors, on
+solid shows ranging from "Hill Street" to "Northern Exposure."  The one area
+where we're not generally drawing from people who've worked in SF is the area
+of the director.  We want the show to have a very real look to it, as if you
+were making a dramatic series in the year of the story.  Our head of post
+production has a screen-saver on his computer that flashes "This Isn't Science
+Fiction, This Is REAL" after a few minutes.  Not because he doesn't like
+SF...he's a stone fan, as is Janet Greek...but because that's the feel we're
+trying to get across in the series: this is *real*...real people, real
+problems, a realistic style to the look and feel of the show and the
+characters.
+
+     And the show is picking up a *very* nice visual style...non-direct
+lighting, shadows, not murky, but crisp.  It's beautifully lit and
+photographed; you could frame just about any shot and it'd look great.
+
+     (For those of you who like the in-stuff, by the way...look for a cameo of
+sorts.  We needed photos to run in background on a monitor of two EA
+officials.  We "volunteered" Doug Netter and our costume designer, Ann Bruice.
+You'll see them in "Infection.")
+
+     The dizzying thing about being exec producer on a show like Babylon 5 is
+that you have to wear so many hats *simultaneously*.  The shows get grouped
+together in ways that directors or writers don't have to worry about.  In
+other words: you're editing show A, at the same time that you're shooting show
+B, and prepping show C, while at the same time doing the final script polishes
+and casting for show D.  So you end up having to juggle them all in your head
+constantly, going from meetings on show B, then D, then A, then C, then B.
+
+     This was something we didn't have to do on the pilot, since in that case
+we did just the one show, and edited it afterward.  Now it all goes on
+simultaneously.
+
+     Here's a basic breakdown on a fairly average day at B5 for me:
+
+     Arrive around 10 a.m. (usually after staying up until 2 or 3 a.m. writing
+or editing scripts).  On this past Friday, it went like this after arrival:
+Visual EFX meeting on "Born to the Purple."  Quick script notes to clarify a
+scene now being shot on "Midnight."  Prop concept meeting (general).  Screen
+dailies from Thursday's shoot.  Review CGI sketches by Ron for Minbari heavy
+cruiser for "Sky."  (Very, very cool, btw.)  Director's meeting.  Meeting with
+PTEN marketing division people, who stop by the stage.  Review new prosthetics
+for background aliens.  Get in a few minutes working on "Parliament of Dreams"
+script.  Supplementary casting session on "Believers."  Then I and producer
+John Copeland dive  out to the editing bay to work on the final edit of
+"Infection."  I get home around 10 p.m., after checking in with the stage
+throughout the evening to make sure we wrap on time.  Make some B5 related
+calls from 10-10:30, download a script from one of our writers, review the
+script for notes between then and midnight, write some more on "Parliament"
+until 2 a.m., and finally crash.
+
+     Every day is like that.  After a while, you get this look in your
+eyes...you just sorta zone out, mentally going to another meeting.  It's
+amazingly grinding...and yet amazingly invigorating.  There are moments when
+it's an amazing high...and moments when you just want to cut and run because
+you can't bear watching one more cut of the same scene for the ten zillionth
+time.
+
+     Half the fun of doing a series is being on the stage...to see it being
+done right in front of you...but even though my office door is maybe 20 feet
+from the stage, I find that I only make that journey 3-4 times in a day, for
+maybe 5-10 minutes at a time.  Such is life.
+
+     The editing, by the way, is a fascinating process.  Television is the
+process of making choices: you choose how to write the scene, you choose who
+you want to play the scene, the actor chooses how he wants to play the
+character, the director chooses how to stage the scene, the cinematographer
+chooses how to light and frame the scene, and then you and the editor choose
+how to structure that scene using the finished film.
+
+     What you have in your hands (not literally, since we're all computerized
+now, and hardly anyone uses film anymore in editing) is the film for a scene.
+You've got the master shot, showing everyone.  You may have 1, 2 or 3 takes of
+that shot.  Then you get the medium, close, and two-shots, as well as
+reverses.  You get 2-3 of those, times the number of characters in the scene
+(i.e., 2 close-ups of Sinclair in the scene, 2 or 3 close-ups of Garibaldi,
+plus the over-the-shoulder shots of both, on and on).  Though the staging is
+the same, the pacing of lines varies, the delivery varies, inflection, stance,
+attitude...there are subtle differences that become terribly important when
+you start cutting film.
+ Maybe the first close-up has the intensity you want in the first half, but
+falls off in the second part, so now you use part two of take two, which
+*does* finish with the required intensity.  But in that take, the actor
+visible in the same scene isn't quite where he's standing in the master shot,
+and you have to go back to the master for the next shot because that's where
+you need to see X entering the room....
+
+     It's a complex, complicated, exhausting process that requires you to hold
+the various scenes and shots all in your head at the same time,  particularly
+if you want to do any last-minute restructuring, or "borrow" a shot from
+another scene to fill out this scene because there was a problem on the angle
+in what you've got.
+
+     But I'd be a liar if I didn't say it's an awful lot of fun.  You can make
+a scene play 50 different ways, depending on how you edit it.  And we've got
+some *great* editors working with us.
+
+     Anyway...just a quick report from the field....it's back to work now.
+
+                                                           jms
+

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+     We're using some state of the art computers for our editing work, in some
+ways in advance of EditDroid.  The first line is the Avid editor, which
+digitizes all of the printed takes from an episode and stores them in full-
+motion video/audio the same way you store a .gif file.  You can have instant
+access to everything; you don't have to swap disks in or out, and it's all
+immediate.  Once you've edited the thing to where you want it, you save the
+information to the system.  Then you provide all of the required prints to the
+major computer system at the editing house which then *automatically*
+assembles the entire cut overnight.  Operates almost entirely without
+supervision.  You come in in the morning, and your cut is waiting for you.
+
+
+we're able to stay further toward the cutting edge of technology because we're
+small, new, and can react faster than something that has to work through an
+entrenched studio bureaucracy that has already invested major bucks in its old
+systems, and doesn't want to re-tool since what it has basically works fine.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Well, I just saw a cut of the episode that's going to air second, the one
+guest-starring Morgan Shepherd.  Oh, man...on the question of Did you learn
+anything from the pilot...this thing *moves* like a sumbitch.   It's a very
+unusual, very *creepy* episode in many ways.  And filled with character
+stuff...and a good bit of background about some of our characters rendered in
+active ways.  I'm really dying to see what people think of this one when it
+airs.  It manages to take what would normally be considered a science
+*fantasy* issue, and deal with it from a  science fiction perspective, without
+compromising on the latter at all.   It's a very, *very* strong episode.
+
+     Incidentally...as long as I'm here...an advisory.  We've got about as
+much security as anyone can *have* on a stage...but as with TNG and other SF
+shows, we've had our share of things suddenly vanishing.  We lost a biggie the
+other day, swiped by someone.  As mentioned, we re-examined G'Kar's
+makeup/prosthetic, and did some minor redesigning.  Prior to final approval, a
+full-size (head and neck) sculpture was done, painstakingly hand-painted.
+There's only the one.  And someone swiped it, right out of Doug Netter's
+office, where it was hanging on the wall.  I couldn't even begin to tell you
+how much it's worth; just the physical value alone would be considerable, let
+alone collector's value.
+
+     I'm putting this out here so that, if anyone here should see it at a
+convention, or a dealer's room, you should know that it's stolen merchandise,
+and should be reported to the police.  There's no chance of mistaking this for
+something else, since there's literally only the one in existence.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Louise: thanks for the support.  There ain't much more to do now that
+we're up and running, but the offer is appreciated.
+
+     Re: airdates...no, even though we'll be delivering in September fully
+completed episodes, this is part of a network, and networks debut their shows
+in a group, en masse.  So we'll be on in January regardless.
+
+     Just got back from Comic Con, so I'm a bit breathless now.  Will just
+skim for a bit, and do more later.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+     P.S.  Before I forget, someth8ingat the Con that I should mention here:
+in deference to other opportunities which she felt were more promising, Pat
+Tallman passed on returning to the B5 project.   Our new telepath will be
+played by Andrea Thompson, with the character name Talia Winters.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     She's been in a lot of stuff...but for some damned reason all I can
+remember is her recurring role as the woman trying to nail Selby in Falcon
+Crest.  She's done a lot of film work as well.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Basically, yes, it's not a problem in this case.  The psi corps thread is
+much larger than any one person; that person has to serve down the road as a
+catalyst, but that catalyst can be anyone.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The main task was to get the telepath in trouble with the psi cops.
+There's another way of doing that with Talia that's just as effective.
+
+     What it *does* give me, which is kinda nice, is that the only two people
+to have ANY direct contact with a Vorlon...have been transferred back to
+Earth.  Which plays wonderfully into something sinister I'd kinda like to
+develop that the Earth Alliance is working on behind the scenes....
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     I forwarded the pictures, don't know what she thought.  She decided to
+pass shortly before we began filming the first episode.  These things happen.
+
+     No one else seemed to have any trouble following what was happening; to
+be charitable, the specific actions and purpose of the Hunter came even
+clearer in the following scene, which wasn't shown.
+
+     That the ball is not always caught is not necessarily a reflection on the
+throw....
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
+     I'd be hard pressed to say whichg the best work, because they're *all*
+doing wonderfully.  The makeup on Andreas is much more fluid, more skin-like
+this time around, so he can do a lot more with it than he could in the pilot.
+All of our ambassadors are doing great...Delenn is very mysterious, exotic,
+and Londo is...well...LONDO.   He's often right over the top, but it works.
+(It's part of our perverse logic on the show that the first person to end up
+in bed with a member of the opposite sex isn't our Commander, but Londo, who
+gets involved with a Centauri dancer.)
+
+     Claudia has settled nicely into the role, with this great edge to her
+performance.  Pessimistic, fatalistic, occasionally sarcastic, but in a funny
+way...that can turn right around and tear your heart out.  Michael and Jerry
+are, of course, a hoot to watch.
+
+     During the con appearance, Jerry told a story that *I* hadn't heard
+before.  There's a scene in the script "Midnight on the Firing Line" in which
+Talia (Andrea) goes into a transport tube, finds Garibaldi, and asks some
+questions about Ivanova.  They rehearsed it several times, this being Andrea's
+first time on the set, and filmed one take.  She comes down the hall, comes to
+thepen...and Garibaldi's pants are down around his ankles.  Needless to say,
+that shot did NOT end up in dailies....
+
+     There are days I think -- between Jerry, Harlan, me and some others
+involved on the show -- we ought to name this Loose Cannon Productions....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Re: new cast members...it wasn't only females that were replaced,
+remember...there was also Dr. Kyle.  But to the point of your question: all of
+our performers were great.  The question becomes how do they work and come off
+as a *unit*?  In the best of all possible worlds, the whole is greater than
+the sum of its parts.  Here, we felt that there wasn't a strong synergy
+between the characters.  We felt we had to strengthen that.
+ And that's really all there is or was to it.  Is that the best possible role
+for this actor, and is this the best possible combination?
+
+     And that was the reason behind adjusting the roles otherwise occupied by
+Caroline, Laurel and Ben Kyle.  That's 2 and 1.  We were just as amazed as
+anyone else when word came back from Pat's rep that she was passing on the
+role of Lyta in order to pursue other opportunities, and we wish her nothing
+but luck in the future; it's my personal hope to find some project down the
+road where I can work with her again.  And I'm sure that this will happen.
+
+     That is the whole of the story.
+
+     Now for an aside.
+
+     Let us all go back in time, for a moment, and consider the description by
+Jeff Jarvis and a few others of the B5 pilot's CGI effects as being "cheesy."
+(Jarvis as in TV Guide's Jeff Jarvis.)  Well, guess what?
+
+     We got a phone call today.  Foundation Imaging, Ron's company, which did
+the CGI EFX for the pilot, was notified today that they have received an Emmy
+Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for their  work on the
+B5 pilot.  We are now an "Emmy Award Winning Show for Best Special Effects in
+a Television Movie."
+
+     And that ain't *nothing* compared to what's going to be in the series.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Not much point to a major PR push now; it'd just get lost in the fall
+season opening.  Best to wait that out, since we won't hit air until January.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The ethnic mix has nothing to do with any changes in the series.  We
+ended up keeping the mix intact.  Lost was one Caucasian woman, one black
+male, one asian female.  What we're adding is one Caucasian woman (Lt.
+Commander Ivanova), one black male (Dr. Stephen Franklin), and one asian woman
+(Catherine Sakai).  In addition, we're introducing a Hispanic doctor who will,
+we hope be a recurring character from time to time (look for her in
+"Believers" to start with).  And we will be doing more of this, not just in
+small parts, but larger ones as well.  We have been very careful to keep a mix
+of actors that reflects what our thesis is: that if we go to the stars, we're
+ALL going to the stars.
+
+     In fact, we just recently -- when we found out it was going on --
+instructed our casting people not to put any ethnic background information
+into the breakdown sheets that go out to actor's agents.  (In other words,
+usually you need a white male actor 30-40, with a mustache, that kind of
+specificity is commonplace in breakdowns.)  We have instituted open
+casting...anyone, of any ethnic background, is eligible for any role at any
+time.  We hope that this will *further* help us to broaden out the tapestry of
+our series.
+
+     This is a very committed show, on a lot of different levels, with the
+idea of trying to live out what we're preaching.  We have an almost equal
+breakdown of males to females in our crew and every aspect of our production.
+(I say almost equal because I'm *fairly* sure there are actually more women on
+the show, many in non-conventional jobs, than there are men.)  Our casting is
+open.  We've instituted recycling on an everyday basis.  I'm working on
+getting the styrofoam cups at the snacks table replaced by recycleable paper
+cups, and trying to set up a deal where we can give any leftover food from the
+catering truck to a shelter.  We've got women in the writer and director
+categories, and two of our three editors (a very dominantly male business) are
+women.
+
+     I don't like the way Hollywood works either.
+
+     That's why we're not DOING it that way.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The Borgia...?
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+                                                             jms
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+     What we did with the uniforms was to toughen them up a bit.  We took the
+basic class-A uniform we used on the pilot, and retailored them for a better
+fit.  Then we added leather to the right front panel, quite a bit of it
+actually, from the middle of the chest about three-quarters of the way to the
+arm.  Then replaced the waist section/belt, cuffs, collar and epaulets with
+leather.  (The blue class-A's got brown leather; the olive class-A's got black
+leather.)  We added burnished bronze clasps, rank insignia, and a REALLY cool
+Earth Alliance belt-clasp to the base of the jacket.  I personally think it's
+very attractive, and had my original class-A from the pilot (yes, I paid to
+have one made for myself) altered to the new "look."
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Well, I didn't *know* who you were, I was frantic settting things up
+before hand, it was all a blur, I couldn't see your badge, you WERE wearing a
+blue shirt, and...and there WAS someone behind you who had his hand up who was
+wearing a similar color shirt, and I had to find SOME way of distinguishing
+between you from the stage...and...and....ack!
+
+                                      the hormone case in the b5 jacket
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+     Onto other (and safer) topics....
+
+     It's amazing how fast time is zipping past...we've got a number of shows
+now complete and in the can, starting "Believers" on Tuesday.  We have D.C.
+Fontana now working on the outline for her second episode,  tentatively
+entitled "Legacies."  Her first s goes before the cameras in about 3 weeks.
+
+     We're currently finishing up production on "Born to the Purple," with
+Clive Revell and Fabiana Udeno.  It's a very offbeat and funny story (by Larry
+DiTillio, natch) which adds a new side to Londo's character.  It puts our
+characters into different situations than we're used to, and it's fun seeing
+how they react to these new conditions.
+
+     I'm just now starting my next script, "Mind War," which will bring the
+Psi Cops to Babylon 5.
+
+     For those out there who still think the skin-tab-getting-through- Kosh's-
+encounter-suit was an error...we're going to be dealing with that, and some
+other interesting threads in "The Parliament of Dreams" episode.  Sinclair
+comments on the whole question of how the poison ever got into him...and notes
+how curious it is that, within weeks of that incident, Dr. Kyle was
+transferred back to Earth to work directly with the Earth Alliance President
+on matters of alien immigration...and Lyta Alexander was similarly transferred
+a week or so after that.  The only two people to have personal knowledge of a
+Vorlon have been shipped off and possibly locked up.
+
+     (Interesting, how one can take real-life developments and weave them into
+the tapestry.  This will feed into the main line of the story even better than
+what I had originally planned.)
+
+     The one I'm most looking forward to writing just now, though, is "Babylon
+Squared," in which we finally show what happened to Babylon 4, and in the
+process ask more questions than we answer (though at least we DO answer the
+questions we asked about the fate of that station in general...you'll know
+what happened to it, just not yet what it means).
+
+     There continue to be the usual hassles, and it's as bone-wearying as
+ever, but I think we're having fun...and I know it's going to be a good show.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     This isn't so much a spoiler, since it concerns an abandoned story like
+(or, let me rephrase that...a modified story line).  I mention this here since
+I just mentioned it elsewhere, and might as well do so here.
+
+     Think hard about the pilot for a moment.  Whose job is it in the
+observation dome to monitor incoming ships...but apparently let the spider
+transport slip through unnoticed?  The station's skin should have (and likely
+did) detect something clamping onto it...but apparently someone over-rode that
+for the spider transport.  Someone had to PRE-arrange access via the computer
+for the assassin, since it easily palms its way into Varner's quarters.  (And
+what is the name of the person the access computer recognizes?)  Someone had
+to arrange for the transport tube to be delayed, and then *erase* that
+information from the computer system.  Someone who knew *exactly* when the
+Vorlon ship would be docking.  We see, at various times, the following people
+interacting with the assassin, in different capacities: Garibaldi, Lyta,
+G'Kar, Londo, Dr. Kyle, and of course, much later, Sinclair.  Who did we never
+see in direct contact with the assassin?  Who was put in charge of the station
+after Sinclair was removed?
+
+     Do you notice a pattern developing?  Do certain things here point to a
+certain individual...who may, or may not, have been acting on her own
+volition?
+
+     And yes, this is something we planned to explore, though it wasn't on a
+*direct* line to the arc of our story.  It definitely impinged upon it, of
+course.  This has been modified due to the change in the character of the
+Lieutenant Commander, and this now won't go where it was going to go...but we
+still have some very interesting plans for our secondary character, not at all
+along the Takashima lines (which is why this isn't a spoiler), but certainly
+intriguing on their own terms.
+
+     (Re: the preceding questions...the class-A's are the day uniforms, not
+the dress uniforms.  And the preceding Babylon stations did have some
+differences between them, some moderate, some extensive.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     Now, I didn't say she was a villain.  I said that certain things may or
+may not have been done of her own free will, her own volition.  What this
+means...we'll see.
+
+     Will: to the concern you raise...my feeling is that, unlike Twin Peaks,
+you *cannot* extend things indefinitely.  In other words, you don't have to
+wait five years to find out what's going on now, in questions you have in
+season one.  Questions raised in season one will be *answered* in season one.
+It's just that, we hope, *new* questions will arise over the course of season
+one that we can then answer in season two.  And so on.  I don't think it's
+right, or fair, or smart to keep people on the hook that long.  Which is why
+we'll find out what happened on the Battle of the Line midway through season
+one...it's just what this then MEANS that will become the new question.
+
+     As for managing to log on here...I wish I could do more, frankly, but the
+press of time is astonishing.  It's the Lewis Carroll bit, you have to run
+just as fast as you can to stay in one place.  If you don't, little details
+begin to slip between the cracks...and in a story, and i television, details
+are *everything*.  I think it was Michelangelo who said that "trifles make
+perfection, and perfection is no trifle."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Yes, there will be a Confrancisco presentation on B5..two, actually.
+
+There will be new footage spread across both days, and there may be an extra
+guest or two at the 4:00 panel.  Can't promise that at this time, but it's a
+possibility.
+
+     Thinking back on San Diego Comic Con, something comes to mind that I
+wanted to mention.  When I'm doing my number at a con, I kind of glaze over a
+bit; I get mentally pointed toward performance, and things that would normally
+be obvious get missed.  Thus...if you're one of the regulart (regular) folk
+around here, and you come up to me, *introduce yourselves*, because I rarely
+read badges (at 6'4" it's tough sometimes), and even when I do I'm often too
+stupid to put names and handles together.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Not that I'm aware of at this time.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 01 1993
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+     Will: relax.
+
+     You have to understand the way this show is going to be structured.
+There aren't going generally going to be a lot of loose threads hanging
+around.  Episodes will resolve themselves.  It's just that, from time to time,
+we'll carom off some point that seems tangential, but which will later become
+significant.  You don't have to watch every episode.  Hell, if I do this right
+-- and this is one hell of a hat trick, lemme tell you, when it comes to
+structure -- you can even watch them out of ORDER, within a season, and still
+follow what's going on.  The trick is to make it so that if something slips
+past, the viewer doesn't trip over it.  And when you do an episode that you've
+set up before, that set-up should in some subtle, non-heavy-expository way, be
+re-established for those who might not have seen the episode.
+
+     Telling people "This is a five year arc" in a big way almost as a warning
+is actually more destructive than constructive; it might lead people to think
+that they need to commit five years of their lives to get the whole story, and
+it's hard to get people to commit to even one ten-hour miniseries.  You can
+watch any part you want, and get a good, solid, independently enjoyable hour-
+show out of it.  You can come in at any point you want.  The key is that the
+more you watch, the more you will pick up on the nuances and the threads we're
+going to be playing with.  Generally, we're going to keep those threads a bit
+light in the first season, then begin to draw in more of the general story arc
+in the second and subsequent seasons.  Let's use the first year to get the
+audience comfortable with the B5 universe, and with our characters, and in a
+handful of episodes, carefully begin leading everyone where we want them to
+go, so that when we start to accellerate things in year two, those who've been
+with us from the start can get right into it, and those who come to the show
+late can play catch up without any problem.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     The 5 year arc is worked out in considerable detail; 200 single spaced
+pages in a triple-encrypted file.  I can't allow myself ever to even so much
+as *consider* not hitting the full five years on this, so the rest of the
+question I can't answer.
+
+     CopperCon is apparently a couple weeks after ConFrancisco, and Larry
+DiTillio will be there with a B5 presentation.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     If they can't figure out there's more than meets the eye...they don't
+have an eye to meet.  If the series doesn't stand on its own right from the
+git-go, the hell with a five-year arc, it doesn't matter, because we'll never
+get that far.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I think the morph winked on that shot.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 07 1993
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+     Dunno nuthin' about no screamers...only screamers I know is the rest of
+us whenever Ron tries to explain how this stuff works....
+
+                                                              jms
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+     The 8 hours per frame figure is GREATLY exaggerated; at most it was an
+hour, maybe two or three, but certainly not 8.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Yes, Pat Tallman was used in Jurassic Park; and yes, she was mis-
+identified in the credits.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     I try to keep my characters separate; Ivanova has a very different
+personality from Takashima.  To me, they're all just separate, distinct
+individuals, people in their own right; I try to decide what's best for that
+person, rather than going over a laundry list of character traits.
+
+          
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 29 1993
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+
+     It's a standard bed, works fine.  Though we *did* have a thing in mind
+where Londo sits up in bed, having just had wonderful sex, and his hair is now
+hanging limp...but in a sudden burst of sanity we decided against it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 21 1993
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+     Christy's been delayed with the new issue because I diverted her.  I
+emphasized that her outline was late, and if I didn't have it by the end of
+this week, I'd come up to Oakhurst and saw her feet off at the ankles.
+
+     It's coming in this evening.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+
+     Wonderful stuff...and the funny thing is, 1) "spoo" is actually a word
+used in episode #1, and 2) I've been looking for another word to describe
+flashing lights in production meetings (right now we're using "nernies" for
+shorthand) and "derblinkens" sounds like a good replacement.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 17 1993
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+
+     As reward for the humor, here's what Kosh will *really* say, when he
+utters the first words we hear.  He's on the Observation Dome, looking out
+through the window as a ship passes overhead, the lights shining down at him
+through a window.
+
+     "Ahhh....beautiful."   Long beat as he looks around the place.  Then:
+ "I will miss this...when it is gone."
+
+     And then he exits, as Garibaldi mutters to Ivanova, "I *really* hate it
+when he does that."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 30 1993
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+
+     Actually, it's a script for a 4-hour miniseries written on spec, and
+while there are currently about half a dozen people who want to buy it, I'm
+sitting on it until I make some changes.  The problem is finding the time to
+make those changes with B5 moving ahead.  At some point I hope to be able to
+carve out just a couple of days to finish my revisions and get it out for the
+proposed auction.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+     I really don't know, and wouldn't want to speak for our cast members.  I
+imagine there will be different deals with different actors.  If I were asked,
+I'd suggest that they avoid becoming monopolized by *any* one group, but that
+really isn't my call to make.  That's between them and their agents.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     It looked very, very cool....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 20 1993
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+
+     Which issue of VTU has the ad from Foundation?  The June/July issue?
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+
+     For those interested, there's a brief thing about B5 in the media column
+in this mont's WIZARD magazine (covering the comics industry).
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     BTW, an upcoming issue of -- I believe -- Computer Graphics World due out
+shortly has a cover done by Ron, using one of the new ships we'll be using in
+one of our stories.  It's head-first into the ground near what looks like a
+Mayan pyramid; the ground and pyramid have nothing to do with our show, btw,
+only the ship.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     "No emotion?"
+
+     Heh.  Heh, heh.....
+
+     PULL!
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+     Nah, that's okay.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I'm told it's for 2:00 that Friday.  Which is too bad; if the thing had
+been scheduled for Saturday instead, we could've had some of our cast members
+attend.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1993
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+     Civilian spacecraft are fairly common; they're expensive, to be sure, and
+if you're just going from point a to point b, it makes more sense just to book
+passage on something, but many folks now make their living in space, so
+transport is required.
+
+     Most of the non-aligned worlds have a less technologically advanced
+society, but mainly what constitutes membership in the Big 5 is the size of
+the government in question.  If it's just one planet and maybe a sister world
+or two, that's not enough to qualify.
+
+     It's based very much on the security council of the UN in that respect.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+     Except that most combat of that nature would be to protect something,
+usually in close proximity, such as a colony or planet.  Also, bear in mind
+that a ship or convoy of ships in hyperspace can be anywhere, can go anywhere.
+Once they exit hyperspace, particularly if they have to travel any real
+distance, are more vulnerable because they're caught having to operate at sub-
+light speeds.  So if you're going to hit them, best to wait until they're out
+of hyperspace, which they have to leave sooner or later because part of
+warfare is hitting targets...and most targets of real value are outside
+hyperspace.  (Which is why carriers, capable of making their own jump points,
+are of greatest strategic value.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1461.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1461.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 10 1993
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+     Ron: no, I don't recall ever saying that.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     I have some rough notes on space travel rules in the B5 universe,' but
+probably won't release them for a bit; we're in the process of adding some
+technical advisors (i.e., guys who know math), and I want to run my stuff past
+them for review.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1463.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1463.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 11 1993
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+
+     In many cases, it's more ship-to-gate, with a relay bounce to B5 to let
+it know what's coming in.  It can of course be re-routed so that B5 can lock
+something out, if they know it's coming, but for general everyday purposes, it
+works the first way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1464.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1464.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 13 1993
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+     Anything can fail.  Nothing is failsafe.  Chaos theory takes care of
+that.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Actually, she says "activate defensive grid," which is a slightly
+different thing.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 02 1993
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+     I'd rather let you see the defense grid in action than define it just
+now...wait for episode #2, where you'll see it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1467.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1467.html
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+
+     Kevin: glad to have you aboard.  Welcome to the asylum....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1468.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1468.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1993
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+
+     The Toaster is being used by Spielberg for their SeaQuest series.
+
+     Filk magazine?  B5?  Which one had the thing?  (And am I sure I really
+want to know this...?)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1469.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1469.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 18 1993
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+     The planet will also look a *lot* better this season, btw.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1470.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1470.html
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+     They do grow in over time, and they are very individual, yes.
+
+     You win the toaster oven.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 18 1993
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+
+     The teaser in the very first episode planned for airing will deal with
+the similarity between Centauri and Humans...down the road, we will be seeing
+more of Londo, and his people, and realize that they aren't as human looking
+as they first appear.  There's more there.
+
+     It was Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, Vorlon Empire
+and Earth Alliance, for anyone keeping track.  And yes, most all of them have
+some other alien species within their sphere of direct influence.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+     Yes to both.
+
+                                                           jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 20 1993
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+     (!)
+
+     Hmmmmmmmmm......
+
+     Let me get back to you.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 25 1993
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+
+     Matt: I like it when people lie in television, and we find out about it
+over time.  The "lost colony" routine was one such.  At one point, Garibaldi
+confronts Londo with this as reason for why he doesn't trust  the Centauri.
+Londo shrugs it off as a "clerical error."  There will be a few points in the
+series when we'll get information, and we'll buy into it...and discover after
+a while that that character bald-facedly lied to the other character (and, by
+proxy, to us).  And naturally there will be consequences to this....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1475.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1475.html
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+
+     Actually, at one point or another, just about *everyone* lied in the
+course of the pilot...including Sinclair, who lied to G'Kar, and of course
+Delenn lying to Sinclair in the Garden...and so on.
+
+     Basically, I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.  (This
+is Joe's Theory of the Five Truths.)  There is the truth you tell to casual
+strangers and acquaintances.  There is the truth you tell to your general
+circle of friends and family members.  There is the truth you tell to only one
+or two people in your entire life.  There is the truth you tell to yourself.
+And finally, there is the truth that you do not admit even to yourself.  And
+it's that fifth truth that provides some of the most interesting drama.....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1476.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1476.html
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+     Those are Mira's and Andreas' natural speaking voices, though  Andreas
+makes it just a tad more lilting.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     You have to really dig to get any good material on Babylon; it's not a
+big topic among commercial publishers, you really have to go for the academic
+publishing houses.  (Beware of religious publishing houses in this area; they
+have their own spin on things that tends to infect the text.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1478.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1478.html
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+     I believe n'grath qualifies for a non-humanoid lifeform with an
+exoskeleton of sorts....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1479.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1479.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 19 1993
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+
+     I'm sure at some point there'll be a B5 soundtrack album, but when, I
+don't know.  My guess is that it'll wait until we have more stuff from the
+series to plug in.  I want to buy a copy for myself....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1480.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1480.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 29 1993
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+
+     Look for another Babylon 5 cover story late this year, sometime just
+before the series goes on the air.
+
+     (Referring to CFQ, he noted.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1481.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1481.html
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+
+     Yes, that's a baseball diamond.  Craters?  What craters?  I thought it
+was just a stylized painting.  Lemme look at that again....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+
+     No, I don't think so...but I wasn't on set for that shot, so I may be
+wrong.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     It was a dust being a very specific drug with very unusual properties.
+We cut the sequence in which he tries to get on board the station, is caught,
+takes a hostage and is taken down.  But when you cut a scene like that, you
+still have to list the actors used in it.  Hence the credit deal.
+
+     Here's the one thing that amazes me, speaking of seeing the pilot for the
+gadzillionth time...there is one great big huge gaping visual
+anomaly/inconsistency in the pilot that so far no one has noticed.  It's so
+massive that when I first saw it, I just about fell out of my chair.   But the
+director said "No one's ever gonna see it, no one's ever gonna notice it,
+*trust* me on this."  I was absolutely convinced that he was wrong.
+Apparently he was right.  At some point in the future I'll tell you what it
+is...and when you see it, you're going to wonder how the hell you avoided
+seeing it before, it's *that* big.  But not for a while yet.   (And the few
+smaller things mentioned here...ain't it.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1484.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1484.html
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+     If anyone had guessed what it was, I'd have said so.  But no one has ever
+seen it.  That was my point.  And again, it's not a story point, it's a
+visual.  (And the thing about Kosh's hand is *not* an inconsistency; it is a
+story point for future reference.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1485.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1485.html
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+
+     If someone got it right, I would say so.
+
+     The incoming starship only looks like it's going to hit the station
+because you're not bearing in mind the perspective.  B5 is *huge*, almost four
+miles long.  By the time the ship would get close enough to the station to hit
+anything, it would look a *lot* smaller.  It's a matter of perspective; we're
+not used to seeing things that size.
+
+     As for laserdisks in 16:9 aspect ratio, you may get your wish, a lot
+sooner than you think (for the series, in any event).  Well, at least not 5-10
+years, anyway.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1486.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1486.html
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+
+     It's inconsistent from one shot to the next.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+     No, the wall was there in both shots.  Television makes for strange
+angles sometimes.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Nope.  As you'll see in the series, we've worked out the docking bay
+stuff very clevely.  A ship enters dead center.  It is then taken and lowered
+into one of a number of different bays deeper within the station (by deeper I
+mean lower, more toward the hull).  That's how we can have a series of
+different docking bays in the first place.
+
+     There's a nifty CGI shot we'll be using at some point in the series where
+you can see the entirety of the docking bay, with the various ships arrayed
+inside.  Then there are the more secure bays areas, with restricted access, as
+when Kosh arrived.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+
+     The commander was not following proper safety procedures in the first
+shot.  He has a problem with this.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 22 1993
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+
+     I got bumped by one of those damned computer phone calling thingies, so I
+didn't get all of the message I think, but what I can remember to reply to:
+
+     There are more aliens than just the 5 major groups.  In addition to them,
+there's *bunches* of oththe classification of the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds.  The Big Five constitute what is in  essence the Security Counsel,
+while the rest are the General Assembly.  We will see these groups
+participating in that capacity in "Midnight."
+
+     In the reception scene for Kosh, at the bay, Garibaldi says that the
+"others" are waiting down the hall.  That would include everyone, plus the
+ambassadors, except Londo, who he specifies.
+
+     The encounter suit opened at the touch of a button (you can hear him
+press the button with a *click*).  Only for Lyta did it open on its own.
+
+     All psi corps members must wear their symbol whenever they are out among
+non-PC members.  That's the law.
+
+     For the record...thtch has something to do with the second trial scene.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 22 1993
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+     I don't think I did.
+
+                                                             jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1493.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1493.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 24 1993
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+     The alt.tv.b5 post is not correct.  One other person here (at least)
+knows what the glitch is, but has been asked not to say until others figure it
+out independently.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1494.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1494.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 25 1993
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+
+     Nothing gets past Phil....
+
+                                                                jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1495.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1495.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 01 1993
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+     My favorite shot so far is the new shot of the Starliner Asimov parked
+next to Babylon 5 and sending over a shuttle....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1496.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1496.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 02 1993
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+
+     I confess, I slipped in a "Babylon 5" reference in that episode of CP.
+Which was 1986/87.  I do that sometimes....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1497.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1497.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 06 1993
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+     Life's full of mysteries and unanswered questions, ain't it?
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1498.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1498.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 25 1993
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+     I would suggest to anyone within striking range that they be at Comic
+Con.  Some interesting things are planned for that presentation.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1499.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1499.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 01 1993
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+     Comic Con is *more* than worth the cost.  It's the one convention I make
+it a point *never* to miss; it's just spiffy.  As for a comic book, maybe
+we'll have something to say on that by the date of the con (though not
+necessarily).
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1500.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1500.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 09 1993
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+
+     By the way...at the B5 presentation at San Diego Comic Con, there will
+likely be more people than me on stage that afternoon.  Tentatively, it looks
+like it'll be me, plus one or more of the following: Jerry Doyle, Michael
+O'Hare, Harlan Ellison, and possibly Mira Furlan.
+
+     Just in case anyone's interested....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1501.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1501.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 09 1993
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+     Surround sound is added in post production, that's way down the road for
+us.  And again, the letterbox is only for down the road use; we're looking to
+broadcast, and use for immediate purposes, standard aspect ratio.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+     (P.S. It's "Mefisto In Onyx," not "Mephisto And Onyx."  Just FYI.
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1502.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1502.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 12 1993
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+     Don't know yet....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (Gary, haven't received any sort of confirmation yet...are you *sure* all
+the other details are worked out?)
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1503.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1503.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 13 1993
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+
+     Jerry is tall.  Michael is tall.  Claudia Christian is also pretty tall,
+around 5'10" or better.  Richard Biggs is fairly tall, close to the height of
+Jerry and Michael.
+
+     Hey, what'd you expect?
+
+                                                  jms(6'4")
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1504.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1504.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 25 1993
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+     During.
+
+     The tape was dark because it was made from dailies, which haven't been
+color corrected, and because the setup lent more darkness to them; by the time
+anyone figured how to lighten the picture, it was half done.
+
+     As Harlan commented...yes, there may be a sequel to "Demon With a Glass
+Hand," in which that character, played by Culp, would come to B5, still living
+out the centuries as programmed.  We'll see....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1505.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1505.html
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+     I thought long and hard about the question of mixing universes, and
+allowed it only in this one case, because the events that propelled Trent (the
+character from Demon) into the past (our present) don't take place for another
+thousand years or so.  Thus it doesn't do my arc any harm at all.  One could
+say that the events in "Demon" will happen at some point in the future of the
+B5 universe...unless some events change them.  On this one occasion,
+therefore, I decided to allow it.  But that's the ONLY one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1506.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1506.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 28 1993
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+     By the way...just for funsies I slipped a reference into one of our
+scripts to a location being at grid coordinates 471-18-25.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1507.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1507.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 01 1993
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+     Yes, Friday and 2, and Saturday there's a follow-up presentation at 4.
+One note, btw: Harlan will be at the con, and will be at the Saturday
+presentation.
+
+     If you live in San Francisco, or are planning to be at the con as of
+tomorrow, Wednesday, read on:
+
+     Harlan needs someone to wear a sandwich board announcing the signing
+session for the limited edition of "Mefisto in Onyx."  Apparently the ad
+didn't make it into the program book.  By way of repayment (other than simply
+being part of an Ellison Event, and getting to hang with Mr. E. a bit),
+there's some cash involved, and a free, autographed and personalized copy of
+the "MiO" book.  If you're interested, drop me a note in private mail.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1508.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1508.html
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+     The series will start with regular one-hour episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1509.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1509.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 14 1993
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+
+      Titles more or less in shooting order (this is NOT the order in
+ which they'll be broadcast):
+
+      "Infection" - JMS
+      <second title is classified> - JMS
+      "Midnight on the Firing Line" - JMS
+      "Amaranth" - Larry DiTillio
+      "The War Prayer" - D.C. Fontana
+      "And the Sky Full of Stars" - JMS
+      "Believers" - David Gerrold
+      "A Knife in the Shadows" - Marc Scott Zicree
+      <ninth title is classified> - JMS
+
+      Other episode titles are "Metaphors and Body Counts," "Chrysalis,"
+ "Babylon Squared," "Mind War" and "Target: Unknown," plus others still to
+ come.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1510.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1510.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1993
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+
+     Marc worked a couple seasons on Friday the 13th, Beyond Reality, did some
+work on Captain Power, and is the author of "The Twilight Zone Companion."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1511.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1511.html
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+
+     New title for you: "The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1512.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1512.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 06 1993
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+
+     "The Parliament of Dreams" is "Carnival!" retitled, and "Amaranth" has
+been retitled "Born to the Purple."
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1513.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-07/1513.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 06 1993
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+
+1. CATegories      10. INDex of topics
+2. NEW messages    11. SEArch topics
+3. SET category    12. DELete message
+4. DEScribe CAT    13. IGNore category
+5. TOPic list      14. PROmpt setting
+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
+7. REAd messages   16. NAMe used in BB
+8. REPly to topic  17. EXIt the BB
+9. STArt a topic   18. HELp on commands
+Enter #, <Command> or <HEL>p
+18 ?
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1514.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1514.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 16 1993
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+
+     The problem, of course, with DeVito or Lloyd or (as some suggested) Mel
+Gibson or others it that their salaries would be, individually, equal to our
+entire production budget for 3-4 episodes.  Which means we'd have to shoot
+only 18 rather than 22.
+
+     As for a production report...things are going swimmingly.  Today we
+started getting dailies on our first day of shooting on "And the Sky Full of
+Stars," which deals with the Battle of the Line.  This is not going to look
+like your conventional episode of television.  We've brought in equipment that
+you don't normally see on a television set, certain kinds of cranes and lenses
+and lighting packages that will give this particular episode a very strange,
+almost surreal look.  It's quite remarkable.
+
+     And Ron's pushing the envelope on the CGI...compositing some live action
+stuff with CGI that'll blow your TV out.
+
+     It's going *well*.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1515.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1515.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 18 1993
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+
+     The details of the budget per episide are classified...but you could
+easily take DS9's budget, cut it in half, and you'd still have more than we've
+got.
+
+     Which is, again, part of the overall plan...if we can prove that you can
+do quality SF on a budget comparable to non-SF series, it'll open the gates
+for more shows down the road.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1516.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1516.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 18 1993
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+
+     Now here's comedy...we're fielding a Babylon 5 softball as one of the
+showbiz leagues.  (Many shows in town have softball teams, and th ey've
+organized into something that has grown quite substantially into a Big Deal.)
+We're making up jerseys for the team, and on the front there will be the B5
+logo, and on the back, for the team player number, there will be 5.  That's
+all.  The only number.  Which will make calling the game a WONDERFUL
+challenge..."And on shortstop we've got number five...out in center field is
+number five...with number five pitching and catching."
+
+     Everything about this show is surreal.
+
+     BTW...our first game is against the SeaQuest team.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1517.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1517.html
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+
+     If you like, sure.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 19 1993
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+
+     I'm afraid I wasn't much impressed with the SQ CGI.  You really couldn't
+SEE anything, there were no shadows, I still don't really know what the SQ
+looks like...what Ron's doing is years beyond what you saw.
+
+     Speaking of which, I was with Ron and the Foundation crew tonight at the
+technical Emmys presentation, where we picked up the visual EFX award for his
+work on B5.  (In this category, more than one show can win, so we got one,
+Lucas' Indiana Jones series got one,and DS9 got one.  Lucas was quite
+intrigued by the B5 footage on the screens, as I noted from my table, which
+was next to his.)  It's quite rewarding, our first time out of the door, to be
+in that company.
+
+     It's my *understanding* that the E! channel will show the technical emmys
+on Monday, but that's not confirmed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1519.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1519.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 20 1993
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+
+     And y'know...it's absolutely in keeping with the Straczynski luck, and
+the history of this show, that the year B5 wins an Emmy is the first year that
+they DON'T do the recap of last night's technical awards.  Ah, well....
+
+     BTW, there were several odd JMS/B5 connections with other aspects of the
+Emmys this year.  Performers are nominated for the full season of their
+work...and Angela Lansbury was nominated for the year in which I worked on the
+show as writer/producer (ditto on the previous year during my tenure).  Of
+course, she's nominated every year, so a hamster could work as writer
+producer, that hardly counts.  One of the other technical Emmy nominations --
+for music -- went to an episode of Murder, She Wrote entitled "The Wind Around
+the Tower," which I wrote; set in Ireland, it was designed to open the way for
+some different styles of music in the show.  Also, John Copeland, line
+producer on the B5 series, was nominated for his work on the Wild West
+documentary miniseries, and B5 pilot costume designer Catherine Adair was the
+designer for Angela's gowns tonight.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1520.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1520.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 21 1993
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+
+     How You Know You're Finally Going Bananas, by JMS.
+
+     So there I was, lying abed, at 3 a.m., unable to sleep, and I come up
+with the Fart Classification System (FCS).  Basically, they break down into
+three categories: small farts are squibs, medium farts are crackers, and
+really huge farts are zeppelins.
+
+     I desperately need to get a life....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1521.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1521.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 23 1993
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+
+     We are shooting in 16:9 aspect ratio, cutting it down to normal TV aspect
+ratio for its initial broadcasts.  When a) the laserdisks are in time
+released, and b) when HDTV becomes more of a standard, the full letterboxed
+aspect ratio will be available.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1522.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1522.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 23 1993
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+
+     Let me just stick my neck out a little here...though I know I won't be
+sticking it out very far, having seen what I've just seen.
+
+     I've always been *very* careful in what I say, to avoid over-hyping
+anything, or to make promises I can't fulfill.  That's why I ask, when I go to
+conventions, "Did I keep my promise?"
+
+     Here's a promise for you.  Which I make without hesitation.
+
+     "And the Sky Full of Stars" is absolutely unlike anything ever produced
+before for television.  It is, so far, the high-water mark of the season.
+Directorially, and in terms of the visual effects, the CGI, the performances,
+(the writing, one hopes)...right across the board, it's a stunner.  And
+just...I can't convey this enough...*different*.  It just takes TV science
+fiction and yanks it to a whole other level of complexity.
+
+     Knowing that I'll eventually be hitting conventions after this show airs,
+at which time I'll get reactions, I say that without hesitation.  I think you
+will find this promise kept.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+     There will be merchandising, but we're just not going to let it be what
+drives the show.  And it really isn't set up to be a theatrical project.  As
+for being a show with integrity, there's plenty of them out there.  "Picket
+Fences" is probably the best example of that, just offhand.  How we're doing
+what we're doing...is a combination of things: the right technology at the
+right time, the right people, the right stories, and the right environment.
+Sometimes you catch lightning in a bottle, and sometimes you catch fireflies.
+That this show proceeds from a definite, personal vision, and is not the
+product of a committee, likely has a great deal to do with it.
+
+     Though the reaction to what we're doing within the studio and network
+arenas has been very positive and extremely supportive, I don't think anyone --
+even, to some degree, those of us doing the show -- *really* understood what
+we had until we finished "Sky."  This episode has sent ripples all OVER the
+place.  I can honestly say it's not like any other television episode you've
+seen...people will be dissecting this one for a long, LONG time after it airs.
+
+     The other episodes we've made are all good..."Midnight," "Believers,"
+"Soul Hunter"...there's not a dud in the bag so far.  But with "Sky" we have
+created something quite amazing.  I still haven't seen a final cut on this
+episode, but if it's in keeping with the way it's falling together so
+far...when they add up the balance at the end of my life, I think that "Sky"
+will be remembered.  I know this sounds awfully overblown, and I'm not really
+comfortable talking about anything like this, but jeezus....
+
+     Ladies and gentlemen, it's a corker.  Honest to god, I think we've just
+made a little history.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     "Sky" will air roughly around episode number nine.
+
+                                                      jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 24 1993
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+     Just to clarify: we'll be delivering *finished* episodes as early as mid-
+October.  That's everything, music, EFX, everything.  PTEN doesn't begin its
+new "season" until January, so that's when they'll begin airing.  But we'll
+have nearly a dozen or so episodes in the can when we begin airing.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 24 1993
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+     Jon...I sympathize.  I generally carried a pretty heavy load in college.
+My next-to-last year, just to get the hell OUT of there, I managed to crash
+courses and evade the university limits and ended up with 28 units in one
+semester...and none of them basket weaving stuff, either...statistical
+analysis (imagine ME in that one), physiological psychology, 6 units of
+German, biology....
+
+     I was, shall we say, insane....
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 25 1993
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+     As an aside...one of the things that's been great to watch over the last
+few months is how the crew and cast have really come together.  On a lot
+(though certainly not all) of shows, once you finish the day, the crew goes
+off in as many different directions as possible.  Ditto with the cast.
+
+     But now, on top of the B5 softball team, now there's a B5 golf team, both
+in-house for B5 tournaments, and to play others.  Softball is on Saturday,
+golf is on Sunday.  Groups of the crew get together socially on the weekends,
+have barbeques and dinners.  When we wrap for the day, there is generally a
+large contingent that heads down to a nearby restaurant to hang out together
+and get coffee and something to eat.  The other softball teams have been
+astonished because we generally have lots of cast come out to play as well.
+At the last game, Michael O'Hare, Jerry Doyle, Richard Biggs (pitching) and
+Andrea Thompson all showed up and played.   (Jerry hit a homer.)
+
+     There are always hassles, and last minute problems, and the occasional
+bursts of crankiness that come with TV production, but for the most part it
+seems that the cast and crew are genuinely having a good time on the show, and
+that's always a good sign.
+
+     No special reason for mentioning it, except I was thinking about it, and
+it's kinda nice....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     So far, the team's 1 for 2; their first game against SeaQuest (our team
+came to play and have a good time, the other team came to WIN) went to the SQ
+team.  Our people spent the week practicing between setups and at lunch -- we
+set up a milk carton for our new pitcher to practice his shot -- and this time
+we won over "Dave's World."  Though I wasn't there -- everyone ELSE gets to go
+play, *I* have to stay chained to a keyboard -- apparently it was a repeat on
+one level, in that there were maybe 8 from the "Dave's" side in the stands,
+and we had something 50-60 people from our side show up to cheer on the team.
+(Though we had a core bunch of players, anybody who wanted to play, played.)
+Again Jerry, Andrea and Richard Biggs showed up; Michael was otherwise
+engaged.
+
+     Just recently, btw, I gave Larry DiTillio a printout with just a little
+of the coming 5 year arc...if he's going to story edit, he needs to know what
+lines not to cross, and I can't ride herd on that all the time.  He took it
+home, read it.  Called me.  Didn't even say hello.   Began the conversation
+with, "You are out of your f'ing mind."  I asked for some small clarification
+of his position.  He indicated that he thought it was absolutely great,
+something that'll really go down in the rolls when the final tally is done,
+"But you GOT to be out of your f'ing mind to try and pull something like this
+off.  It *can* be done...but it takes a lunatic to do it."
+
+     Sounds about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 31 1993
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+     Yes, there will be a Confrancisco presentation on B5..two, actually.
+One will take place Friday at 2 p.m., with a follow up on Saturday at 4 p.m.
+There will be new footage spread across both days, and there may be an extra
+guest or two at the 4:00 panel.  Can't promise that at this time, but it's a
+possibility.
+
+     Thinking back on San Diego Comic Con, something comes to mind that I
+wanted to mention.  When I'm doing my number at a con, I kind of glaze over a
+bit; I get mentally pointed toward performance, and things that would normally
+be obvious get missed.  Thus...if you're one of the regulart (regular) folk
+around here, and you come up to me, *introduce yourselves*, because I rarely
+read badges (at 6'4" it's tough sometimes), and even when I do I'm often too
+stupid to put names and handles together.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Not that I'm aware of at this time.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Will: relax.
+
+     You have to understand the way this show is going to be structured.
+There aren't going generally going to be a lot of loose threads hanging
+around.  Episodes will resolve themselves.  It's just that, from time to time,
+we'll carom off some point that seems tangential, but which will later become
+significant.  You don't have to watch every episode.  Hell, if I do this right
+-- and this is one hell of a hat trick, lemme tell you, when it comes to
+structure -- you can even watch them out of ORDER, within a season, and still
+follow what's going on.  The trick is to make it so that if something slips
+past, the viewer doesn't trip over it.  And when you do an episode that you've
+set up before, that set-up should in some subtle, non-heavy-expository way, be
+re-established for those who might not have seen the episode.
+
+     Telling people "This is a five year arc" in a big way almost as a warning
+is actually more destructive than constructive; it might lead people to think
+that they need to commit five years of their lives to get the whole story, and
+it's hard to get people to commit to even one ten-hour miniseries.  You can
+watch any part you want, and get a good, solid, independently enjoyable hour-
+show out of it.  You can come in at any point you want.  The key is that the
+more you watch, the more you will pick up on the nuances and the threads we're
+going to be playing with.  Generally, we're going to keep those threads a bit
+light in the first season, then begin to draw in more of the general story arc
+in the second and subsequent seasons.  Let's use the first year to get the
+audience comfortable with the B5 universe, and with our characters, and in a
+handful of episodes, carefully begin leading everyone where we want them to
+go, so that when we start to accellerate things in year two, those who've been
+with us from the start can get right into it, and those who come to the show
+late can play catch up without any problem.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     The 5 year arc is worked out in considerable detail; 200 single spaced
+pages in a triple-encrypted file.  I can't allow myself ever to even so much
+as *consider* not hitting the full five years on this, so the rest of the
+question I can't answer.
+
+     CopperCon is apparently a couple weeks after ConFrancisco, and Larry
+DiTillio will be there with a B5 presentation.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     If they can't figure out there's more than meets the eye...they don't
+have an eye to meet.  If the series doesn't stand on its own right from the
+git-go, the hell with a five-year arc, it doesn't matter, because we'll never
+get that far.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     At risk of rehashing this one more time, what's missing from the pilot is
+25 minutes of additional material that further fleshed out the characters.
+
+     Each of the characters is being solidly rounded out in the series,
+showing multiple sides to each character.  All I can say is that I think
+you'll like what we're doing.  On the topic of music, I'll have more to say in
+a few days or so.
+
+     Still bushed from the convention, and have leapt fully back into the
+show, so this'll be brief.  But it was a great time, and I'm glad that the
+clips went over so well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Frankly, I can't imagine that other show *ever* doing a show about soul
+stealing.  Re: the "hard-SF" note, I noted earlier that there are some hard SF
+aspects to the show, and some elements that could best be described as science
+fantasy...but in those cases, as with "Soul Hunter," we leave it ambiguous: is
+he actually doing what he says he's doing, or basically encoding a simulation
+of someone's brain wave patterns to create a duplicate of someone's memories
+and personality?
+
+     I have to say I'm a little dismayed at the *detail* of the spoilers
+given; I'd imagined that there would be some description of what was seen, but
+not in this exhaustive detail.  Which is all I'll say about it; you pays your
+money and you takes your chances.
+
+     I'm pretty much running on fumes right now, between running from editing
+room to stage to keyboard to production meeting.  I think I also picked up a
+slight trace of the creeping crud, which I'm trying to fight, but with the
+hectic schedule, that's hard.
+
+     I've now seen the completed CGI EFX from "Midnight," which has some
+considerable space fight stuff, and it's simply the most amazing thing I've
+ever seen done for television.  Ron has so far exceeded what's in the pilot
+that I can't even begin to describe it to you.
+
+     Late next week we begin shooting "And the Sky Full of Stars," which is
+going to be a VERY surreal, unusual episode, not just story wise, but from a
+directorial standpoint as well.  Very stylistic.  (Janet Greek, of Northern
+Exposure, is directing.)  It's really one of those "kick over the table"
+episodes.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     BTW, apparently there's some silly fannish thing going on...someone
+called someone I know and said that there's a bunch of people getting together
+so that "when Babylon 5 fails miserably, as we all know it will, and Harlan
+Ellison quits, we'll all send him telegrams saying 'You knew the job was
+dangerous when you took it.'"
+
+     I look forward to disappointing them *terribly*.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+
+     I always kinda figured that the shows would be synopsized *when they get
+aired* in this kind of detail, not this far in advance.
+
+     Re: the pickup on the series, it's definitely 22 episodes.
+
+     Today David Gerrold came by the set to watch some of the shooting o9n
+(on) his episode, "Believers."  Unlike many shows, which basically throw the
+writer off the set, our writers are welcome to hang around.  It's not only
+okay, it's *expected* that the writer will be there at some point, to be a
+part of the process.  David was quite ebullient about the whole thing; he
+thinks that this is the best script he's ever written, and it's being filmed
+exactly as he'd hoped, if not better.  So there he was, getting autographs,
+muttering something about somebody named "Hugo...."
+
+     What was interesting was one comment he made, which echoed almost
+verbatim something D.C. Fontana said when she came by the stage: that the
+atmosphere on set, with the crew, the cast, the production people is exactly
+the same as it was on the first season of the original Star Trek.
+
+     We continue to chug along....
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+     (P.S.  The clips that Larry's bringing to CopperCon include the montage,
+and the same segments from "Midnight on the Firing Line," with one difference:
+the clips shown at WorldCon were missing about 40% of the CGI shots.  This
+version lacks only one or two shots, and there's some very cool new stuff in
+there.)
+

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+     Agreed; I wouldn't expect to see anything significant in TV Guide for a
+while yet; better that way, so it won't get lost in the fall preview.
+
+     Re: the pilot...I've hashed and rehashed this, and the bottom line is to
+see what we do in the series and judge the series by the series.  The DS9
+pilot had to explain very little that wasn't specific to the plotline: you
+already knew what a bajorran was, what a wormhole was, what the Federation
+was, what the cardassians were, on and on and on.  Because they didn't have to
+introduce any of that, they could spend time on other character moments.
+
+     We didn't have that luxury in the pilot.  We had to do what, in essence,
+ST has done over 25 years: establish our universe, painting it in broad
+strokes, as broad're done with that aspect.  And now we can do our character-
+based stories.  Which is exactly what we're doing.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Better now, having gotten a little sleep (albeit in the office, at
+lunch).  As for some people gleefully hoping for failure...I think in part
+it's the Titanic syndrome of people loving big disasters.  Also, if you look
+at most SF shows produced in the U.S., there haven't been that many long-lived
+success stories.  And a LOT of bombs.  So it comes down to a conditioned
+reflex: it won't last, or it'll be a bomb, or both.  They just naturally
+assume this will be the case.
+
+     Having now seen final cuts on a number of episodes, I look forward to
+disappointing them.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Sorry, I keep missing it...correct, I don't yet know what the final
+airdate/schedule is going to be.  I'll probably know closer to December or
+November.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     Rich...ah, there you are.  Wondered when you'd show up.
+
+     Here's one of those interesting little things that happen sometimes
+during production.  We're shooting "Believers," David Gerrold's story.   Now,
+when we break for lunch, we all eat together -- crew, cast, writers,
+producers, everybody -- in this little area behind the stage.  I try to
+encourage everybody to stick around for lunch rather than split so that we can
+maintain that sense of being a real unit.
+
+     Anyway, I'm sitting across from someone I've seen on set a few times,
+who's apparently the teacher for a young actor we're using (Jonathon Kaplan)
+in "Believers."  I don't make a big deal out of my position on the show, dress
+like everybody else, so the guy sitting across from me at the table asks, "So,
+who do you play in this?"
+
+     Unable to resist the temptation, I say, "I play the executive producer."
+
+
+     The fellow on the other side of the table was Rich, who has now seen
+behind the scenes of one of our episodes...what I think will be a very
+powerful and moving episode.  So Rich, you're welcome to post your thoughts on
+the week...with a few caveats: the location is secret, for obvious reasons,
+and obviously the story is classified.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     Katherine: do tell more.  How did the presentation go?  How did the
+audience react?  Details, woman, details!
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Well, that's about 8 things Larry said that he shouldn't have said.
+
+     I'll definitely be waiting outside his door with a ball-bat upon his
+arrival back in Los Angeles....
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Well, that's now also several not entirely correct things.  (Larry should
+come to more story meetings.)
+
+     The deal with Stewart isn't about money.  That part of the deal was fine.
+The problem is that he also a) wants to do an album or two, and b) wants to do
+some touring, which means he can't take a long-term  assignment, which a
+sereis represents.  If we wanted to pay what an album and tour would bring,
+that's possible, but no show can afford that.
+
+     I hope to have an announcement on this later this week.  It's pretty much
+nailed down now, but (unlike certain story editors I could name) I tend to
+wait until things are official before talking about them.  Suffice to say,
+it's someone whose name you may recognize from a rock and roll background.
+
+     The "Demon" story is on the schedule.  I don't know what Larry was
+talking about in that regard, unless he was dealing with the question of
+Harlan's health.
+
+     We will reveal what Kosh is a LOT sooner than year 5.  Closer to the end
+of year 2.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 12 1993
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+     Re: Abbott...I suspect Larry was pulling your collective legs.
+
+     This is why we don't let Larry out of his cage very often.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Brett: this isn't a case of jack-of-all-trades.  Garibaldi *has* to be a
+qualified fighter pilot as head of security of a *space station* where
+problems can come up in the space surrounding the station.  Also, as mentioned
+here before (I think) and certainly in one of our scripts, during the period
+between Garibaldi's last security job, and now, when eh (he) couldn't get a
+job as security chief, he was a pilot, running transport shuttles on a couple
+of ice mining operations.  (It was not a good period for him.)  Nothing is
+done arbitrarily with these characters.   All three of our main EA characters -
+- Sinclair, Garibaldi and Ivanova -- are qualified fighter and transport
+pilots.  Having Talia suddenly going off in one of these would be absolutely
+wrong, and a case of what you describe.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Actually, that was another error on Larry's part.  We'd gone after
+McGoohan for the role of Knight One in "And the Sky Full of Stars," after we
+had to reschedule Walter.  He read the script, loved the script, and wanted to
+do the episode.  (Which is *very* hard, he's very choosy about what scripts he
+does, and we were delighted.)  Alas, we learned that at  the time we would be
+shooting, he was slated to be out of the country on a gig that couldn't be
+changed.  So that, as they say, is that.
+
+     At this point, we've signed Christopher Neame for that role, with Judson
+Scott as the other Knight character in the episode.
+
+     (Btw, at this point, McGoohan's main work is as a director on the Columbo
+movies.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Quick sketch of Ivanova: Russian, pessimistic, wry, very sharp.  She
+isn't in "Believers" because there was a one-week overlap with a prior
+committment on a film project, which we accommodated.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Brett: the fighter craft release mechanism does use the rotational
+gravity aspect to shoot the fighters away from the station, yes.  In a really
+neato looking fashion.
+
+     Re: fighters...it would make sense that any command personnel in a
+situation like this would be thoroughly checked out and qualified to fly *the
+fighters which the ship carries*.  So even if they flew other kinds of
+fighters, logically they would be trained on these as well prior to
+assignment.  (Though for most purposes, the EA fighters are all very similar
+in most respects.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Of course, these aren't shuttle mission specialists.
+
+     Carlos: it's hard to get McGoohan.  The script has to be just *so*.
+"Sky" was that way, probably one of the most unusual scripts I've ever
+written, and one I knew would get him.  Later...we'll see.  But we'll
+definitely keep trying.
+
+     Re: the end of the 5th year...I've noted before that there is a thread
+raised during the B5 run that could be extended into its own series.  But it
+wouldn't be B5.  The story of Babylon 5 ends at the end of the fifth year,
+regardless.
+
+     BTW, since as mentioned Stewart Copeland is going to be off touring and
+doing an album and other stuff, we've had to lock down someone else as our
+resident composer.  Someone suggested here numerous times has now been
+confirmed: Christopher Franke, of Tangerine Dream, who has done the
+soundtracks for such projects as Thief, Angel Falls, Universal Soldier,
+Tommyknockers and others.  In addition to being a solid percussion man and a
+great musician, he's a real techie, up on the latest technologies involving
+music and sound, and will be able to give B5 a VERY unique sound.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     What Ron points out is something that I very much want from the B5
+series: to start arguments (or at least discussions).
+
+     It's the difference between an episode with a Moral at the end that says
+"We're all people and we should get along better and play nice," and is gone a
+moment later...or something that provokes a real discussion marked primarily
+by greys.  (And if someone hasn't figured out the prior moral by now, a quick
+TV show ain't gonna do it.)  The two sides to the question Ron raises are both
+right, both correct.  At least in their own minds, and one can make a case
+that they're right on a much larger scale.
+ It's all dependent upon what actually happens to the soul...and on THAT one
+you can weigh in on all kinds of sides.
+
+     Many of our stories are like that.  We raise an issue within a dramatic
+context, and we deal with that dramatic context.  There isn't a loose thread
+hanging.  But we open some questions that can be, and we hope will be
+continued after the show is over.  David Gerrold's "Believers" definitely
+falls in this category.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     In no particular order:
+
+     Who's right, the soul hunter or the minbari?  Yes.
+
+     It was the discussion early on here about composers, in which Chris
+Franke's name was mentioned, that bumped him to the top of our list and helped
+motivate us to take a look.  One more way the interaction has been positive.
+
+     And yes, he will be doing the entire season.  And composing a new B5
+theme.  (I keep suggesting something along the lines of "Bali High" from
+"South Pacific."  They keep hitting me with week old halibut.   "Babylonnnnnnn
+FiiiiiiIIIIve.....")
+
+     January 24, eh?  Good.  Glad to hear it.  (Producers are always the last
+to know.)
+
+     Finally...yes, there are leftover clothes.  Why not?  There are in real
+life.  What you'll often see Sinclair wearing, when he's off duty in his
+quarters, is an old scruffy sweatshirt/sweater from the EA flight school.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Rich, you worked with Meatloaf, eh?  Cool.  I've always enjoyed his work,
+on camera and on records, and am only dismayed that there's so little of it
+generally available.  (I found more of it in London than I've seen here in the
+states.)  His songs have a very sharp wit to them that's lacking in a lot of
+other stuff.  ("I want you...I need you...but there ain't no way I'm ever
+gonna love you...But don't feel sad...'cause two out of three ain't bad.")
+
+     I have very weird, very eccentric and eclectic tastes in music.  In
+addition to Meatloaf, I'm big on Leon Redbone, Indigo Girls, Enya, I'm
+starting to like Digable Planets...classical, jazz, big band, hard rock,
+celtic, blues, just about anything *except* country, which I couldn't warm up
+to even if I were cremated in a crate of Garth Brooks albums.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     One thing about having a career that's as eclectic as mine has been --
+dark fantasy/horror novels to mystery series to SF stories to comedy -- is
+that you learn a lot of techniques that you don't normally encounter.   So
+yes, I definitely carried over a few lessons I learned from that experience.
+My theory is that if you're doing any sort of mystery for TV, once the full
+story is laid out, you should be able to go back and watch the show again, and
+suddenly all the pieces lay out, they make sense.  The trick is to get the
+viewer to interpret the clues one way, then tilt the mirror slightly to show
+what they *really* mean.
+
+     In the series, G'Kar won't be hitting on the station's resident telepath,
+but he will try a few more times via other means to get his hands on a
+telepath.
+
+     We're going to be doing a lot on the Psi Corps toward the middle of the
+series, btw.  There's quite a bit in D.C. Fontana's new story, "Legacies," and
+in a script I just finished, "Mind War."  The more I play around with the
+notion of legalized, licensed telepaths, the more room there is for all kinds
+of intrigue.
+
+     Today, incidentally, I finished the outline for "Chrysalis," which will
+be the last episode of this season, though we'll be shooting it much earlier,
+about 2/3rds through the run.  It's a real corker in which we absolutely kick
+over the table and all hell breaks loose *bigtime*.  This one I'm *really*
+looking forward to writing.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Crossed with Brett.  Yes, there's a reason.  There are always reasons for
+what I write, and I try to make them good ones.  In the case of "Soul Hunter,"
+there's a First Contact protocol at work here, and for something like that
+Sinclair moves in.  (He also loves flying these things, and will seize on any
+opporunity to get in one.)  He also takes off in "Midnight," but again there's
+a specific reason that he has to be there rather than someone else.
+Otherwise, it's someone else who goes.   (In "Midnight," when there's word of
+another kind of problem, which may affect station security, it's Garibaldi who
+goes out.)
+
+     We will also, from time to time, put Ivanova in the cockpit as head of a
+fighter wing.  They're all qualified.
+
+     Glad you liked the CGI.  We are, as you note, working *very* hard to get
+the science right...and discovering that what I assumed from the start is
+correct: that if you take the time to do it accurately, it doesn't limit your
+possibilities, it gives you MORE possibilities, and it looks better.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     We're doing some stuff with newscasts, but it's more directly related to
+each show than connective material.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The various characters take their own stands,which vary.  Franklin only
+considers the possibility of cloning someone's personality matrix, for
+instance.  And again, it depends on how you *define* soul.  The Soul Hunter
+defines it not as something supernatural, but as the collection of thoughts,
+personality, feelings and the very essence of the person that dies with the
+body.  That definition is broad enough to encompass just about anything.  Then
+you get into the more specific ideas of what a soul is.
+
+     One person at a post production house we've used has indicated that he
+has "theological problems" with working on that episode; not because it's
+*against* what he believes -- he's worked on horror movies and stuff with
+devils and the like -- but because it takes a point of view he doesn't much
+like...in that he has to sit and defend the whole *context* of his
+ideas...meaning, it's making him think.  He can just poo-poo the stuff against
+what he believes, support what he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure
+where this show comes down, or where it makes *him* come down.  I've had any
+number of problems with people on a show before, but this is the first time
+I've run into a theological problem.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     No progress.  We'll see what happens.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     If you liked that sequence, wait until you see what comes up later in
+that episode...imagine 9 B5 fighters vs. about a dozen raider ships, all in
+pure x-y-z axis movement, in accurate flight patterns for a zero gravity/zero
+atmosphere environment.  It's dizzying to watch, but very cool.  Absolutely
+unlike anything ever done for television before.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The fighters are built on a cross-wing structure (four wings), but very
+different from either X-wing or tie fighters.  The four wings have fore, aft,
+top, bottom and side thrusters, so that they can move in any direction...they
+can fly left to right, turn backwards, and continue to fly left to right,
+flying backwards, and thus fire right to left. They're perfectly designed for
+zero-g environments.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     What's also funny is that in the scripts, the hologram in the tube is
+referred to as "Mentor."  Anyone out there who remembers CP might get a kick
+out of that one....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     There's one new thing you'll be seeing in the B5 series that you  didn't
+see much in the pilot, and that's compositing digital CGI with live action.
+There was the observation dome shot in the pilot, where you push in and see
+the Lt. Cmdr, but that was about it.  We're doing a lot more in the series,
+and some of it looks absolutely *stunning*.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Brett: some surprises I don't want to spoil.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     They can put out pretty much the same amount of thrust in any direction.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Yes and no and sometimes...all I can say is that there's a Black Project
+hidden somewhere in this conversation, and Ron will skin me alive if I so much
+as *hint* to what it is, so don't even ask.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+     Boy, you go nuts trying to do good EFX, and then people get worried about
+"effects for effects sake."  (Said complaint on my end being only half
+hearted, and with some humor.)  (I'm sorry, but I'm constitutionally incapable
+of doing those little smiley glyphs.)
+
+     Trust me, the story *always* comes first.  The EFX are always and only in
+the service of the story.
+
+     Yes, the ship was a soul hunter vessel (damaged), and the pilot was
+Sinclair.  About the starfield...the funny thing is, the other day I was
+watching CNN and they showed a starfield shot from aboard the shuttle, looking
+out at only what the eye can see.  And y'know what?  It looked EXACTLY like
+the line-of-sight rendering Ron did for our starfield, and what it looksout
+the observation dome window.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+     Ah, yes, if that says creative arts, then yes, it's probably the same
+thing.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     They were teensy, weensy examples of compositing.  Now...pfffft.
+
+                                                        jms
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+     It probably won't be, unless it's quickly referenced in the quick
+overview of last night's awards.   (Apparently the E! broadcast of the
+technical awards is slated for 4:00 p.m. Monday here on the West Coast, so
+that means it'll either be on at 1 or 4 on the East Coast.  FYI, the award to
+Ron went out very early on; it was the second category, and he was the third
+up in that category.  So figure about 20 minutes in.  It would've been faster,
+except the DS9 crew didn't pay attention to the request to appoint one
+spokesperson, and everybody on the stage took their turn.  Natch, Ron and the
+rest abided by the rules.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     We'll see where it ends up next year.  After Ron picked up the Emmy and
+returned to the table, amidst  much oohing and aahing of the prize, he leaned
+over to me and quoted an old English saying: "Start the way you mean to carry
+on."  We'd gotten one; now we have to carry on at the same level.
+
+     I've seen Ron's surprises for the series, and I can virtually guarantee
+that he'll pick up another nomination next year, and very likely the Emmy as
+well.  I'd be very much surprised if we didn't get nominations in costuming,
+makeup, art direction and cinematography (especially for "And the Sky Full of
+Stars," which is just remarkable looking on every level).  Series, writing,
+acting, directing...nobody bets on those unless he wants to look like a fool.
+I have hopes, but we'll see.
+
+
+                                                  jms
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+     In the teaser scene you refer to in "Midnight," you've got a couple dozen
+fighters coming in alongside about 3-4 motherships (or capital ships, either
+term will suffice).  We've always said that big ships can punch through and
+form their own jump points.  That's how the jump gates get there in the first
+place: a big ship comes through, on its own, and leaves behind a jump gate.
+There's no contradiction.  One (or more) of the big ships was creating the
+point of entry as it went.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Both...but more energy-hungry than anything else.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     It costs a pretty fair amount.  Which is one of the concepts behind the
+Lurkers on B5.  Folks who save their earnings for years to come to B5 in
+search of new lives...new opportunities...and when they don't find the dream
+(and not everyone does), they've expended their funds, and don't have the
+money for a ticket back.  So they basically work their way down into
+DownBelow, sort of the homeless area.  Space travel costs MONEY.
+
+                                                           jms
+

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+     Okay, let me throw the question back at you: what DO you do about it?
+Shipping them off somewhere costs a LOT of money.  Does the station pay for
+that?  Do Earth voters object to paying for free tickets for lurkers?  Do you
+shove them out the airlock and casually murder the whole lot of them?  Do you
+dragoon them into a slave labor deal to pay off their debts or buy their way
+off the station?  Do you isolate them and keep them as much to themselves as
+you can, and hope they eventually find gigs or move on?  It's a moral dilemma
+based on technologies and limited budgets and resources.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Of course, your solution omits two factors: 1) not all lurkers are human,
+and 2) not all human lurkers are from Earth.  Do you pay to send hundreds of
+people or more back, one at a time, on various high-priced transports which
+are already backed up on reservations, to a dozen or more different
+worlds...some of which may not WANT them back?  Do you divert limited B5
+resources to track each lurker, find out his/her/its homeworld, make
+arrangements with people who may not WANT to make arrangements (at home, and
+the people lurking)...the paperwork and details would be simply immense.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Scenario Number One: sending the Lurkers back to Earth.  Comes a call
+from Earth Central: "Hell, no, you're NOT shipping them back here, we're
+overcrowded enough as it is, we will NOT give you permission to send them back
+here."
+
+     Scenario Number Two: turning them over to their representatives on B5.
+G'Kar: "Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention, Commander, I'll
+have him sent back at once."  Beat.  The commander leaves.
+
+     G'Kar: "Get OUT of here and don't come back!  I don't have time to deal
+with the likes of you, we're NOT paying to send you back to Homeworld, just
+get out!"
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     I believe n'grath qualifies for a non-humanoid lifeform with an
+exoskeleton of sorts....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     There won't be any major merchandising stuff until about the time the
+series hits air.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     No firm info on this yet.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     My favorite shot so far is the new shot of the Starliner Asimov parked
+next to Babylon 5 and sending over a shuttle....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Farming out ship design makes for massive legal headaches, in that B5 has
+to own what it shows, and the multiple contracts and legalities and payment
+disbursements and all the rest add up to far more trouble than it is worth.
+
+     Yes, someone said fighter.
+
+     Re: the future of CGI...I'm *fairly* sure that the Emmy for B5's EFX is
+the first time one has been given for CGI.  That by itself is a very strong
+validation of CGI within the industry.  It's definitely here to stay.
+
+     We couldn't show the Starliner Asimov to Isaac because we named it after
+him following his passing.  Seemed an appropriate nod in that direction, given
+his body of work.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     We've made some minor modifications to the jumpgate effect, in the
+texture and color of the warp EFX.  It looks a little less computer-y, and
+some science guys suggested that there should be red-shift built into the
+thing.  So now when objects come *out* of hyperspace, and we're looking into
+the jumpgate, the warp effect is blue; when you enter the jumpgate, it shifts
+toward orange/red.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     The newscast was about a crashed starship and the controversy over the
+Pinto Personal Cruiser's tendency to blow up on impact....
+
+                                                             jms
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+
+     I confess, I slipped in a "Babylon 5" reference in that episode of CP.
+Which was 1986/87.  I do that sometimes....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The Babylon 5 Genetic Engineering colony.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     You watched B5 from a *motel room*?  How the hell did THAT happen?
+
+     I should probably make up a credits list one of these days, it just seems
+so tedious, and I dunno, uninteresting to anyone, from my POV.  If there's
+really a demand for this, I'll do it, but to recite one's credits ad
+infinitum....I dunno.  I'll leave it to your preference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+
+      Okay, because they've been requested (I got another couple of
+ notes in email asking for this), here's a quick rundown on my prior
+ work.  This isn't everything...this is about half of the body of
+ work...but this is probably the more interesting stuff.
+
+  ...BOOKS
+
+ THE COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING, Writer's Digest Books (now out
+ of print, mainly because I'm about 2 years behind delivering the
+ new edition, THE (EVEN MORE!) COMPLETE BOOK OF SCRIPTWRITING.
+
+ DEMON NIGHT, horror/dark fantasy novel, hardcover, E. P. Dutton.
+ Nominated for Bram Stoker Award, Horror Writers of America.
+
+ OTHERSYDE, dark fantasy novel, hardcover, Dutton.
+
+ TALES FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE, softcover, anthology of my
+ adaptation of my TZ3 episodes.  Bantam.
+
+  ...SHORT STORIES
+
+ "Your Move," Amazing Stories Magazine.
+ "A Last Testament for Nick and the Trooper" Shadows 6 anthology.
+ "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," Pulphouse Magazine, and the Midnight
+ Grafitti anthology.
+ (There are others, but those are the good ones.)
+
+  ...ARTICLES/JOURNALISM
+
+ 500+ published articles -- ranging from feature articles, to reviews,
+ investigative articles and others -- appearing in PENTHOUSE, VIDEO
+ REVIEW, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES (for which I was a regular Special
+ Correspondent), THE LOS ANGELES HERALD EXAMINER (ditto), TIME, INC.
+ (where I was on staff at various points), SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE, THE
+ SAN DIEGO and LOS ANGELES READER(s), WRITER'S DIGEST (10 years worth
+ of columns and articles as a Contributing Editor), and others that
+ I've forgotten and am too lazy to dig out.
+
+  ...RADIO
+
+ On-air reviewer and entertainment editor for KSDO Newsradio, San
+ Diego, for about 2-3 years.
+
+ Host, HOUR 25, a weekly SF talk show in L.A. for 5 years.
+
+ Radio drama writer for ALIEN WORLDS, MUTUAL RADIO THEATER, and
+ writer/producer/director on other radiodrama projects.
+
+  ...THEATER
+
+ A dozen produced plays, including "The Apprenticeship," a full-
+ length play which played at the Marquis Public Theater in San
+ Diego for 20 weeks.  Includes many one-act plays.  One play
+ published in book form by Baker's Plays.  (No, I'm not telling
+ you what it is.)
+
+  ...COMICS
+
+ Wrote issue of TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: Two Face vs. Cyborg, "Face
+ to Face Two Face."
+
+ Wrote issue of STAR TREK comic for DC: "Worldsinger."  (Cover of
+ "Worldsinger" is now Star Trek trading card.)
+
+ Wrote issue of NOW's TWILIGHT ZONE comic, "Blind Alley."
+
+  ...TELEVISION
+
+ Animation:
+
+ Writer/story editor, Filmation Studios, HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF
+ THE UNIVERSE, then subsequently, SHE-RA.  Wrote about 20-25 episodes.
+
+ Writer, JAYCE AND THE WHEELED WARRIORS, about 11-12 episodes.
+
+ Writer/story editor, THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, writing about 15-20
+ episodes or more.  (I actually have no idea how many, really.)
+
+ Live Action:
+
+ Story editor, CAPTAIN POWER, writing or co-writing about 16 episodes.
+ Nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Writing in a Dramatic Series
+ (the Gemini is Canada's version of the Emmy).
+
+ Story editor, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, writing about 12 episodes.  (1 for
+ the network Zone, 11 for the syndicated Zone.)
+
+ Writer, NIGHTMARE CLASSICS: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR.
+ HYDE, for Showtime.  Nominated for Writers Guild and Ace Awards.
+
+ Story Editor, JAKE AND THE FATMAN, writing 4-5 episodes and one
+ TV movie.
+
+ Co-producer/Producer, MURDER, SHE WROTE, writing about 9 episodes.
+
+ Supervising Producer, WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, writing 1 episode.
+
+ UNPRODUCED CREDITS:
+
+ Developed (with Larry DiTillio) ELFQUEST animated series for CBS.
+ Wrote MR. FREEZE, SF/comedy motion picture for Ivan Reitman.
+ Wrote 4-hour "V" miniseries, "V: The Next Chapter" for Warners.
+ Wrote series development on a dozen different projects.
+ Wrote other feature film screenplays for DIC and London Films.
+
+      Anyway, those are the highlights.  I've left out a lot of stuff, and
+ subsets of stuff (like the prime-time TRGB's special, for which I cowrote
+ a couple of songs with Brian O'Neal of the Busboys, and other song
+ related stuff...I've had about half a dozen songs get out there, plus one
+ on record), but those are the main items.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Not at this time, no.  It was a very nifty idea, but it's taken so long
+to get off the ground that in the interim, somebody ate our lunch.   A similar-
+concept movie is now in production.  (Here's a difference when it comes to
+this particular problem.  The other studio developing this other movie had no
+access to our material, which was developed quietly in house with Ivan.  It's
+a pure example of simultaneous creation.  From time to time, these things
+happen.)
+
+     Anyway, the concept was this: a present-day cop is accidentally quick
+frozen in a cryogenics lab during a shoot out.  He remains in suspended
+animation for a hundred years and change.  He's revived in a world in which
+crime is virtually non-existent, because it's been programmed out of people
+through genetic alterations and early conditioning.  There's still a police
+force, of sorts, but mainly serve tickets for safety violations and other non-
+criminal offenses.
+
+     Just one problem: along comes one man on whom the programming has
+glitched, failed.  And he's been committing murders.  They've hushed it up,
+but gradually our character finds out, and goes after the guy, who is totally
+deranged, sees it as his mission to keep the darkness alive.  He commits his
+murders in the same style as the famous murderers of the past (a la Jack the
+Ripper, for instance).  It comes down to a face-off between these two
+characters.
+
+     It had a dramatic through-line, but a lot of humor as well, as the cop
+tries to fit into this new world.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     Don King's hair?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     One idea for weaponry that we've temporarily shelved, but which we may
+revive at some point, was using a kind of projectile weapon, which would
+function more or less as follows: you throw up a line of shrapnel type devices
+in the way of a ship before it can veer away (or surround it with same).  It's
+a veritable cloud of small debris, and when the ship hits it, the shrapnel
+basically shreds the ship, rips the skin right off it.  Some early tests look
+pretty gruesome, so we're looking at some alternate avenues, or modifications.
+
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Brutal is another good word.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The EA fighters get generally what any ship gets: serial numbers, the
+colors or signature of its "flag," and so on.  And yes, the pilot is in a more
+or less standing position, though inside a chair that supports comfortably.
+If you're going to be flying forward at that kind of speed, it seemed to us
+that a standing mode was better for blood circulation and response than
+sitting.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     There's variance in the fighters.  What you saw was a general fighter
+Sinclair grabbed.  The actual fighter wings ARE personalized with -- for lack
+of a better term -- nose art, a la WW II bombers.  Some are abstract,
+Sinclair's being tiger-stripes, basically, while others are more realistic,
+with very elaborate paintings.
+
+     And there is some recline built into the seats, so they can be
+comfortable (after all, we have to have actors in these things for hours at a
+time, so they'd better be comfortable).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+      We built a full-size cockpit, inside and out.  The rest is CGI.
+
+                                                         jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 24 1993
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+     There's a line of sight display in front, joystick and foot controls, and
+voice control of the ship's computerized navigation and firing  controls as
+well.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 01 1993
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+     Yes, Friday and 2, and Saturday there's a follow-up presentation at 4.
+One note, btw: Harlan will be at the con, and will be at the Saturday
+presentation.
+
+     If you live in San Francisco, or are planning to be at the con as of
+tomorrow, Wednesday, read on:
+
+     Harlan needs someone to wear a sandwich board announcing the signing
+session for the limited edition of "Mefisto in Onyx."  Apparently the ad
+didn't make it into the program book.  By way of repayment (other than simply
+being part of an Ellison Event, and getting to hang with Mr. E. a bit),
+there's some cash involved, and a free, autographed and personalized copy of
+the "MiO" book.  If you're interested, drop me a note in private mail.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1597.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1597.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 11 1993
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+     I'd rather not, frankly.  I'm quite happy with television for B5.
+
+     I'm being very careful not to let B5 turn into a *franchise*.  It's a
+story, created in X-parts, for television.  This thing will turn into an
+industry over my dead body.  The most that the framework will permit is a 2-
+hour TV movie that caps year 5.  That's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1598.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1598.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 12 1993
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+     Only at LosCon, which is in November, though thus far I haven't been
+asked.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 14 1993
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+     For me, merchandising is one of those aftershocks of the creative
+process, sort of an, "Oh, yeah, there's *that* part over there, too."  I'm not
+disdainful of it, it's just not something that I think about a lot, because
+first and foremost it's a *distraction*.  You start thinking about the
+*P*R*O*D*U*C*T* and not about the story.  Then you start bending the story to
+work in the product.
+
+     And that's something I've fought against as long as I've *been* in  TV.
+When I was at Filmation, I fought tooth and nail against *any* interference in
+content from the sponsor, Mattel.  Especially when they started forcing in
+characters simply so they could market them.  That was the reason I resigned
+from Captain Power after the first season; my sense was that too much
+attention was being given to the merchandise aspect of the show, to the
+detriment of the series.
+
+     If a deal is set, I want to be part of the process afterward to insure
+the quality of the product, so it won't be a slapdash or cheap thing.  And it
+should be representative of the spirit of the show.  But that, for me, is
+about it.
+
+     Re: Sci-Fi Buzz...haven't spoken with them about any more pieces, but I
+imagine there will be, closer to airdate.  Trust me, as this thing cranks
+closer to airdate, there will be plenty of coverage.  I suspect that we will
+*both* be absolutely sick to death of ads and coverage by the time this hits
+air.  Because we're pretty much tuned into it already; it's the remaining
+portion of the population we also have to reach.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1600.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1600.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 26 1993
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+     BTW, those Hour 25 posters, of which there are only a limited number
+left, are in a sense the first (and possibly most interesting) collectible for
+B5 afficianados.  The poster is of the logo for Hour 25, a radio show hosted
+by Harlan, and then me.  It was on H25 that the first mention was made of B5;
+also, the poster was designed by Peter Ledger, who did the art for B5 that
+helped get the project sold; and it's autographed by Peter, me, Harlan Ellison
+(conceptual consultant) and Larry Ditillio (our S.E.).  And of course it's set
+in space.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1601.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1601.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 10 1993
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+     The name of the character is Maya Hernandez.  The actor's name I'll post
+after I can get the cast sheet from the office so I spell it correctly.
+
+     Catherine Sakai, played by Julie Nickson-Soul, will first appear in "The
+Parliament of Dreams," which will be *around* episode 7.
+
+     There will be some time between episodes in the B5 universe; in some
+cases it's about a week, in some cases much longer, as long as we end up
+covering roughly a year.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 12 1993
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+     I don't think I said much of anything I wouldn't want to see repeated
+(unlike Larry).  And Harlan's first script is "Midnight in the Sunken
+Cathedral," not chapel.  I would of course urge no spoilers be placed in
+public view.  Let's have some measure of surprise when the show finally does
+hit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1603.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-09/1603.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 16 1993
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+     Yes, we will.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 16 1993
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+1. CATegories      10. INDex of topics
+2. NEW messages    11. SEArch topics
+3. SET category    12. DELete message
+4. DEScribe CAT    13. IGNore category
+5. TOPic list      14. PROmpt setting
+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
+7. REAd messages   16. NAMe used in BB
+8. REPly to topic  17. EXIt the BB
+9. STArt a topic   18. HELp on commands
+Enter #, <Command> or <HEL>p
+18 ?
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1605.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1605.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 24 1993
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+
+     Just to clarify: we'll be delivering *finished* episodes as early as mid-
+October.  That's everything, music, EFX, everything.  PTEN doesn't begin its
+new "season" until January, so that's when they'll begin airing.  But we'll
+have nearly a dozen or so episodes in the can when we begin airing.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1606.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1606.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 24 1993
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+
+     Jon...I sympathize.  I generally carried a pretty heavy load in college.
+My next-to-last year, just to get the hell OUT of there, I managed to crash
+courses and evade the university limits and ended up with 28 units in one
+semester...and none of them basket weaving stuff, either...statistical
+analysis (imagine ME in that one), physiological psychology, 6 units of
+German, biology....
+
+     I was, shall we say, insane....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 25 1993
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+
+     As an aside...one of the things that's been great to watch over the last
+few months is how the crew and cast have really come together.  On a lot
+(though certainly not all) of shows, once you finish the day, the crew goes
+off in as many different directions as possible.  Ditto with the cast.
+
+     But now, on top of the B5 softball team, now there's a B5 golf team, both
+in-house for B5 tournaments, and to play others.  Softball is on Saturday,
+golf is on Sunday.  Groups of the crew get together socially on the weekends,
+have barbeques and dinners.  When we wrap for the day, there is generally a
+large contingent that heads down to a nearby restaurant to hang out together
+and get coffee and something to eat.  The other softball teams have been
+astonished because we generally have lots of cast come out to play as well.
+At the last game, Michael O'Hare, Jerry Doyle, Richard Biggs (pitching) and
+Andrea Thompson all showed up and played.   (Jerry hit a homer.)
+
+     There are always hassles, and last minute problems, and the occasional
+bursts of crankiness that come with TV production, but for the most part it
+seems that the cast and crew are genuinely having a good time on the show, and
+that's always a good sign.
+
+     No special reason for mentioning it, except I was thinking about it, and
+it's kinda nice....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     So far, the team's 1 for 2; their first game against SeaQuest (our team
+came to play and have a good time, the other team came to WIN) went to the SQ
+team.  Our people spent the week practicing between setups and at lunch -- we
+set up a milk carton for our new pitcher to practice his shot -- and this time
+we won over "Dave's World."  Though I wasn't there -- everyone ELSE gets to go
+play, *I* have to stay chained to a keyboard -- apparently it was a repeat on
+one level, in that there were maybe 8 from the "Dave's" side in the stands,
+and we had something 50-60 people from our side show up to cheer on the team.
+(Though we had a core bunch of players, anybody who wanted to play, played.)
+Again Jerry, Andrea and Richard Biggs showed up; Michael was otherwise
+engaged.
+
+     Just recently, btw, I gave Larry DiTillio a printout with just a little
+of the coming 5 year arc...if he's going to story edit, he needs to know what
+lines not to cross, and I can't ride herd on that all the time.  He took it
+home, read it.  Called me.  Didn't even say hello.   Began the conversation
+with, "You are out of your f'ing mind."  I asked for some small clarification
+of his position.  He indicated that he thought it was absolutely great,
+something that'll really go down in the rolls when the final tally is done,
+"But you GOT to be out of your f'ing mind to try and pull something like this
+off.  It *can* be done...but it takes a lunatic to do it."
+
+     Sounds about right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1609.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1609.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 26 1993
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+     Brett...there was a situation in which the GEIs might have been called
+upon to make a whole lotta phone calls, send faxes, and do other stuff to save
+the project.  There was one brief moment when it looked like things were going
+to fall apart.  But they didn't.  The crisis passed, and the details are
+really not worth getting into now.  What's past is past.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 28 1993
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+
+     I've seen all of the episodes to date, and it ain't bad.  It has a funky
+kind of quality that I find appealing.  I rather wish we could SEE some things
+once in a while, rather than just getting glimpses out of the corner of one's
+eye (except for the landing field shot), but I kind of like it.
+
+                                                    jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1611.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1611.html
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+
+     It needs a rewrite.
+
+                                                          jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 29 1993
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+
+     Friday night veg time, *definitely*.
+
+     Well, we deliver our first final finished totally done episode on about
+October 8th.  Christopher Franke has some *great* ideas on how to handle the
+music, and plans a curious blending of music and sound effects in some places,
+plus instruments from other parts of the world not normally heard in the US,
+to try and create a "new music" kind of sound.
+
+     I'm in the strange position of writing the season end episode now, to
+shoot #12, since it's going to require a lot of post production work, and it
+definitely puts one in a very strange state of mind.  I have to be careful to
+refer to things that've happened in the past episodes, from the perspective of
+the last episode of the season, but which haven't yet been written or filmed
+in real-time.  So I'm writing the second half of some stories before having
+written the first half (though I obviously know where they're all
+going)...which really bends your brain around after a while.
+
+     This episode is going to be highly classified; we're going to limit
+distribution of scripts, and parts of scripts, put canary traps in all of the
+scripts that *are* distributed, and otherwise keep this one quiet.   All I can
+say is that we're going to kick over every table we've got.   In any season
+finale, there are maybe 4-5 things you know when you sit down to watch the
+show that they'll NEVER ever do.  So we're doing all of them.  If this one
+doesn't keep you glued to your seats, you've lost your chair.
+
+     Tomorrow morning I'll get to see an edited version of "Sky," and I can't
+wait.  I think this one will take over from "Soul Hunter" as our strongest
+episode to date.
+
+     BTW, for all  you who ride the pause button and jack up the stereo volume
+(we're doing Dolby Surround, incidentally), I assigned Larry DiTillio to write
+a bunch of walla (background dialogue) for the Zocalo, the observation dome,
+customs and other areas.  Some of it's sane...but the rest...oh, man....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 29 1993
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+     I am.  I'm exhausted all the time...running on 3-4 hours of sleep a
+night, producing during the day, writing all night...but it *is* fun.   The
+only hard part is that because of my close involvement in this show, and
+creating the characters, and assigning the stories, and working with the
+actors...I have Londo and G'Kar and Kosh and Garibaldi and all the rest
+running around in my head and yelling at each other 24 hours a day, and
+sometimes that can make you just a little nuts...you wanna tell them to shut
+the hell up for five minutes...and then they look at you with this wounded
+expression...you ever see a Narn sulk?  It's not a pretty sight.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 30 1993
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+
+     No episodes have aired...unless your friends are operating in an
+alternate universe, in which case please have them send them to me so that we
+can save time and money producing them.  I have no idea what your friends saw,
+but suspect their experience may yet end up on the X-files.
+
+     Re: audience reaction...here's the sad part.  When I'm up on stage, I'm
+in ***PERFORMANCE MODE*** thinking up the next line, setting up the next
+segment, whatever...and combined with the fact that despite what I cobble
+together in my JMS "persona" I'm actually very shy (as KAL will confirm)...I
+don't hear the applause.  I'm so riddled with anxiety that I don't hear it.
+I'm thinking three beats ahead.  It really is kinda sad at times, because
+afterward I have to ask someone -- usually Spousal Overunit -- "What did they
+think?  Do you think they liked it?" because I have no recollection
+whatsoever.
+
+     BTW, we're putting in some more cutting-edge tech equipment, including
+stuff that'll let us downlink dailies and cuts direct from the lab to our
+stage via fiber optic cable...computerized harry work (the adding of sparks
+and light effects usually done by painstakingly painting each frame, now to be
+handled by computers and software we're beta testing), and other stuff.  We're
+right on the leading edge now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     This system has nothing to do with CGI, so screamers aren't a part of it.
+This is other new stuff.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 02 1993
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+
+     Well, we finished casting for the role of Lennier, who is Delenn's
+aide/attache.  We were looking for someone who could give us the most as a
+quiet, restrained, almost monk-like character, fairly innocent in his way.
+
+     And in a very nice bit of synchronicity, the person who came in and
+knocked us out with his audition was Bill Mumy, who has now been cast in the
+role.  Aside from his work in Lost in Space, Bill is a terrific actor whose
+role, I think, may sometimes have become a stumbling block from time to time,
+as did the roles of Shatner, Nimoy and others from Trek.   Here he will be a
+very different kind of character, barely recognizeable beneath the Minbari
+makeup, and can show a very different sort of approach to his work.  We're
+very excited to have him on the team.  (I think it will also be good to have
+someone around from a prior successful SF TV series who can help our cast
+prepare for the reception this show is likely to receive...and I suspect that
+very few if any of them really understand yet what that will mean.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     The only thing that makes me more nuts than performing is seeing myself
+on videotape...or photographs...ick.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 03 1993
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+
+     I was going to swing by the box today, but ended up...well, here at the
+computer.  Sigh.  It's turned into "Next year in Israel...."
+
+     Yeah...I dimly seem to remember making a GBs presentation that year, so
+that may have been me.  (In fact, I lost my copy of the tape I brought with me
+in a hotel restaurant...which did contain special footage, and is thus gone
+forever, at least for me.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 03 1993
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+     Hmm...maybe I should amend it to "No cute kids, no cute robots, and no
+filkers, ever...."
+
+     Nothing personal, but given the choice between listening to two hours of
+filking, and having my eyeballs scooped out, popped, spread on toast as jam
+and fed to me for breakfast...I'll take the latter.
+
+     BTW, something I forgot to mention (and I guess this should really go
+under B5 Sightings, but I'm here, I'm lazy, and I'll forget again), Danica
+McKillar (I think I've got that spelling right) has a modest but interesting
+part in an episode we just finished filming.  The crew from Entertainment
+Tonight came by and did some filming of her in wardrobe (as a young Centauri
+woman), and I think it'll probably show up Monday or Tuesday or thereabouts.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Oh, yeah...something else, before I forget...Monday I'll finally be
+hearing some of the new B5 music from Christopher Franke, for "Soul Hunter."
+This, for me, is the really exciting part, because it's amazing how much good
+music can add to a show, and this signals the very last phase of post-
+production.  I think we're doing our final mix-down on "Soul" around mid-week,
+with full sound EFX and music...and then that's it.
+
+     We're now in the process also of storyboarding out our main title
+sequence, and we're hoping to do something a little different, if we can get
+the studio to sign off on the idea.  It'll give the show a very unique look.
+
+     And just so everybody knows...so you don't gig me on this later...I have
+spent more time than I want to *think* about lately talking with our sound
+people about the sound-in-space issue.  We've literally spent HOURS locked up,
+discussing various options, middle grounds, extremes and some off-beat
+possibilities.  I still don't know what we're going to do exactly, but for
+what it's worth, believe me, this has been examined to within an inch of its
+(and my) life.  What it comes down to now is this: we will have all of the
+options we discussed available to us at the final mix-down, and we will try
+them in different combinations.  Whatever works best is what we'll go with.
+And we won't know what that is until we get there.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+     (And for those who inquired...yes, we'll be doing our final mix in full
+Dolby Surround Stereo.)
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 04 1993
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+     I haven't a *clue* to who will be watching the show, and to start
+thinking that way, frankly, is like asking the centipede which foot it moves
+first...it'll paralyze you every time.  What I'm doing is writing and
+commissioning stories that I myself find interesting.  If my instincts are
+right, others will like them as well...if not, well, that's showbiz.   I hate
+the whole idea of demographics and testing, and generally won't listen when
+the subject is brought up.  Tell the story first; if it's a good story, you'll
+get viewers; if not, not.
+
+     Mumy's role, to answer that question, is a recurring role; I think he'll
+be in about half a dozen episodes or so for us.  To the best of my knowledge,
+this won't interfere with any other obligations Mumy has.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 05 1993
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+     Well, we're currently in a one-week hiatus, to give our camera crew and
+cast a well-earned break, so we were missing many of our core members at the
+Sunday game, so Love and War won.
+
+     Today, at Christopher Franke's, I heard the music for "Soul Hunter," and
+it's brilliant.  It's very hard to describe...it's not rock, but it's
+aggressive, and powerful, not at all synth sounding.  And I think that he just
+may have resolved the sound in space question for the most part.  He tried
+some things we discussed, and it works great.  So this may be the solution
+we've been looking for.  (Though the first one who tells me there's no
+orchestra in space gets it in the eye.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 05 1993
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+     1) No sound in space.
+
+     2) Surround sound in space.
+
+     Pick one.
+
+     You can't have both.  I think I'll get gigged less with the former, and
+certainly the music and interior SFX can be surround.
+
+     (This isn't a poll, only a response, just to be clear.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Joe does not learn math in one episode.  Joe does not learn math in one
+*year*.  I took bonehead math in college three -- count 'em three -- times,
+and only passed the third semester because the class was taught by the same
+instructor, and the third time I wandered into his class, he siad, (or said),
+"Here...just go, I'll give you a C, just...leave."
+
+     Brett: no idea if there'll be previews or not.
+
+     Spent a very, very, very long day today in editing...not out of any
+problems, but because of the *astonishing* amount of detail we're putting into
+"And the Sky Full of Stars."  Leaving out all the live-action shots, there are
+25 CGI shots in one and a half minutes in one sequence alone.   (By way of
+comparison, there were 55 or so in the full two hour pilot for B5.)  So we go
+frame by frame, making sure that everything meshes properly, through some
+pretty intense logistics.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+     I've never seen the like of this particular episode before.  It's a real
+gem.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 06 1993
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+      "Surround Silence."
+
+      Don't do this to me....
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+     If it works in one, it'll work in all, the way it seems now.
+
+     BTW, add David Warner to the list of first-season guest stars.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 08 1993
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+
+     You wanna hear really dopey?  Of all the things that can bug you --
+literally, in this case -- it's always the small ones that get under your
+skin.  The goofy ones.
+
+     Take crickets for instance.
+
+     Crickets.  Cute little critters, welcoming the twilight, equipped with
+top hat and umbrella to usher Pinnochio into his long-sought humanity....
+Crickets.
+
+     Ah hates crickets.
+
+     A cricket family -- at least one that we know of -- moved into a corner
+of one of our sets.  The medlab, to be precise.  Now, when we're moving things
+around, building stuff, moving stuff, it's silent, as a cricket will generally
+be when made nervous.  But make it all nice and quiet -- as you would do for,
+say, filming -- and he becomes downright rambunctious.  And sure enough, there
+is is, deep in the audio background on a few shots.  Oh, we can hide the audio
+easily enough...but Getting The Cricket has become something of a cause around
+here.
+
+     We absolutely cannot find him.  I stood back there for ten minutes, eyes
+closed, trying to triangulate and draw a bead on the little sucker.   We've
+tried exterminators, smoke, nitrogen, assassins and psychics; we've tried
+scaring him and coaxing him, to no avail.  He is as invisible as god but with
+a MUCH louder voice.
+
+     You ever fire up a daily to hear, at the top of the take, the off screen
+director saying, as fast as he can, "Okaythecricket'ssilent,ACTION!"
+
+     Like I said...not really a problem, just one of those little things that
+niggle at you when there's nothing else going on.  So we're going to wait him
+out.
+
+     Anybody know offhand the lifespan of your average cricket...?
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 09 1993
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+
+     The shooting schedule won't conflict with WishCon.  BTW, a note for
+anyone who's sent anything to the address I posted here a few times before:
+ one of the problems with shooting a series is that, well, time shoots past
+you with remarkable speed...one minute you look up and it's August, the next
+minute you look up and it's October, and...and....
+
+     Okay, long story short: I forgot all about the mailing box, and it got
+closed up.  Stuff was sent back.  I only just found out today, and re-opened
+it.  Apologies to anyone who sent stuff there in the last few weeks.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 09 1993
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+     P.S.  Add William Sanderson to the same episode as the one with David
+Warner.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+
+     I can't remember if I mentioned this here or not...but did I note that
+apparently the B5 pilot is the #1 best selling/renting tape these days in
+Croatia?  What this means I have no idea....
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 10 1993
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+     Mira was in a Croatian choir?!  I didn't know this.  She's never
+mentioned it.  I know that she was an actress there, but this part is news to
+me.  I must ask her about it when she comes in next week.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 11 1993
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+
+     Don't we all....
+
+     Meanwhile...let's have some fun.
+
+     Part of the deal with producing a series is that you have to clear all
+the names you use in an episode, both in terms of people names and corporate
+names, even the names of various substances or objects you use.  There's a
+clearances department that checks names and titles against registered
+trademarks, copyrights and other stuff and tells you when something is or
+isn't clear.  I never cease to be amazed at the number of names that one makes
+up, sure that it's bogus, only to find out that somebody out there has
+actually made a business with that name.
+
+     Anyway, on the production report that came in the other day, two names
+didn't clear; one is for a company that does interstellar planetary surveying
+(a megacorporation that then exploits the resources of those planets), and the
+other is a name for a certain mineral/compound used in the manufacture of jump
+gates, very rare, very expensive.
+
+     (The name I came up with for the megacorp I won't mention here; because
+when I found out there *was* a corp with this name, I asked what it was,
+because it's the kind of name that could ONLY apply to what was just described
+above...and the answer came back that it's classified, and why did I want to
+know?  Suffice to say I let the matter drop there.  This is something like the
+second or third time this has happened with a name I've come up with, and by
+now my name is probably on a list or two somewhere....)
+
+     Anyway, I was just about to sit down and come up with a pair of new names
+for this, when I thought...let's have some fun.  So I'll take some suggestions
+here for names for the two items listed above.  Whichever sounds coolest (not
+extreme, not parody, real but cool sounding), I'll slip into the script.
+(This is, of course, contingent upon the clearances department clearing the
+name.)  The competition ends Midnight tonight, Pacific time.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 12 1993
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+     Okay, time's up.  Tomorrow I'll make my choices, and run them past
+clearances.  Will advise which one we go with.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 13 1993
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+
+     Uh, oh...sounds like the fan is giving out on my computer.  Does this
+mean I have to replace the whole power source, or just the fan?  Any
+suggestions appreciated.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Unfortunately, I don't know the internal configuration; the computer was
+custom assembled by someone who's no longer local.  It's a hodgepodge of
+components collectively named the Deathstar 2000 Megasystem.  So the only way
+I can find out is to open the sucker up, which I suppose I'll have to do...as
+soon as I can move aside the stacks and stacks of comic books in front of
+it...and scare away the balrogs....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 14 1993
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+     Will advise on names when I have clearances.  These things take time.
+
+     BTW, for those who might be interested in such things...continuing the
+Earth tradition, all of our various fighter wings have their own names.  The
+fighter unit that Ivanova belongs to, for instance, is the Ghost Riders.  The
+name of Sinclair's Earth/Minbari War Fighter unit was Death's Hand.  We've had
+patches made of these and other insignia, which get used at appropriate
+moments on their flight suits in the cockpit.  (I don't remember offhand the
+name of the primary fighter unit on B5, which is technically Delta Wing, but
+it has a specific name beyond that, and it just fell out of my head.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     In case it hasn't aired in your area yet, look for a brief piece on
+tonight's Entertainment Tonight with Danica McKellar as a B5 centauri.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Pass....
+
+     BTW, speaking of satellite stuff, 35 minutes of B5 promos and other
+stuff, some of it edited to include the Emmy info (but based insofar as I know
+only on the pilot material, nothing new) will be downlinked on Galaxy 4,
+Channel 21, same audio figures as Fenn gave, Friday the 15th from  9-9:45 ET,
+Sunday the 16th from 8-8:45 ET, and Monday the 18th from 1:15 to 2:00 p.m. ET.
+(The first two times given are also PM.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 15 1993
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+
+     As it happens, btw, Michael O'Hare's brother is a Commander in the
+Gunfighters fighter squadron, running weapons, mainly, and flying an  F-14.
+At some point we'll probably stick him in a B5 cockpit, and stick Michael in
+an F-14 cockpit....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     I actually felt kind of awkward watching the ET piece, because here we've
+got all these amazing prosthetics, many of which you could see on the wall,
+and this "oooh, we're alien" process of becoming a centauri is basicall a bald
+head and ponytail.  I dunno...just felt funny, given what goes into making the
+REALLY alien characters we're using.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 17 1993
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+
+     BTW, this week will Bill Mumy's first week on B5, and he's done a very
+nifty job as Lennier.  He brings a wonderful sense of absolute innocence...the
+proverbial innocent abroad...to Lennier's character.  The Minbari prosthetics
+look great on him, enhancing the sense he brings to the character.  He's also
+great with the cast, and keeping things up during shooting.  At one point, as
+they're leaving camera, Delenn says to Lennier, who has just arrived at the
+station, "Now tell me of home; I have been away far too long."  His ad-libbed
+off-camera response: "Beatlemania is back."  (Another ad-lib for another shot:
+"Minimalls...they're everywhere," and "Well, we just got Pizza Hut and
+cable.")
+
+     There's one truly remarkable shot we did for the current episode, shot
+Friday evening.  Generally, in any shot with a crowd, you need about 20-45
+people.  That's usually enough to fill out the shot in any set you can go to.
+More than that gets costly, and isn't really noticeable unless you frame your
+shot just *so*.  Yesterday's shot has 160 extras.  It's a very impressive, and
+very moving shot.  It appears in the tag of "the Parliament of Dreams."  It's
+the kind of shot you just don't see anywhere else.  We had some people from
+PTEN and a film crew for a behind-the-scenes piece on hand, and they all
+commented on how only this show would do this  shot...and how significant it
+is.  (I can't tell you what it was, because that gives it away, and I want it
+to be kind of a surprise; suffice to say you'll definitely know it when you
+see it.)
+
+     "Parliament" is also shaping up to have both some serious moments, and
+some that are just fall-down funny.  There's a Centauri religious festival
+that has to be seen to be believed....
+
+     We're having far too much fun on this show....
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     We've already instituted the need for translation devices on several
+characters.  There are basically three dominant languages on B5, a kind of
+interstellar esperanto, Centauri, and English, which is the more or less
+official military/diplomatic language.  But not everyone is going to know
+those languages, so you need another way.  We have translation teams
+(referenced though not seen in "Soul Hunter"), and physical translation
+devices for use after we've had sufficient contact with a given group or
+individual to be able to decode two languages into one another.
+
+     (Incidentally, we're going with a slightly different version of English
+for things like airlocks and such, alongside the visual pictograms.  Not
+everyone who can speak english will have an immediate grasp of the intricacies
+of the language, and there have been multi cultural/esperanto like influences
+on English over the next 200 years.  So for things like Universe Today, you
+have standard conventional English, since that's primarily an Earther-oriented
+publication.  But then you have signs that read, for instance SECUR AREA, with
+an accent over the U.  We've taken the liberty of simplifying some aspects of
+english for nonhumans, as well as trying to figure out how the impact of multi-
+culturalism might affect language ovese of 200 years.)
+
+     We've shot our first scenes between Sinclair and his new love interest,
+Catherine Sakai (as played by Julia Nickson).  This is a very, very strong
+character, and she brings a wonderful vibrancy to Sakai.   They have a unique
+relationship that looks and sounds like a real relationship, with all its ups
+and downs and dumb moments.  One way that I've reinforced this is that...well,
+in the first episode in which they meet again (they were involved before),
+just about every scene between them is lifted almost directly from personal
+experience.
+
+     And given some of the awkward, even painful conversations that take
+place, it was very, *very* hard to watch this being rehearsed.  (Michael and
+Julia worked over a weekend with the director to get the nuances just right.)
+When it came time to shoot the scenes, much as I wanted to be on-set, I just
+couldn't do it.  My heart just kept falling right down to my shoes.  I can't
+wait for the first person to say "I don't buy this as a real relationship"
+just so's I can whap him upside the head.  But I have a hunch that won't
+happen.  It comes across as very real, and as a very vulnerable moment for
+both characters.
+
+     "Write what you know," they said.  Right.  How about I just take a power
+drill and stick it in my ear...it'd be faster, less painful, and after a while
+I might even come to like it....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     "It may be a simple matter of a loose screw."
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+     Don't get personal, and I've heard that before.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Matt: thanks.  To be honest, I don't know any other way to write.   Those
+here who've known me for a while now can testify that there's a lot of
+personal stuff in just about everything I write.  And sometimes that's very
+hard on an emotional level.  (And people in my life have to understand that
+everything is fair game; I won't violate a trust, won't betray a confidence,
+but it's altogether possible that the *sense* of an argument or a hushed
+midnight conversation might someday show up in something, never in its
+entirety, never wholecloth, but informing the sense of a scene or a
+character.)
+
+     It's very easy, in this town and in this business, to fall into writing
+from non-primary experiences.  We've grown into a nation where we watch TV as
+we grow up, and then when we get the chance to write TV, cycle back to things
+we've seen before...recycling themes and stories rather than using our own
+primary experiences.  I think that film/TV schools are the worst perpetrators
+of this attitude, teaching how to emulate the past rather than seeking out the
+present.  That's why I chose NOT to get my degrees in TV or Film or Creative
+Writing.  A writer has to be a *generalist*.  Know a little about everything,
+and able to find out whe she/he doesn't know quickly.  I've been far better
+served by a degree in clinical psychology (minor in philosophy) and a second
+degree in sociology (minor in literature) than I would've been served getting
+a degree in film production.
+
+     This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately, after one person
+asked me, on another system, if I was concerned about the very real likelihood
+that at some point or another, our show would be touching on some of the same
+areas dealt with on other shows.  There's been so much covered in SF, and when
+you have two shows on space stations, well, you're inevitably going to hit
+some common themes.  I've thought about the question a lot since then, and as
+I review the scripts, it comes more clear to me every day just how much this
+show comes from a very subjective and personal viewpoint.  It's very
+eccentric, and as much as we engage in the larger issues and the story arc,
+our stories tend to have a very personal edge to them, an attitude that can't
+be copied because attitudes are formed inside, over years, and you can't copy
+them any more than you can copy fingerprints.  And the result will always be
+different.
+
+     I don't mean to ramble, but I'm in a thoughtful mood, and just sorta
+working things through...thinking out loud, if you will.
+
+     The pilot notwithstanding -- and I've gone over the problems there with
+exposition and character stuff cut ad nauseum -- the one thing that draws me
+in, as a writer, a reader, and a person, is intense emotion.   The more
+intense, the better.  There's much of it in Captain Power, where I could slip
+it in while no one was looking, even in some of the animation work.  I think
+we all live for moments of revelation and outbreaks of passion.  And the only
+way to find those moments is by writing about the things you find hard to
+write about.  You have to write what scares the hell out of you.
+
+     I've never talked about this before -- said I was in a thoughtful mood --
+but I've known several people, friends, who've taken their own lives.  In one
+case, I spoke to her just beforehand.  Tried, through the phone lines, to
+reach her one more time, pull her back from the edge.  I couldn't.  Years
+pass.  Time comes for me to write the last filmed episode of Power.  Jennifer
+Chase is going to die, partly of her injuries, partly of her own volition.
+Part of my life went into that scene, in the way it was constructed, and what
+was said.  And what was not said, what never had the chance to be said, and
+thus still burns.  I knew that, at the crucial moment of that scene, he
+couldn't be near her, as I wasn't near my friend...it had to be long-distance,
+hearing but not seeing her, and the terrible pain of arriving too late.
+
+     I cannot watch that episode without crying.  Ever.
+
+     Flash forward again.  About two, three months ago, I got a note on the
+Internet/GEnie railroad from a young woman whose name I won't mention here.
+She had lost a friend to suicide not long before that episode aired.  When she
+saw it, she started crying and couldn't stop, something she hadn't been able
+to do since the real death of her friend.  It helped purge her of the feelings
+she'd been carrying around.  Helped her deal with them, because I'd been
+honest in how I'd portrayed it.
+
+     On Twilight Zone, I wrote an episode called "Acts of Terror" that
+concerned wife beating...something with which I'm more familiar than I ever
+wanted to be, due to some things in my family's history.  It was a terrible
+and painful experience to write that script; it hurt and angered me beyond the
+capacity to explain it to you.  I fought desperately to make it true.
+
+     Flash forward.  That episode is now used in many counseling sessions for
+battered wives, to help them deal with their anger and find their own self-
+worth.  I've received literally dozens of letters from people about that one
+episode, many from women who finally found it in their hearts to leave an
+abusive situation.
+
+     Writing is a powerful tool; broadcast to millions of viewers, it is too
+powerful to be relegated to rehashes of Adam and Eve stories.  It may not be
+fashionable anymore, which is unfortunate, but I feel that there is an
+obligation to use the form for more than selling soap.  Not to be preachy, but
+at least to be *honest*, to write from primary experiences, to take a
+position, even if it pisses somebody off.  I was on a TV talk show a few years
+ago, debating that very episode of Power referenced above, and a viewer called
+in to say that he thought it was wrong because the episode left him upset.  I
+wanted to lunge through the phone at him.  Yes it upset you.  It was MEANT to
+upset you.  It SHOULD upset us when someone dies, it can't be just a dramatic
+hook bracketing commercials; when we lose someone we care about, we should be
+moved, or else what the hell are we doing here?
+
+     The role of the writer is to touch passion, and not be destroyed by it,
+then come back and report what it was like.
+
+     I wish I could find a great concluding thought, a benediction to wrap all
+this up in a neat little package, but I haven't got one.  I'm rambling, and I
+know it, and my apologies if this has gone on too long; just contemplative
+tonight, I guess.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Unrelated to anything that's preceded (thank goodness), here's a little
+something for consideration...thoughts to conjure with, when it comes to our
+season-ending episode/cliffhanger.
+
+     On Power, leaving out the things that unnerved people too much to let me
+do, I was still able, in the final episode/cliffhanger of that first season,
+to destroy the protagonist's base of operations totally and completely and
+beyond recall, set up a major change in the antagonist's appearance (the final
+mechanized stages of Lyman Taggert), eliminate all or nearly all of our
+Jonathan Power's supply lines and support personnel, totally turn around the
+direction of the show, and kill one major regular character.
+
+     So if that's what happens on a show where I'm not allowed full reign to
+do *everything* want...stop to consider for a moment what happens when there's
+no one to stop me from going all the way....
+
+     "Chrysalis" is going to be one heck of an episode....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Harlan very much believes and supports what we're doing here, and if you
+know Harlan, you know what that means.
+
+     Kiwi...understand that no changes are just made willy-nilly (to use your
+term).  This is a STORY.  As with any story, any novel, you have your moments
+of surprise, of sudden turns where you kick over all of the tables and watch
+the pieces scatter.  But the writer already knows where the pieces will land.
+It's all according to plan.  Nobody's going to be screwed over.  Anymore than
+when somebody reading, say, a Stephen King book feels screwed over when
+suddenly Salem's Lot, a nice quiet little town, suddenly gets filled with
+undead and characters are suddenly going through some remarkable
+changes...it's all part of the story.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     BTW, for those in the Los Angeles area, channel 13 will be showing the B5
+pilot again a week from this Friday at, I believe, 8 p.m.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     BTW, to a question someone asked somewhere...I believe that the B5
+fighters are technically SA-20 Starfuries.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     No agents allowed.
+
+     Funny...I sometimes make up little clips from shows and put them to music
+for myself or for convention appearances...and I was giving some serious
+thought to assembling a montage and using "I Am the Walrus" by the Beatles as
+the music...and then realized that it would probably give away too much if I
+composed the pictures correctly with the lyrics.
+
+     I am the walrus...coo-coo ka choo....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     It's hard to mention companies in a TV show without getting permission.
+(In my heart I'd love to see an ad for "IBM...a  Division of the Sony
+Corporation.")
+
+     What's the problem with passion?  Multifold.  Networks and studios are
+often put off by it.  Passion isn't fashionable, and isn't usually very
+saleable.  Also, so many have now been trained by film school to replicate
+what they grew up with...combined with the many who've learned the Formula
+from others or from the Script Gurus and hesitate to vary from that
+formula...that it's just not done very often.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Actually, in speaking off the top of my head, I was off a bit on the
+Starfuries thing.  I checked, was going to write it verbatim, but once again
+forgot, and now I'm back to working off memory (which is always a scary thing
+for me).  Anyway, I seem to recall that it's not SA, and it has a longer name.
+It's the FA-23 Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfury.  I'll try to get the full specs and
+post 'em sometime soon.
+
+     Incidentally, B5 is in this month's WIRED magazine, in the Wired vs.
+Tired column.  We're "wired."  (Sort of their "What's In" and "What's Out"
+column.)  Not bad for a series that's not even on the AIR yet.
+
+     Spent almost all of Saturday in the editing room, working on the main
+title sequence for B5, which looks very good.  This coming Thursday and Friday
+are big days for B5...we're going into the final mix stage.  On those two
+days, we finish laying in EVERYTHING...sound, music, EFX, you name it.  And in
+theory, at the end of Friday, we'll have our first episode totally and
+completely finished.  It's both an exhilirating moment and a scary one...once
+done, it's *done*, we have to let go, we can't tinker with it anymore.  At
+some point, you have to just walk away nad (and) what it is is what it is.
+And so far, what it is looks pretty darned good.  (Our first full mix is "Soul
+Hunter.")
+
+     Our sound designer has finished working on the gun-sounds, and they sound
+very impressive.  We've come up with a different way of handling the gun
+sequences -- firing, impact, and sound -- based more on how these things would
+actually work if they existed.  And let me tell you, if you EVER ran into or
+heard one of these things coming your way, you'd get the hell out FAST.  We
+actually sat down for hours and tried to determine the effects on impact, on
+firing, on the surrounding atmosphere, and how to avoid the 30 mph problem
+usually associated with TV lasers.  (That is, you trace the "laser" across
+screen, you see it move, which means that this beam of light is moving slower
+than a bullet...which is silly.)  By all rights, it should be nearly invisible
+and nearly instantaneous...but then you don't see anything.  We've managed to
+come up with a nifty little solution to the problem.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     For various story reasons, the narration now shifts to Sinclair, who has
+a slight variation on it.
+
+     BTW, look for a piece in the November Film/TV (or Film/Video, I can never
+remember) magazine on B5's EFX team.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Yes, we're going to keep the general structure of the narrative, from
+black to the star rising, to B5, though the new narrative will be a bit more
+historical in nature.
+
+     BTW, guess which certain series just acquired a whole bunch of Toasters,
+is under pressure to lower the budget, and is trying frantically to catch up
+with a certain other show's use of CGI...?
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Okay, the element's name is set as Quantium-40, and the name of the
+Megacorporation is Universal Terraform.  Just FYI, neither ScanCor nor Terra
+Astra cleared, so those are real corporations.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I culled only the names I thought might work for us.  One problem with a
+number of the suggestions was that while the names in question might work well
+in writing, on a page or a screen, actors have to *say* these words out loud,
+and some of them would've been very difficult to pronounce.  The name also has
+to be recognizeable as, say, a corporation.   A couple of names sounded nice,
+but could end up sounding just a part of the sentence, and we don't realize
+that a corp name has gone by until too late.  This is the difference between
+writing for a printed medium, and a dialogue/verbal medium.
+
+     An interesting exercise, in any event.  Which is why I suggested it,
+instead of just going with my own.  Again, we're here in part to go into the
+process a bit.
+
+     Meanwhile, back at the ranch....
+
+     Have been down for a few days with the Babylon Bug, the flu that's ripped
+through the stage and the offices and has hit just about everyone.  REALLY
+nasty.  But the show, as they say, must go on, so we've been pushing ahead.
+One slight alteration in schedule...on Monday some of the last scenes we
+needed came in after the rotoscoping work was done, and since we finally had
+all the parts, we went ahead and did the final mix on "Soul Hunter" over
+Monday and Tuesday.  So I'm proud to say that that first episode is now 100%
+complete and in the can.
+
+     It makes a MAJOR difference to see these shows on film, color corrected,
+with music, sound EFX, visual EFX, cgi and the rest.  It's a very solid
+episode, very intense, and in many ways a one-hour movie, which is what I'd
+like to see in the series overall...a cinematic style of storytelling.  The
+music really drives the action, and the visual EFX (i.e., guns, rays, other
+visual stuff that doesn't involve CGI) are just terrific.
+
+     We do the final mix on "Midnight" next Monday, and will probably be doing
+one mix per week thereafter, until the holidays.
+
+     (Kevin, who does our visual EFX rotoscoping stuff does all this in his
+home facility, on a Mac.  We got word this morning at 6:30 a.m. that his house
+is right on the fire line at one of the big L.A. fires going on today.
+Refusing to evacuate, he has spent all day alternatively on his roof, spraying
+down the house and grounds, and in his home office, backing up all the B5 EFX
+onto optical removeable drives, with a B5 runner standing ready, right there,
+to yank the stuff and evacuate if need be.  It's some measure of the
+dedication on this show that where other people might be loading up personal
+belongings, he was mainly concerned with getting the B5 efx out the door in
+case the worst happened.)
+
+     (Apparently, as of this writing, all is still well with Kevin, and it
+looks like the worst is past, as far as he's concerned, at least, though the
+rest of the valley is burning....)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     BTW, today I was gifted by some folks in B5 with a collection of some of
+the patches we've used on the fighter pilot suits.  You'll see these on the
+front breast and arms (both sides of each) of the suits, if only in the
+occasional glimpse.  Even though they'll probably never bee fully seen, we
+felt the need to make 'em real looking and finish them off to the last
+stitched detail.
+
+     These include the Earth Forces Off-World patch (gold-handled sword
+against a starburst within what looks like a cross between a mobius strip and
+human DNA), Earth Force Command (similar, but minus the starburst, with
+transverse red stripes against a black background), a B5 Fighter Wing Squadron
+patch (Flying Nightmares, B5FA-1013 on the outer ring, with a B5 symbol on the
+left side outlined by up-and-down red stripes, and on the right a black up and
+down stripe bordered by 2256), a rectangular Earth Alliance Fighter
+Identification patch (five-pointed command insignia circled by red and gold,
+overlaid with gold wings over Joe Straczynski), and the insignia worn by those
+on the Battle of the Line, a triangular patch with Star Fury on the upper left
+angle in silver on black, FA-23E in silver on black on the right upper angle,
+with the inner part of the triangle divided in two by a vertical silver
+stripe, blue on the left, gold on the right, over which is the design of one
+of the fighters in full accelleration, leaving trails behind it, with the
+squadron number 361st - TFS, with UGLY beneath it, and on the lower left angle
+of the patch, in black on silver, the words BUT WELL HUNG.
+
+     Which refers, of course, to the figher craft itself.
+
+     (They hang upside down prior to launch, you'll recall.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     P.S.  No, sorry, they're not for sale.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Insofar as I know, stations that have pledged to take the current
+programs will continue to show the current programs (which includes B5).
+There doesn't seem to be any direct impact on B5 at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     We're assuming that the navy and airforce have more or less merged into
+Earthforce, so there's influences from both sides.
+
+     The fighters are in regular configuration when the pilot boards.   Then
+the drop doors open, the ship tilts down on a massive pair of arms, and then
+they're released, the centrifugal force of the station sending them out the
+drop doors.  When they've gotten a bit away from the station, they hit their
+engines.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Just heard that the winds have changed,, and Kevin's place is in danger
+again.  We're sending runners to help yank equipment.  Which means driving
+right into the fire-line.  This could go either way.  We'll see.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     It's the name on the patch, not the picture.
+
+     According to press material released by Paramount, the "ST: Voyager "
+series will involve a crew of young cadets on their first training mission.
+
+     Don't yet know how the Paramount deal will affect us, if at all.  No one
+at Warners seems terribly concerned about it, so my guess is that it really
+won't affect us one way or the other, but that's only a guess.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+     (P.S. Kevin's place escaped the fire, all is well.)
+

+
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+     Makes sense...I spend my entire life in a state of spontaneous human
+confusion....
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 31 1993
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+     There are a lot of little in-jokes...but I'd rather let you see them than
+ruin the surprise.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 24 1993
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+     The various characters take their own stands,which vary.  Franklin only
+considers the possibility of cloning someone's personality matrix, for
+instance.  And again, it depends on how you *define* soul.  The Soul Hunter
+defines it not as something supernatural, but as the collection of thoughts,
+personality, feelings and the very essence of the person that dies with the
+body.  That definition is broad enough to encompass just about anything.  Then
+you get into the more specific ideas of what a soul is.
+
+     One person at a post production house we've used has indicated that he
+has "theological problems" with working on that episode; not because it's
+*against* what he believes -- he's worked on horror movies and stuff with
+devils and the like -- but because it takes a point of view he doesn't much
+like...in that he has to sit and defend the whole *context* of his
+ideas...meaning, it's making him think.  He can just poo-poo the stuff against
+what he believes, support what he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure
+where this show comes down, or where it makes *him* come down.  I've had any
+number of problems with people on a show before, but this is the first time
+I've run into a theological problem.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     For this new season: nope.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 02 1993
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+     Say Hi back for me.
+
+     Y'know...it's a funny old world.  And sometimes it just astonishes you.
+
+     About 2 months ago, one of our freelancers turned in a script that has to
+do with a hate group, in the course of which a guest character -- a Minbari --
+is attacked and has her head branded with the symbol of the group.
+
+     So you will doubtless understand my astonishment when I turned on DS9 and
+saw the same thing happen.
+
+     Unfortunately, we've already shot that episode, it's in the can, so
+there's nothing we can do about it now.  Further -- and let me be totally
+clear about this -- there's no way that DS9 could've borrowed the idea from
+us, or in any way been influence by us, and no way we could've been influence
+by them.  To get on the air now, they would've had to shoot their episode some
+time before the writer turned in that draft for our show.  And none of us were
+in any way aware of what was going on there until we saw it the night of the
+broadcast...and came in the next day with looks of absolute shock.
+
+     These things do happen...and when you're dealing with similar general
+areas -- humans vs. aliens, or one alien group vs. another alien group -- then
+something like this becomes inevitable.  And given the foreheads on Ferengi,
+and the foreheads on Minbari, the obviousness of that target  becomes clear.
+Still, it's amazing when it happens.  And I guess I just wanted it to be clear
+when this thing airs that the sequence in our show was in the can and done
+when the DS9 episode aired.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Kiwi...yeah, I know.  We're in discussions to see if there's any way we
+can cut this from the show...the only problem is that the brand stays on
+throughout the show.  If it were just in one shot, we'd cut the shot and find
+some other way around it.  The only way we can lose it now would be if we
+literally wiped off the brand by going into every frame in which it appears
+and digitally removing it from the frame...which is a *real* pain in the
+butt...but we are considering it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     The points made above are essentially correct; the brand goes on in the
+very top of the show, in the teaser, and stay on throughout the episode...and
+part of the story is dealing with this, and what it means.   An offer is made
+to remove it, but the victim decides *not* to have it removed, because there
+are lessons in these things...and it becomes almost a badge of defiance.
+
+     In addition to the notes here, I've received a whole bunch of email notes
+saying to leave it in, on the grounds that it *does* happen in real life (or
+incidents close to it), and how we're handling it *is* very different.  (Some
+indicated that it can illustrate how the two shows handle their themes in
+different ways.)  So it's a tough call...to change would also mean some re-
+shooting...but given the responses here, I think it's okay to leave it in
+place.
+
+     File this one away the next time someone asks, "What sort of ways has the
+BBS discussion actually affected Babylon 5?"
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Actually, "beep-beep" was always there in the script; it was the part
+where we learn AFTER that that Sinclair only told G'Kar about the homing
+beacon, didn't really plant it, that came up during filming.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Hey,  have you ever seen me when I effervasn't?
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Let me introduce you to something called the Budget....
+
+                                                           jms
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+     You have to understand that when I said "Let me introduce you to the
+budget," I was talking primarily in TV terms.  The actors sometimes named here
+-- from Mel Gibson on -- generally command salaries of $4-10 million per
+movie.  Those actors are generally outside the reach of *any* TV series.  As
+it is, we've managed to pull in some pretty amazing actors who would generally
+be unattainable, but loved the scripts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Guest stars so far include David McCallum, Clive Revell, David Warner,
+Danica McKellar, William Sanderson, Morgan Shepherd, Marshall Teague, Judson
+Scott, Christopher Neame, and shortly, Walter Koenig.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Clive Revell is a Tony-award winning actor, member of the Royal
+Shakespeare Company, and one of the most  regarded actors around.  Judson
+Scott was in ST II, as Khan's second, and had his own short-lived series, "The
+Phoenix."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     That was, indeed, Morgan Shepherd on SQ.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 30 1993
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+     The starfury fighter is launched by a drop straight out, nose pointed
+"downward," toward space.  Upon release, it flies pretty much straight out,
+still containing some of the momentum from the rotation, so it would appear to
+be going straight away from the station because its position in relation to
+the station, like a geosynchronous satellite, is still more or less correct.
+Shortly after getting out of the bay, the fighters fire up their engines,
+which lets them take any angle or direction they choose.  So they can very
+quickly head away on any trajectory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     The fighters enter via the main docking bay, where they are shunted back
+into the Starfury launch bays.  (BTW, for those who've asked, and let it never
+be said that we're unresponsive...we asked Ron to develop a CGI sequence that
+shows how ships get from the interior of the main docking bay down to the
+customs and loading bays.  I've seen it, and it looks pretty spiffy.  Look for
+it in "Grail."
+
+     Re: the mask...yes, form follows function.  It should cover the whole
+face (done), be transparent (done), be easy to slip on and off (done), and
+contain its own atmosphere cartridges (done).  We could've gotten fancy, but
+it made sense for a station like B5 to order just what they need, not add on a
+whole lot of bells and whistles, and I'm not really sure what more you NEED in
+a mask.
+
+     BTW, the triangular ships are Raiders.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     The bay is pressurized, with drop doors beneath each fighter.  A ramp
+extends to the fighters individually, bringing on pilots.  The bays are
+depressurized as the pilots (in flight suits) prepare.  Then the drop doors
+open, the fighters pivot to nose-down position, and launch.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     We beat the crap out of Ron.  There will be lens flare where it's needed.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Bear in mind that the amount of counterthrust diminishes the more
+detailed and precise your movements become.  You need a big thrust at one or
+two points for the big configurations, then as you start to narrow it down,
+the thrusts get smaller and more precise and are less visibly noticeable.
+We're talking microthrusts here.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Yes.  It's all covered.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 10 1993
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+
+     I commented in that topic.  You can check there if you want.  I have no
+desire to drag this out here.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Walter will appear in one episode this year, "Mind War," and that
+character may well return next season in a couple of episodes.  Which is all I
+can say about it at this time.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 21 1993
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+
+     I'd rather it weren't.  Someone talked out of school who shouldn't have,
+didn't get things correctly, and it was awkward for all concerned, and the
+person who initially posted the info apologized.  I'd like to leave it at that
+and not drag it over here.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     I'm told it'll be soon.  The problem was multifold: 1) Christy had this
+really impatient producer yelling on her for a script, which she finally
+turned in, and will star David Warner; 2) she's in the process of buying a
+house and moving; 3) she's been yelling on me for an intro piece, which I keep
+missing; and 4) because of the changes in cast, she had to interview all of
+the new cast members, who will be featured in the next issue.  There are only
+two issues left in the run in any event, and in a way, the later the issue,
+the more complete the information will be.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+                              oops.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 11 1993
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+
+     Whether it's two or three...who can keep count?...the newsletter was a
+private thing developed in-house for the movie, and to segue into the series;
+it was never meant to be a permanent fixture.  (And I'm sure that PTEN will
+probably initiate its own publication after a while, if we're properly
+successful.)  After the initial full run, it's really up to Christy whether or
+not she decides to carry on with the thing for a while.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 25 1993
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+     I'm reasonably sure that the B5 pilot will be repeated on KCOP the next
+day, Saturday.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 28 1993
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+
+     Actually, the funny thing is, I don't much mind if people who hadn't seen
+the pilot don't catch the rebroadcast.  What we're doing now is SO radically
+better than the pilot that I almost can't watch it now.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1693.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1693.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 17 1993
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+
+     There are moments I think it would be a wonderful idea....
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1694.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1694.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 24 1993
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+
+     Yes, Mike, very nice, now finish putting your pajamas on and get to bed,
+you've got a busy day ahead of you.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1695.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1695.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 14 1993
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+
+     I've always found for basic space adventuring stuff, Eric Frank Russell
+is terrific....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1697.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1697.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 19 1993
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+
+     One way to get around all that, of course, is to transfer all of your CGI
+directly to film at some point, and use that down the road.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1698.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1698.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 01 1993
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+     I understand it'll be sometime close to airdate, possibly a few weeks
+after we go on the air.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1699.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1699.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 01 1993
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+     Mark Altman.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1700.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1700.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 02 1993
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+
+     The photo was from the pilot; the line about stations was not altogether
+incorrect.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1701.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1701.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 15 1993
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+
+     She was talking to Vir, not Londo.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1702.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1702.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 25 1993
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+
+     Scenario Number One: sending the Lurkers back to Earth.  Comes a call
+from Earth Central: "Hell, no, you're NOT shipping them back here, we're
+overcrowded enough as it is, we will NOT give you permission to send them back
+here."
+
+     Scenario Number Two: turning them over to their representatives on B5.
+G'Kar: "Thank you very much for bringing this to my attention, Commander, I'll
+have him sent back at once."  Beat.  The commander leaves.
+
+     G'Kar: "Get OUT of here and don't come back!  I don't have time to deal
+with the likes of you, we're NOT paying to send you back to Homeworld, just
+get out!"
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1703.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1703.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 29 1993
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+
+     "Jiggery-pokery"...that's a codename for math, isn't it?  YOU CAN'T FOOL
+ME!  I GOT MY CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT DECODER BADGE!  NOTHING GETS PAST ME!
+
+     I need a vacation....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1704.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1704.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 01 1993
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+
+     Beats me...you ask my opinion, that docking bay entrance looks a LOT
+like the Chevy symbol, so what the hell do I know?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1705.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1705.html
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+
+     The breather units now cover the whole face, yes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1706.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1706.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 14 1993
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+     I'd say that's pretty close to what we've been doing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1707.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1707.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 28 1993
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+
+     Hmmmm....I guess they sold out...which means they owe me money....
+
+
+                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1708.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1708.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 28 1993
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+
+     Right, that's what I was referring to, HOUR 25 posters, not B5 posters.
+I hope no one here was confused by this.
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1709.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1709.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 29 1993
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+
+     No, there's no reference to B5 in the Hour 25 poster...only that it was
+painted by the same man who did our original B5 artwork, used to help sell the
+series, and is signed by him (Peter Ledger), as well as by me, Larry DiTillio
+and Harlan Ellison...the first official grouping of what would become the B5
+core.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1710.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1710.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 30 1993
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+
+     Not yet....
+
+                                                         jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1711.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1711.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 01 1993
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+
+     I genuinely don't think you'll be seeing much *anywhere* until just about
+the time we hit the airwaves.  You want to put these things into catalogs and
+stores when you think people will buy them...and right now, a lot of folks
+still don't know about the show.  Don't worry, you'll be sick to death of the
+merchandising soon enough....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1712.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1712.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 04 1993
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+
+     It's a general storage area.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1713.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1713.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 15 1993
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+
+     Actually, "The Wall" is one of my weaker episodes.  I much prefer
+"Rendezvous," though there's much in "Special Service" to commend it.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1714.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1714.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 19 1993
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+
+     I've never felt the need, as a writer, to be didactic about this stuff.
+No, I don't believe in an afterlife...I also don't believe in the actual
+existence of Vorlons, either, but I write about them.  I don't think it's a
+requirement.  H.P. Lovecraft was one of our best writers of supernatural
+fiction, but I very much doubt that he believed in the Old Ones, or made bi-
+weekly offerings to Cthulhu.
+
+     All areas of human endeavor should be open to exploration, discussion and
+analysis, for what we can learn from them.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1715.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1715.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 26 1993
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+
+                              ...ehhhhh....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1716.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1716.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 24 1993
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+
+     There's a line of sight display in front, joystick and foot controls, and
+voice control of the ship's computerized navigation and firing  controls as
+well.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1717.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1717.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 30 1993
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+
+     You're looking at the wrong part of the station.  Run the tape, and
+you'll see several segments that track alongside the round front of the
+station, and revolve along with it.  (Remember where the spider transport
+attached itself?  I seem to recall that was on one of the cobra arms.)   So
+we're still using centrifugal force to launch.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1718.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1718.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 01 1993
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+
+     A couple of the cobra bays aren't yet finished and loaded.  The last
+fighter wing will be arriving in "Survivors."
+
+                                                      jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1719.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1719.html
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+
+     "Survivors" is the new title for "Knife in the Shadows," by Marc Scott
+Zicree.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1720.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1720.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 05 1993
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+
+     Except in this case, "Survivors" ended up being a more apt title for the
+episode.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1721.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1721.html
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+
+     There's really no one answer to that; the approach would vary depending
+on the logistics and tactics and who was where.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1722.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1722.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 23 1993
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+
+     Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1723.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1723.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 26 1993
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+
+     An earlier model, yes.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1724.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1724.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 27 1993
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+
+     There are no current military alliances, though some might like that.
+
+     There have never been any survivors of a Vorlon war, so there's no  way
+of knowing....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1725.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1725.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 26 1993
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+
+     BTW, those Hour 25 posters, of which there are only a limited number
+left, are in a sense the first (and possibly most interesting) collectible for
+B5 afficianados.  The poster is of the logo for Hour 25, a radio show hosted
+by Harlan, and then me.  It was on H25 that the first mention was made of B5;
+also, the poster was designed by Peter Ledger, who did the art for B5 that
+helped get the project sold; and it's autographed by Peter, me, Harlan Ellison
+(conceptual consultant) and Larry Ditillio (our S.E.).  And of course it's set
+in space.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1726.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1726.html
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+
+     Well, I've got some, maybe about 100, Christy has some, and it's possible
+that Dangerous Visions in Sherman Oaks has a handful left, but that's it.
+Nobody at KPFK has any.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1727.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1727.html
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+
+     Didn't get your note until too late re: the poster.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1728.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1728.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 19 1993
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+
+     Okay, here's the info: I, Larry DiTillio, and possibly others will be
+making a presentation at LosCon that Thanksgiving weekend on Saturday from 11
+a.m. to 1 p.m.  We got a two-hour block because we may have some stuff to
+unveil.  If you're in the L.A. area, and interested in B5, I wouldn't miss
+this one.  As well as the possibility of some cast members, those who come may
+get more than just a preview....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (That's Thanksgiving weekend at the Burbank Airport Hilton.)
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1729.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-10/1729.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 10 1993
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+
+     Several corrections.  Neither Knight One nor Knight Two are Psi Cops.
+Everyone assumed that they were, but I never said that, and it's not the case
+at all.
+
+     Danica McKeller does not appear in "Sky," she appears in "The War
+Prayer;" David McCalllum appears in "Infection."  Christy Marx's episode is
+entitled "Grail," and that's the one with David Warner, William Sanderson and
+Tom Booker.  "Metaphors" and "Target" have been retitled.
+
+     Those are the errors I caught just in passing.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I no longer have any idea what we're talking about, and frankly it scares
+the hell out of me....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 11 1993
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+     Yeah, easy for YOU to say, KAL...I've got Londo, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Kosh
+and half the Psi-Corps running around inside my head and yelling at each other
+24 hours a day...YOU try to sleep with all that racket.
+
+     I either need to find a better neighborhood, or a worse one, I can't
+decide....
+
+     "AH, my GOOD, CLOSE FRIEND, GariBALdi --"
+
+     That's it!  Everybody outta the pool......!
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Behind-the-scenes humor: because it had been so long since the pilot, it
+took a few of our actors a bit of time to get back into their characters, to
+find the characters' "fingerprints" for lack of a better term.  This is quite
+understandable given the long waiting period.  When he needed to find his
+character for a scene, Peter Jurasik mentioned that he would just stand up
+straight and yell, "MISter GariBALdi!" and he'd be right back in character.
+Sort of the B5 version of "Shazam!"
+
+     Minus the lightning bolt, of course.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 24 1993
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+     No, the series is one-to-one on the passage of years.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 24 1993
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+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+Posts are from Nov 1, 1993 through Dec 2, 1993
+
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 31 1993
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+     Just an update...on Monday we a) do the final mix on "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," so we'll have two finished and in the can, and b) finish
+shooting Christy's episode of "Grail."  (And those of you who've been asking
+for nonhumanoid alien stuff...hold onto your hats for this one.)   On Tuesday
+we start shooting "Mind War," with Walter Koenig, William Allan Young and
+Felicity Waterman.  Both "Grail" and "Mind War" have been heavy on EFX, both
+visual (on set) and CGI.
+
+     In looking at all the episodes shot to date, from a story point of view,
+I think that "Sky" is still my favorite, in how it ties into the whole 5 year
+arc.  From a personal point of view, I'm very fond of "The Parliament of
+Dreams," which is a very funny show, and at times a very emotional show.
+"Parliament" is all over the place...it's got all of our major characters, our
+ambassadors, their seconds, we see lots of group scenes, we're all over the
+station, dipping in and out of three different but interconnected
+stories...it's really a matter of keeping a lot of balls in the air at one
+time, and I think we pulled it off nicely.
+
+     BTW, we've finished assembling the main title sequence, and we're going
+to do one extra little thing to it that's kinda neat...more on this closer to
+airdate.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     There are a lot of little in-jokes...but I'd rather let you see them than
+ruin the surprise.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 02 1993
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+     We sneak in GEnie coordinates from time to time....
+
+     We now have just under half the episodes now filmed, and just finished
+the final mix on "Midnight," so that's two totally completed.  It takes a long
+time after an episode is finished to do a final mix, particularly on a show
+like this, since you've got to work out sound, score music, and do any
+rotoscope/Viz EFX stuff.  Once you do the first one, after that they fall into
+place on a weekly basis (so next Monday we should have the final on "Purple,"
+then the following Monday we'll finalize "Infection," and so on).
+
+     "Midnight" is very cool, by the way.  Christopher Franke's music really
+brings the action scenes to life.  It's amazing how much that adds to a show.
+
+     Had an interesting conversation today with one of our crew.  I was
+talking to someone else about the writing philosophy on the show, and how it's
+comparable to a tryptich...you line up the stories and you begin to see a much
+broader story after a while.  A series of interconnected images.
+
+     And this crew person said that I was wrong, that wasn't how the show is
+being done.  Now lemme tell you...we encourage people on every level to speak
+frankly, at any time, to any one, but it takes considerable cojones to say
+something like that to one's exec producer, that he has his own series wrong
+in the description.  "Oh?" says I.
+
+     He explains that what it is, is "holographic storytelling."  I asked him
+what the hell this meant.  He said that the image of pictures side by side,
+linear storytelling, wasn't right.  That after he read two scripts, he went
+back and reread the first one, and now he could see things in it that he
+hadn't seen before.  When he'd read three, again he glanced over the first,
+and new things had come out.
+
+     "What it IS," he said, "is not side-by-side images, but *overlaping*
+images, like old fashioned photographic plates stacked up one on top of the
+other.  Each has a piece of the whole picture.  When you line them all up, one
+behind the other, and look through all of them at once, you realize what the
+picture is.  It's three-dimensional storytelling."
+
+     I had to think about that one a long time, but frankly, he's right, and
+I'm wrong.  That *IS* what we're doing, and I've been describing it
+incorrectly all this time.
+
+     Holographic storytelling...well, live and learn, I say.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Not this season, no.  Nor are there currently any plans for same.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 04 1993
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+     Now that we've finished mixing some shows, we've now seen how Kosh
+speaks, followed through to the end.  It's a very unusual system that he's got
+there, and it's *real* creepy to watch/listen to it.  The kind of thing that
+makes your skin crawl after a while.
+
+     I love it.
+
+     Today,ter Koenig's 2nd day working in the B5 universe, as a Psi Cop in
+"Mind War."  He's doing well, taking part in some very difficult scenes (fight
+scenes and the ilke), and it's a very powerful performance, not at ALL what
+people have seen before.  He's a terrific performer when given a role with
+some meat to it.  And the dailies look great.  I think this episode will wake
+up a lot of people who have never seen Walter as anything other than Chekov.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 05 1993
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+     Yes, people will go to the bathroom.  ANd yes, they will speak in their
+own languages when amongst their own kind...but just as with a WW II movie,
+when you show the germans talking to one another, it'll be English.  On those
+occasions when someone speaks Narn around humans, then of course it's another
+language, and will sound that way.
+
+     The pilot was a tad too dark looking; we've taken a slightly lighter look
+for the series, while keeping the shadows and textures that we want.
+
+     What a weird day...I just get over the flu, this is my first really
+healthy day, and on the way back from the lunch trucks I slip spraining my
+ankle.  Now, after I've had the flu, I generally tend to dress warmly for a
+few days, wear my slippers, to avoid falling back.  So now here I am typing
+this with a bag of ice on my foot.  Either way...I'm doomed.
+
+     Funny incident today, though, also at lunch.  Walter Koenig joined some
+of the cast members at their table for lunch, and as he came to the table,
+they all stood up at attention.  When asked why, they explained that it's
+protocol for junior officers to stand when a senior officer comes to the
+table.  It was kind of a nice moment.
+
+     Shooting on "Mind War" continues to go well.  Great stuff from Walter.
+Also, I've finally seen the final version of the B5 main title, with the
+addition of Christopher Franke's B5 theme music...and it's just terrific, a
+huge step over the pilot, much as I liked some aspects of that music.  It's
+rich, romantic, full, aggressive, and it stays in the mind afterward.
+
+     Looking good....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 06 1993
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+     The B5 soundtrack for the series is built from many different kinds of
+pieces, synthesized (based on one of the most extensive collection of
+musical/audio samples in the world, which Christopher has been in the process
+of collecting ever since he practically hand-assembled his first Moog), and
+symphonic, since we're using the Berlin Symphonic Orchestra for some elements
+of our score.  It changes dramatically depending on the subject.
+
+     Re: gunfire...in a way, you'll see them...and in a way, you won't.   I
+know that sounds like a Zen koan, but it'll make sense when you see how they
+work.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 07 1993
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+     The main problem with using sub-titles under an alien language to any
+real degree is, of course, the probelm with the blind viewership, which is
+especially large in SF, it appears.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1993
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+     Well, we've finished finalizing our main/opening titles sequence, and
+done the on-line editing, and now will put it into the process and start
+putting whole shows together.  We've decided, in order to emphasize the
+cinematic aspects of our show, that it's taking more of a movie approach to TV
+SF...to do the main titles in letterbox format.
+
+     And it looks really, really cool.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1993
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+     Yes, the main titles will be in letterbox format for conventional
+televisions...we're taking the footage that we've shot in 16:9 aspect ratio,
+and shrinking it down just enough to fit, so there's black on top and bottom,
+the same way that, for instance, TNT shows movies in their full aspect ratio.
+And we've custom designed some CGI that also is in  that format.  (In the case
+of series footage that we're using, there you'll be able to compare the
+regular aspect ratio of the broadcast with what's in the main titles.  In
+other words, there's a scene in "Parliament" of a Minbari gathering.  In
+regular aspect, as part of the show, you'll see it one way.  We've clipped a
+section of that for the main titles and used the full aspect ratio, and in
+that you'll see the far right and left sides normally clipped for standard TV
+aspect ratio.)
+
+     Apparently this is also done on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, I learned the
+other day, so that'll give you some sense of it.  It's very effective at
+giving a real cinematic feel to your main titles.
+
+
+                                            jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1993
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+     No, it won't be rare.  And that's the reason why we're NOT doing
+subtitles.  This is the difference between something sounding neat on paper,
+but not in reality, and especially not on a TV series.
+
+     If you're doing a feature film, and only have one or two shots of aliens
+talking in subtitles, for brief periods, you can do this; also if you're doing
+an SF series in which you're mainly talking to humans, and only rarely among
+your own kind.
+
+     But in B5, a LOT of our time is spent with our various alien characters.
+And sometimes the conversation can get quite detailed, quite complex or
+political.  In one script, for instance, there's a 2 1/2 minute scene with
+G'Kar and Na'Toth, followed by two lengthy scenes with Londo and Vir, and
+Delenn and Vir.  So you're talking about maybe 5  minutes here.  The
+conversation is very detailed, very elaborate.  So are you a) going to put all
+of this complex dialogue on screen, line by line, and b) use subtitles for
+FIVE UNBROKEN MINUTES?
+
+     You'd kill yourself as a series.  No one would stand for it, and they'd
+be right.  Again, not every good idea is a workable or practical idea.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 12 1993
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+     I don't offhand know the answer to the more tech question; the info is at
+the office, and I always get them confused in my head.  I'm fairly sure it's
+option c, though.
+
+     RE: composition...the monitor on which the director and DP can watch and
+see what the camera sees has on it demarkations to show the regular aspect
+ratio, as well as the widescreen view.  Which pretty much allows them to
+compose for both, for the most part.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 13 1993
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+     We're not shooting on videotape, so it's kind of a moot point.  We're
+shooting on film, which can be converted to HDTV standards *very* easily.  The
+pixel density is a function of where you go once you decide to convert the
+film.  It's now being converted to video at standard resolution; when HDTV
+comes into existence commercially, the film will be reprocessed out and
+transferred to video at that level.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 15 1993
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+     I really don't know that much; apparently there's something in the works
+about toys, but I don't have specifics.  Ditto for comics and the like.  I
+tend not to get my head too far into that part of it, because I think that as
+soon as you do, you can get lost in merchandising, and the next thing you know
+you're doing things not necessarily because they belong in the story, but
+because they make great merchandise prospects.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 16 1993
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+     Our head of post production, associate producer George Johnsen, pulled a
+number on me today that just struck me as hilarious, and I pass it on to you.
+(We do a lot of silly stuff behind the scenes.)
+
+     Take your hands.  Fold in the thumb until it's pointing in toward the
+palm of your hand, but not entirely.  Fan out your other four fingers on each
+hand as far as you can.  Now put the two hands together so that the index
+fingers touch, and the pinkies are on either side of one another (i.e., you've
+formed a crown or fan).  Raise your hands so that your wrists are settling on
+either side of the top of your head.
+
+     Now look at the person sitting next to you and say, "Live, Londo, and
+Prosper."  This is the unofficial B5 crew greeting.  Apparently some have been
+doing it when they arrive for work in the morning.
+
+     We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 17 1993
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+     The following is *not* a shot, I repeat, the following is NOT a shot,
+okay?  It's just...last night, I got in from the stage late, and the last 15
+minutes of the latest TNG effort was on, about the destructive warp engines.
+And I watched, astonished, as the Enterprise was buffetted by rift forces,
+damaged, another ship was damaged, the rift grew, the other ship was
+destroyed...and *all of it* until the very end, at which point they interfaced
+some stock footage with a bit of new stuff, ALL of that other material was off-
+camera, we saw *NONE* of it!  It was just like radio drama...we *hear* about
+the ship getting hit, the rift doing this, ships blowing up, but we never see
+ANY of it.
+
+     This came to mind today when I saw some of the new CGI footage from "Mind
+War," which is starting to look quite extraordinary.  About every four-five
+episodes, we seem to take a jump in what we can do, how much we can do, and
+how good it looks.  The latest batch of stuff is absolutely breathtaking.  And
+in addition to everything else, the one thing that I come away with, the one
+thing that *no one* is doing, is the absolute SCALE of the show.  In addition
+to sets and CGI as standalones, we're doing some groundbreaking work in
+composites, mattes, virtual sets and other stuff.
+
+     There are moments when I can't *wait* to get this show on the air to show
+people what we've done, and what we're doing.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 20 1993
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+     Well, today we finished shooting on episode #11, meaning that we are now
+exactly halfway through production on the Babylon 5 series.  This is the fifty
+yard line, still a long way to go, but it's no further ahead of us than it is
+behind us.
+
+     After we'd finished shooting, I fired up bits of our first couple of
+finished episodes for John Flinn, our DP.  He watched a bit, then went to get
+some others in the crew.  And more came.  Before I knew it, the room was full
+of people watching the finished show (or portions) for the very first time.
+The atmosphere was electric...yells of delight and pleasure, cheers and
+applause, whistles...everyone left absolutely stoked.  A real boost at the
+halfway mark.
+
+     Monday we begin shooting "Chrysalis."  Yowza!  After that follows
+"Deathwalker" (with Sarah Douglas in the lead role) by Larry the D.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     The time for prep on year two, if we were to get picked up, would be
+equal to year one, with the exception that we won't have to build all of these
+sets.  We'll have more time in that sense.  Again, the stories are pretty much
+mapped out for five years, so that's already done.  If we get renewed, we'll
+probably get the word around March, shoot beginning in July '94, and air year
+2 in January '95.  But again, this is very premature at the moment.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     I'd rather wait on that until the series airs....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 25 1993
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+     I have no objections other than those that will likely be raised at your
+sanity hearing.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     There's been a film crew here already, some time ago, during shooting,
+and several behind-the-scenes pieces have been cut of various length; one
+promotional piece of 8 minutes has already been downlinked.  More, of greater
+length, will follow.
+
+     We've now deliered 4 complete episodes to PTEN, and the reaction we've
+heard back has been off-the-scale enthusiastic.  They're convinced we've got
+something very special here.  I let Walter Koenig see a coupe of shows,
+including the director's cut of the one he's in, and he like what he saw a
+lot, and is convinced it'll be a success.
+
+     So far, so good....
+
+     Today was crash day.  I've been running on 4 hours sleep, running around
+like a demented creature, for weeks on end now.  (Larry made it a point to
+tell me that if I were to kill myself on this show that he would  have to take
+over, and run the show.  I pointed out that I've got an Egyptian King clause
+in my will...if I die during production, he gets entombed with me.  If I go,
+I'm taking him with me.)  So today I never even saw the sun; crashed around 3
+a.m. and didn't open my eyes again until 5 p.m.  I feel vaguely human for the
+first time in ages.
+
+     (And kind of a personal triumph; I bought a 4-pack of John Lennon CDs,
+and can finally listen to them.  I wasn't a stone Beatles fan, wasn't a
+hardcase Lennon fan, but when he was killed, when that genius was stilled, I
+got so angry, so blindly *furious*...and my heart just died.  Ever since that
+time, I haven't been able to listen to Lennon's work without that same rage
+killing my pleasure in the music.  I'm finally, finally able to listen to it
+again, and it's playing in the background even as I type this.)
+
+     Saturday is the "Midnight" screening, and we'll see what we see....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+      Thanks.
+
+                                                       jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 29 1993
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+     In that "no one here is what they appear" scene, G'Kar is talking to
+Catherine Sakai (Julia Nickson), the same one later in the restaurant scene.
+It's a different look for her because that that moment she's in business mode,
+and about to head out to her survey ship, the Skydancer, for which she is
+captain and owner.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     A few folks have noted in email that I've been kinda quiet here of late,
+and I just wanted to note that there are two reasons for this:
+
+     1) Whenever something of mine is aired, or shown, as with "Midnight," I
+tend to adopt a low profile in order to avoid influencing or directing the
+conversation.
+
+     As for 2)...a word in the ear of every person reading this who uses the
+keyboard incessantly: *BUY WRIST GUARDS*.  For the last year or so, I've been
+fighting carpal tunnel syndrome.  The problem is that I write 10-12 hours a
+day, and when I'm going at white-heat, I've been clocked at nearly 120 words
+per minute...one person who listened noted that during one particular session
+the click-click-click didn't pause, didn't slow for nearly twenty minutes
+straight.  I fall through the screen and come out somewhere else, hours later.
+
+     The downside of which being...I'm having *real* problems with CTS right
+now.  As we gear up for the last part of the season, I'm behind the keyboard
+constantly, when I'm not in editing.  During the Thanksgiving break, I was
+averaging 20 pages a day.  Early in that process, the CTS settled in bigtime.
+The pain is nearly constant, all day, all night.  To pick up a can of soda is
+an exercise in profound discomfort.  To *type* is beyond description.  I'm
+doing everything I can to minimize it, including sending for some new wrist
+supports and wrist braces, but apparently this stuff is cumulative.
+
+     It's not stopping the writing, not by so much as a comma, but it makes me
+more inclined to quick, short messages than my usual mini-novels.
+ I learned a long time ago how to burn through pain, so it's not a problem on
+that level.  Once the season's over, we'll evaluate where things stand, and
+whether this can be ameliorated by exercises or surgery or whatever.   But I'm
+a *writer*, and that means I'll write if they cut off my arms and legs and I
+have to type with my nose.  Nor is this message intended for sympathy.  No
+sympathies are expected or requested.  This is just one more challenge to B5.
+
+
+     My only thought at this moment is with those reading this: if you do lots
+of work behind the computer, take breaks, wear wrist braces, get a support for
+your keyboard, do wrist-hand exercises.  You wouldn't like this.  Trust me.
+
+     This show has been an act of sheer will now for nearly seven years.   So
+what else is new?
+
+     By Friday we finish shooting "Chrysalis," which looks *gorgeous*.   Then
+comes "Deathwalker," with Sarah Douglas and Robin Curtis.  It's another of our
+very tough episodes, written by Larry the D.  With "Chrysalis" it's 12 down
+and 10 to go.  We're on the downward slide, and it's coming up fast.
+
+     Later.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+     Happily, the energy level here isn't flagging at all; if anything,
+there's been an infusion of energy, partially through being able to show some
+of our crew finishd episodes, so they can see the whole elephant rather than
+only isolated parts (to great reaction), and partly through the reactions at
+the con.  We're all feeling very renewed and rededicated toward the show.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I can't dictate as fast as I can type; and I don't think in verbal terms,
+I have to see it on the scren.  I tried it once, but found I'm just not a very
+good dictator (crew comments notwithstanding).
+
+     A guest actor really can't add much beyond the episode in which he or she
+appears.  But behind the scenes...some of our cast learned a lot while working
+with Revell, and McCallum, and some of our other classically trained guest
+actors.  They were enjoyable experiences.  As far as the experience they
+had...all of our guests have to date expressed a hope to return in other roles
+at some point.  They've uniformly been treated well, and with respect,
+particularly those who've made their careers in SF, and are viewed as "senior
+officers" in a sense.  Some have described it as the best working experience
+they've had.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+
+     Have just uploaded starfury.gif to the Babylon 5 library here in the
+SFRT, file #730.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     If the file takes 6 minutes to download at 2400, why did it take me 18
+minutes to upload at 2400?
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     Just uploaded two more; 749 and 750...rescue.gif and starlit.gif.   The
+former is a shot of a Starfury alongside the starliner Asimov; the latter is
+an unusual angle on B5 angled with the star behind it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+     Part of the problem is that I was using compression/error-free protocol.
+I turned that off, and the others went up faster.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Darn, I hadn't noticed that.  See, starfury.gif is one of the very
+earliest graphic renderings we had of the fighter, mainly for in-house.   The
+logos had been put on mainly for place orientation.  It's not like that
+elsewhere...I'll upload a more current version.  I simply didn't notice that.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 03 1993
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+     If Job could take it, I can take it.
+
+     And yes, that's the bottom of the starfury.
+
+     The GIF of the Starfury is letterboxed/wide.  Most of the others that'll
+be uploaded are conventional aspect ratio.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 31 1993
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+
+     The bay is pressurized, with drop doors beneath each fighter.  A ramp
+extends to the fighters individually, bringing on pilots.  The bays are
+depressurized as the pilots (in flight suits) prepare.  Then the drop doors
+open, the fighters pivot to nose-down position, and launch.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Tom: the rotating lights were dumb and we dropped them.
+
+                                                          jms
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+
+     Yup.  We learn.  Slowly, but we learn.
+
+     Food...good.  Fire...bad.
+
+             
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 06 1993
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+     It's "Your time has come and gone!  It's OUR turn now!"
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     Christopher Neame was an unvarnished joy to work with, and he did a truly
+spectacular job as Knight Two in "Sky."  Forceful, dynamic, and his
+performance at the very end in a much quieter scene with Sinclair will make
+your hair stand on end.  It's just something he says, but the implications of
+what he says, and the way he says it, is just killer.  I'd love to find a way
+to bring Knight Two back at some point, and the door was somewhat left open to
+facilitate that possibility.
+
+     In any event, both Christopher and Judson Scott were both terrific to
+work with.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Because the promo wasn't put together by us, but by others, whose main
+concern is finding good images which may not necessarily be associated.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     No, on balance, I'd say that it has not given me a dislike for all things
+Trek.  I think it comes with the turf.
+
+     There are three things that I put to *some* degree on the same level, at
+least from a sociological level (though there are obvious differences in true
+or perceived quality): the Beatles, Star Trek, and Stephen King.  All are
+media phenomenon, all are very much of their time.  When people say, "Oh, so
+and so is the next Stephen King," that's nonsense, because King fills a
+particular slot that no one else can really hit; same with the Beatles.
+Groups may come along that may sell more records than the Beatles ever sold,
+may be even more popular, but no one else will ever play the specific social
+role that the Beatles played in their time; no one else will ever be at that
+specific juncture.  They are all icons.
+
+     When the Rolling Stones made Phase Two of the British invasion of the
+1960s, they were constantly being compared to the Beatles, evaluated in terms
+of the Beatles, and it pissed them off mightily, because they weren't the
+Beatles, didn't play the same kinds of songs as the Beatles, and the only
+thing they had in common was that they were both British.  But the American
+media, basically unfamiliar with the British scene, lumped them into the same
+category.
+
+     Star Trek played a pivotal role in TV SF.  There can be no mistake about
+that.  Other shows may someday supplant it in longevity, or ratings, or
+popularity, or following, but no other show will ever take that show's place.
+No other show will ever be "the new Star Trek."  Not even the, well, the new
+Star Trek(s).  Trek provided a terrific foundation; it's unfortunate that in
+25+ years, not much has been done really to build upon that foundation and
+take SF-TV to the next logical level.  Maybe B5 can do that.  I certainly hope
+so.  Maybe not.  I could be living in a fool's paradise.  But if not us, then
+sooner or later, someone will take that next step.
+
+     I've always liked the original Trek series, and always will.  Even wrote
+an issue of the ST comic, "Worldsinger," for DC.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Next up is "Survivors."
+
+     "Born to the Purple" got mixed this past Monday.  We'll be delivering all
+three episodes this Friday to PTEN; after that, it'll be once a week.   Just
+like clockwork.  We're well into the groove now.
+
+     Christopher Franke is developing themes for each of the characters, plus
+themes for the station, for space in general, and for our various
+aliens...something that carries a sense of the minbari, the grey council,
+others.  He even wrote a wonderful little Narn libretto for G'Kar, a la
+Gilbert and Sullivan.  Some elements carry across shows, but in each show
+there are new and different pieces that work wonderfully.  He's nothing less
+than terrific.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1993
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+
+     Actually, I think it is "turn."
+
+     Sinclair's opening narrative over the series main titles:
+
+     "It was the Dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, ten years after the
+Earth/Minbari War.  The Babylon Project was a dream given form, its goal: to
+prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out
+their differences peacefully.  It's a port of call, home away from home for
+diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers.  Humans and aliens wrapped
+in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal...all alone in
+the night.
+
+     "It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace.
+
+     "This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.
+
+     "The year is 2258.
+
+     "The name of the place...is Babylon 5."
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+
+     My sense is that we have Sinclair narrating from some point in the
+future.  The transition of grammar takes place as we push into the station,
+from the outside in.  This was the last of the Babylon stations, and this
+particular segment of it is set in 2258.  (Season two would say, "The year is
+2259."  And so on.)
+
+     Many here will remember a show called "You Are There."  The usual
+narrator would say, paraphrasing here but keeping the grammar, "The year 1776
+was crucial to our nation's history.  The founding fathers were on the brink
+of declaring independence.  It's a moment of great importance.   The year is
+1776...and You Are There."  It's along those lines.  The purpose of the
+narrative changes to transition us into the story.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The tense shifts are intentional, and go with the scenes we're seeing.
+They're *supposed* to shift, with the visuals, in order to bring us into the
+present from the future, at which point this story is being introduced.
+
+     BTW, does anyone know if the GEnie/Internet relay is down or something?
+Usually there's 50 or so messages a day in my mailbox here from the Internet
+relay, and the last 2 days or so there's been nada.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 20 1993
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+     Yes, he's a nifty guy, no mistake.  And I think we might be able to work
+out something....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 23 1993
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+     Because PTEN is very high on the shows we're delivering, there may be
+some modification in airdate scheduling, to create real momentum, but I don't
+know anything firm about that yet.
+
+     The date I hear most often re: the debut is January 26th.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 24 1993
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+     The rotating sphere you saw was probably the starliner Asimov; the thing
+in the asteroid field is...a command and control vessel.  A command and
+control vessel for *what*...I won't say.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1781.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1781.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 24 1993
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+
+     So, Fenn...you liked it, eh?  I forgot to mention that I haven't yet seen
+the material; it should be arriving at the office tomorrow.  I imagine they
+highlighted the action, and the CGI, and the aliens (which is pretty much
+stet), since it's hard to really indicate characterization in a quick promo.
+Any other reactions?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 25 1993
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+
+     Just saw the promo.  The Narn woman is Caitlin Brown (Na'Toth).  What is
+in the promo is taken almost entirely from the first two episodes, with just a
+smidge from #3.  Which may give you some indication of how much action is *in*
+the first couple episodes (and in many epiosodes thereafter)
+ -- definitely keeping the thing moving.
+
+     I'd say that n'grath would count as a non-humanoid alien, yes?  (Just
+keeping an eye on my promises here....)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 02 1993
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+
+     No comment at this time.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 10 1993
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+
+     Actually, we're not using the Harry.  First, it wasn't up to the level we
+wanted to strive for, and second the best harry guy we could find had some
+"theological problems" with "Soul Hunter" and we felt that we weren't getting
+as good as we could.  So we've switched over to a new system.
+
+     The rotoscope and other visual EFX are now being done on computer, as are
+the cgi.  On a Mac, to be precise, by an EFX designer who's one of the best in
+town, possibly the best, who's known locally as "Mr. Electricity."  He did the
+same kind of work on T2, Total Recall and other features.  He's interfaced
+with our other technical people, and the result is really *very*
+extraordinary, considerably more extensive and better looking than what's
+usually done on TV.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1785.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1785.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 12 1993
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+
+     Nope.  Kevin Kutchaver.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 28 1993
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+
+     We did some library stuff in the first few eps, but as we've ben (been)
+spending more time, we've built up more, and generally we have 3-4 new
+establishers per ep.  So there's less and less of it the deeper you get into
+the series.  (And when you come down to it, a shot of the station against a
+planet is going to be pretty much the same in general, unless there's specific
+activity going on around it.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1787.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1787.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1993
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+     And airplanes will never be commercially successful.
+
+     BTW, I've gotten permission to upload a few images after all, and may do
+so in the next week or so....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1788.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1788.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 10 1993
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+
+     Once the decision was made to make her definitely female, that led us to
+modify the makeup.  Also, the original make up was done with very little lead
+time, and some things we liked, some things we didn't.   It's now sleeker,
+more attractive, and easier to apply and take off.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1993
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+
+     Since we only really got a good look at one Minbari, it's kind of a moot
+point.  The new lines are generally consistent throughout Minbari.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 30 1993
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+
+     If it's the pilot review, which I've seen...yeah, the only thing the guy
+likes is ST, it seems.  We had a long go-round.  Old news.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     We've just delivered tapes to PTEN publicity, so critics should be
+getting it soon enough.  My *hunch* is that they'll probably get copies of
+"Midnight" and "Soul Hunter."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1792.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1792.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1993
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+
+     If the CGI were cheesy, please explain to me the Emmy currently sitting
+on Ron Thornton's desk....
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1993
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+
+     Fast question: I saw a flier at LosCon for some room party, over a couple
+of days, that had @! inside an Earth Alliance badge silhouette, and talked
+about docking bays, open for business, that sort of thing.  Do any of you who
+attended know *anything* about what this was?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1794.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1794.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 18 1993
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+
+     He tried.
+
+     I was.
+
+     It isn't.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 19 1993
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+
+     I haven't seen it, but understand there's a piece on Ron Thornton in the
+new WIRED...page 88-89.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 04 1993
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+     There is nothing wrong with the launch sequence.  It causes them to move
+directly away from the station, on a slight spiral, facing out to the stars
+from the pilot's POV.  Whether or not it looks funky has little to do with
+whether or not this is the most efficient means of doing this.  I think it's
+kind of funky that the space shuttle flies upside down while in orbit, its
+cargo bay facing down toward Earth, but that's the way it's done, and there
+are good reasons for it.  We sat down for a very long time with a bunch of
+designers and techies who know physics and know math and know flight dynamics,
+we ran computer models, and the physics are right.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 08 1993
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+
+     If what you think I said is correct, then what you think I said is what I
+said.  If what I might have said was not correct, then what I might have said
+is not what I said, incorrectly.
+
+     This message will self-destruct as soon as anyone manages to parse the
+grammar....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 21 1993
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+     There are no tractor beams in use, or available, for the most part.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 21 1993
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+
+     Our medical advisor tells us that regen technology should be well in hand
+within the next 100 years, so you can grow back damaged internal organs and
+the like, and avoid having to do transplants.  Also that the system of surgery
+is moving toward non-invasive procedures, using light in more and different
+ways.
+
+     He went on past that, but there was some math involved...
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 24 1993
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+
+     Many of the huge transports that'll be coming to B5 were never meant to
+operate within an atmosphere, they're strictly deep range starships, to which
+you transfer using atmosphere-capable shuttles.  We're not talking little
+flits, we're talking about ships that can be as big as a mile across.
+Dropping something that huge down into the gravity well of a planet is just
+unworkable.  If you want something that can handle lots of big ships, it *has*
+to be in space...as in a station.
+
+     You could park a big ship near a planet, and use lots of shuttles to
+unload it down to the planet (gravity well, heavy cargo, lots of fuel, lots of
+time, more accidents), then haul it right back *up* again when it's sold or
+transferred...or you could build a station in zero G where your big transport
+just parks alongside, loads or unloads its cargo in zero gravity, and transfer
+it where needed.
+
+     And the atmosphere of the planet is no longer breathable.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The explosion damaged the auto-configuration system which keeps the
+rotation/flywheel system working smoothly.  (This is also indicated in
+dialogue in the observation dome.)  That more than anything else would cause
+real problems.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1802.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1802.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 03 1993
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+     They are both guns.
+
+     The canopy closes and locks.  If hit, there's at least the  opportunity
+for the canopy section to eject from the rest of the craft before it's
+destroyed.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 17 1993
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+
+     I get the sense that this room -- large as it is -- may end up packed.
+We will be showing "Midnight."  Plus some scenes from other shows.  Plus we
+may have some cast members present.  Plus the funniest out-take from the show.
+
+
+     Better grab your seats early; this'll be a biggie.  And probably the only
+West Coast showing of an episode prior to airing.  (Probably the only showing
+anywhere, at least as of this writing.)
+
+     (Those who've seen sections of both at cons...I assume that "Midnight" is
+the better episode to show, since it's got more action, and takes the time to
+reintroduce all of our characters...though I like "Soul" as a character
+episode a *lot*.  Thing is, only Delenn is there of our group of ambassadors.
+I'd love to show "Mind War," but it won't be ready, since we just finished it,
+same with "Parliament."  What does one do when there are so many good episodes
+it's hard to decide?  Anyway, "Midnight" seems the best choice to me.  Those
+who've seen the two clips...thoughts?)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 18 1993
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+
+     Matt: okay, if you're sure...I always worry.  I've seen the damn thing so
+many times, I lose perspective.  I keep thinking it's a tad on the slow side
+at times.  Then I look at it again and think otherwise.
+
+     Last year, when we showed the pilot -- its West Coast debut -- there was
+a near-riot over seating.  From what I'm hearing, the Saturday screening is
+likely to be *packed*.  Come early.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     I think I'll probably go with "Midnight" since there may well be some
+cast members attending, and of our various ambassadors, only Delenn appears in
+"Soul," and if we're going to have any of the others there, it would be a good
+idea to have an episode in which they all appear.
+
+     BTW, just saw the cut version of "Mind War."  It's even better than I'd
+hoped.  It *moves* like an express train.  And Walter is absolutely
+terrific...those of you who've only seen him as Chekhov will get a whole new
+perspective on him as an actor after this one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 21 1993
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+
+     Confirmed for LosCon's B5 presentation: Michael O'Hare, Mira Furlan,
+Peter Jurasik, and maybe more to come.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 26 1993
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+
+     Just as a reminder...I zone out when I do these things, so if I don't
+immediately recognize you, or note the name, by all means say, "Hey, I'm Brett
+Jaffee," or note your handle, which should be enough to jar me out of my
+trance.  When I'm in performance mode, I get vague and just sorta smile and
+nod a lot....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 28 1993
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+
+     The one thing I asked, as a personal favor, was that a detailed blow-for-
+blow summary *not* be posted for the time being; we've got two months to air,
+and I don't want the show to become old in that time.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+
+     There were no problems with the projector.  We started promptly, and on
+time.  I'm a big punctuality nut; we showed the out-take at 11:00 sharp (as a
+bonus to those who were there spot on time), and launched into the screening
+itself by about 11:10-15.
+
+     (I'm one of those terrible people who always shows up on time for a
+meeting, or early...and is, despite my best efforts, always the first person
+to arrive at a party.  People hate me.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to be
+discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on  "Parliament,"
+and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War Prayer."  So we lifted that
+scene and inserted it into her episode, doing a small bit of ADR to facilitate
+the move.  It's now quite seamless.
+
+     There's some small amount of blurring that goes on in this show; a
+freelancer turns in a script, and things get added.  For instance, there was a
+need to really tighten up the story in "Believers," which could best be done
+by bringing in a small B story, which would allow us to streamline and
+intensify the main story.  So I wrote the B story and slipped it in.   In
+"Grail," for instance, there's a courtroom scene with a character named Mr.
+Flinn that was added to the script (I won't reveal what happens, but it's very
+funny.)
+
+     And of course nearly all of the freelance scripts have been based on
+assigned stories, something that's developed in-house (particularly if it's an
+arc story) and then given to a writer to do the full outline and script.  So
+far the only story developed *outside* our offices first is D.C. Fontana's
+second script, "Legacies."
+
+     In none of these, however, will you see more than one writer's name on
+the script.  Just the writer who did the draft.  This is a policy I've had for
+a long time, starting on JAKE.  It's somewhat pro forma for some story editors
+or producers to do a rewrite, or add a scene, and then slap their name on the
+finished script...which cuts into the freelance writer's residuals forever
+thereafter.  My feeling is that if you're on staff, you are being compensated
+well for your work, and should leave the freelancers alone.  The residuals are
+really their only way of making any real money off these things.  So we had a
+non-arbitration policy on JAKE, also on MURDER, and now on B5.  You'll never
+see a gang credit on this show.   Having been a freelancer myself, this sems
+the only fair way to run things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 11 1993
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+     That's correct.
+
+                                                               jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1812.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-11/1812.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1993
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+
+     There's a mistake.  Which episode(s) have her listed?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     The scene was cut for time; it may yet appear elsewhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1993
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1815.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1815.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 30 1993
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+
+     A few folks have noted in email that I've been kinda quiet
+here of late,
+and I just wanted to note that there are two reasons for this:
+
+     1) Whenever something of mine is aired, or shown, as with
+"Midnight," I
+tend to adopt a low profile in order to avoid influencing or
+directing the
+conversation.
+
+     As for 2)...a word in the ear of every person reading this who
+uses the
+keyboard incessantly: *BUY WRIST GUARDS*.  For the last year or so,
+I've been
+fighting carpal tunnel syndrome.  The problem is that I write 10-12
+hours a
+day, and when I'm going at white-heat, I've been clocked at nearly
+120 words
+per minute...one person who listened noted that during one
+particular session
+the click-click-click didn't pause, didn't slow for nearly twenty
+minutes
+straight.  I fall through the screen and come out somewhere else,
+hours later.
+
+     The downside of which being...I'm having *real* problems with
+CTS right
+now.  As we gear up for the last part of the season, I'm behind the
+keyboard
+constantly, when I'm not in editing.  During the Thanksgiving
+break, I was
+averaging 20 pages a day.  Early in that process, the CTS settled
+in bigtime.
+The pain is nearly constant, all day, all night.  To pick up a can
+of soda is
+an exercise in profound discomfort.  To *type* is beyond
+description.  I'm
+doing everything I can to minimize it, including sending for some
+new wrist
+supports and wrist braces, but apparently this stuff is cumulative.
+
+     It's not stopping the writing, not by so much as a comma, but
+it makes me
+more inclined to quick, short messages than my usual mini-novels.
+ I learned a long time ago how to burn through pain, so it's not a
+problem on
+that level.  Once the season's over, we'll evaluate where things
+stand, and
+whether this can be ameliorated by exercises or surgery or
+whatever.   But I'm
+a *writer*, and that means I'll write if they cut off my arms and
+legs and I
+have to type with my nose.  Nor is this message intended for
+sympathy.  No
+sympathies are expected or requested.  This is just one more
+challenge to B5.
+
+
+     My only thought at this moment is with those reading this: if
+you do lots
+of work behind the computer, take breaks, wear wrist braces, get a
+support for
+your keyboard, do wrist-hand exercises.  You wouldn't like this. 
+Trust me.
+
+     This show has been an act of sheer will now for nearly seven
+years.   So
+what else is new?
+
+     By Friday we finish shooting "Chrysalis," which looks
+*gorgeous*.   Then
+comes "Deathwalker," with Sarah Douglas and Robin Curtis.  It's
+another of our
+very tough episodes, written by Larry the D.  With "Chrysalis" it's
+12 down
+and 10 to go.  We're on the downward slide, and it's coming up
+fast.
+
+     Later.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 30 1993
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+     Happily, the energy level here isn't flagging at all; if
+anything,
+there's been an infusion of energy, partially through being able to
+show some
+of our crew finishd episodes, so they can see the whole elephant
+rather than
+only isolated parts (to great reaction), and partly through the
+reactions at
+the con.  We're all feeling very renewed and rededicated toward the
+show.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1817.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1817.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1993
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+
+     I can't dictate as fast as I can type; and I don't think in
+verbal terms,
+I have to see it on the scren.  I tried it once, but found I'm just
+not a very
+good dictator (crew comments notwithstanding).
+
+     A guest actor really can't add much beyond the episode in
+which he or she
+appears.  But behind the scenes...some of our cast learned a lot
+while working
+with Revell, and McCallum, and some of our other classically
+trained guest
+actors.  They were enjoyable experiences.  As far as the experience
+they
+had...all of our guests have to date expressed a hope to return in
+other roles
+at some point.  They've uniformly been treated well, and with
+respect,
+particularly those who've made their careers in SF, and are viewed
+as "senior
+officers" in a sense.  Some have described it as the best working
+experience
+they've had.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1818.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1818.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1993
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+
+     Have just uploaded starfury.gif to the Babylon 5 library here
+in the
+SFRT, file #730.  Just FYI.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1819.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1819.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1993
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+
+     If the file takes 6 minutes to download at 2400, why did it
+take me 18
+minutes to upload at 2400?
+
+                                                                  
+ jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1820.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1820.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1993
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+
+     Just uploaded two more; 749 and 750...rescue.gif and
+starlit.gif.   The
+former is a shot of a Starfury alongside the starliner Asimov; the
+latter is
+an unusual angle on B5 angled with the star behind it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1821.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1821.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1993
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+     Part of the problem is that I was using compression/error-free
+protocol.
+I turned that off, and the others went up faster.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1822.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1822.html
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+
+     Darn, I hadn't noticed that.  See, starfury.gif is one of the
+very
+earliest graphic renderings we had of the fighter, mainly for
+in-house.   The
+logos had been put on mainly for place orientation.  It's not like
+that
+elsewhere...I'll upload a more current version.  I simply didn't
+notice that.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1823.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1823.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 03 1993
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+     If Job could take it, I can take it.
+
+     And yes, that's the bottom of the starfury.
+
+     The GIF of the Starfury is letterboxed/wide.  Most of the
+others that'll
+be uploaded are conventional aspect ratio.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1824.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1824.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 03 1993
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+
+     Here's a thought to conjure with.  It takes about an hour to
+render a CGI
+frame that's very complex; 45 minutes if it's not terribly complex.
+ With the new Screamer, we can cut down that time by about half, so
+that a
+highly complex scene can be rendered in 15-30 minutes.  Average
+length for a
+CGI scene is about 60 frames, so figure 30 hours.  You can do a
+full show's
+worth of CGI in about a week, give or take.
+
+     Today we turn over the raw footage for a special scene that'll
+be in one
+of our episodes.  (Several scenes, actually, in the same episode.) 
+ Ron's
+elves will be rendering 24 hours a day (on automatic at night) for
+the next
+THREE WEEKS to do something very special with this episode.  If
+it's done
+right, it won't really draw attention to itself, it'll just be
+very, very
+cool.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1825.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1825.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 04 1993
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+
+     Today was "Men In Skirts Day" for many in the Babylon 5 crew.
+
+     There are some things man was not meant to know....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1826.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1826.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 05 1993
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+
+     Have just uploaded 2 more gif files...772 and 773...swarm.gif
+and
+skydance.gif.  The former is a shot of a group of Starfuries
+leaving B5 with
+the planet in BG, the latter is a shot of Catherine Sakai's survey
+ship, the
+Skydancer, exiting a jump gate (NOT the one near B5, but another).
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1827.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1827.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 06 1993
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+
+     Don't show 'em the pilot first.  Let 'em dive right in.
+
+     Yeah, we do a LOT of ships this season.  I have gifs of them
+all, and
+some of them are mind-bogglingly nifty.  What I like about Ron's
+work is that
+many of the space shots are works of art you could practically
+frame.  And
+he's done one very important thing: he's brought COLOR into space,
+in a big
+way.  Ships are personalized, painted, textured and made into
+things you enjoy
+looking at.  The Starfury nicknamed the Sea Witch is a great
+example of
+this...as well as a bunch of others.
+
+     Not all Starfuries are the same, btw...you'll be seeing a
+different
+category of them in "Mind War," and they're gorgeous.  Also very
+scary.   Not
+as scary, but more nifty, are the ones in "Survivors" and
+"Chrysalis."
+
+     Ah LOVES spaceships....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1828.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1828.html
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+     And the program should be pretty nifty, from what I'm
+heaing....
+
+     Just uploaded another gif, the last for a little bit; 774,
+named
+cockpit.gif.  It's a composite shot of the interior of a Starfury
+that's being
+fired upon, the incoming blast whiting (or in this case greening)
+out the
+cockpit.  Is this shot from "Sky?"  Could be.
+
+     It's a bit hard to look at because of the lighting, but it'll
+give you
+some idea of the interior of these things.
+
+     BTW, tomorrow we do the final mix on "Sky."  And for that
+episode,
+Christopher Franke has composed a piece entitled "Requiem For the
+Line," which
+is very moving...at the same time brave and sad, hopeful and
+ominous, martial
+and doomed...one of the best things I've heard for TV.
+
+     The other day, a reporter asked me what I wanted to accomplish
+with
+B5...and I remembered this commercial showing a viewer plastered
+against the
+wall opposite the TV...and that seemed about right.  I don't want
+viewers to
+see a show and say, afterward, "Well, that was a nice story."  
+There has to
+be more than that.
+
+     And while we certainly have our episodes that are paced just
+a little
+more slowly, less intensely, because you have to have variation,
+have to allow
+time for character stories...there are some episodes, like "Sky,"
+that just
+hit the viewer right between the eyes with a 2 by 4 *real* hard and
+say "HEY!
+PAY ATTENTION!  WE'RE NOT KIDDING HERE!"
+
+     Take no prisoners....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1829.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1829.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1993
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+     Re: time per scene rendering...you have to understand that the
+Toasters
+render 24 hours a day.  Ron et al set 'em going before they leave
+for the
+night, and the next morning come in to pick up the finished scene. 
+So you can
+do a LOT of CGI in the course of a week.  Generally several minutes
+of new
+stuff per week...and yes, that includes long, panning shots.  Trust
+me,
+there's a LOT of CGI in just about every  episode of the series. 
+A couple of
+character-based stories are light, but they're more than
+compensated for in
+heavy-CGI stories like "Midnight," "Sky," and "Raiding Party," to
+name a few.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1830.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1830.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1993
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+
+     That's the logo for Starfury squadrons in general.  On the
+opposite arm
+goes the individual squadron name, such as Death's Hands
+(Sinclair's squadron
+on the Line), Ghost Riders (Ivanova's wing), and so on.
+
+                                                                
+jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1831.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1831.html
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+
+     Flash!  Babylon 5 short promos will be downlinked on satellite
+on the
+following dates: Thursday December 9th, 9:45-10 p.m.; Friday
+December 10th,
+12:30-12:45 p.m.; and Monday December 13th, 3:30-3:45 p.m.  (All
+times given
+are Eastern times.)
+
+     Feeds are on Galaxy 4, Channel 21, audio: 5.8 stereo left, 6.2
+stereo
+right, 6.8 mono mix.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     BTW, there's an error in the "Infection" listing; Patricia
+Healy is the
+name of the actress, Mary Ann Cramer is the name of the character;
+Kiron is in
+"War Prayer," as is Chan.   Is this how they came to you, Arne? 
+Because if
+so, they're going out riddled with errors.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1833.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1833.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 08 1993
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+
+     It's briefly green when the incoming blast shoots past, and
+sort of
+"whites" out (or in this case greens out) the cockpit for just a
+second.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1834.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1834.html
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+     Er, Arne, just checked the revised "Infection" description in
+19...
+neither Kiron nor Roberts appear in that episode.  They're in "The
+War
+Prayer."
+
+     I got the erroneous file listings today, and have advised PTEN
+of the
+mistakes, and they're being corrected.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 08 1993
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+     Here's the interesting thing...ever since July, when we began
+shooting,
+we've been sitting here, doing our show quietly...and now, as
+January nears,
+slowly we've been growing aware of a sound...the PTEN and Warners
+]MACHINE[
+gearing up.  Press, promotion, photographers on the set, calls with
+International and books divisions, and now the sound is quite
+pervasive, like
+a jet engine gearing up for flight.  Suddenly it comes clear, "Oh,
+yeah, we're
+not just making our little show here for ourselves, this is bigger
+than just
+us."  The energy level is definitely powering up around here.
+
+     Had a reporter in here the other day, and he asked if it
+bothered me that
+other shows were getting all the ink...meaning, I suppose, TNG and
+DS9 and
+SQ:DSV...and my response really said it all, I think.  It's like
+the Rocky
+movie.  Let the other guys get all the press, do the big flashy
+stuff, wave
+around big budgets...we'll just stand here in a meat locker,
+pounding slabs of
+meat with our bare hands....
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 09 1993
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+     The one thing that I'd like to point out is that Warner/PTEN
+isn't in the
+programming business.  This isn't a normal part of their PR
+strategy.  The
+only reason they have done this at all -- the B5 computer promo --
+is in
+recognition of the online support here and elsewhere.  They have
+had to
+contract out for this, and because this isn't a proven (yet)
+strategy, could
+only carve out so much for it.  No, not every platform is covered;
+doubtless
+that will change with time.  But it's generally never done at ALL. 
+So I would
+just temper the discussion with that reality.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 09 1993
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+     I have just seen the director's cut of "Chrysalis," which will
+be the
+last episode of this season...and I think it has just displaced
+"Sky" as the
+most heavy-weight episode of the season.  Even knowing what was
+coming, I just
+sat here, stunned, at the end of it.  Seeing dailies, bits and
+pieces, doesn't
+really prepare you for the whole thing.
+
+     What I like most about it are two things: one, by about
+halfway in, you
+really begin to understand that anything can happen, to anyone, and
+the rules
+that normally carry you through a television episode no longer
+apply.  It's a
+very dangerous, dislocating feeling.  Two: you get the very real
+feeling that,
+after this episode, nothing is the same anymore.  The show has
+taken a very
+profound and *irrevocable* turn that will have lasting effects on
+all of our
+characters.  Of all the episodes so far, this one has the most
+feeling of
+being the chapter end in a novel.
+
+     The really hard part will not avoiding the temptation to show
+this to
+people...because it really can't be allowed to get out prior to
+airing.  There
+are too many twists and turns and revelations that spin one off
+into another.
+
+     One other thing's certain: after you've seen "Chrysalis,"
+you're going to
+want to go back and check out three prior episodes...because
+something that
+you will have read/interpreted one way, without question or
+hesitation
+accepting it as what it obviously appears to be, will suddenly be
+turned on
+its head, and a brand new interpretation will emerge.  And it's
+*real*
+creepy....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 10 1993
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+     I doubt there would be much problem at all in translating it
+to the other
+platform.
+
+     Arne: slight correction to your correction.  No scene with
+Chan or
+Eastman was "removed," it's simply an incorrect listing.  Chan and
+Eastman are
+both in "The War Prayer," they were never in "Infection" in any
+way, manner,
+shape or form.  It was simply a typo on the part of the person who
+wrote up
+the lists, putting names from one show into the wrong sheet.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     When we did the research on how a fighter could best operate
+in zero
+gravity, it seemed to require a four-wing axis with thrusters on
+every side.
+We've thus taken every possible step to make them NOT look like
+x-wings,
+particularly since there's no long, sleek forward section at *all*,
+it's a
+snub-nose, and the wings don't move, plus they have the unusual
+thruster
+combination.
+
+     "Trax" is/or was still running new eps as of a few weeks ago. 
+The
+schedule was deliberate, to make what they had stretch.  That may
+change this
+season; we'll have to see.  Haven't heard yet re: the final
+schedule.  For our
+part, we have 6 finished (completely done, music, sound, all that)
+episodes in
+hand now, and will have one more by the christmas break.  By the
+time we go on
+the air, we'll have a total of 12-14 in hand, so we're in great
+shape in terms
+of scheduling stuff.
+
+                                                          jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 11 1993
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+     Although in the new laserdisk set of SW movies, the matting is
+FAR less
+noticeable.
+
+     Re: the crew...today was Pajama Day.  Don't ask.
+
+     Some thoughts on the crew, btw...which besides being
+sensational on its
+own terms, is a very caring bunch of guys.  Some of them have been
+making
+expeditions to the post office lately, gathering Santa letters and
+circulating
+them to grant wishes for toys.  There's a wall of letters that have
+been
+answered so far with presents.  Just one example; there are more. 
+They're
+good people.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+     (Cindy: I'm writing more individual messages, just shorter.)
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1993
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+     Oh, I know...I saw the (g) the first time...I just kneejerk
+respond
+sometimes, take things seriously just in case the g didn't mean
+what it seemed
+to mean (and nothing is what it appears yes?).
+
+     Re: the Oliver Stone thing...that's a comment made during the
+edit on
+"Chrysalis" as well.  I'm dying to see how people will react to
+what's done
+and revealed and advanced in that episode, but we have to sit on
+it; though
+we'll be mixing and finishing it in the next few weeks, we won't be
+turning it
+over to PTEN until shortly before airdate, because we don't want
+this getting
+all over town.  There's not a single major character who's not
+profoundly
+affected...or strongly set up for profound changes in the very near
+future.
+
+     I love it...it's my favorite of the season, without question.
+
+                                                                  
+  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1993
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+     PTEN licensing is handled by the Licensing Corporation of
+America, which
+can be reached via Warner Bros.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1993
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+
+     For those who might be interested, I thought I'd pass along a
+quick view
+of the process of producing a show like B5, step by step (though
+briefly).
+
+     Day Minus 21: The script is finalized and distributed to all
+cast and
+crew.
+
+     Day Minus 14: The episode goes into serious pre-production,
+with meetings
+on visual effects, wardrobe, CGI and so on.  Props are designed and
+construction begun on both props and wardrobe and any sets that are
+specific
+to that episode.
+
+     Day Minus 10: Tone meeting with director and producers to make
+sure all
+parties see the story the same way.  Casting, begun on day 14, is
+finalized
+about this time.
+
+     Day Minus 6: Major production meeting with all departments, at
+which each
+scene is gone through in detail, examining and reinforcing what
+props,
+costumes, extras and lighting requirements are needed per scene.
+
+     Day One: Filming Starts.
+
+     Day Seven: Filming finishes.  Editing has been going on since
+day 2, as
+dailies arrive at the studio, with editors making rough assemblies
+of the
+scenes as they come in.
+
+     Day Eight/Nine: the director works with the editor to make the
+first,
+Director's Cut of the episode, relying to some degree on the
+preliminary
+Editor's Cut.
+
+     Day 10/11: Producers begin making their cut.  (Mainly me and
+John
+Copeland.)  Sit with editor and view each scene, picking out
+various takes and
+angles, integrating CGI.  Sometimes the cut varies a lot from the
+Director's
+Cut and is a whole new version...or it is very close to the
+Director's Cut.
+Producer's Cut finished around day 12/13.
+
+     Day 15: Producer's Cut is sent to primary editing bay for
+on-line
+editing, at which the frames of actual film are slugged and readied
+for the
+real thing (as opposed to editing computer images on the Avid).
+
+     Day 20: Episode is color-timed to make sure color values are
+correct.
+
+     Day 25: Spotting session...producers, sound designer,
+composer, dialogue
+editors meet and review the on-line edit or CTM (color timed
+master) to
+determine where sound and music should be placed, the kind of sound
+or music
+required, and number of frames/seconds duration.  Second spotting
+session with
+visual EFX supervisor to determine rotoscoping or other non-CGI EFX
+placement.
+
+     Day 39: Final mix-down of all elements: music, sound, looping,
+visual
+effects and other elements.  For this we sit in the mixing bay from
+9 a.m. to
+7 p.m. nonstop, bringing in lunch, to determine balance of sound to
+music,
+music to dialogue, which elements to use or lose, and so on.
+
+     Day 46: Finished episode delivered to PTEN and in-house.
+
+     Total time required: 57 days.  And during this period, we are
+simultaneously editing at least 4-5 other shows, and have shot
+roughly
+another 6 episodes, which are also in various stages of editing.
+
+     I've glossed over a few things, but that should give you some
+idea of the
+process and the highlights thereof.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Not a lot, but sometimes...you can easily lose track of where
+the hell
+you are at any given moment.
+
+                                                                
+jms
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+     We're still working out book details.  One possibility is also
+to take
+the most heavily arc-related episodes, stitch them together into a
+novelized
+form, and publish them so that there in one book is the major part
+of that
+year's arc.  Other approaches are still being investigated.
+
+     And yes, in TV, it's the exec producer who generally gets the
+final cut,
+whereas in film it's often the director (or, in some cases, the
+studio).
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 17 1993
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+     We took care of 'em.
+
+     Quick updates: expect some coverage of B5 in Entertainment
+Weekly, TV
+Guide and CNN.  There will be full-page color ads for B5 in People,
+Sports
+Illustrated, TV Guide, and other major magazines.  The Clippers
+game on
+Channel 13 L.A. the night before our debut will be "Brought to you
+by Babylon
+5," and after the game, around 9:30, there will be the half-hour
+"Making Of
+Babylon 5" documentary.  Also expect to start seeing ads on the
+back covers of
+DC comics books in the next week or so.  There will be a slow but
+steady
+increase in print, TV and radio ads over the next few weeks.  It's
+estimated,
+with the huge PR campaign that's been developed, that 90% of the
+country will
+have seen at least one B5 ad, and 50% of the country will have seen
+roughly 10
+ads.  Those of you who have been eagerly looking for this
+stuff...will
+probably, like me, be so sick of seeing them after a while...but
+it's part of
+the process of bringing the show to the non-modemed.
+
+     After the Christmas break, we'll be two-thirds finished with
+our
+production on the first season.  It's just *zipped*
+past...amazing....
+
+                                                             jms
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+     "Backlash" has been retitled "By Any Means Necessary."
+
+     Re: Kinko's...I wouldn't give them permission in any event. 
+I've had
+nothing but trouble with them.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     For starters, the Orion constellation would not look like the
+Orion
+constellation from another POV, say, 30 light years from here. 
+Another
+cluster of stars might *look* the same, or similar, but anyone
+expecting to
+see the constellations as we recognize them from here is going to
+be
+disappointed.
+
+     As far as I know, from what Ron's said re: constellations,
+while it may
+look like Orion, it isn't.  It's perception, the mind looking for
+patterns it
+recognizes.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1993
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+     Mike: you needn't worry.  I find all-powerful beings of any
+stripe
+incredibly boring.  I find it more interesting when ordinary people
+are
+summoned to do extraordinary things, and must rise above their
+limitations
+without losing their limitations; succeeding in spite of them. 
+Sinclair is a
+man, period.  He may have a great calling ahead of him, as did
+Churchill or
+Lincoln or Alexander or (for all we know) Rondo Hatton, but they're
+all just
+men in the final analysis.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     "World" was retitled "Sunken."  Yes on laserdisks, one hopes. 
+No relief.
+And so it goes.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Catherine Sakai is all business.  Not much for display.
+
+     It's "J. Michael Straczynski" on title credits mainly because
+that's the
+way it looks best, frankly.  Lets you sneak up on the whole name in
+progressively larger bites.  Joe Michael Straczynski looks kinda
+dumb to me,
+also too long; Joe Straczynski is too short, and unbalanced in
+terms of layout
+(he said quickly).  My friends call me Joe.  My crew calls me Joe. 
+One person
+on the crew kept calling me Mr. Straczynski, which you should try
+saying out
+loud sometime.  Even *I* can't do it.  It was so painful to listen
+to that
+after a while I kept calling back "Joe" at him until he got the
+message.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Starting Thursday, we're on Christmas break (well, for
+everybody else
+maybe; I've got to finish "The Ressurectionist" and then start on
+my next
+script, taking advantage of the quiet time to plow through some
+work).  We're
+roughly two-thirds finished with production on the first season.
+
+     One thing I can mention now, since it's nearly finished: see,
+I have this
+real problem with nepotism.  Specifically...I hate it.  As a
+result, I make
+people I know work twice as hard.  The closer the tie, the more the
+person has
+to work to prove him or herself.
+
+     Kathryn Drennan, my Spousal Overunit, is also a writer, and
+has written
+for many other shows, primarily in animation, but with some forays
+into other
+areas.  (She was co-author on the Night  Gallery series of articles
+I wrote
+for Twilight Zone Magazine, as one fr'instance, and was a producer
+with public
+televison for some time.)
+
+     Anyway, she desperately wanted to write a B5 script.  But
+because of my
+feelings about nepotism, I refused to give her an assignment.  (I
+can be a
+REAL pain in the ass.)  Something similar happened when I was
+working on The
+Real Ghostbusters; she loved the show, and wanted to write for it. 
+I put her
+through the wringer: she had to submit written premises, just like
+any other
+freelance writer, which were then sent on to the producers for
+final approval.
+They did not know of any relation between her and me; they based
+their
+approval only on the merits of the story.  Period.  And she ended
+up writing
+two episodes: "Egon's Dragon" and "The Man Who Never Reached Home." 
+(The
+former is considered a favorite by many viewers of the show.)  Only
+long after
+we finished production did the exec producers on TRGBs learn that
+there was a
+relationship there; it was all based on the quality of the work.
+
+     But in the case of B5, I *am* the exec producer, so it became
+more
+difficult.  At first I said simply no.  Finally, I set into place
+a number of
+conditions/provisions.  NOT because she wouldn't do a great script,
+but only
+because I don't like the look of nepotism; I hate it, and I hate
+the way this
+town operates on the principles of nepotism.  The conditions were
+that she had
+to write the script completely on spec, no assignment; not a spec
+outline,
+which is shorter, but a spec *script*.   It would then have to pass
+muster in-
+house; if even one person thought it wasn't up to snuff, it got
+deep sixed.
+And revisions would not be handled by me, for the most part; she
+would have to
+work with Larry, who has a reputation (as Katherine Lawrence can
+attest) to
+not pulling his punches.   No favoritism.  Then the script would
+have to pass
+muster with Warners.   IF, after all that, the script was approved,
+then it
+would be bought, and not a moment before.  If anywhere along the
+line it
+didn't meet one of those criteria...then it would be a 50 page
+learning
+experience and nothing more.
+
+     Well, I'm pleased to say that it *did* pass muster with
+everyone, and "By
+Any Means Necessary" is now over halfway through production, with
+a number of
+people -- including Michael O'Hare -- saying it's their favorite so
+far,
+mainly for very odd reasons.  The premise is one that ST would
+never, EVER do,
+which is one thing I like about it; it also shows us more on the
+inner
+workings of B5, the blue-collar types who keep the whole place
+operational...and what happens when that falls apart.  The B story
+gets into a
+confrontation between G'Kar and Londo when Londo interferes in an
+important
+Narn religious observation.
+
+     We brought back John Snyder (Soul Hunter #2) minus prosthetics
+for one
+guest role, and Katy Boyer as our other guest star.  They're both
+doing
+terrific jobs, and it's a very intense script in which we basically
+put
+Sinclair through the wringer for 48 hours and try and make him 
+absolutely
+nuts.  And succeed, for the most part.
+
+     Anyway...there you have it.
+
+     (Incidentally..."Mind War" has come out so well that it looks
+like we're
+going to move it up in the schedule a bit.  It was orignally slated
+to run
+about episode 10 or so, but the studio is so hot on it that it'll
+probably run
+#6, right after "Parliament."  And Walter has agreed to be the
+voice-over and
+on-camera narrator for the Behind the Scenes/Making of Babylon 5
+documentary.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Will try the black magnetite tapes.  (Is that like red
+kryptonite?)   I
+almost exclusively use TDK hi-fi or SVHS otherwise.
+
+     Work on the documentary should be finished sometime early next
+week, and
+transmitted to the stations sometime thereafter, by about a week or
+so.
+Walter seems fine.
+
+     Me...I'm glad it's the production break.  I need to sleep in
+a bit, and
+catch up with some work, and find the floor of my home office
+again, which is
+currently covered by scripts, comics, and reams of paper.  I've
+worked on
+shows before, but never in this major a capacity, running the
+damned thing,
+especially the way this has to be run...meaning you can't let any
+details slip
+past, no matter how small...and frankly, as Arnold said in T2, "I
+need a
+vacation."  When we hit the Thanksgiving break, I crashed one night
+and didn't
+even see the next day, slept right through until that night. 
+There's nothing
+that can really prepare you for a job like this.
+
+     Re: moving "Mind War" up...no, doesn't affect continuity at
+all.  If it
+did, it wouldn't have gotten moved.  It's what's called in the biz
+a "moveable
+piece," able to go *almost* anywhere in the schedule, as long as
+it's after
+episode 3 and before episode 15, since stuff in the first few set
+it up, and
+15 pays off part of it.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Apparently the Paramount shows now being made are at an equal
+running
+time with B5, I'm told.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1993
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+     (I have no idea what anyone is talking about anymore....)
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1993
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+     "Babylon Squared" hasn't been filmed yet; it'll probably be in
+the last
+batch of five episodes filmed, and will likely air around #19 or so
+in the
+lineup.  The script is in my head, but hasn't been written down
+yet.  It'll
+probably be turned in in the next couple/three weeks.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1993
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+     No other episodes of B5 have been aired other than the pilot
+movie.   No
+episodes were *finished* until roughly two months ago, or less.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1993
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+
+     For no discernible reason, except perhaps that I am a glutton
+for
+punishment, I have uploaded a file I don't think was previously in
+the B5
+library: jms.gif.  I stumbled across this on another system. 
+Insofar as I can
+tell, it's a scan of the B&W photo that appears on the back cover
+of my second
+novel, "Othersyde."
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1993
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+
+     As I write this, we are now exactly one month, 30 days, from
+the launch
+of the series.  In one month, you will know if I've been blowing
+smoke up your
+CRTs, or if we've been telling the truth.  Starting in one month,
+as the
+ratings come in, we'll know if our experiment is a success, or if
+we've missed
+the target.
+
+     There are moments when I'm utterly convinced that we've got a
+hit on our
+hands...and moments when I'm just as convinced that nobody is going
+to hear
+about us, or notice...and that the future of B5 will be consumed by
+a vast,
+cosmic yawn.  Alternating moments of exhiliration and terror,
+confidence and
+doubt.
+
+     I know that the series contains some of the best writing I've
+ever done;
+if in my entire life, I never do anything other than "Chrysalis,"
+I will still
+be content, because that's the single best thing I've ever done,
+and it came
+out even better than I'd hoped, on every level.  Maybe my best is
+good enough.
+Maybe it ain't.  Fundamentally, despite all the planning, and
+production, and
+advertising, and good will...it's still a crap shoot.  You never
+know what'll
+click.  "Picket Fences" is arguably the best-written show on TV,
+but it's in a
+constant battle to survive.
+
+     It's been a very, very long haul...from the 1986/87 writing of
+the script
+and bible, to the time of TWCBN, and from the pilot to the series.
+ To some extent, it's become the focus for a lot of people's hopes
+and
+expectations of what *they* think the perfect SF series would be. 
+And some of
+those people are bound to be disappointed, simply because no show
+can equal
+every single person's expectations and personal preferences.   All
+we can do
+is tell a story, as best we can, and hope that others like that
+story as much
+as we do.  It won't be the Babylon 5 that's in your head; it'll be
+the Babylon
+5 that's in my head...and we'll have to see if that is sufficient
+to hold the
+interest of viewers.  Sometimes I think it's too eccentric. 
+Sometimes I think
+we haven't dared enough.  Sometimes I think there's too much humor. 
+Sometimes
+I think there isn't enough humor.  And on and on and on....
+
+     In one month, the reality of what Babylon 5 is will begin to
+be seen
+across the country.  And then we shall see what we shall see.  I
+showed Harlan
+two episodes recently, "Sky" and "Parliament."  He has always been
+our hardest
+critic to please.  And he said that there wasn't a single false
+note in it
+anywhere.  I've gotten similar reactions to episodes from D.C.
+Fontana and
+David Gerrold and Terry Dowling and others known in the SF
+community.  Which
+gives me some measure of hope.
+
+     Every once in a while, I allow myself the luxury of thinking
+we've really
+*got* something here.  But in one month, I won't need to wonder,
+and *you*
+won't need to wonder anymore.  It'll be right out there for all to
+see.
+
+     Yikes....
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
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+     Generally speaking, in television, you're lucky to get on
+screen about
+half of what you had in mind when you saw it in your head.  So far,
+the
+average here is about 80%.  In a very few cases, I don't think the
+finished
+episode delivers as well as it might on the script, but for the
+clear majority
+of them, the episodes come through.  And in some cases, like "Sky"
+and
+"Parliament" and especially "Chrysalis," I got *over* 100% of what
+I had in
+mind...it came out even better than what I'd had in my head when I
+wrote it.
+It's a confluence of many factors...the guest star and how much
+he/she *gets*
+it, the EFX, the direction, and other things.   But across the
+board, I'd have
+to say that I'm very satisfied.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1993
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+     I'm not sure, from my perspective, that there's any one
+definition of
+success that I'd use.  There are several: 1) How much is the
+project in its
+final form what I conceived it to be?  This is something that
+Harlan keeps
+hammering home at me, pointing to what happened to him on  the
+Starlost by way
+of comparison...it was dreadful, and he had to take his name off
+it.  It's the
+show I wanted to make, made the way I wanted to make it, so on that
+level, I'm
+content.
+
+     2) The ratings.  Is what we conceived of interest to other
+people, or
+have we missed the mark?  Television, like any other medium, is
+aimed at an
+audience.  If the audience isn't there, then it comes down to "does
+the tree
+make a noise when it falls in an empty forest?"  Whether it's good
+or bad
+becomes nominally irrlevant.  And 3) Whether or not anyone talks
+about the
+show, or remembers the show, years down the road.  Something can
+get a lot of
+attention, critical acclaim, ratings, be what the creators
+envisoned...and be
+gone in a year, the flavor of the month.
+
+     If I had to pick one, it'd be #3.  As an atheist, my sense is
+that one
+achieves immortality by the effect one has on others.  If the show
+lives on
+beyond me, then I am satisfied.  Twain observed: "If you want your
+work to
+live forever...and by forever I mean fifty years...it must neither
+overtly
+preach nor overtly teach...but it must *covertly* preach and
+*covertly*
+teach."
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+     Lemme finish the first season, then I'll know better where I
+stand on
+some of this stuff....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Which episode it would be depends on when it's done.  Ah,
+me....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     I am an atheist, a total atheist, and am more than happy. 
+What I write
+is what I write, what I am is what I is.
+
+     Yes, much of my own background goes into what I write.  In the
+case of
+religion, and spirituality...a writer's job is to be as honest as
+he can in
+telling a story.  My canvas (for lack of a less grandiose term) is
+the human
+condition.  And since the dawn of sentience, humanity has been
+trying to
+figure out its place in the universe.  The religious impulse is as
+much a part
+of that process as anything else, and it must be treated with
+integrity and
+respect, as I would have my own views respected.  I try not to
+exclude
+something just because I don't agree with it, because that corrupts
+the whole
+purpose of writing, which requires an honest look at the subject.
+
+     And as a writer, there are parts of the religious impulse that
+I want to
+examine, and explore, and raise questions about, just as much as
+I'd like to
+explore the scientific aspects of living in space, and the more
+personal,
+emotional repercussions of this.  It's all a part of trying to
+figure out who,
+and what, and *why* we are.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 10 1993
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+     It's a planetary security base.  And your correspondent
+assumes no
+responsibility for ad copy....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1993
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+
+     I actually don't think much has changed; we've moved some of
+the chairs
+around, but the general thrust hasn't much changed, as I recall.  
+But in any
+event, posts are always free to be reposted.
+
+                                                                  
+ jms
+

+
+
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+     Yup.  As I thought.  It all still applies.  Nothing in that
+has changed.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Much of the Lyta arc will now go to Talia, but there's now a
+different
+way of getting her into that arc.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 21 1993
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+
+     Since Mike mentioned it...yes.  "Babylon Squared" answers the
+B4
+question...though posing new questions about *why*.  Basically,
+every question
+we ask going into the first season we will answer, because I don't
+think it's
+right or fair or smart to keep people hanging around 3 years to get
+a simple
+answer to a simple question.  Season 1 of B5 is what I generally
+call the
+"what" season...you find out WHAT the Psi Corps is, WHAT happened
+at the
+Battle of the Line, WHAT happened to Babylon 4, and so on...whereas
+Season 2
+is the "why" season...WHY did that happen to Sinclair?  And so on. 
+New
+questions arise, and we proide new answers, generally within the
+course of the
+following season, but while at all times making sure that each
+episode stands
+alone, regardless of where and which season you enter the series as
+a viewer.
+
+     (It's kinda like being one of those guys on the old Ed
+Sullivan show,
+spinning plates on top of long, thin rods...there's a LOT to keep
+in motion at
+all times.)
+
+     I'd classify the pilot movie as "who."
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 23 1993
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+
+     Season one will generally answer 90% of the questions raised
+in season
+one; season two will answer the remaining 10%, and answer 90% of
+the questions
+raised in season two...and so on.  There will not be a sense of
+unfulfilled
+waiting.  Also, by January I will personally fly under my own power
+from New
+York to Paris.
+
+     I reallly, *really* need a vacation....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1993
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+
+     Well, this sucks...I finally get my break in schedule...and
+here I am
+with the flu or at least a whopper of a cold.  Started in literally
+within
+hours of leaving the studio.  I get a respite and I can't even
+enjoy it.
+
+     Why does the universe hate me?
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
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+
+     "Chrysalis" is a JMS script, yes.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 25 1993
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+
+                        ....courtesy of NyQuil.
+
+     The colors, man, check out the
+*colllllllllllllooooorrrrrsssss*****...
+
+     ("May induce drowsiness" my ass...you're lucky if you make it
+across the
+room with this stuff....)
+
+                                                             jm
+

+
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+     And makes one wonder if her house would be considered an
+auditorium.
+
+                                                                  
+  jms
+

+
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+
+     I hate to burst any bubbles, but I can go just about anywhere
+in the U.S.
+and find that nobody knows the name Straczynski, and the only time
+I've caused
+a mob scene at a K-mart was in a tussle over the last Captain Power
+figures...or was that when I wandered into the lingerie section
+and...well,
+never mind.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 28 1993
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+     Fenn....send me the name of the contact person re: the
+t-shirt.  I gonna
+have to make me a little phone call....
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1878.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1878.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1993
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+
+     The creation shirts have a black 5, not a silver 5.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1879.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1879.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1993
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+
+     Don't know really how much more there is to say; it's getting
+to that
+time when all the worthwhile talking will be done by the series
+itself.
+
+     There will definitely be a two-parter this season; PTEN is so
+much in
+love with what they're seeing that they've allocated a bit more on
+budget to
+let us really go to town on a 2-part episode.  I'll be either
+writing both
+parts, or sharing the task with Larry DiTillio, depending on when
+he gets free
+with his next script.
+
+     There are now about five scripts remaining to be written,
+including
+"Babylon Squared," which will probably be finished sometime next
+week.  We
+begin shooting D.C. Fontana's second script for us, "Legacies,"
+starting next
+Monday, then two JMS scripts, the first of which is "Raiding
+Party," which
+will probably tie up Ron's computers for *ages*.  I finished
+another script
+the other day, which I think came out fairly well.
+
+     So far, this season you'll learn a lot about all the cultures
+of our
+ambassadors, especially the Big Four; you'll see the League of
+Non-Aligned
+Worlds in action; you'll learn a LOT about the Psi  Corps, Earth
+government
+and economics, the inner workings of Babylon 5, the history of the
+Babylon
+project, Sinclair's background (also a lot about Ivanova's and
+Garibaldi's
+past)...you'll see a darker side of Londo, a lighter side of G'Kar,
+a more
+ambiguous side of Delenn, some very weird sides of Kosh...and
+you'll come away
+with a real sense of B5 as a *place*, a habitat, where things are,
+what they
+do, how it works.  There will be an awful lot of action, and an
+even greater
+amount of humor...there are parts of the show that, even having
+seen them 16
+times, are still fall-down funny.
+
+     Other than that...not much to say.
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1880.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1880.html
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+     English transplanted to America.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1881.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1881.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1994
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+
+     Kathryn's last name is Drennan.  Her full credit is Kathryn M.
+Drennan.
+Not Straczynski.  Probably displaying considerable wisdom on her
+part.  Ten
+thousand letters, no vowels.
+
+     Absent a collaboration on a series of articles for TZ Magazine
+a few
+years ago (a guide to the Night Gallery series), we don't
+collaborate.   Ever.
+I also don't collaborate with Larry D., or any other of my writer
+friends.  As
+I learned before, particularly on the one occasion when Larry and
+I tried it --
+we co-wrote a pilot and bible for CBS based on the "Elfquest" books
+-- all
+parties concerned will live a LOT longer by keeping a respectable
+distance.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1882.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1882.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1994
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+
+     No.
+
+     Had a couple days clear of the bug, and today hit a relapse. 
+Sigh.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1883.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1883.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1994
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+
+     By the way, if anyone's curious, here's how I'd rank the first
+six
+episodes in terms of my own personal preference, from 1-6: "The
+Parliament of
+Dreams," "Mind War," "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," "Midnight
+on the
+Firing Line," and "Infection."  We'll see how close this coincides
+with your
+own reactions.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1884.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1884.html
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1885.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1885.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1993
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+
+     And airplanes will never be commercially successful.
+
+     BTW, I've gotten permission to upload a few images after all,
+and may do
+so in the next week or so....
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1886.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1886.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1994
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+
+     We did it already.  Plus using composites for other shots.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1887.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1887.html
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1888.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1888.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 30 1993
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+
+     If it's the pilot review, which I've seen...yeah, the only
+thing the guy
+likes is ST, it seems.  We had a long go-round.  Old news.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1889.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1889.html
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+
+     We've just delivered tapes to PTEN publicity, so critics
+should be
+getting it soon enough.  My *hunch* is that they'll probably get
+copies of
+"Midnight" and "Soul Hunter."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1890.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1890.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1993
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+
+     If the CGI were cheesy, please explain to me the Emmy
+currently sitting
+on Ron Thornton's desk....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1891.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1891.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1993
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+
+     Fast question: I saw a flier at LosCon for some room party,
+over a couple
+of days, that had @! inside an Earth Alliance badge silhouette, and
+talked
+about docking bays, open for business, that sort of thing.  Do any
+of you who
+attended know *anything* about what this was?
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1892.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1892.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 21 1993
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+
+     I had to sit and think about this for a while...oddly enough,
+I think we
+haven't had to do either yet.  I think we've generally used the
+person's title
+("Yes, Commander") consistently throughout.  Now I'll have to think
+about this
+some more and decide....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1893.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1893.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 22 1993
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+     Not only do I envision it, but we've already shot it....
+
+                                                                
+jms
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+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1894.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1894.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1993
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+
+     She's a medical doctor, running one of the many medlabs on B5. 
+(Dr.
+Franklin, as chief of staff, runs the primary medlab, supervising
+other
+doctors on-station.)
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1895.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1895.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1993
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+
+     As Walter says in "Mind War," about rogue telepaths, "Only Psi
+Cops are
+qualified to bring them down, so we're afforded
+greater...latitude."
+ (That's a paraphrase from memory.)
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1896.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1896.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1993
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+
+     A "coyboy?"
+
+     Methinks you've confused this with "Midnight Cowboy."
+
+                                                      jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1897.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1897.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1993
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+
+     Mike: we're not going to see a lot of Sinclair in the past,
+only what is
+necessary to understand the present...and there are going to be
+transformations, but I prefer to see my transformations take place
+in the
+present, pointing toward the future, than in flashback.
+
+     The difference, I suppose, is that in many shows, characters
+arrive at
+Point X in a series at the very beginning, and stay there for the
+duration,
+and we are sometimes shown what made them that way.  In B5, what
+I'm trying
+for is to take a certain set of characters, and move them all
+toward
+substantive changes in their lives, their characters, their beliefs
+and their
+allegiances.  Just about everyone on B5 is running to, or away from
+something.
+I don't want that simply as backdrop, I want that something to
+*catch up with
+them*.  That, to me, is where the fun starts.
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1898.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1898.html
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1899.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1899.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 08 1993
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+
+     We're the lead-in for TNG?
+
+     So, like, if we do well, we end up helping TNG...and if we
+don't, we drag
+TNG down with us....
+
+     It's a funny old world.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1900.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1900.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1993
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+
+     The current "Making Of" won't be finished for about a week
+yet, so maybe
+they saw some quick snippets uplinked to the stations; the
+half-hour version
+is now being finished.  (Walter did the on-camera and VO stuff
+today, in
+fact.)
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1901.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1901.html
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+
+     No, no, dignity and restraint, please...I think simple
+levitation on the
+part of the acolytes should be more than sufficient....
+
+                                                                  
+ jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1903.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1903.html
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1904.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1904.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1993
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+
+     You misspelled "pre-requisite."
+
+                                                               mjs
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 25 1993
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+
+     I can imagine it because we did it....that was one of the
+sections filmed
+for the pilot that ended up on the cutting room floor....
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1907.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1907.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1993
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+
+     Nope.  Not a hallucination.  We filmed it.  (In the montage in
+the pilot,
+there's a shot of a woman in the casino who sort of shimmies in a
+very sexual
+fashion...that's the one.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1908.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1908.html
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+
+     It was...and it is.
+
+                                                                
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1909.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1909.html
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+
+     He's not paying her to eat him...when he finds out what she
+is, he
+backpedals fast..and that's when she tries to induce *him*.  Or
+that was the
+theory, anyway.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1910.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1910.html
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+                             Yup.
+
+     More on this in "Mind War."
+
+                                                                  
+ jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1911.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1911.html
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+
+     She was operating off the assumption that people did NOT know
+what she
+was...Sinclair tells her to 'stick to the list,' meaning only her
+own species.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1993
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1913.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1913.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1993
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+
+     It's possible that I may also be at Icon.  Not confirmed yet,
+but looks
+good at this time.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1914.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1914.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1993
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+
+     Cool....
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 31 1993
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+     No, the closest parallel to the Centauri would, I suppose, be
+ancient
+Rome.  I tend not to go that much to contemporary sources for
+metaphor, since
+it's too obvious and over-done.  Much of what's in B5 is drawn from
+much older
+sources.  The only exception, the only means of creating a metaphor
+for the
+present, is one that will take some time before it's even
+perceptible, though
+by the end of the season, you'll see what it is pretty clearly.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1916.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1916.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 31 1993
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+
+     Consumer Reports looks at the baseline requirements for most
+people, and
+the majority of videotape users aren't videophiles, they're folks
+who maybe
+reecord a show off the air for later viewing, record somebody's
+wedding, that
+sort of thing.  Things like signal to noise ratio and video
+dropouts really
+don't mean much.
+
+     The degree of difference increases the higher you go into
+video
+equipment.  A small 21" old color TV won't show much difference
+between tapes.
+A 32" fairly new Sony Trinitron will.  Similarly, if you're piping
+your audio
+through the TV speaker, you won't notice much difference.  If
+you're sending
+it through a surround system, you will.  For the majority of the
+population,
+and the majority of available equipment, yes, there's not much
+point in
+distinguishing between them.
+
+     If you want the real skinny on videotapes, go to such consumer
+oriented
+publications as Video Review or Video Magazine, which do very
+comprehensive
+tests on videotapes.  You'll find out more than you could possibly
+want to
+know.  Generally, TDK comes out at or near the top every year. 
+Same for
+Maxell in general.  Which is why I use TDK almost exclusively, and
+have never
+had a problem.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1917.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1917.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1994
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+
+     Hey, you brought it up.
+
+     We just took a picture of it.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1919.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1919.html
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+
+     It's worth pointing out that in the 20+ years that CFQ has
+been around,
+they've never done a cover story about any TV series other than
+Trek...and B5.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1920.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1920.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1993
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+
+     I can't imagine there'd be any problems with scanning the
+poster.
+
+     And a certain executive producer wouldn't mind getting hold of
+one of
+those posters his own self....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1921.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1921.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 08 1993
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+
+     Look for a long piece about SF oriented shows in the current 
+November
+issue of Film and Video, out now, and another piece in
+Connotations, put out
+by the Arizona SF folks, also out now.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1922.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1922.html
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+
+     I think the material will be repeated, but I'm not 100% sure. 
+I know
+there will be two 30 second spots, two 15 second spots, and three
+10 second
+spots, so I doubt they'd need 45 minutes total to do all of that.
+ But don't take my word for it.
+
+     BTW, the interactive B5 computer program should be available
+online by
+around January 10th.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1923.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1923.html
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+
+     The uplinked promos today (and yes, they are the same on all
+three days,
+I've learned) are fairly generic in nature, about the series
+overall.  There
+are bits and pieces from "Purple," "Infection," "Soul" and
+"Midnight."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1924.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1924.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 11 1993
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+
+     JPEG and GIF for most flexibility, I suppose; and if you put
+the (c) PTEN
+info in the description when you upload, that should be fine.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1925.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1925.html
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+
+     The February Cinefantastique has a two-page story on B5, just
+sort of a
+quickie intro to the series.  Has an interesting photo of n'grath,
+and a
+blurry photo of me (mainly because I'm generally blurry).
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1926.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1926.html
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+
+     Films are difficult because the level of resolution required
+to make an
+image that'll stand up to scrutiny on the big screen is still a
+major pain in
+the butt.  But that'll change in time.
+
+     Here's a Joe Predicts for you: by this time next year, ST will
+have gone
+either completely to CGI, or 95% to CGI.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1927.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1927.html
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+
+     The ship *might* be the Asimov; I've never seen the tape, do
+can't (er,
+so can't) be certain.  The tumbling ship is probably the Soul
+Hunter craft.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1928.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1928.html
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+
+     It speaks in cicada-like chirps and whistles, which are
+translated by the
+translation device on its chest (the lighted thingie).
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1929.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1929.html
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+
+     And our information is that they *have* avoided it....
+
+     (imagine a smile as big as all outdoors....)
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
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+
+     BTW, in Larry DiTillio's latest edition of the "Scripts"
+column, in
+Writer's Digest Magazine, there's a fairly lengthy section on B5. 
+For those
+interested in hearing some stuff from another viewpoint than mine.
+
+     Also look for some syndicated articles to appear in newspapers
+over the
+next week, including the Tribune News Service, and the Teledata
+News service,
+which between them cover something like 2,500 newspapers and
+magazine.  Also
+the Boston Globe will have a piece on B5, as will Entertainment
+Weekly.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1931.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1931.html
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+
+     The explosion damaged the auto-configuration system which
+keeps the
+rotation/flywheel system working smoothly.  (This is also indicated
+in
+dialogue in the observation dome.)  That more than anything else
+would cause
+real problems.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1933.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1933.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1993
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+
+     Actually, it knocked the hamster out of its wheel, and then
+the  whole
+thing just went to hell....
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1934.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1934.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1993
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+
+     I think you're seeing a glitch, actually....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1935.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1935.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 21 1993
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+
+     What an astonishingly good question....oh, Ronnnnnnn.....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1936.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1936.html
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1937.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1937.html
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+
+     Centauri males wear their hair in this fashion, the length of
+which is
+determined by the person's status.  Centauri women scorn such
+symbols of
+status and go bald except for a knot of hair from the back.  (Sort
+of a
+peacock approach.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1938.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1938.html
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+
+     Londo's people go for jewelry and ornamentation such as medals
+and
+sunbursts and the like; Minbari don't do a lot of ornamentation,
+going instead
+for fabrics, textures and colors.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1939.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1939.html
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+
+     Yeah, fairly much, as far as it goes.  There's some Jananese
+influence,
+as well as some early European influences, as well as middle
+Eastern
+influences.  (There are three Minbari castes: the worker, warrior
+and
+religious castes.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1940.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1940.html
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+
+     Is it the color logo on the shirt, or the black-and-white
+logo?
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1942.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1942.html
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+
+     As soon as the ship comes through, its signature is registered
+and the
+fees debited against their account, if they have one at the
+station.   If not,
+the incoming person is asked for payment before being allowed onto
+the
+station.  In some cases, as with transports, corporations buy jump
+gate access
+in bulk, and then assign the routes to their various transports. 
+(Believe it
+or not, this actually comes up in dialogue in "Midnight.")
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1944.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1944.html
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+
+     Ah, but remember, the government is the one who put the jump
+gate in; no
+one individual or corp could afford to do that.  When your ship, if
+Earth
+registered, comes through, you're automatically billed, just like
+income
+tax...it goes against your credit.  If you're not Earth registered,
+you pay
+when you arrive at an Earth port or orbital transfer station. 
+Either way, you
+pay.  If you try to land somewhere without proper authorization,
+you'll be
+arrested and your ship confiscated.
+
+     Now, you could probably come through the gate, hang in space
+for a while,
+and go back in again (IF you're a non-Earth registered ship) and
+not pay
+anything...but in that case, what's the point?  It'd be like taking
+a
+difficult trip in a small ship across the Atlantic, and not getting
+out or
+going ashore once you arrive.
+
+                                                                
+jms
+

+
+
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+
+     They are both guns.
+
+     The canopy closes and locks.  If hit, there's at least the 
+opportunity
+for the canopy section to eject from the rest of the craft before
+it's
+destroyed.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 18 1993
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+     For those who might be interested, we've come up with some
+name for the
+various clans of the Minbari warrior caste.  The primary five are
+the Star
+Riders (the oldest), the Moon Shields, the Wind Swords, the Night
+Walkers and
+the Fire Wings.  (The first three refer to the early Minbari
+version of a
+mounted force, for which you need riders with shields and swords,
+with #4
+referring to foot soldiers, and the last to those whose clan first
+used flying
+machines in battle.)
+
+     (Oh, and Star Riders refers to those mounted soldiers who were
+trained to
+use the stars for navigation.  Behind them came the foot soldiers,
+who were
+expert at traveling by night.)
+
+                                                                  
+jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 23 1993
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+
+     In "Infection," Garibaldi tells one person, who's been looking
+for
+Sinclair (and whom Sinclair is ducking) that "the commander'll take
+any
+opportunity to take out a fighter; he's like that."  Sinclair is
+first and
+foremost a *pilot*, this is what he loves.  And thus he does it
+wherever he
+can (also to continue his flight pay, he like any other officer
+needs to log
+in X-hours of flight time per month).
+
+     In "Soul," there's only room for one ship to go out and link
+up with
+another ship that's out of control, it's not a combat situation, so
+it makes
+sense for Sinclair, since he has the most combat/flying time on the
+station,
+to go out after it.  It's also a potential first-contact situation,
+which
+doubles the importance of a command officer.  I "Midnight" he goes
+out because
+there's something that he knows that others wouldn't know to react
+to.
+
+     But at the same time, in "Midnight," when the first distress
+calls come
+in, it's Garibaldi who takes out a ship; in "Believers" it's
+Ivanova.  In the
+combat-heavy "Raiding Party," it's Garibaldi and Ivanova in ships,
+while
+Sinclair stays behind in C&C.  In "Believers," Ivanova states that
+regulations
+require the presence of a command officer in long-range flights
+that may
+involve combat.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1949.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1949.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1993
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+     Yes, there are instances where other EA officers come aboard
+with
+equivilent or close ranks to our characters.  In one particular
+episode it
+makes for some considerable conflict....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1950.html b/find/GEnie/jms93-12/1950.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1993
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1993
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+
+     There's a mistake.  Which episode(s) have her listed?
+
+                                                                 
+jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1993
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+     The scene was cut for time; it may yet appear elsewhere.
+
+                                                                 
+jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 05 1993
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+     Yes, Clive was in "Purple," not "Prayer."
+
+                                                                  
+jms
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+
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+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1994
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+     I am an atheist, a total atheist, and am more than happy.  What I write
+is what I write, what I am is what I is.
+
+     Yes, much of my own background goes into what I write.  In the case of
+religion, and spirituality...a writer's job is to be as honest as he can in
+telling a story.  My canvas (for lack of a less grandiose term) is the human
+condition.  And since the dawn of sentience, humanity has been trying to
+figure out its place in the universe.  The religious impulse is as much a part
+of that process as anything else, and it must be treated with integrity and
+respect, as I would have my own views respected.  I try not to exclude
+something just because I don't agree with it, because that corrupts the whole
+purpose of writing, which requires an honest look at the subject.
+
+     And as a writer, there are parts of the religious impulse that I want to
+examine, and explore, and raise questions about, just as much as I'd like to
+explore the scientific aspects of living in space, and the more personal,
+emotional repercussions of this.  It's all a part of trying to figure out who,
+and what, and *why* we are.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1956.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1956.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1994
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+     Actually, religion isn't totally irrelevant to B5 in that in several
+episodes we'll be dealing with, or touching upon that issue...there's a bit of
+it in "Soul Hunter," "By Any Means Necessary," "The Parliament of Dreams,"
+"Legacies," "Believers" and a couple of others.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1994
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+     Nobody tells me nuttin' 'bout no laserdisks 'r tapes 'r any of that thar
+stuff....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1958.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1958.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 04 1994
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+
+     Cooney: I wasn't offended...very little offends me...EXCEPT THIS DAMNED
+FLU THAT REFUSES TO GO AWAY, AND EVERY NIGHT IT'S FEVER TIME, AND I'M GOING
+OUT OF MY MIND, YOU HEAR?  I'M GOING MAD!  I'M SPENDING MY DAYS AND NIGHTS
+TRYING TO WRITE IN TWO STATES OF MIND: DELUSIONAL OR CONFUSED (which on the up
+side is one more state of mind than is normal for me) AND I'M TIRED OF IT, YOU
+HEAR?  TIRED OF IT!
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 05 1994
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+
+     Fever broke a little today, so that helps.  May even go in to work for a
+few hours tomorrow.
+
+     Re: the Universe Today piece....sigh.  I wish they'd let us proof these
+things before they sent them out.  That should be "Minbari POET accorded
+honors," not "Minbari PIRATE."  I haven't had a chance to check out the
+program yet -- no macs at home -- but plan to look at it as soon as I can.
+There are a few glitches here and there apparently, plus in the electronic
+trading card gifs, but easily straightened out.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 07 1994
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+
+     "Why is there this permanently cold stone at the entrance to the Walt
+Disney Story movie....?"
+
+     That's where they're keeping Michael Eisner's heart these days.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1961.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1961.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 13 1994
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+
+     Well, we've finished shooting "Legacies," and have begun shooting
+"Raiding Party."  I think "Legacies" came out very well (guest-starring John
+Vickery).  "Raiding Party" will guest star Gerrit Graham.
+
+     We finally delivered "Chrysalis" to Warner/PTEN, and heard back: our
+liaison over there was stunned, describes it as the best season-ending
+cliffhanger he's ever seen, unlike anything done before.  Suffice to say we're
+pleased.
+
+     There's not a lot of CGI in either "Legacies" or "The Quality of Mercy"
+(which will follow "Raiding Party" in the production lineup), because neither
+story really called for it.  But there's a *lot* in "Raiding Party," some of
+it very elaborate.  By way of comparison, in an average B5 episode, a script
+from beginning to end has about 60 or 70 setups (a setup is a numbered scene
+or shot, i.e., INT. SCOCKPIT or INT. ZEN GARDEN).  "Raiding Party" has around
+112 setups.  That's more than in some movies.  It's a *very* busy script.
+
+     We're now just about two weeks from our debut.  Lots of behind the scenes
+action...meeting with journalists and some critics, buckets of interviews, and
+a general sense of *anticipation* among the crew.  People are now either
+seeing, or about to see what we've been quietly doing here ever since July.
+
+     Once "Babylon Squared" is turned in, probably on Friday or Monday, there
+will be just 4 scripts left to write (of which 2 are the two-parter).
+ It seems like just yesterday we had 22 in front of us to write.  The time has
+just zipped past with unparalleled speed.  It feels like it took forever to
+GET the series, and suddenly before we really have a chance to think about it,
+ZOOM, the first season is nearly over.
+
+     This is going to be a very interesting few months....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1962.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1962.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1994
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+     No studio in its right mind would give a second season go without getting
+in a fair number of ratings nights first to determine whether or not it's a
+viable show.  Not every good show gets amazing ratings, and not every crummy
+show fails....
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1994
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+
+     On the topic of B5 being a novel for television, consisting basically of
+five "books" (as Lord of the Rings was three books)...some figures for your
+consideration.
+
+     The total page number of script pages for season one: 1,100 (give or take
+about 10-20 pages).  Basically two 550 page novels, or one very long (275,000
+words) novel.
+
+     At this point, it looks like the total for season one scripts written by
+JMS is 12 scripts, or a total of about 600 pages (equal to a 150,000 word
+novel).
+
+     Assuming the show runs 5 years, that's 5,500 pages, equal to 11 average-
+sized (100,000 words) novels.  Given that I'll probably continue to write
+about half the scripts, that's 2,500 pages/5.5 novels just in JMS scripts.
+
+     (Why do I suddenly feel very tired...?)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1964.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1964.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1994
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+     Oh, forgot two things: 1) Though this may never appear anywhere, my title
+for the Year One/Book One arc is "Signs and Portents."  2) We just cast June
+Lockhart as our guest lead in "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1994
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+
+     Yes, this is the actual text of a script.  And a script contains scene
+descriptions, dialogue, directions.  (Contrary to popular opinion, the actors
+don't just make up their lines when they hit the stage, based on loose ideas
+by somebody.)  My scripts tend to be *very* detailed, with camera movement
+suggestions, optical notes, indications of dissolves vs. cuts, on and on.  A
+typical scene might look like this:
+
+EXT. BABYLON 5 - ESTABLISHING
+
+A scuttleship unloads cargo from a transport parked alongside the station.
+PAN ACROSS with the scuttleship, tracking with it until it passes into the
+docking bay, then DOWN TO the observation dome window, where we can just see
+into
+
+INT. OBSERVATION DOME
+
+where Lieutenant-Commander IVANOVA stands at the console, cup in hand, staring
+bleakly out into the starscape as SINCLAIR comes up alongside.
+
+                             IVANOVA
+                  I hate mornings...I've always had a
+                  hard time getting up when it's dark
+                  outside.
+
+                             SINCLAIR
+                  We're in space.  It's always dark
+                  outside.
+
+                             IVANOVA
+                        (forlornly)
+                  I know...I know....
+
+     (That, by the way, is a slight re-do of an actual shot from "Raiding
+Party.")
+
+     A script page, single-spaced, works out to about the same wordage as a
+double-spaced prose fiction page, about 225-250 words per.
+
+     On this whole "costs less = not as good" question, the one thing that
+galls me is the knowledge, accumulated through 120+ produced TV episodes, that
+30% *or more* of any show's budget is wasted.  It comes because you don't get
+a script until maybe 3-4 days before you have to shoot, and everybody works
+round the clock, ringing in double- and  triple-overtime on EFX, costumes,
+sets, you name it.  So items that should by all rights cost maybe $150,000 end
+up costing you $300,000 or more.
+
+     In B5, we're generally 3-5 scripts ahead of ourselves at any one moment.
+Directors and crew get their scripts *weeks* before we have to shoot.  And
+even earlier than that, because I know what's coming down the road for the
+whole season, I can give someone literally *months* of advance warning on
+major EFX, or set requirements.  As a result of all this, items that normally
+cost $150,000 either cost exactly that, or we actually end up *saving* a
+little money.
+
+     A lot of television production is absolutely irresponsible.  That we are
+penalized in the press for acting responsibly is something that I just can't
+figure....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1966.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1966.html
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+
+     Sci-Fi Buzz was on the set this week, in fact, and did some quick
+interviews with cast, me, and Harlan (who is returning to Sci-Fi Buzz as
+commentator).  More on this when I get a date.
+
+     Yes, much to my chagrin, I'm in the Making Of piece.  I hate me on
+camera.  I get twitchy, my head disappears into my neck, my neck disappears
+altogether, I suddenly gain about 20 pounds, and I look for all the world like
+some kind of demented, myopic turtle.
+
+     And yes, Bill Mumy is also in "Mercy," but has no scenes with June.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1994
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+
+     Actually, there are newer black leather B5 jackets, which we made up for
+cast and crew for Christmas, as a gift.  They're *gorgeous* black leather-and-
+cloth letterman jackets, with a slightly redone B5 logo on the back (better
+metallic thread for the sunburst, some other minor variations).  Mine has
+something a little extra: the patches worn on the uniforms of those who fought
+at the Battle of the Line.  A Starfury patch on the left arm, squadron
+name/number on the right arm, EA Command  Patch with name on the left breast,
+Earthforce Off Worlds patch on the right breast.  Very, very cool.
+
+     BTW, a request for a favor: reviews are going to be coming out this week
+on our first episode.  I know they're slated to appear in People,
+Entertainment Weekly, and TV Guide.  (Apparently Jarvis will be doing a
+review, about which he would only say to some people, "It's *brief*," which
+sounds like another hatchet job in the offing.)  I know that the East Coast
+gets deliveries of these magazines a few days before they arrive here on the
+West Coast.  If anyone sees these (or other) reviews prior to Tuesday, lemme
+know, and post as much as you can from it.  Thanks.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Re: the PPG firing...we talked to some high-IQ types about how a plasma-
+firing weapon might work.  There would be superheated bursts, some marginal
+escape of the gases used, and it would burn through the air, creating a small
+thunderclap-like sound.  So this is what we did.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Mainly I just came up with a general sense of where things were, and went
+from there.   ]
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 17 1994
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+
+     BTW...since we've been discussing script stuff here, a little bonus: from
+1990-1991, I wrote a new 4-hour "V" miniseries, entitled "Rebirth."   It was
+to be the comeback for the V series, until they realized that the show -- like
+its predecessor -- would be too expensive to produce for syndication.  This is
+the only official, Warners-sanctioned follow-up to the V series, even though
+the script wasn't produced.
+
+     I've gone ahead and uploaded the first three acts of that miniseries to
+the SFTV library, file #893.  For those who followed the V story, you might
+find this of some interest....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1994
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+     Logging on from the computer at work.  Still no power at home, so my
+system there is dead.  So this'll be brief.  Terrible couple nights,
+especially the Sunday, when the big one hit.  Lights out, blind terror, the
+sound of plaster tearing and glass breaking and objects flying through the
+room.  The house shaking as though in the maw of a large, terrible animal.
+Fireplace fell down in the den, will probably have to rebuild the whole
+fireplace.  Sundeck/patio is now separated from the house.  Massive cracks
+elsewhere.  Dust and grit over everything.  To enter a room you have to clear
+a path through debris...cd's, books, magazines, videotapes, everything's off
+the shelves and on the floor, 6-12" deep.  Couldn't even open the office door,
+blocked by debris.
+
+     Fortunately, no injuries here or in the B5 crew/cast.  Andreas' house
+took a major pounding, might be a total loss, we'll have to see.   Our
+cinematographer (the same one who escaped the fire by inches) is in similar
+straits.  We offered cast and crew the chance to stay home, but everyone
+wanted to come in to work, get back on the horse again, show their support for
+the show.
+
+     More as I'm able.
+
+                                                   jms
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+     The sector of space occupied by B5 is more or less central to all of the
+major governments.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     Hmm...I haven't heard anything more on the satellite number, so it may
+have been canceled due to the quake.  Well, if not before now, it is now,
+since I don't know squat about it at this juncture...
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1974.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1974.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 25 1994
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+
+     We've got lots of people of various color in the show, including Dr.
+Franklin (black), Catherine Sakai (asian), Dr. Hernandez (hispanic), plus a
+wide range of others in many kinds of roles.
+
+                                                              jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1975.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1975.html
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+
+     We found an old logo for an actual aircraft company called Sinclair
+Aircraft.  So a piece of an original logo ended up in Sinclair's quarters.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1976.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1976.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 28 1994
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+
+      Well, the ratings are starting to come in.  We won't know the full
+ story on the ratings until next week, because syndication doesn't work
+ quite the same as network shows.  Some places are yet to air the first
+ episode, and as with the ST shows, you add both airings to get a
+ cumulative total.
+
+      That said...we have some ratings/shares from the first night's
+ single airings.  (By comparison, and I pass this along only as a
+ benchmark, the ST shows generally get around an 8 or 9 rating and about
+ an 11 share.  That's the *cumulative* rating, not a single-night rating.)
+
+      So when you consider the following numbers, realize that they're
+ not complete, and will increase maybe another 30% after the second
+ airing (give or take).
+
+      New York: 7.2 rating, 10 share.
+      Los Angeles: 12 rating/17 share.
+      San Francisco: 7.4 rating, 11 share
+      Washington DC: 7.7 rating, 11 share
+      Seattle: 10.4 rating, 16 share
+      Minneapolis: 7.1 rating, 11 share
+      Orlando: 8.8 rating, 16 share
+      San Diego: 9 rating, 15 share
+      Portland OR: 9.6 rating, 14 share
+      Kansas City: 9.4 rating, 13 share
+
+      In many markets, we beat in one night what it takes the ST shows
+ two showings to pull, ratings-wise.  In many markets we beat network
+ shows.  The LA showing beat "Beverly Hills 90210."  In some places, the
+ ratings shot up 220% over what they normally get in that time period.
+
+      Translation: we're not a success.
+
+      We're a bona fide *hit*.
+
+      Most significant of all are the quarter-hour breakdowns.  All the
+ PR in the world might get you to tune into a show, but PR won't *keep*
+ you there.  If the audience finds the show uninteresting, the numbers
+ will fall each quarter hour.
+
+      Practically across the board, the ratings either built or didn't
+ change by quarter hours.
+
+      To say that the people at Warner Bros./PTEN are stunned would be
+ a considerable oversimplification.
+
+      We did it.  Now the interesting thing will be to see if we can
+ sustain it.  Onward and upward....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1977.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1977.html
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+     The darkness is caused by a shadow from the huge blast doors on either
+side of the central docking bay.  Because of its position relative to the sun,
+you're *always* going to get a shadow there.  We could've done the effect with
+or without the shadow.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+
+     Kathryn's last name is Drennan.  Her full credit is Kathryn M. Drennan.
+Not Straczynski.  Probably displaying considerable wisdom on her part.  Ten
+thousand letters, no vowels.
+
+     Absent a collaboration on a series of articles for TZ Magazine a few
+years ago (a guide to the Night Gallery series), we don't collaborate.   Ever.
+I also don't collaborate with Larry D., or any other of my writer friends.  As
+I learned before, particularly on the one occasion when Larry and I tried it --
+we co-wrote a pilot and bible for CBS based on the "Elfquest" books -- all
+parties concerned will live a LOT longer by keeping a respectable distance.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     No.
+
+     Had a couple days clear of the bug, and today hit a relapse.  Sigh.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     By the way, if anyone's curious, here's how I'd rank the first six
+episodes in terms of my own personal preference, from 1-6: "The Parliament of
+Dreams," "Mind War," "Soul Hunter," "Born to the Purple," "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," and "Infection."  We'll see how close this coincides with your
+own reactions.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     Our other directors are terrific.  There's Bruce Seth Green, who's done
+an awful lot of work on various series (I think he also did some episodes of
+V, btw), Jim Johnston, Janet Greek and Deborah Navarra (the first episode for
+Deborah is coming up in the rotation soon).  I don't have their credits in
+front of me, though I know Deborah's done a lot of Homefronts, and Janet comes
+from a mainstream directing career, though she's an SF fan herself.  (Janet's
+directing/has directed "And the Sky Full of Stars," "Chrysalis," "Raiding
+Party," and our two-parter.  She's absolutely amazing.)
+
+     Jim's done "Survivors," "Soul Hunter," "By Any Means Necessary," and will
+likely do "Babylon Squared."  Bruce has done "Born to the Purple," "Mind War,"
+and "Legacies" so far.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Of course there's going to be some element of recoil sometimes when the
+fighters fire at someone (more noticeable at some speeds than others, and at
+some angles more than others).  Still trying to hew close to reality....
+
+     And it's "to start a war over blood spilled so long ago...."
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+
+      My problem is that I have little or no interest in defending B5 as good
+SF to anyone.  I think his definition is arbitrary.  Ray Bradbury said that
+good SF is whatever one points to and says that's good SF.  It seems to me
+that those most interested in defining SF are the ones who most profit from,
+and hew to, their own definitions.  It's as inherently silly a discussion as
+the folks from the War of the Worlds series insisting that their show was NOT
+a science fiction series (excuse me? aliens, and starships, and interplanetary
+warfare, and it's NOT an SF series?).
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1984.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1984.html
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+
+     I don't think it would be entirely appropriate for me to comment on the
+Ellison/Koenig question, as it kinda violates the privacy on both sides....
+
+                                                                 jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1985.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1985.html
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+
+     Re: not hearing thundering explosions...that's because there's no sound
+in space.  We're trying to take a more *science* fiction approach to the show.
+Along with the neat dynamics of motion in space, there has to be the
+correlation in terms of how explosions are presented if the science is to have
+any integrity.  Just an explanation for why a thing was done...in other shows,
+in internal-station stuff, you'll get *plenty* on the sub-woofer.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1986.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1986.html
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+     Those who made the "Making Of" added sounds to the space stuff.  Also the
+commercials have done the same.  Guess they didn't understand the concept....
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Subsonics, and there's what's called a "by", as in "a ship passes
+
+by," a sense of motion, but the explosions are carried by music, insofar as I
+know.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1988.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1988.html
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+
+     There was a whole discussion about this over in Internet, and maybe
+someone can grab that thread and put it all in here...suffice to say for now
+that Psi Corps telepaths are ****NOT**** allowed to scan defendants in any
+official way connected to a criminal act.  It violates the right  to due
+process.  Even if requested, it's simply not allowed.  You do NOT want to even
+open the door a *crack* in letting a government-regulated agency begin making
+determinations about who is and isn't guilty of a crime.  That way lies
+dictatorship, Thought Police and Big Brother.
+
+     We'll get more into this question in an episode entitled "The Quality of
+Mercy."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1989.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1989.html
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+
+     "...and if our future lies on the firing line, are we brave enough to see
+the signals and the signs...."  -- Harry Chapin.
+
+     Just a thought.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1990.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1990.html
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+
+     1) The markings are on top of the starfuries, not beneath.  The
+"disappearances" you refer to are shots in which we're looking UP at the
+fighters.
+
+     2) Re: the Psi Corps...let's have a moment of logic for a moment.   Does
+anyone here think that the Judicial System will, for a *moment*, let another
+government agency come into their courts with pronouncements of guilt or
+innocence?  Lawyers wouldn't have it, judges wouldn't have it, the Supreme
+Court would rule against it.  Also, please remember that the Corps is viewed
+with some measure of suspicion by the rest of the government.  As you'll see
+in the course of the series.  They aren't perceived automatically as the Good
+Guys.
+
+     You MUST set up checks and balances, and policies.  You can't say,
+"Okay, a telepath can scan sometimes, but not others, with some people, but
+not others."  The law is a defined creature.  A telepath *may not* scan
+someone accused of a crime, and have that as admissible evidence.  A telepath
+*may* scan a victim who is unable to remember the events of a crime,
+BUT...that is not admissible in its own terms, it must then be bolstered with
+actual, physical evidence.  Even an eyewitness testimony can be challenged,
+and hearsay evidence is open to challenge as well, there are *already*
+limitations on second-party testimony.
+
+     Allowing the Psi Corps to function within a criminal court setting is one
+step removed from tyranny, and a government controlled court.  If you actually
+look at the *reality* of it...it wouldn't happen.  And that is the position
+we're taking with our series.  Is it debateable?  Of course it's open to
+debate.  We like fostering debate.  Is everything fair?  No, it's not, just as
+in life.  But as someone said (actually, the person looking on over my
+shoulder as I type this), it's my show....
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+     It's *not* inconsistent.  There is a VAST difference between taking part
+in a supervisory capacity in a business deal, and testifying in a courtroom on
+a case where someone could be sent to jail for the rest of his or her natural
+life.  Neither did I at any point indicate that any business use of a telepath
+is useable in court.  It's something that one businessman pays for, to make
+sure the other guy's on the up-and-up, not a legal thing.
+
+     The right to privacy is a definite interest, yes...but to the courts, the
+more significant issue is checks and balances, and an unwillingness to
+surrender control of or influence over the judicial arm to  another government-
+regulated agency with questionable military influences.
+
+     There are many times that these and other laws may come into
+conflict...and sometimes they won't be fair to all people at all times.   Our
+government has a quit-smoking priority...and then goes out and underwrites
+tobacco farmers.  There's an inconsitency for you.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Added notes...1) B1-B3 weren't completed prior to going up; they were
+sabotaged during construction at various points.  Only B4 was actually
+completed.  2) Just a thought...you may want to take a gander at "Mind War" in
+re: all the telepathy discussion.  You may walk away from that show with a
+somewhat better understanding of the need to keep these people away from a
+courtroom than I can convey here.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     (I'm keeping a low profile overall just now, to avoid getting in the
+way...but quickly....)
+
+     I *love* "Duck Dodgers."  I have virtuall all of the WB cartoons on tape
+or disk, and from where I sit, that's wonderful stuff that'll be around for a
+long, long time.  No omens, just something I thought would be fun.  (Again,
+connecting past/present/future, sort of our B5 theme.)
+
+     So far, so good...ratings in San Diego are a 9 rating with a 15 share,
+beating all the network affiliates, delivering 150% over what the station
+normally gets...this could bode *very* well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Thanks, all.  Matt...to your question, there's something I wish I could
+tell you, but I can't without spoiling something in regards to the commander
+running off all the time.  All I can say is watch the last act of "Infection."
+You'll learn something very interesting there which impacts this discussion.
+It's a scene between Garibaldi and Sinclair in the latter's quarters.  Believe
+me, you'll know it when you see it.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1995.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1995.html
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+     Hmmmm...lemme check this and get back to you....
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     Generally, one pilot is "attached" to one ship, hence the individual and
+matched markings.  In some cases, as in "Soul Hunter," there may not be time
+to trot out your specific ship, so you grab whatever's ready.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     The Starfuries are stored in the launch bays, yes.
+
+     Re: Sinclair getting into a fighter...there were a number of reasons for
+this, one of which being he wanted a good reason to avoid being in on the
+counsel vote, given his marching orders.  But more than that...I would point
+out that this isn't Star Trek, and Sinclair isn't Picard; he is first and
+foremost a pilot.  He loves to get into a fighter and take it out  He's a
+fighter.  That's when he is most at ease.  That's what his character *is*.
+
+     At the same time, however, there are consequences for that kind of
+behavior, as you point out.  And there are deeper reasons for what he is doing
+than even he want to admit.  Tell you what...table that aspect until after
+you've seen the last part of "Infection," which deals *with this exact issue*.
+
+
+     Re: Vir...that was the first episode filmed with his character, and he
+wasn't directed as well as he might have been.  We pulled him back a lot in
+later episodes.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1998.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1998.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 30 1994
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+
+     Here, for what it's worth, is my take regarding Londo's hair.
+
+     I find it interesting that people can accept spots, scales, fur,
+foreheads, reptiles and parasites...but not a different style of hair, used to
+denote one's rank or position (as is done in some primitive societies right
+here).  Look at the history of hair just around us in the last hundred or so
+years...long hair, powdered wigs, crew-cuts, braids, dreadlocks, spikes,
+mohawks....
+
+     Among those I've talked to, it seems that folks from other places --
+England, Europe, some from Japan -- have *zero* problem with the hair.
+ It seems genuinely an American reaction.  I was talking to someone about this
+earlier this evening, and the comment came back that Americans in particular
+are absolutely *obsessed* with not being embarrassed, or being made fools of.
+When they (we) see someone who doesn't match our view of what's the norm, we
+imagine how we would feel in that position.  And to make ourselves more
+secure, as in high school, we make fun of what would personally embarrass us.
+When the underground/subculture of the 60s got ANY chance to express its
+views, what did people focus on?  Their hair.   Sometimes other personal
+traits, but usually the hair.  "Damn longhaired  freaks."
+
+     To see *hair*, of all things, being somehow less acceptable than funny
+foreheads, scales, or other aspects of alien-ness flatly astonishes me.  (It
+was also pointed out to me that in the first season of the original Trek,
+there was a *lot* of mail to Paramount about losing the pointy ears on Spock,
+that they just looked stupid.)
+
+     It just seems sad to me, and somehow informative, that people are unable
+to see past the hair to the person.  Are we really that conservative and
+ethnocentric?  I particularly feel strongly about this for Peter, who is
+absolutely *out there*, taking a great risk with this character, who is doing
+an amazing performance...and all people can talk about is the hair, as though
+that somehow diminishes the performance.
+
+     Amazing, really....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1999.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/1999.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1994
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+
+     We did it already.  Plus using composites for other shots.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2000.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2000.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1994
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+
+     No, that was a computer-generated composite shot.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2001.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2001.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 09 1994
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+
+     Don't have a clue; those are Ron questions, and beyond my ken.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2002.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2002.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 10 1994
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+
+     This kind of comment is really pointless now because the show is about to
+hit the air.  Lots of people have been badrapping it during the months of
+waiting.  Now you get to see for yourself, and all this "it ain't great" stuff
+will be shown for the BS it is.  If you've seen it, judge for yourselves.
+They're full of it.
+
+     It's dismaying that we've gotten to this point of, if we're not wasting
+millions of dollars on EFX, it can't be any good.  Wrong.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2003.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2003.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 26 1994
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+
+     Ko'Dath met with an unfortunate accident with an airlock.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2004.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2004.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 27 1994
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+
+     In a tip of the cap to an SF writer, the Koenig character in "Mind War"
+is named Bester.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2005.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2005.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 28 1994
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+
+     Gold bars on the chest are for command staff, silver bars are for lower
+command staff (i.e., Sinclair has gold, the techs in the observation dome have
+silver).  As 2nd, Ivanova's bar is split, half gold and half silver.  Medical
+division gets a red bar, Security gets a green bar.
+
+     Rank are denoted in the brass pieces on the shoulder.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2006.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2006.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 06 1994
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+
+     I've seen a nearly-finished cut of the Making Of piece, and it's pretty
+good.  Could be a bit smoother here and there, and we had a few notes, which I
+hope will be taken care of, and there's a lot more shown of forthcoming scenes
+than I'd like, and not nearly enough of the interviews, but overall, I think
+it's okay.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2007.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2007.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 30 1994
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+
+     Bastards.
+
+                                                     jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2008.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2008.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 06 1994
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+
+     Go toward Los Angeles, and stick the pin in about 10 miles offshore.
+ If the show isn't a hit, that's where you'll find me.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2009.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2009.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 08 1994
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+
+     Got my cap today.  Thanks.  It will now go into a place of honor at the
+B5 offices.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2010.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2010.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 29 1994
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+
+     Yes.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2011.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2011.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 29 1994
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+
+     Shane: not good.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2012.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2012.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1994
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+
+     Travis:
+
+     You're wrong.  I've announced my plans in this regard before.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2013.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2013.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1994
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+
+     Hey, you brought it up.
+
+     We just took a picture of it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2014.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2014.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1994
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+
+     Re: magazines...I'm actively not cooperating with Starlog, so that takes
+care of that venue.  There's deals in process for a comic, and for
+novelizations, but I've kinda urged people not to hurry that process too much,
+on the grounds of, "Let's do the *show* first, and make it as good as we can,
+and *then* worry about the merchandising."  Too often people in this business
+put the merchandising cart before the horse.  If we do our job right, then
+there'll be plenty of all that down the road.  If not, why jump in and try to
+exploit it?
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2015.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2015.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1994
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+
+     BTW, in Larry DiTillio's latest edition of the "Scripts" column, in
+Writer's Digest Magazine, there's a fairly lengthy section on B5.  For those
+interested in hearing some stuff from another viewpoint than mine.
+
+     Also look for some syndicated articles to appear in newspapers over the
+next week, including the Tribune News Service, and the Teledata News service,
+which between them cover something like 2,500 newspapers and magazine.  Also
+the Boston Globe will have a piece on B5, as will Entertainment Weekly.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2016.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2016.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1994
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+
+     Haven't heard otherwise, so I assume so.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2017.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2017.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 05 1994
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+
+     Don't know if Ron's named that ship or not; will try to remember to
+inquire.
+
+     Advance word: look for a big story in Entertainment Weekly, probably
+hitting the stands next week (the following week latest); stories via the
+Tribune and Teledata syndicators; we got the cover in the L.A. TIMES Sunday
+color TV magazine for the week we air; other newspapers will be doing the same
+(specifics when and if I get them).  Expect to see pieces on CNN and Showbiz
+Today over the next 2 weeks, and Starburst should have a very long piece on
+the show sometime soon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2018.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2018.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 07 1994
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+
+
+     Did we save anything for the rest of the season?  Lemme put it to you
+this way...you ain't seen *nothin* yet.  "Midnight" makes just about
+everything done before for TV look lame...but there's stuff coming down the
+pike that'll make "Midnight" look pale by comparison.  With each show we get
+better, we learn more, and we can *do* more.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2019.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2019.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 11 1994
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+
+     Apparently they're going to have me, and probably Claudia, doing one more
+of these satellite-interview things, probably on the 25th.  Oh, but my life is
+a festival of joy....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2020.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2020.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 15 1994
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+
+     I was told this stuff would be uploaded to GEnie at the same time; I
+don't yet have this stuff myself.  Will bug the right people.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2021.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2021.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 21 1994
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+
+     Here is the one and only thing I really have to say about critics (at
+least until otherwise provoked).
+
+     When "Lost in Space" went on the air, every critic hated it; they hated
+the cast, they hated the writing, they hated the sets...they panned it
+royally.  About a year later, when LiS was a big hit, and was selling magazine
+covers, a lot changed.  Then "Star Trek" appeared...and was crucified by the
+critics.  They hated the cast, they hated the writing, they hated the
+sets...TV Guide in particular.  They roundly dismissed it as an attempt to
+cash in on "Lost in Space"'s success.   Critics attacked Patrick Stewart in
+TNG for being stiff and unappealing, attacked DS9 on similar grounds.....
+
+     They *always* attack SF.  Always have, always will.  And always unfairly.
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2022.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2022.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 22 1994
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+
+     FYI...the L.A. Times and Orange County Register both have cover stories
+on B5 in their respective TV magazines.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2023.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2023.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 09 1994
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+
+     Actually, I'd argue that there's a difference between FTL travel, and
+removing oneself from the standard reference by entering hyperspace.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2024.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2024.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1994
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+
+     We'll imply some of the geography in the series, but the interactive
+computer program coming out soon has a map of the station, and shows where
+what is in relation to everything else.  As for the fighters, they wait until
+they clear the arms to launch.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2025.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2025.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1994
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+
+     Since I sat on a panel with Niven, who said that in his view nothing good
+is written for TV, and implied basically that TV writers were people who'd
+sold out and were just a shade above prostitutes in the food chain, I doubt
+very much that Niven would be interested in writing scripts, nor would I be
+terribly much inclined to ask.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2026.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2026.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 16 1994
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+
+     It's a tachyon channel.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2027.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2027.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 24 1994
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+
+     Understood.  But I don't want the full script out there being sold at
+conventions, also because I eventually would like to novelize this thing, when
+I have time....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2028.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2028.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 29 1994
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+
+     I still plan to continue to go to cons, but probably at a somewhat
+reduced level, simply due to the requirements of exec producing this show and
+writing a smidge over half the episodes.  Probably hit the major cons,
+WorldCon and the like.  And always, *always* ComicCon.
+
+     Quake...ehhh.  Yeah, had some damage.  The fireplace in the living room
+is now *IN* the living room...the chimney/fireplace has to come totally
+down...a wall or so is going to be knocked out...there are cracks all over the
+place...the sun deck is now separated from the front of the house, the stairs
+leading up to the house are separated at one point... a closet is pretty much
+demolished and will have to be yanked and re-done...lots of other minor
+damage...couldn't get into my office for about a day because of the debris
+piled up in front of the other side of the door...didn't have power from
+Sunday night through Thursday, only today was told that the water's
+okay...spent most of the nights writing scripts on a notebook computer by
+flashlight....
+
+     It hasn't been pretty around here for a while.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2029.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2029.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 30 1994
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+
+     Last anyone talked to me, it was me and Larry being interviewed by David.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2030.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2030.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 06 1994
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+     Yes, that is the plan, though we're still trying to work out how it can
+be done without violating the integrity of either universe; if we can do so
+cleanly, we'll do it; if not, we won't.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 07 1994
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+     Just completed another script, "The Quality of Mercy," which I wrote
+almost entirely while down with the flu, and can literally not remember
+writing any of it because of that.  Totally on autopilot, though it seems
+pretty good.  (Might've been in Flemish, for all I knew.)  Also, we just cast
+Gerrit Graham in "Raiding Party," which starts shooting next week, by which
+time I hope to have "Babylon Squared" completed in first-draft form.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+1. CATegories      10. INDex of topics
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+3. SET category    12. DELete message
+4. DEScribe CAT    13. IGNore category
+5. TOPic list      14. PROmpt setting
+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
+7. REAd messages   16. NAMe used in BB
+8. REPly to topic  17. EXIt the BB
+9. STArt a topic   18. HELp on commands
+Enter #, <Command> or <HEL>p
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+

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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2033.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2033.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 04 1994
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+     No, for which I give some measure of thanks.  Eventually, though, I'm
+confident it'll be rebroadcast.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     We've re-lit and touched up the forced perspective to make it look
+better.
+
+     Also, Ron did *substantial* modifications to the B5 station itself,
+making it the biggest single object to render.  It has something like (and
+this is only my memory) 100 times the resolution of the station used in the
+pilot, so you can get right in close for paint-scraper shots.  It's much more
+detailed and substantial looking.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Not necessarily...it may have been 100-times in resolution, or it may
+have been 1000-times in resolution...actually, as I think of it (via the fog
+that's in my head) I think you're right...I knew there was a 1 and some 0s
+involved in it...and it was a big deal...so maybe it *was* 1,000x.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     The forced perspective is inside the station, not in the CGI outside.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 22 1994
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+     The smuggler was not gunned down.
+
+                                                          jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 22 1994
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+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun, and yes, the settings work about the way you
+describe.  At full settings, it burns right through the body (and you can see
+this in some shots, albeit briefly and discreetly).  We also deal with the
+reality of what such a weapon *does* to you...internal burns, clothes melting
+into the skin, that sort of thing.  We don't get gross about it, but we try to
+stay with the reality of what we're creating.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     In the "Midnight" teaser, Garibaldi mentions that Ivanova's "new here."
+Also in "Midnight," Talia introduces herself to Ivanova and mentions that she
+was "assigned here a few weeks ago."  In "Soul Hunter," Franklin arrives to
+take on the task of chief of medical staff.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     My thought, at the time, was that if we play the reality of this for a
+moment, probably *all* of the ambassadors have some kind of weapon, smuggled
+in via diplomatic pouches.  Garibaldi and Sinclair know they're
+there...question is, is it worth starting a diplomatic incident over, as long
+as they're not being used?  Garibaldi is saying, in essence, "Okay, you know
+it's there, and I know it's there, but now you've made a point about it.  Lose
+it or hide it, or I'm going to have to charge you, and we're BOTH going to be
+up to our ears in it."  If Garibaldi confiscated it, there'd be a whole
+diplomatic hassle...and Londo would just have another one sent to him via
+diplomatic pouch.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2041.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2041.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 26 1994
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+     You may think it was obvious that the nephew was reading at gunpoint, and
+in fact, he was...but thinking something or suspecting something isn't the
+same as proving it.  Londo could say, "He was reading at gunpoint!"  And G'Kar
+could say, "No, he wasn't."  Where do you go from there?  (And, in fact,
+that's *exactly* what Londo said...only to have G'Kar deflect it.)
+
+     Re: why Londo didn't show the clips...at this point, there's not any
+question in anyone's mind about the attack taking place.  The Narns say they
+were invited in to help quell internal strife.  That the events took place
+isn't at issue; it's *why* and whether or not they were invited in.   (As with
+Germany in WWII indicating that some places "invited" them in.)
+
+     Had Sinclair shown the evidence, it probably would've just hardened
+G'Kar.  Also, most politics is back-room dealing.  You do this in public, and
+you make a terrible enemy who'll strike back as soon as he has a chance.  Let
+him have his dignity, save face, BUT get what you want, and there's room to
+maneuver in future.  It's the difference between being a punch'em-out hero,
+and someone who has to be diplomatic, within limits.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2042.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2042.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 27 1994
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+     Which episodes are central to the story arc?  I'd say the episodes that
+you should keep in that regard would be "Soul Hunter," "The Parliament of
+Dreams," "Mind War," "And the Sky Full of Stars," "Babylon Squared,"
+"Chrysalis," and maybe "Legacies" and the two-parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness."
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2043.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2043.html
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+     Yeah, the Sea Witch is the one that rotates and fires at one of the
+Raiders.  It's a woman's face in a green and blue background.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2044.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2044.html
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+     Sounded cooler.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 30 1994
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+     There is some history there with Sinclair's father, but I'm not getting
+into it this season because there are some other family issues involving our
+characters that I want to delve into initially, and I don't want to step in
+the same stream too many times, as it were.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2046.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2046.html
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+     No, nothing autobiographical in it.
+
+     Vir calms down.  Trust me.
+
+     He even manages to nail Londo from time to time...as he does when Londo
+suffers a rather nasty hangover in "Born to the Purple."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2047.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2047.html
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+     No, just two: reddish/orange (red shift) when entering a gate, and blue
+(blue shift) for emerging.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     No, the Takashima character did not have a problem with the Psi Corps.
+This would have been part of a different thread.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2049.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2049.html
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+     When Doug and I, to simplify things, created a separate corporation to
+handle the massive paperwork of a series.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     She was kidding.  Typical Russian humor.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2051.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2051.html
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+     You'll find out by the end of this season.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2052.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-01/2052.html
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+
+     Snakes generally move slowly...until they strike.
+
+     Re: the medical tools...we brought in a medical science consultant, who
+helped us design our instruments.  His sense was that we're moving more and
+more toward light as a system of treatment, non-invasive procedures, that sort
+of thing.  No, there aren't anything like those devices in today's operating
+rooms...but this is 250 years from now.  In any event, it *is* based on the
+latest info we're getting on new science from our medical advisor.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+1. CATegories      10. INDex of topics
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+3. SET category    12. DELete message
+4. DEScribe CAT    13. IGNore category
+5. TOPic list      14. PROmpt setting
+6. BROwse new msgs 15. SCRoll setting
+7. REAd messages   16. NAMe used in BB
+8. REPly to topic  17. EXIt the BB
+9. STArt a topic   18. HELp on commands
+Enter #, <Command> or <HEL>p
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2054.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2054.html
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+
+     Boy, this has been some kinda day....
+
+     Phone goes off *early* in the morning, "Just making sure you know about
+the satellite interviews today."  I'm in bed.  Scratch.  Snuffle.   Look at
+clock.  Snuffle.  Scratch.  "Satellite interviews...when?"
+
+     "In about two hours, across town."
+
+     WAAAAAAUUUGGGHHHH!
+
+     Never a jump gate when you need one.  Haven't moved that fast in ages.
+Me and Claudia for about 5 hours, on and off, giving interviews to TV stations
+around the country.  Plus one segment with just Claudia and Peter...of which
+the *funniest* stuff was in-between, while waiting for NY to come on line, a
+mass of improv, all of it going out over the station...Peter and Claudia
+improv'ing lunch at a NY deli, a fashion conversation between J. Edgar Hoover
+and Eleanor Roosevelt...on and on and on, put *everyone* away.
+
+     The camera loves them both.  Me...at the moment I went on camera,
+hundreds of people around the country no doubt started calling America's Most
+Wanted and screaming, "I SAW HIM!  HE'S ON TV!"
+
+     Then a zip back to the studio to meet with Larry and give story notes on
+his new script, "TKO," which has a *very* interesting Ivanova B-story; then
+another meeting; then race across town to spot (slug where music and sound EFX
+go) one episode, finish the mix on another episode, race back to the stage for
+a final meeting, leave late this evening, find literally *hundreds* of
+messages on various systems now that the show is airing (this in the last 24
+hours), plow through those...and now will be up the rest of the night writing
+the second part of the two-parter we're shooting this season, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness."
+
+     Yikes!
+
+     (And lest anyone think I'm not paying attention...*many* thanks for the
+many kind comments here.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+                                 eeeek!
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     Oh, god, did the Dance Theater of Harlem line get in there?  I don't
+believe it....
+
+     Yes, you'll see places in the show where they can and do congregate; the
+briefing room, the conference room, the mess hall...the observation dome is a
+place to *do* stuff, not so much talk about stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2057.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2057.html
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+     Re: blue collar nuts and bolts types..."By Any Means Necessary."
+
+                                                          jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2058.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2058.html
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+
+    Yes, post away.
+
+                                                     jms
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+
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+
+     What a weird day...filming "Babylon Squared," and one minute I'm standing
+in the anteroom/hallway of a Minbari cruiser that leads into the Great Hall
+and the chambers of the Grey Council...a few minutes later I'm standing in a
+section of Babylon 4, and the whole atmosphere of the crew is *very*
+different, the whole sensibility is strange...very strange.
+
+     Just cast Theodore Bickell in an episode entitled "TKO," written by Larry
+DiTillio.  Also Greg McKinney appears in that episode.
+
+     Finished writing the second half of our two-parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness."  We go off the station for this one.
+
+     Just one last episode to write, and we're finished with the scripts for
+this season.  How weird.  Seems like we barely started.  Finishing filming on
+#17.
+
+     "Babylon Squared" has a *very* different look to it, and a very eerie and
+foreboding feel about it, which I like a lot.  Jim Johnston, who directed
+"Soul Hunter" and several others is doing it.  Very moody.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2060.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2060.html
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+
+     At some point this season we will go down to the planet, yes.
+
+     And yes, Babylon 4 is the one that vanished.  And the end of this one
+should raise a LOT of new questions....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2061.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2061.html
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+     Chris and Terry...general agreement.  With a point to add: when I've
+spoken highly of this series, from my POV I'm talking about the series as a
+whole being something very different.  Yes, you'll see it in flashes here and
+there, but the cumulative effect is what I'm going for.  (Now obviously you
+can't expect everyone to see the whole thing, that's not going to happen, and
+I'm not planning on it, every episode *must* still stand nominally by itself
+and be entertaining on its own terms.)
+
+     To use a metaphor, this is a marathon.  I intend for this show to go
+further than has been seen before.  Some people, seeing that only a faew first
+steps have been taken on that journey, say they're not impressed because it
+hasn't gone very far.  And they're missing the point.  We're barely out of the
+starting gate, and we have miles to cover.
+
+     But they're *entitled* to feel this way, and I have no real problem with
+it.  I have been very patient for seven years; now we wait, we put the show
+out there, we ride out the ST comparisons...and then, gradually, as the show
+goes on week after week, people are going to begin seeing where we're
+going...and wondering just how far we'll manage to go with it.
+ So by the end of the season, the full cumulative effect will be there.
+
+     Fortunately, most folks will have a pretty good sense of what that is
+after episode #6, "Mind War."  I don't think someone should have to wait
+around a full season to start picking up stuff and seeing, for lack of a more
+original term, the shape of things to come.
+
+     This is going to be a revolutionary series, with the emphasis on the word
+SERIES.  Some episodes -- like "Parliament," "Sky," "Mind War" and others --
+are definitely extraordinary.  But for me, it's always been the series as a
+whole.
+
+     I'm glad the episodes are doing well, and glad they hold up to some
+pretty close scrutiny.  But this is a marathon...and we have far to go.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I watch *every* version.  I watch the daililes.  I look at the director's
+cut.  Then John Copeland and I go in to make the producer's cut.  We watch it
+again a few times, futzing with it as we go.  I watch the on-line version.  I
+watch the color-corrected version.  I watch it again after we've added in the
+SFX.  I watch it while we spot the episode (determing where music and sound
+effects go).  I watch it again when we do the mix-down to add music and sound.
+I watch it again to make sure it's all cohesive, on my home system, to make
+sure it translates okay (we mix in a fancy sound stage, with killer speakers,
+which most folks won't have).
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 08 1994
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+     I've only had B5 related dreams a few times...thankfully.  I need SOME
+time away from it.
+
+     Re: the statement that it took the soul hunter's ship "literally seconds"
+to reach B5...nope.  Sinclair left the observation dome, went down to the
+bays, got into his EVA suit, and had the ship prepped.  So it was more than 2
+seconds.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     We've had a couple of dj's on the show, don't recall the names off hand.
+And yes, in general, for most practical purposes, P12 is about the upper
+limit.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 09 1994
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+     I'm confused...I got a note today about an RTC here tonight, but it's not
+on the schedule  or on the opening screen.  Is it tonight that I'm due on, or
+Friday night?
+
+                                                       jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 10 1994
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+     Major fan of The Prisoner, yes.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 10 1994
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+      Here's the tentative schedule for episodes past "Mind War," which
+ airs in three weeks:
+
+      March 9 -  "The War Prayer," by D.C. Fontana
+        "   16 - "And the Sky Full of Stars," by jms
+        "   23 - "Deathwalker," by Larry DiTillio
+        "   30 - "Believers," by DAvid Gerrold
+      April 6  - "Survivors," by Marc Scott Zicree
+
+      At first it looked like there was going to be a batch of reruns
+ after "Mind War," but PTEN is so happy with the ratings that they do NOT
+ want to interfere with the momentum.  Which makes me very happy as well.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     There was a fairly negligible drop in #2, from 7.0 to 6.5 rating, mainly
+because the week of the second show was the beginning of sweeps period, which
+is when all the networks and local stations drag out their big guns and the
+competition increases *considerably*.  In addition, a show generally drops 1
+or 2 ratings points after its premiere; only  one-half of one-percent is
+extremely good.  Apparently, from PTEN ratings research, we're performing well
+above their expectations.
+
+     The demographics are *extremely* good...hitting exactly the audience that
+advertisers want.  For a series with no franchise going in, we're still far
+beyond expectations.  The overnight from L.A. -- which is all I have in hand
+at the moment -- from "Purple" is a 7.4 rating with an 11 share, which is
+consistent with the prior weeks, so we're holding steady.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 11 1994
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+     Well, open mouth, insert foot....as I said, it had been *tentatively*
+decided to fully revise the schedule, for the reasons given.  Then someone
+remembered the November sweeps.  If we do all new episodes through as
+planned, we'd have *nothing* for the November sweeps, we'd be done.  So we had
+to ajust a bit, so there will be 2 or 3 more after "Mind War" that're new,
+culminating in "Sky," then 3-4 reruns, then picking up again.  Sweeps are
+*very* important for the stations, and since the show is doing well, they
+don't want to waste episodes in non-sweeps periods.
+
+     Meanwhile...it occured to me the other day that I've finished the last
+script I'm going to write for this season of B5.  Seems like we just got
+started, and now I ain't got no more scripts to write for a while, until PTEN
+decides whether or not to pick us up.  It's weird; kinda like coming home one
+day to find your car is no longer in your garage.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Don't you threaten me....
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 13 1994
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+     A couple of network affiliates have bumped their regular programming and
+have just taken on B5.  Including an ABC affiliate.  Interesting...
+
+     Took a bit of a day to myself, got out, saw "Fool Moon" in its L.A.
+appearance (saw it in NY last year, off-broadway), with Bill Irwin and his
+partner, and if you're in L.A., *see* this thing.  Just wonderful.  Went with
+Harlan and Susan, and just before it stared, in comes Mick Jagger with his
+wife and three kids, and they sit in the row in front of us, and Harlan (who
+toured with 'em for a while for some articles) and he strike up a
+conversation, and we're all chatting.  A very nice fellow, very quiet believe
+it or not.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 15 1994
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+     Groups like the Grey Council, the Bene Gesserit, and others are part and
+parcel of mythology...whether it's the council of the gods, the twelve
+apostles, the councils of wizards and elves in Lord of the Rings...they are
+consistent with the myths we have created for ourselves, and thus pop up all
+over the place.  (Did I mention the Round Table of Camelot?)
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Well, we're doomed...I just realized today that our first *really* strong
+episode, "The Parliament of Dreams," airs the same night (in most markets, the
+23rd) as the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan face off in the olympics.
+
+     Imagine a silence vast as space...that sound is neilsen ratings meters
+stuck unmovingly on CBS....
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Remember, the bears are not what they seem.....
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 17 1994
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+     Okay...here's a request for a favor.
+
+     As of this week, "Infection" is more or less past us, and now two of our
+better shows are coming up; two real favorites, "The Parliament of Dreams" and
+"Mind War."  These give a much better sense of what this show is *really*
+capable of doing.  (BTW, add "Raiding Party" and "Babylon Squared" to my list
+of favorites from this season; the former shows that you can come damned close
+to the level of action-oriented space EFX in "Return of the Jedi" in TV.
+Really amazing stuff.)
+
+     Anyway...if there are people you know who haven't given the show a look,
+or have been uncertain...these are the shows to have them watch.   You can
+tell commend these two episodes to them without reservation.  If you would
+want to convey that to those you know, we'd appreciate it.  This is really a
+chance were B5 can shine.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     We'd gotten Patrick for Knight 2 in "Sky," based on his reaction to the
+script...only to discover that he was going to be out of the country when we
+were going to shoot it.  He's *very* particular about what he does, and the
+scripts he does, so this was something of a compliment (and I think he
+could've related to where we were going with it), but we'll just have to try
+again on something else; I'd love to have him in an episode sometime.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Dana: please list for me any promises that I have not kept.  I have
+spoken about the series overall, and I have spoken about those individual
+episodes that I think are terrific.  I said that "Sky" would be like a leap
+ahead of most anything produced for american SF-TV before. And I stand by
+that.  "Sky" hasn't aired yet.  It will in 4 weeks.  I said that I liked
+"Soul," loved "Parliament" and "Mind War," and wasn't terribly big on
+"Infection," with "Midnight" and "Purple" somewhere toward the back of the
+pack of this first batch.
+
+     I am, and have been, *very* careful about what I say here, and to avoid
+over-hyping.  You're keeping me to promises that I haven't made, or applying a
+promise made about one episode to another, which is more than a little unfair.
+Show me what I've said here that has been inaccurate.   Otherwise, I have
+nothing to apologize for.
+
+     And one other thing: I'm not "begging" fans to do anything.  I'm pointing
+out that the next two are killer episodes, and if there's anyone somebody
+knows who hasn't been wowed yet, *those* are the shows that'll do it.  That's
+all.
+
+     Dana, if you don't like it, don't watch it.  It's really that simple.
+I've said before that this show will stand or fall on its own quality, not on
+anything I've said here.  And I stand behind that.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 18 1994
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+     Dana, I've sat here for ten minutes trying to figure out how to explain
+and answer your question...but I think that the very best way of conveying
+that information is contained in the next two episodes, with "Sky" as the
+capper.  We've barely been on the air yet, have shown only the basic episodes
+designed to slowly bring people into our unvierse before getting weird...I've
+said from the start: don't give us a season to get interesting.  Just six
+episodes.  If we don't grab you by then...switch channels.
+
+     The other element to all this -- and I said this many times, here, prior
+to the episodes -- is that if someone says to you, "This is gonna be a great
+series," you or I begin to imagine and see in our heads the show WE would
+consider perfect.  And the product is destined never to be that show, unless
+you're actually creating it.  Some people will hate or be disappointed by ANY
+series, regardless of quality, and some people will love a show, again
+regardless of quality.  There's a bell-curve of viewers.  The question is
+where does the curve skew the most, toward the positive or the negative?  We
+talk about HIll Street a lot...but there are a LOT of people who couldn't
+*stand* the show.  Still can't.
+
+     In a hit series -- *major* hit -- 50% of the people really enjoy the
+show, 30% think it's okay, and 20% think it's absolutely horrible.   That
+happens.  As long as those numbers don't reverse themselves, you're okay.
+
+     But like I said...when TNG hit the air, everybody was willing to give it
+the benefit of the doubt for the *entire first season* and hope it got better
+in the second year.  We're not asking for that.  All I can say is that
+"Parliament," "Mind War" and "Sky" are far more emblematic of what this show
+is, and will become, than any of the other episodes.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     P.S.  Just as a reminder to anyone looking on...before we began airing
+episodes, I posted my list of favorite episodes of the first six.
+ I'll repost that here now:
+
+     1) "The Parliament of Dreams"
+     2) "Mind War"
+     3) "Soul Hunter"
+     4) "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+     5) "Born to the Purple"
+     6) "Infection"
+
+     Plugging in the addition of two new episodes that'll be aired after "Mind
+War," I'd put the new lineup of the first eight in this order of personal
+favorites:
+
+     1) "The Parliament of Dreams"   
+     2) "And the Sky Full of Stars"       (A tie with "Parliament")
+     3) "Mind War"
+     4) "Soul Hunter"
+     5) "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+     6) "Born to the Purple"
+     7) "The War Prayer"
+     8) "Infection"
+
+     I think that the first list comes pretty close to the majority of views
+I've seen expressed here thus far.  We'll see more after the next two air.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     I dunno...I think there's a difference between a genuine difference of
+opinion, and a hatchet job.  Reactions to a show are going to vary, and all
+observations can be learned from.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I'd be inclined to ask your friend at the store to hold back any such B5
+vs. DS9 debate until we've aired the first season.  Otherwise it's really not
+very fair.  It's like comparing two books, one of whom you've read completely,
+the other of which you've read only the first couple of chapters.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 20 1994
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+     ST/B5 definitely isn't an either/or situation, neither is it a
+competition since in most markets, they're on the *same station*.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     BTW...for those in the L.A. area...our Conceptual Consultant on B5,
+Harlan Ellison, is having a special presentation, "On Being a Writer, An
+Evening with Harlan Ellison."  It's being put on by the Learning Tree
+University one time only on March 1st from 7-10 p.m.  He'll be talking about
+writing, ethical standards, cultural illiteracy and politica (political)
+correctness, among many and varied other topics.
+
+     The price is a pittance -- $39 -- and information can be had on this by
+calling 818-882-5599.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Na'Toth is played by Caitlin Brown.
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+                                                     jms
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+      BTW, for the satellite-people among us, the uplink of B5 has been moved
+to Fridays at 2 p.m. pacific time.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 27 1994
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+     It depends; in most places, it's held solid, other places it dips if
+there's something of local interest on another channel (i.e., a local sporting
+event), other places it's gone up.  As long as it stays overall within a point
+or two of the goal, if it generally builds over the previous hour, and the
+demographics are good (which they are), you're in good shape.  There's a *LOT*
+of variance in syndicated ratings.
+
+     Needless to say, though, we got *creamed* by the Tonya/Nancy Show.
+Which got a 64 share, the 3rd biggest ratings for a sporting event in history.
+But then, *everybody* got beat up by that one, so again it's okay.
+
+                                                        jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 28 1994
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+     B4 never got as far as having a commander attached to it.  The last
+stages of construction on Babylon 4 were supervised by one Major Krantz,
+assigned specifically to that task.  He managed to get the station completed,
+and on-line, and Earthforce was just beginning the process of selecting a
+commanding officer to run the station when, 24 hours after the station became
+operational, it vanished, taking roughly 1,200 of its skeleton crew with it
+(including Major Krantz).
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 28 1994
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+     BTW...before I forget (again), the syndicated radio show, the Mike and
+John Show will be broadcast *live* from the B5 studios this Monday (tomorrow)
+from 3-7 p.m. EST.  It's on WJFK in D.C., and also carried in Baltimore,
+Miami, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, Reno, Rochester, Buffalo and Fresno.  Most of
+the cast will be interviewd, along with me and some of the other producer-
+types.  Walter Koenig will also be on the air.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 02 1994
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+     The alien sector is *primarily* for those who require alternate
+atmospheres; oxygen-breathing aliens can live elsewhere.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 03 1994
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+     Many aliens (all who require alternate atmosphere) live in the alien
+sector.  Those who can breathe oxygen can live in other areas, but tend to
+congregate with other non-humans in the oxygen sections of the alien sector.
+The ambassadors have their own environment supported quarters in the Green
+Sector, which is the high-security area for diplomats.
+
+     Humans have the highest clearance level because this is a human run and
+operated (for the most part) station.  This isn't the Federation; the Earth
+Alliance would *never* allow a non-human to have highest clearance.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 04 1994
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+
+     Re: Sinclair's actions toward the Soul Hunter...the device he uses was
+trained on Delenn.  It was spiraling up to full power throughout the scene.
+Just as Sinclair's thrown, you see it starting to come to critical mass...it's
+shooting at Delenn.  There isn't/wasn't time to sit there and figure out how
+it works, and shut off the right button.  He turned it so that it faced away
+from her...and the Hunter was caught in his own machine.
+
+     There was nowhere else to go with the machine.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 05 1994
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+     To the question about a Soul Hunter's strength...yes, it is *very*
+considerable.  Even with one arm he was able to slam the hell out of the
+commander, pick him up and again slam him against a wall before throwing him
+about 10 feet across the room.  Had he not been stopped, and stopped good,
+yes, he would've torn Sinclair to ribbons.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 08 1994
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+     It was "Med-Alert."  Not "Bab-Alert."
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 17 1994
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+
+     Louise: thanks.
+
+     Anything else in response would be redundent.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 19 1994
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+     Nope, we don't do the threaten-ambassadors stuff much; in fact, as I
+think of it, that *might* be the last real biggie, though certainly they get
+into considerable trouble from time to time in other ways.  That's too easy a
+story, thus it behooves us not to do it overmuch.
+
+     And like I said...I have problems with "Infection" as well, so there is
+no flame from me.  I guess part of it is knowing what was in the script that
+should've been carried off better, but wasn't.  And part of it is my fault; I
+tried to use the Nelson/machine as a metaphor; it wasn't supposed to be about
+the Nelson/machine, but about the kind of people who would create it, the kind
+of people who would sell it, and the kind of people who would confiscate it
+even KNOWING what it was (and of course the kind of people who would *use*
+it).  Unfortunatly, when you put  somebody in that kind of suit, that
+*becomes* the story, and from that point on you're pretty much doomed.  It was
+also in places too much an obvious metaphor, and the "hand of the author" is
+showing too much.  It was the first script written for this season, after the
+long break after the pilot, and I think I was trying to find the characters'
+"fingerprints" and getting into the flow of the series, which took a script or
+two.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 20 1994
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+     Mike: for you to say that the racism issue is one that has been beaten to
+death in the last X-years, that including it in the first 22 episodes is "a
+sad tale:"
+
+     I live in L.A.  Does the name Rodney King ring a bell?  Or the L.A.
+riots?
+
+     Maybe you don't like the treatment of an issue -- that's fine -- but I
+reserve the right to try and address issues that I consider important.   Maybe
+you think it's been said.  But it bears repeating.  As someone once noted, "Of
+course everything has already been said.  But since no one was listening, we
+must begin again."
+
+`                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 20 1994
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+     I'd slice this a little finer and suggest that it wasn't so much the
+*stupidity* of racism and the whole genetic purity aspect, but the
+IMPRACTICALITY of such ideas.  If you follow the idea to its logical
+conclusion, *nobody* is pure.  Which was kind of the point.
+
+     And oddly enough, there's a pro-genocide discussion in "Deathwalker."
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 24 1994
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+     A parliament is a gathering of representatives, in this case the
+representatives of various belief systems; the dreams are the religions
+themselves.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     I think it would've done better as a Short Subject.
+
+     Sorry; there's no one more critical of my work than me, and when it comes
+to "Infection," I'd just kinda prefer it if it kinda vanished in the night.  I
+feel that way about only two episodes out of 22, so that's not too bad, I
+suppose.  But in any event, I don't think there's *nearly* enough there to
+make into a two-parter.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     The Xon?  Dead.  All of them.  And good riddance.
+
+     RE: the glasses...it's not something I've been able to figure out how to
+mention, but the Narn pride themselves on their physical perfection.  Hence
+there is no market for physical aides; it's something to be ashamed of.  So
+they have to crib stuff from other species, like glasses that have a
+prescription close enough to be useful.
+
+     I have *no* idea how to work that into a script, and am not sure it is
+even a good idea to do so.
+
+     Kosh was otherwise engaged....
+
+                                                          jms
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+     Actually, many of the alien races do *not* have monolithic religious
+beliefs.  You'll note that G'Kar didn't take part in the festival from the
+Narn POV.  You'll see Narn beliefs in "By Any Means Necessary," and there it's
+mentioned that there are many different beliefs among Narns, G'Quon and G'Lan
+being the two larger systems.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 25 1994
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+     The problem with "Infection" from a writing POV is that it was the FIRST
+one written for this season, and I was having a hard time finding the
+"fingerprints" of the characters again after so much time had passed after the
+pilot (it was nearly a year between the revising/shooting of the pilot, and
+the writing of the first series script).  As on *any* show, it takes a while
+to get up to speed once you hit series.  That was the real problem, and there
+wasn't any real way to get past it except to write it, re-acquaint myself with
+the characters, and move on.  I probably would have opted out of doing it had
+we had more scripts on hand, but we didn't.  And oddly, many on the production
+team *liked* the script quite a lot, and kept saying it had to be done.
+
+     Of all the scripts I've written, the only one that I'm less than
+absolutely 100% thrilled with is "The Quality of Mercy," because I wrote it
+while absolutely sick with the flu, and have NO memory even of writing it.  As
+it is, though, I'm about 90% happy with it, particularly the B-story with
+Londo and Lennier, which came out great.
+
+     So out of 12 scripts that I've done for this season, I'm absolutely
+pleased with 10 and 1/2 of them.  I created this show because I wanted to
+write for it; to not do so kind of misses the point.  I think that my scripts
+for "Parliament," "Mind War," "Sky," "Babylon Squared," "A Voice in the
+Wilderness," and "Chrysalis" represent some of the best work I've ever done.
+And I think you'll agree.
+
+                                                            jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 26 1994
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+     Is this 470/13/5?  I haven't been in a while...maybe I'd better look....
+
+                                                           jms
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+     They don't.  Never said they did.  Centauri have a pantheon.  The Narns
+(as we'll see in "By Any Means Necessary") have several different competing
+religions.  Only two religions -- Centauri and Ikarran -- have a similar
+historical thread in the Great Maker, with the small addition of those worlds
+conquered by the Centauri which have adopted Centauri religion (or been forced
+to do so, as has happened here on our own world).
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Sure, I could've gotten them into bed by the second act...but that wasn't
+the point.  What I wanted to show, what interests me, is the give and take
+leading up to that moment, the feints and parries and "how do we get past
+this?"  That to me is some of the most interesting stuff in a relationship.
+
+     Re: the newspaper...it's not printed in conventional fashion.  You
+program in your interests, and every morning a pre-filtered copy of UT is
+printed up in your quarters, on synthetic recycleable material.  You ript it,
+carry it, toss it.  Very simple, and probably within our own grasp in the next
+5 years.
+
+     (I.e., imagine a computer set to scan the wire services, look for certain
+keywords, download the articles, and during the night load the articles into a
+pre-set design format and automatically print them up on your laser printer so
+they're waiting in the morning.)
+
+     I didn't say that Earth was the ONLY one with diverse religions.  I don't
+understand why it is that when ONE thing is shown, it means that's the ONLY
+thing.  It's not.  Narns, as we'll see in "By Any Means Necessary," have
+several competing beliefs.  The idea of the festival wasn't to compare and
+contrast, only to show what *we* (whoever *we* is) believes.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Oh, there's *lots* more surprises and sucker punches than that in the
+show...trust me.
+
+     BTW...someone dropped me an email note mentioning in passing that
+somewhere else there's a discussion going on about *this* discussion, and
+indicating that my presence here inhibits criticism of B5.
+
+     First, if I believed that, I wouldn't be here.  Second...it ain't true.
+
+     Along with logging on here and on a number of other systems under my own
+name, there are a few BBSs -- regional and national -- which have B5
+discussions giong on where I also hang out...but either under a pseudonym, or
+without leaving messages, thus no one knows I'm lurking.  I do this in order
+to get an unbiased view of the show, without my presence affecting the
+discussion one way or another.  Call it a control group, if you will.
+
+     And on those forums where I'm not known to be there, what you get are
+generally "I liked it" or "I didn't like it," about as broad as that.   Very
+little of the (to use the phrase of others) nits and detailed analyses that go
+on on the systems where I *am* known to hang out.  Since there's a conduit for
+direct feedback to the show, people here and on the other services where I'm
+on as myself tend to provide MORE criticism of the show, not less.  In some
+cases, the occasional person may feel that he HAS to find something to nit at,
+because there is the implicit request for feedback.
+
+     Nor do I try to get in the way of negative feedback; if I think that
+someone is getting personal in an attack, or making an unfair accusation, or
+blaming me for something that the show never did...I fire back.  I try to
+answer all questions as non-judgmentally as possible, and if someone asks if
+something's going to be done, point to the forthcoming episode where it *is*
+done.
+
+     I don't try to change people's opinions here (I let the show do that),
+don't try to intimidate people into silence (I don't think it's *possible* to
+intimidate this particular group in *any* event), and I have a much lower
+estimation for those who skulk off in dark corners to mutter their criticisms
+of the discussion here than speak openly.  I'm insulted by the allegation, and
+frankly think that anyone here who has been taking part in the discussion here
+should feel insulted about being portrayed as spineless and toadying, which is
+the implicit statement behind the allegation.
+
+     If I *ever* got the impression that my presence here was inhibiting an
+open discussion, inhibiting criticism, I'd log off.  But near as I can tell,
+being here *encourages* criticism, in greater volume than elsewhere.  The day
+that changes, I'm outta here.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+     Yes, the meal *was* very expensive, as much as a room for a week.   If
+you're going to go after something as costly to import as wine (the major
+expense), then you're going to pay *bigtime* for it.
+
+     Mr.T...it was my intent to imply in the scene with the guard and Bester
+("nothing, just a drill") that he DID scan the guard's mind.  He found out
+what he was hiding (which is how he managed to show up to try and cut
+Ironheart off from his escape), exchanged a glance with Kelsey, and headed
+away quickly.  If this didn't come through, it might not have been
+sufficiently clear.  Note that the guard doesn't finish his sentence, and
+sorta drifts off....
+
+     Shane: am I unaffected by what I see here?  How could I be?  I'm as much
+flesh and blood as anyone here (well, most anyone).  I listen.  I learn.
+Someone once asked the Pope how he'd describe his job: "See everything.
+Ignore a lot.  Change a few things."  I generally listen hard to ANY opinion,
+and if it makes sense, modify my own.  I've been iffy on how n'grath has been
+presented, and with the reactions, I've pretty much decided to either kill him
+off or modify the way he is handled come next season (PTEN willing).  On an
+emotional level, sure, it's hard, but that comes with the territory.  If
+you're going to stay out here on the net, you're going to hear opinions and
+reactions -- often stated without much politeness -- that you really don't
+want to hear.  That's life.  To quote master philosopher Tom Servo, "Deal with
+it, pink boy."  It's kind of like being in a workshop with, oh, 3,000 people
+giving you notes on what you've just written, and very rarely do any two of
+them agree.  It can make you crazy.  But since I'm long past crazy, I get by.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     (Trying to run it all through my head...I don't think we see Kosh for a
+while...he's not in "Mind War," not in "The War Prayer" or in "Sky," and the
+first one up after reruns is, I believe "Believers," in which Kosh *does* make
+an appearance, being as cryptic as ever.  We tend to use Kosh sparingly.  The
+one story in which he plays a significant role and has a lot of on-camera time
+is "DeathWalker."  He's also in "Grail," and "Chrysalis," and some others,
+though they slip my mind at the moment.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     Here's the thing...I never said once, *anywhere*, that the Minbari change
+sex.  When I mentioned that we were going to have a female playing a male,
+somehow this came up...but I *never said it*.  This was just another
+speculation that took off and accumulated a life of its own.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     The Xon weren't any more evil or good than the race that survived; two
+equally sentient species emerged on the Centauri homeworld over the course of
+evolution.  They were more or less separated by distance and land masses and
+oceans, so there was little contact until either side developed the technology
+required to find the other.  It was the next best thing to a first contact
+situation, except it's on their own world; they were very much alien to one
+another.  Somewhere along the line, it was decided that this world wasn't big
+enough for both of them, so they began a campaign of slaughter against each
+other.  Londo's people won.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+     The quote is incorrect in any event; that was one *possibility* that we
+had discussed, that's not set in stone.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     No, I said that if I genuinely believed that my presence here was
+inhibiting open and frank discussion, I would withdraw, because that's unfair
+to those using the system.
+
+     Re: the difference as to why Sinclair reacted the way he did...they SPOKE
+to him in his head, the same way they did to the guard in customs.   This is
+different than just "listening" to someone's thoughts, so to speak.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     No, I never said the *Minbari* change sex.  And I didn't.  I indicated
+that Delenn would end up female.  There's a difference.  And that's all I can
+say on it for now.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (And the Minbari *don't* change sex.)
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 01 1994
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+
+    T.Schell...you mean like the hispanic doctors that appear in such B5
+episodes as "Believers?"  And "Chrysalis?"  And "Deathwalker?"  And the native
+american in "Parliament?"  And the many other black, asian and other-ethnic
+guest characters we've used in "Mind War" and other episodes?
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     For the most part, lower level types don't know the names of those in the
+Grey Council (speaking of Minbari for a moment).  They are kept fairly
+anonymous to avoid the cult of personality arising.  You'll see the full
+extent to which they preserve their anonymity in some of the upcoming
+episodes, specifically "Sky" and "Babylon Squared."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     I try to keep things to a need-to-know basis.  Sometimes you don't want
+the future to influence an actor's performance now.  And sometimes you *do*.
+Some know a little, some know a lot, some know only what's necessary for an
+individual episode.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Better television reception.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     The computer voice belongs to Haley, our script supervisor.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     Ask Katherine to ask Christy....
+
+     I made it clear I've got nothing to do with this, it's their (Christy's)
+responsibility.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Well, of course, the other thing to remember about Paul is that he had a
+real problem with women doing much of *anything*.  His letters about the role
+of women in church came out of his concern that women were taking too big a
+place in the church, and had to be pushed down.  If someone wants to yank out
+a biblical quote to put women "in their place," it's almost *always* one of
+Paul's.  He had a real problem with women.  (Yoko in particular.)
+
+                            jm(who has actually read the bible twice)s
+

+
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+
+     Let's just say for now that you'll learn something very unusual about
+Centauri "intimacy" in "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     Look for a B5 piece on Sci-Fi Buzz this Sunday; on KPCC on February 20th
+at 3:30 p.m. (or thereabouts); and on Channel 13 L.A. this coming wednesday
+(as part of their newscast).
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     ...i hate being interviewed...i don't want my mug on teevee...the STORY
+is the star, as far as i'm concerned....feh, feh, and in case you missed it
+the first time...feh.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The 2nd B5 issue of Cinefantastique is already out.  Picked up a few
+copies the other day.  (They shipped with two different covers; one cover has
+Stephen King's The Stand on it, the other has B5 on it.)
+
+                                                      js
+

+
+
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+
+     No, I don't think there's a 100% correlation; sometimes a show is
+absolutely awful, and is panned appropriately.  Sometimes a show tries to
+introduce a paradigm shift, and gets unfairly nailed.  And all of the other
+possibilities in-between.
+
+     I have learned from this experience one very important lesson: no matter
+what you do, somebody'll gig you for it.  If you put in action, they'll say
+the show has nothing to say and is shallow; if you put in esoteric stuff,
+they'll say it's pompous; if you spend time building your characters, they'll
+say it's slow; if you do a complex plot, they'll say there's no
+characterization; if you have no EFX, they'll say you're cheap; if you put in
+lots of EFX, they'll say you're just doing the old razzle-dazzle with nothing
+of substance...and on and on and on.
+
+     So, fundamentally, the only thing you can do is keep doing what it is
+you're doing, and be patient, letting people gradually see the full picture of
+what you're doing.  (Oh, yeah, and if you start off going for ambitious stuff,
+they'll say you're confusing; if you start gradually and work your way into
+the more complex stories after you've introduced the world and the characters,
+they'll say you're not innovative.)
+
+     I am content to be patient, and to continue telling the story I want to
+tell.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Actually, there's only one jump gate near B5, which can take you into or
+out of hyperspace.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
+     Of course, the station *does* have a VERY comprehensive defense system,
+which could've blown the ship (or any other incoming object) out of existence
+at any time; the only reason for waiting as long as possible was because of
+the first contact reprecussions....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     They weren't amazed that the ship activated the gate; they weren't
+expecting any ships in for a while (so sayeth Laurel), and thus were surprised
+that he arrived early.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     I loved the lensman books, and own first editions of just about the whole
+cycle.
+
+     Re: the helmets reflecting a tactical display...we actually tried this,
+and put in displays where they would actually be.  Problem is, unless you're
+shooting at an up-angle, which looks really weird, it's not bright enough to
+reflect much, unless you also REALLY make it bright, in which case it looks
+REALLY funky.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     That was our first excursion into DownBelow; we began modifying the
+wardrobe fairly quickly thereafter to present a more broad-based look.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     It's made to be adhesive to skin, but easily removed.
+
+                                                    jms
+

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+
+     Re: Vertigo...some of the best writing being done today is by Neil Gaiman
+in the SANDMAN books...amazing stuff....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Americanized version: struh-zin-ski.
+
+     Byeloruss (native) version: strah-chin-ski.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     Victoria...long as you're here...at this point it looks as if I won't be
+able to make it to the con.  I knew there was something brewing in August, and
+there are several somethings, primarily including San Diego ComicCon about a
+week earlier.  When we're in the middle of production, I can get away for
+*maybe* one con a month, but two is just impossible.  There's one slim chance
+that I might be around there for business purposes at some point around there,
+but that's still very much up in the air just now.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     Well, *I* always figured they did, but then I always figured they were
+marsupials, not reptilian...but that perception has gotten so much out there
+that I don't know if it can be recalled, and if I may have to just give on in
+that point.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Don: Minbari is in part derived from a minbar, which is the name for the
+pulpit in a mosque.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     I have consultation rights on everything merchandised, to keep it within
+the proper B5 framework.  I'd like to keep that hand as light as possible,
+though...like I said, I'm curious to see what *others* can do with the show.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Correct; the distortion you're seeing is caused by superheating the air.
+When it collapses again -- the heat literally burns through the atmosphere,
+the same as lightning -- it would logically make a sound like a small
+thunderclap...so we sampled some thunder sounds, and interlaced some of the
+PPG sound with that as well.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     I'd thought Brett had answered that well, about the magnetic field
+keeping the stuff in.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Yup.  Cumbersome.  And they say, "Here I am, shoot me."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     There is a cycle-up period.  Whenever the PPG is going to be used, you
+can hear it powering up.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+    (Of course, once powered up, it doesn't need to do it again until after it
+fires the charge.)
+

+
+
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+
+     Re: bullets...you're essentially shooting bullets inside a tin can.   The
+problem with ricochet is *incredible*.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Yes, there are other divisions, including the Marines.  We'll see them,
+too, from time to time....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Yes to both questions.
+
+                                                        jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 10 1994
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+     There are non-lethal weapons, including shock-sticks, which can be used
+to disable someone.  It looks something like a large baton and works kind of
+like a taser, only moreso.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 16 1994
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+     Oh, you will, you will....
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 25 1994
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+     The article is confused; the station has Alpha, Delta, and Gamma
+squadrons, composed of starfuries.  The final squadron, Zeta flight, will
+arrive in "Survivors."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2149.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2149.html
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+     Nope.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+     (Larry's last name is misspelled throughout.  A small joy for me.)
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 27 1994
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+     The photo caption is correct.  And I very much wish it weren't.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+     I didn't think anything was revealed about that...will go back and check.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Wait...just checked.  No, don't worry...odd as it sounds, that doesn't
+reveal anything at all about Kosh.  You'll understand when you see the
+episode.  (Scared me for a minute there....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2153.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-02/2153.html
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+     Trust me, that ain't it either.  That's all I can say without making this
+a spoiler.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     Nope.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     Wait...it's *11:30*?  I was told 1 p.m.  Can this be verified?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     I can't comment on that last part for a while yet; will do so soon.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Because we deal with religion a *lot* in this first season, we're giving
+it a break...but yes, there is some cross-fertilization.  I'd written a scene
+for one script, cut for time, featuring an alien in Catholic collar, a priest.
+And there should be humans who'd get into alien religions that are thousands
+of years older than our own.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Speaking of handing someone a hot potato, if you think this one is a
+toughie, just wait for "Believers."  Yikes.
+
+     What the soul was, who's right, and even whether this is SF or Science
+Fantasy, was it explained enough to merit one over the other... how can I put
+this...?  I don't want to spoon-feed stuff to people.  What I want is not to
+hit someone with a MORAL, or a message, or "This is what a soul is," or "This
+is what makes it an SF series," I want to start discussions.  Arguments.
+Preferably a bar fight or two.
+
+     We present an issue.  Here are the sides.  Now...what do YOU think about
+it?  I want this show to ask, "Who are you?  Where are you going?"  That's
+half the fun.  Some of my favorites pastimes in college were sitting in the
+commons, or the library, arguing this stuff from every possible angle.  You
+think I'm gonna tell you what to think?  What it means?  No.  The goal is to
+provoke discussion.  Preferably passionate discussion.
+
+     Otherwise I might as well just start renting billboards and putting up
+signs.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Yes, I do.
+
+     No, you don't.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Somone crossing *bang-banged* on the grate in the middle of the central
+corridor, and so Doyle hesitated, and we found we didn't have the coverage to
+collapse that one moment, or a replacement take.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Mira's makeup is the same between episodes, and we'll be keeping the act
+structure you're seeing now.  Many thanks.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Normally, I don't tend to respond to negatives, because I don't generally
+want to get in the way or be perceived to be getting in the way of criticism.
+I don't.  But I feel I have to respond to some of this.   If the show is open
+to criticism, then it seems to me that some of the critiques should be open as
+well.  And some of these I think are quitge unfair.
+
+     1) When did they move the jump gate (re: the time required to get from
+the gate by Kosh's ship, as opposed to the Hunter ship).  They/we didn't.
+Once again, and I wish people could remember this, Kosh's ship BEGAN TO
+DECELERATE the instant it emerged from the gate, in order to dock with B5
+without smashing into it.  The Soul Hunter ship was out of control, careening
+in at full speed.  (This was a widely discussed reason why the Vorlon fleet
+got to B5 so quickly as vs. Kosh's ship.  They were moving fast to get into
+striking position.)
+
+     2) The Hunter's ship was on autopilot, set to come out of the first  gate
+it came to.
+
+     3) There was still time for the station's defense grid to blow the ship.
+Yes, pieces would have continued onward, but a hell of a lot of its inertia
+would've been taken out by the incoming fire, and any remaining pieces
+would've either been taken out as well, or would have been so small as to not
+damage the hull (which is *very* thick at that point) given its blast-enforced
+deceleration.
+
+     4) Yes, Sinclair would've gone up with it.  You pays your money, you
+takes your chances.
+
+     5) There was no "the Earth is going to explode" story here; you have a
+ship colliding with the station, that has to be stopped.  It has to be stopped
+within the period between when it emerges from the gate, and the time it would
+collide.  You want to know how much time you have to work in.  Maybe it's a
+dramatic device, but it's also exactly what you would do.  What would you
+prefer?  "Lieutenant Commander, how much longer until impact?"  "Uh...I
+dunno...can you hang on a second?"
+
+     6) Re: the "funny forehead" comment...it was not what I've understood the
+FF syndrome to mean...a regular head with a little treatment on the front.
+This was a whole-head prosthetic, covering the entire back of the head.  So
+wrong on that one.  And re: n'grath having 6 legs rather than 4...who're you
+to say that?  Ever seen a praying mantis?  Do all insects all over the galaxy
+have to have six legs to qualify?  You don't like minimal makeup, you don't
+like full-body prosthetics...you understand that this comes out as "nothing
+will please me except a real alien."  You tell me where to find one in Central
+Casting, and I'll hire him.
+
+     7) Okay, here's my biggest gripe: the note that the soul aspect was Trek
+and "katra."  Let me be clear on this: I don't give a damn what Trek has or
+has not done now, long ago, or will do in the future.  We can't be constantly
+looking over our shoulder, limiting our universe because of another show.  If
+your only frame of reference when it comes to discussing the soul is Star
+Trek, then that's profoundly disappointing, but it's got nothing to do with
+me.  The basic concept goes back to the beginnings of civilization (that your
+soul can be captured somehow).  Further, there were no soul hunters in ST, it
+was placement of one's spirit in another body.   I'm getting real tired of the
+notion that if Trek did something, nobody else ever can do it.  Like the
+person who said that Trek invented nanotechnology, and thus when we used it in
+the pilot episode in the nanotech machine G'Kar swallows, we were just copying
+Trek's nanites.
+
+     I refuse to surrender creative control of this series to the ghost of
+Star Trek's used notions.  From time to time, we'll cross into areas they have
+also touched.  We'll touch it differently.  Deal with it.  But please don't
+put a Star Trek (tm) tag on the soul, and the history of the soul.
+
+     8) You say a guard's gun was taken *twice* in this episode.  Where is #2
+(if #1 is the medlab guard)?  I see a guard being attacked from behind, but
+not his gun being taken.
+
+     9) Re: the second soul hunter's makeup being "inferior" to the first:
+they were essentially exactly the same...same material, same design, minus the
+stone, which varied...I'm sorry, but they were made, applied and used in
+exactly the same way.
+
+     10) Why drain her of blood?  Why the hell not?  In some countries, that
+was  used as a means of execution.  Bleeding was also used (in theory) to
+heal.  Okay, let's say he used poison.  "Why use poison?" you probably
+would've asked.  "Oh, it was the old poison gag, and they find a convenient
+antidote."  There's no difference.
+
+     11) How did the hunter relate his sense of death to a wall map?  I ask
+again...why not?  If you can buy it happens at all, why not?  How is that any
+different than walking through a hall, or being drawn to a planet?  This is
+strictly a straw-man example, as is much of what you cite.
+
+     This, frankly, is what I find so offensive in your note.  You take things
+that as a matter of opinion you might have done differently, and then try to
+hold it up as a fault.  You set up straw man arguments that could be just as
+easily turned around on anything, mischaracterizing something in order to take
+a cheap shot.
+
+     12) Why didn't Sinclair link in when he found the hunter?  Because he
+only "found" the hunter when he was being SHOT AT.  And at that point you
+don't want to raise your voice because you'll be shot at again.
+
+     13) You complain that the soul globes seemed to wait until the moment
+Sinclair freed them to act (as though it were the bag that had been holding
+them in).  Sure, they could've emerged...and floated.  A lot of good that
+would've done them.  What they needed was someone who could stop him, and that
+was Sinclair's task.  They were able to distract the hunter long enough for
+that to happen.  Minus Sinclair, what were they supposed to do, bedazzle him
+to death?
+
+     14) Re: shining things into the camera = NBC Mystery Movie.  See point
+11a above.  I'm not responsible for your cultural reference points.
+
+     I don't mean to yell, but thing is, I don't mind genuine criticism, if we
+specifically do something that is objectively *wrong*.  If you don't like
+something, that's also fine.  But I'm tired of people who confuse opinion with
+fact, and that if it isn't done their way, then it isn't somehow *right*...and
+the notion that Star Trek has invented,  patented and qualified for sole claim
+on whole aspects of our history, literature, culture, theology and language,
+and that anybody who touches on these areas is just doing Trek stuff.
+
+     As far as I'm concerned, the Trek-soul-katra thing treated the soul as
+little more than a misplaced pair of sunglasses.  Here we tried to get into
+the issues *behind* the soul...where does it come from, where does it go, does
+it survive the death of the body, or does it go on...to give some mystery and
+beauty to the notion.  To have it dismissed as just another riff on katra is
+offensive and insulting and narrow.  And all of those issues just seemed to
+flit by without comment.
+
+     I don't mean to get angry, but this is one I'm very proud of, and to see
+it sideswiped and mischaracterized and straw-man'd to death in this fashion is
+just something that I had to respond to.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Just one note...as I mentioned in my reply to your email, Torville, I
+have received and waded through literally *thousands* of critiques of B5, from
+the pilot to the first two episodes.  In all but maybe 5-6 of those, I keep my
+mouth shut.  The only time I can't avoid the tendency to respond is if I see
+something that I think is unfair, as I felt your message was unfair.  (And
+again in your latest, that the ship being on a collision course "doesn't
+advance the story."  That's simply silly.   The soul hunter is unconscious at
+the start.  Thus, his ship has to be on autopilot.  Thus if it comes in, once
+it's past the gate, it's out of control.  Sure, I suppose that I could've had
+it flying off at a whole different tangent, or just laying there in
+space...but this is a series with some measure of *action* to it.  I like to
+keep a good pace going.   Pacing is part of the story, advances the story.
+Thus it *does* advance the story.)
+
+     I have accepted, without comment, a *lot* of things that I disagreed
+with...sometimes holding to my own original view, sometimes altering my views
+when someone hits me over the head with a fact.  But I reserve the right,
+every 3,000 messages or so, to get, as you say in your signature, "miffed."
+And I'd note that *you* got miffed after just *one* critique of something you
+wrote...try 3,000 on for size some time.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+     ("I can see you're really upset about this, Dave...Dave...?)
+

+
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+     Delenn was shattering the soul globes in order to let the souls escape,
+rather than playing with them.  Look on the floor around her, and you'll see
+shattered globes.  There should also be a sound of them breaking in her hands,
+the light goes out, and something escapes....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     One thing we discovered after making the pilot was that we had gotten so
+dark and moody in the thing that in some cases we walked into what (as I
+recall) are referred to as "illegal blacks."  Meaning it was *too* dark in
+places, and some foreign distributers (which apparently is where this is a
+problem) would balk at picking up the pilot.
+
+     The other thing, BTW, is that I haven't been much aware of any *major*
+lighting difference; we've upped it a bit, but not that much.  The other day I
+watched (for the first time) one of our shows actually being broadcast, and
+noticed that they cranked the luminescence WAY up there.   (This is a problem
+rampant through TV; when I was on "Murder," we'd do these great, moody scenes,
+and CBS would dial it up until it was nearly daylight.)  Some of the music was
+also stomped down, cutting out most of the low frequency stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Actually, it's "Med-Alert."
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The spelling is Satai.  There are nine members of the Grey Council.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Why is part of me tempted to decide that around the year 2223 the most
+revered figure in Earthforce Command was General Ira Asimov, a brilliant
+strategist for whom the liner was named....?
+
+     There are certain benefits to a design-your-own-future universe....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     John Drew: regarding your note that naming the starliner the Asimov is
+"not original" and "cliche"...I deeply admired Asimov.  Harlan Ellison, this
+series consultant, was as dear a friend to Asimov as anyone could be.
+ I named the starliner after Asimov shortly after his death, because I will
+personally miss him, and for Harlan, as his friend.
+
+     So regarding your "cliche" line...not to put too fine a point on it,
+screw off.  Get your own damned show.  This is mine.  The starliner originally
+was named something else.  If I choose, as an expression of loss, to name this
+ship after him, that's my right.  As far as I am concerned, that is the end of
+this discussion.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Well, John, you can say it's unprofessional...but in your case, as
+someone who hosts/produces a talk show on SF, you of all people should be
+aware of the death of Asimov, of the place he held, of the affection many of
+us held for him...and to dismiss something meant to honor that memory (and his
+death is still fresh for many of us) as "cliche," frankly, as far as I'm
+concerned...you should've known better.  It's got nothing to do with me, and
+everything to do with knowing SF.
+
+     And maybe next time you'll wait, and inquire, before dismissing someone
+else's work as "lazy" and "unimaginative" and "cliche."  Yes, this is a place
+for opinion.  And if someone's opinion is based on fuzzy thinking, rudeness,
+prejudice or inaccurate information, I reserve the right to bonk that person.
+Hard.  Or are you saying that you can critique my writing, but I can't
+critique yours?  As I understand BBSs, it's an interactive service...one gives
+as well as receives.  I am not here to be a silent punching bag.  This has
+been a process of *give and take*.
+
+     And it is as blessed to give as to receive.
+
+     So I am twice blessed.  And so are you.
+
+     Deal with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     John...when you go around shooting off your mouth and calling names and
+making cheap shots, you're going to have someone hand you your head from time
+to time.
+
+     There seems to be this perception of BBS etiquette as, "I can say
+anything I want about you, be as unfair as I like, but if you call me on it,
+if you respond in the same kinds of terms I use, then that's being
+unprofessional."
+
+     But then there have always been people who don't like it when the target
+fires back.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     He split before the third one could be shown to be also empty; when you
+know it's not going your way, split fast.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     BTW...someone sent me a note mentioning that somewhere or other  somebody
+was citing Dukhat (S.H.) and Dabo (BTtP) as "obvious pull-overs from ST," the
+first being a name in DS9, the latter being a game Quark plays.
+
+     In reverse order...the world mentioned isn't Dabo, it's Davo; second,
+Dukhat is a name that goes back as far as the original treatment, seven years.
+I am consistently amazed at how everyone thinks that everything emanates from
+ST.
+
+     This show does not DO "obvious pull-overs from ST."  Period.  We don't
+have to.  We're perfectly happy being our own show.  Why would ANY show,
+trying to make its own identity, do this stuff?
+
+     There are times I just despair....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     No, the coffin was named Jarvis.
+
+                                     jm(tongue firmly in cheek)s
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+     Cindy: I don't find your 258 funny in the least regard.  I didn't "get"
+the idea from Buck Rodgers, and resent your comment.  Reconsider it.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I don't think that's correct, since the same feed went to both monitors.
+I think that the film camera may have *pushed in * on the other console, so we
+saw less of the picture on the monitor, but as far as I know, it was the same
+piece of tape running on both monitors.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yeah, that's a favorite line of lots of folks.  BTW, how did the preview
+of "Infection" look?  I haven't seen it yet.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Regarding Ivanova...it's not really an attempt to pull at heart strings,
+as it is to establish that this is someone who's had, and is still having, a
+pretty rough life.  It's a real roller-coaster for her, and the way she
+survives it is to absolutely bottle it up inside.  She has had angst
+throughout her life, and she's in for more.
+
+     We start to track that in little ways that probably no one will notice,
+as well as making it the occasional story point.  A little way nobody'll
+notice: after this episode, she starts messing with her hair, which we'd
+deliberately set as extremely tight until now.  Suddenly she doesn't have
+someone for whom she has to be a certain way, and she has to start finding her
+*own* identity, and it ain't easy.
+
+     Re: the club owner recognizing Sinclair (or not)...this is something we
+discussed.  Can Sinclair go places in the station and not be recognized?  In
+some cases, no.  In a place like the Dark Star, maybe so; this isn't the kind
+of place he generally hangs out in.  It's a question of how much day-to-day
+interaction somebody would have with him.  Yes, he's an important figure; but
+I'm not sure if I'd immediately recognize L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan at first
+glance, particularly in different style of dress, in an unusual location.
+We're *not* going to do it a lot -- just once this season -- but we thought it
+was a reasonable approach.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     This was a bit cut from the script for time; Gold Channels are ONLY for
+official use, they're high-priority channels that can go anywhere back on
+Earth.  Commercial communications are less reliable and only have a few
+channels available; you've got to wait for a call to go through.  To use a
+Gold Channel for personal communications is a No-No.
+
+     Sinclair is shot at in "Infection," yes...but then, EVERYONE is shot at
+in "Infection."  However, he *isn't* shot at in the majority of our
+episodes...isn't shot at in "Parliament," "Mind War," "By Any Means,"
+"Survivors," "Believers," "Chrysalis" or many others.  Like I said, the amount
+of personal danger into which he puts himself cuts down a bit after  the
+discussion at the end of "Infection."
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     There's a definite improvement arc in the show; the deeper we got into
+production, the better the stories generally became, and the better the
+production values.  (With a few exceptions.)  The biggest change in the show
+came once we began writing scripts *after* we'd begun shooting episodes, so
+that we/I could again see the actors and find their fingerprints.
+"Parliament" is the first one I wrote after we started filming; "Soul,"
+"Infection" and "Midnight" were all written prior to filming starting.
+
+     Re: the GURU reference in this ep...could someone here, in as precise a
+manner as possible, indicate the reference, what it was, wehre (where) you saw
+it, and what it refers to?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Yep.  Same guy.  (We briefly considered having this poor shlub get tossed
+in various shows, but wisely came to our senses.)  BTW, he's Chuck Norris'
+son.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     I'll leave my opinion for after everyone else has seen it.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     You don't.  The next two after "Infection" are terrific.  My two
+favorites of this batch.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     I think, frankly, that part of the problem here is the misperception that
+all Hollywood writers ever do is rip off other stuff, that nobody out here
+ever has an original thought, that if there are ANY common themes, it MUST be
+because so-and-so ripped off so-and-so.  Which is one reason why I flipped out
+a bit in the Soul Hunter topic; I'm tired of that crap, because it's simply
+not true.
+
+     Look at all the *thousands* of books that've been published in the last
+few years in SF...particularly the sword and sorcery/fantasy books, where you
+can't swing an elf without hitting a unicorn, a short fellow with great
+wisdom, and a princess trying to reclaim her throne.  Common themes all over
+the place.  Nobody thinks twice.  But god forbid somebody should produce a TV
+episode that deals with the same issue as some other  series, and it's
+*immediately* considered to be a rip-off.  It's biased, skewed, untruthful,
+insulting to anyone who works in the field, and just contributes to the
+accepted cliche, which doesn't touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Negative.  The orientation of the control room is correct.  You look at
+the docking bay in the direct center of the station (and the center of
+rotation), which is zero-G.  Now you pan down.  You come to the observation
+dome, *beneath* the docking bay.  (Incoming ships pass OVER the head of
+whoever's standinga the main console.)  Their feet point down to the outer
+hull of the station, and their heads point toward the docking bay.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+     The "stay put" line was ad-libbed by Andreas, because the crawfish kept
+crawling off the table.
+
+     Re: G'Kar being theatrical...that's who he is.  I like theatrical
+characters.  I know many in real life that're much bigger than life, very
+broad...and great fun.  Not every character has to be sonorous and serious and
+restrained.  The whole point of *having* alien characters is that they should
+act differently than the majority of us.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     You'll see more about Narn religion and culture in "By Any Means
+Necessary."
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Chats: back off.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     You're seeing, btw, why this episode, much as it's a favorite, couldn't
+be shown any sooner; there has to be some familiarity with the characters for
+this to be most effective.
+
+     As to the interpretation of the final tag scene...my thought was that
+it's a way of saying, "Our dominant belief is that ALL beliefs are respcted."
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Re: establishing and transitional shots...couple thoughts.  The machines
+used to render establishers are the same ones used to render the show-specific
+shots.  Ron's elves said, in essence, "Pick one."  So for some period of time,
+we had to make do with what we had, and take care of the shots we needed for
+the episodes themselves in terms of the stories.  As we went along, though, we
+gradually began to add new ones.
+
+     The other problem, of course, is that the station isn't going anywhere;
+you can change the angles, but you're still stuck with planet, station, stars,
+maybe a ship or two.  So even if there *were* new shots being rendered as
+establishers/transitional shots for each show, there wouldn't be *that* much
+difference between them.  So again, it made sense to putting those hours of
+rendering time into doing bang-up shots for the main story in each episode.
+
+     You'll get a clearer sense of some of that cool stuff in "Mind War,"
+which has some strictly *gorgeous* CGI, and a LOT of it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     That was Thomas Kopache as Tu'Pari.
+
+     Re: the establishing shots you describe...yes, we'll be seeing those as
+well.  As I recall there's a nifty one in "Raiding Party," which we just put
+in.  The "starlight" gif is taken from one shot that shows the sun in BG.  We
+diversity more the further in we get.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     There was a follower of Islam; right next to the orthodox jew at the
+front of the line.  "Mr. Rashid, a Moslem."  I made sure we put them side by
+side.
+
+     The "fishy" song was composed by Christopher Franke specifically for that
+scene.  I told him I wanted sort of a Narnish Gilbert and Sullivan, and that's
+what we got.
+
+     Re: the camera moves...I really have no idea what your friend is talking
+about.  Virtually all of our sets are constructed for full 360 degree camera
+movement (and we do have a few cases of full 360 degree pans coming along).
+This is not, however, a "cutty" show...some shows, presuming that their
+audience has the attention span of your average gnat, lean toward fast-fast-
+fast- cutting and editing and swishing camera moves.  We *hate* that.  We're
+trying to set a mood, not turn the show into an MTV music video.  (Miami Vice
+was a terrific example of this kind fo thing.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     The SkyDancer appears in the next episode.  "See you next  Wednesday"
+is...well...it's when she's going to be back on the station.   She has to
+complete her run by Tuesday, and will be back on Wednesday.
+
+     Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
+
+                                                        jms
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+     BTW, re: Sinclair remembering all those names...we used many of the real
+names of the people standing in line, many of whom *did* belong to the
+religion they had come to represent.  We went down this line of 250 people,
+and went over their names *twice* with O'Hare.  That's all.  After that, he
+got each name right every time; amazingly quick memorization.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The article is incorrect; the Kosh/skintab discussion is in "The War
+Prayer," airing in 2 weeks.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     No, as far as I recall, the company is named in the teaser, during the
+robe-scene with Sinclair.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 27 1994
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+     Well, it was my thought that there will always be folks who don't want
+their eyes messed with.  I still have my tonsils, and though I could afford
+contacts, I won't let ANYbody touch my eyes.  There's surgery that can correct
+it, but you can *really* forget that.  I dunno...it just makes sense to me
+that it'll still be around.  Not everything vanishes with the passage of time.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 28 1994
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+     This is something that Andreas and I discussed, and it's not so much that
+G'Kar *has* to cook, but that he *likes* to cook.  From the singing, it's
+clear he's having a good time....
+
+                                             jms
+

+
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+     Freud said there are no coincidences....
+
+                                                        jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 25 1994
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+     The story is *not* about a "freak accident that creates a superman."
+This *is* a B5 story, and could only take place in the B5 universe.
+
+     Just a thought, but before rendering judgment, you might want to see the
+show first....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     I don't know what happened to the closed captioning; it was delivered in
+time for the CC, and should've been done.  Will investigate.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 27 1994
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+     BTW...next Thursday, after most folks've seen this ep, somebody here
+remind me to mention what's the one thing I like most about this episode; it's
+kinda wonky, but fun.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+
+      "Chrysalis" makes "Mind War" look like a still-life painting by
+comparison....
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 01 1994
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+     I'll have to check to see about the glitches; we've tracked down the
+technical difficulties further, and discovered (among other things) that after
+we'd delivered the episode, at one stage along the way they were being
+transferred to 1" *used tape*.  Add in going from D2 to 1" and from that 1" to
+others to do closed captioning and commercials, and you're bound to get some
+weird stuff.  Starting next week, episodes will be going out with most of the
+transfer work done on D2, not 1", so they should be cleaner henceforth.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (If you could be as specific as possible on where the glitch is, I can
+check our master vs. the broadcast master.)
+

+
+
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+      "Target: Unknown" is a David Gerrold story that'll probably get done
+next season sometime.  Ditto for "Metaphors."
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+     We do plan to restructure the opening montage and narration for next
+season, Neilsen willing.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The interior of the station has the capacity for weather; there is often
+a haze and mist in the Garden area, which kinda softens things a bit.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Well, here's a date to write down: March 23rd.  That's the last day of
+filming on Babylon 5: Year One.  It took us seven years to get here, and
+suddenly the last day of the first season is just around the corner.
+
+     We'll know if we get picked up around late April/May.  Look for an "eep"
+if I can't say anything official.
+
+     The weekend after we finish, we're going to take over a bowling alley for
+a B5 wrap party.  Went out today and bought myself a new pair of bowling
+shoes, bowling glove (with wrist support), and actually invested in a proper,
+custom bowling ball.  Will practice a bit between now and the party.  Part of
+this emanates from Your Executive Producer's desire not to stand there
+throwing gutter balls in front of Ye Cast and Crew, and another part emanates
+from the fact that I actually *enjoy* bowling, and have been waiting for an
+excuse to indulge.
+
+     (I actually used to be very good at it.  Practiced every week.  At a
+bowling alley in Richardson, Texas -- and it's noted because it was part of a
+bowling class, monitored by an instructor -- I actually bowled a *perfect
+game*.  Just once.  All that came to an end in 1977 or so, when I got mugged
+and had my hand broken in a couple places, making it both impossible and very
+painful to bowl for years afterward.  I may finally try and work my way back
+into it a bit.)
+
+     Really sad...most TeeVee producers play tennis, or golf, or swim a few
+laps in their olympic pool...I like bowling, and comic books, and watching
+awful movies.  A man of the people.  Unfortunately, the people left town
+without me, and didn't leave a forwarding address....
+
+     We're halfway through filming the two-parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness," which is coming along nicely.  From a CGI and sets point of view,
+this is the largest and most ambitious thing we've shot yet, with more of each
+category than in any other episode.  The last episode to be shot will be Larry
+DiTillio's "Eyes," which is sort of a nice wrap-up to the season, almost an
+overview.  Once again, nothing that happens this season is simply
+forgotten...and a *lot* of it comes due in this episode.  It actually manages
+to incorporate references to about 6 prior episodes without being obscure
+about it.
+
+     Even though we don't yet know about Year Two, we have to begin planning
+for it on a story level.  I've begun breaking out the individual threads
+that'll come up then, and have begun laying them out in terms of individual
+episodes.  We'll also have a post-mortem on Year One with all departments, to
+see what we did right, where we can improve, and where we can go beyond what
+we did this season.  In the best of all possible worlds, as the technology
+keeps changing around us and getting better, we would like to keep pace with
+that and constantly upgrade for a more realistic look...and for greater
+options.  How can we do *more*, and do it better?  I don't think we can *ever*
+afford to get complacent, and we have to keep challenging ourselves each
+season to raise the ante another notch.
+
+      Now it's all in the hands of the Neilsens....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Best advice is always to write to your local station carrying B5 if the
+spirit comes over you....
+
+                                                             jms
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+     No, "Eyes" is a new script unto itself.  We're retitling "Raiding Party"
+(which I always figured was a working title, too prosaic) to "Signs and
+Portents."  Figured it'd be nice to have one episode title per (projected)
+year carrying the year-arc title.
+
+     BTW, Compton's has signed to do a CD Rom of the Babylon 5 Universe, which
+is going to be VERY comprehensive...all the alien races, including the League
+of Non-aligned Worlds, background on the war, dictionaries, other reference
+stuff, you name it; it'll also be able to take advantage of the latest voice-
+recognition software, so you can run it exactly as the B5 computer is run.
+("Computer, language search, "Satai.")  There will even be some original CG
+and live-stuff shot for it.  It should be a killer CD Rom.  (Now if only I
+could get my system up and running....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Kosh shows up in this week's episode, "War Prayer."
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Phil: I see the confusion.  "The Ressurectionist" was re-titled "The
+Quality of Mercy."  So it's 22.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Two quickies, before I forget (again):
+
+     1) Yes, to the pain in the butt who inquired, I bought the Quantum
+bowling ball, and it probably won't bowl any better, but I'm a stooge, and
+there we are.
+
+     2) I've nudged (gently) Christy Marx about the newsletter (as has the
+effervescent Katherine Lawrence) (and did you effer know her when she
+effervasn't?), and Ms. Marx and Ms. Drennan are now focusing in on getting the
+next issue out, which will be a double-issue, twice as big, with more
+interviews, probably a schedule for the full season, and other goodies.
+
+     Amazing what a friendly smile, a soft-spoken request, and a meat axe can
+achieve....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     It's easy; hit her while she's asleep....
+
+     BTW, we managed to track down and correct about 50% of the problems in
+video and audio that took place after we'd been delivering episodes, and so
+this and all subsequent episodes should look cleaner and sound a bit sharper,
+staring with "War Prayer."  Anyone else noticing this?
+
+     Also, just as an aside...was talking to someone today about how
+extraordinary a cast this is in terms of sheer intelligence; Michael O'Hare
+attended Harvard; Claudia is a Mensa member (genius IQ); Jerry is a financial
+wizard...they're all extremely sharp people, nowhere near the stereotype so
+many people have of actors.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     We'll definitely see Bester again, probably twice next season, in one
+capacity or another.  (And we'll *hear* about him once more this season.)
+
+     Re: the CD-Rom...we're planning some very cool stuff.  I've indicated on
+all pending licensing deals that I don't want them to be just one more media
+tie-in; they should have some independent value.  So in this case, I really
+want to use it to de-mysticize what television is, and how it's produced.
+Something for educational purposes.  So we'll track how the process is done,
+by taking a micro-example: from concept, to a scene in a script, to costume
+designs, production/set design, storyboards prosthetics, filming, editing,
+scoring and mixing.  As a culmination of this, there will be 5-7 brief dailies
+shosts, all from the same scene.   The job then is for the user to edit these
+dailies (establishing shot, medium close-up, close-ups, inserts and the like)
+into a *scene*.  You can literally see the dozens of ways you can create a
+scene from the same footage.  You can then play it back, possibly with some
+music, and see how it works...then play back the real scene as we did it, and
+compare and contrast.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+
+     Just a reminder to all and sundry in the LA area...our Conceptual
+Consultant, Harlan Ellison, will be signing his new collaboration at Forbidden
+Planet Bookstore on April 2nd from 2-4 p.m. (corner Van Nuys and Ventura,
+Sherman Oaks).
+
+     Funny aside...on Friday, my accountant and his 10 year old son came by
+the set for a tour.  His son was wog-boggled by everything.  At one point in
+the filming, Michael O'Hare came over and struck up a conversation with the
+kid.  The kid asked what that thing is on the back of Sinclair's hand.
+"That's my communications device," O'Hare said.  The kid looked chagrined,
+glanced around, whispered to Michael to lean down, and explained -- to save
+Michael further embarrassment in future -- that the communicator was on his
+*chest*.
+
+     I would give my soul for a photograph of Michael's face at that moment.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Quick note...I *may* be doing a one-hour presentation at the Creation
+convention later this month in Pasadena.  This is contingent, thouugh, upon
+the scheduled appearance being put back a bit, since I'll be flying in from
+Houston that morning.  The Space Frontier Foundation is giving us an award for
+Best Vision of the Future.  (They're also giving an award to astronaut Pete
+Conrad that night, and want me to present it.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     They're...................................astonished.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     The framed item is a sign for Sinclair Aircraft, a real company that goes
+back to the early days of flying (we got permission to use it).
+
+     C&C is military shorthand for Command and Control, which is the function
+of the Observation Dome (sometimes thus referred to as Babylon Control).
+
+     There are hand-holds built into the seats, and on the walls and railings.
+>From that angle, unfortunately, you can't see them holding on, though you will
+be able to see it in "Survivors" and "Chrysalis," among others.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Will: it's very hard to answer that question without specifics; it does
+make me a touch nervous, but at the same time, it doesn't seem correct or
+proper to stop the kind of speculation you suggest, since the show is *bound*
+to elicit such speculations by its very construction.
+
+     I dunno...so I'll leave it to the quiet turning of your own considered
+conscience.
+
+     Re: the cast...they're simply pleased and flattered and moved by the
+attention on-line.
+
+     Re: "Sky"...my theory is to *never* assume prior knowledge of the
+background info that goes into an episode.  If you never saw the pilot, you
+will miss *nothing* going into "Sky" (though it'd be nice because of one
+quickie flashback to know where that came from).  I don't think anyone will
+have a hard time following that one.
+
+     Re: the core shuttle...yes, the exterior was all CGI.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     For the Minbari, it's tee'la, which is a kind of poem-song, sort of.
+Delenn was mainly just unfamiliar with the term.
+
+     Yes, the two Harlan scripts are temporarily on hold, due to some health
+problems earlier this season (two heart procedures), the quake and his
+injuries there, and other stuff.  He has, however, served very well as our
+consultant, and it has been more than worthwhile.  His health permitting, we
+hope to continue the relationship in future.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Some notes:
+
+     "A Voice in the Wilderness" is just written by me, not me and Larry
+(either part), and is directed by Janet Greek.
+
+     "Eyes" to be directed by Jim Johnston.
+
+     Jim did not direct "The Quality of Mercy."  It was one of our new
+directors...and her name has *just* fallen out of my head this moment.   Will
+post it tomorrow.
+
+     "TKO" was directed by John Flynn.
+
+     "Deathwalker" was directed by Bruce Seth Green.
+
+     "Grail" and "War Prayer" directed by Richard Compton.
+
+     (Also "Believers" was directed by Compton.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     You want Garibaldi, who's nearly twice Talia's size and weight, to punch
+her in the gut and walk away...and this is a *good* idea...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Overall, I'd say that "Legacies" came out better than "War Prayer,"
+because Dorothy had more time to get to know the characters, and because it
+was better directed.  (As a parenthetical, Larry DiTillio has developed some
+of his own scripts as well, specifically "TKO" and "Eyes."  "Legacies" is the
+one I'd say was developed "outside the office" in the sense of being a
+freelance effort.  Everything else was either an assigned premise or done in-
+house by staff.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     He was thrown down the stairs of his house, received a broken nose, and
+contusions and a slight concussion when a large framed painting fell off the
+wall on top of him.  He's better now.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 12 1994
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+
+     Stories without subplots (or more precisely, B-stories; a subplot can be
+a thread that's not a whole story unto itself): "Sky," "Survivors," "Grail,"
+"A Voice in the Wilderness," and a few others I can't recall offhand.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+
+     This was one segment of the battle; there were others going on in other
+areas as well.  It's said that no one ever *saw* the Battle of the Bulge; each
+saw a small part of it.  Same here.
+
+     Reality is, no matter how big we would've made it, more would've been
+wanted.  (If anything, it seems that the more we show, the more is wanted.)
+But all things considered, best to have folks wanting more than wanting
+less....
+
+     (And remember, we're managing to do all this with roughly *half* of TNG's
+budget.  Give us their budget, and I'll show you ALL of the Battle of the
+Line, and the ENTIRE Earth/Minbari War, PLUS all their home worlds.)
+
+     Nonetheless, as we go deeper into the season, the CGI/action sequences do
+get bigger and more detailed in many places.  In "Signs and Portents"
+(formerly "Raiding Party"), you'll see three pretty good sized squadrons of
+ships engaged in a very fast-paced battle that goes on for most of an act and
+a half, as opposed to just a few scenes in "Sky."  Big battles weren't really
+the *point* in "Sky," it was more about his REACTIONS and his personal fate.
+There were a number of action/battle shots we had on hand, but decided not to
+use because we didn't want to dilute the *point* of the scene.
+
+     And as stated elsewhere...yes, you'll be seeing the Minbari war
+cruiser(s) again.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+     Bear in mind, though, that Sinclair really had no reason to doubt what he
+remembered happening on the Line until the Minbari assassin uttered those
+seven fateful words.  As for others...there have been suspicions, but more
+broadbased...and we'll deal with those a bit here and there.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Depends on what you mean by "just visiting."  If someone comes on board,
+and we feature him or her, and this person just sorta wanders around without
+ever interacting with our characters...I don't think that would be terribly
+dramatic.  We do have some shows with people who come to see our main
+characters, interact with them, and then leave again.   A basic visit.
+
+

+
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+     B5 airs in Orlando on Tuesday night, I believe, around 8 or 9.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     It was always my thought that the weight, as indicated in the narrative --
+"one and a half million tons of spinning metal" -- ONLY referred to the metal,
+not the vegetables or the water or the garbage.  It specifies only the metal.
+And the metal is a high-resistance, very light alloy.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+     Of course, you're assuming that a Centauri year is the same as our year.
+The speed of light is constant...but defined by us by our own 12-month year.
+For instance, in one episode, we mention that B5 is 12 of our light years from
+the Narn homeworld, which is equal to about 10 of their years.
+
+     So without knowing the Centauri year, the figures are faulty.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+     There's still an *awful* lot of ground to cover in a war this big.
+
+     Also, check the readout on Sinclair's screen as he's trying to engage the
+enemy.  You'll see "negative lock" popping up.  One problem in fighting the
+Minbari vessels is that they have a kind of stealth tech that makes it very
+hard for our weapons to lock on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     You'll see Garibaldi performing very seriously in "Sky," and in both
+"Deathwalker" and "Survivors," the first two eps after the few reruns
+following "Sky."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Not all aliens of the same species have the same accent; any more than
+all humans have the same accent.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     G'Kar has the dominant accent of his people.
+
+     So does Kosh.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 06 1994
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+     Confirmed on all points.  The novel deal seems to have closed, but I
+don't think I'm supposed to give any details yet.  It's been asked that I try
+to find time to write the first novel, which is swell, but I don't know if I
+will have the time to do it properly.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+     Very, very little in this show is unintentional....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     There is a side-button on the gun which arms it (the power whine you hear
+when it's drawn).  It's just over the thumb.  Then the trigger is used to
+discharge the built-up energy.  You can push or pull the trigger to your
+heart's content if it's not armed and it won't fire.  It works as a kind of
+safety; you have to do both or it won't fire.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     I don't recall either actor's name in connection with B5; will have to
+check.
+
+                                                      jms
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+
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+
+     Re: not emitting a visible projectile, and not seeing a pulse zap across
+the room...you're used to seeing "lasers" that travel at about 60 mph in most
+TV SF (and some films).  When somebody fires a regular gun at someone, do you
+expect to see the bullet fly across the room?  No, of course not...so why do
+you expect that on something that is moving a lot FASTER than a bullet?  The
+*reality* (and again, that's what we're going for here), is that you
+*wouldn't* see it.  You'd hear it more than anything else, and at most see the
+muzzle flash.  You're applying a TV and movie cliche which has nothing to do
+with reality.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     We actually had a lot more shots we could've used to prolong the
+sequence, but felt we *really* had to get to Sinclair, and go into his point
+of view more.  Also we step-printed the CGI to give it a more dream-like
+appearance, since we're seeing this from inside Sinclair's memory, and he
+wasn't really able to *see* all this, particularly stuff happening around and
+behind him, this is more his *sense* of the events of that time.  The sections
+we didn't step-print were those where he was RIGHT THERE, to make a subtle
+distinction.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The second shot to Knight One is a gut-shot, and the security guard is
+shot through the chest.
+
+     Bear in mind, also, that some of this may be expected by folks here on
+the nets because of the ongoing conversations, speculation and the  bits of
+info I drop here; but for 99.9% of the rest of the nation, this IS new info.
+And even with the nets, I suspect that there are some surprises here....
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     Nothing anamorphically distorted, that's how they look.  You will get a
+better look at Minbari war cruisers...umm...later in the season.  Also a much
+closer look.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     On the question, "Why *can't* they all be this good?" there is a very
+simple answer: it's not for lack of trying.  It's been said before of
+television that it's a collaborative medium.  Collaboration brings  with it a
+random factor.  The script may be good, but if the director doesn't *get* it,
+if the actor's having a bad day, if the continuity person lets a mis-stated
+line get through, if the CGI doesn't quite cut together right...you begin to
+chip away at the quality.  This happens on every single television series ever
+produced.
+
+     A while ago, in cat 18, someone observed correctly that a bad episode can
+happen on any series through accident; but it's impossible to produce a *good*
+episode by accident.  (Or at least highly improbable.)  And never a great one.
+The job of a producer in my position is to pull the best possible elements
+together, in the hope that the attrition that takes place in the course of
+production doesn't diminish the whole too much.
+
+     Thus, the good episodes are overall far more emblematic of what a series
+is capable of doing than are the weaker ones.  If your best ones are so-so,
+you've got a problem.  If your best ones are *good*, then you're doing okay.
+On any series, if you're *lucky*, you get one-third pretty awful, one-third
+good, one-third very good.  So far, in looking at all the episodes filmed so
+far, I'd say half of them are *very* good, one-fourth of them are good, and
+one-fourth are fair to middlin'.  That is 'WAY ahead of the odds on any show.
+Particularly in a first season.
+
+     (And even then, bear in mind that much of this is subjective.  I'm not
+that keen on a few of them, but some folks considered "War Prayer," for
+instance, their favorite episode.  Even at our worst, I think there is
+something in every episode that will appeal strongly to someone.  Which is why
+I'm a bit leery of the original question; to some people, they ARE all "that
+good."  Tastes vary.  We try very hard to make sure there is something of real
+value in each episode.)
+
+     We really began this process not quite sure how far we could go, what our
+limits were, how far we could push it.  So we started off kind of tentative,
+getting more aggressive as we went in, in terms of story and music and EFX and
+all the rest.  So you will continue to see an escalation in the episodes over
+time.  It's like anything else; as we learn more, and do more, we get better
+at it.  Yes, this series has been planned out for seven years...but it's like
+planning a date.  You can plan to your heart's content for days or weeks or
+months or years, but INVARIABLY some things don't work out when you actually
+go out on that date.  So you learn, and adjust, now that you've encountered
+reality. (As one general once observed, no battle plan every survived contact
+with the enemy.)
+
+     We've worked hard to make this a good show.  And it is a good show. We
+occasionally hit speed bumps, but they're more the exception than the rule.
+To say "Why can't they ALL be this good?" is like saying to a painter or a
+composer, "Why can't your work ALL be on the same level?" There is always a
+learning curve, always some works that are better than others.  It's not like
+turning out widgets in a factory where you can guarantee certain parameters in
+production.  To expect any art form to be consistent misses the point.  We
+could aim lower to avoid falling into the occasional valleys, but I'd rather
+aim high, and occasionally fall on my face, if it means hitting some peaks
+that would otherwise be unattainable.  That's what taking chances means.  And
+I think that's one thing that people find appealing about this show: we're not
+resting on our laurels, or aiming for the safe, lowest-common-denominator;
+we're willing to take chances.  We're right out there on the high-wire without
+a net...no guarantees, no franchises, no built-in fan audience that will watch
+us regardless of what we turn out.
+
+     And shows like "Mind War," and "Sky," and "By Any Means Necessary," and
+"Chrysalis" and "A Voice in the Wilderness" and "Babylon Squared" and other
+kickass episodes are the consequence.  I think that in our first season, we've
+turned out more really nifty episodes than some series do in their entire run.
+Sidney Lumet once observed about his films that if you get just *one* really
+golden moment on film, it's a success.  If we transplant that to television,
+if in one season you get even *one* truly spiffy episode, it's a success.
+
+     And we've got a hell of a lot more than one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     BTW, how was the "Sky" trailer for next week?  (I never see these things,
+alas....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm quoting
+from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you / That you carry with a
+certain pride / It's the only part / Of a broken heart / You could ever save."
+That's Ivanova.
+
+     She's had her heart stomped on a lot.  And she's been holding it in.
+Even with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought back the tears.
+There is one episode, which will be right at the end of the year, where she
+finds she can't run from her pain anymore...can't run from the tears...and
+deals with them in a scene that's very moving and absolutely brings tears to
+the eyes.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Hey, rationalizations are more important than sex.
+
+     Try going a day without a rationalization.....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Directing can add to an episode, making it more than it is, or can make
+it less than it is.  In this case, I think it's more the latter.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 09 1994
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+     Mmmmm...lemme see...I don't think there *are* any more "former lovers"
+stories coming in for pretty much the rest of the season; there's an
+acquaintance who comes back, and a reference to a prior relationship (but it's
+not on the station, and doesn't take place there), but that's it.  No more
+former lovers coming to the station this season, that I can think of.
+
+     (Is weird that the ones we *did* have got grouped like that; hadn't
+noticed until now.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     There's very little about one can say about "TWP" that I wouldn't respond
+to with, "Yup."  Dorothy did a bangup job on the script, but so much gets lost
+in translation sometimes.  All added up, there are only three episodes this
+season that, for me, aren't up to the rest: this one, "Infection," and
+"Grail."  That there are only 3 out of 22 is extremely good for ANY TV series.
+(And again, that's only my POV; I know that there are a number of people who
+liked this show, liked "Infection," andf will likely approve of "Grail."
+Tastes vary.  I'm just very, very hard on *all* of our episodes.  I think you
+have to look at your own work with as baleful an eye as possible.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 11 1994
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+     Actually, I think this will be to some extent remedied for you by the end
+of THIS season.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 01 1994
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+     One of the things I like about the sets is that they're actually fairly
+large, and we tend to go for lots of extras to help carry through that sense
+of scale.  It's not uncommon for us to have anywhere from 50 to 90 extras in a
+scene, just to fill it out.  One scene had as many as 200-250 extras; many
+others have between 150-200.  This is a *busy* place, and should feel like it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 02 1994
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+     Ninety percent of the time, background business is written into the
+get improv'd (such as G'Kar switching the fruit).  In those cases, we shoot it
+two ways: with the improv, and as scripted, to give us the option of using
+either.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Actually, Jim Johnston's been around a long time; he's one of those
+directors who has made a name for himself, established his own company, and
+only takes on projects he enjoys.  We're very happy to have him here.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     I'll have to check to see about the glitches; we've tracked down the
+technical difficulties further, and discovered (among other things) that after
+we'd delivered the episode, at one stage along the way they were being
+transferred to 1" *used tape*.  Add in going from D2 to 1" and from that 1" to
+others to do closed captioning and commercials, and you're bound to get some
+weird stuff.  Starting next week, episodes will be going out with most of the
+transfer work done on D2, not 1", so they should be cleaner henceforth.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (If you could be as specific as possible on where the glitch is, I can
+check our master vs. the broadcast master.)
+

+
+
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+     Zocalo is a South American term, meaning "the Grand Plaza."
+
+                                                           jms
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+     I'd just be more comfortable if you didn't.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Having seen the ship rocked and buffetted by the passing ship, I figured
+that it would be clear that this basically pushed it down, made its orbit
+begin to detriorate.  Her ship was also riding *very* close to the edge of the
+atmosphere.  Perhaps should've been clearer.
+
+     Re: jumpgates...I knew that multiples were used, but was still working
+out the *exact* details of how they work, and I hate to post anything until
+I'm 100% set, since this stuff tends to end up in FAQs....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     It's because they dig *deep*.  And to another telepath, who is sensitive
+to begin with...it hurts bigtime.
+
+     (BTW, for those above, the planet is Sigma 957, not Delta Sigma 9 [DS9].
+You t'ink maybe I's crazy?)
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Bester wasn't killed because a) it took a *lot* out of Ironheart to take
+out Kelsey, and b) Bester *shot him* prior to being taken down, and the pain
+and trauma of being shot has a tendency to have an  adverse effect on one; it
+took all his strength just to knock Bester down before collapsing to the
+floor, his energy (as you can see in the film) fading away....
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Tony: yes, that ambiguity is something to consider.  I like ambiguity.
+ I think.
+
+     Yes, it was supposed to be closed-captioned, and there was a glitch after
+we'd turned in the episode.  It'll be captioned for later broadcasts.  (BTW,
+those who taped MW...I suggest you keep your tapes; there will be a subtle but
+definite difference in one shot in all later airings of the show after this
+next rerun.  And no, I'm not going to tell you what it is...but any copies of
+the first version will probably be a rarity.)
+
+     The core shuttle has hand-holds on the seats, and on the walls and other
+areas.  They were both holding onto the lower hand-rails, though it can't be
+seen in that shot.  It *is* visible in other episodes.
+
+     A Rubik's Cube is a *very* good metaphor.
+
+     The vaporized Starfuries *weren't* from B5, they were a separate wing not
+attached to this station.  Black Omega is a special forces unit.
+
+     "Believers" isn't next; up now comes "The War Prayer" by D.C. Fontana
+(okay, despite some problems, mainly in direction), then "Sky."
+
+     The Soul Hunter was hit by a PPG, but not terribly slowed; you'll see
+others hit and harmed or killed by PPG down the road.
+
+     (Actually, you'll see it in "Sky."
+
+     Re: my favorite thing about this episode...it's that when all is said and
+done, *nobody knows anything*.  Bester doesn't know what Ironheart is turning
+into; Sinclair doesn't know if Ironheart was really telling the truth or not;
+nobody knows where Ironheart went; nobody knows what the alien ship is/who
+they were...the closest I can come to is to compare it to writing a mystery
+novel, without revealing the killer, but *without* frustrating anyone in the
+process, because there's *closure*.
+
+     In so much of TV SF, *everything* has to be explained, often explained to
+death.  I just love that in the B5 universe, it's okay for there to be
+mysteries and wonders and the unexplained.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Wrong.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     I mentioned it up-topic; maybe someone has the number.
+
+                                                      jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 11 1994
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+     Correct; the gates themselves are complex, extremely so, but they are
+limited in production mainly by available amounts of Q40.  (Also, in most
+cases, a gate is a gate is a gate; there's not much difference between them
+visually.)
+
+     And in the case of Sigma 957, one can put in a gate, start to explore
+that sector of space...and discover to your chagrin that there is one planet
+where you don't dare go near.  It's not like they *knew* that there was a
+problem on Sigma 957 before they (the Narns) put the gate in; that was
+discovered only afterward.  Sort of like buying a house and then discovering
+that one room is haunted; you seal off the room and tell the kids not to go
+near it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     You don't leave one gate and fly light years to another; you use the same
+gate for going in and going out.  Explorer Ship A comes out of hyperspace;
+looks around; decides that there are planets in this area that are worth
+possible colonizing, exploitation, that sort of thing; it's a very quick
+overview.  (Or they go to systems that have been already selected.)  They
+construct a gate, finish the job, and move on.  Other ships can now use this
+gate for entering and leaving this system.  Is this clearer?
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie).
+
+
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 18 1994
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+     Less than one week left of filming on Year One.  Eek.
+
+]*D,2
+
+     If I can put a word out onto the electronic web...usually, in the network
+shows, a series runs its course, and at the end of the season, the network
+decides whether or not to renew.  Because of the schedule of PTEN, the
+decision to renew or not comes in April/May.
+
+     While the ratings are good -- mention of the B5 ratings got a headline in
+today's "Hollywood Reporter" along with ST -- there's a new wrinkle in the
+situation.  The new Paramount Network.  They're making deals with stations as
+fast as they can, snatching up the independent stations and trying to secure
+the few remaining available timeslots (which with the glut of programs now are
+continually growing smaller in number).  So for a station, it's a choice
+between two or more shows that might rate equally fine, but there's outside
+pressure.
+
+     Point being this (and anyone who wants to upload this entire message to
+other nets, feel free): if -- IF -- you genuinely enjoy the show, and would
+like to see it renewed, this would be a very good time to drop your local TV
+station a letter indicating this.  The stations have a direct input as to
+whether or not shows are renewed.  It certainly couldn't hurt.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     The reference was not to "V," but to the military use of this over the
+last several decades, particularly in WW II.  (And I didn't work on the V
+series, only the new (and never produced) 4-hour miniseries that was intended
+to revive the series.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Whenever I have spoken of Berman and Pillar to the press, I have
+characterized them as honorable people.  The press goes out of its way to
+foment controversy, and after my initial reaction to the DS9 premise, it was
+my eventual decision to simply produce the show and, at that point, it
+survives or falls on its own merits.  If Pillar is going to get into name-
+calling and characterizations and this kind of playground vernacular, I see no
+reason to join him there.
+
+     BTW...flew back this morning from Houston, where on behalf of B5, I
+received the award from the Space Frontier Foundation for Best Vision of the
+Future.  Based in part on our attempt -- within the confines of dramatic TV --
+to stick with real science...ships that move the right way in space,
+commercial use of space surveying, civilian ships, the use of an O'Neill-type
+station for the first time in TV or movies, and so on.   At my table was co-
+recipient astronaut Pete Conrad.  (I commented to him that, as someone who
+*writes* about space, to sit across from someone who LIVED there, was like
+being a lay priest called upon to say High Mass at the Vatican, before the
+Pope, on Easter sunday.  He laughed.)
+
+     We have worked hard to make B5 as accurate a presentation of a possible
+future as we can, and the receipt of this award, from a national group of
+scientists, engineers, astronauts, researchers and others (some involved
+heavily in the Delta Clipper project) makes it equal to the Emmy, in my view,
+however much more emphasis the media may place on the former.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Some international info...B5 goes on the air May 16th on Channel 4 in the
+UK.  Other places that'll be carrying the show starting around that same time:
+AUM Trinidad; Canal Plus, France; Set Eitz, Germany; RCTI, the Philipines; Sky-
+TV; 7 Network, Australia; and miscellaneous places I don't have full info on
+(some just station IDs, some areas): Taipei, TV3, TVNZ, TTV, IBC, BEC, Canal
+Sinco, ICP, Proziba, and Italy.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Actually, we came very close to doing a black-and-white segment this
+season, and might do so next.
+
+     Well, last night was the B5 wrap party, at Pickwick Bowl here in the
+valley, opposite the equestrian center.  I think I bowled about nine games in
+a row, and currently ache in muscles I didn't know I had.  About 325 cast,
+crew, writers and producers.  Harlan showed up, and after a slow start bowled
+180 and whomped hell out of us.  I averaged about 160 in my later games.  Or
+less.  David Gerrold showed up, Larry, Andreas, Michael, Peter, Mira, Caitlin,
+Bill...and the B5 Blasters, the art department bowling team with their own
+bowling shirts.  When I left, about 12:30 am, things were still going pretty
+strong.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+      Well, now I've heard it all...was speaking to Walter Koenig tonight,
+ and he mentioned being at a convention this past weekend, and hearing a
+ lot of positive B5 comments.  Along the way, he overheard a discussion
+ between a bunch of folk, many of whom were defending TNG and DS9's rather
+ minimal SFX and smaller cast and other stuff by saying that it wasn't
+ a fair comparison, "since B5 has a lot more money to spend than TNG or
+ DS9."
+
+      I could've plotzed.....
+
+      P.S. A schedule for those interested:
+
+      CONFIRMED schedule....
+      April 20th, "Deathwalker," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+      April 27th, "Believers," by David Gerrold
+      May 4th, "Survivors," by Marc Scott Zicree
+      May 11th, "Signs and Portents," by jms
+      May 18th, "By Any Means Necessary," by Kathryn M. Drennan
+      May 25th, "The Quality of Mercy," by jms
+
+      Then repeats from June 1 through October 5th, in order to stretch
+ new episodes through the November sweeps.  TENTATIVE schedule of final
+ episodes....
+
+      October 12th, "Grail," by Christy Marx
+      October 19th, "Eyes," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+      October 26th, "TKO," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+      November 2nd, "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1," by jms
+      November 9th, "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2," by jms
+      November 16th, "Babylon Squared," by jms
+      November 23rd, "Legacies," by D.C. Fontana
+      November 30th, "Chrysalis," by jms
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     About time you started to put out....
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Quickies...apparently (I'm told) Howard Stern mentioned B5 favorably in
+both his Tuesday AND Wednesday broadcasts, though I haven't heard it myself.
+This after a prior mention some time ago.
+
+     We must be doing *something* right.
+
+     Also...apparently, at a convention, Rick Sternbach from ST said that the
+ST shows (DS9 and, subsequently, Voyager) would be shifting over to primarily
+computer EFX rather than models.  They're going to start coming over to OUR
+turf...and engaging in the usual learning curve, trial and erros, which we've
+already gone through.
+
+     Me...I just sit here and smile...and on one level, despite the way it may
+appear, I'm pleased.  It shows we were right.  And if they start doing CGI,
+it'll force both sides to again be competitive in terms of doing more, pushing
+things.  And that friendly competition is good for the blood, it should keep
+both shows on the cutting edge.  It'll also enable other shows to come in
+using CGI, meaning more SF on the air.
+
+     It also ties into what I've heard lately, that Paramount is getting
+hammered by some of the stations asking why the hell DS9 episodes often cost
+1.7 to 2 million dollars an episode to produce, where B5 is doing more, with
+half the budget.  I would love to hear the response to that.
+
+     We're putting the finishing touches on the two-parter this week, and this
+one's really a blow-out episode.  More and bigger sets, more CGI than just
+about any prior episode, and more *elaborate* CGI, a big story...we keep
+trying to get more ambitious as we go along.  So far it looks like we'll have
+at *minimum* one real blow-out action episode in each ratings cycle; "Signs
+and Portents" in May, and the two-parter in November (though I probably should
+include "Babylon Squared" and "Chrysalis" in that same category...November is
+going to be the month we fry VCRs around the country).
+
+     As well as appearing at ICON mid-April, I plan to be at the Chicago Comic
+Convention around July 1-3, and at San Diego ComicCon afterward.
+
+                                                        jms
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+     Longshot: it was a tip of the cap to the Prisoner, yes.
+
+     Episodes are all in various stages of post-production; they come out
+helter-skelter, higgeldy-piggeldy, you name it.  We're pretty much caught up
+on all the episodes filmed; we have to finalize editing on the two-parter,
+then edit the last episode, and that's done.  A bunch of the others are still
+being scored, mixed, composited, you name it.  So that's really a very hard
+question to answer.  Just today finished editing on "Babylon Squared," which
+looks really cool, will mix "Signs and Portents" in two days, and finalized
+the mix on "The Quality of Mercy" today.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Teaser, four acts, tag.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Mike: see my comment in 19.
+
+     There's some more fun between Garibaldi and Talia down the road, and one
+elevator scene in particular that I think you'll like.
+
+     We've killed off all of Ivanova's close family, yes.  Maybe some cousins
+are left, but that's about it.
+
+     A little aside for you...at one point this season, Delenn goes to the
+Grey Council.  There's a ritual she has to observe when she joins the ranks of
+the Nine.  Part of it is this statement she makes upon entering the circle: "I
+am Grey.  I stand between the candle, and the star.  We are Grey.  We stand
+between the darkness, and the light."
+
+                                                           jms
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+     I don't think Mira or her husband have that much direct communication
+with her countrypersons anymore.  But that's an assumption based on some but
+not a lot of talk with her on this subject.  Obviously it's a delicate
+subject.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Episode 9 and a bunch of others are finished and delivered; have been for
+some time.  The stations need to stretch episodes through the November sweeps,
+hence staggered reruns.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Well, I'd love to try to get Patrick McGoohan again...we'll have more
+appearances by Koenig, of course...possible we'll see Christopher Neame again
+(he said mysteriously)...I'd like to use Robert Vaughn,  Robert Culp, and even
+some actors without Robert as their first name.  If I applied a real wish-
+list, it wouldn't do any good, since the actors I'd love most to use are way
+beyond TV syndication prices (Edward Woodward, for instance).  I'd kinda love
+to drag Bill Windom over from M,SW to do a quick episode for us.  Tom Baker,
+definitely.  I've spoken to Colin Baker about the possibility, and that could
+probably be arranged easily enough.  Anyway, a lot of it depends on the
+scripts, and on schedules.  So we'll see....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     I dunno...that's an *awful* big cruiser, given the specs.  The thing to
+bear in mind is that in space, you don't really have a reference point.  So if
+something is in the foreground, it can look large against the background (the
+cruiser), making the cruiser look small.  (It's the same effect as holding a
+tennis ball in front of your eye, and using it to block out the sun; the
+tennis ball isn't bigger than the sun, it's a matter of where you're
+standing.)  Sinclair's ship is a LONG ways from the cruiser when last you see
+it.  That maw is a massive launch area.   It's really *huge*.  Perhaps you'll
+get a better understanding of how big it is in a certain later episode, where
+you'll be able to see a single ship entering the maw *at* the maw itself,
+which should put it all into the correct perspective.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Will look into some new gifs soonest....
+
+
+                                                   jms
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+     I wrote a total of, as I recall, 12 or so episodes of new TZ.  Some of
+the better ones of mine include "The Mind of Simon Foster" (which you noted),
+"Dream Me a Life," "Special Service," "Acts of Terror" and "Rendezvous in a
+Dark Place."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Yep; the Zone with Skerrit was mine, and all the CBS TZs were edited to
+fit into the half-hour slot.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Thanks; that one came out pretty well, actually.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     It's 23E, yes.  And the ships have been somewhat upgraded, but the basic
+configuration remains.  Also, after the war, a LOT of the EA's fleet was wiped
+out, so it's been a very slow process of putting out new ships.  Even B5 isn't
+completely armed as of this time; they'll be getting in their final squadron,
+Zeta Squadron, in "Survivors."  (Right now all they have are Delta and Alpha
+flights.)  The budget is very tight.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Correct; the fighters enter via the main docking bay, are lowered into
+maintainance bays, repaired/recharged, then set back in place.  You will see a
+goodly portion of this in "Survivors."
+
+     And the Narns didn't really have the resources for an invasion of Earth
+at that time.
+
+     Nor would much be gained, either.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Saturday, April 2nd, Burbank Airport Hilton, 2:00, appearing at Phil and
+Ed's convention.
+
+                                                                jms
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+      Kosh was the only occupant that we know of, and the ship is still there,
+except when he takes it out on occasion.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The fighters are launched from the cobra bays.  The cobra bays rotate.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     No comment.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     What?  Who, me?  Near as I remember, the Question was, "What happened at
+the Battle of the Line?"  Answer: Sinclair was taken aboard the Minbari
+cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back into his ship.
+
+     The Question *now* is, "WHY was Sinclair taken aboard the Minbari
+cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back into his ship?"
+
+     That question was not asked heretofore...so how could it be still
+unanswered?
+
+                     jm(who took two semesters of Logic in college)s
+

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+     Nope.  You can't string folks along that long.  A goodly portion of it
+will be out by season's end.  Not all, but a *lot*.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Goodman: the CGI won't look as good in slow motion because we step-
+printed them deliberately, in order to give them a more dream-like appearance.
+For us, this wasn't about the ships, it was about one of the men in the ship,
+which is why we kept him in sharp focus, and went to step-printing whenever we
+went outside (and since we're seeing this from his memory, clearly he wouldn't
+actually have *seen* most of this, it's his *sense* of what happened).  You'll
+get plenty of clear CGI in "Signs and Portents," airing in May.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+     Some random thoughts:
+
+     I would *never* pull a "he wakes up and it was all a dream" on the
+series.  I hate that kind of story.
+
+     There's more in that newspaper than meets the eye....
+
+     Note in the episode that when Sinclair's wheeled down the hall, still in
+his uniform, he's not bloodied up.  But is later.
+
+     This is, as stated, one of my favorites from this season.  (And the
+person behind the lighting is the same one behind all the episodes, John
+Flinn, our cinematographer, working with Janet Greek, our director.)  I would
+put at this approximate level (some better, some as good) the following
+episodes (for varying reasons): "By Any Means Necessary,"  "Babylon Squared,"
+"Signs and Portents," "A Voice in the Wilderness," and of course "Chrysalis."
+
+                                                               jms
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+     What will be revealed over the course of the series?  All of it.
+
+     By the time the series has run its five-year course (Neilsen willing),
+there will only be ONE unanswered question left: "NOW what?"
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     The platform is the zero-g cargo area; you'll see it in more detail later
+in the season.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Let me just offer an observation here.
+
+     A number of people have commented that they weren't much surprised by
+Sinclair being taken aboard, because on the nets -- and this has ONLY taken
+place on the nets -- this speculation has been bandied about for some time.
+We now have ten zillion speculations on the reason *why*.  I will not comment
+on them one way or another (though I suppose I could point, without making the
+real comparison between types of typists, to the idea that an infinte number
+of monkeys typing on an infinite number of keyboards would eventually produce
+Hamlet simply by chance combination; sooner or later, something close to the
+reality might be stumbled upon...and let me ask a simple question: what
+purpose does that serve?  It only lessens the enjoyment of those who would
+simply like to enjoy what happens WHEN it happens).
+
+     Any good detective knows that you can't really begin to speculate about
+motive until you have all the information right at hand.  At this point there
+is information you don't have...and absent that, any guesses will either be
+wrong, or close enough to hinder the fun but still essentially incorrect.
+It's like trying to guess the contents of a box without knowing the size of
+the box...it could be a marble, it could be an elephant or a pre-fabricated
+house.
+
+     All I'm suggesting is that you consider not trying to come up with every
+possible angle, and let the show progress on its own.  Right now everybody
+seems to be scrambling to make sure every even remotely feasible possibility
+is covered, and there an infinite number.  As an organized activity, this will
+in time only prove frustrating.  By the end of the season, as with being near
+the end of a movie, you'll have enough info on hand to start making some
+educated guesses.  To do so now is to begin the process of calling out
+possible endings during the first five minutes of a movie...you'll miss the
+important things, and annoy the people sitting behind you.
+
+     I'm not saying stop; I'm just saying...relax, a little, I guess, and
+simply be aware that you *cannot* scatter-shot this thing without having
+access to all the information.  It's like trying to guess the beginnings of
+World War One without knowing *any* of the background of the countries
+involved.  Suffice to say that the reason would not be simplistic, or cliched,
+or *easily deduced*.  One thing I learned in two years on "Murder, She Wrote"
+was to come up with a fairly complex mystery, something that can't be easily
+solved going in, but which makes perfect sense after you have all the facts
+and know which clues were the real ones, and which were simply red herrings.
+
+     Just a thought....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     It's not so much story ideas (though I suppose there is some validity to
+that point) as...I dunno...just seeing one speculation after another after
+another, going through every conceivable possibility and
+combination...granted, some is inevitable, it was just the systematic and
+extremely...*energetic* hammering that made me wonder if this might not end up
+hindering people's enjoyment of the show and its revelations rather than
+assisting it.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     There are no apologies to be made, and I do understand, that's the point.
+I was just echoing the comments just preceding this one.  Which is all I'll
+say on it henceforth.  Just trying to help.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The episode of "Mind War" broadcast henceforth will be the one with
+slight alteration.
+
+    What's the difference between a story idea and a speculation...eek. The
+problem with this whole discussion -- perhaps the main problem -- is the
+fuzziness, because it *hasn't been defined yet*.  We are now in the OF
+defining it via this exchange.  It's what a person might choose to sue over.
+And there's no way to quantify or predict that.
+
+     I do think there's *some* difference between the two.  I think that
+primary way this discussion can get into trouble is in the level of detail.
+It's pretty much impossible to sue for a brief *idea*; but the more elaborate
+a suggestion or speculation gets, the more points of potential comparison
+emerge, and the greater the liability.  "See, your honor?  My speculation on
+what happened contained 57 specific plot points, and what Straczynski later
+produced had 54 of those points.  I submit that he saw what I wrote, decided
+it was better, stole my idea, and took it for his own!"
+
+     Bottom line...I only got into this discussion, really, because I didn't
+want people futilely spinning their wheels, because minus the 4 or 5 main plot
+points you don't have yet, it's nearly impossible to guess what's going on.
+It's like trying to determine who committed a murder when all you've been told
+is that there's a dead body...not when it was committed, or where, or how the
+person died, or what clues were found, or where all the suspects were at the
+time.  My primary concern was in not letting the frustration level get too
+high.  The other matter was tangential.
+
+
+     But since it has come up...again, I'd say that the main point of
+differentiation is in the level of complexity.  The longer and more detailed
+the speculation, new histories for characters, new behind the scenes stuff,
+plot complications, motivations, on and on -- the more something is built that
+one could sue over.
+
+     This is a very difficult area, and there are all kinds of ways that it
+can bite you.  Over on CIS, for instance, Paramount came down on a series of
+messages with speculative plot info on ST 7 with lawyers and in injunction and
+major-leage threats against the people involved, CIS itself and anyone else
+they could think of.  We're trying to find a more personable way of handling
+this situation. And for the most part, I think we're doing fine.  But every so
+often this little issue raises its ugly head, and has to be dealt with.
+
+                                                          jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 16 1994
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+     It wasn't a reference to the Heinlein book, only to the historical use of
+that design.  Re: the breather masks...in cases of riot, sometimes they pump
+in gas.  Also, if they have to chase any of the aliens into the alien sector's
+alternate-atmosphere sections, they have to be wearing breathers.  (Believe
+me, we had a *long* discussion about this.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     "Commander" wasn't dubbed onto Walter.  That was Ironheart speaking with
+his back to us.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     How much of any episode's dialogue is looped depends on whether or not
+the line was clear on the mike, if there was on off-camera noise, and other
+factors.  Sometimes there's almost none, sometimes there's a lot.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The ripple is caused by heat from the discharge.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 04 1994
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+     Personal request: could some enterprising SFWA member here, who might've
+archived the "Ellison vs. Platt" topic in the SFWA category, send me the whole
+thing in email?  Confidentiality 100% assured.  It's for a non-networked
+member.
+
+     (Any SFWA member who objects...take it to email.  Not that I'll be the
+least concerned, of course, I'd just rather not have it clogging this topic.)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Stories become more problematic in direct proportion to the complexity of
+the suggestion.  If it's a one-liner, or a brief thought, that's not too
+problematic.  If it's a lengthy discussion of a possible story...THAT'S a
+problem.  It lets someone say, "Hey!  My story had 52 specific notions, and 52
+of those are in his story, so I wuz robbed."   It's really a question of
+degree, courtesy and intent.
+
+     And the writing credit on MOTFL was jms.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+     The refraction depends on the angle you're viewing it from, so it does
+vary a bit.
+
+     Bits and pieces...at Phil & Ed's Excellent Convention in Burbank the
+other day, I saw my first B5 hall costume...very well done, actually, a B5
+command-rank uniform, which was *very* detailed and authentic looking.   It
+actually took me a second to realize that this wasn't one of ours, but rather
+an impressive simulation.
+
+     (VERY strong reaction from folks there about the show, all positive.)
+
+     Also, I'm tentatively planning to show "Signs and Portents" at I-CON that
+Saturday.  There are several to choose from, but since that one's a real blow-
+out, that seemed the best choice.
+
+     I'm also *very* eager to see the audience reaction to something in
+there....
+
+                                                              jms
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+     BTW, did I mention that Mira Furlan is getting a GEnie account...?
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Actually, no, I don't believe John Flinn was our DP on the pilot movie.
+The series is a *tad* lighter than the pilot, but not much.  Re: the grainy
+aspect...this is happening *after* we turn over the episodes on digital (D2)
+format.  Apparently the company that PTEN uses to drop in the commercials (one
+dub), do the closed captioning (another dub) and other stuff (total: five
+generations down) was doing so on *analog one inch tape*...and, we recently
+discovered, using *USED STOCK*.  Neither PTEN nor anyone else noticed this or
+was aware; we noticed the substantial difference in picture and audio quality,
+and began backtracking it and found this out.  Starting with "War Prayer"
+we've been able to correct some of this (with considerable yelling), and will
+in time correct the rest.  Also, some TV stations are downlinking to less than
+effective stock, which doesn't help.  The image that leaves here on D2 is VERY
+sharp, with nicely saturated colors.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     *What* main debate at ICON?
+
+                                                        jms
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+     Tom: one word.  Jihad.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     The attack killed the Minbari leader, head of the Grey Council, Dukhat,
+the most evolved and wise soul of all the Minbari.
+
+                                                         jms
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+     Ah...is that why there was a message in my mailbox asking me out on a
+date...?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Don't write to Seagram's; if you want to help support the show, it's best
+to write your local station.
+
+     I think Mira's coming here simply because she's heard about it from me
+and others, such as Arne.  And yes, I'd say she's coming *here*.
+
+     The minbari warrior caste leader who committed suicide rather than issue
+the surrender command was Sineval.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yeah, that's kind of how I figured it would go, and one reason I wasn't
+real sanguine on this from the start.  As for Ordover's behavior, from what
+I've seen of him on the forums, that seems about par for the course.
+
+                                                            jms
+

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+     BTW, could someone find for me and repost that review of TNG that slammed
+the actors?  A friend asked for it, and I can't find it on my disk...thanks.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+     We expect to know around the second week of May.  Because of the recent
+entry of Paramount's new network, which is grabbing up stations left and
+right, nothing in the current marketplace is a lock, so we'll see what we will
+see.  They're really hoping that ST spinoff #3 will be sufficient bait --
+offering the guaranteed ST franchise -- to help close down other venues and
+other competing shows.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     It has *always* been my sense that the body was slipped out an access
+airlock in the zero-g cargo area.  Every other access -- like the boarding
+area and standard cargo area -- is under close security to prevent this kind
+of thing, or the influx of contraband.  There's really nowhere to GO from the
+zero-g section, so it's a little looser.  As for how he got the body
+there...there is an answer, and a reason, and if you look at this episode
+again after the season is over, even the nitpickers who brought it up will be
+able to figure it out.  I didn't address it in the issue because I didn't
+think anyone would make a federal case out of this, and for other reasons that
+will in time become apparent.  Several other nits picked at this episode will
+*also* be clarified by season's end.  It's not easy to sit quietly, knowing
+the answer, and being unable to tell it, but that's simply what I have to do
+for the time being.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+     The zero-g cargo section extends from the front of B5 well into the
+middle of the station, *inclusive* of red sector, which is below it.
+
+     I'm never optimistic.  As far as pickup is concerned, it's very
+basic...the Paramount network, as stated, is making inroads, pressuring
+stations to sign onto the new network or else they won't get the proven,
+guaranteed, franchise, new ST series.  Independent stations only have so many
+available hours, which is putting a real crunch on the syndicated marketplace.
+Whatever people may think, a second season is not a lock.  I wouldn't have
+asked people to express their support, *especially* to the local stations,
+just to jerk people around.  I take that kind of request very seriously, and
+wouldn't ask unless I felt it was useful.
+
+     I am hopeful, and certainly there are many positive signs...but at the
+same time, as I've said before, this is one town where hope can kill you.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     The official end of the season comes with "Chrysalis," airing araound the
+end of November.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
+     Located above the station proper is the long zero-g cargo loading area.
+You'll see, in later episodes, ships pulling up in front of the area and
+offloading cargo.  That is accessible from many parts of the station.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+     We're already doing it, and have done it.  We've already begun
+integrating "virtual sets" in with real ones.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     As an example...in the next-to-last shot in "Survivors," someone is
+entering a ship in the docking bay.  The only real object in that room, aside
+from the actor, is a ladder.  Everything else is CGI...but you can't tell.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Nope, that's not the shot from "Survivors."
+
+     You'll see windows -- BIG windows -- looking out into space in "By Any
+Means Necessary" and "A Voice in the Wilderness."  You'll see windows in the
+Garden from buildings as well, particularly in "Legacies."
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     Well, it's not exactly much of a *challenge* now, is it, since you now
+KNOW where the shot is....
+
+                                                           jms
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+     Unless you're planning to do monstrous amounts of blue-screen work,
+making stars go left to right (or right to left) is easy; ST uses a star
+curtain, which simply is on a loop running in the right direction (when they
+don't use blue screen).  Stars out of the B5 window would be going in a
+CIRCLE...which would require a star WHEEL of *enormous* size.  We were able to
+trick the camera using camera moves in the pilot to make the stars move, but
+have found it more difficult to do this on the series.  We have some ideas on
+how to fix this for a (hopefully) second season.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+
+     In "Survivors," we attempted a cgi/composite shot out the window, which
+looks pretty spiffy, actually.  It's in the teaser.  We may do this in future.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I believe that shot was from "Believers."
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 03 1994
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+     Some were real, yes.  Some weren't.
+
+     An SF convention on board Babylon 5...oh dear....(slapping self, bad jms,
+*bad* jms).
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I don't know, but I think I can be *reasonably* sure that there won't be
+anyone there selling Dianetics books in the dealer's room....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 08 1994
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+      Well, you'll get June Lockhart in "The Quality of Mercy," airing May
+25th.  We live to serve.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+     No, no scenes with Bill Mumy, though some consideration was given to the
+notion.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 12 1994
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+     Jerry tells us he is a gourmet cook.
+
+     Jerry also told us he belonged to the Dance Company of Harlem.
+
+     I'd check that tuna *real* careful....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 04 1994
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+     I knew about it...I get all memos on this stuff, and was there the day
+she came by...I just plumb forgot to mention it.  So much goes on in the
+course of an average day that by the time I get home, my brain is melting out
+my ears.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 05 1994
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+     Only when *you're* talking to me.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 12 1994
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+     Since they apprently scan this topic...could someone here please notify
+the pinheads at the Prydonians of Prynceton that the Compton's CD Rom of B5 is
+not being done by Richard Compton, B5 director; that it is being done by the
+same people who put out Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia; that Richard
+Compton was also NOT the head of the B5 special effects department...and while
+you're at it, suggest they find a new topic for their top ten...unless they're
+willing to incorporate poor journalism, inaccurate fact checking and typos.
+
+                   jm(yn a slyght snyt but workyng on yt)s
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 05 1994
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+     There are some gender-based differences, yes.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 09 1994
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+     Very likely.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 09 1994
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+     No one has seen the entire series outline.  Three people have seen a ten-
+page synopsis of the full five-year story, and are sworn to absolute secrecy
+about it.  Larry, as I mentioned earlier, read it, and his first reaction was,
+"You're out of your f*****g mind."  A second person began crying at the end of
+it.  (Honest to god, I'm not making this up.)  The synopsis contains only the
+broad strokes; not the details, and there's a LOT of odd stuff in the details.
+
+
+     In preparation for a (hopeful) second season, I've broken out the
+individual episodes/stories for year two, and let one person skim through the
+breakdown, only in order to determinen production needs in advance, so we can
+budget accordingly.  That's all.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Actually, there's a second shot in which you can see a body being thrown
+out; it's between Mitchell and Sinclair being hit.  Remember that the body is
+strapped in in an angular fashion, and look for it as it blows (as I recall)
+from left to right.  It's there.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Seemed to go fine, though it's better to ask the audience than the person
+at the front of the room...perceptions can change depending on which end of
+the microphone you're on....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Still plan on showing "Signs and Portents" at I-CON, though it'll be
+tight getting that one finished in time, given the incredible amount of CGI in
+it.  Also will be doing a panel there with Harlan, Michael O'Hare and Arne on
+the origins of B5, and a one-man Q&A session/workshop on writing for TV.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+     At this point it'll just be me, maybe Harlan (who's GoH there) on the B5
+stuff.  Probably just the usual...me rambling insensibly for an hour, some
+clips, maybe an episode for the convention.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Well, I'll probably bring the gag reel, some clips, and as far as
+episodes go...my *guess* at this point would be either the two-parter, or D.C.
+Fontana's "Legacies."  Just about anything else would reveal stuff too early.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I really don't know; my suggestion is to leave a message on the ICON
+topic in SFRT3.  I haven't seen a breakdown of the schedule yet.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     As another aside...I'm surprised no one here has mentioned what
+transpired just recently on CI$.  A couple of people were posting their
+version of what they thought ST 7 was going to be about, in some detail, and
+Paramount jumped in on jackboots and started threatening lawsuits, against the
+people, against CI$, against everyone and anyone involved.   There may even
+have been an injunction.  In any event, the lawyers descended en masse and
+stomped on it hard.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I would like to know the 3 times that the specific line, "There's a
+shuttle leaving in two hours, be on it" was used.  I know of only one: in
+"Mind War."  G'Kar said to the assassin, in "Parliament," "That's your flight,
+I suggest you hurry," *in answer to a PA notice, but that's not the same thing
+by any measure.  Please cite the three times you say this exact phrase was
+used.  Because I don't think it's there.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+     Cindy: your recollection is incorrect.  The story was *not* the real one,
+so saith the people who were posting it.  They were just making it up.
+
+     Legally, this is a very muddy and difficult area.  Which is why I have
+generally avoided getting into it here.  There are always some who, upon
+getting a request like this, want to drag out the legalities of why they
+should or shouldn't go along with it, who says they can't do it... when from
+my perspective, why are we getting into the legalities of it?  I ask it as a
+*courtesy*.  I spend 3+ hours a day on these systems, and as a rule of thumb I
+never ask much in return.  Even when I'm blind tired after a long day, and I
+log on to find (as today) 1,075 message in my mailbox, I still make it a point
+to come in every day, read everything in both B5 topics, and respond as much
+as I can...and the only thing that I ask in exchange, as a courtesy,
+understanding that it's a difficult area, is to refrain, where possible, from
+posting significant or detailed story ideas.
+ I don't see why legalities have to be argued over each time this gets brought
+up.  One can argue the merits and the specifics and the letter of the law ad
+infinitum...all I've said is that if they *do* start popping up here, I'll
+have to excuse myself from the discussion.
+
+     Anyone who wants to engage in elaborate story speculations and ideas can
+do so privately, in email, to your heart's content.  All I ask is that you not
+do it where I can see it.  I don't like having to make the request, would
+*much* prefer not to do so, but the flat bottom line is that we are a lawsuit
+happy country, and I cannot expose myself, my show, and PTEN to that kind of
+risk.  (And please don't go over the realease form and promises discussion all
+over again...we've hashed and rehashed that one, and it doesn't work.)
+
+     Most people in this town can't believe the amount of effort that I put in
+here, in an exchange which, from a strictly numerical point of view, wouldn't
+notch the ratings up a fraction of a point.  But to me, it's important.  I'm
+just trying to minimize the amount of danger to which I expose my show.  If
+the show matters, then the request matters.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Talia is nowhere near a P10; her basic telepathic ability remains around
+P5.  The other is totally aside, in terms of mind-scans and the like.  Being
+able to play the fiddle won't make you a better steel worker.
+
+     Re: the non-repeated repeated line...thank you.  You made that statement
+several times, and just felt it was time to call you on it.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Bear in mind, Sinclair was only out about 24-48 hours (I don't recall the
+exact number).  So it wasn't that long a period of time in which to arrange a
+prisoner transfer.
+
+     Pathman...your perception comes from a slight advantage: you're here.
+This has been discussed in great detail on-line, and in the various faq files,
+and in my individual postings.  (About Sinclair and the Line.)  But this
+group, for all its other wonderfulnesses, comprises not enough people to make
+a hiccup on the ratings.  Unless off-line viewers saw the pilot MOVIE -- and
+not all of them did -- this is their *first introduction* to the fact that
+there was a missing 24 hours at ALL.  Most of them didn't have that prior
+knowledge in order to HAVE the suspicions.
+
+     As much as I like the online environment, one can't tailor a show  around
+prior knowledge gained through this exchange.  We have to bring everyone along
+*together*.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     Psi Corps, as a government-regulated agency, is prohibited from endorsing
+candidates or taking a political stance.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Bill appeared in, I believe, 6-7 episodes this season, and will likely
+appear in about 13 next year, Neilsen willing.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     I have no idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
+
+
+

+
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+     Steve...nothing personal, but...what the *hell* are you talking about?
+
+                                                             jms
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+     I was asked to keep quite about this until April 23rd, which is when the
+announcement is to be made at the Nebulas, but now that it's indeed the 23rd,
+and that announcement either has been made or is being made now, I'm pleased
+to report that the Babylon 5 pilot movie, "The Gathering," has been nominated
+for a Hugo.
+
+     Since we're up against Jurassic Park, I think I pretty much know where
+THAT award is going...but it is a tremendous honor and everyone involved with
+the show is very pleased by it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 24 1994
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+     Thanks.  As it turns out -- I today saw the list of nominees -- B5 is the
+ONLY TV-SF nominated for the Hugo.  The rest are all feature films (JP, Addams
+Family, Nightmare Before Christmas, Groundhog Day).
+
+     As for questions for Mira...we'll play it by ear, and leave it to her
+discretion.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 25 1994
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+     Abbut was not -- repeat, NOT -- an imitation of Harlan, as some have
+suggested.  It was originally written for Gilbert Gottfried, who we later
+learned was unavailable.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 27 1994
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+     Agreed, the pilot movie was much darker...unfortunately, it was SO dark
+that we actually veered into what're called "illegal blacks," that is, the
+picture is too dark, and this causes problems with foreign distributers.
+(This is what they tell me, and through an act of faith I have come to believe
+them.)  We're still about a half-stop or full stop below what's typical.  Be
+advised that many stations, when they broadcast the show, pump up the
+brightness a *lot*.  They just dial it up.
+
+                                                     jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 29 1994
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+     My copies here at the house are SVHS, and they're a *quantum* jump over
+what I see over the air.  So I can only guess what more would come out on
+disk.  Eagerly awaiting the day.  As for the pilot...I ordered a copy (yes,
+folks, I have to pay for one just like everybody else) some time ago; still
+hasn't come in yet.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 19 1994
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+     I knew there was something I liked about Stern.  (And proper that he
+played a sound "bite.")  We sent Howard a B5 cap today, we'll see if it
+actually gets to him or not.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 20 1994
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+     Jim, your thesis comes from the underlying assumption that, as in the
+Trek universe, All Things Must Be Done Fairly, the government must in the end
+be wise and fair and sensible.
+
+     That ain't our universe.  That ain't even *this* universe.
+
+     Sinclair must follow orders.  He didn't want to escort Deathwalker off
+and on to Earth, those were his marching orders.  *The same marching orders
+would be given to an ambassador representing Earth*.  So your career diplomat
+would be in exactly the same position.  What, do you think that career
+diplomats are independent agents of goodness?  They all work for SOMEone,
+representing their interests.
+
+     Earth put in the majority of the money required to build and operate B5.
+They have the right, as such, to appoint a provisional governor, nad (and)
+that is the function that Sinclair mainly serves.  He runs this place, AND he
+is responsible for maintaining good relations with other  representatives.  He
+is also on a short leash.  And in some cases, as in "By Any Means Necessary,"
+other people are sent in to handle certain kinds of negotiations.
+
+     Yes, it is a conflict of interest.  So what?  Do you think Earth cares
+much about that?  Is it awkward?  Yes, of course.  It *should* put him in
+moral quandries.  The Earth Government is constantly getting him into binds.
+What they wanted him to do in "Deathwalker" was more or less of a dubious
+nature.  But in the end, he found a fairly moral solution to the problem.
+That's what he does.  He finds an honorable way out of very difficult and
+morally ambiguous situations.  What you suggest is that we remove the moral
+ambiguities.  Ehhh.  I find that boring as hell.
+
+     Do the other species like it?  Of course not.  Okay, so what're they
+going to do?  Boycott B5?  And let other species take advantage of all the
+economic and political benefits the station provides?  Let others grow in
+familiarity and form alliances that might in time turn against them?  Not a
+chance.  Fair or not, it's the only game in town.
+
+     So I don't buy your solution because I don't think it's a problem.   You
+do.  That's life.  Political situations are rarely fair, or logical, or
+ethical.  If politics were based on ethics this would be a MUCH better world.
+But politics are generally based on who has the power, and the money, and the
+guts.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Jose: you are deliberately mischaracterizing the events in "Midnight."
+Sinclair did not -- repeat, did NOT -- "tell Ivanova to defy Earth's orders
+and deceive the council."  He set up a situation in which he would say that he
+was unable to catch up with her and pass along the Senator's instructions
+before he had to leave.  Her line would be that "The Commander never told me,"
+and he would back this up.  (And that he would hedge the truth this way is
+hardly "perfect.")
+
+     Defying the Senator's orders would be telling them that the vote will NOT
+be made as ordered.  That never happened.
+
+     Y'know, I don't mind if folks criticize, but it would be nice if what
+people criticized had actually HAPPENED...like the similar problem over in 19,
+when it was stated that the line, "There's a shuttle leaving in one hour, be
+on it" was made in three different episodes...when in fact it only happened in
+one.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 21 1994
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+     Just to clarify...the Vorlon ship destroyed only Deathwalker's ship, not
+an EA vessel.  And the Vorlon ship waited until Deathwalker's ship was far
+from B5, just before entering the gate, before coming out to strike.   At that
+range, it couldn't miss, and at that distance, B5 couldn't react fast enough.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 22 1994
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+     The suspect was a) catatonic, b) a missing person's life was at stake, c)
+the next of kin gave permission, d) the information was not used at trial, was
+not admissible, and only the pertinent information on the missing person was
+ever used.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 23 1994
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+     Tolkien's work had a *profound* effect on me in college; as I later read
+all of the background material, the reams and reams of "history" that he wrote
+to background his novels, I began to realize that *that's* the way to do it.
+So I tried to take that kind of approach, filling out as much as humanly
+possible about the universe, characters and history.  It's the only really
+sensible way to tackle something this large.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Bugs...very well done.  You're paying attention.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     My notes would have to be *seriously* reworked to be made publishable.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     If you count "Deathwalker," then 9 episodes have aired so far.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Lennier is not in the cargo area during the beating, nor is he in BG
+during the negotiations.  That's a Minbari of the worker class.  (You can
+generally tell from the orange-ish smock-thingie they wear.)  Sorry.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The type of Minbari flyer used is a one-person (at most two) ship; she
+came alone to the station, and left alone.  (You'll see this kind of ship, and
+the limit of space, more in another episode.)
+
+     Psi Cops are *authorized* to carry firearms.  The Knights had an in with
+Security, and by virtue of high government contacts, got their stuff on board.
+Those seem to me not requiring much explanation.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     On the "predictable" argument...I can only shrug.  The kid has a 50/50
+chance...he'll survive or die.  And guessing the end isn't, for me, the key;
+this isn't a who-dunit; it's how our characters react on the way there, and
+what it *does* to them, I think.
+
+     And yeah, TV generally doesn't do this kind of ending.  Which is why we
+did it...and our liaison at Warner Bros. deserves a lot of credit for letting
+us do it.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Since I suggested the ending to David, right down to the candles, I
+suppose I'll take the rap...but the question you're raising isn't the issue.
+There are only two possible results: the kid lives, or the kid dies, there
+ain't much in-between.  You ask, "Who on earth is going to side with people
+who kill their own child?"  The audience isn't being asked to *side* with
+anyone, there IS no easy solution, and no one is 100% in the right.
+
+     There is a wonderful short story, which we adapted for Twilight Zone,
+called "The Cold Equations," where a small shuttle is going from point A to
+point B.  There is enough fuel for the shuttle, and one pilot, and no more.
+The ship is bringing medicine to save 500 colonists.  A young girl has stowed
+away on the ship to see her brother.  She's discovered.  If the pilot does
+nothing, the ship won't arrive, and he and the girl will die, and the
+colonists will die.  If he sacrifices himself, she won't be able/won't know
+how to guide the ship to its destination.  The only way out is to ask her to
+enter the airlock so he can space her and continue the mission.  And that's
+what happens.  You can't argue with math.
+
+     Sometimes, there are no-win scenarios.  And what matters then is how your
+characters react, what they do and say, and how it affects them.   That,
+really, was the thrust of the episode.  And to go back to your question, "Who
+on earth is going to side...."
+
+     The operative word in your question is "Earth."  No, no human is going to
+side with them (although I'd point out in the Bible that there is the story of
+Abraham, who was quite willing to murder his own son at god's request).
+They're not humans.  They have a wholly different mindset, cultural background
+and belief system.  People ask for ALIEN aliens, then judge them by human
+standards, and feel it's wrong if they don't behave like humans.  These
+didn't.  That's who and what they are.   If humans side with them, or accept
+them, doesn't enter into it.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     I can't believe this "explain how the guns get aboard" discussion is
+still going on.  This isn't the Enterprise, to use the cited example,  which
+is a *military vessel*, and only the occasional rare civilian gets on board.
+There are a QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE on board at any given moment.  (People =
+humans and aliens.)  Not staying there, but in a state of flux.  Going and
+coming.  Anywhere from 50 to 100 ships per day dock at B5.  Thousands upon
+thousands of boxes, crates, cargo loads, pallets, you name it.  If you stopped
+and inspected every single box that came through, the system would grind to a
+halt.  So you do the best you can, you catch whatever you can, scan as much as
+possible, and accept that some stuff is bound to slip through.
+
+     Further, this is the kind of explanation that has nothing to do with a
+story, only with someone's need to have something explained to them.  I think
+the time is spent better elsewhere.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I know from pfingle eggs...I let David have the reference because...
+well, I don't know anymore...I think water torture was involved.
+
+     Drys...no.  The choice *had* to be either/or.  That was the point; to put
+the characters in a situation of conflict and see how they handle it.
+Sometimes in life there are ONLY two choices, neither of them good.  Your
+message comes from a position of trying to avoid the hard choices.  But the
+episode is ABOUT hard choices.  It *has* to be either/or.
+
+     To support your thesis, you bring up the "Cold Equations" alternate
+ending of the pilot cutting off both his legs to make up the weight
+differential.  Lemme explain something to you.  I was there.  When we turned
+in the script, by Alan Brennert, MGM went nuts.  "You can't have a sympathetic
+young woman commit suicide!  It'll kill the ratings!"  So they (the studio
+exec) suggested various "fixes."  One was that instead of stepping willingly
+out the airlock, the pilot shoots her and has to deal with the guilt.  (This
+by them is a *better* idea?)  The other was the notion of the guy cutting off
+his legs to make up the weight.
+
+     First and foremost, it was a dumb idea because he'd be in no shape to
+pilot the ship.  Second it wouldn't be enough weight.  And finally, the very
+*nature* of "The Cold Equations," what the very TITLE means, is that there are
+some occasions in which the choices are stark, and there is NO way around
+them.  If the ship has X-weight, and the fuel is for Y weight, and Y is less
+than X, then you've got a problem that can only -- ONLY -- be resolved by
+someone walking out the airlock.  (And yes, they tried dumping things, but the
+ship is lean, not much to get rid of.)   That's why it's the COLD equations;
+not the LUKEWARM equations.
+
+     I fought like hell to retain the original ending, and won.  (You probably
+read about this, btw, in my articles for TZ Magazine.)  This is studio-think,
+let's find a nice, unthreatening, safe, middle-ground where we can resolve
+this without anybody being upset, threatened or offended by the story.  I'm
+sorry, but life sometimes hands you hard choices, there ARE either/or
+scenarios, in which nobody really wins, and SF should be exploring those as
+well as the fuzzy feel-good stories.  It's time SF grew up a little, damn it,
+and started confronting hard questions that can't always be resolved by
+reversing the polarity on the metaphase unit.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Afterthought: I just wandered into the kitchen, still ranting (as I am
+wont to do), explained it to Kathryn...who brought me up short (as *she* is
+wont to do) by pointing out the antecedent to BOTH stories.  Th  ultimate
+"hard choice" example in SF-TV is of course "The City on the Edge of Forever,"
+from ST.  There are only two choices, both hard: either Edith Keeler dies, or
+the Nazis win WW II.  Kirk *has* to let her die; there's no other choice.
+
+     It is, at the same moment, gratifying and annoying to have someone around
+who's smarter than I am....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Owning your own space ship isn't cheap, but it also isn't as expensive as
+it might be.  The investment is about the same as starting up your own
+business.  There's not a lot of civilian "touring cars," for lack of a better
+term; better to use the liners and shuttles.  But for businesses, surveyers,
+explorers, traders and the like...yeah, they're within one's grasp.  And these
+sorts of ships are pretty much all run by computer.  No crew required.  Just
+go from place to place.  If it's a scientific survey ship, then you'll have
+some more.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     The female investigator.
+
+     Hell of a makeup job.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     I was on "Murder" for about two years.  I left about the time we were
+just finishing post-production on the B5 pilot movie.  I think I wrote about 8
+or so episodes of the series.  A couple were Irish type stories, "The Wind
+Around the Tower," and "To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee" (I was in a
+contest to come up with the longest title in the history of the series), the
+murder in the Psycho house "Incident In Lot 7," one or two at the university,
+including "Lines of Excellence," and some others.  It was an enjoyable
+experience, all things considered, and I still think highly of Angela.  I have
+a great deal of respect for her; she's a complete professional.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     You enter the docking bay, and the doors at the other end open.  They
+then close behind you, and begin pressurizing.  Your ship is then lowered down
+to one of the actual bays.  You'll see this in a lot more detail in
+"Survivors" and especially in "By Any Means Necessary."
+
+                                                  jms
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+     Well, we put the camera in there and it got crushed....
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 29 1994
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+     The scale of our ships is pretty specific, and those numbers are crunched
+into the animation, so it's all constantly in the correct size relationship.
+It's the eye that is often fooled.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     The Earth Alliance funded the first few attempts exclusively; after
+they'd dumped all their money into B4, they needed outside funding to get B5
+going, and the Minbari were first to contribute money as a show of good faith.
+Then the Centauri added additional funding.  Those are the only two other
+races that've contributed significantly.
+
+     The world B5 orbits is Epsilon 3.
+
+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.
+
+                                                      jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 23 1994
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+     I think the term usually used to describe B5 viewers is, "People Of
+Incredible Taste, Perception and Discretion."
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 23 1994
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+     Well, let's see...there's the Drazi (slightly purplish heads, the ones
+who beat the crap out of the guy in "War Prayer," and brought in the Drazi
+Sunhawk in "Deathwalker"), the pak'ma'ra (the ones who shuffle through frame
+in greenish robes, with tentacles where their mouths should be...and about
+whom there is something very weird, rather icky, which you'll see in
+"Legacies"), the Abbai, commonly known around the studio as "fishheads"...will
+post a fuller description later.  Those are the ones you see mainly in DW.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     On the ships...when Ron was pulling together the ships for that episode,
+we talked about it on the phone for a while, and I have to take the rap for
+the saucers...which I still think are cool.  I said, in essence, why the hell
+not?  Ron thought it was a great idea, and went and made it real.  I think if
+we ever see this kind of ship again, it'll need some more work, a little more
+weight and substance, some more detail, but they're okay.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 26 1994
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+     (I really love that line....)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 23 1994
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+     Correct, the main difference between pistols and rifles is the range, and
+the number of shots you can get out before slapping in a recharge pod.  A hand
+PPG can give you about 10-12 shots per charge, while a rifle nearly doubles
+that.  (And yes, we have sat down and worked out a goodly part of this stuff.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Variable settings.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 26 1994
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+     "I'm hoping that Star Trek will now learn a lesson from Joe."
+
+     Buy low.  Sell high.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 23 1994
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+     Garibaldi is an agnostic verging on atheism.  Sinclair was taught by
+Jesuits and raised with a religious background.  Ivanova is Jewish, but very
+much lapsed.  Franklin is a Foundationist.  Others TBA.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 23 1994
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+     The Foundation is a new religion, started close to the year 2000, which
+gradually grew and achieved a fair amount of respectability over  the
+following 200 years (as with mormonism, for instance).
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Narns would be considered kosher.
+
+     Spoo would simply be considered.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 26 1994
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+     Boy, you guys are gonna *love* "By Any Means Necessary" and "TKO."   They
+deal with ALL this stuff.
+
+     The Foundation would take a long, long time to explain here.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Someone once described Jesuits as god's pit bulls...kinda fits.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 28 1994
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+     BTW, Sinclair mentions his Jesuit teachers (and his relationship to them)
+again in "By Any Means Necessary."
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 23 1994
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+     When I developed the basic Believers story, and was looking for someone
+to assign it to, David was the first person we went to.  He asked me at the
+time why him...he's more generally associated with humorous stuff.  I had my
+reasons.  See, lately, David adopted a young boy, about the same age as Shon.
+So about halfway into the outline, David called and said, "NOW I understand."
+I knew that having a child of his own now would mean that the story would be a
+lot more personal.  Especially the end scene, which I knew would have to be
+done *very* carefully.
+
+     I think David did a great job, and under his guidance it turned into a
+very moving episode.  And with any luck, he'll write more down the road.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     To clarify...I was referring to most of David's TV work, not his novels.
+At least, that was his own estimation of his work at the time.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     I'm not quite sure if we're talking about the same thing; the two parents
+never said that the kid would die if he underwent the surgery, only that his
+soul would escape.  This would leave him "soul-dead," for lack of a better
+phrase.  And how are we to tell that they weren't right?  I don't think it's
+quite as cut and dried as you seem to present.
+
+     (And again, they were acting very much out of their real beliefs of how
+the universe operates.  If someone here is injured, and declared brain dead,
+most folks think it's okay to pull the plug...even though one could make the
+argument that there's still a living soul in the body.  This is the opposite
+situation; one may argue that there is still a mind somewhere in the body, but
+the soul is dead or gone.  The phrase they use is that they put the shell out
+of its misery.  To their mind, he was dead already.)
+
+                                                                jms
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+     She got away by long-distance firing as she retreated as fast as she
+could, taking shots as she went.  It wouldn't look real exciting in the long
+run.  And the people of the egg emphasize that the body must be *penetrated*;
+it has to go into the body cavity itself to release the soul.  Paper cuts
+won't do it.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Re: Kosh's voice...though we've fixed *most* of the video crap that's
+being done to our eps after delivery, we're still being clamped, which is
+causing some problems like this.
+
+     Working on it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     You'll see more about Garibaldi's drinking problem in about two weeks.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Abbut was screwing around when he said "I'm a 23 myself," just messing
+with her.  And yes, the Windswords were the warrior clan involved in the
+events in "The Gathering."
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     H.Mallette...you're reviewing things that didn't happen, or which YOU are
+twisting to your OWN convenience.
+
+     You assume the crowd meeting Sinclair could be placated.  They make it
+clear, in dialogue: "You will have to kill us all."  They could not BE
+placated.  Your assumption has nothing to do with what happened, or what was
+said.  Maybe in the ST universe, Picard can turn on the charm and just talk
+people out of things.  That doesn't happen here, not easily at any rate.  It
+was turn back or kill them.  Those were the choices.
+
+     You misstate when you say that Dr. Franklin was unable to analyze the
+serum.  He states that his preliminary analysis of the serum DID confirm her
+statements; this was backed up by further evidence that she was Jha'dur, that
+she was impossibly younger than she should be, and that her wounds were
+healing with incredible speed.  "My assumption would be that she'd invented
+something that LOOKED like an antiagapic."  Yes, and your assumption would be
+wrong.  All the evidence pointed to it being EXACTLY what she said it was.
+Further, the agreement between the League and Sinclair was that scientists
+would be on hand during the period of development to *insure* that it was what
+it was supposed to be.  Or did you miss that part?  Nobody was saying to use
+it now...no one.  You' are reacting to an issue that never appeared in the
+show.
+
+     The EA escort got her as far as the gate.  Then peeled away.  And then
+the Vorlon ship came out.  That's what Sinclair said: "They will escort you as
+far as the gate."  And even if they had stayed with her THROUGH the gate, it
+would've made no difference.  Vorlon ship comes through.  Fires at
+Deathwalker's ship.  EA ships fire back.  No visible effec, the cruiser shrugs
+it off and goes back the way it came.  Single Starfuries wouldn't even *dent*
+a Vorlon cruiser.  So same result.
+
+     My bottom line: if you don't like the show, then don't watch the show.
+But please refrain from twisting what happened due to your incorrect
+assumptions, or for your own convenience in attacking something.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Lennier has no such power; Delenn chose to tell Lennier not to mention
+that she was a member of the Grey Council.  With Sinclair, Lennier was totally
+unaware of Jha'dur's time with the Windswords when it was first mentioned to
+him.  He then went and spoke to Delenn and the Council, which explained the
+situation to him, and gave him his marching orders.   He did not get Sinclair
+to "chat about top-secret information," Sinclair came to him to find out what
+he could about Jha'dur's claim.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Bear in mind also that until the corridor confrontation, Sincliar had no
+idea that the League knew Deathwalker was there (and they didn't, until G'Kar
+told them just beforehand).  That makes a major difference; once they knew she
+was there, he'd blow the council apart by trying to smuggle her out.  If they
+could get her off-station without the League knowing anything about it, THAT
+was what Earth was counting on.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Yeah, I really thought the Space Rangers line was out of line and
+uncalled for; generally, I react with equal civility to what is first put in
+front of my face.
+
+     And no, that wasn't his brain.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     P.S.  "CAUSTICITY??!"
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Herb, no, I don't agree with you.  As far as we knew, Lennier was going
+to vote with Sinclair and the League.  So you hold off his change of vote for
+the end.  You get a few no votes, annoy the League, Sinclair raises their
+hope, and then Lennier, much as he hates it, dashes that hope.  It's an arc
+that way, rather than a descending staircase.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     If we can keep the discussion fairly general; I know this is a spoilers
+topic, but it's *so* long until broadcast on this one, if we could keep it
+fairly general just for the next couple weeks, that'd be great.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by
+JMS (and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
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+

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+     Not to distract this thread, but the reference to power macs (also I
+believe referred to as power PCs) raises a question...I'm already kinda
+outgrowing the Deathstar 2000 Megasystem that I had assembled as my  primary
+computer.  I'm not thinking of buying immediately, simply because I haven't
+the time, and there seems to be some shakeup going on out there, but I'm
+*thinking* about the Power PC/mac, mainly because I'm tired of rejigging
+things ten thousand ways to find means to make my SCSI card work with my CD
+rom, and the optical drive, and nothing ever seems to work together unless you
+spend zillions of hours configuring your system.  The Macs all work seamlessly
+together, but there's much about the PC that I like.  Is the power system the
+way to go?  Does it all interface as smoothly as the mac, or does it take as
+much configuring?  Simple answers please....I'm an idiot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     So lemme get this straight, though...dos text files can be read by the
+PowerMac, but Dos software *won't* work?  (That seems to be the implication.)
+In other words...I can't just transfer Wordstar to the machine and get it up
+and running, and my macro programs; it has to be mac-based programs, yes?
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     If we get the go-ahead, there'll be a few days of frantic action, then
+I'm going to want to get away for a few days or so.  It's been a LONG season,
+I haven't had any kind of real break, and if I don't get some breathing space,
+I'll burn out halfway through the season.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 04 1994
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+     Y'know, some people say Ivanova's humor is weird, off-base...and I've
+always felt it was *right* for her, but putting it into words to explain it
+was difficult.
+
+     Tonight, the metaphor becomes clearer.  Today they released new papers
+from the Kennedy assassination.  Leaving aside for just a moment the
+terribleness of the event...one of the papers released was a letter from
+Marina Oswald to some friends.  She wrote, of Oswald's growing discontent, in
+her broken english, "Lee no like USA.  Lee no like Soviet Union.  Lee like
+moon."
+
+     And I just fell off the couch laughing.  It's the *perfect* example of
+Russian humor, and Ivanova's humor...a shrug, a note of absolute
+hopelessness...followed by a punchline.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on May 08 1994
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+     Fairly quiet couple of days here; nothing much eep an official nature to
+talk about yet.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+     What Peter says is essentially correct; we're not quite sure what it is,
+but something about the way Ron's CGI is rendered makes it work to a limited
+extent with some 3D viewers.  Not consistently, and not to best effect, but
+usually just enough to be noticed.
+
+                        jm(saying nothing officially)s
+

+
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+
+     Could someone post for me on Internet that for some reason, the GEnie
+gateway is down, and I haven't seen much of anything new since about the 3rd?
+(Hence my sudden silence.)  With any luck, the gate'll open soon, and I'll
+find my box stuffed with another 2,000 messages or so any day now.
+
+     BTW, did I mention that DC is going to be doing a B5 comic?  And that one
+of our own locals here on the net just may have a little something to do with
+it?  And that Bill Mumy may write a bit for it, and Peter David, and me, and
+some other nifty writers?
+
+                              jm(a man of many secrets)s
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 11 1994
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+     I had some lengthy talks with the book's editor, a very sharp and
+perceptive individual, and outlined what I thought would be a good approach to
+the comic.  As a comics reader, what makes me crazy are books published as
+media tie-ins that are ONLY that, just tie-ins, throwaways, unchallenging, and
+restricted by the same rules that limit a TV show.  In a comic, you don't
+*have* the same limitations of budget, and location, and casts.  So why lumber
+a comic with those restrictions?
+
+     The editor and I both feel the same way...that the stories should be
+challenging, and inventive, and sometimes comtroversial, and should try and
+*surpass* the series.  I know they had a problem with another SF show comic,
+where they were constantly being hit with rules, and you-can-do this, you
+*can't* do *that*.
+
+     What I recommended was that the book be written in three-issue story
+arcs, using different writers and some different artists from time to time,
+tailoring the look of the book to the story itself...so you could go from
+realistic to surreal to stylized, depending on the story.  You could then open
+up the book to some terrific comic and SF writers who wouldn't tie themselves
+down to a whole year's worth of stories, but would be willing to do one 3-
+issue arc.  And they will be given a great deal of freedom; my only
+requirement is that it take place somewhere in the B5 universe, and preferably
+have at least one of our characters in it, at any point in the past or present
+or (depending on the story) future.  The whole point of *creating* Babylon 5
+was to see what other writers would do with it, when turned loose.  That's
+half the fun.  Why ride herd on them?
+
+     DC and the editor (I'm not using the editor's name only because I don't
+know if I'm supposed to at this point or not) have been nothing short of
+terrific to work with.  There was a meeting out here in March, another meeting
+in New York just before Icon, and we're *very* much on the same wavelength.
+
+     I'll probably be writing the first issue, which will tie into the first
+episode of Year Two of B5.  What's neat is that in the premiere of season two,
+you'll see a story that references something that happens somewhere else.  The
+comic will *show* that something else.  You can watch and enjoy the show just
+fine without it, but reading the book will show you, for lack of a better
+term, the other side of the story.
+
+     Although I own something like 3-4,000 comics, I've never defined myself
+as a *collector*...I've always been just a comics *fan*.  And as such, I
+really want this to be a book I'd like to pick up as a reader.   And I think
+this has a very good chance of being just such a book.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I've always considered my work canon-fodder.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on May 12 1994
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+     Arne's correct.  I think it's important to match artists with
+writers...some looking very stylized, some realistic, some offbeat, to match
+the tone of the story.  It's more of an anthology feel to it, but set in the
+B5 universe.  (I believe the working title we came up with was "Tales from
+Babylon.")  If you've seen any of the Grendel books, and the Grendel Tales
+stuff, you'll have some sense of what we're going for (and, as Arne mentions,
+the dark knight stuff).  It's also a great way to make sure you're always on
+deadline; you can have several writers working at the same time, rather than
+one after the other.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I'd *love* to get Matt to do an arc, if he'd be willing.  His work is
+nothing short of brilliant.  (Will we ever see a MAGE followup?)
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+      Ah...well, now at that the news is official (at last), I can talk
+ about this.
+
+      Yes, we have been renewed.  For 22 episodes, same as this year.  And
+ we will be going on the air with our second season in November.  As a
+ result, we will be showing new episodes over the summer.  The November
+ debut puts on the same footing as all the other series, so it'll help get
+ us into TV Guide's Fall Preview, and spread the shows over the proper
+ November/May sweeps period without having to stretch with a lot of reruns.
+
+      What follows is a *tentative* schedule only.  This has NOT been
+ finalized yet, but looks like it's going to be what we run with.
+
+      (Reruns from June 1 - June 29)
+      "Grail," July 6
+      "Eyes," July 13
+      "Legacies," July 20
+      "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1," July 27
+      "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2," August 3
+      "Babylon Squared," August 10
+      "The Quality of Mercy," August 17
+      "Chrysalis," August 24
+
+      We begin shooting season two on July 18, the day after my 40th
+ birthday.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     There will be reruns, in sequence, from August 31st or so through the end
+of October, so there's room to catch up.  (Also reruns from June 1 through
+June 29.  The June reruns include "Parliament," "War Prayer," "Mind War",
+"Sky" and "Deathwalker."  The later reruns will pick up starting with
+"Believers.")
+
+     As was also announced today, Time Trax was *not* picked up, which in case
+anyone was doubting the current problem should answer that question.  Re:
+WWOR...apparently Paramount is all upset at the PTEN shows being renewed, and
+is trying to throw its weight around to say that NONE of the stations that
+have signed on to the Paramount network should carry ANY other new programs
+except those produced by Paramount.  (Which is very different from, say the
+Fox network and its arrangements with its affiliates.  Hell, even network
+stations have the option of carrying outside shows.)  They're apparently
+getting very huffy about the whole thing.
+
+                                                              jm
+

+
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+     So, like...is this good or bad?
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Story-wise, I think year two will see more personal stories along with
+the action stuff; I'm not sure we really had enough opportunity to get to know
+our characters outside the main crisis/storyline.  Give them some breathing
+space.  And we will begin the process of moving the chairs around some more,
+about who's what (taking Londo one direction, and G'Kar in another, neither
+being what you might expect).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 14 1994
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+     Glenn, I suspect the newspaper got it wrong, in that Kung Fu was picked
+up for its third season, and they might've gotten simply confused.  We've been
+picked up for year two; year three will have to wait until we're more into
+year two to decide.
+
+     The Paramount boogie-man seems to have quieted down for a while; I thing
+someone told them to get stuffed.  So I think we're okay for a while.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Londo and G'Kar are both married.
+
+     Mike...calm down.  Shooting on our first season began around July 24th.
+We had always planned on starting season two on July 18, even when we thought
+we would still be going on in January for year two.  So nothing up-front
+changes; delivery of scripts and other stuff is exactly the same as it was in
+year one; if anything, we have about a week more time this round than last
+season in terms of prep.  Also, bear in mind that we were finishing episodes
+literally *months* before they were to air.  As I've said, I've had the final
+on episode we'd originally slotted for November (prior to the schedule change)
+since mid-April; in some cases, mid-March.
+
+     The post production schedule is almost identical to season one; if
+anything, because we don't have to take the time to look for a composer this
+year, which kept us from scoring for a while in season one, we again have a
+bit *more* time.
+
+     Trust me, all is well.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Btw to Ron Jarrell...I suspect my Internet gateway is down again; I
+haven't seen any new message in my mailbox for about two days.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     There isn't much I can say at this point, except...it's truly a learning
+experience.  Sometimes it ain't pleasant.  That's life.  I feel I have an
+obligation, and I intend to follow it.  As for the flames...hey, I've been in
+story meetings with network suits.  Go ahead, try and scare me.
+
+     Jim...some of what you ask for you will get.  Some of what you ask for
+you *won't* get.  There will be an accounting.  There will be some explanation
+of the people in B5.  And so on.  Not everything you ask for will you get.
+This is also life.
+
+     No, no alternate ending was *ever* considered.  That wasn't the point.
+It wasn't about solving the *problem*, it was about the people.
+
+     And it isn't tendonitis, it's carpal tunnel syndrome.  I get by.  I can
+do a little better now than earlier in the season, when it got so bad that --
+even with the gloves -- I had to write 20 minutes, ice down my arms for 20
+minutes, write for 20, ice for 20, and so on.  It's pretty much constant pain.
+(And believe me, I've heard all the advice, all the suggestions, I use the
+gloves, I do the exercises...it is what it is, and I have to live with it, or
+stop writing.  If I stop writing, I'll vanish in a puff of purple smoke.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Well, now, lemme defend the Internet for a second...what I find most
+interesting about it is that most of the Internet stuff comes in via major
+colleges, universities, research labs and the like.  So when you're dealing
+with a lot of people of college age, you're going to encounter rough spots.
+BUT...what you *also* get are people who are pretty sharp, have access to
+research material, are academics and scientists and research students...and
+lemme tell you, they keep you on your toes.
+
+     It's easy to hang out in a room where people are generally nice to
+you...and certainly relaxing; I tend to come here more with a sense of
+relaxing with friends, where there is some measure of "put up the persona and
+perform" on Internet...but one should be open to the tough stuff as well.
+Granted, at times it makes me cranky, and I probably respond with more heat
+than I'd like...but again, that's really more the exception than the rule.
+There's a lot of nifty people there.
+
+     Of course, there's more here, natch...he said, remembering where he
+was...and this has been the oldest home of B5 Online, so it occupies a warm
+place in my heart...if I had one....
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     Maybe we should make it Goys in the Hood....
+
+     Re: "I just feel that good faith gets a bit strained when one of the
+parties to the negotiation has power of live and death over the others."
+
+     Except Sinclair really doesn't have that power.  Not on a wide ranging
+basis (EA is still 'way behind the rest in tech), and not on a personal level.
+The Advisory Council can out-vote him.  If he chooses to exceed his personal
+authority and punish somebody, Earthdome can ream his butt.  (And, from time
+to time, does exactly that.)  He's not a lone agent, free to do whatever he
+wants.  There's a chain of command.  Without giving too much of a spoiler, in
+"By Any Means Necessary," when Earthdome isn't sensing that Sinclair is
+handling the labor action properly, they send in a negotiator to handle it
+*for* him.  He is on a very short leash.
+
+     Re: the screwing-up of "The Star," I don't know what happened with that,
+as it didn't happen on my watch...only that nobody's real happy about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Shane, are you saying they cut the teaser?  Or do I misunderstand?   No
+disclaimer at this end of the country.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     ...hrrrmmm...interesting.  Must look into this further.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Since I mentioned it over on Internet (but not where it belongs), I give
+y'all a little gift...Kosh's very last line of the season, in "Chrysalis."
+
+     "You have...forgotten something."
+
+     It's not nearly as straightforward as it looks, and that one line will
+carry with it *major* repercussions.  (And no, it doesn't refer to the 24
+hours.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Cutter went after Garibaldi only because that's who the dying worker
+named as being responsible for the bomb.  (He didn't know he was dying, and
+wanted to throw blame; and even if he did know, what better than to nail the
+guy who'd hassled him before?)  Cutter only took advantage of the situation.
+
+     Luis Santiago is playing it both ways, allowing more trade and certain
+kinds of immigration, while preserving earth *culture*; this isn't the same
+thing as a trade embargo.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 14 1994
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+
+     No, no rest for the wicked.  I've got 4-5 scripts to write between now
+and July 18.  (We want to have 6-8 scripts on hand the day we begin shooting,
+to again continue our tradition of having *lots* of lead time to work on
+episodes.)
+
+     We're talking to all of our actors, and discussing possibilities for the
+season, though one or two are wondering about other opportunities and how to
+balance all that out.  So we'll talk some more, see what we can work out.
+
+     Re: the president's bill...remember, Nixon was anti-communist, but it was
+eventually Nixon who opened the door to China.
+
+     (Not that I want to give him even two cents worth of credit for doing
+what was inevitable.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+     Yep.  There's some of that in places here and there on the show.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+
+     It's probably "By Any Means Necessary."  I think I got the airdates wrong
+earlier.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+
+     sigh...alas, such things are totally out of my control or influence.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 02 1994
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+
+     Eerrg...arrghh...okay, look...anyone who gets to a certain position in
+the industry picks up a certain element of the prima donna; that is
+inevitable, and sometimes, frankly the person may *deserve* a bit of special
+treatment.  Yes, there were some eccentricities...but that would describe me
+just as well as it would describe her.  I've seen her be incredibly loyal,
+she's *very* bright, charming, very much of the old school which says you
+treat people with dignity...and when there was one occasion when something
+very hard had to be done on the show, she was the one to step forward to do it
+personally, rather than through intermediaries, and I learned a great deal of
+respect for her through that.  Angela's okay.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 03 1994
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+
+     No, no, no, no-no-no-no-*no*.  I was neither angered nor offended; I
+write what I think...and when I was trying to find words, my fingers typed out
+"argh...ackk" or whatever it was.  That's just the sound my brain makes when
+it tries to gear up and answer a question in a certain way.  No apologies
+necessary; was *not* offended or angered or anything of the kind.  My fault; I
+should've been clearer.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 08 1994
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+
+     Publication of the next newsletter was held back pending news about a
+second season.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 11 1994
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+
+     Thanks.  Christy Marx, the editor of the newsletter, can give you the
+full information on that one (she's here online).  Glad you're enjoying the
+show; there's some nifty stuff coming down the road, and some exciting times.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 03 1994
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+
+     Yeah, over in LitForum on CI$, they've made me one of the writers of the
+month, to answer questions on writing for TV/film...and natch, what I'm mainly
+getting are qeustions about Star Trek.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+     And it contains pretty much what I expected after we initiated a parting
+of the ways with Richard.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 01 1994
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+
+     The Earth Alliance funded the first few attempts exclusively; after
+they'd dumped all their money into B4, they needed outside funding to get B5
+going, and the Minbari were first to contribute money as a show of good faith.
+Then the Centauri added additional funding.  Those are the only two other
+races that've contributed significantly.
+
+     The world B5 orbits is Epsilon 3.
+
+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.
+
+                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+
+     We shot two guys fighting against black.  No blue screen was used.
+Digitally removed them, shrunk them down to size (Kevin Kutchaver and his
+Miracle Mac to the rescue), and put them into the shot.  Worked real well.
+Y'know, there may be something to this digital stuff....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+
+     The Drazi are a very violent, ill-tempered species; they were the ones
+who first showed up in "Deathwalker" in a Sunhawk to threaten the station;
+they beat up the guy in "The War Prayer;" they show up here in "Survivors;"
+there's an episode about a form of martial arts among the aliens that has a
+Drazi going at it...if there's a fight around, you can often find a Drazi at
+the center of it or at least nearby.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 10 1994
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+
+     Peter...Von Braun...the V1 and V2...the Star Wars defense system....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+
+     I think you're taking what I said to the extreme; I didn't say they were
+bloodthirsty savages, only that they had a predilection toward violence, and
+were generally very cranky.  And not all great thinkers have to sit around in
+elizabethan garb, delicate flowers watching the skies rotate.  Aggressive
+people can be good thinkers; it needn't be one or the other.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+
+     I'd rather hold off on that until we have some more meetings with the
+friendly folks at Compton's, so that we lock it down, and we don't compromise
+any of the nifty stuff we're cooking up that no one's done yet.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     My copies are transferred directly from the D2 master to SVHS.  And since
+we're so far ahead of schedule, I can watch November's episodes  whenever I
+like....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 05 1994
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+
+     I am *not* teasing.
+
+     Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go watch "Chrysalis" again.
+
+                                 jm(live dangerous, die young)s
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 10 1994
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+
+     Cardz will be doing B5 trading cards.  Also, Creation Entertainment has
+expanded its B5 line to include several kinds of t-shirts, a black shirt with
+the B5 logo embroidered on it, and some rather nifty looking B5 mugs, black
+with a blue Babylon and a metallic silver 5 behind it, very nice.
+
+      (I'm told they want to put me on one of the trading cards...I'm not yet
+entirely sure how I feel about this, though I've said okay.  I keep hearing
+kids' voices in my head, "Trade you three jms cards for a Riker card.")
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     I think Creation does some mail order; and their conventions are
+nationwide.  I understand that the B5 shirts and stuff were among the bigger
+sellers at the San Diego Creation Con, last weekend.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 12 1994
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+
+     Yeah, I hear the value of ST #16 is edging up a bit because of the B5
+crossover element (and the ONLY time I will ever be involved with ST).  Don't
+know about the card's value, though I have one.
+
+     I'll have to check on the date of the Cardz B5 set; my guess would be
+this fall.  Lee, let me know what you find out re: Starland stuff.
+
+     Noticed on (I believe) another service a great exchange where someone was
+explaining the difference between TNG and B5: Go ahead, imagine Sinclair,
+Garibaldi and Ivanova being changed into children in this series.
+
+     Good point.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Nothing we can do about VO's, alas.
+
+     Still plan to be in Chicago.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 10 1994
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+
+     No indication now about any reruns of the pilot; but may have some good
+news soonish about the rerun schedule.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 01 1994
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+
+     About every couple of months, the question is raised about whether or not
+the starfuries fall correctly.  Everybody does the math, we go back and forth,
+and it ends up that yes, they fall correctly.
+
+                                          jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Johanna: because it wouldn't have worked.  As Dr. Hernandez noted, the
+growth is *massive* and *rooted*.  It had to be cut from the surrounding
+tissue, and *extracted*.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 14 1994
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+
+          Sigh...okay, okay, okay...it's just stupid, that's all, and it's as
+     much my fault for not seeing it as it is Foundation's for making it.
+It's
+     one of those little glitches that -- like a typo in a manuscript -- you
+     never see, even though you've looked at it a thousand times, until the
+day
+     you ship it off to the publisher, and BAM! there it is.
+
+          So...the day after we deliver the episode, I'm looking at it for the
+     ten zillionth time...and suddenly my head explodes and I rush into John
+     Copeland's office and yell "C'MERETAKEALOOKATTHISOHCRAP."
+
+          And I show him the shot where Jason Ironheart's ship eclipses a
+star.
+     "So?" says he.  "Watch the star," sez I.  And sure enough, you can
+     see the star THROUGH his ship.  "Oops," sez he.  "Oops," sez I.
+
+          So we've replaced that shot, but couldn't do so before it aired
+     the first time.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+     Excuse the glitches in the above; I got bumped while trying to leave the
+prior note, got back on, edited what was still in my program's memory, and
+thought it was okay.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+
+                                 ...sigh...
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     No, *you* may think there was no dramatic reason.  Only the writer can
+make that choice.  You have to look at how it feels best.  Maybe you wouldn't
+have written it that way.  That doesn't invalidate it.  Sorry.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     I believe G'Kar is about 50-60 in Earth terms, which is early middle age
+for Narns.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Yeah, I love the shot of Earthforce One...and the cobra bay area where
+they're working on the starfuries is also nicely done.  I think Jerry did a
+great job with this one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 05 1994
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+     Earthforce One can't fit in the docking bay; never did.  The shuttle
+bringing the president is shown leaving EF1, and the VO comments on the
+presidential shuttle being launched at the same time.  So no, it would never
+fit.
+
+     The capital/center of the Earth Alliance is Earthdome, for anyone who's
+interested.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+     (Oh, nearly forgot...it's located in Geneva.)
+

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+JMS Genie Message on May 07 1994
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+     I never said it was an isolationist president.  The reporter doing the
+commentary at the election talked about preserving earth culture in the face
+of growing alien influences, which isn't quite the same thing as cutting off
+trade agreements.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on May 08 1994
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+     Yes, the cobra bay shots were all CG, and in the last shot, only Lianna
+and *part* of the ladder are real; the rest is a virtual set.  And yes, we do
+plan to do more of this.  (And so far, in hundreds of messages, here and
+elsewhere, NO ONE else has noticed this.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 08 1994
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+     I have come up with a new name for nitpickers.
+
+     Skrrt-chasers.
+
+                                                   jm*skrrt*
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 14 1994
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+     Actually, to give credit where credit is due, SeaQuest has begun doing
+some stuff with virtual sets, including a shot in the "alien ship at the
+bottom of the sea" episode.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 13 1994
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+     The other wing is Zeta wing.
+
+     Since the episode has now been downlinked, folks who saw it at ICON can
+now jump into things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 14 1994
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+     Just as a note, that wasn't any kind of tribute to Galactica; that's
+simply how ack-ack guns or anti-aircraft (or spacecraft) guns work in terms of
+tracking a target.  BG probably based its actions on those same principles as
+well.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 14 1994
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+     If that is true, and I wasn't told, Mojo is going to have his tongue
+ripped out and served to him with french fries.  Lots of salt.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 07 1994
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+
+     The Rush Act only refers to unions, for the most part; it's not a wide-
+ranging law.  It was developed during the Earth/Minbari war to deal quickly
+and effectively with corporations or unions which were being difficult and
+otherwise holding up the war effort.  (The air traffic controllers union would
+be a good example of the government doing whatever it felt necessary to
+resolve the situation.)  The law grants extraordinary power to resolve any
+kind of strike or union action which endangers the operation of a military
+base or other military operation, as Zento states.
+ It applies only to that area, and remains on the books, though (as is also
+pointed out) it hasn't been used in a while.
+
+     Sinclair's decision is legal...but not politic, and it will come back as
+one of many decisions to haunt him in "Eyes."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 10 1994
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+
+     On the topic of "constructive criticism," Jose...there is a difference
+between "bad" and "I didn't like it."  A *lot* of people liked "Survivors,"
+and many who've seen "By Any Means" also liked it.  Something like, say, "Plan
+9" is simply bad...and those who like it admit that it's bad, and that's half
+the fun.  Many people really enjoy Fred Astaire musicals; much as I like the
+music from that period, I simply can't get into it.  That doesn't make it
+"bad."  When you dismiss something that many people like as "bad," you are
+basically calling them idiots.  Our opinions do not set us at the center of
+the universe.
+
+     Constructive criticism vs. name-calling.
+
+     Would be curious to know, though, what you found didn't work about the
+resolution to the G'Kar/Londo situation.  What I liked about it is that it's a
+genuine science-oriented solution to a story problem, working out the
+distance, vs. the speed of light, and finding a smart solution to the problem.
+It's airtight, as near as I can see.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 11 1994
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+     No, actually, I agree..."great" and "bad" fall into the same category as
+discussed above.  There are shows that I love intensely, which others can't
+*abide*.
+
+     As for happy endings...you want some variety, I think; we had a tough
+ending in "Believers," a bittersweet ending in "Survivors," and here things
+worked out for G'Kar and Connoly, but in a way did *not* work out for
+Sinclair.  He's going to be hearing about this decision of his again, in the
+not too distant future.  He's getting further and further behind the eight-
+ball with some of these decisions, and he's going to get hammered about it.
+
+     As for "Signs and Portents," I don't quite know *how* to characterize the
+ending on that one.  Someone gets what they wanted, but this may or may not be
+a good thing.  I'd say basically it has an ominous ending.  We do try to keep
+it a mixed bag...one person may achieve a niceness, but somebody else pays the
+price, or gets nailed.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Before this gets too far...the Oxford American Dictionary defines pagan
+as heathen...and heathen as someone not belonging to a respected, established,
+or major religion, or as someone lacking in cultured moral and ethical
+principles.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+     (A pagan is somebody who subscribes to somebody else's religion.)
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 14 1994
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+     I dunno...I think it was Asimov who said that SF "is whatever I point to
+and say, 'That's SF.'"  It takes place in the future, 250 years from now, on a
+space station, with laws that don't exist at this time, in a context not quite
+the present.  To use your form of categorization, then there are many stories
+in, for instance, "The Martian Chronicles" that don't qualify as SF.  Also,
+the solution to the G'Kar/Londo problem is a science-oriented solution that
+can *only* work in space, using lightspeed as an aspect of the solution.
+
+     Anyway, I've always thought that the discussion of what was or wasn't SF
+was kind of silly at the heart of it; like arguing over how many angels can
+dance on the head of a pin (the answer to which, by the way, is "As many as
+want to).  Serling created the Twilight Zone, and Roddenberry created Trek, to
+tell good stories that people could relate to.  Some were more SF than others.
+In some cases they simply changed the background of the characters from
+minorities to aliens.  The obligation of a writer is to tell a good story,
+first and foremost, and let others worry abou whether or not it fits the
+"rules" they have assembled for what is or is not SF...rules that will vary
+from person to person to person.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+     (Who just remembered that the other definition of SF is speculative
+fiction...and speculating about the future of unions, and labor laws, and
+government, and finance, is as legitimate as reversing the tachyon field to
+better differentiate the hyperdrive system diagnostics.)
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 18 1994
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+
+     At this juncture, you probably know as much or more about the CD Rom
+release as I do.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+
+     "What are you going to tease us with now?"
+
+     Nothing, I don't tease.
+
+     Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go print up the first few acts of the
+season two debut script, "Chrysalis, Part Two," which airs in... November.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     If you mean the planet beside B5, it's Epsilon 3.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
+     I'll be happy to answer the question as soon as you can define for me
+specifically what you mean when you say "soap opera."  Because it seems like
+no two people mean it the same way.  What you seem to be referring to in your
+message is characterization.  Maybe you couldn't care less about G'Kar's
+religious ceremony, but it shows a very different side of G'Kar than we've
+seen before.  That's important.
+
+     I've said it elsewhere, but I'll say it here: I've never bought into the
+strict definitions of what SF is.  If it happens in the future, on a space
+station, involving starships, it's SF.  And I'd also point out that the
+solution to G'Kar's and Londo's problem is a scientific solution using
+lightspeed at its core.
+
+     Also, I've always considered B5 speculative fiction, which isn't as
+narrow as hard-core/technobabble science fiction (or, more properly, some
+aspects of that area, since there has been a goodly amount of hard SF that
+I've enjoyed and continue to enjoy).  To me, SF (either way) isn't about the
+hardware, isn't about reversing the polarity on the tachyon emitter to reflux
+the framitz.  It's looking to the future, and positing social and political
+and religious questions.  How will society change by the year 2258?  How will
+the government work?  How will we handle the development of telepaths?  How
+will we get along with other life forms?   What will commerce be like?  That
+is an *absolutely* valid definition of SF that has been showcased in some of
+the best stories written in the SF genre.  I'd point you to "A Canticle for
+Liebowitz" as just one example of one of the most famous books in SF, without
+a *lick* of hardware/tech in it.
+
+     Some SF fans don't like emotion in their stories.  They don't like
+passion or people yelling or extremes.  They like their SF quiet and
+reasonable and comfortable.  I don't want B5 to be a comfortable show.  I
+don't want it to be spoken in a calm, reasonable voice.  I'm not in my office
+now, but I have several quotes on my walls there (I note this because I can't
+put author with quote from memory)..."Be uncomfortable.  Be sand, not oil, in
+the machinery of the world."  "The point of no return, that is the point that
+must be reached."
+
+     B5 is a show that, at its best, is written at a dead run, that takes us
+right to the edge.  That simply may not be your cup of tea.
+
+     Which, I suspect, is earl grey.  Hot.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     One thing that got somewhat short shrift this season were the personal
+stories of the humans.  We learn a *lot* more about the Minbari, for instance,
+than we really learn about Garibaldi, for instance.  So we're going to
+increase that side of things a bit, so people can get to know our characters a
+little better.  It's just doing a bit more for the humans what we did for the
+aliens.  And it's really time for that; we now have a pretty good idea who the
+alien players are by now...time to bolster the other side a bit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+
+ I have some news that must be imparted.  I think that the best way
+ to convey that news is to start at the end of the story, make my
+ way to the middle, and end at the beginning.
+
+ So: the end of the story.
+
+ Everything is okay.  Nothing major really changes.  All is well.
+
+ Now the middle of the story.
+
+ I've been asked, several times, what happens if something *happens*
+ to me, or one of the cast members, during the five year arc, since
+ this is a fully-worked-out novel.  Generally, I blow off the question
+ with humor.  But the truth is, obviously, I've taken every possible
+ step to make sure that no one is disappointed.  In my case, I've
+ made sure the story is available somewhere.
+
+ The trouble, of course, is that unlike writing a novel, where the
+ characters exist only on a sheet of paper, actors and writers are
+ some discussion on the best of days).  They can get sick, they can
+ get into contract disputes, they can be hit by meteors, they can
+ decide to buy a house in Cambridge and raise hedgehogs under an
+ assumed name.  There are, in short, *always* unpredictables in any
+ such endeavor.
+
+ Consequently, in drafting the story for Babylon 5, I made sure to
+ compensate for any possible changes.  For lack of a better term,
+ there is a "trap door" built into the storyline for every character.
+ Obviously, you don't want to lose anyone, but in *every* case any
+ such change momentarily shifts the story about ten degrees to one
+ side for a little bit, and then you're back on track again.
+
+ Case in point: Dr. Benjamin Kyle and Lyta Alexander.  Here are the
+ only two humans who have seen or scanned a Vorlon.  This is Very
+ Important to the storyline.  Alas, as later events unfolded, things
+ did not work out, and the characters were dropped...but their story
+ remained important, in that it was established that they were soon
+ afterward recalled to Earth under mysterious circumstances (as noted
+ in "War Prayer"), which actually *helps* the storyline in many ways.
+
+ This is not meant to sound callous.  As a writer, and as a producer,
+ it's my job to tell the story, to be responsible, and to make sure
+ every possible contingency is covered.  To do anything less would be
+ simply irresponsible.
+
+ Now to the beginning of the story.
+
+ Over the last few weeks, we've been re-activating our cast, making
+ the deals for the coming season.  One aspect of this has been a
+ series of conversations with Michael O'Hare.  Having produced one
+ full season, and having learned a lot, and having fine-tuned the
+ "saga" along the way, it was our goal to expand the show, bring in
+ some new characters, and take the show in some new directions, which
+ will prove quite interesting, I think.  (One sidelight to all this:
+ now that we've established the series, we'll be able to spend a bit
+ more time on personal stories, to let our audience learn more about
+ the characters, particularly the humans, who kinda got short shrift
+ this season.)
+
+ There is also the question, from an actor's point of view, about
+ other opportunities, any possible concern about typecasting, the
+ limitations of a continuing role (and the role of the commander
+ does have some definite "walls," giving more freedom in many ways
+ to other characters).  Now is the point where one needs to take
+ a breath and assess one's future, because the deeper we get into
+ the story, the more problematic it is to change things (though,
+ again, it's do-able, as noted above).
+
+ As a result of these discussions, it has been agreed that we will
+ have a separation, in the role of the commander.  Let me emphasize
+ this very clearly, so there is no chance of miscommunication: this
+ is a mutual, amicable, and friendly separation.  This isn't a Tasha
+ Yar situation.  Moreover, we will be handling this in such a way
+ that, down the road, Sinclair could potentially return to the story.
+
+ The character of Sinclair will achieve an important destiny, and the
+ mystery of the Battle of the Line will be explained, both in the
+ first episode of the new season.  His story will still track.  And
+ the series will still track precisely as planned.  I take pains to
+ mention this because both Michael and I want it clear that we both
+ believe in the show, and want this in no way to interfere with the
+ series.  He has asked me to convey for him his encouragement, his
+ best wishes, and to emphasize that this is, again, an amicable and
+ friendly separation.
+
+ He has said that he is happy to continue to do the conventions, to
+ promote the show, because he believes in it, and because he is an
+ important part of this season's success.  We can think of no
+ finer ambassador for Babylon 5 at conventions than Michael O'Hare.
+ He is a dynamite speaker, he cares about the fans of the show, and
+ his compassion shows.  We think he's a nifty guy.
+
+ On our part, we wish Michael only the very best.  We know that
+ he is very much in demand, and look forward to seeing him in other
+ projects over the next year.  This will also allow us to pursue some
+ new directions avenues for the show that will help to expedite the
+ overall story.  Sinclair disappearing for an indeterminate period
+ after the events of "Chrysalis" will allow us to tighten the screws
+ of the story, and heighten the tension of things going on in the
+ storyline.
+
+ If I can speak personally for a moment...those of you reading
+ this on-line know that I've always talked straight with you.  If
+ I thought this in *any* way would interfere with the story, you'd
+ hear about it from me loud and clear.  When problems have arisen in
+ the past, I've always spoken about them quite bluntly here (much
+ to the chagrin of some people).  This is okay.  We're all still
+ very much friends.  I speak frequently to Michael, and consider
+ him a friend, just as he considers me a friend.  This was a hard
+ decision, but we both knew that it was the right decision, for
+ very different reasons.  We both kinda came to the same place
+ at the same time from different directions.  We've got to do
+ what's right for the show, and for each other, and in many ways,
+ this does just that.
+
+ So both we on the show, and Michael are served by this mutual and
+ amicable separation.  We will go our separate ways for now, with
+ the possibility of meeting Sinclair again down the road a piece,
+ as Gandalf disappeared for a time into Mordor, only to return when
+ needed most.  (We will also be keeping the character of Sinclair
+ alive in the comic, and some of the planned novels, to keep that
+ option available to us.)
+
+ Once again, let me emphasize that the story continues on the path
+ that has been set for it, everything you learn this season sill
+ obtains, the show remains solid, with all of the other cast members
+ coming back for a new season, and that the saga of Babylon 5 will
+ continue to reveal itself exactly as planned.  And I hope you will
+ continue to stay with us for that journey.
+
+                                    Sincerely,
+                                    Joe Straczynski
+                                    Creator/Executive Producer
+                                    BABYLON 5
+
+

+
+
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+     BTW, could some friendly soul please repost the preceding message to
+Internet?  I've tried to do it from here, and can't get the darned interface
+to work.  Many thanks.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The arc remains untouched.  For starters, the arc as written was designed
+to emphasize the aliens and the Battle of the Line in season one; build the
+universe and set the pieces in motion.  Year two brings the humans into play
+in the universe that season one created.  There's a reason Morden didn't go to
+the Earth Alliance.
+
+     Let me be clear on this: *no* arc-related stories will be sacrificed, at
+all.  We're talking mainly in terms of B stories, not A stories.  Most of our
+season 1 B stories concentrated on the alien ambassadors; Ivanova really gets
+only two strong B stories, and some smaller ones; Delenn gets something like
+six.  It's just a question of finding the balance.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Thanks to all.  I'll convey what I can of this to Michael when I next
+speak to him.
+
+     Wayne...if your friends feel that way, then they must not like any show
+ever produced in the history of television, because *all* series get five year
+options on their cast.  That's considered pro forma.
+
+     What they, and to some extent you, fail to understand is that there is a
+difference between a *contract* for five years, and an *option* for five
+years.  The former is a guarantee; the latter is at the discretion of the
+producers, though in some cases, as we've just seen, an accommodation  can be
+reached.  An option means that the producer has the right, but not the
+obligation, to pick up an actor for another season.  There's plenty of room
+for random events.
+
+     Other than that, you can tell your pessimistic, insulting friends to get
+a life.  And I mean that in the best possible sense of the word.  I see no
+reason why I have to justify my show to them.  It is what it is.  If they like
+it, fine, if not, still fine.  If they don't like it, tell 'em to stop
+watching.  Nothing make me crazier than what I've seen on the Trek forums for
+all these years, of people who *hate* the show, but still watch every single
+episode just so they can go online and grump about it.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     I note this here only because it came up on CIS, and I'd kinda like to
+nip this in the bud.  Please don't take out any part of this on Michael.  If
+you're going to be upset with anyone, be upset with me, since in the final
+analysis, it's Doug and I who have to implement any decision, even when
+mutually made.
+
+     What happened at the beginning of the process is that we looked at the
+coming season, and said (as I've noted on another system), that in the second
+year, we can do X and Y, both of which are very cool.  But what if we did
+something unexpected?  What if we took a chance, and tried a slightly
+different direction, and set Sinclair aside for a while?  If we did that, we
+could still do X and Y...and we could *also* do Z...and Z is very, VERY
+interesting.  It opened up some very dramatic possibilities, allowing us to
+expand the series and heighten the tension level.
+
+     We talked to Michael, and he had some thoughts on this as well.  The
+result was, as stated, a *mutual* decision.
+
+     People here know how much B5 means to me.  I would never do anything, or
+allow anyone else to do anything, to harm it.  This is my baby.  And this is
+being done not because we will have to overcome this now somehow, but because
+in the final analysis we think this will help the show, and give Michael some
+flexibility as a side-effect.  I won't ask anyone to trust me, because in
+Hollywood, "trust me" is a euphemism at best.  But this will all work out.
+
+     In any event, though, if anyone's going to be upset in any way by this,
+please direct it toward me, not toward Michael.  Fundamentally, the
+responsibiliy rests on my shoulders, and Doug's.  But since Doug's not here,
+I'll take it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Obviously I can't say much about season two plans at this time, since
+doing so would destroy the intent of doing some things folks may not expect.
+All I can say is that the deeper we got into the series, and the more I *saw*
+the dynamics of the characters, the more I kept looking back and forth, from
+the Minbari to Sinclair, Sinclair to Minbari, and thinking...hmmm...y'know
+what'd be *real* neat...?
+
+     Which is all I can say on that for now...except to add that in any novel,
+there's always some surprises that the author didn't plan for, and the key is
+to be open to that.
+
+                                                    jms
+

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+     Delenn staying while Sinclair goes is part of WHY Sinclair goes and
+Delenn stays.  It's absolutely part and parcel.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Linda, you have not been suckered.  Whether or not you believe this, is
+something I can't help.  The story has not been sacrificed.  I would not be
+sitting here as calmly as I am if that were true.  I understand that you are
+upset.  But if you were caught up in the character, it's because the story
+*worked*.  You saw that there is a bigger story here, you saw the bits and
+pieces coming together.  So there *is* a story, and that story will continue.
+All I can ask is that you see what we're going to do, and judge that.  If I
+genuinely thought that the story was screwed, I'd leave the show.  Because the
+only reason to DO the show is to tell this story.  You have invested 13 hours
+into this story; I have invested seven *years*.  And you don't toss aside 7
+years because of an inconvenience.  The concept *is* what was sold to you.
+But again, nothing that I can say will likely convince you of this...just as
+nothing that I could say at the beginning could convince many people that we
+were serious about doing an adult SF series, that would rank with Trek.  (One
+person, prior to the election, upon hearing that ambition, snorted, "Yeah,
+right, and Clinton will be president.")  What I said then, I say now: watch,
+and judge from the reality.  Don't take my word for it.
+
+     And I'm still standing beside that promise to tell the story that I
+intend to tell.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Which is one of the interesting things I thought could be explored
+here...up until now, Garibaldi has always had someone who would believe him,
+back him up...how does he deal with someone new?  (Especially after the events
+in "Chrysalis;" you'll understand when you see it.)  For the most part,
+Garibaldi has been pretty self-assured; this, and one other incident, will
+knock the pins out from under him a little, which gives us some *very*
+interesting dynamics to explore, just for starters.
+
+for a while.  He has to go somewhere.  And at some point, at least in my
+planning, he will return from there.  This is far more about the character,
+and the characters *around* him.
+
+     Cyberdad: thanks.  That means a lot.
+
+     It's always interesting, if you have one character upon whom everyone
+else leans, even depends, to *remove* that character for a time.  Because then
+those characters have to *react*...to either stand or fall on their own.  It
+shakes things up a little...and vastly intensifies the characters.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     KB: thanks.
+
+     Rhonda: Claudia Christian's done a *lot* of stuff, mostly film, including
+"Hexed."  As for why Russian...that's in my blood, and I've rarely seen a
+Russian character really done *right*, not a cliche, not "Yes, ve invent
+everytink goot in world, da?" but the dark, pessimistic humor, the
+introspection, the formality, the heart and the doomed viewpoint that is so
+uniquely Russian.  So if you can't find it anywhere else, do it yourself.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Boy, I'm not sure where to start on all this.  So I'll take this in
+reverse order.
+
+     Tom, I'm not sure I see what your problem is.  The situation  concerning
+O'Hare is one that needed to be approached in a constructive fashion, not to
+alarm people, and to set the record as straight as possible.  Perhaps I've
+sounded like I'm trying too hard to be polite.   This is the only way I know
+how to react.  Perhaps I'm over-thinking the  writing.  I don't see a problem
+with this; it's just who and what I am.
+
+     And sometimes I have a tendency to respond to posters in the same tone of
+voice in which they address me.  I probably should be better about this, but
+when someone gets on and leaves an insulting or patronizing message, I fire
+back.  There is nothing in any agreement with GEnie in which it says I must be
+a sitting target.  I have never had a problem with constructive criticism --
+and there's been a lot of it -- or questions of any sort.  People here know
+that.  And I don't think I have to defend myself on that issue.
+
+     The rest of your concerns I really can't suss out from your message
+(which got rather pedantic itself in places, btw; be sure your own stuff
+doesn't do something before you take someone else to task on it) except that
+you don't like people reacting like people.
+
+     Now to turn my attention to Wayne's message....
+
+     Wayne, I don't mean this to sound harsh.  But I could give a flying f'
+what your friends think.  There is this small faction of SF, and of anime
+fans, who simply like to rag on other shows.  They sound very much like this
+group who will never, ever be satisfied by anything other than the one small
+narrow area which they have selected for legitimacy, and in whose relative (in
+American terms) obscurity gives them some kind of cachet.
+
+     I will not revise this show to appeal to Wayne's friends, and I will most
+*certainly* not doing anything as stupid (I'm simply being honest here with
+you, not attacking) as using gamers dice to determine who lives or dies in a
+show.  I'd much rather let the *story* do that.
+
+     What your friends don't seem to grasp is that there is a quantum
+difference between a live-action series and a cartoon.  (Call it anime all you
+want, it's still a cartoon.)  You can kill off a cartoon character, and it's
+not the same as killing a human character, which puts the actor out of work
+(whereas a voice actor dubbing someone just takes on another character), and
+more intimately violates the relationship between viewer and character.  I
+will admit that I have not seen as much japanese animation as I probably
+should, but I have found it singularly uninvolving and the characters flat,
+wrapped mainly around one or two characteristics, making them archetypes
+rather than real characters.
+
+     Live action and anime/cartoons are separate forms, with very different
+requirements.  I've worked in both, and the differences are profound.  You
+might as well start comparing stage plays with movies, and complaining that
+there aren't as many sets and exteriors in the stage play, and thus it can't
+compete with "world theater."  We're talking apples and oranges here.
+
+     You (or your friends) think that characters dying makes the show more
+real.  Wayne, it's *not* real.  It's a TeeVee show.  It's an illusion.
+ It's not real.  And maybe your friends (who are a touch macabre) think that
+dying makes a show real.  Well, that's their opinion, and they're entitled to
+it -- whacky as it sounds -- but people also live, too, in real life.  Police
+veterans and soldiers and ordinary folks very often live to a ripe old age.
+
+     It's also a question of what the show is *about*.  This show is not about
+who's going to die next.  This show is about how people react to some
+monumental changes around them.  It's the journey and the process.   Death is
+a rather abrupt end to the process.  Sure, you could've killed Aragon halfway
+through Lord of the Rings, but frankly I think that seeing him go all the way,
+and seeing his character change, and become the King, is one hell of a lot
+more interesting.  Dead is dead.  Dead is wormfood.
+
+     Anyone can kill a character.  That's the easiest, and cheapest way to
+pump up false drama in a story.  For me, it's more interesting to see  someone
+stay alive and *deal* with problems rather than just die.
+
+     They are trying to apply their own arbitrary quotas to this show that
+have *nothing* to do with the story that I'm trying to tell.  Personally, I
+think you're *far* too worried about what your friends think.
+
+     Finally, on the ethnic casting question...same thing.  You're trying to
+apply geopolitical and population survey figures to telling a story.   We
+don't cast *anyone* based on ethnic background.  We cast the best person to
+walk in the room.  Period.  Which has led to just about every romance on the
+show being between two different ethnic groups.  Further, Wayne, we don't
+*cast* out of the Whole World Population.  We make our show in Los Angeles,
+and our acting pool is drawn out of Los Angeles.  And sometimes you go around
+looking for an Indian actor, and you find a few good ones, but none of them
+are quite right for the part.  Now, do you cast someone who's wrong for the
+part, or adjust the part to the best actor?
+
+     I'm a writer.  I tell stories.  Your friends, and by proxy you, want to
+randomize, politicize, and make arbitrary how a story is done.  You (and/or
+they) want me to compare my show to Japanese cartoons, and try to play in
+their field rather than making our own playing field.
+
+     I'm not here to compete with japanese cartoons, or live up to your
+friends' notion of what is "World Television."  I'm telling my story, my way.
+And I encourage them to find a venue where they can tell their story their
+way.  But it's got nothing to do with me.
+
+     I hope this did not sound pedantic, or hostile, it's simply the reality
+of the situation.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Kiwi: I was referring to killing a major (or substantive) character, not
+killing a character in the course of a given story.
+
+     Rhonda: no, not Russian Jew.  Background is byelorussian, White Russian,
+with some polish in there somewhere.  Family came from a village named (I
+believe) Bogdanova, between Minsk and Pinsk (I wouldn't like about that) in
+the Carpathian mountains.  Anyway, that general area.  The family was
+catholic, not jewish.  I'm actually one one-and-a-half generation American.
+My grandparents came here from Europe, fleeing the Russian revolution, my
+father was born here, but lived much of his early life in Germany, Poland and
+Russia when he got caught there at the start of WW II in the blitzkrieg (on
+the run for years as an american).  Harlan keeps telling me that mine is a
+Horatio Alger story...kid from nowhere, immigrant family, goes to Hollywood
+and makes it big.  Sounds more exciting than it is, I suspect....
+
+                                                         jms
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+     Mr. T...actually, yes, we did audition a *lot* of Russian actors for the
+part.  And we had to go back and forth, do we want an accent or do we not want
+an accent?  Which kind of russian do we do?  Finally we simply fell back to
+our position of "Whoever walks into the room and blows us away gets the job."
+Claudia did that.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     BTW...while I'm on the topic...for anyone who wonders why I just sit and
+despair some days...I pass along to you the following, from the June 1994
+issue of Satellite ORBIT magazine, page 23, in a roundup of SF series.
+
+     "Deep Space Nine is remarkably close in theme and premise to another
+recent syndicated series, Babylon 5, probably because in Joe Straczynski, they
+share a writer-producer."
+
+     So just for starters, now I'm a writer-producer working on DS9.
+
+     "Michael O'Hare plays the station's commander, in the words of one wag,
+as if he were 'Lorne Greene under hypnosis.'"
+
+     This should start to give you a clue: if a reviewer has to quote another
+reviewer (I think that one came from People), it probably means he hasn't seen
+the show he or she is reviewing.  How can we now verify this?
+
+     "Even the presence of Claudia Christian, who plays Babylon 5's second in
+command with the worst Russian accent you've ever heard, can't redeem this
+one."
+
+     Okay, now, folks, maybe I'm confused, what do I know, I just created the
+show, I just executive produce the thing, I just see every frame of film a
+zillion times...but...am I nuts or am I correct in the notion that Claudia
+doesn't PLAY the part with an accent?  She doesn't DO a Russian accent.
+Anywhere.  Anytime.
+
+     This reviewer-critter, Art Durbano, has clearly never even SEEN an
+episode of the show, and can't even be bothered to get his facts straight.
+
+     We never get a break.  Ever.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     I have *always* considered life to be composed of equal parts terror,
+hope, pain and silliness.  So it shows in B5.
+
+     Janice: that's a *very* good question, and I think maybe we should answer
+it sometime.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I'm going to test myself, and see how much I can say without saying too
+much.
+
+     You have X-number of characters.  They're all in the same place.   You're
+trying to tell a story that has a great deal of scale, and covers all kinds of
+worlds, changing politics, alliances, on and on.  The question becomes, how do
+you *illustrate* that?  To use a line from the original Trek, when a mob guy
+is brought aboard the Enterprise, he says later, "All I saw was a room and
+five guys."
+
+     So now you start saying, "Hmmm...what if I remove Character A from the
+chessboard, and move him over *here* for a while?  He wasn't going to be doing
+much for the next little bit anyway.  And we won't just "deal" with that
+change, it's part of the story...it broadens out the story to include Place A
+*and* Place B.  It has repercussions down the road.  It comes up again in the
+future.  Elements from Place B now become known on Place A.  Character A may
+even make an occasional reappearance to keep us even more closely connected
+with Place B, which is necessary because Place B is very, very important."
+
+     What we have in mind here isn't quite comparable to anything that's been
+done before.  The character will still be alive.  The character will continue
+to have an impact on the story.  The character will be spotted from time to
+time.  The character will continue to show up in the comic and the novels.
+And through this move, you have the benefit of  substantially opening up the
+B5 universe, you help create the realignment of characters and loyalties that
+was anticipated for this season, and it helps kick over the tables, as we did
+in Chrysalis.
+
+     Just a slight refinement on the argument.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Here's a little sidelight for you.
+
+     As I've noted before, over the long haul, as you watch episodes, you will
+see things you didn't see before.  Sometimes they're clues, and sometimes
+they're comments which now read a different way than they did the first time
+you saw them.  There's been a number of the latter very subtly sprinkled
+through the episodes aired so far...lines that everyone jumped on as meaning
+one thing, but which will mean something else, and lines which nobody thought
+much of the first time out...but which will elicit a wince of irony later on.
+
+
+     There's a corker in "TKO," but at the moment, it's absolutely invisible.
+It's not a clue, it's not necessary for the story, it's just one of those
+things that, after you've seen all the rest of this season's episodes, you
+will go "Ouch," when you see it next.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     David: "The Quality of Mercy" title is drawn from the same source as
+Compton's book, Shakespeare.  It has a lot to do with that episode.
+
+     Probably the pilot movie won't be shown again this year, which again is
+actually to the good.  Not much you really need to know from that one to enjoy
+the rest.  (And I think it'll be out on tape eventually.)
+
+     Haven't heard final word yet on the schedule, but that looks right so
+far.
+
+     A little something for your perusal, given recent discussions on
+religion.
+
+     Here's something interesting for y'all...and I wonder very much if the
+news media is gonna cover this or not.
+
+     Before I retire at the end of the day, I go out and watch TV to come down
+a bit.  I cannot just go from the keyboard to bed, I *hate* that.  So about
+1:45 this morning, I settle down in front of the set, and I'm flipping
+channels.  I come across the Trinity Broadcasting Channel, and I stop, because
+the three guys on the screen look actually honestly *scared* by something.  I
+pause and listen.  One of them is saying that they should pray for the
+president.  Now my first thought is, "Ohmygod, something's happened to
+Clinton."  But it doesn't feel right, so I stay a bit longer.
+
+     Now I had to put a lot of this together from the pieces of what they were
+saying, but after about half an hour, enough pieces were there to make sense
+of the conversation.  Apparently, an hour or two before, they had had a guest
+evangelist on (whose name was *never* used during the period I was watching,
+they would only refer to him as their distinguished brother), giving his guest
+speech.
+
+     Well, apparently the evangelist was decrying the state of the country,
+and Clinton signing the anti-abortion protest bill, and declared something to
+the effect that Clinton was the manifestation of the evil in the land, and
+that God had given this evangelist a prophecy that on June 9, the evil in the
+White House would be struck down.
+
+     He was saying that on June 9, Clinton would be killed in answer for his
+crimes against christianity, as near as I could determine.
+
+     My jaw is now squarely on the floor.  And these three guys who followed
+that segment are doing damage control.  And they're clearly scared, because
+making a threat against the president is a federal offense, "prophecy" or no.
+They had to find ways to diminish the prophecy without diminishing the
+prophet, their "distinguished brother."  So they brought Nehemiah into the
+discussion, and how his prophecy that the city would fall in 40 days turned
+out not to happen because the people repented, and so some prophecies
+
+     And one of the three was saying that the worst thing for the church in
+this country would be for some "religious nut" (his own words) to decide that
+he was the instrument of this prophecy, and kill or try to kill the president.
+He also seemed upset with some groups in the christian community who had gone
+too far, and were going to have to be slapped down.
+
+     It was the single most riveting forty-five mintutes I have spent in front
+of the TV, watching these people, knowing who their audience is, knowing that
+if anything happened they'd be called to task for it, knowing the possible
+consequences, *trying* desperately to talk some of the more, shall we say,
+eccentric viewers of this kind of programming out of killing the president.
+*Without* saying that the "prophet" who after all they just put on their
+network...was a nutcase.
+
+     Now, again, this went out on national TeeVee last night/early this
+morning.  I'm gonna be REAL curious to see if the news media picks up on this
+one.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

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+     Actually, we kinda thought that major intersections like that would have
+light-grids in the floors (there are arrows pointing the way to various
+intersecting corridors) all over the place.  Hence why we didn't change them.
+
+     One problem with putting in a different, replaceable "floor" is the noise
+hassle.  The natural floor is reinforced, and *quiet* when you walk on it.
+Any overlay (or underlay) is going to result in bounceback and creaking and
+other audio problems that'll require dubbing in post.
+
+      But we'll look at it again, and see what else we can do here.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+     "Chrysalis, Part Two" will probably be the first shot, and it will be
+201.
+
+     None of the scripts mentioned were actually completed last season, and
+will have to be considered.  Certainly Harlan's working on his "Demon" script
+even as we speak.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I probably could've tried to sell it as just part of the story...and
+would be lying if I said I hadn't briefly considered it.  But it's just what
+it is: a fabrication.  Better to take it on the chin and get it over with....
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+     We won't know more about casting until we've got scripts in hand to begin
+that process.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+     That's a long trip, and we ain't gonna get the Hugo, so I may not make
+the trip, since we'll be hip-deep in production at the time.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Mutari are aliens who fight in the Mutai.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on May 26 1994
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+     He didn't exactly become a disembodied voice...he moved away down one of
+the two intersecting corridors, and called back.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+
+     Since apparently this info was broken in the latest June Locus, I can now
+mention that Dell will be doing the first batch of B5 original novels later
+this fall.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I'm working to develop outlines/premises for the novels that will allow
+them to be part of B5 canon, same as the comic.  These will then bde (be)
+assigned out.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     I suggested a novel set in the Line, but the editor felt that at first,
+to help marketing the novels should be set in the B5 present; that fans will
+be disappointed and not buy books if they're not using all of the characters
+in their current situation.  At least, that seems to be her take for the first
+batch, but down the road she has no problem with the idea.
+
+                                                                jms
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+

+
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+
+     Zima didn't pay us any money to do that, we just kinda thought it was
+funny....
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+
+     BTW, that's not just a painting.  If you look at the garden shot after
+Ivanova leaves, you can see motion in the upper right corner, as garden
+trackers move along the inner hull.
+
+                                                             jms
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+

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+
+     Larry wrote the shiva stuff all on his lonesome.  As for being an
+abbreviated version...apparently shiva lasts 3 days for someone recently
+
+deceased.  If it's been months since the death, the service is usually much
+shorter, and again, there was only Ivanova and Koslov who actually were part
+of or knew the deceased.
+
+                                                              jms
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+

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+
+     BTW, there's an interesting couple of articles about this episode in this
+week's Jewish Journal, for another perspective on the show.
+
+                                                            jms
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+

+
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+
+     There were a number of reasons for changing prosthetics people, the main
+one being that we felt that Optic Nerve could deliver more reliably on a
+series basis, given the size and scope of this project.
+
+     And you've got at least two more really alien aliens coming up this
+season....
+
+     (I'm told that shiva need not last 7 full days, if the death was not
+recent, and if the body has already been buried.)
+
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Gary: I just don't think that's workable, and in any event, we were
+planning to rotate the voice-over between cast members.
+
+     Brett: the one I wrote while utterly sick with the flu was, as I dimly
+recall, "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Note to the above: I most emphatically didn't work on the V series; I
+thought it was awful for the most part, except for the mini-series that
+launched it.  (We didn't call it V2 for nothing, he said.)  I wrote a new 4-
+hour miniseries that was to have launched a revived syndicated series closer
+in intent and theme to the original minseries.  It proved too expensive for
+the syndication market, however, and was never produced (though the first 3
+acts are in one of the libraries hereabout).
+
+     Only marginally appropos to the preceding...I lurk on a lot of BBS
+systems, regional and national, 'cause I find that my presence being known can
+affect the discussion, and it's nice to have a "control group," or two, for
+lack of a better term.  And I'm amazed at the amount of misinformation out
+there, preceded by "JMS said...."
+
+     There's "Joe said a homeworld would be destroyed in the cliffhanger,"
+which I didn't say; "Joe said that the Minbari change sex," which I never
+said, and was only implied by our casting initially a female to play a male
+character.  It was sorta assumed, and became accepted, but it was never said.
+(Going with this is, "Joe never referred to Delennin the pilot as "she."
+Which isn't correct; a tech calls to Sinclair and tells him Delenn wants to
+see him.  "She's in the garden," the tech says.)
+
+     There's the rumor that Sinclair left the show, and I'm trying to cover my
+ass (we have options on all our cast, sorry)...the rumor that Michael was
+fired for bad acting (which is easily enough resolved: we will be shooting a
+scene in the next few weeks with Sinclair, which will show up *midway* through
+the first season, and will lay down the foundation for more in the future,
+something you don't do if it's "bad acting").
+
+     I'm not dismayed, just astonished; it's like the ultimate game of
+telephone, with lots of people wanting to be the *first* to give some kind of
+information, backing it up with vague sources, or attributing them to JMS
+comments that were never made.
+
+     I would love, someday, to diagram all this stuff out and just watch the
+progression of it all....
+
+     Anyway, just woolgathering in-between the religious discussions....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     I spoke incorrectly; the scene will be used in year two, not year one.
+
+     We're trying to get them to move the showing of Chrysalis back into
+August, with the rest of the year 1 episodes, rather than just before the
+start of year two.  Warners logic behind that is their belief that a) they can
+generate more publicity for the new season, which will spill into Chrysalis
+and thus get more people to see it, making kind of an event out of it, and b)
+the HUT (households using televisions) for August are notoriously low, so they
+feel it would be wasting what's probably our strongest episodes.
+
+     But I'd still prefer to see it in August, and we're still trying to nudge
+Warners in that direction.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Cindy...yes, it's the characters that keep us coming back.   I created
+Sinclair.  I made him interesting to the audience.  (I'm not trying to take
+away from the performance of the actor, I'm talking about the *character* per
+se, his dialogue, his past, his phraseology, his interests, everything that
+makes him what he is.)  You found him to be of interest.  That's good, because
+he didn't just land here on the back of an asteroid, Sinclair was
+*created*...the same way I created Kosh, and Garibaldi, and Delenn, and Londo,
+and G'Kar, and Ivanova....
+
+     Those, judging from reactions, are interesting characters.  What makes
+you think that this new character to enter the mix is going to be a shlub?
+They all come from the same pen.  Or keyboard, in this case.  YOU, as I
+recall, kept pushing to shove Takashima out an airlock and bring in someone
+else...even though there were lots of people who *liked* Tamlyn in that role.
+They're all replaceable, you said.
+
+     This isn't a case of someone else taking over Person A's show and
+changing everything around.  These are my characters.  My universe.  And you
+can be sure that the new character will be every bit as interesting all all
+the OTHER characters.
+
+     I just kinda wish people would allow the time and space to actually SEE
+what we have in mind before judging if it's going to work or not.  A lot of
+people pronounced us dead after the pilot.  We made some changes, came back,
+and the series was *considerably* better than the pilot (which you yourself
+said, Cindy, in part because of some character replacements that *you* thought
+would help the show [though that wasn't why they were made]).  Even those who
+*liked* Takashima, and Dr. Kyle, and who said that as far as they were
+concerned if those characters were gone the show was gonna be crap, even THEY
+have come around.
+
+     Our first year of the series was a jump in quality over the pilot.   And
+our second year will be a jump in quality over the first year.  We took a
+blood oath to make this show consistently better.  All I can say, again, is
+what was said when we made changes from the pilot: wait and see what it is
+we're doing before you judge.
+
+     I haven't suddenly developed Alzheimer's or gotten stupid or been
+possessed by a moron.  The characters that appear in this show will continue
+to be as interesting as the first batch.  I don't tend to pull rank very
+often, because it's a stupid and petty and arrogant thing to do...but if you
+like Kosh's enigmatic attitude, it's because I wrote it that way (or my
+writers) and created him to be enigmatic; if you like that Sinclair has a
+missing 24 hours, it's because I decided he did...on and on.  Sometimes I get
+a little tired of this sense I get that people see these characters as having
+sprung fully-developed from the brow of Zeus, and that I'm yanking one out to
+put in some dumb character *I* came up with.
+
+     I'm not asking anyone to take my word for anything, only to maybe cut a
+guy a little slack until you actually *see* what's going to be done, and to
+kinda remember that I came up with these guys to *start* with, and that
+nothing new in the show will be any less interesting than that which precedes
+it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Thanks, Tom, and really, c'mon, Pee Wee Herman'll make a GREAT
+commander....
+
+                                                    jm(trust me)s
+

+
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+
+     It's my understanding that some or all of the Lightwave software is being
+adjusted for a Dos platform, and that Foundation will be more or less
+unaffected by the problem in the long run, though I imagine there will have to
+be some short-run transitional hassles.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     I've always thought that the kind of people who read the last page of a
+book should have their thumbs pinned into one of those chinese thumb-traps,
+then sent into the Nairobi desert to fend for themselves.
+
+     At least that way, we'll *both* know how it ends....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I'm still reasonably sure that's what I was told about LW...but then
+again, at many of these discussions, I fall asleep and pitch forward onto the
+desk, so there you are.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Bits and pieces...heard today from Jim Norton, who plays our Ombuds on
+the show, and is currently in England doing a documentary about Gen.
+Montgomery (playing the lead), who was wearing his B5 jacket on Kings Road,
+and just about got mobbed by people.  Apparently the show is going over well.
+
+     Assignments are being made, scripts are in the works.  First draft on
+"Chrysalis, Part Two" is in (JMS), and Larry's working on "A Trick of the
+Mind" and DC's working on "A Distant Star."
+
+     We're doing a pretty fair amount of rethinking on some of our sets and
+costumes, again looking to improve them as much as we can from season to
+season without making major changes.  We'll be doing more with set dressing,
+making it more layered and personal; building some new sets to let us explore
+other sides of our characters' lives; coming up with new costume designs for
+some of the new characters coming in this season, that sort of thing.
+
+     New production schedule came out, and it looks like if we begin shooting
+on July 18 we'll be delivering episodes several months before they're due to
+air.  So we're giving some thought to starting filming a couple weeks later,
+just to give us more time to tinker with the sets and costumes without having
+to rush.  There's a couple of sets in particular that we'll be creating for
+the first couple of episodes we shoot, and the extra time could be useful in
+getting them just right, since they're fairly elaborate.  (And Londo gets a
+new coat this season!)
+ I'll probably have a bit more to say about the new additions to the cast
+later on.  Not regulars, but recurring (6 episodes or so) characters.
+
+     Today went down to Sotheby's in Beverly Hills to look at their stuff for
+their newest auction, mainly comics stuff.  Got the auction catalog, brought
+it home, started marking pages...wish lists...walked out to where Kathryn was
+watching the NBA game..."So, like, exactly how do you feel about a second
+mortgage?"
+
+     Such a look.....
+
+     Sigh...I've long described myself as a collector of Superman stuff.
+HAH!  Trinkets.  There's some SERIOUS stuff out there, boys and girls.
+
+     Bottom line...I'm doomed as doomed can be....
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     BTW, for those in the San Diego area, Harlan Ellison will be signing
+books this coming Saturday from 2-5 p.m. at Mysterious Galaxy Books, in the
+Claremont Square Shopping Center, 4679 Claremont Square.  And at 6 p.m., he
+will read a new short story to an audience of those who've bought Mephisto in
+Onyx or Mind Fields *and* purchased $25 in books from the store.
+
+     I'll be there as well, on and off starting about 2, though Harlan is the
+main show.  Any GEIs who want to buy some stuff and come by are of course
+welcome.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Alas, corridor walls that curve in make lighting and setting up camera
+angles VERY difficult.
+
+     At this point, not much in the way of new aliens planned; we'd like to
+get away from the alien-of-the-week story (which though we didn't do it a
+*lot*, we did it enough that I want to edge away from it a bit), and
+concentrate on the aliens we already have.  If you just keep on throwing new
+aliens into the mix, soon it loses all impact.  We decided to try a whole
+bunch of aliens over season one, and pick the ones that worked, which we would
+then work to refine and integrate more fully into the storyline.   Right now,
+I think we've got about 15 races in addition to our primary groups (Narn,
+Minbari, Centauri).  Concomitant with this, we'll be working to make the
+prosthetics far more detailed and better able to be used in a dramatic
+context.
+
+     We scattergunned a lot in season one; now is the time to adjust, refine,
+focus and improve.  We'll still do the occasional new group, I  just don't
+want that to begin driving the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     The vaguely cthulhoid creature to which you refer is a pak'ma'ra.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     The only things we're doing to the uniforms is adjusting the dress
+uniforms a bit, and adding a bit of seam to the back of the class-A day
+jackets to help them fit a little better, and a bit of slightly different
+piping along the leather collars so they'll read better on camera.  Also we'll
+be making a new set out of a slightly more durable and comfortable gabardine
+than last season.
+
+     Re: production...each episode shoots in 7 days, and yes, when one show
+comes in under the pattern budget (which often happens), we then  apply that
+to other shows.  We came in a bit under budget for the full season, and have
+applied that bit to next season's budget to give us a bit more room to play.
+
+     I write 10-20 pages a day, usually on more than one script or project at
+the same time.  Net messages in total add proably another 5-7 pages a day to
+the list.  (Currently doing 2 B5 scripts, revising a 2-hour pilot for another
+series, editing others, awaiting word on an outline for a third pilot, and
+some other stuff.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Argus: of course there are capital ships.  We never said otherwise.
+There's one later this season, for instance, the EAS Hyperion, a heavy Earth
+cruiser.  There aren't as many as they'd like -- the majority having been
+wiped out in the war -- but they're building 'em as fast as possible.  (The
+Hyperion, though it's never mentioned, is one of the leftover capital ships,
+not one of the newer ones.)
+
+     The uniforms are *not* being changed dramatically, only nipped and tucked
+and tweaked slightly to make them fit better and come across slightly better
+on-camera, so some details that're being lost now pop better.
+
+     Re: starfury pilots...some of it is actors in cockpit against a blue
+screen, some of it CGI pilots with faces mapped onto them.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     We do see some EA military types from time to time (it was an EA marine
+who kept trying to pick up on ko'dath in "Purple").  And next season there'll
+be a bit more of that, with more supplies and people being moved out to the
+Rim, and stopping off at B5 en route.
+
+     Re: Babylon...while it didn't end up well, for a long time Babylon was a
+center of commerce and industry, an important crossroads.  The name translated
+means "the Gate of God," which has double meaning when attached to the
+jumpgate outside.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     BTW...appropos of nothing...I would urge all and sundry to check out the
+CBS special, "Murrow Vs. McCarthy," Wednesday night at 10/9 central.   If you
+don't know who those two people are/were, all the more reason to watch.  Some
+lessons must never be forgotten.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Err...insofar as I know, "I'm Thinking of Thinking" was not an old music
+hall song.  It was composed by Christopher Franke for us.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I'll probably be able to say more about the new actor in a couple of
+weeks.
+
+     And yes, Ivanova was born on Earth, in the Russian Consortium, though she
+was educated in large measure overseas.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     A *lot* of background on the characters appears in the faq file, which I
+believe is available here.
+
+     Wouldn't be surprised to see a B5 tech manual sometime next year os (or)
+so.
+
+     Workers employed on B5 earn a weekly salary, paid in earth standard
+credits.  Anyone coming from another culture/system with a different financial
+structure is handled as you would handle going from the US to Germany.  You
+turn over your Drazi currency, and are given a credit chit which is charged
+with X-amount of EA credits, based on the current rate of exchange.  If your
+system is not recognized by EA, things get a little dicier, and you may be
+forced to resort to barter.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     dj...you can tell your spouse that one of my pet bugaboos is loose
+threads left dangling.  I tend to write pretty tightly, and don't like to
+leave things unresolved too long.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     I read Bugs' note, and to his considerable credit, he had pieced together
+a *lot* of stuff.  Moreso than has just about anyone else to date.  It
+ultimately led him to make one final leap that took him onto the wrong track,
+so the destination was in error, but he had done his homework, thought things
+through, and was very much on the right track.   There's just some stuff that
+can't be predicted because the necessary pieces aren't all on the table yet.
+
+     So good thinking, excellent deductions, careful consideration, just off
+by a few decimals.  It is, I suppose, the difference between E=MC2 and E=MC3;
+you kinda had to know where you were going and what you were doing to get that
+far, but the bomb still ain't gonna work.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     I don't think I've really said that much about "Grail."  The trick,
+though, is that I don't approach the episodes in quite the same way that a
+viewer does.  I have somewhat different agendas and goals, and there are times
+when hassles in *doing* the episode -- which in no way affect the show itself -
+- affects my *perception* of the episode.
+
+     I did a small screening of "Grail" here about a week ago, to get some
+other reactions, and they were all very positive; they enjoyed the episode
+quite a bit.  (Similarly, there were people who thought that "Infection" was
+one of the best of the season.)  There is *no one* who is harsher in
+critiquing the episodes than I am.  I want each one to be absolutely perfect.
+And sometimes that means that I see flaws that no one else ever will.
+
+     In any event, I definitely want people to come at this from an open
+minded point of view.  For reasons that have nothing to do with Christy's
+script, it still isn't one of my all-time favorite episodes; if I said
+otherwise, I'd be lying through my teeth.  But different opinions are what
+makes horse races, and as stated, most of those who've seen it so far *do*
+like it, so at the moment I'm considerably outnumbered....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Arne, let me respectfully disagree with you.  An occasional typo is one
+thing; sometimes there can be SO many typos in someone's message that it
+becomes twice as hard to read, it can get annoying, and if the author's intent
+was to say X, a lot of typos can result in communicating Y, or people simply
+not bothering to read it at all.
+
+     "core shuttkle...lety me anylyse...teh shodows...seeming huige...on te'he
+ground...there was abotyher...teh distant...prettyh bnut...."
+
+     Granted, it's a prejudice, but this sort of thing also makes the writer
+look illiterate, though clearly he is not, but that nonetheless prejudices the
+reader, and diminishes the impact of the message.  There is nothing wrong with
+occasional correction; that's one of the problems with SF fandom in general, I
+think...no one ever dares to correct anyone else.
+
+     If I can come on here and take comments criticizing my show, then I think
+that someone critiquing the effects in my show can take a little critiquing of
+his message, done in a positive way.  If he can't take a note or two, then he
+can tell us.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Yes, insofar as can be determined (deals are finalizing tomorrow), all
+other cast members are returning.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Desiree...you were in *second grade*?
+
+     I suddenly feel very, very, very old....
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     Ivanova is exactly who she is; she's not being feminine or tough because
+somebody told her to be.  To call her a "women's liberation activist" in this
+context, where it isn't an issue anymore, is like pointing to any african-
+american without shackles and saying he's an "anti-slavery activist."  Any
+chains she has, she forged herself; they are not the ones society on one side
+or the other forced on her.
+
+     Re: space exploration...I feel much the same way.  Thing is, of course,
+the SF of the 50s and early 60s, really the golden age of SF, fed the popular
+consciousness with the idea of space travel, which culminated  in a general
+awareness, and an urge to try it.  It's the role of SF to nudge people in the
+right direction.  If more and more TV and print points to the future, and to
+the stars, it may help wake people up to that possibility.
+
+     If you make them *want* it today, they will build it tomorrow.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     If it were me, and I wanted to have a bit of fun with this, I'd use:
+
+     "Sooner or later, everyone watches Babylon 5."
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     They are...all around you.
+
+     And if they ate more fiber, they wouldn't *have* this problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     I keep constantly fighting the urge to have G'Kar return from a trip to
+the Narn homeworld with a limp, a cane, and a (temporary) eyepatch, muttering,
+"Boy, the Thenta Makur have *no* sense of humor."
+
+     (Now we'll see how many get *that* one.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I dread the very idea of what will happen in this topic after folks
+discover what the pak'ma'ra are....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+
+     In the two-parter, Delenn has quite a few moments when she's laughing,
+and funny, but always in a dignified fashion; it's a strange but very
+appealing combination.  (And there's one scene she's in that is played
+*absolutely* straight, but is fall-down funny.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I think that the point he was going after in his original posting is that
+some -- a very few -- take a *proprietary* stance, which I would differentiate
+from criticism (pro or con) in terms of the sense of perceived ownership.
+There are a few ST fans, for instance, who feel, and even state to the effect,
+that as fans they *own* the show.  There was the person who said that he has
+the *right* to *dictate changes* in the show (B5) because he watched it.  And
+the answer to that in both cases is, No, you don't.
+
+     There is a small section of the fan community that will applaud you for
+standing up to and resisting input from the suits, the studios, and the
+network, and then turn *very* cranky when you similarly resist THEIR input,
+because THEY own the show.
+
+     This line becomes somewhat easier to cross when someone from the show
+makes himself available for such things.
+
+     I think that this was the point at hand, rather than criticism vs.
+praise.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I agree, it isn't prevalent.  Sometimes though it can be noisy out of all
+proportion to its size.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 08 1994
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+     Re: authors here "inhibiting" criticism by virtue of their presence....
+nope.  There's generally 50% more criticism of B5 on those systems where I'm
+known to be present than on those systems where I just lurk.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 09 1994
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+     Not true; I am as gentle as a kitten just as long as someone doesn't go
+out of his way to fuq with me.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 15 1994
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+     The extra footage helps the Abyss a *lot*.
+
+                                                         jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 01 1994
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+     We're discussing it in-house.  Claudia's willing to do it.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 08 1994
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+     Yeah...well...we went a little nuts....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 09 1994
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+     I don't think they have time for that kind of heavy-duty rendering; the
+closest they ever got (at least that *I'm* aware of) is a composite shot
+looking through the observation dome window from the outside, to where Ren
+Hoek is strangling Stimpy inside.  (It's a gif.)  And no, you can't have it.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 13 1994
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+     "Terminal Velocity," a newspaper-stock magazine published out of San
+Diego, and available free there, just did a cover story on B5's EFX.  For more
+info, call 619-487-9589.
+
+                                                          jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 03 1994
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+     Yikes...and people say *I've* got an evil mind....
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 05 1994
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+     Jump gates are formed in a particular location within a margin of error;
+it's not like throwing a newspaper at a door.  The gate might form in front or
+behind.
+
+     How many ship-mounted generators (which are inside the hull) have you
+seen to be able to say that they can be of any shape?  How do you know they're
+different shapes?  To my knowledge, we've never shown a ship-mounted
+generator.
+
+     A ship-mounted generator can open a fairly small opening, and do it maybe
+twice or three times within a 24 hour period or so, because of the massive
+energy requirements involved.  The rails and chargers along the way are
+designed to facilitate a *lot* of travel in and out during a day, and to make
+the entry a little easier, not as abrupt as a ship-mounted jump.
+
+     We simply haven't shown a jump gate from the side or back yet.  We have
+talked about this at some length, and probably will do so at one point next
+season.
+
+     Why doesn't it manifest itself as a sphere, and why a vortex?  Because
+the rails are at opposite sides one from the other.  They project out opposing
+lines of force which in repelling one another create a tunnel into hyperspace.
+The lines of force on a ship-mounted system are not visible to the human eye,
+and are less stable, hence more uncomfortable when entering (see above).
+
+     In-gates and out-gates *are* identical.  The only difference is in
+coloration, based on red-shift.
+
+     The vortex is *not* an energy booster, which answers that question.
+
+     Seems to me that most of your questions come from incorrect assumptions
+and insufficent consideration of the issues at hand, not really thinking
+things through, rather than logical or scientific flaws on our part.
+
+     Just one man's opinion.
+
+     But it's canon.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 06 1994
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+     Absolutely.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 12 1994
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+     Currently, to the best of my knowledge, no company has officially
+licensed a B5 RPG, but I'd definitely be interested in seeing it happen.
+
+                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 10 1994
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+     Yeah, those senatorial funding committees are a real pain in the
+ass...the station doesn't have *half* of what it should have.  Now, B4 had
+EVERYthing...too bad it disappeared....
+
+                                                       jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 11 1994
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+     Bear in mind, though, when suggesting all this heavy weaponry, that
+Babylon 5 is not a warship.  It's not that major a target.  It generally has
+enough to protect itself against small forces.  If full-scale war were to
+break loose, *nothing* could protect it from a fleet of ships, since it can't
+maneuver and is basically a sitting duck.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 12 1994
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+     This season you will see missiles, more Narn heavy cruisers, more Narn
+capital ships, a Narn military outpost, and lots of closer shots of a Minbari
+cruiser.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 13 1994
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+     No, only some of it....
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+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 06 1994
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+     It's just that I *hate* losing in public.  I've now been nominated for
+four awards: an Ace Award, a Bram Stoker award, a Gemini award, and a Writers
+Guild award, each for writing.  And you just go nuts, you at first don't even
+want to consider winning, then the closer you get to the event you think,
+well, hell, I've got as good a chance of winning as  anybody else...then you
+wait...and you're there, they're opening the envelope...and you're thinking
+maybe, maybe it IS me...no it's not...but it might be...and it ain't...and I
+just *hate* that.
+
+     On the other hand, as I think about it, you go through the same thing
+winning in public.
+
+     That's it.  I'm doomed.  The universe hates me.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 15 1994
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+     BTW...appropos of nothing...I would urge all and sundry to check out the
+CBS special, "Murrow Vs. McCarthy," Wednesday night at 10/9 central.   If you
+don't know who those two people are/were, all the more reason to watch.  Some
+lessons must never be forgotten.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Here's just how stupid and tragic and destructive that period in our
+history was, and how it affected somebody.
+
+     I have a friend named Norman Corwin.  Some of you, probably the older
+ones, will recognize the name; most won't.  Which is the greatest tragedy of
+all.
+
+     During the height of the radio drama period, Norman Corwin was *the* pre-
+eminent radio drama writer, more widely listened to and respected than Orson
+Welles, Arch Oboler or anyone else in the field.  There was simply no one
+bigger.  He wrote comedies and dramas and jerimiads; when the UN needed a
+cantata to symbolize their goals, they came to Norman; when the Germans
+surrendered on VE day, our nation turned to Norman to write a piece that was
+the ONLY radio broadcast/drama aired on all three radio networks, "On a Note
+of Triumph."  He worked with the greatest stars of our country...Humphrey
+Bogart, Clark Gable, and a list of our  greatest film and radio stars.
+
+     He was, not to put too fine a point on it...*it*.  You couldn't get much
+higher.
+
+     Then came McCarthy, and his vile, paranoid, list-making progeny, who
+deepened the wound in our nation's heart by multiplying it.  One such bastard
+stepchild was a sleazy little rag called "Red Channels" (you get one guess
+what the Red stood for).  It was published by the owner of a chain of
+supermarkets.  Not a senator, not a congressman, not an FBI guy or anyone
+elected to high office...the owner of a supermarket chain, who felt it his god-
+given obligation to ferret out commies...meaning whoever he didn't much like.
+
+     One issue of "Red Channels" included Norman Corwin's name in among the
+lists and lists of names...since after all, he had spoken well of Russia
+during World War II...in documentaries *commissioned by our own government* to
+further our alliance against the Nazis.  But no matter that he was asked to do
+it by his nation, no matter that we were allies once, if you spoke in *any*
+way well of the Russian people...you were either a commie or a commie-
+sympathizer.
+
+     Norman was not blacklisted; that's what happened to those poor hapless
+saps who went before McCarthy hoping for a square deal.  Norman was *grey-
+listed*, not even accused, not summoned, but the fear of the time was so
+palpable that even that one allegation was enough.
+
+     And Norman's career...stopped.
+
+     I cannot think of this without getting so angry that I can barely see the
+monitor.
+
+     If you don't know the work of Norman Corwin, go to your nearest local
+library and look for his books, if they still have them.  Look for any
+recordings of his radio dramas, particularly "On a Note of Triumph," which is
+probably in the hands of university libraries.  If you want some small measure
+of his influence on other writers, pick up a copy of "13 For Corwin," from
+Barricade Books, where this man is celebrated in essays by Ray Bradbury, Studs
+Terkel, Charles Kuralt, Norman Lear, Norman Cousins, Erik Barnouw, Philip
+Dunne, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, among others.  Ask Walter Cronkite
+what Norman meant to him.  Ask Ray about how he began his career as a writer
+trying to write like Norman Corwin.
+
+     Norman is currently in his early 80s.  He continues to write, and has two
+books coming out soon, one a collection of his letters, the other an oral
+history done by the Director's Guild.  I do not see him as often as I would
+like, because we're both very busy.  But he is my friend, and he taught me
+much of what it means to be a writer, and I commend his works to you with the
+greatest enthusiasm conceivable.  I promise that you will not be disappointed.
+There is a sheer and unmitigated power in his use of language that I haven't
+seen anywhere else.
+
+     Corwin.  Norman.  Look it up.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 16 1994
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+     Wayne...I'm sorry, but I don't define the "Fun Factor" in as narrow a way
+as you do.
+
+     On the referential stuff...you're wrong.  I view Delenn's comment about
+"suffering the interference of others" in regards to matters of the soul in
+"Believers" to be a reference to the Soul Hunter...later this season are
+references, in dialogue, *specifically*, to Deathwalker, the labor
+action/strike, Raghesh 3 and other areas seen before this season.   I just
+wrote (and had to delete for time) a reference to the "Believers" story in a
+season two script; it didn't show up there, but it will show up elsewhere.
+
+     Your error was in jumping the gun.  Season ain't over yet.
+
+     Frankly, you can only spend so much time referencing backstory; you have
+a contemporary story to deal with, and should only reference a past story IF
+it has a DIRECT bearing on the current story.  What you're asking for is an
+agenda, a shopping list...there MUST be references to the past or it isn't
+good, there MUST be injuries or death in a certain numerical proportion to the
+series or it isn't good.
+
+     I'm telling a story.  I don't have time, or inclination, to worry about
+what your friends think the right percentage of death and injury should be in
+a series.  There is a small percentage of fandom that measures its interest in
+terms of how many people get killed, hurt or maimed, the "hurt/comfort"
+fanzine types.  They think that's realism.  It's not.  It's the cheapest way
+to get somebody's interest.  People also live to die of old age, too.
+
+     So howzabout you just let me tell my story.  And wait for the rest of
+this season, so you can see how you're wrong on the other point.
+
+                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 17 1994
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+     If a question is directed specifically at me, yes, I'm more likely to
+dive in.
+
+     The story of how I met Norman is actually kinda funny...I was at San
+Diego State University, in the Psychology department, when I heard that this
+Norman Corwin fellow was going to be a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer that
+semester, teaching writing in a couple of classes in the Telecommunications
+and Film Department.  Curious, I went to the library to find out what I could
+about him.  Opened up "Who's Who."  And the entry went on...and on...and
+on...and my jaw dropped.  This was a WRITER.
+
+     You could only take one, not both of the two sessions he was teaching
+that semester.  Also, his classes were ONLY open to TCF majors, no one else.
+AND, you had to submit a writing sample to get in.
+
+     I was determined not only to get in, despite being in the wrong (and thus
+closed) department, but also to take *both* classes.  I submitted a piece of
+writing, and though I didn't hear anything from him personally, learned that
+it passed muster.  But I still now had to get the computer cards (back when we
+used such things) from the TCF department, which were, er, under lock and key.
+
+     How I got my hands on the cards...is another story for another time.
+Suffice to say if the Symbionese Liberation Army had had this kind of
+technique, they'd still be around today.
+
+     So...first day of his first session.  I'm there early.  He walks in.  And
+you have to understand that Norman never just enters a room...he is a
+*presence*.  Leonine and elegant.  And he went to the front of the room,
+looked around, and said, "Is there a Joe Straczynski here?"
+
+     I died.  "Well, this is it," I thought.  I'd been nabbed.  I raised my
+hand.  "Could I see you outside?" he asked.  I stepped out into the hall,
+where I was sure several department heads and, for all I knew, campus security
+would be waiting.
+
+     There was no one, just Norman and me.  "Listen, Joe," he said, "I read
+over the material you sent in, and I just have to say that it's  really very
+good, very professional, excellent writing.  So I was thinking that I'd very
+much appreciate your help with the class, if you think you'd like to pitch in
+a bit.  I think they could use your help."
+
+     You could've knocked me over with a feather.
+
+     Later, some in the TCF department figured out what I'd done, and began to
+raise hell.  They went to Norman and felt I ought to be booted.   He felt that
+I really should stay, and stay I did.
+
+     He took me under his wing then, and for a long time thereafter.  He had
+much to teach, and I had much to learn.  I thought I actually knew how to
+write...five minutes with him taught me that I knew *nothing*.   Norman taught
+by word, by edit, and by example.  I went out and read everything he had ever
+written, and you could take any one of them and parse and study it over and
+over, and still not be able to figure out how he did what he did...how, with
+only a few words, he could evoke an image, trigger an emotion, grab you by the
+shoulders and shake you.  It's the nearest thing to close-up magic I've ever
+seen.  He's *that* good.
+
+     Oddly enough, some of what he wrote could be considered (in the loosest
+sense of the word) fantasy, of a sort.  No two pieces were ever quite
+alike...hard dramas, delightful and fanciful pieces, jeremiads that thunder'd
+and lightning'd and corrected like a caring but concerned father attempting to
+pull his children, our nation, back from the brink.
+
+     Long after the session, we continued and grew as friends, visiting,
+having dinner, hanging out.  (Though it's not quite right to describe Norman
+"hanging out;" somehow it just doesn't fit.)  He still teaches once in a while
+at Idlwylde, by the way.
+
+     To quote Ray Bradbury, "He taught us then not only how to open our
+mouths, but how to insert bright pebbles beneath our tongues so that
+eventually we might fire forth a sentence not only worth listening to but
+thinking about."
+
+     And, later: "When I published my first book, Dark Carnival, in 1947, I
+somehow got Norman's phone number and address from a conniving secretary at
+CBS Radio.  I sent Norman my book with a note saying, `If you like my book as
+much as I love you and your work, please let me buy you a drink some
+afternoon.'  A few days later, Norman called and said, `You're not buying me
+drinks, I'm buying you *dinner*."  The dinner has lasted forever.  And what a
+feast."
+
+                                                               jms
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+      Since I'm talking about Norman Corwin, and like all writers
+ he is best exemplified by his work...some samples.  Fragments.
+
+      Some days after the first atomic bomb was exploded over
+ Hiroshima, Norman wrote about the new power that had been unleashed.
+ His words, in part:
+
+ "...the atom can be more sullen than has yet been shown.
+
+ Attack it with another thrust of algebraic symbols and the
+  cutting edge of an equation, and there will be the grand
+  reaction.
+
+ The first news of it will arrive in your precinct as a shuddering
+  in the sky:
+
+ A glow, far off, brightening: heat beating outward in concentric
+  waves: the atmosphere a band of fire: the seas themselves, the
+  wet seas, tinder:
+
+ The hills that looked on Christ will heave and crackle, and
+  quarries vaporize as eagerly as the dust of Pharoahs:
+
+ The earth, the tamed and tonsured earth, with all its gardens and
+  substances, its places, breeds and patterns, its letters and its
+  airs, will plummet out of grace; will fail its orbit,
+
+ And soon enough will be a blistered ash, its moon trailing lonely
+  and ungoverned, like a dog after its master's corpse.
+
+ Do not smile, do not smile as though knowing better.
+ It could happen.
+ The model is any suicide.
+ The model is Sampson, destroying the temple and himself...."
+
+
+ The following is excerpted from Norman's book "Prayer for the 70s."
+
+ "We print your name on dollars
+ And are sure you stand over everything we say is under God
+ And all nations assume you are on their side and always
+  have been, war in and war out,
+ And every religion understands you better than every other religion,
+  and you in turn lean toward each with special inclinations.
+
+ You are called upon to bless babies and aircraft carriers
+ And you are ceremoniously and endlessly praised on the basis that
+  flattery will get us somewhere.
+
+ But there are those who pray as though tendering a bribe payable
+  on installments
+ So as to accumulate years in this life and credits in the next.
+ Some of us make you out a broker who supplieth needs and wants;
+ Attorney who defendeth against hard claims;
+ Expunger of guilts who cleareth the conscience so we may be free
+  to muck it up again;
+ Housekeeper of the soul who cometh in to clean once a week;
+ King of accountants auditing our secret selves,
+ Liquidating our trespasses as we liquidate those who trespass
+  against us,
+ Keeping batteries of books filled with fateful identifications,
+ Entering as much the fall of a sparrow as the crash of a plane.
+
+ We have heard it said you are not so smart after all, since it is
+  unlikely you could add as fast as a computer or remember half
+  so much;
+ And although you are known to be more than generous in the number and
+  variety of species, there seems to be little rationale for the
+  mosquito, and less for plague bacilli.
+
+ There have been complaints against you, charges of malfeasance,
+ Implications of sleeping on the job, trigger temper, pronenesss
+  to vengeance,
+ Tantrums of wrath that have consumed too many of the innocent with
+  too few of the heinous.
+
+ Some of your public begrudge you the benefit of doubt, and doubt
+  your beneficence
+ Protesting that it was antic of you to have sponsored us to begin
+  with, if we are to swarm like maggots on a rind too meager to
+  support our duplicating billions.
+ Some say the noblest ideas were set down by man
+ And that you have been served by holy ghost writers beyond your
+  desserts.
+
+ They say that the whole conspicuous distance between the worm and
+  Einstein, the drone of the bee and Beethoven,
+ The entire interval, has been filled with struggles trailing blood:
+ Ages of frightened proto-men, heavy with ignorance, recoiling from
+  fangs of fire, drowning in profligate floods, perishing in temblors,
+  staggering into the unknown,
+ Their wails and brute chants and broken grunts fructifying at last
+ into songs and sonnets and hallelujahs to your glory.
+ Well, dissidants suggest that during this grand span you sat it
+  out; that in the vast meanwhile you went off to fish in deeper
+  currents.
+
+ Lately it is announced that you are dead
+ Which means several things besides the receiver being off the hook
+  when we dial you.
+ It means that time must carry on by itself
+ And stars pinwheel through incandescent deserts and bottomless voids,
+  all on an orderly hunch;
+ It means the arching upward from the mud has been a drunken course,
+  and purposeless, and hardly worth the trip;
+ It means the very mansion of existence has no windows, and is just
+  a big white elephant, boarded up and haunted by your mistakes;
+ It means that springtime is a come-on and a put-on, and not at all
+  a show of dogged life, a riot of chlorophyll, a surge of sap and
+  elixers from wells so deep no radar can ever return to tell what
+  and where it touched;
+ It means that the love of man and woman is a table of percentages,
+  and their desire a disease of the id;
+ It means that birth is a happening between pills
+ And old age a phase held together by plastic parts;
+ It means the heart of a man is replaceable as soon as the donor is
+ legally dead
+ And death is a package deal with the best advertised mortuary.
+
+ So, God: if you are alive in that heaven we have come to know is
+  spotty with systems of gravity, each pulling for itself,
+ Then perhaps you must flex the muscle of divine authority to get
+  back into office
+ Because your antique miracles have been trumped by solemn science;
+ Daily the patent office registers intenser magic than the burning bush:
+ The serpent from the rod becomes a ruby laser;
+ The leper is healed by mycins;
+ The blind draw vision from an eye bank.
+
+ That being the case, dear busy God, please manifest thyself again
+  through one superlative, new-minted covenant:
+ Create for the lot of us -- all nations indivisible -- an Act of God
+  more stupendous than mere parting waters or a standing sun
+ A miracle harder to come by, that would, if consummated, cause dry
+  bones from all the hundred holocausts to meet and dance,
+ And charter stars to sing together in the brightest chancel of
+  imponderable space.
+
+ And this is what that miracle would be:
+
+ That man should love his kind in all his skins and pigments,
+ And kill no more.
+
+ Repeat:
+ That we should love our kind
+ And kill no more.
+
+ Yes, granted, such a miracle is asking very much of you
+ But it is long past time to ask."
+
+
+ That, gentle readers...*that* is Norman Corwin.
+

+
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+     Just got back from a whirlwind trip...too exhausted to write much now.
+Grabbed a flight to Chicago last night, arriving around midnight, and came
+back today around 8 p.m.  Basically 20 hours in Chicago and then turn right
+around and come back to LA.  Without going into details (mainly because I
+can't) at the moment, there's some non-B5 stuff brewing that could be
+interesting.  (I may have to start two new topics here; TWCBN #2 and TWCBN #3,
+for those who understand the reference.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+     The 30s true story isn't SF.  The two other TWCBNs are.
+
+     What would be considered SF within the B5 universe?  Ummmm....Trek?
+
+     (I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 24 1994
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+     Warner buys ads for those shows which are specifically produced BY
+Warners, in-house.  We're an independent company providing programming FOR
+them.  Slight distinction.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     No more details for now, I'm afraid.  Just wanted to let y'all know that
+something's cooking.  Two something's, actually.  We'll see....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Arne: no, both Kung-Fu and Trax are *in-house* Warners shows (though one
+is through Lorimar, which is still owned by Warners).
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Babylon 5 will *always* be my first priority; it's my baby.  The other
+two TWCBNs, should they go, would inherit others who would be more involved in
+the day-to-day running, which I would then oversee...as opposed to the direct,
+hands-on way I deal with B5.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     BTW, before I forget (again....), I gave a brief interview to TV Guide's
+Science Fiction column the other day, about the impact of the Moon landing
+(speaking as the creator of an SF series).  Assuming that I said anything
+reasonably coherent and nominally useful, it will likely appear in either the
+next issue, or the one thereafter.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+     Amazing thing, innit...watching someone's brain explode....
+
+     (And yes, Garibaldi was named after *the* Garibaldi of Italian military
+history.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 26 1994
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+     Errrmmmmm...I don't recall promising to never replace an actor without
+also replacing the character...I don't think I would limit my options in quite
+that manner.  I think my comments were fairly specific to this situation.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks that the Sinclair situation is a spoiler
+and shouldn't be mentioned here...that can't be done.  Further, as I
+understand spoilers, they refer to plot more than casting.  And I try hard NOT
+to throw spoilers into this topic.  The Sinclair situation was news, and it
+had to be communicated to the largest number of people so they would get the
+information straight from the source rather than having to find out through
+rumors and back-channel sources that are usually more wrong than right.
+
+     It was, in my view, a public service, and I stand by my decision to place
+it here, rather than the spoilers section, where fewer read it and the
+information would do less good.  Anyone who thinks that information can really
+be contained is living in a dream world.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Sounds like this guy doesn't know what he's talking about.  There ARE
+going to be new episodes, starting next week with "Grail," and we're using the
+same writers as last year -- me, Larry, DC Fontana, a couple others -- and
+adding a couple who I kinda want to work with, such as Scott Frost (on outline
+now) and Peter David (ditto).  I've learned that things tend to get awfully
+muddy at the local station level....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Any time you spend talking at length with local programming people, you
+will generally walk away depressed, because the approach and the emphasis is
+diametrically different from what interests those of us in this discussion.
+I'm not saying it's bad, just different.  Fundamentally, the show is the show;
+phone conversations, reviews, in the long run, none of it matters.  If the
+show is good, it will go on; if not, not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     There was a heavy Frost that year; two Frosts, Mark and Scott, the Frost
+brothers.  Scott subsequently went on to work for X-Files.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Remember when I said there are things you learn midway into a series that
+you can learn no other way?  Yikes....
+
+     As I've mentioned before, in our season ender, "Chrysalis," we tip over
+every table we've got.  I'm talking here *major* stuff, that profoundly and
+permanently affects many of our primary characters.  Well, you build that as a
+two parter, and even *try* to resolve all of that in the second part.  It
+doesn't work, because the repercussions are so substantial.  (What it is,
+really, is something that'll be felt throughout the entire second season.)
+
+     You can try to pack all the loose thread-tying into part two, but it's
+like trying to pack 10 pounds of potatos into a 5 pound bag.  One other option
+is making it a six parter, but *that's* really silly.  So what I'm doing, I've
+decided, is to take the major elements and play them out over the first five
+or so episodes.  This will give me time to give each of the threads the
+necessary time to play out effectively, rather than rushing things.
+
+     So Chrysalis stands alone as a season ender, and a prelude to the Big
+Stuff in season two.  Episode 1 of year two, therefore, won't be "Chrysalis,
+Part Two," but have its own title, allowing me to spread the stuff over the
+next few episodes.  (Probable title: "Points of Departure.")
+
+     I showed "Chrysalis" to some people the other day, and the reaction was
+across the board astonishment.  Just stunned.  Which was pretty much the
+desired result.  It's an absolute left-turn for the series.
+
+     But because this is the non-spoiler area, I won't comment further.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Hmmmmm...is *that* who's been signing and cashing my residuals checks...?
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
+     There are those at the top of the stations, and those below.  What
+matters proceeds from the top.
+
+     Re: the comic...yes, there were discussions of other companies that were
+bidding on it, but I probably shouldn't name who they were, as that might be
+inappropriate.
+
+     The first issue of the B5 comic, which I've written, is entitled "In
+Darkness Find Me," which is the flip-side of incidents that take place in the
+first episode of year one.  And there's a smidge of information contained in
+the book that's *not* in the episode.  I think the script came out pretty
+well.  I've also written brief outlines for two subsequent four-issue cycles,
+which are now being assigned to other writers for expansion into full outlines
+and scripts.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Talked to him back when I was doing Twilight Zone, and he made it clear
+that he has NO desire whatsoever to do TV in any way, manner, shape or form.
+Unfortunate, really.  For TV.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     That's not really the kind of correction I was talking about.  I was
+addressing more general, behavioral correction, rather than the debate over
+episode stuff, or details, or how many angels can dance on the head of a pin
+(answer: as many as want to).
+
+     Because SF is supposedly about embracing differences, there is a tendency
+-- usually well-intended -- to ignore it when someone acts boorishly, or
+rudely, or stupidly.  I've been at many gatherings of SF folks which have been
+great, until one or two people really start making it ugly for the rest, and
+unlike non-SF gatherings, nobody says anything or does anything.
+
+     There are certain types of behavior that the outside world (non-SF) does
+not tolerate; and a small portion of fandom thinks that because SF is not like
+the outside "mundane" world, those same rules don't apply, and they can do
+this stuff.  It's a very small percentage that does this, but they tend to
+hold the larger percentage hostage through the feeling of, "Well, I guess we
+shouldn't say anything.  This is our sort of family."   Well, when part of a
+family gets dysfunctional, you have to address it.
+
+     Again, all this applies to only a very small number, but it's enough of a
+number to be a problem.  And I'm not specifically associating the  original
+message with that sort of thing, only saying that there is nothing wrong with
+correction if it is done in a positive form.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     We'll know more about guest casting once more scripts are in and we begin
+the casting process.  We can't really do that until we have dates on the
+filming of scripted episodes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Clarification: B5 in the UK is not on BBC, but Channel 4.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+
+     They are...all around you.
+
+     And if they ate more fiber, they wouldn't *have* this problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+                                ahem.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     Okay, so I *know* it isn't funny, and I *know* it's tragic, and I KNOW
+it's a terrible thing, and I *know* it's sick...but watching O.J. and Co.
+speeding through Orange County and Santa Ana, all I could think was, "Hey, OJ!
+You just killed your wife and her friend!  Now what're you gonna do?"
+
+     "I'm going to Disneyland!"
+
+                       jm(I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry)s
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 29 1994
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+     The Minbari Virus: decides at the last moment *not* to infect your
+computer, but refuses to explain why.
+
+     (Waitaminnit...what the hell am *I* doing contributing to this...?!)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 15 1994
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+     The extra footage helps the Abyss a *lot*.
+
+                                                         jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 19 1994
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+     No, in an operation like this, you would sub-contract out stuff like dock-
+work, food preparation and other areas under government contract, but the
+techs working in C&C are strictly Earthforce.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 25 1994
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+     No details yet; panels and a B5 presentation for sure, though.
+
+                                                          jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 25 1994
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+
+     Won't be at Westercon since that's the same weekend as the Chicago Comic
+Con, which I'll be attending, partly to do some work, partly because Harlan's
+guest of honor and he's my buddy.  However, I can say that Larry DiTillio
+*will* be attending Westercon in my absence.
+
+     God help you.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 27 1994
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+
+     I'm less than thrilled with the 1:30 Friday timeslot, frankly, and our
+initial conversations had set this for Saturday.  Will investigate.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 29 1994
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+
+     Apparently the B5 ep will be rerun sometime Saturday evening; check for
+times upon arrival.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 23 1994
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+     He says, "Minbari...broken through...have to get to my ship."
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 23 1994
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+     (smile)...call it a bit of fore*shadow*ing....
+
+                                                           jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 27 1994
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+
+     Re: QAQAs...why do I suddenly have this image in my head of B5 viewers
+making duck sounds at the conclusion of episodes...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 17 1994
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+
+     Actually, that's what *really* happened to Babylon 4...it was replaced by
+Folger's Crystals, to see if anyone would notice.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 06 1994
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+
+     Whether or not Babylon 5 survives past a second season...kinda depends on
+the *ratings* in the second season, and we're not *in* the second season yet.
+Many shows tend to take a while to find their audience; the first season or
+two of "Picket Fences" was pretty much in the toilet, ratings-wise.  But it
+grew.
+
+     As for the recent batch of ratings...yeah, we've been clobbered by 1) the
+NBA playoffs and finals, 2) OJ a little, and 3) the fact that this last month
+has been all reruns.  EVERY syndicated drama show has gotten clobbered this
+past week in particular, and this month in general due to the basketball
+games.  We always do much better when (big surprise), we show new episodes.  I
+imagine that our ratings will go back up again when we start showing new ones
+this week, and now that the NBA games are over, and stations stop bumping,
+delaying, or getting rolled over by other stations.
+
+     Re: Michael York...there were some unofficial conversations with York,
+but nothing has ever come of them.  This is ONLY a rumor, and does not have
+any likelihood at this time of being anything more than a rumor.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     BTW...can anyone here tell me *who* said this about York?  All I can
+determine is that *someone* announced this, and I would like to know who,
+specifically, to decapitate.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     To the best of my knowledge, reruns will still continue after we've
+finished with new episodes for this season, and will be interspersed in second
+season, so there will be plenty of chances to catch up.
+
+     BTW, for those who saw the promo for "Eyes" at the end of "Grail," I have
+*no* idea what it has to do with the episode.  Sometimes they "enhance" the
+story to make it promote-able...but I think this time they "enhanced" it right
+into a parallel dimension....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1994
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+
+     Creation has licensed some stuff...a few shirts, and a mug, maybe some
+photos, I think that's about it.
+
+     And we hope to get Harlan's "Demon" crossover script this season.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1994
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+     Booj'...thanks.
+
+     Re: audio...for the *most* part, there won't be a difference in the
+reruns, though there will be a marked difference in the video release of
+episodes, when that happens.
+
+     What happened was this: we went into this using the full dynamic range of
+available audio.  Right to the edge of the red line.  Just one problem...many
+of the stations, and the uplink facility, use audio limiters, which crunches
+down the audio if it goes too far.  It took us a while to find out that this
+was the source of the problem, and we mixed the last few episodes coming in
+just a few decibels under the point where the automatic clamping kicked in.
+We'll keep to this in future.  Video releases won't have this problem.
+
+     What can I say...I'm a rock'n'roll kinda guy...I like stuff *loud*.
+
+     CGI is generally much faster than models.  I have in my hands the major
+CGI sequences from our first episode of year two, and we haven't even started
+*shooting* yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     PS...for those in the LA area, and who enjoyed the excerpts of Norman
+Corwin's work...two of his radio dramas will be performed at the Hollywood
+Roosevelt Hotel, in their theater, on July 13th at 1 or 1:30.  Norman will be
+directing the performance (I think lunch is included).  Expect some
+celebrities in the cast.  The two radio dramas are "The Strange Affliction"
+and "My Client Curly."
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+     The teasers and promos are put together by the Warner Bros. marketing and
+promotions department.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     At one time we were working out what the time-reference would be on B5.
+One of the early things we talked about were cycles, but in fairly short order
+I decided against it because it didn't seem to mean much.   But this was,
+sadly, after "Grail" had been produced, and we couldn't dub over the cycle
+references with anything else, so it stayed.  It won't be appearing anywhere
+else henceforth.  One of our few continuity glitches.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+     Okay, Ms. Smartypants, then what does "cycles" MEAN?  If it means cycles
+of the station, it cycles once every minute to maintain 1g.  So 300 cycles is
+only 300 minutes.
+
+     Your serve.
+
+     BTW...it comes to my attention that Mark Altman was going on today at a
+Creation Convention in Glendale CA about how O'Hare was replaced because of
+negative comments made about him here on GEnie.
+
+     Okay...now...you're a cute bunch, especially in the aggregate, and I like
+you a lot, but frankly all of us here don't even amount to s (a)
+squiggle...even *one percent* of a squiggle...on the Neilsen charts.
+
+     Though I respect Mark Altman, that was a boneheaded mistake on his part.
+Simply ain't true.  And if he's *going* to say stuff like that, you'd think
+that maybe he'd call me first to verify this stuff before launching it out
+there.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+
+     Apparently a few places are timeshifting B5 and KF into each other's
+timeslots in order to see if the numbers vary; there's some thought that B5 is
+more of a 9:00 show than an 8:00 show.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     CAll the Writers Guild, and find out how much a copy of their Journal
+costs.  It lists the "contact person" for each show.  If that show isn't
+listed, pick the story editor.  A letter is your way in, but do NOT include a
+synopsis.  State that the script is finished, that you would like to submit it
+(if not through an agent, then using a release form of their choice) for their
+perusal.  After that, it's up to them.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+     No, the information/rumor was that York *had* been selected, and it came
+much earlier than Westercon, at a convention in the northeast.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+     Bruce; thanks.
+
+     A brief aside...every so often, somebody asks me what the difference is
+between B5 and ST (aside from, like, everything).  Here's one element that I
+think is noteworthy, and of which I'm fairly proud.
+
+     We don't do gang credits here.  Where a writer writes an episode, you see
+ONLY that writer's name.  If DC Fontana writes a script, she gets the credit
+for it.  You don't see three names on the story, two or three names on the
+script.
+
+     One of the injustices in Hollywood is the credit system.  When you're on
+staff, you get a salary plus fees for the scripts you write.  When you are a
+freelancer, you get only the script fees, and the residuals produced by reruns
+of that script.  The more staffers add their names to the script, they cut
+deeper into the residuals, until the freelancer gets very little, if anything,
+really.
+
+     My feeling is, look, we're already getting a salary, why dig into the
+freelancer's pocket as well?  Consequently, we don't arbitrate credit on B5
+scripts, regardless of any rewriting that gets done.  We simply don't do it.
+This is something I feel strongly about.  In all the series I've story edited,
+I think I've only requested (and been granted by WGA arbitration) shared
+credit on maybe 4-5 scripts (out of 200+ that I've edited), and there only
+because they were *very* extreme or unusual situations.
+
+     We try and respect all members of our team, including and especially our
+writers.  They get sole credit on scripts.  They generally get the chance to
+do their own revisions (time permitting).  They are not only welcome on the
+set, they are invited and encouraged to come.  If the director has a question
+on set, and I'm not availble, they go to the original writer.  (At the other
+show, freelancers are generally not allowed on set, and even staff writers are
+discouraged from going there.)
+
+     It's a small area, really, and it doesn't win us even one additional
+point in the ratings, but it's something that pleases me, so I thought I'd
+mention it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     One other reason the producer credits are out of the way fast is that we
+don't have a big staff of writer/producers, like many other shows.  There's
+me, my story editor Larry...and that's all.  Many shows have anywhere from 4-7
+staffers.  I like lean staffs.
+
+     Re: merchandising...the concensus at Shore Leave is, of course,
+breathtakingly inaccurate.  WB doesn't have to "invest" anything for any
+merchandising to be done; that's done by those who license the show.  As of
+this writing, there are basically about a dozen B5 licensees, and I am
+informed that there are about another dozen or so currently in the process of
+negotiation.  I mean, jeez...we've got a comic from DC, novels from Dell,
+comics from Cardz, shirts, mugs, keychains from Creation and others, a CD-ROM
+from Compton's...what the hell more do they want?  No, B5 is not a ***MAJOR
+FRANCHISE*** like ST with ten zillion licensees, and I don't *want* it to be
+that, and hope it never *becomes* that.  As it is, there is more licensing
+committed to this show than to *any* of the other live-action Warners series,
+with the possible exception of Lois and Clark.
+
+     And, as stated, I resisted licensing during year one to keep our focus on
+the story (as did the creator of Calvin and Hobbes for the first year or two).
+It amazes me how a group of people can look at the licensing of one show on
+less than a year, compare it to the licensing of a show on for 25 years in one
+form or anther, and decide because it's less that somehow Warners doesn't want
+to "invest" in the show, turning this into a negative.  Well, I guess if
+people gotta find something to pick at, they may as well make up stuff as
+anything else.  (Like the bunch of folks in Tennessee who just sent a petition
+to the B5 offices protesting the firing of me, Harlan, and all the other
+writers on the show, and the total recasting of the series.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     The first batch of mugs are from (you'll pardon the expression) Creation.
+
+     Currently about 2/3rds finished writing a second-season ep called
+"Revelations," and though I've written and commissioned others already, this
+one's sizing up to be a major ass-kicker from a story perspective.
+Definitely the flip-side of "Chrysalis."  Some really, really nice stuff.
+
+     The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be very
+careful how much you use him, and what he says.  Too much and he loses his
+sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting fortune-cookie  type
+aphorisms.  He has a very deliberate way of speaking in which  everything,
+every smallest nuance and inflection means something, but sometimes not what
+it appears to mean, or comes at it from a very different angle than normal
+conversation.  So I go as minimalist as possible, to get the meaning down to
+the smallest number of words possible.  And in one scene, one of only two he
+appears in, I got him down to *one word*, and that one word -- and it's a
+totally inoffensive, neutral word on its own terms -- should scare the hell
+out of *everybody*.
+
+     Ah loves this show....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Telepaths are the ultimate minority, and when it comes to the use of
+their talents, and the protection of the rights of the hysterical majority,
+their rights don't mean a whole hell of a lot.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Yes, Mary Jo is Christian Slater's mom.  She keeps nudging us about an
+appearance, since he loves SF.  We'll see.
+
+     And also correct...the majority of freelance scripts we commission don't
+tend to need a lot of revision.  Certainly not after the first go round.  DC's
+first script needed a bit of work, but that was mainly because she was still
+feeling her way around the characters and the show.  Her second script came in
+almost letter perfect; move around a few commas and that's about it.  And her
+outline for her next script, for season two, is very cool.
+
+     Funny story.  Saw Ed Wasser ("Morden") the other day, and asked him if
+he'd had any reaction to his first appearance on the show.  Just one, he said.
+He was in a florist shop, picking out some stuff for a friend who was sick.
+The proprieter came over, asked, "What do you want?"  Ed sorta mumbled about
+wanting some flowers.  "What do you want?" the owner asked again.  Ed -- still
+not getting it -- said he was looking for some nice stuff for a friend who was
+sick.  "Yes, but what do you *want*?" the owner asked.  At which point Ed
+finally twigged to what was going on.  He said afterward that it really *is*
+an unnerving approach, which was kinda the point.
+
+     Of course, the owner then added that he thought the scene was from DS9,
+but what the hell, it's an imperfect universe.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 04 1994
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+     Longshot: there are some questions that are best left to be answered in
+the fullness of time.  That is one of them.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1994
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+     In an earlier version of the story, it was indeed Kosh who appeared out
+of nowhere and scragged the Feeder, saying, "Some things we do not allow," but
+it seemed kinda un-Kosh-like on one level, and it repeated the Deathwalker
+finish, so it was dropped.
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1994
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+
+     The problem with Larry is if you poke him, he tells stuff.  Poking
+doesn't bother me.
+
+     Since he's already spewed a bit...some small details.
+
+     The person coming in to be the new CO on B5 will have a rank higher than
+commander.  Thus it makes sense, given this and other factors yet to be
+revealed, to promote Ivanova to full Commander rank, and expand her duties to
+get her out of C&C a bit.
+
+     We're going to be adding a couple of characters...more of the ISN
+link...and some here (and on other nets) have been correct when they say that
+the Starfury squadrons should have some kind of squad commanders of their own,
+in addition to when Ivanova or others take over.  We'll be developing a
+character to fill that slot.
+
+     On the question of Na'Toth...some background.
+
+     As y'all may remember, originally we had Mary Woronov slated to be
+Ko'Dath, G'Kar's assistant.  She had *very* real problems with the idea of
+wearing prosthetics, and also wouldn't wear the red contacts.  So we went our
+separate ways, and Ko'Dath had an unfortunate accident with an airlock.
+
+     This happened, however, right between shooting two episodes in which we
+*needed* G'Kar's aide present.  So our casting director called in Caitlin
+Brown on about 24 hours notice, and in fact in her first episode, it's mainly
+Ko'Dath's makeup, somewhat modified, rather than the sleeker Na'Toth makeup
+you saw later.  Slight differences.
+
+     If you've seen Caitlin Brown on the "Making Of B5" program, you know she
+is a *gorgeous* young woman, who has mainly played romantic leads in films and
+TV.  She has continued to get offers in that direction, and over the hiatus,
+did a film again as a romantic lead with Marlon Brando and (also in the cast)
+Faye Dunaway.
+
+     And the very real question is, Does she want to hide her face, be known
+for playing an alien, and lose the chance to further expand her feature
+film/romantic lead career?  Her answer, after much agonizing, was no.  She'd
+never really intended to stay with it forever, was only coming in on an
+emergency basis (but we liked her performance so much we kept her in the
+role), and she was the *only* actor on whom we didn't have long-term options.
+
+
+     We very much wanted her to come back, and did everything we could to
+convince her, but this is what she wants to do.  And while this is NOT mutual,
+it is amicable; I fully understand why she wants to continue on the process of
+becoming a major player.  And as she says, she has a very attractive face; why
+hide it forever?
+
+     This being the case, what we're now doing is recasting the role of
+Na'Toth with a different actress.  It won't be a different character, since
+it's got nothing to do with the story, it's an actor thing.  We'll get someone
+the same size, shape, voice and personality, write the character exactly the
+same, same name, and move on.  Which happens all the time.
+ And, obviously, the prosthetic will be the same, so Na'Toth will still look
+the same.
+
+     So, this is entirely her decision, and we wish her luck.  It doesn't
+affect the show or the story, so it doesn't cause us any problems, so why
+treat it in anything other than an amicable fashion?
+
+     Insofar as I know, that's all Larry blabbed about.  Go ahead, tell me
+there's more...tell me Larry blabbed about Sinclair's sex change...go ahead,
+watch a grown man have a cardiac infarction....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1994
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+     Re: prosthetics...there are two parts, the inner area, which is taken
+from a mold of the actor's face, and the outer part, which is sculpted.  If
+you change actors, you do a different mold from the face of the actor to
+create the inner half, but you can keep the outer part the same (based on the
+sculpture).  Usually you sculpt it to stay close to and accent the actor's
+features.
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 10 1994
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+     Replacing the character of Na'Toth could be done, but at this point she
+knows stuff that is important for us to have access to in year two.   (Stuff
+mainly happening in "Chrysalis.")
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 11 1994
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+     Lemme dive in here...Bugs sent me his theory, and I noted somewehre or
+other around here that it was well thought out, was on the right track in many
+cases, but just got off at the wrong station.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 13 1994
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+     PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.  "Domo Arigato" is Japanese.  Grey reached into
+Ben Zayn's head and, for lack of a better term, pushed his "pain button," the
+same way you can stimulate someone's memory or physical sensations with an
+electrode or chemicals.  It was only a second, and he would've shrugged it off
+quickly, had Sinclair not been there to follow up.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 14 1994
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+     I do not have to speculate.  I know.
+
+     And the further I stay away from topic 29 the better.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Brett: we've already done it.  The CO's office next season will have a
+view of the Garden area, as will some other rooms.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     Coke.  No pepsi.  Cheeseburger.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Yes, that building is in the Garden.  You can see buildings there in many
+shots, some better than others.  It's a big place.  The Fresh Air restaurant
+is also in the Garden area, and you can see buildings there in "Purple," also
+upcoming in "Quality."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1994
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+     Correct; we're enhancing many of the sets, making some pleasant changes,
+and building some new ones, and wanted to allow time to do all of this.  The
+goal is always to make each season better than the one before.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     We're re-doing a *lot* of the signage.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 11 1994
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+
+     There are plans for some kind of B5 fan group, run out of Babylonian
+Productions, to coordinate stuff and do a very small amount of limited selling
+(just enough to keep us from getting deep into debt on the thing, since it'll
+cost us about $75,000 per year to run it).  This will also be a central
+clearing house for convention organizers.  More on this as we nail it down.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 04 1994
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+     Actually, Delenn's line is, "It is quite...impressive."
+
+                                                                     jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1994
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+     "The last thing I remember about the dream is finding a secret cave
+entrance just at the base of the big vasquez spire and stepping inside."
+
+     Okay...everybody here who *hasn't* heard of Freud please leave the room
+for the next ten minutes....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Errr....the freudian interpretation of the dream has *nothing* to do with
+being heterosexual *or* homosexual.  It's the classic dream o  entering a womb
+or vagina, or more simply a sexual image that has no particular gender or
+gender preference associated with it at *all*.
+
+     To say there are Freudian implications has *nothing* to do with being
+gay, straight, or anything else.  It did not contain *any* insult.   You are
+reacting to something that wasn't stated, wasn't implied, and doesn't exist.
+
+     It's the old "train entering a tunnel" dream, basically.
+
+     Any other interpretation has more to do with what you may be bringing to
+the table from your own past, than anything that was said.   Look at the
+message again.  It simply ain't there.  Somehow you have come to associate
+Freud with gayness, and Freudian analysis with saying that someone's
+gay...which simply and plainly is not true.
+
+   jms (b.a. clinical psychology)
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1994
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+
+     I don't generally have lucid dreams, but there is something very weird
+about 95% of all my dreams.
+
+     (And please, don't noboby cite Lovecraft to me, honest to Irving, this is
+how they are.)
+
+     Nearly all of my dreams take place in the same place...a sort of dream
+city that has gradually grown over the years somewhere in my head.   It's just
+what that implies: a city.  I know the geography of the place pretty well,
+though there are occasionally little places I stumble upon that I hadn't
+noticed before.
+
+     I know where the theaters are, where the stores are, and where the main
+shopping center is.  There's a bus route that takes you up out of the main
+part of the city to a little junior college on the fringe of the suburbs.  You
+take the #2 bus, which goes north about five miles, then hooks left.   You get
+off at the main road, and walk south about three  blocks and you're there.  On
+the return trip, you get off about half a block from a magazine/bookshop.  I
+know the guy who runs it by face, but haven't yet asked his name.  I probably
+will eventually.  In the front of the store are the general magazines and
+paperbacks; in wood bins a little further in are comics and older magazines.
+The window faces south, and covers most of the storefront.
+
+     I'm also a writer here in this "city" as well.  I have a two story house.
+The second level merges with the hillside a bit, so you can walk out onto
+grass, and a stone flagstone walk.  My office is on the second floor.  For the
+last year there's been some renovations in progress, and a bunch of the floor
+on the second floor has been torn up.
+
+     It's the same locale in nearly every single dream.  It's *that* specific.
+There's no real plot, no major danger.  I work there, go to see a movie
+sometimes, do some shopping, threads even cross dreams and recur later on.
+(There was a big flap recently because the city was going to tear down the old
+theater at the corner near the magazine shop, but we managed to postpone the
+development.)
+
+     It is a coherent, consistent city in which 95% of my dreams take place.
+I see the same people, places, things.  Some people get very creeped out when
+I tell them this.  To me, it's just the other place I go when I'm asleep.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     You can also look for an interview in an issue of the Michigan Chronicle
+in a few weeks.
+
+                                                          jms
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+
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+     Ah...didn't see this, and responded in #1.  It's balloon juice.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+
+     Brief jms sighting in this coming week's TV Guide (July 16 issue), page
+16, just two pages away from Cindy Crawford's body....
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+     This in spite of the petition, I take it...?
+
+                                                           jms
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+
+     Just as the episodes are designed to be watched in full, in part, only a
+few, in or out of order (for the most part), similarly the web (comic, books,
+show) will be consistent but not overlapping in any way that requires *anyone*
+to read or watch all of them to follow anything.  I would consider this
+*vastly* unfair.  They should be *consistent* with one another, that's all.
+If a piece of information comes out in the comic, and later that becomes
+useful, it must and will be referenced in dialogue so that it's *totally*
+clear to anyone watching.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     That's the other thing I forgot: yes, there will be cards, from Cardz.
+(Or so I'm told; the deal was made, but I haven't heard much from them
+lately.)
+
+     Cyberdad: if it weren't for the fact that I kinda want some of this stuff
+myself, I'd probably work against *any* merchandising as much as I could.
+Merchandising can begin to drive a show, and suddenly you find yourself
+introducing items just so you can merchandise them, changing the costumes
+every couple of seasons to keep that licensor going...as a fan myself, I hate
+that, and won't do it now that I'm in this position.
+
+     I'm not a salesman, I'm a writer.  If we can do something that adds to
+the story, or that would look real neat on my wall, terrific.  But the day
+that we do Babylon 5 Underoos, as I said at ChicagoCon, somebody just shoot
+me.  (And you'd be amazed at how *quickly* someone volunteered....)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 05 1994
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+     The B5 theme on the CD that Chris gave me seems to run a bit longer than
+what we air; and the "Requiem" sequence doesn't include the follow up stuff on
+the cruiser (at least mine doesn't), but does seem to have a longer build-up.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 06 1994
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+     Look for the comic in late November, the novels about the same or a bit
+later.  And I believe it was either Ron or (most likely) John Copeland who
+suggested the nose-art for Starfuries.  (John's a major aviation nut.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1994
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+     I think the "Requiem" piece is a bit shorter on my CD, only in that it
+doesn't include the follow-up on the Minbari cruiser.  As for the  CD-ROM,
+insofar as I know it's still slated for late Fall.  I'm having a meeting with
+the boys from Compton New Media either later this week or first part of next
+week, and hope to have more info at that time.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 11 1994
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+     It's going to be both.
+
+     One primary area will deal with the fictional world of B5.  It will have
+backgrounds on all of our characters, plus details about all of the major
+alliances (Narns, Minbari, others).  You'll see their homeworlds, learn their
+culture, see some of their language, that sort of thing.   There will be a
+fairly extensive chronology of events between the present and the time of the
+series, detailing when we first encountered the Centauri, the Dilgar invasion,
+and other stuff.
+
+     It should be a fairly extensive encyclopedia of the B5 universe.
+
+     The other component will deal with the production.  I very much want to
+de-mystify how TV is made.  So there will be extensive sections on that area,
+including one section where you can follow a sequence from script to wardrobe,
+storyboard, sets, to shooting, to the point of having several dailies from
+that finished sequence which you can then edit into any order you want,
+emphasizing people of your choice, close-ups or masters, with the final
+addition of a piece of music so you can then score the finished product.
+
+     It should be very cool.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 12 1994
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+     You must understand that I *cannot* comment on this publication one way
+or another.  My one request has always been to keep fan fiction out of
+anywhere where I can easily see it or run into it, since I will never directly
+seek it out.  In terms of a fanzine, I cannot legally comment.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 13 1994
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+     Goodman...*not* to take sides in this, but just to clarify a
+misperception on your part...something need not bring in a profit in order to
+violate copyright.  The act of publishing something, using copyrighted
+characters, is infringement pure and simple.  And many of the studios now
+*are* going after fanzines, for the simple reason that if they don't, you run
+the risk of *losing* your copyright by allowing some things to enter the
+public domain.
+
+     For instance, PTEN recently had to go after a computer company for buying
+ads using B5 photos without copyright attribution on the photo; those photos
+now run the danger of entering public domain.  They had to take sharp legal
+action.  (This happened with some Star Wars stuff, by the way, and some Star
+Trek early stuff.)  The issue is *not* as you represent it.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 14 1994
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+     It's definitely a book I'd like to see done, but nothing's firm yet.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Not yet, but we've been talking about it.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     No, they are not.
+
+     Any script broker selling copies of B5 scripts is doing so without
+permission.  They are engaging in copyright infringement.  The contents of the
+scripts belong to PTEN, but the physical copies belong to the writers, who get
+nothing out of this.  It ruins, for instance, Christy's chance to make a few
+dollars selling what is hers, if her script gets on the open market.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 12 1994
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+                       ...i hate you...all of you....
+
+                                                                     jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 13 1994
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+     ...fine...great...next thing you'll be dragging he-man and she-ra into
+this...go ahead...kick a guy when he's down....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     And that's when I shot her, your Honor.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 14 1994
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+
+      Well, actually, I'm not really ashamed of any of it...there was some
+ good work done in all of those shows...it's just when I look back at them,
+ it's like looking back at anything you did; your brain goes into vapor
+ lock.  You're tooling along the B5 freeway, minding your own business, and
+ somebody suddenly tosses a Jayce into the middle of the road, and your
+ brain trips over it for a moment.
+
+      About six, seven months ago, I dragged out some of the old animated
+ stuff, and while some of it has worn, a lot of it still plays pretty
+ well.  Out of dozens of episodes, I think there are only 3 or so that I'd
+ like to eliminate from the known universe.  (One of them is the CBS
+ Storybreak I wrote, adapting "The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek," which
+ I finally got to see after 5 years, much to my regret.)
+
+      For anyone who cares:
+
+      HE-MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE - a dozen or more episodes
+      SHE-RA, PRINCESS OF POWER - ditto
+      JAYCE AND THE WHEELED WARRIORS - ditto
+      THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS - close to 20 episodes
+
+      I think that's all of them.  Developed ELFQUEST for CBS, but it
+ never got near the air, and one syndicated show that got so perverted by
+ the producers, in a bad way, that I took my name off the series.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 15 1994
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+
+     I believe the episode title in "Jayce" was "Final Ride at Journey's End."
+Someone wants revenge, sets things in motion, realizes to his horror that
+innocents will be killed, and sacrifices his own life to stop his own actions.
+
+     What would Elfquest have been like?  Like the books.  I figure my job in
+adapting something is to stay as close as possible to the original source, and
+not mess with it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Actually, the eps I wrote for AW were never released; they were part of
+the batch done for the last season, which never got aired or released.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 10 1994
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+
+     There are definitely PPG assault rifles, which are visible in  "Grail."
+They can fire faster than pistols, but I don't think they could handle the
+power-buildup to fire 3-6 per second.  That's definitely slug-thrower turf.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Correct, PPG bursts don't bounce off walls/ricochet, or penetrate walls,
+which would imperil others.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1994
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+
+     I'm told there's also some kinda B5 panel on Friday...?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 11 1994
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+     Okay, as I understand it, given a call today from the mysterious  Nancy
+with SDCC, my main panel/episode showing will be Friday, from 2-4 p.m.  I'd
+originally figured that there should be two panels, one a straightforward
+panel, the other mainly a showing, but they got jammed into one.  Initially
+they'd slated it for 3 hours, 2-5, but I can't see subjecting *anyone* to
+three hours in a chair.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 13 1994
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+     Yeah, I'd *really* wanted Saturday afternoon, and pressed for it,  but
+was told that it was booked (thus breaking the Saturday tradition).
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Lurkers is indeed a net reference.  Bill Mitchell from "Sky" is a
+reference to General Billy Mitchell; Walker Smith is the real name of Sugar
+Ray Robinson.
+
+     Just a couple to keep the ball rolling.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 05 1994
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+
+     Nearly all of our production crew appear in "By Any Means Necessary" at
+various spots; the guy yelling "I say we STRIKE!" is our director, Jim
+Johnston.  And yes, John Flinn was played by John Flinn, our DP.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1994
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+
+     Well, it was certainly based on the "classic" UFO alien design, yes.
+(And if there's a saucer parked in front of the B5 offices tomorrow, I'm not
+going in.)
+
+     Both Christy Marx and Kathryn can both be *briefly* seen in the pilot
+movie as BG in the casino...and in the main titles, Kathryn's back is to the
+camera in the wide downshot, though you really can't make it out well in that
+one.  Also in the montage in the pilot movie, seated at the bar under
+narration, the fellow with the beard, is art director John Iacovelli.]
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Boy, the most obscure reference in the bunch...yeah, I slipped some spoo
+in there once.  A couple of real cute (as in wanna drop a truck on them cute)
+elf-types offer Skeletor a bowl of Spoo.  His reply: (in a mincing tone to
+start) "No, I don't want any SPOOOOOOO.  I *hate* Spoo. (beat)  And I don't
+even know what Spoo IS."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1994
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+
+     Okay, real simple question.  Long discourses and discussions will only
+confuse me and, finally, scare the hell out of me.
+
+     Should I buy the Dell Dimension XPS P90 now, or wait for the 604 chip to
+come out with the Power PCs in the fall?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 10 1994
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+
+     Okay...so if you re-buy every 4 years, what the hell does one do with
+one's old computers?
+
+          jm(who still has two old Kaypro systems sitting here)s
+

+
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+     I want a computer big enough to rule the world.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+
+     Can I get SCSI installed with the computer from Dell?  Does PCI take the
+place of SCSI?  Will Jeff marry Sally?
+
+     Question: the Native American practice of "wars" in which you bonk each
+other with gourds while riding on horseback, not really hurting  anyone but
+racking up points...that's called "counting coup," yes?
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+

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+
+     Can I ask for more elucidation about what was shown in the trailer for
+the episode after "Grail?"
+
+     If Londo was mentioned, there may be a glitch, since he doesn't appear in
+either "Eyes" or "Legacies," the next couple up.  Ah doesn't understand....
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1994
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+
+     After "Grail," we had a discussion with Chris about funny music.  We do
+not anticipate further discussions.  (In a full season of music for B5, this
+is the only discussion we've had of a critical nature, which is extraordinary
+for any series; he's done a lot of wonderful work for us.
+ In the two-parter, btw, he went absolutely full-out and gave us some of the
+best scoring of the season...gorgeous stuff, second only to either "Sky" or
+"Chrysalis.")
+
+     Mike: re: being "more realistic" in representing alien life...you show it
+to me, and I'll do it.  For now, we don't know *what* is "realistic."  Maybe
+crop circles are a wonderful forgery, abductions a psychological aberration,
+and saucers mass hysteria.  And maybe they're not.  As someone noted, the
+universe is not only stranger than we know, it is stranger than we *can* know.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1994
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+     On the feeder being sentient...neither Sinclair nor anyone else on "our"
+side of the story ever heard it speaking; all they knew was that it was a
+killer, and it was dangerous, and had to be stopped.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 10 1994
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+     RE: the PPGs...sorry, Kiwi, I don't agree with you.  We *have* shown burn
+marks on clothing...in fact you'll get a good look at it in several upcoming
+episodes.  Those who've seen "Quality of Mercy" can vouch for that one alone.
+And they do leave *brief* trails, but remember they are moving very fast,
+almost too fast for the eye to see.  These aren't rays, like phasers, they're
+bursts of superheated plasma.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 11 1994
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+     Yep, virtual ship.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     Thanks.
+
+     Hey, a guy's gotta have *some* fun....
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 13 1994
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+     BTW...about the time we were delivering "Eyes," somebody on one of the
+nets was going on and on about how "B5 continuity *stinks*...I'll bet we NEVER
+hear about Deathwalker again, or the strike, or the Vorlons killing
+Deathwalker, or Raghesh 3...."
+
+     And seeing what was at that moment on my TV, I wanted to reach through
+the computer monitor, roll up my forefinger, and *plink* that person right
+upside the nose.
+
+     Unfortunately, I have not yet found a modem program that supports this
+feature.
+
+     But Ron is promising me something by the Fall....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Actually, we thought about it, but we covered that in an earlier episode
+this season -- I think it was "War Prayer" -- so decided against it.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 14 1994
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+     Okay...I'm about to lose my temper, so anyone who doesn't want to see it,
+skip to the next message.
+
+     Y'know, I am getting so goddamned tired of people who have no frame of
+reference beyond the latest STAAAAAAAR TREEEEEEEKKKKKK episode labeling stuff,
+to use the phrase uptopic, "little more than a remake of a TNG episode."  Tell
+me, do you *really* think that STAAAAAARRRR TREEEKKKKKKK invented the internal
+investigations/trial story?  If not, I have about 30 movies and a hundred or
+so books to show you.
+
+     The logic of any such investigation is that you're going to come in, and
+you're going to pull in the head of security because that person has
+information you're going to need.  What, do you think Star Trek thunk that up?
+It's SOP in such situations.  But because we did it, that makes it Star Trek.
+
+
+     Are you aware that neither I, nor Larry, ever *saw* "The Drumhead?" So
+now  you tell me how we make this "little more than a remake."
+
+     Further...you don't think.   Damn it, you don't *think* about what you're
+saying.  You just type it in.  Someone who owns the RIGHTS to a story can do a
+REMAKE.  If you lift a story from another series and to it (do it) yourself,
+that's not a remake, that's theft.  That's called plagiarism.  You in essence
+call Larry a thief.  Dance around it all you want to, that's what plagiarism
+*is*.  And that's *precisely* what you accuse in your message.
+
+     Because YOU don't have a frame of reference outside TNG, suddenly Larry's
+a thief.
+
+     Let me state this clearly, so the less synaptically enabled will be able
+to understand it: I do not watch ST in any of its incarnations.  I have no
+desire to do any story that TNG has done.  If I discover that any story we do
+comes close, I try to change it.  My operating theory is that a proper B5
+story would be undoable in the ST universe.  We do NOT do "remakes" of TNG
+episodes.  I did not work seven years of my damned life  to do "remakes" of
+TNG episodes, and I resent the hell out of this crap, which floats to the top
+of the discussion every once in a while, usually from people who should maybe
+watch something other than TNG once in a while and broaden out their
+repertoire.
+
+     If TNG did or did not do a story similar to us is irrelevant to th4e fact
+that we DO NOT do TNG remakes, and we DO NOT borrow stories from TNG, ever, at
+any time, for any reason.
+
+     In the last two weeks, I've had to defend David Gerrold who got hit by
+accusations that the premise for "Believers" was stolen from TNG because THEY
+did a story about religious parents who don't want their kid operated on for
+religious reasons, and lord KNOWS *they* originated that story...DC Fontana
+got a few of the same when "War Prayer" came out, and I'm getting just a
+little tired and cranky about people who do not fully grasp the implications
+of what they are talking about offhandedly saying it's a remake or was
+borrowed.  How'd you like it, Kiwi, if I sat here and casually accused you of
+shoplifting?  Or sleeping around on your wife or girlfriend?  Well, the
+accusation of plagiarism/story borrowing is no less offensive to *any* working
+writer.
+
+     Are we absolutely, crystal clear on this?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 15 1994
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+     Thanks; yeah, it's good to know that we don't seem to have, or need
+people jumping hoops to try and make things work or make sense.  It's a pretty
+good conversation (despite ye olde author's occasional crankiness).  If
+anything, I'm harder on the episodes than anyone else, since I know all the
+elements that might have been stronger or different, and I always, *always*
+want to go back one more time and tweak something, adjust something.  And for
+what it's worth...yeah, the pilot wasn't all it should've been.  But we've
+moved on, and I think so far the season has been very good.  Win, lose or
+draw, I think we've made a mark.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 15 1994
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+     Kiwi...you're full of it.  This has got nothing to do with  expressing
+negative opinions.  That's a dodge.  There's been plenty of negative opinion
+expressed here and elsewhere, along with all the positive stuff, and I haven't
+said a word about it.  And frankly I'm getting tired of people who mouth off
+about something in an offensive way, then saying when they get called on it
+that I'm trying to suppress  negative opinion.
+
+     And I'm not talking about comparisons here.  I'm addressing what you
+*specifically* wrote, that this was "little more than a remake of Drumhead."
+You didn't say that it explored the same themes, which  would've been fine,
+you didn't say that it stayed in the same areas as cop shows, which also
+would've been fine...you not only said that it was a remake, you then listed a
+point-by-point comparison.
+
+     You're the one dancing around semantics here.  I'm not tired of or
+discouraging comparisons, I'm tired of people who don't know what the hell
+they're talking about saying that we're ripped off/remade/borrowed a Star Trek
+story.  Which is what you said.  It's right there in the message.  It's got
+nothing to do with negative opinions, and everything to do with a false
+accusation on your part.
+
+     You don't like it?  Fine.  But I have a tendency to prefer the truth,
+stated harshly, to a falsehood stated casually.
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     The other thing about "Eyes," btw, is that it's not something dumped in
+outta nowhere to make a conflict; it's the direct payoff of events that take
+place throughout the season where Sinclair breaks or bends the rules.  Lots of
+people on the various nets said, "Yeah, there he goes, breaking the rules in
+the strike, but is this every gonna pay off?  No, probably not."  If we're
+consistent with reality, and with our story, and Sinclair's broken some rules,
+and pissed off some people back home, then it is *inevitable* that this will
+eventually come home to roost in the form of an investigation.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     "Memo to myself: don't ever compare an episode of B5 to an episode of
+Star Trek without first researching the entirety of written fiction for non-
+Trek precedents."
+
+     That's a snotty response that has nothing to do with the issue that I
+gigged you on.  You can compare anything to anything, I really don't care.
+All that I have asked you to do is be aware of your language when you accuse
+someone of stealing something?  Why is that so difficult for you to grasp?
+
+     You keep trying to distort my point into something that it's not, and I
+have no intention of letting you get away with it.  You said we did a remake
+of an ST episode.  You didn't discuss the issues, you said it was a remake.
+You implied the story was lifted from ST.  That is what you said.  I'm sorry
+if it's now inconvenient for you, or that you got your nose caught in the
+doorjam, but words mean what they mean, not what you want them to mean.
+
+     And I find it very telling that when confronted, you announced that your
+only options were to slink off or throw this in my face.  Odd that you
+wouldn'd consider something like, "Sorry, it wasn't my intention to indicate
+that Larry had stolen the idea.  I regret if that was implied."
+
+     Guess that never even occured to you, did it?
+
+     You can dance around re-interpretations all you want, Halliwell, but your
+comment was rude, and pejorative, and an insult to Larry, and by association
+to me.  And it's got nothing to do with comparisons or the entirety of written
+fiction.  And that's clear to every person here but you.  You're evading and
+backing and filling.
+
+     You get very cavalier here about other people, about the work that others
+do, their talents or lack thereof...you're always the first in line to
+criticize somebody...but you don't much like it when it's you, do you?  Why
+should I treat you with any more respect than you treat others?  Now, on
+another day, maybe I'd just turn the other cheek, which  I do a *lot* around
+here, and let it go.  But today, now, here, I don't much feel like it.  Maybe
+I've heard this line once too often from people, and you're just the latest
+one to get in my face with it.  Either way, maybe you'll learn something about
+running one's mouth, and that words have meaning, and if you accuse somebody
+of remaking somebody else's idea, you'd damned well better be prepared to back
+it up, or back off and apologize.
+
+     Or is even that modicum of civilized behavior completely beyond your
+comprehension?
+
+     We'll know in your next post whether you intend to act like a man, or a
+weasel.  It's your call.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+This file includes a compilation of posts on GEnie by J. Michael
+Straczynski in the Babylon 5 category.  The posts are copyright by JMS
+(and compilation copyright is by GEnie). 
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     The first batch of mugs are from (you'll pardon the expression) Creation.
+
+     Currently about 2/3rds finished writing a second-season ep called
+"Revelations," and though I've written and commissioned others already, this
+one's sizing up to be a major ass-kicker from a story perspective.
+Definitely the flip-side of "Chrysalis."  Some really, really nice stuff.
+
+     The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be very
+careful how much you use him, and what he says.  Too much and he loses his
+sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting fortune-cookie  type
+aphorisms.  He has a very deliberate way of speaking in which  everything,
+every smallest nuance and inflection means something, but sometimes not what
+it appears to mean, or comes at it from a very different angle than normal
+conversation.  So I go as minimalist as possible, to get the meaning down to
+the smallest number of words possible.  And in one scene, one of only two he
+appears in, I got him down to *one word*, and that one word -- and it's a
+totally inoffensive, neutral word on its own terms -- should scare the hell
+out of *everybody*.
+
+     Ah loves this show....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Telepaths are the ultimate minority, and when it comes to the use of
+their talents, and the protection of the rights of the hysterical majority,
+their rights don't mean a whole hell of a lot.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Yes, Mary Jo is Christian Slater's mom.  She keeps nudging us about an
+appearance, since he loves SF.  We'll see.
+
+     And also correct...the majority of freelance scripts we commission don't
+tend to need a lot of revision.  Certainly not after the first go round.  DC's
+first script needed a bit of work, but that was mainly because she was still
+feeling her way around the characters and the show.  Her second script came in
+almost letter perfect; move around a few commas and that's about it.  And her
+outline for her next script, for season two, is very cool.
+
+     Funny story.  Saw Ed Wasser ("Morden") the other day, and asked him if
+he'd had any reaction to his first appearance on the show.  Just one, he said.
+He was in a florist shop, picking out some stuff for a friend who was sick.
+The proprieter came over, asked, "What do you want?"  Ed sorta mumbled about
+wanting some flowers.  "What do you want?" the owner asked again.  Ed -- still
+not getting it -- said he was looking for some nice stuff for a friend who was
+sick.  "Yes, but what do you *want*?" the owner asked.  At which point Ed
+finally twigged to what was going on.  He said afterward that it really *is*
+an unnerving approach, which was kinda the point.
+
+     Of course, the owner then added that he thought the scene was from DS9,
+but what the hell, it's an imperfect universe.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1994
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+     We're re-doing *all* of our computer displays for next year, using some
+nifty graphic designs.  Part of the problem is that the boys at Foundation
+were doing the displays, and they were swamped doing our main CGI, so that
+kinda fell by the wayside.  This year we've got someone who does ONLY our
+computer screens with us in-house.
+
+     Glad you liked the series font, btw; I picked it out me own self.   It's
+Serpentine Medium, for anyone interested.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1994
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+     Yeah, just about all of our monitor stuff in scenes is done live on the
+stage, rather than in post; gives it a nice sense of reality, I think.
+
+     Re: serpentine medium...about 75% of the reason I picked that font was
+because it looked cool, and 25% because I liked the name and the image it
+brings to mind.
+
+     Re: telepathy...yes, it's bordered and proscribed by physical
+limitations, in many ways; the closer you are, the better you can do.   Even
+Bester, in "Mind War," noted that he could shut Ironheart down, "but we have
+to be on a line-of-sight to do it."  They couldn't just broadcast it into the
+ether, he had to be *there* in front of them.
+
+     The whole telepathy issue is an interesting one in the universe of B5.
+There have always been attempts to prove the existence of telepathy, but in
+general the findings have been inconclusive.  But about 125 years or so ago in
+B5's timeline (2100-2110 and thereabouts) the findings began suddenly to tilt,
+and full-blown telepaths began to be discovered.  There were some abortive and
+confused attempts to legislate around this, most of which failed or were
+overturned in various courts of law.  About 2150 or so, the government
+agencies that regulated and oversaw telepaths were rolled over into the newly
+established Psi Corps, which became a clearing house for locating,
+controlling, and licensing telepaths for commercial, some very restricted
+legal, and military purposes.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 18 1994
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+     Yes, a businessman can insist on having his own telepath present, or can
+ask not to be scanned during negotiations...though it is a sign that one has
+something to hide, and might screw the deal.  Sinclair could have asked for a
+telepath on his side, but 1) that wasn't the issue, it was allowing NO
+telepath to have that access, and 2) would've requird a Psi Corps military
+liaison-type telepath, and none were available on station.
+
+                                                      jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 19 1994
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+     There's definitely a crew mess, which you can see in "Babylon Squared,"
+and a couple of other episodes.  Next season you'll also be seeing our
+Officer's Club.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 21 1994
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+     Of course those two options are profoundly unfair.  Some elements of
+EarthGov are very unfair.  Some elements of *our* government are very unfair.
+So now we see what this does to people, and how they react.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 21 1994
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+     (hrrmmmm...looks like my internet gateway is down again....)
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+                                                          jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 22 1994
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+     One of the Kosh guesses in this category is correct.
+
+     But I'm not telling you which one, or which topic it appears in.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 24 1994
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+     Re: sound in space...I sent out the word to just about everyone to get a
+consensus on this issue.  And I got back some surprising responses from a
+number of physicists, including none other than Freeman Dyson.  The SF
+community has always accepted, unquestioningly, almost as a shibboleth, the No
+Sound In Space Is Possible theory.  But what came back from Dyson and others
+says, basically, that this ain't necessarily the case.
+
+     Eventually, I'll get around to collating all the info and uploading it
+here.  (But as one example, if a ship of very large size explodes, the
+atmosphere within will expand outward, carrying with it the sound of the
+explosion.  It will fizzle fairly quickly, but if you're within the range of
+the expanding bubble of air and sound, you'll hear something.   Also, if a
+ship explodes, if you're outside the bubble, floating in space without a ship
+or a helmet, no, you won't hear it, but then that doesn't matter because
+you're dead.  If you're in another ship, outside the range of the expanding
+air curtain, you'll hear sounds as the debris, radiation and other effects of
+the explosion strike your hull, causing it to ring or otherwise reflect the
+sound.)
+
+     In any event, I think that this particular shibboleth is going to  have
+to be reconsidered.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2716.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2716.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 24 1994
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+     Nothing scanned by a telepath is admissible in court per se.
+
+                                                    jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2717.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2717.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 28 1994
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+     Neither "Quality," "Babylon Squared" nor "Chrysalis" start with someone
+coming to the station.
+
+                                                       jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2718.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2718.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1994
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+     We digitally isolated the image of the bike driving away, and then
+composited it into the shot.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2719.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2719.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1994
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+     Correct...Internal Investigations = II's = Eyes.
+
+                                                                     jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2720.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2720.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 23 1994
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+     I try not to hype shows that I like unless I know beyond a doubt that
+it's absolutley kickp-ass.  I like "Voice" a lot; it is the point at which we
+really start cranking, speeding things up as we barrel toward "Chrysalis."  I
+think the CGi is nothing less than terrific, Christopher Franke went balls-to-
+the-wall and did an *amazing* job with the music, the performances are good.
+I like it a lot.  I haven't commented upon it a lot because it's kind of the
+weird child in the brood; when I write, I generally write tight and fast.  By
+the third act, you're *moving*.  In this case, you have to pace yourself out
+*very* differently, so part of my brain keeps doing this "c'mon, speed it up,
+speed it up" when I'm watching the first part because I'm used to a different
+one-hour kind of pacing.
+
+     Kathryn says I'm nuts.  But then this is nothing new.
+
+     Anyway, I do think it's pretty cool, and does a lot with virtual sets and
+composite sets.
+
+     Yesterday, I got the final air-check versions of "Babylon Squared" and
+"Chrysalis" to QC before delivering them to PTEN.  Watched both of them three
+times in the same day.  They're just stunning.  Probably the two best episodes
+of the entire season.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2721.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2721.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 23 1994
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+     Yeah...I love Londo's song, that whole scene.  The director wanted to cut
+Ivanova's coda after her mantra, but I really felt we needed it, and it played
+perfectly with her Russian character, which tends to have this unusual
+relationship with higher forces (he said vaguely).  I love character based
+humor, because it's very powerful once you know the characters, and it can
+really blind-side you if done right.  Ivanova's reaction in the core area was
+about as real as would probably happen, but it's funny to hear her *say* it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2722.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2722.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 24 1994
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+     Basically, I thought "Legacies" was pretty good, all things considered.
+I'd put it at around the center of the pack.  It didn't exactly leap off the
+boards at me, but I didn't have any major problems with it, as I did with, for
+instance, "Infection."  (Like the CGI composite shot of the rotunda, looking
+out at the garden before panning down a lot.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2723.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2723.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 24 1994
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+
+     Generally, that stuff is generated by Ron's elves, since they do the
+rendering and have the specs on-line, and yes, that stuff will show up in the
+CDRom.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2724.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2724.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 24 1994
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+     How did I get what CD of my CGI?  I'm not sure I understand the question.
+
+     The CD Rom (I believe these are two separate issues) will be out from
+Compton's around January or so.
+
+     And yeah, we definitely gave Ron's elves a workout on this one....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2725.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2725.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1994
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+     This ought to mess you up...take all the stuff we learn and stuff we do
+in "Voice," multiply the whole two hours times two, and  you get some idea of
+what's in "Babylon Squared" and "Chrysalis."  The latter is the closest thing
+I've ever seen to a blipvert...yikes!
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2726.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2726.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1994
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+     How does one come up with stuff like Londo's song?  Easy, really; you
+start by putting yourself in the position of an alien trying to understand us.
+And if you step back for a second, we do some *very* weird stuff.  What he
+says about the song is exactly right in terms of its meaning.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2727.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2727.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 27 1994
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+     Tom: I just think that you gotta push the car to its limits, and beyond,
+and beyond, cranking it further and further until your buttons fly off, the
+windshield cracks, the roof buckles and the doors blow off.   That, to me, is
+a *ride*.  And I want B5 to be a *ride*.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2728.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2728.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 28 1994
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+     And there we get into the contradiction; Ivanova and Sinclair down on the
+planet would be mainly more run-and-jump...Draal talking about his feelings,
+Delenn showing she is upset that her friend is going away and will never be
+seen by her again, their obvious friendship, that to me is characterization.
+And not just throwaway stuff, either, but important down the road.
+
+     But hey, what do I know....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2729.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2729.html
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+
+     "...a few minutes of Sinclair and Ivanova telling each other what's going
+on in their heads while they explore the city."
+
+     *zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*nort
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2730.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2730.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 28 1994
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+     On the question of dialogue, this comes under the heading of General
+Editorializing, not directed to anyone in particular....
+
+     I love monologues.  They are a legitimate part of any drama.  The MTV
+generation has had its tastes so thoroughly bastardized by quick cuts,
+lowering the attention span further and further, that any bite of more than
+ten seconds and they start to wander, it becomes a block of words and they
+blur out.
+
+     Go rent Network by Paddy Chayefsky, watch nearly any of the TZs by Rod
+Serling, go see "The Lady's Not for Burning" by Christopher Fry...all
+chockablock with moments where you park for a moment and let fly with a chunk
+of dialogue that smashes your head against the wall.  Not every single
+exchange has to be foreshortened so that you lose the *impact* of what's being
+said.  Because people's attention spans have been greatly foreshortened,
+suddenly more than 3 lines at a time is somehow viewed as wrong.  It ain't.
+Just that lots of folks are afraid to try it, afraid to rely on just the words
+and the actors.  And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.  But it's
+legitimate.
+
+     The monologue in particular, done right, isn't just to convey
+information, it's to create a mood, to paint pictures with words, to expand on
+the obvious.  Yeah, I could've just written, "The narns hate us, we hate them,
+it's equal math."  But that doesn't carry the same meaning, the same sense as
+"so here we are...victims of mathematics."  The use of the word "victim"
+connotes, hey, it's not my fault.  Yeah, the former is shorter, but you lose
+the rhythms, the imagery, and the *sense* of what is intended.  You could say,
+"The narn hate us."  But to say, "if the narns gathered together in one place,
+and hated, all at the same time, that hatred would fly across dozens of light
+years and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash," draws a picture, lends
+power to the emotion.
+
+     Point being...I like 'em, there's nothing wrong with them, and they're
+staying.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2731.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2731.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 29 1994
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+     Actually, sadly, that was Londo's first wife, who he was forced to
+divorce later.  Eventually I'll get into this.
+
+     Londo and Garibaldi really are two sides of the same coin, in some ways.
+There's an odd friendship there, almost grudging; Londo had little to gain by
+cheering up Garibaldi, except a drink perhaps, but that's what friends do.
+
+     Re: the XO and second going down...my theory is that there's a First
+Contact Protocol that doesn't currently exist because there's no need for it
+in the present.  No aliens yet.  The Earth/Minbari War started with a botched
+First Contact that nearly wiped out humanity.  You don't want junior officers
+anywhere even *near* the scene.  You send your two best, who are trained in
+FCP (which Sinclair referenced in "Soul Hunter," btw).  If they die, they're
+replaceable.  Earth isn't.
+
+     Two really great quotes above, btw.  We get some more nice ones in season
+two, in the first two episodes.  One is from Lincoln (a little bit about
+saving or losing the last best hope of Earth), the second from Yeats (what
+rough beast slouching toward Bethelehem, to be born).
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2732.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2732.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Yes, that building is in the Garden.  You can see buildings there in many
+shots, some better than others.  It's a big place.  The Fresh Air restaurant
+is also in the Garden area, and you can see buildings there in "Purple," also
+upcoming in "Quality."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2733.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2733.html
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+     Hey...sooner or later...boom.
+
+                                                              jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2734.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2734.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1994
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+     ...grumble mumble ramma framma overrated tradition bah humbug....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2735.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2735.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1994
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+
+     The address to send the photos is the generic B5 address:
+
+     14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Re: Jarvis...I have a little something planned in our first episode, just
+a little thing, really...a small stilletto between the ribs....
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2736.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2736.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 19 1994
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+     It's okay, both addresses will work fine.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2737.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2737.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 27 1994
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+
+     Thank you, thank you, *thank you* for giving me the name of the pinhead
+who's been spreading that information around.  I've been trying to backtrack
+it for a few weeks now.  It's been really infuriating because it simply ain't
+true.
+
+     Oh, good, this means tomorrow I get to call somebody up and yell at him.
+
+
+     I *enjoy* that.  There's nothing more wonderful in all the universe that
+a justified, righteous mad.  I get all tingly just thinking about it.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2738.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2738.html
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+
+     Filming begins on August 10th.  Probably some time next week I'll be able
+to give you the name.  We've pretty much closed the deal, after considerable
+and lengthy negotiation, but I don't want to come out with it just yet.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2739.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2739.html
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+
+     This is a terrible story, but Paul Simon, in an interview, swears that
+it's true.  Someone asked him about his songs.  He said he was in a restaurant
+down south, stopped in for a sandwich, long time ago.  Asked for a chicken and
+egg sandwich.  The waitress called back the request to the cook, "One mother
+and child reunion."
+
+     And that's where he got the title....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2740.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2740.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 19 1994
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+
+     Just did an on-camera interview for E! News Daily.  Expect to see this on
+the E! channel (if you get it) on the 25th of this month.  The topic: on-line
+services.  (Fairly straightforward introductory stuff, frankly.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2741.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2741.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1994
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+
+     Actually, would red light tend to produce red eyes, or green eyes?
+Through a red filter, red on red, everything would kinda vanish, yes?
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2742.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-07-16/2742.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 20 1994
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+
+     "JMS is not a god."
+
+     Oh, great, fine, you had to wait until AFTER they found the nails and
+hammer to mention that....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 23 1994
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+     Regarding why I generally don't respond to flirtings...does the name
+Bobbitt ring a bell?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Not yet, but we've been talking about it.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     No, they are not.
+
+     Any script broker selling copies of B5 scripts is doing so without
+permission.  They are engaging in copyright infringement.  The contents of the
+scripts belong to PTEN, but the physical copies belong to the writers, who get
+nothing out of this.  It ruins, for instance, Christy's chance to make a few
+dollars selling what is hers, if her script gets on the open market.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1994
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+     One of the things we're thinking of doing, once and if we can get this B5
+fan liaison office going, is to sell scripts from the show.  But unlike any
+other script house (and a certain other show that sells its scripts), the
+writers of the scripts sold will get a royalty off the sale of their scripts;
+or, if they don't want them sold, we won't do so.   And it won't be exclusive
+in any event.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 18 1994
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+     That is one of the things we hope to do with the B5 fan liaison office,
+when and if we can get it going; to help defray expenses, we think we can
+market a few things, including scripts of aired shows, with the proviso that
+the original writer gets a royalty off the scripts, and/or can opt not to have
+their script sold if they so desire.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 18 1994
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+     Probably within a month or so after being aired.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 23 1994
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+     The EA game fell through, for various and sundry reasons.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1994
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+     Yeah, I had the same conversation...suggested a structure rather like the
+Winds of War, set during the Earth/Minbari War, in that we have all of our
+characters in different places, seeing the story and the war from their
+perspectives, and how their paths intersect during that time in odd or
+unlikely ways.  Dell didn't think that was the way to go, that unless it was
+set in the present, people would feel disappointed.
+
+     Oh, well...eventually we'll get around to that part of the story.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 29 1994
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+
+     John: we discarded a title for this season, "A Trick of the Mind," which
+we changed to "A Spider in the Web."  The former, now available, might work
+well for the book.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+     Actually, the eps I wrote for AW were never released; they were part of
+the batch done for the last season, which never got aired or released.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 18 1994
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+
+     Didn't write it, your honor.  Had nothin' to do with it.  The ones I
+wrote (and the ones Larry wrote) are the only ones with single writing
+credits.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1994
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+
+     Insofar as I know, the designs entered in on the cruisers hasn't been
+modified at all, so I can't account for any perceived differences.  And I
+believe that the Minbari flyer used was the same model as Deathwalker used,
+though without checking the tapes I can't be 100% sure.  It's a fairly
+standard flyer.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1994
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+
+     San Diego Comic Con *Flash*.....I've been asked to do two major B5
+presentations (well, major in that I'll be there...which is kinda major, I
+guess...okay, maybe a lieutenant...second lieutenant...actually, it's not a
+big thing....) at the convention: one is still slated for that Friday from 2-4
+p.m., and they've added a second presentation from 11-1 Saturday.  (If you saw
+the Chicago presentation, there isn't much need to hustle to see the one on
+Friday; but you may want to be there for the Saturday one, which will be in a
+larger room.)
+
+     Possible that Bill Mumy will be there; don't know (doubt it) if Harlan
+will be able to show up in time; John Iacovelli (art/production designer
+extraordinaire) will try to show up for one of these.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     I'll tell you a true thing, and I'm not saying this to get any kind of
+reassurance or pats, this is the god's honest truth...I never  feel that way.
+If one of the cast shows up, if one of our other folks shows up, that's a big
+deal, from my perspective.  Me is just me, and I'm forever *astonished* when
+people actually show up.  I'm constantly sure that I'm going to go to the room
+and find that no one is there.  I'm told by people that I'm supposed to be
+some kind of "celebrity," whatever the hell THAT means this week...but I've
+never transitioned into accepting that notion.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
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+     Nothing that I know of, meself included.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+     I'd recommend Saturday.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+
+     Can I get SCSI installed with the computer from Dell?  Does PCI take the
+place of SCSI?  Will Jeff marry Sally?
+
+     Question: the Native American practice of "wars" in which you bonk each
+other with gourds while riding on horseback, not really hurting  anyone but
+racking up points...that's called "counting coup," yes?
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 18 1994
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+
+     (as he lay there on the mat, the referee counting slowly to ten, he
+decides whether to get up, and face another barrage, or just lay there
+contemplating how amazing the lights look from this perspective....)
+
+     My problem with my current system is that it works fine with the first
+item on the SCSI system, a rewriteable optical disk.  It's when I plug that
+into the second device, a 6-CD rom jukebox (Pioneer 604X) that suddenly the
+system begins resetting and resetting and resetting when I turn it on.  I can
+only make ti stop resetting by unplugging the jukebox.  There's not a conflict
+in the device number, that seems fine.  And insofar as I can tell, the
+terminatin switches are set fine.  Ultrastor thinks that a jumper of some kind
+needs to be installed on the car.
+
+     All I want...please...is a computer that I can plug in, not have to mess
+with, and will be able to do everything I want it to do with the DOS software
+(sorry, macs) that I've grown accustomed to.  It seems like every computer
+I've ever owned needs massaging, nudging, configuring, constant prayer and
+occasional exorcism.  I just want it to *work right* out of the box.  Is that
+really so much to ask?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Other stupid question moment.  Back in the 50s, there was an SF series
+called "Planet Patrol."  No, not "Space Patrol" (though that was what it was
+called in England), "Planet Patrol."  Aired in New York on WPIX.  We're
+talking here puppets, okay?  Cool martians and tube cars and rockets and space
+stations and stuff.  Used to watch the show all the time when I was a kid, and
+am looking for copies of the episodes.  (It was made in B&W.)  For *years*,
+nobody even believed it existed; it isn't in ANY book that I'm aware of.
+Finally, about 2 years ago, I got my hands on one copy of one episode from a
+contact, which wasn't much, but was enough to convince everyone from holding
+that planned sanity hearing.  It DOES (or did) exist.  So once every year or
+two, I put out the word...if anyone here has copies of this show, or knows
+where same can be gotten, I'd *very* much appreciate hearing about it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Kathy, it'd be great if you could find out.  Basically, if it's a show
+with real actors, it's not the show I'm looking for; if it's got puppets, then
+it is.  (Though sometimes I wonder at the distinction....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The entire Men Into Space series is available from Stephen M. Russo, Box
+3250, McCormack Station, Boston MA 02101-3250 (based on his ads in Filmfax and
+others).
+
+     Re: the video card, it's the #9GXEPro, a 64 bit card.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+
+     It *is* a PCI.  It's already been ordered.  And you may be thinking of
+the Omniplex; the Dimension was rated the highest on winmarks and sysmarks by
+every magazine I could get my hands on.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+     Pat: thanks.  Unfortunately, I really can't take the risk that everyone
+has seen all prior episodes; the information needed for episode B to be clear
+has to be included, even if it's a restatement of something we saw in a prior
+episode.  Otherwise, I don't think we're really playing fair with the
+audience, and people will start tuning out.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1994
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+
+     "Memo to myself: don't ever compare an episode of B5 to an episode of
+Star Trek without first researching the entirety of written fiction for non-
+Trek precedents."
+
+     That's a snotty response that has nothing to do with the issue that I
+gigged you on.  You can compare anything to anything, I really don't care.
+All that I have asked you to do is be aware of your language when you accuse
+someone of stealing something?  Why is that so difficult for you to grasp?
+
+     You keep trying to distort my point into something that it's not, and I
+have no intention of letting you get away with it.  You said we did a remake
+of an ST episode.  You didn't discuss the issues, you said it was a remake.
+You implied the story was lifted from ST.  That is what you said.  I'm sorry
+if it's now inconvenient for you, or that you got your nose caught in the
+doorjam, but words mean what they mean, not what you want them to mean.
+
+     And I find it very telling that when confronted, you announced that your
+only options were to slink off or throw this in my face.  Odd that you
+wouldn'd consider something like, "Sorry, it wasn't my intention to indicate
+that Larry had stolen the idea.  I regret if that was implied."
+
+     Guess that never even occured to you, did it?
+
+     You can dance around re-interpretations all you want, Halliwell, but your
+comment was rude, and pejorative, and an insult to Larry, and by association
+to me.  And it's got nothing to do with comparisons or the entirety of written
+fiction.  And that's clear to every person here but you.  You're evading and
+backing and filling.
+
+     You get very cavalier here about other people, about the work that others
+do, their talents or lack thereof...you're always the first in line to
+criticize somebody...but you don't much like it when it's you, do you?  Why
+should I treat you with any more respect than you treat others?  Now, on
+another day, maybe I'd just turn the other cheek, which  I do a *lot* around
+here, and let it go.  But today, now, here, I don't much feel like it.  Maybe
+I've heard this line once too often from people, and you're just the latest
+one to get in my face with it.  Either way, maybe you'll learn something about
+running one's mouth, and that words have meaning, and if you accuse somebody
+of remaking somebody else's idea, you'd damned well better be prepared to back
+it up, or back off and apologize.
+
+     Or is even that modicum of civilized behavior completely beyond your
+comprehension?
+
+     We'll know in your next post whether you intend to act like a man, or a
+weasel.  It's your call.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I believe it's a musical sound, rather than an EFX.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 27 1994
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+
+     The Starfuries are absolutely non-aerodynamic, and in the gravity well of
+a planet, would simply plummet; they're not set up to function within that
+kind of environment.  It isn't the re-entry, it's gravity and maneuvering once
+you're *in* the thing.
+
+     One sidelight to the speed question...it's sometimes hard to judge speed
+when there are no handy landmarks.  The shuttle moves with INCREDIBLE speed as
+it orbits Earth...but to look at it from any of the nearby cameras, when they
+do a spacewalk, you can't tell it's moving at ALL.  Basically, we're between a
+rock and a hard place; if we portrayed motion a la the Space Shuttle, nothing
+would seem to move; if we portrayed the pure speed AS pure speed, using some
+kind of landmarks or visual cues, it would go by SO fast that you *wouldn't be
+able to see it*.  If you're moving at 15 klicks a second...it's gone by the
+time you look at it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     The Mars Colony situation will be raising its ugly head on and off again
+for quite some time to come.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 28 1994
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+     As I recall, as we see Sinclair's ship descend, there are small rockets
+fired from the top of the nose, which points the nose down, and orients it
+toward atmospheric entry.
+
+     No, nothing was missing from the CGI shot that I know of.
+
+     Ivanova's line: "We don't know if we can find our way back or not," not
+that it was closed off.  So showing them wandering around to find another open
+tunnel seemed not dramatically interesting; you have to pick what's important
+and what's not, and what will work dramaticall on screen.  If she had said
+"there's no other way out," then you would've had to show it.  She didn't.
+One can also argue that the alien showed them which way to get out.  Either
+way...all you've got is one hour to tell your story.  You can't show
+everything, you have to let your audience assume some things.
+
+     Roy: there is a quantum difference between a computer game and a TV show.
+It's not "lowest common denominator," which means making the story stupid; I'm
+saying that if you showed the missiles at full speed, YOU WOULD NOT SEE THEM
+AT ALL.  And, again, there's nothing nearby with which to get a sense of how
+fast they're going, no landmarks, so it's very hard to convey that.  Again,
+look at space footage; the shuttle is going *incredibly* fast...but as far as
+we can tell it looks nearly motionless, because there are no landmarks.
+
+     Re: not explaining WHY the Starfuries can't enter the atmosphere, we did
+that.  Ivanova says that they're not built to function within an atmosphere.
+Now, I could stop the scene for a long dissertation on the relative
+aerodynamics of planes with wings vs. starfuries, but here you say only what
+you have to.  You show, don't tell.
+
+     It seems like in the same breath, it's accused of catering to the lowest-
+common denominator, and being over the head of its viewers by requiring them
+to *think* about what they're seeing.
+
+     Which means we're probably doing it right.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 29 1994
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+     No, a shuttle like this, which is designed to function in alternate
+atmospheres, and may have to evacuate groups, has about 7 standard or most
+common atmosphere cannisters.  Medlab has the same thing, but in larger
+numbers.  This is SOP on the show.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 31 1994
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+     No, the sets weren't redresses of regular sets; they were built new and
+entirely for the two-parter; you can get a better look at them in the second
+part, and some angles of the first.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Don't offhand know what you're referring to; will have to check.
+
+     It's J. Michael Straczynski because the first two let you gradully creep
+up on the last name in increasing increments.  To go from Joe to Straczynski
+in one jump in print always seemed to me a bit much.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Haven't seen the trailer for B-squared; hope nothing much is given away.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yeah, the audio thing with Talia is something I thought of during the
+final audio mix.  We wanted to convey somehow her trying to get through and
+initially it was just distortion.  Then I figured, wait a second, she is going
+to be thinking what she's going to say before she says it, why not pre-lap the
+dialogue?  Unfortunately, for some damned reason, the high-tech studio wasn't
+set up to do that effect, so we took Talia's dialogue, digitized it, laid it
+in on a second side track, and played the one over the other, one preceding
+the other by I think about 20 frames or so.  The key was to make the *second*
+voicing the one synched to her lips, not the first one.  Worked out pretty
+cool.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+     In at least some of those cases, Kiwi, it's not writer's laziness; you're
+not paying attention.  Delenn knew the ship was coming in at the top of the
+episode; when she realized that the gun ports were open, she went immediately
+to Sinclair.  Story logic.  Also story logic for the appearance of Sinclair
+and Garibaldi at the cargo bay; they didn't just "wander in," they determined
+what had happened, and went there knowing that there was a Minbari transport
+about to head out.
+
+                                                              jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 22 1994
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+
+     Actually, Anne, I don't agree...I'd say that the majority of comments
+come with constructive observations.  You get unvarnished "it's perfect,
+change nothing," about as often as "it sucks, change everything."  Those are
+rare individuals.  Mostly you get something in between.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 22 1994
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+     The use of insulting language does not guarantee a response from me.
+What it does guarantee is contempt.
+
+     It also takes a breathtaking degree of stupidity to want to take on a
+writer, any decent writer really, in a written medium.
+
+     Re: the question at hand...no there was still plenty of room for docking.
+It's hard to gauge distances because of the sheer *size* of the station and
+the cruiser.  
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Generally, the religious caste takes precedence over the warrior caste.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     From cradle to grave, the Minbari are taught that there is no greater
+goal, no nobler thing than to serve.  They are raised to be totally self-
+sacrificing.  The only exception is when someone in the religious caste
+believes he or she has received a calling, which if sincerely felt cannot be
+contravened (since usually this too involves serving).  So for a Minbari
+telepath, this is their means by which they may serve, and they are given
+great respect.  It never even occurs to them to do otherwise.
+
+     Lately, there has been a bit of a change brewing; "a self-involvement
+above the needs of others" (as someone notes in "Voice") that has begun
+creeping into the Minbari race.  And they're not happy about it.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     It's bone, growing from the back of the head outward.
+
+     Originally, this ep was to be broadcast later in the run, because I
+didn't want two PsiCorps episodes back-to-back, and for one little detail that
+will become clearer after "Babylon Squared" airs; it would've been better to
+have followed that episode, but again, these eps are made to be watched in
+just about any order, so it's okay in the long run.
+
+                                                              jms
+
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+                         **** Announcement ****
+
+     Since this information has now been released to the press, and will
+already begin showing up on the news wires by the time I write this, I can now
+make the following announcement.
+
+     The new Commanding Officer for Babylon 5 will be Captain John Sheridan,
+former commanding officer of the Agamemmnon, a deep space Earthforce military
+cruiser, where he was stationed for the last two years.  During the
+Earth/Minbari war, he scored arguably the only real victory in that war, the
+destruction of the Minbar War Cruiser Black Star, and several accompanying
+vessels, through slightly unconventional means.   He has been appointed to B5
+over the strongly-voiced objections of the Minbari Government, which still
+holds a considerable grudge over the Black Star incident.  But the President
+feels strongly that the Minbari have had too much influence in B5, and that
+this has to be reined in.
+
+     Captain John Sheridan will be portrayed by the highly-regarded actor
+Bruce Boxleitner, who starred in "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," such miniseries as
+"East of Eden," "Till We Meet Again," "From the Dead of Night," "The Gambler
+V," and has appeared in such feature films as "The Babe."  Bruce is also a
+long-time SF fan, both in media and print.  He is excited about joining the
+Babylon 5 team, and we're equally excited to have him.  Bruce begins filming
+with our first episode, "Points of Departure," starting August 10th.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     (sigh...internet gateway always goes down when I want to hear some
+reactiosn to stuff....)
+
+     (Er, reactions.)
+
+     Re: Ivanova lines...how about Susanalia?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Lynn: of course we're going to tie it together.  Right in the first
+episode.  The story is still tracking.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Well, while here in San Diego for ComicCon (logging in via laptop) I was
+surprised to receive an Inkpot Award at the SDCC banquet for the body (and
+presumably the soul) of my work to date on various shows including B5.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+     Well, the "Danger Zone" tape that I played was courtesy of  J.Hudgens
+(Fenn), so you may want to ask him about it.
+
+                                                         jms
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+     Well, tomorrow, at 8 a.m., filming for Season Two of BABYLON 5 begins in
+earnest (minus one establisher the Monday preceding, and a shot we got a
+couple months ago).  Today I saw a camera test of Bruce in his Captain's
+uniform, standing in the Bazaar (a new set).  Looks great.  He has rather
+reddish hair, which contrasts well with the blue (okay, teal) uniform.  The
+uniform was still being sewed, and had the tailor's marks, and loose threads,
+and was still being modified (we're making some small tailoring changes to
+make the uniforms fit better and read better on camera, and to start
+introducing some almost subliminal changes in the way you perceive the Earth
+Alliance)...but it looked great, he was very much at his ease, and this was
+the first frame of film shot for year two.
+
+     The stories are shaping up to be very exciting; things are going to move
+a LOT faster this season, now that we've established our universe in fair
+detail.  It lets us concentrate on our characters.  Some fun titles for
+you..."The Customer is Always Right," "The Very Long Night of Susan Ivanova,"
+"Unnatural Selection," "A Race Through Dark Places," and others.
+
+     It's often hard to get excited about stuff, because you're in the middle
+of it all, racing from one thing to another...but I think I'm now getting a
+little excited, as the reality finally sinks in.  Until the day you start
+rolling film, it's all theoretical.  Now it becomes real.
+
+     So tomorrow commences "Points of Departure."
+
+     The ride begins again.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Second year narration will be Sheridan.  Third year probably either
+Ivanova or Delenn.  Fourth year G'Kar.  Fifth year...possibly no one.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     I don't know what's in the TBA slot.  It was initially put in on the off-
+chance that we could convince PTEN to show "Chrysalis" early.  As for
+videotapes...probably later in the Fall.
+
+                                                          jms
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+
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+
+     The internet stuff is, btw, somewhat exaggerated; a bunch of people in
+the same market (Cincinnati) noticed the change, and in some cases didn't get
+the information right.  (They said it was being dropped, when in fact it was
+being time-shifted to Saturday afternoons and Sunday late (very) evenings.)
+This is nothing anywhere near serious enough to warrant anybody writing
+anyone.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+     Well, actually, I'm not entirely sure that that's true, that's all.
+"The Quality of Mercy" is a smaller, character-based story, not a big blow-
+out; in fact, it has virtually NO CGI, and no arc stuff.  It's a nice, fairly
+enclosed little story.
+
+     The problem that one encounters, given the specific kind of series we're
+doing here, is that the major stories have to have every single little detail
+dead right, and they're filled with zillions of little clues that only I know.
+To usher a freelancer through that process would require VAST amounts more
+hand-holding than on the personal stories.  And as a result, the freelancers
+*prefer* to do those stories (from wha  they've told me) because they have a
+LOT more latitude to pursue the story where they might like to take it; if
+they do a major arc story/blowout, the parameters are MUCH more strict.
+
+     One other aspect to all this is that big EFX stories can be hideously
+expensive, unless you know exactly how to write it to avoid that.  You can
+write it one way, and it stays in budget; you can write it anther way and
+literally be tens of thousands of dollars over budget.  Because I work very
+closely with the production people, I can turn out a first draft that is
+generally spot-on, money-wise; with a freelancer, who doesn't know the
+parameters, you have to *massively* overhaul the first drafts of a big story
+to bring it down to something you can produce.  (Even Larry has this problem;
+"Deathwalker" in particular was originally 'way beyond what we could do, and
+had to be made producible.)
+
+     Anyway, those are the reasons you generally tend to see my name on the
+Blowout episodes.  But in many ways, I prefer the smaller ones, and this
+coming season I'll be doing more of those.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Re: narration...yes, the plan is to change it each year, partly because
+it needn't convey the same information every year, partly because it should be
+somewhat from each person's individual point of view.
+
+                                                           jms
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+
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+     Mr. T -- force field technology is nowhere within Earth's grasp in 2258.
+(In fact, I don't know for sure that ANY of our races have that particular
+tech at the level you're describing.)
+
+     Also, the second you put that up, if there were such things, then you
+know the station could never be in danger...and suddenly you'd have to start
+finding ways to *disable* the system, have it break down, to have any real
+jeapordy.
+
+     Besides, the jump gate is only used to save energy; any ship big enough
+to pose a real threat to B5 could make its own jump point...and you can't
+build a force field everywhere.
+
+     At any given day, someone on the LA freeway can turn around and see
+somebody with a gun pull up alongside.  Life is dangerous.  B5 reflects that.
+The more implausible safeguards you come up with because you want a nice,
+safe, riskless society, the more elaborate nonsense you have to go through to
+circumvent those safeguards to have any dramatics.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+     By the standards of general society, yes, TV writers are hideously
+overpaid.  By the standards of the revenue generated by what these same TV
+shows make for the studios...they are vastly *under*paid.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     ANYONE who says that "it is easy to write an impressive speech" has never
+had to write one.  And I'm sorry, but people *do* speak in blocks from time to
+time and it's PART of a dialogue.  There are no monologues of the kind you
+describe, Jim, which consists of one person talking alone in a room.  They are
+always part of a dialogue, they ARE dialogue, period.  You seem to think that
+dialogue is one sentence from A, one sentence from B, another from A.
+Sometimes it is.  Sometimes it ain't.
+
+     Londo was not alone in the room delivering a monologue about the Narns;
+he was responding to a point raised by Delenn and explaining the situation.
+Sometimes that takes more than one sentence.  As far as I can remember, I
+don't think I've ever had a conversation in my entire life where nobody ever
+said more than three sentences at one time.  You sometimes have to break in,
+"Let me get in a word in edgewise here."
+
+     That is PART of dialogue.  You may not like it.  That's your business.
+ But if you say it's not dialogue, I'm sorry, but you're simply, flatly and
+irredeemably wrong.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     They haven't built 5 Babylon stations.  The first three were
+sabotaged/damaged during the *very* early stages of construction; they never
+got very far with them, so the cost was minimal.  Only #4 was completed, very
+expensive.  When that vanished, they decided to scrimp and (with Minbari
+additional funding) built a half-assed B5; there will never be a B6.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Yes, in 7 days, we see B4.
+
+     (Do I live to please, or what?)
+
+     Had two Susan russianisms in the two-parter, they slipped past; I
+generally keep them more distinct.  I don't think there are any more for the
+rest of the season.
+
+     RE: similarity in initials...well, a creator has to take some liberties
+in character identification....
+
+     RE: casting Boxleitner and differences in how the character fits in...he
+fits tighter into the events of year two than Sinclair would have, in terms of
+being on B5, due to the desire to increase some of the tension on-station.
+The questin of who you can really trust starts to take on weight next season.
+Also, Sinclair's place of relocation will allow us to bring in some new
+elements that you'll start spotting about mid-season (we'll see who notices
+them first; they'll be in the background to start, then move forward).  And,
+again, we can broaden out the storyline.
+
+     A *lot* of people were considered for this role...because you have to
+look at all of the possibilities, and from there find the one person most
+suited to your show.  Some of the other people who were on the list were
+Anthony Andrews, James Earl Jones, Roger Reece, A. Martinez...but the one name
+that really kept coming to the top of the list, who both Doug and I wanted the
+most, was Bruce.  He has all the right attributes for the character, and Doug
+has worked with him before, knowing him to be a nifty guy...good with people,
+a hard worker, a team player, dedicated to his craft and his show...good,
+decent, honorable people are sometimes hard to find, but Bruce has all of
+those qualities and more.  We spent a couple of hours the other day just
+hanging out in the B5 offices, talking SF (he'd just finished reading Harry
+Turtledove's newest Civil War book, and had started on another...he's a big
+fan of 50s SF as well as such films as Blade Runner, vastly preferring the
+director's cut) and fighter aircraft (he's a buff and collector of aircraft
+memorabilia, and has flown just about every kind of plane)...had a great time.
+
+     He really complements the show because, like those of us who man the
+other areas, he really is a stone SF fan.  (His kids in particular REALLY
+wanted him to do the show.)  He's watched B5 and likes it a lot.
+
+     I think you're gonna like him a *lot*.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     My thought was always that big ships have interceptors to take out
+incoming fire, and other kinds of weaponry to deflect or knock asice (aside)
+other incoming fire.  The key is to overload the defense system so that some
+things get through (and the enemy ship did take some pretty heavy hits at
+various points).
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Ben: thanks.  For what it's worth...I tend to write *very* tightly; I
+don't like to leave things hanging, and I don't like threads that don't get
+resolved.  Chekhov wrote, "If there is a gun on the wall in act one, scene
+one, then you *must* use the gun by act three, scene three."  You don't put in
+things you don't intend to use.  So the future stuff will all be dealt with.
+When all is said and done...all will have been said and done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Is this the *real* TV Guide or a local publication?
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
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+
+     Jim: no, I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong on this.  As of the teaser in
+"Voice," they knew that a world previously thought dead and uninhabited was in
+fact sending out an *extremely* powerful beacon; that alone confirms the
+existence of some new alien tech, probably very advanced.  As soon as that
+beacon was detected, and a report filed (which was almost immediate), the
+Hyperion got its orders.  Remember, Earth is obsessed with getting its hands
+on new technology.  The Hyperion continued to monitor reports as it proceeded
+to B5.  The Captain's line tracks.
+
+     Please don't describe things as "improbable" or "plot contrivances"
+because you haven't thought them through.  You do this frequently.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Sheridan, the universe willing, will be there throughout the rest of the
+B5 story.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     She doesn't mention it in any of the following episodes; stress brings it
+out of her.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     "Gary Cooper was a bad actor.  He WAS wooden."
+
+     Say *what*?
+
+     Has the taste of the american public been so diminished by over the top
+hysterics and overemoting and "method" that a performer as restrained and
+intelligent and *talented* as Gary Cooper is now considered BAD?
+
+     Go out and rent HIGH NOON and *watch* it...then tell me he's anything
+less than one of the finest actors this country has ever produced.
+
+     Jesus...just because an actor isn't ripping his shirt of and yelling
+"STELLLLLLLLAAAAAA" at the top of his lungs, somehow he's "bad."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Shawn Cassidy can write?
+
+                                                                jms
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+                              ...ahem.
+
+                            (Extra-Large)
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+                             ...ahem....
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     Many journalists are, frankly, idiots and crude; they look for ways to be
+cruel.  (I'm talking mainly entertainment journalists, not the real kind.)  In
+talking to some who've called for interviews, they go to "so, why'd you kick
+him off?" or "when did he get shoved out?" and it's so damned
+infuriating...they have to find some way to make this News With An Edge, give
+it some controversy, some heat, when none exists.  I hate it a lot.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+     And don't forget PIDATS...People of Infinite Discretion and Taste.
+
+                                                      jms
+

+
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+     Yes, and they're damned tasty.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+     Michelle Sucillon at Warner Bros. licensing, in Burbank.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Ah, yes...that was actually kind of a cool episode, though some cuts in
+the version now on USA kind of remove some of the more personal aspects of the
+show.  (Cindy probably knows more specifically what was cut.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     As it happens, the script for that scene said, basically, that Garibaldi
+gives out a YELL that goes on and on as he fires for all h he's worth.  Ye
+Author takes no responsibility for any words that crept in there.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     (The following to be read in the voice of Humphrey Bogart)
+
+     Now listen up, I need a name, see...I gotta lean on somebody and I gotta
+lean hard.  Don't weasel out on me now when I need you, this is for all the
+marbles.  A name, got it?  Somebody who works for Dell Computers, somebody I
+can lean on, somebody who knows somebody who knows Somebody, maybe a
+president, maybe a VP, doesn't matter....
+
+     Oh, and if you hear some noise from the back room...don't look back.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+
+     (waiting, let's see if they can resolve this.)
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+
+     A second 1-gig drive was installed, but never hooked up,and I was told by
+Dell it couldn't be hooked up to deliver more than 500 megs (even though I'd
+paid $999 for the one gig), and wouldhave to be shipped back and exchanged,
+after I'd configured the damn thing.  Well, while I've been away, I'm told
+that Dell has actually fixed the thing; I'll know for sure Monday when I check
+it out again.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Dave...he didn't turn the set off...it was broken up by static, if you'll
+go back and look, because a much stronger transmission was coming in.
+
+     Namely, the one that appeared in his room.  If you'll note, it goes away,
+THEN, puzzled, Sinclair goes to the screen to see why it's gone.
+
+     It is, as you say, "very annoying" to be accused of a "standard TV
+cliche" that in fact only happened in the viewer's memory.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     There is a middle ground here.
+
+     The people who like to speculate do so in print because they want to see
+(and be seen) if they were right or wrong; else why write it?
+
+     You can write to a topic without ever having read it.  So why not
+speculate on voice 2 *in* voice two, then after you've seen the episode, do a
+REA 23 1-whatever the last number is?  This way, you don't see any spoilers
+that you don't want to see, and other folks don't have to worry about it?
+This is fast becoming one of those discussions over who has what *rights* when
+in fact it should be about politeness.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
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+
+    J.Ward...no, you don't have to read a topic to post there.  You can post
+in, say, part 2, then wait until after you've seen the episode, and THEN read
+all the messages there.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+
+     RE: predictable...it was never meant to be much of a mystery; this
+particular episode isn't a who-dunit, or who's-gonna-do-it-to-whom.  Some I
+write with that in mind, some are those in which you *know* something is going
+to happen to someone, and you have a fair idea what, but the "how" is
+something you don't know.  It's the ride getting there.
+
+                                                     jms
+

+
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+
+     Draal will not get involved in such things.  The fate of B5 must be
+played out without interference.  They can ask, but he will not reply.
+
+     Most pre-War EA warships operated sans gravity, though some of the later,
+larger ones used counterweight-spinning to create a tiny bit of gravity (a la
+2010), but when going into battle, that is disabled to give the ship maximum
+maneuverability.
+
+     (Can't decide if it's wonderful or sad that we've worked this stuff out
+to this amount of detail....you'll probably see one or more of the latter
+kinds of ships next season.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     The captain of the Hyperion specifically states that he was already IN
+hyperspace, en route to another system, when he was ordered to stop here.  His
+ship was already in the area.  Also, there is a fair amount of time between
+the actions on the planet initially, and the arrival of the Hyperion...enough
+to know there's some kind of tech there, based on the initial attacks.  The
+Hyperion continued to monitor reports as they came in.
+
+                                                       jms
+

+
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+
+     A thought to bear in mind re: the whole Sinclair thing...I announced on
+the various forums several *months* ago about the change in his role, moving
+off the chessboard.  If we really were never going to see Sinclair again, one
+particular shot would have been deleted from the episode; it would not have
+caused us any problem since we were still messing with it anyway, and we've
+certainly left things unexplained in other episodes, like "Mind War."  We
+could've left the One unexplained.  We chose not to.   You can read into that
+what you will.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Cindy: on the one hand, one of the true ingredients of tragedy (or just
+plain drama in some cases) is that you know something that hte (the)
+characters *don't* know, and if you like the characters, and you know
+something just awful may happen to them, but you don't know exactly how or
+when, it adds interest, I think.
+
+     On the other hand, 1) I've never stated that that was where Garibaldi
+does (or doesn't) check out, and 2) go watch "Signs" again; there's a shuttle
+seen leaving B5 instants before it explodes.  Who's on it?  We'll have to wait
+and see.  Certainly, though, this would be one good prospect for a good death.
+But my point is you *don't* know...so the uncertainty remains.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 13 1994
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+     I don't think one should assume anything about the fate of *any* of our
+characters...it's WAY early to do that, and I wouldn't tip too much at this
+juncture anyway.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 14 1994
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+     Alas, if I revealed the first two ages, it would reveal the third by
+inference....
+
+     Paulman: you are righter than you know.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 14 1994
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+     He was looking out a port as the shuttles raced away from B4.
+
+     Mike: it'll all hang together in the end.  If I'd wanted, if that scene
+with the One revealed would've been a problem, I could've easily cut it LONG
+before delivering it to PTEN, and left it a "mystery yet to be explained."  No
+problem.  But I didn't.  It all still tracks.
+
+     Peter: I agree about the exposure the show is(n't) getting.  It's just
+very hard to make people understand what we're trying to do here.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 15 1994
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+     An interesting (one hopes) sidelight to the episode....
+
+     This is, after all, two stories overlapping...the present story, and the
+future story.  When, eventually, that future story is shown, it has to be
+absolutely consistent with the events in B-squared.  So what was required,
+really, was to block out two scripts...this one, and the one yet to be
+written, so that the events dovetail in the right sequence.  (The best analogy
+would be the last two "Back to the Future" films.)  It was kind of a bear, but
+an interesting thought experiment.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     It's very much a personal philosophy.  This theme -- sacrifice of oneself
+for another -- is one that appears again and again and again in my work.  I
+think that we have lost something important in the "me first" philosophy that
+has become entrenched in American society.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 16 1994
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+     Actually, I never said that the Minbari all go through changes from male
+to female or vice versa; that became a bit of accepted story because people
+kept repeating it, going from speculation to being "sure" I said it.  Didn't.
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 16 1994
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+from Aug 15 - Aug 31st.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
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+     Definitive answer: we approached Michael.  Not the other way around.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 18 1994
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+     Generally, Psi Corps members often have a similar "look," not quite a
+uniform, but a sense of repeated lines.  Just one more little thing to make
+them stand apart.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 19 1994
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+     Well, as of now, every episode of year one has aired with the exception
+of "Chrysalis," which will be a bit down the road yet.
+
+     A quick thought.
+
+     When this show first went on the air, I had been promising that the
+series would be something different, stuff and an overall approach -- the
+basic arc -- not done before on television.  After "Midnight," and to some
+extent "Soul Hunter" and "Infection," a number of folks on various nets were
+saying it wasn't as advertised.  I read those posts, and at times was
+frustrated by them, because I knew what was coming in "Sky," and "Signs and
+Portents," and "Babylon Squared" and others.
+
+     I think that the point has been made...and the promise kept.
+
+     I think we've done pretty good.
+
+     I will put our first season against the first season of *any* prior SF
+series.  Step back for a moment and look at what we've had just so far:
+
+     Signs and Portents...And the Sky Full of Stars...Babylon Squared... The
+Parliament of Dreams...Mind War...Deathwalker...Believers...and the rest.
+
+     And we're *just* getting started...and "Chrysalis," the best of the
+bunch, is still lurking around the corner.
+
+     Those of you who've been around, and have seen the majority of the aired
+episodes, know what we're trying to do, and where we're trying to go with
+this.  In another topic, the show was described as "a meta SF saga," and I
+guess that covers it as well as anything else.
+
+     I just think it's useful, at this point, to step back from the individual
+episodes -- the details -- and look at the whole first season as a whole
+tapestry...and I think we've covered a LOT of new terrain, and done some
+pretty nifty stuff.
+
+     In the final analysis, I think we've made a little history with this
+show...had an effect on how SF Television will be done henceforth, and brought
+a "screw 'em, let's go for broke" philosophy back to the genre, which
+(personal opinion) had grown, in TV, a bit on the stuffy side.  Bar fights,
+main characters who lie, bad guys who do good things and good guys who do bad
+things, bathrooms, fasten/zip and lessons in Centauri anatomy, we've broken
+some of the taboos, and I think that's a positive thing.
+
+     (Pound for pound, though, on reflection, I'd have to say that the X-Files
+also had about as good a first season as anything I've ever seen, though
+technically it's not SF...not really horror...more in the category of Really
+Weird Stuff.)
+
+     Anyway, just some thoughts at the end of the day.
+
+                                                         jms
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+     Dana...you're quite correct.  Getting a show sold is next to impossible;
+getting it actually produced at *all* and finally actually on the air is even
+unliklier.  With all the ten zillion elements that go into any one episode,
+where any one element -- script, guest star, effects -- can kill the episode
+if it goes wrong, that *anything* gets made with any quality at all is really
+a case of swimming upstream.
+
+     Re: self-sacrifice as a recurring theme...yes, and it's something that
+has become kind of passe; you don't tend to see it much in TV.  It's a very,
+very old-fashioned notion, but I think it's an important one.
+
+     We've now finished shooting episode number one of season two, and today
+began filming on episode two, "Revelations."  The first episode is just
+*gorgeous*.  John Iacovelli, our production designer, absolutely knocked
+himself out improving the look and feel of the sets, making it all look
+bigger, better, more *real*...and Bruce has been doing a bang-up job.  (No
+major guest stars in the first episode, "Points of Departure," just our
+regulars and Bruce.  Guest in "Revelations" is Beverly Leech, playing
+Elizabeth Sheridan, John Sheridan's sister.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I imagine the pilot will air again eventually, though I don't know when;
+and as for the end of the story...the only way I was able to get this far is
+to focus on only one reality: that the show would get sold, the pilot would
+get made, the series would begin and run five years, to  the end.  If I ever
+allowed any other possibility to enter my fevered brain, it never would've
+come about.  So I can't even *consider* that question, well-meaning as it is.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 24 1994
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+     Since this just hit the wire services, I figured I'd mention it here.
+
+     The release went out from Classics International, owner of First Comics.
+A deal has been concluded between CIE and Rattlesnake Prods. (owned by my
+partner on Babylon 5 Doug Netter) to form a separate entity to produce a
+feature film based on the Grimjack books by John Ostrander.
+
+     The movie is budgeted for $30 million, and I've been asked, and have
+agreed, to write the screenplay.  (My job, as I see it, is to Leave The Damned
+Thing Alone and *adapt* the book, rather than throw stuff out and make it all
+up.  I loved the book when it was out, and read it regularly.  My hope is to
+do as faithful a transition to film as possible.  I've met with John
+Ostrander, and our feelings on which cycle of the Grimjack story to base the
+feature film on are absolutely the same.)
+
+     The plan is to have the script finished by late fall, probably around
+November/December, and shoot the thing in early or mid-1995.
+
+     (In addition, this Fall we're currently slated to begin production on a
+two-hour pilot for a new contemporary science fiction series which I've
+created and written for first-run syndication.  Current plans are to film the
+pilot in either Vancouver or Portland, with Doug and I serving again as
+Executive Producers, as with Babylon 5.  I can't reveal the title at this time
+-- it's nothing you'd recognize, it's an original concept, but it's a cool
+title and I'd hate to lose it -- but I hope to have more on this over the next
+few months.  Also, there are still one or two more hurdles before we can start
+production, even though we've been unofficially greenlighted, so I'll hold
+back just a bit for now until the ink dries officially.)
+
+     The series that would come out of the pilot would also be exec produced
+by me and Doug, but not with the same degree of direct day to day involvement
+as Babylon 5, which remains our first priority.  We would get a dedicated, SF-
+informed writer/producer to head up the other show, under our direct
+supervision.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+      Yeah, the main cycle I've selected for the script is the Demon
+Blood/Demon Wars storyline.  All hell breaks loose....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Allen...all the rights have been checked, and John is very happy with the
+arrangements.  Everything's copacetic.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     BTW...just thought I'd mention this...over the weekend, Claudia Christian
+was running in her backyard, and broke her foot in three places.  Which led to
+a frenzy of rewriting (by me) of the next couple of episodes to work around
+it.  Was rather complicated by some active things she had to do, but it's all
+worked out.  Turned in the last draft of a biggie for her, and the stories all
+still track.  A gentle reminder that actors are people.  Claudia actually made
+it into the studio today, for one brief scene, with her foot concealed, and
+carried on like a real trooper, keeping everyone else's spirits up, since we
+were concerned about her.  (That's always the way, it seems; you worry more
+about the person who got hurt than the person herself does.)
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 28 1994
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+     Requested, we deliver...just uploaded cruiser.gif to the B5 library
+(#1260), which is a shot of a Minbari war cruiser.
+
+     Main obstacle to uploading more is that even though I'm free flagged, the
+GEnie access numbers don't allow 9600 baud for such flags, and I have to log
+on at 2400 baud, which means it takes 15 minutes or so to upload a single
+file, as opposed to about 3 minutes on other systems.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     A bit of an update....
+
+     Early last week, we got the director's cut of our first episode of the
+second season, "Points of Departure."  We went in Friday to do our producer's
+cut (me and John Copeland, whom I've dubbed Mister Action, since he's very
+good at action sequences), and that's now finished.  All the CGI is in, absent
+three virtual set shots, so otherwise only music and sound effects are
+missing.  We'll get to those next week.
+
+     The episode is *very* nice.  In some ways, it's almost a whole new
+series.  Right off the bat, what you'll notice is how much better (and bigger)
+many of the sets seem.  We've also modified the lighting just a tick; I like
+it dark, but over the course of the season it was apparent  that it was *so*
+dark in places that you really couldn't see or fully appreciate a lot of the
+details in costume, sets and other areas, so we lightened it just a notch, but
+counterbalanced by greater use of  shadows (no play on words intended) and
+color and textures, so that the show on one level looks moodier, but is more
+accessible.  A shadow on black can't be seen; a shadow that's visible carries
+more impact.
+
+     We've built all new EA uniforms, and added a few small touches to make
+them better; a bit of red piping along the collar and leather to make the
+dividing line pop slightly; a better grade of letter and fabric so that the
+uniforms look and wear better; slight modifications to the cuffs so they'll
+end clean without gathering in a blousy kind of way; shirts of better fabric
+with military tailoring so they wear better.
+
+     Ron's effects continue to get better, both here and in what I've seen of
+the CGI in "Revelations."  There's one particular shot in "Revelations" of a
+Narn ship, very close-up, that I think has finally cracked the line between
+models and CGI...it looks absolutely *solid*.
+
+     As I said, we're doing more with virtual sets and digital effects, and
+we'll be seeing some two-story sets in many places.
+
+     Ivanova is all through the story, in practically every scene (and being
+driven thoroughly nuts by various situations), with Sheridan also coming into
+a very difficult situation.  Both are absolutely excellent in the role.  Bruce
+brings a strength, and a vulnerability, to the role that is very nice to
+watch.  Sheridan and Ivanova play very well together, and I think you'll be
+very pleased.
+
+     Though deliberately not as intense as "Chrysalis" or "Revelations," which
+sandwich it on either side, it's got a lot of twists and turns and surprises
+in it.  It's very much a character driven story, with several arc elements,
+where the other two are very strong arc episodes.
+
+      In any event...I'm extremely pleased.  When you start changing elements,
+you never really know how things will turn out, despite your best intentions.
+In this case, I think this is a great episode, and it actually seems to be
+coming together wonderfully.
+
+     I am profoundly relieved.
+
+     And given what I'm seeing in "Revelations" (we have one more day of
+filming on Monday) in dailies...this is gonna be one hell of a season.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I'd rather let the virtual sets be more of a surprise.
+
+     An address where you can reach the friendly folks at B5: 14431 Ventura
+Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     For those who watch "Points of Departure" when it airs, keep a sharp ear
+out...our friend Mr. Jarvis gets plinked.
+
+     With maybe one or two exceptions, all *I* get are gif images, since those
+are quickest to make and get off Ron's system.  (John Copeland and I download
+images comprising the top and bottom frames of EFX shots for approval...I've
+got something like 80 megabytes of the stuff.)
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Correction: I did *not* write the outline for the B5 novel that John is
+doing.  I approved it, but he thunk it up all on his own.
+
+     Last day of shooting on "Points" is Thursday.  We shoot seven days, NOT
+counting weekends.  So far shooting is going astonishingly well; Bruce is
+fitting beautifully into the company.  Some great and very funny
+scenes...balanced with some major revelations throughout.  We're doing some
+terrific new sets, including the Earthforce lounge (when I've christened
+"Earhart's," after Amelia Earhart, and a two-story Bazaar that is *very* cool
+indeed.  Janet Greek is directing "Points."  Second up, starting Friday, is
+"Revelations," being directed by Jim Johnston.
+
+     We always have several meetings with the director to make sure we're on
+the same wavelength, culminating in a final tone meeting where we go through
+page by page, scene by scene (done again in a major production meeting later
+with all our crew).  There are no tabled read throughs, though the director
+rehearses as much as required before each scene.  Generally speaking, there
+isn't much rewriting done on many of our scripts once they hit second draft; I
+don't like directors or actors rewriting on set, and won't allow it.  If
+there's a required change, the person involved has to get it approved by me
+or, if I'm absent, Larry.   So far, of the six or so scripts we have in final
+shape, none has gone past pink pages (in order, it's white pages (final draft,
+published to all departments), blue pages (1st revision) and pink pages (2nd
+rev.).   Many shows have a whole rainbow of colors in scripts, through 8-10
+revisions.  We don't do that.
+
+                                                            jms
+

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+     B5 novel #1, figure late November/early December.  For the CDRom, figure
+January.
+
+     On the comic, the artists will change with each 4-issue cycle; initially,
+they're using Michael Netzer and Rob Leigh.  The first issue is a JMS script;
+2-4 is a JMS premise translated into script by Mark Moretti.
+
+                                                   jms
+

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+     The jury system has *not* been abolished.  Several things to bear in
+mind...first, even now, choice can dictate a jury vs. judge trial (it is often
+in the plaintiff's court, so to speak, to choose which one is preferred in
+civil trials).  Second, if you look back at the history of the US, even in
+jury trial days, you had Circuit Court Judges who traveled through rural
+areas, frontier and unconsolidated regions, and held court by themselves.
+
+     Babylon 5 is a unique environment.  There are only two basic types of
+people (speaking only of humans for now) around: those employed by EA or the
+station (conflict of interest), or travelers, who won't be around long enough
+for a prolonged trial.  So in that kind of situation, the Ombuds arose...a
+2258 version of a Circuit Court Judge.
+
+     It's absolutely in line with what's been done in our own country.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Kwicker..."What if Joe wrote a story in which a "memory-challenged"
+person DISCOVERED records of who or what he was?"
+
+     I was in the process of developing that as a b-story in an upcoming
+episode.
+
+     Because of that comment, I now have to scuttle the story.
+
+     I understand that this proceeds from enthusiasm on everyone's part, but
+let me repeat this as forcefully as I can: NO STORY IDEAS.  No matter what
+anyone says, what disclaimers are put up, if I see a story idea that is
+something we're doing or contemplating doing...I have to scuttle it to protect
+the series.
+
+     This has just torpedoed what would've been a very compelling little b-
+story.
+
+     Everyone, please, be *very* careful about this...the only other  option I
+have, if it begins happening too much, is to dive out of the discussion, and
+I'd *really* rather not have to do that.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Nonetheless, it was a *specific* story idea, presented in the B5 area,
+where I saw it.  This is how it has to be handled.
+                                                                jms
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+     K.Wicker...there's a difference between saying, "Will we see a huge
+carrier vessel this year?" and sketching out a story idea.  I've tried to
+drive home this point many times.  As for the speculation on the arc
+topic...I'm keeping my eye on it, and if it starts to get too specific, with
+too many concrete suggestions, I'm going to have to have it closed down.  So
+far, it's okay, though it's dancing a careful dance.
+
+     This isn't news to anyone.  This has always been the situation.  This is
+the fifth time that I've had to scuttle a story (thankfully none of them vital
+arc stuff) because someone suggested the thing on-line; one here, one on CIS,
+and three on Internet (which is more rowdy and with a lot more message
+traffic).  On the up side, that this has only happened five times is a good
+thing...on the other hand, five stories is one fourth of a season....
+
+     I can't budge from this position.  I've said it before.  I have an
+obligation to protect my show.  Sometimes we need reminders, I guess.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Bruce...no, that doesn't count.  Speculation, discussion...it's when it
+is phrased as a story idea, and/or comes replete with beginning, middle and
+end, that a problem occurs.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Fanzines (specifically published fan fiction) is a problem for many
+writers; Marion Zimmer Bradley had a book torpedoed by the publishing company -
+- killing a year's work -- because the story was too similar to a fanzine
+story, and they were concerned the person might sue.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Linda...let me explain how this might work, also for the benefit of
+others.
+
+     Let's start with the assumption that every person currently here on line
+is honest, intelligent, trustworthy and not suit-happy.  (Fill in your own
+punchline.)
+
+     Tomorrow, Billy Ray Marzipan signs onto the B5 conference.  He's big on
+the show, wants to be in the discussion.  We're cool so far.  One day, BRM
+writes, "Hey, Joe, how about an episode where Sheridan is swallowed by a giant
+space whale, discovers an ancient Shadowman text, and escapes."
+
+     Now, it just so happens that let's say we're doing such a story already.
+I can choose to say nothing.  Then, six months down the road, "In Harm's
+Esophagus" airs, and becomes one of the all-time favorite B5 episodes.  BRM is
+sure that I stole his story...he broods over it, gets more and more
+agitated...and one day finally decides to sue.
+
+     Or, I can choose to say, at the time, "Hey, we're doing a story like
+that, just so you know," and do it anyway...but BRM has no objective way of
+knowing *for sure* if I was doing it already...so six months later... same
+result.
+
+     We are a litigious, lawsuit-happy society.  And not everyone out there is
+as sane and reasonable as the people currently here on line.  So the only
+thing I can do, short of signing off every BBS I'm on, is to make it as clear
+as possible that we cannot have story suggestions.  If one is made, I have to
+be sure to either not do it, or if we're doing it...kill it.
+
+     Further, on-line disclaimers are meaningless.  You can't prove that the
+phosphor-dot "signature" was really made by the person.  Further, it can be
+argued that since the agreement not to post story ideas was  required for
+admission, one can say that any such offer of disclaimer was made "under
+duress," and thus not binding.
+
+     It is not a sane or reasonable position to put people in, and I am fully
+aware of that.  But society for the most part is itself neither sane nor
+reasonable, and in the interests of my show I have to put safeguards in place
+that I may neither like nor want.
+
+     On the issue of fanzines...I don't see them, and generally instruct
+people, "don't ask, don't tell."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Torville...fine...except left unmonitored, there would be *hundreds* of
+these coming out on a weekly basis...and I think that my time and the time of
+my staff are better served making the series than tracking down hundreds of
+errant story ideas and mailing out releases.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     The pages that I've seen are quite nice.  (Kaluta is doing the cover.)  I
+really enjoy writing comics, though I haven't done as many as I'd like, and
+may contribute one of the arcs down the road (the arc that immediately follows
+my one-shot is by Mark Moretti, based on a premise by jms).
+
+     Here's a spoiler for "Chrysalis," just for fun.
+
+     Something mysterious happens; then something ominous happens; then
+something wonderful happens; then something astonishing happens; then
+something even more mysterious happens; then something *terrible* happens;
+then *another* terrible thing happens; then three more mysterious and ominous
+things happen.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+     Tom: by all means, keep the statement.  I did it more or less in order
+within the story.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     Hell, I was just suprised that Shawn Cassidy could *read*.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     How about Michael Ansara, for one?  Just cast him in "The Geometry of
+Shadows."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     New Na'Toth is Mary Kay Adams.  New character, Warren Keffer, a squadron
+pilot (later a squad leader) is played by Robert Russler, in about 8 episodes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     ...and add Russ Tamblyn in episode #4, "A Distant Star."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+     There's nothing I can do about stations at the local level; it's up to
+local residents to bug the stations.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     If you pursue this further, it could lead to the box being retracted; the
+Neilsen company is *very* sensitive about this, and they hear everything....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+      Start with the end of the story.  Then the beginning.
+
+      The end of the story finds jms sitting at his desk, elbows on
+ desktop, hands covering face...as from somewhere behind those hands comes
+ a high-pitched, keening, mournful sound audible only to dachsunds and
+ banshee-groupies.
+
+      The beginning of the story?
+
+      John Copeland, our producer, shows me something that John Iacovelli
+ came into the office bearing...a B5 cap.  It's a very nice Babylon 5 cap.
+  Stitching's a little off, though, I notice...not bad, but noticeable.
+ I learn it's commercially available.  Well, still and all, not a bad
+ thing, I decide, trying to figure out why John's smiling at me in this
+ really weird fashion.  People have been asking for B5 caps, and now they
+ can buy them through, it seems, Creation Entertainment, as this was
+ bought at a Creation store in Glendale (Sci-Fi Universe), and it's a
+ Creation produced item, under their license....
+
+      Then the tag hanging from the back of the cap slips out into my
+ hand, dangling from that little white-plastic-string-thingie they stick
+ through labels.
+
+      And what does the label on that white-plastic-string-thingie say?
+
+      OFFICIAL LICENSED PRODUCT, PARAMOUNT TELEVISION.
+
+      We never get a break...never...ever...the horror...the horror....
+
+                                    ..eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeee........
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+     The B5 flak jackets which disperse energy would be a kind of Starlite
+material.  (Are we ahead of our time or what?)
+
+                                                       jms
+

+
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+     Mike...that's not far off the mark.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Just to reinforce the preceding...B5 is not a battlefield, and its
+internal (personnel) defense systems are more basic.  Security guards simply
+don't go into combat, and if they were fully outfitted, they would destroy the
+station in its first engagement.
+
+     We really haven't seen any EA ground soldiers yet (though there is a
+story in the works about them, tentatively called "Gropos," for ground
+pounders).
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+     The Hyperion is not typical; it's one of the ships that survived the War.
+Not many did.  There are niftier, newer ships built in the last eleven years
+that you'll be seeing eventually.
+
+                                                       jms
+

+
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+     Weapons are *recessed* into the body, and covered to protect them from
+micrometeorites and other bits of debris, and from enemy assault.   When
+prepared for use, the ports are opened, revealing the weapons inside.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     I kinda have to be here, in case the discussions come too close to story
+ideas, in which event I'll have to toss a bucket of cold water in here.  It's
+treading a fine line as it is, but so far hasn't quite crossed it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Minbari use base 11, not base 10, so twelve would be eleventy-first
+year, and so on.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Minbari base eleven includes fingers and head, from which the principle
+of mathematics comes.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     You're also looking at this from a strictly English-speaking perspective;
+in German, for instance, 21 is "Ein und Zwanzig" (pardon any misspellings in
+there, it's been a while) which is exactly the same structure, albeit
+reversed, used for Minbari counting (and, in fact, is more or less what I
+based his "statement" on).
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Have there been any good "how many X's to screw in a light bulb?" jokes
+in this topic?
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
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+     Needed it for a script, but came up with one of my own: How many Minbari
+does it take to screw in a light bulb?  None...they always surrender just
+before finishing the job, but won't tell you why.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 28 1994
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+     Eleventy-seven = Eighteen base ten.
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 18 1994
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+     Centauri females, btw, have six narrow...ummm...slots on their backs,
+three on either side of the spine, right around the base of the spine.
+
+     The awful thing is that the two women in props -- who were having  FAR
+too much fun with this -- kept bringing me the tentacle to verify the shape,
+size, consistency, do we see veins or not....
+
+     I tell you here and now: our staff meetings are something else.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 19 1994
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+     Side-note...Londo baring his teeth had nothing to do with Delenn's vote
+in "The Gathering."  That was gas.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Fax...means she is participating in the death of a mind.
+
+        jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 16 1994
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+     Actually, I never said that the Minbari all go through changes from male
+to female or vice versa; that became a bit of accepted story because people
+kept repeating it, going from speculation to being "sure" I said it.  Didn't.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 16 1994
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+from Sep 1 - Sep 15th.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 01 1994
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+     Actually, the surcharge isn't the problem.  It's just that when my
+account was changed over, and a new one created, my old account (which I still
+pay for separately) is now M.SKI (I didn't do it, that's how it ended up
+somehow).  I just can't bring myself to upload under the name M.SKI.  If this
+could be changed, like to BABYLON or something, then it'd be fine.  (Is this,
+like, a profoundly stupid reason or what?)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 02 1994
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+
+     Well, color me stupid.
+
+     Preface: as has been stated before, since no studio facility was big
+enough for our purposes (we now have 20 standing sets and 57 swing sets, some
+120' wide or more), we took over an industrial facility roughly the size of
+Latvia and built three soundproofed soundstages, costume facilities,
+construction areas, dubbing room, prosthetics wings, you name it.  It's sort
+of a Lucas Ranch operation, everything under one roof.
+
+     A number of shows have taken over and converted such facilities to shoot
+series, but I'm proud to note that this is the *first* such conversion to be
+finally, officially and formally redefined by the city as a working studio.
+It's the *first* new studio in town in something like 10 years.  There's
+nothing else like it unless you want to actually go on the lot of a major
+studio.  (And it has the advantage of being off the lot, away from people who
+might wander into your stage and, oh, start giving you notes.  If you're a bit
+away, they have to drive over, and the hassle ain't worth it.)
+
+     Anyway...my office is at the very end of the script wing.  As you walk
+down the hall, my office is on your right.  Then you hit the door at the end
+of the wing, go through into an open space, and twenty feet away is the door
+to stage C.  I picked the office because it was as close as you could get to
+the stage without actually being *in* the stage.
+
+     So I've been in there for, oh, about a year and half now.  Now I noticed,
+upon putting in my new computer, and putting it a bit closer to the far wall
+(the one opposite the stage), that the monitor began to flicker.  I figured it
+was a software problem, or a glitch in the hardware.  Nothing worked...until I
+moved it further away from the wall.
+
+     "Hmmm," says I, "I wonder what could be doing that."
+
+     Then I remember that on the other side of my office wall, roughly 24
+inches from where I'm sitting, is the wall-length set of transformers and
+electrical equipment that powers the entire studio (and we use a LOT of
+power...you could fry Godzilla with what comes into our facility).
+
+     Now I begin to wonder...waitaminnit...just HOW BIG is the EMF
+(electromagnetic field) that I've been sitting in, that's been bleeding
+through this wall?  So we bring in a guy who measures such things, from a
+reputable company.
+
+     The maximum safe amount of EMF is a reading of 0.4.  The guy approached
+my desk, my chair...and his jaw dropped.
+
+     The EMF level was 200.5.
+
+     Which explains why, at the end of the day, for the last year or so, I've
+been practically dragging by mid-day.  I always seemed to get more work done
+at home.  Now I know why.
+
+     And the stupid part is, it's not something you can miss, the
+transformers/generators are huge.  Just never occured to me.
+
+     Since he left ("You've been sitting there HOW LONG?!"), I've had my desk
+moved across the room, to the safe (0.4) area.  And suddenly I'm back to full
+speed (well, not suddenly, it's taken a few days, but I'm there), barrelling
+through drafts and keeping up the pace right until I leave at 7-8 p.m., which
+is what's *normal* for me, and was normal except for the last year and a half.
+
+     Four hundred times the proscribed limits...oh, man....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     I've spoken before of Norman Corwin.  For those who might've missed it,
+Norman Corwin is one of the finest writers that this country has ever
+produced.  At the height of the radio drama age, there was no one better or
+bigger...not Orson Welles or Arch Oboler.  Nobody.
+
+     He has been an inspiration to countless writers.  Charles Kuralt. Rod
+Serling.  Ray Bradbury (who began his career trying to write like Norman).  He
+is, not to put too fine a point on it, a writer's writer. He is the wellspring
+from which many of our finest writers can trace their origin.  Speaking as one
+tiny trickle in this momentous flood, I can certify his influence on my own
+work.
+
+     Some have commented on the style of writing in Babylon 5, and in some of
+my previous work.  While much can be laid at the feet of Harlan Ellison, much
+of my influence can also be traced to Norman Corwin, who taught me not just
+how to write, but what it meant to BE a writer.  I cannot commend his work to
+you highly enough.  If you have a love of language, of a story well told, of
+fiction with a conscience and a  point of view, then Norman's your man.  Some
+of you may remember "A Prayer for the 70s," written by Norman, which I posted
+a while back.   A work of absolute genius, in a career peppered with awards,
+and recognition by the U.N. and others.
+
+     Many of you have asked for more information about Norman's work. To that
+end I offer the following information:
+
+     Norman has a new book out, that is just hitting the stands.  It is
+entitled NORMAN CORWIN'S LETTERS, edited by A. J. Langguth.  It's in hardcover
+from Barricade Books, ISBN #0-9623032-5-9.  It is an amazing volume, full of
+inspiration and humor and the occasional thunder-and-lightning.
+
+     You will find letters to and from such notables -- friends of Norman's --
+as Carl Sandburg, Ray Bradbury, Bette Davis, Stanley Kramer, Groucho Marx,
+Greer Garson, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Edward R. Murrow,
+Anthony Quinn, Rod Serling, Leonard Bernstein, Erik Barnouw, Archibald
+MacLeish, Stan Freberg, Walter Cronkite, Norman Cousins, Studs Terkel, Eric
+Sevareid, Philip Dunne, Bill Moyers, Gregory Peck...the list goes on and on.
+
+     The letters are documents of a life, funny and outraged and
+thoughtful...and beautifully written beyond my capacity to describe it to you.
+If you are a writer, or interested in writing, I can commend no book to you
+higher than this one.
+
+     If as a Babylon 5 viewer you'd like to get a better grasp of what
+inspired me to pursue my career, and has helped make that  dream a reality...I
+recommend to you the works of Norman Corwin, starting with this book.
+
+     If you need any further encouragement to go out *today* and get a copy of
+this book, then let me simply suggest that you call up a copy of Who's Who,
+and look up who Norman Corwin is.  I don't think you'll need additional
+encouragement thereafter.
+
+                                                           jms
+
+     (PS.  I'm still having a hard time uploading prepared messages to
+Internet via the GEnie mailbox; if anyone could be kind enough to take the
+preceding and post it to the B5 rec group, I'd definitely appreciate it.
+Thanks.)
+

+
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+     Actually, since the vasectomy in college, having kids ain't an issue.
+
+     As for the rest, well, you know what they say, with great power comes
+great resp--     what's that spider doing on my keyboard?
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 04 1994
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+     At this juncture, we're pretty much shooting in production order; at some
+point about mid-season we may have to shoot a few early to accommodate post-
+production needs, which are going to grow exponentially as we crank through
+the season, but we're going to work our way up to that.
+
+                                                            jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 04 1994
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+
+     Two weeks ago, B5 was #20 in the ratings.  This past week it came in #18.
+That's overall, including game shows, talk shows, you name it.  It's a
+definite, strong increase.  We've been increasing our ratings by about 10-25%
+every week, consistently, for the last 7 weeks.
+
+     And as noted above...nope, don't do cameos.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 05 1994
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+     Given that my office is nowhere near Universal anymore, alas, I could not
+see you, even with my EMF enhanced Producer-Vision (tm).
+
+     During the time I *was* working on the Universal lot -- first on Jake,
+later for two years on Murder -- I did go up to the park a lot, prior to the
+construction of the City Walk, to nab lunch at something other than the
+commissary.  You could walk on and off the park, if you worked at the studio.
+Used to walk past folks from all over the world, who keep peering around
+looking for somebody who might work in TeeVee or movies (and naturally the
+stars never go near the place), not knowing that the person at their elbow
+with the hot dog under the huge poster of Angela Lansbury was a producer on
+that show.
+
+     Naturally, they waited until after I'd left Universal to put up the City
+Walk, which now has all KINDS of places to eat....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Yes, Pat, there were a lot of rumors.  If the studio had put its foot
+down that there would be a "young hunk" there probably would've been a young
+hunk.  We wanted the best actor we could find, best suited to that role.
+That's Bruce.
+
+     Not to get personal, Pat, but have you ever considered maybe seeing how
+he performs in this role before judging his performance?  I'm just a little
+tired of people pre-judging others.  And especially of the term "wooden,"
+which people seem to use whenever somebody doesn't act in full blown
+hysterics.  (I can mention that Michael was hurt by many of the comments here
+and elsewhere by people saying his performance was "wooden," and later, many
+of those people turned around when they saw what he was trying to connote in
+his performance...but that made the emotional hurt no less real.)
+
+     That said...I have found Bruce's performance in the first three episodes
+to be lively, interesting, fun, dynamic and intense.
+
+     Actors also do better in some roles than in others.  There were some
+movies where Alec Guinesss was awful.  Some where he blew the doors off the
+theater.  I don't know what you've seen him in before; you may well be making
+the mistake of confusing the role with the person.  All I can tell you is that
+on this show, he's doing nothing less than spectacular work.
+
+     Why don't you maybe see a frame or two of film before deciding on the
+merits of someone's performance, Pat?  It's not a matter of rose colored
+glasses...it's giving someone a fair shot and the benefit of an open mind.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 06 1994
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+     For starters, just as an FYI, I don't provide the actors with print-ups
+of anything here.  Often folks mail them to the actors, and then they come to
+me.
+
+     Second, there is a difference between negativity and constructive
+criticism.  Anyone who has ever taken a class in creative writing learns the
+difference right off.  Don't just say, "It sucks!"  Say why you don't like it,
+what you think can be done to improve it, what elements do or don't work.
+What hurts actors (or anyone, let's be honest) is after you have worked 12
+hour days to do something, people are out there saying,  "Kill 'em!  Shove 'em
+out an airlock!  They suck!"  These are things you would never say to
+someone's face.  And sometimes posters forget that they're talking about
+*people* here.
+
+     Yes, Cindy, your comments *did* get to some of the actors you have
+suggested be shoved out an airlock.  And they *did* hurt them.  And if that
+bothers you, it should.  You shouldn't post anything that you wouldn't feel
+comfortable if that person saw it...because sooner or later, that person WILL
+see it.  Why do you think I was hammering at you so hard to stop coming up
+with inventive ways to kill Laurel Takashima?
+
+     If you don't like someone's style of acting, there is nothing -- NOTHING -
+- wrong with saying so, and saying so as forcefully as you feel is
+appropriate.  I would only ask that you remember that these people are
+probably going to see it eventually, and that you find ways to be both
+specific and constructive.  "I think X's performance in the role just isn't up
+to the standard we expect; he doesn't move smoothly, he delivers his lines as
+though they were prepared rather than working them through and letting us see
+that; she leads with her lips more than thinking about the lines."
+
+     In a way, it's better to say *more*, and be specific, than just to say,
+"Ah, she stinks!  She's terrible!  Kill her!"
+
+     As for the vasectomy...not much of a story to tell.  Had it while I was
+still in college.  Always knew I didn't want kids, mainly because I am
+convinced that I would not be a good father.  Besides, there are already
+enough toys in here....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I think that to some degree, people haven't come to terms with the
+reality that BBSing is no longer a quiet little corner where nobody ever
+notices us and we can say what we want.  This is now part of the Great
+Information Highway (so they tell us).  This stuff gets circulated all over
+the place.  (Anybody who thinks the writers at ST don't see the often
+astonishing things said about them is quite wrong.)  The little room party is
+now being held in the ballroom...and the whole world is watching....
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 09 1994
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+     Pat...for starters, let me disagree with your thesis in the first place.
+I've read all the messages here, and not every single person here fell over
+dead and drooling over the idea of Bruce doing the show.  Many here *LIKED HIS
+PRIOR WORK*, and said so.  Some said they didn't.  Some said they would wait
+and see.  The "rose colored glasses" you note don't exist.
+
+     When people *did* pose an opinion, and liked him, it was because they
+liked his prior work, as stated.  Now, you didn't.  That's fine.  But what you
+are doing is stating *your* opinion as fact.  "Hey, all you people who spoke
+well of Bruce because you liked his work, HE'S WOODEN!   Your opinions don't
+matter!  I'm the one who's right here, and you should all sober up!"  That's
+not a direct statement, but it's what's implied.
+
+     So okay...you didn't like his work.  You are one of a very few who
+expressed this.  Your opinion is neither more nor less valid than anyone
+else's.  Don't get this sense that you have to correct everybody else by using
+the litmus test of your personal opinion.  Because that's all it is, it's not
+an objective law of nature.
+
+     On the topic of the way things are said around here...what one tends to
+forget is that the GEnie topic(s) are unusual in that unlike many such
+discussions of shows, the executive producer is here, and at least one cast
+member here lurks (Hi, Mira).  This tends to result in more cast and crew
+members peeking in here from time to time than it would in any other forum,
+like Prodigy or AOL.
+
+     Secondarily, again remember that this is part of the B5 experiment, in
+having direct interaction between viewers and production types.  That means
+that the rules are a trifle different.  You can go on any other board and say,
+"So-and-so sucks," and not be expected to behave in any other manner.  Now,
+you can also say "So-and-so sucks" *here* as well; there's no one to stop you.
+It just seems to me that if you have the ear of someone making the show, that
+you might *want* to be a bit more specific.
+
+     There are a LOT of comments that I could make, shots that I could take,
+that I don't, because I try to respect the conversation and the process of
+what we're doing here; I think it has a greater obligation than to insult
+people.  (Granted, once in a great while, if someone *really* goes out of his
+way to provoke me, I'll take his head off...but that is FAR more the exception
+than the rule.)  I try to be respectful of the people at the other end of the
+modem, due to our relationship.  I do not therefore think it is altogether
+inappropriate to ask the same; otherwise one is in the position of fighting
+with one's hands tied behind one's back.
+
+     I've never said, and do not want, anyone to hold back; I like the open
+exchange.  (And, I'd point out, given what I see on the systems where I lurk,
+there is MORE direct criticism and evaluation of the show on those systems
+where I'm known to be present than those where I'm not; knowing that someone
+from the show is here tends to result in people expressing more critical
+opinions because they know that someone's actually LISTENING.)  We are fast
+becoming a discourteous, uncivil society, and I know that we won't ever go
+back to anything other.  I just think that, in the case of our special
+conversation here...and it is special...we should endeavor to rise above "He
+stinks!" to a clarification of WHY you don't (or do) like someone or
+something.
+
+     This ain't your basic forum.  I certainly don't act like it is.  Ask
+Christy or Katherine Lawrence about my "basic" posts someday...you'll get an
+earful.  Here there's a different sensibility.
+
+     (Which is one reason why, btw, both NEWSWEEK and EMMY magazine are doing
+major stories on TV in BBS-land, focusing in large measure on this and a few
+other B5 forums.  We've grown used to what this is; the reporters, when they
+finally understand what this is all about, are simply astonished.  The
+foregoing intended as nothing other than a nudge to the compass....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Sarah...you have to understand that I am in a no-win situation on this
+end of the modem.  I have to be *extremely* careful not to let my presence
+here, or things that I say, limit or appear to limit the freedom of people to
+say what they want.  If I told people to lay off because some (not all) cast
+members were reading this...I would get broasted, roasted and toasted, and
+deservedly so.  On the other hand, if I say nothing, then people can say that
+I'm being unfair in the other direction.
+
+     So I tend to err in the direction that I think will encourage the
+greatest degree of open speech.  It's the only thing that I can do.  I only
+referred (after it had already been broached by others) this part of it well
+AFTER the fact, not during it, because I think that serves as a better
+benchmark, or point to consider, than to drag it in DURING the conversation.
+
+     (In one or two occasions, I've offered to post something for one or
+another of the folks who've seen what's said here, but have always been asked
+not to, again on the grounds of not inhibiting the conversation.  I now have a
+third obligation to do as I'm asked, and respect that decision while the
+conversation is ongoing.)
+
+     Finally, often I didn't know about some of this until well after the
+fact.  I recently tried -- simply as an intellectual exercise -- to backtrack
+where some of the excerpts have come from, and it's like trying to trace the
+Watergate money.  They just sorta get handed around; some see them but most
+don't.  It's catch-as-catch-can, and I have no problem with any member of my
+cast or crew doing so.  I encourage them to come on-line directly.  And I have
+no problem with the discussion going on here; I just think that a general
+sense of awareness that words have meaning, and should be used with precision,
+and that we are not writing into a vacuum...these are things worth knowing.
+And now, between seasons, seems a good time to acknowledge that.
+
+     And that said (and at risk of being perceived as trying to lead the
+conversation, which is *always* the danger, as mentioned above)...I think
+we've more or less exhausted this subject, and moving on would be a true
+wonderfulness.
+
+     Maybe this'll work.
+
+     I just finished revising the opening narration for Year Two; it's much
+briefer than before, and now leaves room to show the characters/actors faces
+in quick shots under their names.  Though now abridged, there has been one
+added line in the narration.
+
+     "It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind...the year the Great War
+came upon us all."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     "Is this going to be a Protestant war or a Catholic war?"
+
+     Maybe an Old Testament War.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Mene mene tekel....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     P.S.  So far the first 3-4 episodes of B5's second season are in real-
+time order, each separated by a week in story-time as well as in real time.
+It begins a few days into 2259, and the season would end just before the end
+of that year, with season three starting in 2260.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     The new year's eve on B5 at the end of 2258 is definitely memorable.
+
+     BTW, B5 just won an Emmy for Best Makeup Design, our second overall, and
+our first for the series.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     "It seems a certain producer was too busy...to put together a tape for
+WorldCon."
+
+     Now hold on here just one consarned minute...I don't know what was said
+at Conadian, by whom, but this ain't the case.  I told the programming people
+at the con, REPEATEDLY, by email, over a period of about two months, that I
+didn't have a tape, and didn't have the capacity to put one together just for
+this; said, REPEATEDLY, that I wouldn't be able to  attend, nor would anyone
+else on the show, due to production schedules.
+
+     They knew, WEEKS beforehand, that we would not be able to give them
+anything, or be present.  If they went ahead and scheduled something  anyway,
+only to cancel it, that's something *they* have to deal with, it ain't my
+fault, and I'm NOT taking the rap for it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I wasn't yelling at Perianne, only responding to the info that she passed
+along, which I've heard elsewhere.  If the con knew that I was not coming, nor
+was anyone else on the show, and they *did* know, then that panel shouldn't
+have been on the schedule to begin with.  And then to say that I blithely
+canceled, or just got "too busy" to do something for the con, and didn't tell
+anybody until the last minute...this is cheapjack behavior, and makes me look
+really bad, and I don't like it.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     I think that if any of the characters recognized the parallel arc from
+the original Babylon it would move us too far into metafiction; I'm dancing on
+the edge of that in a few places, but don't want to go too far.
+
+     Mary Jo brings in actors to audition, but final decisions are made by me,
+Doug, John and the director.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     P.S.  Apparently at the Conadian panel on B5, someone (not Perianne, so
+don't yell at me) announced that Dr. Franklin would not be returning in year
+two.  Totally untrue.  He's in for all 22 episodes this season.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     I think there is a qualitative difference between saying something, and
+writing it down.  When you write something down, it's protected by commonlaw
+copyright; just saying it doesn't count.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Not really the war starting in "Chrysalis," unless you are broad  enough
+in your thinking to include the assassin's bullet as the "start" of World War
+I...then in that case, you could say that, yes.  Let's say that the first
+domino falls, and let it go at that.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     Kwicker, Ivanova has *not* said stuff about being Russian "every other
+episode."  I made the error of having her say it twice in the two-parter, now
+everybody's seeing it as a big thing.  It was mentined in Soul Hunter,
+Survivors, and Voice, and insofar as I know, that's it.  (I'll allow for the
+possibility of one more, even though I don't recall any others.)  I don't
+think that 3-4 episodes in a 22 episode season quite qualifies as "every other
+episode."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Sinclair is also a strong character throughout issues 2-5 of the B5
+comic.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     The funny part is that Berman and Pillar, according to mutual
+acquaintances and interviews, have been swearing up one side and down the
+other that they were never going CGI, were staying models.  And now they are
+coming to play on *our* turf.
+
+     Amblin's got Amigas with ten Screamers.
+
+     We've got only one Screamer.  But we've got Ron.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     RE: 422, 423, 435...I dunno about the rest of you, but when they start
+talking like that, it scares the hell out of me....
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Of course, let's remember the extensive use of CGI in Jurassic Park.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+     Insofar as I know, the objects are all entered into the computer in their
+correct size ratios.  Sometimes perception can be tricked  depending on the
+position of the camera, the proximity of the interim object, and the
+background.  I'll check on this, but insofar as I know this is SOP.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     That is, unfortunately, the problem with "filming" in space; it's ALL in
+focus because of the lack of atmosphere, which provides a slight haze that
+cues us to distance.  (Which was why they put the Hubble in space, after all.)
+If you look at footage from the Apollo missions, or the joint Soyuz missions,
+when one ship moves to dock with the other, it's very disturbing visually
+because from a distance, to close up, the other ship is crystal clear.  It's
+also very difficult to judge size when there's nothing of absolute size beside
+it.  If B5 were floating next to a football field, you'd know instantly how
+big the thing was.  We're trying to find ways to work around this....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     Showman...the end of "Survivors," where Kemmer enters her ship...in
+reality there is only a ladder there.  The ship, the walls, the door she
+enters, all that is CGI/virtual set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     ...and add Dwight Schultz to the list of guest stars for this coming
+season....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     And Walter Koenig returns as everyone's favorite Psi Cop in episode
+seven, "A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Bester will be seen 1-2 times per season.  Perhaps a bit more as time
+goes on.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Dwight and Walter are in separate episodes, which would make it
+problematic to have them in the same scenes....
+
+                                                           jms
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+

+
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+
+     Ah!  Now I begin to understand.  Alas, my offices aren't on the Warners
+lot either; we're well and truly off-campus.  Next time look up north a piece
+past the Universal Black Tower, and wave, I'll see you.
+
+     (Though on one level you're right; WB was where we pitched,and sold, the
+series, so in that sense it is the B5 birthplace.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     I'm not sure I'm terribly sanguine about the times/places/dates of our
+softball games being posted in advance.  I'm going to have to think about
+this.  It kind of exposes our crew and cast, who don't know they're going to
+be put in that position.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     Yes, got the shirt; just forgot to mention.  Many thanks, it's a Work of
+Art (and Art's a busy guy these days).
+
+                                                                jms
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+

+
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+
+     There's nothing wrong with Paris that a good 500 megaton fusion bomb
+couldn't fix.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Though I don't have specific dates, you may want to be alert for articles
+in Newsweek and Emmy Magazine about B5 and our presence here on the 'nets.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     A B5 cdrom coming out in the spring will have a lot of that info.   As
+for the filming...yes, we shoot in widescreen but protect for normal aspect
+ratios.  We've now begun the process of reconverting back to the original
+aspect ratio for foreign and eventual laserdisk release.  I will be getting
+the first copies of widescreen versions on tape over the next few months.
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
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+
+     Last date I heard was January 1995, but the main problem is that there's
+just an awful lot of information to codify and assemble, and Compton's has
+been going through some personnel changes of late.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Expect the B5 soundtrack sometime in November/December.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     Don't know much about the scheduled plans, just what you know.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Mainly, it's a Q&A seminar...I can't read scripts (for obvious reasons),
+but I'm encouraging everyone to bring questions galore;  anything you wanted
+to know about how to sell scripts.
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 15 1994
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+     I have to have the next essay in by end of this month, so it should be
+shortly thereafter.
+
+                                                                jms
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+One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+
+Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four, eleventy-five,
+eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight, eleventy-nine, eleventy-ten,
+twelfy
+
+Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four, twelfty-five, twelfty-
+six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight, twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+
+     And so on.
+
+     Who here still has a problem with this?
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+      1) Does anyone know which video programs will run VideoVision on a PC?
+
+      2) Anyone here know anything about a computer game company named Merit?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+Sep 15- Sep 30th, 1994.  Postings are copyright 1994 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
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+     Don't know how much impact will come from the rerun schedule; you'll know
+when I do.
+
+     And vice-versa.
+
+     Well, I've now seen 3 completed (sans some CGI and other stuff) episodes.
+The first one is very good.  I think "Revelations" is even better (#2), mainly
+in that it feels to me a lot like "Chrysalis," lots of *whams* all over the
+place.  But curiously, my favorite so far I think is #3, "The Geometry of
+Shadows," and I think it'll become a favorite with viewers as well.  It's just
+an *awful* lot of fun.  It's very funny in places.  And here's something that
+may surprise you: a number of folks didn't much like Vir in year one.  I think
+you're going to like Vir a LOT in year two.  We're building up his spine, to
+stand up to Londo, and doing a lot more with him.  Also, Vir is in the
+unenviable position of being the one who sees where Londo is going, and
+despite his attempts to stop things, can't...like someone seeing a car
+accident in slow motion.
+
+     Anyway, I was watching the producers' cut of "Geometry" tonight and just
+*howling*.  It's the kind of show I love most, that's funny one moment, then
+scary and ominous the next.  I love that contrast, and it's very hard to pull
+off without seeming forced.  This one came out just right.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     We wrap generally by 7:30 p.m.  Thus far we haven't gone overtime yet.
+Out of 154 shooting days last year, we went overtime precisely 8 times.  We
+sometimes wrap as early as 6 p.m.  We generally hit the standard 12 hour day,
+or less.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+
+     Generally speaking, everyone is on the set by 7:45 a.m., including crew.
+Cast arrives anywhere from one hour to two hours earlier, depending on whether
+or not the actor needs to go into prosthetics.  (We try to schedule actors in
+prosthetics later in the day if possible, to give them more time, but it isn't
+always workable.)  The camera operator is there from 7:45 until we wrap for
+the day.  But there are always down times during the day, times when the
+operator isn't needed on set.  Same for other crew members.  Some days when
+we're light on aliens, none of the folks from Optic Nerve need to be there at
+all.  When we've got a full Council and League of Nonaligned Worlds, and
+they're going all day, then they're there non-stop.  It really varies a lot.
+(And we shoot Monday through Friday, with weekends off, and some religious
+holidays.)
+
+     As stated, we're pretty good about getting people out by 7:30 or earlier.
+This past week we wrapped anywhere from 6-7 p.m. most days.  (We found
+ourselves in an odd situation for a few weeks last year when some of the
+directors got into a kind of competition to see who could wrap the
+earliest...and it began crawling toward 5:30, 5:00, 4:30...when was when we
+pulled the plug on it.)
+
+     I'd say that the lion's share of the credit for how well the whole
+operation runs has to go to our crew, which is amazing.  I've worked on a lot
+of shows over the last ten years, and I've never seen one as fast, as skilled,
+and as able to adapt to circumstances.  Every single one of our guest stars
+and visiting directors has commented on them.  The heart of the crew on-set is
+John Flinn, our Director of Cinematography, who keeps the whole thing running
+smoothly.  You don't have to lean on them to hurry; they *move*, and they're
+proud of their efficiency, and they're good at what they do.  We try to
+maintain a good, creative, open attitude on-set.
+
+     Because I'm usually frantic with meetings, or writing, or on the phone,
+or in the editing bays, I only actually get the chance to walk the stage maybe
+3 times a day *at most*; sometimes just once, sometimes not at all, which is
+ironic given that my door is literally 25 feet from stage C.  When I do go on-
+set, where many producers make a big deal out of it on other shows, I try to
+keep a low profile...I slip in as quietly as I can, watch for a bit, then slip
+back to my office, trying not to get in anybody's way or be a distraction.
+(And the *EXECUTIVE PRODUCER* walking onto a set can be quite a distraction.)
+Sometimes I'll walk out there when I know we're not shooting, just doing
+lighting setups, just to watch them work, and the skill with which they
+approach the task.
+
+     One of the ways we try to keep things smooth (and the reason why I *can*
+only be on set a few times a day) is that the script is worked and tweaked to
+the point where by the time it hits the stage, it's DONE.  It requires no
+further tweaking, except for the occasional, rare line change for performance.
+If pages are flying in while you're shooting, and nobody knows what's coming
+next...you're in trouble.  So by the time we start shooting, my part is more
+or less over.  Script's written, I've met with the director to make sure the
+tone and approach is in sync between us, we've had zillions of meetings...at
+that point, you leave the people who know what they're doing on-set alone to
+do what they do best.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     As a rule, no.  In some rare cases, if we're hooking a story to something
+close in the actor's background, we'll talk to them a bit, but the cast never
+sees a script until it's hit Final Draft stage, at which point very little is
+changed.  Sometimes on set an actor may want a line phrased differently for
+performance, but that too is fairly rare.
+
+     Actors are not writers, and writers are not actors.  (In general.)
+There is a gross misunderstanding of the role of the actor in determining what
+happens in a script.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     We've designed much of our medical equipment around suggestions made by
+our medical science consultants, who generally feel that we'll be using more
+light-oriented healing technology and non-invasive procedures.  And we used
+the 3D imaging process for the interior of a body cavity in "Believers."  A
+few weeks ago we got sent a clipping from some medical newspaper overseas
+showing a new kind of medbed that looks a lot like the one we use in medlab,
+with the monitoring cage overhead.
+
+     We *do* consult in this and other areas.  Sometimes what's projected may
+not be what someone else would project, but please don't take that to mean we
+haven't checked.  We have.
+
+     Tom: in general, the schedule is comparable to the best situations I've
+found before, if not better, on network shows.  The bulk of that due, again,
+to the fleet-footedness of our crew.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Tonight, at 8:30 p.m. Pacific time, noted author and screenwriter Robert
+Bloch passed away from cancer.  He was a kind and generous and good man, and
+one of the brightest lights of his field.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     One of the banes of television, in my humble estimation, is the Focus
+Group.  I hate 'em.  Hate 'em, hate 'em, hate 'em.  (Did I mention I hate
+'em?)  But all the studios insist on them, and each new season every show gets
+tested and re-tested the following season.  My personal estimation is that in
+terms of accuracy they rank somewhere just below the reading of chicken
+entrails.
+
+     This past week, the first two episodes of B5's second season were shown
+to 40+ people here in LA, a group made up of those who had seen the show but
+tuned out, those who'd watched it a few times, and those who were regular
+viewers.  I was very anxious about the whole thing, partly because the
+episodes are still in *very* early stages...producer's cuts, transferred from
+the Avid editing machines, no music, no sound EFX, many unfinished CGI
+effects...but there you are.  I was also concerned because they would be
+seeing these *without* seeing "Chrysalis" (though they would be able to infer
+certain things from seeing the repercussions), and I didn't know how or if any
+of them would be thrown by not having seen that.
+
+     Well, though I put no more stock in focus groups now than I did before,
+I'm pleased to state that the screening went over like gangbusters.  People
+got *very* caught up in it, they liked Bruce a LOT (even the regular viewers,
+without exception, felt that way)...they had virtually no negative comments at
+*all*.  We got the highest ratings we've ever had.  Specific things they
+commented on were that the show *looked* much better in terms of sets and
+costumes and lighting, theyh liked the characters a lot more, they got into
+the story bigtime...it really worked for them on every level.
+
+     The good part about this is that a solid focus group report tends to
+encourage networks and studios to push harder to do advertising and promotion.
+And that has definitely happened here.
+
+     Once we've finished the episodes, added all the sound and music and CGI,
+we should be pretty solid.
+
+     (Oh, and just last night watched the director's cut of D.C. Fontana's
+script, "A Distant Star."  Looks *very* good.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     It's my understanding that B5's second season will start in the UK in
+December/January.
+
+     Bruce will be on the Mike and Maddy (Mike and Matty?) show this Friday
+morning; a couple hours later, for those in LA, he'll also be on Good Day LA.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Here's something to consider.  I pass this along for whatever use it may
+be down the road a piece.
+
+     Apparently, the contract for B5 and the stations expires at the end of
+the year, with a few exceptions.  What this means is that, for all intents and
+purposes, the decision on whether or not to pick up the show will be made
+based on the November sweeps.
+
+     We've done well this year; they're expecting us to do even better next
+year.  To be precise, they'd like us to be a bona fide hit.  What's the reason
+for this?  The syndication market is going through MAJOR  changes.  Networks
+and fledgling networks are grabbing up stations by the handful, making lots of
+elaborate promises, bringing highly-rated network shows in many cases in as
+inducement.  Robocop is, apparently, already either dead or near-death.  Other
+series will be falling in the next few weeks.
+
+     When running new episodes, we're come in around a 5.3 rating, which puts
+us at about #17 in the ratings overall, and #4 in dramatic series.   Our
+demographics, btw, are nothing less than *amazing*.  But because we're making
+the show better, and doing more, and with the shape of the market for
+syndicated TV changing, more is expected.  What we hear is that the stations
+would like us to bring in a rating between 6.0 and 7.0, which would put us at
+about #10 in the overall rankings, #3 in dramatic series overall.  If we can
+do that, we're golden.  If not...I don't know.
+
+     Point being, if there's any last-minute conversions anybody wants to do,
+now's the time to do it.  November will be very important to the whole fate of
+Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+Actually, Joe, what you're really saying is...if anyone out there knows anyone
+who is a Nielsen family...GET 'EM TO WATCH THE SHOW!!!!
+
+PAD
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+      Ladies and gentlemen...the world famous Peter David, whose script
+ for B5 goes into production in a few weeks....
+
+                                              ^^^
+                                               |
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Let me be absolutely clear: if B5 should fall in the syndicated market,
+the WB network will *not* pick it up.  Neither could we take it to any other
+network for a period of 2 years (by contract), which is the same as preventing
+it altogether since you'd lose your cast and crew in that amount of time.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Telepathic scans of suspects in a criminal case are *absolutely NOT
+admissible* in court.  They are prohibited from it.  Because it puts FAR too
+much power in the hands of telepaths, power that the judicial system would
+never, ever in a million years part with.  It destroys the idea of due
+process.  You have to be sure that the telepath isn't lying, which means you
+bring in a second telepath to verify the first, and a third to verify the
+second.  Further, a person may feel responsible for someone's death ("I said,
+`I hate you, I hope you did,' and then she did, it's my fault!"), without
+being so.
+
+     The recent introduction of telepaths into the military is a very
+controversial decision, and is being fought vigorously.  It was put in on the
+theory that in wartime, soldiers do not have quite the same rights as
+civilians.  This is being contested hotly back in the Earth senate, and I
+wouldn't be surprised to see it overturned.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Can I dive in here for just a second to say that this is one of those
+accepted cliches that has nothing whatsoever to do with reality?  It's like
+the other one, "All these cartoons are violent," but when you ask the person
+to show which ones, they can't back it up.
+
+     The *norm* in television is to NOT script religious people as loonies.
+I'm sorry, I know that's generally what one's told, but that's simply not the
+case.  Religious people have gotten FAR better treatment in general than
+atheists, that's for certain.  FATHER MURPHY, THE FATHER DOWLING MYSTERIES,
+HELLTOWN, HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN...there have been *many* series headlined by
+religious people, or in which religious people appear in a favorable light.
+(DR. QUINN in particular comes to mind.)
+
+     It seems like if you show *one* religious nut, suddenly it's taken as a
+statement that ALL are like this.  No, it's not, that's just that one person.
+And religion has gotten PLENTY of good air on TV.  Some groups just don't
+think it's enough yet, want to feel persecuted, exaggerate the situation,
+publicize inaccuracies and misinformation, and generally won't be happy until
+such figures are everywhere.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Re: religious people not necessarily *acting* religious, or doing a
+religious thing in the course of a show...hey, I was on Murder, She Wrote for
+two years...don't recall one episode where we showed Jessica Fletcher typing
+for any period of time.
+
+     ST's treatment I would put in a separate category, because there does
+seem to be some element of an agenda there (or, stated less pejoratively, a
+different point-of-view on the subject).  Mainstream TV has, I think, done
+very well in this area, all things considered.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Speaking as a writer, I *am* defined in many ways by my keyboard; it is
+in my lap nearly every hour of the day when I'm not eating or sleeping.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Yes, Ivanova is already second in command; she gets promoted to Commander
+rank in episode 3.  They got it wrong.  Also...lemme see if I've got this
+straight...we put 50 ships in an episode, introduce new Earthforce ships,
+carriers, you name it...TVG doesn't blink...DS9 puts ONE new ship in their
+show and they get a two-page spread?
+
+     Linda: thanks.  "Stupid fan remarks" are always welcome, just as one hope
+stupid producer remarks are sometimes welcome.....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Keffler should be Keffer.
+
+     Kevin Cremins will be directing "A Spider in the Web."
+
+     Mario DiLeo is directing "The Long Dark."
+
+
+     Jim Johnston will be directing "A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+     "Pestilence, Famine and Death" has been retitled "Soul Mates."
+
+     Jessica Walters also appears in "Spider," with Barbeau and Beck.
+
+     "The Coming of Shadows" will receive a new director, either Janet Greek
+or Jim Johnston.
+
+     "Unnatural Selection" is being retitled; current working title is "All
+Our Songs, Forgotten," though that may change; being written by D.C. Fontana.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+     I've tentatively spiked "The Customer is Always Right" (a non-arc story)
+because ST did something on a similar topic, and I think I've got something
+better for that slot anyway.
+
+     I love "The Coming of Shadows."  It's one of those episodes that just
+knocks the breath out of you.  You know those moments when you're in the
+passenger seat of a car, and the person driving is doing something crazy, and
+your foot automatically keeps searching for a brake pedal that isn't there
+because you know something awful's going to happen?  That's the feeling you
+get all through that script.  This episode, like "Sky," "Signs," "Chrysalis"
+and "Revelations" again changes the direction and ratchets everything one
+notch tighter.  It's also a very visual script, and I like that, since I
+sometimes do rely too much on dialogue from time to time, and it's good to go
+in a different direction.
+
+     Kosh has just two words in this episode...and, again, they'll send a
+chill right down the spine.
+
+     Ah loves it....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     You'll note, btw, how the "new planetary leader" (meaning a leader of the
+Grey Council) dovetails with "Babylon Squared."  As I promised, we're trying
+for real continuity here....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The comic should be out in late November/early December.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     EEK!
+
+                                                        jms
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+     I have to have the next essay in by end of this month, so it should be
+shortly thereafter.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Thanks; some of the writing for the column on the personal side was very
+difficult...glad to hear it was useful.  Re: OK cons...nothing at this time
+scheduled.  I try to keep it down to a minimum, usually maybe 5-6 in a year,
+not much more than that.  I just don't think I have that much of interest to
+say to folks....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I had heard that, yes...and discouraged our cast from signing any
+exclusive deal with ANYbody, for any reason.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Hard to confirm much of anything, since I was only just notified of the
+presentation late this evening; nobody had said boo to me about it prior to
+this.  So my info is as good as yours at this point, so thus far, yes, it'll
+be Sunday (hadn't even *heard* about anything Saturday).
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+
+Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four, eleventy-five,
+eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight, eleventy-nine, eleventy-ten,
+twelfy
+
+Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four, twelfty-five, twelfty-
+six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight, twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+
+     And so on.
+
+     Who here still has a problem with this?
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+     I hate to mention this, but ALL language consists of made-up words.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+
+     In an active-matrix notebook computer screen, what's the difference
+between TFT and STN?
+
+                                                                      jms
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+
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+     So in other words...TFT is, like, better than STN...okaydoke.
+
+                   jm(who likes to boil it down to terms he understands)s
+

+
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+
+     How does the Dell notebook TFT (Latitude) compaare with the Stager?
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+     Of course, let's remember the extensive use of CGI in Jurassic Park.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+     Insofar as I know, the objects are all entered into the computer in their
+correct size ratios.  Sometimes perception can be tricked  depending on the
+position of the camera, the proximity of the interim object, and the
+background.  I'll check on this, but insofar as I know this is SOP.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     That is, unfortunately, the problem with "filming" in space; it's ALL in
+focus because of the lack of atmosphere, which provides a slight haze that
+cues us to distance.  (Which was why they put the Hubble in space, after all.)
+If you look at footage from the Apollo missions, or the joint Soyuz missions,
+when one ship moves to dock with the other, it's very disturbing visually
+because from a distance, to close up, the other ship is crystal clear.  It's
+also very difficult to judge size when there's nothing of absolute size beside
+it.  If B5 were floating next to a football field, you'd know instantly how
+big the thing was.  We're trying to find ways to work around this....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Showman...the end of "Survivors," where Kemmer enters her ship...in
+reality there is only a ladder there.  The ship, the walls, the door she
+enters, all that is CGI/virtual set.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+
+     My info comes from some folks at Amblin', and yes, the same folks do the
+SeaQuest EFX.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I know Foundation is working on some other projects, so there is time for
+that, they just assign different animators to different projects.  I think ST
+would never come to Foundation.
+
+     Lately the CGI work has been fairly intensive because of some very
+effects-intensive shows, specifically parts of "Geometry" and "A Distant
+Star."
+
+     A number of people have asked if we'll ever see the inside of hyperspace,
+or the POV of a starfury pilot as he drops...and the answer  to both is yes.
+Ron's first pass at hyperspace was, I thought, a bit too
+Spielberg/Disney/pretty pictures.  I really felt strongly that hyperspace
+should be a *scary* looking place, a dangerous place.  And Ron came back with
+some really nifty stuff, a vaguely dream-like/nightmarish quality to it.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Yes, you do see a jump point forming from within hyperspace.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     Not a problem of any kind.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+
+     Centauri were available to be slapped under a microscope if they WISHED
+to be slapped under a microscope.  To them, we were the ones they chose to
+study, and wouldn't be so undignified to submit to our examination.  They're
+rather haughty sometimes.  It was a long time before we were able to get some
+decent material to examine.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     Other actors: Michael Beck, Anna Marie Johnson, Adrienne Barbeau.
+
+                                                           jms
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+
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+
+     Kiwi: "heh" yourself...it's Ladira, not Akira.
+
+     I don't much like japanese animation, don't watch it.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Definitely human, though raised on Mars.
+
+                                                        jms
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+     Did I mention that Robert Foxworth is also in our first episode?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Hawk: exactly.
+
+     I think that if somebody is bad or good from day one, there's no real
+interest in what happens to them on one level.  But take someone who you kinda
+liked, and thought was fun....and slowly they begin to slide into something
+dark and terrible...you *feel* for them, you worry about them, you're watching
+it like a car accident in slow motion.  And then there's the one you thought
+was rotten to the core...and now that character seems to be moving toward
+something noble, but tragic...again, you get caught up in it.
+
+     Life, and good storytelling, is about *change*.  Or as Mr. Dylan said,
+"Any man not busy being born is busy dying."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+     Y'know what it'll take?  It'll take one well-known, nationally recognized
+reviewer to come up to the plate and say that this is something *different*.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     Would love to hear any more detailed reports from folks who were
+there....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+     Meatloaf *again*?!
+
+                                                           jms
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+
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+     Tape hell...laserdisk.  (Also a big Meatloaf fan.)
+
+     First time I ever saw "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" it was in college,
+with a young woman who dragged me to it.  As we stood in line, a cool but not
+terribly cold night, I noted that she was wearing a rather large overcoat.
+She explained that it was the kind she tended to wear to TRHPS
+screenings...she showed me how she'd cut the ends off of the pockets, allowing
+her hands to come through to the inner part of the coat.  I inquired about why
+this was done.  "So I can diddle myself while I watch the movie," she said.
+
+     I have absolutely no recollection of the rest of the evening.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+     Let me repeat again what I said before: we've *already shot* a sequence
+with Michael to be used later in season two.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Yeah, it really is a cool book.  It's a very personal way of doing a bio,
+and at the same time providing a good look at America from 1927 through
+1994...through wars, and blacklisting, and social changes.  The fake letters
+sent to the DGA documentary committee alone are worth the price of
+admission....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     The command would be REA ALL NEW AUT=LOUDMOUTH.HOTAIR
+
+                                                            jms
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+
+     And add Jessica Walters.
+
+     (Y'know, this is starting to shape up as a pretty good list of guest
+stars...Jessica Walters, Dwight Schultz, Robert Foxworth, Adrienne Barbeau,
+Russ Tamblyn, Michael Ansara, Walter Koenig, others...and that's just in the
+first 7 episodes or so.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Trying to decide which makes a better Kosh....
+
+     *             or               ?
+
+                                                           jms
+

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+
+     "You have forgotten something."  Kosh
+
+     "Nothing's the same anymore."  Sinclair
+
+     "If the primates we descended from had known that politicians would
+someday come out of the gene pool, they would've stayed in the trees and
+written evolution off as a bad idea.  Hell, I always thought the opposable
+thumb was over-rated."    Captain John Sheridan
+
+     "The universe works through the complex interaction of three things:
+energy, matter, and enlightned self-interest."   G'Kar
+
+     "I work for Ambassador Mollari.  After a while, nothing bothers you."
+Vir Cotto
+
+                                                              jms
+
+     (Numbers 3 and 5 are from season two)
+

+
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+
+     Should be an article on Michael O'Hare coming out in this month's Starlog
+(out now in some places) that should put to rest a lot of the rumors.
+
+                                                            jms
+

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+
+     Did you get hardcopy copies of my notes, or did they just read 'em to you
+over the phone?  (Wasn't much, really, mainly just a few line  changes, some
+background stuff, and how the Psi Corps does and doesn't work.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     BTW, a company named All-U, which does t-shirts and other stuff, has
+signed on to do some B5 shirts as well...and I gotta tell you, these are
+really very cool.   Nicely done, well designed...a lot of thought went into
+them.  And what's really amazing is that they've come up with some process
+that lets them put down photographic-level images, and lots o white (and color-
+on-white) WITHOUT bulking up the colors so that you can feel them stubbing out
+from the shirt.  The designs feel like any other part of the shirt.  *Very*
+nice (in fact, I'm wearing one as I type, a multicolor shot of the station,
+the nebula, the logo, and "The Last, Best Hope...Babylon 5").  Really nifty.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     I know the guys from All-U are over on Prodigy, looking for some quotes
+for shirts (or AOL, I can never keep them separate), so someone from there
+probably has more info.  But they should be generally  available soon.  The
+one I nabbed was the prototype.
+
+     To try and keep the novels canon, I'm going to *try* and work in a brief
+reference to the event on B5 that takes place in "Voices," made after the
+fact, just a throwaway.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Aside from mentioning in the first novel that everyone in the show dies
+in the end, what could remotely be considered a spoiler?
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+
+     No, no funky pyramid stuff.  The mural that dominates the casino traces
+human history/technology.  It goes from the beginnings of civilization in
+Egypt, the "cradle" of civilization in that region (left hand corner) and as
+it moves left-to-right shows horse-drawn carriages then villages then cities
+then megacities, planes, jets, starships, and finally ends with B5 up in the
+right-hand top corner.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Ron chose a blue nebula because you can't do bluescreen effects with a
+blue nebula background without showing hideous matte lines; he knew it was
+something a Certain Other Show couldn't do.  "Look, ma, no matte lines!"
+
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Haven't heard any audio king commercials, so I don't know, but I'll try
+and keep an ear out.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     The clause serves the stations, which want flexibility.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     I received a lot of response, as noted above, from scientists (no less
+than Freeman Dyson, for instance) who had frankly never really been ASKED
+about the whole sound in space issue...and when they put their thoughts to it,
+indicated that yes, there *would* be sound, of varying kinds and orders of
+magnitude.  I've got it all in a big textfile, and hope to get around to
+editing it for space and uploading it one of these days.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     I dunno about Chrysalis parties...mainly because whenever we've shown
+anyone the episode, the usual reaction at the end is a long, prolonged stunned
+silence.  Might kinda cut into the jovialities....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     T.J.Terru...ah, the famous archeaologist...my regards to Ruby and the
+Android Sisters.
+
+     Yes, have been in England, having left a week ago Saturday, and just
+returning today.  Will post a longer note about this when I've fully recovered
+(vacation, ha!).  We always give cast and crew a week break mid way between
+the start of filming and the Christmas hiatus.  Tomorrow we begin shooting "A
+Race Through Dark Places," with Walter Koenig.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Re: any discussions in Showbiz or elsewhere about O'Hare, which I have
+answered and answered until I'm blue in the face, and another new "true story"
+comes out two weeks later that I have to deal with...I'll make a deal with
+Warren and anybody else over there: I'll be happy to discuss this some more if
+they'll give me the names and phone numbers of their last three or four
+employers, so that I may inquire and find out the circumstances under which
+they left THEIR last employment.  After all, by virtue of being on the nets,
+which are public, and published electronically worldwide, they're public
+figures as well...if they think this is fair game for others, then it should
+be fair game for them as well.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     There were a lot of ganged repeats due to the fact that we went on the
+air in January, and they wanted new shows to stretch to the November sweeps.
+Now we're going on in November, and can last fairly easily  through to the May
+sweeps with fewer reruns (not as long a stretch), so there may be some relief
+here.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+      So what was the (non-spoiler) reaction of the crowd at Farpoint to the
+"Chrysalis" showing?
+
+     Filming started this week on "A Race Through Dark Places," with Walter
+Koenig back as Bester.  Going well.  Late next week we start shooting Peter
+David's script, "Soul Mates," guest-starring Lois  Nettleton and Jane Carr as
+two of Londo's wives, and Keith Sarabeca (not one of Londo's wives) (and I
+think I just misspelled his name).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     At this point I plan to show "Chrysalis" at the Dallas convention on
+Saturday, a few days ahead of its airing there.  And maybe some other
+stuff....
+
+                                                     jms
+

+
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+
+     Part of this discussion that intrigues me is the literalness of it.
+
+     When you watch a cop show, and the cop fires his gun, do people really
+think it makes that BOOM! sound?  Listen to a real gun; it's usually sort of a
+*pop*.
+
+     When a car screeches around the corner, does it *really* make that huge
+noise?
+
+     When someone gets punched in a TV episode, and you hear a sharp CRACK! as
+fist impacts chin, do people really think it makes that sound, rather than a
+kind of barely-audible fleshy *thud*?
+
+     Is the microphone in space, is the microphone enclosed, is the microphone
+a person...the microphone *isn't there*.
+
+     Nothing in television is intended as absolute reality, even when it
+aspires to that.  The most rigorous of all documentaries nonetheless must cull
+quotes.  When we mix an episode, we add in footsteps (because you couldn't
+hear them otherwise), we add voices in the background via walla groups that
+weren't there in the first place, dub in lines that didn't exist, add the
+sound of punches, add the sound of PPGs firing, enhance the sound of a punch,
+add bleeps and beeps to machinery...the argument that adding sound to space
+isn't real doesn't hold up because *virtually none* of the sound you hear is
+real, and again virtually NONE of it is there when the microphone and camera
+are present.
+
+     It just seems odd to me to concentrate on this one issue, when in truth
+the sound is false throughout *ALL* television.  Why this and not the other?
+
+     One of the researchers I contacted at the High Altitude Observatory
+stated the case very eloquently: he said that to date, *no one* has ever stuck
+a microphone out into space to see what anyone could hear; and no one has ever
+stuck their head out of a shuttle, minus helmet, to find out  either.  It's
+*all* conjecture.  So you might as well assume there is  sound of some sort as
+there isn't, until someone does the actual experiment.
+
+     Another scientist there at the HAO, Steve Smith, PhD (plasma/
+astrophysicist) wrote me saying, "Space is not empty, it's full of plasma
+(ionized gas) and full of the plasma equivalent of sound waves.   Since plasma
+is ionized and generally contains a magnetic field, there are a lot more types
+of waves than just sound waves (usually the only form of atmospheric wave we
+encounter).
+
+     But here's a real killer: from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
+CA, a scientist who worked on the Voyager mission noted that "probes like
+Voyager do register bow-shock as they cross the speed of sound in the
+interplanetary medium."
+
+     That was *monitored* at JPL.  So if there's no sound in space...what was
+that bow-shock?
+
+     There's plenty of evidence that there IS sound in space.  How much, or
+little, can't be known until experiments on this have been conducted by
+researchers, and thus far this has not been done.  Until it has, there seems
+nothing amiss with the direction we've taken.
+
+     I am just intrigued at how much of a bugaboo this is in the SF community,
+which swallows the BLAMMMMM! of a beat cop's .38 without ever even questioning
+if it would *really* make that sound or not.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     BTW, this weekend I'll be at Stellar Occasion Convention in Dallas, at
+the Executive Hotel in Love Field.  Claudia Christian will also be present.
+I'll be giving two presentations, at noon and six p.m. Saturday, including a
+showing of "Chrysalis."
+
+     And maybe some other stuff.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Every so often, a screwup takes place that is so breathtakingly stupid
+that it defies all logic and reason.  I just learned of one this evening, and
+I'm still reeling a bit from it.  Consequently, this is address to anyone who
+watched the satellite uplink of "Chrysalis" or has seen it in the US in the
+last day or so.
+
+     Once we deliver an episode, it goes to two places: Modern Video and CVC.
+CVC checks an episode of any series prior to uplink to make sure it's okay.
+Though they've had it for four months, they only got around to checking it the
+day before uplink.  During this, they found a couple of small audio pops.  The
+kind of thing that could be fixed in about five minutes.  But since it was the
+evening, Modern Video decided to fix it for us...by *rebuilding the entire
+episode*.
+
+     Without calling us, notifying us, or checking with us, when we could've
+easily had someone on-hand there to supervise at a moment's notice.
+
+     Well, when they rebuilt the episode...they didn't use all the correct
+footage.  Some of what was used was RAW FOOTAGE.  Example: when Londo goes to
+meet someone in the Garden, there's supposed to be a great composite shot
+there of the interior of the Garden area, and a hedge maze.  (The UK saw this
+version of it last month.)  But when the episode was rebuilt, they used the
+raw footage segment showing Londo and a partial hedge IN THE SOUNDSTAGE, where
+you can see the stage wall, and the pipes, and the EXIT sign.  No composite.
+Nada.
+
+     We don't yet know what else has been included incorrectly, because we
+won't see a copy until morning.  Suffice to say that this is being taken care
+of *our* way overnight, and a correct version will  be sent out via satellite
+in time for the Wednesday first airings in most markets, and the reruns in
+those markets where it's already aired.
+
+     At this moment, I am preternaturally calm about all this, having passed
+beyond anger earlier this evening into a kind of zen state of consciousness,
+utterly unable to wrap my brain around the absolute stupidity of something
+like this for more than two minutes at a time.
+
+     By morning, this will have worn off.
+
+     I'm looking forward to it immensely.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     John: yeah, you definitely should've said something; we'd never put out
+something like that.  As it turns out, we discovered that there were TWO comp
+shots missing (including one in DownBelow), and that's how the "to be
+continued" got added in at the end.  We rousted our people out of bed and had
+them at the Modern Video facility at 2:30 a.m. fixing other people's mistakes,
+rebuilding the entire episode so it could be birded out this afternoon.
+
+     BTW, for those interested, Bruce will be on Tom Snyder show tonight.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3008.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3008.html
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+     The Minbari in the clip was a one-shot.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     BTW, I'm pleased to note that Christopher Franke's company has gotten the
+contract to do the B5 soundtrack...AND that there will be an effort made to
+have a *limited edition* version available ONLY for LosCon over the
+Thanksgiving weekend.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3010.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3010.html
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+
+     Phil: if you saw TBC at the end of the episode, it was NOT the correct
+version.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3011.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3011.html
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+     A notice already went out to ALL tv stations.  He may just not want to
+exert the effort to put in the correct version.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3012.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3012.html
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+
+     What episodes to watch for in year two that are, variously, very
+important or moderately important to the storyline....
+
+     "Points of Departure," "Revelations," a piece of "The Geometry of
+Shadows" but not all of it; portions of "The Long Dark," "GROPOS" and "A
+Spider in the Web," and all of "A Race Through Dark Places" and "The Coming of
+Shadows," with the latter two of critical importance.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3013.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3013.html
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+
+     Losing the characters she's come to enjoy?  No.  But the characters are
+changing.  That's the point, and that's been the intent from day one.   But
+what's the alternative?  I've heard ST fans complain loudly and bitterly that
+after 7 years of TNG being on the air, nobody's really changed, nobody's been
+promoted into different ships or major changes in responsibilities...they've
+had Riker as XO for seven years, which in the real military would mean his
+career is *over*.
+
+     Change is the only other option.
+
+     The goal, from the start, was to create an overall story, but which would
+also require arcs for every single major character.  They're all going
+somewhere.  In many cases, that "somewhere" plays into the larger arc; in some
+cases, not.  If a woman is single, then gets married, then gives birth, and
+she's your friend, have you "lost her" just because she's gone through these
+changes?  Of course not.  She has changed, in good or bad ways, but she's
+still the same person.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3014.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3014.html
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+
+     I do not believe it...I simply, fragging do not believe it...after all
+that, after airing the right version on Wednesday, Channel 13 in LA ran the
+wrong Chrysalis tonight at midnight.
+
+     The universe hates me.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3015.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3015.html
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+
+     Newkirk...re: post-launch thoughts..."Once ze rockets go up, who cares
+vere they come down, that's not my department, says Werner Von Braun...."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3016.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3016.html
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+
+     That's *exactly* what the soundtrack that Christopher has put together
+sounds like...he's orchestrated music from all the episodes so that they segue
+cleanly into one another, extending some, interpolating a bit here and
+there...it's an hour or so of nonstop music, one big symphony.  Lovely,
+absolutely lovely.
+
+     (Again, I have one of the very few CDs he made to test this, and it's
+terrific.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3017.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3017.html
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+     Should be out in November or December; what exactly it'll be like will
+depend to some degree on whether it goes to Chris's company or another.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3018.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3018.html
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+
+      I don't see a contradiction there; people I know here who are Jewish
+seem to have no problem classifying themselves as Americans.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3019.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3019.html
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+
+     Re: LDS and separation of church and state...tell that to anyone living
+in or around Salt Lake City....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3020.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3020.html
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+
+     Personally, despite my ethnic background, I tend to think of myself
+mainly as a large left-handed wrench.
+
+     But I guess that's pretty common....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3021.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3021.html
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+
+     Hey...could be worse...could've said Wench...which as we all know is the
+feminine version of a Mensch....
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3022.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3022.html
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+
+     One was an Earthforce atmospheric-capable shuttle; the other was a
+Centauri personal transport.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3023.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3023.html
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+
+     It may be wise, about now, to start opening up the cat 19 spoilers topics
+for season two, since "Points" goes out on the big bird tomorrow morning.
+(And those who downlink it will be among the first to see our rather spiffy
+new main title sequence.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3024.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3024.html
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+
+     Generally speaking, Warners/PTEN leaves us alone.  Each season, as with
+all TV shows, they tend to get involved in the first couple of episodes,
+giving notes and wanting to see early cuts.  Since they have more time to
+become involved, they do so.  This quickly phases down; we got a fair number
+of notes on the first episode of both seasons of B5; less on the second;
+single note on a script or cut since about #3, and we're currently up to #10,
+script-wise.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3025.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3025.html
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+
+     There really wasn't/isn't time in PoD to get into the angst everyone has
+over Sinclair leaving (though some of that is given to Sheridan, oddly
+enough).  But it WILL get brought up in subsequent episodes, especially from
+Garibaldi.
+
+     RE: Warner notes...mainly they're in areas of clarification, making sure
+that we don't get obscure with some of the arc stuff.  Each episode HAS to be
+clear to anyone coming in mid-stream, so they're helpful on that aspect.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3026.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3026.html
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+
+     Hey, folks said the answers were coming too slowly, now too quickly...
+what's a producer to do?
+
+     I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling, no
+single primary question could be allowed to go more than about one season
+before answering it, otherwise you get into a frustrating Twin Peaks situation
+where *nothing* is resolved.  Basically, the events begun in "Chrysalis" bleed
+over into three episodes; the Battle of the Line answers were initially only a
+couple of episodes further down in my outline, about episode #3.  Making the
+change, for one thing, allowed me to move that storyline forward to episode
+#1, blow through it and get the story moving in year two faster, rather than
+delaying further with loose threads from season one.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3027.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3027.html
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+
+     Klaatu...I can probably answer your question a little better after you've
+seen the second episode of this season.  For now, let's just say this: in
+working out the story for year two, Sinclair's main line of connection was to
+the Minbari.  But the Minbari storyline was diminishing in ways connected to
+the war in year two; obviously we all know what is on the upswing in year two,
+certain dark forces.  I needed someone who has a connection to *that* side of
+the story to personalize it, and Sheridan brings that connection to the mix,
+although he doesn't know it yet.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3028.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3028.html
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+
+     ND = NonDescript (an extra, no one who should be noticeable)
+
+     A/B = Blood types.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3029.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3029.html
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+
+     I've told others on the show that you'll know I've really, really, really
+sold out the day I approve the licensing of Babylon 5 Underoos.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3030.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3030.html
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+
+     Nope; never went to school in Cincinnati; never even *in* that state for
+longer than required to drive through it.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3031.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3031.html
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+
+     At last, someone else who has seen the Leningrad Cowboys movie.  I
+stumbled upon it on Bravo one night, about 45 minutes into it, and sat riveted
+to the seat.  Literallly did not move, and discovered after a  while that my
+arm was aching from where I'd been holding the remote the whole time.  Very,
+very weird....
+
+     Liked it.  Not sure why....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3032.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3032.html
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+
+     IT'S ON VIDEO!?
+
+     >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>zooooooooooooooooooooom!
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3033.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3033.html
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+
+      I believe some of the interviews for FutureQuest were performed in the
+B5 central corridor.
+
+     Re: magazines...yes, in the UK there are even some mainstream mags  and
+newspapers discovering the show.  The Radio Times gave it a glowing review,
+the Times called it superior, the Evening Standard called it
+spiffing...Starburst has done one or two covers on the show, as has TV Zone
+(to whom I gave an interview while in London).
+
+     In the US, Cinefantastique has given it the cover twice.  Note that
+Starlog has not done so once.  Personally, I won't have anything to do with
+the magazine, because of their tendency to get stuff wrong, and because
+they're primarily a ST/Paramount mouthpiece.  The editor there has told people
+that even though they give covers to less highly rated shows like Highlander,
+they'll *never* do a B5 cover because it would piss off Paramount.  And they
+never have.  (Just one more reason why I won't in any way cooperate; I can't
+prevent, and wouldn't try to prevent, my cast from doing so, because it's a
+free country and they deserve the exposure.  I  don't think the second-rate
+treatment is appropriate, personally.  Just shows you where their head is.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3034.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3034.html
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+
+     The grey-alien trial scene from "Grail" will be excerpted for a two-part
+"Sightings" on alien abduction.
+
+     I'm *still* laughing.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3035.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3035.html
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+
+     BTW, for those interested, Chris Claremont is a *major* B5 fan (a man of
+impeccable taste); anybody who wants to lean on him to do one of the B5 arcs
+is more than welcome to do so....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3036.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3036.html
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+     Confirmed on the Galoob Micro-Machines.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3037.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3037.html
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+
+     Insofar as I know, the micros are coming out in sets, I think it's either
+8 or 12 to a set.  Don't know about any subsequent group boxes.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3038.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3038.html
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+
+     Talia is on retainer with B5, with Psi Corps paying her rent and food,
+and taking the majority of money from her commissions, which she generally is
+free to select, except in cases where they may insist.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3039.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3039.html
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+
+     Johann...ah, was that you?  Should've identified yourself.
+
+     (BTW, I was rather nonplussed when, upon arriving at the con, I was told
+that my escort/runner/driver for the duration of the con was a fellow who went
+by the nickname Shadow (albeit spelled Shaddo).  Sort of caught me up short,
+to say the least (they ARE everywhere).
+
+     Nothing firmed up yet about other cast/crew at LosCon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3040.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-10/3040.html
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+
+     Johann...you must understand that I have the worst memory for faces in
+the long history of mankind.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+                          #9.
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+                                                            jms
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+     Granted there is metaphor in the construction of the B5 story, but it's
+not point-for-point in any linear fashion.  The coming conflagration will look
+a hell of a lot more like a cross between WW II and the breaking of the seals
+in "Revelations" than Vietnam.  (Probably the Earth/Minbari War could be made
+the closest approximation of Vietnam; "peace with honor" and all that.)  The
+point of metaphor, I think, is not to draw a straight parallel, but to tilt
+the mirror a bit, shift the focus and see how this change of perspective
+illuminates reality.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Weren't her.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     *What* Piperism?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+      Oh....*that*.  Yeah, that's something we've done, but just because it
+seemed right.  Never even considered Piper.  Having met an african american
+named O'Reilly, and Irish-born Jews, and the like, it just seems this is gonna
+continue.  So we just write the names of the characters, and cast whoever
+comes in the door as the best actor, regardless of ethnic background, but
+don't change the name.  Gives us some interesting random combinations.
+
+                                                        jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 01 1994
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+     What the hell happened to NVN?  For the last few months, when I try to
+log on using the same script and number as ever, it goes halfway through the
+process, then just stops dead.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Sanderson also did a "Twilight Zone" for me, did an okay job.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     I think this is sorta unconscionable, spiking some poor old nanny at home
+base...hell, how could they not win up against a bunch of old  ladies...?
+
+                     jm(oblivious and proud of it)s
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+     Mainly Narns, Drazi and a few Pak'ma'ra.
+
+     Umpires are all Vorlons.  But isn't that what we all kinda suspected
+anyway...?
+
+                                                              jms
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+     And Umpire-speak is certainly Vorlonish.
+
+     "Strike."
+
+     "Foul."
+
+     "Safe."
+
+     "Out."
+
+                                                         jms
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+     Bluescreen.
+
+                                                          jms
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+     Correct: B5 is a distribution point, and many objects are stored in the
+zero-G area and never brought into the station proper.
+
+     Johanna: reality check.  If I put in all the staff (or even most of the
+staff) you suggest, huge diplomatic staffs, trade envoys, political attaches,
+military, etc...and did this times 5 ambassadors...even totally leaving out
+the League of Non-Aligned Worlds...there wouldn't be any money left to
+actually make the show.  You'd have all the cast you suggest, but no money for
+film, or cameras, or crew.  Right now we have 14-16 regular and recurring
+characters, and another 8 or so who appear periodically (like Lou Welch).
+This is the biggest cast ever put together for an SF series, and we're
+straining as it is to accommodate all of this.  To have more just to have them
+is pointless, and would bankrupt the show.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Arne's seen it.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     It's a weird promo, because if you see it, it makes it look like season
+two starts next week (well, that's what it says), showing you Bruce and
+others...but if you tune in, you get "Chrysalis."  Weird....
+
+
+                                                  jms
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+     "Chrysalis" is more questions than answers; the next two episodes are
+more answers than questions.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     We used the LBJ swearing-in photograph in staging that shot; odd
+coincidence: the day we filmed that was the anniversary of the day that LBJ
+did this in real life.  The mood on set that day was thus *very* weird.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Phil: there *is* a parting resolution/explanation for the Sinclair
+situation in the first episode of next season.
+
+     In two episodes, you will discover: a) what happened during the 24 hours
+missing from Sinclair's memory; b) why the Minbari surrendered at the Battle
+of the Line; c) what Delenn has turned into; d) what G'Kar found on his
+expedition; e) the fate of Garibaldi...and a bunch of other stuff.
+
+     How's that for starters?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     That's correct.  "Chrysalis" was filmed last November, as episode #12.
+We are now, for instance, shooting #8, and will again be shooting around #11
+or so in November.  (We started shooting a few weeks later this year than
+last.)
+
+                                                              jms
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+     I agree about the theme this year; I kinda wanted it a little on the
+ominous side, something unsettling about it.  Chris did a great job.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The stations were put on notice *by* Warners about the error made by
+Modern Video, and told which one NOT to air.  This isn't between us and PTEN,
+but a station thing.
+
+     "Chrysalis" will be rerun in time, but don't offhand know when (my guess
+would be sometime around Christmas/New Year).
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     We're dedicated to improving all of these elements on a regular basis;
+CGI, sets, directing, lighting, name it.
+
+     The music will change every year, to get in sync with where the season is
+going; the tone and tenor and mood will shift.
+
+     Re: the narration...last year, Michael had the benefit of being able to
+see the sequence prior to reading the narration, and reading with the images.
+That was when we were shooting in July to air in January.  In this case,
+shooting in August to air in November, Bruce had to wing it, without any
+images for reference, just text.  Now that we've got the opening completed
+(and we weren't satisfied with it or done tinkering with it until a few days
+before delivery), we'll probably let him do it again with the visuals before
+him, so he knows what he's reading to, since it'll have a *big* impact on how
+he delivers the stuff.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     As noted elsewhere...we have previously established that the Dome is
+periodically on Standby Mode, when the system is performing autmoated
+(automated) backups, routine maintenance, that sort of thing.  It was in
+"Midnight," when Garibaldi informs Ivanova that that's where he likes to go,
+when it's on standby, and is quiet.  It was in "Sky," when Ivanova asks Tech 1
+if there are any more ships due in for a while, is told no, and she puts her
+feet up on the console, nobody else around.
+
+     Also, B5 tends to run on human cycles of day and night, something we try
+to reflect in the sets and effects, showing the Garden bright during day
+times, and dark during night stuff (as around dinner time in the Fresh Air
+Restaurant).  Maintaining such cycles has been found to be critical in these
+kinds of environments.
+
+     The standby mode only happens every 36-48 hours, for about an hour.
+Most departments also have their own control areas, using C&C mainly when
+command personnel are required.  In addition, there are folks monitoring C&C,
+and if anything *should* happen, someone could be there within seconds.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+     In fact, we just re-did the narration yesterday, now that we have the
+visuals in hand, and it's MUCH improved.  And since we're re-dong (er, re-
+doing) that part anyway, we had Ron re-do the faceplate pull back shot, which
+I think is good, but can be better.  Now it is.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+     Probably episode 4.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
+     Yes, Delenn does explain why she entered the cocoon after emerging.
+
+     Not that it's the truth, of course....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     BTW, having now edited seven episodes, and seen several finished ones, I
+think that of the first three, "The Geometry of Shadows" (#3) is my personal
+favorite.  "Revelations" is certainly a biggie, a staggering chunk of the
+arc...but "Geometry" is just an absolute hoot, something of a breather from
+the intensity, and largely for fun with some undertones.   If you liked "The
+Parliament of Dreams," you'll probably love "Geometry."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+
+     Actually, G'Kar's makeup wasn't changed this year; the actor put on a few
+pounds over hiatus, which shows in the face, which changes how the prosthetic
+looks.  This was dropped very quickly by Andreas, however, and the makeup has
+adjusted itself.  (Hell, we all put on a few pounds during hiatus.)
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     The voice of B5 is done by Haley, our script-person on the set.
+
+     Re: the theme music...to me, one is neither worse nor better than the
+other.  They're *different*, and meant to convey different moods and themes.
+Each year it'll change.  This year was heavy on strings and brass; next year
+it'll be heavy on percussion.  The main theme will be reinterpreted and
+interpolated in different ways.  In the B5 universe, change is the only
+constant.
+
+

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+
+     Because of the many actors we have in our main title sequence, we have
+roughly two seconds in which to show their faces (the minimum SAG will allow).
+If you show someone in action, you won't see their faces well enough to
+recognize them, and there isn't enough time to do any kind of action.
+
+     Now, we could, as stated, do both...we could show some action on each
+character, and then a closeup.  But the opening title sequence as it is now
+isn't long enough for all of the actors.  So our choice is as follows: 1)
+exclude some of the actors, or 2) make the main title longer, and cut time out
+of the episode to compensate.
+
+     Those are the ONLY two options.
+
+     There is a point where reality and art intersect.  This is one of them.
+
+     If we're going to show their faces, then we need to show them in closeup.
+And there isn't time for anything else.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     After the hassle last year with Kawasaki and Zima, I'm inclined NOT to do
+brand names anymore.
+
+     Re: split-screen...you end up seeing less of both in the final analysis.
+It's TOO busy.  And either you put the name of the actor over one half of the
+picture (meaning you squeeze it down, all the more so since the titles are
+letterboxed, making them practically unreadable), or you spill them across the
+two sides of the split screen which'll look real bad.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     (He coughs and speaks in his Executive Producer Voice:)  "I *LIKE* the
+opening title sequence."
+
+     Now...onto other matters.
+
+     We re-mixed the narration and music today in the titles, and it's a LOT
+better.  I slightly shifted the placement of some of the lines, and Bruce's
+rendition is very nice.  Really carries the weight.  Look for it to appear
+starting in episode #4.
+
+     Also, yesterday I turned in script #11, "All Alone in the Night," which
+now marks the half-way point through season two.  Just eleven more scripts to
+go....
+                                                                jms
+
+------------
+
+     This is something we've discussed with Christopher, and as long as we're
+messing with the main title, he's going to slightly adjust his music cue so
+that, rather than kind of a sustained note after the big B5 logo
+(monologue/gallery transition), it'll be cleaner and bigger going in.  This,
+btw, is kind of emblematic of what we do in the show; we are constantly
+looking for ways, big and small, to improve things; often we never mention
+them.  We continue to improve the sets as we work; after we finish shooting an
+episode in a set, we'll sometimes go in and refine it a bit more.  I wasn't
+very happy with some of the screen displays in the observation dome, so they
+were changed last week, and will probably show up starting around episode 8 or
+9.  We made a very tiny modification in one CGI shot in the main title that
+probably nobody will notice, but it's better.  And cleaned up another shot in
+the title sequence.
+
+     The only real aberration here is that generally, we do this fairly
+quietly, over a long time.  Because this time it's in the main title, it's a
+bit harder to do it discreetly.  No detail is too small to be noticed and
+improved.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I'm sorry, Lynda, but your friends are pinheads who seem to have no
+broader reference in their lives than Star Trek.
+
+     Boxleitner was not "doing" Kirk consciously or otherwise; he brings his
+own natural speech qualities and movements to the character.  The way he is as
+Sheridan is very close to how he is in real life.  Those are his natural
+speech inflections, and his natural movements.  I know, I've sat across from
+him at lunch.  That's just him.
+
+     You'll excuse me if I'm a bit cranky here, but I'm getting pretty damned
+tired of people who, themselves unable to see past Star Trek, naturally assume
+everybody else is trying to *do* Trek.  I did not work seven years to get this
+show on the air to "do" Trek, and Boxleiter has not worked to perfect his art
+as a performer to suddenly "do" Shatner or Kirk.  The problem here is in the
+person doing the observation.
+
+     "I think the actor did it subconsciously, trying to get a feel for the
+role."  The role is not Kirk.  So why would someone do someone who is NOT the
+role in order to get a feeling FOR the role?
+
+     "...because I didn't notice any similarity to Kirk in episode two."
+Because there IS no similarity in EITHER episode, or in the performance.
+
+     I'm sorry to be angry about this, but I've heard this from people again
+and again whose frame of reference extends no further than Star Trek, and they
+make it OUR fault that THEY can't get beyond their own narrow frame of
+rerence, and you'll excuse me if I'm getting a bit tired of it.  Looking at
+Boxleitner's performance, which is NOTHING like Shatner, to see him get gigged
+on THIS of all things is pathetic and laughable.  Like or don't like his
+performance, fine, but does anyone  even VAGUELY think that this guy is
+sacrificing his chance to create his on character in order to "do" Kirk?
+C'mon, that's fanboy thinking of the lowest order, and frankly deserves
+nothing more than contempt and ridicule.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I did not call her a pinhead, I called her friends pinheads.
+
+     Jose: this has got nothing to do with slamming B5 or slamming Trek.   I'm
+not defending B5 against a Trek slam, and I have no interest in defending
+Trek.  I'm talking about the weird individual mindset that  can't see past
+that.  Nowhere in  my message do I slam Trek, nor do I ask people to stop
+comparing B5's quality to Trek's quality.  Your message has nothing to do with
+the message that I wrote, or the topic.
+
+     Y'know, I sit here, reading 500+ messages a day, some with the most rude,
+snide, condescending, insulting content I've ever seen...nobody ever thinks
+twice.  I get a little tired of the same attitude on the part of a few people,
+leave one message, and suddenly I'm being taken to task.   If I'm upset, I
+have a right to state that.  Jose, you have been pretty damned vicious, and
+insulting in many of your messages.  Even when you find something positive to
+say, you phrase it in an insulting way 99.9% of the time.  So please take your
+lectures somewhere else.
+
+     If Lynda's friends think Boxleitner is "doing" a James Kirk imitation,
+consciously or otherwise, they are exactly what I stated: pinheads.  If that
+doesn't sit well, if it isn't politically correct, I'm sorry, but I don't do
+that.  It's simply one of the most breathtaking moronic things I've heard this
+year.  If that hurts, I'm sorry, but it's true.  Should I sit here and pretend
+it's not a stupid idea?  Everyone here is quite free with their opinion;
+should I not be allowed equal freedom?  I spend half my time on various
+systems biting back replies to some pretty mean spirited comments; I let them
+slide.  Sometimes, though, something rises out of the background noise enough
+that I have to notice it, and respond.
+
+     Reality check: anybody who could conceivably believe, and tell others,
+that an accomplished actor with successful series, and highly rated movies,
+one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, would suddenly, one day,
+turn around and start doing a William Shatner imitation in what is his lead
+role in a series is simply out of his or her respective gourd.  I'm sorry if
+that offends, but it's true.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     1) Restatement, especially to Lynn: this has nothing to do with anyone
+comparing the quality of show A and show B, but rather the insinuation that
+person A is copying person B's behavior, which is untrue.
+
+     2) Personal attacks name individuals.  You can't personally attack a
+group you don't know.
+
+     3) If that "personal attack" rule were exercised here as stated, you
+could not post half the messages in this forum.  When actors are called "lame-
+o," is that not a personal attack?  And there the actor is named.   That has
+happened here *countless* times.  But nobody ever seems to have a problem with
+that.  So you'll forgive me if I think this is just a bit skewed.
+
+     I have seen my work, and that of my actors, and directors, on this system
+and others, characterized as "lame, stupid, mindless, boring, ridiculous,
+cheesy," and about a hundred other adjectives I could bring up.  Nobody
+blinks.  No discussions about whether or not that person should be allowed to
+say that, or the person was out of line.  If you're going to allow one, it's
+hypocritical not to allow the other.
+
+     If everyone here is supposed to express their opinions, in whatever harsh
+terms they choose, except me, then just say so, and I'll keep my opinions to
+myself from now on.  Either we all play by the same rules, or we don't.  And
+if we don't, you'll forgive me if I feel that's more than a tad unfair.
+Message after message about Michael O'Hare, right here in this forum, calling
+him wooden, calling him a bad actor, calling for actors to be spaced,
+replaced, fired...that's fine...but one comment from me and the fabric of the
+universe begins to unravel?
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     I've been called a hell of a lot worse on these nets, and here; including
+a liar, untrustworthy, a shill, a sellout...please.  Pinhead?
+ I don't think I'd even notice.
+
+     Y'know what this reminds me of?  Ever play Whack-A-Mole?  I had this
+image while I was shoving a carton of Kung Pao Chicken down my gullet prior to
+getting back to the writing, of the Whack-A-Mole game, and for two years,
+everybody whacks the mole, whack-whack-whack-whack-whack, and one day, the
+mole -- with stuffing leaking out of his ears, one eye missing, nose hanging
+on by a thread -- mutters, under its breath, "...pinhead"...and suddenly
+everybody runs around screaming "EEK!  EEK!   Get it!  Get it!"
+WHACK!WHACK!WHACK!WHACK!WHACK!
+
+     Really stupid thing is, the mole was a volunteer.
+
+     Ah, well...I knew the job was dangerous when I took it....
+
+                                                       jmoles
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+     I guess I do tend to get defensive on the part of other people,
+because...I don't know, I guess I'm just wired-up funny that way.  It may come
+from being raised in the kind of family I was raised in, and those of you
+who've come from families with heavy drinking above you will know instantly
+what I'm talking about: you start protecting others around you, whatever the
+personal cost might be.
+
+     When it comes to stuff directed at me...unless it's absolutely off the
+wall stuff like allegations of lying...it tends to just wash off because I
+can't take myself very seriously on the best of days, and thus it doesn't
+bother me.  I'm goofy on the best of days, I sometimes screw up
+*monumentally*...the kind of screw-ups that can just take your breath away and
+make one *very* relieved that I've had a vasectomy...so when someone points
+out that I committed a dumbness, it basically goes into the pile with all the
+others that creep out from under the bed at night and dance behind my eyes
+when I'm trying to get to sleep.
+
+     John: thanks for the good words, and my condolences (I guess) on your
+change in perspective.  More than anything else, I wanted to create with
+Babylon 5 something that would outlive me, that would *excite* people and get
+them talking, thinking, debating, arguing.  We're not here to preserve a
+franchise, we're here to tell a story.  If we succeed in that attempt, then
+everything, *everything*, was worthwhile.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     ...intellidrivel?  What an interesting new word.
+
+     One of the things we've noticed at the B5 offices, from mail from folks
+and in some cases teachers (not that they're different), is that we seem to be
+cutting across all age groups.  A *lot* of kids are hooked on the show.  But
+we also seem to be getting the old-time SF types, and seem to be drawing more
+or less equally from print and media SF fans (though, curiously, slightly more
+from those who consider themselves print SF fans than media SF fans).
+
+     BTW, late notice...there will probably be a B5 piece on EXTRA tonight.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Actually, that kind of dedication and attention is really only required
+if you're trying to figure out what's going to happen BEFORE it happens, which
+is primarily a thing on the nets.  Most folks non-wired in seem content to see
+what happens WHEN it happens...and there, *all* of the information needed to
+follow it is always provided in the episode in question.  (You don't need to
+have seen "Quality" to understand what the healing machine was, and what it
+was designed to do, for instance, in "Points."  Franklin recaps that info for
+the viewer.)  One person, just as an experiment, watched the episodes
+completely out of order, and found that he could follow it just fine either
+way.
+
+     On an unrelated note...just finished another script tonight, "Acts of
+Sacrifice," which despite its rather ominous title is more a slice of life
+episode...and contains probably the funkiest, weirdest sequence that I have
+ever written.  Full tilt whacko.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Might it be better to say that Star Trek is the best Star Trek that has
+ever been made, and that Babylon 5 is the best Babylon 5 that has ever been
+made...?
+
+     Some level of competitiveness is good, in the sense that it should
+promote us and the ST folks to work harder to out-do one another; in that
+fashion, the viewers win every time.  At the same time, remember that a lot of
+the hard-core ST fans *really* dumped on B5 bigtime when it first came out,
+and may be perhaps a bit annoyed at having the tables switched around and for
+the first time being asked hard questions (whcich, or which, if answered, will
+make both shows continue to improve).
+
+     The thing to remember is that this marks the *first time* since the
+original Star Trek that there has been an American series set in our future,
+with humans as spacefaring entities building colonies and forming relations
+with other races.  (Space Rangers came after, and is now gone in any event,
+and Battlestar was about others coming here in our present.)  So on that
+level, we're going toe to toe, but with the goal, one hopes, of wedging the
+door open enough for MORE shows to come down the pike of this sort.  Can you
+*imagine* the Lensman books, or the Foundation books, done for television?
+That will NOT happen untiland unless it can be shown that just one other such
+spacefaring futuristic show can be done successfully for television.
+
+     My criterion has always been, what does the show bring to the table that
+is new?  The original ST brought transporters, phasers, starships,
+communicators, medical scanners, air-injectors and warp speed into common
+parlance; they weren't throwaways, they were important parts of this new
+universe.
+
+     Babylon 5 has introduced O'Neil stations, gravity through rotation, jump
+gates, non-aerodynamic Starfuries, use of the full x-y-z axis in showing
+movement, non-atmospheric combat (flying backwards and firing forwards),
+alternate atmosphere sectors, and other stuff.  I think that this will in time
+become common parlance and part of the culture, assuming we stay on the air
+that long.
+
+     (What new elements -- not one-episode throwaways, but new, regular
+technologies like transporters -- TNG and DS9 have developed, I don't know,
+only because I don't tend to watch.  So I'll leave that to others.)
+
+     Which is all a long and roundabout way of saying that I think the whole
+question of "better" is less the issue than what the series leaves in its
+wake; does it contribute, does it ennoble, does it illuminate, does it
+educate?  And that generally can't *really* be known until well after the
+fact.  The original ST was considered a failure when it was cancelled; there
+was little evidence of it affecting society, the ratings were low...it was
+only with the passage of time that it took on a new life, and became part of
+the popular culture.
+
+     Now if only I can lean on Bruce to stop saying the new Enterprise looks
+like a park fountain....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Elissa: I think your analysis is quite good.
+
+     Doc: actually, funny thing is, I'd say about half of the message I see
+(make that messageS) are from folks either directly or indirectly involved
+with real space...from NASA, from JPL, the High Altitude Observatory, various
+space science research organizations...so I'm sure this aspect will come in
+time.
+
+     Some rather astonished reactions at the studio today to a just published
+script...lots of folks found out somebody isn't entirely who they've been
+assuming.  I love doing this....
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Actually, I think the positronic brain/android brain was introduced in
+TOS, as were replicators.
+
+     BTW, I heard the other day about planned Mars observers and landers to be
+launched every two years starting in '96, but haven't heard more about it
+since.  Anybody got the skinny on this?
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     What I found weird about the Mars thing was the comment from somebody at
+NASA that they were sending the lander/observer missions in order to "learn
+more about the patterns of extinction."  Which seemed an awfully odd comment,
+and wasn't followed up on.  If a planet has ALWAYS been dead, then sending a
+probe to look into patterns of extinction seems kinda pointless....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Arne: I generally don't let the actors know what's coming unless it's
+important to the current performance.  Otherwise you risk having the actor
+play the *result* instead of the *process*.  Had to make one divergence from
+this recently, so that Peter could understand better a sequence in "The Coming
+of Shadows," which you'll understand when you see it.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Yeah, the actors love being surprised by turns in their characters,
+because it gives them more opportunity to explore the range of their craft
+rather than playing the same attitude week after week after week.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Random 2 AM thoughts...can you go into an International House of Pancakes
+in Germany and order Luftwaffles...?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     That's Mira's hair, yes...and barring genetic engineering or alteration,
+reproduction between varying species is not possible in the B5 universe.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     I covered the aspect of genetic engineering in the course of G'Kar's
+conversation with Lyta.  He said he could clone her, "...but we'd STILL have
+to alter its genetic structure," same as with anything she would do.   And,
+frankly, he was more just trying to get laid than anything else.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     I heard the news about Peter early this morning, but didn't want to say
+anything here until Christy had allowed the news to come out.
+
+     It's very strange...you kind of have to understand who and what Peter
+was.  He was close to my height, maybe 6'3 or 6'4, and just MASSIVE, muscular,
+solid from toes to fingertips.  Solid in his voice.   Solid in his views.
+Solid in his appetite.  We sometimes referred to him as Peter "The Mad
+Australian" Ledger.  He could take over an entire table and turn it into a
+party with himself as huckster, ringmaster, cannonballer and fireworks show
+all rolled into one boisterous, funny, irresistible force of nature.  We all
+burn from time to time, but Peter burned brightly twenty-four hours a day.  He
+was full of turns of phrases that could put you away; "slippery as a bucket of
+monkey's foreskins" being one of the more...memorable.  He was into exercise,
+food, had endless stories about the Australian outback, hunting, traveling the
+world...he was a gourmet cook and a sculpter and an artist and a
+raconteur...when he used to look at how I eat (red meat, everything fried or
+broiled to within an inch of its life), live (haunting the midnight hours,
+"the vampire people" he  called Kathryn and I in our cave, not getting enough
+exercise), he said that I was doomed and he would be sure to come by and pay
+his respects when my entire cardiovascular system seized up finally in protest
+and pulled a work stoppage.
+
+     And it was easy to believe, that Peter would go on forever.
+
+     I have lost too goddamned many friends to traffic accidents, and this one
+is hardest of all.  Though we hadn't spoken much since he moved up  north,
+schedules and work being what they are, it is a loss, for those who knew him,
+and those who now won't have the chance.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     This is kind of an alert, more of a heads-up, I suppose....
+
+     I have now had something on the order of half a dozen reports from people
+who have either been told, or heard indirectly, that stations are being
+pressured to drop B5 or they won't get Voyager.  I suspect the reason for this
+is fear; DS9 support was always soft; according to some of the demographics,
+it looks like DS9 has been steadily losing viewers, albeit gradually...at
+about the same rate that B5 has been *adding* viewers...leading to the clear
+implication that they're going here from there.
+
+     If anybody out there knows about this, or has any first-hand info, or can
+*find out*...please let me know in email.  It has to be specific, with names
+and dates, and we'll need a letter, possibly an affidavit.   (Some viewers in
+Rochester, NY were apparently told this flat-out by their local cable
+company.)
+
+     The seriousness of this comes from the fact that there's a certain
+threshold of markets required to maintain enough coverage to suit  national
+sponsors; if you drop beneath that threshold, they drop out, and you're in
+serious yogurt.  We're nowhere near that at the moment -- we'd have to lose 20-
+30 stations for that to happen -- but we'd like to try and nip this in the
+bud.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I have no problem with the monolog being posted.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I have *no* idea what they're talking about, since "the distributer"
+is/was the satellite uplink, and everybody ELSE got it...I dunno....
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+      Just an update to stuff like ratings...and while the ratings continue to
+ be strong, and build in the overnights, the demographics are improving at a
+ buying commercials, this is very good news.
+
+      Overall, B5 comes in #3 in ALL syndicated dramatic series, as opposed to
+ talk shows and game shows, which are in a separate category and fill up the
+ upper echelons of the syndie ratings.
+
+      Here's the breakdown for one week:
+
+                       M 18-34  M 18-49  M 25-54  W 18-34  W 18-49  W 25-54
+ Star Trek: DS9           5.4      6.1      6.5      5.2      5.4      5.5
+ Baywatch                 4.7      4.3      4.1      5.3      4.9      4.6
+ BABYLON 5                3.3      3.8      4.0      3.3      3.4      3.3
+ Renegade                 2.5      2.3      2.3      2.0      2.3      2.5
+ Kung Fu                  2.4      3.0      3.7      2.1      2.2      2.5
+ Forever Knight           1.8      1.3      1.1      1.6      1.4      1.4
+ Time Trax                1.8      1.9      2.1      1.9      2.0      2.2
+ Highlander               1.4      1.5      1.6      1.9      2.0      2.1
+ Thunder in Paradise      1.3      1.2      1.3      1.4      1.2      1.2
+ Lonesome Dove (series)   1.1      2.2      2.6      1.9      1.9      2.3
+ Sirens                   1.1      1.3      1.5      1.7      1.6      1.9
+ High Tide                1.0      1.1      1.0      1.7      1.4      1.5
+ Heaven Help Us           0.8      1.0      1.2      1.7      1.6      1.4
+ Robin's Hoods            0.8      0.9      1.1      2.1      1.8      1.5
+ Space Precinct           0.8      0.9      0.8      1.2      1.0      0.9
+ Hawkeye                  0.3      0.9      1.0      0.9      1.3      1.4
+
+      Number 3 out of 17 dramatic series is VERY good placement, and PTEN is
+ very encouraged by this, very pleased.  (You'll note a fairly big drop
+between
+ #3 and #4, while the difference between, say, 20 and 21 are not (is not) as
+ substantial.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

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+     Never said Kosh was going to get an assistant anytime soon.
+
+     BTW...as an aside...for the last 3-5 days, my GEnie Internet gateway has
+been down, which means it has to be re-opened...but I'm wondering if that's
+such a smart thing after all.
+
+     The problem ain't negative opinions, or anything like that; I get plenty
+of comments everywhere, of all kinds.  And I'd say 90% of those on rec.arts.b5
+are only terrific; intelligent, funny, thoughtful, critical, insightful...but
+the problem with rec.arts.b5 is that because there's no fee, and anybody can
+get on, and there's no moderation, it tends to attract people who come in
+*deliberately* trying to cause trouble mainly because *they know I'm there*.
+I hear from time to time from folks on the alt.b5 area, and apparently there's
+a lot less trouble there.  What's the main difference?  Well, the knowledge
+that some folks can come in and screw with the producer of the show for
+fun...which by itself isn't a problem, I can handle that...but I'm getting
+genuinely concerned that it's poisoning the well for everybody *else*...that
+they're getting into fights, for only the best of reasons, and the atmosphere
+is just getting really tense, making it difficult for those using the service.
+
+     I'm really in kind of a quandry over the whole thing.  It's like enjoying
+the company you get at a local bar, but you know that every time you go in,
+somebody's going to pick a fight or drag the whole place down, so is it really
+fair to everybody else to keep going there?  And it's only a small number, but
+they seem obsessed with making life unpleasant for everybody else.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Well, in today's Variety, B5 climbed back into the top 20 again, and the
+third highest dramatic series overall (not counting the Action Pack, since
+it's a movie each week).  DS9, Baywatch, B5, then everything else.   We're
+hanging in there.
+
+     (These are, again the syndicated ratings, not the network ratings.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+     That's a great story.
+
+     Mira's makeup is now a notch closer to her regular skin tone in general.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     We decided on visuals, showing our cast with their names and their
+characters names because it's clear, after a season, that a LOT of people
+still don't know which actor goes with which character, or how the characters'
+names are spelled.  We need to identify them more clearly.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3098.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3098.html
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+     Actors contracts specify where, and how often, they appear in the
+credits.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     It ain't B4, basically a different display.
+
+     BTW, to those who've inquired, the correct spelling on the name of the
+Shadowmen world is Z'ha'dum.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Oh, I'm quite sure there was backup made of the data.  But step back for
+a moment and ask what that entails, and will any of it stand up in ANY court
+of law?  There's a difference between that which we knor or (make that know
+or) believe, and that which we can prove.  Without the one most important
+piece of all, Garibaldi's aide, the rest is speculative, inconclusive,
+circumstantial and conjectural.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     I'm starting to get the impression that our pals at Modern Video may have
+done it to us again; they are the company that also inserts the national
+sponsors into the show prior to uplink, and I'm beginning to suspect that
+somehow they clipped some acts at the last clear frame before the fadeout;
+we're currently investigating.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     We do our own cut on film, and deliver to Modern Video.  MV then handles
+the closed captioning (about which the less said the better), and readies the
+film for uplink, puts in the national spots, leaving room for local
+commercials, that sort of thing.  All of our pieces are also stored there in
+case there's any kind of glitch.
+
+     Sheridan wasn't talking to himself, but rather to the tech who just
+seconds before asked if they should let the techno-mages go.  (I'd trimmed the
+first part of his speech which made this a little clearer, figuring it'd be
+evident who he was talking to.  What can I say...sometimes you get the bear,
+sometimes the bear gets you.)
+
+     And yeah, purple/green sashes make pretty easy costuming....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+
+     A couple of thoughts on Sheridan, btw...triggered by messages I've seen
+or had alluded to in which he's gigged for smiling too much, unlike
+Sinclair...just checked back in some of my archives, and for the first four or
+five episodes, the number one complaint about Sinclair was that he either
+smiled or smirked too much....
+
+     Meanwhile, just a little something for the folks on-line to
+contemplate...remember the first rule of Babylon 5: nobody is what they
+appear.  Not entirely, anyway.  There's always something going on,  something
+that somebody's not telling.  Some folks are making the error of looking at
+Sheridan -- as they looked at Sinclair, or Londo, or Vir, or G'Kar -- and
+thinking "this is all that he is."  Except, of course, that they weren't and
+he's not.  I would not create a character that is just what you're seeing.
+
+     Aside from that, and this is a separate issue...there are really two ways
+to deepen a character and give him a dark side.  One is to do something to him
+*before* you meet him, which he's still recovering from (Sinclair).  The other
+is to meet him, and THEN drop him down a well.   In a way, Londo is
+illustrative of the latter; you get to know him, and he's funny,
+colorful...and then you start to move him.
+
+     So suffice to say that Sheridan is going to end up getting more and more
+conflicts, and getting booted to the head, and as someone noted above, caught
+in the conflict between being a good officer and being a patriot...which can
+sometimes be the same, and sometimes VERY different things.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Dave: talk turkey all you want; what I said was that we would be seeing
+Sinclair again *this season*.  I have been very careful NOT to specify when,
+because I want it to come as a complete and total surprise; many folks assumed
+it would be the first few, and stated such, and as is typical because this had
+now been seen, speculated and commented upon, it was assumed that I'd said it.
+Didn't.  Consequently, nothing has changed in plans, footage hasn't changed,
+nada.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     "All Alone in the Night" also has Robert Foxworth in it, and is directed
+by Mario Di Leo.  (Janet directed "The Coming of Shadows.")   Jim Johnston
+directed "GROPOS," and will also direct "Acts of Sacrifice," which guest-stars
+Paul Williams and Ian Abecrombie.
+
+     Following "Acts" is another jms script, "Hunter, Prey."
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+                         .....thud.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Can someone confirm if, indeed, somebody in Stargate is seen reading a
+copy of Universe Today?
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+     No royal Centauri vessels this week.  That's from the trailer, which
+doesn't intersect reality at any two contiguous points.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Additional cast members in guest starring roles: Terhan Bey, Malachi
+Throne, and Paul Winfield.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Yup, *that* Turhan Bey.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Re: Na'Toth...you have to remember this was not our decision, but rather
+Caitlin's, in order to pursue some romantic lead parts.  We made an offer
+equal to the other cast, but she opted out to pursue films.  We cast the best
+actor to come in the door to fill Na'Toth's boots, and we need that character
+there because of the prior knowledge she needs to have to fill her role in the
+story.  Mary Kay is, I think, trying to reinterpret the character.  We're
+nudging in the other direction.  One way or another, this will be made to
+work.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     It's really a question of what would work in the real world.   Ivanova
+doesn't have anywhere NEAR the experience needed to run a station like this;
+it isn't given because somebody's a nice person, or because they know you;
+it's based on rank, and experience, and she has neither at this juncture at a
+level sufficient to command a major operation like this.  The ONLY reason that
+Sinclair had it at Commander rank was that it was a condition of the Minbari
+in funding the place.
+
+     In ST, the actress who played Beverly Crusher felt she needed a chance to
+show she could command, to be more featured, so they put her in command for an
+episode.  It had nothing whatsoever to do with reality, just servicing the
+cast.  I don't think that's appropriate; the moment you do that, you
+compromise the reality of the program, and it's just a TeeVee show.
+
+     And there's lots of other reasons why Sheridan is there; I'd say wait
+until mid-season, after about episode 11 or so, and you'll learn some more of
+them, and they might not be what you'd expect.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Except, of course, she's *not* first officer.  You don't DO this in the
+real military.  You'd go through about ten different command ranks before you
+even got *near* anyone from the medical division.  If you go into this with
+the sense of, okay, it doesn't matter if this is realistic or not, then it's
+not a problem.  Otherwise...it is.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     Okay, you beam down your senior officers *in their areas*.  The Captain
+goes down.  Now your First Officer, usually a commander, takes the helm.  The
+commander goes down, now the lieutenant-commander takes the helm.  The
+lieutenant commander goes down, now the major or a lieutenant goes down (I
+know I'm muddying this a bit, just tracking the theory here).  Divisions in
+the military are specific; you don't jump from a command type officer to a
+physician if one person leaves the bridge; it just Doesn't Happen.
+
+     In ST, it seems there is rarely any real chain of command; there are the
+Top Guys, a few in-between button-pushers, and ensigns.  There should by all
+rights be LOTS of command officers of mid-level rank to fill that job.  It's
+got nothing to do with reality.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Star Trek is military when it is convenient for the storyline that it be
+military; and not-military when it is not convenient for it to be military.
+Sort of a supermarket approach.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Pat: sorry, but you're strictly wrong about "all the inhabitants of B5
+speak English."  Yes, the ambassadors do, because this is an Earth run
+station, for which English has been selected as the baseline language, and if
+you're going to be an ambassador to Russia, you learn the language you're
+working in.  This is simple common sense.
+
+     There are MANY races on B5 that either don't speak English, or do so in
+very primitive ways (like the Drazi).  The pak'ma'ra, which we saw in
+"Legacies," use a physical translation device, which we saw being used when
+Garibaldi interrogated one of them; nagrath also used a translation device
+hung over his chest because his mandibles aren't capable of making human
+sounds; similarly, Kosh speaks in musical tones, which are translated by the
+flashing device on his encounter suit.  When B5 ran into a new species in
+"Voice in the Wilderness," they were shown taking our langauge and translation
+files, and using them very haltingly in order to communicate with us.
+
+     So I'm sorry, but you're simply wrong on this point.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1994
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+     Morden is human.
+
+                      
+     Morden dat I can't say.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 26 1994
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+     At Alices' Restaurant......
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3119.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3119.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 13 1994
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+     What is this song, where can I find it, and is it public domain?
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 22 1994
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+
+     We're already on top of this.  At this point what it looks like we'll be
+doing (having run some experiments and test runs) is to transfer all of our
+composite shots/CGI to film, and recut the negative using the added
+replacement footage.  We have to do this *anyway* to do the change back to the
+original aspect ratio, so it's not that big a deal.  I think one reason ST
+simply doesn't think it's worth the time is that they aren't shooting in HDTV
+widescreen format *anyway*, so any changes to accomodate that format would be
+of limited use anyway.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3121.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3121.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 23 1994
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+
+     "Ulysses" is available in most anthologies of Tennyson's work, and in
+many anthologies of british verse.  It's just a lovely and moving piece of
+work.
+
+     Don't know where things currently stand re: HDTV out in the real
+world...though I just bought a new IDTV set, so at least I'm starting to get
+ready....
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3122.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3122.html
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+
+     It's a Proscan, widescreen format.  34"; the old set was 32".  First one
+blew up out of the box; hope for better luck now.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3123.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3123.html
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+
+     Also, this week's Comics Buyers Guide has the first of three Peter David
+columns (long ones) about his experience on the set while we were shooting his
+episode.
+
+     On reading the first installment, next time maybe we'll just shoot
+him....
+
+     (jokejokejokejokejoke)
+
+     Re: LoSH...yeah, I agree.  But hell, nothing in the DC universe has been
+the same for me since Byrne royally screwed over Superman.  I have the last
+two issues of the original Supes books written by Alan Moore, and those for me
+are the last issues of the real Superman.  Who this new guy is, I dunno....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3124.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3124.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 15 1994
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+     The Narns were belted in.
+
+     Matt...how else is a person supposed to behave?  Look at the shuttle
+footage when a fairly short-haired person is strapped into his seat; they look
+about normal.  It's only if something is loose and floating, or if they get
+out of the chair, that you can really notice the difference.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3125.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3125.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 16 1994
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+
+     Older model.  Different race.
+
+                                                              jms
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3126.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3126.html
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+
+     The Hyperion was built before the EM war, and survived.
+
+     The Agamemnon, a much superior ship, was built afterward.  Sheridan was
+not commanding the Aggy during the war.  It's one of the best ships we've got,
+almost the equivilent of an aircraft carrier or battleship, and it took a lot
+of seniority and work to get it.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3127.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3127.html
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+
+     Re: the comparison to Coast Watchers...that's exactly what was done, as
+gets mentioned in some detail in "The Long Dark."  Good to know that so far
+the military campaign as worked out seems to scan.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3128.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3128.html
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+
+     What I *don't* understand is why the pen was weightless and he wasn't.
+
+     Yes, you will see the Agamemnon again.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3129.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3129.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 05 1994
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+
+     Gary...whilst you're here...lemme ask you a question.  (And please don't
+take this in any way requiring defense; I'm honestly curious about something
+that you mentioned that others have mentioned, and I'm trying to wrap my brain
+around this.)
+
+     You say, "I avoided the early (B5) episodes."  This is something I hear a
+lot, particularly in the mail I'm getting these days.  Many of them were ST
+fans, but some didn't say one way or another.  Some of them simply avoided it,
+some of them VEHEMENTLY avoided it, and some of them admitted to ripping the
+hell out of the show simply on principle without ever having actually SEEN it.
+
+     So what I'm curious about -- and again, please, there's no need to  feel
+put upon by this, we're glad to have you -- is your statement; can you in any
+way elaborate upon your feelings at the time, and why you avoided it?
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3130.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3130.html
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+     It's actually kinda funny...at no time do I get more positive comments on
+B5 than when SeaQuest and E2 went on the air....
+
+this time, replicating the Planet of the Apes denouement, I mean, come ON....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Chats...calm down.  It's got nothing to do with the actor,and everything
+to do with the characters.  You're talking apples and oranges.  It's nearly
+traditional in SF that you stick in a kid genius, or a kid liability, and skew
+the show towards kids (talking regulars here).  We won't do that.  Period.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3132.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3132.html
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+
+     I know it *can* be done.  I just don't wanna do it.  It's my show an' I
+don't hafta, and I can hold my breath until I turn blue, and...and...I don'
+WANNA.
+
+     (In adult voice now): If others are doing it, fine, let them do it.   I'm
+telling a story for the most part about grownups.  Just because a thing CAN be
+done doesn't mean it MUST be done.  And because it HAS been done so much, on
+so many shows, I'd kinda like to keep this show free of that, for the most
+part.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3133.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3133.html
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+
+     Can't remember if I mentioned it here, but I also did the liner notes for
+the CD.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     No rubber stamp deals have been made.  (Oh, nearly forgot, there's a
+MicroGames hand-held B5 game that should be out shortly, if not already out.
+It's one of those noisy LCD screen jobbies, where you use B5 to collect
+damaged ships.  It doesn't fire at the incoming enemy (Vorlons), because a)
+that's a very bad idea with Vorlons, and b) given that kids are the primary
+audience for this stuff, I didn't want a shoot-em-up.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3135.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3135.html
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+
+     To help with record ordering info, here's the ID on the B5 CD from Sonic
+Images: SI 8402-2.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3136.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3136.html
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+     I think it's probably the same number for both.  And there will be a
+table at LosCon; don't know what the rules are going to be about buying
+multiples.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3137.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3137.html
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+
+     The Script City sales of B5 scripts comes under the heading of pirated
+material.  They do not have the rights to sell this material.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3138.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3138.html
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+
+     Scripts are sometimes sent to actors' agents when getting an actor to
+come in for an audition, or to accept a part without auditioning if the actor
+is a Name.  This is the #1 source of pirated scripts.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3139.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3139.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 21 1994
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+
+     Lemme know if the toys are there (and what's TRU?).  Also, yes, Creation
+does have a non-exclusive license to make shirts and other stuff, as does a
+company called All-U, the latter of which are *real* nifty.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3140.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3140.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 29 1994
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+
+     Thanks, Rob.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3141.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3141.html
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+
+     SA.
+
+     Have to check on the others.
+
+                                                           jms
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+
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+
+     I'll have to go back and check my notes, but I believe standard Air Force
+terminology is FA = Fighter Attack and SA = Strike Attack; but will backtrack
+to be sure.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3143.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3143.html
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+
+     I think they're picked up by the arms, and lowered into the cobra bays,
+where they hang until dropped.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3144.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3144.html
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+
+     Looked at dead-on, they have a thin neck (on the outside), and then
+flange out almost like a cobra-head.  Hence the name.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3145.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3145.html
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+     Me, probably Larry, still seeing if anything else gets added.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3146.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3146.html
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+
+     We nailed a piece with Michael before he left for New York; when we shot
+"Points," he had long since returned to NY and was in the process of pursuing
+other things.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3147.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3147.html
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+
+     No current plans for ICON this year.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3148.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3148.html
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+
+     The Narn aren't waiting.  Or, more accurately, G'Kar isn't.  The rest of
+the Kha'Ri (Narn inner circle government) are still somewhat skeptical.
+
+     The Minbari know the shape of what's coming, but they know full well that
+if they go to us with this, we won't believe them; there's still enough
+residual dislike over the war that they feel we have to find this out for
+ourselves (and we will).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3149.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3149.html
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+
+     Agrarian usually means not very technologically sharp; they never really
+went after the tech required to go into space.  Heck, there are cultures here
+on our own planet that are as old as all humans here, but which have barely
+moved past the bronze age.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3150.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3150.html
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+
+     The answer to your question involves ancient Narn history, a certain
+outpost long ago on the Narn homeworld, and some other stuff which you'll just
+have to wait and see.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3151.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3151.html
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+
+     Shouldn't there also be Kosh level...in which you can give any answer you
+want to any question, provided it's obscure, and it's up to the other person
+to assume your answer has meaning...?
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3152.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-11/3152.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Nov 13 1994
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+     They're all three the same style ships.  It was rendered on the darkish
+side, because a real problem is how do you show a black ship against the black
+of space?  Lately, though, Ron has come up with some rather nifty ways to get
+light kicks and some specularity off the ships, which has the side effect of
+making them look even MORE creepy.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Shon'Kar.  Satai Delenn.  Frallis 12.  Ikarra.  Xon.  G'Quan.   G'Quan
+Eth.  (Also, in Narn stuff in that episode, the other religion is G'Lan, and
+the ship was the Tal'Quith.)  Jala.  Kha'Ri.  Shai Alyt (which is a title, not
+a name; a commander of a ship absent the captain is just the Alyt).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Mollari.
+
+     Londo Mollari.  Vir Cotto.  Delenn.  Lennier.  G'Kar.  Na'Toth.   Kosh
+Naranek.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     That's correct.  "Chrysalis" was filmed last November, as episode #12.
+We are now, for instance, shooting #8, and will again be shooting around #11
+or so in November.  (We started shooting a few weeks later this year than
+last.)
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     Negative; more passes than just a few minutes.  The reporter says that
+they're sending rescue ships, but she doesn't see how anyone could have
+survived an explosion that massive.  Then, considerably later, the death is
+confirmed (it's not even in the same act).
+
+     Also, *too* much power exerted at the outpost would've signalled
+something terribly massive.  They don't want to tip too much, too fast.   They
+want it to look like it was something others could've done.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Nothing has been dumbed down or simplified; in a first season episode (in
+other words, the first episode of any given season), you get a lot of
+sampling.  If the show is obscure, or there's too much prior knowledge
+required to get into it...they go away fast.  So there was a bit more
+straightforward exposition in this episode in order to avoid scaring off new
+viewers.
+
+     And I stated, some time ago, that this was a lighter episode because it's
+sandwiched between two very intense episodes, "Chrysalis" and "Revelations,"
+and I think you need some relief there.
+
+     And as Walker noted, there are times when the dome is on standby, as
+noted in "Midnight."  The systems every 36 hours or so go through a period of
+self-repair and maintainance for an hour or two; if anything comes out of the
+gate or into local space, someone's there within seconds.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     I'll have to go check, but they may be fighter doors.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     Sure, you could blind-fire at a Minbari cruiser, but it's pretty heavily
+armored.  And while you're shooting at it, you're not only being hit by
+cruiser blasts, but the several dozen Minbari fighters coming in behind you.
+And shooting at a sublight traveling fighter by eye would absolutely never
+work.  It *has* to be computer guided.
+
+     (BTW, for the sharp of eye...if you go back and sill-step through some of
+the cockpit screen shots in "Sky," you'll note that on the tac screen in
+Sinclair's cockpit it says something to the effect of "Unable to lock-onto
+target.")
+
+                                                              jms
+

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+     You'll actually see several of those admissions by Garibaldi over the
+first few eps after his return.  And some suspicion.  And some lack of trust.
+
+     We'll change Delenn's shot in the titles after she's revealed.
+
+                                                           jms
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+     Well, the pace overall of year two is about 50% faster story-wise than
+season one; season three will be 50-75% faster than *that*.  And so on.  This
+sucker's got to start cranking.
+
+                                                              jms
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+     The amount of money involved in bluescreening the starfield would be
+prohibitive.  We spend a LOT of time out there, and you have to matte this
+stuff in frame by frame, and at 24 frames per second, even with digital
+cutting, you're looking at a *massive* amount of rendering time.
+
+     We could do it...but it would tie up our compositing and rendering
+machines so we couldn't do much of anything *else*....and I'll swap one nifty
+shadow fighter/collision shot for a whole SEASON of moving stars.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Actually (and not that this matters), the last Sheridan bit was half of
+what was originally there.  The first half (cut for time) showed that he was
+talking to the Tech who moments earlier tells him that the ship is ready for
+jump.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     The technomages are from various races and worlds; there are some who are
+Centauri, some who are human, even other races such as the Vree and the
+pak'ma'ra, though these in particular happened to be from Earth.   (If they
+were Centauri, why would Sheridan have been interfering with their
+emigration?)
+
+     Re: the Drazi...yeah, they all look different in that episode.  Our
+prosthetics folks did a great job with that, as did the actors, and I think
+this one should earn Optic Nerve another emmy.
+
+     And yeah, Garibaldi's "joke" was supposed to be pretty lame; we even
+edited it to widen the awkward pause, to make it more difficult.  He's trying
+to hard, and his spirit isn't in it.
+
+     Of the first six episodes, btw, as I may have mentioned over in 18, this
+is my personal favorite.  It's wonky and fun and just a hoot.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     My philosophy in general is that it's better to have more story than
+time, rather than more time than story....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Yes, Ivanova's title in the opening credits *will* be changed to
+Commander, to reflect her change in rank.  And we'll be adding a rank for Lt.
+Keffer.  It's kind of funny; we keep treating the opening title this year as a
+work in progress, reflecting little changes here and there...changes in faces,
+narration, little musical changes that will come by about episode five or
+six.....
+
+                                                             jms
+

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+     I'd have to sit down and work it out if you'd want specifics, but it
+would have to be *huge*...in the tens of thousands, given that you need not
+just the people to run the ship and maintain it, but you'd ALSO need all the
+construction crews AND the materials and everything else.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     To be filed under the heading of, "What I does, I takes the rap for; what
+I does not, I doesn't take the rap for," when we discussed the hyperspace
+accident in our production meetings, Jim -- our director -- asked if he could
+so some fratzing and sparking, some fire...I said I did not *want* huge gouts
+of flame, just a few small sparks, fine, a bit of smoke from components burned
+out, fine...and that day I was over in the other facility overseeing a mix-
+down of the audio...and guess what he did in my absence?  Yup.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     I understand that the satellite time is changing starting with this
+episode; I think it's now going out on Tuesdays....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     They are brothers; also, Scott has worked on the X-Files.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Tom: the quibble you raise is one of the points I'm trying to make.
+ You say someone from 1890 would go crazy.  I vehemently don't agree.  Go back
+and read letters from the 1890s.  Heck, go read letters from 1776; the
+language, the emotions, they're all very much the same.  The chrome of
+technology has changed, some social styles and attitudes have changed, but
+people still go through school (usually), get married, raise kids, hold jobs,
+and look to a better future one day.
+
+     Mariah was also a scientist, sent forth expecting and prepared to see new
+things; this isn't the same thing as an average person just plucked out of
+time.
+
+     I think people -- Americans in particular -- over-emphasize how much
+things change with time, in large measure because in a country that's only
+200+ years old, we *really* don't understand what time IS here.  The Romans
+who left grafitti all over parts of England are only one step removed from the
+South Central taggers of today....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Director: Kevin Cremins.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Correct, "Soul Mates" is next up.  Then 5 or so reruns (second season
+eps), then "Race."
+
+     BTW, logging in from my notebook.  The controller on my old system (not
+the nifty Dell at the office) just died, so I may not be on quite as regularly
+for the next few days.
+
+                                                       jms
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+
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+     I was kinda hoping that they'd continue the season one reruns as well,
+but PTEN thinks it'd be kind of confusing to intersperse episdoes (episodes)
+with two different commanding officers at the same time, and thus keep the two
+separate, at least until the end of the season.
+
+     (They add that someone seeing B2 mid-season year two might not know it's
+a rerun, and not know what the hell's going on.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     Emmy presenters are generally those who've *done* something, so that
+would pretty much eliminate Jarvis.
+
+     Internet gateway's down again...sigh....
+
+     There's a screwup in next week's TV Guide.  The synopsis is of the
+episode "A Race Through Dark Places," but it's actually Peter's "Soul Mates."
+
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+     I just can't imagine a book of my posts here being that interesting, or
+able to be followed; it's all like this, quickies for the most part, and out
+of context.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     ....yeeps...I'm being modem-mugged....
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     Okay, okay, okay-okay-okay, we'll put a pin in this and come back to it
+(and I still think that selling the thing would be a marginal chance at best).
+
+     Re: Murder, She Wrote...I *believe* that our budget there was generally
+in the $1.3 and $1.5 million range per episode.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     BTW, B5 producer John Copeland will be on CNN's Showbiz Today on
+Wednesday the 14th (2:30 and 9:30 p.m. PST, and 1:30 am. Thursday).
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
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+     Rathenn said Sinclair did not *entirely* remember their meeting; he then
+refreshed this memory.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
+     After TAXI, Jeff had some hard times.  We're all entitled to make
+mistakes.  He's doing very good work, and we're pleased to have him, and he
+does recur.
+
+                                                          jms
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+
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+
+     BTW, look for Bill Mumy on "Break a Leg," on the America's Talking cable
+channel, Tuesday the 13th, 11:00 a.m. PST.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 07 1994
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+     *What* second attack wasn't there?
+
+                                                           jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3186.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3186.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 09 1994
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+
+     An attack on the Shire?  Goodness, another LoTR reference.
+
+     Local in-house joke: Abby's last name...Normal.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3187.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3187.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1994
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+
+     If you're a telepath, Psi Corps IS your family.  (And no, that  wasn't
+Abby, too young; also not a case of programming/rebuilding...the DECEASED is a
+cover to get her out.)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3188.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3188.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1994
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+
+     Actually, the age on Abby is fairly straightforward...Talia came to the
+Psi Corps as a young child; she was assigned to an adult Psi Corps member to
+help her adjust.  So Abby would be anywhere from 15-20 years older than Talia.
+Or more.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3189.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3189.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1994
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+
+     Morden is human.
+
+                      
+     Morden dat I can't say.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 10 1994
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+
+     BTW, new guest stars include Richard Moll and Paul Williams, the latter
+of whom is in "Acts of Sacrifice."  A very nice man; got him to autograph my
+copies of the "Phantom of the Paradise" CD which I got in London (never
+released here).
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3191.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3191.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 11 1994
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+
+     Richard and Paul are in *different* episodes.
+
+     Bear...not a chance.  I *love* that movie; Paul mentioned that it
+continues to have a rabid cult following.  When he signed it, he wrote  "Trust
+me.  Swan." in addition to his signature.  (Funny if you know the movie.)
+
+     "We're old souls, in a new life, baby...."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3192.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3192.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 11 1994
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+
+     Richard Moll: "Hunter, "Prey."  Malachi Throne: "The Coming of Shadows."
+Paul Winfield: "GROPOS."
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3193.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3193.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1994
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+
+     No, that ain't what "Hunter, Prey" is about; our titles are generally
+more metaphorical than literal.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1994
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+
+     We're doing a Volkswagon story...?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3195.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3195.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1994
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+
+     Also add Bernie Casey.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3196.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3196.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 14 1994
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+
+     Does anyone actually know how many folks are registered here in the B5
+cat(s)?
+
+                                                                        jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 10 1994
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+
+     BTW, I understand from some folks who've been involved with them that
+because of the general decline of SAT scores, they're now allowing a couple
+hundred points per category *just for showing up*.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3198.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3198.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 11 1994
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+     Don't recall offhand what my SAT score was...but dimly remember that when
+I was done, I think I *owed* them points....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3199.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3199.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1994
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+
+     Hey, give me "A Christmas Story" or the George C. Scott version of "A
+Christmas Carol" (the only definitive version of the story, as far as I'm
+concerned) over IaWL, which has been seen to death.  Scott is the first and
+only actor to show Scrooge with a sense of *humor* even in his earlier stage.
+Look at it...anyone who could come up with a line like "every person walking
+around with Merry Christmas on his lips should be boiled in pudding and buried
+with a sprig of holly through his heart" (or words to that effect)...that's
+*funny*.  It's very easy to see and portray Scrooge as just a one-dimensional
+miser, and thus dehumanize him...Scott's portral makes him a PERSON, and thus
+more interesting and involving and, oddly, likeable (until the end where he
+goes soft on us, but hey, that's a story problem...).
+
+                                            jm(bah, humbug)s
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 14 1994
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+
+     Just as an aside...I learned this morning that there's a good chance that
+my Christmas episode of THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, "Xmas Marks the Spot," will be
+replayed on ABC either Christmas day or eve; don't yet know if it'll be in
+prime-time or morning.  Still awaiting final confirmation, but they wouldn't
+call to notify me unless it was pretty solid.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1994
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+
+     Actually, that 800/200 split ain't far off the truth, as I dimly recall.
+Crummy with figures, good with words.
+
+     Funny thing, sorta...see, according to most IQ tests, I come in just over
+the edge on the so-called genius ("Come, Join Mensa, Join Us, Join Us...")
+level.  Around 160 or so.  Which, frankly, is absolutely meaningless, except
+that it helps me skate throuth stuff I have no business doing or no chance of
+*really* understanding.  I come in very high on intuitive scores; I can often
+figure out *what* is the correct answer, but am damned if I can tell you
+*why*.
+
+     As a kid, we moved around a lot for (let's just say this for now and let
+it go at this) economic reasons.  Literally every year from birth through
+about age 17 was a different house, a different city, often a different STATE.
+I learned fast that if you were too smart, and showed it...you got beat up a
+lot.  So at a very early stage I found I could just shave it close enough to
+pass, without raising any red flags or drawing attention.  The one thing I
+didn't want was to be noticed, because that usually preceded getting the
+stuffings knocked out of me (and being who I am, *that* was usually followed
+by my mouthing off to whoever just beat the crap out of me...at which point
+they pound me again...at which point this little bump on the playground mouths
+off again, at which point, well, you get the idea).
+
+     I'd gotten pretty good at riding the line, but goofed one year in junior
+high.  I screwed up my math term (no surprise there), but usually  I knew I
+could ace lit classes to make up for it...except I got sick, missed several
+tests and papers...and dropped beneath the line I needed to get advanced to
+the next level.  So I had to attend summer school to make up the difference.
+
+     This was under the Headstart Program of those days, and the sort of kids
+you found in this one in New Jersey...Future Muggers of America founding
+members.  Anyway (and this is a hell of a lot longer and more involved than
+I'd intended to get), one day they said they were going to give all of us in
+summer school a series of tests/evaluations to determine just where we
+stood...what grade reading level, comprehension, math, that sort of thing.
+Now normally I'd always held back in this stuff, but this wasn't my regular
+school, I'd be going to high school after this, so what was lost?  So I just
+went for it.
+
+     A few days later the test results came in, and I got suddenly called to
+the office of the head of the program.  He sat me down and said, honest to
+god, "You'll forgive my langauge for a moment, but what the HELL are you DOING
+here?"  Apparently for a 9th grader my language, reading, writing, and general
+intelligence figures came in at approximately that of a college graduate.
+(Though my math skills were, to be charitable, considerably lower.  Bargain-
+basement, to be precise.)  So I told him  what I'd been doing all this time.
+He sat there, slack jawed, the whole time, at the premeditation and all the
+rest.  (Though I wouldn't have gotten nailed if I'd been better at some of the
+other areas.)
+
+     Later, to my chagrin, I discovered that he wrote up a memo about all this
+and attached it to my transcripts, so that when I transferred to the high
+school, I found myself assigned to several advanced classes in English lit and
+other areas, college-prep level classes.  So I instantly went back to my old
+habits, and soon enough managed to get out of that one and into a regular
+class.
+
+     Tests are fine, advanced classes are fine, but frankly, none of it was
+worth getting stomped on a regular basis....
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+
+     On the two different shows/rules idea...this is something I noticed from
+way back.  People saw "Earth future, spacefaring races, a major commanding
+officer," and assumed that we would be just like Star Trek.   When we weren't,
+many assumed we were doing Star Trek BADLY, not understanding that it's a
+*different show*.  The biggest crime of this show toa lot of people is that
+we're not Trek.  It's only over time that some of these folks (though not all)
+have come to understand what we're doing.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3203.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3203.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 09 1994
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+
+     David Gerrold will be *very* pleased....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 06 1994
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+
+     Actually, I hear they're nearly OUT of the 2,000 first print run on the
+limited edition, and have 500 on backorder; I'd suggest to anyone that youre
+best bet is probably to contact Sonic Images directly.  These puppies are
+apparently just *flying* out the door.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3205.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3205.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 11 1994
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+
+     It's of the same class (Omega class) as the Agamemnon, yes.  And it's the
+EAS Agamemnon, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3206.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3206.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1994
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+
+     No current plans for ICON this year.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1994
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+
+     "There's no such thing as America, or Russia, or China...there's only
+ITT, and ATT, and Dow Chemical...."       -- Paddy Chayefsky, NETWORK
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3208.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3208.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 08 1994
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+
+     In some cases, as with the next 8 issues, I suggested the basic
+storyline, and work as necessary with the writers, telling them what they need
+to know on a need to know basis.
+
+                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3209.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3209.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 08 1994
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+
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 01 1994
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+
+     Tom: the quibble you raise is one of the points I'm trying to make.
+ You say someone from 1890 would go crazy.  I vehemently don't agree.  Go back
+and read letters from the 1890s.  Heck, go read letters from 1776; the
+language, the emotions, they're all very much the same.  The chrome of
+technology has changed, some social styles and attitudes have changed, but
+people still go through school (usually), get married, raise kids, hold jobs,
+and look to a better future one day.
+
+     Mariah was also a scientist, sent forth expecting and prepared to see new
+things; this isn't the same thing as an average person just plucked out of
+time.
+
+     I think people -- Americans in particular -- over-emphasize how much
+things change with time, in large measure because in a country that's only
+200+ years old, we *really* don't understand what time IS here.  The Romans
+who left grafitti all over parts of England are only one step removed from the
+South Central taggers of today....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3211.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3211.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 04 1994
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+
+     Re: Ivanova and Sheridan going into the Cortez upon it being pulled into
+B5...this was an Earth vessel, remember, stating it's on a mission of peace,
+with a cryogenic suspension chamber in use.  There was zero perceived danger.
+Also, if I were the captain of a naval vessel today, and I came across an
+intact sailing vessel that went missing in the 1890s, you'd have to hold a gun
+at my head to KEEP me out of that ship.   People are, by nature, curious...and
+this would be a fascinating puzzle to solve.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3212.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3212.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 02 1994
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+
+      Well, that's weird....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1994
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+
+     How weird...I hadn't ever seen any messages here, and I couldn't figure
+why...just checked and for some reason it was IGNored.  Odd....
+
+     Anyway...the production numbers (207, 208) are not for the order in which
+they're aired, but the order they're PRODUCED in.  So the numbers don't
+change.  We just air 208, then 207.  This is very common in TV.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3214.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-01/3214.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1994
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 16 1994
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+
+     I guess I'm always amazed when *other people* are amazed when Trek is
+called a franchise by those who make it.  They've never made any bones about
+it; ST is their license to print money, a franchise, pure and simple.  When
+asked to do more unusual or challenging or different stories, Piller/Berman
+have said, repeatedly and quite openly, "If it ain't broke, why fix it?"
+Don't endanger the franchise.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     It wasn't a producer, it was a civilian, one of a focus group asked about
+B5 and SF.
+
+     Jose: you're quite correct; I know that many of the writers over at ST
+have been chafing for a *very* long time to do more challenging stories.  It's
+just that overall, the Big Two there have been sitting on them, keeping the
+stories as tame as possible.  With any luck, our continuing presence will be
+enough to provoke them into allowing more challenging or controversial or just
+*different* kinds of shows to be written.
+
+     Speaking of which...on Monday I turned in a script called "And Now For a
+Word."  It's probably the most unusual episode to date...so much so that I was
+very concerned about Warners approving it, and indicated in my letter (which
+explained why it was done, and why it should be produced) that I wouldn't be
+putting in for a script payment until I knew they would accept it and let us
+make it.  Finally heard back today that they've approved it.  This will be
+shot as episode 214, and what you've just read is ALL I intend to say about
+this script between now and shortly before it airs in May.  (Though when we
+cast the guest star, which we're in the process of selecting now, that I'll be
+able to announce.)  It's not controversial per se, but does take our entire
+show and put it on its head for the entire hour.  (I also had to make sure we
+*could* physically produce the darned thing prior to turning in the script.)
+No speculation, please; just let it be what it is, and see it cold.
+
+      Suffice to say, though, that I'm VERY pleased and relieved right now.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Generally, nobody goes over our scripts with a fine toothed comb looking
+for things to object to (a la network censors).  In the case of this new
+script, the situation was so large that it could not be missed, or not
+referenced.  It had to be raised with PTEN before doing it.   You'll
+understand when you see it.
+
+     I should mention again that our contacts at PTEN have been nothing less
+than terrific in that they leave us to our own devices and allow us to tell
+our stories with virtually no interference.  They've been great.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Pat, by that reasoning, you shouldn't write the second half of a movie
+until you've filmed the first half, which is silly.
+
+     A story isn't about the nuances an actor brings to a performance, the
+story is about the *story*, and the characters' role in that story.   One of
+the biggest areas of misinformation in the public consciousness is how much
+imput actors and directors have on characters and stories in TV.   If you
+don't know what it is you want to say in your story, and want to wait for the
+actor's choices in determining how to read your lines before you figure out
+what story you're telling, you're in serious trouble.
+
+     It comes down to, Are you just filling out time, being arbitrary, or do
+you have something to *say* in your story?  If the former, then sure, be
+arbitrary, be kicked around on the winds of public opinion, let the actor's
+sudden decision to smile instead of frown in a scene dictate your story.  Me,
+I'd rather tell a story, and risk failing a few times, than abrogating my
+responsibility as a storyteller and a writer.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Insofar as I know, KCOP, like many other stations, will shift B5 to
+Thursday nights when the new networks come on-line.  (Paramount gets Monday
+and Tuesday nights, Warners gets Wednesdays, PTEN gets Thursdays.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Pat, with all due respect, you *really* don't know what you're  talking
+about here.  First, there's a substantial and profound difference between not
+knowing where you're going in a regular two-part episode (for which there is
+no excuse), and leaving it open to accommodate a possible cast change.  You're
+talking apples and oranges.  You can't use the one to prove the other; this
+kind of "will-he-won't-he-return" situation is absolutely the exception to the
+norm; I think most people are talking about all the OTHER two-parters NOT
+based around this logistical problem.
+
+     Second, every single series in TV has a slush fund in which you can
+afford to junk X-number of scripts, because no matter what happens, some
+scripts just don't work out.  Usually the number is 5-6 scripts that can be
+canned.  Even if for some reason one script had to be trashed (part two),
+you're talking *one script*...are you seriously trying to tell me that the
+mega-million-dollar Star Trek series, which spends anywhere from 19-23 MILLION
+dollars on their PILOTS and anywhere from $1.5-1.9 million per episode is
+going to implode because one $17,000 script falls out?   C'mon.....
+
+     Further, if the script is written one way, with Stewart out, and he ends
+up coming back after all...you just REWRITE the damned thing.  For starters,
+these kinds of scripts are almost NEVER done by freelancers, so it's an in-
+house script, and that means staffers, and that means yhou tend to get more
+drafts than the usual two...and ST scripts generally go through endless
+rewrites ANYway.  That's what they PAY staffers for, to write and to rewrite.
+Hell, I've had cast members fall in and out of scripts on many different
+occasions; I've rewritten scripts when cast members got sick and couldn't be
+there, broke their feet, you name it.   It's what one DOES.  It's why one has
+the JOB.  If you're indicating that they couldn't compensate for this over on
+ST, then you're saying they're utterly incompetent at their work, and I don't
+believe this to be true.
+
+     And any decent staffer would always prepare for either eventuality in
+working out the storyline, whether or not the actor does or doesn't return.
+
+     C'mon...as you say...let's have some reality here....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Cross-posted with Hutts...yes, it's generally much looser in syndication.
+I don't think we've gotten a note yet saying "You can't do X because we think
+it would offend someone."
+
+     And one does not have to see "sexual diversity," one can prefer not to.
+Yes, it's everywhere, and yes, it may even be somewhere in this show, but one
+can certainly put one's fingers in one's ears and hum loud until the scene is
+over....
+
+     I think it depends on how it's done; if it's just *there* as part of the
+background, not given any special treatment, not hammered home, not made into
+a Major Storyline...I don't see a problem.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     PTEN is a completely separate entity from the Warners network, and there
+is a strong competition between the two.
+
+     Kia: yeah, there's religion all over the darned place.
+
+     (In the voice of Chico Marx:)  I don' know, Boss.  I don' like-a the
+religion, but everywhere I go, boom, there it is.  I open up a can of
+sardines, ey, there's a religion, no kiddin', you gotta believe in somethin'
+afterward to eat those things-a, you know?  I go for a walk, I get cold, I
+sneeze, and som'body says-a to me, "God bless."  Again with the religion.  So
+I give-a up.  I go inna church.  You know what they got goin'?  Bingo.  So I
+stayed.  Made fifteen dollars.  Hey, you and me, we go get-a some tootsie-
+fruitsie ice-a cream, eh?
+
+                                                                      jms
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+     "...get it out the ying-yang"....well, yes, that's one of the forms of
+sexual diversity....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     K.Wicker...good scripts and bad scripts cost *exactly* the same amount of
+money.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     B5 has no involvement with the Warners network.
+
+     K.Wicker...there's no sliding scale in TV scriptwriting; all writers are
+paid the same, scale, though there's some variance between network scale and
+syndication scale.  A Baywatch script, a B5 script, a DS9 script...they're all
+basically the same.  And that fee is set by the Writer's Guild.  You can't
+spend more dollars on EFX, and then scrimp and pay cheap for scripts...it's
+all the same fee.  I get exactly the same script fee as any of my freelancers.
+So when someone says of a show, "They can't afford to buy good scripts, they
+spent it all on EFX," this is simply a misnomer.  If a script is good or bad
+is the function of the staff, pure and simple.  If a script comes in and it's
+weak, it's the job of the staff to make it better.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     We're talking here *episodic* TV, remember.  Not specials, movies or
+events.  And insofar as I know, even Bochco gets the same fee as everybody
+else, because the LAST thing the networks want is for a sliding scale to come
+into play in script fees for TV.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Pat: and I still say that if you don't have anything to say in your
+story, then sure, let the audience reaction tell you what to write.  That just
+doesn't do it for me.
+
+     PTEN = Prime Time Entertainment Network.
+
+     I really don't have a problem with fixed writer fees in TV (and bear in
+mind that directors also have fixed fees in TV).  Would I like those fees in
+general to be a bit more?  I could be greedy and say yes; actors' fees aren't
+really set, they're very much open to negotation, and can range from scale of
+maybe $9,000 an episode to $30,000 or $60,000 per episode.  And I would
+certainly like it if syndication fees were made to equal network fees (right
+now it's about $17,000 for an hour syndicated script, and about $22,000 for a
+network script).  If both those figures were bumped, say, five grand, I
+wouldn't object.
+
+     But I just can't seem to get too exercised about the whole thing, mainly
+because I know what writers get in other fields, like novels and short
+stories.  Also, the residuals schedule for writers and directors is a bit
+better than for actors.  (BTW, residuals aren't a gift; they're deferred
+payment.  The writer gambles with the producer; if the show's a flop, there
+ARE no residuals, and the producer gets off cheap.  If the show's a hit, then
+the writer gets additional fees in the form of deferred payments on the
+script...residuals.)  So in the long run, they probably break even all around
+between actors, writers and directors.
+
+     In feature films, you've got a definite ranking system, and you can get
+anywhere from scale ($60,000 or so) for a feature film up to the $1-2 million
+range for a select few.  The budgets of feature films are MUCH higher per hour
+than a TV show, so a sliding scale seems to me quite appropriate.  TV budgets
+are limited, and much, MUCH smaller.
+
+     Producing fees are also a separate category in TV, ranging from $6,500 an
+episode to $25,000 or so per episode, depending on title and responsibilities
+and how good your agent is.
+
+     What isn't generally understood is that most TV/film writers earn less
+than the average elementary school teacher on an annual basis; that roughly
+50% or more of the Writers Guild of America are *unemployed* at any given
+moment; that the percentage of WGA members who earn in the six figure category
+comprise maybe 3-4% of the total WGA membership.   There's this illusion that
+being in this business means major bucks.  It doesn't.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     Never said that "nobody's making any money," just that the majority of
+writers aren't (but that applies to both print and media).  If someone is
+coming here with dreams of megadollar success dancing before their eyes,
+they're in trouble.
+
+     Which answers your other question.  Why are they sending in endless
+numbers of scripts?  Because they've bought the okeydoke that there's money
+just hanging on trees here, and lots of it; that while most of them would
+never consider writing a novel, it's just TeeVee, they can do as good a job as
+anyone else (I've gotten letters from people who say that most of the writing
+on TV sucks, that I'm not doing a good job on my own show, but THEY can save
+it for me with their stories if I'll just buy them en masse)...the majority of
+them really don't want any kind of CAREER in TV writing, they're not willing
+to come out here and hustle; they just want either a) the money, or b) the
+Pointy Hat that says they did it.
+
+     Which is exactly why it's so hard to sell for a newbie; you're competing
+with all these other folks who think they can write for TV, and you're lost in
+all the background noise.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Answer: you really can't.  As for imaginging the future, SF writers have
+to some extent an undeserved perceived level of accuracy; if you've got two
+thousand writers all envisioning the future, *somebody's* got to come close by
+sheer chance.  And for all the future postulating, almost no SF writers even
+up to the 1970s foresaw the desktop computer....
+
+                                                          jms
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+     Peter: yes, I constantly get those as well for scripts.  I think every
+writer does.
+
+     If an actor isn't sure about a scene, for whatever reason, they are
+encouraged to come to me and discuss it.  (And it doesn't matter WHERE I am,
+if I'm reachable by phone, I'm there.)  That's happened a few times this
+season, most of which were handled by explaining how the scene relates to
+things that're going to happen in the future.  Sometimes the intent isn't
+necessarily as clear as had been thought, or even the emphasis on one word
+rather than another can change the meaning.  There's only been one case in all
+two seasons and pilot to date where an actor felt uncomfortable doing
+something, and in that case I think it was correct to adjust the scene
+slightly.  Didn't affect the story as much as just one scene within the story.
+You have to give them a fair hearing.
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Perhaps the whole gay issue might be better moved elsewhere; it's lately
+caused quite a conflagration over on Internet, and it'd be unfortunate if the
+same began to happen here.
+
+     Re: 'zines...basically, I'm dealing with it the only way I can, which is
+to ask if such 'zines could be confined to nonfiction stuff during the first-
+run of the series.  Afterward, do as you wish.
+
+                                                        jms
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+     The average TV writer is doing good to sell 2-3 scripts per year; a lot
+don't get that many.  Some get more.  But even there you run the risk of
+selling only the outline (about half the money), or being  rewritten, which --
+if the other writer adds his or her name to your own, usually a staff person --
+you lose 50% of your residuals in perpetuity.   Which is why on B5 you'll
+never see more than one writer's name on a script; we don't arbitrate, don't
+jump credits.  Ditto for when I was on Murder, She Wrote, and (pardon the
+expression) Jake.  I've accepted shared credit on freelance scripts by other
+people maybe a total of six times out of over 350 scripts that I've story
+edited or produced.  I don't think it's appropriate to dip into a freelancer's
+money, and have only done so under *extremely* unusual or specific
+circumstances.
+
+     To answer your question about my situation, yes, I get both writing and
+producing fees, which under WGA rules are separate and distinct entities.  I
+get a script fee, same amount as any freelancer, and a per-episode salary.
+(And btw, to further illustrate the differences between network and
+syndication, my salary as executive producer of the B5 series is LESS than
+what I was earning as a basic producer on Murder, She Wrote.)  Having created
+the series, I get a small creator's royalty as well on each episode.  Over the
+last nine years, I have had an average of 13 TV scripts produced each year, a
+little over one per month, for a total of roughly 120 or so produced scripts.
+(This doesn't count the scripts written but not produced.)  And, obviously,
+this varies depending on the season; in some cases, such as recently, I wrote
+4 scripts in just a tick over four weeks; but during the spring hiatus, when
+we're obviously not in production on the series, that drops (though I did
+write one two hour pilot over the last break).
+
+     It's been a fairly interesting career so far....
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     ...ah hates santa claus....
+
+     Re: have I rejected any of my own scripts...as a matter of fact, yes, I
+have.  There was a version of SOUL HUNTER which went out as a first draft,
+which when I read it again, I realized was just *wrong*.  So I had all copies
+of the script recalled, sending a memo explaining that "I had been momentarily
+possessed by an idiot."
+
+     In addition, last season I started writing a very different two parter
+than "Voice."  I turned in the first part, and while a number of folks liked
+it, it *really* wasn't up to par.  (This was the first part of the flu I'd
+gotten.)  So I chucked it completely, and wrote what ended up as "Voice."
+
+                                                                jms
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+     General agreement with some of the points raised below.  Just to further
+clarify on the subject of residuals...they diminish with time.   The first
+rerun on broadcast gets you about 45% of the original price of the script.
+Then it begins falling pretty fast.  My most recent residual for one of my
+Twilight Zone episodes was about fifteen dollars.
+
+     And also correct; while the pay can sometimes be good, remember that
+things cost more in LA than anywhere but New York.  Even a small (1 or 2
+bedroom) house, in a not altogether terrific neighborhood, in not terribly
+great shape, will run you $200,000 or more.  Ren on a small two-bedroom
+apartment (make that rent) generally runs $900 and up.
+
+     That's one of the real dangers of this town; you can have a year or two
+where you earn good money.  You even manage to sock some away.  Then you have
+a year or two when you don't work, and if you lived anywhere else, you could
+get by pretty easily on that.  But here, it's gone with astonishing speed.
+And then of course your agent gets 10%, the government gets 40-50%...you know
+the drill.
+
+     And there's always somebody trying to find some new and creative way to
+screw writers.  Here's a forinstance: I did Murder, She Wrote for two years.
+Network fees for a one-hour script are about $20,000, rounded off.  Second run
+is about 40-50% when you hit syndication.  So figure that that check should be
+about $9,500.  Not bad.  Except Universal realized one day that it'd be better
+off selling the show to itself, in the form of the USA Network, co-owned by
+Universal.  Cable residuals are figured on a PERCENTAGE basis, meaning you get
+a percentage of the overall sale price of the series to cable, per episode
+you've written.  And Universal sells the show to itself at the lowest
+conceivable price (about $500 per episode, give or take).
+
+     So what is my residual on a second-run of a Murder episode on USA, which
+would be about $9,500 on a broadcast station?  Twenty four dollars and change.
+
+     But hey...it's Hollywood, Jake.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     There are micromachines on the way, eventually, I'm told.
+
+     To the query in message 666 (hrmmmm)...the relationship between series
+producer and director is fairly close.  The producer looks for and hires a
+director whose vision seems to match his own.  This is what I do.   The
+director gets the script after it's in final-draft form.  (To the question
+"Who writes the shooting script?" it's basically the same script from
+beginning to end, but with the scene numbers broken out.  You usually assign
+scene numbers as quickly as possible, to allow CGI and stuff to get going.)
+As producer, once I'm satisfied with the script, and it goes to the director,
+sometimes s/he'll have questions about it which may need to be clarified or
+explained.  As part of prep, the director and I have a "tone meeting," in
+which we go through each scene page by page, and I explain what I have in mind
+in each scene, and the director talks about what s/he sees in it, making sure
+that we both understand what's going on, and agree on the vision and approach.
+Usually this goes very smoothly.  Very, very rarely will you get a situation
+where there are two opposed viewpoints on how to direct a scene, in which case
+either a) I win, or b) the director shoots it both ways, and we see which way
+works better on film.
+
+     Television is more fundamentally a writer's medium than a director's
+medium; film tends to be more the director's purview.
+
+     There is interaction with the editors at every stage of the process.  We
+make sure the editor is on hand for the production meeting, and discusses with
+the director what is desired.  If there's something that needs to be made
+clear from my POV, then I call the editor and make this point.  The director
+then shoots the episode, and the editor begins assembling the episode in
+consultation with the director.  Upon the completion of principal photography,
+the director gets several days to play with the editor's cut, creating the
+director's cut of the episode.
+
+     When this is finished, then I and John Copeland go into the editor's wing
+and work with the editor to create the producer's cut.  This can be very close
+to the director's cut...or it can be a total restructure, depending on
+circumstance.  There were a few occasions last season where John and I went in
+and re-edited every single scene.  Sometimes this process can take half a day,
+or several days.
+
+     One of the main things we do is to tighten the hell out of the episode.
+Invariably, when the director finishes, we're told "The episode is still ten
+minutes long, we had to cut scenes."  Because directors like long, lingering
+pans and establishers.  We go in and tighten the screws until the film
+screams...and with *very* few exceptions, it ALL fits.
+
+     Some episodes last season, like "War Prayer," and "Grail," and
+"Infection" were absolute pains in the ass to edit.  Getting those episodes to
+work practically required a trip to Lourdes, and there's still stuff I'm not
+happy with in those episodes.  On the other hand, episodes like "The Geometry
+of Shadows" you barely have to touch, because it's all put together
+seamlessly.
+
+     To your question of who has creative control on the series...when you
+come down to brass tacks, it's me.  I have a *very* specific vision for the
+series, which comes about because I have incredibly talented people working
+for me.  Ann Bruice comes to me with costume sketches that I have to approve
+(an easy task, since she's terrific); ditto with set designs from John
+Iacovelli, prosthetic designs from Optic Nerve, props, set dressing, casting,
+music....
+
+     As a result, most things that are on the show are either very close to
+what I saw in my head, or in some cases even better, because of the input of
+all these people.  My job is basically to say yes, or no, or maybe, and to
+point to a spot on the horizon where I want us all to go.   It's then up to
+the rest to find ways to actually make these crazy notions WORK...they do the
+actual work, the thought, the effort, and I get to bask in the reflected glow
+of their efforts as though somehow I was responsible, when my main
+responsibility was to look at a sketch and say, "Uh.....yup."
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+     For the most part, yeah, I think everyone involved with the show sets
+aside ego to do what's best for the show itself.  When there are department
+meetings, no idea is ever scrubbed saying "That's dumb."  There are frank and
+often blunt conversations, but because everyone is free to be equally blunt,
+and we all know everyone respects one another, we don't tend to have real
+problems.  Now obviously you're going to have small conflicts when you dump a
+whole lot of creative people in a room and have them attack a problem.  But
+they're generally *about the problem*, not about each other.
+
+     You *can't* bring your ego with you to work and expect to get anything
+worthwhile done.  And you can't play Untouchable Boss.  Anybody who has a
+question or a criticism about a script can come to me about it, whether it's
+mine or somebody else's.  Doesn't matter if it's a grip, or a stunt double, or
+somebody from craft services; a valid point is a valid point.  I may not agree
+with it, and I reserve the right to do it as written if I don't agree, but
+I'll *listen*, and if the person's got a point, I'll address it.
+
+     There are several people here who've been in the B5 offices on many
+occasions, and they can chime in if I'm lying...but honest, the one sound you
+hear the most in the hallways of the B5 production office is that of laughter.
+We try to keep stress out of the workplace as much as possible, to make it a
+pleasant place to work.
+
+     Everybody eats together out behind the stage at lunchtime -- writers,
+producers, directors, cast, crew, production staff, groups of crew go out
+together for dinner, or drinks after shooting, they go off on vacation in
+groups (a bunch of them were off at Mammoth when the quake hit last year), the
+actors are free to come into my office and hang out, ask questions, same with
+anyone else...there's always a birthday cake somewhere in the studio it
+seems...it's just A Nice Place To Work.  Which helps tremendously when it
+comes time to actually work together.
+
+     For Christmas, btw, we purchased for the crew, production staff and
+others Swiss Army Watches with the B5 logo engraved on the back, with 1994-
+1995 beneath it, for those who've been on the show for two years.   For those
+serving here as their first year, they got the nifty B5 leather jackets that
+all the first timers got last year.
+
+     Life's too short not to enjoy where you work...especially on  Barbeque
+Day at the studio, or Funny Hat Day.....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Funniest hat...that was last season, and it's not anything startling;
+just a lobster hat, big claws coming down off it, bug-eyes, legs all around
+the head...just struck me as funny.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     The assumption above is correct; one shouldn't consider B5 to be
+exclusive in this approach.  Folks like David Moessinger, my Executive
+Producer on MURDER, JAKE and (albeit briefly, before I ran screaming out into
+the night) WALKER...Mark Shelmerdine, my Executive Producer on the new
+Twilight Zone...and others I could name, all people of conscience and
+integrity and loyalty, who create a healthy and positive place to work.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Oh, yeah, and these next six are gonna be major head-thumps too, that
+much I can promise right now.  (It occured to me, I think that we go on the
+air with new eps about the same time Voyager hits the air; this should be an
+interesting contrast, 'cause there's some stuff in this next batch that just
+goes balls to the walls.)
+
+     And yes, THAT "Walker."  When the show was still with Cannon TV,  David
+got jammed up and asked me to come in for a while, in between leaving "Murder,
+She Wrote" and starting B5.  I came on as Supervising Producer...and the
+second I walked into the Cannon building, I knew this was gonna be trouble.
+I've got a good snake detector, and it was going off like crazy.  I tried to
+warn David, but David is a good soul, and he trusts people, and figured he
+could make it work.  But I knew we were standing on the deck of the Titanic
+and somebody'd just ordered ice....
+
+     I rewrote several scripts (no credit taken), and wrote one of my own,
+which got produced and aired.  Nobody was being paid, there was mass chaos at
+the top, and finally I just bolted over the barbed wire and escaped.  David
+understood, tried to find some way to stop the hassles, but in time the whole
+damned thing exploded, and CBS took the show away from Cannon after David
+finally bailed.  It's a nightmare organization.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     We'll probably know come April about a third season, in any definitive
+sense, though we may have hunches before then.
+
+     Actually, "The exception proves the rule" is a corruption of the original
+Latin, which I believe is something along the lines of, "Exceptio probat
+regulum," which as a phrase translates out to, "The exception puts the rule to
+the test of proof."
+
+     I have no real desire to direct; I could if I so desired (and sometimes
+I'll make murmurings about setting aside an episode to direct myself, which is
+a perk I have if desired, just to watch producer John Copeland turn a whiter
+shade of pale), but I just don't think it's something I want to do.  My other
+writer-friends think I'm crazy to pass this up, since Writer/Director
+hyphenates are kind of the In thing, and command major bucks and deals...but
+ehh...I'm a writer.
+
+     One's relations with a given studio are in large measure affected by the
+person you're working with.  There are good folk and bad folk.  We have been
+very, very fortunate in that our PTEN liaison is a very smart fellow, very
+thoughtful, reasonable, who kinda understands where we're going with this
+story, and allows us to go where we wish.  I've been on other shows where the
+network or studio liaison can destroy a series and make your life a living
+hell.  It's really the luck of the draw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Kevin: part of my hope is that this modem-experiment will help to put out
+information on how TV is made, and de-mystify the process a bit.
+
+     How to Space Someone A Bit At A Time: elect them to Congress.
+
+                                                        jms
+

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+     Only because I'm crummy at this stuff...anybody wants to send me cheat
+codes for Wing Commander III will live in my heart forever.
+
+     Damned kilrathi....
+
+                                                              jms
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+
+     Tell you what...I could either struggle through Wc3 without the cheat
+codes, or make Babylon 5.  Understand that I am obsessive/compulsive in
+nature....
+
+     Will try the alt-o.  It's some solace....
+
+     Only four people have seen the five-year arc (and not all of it at that,
+only about a 10 page summary of the thing), which is about three too many for
+my tastes.  None of them are execs with PTEN.
+
+     Maybe the symbol for B5 fandom might be >@<, which is a starfury.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     You'll see more of Na'Toth in "Acts of Sacrifice."
+
+                                                                jms
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+
+     Re: moving airdates...this is stuff I mentioned some time ago, so no one
+should be startled now.  As stated before, Paramount is taking Monday and
+Tuesday nights; Warner Network is getting Wednesdays; so you HAVE to move B5
+somewhere.  There's only Thursday-Sunday left, so it has to go somewhere in
+there.
+
+     The cheat code for Babylon 5?  PERCIVAL.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     T'ain't luck, lemme tell you; we haven't had a break from day one.   Old
+fashioned hard work.
+
+     Expect new episodes the week of January 23rd.
+
+     Anybody here who knows computer stuff, maybe you can answer a Stoopid
+Question for me in the appropriate topic down below....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Re: my doing promos for the show on-air...I'm not an on-air personality.
+I'm just not good at that.  A few weeks of my face on the air, and viewers
+would probably start asking for their previous ratings points back....
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+
+     However, I believe that a great deal of that time comes from the ST
+opening and closing credits, which are longer than ours.  Just count the "dry
+time," meaning program content ONLY, minus opening title/credit sequences and
+end credits.  And there's never any variance in the length of our show unless
+someone at your end of the signal is making trims here and there; the length
+of each episode is always *exactly* the same, right down to the frame-count.
+So there's *no way* you can be seeing a 30-second variance between episodes.
+When it leaves our hands, all of the episodes are *exactly* the same length.
+I know because I'm part of the final edit, and we have to hit exactly the same
+count every time.
+
+     It's altogether possible that your station is either trimming scenes or
+running the show through a compression system.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     Generally, credits are negotiated, or assigned on merit.  My  assistant
+on the show didn't negotiate for a credit, but gets one at the end, along with
+Doug's.  A lot of the office staff doesn't get credited on-screen, or some of
+the support personnel in the art department, construction, costuming, makeup,
+and other areas, because there simply isn't time; Babylon Productions, which I
+co-own with Doug, employs about 225-250 people in order to make B5.  So
+generally the key people in each department, and their seconds, get on-screen
+credit.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     The next batch of new episodes will be six-eps long; so append to that
+list "Acts of Sacrifice" and "Hunter, Prey."
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Well, here's an episode title for a script-in-progress that ought to
+scare the hell out of anybody who's paying attention: "In the Shadow of
+Z'ha'dum."
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Figure "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" for about episode 19 (once I finish
+writing the darned thing).
+
+     We have roughly 16-17 standing sets, and as many as 60 swing sets
+available to us, the largest of any TV series that I know of.  Just the number
+of clubs/restaurants is amazing...the Eclipse Cafe, Earhart's, Happy Daze, the
+Dark Star, the Fresh Air Restaurant, the banquet hall, Doug's Dugout Sports
+Bar (seen in TKO), the smaller restaurant seen in "Eyes," the Zocalo Cafe, and
+of course the mess hall.
+
+     Yes, we've seen the length of the central corridor several times now;
+that you haven't noticed is the point, rather than seeing a painted backdrop,
+which sticks out.
+
+     "Why should everyone stay on B5?" says G.Popovich.  *Exactly*, says jms,
+pointing to Sinclair.  As to living and dying...I wouldn't be at all surprised
+if something fatal happened to one or more of the characters in the main title
+before too long....
+
+     What's great, from my POV, is that in the first season, folks could sense
+there was *something* going on, but now with the second season, more are
+starting to see the shape of it gliding just beneath the  surface, and note
+the occasional shark-fin rising up out of the water....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Insofar as I know, in the B5 universe, dead is dead.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Also add Bernie Casey.
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 19 1994
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+     Shock Treatment's out on CD?  Really?  Gotta pick that one up; all I have
+is the vinyl, well-worn by now.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 25 1994
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+
+     It kinda bothered their sense of superiority; also, their sense of honor
+lies more in the direction of one-to-one combat, rather than mining something
+as a trap.  Consider it the way British troops did toward American
+revolutionary fighters who hid behind trees and used guerilla tactics rather
+than fighting the way the British *wanted* them to fight, out in the open, in
+nice, easily shot-at rows....
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1994
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+
+     Sean: as was stated in the episode, we still haven't been able to crack
+the Minbari stealth technology.  It's not that they're old or deficient, we
+just haven't broken their system yet.  As Sheridan says in the conference
+room.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1994
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+
+     Sheridan asked what kind of scanners the fighters were using because he
+couldn't figure out why they were picking up the Minbari fighters.  He wanted
+to be sure nobody had snuck by some kind of new tech.  Once he knew they were
+the same tech as before, he knew something screwy was up.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 28 1994
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+
+     Well, that's it; this topic has now become canon fodder.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 18 1994
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+
+     And from now on, freedom is slavery.
+
+                                                  George Orwell
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1994
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+
+     Don' wanna do no message.  Peoples be peoples, they jus' do what they do.
+Jus' show it, don't dwell on it.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1994
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+
+     Ah has only one other thing to say on this whole left wing/right wing
+CONtroversy (and why ah'm talkin' like ah jus' escaped from a play by that
+Tennessee Williams fella is anybody's guess)...stone cold fact is, unless that
+eagles got a left AND a right wing, in perfect balance and given equal
+respect, it ain't NEVER gonna fly.
+
+                                               jmsTELLLLLLLAAAAA
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 15 1994
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+
+     Actually, that 800/200 split ain't far off the truth, as I dimly recall.
+Crummy with figures, good with words.
+
+     Funny thing, sorta...see, according to most IQ tests, I come in just over
+the edge on the so-called genius ("Come, Join Mensa, Join Us, Join Us...")
+level.  Around 160 or so.  Which, frankly, is absolutely meaningless, except
+that it helps me skate throuth stuff I have no business doing or no chance of
+*really* understanding.  I come in very high on intuitive scores; I can often
+figure out *what* is the correct answer, but am damned if I can tell you
+*why*.
+
+     As a kid, we moved around a lot for (let's just say this for now and let
+it go at this) economic reasons.  Literally every year from birth through
+about age 17 was a different house, a different city, often a different STATE.
+I learned fast that if you were too smart, and showed it...you got beat up a
+lot.  So at a very early stage I found I could just shave it close enough to
+pass, without raising any red flags or drawing attention.  The one thing I
+didn't want was to be noticed, because that usually preceded getting the
+stuffings knocked out of me (and being who I am, *that* was usually followed
+by my mouthing off to whoever just beat the crap out of me...at which point
+they pound me again...at which point this little bump on the playground mouths
+off again, at which point, well, you get the idea).
+
+     I'd gotten pretty good at riding the line, but goofed one year in junior
+high.  I screwed up my math term (no surprise there), but usually  I knew I
+could ace lit classes to make up for it...except I got sick, missed several
+tests and papers...and dropped beneath the line I needed to get advanced to
+the next level.  So I had to attend summer school to make up the difference.
+
+     This was under the Headstart Program of those days, and the sort of kids
+you found in this one in New Jersey...Future Muggers of America founding
+members.  Anyway (and this is a hell of a lot longer and more involved than
+I'd intended to get), one day they said they were going to give all of us in
+summer school a series of tests/evaluations to determine just where we
+stood...what grade reading level, comprehension, math, that sort of thing.
+Now normally I'd always held back in this stuff, but this wasn't my regular
+school, I'd be going to high school after this, so what was lost?  So I just
+went for it.
+
+     A few days later the test results came in, and I got suddenly called to
+the office of the head of the program.  He sat me down and said, honest to
+god, "You'll forgive my langauge for a moment, but what the HELL are you DOING
+here?"  Apparently for a 9th grader my language, reading, writing, and general
+intelligence figures came in at approximately that of a college graduate.
+(Though my math skills were, to be charitable, considerably lower.  Bargain-
+basement, to be precise.)  So I told him  what I'd been doing all this time.
+He sat there, slack jawed, the whole time, at the premeditation and all the
+rest.  (Though I wouldn't have gotten nailed if I'd been better at some of the
+other areas.)
+
+     Later, to my chagrin, I discovered that he wrote up a memo about all this
+and attached it to my transcripts, so that when I transferred to the high
+school, I found myself assigned to several advanced classes in English lit and
+other areas, college-prep level classes.  So I instantly went back to my old
+habits, and soon enough managed to get out of that one and into a regular
+class.
+
+     Tests are fine, advanced classes are fine, but frankly, none of it was
+worth getting stomped on a regular basis....
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 17 1994
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+
+     BTW, and not to get off on a whole SeaQuest tangent, but...today I saw
+something even rarer than a unicorn: a good SQ episode.  It hasn't aired yet,
+probably won't for a few weeks yet, but as you check your TV Guide, look for
+the one where a new experimental sub sporting artificial intelligence tied to
+Bridger gets loose.  It's actually quite nice.
+
+     Of the "SeaQuest Meets the Triffids" episode yet to come...the less said,
+the better.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 30 1994
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+
+     Not all jumpgates are hooked/linked with one another.  Very ofteen you
+DON'T have to leave hyperspace, just jump from A to C, and from C to Z, riding
+the lock-on to each one (Catherine Sakai programmed in just such a sequence in
+MIND WAR, in fact).  You don't usually have to leave hyperspace to go from one
+gate to another; usually, in the case of the freighter being discussed, it
+left hyperspace at the last jumpgate stop to pick up supplies, people, cargo,
+other stuff, and was heading back to the gate again.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 22 1994
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+
+     There is no reference in the liner notes to ANY of the characters, and
+there is NO "outlining of the story of B5."  The report you've heard has been
+mischaracterized.  There *is* a photo of Sinclair there.  And from what I
+understand, the license/promotional deal emphasized that the current cast
+should be specified in the thing, since it's being released in the current
+year, to make clearer it's a 1995 release.  A cast list put out right now
+would not have Sinclair on it; that's the same situation as this.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1994
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+
+     I have seen some fuzzy black-and-white photos of the MicroMachines, and
+though I can't testify yet about the colors, since I couldn't see them, they
+LOOK majorly cool.  Want 'em.  Want 'em NOW.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1994
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+
+     The zero is probably a German zero, which usually has a crossbar through
+it, /.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 16 1994
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+
+     It was a regular episode done for ABC as part of the Saturday morning
+season that ended up garnering a lot of attention.  It's also a favorite of a
+lot of the folks who run that department at ABC.  It came out *very* nicely.
+I'm pretty sure it was season one stuff.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 20 1994
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+
+     Well, it's confirmed; my episode of THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS, "Xmas Marks
+the Spot," will air Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. (probably 7:30 central) on
+ABC.  It's in TV Guide and everything.
+
+     Kinda dopey, but fun....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 20 1994
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+
+     There's business stuff being worked out on Grimjack, and I've said to all
+parties that to avoid doing less than standard work, I'd prefer to not start
+the script until January/February, when most of the writing on B5 will be
+finished.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 20 1994
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+
+     Eek, and just turned on USA network tonight and caught one of my Murder,
+She Wrote episodes, "The Committee."  The world is getting too small for
+comfort.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-15/3274.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-15/3274.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 23 1994
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+
+      As long as we're talking about other stuff...this Friday one of my
+episodes of "Murder, She Wrote" that got a lot of press will be run on USA,
+"Incident in Lot 7," set on the Universal Studios lot, in the old Psycho
+house.  It's kinda fun, got some good lines here and there.
+
+      I was talking to somebody who worked it out the other day, and having
+written over 120 *produced* episodes of TV, the fact is that one day out of
+every three, you're going to find something of mine somewhere on the schedule,
+which is probably why I don't mention it much.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-15/3275.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-15/3275.html
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+
+     Except the creeps at ABC reversed the order, so my machine got a
+different show on tape; wanted to see if they'd cut anything.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-15/3276.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-15/3276.html
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+
+     Got nothing to do with me.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 29 1994
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+
+     Or they could've shattered the moon, and used mass drivers to hurl huge
+sections of it down onto us.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 22 1994
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+
+     Londo does not have the Eye.  If he'd failed to turn it over, his career
+would've been ruined; getting it back was the only thing that kept him on B5.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms94-12-15/3279.html b/find/GEnie/jms94-12-15/3279.html
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+
+     Caitlin wanted to go off and pursue romantic leading roles in films.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+
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+
+     Okay, here's the deal...my Spousal Overunit some time ago installed a
+sound card into her computer.  From that point on (at least we're fairly sure
+that was the deciding point), she could no longer access both her serial
+of to try and make the darned thing work; so now she has to keep switching
+between modem and mouse.  If there's ANYone out there with some suggestions on
+how to fix this, that'd be great (given in very plain layperson's terms,
+because neither of us is a rocket scientist at this stuff, real step-by-step
+stuff).
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+

+
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+
+     Yep, I wrote this one.
+
+                                                           jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 22 1994
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+
+     Correct above; Sheridan says, quite specifically, in the conference room
+with Ivanova after the Grey Council guy is gone, "they used some kind of
+stealth technology WE'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO BREAK."  It's not a matter of old
+or cheaper tech; we just haven't broken their technology yet.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+      The security guard didn't trigger the detonation; he picked up some
+energy buildup on his scanner the moment Horn's heart stopped.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+
+     How weird...I hadn't ever seen any messages here, and I couldn't figure
+why...just checked and for some reason it was IGNored.  Odd....
+
+     Anyway...the production numbers (207, 208) are not for the order in which
+they're aired, but the order they're PRODUCED in.  So the numbers don't
+change.  We just air 208, then 207.  This is very common in TV.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 16 1994
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+
+     Peter Jurasik has made it clear that he wants the 30-foot portrait of
+Londo...he wants to hang it outside his house...facing the neighbors who keep
+annoying him....
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 16 1994
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+     Anytime we have someone who's a) of shorter stature, and b) of any kind
+of aggressive or unusual type, people say we're doing Harlan.  (Here, and in
+"Deathwalker," with Abbut.)  If we ever end up *doing* Harlan, the part will
+be PLAYED by Harlan.  The rest...forget it.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 17 1994
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+
+     Re: pacing...quite correct.   I think the pacing should vary
+according to the story we're telling; some are slower, some fairly average,
+and some are written, acted and directed at a dead run.  I like tuning into a
+series and never quite knowing what the hell to expect each time.
+
+     All things considered, the episode went through fairly cleanly, script-
+wise, not much in the way of revision.  Peter has a good ear for dialog (not
+surprising).  So for the most part it was little stuff; for example...Peter
+came up with, "Either I'm in hell or in medlab," to which I appended,
+"...either way, the decor needs work."  Which is kind of the fun in getting an
+outside script; you can hear the first part of a line you'd never considered,
+and knowing the character, you can take it just a little further.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+     Actually, Delenn explains why she made the transformation right after we
+see it, in the council chambers in "Revelations."
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
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+     Complaints here have to come from local residents.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+
+     This is a baseless rumor.  This episode title was always intended to
+reflect the season overall title.  There may or may not ever be an episode
+entitled "The Shadows Fall," but since I've never discussed that title with
+anyone, ever, any reports of it are a rumor.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 25 1994
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+Jan 1 - Jan 15th, 1995.  Postings are copyright 1995 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+

+
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+
+     Re: on-air stuff...honest to Kosh, folks, I'm not saying that to be
+convinced otherwise, not trolling for rebuttals, my job here is to talk
+straight with you.  Radio, I'm okay on; typing online, ditto.  But put me on
+TeeVee, and it all goes straight to hell.  I'm convinced that every time I go
+on, millions of little old lady fans of America's Most Wanted suddenly point
+at the screen and start screaming, "THAT'S HIM!  THAT'S THE ONE!"
+
+     These things should be left to professionals.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Re: the Tom Skerrit TZ episode of mine...ehhh...that was done when I was
+on freelancer basis, and had no control to what happened to it after it was
+turned in.  I'd written it with a moral point to the story -- that the father
+was doing to the son what was done to *him* when he was a kid, being too
+possessive, closing off the kid's world -- so that he would come to understand
+that.
+
+     This, to me, was the Twilight Zone.  Only after I turned it in, I
+learned that Phil DeGuere (the exec producer) didn't *want* to do morality
+tales because it was too Twilight Zone.  (Go ahead, explain *that* one to me.)
+So they yanked out the whole *point* of the damned story, which left the rest
+toothless and without point, just an excercise in wish fulfillment for the
+characters.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Which "incomplete images?"  Haven't noticed any so far.
+
+     The TV camera is different than a live audience; the camera either loves
+you, or hates you.  Cameras generally despise me, but they *love* Harlan.  Go
+figure.
+
+     BTW, Bruce Boxleitner married Melissa Gilbert on New Year's Day.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+
+     The shows done on my watch are generally referred to as TZ3, yes, and
+Christy's is among them.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Actually, when I saw the CNN spot, it mentioned among his credits "are
+Scarecrow & Mrs. King, and Babylon 5."
+
+     We don't generally get ratings reports broken down by competing shows,
+since it varies from town to town.
+
+     I was story editor on TZ3, and wrote about 11 of the episodes.
+
+                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+     BTW, and just for the heck of it...the line about paying off karma at an
+accellerated rate is something Kathryn has been muttering for ages; I popped
+it into the script for fun.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     Messages 345 and 346 above are both correct answers to the queries posted
+here.
+
+                                                            jms
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+
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+
+     So far, nobody's said boo to us from any agency that means a damn.   A
+couple of watchdog organizations last year put us into the "most violent shows
+on TV" top-ten, along with (get this) DS9 and Brisco County, but that's it.
+
+     I would deep-six the show or walk off it if any pressure group tried to
+change what we are, with official backing.  You cannot make with timidity a
+show about courage.  I have no idea if it'll ever happen or not; I would hope
+not.  On one level, if it does, it'll elevate our visibility and our ratings.
+So hey, let 'em come.  And if the horse should be shot out from under us, be
+assured that we will go down fighting tooth and nail.  There are only a very
+few things in life that genuinely frighten me, and looking for a new job isn't
+one of them.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     I do seem to recall that at some point there were discussions between
+Harlan and the ST team about a City sequel, and an arc for DS9.  What Harlan
+pitched had scope, and sweep, and action, and would probably have caused quite
+a stir.  And the response from B&P was to go *hmmm* and to go *hrrmmm* a lot,
+and wonder if this or that part could be toned down a bit, and finally the
+idea just sank beneath the waves.  Harlan once described for me, in detail,
+the opening teaser of what he planned for a TNG episode...and it would've
+caused the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up.  A *really* good Picard
+story.
+
+     Re: winning/losing battles...on the Harry Chapin collection double CD
+set, there are some interview snippets with Harry.  In one of them, he tells
+this story (which I'm going to try and replicate from memory as well as I
+can).  "My father always used to tell me, Harry, there's good days, and
+there's bad days.  A bad day can be a day when you *won*...but you fought
+other people's battles, lived other people's agendas, and at the end of the
+day, there was really very little of *you* in there, and when you hit the hay,
+you toss and turn, you don't settle easy.
+
+     "A *good* day, ironically enough, can be a day when you *lost*.  But you
+don't even have to say it, because you know you lived your life,  fought your
+battles, dreamed your dreams.  And when you hit the hay at night, you can
+sleep the sleep of the just and say 'Take me away.'"
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     What's funny is that a number of Trek fans who put down B5 did so on the
+basis that we used CGI, which Trek would NEVER do (and B&P reinforced this
+notion in their statements).  Except of course now they ARE going to
+CGI...which in some ways levels the playing field.
+
+     (Saw this on Internet a few minutes ago...don't hurt me, I'm just the
+messenger, thought it was funny..."What's the difference between a Trekkie and
+a Trekker?  Trekkers like B5.")
+
+     Seen on a local BBS echo: "B5 IN 95!"
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Yeah, Newt Gingrich, a man who as soon as he made it big dumped his wife,
+even though she had cancer...that's really somebody I want teaching me about
+family values....
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+     The thing to do when you see a shirt with "Today's Score: Deep Space 9,
+Babylon 5," is to respond with, "Oh, I see you're a golf fan too."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+
+     I'm told it's hitting the stands this week.  Some places have already got
+it.
+
+     Well, turned in the first formal draft today of "In the Shadow of
+Z'ha'dum," which means there are now only five scripts remaining to be
+written.  These will pretty much all be jms scripts, since the continuity on
+the last five-six episodes is going to be *very* tight.  There's an awful lot
+of terrain to cover in those episodes, and we really have to start cranking
+things.
+
+     It's weird to be able to look down just a ways and already be able to see
+the end of the second season when we haven't even aired episode seven yet.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Well, actually, there are various forms of "turning in a script."   First
+I turn in a First Draft, which is only circulated amongst the upper tier
+production staff (me, Doug, John, usually Larry, Warners, and if it has lots
+of EFX, prosthetics or wardrobe, the head of whichever department is gonna get
+whapped).  Out of 17 scripts to date, we have only gotten notes from Warners
+on 3, all in the very first batch of episodes, mainly in terms of urging
+clarity for new viewers.  Nothing since.  Nonetheless, it's pro forma to send
+it along at that early stage just in case.
+
+     Shortly thereafter, I turn in my Final Draft (the second draft in
+sequence).  Usually, there's little or no difference between the First and the
+Final Draft (at least on this show)...the only real distinction is that this
+is the one that gets circulated to all cast, crew, support and production
+staff, and casting.
+
+     "Z'ha'dum" has only been seen by a few people at this early stage, but
+folks like it.  The big one, though, is really "And Now for a Word," which has
+gotten more responses from crew, cast and others than any other script to
+date.  From top to bottom, everyone is absolutely excited about it.  It's
+going to be a very challenging shoot, but the result, I think, will be worth
+it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     Richard Biggs will be at a convention this weekend in South Bend, though
+only on Sunday (it's a creation con, I believe).
+
+     Meanwhile, it looks like there's going to be a big convention in Chicago
+come June with Michael O'Hare, Mira Furlan, Bill Mumy and me in addition to
+the aforementioned Richard Biggs.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     It's June 24th/25th, the Science Fiction Expo.  More than that I don't
+yet know at this time.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Re: G'Kar...the politial assessment is more or less correct.  The Narn
+idea of an ambassador isn't just someone who SPEAKS for his people, he
+REPRESENTS his people on every level. (So the strain and pressure is quite
+great.)  As such, he is the highest-ranking representative on B5; he is
+responsible for taking care of the ceremonies of G'Quon, was appointed by the
+Kha'Ri, and can only be removed by the Kha'Ri, or by direct physical
+challenge.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 09 1995
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+
+     Boy oh boy oh boy are YOU guys gonna love the next few new episodes
+(given the last ten messags or so).
+
+     Decisions by G'Kar are only binding on Narns living at or visiting B5.
+
+     And yes, please continue to remember Franklin's little downbelow clinic
+for a while....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     So, Bill, are you saying the coffee is not what it seems?
+
+     Next you'll be dragging those damned owls into this....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     We've spoken to Mark, and he even came by the studio to visit.  (We
+actually had a 3-way interpersonal crossover when Walter Koenig stopped by at
+the same time; we had Star Trek, Star Wars and Babylon 5 main guys in the same
+room at the same time.)  It's something we'd like to do one of these days.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 12 1995
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+
+     Fair Use is also determined by volume of quote or re-use vs. volume of
+original material.  Quoting 30 lines from a novel or reference book may not be
+a problem; quoting 30 lines of a song *is* a problem, since that's probably
+the entire song.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 05 1995
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+
+     The 5 was specifically designed by John Iacovelli; the purpose, though
+we've rarely ever used it, was to create a moving number with the two parts
+interlocking...the round o part of the 5 swings around, and stops when the L
+shaped top of the 5 drops into position, locking it into place.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1995
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+     The Washington Post TV insert will have a piece on  Bruce and B5 either
+this week (just having come out), or next week.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 03 1995
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+
+     I know I'm going to regret asking this, because I know I'm not going to
+understand the question, and I'm just going to get confused and fall down,
+but...what's the difference between a Unified Field Theory and a Complete
+Unified Field Theory?
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 08 1995
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+
+     What kind of BB?  Wanted a BB gun once, but my family said I'd put my eye
+out.  But they also said that when I wanted a cat.
+
+     "Does anybody really know what time it is?  Does anybody really care?"
+
+                                           jm(head go thunk)s
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 08 1995
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+
+      ...never an anvil around when you really need one....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 09 1995
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+
+     Mostly, yeah; fortunately, most of them were fairly common CDs, and easy
+to replace.  (Oddly a lot of them were Beatles disks.)  The more rare ones
+were deep down in the pile and thus protected.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-01-01/3320.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-01-01/3320.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 10 1995
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+
+     I hate it when you do that....
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 11 1995
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+
+     Absolute misinformation.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 13 1995
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+
+      We're close to closing a deal for a B5 screensaver package, with
+wallpaper, slide shows, wav and video files.  Will advise.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-01-01/3323.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-01-01/3323.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 01 1995
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+
+      How does one change the DMA address of a sound card?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 02 1995
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+
+     The card, as I recall, is a Pro Audio Spectrum.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Leningrad Cowboys on January 7th?  That's the one!  Folks...listen to
+me...I *know* it's gonna weird you out, but you gotta check out this movie.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 05 1995
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+
+     But on the other hand, I know many jews who are very upset when a member
+of their family becomes an atheist; they say you can't be a jew and an
+atheist, and that no matter what their belief system, they remain jews.  I
+think there is a mix here; on the one hand, anyone can convert to Judaism,
+from any ethnic background.  But certainly in the various judao-christian
+scriptures there are the tribes of Israel, and rules that were set aside for
+the jewish people to follow, that even Moses made the distinction between his
+people and the Egyptians.  Perhaps the problem is in the use of the word
+itself; is one a jew, or is one an Israelite?  One can be an Arab, or a
+Palistinian, defined by location; on one level, the notion of being jewish is
+without borders; so maybe Isrealite is the more technically correct term to
+use in distinguishing between ethnic background and religious belief.
+
+     Ethnic language gets misused a lot.  One of the things that makes me nuts
+is when I see newsmagazines like TIME talking about "anglo" as a term for
+caucasians, meaning white.  I'm sorry, but I'm not an anglo; that refers to a
+very specific part of the world, as in anglo-saxon; my people come from
+eastern europe.  To call all caucasians "anglo" is, to me, as offensive as
+calling all hispanic people puerto ricans.  Anglo first popped up as a
+derogatory term, and became legitimized.  I think one can say caucasian
+(though that tends to have more european resonance, because of the mountainous
+region to which it refers), white, Eastern European, or come up with some new
+term.  But anglo just doesn't cut it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+     I don't believe the wire-frame is B5; I think it's an analysis of a ship
+docking at that moment.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1995
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+
+      Between "Revelations" and "Geometry."
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 14 1995
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+
+Feb 1 - Feb 28th, 1995.  Postings are copyright 1995 by J. Michael Straczynski
+with compilation copyright by GEnie.
+
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 06 1995
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+
+     The VO at the end of all the PTEN shows has been dropped.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 07 1995
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+
+     Sean: if you could send me a copy of that TV Guide piece asap, I would be
+*profoundly* grateful.
+
+     Slowly, we're starting to get noticed.  Break Magazine, out of North
+Carolina, just did a very good three-page review that says B5 "has set the SF
+TV world on end with the quality of its writing...stories that are gripping
+and speculative...if you haven't checked out Babylon 5 you owe it to yourself
+to do so.  This is, without doubt, the best science fiction series ever
+produced.  Give it the next six weeks.  You'll be hooked."   (Reviewed by
+staffer Tom Poston.)
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 08 1995
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+
+     Well, after nudzhing them for the last two years, finally SFWA has given
+in to Harlan's insistence about changing the Grand Master Nebula awards rules,
+since we were and are on the verge of losing many of those deserving of the
+honor, and why the hell can't we amend one bitty rule to give out a couple at
+a time rather than once every two years?  Granted it doesn't go all the way
+(and of course it wasn't in the LEAST due to outside pressure), but at least
+now it'll be once a year rather than once every two years...and this comes on
+a day when R.A. Lafferty has a stroke, I'm told.
+
+     BTW, and totally unrelated (well, mostly)...Harlan will be on the Tom
+Snyder show on the 17th of this month.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 09 1995
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+
+      The copy of the Canadian TV Guide commentary should be sent to me at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 11 1995
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+
+     BTW, Harlan Ellison will be signing tomorrow at Golden Apple book store
+in LA tomorrow from 2-4 p.m.  I'll probably be tagging along.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 13 1995
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+
+     I thought the size of your hands was indicative of the size of your
+dish....
+
+     The comics and novels are within B5 continuity in general, but bear in
+mind you've got a LOT of different people working on these things, so some of
+the finer points may vary.  In general, we're keeping it as much within our
+universe as possible; but as an adjunct, not required reading, since that's
+unfair to viewers.
+
+     I'm pretty sure the pilot wings are uniform across the board.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 13 1995
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+
+     Yeah, Jerry called me about the Rush mention.  We've now been mentioned
+on the Howard Stern Show and Rush Limbaugh...talk about your wide
+demographics....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3337.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3337.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 19 1995
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+
+       Two different Minbari, yes.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 22 1995
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+
+     It's my understanding that, for instance, while the navy does not salute
+uncovered, the army and air force can or do.  So we've tried to vary our
+salutes (Colonel Ben Zayn and General Franklin, both army or marine types, got
+salutes uncovered, for instance, while others may not).
+
+     Funny ad in this week's BATMAN comic, for a company called French Toast,
+their French Toast Profile, showing a kid and a (probably bogus) bio, listing
+his name as Michael O'Heir, whose biggest wish is to meet an alien from
+another galaxy, and whose goal in life is to become a Commander at NASA.
+
+     Hmmmmmmmmmmm....
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3339.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3339.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 23 1995
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+
+     November would be the start of year three, so it makes sense that that
+would be the end of this next contract; you don't contract for a show beyond
+the current season until it's been renewed.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3340.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3340.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 23 1995
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+
+     Yeah, it's not like a computer is running this show *ccKKkak** not like a
+computer is running this sh~~ckckk...not like a computer i
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3341.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3341.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 24 1995
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+
+     There are several periods of renewal, variously for B5 and PTEN per se.
+One was in January; the next is in April/early May.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3342.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-02-01/3342.html
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+
+      I'd go for about 6.5, maybe 7 at the outside.  Which is better than last
+year at this time, when it was 4 or 5.  The final word, yes/no, will probably
+come in early May.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 25 1995
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+
+     Assuming that the panel has not yet taken place, please take this with
+you and read it at the panel.
+
+     Ahem.
+
+     Actually, I have nothing to say, I haven't heard anything from J. Michael
+Straczynski, I'm making this all up.  No, really.  I made up the part about
+having a message from him.
+
+     But if I actually HAD a message from J. Michael Straczynski, it would
+probably say this: Babylon 5 has most emphatically NOT been canceled.  Our
+ratings continue to improve slightly from one quarter to another, and our
+demographics are nothing less than appropriately stellar.  Nothing will be
+decided firmly until late April or early May, but we have real hopes for being
+renewed.  Last year at this time I put the odds of renewal at 50/50; I now
+place them closer to 65/35, maybe even 70/30.
+
+     54-40 or fight.  Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too.  Bibble-bibble wah, bibble
+wah wah bibble.
+
+     That's where the message ends.  I'd just like to add a personal comment,
+thanking J. Michael for clearing this up for us, and that I'll be modeling the
+lace teddy I'm wearing beneath my clothes in the  Elmtree tomorrow at one
+o'clock.  I would also like to know why no one on the panel looks like Ivanova
+except the gentleman on the left.  And please stop that, we can see you.  I
+also predict that when I sit down the entire room will burst out in applause
+and laughter.
+
+     Thank you.
+
+     No, I'm not sitting yet.  This was only a drill.  If I were actually
+sitting, I would not be quite this tall.
+
+     Is it cold in here, or is it just me?
+
+     Thank you for your patience.
+
+     I'm still not done yet.
+
+     Yes, you are.
+
+     No, I'm not.
+
+     I absolutely, positively, cagetorically and enthusiastically REFUSE to
+sit down.
+
+                                                                  (sit)
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Gale...congratulations, you have just become part of the B5 mythos.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 25 1995
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+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 01 1995
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+
+     An accident of casting.  Turhan had come in on an audition for the part
+of Elric in "Geometry," but while we wanted someone with more sheer menace
+(which Ansara gave us), we were just charmed out of our socks by him.  I swore
+right then that I'd write a part designed just for him, and no one else.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Unfortunately the station doesn't have the budget for that, and it's
+easier to deal with what you have than pour more money into it in the hopes of
+revenue down the road.  Kinda like Congress.  Also, the areas of downbelow are
+mainly crummy, near the waste recycling system, the air compressors, the water
+reclamation facility...not exactly choice real estate.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I'm very happy at the reaction.  I was telling John Copeland a bit ago,
+when we finished the episode, "Maybe we ought to superimpose a crawl before
+the first frame of the teaser saying, "JUST IN CASE YOU THOUGHT WE WERE
+KIDDING.""
+
+     An aside on the jms/kosh discussion, for whatever interest it may
+have....when Ardwight comes in to do Kosh, they call me in to direct his
+performance so that it matches what the intent is now, and how it will be
+interpreted later.  From where I sit in the control room, I can't see him, I
+can only hear his voice.  So it's kinda like talking with Kosh there, and me
+saying, "Okay, can you try 'In Fire' hitting the second word harder, and with
+a sense of some anger behind it?"  And between takes, he's still in Kosh-speak
+mode, muttering, "How will this end, how do I know talk to my agent...go on,
+get out, buzz off...."
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+      Hal, the answer to your question is Yes.
+
+      Remember that this show is wrapped around ambiguities.  I always have
+had a problem with the Evil Force lurking on the edge, lusting for conquest,
+looking to take over the galaxy, because then the inevitable question becomes,
+"Yeah, but what do you DO with it?"  I have no patience with or interest in
+cackling bad-guys.
+
+     Once again, as with all our characters, they're set up to look one way,
+so you're lulled into a sense of predictable familiarity.  "Oh, okay, now I
+know who all the players are and what they're after."  Only to discover that
+this ain't necessarily so.  There's a great scene in "Wrath of Khan" (if I may
+be permitted a ST reference) in which the Enterprise is able to get the upper
+hand because Khan is going back and forth in  his search, not up and down, not
+taking advantage of the full XYZ axis.   "Two dimensional thinking," Spock
+calls it.  If one wishes to hit the target there, and in this show, one must
+set aside two-dimensional  thinking.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 08 1995
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+     I think Campbell was very interesting.  I have many of his books,
+including those on occidental and oriental mythologies, Hero With A Thousand
+Faces, others...very cogent and thought-out analyses.  I don't think, though,
+that you can consciously attempt to utilize them in your storytelling, because
+then you're trying to out-think yourself.  These examinations work best AFTER
+the fact; otherwise it's like the centipede trying to analyze which foot goes
+first.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Actually, during WW II and the Vietnam and Korean wars, it was not at all
+uncommon for base commanders and other commanders to fly missions -- even
+dangerous ones -- to a) maintain the trust and respect of their pilots, b) to
+survey the situation personally in order to make the right judgments on
+mission objectives, and c) to maintain flight pay and full flight
+classification on new equipment.  Remember, in the military, the amount of
+time you spend in combat situations is *directly* proportional to career
+advancement and promotion, which is why women pilots have been rightly
+clamoring to be allowed into combat missions; otherwise they can't rise in the
+ranks.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+     Frmfh...I meant to type wing commander...brain implosion....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 18 1995
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+
+     Actually, what the Knight said was, "Maybe you're still inside; maybe
+we're *both* still inside."
+
+     Some tie-ins...remember Sheridan in "A Distant Star" saying that he was
+feeling beached, abandoned?  His unsureness in taking on this post, what if it
+was a mistake?  A number of his actions come into a clearer light once you
+know he was in essence checking them all out, and putting on a hard "I'm a
+nice guy" attitude.
+
+     Also, I noted somewhere in a preview for upcoming episodes, among the
+things coming, "conspiracies of light as well as dark."  Perhaps that is now
+clearer.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+     How did they solve the strike?  Vorlon arbitrators.  Each side thinks it
+got what it wanted because it doesn't quite understand the terms of the
+agreement.
+
+     The game has started, it is too late for the hot dogs to vote.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 21 1995
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+     We've actually introduced and carried on several traditions, including
+specific rules for the officer's club (or you end up buying drinks for
+everyone), ships' logos behind the bar, proper traditional ship IDs on caps,
+that sort of thing.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 04 1995
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+     The Sanctuary is entirely a virtual set.  It's all blue-screen, no walls,
+no windows, no stars, no nothing.  I made sure to ask Foundation and Mitch to
+blur the walls a bit in close up to give it the correct depth of field.  (Much
+of the CGI/background work is done by Mitch, our effects guy, who works
+independent of Foundation, who was also the main EFX guy on Predator, ET and
+others.)  Because that was a LONG scene, the rendering time was just hideous.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     The Sanctuary set has ALWAYS been entirely virtual, except for a small
+grating on the floor as a marker.  The walls, the windows, all of it.
+Virtual.  We've actually done this a number of times.  I haven't said anything
+before because whenever I mention there's a virtual set, and where it is,
+people look at it and say, "Oh, yeah, I could tell it was virtual."  Because
+they knew ahead of time.  So I stopped mentioning it.
+
+     We're sneaky that way.  You've seen, and will continue to see, sets that
+don't exist ANYwhere.  Hell, you know that bazaar shot in the main title
+sequence?  The second floor?  Doesn't exist.  Digital compositing and virtual
+set melding.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+     The area where the reception was being held is the Rotunda.
+
+                                                             jms
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+     You'll get something close to this shot in a few days.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 11 1995
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+
+     A CGI sequence is not a story; a CGI sequence that has a result IS a
+story.  I.e., "A nifty St. Elmo's Fire effect shimmers over the station" (non-
+story idea) ... "...turning everyone into ducks" (story idea).
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 12 1995
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+     We've actually played with the idea of doing that scene several times,
+just haven't yet found the right story to do it in.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+     Don't you threaten ME with another learning curve!  I just got
+Windows/Norton Desktop configured JUST the way I want it...don't even THINK of
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 05 1995
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+
+     My two systems (at present): both are Pentiums, 32 megs ram, onboard 3x
+CD Rom, external jukebox CD Rom changer, external rewriteable magneto optical
+Iomega changeable drive (620 megs each), 64 bit #9GXEPro card in one system (1
+meg VRAM), and 128 big Imagine card (4 megs VRAM) in the other, Supermatch 17"
+(former) and Nanao 17" Flexscreen (latter), 2 gig sized hard drives in former,
+1 gigabyte hard drive in the latter, plua (plus) with the other a Kinesis
+ergonomic keyboard (which is actually working out), plus both have
+Soundblaster 16 sound cards and enhanced IDE systems for running SCSI stuff.
+
+     They didn't arrive so much as taxi in under the watchful gaze of guys in
+orange vests.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Didn't get the footpedals; I'd just get confused.  Slowly getting used to
+the board, though.
+
+     I just wish they made one with a trackball
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 12 1995
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+
+     Showman: 1 CD went off to you via post office on Friday.  You should have
+it by Monday/Tuesday.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Anybody know what WGN stands for?  (I do, just seeing who else does.)
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+     Someone had it right before: World's Greatest Newspaper (WGN), for parent
+company the Chicago Tribune.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     It was either stand on the chair or stand on Matt.
+
+     The chair looked considerably steadier.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     Showman...if sometime Monday during the day you leave me an EMAIL message
+with your address, I can at least send you one of the CD's, though not
+autographed.  This may help make up for losing all the others.  No charge.
+
+                                       jm(we care about our fans)s
+

+
+
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+     Well...maybe 98% class, 2% soya lecithin....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     The CD is from Sonic Images, and I just finished approving the final
+stages of the revised booklet inside (more pictures, including a three shot of
+me, Doug and John), and having reviewed the additional suite, which is I think
+about 12 minutes long, making the whole CD about 55 or 56 minutes.  It will be
+hitting stores sometime in March; the first 2,000 copies right off the press
+are already earmarked for the UK, to fill a backlog of orders.
+
+     If you haven't got a copy of the soundtrack, and want one, I very
+strongly suggest you go to your record store locally or contact a discount
+distributer and pre-order; the limited edition went out in a flash, and while
+Sonic Images can do good sized orders, they're not as fast as, say, a Warners
+Records.  These things are going to fly out the door, and if they know how
+many to advance produce, that'll help minimize any shortages.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Insofar as I know, no, no EA pins have been licensed, so any out there
+are of dubious origin.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 24 1995
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+
+      I don't think we'll be doing a 900 number ever, frankly; though I find
+the idea of 1-900-ASK-KOSH more than just a little amusing.
+
+      "Hello, this is Julie from Wisconsin, and I was wondering if I will be
+successful in my new job?"
+
+      "Beauty...in the dark."
+
+      <click!><that'll be $2.50, please.>
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     If there *were* a Self Destruct system, it would not be used if there
+were any real number of civilians on board.  And even then only if it were
+clear that everybody was going to die anyway, and the station needed to be
+kept out of the wrong people's hands, or used to get a secondary target.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+      Re: 1 and 2....n'grath's been gone all season, and you'll be seeing a
+LOT more of Kosh very soon now.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+
+     Quickie alert...looks like Claudia, Mira, maybe Jerry and definitely I
+will be making an appearance next Thursday evening (16th) at Planet Hollywood
+in Chicago, in part to promote the coming convention, and in part to promote
+the show in general.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+      To the Brady Bunch Theme
+
+ It's the story
+ Of a bunch of filkers
+ Who simply couldn't leave B5 alone
+ They were cruising
+ For a bruising
+ Riding the modem tone.
+
+ It's the filking
+ That drives you crazy
+ With rhymes that cut you clear down to the bone
+ Even more scary
+ Than Mayor Barry
+ It makes you groan and groan
+
+ Till the one day the filkers met a producer
+ And they knew that they were clearly out of luck
+ Now this group must somehow cross the border
+ Or risk assault and mayhem from a truck.
+
+ The Filking Bunch.
+ The Filking Bunch.
+ Run away from the scary Filking Bunch.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

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+     ...sigh...okay, everybody who thinks I'd spend 10 years of my life
+getting and making this series just to do LoTR with the serial numbers filed
+off raise his hands.
+
+     Both of 'em.  Makes it easier for the chain saw.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+                             THE BABYLON CAFE
+
+                             Tonight's Special
+
+                                FROG'S LEGS
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+     Unfortunately, I've never been able to dictate scripts.  I need to SEE
+the words on the page.  A lot of what I write has a certain rhythm to the
+language, and I can only see that on the page.  (People who have gotten used
+to my writing can sometimes tell exactly where a jms scene appears in another
+script by the rhythms.)  For me it all happens when I fall through the page.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Normally, for things like this, the studio has rights to the actor's
+likeness.  For other aspects of merchandising, like actual figures of the
+actor, there is a percentage given.
+
+     Unfortunately, many studios take advantage of the idea that there is no
+such thing as a percentage of the net, since there is never (on the books) any
+profit.  Case in point: in the 27+ years of Star Trek, the majority of the big
+seven actors have gotten about $16,000 from all of the dolls, figurines, chess
+sets and zillion other products with their faces.  This out of a billion
+dollar franchise.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+     The "ban" was only for the satellite viewers; now that the show has begun
+to air regionally, anybody can talk about anything.
+
+     (And it was just a request, not a ban; I don't have the power to enforce
+one, and wouldn't want to do so in any event.  Common courtesy, and a
+request...which was wonderfully accommodated.)
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+     There are some episodes coming that are about as intense as this, though
+not as much *happens*, in the sense of a bunch of events affecting lots of
+people in different places.
+
+     Yes, intentional parallel structure to "Midnight," which is why I
+included the shot from that episode in Londo's dream.  I like irony.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+     On the chance that the datacrystal might fall into the wrong hands, I had
+Sinclair deliberately avoid using Garibaldi's last name, and avoid Delenn's
+altogether (since she has only the one).  The Ranger was told to deliver the
+crystals at the cost of his own life if necessary...but  sometimes such orders
+don't end well for the messenger.  So both messages began the same way.
+
+     Re: the Ranger's pin...I kind of designed this, working with Ann Bruice,
+our costumer.  I sketched out what I had in mind, which is two figures at
+either side of the brooch, one minbari, the other human, joined and made of
+the same metal, over a precious stone.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+     The Rangers actually owe more to the Lone Ranger and the Texas  Rangers
+in general.
+
+     FYI, Sinclair called Delenn "old friend" as far back as the 2-hour pilot.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     Doug: correct.  He starts to speak to Garibaldi, but then the guards show
+up.  He looks back at them..and clams up.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     I will tell you a true and secret thing, re: Londo's dream, and looking
+up into a blue sky to see the ships passing overhead.
+
+     Ever since I was a kid, I've had that image in my dreams, of standing out
+in the open and looking up as strange dark ships pass overhead.  It's always
+been an unnerving image, and I really wanted to use it here to see if it would
+have the same effect on others.
+
+     The other single most recurring image is to be standing at the bottom of
+a long set of stairs, in a basement, and the door at the top of the stairs is
+thrown open, and there's gunfire, and guards, and flares in the night beyond,
+and more ships firing down.
+
+     Don't be surprised if this shows up as well, someday....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+     Y'know...in looking at all these dream messages...there's another dream
+in a few episodes...I have this nasty hunch that modems are going to explode
+over this one....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+     G'Kar specifies a quarter million civilians, as I recall; it was the
+military presence that got wiped out.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     When dialogue appears, and dialogue doesn't appear, it's in the script
+that way.
+
+     Re: civilians/military...this may be a case of "it's in Joe's head, but
+getting it out clearly is gonna be a bitch...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     So then I assume that holographic genitalia would be completely out of
+the question....
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+     (to the satellite people who will see this episode first.....
+
+                             *gotcha!*
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     Which is basically deliberate.  Now we begin the process of narrowing
+down these threads, and collapsing some of them, so that we see that A and B,
+originally perceived as two different things, are actually aspects of the same
+thing.  Since so much has been thrown out, the next episdoes after this are
+kinda focused on only one or two elements at most.  You've been hit with a
+lot; now's time to pull back a little and let people breathe and digest what
+they've seen.  Then, as stated, you start peeling back the layers and tossing
+out the red herrings so you can concentrate on the important aspects.  (And,
+really, there's not *that* much, minus that pennultimate scene in Sheridan's
+quarters, that isn't an extension of what has gone before...Delenn was told
+that she might be dropped from the Grey Council in "Babylon Squared," and the
+information about the President has been sort of there in the background ever
+since Chrysalis.
+
+     Even so, though, this concern has been anticipated, and built around.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+     I doubt we'll be seeing these guys again for a long time, if ever.  So I
+don't consider them on the level of certain shadows or stuff.
+
+     They came, they grabbed, we whomped.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Feb 18 1995
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+     Yes, Sheridan was speaking in the Drazi's native language, trying
+(without success) to get through; they're a cranky species to start with, and
+this didn't help.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+     Sheridan learned a smattering of various languages while on patrol on the
+Agamemnon.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+      Pledging oneself to someone's side is not common, and carries great
+significance.  From that point onward, you are bound to that person until your
+death, and you must defend that person at the cost of your own life.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+      It's Ivanova.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Don't laugh, I actually considered that for a while; just wasn't time or
+space left to do it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Will probably know sometime later March/early April.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+
+     It's both; laughing at the absurdity, and crying...about as close as
+we've seen to a nervous breakdown.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+
+      Given that the Narns were agrarian prior to the arrival of the Centauri,
+and were under their heel, and got most of their tech FROM the Centauri
+leftovers, no, they're not more advanced.  It's a lot like the Russian
+situation, seemingly this tremendous power, but once you look deep, not as
+well off as they'd like you to think.
+
+      Claudia loved the scene when I first described it to her, prior to
+finishing the script.  She was dying to do it, and kept sort of "doing" it
+around people for some time prior to filming.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+
+     The Narn were not out in space prior to the Centauri arriving.
+
+     While Paul Williams was on set for this ep, I had him sign my two CDs of
+the "Phantom of the Paradise" soundtrack.  Ah, power....
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Be patient; by the end of this season, you're going to know a LOT about
+Kosh.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+     We hadn't thought much about it (maybe because I'm kinda tall), but
+Bruce, Jerry, Claudia, Richard, Andreas...they're all *really* tall, which has
+kinda come back to bite us at times on casting, because if we have to have a
+baddie, or someone against whom they must go, we have to be sure they operate
+at the same height area (usually), or it'll look goofy.
+
+     BTW...I'm pleased to announce that the latest survey from Viewers For
+Quality Television (VQT) has chosen Babylon 5 as the #1 ranked syndicated
+series, and #16 overall, beating such network/non-network shows as Murphy
+Brown, DS9, Seinfeld, Lois and Clark, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and The
+Simpsons, among others, in their ranking of Highest Quality Shows.
+
+     Thanks to all those who downloaded (and continue to download) the VQT
+survey forms, for helping draw people's attention to the hard work being done
+on Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+
+     As Harlan has pointed out, he's really tall when he stands on his
+charisma.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     VQT = Viewers For Quality Television.
+
+     A totally irrelevant aside...does ANYbody here know ANYbody from the Ben
+and Jerry Ice Cream company?  If so, I have a message for them.
+
+     HEY!  PAY ATTENTION!  Did you know that there is NO ONE out there making
+banana ice cream?  I don't mean banana mix with those crummy walnuts in them,
+or sometimes a little banana cream stuffed into an ice bar, or those sticky
+banana ice-milk bars....I'm talking here STRAIGHT BANANA ICE CREAM.  Go ahead,
+check out any supermarket's frozen section.  You've got cherry, strawberry,
+chocolate, coffee, rum-raisen, white russian, vanilla, french vanilla,
+neopolitan...row after row of ice creams of every sort and flavor and
+packaging...EXCEPT BANANA.  I KNOW.  I'VE SPENT THE LAST SEVEN YEARS SEARCHING
+FOR IT!
+
+     Ben...Jerry...SOMEBODY...make up some banana ice cream and you'll have
+the corner on the entire market.  Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     I'm between 6'4" and 6'5".
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     I haven't used my pool in a year and a half because I'm too busy behind
+the keyboard to take a dip.  Honest.  And making ice cream isn't something I
+can even think of making the time for.  Thank goodness I have a policy of not
+getting involved in my own life....
+
+     Believe it or not, I worked with Laura Dern once upon a time, before  she
+was LAURA DERN.  When Showtime produced my adaptation of "The Strange Case of
+Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," through Shelley Duvall's company, she and Anthony
+Andrews were cast as the leads.  Even though she was noted even then mainly
+for being Bruce Dern's daughter, she was very sweet and talented and you could
+see real talent there.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Since I've been meaning to post the info here in answer to requests:
+really nifty B5 t-shirts and caps can now be ordered directly from All-U at 1-
+800-424-2558, ext. 105.  T-shirts (great color images) and caps are $17, and
+the LONG SLEEVE t-shirts are $25, plus shipping and handling.   The shirts
+they have now are 1) original cast photo with station, 2) new cast photo with
+station, the B5 logo with station and the words "the last best hope..." 4)
+station, planet and logo, and 5) station and starfury, all color.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 06 1995
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+     Joe does not consciously raid ST for guest stars.  Joe looks for the best
+actor for the role.  Sometimes he goes out of his way to help someone break
+the fist of typecasting.  That's it.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 07 1995
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+
+     Kwicker...wow, that's a lot of legwork, thanks.  I think I can follow up
+from here now, thakns.
+
+     Or thanks.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+     Did I mention you'll probably see Lyta Alexander once more before the
+season is out...?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Mar 08 1995
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+     Loops: get the hell away from my office window.  I can see you out there
+with my x-ray specs.
+
+     Y'know...people wonder sometimes why I get a little exasperated with
+Paramount from time to time.  Here's a few reasons.
+
+     Back when the Arsenio Show was still on the air, Stephen Furst was set to
+appear on the show.  Suddenly, they canceled.  According to Stephen, he was
+told on the QT that it was because Paramount heard about it, and didn't want
+to promote B5.
+
+     Back at the top of the season, we'd met with Winrich Kolbe about doing
+some of our episodes (he does a lot of TNG, DS9 and now Voyager directing).
+ Nice guy, we met, we agreed, and a date was set.  All parties agreed to it,
+we had a deal.  Not long before the episode comes up, his rep calls to get him
+out of it...at first muttering about some vague, ill-defined TV movie
+Paramount wanted him to do, but we'd had this for a long time...then his rep
+was finally asked, "Look, does this have anything to do with the big boys at
+Paramount leaning on you because it's B5?"  The rep reluctantly admitted that
+this was the case.  We released Kolbe from his assignment.
+
+     Now, finally, B5 is getting some press, some word of mouth; mostly about
+this show called Babylon something.  Well, UPN just announced that they're
+doing a new detective series for the UPN stations, the majority of which are
+also B5 stations.  And guess what they've announced the title is?  BABYLON.
+You think maybe some folks'll get confused about which show this is, given
+that they're both on the same station in many places?
+
+     The roster of such things goes on, and on, and on.
+
+     But it's not stopping us.  Inch by inch, we continue to fight our way
+into the ratings.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+     Letters to Paramount will serve no purpose.  We'll handle this one.
+
+                                                             jms
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+
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+     Neither Shatner nor Takai have ever been on B5.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     I've read Harlan's piece for the TV guide special Star Trek edition (like
+there haven't already been a dozen such recently).  Suffice to say it pole-
+axes much of the mythology around "City" and Gene's claims in that regard.
+Interesting reading...and some smoking guns.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
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+     Actually, the idea that people coming into the story now will have a hard
+time is something of a myth; we continue to add new viewers all the time, and
+in some countries the show is actually being shown out of  order; to date I
+have seen at most 1 or 2 people who were unsure about one aspect or another
+after seeing just one episode, but were still able to follow the story easily
+enough.  You may not know what it means in relation to something that happened
+6 months ago, but what it means *now* is very clear, and all the information
+needed is always included in the episode.
+
+     Re: raiding myself (ST comic)...I stopped raiding myself, what with all
+this Jocelyn Elders controversy....
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+     B5 does not provide squished credits to anyone, and they are not
+satellited out in that form.  Local stations do that.  In the cas of Fox
+shows, sometimes the Fox network does it in distributing the show to its
+affiliates.  But we never provide them that way.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+     Was out having dinner with Harlan and Susan, so missed seeing Voyager,
+thus can't comment.
+
+     (Reason we went out to dinner was that I spent the day at his house,
+interviewing Harlan on-camera for a videotape associated with his new CD rom
+game based on "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream," coming out from Cyberdreams
+in a few months.  I don't think there's *any* group we didn't offend during
+the course of the interview.)
+
+     Re: Harlan on-line...no, he doesn't generally go on-line (except in some
+selected live conferences) but he does tend to get printups from  folks from
+time to time...said contents of which could drive a monk to murder.
+
+     BTW...for those also on AOL, tomorrow night I'm doing a live conference
+with Claudia Christian in the DC Comics Online area.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Actually, the scene of Londo looking up at the shadow ships WAS shot
+outside the studio.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+      From "Infection," the visiting Doctor points out that, regarding organic
+technology, "some even say the Vorlons have got it."  All this stuff gets set
+up somewhere.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     "Why are they allowed to stay on the station?"
+
+     Space travel is *very* expensive (which is why they can't afford  tickets
+off.)
+
+     With B5's constant budget problems, who is going to pay to have these
+people shipped off?  Who is going to accept them?  Can't just space them.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Re: not being one happy family...be careful what you wish for around
+here.
+
+     Re: Kosh's voice carrying some emotion...starting at about "All Alone in
+the Night," or maybe one before (memory fades), I took on the job of directing
+the voice sessions for Kosh.  He was moving from a neutral delivery to things
+that had to carry specific emotions and implications for the future, and
+nobody else knows what all this stuff means, so it fell to me.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+
+     I think this is the first time an American series has been worked out in
+this much detail.  PICKET FENCES often has threads that recur, but they're
+more catch-as-catch-can, not so much a cohesive story as the recurring of
+character arcs.  In the case of TWIN PEAKS, I've talked to several staffers on
+the show, and they really didn't have *any* idea where they were going, they
+were making it up on the fly and hoping for the best.  Some elements of X-
+FILES come close, but again it's more one or two individual character arcs
+(Mulder's sister, for instance) than a cohesive structured story (though if it
+keeps getting tighter, that may change, though it doesn't have an end that I
+know of).
+
+     EARTH 2 apparently has a *destination*, but I don't believe its
+continuity is stressed at all.  More of, When we end up, this is where  we'll
+be.  THE PRISONER is probably the closest parallel structurally to B5, and
+thus something of a template.  I don't know if BLAKE'S 7 started OUT plotted
+like a novel, but it ends up feeling like one, so the difference may be no
+difference.
+
+     The difference, I think, beyond having a definite beginning, middle and
+end (which is substantial in itself), is the approach using years as chapters;
+tracking one year of story time equalling one year of real time; and
+foreshadowing, setting up something in episode 7 that won't pay off until
+episode 14 or later.  Little things like putting in a Ranger in shows long
+before they're revealed, or planning ahead to change Londo's wardrobe to
+reflect a darker attitude, even throwaway dialogue lines...as well as the
+larger foreshadowings.
+
+     I can't think of any American show that has done any of those things
+consistently, or even *tried* to do all of them at once.
+
+     So, bottom line, we're kinda out here on the edge all by ourselves.
+
+     Re: Kosh's lines...the best part of working with the actor is that
+between takes, since he's locked in the audio booth, but doesn't want to break
+character, he'll mutter to himself in Kosh's voice...so there I am outside,
+hearing Kosh's voice on the speaker, "Bugger off, Sheridan... Have I told you
+I find you very attractive?...Oh the pain, the pain...."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Except, of course, they live in the nastier, less attractive parts of the
+station, near the air reprocessors that go all night and all day without a
+break; the sewage and water reclamation factories...but yes, eventually their
+numbers will have to grow too large and something will have to be done.  That
+something has been planned for.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+     To pick one background shot, as I recall, there was a ranger at the
+zocalo bar at one point in "Long Dark."
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Okay, let's see...upcoming we've got John Shuck, a reappearance by Morgan
+Shepherd in a different role, and Pat Tallman returns as Lyta Alexander.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Okay, okay, I misspelled John's name....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     There are some *nifty* B5 t-shirts and caps available from All-U at 1-800-
+424-2558, ext. 105.  The shirts are color, nice screening process...just very
+well done.  Prices are very reasonable.  I commend them to you.  (They're now
+available direct from All-U, which previously shipped mainly to distributers.)
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+
+      There's a dangerous irony here; the ST episode "Inner Light" was
+objectively the one stand-out episode of that season, and thus won.  The
+problem I've detected in posts from people about B5 is determining WHICH
+episode to nominate, since there are apparently many choices.  If you end up
+splitting the vote among lots of shows, *none* of them will get on the ballot
+or winning.
+
+      So if you're going to push B5, you may want to get together on one ep
+that is always included (like "Signs," which is what I'd pick).  Just a
+thought, since the issue at hand may not be which single ep is one's
+subjective best, but recognizing the series overall.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     The General was not a prisoner reference; it refers to General Hague.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     I have a very simple rule: if you're going to reveal Kosh, first you have
+to start pointing at him, so that the revelation has weight.
+
+     We're pointing at Kosh.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+       The odds of B5 ending up on the WB network are slim and none.  You have
+to step back a second and realize the corporate structure of Warner Bros. 
+Rather than one monolithic structure (a la Paramount), Warner Bros. is
+actually kind of a hive mind, with something like 40 or 50 different
+departments, arms, jurisdictions, companies and approaches, all of them
+mutually competitive.  PTEN and WB, for instance, are two totally different
+arms, and *very* competitive with one another.  I suspect either side would
+slit their respective wrists before letting a show go from one to the other.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     I'm going to put this up now, while I'm thinking about it.
+
+     Next week, "Confessions and Lamentations" airs.  It is a very strong,
+uncompromising episode.  It occured to me that parents of young kids (and
+there are surprisingly a lot that watch) should *maybe* consider watching this
+one on their own first, to make sure it's okay for their kids, and to maybe be
+ready to discuss it afterward.  Just a thought....
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 18 1995
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+     Just a reminder that Claudia, Bill Mumy and I will be at the big SF
+convention in Anaheim next weekend (of the 28th).  Don't know which day
+they'll be there at the Creation con, but I'm slated for Sunday.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 15 1995
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+     Yes, the characters were named after the actors who brought them to life.
+
+     The cap is an Agamemnon crew cap, with a silhouette of the Aggie,
+underneath EAS Agamemnon, and above OCG 5 (for Omega Construction Group 5, as
+is traditionally done).  There are only three of these caps in existence:
+Bruce has one, John Copeland has one...and I have one.  (I actually wore it
+recently to a Lasfs (local SF gorup) party a couple of weeks ago.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 20 1995
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+     The next con that is closest to being a B5 convention is The Gathering,
+in Manchester England this coming September.
+
+     Here in the states, nothing yet that approaches that; B5 is still a
+subset of other conventions.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 20 1995
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+ 
+      Been busy with post-production on B5, and without much traffic in here
+before, hadn't checked in for a while.
+
+      The revisions on the writing book are virtually done; there's just a bit
+more tinkering to do with the stage/playwriting chapter, and it'll be done. 
+Four years in the works....
+
+      For those who've inquired about other works...you can find some of my
+short stories in the SHADOWS 6 anthology, the MIDNIGHT GRAFITTI anthology
+(with the same story appearing in an issue of PULPHOUSE), and AMAZING STORIES.
+Some digging may be required.
+
+      One of the main difficulties with exec producing a series is that it
+leaves time for *nothing* else.  Haven't done any fiction or prose work in a
+couple of years, not counting the issues of the B5 comic that I've written/am
+writing.  The only time I even get to see a movie is if I'm on a plane
+(assuming I'm not writing on the plane).  (On the trip to and from the UK I
+saw FORREST GUMP, TRUE LIES, ED WOOD, MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN and
+INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, just kept grabbing tapes from the flight attendents,
+who kept asking, "Don't you EVER get out?")
+
+      Strongly considering publishing either a B5 script or a Murder, She
+Wrote script in the scriptwriting book, in its totality.  Haven't yet decided
+which.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 22 1995
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+     Funny thing is, I've received several emails from medical professionals
+who said the hesitation was exactly dead-on to when they've been in situations
+of possible contamination.  Until somebody breaks the inertia and just *does*
+it, as Franklin was about to.
+
+     BTW, on the Marcabs, we've seen them frequently before, not just in
+"Knives," but also in "The Long Dark" as the one who spoke about "soldiers of
+darkness" to the Council, and elsewhere.
+
+     Check out some of the isolation zone scenes, btw, and you'll see as many
+as 40-50 Marcabs, in full costume and full prosthetic, the biggest of any
+single race we've ever done.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 22 1995
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+     It's *possible* you have the Marcabs confused with the Brikiri, who are
+somewhat similar in look, until you get close; it was a Marcab, again, who in
+very good english explained the soldiers of darkness in "The Long Dark."  On
+the other hand, we might've shown somebody grunting, I could be wrong.  Not
+all Marcabs are fluent in English, certainly.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 24 1995
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+     Leaving our sector of space to go beyond the rim doesn't necesarily 
+equate with strength; it's harder to stay, and act against what's coming, than
+to just run away.  Also there may be reasons they chose to stay.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 30 1995
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+     Though I worked for a while on ALIEN WORLDS, no, the Markab name wasn't a
+nod there; I'd totally forgotten about any bunch with a name like that.  (It
+was 16 or so years ago, remember.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 31 1995
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+     Actually, Dennis did not appear in "Acts," he appeared in "Comes the
+Inquisitor."  This is stuff yet to come.
+
+                                                                jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 28 1995
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+     No, I've never made any bones about the fact that, should B5 run its full
+5-year course, barring any side-stories that might spin off, my intent is to
+probably get out of TV and go back to novels and plays.  I have the next novel
+outlined already -- it'll be a 1,000+ page whopper -- but haven't had time to
+write any of it.  It'd take probably a year full tilt to write it.  After
+that, probably back to plays.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 29 1995
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+     I actually started out in theater.  I was writing small, one-act plays in
+high school, which got performed around campus for classes by a kind of
+traveling troupe put together by some of the teachers when they discovered,
+kinda startled, that I could write.  First commissioned work was a full-length
+comic play I wrote at the request of the school which was performed in front
+of a full assembly.  (Prior to then noboby noticed I existed.  Suddenly I was
+noticed.)
+
+     My last year of high school, I started sending out one-act and full
+length plays to various theaters.  One local theater decided to produce one of
+them, and sent a letter suggesting a meeting.  I went to it, and they kept
+waiting for my dad to show up or something; finally I was able to convince
+them that no, I really *was* the person who wrote the play.  (And they did do
+it.)  When I made it to Southwestern College in Chula Vista (after a quick run-
+around at schools in Chicago and Dallas), at age 18, I wrote a bunch of one-
+acts for the college, and was commissioned to write another full-length play
+which was performed for 20 some weeks in summer stock, and later published in
+book form by a leading play publisher (and no, I'm not telling you which
+publisher, even though it's still in print, because I was 18 and it was dumb).
+
+     I started getting one-acts and full length plays produced in a variety of
+theaters, but eventually kind of got out of it when I got more into fiction,
+working as a journalist, and other venues.  I have a tendency to drift in and
+out of venues.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 29 1995
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+     Yeah, probably 1,000 manuscript pages, figure about 250,000 words, but
+that's a conservative estimate; it may go longer once I get into it (it's a
+contemporary dark fantasy story, fairly involved).  I'd probably get more if I
+extended it into a trilogy, in terms of advances, but I just don't really
+think in those terms.  It's, "What does the story require?"  Then that's what
+you do.  I've always worked this way.
+
+     1,000 pages ain't really that much, either, when one stops to realize
+that in just the 15 scripts I've written for year two of B5, that's about 750
+pages by itself.
+
+     Don: yeah, a playwright, and lots of other stuff.  My problem is that I
+like all kinds of writing; I *learn* from all kinds of writing.   So I'm
+constantly drifting from one to the other.  For years I worked as a journalist
+for major papers and magazines (over 500 article (articles) published; a
+reviewer; an investigative reporter; radio drama writer; playwright; on-air
+talk show host; short stories; novels; songs; you name it.  
+
+     Basically...I flit.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Actually, 1,000 manuscript pages generally equals about 750 printed book
+pages.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 30 1995
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+     I wrote a 4-hour miniseries script based on the true story I spent over a
+year researching.  Put it out on the market.  I've had something like a half
+dozen offers to produce the thing, but only if I cut it down to 2 hours.  To
+do so would violate the story, because it's too involved and too astonishing. 
+You'd be left with nothing.  So I'm just holding onto it until the right
+person finds it, and does it.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 26 1995
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+
+     Pilots are used to putting themselves into dangerous situations on a
+daily basis.  That's their *job*.  Doctors don't generally do that, and to
+expect them to just dive in uniformly is patently unrealistic.  One of the
+primary emails I've gotten on this ep has been from medical health
+professionals who say that when they're put in this kind of situation with
+some patients, there *is* a momentary hesitation on many occasions.  It's a
+natural reaction.  It happens.  There's a quantum difference between the way
+we *think* people should act, and the way they *do* act.  
+
+     Re: the joke...it's another part of humanity.  Any time there's a
+disaster, after the initial shock has worn, off...jokes start to appear.   I
+suspect it's part of the way we try to bring large events down to a level
+where we can deal with them.  Yes, they're tasteless.  But that's what we do. 
+Less than 4 weeks after the shuttle went down, there were jokes.  It happens. 
+Hence, it's inclusion.
+
+     Humans are sometimes afraid.  Or less pleasant or honorable than we would
+imagine ourselves to be.  We try to show both sides.  This is not a universe
+where humans are without blemish, or where everyone is willing to instantly
+fling himself or herself into harm's way.  It doesn't exist.  Courage is
+noteworthy because it is the exception, not the rule.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+     Nobody said it was marital fruit.  The line is, "It's a rebirth ceremony
+that sometimes doubles for a marriage ceremony."  Naturally, everybody glommed
+onto the second interpretation, the lesser one, while ignoring the primary
+interpretation, rebirth (as in what Delenn was planning to do with the
+chrysalis).  (Well, correction, not everybody went for the misdirection, but
+most did.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     The fighters aren't *inexpensive*, but not hideously costly either.  
+Also, the pilots like to spend as much time out on patrol as possible, to
+garner more flight pay.  Keffer's squad was already out earlier (as noted by
+Sheridan); Keffer chose to stay out a little longer doing a bit of
+reconnaisance.  Most of the hassle is in prepping the ship for launch,
+maintainance and so on; once it's out, it's just a matter of a bit more fuel. 
+If he left *strictly* for this purpose, then yeah, they'd nail his butt to the
+flight deck.  But since he was out anyway, it's not as big an issue.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     There was no change in Delenn's attitudes.  They're two different
+circumstances.  In "Believers" Delenn was being asked to mediate in a dispute
+between Franklin and the family, over essentially matters of the soul (as she
+put it).  They do not interfere in matters of the soul, she explains.  This
+wasn't such a situation.  
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     We joked a few times about having a mass burial for the Markab
+prosthetics and costumes behind the stage....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+    A man is shot by a gun.  Now, you can either do a story about the guy and
+his life up to the moment he was shot and killed, or you can do a story about
+the people who are affected by his death.  The former story ends kinda fast. 
+But both are perfectly valid.  The main thrust is how this story AFFECTS our
+main characters.  Would they have been more affected if it were the Drazi
+rather than the Markabs?  No.  It would've been just the same.  My job is not
+to sit here and say, "Hmm...do I think audience members like the Drazi or the
+Markabs more?" and thus base my decision based on that.  I write my stories
+based on what's right for the story, period.  In this case, I knew it had to
+be one of the League races, and in particular, those prosthetics capable of
+expressing broad ranges of emotion, potentially sympathetic characters.  The
+instantly cut out the pak'ma'ra as primary characters.  I considered the
+Drazi, but my sense was that the prosthetics couldn't convey the depth of
+emotion I needed.   Finally, that led me to the Markabs.
+
+     Enough terrible things happened, and continue to happen, to our major
+races; best to give them a break and see how they react when it's someone
+else.  
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 02 1995
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+
+     Trying to remember what's in the 5 and 6 sets...a purple Centauri
+personal transport, a Narn heavy cruiser, I *think* a Narn fighter, 
+Earthforce 1 (gorgeous), the Marie Celeste (expect shipments to vanish
+mysteriously), and one other, I forget....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 03 1995
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+     Aha!  Yes, THAT was the last one, an EA atmospheric shuttle.  To the
+other points...no, that's a Narn cargo transport in the current version; the
+Narn fighters are much sleeker.  Also, the Centauri ship in the current batch
+is a personal liner, as used by Lady Ladira in "Signs and Portents."  The
+Centauri transport I'm referring to, in the later batch, is this purple, bug-
+like thing with a tall fin rising out of the back.  It looks kinda like a flat
+potato bug.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Then I don't know what the other one is.
+
+    No idea on the line of delineation that Creation may have.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     No, the Narn heavy cruiser/fleet ship is in set 5 or 6, as I noted above.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (I.e, the one you saw in "And Now.")
+

+
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+     IT WAS IRONHEART'S SHIP!  That was the last one.  I think....
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 07 1995
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+
+     Background info required to follow episodes is ALWAYS included in those
+episodes.  Background info NOT required to follow stuff, but just for fun, is
+sometimes given on the nets and not referenced in the show, or more often,
+will eventually be referenced in the show.  Also, it's been mentioned before
+that you don't have to read the comics or the novels to follow the show; the
+stories are complementary but exclusive.
+
+                                                         jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 08 1995
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+
+     I'm not being cute, or close, or withholding information: straight
+up...we have still not been given any official word about renewal.  That
+official word comes in a call from WB business affairs, authorizing us to
+activate our contracts and pick up our options with actors, directors, crew,
+others.  That call has not yet come.  We've heard all kinds of rumors from WB
+lately.  Some good, some bad, mostly involving changing situations with PTEN,
+nothing to do directly with us.  
+
+     Whatever you were told, it ain't "official" until we're notified, as the
+producers.  That notification has still not yet come.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+     Got the phone call late today, spent the next bit on the phoen with
+people who had to be notified.  Didn't get a chance to log on until just now. 
+Yes, it is now safe to say..............eep.
+
+     The official announcement of BABYLON 5's second season will be made
+tomorrow by Warner Bros.
+
+     Naturally, the day the word comes is the day I'm kinda down with a slight
+bug, which kinda takes the edge off it...but suffice to say that Brett's
+observation is correct; with this new season, we'll be 3/5ths done with the
+story, over half.  
+
+     Suffice to say we are all very happy, and looking forward to shooting
+Year Three commencing about July 31st.  (And half the fun, well a quarter of
+the fun, is knowing just how many people in what groups are going to be SO
+pissed off that we've been renewed....)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+      sigh...third season...I meant THIRD season...sigh....
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     Actually, some PR departments at studios/networks *have* been wrong about
+such things in the past.
+
+     The reason for the delay was that there were some structural and
+corporate things going on with PTEN that had nothing to do with us per se, but
+which could ultimately affect us.  There was one brief period last week --
+Thursday and the first part of Friday -- when the corporate stuff seemed to
+put our fate in doubt.  The words actually entered my head, "Oh crap, they're
+gonna cancel us."  It was a very depressing 24 hours.  But finally word came
+back that the logjam had been fixed, the pieces had all come together, and
+things were looking positive again, but final word wouldn't come until this
+week.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I wrote some of the .avi stuff, including the Vorlon/IRQ thing, since
+it's something that perpetually makes me nuts.
+
+     There's always been a side-story that could go off after B5 finishes its
+run, but I doubt it'll go anywhere, even if B5 does break out.
+
+     Interestingly enough...one of the first clues we got that we'd been
+renewed was a call from the WB International folks, asking about a third
+season.  Apparently, what Ch4 wants to do for year 3 is to air the show in its
+original, widescreen aspect ratio.  They called to see if we could let them
+have access to our original negative to re-transfer it back to that format,
+for their broadcast.  Our reply: hell, yes.
+
+     Expect some new characters next season, yes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Dan: that's the annoying thing I keep hearing...that Galoob keeps
+shipping the micros out, they arrive at stores, the store managers don't
+bother to display them, nobody knows to ask, and after a while they're shipped
+back.  Makes Me Nuts.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+ 
+     Can't really take much time off; got to have 6 scripts minimum in hand
+when we begin rolling film July 31st.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
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+     I'll definitely be at San Diego Comic Con.  Will try and convince a cast
+member or two to come along.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     dj...one of the...I won't say problems, because it isn't a problem, but
+the...unique aspects about this cast is that they're in large measure *very*
+bright, and very verbal, and some of the banter that goes back and forth, done
+totally poker-faced and straight, could be taken in the wrong light.  Look at
+some of the comments between me and Claudia on some of the on-line interviews
+at AOL and DC Comics Online.  We can get pretty brutal if you don't know we're
+absolutely just putting it on.  
+
+     So if you want to pass it along in private mail, that's fine, but on
+balance, I'm not terribly concerned about it; it's how we play.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Though I'd originally heard about doing two presentations at San Diego
+Comic Con, it now looks like doing just one, on Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 1
+p.m.  Clips, maybe some cast, bloopers and surprises. 
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     The casting director brings in actors to audition.  The choices are made
+by me, the director, Doug and John Copeland.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Generally, there is a brief description of the character in the script,
+which the casting director receives to prepare.  If there's anything I have in
+mind in particular, and there often is, I'll discuss it with the c.d. and
+narrow things down.  T
+
+     Then I'll get a preliminary list of available actors, those who are and
+aren't available for auditions.  We call in those who come to auditions, and
+try them out.  If nobody works out, we go to the list of actors who won't
+audition, and review tapes.  This rarely happens, though, and we prefer to go
+from auditions.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+     On places like internet, I look for new threads that haven't been
+answered yet, and deal with those first.  Then I peel through the messages I
+know contain interesting or funny threads, and get into those.  If a thread
+has been going on for a long time, and has more or less devolved into
+woolgathering, I bail.
+
+     The other systems, I just sorta graze, looking for interesting areas.
+There are some topics here on 18 -- TV stations, filking, topic drift -- that
+I don't generally check out.
+
+                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Re: hotel reservations vanishing and non-refunds even though
+promised...well, gee, what a surprise.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     We're always adding signage, and will continue to do so.  There are  no
+single-faith chapels, but facilities that can be used by various groups,
+booked ahead.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+     We're going to try some more complicated alien stuff, some more elaborate
+shots mixing CGI and live-action, some interesting new items in the wardrobe
+department, more stuff taking place on other worlds, a new main theme more
+related to what's going to happen in year three, other stuff.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Two of the four episodes have been delivered for some time; number three
+gets delivered this week; number four, the week therafter.
+
+     The original theory was to have the eps ready in time to air all four in
+July.  That was our timetable as we understood it at the time for WB/PTEN, and
+that's what was plugged into the formula when we did our production schedule.
+
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+
+     Apparently Channel 4 in the UK will broadcast all 4 remaining year two
+eps starting July 25th and continuing each Tuesday thereafter until all four
+have been aired.  (There had been some discussion of airing them all the same
+night in a B5 marathon, but this is probably better for reaching people.)
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     We *do* have accurate estimates; I'm not quite sure how we got off on
+this.
+
+     Warners gives us required delivery dates.  We work backwards from those
+delivery dates, and come up with a shooting schedule that allows us to meet
+those dates with room to spare.  So I'm not quite sure what it is we're not
+doing.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+      Temporary titles on the first four episodes, in order: "Matters of
+Honor," "Convictions," "A Day in the Strife," and "Voices of Authority."
+
+      (That's season three, natch.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+     Actually, "The Gathering" wasn't shot widescreen; that progression  was
+only implemented when we went to series.
+
+                                                               jms
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+
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+     Only 2 TV series that I know of are shot in widescreen; us and Lois and
+Clark.
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+
+     Just a note on a B5 alumnus; it appears that Christy Marx has got her own
+series, co-created (I think that's the credit, but she'll have more on the
+specifics when she's ready to talk about it) by her and someone known to
+B5'ers (no, not me).  It's a live-action SF series, and should look very cool,
+a whole new universe to play in.  Anything more specific will have to come
+from her, as is appropriate.  Y'all can keep tabs on this over in her topic,
+470/11/43.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+
+     One of the problems we've encountered in the past is that Paramount tends
+to buy LOTS of advertising in pubs like Entertainment Weekly and others, and
+some of them have no desire to piss of the big P.  I got a note from one of
+the staffers at Sci-Fi Entertainment (the Sci-Fi Channel is co-owned by
+Paramount) who indicated that there was a very clear and deliberate emphasis
+on not doing B5 coverage for that reason.   But another reporter is going to
+be doing a small piece on the show for an upcoming issue, so maybe we'll shake
+that loose finally.
+
+                                                      jms
+

+
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+
+     To all in the Chicago area, I have the schedule for B5 stuff, or most of
+it, for the Comic Con this weekend in Rosemont at the convention center.
+
+     FRIDAY: 3-4 jms and bloopers, and stuff
+             4-5 Michael O'Hare's acting workshop 
+
+   SATURDAY: 11-12 noon Q&A with Michael
+             1:30-3 special jms presentation (*be there*)
+               4-5 jms writing for TV seminar
+             (that evening is an informal B5 gathering with me,
+               Michael and Peter David, don't know when or where)
+
+   SUNDAY:   1-2 B5 panel with jms, Michael and Peter
+
+
+      Word to the wise: arrive early for the Saturday 1:30 presentation; we'll
+start right on time, and there's a lot to fit in.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     Torville, I *have* explained it.  I've explained it and explained it
+until I'm blue in the face.  I don't know what more you're looking for, unless
+you're simply assuming that there's more to it when there's not, in which case
+there ain't much I can do.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+
+     So, like, howcum SeaQuest getting a third season is in the opening card
+here on SFRT2, but not B5?  Huh?  Huh?  What're we, chopped liver?   Not a
+peep, not a mention, not a syllable, a consonant, a quiver, nothing.
+
+     Hrmph.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Totally off-base question: any truth to the rumors floating around that
+GEnie is going to go bye-bye come fall?
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     Okay, that's good to know.  Where this info came from was from some folks
+over on the new Microsoft Network, so I figured there might be some margin for
+error there.
+
+     Genie has always been kind of the unofficial home for B5, after all.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     What's Hi-Tech Home?
+
+                                                          jms
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+     It was a rerun, and he had it on tape.
+
+     Next novel won't be "Dark" but another title; better story.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+     There was just a huge message posted on rec.arts.b5 about BB, a real
+scathing review.  Others are filtering in along the same lines.  As I'd been
+worried about, apparently the organizational aspects are a total
+nightmare/disaster.  But I'll let others speak from their own experience. 
+(The J.Potts message on rec.arts is very telling, as he's generally a very
+good reporter on this stuff.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+     Certain individuals have a habit of blaming others for errors they commit
+themselves.  We NEVER at any time heard anything about images of B5 stuff in
+holographic badges.  If they couldn't be delivered, it's because something
+went wrong at that end.  Word was put out that the Jenerators, Bill's band,
+opted out at the last minute to do another gig; not true, as Bill himself
+said, they just weren't going to pay them or even pay transportation.
+
+     My first impression of the organization 'way back at the Planet Hollywood
+embarrassment was that the thing was ineptly run.  There were major, worrying
+problems in: hotel accommodations, arrangements for transportation, guest
+relations, tickets, advance work, sound and every aspect of follow-up.  Every
+single one of these concerns is what came up again here in the Big Bang, as
+I'd feared.
+
+     I have to add, however, that there is NO reason, NO excuse, for the
+assault on a dealer who was attempting to document some of the screwups at the
+convention.  To attack someone, beat the camera into his face, requiring an
+ambulance...in 18 years of convention going, I have *never* seen this behavior
+on the part of convention organizers, and it is absolutely intolerable. 
+Equally intolerable, if on a lesser scale, is stranding actors at airports for
+hours at a time, not feeding them until 9:30 p.m. (which is why most left at
+that time) because "we figured you'd eat on the plane."
+
+     My concern was always that the organization was going to be a shambles,
+and that people wouldn't get their money's worth in terms of what was
+promised.  My crew/actors, they'd be fine; but the rest, I feared, would be a
+disaster.  It appears I was correct.
+
+     As with the Planet Hollywood situation, there were even more problems
+behind the scenes, more horror stories, that the fans don't know about because
+the actors/participants try to put on a good face...but those are very much in
+evidence in calls I've had since the convention.  Actors who were promised
+first-class tickets, only to discover that they'd have to PERSONALLY pay money
+for that upgrade, forced to fly coach; a person who claimed to have invested
+$30,000 into the convention, no contract, just on the word of those involved,
+who saw how the con was organized and indicated his belief that he had just
+lost his investment.
+
+     Not good, not good....
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 27 1995
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+     Yet another cover story blown to hell.  But who would notice, among so
+many?
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 29 1995
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+     One could *choose* to have fun at a hanging; but should you have to work
+that hard at it, and should not things promised be things  delivered?
+
+                                                                     jms
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 06 1995
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+     Actually, all B5 crew get the jacket; difference is, only a few of us are
+entitled to wear the Battle of the Line patches.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1995
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+
+     I hear there's even going to be a jms card in the first batch of 120
+cards.  (I have now achieved something, I am now a trading card.)   There will
+be cards for every episode, in chronological order, and they can trace some
+arc elements and stuff.  They look to be gorgeous, all based on photographs,
+many never before published or seen.
+
+     People entitled to wear BotL patches: me, Michael O'Hare, and John
+Copeland.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 07 1995
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+     Haven't seen the poster yet, but I hear it's cool.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1995
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+
+      Mike, would *love* to see a copy of that review; could you send it to me
+at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?  I would *very*
+much appreciate it.
+
+    (If you could include the cover, that'd also be great.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 10 1995
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+     We're still negotiating for the release of the tapes.  We may have to
+bring in former president Carter to finalize the negotiations.  The cards will
+be fall-ish; the CD regular edition is currently available.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1995
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+
+     Y'know...we despair here about how the media (viz: TV Guide and others)
+can only think to describe B5 by comparing it to ST, why can't they get it
+together...I just blipped over to the category for NASFIC, the US proxy
+Worldcon...and there are panels on Star Wars, on the Fox shows, including X-
+Files, all this...and you know the only B5 panel I found?  BABYLON 5 VS. STAR
+TREK.
+
+     sigh....
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1995
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+     We're doing a bit more here and there on merchandising, just enough to
+keep it going and provide quality assurance.
+
+     BTW, in the ongoing saga of Big Bang Screwups...heard today that, in
+addition to Michael O'Hare getting stiffed the $5,000 remaining on his  fee,
+Mark Hamill's check for the balance of his fee (a remainder of $10,000) has
+bounced, this on top of a previous check to reimburse travel expenses ALSO
+bouncing.
+
+     These people are unbelievable....
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1995
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+
+                ....birthdays.....pfthpft.....
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 18 1995
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+     My hair doesn't change much in length, so I'm not sure there's any real
+difference.  (Now *quantity* of operational follicles, that's a different
+story....)
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 19 1995
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+     The shadows know that Kosh knows, because the Vorlons *always* know; they
+also know (or think) that they're in a superior position because if Kosh
+should tell the others, either a) most wouldn't believe him, or b) the shadows
+would move aggressively now, costing untold lives.  They're more worried about
+an alliance between lots of races than the Vorlons alone.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 19 1995
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+     Okay.  Look.  I'm gonna make this *real* simple.
+
+     Somebody gives me the cheat codes for DESCENT, and nobody gets hurt.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 20 1995
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+     BTW, keep forgetting to mention...I've just finished a VERY lon (long) B5
+article for FOUNDATION, an academic review of SF published out of Britain. 
+It'll be out and available at Worldcon, and elsewhere.
+
+     It's about 7,600 words/28 typed pages, a mix of pro and personal stuff.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 20 1995
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+
+     Our pilot got one emmy nomination (won that one); season one got two noms
+(won one), and our third season has just gotten three Emmy nominations, with
+the possibility of one or two more to come.  We got noms for makeup, hair and
+cinematography.  Nominations for directing, music, EFX and a few other areas
+will be out in the next couple/three weeks, when the last of the ballots are
+counted.  Nothing for the cast or writers, alas, but that's typical for SF.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 21 1995
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+     It didn't share an emmy, no, but in that category, more than one can win
+(EFX).  DS9 also got an emmy that year, but TNG did not, the first year in a
+while that they hadn't.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 23 1995
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+     To some extent it falls into a steady rhythm, except that each year we
+try to get more ambitious than the year before, so we're constantly pushing
+the envelope and looking for new ways to do things, and ways to make those
+things even bigger and better.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 24 1995
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+     The BG is a sculpture; they were clipped into the image.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     What Earthdome told us was that the Minbari were beaten back by our
+defenses, and sued for peace rather than walk into a buzzsaw.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1995
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+
+     WB will be putting out a bunch of new images/avi files/wav files to usher
+in the new season.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1995
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+     Script #5 completed, "Passing Through Gethsemene."
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1995
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+
+     For most of our history with WB, the shield's attitude has been sort of
+lackluster when it comes to PR.  Particularly for the first year or so, during
+their trial of a new concept in TV: stealth programming.  You do  as much as
+you can to make the show invisible to eye, ear, radar, sonar and infrared,
+lest god forbid somebody should write an article about it.   We had *constant*
+battles with them over this. 
+
+     We think the situation is finally, slowly improving.  A great deal of the
+problem comes from the fact that we're a) not a network show, and b) not a
+Warners in-house series, like Kung Fu or the other PTEN shows.  We're an
+independent production company, and thus we tended to get orphaned/neglected a
+lot.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 19 1995
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+     Good heavens; I think the "Gethsemane" story *you're* seeing is much more
+interesting than the one *I* came up with....
+
+     Not to say that that theme won't recur down the road anyway....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+
+     Bear in mind also that this is a TV Guide photo, done by them, not an
+official B5 production cast photo, and it's who was available and in town
+during the hiatus.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 22 1995
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+     As I recall, what they did was shoot the background, then shoot
+individual shots of the actors, and they may have put them all together later.
+Don't know if a single was shot of all of 'em or not.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1995
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+
+     Stan, y'know the only thing that kinda bothers me?  I see you over here,
+on AOL, elsewhere, posting all these spoilers...and that's all you seem to do.
+I don't see you engaging in discussions, it seems to me as if your main
+interest is in just grabbing the information and racing to all the forums to
+be first with spoilers.  I find this rather peculiar.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+     Except, of course, that I'd specifically asked for people NOT to post
+that info; if this has been done, then this is the first time that request has
+not been honored.  I've done these screenings in the cooperative sense that it
+will be kept to the crowd and not posted publicly; even gotthe  audience to
+agree with it.  If this promise has been broken, I may have to reconsider the
+screening process. 
+
+

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+     PS.  So in other words, Stan, if you want to post this material all over
+the place, on an episode that hasn't yet aired yet, totally not respecting my
+wishes on the subject, as the creator of B5, because you believe your right to
+post this is greater than my polite and respectful request to the fans who
+attended NOT to publicly post such things, then do as you wish, knowing that
+you kill any future screenings for other people.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     AND FURTHERMORE, *Stan*....I just checked AOL.  The synopsis one person
+wrote there was *never* posted publicly insofar as I could see, and was noted
+that if anyone wanted to see it, it would be sent via email to that
+individual.  Why?  Because the person who saw the ep understood and respected
+my request, and didn't want it posted publicly.  If that person had, it
+would've been.  So you're even going against the wishes of the person who
+WROTE the synopsis.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 08 1995
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+
+     You know, Stan, it's really very sad when courtesy is no longer a valid
+reason for doing something.  "Well, show me where it breaks THE LAW to do
+this," "I would love to see a legal challenge on that one," and "taking a
+magazine or newspaper to court."  This is one of the reasons our society is so
+totally screwed up.  "Because I ask you, as a favor, and as a personal
+courtesy," is not a good enough reason for some people.
+
+     I was not required to show that episode.  Nobody made me.  Nobody was
+entitled to it.  I did so as part of a compact between me and the audience
+that we will keep the details between us, privately.  I have done literally
+dozens and dozens of conventions, exercised this compact dozens of times, and
+to date, not ONE PERSON has ever violated that gentleman's agreement.   Except
+you.  Who wasn't even THERE, and took the message out of private mail...why? 
+Because you want to be FIRST.  Because in the on-line community, knowledge =
+power.  And because you want it, and unless you get what you want, you're
+going to stamp your foot and carry on cranky and scream and yell that
+everybody else should change the rules to accommodate you.  
+
+     This is not a censorship issue.  GEnie is a *private corporation*, just
+like a newspaper.  And any newspaper can choose, for itself, what it selects
+for publication, or not to publish.  It has the right, and the responsibility,
+because it provides the venue.  Freedom of speech in the press or the
+electronic media is a function of who's paying the bill.  You  can't go around
+screaming "I'm being censored" because a magazine saw your letter and decided
+it was dopey and didn't publish it.  It's their call.   This is GEnie's call,
+and the call of those who work for GEnie.
+
+     Constitutional free speech means if you can't publish it in one place you
+can go and do it yourself.  You can set up a BBS of your own somewhere and
+publish this to your heart's content.  Nobody's going to stop you, this isn't
+about laws, or rules, or ratings, it's a simple request from me, and the
+courteous agreement to that request by others.  You are trying to negate what
+they and I have agreed to, because you want to.  Because your perception of
+your "rights" (which do not exist in a service like GEnie which is not a
+democracy, is paid for via a corporation privately owned) is that it matters
+more than my rights to make this request, more than the sysops to honor that
+request, more than the structure of GEnie, more important than the wishes of
+the users here, more important thjan the future convention goers who might
+find no further screenings....
+
+     Because you want to be *first*.  Very few can actually DISCUSS the
+episode, because it hasn't aired.  Only the relative handful in the room.  So
+there's not much they can really add to it.  You weren't even THERE.  You just
+want to run into the room waving the synopsis because you feel it gives you
+some kind of status.  And the hell with everybody else.
+
+     Some studio types don't like episodes being screened ahead of the
+broadcast; so I try and keep a low profile on this to avoid causing them
+headaches.  Which is, essentially, what I said at the time, and was known and
+understood by everyone who was there, of which you were not one.  So in your
+ignorance of the situation, you potentially complicate things
+further...because you wanna this, and you wanna that.  
+
+     It's a sad world when the only thing you respect is the sound of your own
+voice.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+      Stan, your application of the definition of censorship just doesn't
+wash.  When the dictionary says "remove or suppress," it means from the
+society at large.  It also refers to the government.  If a newspaper chooses
+not to publish an article, it's not censorship, it's the choice of a
+publication.  The right to make that choice is one of the prime tenets of
+freedom of speech.  By your definition, any service or publication which
+chooses for itself what it will or will not publish is a censor; and in so
+doing, you create the error of accepted cliche which in time wears down the
+specific meaning of censorship by generalizing it to an insupportable level. 
+People who scream censorship at the drop of a hat become like the little boy
+who cried wolf; pretty soon, the serious and real cases get ignored in the
+whiten noise.
+
+     (white noise, that is)
+
+       One suggestion: study a little communications law.  Because you really
+don't understand what it is you're addressing here; a two-line definition in
+the dictionary has little to no bearing on case law, the history of
+governmental censorship, or much of anything else.  I've spent considerable
+time studying communications law; you should try it before you go off like
+this.  Also copyright law, and free speech rules.  We'll continue this after
+you've finished your homework.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     I was going to make one last reply on this, until I saw the line, that
+I'm "supporting the use of force to thward the dissemination of information."
+
+     Force?  WHAT force?  You keep quoting the dictionary, Stan, WHAT force? 
+Look it up.  Has somebody come to your door, kicked it in, taken you to a
+prison and attached electrodes to your genitalia and I wasn't informed? 
+Excuse me, Stan, but you have just passed into the totally ridiculous.  Your
+statement here is offensive to me and anyone who knows how writers have been
+tortured and harrassed and killed in the process of their work.  I have
+donated literally *thousands* of dollars to PEN and other freedom of
+speech/protection for writers organizations, people who  in Latin American and
+Eastern European countries know what *force* means.
+
+     No force was used of any kind, Stan.  You're gibbering.  You got your
+little message deleted, you got hysterical, and you're blowing this out of all
+proportion.
+
+     I have nothing further to say to you. 
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+
+      The TV Guide issue with the B5 feature story should be hitting
+newsstands on the East Coast today (reaching LA on Monday).  Anybody out there
+got a copy for a quick review/heads-up for us out here? 
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 12 1995
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+
+     Some places list the CD under Chris Franke's name, not B5, oddly enough. 
+You can also get it via Tower Records phone order, at 1-800- ASK-TOWER.  Many
+folks have reported getting it quickly that way.
+
+     Yes, insofar as I know, these are licensed uniforms.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 03 1995
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+
+     The assaulted dealer has required hospitalization and there are some
+concerns about his vision in one eye.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 16 1995
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+
+     Is Trace Bileau (I misspelled that, I know) going to be doing the honors?
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1995
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+     No, that happened just before the pilot was aired, and just after it was
+finished.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 23 1995
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+
+     Both Bruce and Pat Tallman were at MOC, and apparently everybody  there
+was very much won over, from reports I've seen.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+     All issues through 11 will come out; we think we've got things in place
+to go beyond that as well, as some elements have improved.  More on this as it
+develops.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 06 1995
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+
+     I've just been told today that the comic has been extended through issue
+#24.  So it's clear for over a full year yet to come.  There should be
+something official about this out soonish.
+
+     This should give it a decent shot at finding its audience, which is
+already building (40,000+ copies per month ain't bad).
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 17 1995
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+
+     David's story for DC is based on an episode script he'd done for us
+(outline, actually) for the first season, which would've been just about
+impossible to shoot.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 15 1995
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+
+     I think the idea of a fan-run con is great.  And be *sure* that wherever
+you do choose has a) adequate transportation in and out, b) something to do
+when the con's not in session, c) good hotels centrally located to the
+convention.
+
+     I like Tom's approach above; it gives all the various departments a
+chance to get their moment in the sun, AND provide solid info on those aspects
+of making the series that would be of interest to different people.
+
+     What we have here, really, is the chance to re-think and re-create the
+convention process a little, make it more active, and inter-active, and more
+interesting.
+
+     One thing to be advised about: actors are paid to perform.  This is
+performance, however one might choose to consider it otherwise.  So any cast
+members brought in are going to require some kind of compensation, travel and
+the like.  Just a reminder to keep in the back of your head(s) as you plan all
+this stuff out.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 20 1995
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+
+     Negative.  That was never intended.  Sakai would not have had this
+encounter with the shadows.  And remember, we *saw them* in year one, so they
+were already out, about and awake.  It's not just a matter of  transposing
+names.
+
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1995
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+
+     There is a topic here for spoilers from the UK, Stan.  Use it.
+
+     Also, what is this obsession you have with posting every single detail of
+a story just to get it out there?
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1995
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+
+     It's just that the sysops have *specifically* set aside topic #1 here for
+"The British Aired Final Four Episodes."  The DL info came from one of the
+British Aired Final Four Episodes.  It seems to me that one would wish to
+respect the wishes of the sysops who created that topic for that express
+purpose, the same way one puts discussions of B5 science into 18/13.  Why is
+it you seem to feel that the sysops needs are subordinate to your own?  Nobody
+said you couldn't post the spoilers, they merely said that the topic over
+*there* is the right place for them, THIS one is for the spoilers that take
+place after they've aired here in the US.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 22 1995
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+
+     We use the normal TV part of the frame.  And yes, Mary Jo was doing
+casting for lots of other shows, including Walker, Outer Limits, and others,
+as well as B5.  We felt we needed someone who could concentrate more heavily
+on B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 23 1995
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+
+     The *quality* of performers was generally fine, it's the question of
+diversity.  We felt we were seeing the same faces again and again over 2 years
+and the pilot.  Casting directors tend to have very defined  areas of
+interest.  And, again, she was working on lots of other projects.  So this
+year we changed casting directors to Fern Champion (yes, that's her real name,
+and she's from New York, so watch it), who's been great, and is giving us a
+real breadth of actors, particularly in terms of a  wider ethnic range, which
+is something I've been pushing for for two years, and never felt I was getting
+as well as I'd've liked.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 24 1995
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+
+     Fern's mainly done a lot of feature films, but at this hour, the only one
+that comes to mind is the Naked Gun movie.  But there's been a lot more than
+just that.
+
+     Currently, we're shooting an episode with Stephen Macht as guest star,
+playing Na'Far, a Narn, in "A Day in the Strife."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 27 1995
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+
+      Stuart: we had a brief production glitch, but it seems to have all been
+resolved now.  Not a problem.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     No, the final four of this season will be rerun, probably during the
+first rerun break in season three.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Oops, I thought you meant the final four of year two, not year one; that
+batch will only go into syndication later, I'm afraid.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+
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+
+     Correct, the penny was/is a keepsake.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 01 1995
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+
+     Dan: are you having trouble getting photos *now*?  'Cause we had a very
+long talk with WB PR about this, and they said it wouldn't happen anymore.  If
+it is, lemme know, and I'll beat the crap outta somebody.
+
+     As for the rest...yes, we're hitting that point where many parts of the
+media simply cannot ignore us any longer.  We're here, we're not Trek, and
+you're Going To Have To Deal With Us.  If for no other reason than the readers
+keep asking for coverage.  Though of those you list (Mike), about half are
+British publications.  We generally get much more respect,and better coverage,
+there than here.
+
+     I haven't gotten a copy of the Foundation magazine yet; hope it came out
+okay, and I don't end up looking like too much of a doofus.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Minbar was an intentional co-opt of the term for a pulpit in a mosque;
+seemed appropriate.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+                    ...surely there must be a Disney forum SOMEwhere....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
+     Mike Cooney: not much on foreplay, are you?  
+
+     If you pull out all your stops in the first season or two, Mike, where do
+you go from there?  First time out, we saw just one shadow vessel; then we saw
+two; then we saw fighters; then we saw fighters and shadow ships, three, then
+four.  There's a reason for this progression, though I can't get into it now.
+
+     If you blow everything out this early, you've got nowhere to go.  So this
+is being paced logically and carefully.
+
+     Me, I *love* foreplay.
+
+     Changing topics for a moment....
+
+     Episode #5, "Passing Through Gethsemane," guest stars Brad Dourif, and is
+being directed by Adam Nimoy.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+
+      Who?  
+
+
+      (Here's the alternate first episode opening, if we had these huge
+ shadowships, miles across, right from the git-go....
+
+ EXT. BABYLON 5 - ESTABLISHING
+
+ As a jump point begins to form.
+
+ INT. OBSERVATION DOME
+
+ As Ivanvoa and Sheridan move to the window.
+
+                                      IVANOVA
+                       Jump point forming...look at that, it
+                       looks like a five mile long spi--
+
+ EXT. SPACE - SHADOW MEGAWALLOPCRUISER
+
+ As it blows up Babylon 5, Epsilon 3, and every ship in the vicinity.
+
+                                                               FADE OUT:
+
+                               End of Series
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 08 1995
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+     (Not saying *anything* about the dynamic of a bunch of guys sitting
+around telling each other that it really *isn't* size that matters....)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 18 1995
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+     Nope.  Not the right topic.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 08 1995
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+     Just dialed in here...demographics are a dirty word where I come from. 
+Basically, I write the story that I would like to see as a viewer.  If my
+tastes reflect that of others, folks watch; if not, not.  
+
+     This is how I've always written, all the way back to when I began in
+animation.  "This would be a cool story."  And that's the be-all and end-all
+of it.  Same with everything else.  
+
+     Back a few years ago, I was looking for a particular kind of horror
+novel.  Couldn't quite find what I wanted.  So I sat down and *wrote* it,
+wrote the novel I wanted to read.  Finished it, and shoved it in the closet
+for, I think, about two years.  One day, my agent suggested I really should
+write a novel someday.  Reluctantly, I dragged it out of the closet.  Gave it
+to her.  She gave it to a NY editor, who sold it to the first editor who got
+it.  It really wasn't written for anyone else but me; had it stayed in the
+closet forever, it would've accomplished that task.  
+
+     I take that approach with everything I write; if I wouldn't watch it, I
+won't write it.  So, basically, my demographic is me.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+     The book in question was Demon Night, published by Dutton.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 03 1995
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+     BTW, for those who get the British publications, there's a huge B5 story
+(several, actually) in SFX...and the critical review of SF called Foundation
+just published a very long piece of mine about B5, and SF in general, with a
+fair amount of personal background stuff as well.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 20 1995
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+     BTW, for those interested, another of my Murder, She Wrote episodes is on
+next Tuesday, "Incident in Lot 7," which is kinda fun.  One of the guest
+stars, Paula Prentiss, isn't exactly the way I had envisioned the role, but
+overall, it's not bad.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 22 1995
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+     It's on USA Network, not CBS, and since it's listed in my TV Guide, it
+should be in yours.  (I don't *think* it was supposed to be Wednesday...)
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 23 1995
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+                              Anybody.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 25 1995
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+     The watch is one of my favorites, a Hamilton Ventura, and as a matter of
+fact, there IS a story behind it.
+
+     Each time I finish working on a series, I buy myself a little item which
+becomes tied to that experience.  After finishing work on The Twilight Zone, I
+was in an art deco store on Ventura Boulevard here in the valley.  I spotted
+that watch, and instantly fell in love with it, the design, the unusual shape,
+and had to have it.  
+
+     As I'm buying it, the dealer mentions that this watch just came on the
+market, that it's a recreation from the same parts of the first electric watch
+on the market, again, the Hamilton Ventura, which came out in the late 1950s. 
+This new but identical version had *just* come out a few weeks ago.
+
+     So he's giving me the whole long history, very knowledgeable guy, and in
+the course of talking, he asks what I do.  I mention that I'm a writer.  He
+perks up.  See, he's been in the business a long time, and he sold this exact
+same kind of watch to another TV writer, long time ago.  "Who's that?" I ask.
+
+     "Rod Serling."
+
+     Suffice to say I was floored.  I went home, dug through my books, and
+right there in one of them -- I think it's the Joel Engle bio -- there's a
+full-page shot of Rod, and you can see very clearly that the watch on his
+wrist...is a Hamilton Ventura, identical to the one I'd just bought to
+commemorate finishing working on The Twilight Zone.
+
+     I still wear it, now and again, for special occasions....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     Forgot to add the final irony to all this...one of the last scripts I
+wrote for The Twilight Zone was entitled "Our Selena is Dying," based on a
+never-produced outline by Rod Serling.  So I did the script, based on his
+outline.  So the episode has a shared credit, me and Rod.  So finding that
+watch has kinda special significance.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     Still waiting for the producers to make a deal with me.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 08 1995
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+     Yeah, it was one of a cluster of art deco stores on Ventura, but a number
+of them have moved around, and I'll be damned if I can remember which one now.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 17 1995
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+     Had a very good and productive discussion with Visions today; I think
+they can be most helpful.
+
+     They seem like good people caught in a bad situation.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+ 
+     Not that I know of.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Bruno Kirby?   Ehhhh...how about Rondo Hatton?
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     It doesn't help.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     Thanks...we're trying...
+
+                                                                     jms
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+ 
+     Yeah, that's about the desired reaction....
+
+                                                                      jms
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+     Steve: you can say all you want here in this topic.
+
+                                                           jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 31 1995
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+     The key to the questions is that you generally have to first be able to
+answer "who are you?" before you can intelligently determine "what do you
+want?"  To deal right with "what do you want" before you know who you are is
+destructive in almost any situation.
+
+     We will see Lyta again.
+
+     RE: alternate lifestyles...I said when stuff happened, we wouldn't make a
+big deal out of it, it'd just be there...and I said we'd address it in our own
+way, in our own time.  We've done a bit here, we'll do a bit more down the
+road.  I won't give you or anyone a timetable; I'll do stuff as the integrity
+of the story permits, not sooner, not later.  I will not allow this to become
+a political football.  If you do nothing, folks yell at you for ignoring it;
+if you do a little, they yell for not doing more; if you do more, they yell
+for not doing it sooner.  Screw it.  I do what the story calls for, as the
+story calls for it.  
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+     That would not be an unfair assessment.  
+
+                                                               jms
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+     See, here's where I start to have a problem.  For starters, I don't do
+any thing to be politically correct, or politically incorrect, I do what I do
+in any story because that's what the story points me toward.  Anybody who says
+"It's not necessary" isn't entitled to that judgement, frankly; you don't know
+what's necessary to the story.  And by framing it in the  "is this NECESSARY?"
+way is designed to make you defend your position when such defense isn't the
+point; is it NECESSARY to have humor? to have a romance? to have correct
+science?  No, *nothing* is NECESSARY.  It's what the writer feels is right for
+that scene, that story, that character.  
+
+     "Oh, well, I saw it, but was all that violence NECESSARY?"  This is,
+frankly, a BS observation usually offered by someone with an agenda, who 
+wishes to invalidate the notion of an artistic view and impose some kind of
+quota, or objective criterion to what is and isn't necessary for a movie or
+film.  As far as I'm concerned, the first person to throw this into a
+discussion has, frankly, just lost the argument.
+
+     Point the second: one of the most consistent comments I get, in email and
+regular mail, is the spirituality conveyed in the show, that we have shown,
+and will continue to show, tolerance toward religion, even created sympathetic
+religious characters.  "Thank you for your tolerance," they say...until we
+show somebody or some action THEY don't like...and at that point suddenly it's
+a lot of tsk-tsking and chest thumping and disapproval; so okay, how about I
+just stop all positive religious aspects of the show? 
+
+     It seems to me, that if I do *all that* with religion, and with thje
+(the) simple act of showing maybe ONE PERSON in all the long history of TV
+science fiction across 40 years has a different view of life, that the show is
+somehow degraded, or downgraded, or dropped in opinion...this simply
+reinforces the notion, held by many, that a lot of folks in the religious
+right wish to make sure no other perspective or lifestyle is ever shown on
+television, at any time, unless in a negative fashion.  
+
+     The thing of it is, while on the one hand I'm getting praise from
+religious folks for addressing spirituality in my series (speaking here as an
+atheist), I've gotten flack from others who think it has no place in a SCIENCE
+fiction series, and why the hell am I putting something in that goes right
+against my own beliefs?  "Because," I tell them, "this show is not about
+reflecting my beliefs, or yours, or somebody else's, it's about telling this
+story, about these people, with as much honesty and integrity as I can summon
+up.  That means conceding the fact that religious people are going to be
+around 260 years from now."  Well, fact is, all kinds of people are going to
+be around 260 years from now.  And what did the anti-religion folks say
+specifically about including spirituality in my series?  "It's not
+*necessary*," they said.
+
+     Translation: they didn't like it.  Well, tough.  It was right for this
+story, and this show.  And it seems to me rather hypocritical for some folks,
+who applaud the show for tolerance, for my standing up to  those who want to
+exclude religion from TV, to then turn around and say the show is diminished
+because it showed that same tolerance...to another group or perspective.  I
+guess tolerance is only okay as long as it's pointed one way.
+
+     You say that as a christian, you think any sex except that between a
+husband and a wife to be wrong.  Well, as I recall, the bible also speaks
+against murder.  We've depicted deaths by the hundreds of thousands.  (And
+we're talking here about the *depicting* of the act, simply showing it, not
+the value judgements made after the fact.)  Why does the one (which is so
+barely hinted at as to be almost invisible) cause the show to be diminished
+where the other does not?  
+
+     My job is not to reinforce your personal political, social or religious
+beliefs.  My job is not to reinforce MY personal political, social or
+religious beliefs.  Then it isn't art or storytelling anymore, it's simply
+propaganda.  My job is to tell this story, about these people, AS people, as
+mixed and varied as they are today.  And there is no outside objective
+criteria as to what is, or isn't *necessary* in a story; that is the sole
+province of the author.  You may or may not like it.  You may or may not
+choose to watch it.  Just as people who don't like to see religion and god
+discussed on TV may dislike it or choose not to watch it.
+
+     But you'll excuse me if I see complaints about this one little thing from
+the religious side, after all I've done to present religious characters and
+the religious life in a positive fashion, to be hypocritical and frankly
+somewhat ungrateful.  It's as though all this means nothing because of one
+thing, one outside-imposed litmus test that disregards anything and everything
+else that has been done.
+
+     So straight up...if I should stop tolerating or showing viewpoints that
+are not my own (spoken as someone who is absolutely straight), then should I
+now stop showing religion as well?  Because that's what this comes down to. 
+Is that what you want?  Because religion is included at my discretion as well
+as anything else on this show.  You want me to be less tolerant?  Just say the
+word.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+     Yes, we'll see both the tines being repaired, and the core shuttle being
+fixed, in ep 1 of year 3.  The tines are mainly to stabalize incoming cargo
+ships so they can be offloaded (something we've shown there from time to time)
+into the zero-g cargo bay.
+
+     Ken: yes, showing does not mean endorsing, showing just means saying
+"this is here," not to make an issue of it.  If I'm going to start endorsing
+ANYbody's POV around here, it's going to be mine, and I think we all know how
+dreadful THAT would be.
+
+     Re: Kosh...we'll see him again outside his suit in "Dust to Dust," but in
+a somewhat unconventional fashion....
+
+     As for "including controversy rather than skirting it," this is more or
+less the point.  The goal here is to not have our characters or our show make
+*value judgments* about what our characters do, because then you're hitting
+the audience over the head with the MESSAGE.  "Believers" is a good example of
+that; some came away using parts of that to argue pro and anti interference in
+medical situations; ditto for "Confessions" which hit squarely on BOTH sides
+of the issue (no, you can't blame morality for disease...but then, we had our
+characters openly requiring blood testing, which annoys many on the other side
+of the issue)....my sense is that our audience is smart enough to take the
+elements we present them with, and discuss them, and come to their own
+conclusions and draw their own meanings from them.  It's the part of objecting
+to even *presenting* the situation that seems to me a marginal position at
+best.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     We're trying to moderate the jumpgate sound a bit; it may have gotten a
+bit too hot there for a while.
+
+     As for Ivanova...remember that the core of good drama is conflict.  So
+here we have a situation where a possible romantic involvement is shaping up
+for her in year three.  It shouldn't be made too easy.  So you create a
+situation that really hurts her deeply; she made a difficult step, got over
+her distance, opened herself up, became vulnerable...and got hurt very badly
+as a result.  The same thing that happened in first season, when her old flame
+was discovered to be a big guy with Home Guard.
+
+     You now have someone who's freshly hurt, who is going to be unwilling or
+slow to open up again, who's now experienced every kind of relationship and
+NONE of them have worked...in short, she's one exposed nerve ending, perfect
+for someone now to come in who may be right, but for whom she has little time,
+and is disposed not to get involved.
+
+     Sounds a lot like my own dating history...keep them razor blades and salt
+sprays a'comin.....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+     What is the origin of the Human/Minbari connection?  You'll find out this
+very season (year three), in no uncertain or ambiguous terms.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+     Comics may sometimes provide advance information ahead of the series, but
+all this is eventually covered in the show.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 08 1995
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+
+     Allen: thanks.
+
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 09 1995
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+
+     Directed by Kevin Cremin.  Introducing Jason Carter.  Written by jms. 
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3584.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3584.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 09 1995
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+
+     Directed by Mike Vejar.  Guest starring Louis Tureen as Theo.  Guest
+starring Patrick Kilpatrick.  Written by jms.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3585.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3585.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 09 1995
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+
+     Correct.  Louis was not available to use for "Twilight" for health
+reasons, but we like Louis a lot, and vowed to use him in another, even better
+role, at the first opportunity.  We seized it.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3586.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3586.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 09 1995
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+
+     Directed by David Eagle.  Guest starring Stephen Macht and Marshall
+Teague.  Written by jms.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Directed by Menachem Binitsky.  Guest starring Shari Sutliff.  Written by
+jms.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3588.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3588.html
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+
+     Directed by Adam Nimoy.  Guest starring Brad Dourif.  Written by jms.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3589.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3589.html
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+     Directed by David Eagle.  Guest starring Walter Koenig.  Written by jms.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3590.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-08-22/3590.html
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+
+      This episode is now #308, to be directed by Mike Vejar.
+
+      307 is now "Exogenesis."
+
+                                                                 jms
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/1.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/1.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 08 1995
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+     There's a misapprehension here; it did *not* take until August for B5 to
+be renewed.  I'm trying to remember the date, but it was somewhere in June. 
+We were already shooting on year three by late July, and we need 6 weeks prep
+before shooting.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/10.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/10.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 17 1995
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+
+     "I am a leprechaun."
+
+     Fine.
+
+     Give up the pot of gold or die.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/11.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/11.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 18 1995
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+
+     Lots of interesting stuff...new main title is finished and scored, with
+the first two new episodes arriving in the hands of critics and reviewers this
+week...finished writing script #11, "Confessions" (which title may change if I
+can think up something better), which is now the exact midway point, both in
+the series overall, and this season in particular...also finished writing the
+first issue of a 4-part miniseries for the DC comics B5 book, which will still
+come out at irregular periods, titled "The Book of the War."  
+
+     Also got in the first volume in the next batch of Dell novels,  "Clark's
+Law" by J. Mortimer, and so far it's really extremely good, I'm quite pleased.
+The other two are by S. M. Stirling and Neal Barrett, Jr.  Should be getting
+them in soon for review.
+
+     The B5 AOL and WWW pages should jointly be up in the next 2 weeks.
+
+     And in Los Angeles, B5's first new ep got a 6.5 rating with a 10 share
+(very good), while DS9, an hour before, got a 5.9 rating and a 9 share.  
+
+     Have begun shooting episode 11, "Messages From Earth," a hideously
+complex episode, outmatched only by #10, "Severed Dreams," which is the single
+most visually ambitious episode we've done in the three years of the show. 
+It's just totally outrageous, and it'll probably kill us in sheer man-hours to
+produce...but the result should drop jaws all over the place.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/12.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/12.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 18 1995
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+
+     Did I type "Confessions?"  I meant to type "Ceremonies."  Thought that's
+what I did type.  Anyway, I've decided to change it to "Ceremonies of Light
+and Dark."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/13.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/13.html
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+
+     Just checked; I *did* type Confessions.  Yikes.  This is how I sometimes
+type west instead of east (you'll get it next week).  I think I'm
+linguistically or philosophically dyslexic...
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/14.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/14.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 19 1995
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+
+     Kevin: yeah...real fragging funny...at times like this I long for a REAL
+Narn bat squad.
+
+     Re: "fanboys"...actually, there's been precious little of that.  The only
+ongoing problem that I've yet encountered is the occasional net-weasel
+celebrity stalker who goes out of his way to constantly post absolute untrue
+lying crap to try and hurt either me, or B5, or some cast members, or all
+three.  Day after day after day.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/15.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/15.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 21 1995
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+
+     We've been consistently giving Jeff Conaway more and more to do in the
+show because he's a very gifted actor; there are some moments in the coming
+month's episodes, particularly "The Fall of Night," that should knock the word
+"mediocre" out of anyone's mouth.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/16.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/16.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 22 1995
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+
+     On the other hand, it would certainly be a writing challenge, one I
+hadn't even considered prior to seeing it here....
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/17.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/17.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 22 1995
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+
+      The sound came through okay on my system here in LA on KCOP.  Odd; I'll
+look into the sound question overall, and the out of phase stuff.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/18.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/18.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 23 1995
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+
+     Almost finished writing script #12, "A Late Delivery From Avalon."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/19.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/19.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 24 1995
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+
+      You cannot prove the non-existence of something; you can only require
+proof of the *existence* of something.  If I say, "There are green penguins at
+the North Pole," it is not incumbent upon you to prove they're *not* there;
+however you search I could always say, "Well, you missed a spot."   The burden
+of proof is incumbent upon the person making the assertion.
+
+     This is basic, critical thinking, which is often not taught in places
+where it *should* be taught.  
+
+     Quickie note on the clip-show discussion...this is starting to veer into
+story suggestions, so I'd suggest a slight retreat.
+
+     BTW, for those also on AOL, Bruce and I are doing an on-line conference
+tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7p.m. Pacific to officially open up the B5 AOL
+page.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/2.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/2.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 10 1995
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+
+     I'm told, btw, that Captain Power has finally been sold to the SciFi
+Channel...now if only they can find all the master tapes....
+
+                                                                 jms*
+
+     (*who, when he heard the former, fell down went BOOM)
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/20.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/20.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 24 1995
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+
+      I'd be very surprised; it's finding its audience, and it isn't a bad
+show.  I know it's hideously expensive -- I hear about $2 million per episode -
+- and they've had a lot of problems with CGI, but all of that can be either
+overcome of compensated for.  It'd be a loos. Er, loss.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/21.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/21.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 29 1995
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+
+     It may be the tape stock WWOR is using when it downlinks the show; it
+goes up pretty pristine on the uplink.
+
+     Would love to get a copy of the Denver article, btw.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+     (PS, at the SciFi Universe Awards last night, Bruce tied with David
+Ducovney for best actor, and Andreas got best supporting actor.)
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/22.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/22.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 29 1995
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+
+     The article can be sent to me via the B5 mail drop, which is:  14431
+Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  
+
+     Sometimes I write shows with a lot of EFX, sometimes I write shows with
+zip EFX.  "Parliament of Dreams" was that way, so was "Inquisitor," which had
+almost no EFX.  Same, as I recall, for "The Quality of Mercy."   It's whatever
+the story requires.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/23.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/23.html
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+
+     Working title for episode 10: "Severed Dreams."
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/24.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/24.html
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+
+     Episode #11, "Ceremonies," written by JMS, to be directed by John Flinn
+III.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/25.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/25.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 15 1995
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+
+     Sounds like a definite glitch; anyone else notice this on the satellite
+uplink?
+
+     Ron: yes and no.  We hadn't heard of the Bureau 13 game when we did the
+episode, it was just something we came up with 'cause it sounded neat.  Later,
+we found out there was a game by that name.  At which point I decided that it
+wouldn't be appropriate to use that name again, and had a good conversation
+with some folks at the game company about it.  There was no problem, I just
+didn't want to walk on their turf intentionally or otherwise.  Logically, any
+secret group is going to change its name from time to time *anyway* (it's not
+like they're in the yellow pages or anything), so the organization would
+remain under varying names. 
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/26.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/26.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 19 1995
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+
+     A statement is anything; everything ever written can be taken as one kind
+of political statement or other.  (Often read in after the fact.)   The
+question is one of political *agenda*, and that I don't have; I've fronted
+episodes on every end of the political spectrum, because I'm not enough of a
+follower to think *any* party, group or affiliation has the market on right
+answers.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/27.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/27.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 22 1995
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+
+     Mr. T, Louise is correct; also, in the TOS show, that revelation was the
+whole *point* of the episode, where here it's a filligree, dropped in at the
+last.  It also *has* to be that character, as the flip side of the story, to
+contrast with Sheridan's "holy cause" as warning, and because of his own
+reflection of what Delenn might have been if she went the wrong way for the
+right reasons.  
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/28.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/28.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 24 1995
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+
+     George: you're starting to learn my tricks.  When I point to the east and
+say "Look!  A comet!" you can generally be sure you're about to get thumped on
+the head by an interstellar snowball coming in from the west.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/29.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/29.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 28 1995
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+
+     George: the mistake everyone makes is in going for somebody famous, a
+celebrity.  I've done a lot of looking into this, and have spoken with a
+number of other Ripperologists, and the single most likely person is one who's
+name you've never heard mentioned as a suspect, but if you read the record,
+his name keeps coming up again and again and again.  
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/3.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/3.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 11 1995
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+
+     Hmmm...I think the episode must be "Dust to Dust," with a quick scene
+between Sheridan and a merchant...good scene.
+
+     BTW, for those in the LA area, the comic store Phantom Zone (formerly
+Outer Limits), on Ventura Boulevard half a block west of Van Nuys (tucked away
+next to the Coogee Bay Cafe) has quite a few complete boxes of the B5 cards
+that just came in.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/30.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/30.html
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+
+     To the "how much information is needed?" question, the best answer, I
+think, is that every week more folks find B5 for the first time and get into
+it with very little need for backgrounding.  The more you see, the more
+threads you're aware are there, otherwise it's just interesting color.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 30 1995
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+     Nope, Sebastian wasn't the name of the one I'm thinking of.
+
+     And from what I've read, a lot of folks *did* need to hear the name to
+get it....
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 09 1995
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+     Shane: once we're finally, totally, completely done, I'll probably need
+to walk away from the eps for about a year before I can look at them again, so
+that I can *see* them with fresh eyes.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/33.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/33.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 11 1995
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+
+     The other thing to bear in mind -- and as a video editor, you understand -
+- is that by the time we've finished an episode, I've seen it maybe 15-20
+times, and personally, with Copeland, edited every single frame of every
+episode.  After a while, much as you like it, you just don'wanna see it no
+more....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 10 1995
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+
+     Yeah, it's the CP experience, and others, that kinda soured me on
+merchandising a little.  I walked off CP when it looked like the sponsor was
+going to get increased say in episode content.  And other shows have thrown
+stuff in just so they could include it in merchandising...so I'm just a bit
+leery of it all.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/35.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/35.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 28 1995
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+
+     Nothing's set yet; I was only asked 2 days ago to be there.  At this
+point I don't know who's going to be in-town for it.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/36.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/36.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 18 1995
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+
+     Well, start by asking her that very question; she'll be very happy to
+answer it there, and thus give everyone a better grasp of what she does.  Then
+record it and send it to me so we can figure it out.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 22 1995
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+
+      Ah...is *that* what Haley said her job is?
+
+      Well...yes, very nice, very nice, big, warm laugh....
+
+      She's sweet.
+
+      "Hello, Guido?  Got a job for you...."
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/38.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/38.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 29 1995
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+     It's all part of the same credit.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 23 1995
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+
+     SO, HAS, LIKE, *ANYONE* IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND *EVER* MADE IT PAST
+LEVEL NINE IN TETRIS?  HUH?  IT'S JUST A PLOT TO MAKE ME CRAZY, ISN'T IT?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 12 1995
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+
+Harlan Ellison has requested that I post this in places where those likely to
+have ordered the forthcoming CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER limited-edition
+hardcover can find it.
+
+Message begins:
+
+Here is the answerto the question of why a three-week delay in shipping THE
+CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER became necessary.
+
+A minor production glitch.
+
+Nothing more mysterious or ominous than that.
+
+Once the book had gone to Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan for printing, and
+was in production, it was discovered that more than 150 corrections to the
+text--some significant, others of a niggling nature--but all troublesome to a
+greater or lesser degree--had slipped past, and had not been integrated.
+
+Tom Monteleone of Borderlands Press was out of the country.  But his concerns
+for shipping on time--we've been paying the price for a premature announcement
+of this title four years ago ever since that miscalculation was made--were
+preeminent.  Nonetheless, because of my insistence that this book (a book of
+great personal importance to me) be as close to perfect as possible, I took
+the necessary action to hold the production at a pre-final stage till Tom
+returned and we could get the changes made.
+
+That has been accomplished.  Tom Monteleone has been very gracious in
+accommodating my concerns, and the book is back in the tube at Thomson-Shore
+right now.  Three weeks max is what Dave Raymond, Customer Services Manager,
+tells us.  Three weeks and the book, a beautiful beautiful package, will be in
+the hands of those who've ordered it.
+
+It is unfortunate that Tom Monteleone's interim message on the Borderlands
+Press 800-order line has been misinterpreted by some people.  All is well, and
+the CITY is on its way to waiting eyes and hands.  Thank you for asking.
+
+                                                Harlan Ellison
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 27 1995
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+     Just to clarify: Classic Tetris only goes to level 10.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 28 1995
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+
+     It's actually an interesting experiment in learning, in that it's
+absolutely clear what the brain does...when you stop playing, your brain keeps
+seeing these falling blocks every time you close your eyes, and what it's
+doing is working out each possible combination, so you can react more
+instinctively (yellow Ls go on the left, green Ls on the right, both top down,
+to slide in)...it's really mental evolution in action, the learning process
+given color and shapes.
+
+     It's also absolutely a useless skill.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 17 1995
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+
+     Y'know...this is a nutty idea...maybe just ignore it...but I got wind
+last year about a station in...Italy? Greece?...one or the other that went
+bankrupt and shut down *literally* in the middle of airing a B5 episode.   The
+next day, during the lunch time period, hundreds of protesters showed up with
+placards demanding they show the rest of the episode.  This got substantial
+coverage, apparently, and convinced another station to pick up the show.
+
+     So I look around at the net, at the sharp local people who want to help,
+the great graphics that are out there that can be used, the  organizational
+resources on the net.....
+
+     It's a nutty idea.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 09 1995
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+     Dave: yup.  Londo's never coughed before, and this was very deliberately
+placed.  He's on the path, like it or not.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 10 1995
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+
+     Question one I'll leave for later...to question two, Kosh *appears* to us
+as a being of light...doesn't mean that's entirely what he is, that's how
+we've been programmed to see him.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms95-09/45.html b/find/GEnie/jms95-09/45.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 11 1995
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+     As it happens, I worked closely in designing Kosh with Steve Burg, who
+was one of the main designers on The Abyss, Terminator 2, Waterworld, and
+other films.  So I'm not surprised some element of that gracefullness came
+through.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     PS, to Brett's comments above...someone observed that what we've
+seen...is Kosh's encounter suit *inside* his encounter suit, given the way in
+which we perceive him...sounds about right.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 06 1995
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+
+     Rob: you're absolutely correct that you shouldn't be talking about those
+"even more unusual planes" in public.  Good for you.
+
+     That's what email is for.  I look forward to hearing more about this.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 07 1995
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+
+     Yeah, well, *I've* got Ultraviolet Level Clearance, personally assigned
+to me by President Santiago (before his unfortunate demise), so there.
+
+     Actually, the Pentagon likes me...was invited to the Air Force Academy
+2024 Study Group as a participant at Maxwell AFB by a Lieutenant General
+(unfortunately had to decline for various reasons), we get care packages from
+some folks at the Pentagon...hey, if you can't tell us, who CAN you tell?
+
+                                                                jms*
+
+     (*who used to be a reporter and still honors the confidentiality of
+sources)
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 28 1995
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+
+     Teri: unless your station did something, it's not physically possible for
+the US version to be *shorter* than the UK version in any scene like that. 
+There was no additional material ever provided to C4 to expand it beyond
+what's seen here.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 12 1995
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+
+     Mike: my first, truest and only possible reaction to your note was to
+instantly look around and wonder who the heck you were talking about.  
+
+     "...you're starting to become an SF superstar, perhaps the biggest since
+Gene Roddenberry."
+
+     I wish I could take this as having anything whatsoever to do with me, as
+far as B5 goes, but I can't.  I don't see myself or my position any different
+now than 5 or 10 years ago.  I look in the mirror and half the time I see a
+doofus.  The other half of the time I see someone trying desperately not to
+*be* a doofus.
+
+     The other day, I was interviwed by a reporter with a major newspaper
+syndicate, and kind of the same question was asked.  What I told her, and I'll
+say here, is...I just can't apply it to me.  When I go up on stage at a
+convention, and there's this mass of applause...the terrible thing is, I don't
+hear it.  I'm worrying about what the first thing I should say ought to be,
+will it be entertaining, why on earth do these people want to see *me* fer
+chrissakes...one feels like a fraud.  Because the story kinda lives outside me
+somehow...it's like the sculpter who look at a block of stone and knows
+there's a sculpture of a horse in there somewhere, that it was *always* there,
+he just has to get a hammer and chisel and *find* it.
+
+     There's a difference between the talent, the story, and the vessel;
+sometimes the vessel thinks it *is* the talent, that it *is* the story, and
+that way, I think, lies madness and an ego of monstrous proportion.   I can't
+think in those terms.  I wouldn't mind, I'd probably enjoy it, I just *can't*.
+When I hear applause -- and on one level, like I said, I really can't -- it's
+not for me, it's for the story, for the show, for the performances, for
+Christopher's terrific music.  I'm sitting here on a writing break, in a torn
+up pair of jeans, a superman t-shirt, with a barely adequate cafe mocha in a
+Daffy Duck mug in front of me; how seriously can I take this person?
+
+     The guys at the local comic store know who I am -- I come in every
+Wednesnday night for my weekly fix -- and it ain't no big thing.  I'm just one
+more customer.  The only perk is that they set aside the comics about to sell
+out so I don't miss one.  But when I walk in the door, those who might
+recognize me don't seem to pay much notice, and the majority just *don't*
+recognize me, because my face isn't plastered all over the place.  Which is as
+it should be; the actors deserve that honor.  (This is something else the
+reporter bugged me about, "The ST creators have their faces all over the
+place, where in the press kit are your photos, why aren't *you* out there
+visibley?"  To which the only answer is, "That ain't why I'm here."  As
+Meatloaf said, "I ain't in it for the power, and I ain't in it for the wealth,
+I ain't in it for the glory of anything at all, and I sure ain't in it for my
+health.  But I'm in it till it's over.")
+
+     So there's no need for any awkwardness or hesitancy, Mike.  I'm a fan,
+same as you and most of the other folks around here.  Ain't nothing around
+here to be intimidated by; it's just me.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+     You're looking into this too much.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 14 1995
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+
+     Actually, Delenn was never told the whole situation, so she would have
+had no way of knowing to stick around; also, it was something they had to do
+on their own.
+
+     The Talia "incident" is referenced again in "Dust to Dust," and possibly
+one more episode in the first 11.
+
+     None of the actors have *contracts* for five years, we have options ON
+them for that period, which we can exercise at our discretion.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 15 1995
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+
+     It means we have first call on their services, and if we choose to renew
+an actor, they *must* comply; if we choose not to, we're not obliged to.  This
+is standard in TV.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 18 1995
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+
+     Re: G'Kar's position on the council...Sheridan could have carried on, but
+it would've been basically useless.  The Centauri now occupy and run Narn, and
+as its conquerers call thanks to the surrender and agreement to the Centauri
+terms, call the shots as far as who can legitimately speak for Narn.  Sheridan
+could've kept G'Kar *in the room*, but he'd still be powerless, without
+portfolio, and the whole concept of the council would be shot.  He is now
+simply Citizen G'Kar, same as any other Narn.  No, Londo isn't of higher rank
+in the council than Sheridan, but he speaks for the Centauri, and the Centauri
+speak for Narn.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 20 1995
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+
+     Re: Earth's attitude toward the Centauri...stick around for 2 more
+episodes.
+
+     Re: not recognizing the Centauri rule...on what basis would or could
+Earth do this?  If the Narns had not agreed to total and unconditional
+surrender, sure, there might be a case you could make...otherwise, one doesn't
+have a leg to stand on.
+
+     Vampyr...okay, (poink), I've now made you Babylon 5 Person here.   So how
+could Sheridan "take Londo down a peg" in any manner consistent with reality? 
+Yell at him?  Sure, but to what effect?  He had nothing to back it up. 
+Before, in "Shadows," he had a bluff he could run; now that's not relevant
+because the actions have all been taken, and there is nothing that can be done
+to stop it.  Sometimes, things happen in the real world, and we'd love to see
+the person taken down a peg, as you say...but sometimes actually *doing* that
+in a real world situation, or a fairly rigorous fictional situation, is a
+different matter.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 21 1995
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+
+      Vampyr: don't worry, your reaction is exactly right.  If Londo's actions
+bug one, they should, because we hate to see them.  And what makes this show
+strong, I think, is that we *are* very rigorous and logical in how we put
+together the politics of our universe.  There aren't a lot of holes you can
+point to in this one.
+
+     Could G'Kar try and form a government in exile?  He probably could, and
+they may be worried about that...so who knows what they might do...?
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 23 1995
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+     A-TC: yes, Londo *does* have his moments when one almost likes him in
+spite of oneself; the second episode of year three has scenes in which you
+don't like him, and then you *do* like him enormously...then you don't again. 
+He's caught in the scissors...and trying madly to find some way out of the
+situation he's in.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+     Or are you just happy to see me.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 25 1995
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+     Debs: *extremely* good points, and well considered.  We go through great
+pains on the lighting, to add dimension, texture, and to play with helping
+create the characters.  Thanks for noticing.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 26 1995
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+     He's Centauri.  They have an accent.  He puts stress on the darndest word
+sometimes.  
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 14 1995
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+     Okay, here's What Joe Believes: I don't believe in deities, heavens,
+hells, spirit guides, leprechauns, or any continuance of the individual after
+death.  Consciousness is an abstract, but it is finite.  When the game is
+finally called on account of darkness, you don't get to come back tomorrow and
+finish the game.  The work we must do, must be done today, now, or not at all.
+
+     What I believe in is the power of the human being singular to rise above
+every challenge, obstacle, tyrant and misfortune.  We are where we are because
+in the evolutionary crap shoot, we were smarter, and faster, and *thought*
+ourselves out of the mud (with a little help from the opposable thumb, natch).
+The brass ring of consciousness has made us not only aware of our environment,
+and how to control it, but has made us, when we are at our best, self-
+reflective, aware of the struggle of those around us, made us conscious of the
+fact that we work at our best when we work together, when individuals can
+reach for the stars and pull the rest of us along with them...for company, for
+pleasure, and to help the next guy leapfrog to the next star.  Given nurturing
+and direction and purpose, it makes us compassionate.  
+
+     Stunted, hindered, corrupted by circumstance or hopelessness, it makes us
+into monsters.  
+
+     I believe that we can touch greatness *now*, and that if we remove the
+notion of second chances, lifes after this one, no backsies, there is the
+added impetus to *achieve* it now.  (Witness those who think there's no point
+in saving the redwoods because Christ is going to come back soon and the point
+will be moot.  Remember James Watt's statement on that one?)   This, I
+believe, is *it*.  And so we must do all we can.  For those who are raised
+well, directed well, that means doing all they can to the good; for those who
+fall between the cracks, that may mean something quite different.  
+
+     But that's the way it is now anyway, really.  Religion can be used as
+justification to murder, or not to murder, depending on how you approach it. 
+Religion has been used to rationalize, and attack, slavery.
+
+     For my money, religion and science came out of the same impulse, the
+desire to understand who we are, and where we came from, and where we're
+going, and what we're supposed to do when we get there.  Before we had the
+tools to grasp the mechanics of sunlight and solstice, we cobbled up pantheons
+and spirits and deities who watched over the functioning of the universe like
+benign watchmakers.  With time and codification, religions began, warred,
+absorbed, schism'd and sunk their hooks deep into the world around us.  Those
+hooks are too deep and tied to too much of our language, our culture, ever to
+be removed; they are part and parcel of our human heritage, I accept that and
+welcome that element.
+
+     But from this side of the modem...it's still just myth.  Myth with
+billion dollar empires on the one hand, and myth that lives in little steepled
+whiteframe churches in the Appalachias, but myth nonetheless.
+
+     It can be myth that elevates, myth that ennobles, myth that destroys,
+myth that causes war and myth that heals after war...but myth it remains. Just
+like the myth of language, of art, of politics and polemics and philosophy. 
+They are all the constructs we have made, the lenses we have cobbled together
+through which we can see the world around us.
+
+     That is what I think, that is what I believe.  Your mileage may vary.  I
+have no desire to propagandize my personal beliefs; if you do that, they're
+not personal anymore, and my job is to entertain, and to  ask questions, not
+to persuade anyone to my own perspective.  In the pursuit of this story, I
+will use myth and math interchangeably, whichever  tool best serves the task
+most effectively.  
+
+     If anything, I believe closest to what Delenn said, my one moment of
+slippage, of letting my own attitudes creep in, that we are better than we
+think, and nobler than we know; that we have the seeds of greatness within us,
+and our greatest flaw is that we do not always know this as well as we should.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+      General Answer For What Comes Now:
+
+      Yes, I *know* it's the East End not the West End; I looked right at my
+notes when I was writing the script, and they said East and I typed West and
+nobody noticed it until it went out.  I could've replaced it with a looped
+line prior to first airing here, as this was found during the UK airings, but
+looping never improves only diminishes the performance, and he's on-camera and
+the words wouldn't match his mouth.  So I decided to let it go out this way
+once for performance, and we'll correct this aspect with a loop in later
+airings, even though that will somewhat lessen the performance aspect.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 26 1995
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+     Yes we have.  In the pilot and elsewhere.  It comes out engines first to
+decelerate more quickly, then turns around to actually dock.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     Maybe a subtitle or caption on-screen with the words, "I'm sorry, I'm
+sorry, I'm sorry."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 28 1995
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+     You can't exclude or include anything in your story just because a
+character or concept has been used by others.  If we were to do that, then we
+might as well never make the show, because others have shown starships and
+hyperspace and aliens.  Okay, yes, others have used Jack.  But not in the same
+way.  It was *right* for this show...should it not be used because others have
+also used this character?  I think that the moment you begin constantly course-
+correcting your show in reaction to other shows, you're dead in the water. 
+You have to do what's right for *this* story, in *this* episode.  And I think
+we showed a very different aspect of the character and the situation than has
+been shown before.  If we just did the same old gag -- Jack comes to B5 and
+begins murdering people again -- then I'd agree.  But we didn't.  I think you
+have to judge a show by what's IN the show, and how well it's done, not
+against what has been done in other places. 
+
+     Otherwise we might as well throw out starships and beam weapons and
+aliens and all the rest, since those have ALL been done a lot more than Jack. 
+
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+     In his situation, who wouldn't...?
+
+                                                                jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 29 1995
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+     Never thought the ep was being trashed, just responding.  If one picks
+nits with shows, one should also be free to pick nits on messages.   Just the
+usual give and take.
+
+     Remembered an interesting quote this afternoon: "Of course everything has
+already been said.  But since no one was listening, we must begin again."
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     Well, this certainly helps explain the growing popularity of Senator
+Dole.  Shaving off that mustache was a definite smart move.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     Jim: never hesitate to bring something up because it's me; if we can't
+discuss the issues, there's no point.
+
+     On the question of Dole and politics in general...yeah, Bruce and Jerry
+and I tend to go 'round and 'round about this stuff at our lunch gatherings. 
+Sometimes for laughs, sometimes earnestly, but we generally tend to respect
+the other's viewpoints.  
+
+     I don't personally subscribe wholecloth to a liberal or conservative
+agenda; I think you have to take each individual issue as it comes.  I'm pro-
+choice and pro-death penalty (UNLESS one can guarantee that when a court says,
+"life inprisonment," it MEANS life, not 5 years, then I flip to the other side
+of the issue).  
+
+     There are a number of interesting democrats, and a number of intersting
+republicans out there.  Dole, however, strikes me as a mean, venal little man
+who would make Nixon (also not high on my hit parade) look like Rebecca of
+Sunnybrook Farm if he ever got into high office.   It ain't the party, it
+ain't the issues (well, not entirely)...it's just that this guy worries the
+hell out of me.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+       "He wishes confirmation."  Any catholics in here want to comment a
+little further on what that means?
+
+       Re: Colin Powell...I'm cautiously optimistic.  One of the real dangers
+is that, not knowing perhaps as much as we should about him, is that he has
+the potential to become the empty vessel into which we pour all of our
+expectations about what he *could* be, or what we *think* he is...and see not
+him, but our own reflection, which is always appealing to a restless
+population seeking the next tall rider on a horse.  
+
+       That said...I do find much of what I've seen quite intriguing, and if
+the rest is revealed to match what seems to be his personality and record, I
+think I might be inclined to vote for him.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Oct 15 1995
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+     Kwicker: then in the two options you present, assume the latter, that I'm
+"an exceedingly better writer than I had even expected," since the other
+doesn't parse for me.  I don't believe.  Not even cellularly, or
+subconsciously.  If one can write Narns well, that doesn't mean one believes
+they exist; why should this change for writing about beliefs?
+
+     Tom: not a "recovering Catholic," but an ex-catholic who was never really
+much of a practitioner at all...one of these twice-a-year church family types.
+I had no choice going in, being born into that, and as  soon as I hit
+confirmation and was told it was the sacrament of free choice, I was out of
+the room so fast I doppler'd.
+
+     Not sure there was any one particular thing that led me to where I am,
+just sort of the preponderance of things.  I've read a lot of varying
+scriptures -- the Bible cover-to-cover twice, the Gita, a number of Egyptian
+and Judaic religious texts, less of the Koran than I'd like (some tough
+slogging in there), I'm quite charmed by much of what I've read in Zen
+Buddhism, I've looked into Native American, South American and African myths
+and religious beliefs...and to be honest, in all of this, I've never yet "met"
+a Deity that was really much nobler or better than the average person. 
+They're all prone to eccentricities, fits of anger, flaws, jealousies,
+illogic, pettiness, violence, inconsistency and a thousand other traits we'd
+be ashamed to see in ourselves.  And I've never seen much of anything outside
+to convince me that there's order in the universe...so here I am.
+
+     Do not, btw, take this as an invitation to debate, convert, or try to
+convince.  I've come to this by long and difficult roads, there's nothing you
+can say to me that hasn't been said before, by others, and if I respect the
+beliefs of othres enough not to try and change them, I'd ask that this same
+respect be returned.  
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+     I'll confess...for the time period from the Hubble's launch, until it got
+fixed...I called it the Wobble...I'm sorry, I'm sorry....
+
+                                                               jms
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+     Yes, I've read Campbell.  Leery of applying it directly or too
+consciously to the work, though; it can make the process too self-conscious.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+      Jose: "glad to have you back on rastb5 again"...huh?  I'm not on rastb5,
+in limited fashion or otherwise.  Are you perhaps referring to the info group?
+
+     Re: inspiration...in general this has meant people coming to me and
+saying that because of the show, they've chosen to get involved in charities,
+or social causes, or to register voters, or work in shelters; in Dallas at a
+small convention I was at, a young man stood up in the seminar and said that
+he was changing his major to social work because of the show...in email I
+received a note from a fellow who, inspired by the notion that you can choose
+a better life, relocated with his wife halfway across the country, against the
+"advice" of everyone else, and created a new and better life doing *exactly*
+what he wants to do with his life.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 14 1995
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+     I won't be finished writing this season's scripts until...right around
+the first week in March, give or take.  At the end of a season, you generally
+get an advance script order while you're waiting around for the official word,
+usually for maybe 2 or 3 scripts tops, which comes around early April.  The
+official writing season starts the day after the formal pickup, which is late
+May.  
+
+     So while the writing goes on to some extent year round, the really
+intense period is from June through March.  Ten months, or about 42-44 weeks,
+so you're looking at one script every ten days to two weeks; we usually like
+to start filming with 4-6 finished scripts in-hand so that we have sufficient
+lead time to prep.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+      Bear in mind that the Agamemnon now has a captain of its own, and that
+captain isn't going to just turn over command of his destroyer every time
+Sheridan wants to take it out on a joy ride.  Also, the really important
+missions Sheridan might use it for are probably things that the EA military
+division might not be comfortable with, and would never let  him just take out
+a destroyer just like that.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1995
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+     The Centauri did not steal the bag; he had left long before Edward lost
+it (we see him drop and leave it behind in the hallway).  AS Garibaldi said,
+someone found it and tried to sell it.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+ 
+      Have listened to and enjoyed some of Enigma's work, yes.  Nice stuff.
+
+      Can't predict fourth season script stuff at this early stage; one crisis
+at a time.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 16 1995
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+     There are no plans for the foreseeable future of seeing Talia, so  it's a
+moot point about the hair, I'd say....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+      Well, bear in mind it's not just a matter of designating someone
+"control," it's the whole implantation process that has to be done.  
+
+      Re: Ivanova's hair...yes, whenever she's in the starfury, it's tied away
+in back.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 18 1995
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+
+     What y'all have to remember is that we produce 22 shows a year.   There
+are 52 weeks in a year.  That means that no matter how you slice it, you've
+got 30 weeks of reruns in there.
+
+     RE: Talia...look, you've kinda got to look at this the way I do.   Stuff
+happens.  Yes, Talia was hoped for to be a key to the solution of the problem.
+(Not the key, but a key.)  But if you do that, every single  time, you become
+predictable.  It means you, the audience, can relax.   "Well, we know now that
+Talia will always get through this because she's the one they're hoping for." 
+Suspense: gone.  Story: suddenly predictable.  There's no rule that every
+person who is hoped to help solve the problem in real life is gonna make it to
+the end or BE that solution.  So if you delete that person, now it's "Oh,
+hell, NOW what're they gonna do?" which is more intrinsically interesting to
+me than the other option.
+
+     Generally speaking, about once a year, toward the end of the year, I
+kinda look around at the characters with a loaded gun in my hand, and say,
+"Hmmm...if I take out *that* person, what happens?  Is there anyone here I can
+afford to lose?  Would it be more dramatically interesting to have this person
+alive, or dead?  What is the absolute bare minimum of characters I need to get
+to the end of the story and achieve what I have to achieve?"
+
+     It helps to really remember that this is a *novel*, and uses the
+structure of a novel.  That means you have to have some real suprises as you
+go.  Anyone is fair game.  To the question "Why did you get rid of Sinclair? 
+Why'd you get rid of Keffer?  Why'd you get rid of Talia?   Why'd you get rid
+of....oh, er, that hasn't happened yet...." there is only one answer: 'cause I
+felt like it, and 'cause I thought it'd make the story a lot more interesting.
+
+
+     The stories I like best are the ones that ratchet up the tension and the
+uncertainty inch by inch until you're screaming.  This could apply to any of
+Stephen King's novels (and recall that a lot of my background is in horror
+writing).  Mother Abigail in THE STAND was supposed to be their hope for the
+future.  So in short order she's vulture-food, JUST when she's most needed. 
+*Because that's interesting*.  It makes you say, "Oh, hell, NOW what?" 
+(Stephen actually does that a lot in his books, and it's a technique I've
+learned as well.)  Boromir in LoTR was a capable, skilled fighter, deemed
+absolutely essential to the Company of the Ring...oops, there he is by the
+tree, full of Orc arrows.
+
+     Stuff happens.
+
+     Same here.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

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+      There was always a Ranger going to be assigned to the station about this
+time, yes.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 20 1995
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+     BTW, here's humor...though at the same time understandable given the
+penchant for some folks to abuse the nets by pretending to be other people...I
+got a call today from Claudia, who was trying to take part in a B5 IRC and
+kept getting booted out by folks yelling at her for the crime of pretending to
+be Claudia Christian.  Nobody believed it was her.   Perhaps in future we need
+to find some way to verify when this happens.
+
+     (BTW, speaking of net abuse, I'm led to understand, from the sysadmin on
+the server in question, that Theron Fuller is no longer being allowed access
+to Usenet from his account.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+      I'd say there were extenuating circumstances here that made it more than
+just a simple murder (and not all murders get wiped, esp. in cases like second-
+degree or manslaughter).  He'd stalked Edward for years; arranged to break the
+mindwipe; and engaged in slow, deliberate, methodical torture unto death.  The
+degree of premeditation is staggering.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 21 1995
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+     On those other services, the sysops arranged for conferences with the
+cast members involved.  That could be done just as easily for GEnie as others.
+Just hasn't been done.  To my knowledge, no one's been invited.  (I think it's
+been mentioned in my direction once or twice, but not for a while, and I don't
+think anything was really ever pinned down, but my memory isn't all it
+was...if it ever was....)
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 08 1995
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+       Hrmmm...it was my understanding that the reposts/answers would go on
+the rastb5-info group.  I'll have to check this out.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 21 1995
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+
+     You want to know how much Joe has been writing lately?  You want to know
+the goofy side of it?  
+
+     I write with keyboard in lap, leaning back, legs in a broken-4 position
+(left ankle crossing right knee) to support it.  Well, I've been writing so
+much, so *long*, lately that I recently discovered that there is now an actual
+indentation in my left leg, just above the ankle, where it's been abraded by
+cloth, and the circulatoin's been hindered, and there's been constant pressure
+placed on it.  I've actually lost some sensitivity in that 5-inch section. 
+THAT'S how much I've been writing this year.
+
+     I need a vacation.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

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+     We hope to *FINALLY* be able to announce the formation of the  official
+Babylon 5 Fan Club within the next 7 days or so.  From time to time, news
+about this will get dropped here, and we can use this for notices relating to
+the club, and information about joining and such. 
+
+     We've been negotiating with WB for *over a year* to let us do this, and
+it's taken a long time mainly because they didn't think anyone would be
+interested in a fan club for something not ST.  (Sound familiar?)  But
+finally, after much persistence, we're finally at a point where I can say I
+think it's going to happen at last.  Stay tuned....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 22 1995
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+     Actually, bear in mind that the American system operates through a series
+of checks and balances; there's freedom of speech, but there are penalties if
+you use that freedom to write defamatory newspapers, for instance.  In
+cyberspace, the checks and balances are more than a little overdrawn....
+
+     Tom: to your question...I do know that Terry Nation wrote a full season
+of Blake's 7, though I don't know how many episodes that was.  Some folks have
+checked around, and as near as can be determined, in American TV, no one
+person has ever singlehandedly written an entire season of a one-hour dramatic
+series in the entire 50 years or so of TV history.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Kwicker & Jose: exactly my point.  Kelley *co-wrote* all of a season, or
+all but one of a season, sometimes supplying the story, or rewriting another's
+script...but no one's done it *singlehandedly* before.  
+
+     So Nation did 13 episodes that season?  Well, then looks like that
+record's been broken already; 17 this season already.  Plus 4 from the end of
+last season, so when this is all over (year 3) that'll be 26 in a row,
+unbroken.  (Or is it 27?  What aired before the final four?)
+
+     This is probably the ultimate in trivial details, but it's the sort of
+thing that helps me keep going.
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+     Actually, in each TZ season, there were many other writers, though
+Serling wrote the majority of each season (also, the lion's share of TZ
+episodes were *half-hours*, not hours).  But fundamentally, what matters most
+is not the volume or quantity of scripts, but the quality of what goes IN
+them.  I'd rather write 1 good script than 4 mediocre scripts.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 22 1995
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+     Actually, in legal terms, in order to qualify for "a crime of passion"
+there cannot be premeditation; it happens suddenly, in the heat of the moment.
+By virtue of stalking Edward for nine years, the "crime of passion" defense
+quickly goes by the boards
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     No, the club is designed for both on- and offline fans.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 23 1995
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+      Actually, I always kinda thought that the people granted the people
+their rights, then created the government to arbitrate in the dispute over the
+use of those rights.  
+
+      For a glimpse on how ST stories get written, btw, pick up the latest
+copy of WIRED.  I know this kind of thing works for some folks, but it just
+makes my hair stand on end.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 24 1995
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+     I guess what amazed me most was either Berman or Pillar coming right out
+and saying ST "is a formula."  Just that simple.  I about fell off my chair.
+
+     BTW, on the question of effects...here's one that's kinda interesting, in
+that I've seen a few comments here and there about how we must've mapped the
+CGI fireball into the hallway in "Convictions" where Londo jumps into the
+transport tube.  Some even offered you could tell the fire was CGI.
+
+     Nooooooop.
+
+     Here's how that shot was done: we built a miniature hallway (actually,
+"miniature" ain't the right word; it was something like 30 feet long or more).
+Painted it so that it looked exactly like the regular B5 hallways.  On film
+you absolutely can't tell the difference.  Then we mounted the hallway
+*vertically* alongside the outside of the main building here.  Set the camer
+at the top, pointing down into the hall.   We built a firebomb and set it at
+the far end of the hall (on the bottom, in other words).  We then set off the
+firebomb (with all the proper authorities present), so that it shot up the
+length of the vertical hall.   We overcranked the camera so it'd start in slow-
+motion, then pulled the plug so that the camera slowed down to normal
+speed...giving the sense of the fire swelling, then suddenly rushing forward
+with a huge fireball.   So when it looks like the "hallway" is on fire...it
+is.  Real fire.
+
+     Next we shot Londo (Peter) against a bluescreen, reacting to this, then
+diving to his left.  We then comp'd the bluescreen into the hallway, and used
+CGI to build a transport tube door to Londo's left, which then closed just as
+the fire reached it.
+
+     It was an utterly immense amount of work for, basically, a five second
+shot...but it looks 'way cool.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+      Effects shots like this one were/are supervised via our EFX supervisor,
+Ted Rae, working closely with the director and folks from Foundation.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
+      Yes, "CoS" is a deliberate mirror-image of "Midnight," partly to
+illustrate the notion that "the wheel turns," as G'Kar says...yes, it  does,
+and if you forget that it eventually turns on *you*, you'll be ground beneath
+it.
+
+      I enjoyed Wing Commander 3, and will almost certainly buy WC3, but won't
+play it until I've finished writing for the season, for obvious reasons....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+(oops, meant to say WC4 above)
+

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+     Now, kids, play nice....
+
+     Sue: as you're looking at the fireball approaching toward camera, he
+jumps to our left.  Trust me on this.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+     The comment is quite correct; we never once verbally identified
+Londo's...extension for what it was.  We intimated, and left it in the
+sophistication of the viewer to figure it out.  Same with the Talis (er,
+Talia) situation.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 26 1995
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+      Re: formula...yes, but remember that all the shows you cite, THE
+HONEYMOONERS, I LOVE LUCY, and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE were all shows of a  time
+that lent itself to formula, all of the 50s and 60s.  You set a format and you
+never wavered from that.  (But even in those, there was some room to maneuver;
+remember the DICK VAN DYKE show which was one long dream about alien invasions
+and closets full of walnuts?  Even there some were experimenting and pushing
+the envelope.)
+
+     Since then, television has grown, and changed, and the better shows tend
+to be the ones that are most groundbreaking, least formulaic.  You look at
+TWIN PEAKS, or NYPD BLUE, or PICKET FENCES, and they're fresh, innovative,
+interesting.  
+
+     This is probably the one area where I have my biggest beef with ST.   The
+logic goes that if you're a new, untested show, you can't afford to take
+risks, you have to build your audience.  But ST has, however you wish to
+phrase it, a guaranteed audience.  It *can* take chances.  It *does* have the
+money for big episodes.  But what it does is to stay within very strictly
+proscribed boundaries.  It's like having this incredibly powerful, souped up
+Porsche...and using it to drive around the block to the corner store for
+groceries.
+
+     ST is a program rooted strongly in the 1960s form of storytelling.   It's
+frozen in time, I think, when it could be innovative, challenging, dynamic. 
+It chooses, deliberately, not to be that.  And if that's what people like
+about it, then that's fine.  I just think it's a tremendously wasted
+opportunity to present something for the 90s that would be as innovative and
+imaginative and challenging as the original ST was in the 60s.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Actually, if you want to hold off a bit on the conversion, you may want
+to consider using the first new ep coming in January, "Voices of Authority." 
+It has elements of the sense of wonder, some good background on the show,
+advances the storyline bigtime, and has some of the funniest stuff we've ever
+done.  Something for everyone.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1995
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+
+      Err...I think something may not have been understood, or maybe my syntax
+was sloppy...what I'd intended, and what I think is still there in the
+message, was that I'd hoped that ST today would be as exciting in the 90s as
+it was in the 60s.  That was kinda my point, that ST in its first incarnation
+*was* innovative and interesting and imaginative; I hope that wasn't
+misconstrued.  
+
+     (And Jose...yes, you're probably right on that distinction between the
+two kinds of Trek.)
+
+     Came across this in my email tonight (it's now a tick before 3 a.m.).
+
+  This leads me to a request, which I am writing by email since I don't
+  have access to CompuServe or GEnie, but please feel free to respond to it
+  publicly rather than privately if you wish, since others may be interested
+  in your response as well.  I would be fascinated, if you would care to
+  talk about it, about your writing process.  Do you have a set time, a
+  predetermined schedule in which to write?  Are you *able* to write like
+  that?  Do you write rapidly?  easily?  enjoyably?  Do you read your work-
+  in-progress aloud to hear the language?  Do you solicit feedback from
+  others?  Do you revise?  much?  What kind of revisions are you likely to
+  make?  And if you do make revisions, do they occur as you go along, or
+  afterwards, or a combination?  And, finally, would it be possible for you
+  to post (or email) any bits of writing showing the revision process?
+
+  I'm refraining from asking all the related questions I'd love to know the
+  answers to, but if this is a topic you'd be willing to discuss and think
+  I/we would be interested in other details as well, please do talk about
+  them.  Thank you so much.
+
+Marcia Goldstein
+
+     Since these were good questions, I thought I'd tackle them here.  To the
+first: no, I don't have a set time, except that I pretty much end up writing
+all the time...when I get up, when I'm fighting sleep to go to bed, in-
+between...basically, I chew on a scene over and over in my head until I'm
+satisfied with it, then I write it down.  Sometimes that process goes on at
+the desk, or over dinner, or watching TV...but as soon as it comes through, I
+get up and I write it.  Consequently, once I've thought it through, "seen" it
+in my head a couple dozen times like watching a movie, the actual writing, or
+transcribing, is fairly easy.  It's the thinking part that makes Zathras' head
+hurt.
+
+     Most of my revisions take place before anyone else sees it; I don't
+generally turn over the script until I'm happy with it.  At that point, it's
+published as an official first draft, even though it may have gone through
+multiple revisions in my computer before anyone else ever saw it.   Sometimes,
+though, I get it right the first time, and what gets shot is basically first
+draft.  Once it's turned it, there are additional revisions, but usually of a
+minor nature, changing sets to accommodate shooting, or just changing a word. 
+(I've been known to reissue a full page when we get into blues or pinks *just*
+to change a word or two.)
+
+     I never read the words aloud because then they all come out sounding like
+me; I can "hear" them better in my head, where I can hear the actual tenor of
+Londo's voice.  I never solicit opinions on pages while I'm still writing,
+only afterward, and mainly in terms of production aspects.  To do otherwise
+risks you losing your direction and second-guessing too much.  
+
+     Do I enjoy it?  Yes and no.  Writing is the one, the ONLY thing I'm good
+at.  Writing is also the hardest thing I do.  I agonize over every word,
+always fighting the fear that this one won't be as good as the last one, that
+this time I won't be able to pull the rabbit out of the hat.   Sometimes, when
+a scene comes through completely of its own volition, it's great fun; when it
+doesn't, it's agony.  Sometimes I enjoy the writing process; sometimes I more
+enjoy *having* written.  It's kinda like taking a portable speed drill with a
+3/4" steel bit and driving it into the side of your head...it's painful, but
+after the first four inches in, you kinda start to like it....
+
+                                                                        jms
+

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+     Mike: suffice to say there are some...interesting moments coming up soon
+between Refa and Londo.  There are a number of showdowns coming up this
+season, between a lot of different characters, over stuff that's been building
+up for a while now.  We'll see where this one goes.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 27 1995
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+     Rick: exactly.  I think the show will thus be perceived differently when
+its stripped daily, just as you mentioned.
+
+     Executor: I have to take exception to the notion that it's not "written
+by committee."  I happen to know many of the people who do, and have, worked
+over there.  (And there is no one "script editor" you refer to there.)  On
+every episode, once the freelancer or staffer does an outline, it's brought in
+and the story is "broken" (their terms) by all of the available
+writers/producers/story editors gathered into one room who invariably tear it
+apart and rebuild it, with someone writing on a chalkboard where everything's
+going, changing it as the group changes stuff.  Jeri Taylor confirmed this in
+an interview with her; the Wired in-depth story does the same; and I know the
+people who've worked there in this capacity.  And, I'm sorry, but a group of 7
+or so people sitting around a room and throwing out ideas about how the story
+should go *is* a committee.  Before you come back with this, I suggest you
+read the article in question, lest you commit the crime you decry, that of 
+speaking from ignorance.
+
+     Sue: no, it's our left *and* Londo's left.  As the fireball comes toward
+us, he's standing with his back to us, looking at the fire.  The door is to
+his, and our, left.  
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     YAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH.....
+
+     Well, I *finally* finished writing the two-parter, "War Without End,"
+which is probably the toughest thing I've written for the series to date.  
+Given everything that has to fit in here, and the fact that it's the other
+half of the B4 storyline (this ain't a spoiler, that'll be common knowledge in
+ads and the like), it became a pretty difficult job, moreso than when I'd
+originally thunk it up.  It's kinda like cramming 20 pounds of potatoes in a
+10 pound bag...but I *think* I got it all in, even though the initial drafts
+came out at about 7 pages too long.  As I commented to one person, "I'm
+definitely dancing on the edge of my ability here."  But I'm pretty sure I
+pulled it all off...and I think folks are going to be quite pleased.
+
+     But *man* that was tough....
+
+     Now, having written 16 and 17, only 5 scripts remain to be written for
+this season.  And there's still an awful lot to fit in before the big season
+ender, which I suspect will raise quite a few eyebrows.  
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Thanks.  Though I knew about the gaff a LONG time before it was to air
+here in the US, I let the east/west thing go through as shot for the very
+first broadcast because I was afraid that the loop might hurt the scene, and
+it was *so* perfectly done.  That over, I decided it was worth taking a shot
+at it.  If your friend didn't notice, then we did it right.   So now those who
+taped the first broadcast have something that'll never be seen again (if I
+have anything to say about it).
+
+                                                              jms
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+     The email response I sent is correct, the release is valid, just not
+written the way I'd've preferred; it makes too much of the fiscal aspects of
+the darned thing.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+     jms does not do christmas, that's correct.
+
+     BTW, B5's own conceptual consultant Harlan Ellison will be signing copies
+of his new CD Rom game, "I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream" at Tower
+Records/Video in two locations this week: from 6-7:30 p.m. on  Wednesday,
+December 13th, at 8801 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and in San Francisco
+on Thursday, December 14th, from 6-8 p.m. at 3205 20th Avenue.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+     Kim: this was probably the most logistically difficult, since I had so
+many elements "in play" at any given moment, and so many threads to deal with,
+even though there's really just the one overall storyline (it's hard to
+explain, you'll just have to see it).  Other things have been more difficult
+for other reasons...either it was too emotionally close to me, or I've been
+under a killer deadline, it varies.
+
+     Pat: you fall into the trap of accepted cliche re: committee writing.  
+That's the usual picture people have of TV writing, and frankly, in the case
+of most dramatic TV, it ain't true.  For starters, two of the shows you cite
+are sitcoms; sitcoms work differently from dramatic series in that there's
+often (though not always) a gang of gag writers who work in tandem to come up
+with an episode, with someone transcribing the jokes, around a basic premise. 
+Other times you get a writing team, one knows structure, the other is funny;
+ain't the same deal as dramatic writing.
+
+     I've been involved in a LOT of dramatic television, from MURDER SHE WROTE
+to WALKER to TWILIGHT ZONE and JAKE, and it's just not done by committee. 
+When it comes to my scripts, as a staffer, I write them on my own, get my
+notes from the exec producer, make the changes, and it goes into production. 
+In the case of a freelancer, the outline and script come in, the writer gets
+notes from the story editor or producer, does the next draft, turns that in,
+and someone on staff then takes the script and makes whatever final changes --
+minor or major -- are required to make it producible or a better story. 
+Sometimes you don't touch it at *all* except to make production (set) changes;
+sometimes it's more.  But you've got just the original writer, and usually one
+staffer doing cleanup.  It ain't three, four or seven guys in a room throwing
+around ideas.  If a staffer does a huge rewrite, sometimes you'll put in for
+shared credit.   (The reason you see ten zillion writer credits in many ST
+episodes is due to the gang rewriting/writing process.)
+
+     I'm not saying it doesn't happen at all in dramatic TV, because that
+wouldn't be true...only that it's not the rule, and is much rarer than you
+might think.  Not one of the dramatic series I've been involved with has ever
+worked that way.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+     Let me see if I've got this straight...Executor says that ST is not
+written by committee...I say that it is...he says it's not, and that "reality
+doesn't care" if I take exception to his statement that ST is written by
+committee...and then he states that ST *must* be written by committee, and
+thus it IS written by committee, which means I was correct and reality is on
+my side.
+
+     At some point here I think somebody fell down the rabbit hole....
+
+     And then I'm contradicted quoting the "script editor" for ST, when I say
+there IS no such creature working on the show, and in fact despite being told
+I'm wrong by Executor, he turn turns around and reveals that the "editor" in
+question is John Ordover, who edits the BOOKS, not the show, and is NOT a
+script editor, which I said doesn't exist, which again shows that reality is
+on my side....
+
+     This is makings Zathras' head hurt....
+
+     Re: the "stupid thread," and the "effective end of similarity" being that
+the two shows were set on space stations...oh, you mean absent the fact that
+the two shows both were helmed by commander ranked officers who had survived
+major and emotionally devastating battles, both had female seconds-in-command,
+both had a shapeshifter in their pilots, both had the female second leading a
+counter-attack to a massive attack in that same pilot, and a lot of other
+stuff in common....oh, you mean absent all THAT it's the "effective end of
+similarity."  Gotcha.
+
+     "Writing teams can come up with ideas better than one writer."  Well,
+THAT should certainly put Hemingway, and Shakespeare, and Dickens, and Wilde,
+and Borges, and Faulkner, and Dostoeyvsky, and Marlowe in their place,
+yessir...and I'm sure you are now prepared to name the committees of writers
+that have come up with better than individual writers.  I eagerly await them.
+
+     As for your comments on how TV writing and production works...rarely have
+I seen misinformation so breathtakingly portrayed.  Saying it's so doesn't
+make it so.
+
+     Finally, as for being bugged by email, I almost always see this when
+somebody gets his or her hide branded in public forums; if you have these,
+notify GEnie.  Otherwise, it leads me to doubt if they exist, and to consider
+that you're just saying that to get sympathy on your side, 'cause the *facts*
+sure as heck aren't.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 31 1995
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+      One other aspect I forgot to mention is that if we do the tapes, there
+are residuals and royalties to pay to actors, writers, directors as well as to
+WB and elsewhere.  The more you put on a tape, the more residuals you end up
+paying per tape...and the more the prices is going go up.  It's not the same
+as copying a bunch of tapes for a friend; we have to pay everyone who
+participated in the episode.  
+
+                                                               jms
+

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+      Haven't tried the game yet, or ANY of the games now in my hands, or that
+I'm intending to buy, 'cause if I get into them (like Mechwarrior 2) I know
+that it'll take hours and hours from the writing; when the season's over, then
+I can do that.
+
+                                                                jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 12 1995
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+     Jeff: yep, that was you I was thinking of...thanks for leaping up and
+helping indicate I'm not senile (well, yet, anyway).
+
+     Re: Mechwarrior 2...I don't have any first-hand experience with the game,
+so don't take my purchase as recommendation; I'd just read some of the
+reviews, and figured I'd check it out.
+
+     Re: Sinclair as the One...funny how all this time very few folks have
+really commented much on how it was that Zathras could look right into
+Sinclair's face and say, "NOT the One."  
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+     Basically, she doesn't have any one style; it's whatever she feels like
+that day.  The military rule is that the hair has to be kept either off,
+above, or away from the rank insignia.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

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+JMS Genie Message on Dec 13 1995
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+     Actually, I tend to spend the same amount of time here as anywhere else;
+more, in fact.  I inevitably log onto GEnie minimum of twice a day; I
+sometimes go a couple/three days without logging onto AOL, for instance,
+though then I post several messages at a time, so you get a flurry.  As for
+CIS, bear in mind that I've been on that service LONG before GEnie even came
+along, since 1984/85, and that has the benefit of using an offline
+reader/posting program, Tapcis...I've tried Aladdin, and can't get it to do
+the stuff I want...this isn't an invitation to teach me, I don't have time for
+the learning curve right now...so everything you see from me here on GEnie is
+written live, on-line.  That sometimes mitigates a *bit* against the number of
+posts, but no more so than at any time before.
+
+     The video thing didn't come out as an announcement, but rather as an
+aside to an ongoing discussion that touched into this area.  It wasn't a case
+of, "Aha!  I have this to announce, so I'll do it HERE rather than on GEnie." 
+That's just where it occured to me in the natural progression of messages. 
+Just like stuff gets mentioned here that sometimes doesn't get mentioned
+elsewhere.  Which is why there are a number of folks out there collecting my
+posts on various services and reposting them onto other services, because I
+don't generally talk about the same stuff in all these different places.  If I
+just did redundent postings, there'd be no need for that.
+
+     Finally, if there *is* any numerical difference in postings -- and I
+dispute that premise -- it may come from the fact that in general, on the
+newer places, I tend to get a lot more specific questions than here; and most
+of the ones here, or in general, tend to be "is this going to happen," or
+asking for details on upcoming stuff, which I really can't answer often or in
+great specificity.
+
+     I still consider GEnie and CIS my two primary services, having been here
+the longest...but let's not get proprietary here....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+      The actor who plays Pinky, Maurice LeMarche, is a friend, so that may
+explain the connection.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (Maurice also did the voice of Egon Spengler in TRGBs)
+

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+      Yes, in "Ceremonies" Harlan is the voice of the computer used.
+
+      No, have never been on NPR's Fresh Air.  Nobody's asked.
+
+      Well, reactions have been coming in on the two parter, and so far
+everyone's wog-boggled.  Peter Jurasik called to say he didn't know what I'm
+smoking these days, but to please send ten pounds of it to his house at
+*once*.  Mumy went nuts over it, everyone's very excited...including and
+especially Michael O'Hare, who got his copy of the script today, read it
+straight through, and is *extremely* excited by the story, and what happens
+with his character, and is VERY much looking forward to the shoot.  
+
+     BTW, today Walter Koenig and Bill Mumy had a scene together; this (saith
+Bill) marks the first time a Lost in Space regular and a Star Trek regular
+have acted together in the same scene.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Remember, we're only going to be doing a *few* things to start, just
+enough to help make the endeavor self-sustaining.  We're not really in the
+merchandising business, that's not what we do.  It's up to other companies to
+do models and the like.  
+
+     At this point, the list is just pins, patches, Sheridan's EAS AGAMEMNON
+cap, maybe some t-shirts, maybe the videos, scripts, Links, and a couple of
+other things.
+
+     BTW, we cannot produce letterbox at this time, for the simple reason that
+we would have to go back to the original negative film stock and re-telecine
+all of the prints.  We'd have to produce new prints in the original format, re-
+edit everything...it's a hideously expensive proposition, and we just don't
+have those resources.
+
+     When that happens, it'll have to happen through a major video company.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+      Actually, having now seen (upon noting this discussion) the two part DS9
+episode, it looks to me more like a point-for-point "homage" to SEVEN DAYS IN
+MAY...a general who thinks that his president is being soft on preparing for
+enemy threats, decides to move his people into position to take over in a
+military coup, a lower-level officer (Sisko in the Kirk Douglas role) warning
+the president, timing the putch to take place at the time of a major speech
+during which instead the general will make his speech instead, code-named
+military maneuvers which are supposedly drills but instead are opportunities
+for moving military squads into the right position, that same code being
+discovered, the general being a patriot by his lights not a traitor, the
+general getting boxed in at the last...I could go on, but really, it's SEVEN
+DAYS IN MAY right down the line.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Permission isn't required for pictures currently out there from WB on the
+nets (and there are lots of them).
+
+     THE BEST MAN?  Good heavens, I've discovered a film I hadn't known
+existed.  I'll try and nail a copy at first opportunity if it's something one
+would include in such other august company as FAILSAFE and THE MANCHURIAN
+CANDIDATE, both of which are *excellent*.
+
+     Re: the Arisia panels...tell you what, Michael...there's bound to be a
+moment when it will seem apt to include this...so at that moment, deliver to
+the assembled folkses the following message straight from jms:
+
+     STAR TREK VS. B5.  You who programmed this panel, you who determined
+theme and direction, who put the Vs. in the title...have you learned nothing
+from experience?  Do any of you, who organize conventions and do so out of a
+professed love and familiarity with science fiction, remember September 1966? 
+That was the year a little science fiction series called STAR TREK debuted on
+network television, one year exactly after the premiere of LOST IN SPACE in
+September 1965.  STAR TREK, which was panned by reviewers and fans alike who,
+out of a perceived loyalty to the previous show, described it as nothing more
+than a cheap attempt to cash in on the success of LOST IN SPACE.  LOST was the
+established norm, TREK the impudent newcomer, a throwback some said from the
+strong family drama of LOST.  TREK fans said that this was unfair, that their
+show shouldn't have to be compared to LOST IN SPACE, that it should be taken
+on its own merit.
+
+     "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
+
+     There is no STAR TREK VS. B5 except in the minds of those who would
+profit from continuing feuds on either side of the fictional picket fence. 
+Why not CAGNEY & LACEY VS. NYPD BLUE?  They're both cop shows.  Why is the one
+predicated upon the other?  What happened to IDIC, Infinite Diversity in
+Infinte Combinations?  Should it be celebrated only in concept, not execution?
+The science fiction community is composed of brilliant dreamers, practical
+visionaries, afficianados, costumers, craftspeople...and feuds, in equal
+measure.  And whichever "side" folks come down on at this panel, B5 or ST,
+it's an exercise in factionalization that achieves nothing because there IS no
+VS, no OR; it's B5 *and* Star Trek *and* Lost in Space *and* The Prisoner
+*and* Space: Above and Beyond.  Because the future of science fiction is in
+the cross pollinization of ideas, the interbreeding -- after proper
+introductions dinners and flowers -- of dreams and visions and extrapolations,
+which in time results in the birth of new dreams, new ideas, and new visions. 
+ Absent that, the species, and the genre, dies.
+
+     Yes, it is possible to explore, compare and contrast the methods of
+storytelling, the effects, the structure and the acting of any two series;
+that is the point of the And.  In Ali vs. Frasier, the Axis vs. the Allies,
+Truman vs. Dewey, OJ Simpson vs. an inconvenient truth, there can only be one
+left standing at the end.  But in science fiction, we all stand together,
+protecting and sharing our diverse dreams, or we do not stand at all.
+
+     RE: "B5 is really X in disguise" You're all right, and you're all wrong. 
+Is it Lord of the Rings?  Dune?  The Kennedy story?  The saga of Camelot?  The
+Foundation?  A brief history of World War II?  The Bible?   All these and
+others have been broached to me by people absolutely sure that this was the
+model for the series.  (And, as an aside, this kind of discussion generally
+happens only to TV writers; nobody here is doing a panel called "Is Startide
+Rising Really X in disguise?"  This happens to TV writers because somehow it
+gets assumed that we haven't got an idea in our heads that we didn't swipe
+from somebody's book.  But that's another topic for another time.)
+
+     Babylon 5...is a Rohrsharch test.  An ink blot created by smashing
+actors, archetypes, saga-structure, myth and language against a sheet of
+paper, folding it, and bashing it a few times.  When you open it up and look
+inside, what you see is the saga closest to your heart and your experience. 
+Because like all the works mentioned a moment ago, B5 draws upon the same
+wellspring of myth, archetype, symbology, and dime store sociology that feeds
+all sagas, from the Illiad on through to the present.  
+
+     Writers, science fiction writers in particular, are like the beggar in
+Alladin, who offered new lamps for old...we seize myths that have fallen out
+of currency and recast them in newer guise, dust them off and hope a genie
+emerges.  Our myths, the myths of Tolkien and Homer, of Heinlein and Mallory,
+are eternal; they exchange one name for another, cast off one mask and assume
+the next.  If you perceive their presence in Babylon 5, it is because we have
+courted the myth, not because we have echoed one of their names from another
+place.  King Lear vanishes into Londo, Cassandra peers out from behind the
+eyes of G'Kar, Galahad answers to the name Ivanova, the Oracle at Delphi is
+now wearing an encounter suit, and Sir Bedevere is...well, that would be
+telling.
+
+     So you're all right.  And you're all wrong.  Because it's all ACTUALLY
+based on the 1967 Young Juveniles novel "The Mad Scientists' Club."  And I'm
+actually channeling Eleanor Roosevelt.  (Fortunately, I already have the
+wardrobe.)  Oh, yes...and I am the walrus, coo-coo ka choo....
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Read it?  I *loved* "The Mad Scientists Club" the first time I read it as
+a kid.  (Never read the follow-up book.)  It was just great fun, and very
+ingenious.  I think I may actually still have that copy somewhere in a box.  
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     Re: an "edge" to the show....I suspect you're going to get all the edge
+you could possibly want with episodes 8, 9 and especially 10.
+
+     Be *very* careful what you wish for.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Ruth: and that's one thing that I object to about the worldcons.  If a
+pro travels to the convention, and appears on panels, which draw the
+attendees, which brings money to the convention, then the very *least* the con
+should do is provide a free membership.  As an example of this, I was
+repeatedly asked by folks involved in the recent WorldCon in San Francisco to
+come, do a B5 presentation, me and Harlan and one or two others...I wasn't
+going to go at first, because I was extremely busy, but finally I relented,
+paid my own way up there, showed up at the door to do something they'd asked
+me to do...and found out that I had to buy my own membership.  My comments in
+response do not bear repeating in a public forum, and in any event would
+sizzle modem connections anyway.
+
+     And the "we'll refund if we show a profit" line is sheerest nonsense;
+I've never known a single pro who got his membership reimbursed for a
+WorldCon.  Some pros I know end up getting booked back to back on panels, they
+sign through lunch, they're run ragged for the benefit of the 
+convention...and they have to pay for the privilege?  Where is the logic in
+this?
+
+     San Diego Comic Con is just as big if not bigger than any WorldCon, and
+EVERY PRO who shows up is comp'd into the convention, even if he or she isn't
+on a panel.  And that is an *extremely* profitable convention.   Further, this
+small sign of respect entices a LOT more pros to come than might otherwise be
+the case.  I know a number of SF writers (print and media) and producers who
+simply refuse to go to a worldcon on  principle, for this very reason.  
+
+      When I arrived at the San Francisco worldcon, the attitude that I got
+when told I'd be paying for my own membership was that I should be thankful
+they even let me in the door.  They were extremely annoying about it, and very
+high-handed.  I came within about an inch of turning around and going home;
+instead I stayed and did the B5 presentation, but refused to take part in the
+other panels they'd scheduled me for, which would've meant heavy-duty
+schedules.  (And they got downright exercised over my non-attendence, as
+though they *had* paid or comp'd me, and they had the *right* to DEMAND I be
+there.)  The experience absolutely put me off WorldCons, and I haven't been to
+one since.
+
+     If tomorrow, Worldcon changed its stupid policy (and it *IS* a stupid
+policy), what would happen is that you'd get a LOT more pros to attend, on
+panels and off, they'd generate more attendees, more goodwill with the SF
+community (just ask SFWA how they tend to get treated; there was a big scandal
+about facilities provided to them a year or two ago), and they wouldn't lose a
+*dime*, if anything they'd make more money due to more folks attending on both
+sides.  WorldCon has, what, 17-20,000 maximum attending?  San Diego Comic Con
+gets 20-25,000 and with every single pro comp'd makes a tidy profit each year.
+Anybody who says WorldCon can't do it is simply full of it.    
+
+                                                                      jms
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+      We still have to license 'em from WB; we've been told it shouldn't be a
+problem, but we get told that a lot, and 85% of the time it ain't true.  We
+were told it shouldn't be a problem to get the fan club up and operating in a
+few months; that was 2 years ago.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Actually, we've already *had* ST vs. B5 in sports; our softball team has
+played both the DS9 and Voyager teams.  We lost to Voyager and whomped the
+hell out of DS9.  
+
+     Here's what was given to the Paramount people, as best I can recall at
+this time, I'd have to check the correspondence to be sure: the script for
+"The Gathering" pilot movie; eight to ten pieces of original conceptual
+artwork done by Peter Ledger helping to explain the concept and giving
+character sketches; the series "sell" bible which has NEVER been released to
+any writer, it was *only* intended as a device to help explain to studios and
+networks the direction and nature of the show; lengthy backgrounds on all of
+the characters, and descriptions for the overall direction of the series, and
+synopses of about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of
+the planned series.  There was a LOT of material.
+
+     But let me clarify and reinforce something I said on CIS and elsewhere: I
+don't believe that either Berman or Pillar would deliberately take B5 material
+and use it.  My *only* concern was that in the initial stages of development,
+which always receive a great deal of "guidance" from studio execs, that the
+execs who DID have the material might have "guided" them in our direction, in
+an attempt to co-opt what we were doing for WB/PTEN, because there's great
+animosity between those two studios, and out of a desire to protect their
+franchise and eliminate any competition by basically absorbing it.
+
+     Sometimes it does bother me, and I wonder about what the heck's going on,
+when I see the only other space station series doing a big arc about alien
+forces infiltrating earth government, and brewing civil war  on Earth, at the
+*exact same moment* that we're doing it on our show; earlier, later, fine, but
+that they'd do basically the same thing at the same time feels like another
+attempt to co-opt what we're doing on this show.  (Not copy; co-opt, which
+happens all the time.  Remember Deepstar Six?  And another underwater monster
+movie released about the same time?   Those were both *direct* attempt to co-
+opt The Abyss by coming out first.  It happens all the time.  When Ghost was
+in heavy development, every studio in town was scurrying around looking for an
+after-life movie to put out fast...I know because I got called in and asked to
+come up with something by a major studio...I declined.)  If you kinda know the
+direction someone else is going, you try to jump ahead and get there first, so
+that the other either loses impact, or is considered simply an imitation. 
+(Which is one reason why DS9 was hurried through post production to get it on
+the air a few weeks before B5's pilot, I suspect.)
+
+     Are we being co-opted?  I dunno.  When I hear that there's a red headed
+woman character on DS9 named Leeta (prounced the same as Lyta); when I see
+them doing the same kind of arc we're doing but getting it out a little
+earlier, I will confess it does give me pause sometimes.  I try to think the
+best under these conditions.  For now, I'm asuming it's all just coincidence.
+
+     (Oh, and as for scripts vs. production times...we are generally far ahead
+of most shows on scripts, about 4 episodes ahead of production at any moment. 
+So this next batch of scripts was probably written around August, at which
+time they're circulated over town to agents and the like as part of casting. 
+So I find it *highly* improbable that these DS9 episodes were written in June,
+knowing how close to the wire they tend to run over there.)
+
+     And, really, on another level, it's clear that they weren't ripping off
+B5 with this two-parter...I will defend that to the death by virtue of the
+clear logic that they're *really* ripping of SEVEN DAYS IN MAY.   As for the
+timing...well, we'll see.
+
+     (This is something else that happens a lot in TV; a writer will say,
+"Okay, let's do FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX with Jessica Fletcher in the Henry Fonda
+role.")
+
+     Finally, re: Jeri Taylor...here I have to disagree.  Though we don't talk
+as often as we should, or as I'd like, in large measure I think because of the
+perceived awkwardness between ST and B5 right now, I  consider her not only a
+friend, but one of the best writer/producers in town.  This isn't widely
+known, but she was my exec producer, with David Moessinger, on JAKE AND THE
+FATMAN.  We worked together very closely, and I found her to be an immensely
+talented woman, very dedicated to quality storytelling, ethical and strong
+willed and generous to a fault.  When she and David resigned from Jake on
+principle, over some stuff that was happening quite unfairly to them, I quit
+with them, even though it was my very first real network major gig, and my
+agent thought I was nuts.   I don't do this for everybody.  I did it for Jeri
+and David because they are good and decent people, because I cared about them,
+and because they were *right*...and they're two of the best writers I know.  
+
+     If there's a problem with Voyager -- and I'm not saying there is, because
+I haven't seen enough of it to form a valid opinion -- it's due to the
+situation that has always pertained to ST: they make the writers there write
+with mittens on, and won't let them cut loose with the kinds of stories they
+COULD do, for fear of doing something controversial that might hurt "The
+Franchise."  I've said it elsewhere and will repeat it again: I know the folks
+they've got over there, and if Paramount ever backed off and let them do what
+they're *capable* of doing, they'd blow the doors off of SF television.
+
+     So long story made short...no, I don't think B&P at DS9 are sitting there
+cribbing B5 plotlines from the original material provided to Paramount.  I
+think they would refuse.  They are ethical individuals.   Are they playing a
+little at co-opting us, which is kind of more accepted in town?  I don't know.
+I think you could make a compelling argument on either side.  But I don't know
+the truth any more than you do, and if they say not, then I'm prepared to
+believe them.  And as for Jeri, anybody here goes after her, has to go through
+me first.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     Re: the Hugos...I would not tend to consider the entirety of season two
+as one dramatic unit because it's written by diverse hands, many different
+writers.  I think you'd have to have an entire season written by one writer,
+as a whole and undiluted dramatic unit, for that season to be eligible....
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     Re: history...there's a line I came across somewhere, "I have 25 more
+years of experience than you do."  "No, you just have one year of experience,
+repeated 25 times."
+
+     Mike: that's a *great* report from Arisia, thanks; glad to hear it all
+went well.  (And yes, of course, feel free to email the comments around;
+anybody else wants to use them, that's fine too.)  To your notion (ah, the
+birth of a notion) that current B5 fandom resembles the original ST
+fandom...there may be something to that, I think.  In any event, thanks
+again....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     One of the problems we had with the Hugo last year was that whereas only
+a couple of TNG episodes were good enough to get nominated, eight B5 episodes
+made it to the final cut.  Because folks went for their favorite episodes, and
+they had a number that year.  The result was that the choices got split so
+much that TNG won, since it had fewer good or great episodes that season. 
+("All Good Things" won with, I think, 57 votes; the top two B5 episodes on the
+list had 32 and 27 votes between them, enough right there to have won if
+combined.  That was for "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis," with "And the
+Sky Full of Stars" at 21, "Babylon Squared" at 19, "Believers" at 10, "Mind
+War" at 9, "Voice in the Wilderness" at 8, and "Soul Hunter" at 6.)
+
+     So basically, we lost because we had too many solid episodes to choose
+from.
+
+     As a result, a lot of folks this year have been campaigning to have
+participants go for "The Coming of Shadows," which is the highest rated
+episode in all the informal polls on-line and elsewhere from that time period.
+It's the one nearly everybody seems to agree upon.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     Well, guess what...this week's new TV GUIDE had a cover story on Science
+Fiction TV...big coverage to ST, X-Files, Space A&B, Xena and Hercules...but
+absent one sentence containing an offhand reference to B5 in an article on the
+upcoming Osiris Chronicles...nothing about B5.   Zippo.  Period.  Nada.
+
+     About what I expected.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Sharon, my main point was primarily that if a pro is invited to a
+worldcon, or asked to perform on a panel or give a presentation, then that pro
+should be comp'd.  The SDCC "every pro is comp'd" rule is great, but I'm not
+going to shove it down anybody's throat.  This, though, should be the minimum
+requirement.
+
+     You lock yourself into a box otherwise.  Okay, you comp more pros, you
+lose those memberships...but suddenly there are MORE pros -- again, there are
+many who just won't attend on principle over all this -- and this will draw
+more attendees to SEE those pros.  If that pro brings in just *one* more
+person who might not otherwise have attended, then it's a wash, is it not?  On
+the flip side, you *don't* comp pros, so many don't come, so there are fewer
+folks drawn to the con, and less money is made.  
+
+     The policy is, frankly, counter-productive and stupid.  And, frankly,
+insulting to most of the pros I've spoken to about this subject.  It's okay to
+have them as draws, to get the folks in the door, but respect their efforts by
+at least not requiring them to pay for the privilege of being asked to
+perform?  Not a chance.
+
+     And yeah, ConFrancisco *did* leave a bad taste in my mouth.  I was
+treated rudely.  When I said that after coming all this way, on my own dime,
+at their request, and being denied admission, I was half inclined toward just
+turning around and going home, what I got was a shrug and a laugh..."Okay,
+fine, go, we've got plenty of other pros here.  We really don't need you if
+we've got the others."  So I did the one B5 presentation -- because I knew a
+lot of fans were expecting it, and would be otherwise disappointed -- but
+basically boycotted the rest of the convention, for which I'd paid full price.
+
+     If, tomorrow, all the pros said, "Screw it, if we have to pay to go to a
+convention that wants us to *work* while we're there, we're just not going,"
+then the day after tomorrow there would be a *new* policy that pros asked to
+work at the WorldCon would be comp'd...and the cons would go on just fine. 
+Because without the pros...you don't HAVE a convention.
+
+     I guess the reason I take such personal umbrage at this is because when
+I'm asked to be at a convention, I bust my butt to serve the convention.  At
+the recent UK convention I attended, it wasn't just "do your one presentation
+or panel and coast," I was down hanging out with fans in the lobby, sitting
+and talking...I was in the main ballroom, personally rearranging chairs to
+make sure there weren't any bad seats, since there were posts in the way and
+those setting up hadn't taken that into consideration...I signed autographs
+for 3 hours straight, working the line up the stairs when people started to
+get faint from the heat, signing about 2,000 autographs in two days, with the
+rule that NOBODY got turned away who wanted one, no matter how long it
+took...I attended presentations I wasn't in...and when I go up on stage
+finally I fight like crazy to make every second as interesting and fun as I
+can, because *that's my obligation to the convention, and the people who came
+all this way to be there*.  They expect, and should receive, nothing less than
+absolute satisfaction.  
+
+     I lose over 5 pounds every time I do a two-day convention, because I'm
+constantly on the run, trying to make sure everybody's having a good time.  I
+do this for the cons where I'm the "big shot main guest," and I do as much of
+it as I can when I'm just one more invited guest (without being intrusive or
+getting into somebody else's spotlight, which is wrong).  Given all that, I
+don't think it's too much to ask to be comp'd into the convention.
+
+     See, the money, for me, ain't the issue.  I can afford the ticket, that
+ain't no big deal.  (As for WB paying the freight...now THAT'S comedy.)  It's
+the *principle* of the thing that bothers me.  The science fiction field is a
+direct result of the efforts of its writers, creating new and exciting visions
+of the future, the past, and our possibilities.   It seems to me that those
+who do so should be accorded a minimum of respect for their efforts in a
+massive celebration of the genre.
+
+     And yes, I do know the history of the worldcons, albeit not as
+extensively as others might.  And when they began, they were mainly just pros
+getting together in a sort of private club environment, along with a
+relatively small portion of fans.  Now, however, it's become a fairly big
+industry, lots of fans come from all over the world to attend, major
+publishing companies buy booths and exhibit space, movie and TV studios
+participate...it's Show Business now.  But the same mindset from the early
+days still is being applied...and SF folks, more than anyone else, should know
+the peril in applying old logic to a changing world.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Sharon, you're engaging in the politics of distraction.  You keep
+broadening out the argument...now it's drink chits, and the green room, and
+programs.  Let's deal with one thing at a time, shall we?  (And I think most
+pros would be happy to let go of the $2 drink chit in exchange for the $100
+admission fee, don't you?)  
+
+     Perianne just gave us a very good breakdown: 200 program participants at
+$100 apiece being $20,000.  Are you saying that worldcons are so fiscally
+unstable that they can't handle this?  What happens to the ads paid for in the
+program booklet from book companies and movie studios and TV shows and authors
+and artists?  Where is that money going?  When the studios and the publishers
+and others pay for booth space and exhibits, doesn't that go into the kitty? 
+If you were *just* making the money on ticket sales, then maybe you might have
+an argument...but there are revenue streams coming in from a LOT of places,
+from institutions with big bucks, who are there because the pros are there.
+
+     Here's a question...when was the last time a WorldCon was audited?  
+Because if they're that financially unsound, maybe something should be looked
+into about their books.  There's probably a great deal of waste in there.  I
+bet we could find out where the problem is...or, perhaps, determine that
+they're not this fiscally unstable after all, which would certainly be in
+everyone's interest, would it not?
+
+     The reason I bring this up is that, well, I work in *Hollywood*, and out
+here we've learned that ON PAPER, the studios make absolutely sure that
+nothing ever shows a profit, to avoid paying participants.  I know full well
+how figures can be balanced, juggled, cross-referenced and buried.  So the
+question becomes...if the WorldCon is a function for the SF and fan
+contingents, to whom is the WorldCon accountable (literally and figuratively)
+for its fiscal activities?  Is it just WorldCon folks monitoring WorldCon
+folks?  Is each separate division allowed to monitor its own books without
+supervision by any other WorldCon?  If so, then we enter the "Who Watches the
+Watchmen?" scenario.  
+
+     If you say, "The WorldCon can't afford to comp participating pros," then
+it seems to me not unreasonable to say, "Okay, I will accept that if you will
+show me that this is the case."  Otherwise why should we take anyone's word
+for this?  You are eliciting $20,000 in fees from pros who would be comp'd at
+*virtually any other convention in the country*.  This is truly extraordinary.
+One of a kind.  I see nothing wrong with asking for support, evidence and
+proof as to why this is necessary.
+
+     A proper audit would compare actual fees received, plus revenue from t-
+shirts, programs, exhibit space, and other areas, with "soft" revenue in the
+sense of hotel facilities provided free or at reduced cost as part of a
+package deal, trade-offs, barter, and real costs on facilities, free rooms for
+various individuals (convention top organizers doubtless get free rooms under
+the package deal), and so on...and in so doing put this issue fully and
+completely to rest.
+
+     So...to whom *are* the WorldCons answerable...?
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     Broadcast networks are still adamently opposed to LBX broadcasts 'cause
+most folks have small TVs and would tune out.  (A lot of folks who spring for
+cable tend to have larger TVs, so it works a bit better there.)  A network
+suit once told me, "We program for people who can't afford cable or tapes or
+disks."  
+
+     Re: licensing...yes, since WB owns the copyright to B5 (just as Paramount
+owns the copyright to ST), we have to license back anything we want to sell.
+
+     No, the German and French stations have not been broadcasting in
+widescreen, but have been negotiating for the right to do so in year 3.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     Since the universe is curved, there cannot be any truly straight answers.
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+     RE: B5 costs...generally, under $900,000 per episode.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 17 1996
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+     At this point, I think I'd opt not to get into discussing ways to get the
+film/TV companies involved more in SF fandom and the like, because sooner or
+later that'd lead me back to the Dramatic Nebula discussion, and if we even
+get *near* that one you would see a flamefest that would make the firebombing
+of Dresden look like a tea party by comparison.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 18 1996
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+     Actually, as I recall, it's "Even a man who is pure at heart, and  says
+his prayers by night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the
+moon is full and bright."  Maria Ospenskaya.  
+
+     Part of the problem with American culture is that we're a throwaway
+culture...yesterday's fashions get tossed out instantly.  To say that TNG or
+DS9 are *better* shows than TOS because TOS was "of its time," or "good for
+its time" is at heart a foolish statement.  Something is good, or it is not
+good.  Nobody writes like Shakespeare anymore; was Shakespeare good "for its
+time?"  Is it not good today because it is too much "of its time?"  Chaucer? 
+Marlowe?  Hemingway?  Dickens?  Serling?
+
+     We denigrate our past to falsely ennoble our present.  "Well, that was
+okay for *then*, but it's not very good *now*."  We all labor under the rules
+and predelications of the moment.  Yes, TOS operated under rules of that time,
+just as TNG operates under the rules of syndication, and the secondary and
+tertiary rules that come along with the fear of not botching the franchise by
+doing anything too controversial.  One could make a good argument that, by
+calcification and commercialization, there are MORE  creative strictures on
+the ST "form" than there were in the days of TOS; certainly most of the
+writers who've worked on the contemporary versions will tell you this.
+
+     Nonetheless, we should recognize that people aren't just stupid en masse
+one year, then suddenly smarter today.  If TOS was good, then it was good;
+*we* may have changed, but the quality of the show as perceived then, is still
+there.
+
+     End of sermon.
+
+     Tentative title for #319: "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Yeah, I know Alan.  We're more casual acquaintances than friends.
+
+     "All television has improved...."  I'm sorry, I can't believe anyone
+actually wrote that sentence with a straight face.  Overall, like the rest of
+society, television has become *less* literate, *less* sophisticated than it
+was in the early years.  Sure, we can now make genitalia jokes on Married With
+Children...but it that more sophisticated?   Where I come from, sophistication
+means smart, witty, urbane, worldly.   That doesn't describe the majority of
+contemporary TV.  
+
+     The majority of current television programs produced currently are
+sitcoms, the majority of which are, to me, unwatchable...I see very little of
+the genuine humor of, say, the Dick Van Dyke show, or the sophistication of
+MASH.  A few -- Cybil, the Simpsons, a handful of others (and AbFab if you get
+cable) -- are quite funny, but frankly, were it not for laugh tracks, I think
+about 70% of sitcom writers would be out of business.
+
+     When it comes to drama...point out to me who out there is doing work on a
+par with Reginald Rose or Rod Serling or Paddy Chayefsky...where on TV can you
+find hour or 90 minute plays like "Requiem For a Heavyweight" or "Marnie" or
+"Patterns?"  Is there good stuff being done today?  Yes, of course there
+is...there's just *less* of it around in drama mainly because the networks do
+all they can do dumb down a show to make it more accessible.  
+
+     (A network suit actually *said* thsi to me: "Our operating philosophy
+these days is that the people with upper or middle-class incomes, and an
+education, are watching cable, or laser disks, or videotapes.  So what we have
+to do is to program for the rest of the audience, who may be under educated,
+but don't have any other options."  Scared the hell outta me.)
+
+     When I was working on JAKE AND THE FATMAN (no defense offered), I had a
+script I'd written about a cop who's been trying to nail a certain bad guy for
+the last 10 years.  I had a line in that when they meet: the bad guy says, "I
+suppose I should be flattered.  Not every man has his own, personal Ahab."  A
+pretty spiffy line.
+
+     The network calls.  "We think there's a typo; there's a character
+referenced named Ahab, but we don't see him anywhere else in the script."  My
+exec tries to explain to the network suit...see, it's Ahab...Captain
+Ahab...you know, MOBY DICK...a nut chasing a big fish...?"  The network guy
+says, "Look, I have an MBA [I think we already see part of the problem here -
+jms] and if I don't know who Ahab is, nobody else is going to, so cut it out
+of the script."  And so it went, over my strongly stated objections.
+
+     Has some TV gotten better?  Yes.  Has some TV gotten worse?  Most
+definitely.  But to say that "ALL television has improved" is, frankly, one of
+the most astonishingly inaccurate statements I've seen in years.   That means
+there are no gaggles of talk shows parading our eccentricities in phosphor-dot
+parades day and night; no infomercials; no "America's Goofiest Videos"....
+
+     There's more material out there, but as is the rule with just about
+everything, 90% of everything is crap, to quote Sturgeon.  If you have a pile
+of 100 things, then 10 of them are great; if you have a pile of 1,000 things,
+you can say there are now 100 great things where there were once only 10...but
+one can also turn around and say that there are now 900  crappy things were
+there were once only 90.
+
+     To the question uptopic about golden-age SF...I would be lying through my
+teeth if I said I wasn't strongly influenced by the look and feel of golden
+age SF, and that this has filtered into the show to one extent or another.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jan 20 1996
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+      Re: the notion that there are 7 basic stories...this isthe sort of 
+thing academics come up with because they feel this compulsive need to
+categorize creativity and break it down into digestible pieces.  It is, of
+course, sheerest nonsense, and the usual descriptions they try to apply (man
+vs. man, man vs. environment, man vs. god, man vs. self) are so broad as to be
+essentially meaningless.  There ARE no set numbers of stories or story types. 
+Stories, at their best, are based around characters, and what that specific
+character wants, how far he is prepared to go to get it, and how far someone
+else will go to stop him.  Thus, there as many types of stories as there are
+types of people...endless and varied.
+
+     There's a post-script to the Moby Dick story...subsequent to the  events
+described, I send the suit in question a copy of Moby Dick...in comic book
+form (Classics Illustrated).  Something he could handle.
+
+     To those who inquired, other TZ episodes I wrote: THE WALL, DREAM ME A
+LIFE, ACTS OF TERROR, THE MIND OF SIMON FOSTER, THE CALL, SPECIAL SERVICE,
+RENDEZVOUS IN A DARK PLACE, and co-written...THE CURIOUS CASE OF EDGAR
+WITHERSPOON (w/Barkin), THE TRANCE (w/Stuart) and OUR SELENA IS DYING, story
+by Serling, script by jms.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+      BTW, two quickies...I haven't had a chance to read it or buy it yet --
+or ANY book lately, or see a movie since May -- but Harlan noted to me lately
+that our own Adam Troy-Castro's latest novel is especially spiffy, so folks
+here may want to check it out.  Also...if you count yourself as *any* kind of
+fan of quality SF, then you may want to check out a movie that's SF if you
+kinda squint at it a little, and is very likely one of the best movies of its
+genre (whatever it is) ever made.   I'm referring to SECONDS, starring
+(believe it or not) Rock Hudson, a B&W film directed by Frankenheimer when he
+was still terrific.  I mention it because AMC and Bravo are both showing it on
+cable this month, in LETTERBOXED form (which I've never seen before), and it's
+just an amazing and disturbing and brilliant and absolutely frightening bit of
+film making.  If the last two minutes don't give you a case of the screaming
+willies for *days* then your cerebral cortex isn't properly installed.
+
+     I don't often recommend things, but if you want to see a film that is
+just breathtakingly well done and surreal and guaranteed to make the hair on
+your arms stand straight up...grab SECONDS this month.  It's *NOT* available
+on disk or tape insofar as I know, and uncut, in this form, is very rare. 
+Trust me on this one.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+     I know Mark Halperin's work, though I haven't read that much of it.   I
+enjoy reading fiction, but due to the nature of the job, I don't have much
+time for it just now.  (Simply producing the show would be an 18 hour a day
+job; just writing all the eps so far would be a 16 hour a day job...somewhere
+in here I have a serious math problem.)  These days, I find myself more
+reading nonfiction...biographices, collections of essays, historical works,
+(that should read biographies above), that sort of thing, when I have time,
+which is rarely.  Tried, with minor success, to plow through Hunter Thompson's
+latest...I've got Vach's Batman novel on my pile to read, some other
+stuff...but there just isn't time for most of it.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+      Everyone knows the *proper* way to ascii a raspberry is pfthpft....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+      Today was a very interesting day; today Michael O'Hare returned to the
+Babylon 5 stages in preparation for shooting the two-parter, which begins
+tomorrow.  Today he came by for his wardrobe fitting and to get his hair
+trimmed, say hi to folks, and hang out...lunch was me, John Copeland, Michael
+and Bruce Boxleitner eating together at one of the tables in the lunch area
+behind the stage, lots of laughing and kidding, and the two get on great. 
+(Turns out they'd worked on other projects before, including the short-lived A
+Rumor of War series by Sterling Siliphant.)  
+
+      Anyway, it's a great atmosphere, and everybody's psyched for the two-
+parter.  It's like he never went away.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+      Of course, it ain't just the media and comic cons that comp pros who
+participate on panels...EVERY fan-run convention in the country that I know of
+comps participating pros...Westercon, Loscon, Icon, Baycon, you name it.
+ Some of them are big cons, some of them are small or medium cons; they all do
+the same.  It's only WorldCon that breaks the pattern, thus one must ask for
+justification.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+     I'd also point out that Westercon is also a convention held in different
+places each year, sometimes in Seattle, or Portland, or Los Angeles, or
+Anaheim, or elsewhere.
+
+     Had an interesting phone call from a *very* highly regarded SF pro this
+evening, prompted by this discussion.  I pass along one of the statements the
+pro made without comment, because I don't know the area this far behind the
+scenes well enough *to* comment...it's this person's experience with decades
+in fandom and working as a pro.
+
+     What the pro said was basically this: "What they *don't* want anybody to
+know is that the WorldCons bring in huge amounts of money...which the con
+wastes on mismanagement, poor planning, and endless beer parties for staffers,
+buddies, and others.  They run it like amateurs and fans, who are so lost in
+their politics and insular worldview that they don't run it like the big event
+it really is, a *business*...with the result that it's the fan and pro
+communities that end up picking up the tab.  The SMOFs who run these things
+get so bogged down in their politics that they'd rather do things the dumb,
+expensive way than the smart way because somebody else wants to do it that
+way."  (I'm assuming SMOFs means Secret Masters of Fandom, but didn't ask for
+clarification.)  "A number of us in and out of SFFWA have been fighting this
+for over 25 years.  But when you say this to them, when you say that the
+problem is mismanagement at the top, they *crucify* you.  So nothing gets
+done."
+
+     Once again, I have no way of knowing how valid this opinion might be; so
+don't kill the messenger.  I pass it on for discussion and reaction.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+     Sharon, don't you see what it is you're saying?  If one brings up
+ComicCon, you say, "Well, they're bigger than we are, we can't do things the
+same way they do;" if one brings up Westercon, you say, "Well, they're smaller
+than we are, we can't do things the same way they do."  I know this isn't your
+intent, but it comes off as backing and filling, that nothing can ever be
+done, no criticism can be made validly.  And the discussion keeps being pushed
+to extremes to bolster a failing point; if one says, they should be better
+organized, you come back with the notion that they can't and shouldn't be run
+like Creation Cons.  Nowhere was that said.  Must a con be run as a CC to be
+run well?  Of course not.  So that makes the response seem very transparent,
+as others have noted.  There IS a middle ground.  I just keep sensing a real
+lack of interest in many (but not all) associated with WorldCons to *find*
+that middle ground.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     If I'm running a business, and it goes belly-up, or fails to show a
+profit, if I then turn to the people who put up the money for it and said,
+"Well, sorry, but after all, we're just amateurs," they'd nail my feet to the
+floor and beat the crap outta me.  And they'd be right in doing so.
+
+     So far a number of people have come forth to say, frankly, that the
+WorldCons *do* suffer from frequent mismanagement, waste, the lack of
+continuity, and the fact that as "amateurs" they can't be expected to run
+things well.  
+
+     This is a defense...?  In what alternate universe?
+
+     Wouldn't it be smart, for instance, if the WorldCon committee hired an
+outside business consultant, someone who *wasn't* an amateur, who could work
+with each individual committee to provide continuity between cons, advise on
+areas where mistakes had been made before, and suggest ways in which the cons
+might be made to run more efficiently, and profitably, and sensibly?  The cost
+of such an advisor would be *minimal* compared to the funds recouped by a
+leaner, more efficient, and more profitable operation.  You'd make back that
+fee a hundred fold.  If there's general agreement that there *are* problems,
+why not address them and fix them, instead of making the fan and pro
+communities pay for the continuance of the problem?
+
+     (And yes, I have heard that LACon *will* be comping memberships for
+participating pros, which by itself takes care of the assertion that it cannot
+be done.  Obviously it *can* be done.  I know that some involved have gotten a
+lot of email because of the discussion here, echoed on other nets, and I don't
+know if it's had an impact, but either way, it's a Good Thing.)
+
+     Fans of the SF genre tend to describe those outside the genre as
+"mundanes," and pride themselves on being smarter than the general population
+(which is, to varying extents, probably true)...doesn't it seem strange that a
+fan community which prides itself on being technologically and scientifically
+smarter, on being on the leading edge of computer tech and genetics and other
+areas, would choose to remain uninformed or less than capable about financial
+areas?  If the same attention were put on this area, as is on the others, all
+parties concerned would be better served.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+     I'd also point out that the film as it shows up on the stations is quite
+a bit different from what I get in my master SVHS copies, and off the D1
+masters.  Once we deliver the episode, it goes through several dubbing
+processes by WB, one to insert commercials (where sometimes we get clipped,
+and we sometimes get weird audio and video burbles, we get crunched, sometimes
+there's analog/digital conversion going on), and then AGAIN when the episode
+is copied again for closed-captioning purposes.   Then a new "master" is
+struck for uplink.  During this process, I've seen a distinct increase in
+graininess, it's a bit less sharp, and you get some odd stuff with audio being
+out of phase.  
+
+      It's nothing we can control, it's the facilities used by PTEN for
+translation of the episode for broadcast.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Yes, I also like the more shadowy shots, which add a great deal of
+texture to the show.
+
+     When we go to do the videotapes for the fan club, we're tentatively
+planning to go to the same company that did the dupes from masters for the
+tape we did for the Television Academy, back when nominating time came around.
+They were very good quality, on a par with the standard VHS copies I get
+personally.  (I certainly couldn't tell any difference.)  
+
+                                                                   jms
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+     Right now, the plan, tentatively, is this: we would announce that say,
+the first 8 episodes will be made available in a limited edition.   We would
+take orders for that first batch for a specific period, say 30 days.  We would
+then produce the tapes in the number ordered, and that would be it for a
+while, while we moved onto the next series of episodes (9 through whatever). 
+After working our way through the total available number of episodes, we'd
+eventually work our way back to #1 again, though it might take as much as a
+year, and subsequent editions would be noted as such.  
+
+     This is still open to change, but that's what we're considering.  
+
+                                                                jms
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+     F.Pas...no, you have it correct.  I slipped a reference to Babylon 5 into
+Power as the genetic engineering facility from which Tank first came.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+     We hope to have a web site set up for the fan club soon, so that will be
+a point of registration.
+
+     Re: widescreen...I've noted this before...we would have to go back and re-
+telecine the film stock back to its original format for every frame of film,
+which would cost upwards of $250,000 up-front, and we don't have that
+capacity.  That could only be done when a major player comes in to distribute
+disks.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+     We do not expose incorrectly, or inadequately.  If anything the show is
+lighter than it was in the first season.  The element you point to, the slow-
+motion drop of the detonator, took on a grainy look because it was slowed down
+artificially, it wasn't shot at that speed, it was done in post.  (Most of our
+slow-mo is done in-camera; some isn't.)  
+
+     CGI, direct to video or D1, is always going to look "cleaner" than film. 
+(Initially, on Space, they output their CG to film rather than
+video...eventually they changed this because of the costs involved, which are
+considerable)  It's not that the film is grainier than it would be under other
+circumstances; it's that the CG is cleaner than the norm.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

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+     Don't forget he also had the inherent momentum he carried with him from
+the fast-moving shuttle.
+
+     BTW, though I announced this elsewhere, I've finally finished the
+revisions to my writing book, The Complete Book of Scriptwriting, which was
+initially published in 1981, revised a bit, and has now been TOTALLY
+rewritten, stem to stern, is almost double the original length, and has many
+new chapters on technology and writing, the WGA, animation, traps, and other
+areas, in addition to the chapters on film, TV, stage, radio and the like. 
+It's absolutely current now, and contains samples of various script forms,
+agent forms, contracts, lists of all sorts, and tentatively I'm planning to
+include a B5 script in the book, probably "The Coming of Shadows."  It'll be
+published with much ballyhoo in the Fall as THE (EVEN MORE!) COMPLETE BOOK OF
+SCRIPTWRITING.
+
+     BTW, tentative title for episode #20, "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding
+Place."
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+     I'm mentioning it here because it hasn't been mentioned elsewhere here
+that I've seen, and because it's something pivotal to me, and my upbringing,
+and the formation of my personality.  And because you ought to know about it
+if you don't already.
+
+     The other day, Jerry Siegel -- half of the team of Siegel and Shuster,
+creators of the most widely known character ever to come out of comics, one of
+the five most recognizeable characters on the planet (this by a survey not
+long ago) -- passed away, following his partner Joe a few years earlier.
+
+     Jerry and Joe created Superman.  I didn't have the honor or pleasure of
+ever getting to meet them, but everything I have ever heard has shown them to
+be decent, kind, generous people who got screwed out of their fair share in
+the character who became a billion dollar industry.  Bill Mumy, who is as much
+a comics fan as I am, maybe moreso, had Jerry over to dinner once, with Bob
+Kane and Jack Kirby; it was the night of his life.  Jack is also gone, but
+this is about Jerry.  And it's about Superman.
+
+     I collect only a few things.  Watches.  I like watches.  I don't have a
+lot, but more than 3 is a collection, I'm told.  Comics, sure, I got about
+10,000 comics, most in storage, a lot in my office at home.  But I've always
+considered myself a comics reader, not a comics collector.
+
+     I *collected* Superman stuff.  And I have one of the best collections on
+the Western Seaboard: bronze rings from the 1940s, pinbacks, patches, mugs,
+pins, figurines, Supermen of America membership badges, a cape made from the
+original bolt, to the original patterns, as that made for George Reeves...you
+name it, I got it.
+
+     Because when I was a kid, Superman was It.  Because of that singular
+character -- invulnerable, unstoppable, whose single goal was to find the
+right thing and do it -- I decided that I could do anything I set my mind to
+doing.  Truth, justice, and the American way.  Yeah, it's corny as hell, and
+maybe it doesn't parse too well in a "stick it to 'em" society, but as a kid,
+it *meant* something to me.  Okay, I grudgingly accepted that I couldn't
+fly...but otherwise, if I decided I wanted to do it, then by god I *could* do
+it.  If that meant teaching myself to read at an early age, or dealing with
+the great personal angst of a family life that was dysfunctional on the best
+of days, for which invulnerability was a quality much to be desired...or
+deciding that someday I was gonna be a Writer, then that was what was going to
+happen.
+
+     And to this day, my only agenda is to try and find the right thing, as
+best as I am able to perceive the right, and do it.  Because when you're a kid
+you're young and foolish enough to believe there IS a Right Thing; you just
+have to dig long enough and think hard enough and survive the kryptonite long
+enough to figure it out.  And you don't lie, you don't sell out your friends,
+you put yourself on the line, and anybody who wants to hurt your friends has
+to go through you first.
+
+     These are the lessons learned by a kid; they are tempered with time, but
+they still shape the adult.
+
+     When you start as a nearsighted kid, who doesn't fit in with the new
+school (and there was always a new school every 6-12 months), who believes he
+just might have a little nascent talent waiting to come out, tall and gawky,
+with stars in your eyes and a home life that would make the Borgias seem like
+a tea party...how much of a leap is it really to see Clark Kent in the mirror,
+and anticipate Superman...?
+
+     Maybe it's maudlin, maybe it's indulgent.  Maybe it's over-wrought, and
+maybe it's silly.  But the concept and the character of Superman meant
+something to me as a kid.  Still does.  And now the man who created Superman
+is gone, and somebody ought to say something, however silly or indulgent or
+maudlin it might be seen by others.
+
+     Because it's the right thing to do.
+
+     Thanks, Jerry.
+
+     Bye.  Give my regards to Joe.  And Kandor.  And Krypton.  And Jor-El. 
+And Lara.  What you created, endures.  Rest easy.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+     No, that's not the intent; but this is the time when stations make their
+decisions about what shows they're going to pick up, and each year you get a
+LOT of new shows out with a lot of hype and heat, and it's possible for a show
+that's been around for a bit, middle of the road, to just sorta get forgotten
+about in the crush.  So it never hurts for fans to remind the station owners
+what they want.
+
+                                                                jms
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+     I guess it's the difference between one show telling you what to think,
+vs. another show *asking* you TO think, and what it is that YOU think....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+
+     OtherSyde came out with a B5 reference in 1990; B5 was announced as a Go
+project, with a description of what it was about, in the trades in November
+1991; the DS9 premise was conceived over the following winter, and announced
+around January/February 1992.  I know the season very well in terms of the
+time of year because it was 2 days before Christmas when I got a call from
+someone long associated with ST who said, "Joe, are you sitting down?  I just
+thought you ought to know, it looks like they're going to use a space station
+as the regular base for their new Star Trek series."  I then called someone
+else I know associated with ST and asked if they'd heard this, and got it
+verified.  The premise was just then being put together, and wasn't formally
+given the go-ahead until later in January.)
+
+     As it happens, when DS9 was formally announced, it came within inches of
+killing B5 in the early stages of pilot pre-production.  Warner Bros. was
+already very iffy about the syndication marketplace to sustain mor than one
+space-oriented SF series; they kept telling us that there isn't really an SF
+market, there's an ST market, and if it ain't that, it won't work.  What
+helped them go along with it was we were based on a space station.  When DS9
+was announced, and suddenly it wasn't just two SF shows in a marketplace they
+thought couldn't sustain more than one, it was two SPACE STATION shows, one of
+which had the ST name, and they were sure we were gonna get creamed.  To this
+day, I suspect that if we hadn't already signed all the contracts, and spent a
+lot of the money assigned for prep, with all the announcements in the press,
+some folks at WB probably would've pushed hard to stop the B5 project, and
+might've even succeeded.   That we made it through that is a testimony to a
+very few angels at WB and PTEN -- Evan Thompson, Dick Robertson and Gregg
+Maday -- who stuck by us at the beginning.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+     For those who may be interested, here's a list of coming conventions I'll
+be attending over the coming months.
+
+     Necronomicon (Tampa Oct 11-13), Chicago Comic Con (not invited yet, but I
+generally go or try to go every year, June 21-23), San Diego Comic Con (same
+deal, July 4th weekend), LosCon (again the same...boy, I ought to work on
+this...November 24-26), The Encounter in Blackpool UK (June 7-10), and I'm on
+as Guest of Honor at Westercon 50 in 1997.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     Haven't yet been invited to the WorldCon...nobody's said boo.  
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+
+     If one wants to go as a civilian and just watch, there's no need for an
+invitation.  If the goal is to do a presentation, a panel, whatever, one kinda
+has to be invited.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Richard Biggs is pictorialized in the new issue of Playgirl hitting the
+stands now.
+
+                                                              jms
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+
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+
+     Never said they're all convinced of it.  Just as all Germans weren't
+convined of the views advanced by Hitler.
+
+     You don't need all of them.  You just need *enough* of them.
+
+     Preferably, enough of them with guns.
+
+     Remember, too, that we just came out of the Earth/Minbari War about ten
+years ago, when we stood at the edge of extinction.  The threat of a new alien
+race makes a good device.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+
+     Brett: it's nothing to do with the editor.  We deliver nice, clean fades
+to black.  When the show is delivered, we often get clipped by the local
+stations (sometimes, we suspect, when the national spots are slugged in),
+because if you clip a couple seconds here and there, you get enough time to
+slip in another blipvert/promo.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     Other than GEnie...hrmmm...probably Compuserve.  As of this time, it's
+the one area I tend to post about equal to GEnie; it has a decent offline
+reader (Tapcis) that'll help save you lotsa dough...the science fiction media
+area (sfmedtwo) has 2 areas set aside for B5 in messages and library...it's a
+friendly place, absent the occasional troll, which is generally dealt with
+fairly well.  Once the moderated rec arts b5 area is created, I'll be there as
+well quite a bit.  In the interim, with GEnie long the unofficial home of B5
+online fans, the first place that "noticed" us...I'll be here until they turn
+off the lights.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     My sense was that basically Ivanova jumped onto the wrong path as she
+fled...the shadows were in proximity, and she ended up briefly on their path,
+which took her to the interception of the transmission.
+
+     The one comment that I find most interesting, repeated here a few times,
+is that they didn't buy the Nightwitch (as some have dubbed her) because in
+her address to the Nightwatch, she was not exactly what you might call subtle,
+and thus nobody'd believe her, and see her for what she was.
+
+     I find it interesting because we always think we're smarter than that,
+when history proves *exactly* the opposite.  The Big Lie, spoken not just
+openly, but loudly, firmly and with conviction, has been one of the most
+successful tactics in history.  When Hitler and Goebbels stood before a crowd
+and blamed jews for destroying society, circulated pamphlets with ugly
+cariacatures, indicated that they weren't *really* human (this in actual
+newsreels provided to the medical profession members charged with eliminating
+"mental defectives and jews")...when Joseph McCarthy stood up in front of the
+nation waving a list of names of commies in the state department, the
+military, congress, showbiz, and the sciences...the public didn't suddenly
+wake up, hear the voice of the fanatic, and say, "Hey, this guy's nuts!"  
+
+     They bought it.  Because they were primed to believe it.  Because they
+wanted to believe it.  Because they were afraid *not* to believe it.   No, she
+wasn't subtle.  Because there's a time for subtlety, and there's a time to
+perform grandly for your hand-picked audience and go for the Big Lie.  If she
+were addressing a larger audience, she might softpedal her message.  To the
+Nightwatch, she's got to hammer them, just as the Hitler Youth were hammered,
+as the Anti-Communist Youth meetings were hammered about the Red Peril, as
+Croatian or Serbian soldiers were hammered about the need to rape women of the
+other "race" to make the resultant babies more ethnically pure...which
+happened.
+
+     Most of her dialogue was paraphrased from actual speeches given over the
+decades, or longer, by fanatical leaders to their followers.  There's bits of
+Hitler, of Goerring, of Goebbels...bits of McCarthy, bits of Stalin, bits of
+Pat Buchanan and Rep. Dornan.  
+
+     Because people fell for it.  It did work
+
+     It does work.
+
+     And it will *continue* to work...for as long as people think that THEY
+would NEVER fall for such a thing....
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+     We're negotiating to try and maybe get some episodes on in March or early
+April.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     We like to vary the music on the bumper.  Just for the hell of it.   And
+sometimes (often, actually) to match the music in the bumper to the tone of
+the episode.  We have, I think 4 or 5 variations.  Congrats, you're the first
+to notice this.  
+
+     You'll see Walter again this season after "Dust," and I'm trying to work
+in one more before the end of the season, but it's tough, given what's been
+going on in the latter half of 2260.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+
+      Why didn't we do the music change in the end credits at the very start
+of the season, you ask?  Why, what a silly question, it was all planned, all
+intentional, it means...er...it means....
+
+      It means we *forgot*.  More correctly, *I* forgot.  We were all so busy
+getting the new main titles done, we just kinda forgot about it until the
+first mix...and then we sorta looked around and said, "....oops."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+      Well, Mike, then you're bound to be disppointed because one of those
+things is going to be dealt with for sure.  Some things can get by without
+resolution; some things can't.  Otherwise people get frustrated because
+nothing means anything, it's just random threads, and you get Twin Peaks.  
+(And then they turn around and, because you didn't resolve something, say it's
+a "plot hole" and gig you for bad writing).  
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Where was it said Sheridan didn't recognize the voice...?
+
+                                                               jms
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+
+     WB will *never* let us do the marketing or promos, so it's really
+a moot question.  Change of address forms should go to the fan club
+address.
+ 
+     Sorry this is short; was at con all weekend, it's nearly 3 a.m,
+and I'm about to crash.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+
+     The information on Harlan's health was *not* something that he
+wanted posted publicly to the nets, and was a gross violation of his
+trust by the person who did so.  While currently things are looking
+good, this is a period when *rest and quiet* are necessary, and
+instead they are being beseiged by telephone calls literally every 3
+minutes.
+ 
+     So all I'll say for now is that things are looking very good,
+he's well on the way to recovery, and ask that anyone seeing this
+please  hold back on phone calls and the like for a few days.  
+ 
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+     No, I believe there is a reference to the narn being treated
+later, and in any event, it's clear Vir wouldn't do anything to them.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     No, the ad comes out of WB's PR budget, not ours.  It's a great
+ad. 
+ 
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 26 1996
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+     The stabalizer fell off in two pieces; the outer part or shell on
+the white star, the other half later that was clipped to his belt.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/11.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/11.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 28 1996
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+     Linda: at least one out of those three will come into play again
+this season.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on May 29 1996
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+
+     This is Kung Fu's last season, yes.
+
+     Mike: the Disney situation is unique to Disney; they are all
+engulfing, totally dictatorial, and everything that comes out of there is
+incestuous as hell.  There's a reason most anybody who's worked for them 
+refers to the place as Mauschwitz....
+
+     RE: Space A&B...yes, the word is it's been canceled.  It's
+amazing to look at the SF shows that have come and gone just in the time 
+that B5 has been around: S:A&B, Space Rangers, VR5, SeaQuest, Earth 2, 
+and on.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/13.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/13.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 29 1996
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+
+     "WB wanted some product placement using stuffed animals...."
+
+     Never happened.  Jerry is...embroidering.
+
+     Space Rangers came on at the same time as B5.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/14.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/14.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 29 1996
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+
+     The energy being that got Sheridan in "Knives" had no relation to
+anything in the ongoing story; it just existed outside our normal
+universe, and got in and out via the rift (which also served to remind us 
+that it was still there).
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/15.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/15.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 29 1996
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+
+     PS, it's one thing, I think, to spend 2 hours in a movie theater
+and get a downer ending...another to invest 5 years of your life and then 
+it all goes to hell.  I think they'd crucify me for that.  And I think 
+they'd be right.
+
+
+jms
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/16.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/16.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 29 1996
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+
+     The new edition is, basically, an entirely new book.  One of the
+reasons it took me 3 years to get the damned thing in was that I'm a
+perfectionist, and couldn't just update the pay info, I had to rewrite 
+the thing from stem to stern (I think only the playwriting chapter is 
+more or less the same), updating all the information, tossing aside 
+suggestinos (suggestions) that were no longer appropriate in this market, 
+adding new info about changes in the fields, adding new chapters on 
+animation, computers, and the like...it's a whole different book now.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/17.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/17.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 30 1996
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+
+     BTW, for those in LA, I'll be doing Mike Hodel's Hour 25 on
+KPFK-FM 90.7 this Friday night from 10 p.m. to midnight.
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/18.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/18.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 30 1996
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+
+     I'm often tempted to create Zathras' brother, Mathras, or
+somesuch, if only for the look of terror in their eyes when he says, of 
+Zathras, "Ah, yes...Zathras...was the quiet one in the family...."
+
+     Who knows, it might be something I might do someday....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/19.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/19.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 30 1996
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+JMS Genie Message on Apr 22 1996
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+
+May 1996 Postings, Part 2 
+
+
+ 
+     The chrysalis machine came originally from Epsilon 3, with the
+rest of the equipment.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/6.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/6.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 26 1996
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+
+     No, no eep yet.  What other forums have you been hearing stuff?
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/7.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/7.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 26 1996
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+
+     Bruce wanted to do the show, we said sure.  That's kind of it....
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/8.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/8.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 26 1996
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+
+     Kwicker...no, in the original episode, the suit was always blue.
+We sometimes make mistakes, but we ain't nearly THAT stupid.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/9.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-05-15/9.html
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+JMS Genie Message on May 26 1996
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+     There's a chance that the rights situation may work itself out by
+mid-Summer on Grimjack; if so, I might be able to peel off some time in
+the Fall/Christmas hiatus period to work on it.
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/20.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/20.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 03 1996
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+
+     Though lately, from what I've been hearing from ST-oriented cons,
+the toys aren't selling as well from ST anymore.  At the big blow-out ST
+convention in Pasadena a few weeks ago, the 30th anniversary one, some
+DS9 stuff sold, less Voyager stuff sold...and they had to send back to the
+warehouse twice for B5 stuff.
+
+     Now, as an aside....
+
+     Warners has been running the numbers on renewal, and we've been
+told that the numbers look right, and will be recommended for renewal.  Now
+that's not the same *as* renewal, there are still some execs who need to 
+stamp the thing and say domini domini over it (as John Copeland says), 
+(in nomine patre, et fili, et spiritus sanctus, ACTION!")...it would take 
+a huge and unexpected event to stop it now, and that doesn't seem likely 
+at all.  So while I wouldn't say this is an eep, that formally hasn't 
+happened yet, and it's WB's perogative to actually make that 
+announcement, I'd certainly consider this at least an e.
+
+     I make a point of saying this only because I'm going to be in the
+UK this coming week, and thus offline, and won't be able to post any eeps 
+that might be forthcoming.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/21.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/21.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 12 1996
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+
+     Just got in late last night, still catching up...yes, we've been
+renewed.  I dearly wanted to announce it here before I left, as has been
+traditional, but it couldn't be done until we had the formal, final pickup
+notification from WB, until which time it ain't real, and a) things can 
+still go wrong, and b) the last time I said something too early WB rapped 
+my knuckles.  It wasn't truly official until late Friday.
+
+     We begin shooting again August 26th.
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 13 1996
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+
+     Araratus: most messages pass in front of me, but given that I see
+about 500 or so per day, sometimes individual questions slip past me.
+
+     Kwicker: a certain poet once wrote, "Truth is beauty, and beauty
+truth; this is all you know and all you need to know."  If there is any
+beauty to the work, then it contains truth, and thus cannot be a lie.  A 
+story only has value wherein it touches an even greater Truth, perhaps 
+even a universal truth.  
+
+     Fiction, at its best, is truth...it's the real world that's a
+lie.
+
+     Sleep tight.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/23.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/23.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 14 1996
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+
+     But y'see, the Eep is only used when I know for sure it's renewed
+and can't say so.  Now it's renewed and I can say so, and I was away for
+the very brief in-between...to misuse the power of the Eep is a serious
+infraction.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/24.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/24.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 16 1996
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+
+     "Ratings for all syndicated dramas have dropped."
+
+     Incorrect, in at least one case.  B5's ratings this quarter have
+been our highest in some time, so we're definitely on an upswing.
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 19 1996
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+
+     WB is coming down hard on all its shows (or so I'm told), on the
+theory that a con showing = a theatrical exhibition, and they can be fined
+hundreds of bucks by the showbiz guilds.  Now, in the history of hollywood,
+this has never, ever happened...but the lawyers got their noses into it...and
+at that point, you're doomed.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/26.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/26.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 20 1996
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+
+     Nope, they won't allow that.  It ain't the slate, it's the
+guilds.   And we can't show scenes with guest stars, either.  And we 
+can't take more than 4 minutes out of any given episode.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/27.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/27.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 27 1996
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+
+     Well, just finished the first (writer's) draft of "The Hour of
+the Wolf," the first episode of year 4, to be directed by David Eagle.  
+It was a tough one, like all first-episode scripts...but quite 
+interesting, in its way.  Once again the show takes a somewhat different 
+tone, I'm using some tools I somewhat developed in the background in year 
+3 and am now trying in foreground, very interesting mood change...a good 
+start.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/28.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/28.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 28 1996
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+
+     Here's what the talk shows tell us: "Sorry, but you're a
+syndicated show, and nobody knows from syndication, so our viewers 
+wouldn't be interested."
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/29.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/29.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 29 1996
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+
+     At some point along the way, somebody decided to mail out the B5
+newsletters bulk mail.  This is problematic at best.  So we're going
+to start switching over to 1st or 2nd class to ensure delivery.  They're 
+going out in batches.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/30.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/30.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 29 1996
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+
+     New episodes (the last of season 3) start in October.
+
+     So the good part, such as it is, is that we'll play 5 in October,
+then 4 or 5 in November, so you're looking at 9-10 in a row, almost half a
+season in one go.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-06/31.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-06/31.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jun 29 1996
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-07/32.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-07/32.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1996
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+
+     I've said it before, I'll say it again: this show was born under
+a black star.
+
+     Starting from the debut of the pilot in New York, where we were
+literally blown off the air by the World Trade Center blast, which took out
+WWOR's antenna, until now, anything that can go wrong, does.
+
+     After 3 years, we're finally, FINALLY, going to get a good sized
+article in TV Guide (July 27th) as part of their SF round up.  They sent a
+photo crew out to do the shoot.  Very difficult and elaborate, cast came 
+in on breaks and cut short time away to do it.  
+
+     So today WB calls to say that after Federal Expressing the
+original negatives, transparencies, everything, to NY in time for the 
+article, the truck carrying the art was hijacked at gunpoint, and 
+everything inside went with it.  So now it's too late to redo the shoot, 
+and they'll have to go with older art provided by WB.
+
+     We can't catch a break on this show....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-07/33.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-07/33.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 10 1996
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+
+     No, the driver was fine, only the stuff was taken, driven off.
+
+     Boy, those Paramount boys'll stop at nothing....
+
+     (the preceding was a joke, for the jocularity deficient)
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-07/34.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-07/34.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1996
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+
+     Yes, the UK will be getting the final 5 starting in August.  WB
+Int'l had agreed to the run straight through, and C4 held them to it.  To 
+change it would've caused problems.  
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 09 1996
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+
+     Allen: yes, that's a correct statement.
+
+     Trys: why can't they change us?  Situation is this: the UK
+doesn't have ratings periods.  The US does.  They check their ratings all 
+the time, and determine their rates for advertising, and don't generally 
+have rerun periods.  So they play straight through.
+
+     If WB plays the shows in July, August, or September, those aren't
+sweeps periods.  Also, those months are when TV viewership figures (they 
+call them HUTs, Households Using Television) are at their lowest, because 
+people are away from home, on vacation, at the beach, whatever.  The 
+November sweeps are *crucial* to keeping a show on the air.  So WB wants 
+to air the final 5 in October, to ramp up the ratings in November, for 
+that reason.  (It often takes weeks for people not online to discover 
+there ARE new episodes on.)  
+
+     If they play us out of sweeps, we're a less valuable commodity to
+the stations, and thus it's more likely we'd get canceled.  Pick your
+poison.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 12 1996
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+
+     I think part of the disagreement here comes over how you define
+what a STORY is.  A story is the connotation of consequences, and 
+context, as opposed to a PLOT, which is the series of events in which the 
+story takes place, A, B, C, D.  "The king died, and then the queen died" 
+is a basic plot.  "The king died, and then the queen died of grief" is a 
+story.
+
+     I preface this by saying I haven't seen ID4 yet, so take what
+follows cum granus salus, but....
+
+     As I understand it, ID4 is an incident/plot driven movie.  Bad
+aliens come to Earth.  Bad aliens smash.  Good humans smash back.  Good
+humans win.  The aliens are there to shoot and be shot at, and we don't 
+really know much about who they are, where they come from, their 
+cosmology, any of that.  It's a series of incidents.
+
+     With Star Wars, you got the sense of things happening outside the
+plot, and you got the sense of context and consequences.  It delved into
+matters of belief, the use of the Force, the Zen notion of letting go of 
+the conscious self.  It carried with it a sense of history, the notion 
+that there had been prior wars, and the whole history of the Jedi 
+Knights, which carried with it a sense of mystery and wonder.  There was 
+a fairly well realized political framework, with Imperials and rebels and 
+other planets that chose not to get involved.  You got the sense that the 
+events in the story came from somewhere, and would lead to something.
+
+     There's not much question that Star Wars contains more actual
+story than ID4.  Which isn't the same thing as saying that one is 
+*better* than the other.  That's a mug's game, because whatever's better 
+for us is a purely subjective decision.  But one can point to the two 
+movies and say, with a fair amount of objectivity, which one contains 
+*more* story than the other, which involved the most creativity and 
+world-building.
+
+     Just to try and clarify the argument a little....
+
+                                                           jms
+

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+     So given that all of season 3 has only one author, given that you
+can easily define a season (apparently there was some confusion about what
+a season is) as Year 3, episodes 301-322, given that this year they're
+MUCH more directly linked as one dramatic unit...what d'you think the 
+odds would be of getting all of season 3 of B5 considered as one dramatic 
+unit for Hugo consideration next season?
+
+     (Heck, we gotta compete with ID4 *somehow*....)
+
+
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+

+
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+     But is it really an exception?  You have two books as potential
+nominees. One is 100,000 words long, the other is a huge 300,000 word 
+potboiler. But they're both written by one author, so they're both 
+eligible.  If a two-part episode can be considered a dramatic unit 
+because it has one author, and a single episode can be considered because 
+it has one author, then why not a 22- parter with only one author?  Just 
+because the unit has more pages shouldn't mitigate against it any more 
+than the 300,000 word novel should be disqualified.
+
+     If you stop and think about it dispassionately for a moment, the
+exception would be in NOT allowing a whole one-author season be
+nominated.  The committee has already allowed the notion of multiple-part 
+nominees by accepting two-parters.  You've crossed the one-episode barrier
+already.  So logically if you've accepted that, why suddenly change it to 
+just one episode?
+
+
+     Conceivably, I could take all 22 scripts, put a huge binder on
+it, and slap a cover page on it reading SEASON THREE, WRITTEN BY J. MICHAEL
+committee and say, "Here, here's one dramatic unit."  
+
+     On one level, it's really kind of an intellectual exercise; I
+like to feather around the rules and see what things mean when little things
+get changed, and what the *sense* of the rule is vs. how it's applied
+sometimes.
+
+                                                            jms
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+     I was in college when Star Wars hit, first year or so, I think,
+and had somehow managed to utterly and completely miss ALL of the hype 
+and PR about the movie *for the entire duration of its run*.  (I was, by 
+turns, studying heavily, writing heavily and dating heavily.)  I finally 
+wandered in to see it on the last day of a screening run at a small 
+theater in Chula Vista, about the last place on earth still playing it by 
+that late date.  Sat down to watch it, figuring it'd be another cheesy 
+awful film like the (I think) Star Invasion movie I'd seen just before, 
+with Robert Vaughn, I think, and Christopher Lee....
+
+     No expectations, no knowledge.  Tabula rasa.
+
+     Two or three other people in the theater as it went dark.
+
+     That first shot pinned my ears to the back of the room and never
+left.
+
+
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+     I'd say Sinclair and Garibaldi both caught traces of that future.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 13 1996
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+     The videos were the same, in the case of "Requiem," but the
+projection system wasn't really up to snuff.
+
+     Now, I toss out a philosophical question for general
+consideration.
+
+     When they first showed "Requiem," I was watching from the back,
+as is my wont.  I always try to make sure *everybody* can see and hear 
+stuff as well as conceivable.  The lights were on low in the middle of 
+the room, which washed out about 60% of the video; there were whole 
+sections where you couldn't see squat.
+
+     I was very bugged about this, and when I went to the stage, and
+set up things to show, I said bring the lights down *all the way*.  One
+person with the con said "We can't do that."  This seemed remarkable to 
+me, as I understood that most electrical devices had on and off switches.  
+So I cupped the mike and indicated that if the lights didn't go down I'd 
+shoot them out.  They went down.
+
+     The second time we went dark, I found out what was going on sub
+rosa.  There were, I think, 3 or 5 deaf people in the front of the room, 
+and had someone signing for them to tell them what was being said on the
+clips.  The person doing the signing was very upset with me, to say the 
+least.
+
+     So here's the dilemma: you keep the lights up, and 2,400 people
+can't SEE the screens.  If you lower the lights, they can, but the 3-5 
+people with hearing problems can't hear what's being said.
+
+     The logical solution, I believe, was what I did: the lights go
+down, on the theory that the 2,400 outnumber the 3-5.  But at the same 
+time, I'm sensitive to the problem.  I know that the signer was 
+upset...but at the same time, I figure, if you knew you were going to be 
+signing in a room where a SCREENING was going on, which therefore would 
+get dark, you'd bring a low-level light or flashlight for those periods.
+
+     Comments?  Discussions?
+
+     I think I made the right decision...but it's a tough call, y'know?
+
+                                                                   jms
+

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+      Unfortunately, my master copies aren't closed-captioned, only
+the broadcast copies, because that takes 'em down a generation.
+
+
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+     Actually, I'd mitigate *against* the 5-year story being
+considered as a whole dramatic unit because it has multiple writers.  I 
+think that would tend to violate the spirit of the Hugos.
+
+
+jms
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+
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+
+     For those with questions about the fan club, or who haven't yet
+received some of the material, B5FC head Jim Lockett now has an email 
+address: JPLB5@AOL.COM.
+
+                                                     jms
+

+
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+     Peter: well, as you note, if the response hadn't been as strong
+as it is, we'd likely be off the air and it'd be a moot point.  (Or, if 
+the show were swallowed into silence, maybe that'd be a mute point.)  But 
+for the sake of argument, let's take a middle ground...sufficient ratings 
+to stay on the air, but zip in the way of direct response: no B5 forums, 
+topics, web pages...a silence vast as space.
+
+     I'd do exactly what I'm doing.  I can't work any other way.  I
+believe in this show, in the story I'm telling, right down to my socks.   
+Not to be grandious, because I'm not even within 50 light years of this 
+class, but...in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold exactly 1 painting, for (I 
+believe) 40 francs.  Everyone considered him a failure.  He lived with 
+his brother, who paid his bills, kept him in food and clothing, which he 
+felt VERY guilty about...nobody knew him, or his work.  But what he 
+painted, he painted.  He painted what moved him, what *meant* something 
+to him.  And if the world noticed, or if it did not, that didn't change 
+what he saw, or the way he presented it on canvas.
+
+     He suffered greatly, endured greatly, but the work was the work.
+It was in-between that his life was most disasterous, when he wasn't 
+working, when he wasn't *seeing*.  And it was in that dry stretch that, 
+on a warm Spring afternoon, he went out into a field five miles from his 
+brother Theo's home, put a gun to his chest, and fired...out of guilt for 
+taking up so much of his brother's money, out of fear, out of failure, 
+the vessel not the equal of the talent it contained.  (And even at that, 
+he failed; the bullet did not kill him at once.  He lay there for almost 
+an hour, then crawled back to Theo's home, where several hours later, he 
+died in his brother's arms.)
+
+     And now, today, industrialists and collectors pay millions of
+dollars to hold one of his paintings to their eyes and peer through the 
+bars to greatness...for the chance to see what Van Gogh saw through those
+tragic eyes.
+
+     The work is the work.  To fall prey to despair when it isn't seen
+for what (you hope) it is...or to puff proud like a pouter pigeon when the
+crowds cry out your name...both are equally anathema to the creative  drive.
+You have to listen to the calm, clear voice in the back of your head and
+paint what you must paint, write what you must write, dance what you must
+dance and sing what you must sing, because to *not* do so is suicide, and 
+to do so for the wrong reasons, to appeal to the momentary trends of the 
+crowd, is a much slower but just as sure a death.
+
+     The story is the story, and the work is the work.  There is no
+other answer that would mean a damn.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     Vampyr: Zelazny collected 500 rejection slips before he sold
+anything, so you've got at least 499 more to go before you're entitled to 
+get depressed.
+
+     And yes, the piece can be reprinted, as can anything I write
+here.
+
+     I'd hoped not to generally have this known...but no, I don't
+drive.   I have a bit of a proble with depth perception that only comes 
+into play really in any significant way when I'm behind the wheel of a car.
+Translation: I hit things, and they frown on that.  So for the good of the
+Commonweal, I stay off the roads.
+
+     So I don't know who drove off at LosCon, but it weren't me.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     I get around...it just requires a certain degree of creativity
+some days.
+
+     (And yes, I have the stamp, thanks, it's very cool.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+      Hmmm...I don't know this for a fact, I'm only speculating, but
+the station could be burning off its committment to clear the decks and
+the ledgers.  Could be interesting if it backfires and starts doing well
+for them, which has the potential to happen when someone starts stripping 
+the show nightly....
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+     The driving *can* be done...but from my perspective, knowing me,
+not as safely as I feel should be the case.  Unless I'm 100% confident of my
+ability, I won't get behind the wheel of a car and risk hurting 
+someone.   It's just not something I can do with a clear conscience.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+      It's "arc," as story arc, he kinda misunderstood.
+
+      I'm rather conflicted about the article...on one hand, it's a
+positive article, and one should be properly thankful for that.  On the 
+other, I'd thought it'd be about the show, and the cast (I wasn't even in 
+the photo shoot, which is standard, so again I figured it was about the 
+show per se), and instead it's mainly jms stuff, which I'm kinda so-so 
+about.  And on the third hand (I have a third hand now), it feels like he 
+was looking for some kind of angle on the story, found this one -- that 
+we are ABOUT something -- and kinda ran it into the ground.  
+
+     It seems these days that if you care about something, if you want
+to make a statement, or believe in your work, somehow that's passe, and 
+it's trendy to poke fun at passion.  The trouble with cynicism is that it 
+tends to devolve into contempt, and these are cynical times.
+
+     So I dunno...good article, in most ways, others...just kinda sets
+my teeth on edge.  But again, this is the first time they've really
+acknowledged us, so I have no complaints.  I'm happy they did it.
+
+
+jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 26 1996
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+     Re: a gold-plated limo...dream on.  Syndication pays roughly half
+what network shows pay.  My agent still shakes her head that I left Murder,
+She Wrote and took a 50% pay cut to do B5.  
+
+     The Pegasus Publishing bumper stickers are definitely unlicensed.
+
+     Script #3 title: "The Summoning."
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+     BMW?  Please, it's a Mercedes 300E, my only concession to working
+in TV, also because it's a very safe car.  (1990 model, still going strong.)
+
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+     There are no current plans for Talia's return.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS Genie Message on Jul 28 1996
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+     Mike: the problem is we're telling different stories.  What makes
+it interesting for me is that Sheridan *isn't* prepared, Kosh *didn't*
+finish his training.  It isn't nice and tidy.  And to stop and explain 
+the dream in "Interludes" would've meant taking, oh, about 3-5 minutes 
+OUT of that episode, and it's very tight as it is.  And it would've just 
+been a case of, "Here, here's this bit of exposition relating to 
+something you've seen before."
+
+     No, the dream *does* get explained...and it gets explained *this
+season*, in the course of the final five.  In detail.  But at the right 
+time, and in the right place.  To have explained it sooner wouldn't work, 
+it has to come at the right moment, with the last bits of information our 
+characters need to *use* that interpretation.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+
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+
+     Van Dyke had considerable problems with alcohol for many years
+before finally coming out the other side, which were widely known and
+reported, and he's been very open in talking about them.
+
+     And yes, definitely know that Rod's no longer with us, I was just
+playing into the TZ sensibility for a moment.  (While on TZ3 I did a
+posthumous collaboration with Serling, taking his outline for "Our Selena 
+Is Dying" and turning it into a full episode of the show.)
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 01 1996
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+ 
+     Actually, the jackets you generally see me and members of the cast 
+and crew wearing are *only* for those folks, who've earned them in the
+trenches.  We'll never license out anything just like them, in order to 
+keep them special for the crew.  We'd make a mint if we did...but that 
+ain't what matters here.
+
+     Technically, the first B5 related con I did was LosCon, where I 
+screened about 15 seconds of animation for the project, and first went 
+public with the name.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+      Yes, in the fairly near future we'll be spending some more time
+back on Mars.
+
+      Working title for #404: "Falling Toward Apotheosis."
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 08 1996
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+
+     Good, one should look up words, add to one's vocabulary.  Who
+does this involve?  Well, we'll see.
+
+     Yeah, I wrote the Scripts column for Writer's Digest for almost
+exactly 10 years...definitely enough for a book, but since the new 
+version of my writing book is coming out in October, no point to it, really.
+
+     Actually met Chris Roberts last year, when we were in some
+preliminary discussions about us doing a Wing Commander movie or 
+series.   He definitely wants to be a film-maker.
+
+
+jms
+

+
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+
+     Virtually all food used is real, for health reasons.  The liquid
+drunk by G'Kar and Arthur in "Avalon" is Yoo-Hoo; the mountain of stuff
+Garibaldi's eating in the Zocalo in first season is piled meatloaf; the 
+spaghetti and bagna cauda was real; the only problem is that no matter 
+what you do, it's going to get cold after 18 takes, even with reheating, 
+and by the 17th take...well, it's an ugly sight.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+ 
+       Michael is generally reserved, soft-spoken, very intelligent;
+he reads quite a great deal, and has a background in NY theater, so he's 
+up on all kinds of plays.  He's also very observant and a good listener.  
+He tends to find the one person in the line who's been shoved back, and 
+go to that person the most, or to the kid in the audience.  He has a 
+somewhat philosophical bent as well.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 12 1996
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+      BTW, I should mention that Patricia Tallman (aka Lyta Alexander)
+is joining the cast as a regular character in year four, and will be 
+included in the main title sequence.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 13 1996
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+     Zrath: you're the first person to catch the subtext in that; one
+is falling toward something which is rising, therefore promising imminent
+conflict.  
+
+                                                                  jms
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+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-08/64.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-08/64.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 14 1996
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+      Actually, we put the station site online so we could run some
+final tests at the site itself, and hadn't yet announced it online as being
+up and ready.  That should be happening shortly, so it's still being
+finalized a bit.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 17 1996
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+     Pat's said she'd like to do her own stunts, but she constitutes a
+valuable commodity, and I'm not sure I want to risk that.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 21 1996
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+
+     Kris: no, it was an original TZ, I didn't write any remakes,
+don't believe in it.
+
+     Mike: yeah, might be impossible to do that on TV...then again,
+maybe not....
+
+     We picked our cast members because they were the best ones to
+walk in the room.  Nothing much there to say.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 22 1996
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+     It's real simple, Kwick.  I sit in a chair in the office as
+actors come in to audition.  Most times, an actor comes in, and an actor 
+goes out.
+
+Sometimes, on rare occasions, the actor comes in and the character
+comes in with him.  You don't see the actor, you see the character.  And 
+that's the one you hire.
+
+                                                                jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 22 1996
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+     Don: some of it's deliberate, I'm not averse to using an actor's
+background to inform something in the character (i.e., Jerry's vehemently 
+pro-death penalty, so I used that in Garibaldi) to add verisimilitude to 
+the personality at hand.
+
+
+jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Aug 24 1996
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+
+     I have *no* idea why this should be...there's no reason why the
+writers can't contact me, unless Dell is telling them not to, and if that 
+is true someone at Dell is going to be tarred and feathered.  As Tim can
+confirm, if someone writing the B5 DC comic had a question, they just 
+sent me an email, and if I could confirm it, I would.
+
+     Regarding Jeanne's specific story...when the spec outline came
+in, I went over it with a fine-toothed comb and made notations on certain
+elements to bring it into line with canon.  The script she will be 
+receiving will answer about 95% of the questions in this regard.  It has 
+nothing to do with kindness; when Stephen Smith needed to finish the new 
+card set from Fleer, I made sure he read the final 5 scripts so he'd know 
+what to include/exclude.
+
+     With Dell, after I approve the outlines, I rarely hear from the
+writers until the first draft comes in, and then I have to go over it 
+with little time and try and correct it.  It'd be better if they checked 
+in with me during the process but I assumed they wanted to get it out 
+first, then correct what needed correcting.  If they're not being allowed 
+to ask me questions, if somebody there is putting him- or herself in the 
+way for reasons of controlling information or preserving authority, 
+somebody's going to be in *serious* dutch.  
+
+     I will check on this on Monday.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 04 1996
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+     Re: commercials...we don't make 'em, and have zero input into the
+construction of them.  We're not allowed to get near it, that's strictly 
+a Warnr Bros. thing.  
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-09/72.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-09/72.html
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+     It's usually common for larger ships to drop their fighters just
+as they enter a jump point into normal space, so they can get an edge on 
+the target rather than launching post-jump.
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 04 1996
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+
+     Small corrections...the Hugo space ship is silver; 7 Hugos have
+been given previously to SF shows, 3 to the original TZ, 4 to ST (old and
+new). And yes, apparently the "Is There A God?" debate has become the 
+con's #1 seller on tape, with Buzz Aldrin's speech second (I don't know 
+whether to be pleased or chagrined), but we definitely didn't go to 
+dinner afterward...we ended up at the same restaurant, but different 
+tables on opposite sides of the restaurant.
+
+     (Aside: I had to wolf down my food to get ready for the Hugo
+ceremony, and just as I was finishing, a fan had the waiter bring over a 
+tray of food, christened spoo.  I couldn't eat it, had to run, so I gave 
+it to the fellow I'd been debating, explaining that it was "an act of 
+atheist charity.")
+
+     Aside to Mike Cooney...was there a message uptopic where you went
+over ways to more economically/reasonably portray, like, thousands of
+ships on-screen?  Not that I have any reason for asking this question....
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+     There's a term, for let's say England, when you're between rulers, 
+one has passed along and the other is perhaps too young to rule, or they
+haven't yet decided on someone...a term for the person who's in charge in 
+the interim, and I can't for the life of me think of that term.  Anybody 
+know what it is?
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 08 1996
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+
+     Stims take a while to work out of your system, to get totally 
+flushed out (as will be noted shortly), but when they're gone, it's 
+unpleasant.  
+
+     My own take on "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place," which
+airs tomorrow in the UK...I like it.  The Brother Theo stuff is a tad
+stilted in a couple of places, but it's only a couple of minutes, and the 
+rest works real well.  It's a very subversive episode in its way, and a 
+part of it still creeps me out.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 08 1996
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+ 
+      My guess is that for Necro, I'll be able to bring some clips from 4th
+season shows, the late 3rd season bloopers, some other stuff.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (PS, Vampyr, good to meet you there...to put a face with the sharp
+analyses of stories.  And thanks to all re: the Hugo.)
+

+
+
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+ 
+     Well, sometimes you go along making an episode, and when it's all
+assembled -- which is really the only time you ever know if it's turned 
+out the way you want -- it's kinda late to change much.  You're filming 
+the next episode, you can't go back and refilm it or rewrite it.  So 
+there's really very little you can do at that point.  
+
+                                                              jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 11 1996
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+
+     There's always a danger in making the show about the New Alien of
+the Week, which we tend to try to avoid.  As for Hypernauts, yes, they
+showed a lot more virtual environments...but the resolution of those 
+shots were nowhere near the level of resolution needed for a show like 
+B5.  They  looked more plastic-y, more obviously CGI.  The only way they 
+could render that much material was to go for low-res stuff, and do other 
+tricks.  It also helped that they shot that show on *videotape*, which is 
+far cheaper than film.  If you did the Hypernauts EFX tricks on B5, 
+they'd look very chintzy, for the most part.  
+
+     That said, we *are* going outside the station more and more in
+the last batch of year 3 episodes, and even moreso in the initial 
+episodes of year 4.  We go to Narn, more time is spent on Centauri Prime, 
+Minbar, Mars, Earth, and elsewhere.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+
+     Foundation also did the majority or all of the battle stuff in
+last week's Voyager.
+
+     Re: NDE...Doug was very happy with that name, which they arrived
+at after long, long discussions...and just after they locked it down, I 
+pointed out that NDE is also a term for Near Death Experience, which has 
+since become how some of us refer to  it.  (Or a Near Doug Experience,  
+which is kinda the same thing, only without the light show.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+     Today John Copeland and I did our producer's cut on the first
+episode of year 4, "The Hour of the Wolf."  Granted my opinion is 
+subjective and biased...but of all the first-episodes we've had each 
+season, this one is the best.  I was searching for the right word after 
+looking at the director's cut, and finally came to it...maturity.  It has 
+a depth we've only skated through before, all meat, no filler.  This one 
+and the next batch are also all over the map, literally...B5, Narn, 
+Centauri Prime, elsewhere...so it's a real challenge.  But it looks great.  
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 14 1996
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+
+     Mike...on the one hand you keep asking for big battle set pieces, 
+then you say you don't want a war story...you'll forgive me if I note that
+you're sending out mixed signals.
+
+     You may also want to wait to see what we *do* rather than
+worrying now about what we *might* do.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 15 1996
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+
+     Also, what tends to happen is that a message of mine gets 
+paraphrased or misremembered, and someone says, "Well, back in 1993, jms 
+said..." and if they get it wrong, and I don't catch it, it becomes part 
+of what's assumed is actually happening.  It's like playing telegraph 
+with 25,000 of your best friends....
+
+     Small correction: my first on-line service was actually Compuserve, 
+back around 1984-1985.  I was one of the first to hit that service, I 
+think, and certainly the first TV writer I knew over there.
+
+     Re: the crew...nothing else has changed.  We've still got John 
+Flinn  III as our DP, Ann Bruice-Aling as costumer, John Iacovelli as 
+Great Maker of All Things Art, Chris Franke on music, optic 
+nerve...they're all still here, all still doing great stuff.  Directors 
+for the fourth season include Mike Vejar, Jesus Trevino, David Eagle, and 
+some new folks we're trying out, Kevin Dobson (not the actor), John 
+Macpherson, and we may even let Stephen Furst do an episode, since he has 
+a long background as a director for smaller films and theater.
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
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+
+     Actually, "Alas, Babylon" is a terrific book by Pat Frank, which
+came out in the late 60s, which I recommend to anyone.  Great reading.  
+Since first reading it as a kid, I must've reread it a dozen or more 
+times over the years until the darned thing fell apart.  (Paperback.)  
+While at  Worldcon, I picked up a first-edition hardcover of the book, 
+and started reading it again while I was there...and fell right back into 
+it again.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 15 1996
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+
+     The thing about "Believers" is that, really, nobody's right, and
+in their own way, from their point of view, everybody's right.
+
+
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+
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+
+     Kwicker: exactly.  Interestingly, one fan I ran into at Worldcon
+made the point that rather than moralizing or giving messages, B5's 
+strength is in providing "meaning without judging."  Kinda interesting....
+
+
+jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 21 1996
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+
+     You ever get one of those pieces of news that leaves you at once
+vaguely amused and horribly chagrined?  Turns out in the October issue of 
+BUZZ Magazine -- the high-style, fancy, New Yorker-in-aspiration LA
+magazine for rich folk -- they have the 100 Coolest People in LA.  How do 
+I know this, even though I don't subscribe?  I got called by a friend.
+
+     Yep...for the first time I am now officially cool.  
+
+     Still processing this one.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 20 1996
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+
+      More episode titles: #5, "The Long Night," #6, "Into the Fire,"
+#7 "Epiphanies," #8 "The Illusion of Truth."
+
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 21 1996
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+
+     Mike: you give me an extra million dollars an episode, and you
+can' have those scenes.  We make this show for under $900,000 an 
+episode.  We're dancing as fast as we can.  What they spent on ID4 is 
+more than we've spent on all three years of B5.
+
+
+jms
+

+
+
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 21 1996
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+
+     And just so you understand...it's not just a question of building
+sets.  Yes, you start with that expense.  Now add extras to populate the
+scenes.  If you're going to have people being killed or even bumped 
+around, you need stunt people, and that's very expensive if you start 
+having more than 2-3 of them in a scene.  Now there's the CGI.  Now 
+there's the cost of the pyrotechnics.  And the staging.  Crashes or big 
+action (live, not CGI) scenes can take an entire day to set up.  Yeah, 
+you can get a 15 second BIG SCENE, but it'll cost you hideously, and 
+it'll add an extra day to production, and you'll have to throw out other 
+stuff.
+
+     We save our big hits for where they will make the most impact,
+but again, this is TV, not a major feature film.  The ST shows get about 
+$1.2-1.4 million or more per episode, depending on circumstances.  S:A&B 
+cost $2 million an episode on average.  Our budget is limited to under 
+$900,000.  We do the best we can with what we've got.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-09/90.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-09/90.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 23 1996
+
+[GEnie postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
+     Mike: okay, I've been quiet, even though others have noted it,
+but you're straying again and again into story suggestions, how the next 
+season should be done, what the environment should be like, even titles; 
+stop it.  I can't be blunter than that.
+
+     Well, actually, I *can*...but the situation is born out of
+enthusiasm, and more or less forgiveable.
+
+     As for GROPOS, that one episode was so far over budget that I had
+to write 2 smaller ones to make up for it, and the many people you saw
+were really just one small group that took forever to digitally composite
+into looking like a much bigger group.
+
+     Mike, your suggestions on production are all well and good for a
+big budget movie.  That's where your mindset is at.  But this is a TV
+show.  We have TV limitations.  We have a budget below any other SF show 
+around. We do the best we can.  Please stop gigging us for things that we 
+can't do, and no other TV show can do.  
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/jms96-09/91.html b/find/GEnie/jms96-09/91.html
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+JMS Genie Message on Sep 23 1996
+
+[GEnie postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
+
diff --git a/find/GEnie/latest/dummy.html b/find/GEnie/latest/dummy.html
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+just a listtle dummy fiel to make the searches happy.
diff --git a/find/README b/find/README
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+README -- Installing the Swish indexer and creating a whole lotta html files
+
+Step 1. BUILD SWISH
+
+Swish source is in swish/swish.11/
+It is straight C, so gcc should have no trouble with it - just hit MAKE
+and watch it compile.  If you are not running the secure wish on the
+system, you can install it as swish in usr/local/bin or somewhere
+else suitable.
+
+Step 2.  CREATE HTML DIRECTORIES
+
+Create some directory structure to hold the postings, and then edit the 
+config file  (splitter.cf) to reflect the full paths to
+these directories.  The directories should be somewhere the web server
+can get to them. 
+
+e.g. create a directory to hold Usenet postings 
+    /ftp/pub/b5/Usenet/html for example
+Put   $USENETDIR="/ftp/pub/b5/Usenet/html" into the config file
+
+The config files feed into the split-foo perl files for splitting up the
+monthly message digests into new directories, It is NOT used by the search
+engine.
+
+
+Step 2.5  EDIT BANNER FILES
+
+Make sure the banner files referenced in the config file contain 
+something sensible...
+
+
+Step 3.  CREATE THE HTML FILES
+
+This is the long wait... We must let the splitters run over each of
+the text digests.  It will create a directory with the same name in
+the right html directory, then create files number 0.html  upwards 
+in that directory.
+
+e.g.  the file Usenet/jms-95-08-Usenet creates the dir
+   Usenet/html/jms-95-08-Usenet/ and then file
+   Usenet/html/jms-95-08-Usenet/0.html
+
+There are splitters for the jms answers file, the Usenet archives, 
+the GEnie archives.  Compuserve is too random to allow easy 
+dedigesting.
+
+You can provide the splitter with multiple file names - the spliter will trim 
+off any path in front.  Splitters must be run in the same directory as the
+config file...
+
+   usenet-split ../*
+
+should work, and take a heck of a long time.
+
+After running the splitters, you should now have a large number of small
+files scattered across many directories.
+
+
+Step 4  EDIT INDEXER CONFIG FILES
+
+Ok, the last tricky part, getting the indexer to pull together the right 
+files. basically you have to edit the conf files in the indexes directory
+to point to the right source directories.
+
+  IndexDir /ftp/pub/b5/babylon_5/Usenet/html/
+  
+  IndexPointer "http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/search.cgi"
+  IndexAdmin "Steve Grimm (koreth@hyperion.com)"
+
+  ReplaceRules "/ftp/pub/" "http://www.hyperion.com/"
+
+Step 5  GENERATE THE INDEXES
+
+Run the reindex script - this will create the indexes for you.
+The indexes are placed in the directory specified in the
+  IndexFile foo.swish
+directive in the index conf file.
+
+The conf files do not have to be accessible on the web, but they should be
+readable by the webserver UID.
+
+
+Step 6  FIX THE SEARCH CGI SCRIPT
+
+There are a bunch of URLs and PATHs that need to be set in the
+top part of the search.cgi - pretty self explanatory.
+
+You should make sure the search script $BANNER variable is
+pointing to a file with something useful in it.
+
+
+CONGRATULATIONS = THE INDEXES ARE NOW READY FOR USE!
+
+
+Step 7 SET UP CRON JOBS TO MAINTAIN INDEXES
+
+After a new archive file is added, it needs to be run through the
+appropriate splitter, then an index for *just* that new directory needs
+to be generated, and the resulting index can then be merged into
+the larger index using the swish -M option.
+
+    swish -i /path/to/usenet/`date +%y%m/`  -f newpostings.swish
+    swish -M usenet.swish  newpostings.swish  newusenet.swish  
+    mv newusenet.swish   usenet.swish
+
+[Optional: index the misc. other parts of the lurkers guid and add an
+item to the search.cgi program for 'other guide pages'.]
+
+
+Good luck,
+
+Christian 'webhead'  mogens@cs.stanford.edu <*>
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+
+
+The search function is
+here.
+
+
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+
+
+Passage through jumpgates (10 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Passage through jumpgates

+10 Jul 1993
     As has been stated previously, large starships, such as carrier
+ships, have enough energy resources to create their *own* entry into
+hyperspace, their own jump points.  The jump gates are mainly used for
+smaller ships, or big ships that want to conserve energy.
+ 
+     Thus, the Vorlons used the jump gate in order to detach their smaller
+ships *before* entering B5's space, so that they could go in on the attack
+immediately, rather than having to separate from the mothership after
+arriving via a separate jump point.  Since they were expecting some sort
+of Vorlon craft, no one thought much of it; the frequency matched with the
+ambassador's craft.  It's only when everything came out that they saw it
+was more than it seemed.
+ 
+     One other item: a jump gate isn't like a light bulb, you can't just
+switch it off suddenly.  There are massive reactions and energy flows going
+on in there, and it takes a fairly long period of time to shut one down
+without blowing the thing to kingdom come.  Also, you endanger any other
+craft heading for it or midway through a jump.  During the Earth/Minbari
+war, EA jump gates were encoded to reject any ship coming in on the wrong
+ID frequency, which helped to slow down misuse of certain gates, though
+the codes would eventually get cracked, which meant they had to be changed
+on a fairly regular basis.
+ 
+     In "Midnight on the Firing Line," you will see how a carrier-size
+ship makes its own jump point.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Something I've always want (29 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: Something I've always want

+29 Jul 1993
     So far, the network (PTEN) is letting us do everything we want to
+do, even going for our more dangerous stories.  Which pleases me beyond
+anything I can convey to you.  They're trusting us to do what we think is
+right.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Something I've always want (29 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Something I've always want

+29 Jul 1993
     We're definitely punching up the Commander.  And you're correct; not
+all problems in real life are resolved in a day, much less an hour (though
+that's really kind of a misnomer; generally the "span" of a TV story may
+cover 3-4 days of story time...you just see parts of that story selected
+for showing in a one-hour period...sort of the highlights).
+ 
+     We do plan to bring in some things that seem at first unimportant,
+then a few episodes down, learn the significance of it.  That can be a
+great deal of fun.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: Cast additions/change (31 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: JMS: Cast additions/change

+31 Jul 1993
     That footage...zero.  Other stuff...maybe.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
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+
+
+Re: FTL communication (was Re: (17 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: FTL communication (was Re:

+17 Jul 1993
     The Senator of the pilot, who was back on Earth, is someone who has
+in past been someone that Sinclair has come to for backing on things; he's
+the equivilent of someone on the Armed Services Committee, here as one of
+those civilian Senators overseeing Earthforce.  He would not be in any
+position to just come in and take over, any more than a Senator visiting a
+U.S. army base would be in a position to take over the base if there were
+a problem with the ranking officer.  But he might be able to bring some
+force to bear back in Washington, which might double-back to be of some
+use.
+ 
+     There are civilian branches and military branches, as with today, in
+which the civilian branch oversees the military, but in very formalized
+ways.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: FTL communication (was Re: (18 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: FTL communication (was Re:

+18 Jul 1993
     The sense is that the commander of B5 is empowered to speak on
+behalf of his government the way a captain exploring new places is
+similarly empowered.  One thing that Sinclair does *not* do is order the
+Ambassadors around.  That would be a significant breach of protocol.  They
+are all on equal footing in that respect.  He is forbidden from using the
+station personnel or firepower to, for instance, hammer someone into
+signing a particular treaty, since that would be duress, and would be
+considered void.  It would also probably lead to a major confrontation that
+nobody wants.  There are definite checks and balances put in place on B5,
+as with any other major installation like this.
+ 
+     Sinclair, btw, was not the first choice for this post; they wanted an
+actual ambassador, but for reasons we'll reveal down the road, this didn't
+happen.  At one point we'll deal very straight-forwardly with this whole
+civilian vs. military question in the series, which should answer many of
+the questions being asked here.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+A Couple of Questions... (20 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
A Couple of Questions...

+20 Jul 1993
     The writer's guide to B5 is not available outside the B5 offices.  As
+for a B5 comic...yes, there are negotiations, and as soon as there's any
+news I can pass along officially, it'll be on the 'net very quickly.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Tamyln & TV Guide - From J (27 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Tamyln & TV Guide - From J

+27 Jul 1993
     Regarding Catherine Sakai...believe me, this ain't a consort kind of
+relationship.  It will be monogamous, but difficult in many ways.  This
+has been an on-again/off-again relationship between them for years, made
+up of three parts passion and two parts teeth.  It will be a very fiery
+relationship.  And this is a woman with her own business, her own ship,
+who comes and goes as she wishes.  You have to understand that I love
+writing strong female characters, and Catherine will be probably one of
+the strongest.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Something I've always wanted (27 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Something I've always wanted

+27 Jul 1993
     Yes, the English model is very much what we're going for in the
+characters on B5.  No character is safe, and we want to play with them
+in some ways not usually done on american TV.  One other difference is
+the notion of a single story across X-season, as with many British
+series.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: TV Guide (27 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: TV Guide

+27 Jul 1993
     Just a correction: there is *no* story in the first season of B5
+entitled "Five Minutes to Midnight."  The first episode for the series is
+entitled "Midnight on the Firing Line."  Just FYI.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: TV Guide (27 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: TV Guide

+27 Jul 1993
     Two quickies: in G'Kar's comments to Lyta, he mentions that they
+would have to change the genetic structure of human DNA for his little
+idea to work, so there is that aspect to it.  As for Sinclair going after
+the Minbari assassin...there were several reasons for this.  First, this
+was personal for him; if the guy *wasn't* caught, he would be blamed for
+the death and sent to the Vorlon homeworld.  He had something very much
+at stake.  Second, if you have somebody with shapeshifting technology on
+board, the LAST thing you want is to send in a large group.  The tracking
+of the energy web used for the holographic effect was good, but only
+to a certain point.  It could say "He's ten feet away," but if there's 5
+guys within that range, it'll take you just long enough to react for the
+assassin to wipe out the bunch of you before you figure out which one he
+is.  But if there's only *two* of you, and you hear the shifter is within
+10 feet, you know *exactly* who it is and can react accordingly.  It
+seemed logical.  Also, you'd want someone there who you knew VERY well,
+in case there were a replacement...because while someone could emulate a
+face, they can't replicate memories, and Sinclair or Garibaldi could
+quickly figure out if the other was an imposter.
+ 
+     Yes, I probably could've stopped to explain this...but I figured it
+was readily apparent, and there was already enough exposition in the
+pilot to stun a horse.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: TV Guide (27 Jul 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: TV Guide

+27 Jul 1993
     Alas, I wish I could say that I'm doing B5 in hopes of pleasing the
+maximum number of people at all times.  Certainly there would be many
+people in town relieved to hear that.  But this is something that I'm
+doing because this is just the sort of series that I'd like to watch.  If
+I'm lucky, others will feel the same way.  If not...well, them's the
+breaks.  This show will either be a hit, or it'll go down in the biggest
+fireball since Tunguska.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+characters (3 Aug 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
characters

+3 Aug 1993
     You make some good points about the number of characters in the
+show; it *is* an ensemble in the truest sense.  Not every character will
+appear in every show, only when they have something to *contribute* will
+they be there.  Also, it's possible to bring out something interesting
+about a character without dedicating an entire episode to that character.
+ 
+     It is, as you say, a very large cast: on the EA side, you've got
+Sinclair, Garibaldi, Ivanova and Franklin, with the telepath more or less
+on that same side.  Then on the alien side, you've got G'Kar and his
+attache Ko'Dath, Londo and his attache Vir, Delenn and her attache Lennier,
+Kosh and...nobody, really, plus other recurring alien characters such as
+n'grath (a *very* non-humanoid and interesting character), and of course
+Sinclair's recurring love interest, Catherine Sakai.  That's 14 characters
+right there.  That's a lot of balls to keep up in the air at the same time,
+and you have to use them carefully, to advance a given story, but also to
+give them moments in which their personalities can really come through.
+ 
+     This is, as stated, a *big* show.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Various Topics (13 Aug 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Various Topics

+13 Aug 1993
     1) Language.  We don't have a universal translator.  You either have
+to speak English, Interlac, or Centauri, the three dominant languages.  If
+not, then you have to use a mechanical translator, which isn't set up for
+every brand new language they encounter.  I'd like to showcase at least
+one episode in which communication is really a problem.
+ 
+     2) Yes, for the most part, we're looking at humanoids...but not in
+all cases.  Look for one character in particular, n'grath, who will make
+his/its first appearance in the second episode.  This thing definately
+ain't human.
+ 
+     3) We have some interesting ideas for what can happen to the energy
+question.
+ 
+     4) Our crew members do what they're assigned to do, what their rank
+and designation specifies they should do.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Upcoming Conventions? (13 Aug 1993)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Upcoming Conventions?

+13 Aug 1993
     I'll be at both WorldCon in San Francisco the first part of
+September, and at Comic Con in a week or so.  I'll be bringing the same
+basic material to both places, so you don't have to do both.  But I can
+promise you'll find it interesting.  At this point, in addition, it looks
+like Michael O'Hare, Jerry Doyle, and Harlan Ellison will also be doing
+the SDCC B5 presentation as well.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+14 Aug 1993
     I hate scripts that end with, "And they all laugh."  Even when I was
+working in animation, I avoided them.  Thus far, all of our episodes are
+slated to end with a tag, but in many cases -- and this is almost becoming
+a theme or a setpiece for us -- there's a questioning element to the tag,
+something unusual or offbeat that adds one other layer to what we've just
+seen.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+14 Aug 1993
     It's all extrapolation, trying to keep an eye on what seems now to
+be a realistic expectation of the future.  The wild card, of course, is
+the assumption in the B5 universe that we've also integrated a fair
+amount of alien technology, which sort of jump-started our own space
+exploration efforts.  It vastly changes the whole equation....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+ftp.hyperion.com (14 Aug 1993)
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+14 Aug 1993
     With regrets, I can't provide gif images without PTEN (justifiably)
+yelling on me.  I'm working to try and change their opinion, but so far,
+that's the policy.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
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+14 Aug 1993
     Somebody said that what they liked about the show was the sense that
+it was altogether possible that you could turn on the show one day and
+find that the whole station had vanished, with the word "Crotoan"
+lasered onto a nearby asteroid.  Anything can happen.
+ 
+     And as much as possible, I'm going to try to keep playing to that
+aspect.  Anyone is fair game.  Characters should turn around, and become
+something other than what they seem to be.  And there can be even larger
+changes wrought on the whole tapestry of the show, some of which will show
+up in a *very* major way late in the third season.  I like pulling the
+rug out from under people.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+15 Aug 1993
     I'm still mapping that aspect out.  We do make a distinction in the
+series between space in general and "known space."  In "Infection," one
+character comments that he's come "halfway across known space" to see
+someone.  But the details of that are still being worked out.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+So who's Catherine Sakai? (15 Aug 1993)
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+15 Aug 1993
     Catherine Sakai is played by Julie Nickson Soul, an asian-american
+actor who's done quite a bit of work in high-profile films.  Her
+character is never Cathy, only Catherine (occasionally Cath to Sinclair,
+but *only* occasionally).  She's a planetary surveyer, working for one
+of the Earth corporations, looking for uninhabited worlds and asteroids
+for exploitation.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Re: Aspirin (Was Re: One more (16 Aug 1993)
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+16 Aug 1993
     "But it still doesn't change the FACT that in a few hundred years,
+aspirin WILL BE obsolete."
+ 
+     Don't suppose you'd be willing to produce the Journal of the American
+Medical Association for Spring 2257 to back up your statement of *fact*
+in this matter, would you?
+ 
+     The *fact* is that even now, we're re-discovering medicines and means
+of healing that go back centuries.  You may state clearly and with great
+confidence your opinion...but that is all that it is, it is not "fact," as
+you state.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Where can I find ??????? (17 Aug 1993)
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+17 Aug 1993
     Beats me, but if you find an uncut version of B5, lemme know, because
+I'D like one.
+ 
+     The problem is that, unlike a motion picture, where you produce a
+cut on film, which you then trim down, we're editing on computerized image
+files.  We don't get around to finally cutting the film until we've made
+our final edits.  So no complete version ever existed on film.  The most
+that could be done is get those 25 minutes and *build* a new version with
+that footage...which would require additional scoring, editing, and other
+stuff.
+ 
+     BTW...just to put the word out: someone stole a painstakingly painted
+plaster cast of G'Kar -- full-size, head and neck -- from the B5 offices.
+If *anyone* should offer this for sale anywhere, please be advised that
+this stolen merchandise and should be reported.
+ 
+	                                                       jms
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+Re: Rerun the Pilot! (3 Aug 1993)
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+3 Aug 1993
     The pilot will be rerun a couple more times between now and the
+series going on-line, definitely in November.  (And those who'
+'ve been asking for x-y-z axis movement will get it, btw.)
+ 
+     The only hesitation I have about the pilot is that the series is
+going to be *much* improved, and the pilot really will no longer be a real
+indication of what we have in mind.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+19 Aug 1993
     Insofar as I know, Walker is mainly features PR and some network PR;
+we fall under the PTEN jurisdiction, so I don't think he's involved.  I
+don't yet know how much promotional material will be made available; it's
+a long ways until we go on the air, so there's time for that to get put
+together.
+ 
+     For those who want to send mail to B5, best to use this address:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  My name or
+B5 will suffice.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+20 Aug 1993
     Re: the skin tab/Kosh's hand/encounter suit question...one of the
+reasons I can't wait for the series to get on the air is so that we can
+make one thing clear, once and for all: it is NOT an error, not a plot
+hole, it is a plot POINT.  It is a question that our *characters* will
+be asking each other.  How can this be?  This will come up more than once,
+starting with "The Parliament of Dreams" episode.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+20 Aug 1993
     The point you raise is absolutely accurate.  When it comes to making
+up names for civilizations, or characters, one goes for the *sound* of the
+name or the sense of the name.  "Minbar" is one of those terms whose
+meaning, unlike Yangs and Coms (Yanks and Commies) is NOT well known; ask
+any 100 people on the street, and it's *very* unlikely that ANY of them
+would know what a minbar is.  Because the Minbari are very spiritual (well,
+half of them, anyway), and because I always liked the *sound* of the word
+"minbar," that became the name.  It has no dead-on meaning, there is no
+translation, it doesn't describe what they are.  I don't think it's as
+blunt as the examples cited, because it's a *very* obscure term; in all
+this time, only that ONE person recognized its origins.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+25 Aug 1993
     I'm going to try this again; for some reason, the last several notes
+I sent in reply to internet stuff hasn't gotten through.
+ 
+     The station *is* still rotating in the Vorlon attack scene.  The
+camera is more or less tracking with the rotation at that moment, but it
+is moving.  I was there at the early wireframe tests.
+ 
+     As for the Vorlon handshake (so to speak)...this will be dealt with
+in the series.  You have to remember that the original plan was to air the
+pilot and go *immediately* into series, where we'd bring up some of these
+questions.  There simply wasn't room to deal with EVERYTHING in that short
+pilot...and where we DID try and cover everything, we got gigged for being
+expositional.
+ 
+     Now we have to re-establish a few things since there's been a gap in
+time...but the poison incident will be raised in "The Parliament of
+Dreams" script to start with, and move on from there.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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Re: A little scenario

+27 Aug 1993
     Excuse me for being blunt, but since you're being blunt, you
+shouldn't mind a blunt observation in return.
+ 
+     You are an idiot.
+ 
+     I have no problem with someone finding genuine faults with a show,
+mine or otherwise...but it's something else again to *manufacture* faults,
+and then make them into errors.  I feel a little like Woody Allen in
+MANHATTAN, listening to the fellow behind him in line mouthing on and on
+about Marshall McCluhan's work, all of it absolutely wrong, until finally
+Allen drags Marshall out from behind the nearest wall to say to him, in
+essence, "You are an idiot."
+ 
+     You say, taking this as your premise, "it's pretty clear that a
+Vorlon is the standard 'shimmering-electric-blue energy creature that just
+happens to be humanoid.'"  No, it's not.  I don't care what you think,
+that is most definitely NOT what Kosh is.  So all of your error-finding
+based on that assumption is strictly nonsense.  I'm just amazed that you
+can sit there and say, "Oh, yes, this is what it is," when it's not, and
+at this moment only three people in the WORLD know what a Vorlon is.
+ 
+     You say that the Minbari "of course...should have had NO contact
+with them."  That's your assumption.  Your assumption is deadass wrong.
+Note how Delenn comes forth and bows to the Vorlon.  There is some
+familiarity there.  We will be finding out just HOW much familiarity there
+is down the road.  That's what we have the series for.  To develop these
+kinds of things.
+ 
+     You complain about things you think are obvious (and by the way,
+you're wrong in THAT message as well), but things that are subtle seem to
+rocket over your head at something just short of lightspeed.
+ 
+     And that background of familiarity DOES explain how the assassin would
+know how to hurt a Vorlon.
+ 
+     You have to understand that, despite being on televison, this is a
+BOOK.  It is a novel.  You have seen only the prologue to the novel at
+this juncture.  To conclude everything that will happen based strictly on
+that prologue is absurd.  (And please don't throw "Well, that's all we've
+HAD for a year" at me...it wasn't designed that way.  It was designed to
+go immediately into series, and begin both posing and answering some of
+the questions raised, so that at this moment, we wouldn't be HAVING this
+discussion.  You can't blame us for a corporate decision.)
+ 
+     So in any event, your entire 1-2-3 progression, based as it is on
+completely erroneous and presumptuous assumptions is totally wrong.  You
+will simply have to wait and see how it ends, as with any story.  If you
+don't, if this message has pissed you off, that's life.
+ 
+     In future, comment on *actual aspects of the production* all you
+like...but try to refrain from cooking up some weird scenario in your own
+mind, slapping it as an overlay onto my show, and somehow twisting things
+around to make it look like we're doing something dumb, when in fact your
+message doesn't touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+ 
+     How's THAT for a review?
+ 
+     (Oh, and a P.S. to those who parroted the comments of Jeff Jarvis at
+TV Guide about the "cheesy" special effects/CGI in the B5 pilot: we just
+received word that we've won an Emmy for Best Special Effects in a TV
+Movie.)
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+27 Aug 1993
     "I could swear I saw ships leaving B5 after Sinclair ordered it
+closed."  To which you reply, "I agree, and I mentioned it before."
+ 
+     Yes, you did.  Just one problem.  There ARE no such shots of any
+ships entering B5.  You have some shots of ships in a holding pattern
+outside, waiting until all is cleared, or heading on to secondary bases.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+Confirmation requested... Koen (27 Aug 1993)
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+27 Aug 1993
     Whoever posted the note re: Walter Koenig is baldfacedly lying.
+Walter was in my office just this afternoon, in fact.  He's doing well,
+exercising, walking around, and looks great...a hell of a lot better than
+I would look under those conditions, that's for sure.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+27 Aug 1993
     "Another one of those 'all alien men want Earth women' type things,
+if you'll disregard the psi-stuff for now."
+ 
+     In other words, disregard what is going to be probably one of the
+most dominant themes that will emerge in the entire series.  Disregard
+what you WANT to disregard in order to make a critical comment.
+ 
+     I look forward to embarrassing the hell out of you by about this time
+next year....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+28 Aug 1993
     There was a reason we gave Londo the pilot opening monologue, yes.
+And another reason why we're giving Sinclair the opening monologue over
+credits of the first season, though with some differences.  We're also
+considering rotating any such opening between other cast members as well,
+but *always* in the past-tense, "Babylon 5 *was*...."  We're dealing in
+future history here, and we plan to do some interesting things with that
+aspect.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+28 Aug 1993
     We're definitely populating the show with ethnic groups from all
+over the place, including some not generally found in futuristic SF, so
+yes, we plan to do that.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+is there anyone on who doesn't (4 Aug 1993)
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+4 Aug 1993
     The situation you describe is essentially correct.  One part of the
+problem comes from the fact that there have been so few even reasonably
+successful SF shows on television...and you can count the ones set in
+space on the fingers of one hand.  So with so few shows in this area, it
+is inevitable that people will make comparisons.  If SF space series were
+as common place, and had had as many variations, as the cop show, or
+the hospital show, I think you wouldn't really have this going on.  (When
+a new cop show comes on, people don't go around trying to figure out how
+it compares to CANNON or POLICE STORY.)
+ 
+     If B5 succeeds, proving you can do SF space series for a reasonable
+cost, I think you'll suddenly see a *lot* more of them.  (Already people
+are talking about the B5 "model" in terms of how to produce a show in this
+genre without hitting hideous cost over-runs.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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Re: A little scenario

+28 Aug 1993
     Actually, it's Kosh's ship that comes out of the jump gate backward,
+engines forward to assist with deceleration.  The fighters don't want to
+be slow-moving targets, so it stands to reason they wouldn't be
+configured for rapid deceleration.  They want to get into position as fast
+as possible.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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Re: A little scenario

+28 Aug 1993
     What you propose in your scenario is not it...but it does show that
+you're thinking along similar lines to what we're going to be doing.  That
+kind of thing, and the inner workings you describe, are very close to the
+surface of our story, and what we have in mind.  Or, said more succinctly:
+yes, you get it.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Jeff Jarvis, ET. AL. :-( (28 Aug 1993)
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Jeff Jarvis, ET. AL. :-(

+28 Aug 1993
     Paramount spends *vast* amounts of money advertising TNG and DS9.
+Also, from time to time, personal relationships between journalists and
+those they cover can influence their perceptions.  Beyond that...your
+guess is as good as mine.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: Babylon 5 Computer (29 Aug 1993)
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Re: Babylon 5 Computer

+29 Aug 1993
     What Kyle suggests...is closer to the truth than might otherwise be
+suspected.  We had filmed a scene -- which never made it into the finished
+pilot -- where Garibaldi, growing suspicious of his boss -- confronts
+Sinclair in the core shuttle.  One of the alibis he checked out doesn't
+hold up: Sinclair's.  The transport tube computer records don't indicate
+any delay.  Sinclair suggests that there's either a problem with the
+system, or it's been deliberately altered to remove that information.
+ 
+     It was, of course, the latter.
+ 
+     Now...stop and think about this for a moment.
+ 
+     The Observation Dome has equipment to detect approaching ships.  The
+spider transport approaches without being noticed.  The surface of the
+station would likely have sensors to detect something attaching itself to
+the hull.  Somehow these were over-ridden.  The only time that anyone
+notices, up in the Dome, is later, when Laurel isn't there, interestingly
+enough.  Someone deliberately programmed the transport tube to delay
+Sinclair.  The assassin would have to know this in advance.
+ 
+     We saw Londo with the assassin.  We also saw Garibaldi, Lyta,
+Dr. Kyle and -- later -- Sinclair with the assassin, each relating to him
+in different ways.  Who was the one person we never saw with the assassin,
+whose reactions might have told us something?  Who was the one put in
+charge of the station when Sinclair was pulled out of circulation?
+ 
+     Laurel.
+ 
+     We had some...interesting things in mind for this character.  Now
+that another character has come in, some things will be modified, but
+other elements will come in to replace them.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: Babylon 5 Computer (30 Aug 1993)
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+30 Aug 1993
     I kept Tamlyn in the dark about a lot of this.  She even mentioned
+this in an interview she gave somewhere.  I didn't want that knowledge
+to make her play the role anything other than it should have been played:
+as if absolutely innocent and sincere.  Sometimes you just gotta be
+sneaky....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Takashima (was Re: Babylon 5 C (30 Aug 1993)
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+30 Aug 1993
     There was an element of saving her own life...and another aspect of
+all this is that she may not have been acting entirely of her own
+free will during the first half.  There may be some influences that will
+emerge later.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+Homosexuality in Space! (30 Aug 1993)
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Homosexuality in Space!

+30 Aug 1993
     My feeling is that the best way of handling this question is to have
+a character, someone we see more than once, who we eventually learn is
+bi or gay.  This seems to me a much more intrinsically powerful statement
+than doing a "gay" story.  So that's what we're going to do.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Re: A little scenario (31 Aug 1993)
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+31 Aug 1993
     This has already been answered; had the character stayed with the
+show, gradually it would have emerged that the assassin had access to
+Laurel's codes because she provided them to him.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
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+Kosh's reception (31 Aug 1993)
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+31 Aug 1993
     And who else isn't at the reception?
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+The Opening momnologue (was: i (31 Aug 1993)
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+31 Aug 1993
     You're right; in my head, I was thinking "surviving characters,"
+but that does complicate the issue enormously.  Perhaps it's best to stay
+with the one voice for now after all....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: JMS: Cast additions/change (5 Aug 1993)
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Re: JMS: Cast additions/change

+5 Aug 1993
     Harlan is currently consulting on the series, and is even now
+writing a script for us.  So yes, he's definitely working away.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Wanted: Hardend Characters (5 Aug 1993)
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Wanted: Hardend Characters

+5 Aug 1993
     We'll definitely be dealing with the aspects of how fighting in a war
+can affect you.  And this isn't just a vague promise: watch the end of the
+third (currently) scheduled episode, "Infection," for a scene between
+Sinclair and Garibaldi that really deals very straightforwardly with this
+issue.  It's a conversation you wouldn't expect to see in a show like this.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Wanted:  just a bit more reali (7 Aug 1993)
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+7 Aug 1993
     The main line I've been stressing with our writers and others who
+we're working with is the goal of making our humans more human, and our
+aliens more alien.  Much of our life is focused around things that don't
+generally show up in SF television...we cut ourselves shaving, we have to
+find a bathroom, our shoes don't fit...and these are the elements that
+help make a character more real somehow.  So yes, we're very definitely
+going for that aspect.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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A thousand thanks.

+10 Aug 1993
     You have my promise on both counts.  Frankly, if a common enemy came
+along...in the B5 universe they'd all probably fall over each other trying
+to sell each other out in hopes of being the one left standing when the
+dust clears.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: Wanted: less cheese, more (11 Aug 1993)
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Re: Wanted: less cheese, more

+11 Aug 1993
     I wasn't gonna jump in here, but I have to at least answer your
+question: "Where's the rest?"  The rest is in the series.  You haven't
+seen the series yet.  You're comparing it against 7 years of TNG; rather
+consider if the ONLY thing you had EVER seen was "Farpoint."  We had a
+massive burden: to build an entire universe, based around a political
+drama, in basically 90+ minutes not counting commercials.  That meant that
+more time went into exposition and backstory than I'd like.
+ 
+     In my view, we've now done that, we've laid the foundation, and now
+we can sit back and tell stories...*character* based stories.  That's what
+I'm best at, and that's what the writers I've chosen to use on the series
+are best at.
+ 
+     The "rest" you ask for is there..in the series.  But I'm not asking
+you to take my word for it.  Check out the show.  Maybe you'll like it.
+And maybe you won't.  That's showbiz.  You don' like it, you don' gotta
+watch.  But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
+ 
+     The miracle of the B5 pilot is that it got done at *all*, given the
+odds against us, given a team working together for the first time, without
+the benefit of an established universe, and actors who had never worked
+together before who had zero chance for rehearsal.  I'm not apologizing
+for the pilot; it had flaws, but I'm very proud of a lot that's in there.
+ 
+     Do the math.  You have a little over 90 minutes.  You have to
+introduce 9 major characters in the course of that story.  That gives you
+ten minutes of attention for any one character.  Now you've also got to
+tell the backstory.  You've got to establish who the various players are.
+You've got to put the present-tense story into motion, with beginning,
+middle and end.  And now you're left with maybe 3-4 minutes of "quality
+time" with any one character.  If we only had 2 or 3 characters, then
+it's a very different story...but that isn't the universe we have to work
+in.
+ 
+     Now that the series is going ahead, we can spend an entire *episode*
+dealing primarily with one character.  And do the same for others.  We
+have the time.  And that's what's important.
+ 
+     One last observation: you repeat the notion that it's all a "reaction"
+to TNG.  The treatment and screenply were complete and making the rounds
+in Hollywood in Spring 1987.  The basic material was written in 1986, at
+a point in some cases when TNG hadn't even *aired* yet.  So it could
+hardly have been written as a reaction to something that hadn't been seen
+yet, could it?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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Re: Wanted: less cheese, more

+12 Aug 1993
     You repeat several times your insistence that I study TNG to see
+what they did right, use them as a roadmap.
+ 
+     Sorry.  I have no desire to study TNG.  I'm telling a different sort
+of story, in a different universe.  What TNG does right or wrong is more
+or less irrelevant to that universe.  That's like saying that (just to
+pick two names at random) Orson Scott Card should study Poul Anderson as
+a roadmap in his own novels.  This is utter nonsense.
+ 
+     A while ago, I got an email from someone who didn't like the pilot
+(and it may have been on internet, btw) mainly because of the communication
+devices.  He said, and I'm paraphrasing from memory, that every time
+someone used the wrist-links, it broke the illusion for him, since we all
+KNOW that by then the REALITY is that we'll be using the chest
+communicators that TNG uses, and I should be sure to include that in
+future episodes as a capitulation to that reality.
+ 
+     Sorry...TNG is a roadmap for TNG.  Not B5.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Mind over Matter (1 Sep 1993)
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Mind over Matter

+1 Sep 1993
     There are a handful of level P10s who can go beyond simple telepathy
+into telekinetics, but they are rare...and often very unstable.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Re: diversity in actors (9 Sep 1993)
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Re: diversity in actors

+9 Sep 1993
     Nope.  One generally refers to male and female performers as "actors."
+ That's simply the standard terminology today.  "Actress" has basically
+been releaged to the same dustbin as "stewardess."
+ 
+     (relegated, that is)
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: Scene I would like to see (9 Sep 1993)
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Re: Scene I would like to see

+9 Sep 1993
     Okay, expressing ignorance here: what is a "group" when one says a
+"creative group?"  I kinda got the impression it was a private thread of
+some sort.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Re: WorldCon presentation on F (9 Sep 1993)
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Re: WorldCon presentation on F

+9 Sep 1993
     We leave the question open.  Is he actually taking souls, or simply
+encoding the personality matrix and, in essence, creating an artificial
+version of the individual's personality?
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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Re: WorldCon presentation on F

+10 Sep 1993
     I didn't say they covered it up or ignored it.  In any event, it
+might be best to wait until you've seen the full episode before we start
+talking reviews and concerns.  Right now you're responding to what *might*
+be the point of the episode; best to wait until it's aired so that we can
+discuss what *is* there.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Babylon a poor name (10 Sep 1993)
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Babylon a poor name

+10 Sep 1993
     The most common term I hear around is "Fivers."  Though someone came
+up with the notion of using the Roman numeral for 5, V, and decided that
+fans of Babylon 5 could properly be called "BVers."  Pronounced "beavers."
+ 
+     Naturally, we had him killed.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Religion in B5 (10 Sep 1993)
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Religion in B5

+10 Sep 1993
     Let me just lay the foundation here for a moment in the area of
+religion and Babylon 5.  I'm an atheist, that simple.  But that's me.  If
+you look at the long history of human society, religion -- whether you
+describe that as organized, disorganized, or the various degrees of
+accepted superstition -- has always been present.  And it will be present
+200 years from now.  That may not thrill me, but when one is a writer, one
+must deal with realities, and that's one of them.  To totally ignore that
+part of the human equation would be as false and wrong-headed as ignoring
+the fact that people get mad, or passionate, or strive for better lives.
+ 
+     So we do deal with the questions of religion, and spirituality, and
+their definitions, without being abusive.  A couple of stories on this
+area, like David Gerrold's "Believers" may be very controversial.  On the
+other hand, my script for "The Parliament of Dreams" is a straight-ahead
+showcase, in which every species on B5 is encouraged to demonstrate his
+or her dominant belief system, as practiced back home.  So we learn more
+about Minbari religion, more about the Centauri's rather Bacchanallian
+form of religion, along with others.  And Sinclair is put in the difficult
+position of being asked to show what Earth's dominant belief system is.
+The solution to which is, I think, kinda cool.
+ 
+     In the Babylon 5 universe, all the things that make us human -- our
+obsessions, our interests, our language, our culture, our flaws and our
+wonderfulnesses -- are all still intact.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Problem with JMS viewing possi (10 Sep 1993)
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Problem with JMS viewing possi

+10 Sep 1993
     It's a valid possibility.  All I know is that the only way I'm now
+getting Internet at all is because Ron Jarrell (as I recall) set up my
+account as an Internet gateway for this specific group.  I don't see
+anything else because I'm not set up by him to see anything else.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
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+Re: Physics of Babylon 5 (10 Sep 1993)
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Re: Physics of Babylon 5

+10 Sep 1993
     On the issue of tryful in making our physics work,
+when I showed the material from B5 at ConFrancisco, one sequence is of a
+B5 fighter orienting itself and matching speed and rotation with an
+object it's trying to snare.  At one point, someone in the audience called
+out, "F=MA."  I thought he was heckling; turns out it was a mathematical
+compliment.  Force = Mass x Accelleration, and the way we were handling
+the docking and retrieval sequence indicated that the math in how it was
+done was correct.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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Re: Scene I would like to see

+11 Sep 1993
     In 1989, the bible, treatment, screenplay and artwork for Babylon 5
+was brought to Paramount.  This is documented.  It was reviewed, in depth,
+by many of the development people there, meetings were taken, and at one
+point, it looked as if we might have a deal.  Very abruptly this prospect
+evaporated, with Paramount passing on the grounds that it then had an SF
+series that had just gone on, and it would conflict.
+ 
+     What a development person at a studio does, incidentally, is to work
+with writers and producers involved in studio projects.  The development
+person guides the writers and producers in ways that the development
+person thinks that the project should go.
+ 
+     I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I do not believe that
+either Berman or Pillar ever saw the B5 material.  Further, that if they
+were asked to rip anything off, I think that they would outright refuse
+to do so.  These are honorable men.
+ 
+     They would never knowingly do anything inappropriate.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

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+Re: diversity in actors (11 Sep 1993)
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Re: diversity in actors

+11 Sep 1993
     No, the dustbin contains expressions that are in common use by just
+about everybody in America...except those who get it *right*.
+ 
+     I should think that those in the entertainment business might just
+have some latitude in deciding what they should be called, don't you?
+Or do you feel that others should define who and what you are?  You sign
+your name "Stewart."  Should we all instead call you "Sparky the Wonder
+Dog" because that's what we prefer calling you?  Or do you have any voice
+at all in your name, your profession, your identity?
+ 
+     You get a vote in what people call you.  Dentists get a vote in what
+people call them.  Gynecologists get a vote in what people call them
+(thus avoiding confusion with proctologists, even though both are doctors
+whose specializations are within inches of one another).  And people in
+the entertainment industry get a vote in what people call THEM.
+ 
+     Where in this is your problem?
+ 
+	                                          yr obdnt srvnt,
+ 
+                                                         Sparky
+
+
+

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+Re: JMS's "What To Expect" (1 Sep 1993)
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Re: JMS's "What To Expect"

+1 Sep 1993
     Trust me, Babylon 5 is *not* an illusion.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+Re: Trent/Demon with a Glass H (11 Sep 1993)
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+11 Sep 1993
     The kyben are not necessarily part of the B5 universe.  First, the
+events that propelled Trent into the past don't happen for about another
+1500 years past B5's time.  Second, it's still a *possible* future, not the
+ONLY future.  So there's latitude here.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+Trek vs. B5 - things NOT to do (12 Sep 1993)
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Trek vs. B5 - things NOT to do

+12 Sep 1993
     Some general thoughts and reactions.  I can't really address the
+issues you raise vis a vis TNG, because frankly, I just don't watch it,
+or DS9.  So all I can do is discuss those issues in relation to B5.
+ 
+     1) Conflict.  There is a difference between being crabby, and having
+genuine conflict over something that MEANS something.  In the worst of
+mainstream TV shows (and some films), you have the characters bitching and
+crabbing at each other over things that really don't matter, doesn't end
+up changing anything at the end, and once the episode is over, no longer
+matters.  (Or is too easily resolved.)  It's the difference between just
+arguing, and a lead-in to a pivotal moment.  Sort of like crabbing about
+whether or not you want nuts with your chocolate sundae.
+ 
+     When we have conflict in B5, we try to make it about something that
+MEANS something.  We try not to use it for punctuation.  Conflict is
+desperately important in television...but you have to be careful when you
+use it, lest you trivialize it in the process.  And once the conflict
+becomes trivial, or simply redundent, you're dead.
+ 
+     2) Torturing characters.  The basic problem here is that this is one
+of the very easiest things you can do to a character; a cheap way to get
+sympathy for a character, and create danger.  You can take the notion of
+"Someone kidnaps Character A and terrorizes/abuses him/her, making the
+character confront something in his or her life, but the character comes
+through at the end" and drop it on *any* TV series.  And it'll work.  It's
+what's called a "moveable piece" in television jargon.
+ 
+     As with conflict, if done to excess, it becomes trivial.  We're doing
+one episode, "And The Sky Full of Stars," which puts one of our characters
+through real hell, partly physical, partly mental.  But we're ONLY doing
+that one, and it's not for something that'll be forgotten next week.  This
+episode, and what he encounters, will have significant consequences down
+the road.  It's not a throwaway, it's a major plot element.
+ 
+     3) Continuity.  Again, B5 is in essence a novel for TV, thus it has
+to have continuity.  And it will, and it does.
+ 
+     4) Characterizations and capacities.  This intersects with your
+concern about continuity.  One must keep continuity in what your
+characters are and aren't capable of doing, and who they are.  This we
+are also doing.  We are, however, also showing the various *sides* to our
+characters.  It doesn't change who they are, or what their skills are, it
+just showcases a different side of their personality.
+ 
+     5) Merchandising.  This is something I don't have major control
+over.  I'm consulted on deals once they're made, to make sure that the
+resultant product is up to B5 standards, but that's it.  I just don't see
+B5 ever being big enough to have that problem in any event.  It's not a
+25 year franchise.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+Centauri Physical Appearance (13 Sep 1993)
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Centauri Physical Appearance

+13 Sep 1993
     Centauri males indicate status via hair.  So there are gradations
+common to all Centauri.  Centauri women are bald except for a long trail
+in the back.  It's the peacock situation, if you get the comparison.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+A look at the competition (14 Sep 1993)
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A look at the competition

+14 Sep 1993
     Frankly, I really don't see that DSV is in competition with B5, any
+more than, say, "Northern Exposure" is in competition with "Picket
+Fences."  They're different shows, on at different times.  Were they on
+on head-to-head, that'd be different.
+ 
+     That said, my two cents worth, re: "Seaquest" and "Lois and Clark,"
+hated it, loved them.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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+Centauri hair (14 Sep 1993)
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+14 Sep 1993
     There will be both sex and romance on B5 (sometimes together,
+sometimes not).  It's perversely appropriate that in the B5 series, it's
+not the Commander who gets laid first, or Garibaldi, or G'Kar...it's
+Londo.  And it's a very funny, but very touching and moving episode.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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+Re: A look at the competition (14 Sep 1993)
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Re: A look at the competition

+14 Sep 1993
     It's my understanding that B5 will be airing in most markets at 8:00
+p.m. Wednesday nights, replacing Trax, starting around the second week of
+January.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
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+14 Sep 1993
     My feeling here is, don't worry about the show, regarding your
+overcoming on the pilot.  Pilots are good, bad or uneven.  What matters
+in the analysis is the series.  You can have a great pilot and a
+disappointing series.  And vice-versa.  The series will air.  If it's
+good, people will watch, whatever they may have thought about the pilot.
+If it ain't good, people won't watch, and deservedly so.  In other words,
+the ball's in our court now.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Re: Centauri Physical Appearan (15 Sep 1993)
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Re: Centauri Physical Appearan

+15 Sep 1993
     The Centauri aren't quite as human looking as one might presume,
+given what has been seen.  Wait...wait....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: Problem with JMS viewing p (15 Sep 1993)
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Re: Problem with JMS viewing p

+15 Sep 1993
     Thanks.  Production is going well.  Bit of news: because of his
+desire to do a couple big movies, a new album, and some touring, Stewart
+Copeland won't be available for the series.  So we've locked down
+Christopher Franke, of Tangerine Dream, who's done the soundtracks for
+Thief, Tommyknockers, Angel Falls, Universal Soldier and a bunch of other
+projects.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Re: Scene I would like to see (15 Sep 1993)
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Re: Scene I would like to see

+15 Sep 1993
     Just because there seems to be some misapprehension going on here,
+a point of clarification.  My initial "not here" message was not in
+response to some idle speculations about the show.  There was a message
+which contained a *detailed* story suggestion.  With luck, someone here
+who saw it can verify that.  I do not react like that lightly; only when
+necessary.
+ 
+     You may think that this "paranoia thing has gotten out of hand."
+That's as may be.  You're not on the receiving end.  I know many friends
+who have been at the receiving end of nuisance lawsuits, which consumes
+literally hundreds of thousands of dollars, and months to a *year* of
+someone's life.  And that even though they win the case.  It can kill a
+year of your life, exhaust your bank accounts (which are often not able to
+be recovered) in a lawsuit which may not even get to *court*.  Sometimes
+its a lawyer-spouse, sometimes just another goddamned greedy ambulance
+chaser who doesn't know a thing about creative issues, who's only after it
+in the hopes of getting a big settlement rather than a prolonged court
+case.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+

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+Re: "Silence" in Babylon-5 (8 Sep 1993)
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Re: "Silence" in Babylon-5

+8 Sep 1993
     In the script, the privacy mode involved going from a standard
+looking open booth to what suddenly looked like a flat black cube, which
+you could neither hear nor see through.  The director decided to try the
+lights.  It didn't work.  We're dropping it.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+After B5 (was Re: Trek vs. B5 (16 Sep 1993)
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After B5 (was Re: Trek vs. B5

+16 Sep 1993
     ...novelizations...1999....ack!  One crisis at a time.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+16 Sep 1993
     At this point, the only other con I'll probably appear at is LosCon
+here in LA in November.  (I say probably only because thus far no one has
+contacted me, and can only assume that sooner or later, someone will do
+so.)  The main problem is just getting away from town for any prolonged
+period of time while we're shooting.  I pretty much have to be at the
+stage all the time, since there are always a zillion questions to be
+answered, and another zillion meetings every day.  Once we debut, and
+we've finished shooting our first season (around late March), I'll be
+freer to pop up here and there.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Claudia Christian on HBO (18 Sep 1993)
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+18 Sep 1993
     You can also find Claudia Christian in "Hexed" and "The Hidden."
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Re: A look at the competition (18 Sep 1993)
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Re: A look at the competition

+18 Sep 1993
     The issue of Teen Titans Spotlight was a *lot* of fun to write; I've
+always found the character of Two Face interesting, and realized that no
+one had ever put that character together with cyborg, who also has a
+similar face and resultant problem...except he took a very different path.
+I find that writing comics is *much* more difficult that writing TV,
+because you have to compensate for the fact that the pictures don't move.
+Frankly, some of the most imaginative scriptwriting I see these days in
+in comics, from Ostrander and Gaiman and Moore and Morrison and others.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
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+Re: JMS on Gerrold, McGoohan (18 Sep 1993)
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Re: JMS on Gerrold, McGoohan

+18 Sep 1993
     Some other actors you'd recognize who've done B5 episodes so far
+include David McCalllum, Clive Revell, Judson Scott, Fabiana Udeno and
+W. Morgan Shepherd.   We're getting a LOT of royal shakespeare company
+people in here, drawn by the material.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Babylon-5 (19 Sep 1993)
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+19 Sep 1993
     I was at the Emmys tonight for the presentation of the B5 Emmy, and
+in the visual efx area, more than one shoe can get an Emmy.  So we got one,
+DS9's pilot got one, and Lucas' Young Indy show got one.  (We sat at the
+next table to Lucas and his bunch, in fact, and noted that he watched the
+B5 footage with considerable interest.)  So when you come right down to it,
+here we were, our first shot out of the box, and we ended up on the same
+level of appreciation as Trek and Lucas.  Not too dusty....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+PoV (19 Sep 1993)
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+19 Sep 1993
     I'm not sure I understand the question.  Perhaps you could restate
+it, with an example of what you mean.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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Re: PoV

+19 Sep 1993
     Ah, now I understand.  Yes, we will be getting more into the culture
+of our aliens, specifically how they relate to one another within their
+own societies.  We'll sort of sneak up on this, doing it gradually and
+increasing as we go.  We want to focus in primarily on establishing our
+main characters and how they relate to one another,and then begin extending
+outward.
+ 
+     The same applies to the general arc of the story.  You don't want to
+shove too much down somebody's throat all at once (he said, applying
+yet another lesson from the pilot).  So the first season, there will be
+roughly 4-5 stories that are heavily arc-oriented episodes, though we'll
+certainly drop tidbits in other episodes as well.  In the second season,
+the plan is to do 7-10 that tie strongly into the arc.  We'll stay pretty
+close to that figure for seasons 3 and 4, though 4 may have a few more,
+and 5 will have nearly every episode tied directly into the arc, because
+by that time most everybody will have twigged to what we're doing,and we
+can afford to do that.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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Re: PoV

+19 Sep 1993
     Oh, I think it'll be pretty obvious which are and aren't part of the
+arc as soon as you see them....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Who exactly is JMS? (21 Sep 1993)
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Who exactly is JMS?

+21 Sep 1993
     To follow on Jonathan's note, and also give more info on what it is
+exactly I do...I created Babylon 5 in 1986/87, and have battled, along with
+Doug Netter, my business associate and fellow executive producer, to get
+this project to series for over six years.  I wrote and co-exec produced
+the pilot movie, the series bible and treatment, and will be/am writing
+roughly half the series episodes as well as exec producing.  (Th
+difference is that you just drop the co- from your title.)
+ 
+     What do I do exactly?  Aside from writing my own scripts, I assign
+stories to other writers, and select those writers to work with.  (Because
+B5 is tied to a story arc, many of our freelance scripts are based upon
+assigned stories.)  I'm also involved in every single stage of the series
+production: minus any notes from the studio (which are minimal, our last
+project got no notes at all, they're leaving us very much alone), Doug and
+I have final say over jevery aspect of the series.  (Generally Doug is more
+the businessman and deal maker, leaving most of the creative details to
+me.)  I do casting, work with the art directors on graphics, approve and
+work with the set designers, wardrobe people, prosthetics team, computer
+graphics team, visual effects, every single department.  I get final say
+on the editing of the shows, mussound effects, you name it.
+ 
+     One thing that distinguishes this show, I think, is that it's very
+much a *personal vision*.  This is my show, the way I want it to look, and
+sound, and feel.  And my feeling is that this is either going to work
+big-time...or we're going to go down in the biggest blast since Tunguska.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+

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+Scene I would like to see (8 Sep 1993)
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Scene I would like to see

+8 Sep 1993
     Please do not post story suggestions for my view here.  Any time this
+is done jeapordizes my ability to do anything approaching that story
+because of the ever-present reality of plagiarism suits.  What you just
+proposed cuts into a story that we're developing, and now we're going to
+have to modify that in order to avoid any problems.  This kind of thing
+causes us great difficulty.  You can reassure all you want, but that
+doesn't change the reality...you seem like a nice fellow, but I don't know
+you, don't know if you'll change your mind, don't know anything.  So I've
+had to make a blanket policy regarding stories: you can come up with
+stories, or I can be present.  It's one or the other.  I don't mean to
+sound harsh, because I know your intentions are good, but if this occurs
+again, I'm going to have to bail out of Internet altogether.  This has
+happened once already; three would be too much.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+SeaQuest/live CGI  [was Re: JM (21 Sep 1993)
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SeaQuest/live CGI  [was Re: JM

+21 Sep 1993
     The way the CGI and live people will interact is currently highly
+classified.  But I've seen it, and it's *way* cool.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: Babylon 5's Emmy award. (22 Sep 1993)
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Re: Babylon 5's Emmy award.

+22 Sep 1993
     Just to set your mind at ease, Sinclair does not routinely take out
+the fighter craft on routine reconnaisance missions.  In one episode,
+"Midnight on the Firing Line," he goes for a very specific reason for which
+ONLY he can go, and in "Soul Hunter" he goes because of a First Contact
+protocol.  Otherwise, others are sent.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Re: Babylon 5's Emmy award. (23 Sep 1993)
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Re: Babylon 5's Emmy award.

+23 Sep 1993
+     Generally speaking, the look of our show is more textured, and a
+little rougher around the edges.  Perfection bores me.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Invoke Silence? (23 Sep 1993)
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Invoke Silence?

+23 Sep 1993
     As written in the script, the idea of invoking privacy consisted of
+sitting in a booth and, when privacy mode was invoked, the booth seems to
+become a solid, black block from the outside.  The director thought the
+same effect could be gained via the lights.  It wasn't.  And there won't
+be any future instances of this.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+A question for Joe (24 Sep 1993)
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A question for Joe

+24 Sep 1993
     My understanding of ANYthing to do with our CGI is limited and
+imperfect at best, but it's my understanding that we are indeed rendering
+it at 16:9.
+ 
+     Re: the episodes...thus far we're coming in on time, and on budget,
+and our episodes are timing out about right, i.e., we're not having to cut
+scenes out altogether, as we did in the pilot.  We're using just about
+everything we shoot, minus any snippets here and there to pick up the pace
+within a scene.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
+
+
+

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+Re: B5 in production. (24 Sep 1993)
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Re: B5 in production.

+24 Sep 1993
     Incorrect.  PTEN is owned in a shared capacity by the station group
+(including Chris-Craft Television/UTN) and Warner Bros.  Paramount has
+NOTHING to do with B5 or PTEN.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Re: JMS: "Sky" (Know fear!) (25 Sep 1993)
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Re: JMS: "Sky" (Know fear!)

+25 Sep 1993
     "makes me wonder as to the wisdom of releasing shots of what could be
+some of the best CGI to come out of (B5)."
+ 
+     Lemme give you a little hint about something.
+ 
+     We didn't let out the best.  We let out the *least*.  For the very
+reasons you specify.  And that was done at the very earliest stages of CGI
+work on the series.
+ 
+     It gets far, far, FAR cooler than that.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
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+

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+Design flaws of the B5 station (28 Sep 1993)
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Design flaws of the B5 station

+28 Sep 1993
     Y'know, the only thing that bothers me about these discussions is
+when something becomes a "flaw" because it's not how someone else might
+do it.
+ 
+     I've gone over your message, and frankly, what you say is a flaw is
+NOT a flaw.  It's the most logical approach we could come up with.  You
+use the zero-G cargo bay for huge, heavy objects and crates and god knows
+what where you need weightlessness.  People don't weigh very much.  You
+also don't have to worry about pumping in air in most cases; you can
+leave it fairly open, let the ships dock nearby, shuttle in the cargo
+right into the top bay, and move on.
+ 
+     You say that it's hard to dock in the center because it's moving,
+but I'd point out that in space, EVERYTHING is moving.  Even to dock in
+or use the zero-G area, a ship has to stop and orient itself to that
+area.  Everything in space is moving relative to everything else.  There
+isn't much difference involved for the approaching ship.
+ 
+     When a ship enters the regular bay, it moves further in and is in
+essence "grabbed" and lowered into any of a number of various docking and
+cargo bays.  The deeper the cargo bay, the more gravity.  So you can
+adjust as you go.  Also, this way, instead of having what is in essence
+one big garage (the zero-G cargo bay), you can shunt ships off by their
+category (civilian vs. military, alien vs. human atmosphere) to the
+appropriate bays.  You don't have to worry about shuttling people through
+zero-G once they leave their ships; they're in atmosphere, and on the
+"ground," where they can then get into a proper line to go through
+customs.  It's a *controlled environment*, which is what you want in a
+customs area, not everybody floating around everywhichway.
+ 
+     There are another half-dozen reasons why it's constructed this way,
+but those are the primary ones.  So frankly, I have to disagree with you:
+it is most definitely NOT a design flaw.  And not to be persnickety, but
+before classifying something a "flaw" in a message, you might consider
+next time asking why something is the way it is.  If I can answer your
+question logically, then it's not a flaw.  If I can't, then it is.  (Ditto
+to just going on this as an assumption that it IS a flaw, and then asking
+for additional, as though this were simply a given.  It isn't.)
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
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+The Planet/Writer's guidelines (28 Sep 1993)
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The Planet/Writer's guidelines

+28 Sep 1993
     Yes, the nearby planet will eventually figure into the storyline.  No,
+I cannot currently tell you how.
+ 
+     We're not sure when the writer's guidelines will become available.
+We still have to work out the dynamic on that to figure out how to avoid
+getting swamped.  When I worked on the syndicated Twilight Zone, we got
+something in excess of 3,000 spec submissions...and my suspicion is that
+if we're successful, that would double.  (And that 3,000 figure was just
+for one season.)  We have to figure out how to create a situation that
+will create manageable numbers, or we'll be swamped, and nobody will get a
+fair shot because they'll be lost in the white noise.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+Re: Design flaws of the B5 sta (29 Sep 1993)
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Re: Design flaws of the B5 sta

+29 Sep 1993
     It's hard to get a sense of scale from that docking bay sometimes,
+which is something we'll be addressing, to give a better idea of it...but
+for purposes of scale, you could dock several aircraft carriers or about
+two Enterprises in the size of that docking bay entrance.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+Re: diversity in actors (8 Sep 1993)
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Re: diversity in actors

+8 Sep 1993
     We're casting people of every ethnicity, and every height.  Including
+shorter actors.  A guest starring character in "Believers" by David
+Gerrold is a Hispanic woman doctor, who's at *most* 5'2".  We didn't go
+looking for height, or shortness, only who was the best actor.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+E! show question about ship ID (30 Sep 1993)
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E! show question about ship ID

+30 Sep 1993
     The ship you see performing the rescue in the E! clips is one of
+the B5 fighters, located in their own docking bays in the station within
+the cobra-like arms you see on the sides of the forward part of the
+station (and hence nicknamed cobra bays).
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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+Filming Episodes Out of Order (30 Sep 1993)
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Filming Episodes Out of Order

+30 Sep 1993
     There's absolutely no problem with the actors in terms of continuity
+because of shooting the season finale midway through the run.  First and
+foremost, again because this is a novel for television, the basic stories
+for the whole season are already written, and thus all of our actors know
+where they're going for this season.  Much as this is a straight line,
+everything in TV is out of order.  You generally don't shoot an episode
+in sequence, for instance...you often shoot the last scene first, the
+first scene in the middle, and the middle in the beginning.  Actors have
+to be able do adjust to that sort of thing, and they do so.
+ 
+     Also, in terms of being familiar with their characters...again, that
+is very much at their disposal.  We don't have the luxury of taking a
+full season to start to establish our characters.  We have to hit the
+ground running right from ground zero.  We'll be expanding our characters
+as we go, but again, nearly all of that currently exists in the B5 season
+one bible, which goes into considerable background history on all of the
+characters, and spells out in broad strokes what will be happening to them
+in this first season.  As a result of all this, our actors have been able
+to hit their stride almost from the first frame.
+ 
+     It ain't no kind of problem.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
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+

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+Re: The Planet/Writer's guidel (30 Sep 1993)
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Re: The Planet/Writer's guidel

+30 Sep 1993
     There's one other aspect to consider in all of this, though.  In a
+way, Trek has created a false image of how a TV show operates.  What I'm
+about to say should not be taken as a slam at Trek...it isn't.  This is
+simply the truth, this is what they do.  Sometimes it sounds less than
+politic to say it, though....
+ 
+     Trek is constantly scrounging for new stories...for new ideas because
+to some extent they've run out of ideas (at least, ideas that can be
+allowable within the ST universe...their exec, Jeri Taylor, is probably
+one of the very best writer/producers in town, and she could rip the lid
+off that show if they'd let her).  They've embraced/encouraged spec
+scripts from anyone and everyone just to get stuff in the pipeline.
+ 
+     Compounding this is the fact that they're operating in 25 years of
+history, meaning there's a lot they can't do for fear of repitition.
+ 
+     You have to understand...we don't have that problem.
+ 
+     At this juncture, if I so desired, I could close the front door to
+the office, and never hire a freelance writer because *this story is a
+NOVEL for television*.  It's the story I want to tell.  And each and
+every episode has been sketched out already for a full five year run.  If
+you're putting together a collection of unrelated short stories, then you
+solicit stuff all over the place.  But if you're writing a novel, do you
+ask people to submit ideas or stories?  This show doesn't operate like
+Trek...or like just about any OTHER show, for that matter.  It's very
+unique in that respect.
+ 
+     What I'm doing, however, is making sure that we employ freelance
+writers for a minimum of 50% of our episodes.  Most shows are almost
+entirely staff written, by contrast.  So far, though, all but one of our
+freelance scripts work off stories I've developed and assigned to them,
+as part of the overall arc of Babylon 5.  This gets the writer in tune
+with our show, so that they can then come up with their own stories and
+I can free up that slot in the novel, or replace a less strong story with
+a stronger one, thus strengthening the series overall.
+ 
+     When we start looking at specs, it won't be to look for ideas.  Many
+of those I've spoken to who've written spec Trek scripts don't really
+consider themselves scriptwriters; their hope is to sell the basic idea,
+get the credit, a little money, and so on.  The only reason for looking at
+spec scripts would be to find the very best *SF scriptwriters*, new or
+established, who get our characters and the dialogue, to whom we could
+then assign a story.
+ 
+     People shouldn't treat this show the same way as Trek; no other
+series operates like that show does.  Whether that's good or bad is
+anybody's guess.  All I can say is how *this* show works.  We will
+continue to do as much as we can to be open to new writers...one of our
+writers this season has only written one other produced live-action
+episode, and another has no live-action credits...but there are limits to
+our resources, and our approach.  We can't afford to field a huge reading
+staff, and don't need one.  It's just not the same kind of show.
+ 
+     Working this all out will require a solution of near Solomonic
+proportions...but it will be worked out somehow.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
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+Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or (30 Sep 1993)
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Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or

+30 Sep 1993
     It never ceases to astonish me how, when there's not a problem, people
+insist on fabricating them....
+ 
+     First and foremost, every series shoots its episodes out of order to
+varying degrees.  Second, it is our decision to shoot 22 early because, as
+I stated originally, it's going to require some considerable post
+production/CGI, and the sooner that gets started, the better.  Also, some
+of our actors will be briefly unavailable during the holiday period, so
+we're trying to shoot the episodes that use those actors earlier, so that
+we can shoot the episodes that don't need those actors when they're off
+on vacation, then pick up the last few that involve those actors upon
+their return.
+ 
+     And it's not a "finale"...it's not designed to tie things up, but
+rather to open up a WHOLE lot of questions, kick over some tables, and
+make for one hell of a cliffhanger.
+ 
+     Honestly...you people get worried by the damndest things sometimes....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
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+Strange comments (8 Sep 1993)
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Strange comments

+8 Sep 1993
     The scruffy person in the Varner files was the same homeless person
+who we just happen to see sitting right outside Varner's quarters, watching
+as he moves along.  This was played by Ron Thornton, because we wouldn't be
+seeing him in a major role, we'd just have to know someone was there.
+ 
+     Again, this ties into a specific story line that has been modified
+with a) the departure of Laurel, and b) the length of time since the pilot
+aired.  Who was the homeless man really?  It's no longer an issue, but it
+was related, yes.
+ 
+     But only in a very small way.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+

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+images from the conventions? (8 Sep 1993)
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images from the conventions?

+8 Sep 1993
     I would *love* to upload some graphic image stuff, but PTEN has a
+very strict policy about letting that kind of stuff float around.  If that
+should change, though, I'll be sure to move on it.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: Scene I would like to see (9 Sep 1993)
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Re: Scene I would like to see

+9 Sep 1993
     I think the alt.tv.babylon-5.creative might work.  Frankly, all I
+see of Internet is what's fed to me through GEnie, and it's just this
+one thread.  I'm not on it per se.  So all I have to do is make sure I
+don't get this thread to be at least marginally protected.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+Re: WorldCon presentation on F (9 Sep 1993)
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Re: WorldCon presentation on F

+9 Sep 1993
     Your order is a bit off.  The short clip I showed was from "Midnight
+on the Firing Line," episode 1.  In order thereafter: "Soul Hunter," "Born
+to the Purple," "Believers," and then "Infection."
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+2 Oct 1993
     There's one thing to remember in all of these discussions; this is
+something that came up very early on, when I was almost exclusively on
+GEnie, and has been shown to be true over the year-plus that this dialogue
+has been going on.  Granted that there may be some small publicity value
+to my participation in all of this; from my perspective, the chief benefit
+is the exchange of information, a demonstration of respect for those who
+enjoy SF media, and the goal of providing a real behind-the-scenes look at
+how a show is done, for whatever help this may be to others thinking of
+working in television.
+ 
+     Consequently, this conversation can't be reduced to puff pieces.  If
+and when there is a problem, you won't HAVE to hear it on a rumor, you'll
+hear it first right here, from me.  This happened before, during and
+after the pilot's production and broadcast.  When there have been hassles,
+complications or other troubles, I've tried to address them head-on, and
+in so doing, illuminate the process a little for those looking on.
+ 
+                                                           jms
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+8 Oct 1993
     Yes, the series is being shot in letterbox aspect ratio, but until
+HDTV is more of a standard, it'll be broadcast using the conventional
+ratio.  For those of us who've invested in solid entertainment systems and
+good-sized TVs, we forget sometimes that most sets in use out there are
+18" or thereabouts, and letterbox just makes the picture too small for
+most viewers to handle.  Once HDTV becomes more the standard, then it'll
+be broadcast in that aspect ratio.  However, on the theory that those who
+buy laserdisks are better set-up for that kind of picture, it's my
+understanding that the laserdisks of B5 the series will be in letterbox
+format.
+ 
+     Re: Tamlyn Tomita...several things you have to understand.  You can
+have 8 really great actors, who all perform wonderfully individually, but
+sometimes the result is more than, or less than, the sum of its parts.  In
+an ensemble like B5, you have to look at what kind of synergy is generated
+by your cast.  We felt strongly that the result didn't really reflect the
+individual talents of our cast.  Tamlyn's a terrific performer...and she
+wasn't entirely happy with her performance.  It's not the kind of role she
+is really used to playing.  Which is not to say that at some point she
+might not return to the show in a different capacity....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+9 Oct 1993
    Zocalo is a word of, I believe, South American origin for the Grand
+Plaza, or central plaza...what in the States we'd call a mall, or a
+shopping center.  It's the area in B5 where you have shops, booths, some
+food and drinks, that sort of thing.  As I've said before, in the B5
+universe, we're *all* going to the stars, and we've worked in stuff from
+other cultures along the way to bolster that aspect.  I look forward to
+incorporating other elements from South American, Chinese, African and
+other cultures as we go.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+12 Oct 1993
     I *hate* evil twin stories, and have never let them near ANY series
+I've ever worked on, let alone B5.  Feh.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+12 Oct 1993
     Where possible, we're trying to fold production changes into the
+shows in terms of dialogue without getting bogged down in it.  At some
+point I'd like some character to comment that he wishes they'd stop
+changing everything around here...bad as digging up the streets.  My sense
+has always been -- and this includes the pilot -- that B5 is still more or
+less unfinished, there are sections still uninhabited, incomplete, so
+they're still working to get it right.  (They blew all their budget on B4,
+so B5 is having to scrape by with less.)  What happened in the pilot is
+still canon; that we may or may not choose to use something in future,
+such as the privacy mode, does not mean that it didn't exist, or that it
+doesn't exist.  Only that we may not need to use it.  IF at some point in
+time there was an absolute crying need for a privacy mode, we'd probably
+use the block mode rather than the lights, but as of this time, there's
+been no such need in any of our scenes for that.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+12 Oct 1993
     At one point in the series, to note the now-vanished Babylon 4, we're
+going to have somebody just standing in deep background wearing a T-Shirt
+that reads, "My Mother Visited Babylon 4 And All I Got Was This Crummy
+T-Sh
+ 
+     We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+13 Oct 1993
     Let me just dive into this whole telepath thing, which you keep
+bringing up as something that you feel doesn't belong in an SF series.  I
+strongly disagree (obviously, since it's in B5).  The problem with most
+uses of telepathy in TV SF is that it hasn't been done very well; it's
+either couched in mysticism or used as a deus ex machina.  Telepathy has
+had a long and distinguished history as a subject of *quality* SF, right
+up to and including Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man," arguably the
+best book ever written on the subject.
+ 
+     What no one has done in TV, and what I want to do, is to ask the
+next question, which is what SF is all about.  Because if, in reality, we
+discovered tomorrow that there actually were provable telepaths among us,
+you can bet your bottom dollar that there would be laws passed about it
+the very next day, in every courthouse and congress around.  Questions of
+privacy, of criminal prosecution, of lifestyle, of regulation, all these
+and more get raised by that particular spectre.  And that is something I
+very definitely want to explore in B5...it's not just a throwaway, it's
+something that we will discover after a while is *central* to something
+that's going on in the B5 universe.
+ 
+     It's no more or less fantastic than jump gates and Vorlons, and there
+is room to explore how we as a people would react to something like this.
+ And that is what SF is *for* at its best.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+14 Oct 1993
     No, we did *not* do the Evil Twin story in the pilot, unless you so
+utterly narrow down your definitions to include comouflage.  The classic
+Evil Twin story comes in two forms: 1) The true twin brother/sister who
+pops up, is considered nice by everyone, and then turns out to be evil, or
+2) The Evil Twin who takes over the life of the Good Twin.  Either way,
+you have a very close relationship.  So I simply don't buy your assertion.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+14 Oct 1993
     Actually, there's very little in the B5 telepathy issue that comes
+anywhere near Bester's; I brought that up only as an example of how it
+can be, and has been treated well in fiction.  The notion of telepaths
+banding together has shown up in *lots* of different books and stories,
+though arguably Bester's is one of the best.  (One difference, fo
+instance, cited earlier, is that in Bester's book, psi's can't testify in
+court...in the B5 universe they can, but only under *very* restrictive
+conditions.)
+ 
+     As someone with degrees in clinical psychology and sociology, I've
+been noodling around with the sociological impact of psi's for a long
+time now, and figure this is the place to work it out.  (And no, there
+won't be any instances of magic qua magic on B5.  It has to be somehow
+explainable; even if it's extremely high tech that *looks* like magic,
+one has to be able to come up with a possible rational explanation.)
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+14 Oct 1993
     To answer your questions in detail would be to give out major plot
+points from the B5 series, and I'm loathe to do that.  Thus, I'll only
+answer some of the questions, and in no more than one sentence each.
+ 
+     Yes, a psi can go undetected, but generally not forever.  Some say
+the Psi Cops are witch-hunters, some think otherwise.  Breeding is
+generally arranged.  It is possible to have a schizoid telepath.  The
+Psi Cops can function as lie detectors.  Psi Cops are telepaths, rated
+ 
+P12, the highest level admitted level of telepath.  They are part of
+a guild, with some government regulation, though that's fuzzy.  They do
+not have the same rights as other citizens -- most have fewer rights than
+other citizens, a few have more -- and the different races handle their
+telepaths in different ways.
+ 
+	                                                  jms
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+15 Oct 1993
      I did not work on that version of Twilight Zone except as a
+freelance writer; thus I am not responsible for anything produced under
+that regime.  (I worked as story editor on the Zone mach 3, produced for
+ 
+syndication.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+2 Oct 1993
     The reason you don't generally hear about shows shooting episode 22
+at number 12 is that most series don't know where they're going for the
+length of their season.  They're individual stories, rather than an overall
+vision for a whole season at a time.  That is what makes B5 different, and
+what makes what would otherwise be a huge and expensive SF series
+manageable from a fiscal point of view.
+ 
+     Because we know what stories we'll be shooting for the whole season,
+it lets us budget and adjust in ways no other show really can.  If we can
+only make a deal with X-actor for a limited period of time because he or
+she has to go off and make a movie, but we WANT X-actor because he or she
+is best for the part, we can push those episodes together and write and
+shoot them together for production purposes, and then air them later in
+the correct story sequence.  If we know we're going to be using X set --
+a very big and expensive set that takes up a lot of room -- in certain
+episodes, but not in others, we make it a point to try and shoot them
+back to back.  We're able to look ahead and match a certain kind of
+story with a certain kind of director, rather than being haphazard about
+it.  (I.e., even though it's not written yet, we know that story 11 will
+be a big action piece, and X-director is *great* on action, so we'll slot
+him in for that one, and use Y-director, who's good with smaller, more
+intimate stories, for episode 10.)
+ 
+     If we're not doing things the way you're accustomed to...then as far
+as I'm concerned, we're doing our job.  We're trying hard to redefine how
+you do a TV series, particularly in SF, if you approach it as a novel
+rather than as a series of disconnected stories.
+ 
+     And if I seemed to come down hard, it was to squelch this asap.  I've
+been on systems long enough to know how this works: person A says, "Gee,
+I'm worried, this could be a problem."  Then person B reads it, and passes
+onto another system, "Some guy over on Internet who knows this stuff says
+this could be a problem," after which it turns up on Compuserve as "Word
+going around says there's a problem."  And suddenly you've got ten zillion
+people asking you what the problem is, what you're going to do about it,
+when there IS no problem.  I've seen this happen again and again.  So when
+I see it, I figure the best way to handle it is to just come back with the
+facts.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+15 Oct 1993
     Interesting that your tagline should be a line from Tennyson's
+"Ulysses," which is a poem we often cite in the course of B5; both in the
+pilot, and again in "The Parliament of Dreams."
+ 
+     There's a fairly detailed past history of the B5 universe, which we
+are even now in the process of refining and putting into real order.  When
+we've done this, it'll be more available.  But we're already working on
+it, and most of it is already in place (of necessity, since we sometimes
+have elements from the past catching up with us, and we need to be fairly
+consistent in terms of what happened when, and where.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+16 Oct 1993
     I'd say that your analysis is just about 100% correct.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+17 Oct 1993
     Thanks.  That a lot of people are looking forward to the series is
+one reason I'm trying desperately *not* to over-hype this thing.  What
+happens in that case if you're not careful is that everyone starts to
+overlay the show with what would be their dream SF series...and there's no
+way it can be that to all people, at all times, in all places.  All we can
+really focus on is doing the best show we can...and I think that we've got
+something very special.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+18 Oct 1993
     Insofar as I know, the series will be marketed as SF.  And that's
+the show we're giving them.
+ 
+     Interestingly, it's come back around to me, through channels, that
+some of the changes at those other shows are due at least in part to the
+concern about B5.  It's prodding them into doing stories that are more
+active, and more character based.  Which the writers have been asking for
+for a long time now.  Which is something I've felt from the start, that
+this genre *needs* some competition to make it stay fresh, to force each
+show to make better stories.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+18 Oct 1993
     Not to fear; KCOP is especially strongly dedicated to giving B5 a
+fair shake.  They've been very strong supporters of the show.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+19 Oct 1993
     Laurel was not being altogether honest, and was helping to cover
+the activities of the person who was doing the assassination attempt.
+ 
+     (This, again, is a thread that would've come clear had we kept that
+character; nobody was supposed to figure it out going in, but rather put
+it together over time.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+19 Oct 1993
     We will be dealing with the drugs issue, but it's something that I
+want to circle for a while and set up properly before dealing with.  I
+think certain elements would have changed by 2258, some more permissive,
+others more restrictive, and to understand how they function within the
+culture, I first think you have to set up how the culture works.  So it's
+definitely on our list of things to play with, but understand that like
+everything else of note that we're dealing with in this show, we're not
+going to do a "drugs are bad for you" story, or a "we should all get
+along and play nice" episode, or "we're all equal under the skin" story.
+My feeling is that if you haven't figured out that stuff by now, no TV
+show is going to teach it to you.  Those topics should be something we
+bounce a story off of, rather than making it the entirety of a story, the
+way you bank a cue ball off the edge of a pool table to come at your target
+from a different angle.  We don't generally come at *anything* dead on
+around here.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+19 Oct 1993
     We are, from time to time, implementing some pretty scary or unusual
+looking aliens.  In "Infection" there's a full-body prosthetic that's
+pretty impressive, and the insectoid character, n'grath, appears in many
+of our episodes (also a full-body prosthetic with animatronics and radio
+controlled stuff).  Personally, even though (or possibly because) he's
+fairly humanoid, I have found the 2nd soul hunter in the episode of the
+same name to be the creepiest of our aliens to date.  Very believable.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+Re: Things that make you go "T (20 Oct 1993)
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Re: Things that make you go "T

+20 Oct 1993
     We'd originally planned to go for a more vague sexuality for Delenn;
+a male physically and primarily in the voice, on top of the natural
+female movements one gets from an actress.  In post-production, however,
+we couldn't get the voice to sound as good and male as we'd wanted.  In
+addition, a couple of convention showing of a rough cut saw people
+responding VERY strongly to her voice as it was, so we finally decided to
+let it stand and change the one reference to "he" to "she," and that was
+the end of it.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Detective Work: Joe, can you c (21 Oct 1993)
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Detective Work: Joe, can you c

+21 Oct 1993
     We were going to have a CGI creature in the bar at one point, but
+vetoed it at the last minute.  So it's not there.  However, a CGI
+character/alien/critter does play a substantive on-camera role in one
+episode this season entitled "Grail."
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Little niggle with the pilot.. (3 Oct 1993)
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Little niggle with the pilot..

+3 Oct 1993
     We've totally redesigned the breather units to cover the eyes and
+face, and expanded the surgical scrubs to include the full body.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Re: Substance use in B5 univer (22 Oct 1993)
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Re: Substance use in B5 univer

+22 Oct 1993
     Laurel was not standing upside down in relation to the station's
+rotation.  The docking bay, at the center of the station, for zero-g, was
+above her head, her feet pointed down, toward the rim of the station, in
+correct orientation.  Just FYI.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Centauri (25 Oct 1993)
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+25 Oct 1993
     Our dealings with the Centauri prior to the Earth-Minbari War were
+primarily economic and cultural, with some technological elements sold to
+us as well.  They have no interest in getting into a war, especiall on
+behalf of someone else.  They were primarily foot-draggers during the war,
+selling some stuff to us as needed, but generally not doing anything the
+Minbari would get annoyed by.  In particular, they didn't sell us any
+weaponry.  It was, oddly enough, the Narns who sold us many of the weapons
+technology we used in the war...stuff they'd captured from the Centauri
+during their own revolution.  The Narns needed the money, and need to
+forge an alliance with the EA, however tentative.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Why Sinclair? (27 Oct 1993)
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Why Sinclair?

+27 Oct 1993
     There are many people in the Earth Alliance who are asking the same
+question: why Sinclair?  Why a *commander*, below a Captain in rank, to
+helm something as important as B5, rather than an Admiral, or someone of
+higher position?  Why Sinclair, who was on the fast-track up to the time of
+the war, only to suddenly and abruptly fall off the promotions merry go
+round?
+ 
+     They are all very good questions...and if I answered them here, I
+might as well go ahead and can the whole first season....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: Telepathy in B5 (27 Oct 1993)
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Re: Telepathy in B5

+27 Oct 1993
     Regarding the Psi Corps news broadcast you noticed...yes, that is a
+very small clue to something.  You'll find out what in an episode titled
+"Mind War."
+ 
+     I've said before that we're telling stories on two levels; there's a
+third as well that slips in.  These are things that you're not SUPPOSED to
+really notice or even think about until some point down the road, if you
+happen to have watched several more episodes, and you look at the early
+ones again, suddenly (as with your noticing of the broadcast) some things
+that you swear you never saw suddenly snap into focus, the way you can
+look at a picture for a long time, and not see the design until you back
+up a bit and, once you can see all of it, the details come clear.
+ 
+     So from time to time, I drop in little things, a phrase, an
+unfinished sentence, a news item, stuff that people will assume is just
+background or filler...until later.  In a way, it's a little like being
+an illusionist.  It makes the writing just that much more challenging,
+because at no time can you ever let that get in the way of a person's
+enjoyment of one episode totally on its own.  It's just flavoring; those
+who've been paying attention will get it; those who haven't, it won't
+bother in the least.
+ 
+     It's something Delenn says in "Soul Hunter," something in a headline
+in Universe Today in "Sky," bits and pieces that just seem like wallpaper
+-- for now.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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Re: Why Sinclair?

+28 Oct 1993
     As will be discussed to some degree in "Grail," B1-B3 were sabotaged
+during construction, long before being completed.  B4 was the only station
+completed when it vanished.  Various degrees of this will play a role in
+the storyline.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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Re: UFO

+28 Oct 1993
     The two primary means of transport within B5 are the transport
+tubes (like elevators, from level to level) and the core shuttle, which
+runs the length of B5 through the garden/central core area.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Alien quarters a zoo on B5? (28 Oct 1993)
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Alien quarters a zoo on B5?

+28 Oct 1993
     First, we decided that wasn't a right look for the alien sector, and
+that's the corridor we blew up at the end.  But the reason it was designed
+that way is important.  Your reaction -- don't the aliens have any
+privacy? -- is a very human, and specifically a very *western* point of
+view.  Our feeling at the time was, why should alien quarters look at all
+like human quarters?  Shouldn't they have a different perspective than
+typical Western-style hotels?  (In some degree, the quarters were
+patterned after Japanese mini-hotels, where you get basically a slightly
+larger coffin-like setup, which you crawl into like a torpedo tube, with
+a window at one end, which has a curtain, a TV over your head, and so on.
+ What we discovered is that many people ask for more alien aliens, but
+when we delivered on that, were asked why these things weren't more like
+what we expect, why aren't they like human quarters?  It's really a
+losing battle.)
+ 
+     The other point on this is that if you look closely, there are back
+areas accessible to residents, which can in particular be seen in the
+insectoid/antennae'd character's quarters.  The idea was that it would be
+sort of a front porch, where for lack of much else to do, you'd sit out
+on the porch, watching the passing parade.
+ 
+     But the reaction was less than favorable, we had to keep explaining
+that this proceeds from an alien POV, and so our alien quarters are more
+like human quarters now, minus the alternate atmosphere stuff.  I'm still
+not quite sure what to think of this.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: JMS: Lots of good info. ;) (29 Oct 1993)
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Re: JMS: Lots of good info. ;)

+29 Oct 1993
     Actually, I'm rather abashed to say that I've never actually *read*
+anything by C.J. Cherryh.  Over the years I've found I have less and less
+time for reading, and thus focus in generally on authors I've known for a
+long time...if then.  There was a time when I read a *minimum* of 20 books
+per year, but I haven't read a full novel (though having started many)
+in nearly all of the past year.  Some nonfiction books, yes, sometimes for
+research, sometimes just curiousity (just finished "Secret Ceremonies,"
+one woman's adventures in mormonism), but no novels.
+ 
+     Anyway...also no plans at this time for any scripts from there.  I'm
+trying to focus in on hybrid SF writers, who've done both scripts and
+books, to save the learning curve of teaching a prose writer script form.
+ It can be done, and I'd like to try it in the second season, but we have
+to really hit the ground running in year one.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Re: SF/X in Space (30 Oct 1993)
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Re: SF/X in Space

+30 Oct 1993
     We've found that what works best is to play primarily music as our
+space action/sound bed, overlaying just a tad with tonalities that aren't
+sound effects per se in most cases, but more sound cues that suggest a
+particular effect.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Question about Laurel in pilot (30 Oct 1993)
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Question about Laurel in pilot

+30 Oct 1993
     Nothing's set yet regarding any of the original cast not currently in
+recurring roles.  And that was the assassin who met Kosh in the airlock,
+not Laurel.
+ 
+	                                                                      jms
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Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or

+3 Oct 1993
     Immune from flaming?  Hardly.  I've been flamed so much, if I even so
+much as *touch* a Jiffy-Pop Popcorn shaker it goes off....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Various Short Subjects (30 Oct 1993)
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+30 Oct 1993
     Too much to really delve into -- 57 letters in my box right now -- but
+to comment quickly: the techs in the observation dome tend to rotate in
+and out, with only a couple repeating.  They're meant to be fairly
+anonymous.  At some point we may decide to develop this a bit, but as of
+now we have 14 regular and recurring characters, not counting the usual
+roster of guest stars, and that's a lot to focus on for now.
+ 
+     The one thing that I dropped fairly completely due to the delay in
+getting the series going was the Laurel thread, which has now mutated and
+become something even more interesting, actually.  It's something that's
+enabled me to now build in a trap door that you won't see for a long time,
+even though it's sitting there in plain sight.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Different aliens in B5? (31 Oct 1993)
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Different aliens in B5?

+31 Oct 1993
     There were no asymmetrical aliens in the pilot, but there's a real
+dandy coming your way in the B5 episode "Grail."  You want nonhumanoid
+aliens, you *got* non-humanoid aliens....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+JMS!  How is Chris' work progr (31 Oct 1993)
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JMS!  How is Chris' work progr

+31 Oct 1993
     Chris Franke's work has been wonderful.  (Got the magazine finally,
+btw.)  Stylistically, it's all over the place, which is what we wanted;
+synth, orchestral, multi-cultural, experimental, you name it, at some
+point we've got it.  Because it's a multi-cultural show, with non-human
+points of view, we've freed up Chris to do pretty much anything he wants,
+and go as far as he wants.  We should have a clearer idea on the main
+title theme in the next week or so.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+promo for season one in rebroa (31 Oct 1993)
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promo for season one in rebroa

+31 Oct 1993
     I haven't seen the promo footage, so actually have no idea who you're
+referring to in the extra alien shot.  My guess is it's just one of our
+many supporting aliens; we have the B5 Advisory Council (Earth, Minbari,
+Narns, Centauri and Vorlons), and the League of Non-
+Aligned Worlds, representing the rest, and there are about a dozen or so
+of those, so it may be one of those.
+ 
+     Don't know when fighter models will come out; so far there's no deal
+set that I'm aware of.  And that's not really something I see as a
+priority; there's too much emphasis on merchandising in SF-TV and not
+nearly enough on telling a story.  That's where I want to keep my focus.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+Re: Trek vs. B5 (31 Oct 1993)
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Re: Trek vs. B5

+31 Oct 1993
     Let me just, against my better wishes, dive in here for just a
+moment on this discussion.  Especially as it relates to your slam against
+the characters and characterizations on B5.
+ 
+     People keep comparing the B5 pilot to either the DS9 pilot or the
+TNG pilot, often favorably, sometimes less so, but the reality is that the
+B5 pilot had to suffer under a burden shared by neither of those two other
+shows: establishing a whole new universe, especially given that the B5
+story is more of a political/action piece in which you really have to
+understand where everyone's coming from.  By the time they got around to
+making the TNG pilot, just about everyone knew what a Klingon was, what
+the Federation was, what phasers and teleporters were...this was all
+established cultural coin.  When Jay Leno would make jokes about Klingons
+on the Carson show (which it still was back then), he didn't have to
+explain it to anyone.  There's 25 years of shared history informing the
+story.  Same in DS9Thus in neither pilot was that much
+really or substantially *new* introduced, they didn't have to create the
+universe from scratch.
+ 
+    But that was exactly what was necessary for B5; the relationship
+between the five various governments is important to understanding the
+characters, and the show...as is the recent Earth/Minbari war, which isn't
+just backstory, it's something that will grow to play an increasingly
+important role in the series as time passes.  So there had to be time
+spent establishing each of those relationships, the political backstory,
+on and on.  In addition, we had 9 major characters to introduce along with
+the minor players.  AND we had to tell a fairly complex story within that
+framework.
+ 
+     After you allocate tthe history of the B5 universe, for the
+establishment of the plot, for the establishment of who our various
+players are in relation to one another, you've got -- at MOST -- 3 minutes
+left per character out of a 92 minute movie.  You can't establish a lot of
+character in 3 minutes.
+ 
+     Which is what strikes me as unfair in this conversation.  You're
+trying to compare 25-30 years of ST in its various incarnations, with its
+delivery of characterization over A WEEKLY SERIES to a single introductory
+TV movie of 92 minutes.
+ 
+     Plus, the pilot was never meant to be a stand-alone; it was meant to
+get all the pieces moving, introduce us, and follow up the very next week
+with *character-oriented stories*.  That was always the plan.  Had I known
+that it would be aired by itself, with a long delay until the series, I
+would have totally restructured it to make it more of a character story,
+and held off on the heavy background stuff until later.  And in addition
+to THAT, I again point to the 25 minutes of good character stuff that ended
+up on the cutting room floor because we were over, some of which has been
+shown to people at conventions.  Some of them also felt as you do.  They
+saw the extra footage.  And their reaction: "Oh, so THAT'S who that is!"
+And their opinions of the characters did a fast turnaround.
+ 
+     So what I'm saying here, fundamentally, is this: let's compare apples
+to apples and not apples to oranges.  You can't compare B5 to either TNG's
+or DS9's pilots, because they operated in pre-existing universes.  You
+can't compare the level of character  you get in a series to a TV movie,
+because one is 92 minutes long, the other is 22 hours long times the number
+of seasons run.
+ 
+     If you want to compare things, and that's certainly your right, may I
+suggest a moratorium on this entire discussion until the series comes on
+the air?  That will allow you to compare series to series, which seems just
+a tad fairer to me.  Any seconds?
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or

+3 Oct 1993
     What you say is essentially correct...now that the actors can see
+where they're going to be by season's end, it definitely colors their
+performance, and adds layers of foreshadowing that aren't even scripted,
+but which come out almost subliminally.  It heightens things nicely, and
+adds depth to the portrayals.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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Re: Filming Episodes Out of Or

+6 Oct 1993
     I honestly haven't yet heard the final PR plans for B5.  The studio
+was up until just a little bit ago mainly concentrating on promoting the
+new fall season.  They've just finished that, and are drawing a breath
+before plunging into the January stuff.  I hope to know more soon, though.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Money (6 Oct 1993)
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Money

+6 Oct 1993
     Money works as in any large city.  You come in with the money of your
+place of origin (assuming you haven't made adjustments prior to arriving),
+and exchange it for prevalent Earth value credits, as determined by the
+current exchange rate.  You are issued a credit chit that has your name,
+ID, other information, including genetic information to prevent forgery,
+and that has your available credits as stored in the B5 computer.  As you
+pay, as with any credit card, you whittle away at that amount until it's
+gone, at which point you either cash in more of your money...or go broke.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Robots (6 Oct 1993)
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Robots

+6 Oct 1993
     It's no *cute* robots.  Obviously, as in the pilot, there are
+maintainance 'bots and the like, though humanoid-like robotics isn't
+something we really plan to get into.
+ 
+	                                            jms
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+Re: Babylon 5 Frequently Asked (6 Oct 1993)
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Re: Babylon 5 Frequently Asked

+6 Oct 1993
     Yes, you're thinking of the same Richard Biggs.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+1 Nov 1993
     Thus far, with 22 stories ready and slugged for this season, we
+haven't done any of the ones you warn against...so I guess we're doing
+something right....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Starfury launch error in cgi? (4 Nov 1993)
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Starfury launch error in cgi?

+4 Nov 1993
     P.S. The traveling diagonally alongside the station only works if
+the station is accellerating forward as well as rotating.  But the station
+isn't moving forward, it's stationary.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+StarFuries (4 Nov 1993)
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+4 Nov 1993
     The Starfuries are intended ONLY for non-atmospheric combat.  They're
+not really built for atmospheres; they'd have all the aerodynamic facility
+of a brick.  There are "wings" of a sort which mainly exist to put the
+multidirectional thrusters in the right locations to be of most use, to
+allow the craft to fire engines in any direction at any time, so it can go
+forward, sideways, upside down, backwards, you name it.  The closer you
+put them to the center of a small ship, the less effective they are; you
+want them some distance away...and far enough so that when they fire to
+the side, they're not flashing right next to your field of vision.
+ 
+     The weaponry is mainly forward mounted.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+Re: Trek vs. B5 (4 Nov 1993)
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Re: Trek vs. B5

+4 Nov 1993
     "Would it be fair to compare the original ST pilot to B5's pilot?"
+ 
+     No, it would not.  Because there is nothing in common with them other
+than that they are both SF.  You can compare TNG to DS9 to TOS, because
+they're in the same universe.
+ 
+     Would it be fair to compare Cagney and Lacey with NYPD Blue?  After
+all, they're both cop shows.  But in fact, they're not the same kind of
+cop show; they share the same genre, but there ends the overlap.  The two
+shows are distinct, separate entities, just as Harlan Ellison's work is
+distinct from Bill Gibson's work, even though both incorprorate elements
+of SF.
+ 
+     The ST pilot existed in its own universe, and was primarily an action
+show.  The B5 pilot exists in its own universe, and primarily sets the
+stage for a political mystery/intrigue series.  It wasn't meant to serve
+the same functions as the ST pilot.
+ 
+     It seems to me that many SF fans continue to compare everything to
+ST because that's their primary frame of reference, and they continue to
+apply it whether it's relevant or not.  My suggestion...get another frame
+of reference.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: Trek vs. B5 (5 Nov 1993)
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Re: Trek vs. B5

+5 Nov 1993
     Once again, there's a lot of false analogies here in any attempt to
+compare pilots, as in this TOS and B5 thread.  You're talking about
+transporters and other *technological* items.  And you're right, they
+didn't explain their tech.  Neither did we, with the exception of the
+changling net in the pilot, and only because it was a plot point.  We
+didn't explain how the jump gates worked, how centrifugal force kept the
+gravity in place, or any of that.
+ 
+     The difference isn't *technology*, it's *context*.  Once again, B5 is
+in many ways a *political* story.  Consequently it's necessary to explain
+who the players are in some detail, something that ST didn't have to
+worry about.  If you're reading a political thriller about the U.S. and
+the (now defunct) USSR, it helps a lot to know who's who.
+ 
+     Also, when ST started, there wasn't really a clear agenda, a place
+that they were going, story-wise.  B5 is a novel for TV.  And that puts
+on some pressures and problems other shows don't have.  Others may not
+see it that way, but it isn't their call.  It's my call, and I stand
+behind it, even while seeing some of the flaws in the pilot.
+ 
+     All of which again points up the...well, *pointlessness* of trying
+to compare the two shows.  Compare MASH to ALL IN THE FAMILY.  They're
+both comedies.  The similarity ends there.  Everything doesn't have to
+be comparable or dissectable (to coin a term) in reference to ST.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: Trek vs. B5 (5 Nov 1993)
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Re: Trek vs. B5

+5 Nov 1993
     The first one-hour episode of the series, "Midnight on the Firing
+Line," does a fair amount of re-introduction, for those who've seen the
+pilot and need to be up to speed, and some introducing for those who
+haven't.  It is, however, largely an action-oriented story, into which we
+weave the characterization.  It manages to convey some of the same info as
+the pilot, but in a *much* more dramatic fashion.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Why fighters at all? (6 Nov 1993)
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Why fighters at all?

+6 Nov 1993
     Why fighters?  Real simple.  The stations shielding is good, but not
+great; fighters could punch a hole in it.  So on that level, they're there
+for defense.  But aside from that, B5 is charged with being a port of call,
+and thus must keep those traffic lanes in its general vicinity safe.  So
+fighters are sometimes called upon to protect civilian vessels from a
+variety of threats.  Also, if a ship is disabled and unable to find the
+station, or otherwise hobbled, a fighter escort can be sent to get them
+to the station.  They're *very* useful.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+ 
+     (P.S.  Just a thought...but I've been watching the discussion of the
+Starfury launch sequence with great interest, particularly in light of the
+fact that only -- what? -- 20 seconds of B5 material has been released,
+and that alone has triggered off a detailed scientific discussion of
+rotational gravity, centripidal force, and other aspects of physics.  I
+can only wonder what more detailed discussions will be triggered once we
+actually begin showing whole *episodes*.)
+
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+Re: Starfury launch error in c (6 Nov 1993)
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Re: Starfury launch error in c

+6 Nov 1993
     Yes, this is what we were going for.  The use of outward force to
+push the fighters away from the station (rotational force) has nothing to
+do with catapulting the ships, it's just a low-fuel, high-economy way of
+getting the ships away by taking advantage of the station's rotation, so
+they can fire their engines at a safe distance from the station.  It's the
+fastest way overall to launch a whole bunch of fighters while leaving the
+primary docking bay clear for larger ships.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: Trek vs. B5 (8 Nov 1993)
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Re: Trek vs. B5

+8 Nov 1993
     Then again, by the definition you apply, no good characterization
+can be done, no surprises can come along, in a novel, since a novel is
+generally planned out and outlined prior to being written.
+ 
+     But in fact you CAN do solid characterizations in novels; if anything
+a novel-like approach (as with B5) lets you do *more* characterization by
+virtue of constructing a whole person.
+ 
+     I would also point you toward "The Prisoner," which had a definite
+story, a definite beginning, middle and end, but is very MUCH a character
+story, with lots of surprises.
+ 
+     In any event, you may want to check out the series before pronouncing
+judgment...who knows, you might just be...surprised.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: Trek vs. B5 (8 Nov 1993)
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Re: Trek vs. B5

+8 Nov 1993
     The other problem with "Twin Peaks," of course, is that they opened
+up a lot of questions, but never *really* answered any of them.  In B5,
+every question we ask, will be answered.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+ 
+     (I would also, btw, not characterize B5 as a "mystery" series; like
+Casablanca, it's a character-based story which uses intrigue and mystery
+to heighten the characters.)
+
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+

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+B5 schedule. (9 Nov 1993)
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B5 schedule.

+9 Nov 1993
     Babylon 5 is on schedule, and on-budget.  You can't be ahead of
+schedule in TV, because you have to allocate so many days for any single
+episode, and that's written in stone.  But we're absolutely spot on, and
+keeping to the budget, which is something of a first for an SF series.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+A (trivial) suggestion (1 Nov 1993)
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A (trivial) suggestion

+1 Nov 1993
     Happily, we're doing that; the bartender is generally the same, we
+have a recurring character as one of the techs in the observation dome,
+some of our security people are repeaters, and so on.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+JMS comments and encouriagemen (9 Nov 1993)
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JMS comments and encouriagemen

+9 Nov 1993
     Thanks.  Anytime....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+B5's Weapons (9 Nov 1993)
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B5's Weapons

+9 Nov 1993
     One thing to bear in mind is that the hand-weapon used by the assassin
+in the B5 pilot was the equivilent of a derringer; it wasn't made for such
+consistent use.  It has a longer recharge period than, say, a full-fledged
+hand-held PPG or a rifle version.  One thing we're trying to get into is
+the reality of how beam weapons would operate.  They would chew through a
+lot of energy, very fast, and need large energy supplies; the smaller the
+gun, the longer the power build.  What we've instituted with our regular
+weaponry is to include energy pods in the same basic holster as the guns.
+So you have a hand-held PPG with energy pod in place, looking more or less
+like a regular gun (in silhouette, anyway, meaning that it's hand held),
+with an additional pod at the ready for when that one runs out.  You run
+out, pop the pod, slap in another, and you're ready to go.  The rifle
+versions have larger pods which can fire even more quickly, and can go
+longer without recharging.
+ 
+     Though it's TV, we're trying to hew at least to some degree to what
+seems reasonable; guns shouldn't have an infinite firing capability, there
+is no such thing as an infinite power source that can fit into a small
+space, like a gun.
+ 
+     We've also redesigned the actual burst of the gun to make it look
+faster, and deadlier, than before.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Re: Why is it "Coming in Janua (9 Nov 1993)
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Re: Why is it "Coming in Janua

+9 Nov 1993
     Just some corrections to your message....
+ 
+     The January start time has little to do with the points you raise.
+It doesn't give us (or any other show) a longer lead time, because what
+you do is backtrack from when you want to be on the air, to when you should
+start preproduction to meet that date, then factor in about a month just
+to be on the safe side, as a buffer.  That applies whether your show goes
+on the air in January or September.  It's no longer a shooting schedule
+than any other show.  Our schedule is seven working days per episode,
+which is pretty much standard.
+ 
+      There's no "smaller episode package to try and peddle" because we're
+doing 22 episodes, which were pre-sold to the stations.  And nobody does
+27 episodes of any series anymore, not in years and years.  Even the most
+successful top-10 series -- and I was on one -- doesn't usually get more
+than 24 episodes total per season.
+ 
+     There's also no financial roll-over to the show, since it began in
+July (for pre-production), and continues throughout.
+ 
+     There are really only a few factors involved in a January launch: it
+does come toward mid-season when people have seen what else is out there,
+and you're not competing in the fall season push with major network
+shows that outnumber you 10-1.  Also, January/February are the next big
+Sweeps period for ratings after the fall, so that's the time you pick.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+Minor visual discrepency final (9 Nov 1993)
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Minor visual discrepency final

+9 Nov 1993
     That ain't it.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re-runs of Capt. Power? (10 Nov 1993)
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Re-runs of Capt. Power?

+10 Nov 1993
     Better check the temperature in hell first...ain't gonna happen.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+.AVI request (15 Nov 1993)
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.AVI request

+15 Nov 1993
     With regrets, a) I don't know how to do an AVI file, and b) even if
+I did, PTEN (which won't let me post gifs) wouldn't let me post that,
+either.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+Re: StarFurries? (16 Nov 1993)
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Re: StarFurries?

+16 Nov 1993
     That notion of waivers has been proposed, repeatedly, and shot down,
+repeatedly unfortunately.  Not seeing ideas is the only way to protect
+oneself in these lawsuit-happy times.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Master plan, was Re: Trek vs. (16 Nov 1993)
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Master plan, was Re: Trek vs.

+16 Nov 1993
     I approached B5 with the theory that *every episode* must be able to
+stand completely alone, and be appreciated completely on its own terms.  If
+you never saw another episode of B5, you got a solid hour's entertainment
+out of it.  It's only as you see more episodes that you gradually become
+aware of a much larger story going on here.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: B5's Weapons (16 Nov 1993)
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Re: B5's Weapons

+16 Nov 1993
     You want helium gas bursts when the PPG is fired?  You want it to
+look more like projectile weaponry when fired?  You want recoil?  You want
+the impact to diminish over distance?  You want the kind of sound you
+would get if something that superheated burst through a section of the
+air?
+ 
+     Guess what?  You got it.  That's *exactly* how a PPG operates.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
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+

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Re: B5 computer screens

+16 Nov 1993
     We've redesigned the monitors to look less like conventional CRTs and
+more like flatscreens.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+2 Nov 1993
     One thing we're trying to do on B5 in this respect is to really use
+three-dimensional space, on the full x-y-z axis for ship movements and
+the like.  Opens up all kinds of wonderful opportunities.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+There is no BOOM in space! (17 Nov 1993)
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+17 Nov 1993
     Unless extreme conditions merit it, we've generally gone more for
+music than for sound effects in space.  It works better, looks better,m
+sounds better.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+17 Nov 1993
     Either you or I should definitely cut back on caffeine.
+ 
+     Go, and sin no more.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: Re-runs of Capt. Power? (17 Nov 1993)
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+17 Nov 1993
     I liked POWER as well.  Quite a lot.  We did some good work.  But it
+has this rep for being violent, there was a lot of controversy around it,
+and thus far, at least insofar as I know, there's been no movement by the
+skiffy channel or anyone else to pick up that one season.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+17 Nov 1993
     Re: "Universe Today," my feeling was that there are specialized
+editions beamed out to various places...the Mars Colony gets one with
+stories skewed to their interest, and so on.  Including B5, since it's a
+major port.  The issues are printed on recycled material; finish a copy,
+dump it in a drop, and it's put out again the next day.  Synthetic
+material.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: List of "Magical" Technolo (17 Nov 1993)
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+17 Nov 1993
     Funnily, everyone has operated off the assumption that Knight One and
+Knight Two are telepaths or psi cops.  But I've never said that, or to my
+knowledge implied it.  (And no, neither character comes under that
+heading.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+17 Nov 1993
     "It (B5) will be a show that is not based on characters but based on
+mystery."
+ 
+     Wrong.
+ 
+     Point a gun at someone's head.  See how it affects them.  Is the
+resultant story about the gun, or about the person it's aimed at?
+ 
+     On all of the series I've worked on, the one strong suit I've found,
+the only story I'm really interested in telling, is a character story.  I
+am not a big mystery fan.  What I enjoy are the characters.  While the
+background of our series forms a low-level subtext, every single story
+produced so far this season is a character story.  Very *strong*
+character story.  The only episode in which it's a little light is in
+the first episode, because we kind of re-establish our cast after the
+delay of the pilot.  Even so, there's more character stuff there than in
+the pilot, by quite a lot.  And the very next episode up, "Soul Hunter,"
+is an extremely powerful character story.
+ 
+     Anyway, it kind of amuses me to see someone say that B5 "will be"
+one kind of show or another.  The only person who knows what the B5 story
+will be is at this end of the keyboard.  And that *ain't* it.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+Re: Question about Lita (sp?) (17 Nov 1993)
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+17 Nov 1993
     We're definitely keeping the Psi Corps, with the presence of our new
+station telepath Talia Winters, played by Andrea Thompson.  And I can say
+that the Corps will play a fairly substantial role in the series, in one
+way or another.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+18 Nov 1993
     Thank you.  Be assured that we are working very hard not to
+disappoint you, and I don't think we will.  This is, as you perceive,
+not just another job for most of us involved with Babylon 5.  It is a
+labor of love by those who enjoy SF, *for* those who enjoy SF.  It's the
+show that *we* would want to watch, as fans.  Many of us are putting in
+20 hour days, fighting to make every frame just right, because it means a
+lot to us...and it is our hope that someday it may mean as much to others.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+18 Nov 1993
     Actually, it was always our thought that the recorders were made of
+an extremely ultralight material -- there's an actual term for this sort
+of thing that has just fallen out of my head -- kept in place by a fan
+system operating at high speed, gyroscopically controlled to remain
+stable.
+ 
+     Sort of small hovercraft technology up 200 years or so.  Ain't much
+magic or, for that matter, much high-tech involved in it.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+18 Nov 1993
     Your assumption is correct; the assassin's weapon was a very small
+one...limited power, and a charge-up sequence that becomes longer the
+more it's used.  If the Minbari had shot Lyta, it would've taken too long
+for the gun to power-up again for him to shoot Sinclair...and he would've
+been captured.  We slightly expanded the power-up whine for each shot
+after the first one.  You'll note that the first shot, the one that takes
+out Varner, is almost immediate.  Points and fires.  Gradually it takes
+longer, and finally the gun runs out altogether (which is why, though we
+probably should've been clearer in showing this, the assassin finally
+went hand-to-hand with Sinclair...the gun was never meant as an assault
+weapon, more as a derringer, with a few shots in case he got into
+trouble).
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+2 Nov 1993
     Thanks.  The process has sometimes not been easy.  More often than
+not, one runs into fairly blunt opinions.  But that's part of the process.
+Many people I know in the TV or film business have tried to maintain such
+a line, and just get turned off or insulted and go away.  Or they come in
+briefly to get the PR invovled, a la "Sneakers," and then they're gone.  A
+few stay...George Martin, others.  And sometimes it's very hard to take it
+on the chin from someone you've never met, who's just called something you
+worked on for five years "crap" and sometimes for reasons that are more in
+the perception than the reality (such as the internet user who flamed me
+for using wrist links when it's clearly established that in the future we
+will all be using chest-communicators a la TNG, and thus every time I used
+our links it broke the illusion for him)....
+ 
+     But in the long run, it's been, and continues to be more of a positive
+experience than a negative one.  Because some of the criticisms have merit,
+and need to be addressed.  Other times, hard questions get asked, and I
+have to sit down and really think about this character or that situation,
+and in doing so, those answers end up helping the show.  Every day, I find
+anywhere from 30-60 messages in my GEnie box, most of them Internet relays,
+and it's like opening a puzzle box...you're never entirely sure what you're
+going to find inside.
+ 
+     And most of the messages are informed, and literate, and challenging,
+which is the part I enjoy most.  As for the rest...my sense is this: a long
+time ago, when we began this journey -- and I've been on-line talking about
+B5 on the nets for several *years* now -- the one thing that was foremost
+in my mind was the sense that SF media fans are probably the most exploited
+such fans around.  They're expected to be cash cows who line up and buy
+the products, no talking or shoving in the lines, and for god's sake no
+questions or hassle.  They're often valued for as long as they continue to
+buy the merchandise.  Every year, producers who don't know SF, and don't
+know fandom, and really don't care, trundle out their shows as the Next
+Best Thing Since Sliced Bread, raise a lot of attention...and when the show
+turns into crap, they're suddenly nowhere to be found.
+ 
+     When the pilot aired, I stuck around.  And I'll do all I can to stick
+around while the series is airing.  (The only glitches may be when I'm hip
+deep in production.)  This is my audience, and I feel that one should be
+responsive and receptive to one's audience, and not run out when things get
+uncomfortable.  You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.  See, the
+thing is, I *am* a fan, and I've *been* a fan, from a kid growing up on
+Bradbury and Clarke and Tolkein and Doc Smith to the present...I've sat in
+the audience and listened to those aforementioned producers at conventions
+and waited, only to be disappointed.
+ 
+     And when the time came to do B5, I swore that I'd try and do it
+differently...that there would be an ongoing dialogue with the viewers of
+the show, that we'd listen and be responsive and not just exploit, and if
+we didn't have answers to the hard questions then by god we'd go and we'd
+GET the answers.  Or look like idiots.  Because it's the fans who keep
+this medium alive, and to ingore that aspect seems to me inappropriate.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+18 Nov 1993
     I don't have anything to do with the promos, for the most part,
+don't make the promos, and in this case still haven't seen this
+particular promo.  Sometimes I think they stress the action aspect more
+than the character stuff, because it's easier to blow out action in 15 to
+30 seconds than character.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Here's Info on LOSCON, where j (18 Nov 1993)
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+18 Nov 1993
     At the LosCon presentation on Thanksgiving Saturday, I'll be showing
+scenes from upcoming shows, one nifty out-take, and "Midnight on the
+Firing Line," our debut episode, *in its entirety*.  Present will be me,
+story editor Larry DiTillio, and tentatively, Harlan Ellison and several
+of our cast members.  They've given us the biggest room at the con, but
+it's already looking like it's going to be packed to the rafters, so I
+would suggest that anyone attending show up early...when we screened the
+B5 pilot at last year's LosCon, its west coast debut, there was nearly a
+mini-riot over seating.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: Series plot, was Re: Trek (19 Nov 1993)
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+19 Nov 1993
     Shawn, excuse me if I'm just a tad curt here, but given that you have
+not seen a single episode, have not read a single script for the series,
+for you to say that in the B5 series, characters "have been forced to take
+subordinate roles" is, frankly, more than a little nuts.  In the message
+from you just preceding that, you indicate that you don't think the show
+may work on ANY level, all based on your assumptions which have nothing --
+I repeat, nothing -- to do with the *reality* of what we're doing here.
+ 
+     If I might be so bold, may I suggest that you actually *see* an
+episode or two before reviewing the series?  One can review the pilot all
+one wants, but we've changed a *lot* since that pilot, including some
+elements of how we're going to approach the series and the overall arc of
+the story.
+ 
+     Call me crazy, but I kinda like to *see* the painting before I decide
+whether or not I like the brush strokes.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+

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+19 Nov 1993
     "The pilot wasn't good.  Face it!"
+ 
+     I'm at the head of the line to point out flaws in the pilot.  Flaws
+that we've dealt with.  But a) it still holds up, and b) you are trying to
+make your opinion into *fact*.  It ain't.  An awful lot of people liked
+the pilot a lot.  To them, it was good.  Maybe to you, it wasn't, but
+that's only true for you.  That you may think persimmon yoghurt is the
+best flavor ever created doesn't make it true for everybody else.  Just a
+moment for perspective here....
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
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+

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Re: Will B-5 be a "cartoon"?

+19 Nov 1993
     The point you make is absolutely true.  For every person who wants to
+do something, there are always 15 people to tell him or her why it can't
+be done, why it won't work, why you'll fail.  Okay, fine, there are risks.
+ Nothing of substance is ever accomplished WITHOUT taking risks.  Sometimes
+you fail, sometimes you don't.  But what's the alternative?
+ 
+     One of my prize items in my office is a WWII pin from the Royal
+Air Force.  It has the following motto emblazoned on it: "Who Dares, Wins."
+  You have to dare from time to time.
+ 
+     For six years -- seven by the time this series hits air -- there have
+been people saying that this show couldn't be done...that it couldn't be
+done for the money (we proved otherwise), that you couldn't get the kind
+of EFX you'd need in television (proved that wrong), and now this comes
+along.  And we'll prove that wrong as well.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
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+User-Friendly and MSG to JMS (19 Nov 1993)
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+19 Nov 1993
     Interesting info re: the phone company.  I may use that at some point
+if the question comes up.  Also, our PR people are definitely working with
+the print media; I would imagine the push will start really manifesting
+itself toward the end of the year.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Why not guns? (19 Nov 1993)
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+19 Nov 1993
     Why use PPGs instead of Uzi-style projectile weapons/automatic
+weapons?
+ 
+     Most of the walls inside B5 are metal.
+ 
+     Does the term "ricochet" ring a bell...?
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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Re: Trek vs. B5

+19 Nov 1993
     Re: jms/jms...don't worry.  Everybody misspells Straczynski.
+ 
+	                                                           smj
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+Re: Story Ideas Problem (19 Nov 1993)
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Re: Story Ideas Problem

+19 Nov 1993
     The whole idea as to what constitutes an idea, and what constitutes
+a story, is fuzzy.  And the sad reality is that one need not be able to
+win a case in order to *file* a case.  And fighting a lawsuit can cost
+upwards of $100,000, which is usually unrecoverable.  It's just an
+increasingly ugly situation.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: Series plot, was Re: Trek (20 Nov 1993)
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+20 Nov 1993
     "If JMS had not mentioned the hole in Sinclair's mind, what would
+have been the reason for the assassin to try and kill Sinclair?"
+ 
+     Hello...did you see the same movie that I wrote?  The assassin was
+not there to kill Sinclair.  He was there to kill Kosh.  He tried to kill
+Kosh.  He tried to stay AWAY from Sinclair, did everything in his power
+to avoid Sinclair, ran from
+Sinclair, and only finally encountered Sinclair when Sinclair came after
+HIM.  Then it was nominal self-defense.
+ 
+     Had the "hole in the mind" reference never been made, it would have
+been clear -- at least clear to every other carbon-based lifeform who saw
+the movie -- that the assassin 1) came to try and kill Kosh, 2) in the
+hope of disrupting the purpose of Babylon 5, with the added benefit of
+3) if he failed in his mission, setting up Sinclair to take the rap for
+his actions.  At the very end, rather than be captured and interrogated,
+the Minbari assassin killed himself with an implanted bomb.  His comment
+to Sinclair at that moment was more of an "Up yours" comment, designed to
+shatter Sinclair with the knowledge that he knew something Sinclair
+didn't.
+ 
+     You keep saying he was there to kill Sinclair.  He wasn't.  He didn't.
+  He didn't try.  It makes it hard to have this conversation with you if
+your comments don't touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+3 Nov 1993
     We're using a tachyon communications system to handle the FTL problem
+regarding communications.  As for the coloration of the jump gate (if
+we're talking about the same thing), the wave effect is red-shifted when
+you enter the jump gate, and blue-shifted when coming out.  I think we
+had that slightly out of phase in the pilot; it's since been corrected to
+match correct red-shift.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+JMS' demons (21 Nov 1993)
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+21 Nov 1993
     An interesting bit of demonology.  And there is certainly some
+measure of validity to it.  A story is only as good as the questions that
+it answers.  The writer's job is to always ask the next question.  The
+problem is as often in finding the right question as it is in finding the
+right response.  One thing I've discovered in something like 10 years of
+net-surfing is that I'm always surprised.  And in the case of B5, there
+have been many questions raised, many challenges made, for which I didn't
+have immediate, ready answers.  It's forced me to think about things and
+come up with answers I didn't know I needed until the question was posed.
+ All things considered, it's been a valuable and educational experience.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Blooper Reel (21 Nov 1993)
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+21 Nov 1993
     There is, for lack of a better term, a Christmas reel...but it's
+strictly internal.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Who did it? (21 Nov 1993)
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+21 Nov 1993
     I don't even know why I'm dignifying this with a response...but a)
+MGM does not produce B5, the PTEN and Warner Bros. are the B5 umbrella,
+and b) B5's treatment and screenplay and bible go back to 1987.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Famous people (21 Nov 1993)
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+21 Nov 1993
     We're doing a few things in that area, mainly background stuff,
+using a consistent news network (Interstellar Network News, ISN), building
+up a picture about politics back home; the problem is that when someone
+says, "Did you see Ross Perot on TV last night?", we have a shared
+societal understanding of who Perot is.  That carries more meaning than
+just a random name.  But I take your point; it's something we've done a
+little, and don't mind expanding if we can avoid getting obscure.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+21 Nov 1993
     Let me, in far less pejorative terms than those used by you, try and
+set your mind at ease.  Or not.
+ 
+     Regarding how I present myself here...I don't think about it one
+way or another.  I honestly don't much care how I'm perceived.  Who and
+what I am, if I'm annoying or a saint or just another Joe, is utterly and
+completely irrelevant to the work.  Fifty years from now, when I'm long
+gone to dust, no one's going to remember me for being a swell guy, or a
+rotten guy.  All that matters, all that remains, is the work...if I did a
+good job, the work will live on.  If not...nothing matters.
+ 
+     My job here, as I perceive it, is to provide an inside glimpse into
+how a TV series is produced; to engage the viewers of SF television in a
+genuine dialogue and thus *engage* them instead of simply *exploiting*
+them, as is generally the rule, out of some measure of respect, and
+by virtue of being a fan myself.  I'm frequently asked by studio people
+why, in an average day where I get maybe 4 hours sleep, I continue to
+take part in a process that, overall, will maybe reach a few thousand
+people...a number so small it doesn't even show up in the ratings.  They
+sense, and they're probably right, that all of this dialogue probably
+won't add a single ratings point to the show.  Which is fine by me; that's
+not the entirety of why I'm here.  I could try to explain it to them, but
+I doubt very much it would work.
+ 
+     Okay, you find me annoying.  My response: that's life.  I never said
+I was bunny-rabbit cute.  Never promised that you'd like me.  Being well
+liked is not why I'm here.  I hope to provide a service.  If you find that
+service useful, that's great.  If you don't like the service, well, like
+I said...that's life.
+ 
+     To your point that I "don't understand the background in cyber
+politics," and that I should understand how these nets work...I've been
+modeming since 300 bps modems were considered speed-demons.  I was one
+of the first subscribers to Compuserve.  I completely understand how
+the nets work.  What I don't understand, and don't allow to fly without
+challenge, is an attack that stems from plain, mean-spirited vindictiveness
+by that small slice of the fan community that feels it is not only correct
+but *required* to tear down others.  If someone has an honest question or
+a problem with something, I try to answer that question with as much
+grace and politeness as I can.  And sometimes, when those questions come
+in very blunt terms, it's hard.  But I do try.  On the other hand, if I
+see someone coming into visual range with nothing more on his agenda than
+to slam people, insult people, villify and destroy someone out of an
+excess of bile and a notable lack of good manners...the kind of fan who
+gives the rest of us a bad name...then I feel no compunction
+whatsoever against firing back.  Hard.  Generally in proportion to the
+offensiveness of the original message.
+ 
+     This is the one thing that I've noted, time and time again, on this
+and other nets.  I've seen someone call down the vilest terms to describe
+a particular writer, smear the person, demean and debase the person, but
+when someone has the nerve to actually respond in kind, and call this
+person out in the same terms he used on someone else...well, THAT'S
+outRAgeous!  How rude!
+ 
+     My feeling: tough.  You don't want to get your face bit off, don't
+do something as monumentally stupid as sticking it in the lion cage.  Or
+more simply...try the Golden Rule sometime: do unto others as you would
+have them do unto you (a tenet that seems to be lost on a certain portion
+of BBSers).
+ 
+     Which brings me back around to Harlan Ellison.  You don't like my
+defending Harlan.  Or the fact that I am forceful in doing so.
+ 
+     So?
+ 
+     Harlan is my friend.  He has also been the target of cheap,
+unwarranted, vicious attacks by that lunatic fringe that sits festering
+on the edge of legitimate fandom.  Maybe you're content to see your
+friend jumped by strangers and beaten up for kicks.  Maybe you'd sit by
+the side of the road and watch.  Or turn away.  Or sell tickets.
+ 
+     I can't do that.  One thing that Harlan and I have in common is
+that we're both out of the streets.  I'm basically a New Jersey kid,
+born in Paterson, and raised for a long time in the streets of Newark.  If
+you know Newark, you understand what that means without further need of
+explanation.  Much of my attitude was formed in the streets.  And one of
+the first things you learn, the first rule you take to heart, is that if
+somebody jumps your buddy, or attacks your buddy, he's attacking you as
+well.  YOu don't cut and run.  Whatever the cost.  Maybe you think that's
+"macho posturing," as you put it.  It's the way I run my life.  I know
+such things aren't fashionable just now, but I happen to care deeply for
+and about my friends, and if they're in trouble, if someone is smearing
+their reputation or trying to harm them out of mean-spiritedness, I will
+not stand idly by with my finger up my nose pretending it isn't happening.
+ Maybe you can do that.  I can't.
+ 
+     I have no difficulty in, as you say, "letting water roll off (my)
+back."  But this wasn't my back.  It was a friend's.  I've put up with a
+LOT from people on some of these systems.  And not taken it personally.  It
+does roll off my back.  But a vicious smear or an attack on a *friend*
+will not go unanswered.
+ 
+     You don't like it, that's your choice.  I'm not doing it for you, and
+I'm not doing it to impress anyone, or make friends, or be nice.  This is
+what I do because I can't do otherwise, because this is who and what I am.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
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+Re: Here's Info on LOSCON, whe (21 Nov 1993)
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+21 Nov 1993
     As an advisory, in addition to me, story editor Larry DiTillio, and
+tentatively Harlan Ellison, we've confirmed that Michael O'Hare, Mira
+Furlan, and Peter Jurasik will be at the LosCon presentation next
+Saturday.  More names may be added to that.
+ 
+     I request that I will make at the presentation, and which I'll set up
+here, is to minimize any kind of spoiler discussion of the episode until
+it airs.  It's two months to airdate, and we'd like some parts of the show
+to be a surprise to the viewers.  General reactions are great, but if we
+could keep spoiler-type discussions to a minimum, I'd be very happy.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Walter Koenig on QVC (21 Nov 1993)
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+21 Nov 1993
     Darn, I missed Walter's appearance on QVC; e it.
+As for when you can expect to see me on QVC...never.  That just isn't
+something I care to get into.  Merchandising is fine and inevitable, but
+I think that if you get too into it, it begins to change your direction a
+bit.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+21 Nov 1993
     Much of the response I have to your message on a personal level I've
+said elsewhere, so I won't repeat it here.  But to deal with a couple of
+the things you mention....
+ 
+     "...because (I) knew this woman (Tamlyn, I) would use
+her on this show regardless of what people unconnected with her
+emotionally thought of her acting ability."
+ 
+     This is, frankly, untrue and a distortion of the facts.  Prior to
+casting Tamlyn, I had never before met her, and except at the screening of
+the pilot and one live TV gig, have not seen her again since doing the
+pilot.  I am not "emotionally connected" to her.  This is not nepotism.
+What you are doing is taking a thread that was on another system and
+distorting it.  There were some very harsh, demeaning things said about
+Tamlyn, many of them flat-out uncalled for...hurtful and ugly comments.  I
+stood up for Tamlyn as a performer.  When we did a later analysis of the
+pilot, our decision to recast the role of the lieutenant commander was
+influenced not by anyone's individual performance, but by the synergy of
+the performers as an ensemble.
+ 
+     Tamlyn is a terrific performer; if you've seen her in the Joy Luck
+Club, or her appearance on Quantum Leap, or elsewhere, her skill is much
+in evidence.  She is a kind and decent person, and no, I wouldn't allow
+her to be BBS brutalized by a certain small fringe element, and won't do
+so now, and won't allow myself to be bullied by that small fringe.  Any
+decisions made will not be based on that kind of crap.
+ 
+     Nepotism doesn't enter into it.  On that you're simply dead wrong.
+ 
+     On this "mental model" you've constructed of me based upon my many
+posts here...I am not liable for your perceptions.  A French writer once
+observed, "A book is like a mirror.  If an ass peers in, you can't very
+well expect an apostle to peer out."
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: Here's Info on LOSCON, whe (21 Nov 1993)
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+21 Nov 1993
     BTW, I suspect that the Woody Harper you're responding to, is the
+same Woody Harper who engaged in a bit of BBS terrorism/deliberate
+misinformation, and who I had to take a couple days to hunt down.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+A PLOT REQUEST (22 Nov 1993)
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+22 Nov 1993
     No "evil alternate universe" episodes are planned, nor do I think
+they will be.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: JMS: Recent? stuff... (3 Nov 1993)
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+3 Nov 1993
     Actually, your description of how it would work is closer to how it
+does work and what's been done.  My description was less than perfect.
+When Ron does ship movement stuff, he programs in the dynamics of motion
+so that it's pre-calculated to be correct.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+When will the Laserdisc of the (23 Nov 1993)
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+23 Nov 1993
     I know that the plan is to eventually release the episodes on disk
+in all their widescreen/surround-sound glory, but when that might be is
+anyone's guess.  Heck, I'll be first in line at the video store....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Air Date (23 Nov 1993)
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+23 Nov 1993
     The date I've heard most often for the series' debut is January 26th.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+23 Nov 1993
     Oops, the letter just sent to you was intended for Gharlane, and
+sent by accident (the letter about the
+B5 bathroom).  Sorry for the mis-type,and hope it gets to Gharlane.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+23 Nov 1993
     The bathroom scene was written, but shifted back a bit because we
+decided to go for some different sets, and felt that the money could be
+used better there.  We have an *amazing* number of sets as it is; 16
+standing sets and another 10 or so swing sets.  So we'll either do that
+scene later in the season, or wait until season two, and a fresh
+construction budget.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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Re: JMS' demons

+23 Nov 1993
     You're right; the events of the Line are something that Sinclair
+doesn't much like talking about, and has been advised *against* talking
+about.  When the Minbari surrendered, Earth put the best possible spin on
+it, tried to make the survivors of the Line look like heroes, but there's
+a general sense of what happened.  And a great deal of dismay over it.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+23 Nov 1993
     I'd say that, in certain instances, you may be more right than
+wrong in your speculations.
+ 
+     While I've certainly been positive about the show -- and believe I
+have good reason to be positive -- I have avoid directly over-hyping the
+show.  I've never, to the best of my knowledge, said that this will be
+the best series in SF-TV history.  What I've said, by and large, is what
+we're *doing*, and not much more.  When I get excited about something, I
+say so, and I'm specific to that episode.  The greater measure of what you
+might term "hype" comes from those who've followed the show, and from one
+important fact: any promise I make on the content of a show, I keep.  I'm
+very careful about that.
+ 
+     The problem, though, with a show like this, presented in this
+fashion, is that when people come to expect a Great Show, long ahead of
+airdate, they begin to sketch out in their heads the show that *they*
+would most like to see, the show they would make if given the chance.  And
+that means you've got -- what? -- ten thousand different versions of a
+show.  There's no way that anything I do can be exactly what every single
+person would most like to see, what he or she sees in his/her mind's eye.
+ So there will have to be some readjustment to what the show *is*
+ 
+     I think, though, that the average SF-TV viewer is sharp enough to
+figure that out, and adjust.  For myself, all I can do is make the best
+show I can, the show that *I* would like to see made, that I would like to
+watch...and hope for the best.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
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+

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+Question on names (23 Nov 1993)
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Question on names

+23 Nov 1993
     G'Kar's first assistant was Ko D'ath, who met with an unfortunate
+accident with an airlock.  The replacement is Na'Toth (no L), who will be
+staying around for a while.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
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+

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+Re: jms's "attitude" (23 Nov 1993)
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Re: jms's "attitude"

+23 Nov 1993
     You have now made several charges of nepotism against me.  If we all
+speak the same langauge, then nepotism is hiring people not qualified to
+do a particular job because they're cronies or relatives.  If someone is
+eminently qualified to do the job, it's not nepotism.  If the person is
+neither a friend nor a relative, it's not nepotism.
+ 
+     Please cite to me one single instance in which I have engaged in this
+kind of behavior, or withdraw your allegation.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

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+Open response to Mr. Straczyns (23 Nov 1993)
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Open response to Mr. Straczyns

+23 Nov 1993
     So let me get this straight...your problem is that I have moments
+when I'm cheerful, and polite...and moments when, fatigued by 20 hour days,
+I sometimes get a little sharper than I might like.  Okay, I'm human.  So
+what?
+ 
+     Your other problem, at the center of this, is that I don't behave the
+way YOU think I should behave.  Once again...so what?  I don't HAVE to
+fit your definition.  I didn't fight all these years to find my own voice,
+and become my own person, and produce my own show, only to worry about
+whether I fit Rob's picture of a perfect person.  I'm sorry, but I have
+substantially more interesting things to worry about.
+ 
+     You use the word "sophmoric" a lot.  I could just as easily turn
+that around.  I could sit and dissect your messages, what I think you are
+by your language choice, approach, and similar subjects.  But you state,
+"You don't know how I (Rob) am, where I came from, or my background; I'd
+also rather not bring it up."  Curious how you seem to feel that YOU are
+off-limits to speculation, but others aren't...even though we're both
+on the nets.
+ 
+     This discussion, absent your unsubstantiated allegations, is rather
+pointless.  I am who I am, I behave the way I behave.  You don't like it.
+ I don't like your behavior or your tendency to stick your nose in my
+psyche and engage in some long-distance dime-store psychoanalysis, for
+which you are neither qualified nor welcome.
+ 
+     That's showbiz.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+Query to JMS on a minor point (23 Nov 1993)
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Query to JMS on a minor point

+23 Nov 1993
     I've noticed the same thing; he blinks when he wants to, and refuses
+to let go of you the rest of the time.  We've also given him a LOT more
+to do of a character-based nature, and I think people are going to be
+very pleased in what they see.  The problem with the role of commander is
+that it's the toughest one in the bunch...he has to be firm and
+commanding, but vulnerable...able to be angry, but compassionate...ready
+to fight but just as ready for affection...and I think that what was shown
+of the pilot (minus the nearly half-hour that was cut) only really showed
+one side.  We're showing a lot more now, and Michael's doing a hell of a
+job carrying it all.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

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+Re: Comments on B5 (3 Nov 1993)
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Re: Comments on B5

+3 Nov 1993
     Re: "wonder at the mystery of life."  Hold that thought and write it
+down, and yank it out before watching "Mind War" and "The Parliament of
+Dreams."  You'll understand.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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+Re: Series plot, was Re: Trek (23 Nov 1993)
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+23 Nov 1993
     I never said that the commander's intent wasn't to set up Sinclair; I
+only said that he wasn't there to *kill* Sinclair.  That aspect of making
+Sinclair the patsy was very much part of the thing.
+ 
+	  (Oops, just realized that I mis-typed; that should be "I never said
+that the ASSASSIN'S intent wasn't to set up Sinclair," not "the
+commander's intent."  Slip of the tongue.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+

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+Re: Here's Info on LOSCON, whe (23 Nov 1993)
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Re: Here's Info on LOSCON, whe

+23 Nov 1993
     Then in the spirit of goodwill I apologize and we begin anew.
+ 
+	                                     jms (no smiley face)
+
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+Request for JMS's Address (23 Nov 1993)
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Request for JMS's Address

+23 Nov 1993
 
+     I can be reached at the following address:
+ 
+     14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+Stories I never want to see on (24 Nov 1993)
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Stories I never want to see on

+24 Nov 1993
     Going over your list of stories...nope, nope...nopenopenopenope....
+ 
+     Guess we must be doing something wrong.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+Re: Trek vs. B5 (25 Nov 1993)
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Re: Trek vs. B5

+25 Nov 1993
     The advance plotting on the series has made the show neither more nor
+less difficult.  It's mainly just...*different*.  In addition to threading
+the arc through many episodes (sometimes in a big way, sometimes in very
+small, subtle ways), you've often got an A and a B story, plus we've got
+14 regular and recurring characters (though not all 14 appear in every
+episode), all of whom have their *own* individual character arcs...and
+that's a LOT of balls to keep up in the air at any given moment.  What it
+HAS done is to enrich the texture of all of our individual episodes.  You
+get a) a genuine sense that there are PEOPLE in your story, each with his
+or her own life, agenda, problems, and b) that these people are GOING
+somewhere, that there's a submerged thread that ties them together that is
+slowly, gradually coming into view.
+ 
+     This is a trick that I've learned to do on earlier shows, in different
+ways.  On Captain Power, we had an arc for that series, though less complex
+than this one...and we learned how to drop in just a reference here or
+there, continuing the feeling of a spider at the center of the story that,
+when it moved, caused the whole web to vibrate slightly.  Also, on the
+animated series The Real Ghostbusters, I had to write/story edit on two
+levels...making sure the show was understandable to non-adults, while
+at the same time slipping things in that only adults could appreciate.  The
+younger audience wouldn't get the references, but they'd go by so fast
+that they wouldn't notice, and that wouldn't get in the way of enjoying the
+story.  (And we got REAL obscure...an episode story requiring the presence
+of a specific small group of eskimos in order to conduct a ritual was
+explained to someone as "sort of an Inuit minyan."  Probably only five
+people on the planet caught that one, but hey, why not?)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
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+

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+Making of Babylon 5 -document? (25 Nov 1993)
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Making of Babylon 5 -document?

+25 Nov 1993
     There have been several behind-the-scenes pieces cut already; one at
+8 minutes, slated mainly toward potential advertisers, has already gone
+out on the downlink.  At some point a 12 and 30 minute piece will go out.
+ When that happens, I don't know.
+ 
+     It's been sold overseas, to Channel 4 in the U.K., but don't have the
+specifics yet on other markets.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+

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+Re: Query to JMS on a minor po (25 Nov 1993)
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Re: Query to JMS on a minor po

+25 Nov 1993
     At this point, I suspect that the only version of the pilot that will
+ever be released (barring major success on our part) is the one that's now
+in distribution.  Making a new version with the missing 25 minutes would
+require massive editing (there was never a full version made, since we're
+editing on computer file graphics, only going to film when we're done), and
+right now that's not in anyone's budget.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+

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+Re: B5 at LosCon (29 Nov 1993)
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Re: B5 at LosCon

+29 Nov 1993
     What you and the others seem to be pointing out is what I've been
+trying -- imperfectly, as best I can -- to communicate for some time.  In
+the case of "Midnight," can you follow that show and enjoy it absolutely
+on its own terms?  I believe that is the case.  There's another level
+there, the "little clues and hints" you mention, which will just skate
+past most casual viewers and not in any way interfere with their viewing
+of the episode...but if you're paying attention, and you catch them, it
+adds a new level.  The more you see, the more you begin to perceive that
+second level.  It's a cumulative effect that doesn't diminish the single
+episodes as stand-alones.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
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+

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+Re: B5 at LosCon (29 Nov 1993)
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+29 Nov 1993
     (Lost the last paragraph of my message.)  In any event, what I'm
+striving for is the idea that you can watch the episodes for the
+character stories, OR the story arc, OR the individual stories, OR all
+three at the same time, all in the same exact episodes.  You can get out
+as much as you're willing to find.
+ 
+     It's a very weird kind of writing...but at least on this end, it's
+kinda fun, actually.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
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+Question for JMS... (4 Nov 1993)
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Question for JMS...

+4 Nov 1993
     Kosh will "speak" in the series.  After a fashion.  But not as you
+might expect.  Suffice to say we've seen the final effect now in the mix
+of finished episodes, and it's *real* creepy.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

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+Starfury launch error in cgi? (4 Nov 1993)
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Starfury launch error in cgi?

+4 Nov 1993
     I'm sorry, but I don't agree that this is an error.  This launch
+scenario is the one best suggested by some of the techie types we've gone
+to.  In addition, you want to fire with the nose facing out because you
+want to get the engines going as quickly as possible, once you're clear
+of the bay, to get the ship *outward* as soon as possible, because the
+primary docking bay is at the "front" of the station, and you don't want
+to have a flight of fighters entering your primary traffic lane.  The
+noses of the furies when releeased are pointing in the "down" direction of
+centrifugal force, and that's the direction in which they should be
+released.  Nor would they travel diagonally along the station in any
+event; they'd go at a nominal curve away from the cobra launch bays much
+the same as a rock tied to a string flies away from you when you release
+it after whirling it around your head.
+ 
+     This works, and makes the most common, and scientific sense.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

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+When does the series begin bro (1 Dec 1993)
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When does the series begin bro

+1 Dec 1993
     The series goes on the air around January 26th.
+ 
+	                                                  jms
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+Teepers (3 Dec 1993)
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Teepers

+3 Dec 1993
     Psi Corps level P11 are generally administrators.
+ 
+     "Teepers" is an interesting term.  Origin?
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Questions (3 Dec 1993)
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+3 Dec 1993
     Silvana Gallardo played Dr. Maya Hernandez in "Believers."
+ 
+     We're actually using a fairly large number of Hispanic actors in the
+series, along with other groups.  Just cast an actor named Jose Rey as a
+character named Eduardo Delvientos, as well as a great number of asians
+and african americans as senators, advisors, doctors, and so on.
+ 
+     It's been my belief, and I'll say it again, that if we go to the
+stars at all, we're ALL going...or no one's going.  We've got to get past
+this crap.
+ 
+     Kosh's voice is done by an actor, overlaid on musical notes which
+are Kosh's natural voice-tones.  (We hear the English via translator
+device.)
+ 
+     The February Cinefantastique will have a cover story on the B5 series.
+ 
+     There are a number of major magazines planning B5 stuff, but it's
+premature to announce them at this time.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+Still using toaster? (4 Dec 1993)
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Still using toaster?

+4 Dec 1993
     The Toaster is still being used.  The comments re: silicon graphics
+workstations are hallucinations.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+Re: *SPOILERS* Episode Info (5 Dec 1993)
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Re: *SPOILERS* Episode Info

+5 Dec 1993
     RE: "Believers" ... "if this isn't done REALLY well...."
+ 
+     It was.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+

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+Little tiny bug in pilot? (new (5 Dec 1993)
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Little tiny bug in pilot? (new

+5 Dec 1993
     Kosh's ship had to decelerate in order to dock inside the station.
+This is a reality of spaceflight...you must both accelerate and
+decelerate.  Both take time.  Especially if you're going to dock.  Plus
+there was time involved in setting up the docking procedure, turning over
+control to Babylon Control, lining up vectors and so on.
+ 
+     The fighters didn't have to worry about any of this.  They came
+shooting through the gate and barely slowed at all, speeding over to B5
+and taking up position.
+ 
+     There have now been several situations in which we've been accused
+of "mistakes" that have, instead, simply been things done scientifically
+accurately.  I have to say (and this isn't directed at you, just more of
+a general statement), we're not going to hand everyone everything on a
+silver platter, serving up pablum...the nature of a *science fiction*
+series is that you should THINK about things.  The acceleration/deceleration
+thing is one example; some thought about why this would be would have led
+to the answer.
+ 
+     And, as evidenced by other messages here, others have taken the time
+to look at it from that perspective.  Which I think is great.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+

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+A Couple Questions (5 Dec 1993)
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A Couple Questions

+5 Dec 1993
     There may be a two-parter in our first season, though not the
+cliffhanger episode.  Which is all I can say on that at this time.
+ 
+     Re: science advisors...we have a few we use from time to time, but
+for the most part our people KNOW sf, and those who design the EFX KNOW
+science, and our writers are good SF writers, so it really isn't much of
+a problem, we haven't had to go outside much at all.  We had to go to our
+medical advisor recently for some terminology, but we're happily very
+self-sufficient in that regard.  Nearly everyone involved in the show from
+a certain level on is a techno-wonk, and will sit for *hours* with you
+discussing how many feet per second a starfury travels when it first
+drops out of the cobra bay (I believe it's 32 fps), and so on.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
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+

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+6 Dec 1993
      The EA starships are...too cool to try and describe here.  Better
+to let you see them in action.  (And no, no warp nacelles...that's
+another show....)
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+Re: starships (7 Dec 1993)
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Re: starships

+7 Dec 1993
     I'll try to get the specs from Ron; I'd hazard a guess that some
+of the larger cruisers, like the passenger liner Asimov, are about 2
+kilometers across, much too large to fit into B5, so they have to use
+smaller transports to shuttle passengers to and from B5.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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Re: Teepers

+7 Dec 1993
     BTW, the Psi Corps is not officially part of the military, though
+they're regulated by the government.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Pilot Question? Religion? (7 Dec 1993)
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Pilot Question? Religion?

+7 Dec 1993
     Religion is actually a fairly common topic in the B5 series; it's
+in "By Any Means Necessary," "The Parliament of Dreams," and several other
+episodes, sometimes subtly, sometimes as a main theme.  And we will be
+dealing with cross-pollinization of religion across species and worlds,
+and you will see some of the Centauri pantheon of gods.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Legal aspects of the Bablyon 5 (1 Dec 1993)
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Legal aspects of the Bablyon 5

+1 Dec 1993
     Going over all the information required for a decent answer to your
+question would take a very long time; suffice to say that we continue to
+look to the legal aspects of the B5 universe for complications and areas
+of conflict; and we're thinking through that legal system *very* carefully;
+look for some interesting extrapolations on this subject later in our first
+season....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Alright, another tiny question (7 Dec 1993)
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Alright, another tiny question

+7 Dec 1993
     Your memory is faulty.  It was stated in the pilot that Kosh's ship
+took roughly 4 days to travel via hyperspace to B5.  That's from Vorlon
+space; we don't know where the fleet was when it entered jump.  Because
+such ships can make their own jump points, it could've been a lot closer
+to B5 space when it went in.  (And was.)
+ 
+     RE: your other point...it's not normally expected in the course of an
+average day that an invading fleet is going to come through; and in the
+course of the series, that's NOT a common problem.  Troops Attacking The
+Station is too easy a story.  What the gate is set up to do is recognize
+the energy signature/coded frequency of an incoming ship or ships.  It
+doesn't determine the size of the ship until it's about to come out, and
+thus adjust the placement of the gate sections accordingly.  If there were
+a war on, the allowable frequencies and codes would be changed regularly
+to prevent this problem.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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Re: Questions

+7 Dec 1993
     Of course, one problem with your message is that there are very few
+black australian actors in L.A., particularly if you're talking about
+aborigine actors.  This complicates casting.  That said, however, we are
+casting outside the usual American parameters as much as we can...and
+there *were* "turbans" (to use your phrase) in the pilot; check the
+business room scene, and others.  And there are more in the series.  We
+are working as hard as possible to get as wide a view of the future as we
+can.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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Re: Teepers

+7 Dec 1993
     Psi's can start at  P1 and work their way up a level or two, or
+start right out at an untrained P10 level...though they're not noted for
+their stability.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Re: Pilot Question? Religion? (7 Dec 1993)
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Re: Pilot Question? Religion?

+7 Dec 1993
     Let me make one point clear re: my attitudes toward religion.  I'm
+an atheist.  Plain and simple.  Unlike many who claim to be christians,
+I've actually *read* the Bible.  Cover to cover.  *Twice*.  It has some
+very good writing, and some pretty awful writing.  I tip my hat to ANYONE
+who can get through Deuteronomy and Numbers without drowsing...while the
+story of Job has some of the best writing imaginable.
+ 
+     That said...I have no desire or interest in bashing somebody's
+religion as long as that somebody stays out of my face.  In terms of my
+writing, and my shows...if a writer wants to be honest, he has to look at
+the full spectrum of human experience and treat it honestly.  And though
+I do not believe as some might, there is some human impulse that keeps
+dragging us toward belief.  It is part of the human process of trying to
+solve the problem of life, the universe and everything (to quote Adams).
+And you have to respect that, even if you don't agree with it.  So I tend
+to treat the subject with respect.  Also with humor, on occasion, but
+never to bash.
+ 
+     Fanatics of *any* stripe are, however, ripe targets.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: New GIF's... (7 Dec 1993)
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Re: New GIF's...

+7 Dec 1993
     BTW, there will be a satellite feed of B5 series promos Friday the
+10th of December (12:30-12:45 p.m. ET), Thursday the 9th (9:45-10 p.m. ET),
+and Monday December 13th (3:30-3:45 p.m. ET) on Galaxy 4, Channel 21,
+audio 5.8=stereo (left), 6.2=stereo right, 6.8 mono mix.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Starship.gif (7 Dec 1993)
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Starship.gif

+7 Dec 1993
     I think what you're referring to in starship.gif is NOT something
+that was uploaded by, or authorized by us...and is based on a photo that
+appeared, mistakenly, in Starlog, which had nothing to do with our
+series.  (Several such photos appeared in that spread, including a brick
+foundry.)  The starship.gif file has *nothing* to do with Babylon 5, and
+should be deleted from the ftp site.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+8 Dec 1993
     Jesus...don't yell.  I was talking as myself, about how fast a
+Starfury drops out of the cobra bay, this isn't B5 canon, this didn't show
+up in a script, this is just informal talk.  I'm sure if we have to go
+into measurements in the show, we'll either go metric or find some new
+system altogether.  (I believe we've used kilometers in at least one
+episode.)  Anyway...relax....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+What is the economic system? (8 Dec 1993)
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What is the economic system?

+8 Dec 1993
     The Earth economy still runs on basic capitalism; the corporations
+under-write surveying and exploitation of planets, in some cases then
+selling what they find to the government in return for a piece of the
+profits, or via direct exploitation itself.  (By law they're forbidden
+from exploiting or strip-mining worlds with sentient life.)  There is
+also, as we discover in one episode, a big market for archaeologists
+who dig into now-dead worlds for whatever technology they can find, which
+might have been ancient there, but are new to us.
+ 
+     There are a whole bunch of ships in Earthforce; it's been ten years
+since the war, and they've had considerable time to regroup.
+ 
+     Currently we're closed to specs, but that may change in year two.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+Re: Jump Gates and Inertia (8 Dec 1993)
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Re: Jump Gates and Inertia

+8 Dec 1993
      "What is the principle behind the jump gate?"
+ 
+      Manufactured by Whammo.
+ 
+      (Still working out the details.....)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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Alright, another tiny question

+8 Dec 1993
     Okay, okay, 8 days not four...I knew it weren't no 3 weeks, though.
+The one thing to remember is that travel in hyperspace isn't the main
+problem; the real problem, time-wise, is the period required to get from
+a world to its nearest jump gate.  It might take 4 days to travel from
+World X to the gate, and 1 day to B5 in hyperspace...while another race,
+1 day from the gate, and 1 day to B5 in hyperspace, only has 2 travel
+days.
+ 
+                                                           jms
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Takashima Query/Observation

+1 Dec 1993
     No one on B5 knows of Laurel's complicity.  With the removal of her
+character, certain aspects of that arc have been transferred elsewhere.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Returned mail: Service unavail (8 Dec 1993)
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Returned mail: Service unavail

+8 Dec 1993
     "Is Delenn being used, or is she using?"
+ 
+     Yes...and that's *not* an evasion of the question.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: What is the economic syste (9 Dec 1993)
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+9 Dec 1993
     The corporations sell some discoveries to the government if the
+government is in a better position to exploit the find.  The corps aren't
+all-powerful; they have limits as well.  If they find something they can
+exploit commercially themselves, and which they have the resources to get,
+then of course they'll do it themselves.  If the discovery is of greatest
+military utility, and is a real pain in the ass to get, they'll sell the
+info to the government in exchange for certain rights and fees.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Success of B5 (9 Dec 1993)
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Success of B5

+9 Dec 1993
     "These people know what they are doing."
+ 
+     Then someone please tell me why I can never pull together matching
+socks in the morning....
+ 
+     Sentiment appreciated.  And with luck, we won't disappoint.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+JMS - Please keep... (9 Dec 1993)
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JMS - Please keep...

+9 Dec 1993
     Yes, we're keeping the power-up sounds of the weapons, and the
+discharge sound.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+9 Dec 1993
     How can I get a copy of this russian space catalog?
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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Re: Starship.gif

+9 Dec 1993
     There are plans for cast-related shots to be uploaded in time, yes.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: Pilot Question? Religion? (9 Dec 1993)
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Re: Pilot Question? Religion?

+9 Dec 1993
     "...it is very rare to see a character on TV with religious beliefs
+who *isn't* a fanatic."
+ 
+     Excuse me while I reach for my baseball bat.  You've just struck a
+nerve.
+ 
+     That is the biggest line of crap in the world, perpetuated by the
+religious right and parrotted all over the place as though it were true,
+and it's not.  The television landscape, past and present, is *littered*
+with religious-type people who are sympathetically portrayed.  I don't
+have my volume of TOTAL TELEVISION with me at the moment, but just off
+the top of my head...there were bunches of prayerful folks in "Little
+House on the Prarie," in "Father Murphy," in the "Father Dowling"
+mysteries, in "Helltown"...not to mention the many, MANY times they
+appear in dramatic series (we had about 5 sympathetic priest/reverend
+characters per season in "Murder, She Wrote").
+ 
+     One can *say* that it is rare, but saying it doesn't make it so.
+There have been religious people as stars of shows (I left out "Dr.
+Quinn" with guest stars of this nature) and guest stars of shows, as
+recurring characters and regular characters, in dramas and sitcoms....
+ 
+     Now: I've just named you a whole bunch of series, and once I get to
+my library can name you a lot more.  I for one would very much appreciate
+it if you could name one -- just ONE -- series with an atheist as the
+lead character.  An avowed atheist, just as Father Dowling is an avowed
+priest.
+ 
+     (Oh, yeah, and let's not forget the practicing catholics, protestants
+and jews portrayed in "Picket Fences.")
+ 
+     Your serve.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
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Poll

+10 Dec 1993
     If I might make a suggestion...it seems to me that a poll on the
+B5 pilot at this time is fairly useless.  In most cases, it's been almost
+a year since anyone's seen the pilot, and that will affect things.  It's
+also a little unfair to do it at this time.  We've hashed and rehashed
+the pilot, its qualities and deficits, over and over and over...we're
+six weeks from the *series* going on line...would it not be better to
+do a poll of the series instead, once it gets going?
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Re: Pilot Question? Religion? (10 Dec 1993)
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Re: Pilot Question? Religion?

+10 Dec 1993
     I didn't mention other (non-Western) religions because that wasn't
+what we were discussing at the moment.  But having said that...we do
+plan on showcasing other religions (human) as well as western ones.
+ 
+     If you don't see much of it on other TV, here's why: because those
+who complain most that, in a country with freedom of religion, their
+group (evangelicals) isn't portrayed enough then turn around and raise
+absolute hell the moment ANY other religion is portrayed on TV in an
+even remotely sympathetic fashion.  It took years for television to show
+jews on TV; we're still working on the rest.  If you show a Moslem or a
+Zen monk on TV, you get hate mail accusing you of advancing the cause of
+satanism...similar letters go to networks and sponsors and studios.
+ 
+     It's ironic that those who complain of persecution the loudest, ard
+(are) generally the ones with the most power, and the quickest to
+persecute someone else if it serves their purposes.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+10 Dec 1993
     I'm sorry, but there *are* accurate portrayals of christians and
+other religious people on television.  (And please don't cite TV Guide to
+me as a reference on *anything*...they buy into the okeydoke just like
+anybody else because they don't challenge the premise and investigate the
+actual facts.)  I would point out that David Kelley, producer of "Picket
+Fences," just got an award from Catholics in Media for his portrayal of
+that group of believers.  (Does that group fit one's definition of a
+group whose every, smallest, tiniest decision is based on the bible?  It
+probably doesn't, but that group is only a very small percentage of the
+population, despite their volume.)  Maybe the evangelicals don't
+consider Catholics, and portrayals of catholics, as christians, but that
+is an issue between you and them, not you and TV.
+ 
+     There's a sympathetic, realistic minister on "Dr. Quinn" as well as
+on many other shows.
+ 
+     Now, you again cite the party line about christians and other
+believers being portrayed as knife-weilding maniacs on TV.  Please now
+cite to me your specific examples.  I have been willing to provide you
+with specifics to the contrary.  Let's see what evidence you have about
+this fleet of maniac christians committing murders.  Names and shows,
+please.
+ 
+     See, what happens here is that people begin to fall for the Big Lie.
+Someone says "X is true."  And uncritical people accept this without
+really stopping to investigate for themselves.  They spread the statement
+that X is true, until finally everyone's saying it...but it isn't true.
+This is a *prime* example of this.
+ 
+	                                                       jms
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+1 Dec 1993
     In "Midnight," Sinclair had to be pretty much in command mode all
+during the episode as a character, so that influences the result.  But in
+later episodes, we get him out of those situations, out of uniform, and
+into other settings where he can be more relaxed.  So that's coming, and
+you'll see it *very* early on in the first season.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+11 Dec 1993
     A little shamelessness is good for the soul...and yes, good writing
+can be very sexy...something about strengthening the fingers by hours and
+hours spent behind the keyboard....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+11 Dec 1993
     So far I don't think you're making an ass of yourself at all.
+ 
+     And as a pagan, I think you'll be quite intrigued by something
+we're doing (actually, several things we're doing) in an episode entitled
+"The Parliament of Dreams."
+ 
+     The points you make re: the use of vocabulary are very close to my
+heart.  I grew up reading mountains of books, chewing through Bradbury
+and Matheson and Clarke, as well as mainstream novels, history,
+philosophy and the literature of other cultures.  I love the rhythm and
+flow and sense of language, the simple elegance of an honestly stated
+emotion, and the lightning and thunder of argument.  (Which is one reason
+I enjoyed spending time in Ireland lately, running around Dublin and
+New Grange and -- I'm about to massacre the spelling -- Glen de loch; the
+Irish people are the biggest bunch of high-verbals you'll ever find.)
+ 
+     I grew up on books, and radio drama, and reading plays and writing
+all of the above.  Serling, Corwin, Chayefsky, Bradbury and Ellison tended
+to be the templates I looked to when I was learning, not how to write, but
+how to *listen*.  And I'm constantly feeling as though I'm just now, after
+several books, 500+ articles, short stories, and over 100 produced
+television scripts...just *now* learning a little of what it means to
+write...and how far I have to go.  It's a real challenge.  There are
+moments when I fire up an -- just about ANY episode -- of the original
+Twilight Zone, or some episodes of Night Gallery (such as Serling's
+"They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar") and I'm ashamed to even call
+myself a writer in that company.
+ 
+     Anyway, now *I'm* running off at the fingers....
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+11 Dec 1993
     Sports/recreation are things we're still trying to work out; not the
+conceptual part, but the part about "okay, how do we SHOOT this?"  I'm
+not big on "virtual reality" parlors or combat...I think people will still
+be more interested in playing with real people than pixels.  So we're
+trying to find ways we can visualize, in a TV series, things like zero-G
+tag or football, other sports that use our unique space environment.  One
+possibility is now being worked on, and we'll see if we can work it out
+for this season.  In any event, it's definitely something we're thinking
+about...I just don't want to rush into doing it until I know we can do it
+properly.
+ 
+	                                                  jms
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+11 Dec 1993
     Though there was CGI involved with Power, it was Ron who really
+brought the idea of doing CGI for B5 to the forefront; we'd previously
+figured on using models.  This was about 2 years before we went on the
+air with the pilot.
+ 
+     We're trying to work out the languages to some detail, but not as
+much as I'd like, at this point.  It'll probably have to wait until the
+post-season hiatus before I can sit down and really start pulling
+together a rough dictionary of sorts.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+12 Dec 1993
      We have no intention of avoiding the gay question.  We will not,
+however, do a "gay story," which is usually described by those friends and
+acquaintances of mine in derogatory terms...a la, "fags are people too."
+ The sense I get is that they resent the hell out of that kind of
+patronizing approach.  The one suggestion that comes most often is, "Why
+not simply introduce a character, we get to know that character over the
+run of a season, and at some point discover, practically in passing, that
+this person is bi or gay...*don't* make a big issue out of it, just show
+it."
+ 
+     And that's what we're going to do.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+13 Dec 1993
     How Orson Scott Card treats christians in his books, or how Marvel
+comics does so, is a whole other discussion.  It's also something of a
+distraction.  We're talking about TeeVee at the moment.  And what usually
+happens in these discussions is what is happening here...bogus statistics
+are thrown out, and then when challenged, people turn to smoke and turn
+the discussion to other areas.  As for the Crusades...yes, christians did
+a lot of killing in the name of religion.  One might not like that, but
+that also happens to be history.  It happened.  Even today, some looney
+or other gets it into his head that god told him to go up to the belltower
+and start shooting at people.  People who commit suicide because they
+think god told them to, or kill their families.  They are, however, the
+minority; the properly classified Lunatic Fringe.  For the most part, we
+seem to have evolved (if one can use that in a discussion of religion)
+past organized activities to where only a few still pull this stuff.
+ 
+     I have no problem with christians, or moslems, or any other group
+provided that they don't attempt to circumvent my own rights, and disallow
+my own views within my own group.  I have a number of friends who are
+absolute, solid Born Agains.  One of them is one of the country's most
+regarded cult-busters.  And we have *constant* go-arounds over the issues
+of the day, from every possible perspective...a value, I think, in having
+friends outside *SHOWBIZ*.  It keeps you in touch with views you don't
+necessarily agree with.  Generally speaking, no one really changes the
+other's beliefs, or lack thereof, but one does walk away with a better
+understanding of the other positions involved.
+ 
+     The one thing that all of my Born Again friends have in common is
+that they haven't shuttered their critical faculties; they believe that
+they were given the facility to think logically by god for a *reason*,
+and they apply that reason in equal measure to their faith.  When one of
+the apostles wanted to put his hand in Jesus's side to verify that he was
+indeed up and walking around again, he wasn't told "No, forget it, just
+take my word for it," he was allowed to do so.  Because reasoning is part
+of what makes us who and what we are, and sets us above the beasts of the
+field.  One of the greatest figures in the old testament is Solomon, who
+was esteemed because of his *wisdom* as well as his faith.  He thought
+things through in a logical, critical fashion, and came up with solutions.
+ It's only uncritical thinking that I have a problem with.
+ 
+     And what this has to do with Babylon 5 is anyone's guess....
+ 
+	                                                      jms
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+14 Dec 1993
     Garibaldi is an agnostic.  Ivanova is jewish.  Sinclair was raised
+catholic and underwent training as a Jesuit.  Dr. Franklin is a
+Foundationist.  Catherine Sakai is buddhist.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+14 Dec 1993
     I didn't say, and didn't intend to imply, that as you say, religion
+CAUSES insane actions.  What it can do is to legitimize some actions, and
+provoke others.  As an illustration of the former: the Bible was used to
+justify everything from the Crusades to slavery.  Incorrectly, as many
+believers are quick to point out today.  In the case of the latter: where
+generally speaking rock'n'roll does not encourage you to believe that you
+are being spoken to by supernatural beings, or that you were born sinful,
+and those more weird albums that do get into this stuff are generally not
+credible or recognized or legitimate...religion comes replete with devils
+and gods and is given fair legitimacy by society.  If you have someone
+with a fragile ego, someone who may be inclined toward hearing voices,
+someone who is already a touch disturbed, such elements may contribute to
+or exacerbate the problem.  Cause the problem?  No.  Contribute?  That's
+another issue....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+14 Dec 1993
     Of course there are atheists in high command ranks; I was asked to
+name those who had religions.  Atheism, despite what some say, is not a
+religion.  As for the ambassadors...I didn't know what could really be
+accomplished by naming their religions.  If I said -- as happens to be
+true, as we'll seen in an ep called "By Any Means" -- that G'Kar is a
+follower of G'Quan...what would that mean to anyone?
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+ 
+     (Computer glitch in the above...the title is "By Any Means
+Necessary.")
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+14 Dec 1993
     What kind of Jewish Ivanova is...is something she's trying to
+resolve in her own head.
+ 
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+1 Dec 1993
     Most telepaths fall into the category of P1 through P10; all Psi Cops
+are P12s.  This is something we've established elsewhere, in earlier
+discussions.  They're the Men in Black.  They don't talk much.  They don't
+have to.
+ 
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+14 Dec 1993
     In what areas of my writing would I like to see improvement?  ALL of
+them.  And if I ever STOP looking for areas to improve...pick out a
+comely shroud, because I'm dead.
+ 
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+15 Dec 1993
      "Have you been dodging the question of what Foundationism is?"
+ 
+      Of course I've been dodging it.  What I can say for now is that it
+has nothing to do with Asimov other than an echo in the name; the nature
+of Foundationism is separate and distinct, dealing with a spiritual
+Foundation of a particular nature.  It's a new religion that has come up
+in the time between the present and 2258.
+ 
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+17 Dec 1993
     Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution writes and assembles
+the promos, and gets them to the stations, which then have the option of
+running them as-is, or editing to their own preference.
+ 
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+17 Dec 1993
     "I've yet to see proof for the nonexistence of god."
+ 
+     It is impossible to prove a negative, and it should not be the goal
+of any discussion to try and force someone to either prove a negative, or
+concede the validity of the opposing view.  In other words...if you say,
+"There are green penguins in the North Pole," it is not incumbent upon
+me to prove that there are, in fact, no green penguins in the North
+Pole.  It is incumbent upon the person making the *statement* to prove
+his assertion.  If it cannot be proven, then it must be dismissed.
+ 
+     Much is made of the notion that faith is something that should not
+require proof, that god objects to the idea of proving things.  But this
+position is not scripturally sound or based.  Christ made the repeated
+implication that he was there as the culmination of prophecy, that his
+walking around was living proof of prophecy...so clearly he felt no
+problem with offering proof *himself*, and offering himself AS proof, as
+a living person.  (I'm not taking a stance I accept theologically, only
+arguing the logic behind doctrine itself.)  When one of his disciples
+refused to believe that it was he arisen from the grave, he didn't say,
+"No, just take my word for it," he invited his disciple to stick his hand
+in the wound.  When Moses was called upon to prove his statements that he
+was speaking to Pharoah on behalf of god, *he* certainly had no problem
+with proving his statements, through the transformation of the staff and
+the numerous plagues that followed.
+ 
+     The whole notion that religion must proceed ONLY on faith, and that
+no proof can be required, is in *total* contradiction to what is actually
+in the bible, as acted by the key figures in both the old and new
+testaments.  It is an assertion made only some time thereafter, when the
+supposed proofs chronicled in the bible -- miracles, apparitions, the
+freezing in place of the sun, frog-rains and open wounds -- ceased to make
+regular appearances.
+ 
+     If Christ, asked to provide proof of his ressurrected self, has no
+problem at all with providing such proof, I cannot understand why anyone
+calling himself a Christian would have a problem with such a request.
+But then, as Mark Twain said, "If Christ were alive today, there is one
+thing he would not be: a Christian."
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+18 Dec 1993
     The problem, of course, with (to use your term) "fan scripts" is that
+B5 is unlike just about any other SF series ever done for American
+television: it is a NOVEL for TV.  To clarify by way of comparison: let's
+say you're writing a novel.  And someone out there wants to write a spec
+chapter for that novel, without the knowledge of where you want to go with
+the novel overall.  It becomes next to impossible.
+ 
+     This show is not hard-up for ideas, as some others have been in the
+past.  Basically every single episode is broken-out in synopsis or outline
+for a full five-year run...110 episodes.  Now, we won't necessarily use
+all of those stories; there's room in each season set aside for non-arc
+related stories developed in close association with our writers.  Which
+generally means assigning them a story, or giving them an incident which
+must take place in the story, while leaving the overall episode story to
+the writer to develop.
+ 
+     *Every* episode this season, with one exception, has been based on an
+assigned premise, which I've written and given or described in detail to
+the writer.  (The exception is DC Fontana's second story/script for us,
+"Legacies."  The first one was assigned to get her well acquainted with
+our universe, after which she's in a better position to develop her own
+stuff in close coordination with us, and the overall story arc...when she
+developed "Legacies," we had to be sure to give her a certain number of
+scripts that circle the area she chose to explore, so that she would know
+where that part of the arc was going.)
+ 
+     Nonetheless, we're still determined to find some way to integrate
+newer writers with pros.  A fan script, for instance, might work as a
+sample, but almost certainly couldn't be bought on its own terms.  (And
+btw, this is actually the rule in nearly every series out there; even ST
+almost never buys a spec wholecloth, only in exceptional cases...as a
+matter of course, the spec just gets the writer in the door to pitch a
+story.  The difference here is that a spec might get the writer in the B56
+(B5) door to *get* a story assigned.  But again, we're still working out
+the dynamic of how that works.  The other complication, of course, is that
+we want to concentrate on using established SF writers, since that is the
+venue least tapped by other shows.)
+ 
+     The model created by ST in this regard has virtually nothing to do
+with how 90% of TV series work, and definitely nothing to do with the way
+B5 works.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+19 Dec 1993
     Ron's chomping at the bit (actually, he's chomped THROUGH the bit)
+to do a tech manual.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were one sooner or
+later, if the series is as successful as hoped for, but it's still a bit
+down the road.  As for merchandising...it's not so much that I'm against
+it, I just don't want it to get in the way, and it *won't* get in the way.
+ I won't allow it.  So I try to keep some measure of distance between me
+and that stuff.  If a deal gets made, all that matters to me is that it's
+done properly, and presented in continuity with the rest of the B5
+universe.  Mainly, I don't want this to get out of control, or turn into
+a "franchise."
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

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Re: Threads Wanted

+21 Dec 1993
     Never did get the cap, no...haven't had the nerve to wear the shirt
+yet around the B5 office.  Somebody might ask me to explain it...and I'm
+not entirely sure that I could....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+

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+Re: Program Guides, something (21 Dec 1993)
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Re: Program Guides, something

+21 Dec 1993
     I haven't yet heard the final disposition on the schedule for
+airing; we'll have plenty done, enough to run them straight through, but I
+don't know if PTEN will do that, or show new ones, then rerun a few, then
+more new ones, as they did with the other PTEN shows.  When I do know, I'll
+be sure to post the info.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
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+

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+Re: Tech manual?  (computer ba (21 Dec 1993)
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Re: Tech manual?  (computer ba

+21 Dec 1993
     Yes, PTEN is putting out an electronic/computer program that will
+be freeware, and will contain photos, inside info, some of the theme
+music in a .wav file, stuff about the station and the characters, and so
+on.  The already posted gif files aren't part of that.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
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+

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+Question on writing... (21 Dec 1993)
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Question on writing...

+21 Dec 1993
     Well, it's not really like ST *or* NYPD (or many other alphabet
+shows).  It's kind of a weird balancing act.
+ 
+     As with any television show, in any given episode there is a Problem
+facing our characters.  A danger, a negotiation, a visitor, whatever; it
+has to be dealt with within that hour.  But when all is said and done,
+little threads have been introduced that begin to very lightly link other
+shows together.  For instance, a thread introduced in "Midnight" rises
+again in "Legacies" and "By Any Means Necessary."  In other shows, there
+is a character introduced who returns later, upon whose return visit we
+learn something different about them.  Some threads won't even LOOK like
+threads the first time you see an episode; they'll just skate past
+without drawing undue attention.  It's only later, on seeing some later
+shows, that you will suddenly twig to something in the first episode.
+The best comparison I can come up with is one of those rohrscharch tests,
+where it looks like an inkblot picture of an urn...until someone tells
+you that it's actually two people kissing...and then suddenly, WHAM!, you
+see it, and now you can't see anything else, and can't believe you didn't
+see it in the first place.
+ 
+     That, at least, is the theory.  We'll see how it all works starting
+in about a month.  It's really an experiment; no one's done anything this
+large, over so great a planned span before.  Should be interesting....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

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Bab-5..Too good to be true?

+1 Dec 1993
     If there's anything about "Midnight" that I would change...ehh...
+that's a tough question to ask any producer or writer.  I can't think of
+anything I've done that I wouldn't want to go back and tweak.  The only
+real drawback we had was that we were still building sets as we filmed
+our first few episodes, so we didn't have access to all of the full range
+of sets.  Not that we really needed them, the story works fine in the
+sets we had, but we could've moved one or two shots around into different
+sets just for variety.
+ 
+     But aside from general tweaking, I don't think there's really
+anything I'd change in it.  My problem is that I'm too close to it, and
+there are a number of episodes we shot afterward that blow it right out
+of the water in terms of quality, production values and the rest; I'd
+have to say that my favorite shows to date, in order, would be The
+Parliament of Dreams, Mind War, And the Sky Full of Stars, Soul Hunter,
+Born to the Purple, Midnight, Believers, Infection, The War Prayer,
+Survivors and Grail.  Chrysalis, which we're shooting now, will probably
+take over the Favorite #2 spot from Mind War.  We're fighting to make
+every episode better than the one before it.
+ 
+     We're going to have a brass plaque put up here in the offices one
+of these days, before we finish, saying, "If you're not here to kick ass,
+get out."
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+

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Children

+21 Dec 1993
     There are not, as a rule, many kids on B5.  They are more the
+exception than the rule, and even there mainly traveling to or from one
+place to another with their families.  This is not a place where you come
+to raise families; it's a way-station, not a destination.  And given the
+fates of B1-B4, nearly everyone who chooses to come work there has left
+their families for a period of X-years to earn fairly good sized salaries
+working B5 (hazard pay and all that).
+ 
+     Hybrids are impossible in the B5 universe without direct genetic
+alteration.  You can't just have casual mating.  Interspecies sex may
+present opportunities for exploration, but the chances of a Narn
+impregnating a human are about the same as a human impregnating a fish
+and producing a motorcycle.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+

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+Re: Program Guides, something (21 Dec 1993)
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Re: Program Guides, something

+21 Dec 1993
     The summary categories seem fine; I'd add one that wouldn't be used
+in all cases, but often enough to merit inclusion: "Important Stuff We
+Didn't Know Was Important Until Later."
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
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+A Couple Questions (21 Dec 1993)
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A Couple Questions

+21 Dec 1993
     Structure: teaser, four acts, tag.  The four acts are longer than
+five acts (per act), and let you get a little deeper into the story by
+a smidge.  And no clear idea yet on the exact scheduling info.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+Re: Merchandising Babylon5 (21 Dec 1993)
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Re: Merchandising Babylon5

+21 Dec 1993
      I don't know if any company yet has approached or acquired the RPG
+rights.  And I don't *really* know enough about the area to suggest
+anyone, although most of the RPGs that I own are by Chaosium.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+21 Dec 1993
     No, G'Kar wasn't lying to Lyta; he mentions in passing that there
+would have to be some genetic manipulation, so that part still obtains.
+ 
+                                                         jms
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+Making of? (21 Dec 1993)
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Making of?

+21 Dec 1993
      Yes, there will be a "Making Of Babylon 5" documentary, and it'll be
+hosted/narrated by Walter Koenig.  Expect it to air in most markets a few
+days prior to the series launch.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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Re: Making of?

+22 Dec 1993
     The documentary is on the making of the SERIES, not the pilot; it's
+a whole new critter, and we're being more careful not to let anyone get
+cutsie this time.  Looks like it'll be okay.  In any event, it'll focus on
+current stuff, not old stuff.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Commercials... yuck. :( (22 Dec 1993)
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Commercials... yuck. :(

+22 Dec 1993
     Get me the full information on which station, and what was shown, and
+I'll convey this to Warners, which will take care of it.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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Re: Children

+23 Dec 1993
     As I've noted elsewhere, G'Kar made mention of the need for
+genetic alteration/modification during the scene with Lyta.  Beyond that,
+though, G'Kar's personal perversion is sex with humans, which no one else
+seems quite able to understand....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
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+Cinefantastique Article (24 Dec 1993)
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+24 Dec 1993
     I would not describe n'grath as a "Mafia boss," since that's a very
+specific term.  Nor is it really any kind of organization.  He's a fixer,
+somebody you go to when you need something...a bodyguard, forged
+identicards, what-have-you.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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Re: Bab-5..Too good to be true

+2 Dec 1993
     My feelings toward "Sky" haven't changed one iota; it's still got
+things in it you've never seen before on television.  I put "Parliament"
+and "Mind War" in front because the performances are just so wonderful,
+so compelling...and from a selfish reason, because I think I did some of
+the best writing I've ever done in those two episodes.  "Sky" remains an
+absolutely compelling piece of work, and it's got some visuals that'll
+just knock you out.  This is like asking a parent which is his favorite
+child; it's not always the obvious choice, the biggest and strongest and
+fastest; it's the one with the little quirks and eccentricities that he
+likes the most.  Ditto here.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
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+Re: *SPOILERS* Episode Info (24 Dec 1993)
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Re: *SPOILERS* Episode Info

+24 Dec 1993
     The production order was determined only by production requirements,
+not the story.  The airdate schedule is the one that matters.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+24 Dec 1993
     The B5 cover story in CFQ should be in the March issue, which will
+be out around the first week of February/last part of January.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: B5 FAQL: Babylon 5 Frequen (25 Dec 1993)
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Re: B5 FAQL: Babylon 5 Frequen

+25 Dec 1993
     "YET another Asian woman whose only purpose in a TV show is to be
+the love interest of the leading non-Asian man, really bites."
+ 
+     Tell me, how do you come to the conclusion that this is Catherine
+Sakai's ONLY purpose?  Have you read the scripts?  She has a relationship
+with the commander, yes.  If you choose to define a woman only in terms of
+her relationship with a man, that's your choice, but certainly not what I
+have in mind.
+ 
+     Catherine Sakai is a surveyer.  She has her own business.  She has her
+own ship.  In some episode, she has nothing whatsoever to do with the
+commander, she's off doing her own business.  In "Mind War," as one
+example, we see her for 30 seconds with the commander in the morning, with
+both going off to their respective jobs, and that's it...the rest of the
+story she's in is exclusively hers, concerning something she runs into
+while on a survey run.
+ 
+     Moreover, she has a role in the overall arc of the story that is
+considerably outside being somebody's main squeeze.  Perhaps you might
+consider actually *seeing* the show, and her character, before judging
+it.  If you're going to speak out against prejudice, as your message
+seems to imply, perhaps you should start with your own prejudices against
+something you haven't even seen yet, and stop judging women characters
+solely in terms of who they're involved with.  One of the areas I'm most
+proud of in my writing is the development of *very* strong female
+characters...and Catherine Sakai is one of the strongest, and most
+independent I've come up with  yet.  So how about you hold off judgment
+until you've actually *seen* who she is, and what she does...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
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Paintings in B5

+26 Dec 1993
     The matte interior of the B5 garden was done very quickly, in a very
+brief period of time, when the model we'd built of the Garden ended up
+unsatisfactory.  We actually built a model of the thing, which was abou5
+(about) 10-12 feet long, big enough to walk through, showing the circular
+walls and garden...but it just didn't work for us.  So Ron quickly put
+together the garden matte used in the pilot.
+ 
+     We've re-done that, and I think it's better.  I think it works best
+in some of the night scenes, as in the Fresh Air Restaurant you'll see in
+"Born to the Purple" and other episodes, but it's better.  The only
+problem that I still have with it is that we've used a slight haze to the
+garden CGI/matte, since looking across about half a kilometer of open air
+you'd *get* a haze like that, but for my tastes it kinda flattens it out
+a bit, you lose the contrasts and kicks.  Others like it a lot.  It's
+something we're still tweaking for best effect.
+ 
+     The core shuttle, with its component CGI element, has been totally
+redesigned.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
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+

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book?

+26 Dec 1993
     Your friend is mistaken.  When I created Babylon 5 -- my own concept
+-- Warners did a search to make sure that the title hadn't been used or
+copyrighted elsewhere.  The search turned up a number of Babylon 2's, one
+Babylon 3, and an unpublished song entitled Babylon 4, but happily, no
+Babylon 5.  There has not been a book published with that name, insofar
+as we have ever been able to tell.  It's most likely that what your friend
+is thinking of is a book entitled "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank, which is
+a very fine novel indeed, and was written in about the period you mention.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
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+B5 on break? (26 Dec 1993)
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+26 Dec 1993
     The cast and crew have a production break from last Thursday until
+just after New Year's.  It's a chance for all concerned to catch their
+breath.  The writing continues during this time, as does much of the CGI
+and a few other areas.
+ 
+     Don't have the details on the U.K. situation  yet.
+ 
+	                                                                     jms
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+book? (27 Dec 1993)
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+27 Dec 1993
     The image/history/metaphor of Babylon has been used and interpreted
+throughout history, in books, songs, legends, you name it.  If you really
+dig into the history of the place, there's a lot there to lend itself to
+examination.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: Tamlym Tomita (27 Dec 1993)
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Re: Tamlym Tomita

+27 Dec 1993
     I will tell you a true thing: it's been so long since we finished
+the pilot, and I've now directly supervised and written the bulk of 16
+episodes, and...I honestly can't remember how tightly sequential the
+individual scenes were/are in the pilot.  It all blurs after a while,
+after the sheer bulk of the series to date.  I'll try and check it out.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Art, music, and 1% (27 Dec 1993)
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Art, music, and 1%

+27 Dec 1993
     I would much rather let you see the answer to that question (pop
+culture) in the series rather than answer it here and blow it.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: B5 FAQL / Minorities in B5 (27 Dec 1993)
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Re: B5 FAQL / Minorities in B5

+27 Dec 1993
      I agree strongly with the points you raise.  And that's something we
+have been working toward in the series.  We try to fill out background,
+security details, business folks, travelers, and all the other divisions on
+B5 with an equal measure of ethnic backgrounds, and we strive to make the
+show 50/50 male/female.  If you also look at our roster of regular and
+recurring characters, that too is about 50/50 male/female.  We've also
+worked to keep that ratio *behind* the scenes as well...50% of our writers,
+directors and crew are female, many in the latter category holding jobs
+not traditionally open to women.  And it's only served to make the show
+better.  Our casting director has strict marching orders that, unless a
+script specifically calls for a particular ethnic background for a part,
+that part is to be open to *all* backgrounds.  So we see a mix for just
+about every major and minor role.
+ 
+     And yes, there are some people with hot-buttons about caucasian male/
+ethnic female relationships, and some with hot-buttons about ethnic male/
+caucasian female relationships.  I say a pox on *both* their houses.  So
+we're doing both.  The Sinclair/Sakai relationship is an example of the
+former, and we cast a dynamite black actor in a relationship story
+opposite Andrea Thompson.  The only thing a responsible producer can do,
+I believe, is cast what's right for the story, for whoever is the best
+performer, and if somebody doesn't like it, screw 'em.  As someone at the
+BBC once said, "There are some people we *want* to offend."
+ 
+     What astonishes me most is that, 25-30 years after Trek gave us the
+first inter-racial kiss on TV, we're still discussing this and working on
+this.  We're headed for the 21st century in 6 years (well, 7 if you count
+2001 as actually the first year of the 21st century) people...*deal* with
+it.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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Re: Some Wanna-See's revisited

+2 Dec 1993
     The uniforms have pockets
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+Jump Gates (Nitpicking) (28 Dec 1993)
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Jump Gates (Nitpicking)

+28 Dec 1993
     1) Jump gates can only give you the frequency identification of a
+given ship some minutes prior to exiting hyperspace; just as it's about
+to exit, you can get much more detailed information, such as silhouette,
+mass, and so on.  By then it's pretty much out...but at least you know as
+soon as it's out what it is.
+ 
+     2) You can't just shut down a jump gate like a light bulb.  It is a
+VERY powerful piece of equipment, and it takes a long time to shut down and
+a long time to start up again.  It's like a nuclear or fusion reactor in
+that respect.  If you shut it down, it'll *stay* down for some time, which
+may put you in a very bad position if you have to leave fast, and that's
+the only way out.
+ 
+     (During the Earth/Minbari war, jump gates created by the Earth
+Alliance were programmed only to accept certain coded frequenies that were
+changed regularly.  [That should read frequencies.]  This helped prevent
+Minbari ships using EA gates.)
+ 
+     3) Really large ship, such as war cruisers and long-range explorer
+vessels are powerful enough to punch their own entance into hyperspace,
+creating a jump point.  (Something you'll see happen in our first
+episode, btw.)  They can go in and out of hyperspace on their own, so
+they don't strictly need a gate, which is primarily a) for smaller craft
+incapable of generating their own jump point, and b) to help larger craft
+conserve energy.  The Vorlon fleet could have come in via its own jump
+point, but the gate was there, and it allowed them to separate their
+smaller attack fleet while in hyperspace, so they could all come out
+together, as opposed to releasing them after making their own jump point.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: Nitpick about pilot (28 Dec 1993)
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Re: Nitpick about pilot

+28 Dec 1993
      On your point that B5 looks and feels and, arguably, *is* something
+that humanity could build, is nominally within our grasp...this is
+something that we've been building toward for a while, is part of what we
+want to do with the show.  At a recent screening of some episodes for cast
+and crew, the one most frequent comment I got afterward was that it *felt*
+real, that this felt like how it might really be to work and live out on
+the fringe.  Many SF futures are so far beyond our grasp as to enter the
+realm of unattainable fantasy...I'd like to point to something as more
+within our grasp, to remind us that we can do this, and that maybe we
+SHOULD do this.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Feb Cinefantastique (29 Dec 1993)
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Feb Cinefantastique

+29 Dec 1993
     I always look blurry in photos because I am by nature unfocused.
+Even inches away I'm fuzzy.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+B5 series premier - who is rig (29 Dec 1993)
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B5 series premier - who is rig

+29 Dec 1993
     Given that the first episode won't be downlinked to the stations
+until January 20th, that puts the odds of it being broadcast on the 5th
+at fairly small, I should think....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Casting (29 Dec 1993)
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Casting

+29 Dec 1993
     We've had no problem getting the word out, or getting people to
+understand our casting preferences.  The usual reaction is pleased
+astonishment....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: B5 FAQL / Minorities in B5 (30 Dec 1993)
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Re: B5 FAQL / Minorities in B5

+30 Dec 1993
     We're working on the variations within each race, not as throughly or
+consistently as I'd like, but we're working on it.
+ 
+     As for the commander...I could answer your question in more detail,
+but I can't without blowing a lot of what's being prepared.  He isn't just
+male by default, or by auctorial preference (though certainly I will be
+putting in a lot of my own background into him, and into Garibaldi); there
+is a very specific reason why he has to be male.  As for being caucasian,
+we auditioned from every group looking for the right person who did the
+best job in the audition.  He was the best for that part.  That's really
+about as deep as it goes.  We were prepared to cast whowever walked in the
+door and nailed the part.  That was Michael.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+Time Slot for Babylon 5 (30 Dec 1993)
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Time Slot for Babylon 5

+30 Dec 1993
     The word that B5 will be on Sundays opposite Lois, SQ and others is
+both unsubstantiated and untrue and has been retracted by the persons
+posting that information.  In the majority of markets, it'll be on
+Wednesdays at 8 p.m., though some stations will be showing it on other
+days.
+ 
+		                                                      jms
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+Questions,Questions and More Q (31 Dec 1993)
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Questions,Questions and More Q

+31 Dec 1993
     To a message with nothing but questions, a reply with nothing but
+answers.
+ 
+     Yes.  It would seem so, yes.  Probably, but so far nothing's been set
+as far as I know.  No.  There are contingencies, but the B5 story ends at
+year five, period.  I can't even consider that possibility at this time.
+Yes.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: !SPOILER! Program Guide en (31 Dec 1993)
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Re: !SPOILER! Program Guide en

+31 Dec 1993
     Actually, n'grath is all lower space, Kosh Naranek uses both upper
+and loser case.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+showing on channel 4? (2 Dec 1993)
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showing on channel 4?

+2 Dec 1993
     Yes, Channel 4 in England has bought B5.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+B-5 pilot: "The Director's Cut (2 Jan 1994)
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B-5 pilot: "The Director's Cut

+2 Jan 1994
     The odds are zero, since the first version of the B5 pilot existed
+only as a computer-graphic file edited movie.  It wasn't edited on film,
+for real, until we'd pared it down.  We'd have to go in and totally
+re-edit and re-score, and I doubt that's going to happen.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's

+5 Jan 1994
     The computer program will be uploaded all *over* the place; it'll
+be around....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Re: ALIEN DESIGN CONCEPTS (24 Jan 1994)
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Re: ALIEN DESIGN CONCEPTS

+24 Jan 1994
     It's interesting you mention the floaters as being something "totally
+different from any Earth lifeform," because according to what Sagan said
+at an appearance, they're based to a large degree on jellyfish, combined
+to some degree (in terms of eating habits) with whales.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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Re: ALIEN DESIGN CONCEPTS

+24 Jan 1994
     Okay, but now, the only problem is...let's say we take your advice,
+and build an alien around the design of an oyster.  Now we have Sinclair
+having a converstion with an oyster.  Can you *imagine* the audience
+reaction?  Some things sound nice in theory, but when you build it, and
+try to play it for drama...it ends up very, very badly.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Midnight: thoughts... (25 Jan 1994)
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Midnight: thoughts...

+25 Jan 1994
     Just a note...re: the CGI looking crisp and unblurred...the blurring
+you're used to seeing is an artifact of atmosphere.  There is no air in
+space, and thus no blurring.  (Check the latest NASA footage for more on
+this.)  That's of course why they put Hubble in space, to avoid the
+problems of blurring caused by atmosphere.
+ 
+     We probably could've put in atmospheric blurring to give it a
+different depth-of-field, but we have this bugaboo about being a
+-science- fiction show....
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+EVIL HUMANS? (will there be?) (25 Jan 1994)
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EVIL HUMANS? (will there be?)

+25 Jan 1994
     There are *plenty* of humans in B5's universe who are on the dark
+side of things, take my word for it.  I don't subscribe to the "we're nice
+'cause we're humans" philosophy.  You'll see 'em all over the show as the
+episodes pass.
+ 
+     It seems to me that generally in such shows, all the interesting
+things happen to aliens, are caused by aliens.  I like a show where you
+have interesting things happen to interesting humans, good, bad and
+indifferent.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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Re: Midnight: thoughts... AND

+25 Jan 1994
     Quick responses: Re the spotlights, we'd figured that since the
+transport had been freshly attacked, there'd be debris all over the
+place, and lots of particulate matter which would show up in the light.
+Re: the council...I tend to agree.  The prosthetics on our background
+aliens and the League started out okay, but we felt we could do better,
+and began a series of improvements, which can be seen most clearly in
+"Deathwalker," where they're all proper prosthetics rather than masks.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: Budget Cuts Too Obvious .. (25 Jan 1994)
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Re: Budget Cuts Too Obvious ..

+25 Jan 1994
     Your tastes are your tastes.  You don't like something, fine, but
+that doesn't make it "dreck."  I like Delenn's makeup a LOT more now than
+in the pilot.  To me, it looks a lot more like what a Minbari SHOULD look
+like (and as it happens, there's only one person who can make that
+particular call).  I'm sorry you don't like it.  But dreck it ain't.  I
+think it's *very* elegant.  Tastes differ.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Question for JMS about Making (26 Jan 1994)
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Question for JMS about Making

+26 Jan 1994
     Sigh...no, there's no eye in the jump gate in our show.  The people
+who made the ads put it in, god knows why....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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Questions

+27 Jan 1994
     I have no firm information, but would be surprised if B5 doesn't
+appear Down Under toward late summer/early fall.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+_Midnight..._ comments [Minor (27 Jan 1994)
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_Midnight..._ comments [Minor

+27 Jan 1994
     That the Centauri *claimed* that we were a lost colony is not the
+same as indicating that we *believed* them.
+ 
+     As for the Narns...yes, they are portrayed in a favorable light in
+many episodes, from "By Any Means" to "Chrysalis" and "Mind War," to name
+but a few.  Nobody is just one thing on this show.  Not nobody, not
+nohow.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: B5 review in Cleveland Pla (27 Jan 1994)
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Re: B5 review in Cleveland Pla

+27 Jan 1994
     The problem, of course, is that any space-oriented SF series is
+going to be compared against Trek...which has 25 years of shared history
+behind it.  One episode, or even two of a new series simply cannot
+compete with 25 years.  Some critics observed that after seeing the B5
+pilot, they don't know as much about our characters as they know about
+Spock and Kirk.  Well, no...come back in 25 years and then we'll talk.
+ 
+     If you spend the time to do lots of character stuff, you get gigged
+for being slow and plodding (as happened in the pilot); if you go for a
+story with more action, they gig you for putting action above
+characterization.  This first episode has received *both* complaints; some
+said it was all action, some said there was no action.
+ 
+     You can get dizzy after a while....
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+
+

+
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+Why the delay? (was Re: B5 Pil (5 Jan 1994)
+
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Why the delay? (was Re: B5 Pil

+5 Jan 1994
     We'd always figured on going right to series, but once we had done
+the pilot, the studio said, in essence, "Well, we've got a pilot,
+we don't know if the market will sustain more than one space SF series,
+no other SF series has done well lately...maybe we ought to air the pilot
+first, and get the ratings, before committing to a series."  And that's
+what happened...much to our consternation at first, but in the long run
+it was a blessing in disguise, because that interim period allowed us to
+really do a lot to make the show better.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+

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+Re: V Material (27 Jan 1994)
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Re: V Material

+27 Jan 1994
     No, the info on the future history of Power was mainly in my head
+and Larry DiTillio's head, not written down.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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+JMS:  Did you expect this? (27 Jan 1994)
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JMS:  Did you expect this?

+27 Jan 1994
    I'm hesitant to get into the question of critics, and why they say
+what they say, because obviously anything I say is going to proceed from
+an agenda, and a certain bias on my part.  So if we accept that going in,
+then I suppose I can speculate a little....
+ 
+     As has been pointed out here by others, SF television has a history
+of getting crummy reviews.  I haven't seen one SF show, however good or
+bad, that didn't start out getting *creamed* by reviewers.  Some of the
+TNG original reviews that've been posted here are a hell of a lot worse
+than most of what the critics have said about us.  The majority of them
+do not like SF, don't care for SF, don't understand SF, and want to stick
+it in a pigeon hole, "Oh, it's like this."  What they don't recognize,
+they try to make fit their preconceptions...or they pan it.
+ 
+     Also, there's the issue of pride.  A lot of critics are (now) saying
+that TNG is this wonderful show (where once they derided it).  Same with
+DS9, and that everything else is crap.  Anything that might be perceived
+by them as a threat *to their published opinion* is something that they
+will attack.
+ 
+     Mind, I'm separating out those who might not particularly like the
+show from those who are going out of their way to assassinate the series
+before it even gets going.  I'd point to the USA Today review that just
+came out as emblematic of that approach.  He says that yes, it might get
+the ratings, it might succeed, but you should in essence be ashamed if
+that happens.  People have targeted this show with *incredible* vehemence
+bordering on character assassination.
+ 
+     I'd separate this out from some reviews that've come in, in the LA
+Times, and Hollywood Reporter, that didn't gush, that raised concerns,
+some of which I agree with.  They were actual analyses of the show, it's
+strengths and weaknesses, which are helpful, I think, to us and to the
+viewer.  I've *been* a reviewer, and I'm sorry, but the equivilent of
+"IT SUCKS" isn't a review.  It's a Beavis line.
+ 
+     Beyond that, deponent sayeth not.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+

+
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+Questions for JMS (some spoile (28 Jan 1994)
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Questions for JMS (some spoile

+28 Jan 1994
     Quick replies to your questions: Spoo is.  What else can one say
+about spoo?
+ 
+     Those running B5 are a branch of what was/will be Earthforce Air
+Force/Air Command.  To reach a certain command level requires piloting
+experience, preferably under combat situations.
+ 
+     That was a Centauri weapon.
+ 
+     The scanners on the Starfuries detected no movement, no atmosphere,
+no signals, no warmth of bodies.
+ 
+     The Centauri station actually was rotating, as I recall, it's the
+camera angle that I believe doesn't showcase it as well as it might.
+ 
+     The lights on the fighters during the examination of the rubble
+were visible due to particulate matter spewed out during and after the
+attack.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+

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+Question to JMS (was Excellent (28 Jan 1994)
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Question to JMS (was Excellent

+28 Jan 1994
     Okay, here are my favorites, in order, of the first six episodes
+to air: 1) "The Parliament of Dreams," 2) "Mind War," 3) "Soul
+Hunter," 4) "Midnight on the Firing Line," 5) "Born to the Purple,"
+6) "Infection."
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+B5: "Midnight on the Firing Li (28 Jan 1994)
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B5: "Midnight on the Firing Li

+28 Jan 1994
     Just two quickies: 1) you *did* see somebody pay for a drink; in
+the bar at the end, Ivanova clicks her drink with her credit chit, which
+is used to pay for stuff (you'll see them used in more detail down the
+road).  2) you mention that Londo had evidence he didn't use...what was
+that?  Not the recorder, because by this time the Narna have admitted
+that they used force, but have couched it in the terms that they were
+invited in (the way the Germans were supposedly "invited" into some of
+the countries they invaded).
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

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+Re: 10 Things JMS did... (28 Jan 1994)
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Re: 10 Things JMS did...

+28 Jan 1994
     Just for purposes of clarification, I am *not* a member of the NRA,
+or any similar organization.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
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+

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+Re: Babylon-5 Review in NEWSDA (30 Jan 1994)
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Re: Babylon-5 Review in NEWSDA

+30 Jan 1994
     "I just couldn't help think of only one thing: Curly of the Three
+Stooges with his finger in a socket."
+ 
+     Interesting.  Curly is/was bald.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
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+

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+Reaction of the Council. Spoil (30 Jan 1994)
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Reaction of the Council. Spoil

+30 Jan 1994
     It's interesting what we can read into faces...in Delenn's reaction,
+I saw concern, angst, but not that she believed the story.  That certainly
+wasn't the intent of the scene, or the script...faces are interesting
+things.  As for the rest, you're right; not everyone wants to do the Right
+Thing For The Right Reasons.  Some would prefer not to get involved.  So
+some might want deniability, want a reason not to go up against the
+Narns, or have sold out their votes.  A human looking at that screen
+could tell that the person was being coerced...but what about the other
+alien races, to whom a downcast face could be a sign of joy?  In any
+event, suspicion is one thing, but *proof* is another, and the legal
+system works on *proof*.  Nothing could be done until they had the proof
+that Sinclair got at the end, and chose to use behind closed doors to
+the same effect.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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+Congratulations on Midnight! ( (30 Jan 1994)
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Congratulations on Midnight! (

+30 Jan 1994
     That's terrific, I'm glad you enjoyed it.  And as you note, there's
+even spiffier stuff coming right down the pike....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+

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+REVIEW: Midnight on the Firing (31 Jan 1994)
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REVIEW: Midnight on the Firing

+31 Jan 1994
     Thank you for the good words.  We're really trying.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
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+too violent..... (6 Jan 1994)
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too violent.....

+6 Jan 1994
     Oh, believe me, take it seriously they did.  Power was characterized
+in the press by leading magazines as the most violent show on TV, there
+were organized protests, I ended up in televised debates on this concerning
+the show...and gradually the sponsor folded.  These things do happen....
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
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+

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+Re: jms's creds (6 Jan 1994)
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Re: jms's creds

+6 Jan 1994
     I've always found "how/when did you get your break into writing" to
+be a very weird question, at least in my case; like asking a doctor, "when
+did you get your break into foot surgery."  It wasn't one thing at one
+time.  This is a career that I've prepared for, and worked toward, and
+entered incrementally over a very long period.  I always knew that I would
+be a writer, used to collect pencils and paperclips and could determine the
+better grade of erasers and #10 pencils at an age when most kids were still
+trying to figure out which end to hold.  It's just a quirk.
+ 
+     When I was 16, after having read comprehensively in every genre I
+could get my hands on, I decided that now was a good time to start.  So I
+began writing.  Short stories, poems, playlets, articles, you name it, I
+wrote it.  I didn't show anyone at first, just kept slamming words
+together in the process of learning how to make little explosions of
+character and action.  When I felt ready -- six months later -- I began
+showing it around.  The high school I was attending began producing some of
+my one-acts, and commissioned a full play from me; I began selling articles
+to local newspapers and magazines; even placed a one-act with a local
+theater, which decided to produce it before discovering that I was only 17
+years old.  (When I showed up, they kept waiting for my parents to arrive,
+until I pointed out that *I* was the JMS on the script.)
+ 
+     After that, it was just a process of *writing* and *sending it out*.
+There is no mystery, no big break, no sudden revelation or secret
+handshake.  Bit by bit, I sold more articles, sold more plays, sold some
+short stories, and bit by bit, almost without noticing, the list of credits
+got longer until one day, people started asking me when I knew I'd Made It
+as a writer, when it hadn't ever occured to me that I *had* made it as a
+writer...I hadn't realized it'd happened.
+ 
+     It's the difference, I suppose, between buying a finished house, and
+there it is...and watching the house go up brick by brick over a long
+period of time.  At what point did it "become" a house?
+ 
+     It's probably not a helpful answer, but it's the only one I have....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Why the delay? (was Re: B5 (6 Jan 1994)
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Re: Why the delay? (was Re: B5

+6 Jan 1994
     No, we generally don't announce the day/month in the episodes, though
+sometimes dates or seasons are referred to tangentially or offhandedly.
+The real significant progression is year to year, which is why each year
+of the show will be marked in the opening narration and parallel real
+time (season 1: 2258, season 2: 2259, etc.).
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
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+

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Re: jms's creds

+6 Jan 1994
     Only if the SciFi Channel picks up CP.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
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+

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+The Big Promo in LA (6 Jan 1994)
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The Big Promo in LA

+6 Jan 1994
     The half-hour making of promo will be shown on channel 13 twice; the
+first date I don't recall, but it'll definitely be on after the Clippers
+game airing before we debut.  (That game will actually be "Brought To You
+By Babylon 5.")
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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Re: jms's creds

+6 Jan 1994
     The first network season of The Real Ghostbusters, and its only
+official first-run syndicated season, the show was a monster hit.  Major
+league numbers, #1.  Naturally, as soon as that happened, everyone started
+to try and figure out how to "fix" it.  Everyone starts protecting his
+investment.  They want to play it safe.  Which inevitably leads to the
+show getting screwed up, but that never stops them.
+ 
+     So the network brought in consultants, who said that this is a kid's
+series, so you have to have *kids* in it (this after steadfastly refusing
+to diverge from the desire on our part to continue the tradition of the
+movie, using only adult characters).  The Junior Ghostbusters, one of the
+lamest ideas in TV history.  Then they started on Janine...who was much to
+their dismay a strong female character.  They felt that she should be
+changed to a more warm, nurturing character, that her dry sense of humor
+was too aggressive, and that she should be made more into a "mommy figure"
+(to use their terms).
+ 
+     Her clothes, eccentric and personalized, were deemed "slutty," and
+had to be replaced by dresses and soft blouses.  She should be made more
+deferential to the male characters.  She had to lose the pointed glasses
+she wore, replacing them instead with round glasses because "sharp objects
+frighten children."
+ 
+     Janine was a strong, forceful, independent character who could take
+care of herself, and you didn't mess with her.  She was sharp, and funny,
+and just a real kick to write for.  This was the kind of character I'd
+fought to preserve, and it had proven to be a hit...and now they wanted to
+turn that upside down and turn her into a mommy.  Ain't nothing wrong with
+mommies.  But there's plenty of mommy-figures in cartoons; why not provide
+an alternative view...a working career woman who is generally satisfied
+with her life?  Leaving aside the role-model question for the moment, I
+happen to really, really, *really* love writing strong female characters.
+I love strong female characters in general.  Most of my relationships
+have been with strong-willed, independent, very bright women.  I love it
+when I'm outsmarted or one-upped; it makes me work harder.
+ 
+     So when they did *this*...I shot back a very loud "Not a chance."  NOt
+on this show.  I went to meetings.  Got into huge arguments with these
+so-called consultants.  Finally, I said that if they were going to do this,
+they'd have to do it without my participation; I refused to participate in
+the lobotomy of that show, or that character.  So I resigned.  Later, when
+their new "approach" to the show began to nosedive, I was asked if I'd
+return.  I was then working on POWER, and couldn't...but agreed to write
+some episodes on the following conditions: 1) the new story editors were
+not to so much as *touch* my scripts, or the deal was off; 2) in my
+unverse the Junior Ghostbusters did not exist, and would not appear in any
+of my scripts; and 3) I wrote the old Janine, not the "new" Janine, and
+that was with all of her attitudes intact.  They agreed.
+ 
+     And that is the story.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+

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Re: jms's creds

+6 Jan 1994
     No plan to make the scripts available at this time, but who knows...?
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
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+

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+Will Joe be at I-Con? (6 Jan 1994)
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Will Joe be at I-Con?

+6 Jan 1994
     Tentatively plan to be at I-Con, yes.  As for TRGBs, that was the
+series based on the movie, correct.
+ 
+	                                                   jms
+
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+Re: Sunday Newsprint (Spoilers (2 Jan 1994)
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Re: Sunday Newsprint (Spoilers

+2 Jan 1994
     RE: the newspaper...Stephen Furst's contract brings him up to 22
+episodes in year 3 and doesn't mention anything beyond that only because
+there are no further increases in episodes; our seasons run 22 episodes.
+The plan is to have his character present throughout the full 5 year run.
+As for the review...I have a sneaking suspicion that he's talking about
+the pilot, since the cassette tapes of the first episode only went out
+on Friday.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
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+

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+Violence (6 Jan 1994)
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Violence

+6 Jan 1994
     You're correct, particularly with reference to "Infection."  That
+episode has a lot of action, which you'd expect, and a big conclusion,
+which you'd expect.  What you *won't* expect, I think, is what happens
+afterward, in a conversation no one generally has in TV after big action
+stuff has gone down.  And it's something to chew on, I think....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+
+

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+Re: jms's creds (6 Jan 1994)
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Re: jms's creds

+6 Jan 1994
     Oh, they're there, all right...you've just been lucky.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+

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+Re: jms's creds (7 Jan 1994)
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Re: jms's creds

+7 Jan 1994
     There's no way to replace them that I know of, other than just taping
+the shows all over again off the syndicated channels.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+JMS - Conflict of Interest? (7 Jan 1994)
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JMS - Conflict of Interest?

+7 Jan 1994
     There's really very, very little that I would want to say in regards
+to Starlog.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+
+

+
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+cons (7 Jan 1994)
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cons

+7 Jan 1994
     What is a PNW convention?
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
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+Morn type in B5? (8 Jan 1994)
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+
Morn type in B5?

+8 Jan 1994
     What is a Norm/Morn type?
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+
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+Re: jms's creds (8 Jan 1994)
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Re: jms's creds

+8 Jan 1994
     My software is not easily set up to let me quote from stuff.  I get
+a list of messages...anywhere up to 50-55 at a time.  I read in batches,
+and when I see something requiring a response, the GEnie software is set
+up so that I type REP 25 (for message 25) and begin typing.  My personal
+software isn't set up to quote stuff; I'd have to re-list the message,
+capture it, edit it, all by hand...it becomes a major pain in the ass, adn
+(and) would increase several-fold the amount of work involved.  Meaning
+that I would have less time to respond, and thus could respond to fewer
+messages.  In general, I try to paraphrase or restate or clarify the
+original question in my reply, and usually I think it's clear enough.
+ 
+     But I'll work harder to be clear.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+AOL connection... (9 Jan 1994)
+
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AOL connection...

+9 Jan 1994
     There are B5 .wav files over on AOL?  Really?  Which ones?  I'd
+love to get hold of a few.
+ 
+     Just to clarify, btw, the trading cards are *not* the ones that have
+been circulating (the gifs).  These are new, and are mainly of the cast.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Missed promo on WNAC! (But (9 Jan 1994)
+
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Re: Missed promo on WNAC! (But

+9 Jan 1994
     Thanks.  Glad you liked it.  (And yeah, the Fresh Air Restaurant
+does look pretty cool.)
+ 
+     As for me...the TV camera doesn't like me, it just sorta slides over
+me and adds 10 years to me.  Complicated by the fact that when I'm shoved
+in front of a TeeVee camera, my head retracts like a turtle, my neck
+disappears, and everything goes everywhere.  Harlan, on the other hand,
+is comfortable before a camera.  The camera *loves* Harlan.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hows B5 doing in the States? (9 Jan 1994)
+
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Hows B5 doing in the States?

+9 Jan 1994
     It hasn't even aired yet....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+
+

+
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+Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's (2 Jan 1994)
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Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's

+2 Jan 1994
     The computerized cut of the pilot is now dumped out of memory, and
+those portions only exist on a few VHS tapes of marginal quality.  Also,
+the footage in computer file form is *very* low grade, like a poorly
+scanned gif file, very low resolution.  It would be useless on a laser
+disk.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Missed promo on WNAC! (But (9 Jan 1994)
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Re: Missed promo on WNAC! (But

+9 Jan 1994
     Actually, thus far, nearly everyone on our crew has appeared in the
+background of one episode or another, except for me.  Which is the way I
+like it....
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+

+
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+Babylon 5 in Writer's Digest M (11 Jan 1994)
+
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Babylon 5 in Writer's Digest M

+11 Jan 1994
     Larry DiTillio's episodes this season are "Born to the Purple," and
+"Deathwalker."  He's currently working on a third, tentatively entitled
+"TKO."  And yes, he uses blood instead of ink...unfortunately, it's mine.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+

+
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+
+Earth in B5 (11 Jan 1994)
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Earth in B5

+11 Jan 1994
     While we will not be *seeing* much of Earth in B5 (as in going
+there), what's going on back home will be a *constant* undercurrent to
+the series.  You'll learn a lot about the state of Earth in 2258 in our
+universe during the course of the series.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

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+
+Toaster Spaceship Data Files? (11 Jan 1994)
+
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Toaster Spaceship Data Files?

+11 Jan 1994
     I really don't know if they'll be released as autocad stuff or not,
+but will try to remember to inquire.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
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+

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+
+Will we see you! (11 Jan 1994)
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Will we see you!

+11 Jan 1994
     Nope, I don't do cameos; for me, it ruins the illusion.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "The Ga (11 Jan 1994)
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Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "The Ga

+11 Jan 1994
     The dustbuster guns are history.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Re: JMS: Old and new stuff... (11 Jan 1994)
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Re: JMS: Old and new stuff...

+11 Jan 1994
     Oh, absolutely; I'd say that "Parliament," "Mind War," "Soul" and
+"Purple" are (to my mind at least) much better than "Midnight."  Mind,
+that's just my personal preference, your mileage may vary.
+ 
+     But I'd say that our two *best* so far are still "And the Sky Full of
+Stars" and "Chrysalis."  I just watched a cut of "Chrysalis" today which
+finally had all the CGI in it, and had to scrape my brain off the opposing
+wall, it's *that* good.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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+Script, New Character==dead Ch (11 Jan 1994)
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Script, New Character==dead Ch

+11 Jan 1994
     You'll get your wish...and you'll wish you hadn't....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+Yo Joe! Some Questions... (11 Jan 1994)
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Yo Joe! Some Questions...

+11 Jan 1994
     On the theory that some of the militaries have blended, the system of
+ranks is kind of a cross between the navy and the air force (at least the
+ones with which our characters will have any interaction).  Probably an
+admiral would be more likely to run this place.
+ 
+     At some point, we'll probably see what it looks like from the ship'
+ POV leaving or entering hyperspace, yes.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
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+

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+A word about B5 in the press.. (11 Jan 1994)
+
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A word about B5 in the press..

+11 Jan 1994
     Part of the problem is that many reporters have come to expect, and
+come to associate that SF-shows = crap.  Or kid's stuff.  They've gotten
+very jaded with the same old promises every year.  So on that level, it's
+understandable.  There are areas where it's *not* understandable or
+defensible, but I'll leave that topic for another time....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
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+

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+Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's (3 Jan 1994)
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Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's

+3 Jan 1994
     I'm certainly not showing disdain for the missing material; I'm just
+saying it ain't *there*.  Now, if B5 turns out to be a megahit, there may
+be money set aside to re-edit the pilot some years down the road, but I'm
+not currently counting on it.  My chief concern now has to be the series.
+ 
+     As for keeping a record...I try, if spottily.  Oddly enough, the very
+best record of this process exists in the multi-megabytes that have been
+exchanged here, on GEnie and elsewhere.  It's something of a living
+chronology.  I try to take photos on the set (when I remember), and I'm
+keeping 1 copy of each day's dailies, instead of recycling the tapes.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Will we see you! (11 Jan 1994)
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Re: Will we see you!

+11 Jan 1994
     As a matter of fact, in a couple of episodes you'll see a photo of
+the Earth Alliance president.  The photo itself is of Doug Netter, my
+associate on the show and fellow executive producer.  (The woman running
+against the incumbent president in the election featured on "Midnight" is
+played, in photo, by our wardrobe designer, Ann Bruice.)
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
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+

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+Please JMS!! (12 Jan 1994)
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Please JMS!!

+12 Jan 1994
     We've been pitched the Die Hard/Under Seige approach many times.  I
+turned it down.  It's been done.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+

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+
+Expanded seasons? (12 Jan 1994)
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Expanded seasons?

+12 Jan 1994
     At this point, it's way too early to even *think* about topics like
+expanded seasons.  Obviously, yes, we could easily expand each season's
+worth of episodes from a story point of view.  That ain't no kind of
+problem.  As for the rest...only time will tell.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+Spoiler Question (minor spoile (12 Jan 1994)
+
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Spoiler Question (minor spoile

+12 Jan 1994
     I have nothing to do with the description applied to the show by
+others.  In that episode, the affected person isn't "turned into" a
+machine.  It is sort of a living armor-like compound that grows over the
+person's body, and begins to influence the person in question.  That is
+the sum and substance of it; he isn't transmuted, his biology isn't
+changed, his brain isn't replaced, and so on.
+ 
+     My suggestion: judge the episode based on the episode, not on what
+choice of words someone else used in trying to synopsize the episode.
+Because Moby Dick can be summed up as, "A nut chasing a big fish."  But
+there's obviously more to the story than that, and it's not entirely
+accurate.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+Skeptical about B5 (12 Jan 1994)
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Skeptical about B5

+12 Jan 1994
     There's nothing wrong with skepticism about the show.  I've said,
+from the start, judge us on what you see, not what I say.
+ 
+     Will you be disappointed?  That's not for me to say.  Inevitably,
+some people will be because *no* show can be the show you see in your
+head, the one you'd make if it were your show.  The problem with a show
+like this is that everyone begins to attach their dissatisfaction from
+other shows to it, and saying, "Well, THIS one will be my perfect vision
+of an SF series."  And it won't be.  It's my vision of what an SF series
+should be.  Some folks will feel the same way, some won't.  NYPD Blue is
+a very popular show.  Many people like it.  I can't get into it.  Tastes
+vary.
+ 
+     Will the show be well-produced?  Well acted?  Well written?  Well
+directed?  Will the EFX be what they should be: imaginative and rich
+and textured?  Yes.  These things I can promise.  Will the final result
+ring your particular chime?  That we'll have to see.  I can say that all
+the pieces are there.
+ 
+     Re: the commercials...the pacing of the commercials has nothing to do
+with the pacing of the show.  The show is the show, a commercial is a
+commercial.  They serve different masters and different needs.
+ 
+     No, not everything will be solved with a gun.  Sometimes, though, a
+gun is necessary as part of a solution to a problem.  Other times, it
+isn't.  And sometimes, the problem really isn't solved; sometimes our
+characters fail.  Sometimes things don't work out for the best at the end
+of the show.  Because life's like that.
+ 
+     One other thing that I can guarantee you is that our characters aren't
+stupid, they don't do things for dumb reasons.  Sometimes, in shows, it
+seems they make their characters momentarily stupid because that's the
+only way to get them into trouble.  We try to be smarter than that.  Our
+characters are as sharp as they come...which makes it more interesting
+when they get into trouble.  Sometimes being sharp isn't enough.
+ 
+     No two episodes are really alike.  "Midnight," aside from the task
+of re-introducing the characters, is something of an action piece, a
+run-and-jump.  "Soul" is a much smaller, more personal story, more
+character based.  "Purple" is funny, and sad, with a fair amount of action.
+ "Infection" is a heavy-duty action piece for the most part.  "Parliament"
+is a character piece with a very little action, but lots of fun.  "Mind
+War" has a hell of a lot of action, but also a mystery element to it as
+well.  Not a lot of humor in that one.
+ 
+     I think people will like the show.  I think they'll like the
+characters a lot.  But obviously I'm biased.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
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+Gays (13 Jan 1994)
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+13 Jan 1994
     To give that information out now would defeat the dynamic of its
+revelation.  There's some stuff I can talk about, some that I can't.  That
+is one of them.
+ 
+     And how do you know you haven't already seen this character?
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+Harlan Ellison & Babylon 5 (13 Jan 1994)
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+13 Jan 1994
     The SF writing material I can't comment on just now, for a number of
+reasons.  Regarding any outside commentary...Harlan has commented on the
+show in his Sci-Fi Channel commentaries, and will do so in future.  He's
+also given several interviews about the show.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+B5 Tech Readout v.0.0 : The Qu (13 Jan 1994)
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B5 Tech Readout v.0.0 : The Qu

+13 Jan 1994
     There's too much to cover in one message, so in brief:
+ 
+     The station is a touch over 5 miles long.  It can hold roughly
+250,000 humans and aliens (many of whom are in transit at any point).
+The fighters are the SA-23E Mitchell-Hyundyne Starfuries, and B5 has
+four fighter wings, each with approximately 12 fighters.
+ 
+     The rings are classified, as is the encounter suit.  Psi Corps
+ratings are assigned from within the Academy, based on test results and
+personal interviews/training.  Restrictions: NO unauthorized scans
+-- you need the permission of the person, tacit permission, or written
+permission of next of kin -- and no "dipping," going into other areas
+not relevant to the current scan.  In criminal cases, psi's may not
+scan defendants during a trial or before to determine guilt or innocence,
+as this violates the right of due process.  After a conviction, a psi
+may be called upon to function in various capactities (which will be seen
+in "The Quality of Mercy").  A psi *may* scan the victim of a crime unable
+to remember details of an attack, but that information must be backed up
+by physical evidence, or it is inadmissible.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Starfury specs? (13 Jan 1994)
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Starfury specs?

+13 Jan 1994
     The starfuries are *only* non-atmosphere craft, and they can't hold
+more than one person.  The other specs are over at Ron's, and I'll try to
+remember  to snag them at some point.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+Psis and Trials [was Re: B5 Te (14 Jan 1994)
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Psis and Trials [was Re: B5 Te

+14 Jan 1994
     No, the accused cannot ask for a psi to validate his or her
+innocence; the trial can ONLY proceed on the basis of evidence.  This is to
+prevent abuse, trials where a Psi looks at you and determines your guilt.
+When a life is at stake, you can't risk the possibility of some hidden
+agenda on the part of the telepath.  You'd have to use a telepath to
+verify the first telepath's scan, and on and on.  Best simply to exclude
+them from that aspect of the law.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's (4 Jan 1994)
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Re: B-5 pilot: "The Director's

+4 Jan 1994
     The bloopers reel/christmas reel we did is just for internal use, I'm
+afraid (though it's *very* funny).  As for the computer program...it hould
+be out in about a week, on schedule.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Making of B5 outlets (14 Jan 1994)
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Making of B5 outlets

+14 Jan 1994
     I have no idea why a non-PTEN station would be showing the Making Of
+piece, but will look into it.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Scheduling (14 Jan 1994)
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Scheduling

+14 Jan 1994
     It's a good suggestion, and I appreciate the thought; how much direct
+influence I have over the rerun schedule is a question of some debate,
+though.  If I do have any influence, I will definitely apply it, but it's
+still being defined.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+Too many cooks... (16 Jan 1994)
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Too many cooks...

+16 Jan 1994
     What you are noticing is the same thing suffered by anyone who creates
+something; for a long time, it's just yours, and maybe a few others' as
+well.  But the point is to get it *out there*.  And when that happens, as
+with creating B5, it isn't *yours* any longer, it belongs to the viewers.
+It can take some getting used to, and you just have to learn to let go.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Re: jms's creds (16 Jan 1994)
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Re: jms's creds

+16 Jan 1994
     Yeah, you're right; I'd nearly forgotten about the "And Winston, the
+black character, drives the car and repairs it."  I pretty much went right
+through the roof on that one.  The consultants said that you have to keep
+characters to within a child's expectations.  I came within an inch of
+going over the table at them.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+ST vs B5 thematic musings (16 Jan 1994)
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ST vs B5 thematic musings

+16 Jan 1994
     What you post in your message is *exactly* right.  I don't believe in
+the notion that, when we go to the stars, we have to leave behind our
+individual languages, and cultures, and ethnic backgrounds, and fashions
+of dress.  We bring that with us as part of who and what we are.  It's our
+differences that *strengthen* us.  It's not all going to vanish in 200
+years.  There are cultures in the eastern part of the world that have
+survived with minor changes for literally thousands of years.  250 years
+is the blink of an eye.  It's really a Western phenomenon; to us, 200
+years is a long time, the whole history of our nation.  That changes when
+you go outside.  I stood on the cobblestone walks of Trinity College in
+Dublin, and realized that on those same cobblestones some eager student
+raced across to the living quarters to announce news of a big revolution
+in the American colonies.  I stood in the neolithic burial mounds at
+New Grange, the oldest man-made stuctures in the world, older even than
+the pyramids...and realized that in human terms, 250 years isn't even a
+blip.  We're not going to change that much.
+ 
+     250 years ago, people worked, got married, had families, separated,
+had affairs, and hoped for a better world for their children.  250 years
+from now, it will be exactly the same.  Only the chrome of technology will
+vary.  For a good example of this, go find an SF movie musical called
+"Just Imagine" made in the 1930s.  Set in the 1980s, it pictured a world
+of people with names instead of numbers, pills instead of food, and birth
+by machine.  Much of TV SF makes the similar error.
+ 
+     The other point you raise is equally valid.  The one thing that to me
+always typified SF was the sense of *wonder*.  Of something mysterious out
+there.  And that is the one thing that I feel is so missing from much of
+TV SF; not to pick on ST, but the reality is that going from world to
+world seems like going from 7-11 to 7-11.  It's all established, there's
+not much mystery.  (Not in all cases, I'm sure that one or two could be
+found, but in general.)  There should be *differences*, and things we
+don't understand and will *never* fully understand.  (For me, one of the
+best episodes in this regard is "Mind War," specifically the tag of the
+episode, which still gives me a shiver even though I've now seen it over
+a dozen times.)
+ 
+     Anyway, point being...you're right.  And the first six episodes we
+air will give some indiciation as to whether or not we got it right.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: Psis and Trials [was Re: B (16 Jan 1994)
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Re: Psis and Trials [was Re: B

+16 Jan 1994
     Exactly.  The inadmissibility of telepathic scans of the accused,
+and even the *prohibition* against same, is the reason Sinclair wasn't
+and couldn't be scanned by Lyta in the pilot.  I could've explained this
+in some detail, but the pilot was already *so* exposition heavy that I
+figured it'd be better to wait until (I thought at the time) the next
+few episodes, which would get into that.  (That was when I figured we'd be
+going straight to series.)
+ 
+     Another example of what was assumed to be a lapse in story logic, but
+which was actually a plot point....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: jms's creds (16 Jan 1994)
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Re: jms's creds

+16 Jan 1994
     Regarding the ads...when you have 14-16 regular and recurring
+characters, you have to determine which of them will end up in an ad,
+because anyone not included is bound to be offended unless you come up
+with some unbiased way of selecting them.  What was finally chosen was
+the number of episodes in which they appear.  The cut-off point was 13
+episodes.  At that point and above, you have Sinclair, Delenn, Garibaldi,
+Ivanova, G'Kar, Londo.  Below that you have Franklin, Lennier, Vir, Talia,
+Na'Toth, etc.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Late B5? (16 Jan 1994)
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Late B5?

+16 Jan 1994
     No, the show isn't a year and a half late.  As it is, it's less than
+one year since the pilot aired.  It was our initial hope, and my initial
+belief, that we'd go straight into the series as soon as we finished the
+pilot.  But the studio, in its infinite wisdom, decided that since they
+HAD a pilot, it kinda behooved them to air it and get the ratings before
+committing to a series.  So we then waited until February for the airing,
+got the go-ahead to production around April/May, began shooting in July,
+got a whole bunch of episodes in the can, and now we're hitting the air.
+That is the sum and substance of it.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Franke footage... (16 Jan 1994)
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Franke footage...

+16 Jan 1994
     Chris does appear in the "Making Of" piece.  Beyond that, I don't
+know about ET or anything else.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+To JMS Regarding B5 electronic (16 Jan 1994)
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To JMS Regarding B5 electronic

+16 Jan 1994
     Let me make it clear: I have nothing to do with the manufacture of
+the electronic press kit, or the platforms selected.  What I can say is
+that Warners distribution is not in the computer business (at least, not
+as of this moment).  They have a limited budget.  In testimony to the
+great commitment on-line for the show, they put together this EPK, and
+could afford to pick two formats in which it could be made.  They settled
+on MAC and IBM because those two are the dominant formats numerically,
+whatever the benefits, values and positives associated with the Amiga.
+ 
+     It was something never in the original plans, is done as a compliment
+to BBSers, is the first time ANY TV series has done this at *all*, and
+it has been met by some hostility from Amiga users because that platform
+wasn't included.  Yes, Amiga has provided Foundation (which we don't own)
+with some nifty tools.  And those tools have received, and will continue
+to receive *substantial* publicity through B5.  Millions more people will
+be reached concerning what the Amiga (and Toaster) can do because of this
+show.  So on that level, I consider the scales balanced.
+ 
+     As far as an Amiga version...Jim Moloshok, head of marketing for
+Warners, has given permission to a couple of people to hack the program
+into an Amiga format.  This is because whatever you might think, studios
+do not have infinite amounts of time or money.  I imagine that version
+will be out sooner or later.  We all do what we can.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: Babylon Five List of Lists (4 Jan 1994)
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Re: Babylon Five List of Lists

+4 Jan 1994
     Neame is Knight Two, Scott is Knight One.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+JMS... A question about tech (17 Jan 1994)
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JMS... A question about tech

+17 Jan 1994
     I believe that Ron is working to put together a possible B5 tech
+manual sometime soonish.
+ 
+     The history of Earth for about the last 100 years prior to the time
+of B5 is broken out, and though it isn't laid out in detail in the
+series, it forms a reference backdrop for us, so it's all consistent when
+we refer to any part of it.  The pilot was 2257, the first year of the
+series is 2258, year two would be 2259, and so on.  The story requires 5
+years of story time as well as 5 years of real time to tell.  Things have
+to go through some real time lapse for the story to work out properly.
+Consequently, the narration at the top of the show ("...the year is 2258,
+the name of the place is Babylon 5") will be changed each season.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+Earth Shake! (18 Jan 1994)
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Earth Shake!

+18 Jan 1994
     Came through pretty much okay, all considered.  At the house, the
+living room fireplace is now IN the living room (on the floor), the patio
+has separated from the rest of the house, there's major cracks all over
+the place, everything that was on shelves is now on the floor...but the
+stage came through okay, and we're back to shooting today, if possibly
+on a reduced schedule.  (Everyone was given the option of not coming in
+today, but everyone wanted to show support, get back on the horse
+again, and get going.  Some even came in on their own time Monday to help
+with cleanup.)
+ 
+     Onward.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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Earth Alliance Starships

+18 Jan 1994
     Yes, we will be seeing Earth Alliance starships.
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+	                                                            jms
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Re: Psis and Trials

+18 Jan 1994
     I'm sorry, but whether or not you personally agree with the
+structure, the prohibition on the use of telepaths in court is NOT
+irrational, OR based on an irrational government.  Members of the Psi
+Corps are NOT just individuals walking around; they are *governmentally
+regulated and controlled*.  Any good defense or prosecution attorney
+could turn that against them.  Also, the Law Profession isn't ABOUT to
+turn over control of its actions to a bunch of government-regulated
+telepaths.
+ 
+     There are already restrictions in place on hearsay evidence, even on
+anecdotal or eyewitness testimony.  People are entitled to a fair trial,
+and due process, *based on evidence*, not the opinions of a State
+employee or someone controlled by the State.  This has been the history
+(at least in theory) of jurisprudence in this country for the last 200
+years.
+ 
+     Finally, the judicial arm of the government itself will not relinquish
+control over the courts to an outside agency.  Look at human nature; this
+simply will NOT happen.  It is not irrational, it is relentlessly
+logical, and based upon what happens now in our court system, and what is
+likely in the event of actual telepaths being discovered.  And again, you
+have to remember that there are competing governmental agencies involved
+here, this isn't just a bunch of civilian witnesses roaming around.
+ 
+     And on another level, there are LOTS of reasons for wanting the Psi
+Corps NOT to get this kind of control or influence.  Some might say (and
+in the course of this series, some WILL say) that the Psi Corps have too
+much influence as it is, they're trying to worm their way in all over
+the place.  They represent the all-seeing Big Brother, with the potential
+for massive abuse.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+What I didn't like (minor Midn (18 Jan 1994)
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What I didn't like (minor Midn

+18 Jan 1994
     A few small quibbles with your quibbles:
+ 
+     1) In "Midnight," Sinclair is really not given a chance to show his
+character, since it's basically a reintroduction to the series, and there
+is a lot to cover.  He functions throughout the episode only in his
+official capacity.  In other episodes, you'll get to see some very
+different sides to his character, particular in "Parliament of Dreams."
+ 
+     2) The line, "You're too young to hurt that much," which actually
+is, "You're too young to experience that much pain," isn't from
+"Midnight."  It's from "Infection."
+ 
+     3) I agree, most of the plot lines are tied up pretty well (except
+for the telepath issue introduced at the end, which comes back at us
+again...as does, incidentally, the Raghesh 3 incident and other stuff).
+In responding to some of the criticism of the pilot, I tried to make this
+one far more self-contained.  Which is why I much prefer "Parliament,"
+"Mind War" and "Soul Hunter" over "Midnight."
+ 
+     4) Yes, Vir is very obsequious in "Midnight."  That's done in order
+to give his character somewhere to go, as gradually he begins to stand up
+to Londo and talk back.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+
+

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Re: Psis and Trials [was Re: B

+18 Jan 1994
     A telepath is allowed to function neither way, to scan someone to
+determine he's innocent, or to act as accuser.  You mention the pilot,
+but *in* the pilot, Lyta didn't scan Sinclair.  She scanned a *victim*
+of a potential crime.  She was not asked to go in and look for the
+killer, she was asked to find out how the poison got into Kosh's
+system.  A telepath can do this.  (A telepath can, on some situations,
+also scan a victim unable to testify for physical reasons to find out
+who did the act, as I said before, **BUT** that must still be backed up
+with physical evidence, you can't just take the telepath's word for it,
+there MUST be physical evidence.)
+ 
+     All of which is why, in the pilot, it was *also* stipulated that
+the information gained was "inadmissible" (in Kyle's testimony).
+ 
+     There are a lot of reasons why this has been worked out to within an
+inch of its life, none of which I can comment on yet.  (The other aspect
+of all this that has to be borne in mind is that a LOT of people, many of
+them important, do NOT like the Psi Corps, don't *trust* the Psi Corps,
+and are actively against them extending their power.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+
+

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Re: Psis and Trials

+18 Jan 1994
     The point you raise is very valid.  People forget the privacy issue
+as being very important.  (That's one problem I have with Troi, I'll have
+to grudgingly admit; there she goes, intruding into anybody's and
+everybody's mind without even so much as a by-your-leave, including
+aliens they've just met, as well as humans.  Mind your own business.)
+ 
+     One other element to consider in all of this is real simple: at the
+time in question, it's possible to alter one's memories.  (Remember,
+Sinclair is missing 24 hours from his memory.)  One can blank certain
+memories.  So it's possible that a person who committed a murder might
+pay big bucks to have that memory wiped.  Then you have to be sure to
+find a telepath who's good enough to see the "seams" (for lack of a
+better term) in the person's memory to know it's been modified.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
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+

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STTNGvs.B5 sociopolitical ramb

+18 Jan 1994
     Your assumptions regarding the differences between the two
+universes, and our political/social setup, are quite correct.  We've taken
+the idea of a planetary government (not necessarily American in nature;
+we've gone back to some older ideas on the operation of a republic) with
+a senate and a President that is not looking to take care of everybody
+else's problems, and has enough problems on its own.  (In fact, at one
+point in the pilot, a Senator tells Sinclair "The Earth Alliance can't
+go around being the galaxy's policeman.")
+ 
+     I read, a long time ago, that what you have to do in a story is to
+get your character up a tree and then start throwing rocks at him.  So
+instead of making everything easy for our characters, I've constructed
+ universe that is *difficult*, where you have to work for everything
+you get, and nobody wants to cooperate unless they have to.  Never
+arbitrarily, though; characters have to have good reasons (or at least
+what they consider good reasons) for what they do.
+ 
+     For me, the process of overcoming a problem is more dramatically
+interesting -- and in a way more positive -- than a universe in which
+all over the problems have already been solved.  I want to show
+characters who have to deal with the same BS as the rest of us, but who
+manage to persevere regardless.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
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+

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+Re: STTNGvs.B5 sociopolitical (18 Jan 1994)
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Re: STTNGvs.B5 sociopolitical

+18 Jan 1994
     Re: your note about humans rolling up their sleeves, eyeing each
+other warily, while also trying to figure out the Outsiders...you've
+just done a very good synopsis of "By Any Means Necessary," which will
+air sometime around our second or third batch of episodes this season
+(batches being measured in sixes).
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
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+Re: B5 and Trek (19 Jan 1994)
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Re: B5 and Trek

+19 Jan 1994
     Actually, if you want to verify which came first, there's a very
+simple and easy way to do it that doesn't require taking my word for it.
+1) There's an interview with me in Starlog during the time I was story
+editor on the new Twilight Zone series.  I mention there about having
+been trying to sell a show called Babylon 5 for some time.  Also, I
+slipped a reference to B5 into my second novel, "OtherSyde," published
+around 1991 in hardcover by Dutton.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+

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+DEMON ON THE RUN (4 Jan 1994)
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DEMON ON THE RUN

+4 Jan 1994
     We're still working out the dynamics of how these two universes
+would cross seamlessly, without doing damage to either.  We've got some
+solid leads, but this is 'way too early to get into them.  More down the
+road, one hopes....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

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+Questions on the Series (19 Jan 1994)
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Questions on the Series

+19 Jan 1994
     Thanks.  I hope that you will find the series bears out your
+optimism.
+ 
+     To your questions: 1) The method of transit is called a Jump Gate.
+2) We're still in the process of drawing up a detailed starmap with the
+distances from B5 to each of our major governments, but we're looking at
+roughly 25 light years from Earth.  3) The Earth/Minbari war lasted
+almost five years.  The terms of surrender were conditional; there was
+to be no reparation.  It was simply a cessation of hostilities.  It was
+not a clear-cut issue of being beaten or doing the beating; it just
+stopped...which left a lot of people feeling about the same way some did
+after Vietnam.  Peace with honor?  Maybe, maybe not.  4) The Earth
+government -- located in Earthdome -- is basically a republic, with
+reps from each nation serving as senators or in other capacities.  5)
+Earth has fougth in some other conflicts, on a smaller scale; prior to
+the Earth/Minbari war, they came to the assistance of the Non-Aligned
+Worlds against a race known as the Dilgar, which devastated whole worlds.
+(You'll see the last survivor of this race in "Deathwalker.")
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+

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+Digital Cards and so forth (19 Jan 1994)
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Digital Cards and so forth

+19 Jan 1994
     The person responsible for the digital trading cards and the EPK
+is Jim Moloshok, at Warner Bros. marketing.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
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+TV Guide Rating (19 Jan 1994)
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TV Guide Rating

+19 Jan 1994
     You have your characters confused.  Bill Mumy's character, Lennier,
+is not the station's underground "fixer."  His character is Delenn's
+diplomatic attache, who has lived virtually his whole life within the
+confines of the religious caste, and has now been sent to B5.  The one
+you're thinking of is n'grath, who looks kinda like a 7 foot tall
+praying mantis.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+Heraldry in Star Fury Markings (20 Jan 1994)
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Heraldry in Star Fury Markings

+20 Jan 1994
     There are a number of influences that go into the markings on the
+Starfuries.  (And not all 'furies are so marked; only those that are
+generally used by only one pilot, to whom the ship is assigned.)  We
+took in general the WW II model, where pilots used to decorate their
+craft with nose art to personalize it.  So some of it is of that flavor,
+while others echo more ancient heraldry.  (Ivanova's 'fury has an old
+Russian two-headed eagle in stylized form.)  Yes, again, an attempt to
+connect past, present and future.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+

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+Re: Earth Shake! (21 Jan 1994)
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Re: Earth Shake!

+21 Jan 1994
     The worst part of the quake, really, was that my house was without
+electricity until Midnight Thursday night.  So I'd write (up against a
+real deadline because of the quake) at the office, charge up my notebook
+computer, go home, fire up the notebook, and write scripts by flashlight.
+ 
+     Yikes.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
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+

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+Re: B5 & Earthquake (21 Jan 1994)
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Re: B5 & Earthquake

+21 Jan 1994
     There *are* steps in Harlan's house, in his office leading from the
+pool room below to the second floor office proper.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
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+Religious vs. Warrior Caste Mi (22 Jan 1994)
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Religious vs. Warrior Caste Mi

+22 Jan 1994
     The religious and military castes have rarely disagreed on anything,
+until the religious caste ordered the surrender at the Battle of the Line.
+Since then, things have not been proceeding as smoothly....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+

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+Skeptical about B5 (I (22 Jan 1994)
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Skeptical about B5 (I

+22 Jan 1994
     "one's an apple, the other's an orange."
+ 
+     I've got dibs on the apple.
+ 
+     Regards to Eve.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+     ("One's an apple.  The other's an orange.  Together, they fight
+crime.")
+
+
+

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+Time Between Movie and Series (22 Jan 1994)
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Time Between Movie and Series

+22 Jan 1994
     Approximately nine months have passed since the time of the pilot and
+the birth of the series.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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+"Midnight" and the council (No (22 Jan 1994)
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"Midnight" and the council (No

+22 Jan 1994
     The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+functions in much the same fashion as the Security Council and the General
+Assembly in the U.N.  The smaller worlds and alliances can't weild as much
+power as any of the Big Five.  Together, they as a group get a vote equal
+to one of the Big Five; they can deputize one of their number to speak for
+them and cast that vote, which can often break ties or create ties.  It is
+not a terribly equitible situation, but it was the only workable solution
+that would be accepted by the other Ambassadors.  We'll see them chafing
+at this in "Deathwalker."
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+
+

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+Interesting Babylon 5 ad... (4 Jan 1994)
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Interesting Babylon 5 ad...

+4 Jan 1994
     Just as a point of reference, because there's no way to tell this
+from the ad...that's not G'Kar speaking, that's the Soul Hunter.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
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+

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+B5: Universe Today Babylon 5 E (23 Jan 1994)
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B5: Universe Today Babylon 5 E

+23 Jan 1994
     Just a minor correctin: B5 did not miss even *one* day of filming
+due to the quake.  We gave everyone the option of staying home, but they
+wanted to come in...so we were shooting first thing Tuesday morning
+(Monday, remember, was a holiday).
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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Firearms

+23 Jan 1994
     B5 doesn's have tractor beams; for the most part, they don't exist
+in Earth tech of 2258, though other species might have them.  (There are
+differences in tech between races.)  I'd rather not say too much about
+B5's defense system until you see it in action later this season.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+

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+Delenn's gender? (23 Jan 1994)
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Delenn's gender?

+23 Jan 1994
     Delenn was originally going to be a fairly sexually-ambiguous
+character...a male character, played by a female, with a computer altered
+voice...but we couldn't make the alteration sound good enough to satisfy
+us, so we left her a her.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
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+

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+Re: STTNGvs.B5 sociopolitical (23 Jan 1994)
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Re: STTNGvs.B5 sociopolitical

+23 Jan 1994
     Yes, "Demon Night," published in hardcover by Dutton (and later
+nominated for a Bram Stoker Award) was my first published novel.  My second
+novel was "OtherSyde," also from Dutton.  Writing novels gave me the
+foundation I needed to really outline and prepare B5 as a novel-for-TV.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

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+23 Jan 1994
     The status of the Mars Colony is in considerable debate in B5's
+time.  It's chafing under the EA's tight controls.  I wouldn't be
+surprised to see it try to secede at some point....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

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+Fighters (23 Jan 1994)
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Fighters

+23 Jan 1994
     There are other kinds of fighters; it's a question of what's intended
+for use where.  The Raider ships, and the Narn heavy fighters, are both
+atmospheric and non-atmospheric ships.  Some fighters, such as B5's
+Starfuries, the Drazi Sunhawk, the Ipsha Battleglobe and others (you'll
+see the latter two in "Deathwalker") are configured only for non-atmosphere
+activities, and have different configurations.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+
+

+
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+Re: alt.Babylon-5.creative (23 Jan 1994)
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Re: alt.Babylon-5.creative

+23 Jan 1994
     If story ideas start appearing on this group, I'll have to
+withdraw.  It ain't something I like saying, because I know how it sounds,
+but that's the reality of it, in this very, very litigious society.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
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+

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+Re: Midnight...  questions  (S (23 Jan 1994)
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Re: Midnight...  questions  (S

+23 Jan 1994
     And the action *doesn't* always happen conveniently located to a
+jump gate.  Sometimes, it can take *hours* or even days to get to where a
+ship or other object is located.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
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+

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+Re: Card #15 error (23 Jan 1994)
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Re: Card #15 error

+23 Jan 1994
     Note: Insofar as I know, Warners has only released *10* .gif trading
+cards.  It's altogether possible that this #15 is bogus.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
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+

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+ID of someone in Making of... (23 Jan 1994)
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ID of someone in Making of...

+23 Jan 1994
     The fellow to whom you refer is John Copeland, one of our producers
+on B5.  We've got a John Copeland, a John Iacovelli, a John Johnston, a
+John Radulovic...we've got Johns all over the place on this show, oddly
+enough.  (Though you can never have enough johns, I suppose....)  And just
+as oddly, only one Joe.  Go figure.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
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+

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+jms's creds (4 Jan 1994)
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jms's creds

+4 Jan 1994
     Yikes; that's an awful lot of ground to cover.  I've worked as story
+editor or producer on such series as the new Twilight Zone, Murder She
+Wrote, and the live-action SF series Captain Power (seen by maybe ten
+people in the country before it was yanked off the air for being "the most
+violent show on television," a post now occupied by Brisco County Jr., we
+are told by congress).  I've written something on the order of 120-130
+produced episodes of television, and story edited probably twice that.  (I
+began in animation, story editing shows such as the Real Ghostbusters, the
+syndicated and first network season, before walking off the show when they
+compromised Janine's character.)  I've been nominated for Gemini, Writers
+Guild, Bram Stoker and Ace Awards.  Two nominations were for the
+adaptation I did for Showtime's Nightmare Classics series, "The Strange
+Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," with Anthony Andrews and Laura Dern.
+ I was on Murder for about two years before leaving to do B5.
+ 
+     I've written produced radio dramas (including for Mutual Radio
+Theater and Alien Worlds), published dark fantasy novels (hardcover from
+Dutton, Demon Night and OtherSyde), produced stage plays, and something
+on the order of 500 published articles.  Started out as a reporter and
+ended up working for the L.A. Times, TIME Inc., and others.  Anyway,
+that's a quick overview of it.  (And no, no show in the 70s; my TV credits
+begin around 1984.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+Finally! A sig! (23 Jan 1994)
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Finally! A sig!

+23 Jan 1994
     By all means, use the sig, with my blessings.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
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+

+
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+Re: alt.Babylon-5.creative (23 Jan 1994)
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Re: alt.Babylon-5.creative

+23 Jan 1994
     There's a general difference between "it'd be nice to see Garibaldi
+in civvies" as a discussion of things people would like to see in a show,
+and, "okay, Garibaldi is stranded on a planet with a talking moose who
+proceeds to sing show-tunes all night."  The latter is a *story*, and
+that is the thing I have to be careful not to stumble across.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+ALIEN DESIGN CONCEPTS (23 Jan 1994)
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ALIEN DESIGN CONCEPTS

+23 Jan 1994
      We're taking the position that some things might look similar to
+Earth life, but others won't.  n'grath has a fairly traditional insectoid
+look, but that is so pervasive here that it's a good chance it'll work
+out there.  On the other hand, the pak'ma'ra, which you'll get a good look
+at in "Legacies," are *quite* different from earth critters.  The basic
+problem, of course, is that all we have as a frame of reference, in
+reality, is Earth stuff; we haven't yet seen real alien life.  So
+anything we come up with is in some way, however distorted, based on what
+we can conceive of.  This is limited by experience.  This is the problem
+on ANY level in dealing with aliens.  Whatever we conceive will never be
+a fraction of what the reality would be.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+

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+Re: JMS: Earthquake, Budget, e (23 Jan 1994)
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Re: JMS: Earthquake, Budget, e

+23 Jan 1994
     If someone wants to put the V material on the site, I have no
+objections.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Starfury specs? (23 Jan 1994)
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Re: Starfury specs?

+23 Jan 1994
     Yes, you will see space craft carriers in at least one episode, if
+not more, this season.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+Bill Mumy (23 Jan 1994)
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Bill Mumy

+23 Jan 1994
     Bill Mumy makes his appearance in "Parliament of Dreams," but under
+contract the credit appears in all episodes produced.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
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+

+
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+Re: ST vs B5 thematic musings (23 Jan 1994)
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Re: ST vs B5 thematic musings

+23 Jan 1994
     We'll be taking all KINDS of approaches to ship battles....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
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+

+
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+Budget Cuts Too Obvious ... (24 Jan 1994)
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Budget Cuts Too Obvious ...

+24 Jan 1994
     I really don't know what you mean by budget cuts affecting the
+points you mention.  If we'd wanted to save money, we would've left the
+prosthetics and other design elements the same as in the pilot.  But
+after doing the pilot, we looked at the makeup designs for Delenn and
+G'Kar and decided we didn't much like the way they came out, and set out
+-- at considerable cost -- to redo them.  We did new life-casts, hired
+new people to re-sculpt the alien headpieces, and went to a somewhat
+more expensive variety of Delenn's headpiece.  As for G'Kar's makeup
+being a bit "thinner," that's because we went to a finer mask, which
+tears more easily, has to be replaced more often, at greater cost...but
+which gives the actor a LOT more freedom of expression.  To make a thick
+mask is a LOT less expensive than a thin one.
+ 
+     We changed things, yes...but out of personal preference.  Same with
+the observation dome, where we added an office for Sinclair, did the
+same with medlab for Franklin...you may or may not agree with a change,
+but please don't assume automatically that budget was involved when in fact
+it was not.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+
+

+
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+Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "Midnig (24 Jan 1994)
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Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "Midnig

+24 Jan 1994
     You're correct in your appraisal of the "coincidences" in the
+first episode.  Upon finding that Londo's nephew was there, they would
+of course trot him out to try and undermine Londo's credibility (you'll
+note that G'Kar made special mention of this, as if to say, "Is the
+Centauri ambassador calling his own nephew a liar?").  It'd be the same
+thing if the son of an American ambassador was on-hand when hostages
+were taken.
+ 
+     As for the choice of the attack's location...Londo wanted his nephew
+"far away from all this."  Someplace safe.  A fairly safe, mundane place
+is not going to have a major military presence...and hence is a perfect
+target for attack.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
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+

+
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+Query for JMS about "Making of (24 Jan 1994)
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Query for JMS about "Making of

+24 Jan 1994
     I spoke about the 5-year plan when they did the interview with me
+for the "Making Of" piece.  Why it didn't end up in it is anybody's
+guess....
+ 
+     Not glitzy enough, I guess.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+
+

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+Scientific nit-picking (1 Feb 1994)
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Scientific nit-picking

+1 Feb 1994
     Your description of Earth Standard Time (EST) is fairly accurate.
+RE: the Raider ships...they turned by a less effective system of thrusters
+put in here and there, not nearly as powerful as the systems used by the
+Starfuries.  The reason -- verifiable by the shape of the Raider ships --
+is that Raider ships are handicapped by the fact that they're made to
+function both in space *and* within an atmosphere (hence the aerodynamic
+wing shapes), which gives it something of a problem when dealing with the
+Starfuries, which are made ONLY for fighting in space, and are most
+ideally suited to it.  The Raider ships make compromises for greater
+utility, which is generally okay unless they run into superior forces of
+ships designed for spaceborne combat.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+WILL WE VISIT ANY PLANETS? (1 Feb 1994)
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WILL WE VISIT ANY PLANETS?

+1 Feb 1994
     We will be visiting a planet in the two parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness."
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

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+Re: JMS: Centauri Republic or (16 Feb 1994)
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Re: JMS: Centauri Republic or

+16 Feb 1994
     Sinclair functions within the parameters of Earthforce Command, but
+much in the way as a provisional governor might function.  He is answerable
+both to his superior officers in Earthforce, *as well as* the Babylon 5
+Senate Oversight and Appropriations Committee.  A senatorial liaison often
+works between Sinclair and Earthdome (the EA capital city).
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+JMS: Centauri Republic or Empi (16 Feb 1994)
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JMS: Centauri Republic or Empi

+16 Feb 1994
     It was a slip of the tongue, to some extent; it's the Centauri
+Republic.  And very definitely there's a Roman influence on that
+particular civilization.
+ 
+     Re: scripts...a topic for another time....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+"Bab" prefix (17 Feb 1994)
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"Bab" prefix

+17 Feb 1994
     Re: your concern about putting "bab" in front of everything (the
+message to which you responded mentioned babcommand, babalert, babguard
+and so on)...it's not, and we don't.  There is only one thing with that
+previx, BabCom.  That's all.  There ain't no more.  The person who
+thought he heard bab-alert misheard MedAlert.
+ 
+     The concern as raised has *nothing* to do with our show.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+
+Christy Marx (17 Feb 1994)
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+
Christy Marx

+17 Feb 1994
     Yes, this Christy Marx is the same as the one who writes games and
+has written comics as well.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Re: What are those blue fins? (17 Feb 1994)
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Re: What are those blue fins?

+17 Feb 1994
     For the record: B5 is *not* purely solar-powered.  There's a HUGE
+fusion reactor at the far end of the station that takes up almost that
+entire long section.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Babylon 5 '89 (17 Feb 1994)
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Babylon 5 '89

+17 Feb 1994
     Don't really remember what the plan would've been if we'd gotten
+the Go order years earlier; but one way or another we would've made it,
+that's all I know.  Nothing's stopping this thing.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Ban on creative works? Huh (17 Feb 1994)
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Re: Ban on creative works? Huh

+17 Feb 1994
     "Why can't I write a story using the characters from B5 and publish
+it here for all to read?"
+ 
+     Because it's a violation of copyright and trademark.  What part of
+that sentence don't you understand?
+ 
+     If you write a story and -- using your own terms -- "publish it here"
+that instance of commonlaw copyright is a violation of the PTEN copyright
+and trademark.  My own personal feelings notwithstanding, *it's the law*.
+ 
+     The only thing that really bothers me in this whole conversation is
+that I didn't want to get into a discussion of legalities, or lawyers, or
+copyright infringement...all I said at the beginning was that I would like
+to be here, to stay here, to participate in this experiment.  And I asked,
+as a courtesy, to be kept away from any story ideas because it opens me
+up to legal liability.  That's all.  Just a courtesy, in exchange for the
+3 hours a day I spend on this system, reading 500 messages a day now, to
+keep the lines of communication open.
+ 
+     Why is the request for a courtesy insufficient, and people have to
+go to the legal aspect?
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Babylon 5 '89 (17 Feb 1994)
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Babylon 5 '89

+17 Feb 1994
     Don't really remember what the plan would've been if we'd gotten
+the Go order years earlier; but one way or another we would've made it,
+that's all I know.  Nothing's stopping this thing.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+JMS Question: Where Were They? (17 Feb 1994)
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JMS Question: Where Were They?

+17 Feb 1994
     The Centauri Republic tended to go after species where they could get
+some advantage; they'd find a world on the fringe of being able to hit
+space, with a technological base, move in and take over.  It's sharper
+and easier than taking over a world without tech; not much to offer.  By
+the time we got to that point, they had begun the decline of their
+empire, and basically greeted us with a shrug.  And there is no EA rule
+about non-interference.  The only real rule applies to surveying distant
+worlds for mineral resources, and a restriction against strip-mining
+worlds that contain sentient life.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: "Infection" -- no spoiler (17 Feb 1994)
+
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JMS: "Infection" -- no spoiler

+17 Feb 1994
     Thanks.  Sinclair's final speech there is the simplest truth about
+space exploration that I can think of...and the most compelling..and the
+most overlooked.  As Henry Kissinger once said, "It has the added benefit
+of being true."
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+10716
+::::::::::::::
+
+

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+Re: Midnight Comments (*SPOILE (1 Feb 1994)
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Re: Midnight Comments (*SPOILE

+1 Feb 1994
     The inconsistency you mention is not an inconsistency.  One fighter
+is always kept in lowered, launch-position when the others are out, so
+that it's ready to drop at a moment's notice.  The fighter you saw was
+moving into standby position in case needed quickly.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Born to the Purple  (Minor Spo (18 Feb 1994)
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+18 Feb 1994
     Fabiana didn't shave her head to play Adira; that's a prosthetic
+head piece.  Ditto with all our Centauriy women.  (Funnily enough, the one
+time we DID have a bald woman as a background extra, those not in the
+know on stage kept commenting on how fake the bald-cap looked....)
+ 
+     The planet behind B5 ain't the moon.  This is a LOT further out.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+To JMS: They still use paper? (18 Feb 1994)
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To JMS: They still use paper?

+18 Feb 1994
     It's not a paper,but synthetic material.  A customized (to each
+person) copy of UT comes out in your quarters, you take it with you, read
+it, dump it in the recycler and get it again the next day.  And the
+"help" given by EA to bronze-tech worlds is on a "whether you want it or
+not" basis.  No prime directive here.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+The annoying little space shot (18 Feb 1994)
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The annoying little space shot

+18 Feb 1994
     We did a lot of exterior transitional shots in the first few eps of
+B5 to reinforce where we are and what this is; it diminishes in frequency
+the deeper into the series you get.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Concerns about Scientific real (18 Feb 1994)
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Concerns about Scientific real

+18 Feb 1994
     Let me ask you a question: let's say we zip back in time for a
+moment.  It's now the year 1944.  Someone writes a science fiction story
+about life 50 years from now, 1994.  And in the course of that story,
+which gets into nuclear powered vessels, Mars probes, space shuttles and
+laser surgery...you get references to such outrageous ideas as Psychic
+hotlines, crop circles, and other things.
+ 
+     Does it stop being a science fiction story?  Perhaps...but it is
+fundamentally more *real* than if you pretended none of that existed, or
+tried to explain it all away.  The universe it too big, and 110 episodes
+is too short, to try and explain away *everything*.  I think that there
+should be mysteries.
+ 
+     Because mysteries will always be with us...and any attempt at SF that
+tries to deny that basic element of our existence is being untruthful to
+the history of human experience.
+ 
+     The whole science fiction/science fantasy argument is fairly recent
+in SF, as various parties drew up sides and closed ranks.  There's the
+Analog crowd, and the F&SF crowd...prior to Campbell and a few others
+really hammering down a set of rules, SF encompassed a whole *range* of
+ideas, and freely crossed borders, using various elements.  The classic
+Mark Twain story, "Sold to Satan" (I'm pretty sure that's the title)
+combines SF elements (the purposes of this new discovery called radium)
+with the supernatural (said component is a prime ingredient in Satan's
+physiology).
+ 
+     Now obviously I'm not going to do that, I have no desire to go that
+far.  But I don't think that you have to sit down and quantify every single
+mystery in life and reduce it to a catchphrase or some technobabble; why
+can't there still be wonders and mysteries and the unsolved in 2258, as
+we have them today?
+ 
+     Because you could write that 1944 story about 1994 without crop
+circles, or dial-a-psychic hotlines...and maybe it would be (by the
+lights of some) valid SF, it would *not* be valid extrapolation.  It would
+ESPECIALLY not be valid social extrapolation.  It comes down to: do you
+want an agenda behind a story, or do you want a story about where people
+may be in 200 years, and the kinds of things they might experience?
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+(attn JMS) The New Group Debat (18 Feb 1994)
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(attn JMS) The New Group Debat

+18 Feb 1994
     Correct: when we've told our five year story, the B5 series comes to
+an end in terms of original episodes, and then will, like all other TV
+series, go into long-term reruns.  There's one possible spin-off that
+has always been feasible, but it would not be a B5 series, rather following
+one thread in a different direction.  But that also has a definite end,
+after which there *can't* be any more followups, for reasons I can't now
+go into.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Q: JMS:  Station ownership (18 Feb 1994)
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Q: JMS:  Station ownership

+18 Feb 1994
     The EA has owned all of the Babylons; 1-3 were sabotaged early in
+construction, so it wasn't too much of a loss.  They dumped a BIG budget
+into B4, and when that died, barely passed the budget for #5, skimping all
+the way, cutting it down to bare bones operating expenses.  They will and
+would never approve a #6.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+JMS Query; ref  n'grath (18 Feb 1994)
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JMS Query; ref  n'grath

+18 Feb 1994
     Garibaldi is quite aware of n'grath...and knowing that if he just
+vanished, somebody'd take his place in five minutes, prefers the trouble
+he knows to the trouble he'd have to track down.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
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+

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+Re: Ban on creative works? Huh (18 Feb 1994)
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Re: Ban on creative works? Huh

+18 Feb 1994
     Obviously, I can't say anything officially here saying "Go write
+fanfic to your heart's content."  Because PTEN would (correctly) stick my
+head on a pike in the middle of downtown Hollywood.  However, let me be
+ABSOLUTELY clear in this: I have NEVER said, "Don't write it."  All that
+I have EVER said is, "Don't put it in a place where I can see it or
+stumble over it."
+ 
+     Email is a private system; so is a closed mailing list.  I'm not
+here to be PTEN's eyes and ears; I really don't care what happens out
+there in that respect.  My only real concern is that whatever it is that's
+happening, *I don't see it.*  It's better for all concerned if I don't
+see it, or don't have access to it.
+ 
+     So on a personal level, I have no real problem with what you propose.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+Infection (spoilers) (20 Feb 1994)
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Infection (spoilers)

+20 Feb 1994
     I allow a small smile...in the course of any given script, I put in
+little things that I figure nobody will ever notice, but which for me
+help just a bit to keep on track with the character, and which may
+resonate to anyone paying attention.  You cite Sinclair's line about
+joining Garibaldi "on the LINE," and Garibaldi noting that Sinclair keeps
+putting his life "on the LINE," and the similarity to the phrase "the
+Battle of the Line."
+ 
+     It was a throwaway...but a conscious one.
+ 
+     He's still fighting the same battle.  He's never stopped.  In one way
+or another, he keeps putting himself out there, caught in a loop....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Talia's badge (20 Feb 1994)
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Re: Talia's badge

+20 Feb 1994
     The Psi Corps identification is worn both with pride and as a
+warning or advisory to others.  No bikini-tags yet.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+Transportation on Earth in the (1 Feb 1994)
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Transportation on Earth in the

+1 Feb 1994
     There are *definitely* no transporters in the B5 universe.
+ 
+	                                                 jms
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+JMS: Psi Corps Symbol (20 Feb 1994)
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JMS: Psi Corps Symbol

+20 Feb 1994
     Er...the symbol Lyta wears isn't "an interconnected IU that looks
+an awful lot like the greek 'psi,'" ...it *IS* the Greek letter Psi, as
+is appropriate for a group of telepaths.  That was always our intent.
+(Funnily enough, while in college getting my first degree in Clinical
+Psychology, I belonged to Psi Chi, the national honor society in
+psychology.  Small world.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+Little touches I live for (spo (20 Feb 1994)
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Little touches I live for (spo

+20 Feb 1994
     Re: "That kind of direction."  Not to be nit-picky, but it was
+scripted that we would come to G'Kar just as she got to that line.  Not
+everything is from the director....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS - two questions... (20 Feb 1994)
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JMS - two questions...

+20 Feb 1994
     Don't know re: Harlan's photo.  The reader doing the Tennyson piece
+was just a regular voice-over actor.  The piece is from "Ulysses."
+ 
+                                                       jms
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+

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+JMS: Generic EZ Q's (21 Feb 1994)
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JMS: Generic EZ Q's

+21 Feb 1994
     The Earth/Minbari war started with a Minbari first encounter (by us)
+that went tragically wrong and resulted in a firefight, in which the
+leader of the Grey Council was killed.
+ 
+     Kosh's ship is still on B5, except when he takes it out.
+ 
+     Virtually all of the B5 story takes place within one galaxy.
+ 
+     Yes, Earth religions have had to come to grips with the existence of
+alien cultures; and religions from both sides have filtered into human an
+alien life.  We won't be dealing with that this season because we deal
+with the topic of religion a lot this season, and don't want to get too
+bogged down with it.
+ 
+     Franklin's associate wasn't a Foundationist, no.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+"Infections" vs.  Guyver (spoi (21 Feb 1994)
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"Infections" vs.  Guyver (spoi

+21 Feb 1994
     I've never been a big fan of japanese animation, and have never heard
+of Guyver before it came up in this discussion.  (I actually thought that
+the Guyver references were some kind of reference to McGuyver for a long
+time, until finally I began to suss out that we were talking animation
+here.)
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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Re: Infection <spoilers>

+21 Feb 1994
     Re: the scene in which Sinclair tells an INS reporter that humanity
+has to stay in space because eventually our local star will go out and
+make futile our million-year struggle through evolution and blood, you
+say, "It's also been done a zillion times before."
+ 
+     Name five.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+Re: Babylon 5 Grade Report: "M (16 Feb 1994)
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Re: Babylon 5 Grade Report: "M

+16 Feb 1994
     For what it's worth, in "Raiding Party," there's a line or two of
+dialogue mentioning that the Raider ships are meant for atmospheric and
+space maneuvering, with the recommendation that someone "aim for the
+airfoils," as that's the most vulnerable spot.  So that *is* specified at
+one point.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+JMS (et al.) A treatise on Cha (16 Feb 1994)
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JMS (et al.) A treatise on Cha

+16 Feb 1994
     Your analysis sounds just about right on from where I sit....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+I liked it. (16 Feb 1994)
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I liked it.

+16 Feb 1994
     Re: the shape of the doors...they're set to notch into the wall,
+and in the case of depressurization, bolts shoot through the "teeth" that
+insert into the wall, to lock it securely into place.  It's much more
+airtight that way than a conventional door that swings or opens in the
+middle in case of an accident that opens a portion of the station to
+vacuum.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Re: "Midnight" reactions (16 Feb 1994)
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Re: "Midnight" reactions

+16 Feb 1994
     There was a problem with the initial episodes using the garden: we
+kept turning in good looking shots, and couldn't figure out why they
+looked weird later.  Turns out that the people at the color lab/video
+transfer facility (one person in particular) kept adjusting the color and
+gamma TO MATCH HIS MONITOR.  We finally found out about this and yelled.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Series premier thoughts (some (1 Feb 1994)
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Series premier thoughts (some

+1 Feb 1994
     Just a quick note re: the idea of sending B5 ships out to safeguard
+all incoming ships...can't really be done.  There are only a very small
+number of fighters (comparatively speaking) on B5, and a *LOT* of ships
+coming in on a daily basis.  Once they're through the last gate, to B5,
+they're safe.  But there are gates in between, where they're vulnerable.
+ You'd have to safeguard the whole galaxy, practically.  Can't be done.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+

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+Re: RFD: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylo (16 Feb 1994)
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Re: RFD: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylo

+16 Feb 1994
     "I certainly hope B5 can do (Battlestar Galactica) justice!"
+ 
+     (whoah...must've hit him harder than I thought....)
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Re: query to JMS....... (16 Feb 1994)
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Re: query to JMS.......

+16 Feb 1994
     There are no immediate plans to expand on the Sinclair Aircraft
+piece; some things are best just left there.  The logo is real, btw; we
+found it, and got permission to use it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Soul Hunter - A review of sort (16 Feb 1994)
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Soul Hunter - A review of sort

+16 Feb 1994
     Doing the intro was something that PTEN wants for all its shows; if
+you check out Trax and Kung Fu, you'll see it there, as well.  It's my
+hope that we can trim the narration down by 1/2 in second and subsequent
+seasons.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+WILL WE VISIT THE VEGITATED IN (16 Feb 1994)
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WILL WE VISIT THE VEGITATED IN

+16 Feb 1994
     Yes, we will.  In addition to the Zen garden, and the Fresh Air
+Restaurant, we'll be seeing the Orchard, the Pavillion, and the Maze,
+though you won't see the last one there for some time.  I don't think it
+shows up until "Chrysalis."
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS at Icon? (16 Feb 1994)
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JMS at Icon?

+16 Feb 1994
     Yes, at this point, I do plan to be at Icon....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+Transfer point at Io (16 Feb 1994)
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Transfer point at Io

+16 Feb 1994
    The transfer point off Io is a Jump Gate, the one most generally
+used by Earthforce.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+ 
+     (It's not on Io, it's on a station *off* Io.)
+
+

+
+
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+"Bab" prefix (17 Feb 1994)
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"Bab" prefix

+17 Feb 1994
     Re: your concern about putting "bab" in front of everything (the
+message to which you responded mentioned babcommand, babalert, babguard
+and so on)...it's not, and we don't.  There is only one thing with that
+previx, BabCom.  That's all.  There ain't no more.  The person who
+thought he heard bab-alert misheard MedAlert.
+ 
+     The concern as raised has *nothing* to do with our show.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B (17 Feb 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B

+17 Feb 1994
     Let me respond only to two points in your message.  The rest seem
+hardly worthy of response.
+ 
+     I am not, as you imply, going for "brownie points" from anyone.  I
+am telling a story.  I am telling the story that I've wanted to tell for
+seven years.  I have no interest in currying favor from any group, any
+organization, any fringe or mainstream elements.  You don't work for seven
+years to create the chance to tell your own story just to turn it over to
+the influence of others.
+ 
+     Did it every occur to you -- for even a *smidgen* of a second -- that
+maybe, just maybe, what I'm doing with B5 is being done BECAUSE IT ADVANCES
+THE STORY?  Because it is a legitimate part of the story?  You seem to
+think that if someone does something in this area, it HAS to proceed from
+either a personal political agenda, or the enforced agenda of others.
+ 
+     Which is a load of absolute and utter crap.  I don't care who signs
+on board, or who's offended.  That's not my concern.  My concern is in
+telling a story, as best as I am able.  Period.
+ 
+     To your second point, that if violence on TV is open to congressional
+inquiry, then nothing is wrong in "questioning (how) political and social
+issues are presented in entertainment programming."
+ 
+     Well, I'm glad someone has finally come out of the woodwork on this
+one.
+ 
+     This is exactly what happens in this situation.  Everybody waves the
+big VIOLENCE bugaboo around to get pressure built behind them...and then
+they begin to use this huge stick to go after their OTHER agendas, the
+legislation of ideas, curtailment of notions and issues that they don't
+personally like.  It's happened again and again, in comics, in kid's
+programs, in libraries across the country, in the recording industry, and
+now they're trying to do it to TV.
+ 
+     The hard part is always getting them to ADMIT that this is on their
+minds.
+ 
+     Thank you for breaking the silence.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: What are those blue fins? (17 Feb 1994)
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Re: What are those blue fins?

+17 Feb 1994
     For the record: B5 is *not* purely solar-powered.  There's a HUGE
+fusion reactor at the far end of the station that takes up almost that
+entire long section.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Christy Marx (17 Feb 1994)
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Christy Marx

+17 Feb 1994
     Yes, this Christy Marx is the same as the one who writes games and
+has written comics as well.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+MOTFL's Title (1 Feb 1994)
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MOTFL's Title

+1 Feb 1994
     "Midnight on the Firing Line" as a title was more my feelings about
+the episode and the series.  I knew we'd come under considerable fire,
+figured it was cool.
+ 
+	                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B-5: What are they wearing on (21 Feb 1994)
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B-5: What are they wearing on

+21 Feb 1994
     The devices on the backs of their hands are Links, which function as
+communications devices, interface with the B5 central computer, can access
+the PA system and so on.  They slap on and off easily.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Concerns about Scientific (21 Feb 1994)
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Re: Concerns about Scientific

+21 Feb 1994
     Just a minor correction: I was never involved with the production or
+writing of the original V series or miniseries; I was hired by Warners to
+write a new (and as yet unproduced) 4-hour miniseries to revive the V
+series in syndication.  The project was shelved when it was realized that
+it would be too expensive to try it for the syndicated market.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  Parliament? (21 Feb 1994)
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JMS:  Parliament?

+21 Feb 1994
     A parliament is a gathering of officials, of representatives, which
+matches the story in terms of representatives of different places, and
+beliefs.  The dreams are the belief systems.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+B5 and Cronos (21 Feb 1994)
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B5 and Cronos

+21 Feb 1994
     The only Cronos movie that I know of is "Kronos," a mexican-filmed
+black and white film in which an alien device crash-lands and grows to
+skyscraper size and begins stomping its way across Mexico...looked like
+a cross between a rubik's cube and a peppermill.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Concerns about Scientific (22 Feb 1994)
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Re: Concerns about Scientific

+22 Feb 1994
     "I object to the PSI stuff because the show was said to be SF."
+ 
+     Yes, and telepathy has been dealt with considerably throughout the
+long history of SF.  One of the finest novels in the genre is Alfred
+Bester's "The Demolished Man."  Telepathy has also been used as a valid
+plot device in SF by Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, Kurt Vonnegut, Brian
+Aldiss, John Brunner, Kate Wilhelm, Robert Sheckley, Eric Frank Russell,
+Walter M. Miller, Anne McCaffrey, Richard Matheson, Fritz Leiber and
+Samuel Delaney, to name but a FEW.
+ 
+     If you want to argue that telepathy isn't a valid area for SF, or
+doesn't qualify as SF, then your argument is with them, not with me.
+ 
+     And you'd lose.
+ 
+     (With luck, this will close this discussion once and for all.)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: No more gay talk and Ivano (22 Feb 1994)
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Re: No more gay talk and Ivano

+22 Feb 1994
     Actually, Ivanova gets to play hero a *lot* in this first season;
+in "Raiding Party," a little in "War Prayer," more in "Believers," and
+"A Voice in the Wildereness," and "Legacies," and a whole bunch more.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Stupid Question in "Infection" (22 Feb 1994)
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Stupid Question in "Infection"

+22 Feb 1994
     Actually, the reporter's question was *not* (from a 2258 point of
+view) stupid.  Earth is far enough from the other major races not to
+have to worry about iminent invasion.  At the time of the story, there is
+a VERY strong isolationist movement growing back home, which you'll hear
+more about as we go in.  Space travel is *expensive*, even in 2258, and
+there are still a lot of problems to be resolved back home.  While the
+Earth administration in Earthdome keeps pressing to go further and
+further, various nation/states in the Earth senate are taxed further to
+finance explorations which they don't always share in equally, the Mars
+Colony is threatening secession...things are falling apart by degrees.
+So in light of all that, the question is *absolutely* valid.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Re: MOJO responds to FX chat (22 Feb 1994)
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Re: MOJO responds to FX chat

+22 Feb 1994
     Re: boring textbooks and keeping you away from physics....
+ 
+     Ladies and gentlemen, the Amazing MOJO, one of the leading minds of
+the 14th century.
+ 
+     I gotta get a bigger ball-bat.
+ 
+     Go ahead.  Tell Ron you just wrote that here.  But wait until I get
+there first.  This one I'd *pay* to see.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ALIEN ACCENTS (22 Feb 1994)
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Re: ALIEN ACCENTS

+22 Feb 1994
     I quote your message verbatim: "What kind of accent (besides FAKE and
+FORCED) does the membari (spelling?) lady use?  I mean, what country on
+earth did they model her character's accent from?"
+ 
+     (rolling up sleeves)  Allow me to show you why you are an idiot.
+ 
+     There is a tendency, among the cerebrally impaired, to automatically
+decide that whatever they don't like is fake, or forced, or cheesy, when
+they are simply ignorant of what it means, or what it is.  Because it
+isn't instantly familiar, doesn't instantly match what they've seen before,
+they -- like you -- assume it's being done incorrectly.
+ 
+     Mira Furlan is a native-born Yugoslavian (back when that was the
+name of the country).  She came to this country only a year or two ago,
+fleeing for her life.  She had been that nation's premiere actress, having
+won any number of major awards, including the Palm d'Or at Cannes.  But
+because she refused to endorse either side in that bloodbath, she was
+hunted by both.
+ 
+     The "fake and forced" accent to which you refer...is her native
+accent.
+ 
+     Maybe next time you will take the required moment to *think* before
+shooting off your mouth, and phrase your question in order to get the
+required information before making allegations based on your own lack of
+said information.  One doesn't always have to attack something unfamiliar
+or insult someone's ability just because you don't like something.
+ 
+     Because from time to time, you'll prove yourself a boob.
+ 
+     Like this time.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+Did you need Loyd's of London' (22 Feb 1994)
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Did you need Loyd's of London'

+22 Feb 1994
     No need for Lloyd's permission, just for a casual reference.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+
+MOTFL Credits... (1 Feb 1994)
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MOTFL Credits...

+1 Feb 1994
      There are definitely more credits at the end of the episode; the
+station is NOT alloweed to cut credits like that.  They should be put on
+notice.  Call them, and tell us who did it.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+(JMS) Research Grants (22 Feb 1994)
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(JMS) Research Grants

+22 Feb 1994
     Thanks.  And agreed; the state of research grants, particularly for
+pure-research, but even for more practical applications, is in sorry
+shape.  Other nations invest *massive* amounts of money into research and
+development, we invest pennies...and we wonder why we're falling behind.
+ No one's looking ahead.  It's tragic, and worse than tragic, it's
+dirt-stick-stone stupid.  My condolences.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+SPOILERS:The Parliament of Dre (23 Feb 1994)
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SPOILERS:The Parliament of Dre

+23 Feb 1994
     "There was one big plot hole: Na'Toth should not have had such an
+easy time convincing the assassin that she had been assigned as backup."
+ 
+     Hmm...as I recall the episode, she *didn't* convince him at all, and
+in fact was inches away from having him blow her brains out when G'Kar
+came barrelling down the hall at them....
+ 
+     Just a thought.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: INFLUENCES BESIDES CLASSI (23 Feb 1994)
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JMS: INFLUENCES BESIDES CLASSI

+23 Feb 1994
     In terms of visual-media SF, there have been a lot of influences over
+the years, mainly in informing my views of what constitutes SF.  There are
+the obvious influences from Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits, as well as
+Blake's 7 and the Prisoner.  Also loved Night Gallery, and still hold some
+measure of appreciation for the Invaders.  My favorite SF films are still
+(for the most part) those from the fifties and sixties; 2001, The Day The
+Earth Stood Still, Twenty Million Years to Earth and so on, though clearly
+there's been a lot of good work since, with Aliens and the Terminator
+films being favorites.
+ 
+     Anime has never really done much for me, I'm afraid.  It's hard to
+really say why; it's not that it offends me or anything, it just hasn't
+pushed the same buttons for me that other venues have.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+::::::::::::::
+gain, putting in
+phasing problems and other stuff.  We're trying to backtrack further and
+keep it from happening again.  (Part of the problem apparently sets in
+when they do the closed-captioning duping.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B (23 Feb 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B

+23 Feb 1994
     Let me put this as simply as I can...in the year 2258, nobody *cares*
+about your sexual orientation.  It doesn't come up.  No one makes an issue
+out of it.  There are no discussions, no proclamations, no inquiries, no
+"how will they react?"  It's like being left-handed or right-handed; no
+one really cares one way or another.
+ 
+     Can we now move on past all of this?
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5mojo: Some things I want to (23 Feb 1994)
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B5mojo: Some things I want to

+23 Feb 1994
     You've already got your wish.  You'll see big ships going *boom* in
+"A Voice in the Wilderness" and firing at each other, and the between the
+fins movement and other stuff even more outrageous in "Raiding Party."
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+"Collision course" in SH (spoi (23 Feb 1994)
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"Collision course" in SH (spoi

+23 Feb 1994
     Re: why soul hunter #1's ship was out of control...the second soul
+hunter comments that they've been tracking him, and caught up with him a
+few days ago.  They attacked, "and he escaped, his ship damaged."  That
+is what brought him here...and led his pursuers to this place as well.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: talkshows (23 Feb 1994)
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JMS: talkshows

+23 Feb 1994
     Jerry Doyle was recently on the Dini Petty show up in Canada, but as
+far as I know, no talk show bookings yet, though a few things are in the
+discussions phase.
+
+                                                              jms
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Re: JMS: Are you pulling a "St

+24 Feb 1994
     In your complaints regarding the commander flying off on occasional
+missions (and he only does it about 3 times out of 22 episodes, so I
+hardly see this as a problem), you are forgetting several other *realities*
+of military life.  If you're a pilot, even as a commander, you have to
+log in X-number of hours flying time per month in order to continue to
+qualify for flight pay.  This is a *requirement*.  And it doesn't just
+mean flying around the station a few times.
+
+     Second, many commanders -- as recently as Vietnam and afterward --
+did and continue to go out on missions and sorties because it is rather
+expected of them, and because it maintains the respect of the rest of
+the squadron(s).
+
+     Third, and possibly most important, Earthforce is the same as the
+contermporary Air Force in one important respect: promotion up the ranks
+is tied *directly* to combat experience and, in this case, combat
+flying.  That's why women fighter pilots and helicopter pilots have been
+fighting so *vigorously* to be allowed to fly combat missions; they know
+that they can't be promoted fully up the line without that.  Sinclair has
+no desire to be a commander all his life, he'd like to move on.  Hence
+it behooves him to get in combat time whenever possible.
+
+     Your statement that it "doesn't wash" has nothing to do with how
+the military *actually* works, and everything to do with the skewed and
+inaccurate portrayal of the military that you get from Trek.  This is
+absolutely legitimate, and the B5 mailbox these days is partly crammed
+with letters from vets thanking us for getting this part right.
+
+     I suppose I could mention this in passing in dialogue, but then it
+becomes a matter of sticking in dialogue not because it's important to an
+episode, but because some folks would like things explained to them.  I
+don't think that's my responsibility.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS:  Are you pulling a "Star (24 Feb 1994)
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+24 Feb 1994
     I answered you elsewhere here on this topic earlier this evening.  To
+just nit for a moment, to say that Sinclair picks up "every derelict
+ship" seems a little unfair...he's picked up *one*, and only one, and
+only picks up one this entire season.  Why him?  A) Because he's good at
+it, B) he could use the flight pay, C) it'll look good on his record, and
+D) because as he says as he leaves, it's a potential first-contact
+situation.  (NOt to mention E, that he has a death-wish.)
+
+     I would submit to you that this is NOT the same as having one
+character do a zillion different jobs on the station.  I think that you're
+reacting to something you've seen on Trek, and are assuming based on an
+example of one that we're doing it in B5 as well.  We're not.  Also, in
+"Purple," Garibaldi sends a different team out to handle the gunfire, so
+there are others who do things.  Question becomes, how many new and
+recurring characters do you want to introduce?  There are currently *14*
+regular and recurring characters on B5, and there are many folks who are
+saying that's too many.  As it is, we do introduce an aide to Garibaldi
+who takes care of some stuff for him.  Just as Sinclair delegates to
+Ivanova, and Ivanova delegates to the observation dome techs.
+
+     I just feel that you're leaping to a conclusion based on a paucity of
+evidence, built upon your experiences with another show.  We're simply not
+doing this.
+
+                                                                          jms
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+

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+Earthdome: where is it? (24 Feb 1994)
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+24 Feb 1994
     Earthdome is on Earth.  In what used to be Geneva.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B (1 Feb 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B

+1 Feb 1994
    I have not *made* a big issue out of this, and do not intend to do
+so.  In addition, when a certain characteristic is revealed in someone,
+it won't be in the center of a story or made into a treatise because at
+the time of our story it *isn't* an issue anymore, any more than being
+left or right handed.  No one frankly cares.  And it will not be given
+any more weight than that.  It will be treated fairly off-handedly.
+ 
+     A note to those who have taken up this issue to popularize it: there
+is a Monty Python sketch called "The Value of Not Being Seen."  Those
+who've seen it will get the reference.  To the rest...until something is
+done in a show, particularly something along these lines, it's best to
+keep a fairly subdued profile, because if people start getting hincky
+about something before we've shown how something is actually going to be
+handled -- with taste, discretion and subtlty -- it might cause some folks
+to bring pressure *not* to do it.
+ 
+     Let's all do one thing at a time...and let me do this according to
+the schedule that's set out for this.  Don't jump the gun.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+

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+JMS: Parliament? Dreams? (25 Feb 1994)
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+25 Feb 1994
     You'll get more on the varied Narn beliefs in "By Any Means
+Necessary."
+
+                                                                   jms
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+General questions for JMS (25 Feb 1994)
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General questions for JMS

+25 Feb 1994
     I could've written B5 as a novel per se, as you say, having written
+published novels before...and it would've been one more SF novel.  No one
+has really attempted this kind of multi-year story, on this kind of scale
+before for American TV.  (The closest I can come to in terms of other
+shows is, interestingly enough, "Brisco County Jr."  I've been very
+pleased to see them developing a real story over time.)  It's more of a
+real challenge to try and do it for TV, for starters, and B5 has always
+struck me as better *suited* for TV.  Generally I can get a good sense of
+what medium a story belongs in, and this one felt like TV.)  I enjoy
+challenges, and doing a show like B5 for TV is a *real* challenge.
+
+     As for the characters, for the largest part they were created new
+when they came into replace those characters who were removed from the
+story arc.  There's not much carry-over.
+
+                                                                     jms
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Re: JMS: "See you next Wednesd

+25 Feb 1994
     No, Wednesday was just the day she was due to return; she mentions
+that her next job has to be finished by Tuesday, and this makes
+Wednesday the next day she could see him.
+
+     I'm not terribly enamored of Landis, and would not deliberately
+stick ANY reference to his work in an episode of mine.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Something I'd like to see (was (25 Feb 1994)
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Something I'd like to see (was

+25 Feb 1994
     You've already seen a non-O2 alien wearing a breather in an O2
+section; one of the two victims walking down a hall in "Infection" just
+before they get smeared.  Also an alien or two in the gallery in
+"Midnight," though I don't know how clearly they can be seen.  We do it
+from time to time....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Telepath a bad idea? (25 Feb 1994)
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+25 Feb 1994
     The point you raise is exactly correct; which is why we've set up
+the Psi Corps in such a way as to *prevent* them from becoming a deus ex
+machina all the time.  This is what's always bothered me about the way
+"empaths" are treated on ST; it's a terrible invasion of privacy.  The Psi
+Corps has strict rules about who can and can't be scanned, and under what
+conditions.  In "Purple," she couldn't just go scan Trakis; she had to be
+hired, had to be already engaged in a business capacity, and had to find
+it *only* in surface thoughts, no deliberate poking.  And this is the ONLY
+-- repeat, the ONLY -- time this is done in the entire season, aside from
+the accidental run-in with Londo in the pilot episode.
+
+     We'll get deeper into the rules and regs of the Psi Corps as we go,
+further establishing that there's a lot they're expressly forbidden from
+doing by law.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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JMS: Some questions

+25 Feb 1994
     We won't see G'Kar's mate this season.  In time.  And yes, we will
+learn a little more about telepaths in the other species, and how they
+work, in "Legacies" and in "Eyes."
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+RE: BTTP and semi-clad women ( (25 Feb 1994)
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RE: BTTP and semi-clad women (

+25 Feb 1994
     I confess I don't see the problem.  In real life, some women are
+scientists, and doctors, and atheletes...and some women dance in bars,
+some women hook part- or full-time.  Some men are scholars and diplomats
+and teachers...and some men are gigolos and thieves and *also* dance in
+bars.  Where exactly is the problem in portraying both sides of this?
+Have we become so concerned with being politically correct that we can
+not show a legitimate part of human existence?
+
+     B5 has all kinds, and both sides of all kinds.  Male and female,
+equally.  I "chose" exotic dancers for a kind of sleazy, not-entirely
+legitimate operation, a backroom club.  What would one *expect* to find
+there?  Opera singers?  You look at the situation, and you choose
+what is *appropriate to the situation*.
+
+     I would also point out that the dancers didn't "eagerly rush
+forward to betray their friend."  Londo was trying to find Adira in hopes
+of helping her.  He didn't say he was going to do anything bad to her,
+and he was probably known to more than a few of them.  He was simply
+trying to find her.  The coin was an added incentive.  Back when I was an
+investigative reporter, I did some research on strip joints while I was
+living in SAn Diego.  Spent a LOT of time talking to nude dancers (when
+they had their clothes on, I hasten to add).  And 99.9% of them had a
+rule: you want to ask questions, you pay.  That simple.  That's how this
+stuff *works*.  My job is to keep the B5 reality as close as possible to
+our reality in that respect.
+
+     Some of them probably wanted to help, knowing Londo was okay.  Some
+probably didn't care.  And some probably would've betrayed her at the
+tip of a coin.  Life's like that.  So again, where in this is the
+problem?
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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Re: JMS Attn --  Re: Babylon 5

+25 Feb 1994
     The video noise and audio problem is apparently happening between
+the time we deliver the episode on D2s and when it's uplinked to the
+stations.  Apparently the show goes through 5 more generations, in order
+to add in commercials (1 pass), add in closed-captioning (another copy),
+and so on.  We're trying to track it down and see where in the process
+the glitch is happening.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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Comments on "Infection"

+25 Feb 1994
     In your review of "Infection," you ask where are the floating
+recorders we saw in the pilot.  Just as a point of reference...they were
+in "Infection," in the last scene with the reporter.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Where is that weapon? (26 Feb 1994)
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Where is that weapon?

+26 Feb 1994
     The weapon to which you refer was not part of B5; it was on Space
+Rangers, and was shown as part of an overall SF-TV report.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+Babylon 5 Writers Guide Re: Mi (2 Feb 1994)
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Babylon 5 Writers Guide Re: Mi

+2 Feb 1994
     Your pyramid of something happens, it's critical, confrontation,
+resolution, is not something *bad* in shows...it happens to be universal
+dramatic structure.  Introduction of the problem, rising action, climax,
+and denouement.  If you don't think this is appropriate, then you are
+dismissing literally 95% of all literature, all movies, ever created in
+the history of mankind.  So B5 meets the standards applied to literature.
+I don't see a problem here.
+ 
+     The rest of your note is little more than specious and petty.  And I
+would defy you to find *any* way to categorize "The Parliament of Dreams"
+by this breakdown.  Is there anything that you would *not* just go ahead
+and classify as a soap opera device?  From your list, anything you decide
+is soap opera goes on the list.
+ 
+     Specious and petty.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+What's Spoo? (26 Feb 1994)
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What's Spoo?

+26 Feb 1994
     Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...deponds on whether or
+not you ever want to have children later....
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Re: Question to JMS (was Excel (2 Feb 1994)
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Re: Question to JMS (was Excel

+2 Feb 1994
     Yeah, I keep flip-flopping on "Purple" and "Midnight" for the number
+4 and 5 spots...they're prety close.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+Re: About the RFD Process (2 Feb 1994)
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Re: About the RFD Process

+2 Feb 1994
     Since you raised the question about the explosion of messages...I
+have a small suggestion.  Right now, when I log onto GEnie and get the
+alt messages in my email via the Internet gateway, there are now about
+200+ messages a day.  I do read them all, but it's going to get a lot
+busier.
+ 
+     If there is a message out there by someone that requires a response,
+or is a specific question for me, if you could begin the note with JMS,
+in the subject header, I'll know to read that one first.  Others may have
+to sit in the box for a day or so until I can do a massive read.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+Midnight Impressions (Possible (1 Feb 1994)
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Midnight Impressions (Possible

+1 Feb 1994
     The quote is correct.  And thanks for the feedback, and glad you
+enjoyed the show.  I think it's going to be quite a ride....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+Question about Kosh for JMS (3 Feb 1994)
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Question about Kosh for JMS

+3 Feb 1994
     Correct, Christopher Franke designed Kosh's voice.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+

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+New GIFs (3 Feb 1994)
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New GIFs

+3 Feb 1994
     BTW, have named an Earth Alliance Cruiser Hyperion, in notation of
+the library....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+Question re Earth Alliance (3 Feb 1994)
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Question re Earth Alliance

+3 Feb 1994
     You are correct in that the Earth Alliance consists in the main of
+humans.  Aliens are generally not integrated into the system, except in
+very low-level stuff.  (In some bronze-tech worlds where humans have come
+in and pulled an India/England relationship, you may have colonial
+governors who are native aliens, but are basically puppets.)  There's
+more than just Mars, Earth and the Sol colonies; there are a number of
+other worlds and systems out there into which Earth has made a dent.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+Re: Pain in the butt? (3 Feb 1994)
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Re: Pain in the butt?

+3 Feb 1994
     "...at least it has a fricative."
+ 
+     HEY!
+ 
+     Watch that kind of language.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: USA Today Review--Londo is (3 Feb 1994)
+
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Re: USA Today Review--Londo is

+3 Feb 1994
     Re: Londo as a romantic character...bless your heart.  You are the
+first to have nailed it absolutely on the head.  If I had to write a
+description of the character, I doubt I could have done any better than
+what you just wrote.  There are a *lot* of episodes that bring this out
+in him, including the next one up, "Born to the Purple," which I suspect
+will end virtually all of the hair jokes once and for all.
+ 
+     Anyway...yes, and thank you, that's it *precisely*.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Centauri Hair??? (attn: JM (3 Feb 1994)
+
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Re: Centauri Hair??? (attn: JM

+3 Feb 1994
     Generally speaking, yes, hair = status.  Very peacock-ian (to coin a
+phrase).  Certainly, you could wear your hair longer than your status
+permits, but it's like pretending to a status you don't have, which is
+viewed as pathetic.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+My personal review of the B5 p (3 Feb 1994)
+
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My personal review of the B5 p

+3 Feb 1994
     Sinclair's line, "Cut accelleration," was in regards to forward
+momentum, so he could more easily spin the fighter around.
+ 
+	                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Midnight on the Firing Li (3 Feb 1994)
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Midnight on the Firing Li

+3 Feb 1994
     Thanks.  What you say is correct; we have to look to the past, and
+determine its influence, and either learn from it, or be destroyed by
+it.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Millenial...? (3 Feb 1994)
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Millenial...?

+3 Feb 1994
     The turn of the century with B5's conclusion is coincidence.
+ 
+     Mostly.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+BABYLON 5 PILOT EPISODE ON CFT (3 Feb 1994)
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BABYLON 5 PILOT EPISODE ON CFT

+3 Feb 1994
     Most B5 viewers that I've heard from call themselves Fivers, when
+they identify themselves as anything other than what they are, people of
+infinite taste and sensibility....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "Midnig (1 Feb 1994)
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Re: CRITICAL COMMENTS: "Midnig

+1 Feb 1994
     We did the title sequence in letterbox as a partial nod to the fact
+that we're shooting the series in that aspect ratio, though for now only
+the regular portion is being broadcast.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+MOTFL's title (was Re: Musings (3 Feb 1994)
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MOTFL's title (was Re: Musings

+3 Feb 1994
     Ah, another Chapin fan.  Yes, I definitely love his work, albet
+there is, sadly, not nearly enough of it.  Also Billy Joel, Indigo Girls,
+everything except country.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+TV Guide advertisments? (3 Feb 1994)
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+
TV Guide advertisments?

+3 Feb 1994
     Local ads are placed by local stations, not Warners.  If there's no
+ad in your local TV Guide edition, the problem lay with the local station.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Centauri Precognition and Mili (3 Feb 1994)
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Centauri Precognition and Mili

+3 Feb 1994
     Re: precog and Centauri...here, as best I can recall, is exactly
+what I wrote for Londo: "My people, we have a way, you see...we know how,
+and *SOMETIMES* even *when* we are going to die...."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Questions for JMS (3 Feb 1994)
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Questions for JMS

+3 Feb 1994
     Starfuries dock in the central docking bay, are repaired, prepped
+and lowered into the cobra bays.  And yes, you'll see this.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Midnight Complaints? (3 Feb 1994)
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Midnight Complaints?

+3 Feb 1994
     To have a station commander *and* a rep for Earth can be cumbersome
+in many ways, when someone has to give orders.  It's cleaner this way;
+and no different than any of the sailing vessels of the 18th century and
+before, when each captain was viewed as, and expected to perform as, the
+official representative of his country.
+ 
+     There is, however, a second agenda at work here, which you'll find
+out about a bit in "Raiding Party."
+ 
+     Re: Sinclair taking risks...watch "Infection" and its tag.  As for
+jumping in a fighter every show...no, that we don't do.  Of the 17 or
+so episodes we've shot to date, Sinclair only goes out in a fighter in
+maybe 3 episodes.  Ivanova, Garibaldi, or other fighter pilots go out
+elsewhere.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+questions... (3 Feb 1994)
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questions...

+3 Feb 1994
     The item on the back of Sinclair's hand is a Link, which is their
+personal communications system/powerbook/mainframe access system/pager.
+ 
+     The blue and green painting on the Starfury is probably the Sea
+Witch, a personal design.  The stylized EA seen on the wings, and on the
+EA command staff, is the Earth Alliance symbol.  (The EA silhouette is
+then altered within the lines to accommodate different divisions, command
+with a crosshatching, security with a gun sight, and so on.)
+ 
+     No comment.
+ 
+     Some alien fonts, yes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Musings from my Garden. SP (3 Feb 1994)
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Re: Musings from my Garden. SP

+3 Feb 1994
     Here's what I find curious (not necessarily in direct response to
+anything you said, but in general on this topic)...is that when Ivanova
+makes her remark to Garibaldi about snapping his hands off at the
+wrists, many people have assumed that she was insulting him, berating
+him, being bitchy, truly disliking and threatening him.
+ 
+     But the same words, put in the mouth of another male, wouldn't have
+drawn that reaction, and would've been classified under, "kidding
+around" or affable sarcasm.
+ 
+     Which is exactly what it is in this case.  In this place and this
+time, they're comfortable enough to mess with each other without it being
+taken seriously (among these characters, that is).  There are times they
+kinda like to phuque with each other a bit, just for the hell of it, as
+comrades will sometimes do.  ("Babylon Squared" has a great example of
+Sinclair and Garibaldi messing with Ivanova.)
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+nit-picking, my 2 cents worth. (3 Feb 1994)
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nit-picking, my 2 cents worth.

+3 Feb 1994
     We considered for a while using lots of subtitles, but the problem
+is that this is a fairly dialogue-intensive show, and after about 10
+exchanges of dialogue, it becomes hard to keep up with subtitles.  The
+other problem is that there is a large viewership, particularly in SF
+circles, of blind people, and thus subtitles seemed a bit unfair.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+Starfury launch sequence and m (3 Feb 1994)
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Starfury launch sequence and m

+3 Feb 1994
     Incorrect.  The Starfuries are launched from the rotating part of
+the station.  They're launched from the cobra bays, which are the cobra
+shaped projections alongside the round front of the station, and attached
+to it.  They definitely rotate.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+So when does the merchandising (4 Feb 1994)
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So when does the merchandising

+4 Feb 1994
     Frankly, I'm not in any hurry to see the show merchandised, though
+we're up to our ears in inquiries.  I think it's important, at least in
+the early stages, to keep all that stuff at arm's length.  Otherwise you
+end up in a situation where the tail begins wagging the dog.  Let's make
+the series as good as we can, first, and then worry about the toys later.
+ 
+                                                             jms*
+ 
+     (*who already has his B5 patches, watch, shirt, belt, mug....)
+
+

+
+
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+
+*SPOILERS*: MOTFL Episode guid (1 Feb 1994)
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+
*SPOILERS*: MOTFL Episode guid

+1 Feb 1994
     My suggestion: classify "Soul Hunter" under "Suspense."
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Kosh's First Words (4 Feb 1994)
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Kosh's First Words

+4 Feb 1994
     The scene was trimmed for time.  It may show up again later.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+What are those blue fins? (4 Feb 1994)
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What are those blue fins?

+4 Feb 1994
     The blue fins at the back of B5 are, as I recall, for the purpose
+of radiating internal heat out of and from B5.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Opening Narration (5 Feb 1994)
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Re: Opening Narration

+5 Feb 1994
     Nope, "Purple" wasn't moved up to replace "Infection."  The former
+was always scheduled for #3, followed by the latter.  The episodes for
+this first batch were put together to alternate action/character,
+so "Midnight" has lots of action, there's a fair amount in "Soul," so
+we give a break in "Purple."  Then lots of action in "Infection," not as
+much in "Parliament," and "Mind War" is an absolute blow out.
+ 
+     These first six are really very much stand-alones, and fairly
+straightforward.  Starting with "Parliament," we *really* begin to cook,
+though.  The concern was that if we started out too complex, we might
+lose a lot of people.  Better to bring them in gradually.  Starting from
+"Parliament" onward, each episode gets more ambitious as well, in terms
+of character, story, EFX, sets, you name it, to where we've got 3
+stories running in "Mind War," all interesting, all with great
+performances, nifty character moments, and killer EFX.  That's why I've
+made it a point to say, just stick with us for the first six.  If you
+don't like what you see after that...you're not going to.  I don't think
+anyone should support a show just because it's SF.
+ 
+     (Though that's not much of a risk here; I've *seen* "Parliament" and
+"Mind War," y'see....)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+MOTFL: Mars Colony & G'Kar's f (6 Feb 1994)
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MOTFL: Mars Colony & G'Kar's f

+6 Feb 1994
     Just as an advisory, I'd ask you to be more careful in your
+language, "...makes me wonder if JMS has lifted some ideas and milieu
+from Kim Stanley Robinson's 'Red Mars.'"
+ 
+     I do not "lift" ideas.  My ideas are my own.  The B5 storyline goes
+back 7 years.  There seems to be some conception in the public eye that
+TeeVee folks just sorta go out there, look at books, and start lifting
+things.  This is not only inaccurate, but I find it personally offensive.
+ 
+     Partly because I *know* Kim Stanley Robinson, albeit slightly.
+ 
+     I know you meant no harm, so don't take this as a flame.  I just felt
+that it required a response.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+prejudice in B5(was:Re: BABYLO (7 Feb 1994)
+
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+
prejudice in B5(was:Re: BABYLO

+7 Feb 1994
     You may perceive "alien" as a negative word.  It is also a correct
+word.  Now, one could refer to them as "atmospherically challenged," or
+"genetically other-abled," or "adhering to DNAlternatives," but among
+humans, talking to one another...they're aliens.  And to them, WE'RE
+aliens.  No, it ain't polite.  Who said it had to be?
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Replay in LA (7 Feb 1994)
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Replay in LA

+7 Feb 1994
     B5 is replayed on Channel 13 at 11 p.m. Sunday nights.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Clive Revill on next week's ep (7 Feb 1994)
+
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Clive Revill on next week's ep

+7 Feb 1994
      Correct, Clive Revill is in "Born to the Purple" this week.  We've
+actually had a *lot* of quality actors, drawn by the material, in our
+first season: Clive, David McCallum, David Warner, June Lockhart,
+Theodore Bickell, Morgan Shepherd, William Sanderson, Judson Scott and
+Walter Koenig, to name but a few.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Opening Narration (7 Feb 1994)
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Re: Opening Narration

+7 Feb 1994
     So who says that that order was final or official....?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Where's JMS (7 Feb 1994)
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+
Where's JMS

+7 Feb 1994
     The Genie/Internnet gateway was down for a few days, hence the
+silence.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 comments (spoilers) (7 Feb 1994)
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+
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+7 Feb 1994
     Just quickie responses: to your charge of sexism -- no female security
+guards, no female pilots -- you've only seen two shows so far.  In further
+episodes, we DO have female security guards, AND female pilots (including
+Ivanova, who goes into combat), AND female doctors (one of whom is
+Hispanic, and plays a major part in an episode), and females in every
+other capacity on board the station.  Virtually every female shown on this
+show has a career, responsibility, and for the most part is as content
+with that career as the men are.
+ 
+     Further, not only are our cast members equally male and female,
+we've taken this *behind* the camera...half or a little over half our crew
+are female, many in non-traditional jobs (traditionally male in Hollywood
+terms, in any event).  It's not just wardrobe and makeup, it's set
+and prop design, set *construction*, editorial, you name it.
+ 
+     As for the militarism needing to be repressed...there are already two
+other shows which feature repressed (or absent) military aspects; let's
+have something a little different.  I don't think all SF shows should look
+and feel alike.
+ 
+     As for the notion that it could use "a little of Trek's humanism,"
+I don't much like the way that's been defined there.  Seems to me that
+that version of "humanism" is placid, unpassionate, orderly and for the
+most part, with some exceptions, bloodless.  To me, humanism means
+embracing our flaws as well as our nobilities, and saying that we don't
+have to shed our basic humanity in order to go to the stars, but that we
+remain *humans*, with all that entails.  And we somehow persevere in SPITE
+of our flaws.  I find the process of overcoming more interesting, and more
+human, than assuming that we've already overcome everything.
+ 
+     The kind of humanism you're referring to isn't humanism, by my book.
+It's "we should all be nice to one another, and nobody should have any
+problems except the ones forced on us by bad guy aliens"...it's humanity
+as written by Barney the Dinosaur.
+ 
+     In any event -- and none of this is directed at you, it's more
+generic woolgathering than anything else -- my feeling is that you've GOT
+two shows already that advance that kind of thinking.  We're not Trek, we
+have no obligation to BE Trek, and if we just do what Trek is doing, what
+is the point?  It just becomes the same old thing.  I didn't fight for
+seven years to get this show on the air, to do Trek's vision of the
+future.
+ 
+     (The funny thing, of course, is that when TNG went on the air, people
+complained roundly about the lack of militarism and action in the show,
+that Picard surrendered too quickly, that it was too passive and too
+let's-all-be-nice.  Now a show that has action and an element of military
+is told that now we have to be like TNG is.  TNG was faulted for not being
+TOS.  We're faulted for not being TNG.  This stuff goes 'round and 'round.
+ The series will find its niche.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+1 Feb 1994
     I don't believe in monolithic aliens who all talk exactly alike,
+with the same accents, any more than I believe in humans who all talk
+exactly alike. Hence, the difference between Vir and Londo.
+ 
+     When they're together in their quarters, they're talking in Centauri,
+which we hear as English, as in WW II movies, the Germans are obviously
+talking to each other in German, but we hear it in English.  (The only
+other alternative is to subtitle whole lengthy segments of the show, which
+is both unworkable, awkward, and unfair to blind viewers.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+8 Feb 1994
     When you say that you don't understand how the small thrust of the
+coffin could've carried it away from the statino since "anything
+released from the statin must also be in orbit," I can't help but wonder
+how closely you were paying attention.  A shuttle leaves B5, and moves
+well away from the station, and the coffin is launched from the shuttle,
+NOT from B5.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+8 Feb 1994
     Copeland decided he wanted to tour, and do another album.  That
+kinda took care of doing this season.  And in the long run, it's worked
+out well, because Christopher Franke has in many ways, I think, far
+exceeded what Stewart did for us, good as that was.  There's some killer
+stuff coming, very aggressive, very moving and powerful.  His piece for
+"And the Sky Full of Stars," -Requiem for the Line-, is brilliant, sad,
+emotional, brave...just nifty.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+8 Feb 1994
     Actually, only a portion of the music for any given episode of B5
+consists of synthesized music.  Much of it is performed by Christopher's
+orchestra in Berlin, which is hooked via digital lines to his studio here
+in town.  Not all, certainly, but more than you might think is from that
+live orchestra.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+8 Feb 1994
     Your theory that the two different internal-mind views are
+inconsistent is, of course, *entirely* contingent upon the assumption
+that all minds work -- human and alien alike -- work the same way, see
+themselves in the same way, perceive the world around them and their part
+in that world in exactly the same way.
+ 
+     And, of course, if all minds thought exactly the same...we wouldn't
+be having this disagreement about inconsistency, yes?
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+10 Feb 1994
     There *is* a beep there; it's just soft.  We learned after making
+that episode that some stations crunch down the sound a bit, dropping the
+highs.  We later bumped up the lows to make it more apparent.  It can be
+heard in most stations, unless they crunch the sound.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+Ivanavah is my hero (10 Feb 1994)
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+10 Feb 1994
     I like Ivanova as well; she's got a very sly, very *sharp*
+intelligence going there.  She can deadpan you and whap you upside the
+head with a comment delivered almost as an aside, or an afterthought.
+It's the difference between wit and humor.  She doesn't tell jokes, but
+she's got a great sense of wit.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
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+10 Feb 1994
     First, I'm not "star trekkin" anyone re: the translation on the soul
+hunter (not needing a machine).  He *has* been to earth.  Whether or not
+I have the opportunity down the road to get into this, that happens to
+be the truth within the B5 "backstory" that's been created.  In other
+episodes, when a translation machine is required, it's used.  (In
+addition to Kosh's and n'grath's translation devices, we use them in
+other shows, as in "Legacies" with a race called the Pak'ma'ra.)  In this
+one instance, he knew the words.  I don't consider that "star trekkin'
+anybody.
+ 
+     Re: your statement that the headwear of the S.H. is "stolen" from
+the Ferengi...may I be so bold as to respond to your rather loud note with
+some volume of my own?  To wit: watch something other than Star Trek, and
+maybe spend a little time learning stuff about your own world.  The
+headware is based upon the kind used in various african and aboriginal
+tribes.  Trek didn't invent it; we have photos of its use through
+history, as well as sketches going back further.  As it happens, the
+costume designer has never seen "DS9," doesn't watch TNG, has no idea
+what a Ferengi is.  Neither do I intend to not do something, based in
+real history, just because some other show has done drawn on that same
+background.
+ 
+     You clearly think that if something appeared in ST, then ST must have
+ 
+invented it, and that if it appears anywhere else, it must've been
+influence by ST.  Wrong on both counts.  I would suggest that you have
+been watching too much ST, and not nearly enough of the Discovery
+Channel.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Q to JMS: Make-up Time (10 Feb 1994)
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Q to JMS: Make-up Time

+10 Feb 1994
      Makeup takes anywhere from 2-3 hours for our main characters on a
+regular basis.  In some cases, we've done something pretty close to full
+body prosthetics on G'Kar, and that is nearly double the normal time.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+Re: Religion in B5 vs religion (10 Feb 1994)
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Re: Religion in B5 vs religion

+10 Feb 1994
     Yes, ST says that religion is dead by the 23rd century, but a) this
+ain't ST, and b) I think it's hogwash.  I'm an atheist, and certainly I
+wouldn't object to more people sharing that attitude.  But the reality
+is that the religious/spiritual impulse has been with us for as long as
+we've been alive, and it's not going to just stop suddenly in the next
+200 years.  If anything, if you look at Eastern Europe, you're seeing a
+resurgence there.
+ 
+     Your statement is predicated upon a) something massive and profound
+permanently changing the belief system of b) every person on the planet.
+At what point does it change for every single person on the planet?  And
+elsewhere?  Where is the switch thrown?
+ 
+     People run into problems in extrapolation when they make the
+assumption that things will be *drastically* different (barring some kine
+(kind) of real disaster, obviously; if a meteor crashes into the central
+United States, it's going to have a pretty substantial affect on the
+people living there) from what's going on now.  Fr'instance...the B&W
+SF *musical* "Just Imagine," made in the 1930s, set in the 1980s.  In
+the movie, people have numbers instead of names, they eat pills instead
+of food, all the usual cliches.  And, of course, they were wrong.
+ 
+     You're looking at 200-300 years as if it's a long time, which is a
+uniquely American point of view.  Go to Europe some time, stand in
+buildings that've been around longer than this nation, five, six, seven
+hundred years.  Go to New Grange in Ireland, stand as I did in the burial
+mound, the oldest man-made structure in the *world*, made before metal
+tools had been invented...and you get a sense of what *time* is.  300
+years is a blink.
+ 
+     I am an atheist.  But I'm also a writer.  And a writer is charged
+with the responsibility of being as honest as he can in his work.  The
+religious impulse, little as it appeals to me, remains one part of our
+species' attempt to define itself, and our place in the universe.  And
+it must be dealt with with a modicum of respect, and honesty.  What you
+like in ST may be more what you like, what you hope, but neither of us
+genuinely *knows* for certain what's going to happen 250 years from now,
+so they're both equally valid views.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+10 Feb 1994
     Re: non-sleek starships...the commercial transports we use (like the
+one attacked in MOTFL), the Iksha Battleglobe ("Deathwalker"), a very
+interesting ship in "Mind War," and a few others.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+1 Feb 1994
     You'll get a pretty good glimpse into why Sinclair jumps into a
+fighter any chance he can get in "Infection."  Part of it is to escape
+from stuff...the other goes much deeper, and much darker....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+Re: BABYLON 5 To elicit attent (10 Feb 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5 To elicit attent

+10 Feb 1994
     "Tell you what, as soon as JMS publishes a note to the effect that
+he's going to have a realistic hetero character, I'll send him a nice
+note of appreciatoin and support, and see if I can get all the hetero
+newspapers to carry articles about why we should give B5 a chance,
+because it will have unfashionable hetero types in it."
+ 
+     I'm going to have a realistic hetero character in B5.  Several, in
+fact.
+ 
+     Your serve.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS: Larry DiTillio, RPG? (10 Feb 1994)
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JMS: Larry DiTillio, RPG?

+10 Feb 1994
     No word yet on any B5 RPGs, though it would be a perfect candidate.
+And Larry's the right one to write it (assuming I'm not keeping him busy
+on other stuff).
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: USA Today Review--Londo is (10 Feb 1994)
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Re: USA Today Review--Londo is

+10 Feb 1994
     The hairpiece used for Londo is woven backwards, so it'll hang
+upward, for lack of a better term.  Held in place with spray.  The
+costume is notable for its detail work...lots of medals, intricate
+symbols (scarab/beetle type jewels on the shoulder and collar), with many
+layers.  Beyond that,it's kinda hard to describe.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B (11 Feb 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B

+11 Feb 1994
     I must admit that I am amazed by your ability to fortell the future.
+This must come in very handy in Vegas.
+ 
+     You start with an assumption of what I might do -- your opinion
+based on what someone else has said -- then make that into a fact that I
+AM going to do it, and then say you have trouble with my decision; you
+assume it's going to be handled in a certain fashion, and then condemn
+that fashion; you say that issues are going to be raised, and you have
+trouble with that issue; you say the genetic factor will be brought up,
+which hasn't  been proven, and then question the ethics of doing so.
+ 
+     Let me state this as simply as possible:
+ 
+     1) You are wrong in just about every particular.  You do not know
+what I am going to do.  To make a guess, based on zip from me, then
+condemn actions based on a guess that is TOTALLY INACCURATE is truly
+the ultimate straw-man.  Let me restate: you are completely and totally
+wrong in your speculations on the issues, and how this will be handled.
+You don't have to guess, you don't have to assume, I'm telling you
+straight out: you're wrong.
+ 
+     2) You're a boob.  Please try to refrain from prophesy until and
+unless you are biblically empowered by a considerably higher source.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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Re: BABYLON 5 To Include Gay/B

+17 Feb 1994
     Let me respond only to two points in your message.  The rest seem
+hardly worthy of response.
+ 
+     I am not, as you imply, going for "brownie points" from anyone.  I
+am telling a story.  I am telling the story that I've wanted to tell for
+seven years.  I have no interest in currying favor from any group, any
+organization, any fringe or mainstream elements.  You don't work for seven
+years to create the chance to tell your own story just to turn it over to
+the influence of others.
+ 
+     Did it every occur to you -- for even a *smidgen* of a second -- that
+maybe, just maybe, what I'm doing with B5 is being done BECAUSE IT ADVANCES
+THE STORY?  Because it is a legitimate part of the story?  You seem to
+think that if someone does something in this area, it HAS to proceed from
+either a personal political agenda, or the enforced agenda of others.
+ 
+     Which is a load of absolute and utter crap.  I don't care who signs
+on board, or who's offended.  That's not my concern.  My concern is in
+telling a story, as best as I am able.  Period.
+ 
+     To your second point, that if violence on TV is open to congressional
+inquiry, then nothing is wrong in "questioning (how) political and social
+issues are presented in entertainment programming."
+ 
+     Well, I'm glad someone has finally come out of the woodwork on this
+one.
+ 
+     This is exactly what happens in this situation.  Everybody waves the
+big VIOLENCE bugaboo around to get pressure built behind them...and then
+they begin to use this huge stick to go after their OTHER agendas, the
+legislation of ideas, curtailment of notions and issues that they don't
+personally like.  It's happened again and again, in comics, in kid's
+programs, in libraries across the country, in the recording industry, and
+now they're trying to do it to TV.
+ 
+     The hard part is always getting them to ADMIT that this is on their
+minds.
+ 
+     Thank you for breaking the silence.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
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+11 Feb 1994
     The only meaning to "All alone in the night" is in its surface; no
+hidden subtext.  But it is a cool image.
+ 
+     There's simply nothing that I can say about Kosh just now.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Re: Mojo answers FX question (11 Feb 1994)
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Re: Mojo answers FX question

+11 Feb 1994
     Mojo is incorrect.  The regular footage of live-action stuff on B5
+is shot widescreen, with the regular aspect ratio emphasized generally
+for initial broadcast in that format.  We picked footage from various
+scenes already shot for use in the main title sequence; compare Delenn
+and Sinclair walking in the central corridor in the main title, with the
+same identical shot in "Soul Hunter."  The widescreen is not a cropped
+image; there's more on either side.  Ditto other shots in that opening.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

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+JMS: Starfury question (11 Feb 1994)
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JMS: Starfury question

+11 Feb 1994
     The engines being placed on the ends of the wings was primarily a
+decision based on maneuverability; but as you say, it would also make
+maintenance easier as well.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+

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+Mojo answers FX question (11 Feb 1994)
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Mojo answers FX question

+11 Feb 1994
     Mojo...Mojo...c'mere, Mojo...I wanna talk to you...siddown...no,
+look, I'm not gonna hurt you, Mojo...Mojo...we don't film the live
+action stuff on this show in 3:1 aspect ratio.  It's widescreen, Mojo.
+Super 1:78:1.  Go pick up a copy of dailies, Mojo, it's right at the
+start of the tape.  We crop the sides for normal broadcast.  Look at the
+main title, Mojo, notice a slight difference between the main title
+shots from "Parliament" and the broadcast version in the episode
+itself...like...IT'S SUBSTANTIALLY WIDER AT EITHER END?!
+ 
+     Don't run, Mojo...come back...stand still...it's just a baseball
+bat, Mojo...we're gonna play a little game...Mojo...Mojo...COME BACK HERE!
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Outtakes? (11 Feb 1994)
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JMS: Outtakes?

+11 Feb 1994
     Yes, we're keeping the outtakes...somewhere.  I should check, see
+how much we've got now.  Very funny stuff.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

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+Re: +/- Review: Midnight (SPOI (1 Feb 1994)
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Re: +/- Review: Midnight (SPOI

+1 Feb 1994
     The whole idea of Talia calling the Psi Corps and having Ivanova
+removed for not liking her is, as you state, utterly absurd.  Life is
+like this...sometimes people don't get along.  What do you do, call the
+cops?
+ 
+     Second, Talia works for the Psi Corps, which is a *civilian*
+organization regulated by the government (though it certainly makes it
+(its) pretensions to military in dress and attitude).  Ivanova is a
+military officer.  A civilian has no authority over that.  The Psi Corps
+does not issue orders to the Earthforce Military.
+ 
+     The problem that I see so often, with some exceptions, is that people
+haven't stopped to think things through.  They think, "Well, they should
+just be able to go in and make things right."  Wrong.  This not only
+doesn't happen in real life, it doesn't happen in 99% of all fiction.
+It is an ST artifact that doesn't touch reality at any two contiguous
+points.
+ 
+     Just about half of the questions raised could be answered with a
+little thought, such as this one.  Similarly, the "Why didn't the Council
+see that Carn Mollari was being forced to read the statement, and act,"
+without stopping to consider a) that not all aliens read human
+expressions properly or well, b) suspicion isn't the same thing as
+proof, c) the smaller worlds would be loathe to take on the Narns, and
+d-f, which I'll list another time.  The attitude again is, "Well, this
+is *obviously* what's right, so they should do it."  People rarely do
+what is obviously right...and sometimes when they *do*, it's for the
+wrong reasons.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+Re: Music change from Gatherin (11 Feb 1994)
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Re: Music change from Gatherin

+11 Feb 1994
     The "Requiem for the Line" music appears in "And the Sky Full of
+Stars," which airs in about 5 weeks.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+Re: soul hunter, ferengis & fi (12 Feb 1994)
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Re: soul hunter, ferengis & fi

+12 Feb 1994
     You're correct; information is *not* willingly shared among the
+various races.  It's hoarded and used and sold.  And yes, humans would
+probably have *heard* of Soul Hunters, distantly, as a legend.  I see no
+reason why they would believe they existed, particularly with a title
+like that, unless and until actually encountering one.
+ 
+	                                          jms
+
+

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+JMS : Babylon 5 legal question (12 Feb 1994)
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JMS : Babylon 5 legal question

+12 Feb 1994
     It's never come up, and probably never will, but in terms of
+backstory, yes, it was legalized quite some time ago.  There are only a
+certain number of drugs not allowed on B5; those which would lead to
+destructive, violent behavior that would disrupt the station, and Dust,
+about which you won't be hearing for a while.
+ 
+     Near as I can figure, all grass makes you want to do is sit around
+eating pizza and watching old Lucy reruns....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS? Who's Vice-Pres.? :-) (12 Feb 1994)
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JMS? Who's Vice-Pres.? :-)

+12 Feb 1994
     The Earth Alliance Vice-President is a character named Morgan
+Clark.
+ 
+     But you don't need to know that for a while yet....
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+Re: Universe Today on paper?! (12 Feb 1994)
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Re: Universe Today on paper?!

+12 Feb 1994
     It's very easy to show things being different 250 years from now.
+You just have people running around using numbers instead of names, have
+people eating pills instead of hard food, using personal flyers, having
+their children raised entirely by machine....
+ 
+     In fact, all of that has been done...in an SF musical called "JUst
+Imagine," made in the 1930s, about life....in the 1980s.  And it was
+completely, totally off-base.
+ 
+     There's plenty of extrapolation in this show...phased plasma weapons,
+hyperspace, the Psi Corps, other political areas, on and on...and that has
+some great interest for me.  But for me, what the show is *most* about is
+how we are the same, not how we are different.  A key theme in this series
+is that this is US out there, in the stars, recognizeably US.
+ 
+     You cite the date 1721 as how things were "different."  People got
+married, held jobs, raised children, separated, had affairs, fought in
+wars, read books and the few pamphlets that were available, corresponded,
+on and on.  We do those same things today.  The *chrome* of technology has
+changed, but our basic human nature has not.  Nor will it in the next
+250 years.
+ 
+     Re: "Universe Today."  It's recycled material, light and portable,
+read it and trash it.  Even Asimov noted that there is nothing quite so
+portable as a piece of paper, or as efficient.  Computers were supposed to
+end the paper mountains inside corporate offices.  Have they?  No.  One
+look at my (or any) office shows that computers have cause MORE paper
+mountains, not fewer.  So why not extrapolate to "newspapers" that are
+tied into a major web, printed fresh in your quarters or thereabouts every
+day, with all the news you'd like to see printed, and the stuff you don't
+much care about left out?  Customized newspapers, skewed toward your
+interests.  THAT is "UT."  I just don't much want to sit there and explain
+the darned thing because it's just more exposition.
+ 
+     And who says the Dodgers won't be here 200 years from now?  They're
+still going (reasonably) strong after nearly a century already.  What
+will suddenly happen in the world that all the world's baseball teams will
+simply vanish?  There seems to be this sense that at some point in the
+coming future, somebody will throw a switch, and suddenly 90% of the
+things we're familiar with will just vanish...and I think that's nonsense.
+ 
+     What I want to do with this show is to connect our past, our present,
+and our future, melding familiar images with new ones.  This isn't what
+you're used to seeing.  But it's what I want to *do* with it.  Otherwise
+all you have are unattainable futures about people who we barely recognize
+as being humans, doing things we can't relate to.  I'm sorry, but that
+just doesn't interest me.
+ 
+     There's plenty of extrapolation coming down the road.  The first and
+foremost mistake people make about this show is seeing one or three
+episodes, that this is all there's going to be.  Wrong.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Re: Concerns about Scientific (12 Feb 1994)
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Re: Concerns about Scientific

+12 Feb 1994
     Re: the question of consistency/inconsistency in the B5 universe:
+where you get inconsistency is generally when you have more than one
+voice in the show, creation by committee or different administrations.
+ B5 is my show, and it's as consistent as I am...which means sometimes
+you'll catch something small, a glitch between scripts written far apart
+(calling the main console Station One instead of the Primary Console),
+but on the big issues...I doubt very much it'll happen.  I've thought out
+this universe pretty thoroughly over the last 7 years.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+June Lockhart (sp?) (12 Feb 1994)
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June Lockhart (sp?)

+12 Feb 1994
     June Lockhart is *not* a regular or recurring character on B5; she
+appears in one episode, "The Quality of Mercy."
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+Questions re Centauris in "Pur (13 Feb 1994)
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Questions re Centauris in "Pur

+13 Feb 1994
     The correct term is the Centauri Republic.  It can be called an
+empire, but that's the name.  Trakis, Adira's owner, was not a Centauri,
+but (and this is something we may bring up at some point down the road),
+was at one point a Centauri slave.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+Shoes & foreheads (13 Feb 1994)
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Shoes & foreheads

+13 Feb 1994
     Don't know if GAribaldi's shoes have a custom tread or not; it's
+possible.  Londo's spots don't vary with stress; sometimes they come
+through more depending on the lighting.
+ 
+     And yeah, I love the costuming.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Commentary (13 Feb 1994)
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Commentary

+13 Feb 1994
     Yes, I try to log on here about once a day, and though it's getting
+tougher, I still read through *all* the messages in this area, though at
+times I skim a bit.  From my perspective, I try not to get in the way of
+the discussion, by either encouraging or discouraging positive or
+negative comments.  If I think someone is being unfair, or is just coming
+in to lob in a firecracker, watch everyone scatter and yell, and then run
+away (as the occasional spineless mindfucker among us is wont to do), I
+either fire back, or simply ignore the post.
+ 
+     The one major reason I decided to begin this interaction, despite
+CONSIDERABLE discourgement and disbelief from my peers, is that I think it
+may be of some use, and because I think that one should be willing to
+stand publicly with what you create, and because though many criticisms
+are issues of taste or subjective preference, sometimes (fairly often,
+actually), I learn something from the discussion, or I'm corrected in
+something, and that realignment is eventually reflected in the show.  I'm
+giving some serious thought to either revamping n'grath or killing him off
+given the reaction (paired with my own).  I won't be dictated to, but in
+some cases, as with n'grath, I may be uncertain, but willing to try and
+see if the experiment works.  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and
+the general perception here seems close to my own.  In addition, I was
+initially going to gloss over some of the legal aspects of the Psi Corps
+in "The Quality of Mercy," but when so many people expressed interest in
+how that worked, and when I saw some measure of confusion about it, I
+took the time to indicate how the legal aspects work when it came time to
+complete that script, thus answering the questions.
+ 
+     Sure, there've been more hostile or abusive or insulting messages
+posted here, primarily to get a reaction...I've seen that game before, and
+I'm neither impressed nor annoyed.  The general level of the discussion
+-- pro AND con -- is still generally of a high level, and quite
+revealing.  The experiment continues.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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Re: Opening Narration

+1 Feb 1994
     The rotating narrator thing was something that I mentioned en
+passant at the LosCon screening of "Midnight."  What I noted was that I
+was considering rotating the narrators each season; Londo for the pilot;
+Sinclair for year one; Ivanova for year two; Garibaldi for year three;
+G'Kar for year four; and Delenn for year five.  Haven't decided yet if
+I'm going to do it or not....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+Re: Soul Hunter (13 Feb 1994)
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Re: Soul Hunter

+13 Feb 1994
     Re: Delenn's alien-esque qualities...I have two photos from the set
+that are favorites.  I was walking through the offices to the stage, when
+I saw Mira in full make up in her Grey Council robes, picking up the day's
+shooting schedule.  I saw her, said hi from down the hall, raised the
+camera.  I snapped a picture.  Raised the camera again.  And in that one
+instant, she straightened, lowered her chin, something about her face and
+her body language absolutely altered.  I snapped a second photo.
+ 
+     Photo #1 is a picture of Mira Furlan made up to look like a Minbari.
+Photo #2 is a picture of Delenn.
+ 
+     Damndest thing I'ved ever seen....
+ 
+                                                                          jms
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+

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+JMS-questions for ya (13 Feb 1994)
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JMS-questions for ya

+13 Feb 1994
     There's still rock and roll, plus other new musical forms that have
+come along, and still some franchises.  TZ3 is being played on various
+local stations, but not everywhere.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
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+JMS? Actors & Arcs (13 Feb 1994)
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JMS? Actors & Arcs

+13 Feb 1994
     Some of the cast know the full extent of their character's story,
+some know a little, some know very little.  In those cases where we need
+to set stuff up for down the line, we have to explain some of these
+things.  Some of the cast want to know their future, some don't.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
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+B5 Newbie with Brilliant (13 Feb 1994)
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B5 Newbie with Brilliant

+13 Feb 1994
     Correct: Tristan Rodgers makes an appearance in "The War Prayer."
+ 
+	                                                     jms
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+How much does one episode cost (13 Feb 1994)
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How much does one episode cost

+13 Feb 1994
     The B5 budget is, alas, classified.  As for more gif files...I
+wouldn't be surprised to see them down the road a piece.
+
+                                                              jms
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+

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+Re: Starfury Launching (13 Feb 1994)
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Re: Starfury Launching

+13 Feb 1994
     Negative.  If you'll look to the right of your ascii drawing,
+you'll see a square (round in the series) section.  Several cobra-shaped
+arms surround that section.  That's where the fighters are launched.
+ 
+     You'll get a better view of this area as we go along, particularly in
+an episode called "Survivors."
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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+Re: Ban on creative works? Huh (13 Feb 1994)
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Re: Ban on creative works? Huh

+13 Feb 1994
     Let me put this another way, to see if this may have more influence
+on your thoughts.
+
+     BABYLON 5 is owned by PTEN.  The names, the characters, *and the
+situations* are all part of what is owned through copyright, trademark
+and other legal means.  It can then choose to whom to license the right,
+for a fee, to produce material within that universe...novels, comics,
+whatever.  That sub-entity then has the legal right to publish works that
+use the B5 universe.  (And it's not just the names; if every character is
+the same, and the context is the same, and a work appears within that
+context with the names just changed, it is still copyright infringement.)
+
+     It is in the vested interests of PTEN to maintain ownership of its
+copyright and trademarks.  Otherwise why should any publisher pay for the
+rights to, say, publish novels in that universe?  If a work appears in the
+public domain, using copyrighted characters/situations, and is NOT gone
+after legally, then that portion of the original creation has itself
+slipped into public domain.  PTEN is currently going after several of the
+companies that have provided services to B5, and then have gone around and
+published ads in various magazines using photos from B5 *without* the
+PTEN copyright notice.  Those specific images run the risk now of becoming
+part of the public domain.  This has to be stopped and will be stopped, by
+PTEN.
+
+     I understand the need, the utility, and the fun of fanzines.  I've
+read many and own many.  I, however, am not PTEN.  I understand the
+desire to play with the characters, in electronic or printed form.  But
+that has nothing to do with PTEN's desire to protect its copyright.  The
+electronic medium -- BBSing -- has been found in several court hearings
+to constitute a form of publication.  There are, in fact, now several
+electronic publishers who circulate books/stories via this medium.  Any
+work appearing in this medium is subject to commonlaw copyright, so that
+the writer of that work owns it...which brings that writer into direct
+conflict if that work infringes upon the copyright of someone else.
+
+     If a flood of B5 stories (or camoflaged clones) began to appear on
+this or any other net, it would force PTEN to intervene legally with
+injunctions, cease-and-desist letters, and so on.  My own feelings about
+this really don't enter into it.
+
+     It becomes a two-sided risk.  On my behalf, I would simply have to
+withdraw rather than run the risk of being sued for something somebody
+might write that I might have seen.  It doesn't have to be proven that I
+even saw it as long as I had *access* to seeing it.  On the other hand,
+those doing so run the risk of entanglements of their own.
+
+     Is it fun?  No.  Not for either of us.  Part of the reason I created
+the B5 universe was to see what other people would do with it.  But this
+is the law.  And the law doesn't have to be fair.  It simply is.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+Harlan Ellison and Babylon 5 (13 Feb 1994)
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Harlan Ellison and Babylon 5

+13 Feb 1994
     Harlan is our conceptual consultant.  His job is to sit perched on
+my shoulder like Jiminy Cricket and point out to me the chuckholes,
+detours, and disasters-in-the-making that I might otherwise stumble into
+as I galumph my way through this show...and to harangue me and keep me
+on the SF straight and narrow and to challenge me constantly to do better.
+ 
+     He also reviews stories, helped write the opening narration, has
+given us several good concepts on the running of the B5 station, and
+otherwise...well...consults conceptually.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Why do B5 command staff go out (13 Feb 1994)
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Why do B5 command staff go out

+13 Feb 1994
     Why Sinclair goes out on missions: someone here just left a far
+better reply than I could write.  Check it out.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+Did one need USA Today's Permi (15 Feb 1994)
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Did one need USA Today's Permi

+15 Feb 1994
     "Universe Today" is a fictional newspaper, and thus no permission
+was required.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+

+
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+PRESSURE SUITS:  COOL!! (1 Feb 1994)
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PRESSURE SUITS:  COOL!!

+1 Feb 1994
     Actually, as you'll see in "Sky," sometimes the Good Guys *do* get
+their ships hit; sometimes they blow up and kill the person (as you will
+see), and sometimes they do damage without destroying the ship, in which
+case there is an eject mechanism that separates the cockpit part from
+the rest of the fighter, which contains the volatile reactors.
+ 
+      So in those circumstances, a flight suit is a *very* good idea....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+Babylon-5 Fan Clubs? (15 Feb 1994)
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Babylon-5 Fan Clubs?

+15 Feb 1994
     Since the series began to air, there's been a flood of mail and calls,
+so some kind of organization will be necessary to handle this, though no
+framework has been finalized yet.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 comments (spoilers) (15 Feb 1994)
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Re: B5 comments (spoilers)

+15 Feb 1994
     You ask, "Why would the Earth Alliance act this way?"  The question
+is, why *wouldn't* they?  Minus some limited supplementary contributions
+from the Centauri and the Minbari, the EA pays for this.  It's their
+dollar, they get to call the shots.  This isn't the Federation, where
+everyone's equally part of things.  The EA provides B5 as a service to
+other species, and as a meeting place.  It reflects the priorities and
+to some extent the prejudices of those who built it.  No, it's not a
+perfect or polite setup.  Nobody said it had to be.  Nor do I feel it HAS
+to be perfect or polite.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+Soul Hunter and General (15 Feb 1994)
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Soul Hunter and General

+15 Feb 1994
     Sinclair gets into some real strong arguments in many episodes; he
+is almost *constantly* at odds with Dr. Franklin in "Believers" (and just
+about loses it at one point), he's arguing and exhausted nearly the entire
+episode for "By Any Means" (and *does* lose it at one point, in a way
+that says get-the-hell-out, and is also weirdly funny).  Anyway, it's
+definitely there.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+I like everything but.... (15 Feb 1994)
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I like everything but....

+15 Feb 1994
     Errr....when the ships are hit, they don't just vanish/get totally
+consumed; debris *does* fly off.  Check again.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

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+Re: +/- Review: Midnight (15 Feb 1994)
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Re: +/- Review: Midnight

+15 Feb 1994
     The symbol Talia wears isn't a Link or any other kind of
+communications system; it is *strictly* a form of identification, tagging
+her as a telepath and a member of the Psi Corps.  It serves no other
+function.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Soul Hunter comments (15 Feb 1994)
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Soul Hunter comments

+15 Feb 1994
     In my original B5 material, the leader of the Grey Council was always
+Dukhat, going back 7 years.  I saw no reason to change it.  The moment I
+begin whipsawing my show back and forth to avoid tripping over somebody
+else, I'm just going to end up tripping over my own two feet.
+ 
+     And that was Johnny Sekka's actual accent (he's Nigerian-born).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+JMS Question: Earth Alliance (16 Feb 1994)
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JMS Question: Earth Alliance

+16 Feb 1994
     The EA is fairly large, but not on a par with the Centauri at this
+point.  There are various space platforms/colonies, colonies on the Moon,
+Mars, a major transfer point off Io...they've gone in and "helped" a
+number of bronze-tech worlds (that happened to have certain resources
+useful to EA), and are generally spreading like mice in a cheese factory.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+JMS: What else is tabu here be (16 Feb 1994)
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JMS: What else is tabu here be

+16 Feb 1994
     Fairly fleshed out stories or detailed suggestions are really the
+only thing that would cause a problem...everything else seems to be fair
+game.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: +/- Review: Midnight (16 Feb 1994)
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Re: +/- Review: Midnight

+16 Feb 1994
     She wore the Psi symbol on her belt.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+B5 Versus Tekwar in LA (16 Feb 1994)
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B5 Versus Tekwar in LA

+16 Feb 1994
     Forget B5 vs. Tekwar in the ratings...I just realized that one of our
+best episodes in this first batch, "The Parliament of Dreams," is going
+to go right up against the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan skating part of
+the Olympics.
+ 
+     We're doomed.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS... A question about te (2 Mar 1994)
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Re: JMS... A question about te

+2 Mar 1994
     Episode #5 is the two year anniversary of B5 going on-line; not
+two years since the pilot movie.  It took about a year and a half to
+grow to this point, and for the final of the Big 5 ambassadors, Kosh, to
+arrive, completing the group.  It's now roughly six months after that,
+into the new year.
+ 
+	                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS: Spellings, Ages, etc. (6 Mar 1994)
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JMS: Spellings, Ages, etc.

+6 Mar 1994
     1) Morobuto: African philosopher and leader who united several of
+the warring countries in that area under one banner; the Ghandi of his
+time (2075-2124).
+ 
+     2) The race was the Xon.
+ 
+     3) The Third Fane of Chu'Domo.
+ 
+     4) There weren't many takes, but there's one *GREAT* out-take on the
+gag reel.
+ 
+     5) Yes, revealing ages 1 and 2 would reveal 3.  Be patient.
+ 
+     6) Never got around to using the t-shirt in a shot this season.  With
+luck, next one....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+ 
+
+

+
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+Disappointed in Babylon-5 (6 Mar 1994)
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Disappointed in Babylon-5

+6 Mar 1994
     Just some brief responses:
+ 
+     1) Aliens aren't *alien* enough.  You mention that the other shows
+get gigged on this too, so B5 shouldn't be exempt, though you then go on
+to note that we still have to cast on earth.  Question is, therefore, is
+the expectation realistic?  Fact is, no matter what ANYONE does, ANY
+alien on ANY tv series or movie is going to be written from a human point
+of view because it's a human writing it, and a human acting the part.
+There will never be an authentic alien until an alien really appears; the
+rest is just human speculation.  (And if you want to go for a really weird
+approach, remember that this is a visual medium, and having someone talking
+to a clam doesn't work *visually*.  You can do stuff in a novel that you
+simply cannot do in TV or movies.)
+ 
+     2) The episodic format.  I take the liberty of disagreeing with you,
+both in your premise and your conclusion.  Forget what anyone else ahs
+(has) said, or what you intuit.  What I said from Day One was this: that
+every episode *will stand on its own*, offering a complete story, but that
+over time, the accumulation of those stories will begin to present a much
+larger arc.  That was the promise.  Yes, stories are for the most part
+wrapped up in an hour.  That's precisely the point.  What we're going for
+is a *cumulative* approach, not a *consecutive* approach.  The more you
+learn about the characters and the situations, the more you can pick up
+on stuff.  Further, threads introduced in one episode *do* carry over;
+you see the problem with Ivanova, her mother, and the Psi Corps recurring
+in a very major way in "Eyes," "Legacies" and other episodes.
+ 
+     It is a *cumulative* process.  You have thus far seen 5 or 6 episodes.
+ We're talking long term here.  Further, don't hold me to a promise that
+I didn't make.  I said the shows would stand alone...and now you say that
+it's a broken promise, that the shows are resolved.  Yes, they are; that
+was the intent.  It's the *characters* and the larger threads that are
+not resolved within the hour.
+ 
+     3) The politics aren't very political.  Again, you're making a
+conclusion based on insufficient evidence.  "Deathwalker" is almost
+ENTIRELY politics and back-room deals between not only the Big Five
+governments, but also the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, just for
+starters.  Politics back home makes a MAJOR impact on the show in such
+episodes as "Eyes," "A Voice in the Wilderness," "Survivors" and other
+upcoming, filmed episodes.
+ 
+     You're looking for immediate gratification, as if this were a short
+story.  I'll say it again: this is a *novel* for television.  Every
+promise made will be kept.
+ 
+     The sciences...we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.
+ 
+     My main point is, you're alternately holding me to promises I
+didn't make, or gigging us for not doing things when in fact we *have*
+done them, *have* filmed them, they just haven't aired yet.
+ 
+     Having said all of that...the biggest hit TV series, according to
+ratings and research services, have a large number of viewers who love it,
+a smaller number who think it's okay, and a smaller number who *hate* it.
+No TV series is ever going to appeal to 100% of the audience; it hasn't
+happened, and will never happen.  It just may not be your kind of show.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Pilot Laser Disc - WOW! (6 Mar 1994)
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Pilot Laser Disc - WOW!

+6 Mar 1994
     Just curious, where did you obtain the B5 laserdisk from?  I don't
+have a copy myself, and would love to obtain one.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Re: War Prayer: what went wron (7 Mar 1994)
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Re: War Prayer: what went wron

+7 Mar 1994
     We'd at one point considered setting B5 at Chi Draconis, but have
+pretty much decided to leave it in the Epsilon star system.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+Richard Compton (7 Mar 1994)
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Richard Compton

+7 Mar 1994
     Richard directed two more episodes for us: "Grail" and "Believers."
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+

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+JMS: More Questions (7 Mar 1994)
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JMS: More Questions

+7 Mar 1994
     I see no problem with the synopses.
+ 
+     The Xon did evolve into fair amount of intelligence.  There are a
+very few land masses on Centauri Prime, separated by huge oceans.  The
+two species evolved pretty much separately, on different continents that
+were absolutely unreachable until one or both sides developed sufficient
+technology for extended sea travel...and that's when all hell broke
+loose.
+ 
+     Psi ratings vary a little, but not much; a P5 can be made into a P6,
+but not much more.  Generally, what you are is what you are.
+ 
+     (Many lower-level psi's, P1-P2s, are tracked by the Psi Corps, but
+don't officially belong to it or function in any official capacity, as
+their skills are *so* minimal or erratic as to be of virtually no real
+use.  Still, they have to be tracked and logged for genetic purposes.)
+ 
+     With only one exception, you won't see time travel anywhere in the
+five-year run of the B5 story.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+My JMS questions (7 Mar 1994)
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My JMS questions

+7 Mar 1994
     To reveal the first two ages would be to reveal the third.
+ 
+     Yes, negotiations have been ongoing for a comic book series, and it
+seems to be finalized, though I can't comment officially yet.
+ 
+     The PPGs are Phased Plasma Guns, using superheated helium.  It
+doesn't ricochet like conventional slugs, dissipates quickly after a hit,
+can be adjusted to produce surface damage, or cut straight through the
+body, or to make a big impact without burning through.  At full strength,
+they burn straight through any kind of body, causing massive internal
+burns and damage to the internal organs.  The clothes melt right into the
+skin.  It's not a pretty thing.  Generally they're operated at a lower
+or less lethal setting.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS: More Questions (8 Mar 1994)
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Re: JMS: More Questions

+8 Mar 1994
     The number of psi's in each category, from 1-12, gets rarer as  you
+get higher.  Lots of folks have a minimal tendency, very few have any
+real talent.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+G'Kar is sexy! (re Cinefantast (8 Mar 1994)
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G'Kar is sexy! (re Cinefantast

+8 Mar 1994
     Re: G'Kar appearing in only 12 episodes this year...that's all that
+his character was required for.  Prior to the season beginning, before
+one word was committed to paper, I broke out all 22 stories for this
+season.  (Note: in one case, D.C. Fontana walked in with a different
+story than was on the agenda, which I thought was better than what I had
+in mind for that slot, and used the same characters, so that worked out.)
+ We determined how many episodes all the characters were needed for, and
+made our deals accordingly.
+
+     Next year, as the story escalates, the plan is to make all of our
+alien ambassadors available for 22 out of 22, allowing us to be far more
+flexible.
+
+                                                  jms(hoping for a new year)s
+
+

+
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+Re: Inside of B-5 reminiscent (9 Mar 1994)
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Re: Inside of B-5 reminiscent

+9 Mar 1994
     Re: the Rama discussion....I'd just like to point one and all toward
+the Gerard O'Neill speculations about space habitats, which contained the
+kinds of things done in B5 and Rama and many other books about rotating
+space habitats.  Again, this stuff has a backing in real science.
+
+                                                      jms
+
+

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+
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+to JMS-thoughts on gay/bi and (3 Mar 1994)
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+3 Mar 1994
     Yes, you will eventually become aware of a character with an
+alternative perspective.  And the Sinclair thing wasn't a statement one
+way or another; simply a logical extension of their relationship.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

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+Straczynski: Racist or Cute (11 Mar 1994)
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Straczynski: Racist or Cute

+11 Mar 1994
     Malcolm Biggs was just a name, nothing more.  Nor should anything
+more be read into it.  You're seeing something that's not there.  Lots of
+people have the first name Malcolm.  I have to confess that I'm angered
+at your message.  A character is named Malcolm, and you dig up a whole
+context that doesn't exist and call someone a racist because of it...a
+matter strictly of perception that doesn't touch reality at any point,
+and here we are working very hard to be ethnically balanced, showing
+primarily inter-racial relationships between our characters...I think
+you owe me and this show an apology.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Couple questions about te (12 Mar 1994)
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JMS: Couple questions about te

+12 Mar 1994
     The first question I can't answer, for story reasons.  For the
+second question, we'll delve deeply into the use of telepaths in
+criminal cases -- particularly their limitations -- in "The Quality of
+Mercy."  Also, there was a *long* thread about this not long ago, and
+I'm not sure I'm up to going through it all again...perhaps someone here
+can point to where the discussion is in the archive.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: "Mind War" was mind blowi (14 Mar 1994)
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JMS: "Mind War" was mind blowi

+14 Mar 1994
     Glad you enjoyed it.  As for Bester...no, you've got it somewhat
+reversed.  We'd initially offered Walter the role of Knight Two in "Sky,"
+but when his health prohibited using him, we went to Patrick McGoohan,
+who loved the script, wanted to do it, but was going to be out of the
+country at the time of shooting.  We then shifted Walter to "Mind War."
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Time Online? (14 Mar 1994)
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JMS: Time Online?

+14 Mar 1994
     I think, to cover all the net bases, I'm on...maybe 3 hours a day,
+just to keep up with the traffic.  It's very hard; that's a LOT to stay
+current with.  About 400 messages a day zip past my eyes.  But it
+continues to be an interesting experience....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Straczynski: Racist or Cut (14 Mar 1994)
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Re: Straczynski: Racist or Cut

+14 Mar 1994
     Perhaps you wouldn't have so many people "pounding" on you if you
+avoided the tendency to run your mouth out of turn.  First you posted a
+false notice from VARIETY stating that I had been fired off my own show,
+and posted it on various nets as though it were the real thing.  You were
+caught out in this, mumbled about being unfairly targeted, but never
+showed the *least* regret over doing it.  You smeared my name, and never
+once apologized.
+
+     Nonetheless, I offered an open hand, and said "We begin again," if
+you recall, figuring that everyone is owed one act of boorishness.  Then
+came your current screed.  You backtracked and said that you didn't
+understand the context, that you assumed wrongly...did it occur to you to
+ASK FIRST?  No.  You started throwing around messages with allegations of
+racism.  You didn't ask for clarification, you started screaming
+"Racist."  And once it was explained to you...again, no apology, just a
+mumbled comment about being confused and making assumptions.
+
+     Have you ever considered not running your mouth for a change, not
+smearing people, not spreading rumors, not calling people offensive
+names?  Just because you were born with fingers doesn't mean you have to
+use them at a keyboard when your brain is clearly vapor-locked.  I don't
+know what problem causes you to engage in this kind of behavior, but in
+future keep it far away from me.  I didn't care for your hoax, I didn't
+care for your malicious rumors, I didn't care for your allegations, and
+I don't much like your "poor me" act now that you've gotten your dick
+caught in the door again.
+
+     Grow up and act like a man or get the fuck out of public view,
+because you're an embarrassment to anyone who considers himself a fan of
+SF; the kind of person who gives the rest of us a bad name.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  The Twilight Zone (14 Mar 1994)
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JMS:  The Twilight Zone

+14 Mar 1994
     Correct; I worked on the new Twilight Zone as story editor, also
+writing about 12 or so episodes.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Please help! (problems wi (15 Mar 1994)
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JMS: Please help! (problems wi

+15 Mar 1994
     We're looking into the KSTW situation, along with some others, but
+there may not be a lot we can do.  This kind of thing really has to be
+addressed at the local level by local viewers.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Character development? (15 Mar 1994)
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B5 Character development?

+15 Mar 1994
     Re: seeing more character development in TNG at this time (you cite
+knowing Picard's role in the Crusher death, Riker and Troi, and that
+Data and Worf were orphans).
+
+     "We've seen nothing" you conclude in B5.
+
+    What we've seen so far in this show: that Sinclair has a missing 24
+hours during the war; that he was involved with Sakai on and off ever
+since the academy, and now has a monogamous relationship with her; that
+his father was a fighter pilot...that Garibaldi has been fired from the
+last several jobs he's had, and has a questionable reputation, and has a
+drinking problem...that Sinclair has a death wish...that Londo has three
+wives and a penchant for having affairs...that Ivanova's father has just
+passed away, and her mother committed suicide, and her brother was killed
+in the war....
+
+     I could go on, but I'm not sure what the point would be.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+More G'Kar questions (15 Mar 1994)
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More G'Kar questions

+15 Mar 1994
     Yes, he does have a wife, who may or may not show up in year two.
+
+     What does he mean by pleasure threshold?  This is one of those
+questions that can only be answered through demonstration....
+
+     I'd always conceived that the name was prounoucned GUH-kar.  Andreas
+started pronouncing it SHUH-kar.  I asked him why.  Andreas shrugged and
+said that he'd decided his character was French.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
+And the Sky Full of Questions (15 Mar 1994)
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And the Sky Full of Questions

+15 Mar 1994
     (From memory)...we'll know on the pickup in May; TKO and Eyes are
+separate scripts, by those names; we're finishing shooing 121 and about
+to start 122 (episode 22); the Narn fighters came out of the local
+jumpgate.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS: Two small questions.. (4 Mar 1994)
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Re: JMS: Two small questions..

+4 Mar 1994
     In addition, if an ambassador was *known* to have an unlawful
+object, it *could* be subject to seizure...but the ambassador could not
+be arrested for possessing it due to immunity.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+B5 Presentation at Phil & Ed's (15 Mar 1994)
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B5 Presentation at Phil & Ed's

+15 Mar 1994
     I'm told I'm supposed to do one, but haven't been told when at this
+point.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+Defensive Grid (15 Mar 1994)
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Defensive Grid

+15 Mar 1994
     Rather than explain the defense grid, I think I'd prefer to let you
+see it in action.  Which you will, in May, in "Signs and Portents."  Its'
+one of our heaviest action episodes of this first batch.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+JMS at Pasadena Con????? (16 Mar 1994)
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JMS at Pasadena Con?????

+16 Mar 1994
     I'm told my presentation will be at either 1 or 2 pm on Sunday,
+which will be tight since I'm flying back from Houston that morning, from
+receiving an award Saturday night from the Space Frontier Foundation for
+Best Vision of the Future.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Re: SKY....  more space scenes (17 Mar 1994)
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Re: SKY....  more space scenes

+17 Mar 1994
     The CGI scenes were deliberately step-printed to give the shots a
+more dreamlike look.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  Straightforward Question (17 Mar 1994)
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JMS:  Straightforward Question

+17 Mar 1994
     There will be new episodes in April through the end of May, then a
+long break of reruns, then new ones starting in September or October,
+through November.  (This is because the stations need to have new eps
+for the November sweeps.)
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: JMS at Baycon????? (17 Mar 1994)
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Re: JMS at Baycon?????

+17 Mar 1994
     Nope, no plans to attend BayCon at this time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Telepath a bad idea? (18 Mar 1994)
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Re: Telepath a bad idea?

+18 Mar 1994
     There will be no more Ironhearts, and that character will not
+return.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Sky -- comments and other thou (18 Mar 1994)
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Sky -- comments and other thou

+18 Mar 1994
     Since I don't know how to send an individual message to this alt
+section -- I can only reply to notes in my GEnie mailbox -- I would like
+to pass along the following.
+
+     Networks usually renew their shows at the end of the season, when
+they've seen all the shows.  Syndication, and PTEN in particular, works
+differently.  The decision on whether or not to renew will be made in
+April/early May.  One factor complicating all of this is the new
+Paramount network, which is grabbing up stations and available timeslots
+by the bucket.  They are, apparently, making very good deals.
+
+     Point being...if you truly enjoy Babylon 5, I would suggest that
+the next two weeks would be the ideal time to write your local TV
+station -- which has a *direct* say in whether or not B5 is picked up --
+and tell them so.  It's kinda unfair to have to decide on a show after
+only a handful of episodes, but that's the hand all the PTEN shows have
+been dealt.
+
+     Would definitely be appreciated.
+
+                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Re: And the Sky Full of Questi (18 Mar 1994)
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Re: And the Sky Full of Questi

+18 Mar 1994
     Casual mating between species *cannot* take place accidentally in
+the B5 universe.  There would have to be *massive* genetic engineering
+on someone to make it even remotely possible.
+
+     (And thanks for the comments on the show.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+JMS How have you been influenc (18 Mar 1994)
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+18 Mar 1994
     The conversation is most useful as a sort of "sense of the room,"
+if the comparison is clear.  I find that a lot of it reinforces what I
+suspected.  As for yeaer two...won't know until next month sometime.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+
+Assassins' Guild (was Re: POD (4 Mar 1994)
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Assassins' Guild (was Re: POD

+4 Mar 1994
     Re: your analysis of the assassin's guild...dead on.  Obviously you
+have known some Narns in your time....
+ 
+     Keep spilling those secrets and pretty soon the Thenta Makur will
+want a *professional* word or two with you as well....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+SKY...JMS / Writers Digest...P (18 Mar 1994)
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SKY...JMS / Writers Digest...P

+18 Mar 1994
     There are over 200 pages of single-spaced notes, plus individual
+files with background stuff, for the full five-year span of B5.  I don't
+think it's fair to set up questions unless you know the answer well in
+advance.  So yes, it is all worked out.  I tried to take a fairly
+Tolkein-esque approach, fleshing out as much as possible of the B5
+universe, whether or not it ever gets actually used.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS - Q: San Diego? (18 Mar 1994)
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JMS - Q: San Diego?

+18 Mar 1994
     I live in San Diego from 1974-1981, and it's actually a great place,
+so I'm inclined to tweak it once in a while, just for funsies....
+
+                                                               jms
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+

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+Re: And the Sky Full of Stars (18 Mar 1994)
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Re: And the Sky Full of Stars

+18 Mar 1994
     The ONLY reason that they were able to pick up the blasts in
+"Infection" was because they were SO powerful that they registered on the
+station's sensors.  Ordinary PPG blasts don't show up.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+...And Every Star... (18 Mar 1994)
+
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...And Every Star...

+18 Mar 1994
     My only reaction is that you know more than you know...you just
+don't know it yet.  Nicely thought out.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+Welcome to alt.tv.babylon-5 (19 Mar 1994)
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Welcome to alt.tv.babylon-5

+19 Mar 1994
     Unfortunately, I'm home at the moment, and all those specs are either
+at the office, or in Ron's custody.  You might best direct the question
+toward Foundation, which looks on here.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+Schedule?  Repeats already?!? (21 Mar 1994)
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Schedule?  Repeats already?!?

+21 Mar 1994
     Here is the dilemma in which we find ourselves.  In the Good Olde
+Days of TeeVee, the new season (remember when there WAS a "Fall season?")
+began around September (in time for the November and February sweeps), and
+ended around the May sweeps.  Then Summer reruns through August.  The
+sweeps periods are the very competitive periods in which stations are
+monitored in order to set the price they can charge for commercials.  This
+is a VERY important time for the stations, and they want new product.
+
+     We go on the air in February.  No problem hitting the May sweeps.
+But the stations need new shows to also air in November.  So that means
+you have to stretch 22 episodes so that you'll still have new ones come
+November.  It's a pain, but that's what we're stuck with.
+
+                                                                          jms
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+

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+P5: And The Sky Full of Stars( (21 Mar 1994)
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P5: And The Sky Full of Stars(

+21 Mar 1994
     Okay, now noting that Janulewicz voted to give "Sky" a score of
+ZERO...here comes my question.  How legitimate can your poll be if there
+are clearly votes thrown in to skew the thing?  I've noted this guy's
+votes before, and he tends to vote *substantially* lower, often in a
+random-seeming way.  Obviously he sent in a 0 vote simply to screw things
+up.  Is there no way to filter these things out?  Because otherwise it
+just encourages mindfuckers to play at keeping the numbers low, in a way
+that has *nothing* to do with the show itself.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

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+Re: ATSFOS-Tossing bodies out (22 Mar 1994)
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Re: ATSFOS-Tossing bodies out

+22 Mar 1994
     "But the line about the body being bound to the station by gravity
+was idiocy of the most annoying kind, because it blatantly screams that
+the people writing and producing the show don't bother to check the most
+trivial elements of the science they portray.  What they happen to get
+right, they get right by sheer coincidence."
+
+     The only thing that I would agree with in your analysis is the word
+"idiot."  I would, however, apply it in your direction, since you so
+willingly applied it in mine, as the person who writes and produces this
+show.
+
+     1) We do fairly thorough research into the science of our show.  We
+work hard at it.  We subscribe to the various scientific journals, we
+use advisors on stuff we don't fully understand ourselves.  We make a
+concerted, conscious and deliberate effort to get the science *right*,
+as much as is practical within a TV format.
+
+     2) Your attitude is the kind of reprehensible crap I get from people
+who aren't paying attention, and just assume that if something isn't done
+to what THEY consider satisfactory, that people are just sluffing it off,
+that they're idiots, they don't bother.  My response: who the fuck are
+you?  Where the fuck were YOU when we were having production meeting after
+productin meeting trying to determine how to do some of this stuff?  I
+didn't see your name on the list, didn't see you in the room, where do you
+get off characterizing our attitude?
+
+     And now for the good part.
+
+     3) This weekend, I was at the Space Frontier Foundation to receive an
+award for Babylon 5 for Best Vision of the Future, part of which was its
+recognition of our *deliberate efforts* to get things right.  Zero-G
+maneuvering, civilian use of space, a working O'Neill station, on and on,
+all the stuff you think  happens by "coincidence."  And which has not
+generally HAPPENED on TV before.  In attendence were the Delta Clipper
+team of engineers, astronaut Pete Conrad, leading researchers with NASA,
+JPL, McDonnell-Douglas, you name it.
+
+     And one of the people there, who had been with SDI and the Space
+Program for 12 years, currently a top-level NASA consultant, pulled me
+aside and said that after seeing the line about the gravity not letting
+the body get very far -- and THAT is what was said in the script, and in
+the episode, NOT your characterization of a body "bound" to the hull --
+he said he sat down to do the math required to come up with the actuall
+MASS of B5, starting with the 2.5 million tons of actual structure, plus
+likely vegetation, quarters, occupants, ships docked inside...and when
+you add it all up, it came to about the same mass as a fairly small
+moon...and IT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP THE BODY FROM -- AS STATED IN THE
+SCRIPT -- GETTING VERY FAR.
+
+     The body would drift from the station a bit, get pulled back, hit
+the hull, bounce, drift a bit, and be pulled back.  Or go into a slow
+elliptical orbit.  (He mentioned that in the history of the Apollo
+program, little bits of debris that would flake off the outside of the
+ship would remain in proximity to the ship, just on the basis of ITS
+mass and gravity, and it's not very big.)
+
+     A couple of other high-level engineers backed him up, and said that
+it was quite reasonable.
+
+     What's the difference?  THEY sat down and did the math.  YOU just
+sat down and ran your mouth, and decided to go around insulting people
+for being inaccurate when in fact YOU are the one who "didn't bother to
+check the most trivial elements of the science."  I don't think you really
+grasp how big this place is, and how massive it is, and its effect on the
+surrounding area.
+
+     I, however, DO know how massive the station is, and DID bother to
+call around to a few people I know who know this stuff even better than I
+do, to ask them about this *before I wrote it*, just to be sure.
+
+     I put your message on the same level as the occasional screed that
+flies through here blathering on about how there shouldn't be gravity in
+the observation dome since it's in the center of the station WITHOUT
+stopping to LOOK at the goddamned thing and see that it's 1/3rd of the
+way down FROM the center, giving at least 1/3rd G.
+
+     Let me tell you a story.  It's about Van Gogh.  He was due to be
+visited for the first time by his idol, Gauguin.  He covered the walls of
+his home with his paintings, and awaited Gauguin's arrival.  Gauguin came.
+ One by one, he walked down the line of paintings.  Upon coming to the
+end of the paintings, he turned to Van Gogh and said, "You paint too
+fast."
+
+     "No," Van Gogh said, "you LOOK too fast."
+
+     You look too fast.
+
+     And next time, you might want to actually CHECK your figures before
+you go around calling people idiots.
+
+     Blockhead.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

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+"Stars" *SPOILERS* (22 Mar 1994)
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"Stars" *SPOILERS*

+22 Mar 1994
     Re: your note about tense useage in those two lines you quote...you
+unfortunately got the tenses wrong in both sentences, which takes care
+of the concerns you raised.
+
+     Line #1: "He must never find out what happened."
+
+     Line #2: "Maybe you're still inside...maybe we're BOTH still inside."
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+Re: ATSFOS-Tossing bodies out (23 Mar 1994)
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Re: ATSFOS-Tossing bodies out

+23 Mar 1994
     Yes, it was always my assumption that the body was dumped out through
+the zero-g section, since that has more traffic with cargo loaders and
+unloaders and less security than the passenger-oriented bays and airlocks.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+Re: Little touches I live for (5 Mar 1994)
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Re: Little touches I live for

+5 Mar 1994
     "So, I've been wondering who made up Londo's line in Parliament,
+`but in purple, I'm stunning!'"
+ 
+     Ummmmm.....the scriptwriter?
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+

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+JMS: praise (23 Mar 1994)
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JMS: praise

+23 Mar 1994
     The only problem with a personal log is that that's pretty  much
+associated with Trek, and I think that the way we've got it mapped out,
+it won't be necessary.  Any info a person needs for an episode will be
+contained or restated within that episode.  Thank for the note.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS: ok on bodies, how about s (23 Mar 1994)
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JMS: ok on bodies, how about s

+23 Mar 1994
     There is a security problem on B5, yes.  And we hope to deal with it
+at some point.  It's inevitable, really; 250,000 residents, huge crates
+being moved in and out every day, people going and coming...they try to
+confiscate what they can, but a lot slips through.
+
+                                                             jms
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+

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+Re: Three ages of mankind (23 Mar 1994)
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Re: Three ages of mankind

+23 Mar 1994
     An Indian interviewed by a friend of mine commented that while white
+peole have only one B.C., the native-american populatin has *three* BC's
+-- Before Columbus, Before Custer, Before Costner.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Kosh Quote (24 Mar 1994)
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Kosh Quote

+24 Mar 1994
     We filmed it, but don't know if we'll ever use the "when it's gone
+" line.
+
+                                                                          jms
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+

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+QUESTIONS (24 Mar 1994)
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QUESTIONS

+24 Mar 1994
     The EA pin on the chest (stylized) is for the Earth Alliance; the
+color-coded bar beneath is for division (gold is command, silver is
+command staff, green is security, red is medical division, and so on),
+and ranks go on the shoulders.  (Ivanova, as liaison between the
+commander and the command staff, has a split bar, gold and silver.)
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+JMS: Mind Wars, the alien. (24 Mar 1994)
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JMS: Mind Wars, the alien.

+24 Mar 1994
     No, this isn't the mysterious sixth race.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+Re: What the hell is "Quantium (24 Mar 1994)
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Re: What the hell is "Quantium

+24 Mar 1994
     That's weird...I thought Quantium 40 was another term for Element
+115.  Ah, well...I think I like your math better.
+
+                                                                           jms
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+

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+JMS - planetary surveying (min (24 Mar 1994)
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JMS - planetary surveying (min

+24 Mar 1994
     The gate was set up in what was believed to be a reasonably fertile
+and useful sector of space; the explorer craft can't take too long in any
+one area.  They find likely areas for exploitation, take a fast look
+around, drop a gate, and move on.  This allows other ships to come in and
+scope out the place in detail.  That's when they ran into whatever's
+walking around Sigma 957.  (And it's not there all the time, only from
+time to time.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+
+Walter Koenig's characters (24 Mar 1994)
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+
Walter Koenig's characters

+24 Mar 1994
     Koenig was originally on tap for Knight Two in "Sky."  When conditions
+changed, we went to others.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+JMS: Ivanova Question (24 Mar 1994)
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JMS: Ivanova Question

+24 Mar 1994
     A Psi-rating comes through training and examination of a person's
+skills over time.  Ivanova's mother never went through the full sequence
+to get rated.  (Although they generally don't bother with P1s through
+P2s, so she was at least a P3 or above, in terms of raw ability.)  A psi
+rating isn't hereditary.
+
+                                                               jms
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+

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+Parliament Glasses (6 Mar 1994)
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Parliament Glasses

+6 Mar 1994
     Re: the glasses...whether or not I'm ever to actually get into it or
+not, the Narns put a *high* premium on physical perfection.  They're not
+supposed to ever indicate any weakness.  It's a matter of shame to admit
+to it.  So there's not much of a market for body-aids such as eyeglasses
+back there.  It's something you hide.  So some among them buy elsewhere,
+as in the case of buying human glasses with the right prescription (then,
+as the assassin did, hiding them from view whenever not absolutely
+necessary).
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+
+Re: Defensive Grid (24 Mar 1994)
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Re: Defensive Grid

+24 Mar 1994
     Correct; "Signs and Portents" is the overall title for year one; but
+just as one may entitle a chapter in a book the same as the book itself,
+this episode has the year-title in it (which may signify that this one is,
+well, significant....).
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

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+Re: Straczynski: Racist or Cut (24 Mar 1994)
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Re: Straczynski: Racist or Cut

+24 Mar 1994
     Who did pick Malcolm for the guy's name?  I did, in the premise
+that I gave Dorothy Fontana.  I liked the sound of it.  I often go for
+the *sound* of a name, and how it matches the character.  Anybody who
+makes more of it than that has some issues of his/her own to deal with.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+

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+B5 arc (24 Mar 1994)
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B5 arc

+24 Mar 1994
     There is a five-year story arc, yes.  What's planned?  Cool stuff.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS: contracts? (24 Mar 1994)
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JMS: contracts?

+24 Mar 1994
     Yes, at this point telling who's up for what episodes/seasons would
+be a bit of a spoiler....
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+Show support! Write! (24 Mar 1994)
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Show support! Write!

+24 Mar 1994
     At this point, given that Paramount's making inroads with the
+stations, I'd say that's where any letters should go, rather than to
+Warners...but the effort is appreciated, make no mistake.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

+
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+JMS: Trivia question (24 Mar 1994)
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JMS: Trivia question

+24 Mar 1994
     Jeffrey David Sinclair.
+
+                                                             jms
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+

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+
+B5 in Australia? (27 Mar 1994)
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B5 in Australia?

+27 Mar 1994
     It's my understanding that B5 has been sold to 7 Network in
+Australia, premiering sometime this summer.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spoil me!!! (27 Mar 1994)
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Spoil me!!!

+27 Mar 1994
     In some areas, the B5 cover is alternated with a cover on Stephen
+King's new miniseries, so that may be why you're not seeing it.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+That Cinefantastique article.. (28 Mar 1994)
+
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That Cinefantastique article..

+28 Mar 1994
     It is unfortunate that because ST has for so many years been the
+only game in town, everything gets measured next to it.  Part of this
+is the fact that there have *been* very few marginally successful SF
+shows, unlike mainstream shows, in which there have now been so many cop
+series that comparisons to any one show get kinda lost or drowned out.
+
+     As for the Gene Roddenberry comparison...I cringed at that as well,
+not in any kind of insulting way, but just because I want to do my own
+stuff.  I'm not the next Roddenberry; I'm the first jms.  He did what he
+did, and I'm doing what I'm doing.  (Another article used the phrased, "is
+inheriting the mantle of Gene Roddenberry."  When this hit the stands,
+Harlan called and asked when the mantle arrived, did it come FedEx or
+regular mail, could he come see it, and where did I intend to hang it?)
+
+     It is the nature of the journalistic beast....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Ivanova Question (29 Mar 1994)
+
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Re: JMS: Ivanova Question

+29 Mar 1994
      Enquiring minds that want to know, will...in the fullness of time.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mind War (Ivanova spoil) (6 Mar 1994)
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Mind War (Ivanova spoil)

+6 Mar 1994
     Thanks for noticing that.  Yes, it *was* very important (to me, at
+least, whether or not anyone noticed it), that Ivanova was the one who
+handed Talia the water, and had that brief moment with her.  For those who
+understand their relationship, it adds a tiny layer; for those who don't,
+because the dialogue keeps on going over it, it's not obtrusive.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+schedule please!!!!! (29 Mar 1994)
+
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schedule please!!!!!

+29 Mar 1994
     Here's what looks ilke the final April/May schedule of new Babylon 5
+episodes:
+
+     April 20th, "Deathwalker," by Lawrence G. DiTillio.
+     April 27th, "Believers," by David Gerrold.
+     May 4th, "Survivors," by Marc Scott Zicree.
+     May 11th, "Signs and Portents," by jms
+     May 18th, "By Any Means Necessary," by Kathryn M. Drennan
+     May 25th, "The Quality of Mercy," by jms
+
+     Reruns will be scheduled from June 1st through October 5th in order
+to stretch new episodes into the November sweeps.  The tentative
+schedule thereafter looks like this:
+
+     October 12th, "Grail," by Christy Marx.
+     October 19th, "Eyes," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+     October 26th, "TKO," by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+     November 2nd, "A Voice in the Wilderness, Pt. 1," by jms
+     November 9th, "A Voice in the Wilderness, Pt. 2," by jms
+     November 16th, "Babylon Squared," by jms
+     November 23rd, "Legacies," by D.C. Fontana
+     November 30th, "Chrysalis," by jms
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+Another Prisoner Ref. (29 Mar 1994)
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+
Another Prisoner Ref.

+29 Mar 1994
     What you're seeing is a standard TV series "bumper," same as is used
+on most shows.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5? (30 Mar 1994)
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JMS: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5?

+30 Mar 1994
     I believe Ron will be shifting over my gateway, yes (and we all know
+how painful that can be....).
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  Contract Renewal? (30 Mar 1994)
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JMS:  Contract Renewal?

+30 Mar 1994
     We'll know by the first part of May whether or not we're picked up
+for year two.  Here's hoping....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Christy Marx (31 Mar 1994)
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Christy Marx

+31 Mar 1994
     Yup, that's the same Christy Marx.  (She also wrote an episode of
+the new Twilight Zone for me.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: RE: Harlan Ellison UL (31 Mar 1994)
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Re: RE: Harlan Ellison UL

+31 Mar 1994
     The "little fuck" story is absolutely, completely untrue.
+
+                                                                            jms
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+

+
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+JMS: Season structure (was Re: (31 Mar 1994)
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JMS: Season structure (was Re:

+31 Mar 1994
     I dunno...I really don't think of it in those terms.  There are gaps,
+and we'll deal with them.  Whether or not that changes over time will
+remain to be seen; certainly I'd like it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
+*NOT* an urban legend; was Re: (31 Mar 1994)
+
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*NOT* an urban legend; was Re:

+31 Mar 1994
     Nope, Harlan doesn't mention the "little fuck" story in Glass Teat
+or elsewhere, as it didn't happen.  He's bemoaned to me many times that
+this story has attached itself to him.  Didn't happen.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS at Phil & Ed's Excellent C (31 Mar 1994)
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JMS at Phil & Ed's Excellent C

+31 Mar 1994
     BTW, I can *bring* some video to show, if it's desired; just wasn't
+asked.  (IF a suitable projection monitor can be arranged.)
+
+                                                                          jms
+
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+Psi rating (6 Mar 1994)
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Psi rating

+6 Mar 1994
     Talia is a P5, as Lyta was in the pilot.
+ 
+     Lyta was recalled to Earth shortly after the events of the pilot; as
+was the doctor who saw Kosh.  The only two humans exposed that closely to
+a Vorlon were shipped back to Earth as fast as possible (which you'll
+find out in, I believe, "War Prayer").
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+JMS and the Five-year Plan (6 Mar 1994)
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JMS and the Five-year Plan

+6 Mar 1994
     When that time comes, we'll likely look for writers whose scripts
+show they can *write* for our characters, and then assign stories to
+those writers.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: schedule please!!!!! (1 Apr 1994)
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Re: schedule please!!!!!

+1 Apr 1994
     Insofar as I know, should we be renewed, the new season would begin
+in January, same as last one.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+About Creative Stories for B5 (3 Apr 1994)
+
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About Creative Stories for B5

+3 Apr 1994
     The best solution I've seen offered here is to create a *mailing list*
+rather than a newsgroup for the exchange of this stuff.  That guarantees
+the users some measure of privacy.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Enough White Man's SciFi.. (28 Apr 1994)
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Re: Enough White Man's SciFi..

+28 Apr 1994
     And of course there still *are* conflicts between Earth countries
+at the time of B5.  Including conflicts over space.  In a news broadcast
+featured prominently in the upcoming two-parter, because of another item
+in the broadcast that's important for that episode, it's noted that the
+representatives in Earthdome from several countries have pulled out in
+protest on the grounds that since they do not benefit equally from the
+exploitation of space, they should not be expected or required to help
+pay for it on an equal basis as everyone else.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Earth Alliance is a farce (28 Apr 1994)
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Earth Alliance is a farce

+28 Apr 1994
     To: Carroll, Patrick C.
+
+     Glad you could join our little group.  I'm glad to see you here.  It
+proves that the prison work programs are indeed capable of some measure of
+rehabilitation.  Just keep on the lithium, and jump in whenever you like.
+
+     I look forward to it.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Why Vorlons on B5? (28 Apr 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Why Vorlons on B5?

+28 Apr 1994
     The Vorlons are the great unknown.  They occupy a *huge* sector of
+space.  No expedition ever sent to Vorlon space has ever returned, or
+sent back word.  No human had ever even *seen* a Vorlon prior to Kosh's
+arrival on B5.  Their technology is vastly superior to just about everyone
+else's.  To unravel the mystery, to maybe get a *piece* of their tech, is
+more than sufficient inducement, I'd think.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: "Believers" (SPOILERS) (28 Apr 1994)
+
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Re: "Believers" (SPOILERS)

+28 Apr 1994
     "The concept of loving parents being able to kill their child for
+their religions seems to be unrealistic."
+
+     Funny...I seem to recall this little story in the Old Testament
+about how a good and wise man was asked by god to sacrifice his own son,
+to himself kill his own child, and he was willing to do it, and was only
+stopped by god saying, in essence, "April fool."
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+"Believers" & DS9 novel: Great (28 Apr 1994)
+
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+
"Believers" & DS9 novel: Great

+28 Apr 1994
     A couple points.  1) When "Believers" was written, Peter's book
+hadn't yet hit the stands.  2) Peter likely got his notion of the sick
+kid and the religious parents from the same basic source we did: the
+headlines.  This has been an ongoing problem in real life for some time.
+So he took that real premise, and did one story based on it, and we did
+another extrapolation.  This notion did *not* originate in the Trek
+universe....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Appreciative Viewer (28 Apr 1994)
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Re: JMS: Appreciative Viewer

+28 Apr 1994
     It was important to tell David to pull no punches because in TV,
+most producers *want* you to do so, and he had to know going in that this
+was the way the story would go.  David's a great writer, and David's a
+professional...meaning he understands where the general limits of TV are.
+If you're going to move the lines around, it behooves you to tell your
+writer that.  Knowing the rules, he went out and did a bangup job on the
+episode.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS! (29 Apr 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS!

+29 Apr 1994
     Oops, I misspoke myself...I meant kids in Believers, Legacies and
+War Prayer, not Purple.  After a while, this stuff blurs....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+
+Burden of Proof (Was Re: "Beli (29 Apr 1994)
+
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Burden of Proof (Was Re: "Beli

+29 Apr 1994
     Well, I disagree with you.  (Big surprise.)  You say, if God showed
+up, and walked around my pool, would that be enough to convince me, then
+show why that's a flawed argument in any event.  But that's not what I
+said
+
+     Empirical proof must first be defined with a question.  You ask,
+"What constitutes proof of green penguins in the south pole?"  In that
+case, producing a green penguin, and putting it through tests to make sure
+it isn't just green lime dye, is sufficient.
+
+     Penguins are things; god is as much concept as thing.  So first you
+have to determine the *question* before you can determine what is
+reasonable evidence.
+
+     The main criterion for god would seem to be creation.  Just about
+every major belief system has some kind of creation myth, and that their
+god was responsible.  (Or one of their gods.)  So that would seem to me
+a good universal test.
+
+     So now we go with your scenario: God shows up at my front door.  (One
+hopes he has made an appointment.)  As you say, walking on the pool and
+glowing ain't sufficient proof.  But I never wanted that as proof.  So I
+say the following: "If you are who you say, provide empirical proof that
+is directly related to the assumption of your beingness, that is crucial
+and *specific* to the definition of god.  Create a planet in orbit
+between Mars and Earth, without disturbing the orbits of either of these."
+
+     Now...if this being could do THAT -- and creating a planet with a
+wave of the hand is arguably FAR beyond that of even aliens -- I think
+that 99.99999? of the human race would accept that as proof positive that
+this is either god, or something so astonishingly similar that any
+difference is no difference at all.
+
+     So yes, empirical proof IS possible.  By using the "walk on water"
+analogy, you picked something that is by nature flawed, wasn't what I
+had said, and really has nothing to do with the nature of god.  As any
+good scientist, you first have to find a reasonably acceptable definition
+of what would CONSTITUTE genuine proof.
+
+     Planet-building is *definitely* proof of godhood.
+
+     Please alert me as to when this demonstration will take place, so
+that I may cancel all other plans for the day.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+Jumpgate colors... (29 Apr 1994)
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+29 Apr 1994
     Correct; red-shift is the reason for the changing jumpgate colors.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+Is starfury a bad word? (30 Apr 1994)
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Is starfury a bad word?

+30 Apr 1994
     The starfuries are referenced as such many times in the series; I
+think this starts with "Survivors," airing this week.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Character Building Episodes? (4 Apr 1994)
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Character Building Episodes?

+4 Apr 1994
     We're doing a number of such character-building stories; in the
+foreground with "Believers" and in background with "Survivors," in the
+first part of the next batch, for instance.  And more to come.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS: Black Omega Starfury Ques (30 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Black Omega Starfury Ques

+30 Apr 1994
     Black Omega Starfuries are *hideously* expensive, rather like
+Stealth Bombers.  They have to be carefully maintained, and their
+existence isn't generally trumpeted.  (Like the Aurora, for instance.)
+They're not mainly a defensive system, but rather an infiltration unit
+used on black projects/covert missions.  They're not really meant for an
+operation like B5.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+Re: "Believers" (30 Apr 1994)
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Re: "Believers"

+30 Apr 1994
     Through a miscommunication, Warners thought TKO was in the slot in
+which we'd placed Quality, so that went out to TV Guide, and it's now
+too late to change the order back.  Doesn't matter; neither are really
+arc-stories, though it was hoped to hold back some of Susan's development
+in TKO just a tad longer.
+
+                                                                      jms
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Re: Sound in Space

+4 Apr 1994
     Here's an interesting new element to throw out.  I've taken the
+time to call in some folks who know this stuff better than I do -- folks
+involved in the space program, who've been willing to do a little free
+work/research/thought -- and have asked them to *really* go over this
+whole sound in space issue.  What I've gotten back is interesting.
+
+     One of the questions I asked if, "If you're 100 feet away from a
+large ship that explodes, will you hear anything?"  The first answer I
+got back was, "Depends on who the "you" is that we're talking about.  If
+by "you" you mean the tympanic membrane in your ear...no, because you'll
+be dead, killed in the explosion at that kind of range."
+
+     But if we're talking about the microphone...things get different.
+
+     Ships contain atmosphere.  The bigger the ship, the greater the
+volume of atmosphere.  Now...a ship explodes.  Inside the ship, you can
+definitely hear it.  The hull ruptures.  The atmosphere blows out in all
+directions.  Within the range of that atmosphere, before it dissipates
+(which would be very fast), *you will hear sound in space*.  For as long
+as that atmosphere bubble extends.  You'll also hear objects whizzing
+past you within that curtain (provided that they're not moving past the
+speed of sound).  Then, very quickly, it'll fizzle out.
+
+     To the camera's POV, then, what you get is a sequence: flash, sound
+within a VERY limited range depending on the volume of air in the ship,
+quick whizz and quick fizz.
+
+     Then silence.  Obviously, any ship beyond that range exploding will
+be silent.
+
+     On the second question, "Could you hear a ship passing by?" there
+were also interesting responses.  In order for a ship to move through
+space, it has to be pushing out some sort of medium to propel it
+forward.  If that medium is in any way gaseous, and you pass directly
+in its wake, you have the same situation as the explosion: limited
+sound.  But you can't hear it from the side, or in front of the ship.
+And again, it's *very* short range, only within the residual gases being
+emitted.  Though there might be a shockwave effect if a ship passes your
+ship in VERY close proximity.
+
+     We're still getting some opinions on this from other experts, but
+this seems to be kind of a growing consensus.  All of which I find very
+interesting.  The sound-in-space issue has become something of a
+shibboleth among SF fans...if it's there at all, it means someone's being
+sloppy.  But the way it's shaping up, this may not be an either/or issue,
+dead silence or full sound.  I'll post more on this later, but thought
+y'all might like a preliminary report on this issue.
+
+                                                                     jms
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JMS: The Gathering Please

+6 Apr 1994
     The pilot MOW will eventually be re-broadcast, but as of this time
+I don't know when that will be.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS: Gene Roddenberry biograph (6 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Gene Roddenberry biograph

+6 Apr 1994
     This was bound to come up, so let me dive into this now and tell
+the full story.  (I hope someone will archive this out there, so that if
+and when it comes up again, the reply will be available.)
+
+     I have no vested interest in Joel Engel or his book.  My first
+contact with Engel was when he wrote a bio of Rod Serling, and I booked
+him on Hour 25 -- my L.A. based talk show on KPFK-FM -- in order to rake
+him over the coals.  (Needless to say, I'm a major Serling fan.)  We went
+toe to toe for two hours, and many listeners felt that I was very hard on
+him.  (And, in fact, I probably was; it's not easy when someone tackles
+one of your icons in full view.)
+
+     What I found was someone who had no agenda but to get out the story,
+as fully and factually as he could.  Whatever he said, he had at least
+two and usually more sources on.  As a former journalist myself, I could
+find nothing wrong in his methodology or his motivation.  I built a
+grudging respect for him over the length of that interview.
+
+     He caught a *lot* of flack over that book, and I guess it was about
+a year later when he called and said that he was going to do his next book
+after a subject that would not be as controversial.  Roddenberry.  He knew
+of Roddenberry's work, though he had no connection with the person
+himself, and figured the book would be a cakewalk.
+
+     Much to his dismay, he discovered that he was wrong.  The story was
+riddled with controversy, and a very different image than the one usually
+projected.  He lamented in one phone conversation (we spoke maybe six
+times in the course of writing the book, it's not any kind of real
+relationship; mainly he was hoping I could point him in one direction or
+the other for sources, one journalist to another) that those who spoke
+most positively of GR were those who never worked with him, while he wdas
+having the devil's own time trying to get anything positive out of anyone
+who *had* worked with him.  This was NOT what he had wanted to get into,
+and apparently several times offered to give back the advance, just to get
+out of the book....but a contract is a contract, and he was under an
+obligation to tell the story as best and as accurately as he could.
+
+     Engel -- who has worked for the NY Times -- has *no* connection to
+Star Trek, *no* axe to grind, *no* interest in doing a hatchet job on
+anyone.  If anything, he was hoping to *avoid* this kind of book.  He made
+it a point *not* to sensationalize in the book.  If anything, it's rather
+dry in places, specifically because he's trying to avoid even the
+appearance of exploitationalism.  He is a very thorough, careful reporter,
+and is careful not to say *anything* for which he doesn't have multiple
+sources.
+
+     Once word got out about the book coming out, many of those closest
+to GR began a process of damage control, accusing -- falsely, in my
+judgment -- Engel of bias, of doing a deliberate hatchet job, of having
+an agenda, on and on and on.  I have made it a point to try and speak
+honestly and frankly on this and other systems, and I can tell you point
+blank that he operates under none of these.  He did not set out to "dig
+up dirt" or to "do a hatchet job."  He wanted to tell the full story, as
+much as could be verified factually.  There's a *lot* of stuff he got
+that didn't end up in the book, which *would* have been sensational, but
+because he didn't have multiple sources, or because he felt it really
+didn't belong in the book, were omitted.
+
+     When he finished the book, he asked me to read it in case I wanted
+to give him a quote.  I accepted the book, figuring that I probably would
+NOT give him a quote, simply because I wanted to stay out of the line of
+fire.  When I finished it, I found that it was an honest, straightforward
+job of good journalism, and knew *instantly* that it would come under a
+great deal of fire, most of it unfair, and total misrepresentation by
+certain portions of the fan community.  In light of that, I felt honor
+bound to give some sort of quote.
+
+     And that, as they say, is that.
+
+     This isn't an easy area for anyone.  As somebody once said,
+biography has lent death a new horror.  Probably 25 years from now,
+somebody'll write a book telling about how Larry DiTillio was really the
+secret brains behind Babylon 5....
+
+                                                                jms
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Re: Sound in Space

+6 Apr 1994
     Re: using ship's drives as weapons...we've kind of established that,
+in one episode where a certain party wants off the station, and indicates
+that unless his ship is cleared to leave, he'll use the ship's engines to
+burn through the hull.
+
+                                                                       jms
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Re: Sound in Space

+6 Apr 1994
     By now, you've probably seen the note I sent regarding the ideas by
+some who work in the space community that there *is* sound in space, in
+a limited fashion (as when a ship, containing lots of atmosphere, blows
+up in the seconds prior to the atmosphere vanishing, and within that
+brief bubble).  One person in the space program told me that when the
+last satellite was fired from the space shuttle, they could feel the
+vibrations of its thrust inside the shuttle.  One poster here, at JPL,
+commented that the space probes get a shock wave when they pass the sound
+barrier in space (though I'm going to check this one out before I take it
+as fact).
+
+     That SF fans have for years insisted that there is no sound in space
+does not mean *de facto* that it's correct.  I've asked more people in the
+space community to look into this, and we'll see what they have to say.  I
+think the issue is greyer than you insist it is.
+
+     (And the attitude of, if there's sound in space, "we're being talked
+down to, we're idiots," is one that I find personally offensive.  If a
+story is complex, challenging, innovative, fresh...to then toss all of that
+out the window because it has some sound element in it seems to me rather
+narrow.)
+
+     There's no soundtrack in space, either.  Also no camera.  Also no
+actors.  Also no space station (along the lines of B5).
+
+     But to take another tack...you just come out of watching a cop movie.
+ The characters were well rounded, the story interesting.  Do you feel
+they made you an idiot?  That they talked down to you?  You should.
+Because to use your criteria, they did the same thing.
+
+     The sound of a gunshot you hear in the movie is *nothing* like the
+real sound of a gun; it's been magnified and boosted and had the lower
+range boosted up; it's probably been mixed with some other sounds to make
+it louder, so you can hear it half a block away.  The sound of a fist
+hitting someone's jaw is nothing like the real thing; what you heard in
+the film was likely a cross of various different sounds, from wood
+breaking to meat being slammed to synth material.  (There are some folks
+who work in town who've formulated punch-sounds and carefully protect
+the "ingredients" that went into it, each saying theirs is dramatically
+better.)  The sound of a knife entering someone's body is nothing like
+the real thing.
+
+     The footsteps you hear have usually been added by foley artists.
+Sometimes footsteps are removed because they're dramatically inconvenient.
+That group of people standing in the background talking?  You shouldn't
+be able to hear them from here, for starters, and in addition, that isn't
+THEM you're hearing; for filming purposes, the background extras say
+nothing, with the voices added by walla groups after production.
+
+     Just a reality-check here.  If you take the attitude that any time
+fake sound is added, one should feel insulted, then one must end up
+feeling insulted 100% of the time, in any movie or TV show ever made.
+Which seems just a tad silly to me....
+
+                                                                         jms
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+Message to JMS (7 Apr 1994)
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Message to JMS

+7 Apr 1994
     Insofar as I know, virtually *all* of our craft -- fighters,
+shuttles, personal flyers -- have seat restraints.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+DRINKING GAME: DIANE'S FIRST D (7 Apr 1994)
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DRINKING GAME: DIANE'S FIRST D

+7 Apr 1994
     I see many people getting drunk this season from this game...but
+mainly from *whole drinks*.
+
+     Surprise....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+Psy-Core (7 Apr 1994)
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Psy-Core

+7 Apr 1994
    The Psi Corps doesn't exist just to help telepaths avoid infringing
+on the privacy of others.  They service the business community, the
+military, some other governmental agencies...it's important that they
+control, regulate, and profit from telepaths.  You can't just leave the
+corps.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+DS9 vs B5 question (1 Apr 1994)
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DS9 vs B5 question

+1 Apr 1994
     Babylon 5 was conceived in 1986; the screenplay for the pilot (which
+was more or less what was shot) was written in 1987.  Also in 1987, art
+was commissioned and used to help in pitches to networks and studios.  The
+full project -- artwork, screenplay, series bible, treatment and sample
+stories -- was shopped to several places, including Paramount in 1989.  As
+for the rest...ehhhh.  Old news.  And the show stands on its own, which is
+the important thing.
+
+                                                                         jms
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+JMS - dumb question below. (7 Apr 1994)
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JMS - dumb question below.

+7 Apr 1994
     The voice-over at the end of the show is George Johnston, one of our
+producers involved in post-production.
+
+                                                                         jms
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JMS - Sound in Space

+7 Apr 1994
     Thanks for the additional info.  It's very interesting.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+babylon 4 (7 Apr 1994)
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babylon 4

+7 Apr 1994
     No commander had yet been assigned to Babylon 4.  One Major Krantz
+had been assigned to oversee the final stages of construction, and was on
+board -- along with about 1300 others in the construction crew -- when
+the station vanished.  The station had only been on-line 24 hours, and the
+discussions of a commanding officer had just begun when it disappeared.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Re: JMS Speaks (long!) (7 Apr 1994)
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Re: JMS Speaks (long!)

+7 Apr 1994
     We've had some talks with merchandisers about the patches; we'll see.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+Save The Universe In 60 Minute (8 Apr 1994)
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Save The Universe In 60 Minute

+8 Apr 1994
     Let me dive in and take issue with you.  The problem you seem to
+have with the show(s) is alas a part of basic dramatic structure.  You
+have an introduction, a rising action, a climax, and then a denouement.
+Aside from experimental theater kinds of things, that is the basic
+underlying structure to all movies, plays and television series.
+
+     "Twin Peaks," which you cite, really isn't a very good example
+because, in my view, TP *never* resolved ANYthing.  Thus it became an
+exercise in viewer frustration that eventually was a major reason why the
+show was canceled.
+
+     The first batch of B5 episodes tended to be a little more self
+contained because, remember, we're trying to bring viewers in here, and
+do so without startling or pissing them off.  We get a little funkier the
+deeper into the show we get.  In some cases, as with "Sky," parts of the
+story are resolved, parts aren't.  Generally, it's our feeling that if
+you have an open-ended B story, you generally have to include an A story
+that has some measure of closure.
+
+     "Signs and Portents" and "Babylon Squared" are two episodes offhand
+that I think are emblematic of what you're asking for.  The A story in
+"Signs" is resolved...but that episode really isn't *about* the A story,
+it's about something unusual that happens with the B story that begins to
+set a lot of things in motion for this season.  And that story is ended,
+but not *resolved*, if you get the distinction.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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"Off the scale"

+8 Apr 1994
     The other thing on "off the scale," of course, is that meters do have
+a finite end-point beyond which they're fairly useless, at least on the
+level a tech would have.  You design a system for what you're likely to
+encounter, plus some extra.  And some of the stuff they encounter is just
+beyond the parameters of that equipment.  Some of it is for dramatic
+impact, of course, but that was my reasoning, such as it is.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+Could I build a space craft? (8 Apr 1994)
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Could I build a space craft?

+8 Apr 1994
      Alas, as much fun as this might be, can't be done.  It all has to do
+with the development process, which must be work for hire, in order to be
+owned properly by PTEN.  Ron's designs must be developed while under
+contract, not purchased or used later.  And he provides them exclusively.
+It's a real knotty situation, and frankly, a pain in the butt....
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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Could I build a space craft?

+8 Apr 1994
      Alas, as much fun as this might be, can't be done.  It all has to do
+with the development process, which must be work for hire, in order to be
+owned properly by PTEN.  Ron's designs must be developed while under
+contract, not purchased or used later.  And he provides them exclusively.
+It's a real knotty situation, and frankly, a pain in the butt....
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+B5 merchandise (8 Apr 1994)
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+8 Apr 1994
     I decided early on to take the same approach on marketing B5 as
+was taken with Calvin and Hobbes (my favorite strip) by its creator: do
+either nothing or as little as possible for the first period of the
+show.  Don't become merchandise driven.  Concentrate on the story, on
+doing your *job* right, then later worry about the fringes.  So I've been
+dragging my feet on this.  But if and when we get picked up, I'll likely
+expedite this a bit.  The main one that has been approved so far has been
+Compton's CD Rom of the B5 universe, mainly because I can also see a lot
+of educational use in that one, how a show is made and how you create an
+SF universe, which makes it an exception in my view.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Will we see more soul hunters (9 Apr 1994)
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Will we see more soul hunters

+9 Apr 1994
                         Eventually.
+
+                                                                          jms
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+Minbari motivations/ Ellison (1 Apr 1994)
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Minbari motivations/ Ellison

+1 Apr 1994
     Your wife is wrong.  The B5 story arc has nothing to do with anything
+ever appearing in Harlan's work.  They are separate and distinct.  I thunk
+up this story all on my lonesome....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS - Sound in Space (9 Apr 1994)
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Re: JMS - Sound in Space

+9 Apr 1994
     "JMS reminds me a little of Kosh...or is it the other way around?"
+
+     If it helps, bear in mind in which brain Kosh was *created*, and where
+he resides in off-hours, in this big circle running around in my skull
+with Delenn, Kosh, G'Kar and Londo chasing one another endlessly, like
+white mice in a wheel....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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Re: B5 merchandise

+9 Apr 1994
     The CD rom will cover EVERY aspect of production, from start to
+finish, giving the user a firm idea of how a show is assembled.  I want it
+to be VERY detailed.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Upcoming cons?  Chicago, maybe (11 Apr 1994)
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Upcoming cons?  Chicago, maybe

+11 Apr 1994
     I tentatively plan to be at the Chicago Comic Convention July 1-3.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Sound in Space (11 Apr 1994)
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Re: Sound in Space

+11 Apr 1994
     Nowhere have I said, nor do I believe, the line, "who cares if the
+science is stupid."  We have, as you note, taken great pains to try and
+get the science right.  But if you've been watching this discussion, you
+have seen people with equal qualifications -- physics folks, space types
+-- arguing over the sound in space issue.  Indicating that it's not an
+absolute issue.  Is there sound within the atmospheric bubble of a ship
+as it explodes and moves outward for a certain period of time?  Many say
+yes.  And there's some disagreement on other areas.
+
+     So the reality of this is that there isn't a concensus, where
+everybody agrees.  I have 5 email notes from people who work in the space
+program explaining how it might work.  And just as many from people who
+tell me how it *won't* work.
+
+     So as long as there is not absolute, definitive proof one way or the
+other...one has to take a position one way or another...why not this way?
+ To my knowledge, no one has yet conducted an experiment in space one the
+sound issue.  Until then, it's guesswork, extrapolation, educated debate.
+We try to take a position somewhere in the middle.
+
+     If there were nothing here to debate, no one here would be debating
+it...especially not in the clinical, expert way many have so debated the
+issue.  If it's not a closed issue, resolved once and for all...then we
+will keep the issue open dramatically as well.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+RE: B5 merchandise (11 Apr 1994)
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RE: B5 merchandise

+11 Apr 1994
     Thanks for the comments on the show.  On the CD-Rom, more than a
+"making of" product, which is of course part of it, what I want to do is
+use it to help de-mystify TV production.  There's an awful lot of
+mythology about how things are done, and if we can help dispell some of
+that, all the better.  We've come up with some very nifty and innovative
+interactive stuff for it that'll help that process.  It'll also have
+extensive sections on the aliens, their homeworlds, cultures, language,
+music, future Earth history (between now and 2258)...a substantial guide
+to the B5 universe itself.  Hell, *I* want a copy....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Newbie Question.... (11 Apr 1994)
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Newbie Question....

+11 Apr 1994
     The sector of space was chosen for B5 because a) it's pretty much
+in neutral territory, and b) of the neutral territory areas, this is the
+one that seems to have nothing of value in it, so nobody will be
+interested in fighting over what's there.  This may not necessariliy be
+true in the future.
+
+     The interior of the station does have some farm-land, orchards, an
+open-air hedge maze, and other green areas.  We'll be seeing them in
+varying degrees of detail throughout the series.  No specs are yet
+publicly available.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+"Sky" and pet theories... (11 Apr 1994)
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"Sky" and pet theories...

+11 Apr 1994
     I missed this one in my mailbox...if any right speculations come
+along, I'll either a) not comment, b) lie, or c) change the story to
+avoid the possibility of entanglement.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Sinclair's brother (11 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Sinclair's brother

+11 Apr 1994
     You won't see Sinclair's brother this season...and that's all I can
+say for now.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS -- Character similarities? (11 Apr 1994)
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JMS -- Character similarities?

+11 Apr 1994
     Actually, no...Catherine Sakai is based more closely on another
+woman of my acquaintance, with whom I was involved for quite some time.
+And that's all you'll get out of me on the subject.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character (11 Apr 1994)
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Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character

+11 Apr 1994
     Actually, the planet to whom Adira refers is, "Davo."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Euro catch-up? (1 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Euro catch-up?

+1 Apr 1994
     I'm afraid I haven't a clue about the European rerun schedule; I'll
+try to ask around, though.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Silly Question (11 Apr 1994)
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Silly Question

+11 Apr 1994
     I've always spelled it the Grey Council.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

+
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+JMS: Lies!  Lies!  Lies! (11 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Lies!  Lies!  Lies!

+11 Apr 1994
     Hey, c'mon, trust me...I would never tell you anything that was not
+in your best interests....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+
+quick questions for JMS (12 Apr 1994)
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quick questions for JMS

+12 Apr 1994
     The budget is classified, but roughly half of TNG's.
+
+     Yes, there is the potential for planetary visits.  It may even be
+seen this season.
+
+     Yes, we're doing virtual sets...and there's a doozy in the first
+little bit of act one in "Signs and Portents."
+
+     Sinclair's hole will be filled in as we go.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS - What is the Hist. of the (12 Apr 1994)
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JMS - What is the Hist. of the

+12 Apr 1994
     Great Maker is a term for the creator or god that has currency among
+many different races.  Its origins are lost in history.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS: Lies!  Lies!  Lies! (12 Apr 1994)
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Re: JMS: Lies!  Lies!  Lies!

+12 Apr 1994
     And of course, if I said I would lie, who's to say I was telling the
+truth when I said I would lie?  I might've been lying about lying; why
+should I tell the truth about that?  Or this?  Or perhaps I'm being
+totally truthful, in which case I will cop to admitting being untruthful
+in this eventuality.
+
+     I need a vacation.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS- How's Harlen??? (12 Apr 1994)
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JMS- How's Harlen???

+12 Apr 1994
     Harlan's doing just fine....
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Re: quick questions for JMS (13 Apr 1994)
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Re: quick questions for JMS

+13 Apr 1994
     Actually, the virtual set can be seen in "Signs" in May.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Offended? (13 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Offended?

+13 Apr 1994
     I work with Larry DiTillio.  Nothing offends me.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS Questions: God & Schedules (19 Apr 1994)
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JMS Questions: God & Schedules

+19 Apr 1994
     The post to which you refer is correct; I'm an atheist.  But as part
+of that comes the attitude that, if I want my position respected, I must
+respect the position of others, and the fact that the religious impulse is
+a sincere part of the human race's attempt to understand itself.
+
+     And I wouldn't mind seeing some Hill Street folks making a trip
+through B5 sometime, either....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Starfuries aren't new... (19 Apr 1994)
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The Starfuries aren't new...

+19 Apr 1994
     Your message is correct; there are various "weights" of Starfuries,
+some much more massive and impressive.  The ones on B5 are light, fast,
+not overly complicated, and quick-strike machines.  Another kind, which
+you'll see in the two-parter, has cockpits fore *and* aft, a two-person
+ship with much heavier shielding and armaments; the "Black Omega" version
+is made for top speed as an interceptor with advanced stealth components.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Euro catch-up? (1 Apr 1994)
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Re: JMS: Euro catch-up?

+1 Apr 1994
     Actually, it's my understanding that the series has been sold to, and
+will shortly begin running in: Channel 4 U.K., AUM Trinidad, Canal Plus in
+France, Taipei, Sky-TV, 7 Network Australia, Set Eitz in Germany, Proziba,
+Italy, and several other countries.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Second Season pickup? (19 Apr 1994)
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Second Season pickup?

+19 Apr 1994
     We'll know about year two around mid-May.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+JMS: a cuppula questions (19 Apr 1994)
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JMS: a cuppula questions

+19 Apr 1994
     No real plans yet on what, if anything, to do with the scripts.  As
+for time now...we're still deep in post-production and meetings, so the
+days are still *very* full....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  Q. about the April/May E (19 Apr 1994)
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JMS:  Q. about the April/May E

+19 Apr 1994
     Yes, there will be arc-oriented material in the May programs.  The
+"Signs and Portents" episode in particular.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+
+Dear Santa Kosh. (19 Apr 1994)
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Dear Santa Kosh.

+19 Apr 1994
     Well, this season, you will get 2.5 of your requested gifts, says
+Santa Kosh.  But he won't tell you which ones.
+
+     And you will get 5 of them the next year.
+
+                                                                     jm
+
+

+
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+JMS: Autographs'n'Photos (19 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Autographs'n'Photos

+19 Apr 1994
     Actually, at this time, there *is* no office handling autographs,
+photos or scripts.  We really aren't doing any of that at this time.  If
+there is a second season, we might set up an office to handle some of
+this, but we'll have to wait and see...sorry this wasn't a more positive
+reply.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Quick praise for Babylon-5 (19 Apr 1994)
+
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+
Quick praise for Babylon-5

+19 Apr 1994
     Many thanks....
+
+                                                                       jms
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+
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+G'Kar's song in PoD (19 Apr 1994)
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+
G'Kar's song in PoD

+19 Apr 1994
     The song is an original, by our series composer, Christopher Franke.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+babylon 4 (20 Apr 1994)
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babylon 4

+20 Apr 1994
     B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some
+of the materials from 1-3 leftover.  B5 was constructed about 3 hours
+(traveling time in real-space) from the location of B4.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Sinclair Memorabilia (20 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Sinclair Memorabilia

+20 Apr 1994
     As I recall, the photo and article is about Sinclair's ancestor, who
+fought in the Battle of Britain.  And the framed piece is indeed a
+Sinclair Aircraft logo.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: DeathWalker questions (mi (21 Apr 1994)
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JMS: DeathWalker questions (mi

+21 Apr 1994
     The Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got into,
+soon after establishing a presence in space.  We mainly entered it to
+try and make a "rep" for ourselves, then got more morally involved when we
+saw what was going on.  That and the Minbari War are the only real major
+conflicts Earth has been involved with, and Earth was not directly at risk
+in the Dilgar war, though if they hadn't been stopped, that might have
+changed eventually.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: schedule please!!!!! (1 Apr 1994)
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+
Re: schedule please!!!!!

+1 Apr 1994
     Yeah, I'd say if you're looking for some cool CGI, you'll see it in
+"Signs."  I'd say overall that our most effects-heavy episodes are "Signs,"
+"Babylon Squared," "A Voice in the Wilderness" parts 1 and 2, and maybe
+"Chrysalis."  The first three in particular are real blow-outs.
+
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Hologram Question (21 Apr 1994)
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+
Re: Hologram Question

+21 Apr 1994
     Of course, your argument assumes no other means of projecting a 3D
+image being developed in the next 200 years....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.babylo (21 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.babylo

+21 Apr 1994
     What do I get from the newsgroup?  A "sense of the room," primarily,
+I suppose.  And knowing that someone's looking over your shoulder, and
+that this person is *right in your face*, and you can't avoid it, and you
+will havae to answer hard questions if you screw up, tends to keep you
+honest.  One can hide behind isolation.  One of the problems in TV is that
+if you get to a position high enough, lots of people around you start
+saying everything's just wonderful, you get "yes-men" and nobody tells you
+the truth anymore.  I don't think I have that problem here.  If anything,
+it's just the opposite; because I expect criticism...or, more accurately,
+because people *expect* that I expect criticism, that critiques are
+expected of them, there's MORE of it than on the systems where I lurk and
+my presence isn't generally known.
+
+      Beyond that...I've always felt that SF fans, particular SF media
+fans, are the most exploited group of viewers around.  They're expected to
+watch the show, pony up the dough for merchandise, then shut up and be
+good little viewers.  It's very difficult at times -- emotionally, and in
+terms of time and energy -- to stick around (there are currently 1,154
+messages in my GEnie internet mailbox), but I think that it's important
+to keep with it.  Because it's a way of showing respect to the viewer, to
+be open and accountable and responsive.  Sometimes I get cranky, but I'm
+human, and that'll happen from time to time.  Usually I avoid that.
+
+     It just seems the courteous and proper thing to do.  Does that make
+ANY kind of sense to anybody...?
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:When are you going to be i (22 Apr 1994)
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JMS:When are you going to be i

+22 Apr 1994
     No plans for Texas at this time, alas....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS or anyone else on B5 unifo (22 Apr 1994)
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JMS or anyone else on B5 unifo

+22 Apr 1994
     Yes and no.  All Earthforce uniforms in this division are blue; EA
+marines are olive/brown; security and other NCO areas get grey.  Within
+those areas, it's further subdivided, and is distinguishable by the
+horizontal bars below the EA insignia.  Gold is command; silver is for
+command staff.  (Ivanova, being in between, has a divided bar, half gold
+and half silver.)  Red is medical, green is security.  Yellow is for
+science division.  The rank bars are on the shoulder.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Deathwalker Comments (Spoilers (22 Apr 1994)
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Deathwalker Comments (Spoilers

+22 Apr 1994
     Sinclair was taught by Jesuits...and as far as Kosh goes, better to
+have him where you can see him, than not.  They *are* a powerful group,
+and it wouldn't serve to ignore them.  We courted them for 10 years for a
+first contact...and now we're stuck with them.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Babylon5 On Set Romance (22 Apr 1994)
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Re: Babylon5 On Set Romance

+22 Apr 1994
     Re: the relationship between these two, and your statement that, in
+looking at the characters of Garibaldi and Talia, the relationship "seems
+so contrived...."
+
+     Errr....I don't know how to tell you this, but this wasn't referring
+to a relationship between the *characters*, but to one between the
+ACTORS.  Jerry and Andrea are, shall we say, very much involved.  That
+will not bleed into their characters.
+
+     Is this, perhaps, a shade *less* contrived...?
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+
+Babylon 5 Blooper Reel? (22 Apr 1994)
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+
Babylon 5 Blooper Reel?

+22 Apr 1994
     At some point in the future, we may make this available, yes, but
+at this time we're in no special hurry.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+question for jms (22 Apr 1994)
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+
question for jms

+22 Apr 1994
     Nope, Jason Ironheart will not be seen again, insofar as I know.  I
+don't like beings with that much power running around the plotline....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+RE: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba (22 Apr 1994)
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RE: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba

+22 Apr 1994
     Anything I say here is public record...quote away.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+

+
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+Cliche in Deathwalker (22 Apr 1994)
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Cliche in Deathwalker

+22 Apr 1994
     "It also adds another piece of miracle tech never to be seen again."
+
+     Wrong.
+
+     In point of fact, virtually *none* of the new tech stuff is just
+gone...you'd be surprised what'll be showing up again down the road a
+piece....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Icon schedule? (1 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Icon schedule?

+1 Apr 1994
     Insofar as I know, my B5 presentation will be sometime Saturday.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

+
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+Deathwalker: EEEVILL!  (spoile (22 Apr 1994)
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Deathwalker: EEEVILL!  (spoile

+22 Apr 1994
     Re: B5's roster of strong women characters...this is something of a
+bugaboo/obsession with me.  I *love* writing strong women.  (For that
+matter, I love strong-willed, independent, smart women in real life as
+well; I love being outsmarted, love it when someone can go toe-to-toe
+with me on something.)  Generally, and this isn't entirely intentional,
+women on shows I work on tend to get some of the best lines, as is often
+the case with Ivanova.  It's not a case of being "one of the boys," but
+being one of the *people*.  There's a subtle difference.
+
+     The women I write are often very close to many of the women I've been
+involved with over the years.  So far, no one's sued....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+JMS: Can your posts appear in (22 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Can your posts appear in

+22 Apr 1994
     By all means, quote away....
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

+
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+Re: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba (22 Apr 1994)
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Re: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba

+22 Apr 1994
     Thanks...it's an interesting ongoing experiment.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

+
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+Re: B5 realism vs. ST idealism (22 Apr 1994)
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Re: B5 realism vs. ST idealism

+22 Apr 1994
     While we were in an agrarian state, and an early industrial state,
+we a) were of very little use, b) had little to offer, and c) came at a
+time when the Centauri were starting to fall back into isolationism just
+a bit.  The Narn had the misfortune to be strategically well located, had
+many resources the Centauri wanted, and provided other advantages.  One
+doesn't just conquer worlds helter-skelter; it takes time, money, effort
+and some blood to conquer worlds.  You only choose those which offer you
+enough to make the process worthwhile.  That simple.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+Why Babylon? (22 Apr 1994)
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+
Why Babylon?

+22 Apr 1994
     Ancient Babylon kind of began with a good idea, to form a central
+location for business, commerce, trading...and gradually went downhill
+from there.  The *idea* was solid, and that was the goal of the Babylon
+project...to form a place, a freeport, of trading, where cultures could
+come together.  And it sounded exotic.  Naturally, no one expects Babylon
+5 to go the way of the original Babylon....
+
+     After all, we're *so* much smarter now.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character (23 Apr 1994)
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Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character

+23 Apr 1994
     I have spoken today to Andreas Katsulas regarding the charges you
+raise, and he was unaware of any charges being pressed until he today
+called and spoke with the officer in charge.  He does not have any such
+problem as you describe, and is taking action.  Your statement that he
+"chose to let it lay" is untrue because he was unaware of it.  It is my
+understanding, through him, that you have called his home, tracked down
+his employment (as indicated by your own message concerning his agents),
+and have engaged in all the behavior typical of stalkers.  You are in the
+process of defaming and libeling Andreas, and I urge you to stop now while
+you can.  Lawyers are now being called into the situation, and a report
+containing all of your behavior on this issue, particularly your printed
+statements here, is being filed with LA police.
+
+     The kind of person who comes on line and makes allegations such as
+this -- and a charge filed by someone proves *nothing*, by the way, only
+that the person involved chose to do so, as with the recent filing of
+assault charges by Roseanne, which she has now retracted saying that she
+was "just upset" -- is the lowest form of human being, who must find some
+way to strike out at someone.  If you've got a case, make it, otherwise
+shut up.
+
+     This is the kind of thing that most dismays me about the nets, the
+way in which one person can get on and use them to try and destroy another
+person's career, personal life and reputation.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character (23 Apr 1994)
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Re: Poll: Sexiest B5 character

+23 Apr 1994
     I just left Diane a message similar to yours in the Katsulas
+thread.  People, this is an untrue rumor being spread around and jumped
+on.  Please check the other message I just left for more info.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS - Call out the lawyers! (23 Apr 1994)
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JMS - Call out the lawyers!

+23 Apr 1994
     Info logged.  Will look into this.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                         jms
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+Katsulas, was Re: Poll: Sexies (23 Apr 1994)
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Katsulas, was Re: Poll: Sexies

+23 Apr 1994
     Let me just dive in on this.  I hadn't really been following this
+thread, and only learned of the ugly direction this had taken when I got
+a call today from Andreas.  He was hurt, and angry, and confused.  The
+incident in question, he emphasized, *never happened*.  He also indicated
+that he had received harrassing phone calls from one party involved, and
+that he had spoken with the police department where the "report" was
+filed, and that they consider it of dubious origin.
+
+     This discussion, and the allegations, are clear libel, and it's
+dismaying to see people taking up libel and innuendo without *any*
+background whatsoever.  This is an ugly thing that happens on the 'nets
+from time to time, sometimes from people who are disturbed, or want
+attention, or have an agenda.  One person, for instance, spread the rumor
+on the nets that I had been fired from B5 after the pilot; another put
+out a rumor that I was a coke fiend, when in fact I don't drink, don't
+smoke, don't do drugs, don't do *anything.*  The problem becomes that one
+person can log on here, make an irresponsible or untrue allegation, other
+people pick it up, and suddenly it's all over the place, and it becomes
+self-reinforcing.
+
+     Let me be clear: I have worked with Andreas for two years.  I have
+seen him at conventions, seen him with women, and he has never been
+ANYthing but polite and careful to treat EVERYONE well.  There has never
+been a single other complaint raised about him, from anywhere.  He is a
+gentleman of the old school.
+
+     Police here on the West Coast are being alerted to this problem, to
+the harrassing/stalking-like phone calls, and lawyers are being brought
+into the equation.  This is one of the dangers in gaining some measure of
+notoriety; one becomes a target.
+
+     I ask *all* of you to stop this thread at once.  It's untrue, and
+damaging, and libelous.  This will be dealt with by Andreas,  officially,
+and that will take care of it.  You are judging and condemning a good,
+decent man who has done nothing deserving of that.  This is an ugly
+example of rumor-mongering, character assassination, libel and probably
+verges on stalking.  Everyone...stay OUT of this, and let the legal
+process take care of itself.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+JMS: Ellison caricature in "De (23 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Ellison caricature in "De

+23 Apr 1994
     The vicker has *nothing* to do with Harlan; it was originally written
+with Gilbert Gottfried in mind, but he was apparently unavailable at the
+time.
+
+                                                                jms
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+Quote List & Legal Question fo (1 Apr 1994)
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Quote List & Legal Question fo

+1 Apr 1994
     Insofar as I know, no, there doesn't seem to be anything legally
+inappropriate in what you describe.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Re: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba (23 Apr 1994)
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Re: JMS: Why rec.arts.sf.tv.ba

+23 Apr 1994
     Generally, I'm able to tell mail from public messages if I've seen
+the header before.  Otherwise, I tell folks to put ATT:JMS in the subject
+line, so I'll know to check it when I see the list go by.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS: EA badge? (23 Apr 1994)
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JMS: EA badge?

+23 Apr 1994
     At this time, the EA badges are not available anywhere but in the
+B5 prop room.  In time, that may change....
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+My beef with Bablyon 5 (23 Apr 1994)
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My beef with Bablyon 5

+23 Apr 1994
     What I don't understand is why in order to qualify as SF, one MUST
+have non-humanoid aliens in large numbers?  (You already mentioned Kosh
+and n'grath, that's two.)  Leaving out the practical side of the
+argument -- that actors are (generally) human, and if you want ANY kind of
+characterization, you need an actor, animatronics aren't generally at the
+level yet that can give solid long-term performances -- the argument seems
+dubious from a scientific point.
+
+     To become a spacefaring race, one has to go through some measure of
+evolution, avoiding becoming prey, and becoming adept at making tools,
+using fire (or its equivilent), and so on.  From the biologists I've
+spoken with, the species with the best chance of survival are those with
+their sensory equipment at the highest point of their body, for instance;
+as with humans, that puts your eyes, ears and scent organs at the top of
+your body.  To avoid predators, you need legs, at least two.  Four is a
+possibility, but aren't as suited to handle difficult terrain or squeeze
+through narrow openings.  To ward off predators, and build devices of a
+technological origin, you need forelimbs, minimum two, and given that the
+universe tends toward bilateral symmetry, you'll probably get pairs.  And
+an opposible thumb (or other similar appendage) is certainly useful as
+well.  What you get is something fairly humanoid.
+
+     (As an aside, it's interesting to note that in all tales of UFO
+encounters -- and I'm not taking sides in this, just dealing with the
+subject -- the aliens aren't huge lobsters or insects, they're fairly
+humanoid.)
+
+     You can have a character who can relate to our characters, show
+emotion, carry on a long story...or you can have puppets.  Choose one.  I
+know there was Yoda (on whom was spent VAST amounts of money, and time
+that is only available on film projects), and that was well done, but
+even that was clearly a puppet.  The technology doesn't yet exist to do
+what you ask.  You might as well say, "It's not SF unless Straczynski is
+able to fly around the room on his own power."  The resources to do it
+aren't here yet.
+
+     Nonetheless, we're continuing to try and find some ways of doing
+this.  There's a *very* non-humanoid creature in "Grail," created by CGI,
+which is about 60-70% of what you got in Jurassic Park.  It's a start.
+Maybe in another few years, we'll have the tech to do more of this.  But
+for now, it's not good enough to do the job *convincingly*, and I'd rather
+not do it than do it badly.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+Re: "Deathwalker" (spoilers) (23 Apr 1994)
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Re: "Deathwalker" (spoilers)

+23 Apr 1994
     Except of course that Sinclair said that the non-aligned worlds would
+have observers there at all times...there are no other Dilgar to help
+break her out...the Narns have no desire to attack Earth installations to
+break her out as long as they get their share of the serum...and there
+really was no other alternative short of war.
+
+                                                                         jms
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+Hey, why all the gloves? (24 Apr 1994)
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Hey, why all the gloves?

+24 Apr 1994
     Talia, like all Psi Corps members, wears gloves because she has to,
+when in public, to minimize physical contact and accidental scans.  As
+for others wearing gloves...sometimes it's a fashion statement...and
+other times, well, space is very very cold....
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+Re: My beef with Bablyon 5 (24 Apr 1994)
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Re: My beef with Bablyon 5

+24 Apr 1994
     Okay, but then you're going to have an actor trying to emote in
+scenes with an air-breathing octopus.  It's going to look *silly* because
+the tech doesn't exist to make it look REALLY good.  There are some things
+that work in fiction, and some things that won't work when you have to
+FILM them.  This is one of them.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+Re: Katsulas, was Re: Poll: Se (24 Apr 1994)
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Re: Katsulas, was Re: Poll: Se

+24 Apr 1994
     I understand; it's easy enough to do.  I just encourage everyone to
+engage in critical thinking whenever something like this comes along.
+
+                                                                         jms
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+creativity (24 Apr 1994)
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creativity

+24 Apr 1994
     would babylon5.creative be acceptable for *what*?
+
+     lost in a fog, as always....
+
+                                                                        jms
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+ATT:JMS (was: Sexiest) (24 Apr 1994)
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ATT:JMS (was: Sexiest)

+24 Apr 1994
     I didn't bother getting the name on the message; others here likely
+know it and can provide that info.  Killfile seems best...just ignore
+the guy.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+Deathwalker: SPOILERS and obse (24 Apr 1994)
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Deathwalker: SPOILERS and obse

+24 Apr 1994
     Your statement about the serum being a means of getting to the truth
+-- or her truth at the very least -- is quite correct.  And appropos to
+current reality.  We look back at the Nazis, and others, and say, "Well,
+WE could never do that."  But of course we could.  Fine tune your
+attention to the frequency of misery and inhumanity, and in short order
+you'll pick up Rwanda, and Bosnia and a host of others.
+
+     Our capacity for greatness is as substantial as our capacity for
+evil.  And we must constantly be reminded of that duality; to pretend
+it simply isn't there, or is somebody else's problem, inevitably leads to
+tragedy.  (For those interested, btw, I would encourage you to check out
+a short story by Mark Twain, called "The Man
+Who Corrupted Hadleyburg."  I think you will find it *most* illuminating.)
+
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+Centauris, Narns, and Earth: q (3 Apr 1994)
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Centauris, Narns, and Earth: q

+3 Apr 1994
     The Centauri never really got around to us.  They've been in a
+decline for a long time; the Narn occupation was one of the last of their
+imperialist rampages.  Now they're pulling back further and further.  And
+also as re: Earth...space is big.  100 years ago, we weren't putting out
+any radio or television or microwave transmissions; they can't check EVERY
+planet.  We got overlooked for a long time by lots of different groups.
+
+     Re: weapons...the Narns got their hands on the Centauri leftover
+weapons, and the manufacturing systems put in place there during the
+occupation that nearly strip-mined their world.  Using that as a base,
+they got heavily into the weapons business, and continue to do so.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+24 Apr 1994
     The doings of local stations are utterly beyond my comprehension.
+I have little to do with that aspect of it, and mainly suggest that you
+contact via phone your local station and see what the hell's going on....
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+The Garden (25 Apr 1994)
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The Garden

+25 Apr 1994
     There is some limited life within the garden...some birds (which
+you can hear sometimes), and insects, and the like.  (In one shot you
+can see an insect fly off one of our actors.  Yeah, sure, like we
+planned that....)  It's generally one season in the Garden, and plants
+requiring variation are raised in a separate hydroponics area, such as
+the orchard (seen in "War Prayer").
+
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+DiTillio, GURPS, P5 (25 Apr 1994)
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DiTillio, GURPS, P5

+25 Apr 1994
     You're grasping at straws.  If you take the full extent of what a
+telepath can do, split it in half, and you'll get what a lot of folks
+would consider a mid-ground, or a 5.  I've never read anything from
+GURPS.
+
+     As for Larry...he did the Grey Knight RPG, and co-wrote the Call
+of Cthulhu, and wrote Masks of Nyarlathotep, among others.
+
+                           jm(who can actually spell Nyarlathotep from memory)s
+
+

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+Re: DiTillio, GURPS, P5 (26 Apr 1994)
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Re: DiTillio, GURPS, P5

+26 Apr 1994
     "I'm sure you can spell just about anything if you can spell
+Straczynski."
+
+     *
+
+     C'mere...no, c'mere...I just wanna talk to you a second...no, I'm
+not gonna hurt you, the bat is just for decoration...just stand still for
+a second, that's all I ask....
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

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+JMS: Worst Case Scenario... (26 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Worst Case Scenario...

+26 Apr 1994
     "What happens to Babylon 5 if...say, you're walking down the street
+and a wandering asteroid crash lands on you, three years into the story
+arc?"
+
+     What happens is this:
+
+     First they scrape up my remains.  Then they put me in the morgue.
+After a cursory examination, the death is ruled an act of god, which is
+the ultimate insult to an atheist.  Then they stick a big needle in one
+arm, and in my heel, and embalm what's left of me.  Then there's a
+service.  All of my friends come.  What they do with the rest of the rows
+after one is filled is anyone's guess.  Rent them out, I guess.  Next they
+plant me.  I lay there for a while, gradually coming to the realization
+that when they stuck me in this crummy suit, they yanked the pants into
+my butt and now I have to go through all eternity with a snuggie.  In time
+I get really annoyed by this, my essence rises up out of the coffin, AND
+HAUNTS YOU FOR THE REST OF YOUR NATURAL LIFE!
+
+     Or, put another way, if you want to see the end of the story, it's
+in your vested interest to keep my ass ALIVE for the next 4.5 years.
+
+     Ever read Sheherazade?  Think about it.
+
+                                                                jm(rosebud)s
+
+

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+JMS: Will we see missiles? (or (26 Apr 1994)
+
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JMS: Will we see missiles? (or

+26 Apr 1994
     Oh, believe me, you'll get your missile-wish in spades, come the
+two-parter....
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+JMS: Kosh's "Voice" (26 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Kosh's "Voice"

+26 Apr 1994
     "Kosh's voice-the rumblings and bells and stuff, not the translation-
+seemed to be missing a lot of the lower tones and bass that I remembered
+hearing previously."
+
+     He had a cold.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+JMS: Doesn`t this get tir (26 Apr 1994)
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JMS: Doesn`t this get tir

+26 Apr 1994
     "Are there any other print or comic writing credits we should know
+about?"
+
+     Yikes....
+
+     There's an *awful* lot out there, in one form or another, most of it
+in the area of journalism.  Something over 500 published articles, in
+VIDEO REVIEW, SAN DIEGO MAGAZINE, L.A. READER, PENTHOUSE, WRITER'S DIGEST,
+THE L.A. TIMES, TIME INC., way too many to list.  The fiction's a bit
+easier.  "Your Move," in Amazing Stories Magazine, my first published
+short story (that counts anyway); "A Last Testament for Nick and the
+Trooper," in Shadows 6; "Say Hello, Mister Quigley," in both Pulphouse and
+the Midnight Grafitti anthology; "Demon Night" and "OtherSyde," both
+novels from St. Martin (hardcover); the TZ comic, plus an issue of Teen
+Titans Spotlight: On Cyborg (Cyborg vs. Two Face) "Face to Face Two Face,"
+and an issue of the Star Trek comic, "Worldsinger."  Also a collection,
+"Tales from the New Twilight Zone."  And others.  But those are the
+highlights.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+critters/evolution, was Re: My (26 Apr 1994)
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critters/evolution, was Re: My

+26 Apr 1994
    In Gharlane's long post, the JMS quotes attributed to me are not in
+fact by me.  Just a reply.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS! (27 Apr 1994)
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ATTN JMS!

+27 Apr 1994
     "Where are the children of Babylon 5?"
+
+     Where are the children of Los Angeles International Airport?
+
+     Answer: going and coming, but not generally staying for any period
+of time.  B5 is like a massive airport or airport/hotel complex.  The
+only people who generally LIVE there are those who WORK there; everybody
+else is going or coming.  It's not a place you'd bring kids (remember what
+happened to the LAST Babylon stations).
+
+     As it is, a kid -- adolescent -- appears in three stories this
+season: Purple, Believers, and Legacies...and that's at least two more
+than I'm comfortable with.
+
+                                         jm(bah, humbug)s
+
+

+
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+A quote about another, related (1 May 1994)
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A quote about another, related

+1 May 1994
     Hmm...it seems Patrick and I have more in common than I thought....
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Will Mira talk to GEEKS? (4 May 1994)
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Re: Will Mira talk to GEEKS?

+4 May 1994
     "And jms seems to be doing just fine...right, Joe?"
+
+     Yeah...absolutely...fine...look, hand me those crayons, okay...though
+I don't know why...the black one's all flat and you can't make good lines
+with it and they won't let me sharpen it because the last time I used the
+sharpener I put Nurse Filbee's finger in it but that wasn't my fault, she
+pointed it at me, so if I just have the crayons, the ones with the good
+points, I can get this done, get this done, on deadline, the deadlines
+are important, do you like the peach color or the green for the rabbit...?
+
+     What was the question again?
+
+                                                                         jms
+

+
+
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+JMS:broadcast problems (4 May 1994)
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JMS:broadcast problems

+4 May 1994
     I hadn't heard this before, but will definitely investigate.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                          jms
+

+
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+Did I hear Zarquon? ByAnyMeans (12 May 1994)
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Did I hear Zarquon? ByAnyMeans

+12 May 1994
     It's G'Quan.
+
+                           jms (a man who always knows where his towel is)
+

+
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+"By All Means Necessary" Minor (12 May 1994)
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"By All Means Necessary" Minor

+12 May 1994
     Exactly my point; there are differences between similar alien
+groups (like the Narn) in culture, language and religion, with BAMN being
+a good demonstration of the latter.  Which is why I could only shrug and
+say "Wait" after people started hammering on me here about monolithic
+alien religions after "Parliament."  We'd already filmed BAMN by then, so
+I knew it was there.  That's one thing about this show that some have
+found out...generally, what you'd like us to do, we've probably done or
+are about to do (hence the many times, when I'm asked about something,
+that we can just say, "Wait until X airs in 2 weeks" or somesush).
+
+     Still dancing as fast as I can....
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+Re: Trekkers and Babylon 5 (15 May 1994)
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Re: Trekkers and Babylon 5

+15 May 1994
     Let me dive in here for a moment, with some thoughts about the show,
+people's expectations, and the like.
+
+     In my case, I've always tried to be very honest about which episodes
+I think are spiffy, and which are less than effective, whether I wrote them
+or not.  ("Infection," for instance, is one of my least favorites.)  What
+I have talked about being special is the *series* per se.  The cumulative
+and total effect of it.  Where this series will go, is somewhere no other
+series has gone.
+
+     But you can't just dive in from zero.  You have to establish your
+world, and your characters.  Otherwise you'll lose your audience because
+it's coming too fast, and they're not sufficiently grounded to appreciate
+what's going on.  So the first batch of episodes were, for the most part,
+very straightforward.  They gave little hints and tastes of what was
+going on elsewhere, but they were fairly standard in some ways.  And, of
+course, we got hammered.  "Where's this special series that we were all
+told about?"  Well, to that, I say, "You haven't SEEN the series yet, only
+the opening."
+
+     My point of comparison, I suppose, would be "The Lord of the Rings,"
+which spends the first several chapters, a LOT of time...on Bilbo's
+birthday party, dividing up his belongings, bringing in Frodo, the
+relationships between all the various Baggins's and other relatives, with
+Frodo waiting around, and finally hitting the Road.  You get a *sense* of
+things happening around the corners, at the edges of the story, but for
+the most part, it's fairly standard.  Now, you could stop at this point
+and say, "Well, so what's so special about this?  It's just about some
+dumb birthday party."  But it's the *book* (or books) that are truly
+extraordinary; it's where the road takes you.
+
+     Like Tolkien, and Jonathan Carroll, whose wonderful books start out
+looking very nice and comfortable...and gradually take you to someplace
+strange and dark and unique...I've tried to apply a similar structure to
+Babylon 5.  It seems to be chugging along at a good clip along relatively
+familiar terrain.  Now my job is to walk up alongside the story with a
+crowbar and give it a good, hard WHAM! to move it into a different
+trajectory.  "Parliament" was just sort of a preliminary nudge.  "And the
+Sky Full of Stars" was a good, solid WHAM!  This week's episode, "Signs
+and Portents," is another WHAM, even bigger than the one that precedes it.
+
+     There are two more major WHAM episodes: "Babylon Squared," dealing
+with the fate of Babylon 4, and "Chrysalis," our season ender, which is
+really more of an atomic bomb rather than a crowbar.  So roughly about
+one-fourth of this season's episodes are WHAM episodes.  That figure will
+increase in year two to about one-third.  Year three (Neilsen willing)
+will be half-WHAM and half-not.  Year four would be three-quarters WHAM.
+And year five is all WHAM.
+
+     I guess where I'm getting in all this, is that I don't think that I
+have hyped the episodes.  (No, you didn't say this, I'm responding to what
+you're responding to.)  The only time I've slipped and waxed rhapsodic
+about the show...is when talking about the *show*, which is in my head,
+all of it...I know who the Shadowmen are, and what they want, and why the
+Minbari surrendered, and what the Psi Corps is up to, and who is on that
+shuttle you see in the last moments of "Signs and Portents," and what led
+up to that moment.  For me, the goal has always been the book in its
+totality.
+
+     Along the way, we have an obligation to make each individual episode
+stand alone, and be as entertaining as humanly possible.  We invest
+astonishing amounts of time working to make the show as good as it can be.
+ I try to keep down the "unrealistic expectations" you note as much as
+possible.  It's hard when you have such an incredibly talented team as we
+have assembled *not* to sometimes glow a little, but we do try and keep it
+down to a roar.
+
+     From my point of view, I think we've got a dynamite first season
+under our belts.  As I noted elsewhere, if in my entire career I never
+did anything more than "Chrysalis," I'd be happy.  Out of 22 episodes, I
+think we have maybe four that, if all the negatives vanished tomorrow, I
+wouldn't feel bad about.  The rest I'll put up against any other SF series
+ever produced.  That we could make something as nifty as "Mind War" in our
+first season should be achievement enough; to also have made "Sky," and
+"Signs," and "Babylon Squared," and "Chrysalis," and "Parliament" in the
+same first season is almost more than could've been hoped for.
+
+     And finally, some folks are never gonna like it.  Lots of folks like
+country music.  I can't abide it.  (Exceptions for bluegrass and anything
+from Leon Redbone and the Red Clay Ramblers.)  Tastes vary.  And we have
+encountered some who are defensive against the show, and dismiss it
+without a fair chance.  But there are always those on *every* show.  So
+this bothers me not at all.  What matters most to me is that we are true
+to the vision of what this show is, and true to our audience, that we don't
+dumb it down or fail to deliver 100%.  And in that, I feel very
+comfortable.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+Re: JMS: Why are you a G-Man? (15 May 1994)
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Re: JMS: Why are you a G-Man?

+15 May 1994
     Due to a GEnie mailbox glitch, I missed the original posting, so I'll
+answer Malcolm's question here:
+
+     Why use G' instead of J'?
+
+     Ask the Narns.  They's crazy, those aliens.  Just don't do nothin'
+like we'd like 'em to.
+
+     It seemed like a good idea at the time.
+
+     Pick one.  Either are more or less accurate.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+
+THOSE WHO HATE WORKERS (15 May 1994)
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THOSE WHO HATE WORKERS

+15 May 1994
     I'm told by the writer (*now*) that  yes, the Rush Act is indeed
+named after Mr. Limbaugh.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
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+Chrysalis and anti-government (16 May 1994)
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Chrysalis and anti-government

+16 May 1994
     "Do you have something against our government?"  No, this isn't our
+government in B5's time.  It has some echoes, but it's not the same thing.
+No, I'm not a libertarian.  I just believe, in looking at, say, 6,000
+years of recorded history, that government always tends to have with it
+varying degrees of corruption, stupidity, venality and dunderheads.  Ditto
+with any organization whose membership is larger than 1.  That, too, is
+part of our heritage.
+
+     The EA government is currently in a very bad state; something is
+starting to go very wrong at the heart of it.  We're catching it just as
+this is starting to heat up.  We're seeing signs (and portents) that the
+EA is taking a turn toward something nasty.  Question is, who's doing the
+turning, and why?  It's not a stereotype, or an analysis of our current
+system of government; it's a plot point.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+Re: Egotistical Producer (16 May 1994)
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Re: Egotistical Producer

+16 May 1994
     The name of General Netter was stuck in as a tweak to Doug, it's a
+tuckerism (for those who know the term).  We've done it a bit here and
+there; I kinda started shutting the process down after a while, since it
+was getting carried away.  I don't want it to be obtrusive.
+
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+
+Blatant Humour in B5 (16 May 1994)
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Blatant Humour in B5

+16 May 1994
     For as long as I've been writing, I've had a very simple belief that
+comes across with B5 as well: try to get in one really great action moment,
+minimum one real nice character moment, one solid dramatic moment...and
+one moment or scene that's fall-down funny.
+
+     I like humor.  I like that characters can show another side of
+themselves.  If there is any real test of sentience, one of them must
+surely be the possession of a sense of humor, since it requires self
+reflection.  And there is always unintentional (on the part of the
+character, at least) humor.
+
+     SF-TV has generally taken itself either too seriously, with rods up
+butts, the humor forced...or it's not taken itself seriously at ALL, and
+gone campy.  This show takes itself seriously, but not in quite a way that
+lets it fit in either category.
+
+     For me, as a viewer, I enjoy the shows that are roller-coasters, that
+take you from something very funny...and slam you headfirst into a
+very dramatic scene.  Hill Street was like that, Picket Fences is like
+that now...why not SF?  I've also found that humor can help you reveal
+things about the characters.  The Londo/G'Kar scene at the elevator in
+"Signs and Portents," for instance.  It says something about both of them
+without coming out and *saying* it.
+
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+Survivors (1 May 1994)
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Survivors

+1 May 1994
     "When are we going to get an Ivanova episode?"
+
+     "TKO," May 25th.
+
+                                                                jms
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+

+
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+Women on ST, B5 are perfect (16 May 1994)
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Women on ST, B5 are perfect

+16 May 1994
     I dunno...I didn't think of Dr. Hernandez in "Believers" as a typical
+model-looking woman.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+"Signs and Portents" -- SPOILE (16 May 1994)
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"Signs and Portents" -- SPOILE

+16 May 1994
     Re: the theme music at the end of "Signs," I think it was me (but I
+could be mistaken) who suggested to Chris, our composer, that he use the
+theme, but in *minor chords* rather than major chords.  Makes it very sad,
+and very effective.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+
+JMS: Awestruck again! (17 May 1994)
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JMS: Awestruck again!

+17 May 1994
     I sympathize with your attempt; I'm not sure that *I* could get it
+down to 14 pages, you're probably doing it better than I could.  As you
+say, there's a lot of information there.  Most people probably aren't aware
+of just how much they know until they do what you just did.  It's good to
+know that this stuff gets noticed from time to time.
+
+                                                      jms
+

+
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+
+JMS: Do you feel a karmic debt (17 May 1994)
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JMS: Do you feel a karmic debt

+17 May 1994
     My "karmic debt" is first, foremost and forever to the story, then to
+myself, then to the audience, then to the studio/publisher.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
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+
+Questions for JMS (17 May 1994)
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Questions for JMS

+17 May 1994
     Since the second season is still being shaped, this is a question
+that might be better asked in a few months.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+
+Correct this quote! (17 May 1994)
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Correct this quote!

+17 May 1994
     The exchange, I believe, was:
+
+     Sinclair: Lieutent Commander Ivanova, please escort Major Kemmer from
+the Observation Dome.
+
+     Ivanova: Certainly.  You will resist, I hope...?
+
+     It's from "Survivors."
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+
+Is B5 a double header May 18? (18 May 1994)
+
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Is B5 a double header May 18?

+18 May 1994
     Negative.  TKO airs the following week.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+Re: Sinclair's D*CK! (18 May 1994)
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Re: Sinclair's D*CK!

+18 May 1994
     I don't understand...what does Sinclair's duck have to do with
+anything?  We weren't even planning on introducing the duck until late in
+season two.  I suspect a leak.  Nothing worse than a leaky duck.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+JMS: Your appearance in Real G (19 May 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Your appearance in Real G

+19 May 1994
     Oh dear...er...umm....no comment.
+
+     (Damn, and I thought I'd burned the last of the negatives....)
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: Signs & Portents (19 May 1994)
+
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+
Attn JMS: Signs & Portents

+19 May 1994
     Let's just say that if you liked "Signs and Portents," you're gonna
+LOVE "Babylon Squared" and "Chrysalis."
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+
+A few questions (1 May 1994)
+
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+
A few questions

+1 May 1994
     There is no tech manual currently available.  But with time, that
+may change.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 first episode error (19 May 1994)
+
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Babylon 5 first episode error

+19 May 1994
     Negative.  The error is yours.  Londo's nephew was *not* aboard the
+Raghesh 3 station.  He was on the planet below.  Check the credits; the
+actors are different people.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+
+Thank you, JMS! S&P [SPOILERS, (19 May 1994)
+
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Thank you, JMS! S&P [SPOILERS,

+19 May 1994
     The symbol on Ivanova's starfury is a traditional Russian
+star/herald.  Crews of Earth-based ships are always human.  And we did
+some minor tweaking to Kosh's encounter suit, yes.
+
+     BTW, for anyone looking on...Delenn didn't say, "They're back."  She
+said "They're here."
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Signs & Portents: WHAM! (attn (19 May 1994)
+
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+
Signs & Portents: WHAM! (attn

+19 May 1994
     The discrepencies have been noted, and will be looked into.  The
+questions you raise will be answered in time...but not here.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Coincidence? (20 May 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Coincidence?

+20 May 1994
     At the point in which we join the tale of the last of the Babylon
+stations, *everything* is in a state of flux...one government is on the
+rise, another is declining, Earth is taking some new and disturbing
+directions...so yes, they all feel there is a change coming.  It's a little
+thing, but we keep it alive to keep a sense of something moving on a web,
+and each movement makes the whole thing shake just a little.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+
+"A" and "B" plots (20 May 1994)
+
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+
"A" and "B" plots

+20 May 1994
     We're very flexible when it comes to A, B and C stories.  Some of
+our episodes, like "Survivors," are all A story, no B story at all.  Some
+have A and B stories.  Some, like "The Quality of Mercy," have 3-4 stories
+going on at once.
+
+                                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+
+Shadows of Shadowmen (spoilers (20 May 1994)
+
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+
Shadows of Shadowmen (spoilers

+20 May 1994
     Since you've done such a great job of speculating, I give you a
+gift...a preview of something.
+
+     There's an upcoming episode with Delenn going to the Grey Council.
+As she joins the circle, in her Grey Council robes, she says, "In Valen's
+name, I take the place that has been prepared for me.  I am Grey; I stand
+between the candle, and the star.  We are Grey; we stand between the
+Darkness, and the Light."
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+
+What the HELL?! (S&P SPOILERS! (20 May 1994)
+
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+
What the HELL?! (S&P SPOILERS!

+20 May 1994
     The raiders are gone for good, yes.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: S&P - ?'s I Don't Expect (20 May 1994)
+
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JMS: S&P - ?'s I Don't Expect

+20 May 1994
     They refers to humans.  There was no need to ask Sinclair, and he
+was under orders not to.  And who is on that shuttle...is an excellent
+question.
+
+                                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+
+@JMS, The intro (20 May 1994)
+
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+
@JMS, The intro

+20 May 1994
     The first episode of season two will be narrative-intro'd as the
+year 2259.
+
+                                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+
+"Believers": Sci-Fi or ripoff? (20 May 1994)
+
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+
"Believers": Sci-Fi or ripoff?

+20 May 1994
     Excuse me....
+
+     You don't think that "Believers" was SF.  Tough.
+
+     No, it didn't have warp gates, or tachyon emitters, or lots of
+technobabble...it was about people.  And the dilemmas they face.
+
+     Part of what has screwed up so much of SF-TV is this sense that you
+must utterly divorce yourself from current issues, from current problems,
+from taking on issues of today and extrapolating them into the future, by
+way of aliens or SF constructs.  And that is *precisely* why so much of
+contemporary SF-TV is barren and lifeless and irrelevant...and *precisely*
+why such series as the original Star Trek, and Outer Limits, and Twilight
+Zone are with us today.
+
+     Like Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry and Joe Stefano and Reginald
+Rose and Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin and a bunch of other writers whose
+typewriters I'm not fit to touch, my goal in part is to simply tell good
+stories within an SF setting.  And by SF I mean speculative fiction, which
+sometimes touches on hard-SF aspects, and sometimes doesn't.  Speculative
+fiction means you look at how society changes, how cultures interact with
+one another, how belief systems come into conflict.  And as someone else
+here noted recently, anthropology and sociology are also sciences; soft
+sciences, to be sure, but sciences nonetheless.
+
+     It's been pointed out that TV-SF is generally 20-30 years behind
+print SF.  This whole conversation proves the point quite succinctly.  In
+the 1960s or so, along came the New Wave of SF, which eschewed hardware
+for stories about the human condition set against an SF background.  And
+the fanzines and prozines and techno-loving pundits of hard-SF declared
+it heresy, said it wasn't SF, this is crap.  And eventually they were
+steamrolled, and print SF grew up a little.  Now the argument has come to
+settle here.  Well, fine.  So be it.
+
+     I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that SF is anything I point
+to and say, "That's SF."  Go pick up a copy of "A Canticle for Liebowitz,"
+one of the real singular masterpieces of the science fiction genre, and
+it won't fit the narrow criteria you've set up for what qualifies as SF
+by your lights.
+
+     There is a tendency among the more radical hard-SF proponents to
+stamp their feet and hold their breath until they turn blue, to threaten
+that unless the book changes or the field comes around or the series
+cottens to *their* specific, narrow version of what SF is -- and that
+definition changes from person to person -- they'll take their ball and
+their bat and go home.  Fine and good.  And the millions who come to take
+their place in the bleachers and on the field will get to have all the
+fun.
+
+     Some of our episodes will fit your definition of SF.  Some will not.
+This worries me not at all.
+
+                                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+att:jms - explosions go boom (1 May 1994)
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att:jms - explosions go boom

+1 May 1994
     In general, you don't see a lot of light reflecting off other
+objects when there's an explosion because in general those objects aren't
+close enough to cause a reflection.  Now, in "Signs," which comes up in
+a couple weeks, there's explosions near a large object, and there we do
+get some reflected light.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) on B (21 May 1994)
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+
Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) on B

+21 May 1994
     I think that's an absolutely *splendid* idea.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+
+The same launching shots (21 May 1994)
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+
The same launching shots

+21 May 1994
     I tend to agree re: the launching shots.  There were going to be som
+(some) new ones for S&P, but there were SO many new shots in that one that
+we just ran out of rendering time.  There's some new ones coming, though,
+and very dramatic looking, in "Babylon Squared" and the two-parter.
+
+                                                                         jms
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Message from JMS (21 May 1994)
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Re: Message from JMS

+21 May 1994
     Please do not stick this on O'Hare.  Whatever decisions get made, it
+is up to the producers -- me and Doug -- to implement those decisions, so
+ultimate responsibility rests with me.  If you're going to be angry at
+anyone, be angry at me.  Your anger is misplaced.
+
+     Again, this was *mutual*.  We looked at the story, the way a
+novelist looks at a novel he's one-fifth through writing, and you learn
+things writing the novel that you can learn NO other way, however much
+you plan and outline.  And at some point, you say, "If we leave things
+JUST as they are, no changes, we can do X and Y, which are both very
+cool.  But if we take a chance, and make some shifts in direction, we can
+do X, and Y...*AND* Z...and Z is *VERY* interesting indeed.  It opens up
+whole new areas for us to explore.  So we talked about it with Michael,
+who had some thoughts of his own...and now here we are.
+
+     Granted, it's taking a chance.  But we all swore a blood oath to
+make the show consistently better.  Any time a possible decision comes
+up -- like, Should we do "Believers," knowing that it'll get us in
+ENDLESS trouble -- we ask, "Will this benefit the show?"  If the answer
+is yes, we do it, regardless.
+
+     Once again, this is *mutual*.  So blame me.  And be assured, this
+isn't now going to be a band-aid covering...it will let us get deeper and
+faster into the meat of the storyline, and intensify the characterizations
+and relationships.  Sinclair's purpose in the large part of the first
+section of the story was really to get everyone together...to start the
+pieces moving.  And now we've got all the players in position.  The whole
+24 hours/Line thread was *always* going to be resolved at the top of year
+two, because you can't sustain that for more than 1.5 seasons at MOST.
+The audience, rightly, won't stand for it.  At that point, that mystery
+dispensed with (which would lead to other questions), Sinclair kinda
+faded a bit from the story, because now we have to bring the other
+players into the foreground.  So if he's going to fade *anyway*, why have
+him meandering around?  Why not "absent" him for a time...and up the
+stakes for everyone else, and help focus on other aspects?
+
+     The story will go where it was always going to go.  This much is
+certain.
+
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Portents and Questions (21 May 1994)
+
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+
Re: Portents and Questions

+21 May 1994
     "It has been divulged that Sinclair is coexisting in a parallel
+dimension Babylon 4."
+
+     Actually, this has *not* been divulged...what it is is a speculation
+based on an offhand comment by Michael at a convention.  I jump in here
+only because, well, that ain't it.  B4 is not in an alternate dimension,
+neither is there an alternate Sinclair.  Just a course correction to the
+discussion.
+
+                                                                         jms
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Zima?! (21 May 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Zima?!

+21 May 1994
     Babylon 5 (the show) got not a dime for sticking in the Zima sign.
+We just thought...well, it'd be funny.
+
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Message from JMS (21 May 1994)
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Re: Message from JMS

+21 May 1994
    Just to clarify again, this was a *mutual* decision.  There are some
+VERY interesting things that we can do if we take an extended hiatus from
+Sinclair aboard B5 (while keeping his character alive elsewhere) that we
+wanted to explore, and Michael had some thoughts of his own.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: O'Hare leaving? (21 May 1994)
+
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+
JMS: O'Hare leaving?

+21 May 1994
     Londo's voice over does not specifically name Sinclair in the pilot.
+
+                                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+
+ATT: JMS PsiCops! (You are tri (21 May 1994)
+
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+
ATT: JMS PsiCops! (You are tri

+21 May 1994
     Congratulations.  I was wondering when anyone was going to hit on
+the CSICOP reference.  I was looking for a good name for the pit bulls of
+the Psi Corps, and thought it made for a great play on words, and a very
+obscure almost-pun, to name them Psi-Cops.
+
+     I'm afraid you don't win a toaster, but a definite nod from deep
+inside Babylon 5.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Message from JMS (21 May 1994)
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Re: Message from JMS

+21 May 1994
     "...terrible mismanagement of the production staff to not have
+wrapped the main characters in contract for the duration."
+
+     We did.
+
+     As has been noted elsewhere...when you write a novel or produce a
+series, you learn things you can learn no other way.  And we looked at
+where we were with the story, and figured we could keep on going just
+fine as we were.  But if we did X, risky as it might be, it would open up
+whole new directions, and let us improve the quality of the story in its
+range, its scope, and its impact.  THEN we went to Michael for his
+thoughts.  Both sides had some good reasons for doing this.  This isn't a
+matter of "patching things over."  On our part, this is a deliberate
+decision which we think will improve the hell out of the story.
+
+                                                                         jms
+

+
+
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+     "Babylon Squared" and "Chrysalis" will air in August.
+
+
+"Babylon Squared" & "Chrysalis (21 May 1994)
+
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"Babylon Squared" & "Chrysalis

+21 May 1994
                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
+Re: "Believers" is insulting. (1 May 1994)
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+
Re: "Believers" is insulting.

+1 May 1994
     You base a great deal of your thesis on the comparison between B5 and
+the US, noting that the US can "exert tremendous influence" on other
+countries through economics and other areas, such as technology.
+
+     You still don't understand that B5 is *NOT* the US; we are at or near
+the bottom or the totem pole in terms of the Big 5 in the B5 Advisory
+Council.  B5 is a gathering place, neither more, nor less than that.  You
+seem to be taking the position that B5 should become the galaxy's
+morality policeperson.  We don't have the power to back it up, or frankly,
+the moral highground from which to dictate it.
+
+     And just who is the "ahem" group to whom you refer but don't name?
+Is there a problem with speaking honestly, and instead using asides and
+innuendo?
+
+     Hardly seems the moral thing to do.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+RUMOR: Michael O'Hare (Sinclai (22 May 1994)
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RUMOR: Michael O'Hare (Sinclai

+22 May 1994
     Yes, it's quite true.  And it was precipitated, in large measure, by
+an in-house evaluation of the story, and where we stood, and what more we
+could do to make the story tighter, more interesting, and bring in some
+surprises.  Then followed our talks with Michael, who had some thoughts of
+his own.  And this is not a total separation; there may well be some
+sightings of Sinclair along the way from time to time....
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+JMS: two questions and a spoil (23 May 1994)
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JMS: two questions and a spoil

+23 May 1994
     There will not be a title change during the 5 year story; and we may
+not have seen B5's full defense system.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+Starfury merchandising (ATTN: (23 May 1994)
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Starfury merchandising (ATTN:

+23 May 1994
     Galoob will do some limited toys, don't know if the Starfury will
+be among them, but I'd be very surprised if someone didn't start putting
+them out eventually (though nothing's set yet).  Hell, I want one for
+myself.
+
+     Best to the U of MN viewers.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+> Attn: JMS - re: Morden/Ed Wa (23 May 1994)
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> Attn: JMS - re: Morden/Ed Wa

+23 May 1994
     I agree; Ed did a great job.  He was perfect for that role.  (He has
+an oddly Rod Serling-ish quality to his stance, I've noticed.)  And he
+will definitely be seen again.
+
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS: Will we see Sinclair at a (23 May 1994)
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JMS: Will we see Sinclair at a

+23 May 1994
     At this point, we may well see Sinclair at some point in season two,
+but can't at this point tell you where.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Message from JMS (23 May 1994)
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Re: Message from JMS

+23 May 1994
     Yes, you're right, I meant to type Moria, but my brain glitched and
+it was late.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+ATTN JMS Re: Message from JMS (23 May 1994)
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ATTN JMS Re: Message from JMS

+23 May 1994
     It was my letter, yes.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+
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+Re: Message from JMS (23 May 1994)
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Re: Message from JMS

+23 May 1994
     The Battle of the Line and the hole in Sinclair's mind was always
+intended as the entry point or trigger to the story.  It's like Frodo
+being given the Ring in LoTR.  The story isn't about that, that's how we
+get INTO it.  Frankly, there's no way you can sustain that one element for
+five years, nor did we ever intend to do so.
+ 
+     The only difference in the resolution of that aspect is this: we had
+originally intended to resolve the missing 24 hours, and the Battle of
+the Line, by episode four, season two.  We've simply moved it up 3 eps to
+the first episode.  Because new players are coming onto the field, in the
+form of the Shadowmen, and other forces, and we now have to begin turning
+our attention to new mysteries.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+Don't erase your lab notes JMS (24 May 1994)
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Don't erase your lab notes JMS

+24 May 1994
     We must never cease striving for perfection.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+JMS: Small Bit in S&P (24 May 1994)
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JMS: Small Bit in S&P

+24 May 1994
     The reference was mainly just a bit of black humor, no greater
+overtones or meaning than that.  I don't think it's fair to the audience
+to use something as obscure as that as a plot element.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+??? (3 May 1994)
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???

+3 May 1994
     If you're talking about selling a new series...unless you have a
+track record that shows you can run a series, it is not possible to sell
+your own series.  Simply doesn't happen.  MUCH easier to sell a single
+episode.
+
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+There's a hole in your cast (w (24 May 1994)
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There's a hole in your cast (w

+24 May 1994
     In brief...yes, it was we who initiated the conversation with
+Michael, not vice versa.
+
+     Re: "sudden insight," it's no different than the insight a novelist
+(he said, having written two published novels to date) gets around the
+time he gets to page 200 and has a minor revelation about the story and
+the characters.  Why didn't he have that at page 1?  Or page 199?  Whop
+(Who) knows?  Part of it, I suppose, may have to do with the fact that
+while you're actully *making* the show, there's very little time for
+reflection...only panic and terror (to quote an earlier episode).
+
+     When we finished shooting season one, we -- ALL of us on the B5
+production team -- went away, and then came back again to do a post moretm
+(or mortem) (or morden) on the first season.  What did we do wrong, what
+did we do right, what can be improved?  My job was to think about the
+writing, the story...was it fine as tracked, or could it be modified and
+clarified and made better?  And the answer (as it usually is) was yes, it
+could.  This quiet contemplation could only really take place after we'd
+finished year one.
+
+     Re: point three, I really see no point in speculating; who knows?
+
+     On A, I pointed out that we *do* have all of our cast on options.
+
+     On B, to what I owe the audience...well, yes and no.  My sequence of
+what I owe, and to whom, runs as follows: I'm true first to the story,
+then to myself, then to the audience, then to the studio.  I think that if
+you EVER rearrange that list of priorities, you're doomed as a writer and
+should get the hell out of the business.  (While the latter two may be
+obvious, to illustrate the first two...yes, I'm an atheist, but if the
+story requires advancing a religious notion in order to do the story
+right, I'll set aside my beliefs and do it).
+
+                                                                         jms
+

+
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+JMS: Please don't pull a seaQu (24 May 1994)
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JMS: Please don't pull a seaQu

+24 May 1994
     It is my undiluted hope never to pull a seaQuest on you.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+     (who would *never* call his show babYlon 5.)
+

+
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+Sinclair's end (24 May 1994)
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Sinclair's end

+24 May 1994
     No story suggestions, please.
+
+                                                               jms
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+TKO - the worse episode ever (24 May 1994)
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TKO - the worse episode ever

+24 May 1994
     The question of what is or isn't SF is one of the most boring and
+pointless conversations you can have.  And I tend to ignore people who
+say, asyou do, "there's nothing sci-fi about the story."  (Partly because
+the term sci-fi is abhorrent and I don't like it.)
+
+     Babylon 5 is a dramatic series about people who live in a space
+station in the year 2258.  It is about their lives, on a daily basis.  And
+some things their lives come into contact with are "SF" oriented, and some
+things are oriented toward their personal lives.  To some people, unless
+it's got hardware and technobabble, it ain't SF.  For me, if it's on a
+space station, in the future, with aliens...it's SF.  (And by my lights,
+SF stands for speculative fiction...which includes speculation on
+society, religion, anthropology, psychology and lots of other areas.)
+
+     "A Canticle for Liebowitz" is one of the *classics* of science
+fiction.  But 99% of it takes place after a nuclear war, and there's NO
+hardware, no aliens, no space travel, no nothing.  Ditto for "Alas,
+Babylon" and hundreds of other SF stories and novels.
+
+     It's as if someone in the 1800s wrote a novel about live in the
+year 1994, and everything was about putting on jet packs and eating food
+pills and talking to my secretary whose name is A7B...and nothing in it
+about being married, or having friends over for dinner, or seeing a
+baseball game, or having friends pass away.
+
+     This is our best attempt at a realistic dramatic series set in the
+future, about the way people will live there.  It isn't always going to
+match the purely arbitrary notion that you *must* include some bit of
+technobabble or hardware to meet someone's definition of SF.  Like the
+original Trek, it's an opportunity to address issues and themes that are
+of general importance, and to advance the characters and the universe.  To
+me, it's important to say that, 250 years from now, we will *all* go into
+space, all our cultures will continue, judaism included.  No other series
+has done this.  Maybe you think that's unimportant because someone didn't
+reverse the polarity on the tachyon driver.  I happen to think that it's
+very important.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+By All Means Necessary: movie (25 May 1994)
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By All Means Necessary: movie

+25 May 1994
     Your english professor has over-analyzed the problem.  Lots of
+people shake hands, and when you're going to go back to work, that's the
+thing to say.  Totally generic.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS: Your favorite SF... (26 May 1994)
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JMS: Your favorite SF...

+26 May 1994
     Oh, man...my favorite SF?  Can I broaden this out to include the
+alternative, Speculative Fiction, and toss some other stuff in as well?
+
+     Loved the Foundation books, the Lensman series by Doc Smith, Stranger
+in a Strange Land...a lot of Eric Frank Russell's work (esp. Men, Martians
+and Machines), lots of Matheson's work, everything by Ellison (natch),
+much of Bradbury's early work (R is for Rocket, Martian Chronicles,
+Dandelion Wine, Golden Apples of the Sun)...I suppose when you come down
+to it, my favorite reading has generally been in the mainstream of SF;
+I've tried to get into the cyberpunk stuff, and enjoy a little of it, but
+the whole field just seems a trifle cold for my tastes.
+
+     I reread Pat Frank's "Alas Babylon" every couple of years just to
+savor it; same with Lord of the Rings.  Tried "Dune" and got through the
+first book but not the rest.  Seen one sandworm, seen 'em all.  Probably
+the only author I make it a point to seek out as soon as a new title hits
+the stands is Jonathan Carroll, who if you don't know his work I commend
+to you *highly*.  He's a contemporary dark fantasist, and nothing short of
+absolutely *brilliant*.  His first book, "The Land of Laughs," which may
+be found at some libraries, still puts me away.  "Bones of the Moon" was
+also terrific.  The next two weren't quite up to the first two, but still
+very good.  Just bought his latest, "From the Teeth of Angels," and plan
+to start reading as soon as time allows.
+
+                                                                         jms
+

+
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+Re: All good things... STUPID! (26 May 1994)
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Re: All good things... STUPID!

+26 May 1994
     Waitasec...you're saying that the shot where the later Enterprise
+comes upward into frame and blasts the Klingon ship...that was CGI?  Are
+you *sure*?  I didn't tape it, and was watching from across the room at
+the time, so didn't notice.  If so I wanna know so I can go hammer some
+geeks who said on another service they could tell CGI from models, and
+they much preferred the models used in that shot.
+
+     As for the finale...ehhh.  An omnipotent alien tests a human to see
+if the human race is worthwhile.  Seems to me we've seen that story on ST
+a LOT.  And the time-bouncing to learn a lesson seemed awfully reminiscent
+of the DS9 pilot.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+Re: = Attn: JMS - re: Peter Al (26 May 1994)
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Re: = Attn: JMS - re: Peter Al

+26 May 1994
     So far working on season two: me, Larry DiTillio, DC Fontana, and
+Harlan's turning his attention to his script.  Will be farming out some
+others as we go.  Will probably write for year two about what I wrote
+for this season, 12 or so.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+JMS: TKO and Judaism (26 May 1994)
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JMS: TKO and Judaism

+26 May 1994
     Thanks.  I guess what helps, in terms of all this religious stuff in
+a series run by an atheist, is that I've read most stuff from nearly all
+of the major and second-rank religions, and generally respect them all, for
+what they are: an attempt to understand the universe, and our role in it.
+ So I can treat them pretty much even-handedly.  Have even read the Bible,
+cover to cover, *twice*.  (Job was a lot of fun, great reading; anyone who
+can make it through Numbers and Deuteronomy has my undying respect.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+Re: I've discovered the key to (26 May 1994)
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Re: I've discovered the key to

+26 May 1994
      I absolutely positively *cannot* comment on this thread in any way,
+manner, shape or form.
+
+                                     jm(slightly nervous but dealing with it)s
+

+
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+TO JMS: being a Believer (3 May 1994)
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TO JMS: being a Believer

+3 May 1994
     The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone.  Your friends will
+not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let
+life go back to where it was.  But you have to follow the quiet turning
+of your own considered conscience.  It's a hard road.  Good luck with it.
+
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+JMS, a "joke" ???  was: Re: ZI (27 May 1994)
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JMS, a "joke" ???  was: Re: ZI

+27 May 1994
     Okay, okay, okay, we won't do it again....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

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Re: JMS: Your favorite SF...

+27 May 1994
      We just thought it was funny....
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+
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+Re: All good things... (28 May 1994)
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Re: All good things...

+28 May 1994
     "Without TNG to pave the way, we probably never would have had B5
+at all."
+ 
+     Actually...not true.  In fact, TNG has *hindered*, not helped, the
+rise of new SF series.
+ 
+     Here's the biggest reason (and to be fair, this can't really be held
+as TNG's fault, it's just the Way of the World).  The TV industry has had
+the belief, since the beginning, that the SF audience can only sustain one
+SF series, and that that is Star Trek.  (Or two ST series.)  The single
+biggest battle we fought from day one in trying to sell B5 was studio
+execs who said, "Look, there's already a science fiction show out there,
+the market can't handle more than one."
+ 
+     There's also the assumption on the part of many execs that there IS
+no market for SF series at all...there's a market for Star Trek, period.
+And look at the reality of it...in 7 years since TNG went on the air, how
+many successful first-run science fiction series have come out?  They
+have all fallen by the wayside, the few that went out...and they ARE few,
+extremely few.  If ST "paved the way," why did it take 7 years to do so?
+ 
+     And Paramount (a separate discussion from ST) has not exactly been
+helpful in terms of other SF series which it felt provided possible
+competition.  They've done a *lot* to try and hinder things.  Paramount's
+view of SF is, "Well, *WE* own space."
+ 
+     It took me literally seven years to get a B5 series on the air.  I
+know many, MANY writer/producers who've tried to get other SF series on
+the air in syndication, and after years of failure against the ST
+juggernaut, finally gave up.  So you'll excuse me just a tad if I take
+the idea of ST "paving the way" for anything *cum granus salus*.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

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+Re: RUMOR: Michael O'Hare (Sin (28 May 1994)
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Re: RUMOR: Michael O'Hare (Sin

+28 May 1994
     I have, to date, read something on the order of a dozen different
+rumors about the reason for O'Hare's leaving...that Warners marketing
+wanted him out, that he was offered the lead on Voyager, that this was
+actually planned out from the start, that he quit, that we fired him...if
+I were to deal with all of these, I'd be here all day.  Rumors are just
+that: rumors.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

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+JMS - V: REBIRTH!!! (28 May 1994)
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JMS - V: REBIRTH!!!

+28 May 1994
     Sorry, I can't post the rest of the V script.  But who knows, the
+novelization may show up one of these days....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

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+JMS query, was Re: Shadow Spec (28 May 1994)
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+28 May 1994
     Universe Today is reliable sometimes...and other times not.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

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+O'Hare to ST Voyager??? (28 May 1994)
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O'Hare to ST Voyager???

+28 May 1994
     I spoke to Michael O'Hare the other day about the Voyager rumor (one
+of the many floating around), and he was *very* amused by the idea.
+ 
+     BTW, this is one area that needs mentioning.  Michael and I do speak
+frequently.  We'll probably have dinner with the Ellisons and him in the
+next week or so.  And we'll be doing a little something that will involve
+his character later this season.  This is, again, a fairly amicable
+situation.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

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Re: TKO

+29 May 1994
     At one point, there was a discussion in the scene about the whole
+gills/scales/fins issue, to define kosher...but it *really* brought the
+scene to a screaming standstill, and we needed to concentrate on the
+relationships at that moment.  In addition, as we looked at it, you would
+have to get into the question of how alien gills/scales/fins compare to
+earthly gills/scales/fins, because they're going to be very different in
+many ways.  In short order it became a massive Talmudic discussion, and
+we only have an hour for the show....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

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+JMS: TKO suffered from *bad* h (29 May 1994)
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+29 May 1994
     We're trying to get Warners to re-evaluate their approach to the
+teasers.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

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+E Con (ECONomics 101) & JMS (30 May 1994)
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E Con (ECONomics 101) & JMS

+30 May 1994
     We've tried very hard not to let the merchandising get out of hand.
+I pretty much sat on it during our first season, and am now letting a few
+things go, like the CDRom, the soundtrack, the comic, some novels, and a
+few other things.  But this was never intended to be a *franchise*, and I
+would really rather not see it become one.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+JMS:  Legal system on B5/in Ea (4 May 1994)
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JMS:  Legal system on B5/in Ea

+4 May 1994
     Yes, absolutely; in "The Quality of Mercy," you'll get a look at
+how the justice system has come to grips with the question of how to
+handle violent crimes in an environment like a space station, which has
+limited room for cells, limited resources, and other complications.  We
+do plan to get into this area a bit, without getting too LA LAW about it.
+
+                                                                     jms
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Newsgroup idea

+30 May 1994
     A newsgroup is still problematic; a private mailing list is far less
+so.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

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JMS: a possible solution to "n

+30 May 1994
     I appreciate your suggestion, but the safest way really is just to
+stay clear in general as much as I can.  Most of my entries on the files
+are time-stamped, and a few have been circulated, so there's a paper
+trail.  I'm just trying to avoid specific story suggestions in public as
+much as possible.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+31 May 1994
     Yes, definitely keep in mind the intent of the ceremony...but be
+sure to remember *all* aspects of it.
+ 
+     Also, take a good look at Li, goddess of passion, in Londo's
+ceremony.  There's something about it that will be very funny later.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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JMS: TKO/Sitting Shiva

+31 May 1994
     I'm very glad to see your note, and know that the story has had its
+desired impact.  The passing of close family is the most traumatic thing
+we can endure, and it must be faced with honesty and tenderness and the
+willingness to forgive, and mourn, and go on with life with a clear
+soul.  Good luck to you and yours as you gather.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS: TKO and Judaism (31 May 1994)
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JMS: TKO and Judaism

+31 May 1994
     To the problems some have with Theodore Bikell's accent not sounding
+real...it's my understanding that he was raised in Russia.
+ 
+     Ivanova does not have an accent because she was educated overseas,
+her father wanting her to have certain advantages the rest of her family
+did not.
+ 
+     Nowhere did we say that Andrei or the rest of the Ivanov family ever
+emigrated.  They didn't.  They live in Russia.  Or lived, in any event.
+Not everyone migrates to the US or to Israel, and not everyone wants to.
+ 
+     On the treel/kosher discussion...I can only shrug.  Nobody's ever
+shown that jews go forward into the future, placed them at the heart of
+a science fiction show as a regular character, nobody's shown shiva before
+in (and possibly out of) an SF series...and some folks are complaining that
+not every aspect of a treel's kosher-ness was discussed at dinnertime.
+ 
+     Some days, you just can't win....
+ 
+     Feh.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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ATT:JMS  Filming schedule

+4 May 1994
     Yes, all episodes have been filmed, and are in the can.  They have
+all been edited.  Only two remain to be mixed (putting in the soundtrack
+and sound effects), and that's it.  We're done.  Assuming we're picked
+up, filming would begin around July 14 or so.  Some script work has been
+started to give us a leg up on the season, one way or another.
+
+     PTEN begins its year in January for reasons of its own selection.  It
+is a PTEN artifact of choice.
+
+                                                                        jms
+

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Re: TKO - Poor Episode (Spoile

+1 Jun 1994
     I can't believe the degree to which this argument has gotten out of
+all proportion.
+ 
+     First, though, an aside...it has been the tradition of B5 areas on
+various systems to be a little more polite than other areas.  Granted, we
+all sometimes lose our temper and slip into name-calling.  I've done it
+myself.  But lately I've been seeing one after another, using every name
+in the book.  Points can be communicated without resorting to this sort of
+thing, and frankly, after a while, it simply loses its impact.
+ 
+     Just a thought.
+ 
+     Now, on the samovar issue...whatever your background, if your family
+grew up in Russia and has been there for several hundred years or more --
+and the Ivanov family has been there since at LEAST the 1800s -- you do
+become part of the culture.  That, as I always understood it, was part of
+the reason for making sure children learned hebrew, yiddish *and* the
+dominant language of the culture, to give their kids a fighting chance in
+a difficult world.  It's not so much a case of the culture assimiliating
+the individual (though certainly that happens as well), but the individual
+INCORPORATING the culture.
+ 
+     Ivanova is jewish.  Ivanova is russian.  Of the two, she tends to see
+herself as a russian first.  There's no value statement there, that's
+just the way she is.  Her parents were both russian, going back many
+generations on both sides.  Some in her family tree were jewish, and some
+were not; there was some intermarrying.  That may be part of why she sees
+herself as more russian than jewish, but it may be just a quirk.
+ 
+     (And to the protest of, "Well, you created her," yes, I did.  But
+there comes a time, if you've done your job right as a writer, when the
+character more or less takes over, and starts telling YOU who and what he
+or she is.  There are times I mentally turn to Ivanova and say, "Okay,
+what do *you* think?"  And she talks to me in my head, as do all of my
+characters.  It's part of making your characters real.)
+ 
+     When she went off to boarding school overseas -- part of an ongoing
+international system put into place by EarthGov to help its various member
+nations get along with one another -- she identified most strongly with
+that russian aspect in relation to those around her.  She learned to speak
+English without a perceptible accent.
+ 
+     The samovar is a valued and valuable part of russian life.  It is the
+family hearth, on one level, a possession passed on from generation to
+generation.  Knowing that Ivanova was not terribly religious herself, he
+would generally not leave her any of his personal religious artifacts, but
+would donate them to the local synagogue, while some, like a menorah, might
+go to other relatives.  People who could appreciate them and use them.
+The samovar is a very personal object; to the correspondent with a fiance
+who is russian...*I* am byeloruss, white-russian, one-and-a-half
+generation American born.  And I can tell you that the biggest fights I've
+ever seen over bequeaths were over a) money, and b) the samovar.
+ 
+     The problem with this discussion is that it has very little to do
+with who Susan Ivanova *is*, and more to do with the politics of what a
+russian or a jew or a russian jew *should be*.  She is what she is, like
+it or not.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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Re: Babylon 5 (B5) "bad acting

+2 Jun 1994
     The whole "bad acting/wooden acting" thing is, for the most part,
+something that came out of a lot of unfair (in my view) criticisms  of the
+show, because we're not doing hysterics, not doing "here's all of our
+character's history in five seconds," and not playing archetypes; they
+are people who you have to get to know.  And in some cases, it was just to
+find something to slam.  Same thing happened to many of the early reviews
+of TNG, and many of the net discussions of TNG.  It just becomes something
+everybody repeats, a shibboleth, something they can throw into the pot
+without fully understanding what they're saying.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

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Re: JMS

+18 Jun 1994
     Neil's turned down some script work because he's up to his eyes in
+prior commitments, and doesn't take on stuff unless he feels strongly
+that he can give it the proper amount of time to do a good job.  But he's
+good enough to merit going back to again and again and again until he
+surrenders....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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+18 Jun 1994
     Pencil me in as potentially interested, depending on what dates
+we're looking at here.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+

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+Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES (18 Jun 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES

+18 Jun 1994
     I was referring to ST purists, not ST purism, the latter of which is
+applicable to many, the former of which refers only to a few.  One of the
+things we get faulted on is that we're just not ST, and don't do things
+the same way ST does things, from music to props to stories, you name it.
+It's to that small group that I was referring.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
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+>** ATTENTION JMS ** re Tolkei (18 Jun 1994)
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>** ATTENTION JMS ** re Tolkei

+18 Jun 1994
     I think there are parallels you can draw between any two works; you
+can create parallels between B5 and Dune, Foundation, LoTR...any work in
+which there is an "epic" structure.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+Is Babylon 5 close-captioned? (18 Jun 1994)
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Is Babylon 5 close-captioned?

+18 Jun 1994
     Babylon 5 episodes are *definitely* close-captioned, so the station
+wasn't being quite forthright.  (Only once did one version of "Mind War"
+slip through uncaptioned, due to a glitch, later corrected.)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

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+18 Jun 1994
 
+     No dust in year one.  Perhaps dust in year two.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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+JMS: aspiring actor wants to k (18 Jun 1994)
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+18 Jun 1994
     We cast our extras through the Screen Extras Guild, using their
+member roster.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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+JMS: Main title for Season 2 o (18 Jun 1994)
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+18 Jun 1994
     Since the show will have to be promoted for year two, and there will
+be articles all over the place, it's impossible for general viewers not
+to know, so there's no sense having to make two different openings to
+accomodate the first episode.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+B5 and LOSH (or: Now I know wh (18 Jun 1994)
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+18 Jun 1994
     Yeah, but y'know, I just *hated* what they did to the Legion; it got
+SO big and out of control that while I still buy the book (not really
+knowing why), I can barely follow the thing.  I dunno, it just lost
+something to me.  (Plus the artwork during the revamp was SO awful, and
+you could never tell who you were looking at.)
+ 
+                            jm(who actually thought Bouncing Boy was okay)s
+

+
+
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+Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES (18 Jun 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES

+18 Jun 1994
     "I don't care if he's using...ten pipe-smoking nuns playing kazoos."
+ 
+     Damn, we've been found out.
+ 
+     Okay, Sister Margaret Mary, who's been running her mouth downtown?!
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+B5 comic book schedual??? (2 Jun 1994)
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B5 comic book schedual???

+2 Jun 1994
     It's my understanding that the comic will debut close to the end of
+November.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+Re: Message from JMS (18 Jun 1994)
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Re: Message from JMS

+18 Jun 1994
     Getting in someone else to play Sinclair would be the solution if
+the actor were the problem.  He's not.  It's a question of looking at the
+character (at least from my side of this) and saying, "Is there something
+different we can do here that's more interesting?"  This isn't a question
+of salvaging stuff.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+Re: Message from JMS (18 Jun 1994)
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Re: Message from JMS

+18 Jun 1994
     This to Patrick Rannou...I'm going to try this again, and see if it
+sticks.
+ 
+     We DO have options on our actors.  We DO and DID have options on
+O'Hare.  It was WE who first approached HIM, not the other way around.
+Your characterization of his actions here is not only inappropriate, but
+absolutely and catagorically untrue.  If you've got a problem, you've got
+a problem with me, not Michael.
+ 
+     Once again: this was MUTUAL, and it was AMICABLE.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+JMS: About writing for B5? (18 Jun 1994)
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JMS: About writing for B5?

+18 Jun 1994
     The problem becomes that, the deeper we get into the series, the
+more continuity there is between episodes, and the more you pretty much
+have to know what's coming the rest of the season to write episodes for
+the show.  Right now, all the scripts currently in the works have been
+assigned out on the basis of premises developed by me, because I'm the
+only one who knows where the hell the ship is going, particularly in light
+of the new character(s) coming in.  What I'm doing is looking at some
+spec scripts, determining if they've got what it takes, and assigning out
+stuff; we're *not* looking for outside stories.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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Re: Message from JMS

+18 Jun 1994
     No, Sinclair will no longer command B5, that task will go to
+another, while he undertakes another task.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+JMS: How About Alan Moore? (18 Jun 1994)
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JMS: How About Alan Moore?

+18 Jun 1994
     Actually, when I was story editing the new Twilight Zone, I called
+Alan in England and tried to get him do do one for us.  He said he really
+has *no* interest whatsoever in doing TV.  Unfortunate, really (for TV).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS: Do a UK convention? (18 Jun 1994)
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JMS: Do a UK convention?

+18 Jun 1994
     I'd actually planned on visiting England in May/June for two weeks,
+partly for vacation, partly for any PR work I could do for B5, but the
+workload kinda precluded that.  I certainly have no objections, should the
+opportunity arise, to do a UK con; I've visited England before, and enjoy
+it quite a bit.  Will take any excuse to go there.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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Re: JMS: About writing for B5?

+18 Jun 1994
     Interfacing with the overall arc is one problem, to be sure; but
+even the independent episodes (and we'll have a number of them) will have
+new characters and situations to deal with.  Who is the new commanding
+officer?  Who's this new character introduced over here?  The status of
+this other character has changed, how does that manifest itself?  It
+becomes very dicey.
+ 
+     If the show and the characters didn't change, remained static, it'd
+be easy.  But they don't, not here.  (Also, it's worth noting that ST has
+kind of given people a false image of how TV works.  Ninety-nine percent
+of TV shows do not take ANY spec submissions.  ST did because -- and this
+isn't a slam, this is by their own admission -- they ran out of ideas.  We
+don't have this problem, and we tend to operate more like a regular TV
+series.)
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+

+
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+ATT: JMS - The Pit Crew (19 Jun 1994)
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ATT: JMS - The Pit Crew

+19 Jun 1994
     In a way, I kinda thought it was more interesting to play the C&C
+techs as just that: they are their jobs as far as we can see.  To give
+them a sense of being part of the machine.  They are occasionally referred
+to in dialogue, but only by job: "Station one, transfer data to main
+console."  I think we broke it down to one station each for environment,
+jumpgate/navigational assistance, security and a couple of other areas.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+EA Military Forces, What DO we (19 Jun 1994)
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+19 Jun 1994
      Your analysis of the military aspects is about right.  We haven't
+shown that much of the "marine/army" aspect, though we'll be seeing
+ground-pounders and the like next season.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+Re: Franke truth WAS: Re: BAB (19 Jun 1994)
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Re: Franke truth WAS: Re: BAB

+19 Jun 1994
     That's great; enjoy the CD.  And the rest...will attend to itself, I
+suspect.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Some Questions (2 Jun 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Some Questions

+2 Jun 1994
     Jonathan....
+ 
+     Are you *sure* you don't work for Warner Bros.?
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+JMS---travel time from Earth t (19 Jun 1994)
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JMS---travel time from Earth t

+19 Jun 1994
     The travel time from Earth to B5 is measured in days, though the
+amount of time seems shorter while in hyperspace.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+

+
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+Re: JMS: Co-stars? (19 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: Co-stars?

+19 Jun 1994
     I'm reasonably sure that the nose art on the 'fury that got splashed
+at the top of "Signs" was that of a dragon, not a chesspiece.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

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+Re: Elanic $0.02 Re: BABYLON 5 (19 Jun 1994)
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Re: Elanic $0.02 Re: BABYLON 5

+19 Jun 1994
     Part of the music question has to be traced down to my own personal
+tastes.  The way music works in an episodic program is like this:
+ 
+     Once the show is edited, we sit down to "spot" the episode.  This
+puts me, the sound effects people, dialogue editors, post-production
+supervisor, line producer, Chris Franke, and me into a room where we
+watch the episode through.  We note where dialogue may have to be dubbed
+or enhanced; what kinds of sounds we want with, for instance, various
+kinds of interiors or visual EFX...and where the mucis comes in, and where
+it goes out, and what *kind* of music it should be.
+ 
+     Generally, I pick the in- and out-cues for the music, though often
+John Copeland or Christ will jump in if they think I've missed something,
+or argue if they think it shouldn't start or stop at a given point.  Often,
+once the cue for a given section is picked, I'll leave Chris to come up
+with whatever style music he thinks is appropriate.  This is about 90% of
+the time.  About 10% of the time, I'll have a very specific idea about
+the music, and will convey this to him as best I can.
+ 
+     Overall, though, I've always told Chris to push it...to go absolutely
+as far with the music as he wants.  If it goes too far, we can always pull
+it back or duck it down a little.  Basically, I'm a rock-and-roll kind of
+guy...I like my music loud, and I like a LOT of it.  This show is often
+wall-to-wall music.  Chris often composes as much as 20-25 minutes of new
+music per episode; most hour shows have maybe 13-16 minutes of music per
+hour episode.  And he is often called upon by us to do some VERY long
+cues.  Often, TV music is just there to cover a transition (10-20 seconds),
+or establish a mood at the top or bottom of a scene, and get out (1 minute
+to 1 minute-30 seconds average).  We have many, MANY cues on this show
+that go 2, 3, even 4 minutes.  I think we actually had a 6 minute cue at
+one point in one episode.  Check act 3 of "Signs and Portents" and see how
+much music we crammed into that act; it's almost non-stop.
+ 
+     I like percussion, strings, woodwinds and horns, and I'm not as big
+on keyboard (synth or otherwise), and generally our music tends to reflect
+this.  I like music that is exciting and dynamic.  Sometimes perhaps we
+do a smidge too much of this, but I think it's better to err on the dynamic
+side than on the snooze side.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: 2nd season episode n (19 Jun 1994)
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ATTN JMS: 2nd season episode n

+19 Jun 1994
     Let's see...just offhand, titles include "A Trick of the Mind," "A
+Distant Star," "Revelations," "The Long Dark," "Pestilence, Famine and
+Death," "Chrysalis, Part Two," and "The Geometries of Shadow."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+Re: JMS: Do a UK convention? (19 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: Do a UK convention?

+19 Jun 1994
     Actually, no, the May/June reference was to 1994, not 1995; I'd hoped
+to get away before we began really cranking on this season.  I do hope to
+get away next year, 1995, around April/May to the UK.  Later than that is
+not workable due to production (assuming we get year 3).
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
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+jms: I'd like to spec a script (19 Jun 1994)
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jms: I'd like to spec a script

+19 Jun 1994
     This is something I'm really trying not to encourage, for all the
+reasons cited previously, plus the fact that we're trying to go with well
+known SF pros and established writers.  But if you're going to do it, the
+only way *to* do it is to have it submitted by an agent, through our story
+editor Larry DiTillio.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+Re: Who would win: Sinclairs D (19 Jun 1994)
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Re: Who would win: Sinclairs D

+19 Jun 1994
     I think the term this discussion is searching for is, "Quacknobabble."
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
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+Re: JMS: About writing for B5? (19 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: About writing for B5?

+19 Jun 1994
     "IF one stuck to the general guidelines of the B5 universe...."
+ 
+     My point is, until we've established for you what those guidelines
+ARE, particularly in terms of the new characters we'll be bringing in,
+that's problematic at best.
+ 
+     "...do we attribute that to better writing (on TNG) after the first
+season?"
+ 
+     Yes.  Nobody knew what the hell they were doing there the first
+and second seasons.  Things improved quite dramatically when later they
+brought in Jeri Taylor, who was instrumental in stopping the revolving
+door of writers there (something just under 30 writer/producers have left
+or been fired off TNG since it started, which is *unheard* of in TV, the
+bulk of it those first two years, maybe 23 or so).
+ 
+     "Ya mean people didn't send in their teleplays for "Murder, She
+Wrote?""
+ 
+     Yes, they did...and as soon as it was determined (by partly peeling
+back the flap) that it WAS a spec script, it was sent *immediately* to
+Legal Affairs, which sent it back to the writer in question, with a note
+telling them that it had not been read, and not to do it again.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Cloaking tech. (20 Jun 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Cloaking tech.

+20 Jun 1994
     Who says you haven't already *seen* cloaking tech?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: 2nd season episo (20 Jun 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: 2nd season episo

+20 Jun 1994
     Nobody asked me for descriptions, only titles.  And at this stage,
+it's WAY too early to give out even one-liners on the year two stories,
+since in many cases that would reveal events yet to come in year one.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
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+JMS: A most annoying televisio (3 Jun 1994)
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JMS: A most annoying televisio

+3 Jun 1994
     Alas, there is nothing we can do about  your station's activities,
+as described.  Only local letters can make a difference.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Cloaking tech.

+20 Jun 1994
     There are no invisible ships in the B5 docking bay.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+

+
+
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+jms: I'd like to spec a script (20 Jun 1994)
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jms: I'd like to spec a script

+20 Jun 1994
     I understand your dilemma; understand, though, that under Writers
+Guild rules, I cannot encourage anyone or ask anyone or even participate
+in the process of speccing a script.  Your question underlines the
+problem I raised in my original message back.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+ATT: JMS - The Pit Crew (20 Jun 1994)
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ATT: JMS - The Pit Crew

+20 Jun 1994
     The techs are trained to be redundent, in that one can man another's
+station if need be, though that person might not be as quick in some areas
+as the original tech.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+Re: Elanic $0.02 Re: BABYLON 5 (20 Jun 1994)
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Re: Elanic $0.02 Re: BABYLON 5

+20 Jun 1994
     OKAY, OKAY, SO CHRIST AND THE TWO ME'S WERE IN ON THE MUSIC SPOTTING
+SECTION!  I ADMIT IT!  ANYBODY ELSE GOT A PROBLEM WITH THAT?
+ 
+     ...sigh...I can't win.
+ 
+     Typos have always been the bane of my existence.  I once did a humor
+column for the university newspaper.  Did an Easter column.  Wrote,
+"Celebrated Easter by running down a rabbit."  Okay, not great humor, but
+what do you expect in college?  One problem: due to a typesetting typo,
+the column comes out reading, "Celebrated Easter by running down a rabbi."
+ 
+     The Jewish Student Union -- in the person of five very large men
+waiting for me when I arrived, all unknowing, on campus the next
+morning -- was *not* amused.
+ 
+                                                                    sjm
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Why B5 isn't SF Pt 1 (22 Jun 1994)
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JMS: Why B5 isn't SF Pt 1

+22 Jun 1994
     Dear Matthew:
+ 
+     So I log onto GEnie and see in my gateway 300+ messages, many of them
+titled "B5 Isn't SF", starting with a three-part meganote.  "Oh, no, not
+another pointy-head starting an argument," I decide.  So I wait, and wait,
+until I've cleared my desk, and I can sit down and decide whether or not to
+do battle, or simply reply with, "So what's your point?"
+ 
+     Then I read what's actually contained in your messages.
+ 
+     I can't decide whether to laugh or drive a semi-truck over your
+house.
+ 
+     So I've decided to do both.
+ 
+     See you in...oh...about an hour....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+Actor I'd like to see: Robert (22 Jun 1994)
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Actor I'd like to see: Robert

+22 Jun 1994
     I agree, and wouldn't mind using Vaughn sometime.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+

+
+
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+
+Re: B5 and LOSH (22 Jun 1994)
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Re: B5 and LOSH

+22 Jun 1994
     I just wish they'd leave the damned DC universe *alone* and get on
+with life.  I can't keep track of all the changes anymore.  Remember: if
+you pick at it, it won't heal.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+
+Pronunciation? Help! (22 Jun 1994)
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Pronunciation? Help!

+22 Jun 1994
     The *correct* pronunciation, the Old World version, would indeed
+be "stra-chin-ski," though I don't worry about that since nobody should
+ever have to worry about looking at a CZ and pronouncing it CH.  The
+Americanized version is "stra-zin-ski."  Which is more than fine, and is
+in fact what I use.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+
+ATT: JMS - Tech Names Redux (22 Jun 1994)
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ATT: JMS - Tech Names Redux

+22 Jun 1994
     I think that if you were to write and request a photo via Warner
+Bros. (directly to Marianne Robertson), you might get it.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS???? (22 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS????

+22 Jun 1994
     I'm putting this here because, by virtue of my initials being here,
+this should be a trivial enough thread for a trivial question.
+ 
+     On the theory that we are all generally 8 people removed from
+anyone else on the planet...an idle request.
+ 
+     When I was living in San Diego from 1974-81, I knew a young woman
+there named Liz Ochoa.  She's part Basque, red hair, a rose tattoo on her
+left wrist, and in 1978 or so had a 3 year old son named (I believe)
+Justin.  She lived in the northern part of San Diego around El Cajon.
+ 
+     I lost track of her a number of years ago, and if anyone out there
+happens to know her, just as an experiment, drop me a private note.
+ 
+     Let's see if this really works.  (And nothing weird here; she was a
+dear and good friend.)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+
+How Long Until The Next New Ep (3 Jun 1994)
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How Long Until The Next New Ep

+3 Jun 1994
     The next new episode for this season will air starting the first
+week in July.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+AtSFoS -- whose mind is being (23 Jun 1994)
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AtSFoS -- whose mind is being

+23 Jun 1994
     David...re the quoted lines...I like to have a bit of fun...and for
+those paying attention, a little...well...fore*shadow*ing.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+AtSFoS: ***Differences?*** (JM (23 Jun 1994)
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AtSFoS: ***Differences?*** (JM

+23 Jun 1994
      No, there were no changes in the Sinclair ship-yank scene; what you
+may be remembering is a shot some magazine ran a while back which used a
+shot we discarded, which was a lot like what you describe.  The guys at
+Foundation called it the "snot shot," because that's kinda what it looked
+like (hence why we didn't use it).
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Rules for submitting (23 Jun 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Rules for submitting

+23 Jun 1994
     We cannot take any outside ship designs for legal reasons.  We hae
+(have) contracted with Foundation to provide designs on a work for hire
+basis, meaning we go in owning it, rather than buying designs after the
+fact, which gets into rights and ownership questions, buyouts and the
+like.  Even offered freely, we really can't do that (and even so, I have
+this problem with people working for free).
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
+
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+Re: Pronunciation? Help! (23 Jun 1994)
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Re: Pronunciation? Help!

+23 Jun 1994
     You can't fool me.  I knew Kosh.  I worked with Kosh.  Kosh was my
+friend.  You are no Kosh.
+ 
+     Besides...Kosh doesn't type that well.  So NYAH!
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: 2nd season episo (23 Jun 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: 2nd season episo

+23 Jun 1994
     "Shame, the one you're missing was the most exciting performer."
+ 
+     You're *definitely* not looking closely enough.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+Re: JMS: Why B5 isn't SF - Pt (23 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: Why B5 isn't SF - Pt

+23 Jun 1994
     That's funny, I just got a letter myself today.  It's still in the
+original Centauri, though...haven't been able to make much sense of it yet.
+ 
+     Ni tobo dula JMS:
+ 
+     Utsak vetsabi Dave Hill, rakasa-de "wham!wham!wham!" nee chu dokk
+anvil, dokk hammer, vobatsu ka "Pointy-Head."
+ 
+

+
+
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+UK: PoD; See you next Wednesda (23 Jun 1994)
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UK: PoD; See you next Wednesda

+23 Jun 1994
     The line, "See you next wednesday," was basically an offhand line,
+slightly but not significantly based in the idea that in most markets,
+B5 airs on Wednesdays.  It was never meant to be a John Landis reference,
+and if I'd known it was (I'd never heard it before), would've changed it.
+ 
+     Not all of us in Hollywood have forgotten Vic Morrow.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+
+UK: People missing the point. (24 Jun 1994)
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UK: People missing the point.

+24 Jun 1994
     You don't have to read another book to "get it" re: psi's making
+love.  Perhaps her problem was more with the making love part than the
+psi part.  Haven't read Julian May's book.  It's just the obvious answer
+to what happens if and when telepaths make love: if they truly open up,
+then you're going to get a mirror effect.  Have your lady friend stand
+between two mirrors and look at the effect.  This ain't rocket science.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Rich & Famous (24 Jun 1994)
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Re: Rich & Famous

+24 Jun 1994
     Re: "The Real Ghostbusters"...that show was a great deal of fun to
+work on.  I'm pleased that it continues to get mentioned and noticed by
+people.  (And the number of SF people who worked on it is actually quite
+interesting...Richard Mueller, Michael Reaves, JM DeMatteis, John
+Shirley, Arthur Byron Cover and others, in addition to the aforementioned
+David Gerrold.)
+ 
+     It was a show we were all free to go totally gonzo with, and it was
+a ball, occasional fights with suits notwithstanding.  We got away with
+some amazing stuff.  The bunch of episodes I wrote for TRGBs was pretty
+much the end of my involvement in animation, and I kinda wanted to go out
+with a bang.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: B5 fans and ST fans. (24 Jun 1994)
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Re: B5 fans and ST fans.

+24 Jun 1994
     This is to Ted McCoy...I have to take *factual* issue with your post,
+primarily on the grounds that you are comparing 7 years of TNG character
+development to 14 episodes of B5 character development.  I'd ask you to
+put yourself back in episode 14 season 1 of TNG and ask  yourself how
+much you really knew about the characters.  Not much, I'd venture.
+ 
+     To the factual side...you say that the Ivanova scene about her
+mother was tossed in once, and then forgotten.  Incorrect.  It comes up
+again and again and again; it's *crucial* to her character.  It pops up
+slightly in Mind War, bigtime in TKO, even more important in Legacies and
+a couple of other episodes this season.  (It particularly receives major
+play in Legacies.)  I think you should see at least one season before
+deciding that something is mentioned once and never again.
+ 
+     You say some of the ambassadors are villainous one moment, less so
+in another episode.  Quite correct.  That's varying their characters so
+they're not one-dimensional.  We all have good days, and bad days.  So do
+our characters.  If things are going well for him, Londo is a happy kind
+of fellow, out for a good time.  If things aren't...he can be a very
+dangerous person.  I don't see that as an inconsistency, nor is his
+character somehow being "violated" by those different elements being
+shown.  They are *all* who he is.
+ 
+     As far as the pre-planned story arc, you say the "characters are
+set," and thus unlikely to grow.  Given that you describe this as a
+negative, then you must not like novels, since their arc is preplanned
+from page one.  The characters in B5 aren't *set* in the sense that this
+is it.  Each one has his or her personal journey, and story arc, that
+they must make, and each one will end up *substantially* different at the
+end because of that journey.  The Londo you see at the end of five years
+is a very, *very* different Londo than the one you see now.
+ 
+     In any event, again, it's more than a little unfair to say, "Well,
+we've had more character development in series X, which has been on the
+air for seven years, than we've had in 14 episodes of series Y."  I would
+recommend at least giving it until the end of the first season.  You don't
+and can't dump characterization out all at once; you have to layer it out
+slowly, gradually.  That process consumes time.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS:  4 more for season 1? (3 Jun 1994)
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JMS:  4 more for season 1?

+3 Jun 1994
     Absolutely false.  We've finished our episodes for season one, and
+will not be shooting additional episodes.  We now begin shooting for
+season two.  The four more episodes rumor is untrue.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS : B5 CD? (24 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS : B5 CD?

+24 Jun 1994
     Lemme get this straight...you come on here, insult and slam Chris
+Franke's music, accuse him of minor theft, fraud (by way of saying that
+he is NOT using the orchestra that we're paying him to use), and being
+talentless...and *then* you can actually come in here and demand to know
+what label his CD is coming out on?
+ 
+     Screw you...wait in line like everybody else.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms: Can a ship get caught bet (24 Jun 1994)
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jms: Can a ship get caught bet

+24 Jun 1994
     Yes, it could get caught, and I'd prefer not to go any further with
+this discussion, as it walks over an episode for season two, and I don't
+want to endanger it.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Unofficial Babylon 5 Dictionar (24 Jun 1994)
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+
Unofficial Babylon 5 Dictionar

+24 Jun 1994
     I don't have a WWW viewer (I don't even have a VVV viewer), so it
+may be best to send me the thing in a text file.
+ 
+                                                               jjjmmmsss
+

+
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+
+Re: B5 fans and ST fans. (25 Jun 1994)
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Re: B5 fans and ST fans.

+25 Jun 1994
     The influence of actors on their characters is *vastly* over-rated
+and exaggerated by the media, and by viewers.  One of the real problems
+of television the last 20 years or so is that actors are sometimes weilding
+too much clout, and playing it safe with their characters.  Which is why
+so much TV is pablum that doesn't push the envelope.  Sometimes our
+characters *fail* at what they do.  In 90% of all TV series, it would be
+unheard of for an actor to allow his or her character to fail at something
+major, particularly if it's the lead.  This isn't good for TV, or for the
+viewers.  It reduces storytelling to the same-old same-old.
+ 
+     Nor, I believe, is the job of making a show to create characters that
+the actors are "comfortable with."  The idea should be to push and
+challenge your actors to go beyond where they've gone before.  This is why
+so many good actors who do TV take breaks to do stage plays, where they
+have the opportunity to push their skills to the limit...an opportunity
+all too often denied in TeeVee.
+ 
+     Very often, the actor moves into a vacuum where nothing has really
+been set up for the character.  That applies to the case you cite.  The
+character hadn't really been fleshed out, so the actor began adding to the
+role to make up the difference.
+ 
+     The difficulty I have is when the story-arc is described as a problem
+because it isn't haphazard or totally episodic as is every other TV series.
+ This isn't saying, "This is better."  What this is, is an experiment.  No
+one has ever really tried something on this scale for american TV before.
+I wouldn't do every series like this.  This is a *separate creature* from
+standard TV, as will continue to become more apparent the deeper you get
+into the show.  It is, for lack of a better term, a loosely connected 5
+year miniseries.
+ 
+     Point being, no one has ever done something like this before for
+american TV.  And maybe no one ever will again, depending on how all this
+works out.  I think that it's worth the trip.
+ 
+     Finally, re: characters not mentioning the "inner turmoil" they had
+in episode 3 again in episode 4...for one thing, you can't string it all
+too tightly, because in syndication, broadcast order gets shunted around.
+The episodes are designed to be viewed all, or in part, in order or out of
+order, and still work.  Additionally, in TV you only have X-number of
+minutes to tell your story; unless element X has some *direct bearing* on
+what's happening this episode, you can't just sandwich it in.  This applies
+to EVERY TV series, not just B5.  There has to be a current reason for it,
+you can't just drop it in for the hell of it.  You're asking for something
+that doesn't work dramatically.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+Re: UK: PoD; See you next Wedn (26 Jun 1994)
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Re: UK: PoD; See you next Wedn

+26 Jun 1994
     Re: the article...email apart, best to send a copy to me at:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+     Any further comments re: Landis would probably be unprintable.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+Key questions to be answered (27 Jun 1994)
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Key questions to be answered

+27 Jun 1994
     Without commenting one way or another on various speculations, let
+me dive in for a second on the general issue of "what means what."
+ 
+     One of the things I learned doing other shows, like being on "Murder,
+She Wrote" for two years, was that you *must* play fair with the
+audience.  The clues cannot be so small, or so diminished, that they will
+zip by too easily.  There has to be at least a reasonable chance that
+people will glom onto things.
+ 
+     So the odds are that a single word, or a look, or something going on
+in deep background is probably *not* significant.  Anything in foreground,
+which is given some weight, *may* be significant.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Second Vorlon (27 Jun 1994)
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+27 Jun 1994
     Kosh doesn't need an assistant.  In fact, no one's *really* quite
+sure what it is Kosh *does* most of the day.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+

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+Re: JMS : B5 CD? (27 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS : B5 CD?

+27 Jun 1994
     I didn't answer your first demand for information because I didn't
+feel like it, and I don't have to.  You repeated the demand, and I told
+you to piss off.  Lots of people here asked what *your* "credentials"
+are in music...I don't see you responding to *their* requests, why the
+hell should anyone honor yours?
+ 
+     There will be a mountain of publicity on all the B5 licensing that
+will be coming out later this fall.  The CD (as opposed to the CD Rom)
+will be out in November, which is plenty of time yet for those who like
+the music to find out.
+ 
+     So it's a question of waiting two weeks to inform the fans of the
+show...or annoying you now in the present.
+ 
+     I opt for the latter.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+

+
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+JMS: Question regarding Bill M (27 Jun 1994)
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JMS: Question regarding Bill M

+27 Jun 1994
     Yeah, it was an off-the-cuff reference to Billy Mitchell.  You and
+your wife are correct.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+ 
+     (Didn't really mean that much; just thought it wuz cool.)
+
+

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+Re: Rich & Famous (28 Jun 1994)
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Re: Rich & Famous

+28 Jun 1994
     Yeah, "Chicken, He Clucked" was one of the most twisted episodes I
+wrote for The Real Ghostbussters.  Our offices were located near this
+place that made broasted chicken, which was itself directly behind, and
+just upwind, of an apartment building.  I used to pass by this place
+every day, thinking about the poor people on the chicken side of the
+apartment building, where the smell from chickens broasting wafted in
+every day, day after day, seven days a week...and it was *strong* stuff,
+let me tell you...which led me to the notion of a guy who lived in just
+such an apartment, who is gradually driven stark, staring mad by it, and
+makes a deal with the Devil to sell his soul in exchange for getting rid
+of all the chickens in the world.
+ 
+     When I turned in the script, one of the two executive producers called
+me, said, "You are a sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick man," and hung up.
+ 
+     But we made the episode.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Re: TKO - SF & Religion (3 Jun 1994)
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Re: TKO - SF & Religion

+3 Jun 1994
     The atheist was not only first in line, he was the best dressed and
+smartest looking and nattiest one in the line.
+ 
+                                         jm(what a coincidence)s
+

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+jms:  Civil liberties (28 Jun 1994)
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jms:  Civil liberties

+28 Jun 1994
     Yes, there are definitely civil liberties.  In the specific
+instance you cite, you're looking at a camera feed from a B5 facility,
+which is as admissible as a videotape inside a supermarket; it's not a
+question of putting it in an unauthorized area.  B5 is owned by EA.
+ 
+     The whole question of how telepaths can be used gets very much into
+issues of civil liberties and privacy; that's why they're prohibited from
+unauthorized scans, and are not allowed to determine anyone's guilt or
+innocence by a scan of the accused, since it violates the right to due
+process.
+ 
+     We've thought it out a lot, but it would fill up a lot of room here
+to go over it in detail; perhaps best for now to let the show speak for
+itself.  (You'll see some discussion of this upcoming in "The Quality of
+Mercy," for starters.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+Re: ? for JMS (28 Jun 1994)
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Re: ? for JMS

+28 Jun 1994
     As someone who participated in the design work on the Starfuries,
+you're incorrect; the engines are constructed in such a way, on all four
+wings, that they can fire with equal strength in any direction: forward,
+backward, top and bottom.  They demonstrate this capacity repeatedly in
+the show.  (In particular I suggest you check out "Signs and Portents,"
+when Ivanova's squad is recalled; you can get a good close look then.)
+ 
+     The design had nothing to do with X-Wings, which are standard type
+wings or airfoils, and one central engine.  Steve Burg, our designer,
+sat down and with some input from us, said, "What's the most practical
+and realistic design for fighters in a zero-g, non-atmospheric
+environment?"  A four-arm system, with multiple engines on all four arms,
+lets you move in any direction, flip, spin and so on, which comes in
+handy in a fight.  It does things you couldn't do in an atmosphere.
+ 
+     Also, we *have* shown ships decelerating, engines-forward.  In the
+pilot in particular, the Vorlon ship comes out of the jump gate
+backwards, engine leading; it decelerates, then turns around and goes in
+the front way.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Re: The One-Armed Man (28 Jun 1994)
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Re: The One-Armed Man

+28 Jun 1994
     Okay, Robert Chelovich, I'm getting pretty damned tired of your
+popping in here with your accusations against Katsulas.  So you and your
+girlfriend cooked up a complaint...that doesn't mean squat and you know
+it.  If you had a case, you'd make it; there are extradition law between
+states.
+ 
+     You are engaging in the character assassination, in an obsessed
+fashion, with a celebrity.  You are using this forum to destroy his
+career with false and misleading accusations.  You were not being spoken
+to in the thread, you simply jumped in.
+ 
+     You are, quite simply, full of shit.  And you are engaging in typical
+stalking behavior, which is visible to anyone seeing this.  Obviously you
+have no case, or it'd be made and there would be a trial.  But you don't
+have a case, so all you can do in your pitiable way is to come on here and
+try to smear his reputation.  You are a sad and pathetic creature who is
+venally bent on destruction for whatever excuse your fevered brain has
+cooked up.  The problems between you and your girlfriend are your own.
+ 
+     A courtroom is where these discussions are held.  That's where one
+makes a case, if one has one.  Do so, or shut up.
+ 
+     Because right now, all I see is an obsessed creature who springs onto
+any discussion, leaves his little assassinations, and then blips off into
+the shadows again, proclaiming "I will post no further on this thread,"
+AFTER you have done your damage.  Like all snipers, and cowards, you
+strike from the shadows.
+ 
+     People comment that they find Katsulas appealing...and you jump in
+and try to suppress them or frighten them away...you're right, there is
+a problem, and it is yours.
+ 
+     You've got three choices: 1) Make a sufficiently convincing case and
+go to trial (the fact that you haven't shows that there is nothing to your
+case whatsoever), 2) Deal with whatever the hell it is that's turning you
+into a net-stalker, maybe seek some therapy, or 3) simply shut up.
+ 
+     Otherwise how long do you intend to engage in this campaign of
+harrassment, defamation and slander?  Obviously you haven't got anything,
+but you continue...what?  One year?  Two?  Ten?  Twenty?
+ 
+     You have been asked, repeatedly, to stop in these baseless
+accusations.  You have already come perilously close to crossing into the
+area of stalking, malicious mischief, libel and several other areas by
+your continued assaults.  All such posts will continue to be not only
+forwarded to Katsulas' legal counsel for retention pending legal action,
+but to the LAPD's division that handles celebrity stalkers such as
+yourself.  The more you engage in this behavior, the more you build a
+case against yourself.
+ 
+     Your postings are obsessive, verging on the irrational.  Stop it.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+Top Ten Things You Will Never (28 Jun 1994)
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+28 Jun 1994
     I have just read your list of Top 10 Things You'll Never See On
+Babylon 5.
+ 
+     We've already done one of them...this season.
+ 
+     "Eyes."  'Nuff said.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+B5 FANS AND ST FANS. (28 Jun 1994)
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B5 FANS AND ST FANS.

+28 Jun 1994
     Who said Londo was, of necessity, dead at the end of 5 years?  Not I.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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+Just a regular person who love (28 Jun 1994)
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Just a regular person who love

+28 Jun 1994
     Your good wishes are noted and appreciated.  Many thanks.  I'd rate
+"Mind War" as one of my favorites from this season as well.
+ 
+     In any event, thanks again for the kind words.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+Re: JMS : B5 CD? (28 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS : B5 CD?

+28 Jun 1994
     Once the CD is out, I'm sure it'll be able to be played anywhere,
+including DJ'd stuff at cons.  Go for it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

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+Cut in UK Babylon 5 (28 Jun 1994)
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Cut in UK Babylon 5

+28 Jun 1994
     Well, *that's* interesting...guess we'll just have to put in more
+violence in future to make up the difference....
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+

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+Re: JMS : B5 CD? (28 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS : B5 CD?

+28 Jun 1994
     I understand your concern; my sense is that, as a writer, my job is
+to find the right word for the right job.  I could describe a character
+as "dumb," but somehow "breathtakingly stupid" just sounds better.
+ 
+     I could describe a car in a story as simply a car, or say that it's
+a Mercedes 300E with silver finish and deep, plush seat linings.
+ 
+     I could tell someone to simply go away...or "piss off."  And the
+latter just tickles me a bit more.
+ 
+     The right word for the right job.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS (29 Jun 1994)
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ATTN: JMS

+29 Jun 1994
     Let's say that I for one would love to see some models made, and
+am certainly pushing for it.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+JMS: Re: TOYS! TOYS! TOYS! (4 Jun 1994)
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JMS: Re: TOYS! TOYS! TOYS!

+4 Jun 1994
     I believe that's correct; the PPG consists of more than 20 pieces
+of machined aluminum, which has two lighting systems, one when the
+trigger is depressed (the barrel lights up, and a side light turns on),
+and another when you slap in an energy charge pod at the back.
+ 
+     I imagine that'll come out sooner or later (the plans).
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+A question to any one or JMS.. (29 Jun 1994)
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A question to any one or JMS..

+29 Jun 1994
     There is a law called Commonlaw Copyright, which means that something
+is copyrighted in whatever form you print it -- electronically, in a
+booklet, even if it's performed verbally in public -- the moment you
+produce it.  You don't have to put a (c) notice on it, it's there
+automatically.  Anyone wanting to sign over rights to something must do
+so specifically, one item or message at a time, in writing, signed.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+Babylon 5 is scary. (29 Jun 1994)
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Babylon 5 is scary.

+29 Jun 1994
     Then it's having its intended effect.  To me, the best SF has always
+left me with an uncertain feeling, as of having touched something quite
+extraordinary.  (Being young and discovering H.P. Lovecraft for the first
+time can REALLY do that to you, yikes!)  I try to build in a little of
+that same sense...the flip-side of the sense of wonder.
+ 
+     Humans have definitely had a rough time of it lately, in the B5
+storyline.  But we're going somewhere now, as our arc begins to shift.
+We have always struggled upward.  And there are some very interesting
+things in store for humans in the B5 universe....
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Babylon 5 in OZ??? (29 Jun 1994)
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Babylon 5 in OZ???

+29 Jun 1994
     Yes, B5 will make it to Australia later this fall.  I can't recall
+now which channel, but the number 7 keeps coming to mind.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
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+

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+Prepared for early cancellatio (30 Jun 1994)
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Prepared for early cancellatio

+30 Jun 1994
      The only way I've been able to get B5 to the TV screen at *all* ahs
+(has) been to totally deny any other possibilities; I can't even consider
+or discuss them.  The story will all eventually be told, that much I'm
+determined about.  I feel the same way you do; it's always the shows I
+like that get canceled...but so far we're doing okay, and we can only
+hope for the best.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Re: The One-Armed Man (30 Jun 1994)
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Re: The One-Armed Man

+30 Jun 1994
     So let me get this straight...Diane speaks well of Andreas, and you
+harrass her...you threaten to sue Andreas...you threaten to sue me for
+defending Andreas and describing your abusive letters in terms that are
+acceptable under the First Amendment.  Boy, you sure are busy.
+ 
+     And woefully uninformed.  Nothing -- *nothing* -- that I have said
+in any of my postings are litigious.  I've been riding the nets for a
+long, long, very long time, and I've studied communications law, and you
+got nothing.  It's simply more baseless threats, which again proves my
+point, that you're full of it.
+ 
+     Second, any case you might have cooked up in your head is now a dead
+issue because of *your* actions.  A complaint must be untainted by any
+apparent motivation on the part of the plaintiff to "get" someone.  But
+your repeated actions here have shown that this is part of a vendetta on
+your part against Andreas.
+ 
+     Anybody can file a complaint against anybody.  It proves *nothing*.
+ Roseanne Barr filed one against her husband, then retracted it later
+admitting that it was false.  Happens all the time.  A complaint is
+simply that, unsupported by evidence.  No charges have ever been filed
+against Andreas.
+ 
+     As for your comment about the irrationality of discussing alien
+planets and worlds...1) B5 is a *real* TV series, though perhaps in your
+current agitated state of mind, you hadn't noticed that, 2) nothing in
+discussing a fictional universe will hurt someone's career, as you are
+trying to do with Andreas.
+ 
+     You have called Andreas' home.  You have left repeated messages here.
+You have taken other actions, all to one singular goal: to try and destroy
+Andreas Katsulas' career.  And you put my messages discussing your
+slanders on the same scale, and say you'll sue?
+ 
+     Up yours.
+ 
+     You try to intimidate people here from talking about Andreas, you
+try to intimidate Andreas, and you try to intimidate me...your obsession
+is so profound that you're all over the map, in front of every person
+here reading your screeds.
+ 
+     You have some real problems here.  Deal with them.
+ 
+     But leave the rest of humanity out of it.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ? for JMS (30 Jun 1994)
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Re: ? for JMS

+30 Jun 1994
     Why rocketry rather than gravity controls?  First, when you're in
+space, not near a gravitational source, you need *some* kind of system
+to create propulsion.  Again, remember, this is really only 250 years in
+the future.  You need to *push* against something to move through space,
+and this is about as far as our tech has gotten us.  We do not HAVE
+gravity control; if we did, B5 wouldn't have to rotate to create it.
+Some of the more advanced civilizations -- like the Minbari cruisers in
+"Sky" and other episodes -- use a different system; there's no visible
+or (to us now) recognizeable propulsion system.  Ditto for the Vorlon
+ships.
+ 
+     You're making a generalization that doesn't really apply.  (I'd also
+point you to the Vree saucers and the Ipsha battle ships in
+"Deathwalker," and the Drazi sunhawk in the same episode, which seem to
+use alternate systems.)  We're trying to set up varying levels of
+technology, with Earth near the bottom.  We've got jumpgates, which the
+Centauri introduced into our culture, but to some extent it's like giving
+an F16 to a bunch of aborigines; they may learn to fly it, but they may
+not be able to come up immediately with all the tech between their current
+level of society and that which could produce an F16.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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Re: The One-Armed Man

+30 Jun 1994
     Here's yet another example (one of many) in which you show you don't
+have a clue, and are twisting facts.
+ 
+     You write, "...everything that Bob said was substantiated."
+ 
+     Incorrect.  The only thing that Bob stated here was that a complaint
+had been filed, by you.
+ 
+     The complaint has not been substantiated.
+ 
+     The incident has not been substantiated.
+ 
+     This is how the Judicial system works, since you claim to be about
+to launch into it.
+ 
+     NOTHING -- I repeat, NOTHING -- that you have said has been legally
+substantiated.  And if it could be, would've been by now.
+ 
+     BTW, I spoke to Andreas today, who continues to be very upset by
+this whole thing, and he indicated that he wishes you would stop calling
+there to further harrass him.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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Re: The One-Armed Man

+30 Jun 1994
     RE: mental powers...there's still investigation into this area
+going on, and I don't think we've yet heard the final judgment...jump
+gates are a fairly reasonable extrapolation on folded space, wormholes
+and the like...and as for FTL travel, there isn't any, none of our ships
+travel faster than light per se; hyperspace is one way of avoiding the
+whole issue.  In normal space, none of the ships in the B5 universe
+travel faster than light.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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Re: The One-Armed Man

+30 Jun 1994
     PS #1: as Brian O'Neill said, any lawyer in his right *mind* would
+tell you that after filing a complaint, the #1 rule is, "SHUT UP!"  Do
+not go around making public statements about it.  Doofus-activity #1 from
+you.
+ 
+     PS #2: I have not said anything to you that anyone else here has
+not said, in some cases in far harsher terms that I have said it.  Since
+you said that you now intend to sue *me*, you must now also sue *them*
+as well.  Otherwise your suit becomes selective, and thus provably a
+vendetta.  So now how many *more* are you going to sue?  Or threaten?  Or
+harrass?  (I notice you accused the Doge of forging your mail, so I
+suppose we're now broadening our scope to include charges of forgery.)
+ 
+     You use threat of lawsuit to intimidate people, with *no* conception
+of the law.  Doofus-activity #2.
+ 
+     Would you now like to try for Doofus-activity #3, or go home now?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
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+Re: ST:TNG episode "Believers" (4 Jun 1994)
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Re: ST:TNG episode "Believers"

+4 Jun 1994
     "who sincerely hopes that JMS posts a clarification/retraction of
+his slams of the opposition...."
+ 
+     Please reprint for me the "slams" that you say I have posted, and
+then show me where they are in error.  If a misstatement of facts was
+ever made, I will retract it.  If not, not.  I will not take back any
+criticism just because you don't like it, and further, in my postings I
+generally make it a point *not* to slam.  So, again, please repost those
+messages for me.  Otherwise, as far as I'm concerned, I have nothing to
+retract.
+ 
+     Second, to the point of your message...we *showed* what happened:
+the raiders came out of nowhere.  She turned around.  Hit her engines, and
+ran.  We SEE her turn and run.  What in this is so incomprehensible to you
+that you felt you needed it *explained*?  And in the midst of the main
+story in "Believers" cranking rapidly toward its end, what would have been
+served by cutting away one more time just to show her running and firing
+backward as she ran?
+ 
+     We show nearly everything on this show; almost *nothing* happens off
+camera...as opposed (okay, you want a slam, here's one) to one episode of
+TNG that I recall where there was some kind of disturbance they were
+investigating, they were hit by the vortex (never saw it), the other ship
+(which we never saw) was hit by it, the ship was destroyed (we never saw
+it)...the whole THING was one big radio drama, with the crew narrating
+what happened rather than showing it to us.
+ 
+     In 14 episodes, we chose to let *one* incident happen off-camera,
+and it was a dramatic choice, leaving something to the imagination of the
+viewers, and to avoid interfering with a very dramatic moment in the main
+story.
+ 
+     Deal with it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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Books? Novels? etc.

+4 Jun 1994
     Dell will be coming out with the first batch of B5 original novels
+later this year.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

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+Re: UK reviews: Born To the Pu (1 Jun 1994)
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Re: UK reviews: Born To the Pu

+1 Jun 1994
     Actually, the intent was never to hit people over the head with whtat
+(what) a nice person Ivanova is...or to shove her character down anyone's
+throat.  She has an arc of her own this season, which involves reconciling
+some things with her family.  And we need to set *up* some things in her
+family in order to pay them off later in the season.  You have to start
+a bit early in order to get it all in without rushing it.
+ 
+     All of our characters have their own arcs, and their own stories, and
+their own forthcoming transitions.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

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+Re: lack-luster characterizati (5 Jun 1994)
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Re: lack-luster characterizati

+5 Jun 1994
     The *reason* we had Garibaldi go through all the hoops he went through
+before finally falling into the bottle is because simply having Liana
+show up and depress Garibaldi isn't, frankly, sufficient motivation.  I
+don't buy it.  We wanted to strip away everything he had, and leave him
+with only *himself*.  So we took away his job, his reputation, his money,
+his home, neutralized his friends wherever possible...it was deliberate
+and systematic to peel him down to the bare essentials, to just Garibaldi.
+Take him all the way down before taking him back up again.  Because it's
+more dramatically interesting.  It's more logical that it would take
+something this major to drive him back into the bottle after staying sober
+all this time.  I'm sorry, I don't accept your suggestion that Liana's
+"anger and accusations" would "drive him over the edge as he deals with
+his guilt."  He's BEEN dealing with his guilt, and her showing up wouldn't
+be enough to drive him back into the bottle again.  I'm sorry, but as a
+producer or a story editor, I wouldn't buy that from a writer as being
+sufficient motivation.  Particularly not a character who's as strong and
+as bull-headed as Garibaldi.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Re: WHAM! next season? (5 Jun 1994)
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Re: WHAM! next season?

+5 Jun 1994
     Since the personal stories will be mainly b-stories, no, I don't
+anticipate any problem with the wham episodes.
+
+                                                                      jms
+

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+JMS: Mind War repeat (5 Jun 1994)
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JMS: Mind War repeat

+5 Jun 1994
     In the pursuit in the teaser, you could see one of the binary stars
+THROUGH Ironheart's ship; we deleted that shot and replaced it.
+
+                                                                     jms
+

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+ATTN:JMS:More wishes (was How (6 Jun 1994)
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ATTN:JMS:More wishes (was How

+6 Jun 1994
     I believe the rerun schedule for TKO is correct; and we'll be showing
+second season new episodes in November for sweeps, not starting December.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+6 Jun 1994
     Correct, I'll be at San Diego Comic Con on August 4-7, and will be
+showing some new stuff.  And will probably have some things to say about
+season two, but will obviously be holding back some stuff.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+Editorial: Michael O'Hare's De (6 Jun 1994)
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Editorial: Michael O'Hare's De

+6 Jun 1994
     As it turns out, Michael O'Hare came by the office today, and we
+spoke at some length about this issue.  Michael has offered to compose
+a note confirming all that we've spoken about here, though I still don't
+think it's necessary.
+ 
+     There is no contradiction at work here.  Michael very much believes
+in the show, and wants it to continue.  So do we.  As far as writing
+campaigns are concerned, it's one thing to support a show, and another
+thing to attack.  Cynthia Lieberman, for instance, has nothing -- let me
+repeat, NOTHING -- to do with the running of Babylon 5, casting, or any
+other aspect.  She is in Warners public relations.
+ 
+     If you've got a problem, then your problem is with me.
+ 
+     In addition, people keep seeing this as a cut-and-dried situation.
+It isn't.  The reason Michael was here today was so we could film a piece
+that will appear later in season two, and will set up the framework for
+further appearances by Sinclair down the road.
+ 
+     If you send a lot of letters to Warner Bros., to the *wrong person*
+no less, all you will end up doing is pissing off Warner Bros., and with
+good cause.  And the rebound effect would be to hurt Michael, and hurt
+the show.
+ 
+     Now, if fans want to write in noting how much they enjoyed Michael
+as Sinclair, and that they would enjoy seeing him again down the road,
+that I have no problem with.  It's only the "WHY DID YOU DO THIS I HATE
+YOU YOU EVIL BASTARDS" kind of letter that can come out in this kind of
+situation that I've discouraged.  If people want to say they'd like to
+see Sinclair again on the show...that they enjoyed his performance...fine,
+because that's certainly what we figure on doing at various points.
+ 
+     Meanwhile, there's no one at Warner Bros. to complain *to*.  The
+ultimate action came from this office, and you should address any
+problems to me directly.  Or to Michael, who will be hitting the
+conventions over the next several months, and can certainly speak for
+himself.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+UK Reviews: Infection (6 Jun 1994)
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UK Reviews: Infection

+6 Jun 1994
      I didn't like it either.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+Jump Time (6 Jun 1994)
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Jump Time

+6 Jun 1994
     Once you're in a gate, the objective (our POV) time involved is
+usually several days.  From a subjective (inside the ship) POV, the time
+elapsed is somewhat shorter.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+JMS: letterbox (6 Jun 1994)
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JMS: letterbox

+6 Jun 1994
     Given that most household TV sets are fairly small, no, it wouldn't
+be fair or prudent to begin broadcasting the episodes in letterbox at
+this time.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
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+Parliament (mild spoilers) (7 Jun 1994)
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Parliament (mild spoilers)

+7 Jun 1994
     Yeah, it's a favorite of mine, too.  And the race was called the
+Xon.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+

+
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+JUMPGATE QUESTION (1 Jun 1994)
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JUMPGATE QUESTION

+1 Jun 1994
     I think the bg of the shadowman shot may have been a solar system
+forming, or a nebula; I was told, we discussed it, and I've promptly
+forgotten.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+Re: JMS: Mind War repeat (7 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: Mind War repeat

+7 Jun 1994
     I'm reasonably sure that the UK and all later countries will get the
+corrected versions only.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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+Re: Third Age of Mankind (spec (7 Jun 1994)
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Re: Third Age of Mankind (spec

+7 Jun 1994
     While I can answer the question about the third age, I really can't
+at the moment, and to tell the first two would reveal the third.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

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+Re: lack-luster characterizati (8 Jun 1994)
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Re: lack-luster characterizati

+8 Jun 1994
     What do I know about alcoholics, to portray them?  Well, aside from
+a degree in clinical psychology, and some internship work in the area, I
+come from a family with alcoholism going back at least four generations,
+and I'm talking *heavy duty*.  I am, in fact, the first male Straczynski
+in my branch of this particular stunted tree NOT to have this problem.
+ 
+     I have had far, far, far more experience with this area than I care
+to recite...and from that perspective, I have no problem with Garibaldi's
+portrayal.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
+
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+Re: Jump Time (8 Jun 1994)
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Re: Jump Time

+8 Jun 1994
     There's long been speculation that one or more of the major races
+keeps a heavy cruiser standing by in hyperspace (as was mentioned in the
+pilot movie) in case B5 ever needs to get muscled....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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+Re: Jumpgate physics (8 Jun 1994)
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Re: Jumpgate physics

+8 Jun 1994
     In order to prevent a jumpgate from being used by a particular
+ship, you have to know its access code, which you can then block.  This
+is easy once the ship is in B5, because that code is logged automatically.
+But unless you know *in advance* which ship, with what code, is going to
+be coming through from the other side, you can't block access.
+ 
+     Now, during the Earth/Minbari war, EA jump gates were programmed to
+block access to ALL ships *except* EA ships with codes that changed on a
+daily basis.  Implementing that on B5 takes permission from the Joint
+Chiefs, since it is a de facto act of aggression, and takes a lot of time
+in ANY event...just as shutting down the gate takes hours and hours, if
+not longer.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
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+YOOHOO!!! JMS!!!! (8 Jun 1994)
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YOOHOO!!! JMS!!!!

+8 Jun 1994
     If you were to look at B5 realistically (which is kind of our goal),
+the realities are that a Lieutenant-Commander would not be promoted into
+that kind of position.  She's not *nearly* seasoned enough to be entrusted
+with a diplomatic posting (and can you *imagine* her trying to be
+diplomatic on a regular basis?).  So it'd have to be someone else.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+Sinclair's middle name (8 Jun 1994)
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Sinclair's middle name

+8 Jun 1994
     Jeffrey Sinclair's middle name is David, same as his father's first
+name.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+JMS: V - The Rebirth (8 Jun 1994)
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JMS: V - The Rebirth

+8 Jun 1994
     Thanks; at this juncture, no more will be released from the script,
+in order to keep alive the possibility of a novel at some point in the
+future.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+Re: Editorial: Michael O'Hare' (8 Jun 1994)
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Re: Editorial: Michael O'Hare'

+8 Jun 1994
     "...the *possibility* that O'Hare could return at some time in the
+future.  No obligations, no plan for it."
+ 
+     We've already filmed one sequence with a return for season two, to
+start that ball rolling.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+

+
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+JMS: O'Hare insanity (8 Jun 1994)
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JMS: O'Hare insanity

+8 Jun 1994
     Thanks; I do try to play it as straight as I can.  If there's a
+problem, or a show that's not up to our standards, I'll say so.  I think
+that otherwise, the whole point of the exercise is lost.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+Is it or isn't it? (2 Jun 1994)
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Is it or isn't it?

+2 Jun 1994
     I'm going to try and address your flame-bait with considerably less
+in the way of insulting content than you did.
+ 
+     1) The Zima thing was neither illegal nor against NAB or FCC regs,
+it was perfectly legit.  Before you start making accusations about
+illegality that are *completely* specious and ill-informed, you should
+investigate first.  Otherwise you speak from ignorance.
+ 
+     2) The argument of what is and isn't SF is one of the most
+bone-headed arguments one can conceivably get into, and to which there is
+no better solution than Damon Knight's comment, "SF is anything I point
+to and say, that's SF."
+ 
+     For me, SF means speculative fiction, which totally regardless of
+any opinion of yours, is a completely valid and acceptable definition.
+Speculative SF includes not just the hard sciences, but sociology,
+psychology, anthropology and other soft sciences.
+ 
+     To apply the standards usually listed by people such as yourself
+would totally disqualify some of the finest pieces of SF literature in
+the genre's history, from Stranger in a Strange Land to A Canticle for
+Liebowitz and most of Ray Bradbury's stuff.
+ 
+     Hence, I simply ignore what narrow-minded people try to impose on
+my show.
+ 
+     Babylon 5 is SF, as I and a whole lot more people than you define it.
+ It may or may not be a brand of SF that you like.  But whether or not you
+like it is totally irrelevant to whether or not it's SF.
+ 
+     The "critical look at the definition of science fiction" that you
+cite does not exist anywhere but in your own head...there IS no one such
+definition, and if there ever *were* any one such definition, then we
+could effectively declare the genre dead and in need of burial.
+ 
+     And you'll note that I did all of this without appending to the reply
+the use of such terms as "lame" or "mediocre."  Now, if you're willing to
+act grownup, we can continue this conversation.  If not, not.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+Re: Commander Tomolok (sp?) (8 Jun 1994)
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Re: Commander Tomolok (sp?)

+8 Jun 1994
     "B5 should be better than Trek's first season, jms has been able to
+watch Trek for years before he made his show, and should have learned from
+them."
+ 
+      There are two things about this statement that make me absolutely
+fucking nuts.
+ 
+     1) There's this attitude that I see again and again that's somewhat
+confrontational, often from ST fans, that we have to do *better* than
+ST (and usually in ways that they feel can be measured against ST, even
+though it's a different series).  Some people say, "Well the characters
+aren't as gritty as in NYPD Blue or Homicide," or "I'm tired of people
+saying there's humor on the series, it doesn't compare with COACH."  It
+seems like it's not enough that we be simply a *good* show, we have to be
+THE BEST TEEVEE SERIES ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH IN ALL TEEVEE HISTORY or
+we're crap.  Talk about moving the borders around....
+ 
+     2) Re: watching and learning from ST...that's useful ONLY IF YOU'RE
+DOING MORE ST.  It's a whole different universe, different characters,
+different technologies, different rules.  It's like saying you should
+watch LASSIE to learn how to do DRAGNET.  Or, to stay within genres,
+watch DRAGNET to learn how to do NYPD Blue.
+ 
+     B5 was conceived before TNG went on the air, btw.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+Re: JMS: does this group affec (8 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: does this group affec

+8 Jun 1994
     I have thus far changed about 3 or 4 minor elements because someone
+posted what could constitute a story idea that came uncomfortably close to
+what we were doing this season.  Fortunately, they were small things, and
+didn't affect anything substantial, but it is kind of a pain in the ass.
+ 
+     On the *other* hand...very often there are zillions of questions
+here about the characters, the universe, history, all that.  A writer's
+job in creating a universe is to try and think of every question, and
+answer it.  But far more questions get asked here than I could ever think
+of.  So, sometimes a question I'd never considered gets asked, I come up
+with an answer, and now it's part of the show.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+

+
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+Parallel evolution; explanatio (8 Jun 1994)
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Parallel evolution; explanatio

+8 Jun 1994
     From an evolutionary standpoint, you want your sensors at the highest
+part of your body, to look for prey or predator; you want your mouth that
+high as well, to eat leaves if need be.  To run from predators or after
+prey you need good legs, at least two; four can be hard to get through
+narrow areas, and tends to deprive one of two limbs that could otherwise
+be used for tools and the evolution of the opposable thumb required for
+technology.  It seems a very sensible arrangement across the board for
+an advanced species.  (And note that of all the UFO reports we hear about,
+they're always humanoid, not BEMs.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+New commander (was Re: YOOHOO! (8 Jun 1994)
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New commander (was Re: YOOHOO!

+8 Jun 1994
     Well, I could answer your questions, but that would kinda kill the
+first episode of year two....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+[JMS READ!] Airschedule (say i (8 Jun 1994)
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[JMS READ!] Airschedule (say i

+8 Jun 1994
     As it was explained to me by Warners, the HUT (Households Using
+Televisions) figures for August are notoriously low.  Also, they said
+that they thought that showing it once, then again in reruns that week,
+and then again before the start of season two would "diminish" the
+impact of what is, frankly, our best episode of the whole first season.
+ 
+     So they want to play it just the week before year two starts.
+ 
+     This ain't my decision, and I've debated it with WB until I've turned
+blue in the face.  They still think it's a wonderful idea.  Their
+motivation is only good.  I just don't agree that this is the best way to
+do it; a cliffhanger is supposed to...well...leave you hanging.  I mean,
+that's kind of in the description, innit?
+ 
+     Sometimes studios, like god, transcend all understanding.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+Re: Babylon-5 (B5) "bad acting (8 Jun 1994)
+
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Re: Babylon-5 (B5) "bad acting

+8 Jun 1994
     Re: the criticisms rendered...well done.  This is the kind of thing
+that many have been talking about; not "It sucks!" but what, specifically,
+do you feel works or doesn't work.  Although I don't agree with all the
+points raised, you did raise some good ones, worth considering.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

+
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+JMS: V Script (8 Jun 1994)
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+
JMS: V Script

+8 Jun 1994
     Nothing more is planned for the script at this time, and the rest
+probably won't be uploaded.  Maybe someday a novelization; we'll see.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+JMS - DSM III R  (re:lack-lust (8 Jun 1994)
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JMS - DSM III R  (re:lack-lust

+8 Jun 1994
     Then again, while alcoholism rages in torture survivors, Sinclair
+didn't know he'd *been* tortured until just recently....
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

+
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+
+B5 Novels (8 Jun 1994)
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B5 Novels

+8 Jun 1994
     Dell Books is doing the B5 series of novels.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+B5 Newsletter - What Happened (8 Jun 1994)
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B5 Newsletter - What Happened

+8 Jun 1994
     OKAY!  OKAY!  I'LL WRITE THE GODDAMNED ESSAY THAT CHRISTY MARX HAS
+BEEN NAGGING ME TO WRITE FOR THE LAST MONTH OR TWO OR THREE OR WHO EVEN
+REMEMBERS WITH HER AFTER A WHILE, JUST THIS CONSTANT DRONING, ON AND ON
+AND ON, "WRITE THE ESSAY, WRITE THE ESSAY, WRITE THE ESSAY," AND I TELL
+HER I'VE BEEN BUSY, I'VE BEEN NUTS, GO AWAY, I'M TRYING TO MAKE A SERIES
+HERE GODDAMNIT, BUT NOOOOOO, SHE JUST KEEPS ON COMING, WON'T STOP, AND
+NOW SHE'S SENDING HER AGENTS OF DARKNESS AFTER ME, THAT'S IT, YOU'RE
+WORKING FOR HER, AREN'T YOU, TELL THE TRUTH, I'VE SEEN HER OUTSIDE MY
+WINDOW AT NIGHT, WATCHING, WATCHING....
+ 
+     I am in *desperate* need of a vacation....
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+

+
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+JMS: another quick question ab (2 Jun 1994)
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JMS: another quick question ab

+2 Jun 1994
     The idea first started as a question: how do you design an SF show
+for television that won't kill itself financially...then how can you
+design a show in such a way that it tells a story over X-number of years,
+like some of the multi-novel cycles that are the hallmark of SF
+literature?
+ 
+     The obvious framework seemed to be a crossroads or meeting place of
+some kind, a place of commerce and trading.  It's much more difficult and
+energy-consuming to go down into a gravity well every time you want to
+drop something off, so this led to a space station/community.  I kind of
+knew pretty much where I wanted to go right off the bat, but it took me
+another six months to a year to *really* decide on what the arc of the
+story was to be.  In the years since, I've added a bit around the edges,
+fleshed out some of the characters and their own personal arcs, but it's
+still essentially the same story.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+

+
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+"Mind War" -second thoughts (9 Jun 1994)
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"Mind War" -second thoughts

+9 Jun 1994
     There's an awful lot there and most of it involves math, so I'm
+going to have to puzzle this out.  But for the other stuff...no, there's
+no in-joke in Sigma 957, but ***CONGRATULATIONS!***  You are the FIRST
+person to pick up on the Native American line that Ironheart quotes when
+he goes up against Kelsey.  (And yes, I believe it is ojibwe in origin.)
+I've always considered it a very powerful line (a prayer of protection
+against one's enemies), and wanted to use it.  That seemed the perfect
+opportunity to do so.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+

+
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+
+Re: Alleged JMS slam of TNG (R (9 Jun 1994)
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Re: Alleged JMS slam of TNG (R

+9 Jun 1994
     Oh, please, if that's the best you can do.  You were asked to
+provide a quote in which I slammed Trek fans.  That message you quoted
+doesn't slam Trek fans.  It doesn't even MENTION Trek fans.  It refers to
+a couple of people -- and there messages WERE geeky -- who got very snotty
+and said that they had NEVER EVER used CGI on TNG, and that they could
+tell (even though I know from inside that in at least one prior episode,
+where Picard "joins" a band of crooks, they DID use a CGI ship in a
+couple of shots).
+ 
+     And you even admit that you aren't sure that it was directed at
+Trek fans.  Which, again, it wasn't; only at a couple of specific people.
+ 
+     Further, the "All Things...STUPID" header wasn't created by me, but
+was on a thread created by somebody else.
+ 
+     I have NEVER, in any post, slammed Trek fans as a group, and I don't
+think I've ever just roundly dismissed/slammed ST as useless or sucky or
+anything on that order.  If there was something specific to mention or to
+critique, maybe, but frankly I don't recall doing much or any of THAT,
+either.
+ 
+     You made an allegation.  And now you can't back up that allegation
+with anything.
+ 
+     Perhaps an apology might be in order...?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
+
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+Re: [JMS READ!] Airschedule (s (9 Jun 1994)
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Re: [JMS READ!] Airschedule (s

+9 Jun 1994
     They're still planning to show "Chrysalis" in October; I'm still
+arguing.  We'll see who lasts longer.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

+
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+Mind War suggestion (** SPOILE (9 Jun 1994)
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Mind War suggestion (** SPOILE

+9 Jun 1994
     The idea of a nosebleed caused by telepathic use is a little too
+Stephen King for me (Firestarter and the Dead Zone), and too Scanners.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+UK RATINGS FOR "SOUL HUNTER" (9 Jun 1994)
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+9 Jun 1994
     Great, thanks for the information.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+Re: [JMS READ!] Airschedule (s (9 Jun 1994)
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Re: [JMS READ!] Airschedule (s

+9 Jun 1994
     Actually, you're quite correct; if the US doesn't show Chrysalis
+until October, the UK which is blowing right through them will have shown
+it in August.
+ 
+     Still hammering....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+Re: JMS: does this group affec (9 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: does this group affec

+9 Jun 1994
     The CGI exhaustive rendering sequences were for "Grail."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS: Kemmer and Le Guin? (9 Jun 1994)
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JMS: Kemmer and Le Guin?

+9 Jun 1994
     I think Kemmer's name was inspired by the actor's name from the
+Space Patrol series....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+

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+Re: JMS: request for interview (10 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: request for interview

+10 Jun 1994
     Yeah, 5:30 a week from Monday would sound good.  At least as of this
+moment; things sometimes get nuts.  Best to drop me a note (in email)
+a few days before, so a) you can remind me, and b) we can set up a phone
+number to call.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+Re: JMS: does this group affec (10 Jun 1994)
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Re: JMS: does this group affec

+10 Jun 1994
     Yeah, when all is said and done, I might see if somebody would be
+interested in publishing all the background material, but that's a LONG
+way off.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

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+JMS: How much did B5 cost and. (2 Jun 1994)
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JMS: How much did B5 cost and.

+2 Jun 1994
     Doing a conversion of EA dollars in 2258 to US dollars 1994 is a
+bit much for me to handle.  The EA was able to afford the first few on
+their own, since they were attempts that didn't get very far, but later
+had to accept Minbari and, later still, Centauri co-financing to make it
+viable.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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+When do we find out what Ironh (10 Jun 1994)
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+10 Jun 1994
     We found out what gift Ironheart gave Talia *in* the episode itself;
+she can now move a penny with her thoughts.  She's slowly developing some
+limited TK ability of her own.
+ 
+     (This was in the tag.)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+

+
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+Re: B5 Newsletter - What Happe (10 Jun 1994)
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Re: B5 Newsletter - What Happe

+10 Jun 1994
     BTW...and I attach this here only because I'm still fuzzy on sending
+new notes to the Internet...this Saturday, June 11, B5's own conceptual
+consultant Harlan Ellison will be signing books in the San Diego area, at
+Mysterious Galaxy Books, in the Claremont Shopping Center, from 2-5 p.m.
+In addition, for those who buy a copy of Mephisto in Onyx or Mindfields,
+and $25 in other books, there will be a reading by Harlan of a new short
+story at 6 p.m.
+ 
+     I'll also be there, on and off, hangin' around.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
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+B5 mentioned in Merky news (12 Jun 1994)
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+12 Jun 1994
     How could any one newspaper get so many mistakes into such a small
+amount of space?  Amazing....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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+Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES (12 Jun 1994)
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+12 Jun 1994
     "I will stand by my statement that I still don't hear a real
+orchestra."
+ 
+     You can stand by it all you want, and certainly what you hear is
+subjective, and varies.  But you're still wrong.
+ 
+     The music varies, depending on what is needed for the scene.  Some of
+it is synth'd, but a LOT of it is indeed performed by the Berlin Symphonic
+Film Orchestra, Franke's creation.  We don't give credit on-screen to
+entities we don't use, sorry.  I've seen this in action.  So you can argue
+and disagree until your face turns blue...you're simply, flatly wrong.
+ 
+     And personally, I love the music, as do the majority of the people I
+talk to.  What you may be reacting to is that we add sounds that you don't
+generally see used in SF series, where it's just one more over-wrought,
+over-blown, bloated, self-indulgent John Williams ripoff.  We *do* use
+electronics from time to time and some sampling, for effect.  Maybe you
+don't like it, that's your choice.  But it is not "cheap," and not in
+lieu of using real instruments for other elements.
+ 
+     I've heard before from some ST "purists" who think there shouldn't be
+any electronic instruments in SF-television scores...just one more attempt
+to make every SF series look and sound just like Star Trek.  Sorry, not
+interested.
+ 
+     As to your allegation that Franke "sampled" (another term for stole)
+a piece off the Aliens soundtrack...1) I own that soundtrack, and have
+Franke's piece, and they're *not* comparable, 2) this allegation is so
+far beneath contempt that it doesn't merit response.
+ 
+     Chris is the most original, hard-working and dedicated composer and
+musician I've ever worked with.  And as far as the music goes...I was
+surprised the other day to get a gift from Chris...a CD with 50 continuous
+minutes of music from our first season, orchestrated into a one long and
+very beautiful piece.  (This isn't a commercial thing; he did it on his
+own, making custom covers with my name on my copy.)  I've played it to
+the point where I'd be worried about wearing it out if it were a standard
+record.  It's gorgeous, rich and full.
+ 
+     Your subjective tastes have nothing to do with objective reality.
+You were simply 100% wrong on one issue, and insulting in the other.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+... no subject ... (13 Jun 1994)
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+13 Jun 1994
     Well, I'm very impressed and pleased.  Thank you, and my best to the
+entire clan....
+
+                                                                 jms
+

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+JMS!!  What are the rules? (15 Jun 1994)
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+15 Jun 1994
     Of the options you listed, only D poses a real problem; A-C are
+more or less okay.  The problem comes not so much from speculating on
+elements already introduced, as introducing *new* plot elements that
+have not been seen in the show to back up speculation or conjecture,
+which may or may not approximate what we're doing.  "The Minbari
+surrendered because in some episode we'll see someday the Earth had
+developed a giant killer space duck hidden on the dark side of the
+moon that would nibble the Minbari homeworld to destruction."  That is
+kind of the dividing line between what's safe and not-safe.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+

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+16 Jun 1994
     Chris: I'd say your analysis of the B5 approach to performance is
+pretty much dead on.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

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+TO JMS: INTERVIEW? (16 Jun 1994)
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+16 Jun 1994
     To answer your question I'll need more info on the publication.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

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+TV Guide & Fall Preview (was A (16 Jun 1994)
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TV Guide & Fall Preview (was A

+16 Jun 1994
     There are a number of people at TV Guide, including Jeff Jarvis, who
+want *zero* references to B5 at worst, to slam it at best.  If we went on
+the air in the spring again, they'd simply not mention us at all.  Does
+anyone actually think they cover things based on *quality*?  They don't.
+It's whoever buys the cover that week.  By going in the fall, they pretty
+much *have* to at least mention us, so that's a start.  But that's not
+the full reason; it has much also to do with rerun schedules and how you
+make episodes stretch between sweeps periods.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
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+Mind War: Monorail ride (16 Jun 1994)
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+16 Jun 1994
     There is definitely minimal gravity in the core shuttle; what you
+can't see in MW, but can in Survivors, are the handholds recessed into
+the seats, walls and ceiling to help keep people in place.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+

+
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+Re: Starfury design (was Re: A (2 Jun 1994)
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Re: Starfury design (was Re: A

+2 Jun 1994
     Correct, there are several different kinds of starfuries and models
+of fighters; the standard lightweight version used at B5; the more stealth
+oriented Black Omega fighters; and in the two-parter, you'll see the heavy
+military class, with turrets fore and aft, and pilots fore and aft.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

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+Attn JMS: Maybe this will work (16 Jun 1994)
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Attn JMS: Maybe this will work

+16 Jun 1994
     Your jumpgate system sounds perfectly consistent with our thinking
+on the subject.
+ 
+     (This to the original poster.)
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

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+ATTN: JMS  SD Comic Con (16 Jun 1994)
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ATTN: JMS  SD Comic Con

+16 Jun 1994
     I *imagine* my presentation will be on that Saturday, but I have no
+actual proof upon which to base that belief.  It is simply an act of
+faith at this point.  Re: bringing down cast members...we'll be in the
+thick of shooting, so I don't know who if anyone can make it (though Bill
+Mumy will be there for his concert).
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

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+Question for JMS (16 Jun 1994)
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+16 Jun 1994
     Yes, our plans are to show some of the other homeworlds next season.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

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+JMS: Canada reference? (16 Jun 1994)
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+16 Jun 1994
     So it's okay by you to mention that Canada was wiped out by the great
+genetics plague of 2134, and has been cut off from the rest of the world,
+the few remaining mutants kept out behind barbed wire and gun turrets, you
+really *want* I should mention that...?
+ 
+                                        jm(who may, or may not, be kidding)s
+

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Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES

+16 Jun 1994
     Re: your continued allegations that B5's composer Chris Franke
+"uses synthesizers in place of live players"...I am going to say this
+just one more time: I don't care *what* your ears tell you; your ears are
+hearing what you want to hear.  Chris uses both synth AND a live
+orchestra.  He combines them.  What does it take to convince you?  I've
+BEEN there.  I've SEEN the process.  It's ONGOING.  What you say is being
+done is NOT what's being done.  Period.  You're pointing at a black wall
+and saying it's white.  I'm not to blame for your problem with colors.
+ 
+     You have two choices, one of which involves calling me a liar.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

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+Re: Franke truth  WAS: Re: BAB (16 Jun 1994)
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Re: Franke truth  WAS: Re: BAB

+16 Jun 1994
     "The CD gift was nice I'm sure, but let's be honest it also sounds
+like he's sucking up a lot too.  Just remember who signs his paychecks."
+ 
+     Could you *possibly* be more smarmy about this?
+ 
+     FYI, a *number* of people got these gift CDs, a very small group
+that -- however this may surprise you -- includes people who do not pay
+him.  Chris has no reason to "suck up" to anyone.  He's already on for
+year two, his negotiations for the soundtrack with Warners have no impact
+on us and we have no say in it...it was simply something done out of the
+goodness of his heart, and his enthusiasm for the show.
+ 
+     For someone who sets himself up as in a position to go after other
+people, you sure engage in some dubious observations.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
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Att jms

+16 Jun 1994
     To answer your questions in order...I use small initials jms because
+it looks cool, and keeps me modest.  (Someone pointed out that it looks
+like a derringer pointing right, but what do I know.)  Yes, we'll find
+out about the Minbari situation re: Sinclair in the first episode of year
+two.  And it will have future ramifications.  As for knowing what was
+going on in "Sky"...bear in mind that you (and other net-surfers) have an
+advantage 99.9% of the rest of the country does not: this conversation.
+ 
+     That 99.9% didn't even *know* about the hole in Sinclair's mind
+when "Sky" began because it hadn't ever been mentioned *in the series*
+up to that point.  Only in the pilot, which the majority of B5's current
+viewers never saw.  All of the discussions here lead netters to expect
+stuff that the rest of the nation has never seen, and thus can't expect.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
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+16 Jun 1994
     There will be a new intro to year 2.  I would hope that the
+opening narrative would be shorter.  Not ready yet to announce who's
+going to be doing it.  It will probably include shots from years one and
+two.
+ 
+     Getting Patrick will depend on getting a script he likes.  It's
+certainly one of my goals.
+ 
+     And yes, there will be some new writers freelancing for us this
+season; I'm talking to writers like Peter David, and Scott Frost (from
+Twin Peaks and X-Files), a few others...and I'm going to keep hammering
+at Neil Gaiman to do us a script until he finally does one just to make
+me go away.
+ 
+     No immediate committments to the prior three, but we're seeing what
+we can do.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+

+
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+Mind war meditations... (16 Jun 1994)
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+
Mind war meditations...

+16 Jun 1994
     "Is Kosh what he/she/it appears to be?"
+ 
+     Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no less
+and no more.  At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* like what
+he appears to be.
+ 
+     These are not contradictory statements.
+ 
+     And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the
+subject, believe it or not.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+Koenig was doing Shatner! (16 Jun 1994)
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Koenig was doing Shatner!

+16 Jun 1994
     It's a funny thought, but knowing Walter as I do, I can say without
+fear of contradiction that he was *not* doing Shatner.  Given the chance
+here to do something *utterly* outside ST, which was his hope, and our
+pleasure to provide, he wouldn't do this, and having spoken with him at
+some length about his character and his performance, know that he *didn't*
+do this.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+

+
+
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+JMS: You Produced ST:TMP???!!! (2 Jun 1994)
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JMS: You Produced ST:TMP???!!!

+2 Jun 1994
     "...from the producers of ST:TMP...B5...."
+ 
+     Matthew...all I can figure out is that I'm paying off karma at a
+VASTLY accellerated rate.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
+
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+Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES (16 Jun 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES

+16 Jun 1994
     "Franke...is not cutting it..he's just not the right person for
+the program."
+ 
+     1) That's your opinion.  2) Your opinion is irrelevant.
+ 
+     The job of a composer is to work with the material as written and
+directed, to fit the vision of the person who's putting it together.
+Christopher's music is *exactly* what I envisioned wanting for the show.
+So he *is* exactly the right person for the show.  You don't get a vote
+on that.
+ 
+     And it's pretty cowardly for anyone to step up to the plate and
+criticize others behind a pseudonym.  My real name's up here, why isn't
+yours?
+ 
+     From your comments, your sense that you are obligated to "take on"
+me and other show runners, your grandiose sense of importance, your
+insistence that the world is the way you say -- no live players even
+though there are -- despite being repeatedly told otherwise, I would
+almost be tempted to conclude that you are suffering from delusions of
+grandeur...but I suspect that closer to the truth is that you are
+suffering from delusions of adequacy.
+ 
+     You are being an ass.  Go away.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+Re: Elanic $0.02  Re: BABYLON (16 Jun 1994)
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Re: Elanic $0.02  Re: BABYLON

+16 Jun 1994
     Once agan, Franke's approach to the show is not "wrong."  What you
+are doing is like walking into someone's home, which is decorated to
+their tastes, and saying it's "wrong" because it's not how you would
+decorate your house.  You don't get a vote.  It is right for what I want
+to do for my show, and so it is right.  Only one person gets a vote on
+what does and doesn't "fit" with this show.  And it ain't you.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+
+The other Minbari Castes??! (16 Jun 1994)
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The other Minbari Castes??!

+16 Jun 1994
     You will see some of the warrior caste in "Legacies," coming up
+in July.  You don't see them much because they only go where they're
+needed.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+Is any one else leaving ? (16 Jun 1994)
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Is any one else leaving ?

+16 Jun 1994
     We certainly have no plans to replace any other cast members at
+this time.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+Re: B5 Newsletter - What Happe (16 Jun 1994)
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Re: B5 Newsletter - What Happe

+16 Jun 1994
     Thanks.  Alas, the jackets are not currently for sale.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES (16 Jun 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES

+16 Jun 1994
     "I've stated that what I put forth was an opinion based on my years
+of working in the business of music for films and TV programs."
+ 
+     How can you say that when you operate under a pseudonym?  How do WE
+know you have "years" working in the music business?  We have no proof
+of this.
+ 
+     "I've answered your questions with facts."
+ 
+     No you haven't.  Not one.  Just more opinions.
+ 
+     "I DON'T HEAR AN ORCHESTRA AT ALL IN THE SHOW!"
+ 
+     So what?  That's your problem.
+ 
+     This is like two guys standing in a zoo, looking at an elephant.
+ 
+     "That's a duck," one says.
+ 
+     "No it's not, it's an elephant."
+ 
+     "I don't see an elephant.  I have experience.  It's a duck."
+ 
+     "I don't *care* what YOU see, it's an elephant.  Look, see that
+thing in front?"
+ 
+     "What?  Its bill?"
+ 
+     "That's not a bill, it's a trunk!  See how it waves back and forth?"
+ 
+     "Oh, well, then it's a broken bill...pity, you think they could
+afford to fix it."
+ 
+     "Look, tell you what, how about I put your head under the 'duck's'
+foot and see what happens...?"
+ 
+     We're not responsible for your problems with perception and tone
+deafness.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+Re: Sinclair leaving !!! Need (16 Jun 1994)
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Re: Sinclair leaving !!! Need

+16 Jun 1994
     You will find out the full story of why the Minbari surrendered in
+the first episode of year two, plus a little extra.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+JMS, a "joke" ???  was: R (16 Jun 1994)
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JMS, a "joke" ???  was: R

+16 Jun 1994
     The Zima thing really is only visible in maybe two episodes; by that
+point the humor had run its course and we dropped it.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+

+
+
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+JMS: Chicago Comicon schedule? (16 Jun 1994)
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JMS: Chicago Comicon schedule?

+16 Jun 1994
     No idea yet on the schedule, though my guess is that the B5 panel
+will be some time Saturday afternoon.  Will try to post more when I
+know it.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+What are the Mutari? (16 Jun 1994)
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What are the Mutari?

+16 Jun 1994
     The Mutari are those who fight in the Mutai; and you *did* see Narns
+and Centauri and others hanging around the ring.  The only ones you won't
+see there are Minbari.  It ain't their thing.
+ 
+                                                                            jms
+

+
+
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+> > Attn: JMS -- Warner, B5, a (2 Jun 1994)
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> > Attn: JMS -- Warner, B5, a

+2 Jun 1994
     1) It was felt that further emphasizing the personal stories would
+help with that demographic.  This is not a problem for us, since having
+established the universe of B5 in the first season, we were moving ni
+(in) that direction anyway for year two (and, in fact, did go that way
+already in the latter half of year one).
+ 
+     2) No, no real changes planned in the arc.
+ 
+     3) The O'Hare situation is an entirely different issue.
+ 
+     4) Warner hasn't said a peep about the alternate lifestyles character,
+despite many opporunities to do so.  You'll start to get a sense of this
+character more in season two.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+

+
+
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+No change in new Mind War <was (16 Jun 1994)
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No change in new Mind War <was

+16 Jun 1994
     We discovered, when we went to put in the revised CGI, that the
+international versions had already been made and transferred, and it would
+be nearly impossible to recall that part of the process...so it was left
+alone rather than have multiple versions of the same episode floating
+around.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+Re: We trust you JMS, really.. (16 Jun 1994)
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Re: We trust you JMS, really..

+16 Jun 1994
     Londo's narration definitely does *not* name Sinclair specifically,
+by name.
+ 
+     Just in the interests of accuracy....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: When will we see aer (17 Jun 1994)
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ATTN JMS: When will we see aer

+17 Jun 1994
     You will see Earth Alliance ships capable of moving in space and
+in an atmosphere in "A Voice in the Wilderness" two-parter.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Co-stars? (17 Jun 1994)
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JMS: Co-stars?

+17 Jun 1994
     On returns...Hidoshi: uncertain...Garibaldi's aide: yes...Kalika: no
+...the reporters: some yes...Maya Hernandez: possibly...Sakai: also
+possible.  Soul Hunters: very likely.  Knights: yes, but not identified
+as such.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+JMS : B5 CD? (17 Jun 1994)
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JMS : B5 CD?

+17 Jun 1994
     Yes, there are plans for a B5 CD in the fall.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
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+ATTN JMS!: Can you give them n (17 Jun 1994)
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ATTN JMS!: Can you give them n

+17 Jun 1994
     If one of the techs begins to perform actions that take him or her
+outside the merely functional, then yes, names will be given.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+

+
+
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+Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES (17 Jun 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5-THE SCORES

+17 Jun 1994
     What you address in the last bit of the music in "Signs" is what
+I've been trying to get across.  The theme music appearing there is not
+quite what we use otherwise.  I suggested to Chris that it'd be cool to
+have the B5 theme there in *minor keys* or minor chords.  It's a somewhat
+different version, and playing a theme in minor instead of major keys or
+chords makes it somber, sad, unsettling.  We've just seen B5 explode, and
+doing that particular riff on the theme seemed to both of us a good idea.
+ Play it again, then the regular theme, and you'll see the difference.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
+
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+Why a jumpgate at Sigma 957? (18 Jun 1994)
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Why a jumpgate at Sigma 957?

+18 Jun 1994
     An Explorer-class vessel looks for areas that look like likely
+prospects for exploitation, or which are good for logistical or other
+reasons, do a fast survey, drop a gate and move on.  Nobody *knew* about
+the problems in Sigma 957 until well after the gate was in place.
+ 
+     Generally, the race that builds the gate, owns it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

+
+
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+
+"Who Watches the Watchmen?" (18 Jun 1994)
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+
"Who Watches the Watchmen?"

+18 Jun 1994
     My source on this was the original, classical quotation.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+

+
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+We trust you JMS, really... (w (18 Jun 1994)
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We trust you JMS, really... (w

+18 Jun 1994
     Daniel: I appreciate your support and your thoughtfulness.  On the
+last point you raise...as well as writing for TV, I also write novels,
+with two published so far, and the next one (a 1,000+ page whopper)
+already outlined.  Thing is, no matter *how* much you outline, and prepare,
+and decide, "THIS is the story," once you actually get into writing the
+novel, things come out of the woodwork and surprise you; characters come
+to life and start pointing you in directions you hadn't considered because
+you hadn't previously spent that much constant time with them.  In a bit
+over two decades of professional writing, I have *never* written an
+outline that survived contact with the script, or the novel.  It sorta
+gets me into the story, and from there on I have to be open to adapting to
+what the story presents.
+ 
+     When I started my second novel, I decided that it would be the story
+of the female cop in the narrative.  It was *her* story.  About a quarter
+of the way in, I realized that it *wasn't* her story, it was the story of
+the two high school kids in the novel.  The basic storyline DID NOT
+CHANGE much, but the *emphasis* and the point of view altered as the focus
+moved from one to the other.
+ 
+     In some ways, that's the closest parallel I can come to as far as
+this situation is concerned.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+

+
+
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+DC Comics B5? (2 Jul 1994)
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DC Comics B5?

+2 Jul 1994
     We are trying to keep the B5 comic part of B5 continuity and canon,k
+though without the requirement that you have to read it to follow the
+show, because that would be vastly unfair.  It just *fits*.  I.e., we
+establish a prior relationship with a woman on Mars for Garibaldi, and she
+can show up in flashbacks in the book, or in the present.  And yes, there
+is complete freedome to use Sinclair in the books since he's not entirely
+gone from the storyline at all, and still will carry a part.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+

+
+
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+JMS - yet another small questi (5 Jul 1994)
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JMS - yet another small questi

+5 Jul 1994
     The bays are called Cobra Bays because that's kind of the shape of
+the bays from the outside as they wrap around the front, round part of the
+station (narrow at one end, flaring out big at the other).  The name
+refers to the look of the place, not what's stored inside.
+ 
+     Will definitely keep on...well, spacin'....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Cliffhanger city!  (A Voice in (28 Jul 1994)
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Cliffhanger city!  (A Voice in

+28 Jul 1994
     I don't recall Ivanova ever telling Sinclair not to go exploring a
+planet; could you give me a reference on that one re: the about-face?
+ 
+     Re: showing nothing and thus pondering nothing...hey, it's zen!
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+Cry ... Spoiler warning, some (28 Jul 1994)
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Cry ... Spoiler warning, some

+28 Jul 1994
     As you will discover in part two, the system on the planet is
+breaking down, malfunctioning; there wasn't a concerted, organized
+attack, it was some automatic systems going on their own.  The alien
+WANTED to get found, that's why his image appeared, beckoning them, and
+asked them for help.  You're composing the problem in terms of an all-out
+offensive; it wasn't.  It was one segment of a system that is breaking
+down.
+ 
+     (In general, it's a good idea to check out both parts of a two-part
+episode before making story conclusions; some people have already missed
+the boat bigtime on a few things.)
+ 
+     A First Contact situation is one unlike any other: you don't want
+junior officers around to screw it up.  Remember, the Earth/Minbari WAr
+began when a First Contact situation got screwed up.  EA's policy is that
+it's better to risk two people than a full war, and those two people have
+got to be command-level personnel.  Soldiers get killed; it happens.  And
+yeah, you can leave a backup person at the shuttle...but what if *he's*
+the one to make actual first contact?  You're screwed.  Ivanova and
+Sinclair have been trained in this; in "Soul Hunter," Sinclair makes
+reference to the rules of First Contact Protocol.  If you like, I'll
+elaborate on this in some future episode.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta (28 Jul 1994)
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Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta

+28 Jul 1994
     Do not twist my words around.  I don't like it.
+ 
+     When I said that Zima making it to 1995 was "hysterical," I was not
+making fun of people or kids who are or become alcoholics.  I grew up in
+an alcoholic family, and there is *nothing* whatsoever funny in that, nor
+was that intended in my message.  It was strictly a comment about the
+product probably not making it past 1994.  Period.  Don't go off on
+tirades against my message that have nothing to do with what i wrote, and
+then try and blame it on me.  That's not what I said, not what I wrote,
+not what was meant.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+29 Jul 1994
     Re: the commander and Ivanova going...remember, this is a First
+Contact situation, and that requires the presence of at minimum one
+command officer under EA regs.  Two is preferred.  You don't want junior
+officers hanging around or taking hostile stances which might provoke
+a fight.  Remember that the last major First Contact situation was with
+the Minbari, which went afoul and gave us the Earth/Minbari War.  EA
+would rather lose two replaceable officers than start another war via
+misunderstanding or a fouled move.  This is a part of their First Contact
+Protocol, referenced in "Soul Hunter."  (I should probably expand upon
+this a bit in future episodes.)
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Re: "Voice in Wilderness" forb (29 Jul 1994)
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Re: "Voice in Wilderness" forb

+29 Jul 1994
     RE: the big bridge shot...the storyboard artist came up with 3 shots
+we could use.  One of them was a wide shot across a crystalline ground
+like area, through which a path can be seen at ground level, but it
+was narrow and still really didn't convey the scale of what I wanted.  One
+other was not much different.  The third was a downshot designed to pull
+back, and though I knew it would make folks say "Krell!", I knwe that it
+was the right shot for that scene, so chose that one and decided to live
+with it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Reflections on "Voice" (part 1 (29 Jul 1994)
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Reflections on "Voice" (part 1

+29 Jul 1994
     Actually, this was not the first B5 or Sinclair had heard about the
+escalating problem on Mars; remember, that was the main reason that Ben
+Zayn had been sent to B5 in "Eyes," smoking out sympathisers with the
+Free Mars movement.
+ 
+     Also, the fissure wasn't created by the quakes; Tasaki mentions it
+was artificial, but nudged open by the tremors.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Was "Voice" the Season Finale? (29 Jul 1994)
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Was "Voice" the Season Finale?

+29 Jul 1994
     Nope, you've got a few more to go.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+JMS: Re: B-4 and Sinclair (29 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Re: B-4 and Sinclair

+29 Jul 1994
     No commander had yet been assigned to B4; the highest ranking
+command personnel there was Major Krantz, whose job it was to supervise
+construction.  It was barely operational for 48 hours when it blipped out.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+Re: "Voice" (pt 1) quibble (sp (29 Jul 1994)
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Re: "Voice" (pt 1) quibble (sp

+29 Jul 1994
     Re: your suspenders of disbelief becoming unhitched....
+ 
+     You will learn how the alien knows English in the next part of the
+two parter.  (Hint: after all, he's been there for a long while, in a
+high-tech machine...you'd think maybe he could monitor transmissions.)
+ 
+     I don't think the Sinclair or Ivanova did automatically believe him;
+but they also had no real reason *not* to believe him.  And granted the
+place was going to hell, quakes and danger.  He wasn't armed, he seems
+rather sick, had to be helped away, almost carried...they won't turn the
+station over to him, they'll keep him isolated on the station, but there
+was no reason *not* to try and help him.
+ 
+     How do you know he's a good guy?  You don't.  But he wasn't exactly
+imprisoned in that thing; it was a support, more than anything else, as
+was shown by the fact that they were able to get him out fairly easily.
+ 
+     (And yes, your first guess was correct, it is a life support gizmo.)
+ 
+     Regards to your suspenders.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Interesting lines in "Voice" (30 Jul 1994)
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+30 Jul 1994
     It seems to me that every generation thinks that things are
+changing, usually for the worse.  In some cases, they may be right.  The
+B5 story is set at a point in time where things are very much in a state
+of flux.  Every so often, the wheel turns.  Everybody's feeling a sense
+of growing uncertainty, of the chairs being moved around.  They're right.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Q: Naranek (5 Jul 1994)
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Q: Naranek

+5 Jul 1994
     Aliens with two names: Kosh Naranek (not used yet in the show, but
+it's there), Londo Mollari, Vir Cotto.  Single names: Delenn, Lennier.
+Composite names: Ko'Dath, Na'Toth, G'Kar.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Naming Babylon 5? (30 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Naming Babylon 5?

+30 Jul 1994
     Started with the notion of prior stations which hadn't worked out,
+made up a rough timeline, and settled on this being the last attempt, at
+#5.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:Writing "Voice" (30 Jul 1994)
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JMS:Writing "Voice"

+30 Jul 1994
     It was always intended to be a two-parter, and was written that
+way.  Background: the B5 2-hour pilot has done VERY well overseas in
+cassette form.  Many of the prejudices in the american press that caused
+us problems don't exist overseas (it's done *extremely* well in Japan on
+laserdisk, in Germany, and England, among others).  So they asked if we
+could do a two-parter that could be sold as a two-hour episode overseas.
+By all means, sez I.  So I structured it accordingly.
+ 
+     Bit of B5 trivia: during the dead of winter last year, I got hit by
+the flu as badly as I've ever been hit.  Temperature so high that I was
+near delerious at times, but refused to go to the hospital (I don't like
+doctors, and I was under deadline and couldn't afford the potential time
+away.)  We're talking mondo sicko here.  It was during this time that I
+wrote "The Quality of Mercy," a script which I have *no* memory of ever
+writing.  I know it's here, and I know I wrote it on an intellectual
+level, but the process...gone in the fever.
+ 
+     It was also around this time -- either at the top or bottom of the
+flu, I can't remember now -- that I wrote the "Voice" two parter.  And
+here's the trivia part...this isn't the original two-parter that I wrote.
+My brain already deteriorating, I wrote something that even I could see
+wasn't up to par.  Wrote the entire two-hour script.  Printed it up, and
+gave it to Doug and John.  Before they could even respond, I looked at it
+and decided it had to go.  So I trashed the entire script.  By now we
+were getting very close to pre-production, and I was getting sicker and
+sicker...but I more or less locked myself in my office, swallowed down
+massive amounts of vitamins (as much as my stomach could handle), kept
+forcing down coffee, and wrote 12 hours a day for about six days, after
+which the original draft was finished.  Turned it in; did some mild
+polishes thereafter, but what was filmed was essentially what I turned
+in in first-draft stage.  In this case I do remember some of the process
+because the only way I could focus was to keep the stereo up full blast;
+in the writing of "Quality," it didn't help...I was beyond recall.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+<*> Cryptic message to JMS  8) (30 Jul 1994)
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<*> Cryptic message to JMS  8)

+30 Jul 1994
     Honest to god, people, I don't know *what* the woman is talking
+about...she's speaking in tongues again....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Voice in the Wilderness CGI (30 Jul 1994)
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Voice in the Wilderness CGI

+30 Jul 1994
     The CGI are definitely getting better.  Year One was more or less
+getting used to the software and learning what was capable.  They've now
+gotten more sophisticated in their use of the equipment, more artistic
+in some ways...and the preliminary renderings I've seen for stuff in the
+beginning of year two is *very* cool.  It has even more of a sense of
+mass, and weight, and solidity.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Regarding the Voices 2 GIF fil (30 Jul 1994)
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Regarding the Voices 2 GIF fil

+30 Jul 1994
     And what, pray tell, is the nature of this unusual gif?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: San Diego ComicCon Appear (30 Jul 1994)
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JMS: San Diego ComicCon Appear

+30 Jul 1994
      Thank you for putting this note up; I wanted to post one myself, but
+am still unsure how to send an original message (not a reply) from GEnie
+to Internet.  That said....
+ 
+     In addition to whatever panels I'll be on, I will be doing *two*
+Babylon 5 presentations at the San Diego Comic Con this coming weekend
+(August 7-10).  The first will be that Friday, from 2-4 p.m.  The second
+will be the next day, Saturday, from 11-1.
+ 
+     At this point, the only cast member who may or may not be able to
+show up at either panel is Bill Mumy.  No others are planned.  So it may
+be just me at both.  The presentations will be a bit different on the
+two days, but I think the one Saturday may be more interesting if you can
+only attend one.  Will probably show the blooper reel (two, actually, one
+on each day), and a previously unseen episode will be debuted.
+ 
+     One advisory: at just about every con I've attended and done this
+kind of presentation, the B5 items tends to wind up as either the most
+heavily attended event, or close to it.  So if anyone's going, you may want
+to show up a bit early to make sure you get a decent seat.  Also, I tend
+to show up a bit early myself, to make sure the video equipment and stuff
+is working correctly, and hang out; sometimes I say stuff I can't say in
+front of a larger group.  (Those who were at the Chicago ComicCon on the
+first day can verify this one.)
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:questions, queries, posers (30 Jul 1994)
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JMS:questions, queries, posers

+30 Jul 1994
     The Psi question I can't answer at this point in time.
+ 
+     Jumpgate travel usually requires a few days within hyperspace,
+if you're going a LONG distance (say, Earth to B5).  Only a few minutes
+if you're going to a local gate.  That's time outside hyperspace; the
+span seems less when you're inside hyperspace.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Regarding the Voices 2 GIF (31 Jul 1994)
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Re: Regarding the Voices 2 GIF

+31 Jul 1994
     It's a duck.  Yes, why, of course it's a ducky.  Why would I think
+anything else?  What a silly question.
+ 
+     It's a duck.  A texture mapped metallic duck coming out of a
+jumpgate.
+ 
+     A duck.  Of course.  A duck.
+ 
+     *
+ 
+     AAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
+ 
+     *
+ 
+     (I wanna see it...and I wanna see it now.)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+> >  JMS: Are You Going to Con (31 Jul 1994)
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> >  JMS: Are You Going to Con

+31 Jul 1994
     No plans currently to go to WorldCon because a) we'll be in the
+midst of filming, and b) we haven't got a chance against Jurassic Park
+anyway.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
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+JMS: Queries (5 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Queries

+5 Jul 1994
     No, the dominant belief system in PoD is that there IS no dominant
+single belief...except our willingness to tolerate our diversity.
+ 
+     Have never seen any Gundam, so no, no influence there.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Info gleaned from Chicago Comi (6 Jul 1994)
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Info gleaned from Chicago Comi

+6 Jul 1994
     Minor correction: the first B5 comic issue, "In Darkness Find Me,"
+is the flip side of "Points of Departure," not "Midnight."
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+What makes B5 different and sp (6 Jul 1994)
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+6 Jul 1994
     Patrick: a truly excellent and well-thought out presentation.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+What makes B5 different and sp (6 Jul 1994)
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What makes B5 different and sp

+6 Jul 1994
     Actually, one follow-up...one thing we've been very careful about is
+that when something is referenced in episode 9 that took place in episode
+3, you don't *have* to have seen episode 3 for it to make sense; the
+information you need is collapsed or somehow incorporated into the dialogue
+in episode 9.  Meaning that while VCRs and repeated viewings and groups
+can help to *predict* stuff, you don't need to have seen ANY prior episodes
+of the show to enjoy any one episode of the show.
+ 
+     But the *more* you watch, the more you get out of it.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+points of view in B5 storyboar (6 Jul 1994)
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points of view in B5 storyboar

+6 Jul 1994
     If a story takes place in present tense, we can shift POVs around a
+bit; in the case of "Sky," we were *specifically* dealing with Sinclair's
+memory of events, thus limiting us to his POV.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Grail SPOILERS (8 Jul 1994)
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Re: Grail SPOILERS

+8 Jul 1994
     Actually, no, the "forgery" story with the elderly couple didn't
+hold up, because repeating the steps they took didn't replicate the
+other crop circles.  The stalks are bent, never broken, a counter-
+clockwise section beneath a clockwise section, the stalks continue to
+grow, and the bend seems more from heat than pressure.  The forgery story
+was itself a fake, and has been largely discredited.  Not to say that
+there isn't some other way of doing it, but that ain't it, and thus far,
+no one has been exactly capable of duplicating a proper crop circle.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spioilers for "Quality of Merc (8 Jul 1994)
+
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Spioilers for "Quality of Merc

+8 Jul 1994
     ...awwwkkk...don't ever do that to me again...awwwkkkk!
+ 
+                                                                 jm(thud!)s
+
+

+
+
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+
+Transport MARY CELESTE ?! (8 Jul 1994)
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Transport MARY CELESTE ?!

+8 Jul 1994
     Yeah, it was a bit of *really* perverse humor...Jinxo survives all
+five Babylon stations, and leaves thinking all is well...on a ship named
+the Marie Celeste?
+ 
+     We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: hidden allusions and tips (2 Jul 1994)
+
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+
JMS: hidden allusions and tips

+2 Jul 1994
     I think maybe 45-50% of our subtext and allusions have been noted
+to date, which is *real* good.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Re-The Best CGI (8 Jul 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Re-The Best CGI

+8 Jul 1994
     Does someone get shot in something other than the shoulder?
+ 
+     Oh, yes...most definitely....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Info gleaned from Chicago (8 Jul 1994)
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Re: Info gleaned from Chicago

+8 Jul 1994
     The comics series is free to bop forward and backward in time, all
+over the B5 universe, wherever the writer wants to take it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: What makes B5 different an (8 Jul 1994)
+
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Re: What makes B5 different an

+8 Jul 1994
     Correct; the title of "The War Prayer" is a nod to Twain's piece of
+the same name, which should be ready by *everyone*.  Given the growing
+problems with illiteracy, I try to refer not to pop society so much, as
+to literature...Tennyson, Twain, even writers whose last names don't
+begin with T.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Femme Fatales Article Cancelle (8 Jul 1994)
+
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Femme Fatales Article Cancelle

+8 Jul 1994
       Your information is behind the times; Femme Fatales magazine ran
+a piece on the Women of Babylon 5 quite some time ago.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+jms: TRG songs? (8 Jul 1994)
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jms: TRG songs?

+8 Jul 1994
     Yeah, I wrote all the lyrics for the songs in "The Halloween Door,"
+including Egon's piece, and the lyrical (without music) goodbye to Poe,
+Bradbury and the rest.  I've written a few songs here and there, a couple
+of which have actually been recorded, but I won't tell you where.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: D.C. Fontana? (+ a flame) (8 Jul 1994)
+
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+
JMS: D.C. Fontana? (+ a flame)

+8 Jul 1994
     Dorothy is not exclusive to any other project, so there is every
+reason to expect to see more B5 from her next season (and, in fact, she
+is writing one now).
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: DiTillo at Westercon 4/2 (8 Jul 1994)
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Re: DiTillo at Westercon 4/2

+8 Jul 1994
     I've conveyed as much of this discussion as I can, never having seen
+the original posting for some reason, to Larry DiTillio, and he is very
+upset about it, feeling that many of his comments have not been represented
+accurately or have been taken out of context.  As far as the stations are
+concerned...it's the stations that are in partnership with Warners to form
+PTEN.  PTEN "guidance" comes from the Executive Committee, which is a few
+representatives of that group.
+ 
+     Every network show ever produced must have casting of regulars
+approved by the network.  Ditto with the company that creates a
+syndicated show (usually the studio).  It is the simple process of
+running the name or names past someone, for their approval, which is
+almost always assured unless the person is *very* controversial or just
+not right for the part.  Every show ever produced goes through this
+process, and it is exactly the same with B5.  We proposed the names for
+our cast, and they were approved.  It's as basic as that.  If Larry
+grumped a bit, it was because he was in the process of trying to pass a
+kidney stone at the time, which always makes him cranky.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Voting Procedure of Coun (9 Jul 1994)
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JMS:  Voting Procedure of Coun

+9 Jul 1994
     We didn't have the League of Non-Aligned Worlds up and running for
+the pilot.  They get one vote, determined by majority decision.  EAch
+mamber of the main Advisory Council gets one vote, equal to that.
+ 
+     In "Deathwalker," you had one abstention (Kosh), two to try her
+(EA and League), and three against the trial (Narns, Centauri and
+Minbari).  Abstentions don't count either way in such a vote; it's the
+negatives vs. the positives, and there were more no's than yes's.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: DiTillo at Westercon 4/2 (9 Jul 1994)
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Re: DiTillo at Westercon 4/2

+9 Jul 1994
     Once again, some of this is getting distorted.  We are looking for
+the best person to play this new role.  Once we decide who it is we want,
+we will run this past PTEN for their approval.  It is nothing more or
+less than this.  Bostwick, who I personally very much wanted to work with,
+was NOT -- repeat, *not* -- turned down by PTEN.  We courted him for a
+bit, but in the final analysis he decided that he didn't want to do a
+syndicated series.  We have only this week, for the first time, formally
+presented the name of a prospective actor to PTEN.
+ 
+     As stated, Larry was in considerable discomfort due to a kidney
+stone, and has been more or less out of the loop, due to working on his
+first script and not formally beginning his term yet as story editor for
+this season.  As one example of this...the line that Sinclair will not be
+seen until *after* the second season is also incorrect.  We have already
+shot a sequence with Sinclair, which is slated for the second season.
+ 
+ 
+     Larry is very bothered about how this is being distorted, and he told me
+to remind certain people that he specifically said that if any of this
+turned up on the nets, he would find the person responsible, go to their
+home and kill them.  Granted, he was on painkillers at the time, but *I*
+certainly wouldn't push it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Minbari Worrior Casts (9 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Minbari Worrior Casts

+9 Jul 1994
     Well, we'll be learning more about the warrior caste, that most
+definitely...as for the worrior castes...they're really a bunch of
+downers.  "Look, the economy, it's in trouble again...Earthers, hoo boy,
+what a pain they're going to be, we don't want they should move in next
+door, you see how they make noise...is there something on my nose?"
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Violence-question for JMS (4 Jul 1994)
+
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Violence-question for JMS

+4 Jul 1994
     No, so far the bullet-counters haven't much noticed
+B5, though they will in time, I'm sure.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  opening sequence changes (9 Jul 1994)
+
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JMS:  opening sequence changes

+9 Jul 1994
     I will be better able to comment on changes in the opening montage
+after we have made them.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+EYES <possibly spoilers> (9 Jul 1994)
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EYES <possibly spoilers>

+9 Jul 1994
     As story editor, Larry's job is to get it right as much as possible,
+and keep the dialogue natural to the characters once created.  He's good
+at this, which is why I work with him.
+ 
+     And yes, Janet is a *great* director, and will probably do the first
+episode of year two for us.  We think she's nifty.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Reflections on "Grail" (11 Jul 1994)
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Reflections on "Grail"

+11 Jul 1994
     John Flinn, who is our DP, has at various times also been an actor,
+and so we used him to play Mr. Flinn in the episode as well.  A cameo by
+yet another member of our talented and multifaceted production team.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+A problem with S&P (11 Jul 1994)
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A problem with S&P

+11 Jul 1994
     I hate to burst your bubble, but the Raider ship *was* rotating.
+Look at it again.  It's most visible when the ship is being photographed
+from behind with B5 in the background.  You can see the round part of the
+ship rotating (with the docking bay at center).
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Ratings (11 Jul 1994)
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+
B5 Ratings

+11 Jul 1994
     Just a couple points on the ratings cited...the reruns which were
+being broadcast at that time (and reruns get lower numbers anyway) were
+being killed by the NBA playoffs and finals, which were going on in the
+same timeslot.  (Actually, throughout June, everybody was getting hit to
+some degree; we got it worse because we were at 8 in many markets opposite
+the NBA, but it ain't that much of a difference.)
+ 
+     From the overnights on "Grail," we're pretty much back where we
+were prior to reruns, a definite jump upward...an increase of about two
+ratings points.
+ 
+     Cost-wise, btw, we're about the same price as "Kung Fu," so there
+isn't much difference in that respect.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Update to Babylon 5 Dictionary (12 Jul 1994)
+
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+
Update to Babylon 5 Dictionary

+12 Jul 1994
     Re: no entry for the O...Ombuds.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:Re: Second Vorlon (12 Jul 1994)
+
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+
JMS:Re: Second Vorlon

+12 Jul 1994
     If you ever *do* see a group of Vorlons on this show...run like hell.
+ 
+                                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  Please, NOOOOOOO! (12 Jul 1994)
+
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JMS:  Please, NOOOOOOO!

+12 Jul 1994
     This is getting vastly misrepresented.  What we're doing, which is
+something I noted here a long time ago, is trying to balance stuff a
+little.  We did a *great* job, I think, creating the alien characters; so
+much so that our human characters kinda got short shrift over the course
+of the first season.  Year Two will show us a bit more of the humans on
+the station; that is NOT the same as downplaying the aliens, and we're
+most emphatically NOT doing that.  In point of fact, *all* of the major
+alien characters will be appearing (by contract) in more episodes than
+was the case last year.  Even the diplomatic attaches like Vir and Lennier
+go from 6-7 episodes last year to 13 this coming year.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn: JMS  What do you want? (12 Jul 1994)
+
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Attn: JMS  What do you want?

+12 Jul 1994
     We'll continue to work at intensifying the relationships across
+the coming episodes.  "Eyes" does a lot, as do several more upcoming
+episodes.
+ 
+     As for "What do you want?" Morden...yes, he is a very significant
+character, and yes, you will be seeing him again.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Filk Singers to Hono (12 Jul 1994)
+
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Babylon 5 Filk Singers to Hono

+12 Jul 1994
     Elena...with all due respect...you were a Nazi in a previous life,
+weren't you?
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Londo based on Brother Theodor (4 Jul 1994)
+
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+
Londo based on Brother Theodor

+4 Jul 1994
     Actually, no, Londo was not based on Brother Theodore, who I only
+discovered some time later on Letterman.  But Harlan and Peter David
+mentioned at the panel that Brother Theodore could make a swell brother
+for Londo in some episode, so this is something I may consider....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Who founded the Babylon Projec (12 Jul 1994)
+
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+
Who founded the Babylon Projec

+12 Jul 1994
    David...what an absolutely wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
+question.
+ 
+    I think I'll answer this in an episode next season.
+ 
+    It's something that I've known, and just filed away, but yeah, this
+should be dealt with.  And I'll do so.  (Though now you have to wait to
+see it on TeeVee.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+Uniforms (12 Jul 1994)
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+12 Jul 1994
      Your initial appraisal of the uniforms seems correct.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Misinformed (12 Jul 1994)
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+12 Jul 1994
     The way to defuse your potted pal is as follows:
+ 
+     1) DS9 is a direct spinoff of TNG, which is owned by Paramount.
+No one could pitch a ST spinoff elsewhere.
+ 
+     2) DS9 was created by Berman/Pillar, who were under contract to
+Paramount working on TNG, and thus would not have pitched it to Warner
+Bros. at any time.
+ 
+     3) B5 dates back to 1987.  If he would like to see some sneaky
+references to it in print, tell him to go check out a copy of OtherSyde,
+my second novel, published in around 1990, which contains a reference to
+Babylon 5.  Also, if he has a bunch of old Starlogs, if he wants to check
+in around 1988, he will find an interview with me in which one of the
+things mentioned is that I'm working to sell a show called Babylon 5.  A
+final reference to B5 is in an episode of Captain Power called "Final
+Stand," which I slipped in for funsies.
+ 
+     Your potted (to use your phrase) pal's obstinate opinions are
+irrelevant; the facts, in hard print, speak for themselves.  He's got
+things in reverse; B5 was pitched to Paramount in 1989; DS9 was never
+pitched to Warners.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+Re: JMS' Real Ghostbusters (12 Jul 1994)
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Re: JMS' Real Ghostbusters

+12 Jul 1994
     I believe the episode in question (yes, one of mine) was entitled
+"Take Two," and ended with actual footage of the movie.
+ 
+     The wonderful part about that episode of TRGBs -- and this is
+something I kinda aimed at while writing it -- is that there are now
+whole bunches of kids out there who are absolutely *convinced* that the
+animated series came first, THEN the movie based on it.
+ 
+     The only thing better than messing with somebody's sense of reality
+is messing with a whole LOTTA people's sense of reality....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+Question about Sinclairs statu (13 Jul 1994)
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+13 Jul 1994
     Is it a conflict of interest...yes and no.  Sinclair functions much
+as a military governor in, for instance, California's past.  Someone in
+this position may speak on behalf of his government with neighboring
+countrires, and represent others.  Does it sometimes lead into a conflict
+of interest?  Yes.  Is it sometimes unfair?  Yes.  Which is kinda like
+life, and that's why I rather like putting him in an awkward position.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+Thanks and praise! (13 Jul 1994)
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Thanks and praise!

+13 Jul 1994
     jeremy: thanks.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+JMS: .plan files (13 Jul 1994)
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+13 Jul 1994
     Email between folks is the best way to discuss story ideas; I think
+someone here put together a big list of folks doing it.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+Re: Religion (13 Jul 1994)
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Re: Religion

+13 Jul 1994
     Kevin is correct, I'm an atheist.  I'm also a human.  Part of my
+job (such as it is) is to try to come up with aliens that are at least
+fairly realistic, and treat them with respect.  How then is it any
+different for an atheist to treat religion with respect?  Particularly
+when that is all that most atheists request from religionists...that we
+be treated with respect (as opposed to our good old pal George Bush, who
+at a Chicago airport news conference, said in answer to a question that
+he didn't think atheists could really be considered patriots since this
+is supposed to be one nation under god).
+ 
+     Many people seem to have commented here on the notion that it is
+remarkable to see an atheist treating religion as much as it gets treated
+here, and as well as it gets treated here.  As Kevin originally pointed
+out in his note, we deal with the issue a *lot*, generally in positive
+ways.  I don't think it's remarkable at all.  A writer's job is to be
+honest, and try to avoid skewing stories to meet some personal agenda.
+Religion has been with us for thousands of years, and it ain't going
+away tomorrow or the day after or in the next 250 years.  Individual
+religions may come and go, but the totality of it...no.  Won't happen.
+ 
+     In addition, on one level it must be respected, if I chose privately
+to disagree with it: it is one more reflection of humanity's desire, its
+need to understand the universe around us.  Early man was stunned by the
+sheer wonder of the world around us, stumbled for some way to explain it
+...and, not being able to lay one's hand on a microscope, or an atom
+smasher, or a copy of the Origin of Species, turned to the only tools
+around at the time.  The instinct, to explain stuff, is exactly the same
+instinct that drives any scientist or rationalist; only the methodology
+and means of codification vary.  The religious explanation remains
+carved in stone (or tablets), where the scientific explanation is in a
+constant state of re-examination and flux.  But the intent behind both
+is the same.
+ 
+     I do not tolerate religious extremists.  Neither do I tolerate
+atheist extremists.  This nation was forged in the fires of diversity,
+and it is in a multitude of voices that you can hear the true sound of
+this nation.  Or, put slightly differently....do unto others as you would
+have them do unto you.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Re: ATT: JMS - Happy Birthday! (13 Jul 1994)
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Re: ATT: JMS - Happy Birthday!

+13 Jul 1994
                      ...bah, humbug....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+Question for JMS, Re: Mind War (14 Jul 1994)
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Question for JMS, Re: Mind War

+14 Jul 1994
     Some of the events in "Mind War" are significant indeed.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS TV 31 cutting previews & c (4 Jul 1994)
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JMS TV 31 cutting previews & c

+4 Jul 1994
     Will refer this to Warner Bros. programming on Tuesday.  Thanks.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Who is JMS? (14 Jul 1994)
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Who is JMS?

+14 Jul 1994
     I often find myself wondering the same thing sometimes....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+Re: Light Brigade (14 Jul 1994)
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Re: Light Brigade

+14 Jul 1994
     My original thought there was Tennyson, but I was also aware of the
+song, which I like as well.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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"Voice"...

+14 Jul 1994
     The preview seen for next week is not for "Voice," but for
+"Legacies," which airs just prior to "Voice."
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+JMS: A Starfury Question (14 Jul 1994)
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JMS: A Starfury Question

+14 Jul 1994
     I believe they are used to control the thrust coming out of the
+engines.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS: "Eyes" Nods and Questions (14 Jul 1994)
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JMS: "Eyes" Nods and Questions

+14 Jul 1994
     Will have to ask Larry about Interweb, but it could easily have been
+a reference.
+ 
+     The masks were the basic (though somewhat modified) tragedy and
+comedy masks, associated with theater.  And a couple of times, Ivanova's
+mother does use the Russian nickname for her as well as the English
+version.  Susan was taught and raised to a large extent overseas, and
+they always tried to keep her in both worlds.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+Re: *REALLY* Bad Previews (14 Jul 1994)
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Re: *REALLY* Bad Previews

+14 Jul 1994
     Warners sometimes feels the need to "enhance" the shows through the
+promos...and sometimes they enhance them right into an alternate
+dimension....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Reflections on "Eyes" (SPOILER (14 Jul 1994)
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Reflections on "Eyes" (SPOILER

+14 Jul 1994
     Yes, Psi Corps members must wear the Psi symbol at all times when
+in public.  (Though since Grey was there undercover, that briefly went
+by the boards.)
+ 
+     And we've rebuilt the forced perspective in the central corridor for
+year two, using a 3D construction rather than a matte, and it looks a
+hell of a lot better.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Eyes--maybe a 5. JMS a child o (15 Jul 1994)
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+15 Jul 1994
     Sorry, but I don't agree with you about the characters being one
+dimensional.  (Big surprise.)  Londo...sometimes comic figure, sometimes
+tragic figure, in later episodes sometimes hero, and later still,
+something much darker.  G'Kar...much the same, but never at the same
+time.
+ 
+     As far as government types go...in the episode you cite, we show a
+Psi Corp rep who was *not* an evil type or an asshole.  In "Survivors" we
+showed a government agent -- the head of presidential security -- who was
+in fact not a baddie at all.  Had some issues, but was at heart okay.
+ 
+     I could point to the Soul Hunter, who was doing what he believed was
+right, which others believed was a horror.  I could point to "Believers,"
+which was nothing BUT shades of grey.
+ 
+     How can you say that the show demonstrates all government employees
+as being evil or stupid when, after all, our main human characters are
+themselves employees of the government?
+ 
+     I could go on and on and on...but don't really see much point to it.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+JMS: Grey's Psi rating? (15 Jul 1994)
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+15 Jul 1994
     Mr. Grey would've been a P10.  PsiCops are P12s.
+ 
+     PsiCorps administrators at the upper reaches are P11 or better.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS - Credits: An idle questio (16 Jul 1994)
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+16 Jul 1994
     Credits are negotiated by agents.  Starring is basically that, your
+main stars appearing in every episode; also starring are recurring cast
+members; with refers to recurring cast who are pointed to specifically.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+JMS:  Do the actors know? (4 Jul 1994)
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JMS:  Do the actors know?

+4 Jul 1994
     Some of the actors know a bit of what will happen well down the
+road; some know what will happen during any given season; some don't want
+to know *anything*, just find it out during shooting.  None of them knows
+the full story.  And none have asked.  I think the concern there is that
+they might begin playing the *result* rather than the process, that this
+prior knowledge might color their current performance, rather than making
+it a clean evolution.
+ 
+     Sometimes it gets wonky.  We filmed "Chrysalis" twelfth in shooting
+order, to air twenty-second.  Part of the setup to "Chrysalis" is "Signs
+and Portents," which shot 4 episodes later.  Meaning the actors had to
+act familiar with elements they hadn't performed yet, and hadn't seen yet
+in script form.  So in that case, I had to sit down and explain what the
+various aspects of "Chrysalis" meant, and where we were going, for it all
+to play.  Later, when "Signs" was published in-house, they got to see in
+more detail how the setup fit in with the payoff.
+ 
+     If asked, I would probably try to refrain from telling any of the
+actors the full story.  Let me rephrase: I simply wouldn't do it.  If they
+would ask where their individual character is going -- and some have --
+what I do is give them the general arc, but leave out a lot of specifics.
+ For instance, Peter knows *in general* that his character is going in a
+darker direction, but not how he's going to get there or what it means to
+the overall story.  And that, I think, is as it should be.
+ 
+     Thus far, only three people other than myself have read the synopsis
+of the full five-year arc, which is 3 people more than I'm comfortable
+with.  (One of them is Larry DiTillio, whose response was simply, "You're
+out of your fucking mind.  You've *got* to be out of your fucking mind to
+think you can even TRY and do this on TV."  Which seemed a pretty fair
+appraisal of the situation.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
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+Ed Wasser (16 Jul 1994)
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Ed Wasser

+16 Jul 1994
     Guerra was one of the dome techs, who worked down in the pit during
+the Vorlon attack, and during the explosion sequence.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+ATTN JMS:  The Ride (16 Jul 1994)
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ATTN JMS:  The Ride

+16 Jul 1994
     Yes, in season two, we'll be seeing a lot of the jumpgates from up
+close, and straight through.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+JMS: Speculation (16 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Speculation

+16 Jul 1994
     It's happened a few times, when someone's speculated too close to a
+coming story, and for reasons of concern over lawsuit, I've dropped it.
+So far it's only involved smaller B stories, but it has its moments of
+inconvenience, yes.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+Re: Drumhead parallels (16 Jul 1994)
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Re: Drumhead parallels

+16 Jul 1994
     Brett has already uploaded some of my comments from elsewhere on this
+topic.  Let me only emphasize some stuff here.  As stated, Larry never
+SAW the Drumhead.  We generally make it a point NOT to watch what's done
+on ST to avoid being influenced.  Second, the basic ending which you feel
+is strictly ST's can be seen in the Caine Mutiny, A Few Good Men and
+others.  "Eyes" was a direct consequence of all that preceded it in our
+first season.  It came about because Larry suggested that with all that
+Sinclair has done, sooner or later somebody's going to take notice back
+on Earth.  There would have to be some kind of investigation.  Because
+we are doing some very specific things with the Psi Corps this year and
+next, which I wanted to foreshadow, a PC telepath was inserted into the
+story, to show that they are starting to get a foothold into the military,
+with new laws concerning scans.
+ 
+     We knocked the story back and forth for some time, and it went through
+many different permutations.  We also figured that the episode should be
+kind of a Cliff's Notes guide to season one, hitting the high points for
+those who joined the series later than those who were here at the
+beginning.  The ending also went through various changes, but what made the
+most logical sense was to get the Colonel to admit bias in some fashion or
+another...and the only way to do this really was to get him so angry, so
+furious, that he'd incriminate himself enough, or open the door enough for
+Mr. Grey to verify the bias.
+ 
+     That was how the structure was arrived at.  I was there.  It had
+nothing -- *nothing* -- whatsoever to do with the Drumhead, which I have
+a vague memory was written by Jeri Taylor, who is a friend of mine, and
+further invalidates the very idea.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Ninja likely *not* paid for (16 Jul 1994)
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Ninja likely *not* paid for

+16 Jul 1994
     Correct; Kawasaki did not pay us a dime to use the bike in the show.
+We called around, to see who would loan us a bike, with the understanding
+that we'd be tearing it apart.  Because Kawasaki does advertise with some
+of the PTEN shows, someone there had a relationship with the company, and
+gave us a name.  After we tried a couple of other companies, we tried
+Kawasaki, and they agreed...not a donated bike, just a loaner.  And
+that's what we used.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS KBVO Fox 42 does voice ove (16 Jul 1994)
+
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JMS KBVO Fox 42 does voice ove

+16 Jul 1994
     Alas, it ain't no violation....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+CD information (17 Jul 1994)
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CD information

+17 Jul 1994
     I'm sure that once the CD rom is out, this info will get distilled
+into various ftp sites.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Laserdisks (17 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Laserdisks

+17 Jul 1994
      I don't at this point know when the series will be out on disk; my
+guess it that it won't happen until a third year, when there will be
+enough at one time to make the transfer process from standard-screen to
+original-format widescreen more financially reasonable; do it all in
+bulk.
+ 
+     Ironheart blew out the Omega starfuries.
+ 
+     And more money for Caitlin wasn't the problem.  She wants to do
+more feature films as a leading lady, rather than being a face behind a
+mask.  It's that simple.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Explain the Eyes trailer? (17 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Explain the Eyes trailer?

+17 Jul 1994
     I have nothing to do with the trailers, except to sit in awe and
+astonishment, trying to recognize my episode in the trailer, which is a
+chancy business at best.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+"Eyes" too much like TNG (17 Jul 1994)
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"Eyes" too much like TNG

+17 Jul 1994
     You may want to reconsider your message after you see "Chrysalis."
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+a question (4 Jul 1994)
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a question

+4 Jul 1994
     "How did Sinclair's duck thing get started?"
+ 
+     Probably by watching an attractive woman walk across the room.
+ 
+	                               jm(quack in residence)s
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Speculation and Copyright (17 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Speculation and Copyright

+17 Jul 1994
     I guess the point where the line gets crossed is where it goes from
+speculation in the form of a question, to speculation in the form of a
+full-blown story suggestion.  "Maybe what this means is that in a future
+episode, Sinclair will be changed into a large pink fez, which G'Kar
+finds and sells to Londo, who....."  You get the idea.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS' Real Ghostbusters (17 Jul 1994)
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Re: JMS' Real Ghostbusters

+17 Jul 1994
     Yeah, I knew Lorenzo Music while we were doing the show, but not
+afterward; we never really hung out or anything.  He's a roundish,
+friendly kind of guy.  We always had to separate him from Frank Welker
+and Maurice LeMarche in the sound studio, because if they were *ever* in
+close proximity, all kinds of hell would break out.  One day they got into
+a competition to do celebrity farts...little Doris Day squibs, a George
+C. Scott roller...we managed to keep it together until Frank let fly with
+his version of a William Conrad thunderer...which went on and on and on...
+windows blew out...buttons flew off shirts...and when it finally came to
+its conclusion, *no one* was able to do *anything* for about twenty
+minutes.  Shut *everything* down.  No one could keep a straight face or
+get a line out.  And Frank just sat there, smiling innocently.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: "Eyes" too much like TNG (18 Jul 1994)
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Re: "Eyes" too much like TNG

+18 Jul 1994
     Re: Sinclair/Garibaldi/Ivanova basically liking each other; this will
+tend to stay, for many reasons.  One of the things that grates on mhy
+nerves about some dramatic TV is that they invent phony tensions and
+reasons for the main characters to bitch at each other, that generally
+don't mean a lot.  Also, we see a lot of conflict in other shows, but not
+a whole lot of what *friendship* means.  And loyalty.  These three are
+friends, as well as co-officers; they will go to bat for one another, will
+if necessary die for one another.  I find that a lovely emotion.  There are
+plenty of others who argue with them, and plenty of other shows in which
+the main characters yell at each other all the time; why not explore the
+other end of the spectrum?
+ 
+     I will grant you that this is one of the more idosyncratic parts of
+the show; I have always placed a very high premium on friendship...my
+friends know that they can call me at midnight, and even if they're on the
+other side of the country, or the planet, I'll be there on the first
+plane if they're in trouble.  And I know I can do the same with them.  For
+some reason friendship, and loyalty, have become kind of passe in TV, and
+movies, and many other areas, as I think of it.  So for me, this becomes
+something worth communicating.
+ 
+     Bear in mind, though, that after this season, Sinclair goes elsewhere,
+and suddenly there's a new dynamic introduced into the show, which no one
+is entirely sure how to deal with.  It disrupts them, and that is for the
+good, I think, as they try and work it out and decide whether or not they
+can trust one another.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: There he goes again <*> (18 Jul 1994)
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JMS: There he goes again <*>

+18 Jul 1994
     Hey, a man's gotta have *some* fun....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+General question on writing fo (18 Jul 1994)
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+
General question on writing fo

+18 Jul 1994
     I have never seen *any* scriptwriting seminar that was worth $400 for
+a couple days.  You would be best advised to take that money and buy $400
+worth of scripts, the best-written scripts you can find.  Read every one of
+them three times.  By the time you have done that, you will have learned
+far more than you could have *ever* learned in any seminar.
+ 
+     And I have my own problems with McKee's school of thought as well,
+but that's another story.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: WLFLTV 22 Struck by Light (18 Jul 1994)
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JMS: WLFLTV 22 Struck by Light

+18 Jul 1994
     Boy, those Paramount guys'll stop at nothing, y'know...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn: JMS: Local TV Stations (19 Jul 1994)
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Attn: JMS: Local TV Stations

+19 Jul 1994
     We do what we can with the stations, which ain't much.  Regarding
+future stuff...any time information is needed from prior episodes in a
+current episode, that information is *always* restated somewhere in the
+current episode, so it doesn't matter really if you miss a prior episode,
+you can follow it just fine.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+I want to see some B5 stuff so (24 Jul 1994)
+
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I want to see some B5 stuff so

+24 Jul 1994
     We kinda sat on merchandising for the first year; now there's a bit
+coming out.  Shirts, mugs and stuff from Creation (and others, whose
+names escape me at the moment), a CDROM in the winter from Compton's, a
+CD soundtrack around November, a comic from DC and some original novels
+from Dell (first one by John Vornholt).  Trying to keep it manageable to
+maintain quality control over the stuff.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Strong women's roles in "L (24 Jul 1994)
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+
Re: Strong women's roles in "L

+24 Jul 1994
     Funny, I kinda thought that Dr. Maya Hernandez in "Believers" was an
+average (in the sense of not being a beauty queen) type person.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+EA/Babylon 5 Uniforms (24 Jul 1994)
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+
EA/Babylon 5 Uniforms

+24 Jul 1994
     Sinclair and other officers are pure EA military, so they get the
+EA pins on the chest.  (Also the techs wear them in the dome, and others
+in charge of various divisions.)  Security is under the jurisdiction of
+EA, but are a separate component, staffed under B5 financing.  These, and
+medical, and scientific and environmental and other areas have their own
+symbol, which is worn on their chest and shoulder.  You can tell who works
+for EA because they have the EA also on their shoulder, whereas those who
+are employed directly by B5 have the B5 symbol on their shoulder.
+ 
+     The patches connote specialization: command is a starburst, lines that
+radiate into every area; security is a gunsight/targeting symbol; medical
+is a stylized medicine symbol, and so on.
+ 
+     Sinclair and Ivanova wear their officer's bars on their epaulets; not
+the triangular part per se, but the bars at the very far end of the
+epaulet, below the triangles.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS: hidden allusions and (5 Jul 1994)
+
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Re: JMS: hidden allusions and

+5 Jul 1994
     Though you're correct about the shape of the EA symbol being a bit
+reminiscent of the Star of David...that wasn't the intent going in.  We
+took the letter A, stretched it out, put a stylized E over it, and got the
+basic silhouette.  The rest is happenstance.
+ 
+                                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: SURROUND Sound.....Oh yeah (24 Jul 1994)
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Re: SURROUND Sound.....Oh yeah

+24 Jul 1994
     Just for clarification, while Chris does a great job on the music,
+the sound mix is done in the studio with our regular sound guys, who do
+the surround mix.  We spend a *lot* of time getting the mix to sound
+just right, to take full advantage of the surround channels.  A lot of the
+credit here goes to George Johnsen, our co-producer, who is an absolute
+perfectionist about this stuff.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+A thought about psi talents... (24 Jul 1994)
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+
A thought about psi talents...

+24 Jul 1994
     Interesting, innit, how they suddenly blossomed like that...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Misinformed (24 Jul 1994)
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Misinformed

+24 Jul 1994
     Yes, you're exactly right about the references in Writer's Digest;
+I'd totally forgotten about them.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Que (24 Jul 1994)
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Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Que

+24 Jul 1994
     What does it do to the grand scheme?  Not much, really...except it
+allows us to broaden out the story and expand the scope of things.  It all
+still proceeds on track.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: babylon 5 w/o sinclair? (25 Jul 1994)
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Re: babylon 5 w/o sinclair?

+25 Jul 1994
     Re: Patrick McGoohan...this was a thought I had as well at one point,
+but we forget sometimes about the passing of time; #6 is ageless, but
+Patrick is now in his late 60s/early 70s.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Season 2 name? (25 Jul 1994)
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Season 2 name?

+25 Jul 1994
     Overall title for season two: "The Coming of Shadows."
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: I want to see some B5 stuf (26 Jul 1994)
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Re: I want to see some B5 stuf

+26 Jul 1994
     No model contracts as yet; there have been some inquiries, but I
+don't believe anything's been finalized yet.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Points of Departure. (26 Jul 1994)
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+
Points of Departure.

+26 Jul 1994
     The idea of a Chrysalis II went by the boards once I really got into
+the script, and realized that C1 had tipped over too many tables to even
+HOPE to resolve them in one follow-up episode.  So the threads yanked
+in C1 will be paid off over several episodes, hence no C2; the first
+episode of year two is "Points of Departure."
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Voices in the Wilderniss. (26 Jul 1994)
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Re: Voices in the Wilderniss.

+26 Jul 1994
     Stuff like wearing gloves is only enforced if you're a member of Psi
+Corps; Allysa wasn't.  In addition, though she had P10 *potential*, the
+talent was sporadic, came and went.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Is there an Executive Producer (27 Jul 1994)
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+27 Jul 1994
     My GEnie/Internet gateway was down for the better part of a week;
+all back now.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Re-The Best CGI Crea (5 Jul 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Re-The Best CGI Crea

+5 Jul 1994
     Yeah, the Feeder is pretty cool; wrapped up Foundation's rendering
+machines for the better part of a week just to pull that one off.  Alas,
+I really can't give out their address, as they'd hurt me badly.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
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+

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+Mars & Psi Corps (27 Jul 1994)
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+27 Jul 1994
     Actually, the Psi Corp rep did mention that the Free Mars movement
+has been growing over the years, but that no one knew that they were quite
+this well organized, or well-armed, the sign of a good resistance; not
+that they "didn't know anything about the revolt."  Just a clarification.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+**JMS: Telepaths (was Voices i (27 Jul 1994)
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+27 Jul 1994
     Yes, the abilities are often discrete; a TK may not be able to
+scan anyone's thoughts.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamentable (27 Jul 1994)
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JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamentable

+27 Jul 1994
     So in other words 2001 and Blade Runner don't qualify as decent SF?
+ 
+     I put this in the "get a life" category.  If seeing a name of a
+product on the back of a wall "consumes the great potential of the
+series," if that's all the person can see...I'm sorry, but that's that
+person's problem, not mine.
+ 
+     B5 takes place in the real universe, as much as we can make it such.
+We use language and cultural references that go back hundreds of years.
+One element was for a story point, the other was nominally a gag...deal
+with it.  That's part of our culture too.
+ 
+     Basically, for somebody to shitcan an entire series because he
+didn't like a sign he saw in the back of a room...hey, stop watching.
+ 
+     You're right; "Star Trek does not do this."  Which is as much
+incentive as anything else to DO it.
+ 
+     Yessir...we've certainly seen how Blade Runner and 2001 and the
+Terminator and Alien Nation and Enemy Mine have been ruined for all time
+by such things.
+ 
+     And let me add one other thing: we didn't make a dime off that stuff,
+no one paid Babylonian Productions to include it.  How ANYONE can turn to
+me and say with a straight face that this kind of commercialism (done
+twice in one year) will ruin B5 and use STAR TREK -- STAR frigging TREK,
+the single most merchandised, licensed property in the history of
+television -- as an example of SF purity is out of his mind.  It was STAR
+TREK, as noted in Engel's book, and Shatner's as well I believe, that
+stuck an IDIC symbol in in order to merchandise it; it's STAR TREK that
+changed Federation costumes between TNG and DS9 specifically so they would
+have another whole set of costumes to merchandise.
+ 
+     On our behalf, we have resisted over-licensing, doing only a little,
+if we can exert quality control.  I have deliberately fought against this
+show becoming a "franchise."
+ 
+     We have *nothing* to apologize for.  And I suggest to this person,
+as he sits wearing his Star Trek uniform, and his Star Trek communicator
+pin and his Star Trek phaser, and his Star Trek PJs, beside his collection
+of Star Trek pins, shirts, iron-ons, glow-in-the-dark Kirks and Spocks,
+Enterprise models, books and cutouts...as they say in the bible, take the
+log out of your own eye before you try to remove the splinter from your
+neighbor's eye.  To hold up Star Trek: The Franchise as the model of
+untouched non-commercial purity is the most laughable thing I have heard
+in *years*.
+ 
+     "B5 has brought the whole ediface crashing down by the blatant
+inclusion of advertising for commercial products."
+ 
+     What the hell do you think Star Trek *IS*?  (Leaving aside the story
+aspects for the moment, as he does for us.)  All the stuff you see on ST
+is for SALE.  Phasers, costumes, enterprises, pointy ears...they are ALL
+"commercial products."  Which makes the show, on one level, one MASSIVE
+advertisement.
+ 
+     Look...I got nothing against ST, or against ST licensing it's brains
+out.  I think it's terrific.  But for somebody, ANYbody, to use ST in
+this way as wonderful and free of commercial considerations, and hit US
+in this regard...give me a break.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta

+27 Jul 1994
     RE: Coke being more "reasonable" in Blade Runner because it's
+closer...that doesn't seem to be the point of the original post.  It's
+ANY "commercial product" in a show that ruins it.  Extrapolation doesn't6
+seem to enter into it.  Which is what makes it, in my view, a doofus note.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamentable

+27 Jul 1994
     And just let me underline this again, on the "the sole motivation
+of this is money" (like Paramount produces ST because they think it'll
+cure cancer)....
+ 
+     The Babylon 5 production company received no money from either of
+these companies.  Okay?
+ 
+     If your "reviewer" is going to start making charges like that, he had
+better learn to get his facts straight.
+ 
+     Second, on the notion that current companies won't be around 200
+years from now...there are companies here in the US that go back to the
+1700s; there are companies overseas that go back 500 years or more.
+ 
+     This is as absurd as saying, in the 1800s, that by gosh, that
+Guiness company in Dublin won't last past the end of the century....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+B5 in Australia, Infection, S& (27 Jul 1994)
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+27 Jul 1994
     "Infection" is definitely not indicative of the season overall; that
+is, in my view, one of our weaker, possibly weakest episodes.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
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+

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+JMS: Recasting Na'Toth Rumour (27 Jul 1994)
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JMS: Recasting Na'Toth Rumour

+27 Jul 1994
     Actually, no, it's not a rumor; I'd mentioned this some time ago, but
+apparently some didn't see it....
+ 
+     So to repeat: we'd had to replace Mary Woronov with virtually no
+notice after we found that she really had a hard time with the narn
+prosthetics (wouldn't wear the contacts, and other stuff).  In a panic,
+our casting director called in a favor from Caitlin Brown, who is mainly
+a leading-lady type actor.  She came in and, in fact, for the first
+episode (shooting almost immediately afterward) wore a variation of the
+Ko'Dath makeup, because there wasn't time to make one specific to her.
+ 
+     She came in without being under the 5-year option that generally
+exists in these situations.  Did one year, about 9 episodes, as Na'Toth.
+And had to turn down a couple of leading-female parts.  During the hiatus,
+she did a romantic lead character in a film with Jack Nicholson and
+Meryl Streep.  And had to ask the hard question: do I continue to grow as
+a romantic lead actor in feature films, or play Na'Toth?  She is a VERY
+gorgeous woman, and felt awkward hiding behind the mask and cutting
+herself out of leading female parts in feature films to do it.
+ 
+     We went 'round and 'round about this for some time, it was a very
+difficult decision for her because she likes the show and everyone here,
+but finally opted out.  On one level it's a pain in the butt, but we
+respect her decision.  And it *is* her call, not ours.
+ 
+     (Quick aside...pfffttthhpplttt to those who, in their theory that
+Sinclair/O'Hare quit, said that I'd naturally say it was mutual because I
+could never say it was the actors choice because somehow I'd get in
+trouble.  No, I *would* say it if O'Hare had opted out on his own.  And
+in this case, that's exactly what happened.)
+ 
+     We didn't recast Sinclair because that character is going somewhere
+from whence he may (and will) return, and because that serves the story;
+in this case, we are recasting Na'Toth.  By the end of season one, Na'Toth
+knows stuff that I need that character, G'Kar's aide, to know.  (Though I
+was briefly tempted to do the Murphy Brown Secretary line, with G'Kar
+getting a new aide every so often due to terrible airlock accidents...but
+I went to lay down for a while and the notion passed.)
+ 
+     So no, it's not a rumor, it's quite true.  In fact, we just finished
+up a casting session and found someone who's very right for the part;
+and though we weren't confined to this, is actually about the same height,
+same build, same attitude as Caitlin, and whose voice is very similar.  I
+don't think much difference will be noted in the long run, really.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta

+27 Jul 1994
     Yes, you're absolutely right; we have maybe half Trek's budget.  If
+someone said, as you posit, "Here...stick this futuristic Pepsi can in
+the background of one of your episodes, as was done with Enemy Mine, and
+you'll get five hundred thousand dollars you can use to make a better
+show," I'd do it in a hot second.  Absolutely.  Because it would let us
+do bigger, and better, and spiffier episodes, tell even grander stories,
+hire REALLY big-name actors for guest spots...yeah, I'd do it.
+ 
+     It's just that it didn't happen *here*.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+

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Re: JMS: B5 Editorial: Lamenta

+27 Jul 1994
     Actually, the idea of Zima lasting even into 1995 is hysterical.  I
+keep fighting the urge to have some guy show up on B5, "Zo then I zays to
+him, nize ztation"...and five Narns just jump on him and beat the shit
+out of him, WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM!
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+Legacies Dune refer? (28 Jul 1994)
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+28 Jul 1994
     No, the name was not the same; his title was the Shai Alyt, his name
+was Branmer.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+Minbari = Mri? (1 Aug 1994)
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+1 Aug 1994
     No, I did not use "The Faded Sun" as (to quote you) "a source when
+(I) created the Minbari."
+ 
+     That's called plagiarism.
+ 
+     And now I'm going to vent for a moment.
+ 
+     Why the fuck is it that every time a TV writer comes up with
+something, everybody scurries to figure out what book or short story it
+was swiped from?  That standard is virtually never applied to novels that
+I've seen.  But it always comes to us TeeVee types.
+ 
+     I have a brain, you know.  I'm perfectly capable of thinking up
+stuff on my own.  I've published novels.  I've published short stories.
+I've written plays.  I've never read ANY of Cherryh's work that I can
+recall.
+ 
+     Instead of suggesting something was cribbed, all you needed to say
+was, "So, JMS, where did you get the name Minbari?"
+ 
+     And I would've told you that a "minbar" is the name for a pulpit in
+a Mosque.  The first time I heard that, I thought it would be great as a
+name for an alien or an alien planet.  And the people who would live there
+would be called Minbari.
+ 
+     Not everything that comes out of TV is cribbed, okay?
+ 
+     End of venting.
+ 
+     If I seem a bit pissed, it's not specifically directed at you but at
+the general sense that TV writers have the creative capacity of blowfish
+and are incapable of creating *anything* on their own.  (And you weren't
+pointing to just the name but to the whole concept and parts thereof.)  I
+don't mean to flame, but I've heard it enough over the years, and I'm
+getting a little tired of it.
+ 
+     Every TV writer gets it, and almost no prose writer does, and that's
+simple discrimination and stereotyping.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+JMS: Are You Going to Con (2 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Are You Going to Con

+2 Aug 1994
     Eric...nothing would gladden my heart more than if the B5 pilot
+won a Hugo (except the series winning a Hugo, which I think is a bit
+likelier, maybe).  It is the highest compliment that can be paid by the
+SF community of readers and viewers.  But one must be realistic, and I
+just don't see it outpulling Jurassic Park in the ballotting.  JP is the
+proverbial 500 pound gorilla.  Or the 50,000 pound T-Rex.
+ 
+     While we are only small mammals....granted we're mammals with guns
+and an attitude, of course....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+JMS Re: <*> Cryptic message to (2 Aug 1994)
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+2 Aug 1994
     ...or, y'all are just fucking with me....
+ 
+                                               jm(where's my passport?)s
+
+

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+Why Babylon? (3 Aug 1994)
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+3 Aug 1994
     Before it fell into depravity, Babylon was a center of commerce, and
+culture, and trade, and diplomacy.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS:  Is this really you? (6 Aug 1994)
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JMS:  Is this really you?

+6 Aug 1994
     I haven't seen the message, but that's my ID#, so that much is true.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+JMS: You're Back (8 Aug 1994)
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JMS: You're Back

+8 Aug 1994
     Peter Jurasik is *definitely* back as Londo for year two.  The
+show continues on.  The rumor is false.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
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+

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+"Babylon Squared" - Some thoug (8 Aug 1994)
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"Babylon Squared" - Some thoug

+8 Aug 1994
     Re: Garibaldi in the flash-forward scene...no, it wasn't any kind of
+"homage" to Aliens.  (And for the most part, I try and stay clear of any
+kind of homage unless it's primarily a throwaway; I want my story to be MY
+story, not a bunch of homages.)
+ 
+     The single most moving kind of story for me is the "last man on the
+bridge"...the last defender who has to hold the line while others get
+away, knowing he will probably not survive it.  This has great power for
+me, and for many others, which is why it shows up again and again in
+films, literature, TV and other venues.  The Garibaldi scene has NOTHING
+to do with Aliens, and everything to do with that figure.
+ 
+     Re: *why* it is that humans are special...has nothing to do with
+sacrifice, or dedication (well, that's not quite true, it has something
+to do with it), but that's not the totality of it.  There's one more
+element you don't know about yet, that won't be revealed until season two,
+episode one, "Points of Departure."  Once you see that episode, you'll
+fully understand that there is one very particular thing about humans that
+is very special indeed.
+ 
+     And yes, we did see the Grey Council guy in "Squared" who also showed
+up in "Sky."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS: You BLOW my mind!!!! (8 Aug 1994)
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JMS: You BLOW my mind!!!!

+8 Aug 1994
     Yes, you will see the Major Conflict that leads to the situation with
+Babylon 4.  We're building toward a massive conflagration here.
+ 
+                                                                            jms
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+

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+Creation's False B5 info (8 Aug 1994)
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Creation's False B5 info

+8 Aug 1994
     The speakers at Creation have a habit of running their mouths when
+they don't have a clue what the facts are.  I've already had to yell at
+them once in the last couple weeks, stating that Michael York had been
+selected as the new Commander.  Now this.  Frankly, I wouldn't believe a
+word they say about *anything*.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Untitled (8 Aug 1994)
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+8 Aug 1994
     I really don't know what the "B5 lovers" thing *is*, let alone how
+to get you in touch with them.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS: IS BACK! Questions! (8 Aug 1994)
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JMS: IS BACK! Questions!

+8 Aug 1994
     Sheridan wasn't on the Line.  Have several options for his middle
+name, haven't decided which to use yet.  Chrysalis is still for October.
+And we've got plenty of scripts on hand currently; we wanted the same as
+last year, 6, in hand when we began shooting.  We've got that.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+Re: Minbari = Mri? (2 Aug 1994)
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Re: Minbari = Mri?

+2 Aug 1994
     Aaron, re: Heinlein...now that's comedy....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

+
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+Windows .AVI of intro (8 Aug 1994)
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Windows .AVI of intro

+8 Aug 1994
     I cannot comment on this sort of thing.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

+
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+Recent Threads: two thoughts (9 Aug 1994)
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Recent Threads: two thoughts

+9 Aug 1994
     Molly: assumptions right on both counts.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS: Babylon**2 question (spoi	[noticing similarity with "2001" suit] (9 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Babylon**2 question (spoi	[noticing similarity with "2001" suit]

+9 Aug 1994
     Yeah, I guess there are some similarities, aren't there?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Will every episode be rer (9 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Will every episode be rer

+9 Aug 1994
     I think the majority of eps will have been rerun by "Chrysalis."  And
+all that remain after "Babylon Squared" to be aired are that one, and "The
+Quality of Mercy."
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Bye Bye Babylon: CANCELLATION (9 Aug 1994)
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Bye Bye Babylon: CANCELLATION

+9 Aug 1994
     Which station are you referring to in your local market?  To my
+knowldge only the Cincinatti station has done this, and we're working on
+them.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Babylon^2 Question (9 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Babylon^2 Question

+9 Aug 1994
     The triangle only manifests itself for specific reasons, at specific
+times, neither of which were appropriate to that moment.  And yes, the
+Triluminary is much cooler...and does something quite interesting.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: et all, PSI-Corps Questio (10 Aug 1994)
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JMS: et all, PSI-Corps Questio

+10 Aug 1994
     Re: who psi's can marry...this question is already being dealt with
+in an episode tentatively titled "The Customer is Always Right."
+ 
+                                                        (season two)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Creation's False B5 info (10 Aug 1994)
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Re: Creation's False B5 info

+10 Aug 1994
     It's my understanding that the "information" about O'Hare was fed to
+Creation by -- big surprise -- someone associated with Paramount/ST.  You
+know, they could save themselves *endless* embarrassment (particularly in
+the "York is new commander" kind of situation, which caused them to send
+letters/faxes to all their "hosts") if they would, oh I dunno...maybe CALL
+US for information rather than taking stuff off the grapevine, particularly
+from anyone with Paramount.
+ 
+     (I've also heard just recently that allegedly Paramount is leaning on
+those who've directed ST episodes, who are free agents and not under any
+kind of general contract, *not* to direct B5.  We've already had one such
+incident of withdrawl after we'd made arrangements and all parties had
+agreed to the director doing an episode for us.)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Re: Plaster-cast of G'Kar. (10 Aug 1994)
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Re: Plaster-cast of G'Kar.

+10 Aug 1994
     The plaster bust of G'Kar stolen from the B5 offices right before we
+began shooting Year One is still missing.  And again, if this ever shows
+up at a dealer's room, know that it is stolen merchandise and there is a
+police report listing it as such.
+ 
+     Anyone buying this will be buying stolen merchandise.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS: Any new sets for season 2 (10 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Any new sets for season 2

+10 Aug 1994
     We've done a lot of work on the sets; refurbished, made better, put
+in windows that look out onto the Garden, expanded...and built some new
+sets, including an officer's club, a Bazaar, and other sets.  We took a
+blood oath: each year, bigger and better.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: What was ? "Voice 1" (2 Aug 1994)
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JMS: What was ? "Voice 1"

+2 Aug 1994
     That was a replacement part for a section of the station; they were
+being given final instructions on placement from C&C.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+?? for Joe (B^^2 SPOILERS)      [G's flashback seeing Lise] (10 Aug 1994)
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?? for Joe (B^^2 SPOILERS)      [G's flashback seeing Lise]

+10 Aug 1994
     The two flashbacks were designed so that they could run in any order
+(something you have to consider in syndication).  You get a slightly
+different "feel" from seeing them in a different order, but it still works.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Watching others watch... (10 Aug 1994)
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Watching others watch...

+10 Aug 1994
     Hey, as somebody once pointed out, we are vast, we contain
+multitudes...we are a mass of contradictions.  So our characters should
+be the same.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+    (And thanks.)
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+

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+JOE AT SAN DIEGO (3) (MIN (11 Aug 1994)
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JOE AT SAN DIEGO (3) (MIN

+11 Aug 1994
     Neither panel was listed on my badge, and I only learned about
+them later, after they were over.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+> > JMS & All:  Worldcon B5 pa (11 Aug 1994)
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> > JMS & All:  Worldcon B5 pa

+11 Aug 1994
     My replies, for the panel, in brief:
+ 
+     What works? What doesn't?  (Most things, some things.)
+ 
+     Can B5 become another Star Trek? (God I hope not.)
+ 
+     Succumb to second season syndrome?  (Year 2 scripts even better.)
+ 
+     B5 reflect politics of the 90s?  (No.  I hate the politics of the 90s.)
+ 
+     Survive its 5 year story?  (That's up to you.)
+ 
+     How handle the inevitable B5/ST comparisons?  (They're not
+inevitable.  They're inevitable only if you choose to make them so. )
+ 
+     Action/Character/Special EFX vs. good writing.  (Action and
+character are part of good writing, you don't separate them.  EFX must
+be in the  service of the story.)
+ 
+     Comparisons with X-Files.  (See above.)
+ 
+     TV SF's "last best hope."  (Only if you've learned that the
+universe will implode in 4 years.)
+ 
+     Why like/dislike it?  ("If you like that sort of thing, it's the
+sort of thing you'll like."  Abraham Lincoln.)
+ 
+     Plot or SFX more important?  (Neither.  Character first.  Then
+plot.  Then SFX.)
+ 
+     Why human female characters still 2-dimensional?  (Don't agree with
+the premise.  They're not.  Are you still beating your wife?)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+(ATTN JMS, others) Newbies (11 Aug 1994)
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(ATTN JMS, others) Newbies

+11 Aug 1994
     Dan: thanks, good points all.  And as you say, patience is key to
+newbie-greeting.  Sometimes when I've been up 20 hours, it's hard, but
+will work harder at it come schooltime.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+B5 Writing, following a master (12 Aug 1994)
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B5 Writing, following a master

+12 Aug 1994
     It is *all* designed to tie together.  Nothing is just tossed in
+arbitrarily.  Again, the best comparison is a novel.  The few freelance
+writers on the show (I wrote 12 last season) are given specific guidelines
+on what to include to tie stuff together later.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  LENN? and Comments (12 Aug 1994)
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JMS:  LENN? and Comments

+12 Aug 1994
     Re: Delenn/Lennier...there are certain recurring composites and
+word-segments that show up frequently in Minbari language (as in Rathenn,
+mentioned in "Voice 1," which resonates with Delenn).  I've worked out a
+system for this, though it's probably not as complex as it should be.
+ 
+     And thanks for your kind words.
+ 
+                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Why are the Starfury launch ba (13 Aug 1994)
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Why are the Starfury launch ba

+13 Aug 1994
     The outside of the bays are wrapped around and triangular, kind of
+like cobra heads.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: a casting question... (13 Aug 1994)
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JMS: a casting question...

+13 Aug 1994
     We do tend to try and stay open to gender stuff; usually there's a
+reason why someone is male or female, so it's cast that way.  But as an
+example...in "Quality of Mercy," the role as originally written was for a
+father/daughter combination.  In the process of casting, we thought, why
+not mother/daughter?  So that's how it ended up.  In "Points of Departure,"
+we have one of your requests already taken care of...a part of a war
+cruiser commander who could've been male or female...cast female.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: <*> <*> (14 Aug 1994)
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Re: <*> <*>

+14 Aug 1994
     I've decided youze guys are just messing with my mind.
+ 
+     Returning the favor, so to speak.
+ 
+     It's certainly been that kind of week...first a file vanishes on my
+computer, we need to print it, and it's gone...then I can see it again,
+no explanation...I get a messengered packet from Chris Franke, expecting
+it contains a tape, but it's flat and soft and I peek inside and I don't
+see a tape and toss it, wondering what he's up to now...the coffee machine
+isn't working right...everybody's messing with me, so why not here?
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Question (2 Aug 1994)
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Question

+2 Aug 1994
     Yes, I would think it fair to say that the Minbari have a thing for
+triangles and things that come in threes.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Babylon Squared --- Way to Go (14 Aug 1994)
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Babylon Squared --- Way to Go

+14 Aug 1994
     "How are you going to top this one, JMS?"
+ 
+     Chrysalis.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+JMS: A few minor questions... (14 Aug 1994)
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JMS: A few minor questions...

+14 Aug 1994
     Promoting Ivanova to running the station would not be logical, since
+from a military and diplomatic standpoint she has nowhere *near* the level
+of experience required.  It wouldn't be done in real life.
+ 
+     G'Kar wasn't needed for the last few eps; he'll show up again in
+"Chrysalis," and a lot next season.
+ 
+     I think there'll be a tech manual eventually.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+<*>  Joe really need a clue (14 Aug 1994)
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<*>  Joe really need a clue

+14 Aug 1994
     I'm not sure I understand...if there was anything in the package,
+I didn't notice it, and so just tossed the envelope.  It's gone.  Why?
+Was there something I should've known?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: **Spoiler: Chrysalis** (15 Aug 1994)
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Re: **Spoiler: Chrysalis**

+15 Aug 1994
     There's a couple ships look like Earthforce 1.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  CFPL in London, Ontario, (15 Aug 1994)
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JMS:  CFPL in London, Ontario,

+15 Aug 1994
    Unfortunately, this sort of thing is outside my direct purview.  The
+best way to deal with this is on the local level, with letters and calls.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon Squared, Part II (15 Aug 1994)
+
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Babylon Squared, Part II

+15 Aug 1994
     Yes, you will definitely, at some point, see the flip side of the
+B2 episode.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Can JMS pull it off? (15 Aug 1994)
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Can JMS pull it off?

+15 Aug 1994
     If I didn't have a good, solid, consistent ending, I wouldn't have
+started the story.  I always have the ending before I begin writing the
+beginning.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: <*>  Joe really need a clu (16 Aug 1994)
+
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Re: <*>  Joe really need a clu

+16 Aug 1994
     Okay, okay, okay, hold off the frantic email...I WUZ ONLY KIDDING!
+ 
+     I got the card from everybody, and I thank you for it.  It was a
+wonderful gesture.  But I *had* to get back at y'all for the weeks of
+grief leading up to it, yes?
+ 
+     Thanks.  Really.
+ 
+     And don't do it again.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: What to Watch for in Reru (16 Aug 1994)
+
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JMS: What to Watch for in Reru

+16 Aug 1994
     Scenes you should look at differently after "Chrysalis"...one that
+comes to mind offhand is "Sky," in the various Garibaldi scenes (can't be
+more specific than that right now).
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS and the net (16 Aug 1994)
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JMS and the net

+16 Aug 1994
     Best thing about the net is that it forces you to ask questions.  The
+job of the writer is to come up with every possible question about your
+character and your world, and answer it, giving both greater
+verasimilitude.  But nobody can come up with EVERY conceivable question;
+but on the nets, you get questions you never *dreamed* of.  Which helps.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK: BAMN (2 Aug 1994)
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UK: BAMN

+2 Aug 1994
     Re: who is Rush Limbaugh....
+ 
+     Leading American proctologist.
+ 
+     Trust me.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Don't do it!!!!! (18 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Don't do it!!!!!

+18 Aug 1994
     I'm trying to make the B5 novels and comics as much canon as I can.
+Basically, they take place within B5 continuity, as episodes that might
+have been.  The first four issues of the comic deal with issues that hit
+the series, but from another point of view/location.  The novel uses B5
+as background of an event that makes sense within B5 continuity, and may
+be referred to in future episodes (not as a requirement, but only as
+background...no different than when you have to give background on any
+episode of stuff that's happened in the past, like Ironheart's escape,
+for instance, which we don't have to see/read about, but knowing is nice).
+
+     I *really* don't want these to be just throwaways media-tie-ins.  I
+want them to stand on their own as good work, *and* be part of our
+universe.
+
+     Thankfully, I no longer require sleep, and have transcended to a
+higher state of consciousness...ommmmmm....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Question for JMS (18 Aug 1994)
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Question for JMS

+18 Aug 1994
     Fasten, button.
+
+     Levi's Jeans forever!
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS lying? (was Re: Voyager Ca (18 Aug 1994)
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JMS lying? (was Re: Voyager Ca

+18 Aug 1994
     If Sinclair was simply to be *gone*, we had *plenty* of time to
+edit OUT the scene in B4 that you saw and refer to.  It was self-contained,
+occupied only about 30 seconds, and could've been easily deleted (we ran
+long on that episode, and cut a shot of Delenn leaving the Minbari
+cruiser setting course for B5, which could easily have been put into
+the show in that scene's absence).  We only delivered that episode a few
+weeks before airdate, and the news re: Sinclair was announced MONTHS
+before that, while we were still in the process of editing it.  (And we
+can make changes literally up to a week or so before delivery.)
+
+     We could've deleted it, and left it a mystery, just as with Sigma
+957.  We're not afraid to do that.
+
+     In addition, the first four issues of the B5 comic will NOT be about
+the new Captain, they will be about *Sinclair*, and where he is, and where
+he's gone, and what he's doing.  Since at this point it would be
+hideously expensive to show that in the series, we're doing it in the
+comic.  And will continue to do it from time to time in the comic, AND in
+occasional shots in the series.
+
+     This is NOT what you do when the network comes to you and says, "We
+want this guy GONE."  When that happens, he's *gone*, period.
+
+     No, people should not believe everything they are told.
+
+     Nor should you assume that everyone is lying all the time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:Mephisto in Space? (18 Aug 1994)
+
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JMS:Mephisto in Space?

+18 Aug 1994
     While the TP themes in "Quality" go back through the history of SF,
+including the Demolished Man, among others, the basic storyline (re:
+Talia) came out of the pilot.  At the time, I was asked -- frequently --
+"Why didn't Lyta scan Sinclair to determine if he had tried to kill
+Kosh?"  My answer then -- which is in some of the archives -- was that
+it would violate the right to due process, that a defendant cannot be
+scanned to determine guilt or innocence (in fact, I recall a rather
+heated debate about that here a while back).  I promised that this would
+be elaborated upon down the road, and mentally logged in to do a show
+with that premise...and I'd already decided about the death penalty, and
+the use of telepaths in it.  So "Quality" came out of that, long before
+"Mephisto" was even written.  At one point, knowing that there were some
+common story areas, I called Harlan to tell him the "Quality" story, so
+that if there were any problems, I could revise it, but he said he saw
+no problem.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Mercy" -- SPOILERS of course (19 Aug 1994)
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"Mercy" -- SPOILERS of course

+19 Aug 1994
     They cannot carry out the original sentence because the body is
+now dead, which would tend to diminish its social acceptability.
+
+     Dr. Franklin did not know that Mueller had yet found Rosen, or even
+knew of it.  There are no Babcom systems in DownBelow quarters.  To send
+a security team, when they're out searching, without cause, is neither
+realistic nor sensible.  He did the correct thing: to go and warn her,
+while at the same time making sure that security knew where he was going,
+and if they didn't hear anything, to send in a team.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Give us a chance! (19 Aug 1994)
+
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JMS: Give us a chance!

+19 Aug 1994
I think participants of this usenet group should be given a chance to
+come to your house, Paul,and tell you how to make love as a group project.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Lose the Hyperion. Bad De (19 Aug 1994)
+
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JMS: Lose the Hyperion. Bad De

+19 Aug 1994
     That design will never be seen again.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+What if a crucial actor/actres (20 Aug 1994)
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What if a crucial actor/actres

+20 Aug 1994
     No, that sort of thing can't be done on an episodic TV budget; when
+time comes to do the flip side of Bsquared, we'll integrate the first
+season footage, but the second part hasn't yet been shot.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Na'Toth casting? (20 Aug 1994)
+
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JMS: Na'Toth casting?

+20 Aug 1994
     The woman who will be playing Na'Toth next season is Mary Kay Adams;
+we're introducing a character who will be a Squad Leader for Zeta
+Squadron (the one that arrived in "Survivors"), Warren Keffer, which will
+be portrayed by Robert Russler.  (Many people noted that logically you
+would have a regular squad leader as well as in some situations the
+Commander going out, and most times it's the Squad Leader who's out there
+doing this kind of stuff.  And they're correct.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Dirt on the Lens!!! (Mini (2 Aug 1994)
+
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JMS: Dirt on the Lens!!! (Mini

+2 Aug 1994
     My suspicion is that the shows are sent to the UK via parcel, not
+via satellite, but that's only an assumption.
+ 
+     Won't be starting production formally until August 10th.  Gearing
+up now.
+ 
+     Re: satellite...one of the more interesting stories I've heard lately
+is that B5 is *very* popular via satellite...in Iran and Iraq, both of
+whom lay claim of one sort or another to the original Babylon.  Apparently
+that a Westerner has set a series in their well-remembered Babylon that
+is NOT a negative thing but a positive thing has got both countries quite
+pleasantly astonished.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+A message to jms (21 Aug 1994)
+
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A message to jms

+21 Aug 1994
     Thanks.  All of us involved in Babylon 5 work very hard at it, and
+your words of encouragement are a great help.
+
+     As an aside...the first season isn't *quite* over.  Our final
+episode, "Chrysalis," will be aired the week before the second season
+proper begins, figure the last Wednesday or so in October.
+
+     I think you'll find it most intriguing....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+[B5] Liar liar pants on fire.. (23 Aug 1994)
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[B5] Liar liar pants on fire..

+23 Aug 1994
     Normally, this thread wouldn't even be worth my time to respond,
+moreso since I missed the original message, and can only see the replies.
+But that said...maybe because I've been up nearly 30 hours breaking my
+back on this show, to try and provide an occasional hour's entertainment,
+and I'm cranky, I figured I'd just say a few quick things.
+ 
+     Unlike Mr. Glover, who I believe is the same person who's been
+spreading this "JMS is lying about everything" crap on various nets,
+including Fidonet, every post that I have written about Babylon 5 for
+the last *three years* has been archived, organized, filed, and indexed
+for easy reference.  I would suggest that in three years of his own posts,
+you would probably find lots of contradictions in Mr. Glover's posts.  He
+is free from this kind of scrutiny.  I am not.
+ 
+     That said...if I were running around fibbing left, right and center,
+as he implies, because there *is* that vast pool of material, it would've
+been caught out *ages* ago.  I know that everything I write gets saved, and
+thus it behooves me to be as *abolutely* correct in what I write as I
+humanly can be.  From time to time, as the story has progressed, I've
+refined a small character point or two, but overall I've been pretty
+damned consistent.
+ 
+     And I have been *particularly* consistent in what I have said about
+Michael O'Hare.  I have said that it was mutual and amicable.  I said that
+we came to him first.  Those are not, as Mr. Glover would suggest, mutually
+contradictory statements.  Someone has to go first.
+ 
+     And let me just toss a note in Mr. Glover's direction...what the fuck
+is it to you what happens between Michael O'Hare and his employer in the
+privacy of their offices?  Suppose for the moment he quit because he saw
+me courting his pet chicken...what the fuck is it to you?  Who says you're
+entitled to ANY information?  How'd you like it if we went digging out
+information on how your employer treats you?  On why you were fired from
+your last job?  What business is it of mine?  None.  What business is this
+of yours?  None.  Except that you have no apparent life but that which you
+obtain through what you see on TeeVee, in the belief that somehow, by
+virtue of certain phosphor-dots resting on your corneas for a few seconds,
+we owe you *anything*.  We don't.  Bugger off.
+ 
+     As for Larry DiTillio...I showed him what was posted on this net
+from his apperance at LosCon, and he was *very* upset by the quotes, in
+his sense that they misrepresented what he had said.
+ 
+     I have yet to see the alleged quotes where I changed my story on
+something.  I don't think they exist.
+ 
+     I think that by describing the majority of viewers here as
+"sycophants" who "hang on (my) every word)", Mr. Glover attempts right off
+the bat to discredit anyone who might disagree with him.  He insults every
+member of this discussion in so doing, and I take great exception to that.
+ Anyone who disagrees with Mr. Glover is either a liar, or a sycophant.
+ 
+     Sod off, Mr. Glover.
+ 
+     And Mr. Glover also over-estimates not only his own importance, but
+the importance of this system in terms of ratings.  If you added up every
+single person who reads this forum, and all those on GEnie, Compuserve,
+(AOL and Prodigy on bounce-back), NVN, Bix and all the rest...it wouldn't
+be even a *blip* on the ratings.  Wouldn't even show up.  I'm here only
+because I want to be, and because -- despite the occasional Gloverite who
+trudges his way in here to sneer at people -- it's fun to hang out.
+ 
+      And I am not "A SALESMAN."  I am a writer.  I'm not here to sell
+anybody anything.  The people who come here are those who watch the show
+to begin with; those who watch Baywatch and have no interest in B5 don't
+come in here.  There's no point in singing to the choir.  Many of those
+here are those who've already decided they like the show...and others are
+certainly more than free with their criticism.
+ 
+     On another system, the indefatigable Mr. Glover commented that I
+MUST be lying about O'Hare, because after all if I ever admitted that
+someone walked off the show on their own, I'd be in trouble with Warner
+Bros, and I was thus protecting my ass.  And I think it was about a week
+later that I mentioned, on my own, that Caitlin Brown was going off the
+show, on her own, because she wants to do feature-film starring roles.
+Boy, I must be some kinda feeb to admit that in public, because I gots to
+protect my ass....
+ 
+     I said it because it was true.
+ 
+     One of the primary reasons I'm here is to try and educate people
+about how TV is done.  When I did the series of articles on the new TZ
+series for Twilight Zone magazine, I made it a point to include the good
+and the bad and the ugly, otherwise it has no worth.  I've come on here
+and said which episodes of B5 were great, and which I wouldn't mind if
+all copies of the negative fell off a pier; I've stated when actors have
+left on their own, and when we've changed our minds about them, and when
+deals have fallen through; I've been as hard on the show as anyone else.
+ 
+     But for Eugene Glover, whose own life is notably sheltered from
+public view, this is insufficient, and his own prejudices and internal
+bile levels, as indicated by the quotes from him, pursuade him that I am
+a liar.
+ 
+     Piss off, Eugene.  You're a mean, vindictive little guttersnipe who
+has nothing better to do than piss in other people's punchbowls, absent of
+any perceptible life, overwhelmed with your own feelings of self
+importance and righteousness, when in reality you simply suffer from
+delusions of adequacy.  I rarely use this kind of term, due to its basic
+offensiveness to SF/ST fans...but Eugene...get a life, get a grip, get a
+clue, but most of all...get away.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:Are you about to LOSE the (23 Aug 1994)
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JMS:Are you about to LOSE the

+23 Aug 1994
     I really don't know the ins and outs of the Detroit situation; I'll
+try and find out a bit more.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+

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+JMS: Set suggestion (24 Aug 1994)
+
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JMS: Set suggestion

+24 Aug 1994
     The end of the central corridor was a painting; correct.  And I never
+liked it.  So over the break, we *built* another 15 or so feet to the
+end of the corridor, going up, so now it's quite real, and we can put
+stuff in there.  Much improved.
+ 
+	                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Thoughts on a close rewatch of (25 Aug 1994)
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Thoughts on a close rewatch of

+25 Aug 1994
     One lovely thing about "Signs and Portents," which you picked up on,
+is something I like to play with; implying one thing while saying the
+opposite.  Look at all the shadow's main representative, Morden, does: he
+asks people what they want; he gets tossed out of Delenn's quarters; he
+is pleasant in his demeanor at all times, never yells, always smiles, and
+is courteous; he takes an action which saves one of our main characters,
+Londo, from disgrace and resignation, and helps in the process of scragging
+the bad guys in the episode.
+ 
+     And yet everyone walks away thinking that the shadows are bad.  Which
+was of course the intent...by the way in which they did "good."
+ 
+     Kosh prevents humanity from achieving immortality, scares the hell out
+of Talia, never gives anyone a straight answer, doesn't seem to mind it if
+people fear him...and we walk away with the presumption that he is good,
+by virtue of the way in which he did things that were "bad."
+ 
+     In "The Quality of Mercy," I play a similar subtle game; the first
+time you hear about the alien device, you're told that it takes the life
+force from one person, killing them in the process, and gives it to
+someone suffering a terminal disease to restore them.  And everybody goes
+"yuck, that's awful."  But that is *exactly* what happens at the end, and
+the general reaction is, "That's good."
+ 
+     This is something I do a lot in my scripts, which I don't generally
+see a lot of other people doing.  You *really* have to construct the
+script very carefully to pull something like this off...a little game
+between me and the audience.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+JMS! Episode Titles (25 Aug 1994)
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JMS! Episode Titles

+25 Aug 1994
     I think the double-titles would screw up the methods by which the
+residuals are tracked for writers/directors/actors.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi (25 Aug 1994)
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Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi

+25 Aug 1994
     Ah, so Glover's message was originally posted in the alt section,
+where I wouldn't/couldn't see it, and wouldn't have known about it at all
+had there not been the reply here that somehow bounced.
+ 
+     Well, isn't that convenient....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+

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+JMS:  Liars and Flames (25 Aug 1994)
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JMS:  Liars and Flames

+25 Aug 1994
     Thanks; I'm not sure sometimes if this is a good skill or not.  Not
+only had I been up about 30 hours, but because of the way my GEnie news
+reader/mailbox is set up, I can only reply *on-line*, I can't go off,
+compose off-line, then upload it...it all has to be written on the fly.
+ 
+     (Maybe it comes from being a Jersey street kid, basically; we used to
+hang out on street corners, ranking each other for *hours*, each one
+according to the rules having to build upon the one preceding, until they
+got amazingly elaborate.  Or maybe I'm just a pain in the ass.)
+ 
+     That said, I try very hard *not* to do that.  I don't think it's a
+good thing in the long run.  I see a *lot* of abusive posts, and most of
+them I let slide simply because it seems the wiser path.  But every once
+in a while, somebody'll poke the bear, and it'll be late, and they'll be
+completely out of line...and something snaps and next thing I know I'm
+110 lines deep into something and my monitor is imploding.
+ 
+     As for *why* I was up 30 hours straight...Claudia Christian broke
+her foot over the weekend.  Broke it in *three places*, no less, while
+running in her back yard.  She had a lot of action in the next couple of
+scripts, and was in the midst of filming an episode currently.  So the
+scripts had to be revised to work around this, and as stated, we were
+shooting one, and about to shoot another, and it *all* had to be done in
+zero time.  By me.  Basically, we're talking about rewriting two full
+scripts in a couple of days, after which I was half blind and staggering.
+ 
+     So I was just a bit cranky that night....
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi

+25 Aug 1994
     Morgan...there is a quantum difference between being called a liar,
+and receiving criticism on a story.  If you cannot see that, that is your
+problem, not mine.
+ 
+     "If it wasn't worth your time, then why did you respond?"
+ 
+     Because I felt like it.  However, to the rest of your points, which
+are specious and irrelevant, I don't feel like it tonight.  I will instead
+go along with your question, "why respond?"
+ 
+     Good suggestion.
+ 
+     Particularly when applied to your message.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
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+

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Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi

+25 Aug 1994
     Jim...re: your reply to Morgan...there is a curious neticism that
+I've seen all the years I've been riding the nets, and it's nothing new.
+ 
+     It's this: Person A writes something awful/scandalous/abusive about
+person B.  Person C says nothing.  Person B writes a heated reply.  Person
+C *now* speaks up to say what bad form it is to go after this poor person
+who was just exercising his right to speak, and suddenly person B is the
+bad guy.
+ 
+     It's okay to impugne someone's career, or life, or honesty, or any
+other aspect...but to call the person out for it...no, no, we can't have
+that.  Nonsense.  There is nothing in my agreement with any service that
+says I must be a non-responsive, unmoving target.  A bully is a bully, and
+needs to get responded to.  And character attacks must be responded to,
+whether or not some people (who had no problem with the original
+accusation) find it polite conversation.
+ 
+     Say what you want about somebody...but god forbid the person should
+speak up...an intersting philosophy, to say the least.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+

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+JMS: response to your Mri vent (2 Aug 1994)
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JMS: response to your Mri vent

+2 Aug 1994
     To nick.plummer...Nicholas...you're quite right, of course, that
+ideas do not grow in a vacuum.  Everyone in SF stands on the shoulders of
+those who went before.  Heinlein invented slidewalks; after that, they
+were all OVER SF.  But for the most part, they're background elements, or
+sort of the collective unconscious of SF; the line comes when taking a
+race wholecloth and just filing off the serial numbers (or, in this case,
+some vowels).
+ 
+     We try to walk a fine line on this show, between being as original
+and innovative as we can...while once in a while giving a nod of respect
+and acknowledgment to those who preceded us (like the Prisoner).  My
+only suggestion, in future, is that such issues (as we say in Jeapordy)
+be phrased in the form of a question, rather than an allegation.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+Change in Rerun of Believers (25 Aug 1994)
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Change in Rerun of Believers

+25 Aug 1994
     There were no changes in dialogue made in "Believers" subsequent to
+the first airing.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+JMS: 2nd season writing proces (25 Aug 1994)
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JMS: 2nd season writing proces

+25 Aug 1994
     It's impossible not to have the characters change to varying degrees
+once you cast actors to play them.  Gradually, Mira's personality has
+grown into Delenn, Andreas has added a lot to G'Kar, Garibaldi IS Doyle,
+and Boxleitner is bringing a lot to Sheridan.  You get to hear the
+characters' voices more the deeper you go, season-wise, and that's great.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+JMS: Musical Themes? (26 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Musical Themes?

+26 Aug 1994
     We've done a lot with themes over the season, and plan to do more,
+developing themes for all our characters.  I like interpolating bits and
+pieces of the B5 theme into parts of the show; the lower-key version at
+the end of "Signs" has always struck me as very effective.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+(meant to type "minor key."
+
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+Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi (27 Aug 1994)
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Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi

+27 Aug 1994
     Michael Heser...I don't just respond to flame-bait.  I respond to
+something on the order of 100 messages a day, out of the 500 per day that
+I get.  In this one pass on Internet via my GEnie mailbox, I've just
+written about 15 so far, and I've got a bunch more to go through.  (And
+not one was a flame.)  This is an aberration, nothing more, and I do
+reserve the right to plink somebody upside the nose if he gets
+obnoxious.  The occasional aberration is good for you (now if only I could
+convince my wife of that...).
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+JMS: new movie? (27 Aug 1994)
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JMS: new movie?

+27 Aug 1994
     Correct, I will be writing the screenplay for the GRIMJACK movie,
+which will draw heavily on John Ostrander's story for the Demon Blood and
+Demon Wars stories.  Whether or not new books are coming I don't know.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
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+Parallelism in TKO (Possible S (27 Aug 1994)
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Parallelism in TKO (Possible S

+27 Aug 1994
     Yes, there are many subtle parallels between the two story elements,
+as you note.  At its core, is the use of tradition, and respect, as a
+means for greater understanding.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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JMS: Conventions

+27 Aug 1994
     At this point, beyond the Dallas con, and LosCon, nothing much is
+planned....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+JMS: Some comments on your "no (28 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Some comments on your "no

+28 Aug 1994
     Actually, there are varying religions within the alien species as
+well; G'Kar is a follower of G'Quan, while Na'Toth's father followed
+G'Lan, and Na'Toth herself doesn't really believe in anything (this as
+noted in "By Any Means Necessary").  So that diversity isn't strictly or
+exclusively human.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+JMS: Warners' Wishlist (28 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Warners' Wishlist

+28 Aug 1994
     I don't recall ever mentioning any memo from PTEN "suggesting that
+something be done with the commander or year two, even if just a bunch of
+commander-centered episodes."  Warners/PTEN said that they would like to
+see a bit more character-oriented stories, which was jake by me because
+that's what we were aiming for anyway.  By virtue of being at least
+nominally an action/adventure show, there was always some sense that we
+had to have a lot of running around; now they're giving us the freedom to
+have more latitude, which by me is terrific.  They've given us no other
+notes.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+JMS: Some questions... (28 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Some questions...

+28 Aug 1994
     You will see the healing machine from "Quality" once more.  Part of
+the reason for that story was to set up something within the B5 universe
+that will come in handy a long time later (but I'm *not* going to have it
+lying around indefinitely; it would cause lots of long-term complications).
+ 
+     (Some TV shows foreshadow/set-up stuff an act or two ahead of time;
+we do setups a full *year* ahead....)
+ 
+     Never saw "Star Blazers," so the Valen name has no relation there.
+ 
+     No idea on coming laserdisk prices.
+ 
+     When Zathras shows up in time, it'll definitely be recognizeable as
+Zathras.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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JMS: "Free Mars" in "A Voice i

+2 Aug 1994
     Re: was the Free Mars movement a nod to Kim Stanley Robinson's
+Mars books....
+ 
+     I take your question as polite, and supportive, and genuinely
+curious, and so I answer back: no, the thread was nowhere tied to Kim's
+work.  Rather it grew out of a sense of history, looking at the tradition
+of colonies to outgrow their founders, and want to strike out on their
+own.  The United Kingdom being a good example of this.
+ 
+     Having now answered politely, I return to my closet to stick very
+long needles into my eyes....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+ 
+     (Nothing to do with you, just the tenor of the day and messages
+preceding.)
+
+

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JMS:B5/LSH Parallels Follow-Up

+28 Aug 1994
     Re: the now-mandatory Psi badge in LSH...yeah, I noticed that too.
+If it is indeed a nod in our direction -- and spontaneous duplication is
+also always a possibility -- it's actually fun, from my POV.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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Re: JMS: LSH/B5 parallel post-

+28 Aug 1994
     This one to Kurt Bose...
+ 
+     "We heard about how everything and its mother was derived in some
+manner from the ideas this hack was pitching around Hollywood."
+ 
+     So now I'm a hack.  Tell me, Kurt, what have *you* done with your
+life?  I won't post my feelings about my work because that's subjective;
+but the nominations for Writers Guild, Bram Stoker, Ace and Gemini Awards
+over there on the wall might have a thing or two to say about this...or
+the Emmy for Best Animated Series the year I story edited The REal
+Ghostbusters...or the Inkpot Achievement Award from the San Diego Comic
+Convention...or the recent award from the Space Frontier Foundation for
+Best Vision of the Future...shall I go on?
+ 
+     To the point of what your screed said in this part...no, I have never
+said what you pillory me for saying.  I have certain very strong feelings
+about an incident with another series, but that's just the one.  You say
+"We heard about how everything and its mother was derived in some manner"
+from my work...please cite me where I have said this about anything else.
+Or I can save you the time...you won't find any, because they aren't
+there.
+ 
+     This is trait #1 of the net-bully...come up with an outrageous
+statement that someone never made, and then assault them for it.  Seen it.
+ 
+     "We heard all about how in HIS show, they weren't going to simply
+make all the aliens look like actors in funny makeup.  Well suprise, all
+the aliens look like humans in funny makeup."
+ 
+     Error #1: once again, I never said it.  I said we were going to work
+to avoid the funny-forehead scenario with full-head prosthetics.  This we
+have done.
+ 
+     Second, as earth-shattering to your perspective as this may be, there
+are currently no real aliens that we know of living on Earth.  No matter
+HOW elaborate the makeup, you're going to have an actor in makup (unless
+you're doing puppets, as a rule, and this isn't a puppet show).  Show me
+any movie or series where the main alien characters have been other than
+puppets or actors in makup, funny or otherwise.
+ 
+     Third...we are the *first* TV SF series to introduce a computer
+graphic alien, in "Grail," and we plan to do more of this next season.
+ 
+     "We were treated to comments from JMS like "Sinclair should really go
+over well with the ladies."  (This in reference to being cast on sex
+appeal.)  I'm sorry, but this comment is so boneheaded and contradictory
+and illogical that I can't even begin to respond.
+ 
+     Re: "no cute kids or robots," I was referring specifically to regular
+cast members.  We do not have cute kids as regular cast members.  And we
+de-emphasize kids in guest-casting.  In our entire first season we have
+had two, one in a B-story, and the other we killed off.  I don't see the
+problem which is making you so apoplectic in this.
+ 
+     "If JMS is really saying these things, doing these things, then he's
+insane."
+ 
+     And, of course, I didn't, and haven't been.  You're seeing them only
+in whatever alternate universe you're experiencing through prolonged
+exposure to your computer monitor's EMF.
+ 
+     "What I've heard about here and elsewhere makes me feel that his
+'pariah' routine of the put-upon genius whose work is shamelessly copied
+makes me wonder if there are REASONS for the role he's adopted."
+ 
+     First, see response #1.  Never said it.  What "you've heard" has no
+bearing whatsoever on objective reality.  Nor am I responsible for what
+may or may not have been posted on other nets by people other than me.  I
+am only responsible for what I say.  And what I say is generally archived
+somewhere, so actually checking the *facts* (I know, another foreign
+concept) is extraordinarily easy to do.  This you didn't do.
+ 
+     Second: never adopted a pariah attitude; never felt like one; never
+said any such thing.  Are you feeling okay?  Are things all right at
+home?  Do you hear spirit voices at night whispering into your ears the
+things that you'd have *liked* me to have said?  A helpful suggestion: if
+these voices ever tell you to go save France...don't do it.  I've seen
+that movie, you wouldn't like the ending.
+ 
+     Finally, what are these REASONS you're wondering about?  Nothing like
+a little vague innuendo and then zoom-flash out the back door.  Speak
+plainly.  You got something to say, say it.
+ 
+     (And in a note prior, when someone noticed the LSH telepath pin, I
+commented that it was probably spontaneous duplication/simultaneous
+creation.  My first impulse, despite your willingness to attribute to me
+some fanatical attitude, is that it wasn't a lift.  My second reaction, as
+written, is that if it was inspired by the Psi Corps, that it's really
+kinda cool...SF literature builds on itself, as with Heinlein coming up
+with slidewalks, which were then used by others.  I think it'd be cool if
+Psi Corps style badges started showing up in LSH; it'd mean that I added
+something to the genre.)
+ 
+     Okay..now let's see...I read through all the notes, responded in a
+manner without profanity, and ....oh, dear.
+ 
+     No profanity.
+ 
+     Can't have that.  So really, Kurt, and I say this with the love of
+Jesus in my heart...go fuck yourself.
+ 
+     And next time you want to go around calling someone a "hack," be
+prepared to let us all examine *your* work, okay?
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

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+Send not thine tales for death (28 Aug 1994)
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Send not thine tales for death

+28 Aug 1994
     It does seem unfortunate that we seem to have to go through this
+fire drill every few months.  Look...the reality is, we manage to go
+through 500 or so messages a day (well, *I* go through them), and very
+rarely, in ALL the discussion and speculation, does anything come close
+to being a story idea.  As I commented on GEnie, at 500 messages a day,
+seven days a week (3500 messages a week, counting all the various
+services I'm on), this has only become a problem *five times*.
+ 
+     But five times is five times, and it never hurts to put out a
+reminder...because it's due to those reminders that it HAS been only five
+times.  Absent those reminders, it would've been more, that you can count
+on.
+ 
+     No one is here begruding the rights of people to speculate and
+discuss, least of all me.  You don't generally see me out here pounding
+down on people...the discussions here are very freewheeling, which is as
+it should be.  This is the one little area that I ask be set aside, and
+I just don't see it as a problem.
+ 
+     And I *do* wish that people wouldn't get bogged down in the legalities
+of all this.  On one level, while that's the core reason I made the
+request in the first place, what it comes down to is just courtesy.  I am
+here for hours each day, unlike any other TV producer, every day, and all
+I ask, as a courtesy, is no story ideas being posted.  When did we as a
+culture hit a point where a request as a courtesy was no longer valid,
+and everything had to be accompanied by legalistic wrangling and court
+orders?
+ 
+     I ask this one thing as a favor, in return for the hours spent here.
+Is this really so great a burden?  If people want to discuss story ideas,
+or come up with their own stories, all they have to do is set up a
+private mailing list to which I don't have access, and they can do so to
+their heart's content.  All I ask is that you don't do it where I can see
+it.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

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+JMS: Season two episode order? (28 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Season two episode order?

+28 Aug 1994
     Episode 1 - Prod. #201 - "Points of Departure," written by jms,
+directed by Janet Greek.
+ 
+     Episode 2 - Prod. #202 - "Revelations," written by jms, directed by
+Jim Johnston.
+ 
+     Episode 3 - Prod. #203 - "The Geometry of Shadows," written by jms,
+directed by Mike Vejar.
+ 
+     Episode 4 - Produ. #204 - "A Distant Star," written by D.C. Fontana,
+directed by Jim Johnston.
+ 
+     Episode 5 - Prod. #205 - "The Long Dark," written by Scott Frost,
+director TBA.
+ 
+     Episode 6 - Prod. #206 - "A Spider in the Web," written by Lawrence
+G. DiTillio, director TBA.
+ 
+     The first six will be aired in production order.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+Careful with those story ideas (28 Aug 1994)
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Careful with those story ideas

+28 Aug 1994
     One clarification: the problem on GEnie wasn't speculation per se,
+but a statement, "How about if Joe does a story about...."  That in
+particular turned it (unintentionally, but there it is) into a pitch of a
+story idea.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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+Who all should get letters pra (28 Aug 1994)
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Who all should get letters pra

+28 Aug 1994
     Letters can be sent to B5 staff and routed to Warners/PTEN through:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+How important to the Arc is Sh (28 Aug 1994)
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+28 Aug 1994
     How critical was Aragorn to the storyline of Lord of the Rings?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+JMS: How many eps? (28 Aug 1994)
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JMS: How many eps?

+28 Aug 1994
     This is from memory, but after we broke down the stories for the
+second season, and determined who we'd need for what stories, I think it
+came out to 22 each for Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, Delenn and
+Franklin; 13 for Na'Toth, Vir, Talia, G'Kar and Londo; and 8 for our new
+squadron leader.  (Oops, forgot 13 also for Lennier.)  Now these are the
+minimum contracted for, we can use them for more as they're needed.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+JMS: Her.? (28 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Her.?

+28 Aug 1994
     The line, "If I knew who God was, I'd thank her," was as written in
+the script.  We generally don't allow much improvisation on stage.
+ 
+     Many thanks.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+Syndication Question (29 Aug 1994)
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Syndication Question

+29 Aug 1994
     Okay, I'll try to make this coherent and brief, two concepts that
+don't necessarily relate.
+ 
+     Here's how it works with B5, which is how virtually all syndicated
+shows work.
+ 
+     I created B5.  Went to Doug Netter, made a handshake deal to make the
+series.  Five years pass.  Finally we hook up with PTEN.  PTEN buys the
+rights to B5, and owns it.  They then finance the production of the series
+through Babylonian Productions, which I and Doug own.  But the copyright
+to B5 belongs to PTEN, as Star Trek has always belonged to Paramount, not
+Gene R.  Rights don't revert to anyone; the rights belong to PTEN unless
+PTEN should cancel the series, after which I believe there's a period of
+about two years, after which it *then* comes back to me.
+ 
+     As long as PTEN exists, and the show is broadcast, it belongs to
+PTEN, regardless of how many times it's shown.  I don't know, or pretend
+to know, what would happen if PTEN ceased to exist, though I'm sure that
+procedures have been set up such that the revenue stream would continue to
+the original parties in PTEN, and the corporation itself would continue as
+a means of funnelling those funds.
+ 
+     Warners doesn't own PTEN per se; PTEN is a consortium of a core group
+of TV stations in association with Warners, and this executive committee
+votes funding on the show.
+ 
+     We are in some ways an unusual situation in that we're not a studio
+in-house production, like KUNG FU and TIME TRAX, which were created from
+within the Warners corporate structure.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+JMS: Spoo!?! (2 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Spoo!?!

+2 Aug 1994
     What is spoo?   Spoo....is.
+ 
+     (Spoo is also Oops spelled backward.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+Old Red Eyes (29 Aug 1994)
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+29 Aug 1994
     He'll be back soon enough....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+

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+JMS: 'What do you want?' - nod (29 Aug 1994)
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JMS: 'What do you want?' - nod

+29 Aug 1994
     Actually, the origin of "What do you want?" comes from encounter
+groups I've run, and from other kinds of group psychotherapy, such as the
+original Synanon games; you ask, "Who are you?" over and over, refusing
+to take the same answer twice, to peel away the fabric of what the
+person is.  It's a slight jump to "What do you want?"  (I knew that
+degree in Psychology would come in handy one of these days.)
+ 
+     As for the B5 reference in "OtherSyde," I always knew it would be a
+series, because I've never allowed any other consideration.
+ 
+     (I think B5 hits Australia later in the fall.)
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+JMS: What is this . (29 Aug 1994)
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JMS: What is this .

+29 Aug 1994
     It came from the prop people at Warners/PTEN, who seem to be
+watching an alternate-universe version of the series....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

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+Sheridan (29 Aug 1994)
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+29 Aug 1994
     Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the
+Union Army.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+

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+JMS: Speaking of First Comics. (30 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Speaking of First Comics.

+30 Aug 1994
     I would *love* to do American Flagg! as a movie; I think it was
+probably Howard's best moment.  I've read a lot of his stuff, but somehow
+after AF! it never did it for me as much as that one did.  (And he
+certainly went...well, let's say where no comic has gone before...in Black
+Kiss.)  I think the rights might be tied up, however.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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+JMS: Arcane story twists et al (30 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Arcane story twists et al

+30 Aug 1994
     If you look at my scripts, you'll find that generally I write very
+tight, I don't leave a lot of threads hanging as a rule.  Same with the
+planned series.  No important threads will be left hanging by the end of
+it all.  And generally any really significant thread will be wrapped within
+a year of being introduced.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+JMS: Question???????????? (30 Aug 1994)
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JMS: Question????????????

+30 Aug 1994
     Medlab is the smaller facility exclusively for Dr. Franklin, as
+Chief of Staff.  There are larger medical facilities, more like proper
+hospitals, elsewhere on the station.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

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+A note regarding "V" to jms (30 Aug 1994)
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A note regarding "V" to jms

+30 Aug 1994
     I guess my attitude toward "V" the series (as distinguished from
+the miniseries, which was great) is colored by the rather contemptuous
+attitude of the producers toward SF, and SF fans, leading to their
+decision to bring on soap opera writers.  I think they took a wonderful
+concept and just trashed it.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: A few questions (31 Aug 1994)
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ATTN JMS: A few questions

+31 Aug 1994
     The script called for Garibaldi to take up the Big Massive Gun and
+fire, with a primal YELL that went on forever.  Any dialogue at that
+point which replaced the yell came from the actor.  The "you're already
+dead" was only relevant to the scene, not T2.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: SPOILEd math in Quality of (1 Sep 1994)
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Re: SPOILEd math in Quality of

+1 Sep 1994
     Just as long as you don't name any of your cats Kosh, you should be
+okay.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+The Writers/Directors List for (3 Sep 1994)
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The Writers/Directors List for

+3 Sep 1994
    Some addendums: Larry, Christy and David Gerrold all also worked for
+me on TRGBs.  Mark Moretti is now writing books 2-5 of the B5 comic.  The
+first Vornholt novel isn't "El Diablo," a premise that didn't work out,
+but "Voices."  Add Jerry Jameson to the list of directors, doing episode
+#8 for year two.  (Probably an episode called "The Coming of Shadows.")
+ 
+     On my behalf, have written more than just the one comie; wrote single
+issues of Teen Titans Spotlight, TZ comic, and the Star Trek comic.  Also
+2 novels and a bunch of other stuff.
+ 
+     Larry's second B5 script is entitled "GROPOS."
+ 
+     Also Kevin Cremin and John Flinn will both direct an episode this
+season.
+ 
+     Both David and DC will be starting new scripts soon.
+ 
+     I've just completed my fourth script for the season, "A Race Through
+Dark Places," shooting #7.
+ 
+     Lois Tilton is writing B5 novel #2.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: "And The Sky Full of (24 Sep 1994)
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ATTN JMS: "And The Sky Full of

+24 Sep 1994
     The wisp of smoke is a wisp of smoke, nothing more important than
+that.  If something living in hyperspace bothers you...good, it should.
+The Psi Corps article is in frame for a reason.  Yes, we sometimes put
+additional or important information in the background, but I don't think
+we can be fair and assume that everyone sees it, so if you don't see it
+in one place, it's stated out loud later on...the background stuff is to
+give the alert viewer a fighting chance to guess some stuff BEFORE it
+happens; when stuff DOES finally happen, all the required information is
+supplied at that time.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Story arc question (24 Sep 1994)
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Story arc question

+24 Sep 1994
     "Mind War" is important to the arc because Psi Corps, and certain
+aspects of it, is important to the arc.
+
+                                                                         jms
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+Candles And Stars in Babylon S (24 Sep 1994)
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Candles And Stars in Babylon S

+24 Sep 1994
     The notion of candles and stars in your note (Jason) would also
+seem to apply, for instance, to the role of Draal in "Voice."
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS: Earthdome question (24 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Earthdome question

+24 Sep 1994
     Earthdome is in what was once Geneva, and is a domed city similar to
+some of what's done on Mars, though here it's to protect the city from
+outside threat.  We mainly hear about it because that's where B5's
+political, military and social ties are, but I'd like to expand outside of
+that...hear what's new in New York, that sort of thing (though we have
+heard references to the Russian Consortium, and to poor old San Diego...).
+
+                                                                        jms
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+Re: A "promotion" for Ivanova? (24 Sep 1994)
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Re: A "promotion" for Ivanova?

+24 Sep 1994
     Major Krantz wasn't so much in charge of B4 as he was (as noted in
+dialogue) assigned to oversee the final stages of construction.  His job
+was to get the station finished, then turn it over to someone else to
+run.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+
+Re: B5 & DS9: Off to War (24 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 & DS9: Off to War

+24 Sep 1994
     The working name for the sixth race is the Shadowmen.
+
+     And, as you note, one of things that I like to play with is the
+layering of ambiguity.  Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that
+we set up two sides: Shadowmen vs. Vorlons, which looks like evil vs.
+good.  Fundamentally, I would find that boring.  What you would then have
+to do is get into WHY they're doing what they do, and HOW they're doing
+what they do.
+
+     There is, for instance, the "good" that says, "We know what's best
+for you, we'll protect you, nurture you, but you'll do it our way, and
+we'll keep you away from ideas and beliefs you shouldn't be exposed to."
+Okay, maybe that fits one definition of good...but is it?
+
+     On the flip side, for instance, there's the "bad" that says "There
+must be conflict and death, because it's only through conflict and death
+that we grow stronger, that we can eventually create an ordered
+universe.  The gene pool must be kept strong.  To do that, there must be
+war and strife and death."  Okay, maybe that fits the definition of evil,
+but is it?
+
+     The key, again and always, is that nothing is what it seems on
+Babylon 5.  And even if it looks like it IS what it is, you have to look
+at WHY it is what it is...and maybe at that point it isn't.
+
+     One of the things about this show is that you see as much as you're
+willing to see.  You can gloss over it, say, "Okay, these are the good
+guys, these are the bad guys."  But the closer you look, the more you see
+the shades.  I imagine when the Shadowmen are more fully revealed, some
+folks'll think we're going for a basic good/evil conflict...but believe
+me, there's a hell of a lot more involved in it than that.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Next on Geraldo-- Is Morden Re (24 Sep 1994)
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+24 Sep 1994
     Morden tried to find out what the ambassadors would like.  Morden
+arranged to rescue an important Centauri artifact.  Morden helped wipe out
+the crooks.  Morden saved Londo's career, and asked for nothing in return.
+
+     And yet we get the sense that Morden is a bad guy.
+
+     Kosh destroys our chance for immortality.  Refuses to get involved
+in the affairs of others.  Is plainly studying us.  Terrorizes one of our
+main characters, Talia, for unknown reasons.
+
+     And yet we get the sense that Kosh is a good guy.
+
+     If anyone should ask, I really *love* writing this show....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+Morden = Rod Serling? (24 Sep 1994)
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Morden = Rod Serling?

+24 Sep 1994
     You noticed that too, huh?  Surprise me, too.  We'd cast him in the
+part of Morden, then the first day's dailies come in, and his stance, his
+manner, the way he looks...we all looked at the TV and said, more or less
+at once, "Holy shit, it's Rod Serling!"
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 acknowledging religion (24 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 acknowledging religion

+24 Sep 1994
     "...you're claiming that an *atheist* is proselytizing for judaism."
+
+     Hey, it's a new organization, haven't you heard?  Atheists for Yahweh.
+
+                                                                         jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS (part III)  More Neve (25 Sep 1994)
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ATTN JMS (part III)  More Neve

+25 Sep 1994
     We'll see more on Talia's additional talents in year two.
+
+     Yes, that is a triluminary on the grey council staff in "Sky."
+
+     No current plans for Ben Zayn to reprise.
+
+     Did I say something about the development of psi talent...?
+
+     The rest will have to wait.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+
+The hiring of Boxleitner (3 Sep 1994)
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The hiring of Boxleitner

+3 Sep 1994
     For what it's worth, Sheridan is neither a "space cowboy" nor a
+"gung ho type."  This description has nothing to do with the character,
+and I'm not quite sure where you got this.  Certainly I never said or
+implied it.
+ 
+     Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the
+only real victory of the Earth/Minbari War.  (Which means the Minbari
+don't generally like him a lot.)  He did what he did because that's his
+job.  He's a professional soldier.  For the last two years, he's been
+commanding the Agamemmnon, a high-visibility Earthforce starship on deep
+patrol.  As such, he has had to learn to work with a number of different
+races and species.
+ 
+     In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was
+the case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often seemed to
+hang.  Sheridan is often very thoughtful and introspective; at other
+times, he can be just a bit eccentric; he leads by respecting those who
+work under him, and giving them room to grow; like any career officer, he
+HATES the bureaucracy with a passion, and this is the one thing that can
+drive him nuts; he knows that commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but
+he also knows that his presence brings certain complications with it, and
+he's very ambivilant about that aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic envoy
+who disappeared on his 21st birthday, running off to see (of all things)
+the new Dali Lama being installed; he has a very easygoing manner, and a
+great sense of humor.  He quickly re-forms a friendship with Ivanova, for
+whom he has great respect and professional admiration.  (For a time she
+served under him at Io.)
+ 
+     He is, actually, a fascinating and intriguing character with a lot
+of different shadings...none of which have *anything* to do with being a
+"space cowboy" or "gung-ho type."
+ 
+     Anyway...point being...when it was announced that there was going to
+be a new Lieutenant-Commander, a number of folks went ballistic and said
+the show would now be ruined.  I said, in essence, look...I created
+Takashima; I can create an interesting character to replace her.  And I
+thunk up Ivanova, who according to the rec.arts.b5 poll is the most
+popular character on the show.  When it was announced that Sinclair would
+be STAYING with the show, after the pilot, a number of folks said this
+was bad, he was wooden, he stunk, get him off...and ended up being very
+enamored of him.  My only reply now about Bruce...give him, and me, a
+chance.  I genuinely think you will like what you see a *lot*.
+ 
+     In the course of the first season, Ivanova, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Londo,
+Delenn, others...they've exploded into strong characters.  You need an
+equally strong character designed to hold his own, and be memorable, in
+that august company.  Sheridan was designed knowing we had a much
+elevated playing field around the character.
+ 
+     Obviously, clearly, and irrefutably, an actor brings a *lot* to any
+role.  No question.  But it tends to begin with what is created.  I've seen
+it said here, repeatedly, that none of the characters are uninteresting;
+they all have lives, and agendas, that make them fascinating to watch:
+Londo, Morden, G'Kar, Delenn, Garibaldi, Ivanova...what those characters
+are came out of my head, in terms of who they are, what they say, what they
+believe, where they came from and where they're going.  Why would I invent
+a new character that was any less involving, or interesting, o
+multifaceted?  Particularly knowing that he's going to be a central
+character?
+ 
+     Speaking as someone who's been in fandom a long, long time, I know
+there is always a tendency for panic, to assume the apocalypse is upon
+us, that something is never going to be the same again.  I heard this after
+the Enterprise was destroyed in "The Search for Spock."  I've heard this
+a lot over the years.  It's generally over-reaction and worry before anyone
+has even seen a frame of film.
+ 
+     Bottom line being...wait and see, then judge.  I've tried very hard
+not to let you down, and I think so far I haven't done so...I have no
+intention of starting now.  Bruce is doing an absolutely *brilliant* job
+as Captain Sheridan, bringing a thoughtfulness and intensity and
+charm and intensity to the part that is a joy to behold.  Give him a
+chance.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+info, was Re: B5 & DS9: Off to (25 Sep 1994)
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info, was Re: B5 & DS9: Off to

+25 Sep 1994
     Correction: Jeri Taylor isn't full-time on DS9; she ran TNG, and is
+now co-running Voyager, which she co-created.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS (part III)  More (25 Sep 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS (part III)  More

+25 Sep 1994
     Ironheart was created, as one of many reasons, to exemplify a problem
+that is growing within Psi Corps.  There will be other symptoms, though
+not as grand as that one.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS: Origin of name Giribaldi (26 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Origin of name Giribaldi

+26 Sep 1994
     Garibaldi was nameed after the famous Italian war hero of the same
+name.
+
+	                                                            jms
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+

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+Los Angeles losing Babylon-5 ( (26 Sep 1994)
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Los Angeles losing Babylon-5 (

+26 Sep 1994
     The Sunday 11 p.m. rerun has been moved to Saturday nights at
+midnight.
+
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+How is Claudia? (26 Sep 1994)
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How is Claudia?

+26 Sep 1994
     Thanks; Ivanova's a lot of fun to write for. Re: Claudia...she's
+up and running around, though still wearing her cast.  We worked it into
+the script following the one she was shooting when it happened, and shot
+around her for the balance of that.  It's come up in a total of two
+episodes in dialogue, but otherwise hasn't affected the show; she's been
+great about it.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+Loscon Babylon 5 Presentation (27 Sep 1994)
+
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Loscon Babylon 5 Presentation

+27 Sep 1994
     Well, I'm certainly glad to hear about the B5 presentation being
+scheduled for that Sunday; it's the first I'd heard of it.  I hadn't been
+notified or invited prior to this.  (Though in fairness, just after I
+read this here, I found a note on CIS from Lyon doing just that.)  In any
+event...yes, I'll be there.
+
+	                                                                   jms
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+

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+Re: Morden = Rod Serling? (27 Sep 1994)
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Re: Morden = Rod Serling?

+27 Sep 1994
     His name is in the credits; it's Ed Wasser.
+
+	                                                             jms
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+

+
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+ATT JMS : Question on Rules... (28 Sep 1994)
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ATT JMS : Question on Rules...

+28 Sep 1994
     Actor suggestions are fine.  As for Chrysalis, there's about 8
+to 10 days in "story time" between it and the events in "Points."  The
+next few shows track in real-time.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Seen at a convention.... (29 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Seen at a convention....

+29 Sep 1994
     Insofar as I know, those are bogus items.  All such items must go
+through my office for approval, and no one's sent those through yet.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+UK: B5 ratings (29 Sep 1994)
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UK: B5 ratings

+29 Sep 1994
     There's some chance that I may be in London within a week or so of
+"Chrysalis" airing there.  Anything I should know about, any London
+conventions?  How's the weather out there this time of year (October)?
+Anything doing in London that's worth checking out?  (Plays in
+particular.)
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+
+Re: Babylon 5 comics (4 Sep 1994)
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Re: Babylon 5 comics

+4 Sep 1994
     Small correction: I'm writing issue #1, and supplied the premise for
+issues 2-5, which are being written by Mark Moretti.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
+
+

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+
+How do you write for B5? (29 Sep 1994)
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How do you write for B5?

+29 Sep 1994
     I appreciate your interest; at this time, we're fully booked on
+scripts for B5.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+Truth on Ohare <offical> (29 Sep 1994)
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Truth on Ohare <offical>

+29 Sep 1994
     Mellissa Gilbert didn't state things exactly right, and was being
+provoked by Stern to say something controversial.  O'Hare already is
+slated to appear later in season one, so that alone takes care of the
+issue.  I'd also suggest the current Starlog interview with Michael,
+which also confirms stuff.
+
+     (Oops, typo above, I meant to type later in season *two*.)
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+
+Re: Truth on Ohare <offical> (30 Sep 1994)
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Re: Truth on Ohare <offical>

+30 Sep 1994
     Michael O'Hare had *absolutely* no such "in-first-episode, so in for
+all" clause in his contract.  Not only that, but insofar as I know such
+clauses don't *exist* in ANY SAG contract.  This in particular is one of
+the most astonishingly stupid things I've heard in ages.  We gave some
+serious thought to having Michael in the first episode, except as I got
+into the story, it really slowed things down...and I'm kinda partial to
+mysteries.  I like *doing* something...and then a bit down the road you
+find out what it's all about.  (Like this is news to anyone here.)
+
+     And Sinclair *does* appear later on this season.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Effect of Earth-Minbari War on (30 Sep 1994)
+
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Effect of Earth-Minbari War on

+30 Sep 1994
     You don't need to cut off every limb if you cut off the head.
+
+	                                                               jms
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+

+
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+JMS: Babylon 5 and DSS! (30 Sep 1994)
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+
JMS: Babylon 5 and DSS!

+30 Sep 1994
     I'll pass it along, but hey, if people listened to me, you think
+we'd have to wait until October 24th to see "Chrysalis"....?
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: what other kinds of warsh (30 Sep 1994)
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JMS: what other kinds of warsh

+30 Sep 1994
     At various points I think you'll probably see all those various
+classes of ships.
+
+	                                                         jms
+
+

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+JMS: the common cold? (30 Sep 1994)
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JMS: the common cold?

+30 Sep 1994
     Yeah, the common cold is still around.  Have been playing around for
+a while now with a story using that.  We'll see.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
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+Re: The hiring of Boxleitner (4 Sep 1994)
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Re: The hiring of Boxleitner

+4 Sep 1994
     Dylan...m'boy...ah thinks, that is, ah thinks you jes' ain't wired
+up entirely right....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+JMS: Franke defecting? (4 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Franke defecting?

+4 Sep 1994
     Most composers work on multiple projects, including series.  Chris
+is still doing B5, and we'll be sure to make the two shows sound different.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

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+Harlan Ellison (4 Sep 1994)
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+4 Sep 1994
     The book is Harlan's autobiography, which he plans to write around
+the year 2000, and yes, that's his photo.  (He borrowed the prop when we
+were finished and casually carried it with him to a few places, just to
+make people nuts thinking there was a book out they'd missed....)
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Chrysalis preview seen at (4 Sep 1994)
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Re: Chrysalis preview seen at

+4 Sep 1994
     Dan Wood: I think the original poster was having some fun; there was
+no "Chrysalis" trailer VO anywhere, to my knowledge; that's simply the
+text of a message I placed on GEnie a while back.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+Re: AAAIIIIEEE season finale ' (4 Sep 1994)
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Re: AAAIIIIEEE season finale '

+4 Sep 1994
     Matthew: correct.  A lot more happens in "Chrysalis" than happened
+in "Signs and Portents."
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+B5 & Violence: Light Years Awa (4 Sep 1994)
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B5 & Violence: Light Years Awa

+4 Sep 1994
     I'm afraid your logic is so far from reality that I'm not sure it
+can be called back.  The Suits as you call them have NOT asked for more
+violence or action in the show.  In fact, as reported in the trades and
+elsewhere, they have specifically asked for more character stuff and less
+violence.  (Basically...we're telling the story we're telling, and we were
+already starting to focus in on our characters, and we're doing more of
+that in year two, but we're not sacrificing action, which I happen to
+like.)
+ 
+     Re: "...the morality of being entertained by murder and violence,"
+I'm sorry, but this doesn't happen on television.  People are entertained
+by *representations* or *illusions* of those elements.  No one on B5 has
+ever been murdered or treated violently.  This is a fiction-based series.
+There's a difference.
+ 
+     I happen to feel strongly that the link between violence in the
+streets and violence in TV/movies is hugely exaggerated by people who
+think it's much easier to deal with the *picture* of the problem than it
+is to deal with the *problem*.  It's simpler to censor a TV show than it
+is to clean up the streets, provide jobs, properly fund schools, put more
+police on the streets, provide opportunities for young kids and get the
+hard drugs out of the community.
+ 
+     Frank, if you took *every* show with even a modicum of action off
+the air tomorrow...and left it off for seven days...there would not be
+one less murder in South Central Los Angeles, or any of our other major
+cities.  Not one.  Because television isn't the problem.  Every few
+years, the trendoids and the politicos decide that comic books are the
+problem, or movies are the problem, or TV is the problem...but the
+reality is that the PROBLEM is the problme, not the picture of the problem.
+ 
+     Not long ago, here in LA, a Santa Monica based anti-violence group
+went out to a video store which had a big honking picture of a gun in its
+front window, and picketed it.  Half a block away was a GUN SHOP.  But
+they didn't picket that, they picketed the poster.  They focused on the
+picture of the problem, not the problem.
+ 
+     For me, action is a necessary component of drama.  Meaning sometimes
+people get hurt.  You say, "ST expressed intelligence and humanism," and
+my only reply -- and I mean no offense to the hard-core ST fans, of which
+you are clearly one -- oftentimes it simply bored me to *tears*.  Nothing
+was really ever at stake.  Everything was sanitized.
+ 
+     I feel that B5 expresses just as much intelligence and humanism as
+any other show, including ST.  Maybe more.  And I'll tell you why.  In
+the ST:TNG universe, every human is perfect...no inner doubts, no violent
+tendencies, they're *genetically engineered that way*.  That's what they
+have said.  There's no quandry, no sense of questioning what should be
+done, they don't have to overcome, they have already done so.
+ 
+     So you can look at that show, and decide, "Well, I guess humanity is
+doomed to be violent until we can genetically engineer ourselves to be
+otherwise."  B5 humans aren't perfect.  They're flawed and scared and
+tempted by violence.  They're just like us.  And though their record isn't
+perfect, they frequently find ways to solve problems WITHOUT violence.  I
+think this is *profoundly* more relevant and a stronger message to send,
+that we can do it *today*.  We have the same problems they have, and if
+they can deal with it, maybe we can.
+ 
+     It is one thing to say, "Mankind has no further problems, no doubts,
+no insecurities," and another to say, "Here are some demonstrations of
+ways we can overcome our problems, doubts and insecurities."  Someone
+here recently posted a message "Everything I Need To Know In Life I
+Learned in Babylon 5."  I was really rather astonished to read it, because
+it took all the principles we've expressed in the show, or many of them,
+and put them all in one place...the capacity for self-sacrifice being one
+of the principles of sentient life...that it is better to find something
+worth living for than something worth dying for...on and on and on.
+ 
+     Humanism does not mean turning a blind eye to our problems; it means
+trying to elevate humanity from *inside*.  Intelligence doesn't mean we
+simply assume all of our problems have been solved by genetic engineering,
+which removes free will, just wipe the slate clean...it means that we need
+to see alternates and means of solving problems now.
+ 
+     Could Picard ever be tempted to do something illegal?  No.  Could
+some of our characters?  Yes.  In the case of Picard, it's a no brainer.
+In the case of a B5 character, we would see the struggle, the back and
+forth, and maybe it would be done, maybe it wouldn't, but there would be
+a REASON for it.  We see the process.  And I for one find that eminently
+more interesting.
+ 
+     Having action or make-believe violence in a show doesn't make it
+any less intelligent or humanistic than any other show.  When you start
+talking like that it's all kneejerk cliches and fuzzy thinking.  If it
+were true, then none of Shakespeare's dramas would have survived over the
+last several hundred years, and they *drip* with spilled blood.
+ 
+     Finally, I point you to two things: 1) the original Star Trek, w here
+Kirk says that yes, humans are a violent lot, we can and do kill; but we
+can decide, now and then, that we will not kill *today*.  That attitude
+is very much in line with B5.  So your problem isn't just with us, it's
+with TOS as well.  2) I refer you to a short story by Mark Twain called
+"The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg."  I won't tell you much more here than
+to read it.  It should be self-explanatory.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

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+The Gathering did not win Hugo (4 Sep 1994)
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The Gathering did not win Hugo

+4 Sep 1994
     Yep, that's pretty much what I said would happen.  And in my view,
+JP probably deserves the Hugo more than "The Gathering."  Next year, now,
+THAT is an open question....
+ 
+                                                                         jms
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+

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+ATTN:JMS-Improvisation:yes or (1 Sep 1994)
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ATTN:JMS-Improvisation:yes or

+1 Sep 1994
     When you're shooting a show, invariably you get to the stage and
+find that you have, for instance, three lines, one per character in the
+room...and you're trying to get them out the door, and it moves better
+if you give one line to one character and the other two to the other
+character.  That sometimes happens.  But rarely.  In the Garibaldi's yell
+case, it was written as a quick shot, he yells and we're out.  The
+director wanted to extend the shot a bit, visually.  I wasn't in the
+studio at the time, so Jerry improvised a series of yells.
+ 
+     This sort of thing is *extremely* rare on the show; the actors and
+directors know they *cannot* change dialogue on the set without approval
+from me or Larry.  On any given script, no more than about 3-6 lines get
+modified for staging purposes once we get to the set.  And always with
+approval required.  This is an absolute, hard and fast rule.  The only
+reason the Garibaldi thing happened is that they figured it was just a
+yell, so nothing could get messed up story-wise (which is the primary
+reason this is so strict; change one word in a line and it could screw
+up plot points three episodes down the road) by having him yell a few
+specific lines.  If I'd been there for that scene, I would've written him
+something a little less reminiscent of "Aliens."
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years (4 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years

+4 Sep 1994
     By the way...I forgot the biggest irony of all in this discussion.
+The largest watchdog groups monitoring violence in television, according
+to their statements last season, rated the most violent shows on TV as
+TNG and DS9, along with Brisco County Jr.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+Re: Year 2000?? (4 Sep 1994)
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Re: Year 2000??

+4 Sep 1994
     "...the only way a B5/ST crossover could happen is in some sort of
+time travel/alternate timeline story...."
+ 
+     And over my cold, dead body.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+THe pilot episode (5 Sep 1994)
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THe pilot episode

+5 Sep 1994
     I'm sure the pilot movie will show up again eventually, though I
+don't know when offhand.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+JMS:  LaserDisc release (5 Sep 1994)
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JMS:  LaserDisc release

+5 Sep 1994
     I suppose including the trailers would make for a good "compare and
+contrast" exercise in terms of what's actually IN the episode....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years (5 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years

+5 Sep 1994
     Re: "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg," I will confess to being a
+bit of a Twain enthusiast/scholar (if I can abuse that latter term for a
+moment in a burst of unjustificed optimism).  I've read virtually
+everything the man ever wrote, up to and including his journals, which are
+fascinating on their own, albeit fragmented (for obvious reasos).  He
+even wrote many stories that could be considered SF/fantasy outside of
+"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."  I find myself quoting him
+frequently.  The man knew how to turn a phrase and make a point.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years (5 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years

+5 Sep 1994
     I have known many, MANY of the people who've written ST, and served
+on staff (specifically TNG at the moment), and this (the problem of perfect
+people) is how they describe the problem in creating stories with any
+degree of conflict.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Q:Intro Sequence (5 Sep 1994)
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Q:Intro Sequence

+5 Sep 1994
     The window around Sinclair, Garibaldi and Ivanova is computer
+generated; the actors are not.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Introduction. (5 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Introduction.

+5 Sep 1994
     Yes, we'll definitely be redesigning the opening sequence visually
+as well as in the narrative.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Re: The hiring of Boxleitner (5 Sep 1994)
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Re: The hiring of Boxleitner

+5 Sep 1994
     Alas, I wrote my note about Bruce around 1 or 2 in the morning,
+and I meant to balance out *intensity* with *intelligence*, but my
+brain saw the first letters i-n-t-e, and vapor-locked.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Re: The Gathering did not win (5 Sep 1994)
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Re: The Gathering did not win

+5 Sep 1994
     I think a large part of this debate will be determined by which
+episodes fall into the right dates for eligibility.  I think that, for
+instance, David Gerrold's "Believers" fell just on the other side of Hugo
+eligibility for this coming year.  Which means that (if I'm correct, and
+is someone could check that'd be great) only shows prior to that would be
+eligible.  The only real big ones in that bunch would be "And the Sky Full
+of Stars" and "Mind War."  Best bet may be to pick one of those two and
+focus there.
+ 
+     One interesting sidelight is that B5 is *very* popular in the UK,
+including Scotland, so it may have a fair chance.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+ 
+     (And the TNG finale isn't eligible this year, I think, having conme
+(come) in after the cutoff date.)
+
+

+
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+Yet another question for JMS.. (1 Sep 1994)
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Yet another question for JMS..

+1 Sep 1994
     I would love to have David Warner do another episode, though it would
+have to be an alien, for obvious reasons.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: UK Censorship - Chrysalis (5 Sep 1994)
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JMS: UK Censorship - Chrysalis

+5 Sep 1994
     Insofar as I know, there's only one scene that might cause them a
+problem for violence, but it's handled fairly discreetly...well, on
+second thought, there's two...but if they did get snipped, you wouldn't
+lose more than 20 seconds or so.  If this cost plot information or not
+would depend on how they edited it.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Re: He-Man (was Re: [B5] Liar (5 Sep 1994)
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Re: He-Man (was Re: [B5] Liar

+5 Sep 1994
     I once wrote, just for myself and for fun, the Ram Man Theme Song,
+to the tune of BONANZA: "Who is the man with the head of lead?  IT'S RAM
+MAN!  Who is as dense as a picket fence?  RAM MAN is his name!  Leaping
+here, bouncing there, jumping everywhere...."
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Slappers? (5 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Slappers?

+5 Sep 1994
     Yes, slappers = skin tabs, for introducing medication.  The ones in
+TKO had been stolen from B5 medsupplies.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+

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+JMS: Censorship (5 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Censorship

+5 Sep 1994
     TKO's main importance is to the Ivanova arc, as she finally comes to
+terms with her father's death.  Do I have an opinion on C4's decision not
+to show TKO?
+ 
+     Absolutely.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+jms: a few questions (5 Sep 1994)
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jms: a few questions

+5 Sep 1994
     As I'm told, Chrysalis will air the last week or so in October.  As
+for computer tech in 2258, it's something we're exploring for a story,
+Larry has an interesting idea or two on how to realize it visually, but
+it's hard to find something that's possibly accurate without making it
+godlike.  Still, we're trying...
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Re: You guys read Alfred Beste (5 Sep 1994)
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Re: You guys read Alfred Beste

+5 Sep 1994
     The direction and intent and background of the Psi Corps is *very*
+different from Bester's "The Demolished Man."  What may cause some of
+the confusion is that when I decided to name the Psi Cop we'll be seeing,
+knowing of Alfie's work in the genre in general, and knowing that he was
+a close friend of Harlan's, I decided it would be a nice testimony to the
+man to name the Psi Cop Bester.  There's nothing beyond that.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+JMS: Three quick questions... (5 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Three quick questions...

+5 Sep 1994
     No, actually, B2 was structured for maximum jarring effect, thus the
+sudden cuts back and forth, the sickly green light in B4...makes the
+person watching feel unexplainably anxious, which was a subliminal but
+definite intent.  So no, nothing much was cut.  And yes, eventually we
+will see the flip-side of the B4 story.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS:  Question (5 Sep 1994)
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JMS:  Question

+5 Sep 1994
     No, alas, Tech #1, Marianne Robertson has decided that she would
+like to travel next year with her husband Dick Robertson, and has some
+other personal plans in mind, and thus won't be back next season.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS (and all) : Reruns and Rew (5 Sep 1994)
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JMS (and all) : Reruns and Rew

+5 Sep 1994
     Insofar as I know, the shows have been rerun in the same order in
+which they were originally broadcast.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+Alien looking aliens (6 Sep 1994)
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Alien looking aliens

+6 Sep 1994
     Bob Hoskins in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was talking to a cartoon
+that was supposed to be a cartoon; we were never expected to accept it as
+a real, live breathing creature.  We're so far doing one more major CGI
+critter as an alien for year two, but the rendering power required is
+absolutely MASSIVE.  (I'd also note that the budget for "Rabbit" was a LOT
+more than an average B5 episode.)
+ 
+     The problem, always, is having the alien interact with humans, not
+vice-versa.  You have two choices: a human in prosthetics, or essentially
+a puppet/animatronic face.  And the overall technology still isn't here
+yet to do that convincingly, up close, for television.  And if you want
+any real *emotion* from the character, you're going to have to have an
+actor inside.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+jms, i got a gripe! 8-) How co (1 Sep 1994)
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+1 Sep 1994
     Be patient; you'll see Centauri warships soon enough.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+VItW Part 1 - Another Question (6 Sep 1994)
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VItW Part 1 - Another Question

+6 Sep 1994
     Once removed from his place, Varn was able to lead them back to their
+shuttle.  It's not terribly dramatic, and I figured that was a fairly
+logical leap, so didn't feel the need to put in a scene which would just
+consist of VArn saying, "Left....now right...."
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+JMS: Priority #1 question! (6 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Priority #1 question!

+6 Sep 1994
     We always forward fan mail.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

+
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+filming show despite ratings? (6 Sep 1994)
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filming show despite ratings?

+6 Sep 1994
     The only problem to shooting a show in case a network decides not to
+pursue it is where does one get $18 million or so per season in order to
+continue filming?  And if the ratings drop, how does one convince the
+stations to carry the show instead of higher rating series?
+ 
+     The B5 series will live or die on the ratings.  Fortunately, the last
+seven new episodes have continued the trend of increasing ratings, and we
+just went from #20 to #18 in the overall ratings for syndication, which
+is extremely good.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years (7 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 & Violence: Light Years

+7 Sep 1994
     "Ban guns and only criminals will have them" is one of those quick
+and easy catchphrases that's used to gloss over the details of any real
+problem.
+ 
+     And the problem at hand is that the majority of murders committed in
+this country are not committed by hardened (or even softened, or even
+lightly par-broiled and kneaded) criminals.  They are committed by average
+folks who one day get too wound up, too hot, too crazed, too frustrated,
+too depressed, and pick up a gun and shoot somebody...usually a spouse,
+or a competitor, or the local Post Office.  There have been cases where
+the person goes out, buys the gun, comes home and starts shooting.  This
+would be at least sometimes mitigated by a waiting period of a few days,
+during which sometimes tempers cool, or other options besides one's own
+death and the death of others become available.  (And how many times now
+have we seen news of a boyfriend or husband killing wife and kids and then
+turning the gun on himself?)
+ 
+     Most murders are acts of passion...and the "criminal" line simply
+doesn't wash there.  (Though certainly they're criminals *after* the
+fact.)  There was a NEWSWEEK or TIME magazine piece a while back, last
+year I believe, where they chronicled one week's worth of murders, and
+the majority of them are crimes of passion or suicides.
+ 
+     Yes, as you say, somebody can be killed with a baseball bat or a
+knife or a rock...but then you've got to *catch* them first.  And you can
+only do one at a time.  You can't spray a schoolyard with 50 teflon
+coated bullets in 30 seconds with a rock.  A knife is wonderfully
+inefficient.  A knife can cut and not kill, or even seriously wound you
+if it doesn't go deep enough; a bullet always goes deep enough, and if it
+doesn't blow through the other side, ends up bouncing around inside the
+body and puncturing internal organs as much as a foot from the point of
+entry.  Do that with a baseball bat.
+ 
+     My feelings on gun and gun ownership and crime are more or less as
+follows: ban assault weapons, they're good for nothing except killing other
+human beings in large numbers, you don't go squirrel hunting with an
+AK47...permit the ownership of rifles, shotguns, and handguns
+(non-automatic), but require permits, the same way you do for fishing or
+driving a car, and make sure that the person has to take X-hours of
+lessons in proper gun use, the way you practice for a driver's license; if
+you're going to own a gun, you should be trained to use it and use it
+efficiently...if someone commits a murder with a gun of any kind, throw
+the book at them.  I'm ambivilant about capital punishment, but I'm all
+for life imprisonment without possibility of parole.  Put more police on
+the streets and OUT OF THEIR CARS, let's see a return to community
+police who are known to the folks in the neighborhood.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+JMS: How is a delegated story (8 Sep 1994)
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JMS: How is a delegated story

+8 Sep 1994
     In most cases, I work out the story fairly comprehensively, giving
+the writer a beginning/middle/end, and some of the characters.  In a few
+cases, it's less than that, a general direction and items which have to
+happen in that episode.  Very often it's in writing from me, ranging from
+a paragraph or two to a few pages.
+ 
+     Generally, in TV, this would mean that I would take shared story
+credit on the episode.  But there are no arbitrated credits on B5; the
+freelancer gets all the credit, and all the residuals, and rightly so.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Ad lib or not ad lib? (8 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Ad lib or not ad lib?

+8 Sep 1994
     When it came time for that chant, nothing had been scripted; it was
+supposed to be a soft, under one's breath kind of chant.  Bill came and
+asked me and Larry if we had anything in mind.  We said no, whatever you
+decide is fine...and he ended up chanting his album cover.
+ 
+     Later...*much*...laater...when I discovered this, we discussed it at
+some length.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+JMS: Re: B5 & Violence: Light (8 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Re: B5 & Violence: Light

+8 Sep 1994
     "B5 does respectfully acknowledge religion, and is therefore not as
+liable to get bit by this group."
+ 
+     Oh, they'll still gig us on violence; already have.  John Copeland,
+one of our producers, heard an NPR report a while back interviewing some
+rep of one of these pressure groups who complained about the violence;
+more will come.  And any group NOT represented will scream and yell
+because they think they're not being represented.  And given some other
+aspects of our show...oh, yeah, they'll come after us all right.
+ 
+     Where nothing exists, they'll just make it up.  When I was working
+with ABC on The Real Ghostbusters, a consulting group came in from one of
+these groups, to help the network avoid accidental satanic references, and
+to keep an eye on this stuff.  They gave the network execs their breakdown
+of the signs that a kid was getting into satanism.  Some of them (and
+this is verbatim): "He's curious.  He's sometimes sad.  He's easily
+pressured by his peers.  He's into heavy metal rock and roll.  He can
+sometimes be rebellious."
+ 
+     By their lights, those are guaranteed signs of satanism.
+ 
+     Not come after *us*...?  Oh, man....
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+Re: You guys read Alfred Beste (8 Sep 1994)
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Re: You guys read Alfred Beste

+8 Sep 1994
     I believe they are the same person, yes.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS: Minor Roles--Great Job!! (8 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Minor Roles--Great Job!!

+8 Sep 1994
     There are a number of security guard types we see frequently; one
+who is Asian, the dark-haired guy who we saw in "Sky" that you note (and
+who we also have seen elsewhere, including the picket crashers in "By
+Any Means"), and Lou Welch, who shows up from time to time, and continues
+into the next season.  They all continue to show up.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Re: He-Man (was Re: [B5] Liar (9 Sep 1994)
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Re: He-Man (was Re: [B5] Liar

+9 Sep 1994
     "This from the man who claims to hate filk."
+ 
+     Hey...I was young and stupid...now I'm older....
+ 
+                                                              ...and stupid.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi (1 Sep 1994)
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Re: [B5] Liar liar pants on fi

+1 Sep 1994
     No, the ABCD comment wasn't meant in your direction, Jim, but due to
+my GEnie mail reader, sometimes I can only get into a discussion by
+replying to whatever message in the thread is in my box at the time.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+

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+Re: The hiring of Boxleitner (9 Sep 1994)
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Re: The hiring of Boxleitner

+9 Sep 1994
     "Sounds like a forumla to really PO the Minbari."
+ 
+     Yup.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

+
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+Why use real paper? (9 Sep 1994)
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Why use real paper?

+9 Sep 1994
     Paper (or synthetics) is light, foldable, portable, disposable and
+recycleable.  I remember being told that the coming of computers would
+put an end to paper...come on by my office someday...I have MORE paper
+and MORE drafts lying around now than when I was working on a typewriter.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+religion (9 Sep 1994)
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+9 Sep 1994
     "I haven't seen any references to Jung yet."
+ 
+     Don't be silly...everyone on my show is jung at heart....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: B5 baseball caps (9 Sep 1994)
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ATTN JMS: B5 baseball caps

+9 Sep 1994
      Well, see, here's the problem: yes, Creation licensed some stuff
+from us, including the creation (so to speak) of B5 baseball caps.  So
+far, so good.
+ 
+      One day, about a week or so ago, John Copeland comes into my
+office with one of these caps, purchased at a Creation store in
+Glendale.  Shows it to me.  The stitching ain't great (they're supposed
+to run these things past me, and I didn't see this item), but the cap is
+more or less okay, I don't see why he's smiling.
+ 
+      Then the label attached to the cap swings out, and hangs in front
+of my eyes.  OFFICIAL LICENSED PRODUCT PARAMOUNT TELEVISION.
+ 
+      I went ballistic, Warners went ballistic, the caps were yanked out
+of the stores so fast they left a doppler trail behind them...so I don't
+know now if they'll be around for sale or not.  If so, I doubt very much
+that you'll see a Paramount tag on them.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Re: Russian (9 Sep 1994)
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Re: Russian

+9 Sep 1994
     Just FYI...Marianne Robertson, Tech #1, was Swedish, not Russian.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+Re: JMS: Opening sequence (9 Sep 1994)
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Re: JMS: Opening sequence

+9 Sep 1994
      Re: the "last" of the Babylon Stations...y'all might want to bear
+in mind the syntax of the narration.  It speaks of B5 in the *past
+tense*.  "Bablyon 5 WAS the last of the Babylon stations...it WAS the
+dawn of the third age of mankind."  The narration is the voice of future
+history, the storyteller, long after the fact, spinning for us the tale
+of the last of the Babylon stations.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Re: B5 T-Shirts (9 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 T-Shirts

+9 Sep 1994
     The shirst are definitely legit.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+Bruce Boxleitner's Credits (9 Sep 1994)
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Bruce Boxleitner's Credits

+9 Sep 1994
     There's not much I can do about outside costumes at the moment;
+they haven't been codified into designs that we can release yet.  Ann
+Bruice, our costumer, plans to put it all together eventually, but not
+for a bit yet.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+Re: B5 reminds me of... (9 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 reminds me of...

+9 Sep 1994
     I wish it were true about Twin Peaks having an overall story that
+they had planned out prior to filming.  Just recently, though, I had
+meetings with a couple of main writers/story editors on the show, and
+they said, yeah, they were making it all up as they went, they really
+didn't have a clue where it was going.  There was a general sort of theme,
+but as for having the story plotted out...apparently not.  Needless to
+say, I was vastly disappointed...I loved that show...still do, actually,
+even knowing this.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Warner Bros. Stores (10 Sep 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Warner Bros. Stores

+10 Sep 1994
     In general, WB doesn't sell many TV series items through the stores;
+and only sometimes via catalog.  There are several WB shows that aren't
+represented at all.  (And B5 isn't produced by WB, it'san independent
+production aired on a network partly owned by WB, and that's a vital
+distinction to remember.)
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+JMS: Will we see big guns blaz (1 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Will we see big guns blaz

+1 Sep 1994
     Believe me, by the time this story is done, you'll see *plenty* of
+big guns and major engagements.  It's fairly clear in the bits and pieces
+that we're moving toward one hell of a conflagration.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+Re: WE WON THE EMMY FOR BEST M (11 Sep 1994)
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Re: WE WON THE EMMY FOR BEST M

+11 Sep 1994
     The Special Effects Emmy generally reflects the work over the course
+of a season.  TNG submitted something like 6-8 episodes, ditto with other
+series.  Through a situation best left unexamined, only one B5 was
+submitted, "Sky," whereas "Mind War," also eligible, was not submitted.
+There wasn't enough to work from to make the determination to give B5 th3
+(the) award (there are no nominations in this category, only 3-4 juried
+awards).  This will be corrected next season.  In spades.
+ 
+                                                                          jms
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+

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+JMS, Artistic control in show (11 Sep 1994)
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JMS, Artistic control in show

+11 Sep 1994
    I think that the PRIMARY reason that B5 is as good as it has been is
+that we've been pretty much left to our own devices without much in the
+way of interference from the studio/network.  The day a studio begins
+messing around with a show is when it pretty much becomes doomed.  I don't
+see WB so much meddling with Chris' vision of the music as trying to find
+the best distributer...it's the *result* of that decision that then affects
+the creative product.  Certainly, if it were me, I'd go with Chris.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+JMS: Three quick question (13 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Three quick question

+13 Sep 1994
     By the "flip side" of stories I was referring to the other side of
+events.  I.e., in episode one, Sinclair is reassigned, but we hear about
+this mainly when he's away.  In the comic, we'll see where he is, and
+see his reaction to what's going on.  In B-squared, we saw the present
+events in the vanishment of B4; in a future episode, we'll actually see
+our characters make the decision to go back in time and yank B4 forward,
+what went wrong, and so on.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke? (13 Sep 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?

+13 Sep 1994
     The VOYAGER pilot is *$23 million*?!
+ 
+     The BABYLON 5 pilot was $3.5 million.
+ 
+     With $23 million, we could make 1.3 SEASONS of B5.  And have a bit
+of money left over for a wrap party.
+ 
+     Amazing....
+ 
+                         jm(who keeps thinking of what he could do with that)s
+
+

+
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+JMS: Star wheel (13 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Star wheel

+13 Sep 1994
     Unfortunately, it would have to be a HUGE starwheel, beyond a
+manageable size; and wiring the lights at that range would be a problem,
+and the noise factor during shooting would be a pain.  I'm afraid that
+for now, it is what it is.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Ratings of PTEN (13 Sep 1994)
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Ratings of PTEN

+13 Sep 1994
     I think we're quite a bit ahead of Kung Fu just now....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+Attn JMS: Scripts available? (14 Sep 1994)
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Attn JMS: Scripts available?

+14 Sep 1994
     We're in the process of setting up some kind of fan liaison office,
+which would do some limited sales stuff, just enough to pay its own
+way.  Should this come about, we'll sell some of the B5 scripts through
+this office.  (One difference between us and ST is that we will pay the
+freelance writers a *royalty* on any scripts of theirs we sell.)  But
+this is still in the works.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke? (14 Sep 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?

+14 Sep 1994
     By rounding it to 1.3 seasons, the number is still inexact; certainly
+we make the show for less than $1 million per episode.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+Re: JMS: Star wheel (14 Sep 1994)
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Re: JMS: Star wheel

+14 Sep 1994
     If we put a blue screen behind the window, and did that, given that
+we tend to have long scenes in front of it, every frame of starfield has
+to be rendered, cut in digitally...it's a *very* time consuming process,
+and would detract from Ron & Co. doing the other EFX we use in the show.
+We don't have the ability to throw money at everything here.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Alien looking aliens (6 Sep 1994)
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Alien looking aliens

+6 Sep 1994
     Bob Hoskins in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was talking to a cartoon
+that was supposed to be a cartoon; we were never expected to accept it as
+a real, live breathing creature.  We're so far doing one more major CGI
+critter as an alien for year two, but the rendering power required is
+absolutely MASSIVE.  (I'd also note that the budget for "Rabbit" was a LOT
+more than an average B5 episode.)
+
+     The problem, always, is having the alien interact with humans, not
+vice-versa.  You have two choices: a human in prosthetics, or essentially
+a puppet/animatronic face.  And the overall technology still isn't here
+yet to do that convincingly, up close, for television.  And if you want
+any real *emotion* from the character, you're going to have to have an
+actor inside.
+
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+JMS: Water Buffalo (2 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Water Buffalo

+2 Sep 1994
     Unfortunately, I don't know what the statute of limitations minimums
+are up in Canada....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+VItW Part 1 - Another Question (6 Sep 1994)
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VItW Part 1 - Another Question

+6 Sep 1994
     Once removed from his place, Varn was able to lead them back to their
+shuttle.  It's not terribly dramatic, and I figured that was a fairly
+logical leap, so didn't feel the need to put in a scene which would just
+consist of VArn saying, "Left....now right...."
+
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+JMS: Priority #1 question! (6 Sep 1994)
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+
JMS: Priority #1 question!

+6 Sep 1994
     We always forward fan mail.
+
+	                                                          jms
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+

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+filming show despite ratings? (6 Sep 1994)
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filming show despite ratings?

+6 Sep 1994
     The only problem to shooting a show in case a network decides not to
+pursue it is where does one get $18 million or so per season in order to
+continue filming?  And if the ratings drop, how does one convince the
+stations to carry the show instead of higher rating series?
+
+     The B5 series will live or die on the ratings.  Fortunately, the last
+seven new episodes have continued the trend of increasing ratings, and we
+just went from #20 to #18 in the overall ratings for syndication, which
+is extremely good.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Re: Sci-fi lunacy!! (15 Sep 1994)
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Re: Sci-fi lunacy!!

+15 Sep 1994
     I want to be there when someone informs Mr. Pavlocik that the new
+Voyager series has contracted with Amblin' Imaging to do all of its space
+effects (except for the main ship) with CGI by way of Amigas/Toasters.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+# of aliens (16 Sep 1994)
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# of aliens

+16 Sep 1994
     What you describe is already what we're doing, deciding when a new
+races is better than one of our others.  Logically speaking, in a sector
+of space as massive as what we're talking about, you're going to have
+literally *hundreds* of worlds, possibly thousands, that have sentient
+life.  (I forget now the specific number of such worlds advanced by the
+Drake equation, but it's on the level of millions of such worlds in our
+galaxy alone.)  You'd also have subset worlds; a world controlled by the
+Centauri, for instance, whose inhabitants are not themseles Centauri, but
+some other race.  (Or species, more accurately.)
+
+     The pak'ma'ra (the carrion eaters) weren't just introduced for that
+one episode ("Legacies"), they have been seen before and since, starting
+with the very first episode.  Deathwalker and Varn ("Deathwalker" and
+"Voice") were both the last of their kind, or close to it in the latter
+case, so logically you couldn't have it be one of the previously seen
+races.  So that only leaves two or three that we've brought in in the
+course of a season.
+
+     We knew that when all was said and done, we wanted a minimum of 20
+or so races who would be available to us at all times, and now we've got
+those.  We've just finished a 35 page breakdown of each race's history,
+culture, language, politics, reproductive mechanisms and other areas for
+in-house distribution.  Most alien stuff will come out of this group,
+unless, again, there's a specific reason for bringing in a new one that
+would compromise the story otherwise.  (For instance, the Drazi play a
+role in several episodes next season.)
+
+     We're not just throwing them in helter-skelter; we wanted to build up
+a solid "repertory group" of diverse aliens, and now we've got that.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?

+16 Sep 1994
     Virtually ALL dramatic series cost at or above the $1 million mark.
+A show as simple and cost effective as "Murder, She Wrote," without any
+CGI or models or big efx, with recurring cast and sets and not a lot of
+location shooting, cost around $1.2 million per episode.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?

+16 Sep 1994
     Re: a lot of sets costing $23 million....we have 19 standing sets
+and 55 or so swing sets, on only our series budget and the pilot ($3.3
+million) movie.
+
+                                                                jms
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+

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+Mind of the [Great] Maker (16 Sep 1994)
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Mind of the [Great] Maker

+16 Sep 1994
     Marc: when being interviewed about my presence on the nets, some
+reporter will invariably work his or her way around to the question,
+"Yeah, but what do YOU get out of it?"  The answer to that could not be
+expressed any better than in my response to your analysis.  One of the
+wonders of being on the nets is that from time to time one will encounter
+a cogent, reasoned, thoughtful and perceptive analysis that comes at
+one's own creation from a totally unexpected direction, casting it in a
+new light.  Yours was such a message.  Many thanks.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke? (17 Sep 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Ready to puke?

+17 Sep 1994
     Actually, my point was that we have *more* sets than just about any
+other SF series I can think of, including DS9.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+Re: Sci-fi lunacy!! (18 Sep 1994)
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Re: Sci-fi lunacy!!

+18 Sep 1994
     Excuse me, Jason, but please explain to me what the fuck you're
+talking about re: "net-worship" after the pilot?  I got broasted, roasted
+and toasted here on Internet.  I got raked over every conceivable coal
+you can think of, and a couple you can't.  And there's plenty of criticism
+to go around.  If you didn't see some of it, that's your problem, that
+doesn't mean it wasn't there.  Say what you want, but don't distort the
+historical record to make a totally fallacious point.  I think you're
+seeing what you want to see, or somehow the discussion is pushing some
+button of yours that's got *nothing* to do with me.  If the conversation
+has gotten more positive since the series has come on, it's because the
+show has gotten better.  These people have no personal history with me,
+we didn't go to high school together, nobody here owes anybody money...if
+the show stunk, they'd say so.  (And those that think it does, do.)
+
+     I'm sorry, but on this one point you are singularly, 100% deadass
+wrong.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Babylon 5 Novels (2 Sep 1994)
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Babylon 5 Novels

+2 Sep 1994
     Correction to the LOCUS report: the first novel is "Voices," not
+"El Diablo," which was an early premise that didn't work out.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+Re: Bored of Trek, try B5! (18 Sep 1994)
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Re: Bored of Trek, try B5!

+18 Sep 1994
     Correct, Gregory.  One of the things we learned from the pilot was
+that we shoved too much information at people too fast.  So I deliberately
+held back a lot of arc stuff in the beginning of the series, allowing
+people to move gradually into the B5 universe, learn more about it, and
+THEN start whapping them with the arc.  It isn't until "Mind War" and
+"Sky" that we really begin cranking the arc.
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+                                                                             jms
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+ATTN JMS, how long do we have (18 Sep 1994)
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ATTN JMS, how long do we have

+18 Sep 1994
     How long until: organic tech a la Infection (six months); healing
+machine (two months); the planet (now being adjusted slightly; within a
+year, give or take); the triluminary (one month); a vorlon (under one
+year); a shadow (one month).
+
+                                                                      jms
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+Re: JMS: novel serialization / (18 Sep 1994)
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Re: JMS: novel serialization /

+18 Sep 1994
     Doing a story in weekly arcs is really the only way to do it in what
+is a standard dramatic TV format, airing every 7 days.  On another level,
+the episodes aren't as tightly linked as a novel, because if so, then you
+couldn't afford to miss even one of them.  We try to be more flexible.
+
+     And loved "Tales from the City."
+
+                                                                       jms
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+SQ (19 Sep 1994)
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+19 Sep 1994
     The dipping of a telepath into a normal's mind randomly, the kind
+of invasion of privacy you see on SQ, is *exactly* why rules were set in
+place for B5 telepaths.  Otherwise you've got incredible deus ex machina
+problems, and nobody has any right to privacy.  What's the difference
+between peeking into someone's mind without permission, which they seem
+to have no problem with, and peeking in their door while they're having
+sex?  They're both incredible violations of privacy.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS: Please read (was Re: This (20 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Please read (was Re: This

+20 Sep 1994
     Sorry, Allen, I have not seen a lot of facts on the other side of
+this issue (gun control); I have seen only rhetoric and fuzzy logic and
+a complete mischaracterization of my original message, including the one
+I'm responding to now.  Everybody characterized this as a "ban guns"
+argument, which it never was; I indicated the kinds of guns that I felt
+were appropriate, and those that I had a problem with from a logical
+perspective.
+
+     I haven't said anything more on the subject because, frankly, it's
+pointless; gun control, like abortion, is a topic that just goes on and on
+forever, each side stating and restating their positions and no one really
+ever changing their mind.  I've been on the nets too long, and seen this
+one too many times, to fall into this trap again.  I said what I believed,
+and what I still believe, and see no need for an act of contrition.  You
+seem to operate under the apprehension that I didn't fully investigate
+the issue, and if I just looked at the "facts" you and others present,
+the scales would fall from my eyes like Saul, and I would suddenly come
+around to your point of view.  Sorry, I *have* investigated the issue, and
+my feelings on the issue are as stated.  I did not see one new element in
+the discussion that I have not read a thousand times before elsewhere.
+
+                                                                 jms
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Re: SQ

+20 Sep 1994
     From the way it was played, it seemed that the telepathy was a
+conscious, active decision (which reconciles with what was shown last
+season about telepaths in SQ).
+
+                                                                      jms
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+Re: JMS: Please Make B5 More L (20 Sep 1994)
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Re: JMS: Please Make B5 More L

+20 Sep 1994
    My story editor, Larry DiTillio, explained to me that the acronym in
+SeaQuest DSV stands for Doesn't Survive Viewing....
+
+                                                                     jms
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Re: SQ

+20 Sep 1994
     Joshua...no one has ever said anything about Paramount bugging
+devices or anything else.  The Babylon 5 pilot screenplay, bible, series
+treatment, and a flock of story premises was given to Paramount
+Television in 1989, where it was reviewed and discussed in depth.  Are
+we clear on this distinction now?  (Oh, yeah, also the extensive full
+color artwork was submitted with it.)
+
+                                                                      jms
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+[JMS+Radiophiles] Last resort (21 Sep 1994)
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[JMS+Radiophiles] Last resort

+21 Sep 1994
     I have always been a MAJOR fan of radio drama, and have even
+written for the field (Alien Worlds, Mutual Radio Theater, others); also,
+many of those whose works influenced me came out of radio (Norman Corwin,
+Arch Oboler, Rod Serling).  I love dialogue, and because of the rather
+intricate overall story, this is definitely an information-intensive
+show, which is certainly like radio drama.  I also like trying to make
+pictures out of words, which is also out of that tradition, and trying to
+blend that with the visuals.
+
+     On another level, though, Linda Ellerbee once commented that if you
+could walk into another room and, listening to the TV, follow the story,
+it isn't TV, it's radio.  TV should take fullest advantage of the visual
+medium, and that's something that I'm working more on this season, now
+that we've established the core of the B5 universe over the first
+season, and the information required for that.  More and more scenes
+without dialogue, or a minimum of dialogue, to balance it all out.  It's
+really a learning process, every day.  I've written over 125 produced
+episodes of TV, for some of the highest rated shows around...and I still
+feel like I'm just beginning to learn how to write even half-decently.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+Question: Why only one camera (21 Sep 1994)
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Question: Why only one camera

+21 Sep 1994
     All shows (including ours) sometimes use two cameras (referred to as
+the A and B cameras).  Adding a second camera costs money, because you
+now also need a second camera operator to run it, second focus pullers,
+dolly guys, on and on.  In general, all of your main footage (masters,
+close-ups and the rest) are always shot with the A camera *anyway*, with
+the B camera usually used for group reactions or coverage in action scenes.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+Joe's Life Being Ebbed By Radi (3 Sep 1994)
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Joe's Life Being Ebbed By Radi

+3 Sep 1994
     Actually, as I understand it, lead *magnifies* the EMF problem, so
+a lead-lined jockstrap is not something I contemplate with any degree of
+calm.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
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+A "promotion" for Ivanova?? (21 Sep 1994)
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A "promotion" for Ivanova??

+21 Sep 1994
     *sigh*...yes, Ivanova has always been second in command; she gets
+promoted to Commander rank under Captain Sheridan.  TVG goofed.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+To JMS: thanks for honoring As (21 Sep 1994)
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To JMS: thanks for honoring As

+21 Sep 1994
     You're most definitely welcome; it was something we did to honor
+Asimov, who determined the shape of this genre for many writers.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+JMS: Videos? (21 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Videos?

+21 Sep 1994
     Regular aspect ratio tapes should begin showing up this winter;
+letterboxed laserdisks to follow probably in the spring.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+JMS: Thanks (22 Sep 1994)
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JMS: Thanks

+22 Sep 1994
     Two responses: on your B5 comments...thanks, much appreciated.
+
+     Regarding the new Twilight Zone...I saw the same article you did on
+why MGM chose to make one more season, to have enough to syndicate, and
+was *furious* by it.  Yeah, MGM did it because if they *didn't*, there
+wouldn't be enough episodes to syndicate, and they would never again see
+the light of day.  The article seemed to make a big deal out of the idea
+that they were doing this so they could make some of their money back.
+
+     Well (and this isn't directed at you, as much as the article), I
+hate to break anybody's bubble, but NONE of the studios produce TV series
+because they think they're doing something good for the commonweal.  They
+do so because they think the show will make money for them.  It's then up
+to the writers and producers to try and make it something MORE than that.
+
+     The article was skewed and biased and snotty, and I'm *still* pissed
+off about it.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+Don't Unveil Kosh (22 Sep 1994)
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+22 Sep 1994
     I think it would be profoundly unfair to viewers to keept hem
+(oops, keep them) hanging around for more than one more season waiting
+to see a Vorlon.  Though I understand and see your point.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+Re: B5 & DS9: Off to War (22 Sep 1994)
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Re: B5 & DS9: Off to War

+22 Sep 1994
     To Toby Papa Funk: "I'm a-twitter."
+
+     I think there's a typo there; given your insulting tone to the
+whole of this group, I think next time you write this you need to leave
+off the last three letters.
+
+                                                                         jms
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+B5 Comic - When Available? (22 Sep 1994)
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B5 Comic - When Available?

+22 Sep 1994
     Should be out late November/early December.
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+Why does B5 exist? (22 Sep 1994)
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Why does B5 exist?

+22 Sep 1994
     B1-3 were sabotaged very early into production, so the cost was less
+than the inconvenience.  B4 was where they dumped all the money, and it
+was very iffy if there'd be a 5, until the Minbari came up to the plate
+and offered to help finance it.  For Earth, which was almost wiped out in
+the war, it's more a matter of self-preservation.
+
+                                                                          jms
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+JMS: Questions about the B5 un (23 Sep 1994)
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+23 Sep 1994
     I've always said that there's a side story that could follow the 5
+year B5 storyline, which takes place in the B5 universe, and follows on
+the heels of the events in B5...but who knows if that would happen?
+
+     The one thing I would hate is for B5 to become any kind of so-called
+"franchise."  Because as soon as that happens, you're prevented from making
+any changes, from doing anything that might startle people, cutting into
+the piggy-bank.  Once that happens, you're dead.
+
+     I've also made no secret of my sense that, should B5 run its full
+five year course (and assuming the side-story doesn't go, which I would
+not exactly count on)...I plan to get out of TV.  By that point, I would
+have said pretty much everything I want to say in TV, and it's time to
+get out, buy a small house somewhere outside London, and spend the rest
+of my years writing novels, which is kinda where this all began.  (I've
+had 2 novels, 1 anthology, and a bunch of short stories published, as
+well as 500 or so articles.)
+
+     I never got into this to make a ***FRANCHISE***, and never really
+intended to become an executive producer.  I just don't like being
+rewritten...so I climbed higher, until finally there was nobody over me
+messing with my scripts.  Outside of the B5 reality, if someone came to
+me and offered me *staff writer* on a show -- the lowest position in the
+TV totem pole -- but with the guarantee that I wouldn't be rewritten, they
+wouldn't change the words...I'd take it in a hot second.  I'm here, now,
+strictly out of self-defense.
+
+     Two valuable social skills are knowing when to enter a room, and when
+to leave a room.  At some point, you have to get out or become something
+you don't want to become.  I've never really been part of the Hollywood
+SYSTEM, and have no desire to do so.
+
+     In "The Velvet Alley," Rod Serling wrote of a young advertising writer
+who becomes a success at writing television.  At one point, the character
+says (paraphrased from memory): "Here's the trap...in TV they pay you lots
+of money for what you do...then, slowly, your standard of living rises
+until you *need* that constant flow to stay at that level.  Then...they
+threaten to take it away from you if you don't behave.  And THAT'S when
+they've got you."
+
+                                                                    jms
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Re: To JMS: thanks for honorin

+24 Sep 1994
     The reference in "By Any Means" is to Matewan, where a terrible
+labor strike took place (and a film was made about it); the other is
+Matawan, which is where I lived for a while, but the reference is to the
+former, not the latter.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+***[JMS]*** Grail question, an (1 Oct 1994)
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***[JMS]*** Grail question, an

+1 Oct 1994
     What is Sinclair seeking?  What are we *all* seeking?  Answers,
+and purpose, and the second half of the sentence beginning with the
+word "Why."
+
+	                                                              jms
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+B5 storyline question... (2 Oct 1994)
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B5 storyline question...

+2 Oct 1994
     There's the sense that A, B and sometimes C stories in TV should
+intersect.  My attitude: sometimes yes, sometimes no.  Depends on if you
+look at this as a real place or not, as opposed to a thematic exercise.
+What I go through in the course of a day has nothing to do with what
+happens to Larry DiTillio across town, except and unless it involves our
+mutual work.  Sometimes, as in "Quality," the stories feel like they
+resonate, and can be used to illustrate one another, and so they're
+linked.  In others, what I'm striving for is a sense of a "day in thed
+(the) life" of Babylon 5.  The one kind of story is neither better nor
+worse than the other, they're simply different.  One may like one more
+than the other, but to say they're "better" plots is just silly.  There's
+NO padding in this show, no stories put in to fill out time; just stories
+that we want to tell, period.
+
+	                                                                  jms
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JMS: Please don't ever do this

+3 Oct 1994
     The two most overdone types of stories are "it was all a dream" and
+"it was all a simulation to test humans."  What I gather is that this
+story was BOTH.  Be assured...you won't see any episode of B5 in which
+it's all a dream unless you know, in advance, that it's a dream...it won't
+be a bail-out clause later.  (I mention this only because there's one
+episode I'm playing with where a character is injured, and dreaming, and
+so we see the dream going on, but again, we'd know that going in.)  I
+think the other approach is just cheating the audience.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Grail Continuity Error? (3 Oct 1994)
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JMS: Grail Continuity Error?

+3 Oct 1994
     Re: missing cords................................eeek!
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Star Trek SPOILERS: (3 Oct 1994)
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Re: Star Trek SPOILERS:

+3 Oct 1994
     I do not recommend doing ANYTHING WHATSOEVER to Paramount, and would
+urge everyone to maintain the same stance.  Let the market decide what
+happens; let the best show win (if you believe in competition) or let both
+shows win.  Leave it be.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Truth on Ohare <offical> (3 Oct 1994)
+
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+
Re: Truth on Ohare <offical>

+3 Oct 1994
     "It wasn't JMS's call (re: O'Hare)."
+
+     Okay, I've sat on the sidelines through enough of this; I feel that
+I have to dive in on this.
+
+     Frankly, I don't much care what "the Hollywood" word is about
+Michael.  The word from Hollywood also said that we had fired ALL the
+cast, that we had fired Michael *and* Richard Biggs, that Michael had
+quit, on and on and on.  (The bit about firing Richard Biggs, btw, came
+up at a Conadian panel by someone who *swore* up down and sideways that
+it was true, and he'd heard it from someone at Warners.  I've got the
+tape of the panel.)
+
+     I don't know who you are.  I *do* know that there were only four
+people in the room when we broached this with Michael, and you're not
+one of them.  (Present: me, Michael, Doug Netter and John Copeland.)  We
+indicated that there were some new and interesting directions that the
+story could take in season two, but it would mean Sinclair vanishing for
+a prolonged period of time, and what were his feelings on that?  He noted
+that he'd been expecting this from where the scripts had been going, and
+that there were some opportunities that he wanted to explore on his own.
+It seemed like a good opportunity for both sides.  It was made clear at
+that meeting that Sinclair was *not* gone for good, that he *would* be
+back at various points, but not in the same capacity...because we had some
+nifty ideas about something we could do with that character outside of the
+confining role of Commander.  By the end of the meeting, it was decided
+that that was, indeed, what we would do.
+
+     We knew that Michael would be returning to New York soon to pursue
+some long-standing options, and since we knew we'd be needing him (and I
+knew where and when), I scripted out material for when he is seen again,
+and we filmed that prior to his jaunt so we wouldn't have to shlep him
+clear across the country later, and in case he should indeed be busy at
+the time.
+
+     I could frankly give a shit what anybody hears on the Hollywood
+rumor mill.  More nonsense goes out on those particular jungle drums than
+anyone can even conceive of...and anyone who takes them to heart is more
+than a little foolish.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Are storylines in the co (3 Oct 1994)
+
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+3 Oct 1994
     The B5 comic, novels and series are meant to be compartmentalized
+and independent, but complementary; if you never read the comic or the
+novel, you'll never have a problem with the series; but as with the show,
+the more you see, the more you'll get stuff coming down the road.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+capitalism in babylon 5 lookin (3 Oct 1994)
+
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capitalism in babylon 5 lookin

+3 Oct 1994
     Garibaldi hustled Naomi out of there because she was the head of
+the strike, and he came specifically to arrest her.
+
+     While to varying degrees there's less nationalism in the future of
+B5, it's not like everyone's suddenly talking like the folks on Melrose
+Place.  Americans are, nominally, one country...but you can get accents
+of varying kinds all over the country, sometimes within miles of one
+another.  This is just realism.
+
+     The star on Ivanova's helmet is a traditional Russian star, going
+back to Tsarist russia and beyond, not a Red Star.
+
+     The writer for "By Any Means Necessary" is Kathryn Drennan, who is
+very astute politically, a believer in the rights of workers (and all
+folks, actually), and think that characters are more interesting if they
+act smart than if they act stupid.
+
+     And yes, Ivanova's a hoot.
+
+	                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS : Throw away. (3 Oct 1994)
+
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+
ATTN JMS : Throw away.

+3 Oct 1994
     No, as a rule, there's no need to ask for the captain's blessings
+prior to a marriage.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Blue Script? (4 Oct 1994)
+
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+
Blue Script?

+4 Oct 1994
     I think the blue draft was the one just before we had our meeting on
+production and visual effects stuff, which led to some tailoring of the
+locations.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Chrysalis (Ooo) SPOILER ALERT (5 Oct 1994)
+
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Chrysalis (Ooo) SPOILER ALERT

+5 Oct 1994
     Without going into details in case anyone stumbles across this as
+a spoiler...we *did* show the wound, blood, burn, the whole bit in a
+close-up in the medlab.  If it wasn't shown, it might've been snipped
+there.
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Do a short bit in B5. (2 Oct 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Do a short bit in B5.

+2 Oct 1994
     As much as fans of the show have asked for me to do a cameo on the
+show...I can't.  For starters, on many levels I'm making the show for
+myself...and if I see me up on the screen, it blows the illusion.  For
+another, I've always thought it a bush-league thing to do; I'm a *writer*,
+I work behind the scenes, as should be; when I see somebody like John
+Landis or Mick Garris sticking their face in on camera, I can only shake
+my head, and refuse to do the same.  It turns the exercise into a game
+of cutes.
+
+     Finally...I've seen me.  Ehhh.  Tell you the truth, most folks who
+finally meet me generally conclude that there's far less to me than meets
+the eye.  Besides...the cost in replacement camera lenses would be simply
+astronomical.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Chrysalis (Ooo) SPOILER AL (5 Oct 1994)
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Re: Chrysalis (Ooo) SPOILER AL

+5 Oct 1994
     Now that you've seen this much, now you can begin putting together
+the other level of the metaphor that is B5...consider: a war that did not
+end satisfactorily for us, not winning or losing, a sort of peace with
+honor....the death of a president...the rise of intelligence agencies
+and military power...start to sound familiar?  Now what we begin to do
+is to start moving around the pieces, shifting the mirror of the story
+to reveal different aspects of ourselves, as well as tell the other
+separate story of B5 itself.  Again, the idea is for this story to
+function on *many* different levels: future-history, myth, adventure
+story, mystery and a metaphor.
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+My *good* friend mister Stra-c (5 Oct 1994)
+
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My *good* friend mister Stra-c

+5 Oct 1994
     Thank  you...I think....
+
+	                                                        jms
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+

+
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+
+jms, you are out of your mind! (5 Oct 1994)
+
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+
jms, you are out of your mind!

+5 Oct 1994
     Hey...I do try....
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Pilot on Sunday (UK) (6 Oct 1994)
+
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+
B5 Pilot on Sunday (UK)

+6 Oct 1994
     What time on Sunday will the pilot be running?
+
+     (Many folks have asked.)
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Any evidence of ATTENTION JMS (8 Oct 1994)
+
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Any evidence of ATTENTION JMS

+8 Oct 1994
     I get 500 messages a day; I scan for ATT JMS, and always try to
+answer, when I can answer.  Sometimes I can't, and remain silent.  Mostly
+I talk.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: prostitution? (8 Oct 1994)
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+
Attn JMS: prostitution?

+8 Oct 1994
     I'd say that some forms of prostitution are likely legal at that time.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Chrysalis SPOILERS (8 Oct 1994)
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Re: Chrysalis SPOILERS

+8 Oct 1994
     Re: the staging of Morgan Clark taking the oath of office; I gave
+very particular instructions to re-create the staging of the photograph
+in which Lyndon Johnson takes over from JFK after the assassination.  The
+same layout, posture, background, and so on.  We even had a photo on set
+for reference.  The creepy thing is that the day we shot the scene was the
+anniversary of the day it actually took place; very weird atmosphere on
+set that day.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Chrysalis" -- MAJOR SPOILERS (8 Oct 1994)
+
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+
"Chrysalis" -- MAJOR SPOILERS

+8 Oct 1994
     Re: being fooled into thinking the crystal construct in Delenn's
+quarters was nothing more than a meditation thing...in general, it helps
+to remember that I subscribe to Anton Chekov's First Rule of Playwriting:
+"If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the
+gun by act three, scene two.  If you fire a gun in act three, scene two,
+you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one."
+
+     Waste nothing.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Chrysalis (Yeah, yeah - SP (8 Oct 1994)
+
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Re: Chrysalis (Yeah, yeah - SP

+8 Oct 1994
     Kosh's brevity is one of the things I like best about him; in the
+year two episode "The Coming of Shadows," he has just two words in the
+whole episode...but they're guaranteed to give just about anyone the
+willies.
+
+     BTW, Kosh's statement, "And so it begins."  Referring to Delenn's
+situation, and to more than that.  Sound familiar?
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: UK-Chrysalis What happens (8 Oct 1994)
+
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+
Re: UK-Chrysalis What happens

+8 Oct 1994
     Only two Shadowman vessels hit the Narn base at Quadrant 37, not
+three.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Commander Sinclair's middle in (2 Oct 1994)
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+
Commander Sinclair's middle in

+2 Oct 1994
     Sinclair's middle name is David.
+
+	                                                              jms
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+

+
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+
+JMS: PPG'S ? (8 Oct 1994)
+
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+
JMS: PPG'S ?

+8 Oct 1994
    PPG = Phased Plasma Gun.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+UK: B5 ratings (8 Oct 1994)
+
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+
UK: B5 ratings

+8 Oct 1994
     Not currently planning anything for London, Ontario.  In the fullness
+of time...who knows?
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS - Parallels (was Re: (8 Oct 1994)
+
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ATTN JMS - Parallels (was Re:

+8 Oct 1994
     If the B5 story tracked reality too closely, it wouldn't be metaphor
+anymore, and would lose all its fancifulness.  A metaphor creates a general
+state or feeling in this case, so no, it won't track history precisely;
+it's a blend of many things, history, the story of the original Babylon,
+various myths, lots of stuff.  Throw it all into a pot, and out comes B5.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+
+Spoilers (8 Oct 1994)
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+
Spoilers

+8 Oct 1994
     You say that if people don't want to be spoiled, they shouldn't read
+spoilers.  But I think their point is that unless your message says
+spoiler in the title (and yours didn't) there's no way to KNOW that it's
+a spoiler until you read the message...at which point it's too late.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was (19 Oct 1994)
+
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+
Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was

+19 Oct 1994
     Far be it from me to contradict the erstwhile Thaxton, but I would
+point out that actors CAN get out of their options VERY easily, if they
+really want to.  The simple reality is that if an actor DOES NOT want to
+be there, their presence can totally destroy the morale of a show, the
+cast and crew.  Caitlin Brown, I'd point out here, opted out of B5 of her
+own volition, and we chose not to gainsay her.  And I stated as much here.
+
+     And now an aside to Mr. Ford Thaxton...frankly, what the hell
+business is it of yours anyway?  Public figure?  You're posting here on
+Internet before literally *thousands* of people.  So how about you give me
+the last few employers you worked for, so that I may either a) contact
+them directly and obtain information on the reasons for your departure,
+or b) simply go ahead and make stuff up about the reason for your
+departures.  Or is it only fair if you do it to somebody else?
+
+     About every few weeks, I run across somebody else who has what he
+says is THE TRUE STORY...that posts on GEnie resulted in O'Hare being
+fired (stated as gospel at a convention by a journalist citing sources
+"inside Warner Bros."); that O'Hare walked over money issues (this one was
+on a number of systems); that Warners forced the issue; that JMS forced
+the issue...on and on and on.  This has gone beyond the absurd.  But some
+people, it seems, need to gossip, and to post rumors, and to get into
+areas that are, frankly, none of their business.
+
+     Say O'Hare was fired.  Why post that and ruin the man's career for
+the next several years.  Say O'Hare quit.  Why post that and generate huge
+fan animosity toward him?  Say the decision was advanced by me, and well
+greeted by O'Hare.  Why?  Well, because as Kissinger said, it has the
+added benefit of being true.  Mutual and amicable.  The other crap is just
+based on the desire of some people to hurt someone, or spread dirt, or
+boost their egos on the notion that information is power, and if we seem
+to have it, we thus have power.
+
+     Only four people were in the room when the conversation took place.
+You weren't one of them.  For me, that's the end of the discussion.  Until
+next time, when somebody posts that evil Martian microwaves were beamed
+into my head making me fire O'Hare...and that's the *true* truth.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS questions and questio (19 Oct 1994)
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ATTN JMS questions and questio

+19 Oct 1994
     Amazing....fifteen questions and not *one* I can answer, except to
+say that they'll all be cleared up in the second season.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+Morden, a double agent?? (19 Oct 1994)
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Morden, a double agent??

+19 Oct 1994
     Correct, there are two C&C's on B5, on opposite sides of the
+front section.  In case one should be damaged, the other is a kind of
+backup.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+
+Where was Sheridan? (19 Oct 1994)
+
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Where was Sheridan?

+19 Oct 1994
     Sheridan was never on the original list because at that time when
+the EA needed Minbari financing for B5, they knew it'd piss off the
+Minbari to have it there, so he was never considered for the post at that
+time.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:  Final episode title (19 Oct 1994)
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ATTN JMS:  Final episode title

+19 Oct 1994
     My titles are often in a state of flux; "Signs and Portents" was
+originally titled "Raiding Party" in my notes, as the B5 FAQ notes
+somewhere.  So it may change, but for the time being, in my notes for the
+series, the last episode of year five has this note: Title? -- "Farewell"
+or "Sleeping in Light."
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Centauri Future? (19 Oct 1994)
+
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Centauri Future?

+19 Oct 1994
     The Centauri will, indeed, experience a renaissance of sorts; and we
+will see the Centauri emperor in "The Coming of Shadows."
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+
+??????? (2 Oct 1994)
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+
???????

+2 Oct 1994
     "jms, what do YOU want?"
+
+     I'll have fries with that.
+
+	                                                                   jms
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+

+
+
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+
+Sinclair, Garibaldi, Ivanova: (20 Oct 1994)
+
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Sinclair, Garibaldi, Ivanova:

+20 Oct 1994
     Issues 6-9 of the B5 comic from DC will focus on how Sinclair and
+Garibaldi met and formed their friendship.
+
+     (This is based on a premise from me, so it's canon.)
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+
+Arrrgggggg!(CHRYSALIS SPOILS) (20 Oct 1994)
+
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Arrrgggggg!(CHRYSALIS SPOILS)

+20 Oct 1994
     There's another reason why Macauley was used as Tragedy in a dream
+mainly centered around Psi Corps; it's not really something anybody needs
+to see or catch.  After "Revelations," it'll be clearer.
+
+	                                                              jms
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+

+
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+
+Straczynski pays homage to... (20 Oct 1994)
+
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Straczynski pays homage to...

+20 Oct 1994
     Actually, these "homages" are all incorrect, and only exist in
+the perception of the perceiver....
+
+     1) the Douglas Adams "homage."  Nope.  Eric Sevareid once wrote
+that "working in television is like being nibbled to death by ducks."  I
+think it was in his book "Not So Wild A Dream," itself a line borrowed
+from a poem by Norman Corwin.  It's also a fairly common phrase.
+
+     2) Whitley Streiber.  Aliens like that in "Communion" have been
+shown and drawn a LOT longer than Streiber has been talking about them.
+No relation.
+
+     3) Forbidden Planet...the script called for a chasm.  I got three
+different storyboards from Ron.  The best looking was that one, and
+that's the one we went to, though I knew it would resonate.
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Ivonova and Janine M. (21 Oct 1994)
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JMS: Ivonova and Janine M.

+21 Oct 1994
     No, Janine never came to mind while creating Ivanova.  I still like
+Janine a lot, but to me they're very different people.  Mainly I was
+looking at other people I've known from that part of the world, and my own
+background in that area, and acting accordingly.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Have You read Pourne (21 Oct 1994)
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Attn JMS: Have You read Pourne

+21 Oct 1994
     Having previously crossed swords with Pournelle, I don't tend to
+read much of anything he writes.
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was (21 Oct 1994)
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Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was

+21 Oct 1994
     Bruce Boxleitner was not hired because of TVQ.  Bruce was hired
+because he was the best actor for the part, *AND* because he had worked
+with Doug Netter and John Copeland before on other projects, and thus they
+knew him and had a very high regard for him.  You conveniently ignore that
+aspect of it.  Also, you ignore some of the other actors that we announced
+were also on the list, beneath Bruce, which included Roger Reece, who we
+were strongly considering as a backup to Bruce should Bruce not turn out
+to be available.  Roger is a dynamite actor, but has zero TVQ.  (To provide
+the "direct evidence" that Theron Fuller keeps nudging about, a call to his
+agent can confirm the discussions.)  There were several other actors whose
+names you've probably never HEARD of on that list...so if the only thing
+we wanted was a TVQ actor, if that was the reason for replacing O'Hare,
+then why would we be wasting time talking to actors without a TVQ?
+
+     "My only interest is that I can't stand BS."  Meaning you came into
+this with the ASSUMPTION, based on nothing, that this was BS.  As far as
+I'm concerned, it's your comments that are strictly bullshit.  Your whole
+attitude is one of just wanting to make people upset (your note about
+some truth to your getting a kick out of irritating people), and disdain
+at the people here as "worshippers."  It seems to me that anytime in the
+past, as with here, when somebody mouths off out of ignorance or bile or
+cupidity, and gets called on it, he tends to try and kill the messenger
+by describing the folks doing the disagreeing as "worshippers."  This is
+an old gag, and we've seen it here before.  Seen it, been there, boring.
+
+     Re: O'Hare not saying much about the situation in Starlog...item
+number one is that you're relying on what was quoted, and that may not
+(almost certainly was not) all that was said.  Item number two, and more
+important: Michael is a very private man.  He didn't say anything about it
+because it's none of anyone's business, and he wants to keep the whole
+show on a positive basis because he believes in it.  You operate off the
+boneheaded theory that someone who says nothing on the subject surely must
+have something to hide.  Now me, I was born in America, where a person is
+innocent until proven guilty.  You seem to operate from the assumption
+that everyone is guilty of whatever it is you think they're guilty of,
+until such time as they prove otherwise.  You must come from a very odd,
+and very dark place.
+
+     You can "stand your ground" all you want; you have nothing but your
+erroneous facts, misapprehensions, delusions and convenient misquotings
+to rely on.  Obviously you're laboring under some sort of problem in
+maturity or some other area, but either way it's got nothing to do with
+my show, or the people here.
+
+     And you have not answered my query: please provide for me the names
+of your last 3-4 employers, so that I may contact them, or speculate
+freely, about your reasons for departing said employment.  After all, you
+haven't said anything about them in response to a direct query...thus by
+your own reasoning you MUST have something to hide.  And by being here in
+front of several thousand "worshippers," you're as public a figure as
+O'Hare.
+
+     Why would I possibly want to know this?  Why, for the same reasons
+you express.  "I can't stand BS."
+
+	                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was (21 Oct 1994)
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Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was

+21 Oct 1994
     A suggestion for those Theron Fuller is bugging about DIRECT
+EVIDENCE, and whose opinions he tends to dismiss for lack thereof...you're
+dancing a dance you can't win.  You should be asking what CONSTITUTES
+"direct evidence."  Insofar as I know, there are only two forms of direct
+evidence: eyewitness accounts at the time (viz: me), or physical
+evidence in the form of documents, DNA reports, fingerprints at the scene
+of the crime, and so forth.  In short, you're being asked to provide
+material that simply does not exist.
+
+     This is an old debate tactic, which works only so long as you don't
+ask the person to define the "direct evidence" in question.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+
+IMPORTANT: JMS FIRED!!! (22 Oct 1994)
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+
IMPORTANT: JMS FIRED!!!

+22 Oct 1994
     Why does all this weird "JMS fired" shit always come out of
+an Arizona node, I wonder...?
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was (22 Oct 1994)
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Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was

+22 Oct 1994
     "The show's ratings were going down at the end of last season."
+
+     Sorry, another fabrication on your part.
+
+     We were on an up-swing.  The only time we dipped badly was when we
+hit the first batch of reruns.  In point of fact, "at the end of last
+season," our final seven episodes EACH INCREASED OVER THE ONE BEFORE, by
+quite a substantial amount.  It was a sharp, definite upward curve.
+
+     You'd know that if you knew what you were talking about, instead of
+just making stuff up.
+
+     It's amazing how, to try and make people think that I'm less than
+forthright, they inevitably resort to lying....
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was (22 Oct 1994)
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Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was

+22 Oct 1994
     Theron Fuller...you keep asking for "direct evidence."  Please define
+what you would accept as "direct evidence" given that only four people
+were in the room?  Please be specific.
+
+     Obviously hearsay or direct statements (which are usually good
+enough for a court of law) don't seem good enough for you.  So what would
+be?  (IN a real world, not a hypothetical, as you state.)
+
+     You're demanding of people things that do not exist.  And trying to
+deride their opinion because they cannot provide that which does not
+exist.
+
+     You keep talking about logic and reasonableness...but having studied
+logic, I'm afraid you're totally out to sea on this.  YOU have taken a
+position for which there is *no* evidence whatsoever.  If you don't have
+a point to make, what's the point of the conversation?  If you do, what is
+your basis for that point?  Please show YOUR direct evidence, and be sure
+that it meets the criteria you set up for others.
+
+     Basically, and frankly, I think you're a mind-fucker, someone who
+comes on knowing full well that there's no way of proving anything (unless
+one wants to take the word of someone who was there), and thus tries to
+sow some dissension, some contention, to get people all riled up trying to
+meet and cater to YOUR demands...demands which you are not at liberty to
+make of them.
+
+     Now, may I begin to speculate about your last few jobs?  After all, I
+can hypothetically state that you were probably fired from your last few
+jobs for rather sordid reasons.  Now, can anybody out there show me DIRECT
+EVIDENCE to the contrary?  Oh, and I'm sorry, but the word of your
+employers doesn't count.
+
+     The oldest debate trick is to try and make someone prove a negative,
+that something *didn't* happen...which is exactly what you're trying to
+do here, and the unfortunate thing is that some folks have fallen for it.
+
+     I suggest you grow up and find another game to play.  This one is
+getting real old.
+
+     LOGICALLY, one never makes an assertion unless one has evidence.  To
+start with assumptions, as you have, flies in the face of logic.
+
+     So let's see YOUR direct evidence, Theron.  Let's hold you up to the
+same standards you seem to require of everyone else.
+
+     Well?  You're so fast to demand it of everyone else...surely you
+MUST have something more than just hot air, Theron?  Come on.  Put up or
+shut up.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Star Trek SPOILERS: Things tha (2 Oct 1994)
+
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Star Trek SPOILERS: Things tha

+2 Oct 1994
     Two items: 1) you will never see an episode of B5 which sets up all
+kinds of cool conflicts, only to learn it was all a dream.  2) In addition
+to your comment about stations having to buy TNG and DS9 to get Voyager,
+word keeps floating around that if stations want Voyager, they can't take
+B5.  Interesting, huh?
+
+	                                                                    jms
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+

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+Re: claudia christian (22 Oct 1994)
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Re: claudia christian

+22 Oct 1994
     BTW, Claudia and I will be appearing at Stellar Occasions Convention
+in Dallas this weekend, at the Executive Hotel in Love Field.  I'll be
+doing two B5 presentations, at noon and six p.m. Saturday, including a
+showing of "Chrysalis" and other material.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+
+JMS: Why DC comics (24 Oct 1994)
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JMS: Why DC comics

+24 Oct 1994
     DC had kind of an edge because it's owned by Time/Warner.  But so far
+what I've seen of the book has been great, and given the people doing it
+there, should be more than worthwhile.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+
+B5 in Germany? (24 Oct 1994)
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B5 in Germany?

+24 Oct 1994
     B5 will appear on Sat Eintz in German starting around December, I'm
+told.
+
+	                                                             jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Were you in the prev (24 Oct 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Were you in the prev

+24 Oct 1994
     Insofar as I know, no, I'm not in the B5 promo.
+
+	                                                             jms
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+

+
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+
+More Greys!!!! (24 Oct 1994)
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More Greys!!!!

+24 Oct 1994
     Actually, Christy has gone on record (otherwise I would not have
+noted it myself) that the trial scene at the top of "Grail" was written
+and inserted by me, since it was a bit short.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+
+Demon Night and B5 (24 Oct 1994)
+
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+
Demon Night and B5

+24 Oct 1994
     This is way, way stretching it....
+
+	                                                                jms
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+

+
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+
+Szarabacha(sp?) on B5!?!? (24 Oct 1994)
+
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+
Szarabacha(sp?) on B5!?!?

+24 Oct 1994
     Yep, that's the same guy.  I thought he did *excellent* work on The
+Equalizer as well.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Soundtrack? (26 Oct 1994)
+
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B5 Soundtrack?

+26 Oct 1994
     Yes, there is a B5 soundtrack, and in the next couple of days I will
+be very pleased to announce who's doing it...and there just *might* be some
+good news for LosCon here in LA: we may have a limited edition available
+in time for the convention.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Licensing Model Kits (26 Oct 1994)
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Licensing Model Kits

+26 Oct 1994
     We don't license out to manufacturers, but to distributers which
+then deal with manufacturers.
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was (26 Oct 1994)
+
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Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was

+26 Oct 1994
     Ford clearly doesn't know anything about the show, as you note or
+he'd be aware that "Chrysalis" was filmed #12.  As for "Babylon Squared,"
+which you mention...again, there's something interesting in timing here,
+which of course Ford will ignore, because he's a pinhead.  B2 aired long,
+LONG after the O'Hare conversation took place.  Months.
+
+     Now, if we really intended to change the story, if Sinclair was never
+to show up again, it would have been absolutely simple (since we were
+still plugging stuff into that episode up until a few weeks before it
+aired in August) to either snip that scene out, or re-shoot it with
+someone else.  It's a thirty-second shot, absolutely no problem.  But we
+didn't.  We left it in.  (And we've left other mysteries unresolved, we
+could've gotten away with it.)  We were about five minutes over in that
+episode, and there was plenty of stuff we could've stuck in to make up the
+time.  But, again, we didn't.
+
+     But naturally, none of this will matter to Ford, who is simply an
+idiot.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Ratings: DS9 vs. B5 (2 Oct 1994)
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Ratings: DS9 vs. B5

+2 Oct 1994
     I'm not sure what I feel about a head-to-head DS9-B5 deal over in
+your part of the world; I don't think it's necessary, and may be less than
+constructive.  But I've always said, let the marketplace decide.  Meanwhile
+we'll keep telling the best stories we can, and hope for the best.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+
+Ignore Ford Thaxton, maybe... (26 Oct 1994)
+
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Ignore Ford Thaxton, maybe...

+26 Oct 1994
     Excuse me, but the points *are* disputed, particularly the statement
+that ratings were down at the end of the season, when (as posted by me at
+the time, and verifiable via the trades) ratings for the last seven eps
+in a ROW were UP, each one higher than the one before.
+
+     This is really approaching theater of the absurd proportions....
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+
+*1* reason Trek is better... (27 Oct 1994)
+
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*1* reason Trek is better...

+27 Oct 1994
     "If it weren't for Star Trek, B5 would NEVER have been accepted into
+the mainstream media."
+
+     Wrong on just about every count.
+
+     1) Neither ST nor B5 have been accepted by the *mainstream* media;
+they're still SF, and thus well out of the mainstream.
+
+     2) If ST is responsible for making the environment such that B5 could
+get on the air, what made the media receptive to ST?  Answer: Lost in
+Space, which was a ratings hit a year before ST hit the airwaves (and thus
+ST was looked upon in its first year as a cheap attempt to cash in on LiS's
+success, as pronounced by many reviewers at the time).  And how does The
+Invaders fit into all this?
+
+     Crediting ST with B5 getting on the air is simply silly, and against
+the facts.  In point of fact, ST has made it *SUBSTANTIALLY HARDER* for new
+SF series to get on the air, especially if they're set in space, in our
+future.  We were told, by every network and studio, that there is no room
+in the TV marketplace for more than ST; that the market won't sustain more
+than one show; that ST is a "non-repeating phenomenon" (direct quote), and
+that SF doesn't work on TV.  (And, in fact, look at the number of SF shows
+other than ST that have gone on for more than two seasons in the last, say,
+ten years.  Nearly zilch.)
+
+     We had to fight to overcome the ST influence on the marketplace to
+get B5 on the air; so you'll understand why I blanch just a little when
+I hear something like that.  I'd be much happier if ST just took credit
+for ST, rather than making them inappropriately responsible for B5, when
+ST was only one more obstacle for us to overcome.
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Triple Damned? (27 Oct 1994)
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JMS: Triple Damned?

+27 Oct 1994
     Actually, "triple-damned" is a fairly common Earth phrase as well.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+
+Spoliers and Portents: A Seaso (30 Oct 1994)
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Spoliers and Portents: A Seaso

+30 Oct 1994
     A good and thoughtful analysis.  You also caught one of the aspects
+of "Chrysalis" that I was going for.  The teaser of that episode is very
+much just the sort of thing we've seen before; designed to lull you into
+a sense of, "Yeah, yeah, we've seen this."  Right down to the tired look
+on Sinclair's face.  Been there, done that.  Then you yank the viewer's
+blanket.  And structurally, it was designed to somewhat mirror the events
+in the first episode; the balance is shifting, things are going in the
+reverse of what we saw before.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+
+reaction: Points of Departure (30 Oct 1994)
+
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reaction: Points of Departure

+30 Oct 1994
     In a sense, yes, "Believers" now enters the arc...but so does "Soul
+Hunter," in a big way.  Replay Lennier's talk to Sheridan and Ivanova,
+then play Delenn's conversation with Sinclair and the Soul Hunter in that
+episode, and suddenly a lot of elements begin to intersect.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Quotes to remember. POD spoile (30 Oct 1994)
+
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+
Quotes to remember. POD spoile

+30 Oct 1994
     Re: you're noticing the line, "You talk like a Minbari" from Neroon
+to Sinclair in "Legacies"....yup.  Sometimes this stuff is in broa
+strokes, sometimes in teeny little things like that.  Also ties in even
+further with where Sinclair goes.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+Point of Departure (31 Oct 1994)
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Point of Departure

+31 Oct 1994
     Some time ago, I mentioned (here and elsewhere) that "Points" was
+designed to be a less intense episode than either "Chrysalis" or the
+second episode of year two, "Revelations," which is in many ways even
+more intense than "Chrysalis."  I think you need to give viewers a rest
+here and there; if you did "Chrysalis" every episode at this point you'd
+scare the hell out of people, and we're trying not to alienate those who
+might be interested in checking out the first episode this year.  (I tend
+to use this approach overall as well; if we've had 2-3 serious episodes
+in a row, I write a funny episode, just to keep things varied.)
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+Bab 5 in USA Today (31 Oct 1994)
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Bab 5 in USA Today

+31 Oct 1994
     USA Today and TV Guide got that aspect more correct than the USA
+Today piece.  Odds were *somebody* had to....
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:Thank You (31 Oct 1994)
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ATTN JMS:Thank You

+31 Oct 1994
     I very much appreciate your thoughts.  I sometimes think that a few
+people get so caught up in what they want that we're not doing to their
+satisfaction, that they don't see what we *have* done.
+
+     As for other books...DEMON NIGHT and OTHERSYDE are my first two
+novels from Dutton (hardcover); TALES FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE in
+paperback; and a bunch of short stories in various magazines.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+
+USA TODAY and the Truth about (31 Oct 1994)
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USA TODAY and the Truth about

+31 Oct 1994
     In my hand, I hold a bunch of articles that came out today about the
+O'Hare/Bruce situation.  TV Guide, the Washington Post, the Orange
+County Register and several others, all citing different sources, ALL
+CONFIRM what has been said here before by me and others.  The USA Today
+piece is simply an editorial assumption by the reporter that is not
+buttressed by any other information.  The other articles got it right;
+the one you cite did not.
+
+     But hey...a half dozen get it right, one just misses...I'm not about
+to complain.
+
+     Give it a rest and get a life, Ford.
+
+     If you say people should "accept the truth" because it appears in
+print, then I assume that YOU will now "accept the truth" and shut up and
+quit being a nuisance.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
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+
+Jeffrey Sinclair (2 Oct 1994)
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Jeffrey Sinclair

+2 Oct 1994
     It's spelled Jeffrey.  Jeffrey David Sinclair.
+
+     And thanks for the comments on the TZ book.  It's something very
+close to my heart....
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS: Does it cost more to repl (2 Oct 1994)
+
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JMS: Does it cost more to repl

+2 Oct 1994
     The cost of running B5 is the same if once or twice per week; some
+stations like to get a bigger rating for airing it once a night, than
+splitting it over two nights.  (National sponsors like the combined
+rating; local stations can only sell according to what they get in their
+individual hours.)
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS: New Jerusalem? (2 Oct 1994)
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+
JMS: New Jerusalem?

+2 Oct 1994
     New Jerusalem is a planet; there's a side-story about it that I'm
+contemplating getting into, so don't want to blow it here.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: USA TODAY and the Truth ab (1 Nov 1994)
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Re: USA TODAY and the Truth ab

+1 Nov 1994
     Someone should point out to Ford the article appearing this week
+(out in many newspapers already) for the Tribune Syndicate, in which she
+states that, based on her interviews and sources, it WAS a mutual and
+amicable parting, that Sinclair is NOT gone, and basically reinforces every
+single point made here.
+
+     Assuming anyone really cares anymore...frankly, I'm getting pretty
+fucking tired and disgusted with the whole discussion.  Ford is an idiot,
+pure and simple.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+USA, JMS, and YKW. (2 Nov 1994)
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USA, JMS, and YKW.

+2 Nov 1994
     At this juncture, as you say, I have no further interest in
+responding to these people, since their agenda is quite clear.  So much
+crap has been said about this show, so much misinformation put out by
+people, that it can make you crazy.  (Several newspapers and stations said
+point blank that there were NO plans for Sinclair to return, that he
+would NOT return...and here I am in my office, looking at footage we shot
+which we're about to use for season two.)
+
+     To your comment about personalities entering the fray and/or getting
+targeted...I guess I keep forgetting that part of it.  I have never really
+considered myself a *PERSONALITY*...wasn't altogether sure I *had* one
+outside of the work....
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+
+Why didn't C-prime conquer Ear (23 Nov 1994)
+
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Why didn't C-prime conquer Ear

+23 Nov 1994
     The question isn't so much "Why didn't the Centauri conquer Earth?"
+as, "Why would they have WANTED to?"
+
+     We're kind of off the beaten track, and there's little logistical or
+tactical value to a base here; up until the last couple hundred years, we
+didn't have a technological base they could exploit, and when we finally
+did get one, the Republic was already beginning to shrink and lose its
+tendency toward expansionism.  Basically, we fell between the cracks, and
+for something as substantial as acts of conquer, there have to be solid
+goals, either real or imagined.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+jms: Geometry comment (23 Nov 1994)
+
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jms: Geometry comment

+23 Nov 1994
     The idea behind the title "The Geometry of Shadows" was in a sense
+a metaphor for the techno-mages; geometry bespeaking the use of math and
+equations, the latter being generally something dark, or mysterious, or
+mystical.
+
+                                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+
+<spoiler of Geometry of Shadow (23 Nov 1994)
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<spoiler of Geometry of Shadow

+23 Nov 1994
     Congrats; you're the first person I've seen to get the MacBeth
+parallel.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+JMS: No ST style Technobabble (29 Nov 1994)
+
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JMS: No ST style Technobabble

+29 Nov 1994
     So many questions about hyperspace came up over the last year or so
+that we figured they should be addressed; be assured, we're staying as
+clear of technobabble as ever, despite my Spousal Overunit's absolute
+and unshakeable conviction that *everything* is, at its root, a math
+problem.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+
+Season 1 Themes CD (29 Nov 1994)
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Season 1 Themes CD

+29 Nov 1994
     There's a *limited edition* of 1,000 CDs being released now; there
+will be a much larger release around January for regular stores.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+
+Re: Whom Will JMS Kill First? (30 Nov 1994)
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Re: Whom Will JMS Kill First?

+30 Nov 1994
     Probably the person who puts our promos together for PTEN....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
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+Some ACTUAL SHOW questions WAS (2 Nov 1994)
+
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Some ACTUAL SHOW questions WAS

+2 Nov 1994
     We try to accommodate our actors where we possibly can.  For
+instance, one of our actors will tentatively be doing a CD Rom movie
+project, and will need two days off in the middle of shooting.  So while
+we can't guarantee (we just got in the script and are now breaking out the
+shooting schedule), we're certainly going to try our best to work this
+out, and probably will be able to.  Actors need to take every free chance
+they have to work; the more work they do, the better they get; the better
+they get, the better my show gets.  As long as it doesn't interfere with
+production, I have no problem with it.
+
+                                                jms
+
+

+
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+JMS (and others): Babylon 5 co (3 Nov 1994)
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JMS (and others): Babylon 5 co

+3 Nov 1994
     By the time B5 hits the UK, only the first 2 issues of the comic
+should be out, and there's nothing in any of those that could be
+considered a spoiler, so you should be okay.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Ignore Ford Thax (3 Nov 1994)
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Re: Ignore Ford Thax

+3 Nov 1994
     Well, well...I've been getting some very interesting information on
+our friend Ford A. Thaxton, who is involved with a little enterprise
+called Silva Screen Records.  Perhaps Mr. Thaxton wouldn't mind discussing
+some of *his* personal business, like how why he has been using
+Christopher Franke's music in his released (remixed) without paying
+Chris any royalties...?  Apparently he has some real business problems
+with Chris, and I would think he has considerable motivation to smear
+anything that Chris is involved with.  Didn't mention that li'l old
+conflict of interest in your quest for the "truth," did old Ford.
+
+     And some of the things recently conveyed to me by some who've worked
+with, and for Ford, in HIS business practices, are quite illuminating, to
+say the least.  But I suppose he would think that was a private matter,
+not to be discussed on a network.
+
+     Maybe I should go and contact Edgar Froese in Germany, and ask about
+some of *his* recent dealings with Ford, so that I can post them here.
+
+     Nice little place Ford has, out there in Olympia, Washington....
+
+     My, but Ford's had such an *interesting* life...at least, so say
+the many people who've dropped me messages in the last few days, who have
+worked with him.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Points of Departure -- SPO (3 Nov 1994)
+
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+
Re: Points of Departure -- SPO

+3 Nov 1994
     Next week, in "Revelations," you get G'Kar, Londo, Delenn, Lennier,
+Na'Toth, Kosh, Garibaldi, Talia and everybody else.  Because there was SO
+much happening in #1, that got slid back a bit; also, there's a fair
+amount of time required for everything to do what they're supposed to be
+doing.  (Note that we're operating pretty much in real-time; "Points" is
+around 8 days after the events of "Chrysalis," and "Revelations" is about
+another week after that.)
+
+     One thing I noted here some time ago, as a large part of the reason
+I dropped "to be continued" from "Chrysalis" is that this is more of a
+three-parter than a two, and some threads pulled in "Chrysalis" won't be
+fully resolved in some ways until the third and fourth episodes.  There is
+a LOT going on, and if we try to cram it all into one episode (as I at
+first tried with "Chrysalis, Part Two") you don't give ANY of them the
+proper time to have any impact.
+
+     Finally, we're getting new people sampling the first episode of the
+season, as is true of most shows.  Thus, you have to put into dialogue a
+fair amount of stuff that otherwise you could just imply or rely on past
+experience/prior knowledge.  So you kind of introduce the newbies to the
+situation, and that requires a fair amount of exposition.  This is pretty
+much localized to "Points," however; with the next episode, we're up to
+full speed.  Episode 2 deals with as many issues/plotlines as "Chrysalis,"
+with the main difference being that here, they're *resolved* rather than
+left hanging.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Church of JMS (3 Nov 1994)
+
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Church of JMS

+3 Nov 1994
     Speaking as an atheist, if there is to be a church of jms, then I
+must become its first apostate and refuse to believe in myself (adding
+further insecurity to my life), and nail a whole bunch of theses to the
+front door on the way out....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+The new "Tech #1" <sniff> (no (4 Nov 1994)
+
+
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+
The new "Tech #1" <sniff> (no

+4 Nov 1994
     Just as an advisory...the woman who spoke up in PoD (the tech who
+told Sheridan that Security wanted him) is not a Tech 1 replacement; she
+was there just for that one episode.  We have a number of folks floating
+through that area now, because logically you would have rotating crews.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton (was (4 Nov 1994)
+
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Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton (was

+4 Nov 1994
     Well, well, well....y'all remember how for weeks and weeks old Ford
+has been in here, arguing that he had a right to know the inner workings
+of Michael O'Hare's business, his career, his employment, "the truth is
+out there," on and on and on ad infinitum?  Message after message after
+message, smearing by implication and innuendo, demanding the truth, that
+he was entitled to know, that this was the right forum to discuss such
+matters?
+
+     Well, after my ONE message here about *his* business, guess who has
+gone right up the flue and started whining to Warner Bros. about how it
+is unfair and wrong for me to discuss someone's business in a public
+forum...?  And buttressed it with threats (veiled and otherwise)?
+
+     I guess there are rules that apply to Ford, and rules that apply to
+everyone else.
+
+     I guess there are those who like to dish it out, but don't much like
+it when EXACTLY the same thing is done to them.  Fortunately there is a
+long, LONG trail of messages here from Mr. Thaxton which present a very
+clear picture of who started what, and why.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: USA TODAY and the Truth ab (4 Nov 1994)
+
+
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Re: USA TODAY and the Truth ab

+4 Nov 1994
     This to Ken Schroder...a very good analysis of the situation re:
+Sinclair/Sheridan.  One other element, which will become clearer with
+the passage of time, is that Sinclair's main tie was to the Minbari
+storyline, which though not *resolved* per se in "Points," gets pushed
+back as the Shadowmen story advances.  So his impact on that storyline
+would have been second-hand.  Sheridan, on the other hand, has a direct
+tie-in to this latter storyline, though he does not know it yet.  Also,
+there are some military aspects coming that only someone commanding a
+starship recently, and working with some other aspects of the military,
+would have access to, and that is also something Sheridan brings to the
+story.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Mea Culpa (was : What I d (4 Nov 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Mea Culpa (was : What I d

+4 Nov 1994
     Jeremy: you are forgiven; go, and sin no more.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+
+ATT JMS & PAD:  (Re: Ignore Fo (1 Nov 1994)
+
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+
ATT JMS & PAD:  (Re: Ignore Fo

+1 Nov 1994
     The idea of, "ask a member of the WGA" why one should never trust a
+television producer is moronic in the extreme, because for the most part,
+the majority of producers in TV ****ARE WRITERS**** and members of the
+WGA.  I've been a member of WGA since 1978 or so, and have been a writer
+a lot longer than I've been a producer.
+
+	                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Good Choice! (5 Nov 1994)
+
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JMS: Good Choice!

+5 Nov 1994
     The nice thing is that Bruce's likeableness (is that a word?) isn't
+just confined to the camera.  He's honestly a nifty guy.  He's friendly
+to everyone on the set, even casual visitors.  He's what's called a "team
+player," in that his concern is for the other actor, and gives as much off
+camera for the actor to play against as when he's on-camera.  He's charmed
+the hell out of just about everyone involved in making B5, and that's not
+an easy task.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Another B5 media mention (5 Nov 1994)
+
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Another B5 media mention

+5 Nov 1994
     I would be *profoundly* grateful if you could send a copy of the
+article to:
+
+     14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+     Thanks if you can oblige....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Assorted questions o (6 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Assorted questions o

+6 Nov 1994
     Laurel Takashima was not a psi, no.  Valen did have something to do
+in the struggle against the Shadows at a prior time.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS (nagging question & a (6 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS (nagging question & a

+6 Nov 1994
     Valen's prophecy is something that will have to be revealed with
+time; if I gave it out now, it would ruin too much yet to come.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: PoD Plusses (Minor Spoile (6 Nov 1994)
+
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JMS: PoD Plusses (Minor Spoile

+6 Nov 1994
     To your points...yes, we definitely plan to do more with Dr.
+Franklin this year.  My goal is to get Ivanova OUT of Ops, and Franklin
+OUT of Medlab on occasion, to see their real lives, and do other things
+with them (and I think you'll find some real surprises coming up very
+shortly).
+
+     The Earthforce lounge (EA personnel only) is Earhart's, named after
+the famed aviator.
+
+     (Consequently, as tradition, only swing or big-band music is ever
+played in Earhart's.)
+
+     Yes, we brightened things up a notch, but only a notch, because we
+discovered that a lot of the good work being done on the sets and the
+costumes wasn't being seen because we were too dark.  So we went up about
+one f-stop, but at the same time began using more shadows, textures and
+colors, so the show has a denser look to it.
+
+     Definite agreement on the CGI this year.
+
+     There are a couple of big, honking CGI episodes coming up fairly
+soon that're just terrific, the best Ron and Kevin have done to date.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Thanks for the good trans (6 Nov 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Thanks for the good trans

+6 Nov 1994
    An interesting summation; good stuff.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS? New info on New Series ?! (6 Nov 1994)
+
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+
JMS? New info on New Series ?!

+6 Nov 1994
     I'd rather speak to the new projects when there's more concrete news
+to convey.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+ATTN JMS: why do aliens lust a (6 Nov 1994)
+
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ATTN JMS: why do aliens lust a

+6 Nov 1994
      Actually, it's mainly just G'Kar who's big into human females (so to
+speak); Lennier was more astonished than anything else.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
+Will we ever see... (6 Nov 1994)
+
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+
Will we ever see...

+6 Nov 1994
     You will see hyperspace from the inside briefly in episode 2, and
+bigtime in episode 4.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Do YOU have any info (6 Nov 1994)
+
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ATTN JMS: Do YOU have any info

+6 Nov 1994
     It's my understanding that Seven Network in Australia will begin
+carrying B5 around December or thereabouts.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Bab 5 in USA Today (1 Nov 1994)
+
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Re: Bab 5 in USA Today

+1 Nov 1994
     *sigh*...I was up writing all night long, I meant to say that the
+Tribune Syndicate and TV Guide got the story more accurately than USA
+Today in that one respect (though the rest of the article seemed fine);
+unlike Ford, I have a life, and sometimes it gets tiring.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+
+B5's music (6 Nov 1994)
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+
B5's music

+6 Nov 1994
     Christopher writes the B5 music here; faxes it to Berlin, and the
+Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, which he works with.  The next day, he
+gets on a high-compression audio/video link (via phone and fiber optic
+lines) and conducts the orchestra in Berlin from his home here in LA.  The
+finished music is then sent here via those same high-compression lines,
+and transferred to DAT.  In some cases, if we need something fast, and
+it's fairly simple, he does it on his studio equipment.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Things cannot hold..." (7 Nov 1994)
+
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+
"Things cannot hold..."

+7 Nov 1994
     One aspect of the Yeats quote, and the Lincoln quote, and the
+Tennyson quote(s), and the many others, is that I think a lot of folks
+at some point tuned out of, or aren't interested in, literature and
+poetry because they've never really been exposed to it.  So just to be a
+little subversive, I work some of it into the show.  I choose that which
+has meaning to the show, and the characters, in the hopes that (as has
+happened here), viewers will dig out the original material and be exposed
+to some *really* nifty writing.  Granted that television must entertain
+at minimum; it should also elevate and ennoble and educate, and this is
+too good an opportunity to waste, provided one does not become didactic
+about it.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+Mysticism (PoD Spoilers) (7 Nov 1994)
+
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Mysticism (PoD Spoilers)

+7 Nov 1994
     The fact that Minbari believe in souls does not make it so.
+
+     If a story is rigorously SF, but some of the people who inhabit the
+story have belief systems, does that automatically invalidate it as SF?
+
+     I don't think it's the position of this show to state whether or not
+a belief system is true but rather to explore the actions of those who
+THINK it's true; not to resolve arguments, but to start arguments.  (See
+"Believers" for more on this one.)
+
+     What the characters believe is subjective, and is their business.
+Or, as Sheridan says in a later episode, "I'm not saying what I'm saying.
+I'm not saying what I'm thinking.  For that matter, I'm not even THINKING
+what I'm thinking."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
+Sheridan didn't tell Clark !!! (7 Nov 1994)
+
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Sheridan didn't tell Clark !!!

+7 Nov 1994
     This is correct.  Sheridan did NOT tell President Clark about the
+Minbari soul situation.  Clark already knew about it.  Sheridan's line
+is, "I spoke with the president.  He is the only other person who knows
+why the Minbari surrendered."  Also, in the first issue of the comic, this
+prior knowledge on Clark's part is clear as well.
+
+                                                                       jms
+Article 37979 of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5:
+
+

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+
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+ATT JMS:  Comments from my wif (7 Nov 1994)
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ATT JMS:  Comments from my wif

+7 Nov 1994
     Tell your wife I'm getting kickbacks from the AMA.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+JMS: Yeats The Second Coming- (9 Nov 1994)
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JMS: Yeats The Second Coming-

+9 Nov 1994
     Let's just say that I've read a lot of British literature, and quite
+a bit of Yeats and Keats and Shelley and others, and let it go at that for
+now.
+
+     Re: Lennier, the Grey Council fellow said, "Tell them what we've told
+YOU," not someone else.  Just to clarify.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Damn you, Mr Straczy (9 Nov 1994)
+
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ATTN JMS: Damn you, Mr Straczy

+9 Nov 1994
     Let me reassure you.
+
+     It's all a carefully woven covert plot to destroy your attention span
+so you can't study.
+
+     Look!  Over there!  A comet!
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+CHRYSALIS, blooper? (SPOILER) (9 Nov 1994)
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CHRYSALIS, blooper? (SPOILER)

+9 Nov 1994
     Sorry, this isn't a blooper.  Garibaldi says, into the Link,
+"Garibaldi to Sinclair," which tells the Link to find Sinclair.  Then we
+have Sinclair's response.  No blooper.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS (9 Nov 1994)
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Attn JMS

+9 Nov 1994
     Thanks for the support, and the story; I kinda like that....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS! HELP! RE: B5 -Capt Power (9 Nov 1994)
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JMS! HELP! RE: B5 -Capt Power

+9 Nov 1994
     I had very little to do with Captain Power after walking off the
+show because I thought there was too much power being given to the
+merchandising aspect.  And I'm not sure how much to reveal; I can say
+that Larry DiTillio, who came in after me as story editor, edited an
+entire season worth of scripts; 24 scripts are lying around, waiting to
+be filmed.  I kinda gave him the elements I wanted to see dealt with, and
+left.  (I seem to remember a Starlog interview with Larry a couple of
+years back where the arc is pretty much spelled out for year two.)
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was (1 Nov 1994)
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Re: Ignore Ford Thaxton  (was

+1 Nov 1994
     Woody Harper: you have ended your messages with a "quote" from me
+stating, "I'm foolin' 'em with these funny footprints!"  As with much of
+what comes out of your and Ford Thaxton's mouth, this is a lie and a
+fabrication, I never made that statement.
+
+     Just what the hell is your problem, anyway?  You put info out that
+I'm fired, you misquote me, you lie to others on systems about me...this
+is stalking behavior on your part, and I'm getting very, very tired of it,
+and I'm not going to stand for much more of it.  You may consider that I
+am now putting you on formal notice.  Henceforth, all further fabrications
+and downright lies that you post, all harrassing messages sent by you,
+all rumors and deliberate distortions will be forwarded from me to my
+attorneys, and gathered to be filed with an attorney in your state for
+potential prosecution under libel laws and anti-stalking laws.  Further, I
+may be forced to take personal legal action against you.  Remember that I
+have your address.
+
+     You have deliberately manufactured quotes from me.  You have stated,
+as fact, that I was fired from my job.  You have told others that I
+tracked you down for disagreeing with me, when in fact (as others here
+can and have agreed to testify), it was incidend #1, the firing story,
+that prompted this action.  You (and now, our latest homunculus, Ford
+Thaxton) deliberately distort and misrepresent and simply lie about
+matters injurious to my (and in the latter case, Michael O'Hare's)
+career.
+
+     I would also request the sysop of the system from which you are
+logging in to be aware of your stalking behavior, and to reconsider your
+continued access to this forum.
+
+     I have had enough of this obsessive behavior from you.  You are now
+under formal notice to stop it and stop it now.  I don't know what the
+reason is for this sick fixation of yours, but get some help for it.
+
+     If you don't stop, you, and your family, and your employer will be
+hearing from my attorneys in very short order.
+
+     Enough is enough.
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATT JMS: Casting the pilot (9 Nov 1994)
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ATT JMS: Casting the pilot

+9 Nov 1994
     Oddly, the only name I remember from casting the pilot, in looking
+for a Sinclair, before we found Michael, was John Rhys-Davies.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+ATTN:JMS spoiler for revalatio (9 Nov 1994)
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ATTN:JMS spoiler for revalatio

+9 Nov 1994
     The platform seen in the opening of "Revelations" is a hazardous
+materials platform, which is still cleaning up the radioactive debris
+and other stuff from the blown Minbari cruiser in the last ep.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS : who won the court case ? (9 Nov 1994)
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JMS : who won the court case ?

+9 Nov 1994
     The human won the case, but damages awarded were minimal.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+

+
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+ATTN JMS: New Officer's Lounge (9 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: New Officer's Lounge

+9 Nov 1994
     Basically, I decided to name the EA Lounge "Earhart's" because she
+is an important figure in aviation history, and I wanted a 40s art deco
+style to the place, down to big band music, and it fit perfectly.  There
+have been more women aviators, civilian and elsewhere, than we know,
+particularly during WW II at home, and they deserve recognition.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+CHARACTERS CHANGING (10 Nov 1994)
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CHARACTERS CHANGING

+10 Nov 1994
     Somebody posted the other day that this is as if you're reading a
+novel, and something happens to a character, so you stop reading at
+chapter three.  Me, I'd want to keep reading to see what happens next...
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

+
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+Attn JMS: Chrysalis and JFK (S (10 Nov 1994)
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Attn JMS: Chrysalis and JFK (S

+10 Nov 1994
     Actually, I was born in 54, so we're about the same age.  Oddly, I
+don't remember the day of the shooting; what I *do* remember is watching
+JFK's funeral, and not entirely understanding the depth of the event, but
+fully grasping the emotions around me.  That will linger forever.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+ATT JMS:  Comments from my wif (10 Nov 1994)
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ATT JMS:  Comments from my wif

+10 Nov 1994
     AMA = American Medical ASsociation.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

+
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+"Revelations" blow by blow (SP (12 Nov 1994)
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"Revelations" blow by blow (SP

+12 Nov 1994
     Re: inconsistent writing and Narns...please bear in mind that there
+are two ways to encounter shadowmen: going out there, and them coming in
+to see YOU.  The Narns need not be (and were not) spacefaring when they
+encountered the shadowmen.  Or, more accurately, were encountered BY them.
+
+                                                                            jms
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+

+
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+JMS : Sheridan in from beginni (12 Nov 1994)
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JMS : Sheridan in from beginni

+12 Nov 1994
     Sheridan, or more specifically the need for someone *like* Sheridan
+began to get through clearly toward the latter part of last season, as I
+began planning out season two's progression, and kept looking at elements
+of the story and trying to find ways to get Sinclair into the heart of
+them.  They felt contrived, for the most part; and the other characters,
+like Londo and G'Kar and Delenn, were *really* moving forward in a big
+way.  The role of Sinclair was becoming primarily that of a "problem
+solver," and when that happens, a sort of glass bell falls down around the
+character, and you can't do much with him.
+
+     So what the writer has to do is break that bell in one way or another;
+do something totally unexpected to him, and bring in someone who has a
+direct, personal connection with the storyline emerging in season two, so
+it's not contrived or forced.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Question and a comment [n (12 Nov 1994)
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JMS: Question and a comment [n

+12 Nov 1994
     It's G'Quan (or G'Quon, my notes aren't in front of me).
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

+
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+USA TODAY WRITER STANDS BY STO (1 Nov 1994)
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+
USA TODAY WRITER STANDS BY STO

+1 Nov 1994
     So now why don't you call the bunch of other reporters who say the
+opposite of USA Today and ask if *they* stand beside *their* story?
+
+     You seem obsessed with Michael O'Hare's personal employment
+conditions...like I said, why don't you give me YOUR personal employment
+history and let ME make some phone calls?  Or shall I go ahead and
+answer my own question...that you're a sick, obsessed little fuck who
+has no appreciable life, and thus has to meddle in the lives and careers
+of others.
+
+     Get this straight: you are entitled to *nothing*.  Not even this
+reply.  Leave Michael O'Hare, and his career, alone.  You are trying to
+turn a pleasant situation between me and someone I call a friend into
+something that will, by rumor and innuendo, harm Michael O'Hare's career.
+The degree of your obsession is becoming an area of great concern to us
+at Babylon 5.  I hear that someone posing under an assumed name started
+calling here the other day, trying to worm out information about Michael
+and his employment.  Coincidence?
+
+     Get this straight: LEAVE MICHAEL ALONE.  Nothing here is any of your
+goddamned business.  It is a PRIVATE matter, everyone is content with
+life...who the fuck are you to try and distort and screw around with
+people's careers?  You are a viewer, who is entitled to what we put out
+over the air, and not one bit more.  Okay, you don't buy what happens to
+be the truth.  So the fuck what?  I don't care, no one here cares; the
+concern raised is because you are openly trying to harm me, and Michael,
+through your messages.
+
+     How about you get your OWN fucking life and leave everybody else
+alone?  And until YOU are willing to provide, here, your OWN employers,
+so that we can do to you (a public figure on these boards) what YOU are
+doing to MICHAEL, as far as I'm concerned you're nothing more than a
+coward and a loudmouth who gets off on causing other people psychological
+distress.
+
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS (12 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS

+12 Nov 1994
     Insofar as I know, no, wasn't on Alternative Possibilities BBS.
+
+                                                                           jms
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+
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+Revelations and Tolkien (spoil (12 Nov 1994)
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Revelations and Tolkien (spoil

+12 Nov 1994
     "it is hard to explain how the Narns...could travel faster than
+light one thousand years ago."
+
+     Indeed, it would be, if that were what had happened.  Fortunately,
+it isn't.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Lawyers? (12 Nov 1994)
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Lawyers?

+12 Nov 1994
     Evolution notwithstanding, there are still lawyers in the future;
+we've shown them (alongside defendants) but not given them any lines yet.
+But they're there.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS...Opening music (12 Nov 1994)
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ATTN: JMS...Opening music

+12 Nov 1994
     No, we're not going to change the music.  The season one music was
+right *for that season*.  The events in year two are different; the music
+reflects where this season is going.  The complaints mainly come because
+it isn't the same.  It isn't *meant* to be the same.  It's not an inferior
+version of year one, it's a different cue, meant to evoke different
+emotions.  They say it isn't evoking the same feelings in them as the
+first year.  Good.  That's the intent.  It will be changed EVERY season to
+correspond with the general sensibility of that season.  (And while you
+note some who think it's lighter and airy, most others I've heard from say
+they think it's darker and more ominous.  It's all subjective.)
+
+     The only constant in the B5 universe is change.
+
+     I've written novels as well as TV.  Often, in my published novels, I
+include classical quotes at various points as chapter openings.  I pick my
+quotes to correspond with that section of the book.  Should I use the same
+quote over and over instead?
+
+     I am absolutely thrilled with the music as it is, and it's staying.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+     (And btw, I remember getting LOTS of complaints on the nets about the
+first season music, how nobody liked it, how they couldn't hum it, it was
+not symphonic enough, on and on and on.  Now everybody likes the old one
+and some don't like the new one.  Next year, folks'll be lamenting the
+loss of the second year theme.  Lots of folks complained about Sinclair.
+We took him off the chessboard.  Now a number of folks are complaining that
+he's gone.  What does all this mean?  It means you can't do a show by
+committee, whether that committee is a studio, a network, or a netgroup.
+The alternative is chaos and lowest-common-denominator programming.)
+
+

+
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+JMS: What might have been... (12 Nov 1994)
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JMS: What might have been...

+12 Nov 1994
     The only problem with answering how things would've been different
+is that some information might get out by inference about how things might
+still *be*.  However, to do what I can with the question (never let it be
+said I don't try to accommodate....).
+
+     If Lyta had stayed on B5, her arc would be pretty close to that of
+Talia, except that she would have begun to form a strong link to Kosh,
+first in the form of dreams, then something with implications that could
+be read as menacing or benign.
+
+     If Dr. Kyle would have stayed around, he would have moved more into
+the position of advisor/paternal figure for Sinclair.  He also would have
+continued to be more scientist than doctor.
+
+     Takashima would have been revealed as having been in on the Vorlon
+assassination attempt by season's end, and would have betrayed Garibaldi
+in the events in "Chrysalis," either giving him over to those involved
+with the coup, or pulling the trigger herself.  While we would know this,
+our characters would not, for as much as another full season.
+
+     Carolyn Sykes would've gotten into major trouble with one of the
+major EarthCorps.
+
+     Finally, if Sinclair had stayed with B5 at this juncture, the events
+in "Points" (the reveal of the Minbari surrender) would've taken place in
+episode 3 instead of 1.  Episode 1 would've consisted mainly of the events
+in "Revelations," which was mainly as a bystander to the events around
+him, since the sister aspect specific to Sheridan obviously wouldn't be
+there.  Basically, with all the events surrounding Delenn, Londo, G'Kar
+and others, he didn't have one whole hell of a lot to *DO* in the first
+six to eight episodes, since that segment was set aside primarily to
+introduce the Shadowman war and get that cranking, and Sinclair had no real
+direct connection to that.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+JMS:  A few odd bits (12 Nov 1994)
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JMS:  A few odd bits

+12 Nov 1994
     The changeling net face belonged to Ron in that sequence; not the
+same as that in the boarding area.  And the new VO in the end credits is
+done by Harlan Ellison.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+JMS: Forever Babylon! (12 Nov 1994)
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JMS: Forever Babylon!

+12 Nov 1994
     Thanks.  Positive feedback is always welcome.  Best to you and to
+your associates.
+
+                                                                         jms
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+

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+Too much net influence? (12 Nov 1994)
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Too much net influence?

+12 Nov 1994
     My sense has always been that no one hanging thread should be allowed
+to hang more than one season.  And all information needed to understand
+any thread must be included in the episode.
+
+     When I work here on the nets with notes about foreshadowing, it's
+basically to play and allow some folks to start to figure out stuff before
+it happens.  This is something that, from talking to many non-netted
+viewers, the regular audience member doesn't really try to do.  The
+emphasis in the minds of most viewers is tuning in to see what happened.
+The emphasis here on the nets is to try and figure out what's going to
+happen BEFORE it happens.
+
+     The influene on the show by the nets is really minimal, if at all.
+Mainly the purpose of the nets, from my perspective, is a) to help
+educate people about how a show is done, b) to show respect for some of
+those linked in who are in the SF community, and c) to get barraged by
+questions about my characters and universe, knowing that when I get hit
+by a question I hadn't considered, and answering it, I've learned a bit
+more about my own story, which helps round it out.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+Dear JMS-Question? (12 Nov 1994)
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Dear JMS-Question?

+12 Nov 1994
     I tried to develop a basic language structure for each of the races
+on B5.  There are certain commonalities to the structure of names.  I
+came up with some prefixes and suffixes, and assigned meanings to them,
+the same as real names.  For instance, Rathenn (referred to by Delenn in
+"Voices") and Delenn have the same suffix, which has a specific meaning.
+You can break it down; Ner-oon (Legacies), Del-enn, Rath-enn, Der-onn, and
+so forth.  The various parts do have specific meanings, but I generally
+keep that to myself, just for amusement.
+
+     No Irish ancestry here that I'm aware of.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+Revelations -- Wham! (13 Nov 1994)
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Revelations -- Wham!

+13 Nov 1994
     Speaking of looking into the abyss...which comes from "Revelations,"
+it's a partial quote.  Neitzsche: "When you look into the abyss, the abyss
+looks also into you."
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Before There Was B5 There (1 Nov 1994)
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Re: Before There Was B5 There

+1 Nov 1994
     In my view, Blake's 7 is a *terrific* show, and if we can come even
+close to that quality, I'll be happy.
+
+	                                                                 jms
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+

+
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+Underwriting + Underacting = Q (13 Nov 1994)
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Underwriting + Underacting = Q

+13 Nov 1994
     "Whoever wrote 'Points of Departure.'"
+
+     That would be me.  The first three ("Points," "Revelations" and "the
+Geometry of Shadows") are mine.  The next three are by D.C. Fontana ("A
+Distant Star," Scott Frost "The Long Dark," and Larry DiTillio ("A Spider
+in the Web"), with Peter David's "Soul Mates" rounding out the first
+seven new eps to be broadcast in a row.
+
+     We then hit late December, and reruns through the Christmas
+holidays when nobody's home.  We'll come back then with "A Race Through
+Dark Places" (jms); "The Coming of Shadows" (jms); "GROPOS" (ld); "All
+Alone in the Night" (jms); "Acts of Sacrifice" (jms), then some more
+freelance scripts.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn: JMS: Shadowmen and Narns (13 Nov 1994)
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Attn: JMS: Shadowmen and Narns

+13 Nov 1994
     "my question is who, what or how where (the shadowmen) beaten back
+then?"
+
+     All in good time....
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+DUMB SCREW-UPS (13 Nov 1994)
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DUMB SCREW-UPS

+13 Nov 1994
     She's not seeing the shooter from outside Garibaldi's POV.  That
+shot in particular is *exactly* from Garibaldi's POV.  It's a lot like
+what is done in hypnosis, going back into somebody's memory and dragging
+out details they might have seen but not noted; the eye sees more than
+the brain recalls at any given moment.  When we shot that scene, I was
+on-set, and the camera was put *exactly* where Garibaldi was standing,
+so we'd be very careful that it WAS his point of view.  So though I hate
+to contradict you, it's not "a stupid plot hole from hell."
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Fighting in Hyperspa (15 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Fighting in Hyperspa

+15 Nov 1994
     They can fight, after a fashion.
+
+                                                               jms
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+

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+Re: Underwriting + Underacting (15 Nov 1994)
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Re: Underwriting + Underacting

+15 Nov 1994
     Oddly enough, while I always had just one title for each of the first
+two season, I have several competing titles for year three, and haven't
+quite decided which to go with.  Somewhere near the top of the list is,
+"I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds."  May be a bit too much,
+though....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+RE: B5 & Tolkien (15 Nov 1994)
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RE: B5 & Tolkien

+15 Nov 1994
     The only problem with this discussion is that it begins on the
+assumption that there is *any* kind of one-to-one correlation between
+B5 characters and LoTR characters.  There isn't.  There are, however,
+many aspects that they share in that they both are moving toward creating
+myth of a sort; if you've read Campbell's "Hero With a Thousand Faces,"
+you know that there are some constants that work throughout mythic-based
+fiction.  The Foundation books, the Lensman books, Childhood's End, all
+worked on a kind of myth-structure; so does B5 (at least in theory; how
+well it actually succeeds at that task will have to be seen with time).
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

+
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+Chelo Stew! (15 Nov 1994)
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Chelo Stew!

+15 Nov 1994
     This is really getting distressing.  This hate campaign is sick in
+the extreme.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+(JMS, your thoughts?) Re: Real (15 Nov 1994)
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(JMS, your thoughts?) Re: Real

+15 Nov 1994
     Y'know, I'm really getting sick of Theron's whining and constant
+second-guessing and "personal observations" about me, Michael, and how
+this show works when he is absolutely without any information on which
+to base these suppositions.
+
+     No, Michael wasn't in the first episode.  Why?  Because after we
+went our separate ways in the spring, he headed back to New York for some
+pending offers there.  HE WAS NOT AVAILABLE TO SHOOT.  Okay, Theron?  CAn
+we be clear on this?  Can I be *ANY* clearer on this?  We DID grab
+a piece with him before he left, which will be dropped in later in the
+season.
+
+     I don't know which world you live in, Theron, but I live in the real
+world that has to consider cross-continental flights, shooting schedules,
+and a thousand other areas.
+
+     Further, in episode one, from a strictly creative point of view,
+I had to a) introduce a new character and make him interesting, b) tie
+up some important war threads from season one, c) come up with a present
+time/foreground story (the Tragati) to make the episode self-contained,
+d) keep all of the other characters moving...and a zillion other things.
+If I had dropped a piece with Sinclair into the midst of this, it would
+have royally screwed up my structure.
+
+     I COULD NOT HAVE GIVEN THAT SCENE THE TIME AND ATTENTION AND
+IMPORTANCE IT DESERVED.  When we *do* see Sinclair again, it will be in
+a context where it will be important, and can be handled properly.
+
+     I *really* don't like people second-guessing me; worse still when
+they imply motivations and engage in personal speculations that have
+NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the real world, or the story that I'm trying
+to tell.  Okay, Theron, YOU wouldn't have done it this way.  So go make
+YOUR show.  This is mine.  And I'll do it as I see fit, in order to tell
+the story that I want to tell.
+
+     Can we now resolve this and move on?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Music and Harlan (15 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Music and Harlan

+15 Nov 1994
     Harlan is not actually *in* the story as a character, and the
+opening VO is for those IN the story.  It's not a merit thing, it's a
+story thing.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Why is B5 syndicated? (16 Nov 1994)
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Why is B5 syndicated?

+16 Nov 1994
     Real simple, non-tech answer: none of the networks wanted it.  They
+didn't think it could be contained and shot for a budget; they didn't
+think there was an audience for SF space stuff outside Star Trek (and many
+still don't); they didn't think the EFX could be done using CGI.  Every
+single one of them passed on it on the grounds that it couldn't be done.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Political opinions o (2 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Political opinions o

+2 Nov 1994
     The similarity to the Kennedy situation, and the use of the LBJ
+swearing-in photo as reference for the Earthforce One shot, were
+definitely intentional.  Remember, we're trying to construct a metaphor
+here, as one of the levels on which the show operates.
+
+     What do *I* personally think re: the Kennedy situation?  I can't
+think of anything less interesting, and less grounded, than my own
+opinion on this subject.  I've done an awful lot of reading in this
+area, but there are a lot of folks who know a hell of a lot more than I
+do, with probably many of them on this system.
+
+     The House Subcommittee that investigated this issue some time ago
+came to the conclusion that there most likely *was* a conspiracy of
+some sort, but couldn't find any overwhelming evidence to any other
+shooter (these being two different but important issues).  Do I think
+there was some sort of conspiracy (and to qualify as conspiracy you only
+need one or two other people)?  Yes.  Were there other shooters?  My
+sense is probably, but not necessarily.  Will we ever know the full
+story?  No.  Should we ever stop trying?  No.
+
+	                             jm("Back, and to the left.")s
+
+

+
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+JMS: RE: Underwriting + Undera (16 Nov 1994)
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JMS: RE: Underwriting + Undera

+16 Nov 1994
     I scuttled my story for "The Customer is Always Right," a stand-alone,
+because I decided it wasn't up to par, and walked over some of the turf
+ST had walked over.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+JMS: Utility Actor???? (17 Nov 1994)
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JMS: Utility Actor????

+17 Nov 1994
     In order to create more involved alien makeups, and because many
+actors have a hard time with prosthetics, we created what we call the
+Babylon 5 Alien Rep Group; last year about five, and this year about 12
+actors who we have taken full head and (in some cases) body casts, so we
+can use them in mid-level speaking roles as aliens and rotate them in and
+out.  Since we had fewer last year, you saw Mark more than you'll see him
+this year.  Green Drazi #1 in "Geometry" is one such rep group alien.
+
+     We keep trying to find interesting solutions to interesting problems.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Re: Why is B5 syndic (17 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Re: Why is B5 syndic

+17 Nov 1994
     No, neither B5 nor *any* of the ST shows get enough ratings to come
+near the basement in terms of network ratings.  So B5 will either survive
+where it is, or vanish.
+
+                                                                            jms
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+

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+ATT JMS! How can we help "save (17 Nov 1994)
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ATT JMS! How can we help "save

+17 Nov 1994
     The best thing to do, really, is to a) let the stations know, in
+writing, that you like the show, and why, and b) keep bringing in others
+to discover the show.  Near as I can tell, most of the new viewers we're
+now getting are coming not through ads or promos, but word of mouth.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+14 words (17 Nov 1994)
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+17 Nov 1994
     If I told you what the 14 words were, they wouldn't mean anything
+anymore.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Geometry of Shadows [SPOILER] (17 Nov 1994)
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Geometry of Shadows [SPOILER]

+17 Nov 1994
     You hit on the head *precisely*.  When Garibaldi was popping the
+energy cap in and out of the PPG, he was on the floor, nominally in the
+dark, thinking of killing himself.  I didn't want to play it up, didn't
+want to make it what the story was about...just show him doing it, over and
+over.  And from Sheridan's face, seeing the last of this, it's clear he
+got it...and I thought he handled the scene *perfectly*, by his whole
+demeanor, but NOT talking about it except indirectly.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Vir and Londo (small (17 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Vir and Londo (small

+17 Nov 1994
     Be assured, Vir's position continues to be important, and he moves a
+bit closer to the limelight as he does so...remember, he's the one who
+has to watch Londo's actions like a man watching an accident in slow
+motion, and try to do what he can to stop it.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+Historical models for B5 empir (18 Nov 1994)
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Historical models for B5 empir

+18 Nov 1994
     Certainly, when I sat down to construct Minbari society, I looked
+into various historical models, and overall, though there are bits and
+pieces of one or another, I tried not to model it after any one group
+wholecloth.  Certainly there's allegory all over the place....
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+Noises in space and Harlan (18 Nov 1994)
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Noises in space and Harlan

+18 Nov 1994
     Harlan, like many others who've bought the no-sound-in-space okeydoke,
+did ask for that, yes.  Then I figured I'd try and get the straight skinny
+on this, and sent messages around to folks at JPL, NASA, and elsewhere, and
+y'know what?  There IS sound in space.  The conditions and circumstances
+are fairly specific -- proximity to nebulae, proximity to the air-bubble
+contained in a big ship when it explodes, such that it can reach you and
+provide sound -- but there's a LOT of grey in this discussion, and lots of
+reason to think there IS sound.  We've just all bought into it without
+really doing the math.  Freeman Dyson, who currently hold Einstein's
+chair, came back with many circumstances in which you'd hear sound in
+space (and we've used them).  Folks from JPL and the High Altitude
+Observatory reported that when Pioneer broke the speed of sound, it
+registered a bow-shock of a sonic boom *while in space*.
+
+     I've got something like two dozen email messages from credible and
+well-grounded scientists who said, in essence, everybody ASSUMED this, but
+nobody ever really bothered to ASK if it were true, and do the math.  I'll
+eventually upload the file when I get around to cleaning it up.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+ATTN: JMS: Organization, Man! (18 Nov 1994)
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ATTN: JMS: Organization, Man!

+18 Nov 1994
     This is gonna sound really awful, and I'm not sure if this is good
+or bad, but my "method of organization"...is just basically that I keep it
+all in my head.  I've tried day timers, calendars, planners, and I tend to
+forget to write stuff down in it.  I just tend to keep all this stuff in
+my head.  Sometimes I forget something, but usually it's all there.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Kill files! (2 Nov 1994)
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+
Kill files!

+2 Nov 1994
     Unfortunately, the GEnie gateway I use does not have a killfile
+feature.
+
+	                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Does Harlan really have any in (18 Nov 1994)
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Does Harlan really have any in

+18 Nov 1994
     Yes, Harlan and I are friends.  His role on the show is whatever he
+wants it to be, as he wants it to be.  He describes it as being a mad dog
+nipping at my ankles.  I describe him as alternatively a free-floating
+agent of chaos, or Jiminy Cricket, depending.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Re: GoS costumes (no spoilers) (18 Nov 1994)
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Re: GoS costumes (no spoilers)

+18 Nov 1994
     Actually, Londo has two coats, a cloak, several different colored
+vests (blue, black, others), often wears just his shirt, we've seen him
+in his PJs...he's got a fairly large wardrobe.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Re: "The Geometry of Shadows" (18 Nov 1994)
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Re: "The Geometry of Shadows"

+18 Nov 1994
     Ivanova did NOT take the kerchief off either of the Drazi leaders in
+the council chambers; she walked PAST them, and signaled for two of the
+regular Drazi to come down out of the cheap seats.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+"GoS" blow by blow (SPOILERS) (18 Nov 1994)
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"GoS" blow by blow (SPOILERS)

+18 Nov 1994
     "A race that speaks in macros" referred to the Drazi constantly
+repeating their stance, Green must fight Purple, Purple must fight Green,
+over and over...macros.
+
+     Sheridan wasn't so much talking to himself at the end, as he was to
+the Tech who'd just asked about clearing the Technomages for jump.
+
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+GoS costumes (no spoilers) (18 Nov 1994)
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GoS costumes (no spoilers)

+18 Nov 1994
     Ann Bruice did a great job on the technomage costumes; I agree.  She
+found ways to implement what was described in the script that were both
+creative and wore well, and fulfilled the function.  I wanted black, with
+fine silver lines, and an almost circuitboard look to the patterns in
+places, but not *obviously* that, stylized.  She took that and came back
+with a true niftyness....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Re: THE GEOMETRY OF SHADOWS -- (18 Nov 1994)
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Re: THE GEOMETRY OF SHADOWS --

+18 Nov 1994
     I have yelled, frequently and consistently, about the trailers for
+the series, *especially* the use of prior episode's footage, since in my
+view it makes it look like a rerun.  The trailers are assembled by PTEN
+marketing, which is hooked on the idea of flashy visuals, and if they're
+not there, they borrow or cobble them.  And sometimes their version of
+the story doesn't touch reality at any two contiguous points.  It's got
+nothing to do with me, except that it annoys the hell out of me.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Ivanova's Foot (minor spoi (18 Nov 1994)
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Re: Ivanova's Foot (minor spoi

+18 Nov 1994
     Nope, that really was Claudia walking on her broken foot in the
+council chambers.  She's a trooper....
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+ATTN: JMS A question (18 Nov 1994)
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ATTN: JMS A question

+18 Nov 1994
     No major significance, no; the person doing the narration will, in
+theory, change each year.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Londo's fate (A DISTANT STAR s (19 Nov 1994)
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+
Londo's fate (A DISTANT STAR s

+19 Nov 1994
     This thread is also bogus.  The poster, enigma2336@AOL.com is
+screwing with everybody here.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Sheridan sux (19 Nov 1994)
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Sheridan sux

+19 Nov 1994
     Here's why I'm troubled by this discussion not at all.
+
+     I've been here before.
+
+     Last season, in the first handful of episodes we aired, some folks
+were screaming that they hated Sinclair, O'Hare was a terrible actor, on
+and on and on (many of them now the ones yelling about how he was the
+great thespic center of the story, and is irreplaceable).  Same thing now
+with Sheridan.
+
+     You get to know a character OVER TIME.  I made a conscious decision
+at the top not to go for broad-strokes characterization, but rather peel
+back layers over time.  Lots of folks hated Londo at first.  Then they
+got to know him *over time*, and turned around to the favorite character
+for many people.
+
+     This was made clearest to me after "Infection" aired, number four to
+be broadcast, when lots of people said that they felt O'Hare was finally
+settling into his role and had improved.  Only later they discovered that
+"Infection" was actually the FIRST episode we shot, it just aired later
+than it was produced (4 rather than 1).  It wasn't that O'Hare had settled
+into Sinclair, it was that the AUDIENCE was settling into Sinclair.
+
+     One of the things I've seen most often on the nets is a certain lack
+of patience...if the actor doesn't grab one right off with some folks,
+it's "he's a bad actor!"  No, you don't work as much, and as successfuly,
+as Bruce and be a bad actor.  He's not.  It's just taking time -- as with
+ALL our characters -- to get to know the audience, and vice-versa.
+
+     I've been here before...heard some yelling that they hated Ivanova,
+Claudia was a rotten actor, space her (now one of the most popular
+characters on the show), same for Garibaldi and others at varying times.
+But by season's end, once we got to KNOW who these people WERE, then that
+changed.  As it'll change here.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Re: USA TODAY WRITER STANDS BY (2 Nov 1994)
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Re: USA TODAY WRITER STANDS BY

+2 Nov 1994
     What is most hurtful about this is that Michael O'Hare has been out
+there *really* pulling for the show lately, talking it up at the Big-E
+Con over the past weekend, wishing everyone well, looking to the future,
+reinforcing everything said here, he's been nothing but nifty...and along
+come people obsessed with poisoning the well and hurting Michael in the
+process.
+
+	                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Londo being tortured in A Dist (19 Nov 1994)
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Londo being tortured in A Dist

+19 Nov 1994
     Everyone who reads this thread...this is a bogus thread, the so
+called "spoilers" are fakes and have nothing to do with the episode.
+
+     I would, however, suggest that perhaps the poster of this original
+bogus storyline go work with the PTEN marketing people making trailers
+for our show...couldn't be any less accurate than they are now....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Technomage: Shadowrun homage? (19 Nov 1994)
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Technomage: Shadowrun homage?

+19 Nov 1994
     The techno-mages were not a homage to ShadowRun games, since I've
+never seen the game, and have never heard of it prior to seeing this
+message.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Five years!! That's it?????? (19 Nov 1994)
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Five years!! That's it??????

+19 Nov 1994
     I've mentioned before that there's a side-story that could go off,
+within the B5 universe, with a few of our characters, once the Babylon 5
+story itself comes to an end in its fifth year, but that's a long ways off,
+and I don't know if that's realistic.
+
+     You have to understand...I never came in wanting to be a producer.
+I'm a *writer*, and I only got here because it was the only way to protect
+the words...create and run the damned show so nobody can mess with it.
+Once I've finished the Babylon story, assuming it runs its full length,
+(5 years alone, more if there is that doubtful spinoff), the story is
+over.  Every story has a beginning, middle and end, and the story's over
+when it's over.
+
+     I've also made no bones about the fact that, should the Babylon story
+run its full term, I will have said just about everything I want to say in
+television, and plan to get out, go back to writing novels.
+
+     My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room,
+say it, and get the hell out.  (Second philosophy behind that one: when in
+doubt, roll in a grenade and come in firing.)
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+B5 (20 Nov 1994)
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B5

+20 Nov 1994
     It was mainly for story reasons.  In any event...your support and
+kind words are appreciated.
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+A Distant Star (20 Nov 1994)
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A Distant Star

+20 Nov 1994
     Yes, now that we had the images in hand, Bruce re-did the opening
+narration, and was able to nail it perfectly.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Centauri Emperor (22 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Centauri Emperor

+22 Nov 1994
     The role of the Centauri emperor has been cast, and performed with
+marvelous skill, in the person of Turhan Bey.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: New Director? (22 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: New Director?

+22 Nov 1994
     We've signed a few new directors for year two; Mike Vejar, who did
+GoS, will return to do another one or two; have also brought in Mario
+Di Leo and a couple others.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Evidence (Revelations SPOILERS (22 Nov 1994)
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Evidence (Revelations SPOILERS

+22 Nov 1994
     Copies of the evidence were made, but the question is what is the
+available evidence to BE copied?  Frankly, there isn't much.  There are
+no witnesses, very little physical evidence.  If you tried to make a case
+with what they've got, you'd be laughed out of the courtroom.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+The Geometry of Shadows (SPOIL (23 Nov 1994)
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The Geometry of Shadows (SPOIL

+23 Nov 1994
     "Somehow the idea that her first assignment as Commander is
+successful only because of Garibaldi's competence and on a piece of blind
+luck is perhaps just a bit sexist."
+
+     There were *substantial* differences made between the first draft
+and the final, based on the fact that a lot of the physical stuff I'd
+written for Claudia -- getting herself out of the problem she was in with
+the Drazi -- had to be dumped because the actress had a broken foot.  So
+that aspect has to be remembered.  We pushed her to the limits, and I
+didn't want to push further.
+
+     I don't feel Sheridan was downplaying her promotion; he was sneaking
+it up on her to surprise her, making it more of an unexpected delight.
+
+     Re: the techno-mages being the "alien of the week"...they're humans.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: *PLINK* for TV Guide (23 Nov 1994)
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ATTN JMS: *PLINK* for TV Guide

+23 Nov 1994
     The plink got deleted for time; will do it later.
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

+
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+Ship Names (minor ADS spoiler) (1 Dec 1994)
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Ship Names (minor ADS spoiler)

+1 Dec 1994
     So tell me, Ligia, if Cortez had NOT landed in northern Mexico, do
+you think it would have remained undiscovered until now?
+
+     Fact #1: somebody was bound to discover the Americas.
+
+     Fact #2: any sufficiently advanced civilization or culture will
+inevitably attempt to exploit any civilization or culture not sufficiently
+advanced to fight back on a level playing field.
+
+     Blaming explorers for exploring has always seemed to me really kind
+of silly; do people *really* think that if Columbus hadn't landed here,
+it'd be 1994 and we still wouldn't know the world was round and that
+this continent was here?  It doesn't matter who discovered it, the same
+result would've come.  Somebody had to discover it sooner or later.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Sex questio (7 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Sex questio

+7 Dec 1994
     Me, I'm just waiting for somebody to refer to "The Long Dark" as "The
+Long Duck"....
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

+
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+Attn JMS: Where and When is th (20 Dec 1994)
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Attn JMS: Where and When is th

+20 Dec 1994
     The Horizons con is in late April or May sometime, and takes place
+in Bristol.  Claudia and I aren't in any way involved, just working on
+the show.  (There's a chance Peter Jurasik may also attend.)
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Universe Today? (20 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Universe Today?

+20 Dec 1994
     Re: putting out an expanded Universe Today...y'know, that's not a
+bad idea....
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+att jms:  cramps? (20 Dec 1994)
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att jms:  cramps?

+20 Dec 1994
     If your desire is to be equal...we've already shown Sinclair and
+Garibaldi taking a whiz in the men's room.
+
+     And it's doubtful that Garibaldi's jockstrap would play much of a
+role in the story arc....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: How Many Planets? Balance (20 Dec 1994)
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JMS: How Many Planets? Balance

+20 Dec 1994
     Earth Alliance has about 14 worlds/colonies in 12 different solar
+systems.
+
+                                                                            jms
+
+

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+JMS-Demon Night (20 Dec 1994)
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JMS-Demon Night

+20 Dec 1994
     Thanks.  For a first novel, DEMON NIGHT is okay; learned a lot
+doing it.  Mainly just wrote it for myself, when I couldn't find the sort
+of book I wanted to read, then when finished, shoved it in the closet and
+left it there for about 2 years, when my agent said I should really write
+a book someday.  I said that I had, just for myself.  She asked to read
+it, loved it, sent it to an agent affiliate of hers, the agent in NY sent
+it to an editor, and the first one who read it, bought it.  Go figure....
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear (20 Dec 1994)
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Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear

+20 Dec 1994
    OOOPS!  Just realized that the writer of that extremely perceptive
+message that I just replied to is a woman, not a man (looked at the
+name/address of the wrong message).  Well, you're welcome to a cigar
+too, Melanie.  Pull up a chair, and let's sit here and belch at each
+other, whattaya say...?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futurequest PB (20 Dec 1994)
+
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ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futurequest PB

+20 Dec 1994
     Yep, the folks at Futurequest asked if we could donate our stages
+for their use when we weren't using them, and we said yes.  (So far I've
+seen part of our central corridor, and the dome tech's pit in C&C.)
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear (20 Dec 1994)
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Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear

+20 Dec 1994
     "We see aspects of different myth-forms in Babylon 5 because they
+were the paradigms JMS used in developing his writing style, not because
+he's 'doing the Shakespeare thing.'"
+
+     Somebody give that man a ceegar.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+
+Believers: operating over pare (20 Dec 1994)
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Believers: operating over pare

+20 Dec 1994
     Of course the surgical scars would've been a dead giveaway that
+surgery had been performed.  Also, lying to them would have also been a
+violation of medical ethics.  This was not a story about easy solutions.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+B5 clips spotted on PBS "Futur (21 Dec 1994)
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B5 clips spotted on PBS "Futur

+21 Dec 1994
     I know that shot (the work crew in EVA suits) has been used in the
+show; I'll be damned if I can remember in which episode it appeared.
+
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+
+Is B5 really the "best hope fo (7 Dec 1994)
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+7 Dec 1994
     This is, of course, one of the great ironies of any free society,
+that in order to BE a free society you have to create the very conditions
+that could turn right around and destroy that freedom.  You have to
+allow things you don't like in the hope that there are enough checks and
+balances, and enough attractions to the current system to encourage
+folks not to change over.  (I think it was Che Guevara who said that
+every nation is three meals short of revolution.)
+
+     I keep playing with the notion of an opening narration a year or two
+down the road that says, "the Babylon Project was our last, best hope for
+peace.  It failed."
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futureques (21 Dec 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futureques

+21 Dec 1994
     I seem to vaguely recall someone mentioning to me about maybe
+wanting to be interviewed on FutureQuest; I just wasn't sure what I would
+have to say that would be the least interest to anyone.  All of the really
+interesting stuff comes out of my characters' mouths.  You gotta
+understand, the overwhelming reaction upon meeting me is that there's
+less here than meets the eye.  Stick a camera in front of my face and I
+end up just standing there, finger in ear, going bibble-bibble-bibble
+until it's over.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Observations on Season Two (21 Dec 1994)
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Re: Observations on Season Two

+21 Dec 1994
     I recently got a better understanding of what may have been forcing
+Paramount's hand re: their struggle to get a death grip on the stations,
+even at the cost of B5.  Over the weekend I had the chance to talk with
+somebody WAY up the ladder in the Star Trek arena, a major name.  From
+what I was told, the Paramount Network was in serious trouble of not
+getting the required number of stations for some time.
+
+     What this means is as follows: you're a national sponsor.  You want
+to make sure your commercials hit a certain percentage of the population.
+One of the ways to assure this is to get a certain number of TV stations
+in major markets; fall below that threshold, and the sponsors drop off.
+Call that figure X.  Apparently, up until a few weeks ago, Paramount had
+X minus about 10.  If indeed they were pressuring stations, that would
+seem to be the reason for it.  As of last week, however, apparently they
+now have the correct number of stations, and all is well (which explains
+why one person here on the Internet was told recently by his local
+station that it *was* kind of preferred that B5 be dropped, but that this
+wasn't the case anymore).
+
+     Overall, we've lost a few stations, but nothing so substantial that
+we can't find ways around it.  They've got their stations, we've got ours,
+and in most cases they're the same stations.  Fair enough.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 clips spotted on PBS "F (21 Dec 1994)
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Re: B5 clips spotted on PBS "F

+21 Dec 1994
     The cleanup crew in "Revelations" was out working the hazmat
+platform, that was a different object than the one shown in the clip.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+
+JMS:Is B5 broadcast letterbox? (21 Dec 1994)
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JMS:Is B5 broadcast letterbox?

+21 Dec 1994
     B5 is broadcast in traditional aspect ratio; the letterbox version
+will only be available later.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: How come Dr. Franklin did (21 Dec 1994)
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JMS: How come Dr. Franklin did

+21 Dec 1994
     How do you know Franklin DIDN'T know about the biological changes
+Delenn is going through?  Remember the scene in "Revelations;" he's
+allowed inside ONLY on the condition that he not tell anyone what he
+learns.  A doctor's oath of confidentiality is crucial.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS: Language in the comic? (21 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Language in the comic?

+21 Dec 1994
     The word "bastards" was in the script I turned in to DC.  It got
+changed to "demons" by the editor.  That change was made at the last
+minute; all the inked and penciled versions I'd seen before had the right
+word in it.  I'm considerably less than thrilled about it.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS: What about Projectile Wea (21 Dec 1994)
+
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JMS: What about Projectile Wea

+21 Dec 1994
     I have no objection to showing mass drivers, and the main problem
+with projectile weapons inside the station is that they have a nasty
+tendency to breach the hull, eliminating both parties.  Though you will
+see some projectile-type weapons used elsewhere around the first part of
+February.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Universal Moral code and G (21 Dec 1994)
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Re: Universal Moral code and G

+21 Dec 1994
     Eric: I will now collapse your 114 line message into what you were
+trying to say behind the fog of words: you want YOUR belief system
+to be the primary one portrayed, because yours is the truth, and the rest
+are, as you say, "bullshit."
+
+     So get your own damned show...aside, of course, from the hundreds of
+hours of religious programming *already* filling the airwaves and cable
+systems every day of the year.
+
+     Sorry, but I'm under no obligation whatsoever to reinforce your or
+anyone else's particular idea of what the Truth is.  And your particular
+breed of intolerance is on of the uglier aspects of modern christianity.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+
+ok, I wrote, now what? (22 Dec 1994)
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ok, I wrote, now what?

+22 Dec 1994
     Now you can rest, at peace with the knowledge that you have worked
+off at least fifteen karma points from that rather unfortunate prior life
+in the middle ages....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: The big "E-A" (22 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: The big "E-A"

+22 Dec 1994
     How the EA symbol came about is really kind of interesting.  I knew
+that we needed something nifty, but the preliminary designs created for
+this just didn't do it for me.  So I sat down with the graphics designer,
+and we started sketching stuff out.  At this point we were looking mainly
+for the right silhouette.  Circle was out; oval was too soft; triangle
+was too Trek.  At one point he did a star variation.  I looked at it, and
+somewhere in my head the right configuration was there, so I started to
+erase the points of the star, round them off, filled out the middle (and
+if you've ever seen me draw, it's a scary thing; I should stick to
+writing).
+
+     I knew the shape was right when I'd finished, but I knew there was
+still something missing.  That night, the designer called and said he'd
+been looking at it again, and he suddenly noticed that what we'd done was
+to put a silhouette E over a silhouette A, and when he sketched in the
+inner horizontal bars, tucked in the corner of the feet on the A, it
+came together perfectly.
+
+     My problem is often that I can see what I want in my head, but I'm
+limited on actually drawing it.  When we were doing the prosthetic design
+for the pilot for Delenn, our prosthetic designer hit a wall on the
+headbone section, finally threw up his hands and didn't know what to do
+with the thing.  I went over to the studio, we talked for a while, I
+couldn't quite communicate what was in my head, so I grabbed one of the
+sticks they use to shape the clay and started re-shaping the back and
+sides of the crest.  (He'd had them going straight down; I started to
+curve them, and hollow them out, making them more shell-like.)  By the
+time we were done, we had it worked out.
+
+     Which is really part of the fun in doing your own series; you get to
+stick your nose into parts of the production that normally you'd never get
+near, and do your best to screw it up, because that's what bosses do.
+I'm directly involved in costume approval, prosthetics, EFX, production
+design approval, everything.  (On a couple of occasions I've sketched out
+what I had in mind for costumes, much to the amusement of our costume
+designer, because they look like something a 5-year old would draw.  A
+drunk 5-year old, actually.  But they communicate the silhouette, and
+that's the important thing, despite the fact that she's keeping the
+sketches for blackmail.)
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+
+Spider in the Web CC fiasco no (7 Dec 1994)
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Spider in the Web CC fiasco no

+7 Dec 1994
     Apparently there was a mixup on PTEN's side as to the order of
+episodes, and there wasn't time to get this one CC'd for the first
+airing, though it *will* be close-captioned for the rebroadcast.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Symbolism vs. Functionalit (22 Dec 1994)
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Re: Symbolism vs. Functionalit

+22 Dec 1994
     To the notion that there's no symbolism or ritual in the ways humans
+do things like cleansing oneself (unless, of course, you're from India,
+where there is a very real sense of ritual to these things), such
+symbolism can always be *introduced* into the routine.
+
+     Say, by showering with a chicken.
+
+     Works for me.
+
+                                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: the original concept for (22 Dec 1994)
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JMS: the original concept for

+22 Dec 1994
     Yes, since you've sussed it...the plan was to turn Delenn from
+male to female in "Chrysalis," in my original plans, as well as making
+her half-human.  And yes, it would've had one hell of an impact...but my
+concern when I made that decision not do do this back in the pilot was
+based on the reality that we couldn't do it well.  The "male" voice,
+altered by computer-enhancement, just sounded REAL bogus; we couldn't
+get it right, and I had to decide between dropping it, and doing something
+the people would rightly describe as lame all season, just for one big
+payoff.  It was a tough call, but it had to be made.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futureques (22 Dec 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: ? Re: Futureques

+22 Dec 1994
     Re: repeat performances (or is that re: peat performance)...I said
+just about all I could think of to say.  The show really has to speak for
+itself, and most of anything I'd have to say should be said there.  I
+don't tend to do a lot of interviews; I generally okay about one out of
+every twenty or so requests.  Don' wanna be no star.  The story is the
+star, and the actors are the stars.
+
+     To quote Meatloaf, "I ain't in it for the power, And I ain't in it
+for my health, I ain't in it for the glory of anything at all, And I sure
+ain't in it for the wealth."
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Exercise on B5? (23 Dec 1994)
+
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JMS: Exercise on B5?

+23 Dec 1994
     Actually, bear in mind that while C&C is one-third G, the rest of
+the station is not, and the closer you get to the hull, the greater the
+gravity.  If Ivanova wants to experience one-g, she doesn't have to use
+exercise machines, she just has to go down to the right level.
+
+     Not entirely unrelated, though, we're figuring on gradually working
+our way to showing exercise, sports and sporting events on B5; just want
+to be sure that when we do it, it looks right.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Great Job on second seas (23 Dec 1994)
+
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+
JMS:  Great Job on second seas

+23 Dec 1994
      Thanks; slowly but surely, we're figuring out how to make this
+show work....
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  Why does it hurt? (23 Dec 1994)
+
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+
JMS:  Why does it hurt?

+23 Dec 1994
     Scanning only hurts if it's a deep scan, trying to dredge out lost
+or buried thoughts, or if the other person is resisting.  It can be
+anything from a headache to a migraine in intensity in general..
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the (23 Dec 1994)
+
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+
Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the

+23 Dec 1994
     "Morden is the mongoose."
+
+     So what's needed now is a conveniently placed cobra....
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS:  Great Job on second (23 Dec 1994)
+
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+
Re: JMS:  Great Job on second

+23 Dec 1994
     "So there really isn't enough action right now for my tastes."
+
+     You should be careful what you wish for...because you're going to get
+more than your share of action in the batch of episodes beginning January
+23rd...and when the dust settles, you may wish you'd wished otherwise....
+
+	                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Water on B5? (24 Dec 1994)
+
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JMS: Water on B5?

+24 Dec 1994
     One can't do *science* fiction without some occasional references to
+technology; don't let ST poison the well here.
+
+     There's a fair amount of water on B5, all of it recycled carefully.
+You have to allocate some drip-irrigation for stuff like the hedge maze
+and a few other things because the mind needs stuff like that.  I would
+think that they manage to siphon off any growing humidity inside the
+central area rather than allow for unplanned rainstorms that might muck
+things up.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+A visit from St. Joe (24 Dec 1994)
+
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+
A visit from St. Joe

+24 Dec 1994
     Dear Mr. DiMuzio:
+
+     I believe the Nuremberg Literary Crimes Committee would like a word
+with you....
+
+	                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS Quick question about comme (7 Dec 1994)
+
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+
JMS Quick question about comme

+7 Dec 1994
     I actually don't know which sponsors would be considered primary;
+probably should, huh...?
+
+                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the (24 Dec 1994)
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+
Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the

+24 Dec 1994
     I think you're being far, far too literal in looking for snake
+imagery....
+
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the (25 Dec 1994)
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Re: Attn JMS: Why is Londo the

+25 Dec 1994
     There would have been more than one answer that would have sufficed,
+but one answer was better than all the rest.  Just the right mix of
+resentment, nostalgia, ambition, frustration and a sense of displaced
+destiny.  Londo was hitting all those cylinders when he answered Morden's
+question.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+HEY JOE, Where's N'Grath ???? (25 Dec 1994)
+
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+
HEY JOE, Where's N'Grath ????

+25 Dec 1994
     I kinda got disenchanted with the way n'grath came out; he may or may
+not return.  (In my mind I keep seeing some new enforcer with n'grath's
+head on his desk....)
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:  Where did episode # (25 Dec 1994)
+
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ATTN JMS:  Where did episode #

+25 Dec 1994
     207 is "A Race Through Dark Places," guest-starring Walter Koenig.
+Because 207 required extra post-production work, and we wanted to bang
+in with a good name guest star at the top of our next batch of new eps,
+we moved 208 "Soul Mates" down one, as the last of the batch just aired.
+Everyone at PTEN was notified of this, but somehow somebody didn't get
+the word, and misinformation got out.  So for the week of January 23rd,
+that'll be "Race," followed by the rest pretty much in production
+sequence.
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hey JMS : Small season 2 plot (26 Dec 1994)
+
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+
Hey JMS : Small season 2 plot

+26 Dec 1994
     Not a plot hole; wait for "All Alone in the Night."
+
+	                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:  Collars? (26 Dec 1994)
+
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+
ATTN JMS:  Collars?

+26 Dec 1994
     The collar change-over is intentional, carrying through the tradition
+of men's collars closing one way, women's another.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Peter David does it again. (26 Dec 1994)
+
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+
Peter David does it again.

+26 Dec 1994
     You mean like showing two of our command staff in the men's room
+taking a whiz?  (Oops, sorry, we already did that one.)  Maybe having the
+command staff talk about their zippers.  (Oops, did that one, too.)
+
+      Just thought of several others, but we've done those, too.
+
+      This show is about *people*, not statues or icons.  And it's in the
+little details, hassles, and physicality that we are reminded of their
+frailities and humanity...and see a little of ourselves in the process.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+More concerns regarding the se (27 Dec 1994)
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+
More concerns regarding the se

+27 Dec 1994
     ...sigh....
+
+     Nobody at the network has been messing with the show.  My general
+feeling is that at the start of a new season, you're going to get a lot
+of new people to the show, sampling it, and you want to bring them in
+gradually.  (And as it is, there's been a LOT about the shadows in the
+first batch of episodes, in "Revelations," in "The Long Dark," and in
+other episodes.)
+
+     The first seven episodes were mainly to introduce Sheridan, and to
+ease in the new folks.  The next six new ones are *extremely* intense, and
+get into ALL the areas you said you wanted to see, from Santiago to the
+Psi Corps to the Shadow, you name it.
+
+     I don't think a show like this can be rushed; people tend to get
+impatient, which is understandable.  This show will get where it's going,
+but it'll have to do so at its own pace.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+More concerns regarding the se (27 Dec 1994)
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+
More concerns regarding the se

+27 Dec 1994
     P.S.  It occurs to me to correct what may be perceived as the tone
+of my reply, sent seconds ago.  I just answered the same question on
+another system (though that one was phrased rather...aggressively), and
+upon seeing it not fifteen minutes later, I just sorta sighed at it.
+It's a valid question, and I hope my tone didn't imply otherwise.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Peter David does it again. (27 Dec 1994)
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+
Re: Peter David does it again.

+27 Dec 1994
     G.T. Walton says, "I have followed Peter David since his early
+days."
+
+     Well...okay...but the peeking in his windows after dark has *gotta*
+stop....
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Aliens (7 Dec 1994)
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+
Aliens

+7 Dec 1994
     The green/blackish scaly-headed aliens are the Drazi; the ones with
+the cthulhoid tentacles for mouths are pak'ma'ra; the fish-heads seen in
+"Deathwalker" are the Abbai...just for starters.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+What repercussions ? Opinions (27 Dec 1994)
+
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+
What repercussions ? Opinions

+27 Dec 1994
     And here the same, as just noted earlier.
+
+     We're only seven episodes into the new season; you have to build up
+to some of this stuff.  Episodes 8 - 13 should satisfy just about all of
+your requests.  And then some.  B5 is a novel, and like any novel you have
+to  have little diversions and asides along the way to continue to bulid
+(build) the universe and your characters.  The deeper you get into it, the
+fewer of those you get.  But we ain't nearly that deep yet.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Delenn Sex-Change? (27 Dec 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Delenn Sex-Change?

+27 Dec 1994
     Yes, originally Delenn would also have changed sex in "Chrysalis."
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any e (27 Dec 1994)
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+
ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any e

+27 Dec 1994
     "TV needs more JMSs...."
+
+     Oh, dear....
+
+     "Hey, Morrie!  MORRIE!  Get another one of those crates down here!
+Yeah, the JMS-7 models.  How the hell do I know, some lady named Stef
+called down from the main office and said they needed some more, what am
+I, a crystal ball?  Just get it down here.  I don't *care* if you dropped
+it on its head and now all it does is sit inna corner and go "wubble."
+Happened to the last one, too, and nobody's complained yet...."
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+What are we to be called? (27 Dec 1994)
+
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+
What are we to be called?

+27 Dec 1994
     What to call fans of B5?  How about the Incredibly Discerning
+In-Crowd, which would obviously be shortened to --
+
+     I can't...I just can't do it....
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: the original concept (27 Dec 1994)
+
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+
Re: JMS: the original concept

+27 Dec 1994
     Correct; once we'd decided to commit to Delenn being female in the
+series, the makeup was modified to lose some of the more male elements.
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hey, Joe-TV38 is moving B5 all (27 Dec 1994)
+
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Hey, Joe-TV38 is moving B5 all

+27 Dec 1994
     The ratings are strong, but the ratings are also a function of when
+the show is aired.  Move the show around a lot, and the ratings will fall
+on any show, because folks can't find it.  Sometimes it's accidental,
+sometimes not.  "It is *life*" -- Zathras.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Favorite B5 lines (27 Dec 1994)
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+
Re: Favorite B5 lines

+27 Dec 1994
     "Susan always gets the best lines, doesn't she?"
+
+     Yup.  Ah LIKES writing for Ivanova.  She's a hoot.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B-5 Comic Sold Out? (27 Dec 1994)
+
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+
B-5 Comic Sold Out?

+27 Dec 1994
     You were told wrong.  The book has sold very well, and DC is
+committed to further improving the project, both in terms of artwork, and
+quality in general (such as going to a better stock of paper in another
+issue or two, which won't bleed the color so much).
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Favorite B5 lines (27 Dec 1994)
+
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+
Re: Favorite B5 lines

+27 Dec 1994
     See, for me, the best part about all of this isn't determining WHAT
+is a favorite line, but just that there ARE favorite lines....
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 rules! (28 Dec 1994)
+
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+
B5 rules!

+28 Dec 1994
     Thank you for the kind words (and my address appears above)....
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATT JMS:  What would have happ (7 Dec 1994)
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ATT JMS:  What would have happ

+7 Dec 1994
     Okay, alternate-universe time to answer your question....
+
+     "What if Sinclair had not left Babylon 5?"  (Isn't this kinda like
+the Marvel What If? comics..."What If Dr. Blake's Nurse Had Been The One
+to Find Thor's Hammer?")
+
+     The differences would be more noticeable in the later episodes of
+this season, rather than the first batch, which are still dealing in
+large measure with the after-effects of the season finale.
+
+     So the first few episodes would have been somewhat the same in some
+ways to what is there with Sheridan.  The problem that I had was that he
+was becoming (and would have become) mainly a problem-solver character;
+there's a squabble or a problem between other characters who are rising in
+profile (G'Kar, Londo, Delenn, etc.), and he solves the problem in some
+way.  These, to me, were the least interesting episodes of our prior
+season.
+
+     It would've been necessary to bring in another character with a
+direct connection to the shadowmen, since Sinclair's main connection is
+to the Minbari, and it would've been straining credulity to plug him too
+much into THAT story as well...hero of the line, missing 24 hours, Minbari
+soul, AND a tie to the Shadowmen...c'mon, what else does he do, fly under
+his own power?
+
+     Had he stayed, the Shadowman tie probably would've gone to either
+Keffer or Garibaldi.  Which, again, further removes Sinclair from the
+main thrust of the story.  He would have stayed on as more of an observer
+of other people *acting*, while he *reacted*.
+
+     I can't get too specific otherwise without revealing, by contrast,
+what's going to happen later on this season.  Suffice to say this: watch
+the show up to and through "The Coming of Shadows," "All Alone in the
+Night," "Acts of Sacrifice," and "Hunter, Prey."  (That's about episode
+#13.)  You can then ask the question again, but I have a real suspicion
+that once you've seen those episodes, and what Sheridan does, you won't
+NEED to ask, because you'll see how he fits into the overall story in a
+very specific fashion with is 180-degrees different than Sinclair.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Re: Favorite B5 lines (28 Dec 1994)
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Re: Favorite B5 lines

+28 Dec 1994
     Everything that the character says is the writing; everything the
+character does while saying it is the actor.
+
+     It's a funny kind of perception; I've now been at a number of cons
+with the cast members, and invariably they get the questions of "How do
+you create your character, how do you determine who the character is?", and
+I get the overall story-arc questions...almost as if these characters had
+existed outside, or were in the actors, and I stumbled upon them and put
+them into this arc.
+
+     When asked this question at LosCon, Peter Jurasik gave his usual
+answer, "I just say what they write for me to say."  Which obviously is
+a modest understatement; Peter breathes life into Londo and makes the
+lines work.  It's all synergy, I suppose....
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Pronouncing "Ivanova" (28 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Pronouncing "Ivanova"

+28 Dec 1994
     I've known Russians who've used the same kind of pronunciation we
+have given Ivanova.  It does vary.  Heck, my name is pronounced
+STRUH-ZIN-SKI, when it *should* be correctly pronounced STRA-CHIN-SKI.
+Both are acceptable.  And you get different pronunciations in central
+Russia from places like byelorussia or the more Eastern provinces.
+
+	                                                          jms
+
+

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+
+B5 (28 Dec 1994)
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B5

+28 Dec 1994
     If you like those kinds of character flips, you're gonna love the
+next batch of episodes....
+
+     There are some real surprises in there, some relating back to first
+season stuff, and characters.
+
+     It's easiest to flip a character when the story elsewhere is fairly
+straightforward, so you lull the audience in with a sense of "okay, this
+is the story, nothing major, shouldn't change anything," then you whap
+them hard when they're not looking.  So whenever you see a jms script,
+and there doesn't seem like there's that much to it...be careful.  The
+simpler the premise -- just a visit by someone to the station, someone
+taken prisoner and trying to escape -- the more you're being set up.
+
+     It's kinda like the nak'a'leen feeder...as long as you can hear it,
+you're safe...but the moment you hear nothing....
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+
+Zathrus- Minbari/Human offspri (29 Dec 1994)
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Zathrus- Minbari/Human offspri

+29 Dec 1994
     Nope; Zathras is one of his race, which aren't offspring of any
+other two groups.
+
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+
+New episodes? (29 Dec 1994)
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New episodes?

+29 Dec 1994
     New eps start week of January 23rd.
+
+                                                         jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Do other B5 staff lu (29 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Do other B5 staff lu

+29 Dec 1994
     I know that Larry DiTillio (my story editor) recently gained access
+to Internet; some other crew folks hang around, pulling out interesting
+stuff and posting hardcopies on the B5 Buzz: Messages from the Internet
+board erected outside Stage A.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Valen query (29 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS:  Valen query

+29 Dec 1994
      Valen called the Nine together and formed the Grey Council about
+a thousand years ago, give or take; died not long thereafter.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Re: Favorite B5 lines (29 Dec 1994)
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Re: Favorite B5 lines

+29 Dec 1994
     Though Caitlin left B5 to pursue offers to star in romantic lead
+parts, nothing to do with typeasting...your general concern is correct.
+We've tried to help avoid that on behalf of the actors.  For instance,
+visually, you can hardly recognize Peter Jurasik in makeup; ditto for
+Andreas and the rest of our alien cast.  This shouldn't inhibit their
+work in other areas (as opposed to seeing someone very recognizeable, but
+with pointy ears, which caused Nimoy great trouble for a long time).
+
+     In terms of the human characters, I've tried not to wrap any of them
+around one specific character trait.  They range from serious to comic,
+and do different things.
+
+     Typecasting is a real concern, and it has to be addressed by those
+who make the show.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Characters and Cult (29 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS:  Characters and Cult

+29 Dec 1994
     Re: "turning weakness into strength," that's generally what humans
+DO.  We stare into the abyss, we *know* the cause is hopeless, we know
+we're probably gonna get creamed trying, but we straighten our shoulders
+and *do* it.
+
+     It is, I think, one of our better traits.
+
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+
+JMS: ? on Amanda Carter (29 Dec 1994)
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JMS: ? on Amanda Carter

+29 Dec 1994
     Larry slipped in the reference to John Carter of Mars, not our former
+prez....
+
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+
+Sinclair Who? or The Long Dark (7 Dec 1994)
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Sinclair Who? or The Long Dark

+7 Dec 1994
     Re: Sheridan...thanks, and I think you'll continue to like him more
+the deeper we get into the season and we discover what's *really* going
+on with him.  Last season, "Chrysalis" was the episode at season's end
+that kind of turned the show on its head; this season it starts a LOT
+sooner than that...there are several episodes mid-season that whop the
+series upside the head and send it spinning in a very different direction,
+and they mainly involve Sheridan.  In particular, watch for "A Race
+Through Dark Places," "The Coming of Shadows," "All Alone in the Night"
+(which is a biggie, though it's designed NOT to look like that for most
+of the episode), "Acts of Sacrifice" and "Hunter, Prey."  With one or
+two exceptions, they run in a block come February.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+
+Filming order (29 Dec 1994)
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Filming order

+29 Dec 1994
     All scenes in an episode are filmed together, over a seven day
+span.  If you mixed and matched scenes, by different directors, in the
+same episode, you'd have big problems with the directors' Guild, and in
+determining director's credit.
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS: Con Alert Question (29 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Con Alert Question

+29 Dec 1994
     No plans for that part of the world, alas...but if they should ever
+materialize, I'll be sure to post the info here.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: B5 rules! (29 Dec 1994)
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Re: B5 rules!

+29 Dec 1994
     (Putting this here only because there's nothing else relevant to
+tag it onto....)
+
+     Anybody out there with cheat codes for Wing Commander III...I would
+hardly object if one day I found them in my internet mailbox....
+
+     (I gotta get a *real* life....)
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Do other B5 staf (29 Dec 1994)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Do other B5 staf

+29 Dec 1994
     What gets posted on the B5 Buzzboard is mainly reactions to specific
+episodes, analyses of where the story may be going...understand that
+making TV is like yelling into a vacuum; there's no feedback other than
+the ratings, so folks take any chance they can to see how viewers react.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Cost of production CAPT P (30 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Cost of production CAPT P

+30 Dec 1994
     The cost of an average POWER episode was supposed to be about
+$500,000 (for a half-hour show), but often ranged into $650,000 per half
+hour, which puts it WAY above B5 today on a per-hour basis.  It was such
+out-of-control costs that led me to wonder if one could design an SF show
+so that it could be done SENSIBLY....
+
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: B5 vs. DS9 Legal Question (30 Dec 1994)
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JMS: B5 vs. DS9 Legal Question

+30 Dec 1994
     No legal action was initiated by me against anyone on this subject;
+my feeling in general is that such actions only poison the water for BOTH
+sides.  The better determinant is the open marketplace of ideas and public
+opinion.
+
+
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+JMS: Episodes (30 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Episodes

+30 Dec 1994
     I think they'll repeat the year one episodes after they've finished
+the new year two episodes.
+
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Psi Corps Question (30 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Psi Corps Question

+30 Dec 1994
     There are genetic tests that check for the gene, which can be present
+or recessive; also, there's a network by which people who think they are
+telepathic, and thus troubled, can contact the Corps for help.  The
+vast majority of PC members come to them in very early childhood.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Loose threads... (30 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Loose threads...

+30 Dec 1994
     1) The first B5 novel is due out from Dell in January, from John
+Vornholt.
+
+     2) The Grimjack movie is awaiting final negotiations between the
+various parties, and for me to clear out some room on my desk to be able
+to do the script justice.
+
+     3) I'm finishing the first draft of one SF series pilot movie over
+the brief Christmas break, due for one of the major cable networks; another
+project is awaiting some executive decisions.  (These things take time;
+B5 took five years.)
+
+     4) I'm hoping we'll see videotapes of B5 out by spring for the first
+season, laserdisks to follow maybe summer or fall.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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+Re: Favorite B5 lines (30 Dec 1994)
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Re: Favorite B5 lines

+30 Dec 1994
      Timov's "WHO IS THIS?!" in that high-pitched voice would also be a
+great one for an answering machine.
+
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS: This show of yours, "Baby (7 Dec 1994)
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JMS: This show of yours, "Baby

+7 Dec 1994
     Well, it's good to know all those electives in college came in
+handy SOMEWHERE....
+
+     (I think I racked up enough electives in philosophy to come close
+to a major; as it was I minored in philosophy and literature in my first
+two degrees.)
+
+     There's a vast wealth of literature, poety, ideas, philosophy, that
+people -- average viewers -- know nothing about, because they may have
+been led to think it's dry,and dusty, and irrelevent, and less than
+interesting.  So if I can slip that in, and make it interesting, and
+encourage them to seek out this stuff (I can't tell you how many folks
+have written me to mention they checked out  Yeats and Tennyson based on
+seeing it in this show), then we're doing something worthwhile.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any ex (30 Dec 1994)
+
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Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any ex

+30 Dec 1994
     On the whole Trek/B5 thing, here's something to ponder....
+
+     Over the Christmas break, my associate, Doug Netter (also an exec
+producer on the show) was staying at a hotel in New York.  One day, as he
+was going up in the elevator from the garage below, who gets in at the
+first floor but....Patrick Stewart.  Doug introduces himself.  Patrick
+is pleased to meet him, and mentions that he likes Babylon 5 quite a bit;
+that he thinks it has great promise, is constantly improving, and wishes
+it only good fortune.  He even invited Doug to tea, but Doug had family
+engagements, and had to pass.
+
+     Passed along for whatever use that piece of information may be....
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans - JMS (31 Dec 1994)
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Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans - JMS

+31 Dec 1994
     I would think that Patrick Stewart has considerably bigger fish to
+fry than appearing on a syndicated SF series as a one-shot.
+
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+
+JMS: B-5 in chicago? (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
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JMS: B-5 in chicago?

+31 Dec 1994
     WPWR is becoming a Paramount station, yes; I believe, though, that
+B5 is being moved to another day, so should still be there.
+
+     (Just because I'm curious by nature...noting that your sig line
+indicates sysop of the National Islamic BBS...is there much notice of B5
+among the Islamic community?  I'm told that in some areas in Iraq and
+Iran, where some are able to pick up B5 off the satellite link, the show
+is known and responded to well, particularly since this is a Western show
+which is set in Babylon, which makes it a positive place.  [I believe,
+but am willing to be corrected, that both Iran and Iraq tend to claim
+Babylon for their own, though those who live there tend to feel very
+independent of both sides.]  Is there much awareness of the program among
+the American Islamic community, which you're probably more plugged-into,
+given the nature of your BBS?  I've had several letters from people
+noting, accurately, that Minbari comes from the word minbar, the pulpit
+in a mosque.  Anyway, just curious....)
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Battle of the Line number (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
JMS: Battle of the Line number

+31 Dec 1994
     Minbari losses at the Line were fairly minimal, more the result of
+good luck than strategy, or EA ships doing kamikazi runs into Minbari
+cruisers.  Very light.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 parties / cons in UK? (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
B5 parties / cons in UK?

+31 Dec 1994
     I believe there is a B5 con planned for April or May in Bristol,
+England.  Attending will be me, Claudia Christian, and Peter Jurasik.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Favorite B5 lines (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Re: Favorite B5 lines

+31 Dec 1994
     One of my favorite exchanges, which never seems to show up, is from
+PoD v.1, when G'Kar says to Tu'Pari, who has come looking for Ambassador
+G'Kar, "This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters.  This is Ambassador G'Kar's
+table.  This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner.  What part of this progression
+escapes you?"
+
+     Favorite line in the next new episode, from Sheridan: "I'm not saying
+what I'm saying.  I'm not saying what I'm *thinking*.  For that matter,
+I'm not even *thinking* what I'm thinking."
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+jms: Robert Jordan Influences? (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
jms: Robert Jordan Influences?

+31 Dec 1994
     Alas (and I suppose I should be ashamed of myself), though I've heard
+of Robert Jordan, I've never actually read anything by him.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dont trust Sheridan (was JMS: (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Dont trust Sheridan (was JMS:

+31 Dec 1994
     The president spoke truthfully; Sheridan could petition for a
+promotion for her, but it's up to Earthforce to grant it, so the line
+still tracks.  (Note also there's no pronoun there; "Giving her a field
+promotion."  The imperial We still stands, though.)  Also, Sheridan says
+he put through the paperwork the day after he got there; which is fairly
+close to the time frame in the story in which the President says they'll
+be giving Ivanova a promotion.  There's no discontinuity here.
+
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Church of Chris Carter  WAS: (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Church of Chris Carter  WAS:

+31 Dec 1994
     Waitaminnit...just wait one friggin' minute...is or is not the Chris
+Carter of teleport.com who logs on here, to whom I've communicated on
+numerous occasions, THE Chris Carter of X-Files, or another?  If the
+answer is "another," that's a *terrible* thing to do to me; if the answer
+is yes....
+
+     Yo!  Chris!  (waving arms)  There are maybe two or three shows each
+week that I endeavor to catch; yours is one of them.  Absolutely terrific.
+ Terrific writing and performances, and some *very* nice cinematography
+and direction.  Probably one of the best shows around.  It's one of the
+few shows that, if we miss it, we'll call around to all our friends (both
+of them) and see if they taped X-Files.
+
+     Good to see somebody else doing it *right* out there.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: B5 & Voyager making (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: B5 & Voyager making

+31 Dec 1994
     Bigfoot is also a legend....
+
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Ed Wasser-Good actor or n (7 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
JMS: Ed Wasser-Good actor or n

+7 Dec 1994
     Ed Wasser is sort of our discovery; I pretty much wrote the part
+of Morden with him in mind for the role.  He's great in it.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: B5/ Canadian Cons? (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
JMS: B5/ Canadian Cons?

+31 Dec 1994
     No B5 reps that I'm aware of, though many negotiations go through
+the actors' agents, and we may not hear about it.
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any ex (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans, any ex

+31 Dec 1994
     Steve...that'll be interesting to see their response....
+
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Church of Chris Carter  WA (31 Dec 1994)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Church of Chris Carter  WA

+31 Dec 1994
     See my note elsewhere here, if this is the correct Chris Carter.
+
+	  (Same header.)
+
+	                                                               jms
+
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+
+"The Long Dark" Review -- Spoi (7 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
"The Long Dark" Review -- Spoi

+7 Dec 1994
     RE: Londo looking "more wicked," we're doing some very small,
+subtle things to his appearance, his wardrobe, pulling him into a
+darker range of fabrics.  (Honest to god, you wouldn't believe how
+careful and detailed we are in setting this stuff up.)  He'll even be
+getting a new, slightly darker coat, straighter lines, closer in style
+to Refa's, before the season's out.  It's really interesting when you
+know where you're going....
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Re: insignia (3 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
JMS: Re: insignia

+3 Dec 1994
     Rank insignia are on the shoulders, as per tradition; the bars under
+the EA logo are for area; gold for command, green for security, red for
+medical, and so on.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Where's the Ring? (minor L (7 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Re: Where's the Ring? (minor L

+7 Dec 1994
     Anyone who looks too closely for LoTR allegories will over the long
+haul be disappointed; remember, we're also constructing a story that
+casts an eye toward the events of the last 25 or so years, our own fall
+from a vision of the future, and it's designed to have some parallels to
+the story of the original Babylon.  Thus far, though a few have started
+to get glimmers of where this puppy's going, very few yet really get
+just how *big* this story is going to get.
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+IMHO's on LONG DARK   **** SPO (7 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
IMHO's on LONG DARK   **** SPO

+7 Dec 1994
     Yes, we will eventually show the view into sheridan's office; we
+did it small in "Geometry," but not well, I think; we need to be back
+further.  So we'll do it again.
+
+     Until we get it right.
+
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Yeats: The Second Coming (spec (9 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Yeats: The Second Coming (spec

+9 Dec 1994
     Joseph: the only thing I'll say is that you stumbled upone one very
+VERY important element in your message...but I'm not telling you which
+one.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Hey JMS!  Great Show! (9 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Hey JMS!  Great Show!

+9 Dec 1994
     Many thanks; encouragement like this helps us keep going....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS - Are Most T.V. Writers Ti (9 Dec 1994)
+
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+
JMS - Are Most T.V. Writers Ti

+9 Dec 1994
     Television writers do, and risk, as much as the industry will allow
+them to.  The television business inclines one toward timidity, toward
+not making trouble, to the lowest common denominator.  The few that rise
+above that are those willing to take a stand and risk losing everything
+if they mess up (Bochco, Kelley, others).
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Harlan Ellison gone? (9 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Harlan Ellison gone?

+9 Dec 1994
     Harlan is still with the show, and his credit appears in the opening
+of each show's first act.
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 credits font (9 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Babylon 5 credits font

+9 Dec 1994
     Serpentine Medium.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Spelling of Zahadoom? (9 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
JMS: Spelling of Zahadoom?

+9 Dec 1994
     Z'ha'dum.
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Uncredited Actor?, Future plot (9 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Uncredited Actor?, Future plot

+9 Dec 1994
     Conaway is credited in the episode.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Bab-5 on German TV??? (10 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
Bab-5 on German TV???

+10 Dec 1994
     I believe it'll be on Sat Eintz starting December/January.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN JMS: Baseball game (3 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Baseball game

+3 Dec 1994
     I don't recall the SeaQuest game results; I do know that ST called and
+challenged us to a game...we said yes...haven't heard back since.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  Murder she wrote? (10 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
JMS:  Murder she wrote?

+10 Dec 1994
     Yeah, I was there on Murder for two years; fun show.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: From whence "Understandin (10 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
JMS: From whence "Understandin

+10 Dec 1994
     I just kinda thunk it up, based on my past experiences with these
+kinds of essentially theological organizations.
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+What's in Joe's head? (10 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
What's in Joe's head?

+10 Dec 1994
     What's in Joe's head?
+
+     Gophers, mainly.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Can you help with Au (10 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Can you help with Au

+10 Dec 1994
     This is something I have *zip* control over, alas....
+
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Why keep harping on San D (10 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+
JMS: Why keep harping on San D

+10 Dec 1994
     Having lived in San Diego from 1974-81, it's just my way of giving
+a wink to the old home town.  Though there are some important things
+going on underground, in areas no one goes...the choice of SD is just
+a bit of fun.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Theron: WE WANT PROOF. OR, SHA (10 Dec 1994)
+
+
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+

+
Theron: WE WANT PROOF. OR, SHA

+10 Dec 1994
     I hate to be the one to point this out, but B5's ratings have been
+steadily on the rise now for weeks; in fact, the President of WB/PTEN
+distribution came here to the stage this week to congratulate everyone
+involved with the show.  We're the 3rd rated dramatic series overall,
+in both ratings and demographics, and the demos are *killer*.  Our last
+rating for "Long Dark" gave us a 5.2, which will definitely put us in
+the top 18 or even 15 of ALL syndicated shows.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moronic Fanboys (10 Dec 1994)
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Moronic Fanboys

+10 Dec 1994
     Excuse me, but has *anyone* here considered that Sheridan just might
+still be talking to the same tech he was speaking to not *five seconds
+earlier*?  He wasn't talking to himself, so much, or the audience, though
+the push-in (the only shot we had) worked against that.  He *was* talking
+to the tech.  Honest.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Comments & question re B5 (10 Dec 1994)
+
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JMS: Comments & question re B5

+10 Dec 1994
     It's not supposed to be a blasted landscape around Geneva, and didn't
+look like that in the pencils.
+
+     Ah, well....
+
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Making of Babylon 5 (10 Dec 1994)
+
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JMS: Making of Babylon 5

+10 Dec 1994
     I'm sure it'll eventually come out again somewhere...
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: What does Harlan do? (10 Dec 1994)
+
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JMS: What does Harlan do?

+10 Dec 1994
     Harlan does on the show whatever he *wants* to do on the show.  He
+helped create the Ombuds character, added to the narration, does the
+final VO on the credits, sometimes talks with other writers about the
+show...he's our own personal free-floating agent of chaos....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:  renewal notice when (7 Dec 1994)
+
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ATTN JMS:  renewal notice when

+7 Dec 1994
     If we bombed in November, we'd get NO.  If we did good, we'd get
+Maybe.  So far, we're still (happily) in Maybe.  We likely won't know
+for sure though until March/April.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ANSWER ME!!!! (10 Dec 1994)
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+
ANSWER ME!!!!

+10 Dec 1994
     Some will.  Some won't.  Simple enough?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+How are you doing? (10 Dec 1994)
+
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+
How are you doing?

+10 Dec 1994
     So far, we're doing fine...but there's still a very long road
+ahead of us.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

+
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+
+ATN JMS: Chrysalis (spoiler) a (10 Dec 1994)
+
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ATN JMS: Chrysalis (spoiler) a

+10 Dec 1994
     Yes, if Laurel had stayed with the station, either she would have
+pulled the trigger on Garibaldi, or been directly involved in other ways.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+ATT:JMS Re: Jeff Conaway (11 Dec 1994)
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ATT:JMS Re: Jeff Conaway

+11 Dec 1994
     Yes, Conaway will be seen from time to time in the show.
+
+     We get a *very* good selection of name actors, many of whom don't
+generally do syndication (not at what we can afford to pay, much less
+than ST has), but they're generally drawn by the material.  At least
+that's what they tell me, and out of convenience and hubris I have come
+to accept it as true.
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Media mention, well, (11 Dec 1994)
+
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ATTN JMS: Media mention, well,

+11 Dec 1994
     Now that's comedy....
+
+                                                jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Ivanova squirms (was Re: I (11 Dec 1994)
+
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Re: Ivanova squirms (was Re: I

+11 Dec 1994
     "I wanna see those gloves come off.  WHEN she's with someone."
+
+     How's the next batch of new episodes...soon enough for you?
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Trading cards (11 Dec 1994)
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Trading cards

+11 Dec 1994
     There are also apparently supposed to be real trading cards coming
+out from Cardz eventually.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: your faves (13 Dec 1994)
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JMS: your faves

+13 Dec 1994
     So far the best episodes of this year (in my view) are those in the
+next batch, starting January/February.  (My favorite from the first
+group is "Geometry.")  I think "The Coming of Shadows" may be the best
+(or at least my favorite) from the entire series to date.  I'd also put
+"Chrysalis," "Babylon Squared," "A Race Through Dark Places" and
+"Revelations" toward the top.  I suspect that "All Alone in the Night"
+will be up there, but I just today got the director's cut, and haven't
+seen it yet, though the dailies were terrific.
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+G'kar and Londo Tango. (13 Dec 1994)
+
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+
G'kar and Londo Tango.

+13 Dec 1994
     Ah, but you're assuming that the Londo-strangling-scene is as it
+seems to be; maybe it is, but maybe it isn't.  You don't know the context
+yet.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: A note of thanks. (13 Dec 1994)
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JMS: A note of thanks.

+13 Dec 1994
     The thanks more properly belong with those who've supported and
+discovered the show for what it is, like yourself....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+Dayton Daily News B5 article (7 Dec 1994)
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+
Dayton Daily News B5 article

+7 Dec 1994
     If somebody has a hard-copy of this article, it'd be great if it
+could be sent my way.
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+Thanks, JMS, for your guest st (13 Dec 1994)
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Thanks, JMS, for your guest st

+13 Dec 1994
     McCallum was *very* pleasant to work with, very unassuming and
+quiet.  We've been very lucky with our guest stars; they have a strong
+respect for the text, and don't stray.  And they bring a lot to each
+performance.  On the subject of genre actors...they often created great
+characters, so memorable that they got typecast, and couldn't find work.
+This to me is a crime, and if we can cast them in ways totally opposite
+what they've done before (Koenig as Bester), and show the real range and
+skill these actors possess, we pay back a little of what they've given
+us, which we kinda owe them, I think.  It's simply a gesture of respect.
+
+
+     (Our first season, when Walter did his episode, when he would come
+to the lunch table -- all writers, producers, crew and actors eat
+together at the stage every day -- all the other cast members used to
+stand until he'd sat...tradition for a senior officer.)
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Moving Stars (One More Time... (13 Dec 1994)
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Moving Stars (One More Time...

+13 Dec 1994
     Because the window is so large, making a revolving cyclorama with
+fiber-optic stars is physically impossible.  Doing matte composites for
+the lengthy shots which generally take place in C&C is also impossible;
+we could spend time rendering all those shots, but then wouldn't have
+time to render any OTHER CGI for the show.  We're still looking for a
+better solution, but for now, it is what it is.
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Hook-up with David Brin (13 Dec 1994)
+
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+
JMS: Hook-up with David Brin

+13 Dec 1994
     I know David Brin; have spoken to him, had lunch, you name it.  I
+think our working habits are attidudes are *very* far apart.
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+
+Attn JMS (was Re: Is B5 really (13 Dec 1994)
+
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Attn JMS (was Re: Is B5 really

+13 Dec 1994
     And in my more evil moments, in light of the analysis of "it was the
+dawn of the third age of mankind," I'm constantly fighting the temptation
+to have someone show up at the station with his young daughter in tow and
+say, "This is Dawn.  She's three."
+
+     Just to watch everyone's antennae explode....
+
+     (This to Dawn Sharon, who reminded me of it.)
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+SitW link to Stalking the Nigh (14 Dec 1994)
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SitW link to Stalking the Nigh

+14 Dec 1994
     The Bureau 13 name was *entirely* coincidental on Larry's part.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Tom McDevitt tribute (14 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Tom McDevitt tribute

+14 Dec 1994
     Actually, it was caused by a charity SFWA auction; I bought the
+rights to have a ship named after me in Tom's new book (at that time).
+Ed Bryant was the auctioneer, who snared me into a bidding war with a
+woman with an even longer name than mine, finally provoking me with, "If
+you were a REAL man you'd jump another hundred dollars and shut her down."
+
+     I'm such a stooge....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Tv Guide Editor's View (14 Dec 1994)
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+
Re: Tv Guide Editor's View

+14 Dec 1994
     I hear they're going to print a slightly edited (minus the more
+inflammatory stuff, I was in a bad mood at the time) version of my letter
+in their magazine, with a note from the editor to the effect that he will
+maybe give B5 "another chance."
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+
+Question for JMS: Mimbari Warr (14 Dec 1994)
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Question for JMS: Mimbari Warr

+14 Dec 1994
     Prior to the time of Valen, the Minbari's greatest spiritual leader,
+there was killing of Minbari by Minbari.  There were three warring castes,
+which he pulled together when he formed the Grey Council (three from each
+caste forming nine, Worker, Warrior, Religious Caste).  Since that time,
+and the Minbari have been in space for well over a thousand years, they
+have pretty much hewn to that rule; it is their greatest taboo.  Once the
+three sides were integrated, the warrior caste mainly contented itself
+with external threats.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS: another clipping for your (14 Dec 1994)
+
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JMS: another clipping for your

+14 Dec 1994
     Thanks for the info; much appreciated.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: save $$ on CC? (was: Spid (14 Dec 1994)
+
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+
JMS: save $$ on CC? (was: Spid

+14 Dec 1994
     Unfortunately, the CC company isn't set up to handle those kinds of
+files.  (And btw, we don't handle that directly; WB/PTEN makes the deal
+with the CC company.)  Generally, on the rare occasions when it isn't on
+first-run, it IS cc'd on the second run.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+Boxleitner, the new William Sh (7 Dec 1994)
+
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+
Boxleitner, the new William Sh

+7 Dec 1994
     First people complained that Sinclair wasn't expressive enough; now
+they complain that Sheridan's TOO expressive...Sinclair smiled too much,
+then he was too serious...now Sheridan smiles too much....
+
+     The Canadian TV Guide said Sheridan was as "wooden" as Shatner; now
+he's called as overly expressive as Shatner....
+
+     I dunno...maybe the hangup some people have with Shatner is the
+problem...and maybe they ought to get over it.
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+
+Not exactly technobabble... (b (14 Dec 1994)
+
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+
Not exactly technobabble... (b

+14 Dec 1994
     I don't think referring to a medical problem or illness is in any
+way either technobabble or medbabble.  Either babble is just that, a long
+string of terms which suffice for plot points.  New medical conditions
+come along all the time, and require names.  Twenty years ago we didn't
+have the term AIDS.  If that had been used prior to the illness being
+discovered, would that be considered technobabble?
+
+     I think we need to be somewhat sensible here; from time to time one
+must explain something or refer to something of a technical nature.  I
+don't think that this must lead to a kneejerk response of classifying
+any kind of technical reference as technobabble.  Terms have meaning,
+and the more you generalize those terms, the less meaning they have.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+
+jms: Sinclair's return (14 Dec 1994)
+
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jms: Sinclair's return

+14 Dec 1994
     If I were to tell you when and where Sinclair might be seen again in
+year two, it would *totally* ruin any surprise generated by this when it
+happens.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+JMS: FOX SCI-FI SPECIAL (14 Dec 1994)
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JMS: FOX SCI-FI SPECIAL

+14 Dec 1994
     They used the only episode Warners gave them...I could say more, but
+why steam up your monitor...?
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+Re: What about the new viewers (14 Dec 1994)
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Re: What about the new viewers

+14 Dec 1994
     One of the focus groups done by Warners had the same reaction from
+one of the people; that B5 was too much a drama, too much character stuff,
+and not enough of what SF is.  So he was asked what he considered SF to
+be.  He lit right up and said, "Power Rangers."
+
+     I almost went for him, right through the two-way glass....
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+Sinclair is "The One" - Right? (14 Dec 1994)
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Sinclair is "The One" - Right?

+14 Dec 1994
     "Sinclair is 'The One' -- right?"
+
+     Question is, the One *what*?
+
+                                                                    jms
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+Thanks, JMS, for a great show! (14 Dec 1994)
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Thanks, JMS, for a great show!

+14 Dec 1994
     Thank you very much; your kind words are very much appreciated.
+
+                                                             jms
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+JMS: Other comic stories (14 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Other comic stories

+14 Dec 1994
     Part of me wants to follow the other characters from the pilot, but
+another part of me knows that only a relatively small portion of B5
+viewers have actually *seen* the pilot, and it might kinda lose them.  I
+dunno, still considering it.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+ATTN: JMS Question on Sensors (14 Dec 1994)
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ATTN: JMS Question on Sensors

+14 Dec 1994
     As Sheridan states in the conference room in "Points," they've
+never been able to crack the Minbari stealth tech, so there's no real
+upgrade to make.
+
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+Is JMS a Vorlon? (14 Dec 1994)
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Is JMS a Vorlon?

+14 Dec 1994
     Yeah, a lot of my posts are dated in the wee hours, 1-3 a.m. or
+thereabouts; sometimes later.  (Though a few, like this one, are a bit
+more ordinary.)  You have to understand the schedule: I get to the
+studio early, I try to be on stage for filming as much as I can, then
+there's casting, meetings, editing, mixing, tone discussions with
+directors, on and on and on...then I come home around 8 p.m. or so, grab
+a fast bite, go into my office, write scripts until around midnight or
+one (occasionally blipping onto the modem while the dinosaur part of my
+brain tries to work out a story point), then do the bulk of my modeming
+live and on-line from then through the wee hours.  Then I crash and do it
+all over again the next day.  (I can use Tapcis for some off-line
+composing, but all my GEnie stuff and Internet stuff is written on-line,
+since the GEnie gateway can't handle offline stuff; once I've read a
+message here, it vanishes from my mailbox.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+JMS: Situation in Seattle, WA? (14 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Situation in Seattle, WA?

+14 Dec 1994
     I don't know what the situation is or will be, but I'll endeavor to
+find out.  (Meanwhile, if you want to roll out the cavalry, feel free.)
+
+                                                                           jms
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+

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+jms:interaction on net? (7 Dec 1994)
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jms:interaction on net?

+7 Dec 1994
     I appreciate the thought, Roxanna; I guess my main concern isn't
+so much nitpicking, that's part of the game going in; it's just whether
+or not my presence in an unregulated environment brings in so many
+poison darts from trollers and those out to make a hassle that it ruins
+it for others.
+
+                                                           jms
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+ATTN JMS: Showing support for (15 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Showing support for

+15 Dec 1994
      Of everything, writing your local station remains the best way of
+supporting B5.  Thanks.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS : The name Vorlon? (16 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS : The name Vorlon?

+16 Dec 1994
     This question is going to require considerable thought before I can
+find how to take what's in my head and explain it.
+
+     Also an exorcism, probably....
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+JMS:Who watchers the watchmen? (16 Dec 1994)
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JMS:Who watchers the watchmen?

+16 Dec 1994
     "Who watches the watchmen" is an old Latin phrase, sometimes
+translated as "who guards the guards?"  Given sufficient time I could
+probably dig up the origin of the phrase; it's fairly common.
+
+     And thanks re: Ivanova...she's a hoot.  (And btw, Claudia and I are
+tentatively set to do a Horizons convention in England around Apilr or
+(er, make that April or) May.
+
+                                                                jms
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+ATTN JMS: Your letter to TV gu (16 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Your letter to TV gu

+16 Dec 1994
     I think if I posted it here, intact, it'd blow out the hub and crash
+the system...
+
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+JMS: phony promo for "Soul Mat (16 Dec 1994)
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JMS: phony promo for "Soul Mat

+16 Dec 1994
     Not a fake promo, the WRONG promo...sigh...this one airs later.
+
+                                                        jms
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+

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+JMS: Re: Question for JMS: Min (16 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Re: Question for JMS: Min

+16 Dec 1994
     There are some differences in appearances, over years of tradition
+and change, between castes; primarily, the warrior caste tend to bring
+their bone-crests to jagged points.
+
+                                                                      jms
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+JMS:Is The Future Fixed?(ie. P (16 Dec 1994)
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JMS:Is The Future Fixed?(ie. P

+16 Dec 1994
     "I think that pre-destination is about as unscientific as you can
+get."
+
+     Y'know, that's EXACTLY the sort of thing you'd say.  It was
+inevitable.
+
+     Free will or predistination...I don't think either has been in any
+way scientifically proven.  And your message indicates that you think one
+or two people CAN stop a war.  How?  With what information?  You're
+attributing godlike powers to our characters.  Sadly, in real life, all
+too often we're stuck watching the car accident in slow motion, knowing
+what's coming but unable to stop it.
+
+     The war *will* come (and they don't hear the narration, that's just
+for you the viewer); question is, how will it come out?  There's room for
+fluidity there, certainly.  So it's both...the war is inevitable; the
+outcome, less so.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+JMS:  Keep the comic topical (16 Dec 1994)
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JMS:  Keep the comic topical

+16 Dec 1994
     Thanks.  I haven't seen the colored pages of later issues, but the
+pencils and, for the most part, inks are improving a bit.  And thanks
+again for the support.
+
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS:  Is B5 doomed? (16 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS:  Is B5 doomed?

+16 Dec 1994
     You're mixing apples and oranges; it may be tied for 20 with ALL
+show, but you're including talk shows, and game shows, and Entertainment
+Tonight.  In the ratings, you break out categories; and we're the third
+rated dramatic series, #3 out of 16 or 17.  And our demographics are
+stellar.  So things are looking very good right now.
+
+     Seeing numbers is one thing, but you have to know how they are
+interpreted by ad agencies and networks for it to count.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+PARADOX!! Re: JMS:Is The Futur (17 Dec 1994)
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PARADOX!! Re: JMS:Is The Futur

+17 Dec 1994
     Yeah, one can drag chaos theory into this...but this is a work of
+fiction, with a fairly traditional epic structure, meaning overall I'm
+more interested in myth than math.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+Re: jms:interaction on net? (7 Dec 1994)
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Re: jms:interaction on net?

+7 Dec 1994
     And, of course, the reality is that there has not been ONE show
+ever produced in the history of television that could withstand the kind
+of scrutiny generally given to SF series.
+
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+Attn. JMS:  JMS as Father Chri (17 Dec 1994)
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Attn. JMS:  JMS as Father Chri

+17 Dec 1994
     Okay, let's see, what can I tell you to tide you over...the next
+six new episodes that'll run are, in order, "A Race Through Dark Places,"
+"The Coming of Shadows," "GROPOS," "All Alone in the Night," and "Acts of
+Sacrifice," with "Hunter, Prey" being the final new one in that cycle.
+
+     I can say that all of those episodes (with the nominal exception of
+"GROPOS," which though it is a solid arc episode doesn't change the
+overall direction of the series) are stories that have major and
+substantial effects on the show's direction. In season one, we built all
+season to maybe three major WHAM episodes.  ("Sky," "Signs," "Chrysalis.")
+This year we have double that number at minimum, and with greater impact.
+
+     All of our major characters will start going through major
+upheavals in their lives during this period.  It's a *very* intense six
+weeks.  Several characters make decisions that completely change the
+direction of the show, and the way their character fits in with the
+series.  One episode will look very much unconnected to the arc until the
+last five minutes, at which point there's a revelation that will likely
+astonish some and confirm suspcions for some other viewers.
+
+     Simply put, by the end of those six episodes, in many ways the show
+you're used to isn't the same anymore, and the relationships between
+several major characters simply aren't the same anymore.  And most
+interesting for me is that we get to push some of the characters'
+emotions to the very edge...and snap them.
+
+     These six represent some of the strongest episodes we've ever done;
+I consider "Coming" to be probably the best episode to date.  In "GROPOS"
+we're going for broke and are doing some *amazing* CGI stuff.
+
+     How's that for a start?
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

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+JMS: Signs reaction, .... (17 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Signs reaction, ....

+17 Dec 1994
     Thanks; "Signs" is definitely a real hoot....
+
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS: Sinclair-Garibaldi Closen (17 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Sinclair-Garibaldi Closen

+17 Dec 1994
     Garibaldi is cautious, and careful, and his friendship with Sheridan
+will have to grow -- sometimes awkwardly -- with the new CO.  We are doing
+some intersting things with the Londo/Garibaldi axis, however....
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+JMS-?'s and observations about (18 Dec 1994)
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JMS-?'s and observations about

+18 Dec 1994
     San Diego was nuked by terrorists some time earlier; but if you dig
+deep enough, you could probably build something with enough money; and
+who knows how bad it *really* is.
+
+     Ratings are very encouraging right now....
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: BABYLON 5 Charges re: PARA (18 Dec 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5 Charges re: PARA

+18 Dec 1994
     It's hard to believe that anyone could consider B5 "too expsensive"
+since it costs considerably *less* than DS9 or Voyager to produce, by
+quite a margin.
+
+                                                                           jms
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+

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+JMS: Female Chars (Ivanova's T (18 Dec 1994)
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JMS: Female Chars (Ivanova's T

+18 Dec 1994
     Placement in credits has got *nothing* to do with placement in the
+story arc; it's a function of how many episodes the character appears in,
+and what the actor can negotiate for.  Totally separate issue.
+
+                                                                        jms
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+

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+JMS:  Londo and Shakespeare? ( (18 Dec 1994)
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JMS:  Londo and Shakespeare? (

+18 Dec 1994
     The interesting thing for me in this and related conversations is
+that I frequently notice messages indicating that "jms is doing the whole
+Kennedy thing," or it's the Lord of the Rings, or it's Dune, or it's
+tracking the Bible, or it's following Yeats...or it echoes Shakespeare,
+as in this case.
+
+     In a way, they're all right, and in a way, they're all wrong.  Right
+in the sense that in trying to create myth, or a story using traditional
+epic structure, you can see echoes not only between B5 and other such
+stories, but also between those other epics.  The mistake is in thinking
+(and this isn't directed at you, just sorta woolgathering) that it is in
+fact a parallel to any one of them.  That leads you into the error of the
+blind men each touching a part of an elephant; if you think the trunk IS
+the elephant, you've erred, and all conclusions that follow are thus
+skewed incorrectly.
+
+     To the question of Shakespeare and Londo...yes, there's some
+resonance there, because Londo is an almost archetypal tragic/comic, or
+romantic/tragic figure.  There was certainly a fair amount of Falstaff in
+him; references to consulting three technomages certainly resonates with
+MacBeth being "endorsed" as it were by the three witches.  You can look at
+Londo and see Lear, or Hamlet, or others...and they all resonate to one
+degree or another, but none of them is wholecloth.
+
+     Right now, all that most viewers have of the B5 story is a piece of
+the elephant, and are assuming that that *is* the elephant.  Another good
+comparison would be to say that if you stop a reader part way into The
+Lord of the Rings, they'll assume it's all about some hobbits on the road,
+having adventures.  Because they don't yet know about Mordor, or Sauron,
+or the Rings, or Rivendell, or the sheer *scope* of the thing.  I don't
+think anyone has yet twigged to what this story is, really.
+
+     One of the things really lacking in American culture, I think, is a
+sense of *myth*.  So the story of Babylon 5 has a very mythic kind of
+structure.  I think that's important.  Which is why a lot of the elements
+I draw on aren't traditional television devices...literature, poetry,
+religion, hard SF, metafiction, Jungian symbology...there are an awful
+lot of ingredients in this particular pie, culled from the less likely
+aisles in the supermarket.  You have to remember that my degrees are in
+psychology and sociology, with minors in literature and philosophy.  So
+my tastes and predilections and resources are fairly eclectic and lean
+toward the classical.  (How else to explain an atheist who's read the
+Bible cover to cover *twice*?)
+
+     And I think I just answered your question in far more detail than
+could possibly have been desired....
+
+                                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Observations on Season Two to (18 Dec 1994)
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+18 Dec 1994
     The only quibble I have with your message, and it's a small one, is
+your statement, "The success of Trek made B5 possible."
+
+     Not true.  In fact, Trek has made it infinitely *harder* to get
+other SF on the air, including B5.  The general concensus in Hollywood is
+that the market isn't big enough to sustain more than one SF show at a
+time (particularly if it's space-oriented), and that's ST.  (That may only
+NOW start to change with the growth of B5's ratings.)
+
+     At every network, every studio in town, we were told -- repeatedly --
+that there is NO market for space SF other than Trek, that they had the
+field to themselves, and there was no interest in trying to buck that
+scenario.  That's one of the reasons that PTEN was so cautious in putting
+B5 on the air, among others.  Even when we got the go for series, we were
+told that this was a dubious endeavor, because "we just don't think the
+market can sustain more than one show like this; we'll try it, but we'll
+just have to see what happens."
+
+     So believe me, ST has not "made B5 possible."  It has been an
+obstacle (one of many) to overcome.  Not just for us, but for other sF
+projects that have tried to get off the ground.  And over the last few
+months, we've now heard of other new SF shows gearing up in this area,
+because we've shown it can be done.  And I think it's terrific; the more
+shows, the more we have to compete with one another, the better the shows
+will become, and the ultimate beneficiary of this is the viewer.
+
+     Look at it this way...in the 25+ years since ST (and for the moment
+leaving out Buck Rogers, about which the less said the better), how many
+American SF series have there been set in the future with us as space
+faring people that have lasted more than just *one* season?  Answer: zero.
+ If ST had proven a market, wouldn't there be some in there?  ST has never
+shown that there's a market for more SF, only that there's a market for
+more ST.  B5 is the first show in over a quarter-century to play in this
+particular back yard and go more than one season.
+
+     So you'll undertstand why, when people sometimes suggest that ST made
+B5 possible, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up....
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Universal Moral code and G (18 Dec 1994)
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Re: Universal Moral code and G

+18 Dec 1994
     The idea of getting all sentient life forms, human and alien alike,
+to agree on a UNIVERSAL MORAL CODE is utterly impossible.  Hell, get 15
+people together and have them decide on where to go for LUNCH can take
+you *days*.  The UN brought forth a Universal Bill of Human Rights, and
+there are STILL nations that haven't signed it, don't agree with it.  Can
+you imagine the GREATER differences of opinion when you start bringing
+non-humans into the equation?
+
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Observations on Season Two (19 Dec 1994)
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Re: Observations on Season Two

+19 Dec 1994
     "Space: 1999" is, I think, *really* splitting hairs, in the sense
+that it is and was a British series.  Whether or not it was targeted for
+Americans, or made *acceptable* to Americans, is a debatable issue.  But
+it was something in the back of my head when I wrote my message....
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+HEEELP!!! Dilgar War???? (7 Dec 1994)
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HEEELP!!! Dilgar War????

+7 Dec 1994
     The war against the Dilgar was the one referenced in "Deathwalker."
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: BABYLON 5 Charges re: PARA (19 Dec 1994)
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Re: BABYLON 5 Charges re: PARA

+19 Dec 1994
     Yes, stations "have bills to pay," but buying a cheaper show isn't
+necessarily the solution if that show doesn't pull ratings.  Because the
+money a station earns to PAY those bills comes from advertisers, based on
+the ratings.  And B5 is currently rating very well.
+
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear (19 Dec 1994)
+
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Re: JMS:  Londo and Shakespear

+19 Dec 1994
     "People with psychology backgrounds are sneaky, devious,
+underhanded, untrustworthy bastards."
+
+     Yeah...and...?
+
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+re: predestination (19 Dec 1994)
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re: predestination

+19 Dec 1994
     Your interpretation is correct; the narration is designed as future
+history.
+
+                                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+
+OFFICIAL UK C4 airdates for Se (20 Dec 1994)
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OFFICIAL UK C4 airdates for Se

+20 Dec 1994
     If the problem is showing bare-kunckle fighting to the death, then
+somebody should point out to C4 that *nobody dies* in the match.
+
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+UK:Channel 4 latest (20 Dec 1994)
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UK:Channel 4 latest

+20 Dec 1994
     I'm piggy-backing this note to a UK letter in order to reach our
+friends across the pond.
+
+     Hullo!
+
+     I have a question/favor to ask.
+
+     There's a puppet kid's show that aired in the US around the early
+1960s that was made in England.  There it was called "Space Patrol," but
+here it was called "Planet Patrol" to distinguish it from another show
+called "Space Patrol."  I've been looking for copies of this show for
+literally decades; I've only found one.  I would be willing to make
+whatever arrangements necessary to get additional copies of this show.
+
+     (Hey, it was my fave show as a kid, what can I say...?)
+
+	                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Observations on Season Two (20 Dec 1994)
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Re: Observations on Season Two

+20 Dec 1994
     Correct; Battlestar Galactica wasn't about Earth's future; it was
+about them looking for us, their lost tribe, in our present.  Doesn't fit
+the bill.
+
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Universal Moral code and G (20 Dec 1994)
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Re: Universal Moral code and G

+20 Dec 1994
     Of course, getting everyone to agree to support and promote life and
+intelligence means coming up with a definition everone out there would
+agree upon for both those areas.  Would some species even consider us
+intelligent?  Would their sensory apparatus be sufficient to distinguish
+us as living beings, or their biology be so different that by their
+standards we don't qualify?
+
+     And even here at home, some can use that debate for their own
+purposes.  I saw a documentary last night about Nazi propaganda films used
+before and during the war to encourage doctors to terminate the physically
+and mentally disadvantaged, particularly the latter.  They were routinely
+gassed in asylums.  The logic they used: the mentally insane suffered
+from "existence without life."  Thus there was no crime in eliminating
+them.
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS Re: Power Rangers (20 Dec 1994)
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JMS Re: Power Rangers

+20 Dec 1994
     Steen wanted to leave POWER to pursue other things; so I gave her a
+good death....
+
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Any images from the (20 Dec 1994)
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ATTN JMS: Any images from the

+20 Dec 1994
     Will try to upload a few down the road a bit.
+
+	                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
+B5 CD Booklet: Why stiff O'Har (20 Dec 1994)
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B5 CD Booklet: Why stiff O'Har

+20 Dec 1994
      I was actually kinda surprised by the omission myself; I do believe
+there's a photo of Michael in there (him and Jerry standing in front of
+the big fan set)...I can only assume that it was done under the current
+licensing, and that department sent him what was to be on there.
+
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+
+Signal/Noise in B5 and commerc (1 Jan 1995)
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Signal/Noise in B5 and commerc

+1 Jan 1995
     The signal/noise problem was of particular annoyance during the first
+four or five episodes.  We deliver on perfect D2 digital masters.  We
+kept seeing problems on broadcast that weren't there upon delivery.  We
+did a thorough investigation, and learned that the people contracted with
+by PTEN/Warners to handle stuff like closed captioning, and transferring
+film, and reformatting for commercials, and adding commercials, were
+using ANALOG tape, for starters, and sometimes, we discovered to our
+horror, USED STOCK.
+
+     It took us some time to fully detail and investigate the situation,
+with the result that several people found themselves with new bodily
+orifices chewed into their anatomy.  By about episode four or five it
+began to look substantially better.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr (3 Jan 1995)
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Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr

+3 Jan 1995
     Battlestar Galactica really isn't applicable to this discussion
+because 1) the "arena" under discussion has always been Earth in its future
+with humanity as a spacefaring civilization, which comprises 95% of all
+written SF, but had not been done on TV since Trek, and 2) Battlestar
+was really more of a Star Wars "homage" (he said politely), that has
+nothing to do with ST in *any* event.
+
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+
+JMS: PTEN contact info? (19 Jan 1995)
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JMS: PTEN contact info?

+19 Jan 1995
     Correct; Dick Robertson is President of Domestic TV for Warners, is
+at the address noted in your message, and is the one to continue to
+receive any good wishes for the show.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin (19 Jan 1995)
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Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+19 Jan 1995
     "How about if I found out I have terminal cancer and am going to die
+in one month.  Will you tell me how B5 is going to end?"
+ 
+     My condolences to your survivors.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+

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+JMS:  Inspiration??? (19 Jan 1995)
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JMS:  Inspiration???

+19 Jan 1995
     I'd have to say no, the Prisoner didn't inspire me in creating B5.  I
+enjoy the show, and nod toward it as a  milestone in SF history, maybe the
+best show made to date, but inspiration on this....no.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+Re: B5 CREATOR COMMENTS ON VOY (20 Jan 1995)
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Re: B5 CREATOR COMMENTS ON VOY

+20 Jan 1995
     "If memory serves, this is the first real praise (jms) has for ST.
+I think he is gaining real confidence about his own show."
+ 
+     I think you're trying to connect two unrelated things.  1) I have
+always had confidence in my own show, or I wouldn' be here.  2) Up until
+now, minus some good things in TNG, there hasn't been very much noteworthy
+(imo) *about* ST that I could say.  Now there is.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN AWK:Starfuries the only E (20 Jan 1995)
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ATTN AWK:Starfuries the only E

+20 Jan 1995
     Obviously humans and the EA have other kinds of attack vessels; but
+the Starfuries are the ones most apt for protecting the station; it's a
+general purpose craft...not much use around Epsilon 3 for bombing runs.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+Attn JMS: did show concept cha (20 Jan 1995)
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Attn JMS: did show concept cha

+20 Jan 1995
     There was never any intention whatsoever of doing B5 within the
+context of the Star Trek universe.  It was always intended as a wholly
+original concept.  It was taken to a half dozen or more studios, and
+that included Paramount, yes, but Paramount doesn't just do Trek.  I never
+wanted to tell this story in the ST universe because it *couldn't* be told
+there; the rules that confine story areas simply wouldn't let it happen.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

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+ATTN: JMS 2 questions. (20 Jan 1995)
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ATTN: JMS 2 questions.

+20 Jan 1995
     I've picked several middle-names for Sheridan; now I'm waiting to see
+which he grows into.  And to send stuff, send it along to me via:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Props question. (20 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Props question.

+20 Jan 1995
     Links are held on in the real world with a non-abraisve chemical
+used to hold prosthetics; comes off fairly easily, doesn't pull hairs,
+doesn't cause long-term problems.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Book? (20 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Book?

+20 Jan 1995
     What I'll do years down the road is beyond my contemplation; I know I
+have enough material for several books, but whether they get written is
+anybody's guess.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+JMS: Will you sign my B5 comic (20 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Will you sign my B5 comic

+20 Jan 1995
     With a SASE, just to make it more guaranteed that I'll send it back,
+yes.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr (3 Jan 1995)
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Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr

+3 Jan 1995
     You may want to convey to these individuals that Stewart also invited
+Doug to tea, something he wouldn't have done if he were just fibbing about
+his opinion to avoid a faux pas.
+
+     In point of fact, we have had generally good relations with MANY
+of the actors involved with ST in one form or another.  Rene Auberjenois
+(I know I just misspelled that, but it's late, nearly 1 a.m., and I'm
+too tired to go into the other room to get the right spelling) told both
+Mira Furlan, myself, her husband, and just about anyone else in sight
+that he's seen B5 and enjoys it immensely.  We have had several actors
+involved with ST come by the B5 stages to look at the facilities and say
+hello.  The actor who plays Quark (my apologies to the actor, but his name
+has just fallen out of my head) invited Peter Jurasik to a party at his
+place to comment on how much he enjoys the show.
+
+     There is a small, vocal minority of Star Trek fans who hate B5 because
+it commits the ultimate crime for a show in Earth's future in space: it's
+not Star Trek.  In some ways, I find it kind of amusing, along the lines
+of those in the 60s who said you could be a Beatles fan, or a Monkees fan,
+but not both.  These are people who talk about Infinite Diversity in
+Infinite Combinations, but choose not to practice it.  They are the same
+sorts of people who were Lost in Space fans, and derided and insulted Star
+Trek because they considered it a cheap knock-off of LiS.  (And yes, there
+were loads of critics and viewers who said this, and wrote reviews that
+said this, and wrote to fan publications saying it.)  They are people who
+applaud ST because it was the work of one man with a vision, in its
+beginnings...and deride B5 which is a different vision.
+
+     What the actors, and the writers involved with Star Trek understand,
+that this small, vocal minority of ST fans do not, is that COMPETITION
+LEADS TO IMPROVEMENT.  These are people who want to see their characters
+stretched to new areas, given more to do...writers who want to take
+chances in their scripts and be bold...who have for much of the run of ST
+been held back by the corporate types who don't *want* changes, who don't
+want to take chances...and that's why you have a situation where Riker
+stays first officer for *seven years*, which fans complain about, and which
+would be the end of ANY officer's career in the real military.
+
+     Where I come from, science fiction is the literature of open
+mindedness.  It *welcomes* new ideas, and new approaches, and different
+views of our past, present and future.  Are they so insecure with Star
+Trek that they must attack Babylon 5?
+
+     If they are truly Star Trek fans, then they must know and appreciate
+the work done by people like Harlan Ellison and David Gerrold and Dorothy
+Fontana and Walter Koenig and, lately, Peter David...people who have not
+been well treated by Star Trek of late.  We have given them the respect
+that is due them, allowing the writers the chance they often did not have,
+to experiment and to grow.  When Walter Koenig did his first Babylon 5
+episode, whenever he came to the table at lunch, those in the cast at the
+table would stand until he sat...common when junior officers are being
+joined by a senior officer.
+
+     Dorothy, and David, and Walter, and Harlan, and others who were
+involved with the original Star Trek who have visited the set have said
+that they have only seen the atmosphere and warmth of this set on one
+other set in nearly thirty years...on the original Star Trek.
+
+     Mark Hammil has come by the studio to pay his regards for the show;
+Leslie Stevens, co-creator/producer for The Outer Limits made a similar
+pilgrimage to say how much he enjoys the show, and how he feels that this
+is the future of where SF should be going in television.
+
+     When we won the Emmy for Best Visual Effects for the first year in
+which we were eligible, it was the *first time* in six years that Star
+Trek had lost out.  Now with a second Emmy, a Hugo nomination, an award
+from the Space Frontier Foundation for Best Vision of the Future, another
+award from the Cult TV convention in England (beating out NYPD Blue and
+DS9 for best new series)...we are being noticed.  Even some reviewers who
+at first had the same disdain because we weren't Star Trek have begun to
+come around, and see us for what we ARE, not complain about what we are
+NOT.  (Some complained in the beinning that we were just a rip-off of Star
+Trek: DS9, which since we were around in development for 5 years prior to
+DS9 is nonsense...and then when they tuned in, and saw that we weren't a
+ripoff, turned their noses up because we weren't doing things like they
+were done in Star Trek.  I received mail and email from people complaining
+that we used hand-links when everyone KNEW that the REALITY of it was that
+in 200 years we'd be using the chest-pin communicators in Star Trek, "and
+every time I see you use this other thing, it breaks the illusion for me."
+
+     Long story made short...we're *not* going away.  We are telling a
+story, and we're going to tell that story until it's finished.  If a few
+wish to be like the Lost in Space fans who refused to watch Star Trek
+when it came on, that's their right.  Anyone who finds specific fault in
+an episode, and it IS a fault, not "Star Trek wouldn't have done it this
+way," that's also terrific.  To not like a show simply because it isn't
+Star Trek is simple bigotry...and to them I can only say that Roddenberry
+would be *disgraced* by that attitude in people claiming to be fans of
+hsi work.
+
+                                                           jms
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+Attn JMS: irony is our friend (20 Jan 1995)
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Attn JMS: irony is our friend

+20 Jan 1995
     Yeah, I don't doubt that Majel took some swipes at B5 (which show was
+that, btw?).
+ 
+     She's long been very frangible about the whole issue.  I think she
+doesn't like having her monopoly in any way threatened.
+ 
+     Here's an example of how Majel is, which can be confirmed by others
+online who were there: when I went to debut the B5 pilot at Wishcon, she
+had the presentation right before mine.  I had just under two hours to
+show the pilot, with maybe fifteen minutes of intro and technical setup.
+She was due to leave the stage at the top of the hour.
+ 
+     After me, was scheduled the auction to raise money for terminally
+ill children, the purpose of the whole con.  Remember that.
+ 
+     So the top of the hour came.  Majel didn't surrender the stage.  Ten
+minutes after.  Fifteen.  Twenty.  People began indicating for her to
+leave.  She refused.  She looked in my direction, said, "I see him back
+there, I know he's here," and kept *right* on talking.  And talking.
+ 
+     Finally, round about the half-hour mark, she finally stopped.  So
+now there was NO time for any discussion from me at all, and even if we
+ran through the tech setup as fast as possible, we would still cut deep
+into the auction.  It was a clear and obvious attempt to sabotage the
+showing, in front of a couple hundred witnesses.  Though she has been
+known to go a bit over from time to time at other cons, her reference to
+me, and the length of the overage, clearly showed it was intentional.
+ 
+     I told the convention people that I would be willing to only show the
+first hour of the pilot (its first screening anywhere), maybe try to find
+a time in the evening to show the rest.  They insisted: show the whole
+thing, and we'll just take it out of the auction.  Nonetheless, I kept my
+introductory comments as brief as possible, showed the pilot, and rather
+than keep the room tied up longer, crammed everybody who wanted to talk
+about it into a smaller room down the hall.
+ 
+     Later, several people from the con confronted Majel with this, as
+she was signing autographs.  They asked her point-blank if she'd done
+this *deliberately* to try and screw B5.  She just smiled.  Didn't matter
+that in the long run, her actions would just end up hurting the cause of
+aiding terminally ill children.  Later, due to a lot of people being very
+upset by her behavior, she offered to write a note apologizing.  Suffice
+to say it was never written.
+ 
+                                                          jms
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+NetGhoddess Meriday's Portrait (20 Jan 1995)
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NetGhoddess Meriday's Portrait

+20 Jan 1995
     That's a great portrait, Mike.  BTW, I very  much enjoyed Wizard of
+Speed and Time, and wish things could have gone better over the long
+haul.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+JMS: you knew this was coming. (21 Jan 1995)
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JMS: you knew this was coming.

+21 Jan 1995
     I understand the reason behind such suggestions, but at the same time
+I don't want to be getting hundreds of these things in the mail to sign.
+So case by case.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+Defense Grid: big PPG's or pro (21 Jan 1995)
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Defense Grid: big PPG's or pro

+21 Jan 1995
      A current reply on the makeup of the defense grid would be obsolete
+within the next 3 new episodes, so I'll defer until then.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+ATTN JMS: Diplomacy questions (21 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Diplomacy questions

+21 Jan 1995
     There are various embassies and diplomatic missions on various
+worlds (Earth has the most; Universe Today had a story about a Minbari
+embassy being bombed).  Because space on B5 is so tight, complete offices
+for every single ambassador would kill most of the available space; so
+they have access to the station's facilities for business rooms, meeting
+rooms, conference rooms and the like.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+ATTN, JMS: DEMON GLASS HAND II (21 Jan 1995)
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ATTN, JMS: DEMON GLASS HAND II

+21 Jan 1995
     Right now, we're moving fast toward accellerating and escalating the
+events of the overall arc, and having a hard time determining how to fit
+in a stand-alone in the last batch of episodes, so this may hav to wait.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+ATTN JMS: Starfury Model Kit? (21 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Starfury Model Kit?

+21 Jan 1995
     I keep waiting for a deal to get made for models...I think it'd be
+great....
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+JMS: Season 2 Finale title? (22 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Season 2 Finale title?

+22 Jan 1995
     I have several titles for the last episode of this season; won't know
+which fits best until I get there in the writing.  One possible title is
+"A Fall of Night," but I may not go with that one.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Attn. JMS:  Flashbacks? (22 Jan 1995)
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Attn. JMS:  Flashbacks?

+22 Jan 1995
     I don't like loose threads hanging around, so all this will get tied
+up.  In some cases, we'll see flashbacks to stuff that happened "around the
+corner," so to speak, and in others we'll have dialogue explanations.  WE
+get the scoop on what question Delenn asked Kosh (via Lennier) before this
+season is out.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: Outer Limits on Showtime: (22 Jan 1995)
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Re: Outer Limits on Showtime:

+22 Jan 1995
      The season of Twilight Zone that I story edited and wrote for (about
+11 episodes or so) is in syndication currently, so may be showing up in
+your area somewhere.  We did some nifty stuff, I think....
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans (3 Jan 1995)
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Re: ST-TNG vs. B5 fans

+3 Jan 1995
     "And the ACTORS occupy the same universe as you, me, and jms."
+
+     Hrmmm...haven't known many actors, have you?
+
+                                                                  jms
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+Chicago Convention from jms (22 Jan 1995)
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Chicago Convention from jms

+22 Jan 1995
     For those who haven't haerd...there is going to be a major convention
+in Chicago on June 24th and 25th; particularly major for Babylon 5.  Guests
+appearing at the convention include me, Michael O'Hare, Mira Furlan, Bill
+Mumy and Richard Biggs.  This is the biggest gathering of B5 people since
+a surprise appearance at the San Diego Comic Con the summer we went on with
+the series.
+ 
+     It's called The Big Bang Convention, and the other guests include Mark
+Hamill, John deLancie, Robert O'Reilly and others.  Admission is $35 for
+general attendence (per day), $150 for VIP tickets, and $250 for Deluxe
+VIP.  I'll be giving a seminar as part of the program for prospective
+television/film writers...a Q&A structure, not a workshop where scripts
+will be evaluated.
+ 
+     The hotel is the Courtyard By Mariott in Elmhurst, with the con held
+at the Odeum in Villa Park.  The VIP pass includes the writing seminar,
+an acting seminar (both are, I believe, also available to non-VIP guests
+for a small fee, around $20), a gambling riverboat outing with con guests,
+hotel accommodations for both nights, and other stuff.
+ 
+     It's my understanding that the tickets for this convention are now
+available through Ticketron.  They expect something on the order of
+15,000 people to show up for this one.  I understand they're also doing
+some performance stuff between guests, and are working hard to make this
+a real Event.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+X-Files win is good for B5 (22 Jan 1995)
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X-Files win is good for B5

+22 Jan 1995
      X-FILES won the Golden Globe for Best Series?!  No shit!?  That's
+absolutely terrific.  I hadn't heard this.  Definitely deserved.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Question from a Trekker (22 Jan 1995)
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Question from a Trekker

+22 Jan 1995
     Jeffrey...this is just a question, not a flame.  You say you wrote
+off B5 after one episode.  How long did you give the first two ST series
+to get their sea-legs?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Licensing & merchandise questi (22 Jan 1995)
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Licensing & merchandise questi

+22 Jan 1995
     B5 stuff has been selling well for all our licensees.  I've been told
+that Creation has come back to license more stuff.  I don't know how much
+ink All-U has been getting on its shirts, but I haven't head anything.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Suger Ray Robinson on Babylon (23 Jan 1995)
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Suger Ray Robinson on Babylon

+23 Jan 1995
     It was Larry's idea to name the character Walker Smith, after Sugar
+Ray Robinson.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Re: Chicago Convention from jm (23 Jan 1995)
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Re: Chicago Convention from jm

+23 Jan 1995
     Nothing slated for the Detroit area that I'm aware of.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
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+JMS: Sinclair in Twilight Zone (23 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Sinclair in Twilight Zone

+23 Jan 1995
     Actually, the doctor's name was St. Clair, not Sinclair, but it
+sounds like that...it's visible in the credits, though.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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Re: Chicago Convention from jm

+23 Jan 1995
     I'll probably bring the blooper reel, a music video or two, and an
+unaired episode.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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Re: Chicago Convention from jm

+23 Jan 1995
     To Howard Shubs...the Big Bang Convention is most emphatically NOT a
+Creation Convention, has nothing to do with Creation, and has stated an
+intention to do a very different kind of con unique to their approach.
+The one is totally unrelated to the other.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Re: Homosexuality argument (23 Jan 1995)
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Re: Homosexuality argument

+23 Jan 1995
     ARE YOU PEOPLE ALL STILL ARGUING ABOUT THIS STUFF?
+ 
+     OKAY, THAT'S IT.  EVERYBODY CLEAR OUT.  EVERYBODY OUTTA THE POOL.  I
+DON'T WANT THIS JOINT BASHED UP AND BEAT UP EVERY TIME SOMEBODY DRAGS THIS
+ARGUMENT OUT OF THE CLOSET!  THERE'S GOTTA BE AN ISSUES FORUM SOMEWHERE!
+ 
+     IT'S LIKE THE GODDAMN DRAZI...EVERY FIVE YEARS YOU DIVIDE UP INTO TWO
+CAMPS AND BEAT THE CRAP OUTTA EACH OTHER!  AND AS IVANOVA SAID, "GRANTED
+THE OTHER RACES WOULDN'T *MIND* IF YOU KILL ONE ANOTHER, EVEN THEY WOULD
+PREFER YOU DID SO *QUIETLY*."
+ 
+     Okay?  Take it outside, people.
+ 
+     I don't care who's wrong, I don't care who's right, I don't care
+who had the last word or who got offended last.  Take it outside.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Novels canon? (3 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Novels canon?

+3 Jan 1995
     We're certainly exerting every effort to keep the novels (and the
+comic) canon.  Ain't easy, but so far it's working.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Please verify about (23 Jan 1995)
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+23 Jan 1995
     Keffer wasn't added because fans thought that sending the commanding
+officer into battle was inappropriate.  We will still continue to send our
+COs into battle when necessary.  Throughout the season, we've tried to
+flesh out the command levels.  We started with 2 starfury squadrons on B5,
+and added a third in "Survivors."  Logically, those are going to have
+squad leaders.  Adding in all three would be a stretch budget-wise, but we
+could at least add one, to show a different aspect of the crew.  And, in
+truth, you wouldn't have command personnel leading every single routine
+mission.  We'd kinda wanted to do this in the first year, but we didn't
+have the money for it.  In year two, we did, and thus added him.
+ 
+     Everyone who advertises on a show would like their products to be
+shown.  Likewise, everyone advertising on B5 wanted their stuff shown.
+The good thing about this, for a show with a limited (non ST) budget is
+that you could have access to their products without having to pay a
+license fee.  For fun, for instance, we stuck a Zima sign on the back of
+a couple of bars.  When Kawasaki came on as a sponsor, Larry kinda got to
+wondering how on earth you could ever work in a motorcycle...and got a
+fun idea.  So we went ahead and did it.  We never had to do either of
+them, or ANY of them.  My feeling since is that it probably wasn't worth
+doing it, best to leave this stuff out, and in year two we haven't done
+ANY of it.  Basically, it was a whim.
+ 
+     You'll note that SFU's description of the O'Hare situation doesn't
+quote anybody.  There are several questionable conclusions in the article,
+though overall they did a good job.  This, though, is one of them.  They
+also mis-labled about 4 or 5 photographs.  It also kinda bugs me just a
+little that they attribute all the setups on the visuals to the directors,
+when in nearly every case the script *specifically* describes how the shot
+should be set up.  I don't mind sharing credit with directors on some of
+this stuff, because it's a collaboration...I just don't like it when ALL
+the credit goes to the director, who used a beam of stark white light in
+a scene, because it said in the script, "Sinclair stands in a beam of
+stark white light."
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

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+ATTN: JMS - Christianity in 23 (23 Jan 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Christianity in 23

+23 Jan 1995
     Many religious types in 2259 feel that god has appeared to other
+worlds in different forms; others feel that it is their obligation to go
+out into the galaxy and bring the *right* word; in other cases, whole new
+schisms and belief systems sprouted once alien contact had been made,
+including Foundationalism, which Dr. Franklin belongs to (you'll hear
+more about this from Franklin later this season).
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+UK: B5 coverage in `The Indepe (23 Jan 1995)
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UK: B5 coverage in `The Indepe

+23 Jan 1995
     And from his statement "My theory is that the programe's a duffer,"
+he tells you right there that he's never seen the damned thing.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Scheduling (23 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Scheduling

+23 Jan 1995
     Year 2 is 22 episodes.  I don't think any of the breaks will be as
+long as year 1 since we started at a different time.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+

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+Reasons why Bab 5 is crap (23 Jan 1995)
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Reasons why Bab 5 is crap

+23 Jan 1995
     The majority of "flaws" you point out are, I'm afraid, rather
+inaccurate.
+ 
+     1) Doors that swing up.  There's nobody just upstairs to be bothered
+by this; the levels are very well isolated from one another.  Also, they
+don't go straight up, they're cantilevered, so they swing up and *sideways*
+out of the way.  Also, from a technical standpoint, this is a better way
+of ensuring pressure door integrity.  If there's a hull blown out, and
+your doors move sideways or meet in the middle, you're going to lose air.
+If the door drops down into place, and is held by inertia, no holes or
+lines, it's *solid*.  (It's a solid seal, which is why you can hear it
+close.)  It's got nothing to do with trying to not be like Trek; it's
+finding what's most accurate and doing it.
+ 
+     2) No, we're not borrowing ST's ideas.  You say their communicators
+know automatically when you're talking to them.  Ours don't.  You have
+to physically toggle them.  Then, once you've done so, you say, "Sheridan
+to Garibaldi."  This verbally activates the system, and rings Garibaldi's
+Link.  He toggles his Link and says, "Garibaldi, go."  No AI is ever
+involved, really; it's a routing system.  (And you'll note that Garibaldi
+doesn't hear the "Sheridan to Garibaldi" part, only the stuff after it
+beeps.)  This is not only consistent with the rest of our tech, it's
+actually close to being workable *today*.
+ 
+     3) Re: aliens knowing about Earth...remember please that you're
+talking about AMBASSADORS here whose JOB it is to know all they can about
+their host.  So they study.  They don't know all of it; Londo and Vir got
+cats and ducks confused, and there's holes in their knowledge.  That's
+why they keep studying, as with G'Kar reading Earth writings.  If I
+am assigned as ambassador to Russia, I'd damned well better know as much
+as I can about the culture, the people, their history, their language,
+you name it.  Same here.  We have not yet to date shown non-ambassadors
+with this level of interest or knowledge about Earth.
+ 
+     A lot of the "problems" you cite could simply be worked out by doing
+a little thought on the reasons behind such things, rather than just
+assuming that it's an error.  About 90% of the criticism I see is
+kneejerk response, which when you point out how it makes sense if you
+just fire a few synapses, gets "Oh....yeah..." as a reply.
+ 
+     4) Zima was a gag.  Zima be gone now.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+JMS on Homosexuality argument (23 Jan 1995)
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JMS on Homosexuality argument

+23 Jan 1995
     If this argument hadn't come through here ten times before this, I
+might not have minded; but this is something like the 11th go-around on
+this, and the fact is that I have not yet seen ONE person change his or
+her views on the subject one way or another.  It's NOT a dialogue; it's
+a series of monologues.  People hit their marks, scream at the top of
+their lungs, while somebody on the other side does the same.
+ 
+     The result is that it makes BOTH sides look like jerks, and the
+important information that needs to be communicated gets drowned in all
+the noise and vitriol.  Once the conversation has descended to that
+level, NO good cause is served.
+ 
+     Ironic thing is...the two sides have one thing in common.  I've
+received angry and abusive letters from BOTH sides in the debate for
+my message.  I've been called a fag-lover in one, and a right-winger in
+another.
+ 
+     Anybody here remember an episode called "Infection?"  Aside form its
+(from its) problems, there was one line in particular I'd like to cite for
+you: "You forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed
+with the enemy, you BECOME the enemy."  All I hear around here is
+screaming, and y'know, you all sound alike after a while...and when both
+sides begin using the same tactics, the same flames, the same instant
+condemnation...congratulations, you have become the enemy in whose use of
+those same techniques you find such disgust.
+ 
+     And this will probably get me *more* hate mail from both sides; which
+means I must be fairly close to the truth.  If I can offend BOTH sides,
+then I'm doing my job properly.
+ 
+     I wouldn't mind so much if this was new...but we're now in our ninth
+rerun of this conversation, and it's poisoning the well without changing
+one person's mind about much of anything.  Enough is enough.  It not about
+getting the truth out any longer; it's about who gets in the last word,
+and who's the most indignant, and who's a butthead and who's an asshole.
+This, to me, does not edify, ennoble or explicate the topic at hand.
+ 
+     We are rapidly becoming a nation that is polarized along every
+possible line; gay vs. straight, feminist vs. conservative, pro-choice vs.
+anti-choice...in a nation of laws we have started to resort to acts of
+terror on large and small scales on either side of the spectrum.  For two
+hundred years we prided ourselves on the idea -- sometimes flawed, and
+with occasional interruptions -- that we solved our problems at the ballot
+box, not with bullets or trunchens or muggings or firebombings.  But now
+more and more both sides are frozen in concrete, opposing opinions are
+no longer tolerated or are proof of disloyalty or stupidity or cupidity
+or bigotry or immorality, people are reduced to stereotypes and jingoisms,
+everybody's demonized and nobody *listens*.  We don't talk with each other,
+we yell AT each other.  We are two steps away from madness and one step
+away from Beirut.
+ 
+     In theory, people are here in this forum because they feel strongly
+about Babylon 5, and the optimistic (despite many obstacles) view of the
+future that we portray.  Well, if you feel that way, I suggest you ALL
+damn well start BUILDING the future instead of TEARING APART the present,
+start talking TO one another not AT one another, because the future ain't
+gonna GET here otherwise.
+ 
+     If people want to discuss this area in calm, measured tones, with some
+measure of respect, fine.  (And this applies to ALL areas of current hot
+debate, not just this one.)  If all you want to do is yell, over and over
+and over...frankly, take a hike.  There is a line between doing something
+for a cause, and saying you're doing something for a cause when you're
+just doing it out of ego, bruised or otherwise.  Parse your soul and act
+accordingly.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+JMS: B5's Epsilon 3 in SQ6? (24 Jan 1995)
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JMS: B5's Epsilon 3 in SQ6?

+24 Jan 1995
     I doubt very much that's Epsilon 3.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin (24 Jan 1995)
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Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+24 Jan 1995
     "..it's still unfinished.  A shame if B5 were to turn out the same
+way."
+ 
+     (sound of meaty fists clapping together)  Yeah...nice place y'got
+here...drapes, yeah, I like dat, real purty...be a real shame if something
+were to, maybe, *happen* to it, y'know?  So...you wanna put these jukeboxes
+in your diner or not...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate the A (24 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate the A

+24 Jan 1995
    I may not have been clear in my meaning when I said "accellerating
+the arc."  This doesn't mean doing anything ahead of schedule; it just
+means that now we begin cranking the story into a higher intensity level.
+We've been kind of floating toward our destination...now we begin the
+process of accellerating.  If you recall Literary Structure from English
+Lit 101, there's the Introduction, the Rising Action, the Complication,
+the Climax, and the Denouement.  Year one up through about the first
+eight episodes of year two are Introduction; we are now in Rising Action
+stage.  Remember that this is structured like a novel, and you'll
+generally have some idea of where you stand in the progression.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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+Bruce Boxleitner at MOC in Jul (24 Jan 1995)
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Bruce Boxleitner at MOC in Jul

+24 Jan 1995
     Cool...that's quite a lineup of guests.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+JMS: has comic been cancelled? (3 Jan 1995)
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JMS: has comic been cancelled?

+3 Jan 1995
     The comic has not been canceled, and is doing very well.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
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+

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+TKO and Ivanova (24 Jan 1995)
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+24 Jan 1995
     If the deceased has been dead for quite a while, the period during
+which one must sit shiva is greatly reduced to a day or so, I'm told.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+

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+Re: Reasons why Bab 5 is crap (24 Jan 1995)
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Re: Reasons why Bab 5 is crap

+24 Jan 1995
     I would suggest that this whole discussion kinda misses the point, as
+tends to happen.  Sure, I could stick in lots of references to ancient
+stuff...but why is it on Trek nothing of cultural value seems to have taken
+place after Shakespeare?  Doing antiquity is easy.  Modern is harder.
+ 
+     But the whole POINT of the exercise goes to the heart of the show's
+philosophy: I'm trying, rather desperately, to connect our present to our
+future, to say that's US out there, building the future, recognizeably us.
+We've lost the thread of continuity that ties us to the future.  I'm trying
+with this show to tie the two pieces of the string together again.  We
+have lots of ties to our ancient past (and I try to work those in as well,
+cultural and literary references), but it's the *future* that we seem to
+have lost touch with today, in our present.  So I'm trying to knit those
+together.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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+ATTN: JMS - CANADA (24 Jan 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - CANADA

+24 Jan 1995
     "Have you ever mentioned Canada in B5?"
+ 
+     No, but I've mentioned San Diego.  Would you like me to extend the
+honor up north?
+ 
+     ("Okay, Rudy, load up another one of them five-hundred megaton jobs.")
+ 
+     Just kidding...I'm pleased that it's going over well in Canada, and
+will see what I can do to nod in that direction without irradiating the
+place.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+Re: Reasons why Bab 5 is crap (25 Jan 1995)
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Re: Reasons why Bab 5 is crap

+25 Jan 1995
     How they know the person has finished talking is a) we either have
+our characters physically toggle off their Link, or b) when you drop your
+arm, it senses the change in gravity and orientation like a phone being
+hung up, and closes the connectoin.
+ 
+                                                                           jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: reading SF (25 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: reading SF

+25 Jan 1995
     One of the drawbacks to producing/writing a series is that it leaves
+you no time for...well, for *anything* else.  Thus I haven't been able to
+do much reading of late, though I keep buying books for when I have free
+time.  I love reading other authors; I like to be amazed.
+ 
+     I'd certainly recommend the works of Jonathan Carroll, particularly
+THE LAND OF LAUGHS if you can find it, or any of his later novels (VOICE
+OF OUR SHADOWS is also quite nice).  He's a contemporary-dark-fantasy
+writer who is *breathtakingly* good.
+ 
+     Most of the reading I do now is nonfiction, just to give the brain a
+break from storytelling.  I *strongly* commend THE LETTERS OF NORMAN CORWIN
+to anyone out there.  Also currently reading Hunter S. Thompson's new book,
+BETTER THAN SEX, just finished a book (alas I've just forgotten the title)
+by a woman raised in the Mormon church about her life in that world.  Also
+working my way through Ed Morrow's GRIM REAPER'S BOOK OF DAYS.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS  Is there a Canada in (25 Jan 1995)
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+25 Jan 1995
     Actually, the Blue Jays were sold to the Mars Consortium in 2200, and
+are currently vying for the Worlds Series.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
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+ATTN JMS:Cameos (25 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS:Cameos

+25 Jan 1995
     The only cast member to make a non-prosthetic appearance in a show
+is Caitlin Brown, who will appear as a lawyer in an upcoming episode.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+JMS: Babcom '95 & blooper reel (25 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Babcom '95 & blooper reel

+25 Jan 1995
      I do plan to bring the reel, yes.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+JMS: how much of story was pit (25 Jan 1995)
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JMS: how much of story was pit

+25 Jan 1995
     Generally speaking, I didn't have to reveal much of the arc at all;
+the show was sold on the strength of the characters and current stories.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+

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+CGI Sinclair/Ivanova/Delenn/Lo (25 Jan 1995)
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+25 Jan 1995
     We'll be seeing more planet stuff shortly.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+Re: -  JMS on Patrick Stewart/ (3 Jan 1995)
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Re: -  JMS on Patrick Stewart/

+3 Jan 1995
     Got no problem with somebody not liking B5.  Not a one.  My only
+problem is when you have a few people so determined to protect the
+integrity of their fictional characters and their allegiance to one show
+that they must assume Stewart or someone else is lying, which then
+DIMINISHES the person's integrity.  It seems to me a little like the old
+Vietnam idea of burning the village to save the village.  I'm perfectly
+happy to let ANYONE not like B5 *on its own terms*.  It's only when the
+clique mentality sets in that I have a problem with it...and again, this
+applies only to a fairly small (but *very* loud) portion of ST fans.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t

+25 Jan 1995
     I actually didn't go to any of the major film/sports schools; not
+UCLA or USC.  I attended (in order) Kankakee Community College, Kankakee,
+Illinois; Richland Junior College, Dallas, Texas; Southwestern Junior
+College, Chula Vista, CA; and finally San Diego State University.  Loved
+all my writing and literature courses.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+JMS: Thoughts on second issue (25 Jan 1995)
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+25 Jan 1995
     Thanks, we're getting there....
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+Blast from the present (25 Jan 1995)
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Blast from the present

+25 Jan 1995
     Thanks, and welcome.
+ 
+	                                                   jms
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t

+25 Jan 1995
     "What was the spark that ignited your desire to create B5?"
+ 
+     It was a number of things, actually, that all came together at the
+same time.
+ 
+     1) I'd just gotten off an SF series (Captain Power) where the budget
+was out of control half the time.  It made me nuts.  I come from this very
+old fashioned school of thought that says if somebody gives you X-million
+dollars to make a series, it behooves you to act RESPONSIBLY.  Then I
+looked around more and found that virtually ALL sf series had gone and
+were going over budget, mainly because they weren't planned out properly.
+The emphasis was on just selling the idea, who cares what happens next.
+Whatever one might think of the episode, the 1/2 hour "Nightcrawlers"
+installment of the new TWILIGHT ZONE cost a tick over ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
+That's nuts.  I kept thinking, "There has to be a sensible way to do an sF
+series that's responsible, and by virtue of showing it CAN be done
+responsibly, help to create MORE sf from other people, since the industry
+overall is afraid of it."
+ 
+     2) I'd interviewed and known too many SF producers who knew absolutely
+NOTHING about the genre, didn't respect the genre, just wanted to collect
+the bucks and get out.
+ 
+     3) As a lifelong SF fan myself, I loved the sagas, the huge cycles:
+Foundation, Childhood's End, Lord of the Rings, Dune, and kept wondering,
+"Why hasn't someone done this for TV?"  To which the only answer is,
+"Nobody's tried."
+ 
+     Those elements just kept niggling at me until finally I sat down and
+worked out first how to design a series responsibly, then came up with the
+concept for the storyline.  (Learn from mainstream TV: don't go in search
+of new worlds, building them anew each week, create a place where the
+stories come to YOU, as they do in a hospital, a police station, a law
+office.  This led me to a space station.)
+ 
+     Once I had the locale, I began to populate it with characters, and
+sketch out directions that might be interesting.  I dragged out my notes
+on religion, philosophy, history, sociology, psychology, science (the ones
+that didn't make my head explode), and started stitching together a
+crazy quilt pattern that eventually formed a picture.  Once I had that
+picture in my head, once I knew what the major theme was, the rest fell
+into place.  All at once, I saw the full five year story in a flash, and
+I frantically began scribbling down notes.
+ 
+     I spent the next couple of years just expanding upon what I saw in
+that flash, building out the characters, the conflicts, the changes in
+alliance, shoring up the thematic elements which will only really become
+apparent over time.  In a way, in the midst of this, it was Tennyson's
+"Ulysses" that more surely pointed me toward the heartmeat core of the
+story, which is why I've quoted it in the pilot, in the series, and in
+issue #1 of the comic.
+ 
+     I knew, instantly, that this show might well be impossible to sell;
+that I could invest years of my life into the task, only to fail in the
+end.  And, in fact, it took *five years* to finally get this anywhere.
+During that time, had I dropped it, I could've likely sold two or three
+other more conventional series.  But like Sinclair, I strapped myself
+into this particular Starfury, pointed myself at my target, and swore not
+to flinch, no matter what.  (In discussions about this with Michael, we
+agreed that only he and I were really entitled to wear the patches from
+the Battle of the Line.)
+ 
+     For a long time, a lot of people told me to drop it.  My agent said,
+"Kiddo, you know I love the project, but I think you've got to face
+reality.  It's not going to happen.  I have several other gigs you could
+take if you'd drop this for a while.  Maybe later you can try again."
+Friends, family, acquaintances, network suits, studio suits, Major
+Agencies...everyone said let it go.  It's been four years, going on five.
+How much longer are you going to DO this?
+ 
+     As long as it TAKES, goddamn it.
+ 
+     I knew that there was a story I wanted to tell, something that I
+wanted to SAY.  And there is nothing more essentially deadly than someone
+who believes, rightly or wrongly, that he's on a mission, grandiose and
+possibly stupid as that sounds.  I also wanted to make this show because
+I wanted to SEE it as a viewer.  Several years ago, I was looking for a
+particular kind of book to read.  Couldn't find it.  So I wrote it, then
+shoved it in a closet.  My agent heard about it a year or two later,
+dragged it out, read it, and sold it.  Go figure.
+ 
+     Also, you have to understand...when I was a very young kid, I went to
+visit my grandfather's grave.  My grandfater was an alcoholic who died in
+the gutter.  Literally.  And was buried in a pauper's grave.  Ever been to
+a pauper's grave?  Lead pipe.  Brass number.  You check the roster to find
+out who's buried.  No name, no date.  He passed through his life without
+leaving footprints.  It terrified me beyond the capacity of words to convey
+to you.  I swore, at that moment, that I wouldn't go down like that, that
+I'd leave a mark, somehow, that I'd been here.  And on one level, that's
+what Babylon 5 is to me.  See, that's why nothing stops me...it's not about
+money, or fame, or merchandising...there's nothing they can use agains]
+me.  Whether I stand or fall doesn't matter.  If I write hard, if I work
+hard, what I have created will survive me.  Even when I'm forgotten, this
+will go on.  I will have left my mark.
+ 
+     That, at least, is the conceit I allow myself in the Hour of the Wolf,
+when everything looks futile, and I doubt myself the most.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: *what* kind of speci (26 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: *what* kind of speci

+26 Jan 1995
      Minbari are mammals, definitely; structural and skeletal variations
+(horn-like bone growth on the head, a slightly more raised and obvious
+spinal structure, different blood type), and probably in many ways the
+most biologically similar.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t

+26 Jan 1995
     Yes, we'll see the rings in time.  And no plans for a book down the
+road...one crisis at a time.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Jerry Doyle, Sto (26 Jan 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Jerry Doyle, Sto

+26 Jan 1995
     Correct: Jerry Doyle was at one point a stockbroker.  He has since
+reformed.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: reading SF (26 Jan 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: reading SF

+26 Jan 1995
     "Why bother with the vasectomy?"
+ 
+     Who can remember...?
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+JMS: Your Show is Number one w (26 Jan 1995)
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+26 Jan 1995
     My regards to your wonderfully discerning organization....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+JMS:  THANK YOU FOR B5 FROM HA (26 Jan 1995)
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JMS:  THANK YOU FOR B5 FROM HA

+26 Jan 1995
     Thank you.  Have had only passing experience with Robotech; I've just
+never been able to get into Anime.  Glad to hear that 38 supports the
+show; I hear they're okay people.
+ 
+     In any event...thanks again for the encouragement.  It helps.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr

+3 Jan 1995
     To Laurie Antoniou: many thanks.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+JMS: Richland College question (26 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Richland College question

+26 Jan 1995
     I remember little of the classes at Richland College except for a few;
+one was a History of English Literature class, which introduced me to Keats
+and Yeats and Tennyson and Shelley through an instructor who *loved* his
+work and the writers in question.  He just breathed life into the words,
+and he encouraged me strongly to pursue my writing.
+ 
+     Beyond that, there were mainly classes in psychology, sociology,
+some math stuff, and philosophy.  One was a History of Greek Philosophy
+course (Thales to Aristotle), which I just loved.  By virtue of taking a
+LOT of electives over the years in areas that interested me, I kinda ended
+up with a classical education.  It's more breadth than depth, but it gives
+me the tools I need (over the course of four colleges/universities and
+a couple of degrees) to find whatever more is necessary for stories or
+scripts.
+ 
+     The best thing about the year or so I spent at Richland was that at
+this time (around 1973), beat poetry was still in vogue (well, it was OUT
+of vogue everywhere else, but trends always start and finish first on the
+coasts, then work their way inland from there), and every day at noon by
+the commons there would be performances of beat poetry, which led me to
+explore Ginsburg and Ferlinghetti ("This Life Is Not A Circus Where"
+and "Christ Came Down" being two favorites) and other contemporaries.
+ 
+     I've always been naturally curious about stuff, and to me the college
+experience was the chance to find out about *anything*.  So I just dived
+in and took it for all it was worth.  If I'm going on about this a bit,
+it's because I know there are lots of folks here who are currently in or
+entering college.  If you only see the parking lot and the cafeteria and
+the bathrooms and the classrooms of the courses you have to take...you're
+missing the point.  It's an *amazing* opportunity that will likely not
+come your way again in such plentitude.  Take courses in areas outside your
+major, even if just to audit them.  There are amazing opportunities you
+can mine if you're a writer, also...college newspapers, magazines, low
+power local/college radio and TV stations, theater department productions,
+on and on and on.
+ 
+     Granted...a lot of college was a pain in the ass.  I took a lot of
+stuff I didn't want, didn't need, and have never used because they were
+required for my major.  (One semester, just to get RID of some of this
+stuff, I took 24 units -- crashing classes over my 16 unit limit in order
+to sneak past the rules -- at one time, while working part time.  It was
+a profound mistake, since it included 8 units of German and classes in
+Statistical Psychology, Biology and other stuff.  Major brain-fry.)
+ 
+     But overall, the experience was rewarding, and I encourage a
+generalist approach to others.  If you're going to be there, ENJOY it.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t

+26 Jan 1995
     The story is still going where I wanted it to go, but in general it
+is even better than I'd hoped it would be.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: What finally sold B5 (26 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: What finally sold B5

+26 Jan 1995
     What made all the difference was finding people who *understood* what
+we were trying to do.  In general, you know instantly if an exec Gets It or
+not.  Most didn't.  The first one to Get It was Evan Thompson, head of
+Chris-Craft Television, who put us onto Dick Robertson at Warner Bros.
+We didn't know at the time that PTEN was in the works (a joint venture
+between the two), but when it appeared, we were in line to get on.
+ 
+     We did multiple pitches to the station group's executive committee,
+and were pleased to see that they, too, Got It.  Once we proved that we
+could a) do the pilot, and b) do it for the budget, we got the Go for
+series.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+Of Zima and Kawasaki (27 Jan 1995)
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Of Zima and Kawasaki

+27 Jan 1995
     Correct.  We received not a dime from Zime or Kawasaki.  And believe
+me, if we had, I wouldn't be bashful about saying so.  Anybody wants to
+help finance this show and make it even better, bring 'em in.  Just
+hasn't happened.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Attn: JMS...the best laid plan (27 Jan 1995)
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Attn: JMS...the best laid plan

+27 Jan 1995
     I'm awestruck...simply awestruck.
+ 
+     We should all wear white for the duration of the convention.  I'll
+send a memo on that at once.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Off Topic? (27 Jan 1995)
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+27 Jan 1995
     Sci-Fi Channel has indicated many times that they would like t
+acquire Captain Power, but (in what I must say I think is a doofy move)
+the producer won't release the show unless SFC agrees to finance new eps.
+Cart before the horse, if you ask me.  Get the show on first, create the
+need, THEN do more.
+ 
+     Doofy, I tell you.  Doofy, doofy, doofy.  Maybe even doofiest.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+ATTN: JMS Big Bang con (27 Jan 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Big Bang con

+27 Jan 1995
     I'm *terrible* at gambling.  I might as well just pile the money on
+the coffetable and put a match to it.  Which is why I generally stay far
+away, or allow only small amounts of money (have actually only gambled a
+couple of times, been to Vegas only once).  I'm basically an obsessive-
+compulsive personality, and the LAST thing you want to do is hand someone
+like that a drink, a cigarette, a joint or a pair of dice (which is why
+I don't generally drink, smoke, do drugs or gamble).  I'd rather direct
+that obsessive behavior toward writing.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  What about alien doctors (27 Jan 1995)
+
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JMS:  What about alien doctors

+27 Jan 1995
     As it happens, I'm writing a script right *now* that deals with the
+question of alien doctors.
+ 
+     I live to serve....
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+"Shadows" request from jms (27 Jan 1995)
+
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"Shadows" request from jms

+27 Jan 1995
     A request for those who'll be seeing "The Coming of Shadows" on the
+satellite uplink tomorrow.  There's a lot of stuff in that episode, and
+it's probably the best one of the series to date.  It has a lot of sudden
+twists and turns that even "WARNING: SPOILER" in message headers won't
+keep from accidentally spilling out.
+ 
+     Thus, I'd like to make a request I don't generally make: if those
+who get the satellite feed could hold off on ANY plot revelations for a
+few days, until it starts airing, I would *very* much appreciate it.
+After you've seen the ep, you'll understand why I ask this.  General
+comments (liked it/hated it), or private email with questions or
+responses...all terrific.  I'd just like to try and keep this one as
+close to my vest as possible for a bit.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Run Thru Dark Places  -spoiler (26 Jan 1995)
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Run Thru Dark Places  -spoiler

+26 Jan 1995
     Two corrections: Talia did not walk off with Bester; they took two
+different routes away.  Check the tape.  Also, there was no reason for
+Ivanova to object to Talia taking off her gloves; she wasn't going to be
+scanned.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Season 2 filming (3 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Season 2 filming

+3 Jan 1995
     We are currently shooting number thirteen, editing number 12, mixing
+number 10, doing the EFX on number 11.  Seventeen scripts are currently
+finished.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: A Race Through Dark Places (26 Jan 1995)
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Re: A Race Through Dark Places

+26 Jan 1995
     B5 operates on EST, Earth Standard Time, as noted in episodes.  So
+they do have day and night cycles.  And it's the fear of what psi might
+do if they DID join together that worries people, and why we have a
+Psi-Corps.  Which is what Talia says.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Babylon 5 and new watcher (26 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Babylon 5 and new watcher

+26 Jan 1995
     I'm not sure I understand what faces you have to recognize to follow
+"Race."  Bester is re-introduced with an explanation, as is Jason.  You
+don't have to recognize the guy from "Chrysalis;" if you do, great, it
+adds a level.  If you don't, it still tracks.  The only other characters
+are our reglars; so I'm confused as to what there was left to confuse them.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Religion and First Contact.... (27 Jan 1995)
+
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Religion and First Contact....

+27 Jan 1995
     First Contact did factionalize or even destroy some religions; others
+sprung up afterward.  Others assimmilated the notion.  Franklin belongs to
+one that came up after First Contact.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: A RACE THROUGH DARK PLACES (27 Jan 1995)
+
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Re: A RACE THROUGH DARK PLACES

+27 Jan 1995
     You can generally squeeze 20-25 pops out of a standard PPG energy
+cap.  It won't need to be recharged for quite a while.  And there you
+just slap a new one in and drop the old one in a recharge bin.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+A fan letter, or THANKS JMS! (27 Jan 1995)
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A fan letter, or THANKS JMS!

+27 Jan 1995
     You're very much welcome, thanks.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS on publicity (28 Jan 1995)
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ATTN: JMS on publicity

+28 Jan 1995
     Let me be clear on this: we will take ANY opportunity, any help in
+getting the word out.  In many ways we are treated with a "stealth
+publicity" campaign by some within the studio; keep a low profile, or
+else god forbid somebody might write an article.  So all aid -- putting
+the word out, asking local papers for coverage, writing to magazines,
+anything and everything -- is appreciated.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Minor UK publicity for B5 (28 Jan 1995)
+
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Minor UK publicity for B5

+28 Jan 1995
     I'd love if I could get copies of those two clips sent to me at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Many, many
+thanks.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: episode SKIPPED IN DENVER (29 Jan 1995)
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JMS: episode SKIPPED IN DENVER

+29 Jan 1995
     Apparently the station mixed up the two tapes.
+ 
+     I am *profoundly* bugged.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: When did you go to r (29 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: When did you go to r

+29 Jan 1995
     Okay...Kankakee in 1972-73; Richland 1973-1974; Southwestern
+1974-1976; SDSU 1976-1977.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS:  O'Hare presence = s (29 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  O'Hare presence = s

+29 Jan 1995
     I have never stated, at any time, any specifics about the amount or
+duration of Sinclair's presence in the B5 storyline yet to come because
+a) there are things I wish to withhold, and b) some things must remain
+fluid because if Michael should get, for instance, a major role on a big
+network series offered to him, and with no guarantees of B5 next season,
+he would have to take it.  There are certain things planned, but I don't
+generally pin this stuff down until I'm absolutely sure I've nailed down
+all the corners.  We *will* see him briefly this season, and we will see
+more of him soon.  Beyond that I haven't commented, and won't comment.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr (3 Jan 1995)
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Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr

+3 Jan 1995
     Thanks for reminding me; quite correct, Michael O'Hare was invited to
+take (and did take) a tour of the set for one of the Star Trek movies; I
+guess it would've been Generations.  He went, and was well received, and
+Shatner said he liked the show.  (Though *there*, I suspect, it may have
+been more politeness, given the reaction as it was expressed to me.  But
+I could be wrong.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+A NOVEL (29 Jan 1995)
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A NOVEL

+29 Jan 1995
     "I WILL WRITE A SEQUEL TO THE POPULAR MOVIE & NOVEL BABYLON 5."
+ 
+     Nope.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Switched Episode Order? [ (29 Jan 1995)
+
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JMS: Switched Episode Order? [

+29 Jan 1995
     Yes, originally, "Soul Mates" was to air after "Race."  At that
+time, PTEN was initially going to show just 6 new episodes, and we would
+have come in after the rerun break with "Race," then "Soul."  When the
+ratings came in and looked good, they didn't want to interfere with
+the growth, and indicated they wanted to show 7 new eps in the first
+batch.  "Race," as you can see, was a very complex episode visually, and
+the only way to get it ready to run #7 in the first batch would've been
+to compromise the integrity of the show, and we simply won't do that for
+ANY reason.  "Soul Mates," on the other hand, required very little in the
+way of post production, so that was moved forward into the #7 slot.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+BABYLON 5...AFTER THE METAL WA (29 Jan 1995)
+
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BABYLON 5...AFTER THE METAL WA

+29 Jan 1995
     Yes, I worked on CAPTAIN POWER, and stuck the reference to Babylon
+5 into one of my scripts as a nod to the future; did the same in one of
+my novels, OTHERSYDE.  Sort of a Tuckerism-before-the-fact.  (One good
+thing about this is that it inadvertantly ended up helping make it clear
+to people that I was working on this sucker since 1986/87 or so.)
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+ 
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t (30 Jan 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why Accelerate t

+30 Jan 1995
     My first novel was DEMON NIGHT, published in hardcover by E. P.
+Dutton, and nominated for a Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers of
+America.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+
+Attn. JMS S.EFX error in RTDP (30 Jan 1995)
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Attn. JMS S.EFX error in RTDP

+30 Jan 1995
     The doorbell *is* there.  Recently, though, the satellite uplink
+company used by PTEN changed some of its audio feed channels; if your
+local station or whoever downlinked it didn't catch it, some audio got
+missed.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Bester, Our Favorite Storm Tro (30 Jan 1995)
+
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Bester, Our Favorite Storm Tro

+30 Jan 1995
     Bester's name was my idea.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+

+
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+How Many *** To Screw In A Lig (30 Jan 1995)
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How Many *** To Screw In A Lig

+30 Jan 1995
     Q: How many telepaths does it take to scew in a lightbulb?
+ 
+     A:
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+     (Also, what do you call a Minbari floating dead in the ocean?  A
+minbuoy.)
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+
+KCOP 13 (Was: Re: IMHO's on A (30 Jan 1995)
+
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KCOP 13 (Was: Re: IMHO's on A

+30 Jan 1995
     In editing, we always left black and let an act end properly; we
+were aghast at the clipping at the end of various acts.  We think some
+of it happened at the firm that drops in the national sponsor's
+commercials.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+
+Something amusing waiting for (31 Jan 1995)
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+
Something amusing waiting for

+31 Jan 1995
     "Who's the K?"
+ 
+     Easy...the Kook who came up with this idea.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: New PPG effects perm (31 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: New PPG effects perm

+31 Jan 1995
      Kevin kind of got overtaxed with stuff; however, he is doing a few
+things for us now here and there, and we're now using the same techniques
+for the new PPG blasts, so it should look normal next time you see them.
+ 
+	                                                              jsm
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Trekke (3 Jan 1995)
+
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+
JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Trekke

+3 Jan 1995
     "Do you really believe that the First Run Syndication business as it
+now stands would be as big as it currently is if ST:TNG had flopped (and
+do you honestly believe that Warner would have given PTEN a second
+thought, let alone Babylon 5, if TNG hadn't been such a success in First
+Run Syndication?"  Phillip Sral
+ 
+     A fair question which deserves a fair response.  For starters, the
+syndie business is *not* "as big" as described in your message.  So the
+premise is incorrect on the face of it.  The majority of new syndicated
+drama series introduced in the last couple of years have flopped and have
+either already been canceled, or are shortly awaiting same.  The only
+shows that have shown success at all have been the various Star Trek
+incarnations, Baywatch, and now B5.  Virtually everything else has
+crashed and burned in syndication.
+ 
+     Second, B5 is not part of first run syndication.  It is part of the
+consortium formed jointly by Warners and a station group which was then
+targeted to become a network.  (The new official Warners network will
+likely supplant and replace PTEN in a few years, after the contracts run
+out.  How that will affect B5 is anyone's guess.)
+ 
+     The movement into such new networks has nothing to do with the
+success OR failure of shows like and including Star Trek.  There's this
+little thing called the new "fin/syn rules," which recently got changed
+drastically.  As of the ruling a couple of years ago, networks can now
+own more of the product they put on the air.  Virtually all of it, in
+fact.  What does this mean?  That CBS can broadcast mainly shows made by
+in-house CBS outfits, rather than contracting with, say, Warners or
+Universal or other studios.
+ 
+     This frankly scared the hell out of the studios, whose major business
+is making TV.  So everyone started running around looking for ways to
+create venues independent of the networks...i.e., *new* networks, owned
+wholly or partly by the studios themselves, who could then create their
+OWN monopoly.  (Ain't big business wonderful?)  Paramount, Universal,
+Warner Bros, (and Fox already there)...they're ALL getting into it.  That
+was the single dominant reason why PTEN was formed.  Sheer survival.  Same
+with the Warners net, Paramount net, all the others.
+ 
+     Networks need programming.  All kinds programming.  Dozens of shows
+were pitched to the PTEN executive committee, including B5.  They chose
+this out of the rest of the pack *even though they were nervous about the
+perception that the market wouldn't sustain more than one such show*.
+They picked it for the simple reason that they liked it, and they
+believed in what we were going to try and do with the show.  Two of our
+biggest boosters were the people behind the whole operation, Dick
+Robertson and Evan Thompson, who formed PTEN and from the start, really
+understood what we wanted to do with B5.
+ 
+     ST was really either a) irrelevant to the process, or b) a hinderance
+to the process.  I *know* you want to believe otherwise, and I do
+understand why, and I wish I could reinforce that because it doesn't
+change anything for us one way or another...but it simply didn't happen
+that way.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:What goes through you (31 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS:What goes through you

+31 Jan 1995
     "What goes through your head?"
+ 
+     Wolverines, mainly.
+ 
+     Sundays we get possoms.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+JMS: Sheridan's lightbulb joke (31 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Sheridan's lightbulb joke

+31 Jan 1995
     Actually, a number of people hit on the basic idea of the Minbari
+surrender; there was some of this over on GEnie as well.  It's really the
+obvious joke.  I went for it as well, and appended the last part to set it
+apart.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+Race through dark places comme (31 Jan 1995)
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+31 Jan 1995
     Also, bear in mind that Bester's parting shot in "Mind War" was
+exactly that, in essence an "Up yours" but subtle.  There was no reason
+for that to be given to anyone in "Race."
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin (31 Jan 1995)
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Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+31 Jan 1995
     All TV series are in essence owned by the studio that produces them.
+Hence, B5 is copyrighted and owned by Warner Bros./PTEN.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Military model for Earthf (31 Jan 1995)
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+31 Jan 1995
     Your analysis is not far off the mark.  There's some of the
+Stalinist approach, also some of the early Roman approach, where there
+was a great deal of overlap between senators and the military.  Because
+of having to pull so many different traditions together, I also figure
+it's kind of a hodge-podge, each division pulling for its own identity
+which may or may not be somewhat obsolete by now.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS:  Repeats and Canonical Ep (31 Jan 1995)
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JMS:  Repeats and Canonical Ep

+31 Jan 1995
     All episodes will tend to be repeated in original airdate order; but
+this doesn't bother me particularly, since if the series can't survive
+being viewed out of order, then it's flawed.
+ 
+     And yes, I believe they'll be picking up season 1's last reruns after
+the end of season 2.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+31 Jan 1995
     All TV series are in essence owned by the studio that produces them.
+Hence, B5 is copyrighted and owned by Warner Bros./PTEN.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Ellison, guns and breaking win (31 Jan 1995)
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+31 Jan 1995
     The PPG is a jms addition, dating back to before the pilot.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+Attn JMS Credits cutoff!!! (1 Jan 1995)
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+1 Jan 1995
     We're doing all we can on this, but the stations seem to do what
+they want.
+
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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+Re: JMS: Season 2 filming (4 Jan 1995)
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Re: JMS: Season 2 filming

+4 Jan 1995
     Currently shooting "Hunter, Prey."  Then, probably in this order,
+"And Now for a Word" (also jms), "Knives" (Larry DiTillio), "There All
+The Honor Lies" (Peter David), and then "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" (jms).
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS-Centauri Jump Gates price? (4 Jan 1995)
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JMS-Centauri Jump Gates price?

+4 Jan 1995
     We opened up trade relations with them to partially pay for the
+time we leased on Centauri jumpgates, and provided other services (of a
+benign nature).
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS: Personal re: Chris Franke (5 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Personal re: Chris Franke

+5 Jan 1995
     I genuinely have no idea if Chris is still doing "Mantis" or not; I
+know they're flailing right now in the ratings, and that they're making a
+lot of changes...basically, anything that ain't nailed down.  (And anything
+that they can pry up ain't nailed down.)  If one of those would be a
+change in composers, I wouldn't be at all surprised, given that scenario,
+but I honestly don't know one way or another; it's not something we tend
+to discuss.  We talk B5 with Chris, period.  I don't think the rest is
+any of my damned business.
+ 
+     One rather wishes other people we both could name would adopt a
+similar philosophy....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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+Re: -  JMS on Patrick Stewart/ (5 Jan 1995)
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+5 Jan 1995
     Re: "...some B5 fans who act the same way," I think there are in
+general fewer of them, mainly because we haven't been on 25 years and
+become an icon.  And I generally discourage it; on CIS in particular, and
+here, I've noted that there are good people working hard on ST, but are
+being held back from doing all they're capable of doing by the studio's
+franchise approach.  They should not catch the rap for this; it's unfair.
+ 
+     I should also mention that the most vociferous B5 viewers in terms
+of ragging on Trek are generally those who are disenchanted and angry ST
+fans who feel they've been let down, and have something now to compare
+the other show with.  This unhappiness was there a LONG time before B5
+ever hit the screens.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr

+5 Jan 1995
     My point sustains; getting a science fiction series on the air at
+all is mind-bogglingly difficult.  Getting it past one season is damned
+near impossible.  Of the series you named as examples of how SF has a
+market in TV -- Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica, V, Salvage, Matthew
+Star, Flash, Greatest American Hero -- how many of those made it to or
+past a second season?  Though I'm kinda fuzzy on Buck (my brain has
+mercifully excised most memories pertaining to that one), and Battlestar
+had a *revised* show as another season...insofar as I can recall, those
+are ALL one-season wonders.
+ 
+     We're still talking apples and oranges.  The common question, the
+real killer, is "Is the market big enough to sustain two SF shows, and is
+there a market for SF at ALL?"  *Getting* a show doesn't prove that there
+is a market for SF; it only proves that somebody's going to try it again
+to find out.  If a show doesn't last, dies quickly, then that proves
+the market's dead.
+ 
+     This is one of the blind spots in TV logic which pertains mainly to
+the two groups you mention, SF and westerns.  If a cop show goes on and
+flops, nobody says there's no market for cop shows; *that* show failed.
+If an SF series fails, the interpretation is that there's no market for
+SF.  Also, in general, hollywood perceives all SF as more or less the
+same; it doesn't take into consideration, if an SF series dies, if it was
+a GOOD SF series or a BAD SF series.
+ 
+     Nowhere was this more true than with the V series (not the mini, the
+Kenneth Johnson stuff, which was great), where one of the producers told
+me, "As long as we have aliens and space ships and ray guns, we'll get
+the SF audience GUARANTEED; it's the mainstream we have to work at."
+ 
+     To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a
+viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.  (Start by
+lowering your IQ about 15 points.)  If a series runs only 1-2 years and
+fails, everybody loses; the studio and network will never recoup the
+expenses of production because these days you generally need 80-100
+episodes of a series to syndicate it.  Except for bargain-basement stuff
+like minimal fees for SciFi Channel reruns, you're dead.  You're out
+MILLIONS of dollars.
+ 
+     *NO AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OTHER THAN STAR TREK HAS GONE
+ON FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS SINCE LOST IN SPACE*.  We're talking here
+twenty-four YEARS of failure (from a network/studio financial point of
+view).  This does not exactly encourage them to think there's much of a
+market.  Throw Logan's Run and Amazing Stories and the new Twilight Zone
+into the mix.
+ 
+     By entering its 2nd year, Babylon 5 has already beaten the odds.  If
+we get year three (oh, yeah, and Time Trax also didn't make it), then as
+far as I know, we'll be the first nominally-hard SF series other than
+Trek to do it in nearly a quarter-century.  (I'm excluding X-Files from
+this only because I don't quite think it fits as science fiction; I'm not
+quite sure what to classify it as other than Really Weird Shit, and a
+truly *nifty* TV series.  I love it.)
+ 
+     There are an *awful* lot of studio and network people watching us
+very closely; if we can be the first to break the curse, proving that
+there is a market for SF outside Star Trek that can sustain long enough
+for the studio to make back its money, I think you'll finally begin to see
+a lot more of it...and frankly, I can't wait; the more competition, the
+more SF, the better.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+Cortez- Awesome Ship Name! (6 Jan 1995)
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Cortez- Awesome Ship Name!

+6 Jan 1995
     BTW, just to note a little something you might not notice in the
+show...we've adopted the tradition of putting the symbol for a given ship
+onto the bar in Earhart's, as many real contemporary officers' clubs and
+airforce/naval base clubs put the logos or markings of big planes or ships
+that come through there.  The Cortez symbol is the most visible among the
+various emblems you can see in a shot of the bar in "A Race Through Dark
+Places."  It comes at the moment we follow *another* old military tradition.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS: Syndication (Was: Re: JMS (6 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Syndication (Was: Re: JMS

+6 Jan 1995
     Your assessment of the situation is more or less correct; it was
+the Paramount Theaters chain that was eventually divested from Paramount
+proper, since the government decided that it constituted a monopoly and
+couldn't be allowed to continue.  (Ironically, it was this divestment
+that, having made Paramount Theaters an independent operation, later helped
+ABC come into reality, as they were able to invest in the fledgling
+network during a time it was struggling.  This was viewed as a smart move
+by many, since common wisdom said that this new TV thing was never going
+to take off in people's homes, due to the expense in running land-lines to
+individual homes, broadcast being marginal technology then.  They figured
+there would be TV Theaters, where you could come and pay and see TV shows,
+boxing, sporting events, name it.  Universal spent major bucks on this,
+and even showed a major boxing event just this way as a test.  And now,
+of course, with satellites, and pay TV, and people gathering at sports bars
+to watch pricey events, we've come full circle.)
+ 
+     (Why do I *know* all this stuff, when I can't retain what I ate for
+lunch yesterday?)
+ 
+     Because studios had a monopoly, yes, they could force less obviously
+commercial films down the throats of theaters.  That changed with the
+new rules.  TV now, though, won't go through the same cycle, I think,
+because a) none of the networks are stupid enough to become total
+monopolies and invite the FCC in, and b) TV as a mass medium will always
+be more easily targeted by special interest groups.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Language on Bazaar sign i (6 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Language on Bazaar sign i

+6 Jan 1995
     I'll have to look at it again, but I'm reasonably certain that the
+second line in the bazaar sign is Centauri.
+ 
+	                                                       jms
+
+

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+JMS:Question on Production Sch (6 Jan 1995)
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JMS:Question on Production Sch

+6 Jan 1995
     We don't shoot in lots of 6 or 12; we shoot 22 episodes straight
+through.  The order in which they are run, and the pauses in between, do
+not in ANY way reflect the time period in which they are made.  We shoot
+straight through, with pauses for Christmas break, and to give our crew
+and cast a one-week hiatus on either side (usually between episodes 8
+and 9, and episodes 15 and 16), which helps keep them from burning out.
+ 
+     You really have to shoot straight through, because of the vast
+amounts of money required to rent equipment, pay salaries for crew and
+cast, pay staff and other areas.  Also, under Screen Actors Guild rules,
+if you hire someone for, say, 13 episodes, you must use them within a
+particular span of time.  If you don't, you must pay them the balance of
+committed episodes by the end of that period.  If you broke filming up
+as you suggest, you'd be in deep hock to your cast.
+ 
+     And you really can't separate out SFX from shooting live-action;
+often you need to have the actors work with the effects in composite
+shots, and sometimes you need the effects to play on monitors visible on
+camera when you're shooting.  All divisions are working at the same
+time, straight through.  You need to have effects people around frequently
+while shooting; to make two separate sequences means you double the time
+period you have to pay your effects people.
+ 
+     Here is the process of making B5 in metaphor...not only in terms of
+each season's production, but the history of this show overall.
+ 
+     You hitch yourself to the front of a train.  And you begin pulling.
+(In this case, I began pulling in 1987, but for purposes of the current
+discussion make that the start of each season.)  Slowly, painfully, the
+train moves an inch.  Then another.  Gradually, over time, it begins
+picking up speed.  For one brief instant there is an allowable moment of
+joy when both you and the train are going at the same, comfortable speed.
+Then it starts gaining on you, and you have to start walking faster, with
+the train bumping your heels, until finally you're running flat out,
+because you know that if you so much as stumble once, the train will roll
+right over you.
+ 
+     Then the season ends, you get to catch your breath...and start it all
+over again.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Future Quest (6 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Future Quest

+6 Jan 1995
     Basically, they asked if they could use our sets for a PBS program,
+and we said sure.  Not much more to it than that; I think we allowed them
+the use of our stages without rental charge, since it's a worthy cause.
+They were allowed to choose which shots to use.  I wasn't in the show
+because I wasn't asked to be.  Doesn't matter either way; ain't doing this
+to get my mug on TeeVee.  The lawsuits over nationally induced cardiac
+infarction ALONE would kill our budget....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+ATTN: JMS  Orson Scott Card/En (1 Jan 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  Orson Scott Card/En

+1 Jan 1995
     Haven't read that one, no.
+
+	                                                          jms
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Re: JMS on Patrick Stewart/

+6 Jan 1995
     To Ted...unfortunately, syndication does not help gurantee any show's
+success, even requiring fewer ratings points.  Most of the new dramas
+introduced in the last year or so in syndication have fallen by the wayside
+and have either been canceled, or are awaiting cancellation.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Re: JMS:Question on Production (6 Jan 1995)
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Re: JMS:Question on Production

+6 Jan 1995
     RE: "a TV episode usually takes 10-16 days to make," (Kokko), not
+quite correct.  We do the actual on-stage shooting in 7 days.  (Most shows
+are shot anywhere from 6-9 days per episode.)  Then it takes another week
+or so to edit, then the producers re-edit, then you spot the show for
+visual EFX and music, CGI is working, you mix the episode...the actual
+time required to physically make an episode once you begin principal
+photography is closer to 6-8 weeks.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+7 Jan 1995
     As I recall, Mira was not in prosthetics at the time, and was out of
+camera range even for when the shot gets shown in expanded letterbox form.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+7 Jan 1995
     Just a note of clarification on the notice that TV frigntened the
+movie studios (that should be "frightened")...yes and no.  In the beginning
+it mainly just frightened radio; Fred Allen (famous for the quote "TV is
+called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done") used to sport
+a button stating Stamp Out TV.  The studios *loved* TV in the beginning;
+at the time when TV began to come out, the studios were suffering their
+worst years since the Great Depression.  Universal Studios and Warner
+Bros. practically shut down altogether.  The number of films being made
+was virtually nil.  But they still had all these actors and writers and
+directors under contract, chewing up vast amounts of money at a time when
+the studios had zip coming in.  So they quickly turned many of these
+people over toward making TV shows; this is one reason why so many of the
+early TV anthology programs had big-name actors...the studios were burning
+off expensive contractual obligations.
+ 
+     Also, I'd suggest that serious SF was done prior to Forbidden Planet,
+including but not limited to Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers, The Day the
+Earth Stood Still (still one of the finest such films ever made) and many
+others.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+8 Jan 1995
     In addition to the other good reasons for using Jupiter's moons
+that Nyrath stated, there's also the added element of energy (it's near
+Jupiter itself), and a base placed off Io would be somewhat more difficult
+to target from afar given the massive energy output from Jupiter, which
+would help mask things a bit.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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Re: JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Tr

+8 Jan 1995
     The attribution to Ernie Kovacs of the "TV is a medium" line is
+incorrect.  Ernie loved TV.  Fred Allen hated it with a passion.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+8 Jan 1995
     On the other hand, if one follows the logic that a ship traveling is
+more likely to encounter danger than a stationary vessel, then one must
+now make the leap in logic that a bus traveling from New Jersey to
+Connecticut will have more dangerous incidents in 24 hours than New York
+City.
+ 
+     Bear in mind the crucial difference here...the Enterprise has maybe
+seven hundred, a thousand or so members of the same service, chosen for
+compatibility.  Babylon 5 has roughly two hundred and fifty thousand
+humans and aliens on board at any given moment, many from races where
+there is conflict between them.  I think the latter is bound to produce
+more and broader-based danger than the other.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+8 Jan 1995
     This to Frank Springall...we weren't *talking* about shows from
+other countries.  We were addressing American-produced shows.  Yes, we
+could drag Dr. Who in here, but that's not really the *point*.  Doesn't
+mean that nothing produced outside the US is "interesting."  Obviously it
+is.  But that's simply not relevant to our discussion of the American
+television series, and how studios and networks *here* view the genre.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+ATTN: JMS  Realistic Timescale (8 Jan 1995)
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+8 Jan 1995
     I took a fairly conservative timeline; as was mentioned in "The Long
+Dark," as late as 2150 we were mainly confined to our own solar system,
+using sub-light cryogenic exploration ships on one-way missions to go
+further.  We got to leap-frog several hundred years of technology when we
+met the Centauri in 2151, who let us lease time on their jumpgates, and
+sold us the tech to make and maintain our own.  Had the Centauri or some
+other species not tripped over us, I think we'd still be driving around
+our own solar system for the most part by 2200, with maybe an excursion
+or two to our nearest star.
+ 
+     The space program is currently logjammed, and if it doesn't get
+cleared up soon, we're going to be left in the dust, literally as well as
+figuratively.  We have to get NASA off its image of two guys standing
+on a Martian hill planting a flag to communities of people working and
+living in space.
+ 
+     The space shuttle was primarily designed as part of a link; space
+shuttle builds space station; space station is hub for mars mission and
+lunar colony; lunar colony is hub for more mars missions and mars
+colony.  But we lost that thread, and now it's been relegated to being a
+high-tech ferry service.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+JMS: Your views on trading cop (10 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Your views on trading cop

+10 Jan 1995
     I agree with the policy of "Don't ask, don't tell."
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+JMS: Re: B5 (1 Jan 1995)
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+1 Jan 1995
     What will we do for an encore after the mid-season biggies?  Just
+what we've been doing all along...just keep cranking up the volume....
+
+	                                                            jms
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+10 Jan 1995
     Actually, there are a lot of resonances between the process of getting
+B5 on the air and getting the original Trek on.  Both did considerable
+recasting after their pilots; both saw the series a full year after the
+first pilot (we kinda considered ep 1 of year 1 our second pilot); Trek
+ran into difficulty getting sold because of Lost in Space, and we had a
+hard time getting sold because of ST; when it went on the air, Star Trek
+was slammed by critics as being low-rent, cheesy, suited for saturday
+morning kiddie shows and nothing more than an attempt to cash in on Lost
+in Space, just as we got nailed by critics and charged with trying to cash
+in on ST; Trek was Roddenberry's singular vision, and B5 is another very
+singular vision, neither show a "committee" operation.  There are more,
+but I think the point is there.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+Of Hair And Bone (11 Jan 1995)
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+11 Jan 1995
     When Delenn's structure changed, the epidermal layer on the head
+grew thinner; there is now a gap between the skin, and the bone which
+has grown out.  Hair can be draped through it, or laid over it.
+ 
+                                      jms
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+11 Jan 1995
     BTW, just as a switch-back to the original thread here...might
+intest folks to know that Michael O'Hare was invited by some of Patrick's
+Fan Club Members to see "A Christmas Carol," Stewart's reading, went
+backstage, met Patrick...and was subsequently invited to make an
+appearance at a local meeting of Stewart's fan club, where he was invited
+to come up on stage by Stewart, where the two shook hands and lots of
+photos were taken.
+ 
+     (At a recent convention, btw, Michael and Avery Brooks hung out
+together, had drinks, and discussed the hassles of being the commander
+of a space station....)
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+JMS: Starfury as logo (11 Jan 1995)
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+11 Jan 1995
     If we ever need a team name, I'll try to remember this....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+Technomage Symbol (11 Jan 1995)
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+11 Jan 1995
     No, actually, the technomage symbol (all of them, actually, including
+the ones on the wall) are all derivations, specifically altered, of old
+runes and the like.  In some cases, we removed words and inserted
+mathematical symbols.  The fiery symbol is all one piece, and is also an
+old rune.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+12 Jan 1995
     I haven't got a clue.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+ATTN JMS: Actor in Eyes? (12 Jan 1995)
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+12 Jan 1995
     Don't recall off hand the name of the bartender, but it definitely
+wasn't Tim Choate.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+12 Jan 1995
     We could not film anything extensive with Michael because we don't
+shoot on the Warners lot, where there are facilities available.  We went
+our separate ways around late April/early May or so, after we had stopped
+shooting.  We're a small operation; when we make the series, we rent our
+equipment from Panavision, our lights from other places, sound equipment,
+some props...anything we don't rent goes into storage.  Our entire camera
+crew -- ALL of them -- were off doing another project.
+ 
+     I understand your feelings, but there are certain realities we have
+to work with, and if the cast is gone off either on vacation, out of the
+country, or on other projects (as all of them were), all of our crew is
+gone, and all of our equipment is gone, it's kinda hard to oblige your
+request to do scenes with these characters.  We had none of this back in
+our hands until we began shooting again in August, by which time Michael
+had long been in New York pursuing other projects.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+12 Jan 1995
     I would not count on B5 ending up on the Warners network; the two are
+very competitive (WB vs. PTEN), and WB is trying to form its own identity.
+ 
+     And the ratings for B5 place it generally third in first-run dramatic
+syndication.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Attn: JMS. counterculture on B (12 Jan 1995)
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Attn: JMS. counterculture on B

+12 Jan 1995
     By 2259 the "counterculture" as we understand it is absolutely old
+fashioned and retrograde.  Seems like everybody's working to get In, not
+be Out.  Sort of an extreme gingrichification effect....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+JMS! PREVIEW IDEA: Add backsto (2 Jan 1995)
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+2 Jan 1995
     Unfortunately, the B5 previews/promos are done in-house by PTEN, and
+they jealously guard their authority over them.  They'd never let us do
+them.
+
+	                                                                jms
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+12 Jan 1995
     The EA is the only government for planetary decisions; a few don't
+choose to subscribe back home, but then they're entirely cut out of from
+benefitting from star travel and other EA areas.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+12 Jan 1995
     We'll probably get official word yes/no come April/May, though we
+will probably have some unofficial hints come February/March.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Diversity of B5 populace (12 Jan 1995)
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+12 Jan 1995
     Babylon 5 is not like your local community, with as wide-ranging a
+bunch of residents, including children.  It's more like an airport, and you
+don't generally see a lot of kids living at airports (unless you live in a
+community much different from mine).  There are two kinds of people in
+general at B5...those who live and work at the station (security guards,
+maintenance, dockworkers, other support staf) and people passing through
+en route to other places, on stop-over.  It's a place where you come to do
+business deals, staying over for a day or two, and then leaving.  You
+wouldn't tend to bring your kids to something like that, and families
+passing through go right from one ship to another, usually in a hurry to
+make their flight.
+ 
+     And we've had plenty of older characters, so your sweepin
+generalization is inaccurate, as are most sweeping generalizations.  From
+June Lockhart to Michael Ansara to Walter Koenig to Jane Carr to many
+others, we've gone beyond the 35-49 age range you cite.  We've also had
+many ethnic groups, and featured them; in fact, virtually ALL of the
+relationships (with I think one exception) have so far been from different
+ethnic backgrounds (Sinclair and Sakai, Talia Winters and Jason Ironheart,
+Dr. Franklin and Lockhart's daughter).  We've used asian actors (doctors
+in medlab, the scientist in "Voice," Taro Isogi in "Spider," Sakai),
+hispanic actors (in "By Any Means," Dr. Maya Hernandez in "Believers,"
+Wanda DeJesus coming up in "Hunter, Prey"), and a lot of african american
+actors.  We also populate all background shots with a wide mix of ethnic
+backgrounds.
+ 
+     In short, we're already *doing* it.  And we will continue to do more
+of it.  (Why doesn't Ivanova have a Russian accent?  Because she was raised
+overseas, and went to schools outside Russia, something we'll learn in a
+few episodes.)
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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ATTN JMS: Re: B5 on WB Network

+12 Jan 1995
     B5 dropped a bit in the recent ratings you mention because they're
+a) our reruns, and b) the Chrismas period, during which everything falls
+off.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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ATTN JMS: Spec script guidelin

+12 Jan 1995
     The spec script question is currently moot because we're full-up at
+this time.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+JMS: Costume Questions... (12 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Costume Questions...

+12 Jan 1995
      Argh; just sent my reply here to the wrong thread (read the Diversity
+in B5 thread).  Brief version: leather all around, red piping to read
+better on camera, cleaner cuffs.  The other reply is more detailed.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+Re: Diversity of B5 populace (12 Jan 1995)
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Re: Diversity of B5 populace

+12 Jan 1995
     My original reply somehow got bumped back; the panels on the uniforms
+are always leather.  Correct on the red piping and other changes; one of
+the problems with last season's uniforms was that they kinda blurred on
+camera, and the details went away.  The piping helps the details to pop
+a bit better on camera.  The cuffs were changed because in the old version,
+the leather cuffs caused the cuffs to gather, and never looked clean or
+crisp, which a real uniform would.  So we changed it.  I've been told what
+the rest of the uniforms are made of, but for the life of me can't recall
+just now.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+

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+Re: Attn: JMS. counterculture (13 Jan 1995)
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Re: Attn: JMS. counterculture

+13 Jan 1995
     This to Katherine Teague...you're among the first to pick up on a
+deliberate writer's choice in the writing of the series.  In looking toward
+the period of B5, I tried to construct a society that had to come together
+on a planetary scale to fight a war for simple survival.  My thinking was,
+"Okay, let's assume that formality has come back into vogue; clothes tend
+not to be revealing, lines are more streamlined or severe, people address
+each other or refer to each other formally ("Mr. Isogi," "Ms. Winters," and
+so on).
+ 
+     I suppose a conservative could derive some satisfaction from this
+choice...though to quote Mephistophilis in "Faustus"......"Aye, think so
+still, 'till experience change thy mind."
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+Season 3 (13 Jan 1995)
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Season 3

+13 Jan 1995
      We'll know on a pickup come about April.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+JMS: Why only one telepath? (13 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Why only one telepath?

+13 Jan 1995
     Actually, since there aren't that many telepaths around, they cost a
+LOT to lease.  There probably should be more than one on B5, but the Corps
+hasn't gotten around to sending anybody else yet...so she's appropriately
+frazzled a lot of the time.
+ 
+     Humans rarely do things the way they should, logically....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

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+ATTN: JMS (2 Jan 1995)
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ATTN: JMS

+2 Jan 1995
     So many questions, so few answers I can give....
+
+     1) In theory, yes, Sheridan should be around for the rest of the arc.
+     2) O'Hare is currently doing network guest-starring roles that will
+give him broader appeal (for instance, playing a great bad-guy on a coming
+episode of the Cosby Mysteries).
+     3) Senator Hidoshi is out of office.
+     4) Background walla is done by the background walla group.
+     5) You won't see Minbar this season, but you will almost certainly
+see it the first part of next season.  You will, however, see Centauri
+Prime this season.
+     6) Lots of things will go BOOM soon.
+     7) The mess hall food is pretty good.
+     8) The D.Duck poster came from Warners, when we arranged (after much
+negotiation) to get the rights to use his character.  (This is the first
+series, apparently, given the rights to do so.)
+
+	                                                          jms
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+

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+I need to know if this is true (13 Jan 1995)
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I need to know if this is true

+13 Jan 1995
     Certainly, we're all big fans of Mark's work (currently enjoying him
+in Wing Commander 3), and should an opportunity come along, and a role
+good enough, we'd love to work with him.  But at this moment, nothing is
+set.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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ATTN:JMS  Stupid idea about KO

+14 Jan 1995
            Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnope.
+ 
+	                                                       jms
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+

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+Enjoying B5 is enjoying Life (14 Jan 1995)
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Enjoying B5 is enjoying Life

+14 Jan 1995
     Thanks; and funny thing is, having seen the next batch of episodes
+as many as 20 times in the process of putting them together, I'm still as
+excited about them now as in the beginning.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+B5 & ZIMA (14 Jan 1995)
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B5 & ZIMA

+14 Jan 1995
     There's no Zima on the show in BG because we just did it for funsies,
+and now having done it, it's over.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+Release of series onto Laser d (15 Jan 1995)
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+15 Jan 1995
     We do hope to have the (widescreen) disks out by summer or fall, once
+we finish re-transferring all the film stock back to its original format.
+The pilot can't be released in a producers' cut since it never existed in
+film, only in computer-image form on the Avid editing system.  To do the
+full film would require completely re-editing the film and re-scoring, and
+we don't have the resources or budget for that.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+Starfuries on patrol. (15 Jan 1995)
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Starfuries on patrol.

+15 Jan 1995
     The starfuries were deployed from lunar bases, also from carriers
+that dropped everything they had.
+ 
+     Since this was a last-ditch effort, there was no point in keeping
+reserve starfuries on-board, and the big ships still made huge targets.
+This was almost entirely an offensive maneuver, not defensive.  You pop
+everything you've got, figuring that probably nobody will make it back.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+

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+ATT JMS: Instantaneous Communi (15 Jan 1995)
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ATT JMS: Instantaneous Communi

+15 Jan 1995
     Tachyon-based transmission systems.
+ 
+  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+ 
+	                                                         jms
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+Re: - JMS on Patrick Stewart (15 Jan 1995)
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Re: - JMS on Patrick Stewart

+15 Jan 1995
     To the best of my knowledge, NONE of the ST actors have any problem
+with any of the B5 actors, and vice-versa.  Much as some divisive fan
+would, as you say, like their characters to reflect their own feelings,
+the reality simply isn't there.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Murder, He Wrote?  (Re JMS) (15 Jan 1995)
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Murder, He Wrote?  (Re JMS)

+15 Jan 1995
     Correct; I was a writer/producer on MURDER, SHE WROTE for two years,
+and wrote something like 10-12 episodes (I don't remember exac
+offhand).  For the last 2 weeks or so, USA network has been hitting the
+seasons I worked on, so my name has been there a lot lately.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Re: B5 & ZIMA (15 Jan 1995)
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Re: B5 & ZIMA

+15 Jan 1995
     Tagging this here because I don't know where else to tag it...I just
+got a GEnie note saying that approximately 100 letters from the Internet
+gateway never got to me; many are just rec-arts, but there's also on the
+list headers from a4jinna, roland@festival, TrboTurtle, dd36+, northrup@
+chuma, anewton, brauchfu, and others.  Just a warning...stuff does get
+munched sometimes.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+Origin of word "Vorlon" (2 Jan 1995)
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Origin of word "Vorlon"

+2 Jan 1995
                           ...sounded cool....
+
+	                                                                jms
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+Three Edged? (15 Jan 1995)
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Three Edged?

+15 Jan 1995
     The metaphor functions on several levels: 1) in any argument, there
+is your side, and the other side, but if you're ever going to get past
+that and find agreement, or understanding, you must be open to a third
+idea, a compromise or intercession.  2) a real three-bladed or three-edged
+sword creates a wound that does not close again; knowledge, once received,
+and understood, is permanent and changes you forever.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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+JMS: Do Doctors Still Speciali (15 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Do Doctors Still Speciali

+15 Jan 1995
     Negative; your assumption is incorrect.  Dr. Franklin is chief of
+staff of the medlab facility, and has been introduced as such.  We have
+seen many other doctors, from Dr. Maya Hernandez to the asian doctor
+brought in to help save Garibaldi in "Chrysalis."  There are probably
+about 100-150 doctors on B5, and we'll be showing more of them as we go
+on in the show.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

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+JMS: Jovian moons (15 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Jovian moons

+15 Jan 1995
     I think we'll probably get around to showing more of the Jovian
+moons one of these days.
+ 
+     We're also taking advantage of some of the recent Hubble photographs
+to scan them and use them as backgrounds in some far-space shots; there's
+one in "The Coming of Shadows," for instance.  Real space is *very* nice
+looking in places.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+Attn JMS -- "Producer's cut" S (15 Jan 1995)
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Attn JMS -- "Producer's cut" S

+15 Jan 1995
     The various drafts of the script have all the missing scenes, and may
+in time become available directly through Babylonian Productions along
+with other scripts.  The computer images are too grainy to ever be used
+in any kind of laserdisk or tape, very low-res.
+ 
+     The whole issue of the pilot still rankles me, on a personal level.
+I was still fairly new to executive producing, and was more prone to just
+accept the word of the director or the editor that this was as good as the
+cut would get, this was how it should stay.  I didn't speak up on some of
+my concerns, didn't just go in and re-edit the whole damned thing the way
+I felt I should have.  It was my error, and there's no one else to blame
+for it.
+ 
+     I've learned since to trust my instincts.  So when John Copeland and
+I go in to edit the episodes, we edit these things so tight they scream.
+In retrospect, I probably could've fit in about 18 minutes of the 20
+or so minutes we ended up cutting, by judicious editing, line-cutting,
+and just picking up the pace of the thing in every scene.  It's one of
+those, "If I knew then what I know now..." situations.
+ 
+     If we had the budget to re-edit the damned thing, which alas we
+don't, I can assure you it would be a VERY different-looking movie.
+ 
+     My fault.  Nobody else's.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Murder, He Wrote? (Re JMS) (15 Jan 1995)
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Re: Murder, He Wrote? (Re JMS)

+15 Jan 1995
     We had one of the M,SW directors over recently, and he mentioned that
+Angela, as with you, considers "The Committee" to be the best episode of
+the series.  I'm inclined to agree that it was probably one of the best
+scripts I did for the show, though I'm also particular toward "The Wind
+Around the Tower" and parts of "Incident in Lot 7."
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin (15 Jan 1995)
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Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+15 Jan 1995
     "Not to cast aspersions on the physique of JMS, but he's not the
+youngest buck in the forest, forest, nor the sveltest.  What if he dies?"
+ 
+     HEY!  I'll have you know I'm just 40 years old, and at 6'5" I'm maybe
+ten pounds more than I should be.  Granted it all seems to have settled in
+one or two places, but I attribute that to the gravitational influence of
+a pinhole black hole that must have drifted past recently.
+ 
+     As to the question, "What if he dies?"...what happens is that they
+come and pick me up, bring me to the nearest mortuary, I'm autopsied,
+needles are inserted in my heel and elbow, the blood is removed from my
+body, embalming fluid is subsequently pumped in, I'm dressed in an
+ill-fitting suit, displayed briefly (against my wishes), shoved into a
+crematorium, my remains are transferred to ash, and I spend THE NEXT TEN
+THOUSAND YEARS HAUNTING YOUR ASS FOR ASKING A MORBID QUESTION LIKE THAT!!!
+ 
+     All my notes are triple-encrypted.  Only I know the password.  So it's
+in the best interests of EVERYBODY to keep my ass ALIVE for the next 3.5
+years.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

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+Personal Query from JMS (15 Jan 1995)
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Personal Query from JMS

+15 Jan 1995
     For a while now, I've been trying to find some old friends with whom
+I've lost all contact.  Given the resource here, and the theory that we
+are all only 6 people away from anybody else...I thought I'd try it here.
+If anybody should know how to contact the following people, if y'all
+could send me a note I'd be greatly appreciative.
+ 
+     Liz or Elizabeth Ochoa.  Last known to be in San Diego.  Red hair,
+Basque background.  Rose tattoo on left wrist.  Resided in San Diego from
+1978 through 1981, had a 4-year old son named (I believe) Justin (who
+would now be about 19).  Liz would be roughly 39-40 years old.
+ 
+     Colleen Carnevale, also from San Diego, same age range.  Blonde, and
+formerly, through her father, a member of the San Diego Yacht Club.  She
+worked at the Whaley House up through about 1979, and worked as an
+Orientation Counselor at SDSU through about 1978.  May be married now.
+ 
+     Joanne Massie, formerly a high school teacher at Chula Vista High
+School, 1972.  Last I'd heard she had moved to Texas around 1975.
+ 
+     (Mrs. Massie was the one who got me into writing when I was just a
+kid, gave me the chance to follow my abilities.)
+ 
+     Joe or Joseph Trez, 40-41, resident of Matawan, New Jersey in about
+1970.  Nothing since.
+ 
+     Sherily Mattarocci, roughly 34, may now be married with a different
+name.  Formerly from Bonita, California.  (Oops, make that Sherilyn, not
+Sherily.)
+ 
+     Marcus Manecke, former cult member (Children of God), 42-44, lived
+in religious commune (unrelated to CoG) in Chula Vista through 1978, may
+now be living in the New England area.  He was also a musician.
+ 
+     Any info should be sent via private email.  These are all friends,
+just would like to find out whatever happened to them.  Thanks.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Re: Attn JMS -- "Producer's cu (16 Jan 1995)
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Re: Attn JMS -- "Producer's cu

+16 Jan 1995
      It's a wonderful idea, and a kind suggestion, but it would have to
+come from Warners; a fundraiser wouldn't work.  Maybe someday....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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+Outer Limits on Showtime: Whic (16 Jan 1995)
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Outer Limits on Showtime: Whic

+16 Jan 1995
     The Outer Limits series will not be remakes for the most part, though
+I hear they may consider one or two.  Demon will definitely not be among
+them.  I had great hopes for OL, because I'd like to see some good SF
+being done on cable, but I don't think so...first, they dumped Joe Stefano
+and Leslie Stevens, froze them out of the show, pretty cold thing to do
+to the producer/writers who created the thing (legal maneuvering now
+complete, I understand, and they'll finally get their proper credit on
+the show)...Michael Cassutt finally bolted from the show as primary
+writer/producer a while ago, wanting nothing more to do with it....
+ 
+     When B5 went on hiatus over the summer, the new OL team -- the same
+people who brought you Space Rangers -- called me in to become a consultant
+or producer on the show, even though they knew it'd mean dividing my time
+(which was why consultant was better).  I met with them, and saw a
+breakdown of the stories they were planning to do.  I can't remember the
+last time I was so completely appalled.  I felt I could have nothing to
+do with the show in any way, manner, shape or form; I felt they had NO
+understanding of what the Outer Limits was supposed to be.
+ 
+     Here's just ONE example of the stories they were putting forth (and
+I feel that I can quote this one because I know it didn't get used, for
+the singular reason that Cassutt, when he came aboard, insisted that it
+NOT be done, having the same horrified reaction that I did.  But it's
+nonetheless emblematic of the rest of the stories.
+ 
+     A guy's hang-gliding.  Caught by a wind, he rises higher and higher
+until he passes out from lack of oxygen.  Comes to descending toward a
+military base.  He's captured by American soldiers, put in a cell...and
+in the cell across from him...is John F. Kennedy, who *didn't* die when
+the assassin's bullet hit his head.  He was cryogenically suspended until
+he could be fixed up.  Now this has been done, but Kennedy insists that
+they won't release him.  Together, the two manage to escape...at which
+point the guy discovers that the reason that they had him in a cell was
+that Kennedy came through the surgery a homicidal maniac determined to
+destroy the world...and now it falls to this guy to kill Kennedy a
+second time.
+ 
+     Go ahead...guess what the guys' last name just *happens* to be.
+ 
+     Yep.  Oswald.
+ 
+     I told the producers, "If you do this story, the entire american
+viewing public will descend upon your offices, drag you out into the
+street, slap two telephone poles together and crucify you.  And I will
+personally hand them the nails."
+ 
+     So we'll see...I don't know how much Cassutt was able to deter them
+from their path, especially since he bolted, which means he probably
+wasn't able to do much.  I'll take a look at it, because hope endures in
+the face of reason...but I think this is gonna be problematic.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+16 Jan 1995
     We'll work this into dialogue to make it clearer....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Trekke (2 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Patrick Stewart/B5/Trekke

+2 Jan 1995
     First, so there's no error, I appreciate your effort here.  But I
+still do disagree with your premise that "ST paved the way for B5."  You
+can "stand by" your feeling as much as you want, but I was the one in the
+room with the network and studio execs telling me (and just about everyone
+else pitching SF space shows) that there was NO room in the marketplace
+for anything along these lines other than ST.  Even when PTEN was launching
+B5, that was a concern stated by them over and over.  There's what one
+feels SHOULD be correct, and there's what IS correct.  This is the point
+where those two conflict.
+
+     ST did not "legitimize SF drama for TV."  Star Trek legitimizes and
+leads to more Star Trek.  If people in Hollywood *really* felt the way you
+say, why has it taken *25 years* for another serious show like this to get
+made (again, leaving out Buck Rogers, which wasn't serious and frankly, to
+my mind, was only barely SF).
+
+     We had to fight tooth and nail to get this show on the air, to
+overcome the ST shadow.  We were told, specifically and repeatedly, that
+there IS no substantive interest in SF, and that ST isn't SF; ST is ST,
+and an interest in ST doesn't generally guarantee any kind of interest in
+another SF show.  And certainly Paramount has done nothing but throw road
+blocks in front of us at every conceivable step of the way.
+
+     I understand your feelings, and why you want to believe that your
+theory is true.  But it simply isn't.
+
+	                                                                 jms
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+Intelligence at the "rim" (16 Jan 1995)
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Intelligence at the "rim"

+16 Jan 1995
     You won't have to wait for future seasons to find out what's going
+on out on the rim; you'll have a pretty good picture of it before the
+end of THIS season.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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+Re: - JSM & The Arc - (16 Jan 1995)
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+16 Jan 1995
     Wow, what a detailed analysis....
+ 
+     Okay, some good thoughts here.  Quick responses.
+ 
+     The best way to approach this is to discuss my approach to writing in
+general.  I've now written two published novels, and have a third ready to
+be written as soon as I have six months to a year to spare (i.e, not for
+a while yet).  My structure is always very tight on these things, in the
+sense that I plan out the basic *spine* of the novel.  I know I'm starting
+at point A, I want to end at point Z, and I want to hit a certain number of
+spots along the way.  Then I start writing.  Once I've committed to that
+STRUCTURE, everything else becomes expendable or fluid.  I've ha
+background characters suddenly lurch into the foreground, and major
+characters (or characters I *thought* would be major) fall into the
+background.  Sometimes, while chugging along the structure highway, I'll
+see something interesting just off the main road, and I'll go poke around
+in there for a while.
+ 
+     Basically, I like being *surprised*.  And I think, in general, that
+readers do as well.  At no time do I diverge from where I want to go; the
+spine never alters.  But the details are absolutely fluid.
+ 
+     When I write an episode, I do exactly the same thing.  I *HATE* to
+outline; I think it freezes the story too much.  So in general I just sit
+down at the keyboard, knowing the title of the episode, the primary
+incidents that have to happen, and a few character moments, and stgart
+writing.  And things suddenly occur to me, I get surprised by moments when
+the characters turn to me and say, "Hey, stupid, don't do THAT, do *THIS*."
+ And I go where they tell me.  The result is that the scripts I write tend
+to be VERY tight: they go where they're going, and move like a house
+afire...BUT there's the real sense that ANYdamnedthing can happen at any
+moment, because I'm not locked in.
+ 
+     The same applies to the series overall.  I know *exactly* where the
+series is going, the final denouement, the benchmarks of each season, and
+have brief synopses on most of the episodes.  But you have to be open to
+surprises, have to allow yourself to be pulled one way or another on the
+details, otherwise you get predictable, and you lose the spark.  Also,
+the reality is that actors are human; there can be contract disputes,
+health problems, any number of things...so there have to be trap doors
+built into the storyline for *every single one of the characters* without
+exception.
+ 
+     The closest comparison, I suppose, would be doing a story about
+World War II.  The individual pieces can move around, people can come and
+go, live or die, suddenly be revealed to be counterspies...but the basic
+progression, the storyline of the war, is not changed.  (Unless you're
+doing alternate history, which we're not.)  When I write, I basically
+carry the whole storyline in my head, and I run the episode through that
+to make sure that it all parses.
+ 
+     It's as if you've flashed back in time to WW II, and you're in a
+battalion going into Normandy Beach.  You know that in the long run, the
+Allies will win the war...but you look around at the other people in
+the landing craft with you, and you have no idea which of them is going
+to make it through to the end.  One is set.  The other is fluid.
+ 
+     The final destination of the story, and the chief points along the
+way...none of that has altered so much as an inch.  Within that structure
+I may move some elments up, push some back; you have to find the *feel* of
+the story as you write it, something you can't prepare for until you're
+actually writing it.  But the structure remains, giving me freedom to
+roam where I want...if I decide to kill off one of the three really major
+human characters in year three (and I'm NOT saying I'm planning on it, I'm
+just discussing hypotheticals), I can do it, and the overall storyline
+isn't touched.
+ 
+     A destination may be fixed on the horizon...but sometimes the most fun
+you have is getting lost from time to time on the way there.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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Intelligence at the "rim"

+16 Jan 1995
     You won't have to wait for future seasons to find out what's going
+on out on the rim; you'll have a pretty good picture of it before the
+end of THIS season.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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+Attn JMS: Have You Read Pohl's (17 Jan 1995)
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Attn JMS: Have You Read Pohl's

+17 Jan 1995
      I've missed a fair amount of Pohl's work, including the "heechee"
+stuff...but in any event, the shadows are all mine.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+18 Jan 1995
      Re: writing "The Quality of Mercy" while half-dead with the flu...my
+staff knows well enough to *never* get between me and a script.  As Vir
+says, the consequences would be *profoundly* unfortunate.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+

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+JMS: Sinclair leaving B5 (18 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Sinclair leaving B5

+18 Jan 1995
      That story is absolutely, 100% bogus, and is one of a number of
+destructive, false rumors floating around right now.  When we were
+contemplating what to do with the role of Sinclair, we called Michael
+in, and we talked about it.  Nobody sent anybody a letter saying
+you're outta here.  That's a flat-out lie, nothing less, and whoever
+told you (Chris) this is either misremembering or deliberately giving
+out false information.  Nor have there been any problems between the
+company and Michael.  This is claptrap, nothing less.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: UK con appearance (18 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: UK con appearance

+18 Jan 1995
      Unfortunately I don't have the info on the UK con in April in
+front of me, it's at the office.  I can remember such things for only
+about 20 minutes when my brain seizes up and flushes the info.  There
+have been inquiries about attending the Wolf 359 convention later in
+the year, but thus far I've heard nothing formal from the convention, or
+specifics on how this would be worked out.  Be assured that there will
+probably be lots of info on this other con well before the April event
+(I keep thinking it's not far from Stratford-upon-Avon...).
+ 
+	                                                      jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Londo's Spots? (18 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Londo's Spots?

+18 Jan 1995
      Insofar as I know, the spots are still there; sometimes theyre
+(they're) more visible than other times, depending on lighting.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
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Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+18 Jan 1995
      I'M FINE!  DO YOU HEAR ME!?  I'M ABSOLUTELY, BLOODY, BOLLICKY,
+BUGGERY JUST PERFECTLY AND ABSOLUTELY ****FINE!!!**** I'VE NEVER BEEN
+BETTER, I'M FINE...I'M....I'M.....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHH.......
+ 
+     ....................................................<thunk>
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Sheridan's name: Bla (18 Jan 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Sheridan's name: Bla

+18 Jan 1995
      Just coincidence in the name; he destroyed the Black Star, hence
+Starkiller.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+

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+The Hugo Awards: Opinions (2 Jan 1995)
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The Hugo Awards: Opinions

+2 Jan 1995
     Far be it from me to try and influence people's opinions.  Well, all
+right...six inches away...but I'd tend to agree on the selection of
+"Chrysalis" out of all the season one episodes to nominate.  I still tend
+to think it was the best of the batch (though "Babylon Squared" and "Signs
+and Portents" come darned close.)  Question, though: are we sure that
+"Chrysalis" falls into the eligibility period for nomination?  I know
+there's a cutoff date at some point, though it's probably the year's end,
+so we should be okay.
+
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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+Re: Outer Limits on Showtime: (18 Jan 1995)
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Re: Outer Limits on Showtime:

+18 Jan 1995
      Basically, I hated everything about the story...it was one of the
+old "three word endings" that are symptomatic of bad SF ("The killer's...
+OSWALD!"), it destroys the Kennedy image for NO reason, it's a dumb
+idea, it has no dramatic progression of any kind...it's just a dumbness.
+ 
+     I like alternative history stories as much as anybody; this one just
+was awful.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+

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+JMS: Death and Dyin <reprisal> (18 Jan 1995)
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JMS: Death and Dyin <reprisal>

+18 Jan 1995
     Re: the fate of any possible actor on the show...like I said, I've
+built in trap doors for everybody on the show with one fairly obvious
+exception.  (Viz: me.)
+ 
+     Hey, I've *read* Scherezade (though I can't spell it for squat); I
+ain't no fool.
+ 
+     As for "all this attention"...you're still talking mainly about the
+online community; the majority of the American public still doesn't know
+the show even *exists*.
+ 
+     But we're getting there.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+B5 mention in Akron Voyager Re (18 Jan 1995)
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+18 Jan 1995
     Would love a copy of the clip; can you send it to me via:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?  Much
+appreciated.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+Request: Rowan Atkinson on B5 (18 Jan 1995)
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Request: Rowan Atkinson on B5

+18 Jan 1995
     Would *love* to see Rowan do the show sometime; also Tom Baker,
+Meatloaf, Alice Cooper, John Cleese.....
+ 
+     Maybe someday.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+Episode list for winning new c (18 Jan 1995)
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Episode list for winning new c

+18 Jan 1995
      I'd omit "War Prayer" and put in "The Parliament of Dreams."
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+18 Jan 1995
      (To Jim Batka...thanks.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+Stun Settings? (18 Jan 1995)
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Stun Settings?

+18 Jan 1995
      Yes; a PPG shoots superheated helium at high velocity.  You coul,d
+(could) lower the heat on the plasma, but still kick it out at the same
+velocity, so it wouldn't do as much damage, provided it didn't hit any
+exposed skin.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Att'n JMS: Death and Dyin (18 Jan 1995)
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Re: Att'n JMS: Death and Dyin

+18 Jan 1995
      "Do we play taps now, or just space 'im?"
+ 
+      (Go ahead, laugh...my hard disk gets cremated WITH me!)
+ 
+	                                                jm<thunk>s
+
+

+
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+Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin (18 Jan 1995)
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Re: Att'n JMS:  Death and Dyin

+18 Jan 1995
     I hope to make this my last message on the subject, in hopes that this
+topic will finally...er...die off.  It's really kinda morbid when you're
+on this end of the modem.
+ 
+     Bottom line...it ain't a matter of making sure somebody gets my notes
+on the overall storyline.  If you're a painter, you can give someone your
+notes on how to finish the painting in case something happens, but it won't
+be done *exactly* the way you would want it.  So better to leave it
+unfinished, with that part which *is* finished being 100% what you wanted
+it to be, than let it be completed by others, and not necessarily as well.
+ 
+     This show has to be done exactly, a certain way, or it won't be what
+I *want* it to be.  My notes are for my own use.  Maybe that sounds selfish
+or self-indulgent.  Maybe it is.  There are lots of writers out there as
+good or better than I am.  That ain't the problem.  Give 10 writers the
+same basic parameters and you'll get 10 different stories.  This is my
+story.  And where I go, it goes.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+The Crucible: ST vs. B5 (18 Jan 1995)
+
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The Crucible: ST vs. B5

+18 Jan 1995
     Bruce's thoughts in this thread are about the most cogent analysis of
+B5 (theme and direction) I've yet seen, insofar as these elements are
+concerned.  Very precise.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS - Convention in Md/Va (1 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS - Convention in Md/Va

+1 Feb 1995
      There are no plans that I'm aware of, but some cast members may
+have plans I don't know about.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+*** The Coming Of Shadows *** (2 Feb 1995)
+
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*** The Coming Of Shadows ***

+2 Feb 1995
     Noted elsewhere: it's cool to discuss details now that it's begun
+airing, with appropriate spoiler notices.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

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+Re: "What" is jms? (14 Feb 1995)
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Re: "What" is jms?

+14 Feb 1995
     Someone over on another service suggest Joe'quan.
+ 
+     Currently in process of hunting him down.
+ 
+     "Hand me my chainsaw, mother, I'm going out to catch dinner."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Demon Night and Oth (15 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Demon Night and Oth

+15 Feb 1995
     I'd have to go back and reread either my notes, or the book, but my
+general *sense* is that the reason they didn't use explosives to close up
+the door centuries ago was that they didn't have such explosives to use.
+ 
+     Certainly not among the native american population of the time.
+ 
+     Actually, hardcover or soft, the book is out of print, and thus I
+no longer get royalties on the book.
+ 
+     There are, as you say, certain themes in my work that tend to recur,
+because I'm still trying to get a handle on them...why do we do the thigns
+(things) that we do?  What are the hairline fractures in our personalities
+that cause one person to become a Mother Theresa and another to become a
+serial killer?  What are the choices between here and there?  Basically,
+the fundamental questions of who are we, what are we doing here, why are
+we doing what we're doing, where are we going, and what shall we do when
+we get there?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: "Stribers:" am I right??? (15 Feb 1995)
+
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JMS: "Stribers:" am I right???

+15 Feb 1995
     Streibs, actually.  Just for accuracy.
+ 
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Exhibiting Babylon 5 (15 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Exhibiting Babylon 5

+15 Feb 1995
      If the showings are free, then insofar as I know, no permission
+is required.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS Vorlon shown in teas (15 Feb 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Vorlon shown in teas

+15 Feb 1995
     I have no idea what was in the teaser, but since we haven't provided
+anyone with images of Kosh absent his encounter suit, it wasn't that.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:Do you enjoy talking to us (15 Feb 1995)
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JMS:Do you enjoy talking to us

+15 Feb 1995
     I don't know enough about how these informal RPG groups function, so
+really can't comment.
+ 
+     Do I enjoy it?  For the most part, yes.  The other frustrations are
+pretty much the same ones faced by anyone else on the net; the occasional
+offhand insults or dismissals, the trolls and flames, the person who says
+"If this had been a ST episode, I would've given it a 10, but since I
+expect more from B5 I'm only giving it a 2"  rather than judging it simply
+on its own merits, the person who feels he has to find SOMETHING negative
+to say or he feels he's not participating properly....
+ 
+     I've been riding the nets for over 10 years.  So after a while, you
+come to know what to expect.  And the majority of it is nothing less than
+swell.  Whether the analysis is positive or negative, often it comes with
+thought and consideration and cogent, perceptive commentaries, and one
+can't help but learn and be impressed.
+ 
+     Most of the other folks I know who work in SF TV think I'm insane to
+be here, to this extent, every single day.  Because there's often a kind
+of love/hate relationship between SF TV people and viewers.
+ 
+     Here's an example (and please, this is NOT a case of "the author
+speaking through an imaginary third person").  This is a writer/producer
+who's worked on a number of SF series (or in one case, a contemporary
+fantasy series), who no longer works in the genre, instead seeing out work
+in non-SF/fantasy venues.  I ran into him at a local newsstand here in
+Sherman Oaks a while back, and I asked him about his decision.  This,
+though a paraphrase from memory, is what he said:
+ 
+     "The viewers drove me out of it.  I just got tired of it.  While
+some of them are okay, the majority of them are just damned ungrateful.
+You bust your ass making a show, 12-16 hours a day.  You put it out there,
+and all they ever want to do is nitpick.  They crab, they bitch, they
+moan, they pick things apart until there's nothing left.  Then when you're
+finally canceled, they scream at you asking why you're not on the air.
+Well, if you'd *supported* the show when it was on the air instead of
+bitching about it all the time, maybe it *would* be on the air.  In two
+years on [insert name of a high-visibilty police-type series] I haven't
+had any of that.  Same with the other non-SF shows I've done.  They turn
+on the show, and either they like it, or they don't like it, they don't
+tear it to shreds in front of your eyes, call you names, insult you or
+bitch at you.  [Name and Name] feel the same way about it that I do, and
+they're looking to get off [series name] for the same reason.  They're
+just going crazy with it.  It's got nothing to do with not wanting to
+hear negative opinions, just the way they do it."
+ 
+     Now, obviously, I have some very real disagreements with some of the
+sentiments expressed here.  Part of it, I think, is that I do come out of
+the world of being a fan, and I think I better understand the situation,
+that it comes out of being invovled with a show and the ideas behind it
+in a very visceral fashion.  Also, I think that if you're not on the nets
+or out among the fans regularly, all you'll here ARE the negative things,
+because those are the ones who tend to write...those who're pissed off.
+People who like a show don't often write in to say so.  But on the nets,
+or at conventions, you're more apt to encounter them.  Absent that, it's
+easy to see how someone might come away with the notion that it's all
+just negative.
+ 
+     Are there, from time to time, unfair or ill-considered criticisms of
+this or any other show?  Of course there are.  That goes with the
+territory.  Are they disproportionately outweighed by the thoughtful and
+insightful criticisms?  Definitely.  As for how you're treated...I feel
+that if you treat fans with respect, they will treat you with respect, and
+as a consequence, while there have been some occasional hiccups here and
+there, I'd have to say that yes, I do enjoy the exchange, it is both
+entertaining and rewarding, and I'm happy to continue it.
+ 
+     Even if some of my associates *do* think I'm nuts.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Dou you read non-ATT (18 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Dou you read non-ATT

+18 Feb 1995
     Because I get so much mail, I scan first for ATT:JMS messages that
+are first-timers; when I've gone through those, I then try to make time
+for initial replies from others to that starter-thread.  After a thread
+has been around for a while, I often phase out in order to deal with the
+new ones that need replies.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Question: What did Delenn ask (18 Feb 1995)
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Question: What did Delenn ask

+18 Feb 1995
     Delenn's question to Kosh in "Chrysalis" was never stated, but it
+will be revealed before this season is out.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS: "We" versus "I" (AAitN Sp (18 Feb 1995)
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JMS: "We" versus "I" (AAitN Sp

+18 Feb 1995
     Re: we/I...yes, it's interesting, isn't it?  You'd almost think it
+was contradictory or something.
+ 
+     You may tell your friend that the city hit in "CoS" was CGI, not
+a model.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+JMS : Revelations CGI question (18 Feb 1995)
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JMS : Revelations CGI question

+18 Feb 1995
     Correct; the Narn bridge is CGI.  Re: the explosion...we shot a
+lot of live pyrotechnics for Ron's use; but don't recall offhand which
+was used here, live or CGI.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+The Coming Of Shadows - **SPOI (2 Feb 1995)
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The Coming Of Shadows - **SPOI

+2 Feb 1995
     Re: the name Rangers...hey, when you grow up watching The Lone
+Ranger, and spend lots of time researching the Texas Rangers when you
+work (briefly) on Walker...certain names spring unbidden.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+B5's story structure (was an i (18 Feb 1995)
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+18 Feb 1995
     Another comparison somebody made about B5 recently was to Bradbury's
+Martian Chronicles books; independent, but they add up at the end.
+ 
+     To follow up on your (Dianne's) other point...yes, from time to time,
+as we push ourselves to the limit, we're going to crash and burn.  That's
+part of the risk if you really want to try and do something different.  We
+push the envelope...and sometimes get a papercut.  I had, for instance,
+MUCH more in mind for the EFX in the final confrontation in "The Long
+Dark."  But we were, alas, about this > < much ahead of the technology to
+pull off what I wanted.
+ 
+     The pattern is, write an episode that goes a little further than the
+last time.  See if you can do it.  Find which aspects of that worked, and
+push it *again*.  If we can do a stationary base and mine field with one
+batch of ships in "Midnight," can we do a larger base and *two* competing
+groups of ships (three if you count the shadows and centauri) in "Coming
+of Shadows")?
+ 
+     As Paul Bryant says at Foundation, we try to ride the bleeding edge
+of storytelling and technology.  Or to quote an old SAS pin I own, "Who
+Dares, Wins."
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  A User Plugs B5 (18 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  A User Plugs B5

+18 Feb 1995
     Many thanks; your efforts are very much appreciated.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+B5 on Cover of April '95 Starl (18 Feb 1995)
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B5 on Cover of April '95 Starl

+18 Feb 1995
     Yeah, I'd heard about the cover.  I know that the editor there swore
+to all and sundry that he would *never* give a cover story to B5, but it
+appears the requests from viewers became so much, and their deliberate
+omission so obvious, that something had to be done.  (I no longer
+cooperate with any interviews for them, though I can't by all rights ask
+my cast to do the same.  Whenever I give interviews for other magazines
+where the writer also works for Starlog, I specifically request that it
+not be used there.)
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+haunting images.... (18 Feb 1995)
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haunting images....

+18 Feb 1995
     For what it's worth, I have the same situation...images from the
+various episodes stay with me long after they should go.  We've worked
+hard to create a sense of, "Here's some extrapolation, one possible
+future" and keep it as rigorous as possible.  It *is* a very weird
+feeling at times.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Tractor beams?! TRACTOR B (19 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Tractor beams?! TRACTOR B

+19 Feb 1995
     It has never been stated that other worlds or species or
+civilizations don't have the technology to use gravity, magnetic or other
+forces to move objects.  It was used in "Sky Full of Stars" when the
+Minbari cruiser pulled in Sinclair's ship.  *We* don't have that tech
+yet, and must work around it, but a few others do.  As with the other
+note I left on another topic, I don't see the problem here.  This seems
+perfectly within the realm of probability for any reasonably advanced
+species; it's just that we haven't reached that point yet.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Glad to see charact (19 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Glad to see charact

+19 Feb 1995
     By the way, in addition to the re-appearance of Neroon, you may
+have noticed that the first Grey Council member Delenn addresses is the
+same one we saw in "Points of Departure."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+'All Alone in the Dark' used a (19 Feb 1995)
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'All Alone in the Dark' used a

+19 Feb 1995
     Sheridan and the other fighters flew at a slight angle right past
+the window in C&C.  I don't see where the problem is in this.  The window
+wasn't used as a monitor, it was used as a window.  The starfuries came
+out of the cobra bays as the station rotated them planet-side, they banked,
+and headed toward the gate, passing C&C.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+Coverage in STARLOG (19 Feb 1995)
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Coverage in STARLOG

+19 Feb 1995
     Clarifications and elaborations upon your note.
+ 
+     I wasn't addressing articles "on spec," which I know they don't much
+buy over there.  But there are many, many article writers who use the
+same interview for different magazines, sometimes avoiding competing
+marketplaces, sometimes in different countries.  There are some writers
+working out of the UK who interview me, and the material ends up in
+Starburst or TV Zone or other magazines there.  A writer may be on an
+assignment from Sci-Fi Universe or Cinefantastique, and may also write
+for Starlog.  My request to those writers is that you can use any interview
+with me for any of those publications except Starlog.
+ 
+     While I know that Starlog has, from time to time, done articles on
+other shows, or the rare insightful piece, it remains almost primarily a
+Star Trek/Paramount flack.  At the moment, I'm holding the current issue
+in my hands.  It has *18 pages* of Star Trek related ads; Patrick Stewart
+wall plaques; Patrick Stewart Photo Book; Star Trek Collector's Chess Set;
+Deep Space Nine Magazine; Star Trek mouse pads; Picard figures; Seatrek
+95; Cruise Trek; Star Trek pins; Star Trek conventions; Star Trek
+soundtracks; Brent Spiner records; TNG magazine; TNG holographic t-shirts;
+Star Trek posters; more Star Trek t-shirts; Star Trek Collector's
+Portfolio; Star Trek blueprints; more Star Trek posters; the Voyager
+magazine...all this in just ONE issue.
+ 
+     Is there anything WRONG with any of this?  Absolutely not.  But it
+does tell us a little about what they are.  And what they're not.
+ 
+     STARLOG is not a magazine covering the science fiction media scene.
+It is a Paramount/Star Trek flack publication that INCLUDES some limited
+coverage of other stuff, at its whim.  Other series come on the air, and
+the attitude is "Well, let's see what happens after they've been on the
+air for a long time before we give them any coverage."  VOYAGER is
+announced and the coverage is almost ORGASMIC...cover stories, one feature
+article after another after another, in many cases before the show even
+hits the airwaves.
+ 
+     But that's different, because that's the company that buys 80% o
+their advertising space.  Which, again, is fine...just don't pretend to be
+something other, because the editorial policy follows the line of the
+money for the ads.  Which isn't immoral, it simply is.  STARLOG has no
+motivation to be responsible, or even-handed, or even accurate, when it
+comes to covering non-Star Trek shows; it doesn't have to since the bulk
+of its money comes from Star Trek and Paramount.  So it can operate under
+the whim, or pique, of its editors more so than a more general-interest SF
+magazine.
+ 
+     I stopped cooperating with Starlog because I got tired of their
+inaccuracies in interviews I participated in, tired of screwed up credits
+and pictures; especially tired of cheap-shot articles that bitched about
+how the last Twilight Zone series was being done so that MGM would have
+enough to syndicate so they wouldn't lose their shirts, totally eliminating
+the possibility that the stories told there could have ANY merit when
+the financing was for profit (like Star Trek is being made by Paramount
+out of their concern for the commonweal and to cure cancer)...tired of the
+obvious editorial bias.  I received direct word from Starlog reporters that
+there would never be a B5 cover because of the editor's pique, obviously
+hoping that if such was withheld, maybe the show would die and the problem
+would be obviated.  Well, we didn't go away, and now the pressure and the
+obviousness of their omission has forced them into doing a B5 cover.
+ 
+     I'm sorry, but I've worked as a journalist for publications like the
+Los Angeles Times, TIME Incorporated, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and
+I've *seen* how editors should run their bureaus.  STARLOG ain't run that
+way.  It is, purely and simply, a Star Trek magazine with pretensions of
+being something other.  Now, if all you want really is Star Trek coverage,
+and maybe to keep informed of other stuff...that's nothing less than
+spiffy.  But please don't try to convince me of anything else, because it
+simply ain't so.  And the conflict of interest is so thick you could cut
+it with a spoon; they know they can't piss off Paramount because if
+Paramount pulled their ads on Monday, on Tuesday STARLOG would be out of
+business, as opposed to magazines that may have a more general, and thus
+less controlling, slate of advertisers.
+ 
+     After my last communication with STARLOG, I'd nominally decided to
+withhold ALL cooperation with the magazine, including my cast, directors,
+everyone.  Subsequently, I realized that this would be unfair to those
+people, who deserve some recognition for their work and publicity for
+their careers.  Unlike STARLOG's editors, I don't impose my personal
+pique upon my work situation.  I will withhold any personal interviews,
+however.  Which probably suits them just fine anyway.
+ 
+     So in the end...everyone's happy.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Some de-briefing!  --AAINT Spo (19 Feb 1995)
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Some de-briefing!  --AAINT Spo

+19 Feb 1995
     If you trust Sheridan, there's no need for a lengthy report; plus,
+a written report, no matter how well encrypted, can be broken or fall into
+the wrong hands.  The best record of a secret meeting that could get you
+fired or killed is no record at ALL.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Acts of Sacrifice SP (20 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Acts of Sacrifice SP

+20 Feb 1995
     As it happens, I made it a point to be on-set the day we shot what we
+ended up calling "the Ivanova dance."  Wanted to make sure it was done
+correctly.  We only had to shoot it about three times, only in the master,
+no coverage.  The crew was absolutely breathless after the first take,
+from keeping from laughing.  It was very funny.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+JMS Shadows: Almost a 10! (4 Feb 1995)
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JMS Shadows: Almost a 10!

+4 Feb 1995
     Sinclair didn't send the same letter.  Same greeting, to keep the
+recipient secret.
+ 
+     Only the Ranger knew who got what.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Saw "B5" Promo at WB Studio St (21 Feb 1995)
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Saw "B5" Promo at WB Studio St

+21 Feb 1995
     Really?  They're running promos?  That's very cool.....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Your Family (21 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Your Family

+21 Feb 1995
     There's fairly little I'd want to say about my family on this forum
+(or any).  Not in something that'll be archived.  Suffice to say that it
+wasn't terrific; we probably could've been a poster family for
+Dysfunctional Post-Nuclear Families.  The question's fine, but this is
+something that I'll talk about at cons, or in person, but not on-line.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+

+
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+ATT JMS:Changed story on GoS (21 Feb 1995)
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ATT JMS:Changed story on GoS

+21 Feb 1995
     Mainly it was written with Ivanova solving her problem on her own,
+without Garibaldi being there.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+ATT JMS: From Worst to First! (21 Feb 1995)
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ATT JMS: From Worst to First!

+21 Feb 1995
     Well, that's welcome news, and I look forward to their next report.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Whose dream? (no spoilers) (22 Feb 1995)
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Whose dream? (no spoilers)

+22 Feb 1995
     And of course there's the story of the man who dreamed he was a
+butterfly, and when he awoke, wondered if he was actually a human
+who dreamed he had been a butterfly, or a butterfly who was dreaming he
+was a human....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+All Alone in the Night - Anayl (23 Feb 1995)
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All Alone in the Night - Anayl

+23 Feb 1995
      Ejecting would not have purchased Ramirez's life because when the
+system came back on line with its analysis, it announced that the
+radiation was "already at terminal levels."  From the instant he heard
+that, he was a dead man waiting to stop moving.  He could've sent the
+ship back, risking a faulty autopilot...and might've died for nothing if
+it encountered the *slightest* glitch en route.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Thoughts on Sheriden's Dream ( (23 Feb 1995)
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Thoughts on Sheriden's Dream (

+23 Feb 1995
     Without commenting much on the rest of this message, there is an
+element of what you say in Sheridan's look up to see himself in the
+dream.  In a way, there are several Sheridans in that dream, signifying
+changes currently in the works, changes yet to come, messages
+forthcoming or unrecognized.  It's a very reflective dream, which will
+grow clearer the deeper one gets into the show.
+ 
+     Certainly there are some archetypes that always creep into a work
+of this sort; for all we all not Jung at heart...?
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+Question About Acts of Sacrifi (23 Feb 1995)
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Question About Acts of Sacrifi

+23 Feb 1995
     Nope; the Lumati aren't the same species as Zathras.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Your Family (23 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Your Family

+23 Feb 1995
     Will not be at NasFic; will try to be at Worldcon, duties permitting.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS; Repeat quote please. (23 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS; Repeat quote please.

+23 Feb 1995
     Alas, I don't recall specifically what I wrote; but I'm sure it
+ in ONE of the archives.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Ultraviolet Clearanc (4 Feb 1995)
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Attn JMS: Ultraviolet Clearanc

+4 Feb 1995
     Ultraviolet Clearance is a term that I think either Larry or I
+started using a long time ago on other projects.  Insofar as I recall,
+it has nothing to do with Paranoia.  We just got tired of seeing Red
+Alert, and figured, okay, what's above red in the spectrum?
+ 
+`                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS  Stop it! Stop it! S (23 Feb 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  Stop it! Stop it! S

+23 Feb 1995
      "When I look in my coffee cup at 3 a.m....I see a brilliant but
+EVIL author at his computer."
+ 
+      Hmmm....it's only 2:37 a.m. as I read this...so clearly this must
+be referring to someone other than me.
+ 
+      "Behind him, tentacles are waving in the shadows."
+ 
+      Yes, definitely someone elAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Bravo on the Ramirez Sequ (23 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Bravo on the Ramirez Sequ

+23 Feb 1995
     One of the themes in this show is how you face life...and how you
+face death.  Ramirez faced his honorably.  In the end, honor and dignity
+are all we have left.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Acts of Sacrifice <SPOILER (23 Feb 1995)
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Re: Acts of Sacrifice <SPOILER

+23 Feb 1995
      Actually, not to split hairs, the idea of sex sealing deals goes
+back a heck of a lot longer than Larry Niven.  It's been part of treaty
+signing and stuff going back to ancient Egypt, other parts of the middle
+east, even parts of medeival europe.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Earthforce oath? (23 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Earthforce oath?

+23 Feb 1995
      The Earthforce Oath: "Wow, look at all those ships, there must be
+THOUSANDS of them coming this wa
+
+

+
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+JMS: Acts of Sacrifice (OW! TH (23 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Acts of Sacrifice (OW! TH

+23 Feb 1995
      The greatest accomplishment a writer can attain is to make his
+reader or viewer feel the pain he feels from his characters, and the joy,
+and all the other emotions.  If they were painful to watch, they were
+painful to write.  So I guess this writing stuff may work out.
+ 
+     (And if you think THIS is an emotional roller coaster, wait a bit.)
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATT JMS:Can We See More on Non (23 Feb 1995)
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ATT JMS:Can We See More on Non

+23 Feb 1995
     I think you'll see a lot more of one of our non-aligned worlds, the
+Marcab, very shortly.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  USENET in credits? (23 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  USENET in credits?

+23 Feb 1995
     Unfortunately there are strict rules on what can and can't be
+included in credits; this ain't one of them.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Attn: JMS :  Newsweek blurb (23 Feb 1995)
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Attn: JMS :  Newsweek blurb

+23 Feb 1995
     Yeah, well, this and two bucks will get me a cup of coffee at the
+Fame is Fleeting Cafe.
+ 
+     "Rome Eternal, High and Palmy
+     Home of Caesar and Salami
+     Power fades and glory tumbles
+     At'sa the way the pizza crumbles."   --  Victor Buono
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Warner / Pictures (24 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Warner / Pictures

+24 Feb 1995
      A coffeetable book is a great idea, which we've discussed, but have
+had no bites yet.  As for the publicity...with luck, we may get a bit more
+soon (having carried on a bit about it).
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Babylon 5 - A Homeric Tale (24 Feb 1995)
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Babylon 5 - A Homeric Tale

+24 Feb 1995
     As someone who has a great fondness for Homer's work, I think you
+have just paid me the highest compliment conceivable.  Thank you.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Londo's Dream <TCoS SPOILE (4 Feb 1995)
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Re: Londo's Dream <TCoS SPOILE

+4 Feb 1995
     Actually, G'Kar has seen a shadow fighter, not a shadow cruiser; no
+one who sees one of those tends to survive the experience.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Lumati- Did You all forget?! (24 Feb 1995)
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Lumati- Did You all forget?!

+24 Feb 1995
     Zathras is not part of the Lumati species.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+

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+JMS:  "AoS" and Life on the B5 (24 Feb 1995)
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JMS:  "AoS" and Life on the B5

+24 Feb 1995
     Suffice to say just about everyone thought the scene was a hoot,and
+everyone wanted to be there when it was done.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Please confirm what (24 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Please confirm what

+24 Feb 1995
     It was a dove, yes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+

+
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+Attn: JMS - AoS Emotional (24 Feb 1995)
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Attn: JMS - AoS Emotional

+24 Feb 1995
     Thanks.  For me, emotions are the *point* of drama, to elicit some
+feeling from the audience; or what's the point?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: character writing (24 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: character writing

+24 Feb 1995
     Without mistake, I do draw upon a lot of my own background and
+personality and experiences in relationships and other areas for my
+work; it's hard, sometimes, because you've dealt with something in your
+heart and nominally closed it...then you not only open it up, and write
+it down, you watch other actors doing it.  Certain parts of the Sakai -
+Sheridan axis, particularly their first meeting, and throughout that
+episode, are almost verbatim.
+ 
+     I don't think that using it in any way invalidates it for future use;
+by exploring it once, you learn something about your feelings that you
+may not have known before.  With time, and age, and experience, and
+reflection, events take on different perspectives.  It's like the
+difference in writing about your parents when you're 16 vs. when you're
+50.  Same subject, different perspective.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Babylon 5 Fans (25 Feb 1995)
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+
Re: Babylon 5 Fans

+25 Feb 1995
     I will only say that I was as surprised by those fans as anyone
+else (I was in editing all day when that was shot).
+ 
+     Well, we're always saying around here, the more fans the better....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B% them used in ST:TNG/Taco Be (25 Feb 1995)
+
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+
B% them used in ST:TNG/Taco Be

+25 Feb 1995
      Is there any way you could get me a copy of that commercial, at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?  Would be
+much appreciated.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: Lafayette Escadrille (25 Feb 1995)
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Attn JMS: Lafayette Escadrille

+25 Feb 1995
     Re: the Flying Tigers...I don't know if anyone noticed it, but
+the symbol on Sheridan's helmet is the Flying Tigers symbol, used by
+permission.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: When will we understand t (25 Feb 1995)
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JMS: When will we understand t

+25 Feb 1995
     You'll see at least one piece of Sheridan's vision decoded before
+season's end.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS: Bravo on the Ramirez (25 Feb 1995)
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Re: JMS: Bravo on the Ramirez

+25 Feb 1995
     "There needs to be some with god, or else what you build your life on
+will collapse."
+ 
+     Nope.  Start with many of the Founding Fathers, many of whom were
+deists or freethinkers or non-believers.  Go back to pre-christianity, to
+the great works of literature and art and architecture that survive to
+this day.  You cannot stand in the shadow of the Pyramids, or in the
+massive burial mound in New Grange (the oldest standing structure on the
+planet, pre-bronze age), and not feel awe and respect for what has been
+done.
+ 
+     (Nuts, I left out the word "relationship" in the first sentence,
+after "some."  Pretend you read it there.)
+ 
+     Lots of people pretend to, or offer lip service to, or may even in
+their view have "some relationship with god."  But not damned nearly
+enough of them have some relationship with the suffering of their fellow
+human beings.  There was our good old buddy James Watt, who said that we
+don't need to preserve the forests because soon Christ will return and
+eliminate the problem.
+ 
+     Understand clearly and do not misrepresent in any reply: I have NO
+problem whatsoever with believers of any stripe.  My problem emerges when
+someone tells me that if I don't think as they do, my life is without
+meaning or foundation.  No one is entitled to make that determination but
+me.
+ 
+     I'm an atheist.  Straight up.  I believe in the stubborn nobility of
+the human being singular, the dignity and grace of our art and our
+intellect and our heart.  I believe that a race which can write a sonnet,
+split the atom, and walk on the moon has *nothing* to apologize for.
+I believe that because we are only here for the duration of our life, and
+that there is nothing after, that therefore *each* life is as precious
+and valuable a resource as diamonds, and far rarer.  The Mona Lisa is of
+note because there's only one.  There is only one of each of us.  To quote
+from Lost Horizon, I believe there can be no greater or nobler creed than
+the simplicity of, "Be *kind* to one another."  I believe that we are
+stewards of our planet and brothers and sisters to the entirety of its
+population.  I believe in the power of common men and women who, despite
+pain and loss and overwhelming odds, can come together in common cause
+and walk together into the future.  I look to World War II, where ordinary
+people, starting out outgunned and unprepared for war and hit by
+depression and surprise attack, shrugged off their coats, straightened
+their spines, and walked off to beat the mightiest military force the
+world had ever known; David facing a black-uniformed Goliath that stood
+astride the planet on legs of fire and steel.  *That's* what we can do
+when we make up our minds to do it.
+ 
+     As Delenn said, we are better than we think and nobler than we
+know, and at the end of the day, when we face that black, implacable
+wall of death, for my money what matters is being able to look back at
+one's life the way one looks at the end of a long day; did we fight our
+own battles, were we as kind as we could be, did we move the future a
+little closer, did we uplift and ennoble and enrich?
+ 
+     It says in the Bible, "no greater love hath a man than that he lay
+down his life for his brother."  In the case of Ramirez, or the crew of
+the Narn cruiser in "Acts of Sacrifice," it's true regardless of whether
+the person is an atheist or an alien race.
+ 
+     Your question is framed around the premise of "who serves god?" but
+my concern is "who serves humanity?"  One may be a monk and remain in
+a monestary, and speak once in a dozen years, and serve god through the
+daily effort and daily prayers that are the beginning and end of his
+days.  One may be an atheist who gives to charity, helps build homes for
+the homeless, and helps his fellows where possible.  The former serves
+only himself; the latter serves humanity.  Both may approach their bed
+at night with a clear conscience within the dictates of their beliefs.
+(And yes, obviously those are two extreme examples, I'm not trying to
+describe one camp or the other in such all-encompassing terms.)
+ 
+     That which I choose to build my life upon will not "collapse"
+because it has met the criteria I set for it.  I've told my stories,
+touched other people; daily I receive letters from people who say that
+my show has inspired them to begin careers in the sciences, or helped
+them to deal with the death of a parent, or were moved by the sacrifices
+portrayed in this show to give a little of themselves and switch to major
+in social sciences or social work, or to become involved in charities.
+The good work of this series will continue long after I am gone, and that
+cannot be taken away, cannot collapse.  It is already done.
+ 
+     And in the end, yes, all we have is the question of whether we go
+with dignity and honor, knowing that we have lived our lives with passoin
+(passion) and compassion in equal measure.  For me, that knowledge is
+enough to sustain me when the game is finally called on account of
+darkness.
+ 
+     You do not have to believe as I do.  I do not consider your choice
+a vain or foolish one, or attempt to invalidate it, or suggest that it
+will collapse of its own weight.  All I ask is the same in response.
+ 
+     Do not consider this a flame, for it is not meant as such; only as
+a most...vigorous response.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+CoS - Sherridan's bluff  - (sp (4 Feb 1995)
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CoS - Sherridan's bluff  - (sp

+4 Feb 1995
     Londo would *never* send the shadows against Earth, at least not at
+this time.  That would galvanize everybody against the Centauri, while
+G'Kar will have a very hard time getting any support since they've pissed
+off so many people and burned so many bridges.  And remember, bluffs work
+when the other person's more scared of what you might be doing than what
+he thinks he can do in response.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+jms: Ivonova's Mating Habits.. (26 Feb 1995)
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jms: Ivonova's Mating Habits..

+26 Feb 1995
     Thanks.  We only shot 3 takes of that scene.  She nailed it.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+Help!  What's The Sanctuary? (26 Feb 1995)
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Help!  What's The Sanctuary?

+26 Feb 1995
     The Sanctuary is where Sheridan and the Emperor had their lengthy
+conversation; it's *all* a virtual set except the floor.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Ivanonva's Age ? (26 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Ivanonva's Age ?

+26 Feb 1995
     I'd say Ivanova is in her mid-thirties, thereabouts.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

+
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+Attn JMS: Season Two Architect (27 Feb 1995)
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Attn JMS: Season Two Architect

+27 Feb 1995
     My sense is that B5 is constantly being fixed, and improved, and made
+more liveable, so there will be changes in quarters, new areas opening up,
+and the like (which covers Earhart's).  Though if we ever have a B5 Grand
+Opening for a Wall-Mart, I'm leaving....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+
+1994 Hugo Nominations (27 Feb 1995)
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+
1994 Hugo Nominations

+27 Feb 1995
     Reminder to everyone...the more nominations are spread around between
+lots of different episodes, the less the chance of any one of them getting
+nominated or winning the thing.  If this is really something y'all want to,
+do...think hard.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN:JMS: terrific writing & a (27 Feb 1995)
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ATTN:JMS: terrific writing & a

+27 Feb 1995
     Thanks, and I will convey your good wishes to Mira.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+I find it strange that (27 Feb 1995)
+
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+27 Feb 1995
     Re: sneakers or the equivilent...this is a good point, and may need to
+be addressed.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
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+ATTN: JMS  -  Sinclair & Billi (4 Feb 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  -  Sinclair & Billi

+4 Feb 1995
     Description of the credit given in the show is determined under SAG
+rules by amount of screen-time/dialogue.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: TCoS direction (quasi-spo (4 Feb 1995)
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JMS: TCoS direction (quasi-spo

+4 Feb 1995
     The emperor falling scene, as with those around it, were shot as
+written, down to the slow-motion notation, the close on his head hitting
+the floor, the women clutching one another...all in the script.  But it
+takes someone as skilled as Janet to take what somebody else might screw
+up and elevate it into something truly nifty.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Best lines from The Coming of (4 Feb 1995)
+
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Best lines from The Coming of

+4 Feb 1995
     You left out my favorite quote from the show, from the Emperor:  "The
+past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us...and
+our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible
+in-between."
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Mistake on COS (4 Feb 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Mistake on COS

+4 Feb 1995
      The Narn just brushed past them, and would not have heard what they
+were saying.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: B5 & E2 in "Sci Fi Univers (1 Feb 1995)
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Re: B5 & E2 in "Sci Fi Univers

+1 Feb 1995
     Here's a great example of how critics don't have a clue about the
+genre or its roots, or what springs from what.  There's a review in
+today's Daily Variety (Tuesday) of John Carpenter's new film "In the Mouth
+of Madness," which on every level is an H. P. Lovecraft pastiche, from
+the structure, the characters, the locales, the names, everything.  So
+what does the reviewer call it 3-4 times?  A tribute to Stephen King.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN:JMS Alien Ships don't (4 Feb 1995)
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Re: ATTN:JMS Alien Ships don't

+4 Feb 1995
     The Hyperion definitely did NOT have artificial gravity; the captain
+was strapped in at all times.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Re: THE COMING OF SHADOWS -- * (4 Feb 1995)
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Re: THE COMING OF SHADOWS -- *

+4 Feb 1995
     "What was with G'Kar's left eye?"
+ 
+     Plucked out.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS CoShadows Question. (4 Feb 1995)
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ATTN: JMS CoShadows Question.

+4 Feb 1995
     The centauri veiled telepaths are mainly wired into one another.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+Damn you, jms, DAAAMMMNNN YYYO (4 Feb 1995)
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Damn you, jms, DAAAMMMNNN YYYO

+4 Feb 1995
     "DAAAMMMMMNNNN YYYOOOOUUUUUUU!"
+ 
+     It is a small price to pay for immortality.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Mistake on COS (4 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Mistake on COS

+4 Feb 1995
     The Narn was just passing quickly through scene, in a hurry, and
+couldn't have heard what Londo and Refa were quietly discussing.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Distribution Q's (4 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Distribution Q's

+4 Feb 1995
     The local station situation is beyond my comprehension, alas.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+B5 CD (4 Feb 1995)
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B5 CD

+4 Feb 1995
     I've now hear the 4th suite in the B5 CD, the new one that will be
+added to the general release CD.  Just gorgous.  Christopher asked which
+pieces I'd like included, and there's the Garibaldi-cralwing-to-the-tube
+music from "Chrysalis," the killing-zone music from "Signs," and some
+other just gorgeous stuff.  I think it adds something like 10-12 minutes
+to the CD.  I figure it'll probably be set to go out by the end of the
+month or shortly thereafter.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: When do you consider (4 Feb 1995)
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Attn JMS: When do you consider

+4 Feb 1995
     I don't think I ever can quite view an episode as complete; I always
+can think of one thing or another that could've been done.  And sometimes
+even the broadcast version isn't the end.  In occasional episodes there
+have been small, but noticeable (to me, anyway) CGI glitches which, even
+though we've seen the footage a zillion times, we don't see until the day
+it airs.  And when possible I ask that the scene be re-rendered, dropped
+into the master, and re-satellited.  We've altered the main title about
+five times since episode one, just trying to make it look or sound
+better.
+ 
+     When eventually we do the transfers to tape and laserdisk, I'll
+probably go in there and futz around some more...little things that very
+likely nobody will ever notice, but to me they're important.
+ 
+     Someone once said, "No work of art is ever finished, only
+abandoned."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: background video glitch i (4 Feb 1995)
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JMS: background video glitch i

+4 Feb 1995
     The Stellarcom logo cycles through; it comes up and down to meet in
+the middle, holds for a while, and then vanishes to starfield...then comes
+in again.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Why Are Shadows Still a Secret (4 Feb 1995)
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Why Are Shadows Still a Secret

+4 Feb 1995
     "Why might the Minbari not be spreading the word?"
+ 
+     A very good question, that will be answered within the next nine
+episodes (that should be broad enough).  Suffice to say there is a very
+logical, and very obvious reason.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: B5 Q's (1 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: B5 Q's

+1 Feb 1995
     I'm generally trying to avoid pets; they get in the way of the story.
+ 
+     The dead are either buried in space, or if their family can afford
+it, sent home.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Julian May's Contribution (4 Feb 1995)
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Julian May's Contribution

+4 Feb 1995
     Julian May is not involved with B5, and I'm embarrassed to say that
+I've never read any of his work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Centauri hanshake (5 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Centauri hanshake

+5 Feb 1995
     Because to some extent the roman civilization is one of the sources
+for constructing the Centauri, I adapted their handshake (checking for
+knives) as their greeting; "I offer the hands of friendship."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 CD (5 Feb 1995)
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Re: B5 CD

+5 Feb 1995
     Re: typos...sometimes the carpal tunnel gets worse than at other
+times, and the thought of going back and retyping sentences to correct
+typos is just too much.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+

+
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+JMS: Thank you!!!!! (5 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Thank you!!!!!

+5 Feb 1995
     No, thank *you* for being there for us.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
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+

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+Re: "Is Babylon 5 that good?". (5 Feb 1995)
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Re: "Is Babylon 5 that good?".

+5 Feb 1995
     The hard part is getting fans of ST to step back and look objectively
+at the show, and realize that AS fans of ST, they should allow it its
+chance.  ST began as one person's original vision, which is now in its
+third distillation of that original vision.  B5 is an original vision, the
+first since ST to try something on this scale.
+ 
+     And there are many parallels between the histories of the two shows.
+ 
+     B5 and ST both had to overcome vehement fans and critics who much
+preferred a prior SF show (ST and Lost in Space, respectively).
+ 
+     B5 and ST both worked for a long time to get on the air, and both
+ended up in making casting changes in the commanding officer and the
+first officer.  (Kirk followed Pike, and Spock followed Number One, as
+Sheridan followed Sinclair, and Ivanova followed Takashima.)
+ 
+     B5 and ST were primarily the product of one person's vision and
+creative control.
+ 
+     B5 and ST both extrapolated the future of Earth and space travel using
+the best contemporary science, both created whole species and set up
+vast interplanetary politics and languages.
+ 
+     I just have this hunch that a number of "screw-B5" ST fans are going
+to end up in a few years like the "screw-Star Trek" Lost in Space fans
+who thought ST was crap trying to steal LiS's audience and place in the
+TV landscape.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+JMS: The Transparency of Shado (5 Feb 1995)
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JMS: The Transparency of Shado

+5 Feb 1995
     In "Chrysalis," they are distortions visible in the air when they
+wish to be...and not when they don't.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+JMS: GROPOS: all CGI??(spoiler (6 Feb 1995)
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JMS: GROPOS: all CGI??(spoiler

+6 Feb 1995
     Can I comment on this later?
+ 
+                                                          jms
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+

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+How many comparisons between B (6 Feb 1995)
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How many comparisons between B

+6 Feb 1995
     P.S.   Any attempt to make this story track along LoTR is going to
+fall pretty fast.  Every so often, people try to attach a template to the
+story...it's tracking the history of old Babylon (it is, somewhat), it's
+based on the Kennedy/Vietnam parallel, it's LoTR, it's Dune, it's
+Foundation, it's Childhood's End...truth is it ain't ANY of them.  And I
+wouldn't spend a grand total of 10 years of my life getting, and making
+this show just to do LoTR with the serial numbers filed off.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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How many comparisons between B

+6 Feb 1995
     Some stations still haven't adjusted the audio channel feeds on the
+satellite downlink; you may want to notify your station if the audio
+problems continue.  (The downlink was changed a couple weeks ago.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+acting - plots - etc (6 Feb 1995)
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acting - plots - etc

+6 Feb 1995
     Gabriel: have read your analysis of the characters and dynamics on
+this show, message headed above.
+ 
+     Marry me.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+Attn JMS: Religion in B5 Qusti (1 Feb 1995)
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Attn JMS: Religion in B5 Qusti

+1 Feb 1995
     "Why did you choose to make religion a part of B5 when all othert
+science fiction shows avoid it?"
+ 
+     Well, there's one good answer right there.
+ 
+     Second answer: why not?
+ 
+     Third answer: if one is honest as a writer, then even an atheist
+such as myself must acknowledge that it'll be around in 250 years.  It
+hasn't vanished in the last 6,000 years after all.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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+Coming of Shadows *SPOILERS* (6 Feb 1995)
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Coming of Shadows *SPOILERS*

+6 Feb 1995
     Your feelings about the war starting are exactly what they should be,
+and what I wanted to achieve with "Shadows."  In SF TV, very often, as
+you state, it's "Yeah, let's get a war on!  Blow stuff up!"  But to hear
+of a *real* war...it's very, very sobering.  When we hear that Gulf troops
+were being sent into the Mideast, when we heard of soviet troops sent into
+Prague...your heart stops for a moment.  When Kennedy put American ships in
+a Cuban blockade and the world held its breath...THAT is what it feels like
+to step into possible or real war.  All you can think of is, "How the HELL
+did we get into this, and how the hell do we get OUT of it?"  And that was
+at the emotional core of "Shadows."
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+The Coming of Spoilers (Season (6 Feb 1995)
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The Coming of Spoilers (Season

+6 Feb 1995
     Michael: you may want to check your original posting here; several
+sections seemed to have dropped out altogether.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Londo's Dream <TCoS SPOILE (6 Feb 1995)
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Re: Londo's Dream <TCoS SPOILE

+6 Feb 1995
     As it happens, the Royal Theme is on the new section Chris just
+finished for the final suite of the B5 cd.  I've listened to it, and
+it's *quite* nice indeed.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: TCoS Costuming ? (6 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: TCoS Costuming ?

+6 Feb 1995
     The broach worn by the Rangers was designed by me and Ann Bruice,
+our costumer.  I sketched (dopily and badly) what I had in mind, which
+was a stylized human and minbari on either side of a gemstone, both wokred
+(worked) into the same metal, and holding the gemstone.
+ 
+     She then took this drawing that looked like it had been drawn by a
+drunk five year old and translated it into a striking piece.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: A question... (SPOILERS f (6 Feb 1995)
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JMS: A question... (SPOILERS f

+6 Feb 1995
     "How are you going to top this?  And when?"
+ 
+     I think there are several coming episodes that in segments go past
+"Shadows," though I'm not sure if they'll have the same cumulative effect
+- so much HAPPENS in this one....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: I think there'll be a rio (6 Feb 1995)
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JMS: I think there'll be a rio

+6 Feb 1995
     This is very upsetting; they knew ages ago that I wouldn't be able to
+attend.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: I want REVENGE! (6 Feb 1995)
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JMS: I want REVENGE!

+6 Feb 1995
     Figures...we just can't get a break....
+ 
+                                                         jms
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+

+
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+JMS: Thank you for a great job (7 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Thank you for a great job

+7 Feb 1995
     A very humble thank you....
+ 
+                                                          jms
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+

+
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+ATTN: JMS: B5 on any cable-onl (7 Feb 1995)
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ATTN: JMS: B5 on any cable-onl

+7 Feb 1995
      Alas, no cable only stations are carrying it that I know of.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+ATT JMS: StellarCom (7 Feb 1995)
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ATT JMS: StellarCom

+7 Feb 1995
     BabCom is still used for intrastation messaging; StellarCom is for
+messaging elsewhere.
+ 
+	                                                    jms
+
+Article 57031 of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5:
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+Reactions to "Race" (SPOILERS) (2 Feb 1995)
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Reactions to "Race" (SPOILERS)

+2 Feb 1995
     The Lurker didn't say "Jason cracked."  If it was captioned that
+way, I'm as surprised as anybody else.  There was another name there,
+the name of the man who was being interrogated back at Mars Colony.
+ 
+     EST = Earth Standar Time, not East Coast time.  Greenwich Mean Time,
+basically.  (Above should read Standard.)  There's Local Time, and EST;
+ordinary official business is usually timed to match EST.
+ 
+     No, Garibaldi's authority doesn't exceed Sheridan's.  But when
+Sheridan's superiors give Garibaldi a direct order to have the quarters
+locked out, that they are illegally occupied...Garibaldi must comply.
+That is standard legal military procedure.  (Funnily enough, I've gotten
+a couple of notes from folks in the military -- one Navy, and one
+Marine -- citing similar petty stuff happening to their COs.)
+ 
+     At five miles long, with hundreds of miles of piping, leaks are
+going to happen.  Some are more serious than others.  At that moment,
+Sheridan was concerned about psis, not leaks.  He's trying to be
+inconspicuous; he wouldn't stop in the midst of all this and order a
+repair team.  He'd probably do it later.  ("Come alone," he was told.
+So now a maintainance team shows up....)
+ 
+     Just some thoughts on the comments.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Off Topic? (27 Jan 1995)
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Off Topic?

+27 Jan 1995
     Sci-Fi Channel has indicated many times that they would like t
+acquire Captain Power, but (in what I must say I think is a doofy move)
+the producer won't release the show unless SFC agrees to finance new eps.
+Cart before the horse, if you ask me.  Get the show on first, create the
+need, THEN do more.
+ 
+     Doofy, I tell you.  Doofy, doofy, doofy.  Maybe even doofiest.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+ATTN JMS: Iowa State cancelled (7 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Iowa State cancelled

+7 Feb 1995
     I had been invited to, and agreed to come to the Technologies
+conference at the university, but had to cancel some time ago due to B5
+commitments.  John Iacovelli will be speaking there in my absence, on the
+technology of entertainment.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+Babylon5 is lousy!!! (7 Feb 1995)
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Babylon5 is lousy!!!

+7 Feb 1995
     Very nice.  Now finsh your cauliflower or you can't stay up and
+watch Gilligan's Island.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS: About Babcom again.... (8 Feb 1995)
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JMS: About Babcom again....

+8 Feb 1995
     I specifically didn't want to see that particular logo/screen ever
+again; the name is okay, appropriately dopey, but the on-screen display
+sucked bigtime.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+

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+JMS: What did you tell Jurasik (8 Feb 1995)
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JMS: What did you tell Jurasik

+8 Feb 1995
     I ended up giving Peter info on "Signs" prior to shooting "Chrysalis"
+last season; that was the biggie there.  For "CoS" in order for the scene
+to match what's going to happen several years down the road in the series,
+I had to kinda give him the context of the dream, and what was really
+happening in that scene, and what caused it, and how he got to that place
+with G'Kar's hands around his throat.
+ 
+     He seemed quite...astonished.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Attn JMS:  Writing "The Coming (8 Feb 1995)
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Attn JMS:  Writing "The Coming

+8 Feb 1995
     Yeah, on several levels, writing "The Coming of Shadows" was hard;
+there were times I felt as though I'd just jumped onto the back of a
+runaway dynamite truck.  Halfway through that story you can feel the arc
+kinda moving underneath you, like some huge, dark fish about to break
+surface.
+ 
+     The only way to make a viewer feel a character's pain is if you feel
+it in the writing, and a lot of that came through.  I live with these
+characters running around in my head 24 hours a day...and when I'd finally
+finished "Shadows," it was as if they all sorta stopped and looked at
+each other, and at me, and said, "Gee, thank you EVER so fucking much,
+jeezus, why don't you just go pluck somebody's eye out while you're at it?"
+ 
+     To which the only reply is, "Now that you mention it...."
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+3 questions...not just for JMS (8 Feb 1995)
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3 questions...not just for JMS

+8 Feb 1995
     Re: Kosh suddenly showing up at council meetings...remember that
+observation for the next few weeks.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+ATTN JMS: TCoS & my Computer A (8 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: TCoS & my Computer A

+8 Feb 1995
     You don't require my permission to show it in class; by all means,
+proceed.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Re: ATT: JMS Fan ads for _B5_ (8 Feb 1995)
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Re: ATT: JMS Fan ads for _B5_

+8 Feb 1995
     We will happily and gratefully take any venue by which word of the
+show is spread further.
+ 
+                                                           jms
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+Re: Thank You (8 Feb 1995)
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Re: Thank You

+8 Feb 1995
     Just an observation on the serial discussion...you're talking apples
+and oranges.  You can't compare a film serial from the 30s or 40s with
+TV; they're not the same thing.  Yes, serial stories were done then; but
+in American TV, they haven't been done in this fashion (I'm exempting
+soap operas which sorta redefine themselves moment by moment).
+ 
+     As an aside...serials in the early days of movies didn't start out
+for the purpose of telling one story as its expressed goal.  (And, in
+fact, if you watch some of them straight through, what you find is a VERY
+simple story/structure, along the lines of "Stop them from stealing the
+very famous Star of Rhodesia Diamond" which is broken up into barely
+connected individual pieces.  Very often, the studio would have a vague
+idea about where it would end, and just filled in the middle with car
+crashes and fist fights and dynamite explosions.
+ 
+     The reason for that continuing structure lay with 1) the fact that
+at that time, and in the years before, most of the magazines of the time
+serialized books a chapter at a time, a technique that goes straight back
+to Charles Dickens.  So that was the template at the time.  And 2) most
+or all movies in those early days consisted of one-reelers, or at most
+two-reelers, since it was felt then that audiences probably wouldn't sit
+still for two hours for a movie.
+ 
+     Consequently, you'd go down to the local Rialto, and you'd get a
+traveling tab show...local live performers, a singer, some piano, a short
+animated cartoon, a Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy one-reeler, then work
+your way up to maybe a half-hour movie, or a two-reeler.  Gradually, as
+movies got longer, the serials also got longer, in many cases ending up
+as full-length features themselves.  Or they were phased out.
+ 
+     So it wasn't that the studios were looking to tell a story over five
+years; it was that they felt the market couldn't sustain more than bite
+sized stories.
+ 
+     Proving again that a little knowledge of history is a dangerous
+thing....
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+Attn JMS: Will we see Zathras (2 Feb 1995)
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Attn JMS: Will we see Zathras

+2 Feb 1995
     Of course we will see Zathras again at some point.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+B5's Story Arc = No Free Will (8 Feb 1995)
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B5's Story Arc = No Free Will

+8 Feb 1995
     One problem, of course, is that your message about predestination
+being a drag is that you think you know where it's going.  When we first
+went on the air, I saw many messages from people saying "Boy, this is
+gonna get real boring, everybody's part is already laid out in order for
+this to be a five-year story, Londo's the funny guy, G'Kar's the bad
+guy, they're locked into their roles...."
+ 
+     Well, now...I think we see the flaw in that particular approach.
+ 
+     On the notion that "plots are less than organic," plots are by
+definition not organic.  Plots are artificialities which we graft onto
+a sequence of events in order to give them meaning.  As someone noted,
+"The king died, and the queen died" is not a plot or a story; "The king
+died, and the queen died of grief" IS a story, IS a plot; there is
+connective tissue.
+ 
+     There is always a guiding hand behind the story, otherwise you'd
+just have the characters sitting around and having random things happen
+to them.
+ 
+     And not all foreshadowing is real foreshadowing; some is planted as
+red herrings.  Some foreshadows don't mean what you THINK they mean.  I
+have planted no end of turns, twists, surprises, reverses, double
+reveals, backtracks, ironies and revelations all along the path.
+ 
+     I have always considered the Babylon 5 story to be, in essence,
+future history.  "Babylon 5 WAS the last of the Babylon stations.  It WAS
+our last, best hope for peace."  Past tense.  If I write a novel about
+the incidents of World War II, then I'm dealing in history.  The events
+are set...but where the characters go is another question.  You can read
+all the information about how we got a thousand clues and foreshadows to
+what was going to happen at Pearl Harbor...but it happened anyway.  The
+guiding hand of Fate...or a crucial bobble at the wrong moment?  One can
+look back at it now and argue both sides.
+ 
+     Finally, any time a writer writes a novel, the characters are all
+going somewhere under the guiding hand of the author.  That's what a
+novel IS.  Scrooge is GOING to be visited by three ghosts, and he's GOING
+to reform, and that's the end of the discussion.  Unless you're willing to
+throw long-form novel writing out the door as an artform because it's not
+appropriate that the characters should be on a specific and crafted
+journey....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Attn JMS :  Thanks (8 Feb 1995)
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Attn JMS :  Thanks

+8 Feb 1995
     Thanks; I think I like the four-dimensional analogy....
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+JMS: inspiration question (8 Feb 1995)
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JMS: inspiration question

+8 Feb 1995
     Yeah, I know from Cerebus, I'm a big fan of the book.  I'd rather
+there was more book in the book and fewer lettes/less filler, but there
+you are....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Coming of Shadow spoilers (8 Feb 1995)
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Coming of Shadow spoilers

+8 Feb 1995
     The alien healing device was specifically used in treatment of
+illness; the Emperor suffered massive damage to his heart and othe
+internal organs, which simply restoring some life energy wouldn't help.
+ 
+                                                           jms
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+Gropos (spoilers) (8 Feb 1995)
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Gropos (spoilers)

+8 Feb 1995
     Where does it say in the episode that the B5 defense grid is "strong
+enough to stand against the likes of the shadows?"
+ 
+     It doesn't.  And it wouldn't.  Not for five seconds.
+ 
+     You don't have to find something hard to believe if it was never said.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+(Attention JMS) Ivanova's Mono (8 Feb 1995)
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(Attention JMS) Ivanova's Mono

+8 Feb 1995
     To the question "Who thinks up these things," there are only two
+answers: me, or the writer whose name appears on the script when it's
+not me.  Occasionally me or Larry adding to the other person's script.
+That's it, no big committee.  Generally, all you have to do is check
+the writing credit.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+JMS: Products on-screen (8 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Products on-screen

+8 Feb 1995
     Correct; all sponsors advertising on a TV series (different from the
+ET situation) would generally like their product shown.  For kicks we
+did it with Zima and Kawasaki, and for that, yes, we did have to get their
+permission.  The fun wore out, and we haven't done it since.  I'd love to
+have someone pay us to show their product; it'd mean we were being held in
+esteem in the public eye.  And would help the budget.  We'll see.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+

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+JMS: Franklin's Patients (SM & (8 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Franklin's Patients (SM &

+8 Feb 1995
     Not a contradiction.  I don't believe in omniscient or all powerful
+devices that function like literal deus ex machinas and heal everybody all
+the time.  It was stated *plainly and clearly* that the device was used
+in healing terminally ill patients.  They cannot undo physical damage from
+gunshots (the regen packs and other devices were used to heal Garibaldi's
+wound, and the alien device was used to raise his life energy level enough
+to bring him out of the coma).  The emperor suffered a massive attack that
+destroyed parts of his heart.  Can't be fixed by this device.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+

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+ATT JMS: B5 Flaws (8 Feb 1995)
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ATT JMS: B5 Flaws

+8 Feb 1995
     Re: "fixing" the "guy with the bozo hair," I don't see this as
+something that needs to be fixed.  The problem is with some people's
+provincialism and rapidity with stereotyping and the like.  It's also
+in large measure an American fixation with hair; the show is playing in
+MANY european markets, and this tends not to be a problem there.  I find
+it interesting that some people can accept red eyes, reptilian features,
+pouches, six-set genitalia, jump gates, headbones, shadowships, but fall
+apart because of somebody's hair.  Americans are fixated on this stuff;
+an entire generation was pegged, stereotyped and ridiculed because of
+their hair; you can go down to parts of LA and see hair styles that make
+Londo look like a protestant minister by comparison.
+ 
+     There is a notion that one must "fix" something if a few people have
+a problem that stems from their perception.  This is what leads to lowest
+common denominator programming.  I don't do that.
+ 
+     (Not directed at you, but the report.)
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: === Actors reactions (8 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: === Actors reactions

+8 Feb 1995
     There's always a rush to find out what's in the new script.  In
+ageneral, first drafts only go to PTEN and the various department heads
+in order to get them on line for the episode requirements.  The final
+draft is released to full distribution a few days to a week later.  But
+invariably, within hours of releasing the first draft, it's floating
+around on stage, going from hand to hand, as people find out what's going
+to happen next.  There's always a real sense of enthusiasm and genuine
+curiosity.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+attn jms: Dragoncon/NASFIC (2 Feb 1995)
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attn jms: Dragoncon/NASFIC

+2 Feb 1995
     No plans for Atlanta, and we're booked on stories.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+What do the Shadows want? (8 Feb 1995)
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What do the Shadows want?

+8 Feb 1995
     This is the main question that hasn't been asked much.  If one takes
+as read the notion that B5 doesn't go in for the stereotypical "let's
+destroy everything" bad guys, that there's more going on...then what is
+the agenda of the shadows?  Okay, you win a war, now you own it all,
+what do you do (besides visit Disneyland)?  There has to be more to the
+answer of "why" than what appears on first blush.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+GROPOS - SPOILERS AND QUESTION (8 Feb 1995)
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GROPOS - SPOILERS AND QUESTION

+8 Feb 1995
     While it's true I don't mind dark endings, I would note that the
+episode was written by Larry.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Where are the Vorlons? (8 Feb 1995)
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Where are the Vorlons?

+8 Feb 1995
     ^You'll see a lot more of Kosh starting in three eps.
+ 
+                                            jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: === Production check (8 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: === Production check

+8 Feb 1995
     Script being filmed: "Knives" by L.D.  Script in prep: "In the
+Shadow of Z'ha'dum."  Script just going final: "Confessions and
+Lamentations."  Script in editing: "There All the Honor Lies."  Final
+post production/efx on "Hunter/Prey" and "And Now For a Word."  New
+script, not titled yet, being written.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+Article 60961 of rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5:
+

+
+
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+Re: Thank You (8 Feb 1995)
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Re: Thank You

+8 Feb 1995
     Just an observation on the serial discussion...you're talking apples
+and oranges.  You can't compare a film serial from the 30s or 40s with
+TV; they're not the same thing.  Yes, serial stories were done then; but
+in American TV, they haven't been done in this fashion (I'm exempting
+soap operas which sorta redefine themselves moment by moment).
+ 
+     As an aside...serials in the early days of movies didn't start out
+for the purpose of telling one story as its expressed goal.  (And, in
+fact, if you watch some of them straight through, what you find is a VERY
+simple story/structure, along the lines of "Stop them from stealing the
+very famous Star of Rhodesia Diamond" which is broken up into barely
+connected individual pieces.  Very often, the studio would have a vague
+idea about where it would end, and just filled in the middle with car
+crashes and fist fights and dynamite explosions.
+ 
+     The reason for that continuing structure lay with 1) the fact that
+at that time, and in the years before, most of the magazines of the time
+serialized books a chapter at a time, a technique that goes straight back
+to Charles Dickens.  So that was the template at the time.  And 2) most
+or all movies in those early days consisted of one-reelers, or at most
+two-reelers, since it was felt then that audiences probably wouldn't sit
+still for two hours for a movie.
+ 
+     Consequently, you'd go down to the local Rialto, and you'd get a
+traveling tab show...local live performers, a singer, some piano, a short
+animated cartoon, a Chaplin or Laurel and Hardy one-reeler, then work
+your way up to maybe a half-hour movie, or a two-reeler.  Gradually, as
+movies got longer, the serials also got longer, in many cases ending up
+as full-length features themselves.  Or they were phased out.
+ 
+     So it wasn't that the studios were looking to tell a story over five
+years; it was that they felt the market couldn't sustain more than bite
+sized stories.
+ 
+     Proving again that a little knowledge of history is a dangerous
+thing....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Do ALL dreams come t (9 Feb 1995)
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+9 Feb 1995
     Not all Centauri dreams come true; however, the ones in which they
+see their deaths tend to be pretty accurate.
+ 
+                           jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Names (9 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Names

+9 Feb 1995
     Delenn's flyer is called Zhalen.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS - Thoughts on CoS an (9 Feb 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Thoughts on CoS an

+9 Feb 1995
     I'd say Londo has a long way to go yet before he hits bottom.
+ 
+     Added the new B5 symbol 'cause it's cool.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: I want to know more! (9 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: I want to know more!

+9 Feb 1995
      No plan for now to make scripts for B5 into books, though we may
+eventually release some of the scripts themselves.  I think the tapes
+should be out by summer sometime.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN:JMS...Episode titles (9 Feb 1995)
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ATTN:JMS...Episode titles

+9 Feb 1995
     I always have to have a title before I begin writing, since the
+title always influences the feel of the show.  I try to design one that
+is literary, or refers to a literary influence; it should have a certain
+rhythm, and avoid coming at the subject of the episode too dead-on.  For
+instance, one could call the recent Psi Cop episode with Bester,
+"Capture" or "Chase."  But I wanted it to be evocative, to conjure up
+the image of people slipping through the shadows, pursued by others, and
+to continue this season's trend toward titles that indicate a coming
+night.  Hence, "A Race Through Dark Places."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Sheridan spoiled? (2 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Sheridan spoiled?

+2 Feb 1995
     Certainly, for the last couple of years, Sheridan has commanded an
+Earth Alliance Starship where when he asked for someone to do something,
+they jumped to do it.  On B5, nobody jumps except onto your back.  This
+will take some getting used to....
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+3 x "And so it begins..." CoS (9 Feb 1995)
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3 x "And so it begins..." CoS

+9 Feb 1995
     Actually, Londo does not say, "And so it begins."  He looks at his
+clock, to see if the time of the attack has come, and says, "It has
+begun."  Somewhat different, and very specific to that situation.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5's Story Arc = No Free W (9 Feb 1995)
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Re: B5's Story Arc = No Free W

+9 Feb 1995
     But there's "some guy out there who controls your life with his
+word processor" in ALL television, ALL fiction.  Even if it's a one
+hour script, for another series, what happens to that character has
+been determined by the writer.  THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FREE WILL IN
+A FICTIONAL CHARACTER'S LIFE.
+ 
+     As for working within the B5 universe itself, as Ladira said, her
+visions are of things that MIGHT be.  The whole POINT is that people
+make choices in this show.  Yes, they're the choices the writer provides
+them...but what other choice is there?  If you can materialize Ivanova in
+a real Babylon 5 and let her do as she chooses, I'm all for it.  Until
+then, somebody has to make up the story, and the universe, and the
+situations.
+ 
+     And, once again, you're assuming that you know where fate is going
+to take any given person on this show.  And you're almost certainly
+wrong at one level or another.
+ 
+     This kind of reminds me of conversations I find at conventions, when
+I appear with the actors.  The actors get questions like, "How do you go
+about creating the character?" and I get, "What will the stories be?" as
+though I was walking down the street one day, stumbled across these
+independently-existing characters, and shoved them into this storyline.
+You cannot, in any conceivable fashion, minimize the contribution of the
+cast, which is superlative.  But I created Ivanova, and Sheridan, and
+Sinclair, and Garibaldi, and Kosh, and Londo, and G'Kar, and the Earth
+Alliance, and the Vorlons, and the Psi Corps, and I write the words they
+say, the rooms they're in, the changes in their lives.  Just like every
+novelist you've ever seen.
+ 
+     There's no such thing as a character having free will within the
+structure of a story.  Certainly they can seem to come alive in the
+writing process, but that's not the same thing.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+A just system ? (was Run Thru (9 Feb 1995)
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A just system ? (was Run Thru

+9 Feb 1995
     Correct, the Earth Alliance is not necessarily a just system.  Quite
+correct.  Thus I'm not sure where I see the problem.  Has humanity ever
+had a 100% just and equitable system?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+The Start of The War (9 Feb 1995)
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The Start of The War

+9 Feb 1995
     "I'd love to know what you have planned next...."
+ 
+     Prolonged torture, revelations, surprises, a whole new spin on the
+direction of the show, conspiracies of light and dark, weird sex, the
+turning of hunters, accusations, bigger revelations, and the death of
+two billion people just to get the ball rolling.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+ 
+     (and that's just the next 8 episodes)
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Q on the casting of (10 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Q on the casting of

+10 Feb 1995
     Turhan originally came in to audition for Elric in "Geometry;" we
+wanted someone with more menace (Ansara), but we were all just blown away
+by how wonderful and sweet and nice a person he was, and as he left, I
+told John Copeland, "I'm gonna write a part just for him."
+ 
+     So I did, and we cast him, and everyone on the set loved him...to
+the point that, at the end of the shoot, they were saying, "You BASTARD,
+how could you bring this WONDERFUL man in here and then KILL HIM OFF SO
+WE CAN'T HAVE HIM BACK?!"
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: "Long Night" and "So (10 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: "Long Night" and "So

+10 Feb 1995
     These two stories have been indefinitely shelved.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Stuph From jms (10 Feb 1995)
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+10 Feb 1995
     General and sundry to whoever might be interested....
+ 
+     1) Next Thursday evening (the 16th), I'll be at Planet Hollywood in
+Chicago along with Claudia Christian, Mira Furlan, and Michael O'Hare
+to do a PR appearance in part for the show, in part for the convention
+there in June, and for some various non-story-related announcements.  The
+plan is to watch the episode there that night, do Q&A and generally hang
+out.  Though this is usually a closed deal for publicity (ET and CNN and
+other media will be there), a limited number (I think 150) tickets have
+been allocated for fans of the show in the area, I think $30 apiece.
+Contact the same folks running the Chicago Big Bang Convention ahead of
+time to order tickets; these will probably sell out quickly.
+ 
+     2) Chris Franke has finalized the revised CD soundtrack; the new
+suite, entitled "The Geometry of Shadows," adds about 12-14 minutes to
+the CD, which now weighs in at about 55-56 minutes.  The new suite
+includes the second season main theme, selections from "Chrysalis" and
+"Survivors" and "Signs and Portents" and "The Coming of Shadows," as
+well as an extended version of "Requiem For the Line."  The first 2,000
+copies have already been booked and will be sent to fill orders hanging
+fire from the UK, with broader distribution starting in March.  This is
+from Sonic Images, which because it isn't *as* large a company as Warner
+Records or others, but is still good sized, will be fighting to meet all
+the orders that have come in and are coming in.
+ 
+     Thus, I suggest that if you want to a) get the soundtrack, and b)
+not wait for back orders, you contact your local record store or discount
+distributer service and order the CD right off, which will help assure
+getting them as they come off the line, and help Sonic Images best plan
+their run.  The CD also comes with an expanded booklet, with more
+pictures from the show (including a 3-shot of me with fellow producers
+Doug Netter and John Copeland...but hey, buy it anyway).  It's a wonder
+to behold.
+ 
+     3) At this point, I've confirmed that I'll be in the UK twice this
+year, once at the Horizons Convention in Birmingham come April, and then
+in September at the Wolf 359/Gathering convention in Manchester.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Advertisers (10 Feb 1995)
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Advertisers

+10 Feb 1995
      Yes, the advertisers are coming from a better grade, and I'm told
+all the ads are sold out through the second quarter, well in advance.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Best lines from The Coming (10 Feb 1995)
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Re: Best lines from The Coming

+10 Feb 1995
     "That was indeed a great line.  Who wrote it?"  (Re: the Emperor's
+speech to Sheridan.)
+ 
+      >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: UK opinions (12 Feb 1995)
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JMS: UK opinions

+12 Feb 1995
     Opinions always matter.  It's sometimes hard to put my brain back
+where it was X-months ago, but of course I'd love to hear all the UK
+reactions.  And in a way, it might be fun for those who've seen this a
+while ago to see others going through the same thing now.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Space Opera (2 Feb 1995)
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Re: Space Opera

+2 Feb 1995
     BTW, and just so this is clear to everyone...the request to avoid
+discussion was just for the satellite people; now that the show has
+begun to air regionally, all bets are off, though as always messages
+with spoilers should be noted as such.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Quickie L.A/jms/Harlan Alert (12 Feb 1995)
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Quickie L.A/jms/Harlan Alert

+12 Feb 1995
     Tomorrow, Sunday, 2-4 p.m., Harlan Ellison will be signing his new
+comic DREAM CORRIDOR (and maybe other stuff, though I don't know that
+for sure) at Golden Apple Bookstore in Los Angeles.  I'm also planning
+to tag along and spend more money than I should on this stuff....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+"What" is jms? (12 Feb 1995)
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"What" is jms?

+12 Feb 1995
     Some have suggested the Old Fart of the Galaxy.
+ 
+     Some have suggested the Big S.  (I look upon this with suspicion.)
+ 
+     Or the Old Crank of the Galaxy.  Or Great Maker.
+ 
+     I dunno...maybe just Joe...?
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: The Future? (12 Feb 1995)
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+
JMS: The Future?

+12 Feb 1995
     We don't know what the future holds for PTEN; we can only hope to
+keep B5 sufficiently successful that it will have a berth somewhere no
+matter what.  We'll see....
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Which Hubble image? (12 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Which Hubble image?

+12 Feb 1995
     I'll have to go back and ask which Hubble shot was used as bg in the
+Narn colony shot.  The recognition problem becomes when you take the 2D
+image and extend it in 3D for purposes of movement.  But I'll get it
+in any event.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN:JMS - B5 WAV or MOD files (12 Feb 1995)
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ATTN:JMS - B5 WAV or MOD files

+12 Feb 1995
     Actually, the rights to B5 audio clips/screen saver/wallpaper have
+been sold to the same company that did the Terminator 2 package, and may
+be out by summer/fall.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Your lucid dream... (12 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Your lucid dream...

+12 Feb 1995
     Not that much going on, I'm afraid to say.  Upper floor renovations
+are about finished, and now they're doing some foundation work.  A couple
+of new stores opened downtown.  Spent a couple of dreamtime nights over at
+the local college, doing Q&As about writing.  Went past an accident on the
+main road the other night, car half-in and half-out of the water.  Folks
+seemed okay.
+ 
+     That's about it.
+ 
+     (For those looking on, to explain...I know this is weird...but for as
+long as I can remember, most of my dreams have taken place in the same
+sort of dream town that's gradually built slowly over the years.  I have
+a house there, know where the stores are, the theaters...it has no
+correlation to anything real, it's all contemporaneous with the present,
+and generally just a flip-side.  Fairly dull, actually.  I think the
+reason my brain generated this was that we moved from house to house and
+town to town every six months to a year when I was growing up, and this
+is/was my brain's attempt to form solidity by *creating* a home town from
+bits and pieces of the others.  So at night, I leave *here* and go
+_there_.)
+ 
+     Oh!  Wait, we *did* have a bus strike recently, so that's at least
+something interesting.  Haven't heard how it turned out, though.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Any word on a third seaso (12 Feb 1995)
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JMS: Any word on a third seaso

+12 Feb 1995
     We should get definitive word come April.  Right now, I'd venture
+that it's about 65/35 or 70/30 that we'll get picked up.  Basically, a
+bit better than 50/50, which is where we were this time last season.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: GROPOS: all CGI?? NOW?? (12 Feb 1995)
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JMS: GROPOS: all CGI?? NOW??

+12 Feb 1995
     Everything in the battle sequence at the end of Gropos is CGI; no
+models, despite the shadows.  Real fire was sampled for the flames, though.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+jms: Line in Cos (minor spoile (12 Feb 1995)
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jms: Line in Cos (minor spoile

+12 Feb 1995
     "A word or two in the right ear...."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Change of commanders (14 Feb 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Change of commanders

+14 Feb 1995
     The story arc proceeds very much as planned; the change of COs allows
+us to do all we had in mind originally, plus some more on top of it.
+In addition, there are trap doors for every character in case there's ever
+a problem.  As in a WW II movie, characters may come and go, but the story
+of the war is the story of the war.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Viewers for Quality TV for B5 (1 Mar 1995)
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Viewers for Quality TV for B5

+1 Mar 1995
     I'm *very* pleased to announce that the latest survey by Viewers For
+Quality Television (VQT) has selected BABYLON 5 as the #1 ranked
+syndicated drama, and #16 *overall*, putting it ahead of such series as
+MURPHY BROWN, DS9, SEINFELD, DR. QUINN MEDICINE WOMAN and THE SIMPSONS
+in their listings for Highest Quality Shows.
+ 
+     My thanks and appreciation to all those who took the time to seek out
+VQT's surveys, and continue to do so, in order to bring attention to the
+hard work being done on this show, and it is our hope that we continue to
+merit your attention and support.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN:JMS Samuri Tradition (3 Mar 1995)
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ATTN:JMS Samuri Tradition

+3 Mar 1995
     I'll have you know that playing "My Achey Breaky Heart" to an
+unwilling listener is specifically forbidden under the Geneva War Crimes
+rules.  So THERE.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Yo Theron (14 Mar 1995)
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Re: Yo Theron

+14 Mar 1995
     "If the ratings are so good then he has nothing to loose by
+revealing where they would be located."
+ 
+     <thud>
+ 
+     I quote "The Lady's Not For Burning" ... "Am I invisible?  Inaudible?
+Do I merely festoon the room with my presence?"
+ 
+     THEY'RE IN THE TRADES, LADY.  WALK 200 FEET TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY AND
+LOOK IT UP.  You've now been told where they're located in 15 different
+messages from different people.
+ 
+     I give up..................
+ 
+	                                                        jms (2:50 am)
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Great Flame! (14 Mar 1995)
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Re: Great Flame!

+14 Mar 1995
     It is now 3:10 a.m.  I am now leaving my GEnie gateway to Internet
+with about 150 as yet unread messages, mostly "flame" and "yo theron" in
+nature.  I'll do a quick run on a couple of other systems, then crash
+around 4-4:30 a.m., to get up at 8 a.m. for meetings tomorrow.  Just so
+everyone knows my schedule.
+ 
+     I've just gotten a note from someone quoting Ms. Fuller on another
+service in which she again threatens to "write to Warner Bros., and let
+them know what their representative is doing with their time and money."
+  She concludes, "That kind of behavior needs to be stopped, period."
+ 
+     John Ford can verify this if he chooses to do so.
+ 
+     It's apparent that we do not all play by the same rules here.  You
+and I and the rest of us rely on the arguments we pose.  Some here run to
+complain to various authorities because "this kind of behavior," being a
+free exchange, "needs to be stopped, period."  They can't win the
+argument, so they go whining off to somebody to beat up on the person
+they're arguing with.
+ 
+     Cowardice, plain and simple.
+ 
+     Maybe it's because it's now 3:14 a.m., and I'm tired, and this is
+bullshit, and I've seen 1/3rd of the messages in my mailbox (and yours)
+given over to this, but this has gotten sick and ugly and senseless.
+ 
+     Henceforth, I will not respond to *any* messages from either Fuller,
+father or daughter.  I will no longer give their sad, pathetic lives the
+satisfaction and validation of a response.  Which is clearly what they
+most dearly want, and most profoundly cherish.  To feel persecuted, to
+be the center of attention, to pretend to be the wounded soul up upon the
+cross.
+ 
+     But at least Christ died quietly and didn't go running off to the
+Pharisees to complain.  If one is going to wear the cloth of the martyr,
+one should play the part to the hilt.
+ 
+     This is the last message I will write in this thread.  Nor will I
+read any more in this thread.  I suggest one clear path of action to
+everyone here:
+ 
+     Ignore them.  Don't respond.  Ms. Fuller said this "needs to be
+stopped."  Okay, fine...let's stop it our way.  Ignore them to death.
+ 
+     It's the only way to make them go.
+ 
+     Granted, some of you will ignore reason (as I did), but suffice to
+say, I'm saddened and sickened and dismayed by this, and let them lie to
+their heart's content.  This is the kind of behavior that makes me
+question frankly the wisdom in being here.  At least at 3:20 am, when
+this stuff grates on me the most.
+ 
+     Everybody out of the pool.  Somebody's pissed in the water and
+made it uncomfortable for everybody else.
+ 
+     Either way...I'm outta this thread.  Let the cowards and the
+crybabies yell into a vacuum.  I really don't give a shit anymore.
+ 
+     I'm tired.
+ 
+                                            jms (3:20 a.m.)
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Kosh Neranek? (15 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Kosh Neranek?

+15 Mar 1995
     The full name is given in "And Now for a Word," later this season.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:UPN's got a show called BA (15 Mar 1995)
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JMS:UPN's got a show called BA

+15 Mar 1995
     We're definitely aware of Paramount's attempt to launch a show called
+BABYLON on the bulk of the same stations that carry Babylon 5, which would
+result in confusion and take advantage of our rep to date.  We're getting
+into it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Will you write one n (15 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Will you write one n

+15 Mar 1995
     A detailed novel down the road, when the series is finished, is
+certainly a possibility...but right now, tired as I am, nearing the end
+of this season, it sounds about as appealing as a high colonic.  I also
+think sometimes that if I do my job right, there shouldn't be the need
+for books later; on the other hand, there's mounds of stuff I've never
+used from my notes.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS:  Middle names?  *chu (15 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Middle names?  *chu

+15 Mar 1995
     Jeffrey Sinclair's middle name (as noted in "Sky") was/is David.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

+
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+Attn: JMS  -  THANKS (15 Mar 1995)
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Attn: JMS  -  THANKS

+15 Mar 1995
     Thanks....
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+UK: Inconsistent critics (15 Mar 1995)
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UK: Inconsistent critics

+15 Mar 1995
     The turn-around of the critics that we're starting to see does seem
+to indicate that evolution continues in the world around us.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS: Guide/Book (was: re (15 Mar 1995)
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ATTN: JMS: Guide/Book (was: re

+15 Mar 1995
      Thing is...we add new viewers every week (ratings increase when
+you add viewers) and they tend to stay...and I don't think I've ever seen
+more than six notes from people who said they had to kind of catch up to
+follow the story.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Call To Ignore (15 Mar 1995)
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Re: Call To Ignore

+15 Mar 1995
     Kate: sleep?   What's sleep?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+B5 Cliches/ Pet Peeve (3 Mar 1995)
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B5 Cliches/ Pet Peeve

+3 Mar 1995
     What can I say...I work with Doug Netter...I can NEVER get out of his
+office without being pulled back by a comment or two, and because I'm
+absent minded, I'm always adding an afterthought as I leave the room.  So
+for my money, this is just how folks talk.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Loved your Debra/Thoron ra (15 Mar 1995)
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Re: Loved your Debra/Thoron ra

+15 Mar 1995
     I'm posting this here because this conversation has just gotten
+even uglier, and I felt this should be mentioned right now as it's
+happening.
+ 
+     I have today received two pieces of email indicating that, in
+addition to threatening to write to Warner Bros. to try and shut me up,
+Deborah Fuller has now contacted her university administration on the
+premise that my comments to here in all of my public messages (I have
+never sent her private mail) constitute sexual harrassment.  She is
+apparently hoping to use the university as leverage in bringing a
+complaint against Warner Bros., or suing, or who knows what.
+ 
+     (My suspicion is that she's using the message in which I tell her
+to drag her ass down to the library and look up the ratings herself as
+the incident of sexual harrassment.)
+ 
+     She seems determined to exercise every untruthful tactic to try and
+destory this conversation by forcing me to withdraw, by direct complaint
+to the studio, to her university, whatever it takes.
+ 
+     Apparently the person to whom the complaint has been filed at the
+university is Cynthia Barnes, CBARNES@SWAN.ADMIN.UIUC.EDU.  All of my
+messages to either Fuller have been here, in full view of everyone.  If
+anyone here would like to write a note telling this person what you've
+seen, this would be terrific.
+ 
+     I've been on the nets since 1985.  This is probably the lowest
+thing I have ever seen, the lowest tactic I have ever seen, to try and
+kill the messenger in a debate that one is losing.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: A Nielsen Family's T (15 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: A Nielsen Family's T

+15 Mar 1995
      Interesting comments; and thanks, the support is appreciated.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+If we knew then... (MotFL) (15 Mar 1995)
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If we knew then... (MotFL)

+15 Mar 1995
      I *cannot* tell you how pleased I am that these elements are starting
+to be noticed.  Now you have enough pieces to start seeing the overall
+patterns and pictures.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: more questions (15 Mar 1995)
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JMS: more questions

+15 Mar 1995
     The Hour of Scampering is usually around tea-time, according to the
+Vorlon/Human Translation Dictionary.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Loved your Debra/Thoron ra (15 Mar 1995)
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Re: Loved your Debra/Thoron ra

+15 Mar 1995
     I'm told that Cynthia has now received quite a few responses, and
+thus no more may be required at this time so anyone else may want to
+hold off.
+ 
+     As an aside, in another message I glimpsed a question about direct
+response to email from the Fullers not being answered...even though I do
+not have a killfile, I do have to log onto GEnie at 2400 baud because
+that's the line they provide for gratis accounts.  At 2400, I can see
+the address before I see the message.  Thus any time I see that it is
+from either Fuller, I simply hit ESC and delete the message unread.  I
+will continue to do this with any message written by either of them.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Technomages - where from? (15 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Technomages - where from?

+15 Mar 1995
     There are technomages on many worlds; the ones in "GoS" were human.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Messages re:  fuller (15 Mar 1995)
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+15 Mar 1995
     I will admit that I am now confused.  I received a letter from Ms.
+Barnes in private mail asking about charges of harrassment.  I received
+a second message from John Ford copying his response to Ms. Barnes re:
+charges of harrassment.  Now she says charges haven't been filed.  I
+have absolutely no understanding of what's going on, I only passed along
+what had been sent to me.  Perhaps John can further illuminate this.  I
+will confess to being an Internet newbie, and thus sometimes easily
+confused by the system and its parts and pieces, but this seemed to me
+very straightforward.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS:How do Vorlons Scampe (16 Mar 1995)
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Attn JMS:How do Vorlons Scampe

+16 Mar 1995
     The Vorlons do not scamper terribly well, but no one has yet told
+them this.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: ship types/classes (16 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: ship types/classes

+16 Mar 1995
     We won't be seeing many new EA big ships this year, but next year,
+oh, yeah.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 episodes on Videotape/lasre (16 Mar 1995)
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+16 Mar 1995
      According to what I was told the other day by someone with WB
+distribution, the tapes should be coming out sometime in the next month
+(for the first season).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Why the long wait? (3 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Why the long wait?

+3 Mar 1995
     Same reason as Voyager and DS9 now go into reruns; so they (and we)
+can have new eps for sweeps, which is what the PTEN stations want.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: And Now for a Word?? (16 Mar 1995)
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+16 Mar 1995
     "And Now" was not deferred; it'll be the 2nd new episode up.  "The
+Customer is Always Right" was deferred when I learned that ST had done an
+episode along similar themes.  Once I can figure out how to adjust it,
+maybe it'll be revived.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: B5 to be picked up by FOX (16 Mar 1995)
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JMS: B5 to be picked up by FOX

+16 Mar 1995
     There are no plans for Fox, and there have never been any
+discussions with Fox about picking up B5.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS    DC COMICS 4 Story (16 Mar 1995)
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ATTN: JMS    DC COMICS 4 Story

+16 Mar 1995
     Laura Hitchcock at DC and I have discussed it, and I'd like to do a
+four-issue arc, and she'd like to have me do it, so it'll probably
+happen.
+ 
+     I'm playing with the notion of doing the story as a backgrounder;
+one probability is setting the story during the start of the Earth
+Minbari war, to show how that all got started.  Is there any other
+piece of B5 background that we've touched upon in the series (no new
+story ideas) that folks might like to see elucidated?  (The next cycle
+will show how Garibaldi and Sinclair met.)
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+HEY JMS: I Like the Show (16 Mar 1995)
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HEY JMS: I Like the Show

+16 Mar 1995
     Thanks.  I'm less than ecstatic over the reruns myself....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Is next week a new e (16 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Is next week a new e

+16 Mar 1995
     New eps starting end of April.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+
+Does the title sequence keep c (16 Mar 1995)
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+16 Mar 1995
     Yes, there were a series of continuing modifications to the main title
+sequence throughout the first third or so of the new second season
+episodes.  My sense is that just because it's being broadcast is no reason
+to just drop it if you're not ecstatic.  I wasn't; I felt some things could
+still be improved, whether or not anyone else ever noticed.  We also did
+revisions to reflect changes in the show, moving Ivanova and Keffer up in
+rank, for instance.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATT:JMS Titles and full names (16 Mar 1995)
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ATT:JMS Titles and full names

+16 Mar 1995
     The screen actors guild has rules about putting characters like Kosh
+in the main credits, since it's not really human; voice credits can't go
+up front.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+JMS> B-Squared's "mythical" st (16 Mar 1995)
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JMS> B-Squared's "mythical" st

+16 Mar 1995
     Actually, the story of B4 has been rerun; it's the viewers who've
+vanished mysteriously.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+RATINGS RATINGS RATINGS RATING (16 Mar 1995)
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RATINGS RATINGS RATINGS RATING

+16 Mar 1995
     Ratings always fluctuate from week to week; but in general we're
+between the two figures you cite, 4.6 and 5.0 or 5.1, which is up overall
+from last season, where we tended to average a 4.1 or 4.3.  There is a
+constant, slow growth as the show gains viewers mainly through word of
+mouth.
+ 
+     The fundamental issue here boils down to one very basic fact: PTEN
+gets the ratings.  If the ratings are good, we'll be renewed.  If the
+ratings are not, we won't.  Simple as that.
+ 
+     Last season at this time, I put the odds of renewal at about 50/50.
+And I encouraged viewers to write their stations and Warner Bros. the
+closer we got to pickup.  Right now, I'd place the odds at 70/30, which
+is very good.  I am cautiously optimistic; sometimes shows can get
+canceled for the damndest reasons, and you never really know which way
+the blade is going to cut...nonetheless, I think we're okay, which is
+why I haven't gone out of my way to urge a lot of letters or email.  You
+only want to call out that kind of support occasionally, if and when
+really needed, otherwise it becomes trivialized by over-use.  You
+should only impose rarely.
+ 
+     We'll know our fate for year three by the end of April.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS    DC COMICS 4 S (16 Mar 1995)
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Re: ATTN: JMS    DC COMICS 4 S

+16 Mar 1995
     Dennis: definitely did NOT ask for story ideas, and specified such
+in my original post.  I was wondering what elements that *have already been
+introduced* as backstory people would like to see expanded upon in a
+comic.  Nothing more.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Question... (3 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Question...

+3 Mar 1995
     The real world is what I see.  The real world is what you see.
+Strangely, they are never the same real worlds.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS : A few points (18 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS : A few points

+18 Mar 1995
     PTEN's fate has not been put on hold; the renewal is coming up same
+as last year, in late April.
+ 
+     There's no one escaping Deathwalker's ship; it's just debris spinning
+away.  She's dead as a mackeral.
+ 
+     We'll be notified directly by our PTEN liaison when the decision on
+pickup is made.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Bruce not going? VUL (18 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Bruce not going? VUL

+18 Mar 1995
     Actually, this is the first time I've heard of this.  I don't often
+go into convention stuff with the cast.  So I really don't quite know what
+to say; I'll delicately inquire, but I honestly do try and stay out of
+stuff the actors do outside work per se, because it's intrusive, and any
+suggestions or reactions sometimes carry more weight than they should
+because they come from one's exec producer.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+
+Babylon vs Babylon 5 (18 Mar 1995)
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Babylon vs Babylon 5

+18 Mar 1995
     Actually, while many titles cannot be copyrighted, they CAN be
+trademarked, as Babylon 5 is trademarked, and that *can* be enforced.
+ 
+     The "Ghostbusters" story, in brief, is this:  Filmation did a
+live-action kids show with Forrest Tucker (it was really awful) some
+time before Columbia Pictures/Ivan Reitman did their movie.  Both the
+Filmation series and the projected film were called "Ghostbusters,"
+a situation that developed when the title failed to show up on a
+title search.  With the film about to be released, Filmation made a
+considerable stink, and won the rights to a) a lot of cash, and b)
+the right to do an animated series called Ghostbusters.
+ 
+     And, in time, that's exactly what was done, much to the chagrin of
+Columbia/Ivan Reitman.  In turn, they decided to do their OWN animated
+series, and just to pink Filmation, called it "The REAL Ghostbusters."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+
+Where IS JMS? (19 Mar 1995)
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+19 Mar 1995
     I'm watching you *right now* through your window.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+      P.S.  Stop that.
+
+

+
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+Re: If we knew then... (MotFL) (19 Mar 1995)
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Re: If we knew then... (MotFL)

+19 Mar 1995
     Yes, the tatistascope (or whatever the name is), I remember that
+one from I think grade school or thereabouts.  Main reason I remember is
+that I actually scared the hell out of my teacher, and was briefly
+accused of cheating.
+ 
+     They erected the 'scope in the classroom, and showed one word at a
+time, going from small one-syllable words then increasing.  They flashed
+the words in increasingly briefer intervals, two seconds, one second, a
+half a second...fewer and fewer people were able to keep up.  I got all
+the way through to the highest the machine could handle, 1/12th of a
+second, or therabouts.
+ 
+     Next the teacher started going into combinations of words, two or
+three at a time.  People started dropping out faster.  Again, I stuck
+with it to the end.  The teacher began to wonder what the hell was going
+on.  (This was at a time when I'd learned that if you acted smart, you
+got beat up, so I was deliberatly holding back on my grades and tests to
+skate through in the middle ranks.)  But here I kinda figured it was a
+game, and didn't equate it.  So I just went on to see how far I could
+push it.
+ 
+     She kept expanding the length of the sentence.  I was finally able
+to hit 2 and 1/2 lines at 1/12th of a second before she stopped and
+said I was to stay after class.  I was accused (in front of the vice
+principal) of cheating, having looked at the sheets of lines somehow,
+because this was at or above college level ability.  The vice principal
+at first wouldn't believe me, but I finally managed to convince him to
+pick other material and I'd try again.  Reluctantly, he did it, going
+right to the full-sentence stuff.
+ 
+     Same result.  And the look on the teacher's face as she realized I
+wasn't cheating was quite...remarkable.
+ 
+     Oddly enough, this has served me in small ways lately.  Sometimes
+in the later stages of post-production, when the final print has been
+assembled by the super-computer, every so often a glitch will happen
+and one random or wrong frame will get stuck somewhere, or you'll have
+a single frame of black between a CGI sequence and a live-action
+sequence.  We're talking here 1/24th of a second.  I almost always
+catch these.  I did this once during one of our audio mixes and the
+guys running the board couldn't believe it, and ran the film back to
+make sure I wasn't messing with them.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+The Third Age and The Coming o (19 Mar 1995)
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+19 Mar 1995
     Melody/Big Cat:
+ 
+     Your message is smarter and more perceptive than you know.
+ 
+     And you know a lot.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+
+"New Age" jms?  >:-)> (19 Mar 1995)
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"New Age" jms?  >:-)>

+19 Mar 1995
     I take great pains to a) treat religion with respect while b) not
+advancing any one specific creed or belief in the process.  I've been
+accused (in this forum) of advancing the cause of Judaism; now I'm told
+I'm advancing New Age philosophy; I've heard other opinions.
+ 
+     I have no interest in doing *any* of these things, and anyone who
+perceives an agenda where none exists may be extrapolating from their
+OWN personal beliefs and agendas.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+
+Talia, the Rumors Continue (19 Mar 1995)
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Talia, the Rumors Continue

+19 Mar 1995
     I don't think *anyone* should flame Deneuve over this, since this
+is something that the actress has been quoted as saying in other
+publications.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS:Babylon 5 Competition (19 Mar 1995)
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Attn JMS:Babylon 5 Competition

+19 Mar 1995
     Okay, if you really want my opinions....
+ 
+     DS9....what I've seen of it just puts me to sleep.
+ 
+     Voyager...good characters, potentially interesting situation, hasn't
+been pushed enough; falling back on the tried and true when, after this
+many Treks, it really has to go balls to the wall.
+ 
+     seaQuest...great potential, wasted.
+ 
+     VR5...interesting possibilities, waiting to see what they do with
+it.
+ 
+     X-Files...absolutely terrific.  In my office in the B5 studio, I have
+one mug.  It's not a B5 mug.  It's an X-files mug.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)> (19 Mar 1995)
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Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>

+19 Mar 1995
     Basically, the term New Age has been adopted as an appellation used
+by some of the fundamentalist right to describe anything they don't happen
+to agree with.  And you're correct; much of what is *packaged* as New AGe
+is primarily stuff cobbled up from older beliefs; similarly, there's a
+lot of early Judao/Christian theology that's cobbled up from Zoroastrian
+and Roman and Greek myths as well.  Everything's tied to everything else.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+ATTN JMS: Question about Hunte (3 Mar 1995)
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+3 Mar 1995
     Actually, no, the idea of making it Dr. Kyle had never entered my
+mind.  On reflection, might've been interesting if it had....
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+Re: TNG v Bab 5 (19 Mar 1995)
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+19 Mar 1995
     Y'know, this discussion is as essentially dopey as "Which would win
+in a fight, Superman or Mighty Mouse?"
+ 
+     (And, of course, this whole "who would win?" go-round is dependent
+upon the notion that this would take place during that one fraction of a
+second in which the crew hasn't been turned into children, or the
+dilithium crystals haven't decayed, or the ship's got a skeleton crew and
+is running on automation, or the holodeck's taken command of the ship,
+or...well, you get the idea.)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS: rest of season. (19 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: rest of season.

+19 Mar 1995
     I think we've got about 9 or so episodes left to air; I don't think
+that there will be the delay in the last ep this year as last time, but
+that's a PTEN decision of which I haven't yet been advised.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Re: Tolkien references (19 Mar 1995)
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+19 Mar 1995
     For me, the concept of the Rangers isn't tied to Norris; that isn't
+the reference I was talking about.  Being on that show, I kinda had to
+look into the history of the Texas rangers in general, and being the
+curious kind of guy I am, I widened out into the Army Rangers, and other
+sorts.  I'd been looking for a kind of name to attach to this group, and
+the more I thought about it, the more it fit.
+ 
+     As far as the costume is concerned...it's not medeival based; if you
+look at the ranger's outfit, than go look at a Minbari warrior outfit,
+you will discover a LOT of points of comparison.  It was *designed* to
+echo Minbari warrior caste clothes, to reflect the fact that these two
+sides are working together.  Go fire up "Legacies" and look at his
+uniform, then look at the ranger.  You'll see the similarities in
+silhouette and line in various places.
+ 
+     Of course I've read and enjoyed Tolkein.  But as I've said, I have
+no interest in doing LoTR with the serial numbers filed off.  I've
+dropped references to it in dialogue, but the structure of the story has
+nothing whatsoever to do with LoTR.  Basically, a lot of people have come
+up and said, "Oh, this is the same as Foundation," or "This is the same
+as LoTR," or "This echoes a lot of Dune," or "This is obviously a
+Homeric tale," or "There's a lot of Star WArs here."  It uses the same
+tools as all mythic structure fiction uses.  Hence it resonates.  But I
+didn't sit there and think, "Hmm...Gandalf left, so I'll have Sinclair
+leave."  That's just plain silly.
+ 
+     It's really a matter of what you bring to the table, that affects
+what you see in the story.
+ 
+     The roots of the symbolism and structure of B5 go back a hell of a
+lot longer than this.  Here...I'll give you one free.
+ 
+     G'Kar is in many ways my Cassandra figure, who in the Greek tales
+was granted the gift of prophecy...all the disasterous things she
+predicted would come true...but she was cursed by the gods that NO ONE
+would ever believe her.  And later, when the war was at its height,
+she ended up in the service of.....
+ 
+     Okay, five points to the person who can supply that answer, and see
+the connection.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS--Re: B4's fate? (20 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS--Re: B4's fate?

+20 Mar 1995
      You may tell your friend that this is the most nutso theory I've
+ever heard.  Nothing was stolen.  It's part of the story.
+ 
+                                                    jms
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+ATTN: JMS - Publish B5 bible? (20 Mar 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Publish B5 bible?

+20 Mar 1995
     It's something I've considered, but frankly, that's 3 years down the
+road, and a bit beyond my ken at the moment.
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+                                                             jms
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+20 Mar 1995
     And if Sacramento has offered an open invitation to folks to write
+in about the time change, then I very strongly second this; it may be a
+way of seeing if folks *really* want it or not, and if they get enough
+support, perhaps it WILL become permanent.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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* JMS (or Anyone):  RATINGS QU

+20 Mar 1995
     I believe the ratins for the week you cite were a Voyager re-run,
+so the actual first-runs tend to be higher.
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+                                                               jms
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JMS: Influence

+20 Mar 1995
     I don't believe, or recall, ever asking the net to go after someone.
+As far as I know, I have never done that and never will do that; if there
+is a need from someone for information, or support, then sure, I'll say,
+"Listen, if you have time, and you believe in the project then..." and
+let it go.
+ 
+     Do others flame because I flame?  Monkey-see, monkey-do?  The whole
+reason I got into this last contretemps (stupidly, in retrospect) was I
+read one of the threads I normally stay away from, in which I came across
+the individuals in question...and there were flames racing back and forth
+already.  This particular flame war, to varying degrees, was going on
+long before I got involved with it again.  And persists now that I've left
+it, AND asked that people simply ignore them and not respond.  If I have
+the power you suggest -- and I don't for a moment believe I do -- then
+all and sundry would have followed that suggestion.  Hasn't happened.
+ 
+     (Also, I tend to think that people are responsible for their own
+actions.  If someone is bringing down the fury of the net, they should
+look at their own behavior and be corrected on it.  It's the classic
+schoolyard scenario of hitting the kid who hit *back*.)
+ 
+     Generally, my response is proportionate to the message.  I try to
+deal even with the offensive messages with some measure of rationality.
+But there comes a point where someone behaves in such a sleazy fashion
+that only a tactical nuke can suffice.
+ 
+     You say it can be "vulgar."  These are perfectly valid anglo saxon
+terms.  If colorful language was good enough for Shakespeare, it's good
+enough for me.  "Vulgar" is a word people often use when they don't like
+forthrightness...we should be mealy mouthed and hide our feelings behind
+layers of BS.  Mark Twain was described as a "vulgar" writer.  So was
+Dickens, believe it or not.  Picasso's work was called vulgar.  So that
+word means nothing to me.
+ 
+     I calls 'em as I sees 'em.  If I'm forthright about what happens in
+the business, the network, the show...why should I start censoring
+myself when it comes to the nets?
+ 
+     There's also a certain element of netspeak that enters into this;
+in general, it seems like it's okay to smear somebody, to lie about
+somebody, to question someone's integrity, particularly if it's done
+without vulgar language, just the sharp blade of innuendo...but it's NOT
+okay for the subject of this to get upset about it.  To get ANGRY about
+it.  Even when it's justified.
+ 
+     Finally (and I know this may read intemperate at times, but it's not
+intended as a flame) I'm nobody's role model.  Nor should I be.  If
+anything I should be taken as a warning to anyone sensible NOT to go the
+way I go, because the path ain't worth the pain.  I'm a loose cannon.  I
+don't know when to shut the hell up.  And I think that the population of
+this net is sharp enough, and hip enough, and
+intelligent enough and common-sensical enough to KNOW that; I just don't
+think there's much problem here with "let's do what Joe's doing because
+Joe's doing it."  The problem is that some people knowingly and
+deliberately go out of their way to make other people *crazy*...and thus
+reap the whirlwind.  I can just barely manage to be accountable for my
+OWN nutty behavior let alone be held responsible for the actions of
+others on EITHER side of this.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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ATTN: JMS:  Do you watch the s

+20 Mar 1995
     I always watch the show when it's first broadcast, and usually in
+the reruns if I happen to be home, to make sure the audio and video
+aspects are still correct (and someday that'll happen).  As I "am"
+Babylonian Prods. (co-owner with Doug), I get copies of the tapes
+automatically, and as a terrible act of self-sacrifice, I've volunteered
+to receive the first set of pre-release laserdisks to check them out,
+do all the usual quality control.  When they come out for real, I'll
+probably buy a set.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>

+20 Mar 1995
     David Falk: yes, I'm sure this is what you have been taught in
+church, but that you were taught it doesn't mean that it touches reality
+at any two contiguous points.  It is imperative for many branches of
+fundamentalist christianity to constantly feel conspired against...so
+they cite humanist manifestos and theosophical societies and concoct
+these vast and dark organizations that exist nowhere but in the minds of
+those who conceive these theories.
+ 
+     "New Age" is one of these notions.  Basically, it's anything that is
+not Christianity, except satanism, though the phrase "new age occultism"
+sometimes blurs that line.  Here we've got dozens and dozens of different
+groups, maybe even hundreds, all with competing notions, all with certain
+levels of antagonism toward one another...described by you as a specific
+religious movment with similar systems, concocted through a "content
+model developed by the theosophical society, one of the early mind
+science cults."
+ 
+     Having now so defined it as a deliberate conspiracy, and part of a
+cult out to control our minds, you can dismiss it, AND add into it
+anything you choose.  And this is exactly what happens.  You say you
+don't agree or like my saying that this gets done by fundamentalists, then
+you turn *right* around and do it yourself.
+ 
+     Once again, I don't believe a word the new age groups or any other
+group puts forth.  Nor am I tarring fundamentalist groups.  I'm simply
+saying out loud and in public what's generally said in private among
+the majority of fundamentalist groups.  That tends to make some of them
+upset.  Like when you confront them on the school prayer issue; and you
+pare it down to the notion that they want THEIR prayers prayed, that
+they don't want a prayer to the great turtle on whose back the world
+rests, or to Thor, or Zeus, or Mammon, or Mohammed, or Buddha.
+ 
+     Having read the bible cover to cover twice, I can sometimes only
+conclude that Christ would be *profoundly* unhappy with many of the things
+said and done in his name.  He didn't like people to make specatacles of
+prayer and devotion.  Remember the suggestion to go into your closet to
+pray?  That only the hippocrites and pharisees make big deals of their
+belief by dragging it out into the public places?  Christians were urged
+to lay not your hands upon the law, to keep separate from the state, to
+offer to Caesar that which was Caesar's and to god that which was god's;
+because the state was by its very nature corrupt, christians were told to
+keep apart from it.  I think he would be ashamed, and disgraced, at the
+notion of christian theme parks and the transition of personal belief
+into big business.
+ 
+     (Misspelled hypocrites and spectacles above.  Pretend they were
+spelled correctly and we'll move on.)
+ 
+     There is much of christianity to commend it; its emphasis on faith,
+and charity, and devotion to others...and there is also much that works
+against it, a tendency toward brittleness and persecution complexes and
+vindictiveness and the tendency to portray anything that is not itself
+as evil or satanic or a conspiracy...and a huge dollop of defensiveness.
+You can find fundamentalists on both sides of this division.  It's just
+that to some, if you speak this way about a part, you are accused of
+speaking this way about *all*.  But I don't fall for that gag; I've
+seen it too many times.
+ 
+                                                              jms
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JMS: Writer's strike?

+3 Mar 1995
     Since negotiations between the WGA and the Alliance companies seem
+to be going along well just now, and since the WGA only renegotiates
+every four-five years, so the next one wouldn't be until B5 had run its
+full course, the question seems to me moot in any event.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+21 Mar 1995
     The ellipses at the ends of various lines in my AOL interview were
+only standard notations that more was coming in the sentence on the next
+coming line; nothing more.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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"The Great Maker"

+22 Mar 1995
     By season's end, you will see Kosh.  You will know where the shadows
+come from.  There will be a major development in the war.  How's that
+for a start?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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Re: B5's effect on DS9

+22 Mar 1995
     I agree that our show isn't a threat to any ST show, though Paramount
+has certainly evidenced that it feels that way, from getting Stephen Furst
+bumped off the Arsenio Hall show when it was still on because of his B5
+connection, to pressuring one of the directors we'd hired (who mainly does
+ST episodes) to get out of his contract (which we allowed to keep him out
+of trouble), to making a new show called BABYLON which will air on nearly
+all the same stations that air Babylon 5, to...well, the list goes on.
+ 
+     We have, apparently, had the effect of changing ST's vow never to do
+CGI, and in fact they've hired the same group we use to do some CGI
+effects for DS9 (ships and the like).
+ 
+     Glad to see that they are following our lead.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>

+22 Mar 1995
     There is considerable historical evidence that crucifixion was
+practiced as a means of punishment by the Romans toward the Jews at the
+time in question (though the methodology varied considerably from some
+of the accounts; a nail driven through the hand would be torn off fairly
+quickly by the weight of the body; ropes were commonly used as the main
+support, with spikes for...emphasis).  Certainly one can infer, even from
+the limited evidence, that someone bearing this name was indeed
+nailed up.  Whether he was a deity or simply a very good man with some
+very good ideas which have gotten somewhat distorted in places...is kind
+of the essential question.  I tend to go with the latter.  But that's
+just me.
+ 
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+Attn:JMS- UK order of shows. (22 Mar 1995)
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Attn:JMS- UK order of shows.

+22 Mar 1995
     Originally, "Soul Mates" was intended to be broadcast after "A Race
+Through Dark Places."  ARTDP required a rather substantial amount of
+post production work and audio design; "Mates" did not.  Rather than
+rush "Race," we decided it was okay to air those two in reverse order.
+If they have aired with "Race" first in the UK, then yes, it's different
+than the US order, but it *is* the correct production and story order.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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Re: JMS: Influence

+22 Mar 1995
     I repeat and stand by my original message: I have never asked anyoned
+(anyone) to go after anyone else here.  You (Jim Shupe) cite the Cynthia
+message, but that was a request for *support* in what looked like a bad
+situation coming; there was NO request for anyone to flame anybody in my
+message.  You're comparing apples and oranges.
+ 
+     "would you use such language directed at a person in front of a group
+of 1st graders?"
+ 
+     Probably not.  But the people assembled here aren't first graders.
+First graders aren't on the nets.  First graders can't read generally.  So
+why should I limit my language and information and messages to the first
+grade level?
+ 
+     Sounds like lowest common denominator programming to me.
+ 
+     I understand your concerns, Jim, but the minute this forum turns into
+a medium for free and untrammeled exchanges for everyone EXCEPT me, I'm
+outta here.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+22 Mar 1995
     As I write this we are now just under one month away from finishing
+filming on year two.  Last day of shooting is April 20th.  I have now
+written 14.5 episodes out of 22, and should have the very last script
+for this season (#15 for me personally) done by late next week.  By the
+end of April we should know whether or not we have been renewed.  We are
+now hip deep in pursuing that goal.
+ 
+     This time of season is much akin to that moment in "The Pit and the
+Pendulum" where the swinging blade is about 1/15th of an inch from the
+chest of our unwitting protagonist, and the rats are chewing at his bonds,
+and there's some small debate about which set of teeth is going to hit
+flesh first.
+ 
+     Consequently...for the next 30 days, you might find me more than
+usually intemperate.  More bluntly, expect to find me tired, irritable
+and generally, garden-variety cranky.  I'm getting 3-4 hours sleep per
+night, and upon arriving at the B5 offices I look rather like a death row
+inmate walking the last mile...which is about the standard look on anyone
+running a show this time of year.
+ 
+     I will continue to try and moderate my replies, but if an unintended
+edge creeps into the phosphor dots crawling across your screen...you'll
+know whence it comes.
+ 
+     Or to quote the Terminator...."I need a vacation."
+ 
+     Item the second:
+ 
+     Tomorrow, Wednesday, at 8:00 p.m. in most markets airs a wonderful
+stop-motion piece called "The Wrong Trousers" on PBS.  Story in brief:
+a man and his dog take in a penguin as a boarder...and the story take a
+funny/dark turn worthy of a Hitchcock movie.  It's simply the best thing
+I've ever seen in this medium, and encourage everyone to watch.
+Absolutely hysterical, and wonderfully done.
+ 
+     Item the third:
+ 
+     To allow for more time to finish the EFX work and some audio work,
+we'll probably reverse the first few episodes and start with "There All
+the Honor Lies" at the end of April, and spring "And Now for a Word" as
+the first true May sweeps episode.
+ 
+     As you were....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+JMS's vast mug collection (22 Mar 1995)
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+22 Mar 1995
      Actually, yes, there are B5 mugs available from Creation, at cons
+and via mail order.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS Re: "The Great Maker (22 Mar 1995)
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+22 Mar 1995
     It's very hard to just sit back and enjoy the show.  I'm always
+looking at it critically....what did we do right, what did we do wrong,
+is this the best angle *really*, should this music cue have started five
+frames sooner, why is there a little glitch in the doorframe behind the
+character, why did I write "the" instead of "a," what can I learn from
+this to apply toward future shows...you can go mad.
+ 
+     In general, I have to watch an episode (after it's finished) ten to
+fifteen times minimum before I can actually *see* it as a whole, more or
+less as a viewer.  Which means it often takes a couple-three years before
+I can truly appreciate it.
+ 
+     (This is true of just about anything I write for TV, btw.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: How old is Psi Corp? (22 Mar 1995)
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+22 Mar 1995
     Telepaths were finally and conclusively proven to exist around the
+early 2100s; by about 2120 or 30 the Psi Corps was formalized and became
+a branch of the government.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS: Is this common? was Re: A (3 Mar 1995)
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+3 Mar 1995
     Some bits and pieces are shown around the stage or posted on the
+stage bulletin board, but not too much.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)> (22 Mar 1995)
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Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>

+22 Mar 1995
     I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as
+soon as scholars begin teaching darwinism and geometry in church.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+22 Mar 1995
     Yes, this was deliberately the same character from "Chrysalis."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS's vast mug collection (22 Mar 1995)
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Re: JMS's vast mug collection

+22 Mar 1995
     I think it would be just about impossible to put Kosh on the outside
+of a mug.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Att'n JMS Re: Influences, Sand (22 Mar 1995)
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Att'n JMS Re: Influences, Sand

+22 Mar 1995
     Have never, in my entire life, seen an episode of the Sandbaggers.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Influence (22 Mar 1995)
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+22 Mar 1995
     Jay...on one level, I understand what you're saying, in theory at
+any rate.  Maybe it's because I still don't really take myself very
+seriously that I have a fundamental hard time with the notion of becoming
+a POP (Person Of Power).  It seems, I dunno, kinda goofy.
+ 
+     So I'm still not really convinced that I have it; or, having it, that
+I would *want* it.  It's sort of like the statement, "If nominated I will
+not run, if elected I will not serve."
+ 
+     The only thing that truly matters to me is that the work survive, and
+that the work receive the attention it deserves because of the hard work
+by so many talented people that goes into it...and to tell a story.  As for
+me...ehh.  I figure I'm doing good if I can just dress myself....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  Only 7 basic stories? (23 Mar 1995)
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+23 Mar 1995
     What I've always been taught is that there are three basic stories:
+man vs. man, man vs. himself, man vs. environment.  But such distinctions
+are false and fairly misleading; they generalize but do not perceive.
+ 
+     There are as many stories as there are people.  If you take someone's
+life and spin it out in a book or a movie, it's 100% different from the
+life of the person across town.  If you base your stories simply on plot,
+then sure, you're going to run into problems.  If you base your story on
+character, and make your characters distinct, this problem doesn't occur.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+ATTN: JMS do you ever get frea (23 Mar 1995)
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+23 Mar 1995
     "Do you ever think, `My god, what have I started?'"
+ 
+     Who has time?  (And why does this make me think of a Talking Heads
+song?)
+ 
+     The job of a story is to be seen by others.  If no one ever sees it
+it does not fulfill its purpose.  I generally don't really look at this
+as personal approbation, rather as a sense that the story has been seen,
+and it's good enough that people enjoy discussing it and arguing over it
+and debating it.  Which is the point: to initiate discussion.  If it does
+that, than I can't be anything other than deleriously happy.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Season Two Opening i (23 Mar 1995)
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+23 Mar 1995
     We'll probably keep whichever opening was originally associated with
+the episode, just to simplify things.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+"New Age" jms?  >:-)> (23 Mar 1995)
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+23 Mar 1995
     Here's the irony in this whole discussion: one of the friendly crew
+members on B5 named Eric came up to me at lunch and said, paraphrasing
+from memory, "I really want to thank you for what's in the show, the last
+few in particular [stuff that won't air until the next batch]; I'm a
+Christian too, and it's good to see someone else who believes the same
+way actually getting good christian messages out there about prayer and
+faith."
+ 
+     At which point I gently explained that I was an atheist...and he just
+kinda looked at me, as if I'd just grown three heads and feathers.  Later,
+he stopped by my office, citing another line used in the show before and
+echoed again in something we'd just shot ("You should be careful what you
+ask for, because sometimes the universe listens") and repeated his initial
+thesis, perhaps in the belief that this time I'd cop to being a christian.
+Nope.  But we've had some good conversations about it.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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Re: "New Age" jms?  >:-)>

+23 Mar 1995
     Eric R: very well reasoned and thought out; a good message, and a
+good approach.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: sigh (was Re: What does H (4 Mar 1995)
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+4 Mar 1995
     "You may as well have not responded, sir."
+ 
+     "If you don't wish us to ask such questions, then please say so and
+(we) will refrain from asking in the future."
+ 
+     Don't get snippy, Chuck.
+ 
+     I get 500 messages a day or more.  I don't have to answer any of
+them.  I do.  I don't owe you any kind of reply whatsoever; I could have
+simply seen it and moved on.  Don't snip at me because you didn't like
+the answer, or it wasn't as detailed as you might want.  Also, this is
+one particular question that I've answered, oh, about 30 times now, in
+excruciating detail; you'll forgive me if on number 31 I shorthand it a
+bit.
+ 
+     The answer I gave you was also 100% correct, whether you liked it or
+not.  Harlan does on the show whatever Harlan wants.  If you're not
+satisfied with the answer, that's your lookout, not mine.
+ 
+     For the 30th time (and a lot of this is probably in the faq, but after
+12 straight hours writing, and another 10 hours producing, and getting
+maybe 3 hours sleep out of the last 36, I will take the time and retype
+it all again, this time for your benefit, since you seem to begrudge me
+my prior response.  He has helped write the opening narration; he hsa
+created the character of the ombuds; he has worked with me in getting some
+of our freelance writers on-track; he has made costume suggestions, set
+suggestions, music suggestions...as I said: He does whatever he wants.
+ 
+     I hope that this answer, which is available in the faq, suffices for
+you.  For your next question, download the faq and try to ask one that
+I haven't already covered 30 times.  Or if you do ask an old one, and I
+give you a brief answer, because I'm tired, and I've been typing all day
+and all night, and my arms hurt all night long and all day long because
+of carpal tunnel syndrome...don't come back at me with attitude, because
+frankly your attitude sucks.  You could've said, "Could you amplify a
+little more?" and that would've been sufficient, and I probably would've
+obliged.  But I answer hundreds upon hundreds of messages every single
+week; don't pull this kind of crap on me.
+ 
+     "You may as well have not responded, sir."
+ 
+     Yeah, well, maybe next time I won't.
+ 
+     "If you don't wish us to ask such questions, then please say so and
+(we) will refrain from asking in the future."
+ 
+     Does your mom know you talk to people like this?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+23 Mar 1995
     What I find vastly rewarding is the fact that in general, religion
+is one of those things that you either don't discuss on boards, or you
+get into vast, massive, heated and vituperative flame wars that make
+Carthage look like a tea party.  But here, in general, the topic has been
+able to be discussed and different views aired in a non-accusative
+fashion...not argued, but *discussed*, which I think is nifty.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: How'd you meet Harlan? (23 Mar 1995)
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JMS: How'd you meet Harlan?

+23 Mar 1995
     No, I wasn't involved with "Paladin" or the CBS version of TZ except
+to write one episode (I story edited the syndicated version).  I actually
+met Harlan for the first time on a Writer's Guild picket line outside CBS
+a couple/three years before.  Just exchanged a few words, that's about it.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+

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+Re: male women on b5 (24 Mar 1995)
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Re: male women on b5

+24 Mar 1995
     "Would YOU want to have sex with someone who, as you started to go to
+bed, began to tell you light bulb jokes?"
+ 
+     Note to myself: I think I may have discovered the problem in my
+technique....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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Re: male women on b5

+24 Mar 1995
     Al Bell: I suspect that to some extent you are working through some
+issues that don't really have that much to do with Babylon 5.
+ 
+     Bear in mind also that B5 is a fairly controlled environment; you've
+got 24 hour a day access to communications and security.  Also, 95% of the
+people Ivanova has to deal with are subordinates, under her in rank; if
+any of them were to make a move, aside from coming away with one fewer
+hand, that person would be court martialed instantly and spend the next
+several years UNDER the brig.
+ 
+     You portray a universe of "women as victims," and maybe there are
+some elements of your background that may lead you to that sense that
+such has to be or is generally the case.  I think we've victimized
+people enough; women need to stop being victims and stop being afraid.
+ 
+     And I'm not saying that fear is invalid; in our current world, it's
+all too present.  You're talking to someone here who grew up in a familyi
+where wife-beating was common; I've seen such violence up close.  I've
+seen friends who've gone through this.  Which is maybe one reason why I
+chose to allow myself one utopian thought in a fairly dystopian B5
+universe: that in the armed services, and some other areas, it's not
+even a matter of discussion anymore; it just doesn't happen.  Womeen are
+100% equal with men.  A woman is no more likely to be sexually harrassed
+in B5 than a man, depending on how your preferences direct you.
+ 
+     There are damned few women role models who are strong, and capable,
+and intelligent, and witty, and physically able to defend themselves on
+TV.  Everywhere one turns the victim image is propagated; if I have gone
+a bit in the other direction to make a point, and TO point to something
+better, I think that's justified.
+ 
+     Besides, I happen to LIKE strong, capable, intelligent, funny women.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Big Bang Con: Anyone a VIP? (24 Mar 1995)
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Big Bang Con: Anyone a VIP?

+24 Mar 1995
     I would urge anyone considering buying tickets for the B5 stuff to
+hold off.  There are some problems.  I hope to have more specifically to
+say on this in a day or so.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Religion/Religious d (24 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Religion/Religious d

+24 Mar 1995
     To your question...as it happens, yes, I'll be doing a four issue
+arc of the comic, writing it throughout May/July, to appear in November.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+EA Seal in Revelations (24 Mar 1995)
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EA Seal in Revelations

+24 Mar 1995
     What you're seeing is the seal of the President of the Earth Alliance,
+which is a modified version of the EA logo.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+Evolution and prayer in the sc (24 Mar 1995)
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+24 Mar 1995
     Why did I ever, ever, ever, ever mention this topic?
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+From JMS: No B5 at Big Bang (24 Mar 1995)
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From JMS: No B5 at Big Bang

+24 Mar 1995
     This is a very hard message to write, but it has to be said, now,
+before the error compounds itself further.
+ 
+     Several weeks ago, a number of us -- me, Claudia, Mira and Michael --
+flew out to Chicago for a "dry run" of sorts for the Big Bang, held at
+Planet Hollywood.  It did not go well; there were many problems behind the
+scenes, which we worked to keep the fans from seeing: logistical,
+organizational, and other problems.  Our experience was that the whole
+exercise was poorly run, and there were other concerns raised about how
+business was being done.
+ 
+     Upon returning, I have said very little about the whole event, and
+sent Tom Christofferson a 4 page fax detailing the items that worried me
+about how things were being run, and indicated that unless things changed
+rather dramatically, neither I nor my cast could support this operation,
+because in the end it was the fans who would be hurt.
+ 
+     Subsequent to that came the capper.
+ 
+     Tom approached us about licensing a product: high quality leather
+jackets in rememberance of the Battle of the Line.  He requested the
+original artwork for all the Battle of the Line patches, which we have
+never given to anyone else.  The purpose was to make ONE demo jacket
+to show to Warners Licensing to show how it would look.
+ 
+     So you can imagine my dismay when I learned, over this system, in
+messages posted by others, that he was selling the jackets (which had
+NOT been licensed) at Vulkon; selling the patches; that he had taken
+artwork provided for use only as backdrops at the convention and had
+turned them into posters and was selling the posters.  People buying the
+posters and other material were told, and was even printed on them, that
+all proceeds were to benefit the Starfury Project, which had never been
+finalized, no arrangements had been made...buying these items on the
+assumption that they were contributing to a worthy cause.  They weren't.
+ 
+     This is not only a violation of copyright, but a violation of trust,
+on top of the other concerns we had about the convention.  Warner Bros.
+Legal Affairs is already onto this.  We didn't know he was doing this,
+he had no right to be doing this, and this is, as they say,the straw
+that breaks the camel's back.
+ 
+     Consequently, we must withdraw all support from this convention;
+neither I nor anyone else involved with Babylon 5 will attend.  If you
+were planning to attend specifically to see Babylon 5 folks, then I
+strongly suggest you secure a refund or change your plans.
+ 
+     All of us here are bitterly disappointed, because until our first
+trip we had great hopes for this.  Primarily, however, we are
+disappointed and saddened for the fans of the show, who were looking
+forward to this as much as we were.  A lot of people were very excited
+about it, ourselves included.  But once again the theory is proven that
+sometimes things that look too good to be true often are.  It is my
+feeling that, even the pirating aside, the convention would be a total
+disaster, and in the end the fans would be the ones hurt by it, and we
+can't allow that.
+ 
+     With great regrets....
+ 
+                                            J. Michael Straczynski
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: The Centauri Emperor's la (24 Mar 1995)
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JMS: The Centauri Emperor's la

+24 Mar 1995
     He meant "you two" as in Londo and Refa.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

+
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+JMS: Compliments from a viewer (4 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Compliments from a viewer

+4 Mar 1995
     Thanks...and sorry...and my best to you and Helene.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Totally Unrelated to (24 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Totally Unrelated to

+24 Mar 1995
     (If one longs to have a book like Elfquest, does that make one guilty
+of Pini envy?)
+ 
+     The Pinis indicated they don't want synopses uploaded, so that's out,
+and my memory isn't what it used to be, if it ever was.  What I *do*
+remember is that we tried to keep the new stories in line with what had
+gone before, and were going into an overall story that would complement
+what was being done in the comics.  I vaguely recall that it involved some
+members of the Holt disappearing, and a quest being launched to find them.
+ 
+     We kept the characters the same as in the books, the language, the
+maturity...which is why the Pinis loved it...and which is why CBS finally
+passed.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+B5 and Big Bang stuff (26 Mar 1995)
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+26 Mar 1995
     Matt...you would be well advised to stay out of the middle of this,
+because you're being used.  To address some of your points:
+ 
+     1) It is NOT common practice to take orders for items that you do
+not have the license to sell.  This is a breach of the law.
+ 
+     2) Patches *were* purchased, people here have bought them.  This is
+a breach of the law.
+ 
+     3) Posters wrongfully adapted from provided material were sold.  This
+is a breach of the law.  There was NO understanding at any point that this
+was agreed to for the Starfury deal.
+ 
+     4) CMC does NOT have signed contracts with all the B5 personnel,
+myself included.  Neither have many of them been given any kind of
+advance.
+ 
+     A Force For Good does not misrepresent contracts.  Does not sell
+goods that it does not have the right to sell.  Does not tell you that
+it's understood that material provided is there ONLY for one-time use in
+making a demo -- which was stated to me, and John Copeland, and others --
+and then turn right around and start making bunches of them and selling
+them, without telling anyone, and at first *denying* it when confronted.
+ 
+     Further, remember that this comes as the culmination of OTHER
+concerns raised during the Chicago visit.  It was my feeling, upon
+returning from that visit, that CMC did not have the wherewithal or the
+capacity to deliver upon its promises, and that the convention would be
+a total disaster.  It was that concern which prompted my lengthy fax to
+CMC.
+ 
+     I could go down the list of things that went wrong behind the scenes
+of the first visit, but it would again require four pages.  Understand
+clearly: every single one of us returned to LA *very* worried about how
+things were being handled.  CMC had a lot of ideas, but it seemed to all of
+us that they didn't have the ability or the organization to pull off those
+ideas.  The rest was icing on the cake.
+ 
+     Please, everyone, don't get into the middle of this; this is now
+in lawyer territory.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+Re: From JMS: No B5 at Big Ban (27 Mar 1995)
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Re: From JMS: No B5 at Big Ban

+27 Mar 1995
     To Kent Lucas: I just wanted to add how pleased everyone was at the
+friendliness of the folks at Capricon, and that the brief time in the film
+room was a real highlight for us.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+From jms: B5 Soundtrack Info (27 Mar 1995)
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From jms: B5 Soundtrack Info

+27 Mar 1995
     Elena has already posted some of this, but since it probably got lost
+in the recent confusion....
+ 
+     While Christopher Franke's new and expanded BABYLON 5 SOUNDTRACK
+is being released later next month, it's possible to order it NOW from
+Sonic Images, Chris's own company.  Be the first on your block, and all
+that.
+ 
+     There's an additional 12-15 minutes worth of music on this as opposed
+to the original limited release, which sold out its run within a matter of
+weeks.  It has an expanded booklet, more photos, and is gorgeously
+packaged.  (Elena can release a more detailed summary, so watch for her
+message.)
+ 
+     The soundtrack, which contains music from the first, and some from the
+second seasons, has been orchestrated into one long suite, about 52 or so
+minutes.  It's just beautiful.  It also has the first and second season
+main title themes, and the best pieces from our better episodes...including
+something added for just this release, a 4+ minute extended version of his
+haunting theme for the Battle of the Line.
+ 
+     It can be ordered direct *now* from Sonic Images for $13.99 each,
+plus $3 shipping and handling in the US, Canada and Mexico, or $6 S&H
+to all other countries.  Checks/orders can be sent to Sonic Images, P. O.
+Box 691626, West Hollywood, CA 90069.  I'd move quickly, because if the
+limited is any indication, these are going to sell out quickly, and you'll
+avoid a wait later.
+ 
+     It really *is* very cool, folks....
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+ 
+     (Only CD release, no cassettes.)
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 and Big Bang stuff (28 Mar 1995)
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Re: B5 and Big Bang stuff

+28 Mar 1995
     Matt, I have never considered that your motives have ever been other
+than the well being of Babylon 5.
+ 
+     In that respect, we are alike.
+ 
+     One thing to remember is that B5 has developed a very hard-won
+reputation for square dealing, and for taking care of those viewers who
+have chosen to support us.  This comes from the executive producer's
+office.  On anything that uses the B5 name, or which is connected to
+B5, we take great pains to make sure everything's on the up and up, that
+when merchandise goes out, or deals are made, it is done straight-up,
+done properly, and the quality is assured.  Anytime anyone buys anything
+or supports anything involving B5, they have to *know* that it went through
+my hands, that it's been checked out, vetted, and approved not by aides
+but by the people who make the show.  Sometimes that's a pain in the ass,
+but it's the only way of protecting the fans in the long run, and the only
+way I know how to make this show.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Babylon Squared: Who are we fi (28 Mar 1995)
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+28 Mar 1995
      Robert Lynn Rhodes: in return for your good post, here's a gift:
+while we won't see Zathras this season, we will HEAR his name, but not
+from anyone who was on B4.  He's around, but he's not *here*.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+JMS: Cut bits? (28 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Cut bits?

+28 Mar 1995
      Every episode is cut to varying degrees; I think there's been
+maybe one out of 42 shot to date that's come out exactly right, without
+anything having to be cut.  (You always err a little on this side
+because the last thing you want is to come out SHORT, which is a major
+pain in the butt, and by the time this is known it's often too late to
+shoot stuff within the timeframe of that episode.)  Generally, you WANT
+an episode to be about 2-4 minutes over, so you can trim and tighten.
+ 
+     Generally speaking, our episodes come in 5-8 minutes over *in the
+director's cut*.  One or two have gone as far as 10 minutes over in that
+cut.  And what's discovered is almost always that there's a lot of air,
+long lingering shots that slow down the pace...my feeling is that 1) it's
+better to have more story than time than more time than story, and 2)
+all our episodes should be edited at a dead run, so tight they scream.
+ 
+     Consequently, while episodes may start out long, and often missing
+scenes deleted by the director, once John Copeland and I go back in and
+start tightening the screws, we almost always get all those scenes BACK
+again, and then I line-cut here and there within scenes.  So with very
+few exceptions, there aren't very many scenes that would've added
+anything that are missing, even from "Revelations."  I think that that
+was one of our longer ones, and we dropped bits here and there, but
+in the long run nothing much really of consequence.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+KCOP changes B5 rerun time (28 Mar 1995)
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KCOP changes B5 rerun time

+28 Mar 1995
      As well as the KCOP changes, we've heard of other stations moving
+B5 into better timeslots for both first and second run.  As the show
+continues to gain momentum, and gets noticed, we hope to see this trend
+grow.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+A Kosh speculation... higher m (28 Mar 1995)
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+28 Mar 1995
      Just to clarify...I *think* what I said was that you couldn't GET
+Kosh on a mug, not that you couldn't FIT Kosh on a mug....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+

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+ATTN JMS: Blooper for Sale? (29 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Blooper for Sale?

+29 Mar 1995
     Selling the blooper reel(s) is something we've discussed, but so far
+haven't decided one way or another.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+B5 T-Shirt and Cap Info (jms) (4 Mar 1995)
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B5 T-Shirt and Cap Info (jms)

+4 Mar 1995
     In reply to the many who've asked...All-U, which has one of hte
+licenses for B5 merchandise, has been supplying mainly to distributers
+but has now started taking individual orders.  These are *truly* nifty
+t-shirts and caps, authorized and approved.  There are t-shirts (short
+AND long-sleeve) for the cast with station, station with B5 logo and
+the words "the last best hope," station/logo/planet, and station with a
+starfury in foreground.  The cap has the B5 logo embroidered.  These
+are quality shirts, folks.  When these guys grabbed the license, and
+we saw how good they were, we ordered boxes and boxes of 'em for the
+studio, and these are the exact same ones worn by many of our crew and
+cast.  The artwork is laid down nicely, not heavy, well detailed, and
+true to the look of the show.
+ 
+     Orders can be placed at All-U at 1-800-424-2558, ext. 105.  Shirts
+and caps are $17, with long-sleeve shirts at $25, plus shipping.  As I've
+noted before, we're doing limited merchandising, mainly that which can be
+controlled for quality and done right.  These definitely qualify.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: what merchandise has been (29 Mar 1995)
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JMS: what merchandise has been

+29 Mar 1995
     Thus far, there are licensed caps, shirts, a soundtrack, an LCD game,
+Micromachines, the comic, the novels from Dell...and soon to come, trading
+cards, a screen saver and some other stuff.  The most common illegal stuff
+tends to be fake Links, patches, pins, PPGs, Starfuries and boarding
+passes.  None of this has been licensed, so if you see it, it ain't legit.
+ 
+     I think this should stay within the purview of the fans, rather than
+sending us constant notification of this.  I don't want people to feel
+obligated to rat this stuff out; that's our problem.  Don't support it,
+but I refuse to turn enjoyable con weekends into exercises in Big
+Brotherism.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+To JMS Re: Big Bang Expo (29 Mar 1995)
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To JMS Re: Big Bang Expo

+29 Mar 1995
     Anne: straight up...do you want me to set aside my beliefs on how
+conventions should be run and just say "the hell with it?"  What if the
+con turns out, as I suspect it would, as a disaster and a disappointment?
+Then what happens to the fans?
+ 
+     The fans are not being punished.  I'm put in mind of "A Comedy of
+Terrors," where Vincent Price keeps trying to slip poison into Boris
+Karloff's soup, saying it's medicine, only to be thwarted by Karloff's
+daughter, who rips the bottle away...and in response, the addled
+Boris bemoans the fact that she keeps taking away his medicine.  And she
+gets the rap.
+ 
+     What makes this show special, and the reason you like it, amon
+others, is that it stems from certain principles and idea.  Are you now
+asking that I set aside that which makes the show what it is?  Because that
+would be the result.  One learns a lot about a person by whom one sleeps
+with.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Artwork for B5 merch (29 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Artwork for B5 merch

+29 Mar 1995
     They are going to be trading cards, not gaming cards, which makes
+the details more or less moot.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+The Big Cat Comes Back (30 Mar 1995)
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The Big Cat Comes Back

+30 Mar 1995
     Melody: marry me.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Spoiling Vorlons for JMS (30 Mar 1995)
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+30 Mar 1995
     I've never been overly worried about Kosh, because though some have
+strayed near, no one has entirely *got it*, so it's cool.  There have been
+one or two stories, small ones, that yes, have been scuttled because
+they've been suggested here, but not too much.  Basically, if I were to
+keep changing directions every time somebody makes a guess, I'd be all over
+the landscape.  You can't tell a story that way.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
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+CSICOP = Psi-cop? (30 Mar 1995)
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CSICOP = Psi-cop?

+30 Mar 1995
     At one point, I did hear CSICOP and like the sound of a variation of
+that, as PsiCop.  So yes, that was part of it.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+JMS: Sheridan's Speech (30 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Sheridan's Speech

+30 Mar 1995
     No, it was only omitted as part of collapsing the speech for time.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+JMS: ab fab (31 Mar 1995)
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+31 Mar 1995
     Is this the New York portion of AbFab?  Is it as good as the rest?  I
+wondered if they were going to take the edge off because of the American
+connection.
+ 
+     (Sadly, I will have to deny every being a fan of AbFab the day the
+Roseanne Barr version hits TV.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Re: If we knew then... (MotFL) (31 Mar 1995)
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Re: If we knew then... (MotFL)

+31 Mar 1995
     Re: parallel visuals between MotFL and CoS...yes, precisely.  In some
+ways, they were set up as mirror-image parallels of one another, to show
+how the wheel turns, to quote G'Kar.  The opening council meeting, the
+attacks, the determination to kill the other, alternately Garibaldi or
+Sheridan having to stop them by calling on the question of consequences if
+followed up on...it shows CoS as sort of the "dark mirror" of the first
+episode.  Everything we saw when we first thought we knew what the series
+was has now totally reversed and been turned on its head.
+ 
+     They also focus on one of the main questions that B5 addreses itself
+to: what is important to you? what are you willing to sacrifice? how far
+are you willing to go to get what you want?  For me, a large measure of
+defining WHO we are is by WHAT we are willing to do, and what we want, and
+the means by which we pursue those goals.  The other theme of course is
+sacrifice, which recurs throughout the show in one form or another.
+ 
+     Sometimes, I think, people get so caught up in what's happening and
+why that they miss what it's *about* on a more cellular level.  And that's
+the question of who we are.  Identity.  The importance of *one single
+person* and the ability of that person to act as a fulcrum, intentionally
+or otherwise, upon which vast events can turn.  Choices.  What you value
+most.  Those, to me, are the issues most worth exploring.  We're told
+every day, beaten down with the notion that we're powerless, that we
+can't change things, you can't fight city hall...and of course it's not
+true.  You can fight.  And sometimes, you can even win.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Subj:  From JMS re: Big Bang
+Date:  95-03-30 17:29:34 EST
+
+     Several confusing elements have come out about this whole situation; I
+wanted to dive in for a second to (hopefully) straighten out some of them.  
+
+     To the question of what and when...the Planet Hollywood excursion was
+intended as a "dry run" (to use Tom Christofferson's words) so that we could
+see how things worked.  Prior to that time, we thought everything was fine.
+Upon returning from Chicago, all of us had very grave concerns about what we
+had seen, in terms of organization and the ability of CMC to pull off the
+convention.  I took one week to talk to various cast members, think it over,
+and then sent a 4-page fax to Tom C. explaining that we were all very
+concerned, and delineating how things were going to have to be done in future
+if B5 was to cooperate with this operation.  He agreed to those points, or
+seemed to.  I wanted to give Tom a second chance to demonstrate that he could
+do things right.  It was about a week or so later that we learned about the
+pirated merchandise, the copyright infringement, and that promises made to
+us, and to me personally, by Tom had not been kept.  
+Thence commenced a *very* angry phone conversation with Tom, after
+initially denying to John Copeland that anything amiss had happened.  I told
+Tom at that time that after giving him a second chance, he had blown the
+whole thing and we were going to pull out.  He said that if we said this
+publicly, it could kill the convention and hurt him.  He then suggested that
+he would cancel the convention, no names, no blame; it would let him get out
+with some dignity.  The few cast members who had been given partial advances
+would be allowed to keep them (since the cast, as well as the fans, were the
+ones most likely to be harmed).  At that time, I went along with it.  So I
+waited.  A week passed.  More time passed.  It became clear after a while the
+he was NOT going to cancel the convention, and he continued to maintain that
+everyone was coming when I had made it *absolutely* clear to him over the
+phone that this was not going to happen.  (So those fans who called and were
+told by him that this was all news to him, were not told the truth.)  By now
+my alarms were going off pretty loud, and I felt it was time to go public.
+ To the notion, expressed by Tom, that CMC is not the same as the company
+that made the pirated material (posters bore the markings T3, for
+T-cubed)...again, this is misinformation.  To the notion that Tom is not
+directly running CMC, and just an employee who messed up...again, not true.
+As part of the material I requested from Tom, I wanted a full fiscal
+background check.  He sent me several pages of information.  In his letter of
+February 28, to me, he indicated that CMC was working with the merchandising
+and licensing aspects; the financial information he gave for CMC was the
+financial statement for T3, represented to us in that letter as being the
+backing and structure of CMC.  He represented to us that financially and
+corporately T3 *was* CMC.  Tom signed the actors contracts on behalf of CMC,
+and in the corporate information provided to us by him lists himself as Vice
+President of both CMC and T3.  Different names, but all part of the same
+company and corporate structure.  Further, when we (Michael, me, Mira and
+Claudia) met with Tom and his associates at the T3 headquarters, Tom
+represented to us in front of T3 staff and executives that T3 was involved in
+equal partnership with CMC in running Big Bang.  
+
+     Further, remember again the full extent of this, and how things
+happened.  Tom C. requested artwork for B5 patches for a "demo" jacket.  Upon
+meeting him in Chicago, he made quite a big deal out of the fact that he was
+keeping these secret; he pulled them out from under his jacket and hidden in
+the trunk of the car, repeated that these were for our eyes only.  I repeated
+to him, in front of witnesses, what I'd said previously: that these were not
+for distribution to ANYone outside the company. 
+e (Tom) also stated to me that he had PERSONALLY overseen the
+production of the patches, and their manufacture.  So CMC, in the person of
+Tom, *did* make those items (and at the time, Claudia mentioned that she saw
+a LOT more than the few he was supposed to show us for approval, and wondered
+why).  After telling us repeatedly that this was all just for approval, he
+then turned around and began selling them without authorization, without
+license.  There was NO misunderstanding.  He told us one thing, repeateddly,
+and then did something else.  Ditto on the artwork.  
+
+     He'd requested/bought CGI images to be used as backdrops or banners AT
+THE CON.  And ONLY for that purpose.  That was provided to him.  He showed me
+prints of the images at Planet Hollywood, indicating that they were having
+some problem in blowing them up to the right size.  As people noticed them, I
+repeated to Tom that these were not to be used for any other purpose.  He
+said he understood that.  And then turned around and made the prints he
+showed me (again indicating to me that he was directly responsible for the
+artwork) into posters, and began selling them.  
+The notion that CMC isn't responsible because the posters had T3 on them
+is a classic shell-game.  He and CMC are directly responsible for their
+manufacture.  
+
+     To the notion that all actors and I are paid and contracted to appear:
+again not true.  Only a couple of actors had received any kind of small
+advance.  I had never signed any contract.  I have already sent back the
+advance with a formal letter stating that I will have nothing to do with this
+operation.  
+
+     From the very instant we arrived in Chicago, things with this convention
+weren't right.  This is only the capper, after having given CMC a second
+chance.  Matters of trust were constantly violated.  Private conversations
+were repeated widely (Jerry Doyle had NOT given Tom permission to announce
+his engagement, for instance).  Dealers promised information and other
+material after buying space received nothing.  I was *very* worried about the
+fact that everything was being paid for by CMC in cash, without any credit
+references being used.  Advances were paid with *money order*.  It created
+the impression that money from ticket purchases was being used to pay for all
+this, and a con of the size that CMC had discussed would take great resources
+to pull off.  There were constant foulups on every level...the hotel we'd
+been booked into canceled the reservations, and didn't seem to know anything
+about it, and we ended up cruising through Chicago near midnight trying to
+find a hotel.  If you're going to run a convention for thousands of people,
+you'd better have your act together if you can't even handle four people.
+(The hotel was also canceled because there had been no credit reference
+provided.)  The logistics at Planet Hollywood were a nightmare, fans couldn't
+hear anyone unless they were right next to the person, and there was pirated
+material everywhere.  I was shown home-made PPGs and links and pins, told
+they were working with Tom for eventual licensing from WB...and then, the
+next day, at CapriCon, we were put at a table where these items were BEING
+SOLD.  Time and time, our trust has been betrayed, promises have not been kept,
+legalities have not been adhered to, and the clear impression we got upon
+coming back from Chicago was that there were *real* problems, that this
+convention was never going to come off unless DRASTIC changes were made.  We
+were in the process of trying to deal with that when the final straw was
+finally laid on the camel's back.  This is not a case of a simple
+misunderstanding, except where CMC are trying to create the false impression
+of one to cover their butts in this.  
+
+     I probably should have gone public with this earlier than I did.  But I
+was trying to give CMC one last chance to make things right.  Which was my
+mistake.  (Note: anyone wishing to repost this to Internet is free to do so.)
+
+               jms
+
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+Attn.: JMS: Observation on Dia (2 Mar 1995)
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Attn.: JMS: Observation on Dia

+2 Mar 1995
     All audio tracks are made very clear when they leave our hands; at
+various points along the way, our audio generally gets messed with, losing
+the dynamic range and having the midrange stuff hammered; this is done by
+some stations and the satellite folks, so that may account for some of
+what you're experiencing.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+Kosh is not being cryptic. (4 Mar 1995)
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Kosh is not being cryptic.

+4 Mar 1995
     Ah, at *last* someone who understands Kosh.  Yes, Andy, that is
+precisely it.  Of all the lines I write in the course of an episode, the
+ones that take the longest are always Kosh's lines; anyone can be cryptic;
+that's easy.  You have to kind of re-hardwire your brain to think like
+Kosh thinks.  He sees directly to the point of what the issue is, and that
+we sometimes can't follow has nothing to do with him being mysterious, as
+it does with just not being able to stand back and look objectively; clear
+seeing, as they say in Zen.
+ 
+     There's an old Zen saying; when you are hungry, eat; whey you are
+tired, sleep; this way will you confound your enemies.  Kosh's dialogue
+tends to be a stone dropped into water that drops straight down.  The
+more I can pare down his dialogue to just what is *absolutely essential*
+the more it is Kosh.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Attn JMS: B5 Fan clubs? (4 Mar 1995)
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Attn JMS: B5 Fan clubs?

+4 Mar 1995
     We've been trying to push a B5 fan club through Warners, and have
+had tough going, but in time, and with luck, that'll change to some
+extent or other.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS; Repeat quote please. (4 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS; Repeat quote please.

+4 Mar 1995
     Reason I said to keep it was that I knew I'd forget it...and I have.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: UK B5 group (4 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: UK B5 group

+4 Mar 1995
     I can basically handle one big group on internet at a time; when
+rec.arts.b5 was created, I moved here from alt.b5 and haven't been on it
+since.  (Also, my access to internet is via a gateway created by another
+kind user that I can use via GEnie; I don't directly get into internet.)
+So my guess is probably not, barring anything extraordinary.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+ATTN JMS: You and the "actor-b (4 Mar 1995)
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+4 Mar 1995
     Actually, we have even MORE fun on the set; which is why it's a great
+place to work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+Attn JMS: What's with Warner's (4 Mar 1995)
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Attn JMS: What's with Warner's

+4 Mar 1995
     I think to some extent we're falling between two chairs, given that
+most of Warner's attention now is in promoting the WB network.  It's
+been the topic of...considerable discussion lately, and with any kind of
+luck at all, we might get a bit more PR down the road.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+Re: JMS: sigh (was Re: What do (4 Mar 1995)
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Re: JMS: sigh (was Re: What do

+4 Mar 1995
     Apology accepted.  Forgiven, forgotten, gone.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+JMS: G's bubbles (H,P spoilers (5 Mar 1995)
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JMS: G's bubbles (H,P spoilers

+5 Mar 1995
      P.S.  For folks who, as you indicated, like to freeze-frame this
+stuff and look at it later, I slipped in a little something JUST for you
+guys (and, well, yeah, it also serves a plot point, and pushes part of
+the arc), but it's something the freeze-framers will enjoy...look for it
+in the first couple of episodes in the next batch of new episodes.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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JMS: G's bubbles (H,P spoilers

+5 Mar 1995
     The word-balloons went by when the monitor was off-camera, and we
+were on Franklin.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+The Ship Who Sang (5 Mar 1995)
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The Ship Who Sang

+5 Mar 1995
     There was no intended reference to Anne McCaffrey's story; Kosh tends
+to speak naturally through a series of musical/tonal/atonal chords, and I
+figured his ship would communicate in the same way, which to another would
+sound a little like singing.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+Re: SeaQuest Rips Off "B5" (2 Mar 1995)
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Re: SeaQuest Rips Off "B5"

+2 Mar 1995
      Yeah, telepaths and their trials and tribulations have been done in
+print SF forever; but in 50 years of broadcast TV, no one's ever done it
+before B5...and it didn't take long for somebody else to jump on it once
+we did it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+ATTN JMS: How many episodes in (5 Mar 1995)
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+5 Mar 1995
     It's 22 per season.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS: Change in Kosh's voice? (5 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Change in Kosh's voice?

+5 Mar 1995
     There's been no change in the tenor of Kosh's voice that I'm aware of.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+re: Hugo nominations (5 Mar 1995)
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re: Hugo nominations

+5 Mar 1995
     The Sci-Fi Universe rankings were only the opinion of the individual
+reviewer, and doesn't reflect the majority of fan opinion I've seen on
+the show; the survey that comes out here every episode or so tends to be
+more reflective of overall opinion.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Doug Netter does Naked Gun? (6 Mar 1995)
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+6 Mar 1995
     Nope, it's some other Doug Netter.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: Note on growing audi (6 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Note on growing audi

+6 Mar 1995
     That's a great report, thanks, very encouraging.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+B5 visibility- wouldn't mercha (6 Mar 1995)
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+6 Mar 1995
     I fought merchandising the first year to focus on the show; all too
+often the tail begins wagging the dog.  Now we're doing a little, here and
+there.  Merchandising doesn't really drive ratings; ratings drive the
+sale of merchandise.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Dr. John Glassco - *SPOILERS* (6 Mar 1995)
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Dr. John Glassco - *SPOILERS*

+6 Mar 1995
     The funny thing is...NOTHING quoted in the article has ANYthing to
+do with B5...not the rat, not the android, nothing.  I can only assume
+it involves ST, because it's got nothing to do with what we're shooting.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+CGI -- What's missing still? (8 Mar 1995)
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CGI -- What's missing still?

+8 Mar 1995
       I think the CGI in composites looks more real because it's up next
+to items we know ARE real.  Re: transferring the CGI to film...this will
+be done as part of redoing each episode to meet HDTV standards and laser
+disks.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+ATT: JMS- Generic apology (8 Mar 1995)
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ATT: JMS- Generic apology

+8 Mar 1995
     Robert Christopher...don't be silly.  Though the sentiment is
+appreciated, and the gesture a noble and good one, what you describe just
+happens; I've been on the nets too long to let most stuff bother me.
+ 
+     I'm not bashful; if you ever do something that requires an apology,
+you won't have to wonder about it.  I remember seeing your post, and as it
+came in a batch of similar messages, didn't bother me overmuch.
+ 
+     Bottom line...s'okay.  Don't worry about it.
+ 
+     You have nothing to apologize for...well, except for that shirt...and
+those *shoes*...c'mon, RC, you gotta stop letting your mom dress you.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Morden in pilot? (8 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Morden in pilot?

+8 Mar 1995
     Re: Morden apparently appearing in the pilot...certainly the actor
+does, yes.  That cannot be denied.  You're correct in that to date, I have
+not commented on Morden being this same person.
+ 
+     And the secret answer to this is...oh, hell, there's the phone....
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: B5 CAN attract the n (2 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: B5 CAN attract the n

+2 Mar 1995
                ...many thanks.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+Request: StarShip Yamato on B- (8 Mar 1995)
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Request: StarShip Yamato on B-

+8 Mar 1995
     The next big weapon you see on B5 will be a hell of a lot nastier
+than even a wave-motion gun....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS: The End of the Arc an (8 Mar 1995)
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Re: JMS: The End of the Arc an

+8 Mar 1995
      This is aimed at Theron Fuller, who once again proves that he has
+not the vaguest idea what the hell he's talking about.  I'm getting tired
+of constantly having to do this, and I swore it off for a while, because
+it's like trying to teach a snail to tapdance ("Oh, look, dear, isn't that
+cute, it's trying to *think*!")...but once more I sally forth in spite of
+remaining wisdom.
+ 
+      To your statement that we "sold the national advertising at cut
+rates to fill the space"...claptrap.  Have you *watched* the show lately?
+We've gone to larger sponsors than in our first year, higher prestige
+sponsors.  Also, ratings for national sponsors are based on the cumulative
+national ratings, when you add together the two runs per week.  And ever
+since we went on the air, we have been increasing our ratings every single
+damned quarter, Theron.  Okay?  Can we be clear on that now?  Increasing.
+Or in fewer syllables, UP.  We went from a 3.2 to a 3.7 to a 4.0 to a
+4.3 to a 4.4 and now we're hovering at about the 4.9 area about to break
+into a 5.0.
+ 
+      IN ADDITION, you towering mudslide of misinformation, ou
+demographics are STELLAR.  We have alternately the #2 or #3 ranking in
+ALL syndicated dramas in demographics, and just recently outdid DS9 for
+the first time.  Using the formula that advertisers use to determine ad
+rates, this pushes our regular ratings to an ad-rate figure of 6.5.  The
+ads are being sold at top rate, to major sponsors, who have booked the show
+SOLID through the fourth quarter.
+ 
+     PTEN has not asked for ANY changes in looking toward a possible
+season three, and right now it looks VERY good for that season; the only
+thing that might prevent it would be a cataclysmic drop in the ratings,
+and that hasn't happened.
+ 
+     What you do, Theron, is create this crisis that exists only in your
+own fevered brain...oh dear the show sucks in the ratings...AHA! that
+MUST be why they changed between last season (wrong), and they must be
+planning to "dumb down the show even further" for the third season in a
+desperate attempt to survive!
+ 
+     I don't know what voices you hear in the middle of the night, Theron,
+but their evaluations do not touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+And I've grown weary beyond the telling of you sounding off here and
+spouting nonsense as though somehow you had the facts and figures in front
+of you.  You don't.  You're making all this crap up.
+ 
+     Please take it somewhere else.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS "Tie a RED Ribbon Rou (8 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS "Tie a RED Ribbon Rou

+8 Mar 1995
      The ribbon was there as a "drop," a signal that a meeting was to
+take place between Sheridan and his contact, in this case Sarah, which
+happens in the very next scene.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+I'm confused about 5year arc (8 Mar 1995)
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I'm confused about 5year arc

+8 Mar 1995
      The five years applies to the series; it's six if you count in
+the pilot.
+ 
+	                         jm(mathematics not zathras' skill)s
+
+

+
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+Attn: JMS: "Souls" (8 Mar 1995)
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Attn: JMS: "Souls"

+8 Mar 1995
      I'm afraid that asking my opinion on souls will matter very little
+in an analysis of their use in B5 in that as an atheist I don't believe in
+any kind of afterlife, which kinda negates the discussion.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Bubble & Squeak (8 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Bubble & Squeak

+8 Mar 1995
      Yes, I know all about Toad in the Hole and Spotted Dick, and in
+general both conditions can be cured with regular doces of antibiotics.
+ 
+           jms(who has eaten many times at Porters in Covent Gardens)s
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: You'll find this amu (8 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: You'll find this amu

+8 Mar 1995
     ...quark photos...sigh...I can't get a break....
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+

+
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+You know you've OD'ed on Babyl (8 Mar 1995)
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You know you've OD'ed on Babyl

+8 Mar 1995
      Cats markings *do* move when you're not looking.  I thought everyone
+knew this.
+ 
+	                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Babylon-TRGB Connection? (8 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Babylon-TRGB Connection?

+8 Mar 1995
      I didn't write that episode of THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS; I'm fairly
+sure (this was a while ago) that Richard Mueller wrote "I Am the City."
+ 
+      (Though I did story edit that script, as well as the 77 others in
+that one season.)
+ 
+      Among the episodes I wrote are "Citizen Ghost," "Ragnarok and Roll,"
+"The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic," "Xmas Marks the Spot," "Mister
+Sandman, Dream Me a Dream," "When Halloween Was Forever," "Chicken, He
+Clucked," "No One Comes to Lupusville," and a bunch of others.  In general,
+the really sick and twisted ones were usually mine.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Can we get rid of imperial (8 Mar 1995)
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Re: Can we get rid of imperial

+8 Mar 1995
      And by the way...those who keep saying we should be showing metric
+in the future...hey, I've *seen* the future, and metric was dropped in
+2181 in favor of the original system, mainly to annoy the hell out of the
+French.
+ 
+      So *there*.
+ 
+      And if it doesn't happen in 2181, you can come correct me.
+ 
+      If you can find me.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN:JMS repost. Thoughts re P (3 Mar 1995)
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ATTN:JMS repost. Thoughts re P

+3 Mar 1995
     Yes, generally telepaths do let down their defenses while they make
+love; you can keep them up, but the concentration level is very difficult.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Question about Bab5 production (8 Mar 1995)
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Question about Bab5 production

+8 Mar 1995
     Sometimes for production reasons, a section of dialogue may be looped
+(a glitch in recording, off-camera noise, a faulty radio mike, any number
+of common occurances).  We match the looped dialogue to the original with
+proper room tone...and you can't easily tell it was done.  But we've known
+for some time that our audio is getting crunched via the WB delivery
+process, and some stations which cut out the dynamic range, particularly
+those broadcasting in mono.  After all that, the differences can become
+noticeable.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+A theory on Vorlons (8 Mar 1995)
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A theory on Vorlons

+8 Mar 1995
     Are the Vorlons the bad guys and the shadows the good guys?
+ 
+     That ain't it.
+ 
+     Are the shadows the bad guys and the Vorlons the good guys?
+ 
+     That also ain't it.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+Atten JMS: Status on other pro (8 Mar 1995)
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Atten JMS: Status on other pro

+8 Mar 1995
     I hope to have word on some other projects I've been developing over
+the next few months.  In all cases, while I'll create the series and will
+be nominally exec producer, a secondary show runner will be brought in to
+handle most of the work, even though potentially some of the other gigs
+would pay more for that position than I'm getting now.  B5 has to come
+first.
+ 
+                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS Kosh 'n' Zen (8 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS Kosh 'n' Zen

+8 Mar 1995
     We have a number of variable sounds we can use to create Kosh's
+voice at various points.
+ 
+     Re: Zen...I find it an interesting approach, though I don't put that
+much more stock in it per se than any other system.  It applies an
+intriguing way of seeing the world, and I enjoy many elements about it,
+so I use it for story stuff or characterization sometimes, just as I draw
+on other areas.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS: The End of the Arc an (8 Mar 1995)
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Re: JMS: The End of the Arc an

+8 Mar 1995
     Ratings tell you how many people are watching.  Demographics tell
+you what *sorts* of people are watching...age, income, sex, that sort of
+thing.  The advertisers like to reach people who spend money, preferably
+on their products.  You can have a highly rated show, but if (to indulge
+for a moment in the crass-think exercised by ad people) that audience
+consists mainly of people in their 70s and above...it's hard to GIVE away
+the ads.  You can be a lower rated show, but if you can deliver within the
+desired demographics, the advertisers will come to you.
+ 
+     The B5 demographics are absolutely dynamite, and that's *very* good
+for us.  We get a lot of people in the 18-49 range, our largest share of
+viewers, mostly educated, good consumers.  They die for that kind of
+viewership.
+ 
+     Translation: they've seen who YOU guys are...and they like what they
+see.  Well, maybe except for that one guy in the loud Hawaiian shirt over
+there in the third row....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATN JMS: Mr. Reno in S&P (8 Mar 1995)
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ATN JMS: Mr. Reno in S&P

+8 Mar 1995
     I don't believe they were the same actor.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS Grey Council questio (9 Mar 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Grey Council questio

+9 Mar 1995
     What can I say...the worker caste always gets forgotten....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Exploring dangerous ships (9 Mar 1995)
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Exploring dangerous ships

+9 Mar 1995
     They went because it was NOT an unknown ship, it was an Earth
+registered ship, and they had done considerable scans (as noted in
+dialogue) prior to entering the ship.  If YOU were the captain of a
+modern carrier, and you found a ship from 100 years floating past,
+wouldn't YOU want to investigate it?  There was absolutely NO clear and
+present danger.  Further, they were not, in fact, attacked by anything
+in the ship; the thing would have gotten out whoever had opened the
+cryogenic freezer.  So what difference would it have made to send in
+some "expendable lackies" when nothing was at risk anyway?
+ 
+     This is, frankly, Picard-think.  When TNG went on the air, everybody
+yelled and carried on about how Kirk wouldn't let someone else go down
+to the planet instead of him; after a few years, suddenly it became SOP
+that the captain NEVER goes into any situation with possible jeapordy.
+ 
+     You judge cases on an individual basis.  There was no reason for
+them NOT to go into the ship, every reason FOR them to go into it, and
+nothing whatsoever happened once they WERE on board the ship to show that
+their safety assessment was incorrect.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: DiTillio!  Ragnarok- (9 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: DiTillio!  Ragnarok-

+9 Mar 1995
     We had a war going there for a while (Larry and I would occasionally
+declare war on one another for no particular reason).  Larry named a bald
+butler in one of his episodes for another show "Straczynski."  So I
+countered with the twisted dwarf named DiTillio in one of my episodes for
+TRGBs.  He then came back at me with a deranged magician named The Amazing
+Straczynski in another episode.  Then Marc Zicree got Larry, me, AND
+dragged Kathryn into it in "Lights"...at which point, having been
+blindsided, we decided it wasn't worth doing anymore and looked for other,
+more productive means of warfare.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+The Pirate PlanetR (9 Mar 1995)
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The Pirate PlanetR

+9 Mar 1995
     You'll see Epsilon 3 again this season.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Season two production ord (3 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Season two production ord

+3 Mar 1995
     Last season we were able to shoot out of order because we began
+shooting in July and aired in January; now we began in July and air in
+November, so we can't switch things around.  No difference otherwise.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+How to Keep B5 on the air. (9 Mar 1995)
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How to Keep B5 on the air.

+9 Mar 1995
     Sentiment appreciated, but don't do the $10 check routine, as it will
+get us in trouble with the FCC.  Letters alone carry plenty of weight, and
+your support is received with much gratitude.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE* (10 Mar 1995)
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Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE*

+10 Mar 1995
       "...after several dozen rapid revolutions, you might meet up with
+the Vorlon."
+ 
+       I think I can pretty much guarantee that.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Vorlon influence? (10 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Vorlon influence?

+10 Mar 1995
     I've never been able to work up enough steam to read "Lathe."  I've
+read some of Ursula's work, but have often enough found it slow going that
+I just kinda ran out of enthusiasm.  It's on my "when you have time, read
+this" list.
+ 
+     In terms of writers now...I can't think of that much being done now
+in SF that really moves me or grabs me on a visceral level; not so much
+because it ain't there, because it probably is, only that since jumping
+onto B5 I've had *very* little time to read much of ANYthing.  Most of what
+I do read seems to end up in other genres...lots of nonfiction, some dark
+or contemporary fantasy.  (I've noticed this trend before; if I'm doing a
+humor-oriented show, I won't watch or read anything comedic...if I'm doing
+a mystery, I'll avoid mysteries...don't know why, really.)
+ 
+     I'd definitely recommend Neil Gaiman, one of the best writers out
+there right now in any area.  Terry Pratchett.  And Jonathan Carroll,
+without question.  He doesn't have quite the cachet of a Stephen King or
+a Jorge Luis Borges, but believe me, they'll be looking back at this guy
+for years to come, he's *that* good.  Harlan keeps telling me to read
+Poppy Z. Brite, and one of these days I'll get around to it.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS>>>Technomage Seeks he (10 Mar 1995)
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+10 Mar 1995
     "...tips on being a technomage."
+ 
+     Real technomages don't need tips.  They simply Are.
+ 
+     General advice would be...never eat anything bigger than your head,
+never shoot pool at a place called Pop's, never eat food at a place
+called Mom's, the difference between horses and humans is that they're
+too smart to bet on what *we'll* do...and a fool and his money were
+lucky to get together in the first place.
+ 
+     That'll be one dollar.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Earth Alliance ship names (10 Mar 1995)
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+10 Mar 1995
     Also the Schwartzkopf (in "Gropos") and the explorer vessel Cortez.
+Interesting juxtaposition between the Agamemnon, and the fact that G'Kar
+is something of a Cassandra figure in our story....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE* (10 Mar 1995)
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Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE*

+10 Mar 1995
      "jms is a big boy...undoubtedly accustomed to all our styles of
+dress, and presumably, undress, while posting."
+ 
+      Well, yeah, that's true, I just think that's a very strange place
+to keep your mouse.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Babcom 95 - A UK Con of so (10 Mar 1995)
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Re: Babcom 95 - A UK Con of so

+10 Mar 1995
     So, Steve, what is it you're not saying about B5 programming at
+WorldCon yet...?
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Micro Machines Canc (10 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Micro Machines Canc

+10 Mar 1995
     I find this very surprising and somewhat dubious, given that last
+I'd heard the orders were going well.  Our demise is ALWAYS being
+prematurely announced; lots of folks looking to buy the B5 comic were told
+it wasn't coming out, ditto for the novel.  But I'll look into it just to
+be sure.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Murder, She Wrote (10 Mar 1995)
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JMS: Murder, She Wrote

+10 Mar 1995
     Hrmm...I'm going to try and do this from memory, and it was a while
+back..."Incident in Lot #7," "To The Last Will I Grapple With Thee" (the
+winner for the longest MSW title on record), "The Wind Around the
+Tower," "The Committee," one about a well-known actor returning to appear
+in a play in Cabot Cove whose former manager is murdered (I've forgotten
+the title), "Lines of Excellence," and several others.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+ 
+     (I think they're playing stuff from my tenure on USA now, in fact.)
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Was Morden On The Icarus (10 Mar 1995)
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Re: Was Morden On The Icarus

+10 Mar 1995
      "If we assume, due to our vast suspicion of jms, that they are the
+same person, then that implies...."
+ 
+      Of course, if one *knows* that he is viewed with suspicion, one
+might just play into that.
+ 
+      Or not.  Or pretend to do so.
+ 
+      Sleep well.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+
+What does Harlan Ellison do on (3 Mar 1995)
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What does Harlan Ellison do on

+3 Mar 1995
     He does whatever he wants to.
+ 
+                                                        jms
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+

+
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+B5's sexiest character (10 Mar 1995)
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+10 Mar 1995
     And here I thought maybe it was me.
+ 
+     It's the hair, isn't it?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

+
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+Those three little things (10 Mar 1995)
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Those three little things

+10 Mar 1995
     Another thing that can be now re-interpreted is the look on Jack's
+face when Garibaldi didn't go for the whitewash of the security guard's
+financial records in "Sky," and how that body managed to get out of the
+station without security being aware of it....
+ 
+	                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Atten JMS: Status on other (10 Mar 1995)
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Re: Atten JMS: Status on other

+10 Mar 1995
      We were mentioned in USA Today on Thursday?  Where and what was it?
+ 
+      Re: the rest....ehh...let it go.  (Would, btw, very much appreciate
+a copy of the Patriot/Ledger article, since I've never seen it.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS: Babylon-TRGB Connecti (10 Mar 1995)
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Re: JMS: Babylon-TRGB Connecti

+10 Mar 1995
     "The Collect Call of Cthulhu" was written by Michael Reaves from a
+jms notion (at least I'm pretty sure it was; I was handing out premises
+left right and center back then, and didn't take credit for any of them,
+so I'll leave room for error there).  I did write the follow-up episode,
+though, "Russian About," which btw had Walter Koenig doing a voice job.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: My Ears Have Turned (10 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: My Ears Have Turned

+10 Mar 1995
     Usually the person him- or herself puts up the meeting flag.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

+
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+Re: B5 is a surreal farce! (10 Mar 1995)
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Re: B5 is a surreal farce!

+10 Mar 1995
     Humor is always a very subjective issue, particularly when it comes
+to SF, which in TV has either been non-existent/forced, or campy.  So
+a lot of times you get this knee-jerk reaction against it; they should
+all be dry and serious and self-important.
+ 
+     I try and push just about everything on this show just a notch past
+the proverbial envelope.  Sometimes I fall down.  That's the risk when
+you take chances.  I don't intend to stop taking chances, because what's
+the point otherwise?
+ 
+     And sometimes the extremes work.  And sometimes in humor you just
+do something completely gonzo.  My favorite scene from Hill Street Blues
+in this regard was the one in which they spend (in a b story) the wholed
+(whole) episode trying to rescue/find the mayor's dog.  Finally, after
+much angst, they find it.  It's at the station.  This little rat-dog
+critter, a real creep.  Lt. Howard Hunter is playing with it, bouncing a
+ball.  The ball bounces off the desk and out the 4th floor window...and
+the dog sails after it, right through the window...and Hunter just sorta
+stands there, and quietly, unobtrusively, hoping not to be noticed,
+walks away.
+ 
+     I nearly killed myself laughing.  And I thought, Damn, why can't we
+do this kind of humor in SF?  Just *go* for it.
+ 
+     And now we are.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE* (10 Mar 1995)
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Re: Dress UP!!!  JMS can *SEE*

+10 Mar 1995
     Re: posting while in lingerie...hmm...perhaps we can discuss this a
+little further....
+ 
+     Though if the some of the guys are also going to continue posting in
+lingerie, I think they should at least shave their backs, y'know...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: E-Mail (11 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: E-Mail

+11 Mar 1995
      Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've gotten them, and in some cases have
+responded, but the GEnie interface sometimes bounces stuff.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+Great Flame! (11 Mar 1995)
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Great Flame!

+11 Mar 1995
     We *have* military advisors on the show.  And we use them constantly
+on various scripts.  You may think that all military people think or act
+in one way.  (Probably you think they all should think like you do.)  You
+don't like the way I do it...probably prefer the way Trek does it.  Fine.
+I happen to get a LOT of mail from people in the armed services, or who
+were in it previously, applauding the way B5 treats the military.  But I
+suppose they're ignorant too, since they don't think like you do.
+ 
+     I'll only bother to answer one other question: why stations are in
+many cases moving the 2nd airing of the show to less than terrific times,
+or trying to get out of it altogether.
+ 
+     1) There are only 2 hours per night of prime time space available on
+independent stations, 8-10 p.m., since nearly all their news programs
+start at 10 p.m.  That's 12 hours per week, total, to fit in all the PTEN
+shows, the UPN shows, the WB shows, the Fox shows, plus other syndicated
+programs.  There's a glut of new programming right now, and it's a buyer's
+market.  And while a rerun of that week's B5 may do well, it's still less
+than the first run a few days earlier, since most folks have seen it, and
+a new episode of another show might do better.
+ 
+     2) National sponsors pay for advertising based on the cumulative
+national rating.  You can get a 3 on the first night, and a 3 on the second
+night, and end up with a 6 rating, which is *terrific*.  Local stations,
+however, don't have the luxury of cumulative ratings; they go by what it
+gets *that night* in *that hour*.  If they only show it once, or put the
+rebroadcast in a less handy place, they can motivate more people to watch
+the first run, moving it up to a 4 or 5, meaning they can get a LOT more
+from sponsors.  In later time periods, the money is always less anyway,
+so putting it on at 1 a.m. doesn't make any real difference money-wise.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN:Jms When it`s all over (11 Mar 1995)
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ATTN:Jms When it`s all over

+11 Mar 1995
     Well...the most honest and straightforward answer I can give you is
+that I don't know.  On one level, being online is a lot like being in the
+mob; the only way you get out is feet first.  ("Every time I think I'm out
+they pull me back in!" -- Godfather 3.)  On the other...if B5 does go its
+full measure, I'll almost certainly bail out of TV, which kinda concludes
+the experiment.  I'm also painfully (literally) cognizant of the impact of
+the CTS which generally makes each night difficult for me after hours and
+hours of typing, and I think I would rather cut back at that time on BBSing
+and put it into writing if my typing eventually gets curtailed.
+ 
+     (General notice...I've seen just about every article, message and
+document on carpal tunnel syndrome; the last thing this forum needs is to
+get filled with more messages on the subject.  Pretend you've sent it, and
+I'll be fictionally grateful, and we'll both save a lot of time and
+cyberspace.)
+ 
+      And yes, I'm wearing the gloves; have had them on non-stop for the
+last couple days, including at the office, since I'm blasting through the
+last four scripts for this season nominally all at once, since they have
+many thematic connections that work better if I write 'em together.
+ 
+      So anyway...I don't know.  I'll probably always be around, to one
+extent or another, responding at age 80 to somebody's question about just
+what DID Harlan Ellison do on my show before he won the Nobel Prize...?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Question regarding f (3 Mar 1995)
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+3 Mar 1995
     Yes, I have asked that any B5 related zines refrain from now from
+(for now) from printing story ideas, as this could cause me great trouble.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Re: B5's sexiest character (11 Mar 1995)
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+11 Mar 1995
      I try to avoid doing cameos; it ruins the illusion for me.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+Re: Yo Theron (12 Mar 1995)
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Re: Yo Theron

+12 Mar 1995
     Deborah (assuming this really is you and not Theron logging on under
+another name to get some sympathy)...I'm sorry but you fail the test of
+logic on just about every conceivable level.  By your lights, it's okay to
+smear people's reputations, announce that people are not to be trusted,
+imply that they are liars, all that's fine as long as one doesn't use bad
+words.  What a wonderfully convenient and perverse world you live in.
+ 
+     You look around and say, well, gee, Joe hasn't produced the ratings,
+maybe something's wrong, why are they being withheld, maybe the whole
+truth isn't being told...you want to know the details, and demand that I
+provide them to you.
+ 
+     First Deb (or whoever)...screw off.  I don't have to provide you with
+zip.  You say you work at a campus, you're a student.  Allow me to introudce
+you to the concept of "research."  This isn't top secret classified
+material; this is the most easily accessible information on the planet.
+Every week DAILY VARIETY and the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER list ratings for the
+syndicated and network shows (and yes, they ARE considered two separate
+things, as anyone who bothered to do the LEAST amount of digging into the
+question instead of relying on the person they're smearing and badrapping
+to provide it for them because they ask for it, like it's some kind of
+holy obligation).  You wanna know the ratings?  Come our next batch of
+new episodes, why don't you just drag your smarmy, accusatory, "you know
+you really can't trust him, he's a producer, oh, we won't call him a liar,
+but we'll just whisper it" ass down to the campus library and LOOK IT UP.
+ 
+     "...one producer who goes only by his initials...."
+ 
+     Excuse me, but what the hell does THAT bit of smear-tactic mean when
+my name is right on top of every single damned message I post?  Do you mean
+that after all this time you -- gasp! -- don't know WHO I AM?  You mean you
+see "only" some initials on the bottom of a message and you're so confused
+by who this might be that you've fallen down the dark, dusty staircase you
+call your cerebullum and now can't get up?  Good heavens, I've had an
+alias all this time and I haven't known it!  I'm a stealth producer!  No
+one knows who I am, just those....INITIALS!  Suddenly I feel like the
+Batman.
+ 
+     In addition, I *have* posted the specific ratings on many occasions,
+here and elsewhere.  For the last week on Compuserve (verifiable by many
+here who are also on CIS, since after all I'm a producer and can't really
+be trusted to say anything honest about the business) I posted the ratings
+for various areas of the country, including share, and how the general
+overall ratings have increased.  Probably sooner or later that stuff will
+be reposted here, because it always is.
+ 
+     You and Theron (unless you are one and the same) have this nutty
+notion that you can ask anything you want, be as accusative and slanderous
+as you want, but that's okay...and if *everything* you want and ask for
+isn't provided INSTANTLY, in excruciating detail...well, then, my goodness
+something's WRONG, isn't it?
+ 
+     Re: my veracity, you say, "I'd be wary and seek a second opinion or
+read very carefully to see what info isn't being said."
+ 
+     And because something isn't being said, you thererfore assume that
+something's wrong, being held back.  And what precise second opinion did
+you have in mind?  Perhaps the PUBLISHED TRADES I commended to you a
+moment ago?
+ 
+     Enough.  Enough of you, and your father/alter ego; enough of your
+smears, and your oh-so-carefully-phrased-not-to-use-bad-words, let's jsut
+call him a liar *quietly*, and your lurking on the back fence as we have
+a decent conversation, adding nothing but a murmuring, soft voice that
+mewls "don't trust him, don't trust him"...at whom somebody ought to toss
+an old shoe.
+ 
+     I'm not going to do your damned homework for you, Deborah, do it
+yourself.  And if you've got ANYTHING to say, ANY proof that what I've
+said here is anything other than what's been posted, you or that
+homunculus Theron should speak up or shut up.  Every time we get a nice,
+pleasant, friendly atmosphere going here, and a good conversation, you two
+poster children for co-dependency swoop in here and piss all over th
+place.
+ 
+     Get a clue or get out.  I've had it with both of you.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+13 Mar 1995
     The Halloween character was named Samhein.
+ 
+                                                          jms
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+ATTN JMS: Character and Person (13 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Character and Person

+13 Mar 1995
     Robert...on the other hand, I sometimes look at it as training
+exercises for Ivanova dialogue.....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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+Mira at Vulkon, 3/12 (13 Mar 1995)
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+13 Mar 1995
     If Tom's people were selling Starfury patches and jackets, they should
+not have been doing so, since they have not yet to my knowledge licensed
+ANYthing from Warner Bros., and this would not be legit.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+ATTN: JMS - More "Alien" Alien (13 Mar 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - More "Alien" Alien

+13 Mar 1995
     You should be careful what you wish for....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+

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+Longest Thread Ever (13 Mar 1995)
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+13 Mar 1995
     Longest thread I ever saw...probably the one off my old brown
+sweater, which got caught on a nail and unravled, oh, I'd say about maybe
+fifteen, twenty feet.
+ 
+     Also, *any* abortion or gun control debate.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+13 Mar 1995
      It's a bald female extra.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+14 Mar 1995
     The Mars Colony was really pretty much up and running and fully
+operational by the middle 2100s, so you've got a generation or two who
+have been born and raised there.
+ 
+     The Psi Corps was established around 2150 or so (I'll have to check
+my notes to be sure).  Bester is not a teek.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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+ATT JMS  Who is third in comma (14 Mar 1995)
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+14 Mar 1995
     Actually, I think the third in command would be Major Atumbe, who
+we've referenced in dialogue on the show, but have never shown.  I keep
+meaning to do so, but it always ends up feeling forced, and it's hard to
+work in new recurring characters when we have something like 16 as it is.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+ATTN JMS: How Do You Pitch a S (3 Mar 1995)
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+3 Mar 1995
     I operate off the notion that a network or studio has the right to
+know what they're buying, and that I shouldn't go into an office to sell
+a series (B5 or otherwise) unless I know where it's going, to one extent
+or another.  Hence, all series projects I do, I pitch with a series bible,
+multiple episode synopses, a sample script, and artwork if necessary to
+convey the concept.  I'm a one man traveling road show.
+ 
+                                                           jms
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+My show can beat up your show! (14 Mar 1995)
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+14 Mar 1995
     I agree on not ragging on the X-Files; it's a fine show, and I enjoy
+it a lot.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
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+JMS:UK The Avengers (14 Mar 1995)
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JMS:UK The Avengers

+14 Mar 1995
     I very much enjoyed The Avengers, though Kathryn is a much bigger
+fan than I am; she's seen just about every one of them.  (They're now
+showing the eps in uncut, crystal-clear version over direcTV, which she
+is enjoying.)  I don't think it's really any kind of influence, but it's
+a great show, no mistake.
+ 
+	                                                     jms (2:10 a.m.)
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+Bad Rumour - Sheridan Leaving? (14 Mar 1995)
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+14 Mar 1995
     The rumor is flatly untrue.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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Re: Yo Theron

+14 Mar 1995
     I don't believe this...the allegation that I'm not really me, that
+I'm some shlub working on the B5 payroll into whose hands The Great And
+Powerful Oz...I mean *J*M*S* has given his credibility, his reputation,
+whom *J*M*S* has taught how to *write* just like him...this dialogue has
+just hit a brand new low.
+ 
+     It's now 2:03 a.m. Pacific time.  If I ain't me, I'm not paying me
+NEARLY enough money to be me at this hour of the night.  Yes, it takes a
+lot of time to go through this stuff...which is why I'm UP at this ungodly
+hour of the night, responding to all this stuff in real-time, writing on
+the fly.
+ 
+     ...I just sat here for several minutes, trying to wrap my brain around
+how on EARTH to respond to this latest bit of nonsense...and realized,
+why?  This is the nuttiest thing I've ever seen.  What's the point?
+ 
+     And no, there are NOT two sides to every story.
+ 
+     And finally, this has nothing to do with critiquing my show.  This is
+what always happens in these threads; somebody mouths off about something,
+makes an unsubstantiated claim, and then when the net collectively hands
+them their heads, complains that people are too sensitive about critiquing
+their show.  Except, of course, that's never been what they've beend oing
+(been doing) in the first place.
+ 
+     Why on earth am I even HAVING this boneheaded conversation?
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+14 Mar 1995
      Jeremy...or Jere7my...I don't *hate* the Fullers; I reserve that
+for only a very few on a very short list (those still surviving).  When I
+think of the Fullers, I kinda think of Neice Bertrice, who lives with her
+family on some nice suburban street, with her Uncle Horace who lives in
+the basement and collects paper sacks and string and complains about that
+damn Roosevelt, and only comes up once every second Thursday to piss in
+the cassarole and set the cat on fire...and when Mom and Dad look over at
+old Uncle Horace, and wonder if maybe he might need a little assistance,
+ain't quite the fellow he used to be, she stamps her foot and cries and
+shouts at them and asks why they're being so mean to sweet Uncle Horace,
+and they should leave him alone and stop saying bad things about him,
+after which she races upstairs to her blue bedroom and slams the door,
+hugging her pink bunny and saying over and over that Uncle Horace is fine,
+just FINE, while downstairs the cat is smoldering again.
+ 
+     And I think that qualifies as the longest sentence I've ever written
+on line.  Or whoever I am.
+ 
+	                                                      jms (2:25 a.m.)
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 is a surreal farce! (14 Mar 1995)
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Re: B5 is a surreal farce!

+14 Mar 1995
     Red Dwarf is one of the gaps in my SF education; I've caught bits and
+pieces of the show, enough to enjoy it, but not enough to really get a
+feel for the show.  Also, there's a certain kind of British humor that
+doesn't work for me as well as others; The Young Ones (I think that's the
+name) leaves me only marginally amused while Fawlty Towers or AbFab will
+put me on the floor in minutes.  Red Dwarf (what I've seen of it) tends to
+fall into the former category; don't know why, really.
+ 
+	                                                     jms (2:20 am.)
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+ATTN: JMS - What's wrong with (14 Mar 1995)
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+14 Mar 1995
     I just didn't *buy* n'grath.  He looked cool, but did he look
+SENTIENT?  That's the next level that I don't think has been reached yet;
+I think we're on the right track, but I can't ever dare settle for less
+than being a perfectionist.  That means being more critical than the
+audience in some cases.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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Re: Yo Theron

+14 Mar 1995
     Flat out, Deborah-Who-Threatens-To-Complain-To-Warner-Bros., every
+single message with my name on it is written by me.  You're right; the
+way to do it is cut down on sleep and food during the week, which is what
+I do.  Because unlike those who only come in here to foul the nest, I
+happen to actually care about this dialogue.
+ 
+     Now, I've said it, straight up.  Either I'm flat-out lying or I'm
+not.  And y'know, I don't really give a damn what you think.  And my
+reaction should someone mention "the fullers" I can tell you now, and
+save you the imagining.
+ 
+     "Who?"
+ 
+	                                                           jms (2:47 am)
+
+

+
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Re: Yo Theron

+14 Mar 1995
     Ah, and now we get down to it...Deborah threatens to let Warner Bros.
+know what I'm saying here.
+ 
+     Folks, take a good luck.  This is the repeated paradigm.  Person X
+starts smearing my reputation (or anyone in the public eye).  Offers that
+I (or other person) doesn't have a right to be upset because after all I'm
+a well-known kinda guy, and thus sacrifice all rights to an opinion, or to
+defend myself.  They speculate about my veracity, my name, my identity,
+my figures, my existence...that's okay...but when it's turned back on them,
+they get huffy and start sending faxes to Warner Bros.
+ 
+     They can give, but they don't like it in return.  Remember Ford
+Thaxton, who saw no problem in impugning my reputation here?  Guess who
+started sending REAMS of faxes to WB, quoting my messages (and others
+here) in some hope of "getting me" for talking back.  And now young miss
+Fuller threatens to do exactly the same thing.
+ 
+     She will harm me not in the slightest.  The only possible result if
+this continues is that eventually WB might say they're tired of the faxes,
+and ask me to stop hanging out here.  'Cause as long as I *am* here, I'll
+speak honestly, which is my responsibility.
+ 
+                                                          jms (2:33 am)
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: International spread (14 Mar 1995)
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ATTN JMS: International spread

+14 Mar 1995
     Certainly the more countries that B5 is sold into, the more htat
+(that) Warners will want to do the show; only catch is thta PTEN is a
+consortium of WB and the stations, and the stations have no direct
+reward from foreign.
+ 
+                                                      jms (3:01 am)
+
+

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+Big Bang Con: Refunds (1 Apr 1995)
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Big Bang Con: Refunds

+1 Apr 1995
     I'm wondering if the "tell us WHY you're requesting a refund" is to
+try and set up B5 for a lawsuit....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+What's up with Mojo??? (6 Apr 1995)
+
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What's up with Mojo???

+6 Apr 1995
     The Lightwave software is being exported to DOS platforms, so that's
+the reason for the change-over.
+ 
+     BTW, Ron's gotten in some *very* nifty new software, and has come
+up with some new tricks that I hope we can incorporate before the end of
+this season, all again blurring the line between physical models, CGI and
+Real Stuff.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS - B5 Renewed says WW (21 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - B5 Renewed says WW

+21 Apr 1995
     Well, it's certainly encouraging, but we still haven't been given the
+formal notification about a pickup.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS? (21 Apr 1995)
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Re: ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS?

+21 Apr 1995
     You have to understand in all this that the studios agenda is always
+to guarantee maximum return for the studio and its stockholders, and the
+minimum or nothing for those who create the product.  This is the modus
+operandi for *all* studios.
+ 
+     Example: I worked on MURDER, SHE WROTE as a writer/producer for two
+years.  It's a highly-rated top ten network series.  The shows air two or
+three times on network, then are taken off.  Such programs usually go into
+syndication, where the studio receives a per-episode fee from the
+syndicator.  In syndication, you get a straight residual, which for a
+third/fourth run (now the first syndicated run) would be a couple/three
+grand.  Not bad.
+ 
+     But more and more, shows like M,SW are sold to *cable* like USA
+Network, where the formula is different.  There you, the writer, get a
+percentage of the gross price paid per episode by the cable network.
+Okay, so far so good, right?  Except one day, some smart executive at
+Universal realized that the studio is also part owner of USA Network, and
+that by selling the episodes at market price, they were charging
+themselves an arm and a leg.  So why not charge the *bare minimum* to
+themselves, and sell the show cheap to their own branch?  So a show that
+would normally be sold to another cable network for, say, a couple
+hundred grand, one time, they turn around and sell instead to a cable
+network they own, where it can run indefinitely, and sell it for a couple
+hundred dollars...knowing full well that all the talent involved get a
+percentage of the purchase fee.
+ 
+     Result: the third/fourth run of one of my M,SW episodes (the first
+on USA) which, anywhere else, would bring in 2 or 3 grand brings in a
+grand total of....$28.
+ 
+     You know that old joke about the (ethnic group) actress who was so
+dumb she slept with the writer?  There's a reason...because she'd heard
+that in LA, *everyone* screws the writer.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+More Ellison bullshit! (21 Apr 1995)
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More Ellison bullshit!

+21 Apr 1995
     So your response to perceived intolerance from Harlan for the
+views of others it to hope he's taken off the air, and drops dead.
+ 
+     Tolerance is a double-edged sword.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+regarding Babylon 5's ratings (21 Apr 1995)
+
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+
regarding Babylon 5's ratings

+21 Apr 1995
     Bear in mind you're comparing apples and oranges.  The top 20 shows
+in syndication include mainly game shows and talk shows.  You have to do
+what the studios do, and separate out the dramas from the rest of the
+pack.  And among dramas we do *very* well, particularly in our
+demographics.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: "Watch it cold" (22 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: "Watch it cold"

+22 Apr 1995
     If there were three episodes I'd say should be watched as cold as
+possible, I'd say..."In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," "The Fall of Night,"
+and "The Long, Twilight Struggle."  (To some extent, I'd also inclulde
+[include] "Confessions and Lamentations," and "Divided Loyalties.")
+ 
+     Unfortunately, that's the bulk of the remaining episodes, as opposed
+to CoS, which was a one-off situation.  Hell, in some ways, when compared
+with "Struggle," "The Coming of Shadows" is a light comedy in which nothing
+much happens.
+ 
+     Remember, the deeper we go into the story, the more we're going to
+start cranking things.  Each new batch starts off with a lighter, "let's
+get acquainted" episode, but they turn fast.  So I don't know what can
+really be done about spoilers and stuff, except to hope for the best.
+ 
+     "Confessions" isn't per se a wham episode, for instance, but it does
+have some very sharp turns, and it's an extremely intense episode on a
+par with "Believers."  It makes no compromises and takes no prisoners, and
+I imagine it'll stir up about as much debate as did "Believers," if not
+more.  When we did playback after doing the audio mix a few days ago,
+there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
+ 
+     So while it isn't a whammer, it's an *emotional* episode, and you
+should come to it as unprepared as possible.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+There All The Honor Lies -- SP (22 Apr 1995)
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There All The Honor Lies -- SP

+22 Apr 1995
     So after I'd read Peter's script, and decided to go with it, he
+asked about Ivanova's line, "This isn't some kind of Deep Space franchise,
+this place is ABOUT something."
+ 
+     "Are you really going to use that?" he asked.
+ 
+     "Absolutely," I said.  "It's fall-down funny."
+ 
+     Long pause.  "You people really ARE dangerous over there, aren't you?"
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Buttons? (22 Apr 1995)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Buttons?

+22 Apr 1995
     Ah!  Yes, the reversal of buttons was a conscious decision.  Our
+costume designer asked which way I wanted to go with it, and I said yes,
+let's continue that tradition into the future.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: B5 CD (23 Apr 1995)
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Re: B5 CD

+23 Apr 1995
     For track 12, Christopher did a much longer, full-length version of
+The Battle of the Line sequence, adding a lot of depth and letting it play
+out fully.  So yes, parts of it echo what's on the disk earlier, but in a
+better, extended-play version.  For me, it's one of the best tracks on the
+disk (though I somewhat prefer the American version over the European
+version, due to the strings).
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: SitW SD CGI?? (23 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: SitW SD CGI??

+23 Apr 1995
     The San Diego shots are models.  We're trying, in different episodes,
+models vs. CGI.  Next season, PTEN willing, we're going to try some new
+stuff in planetary models interlocked with CGI for cities and stuff, to
+help us further broaden out the series.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn. JMS: Larry DiTillio no l (23 Apr 1995)
+
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Attn. JMS: Larry DiTillio no l

+23 Apr 1995
     The information is essentially correct.  This year, I wrote 15 out
+of 22 episodes.  Larry provided an additional 3.  That leaves 4 freelance
+scripts, and in all four of those cases, I did pretty much all of the
+rewriting on them.  Consequently, Larry spent a lot of his time more or
+less cooling his heels.  There really wasn't that much for him to do.
+Next season, I'll probably write 17 or 18, so again, there's not really
+enough for a story editor to *do*.  A story editor rewrites.
+ 
+     Also, this is the kind of show where I've set the parameters from day
+one (actually from 1987), and Larry's strength is in world-building and
+determining the direction of a show.  There isn't much room for that.  So
+overall, it seemed to make sense to free him up to go after shows where he
+can have more influence, do more rewrites and more original scripts; let
+him make his mark.  He has great strenths in areas not being utilized,
+particularly as a script doctor.  And there are several very interesting
+opportunities out there for him.
+ 
+     So while we're still allocating a budget for a story editor for next
+season, just in case I get swamped, right now there are no plans for any
+one new in that position.  It's just not something that fits into the
+unusual way that B5 operates, we've found.  (A story editor also works in
+generating stories or listening to pitches...and, again, those are all
+pretty much worked out ahead of time; all but one of the freelance scripts
+this season were based on assigned premises from me, based on my notes for
+this season).  Look for him soon in other projects where he can mold the
+direction in interesting and unique areas.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+favorite scene so far... (6 Apr 1995)
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favorite scene so far...

+6 Apr 1995
     Re: the shadow vessels flying overhead as Londo looks up...that was
+me.  If my name's on a script, and you see something there as a story
+point, it was in the script.
+ 
+     That particular image is very striking, and I think part of that comes
+from its origins: I've had dreams with just that sort of image.  There's
+something that just *gets* to you on a very subconscious, almost cellular
+level, when you see that scene...I don't know why, but it does.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: So JMS won't spend the mon (23 Apr 1995)
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Re: So JMS won't spend the mon

+23 Apr 1995
     Yeah, maybe it wasn't a direct shot this time, but you have to
+understand how Theron works.  It works something like this....
+ 
+     T: "That's a nice haircut."
+ 
+     S: "Thank you."
+ 
+     "It shows your profile to best effect."
+ 
+     "Thank you."
+ 
+     "Good sculpting on the back."
+ 
+     "Umm, hmm."
+ 
+     "So overall, it's a very nice haircut."
+ 
+     "Thank you."
+ 
+     "Well, for an axe murderer...."
+ 
+     After a while, y'know...why wait?
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Pak'Ma'Ra ! RA! RA! (23 Apr 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Pak'Ma'Ra ! RA! RA!

+23 Apr 1995
     The pak'ma'ra are indeed tech scavengers; the tentacles move (we do
+this via remote control), and are used in securing their food and moving
+it into the mouth cavity; their "teeth" are more like beaks in structure;
+their whole culture is based on the notion that they're basically
+superior to everyone else, which is why they eat carrion in part, to
+demonstrate their superiority over all others (they don't eat their own
+kind); they do breathe oxygen, but because of the shape of their mouths,
+cannot form human words, and thus rely on translation devices.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Questio (23 Apr 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Questio

+23 Apr 1995
     All episodes will be done on time.  On the best of days, it takes 52
+days from start of filming to delivery; this one will take a bit longer,
+but still be delivered on time.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+att JMS wowee (23 Apr 1995)
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att JMS wowee

+23 Apr 1995
     "...just saw your picture on the web page.  You are a cutie pie!!!"
+ 
+     Actually, that picture is of Horatio P. Farquar, an explorer who was
+lost while pursuing stories of the Yeti far in the Himalayan mountains,
+and whose picture I used shamelessly for my own purposes.  In truth, I am
+two-headed (the other one only goes by the name Bob) and am frequently
+trotted out for the annual Cat Frightening Festival in La Mesa.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Minbari Questions (23 Apr 1995)
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Attn JMS: Minbari Questions

+23 Apr 1995
     The Minbari do have magneto-gravitational control in limited ways.
+The ships are mainly cool shapes they came up with, in line with their
+particular aesthetic.  The Minbari mainly dislike Sheridan for HOW he won
+his battle, as well as for the fact that he did it at all.  You'll get
+more on this in the next ep.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Significance of "twi (23 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Significance of "twi

+23 Apr 1995
     Yes; work it out as you have, but take it further...we start with a
+point of departure...then after some revelations, examine the geometry of
+shadows, then begin to more forward, a race through dark plces.  We come
+toward the long dark, our past a distant star.  We carry the motif of a
+world getting dark.  The coming of shadows that darkens into the long
+twilight struggle, the last period between day and night...and we end the
+season on...the fall of night.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS - Influencing the fu (23 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Influencing the fu

+23 Apr 1995
     Nothing more the fans can do now but wait; time will now tell.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: favorite sf shows (23 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: favorite sf shows

+23 Apr 1995
     Unfortunately, because of the demands of making B5, I don't generally
+get to watch a lot of TV.  I try to catch the X-Files whenever I can, and
+I'd have to say that's probably my personal favorite of what's out there
+right now.  (Fittingly, in my office, I don't have a B5 cup on my desk, I
+have an X-Files mug.)  I like MST3K enormously, and we had kind of an
+exchange program going; they sent me a picture personally autographed by
+all the main guys on the show, and we sent them a bunch of B5 caps.  They
+mentioned our show recently on their series, and now I have to find some
+way to repay the favor.
+ 
+     I've only seen a couple of VR5's and am thus far having a hard time
+getting into it.  That may change with more viewings.  I gave up on Earth 2
+and SeaQuest some time ago, though some folks have been trying to get me
+to take another look on E2, saying it's improved, so I'll try to give it
+another shot when I get some free time.
+ 
+     My favorite shows generally tend to be ones from a while back, like
+the Prisoner, the original Star Trek, Outer Limits, Thriller, Twilight
+Zone, Blake's 7 and a few others.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: What can a cellist do? (23 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: What can a cellist do?

+23 Apr 1995
     That's terrific.  I've printed it up and will pass it on to Mira when
+I see her next.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+
+Real Life Aliens and B5 (24 Apr 1995)
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Real Life Aliens and B5

+24 Apr 1995
     "I feel that B5 is the most likely candidate I have yet seen for the
+clandestine involvement of real aliens."
+ 
+     Note to myself: increase security.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+A possibly nasty metaphor (6 Apr 1995)
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A possibly nasty metaphor

+6 Apr 1995
     David: you hit it *exactly* on the head.  Again, as you point out,
+stuff here operates on a lot of different levels.  I try, where I can, to
+make a given scene do more than one thing.  The hall argument is a good
+example of this.  The script stipulated a human being stuck between G'Kar
+and Londo.  Not any other race.  Had to be a human.  Because that becomes
+emblematic of how we're stuck between the two sides in the war, something
+which is *very* strongly brought home in the next batch of episodes.
+ 
+     Obviously, the first most important thing in that scene is just the
+gag, the humor.  It has to work on that level, and that's how it came to
+me first: just the gag.  Then, when it came time to write it, that's when
+I start poking at things to see if I can layer on another level of
+meaning, and I saw a way to do a little (very little) visual foreshadowing
+of stuff to come.  Didn't matter if anybody ever noticed it or not; it
+was never really intended to be of much note, just a little item that
+becomes a nice bit of irony later.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Cheers and boos on the la (24 Apr 1995)
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JMS: Cheers and boos on the la

+24 Apr 1995
     "I presume they are selling Londo dolls and the ones used in the show
+were samples."
+ 
+     Nope.  There are no Londo dolls.  No G'Kar dolls.  No dolls of any
+kind.  No B5 clocks or starfuries (minus the MicroMachines) or frisbees or
+postcards or the like.  There's *very* little out there.
+ 
+     Which is how we like it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn. JMS: Teddy Bear<spoi (24 Apr 1995)
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Re: Attn. JMS: Teddy Bear<spoi

+24 Apr 1995
     Everything featured in the Babylon Emporium was just made up by us.
+Insofar as I know, none of it is real merchandise.  (Everyone, including
+the crew, are so starved for B5 stuff that when we finished filming the
+ep, we sold off the stuff, at cost, to those in the crew who wanted them.
+Two guesses who wound up with the Londo and G'Kar dolls....)
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS (24 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS

+24 Apr 1995
     On my office wall I have two large areas set aside for quotes, wh ich
+are on 2x3 placards.  I switch them in and out depending on my mood and the
+situation.  (Up now are "The point of no return.  That is the point which
+must be reached."  And "To define is to kill.  To suggest is to create."
+All the quotes are about writing in one way or another.)
+ 
+     Another of them, which will get its turn shortly, is "Writers are not
+necessarily corrupted by money.  Rather they are distracted, detoured into
+other venues."
+ 
+     I don't wanna be distracted.  Making TV and telling stories is hard
+enough without adding an extra layer of nonsense.  I make a good living.
+I agree to license the stuff I'd personally like to have.  But money has
+never really *meant* that much to me, except the freedom to write what I
+want, when I want, whenever I want.  When I left Murder, She Wrote to do
+B5, I took a pay cut even though the position was higher.  My agent said
+I was nuts.  That's fine.  Most of the jobs I've had, in the end I've
+walked off, despite people waving money, when I thought that I could no
+longer tell the stories I wanted to tell.
+ 
+     After a season on CAPTAIN POWER, when I wrote pretty much anything I
+wanted, I got the sense that the second season was going to be more in the
+control of the sponsor.  They put a deal on the table for year two; I had
+no other options waiting.  Nonetheless, I passed.  When I was on Jake and
+the Fatman, the company screwed over my exec producers, to whom I owed a
+great deal of allegiance.  When they quit, I also walked, even though this
+was my first major network staff credit, and I had nothing else pending,
+and in fact ended up not working for several months.
+ 
+     Point being...nothing *really* matters to me but telling a story, and
+being free to tell it the way I want.  And if I got into heavily trying to
+exploit every single dime out of B5, approving anything and everything,
+softened where the show was going to help it get lots of spinoffs....it
+wouldn't be the story I want to tell anymore.  A good part of what this
+show is, is subversive, and some elements are a bit on the controversial
+side.  If I had my eye on the dollar, I'd've never put "Believers" into
+production.  Or "Confessions and Lamentations" this season.
+ 
+     Also, I'm 40.  I'll be 41 in July.  If B5 goes its full 5 year run,
+I'll be 44/45 at the end.  And I will have said pretty much everything I
+want to say in TV.  At 45, I'll probably have 20 years in me to write all
+the novels I want to write before the game is called on account of
+darkness.  I really don't want to waste that time running a franchise when
+I should be telling stories.  You find your story, you get on the stage,
+tell it and get the hell off the stage.
+ 
+     Finally, I'm leery of money past a certain point.  Rod Serling wrote,
+in "The Velvet Alley," "Here's how they get you: they bring you to
+Hollywood, and they pay you vast amounts of money for what you write.
+Slowly, your standard of living begins to rise to where now you NEED that
+income every day to maintain it.  And then they threaten to take it away
+from you...and then they own you."
+ 
+     'Nuff said.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spirituality spoilers and spec (24 Apr 1995)
+
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Spirituality spoilers and spec

+24 Apr 1995
      Bob: not bad, not bad....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Why no action figures? (24 Apr 1995)
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JMS: Why no action figures?

+24 Apr 1995
     I'm not *entirely* opposed to the idea of action figures, but let's
+a) do that a bit down the road, and b) make sure it's done *right*.  The
+last thing anyone wants is for this stuff to look crummy.  So while we've
+had some inquiries, my sense is to wait for the right time and company,
+rather than just rush out and do this stuff.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Posting followups (25 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Posting followups

+25 Apr 1995
     I use the GEnie internet gateway.  If I try to repeat the lines in a
+message back, using autotype, it skips lines and becomes unintelligible.
+There's no other software solution to this problem.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Too long between new epis (25 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: Too long between new epis

+25 Apr 1995
     I have no control over the rerun schedule.  That's a PTEN decision,
+based on wanting new eps to show during sweeps.  I'd much rather they
+played 'em straight through...but hey, who listens to me?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS - Ivanova Questions (25 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Ivanova Questions

+25 Apr 1995
     There's a *very* serious Ivanova episode coming up in the remainder
+of this season.  And re: the stat badge...gold is for command, silver is
+for support/technical staff, so as liaison between those two, Ivanova's
+stat bar is split.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Merchandising... (26 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Merchandising...

+26 Apr 1995
     The only problem with making a JMS producer doll is that ideally it
+would have to be anatomically correct, and that would cause it to keep
+tipping over on the shelf....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON! (26 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON!

+26 Apr 1995
     Anything I write on line can be posted to other services.
+ 
+     And thanks.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn: JMS - Are there churches (6 Apr 1995)
+
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Attn: JMS - Are there churches

+6 Apr 1995
     There isn't sufficient room in B5 to accommodate a variety of plaes
+(places) of worship; hence, some rooms are set aside for use by different
+people as needed and as available.  The sanctuary is often used for this,
+as is the rotunda.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Mamma don't let your babies gr (26 Apr 1995)
+
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+
Mamma don't let your babies gr

+26 Apr 1995
     Actually, the security insignia isn't a target, it's a gunsight.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: LaserDisc Questions (26 Apr 1995)
+
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+
JMS: LaserDisc Questions

+26 Apr 1995
     Unfortunately, I don't yet know the answer to either of these
+questions, but when and if I do, I'll definitely post them.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: "There All *THE* Honor Li (26 Apr 1995)
+
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+
JMS: "There All *THE* Honor Li

+26 Apr 1995
     I had the same THE thought, but Peter tells me it's a quote, and the
+quote has the THE in it, and by an act of faith I have come to believe
+him.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Why no action figures (26 Apr 1995)
+
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Re: JMS: Why no action figures

+26 Apr 1995
     Captain Power was, certainly, an extreme case, and yes, I walked off
+that show after the first season because I felt the merchandising was
+starting to drive the show, and determine where the stories were going to
+go.  That won't happen on this show because I won't *let* it.  If that
+makes me a little leery on this stuff...well, that's better than being too
+eager, I suppose.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Thaxton's Return (26 Apr 1995)
+
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+
Re: Thaxton's Return

+26 Apr 1995
     1) There is no requirement to the stations that they take B5 to get
+Kung Fu.  This is, quite simply, a lie.
+ 
+     2) I have posted the ratings before.  They have continued to grow
+during new episodes, and fall back during reruns, as do all shows.  The
+statement that the ratings are going down is, quite simply, a lie.
+ 
+     But that's what Ford does.
+ 
+     So what else is new?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Acts of Sacrifice - Ivanova (26 Apr 1995)
+
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Acts of Sacrifice - Ivanova

+26 Apr 1995
     Where did the idea for Ivanova's sex scene come from?  Listen to the
+words...beat for beat, it's an average date, from meeting, dinner, sex, and
+vanishing shortly afterward.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Season 2 and 3 schedules? (26 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: Season 2 and 3 schedules?

+26 Apr 1995
     The last season 2 episodes will be broadcast in July.  We're hearing
+that if we're picked up, it's 50/50 as to whether PTEN wants the new year
+3 episodes to start in November or January.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON! (26 Apr 1995)
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Re: ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON!

+26 Apr 1995
     Big Bang is a for-profit convention, like Creation, and we've had
+some real problems with them.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS? (26 Apr 1995)
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Re: ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS?

+26 Apr 1995
     Unfortunately, the whole selling-to-yourself strategy is totally
+legal, since each group makes up their own mind what to charge, and there
+really IS no going rate.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Sheridan's distress call  (max (26 Apr 1995)
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+
Sheridan's distress call  (max

+26 Apr 1995
     In picking up a distress signal from an Earth warship, the Black Star
+would've swooped in and blown it to bits.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: How Much Surround? (6 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: How Much Surround?

+6 Apr 1995
     The amount of surround that goes into a show depends on the nature
+of the show.  For instance, there was some very good use of surround in
+"A Race Through Dark Places," "And the Sky Full of Stars," "Mind War"
+and "The Long Dark."  If it's just a casual Zocalo scene, there ain't
+much you can do with it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Alien Night? (26 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: Alien Night?

+26 Apr 1995
     "Alien Night" is something we're kinda keeping under wraps for now,
+until we get a firm production deal.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Mamma don't let your babie (26 Apr 1995)
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Re: Mamma don't let your babie

+26 Apr 1995
     A gunsight from the POV of the shooter.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ivanova's character developmen (27 Apr 1995)
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Ivanova's character developmen

+27 Apr 1995
     The problem is that if you have Ivanova constantly threatening people,
+it gets real old real fast, and after a while loses any real menace or
+threat.  So you use it sparingly.  Otherwise it swiftly lapses into cliche.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS in the UK this weekend (27 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS in the UK this weekend

+27 Apr 1995
     For those in the UK, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik and I will be
+swooping in for Babcom 95, held this weekend (the 29th and 30th) in
+Birmingham at the National Exhibition Center.  This will be a more fan
+friendly convention than is usually the case at event-style conventions.
+ 
+     We hear tickets are going fast, so if you're doing to go, best to
+look into it.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
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+ATTN: JMS, Why Only 22 Episode (8 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS, Why Only 22 Episode

+8 Apr 1995
     All PTEN series are 22 eps per season.
+ 
+     Season three (PTEN willing) would start in November.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+How Were Shadows Defeated Firs (8 Apr 1995)
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How Were Shadows Defeated Firs

+8 Apr 1995
     All the questions you asked here, Mike, will be answered in the
+very next batch of new eps, airing in May.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS: Thanks (8 Apr 1995)
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JMS: Thanks

+8 Apr 1995
     Thanks; it's been fun, that's for sure.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+> Attn: JMS - Who is Douglas N (8 Apr 1995)
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> Attn: JMS - Who is Douglas N

+8 Apr 1995
     Doug Netter is my business partner in Babylon 5, and co-owner of
+Babylonian Productions, along with me.  A lot of what he does is the
+behind the scenes business stuff, sometimes liaisoning (?) with Warner
+Bros. on those conversations when it's considered too dangerous to let
+me talk to them directly, and sitting in on casting, that sort of thing.
+A lot of what he does is mollifying execs when I make them nuts; he tends
+to get a lot of phone calls that begin with, "Do you KNOW what he's done
+NOW?"
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+B5-Micromachines observation (8 Apr 1995)
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B5-Micromachines observation

+8 Apr 1995
      As it happens, I just had some new prototypes of MicroMacs from B5
+come through my office for approval.  Some nifty stuff, including the
+atmospheric shuttle, a Narn heavy cruiser, the awful purple Centauri
+liner, and the President's Earthforce One, which is REALLY nifty....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+Re:  Continuity between variou (1 Apr 1995)
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Re:  Continuity between variou

+1 Apr 1995
     It is nowhere stated that the messages to Garibaldi or Delenn is
+the first communication they've had from Sinclair; only the first that
+WE've seen.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+Can Starfuries fly in atmosphe (10 Apr 1995)
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+10 Apr 1995
     As established in "A Voice in the Wilderness," season one, starfuries
+cannot function within an atmosphere environment.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+tCoS: Londo's Dream (10 Apr 1995)
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tCoS: Londo's Dream

+10 Apr 1995
     Londo, in his vision, sees the shadow vessels, but he does not know
+(in his present tense version) that that's what they are.  He's had this
+particular dream for years now, long before meeting Morden.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: show renewal? (10 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: show renewal?

+10 Apr 1995
     We'll know by the end of the month.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+Re: What's up with Babcom 95 ? (11 Apr 1995)
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Re: What's up with Babcom 95 ?

+11 Apr 1995
     The problem, of course, is that fan cons usually operate very close
+to the financial edge, because they're *not* about making money.  Which is
+good on one level, on several actually...but the problem you run into is
+when you then have to bring in guests from overseas.  Traveling from the
+US to the UK costs a LOT of money, plus hotel, food, on and on.  Most of
+the smaller fan-run cons can't afford to do that in general, or for only
+one person; a profit con really represents the only chance most people will
+ever have to see several people from a given show, though Wolf 359 is doing
+a bit more in that area.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Ship designs reflect on '2010' (11 Apr 1995)
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Ship designs reflect on '2010'

+11 Apr 1995
     The ships on 2010 and Babylon 5 operate out of the necessity of
+traveling without standard SF artificial gravity.  These designs have been
+discussed among scientists (in general) for ages; so there's no intention
+to be close to 2010, but when both are based upon the same scientific
+principles, there will be echoes.  Form follows function.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+11 Apr 1995
     Jeff: that would be a fair assumption based on what the technomages
+said, yes.  Keep an eye out for "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" for more.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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ATTN JMS:  AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

+11 Apr 1995
     It's certainly my hope that Warners will rerun the first season at the
+conclusion of this season.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Re: What's up with Babcom 95 ? (11 Apr 1995)
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Re: What's up with Babcom 95 ?

+11 Apr 1995
     As it happens, I've had occasion to have several long talks with the
+Babcom organizers, and have nudged them more in the direction of doing more
+of the things one might expect at a fan-con: more interaction, more
+personalization, breaking down the walls a bit.  Some of the things now
+under discussion: a more relaxed social situation, close to an ice cream
+social sort of thing, so it isn't all just a presentation; a personal
+Q&A session about breaking into TV; Peter has spoken to them about letting
+folks watch as the Optic Nerve people make him up into Londo; and others.
+Again, these are still in the conversation stage, but my sense to try and
+encourage them toward a more personalized and fan-responsive format.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Re: Atheism (was "New Age" jms (11 Apr 1995)
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+11 Apr 1995
     The notion that if one says, "I do not believe in God," that one is
+making "a positive religious claim" and thus is religius is, of course,
+eminently silly.  If I do not believe in green penguins at the north pole,
+am I now a believer in non-green-penguinism?  If I were to sit down and
+itemize all the things I don't believe in, then by your statment these are
+now beliefs, and there are an infinite number of beliefs because there are
+potentially an infinite number of things I don't believe in, and I'm not
+sure I can sustain that many beliefs without imploding.
+ 
+     The first rule of debate and sophistry is to redefine the terms of the
+argument in terms favorable to your position.  This is what's being done
+in the "if you don't believe, you therefore believe" argument.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+speculations about confessios (12 Apr 1995)
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+12 Apr 1995
     Note: the original message in this thread goes beyond speculation based
+based on what's presented to portraying an entirely new story idea.  To
+avoid further complications, I might recommend moving on.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
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+Fear of flying? (1 Apr 1995)
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+1 Apr 1995
     It's Ray Bradbury who hates to fly.
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+                                                                    jms
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+B5 MicroMachine news (maybe) (12 Apr 1995)
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B5 MicroMachine news (maybe)

+12 Apr 1995
     The MicroMachines *are* out, they *have* been purchased, and more are
+being commissioned.  (Several new prototypes came through my office for
+approval last week, including a Narn heavy cruiser and Earthforce 1.)  I
+can only conclude that some dealers, who didn't know or think to orde
+them, are saying they're not coming out just to cover their own butts.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+READ comic 5 (13 Apr 1995)
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READ comic 5

+13 Apr 1995
     I have to say I'm very pleased with issue #5.  It came out very well,
+and nicely captures both the look, feel and dialogue of the show.  There
+were some bumps along the way in issues 2-4, so I didn't say much, but
+THIS one I can highly recommend.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+Big Bang: ATTN JMS (13 Apr 1995)
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Big Bang: ATTN JMS

+13 Apr 1995
     Faramarz: after I went to Chicago to check out how the con was going
+to be run (before this we only had what we'd been told over the phone), I
+came away with the terrible belief that this convention was not going to
+be run properly, was incapable of being fixed (after providing several
+chances for the organizers to show they could do so), and had to make a
+hard decision: back away, or endorse a convention that I don't believe in,
+which I believed was systemically flawed, and the hell with the fans who
+get burned.  It's a crummy decision to have to make, and I didn't like
+having to make it.  But there *is* no middle ground on this.
+ 
+     If you want to book passage on the Titanic, and I keep suggesting
+that maybe that might not be a good idea...am I being unfair to the
+passengers?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Speculation vs Story (13 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Speculation vs Story

+13 Apr 1995
     I didn't read much of that thread (since I already know who jms is
+going to kill next), but nothing of what I saw crossed any lines into
+story ideas.  It's when new scenarios are painted in detail ("And then
+Sheridan met the great cosmic space moose, who gave him the Golden Wazoo
+of the Minbari, which was actually the alien healing device with a
+mustache")...that any trouble emerges.
+ 
+                         jm(who can now no longer do this story)s
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ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism (was "Ne

+13 Apr 1995
     If I say to you, "Did you lock the car door when you parked it?" and
+you say, "I believe so," is that a belief that is equal to, say, the
+tenets of Judaism?  Is that equal to the theses Martin Luther nailed to
+the church door?  Are you now a believer in Locked-Doorism?
+ 
+     If you define any belief as reliion, then you diminish and
+trivialize religion.  (Oops, typo above.)  Words mean what they mean, not
+what we want them to mean when it is convenient for us.  The Oxford
+American Dictionary defines religion as "belief in the existence of a
+superhuman power, especially of gods or gods, usually expressed in
+worship; a particular system of faith and worship."
+ 
+     "Belief" is not the key word in the preceding sentence; it's the
+phrase "belief IN the EXISTENCE of a superhuman power."  It's what the
+belief is IN.  If it does not contain the belief IN the existence of a
+superhuman power/god, then it is NOT religion.  Period.
+ 
+     This is just one more offshoot of the whole (and boy, do I hate to
+even mention this) evolution/creation thing, where schools said, "No, we
+cannot teach creation, we teach science, not religion."  So the
+creationists decided to come back with "Oh, but evolution IS a religion,
+so why them and not us, huh?  Huh?"  It's an attempt to redefine terms
+for advantage.
+ 
+     Me, I stick with the Oxford Dictionary.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
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Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism NOW

+14 Apr 1995
     If the question is "Which is the greater good, self sacrifice or
+honesty within the B5 universe," I'd have to for a third option.  Both
+of those are behaviors in service to a given cause.  And it's the
+selection of the greater *cause* that is most important; is it a
+constructive cause, or a destructive one?  Are you helping humanity step
+forward, or step back?  This isn't situational ethics, because the ethics
+going in have to be the same: building the future, helping those who
+cannot help themselves, spreading hope, fighting repression and pushing
+for freedom and responsibility as linked concepts.
+ 
+     Our characters in B5 are flawed; sometimes they fall short of their
+own goals.  The Minbari don't generally lie; but the often tell only part
+of the truth.  If G'Kar has gotten away with something in the pilot, and
+can't be brought to standard justice, some other way of meting out
+justice will be found, even if that means fibbing to him about a
+transmitter he's swallowed...i.e., lying.
+ 
+     But even Sinclair said it: everybody lies.  Everybody means
+everybody.  Even if it's only a case of, "Listen, I tried to make it to
+the party, but traffic was just a mess, I got up late, the dog ate my
+homework."
+ 
+     I make some distinction between this and my own personal view; the
+work of the author does not always represent what the author believes on
+a 1-1 basis.  (If it did, there'd be NO religion in B5.)  Personally, I
+think I put loyalty and honesty at the top of my pantheon.  I've worked
+very hard to maintain a certain reputation, and it means a lot to me.
+And anyone here who knows me knows that if you try and go after someone
+I consider a friend, you will have to go through me first.
+ 
+     The problem with putting self-sacrifice at the tippy top of your
+own personal Maslow's Pyramid of Self-Actualization is that it only
+functions as a subset of something else.  Self-sacrifice...to do *what*?
+You are willing to die for a cause.  Is that cause right?  Are you too
+easily and readily prepared to sacrifice?  The other, less terminal form
+of self-sacrifice is giving to other people, working to make life better,
+but I don't tend to believe that's sacrifice as much as simple personal
+responsibility.  We should do it as freely and as easily as we breathe.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+So JMS won't spend the money e (14 Apr 1995)
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+14 Apr 1995
     Babylonian Productions does not skimp or hold back money for
+publicity because BP does not have ANY money for publicity or promotion.
+Period.  Warner Bros. Publicity handles all PR for Babylon 5; we have
+zero control over that area, but a little influence, that's all.
+ 
+     Nor can we simply decide, out of the blue, to produce a 23rd episode
+of the show.  Warners and the stations making up PTEN make an executive
+decision on the pickup and number of episodes.  It is not within our
+purview to violate that.  Further, that would mean coming in under budget
+over the season in an amount equal to the price of one episode, which we
+have never done, and never will.  Each season, we come in just a smidge
+under budget.  And I do mean just a *smidge*.  Pocket change, compared to
+the overall cost of the show.
+ 
+     The small under-budget from year one was invested into new sets and
+costumes and to get a leg-up on CGI for year two.  The small year two
+underage will likely be put toward the production on year three, assuming
+we're renewed.  Neither Doug nor I take a dime of that.  Recently, Warners
+did a spot audit, as they do for any series.  They showed up at 9 a.m.,
+saying they'd be here for a few days.  A few hours later, they said they
+might be able to finish by the end of the day.  By lunchtime, they were
+finished, and said that this was the best set of books they'd ever seen.
+ 
+     So the line about maybe someday putting the profits back into the
+series, we've been doing that since day one, insofar as the under-budget.
+As for profits...there aren't any that we get.  Our contract with WB
+gives us a percentage of the NET.  Now, anyone who works in Hollywood
+knows there's no such thing as net profit.  It takes a VERY long time for
+a TV series to ever show anything.  Once the series is finished, and no
+more shows are being produced, and the series enters long-term syndication,
+lessening the expenditures, then there may finally be some small profit,
+but at that point the show's done.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS!:WAS SHERIDAN AT THE (14 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS!:WAS SHERIDAN AT THE

+14 Apr 1995
     Sheridan was not at the Line, no; the Minbari hit big at a number of
+outer EA systems, then unexpectedly leapfrogged *everything* at once right
+into Earth.  Several of our bigger ships were still en route.
+ 
+                                                            jm
+
+

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"Casting Couch"

+14 Apr 1995
     We're very fortunate in that the casting couch has been less of a
+problem in the Industry over the last ten-twenty years than it has been
+in the past.  The CC was most in play when studios were run by one or two
+individuals who could dictate to their producers and directors who to use
+in a movie.  Over time, as power within studios and networks got more
+widely spread among other executives, directors, producers, you name it,
+there isn't any one person any longer who has that clout.  Does it still
+go on?  I believe it does, at a much reduced level, and mainly in the
+film arena, where again there's more individual discretion.
+ 
+     That kind of discretion is less readily present in TV, so there isn't
+the power to fuel the temptation.  For instance, on B5, our casting
+sessions include: casting director Mary Jo Slater, me, Doug Netter, John
+Copeland, Larry (if it's his episode, otherwise not), the director of
+that episode, a reader to work opposite the actor, and sometimes, if the
+role is crucial opposite a regular performer, that performer is there.
+That's as many as 8 people, as opposed to one big studio guy sitting behind
+a desk, smoking a stogie and eyeing whoever's opposite him.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism (was (14 Apr 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism (was

+14 Apr 1995
     "Religion is the belief ABOUT the existence of a superhuman power."
+ (As opposed to IN the existence of a superhuman power.)
+ 
+     No, it's not.  By your definition, if I'm a Protestant, and I don't
+believe in Thor, by virtue of that belief about Thor, now I'm a beliegver
+(believer) in Norse mythology.  That's simply silly.
+ 
+     There is a difference between saying, "I believe there is no god,"
+and "I do not have within me the belief in the existence of a god."  The
+latter is not a belief in, or about, any kind of power; it is the total
+absence of belief.  You cannot turn that into a religion, no matter how
+many times you repeat your thesis.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Uploading the arc? (2 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Uploading the arc?

+2 Apr 1995
     My notes, alas, are very free-form, jumping back and forth; so you
+can't just peel off the year 1-2 notes without substantial editing.  I.e.,
+"Have Kosh say X because we'll need this in year 2 when X does Y."
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Atheism (was

+14 Apr 1995
     Sorry, Kristin, I won't be put into your box.  You say some
+comparative religion studies include Dianetics.  A professor can choose
+to include or exclude anything he or she wants.  What's it to me?  And
+yes, parts of Shinto don't involve god, but parts do.
+ 
+     Most significantly, howver, ALL the examples you cite to me DO
+believe in a superhuman power...specifically, a soul, which is reborn in
+one way or another in all the beliefs you named.  So the definition still
+applies.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Question about "Accu (15 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Question about "Accu

+15 Apr 1995
     The books are canon in broad terms, in that the events generally did
+happen, but the details can vary given that you've got diverse hands doing
+the work (including the comics).  I try to work with them both in as much
+detail as I can...I read the novel manuscripts preperatory to being
+typeset, and same for the comics, making suggestions and changes as
+necessary.  (In one comic issue I added a change to one panel that should
+send some shockwaves out here and there...just two words that might raise
+some neck-hairs.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

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+Yes, I *have* gone insane (15 Apr 1995)
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+15 Apr 1995
     Bed rest.  Plenty of fluids.  Aspirin every 6 hours.  And one very
+heavy mallet-whack every two hours.  You'll get better, I promise.
+ 
+                                                             jms*
+ 
+     (*who wonders if suggesting mallet-whacking is really such a good
+idea, what with the whole Jocelyn Elders thing....)
+
+

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+ATTN: JMS - Future of B5? (15 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Future of B5?

+15 Apr 1995
     We'll know by the end of the month.  We continue to be cautiously
+optimistic.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Link question (15 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Link question

+15 Apr 1995
     The Links are individually coded; when someone says, "Garibaldi to
+Sheridan," the Link system (tied into the B5 central computer, which can
+also provide research and other data) dials up the code for Sheridan's
+link, and breeps.  The transmitters are *very* powerful, and are usually
+boosted by systems inside B5.  If a Link were stolen, it could be
+detected instantly upon being used.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+JMS: Silly Question (15 Apr 1995)
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JMS: Silly Question

+15 Apr 1995
     I would think that Londo and G'Kar might actually find something in
+common in appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan.  In fact, G'Kar's "little
+fishie" song in "Parliament of Dreams" was intended to be a bit G&S in
+nature.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS: How are we doing? (15 Apr 1995)
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JMS: How are we doing?

+15 Apr 1995
     I'd say that overall the nets, collectively, have done very good at
+picking up on what's going on in the show.  I think the larger themes have
+been missed in places, but I think that in many ways that's because the
+larger pieces haven't yet been inserted into the jigsaw puzzle so that
+others can see what's going on.
+ 
+     The greatest errors, I think, come in looking too closely for
+parallels to other fiction.  "Oh, I get it, it's just like X."  That line
+will lead you only into error.
+ 
+     In any work of fiction, there are two primary elements: theme and
+plot.  Plot are the incidents, theme is what it's *about* on a very
+core level.  Plot has been well analyzed; themes not necessarily.  To tie
+this paragraph and the one preceding, for instance, a number of folks
+considered that the events in "Acts of Sacrifice" with the Lumati were a
+shot at the Prime Directive/non-interference.
+ 
+     Nothing could have been further from the truth, and it wasn't until
+this was mentioned here that it even occured to me.  Take a look at
+Washington DC these days, and the larger culture.  People being
+warehoused, other people who *should* be in homes shoved out onto the
+streets to fend for themselves, a general callousness that seems to be
+creeping into the bones of a society that was born on the premise that
+we should be at minimum kind to one another.  I figured that one would
+get a lot of discussion going on the degree to which society is, or should
+be responsive to the least of its citizens.  Darwinism vs. charity.  And
+some of that did emerge.  But a fair measure of it got siphoned off into
+comparisons with ST.
+ 
+     That, however, is really the exception rather than the rule.  I very
+frequently find myself surprised at the depth of analysis that goes on
+here, and the toughtfulness behind it.  Quite a few have Gotten It.  Some
+are still backing up far enough to see the whole picture.  And maybe at
+times I'm not being sufficiently craftworthy in my work to make those
+elements sufficiently clear.  But the deeper we go, the more there is to
+get, and the more folks *do* seem to be nailing it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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Re: READ comic 5

+15 Apr 1995
     About the new paper and price...I did the first issue, and while the
+pencils were quite good, and the inks okay, when they put the coloring in
+the paper just absorbed the hell out of it and it looked like crap, from
+my POV.  (And I'm not speaking out of school; I said much the same to DC.)
+Parts were nice, but other parts...yikes.  I felt, strongly, that we
+needed a better quality of paper, otherwise a lot of the good work that
+was being done was going to be lost.  It would cost more, but finally DC
+-- which, to be fair, has only been VASTLY supportive of B5, and the comic
+and their only intention is to make it as good as possible -- decided to
+go with the better quality paper.  The main question was whether or not
+there was enough of a reader base to warrant it; there was, and they did.
+ 
+     I've overall been quite happy with how the book is being handled.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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Notes from jms

+15 Apr 1995
     Just some quick random thoughts....
+ 
+     For those who've been nudging other folks to try out B5, you may want
+to tell them that this coming batch of eps is probably the best time to
+dive in.  In particular, our second new show (airing the first week of
+May) is designed in part to help new viewers coming to the show to catch
+up on background.  (No, not a clip show, or anything like that...I think
+you'll like it.)  I also *strongly* recommend that you videotape this
+episode, entitled "And Now For a Word."  There's something in there just
+(or primarily) for the videotapers.  Consider this a heads-up from the
+inside.  You'll know what it is when you sorta see it.)
+ 
+     For those who've asked...yes, I'll be doing another cycle of the B5
+comic, a 4-issue arc that'll probably hit the newsstands about the time
+our second season (PTEN willing) goes on the air.  I've decided that tat
+(at) this stage it'll follow a Ranger, bringing us into contact with lots
+of different parts of the B5 universe, and may also use it as a kind of
+bridge between seasons 2 and 3.
+ 
+     We should know officially about the fate of our third season by the
+end of this month.  We continue to be cautiously optimistic.
+ 
+     For all the bitching I've done about Creation, I have to say that
+I'm very pleased by something that just came through my office for
+approval: a B5 jacket with the silhouette of the station embroidered on
+the back, and the B5 symbol in front.  It's *very* nicely done.
+ 
+     The B5 trading cards, originally to come from Cardz, will now be
+coming out from Fleer, and I'm actually quite pleased by that, since I
+really like a lot of the work Fleer has done on their comics-related
+stuff.
+ 
+     Unrelated to B5: I just picked up the laserdisk for the letterboxed
+version of "The Haunting (of Hill House)" and it's amazing.  I've never
+seen it in that format, only the version altered for conventional TV
+aspect ratio.  There's stuff going on in the edges of this film that are
+brilliant.  Just seeing ALL of Hill House, vast against the night, rather
+than the one dark clump in the center of the frame, is worth the price of
+admission.  (An example: just as the lead character stands in the hallway,
+thinking aloud that the house seems to be reaching for her, you see in the
+letterbox a spider-plant just past her shoulder that does indeed, from the
+way its' shot, seem to be grasping at her, something you can't see in the
+regular version.)  The film is *full* of stuff like this, and I feel as
+though I've seen the movie for the first time, even though I've watched
+the prior version literally dozens of times.  (Yes, along with "Seconds,"
+it's one of my favorite films.)
+ 
+     If you have a laserdisk player, pick this one up.  It's nifty.
+ 
+     On Monday we begin our last week of filming.  We're going for an
+eight-day shoot this one time, rather than our usual seven-day shoot,
+because of the extraordinary EFX requirements to pull off the finale.  It
+should be a doozy.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

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Re: JMS: alt.tv.ab-fab

+16 Apr 1995
     I think AbFab is sick and twisted and *very* funny....
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+

+
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+JMS: UK C4 ratings (3 Apr 1995)
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JMS: UK C4 ratings

+3 Apr 1995
     Yeah, I'd love to see the C4 ratings; if you think it'd be better
+email, that's fine, or public, either way.  I understand we're doing VERY
+well at C4, one of their higher-rated American shows, but I haven't been
+given the hard-and-crunchies by WB International.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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Names

+16 Apr 1995
     Yes, there are other Narn names with the G' prefix.  There's a city,
+G'Kamazad, which we hear about in "And Now for a Word," and another
+character named G'Sten whom we meet in "The Long, Twilight Struggle,"
+among others.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+16 Apr 1995
     There are no guarantees this side of the grave.  But the end of this
+story will be told, no matter what.  At this moment, things look very good
+for year three, and we'll know by month's end.  If we continue to add
+viewers, as we're doing, there shouldn't be a problem seeing it through.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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Re: ATTN JMS: CRASHED Vorlon S

+16 Apr 1995
     The picture is just something Ron cobbled together for a magazine
+cover; no B5 meaning at all.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+16 Apr 1995
     You're most definitely and profoundly welcome.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
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+

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+Why B5 races are at the same l (16 Apr 1995)
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+16 Apr 1995
     Except, of course, they're *not* all at the same level.  The Minbari
+are well ahead of Earth and the Centauri and the Narns; the Narns are
+slightly ahead of Earth, and the Centauri are ahead of both; the Vorlons
+and the Shadows are both head and shoulders above all the rest; the Drazi
+are probably a bit less than Earth.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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Re: So JMS won't spend the mon

+16 Apr 1995
     "Who gets the fees and royalties from Babylon 5 licensed
+merchandise?"
+ 
+     Warner Bros.  This income is cross-collatoralized against costs of
+production and distribution in determining net profit.  Translation: no
+net profit.  I do not get a creator's fee from the comic or the novels.
+All income goes to Warners, which then puts it against costs.
+ 
+     "Who gets the fees from personal appearances?"  The person making
+the appearance.  I do not get any money from actors' appearances.  I do
+get small fees for my own apperances, but the problem is that because of
+my height, I generally need to fly first.  Most cons can afford to pay
+for either coach or business.  So I make up the difference, which in many
+cases means I end up either breaking even, or losing a bit.
+ 
+     "Who gets the royalties from Babylon 5 publications?"  Warner Bros.
+See above.
+ 
+     "Are these fees and royalties plowed back into the series
+production?"  No.  Warners collects those fees and puts them into an
+account marked INCOME.  Costs associated with the creation of the show are
+marked DEBITS.  The job of ALL of the studios is to make sure that, on
+paper, the INCOME never gets higher than the DEBITS line.
+ 
+     Re: the production costs...we tell Warners what we think it will cost
+to make the show at its best level.  That is what they give us.  And that
+is what we use to make the show.
+ 
+     This is how all TV shows work, particularly at the syndication level.
+Hugely rated network shows can use the leverage to re-negotiate and change
+the profit formula slightly to redefine "net" and remove such things as
+distribution fees and the like.  That's not the case with B5.
+ 
+     And now for the one personal observation...you have now hit a new low,
+Theron.  You can't find anything else to attack, your claims are consistent
+bullshit, so now you start throwing around the suspicion that maybe someone
+(viz: me) is making huge amounts of profit on B5 and short-shrifting the
+production.
+ 
+     Have you no shame at *all*?
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+"The One" (Sinclair & Delenn) (16 Apr 1995)
+
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"The One" (Sinclair & Delenn)

+16 Apr 1995
     "So who IS the One?  Some of the evidence points to Sinclair, but
+other bits seem to indicate Delenn.  Yet neither seems to fit all the
+facts above."
+ 
+     Exactly.
+ 
+     What you have here in your message are two pieces of the puzzle.
+You're confounded by the fact that somehow they don't quite seem to fit
+into one another.  That's because there's one last piece missing in this
+part of the picture, which fits in between them.  The intent is to put
+this piece into clear view in year three, probably between episodes 8 and
+11 approximately.  At that point, the question of the One will be fully
+answered.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Actors and why movies/TV are m (16 Apr 1995)
+
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Actors and why movies/TV are m

+16 Apr 1995
     If only attractive people are picked to become stars, then someone
+PLEASE explain Jim Belushi to me.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: JMS (16 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: JMS

+16 Apr 1995
     When out amongst real folk, I just answer to Joe.  Actually, I'll
+answer to just about anything, but Joe is probably most expedient.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: An offer re: B-5 Mod (18 Apr 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: An offer re: B-5 Mod

+18 Apr 1995
     The only way models can be made is if they're licensed through Warner
+Bros., so you'll have to go through them on this.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Point about bloopers (3 Apr 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Point about bloopers

+3 Apr 1995
     Bloopers still use the likenesses of the actors, ARE the actors, shot
+on our sets, using our costumes...one can't take that and sell it around
+town without giving something back to the actors, I think.  If we should
+end up ever selling the blooper, or scripts, we would find some formula to
+give back to those involved.
+ 
+     I'd expect to hear more on the CD Rom after the 3rd year pickup.
+ 
+     Valen willing.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:Does Sheridan wear al (18 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS:Does Sheridan wear al

+18 Apr 1995
      Yes, Sheridan wears all his medals (absent those too big or showy for
+chest-display).  As for Andreas, we're putting him up for an Emmy for his
+work (also other cast members), and can only hope the Academy recognizes
+the fine work he's done.  Beyond that, there's nothing the fans can do but
+hope....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Re: So JMS won't spe (18 Apr 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Re: So JMS won't spe

+18 Apr 1995
     Yes, what I said was what I intended.  Do the studios profit from
+their series/movies?  Of course.  But many of the contracts with their
+people -- actors, writers, producers, directors -- stipulate that they get
+a piece of any net profit.  Consequently, the studios do all they can to
+make sure that *on paper* it looks as if they've never had a profit.
+ 
+     There have been many cases of stars who, twenty years after their
+shows entered syndication, asked where the heck their profit is, and were
+told that the show is still in the red.  Does anyone believe this?  Of
+course not.  But getting into their books for audits is hard; ask Art
+Buchwald.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Pardon me, but... (18 Apr 1995)
+
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Pardon me, but...

+18 Apr 1995
     Yes, that was me, and the info is correct.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shelved/Unused scripts (18 Apr 1995)
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Shelved/Unused scripts

+18 Apr 1995
     Insofar as I can recall, there are no unusued *scripts*.  There were
+a few abandoned outlines, and some stories that I wanted to get around to
+writing, which I decided to shelve for one reason or another long before
+they were written down in any form.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Bisexuality thread (18 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: Bisexuality thread

+18 Apr 1995
     I thought we had adopted "don't ask, don't tell" as our national
+policy regarding this issue.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Ivanova's sex scene (18 Apr 1995)
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Ivanova's sex scene

+18 Apr 1995
     Judelon: bingo.  When I scripted that scene, that's exactly what was
+intended; it goes from the pickup line "come here often?  yes, I do" to
+"dinner, drinks, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss GRAB!" then asking how
+it is for the other person, then "I slept with you the other night, you
+didn't call, you didn't write, I think you do it just for spite!"
+ 
+     In a way, the way it's written, it IS sex human style, in that it has
+all the elements in, say, about 30 seconds (which is also about right in
+some cases).  From meeting through bed to breakup....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: What does it take? (18 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: What does it take?

+18 Apr 1995
     A lot of notes are amusing, or interesting, but don't seem to
+require a direct response.  I have to be fairly stringent in determining
+the extent of replying, or I'd be doing nothing else.  Basically, if a
+thread seems to meander after a while, I'll generally bail out after a
+few days.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+sm ... an observation (20 Apr 1995)
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+20 Apr 1995
     What Londo loves doing is yanking G'Kar's chain.  That's all the
+line should be taken to imply.
+ 
+     (The headache comes from stuff he doesn't understand.)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS' unusual typing speed (20 Apr 1995)
+
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Re: JMS' unusual typing speed

+20 Apr 1995
     I use a standard keyboard, and it's only 120 wpm, not 140, and only
+when I'm at fever pitch.  I usually coast along at between 90 and 100.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: J*S - the magic initials? (20 Apr 1995)
+
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Re: J*S - the magic initials?

+20 Apr 1995
     It would've been very difficult for the lead character in Captain
+Power to have my initials since his name was Jonathan Power.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn: JMS - "Only decent SF on (3 Apr 1995)
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Attn: JMS - "Only decent SF on

+3 Apr 1995
     I slipped the reference to B5 into OtherSyde to see if it would become
+a self-fulfilling prophecy or just a fictional reference.  Just for fun.
+ 
+     My books are out of print because I guess I haven't actively pursued
+keeping them IN print.  When I finish my next novel, I'll probably be able
+to get them back into print, but that won't be until B5 is done, since the
+next book -- a contemporary dark fantasy -- is targeted at about 1,000
+manuscript pages, and I won't really be able to get into it until then.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: What would you have done (20 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: What would you have done

+20 Apr 1995
     If we'd only had models to work with, then we would've found some way
+to make the models work.  I think a lot of the difficulty with TV EFX is
+just not thinking things through, and doing everything last-minute.  We
+don't generally have that problem.
+ 
+     One of the options we discussed at the time was shooting model EFX
+sequences in a slightly different way.  Because I know the story for each
+year ahead of time, we could've ganged all the EFX shots together.  I.e.,
+you know you're going to have battle scenes in episodes 3 and 7 between
+the same two races, same kinds of ships.  So you double up your cameras
+for different angles, and basically shoot both at once, then isolate the
+different pieces for either of the two episodes.  We also would've had a
+second unit shooting 2 days per week as a visual EFX unit.
+ 
+     Either way, it would've been done.  We're quite happy that CGI came
+along when it did, but we would've found some way to do it regardless.
+The history of this series is that of determination despite whatever
+obstacles are thrown at us.  Once we set our minds to the course, nothing
+stops us.
+ 
+     Patience, determination, direction and strength.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Babylon 5 contest in May! (20 Apr 1995)
+
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Re: Babylon 5 contest in May!

+20 Apr 1995
     I've been told what's going to be offered as main prize(s) (five) for
+the B5 contest...and man, lemme tell you, if I could, *I'd* enter.  Way
+cool.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Could B5 (the series) be made (20 Apr 1995)
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Could B5 (the series) be made

+20 Apr 1995
     Robert: you're onto something here.  Just so you know.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: B5 CD (20 Apr 1995)
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Re: B5 CD

+20 Apr 1995
     Actually, to correct this, the last track in the European version
+has more *perussion* and fewer strings, whereas the American version has
+more strings and less percussion (this in the longer, reorchestrated
+suite of the Requiem for the Line).  This was because Chris sent me the
+tape with the last track for my approval.  I listened to it, and thought
+it was great...but for me, what really makes the RftL theme so beautiful
+and moving and tragic and powerful are the strings in counterpoint to the
+rest of the rhythm.  Here they were missing.  So I called, and said, "It
+really needs the strings."  By this point they were already pressing the
+European edition, and it was too late to do anything about it.  It was
+subsequently revised for the American release.  So now there are two
+versions floating around out there; the percussive version is nice for
+the driving aspect of it, it hits you hard in the gut; the string version
+hits you in the heart and breaks it.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON! (20 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON!

+20 Apr 1995
     P.S.  Yes, I tentatively do plan to be at Chicago ComicCon a week or
+so later.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON! (20 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS BIG BANG CON!

+20 Apr 1995
     Some of our cast members have decided to risk what all believe is a
+potentially troublesome situation and go to Big Bang, despite the problems
+we've had with them, because it was learned subsequent to the initial
+decision not to take part in it that many folks had bought non-refundable
+airline tickets, and may not get ticket refunds.  They're determined not
+to see the fans burned by this.  Babylonian Productions, Warners nor I can
+endorse or support the con in any way; we've been burned enough.  Thus I
+can't go.  But I must commend our cast for rising above the problems
+presented to us at the other end, and risking more problems by taking part.
+ 
+     For their sake, and the fans, it is my hope that this somehow comes
+out okay.  Suffice to say we're going to be watching *very* carefully.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+another reason jms hates filk (20 Apr 1995)
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another reason jms hates filk

+20 Apr 1995
     Dear Mr. Thiesen:
+ 
+     I recommend having someone else start your car for you for the next,
+oh, fifteen years or so....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Thoughts on Relationships (20 Apr 1995)
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JMS: Thoughts on Relationships

+20 Apr 1995
     I'll have more of a response on this after the end of this season.
+ 
+     Trust me.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Life expectancy (20 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Life expectancy

+20 Apr 1995
     In "Soul Hunter," Franklin notes that the average human life span is
+now about a hundred years.  It's quite a bit longer for the other races;
+G'Kar is about 70 or more, but is considered mid-range, equal to a human
+in early 40s, among Narns.  Delenn is in about the same position, equal to
+30s-40s in her terms, but in years a bit older.  They are a pretty long
+lived people.  Centauri aren't quite as long-lived, but they do a bit
+better than the Narns.  The Vorlons......are.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+appearing in bookstores near y (20 Apr 1995)
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appearing in bookstores near y

+20 Apr 1995
     Yes, the reporter/writer was given permission to quote liberally from
+my prior posts.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+New to list (4 Apr 1995)
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New to list

+4 Apr 1995
     Thanks for joining the ranks, Steve.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

+
+
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+Re: So JMS won't spend the mon (20 Apr 1995)
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Re: So JMS won't spend the mon

+20 Apr 1995
     Kevin: I'm paid a salary per episode produced, a creator's royalty
+of a few hundred bucks per ep, and the script fee for any script I write.
+By conventional standards, as compared to truly worthwhile jobs, like
+teaching, it's a good chunk of change; compared to what you get on a
+network show, it's basically chump-change.  But I ain't really in this
+to make a gazillion bucks; I want to tell this story.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: "And Now For a Word" Infl (20 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: "And Now For a Word" Infl

+20 Apr 1995
     Where it came from, in part, was oddly enough, a theatrical
+exercise.
+ 
+     There's a thing you do in theater training where you're told to talk
+about a subject, never use the word "I" ...but in the end wind up telling
+us more about *you* than the subject you're speaking about.  So I began
+to wonder if I could apply this exercise, in a limited way, to an episode
+of the show.  I can't say more than that without spoiling things, but
+suffice to say you learn a lot about all kinds of people, and the way you
+learn it says a lot about those involved.  It's a *very* subversive and
+tricky episode, and I *very* much suggest taping it, so you can go back
+and check something out later.  You'll know what.  If you don't, you'll
+kick yourself later.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Okay, I'll try it (20 Apr 1995)
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Okay, I'll try it

+20 Apr 1995
     Watch the eps between the end of April and the last one in the end of
+May.  If these don't get you, nothing will.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: All Alone in the Nig (20 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: All Alone in the Nig

+20 Apr 1995
     Re: Ramirez being "a pretty uncommon name."
+ 
+     Not in LA it isn't.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: So JMS won't spend the mon (20 Apr 1995)
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Re: So JMS won't spend the mon

+20 Apr 1995
     Neil: on actors getting a piece of their merchandise...roll this one
+around for a bit...the majority of ST actors (excluding Nimoy, Kelley and
+Shatner) have each gotten, roughly, $16,000 as their share of profit
+sharing/merchandising over the 25 years of ST history.  Ain't life funny?
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN:JMS What if both sides wa (20 Apr 1995)
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ATTN:JMS What if both sides wa

+20 Apr 1995
     Both sides can hire their own teeps (telepaths), or jointly hire the
+same one, who is adjudged neutral.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: The Signal?M (20 Apr 1995)
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+20 Apr 1995
     The pattern was supposed to change a bit more than it did on screen;
+call it a bit of interpretation of notes between me and Foundation.  It
+has not happened again.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Significance of meta (20 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Significance of meta

+20 Apr 1995
     The strip indicates branch of military; this is explained in some
+detail in "There All the Honor Lies."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS  Publishing the Arc (20 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  Publishing the Arc

+20 Apr 1995
     I just don't know if my notes would be in sufficient shape and
+coherence to publish; they jump all over the place over several hundred
+years of history, including backstory.  We'll see.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS' unusual typing speed (20 Apr 1995)
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Re: JMS' unusual typing speed

+20 Apr 1995
     Oddly enough, the new keyboard I use at work *does* come with optional
+foot controls (which I didn't get).  It's a Kinesis ergonomic keyboard,
+with the keys in recessed wells.  The footpads handle control codes and
+other stuff.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+From JMS re: Poster Request (5 Apr 1995)
+
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From JMS re: Poster Request

+5 Apr 1995
     As has been noted, a number of items were sold at Vulkon in Cleveland
+that should not have been sold.  We're trying to acquire some of the
+posters that were being sold at the Big Bang table, specifically the ones
+marked that they were to benefit Project Starfury.  If you have one, and
+would like to let it go, we'll trade you either an official B5 crew cap,
+or an autographed copy of our very first script for the B5 series,
+"Midnight on the Firing Line."  If you're so inclined, drop me a note in
+email and I'll get you the address.  Thanks.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Kudos from Old Hicko (20 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Kudos from Old Hicko

+20 Apr 1995
     Many thanks....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: done writing, then? (20 Apr 1995)
+
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JMS: done writing, then?

+20 Apr 1995
     Bob:
+ 
+                     pfthpft........
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Background noise. (20 Apr 1995)
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Background noise.

+20 Apr 1995
     It was probably the Centauri translation.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

+
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+JMS: Recording B5 from TV (20 Apr 1995)
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JMS: Recording B5 from TV

+20 Apr 1995
     I really have no idea about the British taping laws; certainly one
+should always obey one's local ordinances.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Re: So JMS won't spend the mon (20 Apr 1995)
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Re: So JMS won't spend the mon

+20 Apr 1995
     It was always clear that we'd go with either 22, 24 or 25 episodes
+per season, so that was accommodated in the early structure.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS...San Diego ComicCon (21 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS...San Diego ComicCon

+21 Apr 1995
     I *always* go to San Diego Comic Con...it's my one big trip ever
+year.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Buttons? (21 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Buttons?

+21 Apr 1995
     Your friend is correct.  While people are treated equally in the EA,
+it seems not contradictory to have certain fashion aspects continue on
+into the future, such as the reversal of buttons.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS? (21 Apr 1995)
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ATTN: JMS INCOME=DEBTS?

+21 Apr 1995
     I do not hold the copyright for B5.  The copyright for ALL shows is
+in the hands of the studios.  Roddenberry, for instance, did not own (and
+his estate does not own) Star Trek.  Paramount does.  Look at any of the
+ST merchandise: (c) (year) Paramount Television.  Warner Bros./PTEN holds
+the copyright for B5.
+ 
+     Thus, if they license it to a comics company, it's between the company
+and the "creator" for legal purposes...Warner Bros.  Ditto for the novels.
+Why do I thus get involved anyway?  Because they're based on my show, and
+I have a personal interest in making sure they're done right.
+ 
+     And as stated, the goal is to keep income below debits *on paper*,
+not in reality.
+ 
+     Because all studios know that if they can show no net income, they
+never have to pay profit participation.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Question (21 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Question

+21 Apr 1995
     What we have in mind for Kosh is going to tax our capabilities to the
+limit.  It will be a mix of prosthetics, CGI, compositing, wardrobe, an
+unusual kind of matte, different exposure techniques, on and on and on;
+the visual effects meeting on just this one sequence was the biggest one
+we've ever had, drawing in every department (also practical effects,
+visual effects, rotoscope, and others).  The sequence exists in lots of
+different pieces which will take us months to assemble, so I haven't seen
+the final product yet, but if we've done this right, it should be a real
+doozy.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Question (21 Apr 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Kosh CGI Question

+21 Apr 1995
     PS...as an aside on EFX...we constantly slip EFX in and a lot of
+folks don't even notice it, because we don't point to it or make a big
+deal out of it.  It's just *there*.  One example of this I mentioned was
+the sanctuary in "Coming of Shadows," a virtual set that doesn't exist
+in reality.
+ 
+     Here's another one.
+ 
+     In "Soul Mates," and in the main title, you'll see the shot of the
+bazaar.  It's a wide shot, showing the two levels of the bazaar, with
+people walking on either side of the second floor, looking down into the
+main area.
+ 
+     Secret revealed: there IS no second floor.  Doesn't exist.  We made
+the second level digitally.  To the best of my knowledge (though I might
+have missed something), I don't think anyone noticed this as being a CGI/
+composite effect.  It's just there.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Permission to Use B5 (9 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Permission to Use B5

+9 May 1995
     Alas, for contractual reasons, all that stuff has to go through
+Warner Bros.,and I suspect they'd turn it down.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+New Vegas (11 May 1995)
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New Vegas

+11 May 1995
     New Vegas is on Mars.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

+
+
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+
+JMS!  WWII/Za'ha'Dum Question (11 May 1995)
+
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JMS!  WWII/Za'ha'Dum Question

+11 May 1995
     Correct; Delenn and Kosh have said nothing about G'Kar's claims
+because they're trying to keep a low profile.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Delenn's Hair??? (12 May 1995)
+
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JMS: Delenn's Hair???

+12 May 1995
     I had her hair changed.  I felt it was starting to make her look VERY
+severe, and arch.  I much prefer the new version.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Taking No Prisoners, (12 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Taking No Prisoners,

+12 May 1995
     Thanks.  Certainly the last 4-5 episodes of the season are totally
+uncompromising and unflinching.  Very tough stuff in places.  But that's
+kinda the fun.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+From jms re: Internet Gateway (17 May 1995)
+
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+
From jms re: Internet Gateway

+17 May 1995
     To those who've inquired: my regular GEnie internet gateway is down
+and has been for the last several days.  This happens periodically, for
+whatever bizarre reason.  I can still get private email, but not the
+usenet.  It generally comes back up again in a bit.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Good writing Bad writing in Za (17 May 1995)
+
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Good writing Bad writing in Za

+17 May 1995
     Except, of course, that Earth identicards use genetic fingerprints,
+which they have access to, and the idea that the ID is forged or a fraud
+could be dispensed with in, oh, about ten seconds by just checking his
+DNA against the file.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Enough of this "B5 is this and (18 May 1995)
+
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Enough of this "B5 is this and

+18 May 1995
     What I find fascinating in this whole discussion is that, whenever a
+novel comes out, people don't generally go through page by page and say,
+ s"Oh, I think Niven was ripping off/drawing from "Lensman" when he did this
+part."  They generally only do this to TV people...because it's assumed
+that TV people don't have an original idea in their head, and can ony
+(only) borrow from other people.
+ 
+     Though I may sometimes nod to one or another landmark of SF, I'm not
+doing the Prisoner, Lord of the Rings, Childhood's End, MacBeth, the
+Illiad, The Mountains of Madness, or any of the thirty other works that
+I'm supposed to be doing, all mutually contradictory.  I'm telling this
+story, my story, and though it's nice to be compared to such other works,
+it does become bothersome after a while when everybody tries to pin down
+which work I'm supposed to be "doing" when they NEVER do this to novelists,
+because this is TV.  C'mon, people, I've written published novels, and
+short stories, and plays, and radio dramas, and I *do* have a brain in my
+head to maybe make up something on my own, y'know.
+ 
+     (And yes, my server is back up again, though I think it doesn't have
+anything from the days in which I wasn't online, and just picked up from
+today.)
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: a few background que (18 May 1995)
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Attn JMS: a few background que

+18 May 1995
     Security personnel are part or EA, but primarily hired by and work
+for B5.  Garibaldi is part of Earthforce proper, and is ranked a Chief
+Warrant Officer, correct.  And the Narns did help us during our last war.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Vir's Comments: ItSoZ Spoilers (18 May 1995)
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Vir's Comments: ItSoZ Spoilers

+18 May 1995
     Then again, there's always the character of God's Fool, who wanders
+in and out of the most dangerous situations, is reckless with his life,
+yet in the end is the only one to survive.  Just a thought....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: You kids are warped, you (18 May 1995)
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JMS: You kids are warped, you

+18 May 1995
     Yeah, the air freshener was a cool touch....
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: ANFaW "Cold Equation (9 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: ANFaW "Cold Equation

+9 May 1995
     I don't see *any* similarity whatsoever.  "Cold Equations" was most
+definitely NOT about a "teenager who accidentally 'spaces' himself."  For
+starters it was a girl, but MOST important, in "Cold Equations," it was a
+deliberate *choice* to walk out the airlock.  The whole premise of the
+story is that the young girl stows away on a ship bringing vaccine to a
+colony world.  Only other person on the ship is the pilot.  The ship is
+stripped down for speed; there's only enough fuel for the pilot, the ship,
+and the landing.  If she stays, the ship will run out of fuel on or just
+before re-entry, they'll die and the colonists will die.  If the pilot
+sacrifices himself, she can't land the ship on her own, same result.  So
+she must make the conscious decision to sacrifice herself to save the
+others, because you can't argue with math.
+ 
+     That is absolutely different from somebody screwing around and
+accidentally getting blown out an airlock.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Shadows must be incompetent! ( (18 May 1995)
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Shadows must be incompetent! (

+18 May 1995
     The shadows are only incompetent if there is not a reason why they
+have not chosen to pass beyond the rim.  There is.  And they *are*
+currently playing it slow and patient; they *have* learned.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Worldcon in August (18 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Worldcon in August

+18 May 1995
     At this point, no, no one from B5 is slated for Worldcon or Nasfic.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS  - Anna *Sheridan*? (18 May 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  - Anna *Sheridan*?

+18 May 1995
     Anna chose to take Sheridan's last name.  Her decision.  You have the
+option.  Some do, some don't.  If you start to pass rules that no woman
+CAN take her husband's name or she's betraying something, then you're being
+just as restrictive as those who insist a woman MUST take her husband's
+name.  Me, I'm pro-choice on every level.  She felt like it.
+ 
+     (And I note that my own spousal overunit kept her own name.  But then,
+who in her right mind WOULD take Straczynski...?)
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Official... or not! (18 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Official... or not!

+18 May 1995
     Unless they're dealing with the Dell books, no, this Starbooks thing
+definitely ain't legit.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS, The Word ZaHaDum. S (18 May 1995)
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ATTN: JMS, The Word ZaHaDum. S

+18 May 1995
     A very good analysis of the name.  And no rest, as we're still in
+post production, and hopefully gearing up soon.  (Well, a little rest.)
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Foul Balls in "KNIVE (18 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Foul Balls in "KNIVE

+18 May 1995
     Actually, Sheridan WAS hitting fair and home run balls in the front
+of the show; later, though, when he was more rattled, they were all foul.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN:JMS--Thanks for Vir (18 May 1995)
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ATTN:JMS--Thanks for Vir

+18 May 1995
     Thanks.  I like Vir a lot.  Many folks were willing to write him off
+in the beginning, not understanding that there was more beneath the
+surface (a problem Vir has also had in his "life").  But you gotta be
+careful; characters have a way of surprising you.  And I like that, and
+intended that, Vir be the first one to stand up to Morden.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Icarus Problems (18 May 1995)
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JMS:  Icarus Problems

+18 May 1995
     The Icarus is a zero-g interior vessel while in spaceflight; the crew
+just has to deal with it.  It piggy-backs on larger, jump capable ships,
+making arrangements for pickup after X-days or weeks with the same or
+another ship.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Icarus name connection in (18 May 1995)
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JMS: Icarus name connection in

+18 May 1995
     No, I picked Icarus because I was up to I in the Name Dictionary.
+ 
+     Yes, unless I've been unknowingly receiving spirit messages, table
+tappings or divine revelation, it was an intentional connection.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+I hate this damn Greek dichoto (18 May 1995)
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I hate this damn Greek dichoto

+18 May 1995
     Of course, you're assuming the shadows are evil sui generis.  May not
+be that simple.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS: Has the Arc Changed (10 May 1995)
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ATTN: JMS: Has the Arc Changed

+10 May 1995
     Actually, no, believe or not the arc really hasn't changed much; it's
+gotten filled out a bit in places, but the direction hasn't altered.  I
+had always had kind of a (?) in the thing as to how to transition clearly
+from Sinclair to the Shadows, because I needed some way to connect the
+stories, but having Sinclair have a hook to the shadows just strained
+credulity past the breaking point.  Gradually I figured out a way to do
+that, and that (?) was filled.  Other than that, no; it's going where it
+was always going.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Congratulations to JMS! (Was R (18 May 1995)
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Congratulations to JMS! (Was R

+18 May 1995
     Let me clarify this.  We have not -- NOT -- been officially renewed,
+nor is PTEN looking for money.  Every year, the two parts of PTEN (the
+stations, and Warner Bros.) engage in negotiations over that year, in
+terms of deal points, commercial times available to sell, number of runs
+per week and other areas.  They have indicated to us that they would like
+the PTEN shows to continue, but that is all contingent upon both sides
+working out their differences on deal stuff.  That is where we stand at
+this moment.  It's taking a while for them to nail all this stuff down.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS : CGi in "And Now For a Wo (18 May 1995)
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JMS : CGi in "And Now For a Wo

+18 May 1995
     "Whoever thought up the idea of *security cams* for FX shots...."
+ 
+     That's how it was scripted.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Left hand? (18 May 1995)
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Left hand?

+18 May 1995
     I'm right-handed.  Most of our cast are lefties.  Who knows why...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: What rastB5 means to me.. (18 May 1995)
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JMS: What rastB5 means to me..

+18 May 1995
     That's wonderful, and I appreciate seeing it.  It's been fun here,
+too, all things considered.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Now you did it!!! (18 May 1995)
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JMS: Now you did it!!!

+18 May 1995
     The balance of season two eps will show up in reruns between the end
+of May and the next batch/last batch of year two eps...which I've learned
+will be held until *OCTOBER* to (in theory) help folks get a running start
+on year three (still awaiting final word).  Also, WB is concerned about
+running year one reruns because it might confuse people to see a different
+CO running the place.
+ 
+     (I just report the news, I don't make it.)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+One question answered, anyway (18 May 1995)
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One question answered, anyway

+18 May 1995
     Again, look at the Kosh/Morden scene in "Signs."  A light is
+suddenly blown out off to one side.  Morden didn't move.  So who did
+it...but his constant companions?
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+What happened to Harlan's voic (18 May 1995)
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+
What happened to Harlan's voic

+18 May 1995
     All the voiceovers on PTEN shows were dropped this season, us, Kung
+Fu, and Pointman.  Corporate decision.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+why ask the question at all? (18 May 1995)
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+
why ask the question at all?

+18 May 1995
     Because the story's not just about causing conflict.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+The one problem my gf has with (19 May 1995)
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The one problem my gf has with

+19 May 1995
      Your girlfriend is a yak?  This seems very strange to me.  But if it
+makes you happy....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: References (19 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: References

+19 May 1995
     Securecam is NOT a reference to Max Headroom.  It is a work formed
+out of Security and Camera, which is the function of the ones mounted on
+the station, as Maintcam goes on the maintainance bots.  The Psi Corps
+line in the commercial is not a reference to Paranoia.
+ 
+     Not everything in this show is a reference to some other show.  We
+do have some interest in doing our *own* story, rather than nodding to
+every series on the face of the planet, and not all concepts started in
+the other shows that used them.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+SPACE BATTLES (some spoilers)( (10 May 1995)
+
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+
SPACE BATTLES (some spoilers)(

+10 May 1995
     Actually, all sides in battle use ECM (Electronic Counter Measures)
+to throw off the targeting systems on the "enemy" vessels.  But usually
+it only takes a couple of quick firings to compensate (which is what we've
+done).
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS Who do we write about (19 May 1995)
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Attn JMS Who do we write about

+19 May 1995
     Airing schedule decisions are made by Warner Bros.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Neurotic Question (19 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Neurotic Question

+19 May 1995
     He said stop because Zack had found the right wavelength (at least
+briefly) and didn't want him to go further and lose it again.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+This is going too far (19 May 1995)
+
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This is going too far

+19 May 1995
     Then again, you are assuming that you are being told the truth about
+the bothersome phone call.  I'm not saying it *ain't* true, or that it is,
+only that I've seen this gag pulled before, where somebody comes in, posts
+a message that gets an argument going, gets ganged up on, and then says
+he or she is being "threatened" or intimidated in some way, in order to
+play the victim (and also win an unwinnable argument) and get people on
+his/her side.
+ 
+     In all the years I've been on the nets, I haven't encountered one real
+case of this, and given the nature of discussion on this forum, there have
+been *real major* flamewars which cause this one to pale into
+insignificance, and if THOSE didn't provoke such calls, I don't see why
+this one would, all of a sudden.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS says PTEN wants to del (19 May 1995)
+
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Re: JMS says PTEN wants to del

+19 May 1995
     There are NO "production time restraints" involved in delaying the
+last 4 episodes until October, which can be easily verified by the fact
+that we'll be delivering all the finished episodes in time for the UK to
+air these same last 4 episodes in June/July.  They'll just sit on a shelf
+here in the US until October.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Season 2 Delay/18 we (19 May 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Season 2 Delay/18 we

+19 May 1995
     Warners is reluctant to rerun season one episodes because they're
+afraid of confusing the audience with a different CO on B5.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: When Will He Put It (19 May 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: When Will He Put It

+19 May 1995
     Remember, we the audience have information withheld from Sheridan.
+But he'll have it all pretty much together by season's end.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Notes from jms (19 May 1995)
+
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Notes from jms

+19 May 1995
     Some quickies....
+ 
+     1) Claudia Christian, Bill Mumy and I will be appearing (on various
+days/times) at the Creation MegaShow to be held at the Anaheim Convention
+Center, in California, May 27-28.  I don't know when they'll be up, but
+I'm slated for Sunday.  (Plus Mark Hammil, Stan Lee and some Voyager
+folks.)
+ 
+     2) Parents with small kids who watch B5 may want to consider
+screening the next episode, "Confessions and Lamentations," first, in
+order to determine how to talk to your kids about it.  It's a *very*
+intense episode and uncompromising.
+ 
+     3) Yes, as discussed elsewhere here, Warners has scheduled the last
+four episodes of this season to run in October, to build momentum toward
+what (we hope) will be the season three debut, though no official word
+has yet been given on year three.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+More "Old Friends?" (20 May 1995)
+
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+
More "Old Friends?"

+20 May 1995
     No plans for Ironheart just now.  We will be seeing Draal again this
+season.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS Who do we write a (20 May 1995)
+
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Re: Attn JMS Who do we write a

+20 May 1995
      I cannot make a formal statement on this in either direction.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Z'Ha'Dum pronumciati (20 May 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Z'Ha'Dum pronumciati

+20 May 1995
     The difference is just in accent.  ZA HA DOOM is the way I pronounce
+it, but ZA cHA DOOM is also acceptable (from someone who's learned to
+more or less accept the 47 different ways in which one may pronounce
+straczynski).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan Ellison on TV Tonight (10 May 1995)
+
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+
Harlan Ellison on TV Tonight

+10 May 1995
     B5 conceptual consultant Harlan Ellison will be on Politically
+Incorrect tonight at 11 pst, check your local listings for local times.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Book 3: Blood Oath (21 May 1995)
+
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+
B5 Book 3: Blood Oath

+21 May 1995
     As stated, all of the B5-related items -- books, comics, merchandise,
+you name it -- go through my hands.  Usually I have only minor notes; in
+some cases, I have more substantive notes.  Nobody's fault, it just
+happens.  When you've got diverse hands tugging the B5 universe in various
+directions, sooner or later someone's going to go down the wrong road.  It
+is my job, and responsibility, to pull it back when that happens.  That's
+the whole point.
+ 
+     Book #3 had, as stated, gone down some wrong roads, and needed to be
+brought back into alignment with the series.  I had a substantial number
+of notes.  Not John's fault, it just Is.  Or Was.  The revisions required
+to bring the book back into line were going to be enough to push back the
+publication date by a month or two.  Dell wasn't exactly thrilled with
+the idea.  I insisted.  We went back and forth.  Finally, the revisions
+were implemented.  Hence the slight delay.  (The revised manuscript has
+already come and gone through my office, and been approved, thanks to
+John's careful revisions.)
+ 
+     No relation to the other PTEN stuff; this is just jms being a pain in
+the ass.  But that's part of the process, so that when you see something
+with the B5 name on it, you know it's been done reasonably right.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: C&L reaction: spoilers (23 May 1995)
+
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Re: C&L reaction: spoilers

+23 May 1995
     Re: Lyta and G'Kar...G'Kar *specifically* stated in that scene that
+there would have to be substantial genetic manipulation to make the
+mating work.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS - Alternate Distribut (23 May 1995)
+
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+
ATTN JMS - Alternate Distribut

+23 May 1995
     Due to the nature of our contract with PTEN, which in essence owns
+the copyright to B5, I don't think there *are* any alternatives.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Screw the plague! (possible sp (24 May 1995)
+
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Screw the plague! (possible sp

+24 May 1995
     Next time I will try and locate every other producer in town and
+see what they plan to produce, so I can plan accordingly.  When I wrote
+the episode, Outbreak hadn't been promoted yet or known about, Voyager
+hadn't aired, ER hadn't told me what they were going to do...if I'd
+known there would be such a glut...well, I probably would've done so
+anyway, because this isn't so much about the plague and saying its'
+dangerous, but about our attitudes when we are confronted by this, which
+really hasn't been dealt with that much in SF.  (And I'm sorry, but
+don't even *try* to bring the Voyager story into this; the ship is
+threatened by a cheese contamination?  I almost fell off my chair.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+So-- how much does it cost to (24 May 1995)
+
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So-- how much does it cost to

+24 May 1995
     The budget for B5 is classified, but I can say it's under one
+million per episode.  (ST is generally $1.4 to $1.6 million.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+which comes first... (24 May 1995)
+
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which comes first...

+24 May 1995
     Actually, the chronological order was *supposed* to be "Knives," THEN
+"Z'ha'dum."  In "Knives" you get the reminder about Anna, then in
+"Z'ha'dum" you get the payoff.  That was originally how they were intended
+to be aired, but there was *so much* CGI work and rotoscope work and
+creature animation involved in "Knives" that it got flopped to second in
+that order.  So while it works *best* the way it was intended, it still
+works okay in this order.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Some technical questions (24 May 1995)
+
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+
Some technical questions

+24 May 1995
     The majority of those questions are best left to Ron to one day
+explain in a tech manual, as he has more of the hard-science info at his
+fingertips than I do.  Certainly, both tachyon and ansibles are part of
+an instantaneous communications system.  And yes, there was some amount
+of conscription during the wars.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Rip-Offs" and Con Organizing; (24 May 1995)
+
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+
"Rip-Offs" and Con Organizing;

+24 May 1995
     I would venture that there has been some change in the tone and
+attitude of some conventions over the years, not always favorable.  Now,
+bear in mind, I've been a fan of SF for all my life, I've gone to cons
+for well over 15 years as Just Another Guy, so in some of this I have my
+Fanboy hat on, though from time to time my Producerboy hat may slip on
+as well.
+ 
+     There are some conventions I never miss; LosCon here in LA, and San
+Diego Comic Con, because both have a sense of real fun about them, and
+the people running them are generally swell (absent one or two years of
+LosCon when, I dunno, something went weird at the ConCom level).  As a
+rule, Westercon is great, Icon is great, and though I haven't had that
+much exposure to Chicago ComicCon, that seems pretty nifty as well.
+ 
+     But over the years, at some other conventions (not all of them, but
+a growing number), you start to run into a problem in fan/pro
+relationships.  One convention I know of (no names) didn't bother to send
+out invitations to the pros or offer guest passes because "Well, they
+always come every year ANYway, so why spend the money on stamps?  BECAUSE
+IT'S POLITE TO BE ASKED, YOU NUMBSKULL.  Consequently, a number of pros
+passed and didn't come.
+ 
+     I've had a real problem with a couple of recent WorldCons, where I
+shelled out my own money as a pro with a whole lotta TV SF credits to
+fly up, paid for my own room, transportation, everything...and was told
+upon arrival that even having done all this, and after they'd used my
+name to bring in more people, they WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE ME A GUEST PASS to
+the convention.  I had to pay to get in.  When they pulled this one on me
+in San Francisco, I chewed those involved several new orifices, and only
+went to the one panel I really wanted to do, and otherwise said "screw
+it."
+ 
+     More and more, it seems, conventions which rely on pros to draw
+attendees adopt a give-a-shit attitude toward those pros, as though tyey
+(they) are *expected* to perform, and should be happy for the chance to
+appear anywhere.  I cannot tell you the number of calls I get from people
+putting cons together *right now* that explain, "Yes, we want you as our
+GoH, but you'll have to pay your own way at every step," often including
+buying admission.  When you protest, they get snippy and say, "Well, you
+know, we're doing this for YOUR benefit, to give you exposure to your
+show to the fans, we're doing you a favor."
+ 
+     At which point I usually hang up the phone hard enough to shatter
+phone lines from here to New Orleans.
+ 
+     Now let me repeat...this is not the standard, but it has been
+happening enough, and growing, that a lot of pros are having second
+thoughts about the whole convention idea.  A number of 'em just won't go
+anymore...and where that's unfortunate is that it hurts the goodly number
+of great conventions put on by terrific people, and there are many.
+ 
+     It's caused me to be very selective in the conventions I attend, and
+I work hard with my cast, who are new to all this, to try and help them
+avoid any that I know are going to be trouble.
+ 
+     I'm not sure what the root of the problem is, whether it's some fans
+taking pros for granted, or the growth of cons as Big Business rather than
+just a chance to have fun and hang out, or what.  So I can't even begin to
+describe what needs to be done, only to agree with Paul that there is a
+problem, but to disagree with him on the notion that there aren't good ones
+out there.  Yes, you can be taken advantage of, and that happens more than
+it should in every area, and SF cons are no exception.  But I don't think
+it's time yet to throw the proverbial baby out with the proverbial
+bathwater.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scientific Progress goes BOINK (24 May 1995)
+
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Scientific Progress goes BOINK

+24 May 1995
     Tom, we *do* have a medical/biological advisor, whose primary
+comment on the notion that a virus couldn't pass between one species
+and another..."We have yet to contact one other alien life form to make
+an analysis.  We do not know for a fact that their biology will be
+radically different than our own.  Until we actually make contact, it's
+as likely as not."  A biologist works from what's known; unless you've got
+a specimen of alien life somewhere and aren't showing it to anyone, or
+you're simply making a guess, which is neither more nor less correct until
+we have something testable in our hands.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Take my Biologist, please! (24 May 1995)
+
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Re: Take my Biologist, please!

+24 May 1995
     "...they are very similar in their cellular/biochemical makeup."
+EXACTLY.  That's why it was stated in those specific terms in the course
+of the episode.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Why Is Babylon 5 So Bad? (10 May 1995)
+
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+
Why Is Babylon 5 So Bad?

+10 May 1995
     Dear S.S. (an appropriate acronym, assuming this is indeed your real
+name) ...there is a quote about books which applies just about as well to
+televsion.  I pass it on to you as the sole reasonable reply to your
+missive.
+ 
+     "A book is like a mirror.  If an ass peers in, you can't exactly
+expect an apostle to peer out."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: B5 Video and Time Ou (25 May 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: B5 Video and Time Ou

+25 May 1995
    Yes, please, by all means, send a copy of both, actually, to me at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Thanks!
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Was that all? (spoilers for "C (25 May 1995)
+
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+
Was that all? (spoilers for "C

+25 May 1995
     Suffice to say there's one more major hit yet to come, and I do mean
+major.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ATT JMS: other episodes out of (25 May 1995)
+
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ATT JMS: other episodes out of

+25 May 1995
     I think there are one or two out of order, but at this point I'll be
+damned if I can remember anymore....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz (25 May 1995)
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Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz

+25 May 1995
     Re: Tom C.'s statement that he "had to call in a lot of favors" to get
+us into CapriCon is one of the -- no, make that THE -- most ludicrous
+thing I have ever heard.  More of his trying to inflate his position.  I
+suspect that if Michael O'Hare or I or anyone else showed up at a con, we
+probably wouldn't have a hard time getting in, given the number of requests
+that come in for their presence.
+ 
+     More CMC bullshit.  Pure and simple, and as with all the CMC bullshit,
+painfully obvious for what it is.  Which is one of many reasons I withdrew
+any endorsement from B5 for their "event."  I wouldn't work with these
+people if I were dying of cancer and they were paying in chemotherapy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+25 May 1995
     Dan'l...you make a lot of good points. The only one I'd argue with
+is the "Worldcon is an exhibition, and all attendees at businsss
+exhibitions pay to get in."  (Paraphrase)  Not true.  Invariably, any
+good exhibition of business convention allows for industry passes; I was
+at E3, the big multimedia exhibition/convention in LA a week or so ago,
+with 30-40,000 attendees, and media pros/industry types were comp'd,
+because it's the presence of these individuals that brings in others.  If
+Worldcon is, as you say, more a business than a convention (which is
+on one level kinda less than it was intended, he said wistfully), then
+it should begin acting like one.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+New B5 CGI AVIs on AOL (25 May 1995)
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New B5 CGI AVIs on AOL

+25 May 1995
     IF the clips are directly provided by Warner Bros., as is the case
+with the avi's uploaded to AOL, then they may be re-uploaded anywhere.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS Series 2, Channel 4 a (25 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS Series 2, Channel 4 a

+25 May 1995
      The shows will continue to air weekly.
+ 
+                                                        jms
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+C&L Analysis *SPOILERS* (25 May 1995)
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C&L Analysis *SPOILERS*

+25 May 1995
     What you also have to do is step back for a moment and remember that
+the dinner began prior to Keffer and the rest leaving B5; and was ending
+about the time they got back.  Add up the time indicated, and you've got
+a ritual that has gone on for at LEAST 3-4 hours now, probably closer to
+5-6; seated in a small room, legs crossed, after what was almost certainly
+a busy day.  Show me somebody who WOULDN'T doze off after a while.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+25 May 1995
     John: you have made a very perceptive observation.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz (25 May 1995)
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Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz

+25 May 1995
     1) Tom C. informed me that arrangements had been made with Capricon
+for the bunch of us to appear there on Saturday, though explaining that it
+"couldn't be put into the program because we didn't have an exact time."
+Which seemed kinda funny to me at the time.
+ 
+     2) Upon arriving, at Tom's insistence (I at no time even knew about
+the convention until Tom told us we were booked to stop by as a "goodwill
+investment"), it did seem that *nobody* knew we were coming, which upset
+me more than a little.
+ 
+     3) I did insist on a room rather than being stuck in the dealer's
+room, at a table selling unauthorized merchandise.
+ 
+     4) As we left the convention, I had a very angry conversation with
+Tom, in that insufficient groundwork had been done, no preparations or
+arrangements had been made, and the entire thing was sloppily done, and
+that it couldn't be allowed to be done this way again.
+ 
+     So Bruce, if you're going to start talking about "the net of a
+thousand lies," I strongly suggest you get your OWN facts straight first,
+because all of points 1-4 preceding can be verified by all the cast
+members who were in that car.  You, I note, were not present.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+To JMS: Stop the Conspiracy St (10 May 1995)
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To JMS: Stop the Conspiracy St

+10 May 1995
     Short answer: No.
+ 
+     Medium answer, from Rod Serling, when a device he created for a
+fictional story (a bomb wired to a plane set to detonate when the plane
+dropped below a given altitude) ended up being used in real life: "A
+writer cannot be held accountable for the pathology of fools."
+ 
+     Long answer....
+ 
+     Fiction ain't the problem.  To say that it is "immoral" for SF
+writers to tell stories about government conspiracies is not only contrary
+to the very nature of fiction and SF in particular, it also misses the
+point by a thousand miles.
+ 
+     It isn't that folks in the backwoods have been watching TV shows or
+reading novels about fictional government conspiracies...it's that some
+folks have been making "documentaries" and writing tracts that are
+supposed to be THE TRUTH about what's going on.
+ 
+     It isn't fiction that's the problem...it's G. Gordon Liddy telling
+people that if they're going to shoot at ATF officers they ought to aim
+at the head because they wear flak jackets...it's Jesse Helms who told
+the press that if Clinton ever came to his state the Pres better bring a
+bodyguard with him...it's Rush Limbaugh and his other ilk who for years
+have been making the distinction between Liberals and Americans...it's
+fanatical elements within the Religious Right who feel the need to create
+vast government conspiracies that say the government is going to come and
+stamp the Number of the Beast on their forehead any moment now....
+ 
+     A climate of fear and paranoia and disloyalty for the crime of
+disagreement has been created and fostered by those who have most to
+gain from it.  And now they are trying to run from what they have done.
+It ain't TV shows about stuff happening in the far future.  I don't think
+anyone out there watching B5 has any belief whatsoever that this stuff is
+real, and present, and can be responded to.  If there are one or two
+lunatics who might possibly read something into it, they could do so to
+ANY program, regardless of content.  People have committed crimes and
+murder and gone insane because of things in the Bible...should we therefore
+ban the Bible?  One recent movie-goer was killed because he got the last
+bag of popcorn at a movie theater, and another patron was pissed off
+about it.  Should we ban popcorn?  There's nothing you can do that someone
+won't read something into.  Should we destroy all storytelling out of the
+fear that somewhere, someone MIGHT be provoked by it?  You can't live in
+fear.
+ 
+     Your concern obviously grows out of the Oklahoma situation, but this
+has no bearing upon that whatsoever.  The problem is poverty, and
+ignorance, and political rhetoric, and manipulation in the real world,
+not the fictional one.
+ 
+     A TV writer can turn an audience against a killer, a stalker, a
+criminal.
+ 
+     It takes a politician to turn us against ourselves.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+JMS: and anyone else who knows (26 May 1995)
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JMS: and anyone else who knows

+26 May 1995
     To answer your questin: I will be at the Anaheim Convention Center on
+Sunday at the Creation MegaShow.  Claudia and Bill Mumy will also be there
+thoughI think Bill is Saturday only.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Big Bang Warning from jms (26 May 1995)
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Big Bang Warning from jms

+26 May 1995
     I just received a message from someone I know that there is an ad for
+the Big Bang Convention in the current issue of STAR WARS INSIDER that
+just came out listing me as attending.  I am in the process of getting my
+hands on the actual ad to verify this, but since the source is a reliable
+one, I wanted to alert anyone who might see this that I am most definitely
+NOT attending, CMC/Tom Christofferson has known this for months now, and
+the advertisement is absolutely false in that regard.  He has been
+forbidden to use any references or representations regarding me or Warner
+Bros., and if this information turns out correct, and I have no reason to
+doubt that at the moment, this will be turned over to lawyers.
+ 
+     Meanwhile, to repeat: I will NOT be attending this convention, nor
+is this convention in any way endorsed by Babylonian Productions or PTEN
+or Warner Bros.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz

+26 May 1995
     It's very sad, Bruce, that you think the only way to get a response
+is to insult people and use emotionally-laden "hot-buttons" to try and
+inflame them.
+ 
+     I've generally found that a reasoned, simple, polite question gets
+answered far more often.  Perhaps next time you should try it.
+ 
+     Jerk.*
+ 
+                                                              jms
+ 
+        (*emotional hot-button #47, I knew you wouldn't mind)
+
+

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+Shadows and the facts of life (26 May 1995)
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+26 May 1995
     Morden never said "wait" in the hall with Talia.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Re: JMS detractors take note (26 May 1995)
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Re: JMS detractors take note

+26 May 1995
     Exactly.  You will note that Macabee says, of the Ministry, "...or
+Minipax, as we like to call it around the office."  It's an in-house
+joke, not the real name of the thing.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+26 May 1995
     I've only heard back second- and third-hand, but from what I haer,
+(hear), "da guys" had a great time at Marcon.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  More thumbs up (26 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  More thumbs up

+26 May 1995
     Thanks; all support gratefully accepted.  Welcome to the fold....
+ 
+                                                             jms
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Re: C&L Analysis *SPOILERS*

+26 May 1995
     Londo has not yet finished doing exactly what the shadows wish, though
+he has made a good start of it; and no, there were very few others involved
+in the Narn/Centauri war.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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ATTN JMS: C&L: NO Spoilers!

+26 May 1995
     Frederick: thanks....
+ 
+                                                             jms
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Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz

+26 May 1995
     Here's a dilemma I'd like to throw out to those who've run conventions
+before, because I don't have a good answer for it, and maybe it'd help to
+illuminate the discussion a bit.
+ 
+     I was talking to X, who is a prime mover behind one of the for-profit
+convention companies.  I noted, in the course of the conversation, my
+surprise that Actor Y had not been invited to many conventions by that
+company.  X's response: "Well, that's because Actor Y keeps showing up at
+fan conventions for free.  How can we justify paying someone who's lowered
+his/her market value like that?"
+ 
+     Initial reaction: that's rather odious thinking.
+ 
+     Secondary and tertiary reactions: you're an actor.  You don't really
+come out of the SF field, you don't know the ins and outs, or what the
+diff is between a fan con and a profit con.  Convention A asks you to do
+their convention, and will pay $4,000 plus transportation and airfare.
+Convention B asks you to their convention, but can't pay anything but the
+hotel and a guest pass.  Actors are not limitless pools of money; they
+have the same fiscal nuts to crack as everyone else...mortgage, car,
+alimony, kids, doctors, name it.
+ 
+     It does put things very much in the favor of the paying cons when it
+comes to actors and the like.  How does one tell an actor not to do it?
+(Not that it is my job or anyone else's to do so, and I'm not entirely
+sure it would be *right* to do so...any opportunity an actor has to
+perform for an audience, and be properly compensated for that performance,
+should be seized.)  So maybe it isn't so much "don't do this one," as "be
+OPEN to the other type as well."  But then how do you counter the X/Y
+conversation above?
+ 
+     It is, frankly, a real mess....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Garabaldi's Eyes??! (11 May 1995)
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Garabaldi's Eyes??!

+11 May 1995
     (sigh)  Our rotoscope EFX guy was waiting for a bunch of PPG EFX to
+finish rendering in that battle scene, and was bored, and like many such
+EFX types, filled in the eyes of Garibaldi with weird stuff while waiting
+around.  When the other scene finished rendering, he got out, believing
+that he had not saved that one frame.  Unknowingly, he had.
+ 
+     Nobody caught it until after broadcast.
+ 
+     We talked.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: "Chrysalis" question (26 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: "Chrysalis" question

+26 May 1995
     As I recall, she intended primarily to tell him of the souls business.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS: Home world destroyed?  <S (26 May 1995)
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JMS: Home world destroyed?  <S

+26 May 1995
     I didn't say destroyed, I said decimated; and no, this wasn't it.
+ 
+                                                          jms
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+ATTN JMS: diversification of s (27 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: diversification of s

+27 May 1995
     I think it's more a case of those species who might find B5 a
+habitable place, tend to go there.  I think we'll continue to see more
+diversification as the techniques to realize that dramatically continue
+to increase.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

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PC Babylon

+27 May 1995
     PC's got nothing to do with it.  But 1) the syph epidemic didn't
+occur to me, and 2) this was nowhere NEAR the level of plague that we were
+addressing.  It didn't occur to me while writing it, and if it had, I
+probably would've excluded it because it wasn't relevant.  I would also
+add that *all* sides in this particular storyline acted with varying
+degrees of irrationality, so if there was one side or the other held up
+as wiser or better, I sure didn't see it.  Or write it.
+ 
+     There are legitimate complaints one can bring of political
+correctness.  Unfortunately, it has gained such wide currency, and is
+used so broadly in non-applicable areas, that the term has lost most of
+its meaning and effectiveness.  Nowadays PC is meant to mean anything one
+disagrees with, anything with a possible moral or idea, to denigrate
+anything and everything but absolute rudeness.  It's a dismissive, nothing
+more.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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Re: JMS: Home world destroyed?

+28 May 1995
     Keith...re: decimated defined...that would be telling.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+Pros at Cons (28 May 1995)
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Pros at Cons

+28 May 1995
     Actually, I don't tend to use the hospitality suite much at cons;
+I generally hang out in the halls or in the dealer's room or in going to
+panels, rather than hiding out.  I also don't tend to eat much before a
+presentation as it kafuffles my synapses and all I can do is stand there
+and belch (which, granted, is some small improvement over my usual
+performance).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Actor's addresses? (28 May 1995)
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Actor's addresses?

+28 May 1995
     Anyone involved in making B5 (actors, crew, others) are reachable at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS: San Diego Comic Con (28 May 1995)
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JMS: San Diego Comic Con

+28 May 1995
     I *believe* that I'm slated for both that Saturday and Sunday.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+Attn:JMS- Any "Con's" on this (28 May 1995)
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Attn:JMS- Any "Con's" on this

+28 May 1995
     Closest I'm coming is Chicago comic con in July; I think there may
+be a Florida convention sometime next year.  I don't get around a lot...
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Maybe have a B5 CGI competitio (28 May 1995)
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Maybe have a B5 CGI competitio

+28 May 1995
     Only problem: all CGI for this show must be *created under contract*,
+not purchased after the fact, as a work for hire.  A competition is simply
+not workable.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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Re: In the Shadows of Z'Ha'Dum

+11 May 1995
     When Delenn underwent the chrysalis, it modified the epidermal layer
+at the back of the head, making it somewhat smaller, more human; this left
+a gap between the bone (which grows out from the temples and joins at the
+back, like antlers in reverse), and the hair comes through this gap.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz (28 May 1995)
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Re: "Rip-Offs" and Con Organiz

+28 May 1995
     It's probably a glitch in my brain, but I rarely evaluate conventions
+in terms of how "useful" they are, but rather if I and folks seem to have
+a good time.  So in that sense, I probably enjoy the fan-cons more, because
+there's more room for interaction.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

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+Someone's Impersonating jms (28 May 1995)
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Someone's Impersonating jms

+28 May 1995
     I recently received information that someone is impersonating me in
+Internet Relay Chat.  This person has been going under the handle of
+straczynski@nwlink.com.  I have just sent this creep a message privately
+outlining the whole *host* of civil, criminal and related laws under which
+I will prosecute him if he continues in this action.  Be advised that this
+person is out there, and if you see this address, or anything similar,
+be advised this person is committing fraud.  Anyone who wants to further
+assist with tracking down this person is welcome, though we already have
+quite a bit.  Email replies only.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: C&S and Delenn (SPOI (29 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: C&S and Delenn (SPOI

+29 May 1995
     Re: why Delenn would do such a thing...hold out for "Comes the
+Inquisitor"...it gets into her rationals on such things.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+JMS: Sandman reference in C&L? (29 May 1995)
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JMS: Sandman reference in C&L?

+29 May 1995
      It's mainly an extrapolation on an alien breather based on WW II
+style gas masks.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+Attn JMS:Sheridan's helmet. (29 May 1995)
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Attn JMS:Sheridan's helmet.

+29 May 1995
     We selected (with permission) the Flying Tigers logo for Sheridan out
+of respect; not out of any sense of foreshadowing the nature of his
+involvement.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+C&L,ItSoZ, and Quality of Merc (29 May 1995)
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C&L,ItSoZ, and Quality of Merc

+29 May 1995
     Ah, about time; I was wondering when someone would get around to
+remembering "Quality of Mercy" in this....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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Re: ATTN JMS: C&L Opinions

+29 May 1995
     The only thing wrong with this whole argument is that it doesn't touch
+reality at any two contiguous points.  I will not defend the notion that
+the episode stated that all Americans felt that AIDS was a penalty from
+god because it never said that.  Ever.  In any way, manner, shape or form.
+The problem is that some people are so caught up in the current situation
+that they lose all sense of perspective.  Fact is, most people DID think
+that the Black Death was a punishment from God, or the work of the devil,
+as Franklin says.  The Markabs had a similar belief.  Nowhere was that
+applied in dialogue to humans or the AIDS situation.
+ 
+     The whole point of the episode is NOT political; it says that if you
+make a disease political on either side, you're gonna die.  You have to
+set aside all that crap and just Deal With The Problem.  The only "side"
+this episode took was in advocating compassion for those afflicted.
+ 
+     I have enough just dealing with what's actually *in* my series; don't
+compound the problem by adding things that you saw only in your own head,
+and which exist nowhere in dialogue or in the story.  You are adding the
+template of your own beliefs as an overlay, and seeing this story through
+it.  That ain't my problem.  If you see this disease as political, that's
+your lookout.  This show says that ANY attempt to politicize a disease is
+species-dangerous thinking.  Period.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: A wee note;) (29 May 1995)
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ATTN JMS: A wee note;)

+29 May 1995
     Jackie: thanks....
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+B5 and CLaudia Adoration (29 May 1995)
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B5 and CLaudia Adoration

+29 May 1995
     On behalf of meself and Claudia...thanks
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS: Season really delayed, or (1 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Season really delayed, or

+1 Jun 1995
     The last four eps of this season are being held by PTEN until
+October, yes.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+Britain - last,best hope thwar (1 Jun 1995)
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Britain - last,best hope thwar

+1 Jun 1995
     Okay, folks, CALm DOWn.  Ch 4 hasn't gotten the last batch yet
+only because we're finishing the last bits of tweaking.  "Twilight" is
+totally finished.  "Divided Loyalties" is getting the final EFX put in
+this week, and will probably be delivered to WB on Friday.  (This would
+be the first up of the last batch.)  "Confessions" is finished and scored
+absent 2 EFX shots, which will be in tomorrow, and we'll probably deliver
+on Monday/Tuesday, with "The Fall of Night" delivered about a week after
+that.  They'll have the episodes in time to play them.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: question about PTEN (14 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: question about PTEN

+14 Jun 1995
     PTEN is a business consortium between Warners and the stations that
+air B5.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+

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+One eensy moderation concern.. (15 Jun 1995)
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One eensy moderation concern..

+15 Jun 1995
     I don't get the alt. group.  I get only this one internet group,
+through the good offices of Ron Jarrell.  I deliberately don't accept
+any of the free Internet offers that are occasionally made, and don't
+slip out into other areas.  This is the only one I get, via my GEnie
+mailbox.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS - A few questions.... (15 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS - A few questions....

+15 Jun 1995
     We *somewhat* compose for standard aspect ratio, but often our
+directors frame quite a bit off center, or have stuff going on over in
+the edges, or otherwise work to make the whole thing interesting when it's
+returned to widescreen format.  You will see B4 again in year three, yes.
+Interesting about the war in DS9, that's all I'll say on it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+ 
+     (Except that we'll do it better.)
+
+

+
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+Mr. JMS: Media Bias? (15 Jun 1995)
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Mr. JMS: Media Bias?

+15 Jun 1995
     How can "Word" be a commentary on current allegations of bias (which
+I think are out of all proportion) since the media is now supposedly
+anti-government (nonsense), and the newscast in ""Word" was more than just
+a bit spoon-fed government propaganda?
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

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+Mr. JMS: Shadows - Why? (15 Jun 1995)
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Mr. JMS: Shadows - Why?

+15 Jun 1995
     Of course we're going to find out more about why the shadows are
+doing and what they want; it'd be kinda pointless otherwise, no?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: On conspiracy theori (15 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: On conspiracy theori

+15 Jun 1995
     A very good and well-reasoned analysis.
+ 
+						                        jms
+
+
+[Steven Orso's "Unified Field Theory of Conspiracies."  The Shadows and Vorlons
+ are battling to control what their successors will be like; the Shadows want
+ to cull out weakness, and are behind all the conspiracies, which can all be
+ viewed as strong people edging out weak ones.  The mind control in comic
+ issue #7 suggests that Takashima's participation in Sinclair's frameup in
+ "The Gathering" might not have been a conscious choice; she served on Mars,
+ where Garibaldi and Sinclair saw what they saw.]
+
+     Along with John Miller's examination, this has to be one of the
+most well-thought-out analyses yet.  I'd say that a lot of it holds
+water.  (One nice side-element...I noted a while back that the comics
+were not necessary to follow the series, as anything there would be at
+some point mentioned in the show if it were important; here, you've
+used it correctly to presage and four-wall the series and deduce some
+very good stuff.)  Splendid work.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+[The attack on the Narn outpost]
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: CGI -- art (14 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: CGI -- art

+14 Jun 1995
     Thanks.  That scene in "Coming of Shadows" is one of my favorites;
+it does, as you say, convey that sense of wonder which is one of my main
+goals with this show.
+ 
+     Until "The Long Twilight Struggle," nothing else has come close to
+that scene for me.  But there's some stuff in there that finally manages
+to surpass it.  Just gorgeous and scary and awe-inspiring.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Babylon 5 Prayer (Humor, of co (15 Jun 1995)
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Babylon 5 Prayer (Humor, of co

+15 Jun 1995
     Forgive them, Kosh, they know not what they do....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+JMS:  Is it getting easier? (15 Jun 1995)
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JMS:  Is it getting easier?

+15 Jun 1995
     Easier?  It never gets any easier.  (Nor should it.  The minute it
+becomes something you toss off quickly, easily, is the moment you should
+get out of the business.)  If anything, it gets harder, because you're
+constantly trying to out-do what you did last week.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Screen savers? (15 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Screen savers?

+15 Jun 1995
     Yes, there will be a B5 screensaver out from Sound Source later
+this year.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: What is the Legend of the (1 Jun 1995)
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JMS: What is the Legend of the

+1 Jun 1995
     I think I'll perhaps leave this question be for a little while....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS retire???? (15 Jun 1995)
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Re: JMS retire????

+15 Jun 1995
     Certainly George R.R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass are looking to do
+more producing; Morgan and Wong from X-Files are off doing Space; so
+there's hope.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+
+[Dates unknown, but sometime in June]
+
+     Interestingly enough...yes, Warners does seem to take an interest in
+where the series is going.  The one comment I hear most often is that they
+enjoy seeing where the stories are going, and that they're not really like
+the stories being done elsewhere.  This is the only one of the PTEN shows
+to pick up even one Emmy, let alone the two we've received.  There were a
+number of folks at WB who initially really weren't sure about us, who have
+subsequently come around and have been very supportive.  Two of the main
+folks who've taken an active interest and supported us are Dick
+Robertson and Evan Thompson, between them the two Main Men of PTEN.
+Without them, there wouldn't BE a Babylon 5 series.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+ 
+     If you still have a copy of that article, and write-up, could you
+send it along to me for my files at the following address:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?  The line
+"most Trek-like" is hysterical; well, I think THEY think in terms of,
+ST is successful.  Thus another show in space that succeeds is most ST
+like.
+ 
+     War is peace.  Freedom is slavery.  Jesse Helms is human.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+ 
+     Haven't had the time to watch ANY of the Outer Limits, I'm afraid.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+ 
+      IF it's an established and well-attributed quote, then it's okay to
+mention it, yes, as "the long, twilight struggle" is a partial quote.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+
+      Yes, the Centauri/Narn war is a very handy distraction, which the
+ shadows could use.  That's one of the two reasons they helped set the
+ whole shebang going.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+ 
+     The Narns believe the Centauri are perfectly capable of doing this
+on their own; they've done it before, after all.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+     I hope the reaction would be both; what a ride, and that's deep
+(though I probably wouldn't use that exact wording).  It should also
+create the sense that you've gone off and lived somewhere else, and
+somewhen else, for five years.  When I got finished reading the Lensman
+books, my sense wasn't really either of those expressed above, but a sense
+that I had visited a real place, and lived through massive changes,
+empires that rose and fell, and seen a genuine saga with massive
+repercussions.  It should really have the sense of finishing a good book,
+one which one would like to go back and reread again later.
+ 
+     There are a number of philsophical undercurrents to the story, of
+course, some of which are apparent now, some which will become clearer
+later, and certainly a lot of action...but I'm shooting for something I
+can't really define for you, except to say that it should somehow be more
+than the sum of its parts.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+[Vir to die before season end?]
+     Now, what kind of storyteller would I be if I actually answered
+that question?   Hrmmmmm?
+ 
+                                                               jms
+ 
+     Sure, I can tell you what happens in the last four eps.
+ 
+     Really Awful Stuff.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+[What kind of jazz do you like?]
+     Jeez, I like a lot of it...Cout Basie, and Glen Miller, and Arty
+Shaw (though some of his later stuff got a bit derivitive of the earlier
+material), Tommy Dorsey, Gershwin...there's a CD came out a few years
+ago, a reconstruction of a number of performances debuting new material
+for the first time, and there's Gershwin playing (for lack of a better
+term) the beta version of "Rhapsody in Blue," with *riffs he later
+discarded*, and you can hear the differences, and understand why he made
+them.  Cab Calloway...dynamite.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+     Yes, the theory is to show the last 4 eps in October, and go right
+into year three eps the next week in November, no break, so you'd get
+about 8-9 eps in a row, rather than the usual 5 or so.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+ 
+     Never said the shadow war would be over in one year.  Only that it
+wouldn't last three.
+
+     The long cuts exist only in the computer; there was never a fully
+extended, on-film ep cut down for time.  Once we make our cuts on the
+computer, the film is assembled only once, for the final product.  We'd
+have to go in and re-edit EVERYthing to make it work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+: "Now the trumpet summons us again: not as a call to bear arms, though arms we
+:  need; not as a call to battle, though in battle we are; but as a call to bear
+:  the burdens of a long, twilight struggle--year in and year out, rejoicing in
+:  hope, patient in tribulation--a struggle against the common enemies of
+:  man--tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."
+:                                    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
+: Mike Daniels
+ 
+     Bingo.  As I mentioned before, the "long twilight struggle" title
+is a quote; you correctly identified the source in the JFK quote.
+ 
+                             jm(wish I had a toaster to award)s
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Why No B5 Covera (16 Jun 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why No B5 Covera

+16 Jun 1995
     The English press has *always* been very receptive to B5, ranging
+from the genre/fan press to such publications as Time-Out and even the
+London Times, which has spoken well of the show.  It's mainly here in the
+States that the problem manifests itself.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Name of 3rd Season (16 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Name of 3rd Season

+16 Jun 1995
     I'd rather wait a bit before making that declaration official.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Minbari Prophecies & War? (16 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Minbari Prophecies & War?

+16 Jun 1995
      There was the prophecy, but they didn't know specifically to which
+race it pertained until much later.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi (16 Jun 1995)
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Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi

+16 Jun 1995
      Ehhh....every year, DS9 promises something new, big stuff brewing,
+there was war talk last season...people fall for the okeydoke...it
+doesn't happen...ten months later, they're back with more hype and
+promises...seen it, been there.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: * * *  JMS Nude!...  * * * (16 Jun 1995)
+
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Re: * * *  JMS Nude!...  * * *

+16 Jun 1995
     I don't think there should be any further revelations about me
+nude; I wouldn't want to be inadvertantly responsible for anyone being
+struck blind.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS "Cassandra falls in se (16 Jun 1995)
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Re: JMS "Cassandra falls in se

+16 Jun 1995
     "Cassandra fell in service with the Greeks."
+ 
+     Yes, but which in particular?
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: political Q's (16 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: political Q's

+16 Jun 1995
     While most of the major powers have their-race colonies, each of
+them has client worlds inside their jurisdiction that are not their own
+species.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS - "Cobra" bays? (16 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS - "Cobra" bays?

+16 Jun 1995
     The exterior launch bays are narrow along for some distance, then
+flange out into a kind of diamond shape; they resemble cobras, hence,
+cobra bays.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+--Why I'm upset with DS9 and V (16 Jun 1995)
+
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--Why I'm upset with DS9 and V

+16 Jun 1995
     An aside to the discussion: I often hear folks who defend DS9, and
+some *with* DS9, say they can't do much action because they can't afford
+it.  I have *no* idea why this should be so, as a) both the current ST
+shows use a hell of a lot more stock footage than we ever do, and b) both
+ST shows have roughly twice the budget we have per episode.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Britain - last,best hope t (2 Jun 1995)
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Re: Britain - last,best hope t

+2 Jun 1995
     RE: my mention of "Confessions" in the final four...I misspoke, and
+meant to say "Comes the Inquisitor."
+ 
+     Soon I'll be saying tire when I mean to say bisquit.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS?? Re: RFD: rec.arts.sf.tv. (16 Jun 1995)
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JMS?? Re: RFD: rec.arts.sf.tv.

+16 Jun 1995
     I was asked if I wanted to be part of the discussion on this, and I
+opted out, because I don't want to be in the position of unduly pressuring
+anyone; I also barely understand the internet structure, and couldn't
+add much of substance anyway.  Just end up muddying the waters further.
+ 
+     Nor would my feelings on this be of much use, since they are totally
+conflicted.  I like the free-ranging discussion that comes with an
+unmoderated group.  On the other, there are more and more story ideas
+being posted in the course of speculation.  One or two that I stumbled
+across scared the hell out of me, though fortunately they ended up going
+off in directions I had no intention of going in.
+ 
+     I don't generally access internet through any other venue than this
+one, provided by Ron Jarrell through my GEnie gateway, which minimizes my
+contact with the net.
+ 
+     My hope was that in not influencing the discussion, those minds which
+understood the situation could come to some reasonable compromise
+situation.  I do think that Jay has come down a tad harder than I would
+have in similar circumstances, but that does not negate the core of the
+concerns; I did not initiate this whole moderation debate, but it was bound
+to become an issue sooner or later.
+ 
+     What I've told Ron, and Jay, and others, is that I want a solution that
+affects/impinges on others as little as possible.  This is, fundamentally,
+MY problem, and I've always felt uncomfortable making others compensate
+for my problem.  So I simply, honestly don't know what to do.  (I know that
+Ron has some ideas he's going to call about next week, so maybe he'll have
+a solution.)
+ 
+     There are times I do think it'd be better and simpler for me just to
+withdraw from internet, since after all I can still be reached easily via
+email, and my address is on the nets, so folks wouldn't have a hard time
+reaching me.  But I don't know if that's right either.
+ 
+     All of which should give you some idea of why I'm not doing much in
+this discussion; I can pretty convincingly argue just about every point of
+view.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS:  When do we get to see defensive mods on B5 (16 Jun 1995)
+
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Attn JMS:  When do we get to see defensive mods on B5

+16 Jun 1995
     You'll see some of them in use by the end of this season.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: Little Lost Delenn (17 Jun 1995)
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Attn JMS: Little Lost Delenn

+17 Jun 1995
     Well, it's about TIME somebody noticed that little exchange in
+"Confessions and Lamentations."  Sometimes I stick stuff so obviously in
+the foreground that I'm afraid it's going to be too blatant, and then
+nobody seems to notice it, looking instead at the tiny stuff in the
+background.
+ 
+     Unfortunately, all I can say for now is that it is significant to
+Delenn's character and growth, and her sense of being special, and called
+into the religious caste.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: A Kosh Question (17 Jun 1995)
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JMS: A Kosh Question

+17 Jun 1995
     "Have we seen Kosh lie?"
+ 
+     With Kosh, who can tell...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: DS9 vs B5 comments (19 Jun 1995)
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Re: DS9 vs B5 comments

+19 Jun 1995
     *sigh*...my screw-up.  I was thinking Jake Sisko, when I should
+have thought Ben Sisko.  Mea culpa.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele (19 Jun 1995)
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Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele

+19 Jun 1995
     Interesting how many B5 viewers know the lyrics to JC Superstar....
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: How are you trea (19 Jun 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: How are you trea

+19 Jun 1995
     A lot of TV execs don't know from SF.  Or SF concepts.  So it became
+useful to have some nice, friendly, non-threatening pictures to show 'em
+to introduce them to the concepts behind the show.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Merchandise in Santa (19 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Merchandise in Santa

+19 Jun 1995
     From the description, I can't tell if it's legit or not; so I guess
+you may as well just assume the best.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele (19 Jun 1995)
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Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele

+19 Jun 1995
     "This is the second time you've mentioned chainsaws in as many weeks.
+Is there anything you'd like to talk about???"
+ 
+     ...
+ 
+     You've never worked with actors before, have you?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Bureau 13 game?(!) (19 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Bureau 13 game?(!)

+19 Jun 1995
     No, the Bureau 13 rpg precedes our show; we weren't aware of it at
+the time we did the episode.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Technobabylon (2 Jun 1995)
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Technobabylon

+2 Jun 1995
     Michael, you're confusing your terms.  You can't say that because
+B5 has rotational artificial gravity that therefore this equals
+technobabble.
+ 
+     Science fiction -- note, SCIENCE fiction -- relies on elements of
+technology.  You cannot have SF without some element of changed or
+new technology.  Thus your notion that ANY technology = technobabble
+means that ALL SF is technobabble.  In so doing, the term loses all
+meaning.
+ 
+     Technobabble specifically refers to paragraph after paragraph of
+dialogue explaining how the neutrino filters invert the tachyon field
+distancing array and corrupt the magnetic flow systems into an inert
+state...which is later solved by MORE technobabble.  The operative word
+here is BABBLE, which in this case means to go on and on.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele

+19 Jun 1995
     Actually, the stage version of JC Superstar was just released on
+gold CD, as well as being available on regular CD, so it's slightly
+better for the audiophiles amongst us.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: How are you trea

+19 Jun 1995
     I think Max Headroom was kind of uneven; much of it I liked, some
+of it fell flat for me.  Overall, though, I liked more than I didn't.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Channel 4 - Right to Reply. (19 Jun 1995)
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Channel 4 - Right to Reply.

+19 Jun 1995
     If you have the opportunity, please convey to Channel 4 the
+following from me: My undying thanks to everyone at Channel Four who
+have supported Babylon 5, and who have demonstrated remarkable patience
+with what has apparently been a flood of messages, phone calls, letters
+and skywriting incidents.  (Well, okay, I made up the last one.)  From the
+proverbial horse's mouth...we have now delivered to Warner Bros. two of
+the remaining four episodes.  The first was delivered three weeks ago,
+the second about a week ago.  The third should be in their hands this
+week, the last a bit thereafter.  I have no clear understanding what the
+airing arrangements might be between C4 and Warners, but any support that
+we can provide is there for the asking.
+ 
+     We sometimes allow ourselves the conceit that Babylon 5 has a very
+British feel to it, as much of the better SF has come from the UK, and
+its tone is not far from what we do.  We are thus inestimably pleased by
+the great support C4 has shown for the series, the friendliness, courtesy
+and patience of its staffers, and we look forward to a long and
+productive relationship.
+ 
+     Now, about that six p.m. timeslot....
+ 
+                              sincerely, J. Michael Straczynski
+                              executive producer/creator, BABYLON 5
+
+

+
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele

+19 Jun 1995
     The Phantom of the Paradise CD is very hard to get; I grabbed two
+copies while in the UK, and have since only seen one other here in the
+states.  (Got Paul Williams to autograph both of them for me while he
+was here.)
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
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+Re: DS9 vs B5 comments (20 Jun 1995)
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Re: DS9 vs B5 comments

+20 Jun 1995
     Ted: I think your note is even-handed and well considered.  For me,
+any one of the items you discuss being present isn't a big deal; it's the
+cumulative effect of all of them being present in both shows, at the same
+time, airing within weeks of one another.
+ 
+     The result of all this nearly killed B5 in its early stages, which
+I think was the desired effect.  You must understand that when B5 was
+announced in the trades for the first time in November of that year (2-3
+months prior to the announcement of DS9), in articles that described it
+pretty succinctly (space station, rogues, renegades, all the usual H'wood
+hype), it was often referred to as Warner's attempt to create a space
+franchise (see above re: hype).
+ 
+     There has *long* been bad blood between Paramount and Warner Bros.
+Particularly since Paramount was then already setting the blocks in place
+to create its own network, and PTEN was being birthed right then, setting
+the stage for major conflict.  The number of syndicated stations is very
+small, and the hours available per station equally small.  Faced with
+that kind of scenario, big guns tend to be pulled out.
+ 
+     Whatever the sequence of events might have been, the result was that
+I ended up sitting in meetings with Warner execs who said, "How am I
+supposed to sell this show?  It's *identical* to DS9 in any way that
+matters, the syndicated market can't sustain two identical shows like
+this, and they've go the Star Trek name to entice station owners.  Nobody
+knows from 'Babylon 5.'"
+ 
+     Understand, since the debuts, the shows have gone off in different
+directions, but we're talking the first season and the pilot.  Nearly all
+the articles described them as nearly identical at that stage.  And the
+details of character don't often play to TV execs who only see the broad
+strokes, the "quick concept."
+ 
+     The fact that the two shows were so similar at that time, one a nobody
+show from nowhere, the other bundled with the STAR TREK (tm) name, came
+within an inch of killing Babylon 5.  (Which wasn't helped by A Certain
+Studio telling advertisers that B5 was going to be crap, cheaply produced,
+and not to bother.)  That's one of the main reasons why it took nearly a
+period of four months before we finally got the go order for year one,
+after everybody crunched the ratings, and the demos, and decided to take
+a chance on it.  And even THEN we were told, "The syndie market can't
+sustain two shows like this; you're gonna get creamed."
+ 
+     Through the clipping service, I saw one newspaper/magazine article
+after another calling B5 a "clone" of DS9.  Because they considered them
+identical.  Many ST fans felt the same way, and said so, openly.  "Jeez,
+they copied EVERYthing," one noted.  Now, when we point out which really
+came first, suddenly some of these same folks say, "Nah...they're not
+alike at ALL.  Don't be silly."
+ 
+     One could get whiplash from such a thing.
+ 
+     To step back a second, the reality is that this sort of thing happens
+in hollywood all the time.  When "The Abyss" was being produced, several
+other films with identical concepts were rushed forward (remember Deepstar
+7 or 9 or whatever that was?).  Consequently, one of the things you most
+protect are the details of your project.  You don't want a possible
+competitor to know what you're doing.  Unfortunately, right there in the
+files at Paramount was every last detail about how we were going to do B5,
+the station, the stories, everything.
+ 
+     Now, I'm sure that the Paramount execs said, "No, no...we won't look
+at it, we won't open the drawer, we'll remain pure and virginal and even
+though we're trying to beat Warners in creating a new network, even though
+they're threatening to break our monopoly on space/future shows, we won't
+open that file drawer, no sir."
+ 
+     They could not possibly have said, "Okay, open the file drawer.
+Let's take a peek at what they're going to do.  We won't copy it, exactly,
+but knowing what they're doing will allow us to co-opt a little of their
+franchise, enough to cut them off at the knees in the marketplace.  We
+won't tell Berman or Pillar about this, because they would never go along
+with it, but we'll just *guide* them here and there.  We give notes all
+the time in development, who's to know where they came from?"
+ 
+     And just to be clear, so the sarcasm doesn't get in the way: I have
+never, *ever* felt, or believed, or thought, that Berman or Pillar EVER
+saw or knew about the B5 information.  Had anyone suggested anything of a
+less than straightforward nature, they would have refused; of that I have
+no doubt.  No sarcasm, that's what I think.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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B5 Cancelled rumor

+20 Jun 1995
     Any newsletter that identifies itself as "Mr. Data's" ANYthing can
+generally be construed as being wrong as it pertains to any info re: B5.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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Re: Attn JMS: Little Lost Dele

+20 Jun 1995
     Bruce: saw "Chess" in London after it'd been around for a few years;
+was surprised that they'd softened some elements from the sountrack stage.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Paramount swipes B5 idea! (20 Jun 1995)
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+20 Jun 1995
     Actually, I would be very happy to let Voyager be the one to own the
+notion of holding back the last four eps if we could just air ours NOW.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  Up Front Again?  (Season (20 Jun 1995)
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JMS:  Up Front Again?  (Season

+20 Jun 1995
     Yup, just keeping that thread alive, since it's going to come up in
+a major way in the last four episodes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Weird Question (20 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Weird Question

+20 Jun 1995
     Valen is the Minbari pronunciation.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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Re: Britain - last,best hope t

+2 Jun 1995
     Wait...I wuz wrong.  We checked personally with the Channel 4
+programmers, who are out here on the West Coast for an international TV
+big-deal, and apparently they *are* going to hold up on the last four
+just 2-3 weeks, specifically because to air it would be to put it up
+against the Tour de France, and nobody would ever see the darned thing.
+Just a slight delay, a couple/three weeks...hey, could be worse, could
+be October.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS Re: Talia Leaving? (20 Jun 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Re: Talia Leaving?

+20 Jun 1995
     Brutwug: ah, but you WILL see Pat Tallman again on B5; this season, no
+less.  We live to serve....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Do actors _like_ doing cons? (20 Jun 1995)
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+20 Jun 1995
     Insofar as I know, *all* of our cast enjoy going to cons, perhaps
+mainly because they do NOT see it in terms of "drooling SF geeks" or "holy
+reverence."  This is their show as much as mine; they work hard, and they
+respect and appreciate their audience.
+ 
+     Ask anyone here who was at Babcom in Birmingham.  Or at Marcon in
+Ohio.  Peter was always accessible, friendly, hung out; we all went double
+the allotted time to make sure everyone got an autograph (we signed 3,000
+in two days, probably more).  Richard and Jerry hung out with fans at the
+Marcon, in the bar, the lounge, the green room, room parties.  Theydo seem
+to honestly enjoy the exchange.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: evolution in B5 universe (20 Jun 1995)
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Re: evolution in B5 universe

+20 Jun 1995
     RE: the bone crests on the Minbari, the notion expressed by David
+Sueme detailing evolutionary notions omits the most rudimentary fact
+about such things when he says it's illogical from a birth perspective:
+They're not BORN that way, any more than elks are born with full-length
+horns.  Like any other species that grows bony-matter outside the head
+(deer, cows, bulls, certified public accountants), it's either not there
+at birth or nascent.  It gradually grows out.  Ditto for the Minbari.
+There are elaborate rituals of shaping and honing and cutting as one's
+crest grows.  Some crests are shaped more in tune with the military caste
+than the religious caste, for instance.
+ 
+     It grows out to create a protective sheath around the back of the
+head, where the internal skull can sometimes be fragile, to provide
+added reinforcement.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Smoking Guns?(fountain pen (20 Jun 1995)
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Re: Smoking Guns?(fountain pen

+20 Jun 1995
     Re: Patricia Swan....AH!  Another pen-lover.  Dittos all around.  I
+love pens.  All kinds pens.  But clearly the fountain pen is my favorite.
+For my money, the Parker fountain pens are always the best.  I tried the
+Mont Blancs for a while, didn't work for me.  But the Parker Centennial,
+the Sonnet and the Duofold are terrific pens.  (Did you know they're
+discontinuing the Duofold?  Rushed out and picked up two more when I
+heard that.)
+ 
+     In the category of "This is god's way of telling you you've got too
+much money," I noted an ad from Nakimi for a fountain pen made of layers
+of Japanese Urushi lacquer, carved maple, ornately wrought designs of
+18-karet gold and hand-wrought silver.  A strikingly beautiful pen.
+ 
+     Price?  $6,000.
+ 
+     You gotta be outta your mind....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+21 Jun 1995
     When they encountered us, the Centauri empire was already shrinking;
+we were off the beaten track and had little of value, or strategic
+interest.  We were a curiosity, with some nice cultural stuff for trade.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: What have we missed? (21 Jun 1995)
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JMS: What have we missed?

+21 Jun 1995
     If I told you *everything* that seems to have been missed, I'd be
+highlighting things that will come and should be surprises....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: jms 3 Questions (20 Jun 1995)
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ATTN: jms 3 Questions

+20 Jun 1995
     How I got Walter is, basically, I know him, and I asked him.  Not
+much more to it, really.  The psi symbol is taken from the greek letter.
+And don't have much info on cons at this point anywhere in that area,
+I'm afraid.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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ATTN  JMS:  What's the office

+20 Jun 1995
     Actually, my office ain't much to write home about.  Main thing is,
+where all of the offices and walls in the office area here at the B5
+studios are white, mine is painted battleship grey.  Brown desk, black
+sofa and cabinet, TV and small stereo.  A few B5 items here and there,,q\,
+including a model vorlon transport made and hand-painted by Ron, a couple
+of awards.  On the walls: not much, a woodcut of a skeletal dwarf riding
+a flying pig and carrying a scythe; a shot of the B5 station; the season
+two/three B5 poster; calendar; and my schedule board where I keep track of
+scripts, which is adorned with huge (1.5 foot by 3 foot) boards, one on
+either side, which contain individual quotes.  I swap out the quotes on a
+regular basis.  On now: "To define is to kill, to suggest is to create,"
+Mallarme.  "The point of no return; that is the point that must be
+reached," Franz Kafka.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+????? (21 Jun 1995)
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?????

+21 Jun 1995
     G'Kar is not leaving the show.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: How does Vir know? (21 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: How does Vir know?

+21 Jun 1995
     Vir was there when Londo summoned him to do the hit on the Narns in
+"Coming of Shadows," as seen in the ep.  It's quite clear he knows what
+Morden is all about.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  The Planet... What' (2 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  The Planet... What'

+2 Jun 1995
     We'll see Draal and the planet below B5 in the last batch of new
+eps this season.  And the plural of Minbari is Minbari, as the plural of
+Moose is Moose.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Why Io? (21 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Why Io?

+21 Jun 1995
     Putting the jumpgate near Jupiter makes it harder to detect by long
+range weapons systems, given the energy output from Jupiter.
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Banana ice cream! (21 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Banana ice cream!

+21 Jun 1995
     ...nuts got no business being in any self-respecting ice cream,
+banana or otherwise....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: New Theme Music? (21 Jun 1995)
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JMS: New Theme Music?

+21 Jun 1995
     Narration will be shorter.  Music will be more aggressive, more
+martial.
+ 
+     Interesting things coming.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Finished the last 4 (21 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Finished the last 4

+21 Jun 1995
     Haven't heard a final decision on this yet.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Perth Conventions (21 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Perth Conventions

+21 Jun 1995
     Haven't ever been to a Perth convention, but from your note I look
+forward to trying it out one of these days.  Thanks.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Mr. JMS: SAG regs on clips.... (21 Jun 1995)
+
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Mr. JMS: SAG regs on clips....

+21 Jun 1995
     There is a clip rate for actors, don't have the figures before me.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: The Last 4 (Question) (22 Jun 1995)
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Re: The Last 4 (Question)

+22 Jun 1995
     I got some *very* interesting information today re: the UK airing
+of the Final Four, and I'll be verifying it over the next few days.  If
+what I've heard is correct, this will be *very* cool for UK viewers, who
+will NOT have to wait until October.  Watch this space for updates.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Series Title Questio (22 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Series Title Questio

+22 Jun 1995
     In other words, basically, you want me to tell you the end of the
+story.
+ 
+     notachance
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS : A Spaceship... (22 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS : A Spaceship...

+22 Jun 1995
     Sure.  But you have to promise to blow it up real good.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Number Of Stations C (22 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Number Of Stations C

+22 Jun 1995
     Insofar as I know, the number of stations has stayed fairly
+stable, +/- a couple here and there, for which others have usually taken
+up the slack.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Comes the Inquisitor? (3 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Comes the Inquisitor?

+3 Jun 1995
     "CtI is the only episode in the last four that we know nothing about."
+ 
+     And if I figure out how I happened to achieve that (short of just
+keeping my big yap shut), I'll do it some more.  There should be some
+surprises, yes?
+ 
+     And it's an arc story, yes, but in a very odd way.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: How are the Centauri (22 Jun 1995)
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Attn JMS: How are the Centauri

+22 Jun 1995
     According to the latest reports from the front, the Centauri are
+generally doing fairly well, though Narn reports continue to insist that
+they are holding their own.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: DS9 War? (22 Jun 1995)
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Re: DS9 War?

+22 Jun 1995
     Yeah, the bit where Sinclair gets his link/hand tangled in his coat
+was scripted that way.  He wasn't sure about it at first, didn't know if
+it would look goofy or not, but it looked real, and that's what I wanted.
+Invariably, when a new script comes out, one or another actor reacts with,
+"He wants me to do WHAT?"  (fill in the blanks...sing a Gilbert&Sullivan
+style libretto, orgasm on camer, do the hokey pokey)  But it nearly always
+works out.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: The One little thing about (22 Jun 1995)
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+22 Jun 1995
     The ant was paid strictly according to SAG rules (Screen Ants Guild).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Opening credits (22 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Opening credits

+22 Jun 1995
     Placement in the credits is determined by contracts with actors.
+And I held off using "ambassador" in each credit because it looked too
+repetitive.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS The Coming Od Shadow (22 Jun 1995)
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ATTN: JMS The Coming Od Shadow

+22 Jun 1995
     I approve all casting, so yes, I approved Turhan Bey as the Centauri
+Emperor.  He did a lovely job.  Re: broadcasting B5 wide in the US, this
+won't happen until HDTV is widespread.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Models????? (22 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Models?????

+22 Jun 1995
     No models have yet been licensed.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  Another Long-Range Set-U (22 Jun 1995)
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JMS:  Another Long-Range Set-U

+22 Jun 1995
     Yes, part of the reason for the QoM episode was to set up the notion
+of an implanted personality as acheivable tech.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+From JMS: What Exec Prods Do (22 Jun 1995)
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From JMS: What Exec Prods Do

+22 Jun 1995
     Every couple of days, as today, I get one or another message saying,
+"In this episode, did you have anything to do with, or were you involved
+with...." and it's the script, or an actor, or whatever.  All legitimate
+questions.  In thinking about this, it occured to me that maybe it might
+be a good idea to go over what an executive producer actually *does*.
+ 
+     So file this under "How I Spend My Days," by J. Michael Straczynski,
+Age 12
+ 
+     1) I write scripts.  12 the first year, 15 the second.  When you see
+my name on a script, every action and dialogue was written that way.  My
+scripts are very detailed.  There is very, *very* little improv allowed
+on the show, not necessarily because I think each word is golden but
+because a changed word can mess up an important sentence that foreshadows
+something 4-6 episodes down the road.  If an actor is having a problem
+with a line, which happens occasionally but rarely, and wants to substitute
+one word with another, somebody comes from the stage to my office, 15 feet
+away, and checks to make sure it's okay.
+ 
+     2) I work with the prosthetics/makeup people in conceptualizing
+and approving makeups.  I partly sculpted the original version of Delenn's
+headpiece in the pilot.  Prosthetics folks read the script, come up with
+several designs, run them past me, and I approve one or the other.
+ 
+     3) I work with the costume designers, again with final approval on
+all elements.  Sometimes if I have something specific in mind, I'll try
+and sketch it out.  (I can't draw for squat, and our costume designer finds
+my pathetic scribblings very amusing, and...."cute."  I once drew a kitty
+on the same page as a costume note, just to show her i was improving my
+range.  She stuck it on her wall.  Argh.)  Usually she comes up with
+designs, runs them past me, I make some notes or suggestions of varying
+coherence, and she runs with it.
+ 
+     4) I approve all set designs, and again, once in a while, will get
+into the act with a rough sketch of one sort or another.  Any artwork,
+posters, signage, set dressing, props...all go through my office for
+personal approval.
+ 
+     5) Along with the director and a few others, I sit in on all casting
+and have final right of decision, along with Doug, and we rarely
+disagree.
+ 
+     6) I approve all directors and writers for the show, and work with
+both.  In the case of directors, we speak about the episode many times,
+and have "tone meetings" just before shooting in which we go over every
+page to discuss the visualization and make sure we're on the same track.
+I try to slip out onto the set when possible to make sure we're still on
+the right track.  If I see something that may not be what I had in mind,
+I'll either defer if it works, or if I'm concerned, I'll pull the
+director aside for a quiet discussion, and let the director relay my
+notes to the actors.  (On the set, there can only be one voice, and that
+is the director, in terms of relaying instructions to crew and cast.)
+ 
+     7) I work with the composer, determining in- and out-cues for music,
+and where I have something in mind, expressing it to Christopher.
+ 
+     8) Working with the CGI folks on exactly what given sequences should
+look like, and how long they should be.
+ 
+     9) After the director makes his/her cut, John Copeland and I go in to
+make the producer's cut.  We sometimes re-edit every frame, or do a light
+dusting.  Generally I work more with the character stuff, and he's good at
+action stuff (hence my nickname for John, Captain Action).  We sometimes
+spend as much as two days going over every single frame, to tighten and
+make it stronger.
+ 
+     When you have a crew and cast as talented as we do, a lot of the
+preceding stages amount to basically saying "yup" a lot, and in all of
+this, John Copeland is my good right arm; I rely on his judgment
+implicitly.
+ 
+     (John is also our resident military expert, and he does a lot to
+keep us in line with tradition.  I think when the B5 history is eventually
+written, his importance to the show will really come through.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CDROM What Happened? (22 Jun 1995)
+
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B5 CDROM What Happened?

+22 Jun 1995
     The CD rom was put back when Compton's cut back its list of titles
+from several hundred to 38.  We're now renegotiating with several other
+companies who are actively pursuing the license, and hope to have this
+locked down soon.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Thanks for doing GRO (22 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Thanks for doing GRO

+22 Jun 1995
     I'd have to go back and check, but I'm pretty sure it was a row of
+stars or a row of ships going around Earth.
+ 
+     And thanks.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Mirrors and reflections (3 Jun 1995)
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Re: Mirrors and reflections

+3 Jun 1995
     Yes, there is a reason for the mirror/reflection motif, and for
+Kosh's comment.  What is a reflection?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS : Should I Buy Unlice (22 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS : Should I Buy Unlice

+22 Jun 1995
     For reasons that are probably self-evident, I really can't comment
+on any of this...though I wouldn't mind getting the address for the person
+selling these PPGs and stuff....
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  "What I really want to d (22 Jun 1995)
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+22 Jun 1995
     I dunno...I keep going back and forth on this.  For my purposes it's
+easier to find directors who see the show my way, and hire them; and not
+the ones who don't.  I sometimes consider directing -- mainly because it
+makes John Copeland get all twitchy every time I broach the subject, and I
+like to watch him vibrate into another dimension -- but mainly...it'd
+require getting up WAY too early.  My agent says I'm nuts for not taking
+the opporunity, which is there, if I wanted it.  But so far...ehhh.....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Dissapointed with the Soundtra (23 Jun 1995)
+
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+
Dissapointed with the Soundtra

+23 Jun 1995
     Err...both main themes ARE incorporated into the soundtrack, one at
+the top of track 10, the other earlier.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Holy JMS-Re: DS9 establish (23 Jun 1995)
+
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Re: Holy JMS-Re: DS9 establish

+23 Jun 1995
     Excuse me, Michelle, but I resent your message.  I have absolutely
+NO control whatsoever to the airing schedule of Babylon 5; I can help
+set up which episodes within a given period will air, in what order, but
+when PTEN decides that NO episodes are going to air in that period, there
+ain't squat I can do about it, and believe me, I tried; I can't count the
+numbers of phone calls I made, to no effect.  To take a situation over
+which I have no control, which I didn't know when I was writing or
+producing the episodes, about which I am *very* upset, and try to make
+me responsible for that, and therefore that I am a hypocrite for holding
+back the great war, is just about as low as one can get.
+ 
+     Further, you're operating out of what you think the war is.  It's one
+large war that spirals into another.  The Narns and the Centauri are at
+war.  You can't just dismiss it as the trigger; thousands of Narns and
+many Centauri are *dying*.  And the last four episodes are planned to
+escalate the hell out of this.
+ 
+     I'm sorry if it's not sufficiently nasty at this point to satisfy
+your bloodthirstiness.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o (23 Jun 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o

+23 Jun 1995
     What I have to say about Christopher Priest and his piece of crap
+Deadloss Visions, little more than attempted literary assassination, from
+a personal vendetta aided and abetted by Groth and Feeley, would fry your
+modem connection and violate just about every provision Congress just
+slapped onto electronic communications.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Hyperspace effects (23 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Hyperspace effects

+23 Jun 1995
     Yes, the mass energy shown in the gates shows why Explorer craft
+like to conserve energy.  And you're pretty much on the beam about how
+Shadow vessels move in and out of hyperspace.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: DS9 vs B5 comments (22 Jun 1995)
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Re: DS9 vs B5 comments

+22 Jun 1995
     Why on earth am I suddenly getting a zillion rerun old messages
+with the Fidonet notation at the end of each one?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Star Trek vs. B5 (22 Jun 1995)
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Star Trek vs. B5

+22 Jun 1995
     It's also worth mentioning that one of my hopes in doing b5 is that
+it will encourage others to pick up the ball when I've finished playing with
+it and do other linked/novel-structured stories, so far from thinking that
+ST is "ripping off" anything by adapting to a long-term structure, I'd be
+quite pleased.
+ 
+     I'd rather it weren't *my* story, but anything else...terrific.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o (22 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o

+22 Jun 1995
     Unfortunately, Bob, you are one of those people of whom Harlan
+speaks when he says you have no sense of the real history of the story
+behind ST.  He did more than just write "City"...he brought in ohter
+SF writers, rewrote them on the QT in some cases, fronted ST to SFWA and
+vice versa; he was the one who fronted a mass mailing to leading SF pros
+and other urging them to do all they could to keep the show on the air
+when it looked like it was going to be canceled at the end of its second
+season.
+ 
+     He did more beyond that, but that's a start.  So on that count, you
+are absolutely wrong and ignorant of the facts.
+ 
+     Item #2, he has never "cheated or swindled" the authors involved with
+"The Last Dangerous Visions."  Each author was paid, with a fee that
+covers X-amount of time.  At the end of X-amount of time, he sends another
+check to renew his right to publish those stories.  Any author who wants
+to pull his story, can do so, and some have.  Most haven't, and are
+content to wait.
+ 
+     The paralogia you exhibit in your message is blatant and sad.  You
+try to attack his statements on ST with false and uninformed opinion, then
+drag in TLDV as if to somehow verify his lack of character in speaking his
+mind about Star Trek.  Using anything, however false or irrelevant, to
+discredit the messenger who's saying stuff you don't want to hear.
+ 
+     Tough.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS :  Ivanova Romance Questio (23 Jun 1995)
+
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JMS :  Ivanova Romance Questio

+23 Jun 1995
     There will be an Ivanova romance...but not necessarily with whom you
+might expect.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Official request for tra (4 Jun 1995)
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JMS:  Official request for tra

+4 Jun 1995
     Isn't it more fun to leave the piece untranslated?  Shouldn't some
+things be left to the imagination?
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: *Is* B5 History Bein (23 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: *Is* B5 History Bein

+23 Jun 1995
     The closest thing to a history is something I've been working on a
+bit here and there, trying to put together a daily (or twice-weekly)
+journal on the making of the third season, filling in backstory along
+the way.  We'll see if I can keep this sucker going throughout the
+season.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Season Three, Episode Te (23 Jun 1995)
+
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JMS:  Season Three, Episode Te

+23 Jun 1995
     I think it's a bit early for me to be giving out spoilers for ep 10
+of year 3.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi (23 Jun 1995)
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Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi

+23 Jun 1995
     The problem with the competition discussion is that it doesn't address
+the issues from an industry standpoint.  It's not an issue of "Well, DS9
+isn't sweating because they're getting better ratings than B5."  It's not
+per se a competition on that level.  What worries Paramount is ANY other
+show like B5 even existing, because it dilutes their monopoly on this
+kind of space show, which has existed for 30 years.  Also, over time, DS9's
+ratings have gotten very soft; a number of their folks have drifted over
+to B5.  Given their huge expensive budget, even while they may stay way
+ahead of us in the ratings, if they drop below a certain point it's going
+to cause them problems.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o (23 Jun 1995)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o

+23 Jun 1995
     Please cite for me, Rob, those stories you've heard about literary
+assassination by Harlan.  I would like to see them.  Invariably they are
+total fiction of grossly exaggerated by those who want to do harm.
+ 
+     As for not delivering a book manuscript for X-years...this is not a
+big deal, frankly, and it's not the business of anyone not directly
+involved.  Hell, I've been trying for the last six years to finish the
+revisions to the scriptwriting book; I've said I was just about finished,
+only to get hammered by something and time slips.  It happens to every
+writer.
+ 
+     And the same people who say, "Why hasn't he finished his work?" are
+the ones who chivvy and harrass him, send him abusive mail, subscribe him
+to magazines he doesn't want, start organizations like Enemies of
+Ellison, and do everything they can to wind him up to the point where
+nobody could get ANY work done.  That he's delivered as much as he has,
+equal to or more than my output on any year, is amazing, given that this
+is ALSO the man with Epstein/Barr (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) and has had
+two heart attacks and two surgical heart procedures.
+ 
+     Gee, I wonder why he's distracted.
+ 
+     Priest and the rest of his ilk should get a fucking life and maybe do
+some work of their own instead of harrassing Harlan.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Will the original sc (23 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Will the original sc

+23 Jun 1995
     Well, we'll see if there's enough interest at that time.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o (23 Jun 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS:Harlan Ellison o

+23 Jun 1995
     Except, again, you're characterizing a twisted, biased hatchet job
+by someone with an agenda as a legitimate report, and basing your
+reactions on that assumption.  It ain't.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN  JMS:  What's the off (24 Jun 1995)
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Re: ATTN  JMS:  What's the off

+24 Jun 1995
     Oh, hell, I forgot the one pre-eminent feature in my office: a framed
+MST3K picture of Mike and TV's Frank and Dr. Foresster and the 'bots, all
+signed by the relative charcters, living or robotic.
+ 
+     It was a present for my birthday, and in return I sent 'em a box of
+B5 caps.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: From JMS: What Exec Prods (24 Jun 1995)
+
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Re: From JMS: What Exec Prods

+24 Jun 1995
     I don't think *any* topic is off-limits when it comes to discussing
+B5, because no topic is off-limits when it comes to *making* B5.  So
+questions/discussions of costumes, makeup, EFX, philosophy, mathematics
+(not Joseph's skill, however), set design...whatever.  I may not always
+have an answer, but I'll either find one or come up with a reasonably
+plausible alibi.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Illuminati invade B5 (24 Jun 1995)
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Illuminati invade B5

+24 Jun 1995
     The handclasp used in "Coming of Shadows" was a traditional clasp
+used by Romans, usually in order to check if the other person was carrying
+a knife.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi (24 Jun 1995)
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Re: DS9 establishes a new nadi

+24 Jun 1995
     Yeah, the new "Space" series should further take SF from being a
+one-show monopoly and making it into a regular genre like any other, IF
+it proves successful.  Given that Morgan and Wong (from X-Files) are
+behind it, I have great hopes, and wish them nothing but success.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+TREK IS BEST (3 Jun 1995)
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+
TREK IS BEST

+3 Jun 1995
     Dear Ryan: regarding your comment that DS9 and the other ST shows are
+superior because they use "real models" instead of CGI...they DO, in fact,
+use CGI ships in all their shows, including Voyager, and they use THE SAME
+COMPANY WE DO, Foundation Imaging.  (They just finished doing a Solar
+Sailing vessel for, I think, DS9.)
+ 
+     In short...you don't have a clue what you're talking about.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Holy JMS-Re: DS9 establish (24 Jun 1995)
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Re: Holy JMS-Re: DS9 establish

+24 Jun 1995
     Ted: you're comparing apples and oranges (again).  There is a profound
+difference between PTEN (to use your term) "meddling" with what dates to
+SHOW the program, and Paramount "meddling" with what goes INTO the
+program.  Further, I've seen just as many people here hitting critical
+mass about the PTEN delay as those discussing Paramount/ST, probably more.
+ 
+     "Does this mean that people like Franklin who criticize Trek writers
+for Paramount decisions but don't criticize jms for PTEN decisions are
+being hypocritical?  Absolutely."
+ 
+     Ted...what the fuck are you talking about?  I'd like to know because
+this doesn't parse on any level; it doesn't touch reality at any two
+contiguous points.  A writer is responsible for only one thing: what goes
+into the script.  You might as well blame the writer for some station
+airing the show at 11 p.m. vs. 8 p.m.  Which is sheer madness on your
+part.
+ 
+     There is creative meddling with the program's contents, and scheduling
+meddling which all happens after the contents are completed.  These are
+as different as night and day.  A writer is responsible for the contents
+of his/her scripts; and is NOT responsible in any way, manner, shape or
+form for the scheduling of that episode.  I'm sorry, Ted, but this is one
+of your more extraordinarily dumb postings, and there've been some
+real whoppers, lemme tell you.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Franklin's religion and m (24 Jun 1995)
+
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JMS: Franklin's religion and m

+24 Jun 1995
     ...okay, Rebecca, I'll bite...what were the deconstructionist
+interpretations of Franklin's speech?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: CGI in GROPOS (25 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: CGI in GROPOS

+25 Jun 1995
     That was all CGI, yes.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Did it work? (25 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Did it work?

+25 Jun 1995
     There are still about 3 shots left to come on "Fall," but yeah, so
+far it looks like it's gonna work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:Why Babylon? (25 Jun 1995)
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JMS:Why Babylon?

+25 Jun 1995
     The name was mutually arrived at by the nation/sponsors of B5, and
+the man who initiated the project, looking back at the original story of
+Babylon as a place where different languages came together.  I'd started
+to do a story about the founder of the Babylon Project, but it kinda got
+shoved aside; I'll do it eventually.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN:JMS  Chicago Comicom (25 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN:JMS  Chicago Comicom

+25 Jun 1995
     Yes, I do plan to be at Chicago ComicCon.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Giving JMS Feedback on last 4 (24 Jun 1995)
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Giving JMS Feedback on last 4

+24 Jun 1995
     Actually, the writing of the next batch of scripts has very little to
+do with reaction to the last four; the story is the story.  And, as it
+happens, the first three are now written, and I'll be starting on script
+four next week.  By the time the first episode airs in the UK, we will hvae
+(have) 5-6 scripts in-hand.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS:  Ranger-hood (25 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Ranger-hood

+25 Jun 1995
     One could certainly argue the position that those who become Rangers
+are drawn to Minbar for that purpose, and speculate about what might be
+propelling that.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: when do we get to se (25 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: when do we get to se

+25 Jun 1995
     There is nothing special about the spots on Na'Toth's forehead, and
+we may or may not see her again.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN, JMS: Lyta-Talia question (25 Jun 1995)
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ATTN, JMS: Lyta-Talia question

+25 Jun 1995
     Different character, different story.  And you'll see Lyta in the
+final four, and probably in year three as well.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn: JMS - Any plans for a Se (1 Jun 1995)
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Attn: JMS - Any plans for a Se

+1 Jun 1995
     A "secrets of B5" kind of one-hour special would be a great idea, if
+we could convince WB to go for it.  But right now, we're still waiting on
+the series go, let alone anything else.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS -- Quick question... (3 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS -- Quick question...

+3 Jun 1995
     Yes, I slipped a reference to B5 into an old episode of Captain Power
+called "Final Stand," and into my second novel, OtherSyde.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+Date: Sun,  4 Jun 95 08:29:00 UTC
+

+
+
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+
+UK showing end of Season 2 bef (25 Jun 1995)
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UK showing end of Season 2 bef

+25 Jun 1995
     The showing of episodes in the UK won't have any effect on US
+ratings, as the few copies that work their way back here won't be in
+sufficient numbers to affect the Neilsens.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Interzone #97 talks about (25 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Interzone #97 talks about

+25 Jun 1995
     Jeannette: yeah, if it's a good piece on the show, send it or a
+copy along.  BTW, got the music.  All very nice, but especially like
+Roy's stuff.  Some of his little tirades are quite impressive.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
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Re: Holy JMS-Re: DS9 establish

+25 Jun 1995
     Alex, I never said I *wasn't* bugged about the delay in episodes;
+only that it's not something within my control.  I would much rather they
+were shown in July.  I've always said that.  Schedules are not the
+writer's jurisdiction.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+From jms: Harlan Merchandise (25 Jun 1995)
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From jms: Harlan Merchandise

+25 Jun 1995
     Most of you may not be aware of the existence of the Harlan Ellison
+Record Collection.  Harlan Ellison, besides being Conceptual Consultant
+for Babylon 5, and a leading writer, is also an amazing performer on
+stage, and when reading his own material.  One of his recordings was
+recently nominated for a Grammy Award.
+ 
+     All prior releases from HERC have been on LP (and they are all
+terrific, recordings of "I'm Looking for Kadak" and "Jefty is Five" and
+a collection of his appearances such as "On the Road with Harlan
+Ellison").  Well, now his first CD is out, his reading of the award
+winning story "Paladin of the Lost Hour," which was also done as an
+episode of The Twilight Zone, guest-starring Danny Kaye.
+ 
+     If you've never heard Harlan read, you've got to check this one
+out.  He doesn't so much read as *perform* the story, playing all the
+parts, with inflections and accents and a wonderful dramatic flair.  As
+with all the rest, it's a joy to listen to.
+ 
+     This brand-new, first-time ever release of "Paladin" is 55 minutes
+in length, and the price is $16.50 plus $2 for postage and handling.
+Again, this is the CD.  There are discounts for those who join HERC
+which for a yearly membership fee of $8 gets you the HERC Newsletter,
+with bits from Harlan, edited by his wife Susan Ellison, and access to
+all of his previously published books *and* prior HERC recordings.
+(For HERC members, btw, the "Paladin" CD goes for $15 with $2 postage
+and handling.)
+ 
+     The address, for those interested, is: The Harlan Ellison Record
+Collection, P. O. Box 55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.  (Checks or money
+orders only, no plastic.)
+ 
+     I've been meaning to pass this info along for a while now, but the
+release of "Paladin of the Lost Hour" gives me a good opportunity to do
+so finally.  For those who like audio books, radio drama (some of the
+recordings incorporate some elements of production, and sound effects,
+though minimally), performance art, storytelling...this is definitely
+something you'll want to consider.
+ 
+     (If anyone wants to add this info to any of the WWW pages out there
+for future use in the archives, that'd be a Nifty Thing.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Who checks your scri (24 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Who checks your scri

+24 Jun 1995
    Generally speaking, not that much checking needs to be done; I try to
+write from what I know, or can research on my own.  In a few cases, we've
+brough in advisors in specific areas; military advisors for GROPOS,
+medical advisors on "Confessions", that sort of thing.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+Re: DS9 compared to B5 (26 Jun 1995)
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Re: DS9 compared to B5

+26 Jun 1995
     Actually, I think we broke RoTJ's record for ships on-screen in the
+pilot; Ron was rather pleased about it at the time.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS: Congrats from Austra (26 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Congrats from Austra

+26 Jun 1995
     Thanks, and I'll pass this along to David Gerrold.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+ATTN: JMS  Idle curiosity... (26 Jun 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  Idle curiosity...

+26 Jun 1995
     Actually, yes, it does have a name, but the darned thing is in my
+notes, and I'd have to go digging it out.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+ATTN, JMS: Jumpgate question (27 Jun 1995)
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ATTN, JMS: Jumpgate question

+27 Jun 1995
     You might as well ask who invented the computer.  The principles have
+always been there, written in the universe for people to decode, as we
+have been doing throughout centuries.  At various points, races stumble
+upon items like jumpgate technology the same way they stumble upon fire,
+or radium, or the piston engine.
+ 
+	                                                                   jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: No Na'Toth? But you (27 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: No Na'Toth? But you

+27 Jun 1995
     No, I never said that the character of Na'Toth was needed to relay
+information to another character.  (It would be infinitely better if the
+tens of thousand of people you cite who memorize every comment checked
+the actual statement, 'cause often it's misphrased from memory, and then
+I get held accountable for it.)  I said that she had to have certain
+information, period.  Specifically, when G'Kar came back, I needed
+someone there who he could talk to about the shadows, and get us into
+that part.  Someone who knew he'd been gone, and why.  Otherwise, he'd
+be spilling his guts to a total stranger, and he wouldn't *do* that.
+Hence, you need Na'Toth.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+Why are you here (rastb5)? (3 Jun 1995)
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Why are you here (rastb5)?

+3 Jun 1995
     The notion that I'm asking for no story ideas to be posted so that I
+can rip off story ideas is the most lame-brain statement I have heard in
+10+ years of being on the nets.  Saying "no story ideas" doesn't kee
+anyone from suing; it just keeps useable ideas out of where I can see them,
+period.
+ 
+     I have said, often, and repeatedly, and clearly, why I am here.  The
+problem is that you have one or two absolute mindless conniving distrustful
+fuckheads who have no perceivable life other than to try and ride my ass
+about one thing or another, swinging from one stupid theory to another to
+another with as much astonishing speed and illogic as the Simpson defense
+team.  They will seize upon anything, ANYthing, and try and twist it around
+to try and convince others that somehow, somewhichway, I'm getting away
+with something, I'm conning people, I'm lying, I'm actually Reichminister
+Goebbels who set up a twin for the little WW II misunderstanding and am
+currently trying to sneak back into the United States disguised as Rondo
+Hatton.
+ 
+     Loonies and feebs and creeps, oh my.
+ 
+     Okay, you want it straight up?  Here it is.  I'm here for a number of
+reasons.  1) I like to get kind of a sense of the room; I'm not going to
+change anything, but writing for TV is like writing for a vacuum; you nevr
+(never) get to see the reaction.  This is the ONLY chance I get to get a
+reaction to something I've written and produced, and maybe it's ego, maybe
+it's just that I work very hard to make something effective,and want to see
+if it had the desired effect.  Writers and artists and singers are like
+that.
+ 
+     2) I think that TV producers in general get a very skewed sense of
+who's in the audience.  This exchange gives access to people across the
+country to someone who makes TeeVee, and lets me hear them.  How often
+would someone in Clearwater, Oklahoma, have the chance to express an
+opinion to someone in LA making a TV series?  Not bloody often.  And that
+is in large measure, I think, why TV has become so insular.  And so
+unresponsive to its audience.  So I'm kind of a test-case volunteer for
+this, in the hopes of luring more producers onto the nets and creating a
+more open exchange, making producers accountable for what they make.
+ 
+     3) I've dedicated over 15 years of my life to trying to demystify
+TV production and writing.  I've written columns and columns, reams of
+articles, a book...all trying to help people understand how this medium
+works, because you can't control or influence something unless you truly
+UNDERSTAND it...why things are done a certain way.  This is part of an
+educational project that I've been doing for over a decade, a natural
+outgrowth of that process.  By the time this is all done, there will be
+an online document of hundreds of archival pages -- maybe thousands --
+covering the development, birth and ongoing creation of a TV series at a
+depth never before chronicled, which will be available to students and
+universities and ordinary folks.  I think that's a valuable experiment.
+ 
+     Finally: 4) I'm an SF fan.  I think SF fans are, overall, the most
+exploited bunch around.  They're expected to line up, buy the toys,
+watch the show and shut the hell up.  I think it's time some respect for
+that audience was shown by allowing them a voice.  This is part of my
+sense of personal obligation to the field that spawned many wonderful
+years of reading.
+ 
+     My request has always been just that, a request, and a simply stated
+one.  You can talk about story ideas all you want.  But I simply cannot be
+here if you do that.  I will not run the risk of being sued, or having the
+show that I've labored over for, now, eight years being victimized by some
+crazed yahoo who posts something and then decides I've ripped him off,
+despite the fact that this material has been sitting in my computer for
+YEARS.  And a Crazed Yahoo (tm) doesn't have to win, doesn't even think
+he may have a chance to win...but defending a case can run hundreds of
+thousands of dollars, thanks to our wonderful legal system, and can tie
+up episodes for years.
+ 
+     You cay some of these people think the chances of a lawsuit are
+"ignorable."  Yeah, for them.  They're not the ones at risk.  If they're
+wrong, it's "Oh, huh, guess I was wrong."  For me it's several years of
+courtrooms, lawyers, depositions and the like.  It's frankly not their
+call to make.  It's mine.  Warners knows I'm here, and I periodically
+have to reassure them that I'm keeping the promise about not exposing the
+show to risk.  And I have to maintain that stance, or vanish.
+ 
+     I would remind a very few of the feebs I noted before that in fact,
+there WAS no rec.arts.b5 area until I showed up on the alt group.  At
+that point, membership jumped *dramatically* enough to merit the
+formation of a rec.arts group.  I have no particular infatuation with my
+own sense of importance -- much the contrary -- but I do know that my
+being here is in many ways directly responsible for there BEING a
+B5 rec group.  Now I'm being told, "Hey, why make special rules for him,
+who cares, let him blow off if he doesn't like it."
+ 
+     Not a special rule.  Just courtesy.  Plain and simple.  Why is it
+that one can no longer simply make a request out of courtesy?  Instead one
+must now back it up with lengthy treatises about legalities and laws and
+risk factors...and one's own personal motivations are challenged and
+questioned and suspected and put on trial and smeared by a callous few to
+whom the very concept of "courtesy" is a foreign idea, and who exist only
+to bring grief to me and the bulk of users here.  There are PLENTY of
+ways for people to suggest story ideas to one another without exposing
+them to me...email lists, private groups, whatever.
+ 
+     The theory, as I understand it, is that people are coming up with
+story ideas because they like the show.  Why, therefore, would they
+choose to *endanger* the show by posting them where I can see it?  I had
+this recently with a fanzine publisher who turned down a B5 fictional
+story because I'd asked, politely, that none be published until after the
+show had ended.  The writer got very upset and said, "Well, who CARES what
+he wants?"  The side-product was more important than the creation that
+spawned it.
+ 
+     I've made my motivations clear from day one.  Anyone who wants to
+challenge them can go fuck themselves, I don't have to answer to them or
+give them any credence whatsoever by even acknowleging them.  It's in all
+the faq files from the beginning; let them go do some research, it's all
+there.  They pick on this today; tomorrow they'll move onto something
+else, because they don't actually CARE about the truth.  They care about
+being hyenas, and biting at people who didn't bow down and kiss their
+respective asses.
+ 
+     And frankly, that to me has become one of the most wearing aspects of
+being online; the wackos and creeps who just live to make trouble.  For
+that reason alone, I sometimes think, "Fuck it, I don't need this, I don't
+need to go to bed angry, I don't need the distraction when I'm trying to
+write, I'm doing this to do a Nice Thing.  Period.  And if all I'm going
+to get is a few relentless assholes bitching at me 24 hours a day, then
+the hell with it."  Then the sane part of me remembers that the word FEW
+appears in that sentence.  And that these few jerks are irrelevant, despite
+their attempts to create relevancy for themselves by attacking others.  And
+I calm down, and after a bit, log back on again.
+ 
+     To continue the experiment, as outlined above.
+ 
+     And that's the sum and substance of it.  It's really a question of
+which people prefer: having access to the producer of Babylon 5, or
+blowing out huge story ideas.  There can be one, but not the other.  It
+ain't the best case scenario, but it's the only workable one.  It's my show
+that would be at risk otherwise, and I'm sorry, but on that count noboty
+(nobody) else gets a vote.  Nobody else is entitled to determine the
+risk factor, or determine if it's relevant.  That's my call.  And should
+enough people decide their story ideas are what they really want to
+discuss, or even a few (it only takes a couple to pose sufficient risk),
+then I'll simply have to fade outta here.
+ 
+     Because the experiment will continue, on other systems.  Compuserve,
+GEnie, others...where the understanding is respected, and courtesy rises
+above self-interest or unwarranted personal attacks.  And AS HAS BEEN THE
+CASE HERE, I should point out, since this thing began.  If a few people
+want to change that, well, that's their right.  I just can't be here if
+it happens.  That simple.
+ 
+     And yes, you can repost this, but if you do in the public forums,
+do so in toto.  The usual band of self-styled critics/hatchet folks will
+get all bent out of shape because I used a couple naughty words here and
+there, and because I got all bent out of shape simply because they did
+something as innocuous as impugning my motives and implying theft on a
+daily, consistent basis, but y'know what?
+ 
+     Fuck 'em.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+Date: Sun,  4 Jun 95 09:02:00 UTC
+

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+ATTN, JMS: Literacy (27 Jun 1995)
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ATTN, JMS: Literacy

+27 Jun 1995
     No plans for a READ poster at this time, no.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+Re: Attn.:  Big Bang Con Atten (25 Jun 1995)
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Re: Attn.:  Big Bang Con Atten

+25 Jun 1995
     J. Potts...your report reflects exactly what I'd been afraid of,
+that the event was going to be an organizational disaster.  The cast were
+game to go for the fans, and I'm glad to see that they did okay in that
+regard, but they can't do much about how the con is organized.  This all
+pretty much confirms that my concerns were justified.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+JMS:Delenn's age (28 Jun 1995)
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JMS:Delenn's age

+28 Jun 1995
     She is between 60 and 70, which in Minbari terms is a very young
+woman.
+ 
+     (amend that, not *very* young, as 18, but equal to a human female
+in her 30s)
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+ATTN JMS: Ideas to help newbie (28 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Ideas to help newbie

+28 Jun 1995
     We broached the idea of a one-hour "Mysteries of
+Babylon 5" special to PTEN; unfortunately, it seems problematic.  Fox can
+set aside a block of time because it's a true network; PTEN would have
+to go to each station individually and sell the one-hour show, and that
+is apparently very difficult.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS--EA gives B5 to (28 Jun 1995)
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Re: ATTN: JMS--EA gives B5 to

+28 Jun 1995
     Hardin: the key issue, always, is the introduction of new plot
+elements and actions not previously introduced.  It's the difference
+between saying what something may *mean*, and suggesting something that
+may *happen*.  The more precise the suggestion, the more problematic it
+becomes.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS: Plausable deniability? (28 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Plausable deniability?

+28 Jun 1995
     I have made considerable mention that I don't access the internet
+any other way.  Proving access is key to any legal problems.  If I'm here
+posting regularly, that de facto proves access.  If I'm not, it becomes
+more difficult to prove.
+ 
+     Second, the material *is* all put away, and dated, but the key isn't
+just winning the case, which would happen; I just would rather not spend
+the next 2 years of my life subsequent to a problem in depositions, and
+hearings, and more hearings, and closeted with lawyers in the course of
+defending myself against somebody.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Writing Software Que (28 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Writing Software Que

+28 Jun 1995
     I used to use Wordstar, with macros to adjust dialogue margins,
+almost constantly in writing scripts.  Then the last two places I worked,
+including Universal and "Murder, She Wrote" went over to Movie Master,
+which is basically a no-brainer script program that has all the margins
+and formatting set up.  After learning that one, it kinda stuck, and
+that's the one I use now for B5.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+28 Jun 1995
     You're going to hell for that, you know that, don't you?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+From jms: ComicCon Schedule (28 Jun 1995)
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From jms: ComicCon Schedule

+28 Jun 1995
     For those in the Chicago area, my schedule at the Chicago Comic Con,
+held this weekend at the Rosemont Convention Center, Rosemont IL has been
+firmed up.  Here it is:
+ 
+     FRIDAY: 3-4 p.m. jms w/bloopers and other stuph.  4-5 Michael O'Hare
+gives an acting seminar.
+ 
+     SATURDAY: 11 a.m. Michael O'Hare Q&A session.  1:30-3:00 special jms
+presentation (*be there*).  4-5 p.m. jms writing for TV seminar.  There
+will be some kind of informal B5 reception in the evening, somewhere, with
+jms, Michael, and Peter David.
+ 
+     SUNDAY: 1-2 p.m. B5 panel with jms, Peter David and Michael O'Hare.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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JMS----Jumpgate colors???

+28 Jun 1995
     Don't know if my prior note got through; it's due to red shift.
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+                                                               jms
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Why are you here (rastb5)?

+3 Jun 1995
     A postscript to my previous note.  I debated including this, because
+it sounds self-serving, but it also happens to be the truth, so after
+thinking about it, I'm going to add it anyway.
+ 
+     I don't get paid to be here.  Nobody asked me to be here.  Nobody's
+forcing me to be here.  (And a few here would, apparently, love nothing
+more than to drive me off here so they can say whatever they want without
+the inconvenience of the target for their attacks disagreeing with them
+with anything as unfair as facts.)  I'm a voluntee
+ 
+     I am, insofar as I know, the ONLY television producer to be on-line
+to this extent, creating what is really an interactive experience.  This
+is a great experiment, one which will probably go down in the record
+books when people look back at the history of the net.  There have already
+been huge articles about this in books and magazines.  We're pioneering
+something here.  And a lot of other producers I know are looking on to see
+how this all shakes out.  If it works, others will come on-line.  If not,
+if they're just going to get hammered and slandered and abused, they're
+not.
+ 
+     Maybe the problem is...I'm free.  And you respect something to the
+extent you pay for it.  My consulting fees are in excess of $100 per
+hour.  I spend 3 hours per day just on the internet.  That's 21 hours a
+week, 2 and a half work days per week.  Most of that I spend not in
+forwarding my own ego, or selling merchandise, or making money...I spend
+it answering questions.  Who was this actor?  What did this mean?  Why
+are CGI used?  How long does it take to make an episode?  What does a
+producer do?  How do you write a character?  How do you sell a show?
+ 
+     It's the kind of information you can't get anywhere else unless you
+want to take one of those triple-damned McKee seminars and spend, oh,
+about $500 for one weekend doing so.  I read and I read, 500 messages per
+day slip past me, some in detail, some less so.  I provide a service.  I
+provide information.  I answer questions.  I don't do it for the ratings,
+beause if you added up all the people who read this group, which I think
+is about 10,000 people, they won't even show UP on the Neilsen ratings.
+ 
+     I do it, in addition to the reasons given a moment ago, to provide a
+service.  Were I providing this service to a studio, or as a consultant
+on another project, it would cost them a couple thousand bucks a week.  I
+do all this without asking for money, or gifts, or even respect (he said
+with a glance to the people riffling their papers in the back of the room
+and tossing spitballs).  I have only ever asked for *one thing* in exchange
+for this service: no story ideas.
+ 
+     And I honestly don't think that's a terribly high price for the hours
+and days I spend here when I should be writing, or trying to relax a bit,
+or maybe going out to dinner once in a while.  I'm chained to the keyboard
+when I write scripts; and then volunteer to stay up here, until 2 or 3 or
+even 4 a.m., dead-tired, answering one more ATT: JMS note, because I think
+maybe, just maybe, it's important, and right, and honorable, and
+respectful.  I don't think most folks understand what this takes out of me
+on a daily basis.  And I suppose they shouldn't have to.  It's not their
+problem.  It's my choice.  I don't even like bringing it up, because it
+sounds self-serving.  But with all this going on, I figured maybe it
+SHOULD get mentioned.  Because it's the truth.
+ 
+     Anyway, enough.  It's now 2:03 a.m., and I have 248 Internet messages
+in my mailbox to get through before I crash tonight.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+28 Jun 1995
     There does seem to be some symbolism in that, though I think it came
+more subconsciously than consciously; the Narns and Centauri classify the
+other as the deadly enemy, but the visible fights and woundings have come
+from their own kind.  We are always our own worst enemies.
+ 
+     Though that will change, shortly.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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Re: JMS----Jumpgate colors???

+28 Jun 1995
     The colors correspond to red-shift.
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+	                                                             jms
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+Attn: JMS - Ivanova Question ( (29 Jun 1995)
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+29 Jun 1995
     Yes, Ivanova brought a secret with her to the station.
+ 
+     But, who didn't, after all?
+ 
+     This IS Babylon 5.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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ATTN JMS: If you could be a B5

+30 Jun 1995
     I'd probably choose Delenn.
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+                                                                jms
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ATTN: JMS - Babylon5 on Armed

+30 Jun 1995
     We're investigating the issue; we're very popular with the military,
+and are trying to find some way to work it out.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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ATTN: JMS - fan mail by proxy

+30 Jun 1995
     That's really very gratifying to know.  I'm please that there is
+sufficient there to merit her attention.  My regards to her.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+26 Jun 1995
     Nobody knows every aspect of the arc; I release enough each season
+so our crew can plan ahead.  A couple of people have seen a brief
+10-page synopsis of where it's going, but that's very vague.  And I intend
+to keep it that way.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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Re: Someone's Impersonating jm

+4 Jun 1995
     Only because it's late, and I'm kinda pissed off anyway (see the note
+which Vinay will be reposting any time now), let me dive into this with one
+or two comments which, I hope, will end this discussion.
+ 
+     (And I won't even mention my sense that those who seem least to
+understand the need to protect one's name are the ones who don't have much
+of a name TO protect.)
+ 
+     Lemme bring you up to speed on something a few of you know about, but
+the majority probably don't.  There have been a couple of other cases of
+people impersonating me.  One of the most serious was someone who, saying
+he was me, using my address, began logging onto certain sex-oriented
+alt and rec groups and began leaving messages that were...disturbing, to
+couch it delicately.  Suffice to say they involved minors and let it go
+at that.  I found out about this when messages in response to this began
+showing up in my mailbox.  Other equally disturbing messages were brought
+to my attention by a few others here who log onto some of the other parts
+of the internet.  (They can step forward if they so choose.)
+ 
+     One of these individuals is now facing criminal charges.
+ 
+     Lawyers brought into this made it *absolutely clear* to me, in NO
+uncertain terms, how this should be dealt with.  At the first hint, I must
+send the person a message asking to cease and desist.  This will help to
+root out which are impersonators with fake addresses, and which are real
+people with the same name.  I note someone here (in a reply quoting it)
+bitched, "Well, why didn't Joe try to contact this person here?"  I did,
+you idiot.  And the message bounced back.  At that point, Orders From
+Lawyers #2 kicked in.  You must hit them as hard as you can, as fast as
+you can, as publicly as you can.  Don't wait.  If it turns out to be
+benign, you can always apologize later.  If you DON'T, any time that you
+don't respond but know what's going on can be taken as permission or
+agreement.
+ 
+     Two great ironies strike me here: 1) that one or two of the people
+who have most implied that maybe this isn't really me (one of the ten
+zillion nutty conspiracy notes they flash around) seemed to find no
+problem with a system -- automated or manned by a person -- which might
+further fuzzy up what's me and what's not. 2) Citing the person who got
+accidentally bombarded with notes, a situation which BEGAN with a threat
+of a harrassment lawsuit aimed against me (something which the person
+here conveniently forgot).
+ 
+     I don't care if it's automated.  I don't care if it's a person.  I
+have a name, and a reputation to protect.  Naming a bot morden.bot is not
+the same thing as jms.bot because jms is a real person and morden is not.
+It has the same end result of blurring the lines.
+ 
+     In any event, there has to be a forceful, hard response at ANY time
+an impersonator emerges or seems to emerge, as fast as possible, because
+of several other rather ugly incidents that have taken place.  And if
+ANYbody has a problem with that, I really don't care, because it's my name
+and reputation that's at stake here, not yours.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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Why I'm Here: Addendum

+4 Jun 1995
     Only because I'm an idiot, and I forgot, and I thought it was implicit
+in the message I wrote, but sometimes implicit isn't sufficiently clear
+(certainly not when I'm behind the keyboard)....
+ 
+     The other aspect is that you're all (well, mostly) a bunch of cuties.
+ 
+     Occasional nincompoops notwithstanding...I see more well-considered,
+substantive, bright and funny comments here than I can count.  There isn't
+a day that goes by that I don't sit here and perk up at a particularly
+insightful message, or laugh at the latest Top Ten or whatever.  The
+majority of messages here are nothing less than terrific, and I hope that
+that implication was clear enough in my message(s); if not, take it from
+this one.
+ 
+     As for the few weasels...my spousal overunit has a great saying:
+"Don't fight the rabbits; the lions'll get you."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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Re: Why is joe here (rastb5)?

+5 Jun 1995
     To Eric Wampner: Vinay DID have my permission to repost the
+material publicly; said permission was even included within the post,
+if you read it thoroughly.  So I think you owe him an apology.
+                                                             jms
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+JMS: Music tastes? (5 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Music tastes?

+5 Jun 1995
     Actually, I listen to just about every kind of music there is, except
+hard-core country-western, which I can't abide.  I have a fairly large
+collection of music, and stuff goes in and out depending on my mood and
+what I'm writing.  In rock, I'm partial to Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins,
+Melissa Etheridge, Meatloaf, Indigo Girls, Billy Joel, Enya, Slade and
+a lot of others.  I always go for strong individual voices and strong
+writing.  I'm a sucker for the kind of music that makes you start pounding
+your arm on the arm of your chair and makes the hair on the back of your
+neck stand up.  Bonnie Tyler stuff.
+ 
+     Other than that...classical, a *little* new wave, Celtic, Japanese
+(KODO music in particular), Aboriginal music, medeival music, jazz,
+big-band (LOTS of big band), musicals, soundtracks...you name it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+ATTN JMS:  CGI question (5 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  CGI question

+5 Jun 1995
     In that scene, the door to the Copernicus was real; the CGI wa
+wrapped around it.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+Top Ten Reasons Joe Reads the (5 Jun 1995)
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+5 Jun 1995
     Now THAT'S comedy....
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+                                                                   jms
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ATTN JMS: Have You Gotten Ever

+5 Jun 1995
     Yeah, there was one thing I didn't get, only because those involved
+kind of imploded.  The final revelatory scene at the end of "The Long
+Dark" was supposed to be one HELL of a lot more impressive than it was.
+I really wanted to see something extraordinary.  What we got...wasn't
+it.  That's the only case that I can remember.  PTEN has never come to us
+and said, "Joe...it's too weird."  Performance wise, I think the part of
+Inspector Cranston in "Hunter/Prey" could've been better executed.  But
+overall, I have to say I'm very satisfied.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+1 Jun 1995
      She was speaking of species, not individuals.
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+5 Jun 1995
     I'm getting two copies of EVERYTHING via my gateway!  Is anyone else
+having this problem?
+ 
+                                                                jms
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ATTN JMS: Starfury name origin

+6 Jun 1995
     The 'fury comes from the conventional air force useage in general;
+star is self-explanatory.  But yes, it does have its roots in tradition.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+Attn JMS: putrid pun that must (6 Jun 1995)
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Attn JMS: putrid pun that must

+6 Jun 1995
     That has to be the best/worst title I've ever heard....
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+                                                                  jms
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Re: YAGGGH!

+6 Jun 1995
     No, it's *still* going on.  Your message to me (to which I'm now
+replying) is also doubled.  EVERYTHING is coming in twice except for
+private mail.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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Re: ATTN JMS: Have You Gotten

+7 Jun 1995
     "That admission was impressive!"  (Ross Bench)
+ 
+     Not really.  Kinda wish it was, but it ain't.
+ 
+     You have to understand, for all the criticisms on this or any other
+net, there is nobody -- NOBODY -- harder on this show than we who make it.
+ Nobody gets spared.  Opinions are not withheld.  This is a show where
+one of my producers, John Copeland, for instance, can walk into my office
+after getting a new script and say, "Joe...it sucks."  (Most notably,
+this happened on the first draft of "Soul Hunter," which I knew didn't
+work as soon as I finished it, but still put it into the pipeline because
+I wasn't sure of my own opinion at that very early stage in the first
+season, decided I was right after all, and yanked back the script from all
+parties with a note simply explaining that I had been momentarily
+possessed by an idiot.)  We're all very open about this stuff.
+ 
+     What I guess maybe doesn't always come through is that if you ask me
+a straightforward question about the show, or behind the scenes, I'll
+give you a straightforward answer.  I've never been big on politics or
+self-preservation.  Which ep disappointed me with the EFX?  The Long
+Dark.  Which do I consider my worst ep?  Infection, and it's entirely
+my fault; if it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage.  Is there
+anything I'd like to re-do?  Yeah, probably parts of Voice 2.
+ 
+     Happily, of all the stuff we've done, there's only about 5-10% that
+sometimes glitches.  Mostly, it's light years beyond anything I could have
+hoped for.  And lemme tell you...in advance...for those who thought "The
+Coming of Shadows" was something, I've seen the final version of "The Long,
+Twilight Struggle," and it's even better.  Better than "Z'ha'dum."  It's
+probably the best we've done.  I've poked and prodded that one all over,
+and it's solid.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: B5 multimedia CD (7 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: B5 multimedia CD

+7 Jun 1995
     Should we get the final word on renewal, I'd expect the cd-rom to be
+out by about Christmas.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is it safe to come out? (7 Jun 1995)
+
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Is it safe to come out?

+7 Jun 1995
     Of *course* it's safe to come out.
+ 
+     Silly girl.
+ 
+     Much better.
+ 
+     Hmmmmmm?  Light switch?  *What* light switch?
+ 
+     Perhaps there's a problem with the fuse box.  I think I'll go check
+with my new friends, Mr. Black and Mr. Decker...just wait right there...
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: YAGGGH! (7 Jun 1995)
+
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Re: YAGGGH!

+7 Jun 1995
     All better now.  Ron fixed it.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 CD and Drum Corps?  Any tho (7 Jun 1995)
+
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+
B5 CD and Drum Corps?  Any tho

+7 Jun 1995
     Yeah, I love drum corps stuff.  And yes, a lot of Chris's stuff
+would work well in that form.
+ 
+     "A member of the JMS militia."  Somebody around the office came up
+with a great name for this...the Joe Corps.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Someone's Impersonating jm (7 Jun 1995)
+
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Re: Someone's Impersonating jm

+7 Jun 1995
     I never see Fulleristic messages directly, because I kill the notde
+(note) as soon as the name appears on my screen, but seeing this small
+quote in Wayne Humfleet's message about DF calling the B5 production
+office...I'm pleased to see that admission.  Basically, the call was to
+complain to the office about me, read what I'd been writing on the nets
+in answer to DF's attempts at glossalalia (not *entirely* sure I spelled
+that right), in an attempt to make trouble and get me off the nets.
+ 
+     This is the difference between us.  I do not call her office, or her
+school, or her employers, to complain about the nutty, libelous thnigs
+(things...fingers are tired) she says here.  But folks like her, and a
+few others, because they can't win on the merits of their arguments, they
+seek to shut the other person down.  They fax complaints to Warner Bros.,
+they call my place of work and complain.
+ 
+     It is, frankly, the very lowest form of net behavior I've ever seen.
+If you can't win, try and silence the opposition.  But hey, it worked for
+the brown shirts, right...?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Space Cooties at Zha'ha'd (1 Jun 1995)
+
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+
JMS: Space Cooties at Zha'ha'd

+1 Jun 1995
     To Jim Jones: the shadows on Z'ha'dum are no more a tribute to the
+Cooties than your name is a tribute to new and fascinating uses for
+Kool-Aide.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Babylon Music (7 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Babylon Music

+7 Jun 1995
     The deal for the music was only for the pilot; you can't mix and
+match composers once you get to series.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Comic Cancelled? (8 Jun 1995)
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Comic Cancelled?

+8 Jun 1995
     We've not yet heard the final, definitive word on this.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Why I'm Here: Addendum (8 Jun 1995)
+
+
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+
Re: Why I'm Here: Addendum

+8 Jun 1995
     Zafaran (and Travers)...thanks.  We'll muddle through.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Those Pesky Prophets (8 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Those Pesky Prophets

+8 Jun 1995
     Nnnnnnoo, not really; the Centauri don't actually have an
+equivalent to G'Quan or Valen.
+ 
+     Believe it or not, this one answer may add another layer to a scene
+in one of the last episodes of this season.  You can infer it backwards
+once you see it, but now you'll have it going n.
+ 
+     Or in, as the case may be.  (Gotta stop typing before 3:45 a.m.)
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: You and Latex (8 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: You and Latex

+8 Jun 1995
      I have direct control/approval over every aspect of the show, but I
+try as much as possible to leave the talented people alone to pursue their
+vision of the show.  In the case of prosthetics, when a new race comes
+aboard, the elves at Optic Nerve will generally come up with several or
+just a few sketches.  I review those sketches, and if there's one they
+prefer, I go with that one, unless I feel strongly otherwise.  Other
+times they have no real preference.  Once approved, they proceed apace,
+and I'll see it one more time when the sculpture's finished, then not
+again until it's on the stage.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Music tastes? (8 Jun 1995)
+
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+
Re: JMS: Music tastes?

+8 Jun 1995
     "Will you marry me, Joe?"  Robert Hayden
+ 
+     Not until you shave, stop wearing that terrible cologne, and divorce
+my sister.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Question on emmys (8 Jun 1995)
+
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+
Question on emmys

+8 Jun 1995
     We received an Emmy for Best Special Effects for the B5 pilot
+(beating out TNG that year), and a second Emmy for Makup for the first
+year of the series.  We've also received the Cult TV award from England
+for Best New Series, the Space Frontier Foundation Award for Best Vision
+of the Future, and the Jewish Televimage Award, plus the pilot wsa
+nominated for a Hugo.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: OFFICIAL RENEWELL!!!! (9 Jun 1995)
+
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+
Re: OFFICIAL RENEWELL!!!!

+9 Jun 1995
     Re: "A RIGHT BLEEDIN BASTARD."
+ 
+     Now, now.  You can't fault people for their enthusiasm, and Brett was
+reporting what he heard, without elaboration.  Let's all play nice, shall
+we?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Jump gate sideways? (9 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Jump gate sideways?

+9 Jun 1995
     Yeah, we'll probably get around to showing that one of these days.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS IS RUINING TELEVISION! (9 Jun 1995)
+
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+
JMS IS RUINING TELEVISION!

+9 Jun 1995
     Jeff....thanks, that means a lot.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:  Larry DeTillio leav (1 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS:  Larry DeTillio leav

+1 Jun 1995
     There's really not much *to* tell.  Because I wrote 15 out of 22 this
+season, and I held virtually all of the writers meetings, and personally
+created and handed out the stories to freelancers, there wasn't a lot for
+him to *do*; he spent a lot of time when he wasn't doing his scripts
+more or less sitting on his hands.  Larry's a world-builder, coming from
+a gaming background, and this world was already built.  There wasn't that
+much for him to do, and his skills were being wasted.  He'd never have a
+chance to shine and come out from under the jms shadow to be recognized
+for what he can do.  (Very often, stuff in his scripts would get credited
+to me, often incorrectly.)  This situation would only get worse in later
+seasons, with more and more arc stories, pre-determined, coming into the
+foreground.  So it was really for the best.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re:Vir to die before season en (9 Jun 1995)
+
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+
Re:Vir to die before season en

+9 Jun 1995
     "Do I understand you correctly?"  Timothy H.
+ 
+     god, I hope not....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Music tastes? (9 Jun 1995)
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Re: JMS: Music tastes?

+9 Jun 1995
     Yeah, it's mainly the Nashville stuff I can't abide.  Bluegrass is
+quite good, I'm partial to the Red Clay Ramblers, so that stuff is fine.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Chicago Comicon (9 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Chicago Comicon

+9 Jun 1995
     My plans for the con aren't finalized yet.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+"Infection" revisited, was Goo (9 Jun 1995)
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+
"Infection" revisited, was Goo

+9 Jun 1995
     Yeah, I kinda guess that "Grail" would be my alternate for worst ep;
+I guess I'm generally just harder on eps I wrote myself.
+ 
+     BTW, given the reasons you cite for liking "Sky," I think you're gona
+(gonna) LOVE "Comes the Inquisitor."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+OFFICIAL RENEWELL!!!! (8 Jun 1995)
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OFFICIAL RENEWELL!!!!

+8 Jun 1995
     Well, this is all well and good, but what's odd is that as of the
+moment I'm writing this, NOBODY has said *boo* to us about renewal being
+official yet, from Warner Bros.  I have a vague suspicion that something
+is rumbling around the corporate WB offices that involves PTEN in some
+way, but I have no clue whatsoever what that is, or even IF it is, could
+just be swamp gas.  It's certainly a good omen, but it ain't official
+until somebody calls us from WB or PTEN, tells us, and we're authorized
+to exercise our option on cast and production staff for year three.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: How's the finale? (8 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: How's the finale?

+8 Jun 1995
     How does the finale compare?  Hmmm...depends on what you're looking
+for.  "Inquisitor" is primarily a character piece, virtually no EFX, but
+very intense.  The story is kind of straightforward, with a few kickers
+along the way.  "Twilight" is a heavy story episode, that zips all over
+the B5 landscape, between the Narns, the Centauri, and elsewhere (he said
+vaguely).  The finale, "The Fall of Night," is actually kind of deceptive;
+it starts out fairly calmly and tightens fairly fast.  The story is not
+as back-and-forth or layered as Twilight or Coming, it's really about one
+thing.  Visually, it's the most ambitious thing we've done to date, and
+probably the most ambitious EFX stuff done for a TV series *ever*.  I
+don't think you'll feel left wanting after the episode is done.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Ganya Ivanov Questio (8 Jun 1995)
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Ganya Ivanov Questio

+8 Jun 1995
     We learn a bit more, but you're right, it wouldn't hurt to learn a
+little more about him.  Maybe I'll do this.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS:  The great stories.. (9 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS:  The great stories..

+9 Jun 1995
     I actually don't think there are only X number of stories.  I've
+heard this theory, and don't subscribe to it.  There are as many stories
+as there are people.  Then again, someone once wrote, "Of course everything
+has been said; but since nobody was paying attention, we must begin again."
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+     (My usual definition of a story: what does A want, how far is he
+willing to go to get it, and how far will someone else go to stop him?
+That makes every story individual to the person's background.)
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Question about show (9 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Question about show

+9 Jun 1995
     Merchandising isn't factored against ratings; ratings are of use to
+advertisers in determining how much to pay for an ad.  They don't care if
+there are Londo dolls, how many people wll see their commercials?  The
+merchandising is good for WB, but not if the ratings drop so that the show
+can't be sustained by advertising.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS Ivonava's Collar (9 Jun 1995)
+
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+
ATTN: JMS Ivonava's Collar

+9 Jun 1995
     Traditional women's fashion, clasping on the reverse side.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Triluminary an Artifact? (1 Jun 1995)
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JMS: Triluminary an Artifact?

+1 Jun 1995
     "There is good reason to believe the Minbari Triluminary device
+is an artifact not created by the Minbari."
+ 
+     DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING!
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Why many Trekies dislike B (9 Jun 1995)
+
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Re: Why many Trekies dislike B

+9 Jun 1995
     Karen Cravens: funny thought...one could also read your note a
+different way and with one minor distortion, come away with "He who
+lives by the Trek will die by the Trek."
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+From jms....We Got Year Three (9 Jun 1995)
+
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From jms....We Got Year Three

+9 Jun 1995
     Since apparently this has broken on AOL via John Copeland before I
+could post it...yes, I can confirm that we've been renewed for Year
+Three.  I got the call late today, and have spent part of the evening
+doing Producer Stuff, part trying to push through a bit of a bug that
+hit last night (and thus took some of the edge off the news), and only
+late this evening was able to get on-line to confirm.
+ 
+     It's a full order for 22 episodes, and we begin shooing July 31st or
+thereabouts.
+ 
+     Thanks in particular to all of Babylon 5's "netted" friends, who have
+held the Line alongside us for the preceding two years, and with whom we
+hope to continue sharing the foxhole for the next three.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+End of Series=End of War?? (9 Jun 1995)
+
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End of Series=End of War??

+9 Jun 1995
     It'd be foolish, I think, to try and extend the shadow war across
+3 years of the B5 series; I think it'd get redundent real fast.  I'd say
+there has to be more than that, wouldn't you?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS : A thank you (9 Jun 1995)
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Attn JMS : A thank you

+9 Jun 1995
     Carolyn: your words are kind, and highly appreciated.  Thanks.
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+from jms: my address changed (10 Jun 1995)
+
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from jms: my address changed

+10 Jun 1995
     I don't *quite* know why, but for some reason my address seems to
+have changed to firewall rather than genie.  Until we get this fixed,
+y'all may want to copy me at both addresses for private mail.  Weird....
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Big Cat in the Hat . . . (10 Jun 1995)
+
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The Big Cat in the Hat . . .

+10 Jun 1995
     Melody....
+ 
+     Wow.  Holy smokes.  That was an amazing message.  I've saved it to
+disk for the archives.  Excellent points, all.  (And I share some of your
+concerns about the paying conventions.)  Really well done.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: The shape of things to co (10 Jun 1995)
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JMS: The shape of things to co

+10 Jun 1995
     Well...some of what's coming in year three can be deduced from the
+last four eps; let's have those first, then we'll talk.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Renewal/stripping (10 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Renewal/stripping

+10 Jun 1995
     I imagine they probably won't strip B5 until much later, maybe not
+until we've finished our run.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: From jms....We Got Year Th (10 Jun 1995)
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Re: From jms....We Got Year Th

+10 Jun 1995
     It's our understanding that ch4 in England will show the third year
+in *letterbox format*, from preliminary discussions taking place with them.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Who speaks for you h (10 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Who speaks for you h

+10 Jun 1995
     Well....erm...uhm...*I* speak for me.
+ 
+     And some folks, who remember what I said, sometimes repeat it.
+ 
+     Unlike those who simply ignore it, or distort it.
+ 
+     What gets me is when somebody says, "Well, who are YOU to post here to
+defend him?"  Well, who are YOU to post here and attack?  Everybody's an
+equal when it comes to speaking up.  If one can make someone else's
+business your own enough to attack, how is that different from making
+someone else's business one's own enough to defend?  This is absolutely
+illogical, and can only, I assume, proceed from a desire to have me respond
+personally to them.  Which I have absolutely no intention, or desire, to
+do.  You will note the very important sentence that comes up frequently:
+"If what I wrote wasn't important, then why all these reactions?"
+ 
+     That's the key, and it's very sad.  To respond directly, WHATEVER you
+might say, creates the sense that they are important.  And they LIKE that.
+The more furor, the more angry messages get provoked, the more important
+they feel.  If you respond directly, you're doing *exactly* what they
+want you to do, and feeding the fire, and soon the conversation becomes
+about the conversation, rather than the substance that provoked it, and it
+spirals off and away into madness.
+ 
+     They are petty, and venal, and I have absolutely nothing to say to
+them.  If others choose to talk to them, well, why should they complain,
+since it's that very action that makes them feel important?  It's a logical
+contradiction.
+ 
+     But then, logic has *nothing* to do with this.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Does Ed Wasser smoke? (1 Jun 1995)
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JMS:  Does Ed Wasser smoke?

+1 Jun 1995
     Not insofar as I know.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Shadow Archetypes? (10 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Shadow Archetypes?

+10 Jun 1995
     How Jungian are the shadows?   Hrrmmmm...that's a hard one to
+answer, because in part it requires revealing more than I want to at the
+moment.  To varying extents, yes, certainly.  But there are also some
+elements of Joseph Campbell, the Old Testament, and Freud.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Starfury Problem... (10 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Starfury Problem...

+10 Jun 1995
     Some new starfuries will be arriving at B5 next season....
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Great War (11 Jun 1995)
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The Great War

+11 Jun 1995
     Never said the shadow war would be over in one year.  Only that it
+wouldn't last three.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Are B5 Scripts Available? (11 Jun 1995)
+
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Re: Are B5 Scripts Available?

+11 Jun 1995
     Recognizing that some folks would like to examine the scripts (hell,
+if I were out there, I'd be kinda curious), once the B5 Fan Club gets up
+and running (we're nearly there to getting the darned thing approved after
+negotiating with WB for nearly a year), there are plans afoot to release a
+limited number of B5 scripts for sale through this venue, so they're
+properly authorized and complete.
+ 
+     The word "complete" is important because in, oh, 95% of the cases,
+some dialogue ends up on the cutting room floor.  Sometimes it's only a
+few lines or words, sometimes it's a short scene, or several paragraphs
+worth of dialogue which add to the scene, but when we got into editing,
+felt weren't *absolutely necessary* (and we're always long on our eps,
+from my sense that it's better to have more story than time than more
+time than story).  (And no, expanded episodes won't ever be available on
+tape or disk.)  All that material will be available in these scripts.
+ 
+     Give us another couple months on this one.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS   ABOUT BRUCE B... (10 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN: JMS   ABOUT BRUCE B...

+10 Jun 1995
     Bruce knows stuff only on a season-by-season basis.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS:  Wishlist for season (11 Jun 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS:  Wishlist for season

+11 Jun 1995
     In looking at the story breakdown for year three, there isn't much
+on that wish list physically, except for one big addition to our little
+B5 universe.  Beyond that...we're going to make some modifications to
+C&C that I've wanted to do for some time now, add a couple of recurring
+characters, do a bit more CGI than we're doing now...but the rest of the
+pieces are all there.  Now it's time to just focus in on the story.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Q vs Jason Ironheart (11 Jun 1995)
+
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+
Q vs Jason Ironheart

+11 Jun 1995
     I see we've worked our way back to the "Who would win in a fight,
+Jesus Christ or Superman" thread....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS (11 Jun 1995)
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+11 Jun 1995
     "We need the Bab5 equivilant of a tribble."
+ 
+     That would be me, yes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATT: JMS: Will Season 3 *end* (11 Jun 1995)
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ATT: JMS: Will Season 3 *end*

+11 Jun 1995
     You're asking me to try and predict the actions of PTEN a year in
+advance.
+ 
+     Me, I'd rather bet on the horses....
+ 
+     Odds are better.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS - Unresolved Psi stu (12 Jun 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Unresolved Psi stu

+12 Jun 1995
     I think some of the loose ends of which you speak will be dealt with
+by this season's end....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: short season? (1 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: short season?

+1 Jun 1995
     No, the sliding of 4 eps toward fall wouldn't affect the length of a
+third season.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Are B5 Scripts Available? (12 Jun 1995)
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Re: Are B5 Scripts Available?

+12 Jun 1995
     The long cuts exist only in the computer; there was never a fully
+extended, on-film ep cut down for time.  Once we make our cuts on the
+computer, the film is assembled only once, for the final product.  We'd
+have to go in and re-edit EVERYthing to make it work.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+a quote (12 Jun 1995)
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a quote

+12 Jun 1995
     Bingo.  As I mentioned before, the "long twilight struggle" title
+is a quote; you correctly identified the source in the JFK quote.
+ 
+                             jm(wish I had a toaster to award)s
+
+

+
+
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+B5 descriptive narration for t (12 Jun 1995)
+
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B5 descriptive narration for t

+12 Jun 1995
      I don't really have an answer for you, but I'll try and look into it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+[Would we be on the right track if we guessed that the triluminaries were
+ given to the Minbari in exchange for a promise to help out in the next
+ war against the Shadows?]
+
+
+JMS:  Price of Three Trilumina (12 Jun 1995)
+
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JMS:  Price of Three Trilumina

+12 Jun 1995
     "Would we be on the right track?"
+ 
+     Not really.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Which age of mankind is it NOW? (12 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Which age of mankind is it NOW?

+12 Jun 1995
     It would be fair to say that this is the second age of mankind, yes.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Background questions (12 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Background questions

+12 Jun 1995
     I just can't imagine myself writing that much info on Minbari clans
+without my brains exploding and then running screaming out into the night.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: A quick question. (12 Jun 1995)
+
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+
JMS: A quick question.

+12 Jun 1995
     Bear in mind, the 200 pages of notes aren't per se a straightforward
+outline; as I worked out bits of the story, I added it to the material
+as I went along, so sometimes you have year three stuff right alongside
+year five stuff.  Each season I go through my notes, pull out the stuff
+relevant to that season, put it in the right order, and fill in any gaps
+in-between.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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Re: JMS

+13 Jun 1995
     "He's a little too big to be held easily in the palm of one's hand."
+ 
+     Bless your heart....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: WB studio question (13 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: WB studio question

+13 Jun 1995
     The signs are for shows WB *produces*.  They don't produce B5,
+Babylonian Prods. does that.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATT JMS RFD: Moderation (13 Jun 1995)
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ATT JMS RFD: Moderation

+13 Jun 1995
     I imagine that the odds of my continuing are pretty much the same
+for options 2 through 4; option 1 will eventually cause a problem, I
+think, the way things are going.  While the group was of resaonable
+size, it was easier to influence things; with the mammoth increase in
+membership, and the increase in plot speculation, eventually the limit
+on what I can afford to be exposed to will have to be hit.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+[In reply to:
+
+ Holy Valen! So the warrior caste has been ticked off for 1,000 years.  No
+ wonder they're so scary.  They've held a grudge against Valen for that
+ long. Now all their scoffing at the prophecy and the religious caste
+ makes sense.  Personally, I think these guys killed Dukhat to ruin
+ Valen's prophecy  -- Revenge motivation (of course the humans could have
+ gotten VERY lucky and I'm wrong).
+ 
+ Delenn refuses to help the Children of Time because someone interfered
+ with Minbari religion and the results have caused her and her people to
+ avoid doing so to others.  Valen is said to return.
+ So 1,000 years ago, how did Valen do his coming and going?  I'm beginning
+ to seriously wonder is this Valen guy was a Minbari at all.  Someone
+ subduing a violent caste sounds like manipulation.  And those prophecies
+ do hint at more knowledge than the Minbari had at that time.  Of course
+ he could be a Minbari with powerful friends so he could maintain control
+ and reign in the warrior caste AND set up the new Minbari government.  Or
+ he could be powerful himself.  Perhaps he had the help of three
+ triluminaries; I'm sure their powers, creatively applied, could go a long
+ way.
+ Christopher Novosad]
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS - C&L and QoM - (1 Jun 1995)
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Re: Attn: JMS - C&L and QoM -

+1 Jun 1995
     It should also help in all these discussions to remember the
+way the machine functions; it's not so much an alien HEALING device as an
+alien LIFE TRANSFERRAL device.  If someone is actually dying, or close to
+it, the only way to save that person is to take the life from someone
+else.  So you really don't gain anything (which was why they used
+condemned murderers for the original device).
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Holy Valen! (13 Jun 1995)
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Holy Valen!

+13 Jun 1995
     Christopher: save this message of yours and keep it at hand going
+into the second season, around the 10th episode or so.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+ 
+     (sigh...I meant third season, wrote second...still dealing with
+the renewal.)
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: (13 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS:

+13 Jun 1995
     The warrior caste was subdued by the coming of Valen, who brought
+the law about not killing other Minbari, and formed the Grey Council.  The
+Rim is the edge of known space.  The absolute bottom/rim gravity in B5 is
+about 1.2 G; the C&C gravity is about 1/3rd G.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Babylon 5 avaliable for video. (14 Jun 1995)
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Babylon 5 avaliable for video.

+14 Jun 1995
     With all the inquires about video, I thought I'd inquire of WB.  Much
+to my astonishment, after I made my way through the complex web of studio
+people, the person at the other end of the phone told me that apparently
+there ARE no immediate plans to release the videos, because there is
+concern that if they're available, it'll bring down ratings; also because
+WB and the PTEN stations own the shows jointly, and some kind of complex
+negotiations would have to take place to sell the show domestically.  I
+pointed out that the cassettes are for sale in the UK, and doing very well,
+and that if WB wasn't going to air the first season for a long time, then
+why not release THAT one cassette for now?  No clear answer, but I've got
+another name to speak with (upon his return from out of town), and we're
+going to push for this from other directions.  I'm sure we'll get it done,
+but it may take a bit.
+ 
+                                          jm(perpetually astonished)s
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: "Coming of Shadows", (13 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: "Coming of Shadows",

+13 Jun 1995
      It didn't show up in the script, and probably won't, but the Emperor
+probably did have a vision of his death, and the Vorlon.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: The future of B5 if. (13 Jun 1995)
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Attn JMS: The future of B5 if.

+13 Jun 1995
     If something happens to me...nobody gets the notes.  The whole POINT
+is that this is a personal story, told out of a personal vision.  So if
+you want to see this story finished, it behooves y'all to keep my sorry
+ass alive for the next 3 years.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: The flow from Season (14 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: The flow from Season

+14 Jun 1995
     No, the last ep of this season wasn't per se a cliffhanger, though it
+does tip over a few things, so it flows from 222 to 301 fairly smoothly.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS, Top ten signs your addict (14 Jun 1995)
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JMS, Top ten signs your addict

+14 Jun 1995
     You're welcome.
+ 
+                                  jm(tap-tap-tap-tap tap-tap)s
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Holy Valen! (14 Jun 1995)
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Re: Holy Valen!

+14 Jun 1995
     Whether one becomes religious, warrior or worker caste is something
+that arises early on, not through birth or genetics, but what you are
+called to do, or feel called to do.  If you believe that you are calleed
+to the religious life, you go to that part for a time, a few years, and
+that is determined by you and to a certain extent, others.  If you seem
+not suited toward that, they may work with you to find what you are more
+suited for (and perhaps you felt *expected* to be called a certain way,
+but that's not really where you're best suited).
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: a question about wri (14 Jun 1995)
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ATTN JMS: a question about wri

+14 Jun 1995
     Writing for the page and writing for the stage are considerably
+different processes; what looks good in a book sometimes sound bogus
+coming out of someone's mouth.  Which is why it's so hard to translate
+much of Bradbury's stuff to the screen; the language is lovely on the
+page, but the second someone starts saying it, something goes wonky
+and it sounds off.
+ 
+     The only real key that I've ever had is to try and make yourself
+stop writing and start listening; create the characters, make them as
+real to yourself as you can, then get out of your own way and try to
+listen to what they say and do, rather than trying to force them to behave
+the way you think they should.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS   Minbar (14 Jun 1995)
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ATTN: JMS   Minbar

+14 Jun 1995
     We'll see Minbar at least once in year three, perhaps more.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Fleer B5 Cards! (1 Jul 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Fleer B5 Cards!

+1 Jul 1995
     The cards will cover all of B5, from the pilot to the present.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: did Delenn's transformati (6 Jul 1995)
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JMS: did Delenn's transformati

+6 Jul 1995
     Yes, one might well believe that the transformation has had an effect
+on Delenn's lifespan.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Att JMS: Your Thoughts on (16 Jul 1995)
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Re: Att JMS: Your Thoughts on

+16 Jul 1995
     Jeannette: I saw a great commencement speech today by Tom Brokaw on
+CSPAN...he had a lot to say about the Internet, interestingly enough,
+and a great term for the more offensive among us...the "petty
+dysfunctional."
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Why all the drea (16 Jul 1995)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Why all the drea

+16 Jul 1995
     Yeah, I've discussed this here before; sometimes things come up more
+than once around here in answer to questions.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Just a Few Questions (16 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Just a Few Questions

+16 Jul 1995
     All our CGI was being done on Amigas; I think they've now totally
+transitioned to a PC base.
+ 
+     Re: my computer...I have two, one at my home office, the other at the
+B5 main stage office.  They're both pretty much the same, though: Dell
+Pentium 90s, 32 megs ram, 1 gig drive (office) vs. 2 gig drive (home),
+4x CD Rom, 17" monitor (Nanao vs. Supermatch), 28.8 modem, Imagine 128
+bit video card (office) vs. 64bit #9gxePro (home), Soundblaster 16....
+these systems didn't just arrive, guys with orange vests and cones helped
+them taxi into place.
+ 
+     If B5 runs it total five years, I'll most likely retire from TV.
+ 
+     None of the other B5 actors are on the Internet that I know of,
+though some do get printouts from folks.
+ 
+     Currently, I watch X-Files (though lately it has seemed much in need
+of a good fourth-act every episode), which is about the only genre stuff
+I have time to watch consistently.
+ 
+     To the last question, authors I'd recommend: Michael Bishop, Jonathan
+Carroll, Connie Willis, Ed Bryant, any of James Blish's stuff (though he's
+no longer with us)...that's all that comes to mind offhand, but there are
+a bunch more I'll think of the second I get offline.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: does Sheridan have a thou (16 Jul 1995)
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JMS: does Sheridan have a thou

+16 Jul 1995
     Joseph Campbell is good if you're looking to analyze something AFTER
+the fact; to do so before the fact, or while you're creating, makes the
+result too by-the-numbers.  You have to try NOT to become too aware of the
+myth-process in fiction, or you become like the centipede asked which leg
+goes first.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Script ownership (16 Jul 1995)
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+
JMS: Script ownership

+16 Jul 1995
     This is a grey area.  The WGA says that the show owns the characters
+and the situation unique to the show; but the writer owns the physical
+script.  The studios say they own it ALL.  This will probably never be
+clearly resolved.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn. JMS: Planning B5 Music (16 Jul 1995)
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Attn. JMS: Planning B5 Music

+16 Jul 1995
     We have an Audio Spotting Session.  At this, I sit down with John
+Copeland, Chris Franke, George Johnsen, and screen the newly-finished
+episode (it's been edited and on-lined).  I call out the time-code for
+the beginning and endings of sections where I want music.  E.g, "Okay,
+in at 03:23:15 (three minutes, 23 seconds, 15 frames), out at 04:15:23."
+Sometimes I will have specific ideas on the kind of music ("I think we
+need to go soft here, mainly strings, some brass, but *light*"), other
+times I just leave it to Chris to get what the sense of the scene is.  If
+there is a big EFX sequence going on at the same time, as in a battle
+scene, the sound design people (also in the meeting) and I go over the
+scene with Chris, and decide which elements will be carried by sound, and
+which by music, making sure each carves out sufficient space in either the
+high-end or the low-end to accommodate the other.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: In your copious free (17 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: In your copious free

+17 Jul 1995
     Probably the author I'm biggest on in general, with a very few
+lapses, is Jonathan Carroll, a contemporary dark fantasist who does things
+with language I can't figure out for the life of me; the closest thing in
+literature to close-up magic.  It's *right there* but you can't see how he
+created that image.  Beyond that, alas, I don't have much time for reading
+right now....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS  About the Emmys... (17 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  About the Emmys...

+17 Jul 1995
     What're the odds of B5 getting anything other than a technical Emmy?
+ 
+     Oh...about the same odds as B5 ever getting produced, back when I
+came up with it in 1986/7.
+ 
+     Didn't stop me then, either.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS - writing C (17 Jul 1995)
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Re: Attn JMS - writing C

+17 Jul 1995
     Oh, there's a scripted CGI sequence from "Twilight" that I think
+you'll like even MORE, Scott....
+ 
+     Two, actually.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: More to the music??? (17 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: More to the music???

+17 Jul 1995
     I work very closely with Chris Franke.  As for themes, most of hte
+(the) major characters have their own themes, and there's a B5 theme
+which often gets interpolated in various ways, sometimes in minor chords
+(as in "Signs and Portents"), here and there.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+So WHO are the "Klingons"? (6 Jul 1995)
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So WHO are the "Klingons"?

+6 Jul 1995
     I went to *great pains* to indicate that the Fed-co-opted-by-Klingons
+analogy was NOT a one-to-one analogy, only something to indicate the
+magnitude of the change.  So this discussion has no bearing on the
+situation.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Why all the drea (17 Jul 1995)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Why all the drea

+17 Jul 1995
     I think I picked up 1 or 2 books of the "Worlds Collide" series,
+couldn't make heads nor tails of it, and moved on.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Big Bang Con Reports, Please? (17 Jul 1995)
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Big Bang Con Reports, Please?

+17 Jul 1995
     Just heard that, on top of Michael getting stiffed for $5,000 of his
+speaking fee, Mark Hammil's second check for the balance of his fee, a
+remainder of $10,000...bounced.  As did the check for his travel
+expenses.  As did Walter Koenig's second check (though in his case he was
+lucky in that it happened *before* the convention and he was able to get
+it, at threat of not showing up).  These people are amazing.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+B5 theorys & thoughts (17 Jul 1995)
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B5 theorys & thoughts

+17 Jul 1995
     "I'd come to the conclusion that we were witnessing the continuing
+battle between good and evil."
+ 
+     Half-right.  The other half involes *defining* what good and evil
+ARE, and are not.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS: Script ownership (17 Jul 1995)
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Re: JMS: Script ownership

+17 Jul 1995
     It is conceivable that WB, owning the rights to B5, could take and
+create a sequel of its own, without my participation, except that there
+would have to be payments/arrangements made.  I *may* have some clause
+regarding ancillary programs in my contract as far as participation is
+concerned, but not in preventing it from happening in the first place.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Real Ghostbuster (17 Jul 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Real Ghostbuster

+17 Jul 1995
     I've written something on the order of maybe 500 published articles;
+far too much for anyone to start going after or organizing.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+ 
+     (And most of 'em were stupid, in retrospect.)
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Souls & God in B5 (17 Jul 1995)
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JMS: Souls & God in B5

+17 Jul 1995
     Be careful in ascribing too much of an author's work to an author's
+personal beliefs.  I do not have to believe in Minbari to write about
+them.  Ditto for souls, god, or anything else.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: How did you develop (17 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: How did you develop

+17 Jul 1995
     My main thought on developing Sheridan was to make more of an arc
+to him; Sinclair had already gone on the hero's journey to some
+extent, and where he was was pretty much where he was...in the case of
+Sheridan, I wanted someone who would at first not be up to the challenge
+of what was ahead, and who would grow into that.  (Look at Luke
+Skywalker in the first SW movie, then in Jedi; that's the hero's
+journey.)
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Quickie from jms (17 Jul 1995)
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Re: Quickie from jms

+17 Jul 1995
     (first progress on tapes, then:) "What about the laser disks...?"
+ 
+     Let me first move this mountain to Mohammed, then we'll worry about
+that one over there....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Quickie from jms (17 Jul 1995)
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Re: Quickie from jms

+17 Jul 1995
     Some smaller sets, called "swing sets," do get dismantled at various
+times, including hiatuses (hiatusi?).  This is called a "fold-and-hold."
+The bigger sets stay up at all times.  They only came down once, briefly,
+after the pilot, because we changed facilities.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+2 Questions for JMS (or anyone (18 Jul 1995)
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2 Questions for JMS (or anyone

+18 Jul 1995
     We're still negotiating/discussing tapes; definately would like to
+get more into what future-music might sound like.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Attn:jms San Diego Comicon (6 Jul 1995)
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Attn:jms San Diego Comicon

+6 Jul 1995
      The only thing I know for sure is that I'm doing a lengthy B5
+appearance that Saturday at 11 a.m.  The rest I haven't heard definitively
+yet.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS - Congrats on Progre (18 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Congrats on Progre

+18 Jul 1995
     Thanks.  We keep trying, every season, to make it better than the
+one before....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+JMS at San Diego Comic-con (18 Jul 1995)
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JMS at San Diego Comic-con

+18 Jul 1995
      It'll be that Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
+ 
+      Be there.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Joe and the Forces of Mark (18 Jul 1995)
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Re: Joe and the Forces of Mark

+18 Jul 1995
     Y'know, I really wish I could agree, and say yeah to the "correct
+spelling of integrity is straczynski" notion, but the god's honest truth
+of it is..."the correct spelling for pain-in-the-ass is straczynski."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Naming Babylon (18 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Naming Babylon

+18 Jul 1995
     Not bad, not bad....
+ 
+                                                           jms
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+

+
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+JMS: CGI cover for comic #9? (18 Jul 1995)
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JMS: CGI cover for comic #9?

+18 Jul 1995
     Yes, Ron did a CGI cover, though I've only seen a B&W repro, and
+can't vouch for it in detail.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+STAR TREK/BABYLON 5 ratings? (18 Jul 1995)
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STAR TREK/BABYLON 5 ratings?

+18 Jul 1995
     Lately, our overnights have been slightly better than Voyager's,
+interestingly enough.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Dumb Trivia Query re: Mur (18 Jul 1995)
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JMS: Dumb Trivia Query re: Mur

+18 Jul 1995
     No idea on the Bill Mumy question.  Re: M,SW...yes, I believe that
+Cabot Cove was fairly close to Portland.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: CHICAGO COMICON QUES (18 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: CHICAGO COMICON QUES

+18 Jul 1995
     Individuals paid anywhere from $600-$900 in the auction, designed to
+help make up the shortfall when Big Bang stiffed Michael to the tune of
+$5,000.  The total from the auction raised $3,800, to which I added
+$1,200.  This does not, in my mind, defer CMC's responsibility to make
+good on the balance of his payment; my hope is that it would show what the
+fan community is REALLY made of, and to shame CMC into doing the right
+thing.  So far, from CMC...dead silence.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+TV guide B5 art.out (18 Jul 1995)
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TV guide B5 art.out

+18 Jul 1995
     Here's how my karma works, though...we *finally* get a good article
+on B5 in TV Guide.  That kind of press has a brief, week-long effect on
+raising ratings in many cases.  So I learn that in quite a few markets,
+including LA, B5 is pre-empted next week, so it's a wash.
+ 
+     I must've *really* pissed somebody off in a prior life.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 writer(s) (18 Jul 1995)
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Re: B5 writer(s)

+18 Jul 1995
     Re: your (Vinay's) experiences lately with doctors and x-rays, here's
+one I don't know if I've mentioned or not before.
+ 
+     About, oh, a year ago, I went in for my usual checkup, and my doctor
+took a chest x-ray (I was kinda stressed, and he wanted to take a look).
+So the x-ray comes in, and he says, "You have a shadow across your
+heart."
+ 
+     "What the hell does THAT mean?" I asked.
+ 
+     "I don't know," he said, "I've never seen anything quite like it.  I
+can't tell if it's an enlarged vessel casting a shadow, or some unusual
+muscle tissue, or what.  So I took it downstairs to a cardiologist and
+asked for his opinion."
+ 
+     "So what'd he say?"
+ 
+     "He said, "The guy's got a shadow across his heart."
+ 
+     There've been several x-rays since, no change, nothing ominous,
+except they can't quite figure it out.
+ 
+     Ah, modern medicine....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+death of a dream (6 Jul 1995)
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death of a dream

+6 Jul 1995
     Don't give up the dream yet; the next Star Wars movies will use CGI
+and digitech exhaustively; and the word is he's doing to re-do all the
+EFX in the first SW movie this way, as well.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Happy Birthday, Joe! (18 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Happy Birthday, Joe!

+18 Jul 1995
     That was *just* good enough that I'll probably let you live.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ? (19 Jul 1995)
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Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ?

+19 Jul 1995
     No, there was never a one-to-one correspondence between Sinclair and
+Sheridan.  Catherine Sakai would never have developed the shadow link.
+Bear in mind, if it's a straight transposition from A to B, then there's
+no NEED for B.  The whole idea was to bring in someone who could be put
+into situations Sinclair couldn't without straining credulity.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Questions from book (19 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Questions from book

+19 Jul 1995
      The starfuries drop for the same reason a bucket flies away from
+you when you're swinging it and let go; the rotation causes the pressure
+of gravity, which pushes the fighters out the bays.  Very simple, and
+factually based.
+ 
+     The scan of Ivanova in the book was a bit more than I'd wanted, but
+that one bit slipped by me.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  animals on b5 (19 Jul 1995)
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JMS:  animals on b5

+19 Jul 1995
     Haven't really gotten into this question on the show; probably should.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: opening narration (19 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: opening narration

+19 Jul 1995
    Laurel was transferred; the narration was always intended to change
+between characters each season.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Curious about JMS thoughts (19 Jul 1995)
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Curious about JMS thoughts

+19 Jul 1995
     I think I generally get a good sense of fan thoughts here without
+having to poke the bear to excess....
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS  What's it like befo (19 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  What's it like befo

+19 Jul 1995
     It's really kind of hard to explain; it's a mix of many things, some
+tension (everything has to be ready to go on July 31st, no delays, no
+revisions, no backsies); it's a bit like going back to school after a long
+summer break (less so for me, since my "summer break" is filled with
+the summer school of writing scripts)....
+ 
+     A dead stage is a dark, depressing thing.  No actors, no sound, just
+H8xX[Jedifices standing and waiting for someone to give them life.  Now, slowly,
+you have carpenters appearing, set dressers appearing, lighting crews
+appearing, and there's sound, hammers banging and cranes lifting and drills
+whirring...people walking from set to set discussing revisions,
+improvements...the previously empty halls are populated by runners, PAs,
+directors, staff, crew...it's like this huge engine slowly beginning to
+turn, and every day you hear the turbine whine growing just a little
+louder until you know the sucker's about ready to take off.
+ 
+     So there's a LOT to do; but overall it's a very good time.  As of
+now, five scripts have been published in-house and in WB, and everyone is
+nuts about them; the set improvements are great; the actors are excited,
+and everyone's ready to kick butt.  It's cool.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Your dream.... (20 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Your dream....

+20 Jul 1995
     "You seem to accept the concept of dream predictions."
+ 
+     Nope.  Dreams are ways of working out elements of one's day, problem
+solving, self-analysis and escape.  I don't believe they can predict much
+of anything.  I used it because it was a very striking image, and the
+subconscious can come up with stuff that resonates.  And yes, the image
+long predates B5.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Ambassadors (20 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Ambassadors

+20 Jul 1995
     Londo: nobody else wanted the job, it was considered low-priority.
+Delenn: it was the calling of her heart.  G'Kar: a good career move to
+ally new forces, and he was an up-and-comer.  Kosh: is.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+ATTN jms : Some questions... (20 Jul 1995)
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ATTN jms : Some questions...

+20 Jul 1995
     The eagle is a traditional Russian eagle/symbol, commonly used in
+Russian heraldry.  Draal is, indeed, the minbari who took custody of
+Epsilon 3.  We stomped the noisy cricket.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS:  Question about Cath (7 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Question about Cath

+7 Jul 1995
     They did not get married, due to Sinclair's new posting; it was put
+on hold.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: The comic book again (20 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: The comic book again

+20 Jul 1995
     Last I heard, we're still on for 24 issues.
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+

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+Re: Why is Ford in rastb5? (21 Jul 1995)
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Re: Why is Ford in rastb5?

+21 Jul 1995
     There are any number of simple reasons why Ford is on the nets.
+He is here because he is a petty, vicious, vindictive person who takes
+personal joy in assaulting his "victims" as he puts it on AOL.  You want
+to see the true face of FT?  Go over to the Neutral Zone in the Star Trek
+main area on AOL.  He uses that phrase to describe those he disagrees
+with.
+ 
+     He's here because he likes the attention, because if he can make you
+angry, it somehow validates his existence, makes him feel important, gives
+him a sick thrill.  It is the same mentality witnessed in the juvenile
+who throws a stink bomb into the girls locker room to watch them scurry
+and get mad.
+ 
+     He's here because he's offended by the very notion that the opinion
+of ANYone else should be considered in any way more valuable, informed or
+popular than his own.  If a question is asked of me, he's upset and stamps
+his little foot...why should I be asked for an opinion if HE wasn't?  My
+opinion *can't* matter any more than his, the very notion is abhorrent to
+him.  He is that sort of creature noted by Kurt Vonnegutt in "Welcome to
+the Monkey House," who if he cannot see well, insists that others be
+blinkered; if he cannot run quickly, others must be hobbled.  There is
+just room enough in Ford's universe for Ford; anything else must be
+attacked, dismissed, ridiculed, abused.
+ 
+     He's here because he's a net-stalker after someone with notoriety,
+no different than the kind of person who follows around celebrities and
+leaves harrassing notes, and when he doesn't like what they say, snarls
+and accuses them of one thing or another.  He is here because he's a
+bigot, stating that because of someone's job description -- producer or
+writer -- that person is, de facto, a liar, untrustworthy.  A socio
+economic racist.  If he were to say such things about jews, or african
+americans, as a class, he would be instantly seen for what he is, but he
+can hide his bigotry behind the notion of accepted cliche.
+ 
+     He's here because he feels he has a *right* to be here, to say
+anything he wants, and anybody who says otherwise, who squeaks any kind
+of protest, is attacking his freedom, is a kneejerk worshipper of
+the object of his hateful obsession...but who has no compunction
+against sending faxes of my messages to Warner Bros., as he has done, to
+try and force them to force me off the nets and shut off MY opinion.
+Because the universe should rightly favor the opinion of Ford and nobody
+else.
+ 
+     He's here because he can enjoy the privilege of striking from
+the shadows, of making statements without the least factual proof behind
+them, vanishing when convenient and lashing out when convenient, all from
+the warm recesses of blessed anonymity, because nobody here monitors his
+activities, his words, his job, his off-line truthfulness.
+ 
+     He makes pretense of being open-minded and fair...but again, those
+on AOL, just go check out the messages referenced above to see his true
+face.  He posts ratings when they show B5 not in the top 20, because
+it's rerun time, and carefully omits noting that B5's overnights are now
+higher than Voyager's (1.7 from Voyager to 2.9 for B5, both in reruns),
+because he has staked his opinion on the often-repeated assertion that
+ratings = quality, and the universe of Ford cannot allow, cannout
+countenance, the notion that B5 might be rating higher than Voyager.
+Hence the telling omission.
+ 
+     He does not sow, neither does he reap.  He exists here only to be
+difficult, to insult, to enrage, to inflame and excorciate and belittle
+because it makes him feel like a big man, makes him feel like he's done
+something with his life...he *enjoys* it when the folks here get mad.  He
+gets off on it.  The worst thing you can do is get upset because that's
+what he likes.  You're doing *exactly* what he wants you to do.
+ 
+    The only thing to do with him is to simply ignore him, and do not
+respond directly.  I do not read his messages, I only sometimes run into
+bounce-backs in a quoted message from somebody else.  Because he is, in
+the end, a sad and pitiable figure, our resident Gollum who bites and
+snaps because he can do no other, because he sees in the world at large
+only a reflection of himself...it fills his world, and reinforces what he
+believes the world to be.
+ 
+     If I were to ask *anything* of this group, and I've rarely asked
+much of anything...it'd be to simply ignore him.  Don't respond, because
+no matter what you say, however logical or reasoned your argument, it
+will be twisted and turned and distorted, returned with insult and
+derision, regardless of your statement's merit.  If you know that going
+in, then it becomes clear that there's no point, really, in writing or
+saying anything to him, because you know what the response will be
+even before you write it.  Just leave him  be.  If he consistently fails
+to find the sustence his obsession demands, he will soon enough leave to
+lick his wounds elsewhere, and complain about the mean people who
+refused out of spite to validate his existence and his opinions by virtue
+of response.  He is that kind of person who must verify his existence by
+the echo produced by his shoutings.  Do not be that echo.
+ 
+     (And perhaps this should be reposted when next he comes round, if
+anyone cares to archive it; I frankly can think of nothing else to say
+to or about him or his ilk.  If I say anything, it's "Why should HIS
+opinion matter?"  If someone else says anything, it's "Why are you talking
+on his behalf?"  No win.  So maybe keeping this around, and pointing to
+his more obvious tricks, will help keep this a tidier and more pleasant
+place to hang out.)
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+B5's emmy nominations (21 Jul 1995)
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B5's emmy nominations

+21 Jul 1995
     Three Emmy nominations is great, from where we sit; we got one on
+the pilot movie (and won), two on the first season (won another), and
+now three on the second season...and there are several vital categories
+we haven't heard from yet, which won't be decided for another couple or
+three weeks: directing, sound editing, music and visual EFX, and we have
+hopes of nailing at least one more in that group.
+ 
+     It's sobering when you stop to realize that of all the shows on
+network and syndication, only *eleven* dramatic series were chosen for
+nomination in various categories...with B5 earning as many nomations, or
+in some cases more than, Lois And Clark, Murphy Brown, Murder She Wrote,
+The Tonight Show, DS9 (with 2), the Simpsons and many others.
+ 
+     Actors *always* get overlooked in genre shows, that's unfortunately
+the nature of the beast.  So that aside, we're nothing but pleased.
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+ATTN: BABYLON 5 EMMY NOMINATIO (21 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: BABYLON 5 EMMY NOMINATIO

+21 Jul 1995
     Which reminds me...I wanted to note that just about everyone
+involved with B5 is *ecstatic* over X-File's nomination as best series.
+It's a terrific show, and deserves the nod.  It's also maybe only the
+second or so time a genre/nominally SF show has gotten that nomination,
+and that bodes nothing but good for the SF-TV business.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+

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+Attn JMS: Your thoughts on TV (21 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: Your thoughts on TV

+21 Jul 1995
     The lead paragraph notwithstanding...I'm quite pleased by the TV
+Guide article, all things considered.  There are a few things one can
+nitpick, but the overall tenor and tone is very complimentary, and after
+all the hassles with Jarvis (now gone, I hear), I think we have a chance
+to get a leg up on next season and some decent PR.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
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+JMS: Evidence and *witnesses*? (21 Jul 1995)
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JMS: Evidence and *witnesses*?

+21 Jul 1995
     Certainly a lot of people would like to get to the Vorlon homeworld
+sometime and look around....
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+Adventures of Petey and Joey a (21 Jul 1995)
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Adventures of Petey and Joey a

+21 Jul 1995
     I was kind of aghast when I saw that Peter had printed what happened
+in the dealer's room at ComicCon, when I helped tackle and bring down a
+shoplifter, holding him for the cops for about ten minutes while he was
+hoping to get away.  I found out about it when I went into my local comics
+store and the owner came over and said he felt a lot safer seeing me
+there...and I wondered what the hell he was saying, he was obviously
+kidding on the square...then I found out.  Ah, well....
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS -- Comic #8 Design yo (21 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS -- Comic #8 Design yo

+21 Jul 1995
     I didn't get too much into that one shot in the comic; it seemed
+reasonable under the circumstances.  The one panel where I *did* get
+screwed was saying, "Hey, look, this here episode's going to air just
+before the book comes out, so why don't we REALLY tie the book and the
+show together by inserting this one panel I came up with here...."
+ 
+     Sometimes I outsmart myself.....
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS:  Full or part time o (21 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Full or part time o

+21 Jul 1995
     It really depends on the breaks.  Sometimes a regular cast member
+can be there every day; sometimes they get a day or two off here and there
+within the course of an episode.
+ 
+     Guest actors are booked by days needed, or if it's a major part, then
+a full-week deal is made.
+ 
+     What most folks probably don't know is that when you shoot an episode
+you first begin by doing a production board, and what scenes are shot in
+which order is determined by *where the scenes take place.*
+ 
+     For instance: we have 3 stages.  So in the morning, we'll shoot all
+the scenes that take place in medlab.  If that takes all day, then that's
+how long we're there.  Once we finish, if it's say around lunchtime, we'll
+generally try and stay in the same stage to minimize the hassles of going
+from stage A to C, because then you've got to re-rig and set up and that
+kills time.  Sometimes you'll change stages if you've got Actor B only for
+3 days under contract, and you have to adjust.
+ 
+     We take it as a matter of pride that in 44 episodes, we've had only
+about 8 days of overtime on a shoot, and never once have we done a forced
+call on an actor.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+JMS: The Child is Father to Th (21 Jul 1995)
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JMS: The Child is Father to Th

+21 Jul 1995
     I've just written...oh...about 20 messages in the last hour, from
+questions here...none of them stopped me.  This one did.  I guess I
+didn't see it coming.  Some personal stuff I don't generally get into on
+the nets.  I'll sometimes talk about it at conventions, but I try not to
+drag it in here.  But since it's come up, I guess I can handle the
+answer.
+ 
+     No, I didn't have a particularly great upbringing.  I grew up within
+an abusive, alcoholic, wife-beating environment.  We moved every six
+months or every year, trying to stay one step ahead of creditors, used the
+last name "Stark" when Straczynski was too "hot."  I really didn't
+understand the situation much; I figured every family was like this.  I
+didn't begin to really get a sense of how crummy it was until I began to
+see how other families *did* have normal lives.
+ 
+     My feeling about it overall is...don't whine or whinge about it,
+deal with it and move on.  Too many people use crummy childhoods to
+explain away crummy behavior in the present.  That doesn't wash with me.
+Does that "emotional baggage" still "haunt" me, to use your terms?  No,
+not really.  Am I still pissed about some of it?  Hell yes.  Why not?
+ 
+     There's a line in a Billy Joel song..."You still have a rage inside
+you / That you carry with a certain pride / It's the only part / Of a
+broken heart / You could ever save."  That's kinda it, but not quite so
+maudlin or self-indulgent.  Anybody who had a perfect, blemish-free
+youth and adolescence raise your hand....
+ 
+     That's what I figured.  So we deal with it.
+ 
+     (Great joke...when Jesus intervened in the stoning of a woman and
+said, "Let you who are without sin cast the first stone," and suddenly a
+rock comes flying into frame, and he says, "Mommmmmmmm!")
+ 
+     I do tend to use some of it in my work, because it grounds me in
+reality, and the reality of *the scene*.  I used a lot of it in an
+episode I wrote for TWILIGHT ZONE, "Acts of Terror," about a wife
+beater...which ended up being used (and is still used) at some shelters
+for battered women in counseling centers, about how to find your own
+power and authority.  But that's what a writer does; I've used bits and
+pieces of my life all over the show, including the scene between Sinclair
+and Catherine Sakai when they get back together for the first time, which
+is almost verbatim from stuff I've gone through.
+ 
+     If there's anything that has stayed with me, it's manifested itself
+in a fierce loyalty to friends, because when you move every 6-12 months,
+you don't get much chance to find them.  I grew up in the streets of Newark
+and less terrific places, and you learn a little something about sticking
+together when you grow up in the streets.  Anytime somebody wants to take
+on a friend, they have to go through me first.  Hurt me and I'll hurt you
+back in equal proportion; hurt a *friend* and I'll tear your fucking head
+off.  And then I'll get nasty.
+ 
+     Is that a particularly salutory trait?  No, not really.  It sounds
+good on paper, but it puts me into constant trouble.  I've tried to
+moderate that a little...but how do you moderate loyalty?  When the phone
+rings at 3 a.m. and it's someone you know in pain or in trouble or in
+jail...how do you quantify and decide *this* time you'll go but *next*
+time you won't?
+ 
+     So yeah, I've had a tough ride.  I sacrificed a lot to get here; I
+have zero social life, except for my pal Harlan.  I haven't been to a
+party in something like two years; don't get out to see movies but maybe
+4-6 times a year; when I was breaking in, I had to choose often between
+food and writing supplies...and always chose the latter, and if you look
+in one of the back issues of WD, you'll see a picture of me from taht
+period, at 6'5" weighing about 150-160 pounds.  But that was my *choice*.
+We all gotta do what we gotta do; I decided that I'd either make it as a
+writer, or I wouldn't make it at *all*.
+ 
+     Because sometimes, kiddo, that's what it takes.
+ 
+     But with all of that...the present-tense reality is that I'm pretty
+reasonably content.  I'm doing the only thing in the world I'm the least
+goddamned good at, and people are actually *paying* me to do that which
+I'd have to do for free otherwise, because I can do no other.  I have a
+nice house, and I work on a show I enjoy, I write what I want...so I'm not
+angry all the time, as I was once before.  Most days I figure that's a
+good thing; other times, I worry if it's taken the edge off the work.  But
+in the interim consideration...I'm content.
+ 
+     As for pursuing a Psychology degree...wasn't out of any particular
+desire to understand myself.  Hell, at that time, I hardly even wanted to
+associate with myself, much less understand myself.  No, I just went in
+with the assumption that you should never major in writing if you really
+want to BE a writer...learn other stuff, read other books, see other kinds
+of lives...become a generalist, so you can apply a little bit of everything
+to the work.  That seemed most conducive to being a generalist.
+ 
+     Until Skinner came along and suddenly math was involved.
+ 
+     But that's another story for another time....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
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Re: Big Bang

+7 Jul 1995
     Eric: BB was *not* a fan-run con, it was a for-profit con, and those
+who put it on made *considerable* mention of the notion that they had done
+Gen-Con for previous years, and thus were absolutely skilled at this.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
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+JMS, JV, et al.: Writing (21 Jul 1995)
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JMS, JV, et al.: Writing

+21 Jul 1995
     The two keys in creating characters for TV are: allies and enemies,
+you create people who you know will come into conflict with one another,
+because conflict is a huge part of drama, not the whole of it, but a
+necessary ingredient.  So you also build some who can be sympathetic, or
+funny by turns, but you don't want to minimize or throw away a character,
+you add a layer of depth to it to give meat to the humor when used.
+ 
+      It's kind of like planning a military campaign, really.
+ 
+     The world and the characters of B5 kind of came together at the
+same time, one feeding off another until they took on a life of their
+own.  And building both was a joy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS  What's it like

+21 Jul 1995
     The tracking of people, notifying and confirming hirings is the job
+jointly of the Unit Production Manager (Kevin Cremin last season, Skip
+Beaudine this season), and the Line Producer (John Copeland).  When we
+gear up, everyone is checked on availabilities, and if there's nay
+(any) problem, they have plenty of time to adjust.  Usually there are
+lots of folks in that department who can give recommendations, and there
+is quite a list of folks who want to work with us.
+ 
+     When there *is* a major change in crew or staff, Doug and I are
+brought into it, to confirm and ratify.  If it were a really big change,
+as in a cinematographer, then WB would get into the approvals process.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
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+Attn JMS: non-television B5 be (21 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: non-television B5 be

+21 Jul 1995
     Ask me again in 3 years; I'll probably have a good answer then.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+Re: JMS: The Child is Father t (22 Jul 1995)
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Re: JMS: The Child is Father t

+22 Jul 1995
     No, I don't really think trauma is a requirement for artistry; I
+know a number of writers who had nearly idyllic backgrounds.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+

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+JMS:Openning music (22 Jul 1995)
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JMS:Openning music

+22 Jul 1995
     Chris: the point you make is exactly right.  The music for each
+season is designed to reflect the progression of that season; some feel
+they don't like season two as much as one, because it doesn't summon up
+the same feelings.  But that's the intent; it's not supposed to summon
+up the same emotions.  It's kind of the equivilant of creating a
+different cover for every new installment of a series of connected
+novels.
+ 
+     What do I have in mind for season three?  What I indicated to Chris
+Franke was to look at a piece of music he did in "The Long, Twilight
+Struggle" and interpolate some elements of that into the main theme, with
+a very hard sound.  The piece in question is about the middle of the
+first really...um...busy scene after the act break.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+Attn:JMS:Emmys in Promos? (22 Jul 1995)
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Attn:JMS:Emmys in Promos?

+22 Jul 1995
     We do hope the noms are used in promos, yes.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+Eastern Washington - B5 Is Bac (22 Jul 1995)
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Eastern Washington - B5 Is Bac

+22 Jul 1995
     Are you *sure* they're not going to show the final 4?  Last I heard,
+all the stations were going to show them.  Could this be a mis-heard
+bit of info about the delay to October?
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+ATTN: JMS Questions on Ghostbu (22 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Questions on Ghostbu

+22 Jul 1995
     "Ulysses" is probably the most moving of Tennyson's work, for my
+money.  It speaks to something profoundly entrenched in the human
+spirit.  It's something I try to put in front of people at any
+opportunity.
+ 
+     As for Janine...the change bothered the hell out of me, to go from
+a strong, smart, fashion-aware (in a weird way), independent woman...to
+a mommy-character.  And, in time, they kinda realized that I was right,
+and the consultants were wrong...mainly when the mailbags filled with
+angry letters from mothers and young girls raising ten kinds of hell.
+ 
+     But by then they didn't have any solution except just change her
+without explanation *again*...which is when I chimed in and said, "I
+can fix this.  But you've got to let me do this MY way."  They did, and
+it was done.
+ 
+     I was somewhat disappointed by Ghostbusters II.  It took an awful
+long time to get going, and then just fell back on much of what it had
+done in the first movie.  It made the producers nuts when they got
+audience responses from lots of people saying that they like the TV
+series better than the movie, and that the movie was "just for kids."
+ 
+     One of my favorite moments from that was writing an episode called
+"Take Two," in which Hollywood producers come to the guys and say they
+want to make a movie about the team...so they go to LA, have a little
+adventure...and the episode ends with actual footage from the first
+movie...with the result that millions of kids were convinced, totally
+conVINced, that the series *preceded* the first movie.
+ 
+     It was one of the more wonderfully sick things I've done.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

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Re: Why is Ford in rastb5?

+22 Jul 1995
     John: I don't think FT cares about winning the argument at all;
+it's just pissing in other people's tea that gets him off.  And yes, he
+has as much *right* to be here as anyone; that wasn't my point, so much
+as pointing out the contradiction between his feeling that he should be
+here, and his actions to get me off because I don't have that same
+right.  The operative term is hypocrisy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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BABYLON FIVE BEEF!

+22 Jul 1995
     This was one of the problems created early on by reporters looking to
+create a feud.  What I *said* was, "We hope to kick Star Trek's butt, by
+providing some real competition, and they can kick ours, and in this
+process of each trying to out do the other, the ultimate beneficiary is
+the audience."  It's the same point I've made here again and again.
+ 
+     It's amazing what can happen to a quote when you leave off part of
+it.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+

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Attn JMS: Thank You

+7 Jul 1995
     Thanks.  It was honestly no trouble at *all*.  It was great fun.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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Re: JMS, JV, et al.: Writing

+23 Jul 1995
     Yes, you're correct, the alignments in B5 vary depending on whose
+agenda is in force at that moment; and they change with time.  But in
+general you always need conflict, especially in TV, and to varying degrees
+in other works.  It's the seed from which drama emanates.  When I was on
+Murder, She Wrote, you couldn't just have Jessica go to somebody and get
+the information easily.  There had to be some conflict involved, there had
+to be *work* to pry it loose.  Otherwise it just falls flat.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS:  Full or part ti

+23 Jul 1995
     Recurring actors can be dealt with in any number of ways; if it's
+a person who appears in, say, 8 episodes, we make a deal for that number
+in general, and have first call on them when needed; if it's a part that
+occurs maybe 2-3 times in a season, you can't make that deal, but in our
+case, I tend to know which episodes a character will appear in long before
+the scripts or outlines are ever written, so we make a deal for those
+specific dates.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+Attn JMS - The ship that got S (23 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS - The ship that got S

+23 Jul 1995
     No, the ship at Sigma 957 was definitely NOT a shadow vessel.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+ATTN JMS: Episode title questi (23 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Episode title questi

+23 Jul 1995
     "The Geometry of Shadows" seemed to me a good metaphor for the
+technomages; a mix of science with something dark and mysterious.  How do
+you work out the geometry of something that in one sense doesn't really
+exist, but is a projection of something else that DOES exist?  That
+seemed to me as good a notion of technomagic as anything else.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+Attn JMS: Speaking in Parables (23 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: Speaking in Parables

+23 Jul 1995
     I think that, by all rights, anybody should be able to "get" each
+episode.  The only thing that varies is their degree of..er...getness.
+ 
+     Getnosity?
+ 
+     Whatever.
+ 
+     The stucture is fairly straightforward: the primary story in any
+given episode is relatively self-contained and self-explanatory.  You can
+see that one episode, and no others, and be able to follow it.  If you
+CANNOT do this, then the episode has failed.  The key, as I've noted from
+the start, is that the MORE you see, or know, the MORE you can get out of
+any episode.
+ 
+     The impact of Talia's situation should be the same whether you saw
+the comic or not.  (And, remember, the idea was that the comic would come
+out AFTER the remaining year 2 episodes, as a nice little frisson, not as
+required data.)
+ 
+     I continue to get email and snail mail from people who are still just
+now finding the show...and they watch one episode, and that's fine, then
+they watch a couple/three more, and THEN they realize that there's an
+overall arc, that this is a bigger story than first appears.  For those
+who dig out every last detail, it's hard to imagine following the shw
+(show) minus all this...but it's absolutely possible, and happens
+consistently.  It's your *perception* that has altered by virtue of now
+knowing what more is there.  If you don't know the rest, you can still
+enjoy pretty much everything there on its most basic level, as an action
+or character story.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

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+Even Quicker Notes from jms (24 Jul 1995)
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Even Quicker Notes from jms

+24 Jul 1995
     Last reminder: next Saturday is San Diego Comic Con, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
+and if you're in the area, you may want to drop by for the B5 presentation
+scheduled for that time.
+ 
+     A company is in the process of licensing a slick, full-color B5
+magazine; looks pretty good.  More as this develops.
+ 
+     For those into this sort of thing...the literary SF review,
+FOUNDATION, published out of England, is doing a whole issue on media SF,
+with particular attention to B5.  I've turned in what they say will be the
+ceterpiece of the issue, a 28 page, 7600 word article titled "Approaching
+Babylon."  Although it contains a few things mentioned on the nets, about
+90% of is it new stuff, background info, personal observations and the
+like.
+ 
+     Finally, one week from tomorrow, we start filming on year three, with
+episode #301, "Matters of Honor," which also introduces a new recurring
+character named Marcus.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Attention JMS  Re: increasing (24 Jul 1995)
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Attention JMS  Re: increasing

+24 Jul 1995
     There is generally an increase in action when large groups of
+populations go to war....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS - Long Twilight Strug (24 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS - Long Twilight Strug

+24 Jul 1995
     As noted here a while back, yes, the title derives from Kennedy's
+speech.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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Re: JMS: Passing Through Geths

+24 Jul 1995
     Before one judges the relevance or applicability of a given title to
+a given episode, it might be wise if one first SEES the episode, don't
+you think...?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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JMS - Actors?

+24 Jul 1995
     If I had an unlimited budget...Sean Connery, Peter O'Toole, Jerry
+Lewis, Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Sigourney Weaver.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+ATTN:JMS  - Carolyn Seymour (7 Jul 1995)
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ATTN:JMS  - Carolyn Seymour

+7 Jul 1995
      We've never had any conversations with Carolyn Seymour re: B5.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Re Babylon quiz (24 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Re Babylon quiz

+24 Jul 1995
     I can't really get involved with the quiz on any level.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
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+ATTN JMS: Scripting (24 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Scripting

+24 Jul 1995
     Eventually we may sell scripts of the show; we'll see.
+ 
+     Re: fourth acts...they're difficult to pull off on the best of days,
+because you've got to pull together a lot of stuff in a very short amount
+of time, and make everything make sense.  And sometimes, in the last season
+or thereabouts, I kinda got the feeling that some of the X-Files eps I saw
+somewhat fell apart in the fourth act, where it didn't come together, or
+things happened too conveniently, or what it WAS was less interesting than
+it was SUPPOSED to be.  It happens.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+JMS: A comment (24 Jul 1995)
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JMS: A comment

+24 Jul 1995
     Thanks; I've tentatively decided to keep the beard, I think it's okay.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Patrick McGoohan on (24 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Patrick McGoohan on

+24 Jul 1995
     Nothing would make me happier than to someday use Patrick in an ep.
+ 
+     Well, maybe 10 million dollars in small bills....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Cap. Power writing (24 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Cap. Power writing

+24 Jul 1995
     No, I pointedly had zip to do with anything concerning CP
+merchandising.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Any clues to Final F (24 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Any clues to Final F

+24 Jul 1995
     Yeah, several of the elements you raise will be dealt with in the
+final four.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Sinclair Focus? (26 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Sinclair Focus?

+26 Jul 1995
     Delenn is not Sinclair's "romantic consort," to use the phrase you
+invoke.  There was a closeness between them, and a relationship there,
+but not romantic.  Several of your questions are based on assumptions
+that are not necessarily correct.
+ 
+     A goodly portion of the Sinclair/Minbar thread will be dealt with
+this coming season.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Dreams (again) (26 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Dreams (again)

+26 Jul 1995
     There's a difference between what I believe dreams mean, what the
+Centauri believe dreams mean, and what dreams mean to the Centauri, in
+that universe, and what they mean to me in our universe.
+ 
+     I suspect the truth lay somewhere between Shroedinger and Jung.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: Episodes away from B (26 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: Episodes away from B

+26 Jul 1995
      We do plan to continue our practice of getting more ambitious each
+season; we saw virtually none of the homeworlds in year one; in year two
+we began to see more of Narn, and Centauri Prime, with some locations in
+the latter.  We will continue to expand in each following year; in year
+three, we plan to show Minbar, more of Centauri Prime, the Narn
+homeworld, Earth and *maybe* the Vorlon homeworld, if I can figure out how
+to do it at this stage without totally imploding the show.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+     (Oh, yeah, and Z'ha'dum....)
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: ReadMe! (26 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: ReadMe!

+26 Jul 1995
     I think the Kosh stuff is *very* cool...but I don't want to over-sell
+it; best to see it cold.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Casino Painting? (7 Jul 1995)
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JMS: Casino Painting?

+7 Jul 1995
     It's a progress mural, starting with early civilization, the pyramids
+and stuff in the lower right corner, through the development of agrarian
+cultures, technology, cars, planes, jets, all moving left to right on the
+canvas, through space flight and finally, in the upper-right corner, B5.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Even Quicker Notes from jm (26 Jul 1995)
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+
Re: Even Quicker Notes from jm

+26 Jul 1995
     I think that's mainly because I hadn't settled on a name at the time.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Why is Ford in rastb5? (26 Jul 1995)
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Re: Why is Ford in rastb5?

+26 Jul 1995
     Well, I see that the individual who goes by the handle Rev.
+Commander Wayne has come into the fray, fresh from fabricating nonsense
+on AOL.  For those not aware, they're quite a clique these three: Wayne,
+Ford, and a fellow named Randy Hall.  Those of you with AOL access should
+go check out their screeds in the Anti-B5 topic on the ST Neutral Zone
+board, and in the ST vs. B5 area in the TV section.  Basically, you've
+got 3 people who write dozens and dozens of messages to each other, in
+open forum, as though by doing so they create a sense of there being
+others of similar inclination.
+ 
+     Another one for those with killfiles.  Anyone with the *least*
+suspicion that maybe they have something open-minded to say about
+anything, check out the areas noted above.  They're trolls pure and
+simple, folks.  We just wasted a lot of time with them over on AOL,
+believe me.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Rangers in Season 3? (26 Jul 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Rangers in Season 3?

+26 Jul 1995
     Yes, the Rangers will play a more important part in year three, and
+Sinclair's part in it will be revealed.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: What are your inspir (26 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: What are your inspir

+26 Jul 1995
     I didn't look to any writers or other works for inspiration for B5;
+I came up with the story mine own self.  To "look for inspiration" always
+sounds deliberate to me, "Hmm...whose template can I use...?"  I don't
+work that way.  It's basically the product of all the stuff I've seen and
+read over the years, my interest in politics, philosophy, literature,
+sagas, SF, language, culture, history...it's this huge, honking stew
+which I more or less fitted into the B5 statin.
+ 
+	                                   jms       (station)
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Telepaths in prison? (26 Jul 1995)
+
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+
JMS: Telepaths in prison?

+26 Jul 1995
     Expect more on this topic in third season.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Clearing the air. (26 Jul 1995)
+
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+
Clearing the air.

+26 Jul 1995
     Good heavens, I was virtually unaware of the degree to which this
+had escalated.  To add, quietly, my two-cents...when I found one of my
+posts had been edited by Jay for spoilers, I inquired of him privately
+and indicated that this might not be A Good Thing, since I'd been fairly
+careful in my phraseology.  He accepted that, and apologized, and was
+quite gracious about it.
+ 
+     For my money, you can't keep spoilers out of here, protected or
+unprotected, except by virtue of shared kindness and understanding.  The
+whole REASON for my getting a moderated newsfeed, as I now do, was to
+PREVENT the need to moderate the newsgroup for content.  It thus seems
+to me slightly unproductive that it's now done for spoilers when we took
+this step of moderating my feed, and inconveniencing many of the rastB5
+Rangers, to avoid moderation.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: imposed tv sf format? (28 Jul 1995)
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JMS: imposed tv sf format?

+28 Jul 1995
     Most TV shows in the 60s were one-story episodes.  The medium became
+a bit more complex as time went on, and people wanted to learn more about
+the characters and the world.  We've done some episodes that didn't have
+a B or C story at all; it's whatever the story requires.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: jms non-B5 Ques (28 Jul 1995)
+
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ATTN: jms non-B5 Ques

+28 Jul 1995
     My scriptwriting book is not currently in print, though a) it's
+still available in many libraries, and b) I hope to have the new edition
+turned in shortly.  Yes, it deals with the agent/writer relationship.
+And currently we're not looking at specs for B5 due to the fact that the
+stories are all pretty much worked out.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn jms: Suspension of Disbel (28 Jul 1995)
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Attn jms: Suspension of Disbel

+28 Jul 1995
     I dunno...one can make the argument, as you do, that because I don't
+believe in relgion, or telepathy, and have thus no axe to grind or agenda
+to advance, I can do so equitably...but something about that logic sounds
+a little too slick and self=contratulatory...so I'll just leave it at...
+I dunno....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: SD ComicCon: will "s (28 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: SD ComicCon: will "s

+28 Jul 1995
     I don't think there'll be much problem getting in the door or getting
+comic con tickets; but: come early, because the con has 27,000 people or5
+more attending, and the lines to buy tickets can be absolutely hideous.
+Arrive at *minimum* an hour early (10 a.m. or better).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+S4C and the last 4 eps (7 Jul 1995)
+
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+
S4C and the last 4 eps

+7 Jul 1995
     The first new ep in the UK airs July 25; the remaining 3 after that
+each subsequent Tuesday.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: OtherSyde (28 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: OtherSyde

+28 Jul 1995
     It was okay for a second novel; I can do better, though, I think.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Season 3 Q's & Div. (28 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Season 3 Q's & Div.

+28 Jul 1995
     My guess is that C4 will begin carrying season 3 in the spring.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: SPOILERS for Divided (28 Jul 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: SPOILERS for Divided

+28 Jul 1995
     No, nothing was edited out by C4 or anyone; the footage we had to
+work with in editing had a *slight* matching problem.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Pronunciation of "Straczy (28 Jul 1995)
+
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JMS: Pronunciation of "Straczy

+28 Jul 1995
                     struh-zin-ski
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+How do I submit story ideas? (28 Jul 1995)
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How do I submit story ideas?

+28 Jul 1995
     We *have* our story ideas for the show.  Five years worth.  Bear in
+mind that Star Trek is the exception to the rule of how TV series work;
+no other show accepts story ideas from folks out there.
+ 
+     (I'm speaking specifically of non-established writers.  Spec scripts
+can sometimes get through on shows, but nobody else really looks for just
+story ideas.  On B5, all but 2 freelance scripts have been based on
+story ideas I've assigned out.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Zack Allen (28 Jul 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Zack Allen

+28 Jul 1995
     You'll be seeing more of Zack next season, definitely.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS Psicorps badge (28 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Psicorps badge

+28 Jul 1995
     No, the Psi Corps symbol is not based on the Cummunist hammer and
+sickle; it's the Greek letter psi which stands for the mind.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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++ Attn: JMS:  Thanks! + (26 Jul 1995)
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+ Attn: JMS:  Thanks! +

+26 Jul 1995
     Just doin' what I do, don't know no other way....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Divided Loyalties (26 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Divided Loyalties

+26 Jul 1995
     Absolutely *nothing* from prior seasons/episodes has been discarded.
+So if that's your concern...don't worry about it.
+ 
+     Nothing was trimmed by C4.  There was a slight matching problem in
+the footage, that's all.
+ 
+     In very tense situations, some people feel compelled to somehow break
+the tension.  Hence, that sequence.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: Your secret writing (29 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: Your secret writing

+29 Jul 1995
     I'm not *sure* I wrote that episode of TRGBs; I know I story edited
+it, but it may have had another writer.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Lestat going to jail? ***** IM (1 Jul 1995)
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+
Lestat going to jail? ***** IM

+1 Jul 1995
     Insofar as I know, there's nothing in the B5 faq that could cause
+any problems for WB.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+!HEY JMS!: The *B4* Thread? (7 Jul 1995)
+
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!HEY JMS!: The *B4* Thread?

+7 Jul 1995
     The B4 thread will be resolved in detail, yes.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS: "Pitching a Winner" (30 Jul 1995)
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JMS: "Pitching a Winner"

+30 Jul 1995
     The short story I'd done in high school -- god, do you *really* want
+to know this? -- was a comic story about the Lady of the Lake popping up
+again in the present to offer Prince Charles Excalibur...and him not quite
+knowing what to do about it, then security was called and...well, it got
+quite interesting, particularly since she'd popped up in his bathtub.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS: Favorite Dictionary? (31 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Favorite Dictionary?

+31 Jul 1995
     For everyday use, I tend to yank out the Oxford American Dictionary,
+which is nearest at hand, and I find it very complete; for real, serious
+writing stuff, then I go to my copy of the Oxgord English Dictionary,
+which is sort of the Mount Olympus of dictionaries, both in complexity
+and sheer weight.  Other books...Roget's Thesaurus, What's What, and a
+shelf load of books on mythology, history, politics and psychology.
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+Re: Attn jms: Suspension of Di (31 Jul 1995)
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Re: Attn jms: Suspension of Di

+31 Jul 1995
     Although there have been many interesting anecdotal studies on
+telepathy, in any laboratory model it has not yet been shown consistently
+and reliably to exist.  So I'm holding the subject in personal abeyance
+until the day when somebody can walk into a research lab at MIT or
+elsewhere and get 10 out of 10 cards right *consitently* and *repeatedly*
+under strict laboratory conditions.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+     (consistently, that is)
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+ATTN: JMS Will Peter David be (31 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Will Peter David be

+31 Jul 1995
     Peter is currently busy doing not just his comics, but co-writing
+every episode of HIS new TV series, Space Cases, with Bill Mumy...but if
+there's room in there somewhere, we've discussed the possibility.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Attn:JMS Face on Mars (31 Jul 1995)
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+31 Jul 1995
     It's actually a pak'ma'ra butt.
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+                                                            jms
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+ATTN JMS: X-Files et al (31 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: X-Files et al

+31 Jul 1995
     Actually, my guess is that X-Files does have a larger budget than we
+do, since they do a LOT of location filming, which is very expensive (als0
+David Duchovney just got a bump in salary to $100,000 an episode).  And
+yes, one may discuss "Twilight" with those across the pond who've seen it
+here.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+Correspondence Note from jms (31 Jul 1995)
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Correspondence Note from jms

+31 Jul 1995
     To all those who've sent, or are planning to send, any mail to the
+actors, crew or others involved with Babylon 5 at the snail mail address
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423....
+ 
+     BE SURE to have somewhere on the envelope the words C/O BABYLON 5,
+or it may very well be returned.  This is not the main studio address,
+which is not disseminated, and sometimes the addresses/names get kind
+of obscure.  This will allow the mail to be routed properly.  If you do
+not include this line, it may never reach its destination.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
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+JMS: Do you read the novel or (7 Jul 1995)
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JMS: Do you read the novel or

+7 Jul 1995
     I read both.  The Ivanova/Talia thing wasn't handled exactly as I
+had thought it would, and missed some parts of it (it was very late that
+night), and by the time I caught some of it, it was too late.  The comics
+version shows creatures that are not the shadows themselves but some of
+the many creatures who serve them.  I try to catch all I can.  I sent the
+third book back for a *total* rewrite which put it behind a couple of
+months, but that's okay by me.  Better right than on time.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+- PTEN -  ** double sigh ** (7 Jul 1995)
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- PTEN -  ** double sigh **

+7 Jul 1995
     Difference is, Kung Fu started a while *after* we began airing our
+second season, so they had some in the bank, as it were, for July.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+It's Official !  B5 Comics Get (7 Jul 1995)
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It's Official !  B5 Comics Get

+7 Jul 1995
     Nope.  The CBG info is old.  I was just told yesterday that the
+contract for the B5 comic has been extended through 24 issues total, not
+the 11 noted in the article, which gives us a year and a half or so to
+build the audience further for the book.  It's doing well, and having only
+been out for six issues, needs a fair shot at finding its audience.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Lestat gives up (Victory for t (7 Jul 1995)
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Lestat gives up (Victory for t

+7 Jul 1995
     Lestat, nothing is served by public displays of self-pity.  On the
+electronic screen, it simply comes off as indulgent and "poor me,"
+whether that is the intent or not.
+ 
+     You say you have been judged by others, and you think unfairly so.
+I have pointed out, as have others, that if you make mass copies of this
+show, for distribution to others, *free or otherwise*, it's illegal, and
+you will get nailed by Warner Bros.  This is not judgment, it's a fact.
+ 
+     It's like saying, "I'm going to take this book from this store and
+not pay for it," and everyone says, "But that's shoplifting," and you
+come back with anger because you're being judged.  No, those are the laws,
+and it doesn't matter if you intended to simply give it to someone else
+without cost to yourself.
+ 
+     Spending months mass-copying B5 episodes from the UK to the US is
+patently illegal; you not only violate US and UK copyright laws
+individuallly, but collectively; you would even violate the federal laws
+regulating the transport of illegal goods via interstate mail.  You could
+be *hurt*, and badly.  And believe me, if WB found out about it, you
+WOULD be, for doing this on the scale you describe.
+ 
+     We've recently run into someone who was selling unlicensed B5 tapes
+here in the US.  Mass produced.  This person has been identified, and
+evidence gathered, and now this person is going to be prosecuted, and
+subpoenad, and spend months in courthouses and giving depositons and
+paying fines and potentially doing time, depending on the breaks.  The
+only difference is that one does it for money, the other doesn't, but THAT
+isn't the core of the problem, it's copyright infringement.
+ 
+     People here, myself included, have gone out of our way to tell you
+that what you proposed was illegal, and would get you in massive amounts
+of trouble, to *save you from getting hurt*.  You could be standing on a
+ledge, about to jump, with people telling you not to do it, and then turn
+around and yell at them for interfering in your own business.  Well, it
+ain't just your business, and it is for your own good.  If you cannot see
+that, it's nobody's fault but your own.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: Series shown out of (7 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Series shown out of

+7 Jul 1995
     You may want to call your station and tell them to check with WB
+International Distribution, which knows and understands that they are to
+be shown in broadcast order, and will help them to know what that is.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+ATTN JMS: Apologies! (7 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Apologies!

+7 Jul 1995
     No problem, Bob.
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+                                                             jms
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ATTN JMS: If you don't mind br

+7 Jul 1995
     Okay, lemme see...we're on in Singapore, Thailand, Italy, Germany,
+England, Australia, France, Middle-East TV (covering Israel, Jordan and
+some other places in that area), Greece, parts of South America, and a
+few more beyond.  That's all I can recall offhand.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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- Attn. JMS: 3rd-hand nun stor

+7 Jul 1995
     I'd love to get more information on this; heck, we can use it for PR
+if nothing else.  I'd particularly love to know what specifically they
+like about/watch for in the show.
+ 
+     (In thinking about this, there's some stuff in the second or so
+episode of year three that they're absolutely gonna *love*.  All I can say
+is that I hope I get a product placement notation from the Vatican.  BTW,
+there were real nuns in the line in "Parliament of Dreams.")
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS at San Diego Comic Con? (8 Jul 1995)
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JMS at San Diego Comic Con?

+8 Jul 1995
     Yes, I'll be at SDCC, giving a 2-hour presentation that Saturday.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Some products I noticed: (1 Jul 1995)
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Some products I noticed:

+1 Jul 1995
     I'm never as anyone pictures me.  I like it that way.
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+                                                                  jms
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+More sci-fi on TV! (8 Jul 1995)
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More sci-fi on TV!

+8 Jul 1995
     I saw a promo (4-mins) for Space at Chicago Comic Con; my first
+thought was that the CGI was *awfully* blurry/low res, I hope that was
+only test footage for the promo reel.  Other than that, with Morgan and
+Wong backing it, at least I have good hopes for the writing.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS : Has the Great War a (9 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS : Has the Great War a

+9 Jul 1995
     Wars generally don't just *begin*, they roll into one another and
+grow.  When did WW II begin?  When Germany annexed the Sudetenland?  When
+they invaded Poland?  When England got into it?  When Pearl Harbor got
+bombed?  Did it in a sense begin with the assassination of Archduke
+Ferdinand, which led to WW I, which with a minor pause led into WW II?
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+ATTN JMS: Crystal storage... (10 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Crystal storage...

+10 Jul 1995
     There's a number imbedded inside the crystal; the only way to change
+it is to shatter the crystal.  Also, if you pop it in an conventional
+crystal port, it can project the entire directory, source material, and
+other information instantly.
+ 
+	                                                                jms
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+ATTN: JMS - will comics spoil (10 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - will comics spoil

+10 Jul 1995
     There's only one case of this conflict, so if you want to avoid any
+spoilers, here's my recommendation: when the last issue of this current
+story arc comes out, resolving the Mars/Sinclair/Garibaldi thread, pick
+up that last issue and stick it in a bag until after the first new ep
+airs in October.  THEN read it.  You'll know it when you find it.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+Re: Elana leads B5 Group at We (10 Jul 1995)
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Re: Elana leads B5 Group at We

+10 Jul 1995
     Okay, Elena, you can be Queen of B5 Fans.
+ 
+     But I get to wear the tiara.
+ 
+                                                       *^^^*
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B5 Fan Name? (was Re: Attn JMS

+10 Jul 1995
     Two most frequently used terms: Babylonians and the Grid Epsilon
+Irregulars, for the station's location.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Attn JMS: When it all over, in (10 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: When it all over, in

+10 Jul 1995
     I'd kinda like to take *all* the remaining months off that are
+allotted to me, and just write when I want to.
+ 
+     Which, sadly, knowing me, will probably be full-time anyway.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+ATTN JMS: L. Ron Hubbard and D (10 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: L. Ron Hubbard and D

+10 Jul 1995
     Never read Dilbert.  As for ElRon...I know people who were there the
+night of the party, decades ago, when L. Ron -- then making a penny a word
+for westerns and SF and other genres -- was told, "Look, you want to make
+REAL money, get into the religion biz."  That night, he went home and
+began cranking out Dianetics, written on butcher paper (his usual medium,
+which he kept on a roll behind his typewriter, and would rip as needed).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+JMS.more viewers!! (10 Jul 1995)
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JMS.more viewers!!

+10 Jul 1995
     I have, alas, zip control over promos; they're done by the station
+there, and WB.  We're not authorized to do that.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+ATTN JMS: Unanswered Questions (11 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Unanswered Questions

+11 Jul 1995
     For their own purposes, the shadows chose to stay on this side of the
+Rim.  The other questions will be answered soon enough.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+Lestat reprieved (Send forth y (4 Jul 1995)
+
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Lestat reprieved (Send forth y

+4 Jul 1995
     Uh-oh.
+ 
+     When I saw faq in your inquiry to me, insofar as I knew, we were just
+discussing a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file, the same as we've seen
+many times before.  I did NOT know that it was essentially a note saying
+that mass reproduction services were being offered for episodes.
+ 
+     Whether money is charged or not is not the issue; if someone is making
+group copies of episodes for others, that is an infringement of copyright,
+and *believe me*, Warners will come down hard on anyone doing this.
+It's common practice to make 1-2 copies of something for an archive, or
+for a friend, but to make multiples like this and supply them in htis
+(this) fashion is going to put you in deep legal shit with the suits at
+WB, *trust* me on this.
+ 
+     I would strongly urge you to reconsider.  Your heart is in the right
+place, as far as enthusiasm for the show goes, but to do this on the
+scale you are suggesting breaks not only US and UK laws individually, but
+collectively as well, and you could end up in serious trouble.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+You know you've been watching (11 Jul 1995)
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You know you've been watching

+11 Jul 1995
     Similarly, I saw "Norton utilities for people," and my brain saw,
+"Morden utilities for people."
+ 
+     I've been writing too much.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Chicago ComiCon Report (!SPOIL (11 Jul 1995)
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Chicago ComiCon Report (!SPOIL

+11 Jul 1995
     BTW, Mark, as promised, we amalgamed your name and Julie's into one
+name (Julie Musante), and that has now been used as a major character in
+"Voices of Authority," as per the auction.  It's a big role, and a very
+memorable character who has some...intriguing scenes with Sheridan.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+B5 Analysis (11 Jul 1995)
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B5 Analysis

+11 Jul 1995
     Message received, but not much I can comment on; probably better to
+let the questions be answered in the show than here.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Att JMS: No sidestepping now, (11 Jul 1995)
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Att JMS: No sidestepping now,

+11 Jul 1995
     Yes, Harlan returns next season as our consultant.  And believe me,
+he's been VERY busy, mainly with his comic from Dark Horse, DREAM
+CORDIDOR.  He's written new stories for every issue, plus all the
+interstitial pages, in addition to his work with me on B5, plus several
+other new stories, a script for a new Showtime anthology that's a
+knockout which has a bunch of big-name directors fighting over it.
+ 
+	                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+Mr. JMS: Kosh = Anagram? (11 Jul 1995)
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Mr. JMS: Kosh = Anagram?

+11 Jul 1995
     No, no anagram intended in KOSH.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Mr. JMS: Outer Limits/Twilight (11 Jul 1995)
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Mr. JMS: Outer Limits/Twilight

+11 Jul 1995
     My favorites from the Outer Limits...Soldier, Demon With a Glass
+Hand, Cold Hands Warm Heart, and others whose titles I've forgotten
+(the sentient tumbleweeds, the house where nobody got old, the kid and
+his alien tutor, and the Zanti misfits, natch).
+ 
+     From Twilight Zone...Walking Distance, One For the Angels, just
+about all the Serling episodes, actually.  In general, TZ is one of my
+overall high-points in TV.  Very few drones.
+ 
+     What often gets ignored is Night Gallery, which had some very decent
+stuff in it, most specifically They're Tearing Down Tim Reilly's Bar,
+which I always fire up when I think I'm getting too confident in my own
+writing.  Brilliant.  Absolutely brilliant writing.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+AAITN Question (11 Jul 1995)
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AAITN Question

+11 Jul 1995
     The Streib saw an alliance between Earth and Minbar at that moment,
+which is the LAST thing they wanted to go up against.  Also, you don't go
+to war at the drop of a hat just because somebody sinks or shoots down
+one of your ships.  This is one of the cliches in storytelling.  And what
+the Streibs were doing was totally unjustifiable in any event.  Do you
+gear up for the massive hassle of total war -- supply lines, fleets, all
+the rest -- because of this incident?  Remember, the purpose of the ship
+was to find races weak enough for them to attack with impunity; they don't
+want to go up against a force that can strike back.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Looking for Captain Power (12 Jul 1995)
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Looking for Captain Power

+12 Jul 1995
     Yeah, the Siskel and Ebert thing was great.  For those who didn't
+hear about this...we worked *very* hard to make Captain Power nominally a
+show for grownups, screw the toys.  And we got hammered in the press,
+mainly by people who hadn't watched the show.  So one day, I'm watching
+SisBert doing their collective thing, a video round-up installment of
+their review show...and suddenly they say, look, we don't normally talk
+about TV series, but there's this one show you gotta check out, it's got
+a dopey name, and forget the toys, but there's something Going On with
+this show, it's really got a great story.
+ 
+     It was, alas, too little too late for CP.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+B5 Novels.... (12 Jul 1995)
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B5 Novels....

+12 Jul 1995
     The third B5 book from Dell is due out sometime in the next 4-6
+weeks.
+ 
+     Dell has licensed another 5 novels, and is currently considering
+proposals/outlines *from established SF pros* (with several novels
+published, preferably not just media tie-ins) for these books.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Mars colony (12 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Mars colony

+12 Jul 1995
     Well, the Mars colony grew over time, from a few people to cities.
+It covers about 150 years, though the first 50 of that were very small in
+nature.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Is B5 Limited to the (4 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: Is B5 Limited to the

+4 Jul 1995
     For all intents and purposes, our story pretty much takes place
+within the Milky Way Galaxy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Chicago CC? (12 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Chicago CC?

+12 Jul 1995
     I *greatly* enjoyed the Chicago ComicCon.  Lots of fun, many good
+people, a hard-working staff dedicated to making sure things go well, a
+terrific operation.  This was only my second year there; I went for the
+first time a year ago, dragged along by Harlan.  Glad I went.
+ 
+     High-points for this convention...helping pile on a shoplifter (me
+and another guy, the one who ran the booth in the dealer's room) trying
+to escape, the two of us holding this guy, struggling to get away, for
+the cops, and a con organizer saying to him, "Hey, you've just been
+arrested by a celebrity," and the shoplifter's response, "Fuck you"....
+the B5 reception, even *with* the MST3Kification of one of my episodes...
+the pleasant, friendly, enthusiastic fans who were a joy to meet...it was
+an unvarnished terrificness.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Big Bang Refunds (aka CMC meet (12 Jul 1995)
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Big Bang Refunds (aka CMC meet

+12 Jul 1995
     To hear that the two numbers for Big Bang/CMC are alternately
+disconnected or no longer answering is most disconcerting.  I can't recall
+hearing of anyone getting refunds that weren't put through quite some
+time ago.
+ 
+     I strongly urge all people who have not yet received refunds from
+these people to get together and jointly consider what actions you might
+take, particularly in terms of the VIP tickets.  Because with current
+reports, plus the non-payment of Michael O'Hare's $5,000, I have grave
+concerns about anyone getting their money out of this.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Lestat gives up (Victory f (12 Jul 1995)
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+12 Jul 1995
     Elizabeth: you're correct, in that nothing can stop individual copies
+from floating across the Atlantic.  That's going to happen, and has
+happened, for some time.  What sent off fireworks and red flags was the
+notion of *mass producing* these things.  That's the kind of thing that
+gets you raided by the FBI.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Dressed in Black (13 Jul 1995)
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Dressed in Black

+13 Jul 1995
     There is no significance to the clothing; that's just what they were
+wearing when Sheridan called.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Keep your day job Vir!! (13 Jul 1995)
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Keep your day job Vir!!

+13 Jul 1995
     Re: the SPACE cgi being blurry...I'm kinda surprised.  I'd seen the
+demo reel at Chicago ComicCon, and saw that it was blurry there, even hard
+to focus on, but figured it was a low-res test they used in the earlyl
+promotion reel.  I was sure they'd go to something a bit more high-res for
+the real thing.  I'm astonished.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 Novels.... (13 Jul 1995)
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Re: B5 Novels....

+13 Jul 1995
     Of course it's a pain in the ass.  It's a PROFOUND pain in the ass to
+keep track of all this.  But it's kinda in the job description.  As far as
+the novels go, an outline comes in, on spec, and I work with it to make it
+fit in continuity, or at least not contradict anything being done in the
+series.  Sometimes that means major changes, sometimes it's minor stuff,
+but something always needs to be done.  And done again, as much as can be,
+when the actual manuscript comes in.  It's one more thing, but then my
+life is generally "one more thing."
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Commander roles in war (13 Jul 1995)
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Commander roles in war

+13 Jul 1995
     Eric: a very good analysis/contrasting of the roles of the two
+characters.  Very much dead-on.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Vorlon Homeworld(s) (13 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Vorlon Homeworld(s)

+13 Jul 1995
     We'll see the Vorlon homeworld eventually.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Selling your soul to (13 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Selling your soul to

+13 Jul 1995
     That's a very hard question to answer, if I'm going to try and answer
+it totally honestly.  Sitting here now, at this moment, with year 3 a go,
+I'd say, "If they said replace Ivanova and Sheridan, I'd refuse, even if
+it were a condition of pickup."  That's what I'd like to think I'd say.  I
+hope that it's what I *would* say.  At least, at this moment.
+ 
+     But now I try to put myself in that future frame of mind...I have 200
+or so people who work for me, who'd be out of jobs.  The story would be
+aborted, and the series ultimately a failure because it didn't go to term.
+Everything we'd built so carefully these last 2-3 years would be down the
+toilet.  We'd have to dismantle the sets, sell old props, vacate the
+stage...emotionally, it would be devastating.  Many careers would be hurt.
+ 
+     At that point, it would come down to, Do I hurt 2 people or 200?
+ 
+     So I guess, really, the answer is...I don't know.  I know what I'd
+like to do, particularly if I felt strongly that I could get them to back
+down.  It's a question of who blinks first.  Fortunately, WB and PTEN are
+VERY happy with our cast, feel they're doing great jobs, and we're on the
+cusp of breaking through, so I gravely doubt that decision would ever have
+to be made.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Question on Rangers (13 Jul 1995)
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JMS:  Question on Rangers

+13 Jul 1995
     There are female rangers, yes.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Would you attend a p (4 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS: Would you attend a p

+4 Jul 1995
     If fans would be willing to endure such a terrible burden, I would
+kind have to share it.  I just can't imagine anyone willingly thinking
+that this was a Good Thing.  I mean, sitting through 112 hours of ANYthing
+is a very daunting notin.
+ 
+     Or notion.
+ 
+	                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Looking for Captain Power (13 Jul 1995)
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Re: Looking for Captain Power

+13 Jul 1995
     Thus far, SisBert do not seem to have noticed B5.  Re: The Real
+Ghostbusters, that 78 episode first season was a lot of fun...the first
+opportunity I had to just go nuts and do anything I wanted to do, and the
+producers stood by me, however nuts I got.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+UK SPOILERS: Courtesy and Cons (13 Jul 1995)
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UK SPOILERS: Courtesy and Cons

+13 Jul 1995
     What could also help is if there are specific questions among the
+UK viewers based on the final four, what you can do is send it to me via
+private email, I'll reply, and it can then be reposted openly to the UK
+group.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: A question about photos (14 Jul 1995)
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JMS: A question about photos

+14 Jul 1995
     There's no real hidden meaning in the photos.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Att JMS: Your Thoughts on the (14 Jul 1995)
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+14 Jul 1995
     The net is like any form of technology; it can be used for good or
+ill depending on who's behind the keyboard.
+ 
+     On another level (if I can mix metaphors for a moment), the net is
+like a large, and very capricious beast.  If you show the least fear, it
+will eat you.  It's very clear that most of the folks at ST are afraid of
+the nets, they HATE the nets, because info they don't want out GETS out,
+the criticism can be very harsh...it's tough.  In the case of B5, we work
+WITH the nets, to the extent that even after showing an episode, giving
+people new information, and information = power on the nets, if I ask that
+it not be posted publicly until the show airs, in virtually every case
+that request has been granted.  Because you know who I am...and I know who
+YOU are.  That dialogue doesn't exist with ST.
+ 
+     For those not plugged in, it can be terrifying.  Mira Furlan has
+commented, in one on-line message, that the nets can be very cruel.  This
+is true.  People forget sometimes that there's a person at the other end
+of the keyboard, and especially when critiquing actors, do so in terms so
+often cruel and unnecessary and hurtful.  Michael O'Hare recently commented
+at Chicago comic con that he was *deeply* hurt by many of the things said
+about him on the nets...here in particular.
+ 
+     So it takes a *very* tough skin to stick it out here, lemme tell you.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS: A few quick question (14 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: A few quick question

+14 Jul 1995
     Basically, G'Kar is both laughing and crying in that scene; in
+essence, he's having a nervous breakdown right in front of your eyes.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+Stupid question for JMS (14 Jul 1995)
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+14 Jul 1995
     Who she's attracted to depends on who bought dinner....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS: Comics spoilers #9+? (14 Jul 1995)
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JMS: Comics spoilers #9+?

+14 Jul 1995
     There are no spoilers that I'm aware of in the next 3 issues.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS: B5 comic #8 question (14 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: B5 comic #8 question

+14 Jul 1995
     I think that non-memory of the event is a good assumption.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: Licensing Pins/Patch (14 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Licensing Pins/Patch

+14 Jul 1995
     All somebody has to do is approach WB licensing and license the stuff.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+Horns on the station..????? (14 Jul 1995)
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+14 Jul 1995
     The projections are for stabalizing, and repairing, ships bringing
+in cargo.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Re: Dave Shao's post bites (4 Jul 1995)
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Re: Dave Shao's post bites

+4 Jul 1995
     In my orignal reply to Davaid Shao, I specifically asked that people
+NOT pile on him because of this.  It's resolved.  I'm now on a moderated
+newsfeed, and all is well.  No story ideas can now reach me from this
+service.  Over, done, forgotten.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
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+Re: Looking for Captain Power (14 Jul 1995)
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Re: Looking for Captain Power

+14 Jul 1995
     Yeah, I walked off the show when they a) decided to emphasize Slimer,
+and b) make Janine a "mommie" character rather than the hard-as-nails,
+sharp, sarcastic person she'd always been.  It wasn't a show I wanted to
+do anymore.
+ 
+     I've actually walked off a *lot* of shows in my time, something I only
+really realized lately.  Walked of The Real Ghostbusters when they softened
+it down and knocked all the corners off; walked off Captain Power when the
+toy company got too much control over the stories; zipped off Jake and the
+Fatman when my exec producers got screwed over (if they went, I went);
+finally left Murder, She Wrote to do B5.  All but the last were over story
+control/story integrity.  My agent is frequently driven to distraction over
+this.  Money doesn't work to hold me.  If it ain't right, it ain't right.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+ATTN JMS: Don't forget us (14 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Don't forget us

+14 Jul 1995
     You're right.  Henceforth I shall be sure to separate Britain from
+Scotland, to avoid upset.
+ 
+     Lord knows, you upset the Scots, you're likely to get kilt.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Rumors about character changes (14 Jul 1995)
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+14 Jul 1995
     I don't suppose you could give me the name of this particular SF
+editor (I suspect I know who it is) who's spreading around this particular
+bit of nonsense...?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS: Reruns during the long dr (14 Jul 1995)
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JMS: Reruns during the long dr

+14 Jul 1995
     Alas, ain't squat we can do about this, it's a PTEN decision.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+14 Jul 1995
     Re: "he writes at close to Asimov's speed."
+ 
+     One thing I miss here, and wish there was more of, was more on the
+task of writing.  I think there's a good opportunity here for more on the
+technical side of all this...the writing, how the different departemtns
+(departments) come together, all the production stuff nobody tells you.
+ 
+     So on the writing speed issue, a little something that may be of
+use.
+ 
+     Mark Twain said, "Never write a scene until you have finished it to
+your satisfaction."  Meaning in your head.  You should always play the
+scene over and over in your head, filling it out further and further each
+time, until you can play it like a movie.  Then, when it's all worked
+out, you sit down and transcribe it.
+ 
+     This is kinda how I work.  I finish a scene, load up what I need to
+do in the next scene...and distract myself, here on the boards, doing
+something else, and gradually filling out the scene over and over until
+it's crystal clear.  Then when you sit down to write it, it goes quickly.
+ 
+     Also helps to type 120 wpm, but the other helps a *lot*.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+

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+JMS: Cause & Effect? (Comic 8 (15 Jul 1995)
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JMS: Cause & Effect? (Comic 8

+15 Jul 1995
     You didn't *really* expect a public answer on this one, did you...?
+ 
+                                                        jms
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+Quickie from jms (15 Jul 1995)
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+15 Jul 1995
     The weekend of July 29th, I'll be doing a presentation at San Diego
+Comic Con that Saturday from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.  If you're anywhere in the
+area, I suggest you try and be there.  You may need to get there a bit
+early; each time I've done one of these presentations, even though they
+keep giving me progressively bigger rooms, they keep filling up.
+ 
+     Couple more merchandising items in the works, looks like they might
+be kinda cool.
+ 
+     As noted in a side-topic, and thus probably missed, Dell has signed
+to do 5 more B5 novels.
+ 
+     The B5 stage is getting busier every day, as more folks begi
+reporting back to work.  The first batch of scripts are being broken down
+by the Assistant Directors into shooting schedules, construction is going
+bigtime on a couple new sets and a total redesign of another (Medlab), all
+continues on-track for day one of shooting on July 31st.
+ 
+     To the best of my knowledge, Michael O'Hare has *still* not been paid
+the balance of his fee for appearing at Big Bang, a total of $5,000.  Nor
+has there even been any contact from them.  Phone calls remain unreturned.
+ 
+     We hope, in a few weeks, to be announcing, finally, an official
+Babylon 5 Fan Club, which will offer some items not available anywhere
+else.  (Some of them will be made by the same people who make the real
+props themselves, thus guaranteeing 100% authenticity to what'd done in
+the show.)  (Make that *what's*.)
+ 
+     We hope that, within a year or so of the fan club getting going, to
+put together a *proper* B5 convention, with not only the actors, but
+people from every department, giving them the chance to show what they
+do, and how, and allow a chance to interact with viewers.
+ 
+     Lately, from published figures, B5's overnights have been above those
+of Voyager (3.4 compared to 2.7 or thereabouts).  Much to the surprise of
+people at PTEN, B5 episodes which have now aired multiple times are still
+doing very well.  This is very unusual in reruns.
+ 
+     There *may* be some movement on the videocassette issue.  More on this
+as it develops.
+ 
+     Finally, expect a big online presence/push for the October/November
+period, possibly with a B5 web page and other new on-line resources
+(multimedia and the like) provided by PTEN.
+ 
+     My sense is that right now, we're *just* about where X-Files was just
+before it broke through.  I think we'll finally break through that glass
+ceiling in our third season.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Attn JMS - writing CGI ? (15 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS - writing CGI ?

+15 Jul 1995
     Nothing can be storyboarded until it's written in the script first;
+so usually it's something like
+ 
+EXT. NARN HOMEWORLD (CGI)
+ 
+A giant space aardvark emerges from a jump-point, snarling and spitting.
+ 
+      There's only been one case where all I wrote was, "They fight.  Ron,
+go nuts."  Other than that, it's always scripted shot-for-shot, often as:
+ 
+ANGLE - SHERIDAN'S STARFURY
+ 
+As it blows TOWARD CAMERA, and we
+ 
+REVERSE - HIS POV
+ 
+The giant space aardvark turns, prepares to fight.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS: Delenn Question (15 Jul 1995)
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+15 Jul 1995
      I'd suggest that, in "There All the Honor Lies," it's implied that
+Delenn's reproductive system has come to function more closely to that of
+a human female.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Attn JMS:  About your writing (15 Jul 1995)
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+15 Jul 1995
     Sherry:  er, uhm...yeah, that's...kinda...it.
+ 
+     Um.
+ 
+     In which tree would you like me to leave the money at midnight?
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+ATTN JMS: Us nitpicking netter (4 Jul 1995)
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+4 Jul 1995
     I'm not entirely sure I understand the question.  Some "nitpicks" have
+contained valid points; some haven't.  Some have been based on incorrect
+perceptions that are easily corrected.  Some are factual.  I
+am not entirely sure what you mean by "not taken into account."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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Re: ATTN JMS: Real Ghostbuster

+15 Jul 1995
     Yes, the events as described in the article you describe (it was in
+"Penthouse") are correct, and happened as written.  (I should know, I
+wrote it.)
+ 
+     When I sent the article in to Penthouse (knowing full it would
+forever firebomb any chance of ever working in animation again), they asked
+why on *earth* I sent an article on kid's TV to *PENTHOUSE* for
+chrissakes.
+ 
+     "Because I want the creeps at Broadcast Standards and Practices,
+who turn white at the slightest hint of anything improper, to have to
+flip through Penthouse to get to the article about them."  The woman at
+the other end of the phone just about croaked laughing.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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Re: B5 writer(s) NOW ATT: JMS:

+15 Jul 1995
     Yeah, I think that kind of educational approach would be a hoot.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN: JMS Why all the dreams? (15 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Why all the dreams?

+15 Jul 1995
     Dreams function on many levels.  Some cultures use them as a kind of
+second, or parallel reality.  They make good literary devices.  Also,
+there's a fair amount of thematic undercurrent about free will vs.
+predestination, and one of the ways to tap into that is to use dreams as
+subtext and metaphor.
+ 
+     My own dreams are not particularly noteworthy, except in one respect:
+about 90% of them take place in the same place.  See, I always moved around
+when I was a kid, spending as little as 6 months, sometimes a full year,
+moving with my family from town to city to state from one end of the
+country to the other.  (Don't ask.)  So I think in large measure to counter
+that sense of rootlessness, my brain kinda created this "home town" and
+that's where I spend much of my dreamtime.  I know the layout of the
+place, where the stores are, my favorite comics/magazine shop, the same
+house (in which the renovations are *finally* finished to the second
+floor, I'm happy to say, and now they've gone on to doing some landscaping
+and suchlike outside), there are even a couple of theaters in which I see
+movies I *almost* remember the next morning.  (I actually wrote down one
+of them in some detail, a Star Trek movie, belive it or not; did the
+whole outline beat for beat from the dream.  Not bad.  Not good, but not
+bad.)  We had a third theater in town, but it got cobbled into a mini-mall
+and it's just too much of a mess.
+ 
+     And *nothing* extraordinary happens there.  It's pretty much just a
+mirror for what I do in my waking hours.  Story problems I'm working on
+during the day, I'm working on "over there" at night, just in a different
+mental place.
+ 
+     Back to the show...I have, at times, used early dream images.  The
+shot of Londo looking up to seeing huge ships passing overhead in "The
+Coming of Shadows" is a direct dream-steal from years ago.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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Re: ATTN JMS: Selling your sou

+15 Jul 1995
     There's always been a side-story that could spin off from B5, but the
+main core story is over at the five-year mark.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+JMS: The Process of Card Makin (15 Jul 1995)
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JMS: The Process of Card Makin

+15 Jul 1995
      Re: the Fleer process...I approve the selection of photos, and the
+text, and will approve the final look of the cards as well.
+ 
+      The process has been wondefully painless, Fleer has been nothing
+but helpful and cooperative.  Not much has been omitted.  And as for
+why do them: I figured they'd be cool...and I think they will be.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: Talk Show Help? (15 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Talk Show Help?

+15 Jul 1995
     Frankly, our folks just aren't *asked* much, because the talk shows
+think nobody's interested in B5.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: WoH (15 Jul 1995)
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ATTN JMS: WoH

+15 Jul 1995
     I am woefully and dreadfully ignorant on virtually ALL anime, WOH
+included.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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++ Attn: JMS  -  Shadows' Timel (15 Jul 1995)
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+ Attn: JMS  -  Shadows' Timel

+15 Jul 1995
     All good answers come to those who wait....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Looking for Captain Power (15 Jul 1995)
+
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Re: Looking for Captain Power

+15 Jul 1995
     I have nothing but good things to say about Angela Lansbury.  She is
+probably one of the classiest performers I've worked with, fiercely loyal,
+takes responsibility, wonderfully talented...I think she knew that I was
+flattered and impressed to be working with her, and I kinda suspect she
+thought it was kinda cute, in a dopey kind of way.
+ 
+     Our offices were not far from the shooting stages on the Universal
+lot, and most of the time I was stuck behind the keyboard.  But when it
+was one of my scripts on the floor, I'd try to get out there once or
+twice, just for a few moments.  I'd slip in, watch for a little bit, and
+then vanish again...and one day Angela came out and pulled me in, saying
+that she was intrigued by the way I'd just materialize and vanish again,
+that it was like some magical white horse appearing out of nowhere, and
+then vanishing.  She and her husband Peter were both very kind to me.
+ 
+     They even put my novel, OtherSyde, on the bookshelf in the set of
+her New York apartment; it can be seen occasionally in some shots.
+ 
+     She's tough, but fair.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: B5 writer(s) (15 Jul 1995)
+
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Re: B5 writer(s)

+15 Jul 1995
     Putting the characters through pain is never a problem for me.
+That's where all the *interesting* stuff happens.  And growth only comes
+through pain and struggle.  So it's for their own good, really.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:  What will we see ag (4 Jul 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS:  What will we see ag

+4 Jul 1995
     That would be telling....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS - your agent? (15 Jul 1995)
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JMS - your agent?

+15 Jul 1995
     I generally don't give out my agent's name.  That information is
+available to those who know how to find it, and have a reason for finding
+it.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn. JMS: Novels, comics, etc (15 Jul 1995)
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Attn. JMS: Novels, comics, etc

+15 Jul 1995
     We've certainly had a substantial number of older actors and
+characters on the show, from June Lockhart to Turhan Bey and Michael
+Ansara and many others.  My sense is that with advances in medicine,
+you can be active a LOT longer than is currently considered to be the
+case, so it isn't much of an issue in B5.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Re: UK Newsgroup gat (15 Jul 1995)
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Re: UK Newsgroup gat

+15 Jul 1995
     If it wouldn't be too much of a pain in the ass, if you could just
+forward the reviews of the episodes (first one in each new string), that
+would be more than sufficient, thanks.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Chrysalis - Did anyone notice? (15 Jul 1995)
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Chrysalis - Did anyone notice?

+15 Jul 1995
     The security guard's reaction was due to the chain of command solely.
+We don't let our people off that easily, that it was due to being mentally
+influenced.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS! (from Elana) The B5 (15 Jul 1995)
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ATTN: JMS! (from Elana) The B5

+15 Jul 1995
      I'm sorry, the number you have just dialed has been disconnected,
+and there is no new number.  Please check your number and dial again.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Blooper Reel. (15 Jul 1995)
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B5 Blooper Reel.

+15 Jul 1995
     If we can get the B5 fan club up and running (or when, as it looks
+now), we hope to offer the blooper reel, or a version thereof.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: How bad is the #8 spoiler (15 Jul 1995)
+
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JMS: How bad is the #8 spoiler

+15 Jul 1995
     Alas, to tell how bad a spoiler it is, would be to put it into
+context...to put it into context spoils the episode even FURTHER.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ? (16 Jul 1995)
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Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ?

+16 Jul 1995
     That was kinda the problem; Sinclair didn't really *have* a direct
+or personal connection to the Shadows.  I figured it'd be too much to do
+that on top of his direct, personal connection to so much else of the B5
+storyline.  I figured he'd get into it by virtue of his involvement with
+so many others touched by it; problem is, very soon that turns you into
+an expositional sounding-board or a problem-solver, with the other person
+at the core of the story.  It's one of those things you don't really see
+until you're well into the writing of the story, as with any novel.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ? (16 Jul 1995)
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Re: Attn JMS - writing CGI ?

+16 Jul 1995
     The "They fight; Ron, go nuts" was in "Coming of Shadows," I believe.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS:Online presence? (16 Jul 1995)
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Attn JMS:Online presence?

+16 Jul 1995
     I think the coming B5 web page will have links with other pre-existing
+web pages, though there will probably have to be understandings and
+the like made before any such site can be even nominally "endorsed" by the
+link.  Like a minimum of non-authorized uploaded material (in terms of
+avi files and the like).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: Female characters (1 Aug 1995)
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Attn JMS: Female characters

+1 Aug 1995
     Writing women has never been a problem for me.  I like women, both
+romantically (when I was still in the marketplace) and intellectually, as
+friends.  For as long as I can remember, the majority of my friends have
+been women.  I have a goodly number of men friends, but what can I say, I
+like the way many women think.  Specifically, I like women who are usually
+smarter than me, who are funny, independent, self-assured and know their
+own mind.  So it's not much of a stretch, therefore, that when I sit down
+to write female characters, *that's* what tends to come out most of the
+time.
+ 
+     I've had a *lot* of relationships in my time; the total number of
+intimate relationships (yeah, I'm talking about *that*) I once figured
+worked out to about 50.  On one level, I'm not terribly proud of that
+figure, it reflects a period when I was trying to find...I dunno...
+SOMEdamnthing...but on the other hand, it's given me a LOT of material from
+which to draw.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Where can I get one (2 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Where can I get one

+2 Aug 1995
     I think costuming customizes the shirts that way.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS The Fall of Night (18 Aug 1995)
+
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ATTN: JMS The Fall of Night

+18 Aug 1995
     Thanks; it's a good start, and we've got a long road ahead of us,
+but believe me the encouragement is appreciated.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+
+Attn JMS: Have you ever wonder (18 Aug 1995)
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Attn JMS: Have you ever wonder

+18 Aug 1995
      I wish I could see it without foreknowledge...I think that'd be
+great, but alas it can't be.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: The Wrong Trousers (was Re (18 Aug 1995)
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Re: The Wrong Trousers (was Re

+18 Aug 1995
     BTW, from the same guy who did "A Grand Day Out" and "The Wrong
+Trousers"....he's doing a new project, a black and white film noire
+clay-animation short, whose name I don't recall, but all of the parts are
+played by Kirk Douglas (or figures representing Kirk) at various points
+of his career...I've seen a few clips, and they're *hysterical*.
+ 
+     BTW#2...I heard today that "The Wrong Trousers" is now on sale on
+cassette at many video stores.  If you haven't seen this, go out and either
+rent the tape or buy it, it's a sheer, unadulterated, no-holds-barred
+delight, one of the few things that has sent me crashing to the floor with
+unbridled, hysterical, eyes-watering laughter.  It's *that* good.
+ 
+     BTW#3...if that's another advertisement...who cares, it's nifty.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS:Question on B5 soundt (18 Aug 1995)
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Attn JMS:Question on B5 soundt

+18 Aug 1995
     No gold/silver CDs to my knowledge from Chris.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Murder She Wrote on USA Thursd (21 Aug 1995)
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Murder She Wrote on USA Thursd

+21 Aug 1995
     As it happens, Tomorrow (Tuesday) one of my other M,SW episodes is
+on, entitled "Incident in Lot 7," which has a little fun at the expense
+of Hitchcock.  Prentiss wasn't exactly what I'd envisoned for the role,
+but overall it came out okay.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Character Developmen (21 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Character Developmen

+21 Aug 1995
     All scripts are tightly scripted.  The actors are not involved at
+that level.  When the script lands on the stage, it's performed as
+written.  If an actor has a problem with a particular word or line, I'm
+happy to take a suggestion or provide an alternate word.  But that's it.
+This is in part because with a 5-year story, with foreshadowing, changing
+one word could have major repercussions.  And because it's my show, and
+it'll be done the way I wrote it.  I didn't work five years to get this
+show on the air to turn it over to any committee of any kind.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS:  E-mail (21 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  E-mail

+21 Aug 1995
     I do accept email from strangers, yes, though due to the massive
+amount of mail, public and private, it has to be understood that I can't
+engage in detailed, lengthy correspondence in private mail.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Abuse of this newsgro (21 Aug 1995)
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+
Re: Abuse of this newsgro

+21 Aug 1995
     Re: a few demented souls who think nobody should ever be treated
+any different than they are (which also omits responsibility for ones
+own behavior)...anybody here see HARRISON BERGERON on Showtime, based
+loosely on the Kurt Vonnegut story?  What great timing....
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: MBTI? (21 Aug 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: MBTI?

+21 Aug 1995
     Nope, but once took the MMPI, Minnesota Multiphasic Personality
+Inventory, as part of getting my Psych degree.
+ 
+     Think it said I came out to a PITA...Pain In The Ass.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Help help I'm being repr- (21 Aug 1995)
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+
Help help I'm being repr-

+21 Aug 1995
     Here's the ultimate irony.  I write one message that honks off, oh,
+I'd say maybe 6 guys out of the 10,000 or so who hang out here, and they
+pillory me endlessly...and in so doing, write dozens of messages that
+honk off *hundreds* of people, probably more from my email, even go so far
+as to insult those people directly...but THAT'S okay.
+ 
+     Where's the Red Queen when you really need her...?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+= Attn JMS: Psi Corp Question (3 Aug 1995)
+
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= Attn JMS: Psi Corp Question

+3 Aug 1995
     Of *course* the telepath issue will have to be dealt with; this is a
+logical progression of the story, no?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Have you read ... (21 Aug 1995)
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Attn JMS: Have you read ...

+21 Aug 1995
     No, haven't read it, but will try to check it out.
+ 
+     Thanks.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by (21 Aug 1995)
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+21 Aug 1995
     Robert Holland: in one message from you, you take a shot at Harlan's
+income (or what you perceive as his income), saying "He needs the bucks
+for his medicare payments."
+ 
+     But then, when I turn the question back to you, and your income, you
+say, "of the many measures of a man, income is nominal."
+ 
+     So which is it, Robert?  Or is it only irrelevant when it's you, and
+relevant when it's somebody at whom you choose to snipe?
+ 
+     Hypocrite.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+New Ship (ATN  JMS) (21 Aug 1995)
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New Ship (ATN  JMS)

+21 Aug 1995
     The odds of the EAS Straczynski ever showing up in a B5 episode are
+slim and none.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+Mr. JMS: Network vs. Syndicati (21 Aug 1995)
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Mr. JMS: Network vs. Syndicati

+21 Aug 1995
     Correct: while the money and PR budget for syndication is about half
+what network shows get, the trade-off is that you're left alone, and you
+get full season orders, rather than 6 eps, or 12 eps with a possible
+buy in the back nine.  It lets you relax and just do the show rather than
+constantly looking over your shoulder.
+ 
+     We have not had a script note since the 3rd ep of year two; haven't
+had a note on a producer's cut of a ep since year one.  They trust us more
+and leave us alone more, in large measure due to being in syndication,
+and I'll trade *any* amount of money for that freedom.  We could *never*
+have done "Believers" or "Confessions" on network TV, given their sense
+that SF = KidVid.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: General Thoughts pos (21 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: General Thoughts pos

+21 Aug 1995
     Alan: thanks, comments like that really help us keep going.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: How is quality of B5 (21 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: How is quality of B5

+21 Aug 1995
     Unfortunately, there is no one overseeing that aspect of it, and I
+can only trust in blind fate at this pointl.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: (21 Aug 1995)
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+21 Aug 1995
    Zack wasn't in the opening credits for year two because he came in
+with just one or two eps going in...but the more we saw him, the more
+we knew he could give us just what we were looking for in one part of the
+overall story, and so it grew.  And the Fleer cards have several
+different approaches...arc cards, episode cards, character cards and
+so on.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by (21 Aug 1995)
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+21 Aug 1995
     My software, and the GEnie software, does not quote; if I want to
+quote someone, I have to *retype* the whole bloody quote.
+ 
+     I sometimes think I'd like to apply that to folks who quote a 432
+line message, just to add "I agree!" at the end.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+21 Aug 1995
     Kelly: thanks.  I had a good five year ride with HOUR 25, and though
+there were some problems, enjoyed it thoroughly.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+BAD NEWS ON B5 EFFECTS EMMY! (22 Aug 1995)
+
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+
BAD NEWS ON B5 EFFECTS EMMY!

+22 Aug 1995
     Yeah, unfortunately this is a year where we're against the Earth 2
+and Voyager 2-hour pilots, upon which they spent *hideous* amounts of
+money, with considerable publicity.  But hey, we'll take the 3 emmy noms
+we've already gotten and be happy.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Twilight(spoilers) (3 Aug 1995)
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Twilight(spoilers)

+3 Aug 1995
     "how can it get any better?"
+ 
+     Has to, though.  We took a blood oath on this show that each season
+must be better than the one preceding.  In many ways, we're still the new
+kids on the block, and we can't afford to ever once let our guard down and
+settle for anything less than constant striving.  And, frankly, though it's
+endless struggle, it's kinda fun on another level; we discover and invent
+new ways to do things, and new approaches to story and production, on a
+regular basis (tomorrow we're seeing some new CGI tricks from Ron via some
+beta-test software that should let us do some truly nifty stuff...).
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+B5 Comic cancelled according t (22 Aug 1995)
+
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+
B5 Comic cancelled according t

+22 Aug 1995
     #11 is the last regular, monthly issue.  However, DC has contracted
+for roughly 13 more issues to be published in one-shot specials and
+4-issue miniseries over the course of the coming year.  This is a done
+deal, ink on the contract and all that.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: What happens AFTER B (22 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: What happens AFTER B

+22 Aug 1995
     There's always been the possibility of a side-story that would go off
+in the B5 universe, after the B5 main story, but frankly the odds on that
+happening are extremely slim at best, I think.
+ 
+     Other than that...if B5 goes its full 5 year run, as I've noted here
+before, at that point (1998) the tentative plan is for me to retire from
+TV, go back to writing plays and novels.  I figure I'll have said all I
+have to say in TV, and at that point you get off the damned stage.
+ 
+     About the only thing that could lure me back, aside from a B5 side
+story, would be an anthology series, because I love that form dearly, but
+the odds of that are even smaller; there seems such growing discontent
+with the genre at the studios, despite some small successes here and
+there.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATT JMS>>>OTHER VORLONS??????? (23 Aug 1995)
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ATT JMS>>>OTHER VORLONS???????

+23 Aug 1995
      Yeah, I kinda think you'd *have* to see more Vorlons than just
+Kosh after a while, yes...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+
+ATTN: JMS: Jeff Conaway questi (23 Aug 1995)
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ATTN: JMS: Jeff Conaway questi

+23 Aug 1995
     You can send the material to Jeff c/o Babylon 5, Suite 260,
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Reading speed? (23 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Reading speed?

+23 Aug 1995
     I actuallly don't know what my reading speed is; I do know it's
+pretty fast -- I was reading at college level while in 9th grade,
+according to tests at the time -- but actual speed, I don't know.  Never
+took a speed reading course, though; I figure, if somebody took two years
+to write a book, you shouldn't blow through it in two hours.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Bester (23 Aug 1995)
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JMS: Bester

+23 Aug 1995
     Walter's first appearance this season will be in "Dust to Dust,"
+#306.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: B5 Bloopers Tape (23 Aug 1995)
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Attn JMS: B5 Bloopers Tape

+23 Aug 1995
     Bloopers are not currently available, but may become so down the
+road a bit.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Will Cards have spoi (23 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Will Cards have spoi

+23 Aug 1995
     I worked with the writer doing the cards to make sure that the info
+on the final four does not contain spoilers.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  Updating the WHAM Estima (23 Aug 1995)
+
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JMS:  Updating the WHAM Estima

+23 Aug 1995
     Yeah, I'd say the wham percentage still holds; there are fewer in
+the first part of the season, but more in the latter half of year three,
+so it really does work out to about half.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Milton Katulas??? (23 Aug 1995)
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+
Milton Katulas???

+23 Aug 1995
     I have no idea if there's a relationship, but I'll try to remember to
+ask.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Trend: Fan Interaction (3 Aug 1995)
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Re: Trend: Fan Interaction

+3 Aug 1995
     This is one of the more delicate areas in viewer/producer interaction
+here on the nets.  On one side, if you say, "Yeah, we fought the studios,
+the networks, nobody tells us how to do our show," and viewers respond with
+enthusiasm, then another viewer has a suggestion, and you don't take it,
+suddenly it has the potential to come off like a snub.  Yes, on one level,
+shows don't exist without fans.  Shows also don't exist without networks
+and studios to finance and produce them.  There are two masters at work
+here.
+ 
+     My take on this is very simple: nothing good has been done by
+committee since the pyramids and Stonehenge.  The bigger the committee,
+the more watered-down or diffuse the final result.  B5 viewers, as cute a
+bunch as they might be, basicallyk constitute the largest committee on
+record.
+ 
+     If somebody finds a glitch in the show, points out an error, asks a
+good leading question, I (or frankly any reasonable producer) would be a
+fool to ignore it.  But you've got to know your own mind, and what it is
+you want to do with your show, and be absolutely, totally committed to
+following your inclinations and your instincts, or very shortly you'll end
+up wandering in the wilderness beyond hope of recall.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Change of Pace / Change o (23 Aug 1995)
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JMS: Change of Pace / Change o

+23 Aug 1995
     Good idea, Steven, and what I'll try to do is post a couple of
+background items as you suggest, get that process going agian.
+ 
+     (again)
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by (23 Aug 1995)
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+23 Aug 1995
     "Joe's over-reaction to my statement makes me believe 'he doth
+protest too much.'"
+ 
+     Nope.  It's physics.  The bigger the stink, the bigger the "ewwww."
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+The Price of the Peace (23 Aug 1995)
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The Price of the Peace

+23 Aug 1995
     David Shao: pressure on the group regarding any character's sexuality
+will result in zip from me.  I don't give in on that on either side of
+the question.  We've touched on elements of this in "Divided Loyalties,"
+and will again in future.  Not because of any pressure, but because it is
+what I choose to do with my show.
+ 
+     I appreciate your interest, but B5 is what it is because I have
+always tried to follow my heart, and not surrender control of that to any
+network, studio, focus group or any OTHER group.  It is what it is, take
+it or leave it.
+ 
+     I would also suggest that, since you were the one who faxed messages
+from this system to Warner Bros. Legal Affairs, concerning the UK final
+four tapes, resulting in their now continued presence here, I would suggest
+that you have already had a substantial impact on things here...why not
+leave well enough alone for now in other areas?
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+I don't know ... (23 Aug 1995)
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I don't know ...

+23 Aug 1995
     The books and comics and other ancillary material is considered
+complementary but never required.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN jms:Costume Designer (23 Aug 1995)
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ATTN jms:Costume Designer

+23 Aug 1995
     Yes, Anne Bruice got married just a bit before we began shooting on
+year three.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS - Great Show!! (24 Aug 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - Great Show!!

+24 Aug 1995
     Thanks; it's my abiding hope that the show will function primarily to
+a) engender discussion on the issues raised, and b) create a sense of
+wonder, because both, I think, are somewhat lacking around us.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: The Price of the Peace (24 Aug 1995)
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Re: The Price of the Peace

+24 Aug 1995
     David...leaving totally aside the issue of the tapes for now, even
+though that was your motivating factor...it's a breach of the ethics of
+this system to send postings by others, myself included, to the people at
+Warner Bros.  Second, we were already *handling* the issue, were already
+dealing with it.  Until that moment, I referred matters of concern to
+those empowered to act, at the proper, lower-level areas.  What your
+letter did was to embroil the two heads of Warner Bros., who until that
+moment didn't know the system much existed.
+ 
+     And now folks from legal affairs regularly monitor the nets.  Because
+you poked the head of the dragon.  You can explain to your heart's content,
+but that is the consequence of your actions.  It was wrong.
+ 
+     Again *we were dealing with it*.  But once your letter crossed
+certain desks, who were unaware of the fact that we were dealing with it,
+the call went out, "What the hell is THIS?"  If you needed information,
+it was right here, and any question could've been answered by me.  And,
+in fact, was.  By essentially ratting out the entire group to WB Legal,
+however well-intentioned your motives, you've caused me problems in having
+to then go back and fix the damage, explaining that we were already on
+top of the issue, and caused others problems as well.
+ 
+     I wasn't going to make a federal case out of this, but when I saw
+your note indicating possibly yet ANOTHER cause celebre you were about to
+start throwing around out there, and urging action, I worried, given how
+this LAST one was handled.  Or mishandled.
+ 
+     Sometimes, David, it's best to just leave things alone....
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Mr. JMS: Network vs. Syndi (24 Aug 1995)
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Re: Mr. JMS: Network vs. Syndi

+24 Aug 1995
     You want to know what it comes down to?  What it *really* comes down
+to?  Here it is.
+ 
+     This was stated by a network exec: "Look, the reality is, anybody
+with money these days has got cable, they've got VCRs, laserdisks, so the
+networks get what's left, the guys without a lot of money, or education,
+and that's going to have to be our target audience."
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+27 Aug 1995
     Straczynski is a very uncommon name; the only ones who have it are
+actual relatives.  There are only about a dozen or so in the whle
+(whole) country (yes, I've checked).
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+Sublime language (was Re: Attn (27 Aug 1995)
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+27 Aug 1995
     I do have certain linguistic elements that I tend to re-use to
+subconsciously define the characters a bit.  Londo tends to use verbal
+prologs a lot, "It occurs to me," "You know, I was thinking," that sort
+of thing, which connotes that he's always working through what he's going
+to say before he says it, and puts the pronoun I or Me at the center of
+his way of thinking.  I often insert "Yes?" in his dialogue ("A great
+shame, yes?" "A terrible thing, is it not?") and variations to hint at
+the notion that this is a person looking for acceptance, validation,
+agreement.
+ 
+     Where Londo tends to put his personal pronoun at the beginning of
+his lines, Delenn has a tendency to put them at the end of her sentences,
+de-emphasizing personal importance.  Sometimes it lends her a kind of
+prolix speech pattern, but that's an inevitable consequence of that kind
+of structure; sometimes the verbs also get shoved back in the sentence,
+giving things a somewhat Germanic structure.
+ 
+     So some elements of phraseology, grammer, even phrases per se do
+tend to recur, but I try to keep them mainly to that person, or to that
+group, as a device to reinforce identity.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+B5 Magazine (3 Aug 1995)
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B5 Magazine

+3 Aug 1995
     A deal has been closed with Sendai to produce a regular, official
+B5 glossy magazine, yes.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

+
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+Re: "straczynski" a common nam (29 Aug 1995)
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Re: "straczynski" a common nam

+29 Aug 1995
     Yeah, the John Straczynski in Arizona is a cousin on my father's
+brother's side...as noted, if it's spelled exactly the same, then the
+person is always a direct blood relative.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: S. Furst's schedule (was (29 Aug 1995)
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JMS: S. Furst's schedule (was

+29 Aug 1995
     The shared days, when Stephen does our show in the morning, and then
+the other show in the afternoons, are only when necessary; we're using
+him also during his hiatuses (hiati?) from the other show, so we have him
+all day every day for as much as a week at a time.
+ 
+     We were happy to accommodate on this because while Stephen's role
+on B5 will always be important, and will grow, the role is such that Vir
+will/can never be the star of the story, whereas in the sitcom he has the
+chance to be the lead, and we think that's worth supporting.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: *OLD* ? about B5 pil (29 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: *OLD* ? about B5 pil

+29 Aug 1995
     The pendant was a gift to Michael from his son, and he asked to wear
+it in that shot.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

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+What to do? Pre-October Fun (29 Aug 1995)
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What to do? Pre-October Fun

+29 Aug 1995
     Also recommend: The Haunting (of Hill House) and Seconds.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Scarcity raises value :-) WAS (29 Aug 1995)
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Scarcity raises value :-) WAS

+29 Aug 1995
     Having read that...well, *I'm* tired now....
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+Apologies to JMS, WB, et al... (29 Aug 1995)
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Apologies to JMS, WB, et al...

+29 Aug 1995
     The main problem, as I understand it, is the issue of the shows that
+have not aired here yet, which touches international law re: copyright;
+in general, though, if someone has made a tape of something, and wishes
+to show it to a group of friends, and no cost is attached, I'm not aware
+of any complications to this.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

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+Is JMS still here? (29 Aug 1995)
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Is JMS still here?

+29 Aug 1995
     I'm never quite all here on the best of days.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+B5 and Jung (was Re: Shadows/V (29 Aug 1995)
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+29 Aug 1995
     Well reasoned.  An analysis of some of the stuff in Jungian terms,
+as I've noted here before, is not entirely unproductive.
+ 
+     It really is a hodgepodge of bits and pieces, a Frankenstein monster
+assembled from elements of myth, and archetype, and history that I've been
+kind of subconsciously assembling over a long, long time.
+ 
+     Certainly the issue touches strongly on the whole question of who we
+are, how we define ourselves, our place in the universe (as we perceive
+it, and as we are *able* to perceive it, stuck as we are in th
+metaphorical fishbowl).
+ 
+     One of the problems, I feel, when film makers or novelists use Joseph
+Campbell's approach to storytelling is that they're going by the numbers
+in terms of the *action* involved (okay, the hero has a trial to endure,
+enters the cave, and so on), without looking to, or paying attention to,
+the philosophical/mythological underpinnings of the actions, what they
+MEAN in a larger context, what they are meant to tell us about ourselves
+and the world.
+ 
+     So it's an ongoing process to redefine the myths, and in so doing
+redefine the way we perceive ourselves.  Or something like that.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Does B5's Anonymity Bother (29 Aug 1995)
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Re: Does B5's Anonymity Bother

+29 Aug 1995
     Part of the problem in this discussion comes down to TeeVee
+Terminology and how the industry works, or doesn't, logically or
+otherwise.  It's the difference between ratings, rankings, demographics
+and other niceties.
+ 
+     Just to get into this for a second...you have two shows on competing
+networks: Lois and Clark and Murder, She Wrote.  M,SW gets *substantially*
+higher ratings than L&C.  Now, which is more profitable for the network?
+ 
+     Answer: Lois and Clark.  Because the show attracts the demographics
+(males/females 18-40) that advertisers want.  So the commercials on that
+show sell for more than M,SW commercials, which generally reach a much
+older and, from an advertiser's POV, less meaningful demographic.
+ 
+     So a show can be lower rated, but more successful.  It's definitely
+Alice in Wonderland reasoning, but there you are.  That's why CBS is
+frantically trying to up their demographics, and why they hate shows like
+Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.  It's one of their few ratings hits, but it
+doesn't draw the right demographics.  They need the show for the PR
+value, to maintain a presence in the top shows, but they hate it behind
+the scenes.
+ 
+     B5 is slowly starting to crack two audiences: the ST audience, and
+the mainstream audience.  I frequently hear from people whose letters and
+email (some of it visible here) begins, "I don't usually watch SF, but I
+have started watching B5."  ,\gsC
+ 
+     Our ratings need not ever be as big as the ST shows to be as
+profitable, particularly since we only cost about half what they cost.
+If they go up a point or two, say to a sustained 4.5 or 5 or better,
+which I think is possible this season, we're golden; if we sustain or
+build just a little, we're still okay.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Control groups? (31 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Control groups?

+31 Aug 1995
     The funny thing is, on the control groups where I lurk, there is
+generally LESS speculation and "let's guess the story" and story ideas
+than where I *am* around.  Generally, what you tend to get are simply
+people's reactions to stuff...I liked this one, or didn't like that one,
+how come they did something stupid, where can I get info...that sort of
+thing.
+ 
+     My experience has been that the *most* critical nets are the ones
+where I'm known to hang out, because folks know their concerns have a
+chance of reaching me.  That's probably the biggest difference.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents) (3 Aug 1995)
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Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents)

+3 Aug 1995
     Actually, the lead guest character in the first episode of year three,
+one Mr. Endawi, is a Nigerian, and our new recurring character, Marcus
+Cole (a Ranger) is British, and played by Jason Carter.  So you have two
+non-American accents occupying major parts of the first ep next year.
+ 
+	                                                                  jms
+
+

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+SPOILERS and Peculiar Event Al (31 Aug 1995)
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SPOILERS and Peculiar Event Al

+31 Aug 1995
     Yeah, I'd say it's fair to say that you haven't heard the last of
+Interplanetary Expeditions.  Remember the rule: before you use the gun,
+you show it on the mantle.  You play fair.  And create the context in
+which the payoff later works.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: B5 MM TNG? (31 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: B5 MM TNG?

+31 Aug 1995
     The box for the new MicroMachines installment came through my hands
+for approval about a week ago (two new boxes, actually), so my *guess* is
+that they'll be hitting the stands in about a month.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Allusion to Sciento (31 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Allusion to Sciento

+31 Aug 1995
     The use of markabs was definitely NOT a reference to Scientology in
+any way, manner, shape or form.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Are You Ever Surpris (31 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Are You Ever Surpris

+31 Aug 1995
     In *general*, the P5 ratings poll tends to reflect my own opinions
+of the show, which is generally a good thing, I suppose.  The ones I
+think are knockouts tend to do well.  From time to time, I'm a bit
+surprised -- I still think that Parliament of Dreams is rated lower than
+I'd rate it, ditto for Soul Hunter and one or two others -- but what I've
+found is that generally the real serious episodes get rated higher, while
+the lighter ones (like Geometry of Shadows, which is still something of a
+favorite) get rated lower.
+ 
+     What's great is that this season, we haven't had one single episode on
+the level of War Prayer or Infection or Grail, some of our weaker first
+season eps.  The worst we've done is pretty darned good.  What we're now
+working for in year three is that they're all better than that at their
+baseline rating.  And so far, they're killer...our second episode for year
+three, "Convictions," has a very different feel from anything we've done
+on the show to date, a very dark, scary and gritty feel, and probably one
+of the best character sequences in the series to date.  We're also doing
+some major EFX blow-outs of a type other than "they go into space and
+shoot stuff."  Very interesting, creative, offbeat stuff.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Costume question (31 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Costume question

+31 Aug 1995
     I think it came out of the Victoria's Secrets catalog....
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  Why doesn't HBO car (31 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Why doesn't HBO car

+31 Aug 1995
     1) HBO turned down B5 years ago.  2) HBO does not do regular dramatic
+series a la B5; they do sitcoms, and anthologies, but not this kind of show.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Still "Getting Dark?" (31 Aug 1995)
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JMS: Still "Getting Dark?"

+31 Aug 1995
     "It's Getting Dark" was originally planned to be my third published
+novel after "OtherSyde," but in the interim, after I began writing it (and
+IGD was planned to be a modest sized novel, 500 pages max), I stumbled
+upon a much better and, unfortunately, bigger story I wanted to write, a
+contemporary dark fantasy whose title is too cool to sacrifice by giving it
+out here.  The new book will probably be about 1,000 pages, give or take,
+and I've got all the research and reference stuff here, ready to go, as oon
+(soon) as I have the time to write it, when B5 is done.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Question about casting (31 Aug 1995)
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Question about casting

+31 Aug 1995
     Garibaldi will *definitely* be in season three, is in even now, and
+is being used better now than before.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS:  B5 Writing Process (31 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  B5 Writing Process

+31 Aug 1995
     B5 was *never*, ever, at any time, pitched on the nets, or even
+discussed on the nets, while it was in development.  Not even the name
+was ever said.  So I don't know where this particular myth has come
+from.
+ 
+     The first time I ever started talking about B5 (except in an offhand
+reference in a Starlog article) on the nets was about November 1991, when
+we'd finally been given the go-ahead for production on the pilot movie,
+but couldn't officially talk about it until WB announced it.  During that
+time, I only described it as "That Which Cannot Be Named" (TWCBN for
+short) on GEnie.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: FS: softcover "Demon Night (31 Aug 1995)
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Re: FS: softcover "Demon Night

+31 Aug 1995
     Bantam put out a paperback version of DEMON NIGHT; no softcover has
+been published of the hardcover edition of OTHERSYDE; my anthology, TALES
+FROM THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE, was only published in paperback.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Quotes from Jeri Taylor on sto (3 Aug 1995)
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Quotes from Jeri Taylor on sto

+3 Aug 1995
     There's nothing even remotely askew in anything Jeri said.  There are
+two philosophies at work here (arc vs. non-arc), and neither is
+intrinsically or inherently better than the other.  It's a matter of
+personal tastes, and what you're trying to accomplish.
+ 
+     The Martian Chronicles was written as a series of short stories within
+a universe, somewhat loosely, but which together make enjoyable reading in
+one volulme.  That's ST or most conventional series.
+ 
+     The Dune books are tightly plotted stories over a long, pre-planned
+arc.  This is the structure B5 employs.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Ellison & the Inquisitor (31 Aug 1995)
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Ellison & the Inquisitor

+31 Aug 1995
     Harlan was not involved with the creation of the Inquisitor.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Because we care... (Was: (31 Aug 1995)
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JMS: Because we care... (Was:

+31 Aug 1995
     I have taken the comments for what they have been worth.
+ 
+     I have also begun having others start my car for me.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Candle motif (31 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Candle motif

+31 Aug 1995
     Candles are, I think, wonderfully emblematic of life, and of being
+a single ray of light, or hope, in a dark place.  The Grey Council stands
+between the candle and the star; watch G'Kar's action re: a candle in his
+quarters...and in that scene (for those who've seen TLTS) note how many
+candles are in the room in the beginning, and at the end.
+ 
+     We are the candle that burns brightly, stubbornly, effectively...but
+briefly.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+JMS: Animated Series (3 Aug 1995)
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JMS: Animated Series

+3 Aug 1995
     It's a good idea, but I kinda stay away from animation these days,
+having been somewhat burned out on the area.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN Rangers:  Are ep. title s (4 Aug 1995)
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ATTN Rangers:  Are ep. title s

+4 Aug 1995
     If the episode titles are based on previously established real
+quotes (as "the long, twilight struggle" is excerpted from a Kennedy
+speech), then it's okay.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Twilight(spoiler (4 Aug 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Twilight(spoiler

+4 Aug 1995
     "If what's coming is truly nifty, then what do you call what you've
+shot so far?"
+ 
+     The stuff we did yesterday.
+ 
+     Never look back.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+The Long Twilight Struggle. (2 Aug 1995)
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The Long Twilight Struggle.

+2 Aug 1995
     Thank you.  I'm quite frankly thrilled beyond words at the preliminary
+reactions from the UK to this episode; we worked *really* hard on it, and
+I can't tell you what the reactions mean to us.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Production Q - Sound FX (4 Aug 1995)
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JMS: Production Q - Sound FX

+4 Aug 1995
      Yes, insofar as I know, all the sounds we use in B5 for items we
+created (PPGs, hyperspace, starfuries, shadow ships, on and on) are
+original creations.  Hyperspace was a real toughie.  One thing I wanted
+was a kind of hollow sound, like when you cup your hands over your ears.
+So the sound designer put together a LOT of different sounds, including
+putting a condom over a microphone and putting it deep into his swimming
+pool.  (How he explained the open condom wrappers to his wife later is
+anyone's guess.  "No, really, I needed them to do some sound design.")
+ 
+     I kept a fairly tight rein on sound stuff in the beginning, until
+the sound designers caught what we were after, and now mainly what
+happens is that when we do the audio spotting for the episode, we stop
+at a point where a new sound is needed, or we introduce a new locale in
+the station and have to discuss the audio mapping.  We talk about it in
+general terms, unless I have something terribly specific in mind, and
+the sound folks go off and do it, and I don't think I've had much of a
+problem with anything they've done.
+ 
+     Sometimes, a sound will consist of various pieces, and when we get
+in to do the final audio mix, I/we may go through the pieces and if
+there's  a conflict between a sound effect and a music cue (if both are
+taking up the same space in the low end), we may adjust the sound effect
+or omit one of the pieces to carve out room in the audio and make sure
+they don't just mush together.  This is particularly true given that
+often Chris Franke incorporates lots of natural (and unnatural) sounds in
+his music, and we have to make sure to give emphasis to the right one for
+the dramatic moment.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS' "Murder, She Wrote" on US (4 Aug 1995)
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JMS' "Murder, She Wrote" on US

+4 Aug 1995
     Ah, yes, that episode was the first I wrote for Murder, She Wrote
+while engaged there as writer/producer.  So yes, there should be others
+coming up in the current batch by me.  It really was a fun show in many
+ways; I'd still be there now in all likelihood had not B5 come along when
+it did.  It's hard to find a truly literate show to write for.  And the
+cast was uniformly great, inclusive of Angela and Bill Windom.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS or Ron Thornton (if (4 Aug 1995)
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ATTN: JMS or Ron Thornton (if

+4 Aug 1995
     Oh, good, one more church from which I'm going to have to become an
+apostate....
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
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+Twilight struggle subtext- spo (4 Aug 1995)
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Twilight struggle subtext- spo

+4 Aug 1995
     Without spoiling anything...yes, in this regard, I've always noted
+that there are some echoes of WW II in the overall storyline, and some
+applies here.  Also, again, the purpose of a large measure of the show is
+to elicit discussion of such issues as this...where are the mora,
+(moral) responsibilities in such a situation?  What are the ethics of
+mass warfare?  Where does expediency begin and compassion end?  *Should*
+compassion have to end for the greater good?
+ 
+     If we can start some bar fights, I'll have done my job.
+ 
+     Fact is, I don't have one single damned good answer.  But I've got a
+whole LOTTA questions....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents) (4 Aug 1995)
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Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents)

+4 Aug 1995
      Actually, Lord Refa has an accent almost identical to Londo's, and
+Emperor Turhan had quite an accent as well, so we'e done a lot of this
+already (also Londo's friend in Knives).
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Dialogue writing (4 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Dialogue writing

+4 Aug 1995
     Let me just start off by disagreeing with your thesis, that the
+length restrictions and format of TV writing tend to mitigate against good
+writing.  By that same token, sonnets (which use a very strict formula or
+format) can't be good, or haiku, we should toss out iambic pentameter
+altogether, and short stories, often considerably shorter than a half-hour
+TV script, must also be unable to contain quality writing.
+ 
+     The form doesn't matter.  It's what you bring to the table.
+ 
+     Similarly, the issue of rushed writing...many of the classic SF tales
+of the 50s and 60s were written as fast as humanly possible because back
+then writers were paid a penny a word, and you had to really crank the
+stuff out there to make any kind of living.  It was quite common for writers
+of many of the SF magazines of the time to go into the publisher's office,
+see the cover for an issue a few months down the road, and on the spot come
+up with a title, a story premise, go home, write it, and bring it in the
+very next day.
+ 
+     We're talking here margins.  Margins aren't important.  It's what you
+choose to fill the margins, the care you exercise, the passion you bring to
+the page, that makes the difference.
+ 
+     Yeah, a lot of TV writing is pretty marginal.  Sturgeon's Law: 90% of
+everything is crap.  How many novels are turned out each year that sink of
+their own weight in zero time?  How few novels are really and truly
+substantial?  How many short stories?  Out of all the SF novels and short
+stories and short-shorts and novellas and novellettes published each year,
+how many will survive on the shelf 5, 10, or 15 years from now?
+ 
+     Mark Twain said, "If you would have your fiction live forever, you
+must neither overtly preach nor overtly teach; but you must *covertly*
+preach and *covertly* teach."  That, to me, is one primary ingredient; it
+must, at its root, be *about* something more than car chases and bomb
+blasts and shootouts.  On some level, however cellular, it must instruct
+and ennoble and elevate and enrich, make us question or consider.
+ 
+     Then there is the basic level of writing style, but that is a very
+personal flavor.  Hill Street had an elegance of simplicity, the writing
+was often raw and piercing on a sheer gut level.  I loved it.  When I sit
+down to write, I tend to drift toward a somewhat more literary-sounding or
+theatrical style, probably because of my own influences.
+ 
+     It comes down, really, to whether or not you have the inclination to
+sit down, whichever style you use, and stare at the screen for half an
+hour until you find just the right word, the mot just, that serves better
+than any other possibly could.  Some writers will do that, some won't.
+David Kelly does it on ER and Picket Fences and other shows.  So do the
+folks on The Simpsons.  And many other shows.  A lot of folks dump on TV,
+ignoring similar failinlgs in literary SF or other genres, but like any
+exercise in accepted cliche, the reasoning is flawed and often (though
+not always) unjustified.
+ 
+     As for my personal list of writers whose work I admire...Kelly, as
+noted, definitely.  Mainly, though, I grew up on the genre TV writers of
+the 50s/60s, like Rod Serling, Charles Beaumond, Richard Matheson, Robert
+Bloch (that should be BeaumonT, not Beaumond), Ernest Kinoy, Harlan
+Ellison, Joe Stefano, and though he was fading from view by then, Arch
+Oboler, and the kinetoscopes of Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose and others.
+ Later, I added Norman Corwin to the list, as a chief point of inspiration,
+stylistically.  (There are a number of writers who call or consider
+themselves "Norman's Kids" in that we've learned much about writing, and
+the integrity of writing, from Norman Corwin...including Ray Bradbury,
+Charles Kuralt, Walter Cronkite, Stan Freberg, and many others.)
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN:JMS  Will the Us ever cat (5 Aug 1995)
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ATTN:JMS  Will the Us ever cat

+5 Aug 1995
     The US will be back ahead of the UK very soon, with year three, for
+one vital reason: the US breaks up new shows with reruns; the UK runs
+straight through and stops.  The rerun schedule generally allows us to
+coast along at a reasonable schedule for delivering episodes.  If the UK
+started at the same time as the US in year 3, we'd hit snags as we
+hurried to deliver shows.  (We shoot in 7 working days, or 2 days longer
+than a conventional week...so if you're showing a new ep every true 7
+days, once a week, you're going to get ahead of production very quickly.)
+ 
+     So year 3 starts in the US in November; it will likely start in the
+UK in January/February.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: tLTS Reporter Quote (5 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: tLTS Reporter Quote

+5 Aug 1995
     Yes, "They're being bombed back to the stone age" is a Vietnam era
+quote.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Slight sound glitch (5 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Slight sound glitch

+5 Aug 1995
     "I can't wait to see how ou torture us next week!"
+ 
+     Funny line, that, which you'll understand in a few days.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN:JMS  What's the latest on (5 Aug 1995)
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ATTN:JMS  What's the latest on

+5 Aug 1995
     It should be up on the web by late September.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+"Downbelow" a ref to Cherryh's (2 Aug 1995)
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"Downbelow" a ref to Cherryh's

+2 Aug 1995
     Actually, no, there was no intended not; I wanted the sense that this
+place was down, as in downtown, downtrodden...briefly considered Down Under
+but figured our viewers in Oz might be (rightly) bugged by it.  So Down
+Under became Down Below, and I put them together into one word for slang,
+DownBelow.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATT JMS: Twin Peaks (5 Aug 1995)
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ATT JMS: Twin Peaks

+5 Aug 1995
     I liked Twin Peaks a lot, though the truth is they really had NO idea
+where the heck they were going, and they kinda threw stuff in randomly a
+lot.  (This from one of the staffers over there at the time in the writing
+department.)  If you missed one ep you were screwed in trying to follow it,
+but jeez, it was a great ride while it lasted.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents) (5 Aug 1995)
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Re: JMS- Actors( & Accents)

+5 Aug 1995
     I've never, ever said that the aliens/humans in B5 got language
+translation implants, VIPs or otherwise; that's strictly a Star Trek
+device.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: TLTS<spoiler>dubbed (5 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: TLTS<spoiler>dubbed

+5 Aug 1995
     No, his voice wasn't dubbed, or changed, by anyone; might've been a
+glitch in local audio or something.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS:  The making of CGI s (5 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  The making of CGI s

+5 Aug 1995
     An extensive video clip tape is something we're considering for the
+fan club, yes.
+ 
+	                                                             jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: Profit participation (5 Aug 1995)
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JMS: Profit participation

+5 Aug 1995
     Because if agents ask for gross points on the part of writers or
+certain others, they'll be flatly denied and somebody else will be hired.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+Attn: JMS-What will "Official" (7 Aug 1995)
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Attn: JMS-What will "Official"

+7 Aug 1995
     We've had some preliminary discussions about what would be on the
+official B5 web page, and at the moment, I can't talk about any of the
+things we have in mind until they've been realized.  Much of it is stuff
+definitely not included in other web sites.  Plus some interesting
+opportunities.  Be patient...we haven't dropped the ball elsewhere....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  Writing changes? (7 Aug 1995)
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JMS:  Writing changes?

+7 Aug 1995
     Every show is on deadline, to one extent or another.  As for the
+rest....
+ 
+     It's hard to say.  I know that my style has changed somewhat since
+B5 began, and the approach I take *to* the writing has changed a bit, but
+it's a very hard thing to put into words.  It's like learning a new
+little trick during sex...you're not quite sure where it came from, it's
+still the same concept, but something about it works a little better for
+you.
+ 
+     In one way, because it's my own show, I'm no longer having to yoke
+myself to somebody else's conception.  Whenever you're working for a
+writer/producer above you, a certain measure of your time is spent in
+second-guessing, however much you may also be trying to expand that
+character at the same time.  "
+ 
+     "Okay, I'm going to go this far, but I know if I go *too* far, the
+guy's gonna lean on me, say the character wouldn't do that, and I'll have
+to go back and restructure."
+ 
+     So that problem doesn't exist for me now.  In some ways, it's given
+me greater latitude and confidence, but at the same time it's caused me to
+be *much* more intensely critical in examining my own work.  I know that
+creatively, I'm pretty much out on my own here, and if I don't take great
+care to be sure that the work is up to par, there's nobody to backstop it
+above me.  "With great power comes great responsibility."  Peter Parker.
+ 
+     Probably the main thing that's happened is that I've grown slowly
+comfortable enough with things to begin taking real chances; doing scenes
+without any dialogue whatsoever (the Emperor's fall in "Coming," certain
+long segments of "Twilight"), and some fairly intense monologues; it's let
+me be free enough to do some radical stuff visually, to stretch to the
+limits of what I think I can do.
+ 
+     What happens, if you're a writer who cares about your work, is that
+you write along at one level for a certain amount of time, you hit a
+plateau, this is as good as you are...but you keep poking at the edges,
+and after a while you get frustrated, because your reach is exceeding your
+grasp, and you know this should be *better* than it is, but you don't quite
+know why, or where, you can't conceptualize it...then suddenly you break
+through the ceiling, to another level, and your writing changes from that
+point on...until the next time.
+ 
+     I'm very aware of having gone through several of those since starting
+the B5 series.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Excuse me, I may be ignorant.. (7 Aug 1995)
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Excuse me, I may be ignorant..

+7 Aug 1995
     "I am become" is perfectly acceptable useage, albeit somewhat
+archaic.  It's even in my oft-quoted "Ulysses" by Tennyson: "I am become
+a legend."
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Possible plot twist (7 Aug 1995)
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JMS: Possible plot twist

+7 Aug 1995
     That turn is coming.
+ 
+	                                                              jms
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+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS or anyone: The three (7 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS or anyone: The three

+7 Aug 1995
     Only one of the novels is likely to be an actual arc novel; the rest
+are pretty much on the fringe.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+QUES#1: Before the Agamemnon? (2 Aug 1995)
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QUES#1: Before the Agamemnon?

+2 Aug 1995
     Sheridan was captain of a smaller ship, somewhat Hyperion-sized,
+during the war.  When the Aggy became available, he was given that
+command.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS:  What about next yea (7 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  What about next yea

+7 Aug 1995
     All I can really do for now is hope that they don't do it again
+next year; my gut says probably they won't, but what the heck does my
+gut know?
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: More soundtracks? (7 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: More soundtracks?

+7 Aug 1995
     I would be very happy to see a series of soundtracks out there.
+ 
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn: JMS  B5 & CU-See Me On t (8 Aug 1995)
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Attn: JMS  B5 & CU-See Me On t

+8 Aug 1995
     No, but we *are* investigating the very real possibility that we may
+do some CU-see-me stuff live from the B5 stage during the season, once
+per episode, cast interviews and the like.  Not finalized yet, though.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+Nitpicky question for JMS (8 Aug 1995)
+
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+
Nitpicky question for JMS

+8 Aug 1995
     Actually, ben-Zayn is an Middle Eastern/Arabic name.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Marcus the Ranger (8 Aug 1995)
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Re: Marcus the Ranger

+8 Aug 1995
     The actor playing Marcus is Jason Carter, British, most lately on
+Viper and other shows.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Ellison TREK Book! (from jms) (9 Aug 1995)
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+
Ellison TREK Book! (from jms)

+9 Aug 1995
       It's the story that followers of STAR TREK have been discussing,
+analyzing, disseminating and hearing for nearly thirty years, involving what
+polls and conventions have consistently shown to be the single best episode
+of the original STAR TREK series ever produced: "The City on the Edge of
+Forever."
+ 
+       What *really* happened?  Who *really* did the final produced script?
+How did the original script come to be, what was in it (and almost as
+important, given rumors, what *wasn't* in it), and what do those most
+directly involved have to say about it?
+       For the first time, you'll hear directly not only from Harlan
+Ellison (the article in the TV Guide special ST issue was basically just a
+warm-up), but also from Leonard Nimoy, Peter David, DeForest Kelley, Walter
+Koenig, D.C. Fontana, Melinda Snodgrass and George Takai...not in
+interviews, but in essays they have themselves written on the subject, for
+publication for the first time.
+ 
+       Publication where, you ask?  In THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER, the
+definitive book on the subject just completed by Harlan and those indicated
+above.  The limited edition book contains not only the first version of the
+script, but subsequent revisions, two of the original treatments, actual
+correspondence printed here for the first time which will dispell many of
+the rumors circulating for over 30 years, afterwords by those noted in the
+paragraph above, and a 20,000 word introduction by Harlan Ellison.
+ 
+       Publication of this book is one of the most eagerly awaited events by
+followers of STAR TREK.  Advance orders have been pouring in, and only 330
+copies of the special limited edition remain, at $75 plus $5 shipping and
+handling (UPS insured) from Borderlands Press, a noted and prestigious
+publisher of quality limited edition books.  These will be shipping on
+October 1st.  The book has already been completed, and is now at the
+printers being typeset and bound.
+ 
+       A regular trade hardcover edition will be available later, starting
+December 1st, at a price of $25, plus $5 S&H.
+ 
+       This, as they say, is the Real Deal, with information withheld from
+publication for 30 years, made available here for the first time, along with
+the ability to show the progression through various stages of the script
+that became "The City on the Edge of Forever."  For writers interested in
+studying scripts, for followers of the show who want exclusive behind the
+scenes info, for anyone with an abiding interest in things Trek...this is
+going to be *the* book to buy, the only Star Trek-based book ever likely to
+come from Harlan Ellison, and thus a sure collector's item.
+ 
+       Visa/Mastercard orders can be placed at 1-800-528-3310, or send check
+or money order to BORDERLANDS PRESS, PO Box 146, Brooklandville, MD  21022.
+ 
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Comes the Inquisitor (Coul (13 Aug 1995)
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Re: Comes the Inquisitor (Coul

+13 Aug 1995
      Kosh always speaks of himself in the plural form.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+(no subject) (13 Aug 1995)
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(no subject)

+13 Aug 1995
     Who has time to talk to other writers...?
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS:Comes The Inquisitor (13 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:Comes The Inquisitor

+13 Aug 1995
     Your friend Sharon is clearly a woman of infinite taste and refined
+sensibilities.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Toronto Trek 95 Thoughts (13 Aug 1995)
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Toronto Trek 95 Thoughts

+13 Aug 1995
     I've now heard this report re: Majel several times, and suffice to
+say I'm *most* intrigued.  If anybody out there has a recording -- audio
+or video -- please let me know in private mail.  May be able to swap
+something in return.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: What's delaying VHS/LD in (2 Aug 1995)
+
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JMS: What's delaying VHS/LD in

+2 Aug 1995
     Warners isn't sure there are enough people out there who'd want to
+buy the show to make producing them worthwhile.  So we're trying to help
+them over this.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Help: Big Bang Refunds? (13 Aug 1995)
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Help: Big Bang Refunds?

+13 Aug 1995
     I've been informed of late that, in addition to Michael O'Hare and
+Mark Hammil getting stiffed for, respectively, appearance fees and fees
+plus travel expenses, to the total of $26,000, that the photographer who
+was contracted to shoot the con wasn't paid, neither was security, neither
+were the travel agents for the airline arrangements.  I'm told that Tom
+has gone to ground, and am trying to confirm if he's just blipped off
+the map.
+ 
+     Nearly all these other people, btw, are fans...which is what I was
+worried about, that fans would be the ones hurt by this, which is what
+I said from day one, but the Big Bang apologists came out and said I was
+over-reacting, exaggerating, that *I* was the problem...and now they see
+what's happened, and suddenly they've gone silent and also can't be
+found.
+ 
+     Cassandra, indeed....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: Babylon 5 started in (13 Aug 1995)
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Attn JMS: Babylon 5 started in

+13 Aug 1995
     I hadn't been aware of much of this, and alas I'm powerless to do
+anything about it.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Comes the Inquisitor (13 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Comes the Inquisitor

+13 Aug 1995
      Mentioning just the first name may not have been necessary for
+UK viewers, but it was necessary for the rest of the planet.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: slander vs. you on " (13 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: slander vs. you on "

+13 Aug 1995
     I have never, at any time, owed anybody for a spec script because I
+don't BUY spec scripts, ever; the shows on which I have worked have on
+rare occasions bought spec scripts, but then they've been bought; the only
+time you owe on a spec is if you used it or produced it, and I've never
+done that.  So this person is frankly nuts.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Query re Comes the I (13 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Query re Comes the I

+13 Aug 1995
     "Jack" was the media appellation; whether Sebastian is a first or
+last name is left open.
+ 
+     I looked at who this historical figure could be, but no one else fit
+into the area I wanted.  It was a decision born of necessity, not whim.  I
+needed someone far enough removed not to have any current victims' families
+still alive; someone known to a worldwide population (anonymous wouldn't
+have worked because why would Sheridan have known about him, why should we
+care, why should it resonate, and we'd spend time explaining what he did
+that would have meant cutting out other material in the episode); the
+other serial killers tend to have clear fates, whereas Jack vanished and
+is thus "available" to us; visually that period makes for a striking
+contrast to 2259.
+ 
+     And, again, you have to look at who he *was*...a fanatic, trying to
+clean up Spittlefields (good cause) by hatred (wrong reason) and murder
+(wrong means), the EXACT thing Delenn warns against at the very start of
+the show.  (Did you know there's a letter in the London Times for that
+period that tries to explain the Ripper's motives as a cry ofr
+(for) understanding about conditions in that part of London?)  He felt he
+was a divine messenger, learned he was not, and in bitterness has become
+the single best inquisitor you could've had in that job.
+ 
+     Every single thing about Jack made him *perfect* for that role, as
+mirror, menace and warning sign.  So I used him.  And I'd do it again.
+You have to find what works best for the story, and do it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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ATTN JMS: You've done it again

+13 Aug 1995
     Thanks; it's actually a favorite episode with a lot of folks on the
+show.  Not too dusty, I think....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS (13 Aug 1995)
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+13 Aug 1995
     Fleer cards are due out in September.  Sheridan sent an EA distress
+signal; the Minbari were in genocidal mode, so it didn't matter to them
+the condition of their enemy.
+ 
+     RE: religion, my atheism, and religion in the show...my own
+background...is my own background.  Suffice to say I came to my position
+as an atheist through a long, difficult and trying road.
+ 
+     Have I studied other religions?  Yes.  I was sufficiently interested
+in the subject sui generis that I minored in philosophy during college,
+to the point where I was about 9 credits short of a degree in the area.
+(Well, and a thesis, but why quibble?)  I've read the Bible cover to
+cover, twice; the Bahagavad-Gita, the Book of Mormon, I've got a whole
+shelfload of Zen books, books on Judaism, oriental and occidental
+mythology and religion, the Koran, you name it, I've probably got it.
+It falls under the general heading of, "Humanity trying to understand
+itself, and its role in the universe," and that seems to me a perfectly
+valid impulse.  We just all take different roads to get there.
+ 
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:  B5 Addiction (13 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  B5 Addiction

+13 Aug 1995
     The purpose of writing is that it should have an effect on the
+audience/reader/viewer.  Insofar as that happens, on what grounds could I
+possibly object to folks getting into the show?  (Heck, I live the darned
+thing 24 hours a day, with Londo and G'Kar and Kosh and Garibaldi and
+Ivanova chasing each other around in my head all day and all night; why
+not spread it around a little?)
+ 
+     So far there's been none of the "Oh, god, what have I created here?"
+you cite, because really, I've found that in general, the show tends to
+attract a fairly thoughtful, bright bunch, given some of the complexity of
+the story, so I'm nothing other than thrilled.
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+14 Aug 1995
     BTW, anybody who has a copy (audio or video tape) of Majel Barrett's
+talk at Toronto Trek, in which she mentioned (positively) B5, I'd love to
+get one, may even be willing to swap for it.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS and unauthorized merch (14 Aug 1995)
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Re: JMS and unauthorized merch

+14 Aug 1995
     Yeah, any info on these guys would be great.
+ 
+	                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATT JMS: Well, how did the fir (2 Aug 1995)
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+2 Aug 1995
     Our first three days of shooting have gone terrific; everyone's in
+fine spirits.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Second Year Show Sequence (14 Aug 1995)
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+14 Aug 1995
     Denise/D.D. ...thanks!
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+

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+Brits as villians (was Comes T (14 Aug 1995)
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+14 Aug 1995
     This really is one of the nuttier threads I've seen...we've had
+plenty of Brits on both sides of the issue...David Warner in Grail, the
+character of the Ombuds, many others, plus our new recurring character,
+Marcus Cole, a Ranger played by British actor Jason Carter...I think some
+people are being just a *bit* too sensitive on this.  (Also the doctor in
+"Hunter/Prey" who's on the side of the angels, others.)
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+Re: Ellison TREK Book! (from j (14 Aug 1995)
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Re: Ellison TREK Book! (from j

+14 Aug 1995
     Robert: Harlan is not on the nets, nor does he have a modem, so he
+does not have access.  He is part of the B5 team, and as such I feel no
+more compunction in announcing the book than any appearance at a con by
+one of our actors, or the appearance of an actor in another show or play,
+which I've done from time to time.  People have gone to great length to
+locate my own books, and I figured the same folks would like to know about
+his book, for the same reason.  Finally, Harlan asked if I would do it as
+a friend, since again he doesn't have ACCESS to the nets, and I obliged.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

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+JMS: What Does Your Wife Think (14 Aug 1995)
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JMS: What Does Your Wife Think

+14 Aug 1995
     ...!
+ 
+     I have a *wife*?
+ 
+     Good heavens, why wasn't I informed?  I mean, I know I've been busy,
+but really....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+JMS:  Reflections at the Midpo (14 Aug 1995)
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JMS:  Reflections at the Midpo

+14 Aug 1995
     The overview still holds up pretty well, I think.  Toward the end of
+season two, I think things got just a *tad* too convoluted in places, so
+that's being cleared up a bit, the dry brush trimmed back, the red herrings
+cleared away, because we've got to start focusing on the real story, not
+the misdirections.  That's probably the one thing I'd go back and revise,
+because in general, you can't just bring something up and walk away form
+(from) it later; it's got to either fit, or be reasonably, logically
+explained away.  So some time has to be spent on that now.  But that's
+been done pretty effectively in this first batch of episodes, and now
+we're down to really cranking on the shadow war.
+ 
+     In four more episodes (writing-wise), I'll be at the exact midpoint
+in the story, which on one level is a little hard to believe; it's gont
+(gone) by so fast.  Seems like yesterday that we just got started.  Which
+is why the overview is very helpful; by constantly reminding me where we
+should be, it doesn't let me get lost in the neverwhere of TV production.
+ 
+     All things considered...we've had some bumps on the ride, a detour
+here and there, the occasional flat tire, but doggone it if the old
+jalopy ain't still going exactly where it's supposed to go.  Some days the
+thing seems to have a mind of its own; I started writing #7 the other day,
+and I'm well past halfway finished writing it, it's coming out almost as
+though it already existed, and I've just managed to "tune into" it, like
+the sculpter who knows that inside a block of wood is a horse, he just has
+to start chopping and cutting until he finds and releases it.
+ 
+     So long answer to a short question...we're still on course, and I'm
+still quite pleased with where we're going, and how we're getting there.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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ATTN JMS: Q about the B5 "Bibl

+14 Aug 1995
     Eventually I may publish my notes on the series, assuming it's worth
+publishing.
+ 
+                                                               jms
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+

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+Attn JMS: Butterfly Costumes (14 Aug 1995)
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Attn JMS: Butterfly Costumes

+14 Aug 1995
     Where Delenn gets all those wardrobe changes is one of those
+questions that, in a real world, doesn't warrant close scrutiny.
+ 
+     And yes, her costumes tend to be emblematic of where the character
+is, and who she is.  Consequently, there will be some year three additions
+to underscore her more assertive nature; there's a green costume in
+particular that shows up in the first episode that's just *killer*.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by (14 Aug 1995)
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+14 Aug 1995
     To Robert Merritt: I hear your concern.  My only thoughts on it,
+are that it really isn't a contradiction on Harlan's views on ST, since
+it's very vehement about what happened, and why, and includes the text
+of the TV Guide piece, so you know right off that it's totally
+consistent with his prior statements.
+ 
+     The other thing is the notion of what he's said about people on
+the Internet...this has been blown out of proportion.  He has been often
+and consistently ill-used by some people on the nets who have used this
+great technology to put together anti-Ellison groups, to harrass and
+chivvy him at every turn; it has led to fax bombs, abusive mail, harmful
+rumors, even threats of various sorts, so you can, I think, understand
+why his feelings are not bunny-rabbit cute toward us.
+ 
+     At the same time, though, he has never, to my knowledge anyway,
+dismissed ALL netters; he's addressed his concerns to the venal and
+petty dysfunctional (of which we know a few here in our own neck of the
+woods) who *abuse* the technology.  Heck, he's even begun diving into
+the water lately, doing some on-line conferences to better educate
+himself on the process.  So I don't think we should take his comments
+directed at a portion of the users, and extend them to include everyone
+here, because I don't believe that is the intent or purpose of the
+message from Harlan.  Just a thought for you....
+ 
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
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+Abuse of this newsgroup by JMS (14 Aug 1995)
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Abuse of this newsgroup by JMS

+14 Aug 1995
     On this system, there are discussions of where to find Micro
+Machines, prices on toys, where to find the soundtrack, where to find my
+prior books, where to find cassettes of previous work by other actors,
+and nobody raised a peep about this.  The notification about Harlan's
+book falls into exactly that same category; if people have a problem with
+Harlan, that's their problem, but to say the rest of this is and has been
+okay, but to single this out, is hypocrisy at its most obvious.
+ 
+     I have, on occasion, used this forum to point people to things
+I thought would be of interest, related to their interests, including the
+PBS airing of "The Wrong Trousers," which I promoted here all over the
+place, and which helped lots of them find a show they loved.
+ 
+     So if we're going to make an issue out of this, then we should no
+longer tell anyone where they can find the sountracks, or the toys, or
+the books, or the prices thereof, or actors other work, or my other
+books, which have no relation to B5 other than that I wrote them.
+ 
+     If this were strictly an advertisement for something that had nothing
+to do with B5, then that's one thing, but Harlan Ellison is Babylon 5's
+Conceptual Consultant, and has been for going on three years now, and I
+see absolutely *NO* reason, moral or ethical, why he should be denied the
+support of this forum except some people's compulsion to attack anything
+involving Harlan.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS. Is PTEN going to rec (14 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS. Is PTEN going to rec

+14 Aug 1995
     No, there's no chance of reconsidering, if for no other reason than
+it takes minimum 6 weeks to get changes plugged into TV Guide, and that
+window is gone.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Script book (2 Aug 1995)
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+2 Aug 1995
     Actually, I keep hoping to get the revised version of that book out
+one of these days.  As for sharks...one can choose to become one, or not
+to become one.  Ask anybody.
+ 
+     Ask Londo.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

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+Mr. JMS: Psi Badges (14 Aug 1995)
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Mr. JMS: Psi Badges

+14 Aug 1995
     No, no company has yet licensed B5 badges or pins, including psi
+corps pins.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+14 Aug 1995
     Dennis, what the hell is this "abuse of celebrity" you cite here?
+And what the hell is with this comparison of murdering people?  Are you
+seriously equating telling people about Harlan's book with murder?  Because
+that's what you say in response to Blair's note that it's supportive of a
+friend.  "So is killing your friend's enemies."  That's a horeshit
+and inappropriate metaphor, and you've *got* to know that.
+ 
+     And "abusing" celebrity...please define that for me, Dennis, because
+I'd like to know, specifically, what we're talking about without resorting
+to loaded language and jingoism and catchphrases.  My mandate for what to
+discuss here is pretty damned broad, from where I sit, and I noted in a
+prior note the ways in which this is NOTHING different than what has been
+ done here before, consistently, in non-directly-B5 related ways.
+ 
+     When it came to keeping out story ideas, rather than moderate this
+group, I went to a moderated feed to my mailbox, because I didn't want to
+inconvenience this group.  I spend *hours* a day here, sometimes as many
+as five hours at a shot, over the course of a day, and I don't ask for
+squat in return, I don't ask for personal favors except the non-story idea
+deal which is professional not personal, I answer *endless* questions
+about TV production, and the industry, many of which have NOTHING to do
+with B5 except that they're both television media...and you're telling me
+that the one time I want to do something for someone who works on this
+show, you're gonna bust my chops and accuse me of abusing my position?
+ 
+     I've taken a lot of cheap shots in my time in this forum, but this
+one has to take prize.  Totally aside from everything noted in the
+paragraph immediately preceding this one, there was absolutely NOTHING
+unjustified or inappropriate in that message, given what's gone before.
+ Nothing.
+ 
+     Hell, there have been order forms for the soundtrack posted here,
+prices and phone numbers, forms to give to stores to order the comic or
+the soundtracks, I look at the message headers and there's someone giving
+the ISBN numbers for my prior books which have nothing to do with B5...I
+haven't seen anybody say one damned word about any of that.  This is
+absolutely NO different.
+ 
+     Give me a fucking break already.  This is ridiculous.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  Kosh's Personal Pronouns (14 Aug 1995)
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JMS:  Kosh's Personal Pronouns

+14 Aug 1995
     Re: the reference in "War Prayer."
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+     Oops.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+Re: Help: Big Bang Refunds? (14 Aug 1995)
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Re: Help: Big Bang Refunds?

+14 Aug 1995
     "Cassandra" has nothing to do with respect; it comes from the idea
+of someone warning about possible harm, and nobody believing until it's
+too late.
+ 
+    E?Ka  y`rAnd by the way, Colin, it wasn't just "one man's opinion," it was
+the opinion of me and every other cast member who was there for the
+Planet Hollywood thing.  And it was the opinion of people who *were
+there*, and however a "feeding frenzy" might bother you, it was also the
+absolute truth, as has been borne out by facts.  And sometimes those who
+jump in when they think a "feeding frenzy" is going on, without knowing
+all the facts, end up doing more harm than good, however well-intentioned
+their actions.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Big Bang: Finally over for me (14 Aug 1995)
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Big Bang: Finally over for me

+14 Aug 1995
     I find it very strange that those at the Emperor's Headquarters
+would say they weren't involved in CMC, that it was Tom and some anonymousM+@%~@~
+U<G*D,2
+would say they weren't involved in CMC, that it was Tom and some anonymous
+backers, since the business information provided to me by Tom early on
+lists the same people at T3 as partners in CMC, including Todd Fischer,
+ who I believe owns EH.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Twilight Struggle (spoilers) (14 Aug 1995)
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Twilight Struggle (spoilers)

+14 Aug 1995
     Re: what you could see of the planet's surface...one of the side
+effects of the technology used is that, realistically, it would throw up
+a *hideous* amount of smoke, dust and debris, and you wouldn't see much
+of anything.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+14 Aug 1995
     John Robinson: yeah, sometimes I get a little long-winded...it
+probably would've been more effective if shorter, but I just get all
+excited about something some times, like this book, and before I know
+what happened, I'm looking at paragraphs, I tell you, whole
+PARAgraphs....and then I get confused and fall down.
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+14 Aug 1995
     If I have seemed a bit easily annoyed lately, there is a reason for
+it.  Addressing that reason will require some assistance from some of you
+reading this.
+ 
+     After, and during the Big Bang incident, word began to filter back to
+me that Tom Christofferson was engaging in a smear campaign against many
+of those involved in B5.  This includes me, Claudia, Michael O'Hare and
+others.  This on top of never paying the balance of Michael's fee, not
+paying Mark Hamill, not paying (I'm told) the photographers, or security,
+or travel agents....
+ 
+     So I have been biding my time, waiting and collecting reports as they
+have come back to me.  Several have confirmed Tom's comments, in an attempt
+to discredit my comments about BB, that I had been "thrown out of the
+Writers Guild," plus other aspersions on my career.  Other comments about
+Claudia's personal life have been logged.
+ 
+     Over the last few days, some more aspects of this have come to light
+that have pushed this entire situation over the edge, to the point where
+we are now going to have to take serious action, because people are being
+hurt.
+ 
+     Here is a brief quote from a letter that arrived by mail from
+someone reliable, and involved with the Visions convention.  Two quick
+prefaces: 1) Michael O'Hare had been contacted by Visions about doing a
+convention for them; that discussion suddenly and mysteriously stopped a
+little while ago, and 2) For those who were there, and know, at the Chicago
+Comic Con, when Michael O'Hare was stiffed for $5,000 by Tom Christofferson
+and Big Bang, I conducted the one and only fundraiser I've ever done, to
+make up the difference, and show what fandom was *really* about.  It was a
+shining moment for all involved.
+ 
+     Now the quotes.  (The source has asked for public anonymity for the
+time being, even though we in-house know who this person is.)
+ 
+     "One of the things that REALLY disturbed me is the following
+malicious rumor.  Supposedly, the "real" reason JMS had to hold the
+script auction at Chicago Comic Con was 9$?Bnot because Michael O'Hare
+wasn't paid by CMC, but because "he has a bad cocaine habit" and therefore
+"never has any money."  Apparently JMS supports this particular abuse
+by raising money to help him out.  Normally, I'd ignore this sort of
+thing, but people on the Visions convention staff believe it enough to
+not want MOH coming to the convention this year."
+ 
+     Enough is enough.  This is flatly and totally untrue, and is put out
+only to try and disguise the truth, that CMC did not pay Michael th
+balance of his fee.  There has to be some excuse cooked up, and this is it,
+one whose side effect could be to help destroy someone's career, and ruin
+convention appearances.
+ 
+     Those involved in this slander -- and that is *exactly* what it is,
+not to mention several other charges -- have had enough rope, and now we
+intend to reel it in.
+ 
+     Over the next several days, I will be contacting legal counsel in
+Illinois, including the DA's office, and coordinating with others who
+have been harmed in this way to bring serious charges against those
+involved.  I think a $50 million lawsuit would be a good place to start.
+We will also investigate the question of possible criminal charges to be
+filed.  We will seek to include Hamill's bad checks, and O'Hare's
+situation, and others who have not been paid as well, to broaden out the
+charges.
+ 
+     That to save face for their actions, certain individuals would be
+willing to destroy someone's career, to spread false and malicious
+rumors, against me, and Michael, and Claudia, and others, is something
+that should rightfully inflame every person reading this.
+ 
+     Those behind this are *not* nice people.  And they have had a
+tendency to run their mouths.  (Those at Visions who may have been
+involved in spreading this malicious slander should also consider
+themselves put on notice, and I suggest that they be forthcoming in this
+matter to us to avoid legal entanglements.)
+ 
+     I know that many folks here have had conversations with Tom C.
+in which he has laid out some of his lines.  Some have felt, in their
+messages to me, unsure about repeating what he said because it's like
+snitching.  It's not.  What we are looking at are harmful lies that will
+hurt people, have already hurt Michael, and have the potential to do so
+in future.  This must be addressed, severely, and firmly, and within the
+parameters of a court of law.
+ 
+     If you have been privy to these or other baseless allegations, and
+wish to help Michael and myself and others involved in Babylon 5 by
+fighting this, please send me a private note containing your best
+recollection of what you were told, and when, and if you are wiling to
+restate this under oath.  The more people we have who confirm some of the
+hateful things being represented, the more surely this can be
+prosecuted.
+ 
+     Michael O'Hare has been harmed enough by the loss, by the lies, by
+the failure to meet a promised payment by CMC; Mark Hamill is out well
+over $20,000 from various areas, others have been hurt; to have certain
+individuals out there alleging drug abuse when none exists, trying to
+destroy someone's career on top of everything else to cover their own
+incompetence and deception, cannot and must not be tolerated.
+ 
+     Once again, I extend a request for help to everyone out there who
+has had contact with Visions and CMC and Tom Christofferson, on behalf
+of the fans, and B5 personnel, who have been harmed.  If you can help us
+to close this down, please do so.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     "He (Harlan Ellison) needs the bucks for his medicare payments."
+ 
+     Robert Holland...Harlan makes well into six figures annually.
+ 
+     So let's talk about *your* income now, shall we?
+ 
+     And if that strikes you as a cold, mean-spirited comment...you had
+it coming.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Expressing Appreciation to JMS (18 Aug 1995)
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+18 Aug 1995
     Bruce: that's very much appreciated, thanks.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+2 Aug 1995
     Yes, he did send a fake distress call, and took out the Black Star
+when it came in to (they thought) wipe out a disabled ship.  He's never
+denied this to anybody.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     I don't understand (only getting the tail end of this)...I was not
+at any Babblings gathering at any Page's bar.  Did I miss something?
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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Attn: JMS Paladin of the lost

+18 Aug 1995
     Actually, "Paladin of the Lost Hour" was done by the TZ2 crew before
+my incarnation a year later, so I'm not responsible for that one by
+Harlan (though I will accept credit for helping bring "Crazy As a Soup
+Sandwich" by HE to the screen).
+ 
+     And yes, it's a hell of a good story.  Did I mention here that HE
+just did a reading of this very story, "Paladin" for the Harlan Ellison
+Record Collection, the very first such reading put out on CD?  That you
+can obtain copies of this splendiferous CD by contacting HERC at PO Box
+55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423?
+ 
+     And why am I mentioning it here now?   Oh....just to honk off Dennis
+a little more.  And because by my on-line clock, I've now been on for
+3 hours, 39 minutes, 39 seconds (I literally have to answer everything
+on-line in this news reader or it can't get through), going through 975
+messages, and after a while, y'know...what the heck....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     We've talked to Mark about appearing on the show someday, and he
+probably will, when we've got the right story.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     The fans are in *no* way responsible for the problems at the con,
+that's a whole other situation.
+ 
+     I love your comment that Tom "let JMS out of JMSs contract with the
+con," since I'd never SIGNED a contract of any kind.  This is yet another
+untruth from Tom C.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     Robert Holland: my, how venal you get, how you imply and weasel
+around the truth.  And, frankly, just lie.
+ 
+     "He (Harlan) dislikes fans of any kind.  Including his own."  This is
+an outright fabrication.
+ 
+     I *very* rarely mention stuff for sale on here, except in response
+to requests from others.  Further, the #1 comment from people is that
+they would like more merchandise.  Why is there so little?  Because for
+2 years, I've dragged my heels, resisted and held back on merchandising,
+because I don't want it to get out of hand.  This is a matter of
+longstanding public record.  So much for your "sell sell sell" notion.
+ 
+     "I had the impression Ellison's limited-press book wasn't selling
+well through regular channels."  Impossible, since the book isn't even
+on the STANDS yet.  Further, one of the reasons for putting the word out
+was that they were fast running out of copies...of the 1,000 run limited,
+only about 300 remained availabe, and those were gone quickly, so the
+limited is sold out.  Since most of these were being grabbed up by
+collectors and others, none of whom tend to frequent the net, I figured
+I'd put the word out to others who might now know before they were all
+gone.  So, so much for THAT bit of fabrication.
+ 
+     "(Harlan) writes scripts, then takes his name off when he doesn't
+like the editing."  This is standard WGA policy if a writer feels that
+the end result does not reflect his intent, and he doesn't mind burning
+the occasional bridge.  Where in here is the problem?  That's his right.
+Same right attendent upon ALL WGA members, and used by many.  So what?
+ 
+     "The oddest thing is that Ellison isn't writing any scripts for
+B5...he must have some resentment or disagreement with the arc...very,
+very strange."
+ 
+     No, there's nothing odd or strange here, except in that venal little
+pea-pod you consider your cranial cavity.  Harlan is up to his ears in
+other work, putting out a monthly comic over which he sees every single
+tiny aspect, writing for other shows (including the new anthology cable
+series "Hunger," for which series several leading directors are now
+vying for his completed script), a bunch of new short stories, getting
+the "City" book out the door, getting "Slippage" out the door, getting
+through two angioplasties and substantial earthquake damage which caused
+personal injuries...AND serving on B5 as consultant.
+ 
+     If he had a problem with anything, he wouldn't keep signing on
+every year.  On the one hand, you chastize him for taking his name off
+projects if they're not to his liking, then assume somehow he's working
+on and lending his name to something not of his liking.  That you cannot
+see the paralogia and fuzzy logic there is breathtaking.
+ 
+     Harlan, in short, has a life.
+ 
+     You may want to consider acquiring one of your own...preferably not
+one modeled after the Borgias, which seems your current inclination.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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Re: Help: Big Bang Refunds JMS

+18 Aug 1995
     I don't think it's so much "feeling" that I'm responsible for the
+cast members, and for the fans, I *am* responsible for them, on some
+levels.  Particularly in the case of Big Bang, because I foolishly and
+stupidly fell for the okeydoke and said it looked like a good thing prior
+to flying out and personally checking the thing out...at which point every
+alarm bell in my brain began ringing overtime.
+ 
+     If B5 is used as endorsement, inducement or connection to an event,
+a product, anything, it has to be done *right*, or people are going to get
+burned.  And there's no one out there in that position of verification
+but me.  So I tend to be somewhat protective of our fans, and our cast.
+ 
+     And, I guess, for me, in a lot of ways this show is personal...it's
+potentially the last thing I'll do for TV, if it goes the full 5 years,
+and this is the thing you do for yourself, to leave something you hope
+will be of value behind, that will survive you.  You're not just doing it
+for the money, you're doing it because you kinda *have* to, and when it
+gets reduced to that, or exploited, or those who believe in the show are
+exploited, or ripped off, or conned, or cheated, or given something that
+is inferior or cheap...I go into meltdown.
+ 
+     It is, to quote a Twilight Zone episode about a pitchman, the pitch
+of a lifetime...one for the angels.
+ 
+     And I guess it's because, being a fan, I've been ripped off same as
+everybody else, and I won't have it here.  I refuse.
+ 
+     Finally, in the BB case, I feel particularly strongly; we're fighting
+for Mark every bit as hard as for the regular B5 cast, as for the fans.
+And, again, *I* can be found...others who ran BB can't.  So many of those
+screwed over come to me...and I've heard some doozies...because they
+can't do anything about it.  But I can.  And I will.
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     Dennis: you consider Harlan a "bigot" because he thinks some netters
+are stupid, ignorant, flame-baiting, offensive, venal, vindictive,
+spiteful little web-weasels.
+ 
+     Yeah, Dennis, you know, you're right...looking at some of the notes
+that've come my way, I can't *imagine* where he EVER got a notion like
+that...it can ONLY be bigotry, can't POSSIBLY be true.
+ 
+     Thank you for clearing this up.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     Mike: the other thing that's so annoying in the note you critiqued,
+the "wealthy actors" bit, is that in syndication in particular, ain't
+NObody getting wealthy.  Right across the board, the rates for actors,
+writers and producers are roughly HALF what they are at the network
+level.  Whereas a network hour script gets about $25,000 or more, the
+going rate for syndication is $14,000.  Actors also have a very different
+scale for syndication vs. network.  (This is one of the inequities that
+I think needs to be addressed in light of the growth of syndication; the
+rates were originally given to help syndication get a leg up; well, it's
+GOT its leg up...also the other leg, both arms and a head.)
+ 
+     (Which is why I also find it amusing when someone snipes at me for
+the money I'm making on B5...I was making more as a lowly co-producer on
+MURDER, SHE WROTE than I'm making NOW as Executive Producer of B5 on a
+per-episode salary basis.  But I left M,SW *anyway* to do this because,
+frankly, it's more important to me than just about anything.)
+ 
+     We make this show for UNDER $1 million per episode, as compared to
+DS9, which goes for $1.4 to $1.6 million per episode.  And we put it all
+on-screen.  So believe me, ain't NObody getting rich off this show.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+ 
+     (Which is a long way of saying...I agree with you, you're right.)
+
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+ATTN JMS:CopperCon? (18 Aug 1995)
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+18 Aug 1995
     Don't think I'll make CopperCon this year, alas.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     Laura: suffice to say I've had a very good conversation with the
+Visions people, who seem to basically be good folks who got stuck in a
+bad situation, and we're having some very positive, constructive
+discussions, they're being quite forthright and helpful.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+2 Aug 1995
     Babcom is for local, in-station calls, and inter-ship stuff;
+StellarCom is for long-range planetary calls.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+jms: Lines of Excellence Quote (18 Aug 1995)
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jms: Lines of Excellence Quote

+18 Aug 1995
     "The exercise of vital powers, along lines of excellence, in a life
+affording them scope."  It's not so much a quote as the Greek definition
+of happiness.  I've always felt that contained just about everything you
+need.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     Max: thanks.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+18 Aug 1995
     Sebastian's final words were part of the same sentence he began
+while speaking directly to Sheridan's face...insofar as I have ever
+considered the scene, he IS talking to Sheridan.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+What's it like? (Was Attn JMS: (18 Aug 1995)
+
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What's it like? (Was Attn JMS:

+18 Aug 1995
     What's it like for me?  Race to the studio in the morning, run from
+one meeting to another, with directors, art department, costume department,
+prosthetics, grab an hour with the door closed to write my brains out,
+maybe get onto the stage for 5 minutes to watch a particular delicate
+scene being shot, race back to more meetings, race off to editing, grab
+another couple hours writing, race home, grab a sandwich, write a few
+hours, and do BBSing.
+ 
+     Sometimes, in all that, it's very possible to actually forget what it
+is you're doing, to forget to *enjoy* it, because you're too much in it
+("the world is too much with us").  That happens, alas, all too often.
+ 
+     But every once in a while, one realizes just what one *is* doing,
+from some comments on the BBS (holy smoke, the episode WORKED!), to
+days like today, when there's one scene in particular in dailies with
+G'Kar and Londo, that is *so* perfect, *so* brilliant a performance
+that you realize suddenly what you're doing, and what you've touched,
+and then, for a moment, it's fun.
+ 
+      Then there's another meeting....
+ 
+      Well, I figure I'll probably most enjoy all this long after it's
+finished.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: TFoN: Congrats!( Vag (18 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS: TFoN: Congrats!( Vag

+18 Aug 1995
     The B5 ep C4 is showing on the weekend is a repeat.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+StarQuest'95 and Warner Brothe (18 Aug 1995)
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StarQuest'95 and Warner Brothe

+18 Aug 1995
     Here's what has transpired.
+ 
+     Some time ago, I warned many people here about publicly offering to
+make lots and lots of copies of B5 episodes -- the final 4 -- from the UK
+to the US.  I was concerned about this on many levels.
+ 
+     In the midst of this, one of the netters faxed WB Legal Affairs a
+series of copies of these posts.  At which point WBLA went into total
+and complete meltdown, due to the copyright violation aspects, which are
+rightfully their concern.
+ 
+     They have been with us since, and now monitor the nets.
+ 
+     Public offers of substantial video copying will *invariably* bring
+in such things.
+ 
+     Ivanova's Rule #9: I will *listen* to jms.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Stellar Occasion '95 (18 Aug 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Stellar Occasion '95

+18 Aug 1995
     With regrets, I won't be able to work out stopping by Stellar
+Occasions this year.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Ghostbusters episode you M (18 Aug 1995)
+
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Re: Ghostbusters episode you M

+18 Aug 1995
     Actually, the GBs episode "Night Game," about the baseball game,
+though story edited by me, was written by Kathryn Drennan, author of
+"By Any Means Necessary."  She wrote two other GBs, "Egon's Dragon" and
+"The Man Who Never Reached Home."
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by (18 Aug 1995)
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Re: Abuse of this newsgroup by

+18 Aug 1995
     You know when you can tell that one side of an argument has gone
+belly-up?  When they resort to inappropriate metaphor.
+ 
+     "Well, what if jms posted a Get Rich Quick letter?  Or molested a
+fan in an elevator?  Or committed murder?  Or bombed the World Trade
+Center?  Or...or...or...."
+ 
+     Because they cannot logically defend the area that is under debate,
+they attempt to redefine the debate to something that is indefensible,
+and *totally* irrelevant.  It's not "What if X did Y," it's "Here's X,
+and let's just discuss what DID happen, not what might happen in
+somebody's fevered imagination."
+ 
+     This is SO stupid....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS MID-POINT (18 Aug 1995)
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ATTN JMS MID-POINT

+18 Aug 1995
      No, I was responding to a note re: midpoing in the series from a
+total point of view, i.e., on a 5 year run, year 3 is the midpoint, and
+in fact, in another month or so, I'll have written episode 11 of year
+three, which is the *exact* halfway point on that axis.
+ 
+      I put *zero* faith in the Syd Field school of thought.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Candle motif (5 Sep 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Candle motif

+5 Sep 1995
     Sherry...thank you.  The level of attention to detail is the *only*
+way that this story will be told properly.  It means you sit down with the
+director, and others, and you make totally clear -- there, and in the
+script -- what you saw in your head when you wrote it.  As well as repeatd
+verbal themes, cues, phraseologies, it's important (since this is a visual
+medium) to incorporate visual cues that add to the thematic thrust of the
+piece, that create a mood, or convey an emotion or a thought on an almost
+cellular level.  The hardest part is being careful not to OVER use them,
+because then they lose all meaning and impact.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+!HEY JOE! - Bruce Campbell On (4 Sep 1995)
+
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+
!HEY JOE! - Bruce Campbell On

+4 Sep 1995
     We're certainly open to Bruce C. on the show sometime.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - More on Script (29 Sep 1995)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - More on Script

+29 Sep 1995
     The group critiquing process may be, and likely is, useful when one
+is an art major or learning to write or draw.
+ 
+     Then you have to leave that nest and fly on your own.  The whole
+PURPOSE of workshops and critiquing should be to help you find your own
+voice (for a writer) or your own eye and style (if an artist).  It should
+help you make the work more muscular, and less artificial...peeling away
+the layers until just the individual stands there, saying *exactly* what
+he wants to say.  The group isn't there to make you write like the group,
+or please the group; it's there as a means of finding your own voice.
+ 
+     Once you've found it, you have to walk away.  Otherwise the whole
+endeavor has been for nothing.
+ 
+     Back in college, I took two writing workshops led by Richard Kim, a
+transplanted Korean novelist, very well regarded.  I learned a *hell* of a
+lot.  I signed up for a third semester.  Now, mind, I liked  the class,
+we liked each other, it was good.  FIrst day of class, he looked out,s aw
+me, and said, "Go.  You've learned all you can learn.  Don't take any more
+workshops, from me or anybody else here.  You have the tools, now find your
+voice.  If you stay here, you'll risk losing it."  At the time, I felt
+as though it were a rejection, but over time I began to understand what he
+was talking about.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Jeannette announces JMS' B (30 Sep 1995)
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Re: Jeannette announces JMS' B

+30 Sep 1995
     When we first announced casting Walter Koenig on B5, lots of people
+moaned, "Oh, no, not Chekov on B5."  What you got was Bester, who has
+become one of our most noted and discussed characters.  It's unfortunate,
+but some people confuse the role with the person.  "...the worst character
+ever in the entire ST universe" has nothing to do with the person, or the
+role she will be portraying: the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's third
+wife, a prophetess and seer.  It's a *very* serious, significant role,
+absolutely unlike anything she's done before.
+ 
+     This, btw, is called "typecasting," which is one of the primary
+reasons why so many talented actors who helped to create Star Trek and
+other series couldn't get work for so many years...they did so good a
+job that they forever *became* that character.  Let's not be guilty of
+that crime here.  Majel's character will no more be Troi than Bester is
+Chekov.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Will you write B5 af (30 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Will you write B5 af

+30 Sep 1995
     The question is a bit like asking someone climbing Mount Kilimanjaro
+"Think you'll do more of this again later?" when he's at the halfway
+point, the ledge is half an inch across, the ice is slipping and the wind
+is biting his nose off.  When I've recovered, I'll think about it....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Mira Furlan in LA Play (30 Sep 1995)
+
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Re: Mira Furlan in LA Play

+30 Sep 1995
     BTW, yesterdays' LA Times gave Mira's play a glowing review, very
+positive, which is terrific.
+ 
+	                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Uk TV Listing!! (30 Sep 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Uk TV Listing!!

+30 Sep 1995
     Oh, that's *wonderful*...could you send me a copy of that piece?
+The address here in the US is as follows:
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.  Send it to
+my attention; I'll post it on the B5 stage wall for others to
+appreciate.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
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+
+Comes the Inquisitor - no spoi (4 Sep 1995)
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+
Comes the Inquisitor - no spoi

+4 Sep 1995
     I don't think Wayne has done that much TV work before, he's primarily
+a stage actor, but in any event, he's certainly brilliant as Sebastian.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS, a few questions abo (5 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: JMS, a few questions abo

+5 Sep 1995
     Suffice to say we will get into many of those questions in the final
+four eps....
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: B5 Audience Demograp (5 Sep 1995)
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Attn JMS: B5 Audience Demograp

+5 Sep 1995
     The demographic info is of little use to me, only to advertisers; and
+in that respect, we have a large concentration in the 18-49 age range,
+high disposable income, usually high school or college educated, so the
+commericals have sold quickly and well for WB.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: TCOS emperor analysi (5 Sep 1995)
+
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+
Attn JMS: TCOS emperor analysi

+5 Sep 1995
     The emperor said exactly what, in the hallway, Londo said he said.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Harlan Ellison (5 Sep 1995)
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+
Harlan Ellison

+5 Sep 1995
     You're in luck: White Wolf Press has signed a deal in which they will
+put back into print something like 25 of Harlan's books; they should start
+hitting bookstores around the Fall.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+!HEY JOE! - The Season III Ope (5 Sep 1995)
+
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!HEY JOE! - The Season III Ope

+5 Sep 1995
     Haven't recorded the new open yet, but will soon.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Spoiler (tFoN): Jewish Themes (5 Sep 1995)
+
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Spoiler (tFoN): Jewish Themes

+5 Sep 1995
     Moshe: an excellent analysis of the theme behind that scene, which
+as you state ties directly into the theme of the whole episode, and
+moreover, somewhat sets up the theme for the coming season...who will
+determine your identity, the rules you follow, who will lead you, and
+who you are...the question of, as you say, those who wish to accommodate
+and give in to pressures from within and from without.
+ 
+     Didn't want to be heavy-handed about it, so I figured those who got
+it, got it; those who didn't, would see a nice candle scene which sets
+the mood, even if they don't get the full thematic/symbolic aspects that
+others would get.
+                                                                    jms
+ 
+     (not a Talmudic scholar, but I play one on TeeVee....)
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadows and Numerical Progress (5 Sep 1995)
+
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Shadows and Numerical Progress

+5 Sep 1995
     Give Tim Lynch a ceegar.  Yes, more ships are starting to appear,
+as more ships become available.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+
+B5 mentioned in latest Economi (6 Sep 1995)
+
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+
B5 mentioned in latest Economi

+6 Sep 1995
     Okay, fine, so what did the Economist SAY?
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Attn: JMS Fall Of Night Spoile (1 Sep 1995)
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Attn: JMS Fall Of Night Spoile

+1 Sep 1995
     There was no deliberate homage, but the individual who helped design
+that, working with me, was Steve Burg, who has worked on Abyss and T2.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+
+ATTN JMS: BLACK STAR (6 Sep 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: BLACK STAR

+6 Sep 1995
     Minbari ships, representative of Minbari culture, also have the
+three castes present (worker, religious, warrior).
+ 
+	                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Cdn connection to B5 (6 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Cdn connection to B5

+6 Sep 1995
     There can be no issue of Canadian content, or connection, to B5
+since B5 is not filmed in Canada, but is filmed in the general Los
+Angeles/Valley area.  No canadian company produced EFX for us either.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: !Dude(s)! - Here Is The B5 (6 Sep 1995)
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Re: !Dude(s)! - Here Is The B5

+6 Sep 1995
     To all reading this thread: you don't have to buy the B5 font from
+ANYone who says he has created one.  We use Serpentine Medium Bold, which
+is freely available on most any decent font package.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: You are an idiot with mus (6 Sep 1995)
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JMS: You are an idiot with mus

+6 Sep 1995
     Chris: before you go around calling people (viz: me) an idiot, you
+may want to, perhaps, get your facts straight.  We had planned on having
+Stewart Copeland (not John Copeland, who is our producer, though this is
+the name you cite) do our series music, but he declined, wanting to take
+the time to tour and try to work on an album.  He was not available to us.
+ 
+     That said, I am *extremely* happy with Christopher Franke's work, and
+think it adds immeasurably to the quality of the show.
+ 
+     Idiot comments notwithstanding.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Budgeting Question (6 Sep 1995)
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JMS: Budgeting Question

+6 Sep 1995
     Each show does have its own budget, but they rarely vary much from
+the "pattern budget," which is the amount that overall each one should
+cost.  If we do one episode that's a huge blow-out, of course, we'll try
+to make the next one a little less huge, just to be sensible.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Messages from Ea (6 Sep 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Messages from Ea

+6 Sep 1995
     Whether it's "bland" or not depends on what the messsages might be,
+yes?  The only thing I'll say for the episode is that it may be one of the
+biggest whams of the first half of year three, and one of our most
+ambitious episodes of the series.  Generally, my feeling is that titles
+should augment the episode, or add something, or collapse something into
+a thematic whole.  When you see what convictions are at hand, the episode
+"Convictions" as a title works better; ditto for "Messages."
+ 
+     Besides, a nice, quiet, inoffensive little title gives me a better
+chance to sneak up behind you and whack the heck out of you....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+jms            Ambient camera (6 Sep 1995)
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jms            Ambient camera

+6 Sep 1995
     I think that visual style, much as I like it, would probably get in
+the way on a show like this.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+The White Star (Season 3 Spoil (6 Sep 1995)
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The White Star (Season 3 Spoil

+6 Sep 1995
     Actually, I don't believe I've said *anything* on any system about
+this question.
+ 
+	                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: I fondled a Celebrity!!! (6 Sep 1995)
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Re: I fondled a Celebrity!!!

+6 Sep 1995
     At this stage, not having talked with Claudia, I don't know if the
+escapade is true or not, but basically it's harmless, and I wouldn't be
+at all surprised.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+jms - Advertising budget for 3 (7 Sep 1995)
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jms - Advertising budget for 3

+7 Sep 1995
     There is an advertising budget for year three, but I don't yet
+know what that is in toto.
+ 
+                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS : Anwers on last 4 ep (1 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS : Anwers on last 4 ep

+1 Sep 1995
     Public questions will be answered if sufficiently vague or cloaked in
+spoiler notice; private will be answered if brief.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Season 3 (7 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Season 3

+7 Sep 1995
     I am thus far *very* happy with season three; we've got three shows
+in the can (edited, not yet scored or mixed), and shooting number four
+as I type this.  I think we're already a notch above our general episodes
+from year two, and "Convictions" is extremely intense, with a very
+different look and feel from anything we've done before.  Has kind of an
+NYPD Blue feel to it.
+ 
+     Next week we start filming "Passing Through Gethsemane," directed by
+Adam Nimoy, guest-starring Brad Dourif.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Casting Suggestion: Edwar (7 Sep 1995)
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JMS: Casting Suggestion: Edwar

+7 Sep 1995
     Woodward, we're told, generally doesn't do syndicated TV.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS Please Keep Writing (7 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Please Keep Writing

+7 Sep 1995
     You learn to write by writing.  You learn to write better by never
+settling or getting too comfortable with your own work.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS - Is con Con-Rad Real (7 Sep 1995)
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Attn JMS - Is con Con-Rad Real

+7 Sep 1995
     We've been contacted about an awards ceremony, but details are still
+being worked out.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Shadows and Numerical Prog (7 Sep 1995)
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Re: Shadows and Numerical Prog

+7 Sep 1995
     Never said you're seeing their entire fleet, you're seeing what they
+can afford to send out at any given moment on relatively low-priority jobs.
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: WB Legal Dept (9 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: WB Legal Dept

+9 Sep 1995
     A is fine; B may get dicey since admission is charged...if it ain't
+direct admission, that's different.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Attn JMS: TLTS battle (spo (9 Sep 1995)
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Re: Attn JMS: TLTS battle (spo

+9 Sep 1995
     "Why didn't the fighters do anything?"
+ 
+     They did.  Look more closely.  They engaged the Narn fighters in
+dogfights all over the place.  They're hardly more than specks against the
+huge ships, but they're definitely there.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Interplanetary Exped (9 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Interplanetary Exped

+9 Sep 1995
     Interplanetary Expeditions will figure *prominently* in at least one
+year three episode.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Re: I fondled a Celebrity!!! (9 Sep 1995)
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Re: I fondled a Celebrity!!!

+9 Sep 1995
     <fweeet!>*  Okay, folks, look, I spoke to Claudia, and the story as
+recounted is fairly accurate.  Claudia was in RenFair mode, which to her
+is another role to be played, and it was just in jest, horsing around.  The
+thing about Claudia is she doesn't back down from any kind of challenge,
+a trait she shares with Ivanova, and when called upon, responded.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+ 
+     (*ten credits to the comics fan who recognizes that cry)
+
+

+
+
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+A Few Questions for JMS (9 Sep 1995)
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A Few Questions for JMS

+9 Sep 1995
     We'll see more of the Epsilon 3 complex this coming season, yes.
+ 
+	                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: WB/Turner = B5 on TB (1 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: WB/Turner = B5 on TB

+1 Sep 1995
     No chance of B5 on DSS or Turner.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Request younger (9 Sep 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Request younger

+9 Sep 1995
     Excuse me, but I don't believe in ageism on either end of th
+spectrum.  I don't hire old writers, I don't hire young writers: I hire
+WRITERS WHO CAN WRITE.  Period.  Some, like Scott Frost, are in their late
+20s/early 30s; some like Peter David and Marc Zicree are in their 40s;
+some like David and Dorothy and Harlan are older.  Young writers are not
+intrinsically better or worse than old writers, and vice-versa.  This is,
+frankly, a dumb discussion; substitute "white" or "black" for young or
+old, and the stereotyping and illogic of the discussion should be evident.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Takishima -- SPOILERS for "Div (9 Sep 1995)
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Takishima -- SPOILERS for "Div

+9 Sep 1995
     Mike: your assessment is pretty much correct.  Laurel was to be the
+traitor initially; as I noted long, long time ago, and you quoted, she was
+not, in fact, acting entirely under her own volition.  There would indeed
+have been an implanted personality there, acting without even her knowing
+about it.  And it would've been this implanted personality that would've
+shot Garibaldi.
+ 
+     When I took Laurel off the board, elements of this were transferred
+to other characters.  This is the kind of thing I mean when I say that even
+with changes here and there, the story continues to go where I want it to
+go.  We don't necessarily remember *which* general put the briefcase with
+a bomb next to Hitler's chair in the bunker, only that it got done.  Some
+chairs are moveable, some are not, as anyone who's ever written a novel
+from an outline can tell you...you start moving the chairs around, but you
+always keep going where you're going.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Roswell Tape Rx (9 Sep 1995)
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Roswell Tape Rx

+9 Sep 1995
     I cannot have any kind of informed opinion about the Roswell films,
+since I have no more information than anyone else, which is to say, just
+that which was presented in the Fox special.
+ 
+     I can only make one observation: whenever we have had an alien
+character in the show get wounded, and bleed, it's a hideously difficult
+process, and you run point-to-point tubes with blood; it spurts from one
+location, the spot where the tube ends.  (Just getting G'Kar's hand to
+bleed in one of the final four eps was a pain in the ass.)
+ 
+     The body upon which they performed the autopsy bled smoothly from the
+entire surface of each cut and incision.  Even with the best prosthetics
+available to us right now, we couldn't do this.  So if it's a fake, it's
+the most clever one in history, and uses technology nobody else has yet.
+The person behind it could write his own ticket in the EFX/prosthetics
+business *bigtime*.
+ 
+	                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS (or anyone else) -- Sex an (9 Sep 1995)
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JMS (or anyone else) -- Sex an

+9 Sep 1995
      "What kind of birth control do the Centauri use?"
+ 
+      Conversation.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+jms - What time do you get up (9 Sep 1995)
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jms - What time do you get up

+9 Sep 1995
     Unfortunately, in my case, I'm all over the map, depending on when
+meetings are held...sometimes very early, sometimes later in the morning.
+I'm usually up until at least 3 a.m. every night of the week, sometimes
+as late as 4-4:30 a.m., so how much actual sleep I get is a very flexible
+notion.
+ 
+     As for the crew...crew call is 7 a.m. M-F, as a rule.  If an alien
+is in the first scene, prosthetics crew can sometimes show up as early as
+6:00 a.m.  Actors and crew actually hit the stage at 9 a.m.  (7-9 is spent
+basically waking up, rigging lights, setting up cameras, other stuff.)
+ 
+     We shoot until about 7 p.m., rarely any later.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS,  Star requests? (9 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: JMS,  Star requests?

+9 Sep 1995
     If we has the money ST has to offer, we could get major stars, but
+we don't; most of the guest stars we get are drawn by the quality of the
+material.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
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+Attn: JMS B5 franchise (9 Sep 1995)
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Attn: JMS B5 franchise

+9 Sep 1995
     I can only reply to one message at a time, so this has to be a
+public note, Greg.
+ 
+     Yes, WB owns the copyright to B5.  Could they continue it past the
+fifth year?  Technically, yes, they could, without my participation (though
+as indicated, there's always been a side-story/alternate series, and that
+would be the way to go, though I think the odds on that ever going ahead
+are doubtful.)
+ 
+     Which is why I made sure we shoved a bomb down B5's throat in the
+early stages.  It's got a self-destruct mechanism built right into it.
+ 
+     See, usually, when you make series deals with actors an
+sub-contractors (like Foundating Imaging, our prosthetics people, others),
+you go for 7 year options.  TNG, for instance, had 7 year options; as do
+the other ST shows.  This is fairly standard.
+ 
+     When we made the deals for B5, we made them...for five years.
+ 
+     During those five years, salaries and fees are all set ahead of time.
+This serves you well, in the sense that Foundation's name is already
+growing, and somebody coming in now would have to pay more than we are,
+also in part since we helped them get going.  Actors, once freed from the
+pre-set salaries, on a hit show, come back and renegotiate.
+ 
+     The result of all this...is that if WB wanted to do a sixth season
+of B5, the costs of going back and making deals with all these people and
+sub-contractors and others would be SO hideous, so terrible, that it
+couldn't be done for anywhere near the money available.
+ 
+     So, as stated...the show is designed to fiscally self-destruct at
+the end of the fifth year.  What other projects may follow will have to
+be totally separate situations, assuming they're done at all, which is
+highly doubtful.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+Is the President really dead? (11 Sep 1995)
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Is the President really dead?

+11 Sep 1995
     President Santiago is dead as a doorknob.
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: M,SW/Night Fear (11 Sep 1995)
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Attn JMS: M,SW/Night Fear

+11 Sep 1995
     Actually, yes, I do have a pet theory about who the Ripper was, but
+I'm so embarrassed over the west end/east end typo in one of our episodes
+that I don't know if I'll ever have enough courage to broach it to anyone.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn jms: An Absence of Rabbit (11 Sep 1995)
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Attn jms: An Absence of Rabbit

+11 Sep 1995
     No problem there.  In life, we kinda get to know what to expect on a
+day to day basis...but that doesn't stop crises from coming at us out of
+nowhere (though if we'd been smart enough we could've seen them coming),
+and sometimes the worst thing is that we DO see it coming, and are sure we
+can somehow avoid it...and still get hammered.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Were the Narns in Space? (1 Sep 1995)
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+
Were the Narns in Space?

+1 Sep 1995
     The Raghesh 3 claim is only about 20 years old; the Centauri came to
+Narn over a hundred years ago.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: What would you do if.... (11 Sep 1995)
+
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JMS: What would you do if....

+11 Sep 1995
     Doesn't matter what I'd write; they'd never let me shoot it.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+= ATTN. JMS:  Proper Vorlons? (12 Sep 1995)
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= ATTN. JMS:  Proper Vorlons?

+12 Sep 1995
     We will see them.  Eventually.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Just how many people watch B5? (12 Sep 1995)
+
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Just how many people watch B5?

+12 Sep 1995
     I have it on good authority that we're watched by at *least* seven
+people.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Where did Kosh go? (12 Sep 1995)
+
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ATTN JMS: Where did Kosh go?

+12 Sep 1995
     First he returned to his encounter suit, then he went to his ship,
+and stayed there for quite a while.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Doors and such (12 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Doors and such

+12 Sep 1995
     You'll notice the doors are wedged, with overlapping, key-like
+sections into which the doors settle.  When they close, the sound you hear
+is the door sealing shut, and pins extruding into place to keep the door
+shut (in the key-wedges).  That's also why they slide down, rather than
+part in the middle; it's totally airtight in case of pressure falls.  So
+yes, we *did* think of it, and took care of it, by thinking of a new way
+to do the doors.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS:  Pres. Clarke's car (12 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: JMS:  Pres. Clarke's car

+12 Sep 1995
     No, telepaths are generally excluded from holding high public office.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Season 3 (12 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Season 3

+12 Sep 1995
     Brad read the script, fell in love with the part, and dived for it.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS:  Titles (was Message (12 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Titles (was Message

+12 Sep 1995
    No, sorry, the titles kinda have to be where they are....
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN: JMS Crew Autographs (12 Sep 1995)
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+
ATTN: JMS Crew Autographs

+12 Sep 1995
     To get autographs, send a self-addressed stamped envelope, and what
+you'd like signed, to the B5 mail drop.  (Note: WB doesn't pay for any
+photos, the cast pay for those out of pocket, so it's hard for them to
+oblige on this.)  The address is:
+ 
+     14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, and make
+sure you put ATT: (CAST NAME), C/O BABYLON 5
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+*JMS* ATTN: JMS *JMS* JMS (or (12 Sep 1995)
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*JMS* ATTN: JMS *JMS* JMS (or

+12 Sep 1995
     The definition of "conversation"....ah, of course, you mean oral
+intercourse.
+ 
+     Ain't the language just one great big lovely pinata of unexpected
+wonders...?
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Trading Cards (detai (1 Sep 1995)
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+
Babylon 5 Trading Cards (detai

+1 Sep 1995
     That list omits Sinclair, who is definitely in the set.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS (one question) (12 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: JMS (one question)

+12 Sep 1995
     At this point it's too early for me to even *think* about what I will
+or can or can't do with the side-story...just getting this puppy out the
+door is a full-time obsession....
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Shadows and problems... (12 Sep 1995)
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Shadows and problems...

+12 Sep 1995
     I would not create a race as potentially unstoppable as the shadowsx
+(shadows) without making sure they had one -- but only one -- Achilles'
+heel.  Though it may take our characters a long time to figure out what
+that is...almost *too* long....
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn: JMS B5 Walking the Talk (12 Sep 1995)
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Attn: JMS B5 Walking the Talk

+12 Sep 1995
     Correct; while one cannot deny the effects of poverty, and drugs, and
+crime, and illiteracy, there's something numbing and destructive about the
+death of myths, of a broader social mythology, and we're working hard to
+provide that.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Is Sheridan an Atheist? (12 Sep 1995)
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Is Sheridan an Atheist?

+12 Sep 1995
     Basically, Sheridan believes in a lot of things; he's very eclectic
+in his views, can incorporate lots of different perspectives, and has a
+respect for all views.  In one of the early season 3 eps, in fact, one
+character upbraids him for having "no clearly defined pattern of faith,"
+to which Sheridan replies, "I'm eclectic, open-minded."
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS - How to Keep New Vie (12 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS - How to Keep New Vie

+12 Sep 1995
     Of course, that would require lopping a minute or so of program
+content to make room for that synopsis...and I don't think I want to do
+that.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS:  "Messages" Move? (12 Sep 1995)
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JMS:  "Messages" Move?

+12 Sep 1995
     Both 7 and 8 would both be seen in the second round of episodes;
+we did the switch to pair up the right episode with the right director.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Closing Speech in "TLTS" (19 Sep 1995)
+
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JMS: Closing Speech in "TLTS"

+19 Sep 1995
     Certainly, Sheridan is slowly growing more into a leader who must
+be able to step to the front in this kind of way, yes.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn: JMS - Cameo and other st (19 Sep 1995)
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Attn: JMS - Cameo and other st

+19 Sep 1995
     No, I have no plans to ever make a cameo appearance on B5....
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: British editors on r (19 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: British editors on r

+19 Sep 1995
     I'd only heard about the one G'Kar scene being chopped; there were
+more?   Sigh...
+ 
+                                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: "Time On Target" (mi (19 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: "Time On Target" (mi

+19 Sep 1995
     It's an actual military term for launching a lot of stuff, so that
+even though it's launched at different times, it all arrives at once.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  Merger? (1 Sep 1995)
+
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JMS:  Merger?

+1 Sep 1995
     I doubt the merger will have any effect on us whatsoever.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Attn JMS: Londo's believabilit (19 Sep 1995)
+
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Attn JMS: Londo's believabilit

+19 Sep 1995
      He's as believeable as any person would be under those conditions; we
+often go off the far end, come back, screw up, make up...it's what we do,
+we're a mass of contradictions.
+ 
+                                                                       jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Canadian TV GUIDE 16-22 Sept (19 Sep 1995)
+
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+
Canadian TV GUIDE 16-22 Sept

+19 Sep 1995
     Would love to get a copy of this article, if at all possible.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Fweeet! (Was:Re: I fondled a C (19 Sep 1995)
+
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Fweeet! (Was:Re: I fondled a C

+19 Sep 1995
     <fweet!> is what they used in the comics when the silver age Hawkman
+spoke to his birdie-buddies.  (Some of you got this.)
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS: Slow motion? <CoS & Chrys (19 Sep 1995)
+
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JMS: Slow motion? <CoS & Chrys

+19 Sep 1995
      Slow-motion (or camera overcranked) is almost always indicated in
+scripts.  I like slow-mo.  It can add a dreamlike quality to a shot, and
+prolong a sense of imminent trouble.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: MO'H's Departure (was Re: (19 Sep 1995)
+
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+
Re: MO'H's Departure (was Re:

+19 Sep 1995
     I can't believe this discussion has come back again.
+ 
+     Okay, this to Robert Holland and all the other jerks who can't
+seem to get it right.  This is the only thing I'm going to say on thi
+issue because everything I have to say, I've said elsewhere, repeatedly,
+and despite everything, this keeps coming up.
+ 
+     Quite simply...what the fuck business is it of yours?
+ 
+     What happens between Michael, or any other actor on this show, and me,
+is my business, and theirs, not yours.  You have no right to an
+information otherwise.  Fuck off.
+ 
+     Every time this comes up, I tell the person who drags it out of the
+mud, "Okay, give me the name and address of the last couple of employers
+from whom YOU parted company.  Let me start speculating about that on the
+nets."  But they always decline.  Because they're goddamn cowards who like
+to speculate on how somebody ELSE left their job, what *really* went on,
+because well, that's FUN and it's their BUSINESS and why NOT...but when it
+comes THEIR turn, well, that certainly isn't right, that's not fun, and
+it's nobody else's business.
+ 
+     (And don't give me the "public persona" crap either; by posting here
+ad infinitum you're just as public as anybody else in this discussion.)
+ 
+     What infuriates me most about this is that I just got back from
+spending 4 days in the company of Michael O'Hare...we were on panels
+together, we had dinners, lunches and breakfasts together, we hung out
+(all, I hasten to point out, in the company of witnesses), we had a great
+time because we know and understand the situation, and we're both
+comfortable with it.  And then I come back here to find THIS shit going
+on again.
+ 
+     Why don't you guys just get a frigging life that doesn't involve
+sticking your snout into other people's business, and maybe tend to your
+own...or give us the same opportunity to do the same to you, and your
+employer/employee history.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Theo (the name) (19 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Theo (the name)

+19 Sep 1995
     Finding character names is sometimes easy, sometimes hard; it really
+does vary.
+ 
+     And Theo was named for Vincent's brother.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+The dancer and the dance (20 Sep 1995)
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The dancer and the dance

+20 Sep 1995
     What I love is when I hear somebody say, "Well, if Patrick Stewart
+were playing this role, nobody'd say HE was wooden."  I wish those people
+had a better sense of history, because when the reviews of TNG's first
+season came out, just about every reviewer around called TNG's acting --
+Stewart included -- wooden.
+ 
+     Revisionism...it's a lovely thing....
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS - Wolf359 (21 Sep 1995)
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+21 Sep 1995
     Majel Barrett-Roddenberry and I got on quite well, as you note; we
+set aside any prior misunderstandings and got on with it.  We hung out,
+joked a lot together during autograph signings, had a late dinner (along
+with Michael O'Hare and Ed Wasser), and she told the audience at her
+presentations that she considered B5 the only other intelligent SF show
+now on the air, suggesting that fans support the show.
+ 
+     It was, overall, a very pleasant experience, problems with air
+conditioning (or the lack thereof) notwithstanding.  The attendees were
+great, polite and friendly and enthusiastic about the show...a most
+impressive experience.  And the clips from upcoming year 3 episodes went
+over *very* well, including a scene with Londo and G'Kar that is likely
+my favorite of the series to date.  (Another scene with Londo and Lennier,
+btw, contains a small nod to the online fans of the show; we can't and
+won't use story ideas, but there's been so much humor, reams and reams
+of it, every imaginable kind of joke, that I dropped one of these jokes
+into an episode...one that's come up at a lot of conventions and on the
+nets endlessly.  Just to acknowledge the fans in the only way I can.)
+ 
+                                                             jms
+
+

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+21 Sep 1995
     Thanks; the initial perception (oh, look, another ST ripoff) is
+something we really had to fight hard to overcome, so you're not alone in
+that.  Thanks for being open to checking us out.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+22 Sep 1995
     If the WB network and UPN merge it'll have little to no effect on us,
+since PTEN is a different arrangement altogether.  That's my suspicion,
+at least, until I hear otherwise.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+ATTN JOE: Micro Machines and a (1 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JOE: Micro Machines and a

+1 Sep 1995
     Let's see...the new MMs have Earthforce 1, an atmospheric shuttle,
+a Narn heavy cruiser (from Coming of Shadows)...and that's all I can
+recall just now.  I posted a full list on GEnie, but can't remember them
+all now.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+ATTN: JMS - SCRIPTS (22 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - SCRIPTS

+22 Sep 1995
     I always leave a fair amount of flexibility in the series/season
+outlines; to do otherwise seems foolish.
+ 
+     We don't generally do a lot of revisions.  Once in a great while
+you'll get something that goes through 4 colors (drafts are color coded),
+but they're rare.  And invariably *all* such drafts after the first are
+mainly revised to handle set changes or production requirements, not
+story, dialogue or other creative stuff.  This season, in all but one
+case, I write the first draft, clean it up a bit for the second/final
+draft, it goes into production, we adjust for sets ("Can we make this
+the conference room instead of Sheridan's office so we can do it on the
+same stage and avoid a camera move to stage in the middle of the day?"),
+and it's filmed as written.
+ 
+     There's often a perception -- I saw it again at Wolf 359 -- that
+lots and lots of people have input into the writing of the script.  Not
+so.  I write it alone.  Nobody sees nothin' until the first draft is
+finished.  I then show it only to WB (which hasn't given me a single
+script note since episode 4, year 2), producer John Copeland (who looks
+at it for any possible production headaches, too many extras or sets,
+other physical elements), my partner Doug Netter (who doesn't generally
+give creative notes, as per our tradition), and if necessary, Ron at
+Foundation, Optic Nerve, and the director.  A couple of cast members
+like to look at first drafts, just out of curiosity to know what's
+coming next, but don't give notes or suggestions.
+ 
+     Once I have in hand any production hiccups, I clean up the draft a
+bit, adjust the production, EFX or prosthetics elements, make my last
+minute personal revisions on the script (dialogue, structure, whatever),
+then it's published as a Final Draft which goes to everyone in the cast
+and crew.  The various departments then begin work on realizing what's
+in the script.  We have meetings to discuss it to make sure everyone's
+on the same page.  I meet with the director to make the same assurances.
+Last minute production-oriented changes are made ("Do we have a Ranger in
+among the extras here?  Do we need 12 Narns or will 8 do?").
+ 
+     And then the script hits the stage, and we shoot it.  As written.  If
+an actor has a problem with a particular word, it can be changed after
+checking with me to make sure that word isn't there for a very special
+reason (a clue, foreshadowing, whatever).
+ 
+     The scripts are extremely detailed, with inserts, camera angles,
+slow-mo indications if necessary, lighting notes, you name it.
+ 
+     Some scripts I tinker with a lot before issuing that first draft;
+others blow right out of the printer as though pre-written.  Sometimes
+the most important ones are the ones that need or get the least revision,
+because I see them the most clearly; and often it's the more trivial
+episodes that seem to require lots of finessing.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+Re: MO'H's Departure (was Re: (22 Sep 1995)
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Re: MO'H's Departure (was Re:

+22 Sep 1995
     I've stopped reading this thread, for obvious reasons, but thought
+I'd reply to one of them in the box just to let you all know: I spoke
+with Marc Zicree today about other stuff, and in the course of the
+conversation, mentioned this whole situation.  He was, quite frankly,
+aghast and appalled.  He offered to post a note here stating his position,
+which is: that he had no first-hand information at all about the O'Hare
+situation, and was operating off what he'd assumed to be the case (we had
+never really discussed it, as he'd moved on to other projects long before
+any of this happened).
+ 
+     He asked me to apologize on his behalf to anyone who might have been
+caught up in this because of his speculations.  Anyone who wants
+confirmation of this can drop him a note, or as stated, he's willing to
+come in and say this publicly.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+

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+JMS: Why Theo? (22 Sep 1995)
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JMS: Why Theo?

+22 Sep 1995
     I've always liked the name Theo, from Vincent's brother, so there
+was the sound of it; also the sense of it, in that Theo was a guide, a
+counselor, a confidante, which Theo might come to be in this; and, finally,
+Theodore means (I just lapsed on the actual definition) but either chosen
+(favored) of god or messenger of god (have to check my dictionary of names
+again), which is appropos.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: Nervous Breakdown (22 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Nervous Breakdown

+22 Sep 1995
     Thanks; it can get difficult to continue some days, but the other
+options are not a possibility for me.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+

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+Attn JMS: B5 Card question <wa (23 Sep 1995)
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Attn JMS: B5 Card question <wa

+23 Sep 1995
     I'd kinda wanted to do more backstage shots, but was told there
+wasn't room.  Next time.
+ 
+                                                            jms
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Re: ATTN: JMS - SCRIPTS

+23 Sep 1995
     Yes, it was "A Distant Star," and as I recall, the note was mainly
+that the teaser needed a snappier hook than it had, just the arrival of
+the Cortez.  Agreed with it, but there wasn't much we could do with the
+structure of it.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Mira Furlan in LA Play (24 Sep 1995)
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Mira Furlan in LA Play

+24 Sep 1995
     Mira Furlan, best known here as Ambassador Delenn, is currently
+starring in a production of Sophocles' classic play ANTIGONE.  This
+modernized version is directed by Mira's husband, Goran Gajic, and adapted
+by Deanne Stillman.  It's a chance to see Mira out of makeup, and in a very
+different kind of role than you've seen before.
+ 
+     The play is currently running at the Hudson Guild Theater, 6543 Santa
+Monica Boulevard, in Hollywood.  Performances are Thursdays-Saturdays at 8
+p.m., Sundays at 7.  Tickets can be acquired by calling 213-660-TKTS.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+ATTN JMS:What if the show does (25 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS:What if the show does

+25 Sep 1995
     This is a question I can't even allow myself to consider.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+Attn. JMS Naive query about se (25 Sep 1995)
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Attn. JMS Naive query about se

+25 Sep 1995
     The script never technically leaves my hands.  Once the final draft
+is written, it's given to every department, which breaks it down in terms
+of set, extra, day-player, EFX, music, sound and other requirements.  We
+have visual effects, art department and other meetings to go over what's
+in the script and make sure we all understand what's required.  Any new
+designs for prosthetics, costumes, EFX, ships, or other episode-specific
+elements are drafted, and shown to me for approval.
+ 
+     The script department breaks down the script in terms of shooting
+schedule, timing of scenes, and arranges a production board indicating
+which scenes will be shot on which days  (Based on which sets are being
+used; you don't shoot in sequence...you do all the C&C scenes done on day
+1, then move into the Zocalo for all those scenes, and so on.)
+ 
+     The director and I have a tone meeting to go over the script page by
+page.  At this time, the director sometimes suggests changes in locales
+for production purposes, though this often happens earlier in the process.
+ I make sure we both understand what each scene is about, context and
+subtext.  Then there's a production meeting of all departments, where we
+all go through one last time and break down each scene of the script by
+what's required.
+ 
+     The director then takes the script to the stage, and shoots what's
+written.  Dailies arrive each day thereafter, and go to post production,
+where an editor does a preliminary assembly of the episode.  If the
+episode appears to be coming in long, we have the option of trimming a
+scene here or there in shooting...or expanding if it's coming in short.
+ 
+     After 7 days of shooting, the raw film is complete, and the editor
+gives the director his assembly.  The director then comes in and takes
+about 3-4 days making his or her cut.  The director's cut then goes to
+me, and John Copeland and I go in to make the producer's cut, often
+re-editing every single frame, though sometimes less, depending on many
+different factors.  This is done on computers, the Avid.
+ 
+     This final edit is then used to assemble the actual film (we take the
+Avid computer disk and turn it over to a supercomputer which assembles the
+film overnight).  Using this online copy, I now sit down with the composer,
+and sound people, and watch it again, going through it and noting where
+sound effects and music are required, and what kind I have in mind.  "In
+at 03:13:18 (three minutes, 13 seconds, 18 frames), out at 04:14:22.  I'd
+like something soft, strings mainly, underscoring that doesn't get in the
+way...with a tone change at 04:05:13, into the action, and since we've got
+a lot of combat going on there, we need you to clear out the low-end for
+the battle stuff."
+ 
+     Composer and sound EFX people then do their thing, and a couple weeks
+later, we do the audio mix.  (During this time, Ron and company have
+delivered the last of their CGI.)  At the audio mix, all of the final
+elements are inserted/layered in, including any last-minute looping or
+dubbing.  This done, the episode is delivered to PTEN about 5 days later.
+ 
+     Total time to complete an episode (after the last day of filming per
+se): 52 days.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN: JMS - More on Scripts (25 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - More on Scripts

+25 Sep 1995
     "So why do you rush your work out the door?"  I don't.  The script
+takes the amount of time needed to get it right.  Sometimes I take 7-10
+days to write a script.  Sometimes I do it in just a couple of days; and
+often, the 2-3 days jobs are actually better because it's done in white
+heat, with the image clearest in my mind.
+ 
+     In television, you can't take 6-8 weeks or even 2 weeks to turn in a
+script; it's got to be done on a schedule; remember, you're using up one
+script every 7 days, and you have to have scripts in hand 3 in advance
+minimum for proper prep work.
+ 
+     "I find input from my writing group to be very helpful."  I don't.
+I've been writing professionally for 23 years now (started at 17), full
+time for the last 17.  I know what I want to say, and how I want to say
+it.  Does a sculpter go to a sculpting group and say, "Y'know, I think I
+see a horse in this bit of clay, but I'm not sure, what do the rest of
+you think?"  An artist follows the dream or the vision that is in his or
+her head.  There's this notion that writing is somehow different; it ain't.
+ 
+     Nothing decent has been done by committee since Stonehenge and the
+pyramids.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+Housecleaning Note from jms (4 Sep 1995)
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Housecleaning Note from jms

+4 Sep 1995
     A couple quick things I have to clarify for the record.
+ 
+     1) I get over 500 messages a day, when the internet railway is
+working (which it hasn't the last couple/three days).  No problem,
+except when people send me 4, 6, or even 10 private email messages in a
+day, asking questions that should more properly be asked in the public
+forum.  Otherwise a) I end up answering the same question, privately,
+over and over, b) I don't answer in which case I'm seen as snubbing the
+person.  In particular, I'm often sent long, LONG messages requiring
+very detailed discussions in private mail...and if I stopped to answer
+all of those, nothing in the public forums would get answered, and no
+scripts would be written.  And again I'm in the position of a or b above.
+ 
+     If you have a question about story, or characters, or other B5
+elements, unless there's some profound and overwhelming reason why you can
+NOT let others see it, *POST IT IN THE PUBLIC FORUM* so that the discussion
+can serve others who may have similar questions.  There is no reason why
+that kind of discussion should be kept in private mail.  And if it's
+public, it has a much better chance of getting a reply, or an in-depth
+reply, than if it's private.
+ 
+     Just trying to get some kind of handle on the huge incoming email
+problem before I drown out here.
+ 
+     2) Regarding the B5 snail-mail box...that address has been provided
+as a drop for mail for the cast, primarily, and somewhat for myself.  It's
+basically a fan-mail address.  But lately, more and more, people have been
+sending in mail with story ideas, which my staff generally catch before I
+see it.  The usual line in the letter is, "I know you said you couldn't see
+story ideas in the public forums, so I thought I'd send this to you in
+hard copy so you could consider it."
+ 
+     NO, NO, NO, NO and, in case I wasn't clear....NO.
+ 
+     One person even has begun sending *weekly packets* of stuff, and this
+one's going to have to go to Legal Affairs to beat the crap out of him.
+ 
+     The mail drop is provided, by me, out-of-pocket, as a courtesy to the
+fans.  It is not to be abused.  If story ideas/outlines/scripts continue
+to arrive -- they are currently being either round-filed or sent back
+unopened, if we can tell what they are -- I will have no choice other than
+to close the mail drop.
+ 
+     I hate to be a grump about this stuff, but as more folks find the
+show, correspondence-related matters threaten to spin out of control, and
+it's important to kind of re-establish the ground rules a bit.  It's only
+a relatively few folks who're not getting or haven't heard the message,
+but it's worth stating for the record anyway.  So if this info could be
+included in the faq, that'd be great.
+ 
+     3) Quick aside...to the person who sent me the private mail about
+candles...which I accidentally deleted and couldn't find again to reply...
+the answer is yes, and thank you.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
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+Ivanova shackled to buffoon (w (25 Sep 1995)
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Ivanova shackled to buffoon (w

+25 Sep 1995
     At the start of year one, Claudia came to me and said she'd love to
+do more funny stuff in her role; don't change anything in the story, just
+let her have some fun here and there before All Hell Breaks Loose in year
+three.  I let her have that.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Space: AAB First Impressions: (25 Sep 1995)
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+25 Sep 1995
     Finally managed to catch SPACE tonight (on tape, working late), and
+overall I thought it was very promising.  The production values alone are
+amazing, and it's clear that every dime is right there on the screen.  It
+has a lot going for it, and I wish them the best of luck.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Followup to naive qu (26 Sep 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Followup to naive qu

+26 Sep 1995
     We usually have most of the CGI in place when we do the edit, yes;
+and yes again, we have about 9 episodes at all times simultaneously in
+varying stages of production and post-production.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Ivanova shackled to buffoo (29 Sep 1995)
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Re: Ivanova shackled to buffoo

+29 Sep 1995
     To the question raised: yes, if Sheridan had shown the Lumati around,
+the request would have been made to him, as it was to Ivanova.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS How's the fan club? (29 Sep 1995)
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ATTN: JMS How's the fan club?

+29 Sep 1995
     We hope to have the fanclub officially announced within the next 10
+days or so (after 3 years of bugging WB about it, which couldn't see why
+there'd be enough interest in the show).  Not a big fan of anime, I'm
+afraid.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: Your musings on SPACE (29 Sep 1995)
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JMS: Your musings on SPACE

+29 Sep 1995
      I think Space shows a great deal of promise, and I'll certainly try
+to keep an eye on it over the next several weeks to give it a fair shot.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN:JMS Babylon 5 soundtrack (29 Sep 1995)
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+29 Sep 1995
     Not actually familiar with the legalities of .wav uploadings; you may
+want to drop a note to Chris Franke on his web page from Sonic Imagaes and
+inquire directly of him.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: Dailies? (29 Sep 1995)
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Attn JMS: Dailies?

+29 Sep 1995
     Dailies are prints of the film shot the day before, transferred to
+videocassette for easier viewing.  It's the raw footage shot from every
+angle (master, two-shots, singles, close-ups), which is also given to
+the editor, who begins to create a rough assembly of the episode.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+B5 and ST: the men (29 Sep 1995)
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+29 Sep 1995
     Christine...ah, Christine...where the hell were you when I was
+looking...?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+attn JMS: "Gajic"? (29 Sep 1995)
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attn JMS: "Gajic"?

+29 Sep 1995
     Actually, it was Christy Marx, who wrote Grail, who named Aldus after
+Mira's husband.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: B5 and ST: the men (2 Oct 1995)
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Re: B5 and ST: the men

+2 Oct 1995
     "...wearing the red silk dress, like we'd agreed...."
+ 
+     Oh.
+ 
+     YOU were supposed to be wearing the red silk dress.
+ 
+     Then I definitely got the message confused.  Most unfortunate, though
+several nice men *did* buy me drinks that night....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: Cards Illustrated gi (5 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Cards Illustrated gi

+5 Oct 1995
     Great news about the review; let me know when it appears.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+JMS:  A Opening Naration Quest (31 Oct 1995)
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JMS:  A Opening Naration Quest

+31 Oct 1995
     If one simply makes up a costume for one's own use, I can't see any
+problem with that.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
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+Schedule in LA? (6 Oct 1995)
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+6 Oct 1995
     The first of the final four airs next week in LA on Wednesday 9 p.m.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS on Compuserve: October (6 Oct 1995)
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Re: JMS on Compuserve: October

+6 Oct 1995
     Of course, bear in mind that there *is* no correct answer to
+Sebastian's question...because no matter what answer you give, the
+question will be repeated.  It's a process, not a goal, designed to
+tear down the artifices we construct around ourselves until we're left
+facing ourselves, not our roles.  At some point the "answer," such as it
+is, must transcend language.
+ 
+     Since the episode aired, I've received many notes from philosophy
+teachers and religious instructors and those who ran the Synanon game
+noting that they've used that technique as well, or intend to do so from
+now on.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS : today ? (6 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS : today ?

+6 Oct 1995
     Jeez...I've already forgotten much of what I've done today, it goes
+so fast, but....
+ 
+     Grabbed a few hours sleep (dropped at 3 a.m., a bit early for me
+most days), came in for a production meeting, which is when we bring in
+all the department heads and go over the script page by page one more time
+before getting ready to shoot.  Went over specifics on extras, types of
+wardrobe we're going to need, monitor playback stuff, endless details.
+ 
+     Proofread the first issue of the B5 collector's magazine for error
+and revisions (should be out shortly from Sendai).  Made last minute
+revisions to script for "Messages From Earth" prior to shooting.  Viewed
+dailies.  Returned calls to Warners and others.  Spoke with PR person about
+series launch, getting copies of the first two year 3 eps to reviewers in
+time for print deadlines.  Finalized outline for my next script, title not
+yet set.  Lunch.  Went over contracts for B5 fan club that have finally
+come in, making revisions on a couple of points, hope to announce this
+formally soon.
+ 
+     Jumped to script 10 and made some revisions I'd been thinking about
+last night.  Walked on set and spoke to the director, made sure the scene
+was going right, also checked with Jason Carter on a few things.  Took
+care of some fan mail.  Finalized casting on "Messages."  Booked director
+for the two-parter, Adam Nimoy, whose first ep for us is dynamite, and
+checked on casting for several episodes down the road, to make sure the
+actors would be available.
+ 
+     Made final changes to new main title, and met with Christopher Franke
+to go over his first pass at the new music, made some suggestions, and
+he'll get a new version to me over the weekend.  Received and reviewed
+director's cut of "Dust to Dust," in preparation for going in next week to
+edit the producer's cut.  Went over new costume designs for some cast
+members with wardrobe, made final suggestions.  Approved some new patches
+for use down the road, and additional artwork for parts of the station.
+Gave interview for article.
+ 
+     Called several actors to go over various things with them; met with
+the director for "Messages" again to go over some possible new EFX; ditto
+later with another EFX person.  Got first draft of #10 "Severed Dreams"
+out the door to WB/PTEN.
+ 
+     Approved casting breakdown so it could go out to casting agencies for
+#9, "Point of No Return."
+ 
+     That's it for so far today; it's now 4:00 straight up, and I've still
+got another 3 and a half hours to go (I generally leave the studio about
+7:30 p.m., go home, grab a fast bite, and get to writing.)  Oh, yeah, and
+took a moment to log on (big cluster of new messages finally, about 500 or
+so), and plow through some of them, including the one to which this is a
+response.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: your Foundation arti (6 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: your Foundation arti

+6 Oct 1995
     As I have not yet received my OWN copy of FOUNDATION that has my
+extensive B5 article in it (hello?  Mr. Edward James, Editor and
+Publisher? are you out there?), I can't exactly help others finding the
+darned thing....
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+How did Billy Mumy connect wit (6 Oct 1995)
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How did Billy Mumy connect wit

+6 Oct 1995
     Bill Mumy came in to audition, same as everybody else.  It was known
+then that it was a recurring role (contrary to his recollection of things),
+and when he walked in the door, I knew he was right.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Majel Barrett-Rodenberry (6 Oct 1995)
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Re: Majel Barrett-Rodenberry

+6 Oct 1995
     Patrick: at Toronto Trek, Majel told an assembled crowd that she
+felt badly about the misunderstanding, and wanted to call and apologize;
+she went to either Berman or Pillar to get my number (can't recall now
+(3v`Wr$dwhich she said)...and told a very funny story of what happened then.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS: "The Sky" as deliber (6 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: "The Sky" as deliber

+6 Oct 1995
     Some references to the sky are just that and no more; other times
+it is a process of playing to archetypes and sensibilities.  There are a
+number of recurring images and thematic elements in the series, which
+sometimes combine into new elements.  This coming year we'll hit the
+topic of pride quite a bit, and loyalty, and what loyalty *means* when
+the house of cards begins to fall apart...my sense is that for all the
+stuff going on on the surface, there has to be an equal or larger amount
+of subtext, stuff going on sub rosa, like a shark gliding beneath the
+water.  'Cause that's where all the *really* interesting stuff happens.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS IS FULL OF SHIT!!! (Wa (8 Oct 1995)
+
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Re: JMS IS FULL OF SHIT!!! (Wa

+8 Oct 1995
     Since this has come up, I went back and checked the source, and did
+a verbatim quote of the article that appeared in a recent (this past week)
+edition of the Los Angeles Times.  Because nobody should accept info minus
+attribution and provenance.  The comments came from Kerry McCluggage, the
+head of the Paramount Television Group; other comments were from Berman.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN JMS - Season 4: we'd all (8 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS - Season 4: we'd all

+8 Oct 1995
     All you can do is make your voices heard at the local level; station
+programmers are required by FCC rules to operate "in the public's interest,
+necessity and convenience."  So they have to be responsive to letters and
+petitions.  Beyond that, it's all beyond my control; only local voices will
+make a difference.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+attn: JMS after B5, Azimov? (3 Oct 1995)
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attn: JMS after B5, Azimov?

+3 Oct 1995
     I think the rights to all Asimov's works are taken, alas.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: 3rd Season Questions (8 Oct 1995)
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JMS: 3rd Season Questions

+8 Oct 1995
     B5 does not get new 'furies in the premire; the Asimov will likely
+return, though not a big story point; the Aggy does have 'furies aboard,
+yes, and it's considerably more powerful than the Hyperion, though both are
+jump capable.
+ 
+                                                                         jms
+
+

+
+
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+Attn JMS: dubbing of Delenn in (8 Oct 1995)
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Attn JMS: dubbing of Delenn in

+8 Oct 1995
     Nothing was changed per se; I trimmed the scene by a few lines here
+and there for time, something that happens a lot, so that's probably what
+you're noticing, a bridge between snippets.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+Two B5 movies coming? (8 Oct 1995)
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Two B5 movies coming?

+8 Oct 1995
     Formal reply: NO B5 movies are currently "in the pipeline," not one,
+let alone two.  It's something Doug (my partner) has said he'd like to do
+someday, but then he'd also like to fly under his own power.  There have
+been NO formal discussions on this at all.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS IS FULL OF SHIT!!! (Wa (8 Oct 1995)
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Re: JMS IS FULL OF SHIT!!! (Wa

+8 Oct 1995
      Dave Thomas: exactly...a rumor is exactly that, and sometimes it's
+a way of testing the waters.  If DS9 fans want to make sure the show stays
+around, they need to support it.  Right now, nothing's been decided, and
+I made that eminently clear in my original message about this.  There's
+much still being discussed; even Berman in that LA Times article worried
+that they may have "gone to the well too often."  I think they're going to
+wait until the 30th anniversary hoopla is over before making a final
+determination.
+ 
+     Meanwhile, thanks for confirming what I said, that this stuff is out
+and in the streets around town, as well as being indicated in industry
+related articles.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS  Another scripting q (8 Oct 1995)
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ATTN: JMS  Another scripting q

+8 Oct 1995
     Act Breaks: FADE OUT, [End Act One]  - new page - [Act Two] FADE IN:
+ 
+     B5 as teaser, acts 1-4, tag.
+ 
+     Establishers aren't numbered in a treatment, or called out.
+ 
+     Credits aren't listed in a script; and don't worry too much about
+the margins being *exactly* right; they vary considerably.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+ATTN JMS!  Question from a tre (8 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS!  Question from a tre

+8 Oct 1995
     Majel will appear in year 3 episode 9, "Point of No
+Return."
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+Re: JMS on Compuserve: October (8 Oct 1995)
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Re: JMS on Compuserve: October

+8 Oct 1995
     BTW, to Jeannette, Laura, JM Egolf, Sarah, all the others, thanks
+for openly discussing what are surely difficult issues; it's been very
+instructive, and helpful for the future.  And the discussion itself has
+been moving and insightful; thanks for risking and giving in this way.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+Re: WHY DID JMS POST THE RUMOR (10 Oct 1995)
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Re: WHY DID JMS POST THE RUMOR

+10 Oct 1995
     Why did I post it?  Real simple.  I was in the midst of an ongoing
+discussion on the STAR TREK forum on Compuserve.  I wasn't in the B5
+area.  The topic at hand was Voyager, and people wondering about it and
+its relation to DS9, the latter not generally getting the respect that
+they feel it deserves.  Having just heard the story around town that the
+friendly folks at Paramount are worried about DS9 pulling viewers away
+from Voyager/UPN for a second time in just a few days (from a high ranking
+person with Star Trek), a concern that others have confirmed here has been
+floating around for a while now, that they too have heard...and having
+just had a number of articles coming out in the mainstream press asking
+very similar questions about whether or not there's too much ST around
+(including the LA Times and TV Guide), it was timely, it was of potential
+interest to ST fans, it was in the ST area, so I mentioned it...the same
+as I'd mention any other piece of news.  No more, no less.
+ 
+     There can be no agenda because there's nothing to achieve that would
+be to the detriment of ST or the elevation of B5.  The implicit
+assumption is that if ST folks want DS9 to continue, they should make that
+eminently clear via continued support.  That is the only possible result
+of that information.  Yes, indeedy, one can clearly see how that benefits
+B5, can't we?
+ 
+     The other day, in a similar ST topic, I mentioned that I *very much*
+liked the episode of VOYAGER that aired on Monday.  Heaven only knows
+what dire conspiracies that comment will imply to some with no fucking
+life (viz: Mr. Thaxton).  I mentioned it on CIS for *exactly* the same
+reason that I mentioned the bit on DS9...because I figured it might be
+of interest to the readers, and because that's what was on my mind at
+that time.
+ 
+     As opposed to the estimable Mr. Thaxton, who has been spreading all
+kinds of vicious rumors here which ARE destructive, which are and have
+been hurtful, and which are without support.  It seems to me more than
+a little hypocritical that someone who does nothing but spread lies,
+gossip, rumor, character assassination and innuendo would go into
+meltdown over a rather reliable story that has been picked up by major
+newspapers, and confirme by others here.
+ 
+     And then, when these facts come out, he falls back on the only tool
+he has left: to villify, impugn or otherwise call into question the
+motives for doing so.  Never mind that it's actually a Real Thing, why
+did you SAY it?  For the reasons given.  If that's not enough for some
+pinheads among us, tough.
+ 
+     And haven't we all gotten tired of the game by now?  Ford or one of
+his few netbuddies posts something outrageous, eliciting responses taht
+are justifiably angry, and then proceeds to make fun of the replies because
+their anger is perfectly in tune with the offense.
+ 
+     This is the classic bully's tactic...hit you and hit you and hit you
+until he gets the reaction he wants, and then he makes fun of your
+reaction, hoping to get another one.
+ 
+     How much longer does this have to go on before people catch wise to
+his game?  How much longer can one justify falling for the old "pull my
+finger" gag?
+ 
+     If you're doing this on my behalf...don't.  Just *ignore* the man; I
+get FAR more upset when I see others being attacked for the simple crime
+of defending me against baseless attacks than I ever would get over the
+original attack, in large measure because I simply Do Not Read his posts
+anymore.  He is irrelevant to my life, to the life of anyone involved
+with the show, and to the show itself, and to all of you.
+ 
+     We all know that no matter what is said or done, somehow he or one
+of his three or so ilk (and that's ALL THEY ARE), will attempt to twist
+it around to make it sound somehow dubious.  That's because they are
+sick, lifeless, twisted individuals who have nothing else to do.  So if
+we know this is always going to happen...why even bother reacting to it?
+ 
+     I have 543 messages sitting in my mailbox right now; the majority of
+them are the "SHIT" thread in one of its various incarnations.  Is this
+really the best use for this rec.arts area?
+ 
+     If you have killfiles...use them.  Don't you understand that by
+responding in any way, manner shape or form, you are giving him *exactly*
+what he wants...and *encouraging* him to do more of it?  You are creating
+the problem by giving him validation...validation that only comes in the
+form of the echo caused by his voice.  Stop being the echo.
+ 
+     I don't read his posts anymore; if I see it come up on the header,
+I just delete it.  The only way I know something's going on is when I
+see a big thread, and sometimes run across an imbedded quote.  And
+y'know, I'm much happier about it.
+ 
+     You must understand that this is simply what he does.  One of the
+benefits of being one of his many targets is that you tend to hear from
+others...people at record industry magazines, radio stations, other
+composers and producers who have been targeted by Ford, harrassed and
+stalked on the nets.  HE STAYS UNTIL PEOPLE UNIFORMLY IGNORE HIM.  The
+more you ignore him initially, the more outrageous, defamatory, libelous,
+smarmy and ultimately desperate his comments will become.  But eventually
+if he is frozen out, he will go away in search of new prey.
+ 
+     This is how he gets off, people.  Pure and simple.  Some of the horror
+stories I've heard from others similarly targeted would curl your hair.
+And along the way, I've learned a lot about Mr. Thaxton, more than I
+really wanted to know.  More, I suspect, than he would be happy to know
+that I know.
+ 
+     We have new episodes beginning this week.  Ignore the jerk.  I ask
+this as a personal favor; I get more upset by seeing this drag on, and
+seeing others get hurt and insulted, than by *anything* Ford can ever say
+to me.
+ 
+     Because anything he has to say is a fiction, or simply irrelevant.
+ 
+     So stop this.  Please.  As a personal favor.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

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+ATT: JMS -- WAS JMS on Cmpsrv: (11 Oct 1995)
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ATT: JMS -- WAS JMS on Cmpsrv:

+11 Oct 1995
     "What's the difference between 'having a Minbari soul' and 'having
+been a Minbari in a previous life'?"
+ 
+     The difference, Jamie, is *huge*.  And extremely significant.
+ 
+     Here, I'll give you a freebie...there's something massively,
+mind-bendingly significant in a throwaway line in one of the first three
+episodes of year three that seems to have little bearing on this, but in
+fact is hugely involved in this *exact* issue.
+ 
+     You'll know what it was much later in the season.  But this heads-up
+might point you in the right direction.  Suffice to say there's a very
+definite reason I phrased that as I did.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+

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> ATTN. JMS:  Ratings and Reru

+11 Oct 1995
      Franklin: I'm sure they still think it was a good idea.
+ 
+      If you need me, I'll be on the roof....
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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= ATTN. JMS: New Story Editor?

+3 Oct 1995
     No, there is no story editor currently on the show; nothing to do with
+ego, just not enough outside work to really merit it.
+ 
+                                                             jms
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+ATTN: JMS You Got Competition (11 Oct 1995)
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+11 Oct 1995
     I'm quite happy to have competition.  The more the merrier.  As an SF
+fan myself, I love nothing more than seeing good SF on the air, and I have
+to say I *very* much enjoyed the last Voyager episode, I'm quite happy
+with X-Files, I'm in love with a lot of the dialogue and camerawork on
+American Gothic, I've enjoyed all the Space episodes to date...the more
+voices, the more competition, the leaner and better the overall result.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+12 Oct 1995
     No, the Ivanova revelation in "Loyalties" has nothing to do with
+replacing Talia; that is a moot point in many ways, since Lyta is back,
+and since other things happen which take that issue off the table in
+any event.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: Inquisitor Question (12 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Inquisitor Question

+12 Oct 1995
     I'd say there's a very good chance that the Vorlons have more than
+one Inquisitor.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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+Ellison CITY Note (12 Oct 1995)
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Ellison CITY Note

+12 Oct 1995
Harlan Ellison has requested that I post this in places where
+those likely to have ordered the forthcoming CITY ON THE EDGE
+OF FOREVER limited-edition hardcover can find it.
+ 
+Message begins:
+ 
+Here is the answer to the question of why a three-week delay in
+shipping THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER became necessary.
+ 
+A minor production glitch.
+ 
+Nothing more mysterious or ominous than that.
+ 
+Once the book had gone to Thomson-Shore in Dexter, Michigan for
+printing, and was in production, it was discovered that more
+than 150 corrections to the text--some significant, others of a
+niggling nature--but all troublesome to a greater or lesser
+degree--had slipped past, and had not been integrated.
+ 
+Tom Monteleone of Borderlands Press was out of the country.  But
+his concerns for shipping on time--we've been paying the price
+for a premature announcement of this title four years ago ever
+since that miscalculation was made--were preeminent.  Nonetheless,
+because of my insistence that this book (a book of great personal
+importance to me) be as close to perfect as possible, I took
+the necessary action to hold the production at a pre-final stage
+till Tom returned and we could get the changes made.
+ 
+That has been accomplished.  Tom Monteleone has been very
+gracious in accommodating my concerns, and the book is back in
+the tube at Thomson-Shore right now.  Three weeks max is what
+Dave Raymond, Customer Services Manager, tells us.  Three weeks
+and the book, a beautiful beautiful package, will be in the
+hands of those who've ordered it.
+ 
+It is unfortunate that Tom Monteleone's interim message on the
+Borderlands Press 800-order line has been misinterpreted by
+some people.  All is well, and the CITY is on its way to waiting
+eyes and hands.  Thank you for asking.
+ 
+                                                Harlan Ellison
+
+

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+Attn: JMS Bab5 Soundtrack Seas (12 Oct 1995)
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Attn: JMS Bab5 Soundtrack Seas

+12 Oct 1995
     Actually, there is some year two music on the CD, on the last two
+suites.  No schedule yet on disks.
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+Attn: JMS -- why were specific (13 Oct 1995)
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Attn: JMS -- why were specific

+13 Oct 1995
     They tended to go from what photos and art was available from WB, and
+in large measure...that ain't a lot.
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+The Great War of rastb5 (13 Oct 1995)
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+13 Oct 1995
     "Somebody please tell me what the hellis going on?"
+ 
+     Easy.  Somebody accidentally let humanity in here.
+ 
+     Noisy lot, aren't they?
+ 
+                                                                jms
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+ATTN JMS: B5 Comic #11 -- Mark (13 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: B5 Comic #11 -- Mark

+13 Oct 1995
     There's nothing that I'm aware of in comic #11 that would place it
+after "Confessions."  It's a general pamphlet prepared by Psi Corps some
+time before.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+Re: JMS' powers of prediction (13 Oct 1995)
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+13 Oct 1995
     Actually, the plan to run TNG originally for just 5 years was
+specifically *stated by Paramount* to the news media, nothing to do with
+predicting anything.  Also, at that time, I knew a lot of folks who were
+working over at TNG as writer/producers, and that was what they had all
+been told was the case.  When the show finally began to kick into gear,
+ratings-wise, they decided to extend it to seven years, and it took quite
+a bit of finageling to get everyone back on board (that was why they did
+the Borg two-parter with Patrick Stewart...if he had decided not to sign,
+they would've used this as a means of getting rid of the character); you
+don't have to do this IF YOU HAVE OPTIONS ON THE ACTORS.
+ 
+     There was no predicting involved.  I reported what was being said by
+those directly involved with ST:TNG at the time, what was in the press,
+and what was being told to agents.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Five
+years WAS the original plan; check the first newspaper articles about the
+show, it's all over the place.
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+13 Oct 1995
     I disagree with the term ego in this connection.  (Big surprise,
+right?)  On one level, anyone who is involved in any aspect of the arts
+has exercised ego in the sense of, "I am going to make little black marks
+on this piece of paper," or "I am going to make colored brushstrokes on
+this canvas, and they will be sufficiently impressive that you will want
+to pay money for them."  That aspect is part and parcel of working in any
+form of the arts.
+ 
+     But B5 specifically?  I don't think so.  First off, there's a great
+deal of misunderstanding in this discussion about how television works.
+In a TV series, the story editor *NEVER, EVER* rewrites the executive
+producer.  It would be a hideous breach of protocol.  On MURDER, SHE WROTE
+or JAKE, or other shows, I *never* touched my exec's scripts.  The network
+puts an executive producer/writer on premises for one singular reason
+(not counting the one billion others): to set the tone for the writing for
+everyone else to follow.  They rely on YOU to absolutely govern that
+aspect, or you're not doing your job, and betraying your commitment to the
+network.
+ 
+     So when someone says "It's ego not to let the story editor revise the
+executive producer's scripts," that betrays a total lack of understanding
+of how television production works.
+ 
+     Finally, working 5 years to get B5 produced had nothing to do with
+ego and everything to do with obsession.  There's this story that I like,
+which I hope others will like.  The ONLY way that this story will ever be
+told is if one person fights for it tooth and nail for every day of every
+year required to tell it.  I have an obligation to this story to see it
+through.  Getting doors slammed in your face for five years takes its toll
+on the ego; ego says, "Screw it, go find a nice cushy job on another show
+where nobody'll slam the door on you."  Obsession says, "Keep going."
+Ego hates to fail.  Obession *requires* that you fail from time to time,
+in striving for something greater.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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Re: Space:Above&Beyond (Opinio

+3 Oct 1995
     Saw the second installment of "Space" the other day; very good, I
+thought.  Vastly encouraging.  Continued good luck to them.
+ 
+     (One aspect of this general discussion...when the B5 area goes up on
+AOL, and then later on the web, it's designed to have sections dedicated
+to *other* SF shows as well, to encourage folks to check them out, on the
+theory that other shows in the genre are not a threat, but a bonus for
+everyone, healthy competition.)
+ 
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Production Question (13 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Production Question

+13 Oct 1995
     Flashback scenes are usually part of a prior scene, and thus are
+shot in color, shown the first time, and transferred to black and white
+for flashback use.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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Re: jms is anti-Trek?

+13 Oct 1995
     "JMS loves the fact that you worship him...."
+ 
+     Yessir, boy-howdy, and there ain't nothin' like signing onto your
+account and seeing ten gazillion messages titled JMS IS SOMETIMES / ALWAYS
+/ GENERALLY / 99.9% FULL OF SHIT to make you feel like the living
+reincarnation of Thor hisownself.
+ 
+     "you ain't never gonna be on the show" ... actually quite a few folks
+on the nets have come by the Babylon 5 stages, have been paid to edit music
+videos, have even come to *work* for us...PwdrdTstMan from AOL now works at
+the B5 stages, another internetter known to most folks here is now working
+at WB on the B5 AOL page, others have come here as well, even as extras a
+few times.
+ 
+     "and you ain't havin' dinner at Master JMS' estate."  As soon as
+Master JMS *gets* an estate instead of a fairly simple 3 bedroom house in
+a reasonably nice neighborhood, I'll let you know if this happens or not.
+In the interim, I've had dinner and lunches with folks from the nets for
+quite some time now.
+ 
+     "thrill of a lifetime feeling that they are actually interacting with
+their 'god'"   See paragraph 2 above.  Amazing how if anyone does anything
+of merit, and some folks acknowledge that, others have to characterize
+that in Deity terms.  Is there no in-between?  Oh, silly me, it's just a
+rhetorical device to deride the issue at hand; sorry, for a moment there I
+thought you were interested in accuracy, Ross.  My apologies.
+ 
+     And frankly, if I were ANY kind of deity, I'd have a LOT more hair and
+a *MUCH* deeper voice.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+ATTN: JMS Your opinion on comi (13 Oct 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Your opinion on comi

+13 Oct 1995
     I wasn't terribly pleased with the artwork on 9 and 10, I thought it
+could've been much better.  As for the story, David Gerrold had proposed
+(and written) that as an outline for an episode; I said I didn't think it
+worked for our show.  Which opened the door for DC to pick it up, and since
+he felt so strongly that it *did* work, I figured I'd let him proceed.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS- Peter David. (13 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS- Peter David.

+13 Oct 1995
     I'm certainly open to his doing more for us.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: jms is anti-Trek? (13 Oct 1995)
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Re: jms is anti-Trek?

+13 Oct 1995
     To John Lawrence Morgan: no, I don't get to watch ST very often;
+that's because doing this job is a 25-hour-a-day responsibility.  I'm at
+the B5 offices from early in the day until 7:30-8:00 at night, I grab a
+fast meal, sometimes just a sandwich, and charge into my home office and
+start writing.  I try to break away for a very few shows; American Gothic,
+Space, the Simpsons, X-Files and 60 Minutes during the course of the week.
+I have no time for anything else.  That's why I log on here often at 3 a.m.
+because that's the only time I have left after work.  (Today's an
+exception; I get to work at home today since we've given the crew a couple
+days off to catch their breath.)
+ 
+     And yeah...given the choice between spending those last couple of
+hours vegged out watching TeeVee, and coming on-line and hanging out with
+people, almost my last vestige of human (sorta) contact...I choose the
+latter.  What in this do you have a problem?
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+JMS: You did it to me again! (17 Oct 1995)
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JMS: You did it to me again!

+17 Oct 1995
     Ben....we try.....
+ 
+                                                                        jms
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+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Lyta's P Rating (Dis (17 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Lyta's P Rating (Dis

+17 Oct 1995
     Didn't say Talia WAS a psi-cop, Talia said she *interned with* the
+PsiCops.  Bear in mind that you're going to need support staff, lower
+level liaisons, and a bunch of other positions as well as the actual cops.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Comic #11 -- (18 Oct 1995)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Comic #11 --

+18 Oct 1995
     Tritium: you actually believe *anything* in a PsiCorps propaganda
+booklet?  Only about 10% of what's recorded in that booklet is true, and
+even that's distorted.  The character in the booklet is totally fictional.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Re: JMS on Compuserve: October (18 Oct 1995)
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Re: JMS on Compuserve: October

+18 Oct 1995
     Jamie: I don't consider myself an "abuse survivor."  I think that
+term has been so over-used, exploited and trivialized in some corners by
+application to the smallest of problems ("My father once hit me when I
+was 12 so now I'm an axe murderer/going through regression therapy in
+search of one more time when it might've happened") that it takes away
+from people who've had terrible, mind-bendingly awful backgrounds with
+serious personal violence, sexual violation, psychological torture and
+other aberrations.  I'll probably get roasted for this, but it does seem
+to me that talking about one's "abusive childhood" has become the newest
+trend, and one more way of denying personal responsibility for who one is
+and what one does...and, ultimately, detracts from the attention and
+needs and real problems of those who *have* suffered terribly.
+ 
+     Yeah, I had a crummy childhood, followed by a crummy adolescence;
+vast sections of it were a nightmare.  Fundamentally...so what?  I never
+considered that anyone's had a Leave It To Beaver childhood.  Some were
+better, some were worse.  Doesn't mean I still don't get pissed about it,
+doesn't make me any more willing to have contact with my family, but I
+have never considered myself in the light of those two words.  That, to
+me, is one more manifestation of the victim mentality that seems to be
+all OVER the place.
+ 
+     People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much
+energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and
+not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past,
+and getting on with their lives.
+ 
+     And, again, I *very carefully and specifically* exclude from this
+discussion, and the preceding paragraph, those who've gone through true,
+serious abuse in childhood, who must spend years rebuilding their lives
+and their trust and their emotional infrastructure.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+TLTS: Opinion (no spoilers) (19 Oct 1995)
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TLTS: Opinion (no spoilers)

+19 Oct 1995
     Dennis: thanks, we're starting to get better at this stuff.  It's a
+nifty episode.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+Delenn And Sherdian (5 Oct 1995)
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Delenn And Sherdian

+5 Oct 1995
     You're assuming, of course, that the Delenn/Sinclair relationship was
+based on romantic love...might be something just as deep, but very
+different....
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+To JMS: Congratulations!!  <DL (19 Oct 1995)
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To JMS: Congratulations!!  <DL

+19 Oct 1995
     Christian: I quote Mark Twain: "The test of any good fiction is that
+you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the
+bad to fail.  The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to
+land in hell, together, as quickly as possible."
+ 
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS : Important KOSH ques (19 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS : Important KOSH ques

+19 Oct 1995
     The more people who have to *see* Kosh as one of their own, the
+greater the strain on Kosh, as you'll note in the first ep of year three.
+ 
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
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+JMS: dumb DL question (really (19 Oct 1995)
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JMS: dumb DL question (really

+19 Oct 1995
     What was the passwor?  I'm hideously tempted to say, "Z'ha'dum."
+ 
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Murder1 & B5 (19 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Murder1 & B5

+19 Oct 1995
     I for one would love nothing more than to claim that B5 "paved the
+way...for Murder One," but truth is...the network folks probably haven't
+even noticed.  From all I hear, Murder 1 has more to do with the long
+term fascination with the OJ trial than anything B5.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Going to Loscon? (19 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Going to Loscon?

+19 Oct 1995
     I'll be at LosCon over Thanksgiving because, well, I have no life;
+if anyone else attends depends on their schedules.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS:Metaphysical question (19 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS:Metaphysical question

+19 Oct 1995
     Nia: I'd say you're reading WAY too much into this.
+ 
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Back door into plot? (19 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Back door into plot?

+19 Oct 1995
     Yeah, originally it was the Kosh-scan that would've gotten Lyta in
+trouble; the TK aspect was originally going to come in from another angle,
+but I was able to collapse the two in Talia, and then bring Lyta in from
+a different direction, as you'll see in one of the first batch of new
+year 3 eps.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Explain editing proc (21 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Explain editing proc

+21 Oct 1995
     Film is shot on the stage, then transferred to video, which is then
+digitized onto the Avid computer editing system, which holds every take of
+every scene.  A scene is shot many times from various angles: wide master
+shot, three-shots (3 people), two-shots, singles, raking twos, close
+ups, medium shots, extreme closeups and sometimes downshots (as well as
+CGI and composite shots).
+ 
+     John Copeland and I then go in and work on the version of the episode
+edited by the director to do the producer's cut.  We sit down with the
+editor, and go scene by scene.  The usual construction is as follows: you
+get a wide master shot so we know the geography, where we are, and where
+everyone is in relation to that.  Gradually you go closer, into threes or
+twos, then singles or closeups for dramatic emphasis, coming out into the
+master from time to time when someone has to move, or to break the sense
+of claustrophobia.
+ 
+     When you get in close, you have over-the-shoulder shots, meaning
+you're shooting past one character's shoulder to the other.  Then you do
+the same thing in reverse, so you see both sides of the conversation.
+You do these one at a time, for lighting purposes; you light one side of
+the room for the scenes looking left-right, then move the camera and the
+lighting around for the scenes when you're on the right side looking
+left (or, phrased differently, you light for Susan looking at Talia,
+then Talia looking at Susan).  The actors then do the scene again, with
+the camera on the other side.
+ 
+     The actor has to be very careful to always repeat each movement
+exactly; if he picks up a teacup on the word "quibble," he has to make
+absolutely sure he picks up the cup on exactly that same word, every
+time, in every take, in the same way, in the correct hand.  If the
+actor slips (and this sometimes happens), when you go to show the other
+side of the scene, you suddenly find you have a matching problem; in
+the shot over Talia's shoulder to Susan, the actor raised a hand; in
+the shot over Susan's shoulder to Talia, the actor (generic term that
+includes women) *didn't* raise a hand.  So when you edit the two, you
+have a matching problem.  You can sometimes avoid this by just staying
+on one side of the shot, but then you can't get the other character's
+on-face reaction to what's being said.  And in that scene in particular,
+we *needed* to see both sides.
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+Query:  Will the Shadows attac (21 Oct 1995)
+
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Query:  Will the Shadows attac

+21 Oct 1995
     Babylon 5 is still needed for their own purposes, as an easy way to
+keep an eye on things and get to the people they need to get to, so
+there's no need for them to attack B5.  They certainly wouldn't do so
+just because Morden was busted...that's beneath their concern, as long
+as he keeps his mouth shut.  Which he did.  Doesn't mean, though, that
+in fairly short order they won't take steps to be as sure as they can be
+that, in fact, the secret *is* still secure....
+ 
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: You got some bad, BA (21 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: You got some bad, BA

+21 Oct 1995
      Two things transcend all human understanding: the concept of god,
+and PTEN publicity.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS:'Fall FX Question (TF (5 Oct 1995)
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Attn JMS:'Fall FX Question (TF

+5 Oct 1995
     A wire harness was used; and the effect you ask about was a mix of
+CGI, live action, and rotoscope.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Question (& mild SPO (21 Oct 1995)
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Attn JMS: Question (& mild SPO

+21 Oct 1995
     In part it's John's take on the character, but what I indicated to him
+was that Draal's gone through some considerable changes by entering the
+heart of the machine; it's given him greater understanding, and the freeing
+aspects of greater humor.  It's almost like -- and I hate to even use the
+reference because somebody'll say "Oh, that's what he's doing," and I ain't
+it's just a point of comparison -- Tom Bombadil in LoTR...quite funny, but
+also someone not to be trifled with.
+ 
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS - A few questions... (21 Oct 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - A few questions...

+21 Oct 1995
    Land armies, deliberating Shadows, probably not, for various reasons;
+gloss off CGI, 3D starmaps, new tech and better rendering, yes.
+ 
+                                                                     jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN JMS: Internauts coming fo (21 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Internauts coming fo

+21 Oct 1995
     There's not much sense to it; it just happens with some folks.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Scripted Facial Nuan (21 Oct 1995)
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Attn JMS: Scripted Facial Nuan

+21 Oct 1995
     Generally, you don't so much indicate the face (with some exceptions)
+as the mood...in parentheticals in dialogue (growing horror) (with
+meaning) (sotto voce) and in narrative description (his face fall as he
+sees Morden enter).
+ 
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+Attn JMS: Rehearsals and Takes (21 Oct 1995)
+
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Attn JMS: Rehearsals and Takes

+21 Oct 1995
     The number of scenes varies depending on the amount of action
+required.  On balance, the average TV script has about 60-75 scenes or
+shots in it.  From time to time, in B5, we've gone as high as 130 shots
+in episodes like "Twilight" or "Fall."  I think we just blew out our
+record here with "Severed Dreams," which has close to 140.
+ 
+     Number of scenes shot on any day depends on how long the scene; you
+can do 4 really long shots or 8 fairly short scenes.  The amount of
+rehearsal varies depending on the scene, how many extras or what kind of
+action/stunts are required.  The more action, the more you rehearse, to
+ensure nobody gets hurt.
+ 
+                                                                   jms
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ATTN JMS: Episodes 19 &20

+21 Oct 1995
     No, Divided precedes Twilight.
+ 
+                                                                 jms
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+Attn:jms  authorship of B5? (21 Oct 1995)
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Attn:jms  authorship of B5?

+21 Oct 1995
     For starters, I have problem with the auteur term.  What most folks
+forget is that this term originated with the Cahiers du Cinema (I think I
+may have hideously misspelled that) which actually began a series of
+screenings/presentations on each aspect of film-making, the writer, the
+director, the cinematographer...started with the director...and basically
+got so caught up in that aspect that they dropped the rest.
+ 
+    So let's stick with "author" for the moment.  To that question, yes,
+I do consider myself the author of the B5 story, the creator of itsz
+characters and universe.  Insofar as we enter other areas, my position is
+that of navigator...I point to a spot on the horizon, and say "That's
+where we're all going."  Each department/artistic aspect of the show,
+from props, to costumes, to the director, works to most accurately create
+what I see in my head.  The most common question is, "Is this what you had
+in mind when you wrote it?"
+ 
+     I keep an eye on every aspect of the show, to make sure it's what I
+see in my head.  If something isn't right, it's redone until it *is*
+right.  Nonetheless, I try to provide as much latitude as possible to my
+people, to let them be as creative as they have the potential to be.
+ 
+     Sometimes there's some irony in the situation; in "And the Sky Full
+of Stars," for instance, Janet is noted for the notion of having Sinclair
+standing facing these lights that go out, one by one, except for the one
+that spotlights him, when he's confronted by Knight Two, people say, "Oh
+what a great directorial idea," but that's spelled out to the smallest
+detail in the script.  Ditto for the intercutting of scenes in the fall
+of the emperor in "Coming."  That's often attributed to the director, but
+it was specifically scripted that way, right down to the use of slow-mo
+for some shots, the way in which he falls, all of it.
+ 
+     This is because of that nutty auteur theory that many directors have
+wrapped around themselves like a flag.  With the obvious exception of
+writer/directors, I've never seen any director do much with the auteur
+theory and 100 blank pages.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS: Talia and Ivanova *spoile (23 Oct 1995)
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JMS: Talia and Ivanova *spoile

+23 Oct 1995
      I didn't show a kiss because, in my experience, it's easier on all
+around if one steps into the shallow end of the pool first, and walks
+into the deep end rather than diving in and splashing everybody in the
+process.
+ 
+                                                              jms
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+ATTN JMS: RAVES and KUDOS for (25 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: RAVES and KUDOS for

+25 Oct 1995
     Cecil: my deepest thanks for that.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Re: DS9's life or death (27 Oct 1995)
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Re: DS9's life or death

+27 Oct 1995
     To the inquiry about TV contracts...when an actor gets a contract on
+a show, it's not a guarantee of anything; it's all one season at a time.
+ALL TV series are like this: you (the producer/studio) have an OPTION on
+the actor, by contract.  Meaning you own the actor for that period of time
+AT YOUR DISCRETION.  In other words, if you're renewed for a given season,
+you have the option of hiring (or not hiring) the actor back for the
+next season.  The actor does *not* have the option.  If you then hire the
+actor, it's pay-or-play for that season, meaning if you decide to let the
+actor go mid-season, you must still pay him for the balance of episodes
+committed for.
+
+
+     So an actor's contract is not a guarantee of *anything*.
+
+
+     As for the budget on the two-parter...DS9's ratings have been on a
+steady decline for the last several seasons, according to the trades and
+newspaper articles.  Paramount sells advertising based on the ratings; if
+they drop below the promised level, they have to start giving money back
+to the advertisers (not a good thing).  So regardless of a series
+projected duration, they *must* start improving the ratings...hence you
+spend a little more up front, grab some ratings, give the show a boost,
+and maybe make it up here and there later in other shows, or simply write
+off the additional shooting costs against the benefit of not giving money
+back to advertisers.
+
+
+     No judgment here, no predictions, just answering the questions that
+came up about how things work in TV.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
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+KBHK (San Francisco Ch 44) B5 (5 Oct 1995)
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KBHK (San Francisco Ch 44) B5

+5 Oct 1995
     There must be an error in your transcription, because "Matters of
+Honor," season 3's debut, should be on the list between "Fall" and
+"Convictions."
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+Kosh's appearance (Spoilers_) (27 Oct 1995)
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Kosh's appearance (Spoilers_)

+27 Oct 1995
     This is not a bad assessment, Nicholas.  And yes, I remember that
+quote from CS Lewis, very evocative.  (Have read the Screwtape Letters,
+Perelandra, That Hideous Strength and others.  He sometimes indulged in
+straw-man logic, but always written entertainingly.)
+
+
+                                                                jms
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ATTN JMS: A couple of question

+27 Oct 1995
     Actually, what's been referred to is the Jump Gate off Io; we saw
+this colony facility before, in Chrysalis...it isn't *on* Io as much as
+in orbit near it.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+ATTN JMS: What did the actors (27 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: What did the actors

+27 Oct 1995
     I try avoiding telling the actors anything more than what is needed
+for each episode as it comes, otherwise you risk them subconsciously
+playing the result rather than the process.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Attn Jms:  More PKD in B5, wha (27 Oct 1995)
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Attn Jms:  More PKD in B5, wha

+27 Oct 1995
     Nope, sorry.  "Garibaldi" comes from the Italian war hero of the
+same name.  Have never read Dick's "Exegenis," and that has nothing to
+do with "Exogenesis" the episode.  Don't know anything about any row
+between PKD and HE.
+
+
+     I'm chagrined to say that I've read *very* little of Dick's work,
+though I did read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," which of course
+became Blade Runner.  He just got a wee bit weird, even for me.
+
+
+                                                               jms
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+ATTN JMS: Influences? (27 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Influences?

+27 Oct 1995
      Have not read Rice's "The Adding Machine" or seen it, but from the
+apparent time period, it's likely of the school of playwriting that has
+most influenced my work in general, mainly in terms of style.
+
+
+      I somewhat tend to moderate my writing style between the fairly
+straightforward and simple to slightly more theatrical in nature, more of
+the Serling/Chayefsky/Corwin mode.  I like playing with language, and
+English is a terrific language to play with.  There was a time in this
+country when literate syntactical construction was something honored; now
+everything tends to be more toward the y'know, I was, you know, hanging
+around the corner store, y'know, and Bob comes up to me, and he says....
+
+
+     If you look at the original Twilight Zone, some episodes of the
+original Star Trek, the Outer Limits...you see a kind of reflective
+writing that delights in slamming nouns and verbs together to see what
+kind of explosion you get when the syntax hits critical mass.
+
+
+     It saddens me a bit now that anybody who sounds too literate is
+often put down as showy or being theatrical.  Listen to the speeches of
+Kennedy and Churchill and FDR, look to the great orators of our long
+history of a nation, from Lincoln to Jefferson.  Their use of language,
+of an idea well formed and delivered, propelled this nation toward its
+current destiny, forged one country out of dozens of squabbling states.
+I listen now to politicians, hoping and waiting for the one who
+understands that the words have to dig into our souls and take root,
+must have power and the purity of language well-used.  And I just don't
+hear it anymore...which is perhaps why we have consensus takers and not
+leaders these days.
+
+
+     It saddens me that literacy has become suspect, and degraded, given
+how many millions of years of evolution spent developing the ability to
+create language.  The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by
+our facility with language.  The less precise the useage, the less clear
+the process of language, the less you can achieve what you want to
+achieve when you open you mouth to say something.  We have slowly
+bastardized and degraded and weakened the language, abetted and abided
+by a growing cultural disdain for literacy, a cyclical trend toward
+anti-intellectualism.
+
+
+     So I write my characters as sharp, and as witty, and as intelligent,
+and as literate as I wish I would be under those sorts of circumstances,
+which of course I never am.  Maybe to remind people of the power of
+language...mainly because I just love the sound of words carefully
+stitched together.  My dramatic conceit is that in 2259, we have had a
+moderate rebirth of formality, and the kind of literacy you would often
+see in letters from the turn of the century, and the 1930s.  Because it
+allows me to write it the way I want.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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Re: ATTN JMS: Explain editing

+28 Oct 1995
     Sometimes we do use two cameras, yes, usually for big scenes with
+crowds and lots of action.  If you're in tight, it's hard to light for
+both sides; the light generally goes just one way, then you relight for
+each new angle.  Even so, we run two cameras often, but not always, as
+the cost is prohibitive.
+
+
+                                                               jms
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+Attn JMS:  Q's not asked from (28 Oct 1995)
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+28 Oct 1995
     What's been happening the last few days?  Well, we're now shooting
+episode #9, "Point of No Return," and today was Majel Barrett's second
+day of shooting on the show; she has two more days to shoot.  So far the
+episode looks very good.  We're finishing the last EFX shots on "Voices
+of Authority," episode #4, which will air after episode #5, "Passing
+Through Gethsemane" because the latter requires almost zip EFX, and is a
+better cap to the Novemer sweeps.
+
+
+     I just finished writing episode #12, "A Late Delivery From Avalon,"
+and we're in pre-production on #10, "Severed Dreams."  I'm currently
+breaking out the story for #13 (not titled yet), which I'll probably start
+writing this weekend.  We should get the director's cut on "Messages From
+Earth" (#8) sometime middle of next week.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
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+Attn JMS: I (think I) got it! (28 Oct 1995)
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Attn JMS: I (think I) got it!

+28 Oct 1995
     Shadows weren't trolling, just passing through; the Narn fall is not
+in the best interests of the army of light.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
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+ATTN JMS :  expression (27 Oct 1995)
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+27 Oct 1995
     There have been many explanations for where this phrase comes
+from.  SoMost of them are obviN%=yously spook etymology, but the first one I
+heard -- and who knows if this is right -- comes from WW I, where just
+before one side would go into battle, they'd send one man up in a hot
+air balloon to scout the enemy's location.  If you saw the balloon
+going up, you knew combat wasn't far behind.
+
+
+     Wherever it comes from, though, that's the general meaning of
+the phrase.
+
+
+                                                              jms
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ATTN JMS: Notes to actors abou

+27 Oct 1995
     No, I don't believe I gave any voice direction on that one.
+
+
+     But certainly, the most trouble is always caused by people who are
+sure they know what they're doing.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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JMS:Re: Space:Above&Beyond (Op

+5 Oct 1995
     I agree; SPACE has a great deal of potential.  I watched the second
+episode, and enjoyed it.
+ 
+                                                                      jms
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+ATTN JMS: Caitlin Brown in CtI (28 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Caitlin Brown in CtI

+28 Oct 1995
     No, no Caitlin.
+
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+                                                                  jms
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+Who is Norman Corwin? (28 Oct 1995)
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Who is Norman Corwin?

+28 Oct 1995
     He is only one of the finest writers this country has ever produced.
+Go to your local library and look up his work.  Take it home and read it
+(or listen to it).  In addition to being one of our preeminent essayists,
+and a primary influence on such notables as Edward R. Murrow, Charles
+Kuralt, Walter Cronkite, Stan Freberg, Rod Serling, and is possibly *the*
+primary reason Ray Bradbury decided to become a writer in the first place,
+he was this nation's finest and most regarded radio drama writer of his
+time, moreso than Arch Oboler or Orson Welles.  He write the radio drama
+"On A Note of Triumph" aired on *all three* radio networks on VE day,
+wrote cantatas for the UN, was a contemporary and friend of Carl
+Sandburg, wrote the feature film "Lust For Life" about Van Gogh...look
+into any copy of "Who's Who."  The listing goes on forever.
+
+
+     Unfortunately, at the height of his career, he was one of many who
+ended up grey-listed, because one little creep who owned a chain of
+supermarkets published a rag called Red Channels, which one day listed
+Norman's name because some of what he'd written struck this jerk as being
+maybe sympathetic to the Reds (never mind that this was stuff he had been
+commissioned by the government to write during WW 2 to demonstrate
+solidarity during the war).  Despite this, his niche remains secure, and
+he is what's known in the biz as a *writer's writer*.  He has been a
+friend and a mentor for over 15 years, and I've learned much from him
+about what it is to be a writer, and a human being.
+
+
+     I'm serious.  Go to your local library and look up his work.  Or to
+your local bookstore and track down a copy of his latest book, a collection
+of his letters (cunningly entitled Norman Corwin's Letters), published in
+hardcover by Barricade Books, containing his correspondence to friends,
+family, and such notable long-term friends as Ray Bradbury, William
+Shatner, Rod Serling, Robert Altman, Ken Burns, Philip Dunne, Charles
+Kuralt, Walter Cronkite, Burgess Meredith, Philip Roth, Gregory Peck,
+Eric Sevareid, Bill Moyers, Erik Barnouw, Groucho Marx, Carl Sandburg,
+Leonard Bernstein, Bette Davis, Edward R. Murrow...well, you get the
+idea.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
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+Video Video I want it on VIDEO (28 Oct 1995)
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Video Video I want it on VIDEO

+28 Oct 1995
     If someone wants to pull out the address I listed on Compuserve,
+there's the name and address of the person who makes the decision on
+video releases, B5's in particular.
+
+
+                                                                jms
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+ATTN JMS: ISN question - How c (28 Oct 1995)
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+28 Oct 1995
     There are other networks, but the cost of a hyperspace/tachyon link
+to places like B5 is prohibitive, so they're fairly local.  ISN has
+relays and branches in lots of places.  It would be fair to say that ISN
+is taking heat from the EA gov't to portray things a certain way, yes.
+Where this leads, we'll have to see.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS: Patrick McGoohan? (28 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Patrick McGoohan?

+28 Oct 1995
     We'll go after Patrick when we get another script suited for him.
+
+
+                                                            jms
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+ATTN JMS, Vorlon singing & mis (29 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS, Vorlon singing & mis

+29 Oct 1995
     Peter David wants to re-use the teddy bear in his new series, Space
+Cases...so we'll see.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Could you clear some (29 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Could you clear some

+29 Oct 1995
     I could address those issues here, but I'd rather do them in the
+show...otherwise it kinda defeats the purpose in making it.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+JMS and Coincidences (29 Oct 1995)
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JMS and Coincidences

+29 Oct 1995
     It's real simple.  Ron Thornton showed me three variations on the
+Great Machine shot.  Because you're looking at a composite shot, you have
+to shoot either sharply angled down, or dead across, and full-figured,
+since you have to put them into another piece.  That meant either a
+horizontal shot, or a 3/4's vertical shot.
+
+
+     Two of the shots on the storyboards were horizontal; one showed our
+characters way off in the distance on a ribboned path lined by crystals.
+It'd be pretty, but it looked like another tunnel shot, and I wanted to
+show something that wasn't claustrophobic.  Also, we'd be limited in the
+camera move, and our characters would look kinda like peanuts.  Not
+terribly dramatic.  The second shot just didn't work for me, I don't
+entirely recall the reason now.  The third possibility seemed the most
+dramatic...it was a high angle shot, it had depth, it would let us start
+on our characters and do a camera move/pullback in post production, it
+worked on every level.
+
+
+     My second thought was, "Shit, somebody's going to gig us on the
+Forbidden Planet thing."  Nonetheless, it was the right shot, for the
+right reasons, and we chose to go with it.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+Attn JMS: CTI Thoughts/Feeling (29 Oct 1995)
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Attn JMS: CTI Thoughts/Feeling

+29 Oct 1995
     Will: thanks, and you're quite right; it does say something about the
+Vorlons that they'd use Jack for this purpose.  Now we just have to further
+define what that is.
+
+
+     BTW, just to append it here, not strictly appropos of your message...
+I've noted a number of people say, in essence, "Boy, was I disappointed
+that he said Jack at the end, what does he think we are, morons?"  And I've
+seen plenty of comments from people who didn't know it was Jack until that
+very last moment, for whom it was a revelation.
+
+
+     It's pretty clear, to lots of folks, that the test was in some ways
+(most, actually) more for Delenn's benefit than Kosh's...lots of folks got
+this...and then others have said, "Well, if that's what he meant, why
+didn't he just have one of them come out and SAY this, say what was learned
+or that this was for THEIR benefit?"
+
+
+     So frankly, whether one comes out and says something, or does not come
+out and say something, someone on one side or the other is going to give
+you a hard time about it.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
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+ATTN JMS: To whom would we wri (29 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: To whom would we wri

+29 Oct 1995
     I'll try to post the address later, but in the interim, I gave the
+address of the person at WB video over on CIS, so somebody'd probably
+already got it here.  ('s)
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Question on script w (5 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Question on script w

+5 Oct 1995
     You have to write toward the act breaks, so that each act ends on a
+strong point or hook to bring the audience back after the commercial.
+ 
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS : Theo & his Brothers (29 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS : Theo & his Brothers

+29 Oct 1995
     No, these are not the monks Sheridan met earlier.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
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+ATTN JMS:  Maybe setting recor (30 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  Maybe setting recor

+30 Oct 1995
     Actually, it was pointed out to me recently that as far as can be
+determined (and if there's any solid info to the contrary, I'll gladly
+take it) that no one has ever single-handedly written a full season of
+a dramatic, one-hour series.  Even David Kelley often uses co-writers on
+many of his episodes of ER and Picket Fences.  I have not yet set this out
+as a personal challenge, because I think you have to be open to what may
+come your way from other places.  But it's something I'm keeping a vaguely
+interested eye on....
+
+
+                                                                     jms
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+

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+Re: Attn Jms:  More PKD in B5, (30 Oct 1995)
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Re: Attn Jms:  More PKD in B5,

+30 Oct 1995
     Okay, I've just read a bunch more of these...okay, I admit it, you
+got me...I'm doing Philip K. Dick right down the line...and I'm also
+doing George Orwell right down the line...and I'm doing Lord of the
+Rings beat for beat...and Chalker...and...and Cherryh...and I'm doing
+a variation on the Bible, and King Arthur, and the history of Babylon,
+and the Idylls of the King....
+
+
+     What?  What's that you say?  You can't be doing all of these right
+down the line, all at the same time?  Sure I can.  Because there IS no
+B5.  There's a blank signal that registers in your brain, triggering the
+last thing you read, or the most important thing you read.  It's a
+carefully rigged US Government psychological warfare experiment.
+
+
+     I give up.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
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+JMS:  Alice Cooper influence o (30 Oct 1995)
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JMS:  Alice Cooper influence o

+30 Oct 1995
     No, no nod there.  (Again, same thing as my last note.)  It's a
+longstanding device, used by therapists, it's a big part of the Synanon
+game (for those who know what that is)...Alice Cooper used that kind of
+structure, but so did Meatloaf in "Life Is A Lemon And I want My Money
+Back."  (What about your childhood?  What about love?)  It's in many
+poems from the Beat Poetry period...it's a device with a long tradition.
+(Heck, read the book of Job sometime.)
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+"Comes The Inquisitor"  SPOILE (30 Oct 1995)
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"Comes The Inquisitor"  SPOILE

+30 Oct 1995
     There have been a great number of films and TV programs with one sort
+of interrogation scene or other; I'd commend "Closetland" for something
+else on this order.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+Attn. JMS: AOL B5 site - SHIP1 (30 Oct 1995)
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Attn. JMS: AOL B5 site - SHIP1

+30 Oct 1995
     I believe that's an alien probe from "A Day in the Strife."
+
+
+                                                               jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Explain editing (30 Oct 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Explain editing

+30 Oct 1995
     Cameras don't run themselves; along with the cost of renting a second
+camera (we don't own them), there's the cost of the crew to operate it,
+camera operator per se, you double the cost of your people on the floorl.
+  Er, floor.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+ATTN JMS:The Quintara Marathon (30 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS:The Quintara Marathon

+30 Oct 1995
     No, I've never read them.  "I am wondering if they had any relation
+to B5."  No, because that is called plagiarism.
+
+
+     I'm not yelling at you, James, I'm just taking a moment here to make
+a general comment.
+
+
+     Ahem.  To everyone looking on.
+
+
+     STOP ASKING ME IF I AM DOING ONE BOOK OR ANOTHER BY ANOTHER WRITER.
+
+
+     That is called plagiarism.  It's called theft.  It's not a question
+that novel writers get, only TV writers.  I know that's not your intent,
+but that's what it is.  I didn't fight for five years to make this show to
+do somebody else's story.  This is its own story.  Nobody else's.  It may
+not occur to you -- likely does not -- but this is a *supremely* offensive
+comment to any writer.  It implies that one cannot come up with one's own
+story, one has to borrow or rip off from somebody else...again, a comment
+usually directed toward TV writers.  I've never seen a novelist asked if
+he was doing somebody else's novel.
+
+
+     I may sometimes nod in tribute to those works that have come before,
+but that's all it ever is.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Childhood -How was i (30 Oct 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Childhood -How was i

+30 Oct 1995
     Without going on overlong, as some of this has already been covered,
+it wasn't terrific as a kid.  We moved every 6 months to a year, blowing
+from town to town (economic reasons), always the new kid, hence very few
+friends at any time.  None that lasted more than that 6-12 months.  No
+one town that constituted a home town.  So I read a lot...novels, comics,
+you name it.
+
+
+     Wasn't a nerd in high school; I just passed through their ranks
+unnoticed, like some kind of translucent Eisenglass figurine at the back
+of the room.  I went back to the 20th reunion...to find that only one
+person sorta kinda remembered me.  No one else.
+
+
+     As for writing...I always knew that I'd be a writer, for as long as
+I can remember.  Even as a kid I collected pens, had an interest in all
+things writing.  The second that I was old enough to take typing classes,
+I did.  Ended up taking 4 semesters of it, until by the time I left I was
+the fastest typist they'd ever produced, 'cause I knew full well I'd need
+that skill when I got going.  In my senior year, having studied the style
+and structure of most of my favorite writers (I can do a lethal imitation
+of just about any writer's style), I decided, at 17, that I'd prepared
+enough...time to start Writing, and selling.  And I did, right then.
+
+
+     And I've never looked back.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+ATT JMS: Shorter episodes? (30 Oct 1995)
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ATT JMS: Shorter episodes?

+30 Oct 1995
     I don't believe the length of the show has changed much more than a
+few seconds; if there are minutes missing, it's something happening at
+your end of the signal.
+
+
+                                                                jms
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+

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+Re: Rumor central..... (2 Nov 1995)
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Re: Rumor central.....

+2 Nov 1995
     No, the events in "Demon With a Glass Hand" take place roughly 1,000
+years further up the pike from B5's time.
+
+
+                                                                     jms
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+Inquisitor: "What about....?" (2 Nov 1995)
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Inquisitor: "What about....?"

+2 Nov 1995
        "What about eternity?"  It was an adlib from the actor just to cover
+the moment when Delenn rises, knowing it would likely never get heard over
+the rest of it.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
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+ATTN JMS:  TFoN... (2 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  TFoN...

+2 Nov 1995
     "Who is master here?  The man or his work?"
+
+
+     That's like one of those questions, "Which came first?  Thought or
+language?"  Can you really have thought without language?  And how can
+you develop language without thought?"  (See the stuff on the breakdown
+of the bicameral mind for some on this.)
+
+
+     That's a question I don't think any reasonable writer can answer.  At
+times, a lot of the time, really, I'm not entirely sure.  There's the
+talent, and the vessel, and sometimes the latter seems a poor vehicle for
+the former.  The story, once set in motion, takes on a life of its own.
+To a very large extent, what I do when I write an episode is to peek into
+the B5 universe and find out what happened there that week.  Sometimes I'm
+as much surprised as anyone else by what these characters have gotten
+themselves into *this* time.
+
+
+     The flip side, of course, is that there's an awful lot of me in this
+story, in the characters, the situations, the questions that get explored
+in the course of the story.  I'm working through a lot of issues here,
+no question.  It's my hope that there's enough interest in those issues
+and questions to affect others.
+
+
+     On that level, it's a very personal show.  And it consumes ever
+waking hour of my life.  I think I've kind of lost track of where the line
+is between "the man and the work."  It's all the same.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Sound Editing (2 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Sound Editing

+2 Nov 1995
     Thanks.  We spend a *great* deal of time on the sound on this show,
+to make it interesting and so it stands out without being obtrusive.
+
+
+                                                               jms
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+JMS: Marshall Teague is back!? (2 Nov 1995)
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JMS: Marshall Teague is back!?

+2 Nov 1995
     Yes, Teague's Narn character returns at least twice this coming
+season.
+
+
+                                                          jms
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+

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+I am not ready yet! (6 Nov 1995)
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I am not ready yet!

+6 Nov 1995
     Just lie down, have a nice glass of warm milk, Q| b*/#=7F=7Fmaybe a =
+nice fish
+sandwich, it'll pass....in about 3 more years.
+
+
+                                                          jms
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+ATTN: JMS - how are the rating (6 Nov 1995)
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ATTN: JMS - how are the rating

+6 Nov 1995
     So far, the ratings are good, and WB is pleased.  (Even had one of
+the Big Guns come down here for lunch last week to hang out with the
+cast, and indicate that they're pleased.)  The sweeps period beginning
+this week is the real test, though.
+
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS: regarding CTS/RSI (6 Nov 1995)
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JMS: regarding CTS/RSI

+6 Nov 1995
     Thanks; already using the Kinesis keyboard at work....
+
+
+                                                           jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Did he, or didn't he (6 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Did he, or didn't he

+6 Nov 1995
     After the Centauri tried to kill him, the need for an apology was
+somewhat obviated.  Had he still been forced to do so, the one he
+rehearsed was the one he intended to give.
+
+
+                                                                jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS:  Why are stations no (6 Nov 1995)
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+6 Nov 1995
     The problem is that some of the stations don't realize or understand that
+they've been showing the same one season's worth of reruns since May, and
+that that's why the ratings dropped after a show's aired 3-4 times.  The
+rerun period hurt us a lot, no breaks, no new episodes in 5 months.  In
+other cases, they never supported the show, don't want it, want to make
+room for UPN or Fox shows (when that network owns the station), and so
+they look to drop it.
+
+
+     If a station drops the show, contact other local independent stations
+and ask them to pick it up.  Because what's significant is that in those
+markets where the show is supported, as soon as we hit with new episodes,
+the ratings banged right back up to where they were, and the overnights
+have been increasing every week since we went back on with new stuff.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Job (6 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Job

+6 Nov 1995
     What would I say to one of my characters if asked to justify what I
+had done to them?
+
+
+     "I figured it'd make things a *lot* more interesting.  To see what
+(and if) you'd learn.  Because it makes for good drama, and I like to be
+entertained at this end.  Because I can.  And because I felt like it."
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+
+     (Where were you when I brought forth the whale....)
+
+

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+ATTN JMS:  No Janet Greek in S (2 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS:  No Janet Greek in S

+2 Nov 1995
     Janet isn't directing any episodes this season because she wanted to
+take time off to work on her own screenwriting projects.  She took one or
+two high-priced network gigs to fill in the gaps, plus she's squeezing in
+one Hypernauts episode, but that's it.  Once she's done?|e we hope to he(?iave
+her again next season (ratings willing).
+
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS Favorable Article in (6 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS Favorable Article in

+6 Nov 1995
     If I could possibly get a copy of this sent to me at the B5 mail
+drop, I'd be infinitely appreciative.  That's, as usual, suite 260 at
+14431 Ventura Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
+
+
+     Thanks.
+
+
+                                                           jms
+
+

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+JMS: Confirm Season 3 title? (8 Nov 1995)
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JMS: Confirm Season 3 title?

+8 Nov 1995
      I've been holding back because I wanted to really see the shape of
+this season, the color and texture of it, the overall theme put into
+effect...and frankly, the only really apt title, much as I like the other
+quote, is the #9 title, "Point of No Return," because that sums up so
+much of what happens in year three to everyone.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Influences? (8 Nov 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Influences?

+8 Nov 1995
      I was more or less unaware of this latest battle until someone aske=
+d
+if I'd seen it.  Most of it's scrolled by, except for Marco Bernardo's
+post and a few others; since his quotes a lot, I'm going to use his as a
+kind of rosetta stone to address the others.
+
+
+      One of the biggest hot buttons lately (in general, not just here) h=
+as
+been the question of language vs. culture, and how the two inter-relate.
+There seems to be the sense that language =3D culture, and that unless yo=
+u
+speak street language, the language of a minority, you are somehow giving
+up your culture.  Which is, of course, nonsense.
+
+
+      Lemme give you some examples.  I'm basically one-and-a-half
+generation American; my father was born ehre of immigrant parents, but
+lived his formative years back in Byeloruss.  My family came here, and th=
+e
+single most important lesson was, "Learn English."  For years there was a
+second language spoken around the house -- a sort of polyglot mix of
+polish, russian and=1A*| white-russian --(6 but outside the house, and ou=
+tside of
+the kind of "little europe" community we often lived in, English was the
+way to go.
+
+
+     Similarly, in Jewish culture, it is standard to learn Hebrew, Yiddis=
+h
+and *the dominant langauge* of whatever country they're in.  Why?  Real
+simple.  Economics, and common sense.
+
+
+     Sure, you can choose to speak only street language, or a culturally
+influenced language, but if you choose that, you are going to limit your
+economic prospects.  Particularly as we become more and more an informati=
+on
+based society.
+
+
+     None of this required sacrificing my culture.  I could have chosen t=
+o
+maintain my second language, but I chose to focus in on this one.  My
+CULTURE, my heritage, where I'm from, where my family is from, the histor=
+y
+of my people...that's still intact.  None of that is sacrificed in the
+smallest way.  I'm still proud of where my family came from, and the
+struggle taken to reach this country.  It's got nothing to do with one's
+language.
+
+
+     English has become the langauge of economics not just in this countr=
+y
+but in others as well.  That's an undeniable fact, I'm sorry if it's not
+a kind fact.  In this country, unless you're in a primarily hispanic or
+italian neighborhood, if you walk up to someone and start speaking spanis=
+h
+or italian at them, the odds are you'll get a blank stare.  (This is also
+partly our own native ethnocentrism creeping in.)  Go to Europe, and you
+will find an English-speaking person a hell of a lot more often.  Because
+that's becoming the standard for economic reasons.
+
+
+     I know a number of african-american educators who are driven to
+despair over the street english question.  I'll recap the main points tha=
+t
+they stated: "Don't they realize that dz=14hstreet english is *slaver's*
+english?  Slave masters didn't want their slaves to know english, to spea=
+k
+well, because that way would lead them into thought and the ability to
+control their own lives.  They wanted them to speak poorly, to get their
+ideas across inefficiently, to be hobbled at the cerebral cortex.  That's
+why one of the biggest crimes you could commit would be to be caught
+reading a book.
+
+
+     "Street english isn't anybody's culture; they weren't speaking
+street english when our people were ripped from our native countries.
+It's not our culture.  It's got nothing to do with us.  It's just a
+bastardized form of english used to keep us repressed.  If people want to
+stay in touch with their cultural roots, there are more efficient ways
+to do it that don't lead to further repression because we can't compete
+in the business world."
+
+
+     Yes, language changes, new words are introduced, the whole purpose
+of language is that it should be fluid.  It should be fluid enough to
+add new meanings, new terminologies, words from foreign places that are
+in some ways more effective.  In this way, the language becomes more
+precise through addition.  The more the language becomes *imprecise*,
+the more poorly it is used, the more people are limited in thier
+(their) possibilities.
+
+
+     It's real simple, people, and it's got nothing to do with anybody's
+culture.  If I wanted a career in math, I'd have to learn the rules of
+math and be able to apply them.  If I want a career using language, the
+better my grasp of the rules of that language, the better.  In this
+country, it's english; in mexico it's spanish, in germany it's german;
+it's not one being any better than the other, that's just common sense.
+
+
+     Now, I suppose you could choose to only speak broken english, or
+street english, or an otherwise inefficient form of english, whether it's
+in the barrio, or little italy, or little korea, or little poland in
+Chicago...and that's fine, *provided you never intend to leave and pursue
+work outside that community*.  Because if you do, you're screwed.  Becaus=
+e
+if you're from little italy, and you move into little korea, you know
+what?  You've got noting much in common, their culture is as valid as
+yours is...the only thing you *may* have in common...is english.  And if
+there isn't that bond, your economic prospects are zilch.
+
+
+     In the first wave of immigration into this country, the emphasis was
+on learning english as fast as possible.  You moved in to little italy,
+or little germany, or the other immigrant neighborhoods that sprouted up
+along coastlines and harbors, in New Jersey and New York and parts west,
+which gave you a brief leg up, while you learned the language, and the
+culture enough to master it and move out, pursuing better opportunities
+outside that small community.  Now, the small community has become the
+dead-end in many cases, and learning to deal with the dominant culture
+around you has become perceived as a threat to one's culture, which one
+left behind in another country.
+
+
+     Okay, you bring your culture with you, that's great...and the next
+guy brings *his* culture with him, and that's great...and neither of you
+learns a middle-ground language, and *that's* great...and two hundred
+thousand more guys do the same, and *that's* great...until one day when
+a bunch of *your* guys have to make deals with and buy and sell to the
+OTHER guys.  Then it's a problem.
+
+
+     What makes a nation a nation is a certain commonality, something the=
+y
+share in common.  That's our strength, and our life's blood.  The more we
+are fractured, the weaker we become.  We fought a civil war because we
+were A united states, not THE united states, because we weren't americans=
+,
+we were Virginians, or Carolinans.  And now we're fighting a new civil
+war in the streets because we're hispanics or eastern europeans or native
+americans.
+
+
+     People need to stop being threatened by the use of "you" instead
+of "se" or "du" or "vou."  It's a word.  It doesn't detract from where yo=
+u
+came from, who you are, what your culture is.  Stop trying to make the
+overall culture bend to your specific needs, because it won't, and in the
+end you're the one hurt by limiting your options.
+
+
+     We evolve by becoming smarter, faster, better.  By adapting to our
+circumstances.  Why do you think we're here and the dinosaurs are dead?
+Because us little mammals adapted, and adjusted, and sought out the best
+way to survive in our new environment; we didn't stay locked in the way
+we were because that was our culture before.
+
+
+     Street language is poorly used english, mixed with a smattering of
+the local ethnic verbiage, whichever ethnic group happens to be there at
+the moment.  That's all it is.  Take pride in the ethnic background?
+Absolutely.  If you speak spanish or italian or korean, don't you want to
+speak it as well as you can to communicate with your neighbors?  If so,
+then why is it *not* okay to speak english as well as you can?
+
+
+     No we don't always speak in complete sentences, I lapse into street
+profanity and syntax when appropriate for color or effect...but when it
+comes down to it, I have options *outside* that.  I have the flexibilily
+(flexibility) of doing both.  If you don't have that flexibility, you're
+screwed.  It's as simple as that.
+
+
+     Finally, on the subject of elistism...it's sad when someone who
+simply suggests that we should strive to be as good as we can at somethin=
+g
+-- whatever that something might be -- is an "elitist."  I always
+figured it was the human heart always striving to be the best possible at
+what we do.  Yes, let's praise mediocrity and fuzzy thinking and imprecis=
+ion
+instead.  Because that's what we end up with.  The less precise your
+language, the less capable you will be of conveying what you want.
+
+
+     When did we reach the point when saying it's okay to be less than
+we are is a grand idea, and saying we should work harder to master an
+everyday part of our lives is something to be derided and insulted?
+
+
+     Jeannette has been unjustly maligned in this conversation, for sayin=
+g
+something that totally reconciles with the nature of this program: to
+always shoot for the absolute best.  And those of you who jumped on her f=
+or
+this should be ashamed of yourselves.
+
+
+     You don't want to learn standard english?  Fine.  You don't have to.
+Just don't ever leave your neighborhood, because the people three blocks
+down feel the same way about THEIR language and THEIR culture, and they'r=
+e
+every bit as entitled as you are.  M=1Egw=7Ftz=1F!B=7FAnd then we will ha=
+ve more and more
+neighborhoods and communiites that can't communicate with each other, tha=
+t
+can't deal with one another, that fight with each other.  I'm all for it.
+It makes for great drama.
+
+
+     Maybe you've heard about it...the Tower of Babel.
+
+
+     And if that makes me an elitist...I couldn't be happier.  Because
+only being an elitist, a perfectionist, striving to be better than the
+next guy, has given us an Einstein and a Jorge Luis Borges and a Santayan=
+a.
+ It has given us Nelson Mandela and the Beatles and Churchill and everyon=
+e
+who has ever won an olympic foot race in the last thousand years.
+
+
+     A society is measured by the marks left by the best of us.  Any
+society that forgets this is on the downward slide.  Elitism is an
+evolutionary stance.  It's not a bad word.  It respects that which is
+(to that culture or society) best and brightest in all of us, the potenti=
+al
+we have for greatness.  "An elite squadron" means that they're the best
+they are at what they do.  "An elite few" means the same thing.
+
+
+     Elitist?  Hey, Jeannette...if it's true, wear it as a badge, because
+that's what it is.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

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+A few questions for JMS (10 Nov 1995)
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A few questions for JMS

+10 Nov 1995
     Expect a gap over the Christmas period, with new episodes (after the
+current batch) starting up in late January for the February sweeps.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
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+Attn JMS: Story Breaking? (10 Nov 1995)
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Attn JMS: Story Breaking?

+10 Nov 1995
     Okay, first a disclaimer: no one method of creating a story is
+intrinsically better or worse than any other...it depends on what works
+for you.  Telling someone how to make their story is like telling someone
+how to have sex; sometimes the suggestion is well received, but generally
+you just piss the other person off.
+
+
+     To the heart of your question now....
+
+
+     As you note, the ST shows use a process called "breaking" a story;
+in which you get everybody in a room, they all begin kicking around ideas,
+picking at the story, while someone writes down on a board what the group
+comes up with.
+
+
+     I don't use that, and frankly, I hate it.  What happens, I feel, is
+that a group dynamic comes into the picture and you get something that
+has been committee-ized, and there's no longer any one distinctive
+voice.  It goes through so many diverse hands that by the end all of the
+corners have been knocked off.  When I look at most committee-ized
+stories, regardless of show, my usual reaction is, "It took TEN of you to
+write THIS?"
+
+
+     I sit down, I come up with a story I like, I pull it apart to make
+sure it makes sense, and I write it.  When a freelancer works with me, I
+assign the notion, or listen to the pitch, and then send the writer away
+to work up the story into an outline.  Then we discuss it, one on one.
+Then it gets written, and sometimes I rewrite it afterwards if needed.
+There are no creative committees in B5; that's why you never see more than
+one name on a script.  Whether it's a freelancer or an in-house script,
+we respect the original voice of the individual writer.
+
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

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+Matters of Honor (re B5 s (10 Nov 1995)
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+10 Nov 1995
     I don't consider the "bonehead maneuver" to be technobabble, for
+several reasons.  For starters, the "babble" part isn't there; TB goes
+on into long explanations of neutrino waves and particle theory and
+elements that have to be recalibrated, on and on and on....
+
+
+     Second, a prime requisite for TB is that it's a technology that
+comes out of nowhere, artifically invented to create a problem and/or
+create a solution.  Neither applies here; we've seen jump gates and
+jump points now for three years; we've seen them disrupted in "The
+Long Twilight Struggle."  It was just using the tech we've already
+established.
+
+
+     In a way, it's kind of unfair that we get hammered when we use a
+little teeny piece of technology because ST has abused it for so man
+years.  That's not our fault, and one shouldn't develop a kneejerk
+response so that ANY reference to technology becomes technobabble.  If
+that's the case, then the term becomes meaningless.
+
+
+     This is, also, a *science* fiction show; if sometimes we have a
+touch of science, it's the nature of the show; you can't have SF
+without at least some measure of tech...otherwise you've got fantasy.
+The day we do a page and a half of discussions about particles being
+recalibrated, particles that didn't exist twenty minutes before the
+need became apparent, *then* we can get gigged on technobabble.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: Jumppoint Question (10 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Jumppoint Question

+10 Nov 1995
     Usually detectors in the ships prevent them from being formed on
+top of something vital (though sometimes you *want* to do that as a
+weapon)...and we *have* seen other POV shots of the gate opening, including
+one from the back of the jump gate toward the oncoming ships (I think it
+was in "All Alone").
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+Hope JMS answers this... (10 Nov 1995)
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+10 Nov 1995
      We will eventually see more than one vorlon at a time, yes.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
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+JMS:  Matters of Honor (spoile (10 Nov 1995)
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JMS:  Matters of Honor (spoile

+10 Nov 1995
     Be of good cheer; the jumpgate blast destroyed the pursuing vessel.
+
+
+                                                               jms
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+

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+MoH observation (SPOILER) (10 Nov 1995)
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MoH observation (SPOILER)

+10 Nov 1995
     Yeah, we made some small modifications to the headpiece (good call,
+Corun).  It merges more seamlessly behind, it's raised slightly at the
+crest, and the ends blend more smoothly into the skin in front, to make
+the whole thing more natural.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+JMS: B5 merchandise (2 Nov 1995)
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+2 Nov 1995
     No, those all look licensed to me.  BTW, Creation Entertainment in
+Glendale CA has these nifty B5 jackets and the best B5 mugs I've seen
+yet; they're oversized black ceramic mugs with the B5 logo on one side,
+and a silhouette of the station on the other side, both done in silver.
+Really nifty.
+
+
+     BTW #2: there are three patches that are starting to show up at
+conventions: an Earthforce3t#@ppz1s Off-World, Death's Hands, and the Starfury
+"Ugly But Well Hung" patch.  These are *strictly* illegal, and we're
+backtracking this to the source.  If you see any of these, let me know
+where and when and any info you can get on who was selling them and/or
+their source.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+Re: B5 rips off Trek Again! (T (10 Nov 1995)
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+10 Nov 1995
     I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or seemingly
+angelic character), whose likes have been written about for, oh, about
+4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so thoroughly up his
+ass as to have blipped into an entirely new intestinally-based reality
+and desperately needs to get a wider frame of reference.
+
+
+                                                             jms
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+10 Nov 1995
     John: thanks; we got a copy of the article when it ran out here.
+It's progress, slow but steady.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Influences? (10 Nov 1995)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Influences?

+10 Nov 1995
      I've now caught up on more of this discussion, and I think that
+introductions are definitely in order.
+
+
+      Tom McLean, Thaxton and Fuller; Thaxton and Fuller, Tom McLean.
+
+
+                                                              jms
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+ATTN: JMS  I'll send you TV We (10 Nov 1995)
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+10 Nov 1995
     Yes, the address is correct; I look forward to getting the material.
+And thanks for staying out there and supporting the show.
+
+
+                                                            jms
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+JMS: Pgh review (& very minor (10 Nov 1995)
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+10 Nov 1995
     David: thanks, and I'm pleased that the show has that effect.  It is
+a moving, effective episode, I think.  (Got a copy of the article,
+thanks.)
+
+
+                                                               jms
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+ATTN JMS: More SF less plot (10 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: More SF less plot

+10 Nov 1995
     Without character development, no one really cares about the science
+aspect, because it doesn't affect anyone we care about.  Science fiction
+is composed of two parts: the science, which we deal with where we can,
+and where it's appropriate to the story, and the fiction, which must hew
+to the rules of any fiction...characters you care about.  To skew the show
+toward techie and away from plot or character is just to engage in mental
+exercises about what effect component X might have on tachyon B...and I
+tend not to find that terribly interesting.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+10 Nov 1995
     The effect of B5 is something that we'll only be able to really
+gauge over time; for me to say it's had an effect in paving the way for
+other shows in an unequivocal tone of voice would be indulgent and
+self-congratulatory, and maybe *partly* true, but to what extent, who
+knows?
+
+
+     I do know that we've shown for the first time that there's room for
+other space SF series than Star Trek.  We haven't yet broken through in a
+huge way (nor do I really expect us to), but after this long the ratings
+are still solid enough, and the demographics solid enough, that we're
+still here, wheras Pointman and Time Trax and Space Rangers have all gone
+away.
+
+
+     Would Fox have gone with Space A&B had there not been a B5?  I don't
+know.  The network is very happy (rightly so) with what Morgan and Wong
+did for them on X-Files, and was looking for a new berth for them, so it
+is entirely possible they would have made something with them regardless.
+Would it have been a space show?  As likely as not.
+
+
+     Did we make it a bit easier?  I hope so.  Don't know it for certain,
+except that by using CGI as consistently as we have, as well as we have,
+THAT element was, I'm sure, partly the reason they went ahead, because
+it'd be a hideously costly show to do with models, and we were the first
+show to use CGI (beating Space Rangers there), and the first to show it
+could be used consistently in this fashion.
+
+
+     I also know that we've had many producers come to us and ask to be
+shown how we do things on this show to produce the quality we have at the
+price we have.  The Babylon 5 Model, they call it, and that will certainly
+help create an atmosphere where more shows can be done.
+
+
+     And, finally, for the first time, we negotiated a syndicated series
+deal with the local IATSE union, which will almost certainly attract more
+shows back to LA for syndication and cable.  (Many shows have gone to
+Canada or Australia because they were afraid of trying to make a deal with
+local unions, that it would cost too much to make it here.  So there had
+never been a syndicated TV contract until we sat down and worked one out.)
+
+
+     So overall, it's my *hope* that we will have made it easier for other
+SF shows to get on the air; do I *know* this to be true?  Not with
+absolute certainty.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
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+Episode Review (Fall of Night) (10 Nov 1995)
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+10 Nov 1995
      Paul: I'd suggest that many of the "dumb things" about the episode
+are things you've concocted in your own perception.
+
+
+     Much of your message is based on the premise that shadow shipw
+(ships) can cloak...from this follows your notes about how come it's so
+easy to break, on and on.  Shadow ships don't have cloaking devices.  They
+phase in and out of hyperspace, that's all (as you'll see more clearly in
+"Matters").  That's also why they can be seen in hyperspace (your other
+concern).  You're making an assumption, that they can cloak, and then
+using this as a basis for criticizing that cloaking being done
+inconsistently, when the basic premise you're applying is incorrect.
+
+
+     The shadows don't much care about if you can track them, because if
+you try, you're dead.
+
+
+     We haven't "deteriorated" Paul.  The error was in making assumptions
+instead of simpy first asking if a given premise was accurate.
+
+
+                                                                jms
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Re: B5's Plot holes

+10 Nov 1995
     When a movie or book is over, one can analyze the plot holes; right
+now there are a few things that have to be paid off, but there aren't any
+plot holes that I am aware of.
+
+
+                                                          jms
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+11 Nov 1995
     Several items:
+
+
+     1) For those in the LA area, I'm going to be at LosCon at the Burbank
+Airport Hilton on Thanksgiving Sunday, I think it's around 1:00 for a 2
+hour B5 presentation.  Don't know yet if any cast will attend, but there
+should be some interesting stuff.
+
+
+     2) Normally I don't flog the merchandise, but I gotta tell you, today
+I saw the pennultimate version of the B5 screensaver from Sound Sources,
+and it's *gorgeous*.  There are 150 still images, each with .wav sounds,
+including music in many places, PLUS technical files, PLU
+video/sound/music sections where you can see a Vorlon ship dock, see the
+Cortez come out of the gate, see the Streib attack, see Starfuries dropping
+and jumping...I was just knocked out by it.  They've done a *great* job
+on it.  (These are the same folks who did the recent Terminator screen
+saver.)  Apparently it'll be out in time for Christmas, but it's going to
+be a *limited edition*, so you may have to act quickly when it hits the
+stands if you want one.  (I'm definitely going to be using it.)
+
+
+     3) If you've been abused by Ford A. Thaxton, I suggest you drop a
+line to postmaster@aol.com and let them know about it; do it soonish, btw.
+  (I *think* that's the correct address for the AOL administration folks;
+if not, somebody can correct it.)  Given that this abuse has been going on
+now for nearly a year, and shows no sign of relenting, and some have asked
+privately and publicly what can be done, I see no reason why this should
+not be pointed out here.
+
+
+     4) There's a B5 magazine out now, which (although I still don't have
+a finished copy in hand yet) (he said pointedly) (or a copy of the issue
+of Foundation that printed my article, hello, editor Edward James, can
+you hear me?)...anyway, it's a pretty nifty little magazine.  When I met
+with the editor working on it, I specifically noted that they should not
+turn the magazine into a puff piece...let there be some rough edges, and
+hard questions.  (So I kind of dropped my face into my hands when I read
+some of the stuff about how Claudia spends her off-time...and a few other
+choice items...but still, it's best to have it absolutely straight.)
+
+
+     5) To the questions about ratings that have arisen of late...the key
+to any discussion of ratings is real simple: Is the show getting the
+ratings it needs to stay on the air?  If it is, then it does; if it
+doesn't...it's gone.  Where Time Trax and Pointman and Space Rangers are
+gone...we're still here.  Because the numbers crunch.  It sure as hell
+ain't because of my sterling personality and good looks.  Studios and
+networks aren't in the charity business; they're here to make successful
+programs.
+
+
+     The problem with B5 is the unusual situation that we're in, in terms
+of stations, times, and number-crunching.  So I thought I'd take a moment
+to explain some of this.  There are three elements to the ratings: the
+ratings numbers (where you are in the rankings overall), of which one
+component is the hourly rating; the shares; and the demographics.  The
+latter two are the more important figures.  The share is the actual
+percentage of people watching television who are watching your show; so
+a 10 share means 10% of everyone watching TV at that moment is watching
+your program.  The demographics tells the studio/network what kind of
+people are watching...WHO, as opposed to how many.
+
+
+     For instance...here are two hypothetical shows.  One gets a high
+rating, the other a medium or low rating?  Which is more profitable for
+the studio/network?  It can very easily be the *lower rated* show, IF
+that program delivers the choice demographics that advertisers want to
+reach.  Which is why many lower-rated Fox shows are more profitable to
+that network than many CBS shows, which skew toward an older audience
+with less disposable income.  (Ick, TeeVee numbers talk....)  The relative
+costs of the show are also a factor.
+
+
+     The final thing to factor in is that B5 is in the positino of being
+on a number of stations that are primarily either Fox or UPN stations.
+Meaning we get bumped a lot, or we get the 3 a.m. slot.  This is primarily
+true in the smaller markets; in the big markets, the show generally gets a
+better berth.  You live or die by the ratings in the big markets, because
+those are the areas the advertisers want.
+
+
+     (And if you've stayed with me this far, you're far more patient than
+I would be...this stuff gives me a headache on the best of days.)
+
+
+     Now that we've established the language, we proceed....
+
+
+     The demographics for B5 are among the best around in syndication,
+which is why we have generally attracted leading national sponsors to the
+show.  So virtually all of the commercial spots are now sold out for the
+third season, at a rate that PTEN is *very* happy about.  (Some of the Big
+Guns from WB/PTEN have come out to the stage over the last week, simply
+to congratulate us on how the show is doing.)
+
+
+     On the national numbers, we get hit a little because of the problem
+with the smaller markets/Fox and UPN stations noted above.  I'll walk you
+through an example.
+
+
+     Take "Comes the Inquisitor."  Here are some of the individual market
+ratings.  (And by way of comparison, anything above a 3 rating and a 6
+share is golden for advertisers on this show.)  St. Louis, a 3.5 rating
+and an *11* share; Portland OR, a 6.7 rating and a 10 share; Kansas City,
+a 7.0 rating and an 11 share; Orlando a 2.5 and a *13* share (you now see
+how the ratings/share issue can get confusing; you can be in a small
+market, so your rating is small, but the *share*, the percentage of actual
+people watching your show, can be extremely high).  For the next couple
+of episodes, you find Kansas City with *another* 7 rating/13 share;
+Portland OR with an 8.4/13; Minneapolis with a 4.7/8; Baltimore with a
+5.0/7...on and on and on.
+
+
+     Then you factor in the smaller stations, over three periods.  First
+you get the Combined Overnight Average, which for Inquisitor was 3.6 and
+a 5 share (very good).  The second figure is the Monday-Wednesday average
+of the stations playing it during that period, which jumps to a 4.4 and a
+7 share (*extremely* good).  The rest of the days, Thurs-Sun, are mainly
+in the smaller markets, where we're on weird hours, or get pre-empted a
+lot.  Now you finally factor in *those* numbers, and you come out to a
+national average figure of 3.4 (no shares are given in national averages,
+btw).  Which is fine, and in any event, the main numbers that matter are
+the major markets in any event.  But even if the majors were far less than
+they are, the national average is still enough to give advertisers what
+they want.
+
+
+     All that matters to these folks is cold, hard math...and the math
+supports Babylon 5.  So we stay on the air.  It's really about that
+simple.  That's the ultimate response to anyone casting doubts on what
+we're getting.  If we weren't getting good numbers, we wouldn't be here.
+Period.  (And our ratings are increasing, btw....taking the last batch
+in order, the Monday-Wednesday average for B5 went from a 4.1 rating and
+a 6 share, to a 4.3 rating and a 6 share, to a 4.4 rating and a 7 share,
+to a 4.6 rating and a 7 share.  We're adding viewers in a slow, but very
+steady fashion.  Those are the kinds of numbers studios and networks LOVE
+to see...a nice, straight, upward incline.
+
+
+     (Here in LA, this week we again beat DS9 in the local ratings,
+with B5 getting a 5.8 rating and a 9 share, and DS9 getting a 5.9 rating
+and an 8 share; again, the share being the critical number.)
+
+
+     This is, overall, more than I have ever wanted to write or even think
+about the ratings.  But a lot of folks have asked lately, so I thought I'd
+take a moment, since the numbers have started coming in, to go over the
+facts and figures, and try -- as best I can -- to explain them.  The
+formulae used to compute profitability and ratings and shares and rankings
+is somewhere just short of alchemy and a bit further than necromancy; I
+barely follow them (mathematics not Zathras' skill)...all I know is that
+WB is happy, and if WB is happy, and PTEN is happy, we're happy, because
+that means we get to stay on the air and continue telling our story.
+
+
+     6) I may not have mentioned it here, but Michael York will be guest
+starring in "A Late Delivery from Avalon," episode #12.  And Walter Koenig
+is slated to be in #14, "Ship of Tears," as well as in "Dust to Dust"
+(whose number I've just forgotten...I think it's
+#7).
+
+
+     7) If you haven't done so yet, check out the Wallace and Grommitt
+tapes and/or laserdisks.  I'm going to keep after you until you do; they
+are just terrific.  Best and funnkiest stop motion I've ever seen.
+
+
+     8) We're nearly finished shooting episode #10, "Severed Dreams,"
+which forms the final part of a kind of three-pronged arc right in the
+middle of the season, inclusive of episodes 8 and 9, "Messages From
+Earth" and "Point of No Return."
+
+
+     "Messages," for my money, is so far the best we've ever done, though
+I'll be more able to lock that down once I've seen the final CGI.  It and
+"Dreams" are real CGI blowouts; in the latter, there are literally 100
+shots -- CGI, live action, and compositing -- in *four pages* of action.
+This is an all time record for us (and that doesn't count the stuff earlier
+in the episode).
+
+
+     I don't usually go this far, but folks, let me give you my personal
+guarantee: you're in for one hell of a ride come mid-season, with these
+three episodes.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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Re: Is JMS away for a while?

+2 Nov 1995
     General note to everyone: it usually takes 5-7 days from the time a
+note is posted to the group to show up on my computer here, partly because
+it has to be filtered by the Rangers, partly because my newreader often
+just doesn't show anything for days at a time, then I get 1,054 messages
+in one huge lump.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
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+12 Nov 1995
     The Vorlons are one of the remaining ancient races; Kosh is one of
+the Vorlons, not the last of them.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+JMS... effects question... (14 Nov 1995)
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+14 Nov 1995
     When the fighting staff expanded, it was CGI; physical otherwise.
+
+
+                                                               jms
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+ATTN JMS: front and back (14 Nov 1995)
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+14 Nov 1995
     We established in the pilot that Vorlon ships tend to emerge engines
+first to quickly decelerate, then turn around and enter forward.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
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Attn JMS: What was that noise?

+14 Nov 1995
     No, you heard something, all right...just a little bit of shadow whisper
+for those who got it; those who don't, won't notice.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
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+
+
+Re: B5 on TNT! (14 Nov 1995)
+
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+
Re: B5 on TNT!

+14 Nov 1995
     To clarify some growing misunderstandings: TNT will begin showing B5
+episodes only *after* the series has run its course, and at that time, it
+will acquire the full run, not just one year.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Will Kim Strauss appear in 3rd (14 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
Will Kim Strauss appear in 3rd

+14 Nov 1995
      Yes, Kim is in the third season.
+
+
+                                                          jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATTN JMS: Maybe setting recor (15 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Maybe setting recor

+15 Nov 1995
      Actually, the point raised is a valid one; I'd omitted the British
+shows because they tend to be more author driven in any event; McGoohan
+probably wrote 90% of The Prisoner (under various names), and there have
+been similar examples elsewhere.  I was mainly thinking of American TV.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN JMS:  New Opening Sequenc (15 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS:  New Opening Sequenc

+15 Nov 1995
     The music is indicative of the mood this season.
+
+
+     And thanks.
+
+
+                                                        jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+* A ????? of Vorlons *  (was: (15 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
* A ????? of Vorlons *  (was:

+15 Nov 1995
     That would be a conspiracy of vorlons.
+
+
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+whatever happened to... ? (16 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
whatever happened to... ?

+16 Nov 1995
     Na'Toth was back on Narn during the attack; the actor who plays Lou
+has gone on to other projects, and we haven't heard the last of General
+Hague....
+
+
+                                                     jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN JMS-B5 IS A RIP OFF OF JM (2 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS-B5 IS A RIP OFF OF JM

+2 Nov 1995
     I deeply resent this implication.  I have never even been in the
+same *room* as myself, have never allowed myself to have access to any of
+my material, and the notion that I would stoop to using such second-rate
+material is a simple affront.  If I find out that I've been spreading this
+vicious rumor, be assured that I will track me down and beat me senseless
+until it stops.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+     I really need a break....
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Scientology and B5? (16 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
Scientology and B5?

+16 Nov 1995
     There is absolutely, positively, NO scientology link or refrence in
+the name markabs.  I find the organization generally abhorrent.
+
+
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN JMS: Season 3 title (16 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Season 3 title

+16 Nov 1995
     Mainly because the new title for year 3 is more appropriate to teh
+feel of this season.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Answer to Impossible Question (16 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
Answer to Impossible Question

+16 Nov 1995
     In theory, the final episodes would air in the summer of 1998.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN JMS: Hiatus question (16 Nov 1995)
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Hiatus question

+16 Nov 1995
     Currently filming episode #11; the actors get a Christmas break from
+12/14 to 1/2.  I'll be home writing for all of that.
+
+
+                                                            jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Notes from jms (16 Nov 1995)
+
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+
Re: Notes from jms

+16 Nov 1995
     Theron, quite frankly, fuck off.  This is none of your concern.  I
+have received multiple notes from people asking what can they do about
+harrassment and insults and abuse from Ford.  I responded and gave them
+the option, and let others similarly bothered know how to respond.  IF
+no one has been abused, no one will notify AOL.  If they have, then they
+will.  I didn't ask people to go out and just write complaining mail,
+the letter was *specifically* directed toward those who genuinely feel
+they've been abused.
+
+
+     And I'd like to know where the hell you get off sticking your nose
+in here.  You sit there saying I should be held accountable for every
+word I write here...so why shouldn't others be held equally accountable?
+Double standard.  But that's what I've come to expect from you.
+
+
+     It's real simple, Theron.  It's called democracy.  If people feel
+they've been abused, they have the right to say so.
+
+
+                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: B5 and TV Guide? (16 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
JMS: B5 and TV Guide?

+16 Nov 1995
     As far as TV Guide is concerned, we're perennially a stealth program;
+can't find it with radar, sonar, AWACS....
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Attn JMS: Don't tell me how to (16 Nov 1995)
+
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+
Attn JMS: Don't tell me how to

+16 Nov 1995
      You're confusing several different issues.  Of *course* people have
+the right to comment on the show; hell, that's been going on here, both
+positive and negative, since the pilot film.  You can like something, or
+not like something.  But if somebody gets up an attitude and says, "Hey,
+I watch your show, and I have a right to input, and you should do your
+show THIS way from now on," that person is going to be told to bug off.
+That the show is seen by many folks gives them an interest, and that's
+great; but there's a line in *proprietary* interest that can't be
+crossed.  The show that has attracted people is what I've chosen to put
+in; if enough people like it, they'll continue to watch; if not, not.
+
+
+                                                              jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Questions for JMS (18 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
Questions for JMS

+18 Nov 1995
     The rim, and the "veil" beyond which the bulk of the First Ones
+passed, is the Galactic rim.  As for why the shadows are doing what
+they're doing...that's kind of the key to the whole thing, which we
+haven't turned yet.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: B5's Plot holes (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
Re: B5's Plot holes

+19 Nov 1995
      Re: Minbari lying...it has been established, repeatedly, that the
+Minbari do lie *when it means saving someone else's honor*.  That was
+even stated, openly, in the very same episode about Sheridan's frame
+job, "There All The Honor Lies."  Londo says, right there, that the
+Minbari will lie for a greater cause, another's honor.  The same was done
+in "The Quality of Mercy."  Delenn fibbed about the ship in "Matters"
+because in so doing, she saved Sheridan's honor.
+
+
+     This is not a plot hole, it's been established clearly in the series
+on multiple occasions.  We have never, ever, at any time said conclusively
+that Minbari never, ever lie.  This is another example of certain persons
+simply not paying attention, and then blaming the show for their own lack
+of continuity in attention.
+
+
+                                                                      jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+ATT JMS Why not show eposide i (19 Nov 1995)
+
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+
ATT JMS Why not show eposide i

+19 Nov 1995
      Because most Americans have TV sets 21" or smaller, letterboxing
+doesn't work in that framework.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN JMS: Two questions (minor (2 Nov 1995)
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Two questions (minor

+2 Nov 1995
     Normally the purple coat is associated with a more benign Londo from
+earlier; the dark coat marks a later time.
+
+
+     Who's my alter-ego on the show?  All of them, to one extent or
+another.  They're pieces I've kind of sliced off and deposited into one
+part of the story or another.  The theory is that, once sliced away, they
+are the free to go off and grow into something larger on their own, and
+hopefully become something greater than the source.
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn JMS: Story Breaking? (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
Re: Attn JMS: Story Breaking?

+19 Nov 1995
     What I do is this: I get a pad of legal-sized paper, and divide it
+into six quadrants, all on the same page, standing for teaser, four acts
+and tag.  I drop the beats of the story into the relevant places where I
+think they'd logically fall (the big moments always go at act breaks).
+This way I can see the entire flow of the story at one glance, which is
+important for getting a feel for the episode.  If one act gets over
+burdened, I just draw a line moving one beat to another act.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN JMS: Series Time equal "R (19 Nov 1995)
+
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+
ATTN JMS: Series Time equal "R

+19 Nov 1995
     Yes, one year of story time equals 1 year of "real" time.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+attn jms:ratings (19 Nov 1995)
+
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+
attn jms:ratings

+19 Nov 1995
      Our ratings have been consistently rising since we went back on
+with new episodes.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS... effects question... (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS... effects question...

+19 Nov 1995
      If you didn't notice the effect, that's good; you shouldn't in
+many cases.  (How many folks noticed that the two-story shot of the
+blown sector of Convictions after the elevator boom is a digitally
+composited set, using two different sets?)
+
+
+                                                                jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+MoH final scene hole (SPOILERS (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
MoH final scene hole (SPOILERS

+19 Nov 1995
     Yes, Endawi is more or less a good guy, in that he's totally
+uninvolved with Morden or anyone on that side.  He was doing what he said
+he'd been assigned to do.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS: Budget breakdown? (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
JMS: Budget breakdown?

+19 Nov 1995
     I can't give you specifics, because that stuff is generally
+considered private.  One thing I can say...there's what called "above
+the line" and "below the line;" above the line includes the total
+costs for cast, producers, writers, directors, and the like; below the
+line is construction, art department, makeup, costume, and so on.
+
+
+     On the average show, the above the line is as much as two thirds
+of the total budget, in large measure because the producing staff is
+large, and the producers take out huge budgets.  In the case of B5, the
+above the line is less than *half* the total budget.  Every penny of
+our budget is up there on the screen.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+<<<JMS:  Brother Theo???>>>> (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
<<<JMS:  Brother Theo???>>>>

+19 Nov 1995
      We'll see Theo here and there as we go along this season.
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+JMS quoted in Animaniacs (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
JMS quoted in Animaniacs

+19 Nov 1995
      I think it's right fine to be quoted; hope they won't mind now when
+a quick shot of the Tasmanian Devil Jr. rolls through B5....
+
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+ATTN: JMS - Thanks & a Questio (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
ATTN: JMS - Thanks & a Questio

+19 Nov 1995
     I do plan to do more with Ivanova this season, yes, and get her out
+of C&C a bit more often.  (Especially in "Voices of Authority," coming
+up.)  Do I ever sleep?  Take a look at the timestamp on this message....
+
+
+                                                           jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+What to get jms for christmas? (19 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
What to get jms for christmas?

+19 Nov 1995
      jms does not like christmas.  jms does not DO christmas.  do not
+send jms anything.  ANYdamnthing.  is jms absolutely, totally, crystal
+clear on this issue?
+
+
+                                                             jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Wallace & Gromit - LASER DISK (2 Nov 1995)
+
+
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+
Wallace & Gromit - LASER DISK

+2 Nov 1995
     Heard about it.  Got to video store the day of the release.  Bought
+it.  All is right with the world now.
+
+
+     "Fancy a bit of cheese, Grommit?"
+
+
+                                                               jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: What to get jms for christmas? (19 Nov 1995)
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Re: What to get jms for christmas?

+19 Nov 1995
>       jms does not like christmas.  jms does not DO christmas.  do not
+> send jms anything.  ANYdamnthing.  is jms absolutely, totally, crystal
+> clear on this issue?
+> 
+>                                                              jms
+)
+
+
+Not even a nice teddy bear?
+
+
+Wait, Joe, put that down, I didn't really mean, ow, ugh, umph...!
+
+
+DKB
+
+

+
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+Antique pens (20 Nov 1995)
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Antique pens

+20 Nov 1995
      Actually, just to correct, the gift from President Santiago in
+Hunter, Prey was not a pen but a watch; and the pen in Fall of Night was
+a gift from Lantz's wife, not the President.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: B5 background detail (22 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: B5 background detail

+22 Nov 1995
      Yeah, that info will probably become available eventually, but I
+don't currently know when or in what form.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
+
+

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+JMS: are Monks flip-side of te (22 Nov 1995)
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+22 Nov 1995
      No, I wouldn't think of them in technomage terms; if you look at the
+history of many of these orders, they've generally pulled together people
+of varying skills.  Ain't really that new an idea....
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

+
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+9 Billion Names of God and Bro (22 Nov 1995)
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9 Billion Names of God and Bro

+22 Nov 1995
       No, there's no connection whatsoever.  The Tibetan monks in the
+story were specifically coming up with all the names of god in order to
+bring about the end of the world; Theo et al have come as an exercise in
+comparative religion, to learn what the other races call god, and how it
+compares.  As others have done before, right here on good old earth.
+
+
+                                                            jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS: What *would* you do (22 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: What *would* you do

+22 Nov 1995
     First thing I'd do is increase the fees paid to the cast and crew,
+who deserve to share in what they've done.
+
+
+     Then I'd allocate the rest to: expanding and improving our sets and
+costumes; renting a secondary stage facility to give us more blue screen
+potential, where can get further back from the subject and create better
+looking composites...and build more standing sets rather than switching
+sets in and out of the stage; I'd do more planetside stuff, and more CGI
+in the course of a season.
+
+
+     It wouldn't so much change the show as make us able to more fully
+realize the story visually.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+Great War  - Mental vs. P (22 Nov 1995)
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Great War  - Mental vs. P

+22 Nov 1995
      Actually, in the comic, you never saw shadows influencing anyone's
+mind; you saw their humanoid (in this case) servents doing this.
+
+
+                                                                jms
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+

+
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+ATTN JMS: You set fire to Doug (22 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: You set fire to Doug

+22 Nov 1995
      Actually, you're confusing incidents; it was my office door that
+got set afire (back at Filmation), and it was Larry, not Doug, because I
+had stolen the platen out of his typewriter as part of that day's planned
+warfare campaign.
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+ATTN JMS:  New Sets and Lack o (22 Nov 1995)
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+22 Nov 1995
     We had considered refurbishing C&C, but didn't get around to it this
+season.
+
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+Legal _B5_ Marathon? Need Advi (22 Nov 1995)
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Legal _B5_ Marathon? Need Advi

+22 Nov 1995
     Insofar as I understand it, if one is showing the tapes one made
+oneself, and is not charging for admission, there's not a problem.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
+

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+Ellison Book from Borderland (2 Nov 1995)
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Ellison Book from Borderland

+2 Nov 1995
     Actually, the delay is now gone.  Harlan's book is completed, and
+is being shipped.  Many copies have already gone out.  (Yes, I have mine,
+and it's really a gorgeous book.)
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

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+Joke Source(Convictions Spoile (22 Nov 1995)
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Joke Source(Convictions Spoile

+22 Nov 1995
      I don't actually know for certain the origin of the joke; it was all
+over the nets, and the BBSs, uploaded places with several gazillion other
+lightbulb jokes (after I'd made the original version of this in the show),
+which is why I figured I'd drop it into the episode, since it was so common
+and associated with the nets.  While in the UK, I met a young man who said
+that he had been the first with that variation, and I have no reason not
+to believe him.  (A couple other people sent me email saying that they
+had also come up with that one; it's kind of obvious I guess, but again,
+I have no way of knowing what's true because it was just all over the
+place, never with attribution.)
+
+
+                                                                   jms
+
+

+
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+ATTN: JMS Thanks for Marcus' l (24 Nov 1995)
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ATTN: JMS Thanks for Marcus' l

+24 Nov 1995
     It's predictable that I'd put someone into the show with who's a guy
+with thick, long hair...since every time I look in the mirror I realize
+more and more that where I'm concerned, thick, long hair will always be
+an unattainable, science fiction concept....
+
+
+                                                                    jms
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+

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+ATTN JMS: Vir in "A Day in the (24 Nov 1995)
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ATTN JMS: Vir in "A Day in the

+24 Nov 1995
     You will see Vir many times again in the course of the third season.
+
+
+                                                                  jms
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+jms resigns rastb5 (27 Nov 1995)
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jms resigns rastb5

+27 Nov 1995
I've been debating this step for, quite literally, months now.
+What has finally tipped the balance is seeing the extent to which
+rastb5 has been virtually taken hostage by a very few people
+who have no interest in this forum except to tear down this show
+in general, and me in particular.
+To that effect, they lie, manufacture facts, speculate based on
+premises that have no basis whatsoever in reality, engage in smear
+campaigns, insult and abuse users of this area, drop innuendo when
+they have nothing else to grab onto...they leap into threads that
+should by all rights be reasonably safe from flame and turn them
+into referendums on whether or not jms is a liar, in the kind of
+logic that stems from "are you still beating your wife?" premises.
+
+
+The progression is always the same: a smear message, or an outright
+fabrication, gets posted; it generates heated replies from other
+users; those users are then attacked for being unthinking followers
+or sycophants (when the reality is that the original message was
+bone-headed and simply *wrong), thus ensuring that the conversation
+is not about the subject anymore, but rather the conversation becomes
+about the conversation...and in that form, it can go on forever,
+spreading out into more and more threads until all you see after a
+while are flames in every direction.
+
+
+I try to stay out of it as much as I can...but sooner or later
+something so odious, so despicable, such an obvious, irredeemable lie
+gets posted that I lose my temper and have to respond.  I sit here,
+and take sucker punches to the face, every single time I sign on from
+some of the outrageous stuff that goes on here; I take it quietly,
+but after you're punched in the face three, four, five times a day,
+for weeks at a time, damn it sooner or later you're going to hit back,
+and hard.  And that's when the same cadre of imbeciles comes back and
+says, "Gee, look at that, see how badly he behaves?"
+
+
+More and more lately, I have been signing on here, and by the time I
+log off, I'm furious.  Furious for the unsubstantiated character
+assassination directed against me...and over the course of the year
+plus I've been here, not one -- not ONE -- of the allegations from
+Fuller, Fuller or Thaxton have *ever* been proven out, but they just
+forget that and move on to the next attack...as well as the attacks
+on other users here who have chosen to defend me against these
+baseless attacks.
+
+
+In the past, where it's been just a few threads here and there, and
+I knew what they were, I could just avoid them.  But in their
+ceaseless attacks, designed to provoke a response from me, they
+have begun throwing their nets consistently wider, so that they're
+all over the place; I can't avoid the hassles and the grief.  And
+if I see some of this crap, which is untrue and unfair and designed
+for no other reason than to cause me grief...I get angry, and when
+I get angry, I can't write, and that hurts the show.
+
+
+And I will not allow the show to be hurt.  When it crosses that
+line...it stops.  One way or another.
+
+
+I've tried reasonable appeals; those were taken as signs of weakness,
+turned into further attacks, and ultimately failed.  I've asked
+people here *not* to respond to these abusive individuals, because
+if they get only silence for their efforts, they will go away; they
+live for the echo of pain caused by their words; find validation and
+reason to live in that echo.  That failed.  And now the level of
+toxicity has risen to a level that can no longer be tolerated.
+
+
+And before anyone even *tries* to turn this into "oh, joe just doesn't
+want to hear negative stuff about his show, he doesn't want to hear
+any criticism, he just wants to be god" (and you know who you are,
+and fuck you too), it's got *nothing* to do with criticism of the
+show, positive or negative, made from having genuinly thought out
+the problems.  I've always responded well to any kind of criticism
+that is well-considered, and always will.
+
+
+This has to do with a small handful of people who have, through
+their incessant, stalking, compulsive behavior ruined this forum for
+not only me but a great deal of other people who've emailed me to
+say that they don't post here any more, because they've gotten
+tired of being attacked, tired of reading the endless tirades and
+smears and assaults on me and other users.  The good people get
+driven away, and the bad people refuse to go, or to moderate their
+behavior, and there is no mechanism currently in place for others
+here to moderate their behavior.
+
+
+I have become, in many ways, the football used to pull others on
+either side of the line into an ugly and destructive game.  And
+the only way to stop it is to remove the football.
+
+
+So I am posting this as notice that I will be resigning from
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 effective the end of the month.  To Ron
+and the Rangers...stop sending me the list at that time.
+
+
+Because the simple reality is that once I'm gone, the prime lure for
+those who've turned this place into a constant flame zone for the
+last year will have left.  And in time, so will they.  It's sad
+when a handful of people can take something that is of value to
+thousands, potentially tens of thousands, of users worldwide, and
+chew away at it until there's nothing left, simply because of their
+own twisted obsession.
+
+
+I cannot go to bed, or get up in the morning, furious over the
+latest offense committed here by the tyrannical few; I've lost
+endless hours sitting here angry over the falsehoods and the
+smears and the innuendo.  I can't afford to do that anymore.
+
+
+And just so they cannot weasel their way out of it later, cannot
+say "well, it wasn't me, it was just the climate, it was the
+fault of those guys over there...look, a comet...." I point the
+finger squarely at the Theron Fuller, Deborah Fuller, and Ford
+Thaxton, with a couple of other accomplices not worthy of comment.
+I hope you enjoy seeing your names in a post by me, folks, since
+that's what seems to excite you, because this particular message
+is likely to be the last.  You've finally succeeded in driving
+me off rastb5, which was clearly your intent from the start.
+
+
+I will continue to be present on CIS, Genie, AOL and a few other
+places, which have more than their share of critical commentaries,
+but are moderated to prevent this kind of abusive behavior.  When
+the rastb5-info group is open, I will post to that area, and take
+questions via that forum.  But I will no longer post to, or read
+the main rastb5 area any longer.  I simply can't afford the
+heartache anymore.
+
+
+The experiment in interaction between viewers and the makers of
+B5 will continue; they just will continue in other places.
+
+
+People ask why more producers don't come on-line.  This is the
+reason.  Because there are some people out there who are obsessed
+with anyone who has even the smallest celebrity (and there ain't
+much smaller celebrity than being a producer); people who feel it
+is their god-given obligation to tear down the other person, and
+to make sure that there cannot *possibly* be anyone in their
+universe more important than they themselves.  They do not sow,
+neither do they reap; they only shred and tear and abuse.
+
+
+If you're ever going to see more producers on-line, you're going
+to have to look seriously into ways to keep the least reputable
+elements from turning it into a bloodbath.  Because when some say,
+as has been said here, "it's my right to say this, and you have to
+take it," the response is, "No, I don't."  If you stay, you become
+an enabler, a co-dependent, who allows the abuse to continue by the
+conscious decision to remain where you can be hit.
+
+
+To the rest of you: I apologize for having to take this step.
+Some of you know how difficult this decision has been for me, the
+long months I've spent debating it back and forth with friends,
+family and other netters.  I have enjoyed the exchange, have learned
+much from the commentaries, and the discussion, have made many
+friends and acquaintances.  Were there any way I could stay, be
+sure that I would.  But when I have to stare at a monitor, when
+a script deadline is upon me, and all I can think of is, "That
+goddamned liar is spreading the same old crap *again*," then
+something has got to go.  In this case, that's me.
+
+
+Because sure as hell, they won't.  Not until their punching bag
+
+
+With the obvious exceptions, I will miss you greatly.  As stated
+above, I'll be here through the end of the month, just to finish
+clearing out stuff, and ease this transition, though probably in
+somewhat reduced capacity.  I hope to see many of you via the new
+info group.  Though the discussion will not be quite so free
+wheeling as it is here, because of the moderated structure there,
+it will be good to look upon your faces (well, your pixels) in
+the months to come there.
+
+
+Again, my apologies.  I wish this could be handled in some other
+way, but that doesn't seem likely.  You cannot know how your
+words, and your efforts, on behalf of B5, have been appreciated
+not just by me, but by everyone involved with the show.  It's
+been a great experience, a chance to learn, and a hell of a ride.
+See you on the flip side.
+
+
+                                   With great affection,
+
+
+                                   J. Michael Straczynski
+
+

+
+
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+from jms: benedictions (1 Dec 1995)
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from jms: benedictions

+1 Dec 1995
     Tonight is the last night of my feed from rastb5, and I wanted to
+send along a quick note to resolve the few last things remaining to be
+discussed or addressed before that happens.
+
+
+     Since my note went up -- raggedly, here and there, due to some
+problems with the server, apparently -- I have now logged slightly over
+900 private email messages in my GEnie mailbox.  This in addition to the
+rest of the feed per se.  I'm slogging through them as fast as I can,
+trying to give personal responses to as many as I humanly can; if over
+the course of the next week or so, if you've sent me a note, and don't
+get a response, assume that either got crunched by the often cranky
+GEnie newsreader system, or it didn't specifically seem to require a
+response...or my hands fell off and rolled under the table.
+
+
+     Nonetheless, a general thank you to everyone who's sent in mail on
+this.  It's disturbing to realize that about 75% of all of the notes thus
+far received begin with a variation on "I used to post on rastb5 (or I
+just lurk on rastb5) but don't post because the atmosphere just got too
+poisoned by the deranged few you mentioned."  Literally hundreds of
+people seem to have been driven from rastb5 by the rampage of a few
+others who don't want to be attacked or abused by those few.  This is
+terribly saddening to realize.  That they have been driven off is more of
+a real issue than my being now in this position.
+
+
+     Anyway...to all those who wrote, I am moved and touched by your
+words, and if there were any way around this, I'd take it.  I know that
+some are working behind the scenes to put together a moderated newsgroup,
+but I don't know if that will happen or not.  The goal of any such should
+not be to eliminate criticism -- heck, there's never been a lack for that
+here or on any of the other systems -- but just to keep out the truly
+dysfunctional.  That may be a very promising route, but I'm not holding
+out much hope that it'll happen.
+
+
+     Surprisingly, the #1 comment that has come in is, "What on earth
+TOOK you so long?  If I were in your shoes I'd've been out of here MONTHS
+ago."  Glutton for punishment, I guess.  Kept thinking we could work a
+way around this.  But as has been pointed out by others, I guess it was
+inevitable.  I didn't see that because I suppose I didn't really want to
+see it, or cop to it, or realize that this was running out on me.  I have
+vastly enjoyed the open lines of communication, have met a great number of
+interesting people both on-line exclusively and even in person in many
+cases.
+
+
+     Anyway, I wish it could be otherwise.  For the most part, you're a
+cute bunch, and I won't even space you for being cute.
+
+
+     (Oh, and speaking of "for the most part," a sidelong glance in the
+direction of Robert Holland is in order, whose latest poison pen letters
+are wonderfully emblematic of the problem here from the start.  He has
+implied since this all came out that in leaving here, I'm somehow "getting
+away with something," that it's nothing to do with him or his ilk here on
+the system, nononononono, can't be that...it's just that I'm on AOL now
+leaving tons of messages by his reckoning, and it'd happen regardless.
+Which is so obviously boneheaded and stupid that it almost doesn't merit
+response...but what the hell....
+
+
+     (The AOL B5 page has, maybe, 1/1,000th the number of users as rastb5;
+I log on maybe every two-three days, and leave maybe a total of 5-10
+messages in the course of a week.  So much for his claim about the total
+number of messages left.  AOL is confined just to the US, and doesn't have
+even a *fraction* of the coverage of rastb5.  But Mr. Holland, in his usual
+subliminal sleazosity, tries to find some subterfuge, some hidden agenda,
+something he can point to in vague terms and wonder what I'm getting away
+with.  This is the game he and the others here play constantly; there is
+nothing they can go after in reality, so they come up with vaguely worded
+allegations with no real core to them, just designed to somehow cast a
+shadow on this show or myself, specifically to get people, myself included,
+to respond, defending when no real charge has been made.  It's the oldest
+trick in the book; get the other person to defend themselves against a
+non-existent charge, in the hope of creating the illusion of smoke and
+the perception of fire...and, of course, getting everyone upset in the
+process.  I fell for it too many times; we all did.  This is the last time
+I will do so.  Mr. Holland belongs in the same company as the rest of his
+associates.  They will *always* find something to complain about, even if
+it means manufacturing it themselves.)
+
+
+     But it's no longer my problem.  Just as it's no longer the problem of
+several hundred others who've logged off here in the last year due to the
+hassles, and the others who have either left, or are about to leave for the
+same reason: the tyranny of the petty dysfunctional.
+
+
+     So we turn back toward the light, and happier topics.  This is, after
+all, a benediction, not a jeremiad.
+
+
+     I'm told that the info area doesn't quite function as I'd thought,
+so we'll see what can be done here.  From time to time, I will try to put
+together a letter from home, as it were, to send here to rastb5; I won't
+see any of the responses to it that aren't emailed directly to me, but
+the intent would be to send along information that might be useful from
+time to time for folks to have.  I'm not expecting to do this very often,
+but will try to do it here and there as I'm able.
+
+
+     In other news...since this I guess kinda counts as such a letter...
+I'm happy to note that the paperwork for the B5 fan club has finally,
+FINALLY, come in in finished form.  Once it's vetted by our people, we
+hope to get it signed and get this long-overdue baby going.  We've had
+a number of discussions about this, and how to handle it, maybe a survey
+of folks to see what kinds of limited-edition items they'd like to see us
+make, maybe a web-page for the club, other options.  (If we should start
+selling limiteds on the EA pins, patches and stuff, what we'll probably
+do is have them made by the same companies that supply us with the real
+props used in the show, so they're absolutely identical in every way, not
+just knockoffs.  It's a little more expensive that way to make, and we
+won't make much of anything off them because we'll keep the prices at a
+reasonable level, but I think that's the way to go.  Neither Doug nor I
+are looking to make this into a profit center; if it can more or less pay
+for itself, and help organize folks, give them something nifty from the
+show, then that's sufficient.)
+
+
+     Oh...and we're investigating the possibility of licensing the damned
+videotapes ourselves, producing them pretty much at cost.  Don't know if
+we can pull this off or not, but we're going to try.
+
+
+     Michael York is currently shooting with us in "A Late Delivery From
+Avalon," and doing an amazing job.  This may turn into one of our best
+episodes, from a performance and emotion perspective.  I had a few doubts
+about the script -- it has a kind of writing style I don't use very often,
+and very stylized in appearance -- but it's coming out great.
+
+
+     Script 15 is entitled "Interludes and Examinations," and has a plot
+turn I hadn't seen coming, but which fits perfectly into the arc; I think
+you're going to be stunned.  (I was.)  As I write this, I've just started
+writing "War Without End, Part One," #316, the first part of the two
+episodes that bring Sinclair to Babylon 5, which we'll shoot sometime
+after the first of the year.  It's been touch and go, but we've finally
+been able to schedule all of the guest cast members from "Babylon Squared"
+for this one, which is the flip side of that episode.  It's probably going
+to be the most expensive show we've done yet, due to the hideous production
+requirements for this one.  It's also the one I'm most nervous about
+writing, even more than "Fall of Night," because an awful lot happens here,
+and it has to be done just right.  It's going to be probably the toughest
+writing job of the series to date.
+
+
+      I'll be putting Sinclair and Sheridan together a lot, which is
+shaping up to be an interesting combination.  We're also going to see
+Minbar for the first time.
+
+
+      (We just now got the finished copy of "Voices of Authority" in; man,
+do I wish we'd had this early enough to run in place of PTG, great as that
+one is.  The EFX are terrific, eye-popping.)
+
+
+     Oh...speaking of eye-popping, I've gotten a copy of the B5 Screen
+Saver/Limited Edition Entertainment CD Rom, and it's nifty.  I suggest it
+to everyone, with a caveat: if you're not a computer neep-neep kind of
+person, have someone help you install the thing.  It took me several
+passes to figure everything out.  And once you DO install it, even though
+it says "do you want all the images?" and you say yes, it doesn't put them
+all on.  Once you've finished -- and I'm putting this here because as far
+as I can tell this isn't documented *anywhere* -- go to the setup menu,
+and hit install.  Make sure your CDrom is in the drive.  Go to the
+Images subdirectory on the CDrom, and you'll suddenly see 150 or so
+images that were *not* installed.  Highlight all of them, copy them over
+to the pdesk/images subdirectory on your hard disk, then add them, and
+select them.  Most neeps out there could probably figure this out, but I
+couldn't, so I pass this along for those who are as computerchip
+challenged as I am.  Once it's all *there*, and actually even before that,
+it's gorgeous...the images are crisp and brilliant, the full-motion video
+stuff is terrific, there's music and sounds and other stuff...I can't
+commend it highly enough.  (Oh, yeah, I think it sometimes bumps up
+against Norton Desktop, but it's only happening on one of my two Dell
+machines running ND, so it may be something I'm doing wrong.)
+
+
+      For those who asked about books...there's going to be a Creating
+Babylon 5 book out from Boxtree Books in the UK this summer.  I just
+finished proofing it, and it's pretty good.  I think the photo selection
+could be better, but the actual text is quite good.
+
+
+      (A pause while jms tries desperately to remember if there's any
+other real hard news to pass along here...and the brain goes blank.)
+
+
+      We're going to be shooting through December 14th, at which point
+we break for the Christmas hiatus through January 2nd.  I hope to take
+some of that time and catch up on scripts a bit.  We'll probably debut
+the first season 3 gag reel at the party.  (Then run like hell.)
+
+
+      OH...yeah, and before I forget (again), to those who asked about
+the Stephen Furst item in TV Guide...he's doing the Chicago Hope show in
+a two-parter, he's not joining the cast of regulars.  The piece in TV
+Guide is ambiguous and can be read that way, much to Stephen's chagrin.
+He'll be doing more shows for us this season.
+
+
+      There's a conference in the Compuserve Convention Center on Saturday
+from 2-3 p.m. Pacific time.  Just me at this point.
+
+
+     Knowing this is the last note I'll be sending for a while, I'm
+tempted to keep shoving stuff in here.  I just realized that I wish this
+didn't have to stop.  But it kinda does, doesn't it?
+
+
+      So...to those of you who have been terrifically helpful to me over
+the term of this long experiment...to the Rangers for filtering out the
+feed and protecting me from story ideas...to Sherry for the great analyses
+of episodes, and Orso for his cogent thoughts...actually, I shouldn't be
+singling people out because I've been forever astonished and gratified at
+some of the brilliant and insightful observations that have floated across
+my monitor in the last year or so.  I've been delighted, amused, impressed,
+floored, dumbfounded, intrigued, awakened, and occasionally horrified
+(usually in a good way).
+
+
+     It is my abiding hope that in return, I've given something of use
+here.  I feel strongly that we cannot hope to control or influence o
+improve a dragon with as many heads as TV until and unless we understand it
+first.  I hope that I've helped a little to demystify how it all works, so
+that folks have a better chance of getting what they *want* rather than
+what some producers or studios want to shove down your throats.  If it has
+served that purpose to any degree, then the exercise has been worthwhile.
+
+
+      My best to all of you.  When I can, I'll try to post messages in a
+bottle and send them along to the group as occasional updates.  Meanwhile,
+take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you
+will forever be led by others.  Find what scares you, and do it.  And
+you *can* make a difference, if you choose to do so.
+
+
+     Babylon Control, clear.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
+
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+The Reson why the US will NEVE (2 Nov 1995)
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+2 Nov 1995
     Yes, I'm sure the dealers selling *illegal* copies of B5 at the
+convention told you that real, licensed tapes won't be released.  Now, I
+wonder why this could be...hmm....maybe to *encourage people to buy their
+illegal pirated tapes, perhaps*?
+
+
+     Work it out, people.
+
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Letter Home from jms (30 Dec 1995)
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+30 Dec 1995
     In my last general posting to rastb5, I mentioned that from time to
+time, I'd try to post the occasional "letter to home" just to keep folks
+up to date on matters Babylonian.  Now that I can catch a breather, I
+figured I'd take this opportunity to do so (though since it's 3:15 a.m.,
+this'll likely be short).
+
+     "catching a breather" refers to the script situation.  I've just
+finished writing 316 and 317, the two parter, "War Without End," which was
+a very difficult task, given the amount of story and logistics that had to
+be put into it.  While writing "Babylon Squared," to which this is the
+flip-side, I figured, "Oh, sure, yeah, I can get this all in on the other
+side, no problem," but when it came time to do it, it got awful tight, but
+finally I fit it *all* in.  (Well, all except one teeny, tiny sentence,
+about where Zathras was first seen, and how, 'cause to do what I'd first
+had in mind would've taken another 3 pages, and I didn't have that, so
+that one element I'll have to just deal with later somehow.  But that's
+it.)  Hopefully, one need never have seen B2 in order to watch and follow
+WWE.  (Which was one of the hard parts, since B2 may or may not be aired
+prior to this, all the background information *had* to be in the episodes,
+so that's a lot of background to include.)
+
+     This now leaves 5 episodes to be written for this season.  At this
+point, Lyta should factor strongly in one or two of these, there will be
+some direct confrontations between our side and the shadows, then a really
+nasty final episode for year three.
+
+     I'd suggest, btw, that if there are any folks you've been waiting to
+bring into the fold on B5, you may want to consider 8 and 9 in the new
+cycle, the last of that bunch in February.  Eight is potentially one of
+the best, possibly the best episode we've produced to date.  Much as I'd
+have wished PTEN would've aired 10, the final part of the 3-episode arc
+that changes direction on the show, a week after 9, even though it'd be
+out of sweeps period...it's probably for the best.  When producer George
+Johnson saw the scrpt for #10, "Severed Dreams," he laughed, walked over
+to me and said, "Boy, this is the best episode we're never gonna deliver.
+ARE YOU NUTS?!"
+
+     As an example of "ARE YOU NUTS?!" in "The Fall of Night," in the
+sequence between the first Garden shot and the end of Sheridan's rescue,
+about 6-7 pages of script, there were, I think, about 60 or 65 EFX and
+practical shots.  In just the span of 4 pages in 310 there are roughly
+100 EFX and practical shots.  In EFX terms, it's probably one of the
+biggest shows we've done, so it's better to give Foundation a little extra
+time to get it right rather than rush them.
+
+     (Oh, and lest I forget, yes, Zathras does return in "War," as does
+Sinclair, who has a lot of great scenes with Marcus, Sheridan, Delenn,
+Zathras and others.  It also has some real surprises in store, including
+some flash-forwards from WAY down the line.)
+
+     Another "oh, yeah, I nearly forgot"...for those out there who have
+young kids, or if you're a bit on the squeamish side yourself...there's
+one EFX shot at the end of the teaser for "Exogenesis" that you may want
+to avoid.  When it was finished, John Copeland brought it into my office,
+fired it up on my TV, and looked away, saying, "You look, it creeps me
+out too much to look at it again."  It's...pretty strong.  So you'll miss
+the minimum possible, here's the sequence: first there's the Screaming
+Man (a), then a cutaway to two people (b), then back at the Man for the
+first part of the shot (c), the two people again (d), the man (e), and
+finally the two people.  What you want to avoid, if there are real young
+kids in the room, are shots c and e.  That's it for the whole episode.
+For non-netted folks, it'll go by pretty fast, but I figured it'd be
+worth mentioning as an added piece of info for the netted amongst us.
+
+     ("Exogenesis" is the 2nd episode up, after "Voices of Authority,"
+which premieres the next batch around January 29th.)
+
+     Some more info on the fan club...the announcement that was posted to
+the nets, which appeared on various news wire services, and on-line
+services (authorized reposts) was issued after the basic contract came in
+from WB authorizing us to do the fan club.  This after, oh, well over a
+year of kvetching at them to let us do it.  That's all we have at the
+moment: the contract allowing us to do it, which was signed right before
+the Christmas hiatus.  There's currently no one on staff, there IS no
+staff, until after the 2nd of January.  We've interviewed some folks and
+will make a final decision that week.
+
+     The way this is gonna work is that Doug and I will both contribute
+half the operating expenses for the fan club apiece.  (We feel fairly
+comfortable with this, since the fourth year is currently looking pretty
+good.)  We'll either run it through Babylonian Productions, or set up a
+separate company for it.  (Note: NDE does not own the fan club, and I do
+not work for NDE in any capacity whatsoever; it's a totally separate
+entity, owned entirely by Doug Netter.  Doug's company produced The Wild
+West miniseries/documentary, is doing Hypernauts with Ron Thornton; I
+have/had nothing to do with either.  Because Netter Digital Entertainment
+has a staff, whereas Synthetic Worlds Ltd. is mainly just me, NDE offered
+to put out the release on this.)
+
+     Once the fan club is set up either way, as in-house BPI or as its own
+company, the person hired to run it will report directly to me, and I will
+share final authority of it with Doug, though as with most of the licensing
+stuff, that generally gets deferred to me anyway.  Our hope is that the
+fan club will earn enough to break even its first year; if we do that,
+we'll be doing great.  On the boards are a newsletter, probably quarterly
+to start, then monthly if the need is seen.  (This is all still being
+worked out in detail, so don't take any of this as canon yet.  I'll be able
+to be clearer after the first week of the year.)
+
+     We're going to get the same sub-companies and suppliers to produce
+a small number of items that produce them for the show, so they're 100%
+authentic.  We're currently looking at doing links, EA badges, a selection
+of patches, Sheridan's EAS AGAMEMNON cap from "Knives," some scripts,
+maybe photos (we're still debating this)...and we're going to go back and
+ask permission to do the videos on a limited edition basis.  So it's not
+going to be a lot of stuff, just enough so we hope it can pay for itself
+after a while.  None of the areas we're going to be doing are currently in
+conflict with any other licensee of B5 material.
+
+     Similarly, we'll probably set up a B5 fan club web page, which will
+not conflict with the AOL or WWW web pages since the plans are to design
+it *specifically* for just the fan club members, which would be a fairly
+modest portion of the online community.  We mainly figure it'll be used
+for signing onto the club, ordering one of the aforementioned items, or
+linking off to other sites.  (We hope to include information on stuff being
+produced by other companies as well, to help folks find this stuff.)
+
+     We're told by the media sales folks at WB that the commercial spots
+for B5 are sold out through the third quarter of 96, at extremely good
+rates, which again encourages us for a fourth season.  (We definitely
+wouldn't be investing our own money in the fan club if we thought
+otherwise.)  As usual, though, we won't have any kind of final word on
+next season until probably around April or May.
+
+     The Christmas hiatus ends after the 1st, so we're back at work on
+the 2nd shooting "Ship of Tears," with Walter Koenig returning as
+Bester.  Expect some major revelations about Bester's background, and
+where his character is going.
+
+     It's strange to think that by the time the next batch of new episodes
+have finished airing, end of February, the last 5 remaining scripts will
+be finished.  (Sometimes I have to catch myself, thinking, "Oh, I can
+mention this, since that happened *ages* ago..." then remember that yeah,
+it was a while ago, in episode 7, which HASN'T aired yet.)  Overall, in
+terms of performances, story, the look of the show, and the music, this is
+definitely our strongest season ever.  For reasons too convoluted to go
+into, I was watching "Midnight on the Firing Line" today, and it's amazing
+how far the story has come, and how much it's changed.  And you havent
+even *seen* the really *major* changes yet, which start in the next batch
+of episodes.
+
+     Oh, one final thing...if you want to avoid being spoiled, do NOT read
+the current TV Zone's B5 coverate (with Jason's interview) until after the
+next batch has aired...some very specific stuff is kinda given away.  If
+you don't mind being spoiled...go for it.
+
+     Anyway, that's it.  It's now almost 4 a.m., and having worked out
+the details of #318, I'm going to crash now.  As I noted before, I don't
+know when or how often I'll be able to post these; I'll try to get in
+one more before the new batch starts up, if I can, at which time we
+should have the fan club info more fully in hand.
+
+                                                                 jms
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+Note From jms (3 Apr 1996)
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+3 Apr 1996
Took AOL a while to show this group on their newsreader, but it finally
+came through today.  Some preliminary thoughts tossed out for discussion,
+for the record, for the heck of it.
+
+Yes, the new group is now moderated.  But no, that should not be taken or
+interpreted by anyone as inhibiting constructive criticism.  We learn by
+doing.  That means sometimes we make mistakes.  When that happens, it's
+not just a Good Idea to let us know, it's *necessary*.  If you can point
+to something in an episode that doesn't work...then point.  If it's an
+objective goof, then it's something we can learn from.  If it's a
+subjective opinion, then it opens up discussion from all sides.  
+
+During the whole moderation discussion, I tried to be as quiet as I
+humanly could, to avoid influencing the decision.  People have to vote
+their conscience, nothing more or less.  Those who voted for or against
+the group did so because they felt it was the Right Thing To Do.  Nobody
+should have a problem with that.  
+
+This group, fundamentally, is for the users.  For all those who felt they
+had to stop posting or just drop out of the prior group, and those who
+stayed in the original group and want some options.  The purpose, as I
+understand it, is to moderate those situations where you have someone who
+is chronically abusive to other users, engaging in personal attacks. 
+Simple truth is we're all gonna lose our temper from time to time, use
+terms in the heat of an argument we probably shouldn't...but it's my sense
+that this shouldn't be interfered with until and unless it becomes a
+chronic problem.
+
+That said, however, I leave these determinations to the moderators,
+suggesting only that a light hand is better than a heavy hand.  If along
+the way some of my messages get blipped as we feel our way through this, I
+don't have a problem with that.  (This to those who said it would be a
+problem.)
+
+(An aside: I heard that some were arguing that this was about "control." 
+And they were right.  But not the way they wanted to be right.  To control
+means to limit your options.  The few who used this argument did so
+because they knew that if you want to participate in B5 discussions on
+Usenet, without paying for one of the commercial services, there's only
+been one game in town.  You had to go there and listen to them, and put up
+with their abuse.  That is as much a form of control as anything they were
+railing against.  Now, users have options, choices.  You can go either
+way, enjoy whichever environment you prefer.)
+
+The purpose of this, from my side, is to continue the experiment in
+interactive television that's been going on on-line for several years. 
+I'd hope that folks take advantage of this to find out more about how
+television is made, how this kind of story gets produced, to help
+demystify television so that in the end we can get better choices by
+knowing what to ask for, and understanding the medium.  In a way, the
+answers and information I give are only as good as the questions that get
+asked; I'll try and anticipate questions and areas of interest, but it's
+up to you to mold this forum as you see fit.  Make it something that fits
+your needs and interests.  Don't lurk.  If you have a great question, put
+it out where everyone else can profit from it.  
+
+The welcome mat is out, the porch light is on, and there's lemonade over
+by the front rail.  I hope you'll all sit for a while and hang out.  Looks
+like it's gonna be a nice night....
+
+jms
+
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+Re: Marcon (was JMS: Series Artistic Design?) (4 Apr 1996)
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Re: Marcon (was JMS: Series Artistic Design?)

+4 Apr 1996
"In fact, I think I'm advanced registering for Chicago ComiCon, which
+sounds incredible."
+
+Yes, it's great.  The Chicago and San Diego comic cons are both terrific;
+if you've never been, go.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: A Gun on the wall. (18 Apr 1996)
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+18 Apr 1996
It's fair to say that you will be seeing that Narn cruiser again; it's
+still out there.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: New uniforms and the cast (19 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New uniforms and the cast

+19 Apr 1996
In general, it's my understanding that the cast really like the new
+uniforms.  They're lighter, easier to move around in, cooler under the
+lights, and they like the styling, the rogue element to it, and the
+Minbari aspect.
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: who said "not now!" (ItSoZ) (19 Apr 1996)
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+19 Apr 1996
No, I don't believe anyone is actually saying "not now" in that scene.
+
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+Re: for JMS (19 Apr 1996)
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Re: for JMS

+19 Apr 1996
But if I answered your question, you'd know before the episode aired, and
+where would the fun in that be?
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS Series Bible (19 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS Series Bible

+19 Apr 1996
No, the series bible is really a very general thing and was only really
+used much in the first year; it's now very much out of date.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Who else? (19 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Who else?

+19 Apr 1996
Folks I'd still like to see on the show: Patrick McGoohan, Patrick Macnee,
+Tom Baker, Penn Jillette, Meatloaf, Alice Cooper, Kevin McCarthy.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Making episode script(s) available? (19 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Making episode script(s) available?

+19 Apr 1996
This is something we've discussed doing, and may indeed do at some point. 
+In the interim, the tentative plan is to have the script for "The Coming
+of Shadows" included in the new edition of my writing book, due out in the
+fall.  
+
+What would make all of this even more interesting is the fact that *every
+single script* has at least something that's been trimmed out of it;
+sometimes just a few lines, sometimes a couple of small, expendable
+scenes.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Is Ikara 7 connected to the last Shadow War? (19 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Is Ikara 7 connected to the last Shadow War?

+19 Apr 1996
There is a connection between the Ikarran situation and the shadows, but
+only a tenuous one.  They had heard of the great enemy rampaging all over
+the place, and had cobbled together a very primitive source of organic
+technology that would kill anything and anyone that was not pure Ikarran
+(which, of course, led to their destruction).  Sinclair, at the time, hit
+it dead on..."When you become obsessed with the enemy, you *become* the
+enemy."
+
+                                    
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Music and ComiCon (19 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Music and ComiCon

+19 Apr 1996
Yes, I am planning for now to attend San Diego ComicCon; it's my one big
+chance to go nuts buying Cool Stuph (tm) every year.
+
+As for the music I listen to...that just got hashed over on CIS, and
+reposted here, so I'm loathe to go into it all again.  The short version
+is that I listen to just about anything and everything except hardass
+Country/Western, which I just can't get into.  I couldn't warm up to Garth
+Brooks if we were cremated together.  Not to say it's bad, only that it
+doesn't work for me.
+
+In general terms, the music I listen to while I work tends to be of the
+harder, more driving or intricate sort; if it's too soft, I fall asleep
+and tip over in my chair, making an awful clatter as I hit the deck.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS' absence & Harlan in hospital (19 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: JMS' absence & Harlan in hospital

+19 Apr 1996
Correct.  I spent almost all of Wednesday with Harlan at the hospital, and
+he's doing MUCH better.  I'm obliged not to say much more than that, but
+as stated, he's doing amazingly well post-surgery.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Technical Gaffe? (**SD SPOILERS**) (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Technical Gaffe? (**SD SPOILERS**)

+4 Apr 1996
Damn...I think I put a spoiler in the top of the prior message...hope the
+heading is some protection.  (And no, Jay, not a mistake, just figured
+it's better tactically.)
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: "War Without End" title inspiration (19 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: Attn JMS: "War Without End" title inspiration

+19 Apr 1996
Actually, the quote is usually "world without end," and no, that wasn't
+the inspiration for the title...it's just very descriptive of the story.  
+
+Have tried 3 times to order the t-shirt from Land's End, and they're still
+back ordered.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: direction of written Narn? (19 Apr 1996)
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+
Re: direction of written Narn?

+19 Apr 1996
The computer was a goof; Narnish is written right to left.
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: JMS, you tease!  (STV spoilers) (20 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: JMS, you tease!  (STV spoilers)

+20 Apr 1996
Me?  A tease?  Moi?  I just report the news, I don't make it.
+
+The kiss is coming.  But I wanted to do it in such a way that it somewhat
+unexpected, in a way that would have even more weight than under any other
+possible conditions.  How do you turn a kiss into a wham?  (Aside from
+kissing the right person, natch.)  Stay tuned....
+
+
+
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+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS  'Process or result' (20 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS  'Process or result'

+20 Apr 1996
Probably the one person who's had to know the most of what's coming is
+Peter Jurasik, because we've had to flash forward to his future the most
+of anyone, and he kinda needed to know what it meant and how he got there
+in order to play it properly.  After that...probably Mira, then Sheridan. 
+The rest are on a need to know basis.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: ATTM:JMS is the reincarnation of...... (21 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTM:JMS is the reincarnation of......

+21 Apr 1996
So I guess this means I should cancel my plans for writing "A Tale of Two
+Kitties"....
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN:JMS (21 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN:JMS

+21 Apr 1996
Yes, I read the Foundation books, but it was a while ago; it *could* be
+done for TV, but it'd be tremendously difficult and hideously expensive
+from a production standpoint.  For now, anyway.  In, say, another 10-15
+years, with more changes in the technology of television, it might be more
+feasible.
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: "Gone Native" (*Slight spoiler for Sic Transit Vir*) (22 Apr 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: "Gone Native" (*Slight spoiler for Sic Transit Vir*)

+22 Apr 1996
No, when Londo goes to Delenn earlier this season to ask about having Vir
+appointed to the Centauri diplomatic mission, he mentions then that the
+mission has been closed for some time, "some trouble I believe with our
+previous liaison."  This just paid that off; those Minbari are just a
+darned bad influence, I guess.
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Source of Minbari Prophecies? (22 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Source of Minbari Prophecies?

+22 Apr 1996
A number of the Minbari prophecies were written down by Valen himself, at
+the time when he called together the Grey Council and led the last great
+war against the shadows.  They have somehow tended to be quite
+astonishingly accurate.
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS I heard that with you writing the entire season, you will be the 1st in tv history? (22 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS I heard that with you writing the entire season, you will be the 1st in tv history?

+22 Apr 1996
Thanks.  And yes, I'll be the first in American TV to do so; when you get
+into the UK, however, you've got Terry Nation, who wrote all 16 (18?) of
+Blake 7's first season, which represents some pretty nifty writing on his
+part.
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Something to consider (23 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Something to consider

+23 Apr 1996
No, the missing scenes and lines blipped out of episodes can't be put back
+in again later without totally rescoring everything, and they'd be of
+varying lengths; it's not do-able in any sense (unfortunately).
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: UK calling (4 Apr 1996)
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Re: UK calling

+4 Apr 1996
I don't know for certain the C4 situation, so I can't say, but there have
+been, and continue to be discussions about the widescreen version, so it's
+still a possibility.
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - Cynthia Torqueman (23 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Cynthia Torqueman

+23 Apr 1996
Yes, the Torque- part of her name came from Torquemada, that's correct. 
+Just seemed appropriate since we were shortly doing an episode with an
+inquisitor.
+
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+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Will TNT edit reruns? (23 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Will TNT edit reruns?

+23 Apr 1996
Usually, you get big cuts in shows going from network to cable because the
+restrictions on the number of commercials are greater for the former than
+the latter.  However, the number of spots in syndication are about the
+same as for cable, so there shouldn't be any need for cuts.  Also, once
+the show hits TNT, you won't be using the Kung Fu (certainly) or B5
+(probably) promos anymore, which frees up another 30-45 seconds for
+commercials.
+
+So overall, I shouldn't think there'd be much need for editing.
+
+
+
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+
+Re: JMS, you tease! (STV spoilers) (23 Apr 1996)
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+
Re: JMS, you tease! (STV spoilers)

+23 Apr 1996
"Has anyone told you lately what an evil, evil man you are?"
+
+Why, you old sweet-talker you....
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Has B5 been renewed yet? (23 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Has B5 been renewed yet?

+23 Apr 1996
We'll know sometime next month, after the PTEN committee meets again.
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: Attn JMS: three behind the scenes (23 Apr 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: three behind the scenes

+23 Apr 1996
The foreign mailings were initially going to be ground; we're
+investigating whether or not we can afford, without raising the price, to
+do airmail instead.
+
+We're taking other steps to see if we can make things easier for the UK
+fans.
+
+As for where I am, I'm still kinda all over the place, here, CIS, GEnie,
+AOL primarily.
+
+
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+
+
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+

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+
+
+Re: Did Delenn TELL A LIE to Sheridan?  [spoilers Sic T.V.] (23 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Did Delenn TELL A LIE to Sheridan?  [spoilers Sic T.V.]

+23 Apr 1996
It's been established that Minbari can and do lie when it's done to save
+the honor of another.  Here, Delenn saved face for Sheridan at dinner.
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Means of Foreign Payment for Fan Club (23 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Means of Foreign Payment for Fan Club

+23 Apr 1996
We just had a meeting today about the fan club, and in response to some of
+the questions here about the UK, we're investigating how best to handle
+this to make it easier for folks outside the US to get involved.  We hope
+to have some answers soonish, so UKers might want to wait just a bit
+before sending in their subs.  
+
+
+
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+
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+

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+
+
+Re: Attn JMS: Airing Dates (24 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Airing Dates

+24 Apr 1996
Start with a correction: the final 4 from last season aired in October,
+not November.  That aside...
+
+No, it didn't take that long to finish the CGI, since they'd already aired
+months before in Britain.  We will have all the CG and incidental stuff
+finished for S3 in July, in time for the August UK airings of the last
+batch of episodes.  But PTEN sometimes holds back a handful of episodes to
+put on prior to the new season to help ramp up the ratings and get a
+running start.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN: JMS Changes in the Story due to Actors (24 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS Changes in the Story due to Actors

+24 Apr 1996
"First, I've heard the actor who played General Hague was supposed to
+continue with the show but ended up going someplace else."
+
+That's correct.  He bailed at the last minute, even though we had first
+dibs on him.  Not much point to forcing an actor to stay if he wants to
+go; you just get an unhappy set and a less than stellar performance.  That
+situation led to changing a grand total of 3 lines.  Anything in Hague's
+situation is what's called a "moveable piece," meaning it can be easily
+assigned to others.
+
+"Second, I've heard the actress that plays Delenn was supposed to remain
+fully Membari but didn't like the heavy make-up"
+
+Nope.  That was never the intent.  She was *always* going to make this
+change.
+and is now part-human.
+
+"Third, the Sinclair thing.  We all wonder if he's supposed to be back or
+what (probably, "or what")--especially based on the "Babylon Squared" show
+where Sinclair is the apparent leader of the Good Guys (tm)."
+ 
+Watch the two-parter.  We'll talk afterward.
+
+"I heard Bruce Box...(uh, I'm too stupid to spell his name correctly)
+isn't happy with the ratings, etc."
+
+Point being...?  Bruce is happy with the show, and staying with it; like
+the rest of us, he wishes the show got more attention here in the US on a
+par with what it gets overseas, particularly in the UK.
+
+"I'm wondering...how do you deal with these things and keep the necessary
+consistency?  Are you just "rolling with the punches" and letting the
+changes take place but keeping the main story idea intact?  That's my
+guess.  Perhaps no one actor or person is essential to the story?"
+
+As a writer, doing a long-term story, it'd be dangerous and short-sighted
+for me to construct the story without trap doors for every single
+character.  Because Stuff Happens.  An actor can get hit by a meteor, walk
+off, whatever.  So I deliberately and very carefully constructed this
+puppy to be more or less airtight no matter what happens.  You want to
+drive from LA to San Diego.  You figure on taking the 5 freeway all the
+way down.  Only when you get to the Slausen Cutoff (insert joke here),
+there's a traffic jam...so you get off, take some alternate streets, and
+come back again right back on track.  Same thing here.
+
+That was one of the big risks going into a long-term storyline which I
+considered long in advance; you can't predict real-world events, so you
+have to compensate for them and plan for them in advance.  Otherwise you
+could paint yourself into a corner.  
+
+Similarly, there are story changes that come up at me by surprise, which
+make total sense, which result in actor changes.  As a writer, you have to
+be flexible enough to recognize a stronger, better path when it presents
+itself; to be so rigidly locked into your prior structure eliminates
+spontaneity and the chance to explore new routes.  This is exactly the
+same thing that happens when you write a novel; you learn things 1/2 way
+through writing a novel you can learn no other way.  
+
+I've been writing and selling since I was 17.  In all that time, I've
+never once followed an outline beat-for-beat once I got into the main
+writing, whatever the final venue.  No outline survives contact with the
+enemy.  It's a *guideline* that keeps you on track when you waver, and
+serves as base camp, providing security when it strikes you to go off and
+explore a path you hadn't noticed before.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Melissa Gilbert on B5?? (24 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Melissa Gilbert on B5??

+24 Apr 1996
Yes, Melissa pops up in two episodes toward the latter part of the season.
+ The part is a good one.  That's all I can say for now.
+
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+Re: Attn JMS, Re: show length (4 Apr 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS, Re: show length

+4 Apr 1996
No, I think the time you cite is about right for the running time of the
+show.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Public knowledge of last episode title. (25 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Public knowledge of last episode title.

+25 Apr 1996
Well, there's what one would *prefer*, and there's that which is
+*sensible*.  And the sensible answer is that no, once the last S3 episode
+airs in the UK, there's no way on earth you're gonna keep that out of the
+public eye, and there ain't much sense to protecting it or hitting it with
+spoiler regs.  I'd let it go at that point.  
+
+(And, frankly, it'll probably slip out some time before that; when it
+hits, it hits, I've decided to let it go at that point...you just ain't
+gonna hear it from ME, that's all.)
+
+
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+from jms: to support B5 (25 Apr 1996)
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from jms: to support B5

+25 Apr 1996
I've noted, and been sent, a number of messages asking how folks can best
+support or coordinate support for B5 among the stations, which are the key
+to keeping the show going and healthy.
+
+Just in the last few weeks, Warner Bros. has set up a web page designed
+specifically to assist in this area, noting the fan interest in aiding the
+show.  It contains email and snail mail addresses and phone numbers and
+contact names for all the stations now carrying B5, broken down by state
+and city, with suggestions on letters, and a new gif and jpg image of the
+revised B5 symbol (sword and B5 logo) which can be put on other web pages
+to link them in.
+
+As has been noted, WB wants to continue the show, and the key right now
+are the stations which are being pressured to limit time to other shows in
+deference to UPN, Fox and others.  (Lonseome Dove, for instance, was just
+canceled, even though it was getting good ratings, because the producers
+just couldn't find enough stations to make it worth it for the national
+advertisers.)  
+
+So if you're looking to coordinate B5 support, I commend to you this web
+page:
+
+                      http://www.babylon5.com/support
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: B5's acceptance (NO spoilers) (25 Apr 1996)
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Re: B5's acceptance (NO spoilers)

+25 Apr 1996
I think this is fairly accurate; I've long felt that this show wouldn't
+really take off until, ironically, it was over and in long term
+syndication.  Which is okay by me...
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+Re: ATTN Moderators, JMS, Everyone: A Proposal for all of the many questions to JMS (26 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN Moderators, JMS, Everyone: A Proposal for all of the many questions to JMS

+26 Apr 1996
Good hearted an idea as it might be, I'm not sure it's necessary.  Now, if
+it's a question we've seen a thousand times before, and I've answered lots
+of times before, if anybody wants to kick in with that answer, that's
+fine, but overall....
+
+I guess part of this is that very often the ATT JMS notes aren't really
+questions, or advance a particular thought that doesn't seem to lead to a
+response.  When a very specific question is asked, about writing or the
+show or the like, then I tend to answer.  If someone uses ATT JMS and
+says, as is often said, "I was thinking that the Minbari are an advanced
+species, and maybe because of this they don't have the same approach to
+justice we do, so we shouldn't judge them," my usual reaction is to nod
+and move on, because they've expressed their opinion, and there really
+isn't much I can add to that...it's their feeling about something.
+
+As opposed to, "What, historically, have the Minbari done about the
+question of justice?" which leads to a discusssion.  To some extent, like
+any conversation, the quality of the answers you get depends on the
+quality and specificity of the questions asked.
+
+Also, right now, since we're not shooting, in a way during the hiatus
+period I become something of a balloon sans air.  There isn't that much
+interesting to talk about at this end, we're not doing anything but post
+production; the sets are all dark, awaiting word.  And, finally, I do tend
+to get somewhat quiet each season while we wait for word on renewal.  This
+brief period between April and renewal are really my own down-times on the
+show...and I'm kinda like Marcus, if I don't have something to say, I
+generally don't say anything rather than waste people's time filling up
+space.
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+Re: ALDFA (**NO** Spoilers) (26 Apr 1996)
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Re: ALDFA (**NO** Spoilers)

+26 Apr 1996
I agree, I think Chris did a great job on this one (he's done some
+spectacular work overall this season, on Severed, Interludes, Ship and
+others later this season).  What I'd told him in this case I wanted was as
+much as possible in the way of natural instruments as opposed to synth, so
+that it fit more with the feel of the episode.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Books and TV Plot (26 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Books and TV Plot

+26 Apr 1996
My theory is that *in general* the novels and comics tend to be canon, but
+the details may not always be, mainly because it's virtually impossible to
+ride herd on every single line of all this the way I do the show.  It
+physically can't be done.  But where possible, we keep it as close to
+cointinuity as possible.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Entertainment Tonight? (26 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Entertainment Tonight?

+26 Apr 1996
No, that wasn't me in the shot.  I generally stay out of camera range when
+they come to talk to our cast; I prefer they have their time in the
+limelight rather than horn in on it.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Borrowed Characters (26 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Borrowed Characters

+26 Apr 1996
"I've noticed a few instances where the Star Trek progeny have borrowed
+specific ideas from print SF with some changes to make story plots.  The
+Dyson sphere and a ruined arms-dealer planet are specific examples and I
+vaguely remember others.  I'd like to see some of the better SF characters
+visiting B5 such as Slippery Jim DiGriz (alias Stainless Steel Rat) who
+are never going to see the movie screen for technical reasons.  Can this
+sort of thing be done?"
+
+No, not here.  I generally consider that sort of thing to be too close to
+the line bordering plagiarism for comfort.  Somebody went through a great
+deal of work to create certain characters; I'd rather not poach on their
+turf.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Changes in the Story due to Actors (26 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Changes in the Story due to Actors

+26 Apr 1996
Cindy: absolutely, pass along anything here you think may be of any value.
+
+There's a lot of misinformation and bad mythology about how writing works,
+and how TeeVee works...anything that helps to clarify those areas is
+nothing less than terrific.
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+on moderation from jms (28 Apr 1996)
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on moderation from jms

+28 Apr 1996
Over the last several days, I've received a fair amount of email on the
+subject of the moderated group, and the question of messages...present,
+slowed, deleted and adjusted.  I've sent a number of notes to Jay
+inquiring about the situation, and giving my thoughts to him.  On the
+theory that conversations in public serve the commonweal more than
+conversations in private, I wanted to take one moment and reiterate my
+feelings on this subject...which were stated very clearly in one of the
+first messages on this group, and my very first overall.  But as someone
+once noted of recurrent themes in literature, "Of course everything has
+already been said.  But since no one was paying attention, we begin
+again."  Nothing is lost by clarification.
+
+(Preliminary aside: I'm told that apparently some messages that folks
+thought were being cut were, in fact, simply held up in the system by the
+software or may not have been showing up in their local system for
+whatever reason; this seems to be true, insofar as I can tell.)
+
+The moderated group, as I understand it, is designed to primarily control
+three problem areas: spoilers, excessive personal attacks of a chronic
+nature (especially libelous or defamatory material), and story ideas.  The
+second is what drives out other users, the last is something which cannot
+be where I am for legal reasons. 
+
+Not for content.  Not for language.  Not for unpopular opinions.  Not for
+opinions of controversy.  Not for critical opinions regarding this show. 
+If somebody wants to say, "Joe, I'm sorry, but 'Avalon' just really
+sucked," he should be perfectly free to do so.  Others may be perfectly
+free to disagree, and allow the two sides to discuss the reasons for their
+viewpoints.
+
+I said it in my first message here, and I'll repeat it: from time to time,
+somebody is going to lose their temper, or say something less than
+prudent, or explore some of the more colorful aspects of the English
+language.  From where I sit, there is nothing wrong with this.  We all
+have momentary lapses.
+
+Note the penultimate word: *momentary*.  If someone is *chronically* and
+consistently engaged in this stuff, ongoing personal attacks, then you
+warn, you warn a second time, and then and ONLY then do you delete.  A
+blipped message should be the tool of last resort, not the instrument of
+first choice.  
+
+When I was first approached about the moderated group, I expressed this
+very clearly, as well as my own willingness to be moderated when and if I
+might ever cross the line.  I said that I would be more than glad to be a
+part of a moderated group *as long as* everybody felt comfortable speaking
+freely, that moderation would only be implemented for the extreme cases,
+the chronic abusers, the trolls and the flamers and the fabricators and
+those who exist only to bring grief to other users.  That was my position
+then, and it remains the same now.  A lighter hand is always better than a
+heavier one; always better to err on the side of letting something
+through.
+
+Sometimes, you can only get pertinent information by asking impertinent
+questions.  And as I scan through the group as it stands now, there are a
+lot of impertinent questions lined up.  Which is great.  There are also a
+few questions about some of the material on the edge of that.  Those need
+to be addressed, or at least discussed openly.
+
+For the record, I think the moderated group is performing well overall. 
+In just a few short weeks by my counter it's logged about 7,000 messages,
+and will shortly pass the unmoderated group in volume.  The atmosphere is
+friendly, and the questions and discussions good.  A nice mix of critical
+messages and positive ones, and almost always in the spirit of
+constructive criticism.  
+
+So this is not a flag on the play, only an advisory and a restating of
+what I noted here in the beginning.  The moderators have a hideously
+difficult task ahead of them in the sheer volume of posts, and they are
+doing an exemplary job.  That doesn't mean mistakes won't be made. 
+Mistakes are inevitable as we all learn the feel of this place, and grow
+together.  If they have not been made yet, and I'm not sufficiently
+conversant on the whole situation to say they have, then they will most
+certainly be made in future.  That's simply the nature of any new process
+being implemented; there is trial and error.
+
+We learn, we adjust, and we move on.  It's what humans do.
+
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+Re: Jumpgates and StarFuries (possible spoilers for Severed Dreams) (4 Apr 1996)
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Re: Jumpgates and StarFuries (possible spoilers for Severed Dreams)

+4 Apr 1996
If you're opening a jump point, usually you make it a habit to have all
+your fighters on board or else risk leaving them behind.  A jump gate can
+be more easily used and held open for fighters.  When you arrive at your
+destination, you can launch your fighters as you emerge.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: ALDFAvalon Music question (28 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: ALDFAvalon Music question

+28 Apr 1996
No, we can't use any outside music; it all has to be done via our composer
+(unless we purchase the rights, obviously).  Here, though, it's all Chris.
+ We had a long conversation about the kind of music I wanted, I encouraged
+him to think in terms of Celtic music, natural instruments primarily
+instead of synth or electronic instruments, that sort of thing.  But no,
+no Claanad was used.
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+Re: ATT JMS: I *liked* ALDfA (& a ?) (28 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATT JMS: I *liked* ALDfA (& a ?)

+28 Apr 1996
The ability to forgive is certainly one of the foremost principles of
+sentient life, even Draal would agree with that.  
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+Re: Forces of light?  (SPOILERS up to "Interludes") (29 Apr 1996)
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Re: Forces of light?  (SPOILERS up to "Interludes")

+29 Apr 1996
Just to be sure on spoilers....
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+on their thumbs, embroiled in internal problems, waiting for the war to
+start.  Next week, I suspect they'll start to pay the price."
+
+The former part of this is not entirely true.  Some stuff has been going
+on in the background, but it's been very secretive...which is why you
+don't know about it yet.  They've been working like the dickens, getting
+some stuff ready...and you'll find out what that is in an episode later
+this season.  They needed to buy time, and now that they've had it,
+they've used it well.
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Re: Att: JMS

+29 Apr 1996
It's down there...possible spoilers.
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+You basically had two large convoys meeting one another.  Two Minbari
+ships were hit and destroyed, a third damaged badly; this was the one
+carrying Dukhat and the Grey Council, including Delenn.  
+
+Just for the record, what happened after that...the Minbari ships opened
+fire, and a number of the Earth ships were fragged.  The rest fled as the
+Minbari ships hesitated, waiting to see what happened to Dukhat.  When it
+was learned that he was killed, they took off and pursued the ships back
+to an Earth base.  Initially, one of the Earth captains explained that
+they had encountered hostiles (trying to cover his ass), and when the
+Minbari ships appeared, all hell broke loose.
+
+It was shortly after this "cowardly attack" on their ships, and the
+assassination of their leader, that the Minbari declared what is in
+essence a jihad, a holy war, against Earth.  The worker class went along
+with it, even though the religious caste was unsure...but divided, they
+couldn't raise sufficient objections to the war to stop it initially.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (29 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS

+29 Apr 1996
Well, they're interesting speculations, and obviously I can't say one
+thing or another about them at this time.
+
+But on another level, you're right; if the clues are properly placed, and
+the story proceeds in a logical, consistent fashion, about 20% of the
+people will guess correctly on where it's going (this from my years on
+Murder, She Wrote).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+

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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: End of A Late Delivery From Avalon (29 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: End of A Late Delivery From Avalon

+29 Apr 1996
The references given (he said vaguely, to avoid spoiling anybody) were
+first and foremost intentional to the story and to set up stuff...but as I
+wrote it, the way this stuff has been discussed online did come to mind,
+and on some level it was probably a slight *plink*, yes.
+
+Sort of a "yeah, well, TWO can play at that game, and most of you missed
+THIS particular analogy, so THERE."
+
+I am in serious need of a vacation, I think....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Was this the original plan? (30 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: JMS: Was this the original plan?

+30 Apr 1996
The curious thing...the interesting thing...is that in just about
+everything I've ever written, yes, I generally follow where I want to go,
+end up where I want to end up, but once I get *into* it, once the
+characters come alive on the page, I inevitably find better ways of doing
+things, stronger and more muscular paths to the story, more interesting
+side roads.  
+
+Also, this original story was worked out in 1986/87; that's nearly ten
+years ago.  In those ten years, I've become -- or like to think I've
+become -- a better writer, learned more, written more, picked up some new
+tools I didn't have then.  So you have a situation where the writer in
+1996 looks at the writer in 1986 and says, "No, listen...there's a better
+way.  Yes, we'll still get to Disneyland on time, you'll still have plenty
+of time to ride the haunted mansion...but if we go *this* way, we can stop
+off and also see Knotts Berry Farm, and the Winchester Mystery Mansion,
+and maybe even Hearst Castle on the way."
+
+The destination is still the same..but I've found a *lot* more interesting
+ways of getting there.  Which, after all, is what an outline is for: a
+safe home base that allows you to wander off, knowing that you can always
+return to it if you get lost.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Why five years? (30 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why five years?

+30 Apr 1996
Knowing the syndication marketplace, I figured five was about the best you
+could do before being canceled as new shows came in and the marketplace
+changed.  At least, for a new show.  Six felt too long, four could be done
+but I kinda wanted a little breathing room if at all possible.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: The stats (was: Re: on moderation from jms) (30 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: The stats (was: Re: on moderation from jms)

+30 Apr 1996
"One minor correction Joe.  The moderated newsgroup surpassed the
+unmoderated one's daily volume since the *second* day it came on line."
+
+kewl....
+
+Now to go pass out from overexposure to math....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
+Convention quickie from jms (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Convention quickie from jms

+4 Apr 1996
The weekend of April 12-14, Patricia Tallman, Stephen Furst and I will be
+at the SyndiCon syndicated television convention at the Cathedral Hill
+Hotel in San Francisco, along with a batallion of other teevee folk.  Info
+via syndicon@aol.com.
+
+Also, the first weekend in May, Pat, Richard Biggs and I will be at Marcon
+in Columbus, Ohio.  Marcon has its own web page for more info.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: Severed Dreams Question (3 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Severed Dreams Question

+3 Apr 1996
Garibaldi wanted to hold up, cut off the boarding party at a bottleneck,
+but the Narns, *being* Narns, raced right into the battle.  At that point
+Garibaldi had to follow them in or let them get wiped out for no good
+reason.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: On a different note, jms (4 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: On a different note, jms

+4 Apr 1996
Well...if you really want me to answer this question, I will...but in
+general I try to stay away from this kinda stuff because it makes my head
+explode.  I'll try to be calm and reasonable about this.
+
+Re: the v-chip...see, when I was a kid, I knew what hours I was allowed to
+watch TV, and what hours I wasn't.  I knew what programs I was allowed to
+watch, and what programs I wasn't.  It wasn't done with a chip in a TV
+set, it was done when my parents looked at me, the time, or the tube, and
+said, "Okay, that's it, up to bed now."  For my money, for starters, the
+v-chip is an abrogation of responsibility by parents.  It's the modern-day
+answer to everything: build a chip, find a quick and easy solution.  
+
+Never mind that the criteria are so vague that all kinds of stuff is going
+to get through even with the chip set (when I was working with ABC, you
+had censors and parents groups who considered a door slam to be an act of
+violence, and counted it as such)...never mind that you're subordinating
+your view of what your limits are to an unseen group of TV execs or
+monitors who will decide what rating to give a show, a rating which you
+might quite disagree with, on a ranger of scales that are *very*
+subjective (they use about 5 levels of numerical values assigned to
+suggestive language or action and the like), never mind that parents
+should be watching TV *with* their kids (yes, I know that we have latchkey
+kids, and single parents, but there are other ways of solving
+this)...never mind ALL that....
+
+Most of what is violent on TV is movies run on commercial networks, not so
+much regular TV programs.  The majority of produced programs are still
+sitcoms.  So for me, the whole thing is based on a false premise.  But
+more than that, it seems outrageous for congress to on the one hand try
+and repeal the assault weapon ban, then try and regulate TV violence. 
+It's inconsistent.  
+
+They're not dealing with the problem, they're dealing with the PICTURE of
+the problem.  If we make the picture go away, the problem will go away. 
+No it won't.  It will be solved by sane gun laws (I'm not against owning,
+but registering seems a good idea), and dedicated assaults on poverty,
+unemployment, crime, drug use and the eradication of hope.  It will be
+solved by parents and kids spending time together, rather than letting a
+chip determine what they watch on TV.  It will be solved by education for
+the young, and firm punishment for the guilty.
+
+But see, that takes nerve.  And it isn't easily done.  And may be
+unpopular in some sectors.  So it's easier, and gets more coverage, to
+attack *Hollywood* when things get bad.  It's fuzzy thinking, dead-catting
+and scapegoating, nothing less.  When people were frightened by the Soviet
+Union during the 50s, and the US couldn't actually *do* anything about
+it...they turned on Hollywood and attacked all those commie sympathizers
+undermining morality and creating a commie-ready society via words and
+images.  We can't fix violence, so now we turn again to the pictures of
+the problem as though they *were* the problem.
+
+If every violent program in the nation were blipped off the air for 48
+hours, and replaced by reruns of the Donna Reed Show, there would not be
+one less death in South Central LA, not one less drug overdose in Bed-Stuy
+in New York, not one less Freeman in Montana.  (At most you'd have several
+more incidents of people shooting out their TVs.)
+
+Here, for me, is the ultimate analogy.  A few years ago here in town,
+there was an anti-gun group that came up with the idea of a protest march.
+ They marched in front of a video store which had a big poster in the
+front of it in which there was a huge picture of a gun.  They marched in
+front of the video store.  Half a block down was a gun shop.  Nobody
+marched in front of the gun shop.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question About Writing of Seasons 4 & 5 (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Question About Writing of Seasons 4 & 5

+4 Apr 1996
I haven't actually broken down how I'm going to do this next year, in
+terms of what to assign and what to do in house.  I'll have a somewhat
+better idea once I sit down with the outline, break out the various parts
+of it for the period in question, see what I want to throw out or keep
+from that based on things that I've modified this season or changed my
+mind about....
+
+At that point I'll have a solid notion of the stand-alones that can be
+farmed out.  At this juncture, having just finished writing all 22 this
+year, and almost finished with production, I'm still catching my breath. 
+Check back with me on this closer to late May or early June.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS, Claudia Christian on Sci-Fi Buzz. (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS, Claudia Christian on Sci-Fi Buzz.

+4 Apr 1996
"Last week's episode of Sci-Fi Buzz featured an interview with Claudia
+Christian. During the interview, they showed clips from an episode
+being filmed. Would you please tell me the name (or number) of that
+episode?"
+
+I believe, from what I saw, that it was a piece from "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: WSBK (3 Apr 1996)
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+
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Re: WSBK

+3 Apr 1996
"First I would like to welcome JMS back"
+
+Thanks, glad to be here. 
+
+"...second I would like to know if it is true WSBK Boston has decided to
+drop B5."
+
+I don't actually know.  I heard this on the nets, but so far even WB
+hasn't been apprised of anything about this.  (We called them as soon as
+we heard, and it was news to them.)  I know it was posted during a flurry
+of April Fool's jokes, but I don't know for sure if it was that or
+something else.  We're looking into it, though, and as soon as we know, or
+if anyone hears anything else, we'll go into it.
+
+jms
+
+
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+

+
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+Re: ATTN. JMS:  Question Re: Ship Names (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN. JMS:  Question Re: Ship Names

+4 Apr 1996
"...what company in their right mind would name one of their ship's the
+"Marie Celeste"?
+
+Dunno, but I'd bet good money that whoever it is, it's an Australian
+company.  Nothing frightens those people; they're fearless.
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: galaxy exploration (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: galaxy exploration

+4 Apr 1996
Not that much of the galaxy has really been explored yet; it'd take
+centuries for us to get even a small part of it all covered.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Attn: JMS (*spoilers Voices of Authority) (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: Attn: JMS (*spoilers Voices of Authority)

+4 Apr 1996
Spoiler Space 
+
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+"Just wondering if we would see the First Ones from Sigma 957 this season,
+since there are supposed to be some direct confrontations the between 
+Army of Light and the Shadows?"
+
+No.  It isn't their time yet.
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS Question About Babylon 1-3 (4 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS Question About Babylon 1-3

+4 Apr 1996
"What were the designs for Babylon 1-3. Were they based on the Babylon 4 
+model or the Babylon 5 model? "
+
+They were designed to eventually become what we saw in B4.  None of the
+first 3 got much past the early stages of construction.
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Norman Corwin on NPR (4 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Norman Corwin on NPR

+4 Apr 1996
"Our NPR station in Chicago is planning on broadcasting "13 by Corwin,
+a star-studded anthology of Norman Corwin's greatest radio plays."  
+Any recommendations on particulars to watch for?"
+
+Just sit back and enjoy a use of language like nothing you've ever heard
+before.  You're in for a real treat.
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: JMS:  Drama and Romance (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: JMS:  Drama and Romance

+4 Apr 1996
"Will we have a great romance??"
+
+First you gotta buy me dinner and flowers.
+
+Seriously...yes, I think there's a heck of a good romance looming just
+over the horizon in the show.
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: Point of No Return  (* Spoilers *) (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: Point of No Return  (* Spoilers *)

+4 Apr 1996
(* Spoilers for Point of No Return  *)
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+
+Ok, at the end of this ep. Susan explains that 4 of the 5 cruisers with
+Gen. 
+Hague where distroyed. So did Earthforce get them or did Clark have the 
+shadows do it?"
+
+
+It was an ambush by Earthforce ships.  (Actually, only 3 were destroyed,
+the other two took off separately, trying to throw off a united pursuit. 
+But you know how ISN's been lately....)
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: JMS: Fan Reactions and Changing Assessments (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: JMS: Fan Reactions and Changing Assessments

+4 Apr 1996
"One thing I wondered about, while reading the CIS and occasional AOL
+repostings here, is how JMS felt about the general fan reaction to
+"Messages From Earth", "Point of No Return" and now "Severed Dreams"
+(which I don't see until Saturday). 
+
+""Messages From Earth", after all, was widely anticipated based on JMS's
+own assessment that it was the best episode of the series to date. The
+general reaction here was one of letdown, and looking back, I still see it
+as the weak link in this important tryptch. Even if I see the three
+episodes as essentially one huge episode, or a three-act episode, then
+"Messages" is a weak first act.
+
+"What I'm wondering, now that JMS is thankfully back in our neck of the
+woods, is how much these kinds of general reactions surprise him or change
+his own perceptions of episodes. Does he see "Messages" in a different
+light now, judging from how many of us thought it had structural,
+story-telling problems that can't be resolved, in the way that some other
+misperceived 'problems' have been, by developments later in the arc?"
+
+
+One of the problems in any discussion of this sort is the tendency to
+accept one's own perceptions as the facts.  The reaction I saw from fans
+when "Messages" hit was that it was one of our strongest episodes.  Okay,
+you felt differently, and that's fair.  But it doesn't invalidate the
+many, *many* people who felt otherwise.  I'm even willing to go out on a
+limb here and say that it was very popular with the majority of viewers. 
+It came out very high on the P5 survey as well.  I happen to like
+raspberries more than strawberries.  Does that mean that raspberries are
+objectively better than strawberries and that the producers of
+strawberries should reconsider their position?  Of course not.
+
+Which, in a way, is the answer to your question.  There has never, in the
+history of TV, been one episode of any series which is uniformly hailed by
+every viewer, and liked or disliked for exactly the same reason. 
+Everybody sees the episodes differently.  If I were to start running after
+10 million viewers to change my opinion of the shows, with 10 million
+opinions, each of whom thinks that their opinion is right (and it is, but
+it's right for *them*, it's not *objectively* right), each of which is
+contradictory with every other view...you'd go mad.
+
+You just can't tell a story that way.  
+
+(BTW, what "story problems" are there in "Messages?"  None have been
+pointed out to me so far of any substance.)
+
+So anyway, I'm happy that you enjoyed "Dreams," and that it compensated
+for any lack of spiffiness in your view of "Messages."
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: Season Finale (Title Classified) (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: JMS: Season Finale (Title Classified)

+4 Apr 1996
"Or is it a matter of the title being a spoiler for an episode between now
+and
+then?"
+
+Yes, that's my concern.
+
+While I'm on the subject, an advisory: I gave a short interview to
+Entertainment Weekly the other day for their story about cliffhanger
+endings for various shows.  Now, the piece is going to run in May since
+that's when most shows (most *sensible* shows) will be doing their
+cliffhangers.  Ours won't run until July or October, depending on who you
+talk to.  
+
+There's a point where you have to decide between publicity (good for show)
+and secrecy (good for viewers), in the process of keeping the show on the
+air (also good for viewers).  So I let a few things out of the bag.  If
+you don't want to be spoiled, then you may want to avoid picking up and
+reading that story.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: jms: Remember WENN? (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: jms: Remember WENN?

+4 Apr 1996
Haven't run into Remember WENN yet, and don't know enough about the
+current state of radio drama to comment intelligently.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Three Ages of Mankind -- Speculation (3 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: Three Ages of Mankind -- Speculation

+3 Apr 1996
No, this isn't it.  What I'll say is that the issue is more philosophical
+than technological in nature.  But you won't be able to figure the third
+age yet because you don't have all the information you need to make that
+determination.  After the end of this season, you'll have most of it,
+however.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: MST3K ref in upcoming B5 (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: MST3K ref in upcoming B5

+4 Apr 1996
	"I hear a rumor every now and then that there will be a reference
+(sometimes a "major reference") to MST3K in an upcoming episode of B5.
+Is there any truth in this?"
+
+
+Nope.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Question about JMS participation (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: Question about JMS participation

+4 Apr 1996
What I generally do when I log onto the group is look first for any
+messages tagged ATT JMS; once I've run through those, I make my way
+through the rest.  I tend to give first attention to main headers,
+secondary to followup (RE:) messages, just for reasons of time.
+
+So yes, the ATT still works, as long as it's used when appropriate.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN: JMS *SPOILERS* Is it me (5 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: ATTN: JMS *SPOILERS* Is it me

+5 Apr 1996
"Is it me or do the Vorlons seem scared to fight the Shadows. Or anyone 
+that they dont know they can win against. You have said in the past that 
+the Vorlons are not enough to take on the Shadows so I assume you meant 
+it in military terms. But I am sure with all the other races they could 
+take on the Shadows. But they seem to be massing up forces so that they 
+dont have to. I would guess they have never actaully fought the Shadows
+yet"
+
+To your later question...yes, in a sense, you're onto something, but
+you're looking in the wrong direction.  But you're close.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS or other -- CC at Syndicon? (5 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: JMS or other -- CC at Syndicon?

+5 Apr 1996
Claudia couldn't make it, but Pat Tallman, Stephen Furst and I will all be
+at Syndicon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: Larry DiTillio's initial reaction to the arc (5 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: JMS: Larry DiTillio's initial reaction to the arc

+5 Apr 1996
What Larry was responding to was the totality of the storyline, not so
+much any one particular item.  If you stop for a moment and look back at
+just how *much* has been covered just in these first two-and-a-half aired
+seasons, you realize how far the story has come.  It's the whole of that
+tapestry that is kinda boggling sometimes.
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attention JMS (5 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: Attention JMS

+5 Apr 1996
"If or when the video's are released, will they be letter boxed and
+suround It just 
+seems that if they are filmed in wide screen, they would be nice to see
+them that 
+way."
+
+We're still discussing this; nothing's set yet.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Cast members and writing/directing (5 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: ATTN JMS: Cast members and writing/directing

+5 Apr 1996
Insofar as I know, only Stephen Furst has any directorial background (and
+he's quite good at what he does).  So far, none of the cast has made any
+real noise about directing.  Frankly, I'd like to make sure it doesn't
+come up, because if one cast member directs, then logically and
+reasonably, you find yourself in a situation where you can't deny anybody
+else.  Then they're *all* directing, and the acting slips.  Most of the
+cast don't seem terribly interested in the notion anyway, so with luck
+it'll be a moot point.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Is C&C a Corwin reference? (5 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: ATTN JMS: Is C&C a Corwin reference?

+5 Apr 1996
No, C&C is a standard military reference to Command and Control.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: Fan Reactions and Changing Assessments (5 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: JMS: Fan Reactions and Changing Assessments

+5 Apr 1996
The other thing to bear in mind in all of this is that the degree to which
+we are affected by an episode depends to some measure on what we bring to
+the experience.  Some elements are going to register more with some than
+with others, due to our background and experience.  Some women reacted
+*very* strongly to "Comes the Inquisitor" because of their feelings about
+the whole male/female dynamic and the way it had touched their lives
+previously.
+
+We will never all agree on these things, and never should.  If we all
+agreed we'd be the Stepford B5 Viewing Association.
+
+(Oh, and one other thing...very often, viewers re-assess episodes after
+the fact.  "And Now For a Word" being a good example.  When it first came
+out, a number of folks weren't sure about it, because they were taken
+aback by the narrative device.  Lately, on the rerun, a *lot* of them, on
+various nets, said they'd watched it again and re-evaluated their opinion,
+felt it was under-rated, and better than they'd first thought.  So, again,
+which opinion do you listen to?  Fundamentally, you have to follow the
+story where it takes you.  Nothing else makes sense.)
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: "Severed Dreams": Opinion Without Spoilers (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: "Severed Dreams": Opinion Without Spoilers

+6 Apr 1996
Yes, the number of commercials were the same; no idea if there were more
+or less local spots than usual, but I'd doubt it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: Video releases (3 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: JMS: Video releases

+3 Apr 1996
We're still going back and forth on the video releasing question; there's
+movement to do it ourselves, but if we go that route, it means doing only
+limited editions since we can't handle huge orders; then there's some
+movement on the notion of another video company licensing it from WB,
+which means that more can be produced, probably at less cost to people
+than a limited edition.  (Which is good.)  So we're still sussing all this
+out.
+
+The only problem with putting 3 or 6 episodes on a tape means either
+taping at a slower speed, which means a drop in quality, or a larger tape,
+which also raises the price and runs into the peril of more tape jams.  
+
+BTW, we recently found out that for sure France is getting the widescreen
+versions of the show starting this season, so we're looking into the
+notion that whoever does the tapes will use those versions.  But this is
+still preliminary.
+
+jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATT JMS: CGI Sign on hull? (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATT JMS: CGI Sign on hull?

+6 Apr 1996
I actually don't know what the sign says; I'll have to check it at a later
+point.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Boneheads (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: Boneheads

+6 Apr 1996
"Is that bone head thing on Delenn part of her or is it a Minbari type of
+hairband?"
+
+It's a bone that grows from a small nub when born, as do antlers.
+
+"And if it is part of her, how the heck does she do her hair?"
+
+With difficulty but great patience.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS:  Hill Street Blues Fan?  (Possible spoiler for Point of No Return) (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: JMS:  Hill Street Blues Fan?  (Possible spoiler for Point of No Return)

+6 Apr 1996
No, actually, the name was Pirello, Francis...hadn't realized it was a
+sound-alike for Furillo until dailies came in.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Boneheads (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+

+
Re: Boneheads

+6 Apr 1996
"Is that bone head thing on Delenn part of her or is it a Minbari type of
+hairband?"
+
+It's a bone that grows from a small nub when born, as do antlers.
+
+"And if it is part of her, how the heck does she do her hair?"
+
+With difficulty but great patience.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Note From jms [SPOILERS for Severed Dreams] (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: Note From jms [SPOILERS for Severed Dreams]

+6 Apr 1996
Compliments not backhanded at all, and gratefully accepted.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Fathers (small spoilers) (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Fathers (small spoilers)

+6 Apr 1996
spoiler stuff.....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+spoilers have always been here....
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"There is a certain sweetness between Sheridan and his father.  Sheridan's
+father is certainly the one that I wish I had.  Is he yours, JMS?"
+
+Not by the farthest stretch of the imagination, which is all I'll say on
+this.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Widescreen Cost Effects (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Widescreen Cost Effects

+6 Apr 1996
"It is my understanding that, with the exception of the pilot, B5 is
+filmed in widescreen format;  episodes are then cropped to standard TV
+size.  While I can appreciate the beauty and grandeur that widescreen
+provides, I wonder if it also inflates B5's special effects, or
+filming budgets."
+
+Negative.  You have a *slightly* higher cost per foot for film stock, but
+that's fairly minimal.  Once it's in the camera, it's no more expensive
+than anything else.  The only cost factor comes in once somebody decides
+to re-telecine all the film stock *back* to that format.  But that's a
+one-time price.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  "Severed Dreams" episode title (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  "Severed Dreams" episode title

+6 Apr 1996
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  StarFuries -- *why*? (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  StarFuries -- *why*?

+6 Apr 1996
spoiler stuph
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+"What are all those StarFuries *for*?  What do they do in a big
+battle, other than fill up the screen with cool action?
+
+Every battle I can recall (I've seen every ep except B^2; but I 
+have a life and haven't watched them all many times, so I could
+misremember something) has had a lot of StarFuries flitting
+around and shooting at each other, and occasionally getting caught
+in the crossfire of the Big Guys who are also shooting at each
+other.  
+
+The issue is, however, finally decided by the Big Guys, one of 
+which invariably blows the other up (or chases it off or whatever).
+
+"The battle scenes in SEVERED DREAMS are perfect examples.  Opening
+sequence -- Bunch of StarFuries flitting around; eventually one
+Big Guy's main battery punches out the other one.  Defense of B5:
+same basic concept; one Big Guy is torn to crap by another, while
+the other two go down in a rammerjammer suicide run.
+
+So whatinole were alla them StarFuries even out there for?"
+
+
+A lot more ships came in with the Roanoke and the Agrippa, support ships
+and others.  Probably more breaching pods.  They took out those.  They're
+also used to keep the enemy starfuries from disabling the defense grid on
+the station, leaving B5 free to use its weapons on the larger target/worse
+threat.  They're often used to soften up the enemy, harrass them like a
+pack of hounds falling on a prey.  In "Fall of Night," we saw a Centauri
+vessel in large measure taken out by the Starfuries with some B5 support. 
+So they definitely play a part.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN: JMS- Severed Dreams (SMALL SPOILER) (6 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS- Severed Dreams (SMALL SPOILER)

+6 Apr 1996
spoilers...
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+We shot that last scene with Garibaldi *after* we'd shot the sequence
+showing his injured leg.  We don't shoot in sequence.  So we had to cover
+it in the next episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

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+
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+Re: Severed Dreams *spoilers* (3 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: Severed Dreams *spoilers*

+3 Apr 1996
"...my favorite part, I must say was when Sheridan kissed Delenns hand. 
+I've been waiting anxiously for this to happen and it finally did!  My
+housemates all laughed at me but I guess I'm just an incurable romantic."
+
+This is a problem?
+
+We are in need of more romance.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
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+
+cmsg cancel <4k5f0p$537@newsbf02.news.aol.com> (06 Apr 96)
+
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+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
cmsg cancel <4k5f0p$537@newsbf02.news.aol.com>

+06 Apr 96
Article cancelled by denebeim@zaphod.
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Severed Dreams (Possible spoiler) (7 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Severed Dreams (Possible spoiler)

+7 Apr 1996
No, the shot you refer to (won't elaborate to spoil anything) was its full
+length, wasn't cut.  That's how it came from Foundation.  You end on
+impact.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS- The Gloose is loose! (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS- The Gloose is loose!

+7 Apr 1996
To be quite objective about it, from my admittedly subjective opinion
+(have I qualified this answer enough?), there's much to commend
+Hypernauts.  It's a show worth checking out.
+
+For my money, however, I have to say that pound for pound, character for
+character, I tend to *prefer* "Space Cases," because it's just a hoot to
+watch.  A lot of fun.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Cliffhanger? Why bother? (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Cliffhanger? Why bother?

+7 Apr 1996
Because the story calls for it.  Whether they show the cliffhanger three
+months or two weeks before the fourth season (assuming renewal), this is
+where the story goes.  It was constructed like a series of novels, a
+multi-volume saga, and like any good series of novels, you end on
+something big.
+
+And this year, season three ends on something really honking big.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
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+
+Re: Will there be a Mac version of the screensaver? (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Will there be a Mac version of the screensaver?

+7 Apr 1996
Yes, I've been told that a Mac version will be out in a month or two.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Ivanova's Pierced parts (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Ivanova's Pierced parts

+7 Apr 1996
Claudia wears only one earring as a testimony to both her fictional
+brother, killed in the Minbari war, and her real brother, who passed away
+some time ago.
+
+ jms
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+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: So, we've seen two types of "Shadows?" (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: So, we've seen two types of "Shadows?"

+7 Apr 1996
The one is a ship, the other is/are the aliens themselves.  
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: At The Midpoint (Spoilers for everything) (7 Apr 1996)
+
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+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: At The Midpoint (Spoilers for everything)

+7 Apr 1996
"It's all this stuff that I think really makes the show. The mystery
+certainly helps, but the puzzles are no longer my main reason for
+watching."
+
+Aaron: exactly.  This was something I said a lot around the first part of
+the second season, that this really *isn't* a mystery novel, in any
+conventional sense, no more so than any novel whose ending is yet to be
+revealed.
+
+You picked up on exactly the themes that are present in the show, with
+some more to come shortly.  Personal sacrifice for a cause -- perhaps a
+good cause, perhaps not, depending on how wisely we make our decisions --
+is probably the dominant theme at this point in the story.  
+
+It's worth mentioning that this story was initially conceived in the midst
+of the Me Generation, the decade of "I've got mine, jack, screw you all." 
+Since then the culture has gotten increasingly factionalized, groups of
+Me's pulling and tugging at the fabric not only of the country, bvut of
+the planet itself.  The idea of personal sacrifice, of personal service to
+a cause, seems to have become...passe.  Old fashioned.  Silly.
+
+We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and trusts.  That
+does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be exploited.  But it does
+mean that we should look out for one another when and as much as we can;
+and that we have a personal responsibility for our behavior; and that our
+behavior has consequences of a very real and profound nature.  We are not
+powerless.  We have tremendous potential for good or ill.  How we choose
+to use that power is up to us; but first we must choose to use it.  We're
+told every day, "You can't change the world."
+
+But the world is changing every day.  Only question is...who's doing it? 
+You or somebody else?  Will you choose to lead, or be led by others?
+
+(Y'know, there are moments I look at the preceding paragraphs, and I
+realize that it wa said more succinctly, and better, and more movingly in
+"Lost Horizon," with this simple sentence: "Be *kind* to one another.")
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: On a different note, jms (7 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: On a different note, jms

+7 Apr 1996
Wes: sure, if there's anything in my post worth putting up on a wall,
+assuming it isn't a Post Office wall...please, proceed.  Thanks.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: JMS:  Documenting your experiment? (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS:  Documenting your experiment?

+7 Apr 1996
"Question:  There is no question that B5 is unique in many ways.  I
+think I remember you once referring to it as an experiment in
+television.  I'm wondering if you have considered, or maybe you are
+already, documenting the experiment.  By this I mean documenting the
+philosophy behind the show, what makes it unique, what works, what
+doesn't, etc.  This way others who might want to work toward improving
+the quality of TV might have a set of ideas from which to build their
+own path.  It is clear that you have a commitment to make quality
+television, might such documentation be valuable to others who have
+such a commitment also?"
+
+Yes, it would.  And yes, I am creating such a document.
+
+This is it.  This online interaction is that document.  And as of that
+note, you're a part of it.
+
+Between the Lurker's Guide and other archives, this is a *living document*
+that chronicles every aspect of the show, good and not so good.  I've
+already heard from professors and academicians who've archived the
+material for use in classes on television production, students who're
+doing term papers based on the material, even a few producers who've used
+it as a resource in putting together shows using the Babylon Model, as
+it's now being called, to do quality SF for television.
+
+So to anyone looking on...keep up the great quality of the questions.  A
+film student at UCLA in 2004 is reading this right now, and he needs the
+information for his Master's Thesis.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: What has Kosh/Delenn told Sheridan about Shadows? (3 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: What has Kosh/Delenn told Sheridan about Shadows?

+3 Apr 1996
I think it's fair to say that they've been holding back information from
+Sheridan.  The question is what, and why, and for how much longer?
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: The best girlfriend in the world... (7 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: The best girlfriend in the world...

+7 Apr 1996
"Severed Dreams had a line that was better than Ivanava's sex scene.  Wow,
+do these women get lines!"
+
+Can't help it.  I've always been vastly enamoured of strong, sharp, funny,
+independent and strong-willed women.  (Well, me and 99% of the rest of the
+male population, most of them just won't admit it.)
+
+I love it when anyone -- male or female -- comes up with a killer line. 
+Claudia and I are always going at it, each trying to top the other...and
+I've found out the hard way that you don't challenge her on the theory
+that she'll back down.  Won't happen.  Ivanova's just the same.  Mira is
+also dedicated, fierce in her convictions, extremely bright and worldly.  
+
+So why should their characters be any less than the women themselves?
+
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question about Morden (7 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Question about Morden

+7 Apr 1996
"Last year at the Chicago Comicon you mentioned that we'd be seeing more
+about Morden, where he comes from and how he got where he is.  Is that
+something that will be addressed this year or is that slated for farther
+down the road?"
+
+You'll learn a lot more about Mr. Morden by the end of this season.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: Severed Dreams (No Spoilers) [NOT!  Spoilers] (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Severed Dreams (No Spoilers) [NOT!  Spoilers]

+7 Apr 1996
Elayne:
+
+"I *gasped* at this shot.  How was this done?  This was REALLY effective."
+
+
+
+
+I'm always getting this confused in my own mind, but basically it's using
+two contradictory moves with the camera.  You dolly in (push the camera
+toward the object) and push out with the lens (or vice versa...that's the
+part I'm forever getting confused about...like remembering battery
+connections, is it positive to positive or positive to negative...?).  In
+either event, you're basically going in and out/away at the same moment. 
+It's a nifty effect.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS A Note and a Compliment (7 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS A Note and a Compliment

+7 Apr 1996
Mike: thanks.  I think this one is gonna cross a LOT of lines.
+
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+Re: Honesty  *SD Spoilers* (7 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: Honesty  *SD Spoilers*

+7 Apr 1996
spoiler response....
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+I was living in Delenn's head when she uttered those lines for the first
+time.
+
+She wasn't bluffing.
+
+Delenn *never* bluffs.
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  "Severed Dreams" episode title (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  "Severed Dreams" episode title

+7 Apr 1996
This is very odd.  I did reply to it.  Guess the AOL system ate it.
+
+Trying again...
+
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+
+If B5 was a dream given form, and the EA had the potential to be something
+more than it has become, and the two part ways, then you have severed
+dreams.  (I had a much more elegant and interesting reply, but obviously
+it entered Vorlon space and hasn't been allowed out again.)
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS- Severed Dreams (SMALL SPOILER) (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS- Severed Dreams (SMALL SPOILER)

+7 Apr 1996
"I cannot imagine what it takes to track all of the pieces and snippets
+filmed out of order!  This is a fascinating glimpse into what goes on
+making a show..."
+
+
+Cindy: that's why a producer must be a good multitasker.  You've got to
+keep not just the one episode in your head, but more.  For instance,
+dailies from the day's shooting before come in, for 5 scenes that are out
+of sequence, and you have to be able to look at them, knowing what was
+shot before in your head, and know intuitively if it's going to match. 
+Then a CGI 8-second shot for another episode comes in, and you have to
+know how it'll match up with the live action which is still being
+edited...and the director has a question about scene 28 in the next
+episode to be shot...the editor wants to know if you meant what you said
+about reversing scenes 34 and 35 in last week's episode....
+
+It can make you totally and completely nuts.
+
+At that point, it's all Darwinian producing: evolve or die.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS Babylon Squared & War Without End (7 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS Babylon Squared & War Without End

+7 Apr 1996
We did both; we reshot some scenes from B2, and used some footage directly
+from that episode.  Some pretty elegant matches, too, I think.
+
+
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+Re: Am I here, yet? (7 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: Am I here, yet?

+7 Apr 1996
No, you're over there.
+
+And you're going to *stay* there until you clean up this room, buster.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: jms: How Different Will T(EM)CBoS Be? (7 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: jms: How Different Will T(EM)CBoS Be?

+7 Apr 1996
Mainly, I tried to focus on the areas not covered by all the other books. 
+And very few of them get into more than one area of scripting.
+
+As for radio...I did include the revised chapter on radio drama, with the
+proviso that the field itself is shrinking still, except for occasional
+big projects which are off-limits to freelancers.  The main growth area, I
+think, will be in audio books, which are getting more and more to sound
+like radio dramas.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: JMS: Series Artistic Design? (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS: Series Artistic Design?

+4 Apr 1996
The way it usually works is this: when I write something new into the
+show, a new alien race, a new costume, or a ship, the person who handles
+that department comes to see me when the script is published.  They ask
+what I had in mind.  I describe what I need it to do, or if I saw it
+clearly in my head what it looked like. 
+
+The person then goes away and comes back with sketches.  Sometimes it's
+just one, sometimes a number.  If the latter, I go through the sketches
+and pick the one that matches most with what I envisioned.  In either
+case, I'll make whatever suggestions seems appropriate and not too stupid.
+ Sometimes I'll modify the drawing myself, even though I can't draw for
+sour owl poop.
+
+When our original prosthetic designers on the pilot couldn't figure out
+what to do with the Minbari crest, I went down to the place and literally
+helped sculpt the original bone piece; I gave John Iacovelli a rough
+sketch of the layout of the White Star; modified costume designs and other
+stuff on Kosh and other characters.  That sort of thing.
+
+Having said that, however, I have to emphasize that in the long haul, I
+have to do very little in the way of course correction or revision.  Once
+we discuss it, the folks around here know their craft, and the show, well
+enough to hit it virtually every time.  And I try to leave plenty of room
+creatively for them to play and have fun with it.  Usually the approval
+process amounts to little more than "Yup, looks good to me."
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization. (7 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization.

+7 Apr 1996
"You were talking about the process of writing a B5 episode.  You said
+(IIRC) that you visualize a scene in your mind, get all the movements,
+dialogue, camera angles, etc. locked down just so inside your head, and
+then simply transcribe what you see."
+
+That's correct.  I play it like a movie in my head.
+
+"Do you use this approach for novels and stories, or just for TV?  Since
+TV is a visual medium, I can imagine visualization working
+beautifully...but novels tend to focus on the internal, the way people
+work.   We get to see more than just what they look and sound like--we get
+to see inside them, rather than _deducing_ what's inside them from what we
+see and hear.  I ask because I've been trying your visualization approach
+in my own writing, but I worry that it comes out like a transcript of a TV
+episode--everything is vivid on the page, but it all seems so
+externalized.  I feel like I'm missing opportunities for delving because
+they don't show up on my two senses, and thus don't get included in the
+blocking in my head."
+
+I still visualize the scene, but I do it differently in a work of prose. 
+The key there is to see it *from the perspective of the character*.  In a
+TV script you're the omniscient camera.  I do a little of that, just to
+know the movements, but the rest of the time I spend behind the
+character's eyes.  How does the room look?  Can I smell the woodburning
+fireplace from here?  Is the room hot or cold?  Where am I?  You have to
+use all your senses in a novel.
+
+"How the heck do you _remember_ everything that passes in front of your
+mind's eye?  I get a scene going in my head, know the characters are
+_here_, then move _here_, and the bathtub is _here_, and I take
+notes...but then, when it actually comes to sitting down at the keyboard
+and writing it, I discover that half of the little fillets have vamoosed. 
+("Now what was I thinking about a llama?")  If I took enough notes to
+capture them all, the note-taking would be equivalent to the
+story-writing, and I'd have the same problem.  So...how do you do it? 
+Train your mind to be more like a steel trap and less like a steel sieve? 
+A new and different kind of note-taking?  Hooked on Phonics?  (For that
+matter, how do you take notes?  What does a sheet of note paper look like
+when you're done with it?)"
+
+I don't actually take notes on scenes.  If a great line comes to me for a
+scene I'm working on later in the day, I'll rip out a PostIt and slap it
+on my monitor, but that's about it.  Sometimes I'll write down the act
+breaks on a sheet of paper, but even that I haven't done in a long while;
+I usually just sit down at the keyboard and start rolling the "film"
+through my head, no outline, just a sense of where I have to go.
+
+It's just a mental quirk; how does an actor remember every line of
+dialogue in a play, plus all the stage movements, prop locations, stunts,
+and the rest?  I've always had a very good visual memory.  If I go to your
+house once, I can usually remember the layout years later.  Take me to a
+strange city, drive me across town and drop me off, and as long as it's
+light, I can find my way back again on foot with very little in the way of
+errors.  
+
+I was at the hotel in Manchester UK for only a couple of days for Wolf
+359...but I can remember every detail of the hotel's layout: come in the
+front glass door, to your right at 2:00 are steps leading down to the
+restaurant.  Straight ahead, steps leading up to the lobby.  Check in
+counter is to the left.  To the right is a metal grillwork area leading to
+a second lobby and the smaller conference rooms along a hall which jogs
+slightly to the left.  The B5 viewing room was just before the left jog. 
+Back in the main lobby, there are benches and chairs along the right wall,
+then there's a door on the right to the dealer's room, a pair of
+close-able doors to another sitting area (sofa on the left this time),
+then the elevators to the rooms (left side).  Turning right at the
+elevators takes you to the stairs descending to another floor.  Keep going
+in the hall and it brings you to the main hall at the end of the hall. 
+White double doors.  At the far end of the main hall are curtained doors
+leading to the street.  Additional doors to the hall are at the right
+side, which can bring you back to the conference rooms.  (One of the door
+hinges is slightly damaged.)  Four square support posts near the stage
+area, and several more on the right angling around.  The first time I
+walked in, to check out the area and rearrange the chairs around the
+posts, there were approximately 10 people seated there, on the left-ish
+side of the room.  More women than men.  One of the men had on a grey/blue
+shirt and a cap.  He noticed me as I went about my business.
+
+I picked that one because there are some Wolf-folks around here who can
+verify if that's correct.  But I can go back 10 years of conventions and
+do the same.  It's just a quirk.  I *never* get lost.  Once I lock onto a
+place, I can go back 20 years after the fact and find everything there. 
+Don't know if it's training, or  just a trick of genetics, but I have an
+*extremely* visual memory.  
+
+I remember the look on the face of the first woman I dated when she told
+me it was all over.  I remember as a kid where my cat sat and looked at
+me, very strangely, almost sadly, before it went out into the back yard to
+pass away, there in the high grass.  I remember exactly where I was
+standing, the time of day, the number of people on the school yard the day
+I took down the school bully because nobody *else* would (age 10).  I
+remember the exact shape and layout of the rose tattoo on the left wrist
+of a woman I dated in college.  I can remember the phone number of the
+parents of another woman I dated in college by visualizing the sheet of
+paper I wrote it down on because it was raining and I was at a public
+phone booth and the rain smeared the numbers.  I remember exactly where I
+was standing, and what was going on in the background of the campus
+newspaper when I learned that my friend Chris Parker -- a good man, a kind
+man, a professor with the Psych Department who wore clown suits to staff
+meetings to keep things in perspective -- had just been killed in a
+motorcycle accident, and the gleep who said it happened because he was an
+atheist and he had it coming...though I *don't* remember what happened
+between that moment and the moment they peeled me off him.  I'm told I
+vaulted over the desk and tackled him full-on.  I'll take that one on
+faith.
+
+Writers are living compilations of moments, which they reinterpret and
+revisit, carving them into characters and stories.  The more you can
+remember, the more you can recreate how you felt, the better you can turn
+around and invest those same feelings and reactions in your characters. 
+The problem is that all too often, we go through our lives unaware of so
+much that goes on around us, we don't *pay attention* to our lives.  And
+we miss the moments.  And in the end, the moments are all we have.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Your Comic Arc (8 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your Comic Arc

+8 Apr 1996
I'll probably use the Marcus-arc story somewhere in the show now; it's too
+good to waste.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+request from jms (8 Apr 1996)
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request from jms

+8 Apr 1996
Today I got online and found nearly 100 new email messages in my AOL mail
+box.  Most of them were of two types: asking general questions that could
+just as easily be asked in public forum, so that others could benefit from
+the discussion, or copies of public replies also sent to me privately.
+
+Please please please please *please* use the email address ONLY for
+personal or confidential correspondence.  If my email gets flooded, I
+won't be able to reply to anybody after a while via email, because I won't
+be able to *find* anything.
+
+Thankyew.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: Thank you JMS!!! (8 Apr 1996)
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Re: Thank you JMS!!!

+8 Apr 1996
Thanks.  Any writer hopes that his work will touch people.  I cannot tell
+you how much it means to accomplish that from time to time....
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization. (8 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization.

+8 Apr 1996
"Do you find that music or sounds can have the same effect? Hear a line
+from a song and lock into a moment in time? Remember not only the
+visuals but the emotions of that moment?"
+
+Absolutely.  I think everyone has that experience.  If you want to get
+technical about it, it's probably a version of state-related learning.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: Bester in future episode/s ?? (8 Apr 1996)
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Re: Bester in future episode/s ??

+8 Apr 1996
You'll be seeing Bester again in about 4 weeks.
+
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+Re: JMS, where did it all come from? (8 Apr 1996)
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Re: JMS, where did it all come from?

+8 Apr 1996
Where it came from was really a thought experiment...how would I design an
+SF saga *specifically* for television, that could really be told no other
+way (except for maybe a 5-volume series of novels).  I considered the many
+quality mainstream shows that had a base of operations where the story
+came to you (St Elsewhere, LA Law, others) instead of going off in search
+of the new planet of the week.  That led me to the notion of a space
+station.
+
+Then I kinda got into some of my thoughts on where we've come from as a
+people, where we might be going, some political, social and historical
+extrapolation, and one day...bang...it just slammed into my brain like a
+.44.
+
+And now here we are....
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Attn JMS:  Ceremonies of L & D -- whew! (Spoilers) (8 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: Attn JMS:  Ceremonies of L & D -- whew! (Spoilers)

+8 Apr 1996
I'm sure the title of the last episode this season will eventually leak
+out, but no, I'd like to keep it down for now.
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Haig, Talia contracts? (spoilers for Severed Dreams) (9 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Haig, Talia contracts? (spoilers for Severed Dreams)

+9 Apr 1996
"I'm tired of getting used to characters only to have the actors leave the
+show.  Can't you get better contracts with these actors?"
+
+Regarding Talia...our contract was ironclad.  If we had wanted the
+character to continue, it would have.  
+
+Regarding Hague...it's much harder to hold an actor on a once-in-a-while
+basis.  Every show is hostage to that.  It's a reality of life.  We don't
+have contracts with folks who play one or two parts a year.  Screen Actors
+Guild doesn't allow that; you make deals as they come up.  You can't stop
+an actor if he wants to jump ship under those conditions; and if you try,
+you have an unhappy actor on your set who'll just walk through it because
+he or she doesn't want to be there.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  De-Mystifying Television (9 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  De-Mystifying Television

+9 Apr 1996
The process is quite a bit more elaborate than that, hence the cost.  You
+have to back to the original negative stock and re-develop every frame of
+film print to the proper perspective, then adjust all the CGI to match.
+
+However, this is being done already, with France preparing to show season
+3 in the widescreen version.  It just takes a while, and it costs.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: JMS: You Babylon 5'ed you computer yet? (4 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: JMS: You Babylon 5'ed you computer yet?

+4 Apr 1996
"I was curious if you've done your computer up any."
+
+I'm not at *all* sure I know what you're asking.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: B5 Cancelled? (9 Apr 1996)
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Re: B5 Cancelled?

+9 Apr 1996
Just to clarify this...yes, somebody posted that to the official WB
+site...but it wasn't anybody in *ANY* way associated with Warner Bros. or
+any of the stations.  
+
+I've been saying for months now that PTEN seemed to be fading, and that we
+would eventually end up in direct syndication.  This is months-old news. 
+I can only assume that somebody here is getting his info wrong or is
+deliberately distorting it.
+
+We have not -- repeat, NOT -- been canceled.  For starters, the meeting at
+which that decision will be made won't be held until the end of April,
+first part of May.  The decision *cannot be made* until the execs finally
+meet to assess everything at that time.  So any messages before then
+should be dismissed.
+
+Also, be sensible, look around...WB is spending a large amount of money,
+well over a quarter million dollars, buying radio spots, and TV spots, and
+the covers of newspaper TV magazines in over 80 major cities to promote
+the coming batch of episodes.  Many TV stations are announcing that
+they're returning to airing the show twice a week now.  WB is doing its
+contest for B5.  If we were canceled, this would all stop *instantly*. 
+But it's all going ahead.
+
+And, finally, no one's said boo to us about it.  The day Kung Fu was
+dropped, they were notified within 24 hours.  You *have* to be notified at
+that point to make various financial arrangements, deal with sets, return
+any deficits, and so on.  And again, no one has said anything of that sort
+to us.
+
+Have there been ups and downs?  Of course.  The syndicated TV market has
+all but imploded over the last 2 years, thanks to WBN, UPN and Fox
+swallowing up almost all the available time slots on indie stations.  But
+we're still here....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+Re: Sky full of leftovers?  (SD spoilers) (9 Apr 1996)
+
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Re: Sky full of leftovers?  (SD spoilers)

+9 Apr 1996
"After any encounter like this, the sky around B5 is going to be littered
+with debris, especially around the jumpgate, which falls neatly into the
+"bad things" category for a station with such high traffic.  Who gets the
+job of cleaning up?"
+
+
+We've previously shown a hazmat platform that goes out into local space to
+clear up debris and any toxic fuel cores and the like.  It's standard
+operating practice.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Blooperlon 5 (9 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Blooperlon 5

+9 Apr 1996
We've discussed doing a blooper reel via the fan club; we'll see.
+
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+
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+

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+Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization. (9 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization.

+9 Apr 1996
"Does our brain work like a computer putting tasks into background mode?
+How many times do we rack our brain for an answer that eludes us, only to
+have it pop out sometime later when we've totally forgotten that we were
+ever thinking about it in the first place? Like the chemical messages have
+taken the round trip to Jupiter to get to where the answer's stored. Like
+the core story of B5 just popped into JMS' head one day. The way I go home
+from work with a nagging problem and find the answer pops into my head
+when I wake up the next day."
+
+
+Absolutely.  Often I'll hit a snag in a script, and I'll go away and
+deliberately *not* think about it, letting the subconscious chew at it
+like a dog worrying a bone.  Then, usually about the time my head hits the
+pillow -- having finally relaxed -- the answer comes back as if of its own
+volition.  Same thing happens in the shower.
+
+I nowhere "saw" this process at work more clearly than when I fell prey to
+Tetris (from which I'm still trying to recover).  I'd often play it late
+at night, just before going to bed.  As I closed my eyes to sleep, I'd
+still be seeing those damned green and yellow L-shapes, the blocks and
+lines...my brain was still adjusting the pieces, seeing ways of making
+them fit that I'd overlooked before.  Because my brain had a visual
+referent, I could *see* it happening behind my eyelids.
+
+Which is exactly what we all do in problem solving.
+
+Humans is funny critters....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:Internet Influences (9 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS:Internet Influences

+9 Apr 1996
"Just how much has reading the newgroups affected your writing style for
+the show?  Do you think interacting with us on the Internet has been a
+positive affect or could you have turned out B5 without us?"
+
+My writing style is pretty much my writing style.  (Minus adjustments made
+for the different ways characters talk on the show.)  
+
+Yes, the interaction has been positive, in the sense that I get asked a
+zillion questions about the show, the universe, the characters, their
+history and the tech involved.  As a writer, it's your job to ask, and
+then *answer*, every question conceivable about your story and characters.
+ The more questions you've asked yourself, the better the job you can do.
+
+Now, there's a finite number of questions one can ask oneself.  But on the
+nets I get all KINDS of questions.  In answering those, I think about new
+areas of the B5 universe, and the whole thing becomes stronger.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Directions to Hollywood (9 Apr 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Directions to Hollywood

+9 Apr 1996
I'd say that the first edition, written and published in 1981, should now
+be set aside now that the new version is coming out, which is a lot more
+up to date with the changing marketplace and other trends in the media.
+
+It's also a much better book in general.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: JMS: related question on writing (was Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization. ) (9 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS: related question on writing (was Re: ATT JMS: Writing and visualization. )

+9 Apr 1996
"do you ever find your characters almost outright refusing to go where you
+ want them to?  this happens to me from time to time, where I want her to 
+go one way, and she decides to go another.  It's rather annoying."
+
+Yes, but it means you're doing it *right*.
+
+Yeah, it happens.  Every once in a while, a character will go left instead
+of right in my head, and I'll try to yank him back, and he'll refuse to
+go, and I'll get into this sort of weird mental dialogue trying to find
+out what the hell's wrong and what's going on.  I've now created the
+characters sufficiently well now that they're alive, and I've come to that
+point now where, if a character says "I want to do X" in a script, I'll
+tend to go with it, figuring it may work and take me in some new
+directions.  Every once in a while, we'll get to the end, and it won't
+work, and I'll have to backtrack to where we went off the road...and,
+natch, the character just sits sullenly in the back of the car, refusing
+to admit he read the map wrong.
+
+But when it *works*...the character surprises me, and if I'm surprised,
+the odds are good that you're going to be surprised.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATT JMS: B5 and Lord of the Rings? (9 Apr 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATT JMS: B5 and Lord of the Rings?

+9 Apr 1996
All the elements you point to are just tools that recur in any saga of any
+size.  The dark forces, the one who turns, the source of ancient
+wisdom...it goes back all the way to the Illiad and the Odyssey.  Compare
+Kosh to the Oracle at Delphi and you'll have a pretty close match.
+
+LoTR and B5 use the same tools, which have taken on different names over
+the last 6,000 years.  That's all.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Renewal Status (9 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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Re: ATTN JMS: Renewal Status

+9 Apr 1996
"Do you have any information that you can pass along concerning the
+renewal of B5 for a 4th season?"
+
+Nope.  We won't know anything until the execs gather for their meeting at
+which this will be decided.  That meeting will take place late April/early
+May.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATT JMS:New cast pictures (potential spoilers) (9 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATT JMS:New cast pictures (potential spoilers)

+9 Apr 1996
No, the map is more conceptual than anything else; for any kind of detail
+work, other screens are used.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: Technical Gaffe? (**SD SPOILERS**) (4 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Technical Gaffe? (**SD SPOILERS**)

+4 Apr 1996
I figured that they'd come in through the outer hull, secure the inner
+hull area, then go up in and through a side wall, which would be faster
+for purposes of a mass entrance.  If you blow a hole in the floor,
+everybody has to crawl out one at a time; you blow a hole in the wall,
+bunches can come through at once.  There was a fair amount of distance
+between where they came in, and the hull.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+
+OFFICIAL B5 FAN CLUB NEWS! (9 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
OFFICIAL B5 FAN CLUB NEWS!

+9 Apr 1996
The following information about the OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 FAN CLUB was
+just released by B5FC coordinator Jim Lochett, and is now available.  (The
+address given should now be used for convention information sent to cast.)
+
+                                                       ***
+
+Join today and you will receive the Official Membership Kit, including:
+
+     A Subscription to The Universe Today: The Official Newsletter of the
+     B5FC filled with exclusive interviews, news about Babylon 5, and
+     exciting merchandise offers.
+     An 8x10 Cast Photo
+     Full Color Babylon 5 Mini-Poster (13"x20")
+     B5 Fan Club Button & Full Color Sticker
+     Membership Certificate (Signed by the show's Executive Producers, J.
+     Michael Straczynski and Douglas Netter)
+     Membership ID Card granting you discounts on merchandise,
+conventions,
+     etc., as well as access to the Members Only section of
+TheStation.com,
+     the B5 Fan Club Web-site (to be up May 1996).
+     Plus as a bonus, the first 100 people to join get:
+     A Limited Collection Sticker of the alternate B5 Logo as designed by
+     artist Peter Ledger.
+================
+
+To Give a Membership as a Gift, simply make a copy of the entry form, fill
+in the name of the person you wish to make a member, and send it off.
+(Don't forget to include your name on the Suggestions line, so that we can
+include a gift card.)
+
+Each year the Renewal Kit will offer new and different goodies, savings,
+and of course another year's subscription to The Universe Today.
+
+Remember, this is more than just your run of the mill fan club; the
+Babylon
+5 fans time and time again have gone that extra step for the show, and the
+Babylon 5 Fan Club is our way of giving something back to those who've
+been
+so loyal to us.
+
+------------------  CLIP OR COPY AND GIVE TO A FRIEND 
+--------------------
+
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+membership kit to:
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+
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+membership;
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+check or money order (DO NOT send cash) made payable to:
+
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+
+Mail to:  The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club
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+
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+
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+----------------  CUT HERE FOR THE END OF THE FORM  -------------------
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+Re: Rumors of Cancelation flying, are they bogus? (9 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Rumors of Cancelation flying, are they bogus?

+9 Apr 1996
Yes, it's bogus.  The message sent to the B5 web was sent by a user, not
+from anyone associated with B5 or WB.  
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Spoiler Warning in VIR .avi/trailer (9 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Spoiler Warning in VIR .avi/trailer

+9 Apr 1996
Just an advisory...I finally saw the trailer for "Sic Transit Vir," and
+I'd suggest anyone who wants to enjoy the show *not* watch the trailer, as
+it gives away stuff that shouldn't be given away.
+
+I.e., if the trailer for The Maltese Falcon said, "...and see the surprise
+when the black bird is discovered to be an imitation."
+
+jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Question about "Interludes"  (BIG, HUGE SPOILERS!) (15 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Question about "Interludes"  (BIG, HUGE SPOILERS!)

+15 Apr 1996
In general, under certain kinds of circumstances, this being one, I would
+go for a more stylized scene; some things can't be conveyed in too literal
+a fashion.  
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+
+ jms
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+
+Re: JMS: Your views on Star Trek? (16 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: JMS: Your views on Star Trek?

+16 Apr 1996
Re: the hiring of Walter Koenig and Majel Barrett...in the former case,
+this is a very talented actor, who is also a friend, and has never been
+given the chance to showcase his real skills.  We provided that chance. 
+In the case of Majel, she wanted to appear in the show to help eliminate
+some of the division between B5 and ST fans.
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+Re: JMS: Any information on Harlan's heart attack (17 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS: Any information on Harlan's heart attack

+17 Apr 1996
He's doing much better today, up and about.  But we're advising everyone
+to give the family some space and quiet time for a bit.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question about writing (17 Apr 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Question about writing

+17 Apr 1996
"When you sit down to write an episode, what form is the initial draft? 
+Is it 
+in script format?  The reason I ask this, is because I've begun writing
+short stories for a comic book, but I've found that when writing the first
+draft, writing it in script format takes up too much time and hinders the
+creative process of storytelling.  It's much easier for me to write in
+short-story form, then convert it to a script format.  Do you find this a
+similar problem or does the conversion from *story* to 
+*script* take place in your head?"
+
+It pretty much happens in my head.  When I sit down to write, I generally
+have a good notion on where it's going, some notes on post-its, and from
+my overall outline.  Then I just open up the script program Movie Master,
+which provides the right margins for dialogue and narrative and the like,
+and just start writng the actual script.  There's no interim level; I
+think in script terms.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

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+
+from jms: I'm here, sorta (17 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
from jms: I'm here, sorta

+17 Apr 1996
To all who've inquired...I'm here, just not as much lately.  I was out of
+town and offline from Friday through Sunday, and returned to Harlan's
+situation.  We've been doing all we can to help at this end, and things
+are looking good now in that regard, but it's taken time and concern, on
+top of still being a bit swamped with post production, and there are a LOT
+of messages here to catch up on, which can be a bit daunting.
+
+Give me a bit of time to catch my breath, clear the decks and otherwise
+get stuff in order, and I'll be able to catch up here a bit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+War Without End (* Spoilers *) (17 Apr 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
War Without End (* Spoilers *)

+17 Apr 1996
(* Spoilers for War Without End *)
+
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+
+As Sinclair notes when he arrives at B5, his status as ambassador is
+pretty much gone after the coup.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: JMS, about role playing? (18 Apr 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS, about role playing?

+18 Apr 1996
"what is your experience with role playing games and how has it affected
+your writing?"
+
+I've actually taken part in at most two RPGs in my time, and while they
+were interesting, I don't think I'm overmuch interested in doing them
+again, nor did I walk away from the table with anything more than, "Well,
+that was fun, sorta."  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Character Popularity/Writing them out (1 May 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS Character Popularity/Writing them out

+1 May 1996
sorta kinda spoilers, I guess....
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+
+"So, to sum up, has it been hard making these changes after you and all of
+the fans have gotten to know them?  Or is it simply a matter of:
+"Well...it's their time...?"
+
+It's both, kinda.  In the case of one character, who's been with us a long
+time, and who...shall we say delicately, is en route to becoming an
+ex-character by the end of this season...it was hard knowing the actor,
+because the actor said, "Was there something I did wrong?"  To which you
+can only answer truthfully and say no, not at all, just the opposite...you
+did a GREAT job, that's why we're offing you.  If you'd been just
+mediocre, nobody'd CARE."
+
+In another case, also later this season, it was *very* difficult for me
+personally to do it, very emotional...and I wouldn't probably have done it
+at all if the character hadn't basically grabbed me by the lapels and
+dragged me kicking and screaming to that point of the story and said,
+"Look, this is right, you know it, I know it, now DO it."  So I did.  (And
+the cast and crew were equally stunned.  Of everything that's been done on
+the show to date, THAT one thing got the biggest reaction; nobody'd eat
+across from me for two days at lunch after that.)
+
+Bottom line...you've got to go where the story leads you.  That *has* to
+be your first and foremost obligation.  If it's anything else -- catering
+to the audience's expectations, or your own preferences -- rather than
+doing what the cold logic of the story *demands* you to do...you're
+finished.  
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: JMS: Ship of Tears: Lighting or FX? (7 May 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS: Ship of Tears: Lighting or FX?

+7 May 1996
The reflections you cite were all done real-time with an LCD projector.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Interludes and Examinations  (* Spoilers *) (7 May 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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Re: Interludes and Examinations  (* Spoilers *)

+7 May 1996
spoiler space...
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+It wasn't my idea.  It was Kosh's idea.  It was his pulling me that way
+that led to it.  "Trust me," he said.  I followed.
+
+And yeah, it does hurt.  Pat Tallman was devastated at the screening. 
+Even my own crew wouldn't talk to me for a day or so after the script came
+out.
+
+Which is when I knew it was the right thing to do.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:Editing question for "Interludes and Examinations",  Spoilers. (7 May 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:Editing question for "Interludes and Examinations",  Spoilers.

+7 May 1996
spoilers....
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+"JMS, why did you edit out the scene where the Ranger follows Morden and
+ends up being killed by the Shadows?  Don't you think fans of the show
+would rather see that than the scene in the bar where Garibaldi asks for
+info on Franklin's blood from the other doctor?  When you edit the show
+please keep in mind what the fans would what to see.  Rangers and Shadows
+fighting is much more exciting than a unimportant scene that could have
+been left out easily."
+
+Because it was important to set up what Garibaldi wanted, where it was,
+and how he was going to gain access.  It had to show his concern for
+Franklin, the moral ambiguity in asking for this, the betrayal we see on
+Franklin's face, the difficulty in Dr. Hobbs dealing with his request. 
+The ranger scene was a brief piece that was really unconnected to the rest
+of the story, had no setup elsewhere or payoff, was only a brief piece of
+action.  I needed the time to establish the character and plot information
+in the Garibaldi scene.
+
+And when you cite what "the fans" want to see, bear in mind that there
+ain't no such critter.  There's what *you* like, but *you're* not the
+entirety of the fans.  Some fans thought "Avalon" was one of the best of
+the series to date; others thought it was just a character piece and
+wanted more action and arc and called it a "waste."  Some people when they
+read a novel read for the action, then when they come to a few pages that
+establish the look of the forest, or some character background, jump ahead
+a few pages to where the action starts up again.  Some do just the
+opposite.
+
+My obligation, first and foremost, is to the story, and to tell that story
+as best I can.  If I start trying to second guess what *The Fans* want,
+when there is no ready concensus, when there ain't no such thing, when
+different fans want different things, it'll just get watered down and
+wander around lost.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Interludes and Examinations (spoilers) (8 May 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Interludes and Examinations (spoilers)

+8 May 1996
Thanks, yes, Bruce did a great job in that scene; there's a touch of
+madness in it, which is quite understandable.  As for the Rangers, they
+get a new, added role later this season.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+

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+
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+Re: JMS: Possible to change WB's mind? (8 May 1996)
+
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Re: JMS: Possible to change WB's mind?

+8 May 1996
I honestly don't know if their minds can be changed about this; you can
+try if you wish, but I have a hunch this is one of those immovable
+objects/irresistable force scenarios.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: (no subject) (8 May 1996)
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Re: (no subject)

+8 May 1996
When we're in production, this year in particular, I grab maybe 3-4 hours
+sleep a night, and crash on the weekends.  It's just the nature of the
+beast.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Interludes and Explotations (spoilers, por supuesto) (8 May 1996)
+
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+
Re: Interludes and Explotations (spoilers, por supuesto)

+8 May 1996
No, none of the shadows there were winged.
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS: "Interludes & Examinations" teaser (9 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS: "Interludes & Examinations" teaser

+9 May 1996
The visual styles in transition between shots came from the director,
+which he went over with me when we had our tone meeting.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: Hidden by a Mask (Interlude Spoiler) (9 May 1996)
+
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Re: Hidden by a Mask (Interlude Spoiler)

+9 May 1996
It was....
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+
+Definitely Morden.
+
+
+ jms
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+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS and the Hero System (10 May 1996)
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+
Re: JMS and the Hero System

+10 May 1996
No, I've never read the Hero system, and have no idea what it contains.
+
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+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: What does the -len or Len- indicate? (2 May 1996)
+
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Re: What does the -len or Len- indicate?

+2 May 1996
Basically, I went through and came up with common suffixes and prefixes
+for Minbari names, the way Russian names have combinations of certain
+letters (-ovna, -ova, -vich), and associated various backgrounds and
+castes and houses (fanes) to them.  So you have Delenn, Rathenn, and
+others of similar name.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Use of Social Psych in Writing B5 (10 May 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Use of Social Psych in Writing B5

+10 May 1996
There's a little of lots of things in the writing, it's hard to pin down
+any one of them; I don't sit down and say, "Okay, now to use some
+psychology on this."  A writer is like a sponge; you pick up lots of
+colors and strangenesses, then when you come to write something, you
+squeeze, and everything comes out together.  I write what the dark and
+scary parts of my brain seem interested in writing about.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Entertainment Weekly (10 May 1996)
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Entertainment Weekly

+10 May 1996
I guess they realized that the May episodes weren't our season enders, not
+officially over until October, and decided it wouldn't fit.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: Does JMS post here???? (10 May 1996)
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Re: Does JMS post here????

+10 May 1996
Re: being less active here...in some ways it's the interface, which I find
+kind of cumbersome...mainly, though, right now there ain't much on my end
+to talk about.  Overall, my posts to all the nets are down right now,
+because when we're in hiatus -- and this forum went up right as hiatus hit
+-- all is shut down, and there ain't much going on to tell folks about. 
+One becomes something of a balloon with the air let out.  And, natch,
+there's the annual anxiety of waiting for word.  Once things start gearing
+up, and we get word, I'll have more to talk about.  Otherwise, I just
+hesitate to fill up space with words just to hear the sound of my own
+voice.  I'm kinda like Marcus that way, I talk when I have something to
+say that might be remotely interesting to people.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: B13?  DiTillio? (10 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B13?  DiTillio?

+10 May 1996
Larry's off working on other projects now, and B13 has been
+reneamed/subsumed into other branches of the government.
+
+jms
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS, AOL has a bad news reader, thats your problem (11 May 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS, AOL has a bad news reader, thats your problem

+11 May 1996
Oh, I have lots more problems than news readers...but yeah, that's one of
+the hassles here; I'm investigating different servers, may possibly switch
+after a bit.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Interludes and Examinations (11 May 1996)
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Re: Interludes and Examinations

+11 May 1996
"I'm going to withdraw my rating of '10' on "Severed Dreams.""
+
+So who says there can only be one episode worth a ten...?  If you can have
+many worth a 9, why not many worth a 10?  If one skater at the Olympics
+gets a 10, why can't another?
+
+Just idle thoughts at 2 a.m.....
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+ jms
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+Re: Interludes and Examinations (11 May 1996)
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Re: Interludes and Examinations

+11 May 1996
Bruce is doing a *great* job, and definitely growing into the part.
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+Re: ATTN JMS (#2 Try) Fabulous Supportive B5 Article (12 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS (#2 Try) Fabulous Supportive B5 Article

+12 May 1996
It's a great article, yes, thanks; I have someone sending me a copy, so
+shouldn't need the OCR version.  But via your message I got to read it
+first, so thanks.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS HOUR 25/SF lovers read (12 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS HOUR 25/SF lovers read

+12 May 1996
Hour 25, when I hosted it, was a pretty eclectic mix of stuff.  We covered
+hard SF, fantasy, horror, comics, TV, movies, you name it; we/I
+interviewed writers, directors, producers, directors, artists, the whole
+gamut.  Neil Gaiman, Walter Koenig, John Carpenter, Bill Gibson, Jonathan
+Carroll, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Tim Powers...if they were involved in
+speculative fiction in any of its forms, sooner or later they came to Hour
+25.  (Hmm...why, there's a slogan in there...)
+
+The first half-hour was mainly nattering, news of the SF world, local and
+national, nominations of various sorts, who was in town, some brief
+reviews, personal anecdotes...nattering.  The next hour was spent in heavy
+interview mode; the last half hour or so we opened up the phone lines for
+questions from listeners.
+
+The same format is being used in the current incarnation, with some
+modifications: more shorter pieces rather than in-depth single person
+interviews, more canned interviews, more software and space program info,
+that sort of thing.  The personality of the individual host tends to shape
+the show.
+
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+ jms
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+Production Process (was Return of the Newsgroup Timekillers) (12 May 1996)
+
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Production Process (was Return of the Newsgroup Timekillers)

+12 May 1996
The only problem with walking you through "The Coming of Shadows" is that,
+well, the production process has gotten so blurred that I barely remember
+much of it.  The problem being that one doesn't just do one at a time, you
+basically work on 8 episodes all at the same time, in varying degrees of
+preparation or completion, and so there's no clean point of demarkation. 
+One flows into the next, into the next, into the next....
+
+I can, though, speak in generalities, and that might be something of
+possible interest to people.  I'll divide it up into sections, so that if
+anyone is interested, we can discuss the various parts and pieces in
+subsequent messages.  An episode is produced in the following stages:
+
+1) Writing.  Not much to discuss here; you just sit and bleed onto the
+keyboard.
+
+2) First Draft Script.  It's sent to department heads (costume, wardrobe,
+CGI, prosthetics, often the director).  Preparation begins.  (Hereafter
+just "prep.")  
+
+3) Final Draft Script.  Full distribution: cast, crew, casting, everybody.
+ We are now fully in prep.
+
+PREP: Meet with all department heads, discuss and approve designs for
+sets, prosthetics, other episode-specific areas.  Full prep lasts 2 weeks.
+ Meet with director to have a "tone meeting" to go over every scene to
+make sure we both understand what everything's about.  Individual visual
+effects meetings, art department meetings, other meetings.
+
+SHOOT: Seven 12-hour days, weekdays only.  Script is shot out of sequence,
+going by sets.  (I.e., all Medlab scenes are shot first, then all C&C
+scenes, and so on, to minimize camera/lighting moves, which take a long
+time on any show.)
+
+POST: 52 days (average).  Director does first cut of episode, then John
+Copeland and I make the final producer's cut.  Visual EFX, CGI and roto
+work are all inserted.  Sound spotting meeting with Chris Franke and sound
+EFX guys to spot where music/sound cues are.  Other meetings.  Final audio
+mix and delivery for insertion of commercials, credits, closed-captioning
+and satellite uplink.
+
+Any of those areas are fair game for further inquiry.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Attention to detail (6 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Attention to detail

+6 May 1996
Janet: thanks.  It's just always seemed to me that if you're going to
+create a fictional universe, you should do your homework.  Now, having
+said that, there are plenty of areas where I haven't fleshed out some
+stuff as much as I'd like (and no, I'm not telling you where they are;
+it's nothing you'd notice, really).  But I could do that every day, 24
+hours a day, and still not finish everything...a universe is a BIG place. 
+Still, the more I can do, the realer the show becomes.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: JMS: writings for season 4 and 5? (12 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: writings for season 4 and 5?

+12 May 1996
Yes, I'd be willing to let outsiders to arc stories, though I'd have to be
+a lot more vigilent.  (Actually, some arc elements have appeared here and
+there in freelance scripts, when I've noted the necessity of their
+inclusion.)  They generally are told only what they need to know.
+
+The only thing that could compel me to write all the episodes next season
+would be if we were told, up front and in advance, that the show was going
+to run four years instead of five, and I had to pull it all together to
+finish the story.  (Which can be done, though obviously it ain't my
+preferred method.)  It'd also have to be much more of a serial in
+structure.  Absent that, no, I don't plan on doing this again.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Surprised You??? (SPOILER for "Interludes and Examinations") (12 May 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Surprised You??? (SPOILER for "Interludes and Examinations")

+12 May 1996
spoilers....
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+Yes, I think Kosh sort of "hit the wall" when he saw that Sheridan wasn't
+going to go away; I think finally he was ashamed, and recognized his fear,
+and in a sense the air went out of him, and he reconciled himself to what
+had to be.
+
+You're right about the mentor; sooner or later, the mentor has to step
+aside (or fall by the wayside) for the others to grow into the hero's
+journey.  Originally this was slated to happen a bit later...I think, on
+some level, I was reluctant to do it, because to write this kind of stuff
+you have to *feel* it yourself, and I think I was avoiding that as much as
+Kosh was avoiding his fate.  I didn't want to go through writing that.  So
+I kept putting it off.  I knew it *had* to be done...but not yet....
+
+And that's when, for lack of a better explanation, Kosh stepped up and
+began to pull me in that direction in the script.  It was time.  His
+passing shouldn't be frittered away or minimized; it should happen at the
+right moment, and this was that moment.  It's almost impossible to
+describe this to a non-writer, but the character, this fictional
+construct, was simply determined to have his way, and that was the end of
+it.  I kept trying to dance away in the script, to go back into safer
+waters...but each time was pulled back in this direction, until finally I
+had to admit that yes, this was the right time, and the right way, to do
+this.
+
+And Kosh fell.
+
+But what finally convinced me was the realization that this was not only
+right for now, but right for *later*...though you won't know what that
+means for a while yet.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: a spoiler line in I&E.... (12 May 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: a spoiler line in I&E....

+12 May 1996
I think the line was just enough to make Kosh look at what he was, and
+what he was doing.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN:JMS  B5 National Ad (12 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN:JMS  B5 National Ad

+12 May 1996
The ads certainly would seem to bode well...we'll have to see.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Keeping your relationships alive (12 May 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Keeping your relationships alive

+12 May 1996
Y'know, it ain't often that a question stops me and leaves me staring at
+the screen for ten minutes trying to decide what the hell to say....
+
+I guess the answer isn't a good one, Stef.
+
+Everything in my life is subsumed into the work.  Especially for B5.  You
+must understand, this isn't just a show for me, isn't just a job, some
+bucks.  This show means almost everything to me right now.  My personal
+life, my health, my relationships, everything comes second to the work.  
+
+And someday, there will be a reckoning for that. 
+
+I'll likely revisit this subject at some point in the future...but not
+tonight.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Edisode Credits (was Re: Production Process) (13 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Edisode Credits (was Re: Production Process)

+13 May 1996
Unless the actor negotiates something specific, that kind of credit is
+pretty much left to the discretion of the production company.  On the
+theory that it helps the audience to identify characters, we generally try
+to use the names right from the script and identify them clearly.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+13 May 1996
Wow, talk about lots of questions....
+
+1/ Going in to a new episode how do you decide what the B plot will be? Do
+you write the B plot concurrent with the A? (The two plots often seem to
+contain thematic counterpoint.)
+
+In breaking out the season in advance, I have a selection of arc stories
+and non arc stories worked out.  (In his Starlog interview, Larry
+DiTillio, prior story editor on the show, mentions going through the lists
+of stories I make up each season.)  In looking them over, it's easy to
+know which are A stories and which are B stories by the relative size of
+the story and how much time would be required to tell it.  A lot of time =
+A story, less = B story.  If a story is strong enough that it doesn't need
+a B story, it's left alone.  If, on the other hand, it's a bit slim, or if
+I want to do more of a slice-of-life episode, then I pull in a B story.
+
+Once I've decieded this, I look for a B story that's an interesting
+counterpoint to the A story; if A is very dark, B tends to be lighter. 
+Sometimes I try and come up with a dramatic counterpoint or ironic or
+thematically similar sub-story.  
+
+Once this is done, I write both at the same time, much as you see it,
+right through, going from one to the other, not writing them separately. 
+I need to do this to be able to feel the flow of the story, where the
+segues are, and to create counterpoint and tension. It needs a certain
+kind of rhythm, and if you write them separately you won't get that. 
+
+2/ You say that you play out a scenario in your head before putting
+fingers to keyboard. How much of an episode do you tend to picture before
+writing anything?
+
+Quite a lot of it, actually.  Once I know the basic story, I cue the
+"video" up in my head and start playing it over and over, gradually
+becoming able to see the images more and more clearly, filling in the
+blanks between scenes and the like.  Once I know where all the pieces go,
+I begin writing.  (On some occasions, as a writing test, I'll launch in
+with just a general sense of where I want to go and charge through it for
+the adrenalin rush...sort of like an acrobat performing without a net. 
+This works particularly well when I know the episode is going to contain
+surprises, or should have a sense of immediacy that sometimes can diminish
+if you think about it too much in advance.)
+
+3/ Is it purely experience that allows you to develop a script that will
+fit within the time frame of each episode?
+
+Yeah, it's just doing it.  I almost never look at the page count as I
+write, it's just a matter of *feeling* it, knowing how much time is
+passing, and when you should begin racing toward the climax. Sometimes I'm
+a few pages over, but usually I can nail it spot on.
+
+4/ What percentage of time - roughly - is spent in the head, writing the
+script itself and revising afterwards?
+
+Hard to say.  I have them on a back burner as I'm doing other stuff,
+waiting to go on script #whatever.  Even though I'm not consciously
+working on them, I know that subconsciously it's bubbling away.  Once I
+start actually typing, I can finish a script in anywhere from 3-4 days (if
+I'm in white heat over the story, in which case my door is locked and
+nobody DARES bother me) to 10 days.  Revisions take only a few days,
+mainly for production purposes.
+
+5/ When writing a script you must be roughly aware of where the ad breaks
+will be; do you initially ignore these or do you write to fit them?
+
+No, you need to write to the act breaks so that you end each act on a
+hook; again you need to have that sense of how the acts flow at top and
+bottom.
+
+6/ Is there a writer's term for the coda that completes each episode?
+
+It's called a tag.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Directors on Short Leash? (13 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Directors on Short Leash?

+13 May 1996
It's a very careful and deliberate dance.  The reality is that many of our
+directors add a lot to the show in terms of visual style, pacing, and in
+working with the actors to bring out the story.  
+
+The way it works...the director gets the script.  The director and I talk
+about the script (several times).  The director then also has his own
+meetings with the various departments, telling them what he'd like to have
+as visual elements (sets and lighting elements and practical on-set
+effects like squibs, sparks, exploding walls, that sort of thing).  He
+walks the sets, diagrams out the angles, works out the shooting schedule
+with the first AD.  
+
+In most cases, the script is written in master shots, i.e, 
+
+INT. MEDLAB
+
+Franklin looks at Delenn's lifeless body.  Sheridan enters, exchanges a
+serious look with the doctor.  Garibaldi enters carrying popcorn.
+
+And there the director can frame the shot however he chooses.  In some
+cases, if I want something in particular, I call out the shots.  As in....
+
+INT. ZOCALO
+
+Morden waits at a table as, in BG, an as-yet unidentified NARN approaches.
+ Morden doesn't even look up as he approaches and pulls something out of
+his pocket.
+
+ANGLE - A KITTY
+
+freshly skewered and ready for broiling.  It's little kitty eyes loll up
+at us.
+
+MORDEN
+
+smiles and pockets the kitty.  Nods, as we
+
+WIDEN
+
+and the Narn continues on his way, and we PAN OVER to a sign on the wall:
+"Kitties Cannot Hide," as we DISSOLVE TO:
+
+In those cases, the director shoots those specific shots.  
+
+It's once a director hits the stage floor that the main difference and
+quality comes through.  A good director enhances a script, brings out
+nuances in performance, helps elucidate the story, keeps the camera
+moving...the ones I tend to favor are the directors that transmute one
+shot into another...going from a three-shot to a two-shot to a closeup and
+a reverse all in *the same camera move*.  Ah luvs that kinda stuff.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Surprised You??? (SPOILER for "Interludes and Examinations") (13 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Surprised You??? (SPOILER for "Interludes and Examinations")

+13 May 1996
Mainly, I think I was just trying to avoid it...put it off as long as
+possible...but the character knew, even more than I did, that this was the
+right time to do this.  It's a very hard thing to do this to a character;
+the only way to get that kind of emotion into a script is to feel it
+yourself as you're writing it, and that's a painful thing to do.  So I was
+avoiding it.  But he outfoxed me...as usual.
+
+That's Vorlons for you.
+
+
+
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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+13 May 1996
"Do you get ideas uncontainably leaping out at you for script n+2 while
+you're working on script n?"
+
+Constantly.  And while en route to work.  And while in the shower. 
+And...well, you get the idea.
+
+If I'm writing script n, and something hits me, I grab the nearest thing
+that isn't on fire or moving, and scribble it down, with the result that
+my desk is constantly a snowstorm of bits of paper and post-its.  The
+really big ones get post-it'd to my monitor at the B5 stage and my home
+office.  By the end of this season, my monitors looked like hedgehogs....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Utility for Mac

+6 May 1996
Yeah, apparently I got some misleading information from them.  I was told
+by one rep that the April push was to launch the mac version as well;
+apparently that was changed, but no one ever told me.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS: TheStation.Com

+13 May 1996
The site will be up within the next week or so, we're just checking out
+the beta site and making some improvements.  It's megacool.
+
+
+
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+
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+

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+Re: JMS: Your writing process (14 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+14 May 1996
"How do you cope with how different that movie is from the final product?"
+
+Happily...in 90% of all cases, it ain't that different.  
+
+
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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+14 May 1996
"These ideas, I assume, are all related to B5 characters and their story.
+Or do you get ideas for a new story involving a purple dinosaur with a
+high annoying voice who just specializes in eating little teeny tiny
+children?"
+
+That's certainly a story whose time has come.  I'd go see it.
+
+"Point being, we already know you suffer from multiple personalities: JMS,
+Kosh, Delenn, Sinclair, Sheridan, Garibaldi, Ivanova, and Marcus, and then
+the plethora of recurring characters who all run around with their own
+voice.  Just how many are you? Is it a set number or are you constantly
+adding new characters for stories you'd like to write after B5."
+
+Like every writer, I imagine, you constantly find your brain firing on
+different things.  If I'm not doing B5 stuff, it goes chugging off in
+search of other things.  Over the course of the last season, in addition
+to completely rewriting and revising my scriptwriting book, due out this
+fall, I outlined a couple of books, wrote a 2-hour pilot for a major
+company, developed another project with Warners (both of which are happily
+dormant for now), wrote up premises for several other series, about half a
+dozen movie outlines (two of which I'm currently writing in script form as
+I wait for renewal), and other stuff.
+
+It's just what I do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+14 May 1996
"For scripts that are given to other writers do you find you do much if
+any mental picturing of the episode?  If so, how does that affect the
+writing process between you and the other writer?"
+
+No, you only get into that part of it when you're going to sit down and
+actually WRITE the sucker.  It's a matter of bringing in the freelancer
+and (assuming s/he hasn't come up with a story independent of me, which
+happened about 4-5 times in toto) saying, "Okay, in this episode the giant
+blue penguins of Rigel 4 steal Ivanova's shoes," or handing the person a
+few paragraphs to several pages with detailed story notes.  Then the
+person goes away.
+
+The first "mental picture" I have of it is when the writer brings back an
+outline based on those notes.  This is always hard for me, as is the first
+draft script, because the characters rarely talk like our characters talk.
+ They don't sound right, don't always behave consistently, there's bits of
+backstory that contradict what's been established, and that has to get
+fixed.  So it's like seeing a distorted picture, and your job is to bring
+it closer into focus.
+
+(This is an inevitable aspect of freelancing.  There simply isn't time to
+learn all there is to know about a show before you begin writing; you have
+to come in, do it fast, and then move on to the next assignment if you're
+going to make a living at this.  That's the Freelance Life.  I hate the
+Freelance Life.  I like to stay around, get to know the characters,
+rummage around inside their heads and find what's there.  Freelance
+scripts almost always tend to be about the guest star character; if you
+look at mine, most of them don't really tend to have a big guest
+character, with some notable exceptions.  I find our regular characters
+more than sufficiently interesting.)
+
+What's most ironic about the freelance situation is that you often have
+people who say, "Straczynski oughta use more freelance writers, they bring
+in perspectives he doesn't have."  They cite the "moment of perfect
+beauty" in Peter's script, Londo's "my shoes are too tight, and I have
+forgotten how to dance," the alien abductor courtroom scene in Grail,
+Deathwalker's comments about how she plans to create her monument...all of
+which are scenes or sections I wrote and inserted into scripts by other
+people.  (One of my best lines for G'Kar is one I'm not credited for, in
+Zicree's script, "The universe runs on the complex interweaving of three
+elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest."  I actually saw
+some messages noting that jms never seems to be able to write something
+that succinct.  Well, actually...I did.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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Re: Interludes & Exams(analysis-3)SPOILERS!!!

+14 May 1996
Just a quickie aside...the background/depiction of Brakiri space was taken
+right from a Hubble deep-space shot.  We use them a lot, as provided to us
+by the folks who keep track of it all and keep it running.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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Re: JMS: Tapes seen at con

+14 May 1996
Those copies are blatantly illegal and the individuals making them are
+subject to federal prosecution.
+
+
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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+14 May 1996
"With Comes The Inquisitor...how obvious was it to you that G'Kar  was
+going to be the counterpoint to Delenn and Sebastian.  was it an immediate
+connection, or did you have to sit and look, and then think "Ah...that's
+the one?"
+
+That one was a pretty easy one.
+
+
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+

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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+14 May 1996
"Where does the run sequence then come from?  How much does the decisions
+on how the Bs run in and out, affect how you sequence the As?  Some of
+your Bs get to be major elements down the line, so how aware are you of
+this when you're selecting>  Do you end up getting there and looking back
+and *then* realising where you were going, and deliberatly weaving from
+then on - or have you always been aware of when weft turned warp?"
+
+Where does dance come from?  Where does music come from?  Where does
+making love come from?  How do you instinctively know what to do?
+
+Beats the hell out of me.  I just listen to the music....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: Production Process (was Return of the Newsgroup Timekillers) (14 May 1996)
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Re: Production Process (was Return of the Newsgroup Timekillers)

+14 May 1996
"I was wondering how much time it takes to cast the guest spots and get
+them properly costumed.  It would appear to be a logistical nightmare to
+try and come up with a design much less fit a costume for a character when
+you don't know what actor will be hired.  Have you ever had problems
+getting access to the actor for fitting (say they were working on some
+other project or something)."
+
+Usually, if it's an elaborate costume, it's already in the works when we
+begin the casting process.  It's very rare when we get a part that calls
+for someone of an unusual somatotype (very large or very small), so the
+costume is made fairly flexible, able to be sized.  Once we cast the
+person, we send them right down to wardrobe, where they're measured, and
+the final adjustments made to size.
+
+
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+
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: In honor of mother's day (spoilers up to I&E) (14 May 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: In honor of mother's day (spoilers up to I&E)

+14 May 1996
Good point; I should endeavor to get into this more in future.
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Enlightenment through laughter

+6 May 1996
Nuts...I'll have to go drag out my Zen books on this one...it's a
+reference I came upon for "the laughing buddha," which features a very old
+painting of same, and the thoughts on laughter and enlightenment.  That
+might be a good reference point for starting off, at least.
+
+
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Re: Attention JMS!

+15 May 1996
"Hi there, I am writing on behalf of my friend who is a massive B5 fan.
+He is always talking about it and actually seems to live it. His E-Mail
+address
+is ssbamab@cr47c.staffs.ac.uk
+How can he become an official ranger and get the Isil'zha badge ?"
+
+Oh, that's easy.  First he has to get to Minbar.  Once he does that, just
+let me know and I'll take care of the rest.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Serious nitpicks for WWE Part One (15 May 1996)
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Re: Serious nitpicks for WWE Part One

+15 May 1996
Spoiler space.....
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+"1) Assuming the present is the time period during which we watch Babylon
+5 and the period we saw at the beginning of the WWE episode, does the
+possible fall of B5 (if the mission fails) take place in the past or the
+future?  We see Ivanova screaming in the mysterious transmission that
+"they're killing us" and that the Captain is dead, so I assume this
+indicates that the possible fall of B5 takes place in the future since
+Sheridan is the only Captain (Sinclair was a Commander, non?).  But we
+also see Sinclair reliving his flashback with Gerabaldi from Season one in
+which B5 falls, and he then seems to indicate that his mission is to
+prevent such a catastrophe.  Since Sinclair is there, with Gerabaldi, this
+would seem to suggest that the fall of B5, if the mission fails, takes
+place in the past in relation to the present with which we are all
+familiar.(Breath) So, if the mission fails, when will B5 fall; past of
+future???  Or perhaps put another way:  Will B5 possibly fall under
+Sheridan's command or Sinclair's?  <-- God, that's complicated."
+
+Nope.  The scenes are all in the future.  Garibaldi specifically
+identifies the distress call as coming from 8 days in the future. 
+Sinclair's vision wasn't a flashback, but a flash forward; even the
+blowing of B5 was identified by Lady Ladira as in the future.  It's
+*always* been placed in the future, though most of this was in the first
+season, which hasn't been reshown.  Also, in the first act, Garibaldi
+again *specifically states* that when they went to B4, there was a glimpse
+of the future and the fall of B5.  
+
+"2) Faced with the end, why would the bloodied Ivanova feel compelled to
+deliver a play-by-play to a non-existant audience?  Or even to one that is
+there?  I found that strange."
+
+First she was trying to get help.  Second, there should be some record of
+what happened for those who would investigate.  They would need to know,
+just the way a signal operator sends out a distress call for as long as
+possible as the ship sinks.  SOP.
+
+"4) About Delenn's slide show:  It looks as though Minbari ships have
+remained basically the same for the past 1000 years.  I could not see one
+change.  Why is that?"
+
+Because you weren't looking closely enough.  The older Minbari ships are
+much longer and tubular in design; you'll see them better in the second
+half, but there's definitely a difference.
+
+"5) The preview showed Gerabaldi giving 'em hell with a big gun.  Why
+wasn't that in the episode (I know, some scenes in previews don't show up
+in the actual ep, but it seemed important)?"
+
+Because we were seeing the sequence from Sinclair's point of view; he was
+gone by the time Garibaldi began firing, so he wouldn't have seen it. 
+Story logic.
+
+"7) Londo spoils us all by telling us Sheridan wins the war--suspense exit
+stage left--unless the time line is somehow further altered, which would
+go against the inevatability theme JMS seems to be playing."
+
+Okay, everybody who thought I was going to have our heroes fight a war for
+two whole years or so, and then *lose it*...a major dramatic
+disappointment to say the least...raise your hands.
+
+In any event...quite frankly, several of your "serious nitpicks" are
+actually incorrect, and come from making assumptions or simply not paying
+attention when someone says something clearly in dialogue, as Garibaldi
+does, that the flash was of future events, and then IDs the signal as from
+8 days ahead.  
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+Re: War w/out End (no spoilers) (15 May 1996)
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Re: War w/out End (no spoilers)

+15 May 1996
"I have *never* seen anything like this show.  JMS is absolutely
+amazing!!!!! (JMS, will you marry me?) :)"
+
+I'm not that easy.
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+I require dinner and flowers minimum.
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+Re: B5 (of course) (19 May 1996)
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Re: B5 (of course)

+19 May 1996
"The reason that I ask is that I have been able to "peg" all your episodes
+up to the recient TO THE LETTER."
+
+I knew you would say that.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: WWE Part One - Spaceship question (spoilers) (19 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: WWE Part One - Spaceship question (spoilers)

+19 May 1996
No, the Minbarai cruisers are different in the shots from the past;
+they're longer and far less ornate, almost tubuler.  You can see a little
+of it in 1, and you'll get a better look in 2.
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Re: War w/out End (no spoilers)

+19 May 1996
"(and you will *never* know how close you came to being included in the
+"white linen shirt black leather trousers" thread last summer ... )"
+
+As has been proven endlessly in 1950s science fiction films, there are
+some things that Man Was Not Meant to Know.
+
+I suspect this covers several of them.
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+Re: Is Rathenn played by same actor as the Traveller? (19 May 1996)
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Re: Is Rathenn played by same actor as the Traveller?

+19 May 1996
No.
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+Re: JMS: writing now vs. then (19 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: writing now vs. then

+19 May 1996
Hmm...that's a tough question, and one I've never gotten before.  (And
+those are hard to come by, lemme tell you.)
+
+If I'd gone right into the series in 1986, what would've been different in
+the writing and the show in general...hmmm.....
+
+Given my notes of the time, I think it probably would've been more from
+Sinclair's point of view.  The characters would've likely been more
+defined in terms of their relationship with Sinclair, as opposed to seeing
+their lives out on their own, without that defining *context*.  That's
+probably the single biggest creative difference.  I don't know if I
+could've given it the depth of characterization or sub-plots that I feel I
+can do now.  Certainly, the time spent on Murder, She Wrote taught me a
+*lot* about setting up clues, foreshadowing, construction, and playing
+fair with an audience, experience I didn't have in 1986.
+
+On the other side, you've got the reality that CGI wasn't available then,
+and it'd all have to be done with models.  It would've been *very*
+difficult to do all we've done now with CGI, using models; I think you'd
+have to cut way back on the scale of the thing.  It's very doubtful we
+could've done the Narn homeworld bombing from "Twilight," or the rescue in
+"Fall."  I'd've had to come up with some other way to do that.
+
+Basically, I think the show would've still presented an arc, still
+would've been ambitious for its time, but I don't think it would've been
+*as good* as it is now.  In a way, though the long wait was frustrating,
+it put us in the right place at the right time to do this show the way it
+needs to be done, both creatively and physically, from a production
+standpoint.
+
+On the other hand, one can probably make a good argument that if the show
+were done in the year 1999 instead of 1996, with even 3 years more
+advancement in CGI and EFX, and 3 more years of writing experience, it
+might be even better then than now.  Who knows?  All I know for sure is
+that the show being done now, is the show I want to do, the way I want to
+do it, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: creative process (19 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: creative process

+19 May 1996
"just wanted to know how you came up the idea to do Babylon 5 it's a
+complex storie and it amaze me how one person could think of something
+like that."
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+Caffeine.  Lots of it.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Blipped? (19 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Blipped?

+19 May 1996
Just different meanings to the word; no intended overlap.
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+Re: DS9's plummeting ratings, was Re: EP: ALDFA Dream Sequence (6 May 1996)
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+6 May 1996
No, DS9 isn't the top drama in syndication; it regularly gets beaten by
+both Hercules and Xena.
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+Re: JMS: Your writing process (19 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+19 May 1996
"What about personal demons? You said once that Sheridan's father was not
+like your father. Is it something like you would have wished him to be? 
+And Ivanova's father, the same? If this is too personal don't answer it,
+but I just wonder to what extent your personal demons have to enter into
+your writing process. O, and in what forms. How far into those parts of
+yourself that hurt the most do you have to look?"
+
+Suddenly lately I'm getting all these questions that leave me staring at
+the screen for minutes at a time, trying to come up with an honest answer.
+
+(several more minutes pass...AOL is getting its $ from me tonight, that's
+for sure.)
+
+Okay, I have an answer...well, I have a *reply*, and as we all know, while
+all answers are replies, not all replies are answers.  This is the best I
+can do.
+
+I have this theory that there are five kinds of truth.  The truth you tell
+to casual strangers; the truth you tell to your friends; the truth you
+tell to only a very few intimate people in your life; the truth you tell
+yourself; and the truth you will not admit even to yourself.
+
+(Note: some people have distorted this to mean you tell contradictory
+things to different people; no.  Just the *extent* of the truth, how deep
+the blade cuts, is the operative issue.)
+
+On reflection, the answer to this one falls into the category of the fifth
+truth.  There are some questions I'm just not prepared to deal with yet,
+not in any specifics, anyway.
+
+In general terms...yes, that aspect is always there, if you're writing
+honestly, and telling a story that matters to you.  Sometimes, that's
+painful.  There are some scenes this season that were very hard to write,
+because of the personal stuff that went into them.  The trick is to not
+bleed too much onto the page so that you obscure the words, or it becomes
+simply self-indulgence.
+
+An example far enough away that I can look at it now...in the first season
+(for the old timers still around), when Catherine Sakai and Jeff Sinclair
+got together again for the tenth time, there were some fairly emotional
+exchanges.  The one where she comes to his quarters, unsure why she's
+really there, starts to leave...that whole exchange is pretty much word
+for word a conversation I had in real life.  (There's a lot of that in the
+relationship stuff in this show; it shows up here and there.)  It was
+something I was even then still dealing with, and worked out via the
+script.
+
+When we got ready to shoot that section, and the scene when they first
+meet, the director, actors and I went off to rehearse that one privately. 
+I practically had to nail my feet to the stage floor to stay through it
+all.  Finally, when we were all comfortable that the scene felt right,
+everybody headed out, and I pulled the director aside.  I said, "The scene
+is fine; you need to know that now so you'll understand...I won't be here
+the day you shoot this stuff.  I won't be anywhere *near* this set.  I'm
+still a little too close to this."  I just couldn't be there.
+
+So yeah, sometimes the writing gets very personal.  Unfortunately, I don't
+know any other way to do it.
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Re: Local Review & Yo, JMS!!

+19 May 1996
That's a great article, could you possibly send along a copy? Thanks.
+
+As for the one-hour special...it's something we broached to WB. 
+Unfortunately, unlike Fox, which can program whatever it likes, we're a
+syndicated show, and the only way to get a 1-hour special is to sell the
+hour to every station individually, and apparently that's a huge pain in
+the ass.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Why Ditch Garibaldi? WWE Spoilers.... (19 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why Ditch Garibaldi? WWE Spoilers....

+19 May 1996
It's a story point, and it'll be explained clearly in part two.  What, you
+think I'd have something this odd going on and not explain it?
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+It's coming.  Be patient.
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+Re: ATTN JMS : WB Takeover and B5 (19 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS : WB Takeover and B5

+19 May 1996
It shouldn't have any effect on us either way; personally, I doubt the
+merger would take place.  
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+Re: *Tiny* Dissapointment w/ WWE1 <*Spoilers*> (19 May 1996)
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Re: *Tiny* Dissapointment w/ WWE1 <*Spoilers*>

+19 May 1996
The problem, Jaime, is that you've got about 42 minutes to tell your
+story.  You have to get into it, and get into it fast.  Unless there's a
+reason for the scene to be there, if it doesn't move the plot along, it
+shouldn't be there.  You'll note there isn't even a B-story in the
+two-parter...there wasn't room.
+
+Sure, it would've been nice to have Sinclair  meet G'Kar, sit around, talk
+about how they've changed...have Sinclair and Londo meet, talk about
+stuff...have him and Ivanova sit around, talk about stuff...but then
+you've got just a bunch of scenes that are basically, "Well, hello, how've
+you been?"
+
+The next sounds you would've heard would be the click of remote controls
+changing channels across the nation.
+
+As it is, in that two-part episode, you've got Delenn, Garibaldi,
+Sinclair, Sheridan, Marcus, Ivanova, Lennier, Zathras, Major Krantz,
+Krantz's second...it's our most character-intensive episode in a long
+time, all of them being present in every other scene, plus the other three
+characters we see in part two.  It was, quite simply, stuffed to the
+gills, and there wasn't room for a single wasted word.  
+
+That's the difference between a novel and a television show; you can stop
+the action in a book as often as you want to have asides, but you can't do
+that in TV with as much facility.  To do the scenes you describe would've
+meant turning this into a three-parter, and as it is part one is almost an
+extended teaser for part two.  It would've been moreso with these
+additional scenes.
+
+If it isn't necessary, it shouldn't be there.
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+Re: JMS pops a gasket. WAS: Re: Liars, Damn Liars, Statisticians, Fuller, & Straczysnki (20 May 1996)
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Re: JMS pops a gasket. WAS: Re: Liars, Damn Liars, Statisticians, Fuller, & Straczysnki

+20 May 1996
Yes, indeedy I did.  And I did it over there because we try to keep flames
+OUT of the moderated group.  I've not said a word about the individual
+involved here, or on any other service (despite that person's continued
+attacks on me) since the mod group went up.  The situation existed there
+long before I finally got sick of it and responded.  (Odd choice, btw, on
+what you chose to include and what to leave out of the message thread.)
+
+In any event...this is a flame-free area.  Let's keep it that way.
+
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+Re: *Tiny* Dissapointment w/ WWE1 <*Spoilers*> (20 May 1996)
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Re: *Tiny* Dissapointment w/ WWE1 <*Spoilers*>

+20 May 1996
Beth: I quite agree, didn't mean to imply otherwise...it would've been
+nice to see some of those scenes, it just wasn't practical.  And you have
+to make hard choices.  As someone once said of writing, "You have to kill
+all your darlings," meaning the nifty little things you'd *like* to do, as
+opposed to the things you *have* to do.
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+Re: JMS: Your writing process (20 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: Your writing process

+20 May 1996
That's the great thing about being alive...there's always a new trauma
+waiting just around the corner for you to learn from and draw upon.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Confusing error in WWE, Spoilers (20 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Confusing error in WWE, Spoilers

+20 May 1996
spoiler reply
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+No, both Sheridan and Delenn *are* made up older.  If you particularly
+look at Delenn out in the light of later scenes in WWE2, you can
+DEFINITELY see the difference.  With Sheridan, it's a greying of the hair,
+and some lining on the face.  Londo, though, if you recall, is much older
+than Sheridan to begin with.
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+Re: JMS: Murder, She Wrote? (20 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: Murder, She Wrote?

+20 May 1996
No, actually, I didn't watch the episode...I was on the nets at the time.
+
+
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+Re: "The man in between is searching for you" et al... (6 May 1996)
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Re: "The man in between is searching for you" et al...

+6 May 1996
Either the guide got it wrong, or I misspoke, or you're misremembering.  I
+said, specifically, and this season, that the dream Sheridan had would be
+explained, in detail, by the end of the *third* season.  And it has, and
+it's already been filmed.
+
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+
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+Re: JMS: KCOP Color Shifts (20 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: KCOP Color Shifts

+20 May 1996
Huh...I have no idea why this would be, and didn't notice it when I
+watched it on my set.  Maybe it's a cable situation with your set?  
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: ....And So It Begins.... (20 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: ....And So It Begins....

+20 May 1996
Thanks.  Actually, the first Triluminary was found by the Minbari, not
+made by them, in a vessel they ran into about a thousand years ago.
+
+
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+Re: JMS: Inconsequentia (20 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: Inconsequentia

+20 May 1996
Tell him to enjoy it while he can...because as we get older, our hairlines
+all start looking more and more like Minbari....
+
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+
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+

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+Re: JMS: SciFi Buzz&Which Ep. Was Filming? (20 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: SciFi Buzz&Which Ep. Was Filming?

+20 May 1996
That would've been "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Dubbing in Ship of Tears? (23 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Dubbing in Ship of Tears?

+23 May 1996
If thsi refers to the War Room scene with Garibaldi at the end...yes,
+there was some looping done.  The best performed scene had some
+unacceptable noise in it from the chair Jerry had been sitting in at the
+first part, then he went slightly off-mike at the second point.
+
+jms
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: you mean twisted genius! (spoilers for WWE 2)= (23 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: you mean twisted genius! (spoilers for WWE 2)=

+23 May 1996
Thanks.  As I wrote the episodes prior to WWE2, I kept leading up to that
+first kiss, over and over, but deliberately never quite getting there.  I
+knew that when it came time to do it, I wanted to do it in just the way
+you describe...it would and wouldn't be a first kiss, both at exactly the
+same time.  So there's the moment everyone's been waiting for, but not in
+quite the way anyone had expected. 
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Torment Us, Please (23 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Torment Us, Please

+23 May 1996
Well, not too much to say about the last 5 at this point...Erica Gimbel is
+in "Walkabout," for which I wrote two songs...Pat Tallman's also in that
+one, meeting the new Vorlon in town...there's a bunch of different
+religious folks hanging around in "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding
+Place," Franklin hits a crisis point in "Shadow Dancing," Melissa Gilbert
+appears in two eps toward the end of the season, as does Jeff Cory...we'll
+get to see Morden again, and Refa, and some more Centauri nobility.
+
+The big stuff I'm obviously holding back.
+\
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Familiar Sentiments? (23 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Familiar Sentiments?

+23 May 1996
While my experience on other shows has not been quite the same as
+Hertzog's, I can understand his sentiments, certainly.  I've been
+uncommonly fortunate in that in most of the shows I've done, I've had a
+pretty free hand to do pretty much whatever I wanted.  But nowhere as much
+as on B5.  Nowhere, man.  
+
+(sorry)
+
+I wanted to check out Nowhere Man more often, but only actually managed to
+watch the first and last episodes of this season.  I thought it held great
+promise.
+
+To the overall tone...yes, there are times when doing a show becomes a
+terrible, grinding responsibility on a day-to-day basis.  Especially one
+as mind-bogglingly complex as B5.  You can't just go off and sit by the
+shore for a day or to, it's the totality of your waking life.  Go watch
+Jack Klugman in "A Game of Pool" from TZ1, you'll understand.
+
+In that light, the online experience -- with its occasional ups and downs,
+potholes and rooftop snipers -- can be a source of great emotional
+sustenance.  (When one is not driven mad by them.)  It's a great
+community.
+
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+B5 in Millimeter Magazine (23 May 1996)
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B5 in Millimeter Magazine

+23 May 1996
There's a good cover story on B5 in Millimeter Magazine, the main industry
+magazine for production of TV and film, explaining a lot of how we do what
+we do.  It's a good piece.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS What Are babylon5 chances? (24 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS What Are babylon5 chances?

+24 May 1996
Coming into renewal, the odds tend to be pretty much the same each time,
+from where I sit...either 60/40 or 50/50, depending on my mood that day. 
+We'll know soon enough.
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+Re: Last 5 season 3 episodes will be held back.  WHY? (6 May 1996)
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Re: Last 5 season 3 episodes will be held back.  WHY?

+6 May 1996
I don't yet know the full story, I just came into this info this weekend,
+having been away at a convention, and will try to verify it this week.  
+
+The bad part of this, if what I've read is correct, is that you've got 4
+months of reruns, June-September.  But *most* shows are in reruns at that
+time, especially syndicated shows.  You've only got 22 episodes per year,
+that means you're going to have reruns 30 weeks out of the year.  
+
+The reason Warners held back 4 episodes last time for October was so that
+they could help ramp up the ratings in the November sweeps.  If they're
+doing the same thing here, on the up side, that would at least seem to
+indicate some optimism about renewal, otherwise what would be the point in
+burning them up in a non-sweeps period (like October)?
+
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+Re: JMS: Do other writers resent you? (24 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: Do other writers resent you?

+24 May 1996
"Is that script writing book you wrote considered by some akin to a
+magician giving up his secrets for all to see?  I know I can't wait for it
+to come out this fall, and I intend to learn all I can from it when it
+does. I was just wondering if some feel that there is an unwritten rule in
+the writers guild (or something) that discourages releasing the details of
+the scripting process to the general public?"
+
+If that were the case, then given the massive numbers of scriptwriting
+books out on the market on any given day, there would be whole *legions*
+of writers at whom Guild members were honked off.
+
+So the answer, basically, is no, for many reasons.  For starters, the
+bottom line truth is that there really aren't any secrets, any mysteries,
+any tricks, any secret handshakes...it comes down to good writing, or what
+someone in a position to hire considers good writing, in combination with
+persistence and a certain amount of luck.  There's really nothing *to*
+give away.
+
+Additionally, I've met a number of working writers who broke in and credit
+the writing book I did with a measure of responsibility for their success.
+ A person has to learn the essentials somewhere, after all.
+
+(BTW, the new and expanded edition of The Complete Book of Scriptwriting
+is due out in October from Writer's Digest.  I can give the full info if
+so desired.)
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS wwe2 (spoilers) (24 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS wwe2 (spoilers)

+24 May 1996
1.  Since you've stated that the Babylon squared time travel incident
+would be the only one for the entire series, is there any way we might get
+answers to somet of the questions that seemed to be raised from the far
+future?
+
+In a sense.
+
+2.  How much will sinclair's knowledge of the future affect what is to
+come?
+
+Sinclair has no further knowledge of the future; he knows only what he saw
+up through and including the White Star.
+
+3.  The question I'm really dying for an answer to though, is this: 
+Hasn't this episode in a sense made a large part of the arc
+anti-climactic?  I mean, we now know that the forces of light are
+victorious again, at least to some degree, we know of David (named for
+sinclair?), we know what becomes of Londo etc.  Whenever most of the major
+characters are in a life threatening situation, we now know that they
+survive it (it would seem).  
+
+We also "knew" that G'Kar would strangle Londo...what you didn't have was
+context.  As we saw in part two, context is everything, and getting there
+is half the fun.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Understanding Delenn (24 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Understanding Delenn

+24 May 1996
"Would Delenn have been as close-mouthed with her non-Minbari allies about
+the Shadows and their motives as she has been through WWE 1-2 if, instead
+of attacking various beings from other races, the Shadows had attacked the
+Minbari?"
+
+A darned good question.
+
+My gut says...no, she wouldn't have.  She'd probably justify it on the
+assumption that the Minbari know the full story, thus are not expendable.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: My First Question!  (End of season #3 SPOILERS?...) (26 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: My First Question!  (End of season #3 SPOILERS?...)

+26 May 1996
If at any point we were to use another person to play Anna, we would
+almost certainly reshoot that video piece and drop it into the original
+episode.
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+Re: Cancelled?  What gives? (ROCK)us[HARD PLACE] (26 May 1996)
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Re: Cancelled?  What gives? (ROCK)us[HARD PLACE]

+26 May 1996
You must understand that this is a loop.
+
+The stations often tend to reply with, "We'll continue to air the show as
+long as WB makes it."  What's key to WB airing the show, however, is the
+number of stations that agree to air it, preferably with double runs,
+because that's where WB makes its money with the national advertisers.  If
+WB were to lose X-number of stations, it wouldn't be profitable for them,
+and thus they wouldn't continue to make it, thus the stations that *did*
+want it couldn't buy it.
+
+Compared to this, the chicken/egg equation was easy.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS and Any Other Interested Parties, Season Three (28 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS and Any Other Interested Parties, Season Three

+28 May 1996
Okay, some responses.  I trust you will allow me to be as blunt in my
+replies as you were in raising the points initially.
+
+Regarding the Warner Bros. concerns...there really isn't much I can add to
+what you said, and certainly nothing there I'd choose to contradict.  So
+we'll take that one as read and move on.
+
+To the creative issues:
+
+"Did Sheridan and Ivanova really think that Vir was killing off thousands
+of Narn while he was on Minbar. Hey, this is Vir, not Josef Mengele we are
+talking about. Did they really think it was necessary to drag this all out
+in front of Londo instead of privately."
+
+No, they didn't think he was doing it personally, only that he was
+expediting the transfer of Narns offworld for this purpose.  You think
+someone like Vir could not do this.  But most of the Nazis who send Jews
+to die weren't Josef Mengele, carving into bodies...they processed numbers
+from behind wire-framed glasses, and were quiet, sometimes even cheerful
+individuals with wonderful wives and children.  The greatest evil can
+often wear a benign, smiling, affable face.  And remember, people can
+change on this show.  You look at Londo in season one, is this someone you
+could buy taking part in the bombing of the Narn homeworld and the death
+of millions of Narns?  Yet that's what happened.  And their belief was
+that it was probably Londo who was behind it all...it's Londo to whom
+Ivanova expressed her outrage, not Vir, who she figured was probably being
+pushed into it at his behest, so logically she *would* take this right to
+Londo.  She figured, as you did, that Vir certainly wouldn't think of this
+on his own, but Londo could (and says so in the episode).
+
+"Why didn't the Shadows get on the horn and start screaming that they just
+made sushi out of Kosh. The alliance is new, shaky, unsure of Sheridan.
+What a great time to screw over everyone by announcing we killed Kosh."
+
+Because for starters, it's bad form.  If you kill somebody else's
+ambassador, that's not the sort of thing you proclaim proudly, it tends to
+bounce badly back onto you.  Also, this was primarily a personal
+situation.  There's more, but it's a bit further down the road story-wise
+that might help clarify this further.
+
+"Was it just me, or did anyone stop to think just how Bester got to B-5
+space in a Starfury without using the local jumpgate. Who brought him and
+more important, why?"
+
+He simply tagged along with an Earthforce jump-capable ship, and asked to
+be dropped off.  I considered bringing this up, but it was just dead
+exposition; it would be easy enough to do.
+
+"Then out of the hundred popcycles in the Shadow transport, we just happen
+to pick the one guiding light in Bester's life. God, aren't we lucky."
+
+Yes, and how amazingly coincidental that of all the women around, Oedipus
+would just happen to murder his father and marry his mother without
+knowing he had done so.  Okay, it was a coincidence, I'll own up to that. 
+We have very, very few of them on the show.  And the reason the word
+"coincidence" exists, and the word "synchronicity," is that sometimes
+stuff like that does happen.  You ever pick up the phone to call somebody
+and have that person already on the line calling you?  You ever think of
+someone you haven't seen in a while and run into them the next day?  It
+happens.  As long as it doesn't happen to excess, and become a venue for
+sloppy storytelling every week, it doesn't bother me, it's a legitimate
+plot device.
+
+And you misspelled popcicle.
+
+"We have a wonderful security system on B-5. Our monitors will show you
+everything, except a twenty foot long fusion reactor trigger that was put
+in the most sensitive part of the station by a certified nut case."
+
+Show me where we ever said our monitors "will show you everything."  They
+don't, they can't, and never have.  This is a city, and a quarter million
+people live here.  It would be impossible to monitor it all.  As for the
+fusion reactor...that was a ten foot object attached to a place where only
+station maintenance people went, which was his job.  He was cleared for
+that kind of access, and until/unless the device was activated, it was
+electronically dormant, you wouldn't notice anything.  Nor did it attract
+much attention.  Even though they *knew* something was there, they STILL
+had to look long and hard to find it, because it had been made to look
+just like everything else in the area.  
+
+And it's not like everybody *knew* he was a "certified nutcase" at the
+time.  He didn't have an identicard that said CERTIFIED NUTCASE on it.  He
+worked in station maintenance.  Nobody knew Tim McVeigh was a nut until he
+blew up a building.  Nobody knew that quiet little man in Boston was out
+strangling women in his spare time.
+
+You seem to operate in blacks and whites; this show is about greys.  And
+most of the concerns you raised are, I think, easily addressed.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Renewed in Atlanta! (30 May 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Renewed in Atlanta!

+30 May 1996
Thanks, that's good news.  Right now the stations are being canvassed by
+WB for their final decision, so this is a good time.
+
+jms
+
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+ jms
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: GBoR (Guinness Book of Records) (30 May 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: GBoR (Guinness Book of Records)

+30 May 1996
Is it actually worth doing this?  I dunno....
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: JMS: Why "War Without End" (30 May 1996)
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Re: JMS: Why "War Without End"

+30 May 1996
As Delenn says, the war is never entirely over...there are always new
+battle to be fought.  If it ain't the shadows, it's the shadows over
+Earthdome of a more human nature.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Would a TV Movie Work? (30 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Would a TV Movie Work?

+30 May 1996
Or you can try explaining that every episode generally has all the
+information you need to follow it.  We're constantly adding new viewers,
+and they're almost always up to speed in just 2-3 episodes, if that long. 
+Just jump on in, the water's fine.
+
+The occasional repetition of some bit of background or foreshadowing can
+be slightly bothersome for constant viewers, but that is necessary if
+you're going to continue to add new viewers, which is important for any
+series to stay on the air.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS: Warner Bros. and B5 promotions (7 May 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS: Warner Bros. and B5 promotions

+7 May 1996
There's no B5 wall because a) it's a syndicated show and low priority to
+them, and b) those are for WB productions, and we're not a WB production,
+we're a Babylonian production *distributed* by WB.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+jms on radio in LA (30 May 1996)
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jms on radio in LA

+30 May 1996
For those in the Los Angeles area, I'll be on HOUR 25 this Friday from 10
+p.m. to midnight, on KPFK 90.7 FM.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: B5 Demos  Was: JMS on CompuServe... (31 May 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: B5 Demos  Was: JMS on CompuServe...

+31 May 1996
Okay, I dug out the demographics report that just came in for 2nd quarter
+1996.  This will eventually be broken down into smaller and smaller groups
+now that the quarter is done, so you can know how subset groups are doing,
+but that won't be along for a while now, and won't contradict anything
+here.  (I'm very eager for the subset breakdown...should prove most
+enlightening.  The demos only break down the 18-49 age range as that's the
+most fiscally important.)
+
+Anyway, here's the breakdown for the second quarter in the 18-49 age
+range, the most sought after group for advertisers, for men, women, and
+both.  The higher the number, the better your coverage within that group;
+1000 is nearly impossible to get.  Warners is *extremely* pleased by this;
+it's the first time we've had the best demographics of all dramatic
+series.
+
+BABYLON 5
+Women: 429
+Men: 497
+Both: 1057
+
+DS9
+Women: 408
+Men: 473
+Both: 881
+
+BAYWATCH
+Women:364
+Men: 315
+Both: 679
+
+BAYWATCH NIGHTS
+Women: 340
+Men: 343
+Both: 683
+
+RENEGADE
+Women: 369
+Men: 362
+Both: 731
+
+HIGHLANDER
+Women: 393
+Men: 394
+Both: 787
+
+HERCULES
+Women: 369
+Men: 360
+Both: 730
+
+XENA
+Women: 355
+Men: 380
+Both: 735
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Writing questions (31 May 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: Writing questions

+31 May 1996
"Do you have an idea of how many scripts you'll be farming out to other
+writers this season?"
+
+Not at this time.  There are several imponderables yet to be filled in.
+
+"Are those writers handpicked/recruited by you, or do you ever get a
+sample of someone's work dropped in lap by their agent and decide to go
+with them?"
+
+For this show, they're hand picked; on other shows, it's been more open.
+
+"When we get to season 5, do you think that you'll be able to write the
+episodes without having to put in so many references to previous shows for
+new viewers, i.e. "if you're watching by now, you know what's going on"?"
+
+If it's as serial as I think it's goign to have to be, there may have to
+be a bit more of them, but I may do some of them a little differently,
+less obviously.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: JMS article on his experience in writing for animation--what mag? (31 May 1996)
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Re: JMS article on his experience in writing for animation--what mag?

+31 May 1996
The magazine was indeed Penthouse, though I forget the article title and
+date.  It dealt primarily with the nightmare visited upon networks by
+consultants and pressure groups.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: score one for you, JMS (1 Jun 1996)
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Re: score one for you, JMS

+1 Jun 1996
Well, if he's your friend, then his good taste had to struggle out from
+under the shadow of alternate programming sooner or later....
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS--Production Process, Music (17 Jun 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS--Production Process, Music

+17 Jun 1996
In reverse order...
+
+1) Changes between 1st and final drafts are almost always production
+changes ("can we put this scene in the Zocalo instead of the sanctuary, so
+it'll save us a lighting change and camera move?") and some dialogue
+tweaks.  Occasionally a scene will get trimmed a bit if it looks like the
+show's coming up long.
+
+2) Music...after John and I have done our cut, we sit down with the sound
+effects people and Chris Franke for the spotting session.  Here, we watch
+the episode all the way through.  I indicate where I want the music to
+start, and where I want it to stop, and what kind of music I have in mind,
+if it's that clear to me.  
+
+E.g., "Music in at 12:23:15 (twelve minutes, 23 seconds and 15 frames),
+out at 14:10:20.  We've got some heavy sound effects going on here, battle
+stuff, which will take up a lot of the bottom and midrange, so you may
+want to go for a bit higher frequency stuff.  Strings would be good
+through this, counterpointing the battle.  I wouldn't mind if you could
+somehow interpolate the Requiem theme through this part."  Chris then goes
+off and makes magic.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: JMS: re. Double-Runs in LA! (17 Jun 1996)
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Re: JMS: re. Double-Runs in LA!

+17 Jun 1996
Thanks; yes, LA will be getting the double runs, as will Chicago, I
+believe, and a number of other stations, based on the continuing
+improvements in ratings.
+
+BTW, to anyone looking on...sorry I've been silent of late.  I was in the
+UK for over a week, and I'm still on the jetlagged side, trying to catch
+up.  Have been quiet all around lately, just trying to get my head back
+into whatever time zone I'm in, and gearing up for year 4.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Is B5 dead? (19 Jun 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Is B5 dead?

+19 Jun 1996
It's amazing...we just get renewed for year 4 and 8 days into that renewal
+people are asking us if we're dead...we've been declared dead more often
+than Lazarus.
+
+No, it's not a particular problem.  The situation is that PTEN is no
+longer a real entity anymore; we're now a syndicated series now that the
+network has gone south.  Many groups were nominally held together by that
+thread; once the contractual thread was removed, there's going to be some
+reshuffling of stations.  It's an everyday part of the business.  In some
+other cases, because WB held off as long as it did on a decision, due to
+the PTEN situation, a few places have filled their slots.
+
+The problem with the nets is that if you see 6 messages about how a
+station is opting out of the show, the perception is of 6 places where it
+happened, when it's just the one.  This exact same thing happened this
+time last season.  There's always a case of musical chairs around this
+time of the year.  
+
+WB is lining up stations to replace those which have opted out.  Bear in
+mind that UPN stations and FOX stations have obligations to those networks
+which preclude their responsibility to this one show; if UPN wants another
+night on their schedule, it has to come from somewhere.  It happens all
+the time.
+
+Once the dust settles, I'd say all or nearly all of the areas in question
+will have alternate stations available for the show.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Chicago ComiCon? (18 Jun 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: Chicago ComiCon?

+18 Jun 1996
Yes, I'll be at the Chicago ComicCon in Rosemont this coming weekend, with
+a 2-hour B5 presentation slated for Saturday from 4-6 p.m., and apparently
+there's some sort of off-convention B5 reception at 7:30 or thereabouts. 
+(Not everyone who enjoys the show wants to pay the bucks for the whole
+convention, so this was thunk up last time as a freebie for general fans
+in the area at a local hotel.)
+
+A caveat...the B5 presentation has generally been the biggest thing at the
+con the last few years, so if you're going to be there, be early,
+otherwise the seats get filled and folks get stuck in the doorway and the
+hall.  Last time the main room held about 2,000 and still got jammed.
+
+I won't be bringing an episode -- WB isn't allowing this anymore for its
+shows -- but can bring clips and other fun stuph.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: Memories from Chicago Comicon (includes question for JMS) (28 Jun 1996)
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Re: Memories from Chicago Comicon (includes question for JMS)

+28 Jun 1996
"Having read JMS's posts on the net for years and now having seen him talk
+in person, I have heard probably hundreds of anecdotes from him about his
+life, his career, growing up, getting the show on the air, and managing
+the cast/crew to keep it going.  It dawned on me last weekend that many of
+these stories are quite similar to the example stories that one finds in a
+book on self-esteem, self-motivation, and management books (the ones about
+how to get the most out of your employees by making sure they enjoy
+working for you).  JMS:  Have you ever considered writing these down into
+a book about your philosophy/ motivation/etc?   I think it would be great
+reading!"
+
+I think it would be an absolutely hideous waste of several dozen
+old-growth trees.
+
+It would be the height of stupidity and arrogance on my part (your
+suggestion was well-intentioned and sincere, don't confuse the two) to
+even consider the notion.  I have nothing to teach *anybody* in these
+areas.  I don't have any answers, only questions.  And my experiences are
+generally so idiosyncratic, so much the product of just falling on my face
+a thousand times until one day I figured out a way so that I didn't *have*
+to fall on my face anymore, that I can't imagine they'd be of much use to
+anyone, and their entertainment value is mainly either anecdotal or for
+humorous effect.
+
+A book about the trials and tribulations in making the show...sure, maybe.
+ A book of my philosophy about this sort of thing, with anecdotes?  I
+can't imagine anything that could be more boring and self-serving.\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: att JMS (29 Jun 1996)
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Re: att JMS

+29 Jun 1996
There are no plans currently for the return of Talia.
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+Re: Attn JMS: B5 Demos  Was: JMS on CompuServe... (1 Jun 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: B5 Demos  Was: JMS on CompuServe...

+1 Jun 1996
I've checked into this (the 1057 figure), and they sent out a new report
+and it's still the same figure.  If you add the two figures together,
+they're 926, which is *still* the highest figure around, so the facts
+still stand.  
+
+We had broken 1000 several other times in the "both" category, the week of
+4/1 at 1057 and 4/29 at 1022; don't have the other weeks at hand.
+
+I talked at length to one of the researchers about this, and he said he
+was going to backtrack with the Neilsen company and see what they had to
+say.  (They're the company that actually does the computations and pulls
+in the figures, WB has nothing to do with it, all syndicated shows get the
+same reports.)
+
+He did indiate that there are a certain percentage of forms that come in
+where the person with the ratings book for one reason or another chooses
+not to put down either his/her sex or the sex of the person watching with
+them.  (Some consider it a privacy issue, some don't want to indicate that
+they're alone at home at night watching with a person of the same sex, so
+they "forget" to put it down, or just withhold the information.)  So
+there's always some variance; they can't just ignore the data of the
+number of persons watching, but they can't plug in what they don't have.  
+
+For instance, in Hercules for that quarter, you've got a figure of 369 for
+women, 360 for men, and a total of 730, which is 1 more than the two
+figures combined.
+
+So the researcher is going to backtrack some more, but indicated that it
+may be that we have an unusually high number of same-sex couples who watch
+the show, but may be somewhat closeted about it.  Which would be
+consistent with the fact that we get a lot of mail from gays and lesbians
+who watch the show.
+
+I'll be out of town for a couple weeks, but will eventually get back to
+this.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: JMS - Family Addicted to Babylon 5 (2 Jun 1996)
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Re: JMS - Family Addicted to Babylon 5

+2 Jun 1996
Thanks, and I'm glad the show is something an entire family can watch
+together.
+
+Re: Battlefield Earth...the only problem (well, one of many) is of course
+that a great deal of that series of books was written long after Hubbard's
+death.
+
+No plans to be up in SF for a bit.\
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: SD Comic Con (2 Jun 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: SD Comic Con

+2 Jun 1996
I do plan to be at San Diego Comic Con; haven't firmed up any specifics
+yet.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: CGI records (3 Jun 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: CGI records

+3 Jun 1996
I actually don't know/haven't considered who's closest on EFX these days,
+but I'd be willing to bet that the revised Star Wars EFX beat us and
+everything else....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: JMS - Intro for next season (3 Jun 1996)
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Re: JMS - Intro for next season

+3 Jun 1996
I've pretty much decided on the narrative style for next season, and who's
+involved, but would rather hold off on that for a bit.  Suffice to say
+it'll be done in a style and in a way we haven't used before.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATT JMS: Demographics numbers (3 Jun 1996)
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Re: ATT JMS: Demographics numbers

+3 Jun 1996
I posted a long reply on this in the original demos thread; rather than
+repeat, you may want to check there.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: SPOILERS Season 4 First Episode (3 Jun 1996)
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Re: SPOILERS Season 4 First Episode

+3 Jun 1996
"In retrospect we now know that the Lurker's Guide announcement that B5
+has 
+been renewed for season 4 was not premature at all."
+
+Incorrect.  The Lurker's Guide said that the show had been renewed.  It
+had not yet been renewed, and has not *formally* been renewed yet.  You
+don't say the baby has been born if it's still hanging around in it's
+mother. 
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Did You Really Say This? (17 Jun 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Did You Really Say This?

+17 Jun 1996
I don't believe I ever stated it quite that way, mainly I have emphasized
+that there may be justifications for actions on both sides.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Attn: JMS - Director's cut of re-runs (2 Jul 1996)
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Re: Attn: JMS - Director's cut of re-runs

+2 Jul 1996
Can't be done; also, there is no previous cut, only avid-generated
+computer files with the images, not film...and they wouldn't be director's
+cuts, but producers' cuts.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Happy Birthday, Joe! - 1996 (18 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Happy Birthday, Joe! - 1996

+18 Jul 1996
                                          ...humbug....
+
+
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+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Directing B5? (19 Jul 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Directing B5?

+19 Jul 1996
"Specifically: in an ep like "Severed Dreams" where cgi effects take up
+literally almost 1/4 of the script, how much input does the director have
+on "camera" angles, close ups of 'Fury pilots, and the way in which the
+SFX is intercut with live action?  Or is that entirely your job?"
+
+Generally, a lot of that material is either storyboarded, or supervised by
+our on set EFX supervisor, who determines the angles to be used.  This is
+especially important in an episode like Severed Dreams when you have to
+make sure that the pilots are oriented the right way on camera (i.e.,
+going from left to right, and facing left to right) if that's the
+direction their ships are going in; otherwise you'd have to flop the film
+to make it match.  In larger set pieces, using virtual sets and composite
+shots, the director has more influence.
+
+"Also: when dealing with an ep with a lot of flashbacks or reused footage
+(WWE, especially part 2), how much freedom does the director have?  Does
+he/she have to match the style of the previously show footage (in terms of
+angles, close ups, pacing, etc), or is there more room for the director's
+own style?"
+
+In the case of WWE, you had to match lighting and composition pretty
+closely.  That's about the only time it's really become an issue.
+
+"(one more question: if someone other than you had written "Babylon
+Squared", would they have to be paid royalties for the reuse of parts of
+that episodes script and footage in "War Without End"?)"
+
+Anyone who writes a scene which is reused gets residuals.  Doesn't matter
+if it's me or anybody else, as a Writers Guild member, it's guaranteed and
+required.  Also the actors, the director, and others get re-use fees of
+varying amounts depending on how long the sequence is.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: The University of JMS NOW Babylonian Ranch (19 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: The University of JMS NOW Babylonian Ranch

+19 Jul 1996
"More concretely, however -- any chance of Babylonian Productions doing a
+series of workshops (directing, acting, SFX, costuming -- I know *you*
+couldn't do writing, because of the story idea thing) at a convention? Or
+*as* a convention?"
+
+This is only something we've discussed in relation to a convention.  If we
+were to put on a B5 convention, via the fan club, one of the things we'd
+do would be to make it an informative experience.  Each of our
+departements -- makeup, costume, EFX, others -- would give presentations
+to folks interested in those areas (you could probably pick 2 or 3), so
+you'd have something a bit more than the usual, "Okay, I'm on stage, what
+do you want to talk about?"  Again, the goal is to help folks understand
+how this TeeVee critter works.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Can't WB Home Video at least release the PILOT on video? (19 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: Can't WB Home Video at least release the PILOT on video?

+19 Jul 1996
The videotape situation has absolutely *zip* to do with the Turner
+situation.  We got a reading on this from WB long, long before the Turner
+deal was even a glimmer in Wall Street's eye.  Basically, it's an in-house
+problem.  Most of the studios have a philosophy of, "If someone's going to
+do something with one of our shows, we should do it through an internal
+branch of the company."  But if they themselves don't want to do it, they
+tend to hold onto it even if someone else wants to do it NOW on the theory
+that they themselves MIGHT want to do it in future.  
+
+It's a territorial thing.  We have the right to do this, and we won't
+surrender that right, because our division refuses to lose that control,
+whether we actually ever do the project or not.
+
+This is, remember, a business where people running studios pay vast
+amounts of money for things they know they'll never do.  It's always less
+about money than about pride, jurisdiction and control.
+
+In our case, "proper channels" for B5 would be Warner Home Video.  Unlike
+Fox and Paramount, WHB doesn't generally release TV series on video.  They
+tend to look more to big-deal movies, documentaries and miniseries.  And
+they tend to do the big-ticket items that they know will sell millions of
+copies (like the Batman movie, and some of the animation stuff, which has
+a different agenda).  They look at a syndicted show, and shrug.  
+
+Warners International, on the other hand, is by their mandate set up to
+handle the release of whole series on tape, and that aspect wasn't a
+problem in the UK.
+
+So we've been negotiating with them for almost 2 years now to do the
+videos ourselves.  There's been some movement, gradually, but it's been
+the kind of movement associated with glaciers.  Eventually we'll get
+there; we just have to keep saying "yes you will" one more time than they
+can say "no we won't."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Unexpected Straczynski writing credits (19 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: Unexpected Straczynski writing credits

+19 Jul 1996
EEK!
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+Fan Club Email Address (19 Jul 1996)
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Fan Club Email Address

+19 Jul 1996
Jim Lockett, head of the Official B5 Fan Club, just got himself an email
+address.  So if you haven't yet received one item or another, or have any
+inquiries regarding the fan club...he can be reached now at the following
+address: 
+
+                                 JPLB5@AOL.COM.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Still haven't got my fan club stuff yet, what's up? (22 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: Still haven't got my fan club stuff yet, what's up?

+22 Jul 1996
Write to jplb5@aol.com, and they'll get right on it.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN:JMS Redemption (22 Jul 1996)
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Re: ATTN:JMS Redemption

+22 Jul 1996
Thanks.  From where I sit, you can't just play the damnation card in
+drama; you have to also play the redemption aspect.  When you look at the
+early Twilight Zones for instance, you see redemption there as much a key
+issue as a Bad Guy getting what's coming to him.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Blatant Plug time - When is your screenwriting book coming into print? (22 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Blatant Plug time - When is your screenwriting book coming into print?

+22 Jul 1996
Yes, at this point, the Hugo-nominated script for "The Coming of Shadows"
+will be in the new edition of my scriptwriting book.  
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Concerns about "Shadow Dancing"? (24 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Concerns about "Shadow Dancing"?

+24 Jul 1996
"You've mentioned a couple times that the upcoming "Shadow Dancing" will
+be 
+quite violent.  Should I be concerned about, say, my two-year old watching
+it? 
+She's as hooked on the show as I am, and would probably feel quite left
+out..."
+
+This is a tough one...I've given it a lot of thought since I saw this, and
+my sense is to advise the following:
+
+If you possibly can, videotape the episode.  Get the time code on the
+various pieces.  We cut in and out of two stories, an A and a B story. 
+One is violent, the other is not.  You don't have to see the one, or see
+much of it, to follow the other.  For someone as young as 2, I'd suggest
+fast-forwarding past the B story stuff.  It's still within what's
+generally permitted on TV, but it is kinda harsh.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: If you had one question to ask JMS (5 Jul 1996)
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Re: If you had one question to ask JMS

+5 Jul 1996
"How has the response of fans to B5 been different from what you had
+expected?  What fan response has most surprised you?"
+
+Probably the extent to which fans have formed strong communities around
+the show, and gotten together.  That's probably the main thing.
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+

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+Re: JMS: Question, "Hour of the Wolf" (28 Jul 1996)
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Re: JMS: Question, "Hour of the Wolf"

+28 Jul 1996
"Have you ever contemplated doing an episode of B5 that unfolds in real
+time (i.e. one minute of screen time is one minute of plot time, as done
+in the movies "Miracle Mile" and "Nick of Time"), or would that be
+counterproductive to the sorts of stories you're trying to tell?"
+
+Actually, yeah, I have considered doing that...it can be a very limiting
+structure, and the story has to be just right for it to work.  Haven't
+quite worked out all the snags yet.
+
+"Or is "Hour of the Wolf" a story of that particular variety?"
+
+Nope.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Found any of these people? (29 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Found any of these people?

+29 Jul 1996
I found Sherilyn and Marcus, but not any of the rest.  Ah, well, gave it a
+good shot, and had some great help.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Attn JMS: fan club problems (29 Jul 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: fan club problems

+29 Jul 1996
Karen: we recently found that the post office sent back whole *packages*
+of the fan club material to us, which they held onto for almost two
+months.  We used two different post offices for the mail drops; we used
+the same amount of money for the mailing on all the mail drops, what the
+first one told us it should be, and that was fine...the second decided it
+should be more, never told us, and just sent the stuff back after a while.
+
+There've been similar problems with the mailings, though many people are
+now getting their stuff.  Jim's been flooded with messages -- he showed me
+a stack two inches thick -- and he's processing them as fast as he can. 
+Better to solve the hassle and get them out again than answer each one of
+the emails.  
+
+This is a new venture, remember, there's some shakedown time.  Jim's
+dancing as fast as he can.  You'll either get a reply or a packet soon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Directors for 4th Season (30 Jul 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Directors for 4th Season

+30 Jul 1996
"Do you have directors lined up for the first few episodes of the fourth
+season yet?"
+
+Mike Vejar is going to do a bunch, we've got Jesus Trevino, David Eagle,
+and are currently setting up some new directors on the show.
+
+"Also, do the directors for B5 have contracts that they will direct X
+number of episodes in a season, or are they on a verbal agreement type of
+thing, or is it something else?"
+
+It's never verbal, that's too easy to abuse on either side.  It's all done
+via deal memo, usually one or two at a time, or if we know the director
+well, for several at once.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+Re: attn:JMS please deny (3 Jul 1996)
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Re: attn:JMS please deny

+3 Jul 1996
No, I had no idea that scientologists used an alien group called Markab,
+and frankly would've changed it if I had known.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS: Position on Captain Power? (1 Jul 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS: Position on Captain Power?

+1 Jul 1996
I was the story editor on Captain Power.  The show was created by Gary
+Goddard, not by me.  I was brought in to basically run the story part of
+it once he had sold it.  In that capacity, I was more or less left alone,
+and could do what I wanted (though the first episode has a lot of Gary's
+fingerprints all over it).  Some of what we did there was pretty good; in
+other cases, I wouldn't mind if the negatives fell off a pier somewhere
+and were never seen again by humankind.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: B5 slips under Time Magazine radar (7 Jul 1996)
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Re: B5 slips under Time Magazine radar

+7 Jul 1996
"I find it interesting that the article talks about SF's "comeback" where
+I really didn't see it diminish (at least in the last decade or so)"
+
+Here's what happens, having been part of a whole lot of these articles
+over the years:several new SF shows come along.  You get called for
+interviews about this sudden explosion of SF.  Six months go by.  The
+shows disappear.  And now you get calls for interviews about why SF
+doesn't seem to work on TV.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Road Trip/Babylon 5 Parties (9 Jul 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Road Trip/Babylon 5 Parties

+9 Jul 1996
I'm glad to hear it's been a great experience...and take care of yourself
+out there on the road.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: New Merchandise - legal or not? (9 Jul 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New Merchandise - legal or not?

+9 Jul 1996
"BUBBLE BATH??!!"
+
+The stuff is being sold under the overall heading "BUBBLE BUDDIES."
+
+How could I *not* approve something like that?
+
+I brought one back with me from SDCC (no, I hadn't gotten one yet), and
+our co producer George Johnsen did fifteen minutes on that one.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+Re: General Note from jms (10 Jul 1996)
+
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Re: General Note from jms

+10 Jul 1996
In October you'll get the final 5 from this season, then 4 or 5 more from
+year 4, so that's 9-10 in a row.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: Con Report: JMS at San Diego Comic Con, July 6, 1996 (8 Jul 1996)
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Re: Con Report: JMS at San Diego Comic Con, July 6, 1996

+8 Jul 1996
Well...suddenly I don't have anything to say at conventions, since all my
+best gags have been listed...sigh....oh, well.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: JMS's new scriptwriting book LOCIS listing; ISBN included (1 Aug 1996)
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Re: JMS's new scriptwriting book LOCIS listing; ISBN included

+1 Aug 1996
"1) Will you be doing a book tour for your scriptwriting book?"
+
+There are no plans for that at present, though I may try to coordinate
+something or other when I do the occasional convention.
+
+"2) How can we get your book signed in the event of no book tour?"
+
+Conventions, mainly.  Problem is that the book is coming out right when
+we're in the thick of production, and getting away at this time is nearly
+impossible.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question about maybe new show (2 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Question about maybe new show

+2 Aug 1996
"This sounds like a very exciting show, but will Netter and Copeland still
+be able to perform their duties on B5 or will you have to replace them?"
+
+Doug's job on B5 is primarily oriented toward the business end, so that's
+not a problem; John was in on the sale of the project, but now that it's
+done, a line producer will be brought in for that show (John's the line
+producer on B5), so John will definitely be staying with B5 in his
+capacity of producer, and not directly involved in the daily running of
+the new show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: Att JMS: Your pending mainstream success... (27 Aug 1996)
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Re: Att JMS: Your pending mainstream success...

+27 Aug 1996
"After season three's writing marathon, do you consider yourself a science
+fiction writer, at least to the extent that you won't be annoyed when our
+soundbyte media feels the need to pigeon-hole you into a single category?"
+
+I don't tend to put myself into any one category, but generally don't get
+bugged when I'm referred to one way or another.  After my first couple of
+horror novels, and a nomination for a Bram Stoker Award, and the Nightmare
+Classics gig for Showtime, I was called a horror writer...I did The Real
+Ghostbusters and they said I was a comedy writer...I went to conventions
+while I was a writer/producer on Murder She Wrote and one person with whom
+I shared a panel asked what somebody who just wrote TeeVee mysteries was
+at an SF convention and why anyone should listen...and now people call me
+an SF writer.
+
+It doesn't bother me.  It's actually kind of funny on one level, that
+people feel they have to somehow pigenhole you by whatever you've done
+last.  But beyond that, as an SF fan, with a great respect for the genre,
+if somebody calls me an SF writer, I don't mind.  
+
+"I think TNT will really establish this series in the mainstream culture
+and wonder if you've ever had to fight the public's perception of you."
+
+I think the mainstream public was for the most part unaware of me.  Still
+is, I think.  And that's okay too.  It's about telling a story, not
+getting a certain kind of approbation.
+
+"Do you think you'll be able to resist the gravitational pull of
+"science-fiction" fame?  Before your writing has been pretty much all over
+the place and not giving anyone the opportunity to ensconce your name into
+a genre.  Do you see yourself writing science fiction for a long time or
+being a guest at science fiction conventions every once in a while for the
+rest of your life?  Or will you purposely zig-zag away in another
+direction?"
+
+I'll probably just keep doing what I'm doing.  I've been playing around
+with a notion for a series that could do something quite revolultionary
+for mainstream TV, and that'll get me described as a manstream/intrigue
+writer...if it goes anywhere.  If not, I'll just keep going from genre to
+genre as the stories grab me.  That's the only real criterion I can apply.
+ I follow the story that interests me.  If that happens to be a horror
+novel, it's a horror novel; if it's an SF story, it's SF.  I go where the
+story takes me.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: At what point? (27 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: At what point?

+27 Aug 1996
Most of that will be covered in year four.  Especially the Earth
+situation.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Hour 25 (Aug. 23, 1996) (27 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Hour 25 (Aug. 23, 1996)

+27 Aug 1996
That's great.  Hour 25 can be a good venue into the SF community out here;
+it certainly eased my transition when I came to LA.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: ratings confusion (28 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: ratings confusion

+28 Aug 1996
No confusion, just different terms.
+
+Stations that tend to support the show tend to do great ratings; San
+Francisco, Portland, Washington DC, others...the show does gangbusters. 
+In places where the show is not well supported, or it has a crummy
+timeslot, then the ratings are not as good.
+
+When your station refers to low ratings, they're referring to their
+specific area, for starters, which often hits the problem noted above. 
+Stations have zip interest in the national ratings, since they only sell
+their local spots based on their ratings *there*.  Nationally we do quite
+well.  The national advertisers are all very solid, and the cost per
+minute is high enough for WB to make a tidy profit.  But that doesn't help
+a local station where it's not getting support, or otherwise not doing
+what they need it to do for them.  
+
+In many cases, we've found that a station may have taken a show not
+because they actually wanted the show, but because they didn't want
+anybody *else* to get it initially, to prevent that threat.  Or because
+they were part of a station group that bought it as a package.  And thus
+it doesn't get supported.  Invariably, when a station in this category
+drops the show, it *helps* us because another station almost always picks
+it up, and just as invariably does *better* with it than the first one.
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Influences (29 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Influences

+29 Aug 1996
Without belaboring the point, as Yevgeny noted, yes, Serling was a huge
+influence on me, as a writer, and in my writing, slightly different
+things.  I find it's useful, whenever I find myself getting too
+comfortable, thinking I've got it sussed, to sit down and watch anything
+he wrote...it humbles you *real* fast, and makes one realize that one
+isn't qualified to even carry his pencil case.
+
+If there were a pantheon of influences, I'd put Rod Serling, Harlan
+Ellison, Norman Corwin, Ray Bradbury and HP Lovecraft at the very top of
+the pile.
+
+
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+
+Re: I ask why... (29 Aug 1996)
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Re: I ask why...

+29 Aug 1996
"In other words, it's cheesy makeup."
+
+Once again, the remarkably inept Theron Fuller demonstrates that he
+doesn't have a clue about what he's talking about.  But he does that so
+often now, that one hardly even notices anymore.
+
+"Cheesy" has specific connotations.  Words mean what they mean.  It refers
+to how it's used, how much is paid for it, how slipshod it is, and how
+cheap it is.
+
+Mira's makeup is overall the most complex of all the characters.  It is
+also the most expensive after G'Kar.  It also takes longer than just about
+anyone else on the show.  Bill is out in about 90 minutes, sometimes less.
+ Andreas can get out in just under 2 hours.  With Mira's makeup, it's
+extremely subtle, very thin to get out the emotions that come through the
+movements of the skin, and takes as much as 2 and a half hours to apply
+properly.  The bone piece is especially difficult and expensive, as it has
+to contain elements that work into the hair, which also has hair
+delicately woven into the edges, and has to fasten at the temples without
+any noticeable movement.  
+
+"The justification for this is that Joe Straczysnki Himself once explained
+that Delenn's "bone arrangement" was done for the convenience of the
+makeup artist and the actor."
+
+No, I never said that.  You're making this up, as you make up half the
+information you post and state as fact.  Your grasp of reality, always
+tenuous, seems to be getting worse after you targeted some poor innocent
+person as being the alleged Il Porco, possibly doing his business damage
+and attacking his character in a public forum based on *zero* proof, and
+being, in fact, totally wrong.  But you never let the facts get in the way
+of your statements, as here...I never made the statement you attribute to
+me.  Never happened.  You are, as always, lying.  
+
+If it were done for convenience, we'd've stayed with the overall bald cap
+Delenn had in the first season, which took *less* time than what she has
+now, and was overall less expensive.  The change itself was done for story
+reasons, as she became more human.  We needed to see the hair.  There were
+two ways of doing this, one to have the hair come down through the bone,
+the other to attach hair to the back of the piece and use a wig, which
+seemed silly.  (Though, again, some hair is woven into the bone piece to
+smooth the lines.)
+
+"Like the non-rotaing star field in the C&C shots, it's an example of
+where the low budget of the series pokes through in a particularly jarring
+manner."
+
+No, it's not that we're or it's low budget.  The problem is a mathematical
+one.  C&C rotates *below* the center of the station, the core of the
+rotation.  So the rotation wouldn't be at the center of the window, but
+rather above it, so you'd have a movement from side to side that's far
+more pronounced.  To pull off this in a practical effect, you'd have to
+build a *round* starfield about 30 feet high, which is bigger than just
+about any TV soundstage around, and would have to rotate without making
+noise at that size (almost impossible).  To do blue-screen compositing of
+starfields for the length of scenes we play in C&C is outside the limts of
+ANY TV series, including ST, which invariably uses a star curtain for
+window scenes of the same size as the B5 C&C, or sparingly uses bluescreen
+for smaller windows seen less frequently.
+
+You continue in your practice of lying, misquoting, and making up stuff to
+cause friction or slam the show or myself.  You attack people who don't
+even know who you are and smear their names on the net for being someone
+they're not and never even heard of.  You're a sick, pathetic, twisted,
+vicious individual, Theron.  Sop why not take your bile and your lies and
+your delusional bullshit somewhere else.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: your Meyers-Briggs type (2 Aug 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: your Meyers-Briggs type

+2 Aug 1996
No, haven't taken that particular test, though while I was in university I
+took a number of personality inventories and the like as part of my degree
+plan in psychology.  Right up through the MMPI and others.  The career
+evaluation inventories indicated that I should be either a clerk or in the
+Air Force.
+
+
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+Re: B5 Beards (2 Aug 1996)
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Re: B5 Beards

+2 Aug 1996
Sort of the ZZ Top of television production....
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Idle thoughts. (2 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Idle thoughts.

+2 Aug 1996
Well, one can always assume that Morden received some help, in one form or
+another, in adjusting to the shadows....
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: JMS: Shooting (2 Aug 1996)
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Re: JMS: Shooting

+2 Aug 1996
No, I'm afraid the new episodes won't be aired here in the US until
+October, with the first year 4 eps beginning in November.
+
+
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+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: New Twilight Zone (3 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New Twilight Zone

+3 Aug 1996
Actually, the character in that episode of the new TZ was Jeremy St.
+Claire, not Sinclair.
+
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+

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+
+Re: What's so important about Z'ha'dum? (3 Aug 1996)
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Re: What's so important about Z'ha'dum?

+3 Aug 1996
Yeah...you'd almost think there was something or someone there that they
+considered important.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: season 4 intro vioceover... (3 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: season 4 intro vioceover...

+3 Aug 1996
"So basically, what I'm asking is does the fact that G'Kar gets the last
+major speech in season 3 mean that he gets to do teh voiceover for season
+4?"
+
+Not as such, no....
+
+
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+Re: Why JMS really believes in God? (3 Aug 1996)
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Re: Why JMS really believes in God?

+3 Aug 1996
I love it when people decide to tell me what I *really* believe, or don't
+believe, that what I say and think is my view of life isn't really it at
+ALL...and then throw all the old, cliched, hackneyed "how can god allow
+evil to happen" straw men into the argument so they can be easily shot
+down, when that has *nothing* whatsoever to do with my attitudes on the
+subject.  And the notion that it takes more belief to have a non-belief
+than belief to have a belief is so illogical, so deep in paralogia and
+cliched thinking as to be beyond commenting on because any response would
+be utterly and permanently drowned out by laughter.
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: The Real Ghostbusters (4 Aug 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: The Real Ghostbusters

+4 Aug 1996
"If I am not mistaken, you worked on the Real Ghostbusters cartoon show. I
+also remember reading that you wrote a few scripts.  Which scripts did you
+write? How much were you involved in the show?"
+
+Yikes...trying to remember them all, there were something like 15-20
+episodes that I wrote..."Janine, You've Changed"..."Ragnarok and
+Roll"..."Citizen Ghost"... "No One Comes to Lupusville"..."Take
+Two"..."Xmas Marks the Spot"..."The Halloween Door"..."Mr. Sandman, Dream
+Me a Dream"..."Russian About"... "Chicken, He Clucked"..."The Haunting of
+Heck House"...a whole bunch of others.
+
+I was story editor on that series, for both the ABC and syndicated
+versions, editing 78 episodes in one season.  It was a hoot; we got to go
+totally nuts and be obscure and adult and funny and outrageous.
+
+
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Milton? (1 Aug 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: Milton?

+1 Aug 1996
If by this you mean "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven," then
+no, that ain't it.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Driving (4 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Driving

+4 Aug 1996
"I was really surprised to read in the TV Guide article that you don't
+drive. How have you been able to live in auto-dependent Southern
+California for so many years with out giving in and starting to drive? I'm
+amazed that you manage to do it..."
+
+So am I, some days.
+
+It's a moral thing; I'm a *terrible* driver, easily distracted, my depth
+perception sucks, and...I hit things.  And they frown on that.  So for the
+good of the Commonweal, even though it's a monumental pain in the ass, I
+stay off the road. 
+
+So when I can't catch a ride with someone, I have an occasional (per-job)
+driver, or I get cabs.  Used to ride the bus all the time.  All the time I
+was working at Filmation at the start of my TV staff career I bussed it
+in; took about 2-2 1/2 hours to get from Glendale to Encino, approximately
+a 45 minute drive by car.
+
+Now it's usually just a car, one way or another, but it's still a pain. 
+At the same time, though, I know I could never live with myself if I ever
+harmed someone else, so here we are....
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Idle thoughts-request enhancement (4 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Idle thoughts-request enhancement

+4 Aug 1996
Yes, it would be a correct assumption.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Shadows' motives? (4 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Shadows' motives?

+4 Aug 1996
"Do you agree with the Shadows motives?"
+
+Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.  Motives are one thing; the means to
+achieving that motive, however, are a different issue.  And those means I
+do not agree with.  But on some level, their motives can make sense...as
+can the Vorlons' motives....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: jms' beliefs (4 Aug 1996)
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Re: jms' beliefs

+4 Aug 1996
Since I've got nothing else to do at the moment...well, except write....
+
+1) he prefers pepsi to coca-cola, though he prefers zima to both of them.
+
+Actually Pepsi and Coke are about the same to me, though in a pinch I'll
+go for Coke over Pepsi.  As long as it's got caffeine, I'm a happy man. 
+Otherwise it's coffee (Arabian Mocha Sanani, preferably, or Silawesi). 
+Don't drink Zima.  Don't drink *period*.  Last thing you want is to give
+an obsessive-compulsive personality a drink.  Don't smoke or do drugs. 
+Utterly boring.  My only vices are chocolate, coffee, soft drinks, and the
+net.
+
+2) he prefers dogs to cats, and prefers irish terriers over all other
+dogs.
+
+MUCH prefer cats to dogs.  All kinds cats, but Abyssinians the most,
+followed by your basic tabby cat.  Dogs are okay, but overall the one
+breed I'd ever consider owning -- even though it'd be a second career/job
+to raise the creature -- would be an English Border Collie, the
+obsessive-compulsives of the dog world.
+
+3) his favorite sports are kickboxing and the ultimate fighting
+championship.
+
+Don't generally watch sports.
+
+4) his favorite color is purple.
+
+Black.
+
+5) his favorite newspaper is usa today (all those nifty computer generated
+graphics).
+
+Who has time for ANY papers these days...?
+
+6) his favorite breakfast is bacon and orange juice.
+
+You left out scrambled eggs, a toasted water-bagel and coffee.  
+
+7) his preferred method of mailing packages is UPS.
+
+FedEx.
+
+And just to round stuff off...I use MovieMaster for script formatting,
+Wordstar for general writing, my favorite meal is a good lean steak with
+mashed potatoes, spinach, cut corn, I use a Dell pentium computer tricked
+out with every device on the planet (including, shortly, ISDN), just
+picked up an IBM Thinkpad 560 as my main road computer system, like my
+foods well done, and my favorite TV shows (after B5, natch) are 60
+Minutes, MST3K, The Simpsons, and X-Files.
+
+That ought to blow a hole in this thread, I think....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Poetry on B5 (4 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Poetry on B5

+4 Aug 1996
I've read Matthew Arnold, but have always found him a bit dry for my
+tastes.  I go for the more passionate, beat-the-drums stuff.  
+
+I'll continue to try to find ways to work in bits of it here and there,
+never hurts to let people know there's stuff other than TeeVee out there. 
+Should sneak in a much longer version of Tennyson's "Ulysses" early in
+season four.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: jms' beliefs (4 Aug 1996)
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Re: jms' beliefs

+4 Aug 1996
jdn...yes, I got that it was sarcasm...I was just goofing around....
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
+
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+

+
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+Re: jms' beliefs (5 Aug 1996)
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Re: jms' beliefs

+5 Aug 1996
The final 5 eps for this season will be broadcast in October, leading into
+year 4 in November.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Why JMS really believes in God? (4 Aug 1996)
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Re: Why JMS really believes in God?

+4 Aug 1996
"For the next few months all we're going to hear are threads from Morgan
+and
+Co. regarding Joe and the scene where Brian stands at the window
+starkers."
+
+On the other hand, at least it'll be a much smaller thread....
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: 4th Season Episodes (7 Aug 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: 4th Season Episodes

+7 Aug 1996
We're currently 4 scripts into the 4th season; on the season title, that's
+usually something I hold back announcing until we're a bit deeper in.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: your Meyers-Briggs type (8 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: your Meyers-Briggs type

+8 Aug 1996
I'm starting to get the ugly notion that my messages aren't getting throgh
+the AOL internet feed.  I sent two notes on this, both mentioning that I
+took the test, and came out an INTJ, even gave the web page number for the
+full analysis, but I don't think it ever go through.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Character Aquisition (1 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Character Aquisition

+1 Aug 1996
"How did you pick / decide upon the actors who are presently involved in
+the story?  And are you planning on appearances by "named - major"
+personalities in upcomming episodes?"
+
+If by this you mean how do we cast the actors...the actor comes in and
+auditions, reading dialogue for that character from a given episode.  The
+one that comes in the door and is most what I saw in my head when I
+created the character, gets the job.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: More edited out of I&E? (8 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: More edited out of I&E?

+8 Aug 1996
Yes, there was a bit edited out of the Sheridan/Kosh conversation, but
+nothing of real importance.  It was at the beginning, as he catches up
+with Kosh, and discusses his meeting with the League worlds and how
+important it would be for the Vorlons to get involved.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Jeff W. coming back -- any chance? (8 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Jeff W. coming back -- any chance?

+8 Aug 1996
Actually, Jeff has just become John Copeland's executive assistant,
+something of a move up; don't know if he'll be putting on the headpiece of
+the new Vorlon in town yet, but we'll see...
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: Is it asking too much? (8 Aug 1996)
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Re: Is it asking too much?

+8 Aug 1996
"Is it too much to bloody ask to be able to see *one* mere episode of
+Babylon 5?"
+
+Sure...come on by the office, I've got 5 of 'em just sitting here. 
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for other online producers? (8 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for other online producers?

+8 Aug 1996
"You're in a unique position, as the first TeeVee producer/writer/show
+creator to interact on Usenet with the fans of your series.  I'm writing
+up a Usenet dossier for Bryce Zabel, executive producer of _Dark Skies_,
+who is thinking of coming online in an interactive capacity when his show
+starts airing this fall.  Do you have any advice that he, or others who
+come online in the future, would find useful?"
+
+Hi, Bryce.  Don't know if we've met, but I've seen your work, and seen you
+about; was lurking in the back of your Fangoria talk a bit ago.  Also saw
+the pilot (ve haff vays); I think it has great potential.  How you're
+going to work the structure of the story once they're out, without
+support, we'll see.  (said vaguely to avoid spoilers)  That aside....
+
+He should be sure what he's here for.  If it's just promotion...it almost
+ain't worth the time involved.  Lots of folks have used the nets to
+promote stuff, but for one thing it pisses people off that once the
+promotion part is over, boom, they're gone (a la "Sneakers" a year or so
+ago).  And the cold reality is that if you added up everyone who reads the
+nets...it ain't even a blip on the ratings.
+
+The best way to maintain a presence on the nets is to get a sense of the
+room, to see if what you're doing is working *in general*.  You'll get
+tons of conflicting opinions, so you can't let that sway the story...but
+you'll know, in general, if the story you're telling is getting through,
+and succeeding.
+
+I'd strongly suggest you adopt the same "no story ideas" policy I've used,
+particularly with a show like "Dark Skies," where it would be easy for
+somebody to say, "Okay, aliens get involved in X real-life historical
+situation," even though it's the obvious thing, which you'd already
+planned to handle, and then sue you for plagiarism.  Best to avoid it all
+up-front.
+
+How you deal with criticism is up to you.  We all react differently. 
+Online fans are bracingly blunt in their opinions; this is generally a
+good thing, except where sometimes some of them forget they're talking to
+a real person, not a computer screen.  But it's a good thing overall.  If
+someone's being unfair, say so, but other than that...you're in for quite
+a ride.
+
+The good thing about the nets is that it's the great social equalizer. 
+The bad thing about the nets is that it's the great social equalizer. 
+Anyone with a modem has equal access, equal say.  Which is terrific.  We
+can be tall, short, fat, skinny, old, young...what matters is the quality
+of the thoughts and the clarity of their expression.
+
+The flip side of this...if someone came toward you with a bright orange
+fright wig, dead cats strapped to his chest and a live parrot up his ass,
+you'd have sufficient warning that this may be a Loony, and thus avoid the
+person.  On the nets, you don't get that kind of advance warning.  There
+are some loonies here.  They get the same access as everyone else, they
+can get on because they bought a modem, but they live for the singular
+purpose of making your life a living hell, because you have created
+something, they have created nothing, and they can only live with that
+contradiction if they tear you down.  Some of them are literally
+psychologically disturbed, and potentially dangerous.  And you won't have
+any notion who they are until one day, after exchanging private or public
+mail, the dog satellite goes by overhead and they turn on you viciously,
+start spreading rumors, attacking you in public...and you realize that
+yep, this person has a parrot up his ass.
+
+Happily, those folks remain the exception rather than the rule.  The
+remaining 99% are fun, and intelligent, and can teach you things about
+your own show you didn't know were there.  
+
+Jump on in...the water's fine.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: At what price / personal life? (9 Aug 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: At what price / personal life?

+9 Aug 1996
Except that I don't think there's much of interest in my personal life,
+and it has little to do with the work itself.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS  -  What In Valen's Name?! (9 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS  -  What In Valen's Name?!

+9 Aug 1996
Some difference of opinion among the Minbari.
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: At what price / personal life? (10 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: At what price / personal life?

+10 Aug 1996
"In order to fully understand the message, you must understand the
+messenger."
+
+
+Hrrmm...yes and no.  Understanding the messenger can add a second layer of
+interpretation, but the primary layer must stand on its own or it's
+flawed.  I don't need to know that Joe Orton was gay to fall out of my
+chair laughing at "Loot," don't need to know that Chekhov had a drinking
+problem to appreciate "Uncle Vanya," don't need to know that Mark Twain
+lost both his daughters tragically to appreciate "Letters from the
+Earth"....
+
+Well, okay, I'll give you Twain, as the tragedies in his life fed right
+into his later work.  That's the yes part in yes and no.
+
+It's just that I already put out a lot of info on my personal life, likely
+more than I should, and the question "what price have you paid?" can only
+solicit a self-indulgent and self-serving answer.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo (11 Aug 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Best Dramatic Presentation Hugo

+11 Aug 1996
Yes, I'll be at the Hugo ceremony, no question about it.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Centauri Emporers/Godhood (11 Aug 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Centauri Emporers/Godhood

+11 Aug 1996
"While looking through the new selections in the Lurker's guide, I was
+reminded of something. In Chrysalis Londo asks how many gods there
+currently are (I believe he's only referring to the ones that were
+Emporers) and Vir replies that there are fifty, then he corrects himself
+and says technically fifty-one, but there was one that he never really
+considered a god."
+
+Ah, yes...that one wasn't an emperor, that was Zoog, which was really just
+a household god, primarily associated with one noble family, that somewhat
+imposed Zoog where possible, forced the religious establishment to
+recognize the temple they'd built to Zoog...it was strictly an act of
+vanity on their part, to create a god, and elevate a household god, which
+never really carries much weight, to something greater, adding to the
+general pantheon.
+
+"Also, could you tell us what happened with the original Ambassador To
+Minbar? The one that "Went local" as Londo recalls it?"
+
+Went native.  Bought into the whole Minbari theological system, dropped
+his Centauri citizenship, was last heard of in a distant retreat trying to
+grow a bone.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS Shadow Hugos... (1 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Shadow Hugos...

+1 Aug 1996
Interesting...we'll see how this compares to the real results.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Dream sequence from AAitN (11 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Dream sequence from AAitN

+11 Aug 1996
Just offhand, yeah, I think all the info is there for the dream...either
+way, it'll be explained by the end of the third season.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: Brian and Wendamatica go nuts! or The Drool Contest. (11 Aug 1996)
+
+
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Re: Brian and Wendamatica go nuts! or The Drool Contest.

+11 Aug 1996
I do hope that these stories will not use B5 characters or situations, as
+I've asked repeatedly, and politely for the most part, that there *NOT* be
+any B5 fanfic where I can see it.  (Would prefer not to have it anywhere,
+but the odds of getting that are slim, I suspect.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writting Difficulty:( (11 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writting Difficulty:(

+11 Aug 1996
I try to write but find my work greatly influenced by outside sources such
+as other written works, movies and television shows.  I seem to be unable
+to write something that hasn't already been done or write something that
+has been done in a different way.  Does that make sense?"
+
+There's a quote, I forget who said it: "Of course everything has already
+been said, but since no one was listening, we must begin again."
+
+The problem, I see, in what you've described...and this is on the benefit
+of three paragraphs and ten seconds thought, so take this with a grain of
+salt...is that you don't actually know what it is you want to say as a
+writer.  Or that you need to say.  You're drawing sources from outside
+wriers, TV shows, "unable" to do otherwise, by your statement.
+
+Let me toss another quote in here, again from a source I can't recall:
+"Too many people mistake a passion for reading with a desire to write." 
+It's possibly you may fall under this category.
+
+See, the problem with the writing biz is that everyone has access to
+keyboard, and we all think we can write, if we just had the time to do it.
+ Not true.  Give me a warehouse full of paintbrushes and easels, and 100
+years, and I may in time become adequate, but never more than that.
+
+Writing is a mug's game.  It's heartbreak.  It's pain and struggle and
+rejection and isolation and the only reason...the ONLY reason...to do it
+is if you've got something to say, something that burns in you so that you
+can't *NOT* write.  If you're doing it on a whim, as a curiosity, as you
+say "trying your hand," then this may not be the field for you.  This is a
+hardass, hard-work, lifetime job, and if you're not driven to say
+something, maybe you should consider something else.
+
+On the other hand...you're 18.  Sometimes it takes us a while to figure
+out just what the hell it is we want to say, or want to do.  What it is
+you need to say may not have occured to you yet.  On a third hand, I think
+all writers begin by playing around with other writer's voices, using
+techniques of other writers as sort of training wheels while they hone
+their own voice, dropping them by the wayside as new personal techniques
+are perfected, until the writer's voice is unique.
+
+Decide what it is you want, and what you *need,* not what seems like
+itmight be kinda interesting...the rest takes care of itself.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 in Pournelle "Life on Mars" article. (12 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 in Pournelle "Life on Mars" article.

+12 Aug 1996
I know that Alex is a big fan of the show, have spoken with him several
+times, so that's likely where the mention came from.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS, *grin* (12 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS, *grin*

+12 Aug 1996
"Perhaps there have been some spelling drifts in the next three centuries,
+and JMS spends so much time in the future that he has trouble with our
+local-present archaic English....."
+
+I would point out that the phrase "local-present archaic English" is
+ungrammatical and at odds with English useage.  You could say, "with our
+current-day English which he finds archaic," but not what you've written
+here, which implies that English is present only locally -- presumably
+local to where you are, when in fact English is present in many parts of
+the globe -- and that the present English is also archaic in fact, as
+opposed to being perceived as such by me....
+
+I could go on and on about this particular turn of phrase, because it's
+ungrammatical on several levels, but this forum has better ways to spend
+its time.
+
+Note, however, that I could have done this with *many* of your posts,
+which correct me or others on one word, while containing whole *phrases*
+which violate the rules of grammar.
+
+Which is what you do.
+
+The difference is, I have manners and don't feel it's my god-given
+responsibility to correct other people on their useage on-line.  
+
+One could also offer a thought or two about the notion of "not seeing the
+forest for the trees," correcting people on little word choices while
+oneself applying incorrect phrases.  
+
+One could also take exception with your notion that if you have made up
+your mind about an issue, then that is the single and sole truth, and that
+anyone who offers a contrary opinion is either stupid, or deliberately
+misleading people, since there cannot possibly be reasonable differences
+of opinion about such issues as gun control, there cannot be any
+possibility of reading studies in different ways, there is Gharlane's way,
+which is the Truth Eternal, and those who are deliberately stupid or
+willfully misinformed.
+
+There is a phrase in the bible, Gharlane: go and pluck the log out of your
+own eye before you try and remove the splinter from someone else's.
+
+You repeatedly use sloppy grammar, misuse the English language, and turn
+its complexities on its head in order to support your political
+positions...then have the audacity to correct the grammar and spelling of
+others.  I don't do this to you, even though your messages provide
+boundless opportunities for this.  Because I try to err in the direction
+of politeness.
+
+So may I suggest that, with your studies in grammar, spelling and syntax,
+you consult a book of manners and expand your horizon in that area as
+well.  And since you take umbrage whenever someone objects to your
+advising them on grammar and other niceties, I'm confident that you will
+not in any way argue with or be upset by this reply to you, since that
+would be a direct contradiction to your own stance on being corrected.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: 5000 down, how many to go? (12 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: 5000 down, how many to go?

+12 Aug 1996
No, then I wasn't clear...there were 1,000 waiting to be mailed that week,
+there have already been piles and piles sent out over the last few weeks,
+as can be confirmed by many here.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Non-spoiler sequel question (12 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Non-spoiler sequel question

+12 Aug 1996
There's a story for the sequel, an arc it'd follow, but it wouldn't be as
+intense an arc as with B5...more stand-alone in nature.  A bit more fun in
+some ways.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Embarrassing Fan Club item (12 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Embarrassing Fan Club item

+12 Aug 1996
We did check the card before it went to the printer; expiration was
+spelled correctly.  When they came back, due to the need to get things out
+fast, they weren't rechecked...and some got out.  We had them redo the
+print run, but some had gotten out by then.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Model Kits (13 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Model Kits

+13 Aug 1996
No, those model kits are 100% unlicensed.  However, I've been told just
+this week that WB has finalized a contract for a model license...I'll post
+the info when it's permitted for me to release it.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks, & questions on Foundation & MST (13 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks, & questions on Foundation & MST

+13 Aug 1996
I've no idea what Foundation is up to outside B5.
+
+As for MST3K...yeah, I'd heard Trace was leaving.  Vastly unfortunate. 
+They've bounced back from losing Joel (and, in some ways, I feel it's a
+definite improvement), from the first assistant Mad Scientist (ditto
+squared), sorta came back from losing TV's Frank (though Forrester's mom
+just doesnt do it for me, and the show still lacks something without
+Frank)...but to get by without Dr. Forrester...AND Crow...or at least
+Crow's voice and attitude...I dunno.  That's gonna be a tough one.
+
+I met Trace briefly in San Diego, and spoke with him on the phone a couple
+of times over the last year or two.  I love MST3K, and my assistant at the
+time, prior to Joanne, got the full cast to sign a photo for me, which is
+now the ONLY non-B5 item framed on my office wall at the B5 stage.  (In
+return, we sent them a batch of B5 caps.)  
+
+So we'll see what happens, they're a good bunch and I'm willing to give
+them the benefit of the doubt...but this one's gonna be real tough.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Will Adam Nimoy direct any 4th season episodes? (1 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Will Adam Nimoy direct any 4th season episodes?

+1 Aug 1996
We've asked about Adam, but he may be booked on other shows, alas.
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+Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?) (13 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?)

+13 Aug 1996
"And the funniest part of all is, JMS actively supports the party and the
+individual politicians who brought you the "Communications Decency Act,"
+which would, if it hadn't been hamstrung by a court which had actually
+read the Constitution, have resulted in eventual restraint of such modes
+of expression......"
+
+That's right, Gharlane.  I supported the individuals now residing in the
+White House, and still do...because I'm not a one-issue person.  Is the
+CDA a stupid, invidious, badly written, paranoid, neanderthal, repressive
+bill?  Absolutely.  And I supported the people who were actively against
+it, as I was actively against it.  I don't have this notion that I must
+agree 100% with a politician, or have that politican hew to every single
+belief which I hold, in order to support him or her.  There can be
+respectful (or loud) disagreements on principle on individual points.
+
+The issue is: *on balance*, which side do I tend to support?  Both parties
+are flawed.  Candidates on both sides have eccentricities, failings,
+misfired notions.  But on balance...you've got Bob Dole, who doesn't have
+any notion on the leadership of this country except the vague idea that
+he's *earned* his shot, and he's going to have it.  It's not about
+providing a new vision, it's just about being the one wearing the pointy
+hat.  He wants the ultimate promotion.
+
+Kemp I find interesting, but saddled with Dole this is a non-starter.  And
+from where I sit the Republican party has capitulated to the Religious
+Right on every issue of substance...people who've said they want to
+designate this a Christian nation, drag creationism into the schools
+(saying they want balance, but I don't see anybody offering to let folks
+teach Darwin from the church pulpit on Saturday nights), who've whipped up
+so much hatred against physicians and classes that murdering doctors is
+simply an unfortunate consequence....
+
+Are there flaws to the Democratic side?  Absolutely.  An inability to come
+to grips with social programs long in need of serious reform, a
+soft-hearted and sometimes soft-headed approach to social organization,
+de-emphasis on infrastructure in deference to social programming, too much
+concern about words and not enough concern about actions, grass-roots
+disorganization....
+
+You say you're a fan of this show.  Well, consider this: that if the
+government envisioned by Phyllis Schlafly and Pat Buchanan and Robert Dole
+and Bob Dornan and Alfonse D'Amato (possible spelling error there) ever
+took serious hold in this nation, Babylon 5 -- with its sometimes
+subversive nature, its open and frank discussions on religion, death,
+sexuality, violence, the conflict between belief and medicine -- would be
+the first program chucked out the door.
+
+It was under the Reagan years that the Captain Power series -- for all its
+flaws, some episodes very good, some less so -- got shot out from under
+the producers because of the then-fashionable assault on violent TV by
+pressure groups (many of them on the far right), so don't tell me it can't
+happen...I was the one on the opposite side of the conference table when
+religious-right "consultants" on Satanism advised the network on another
+show where I was working on what they had to do to avoid sending
+unintentional Satanic messages, which meant leaving out references to
+fictional books like the Necronomicon, being unable to use the name
+Lovecraft, and being told that the signs of a kid succumbing to Satanism
+are "he's curious...he's sometimes depressed...he tries to reject
+authority...and he's susceptiple to peer pressure."  No, I'm NOT making
+that up, that's verbatim.
+
+And these are the same groups bending the Republican party to their own
+whims.  I've seen their work up-close and personal, and I tell you
+frankly, that if they got in charge, this show would be deep-sixed so fast
+it'd make your head spin.
+
+The present administration may be muffin-headed at times, may have its
+personal pecadillos and quirks...but compared to the mean, venal,
+anti-intellectual, anti-artist opposition, the opposition of Jesse Helms
+and Pat Buchanan...I'll take it, and be glad of it, and when something as
+inherently dopey and destructive as the CDA gets passed, be absolutely
+open in complaining about it.
+
+And thank you for dragging my personal politics back into this...and
+throwing it in my face.  Anything else you'd like to drag up?  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?) (13 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?)

+13 Aug 1996
"I find your logic slipping a bit. First off to compare what is wanted in
+the teachings of the _public_ schools against what is done in the
+_private_ church is flawed.  What is done with government money is well
+within the right of the people to voice their opinion on."
+
+Except, of course, that the churches have *tax exempt* status, on the
+theory that they are separate and apart from the State...yet have been
+mingling more and more in politics.  I'm absolutely deleriously happy if
+they want to get into politics, but then drop the tax exempt status.  So
+given that the church is getting a free ride with our government money, as
+you say above, it's well within the right of the people to voice their
+opinion on (dangling participle notwithstanding).  
+
+Basically...make up your mind.  Do you want to be involved with partisan
+politics?  Do you want to be a part of the State, as many folks now want
+to make this a Christian nation?  Then start carrying your fair share of
+the tax burden.  It's not fair to say, "we deserve to interfere with
+government," then when the tax man comes around say, "we deserve to be
+separate from the government."  Choose one.
+
+"While it is very tragic that "doctors" have been killed over this issue,
+what I know 
+as fact makes me understand it a bit."
+
+That you have put "doctors" in quotes, and indicated you can understand
+the wanton murder of civilians, tells me you have just struck your colors.
+ So if you knew a baby was going to grow up to be a doctor, who provided
+abortion services, would it be okay to abort *that* baby, or just wait
+until they're older and kill 'em then?  May as well be efficient, save
+college loan money and the like, yes?
+
+And while I see anti-abortion groups lobbying for that aspect, I don't see
+many of them offering to adopt crack babies, or babies that are the result
+of incest or rape, or funding social services for all the infants that
+will be born if they get their way.  Pass every law you can think of to
+make sure they're born, protect those rights... then toss 'em aside after
+their born.  Sure, that makes sense.  Why didn't I see it before?
+
+"Are the "..." sequences a pause or are you leaving out text? For example
+,was the quote "he's curious about death, he's sometimes depressed to the
+point of talking about suicide, he tries to reject authority by openly
+experimenting with drugs....". All of these would be bad signs."
+
+No, I said I'm quoting verbatim...verbatim means as said, unedited.  They
+didn't say that a bad sign was that he's curious about death, just that
+he's *curious*, that he's sometimes depressed, and that he listens to
+heavy metal music (I forgot that one), and that he rejects authority. 
+Broad-based statements.  
+
+The religious right uses fear tactics on a daily basis to get what it
+wants.  To describe what they've actually done isn't fear tactics, it's
+strictly reporting what happened.  If you find it scary...well, so do I.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 Web Presence (14 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 Web Presence

+14 Aug 1996
Just checked it out.  Nicely done....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Walkabout cast list? (14 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Walkabout cast list?

+14 Aug 1996
Then the Radio Times is in error.  It happens.
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+Re: www.thestation.com is up, but... (14 Aug 1996)
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Re: www.thestation.com is up, but...

+14 Aug 1996
Actually, just to clarify all this...the site is up, but not officially
+all together yet; we're still waiting for approval from WB before putting
+some stuff online, and making the full area list available.  Right now
+it's basically just a shell, which we'll put things into as we go.  But we
+haven't announced the site being up yet because it's still more or less in
+beta stage.
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+Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?) (14 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS:parrots:(was:Advice for other online producers?)

+14 Aug 1996
"If you were actively against (the CDA), why weren't you using your public
+position to anathematize the California senator who was a major initial
+proponent of the CDA?   Why didn't you spearhead a movement for her
+recall?"
+
+Real simple.  I'm very much aware that the nature of my work gives me a
+platform, a soapbox...and I tend to look to that famous Greek philosopher,
+Peterus Parkerus, who opined, "With great power comes great
+responsibility."  That platform is accorded me by people who have come to
+trust that I have no personal agenda underlying my storytelling, that I'm
+slogging my way through to try and find out what the hell the right thing
+to do is, and to do it.  That trust is hard-won and not lightly to be
+exploited.
+
+When and if I should use that soapbox, it has to be something bigger than
+the CDA, bigger than something that might be self-serving...rather than
+using up that resource on one cause or another that's best dealt with in
+other ways.  Otherwise, why just that one cause, and not the many others I
+feel strongly about?  Should I be here with twice-weekly sermonettes about
+violence against women, the need for improvements in schools, and a
+hundred other issues?  This ain't the Let's Hear JMS's Latest Political
+Rant Forum (though sometimes it does tend to become the Gharlane's Latest
+Political Rant Forum, but that's another topic for another time).  I tend
+to get into these things (and always with subsequent regret) only when
+poked or prodded or otherwise poked in the eye.
+
+There's only one thing I'm currently considering using this limited
+platform to address, something that should get support from every side of
+the spectrum, and would be a worthy legacy of this show, apart from the
+storytelling and the series itself.  But I'm still pulling my thoughts
+together on this, because if I get into it, it's going to take a lot of
+work.  So we'll see.
+
+As for the rest of your message...it's more of the usual liberal-baiting
+Gharrolousness that reduces everything and everyone involved down to the
+most basic stereotypes and eliminates discussion by replacing it with
+scarecrow logic, demonizing, and rhetorical dead-catting...so really,
+what's the point?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn JMS: 'different' viewpoint.... (15 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn JMS: 'different' viewpoint....

+15 Aug 1996
I've actually seen it; saw it a while ago, while surfing the B5 sites.  I
+like the approach you've taken...it's twisted.  I like that.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN:JMS: An oddly... topical song? (15 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN:JMS: An oddly... topical song?

+15 Aug 1996
Thanks, and thanks for forwarding on those lyrics; they're terrific, and I
+enjoyed them.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: Greetings, Thanks & Season 4 in UK (15 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: JMS: Greetings, Thanks & Season 4 in UK

+15 Aug 1996
Thanks.  Haven't yet heard about the UK airdates for year four, but as
+soon as I hear, I'll note them here.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS : Are there enough fingers pointing? (15 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS : Are there enough fingers pointing?

+15 Aug 1996
Hmmm...I think you've got most of the fingers, but not all of them....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Mr. JMS: So, which is the best of Final Five? (2 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Mr. JMS: So, which is the best of Final Five?

+2 Aug 1996
It would be an even tie I think between the final two, "Shadow Dancing"
+and "Z'ha'dum."  The two episodes are also linked at the hip, so they're
+really more like one unit...not so much a two-parter, but siamese twins,
+story-wise.  They're both very exciting, move the arc forward hugely, and
+though they rely on a lot of backstory, are also good points for folks new
+to the show to dive in, because they also *explain* a lot of backstory, so
+they can get into it.
+
+They're both just lovely, knockout episodes.  And, at times, scary as
+hell.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Post B5 post (15 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Post B5 post

+15 Aug 1996
"When all has been revealed at the end of year five, have you considered
+releasing a guide to these modifications and what effect they had on
+getting to the overall conclusion? If nothing else, those of us playing
+the guessing game would be interested to see where we have been given
+additional side-tracks or simplifications."
+
+Nope.  No more than a magician hands out a manual after a performance
+showing how that darned rabbit got into that tiny hat.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks (16 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks

+16 Aug 1996
Thanks...it's always a hoot.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn:JMS -Thank You (16 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn:JMS -Thank You

+16 Aug 1996
Thanks.  That's why, as a fan myself, it's important to get this show
+right.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTM JMS: Thanks and one small question (17 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTM JMS: Thanks and one small question

+17 Aug 1996
No, while Sheridan is a descendant of Phil Sheridan, Garibaldi is no
+direct relation to the famed Italian war hero.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+
+Re: A Civilian in Babylon (18 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: A Civilian in Babylon

+18 Aug 1996
No other civilian viewings at the office are planned; this was a one-off. 
+It was brought to my attention that in my original response to Wendy,
+which was made lightly and in jest, I'd committed a UM, an Unintended
+Meanness, and it was important to me to fix that.  This was done.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN: JMS- Do *YOU* Agree With What The Shadows Want? (18 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS- Do *YOU* Agree With What The Shadows Want?

+18 Aug 1996
"I don't know If this has been asked before, but I would like to know if
+you are part of the 1/3 who will agree with the Shadows intentions?"
+
+It's...not that easy.  Can I make a pretty good argument for some elements
+of what they're about?  Yes.  (And did, in the ep.)  It's a matter of
+extremes...their notion is fine, taken in small doses...in larger doses,
+no.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Who's the Oldest??? (18 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Who's the Oldest???

+18 Aug 1996
"So who is older, the Shadows or the Walkers???"
+
+The shadows, but just by a smidge.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Who *WAS* the Oldest??? (19 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Who *WAS* the Oldest???

+19 Aug 1996
"So, if that is the case, were there ever species older than the shadows?
+"
+
+Well...at least one....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS also available on rastb5m (19 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: JMS also available on rastb5m

+19 Aug 1996
"Due to time constraints, I don't subscribe as a reader to the newsgroup
+directly, but pick up Brent Barrett's listserver "b5jms". There is a faint
+possibility that each of my questions was somehow answered by another fan
+with great detail..."
+
+It's possible.  If it's an informational request, and someone gets to it
+first and answers accurately, there's not much point to my stating the
+same thing twice, when there are 500 more messages waiting.
+
+"...but I have seen very "trivial" mesages, just natter and fun that you
+have answered, yet some questions which ONLY you could have answered went
+completely unnoticed."
+
+Some, yes; many, however, *do* get answered.  Sometimes I choose to "not
+see" a question if it's something that, if I answer it, will give
+something away, or if I don't have a good answer, or I just don't know, or
+if I get caught up and I'm just unable time-wise to reply.  
+
+I'd point out to you and another poster who said that a reply from me on a
+given issue was "required" that I'm not on salary or retainer here; there
+is no obligation in my part to answer ANY questions.  I do as much as I
+can keep up with, and there's a lot TO keep up with.  I'm dancing as fast
+as I can.  But telling me that an answer is required, or busting my chops
+because you're not satisfied that I haven't answered every single question
+put to me isn't going to help.
+
+"According to test postings I've made, other people appear to get the
+messages on the group, so I ask with all sincerity, do you "skip over"
+messages on rastb5m, or is there some "personal" affront that is
+associated with my name?"
+
+Given that I don't have any idea who you are, and have no memory of your
+name, it seems unlikely that there is any affront.  I haven't noticed you
+before now.  
+
+"Given your tendency to shred offensive people and not just ignore them, I
+tend to think that somehow you don't see my messages."
+
+It's altogether possible.
+
+"Would you be kind enough to let me know if my "idle commentary" and "dumb
+questions" are being read by you?"
+
+Why?  First, you'll note that you're calling them dumb and idle, not me,
+so don't attribute that to me.  Second, should I sit here and do this for
+every user on this system?  Or just you?  For every message posted, should
+I say, "Hello, User, I just saw this message, hello..."
+
+"I don't necessarily need an ego scratch every time I post - the benefits
+of your "being busy" are wonderful, so I don't mind if you don't have the
+time to respond to everything - but some indication that you are at least
+*seeing* what I post would be nice. Thanks."
+
+See above.
+
+"As an example, I am extrememly concerned that the final episodes of
+season three may not air in Canada because of the switch in broadcasters.
+Could you please officially confirm whether a special arrangement has been
+made to have the new station(s) air the eps at the same time as the rest
+of the world gets them? I have e-mailed the station, but have received no
+response. I've seen the speculation on various web pages, but would like
+an official word from you."
+
+I don't have one.  I don't know what the situation is in that regard.  If
+that was youre question, and I didn't have any information, I likely
+would've passed it by until I did have accurate information...assuming I
+saw it all, and I don't recall doing so.
+
+There's a tendency some can fall into of thinking they're the only ones on
+the net, and thinking, "well, he can respond to me, or do this one thing
+for me, it's not like everyone else is doing it," when in fact lots of
+other people have exactly the same outlook.  I've asked, repeatedly, that
+people not send private email with story questions best put in public
+forums...but every day I have 30 or more of them, each thinking, "well,
+it's just me."  
+
+I answer as many questions as I can out of the 500+ that float in front of
+my eyes every day.  If there's not a reply, don't assume I'm "affronted,"
+I don't take affront out of the ether or arbitrarily.  And when there IS
+affront, the person involved knows about it pretty fast.  
+
+There's a certain wisdom here about "the perceived center of the
+universe," but it's too obvious....
+
+
+
+Thanks again.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Intertwining "A" and "B" stories (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Intertwining "A" and "B" stories

+20 Aug 1996
I answered this one in considerable detail earlier; I'd hate to be
+redundent.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: Shooting (2 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: JMS: Shooting

+2 Aug 1996
Filming begins August 26th.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS *and* everyone else!: Thanks (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS *and* everyone else!: Thanks

+20 Aug 1996
Thank *you*...the pleasure is entirely mine.
+
+Re: information dense, that's about right.  I believe in writing fairly
+lean; if it doesn't belong there, it shouldn't be there.  Thanks for
+noticing.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Misdirection, or Misdirection? (Walkabout spoilers) (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Misdirection, or Misdirection? (Walkabout spoilers)

+20 Aug 1996
No, those are two different scenes; the first one takes place in Kosh's
+quarters, the second one out in the hallway.  Perhaps that could've been
+made clearer....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn JMS: Writing (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn JMS: Writing

+20 Aug 1996
"Just out of curiosity--which is harder for you, writing an episode (not
+counting the physical aspect) or letting someone else do it?"
+
+Yes.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Lyta - P5 or P10? (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Lyta - P5 or P10?

+20 Aug 1996
Lyta has been certified as a P5 by the Psi Corps.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Is this a Licensed Product? (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Is this a Licensed Product?

+20 Aug 1996
Yes, it's licensed, back from the pilot, which exlains why there are
+Vorlon ships coming at the station.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Favor to Moderators? (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Favor to Moderators?

+20 Aug 1996
"Considering the service that the moderators provide to us, would it
+bepossible to provide themwith tapes of the final 5?"
+
+WB will not allow us to make tapes available to ANYone, for any reason.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+
+
+Re: ATTN: JMS (Dream Sequence) (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS (Dream Sequence)

+20 Aug 1996
The entire dream sequence will be laid out and explained by 3rd season's
+end.
+
+(Can you tell it's going to be a busy final five...?)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: an old, unaswered question (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: JMS: an old, unaswered question

+20 Aug 1996
Why telepaths began to appear among humans...is something you'll find out
+by this (3rd) season's end.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Walkabout (SPOILERS) (20 Aug 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Walkabout (SPOILERS)

+20 Aug 1996
don't look
+
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+
+It was the same effect you would get in a massive energy burst that
+"paints" shadows on the wall, which only he could see.
+
+And no, there's nothing dangerous at all about a fleet coming out of
+hyperspace or a jump point together.
+
+The look of the new Vorlon was developed by John Vulich of Optic Nerve
+based on my suggestions.  I got in after a bit and redesigned/sketched the
+headpiece a bit, and recommended the colors used.  We're actually doing a
+bit of fine-tuning on the new Vorlon prior to next season.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS - About Walkabout (20 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS - About Walkabout

+20 Aug 1996
You've been watching Empire too much, yes....
+
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+ jms
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+
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+

+
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+Re: AAA Rating on Customer Service (2 Aug 1996)
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Re: AAA Rating on Customer Service

+2 Aug 1996
"I've seen you be gracious, informative, and mentoring in this newsgroup
+but this takes the cake."
+
+(shrug)
+
+No big, it's just part of the service.  Jim's right down the hall, ain't
+much of a problem to take ten minutes to go down the corridor and annoy
+him.  In fact, I'll take any chance I get to annoy him....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

+
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+Re: Mr. JMS: 4th season intro & title (21 Aug 1996)
+
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Re: Mr. JMS: 4th season intro & title

+21 Aug 1996
Yes, I've decided on who will give the narration, and what it will say,
+and the overall title of the season...but why just blow that out now and
+lose the impact of actually *doing* it?
+
+
+ jms
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+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS Walkabout (Spoiler) (20 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Walkabout (Spoiler)

+20 Aug 1996
Because Bester is on Earth or Mars, can't just drop everything and come
+when beckoned, and it would take 3 days to get there, and they were in
+kind of a hurry to test this.  Besides, P10s are very few and far between;
+they're more likely to have lower levels as their main weapons, so best to
+see what impact those will have.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Blow by Blow spoilers.. (21 Aug 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Blow by Blow spoilers..

+21 Aug 1996
I gave my reasons in a second post on CIS, and would rather have that go
+through than repeat it all again at length.  In brief, I just think that
+in that much detail, it removes any and all chance of surprise, of seeing
+how something happens.  And the episode is held hostage to how well the
+person presents the synopsis.  For instance, you could say, "in this
+episode, Kosh dies."  Okay, that's a spoiler, and that's fine...the person
+can know what to expect, but still not know *exactly* when it's going to
+happen, and still enjoy it when it does.
+
+Similarly, if someone does a beat-by-beat and describes something very
+flatly, or poorly, it can prejudice the viewer against the episode before
+it even airs.  I can't tell you the amount of email I've received from
+people who say, "I read this detailed synopsis of X on my listserve, and
+from the way it was described it sounded really dopey, but it was great!" 
+
+
+Bottom line...I didn't ask people not to post them, can't enforce it if I
+wanted to, I was just kind of aghast.  Obviously people are gonna do
+whatever they wanna do, that's a given.  It just sorta brought me up short
+a bit, that's all.  Especially knowing how often this can get in the way
+of enjoying the episode, even for those folks who want to be spoiled.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Att JMS: Writers' Boot Camp? (21 Aug 1996)
+
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Re: Att JMS: Writers' Boot Camp?

+21 Aug 1996
Disclaimer: I know nothing about this program except what I've heard
+casually around town, so take everything that follows with a grain of
+salt.
+
+Anyone who tells you that, by following a formula, you will turn out a
+saleable script in 6 weeks is almost always lying.  If the program here is
+mainly just in discipline, and that's something you need to apply butt to
+chair and fingers to keyboard, then that's a different issue.  So beyond
+that, I can't give you an informed recommendation either way.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Religion, Creativity, etc. (22 Aug 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Religion, Creativity, etc.

+22 Aug 1996
"I just saw "Passing through Gethsemane" again, and felt compelled to
+write, for the first time.  I understand you're not religious, but I just
+wanted to take the time out to thank you for your respectful treatment of
+the issue in that episode."
+
+Thanks...but it really isn't a big thing, it's just being honest as a
+writer.  
+
+And if it's helped urge on your own creative works, as you say, then all
+the better.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS or JPL: Who edits the editor? (22 Aug 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS or JPL: Who edits the editor?

+22 Aug 1996
Comments should go to Jim.  I only had a chance to review the newsletter
+after it'd been laid out, and caught some errors, not others.  I've also
+asked Harlan to help with the newsletter, subsequent to the first issue,
+so that should add to it a bit.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:Questions about Z'Ha'Dum and some background mythology... (22 Aug 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:Questions about Z'Ha'Dum and some background mythology...

+22 Aug 1996
"1) Why has Z'Ha'Dum not been destroyed by the Vorlons et al in one of the
+previous wars to prevent the Shadows return?"
+
+Funny, that...you'd think maybe there was something of interest there.
+
+"2) If the planet has been there for so long, would not the star that it
+orbits have died quite some time ago, given that the Shadows are so old?"
+
+I don't think so.  Stars live an awfully long time.  
+
+"3) Was Kosh inspired by the Russian myth of "Koshchei the Deathless"?"
+
+Nope.
+
+"4) Is the Minbari caste system inspired by the Zoroastrian belief that
+was 
+prevalent in ancient Babylon? They too divided themselves into 3 castes,
+warrior, religious and worker."
+
+I kinda knew about this in the back of my head, so it may have been
+subconscious, but if the question is did I consciously do this, no, I
+ain't that smart.
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
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Re: ATTN: JMS ... World Con Autograph

+26 Aug 1996
I haven't heard about a Saturday session, but we'll see what happens when
+we get there.
+
+I think they've *way* underestimated the interest there...
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Who writes Marcus. (23 Aug 1996)
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Re: Who writes Marcus.

+23 Aug 1996
I wrote that particular line; knowing the longstanding British/French
+"feud," for lack of a better term, it seemed appropriate.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: 5th season? (23 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: 5th season?

+23 Aug 1996
"...the rumor I heard is more specific and goes on to say that a critical
+character won't be around for a fifth year."
+
+This is another nonsense rumor.  Not a single cast member has stated this
+to us.
+
+
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question about maybe new show (2 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Question about maybe new show

+2 Aug 1996
The sequel would be a syndicated show.  We'll see....
+
+Meanwhile, something I probably should mention since it showed up in the
+trades the other day...my associates, Doug Netter and John Copeland are
+directly involved in a new series which is just about set to go into
+pre-production, called "Battleground Earth."  The series is based on a
+series bible and script written by Gene Roddenberry in the early 70s. 
+Majel Barrett Roddenberry is also directly involved with the show.
+
+I've been more or less sworn to silence until the news broke in the
+Hollywood Reporter.  I first found out about this shortly after Majel did
+our show, at which time she was very impressed with how we do things here,
+and decided she wanted to work with us.  David Kirschner, primarily known
+as a film producer, is also involved with the series.
+
+They initially asked me to write the new 2-hour pilot script, since a) the
+original is considerably out of date, given when it was first written, and
+b) there was a general concensus that a Roddenberry/Straczynski
+collaboration would be infinitely promotable.  The job was basically mine
+for the asking, but after giving it a great deal of thought, I declined,
+even though the money was good and the show would get a lot of promotion. 
+I have a moral obligation to B5, and that has to come first, I can't have
+any outside distractions.  So instead I've recommended a very good SF TV
+writer who's worked on a number of network shows lately (no, don't ask, I
+won't tell you, and it's probably not who you'd think anyway, and it'd be
+inappropriate for me to say in any event until a deal is signed).  I think
+it'll be a good match-up of talents.  Beyond that, I have no involvement
+with the series, and it'd also be inappropriate for me to talk any more
+about the content or nature of the show; that will have to come from those
+directly involved.
+
+(BTW, for those who get the Sci-Fi Channel, B5 producer John Copeland will
+be on their new show VORTEX, along with Majel, this Friday.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Actors' Preparation (24 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Actors' Preparation

+24 Aug 1996
"I was just wondering how the actors get themselves back in character
+after several months off, especially since there is supposed to be
+something of a cliffhanger from the end of Season Three.  Will the whole
+cast get to sit down and watch the Final Five, or At least the Final One
+in order to help get them mentally back into the B5 Universe quickly? 
+Have any of them seen the episodes, yet?  I'd love to hear their
+reactions!"
+
+Usually they just pick up the script...and get right back into it. 
+They've got the characters down now, so there's not a lot needed to get
+back into it.  Some of them run lines with each other, like Stephen and
+Peter, since that relationship is something very special, but mostly they
+just learn the lines and come in.  Some of them want to see the final
+episodes, but some don't.  The only one to see most of the last two
+episodes thus far is Bruce, who was just totally knocked out by them.  
+
+Peter has said that whenever he needs to get back into character, he just
+straightens and says, "MISter GARiBALdi," and he's right back into it.
+
+
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS: About Quakers

+24 Aug 1996
Yeah, I know, I know, it was late and I screwed this up...I realized it
+ten minutes after posting the message (and noted such in my next reply). 
+mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa....
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult? (24 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult?

+24 Aug 1996
"As one who has successfully accomplished both, which do you consider the
+most difficult: Getting a first novel published, or getting a first TV
+series on the air? I'm not speaking in terms of the amount of work
+involved, rather I mean the difficulty in overcoming the odds against you
+in each respective field."
+
+This is a no-brainer.  The TV series is the hardest.  To write and sell a
+novel, you need just write the novel; once it's out there, you don't have
+to have written 15 prior successful novels to get it sold.  The book is
+judged on its quality and marketability, and if it's good, somebody buys
+it.
+
+My first novel, DEMON NIGHT, sat in a closet for, oh, about 2 years
+(having written it just for myself) until my agent got wind of it, sent it
+off to a NY affiliate, who sent it to an editor/publisher, who bought it
+on sight.  This was when I didn't really have much of a name in TV (which
+actually works against you in literary circles), so that wasn't a factor. 
+Now, obviously, that's an extremely fortuntate and atypical series of
+events, but still indicative in this sense....
+
+People come to me and say they want to sell a TV series.  I try and tell
+them it's impossible if you don't have a credit list an arm long.  Not
+difficult, we're not talking here degrees of difficulty or "overwhelming
+odds," there ARE no odss.  It's simply impossible.  Can't be done.  Hasn't
+been done.  
+
+Ideas are a dime a dozen.  What a network wants is someone who's shown he
+or she can run a series, write for TV, and produce for TV.  (Or film for
+those who've crossed over.)  If a network is going to spend upwards of $22
+million for a series in one year, not even COUNTING what's spent on
+advertising, marketing, publicity, overhead and the like, they need to
+have a certain comfort factor, they need to know that the person knows
+what s/he's doing, and is an experienced writer/producer or, preferably, a
+full-blown show runner.
+
+You don't have to have that for novels.  The odds of selling a first novel
+are, from what I heard somewhere once, about 1 in 6,000.  The odds of
+selling a first TV series if you don't have credits are 0.  
+
+If you *do* have credits, the odds are still massively stacked against
+you.  Every season, the networks put maybe 10-15 shows each into
+development.  That refers to as little as a single pilot script order, or
+as much as multiple scripts, a produced pilot, or pilot plus X-number of
+episodes.  Of those 10-15, maybe 4 or 5 will ever see the light of day. 
+The rest simply vanish.  So that's about 50 possible series per year (and
+that's a very generous figure).  There are around 6,000 members of the
+Writers Guild.  
+
+Most writer/producers go through several development deals before ever
+getting anything on the air.  And B5 wasn't my first in that sense.  I
+developed series for CBS, ABC, syndication groups, re-developed the V
+series for Warner Bros., and others.  It's a very, very long progression
+to this particular chair.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: Who writes Marcus. (25 Aug 1996)
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Re: Who writes Marcus.

+25 Aug 1996
"The writers on Voyager could do it in their sleep."
+
+They could.
+
+But they never do.
+
+Therein rests the difference.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult? (25 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult?

+25 Aug 1996
> It's a very, very long progression to this particular chair.- jms
+
+"Well, I'm glad you're in it, that it fits you so well, and that you're as
+comfortable in it as you are."
+
+Well, yeah, mostly, until every second Thursday when they hook it up to
+the wall socket....
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult? (25 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Novels vs. TV -- How difficult?

+25 Aug 1996
"If this is the case (which I know it is), how come there is so much out
+there that is, in a simple word, terrible?  I mean, if some of these shows
+are the ones that DO get through all this, I shudder to think about the
+ones that don't."
+
+Because so much of TV is formulaic, and because the networks often get
+into the process too much, knocking off all the corners and edges that
+make a concept interesting.  I think that's starting to change, but we'll
+see how far it goes.
+
+"Also, does this set-up mean that established writer/producers can easily
+get something through that never would otherwise (Steven Bochco and "Cop
+Rock" comes to mind...)"
+
+Yes.  The networks often make long-term deals with major producers and set
+aside stuff sight unseen.  The 10:00 timeslot is basically "owned" by a
+very small group of producers, with the rest of the prime-time hours a bit
+more up for grabs.
+
+"On a completely different note, you've written some plays-- how much of a
+Producer role did you take on some of those, and how much did you enjoy
+that aspect of it-- how does theatre compare to TV?"
+
+I had zip involvement as producer, and wouldn't have been qualified to do
+so.  I enjoyed it immensely, and plan to get back into theater one of
+these days.
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Do Any B5 Actors Read Newsgroups? (25 Aug 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS Do Any B5 Actors Read Newsgroups?

+25 Aug 1996
I don't actually know...I do know that Peter, Stephen and Jason are on
+AOL, which would theoretically give them access to the net, but whether or
+not they come into the usenet groups to read, I dunno.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writters Question? (26 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writters Question?

+26 Aug 1996
"1.  How do you go about finding relatively obscure records for
+researching a story?  I have tried every resource I know of short of
+packing up and traveling a 500+ miles to the city in question just to go
+to the library.  And is there a newspaper archive you know of that has all
+of the newspapers online? "
+
+I don't know the online databases well enough to comment here; when I did
+this sort of thing, I generally just went down to City Hall Records and
+started there, and the local newpaper morgue.
+
+"2.  As someone who has written both science fiction and horror, do you
+think one is easier than the other to work in."
+
+Horror, only nominallyl, because you don't have to be quite as rigorous
+about the science (though the supernatural aspect must be consistent), and
+because it's an easier thing for me...I like scaring people.
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+Re: Attn JMS:Can't ask him, so i'll ask you+Ed Wasser. (26 Aug 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS:Can't ask him, so i'll ask you+Ed Wasser.

+26 Aug 1996
In general, I connect to Usenet via my AOL account, regular 28.8 modem for
+that.
+
+I have a couple of web accounts, one on Earthlink (soon to go away) one on
+IBM net, using Netscape 2.0 for most stuff, FreeAgent for the rest.
+
+Now, I'd *bought* a Motorola ISDN modem, but even though I've configured
+it right, had the lines put in, it's greenlighted...can't seem to connect
+to anydamnthing, and I don't have the ISDN numbers for IBM net (and
+getting this info, despite some help from a few folks over there, is like
+pulling teeth)...I'm wired to the gills, but the triple-damned thing ain't
+happening.  Some days I just despair....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: work, if any, after Star Trek (27 Aug 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: work, if any, after Star Trek

+27 Aug 1996
"It seems to me that William Shatner got a lot more work than the rest. Is
+there a reason for this that you know of?  Would it help the
+eventually-to-be-ex-members of the B5 cast?"
+
+Not for some time, and not consistently.  That he was the lead helped, but
+the actors from that period had a real problem which, fortunately, has
+been mitigated a bit in the last 10 years or so.  Working in SF isn't as
+much a liability anymore, so it shouldn't be a big factor for current
+B5/ST actors.
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+Re: The Legend is True (2 Sep 1996)
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Re: The Legend is True

+2 Sep 1996
Re: the number of folks at the two B5 presentations (the official one and
+the hastily arranged second) at Worldcon...the first room held (seated)
+1500 people, I was told.  There were about another 500 who were allowed
+finally to stand in the back.  So figure 2,000.  The second panel was in
+A9, which held 800, and we had about 2-3rds of that, so figure about
+400-600, so you're looking at a total of about 2,400-2,600, which is about
+what we had at San Diego Comic Con.  We're talking here roughly 1/2 of the
+entire Convention attendance, maybe a smidge less.
+
+I was forwarded a piece of email from one of the convention organzers
+expressing his grave doubts that the presentation would draw more than 20%
+of the whole convention...we got nearly 50 percent.
+
+I have to say, btw, that this WorldCon was probably the best, and most
+well organized WorldCons I've ever attended.  No hassles, no frustrations,
+it was just a joy.
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+Re: Attn: JMS CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL! (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: Attn: JMS CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

+3 Sep 1996
Thank you, we're all extremely proud and excited.  It's a terrific
+validation of everything we've been working toward these last 3+ years.
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+Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 be shown on DiSH Network DBS ? (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 be shown on DiSH Network DBS ?

+3 Sep 1996
Syndicated shows can't be/aren't available on dishes of either sort; since
+B5 is syndicated, that leaves us right out.
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+Re: No new eps til Nov?  Is this true? (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: No new eps til Nov?  Is this true?

+3 Sep 1996
Incorrect; new episodes begin in October, with the final 5 from year 3,
+then the season 4 episodes begin in November.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for Worldcon. (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for Worldcon.

+3 Sep 1996
I was happy to do the second presentation.  I was kinda tired...I put a
+lot into these things, so I was physically dead meat by the time the
+second one came around...but that was the only slot they had open, and I
+was determined that people weren't going to get stiffed.  Anybody who's
+been in line for hours -- and some people were there a LONG time --
+deserves more than that.  I've been in those sorts of lines, and gotten
+cut off or shut out, and I won't let it happen to anybody else where I'm
+concerned.  
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+Re: BattleGround Earth: New Series with b5 ties (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: BattleGround Earth: New Series with b5 ties

+3 Sep 1996
"Could this have anything to do with that nasty rumor floating around
+about the possible loss of B5's season 5 because of people affiliated with
+the show leaving to do something else?  I've been out of the loop for a
+couple of week (starting grad. school).  Last I heard about this rumor
+was...nothing.  No confirmations _or_ denials..."
+
+Up until right before I left for Worldcon, I hadn't heard a word of this
+rumor.  Then I got an email from someone asking if it were true.  I asked
+if WHAT were true?  The correspondent explained that according to rumor, I
+was leaving B5 to go to Fox and develop shows for them.
+
+Suffice to say this was the first time I'd heard ANY of this, and it's
+utterly false.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS.  Is it the end or the beginning? (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS.  Is it the end or the beginning?

+3 Sep 1996
The broadcast schedule for B5, like god, transcends all understanding.
+
+And thanks for all the rest.
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+Re: ATTN JMS:The writer's rights to what he writ (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS:The writer's rights to what he writ

+3 Sep 1996
"I'd be interested in how you would answer the conceit (my word) of those
+who
+believe that by selling his work (and therefore 'using' the public) a
+writer has no right to deny access to *any* of his works after death."
+
+That's like saying that if a woman has sex with someone a few times, that
+person is entitled to have sex with that person forever thereafter, that
+the person can no longer say "no" having once put out.
+
+Which is, of course, nonsense.  The writer's work belongs to the writer,
+and if s/he chooses to have any unpublished material destroyed upon
+demise, then that is the writer's right.  It's nobody else's business.  
+
+Similarly, in my case, I destroy all my previous drafts of whatever I
+write.  Anyone who wants to go through my files and pull out the earlier
+(inferior) drafts of scripts or stories, looking for my handwritten
+revisions...you ain't gonna find them.  They're gone, trashed, roundfiled.
+ 
+
+A writer has the right to release that of his or her work which they
+desire; it's their work, after all.  Nobody else gets a vote on that.
+
+"And doesn't this impinge in part of the Cult of Personality question?"
+
+Only in that some folks believe that they have a proprietary interest in a
+writer, and that by virtue of spending X-dollars buying books, they *own*
+that writer, or a piece of that writer, and that that writer is
+accountable to them, owes them something more than the work, and the
+respect between a writer and a reader.
+
+Wrong.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS, subject HUGO   ( B5 WON!!!!!!!) (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS, subject HUGO   ( B5 WON!!!!!!!)

+3 Sep 1996
It's correct that I was wrong; I'd assumed, because 12 Monkeys was listed
+last on the announcement of nominations, that that was the one that had
+been added when we pulled "Fall."  And we all know what happens when we
+assume....
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+Re: Attn JMS: Syndication? (was Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 be shown on DiSH Network DBS ?) (4 Sep 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: Syndication? (was Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 be shown on DiSH Network DBS ?)

+4 Sep 1996
"If the DiSH Network satellite system adds WSBK as they are planning to
+do, who could/would object to the resulting transmission of B5 ?"
+
+
+Oh.
+
+Well, offhand, I can't think of anyone who would...so maybe that would
+work.
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+Re: Snow White (4 Sep 1996)
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Re: Snow White

+4 Sep 1996
"So what're the chances of getting Ed Wasser to dress in drag and play the
+Dark Queen?"
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+On any given Saturday night...pretty good.
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+Re: Spoilers for "Grey 17 Is Missing" (2 Sep 1996)
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Re: Spoilers for "Grey 17 Is Missing"

+2 Sep 1996
spoiler replies....
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+Yeah, I really can't disagree with that analysis.  The Jeremiah thread was
+one of those things that looks great on paper, but when you get it into a
+camera...I dunno, it's one of those weirdnesses that happens in
+television.  Sometimes you've got what you think is an average script and
+it just roars to life on-camera, and something that looks great on paper,
+but in real life...ehh...I'm happy with all the other stuff in the
+episode, but the Jeremiah thread didn't come off as it should've.
+
+I think in part it's also my fault, in that my brain was gearing up for
+the stuff that begins ramping up starting with the next episode, and the
+Grey 17 thing was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, and there
+wasn't going to be a chance to do it down the road, if at all, after this
+season, so I went for it.  As for the Zarg, that's also one of those
+things that didn't come off visually as I'd wanted.  So overall, I'd
+agree...of all the season 3 eps, this one is probably the least effective
+of them all.  But one in a season, that ain't too bad....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Kudos, Q about Lost Episode? (4 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Kudos, Q about Lost Episode?

+4 Sep 1996
It's not that the episode was abandoned; I had the title, but there was
+never a script written to go with it.  The threads got pulled into other
+episodes.
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+cmsg cancel <503clo$ud@newsbf02.news.aol.com> (05 Sep 96)
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+05 Sep 96
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+05 Sep 96
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+jms bags on IBM (4 Sep 1996)
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jms bags on IBM

+4 Sep 1996
You ever just finally reach a point where you've Had It?  
+
+I pass this along as an open letter to IBM, and a warning to anyone here
+about buying from IBM.
+
+I've seen all the same ads you have, and after being very wary for a very
+long time, I finally decided to go for an IBM Thinkpad 560.  Everything
+said it was a great machine.  So I called IBM to order it.
+
+Only IBM doesn't sully its hands with direct orders.  It sends you to a
+secondary company, one of a bunch that handles that sort of thing, and you
+place your order with that company.  Okay, fine, I can handle that.  I
+place the order.  I'm told it'll go out within 3 days, Federal Express.  I
+plan to have it all broken in so I can bring it to Worldcon with me to
+avoid losing any work time.  
+
+A week passes.  More.  I call IBM.  They have no record of it.  I have to
+backtrack to their secondary company.  The secondary company misplaced it,
+never bothered to tell me or IBM.  Finally it goes out.  Arrives with the
+wrong spare battery.  I call them again.  They tell me that I should
+package up the wrong battery, and they'll send me back the right one. 
+This was weeks ago.  Still hasn't happened.
+
+I used the Thinkpad for about 10 hours all total, just getting used to
+Windows 95.  Went to turn it on again, all powered up...it doesn't react. 
+Either I get a dead screen, or it hits the IBM in the upper right corner,
+but nothing more, no beeps, no error messages, nothing.  
+
+So I call Technical Support.  I spend over an hour with them, explaining
+it, as they look into various books and can't figure it out.  I take it
+apart on the phone with them, still nothing.  They tell me someone will
+come by the next day to fix it (at great cost, natch).  Or I can mail it
+in, but I *need it* for that Thursday, when I leave for Worldcon, so I
+can't send it out.
+
+Next day comes, but IBM doesn't.  I get two phone calls again, asking me
+to explain what the problem is.  I tell them.  They say someone will be
+over by the end of the day.  Nobody shows.  Tomorrow, they tell me.
+
+So the next day, a repair tech from IBM arrives...almost two hours
+late...and takes one look at the Thinkpad 560 before announcing he knows
+NOTHING about this model...*doesn't even seem to know how to turn it on*. 
+I show him.  He has no idea what's wrong, but goes into the other room to
+take it apart.  Spends 2 and 1/2 hours doing this (at $125 an hour) before
+emerging to say he's got the screen to come on, but a) he has no idea what
+was wrong, and it might go wrong again, and b) in taking the machine apart
+he's totally bown the configuration, and do I have the configuration
+disks?  No, because the IBM secondary company never SENT me the disks.
+
+So he says he'll take it that evening, and have it back in the morning,
+thinking he may be able to download the software off IBM.  He's come to
+service a Thinkpad 560, but doesn't have any of the software for it, and
+isn't entirely sure how to get it.  It's now Thursday.  I have no chance
+of having this for Worldcon now, so I'm going to lose 4 days work because
+of this.
+
+I call in from the con, and I'm told he's returned with the IBM, and says
+it now works, but he doesn't know for how long.  So today I show up, and
+find that it's in exactly the same condition as when I left, it hasn't
+been configured, he simply and flatly lied to me because he didn't know
+what to do, or how to do it.
+
+So now I have a totally non-functioning IBM Thinkpad 560, for which I paid
+a total of almost $6,000.  Three phone calls to IBM after this have led to
+zero response.
+
+I've been buying computers a long, long time.  I've gone through about six
+full systems and 5 laptops, in each case they lasted long enough to pass
+on to other people to use.  I've never had this much trouble with a
+product, and with their technical support, in 12 years.  And you can't
+find any kind of decent support or clues on where to go on their
+convoluted, impossible-to-decipher web page structure.  I signed onto IBM
+Global Net, which has been equally as frustrating.
+
+So if you're thinking of buying an IBM Thinkpad, folks, I'd urge you to
+consider another company.  This is the most hideous experience I've ever
+had with a computer company, and if I'd had ANY idea how wretched it was,
+I'd never have gone to IBM in the first place.  This is an utter and
+absolute disgrace.
+
+jms
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+ jms
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+Re: B5 vs. ST:V (5 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: B5 vs. ST:V

+5 Sep 1996
Can someone answer me some questions about the premiere, 'cause some stuff
+just didn't seem to make sense.  I've tried to never pick on ST:V for its
+stories, for obvious reasons, but some stuff here just jumped out at
+me....
+
+Why were Starfleet officers, or hardened renegade Maquis, standing around
+huddled and cold, rubbing their arms like lost children and looking
+helpless when they should've been survival-trained at the basic Academy
+level?  They were taught every aspect of a circuit board and a tachyon
+field...but they don't know you can make fire easier with a couple of
+flints than rubbing sticks together?  They looked utterly helpless without
+their technology.
+
+If the Kazon are mad because Voyager won't share its technology, then they
+don't have that technology, right?  So in that case, how were they able to
+know how to run every circuit of the ship when they came aboard, with zip
+time to study it?  It seems to me they knew how to run it, how to fix it,
+how to adjust it...so how is it they can say they don't have the
+technology?  
+
+You come across bones lying on the ground, and nobody considers that these
+may have been either a) a burial site (leave it alone) or b) remains from
+a predator (get the hell out)?  
+
+They built a solar still out of the dead ensign's uniform, but they
+couldn't make a fire?  Say what?
+
+And then people just wander out of camp, by themselves, in the night, when
+they know there are predators and enemies around?  
+
+Starfleet Academy must've become nothing more than an engineering school,
+because a Boy Scout has better survival skills than this bunch.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Even More Nominations (5 Sep 1996)
+
+
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+
Even More Nominations

+5 Sep 1996
Though it's nowhere in the Hugo league...Sci-Fi Universe just contacted us
+with the list of nominees for their awards.  X-Files got 10 nominations,
+Babylon 5 got 8 nominations, DS9 got 7, S:A&B got 6.  None for Voyager
+that I can see on the list.
+
+Categories in which B5 is nominated:
+
+Best Series
+
+Best Actor (Bruce)
+
+Best Supporing Actor (Peter and Andreas)
+
+Best Supporting Actress (Mira and Claudia)
+
+Best Teleplay ("War Without End," jms)
+
+Best Special Effects
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+>From 
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN:JMS  LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES (8 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN:JMS  LEGAL RESPONSIBILITIES

+8 Sep 1996
Stations are required to show credits; often they don't.  We complain, we
+get ignored.  It's vastly annoying.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Your Tirade (WAS Re: JMS on CompuServe (Sep 05, 1996)) (8 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your Tirade (WAS Re: JMS on CompuServe (Sep 05, 1996))

+8 Sep 1996
Yeah, I know it was probably what he wanted...but not the *way* he wanted
+it.  
+
+And sometimes I just need the target practice....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: You Son Of An Emporer (8 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: You Son Of An Emporer

+8 Sep 1996
Ah...a very sad case, that.  Turhan's only child, his son, died during a
+boating accident, of all things.  He drowned.  His personal guard, who was
+apparently unable to find Turhan's son in the murky water, was found dead
+several days after making his report; his own death was officially ruled a
+suicide, out of grief.  But there are always stories....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: B5 Dating Profile Now "Onlyne" (8 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: B5 Dating Profile Now "Onlyne"

+8 Sep 1996
Re: your note....
+
+I am sometimes asked, Do you ever regret creating B5?
+
+Until this message, the answer was no, of course not.  Now, however....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Attn:JMS Kudos, Kudon'ts and other points of interest. (3 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: Attn:JMS Kudos, Kudon'ts and other points of interest.

+3 Sep 1996
We do sometimes use cover for our security teams, as we did in "The Long
+Dark" and "Ceremonies of Light and Dark," but the problem is that our sets
+aren't really set up for that sort of thing as a rule.  But we do it where
+we can.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS (And the Rock - Spoilers) (11 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS (And the Rock - Spoilers)

+11 Sep 1996
Thanks.  That was one of those scenes which, when you do it, you know it's
+gonna stay around for a while....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Sci-Fi Channel's WorldCon Coverage (Dissing B5) (12 Sep 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Sci-Fi Channel's WorldCon Coverage (Dissing B5)

+12 Sep 1996
I was *very* bugged by the bozo the SciFi Channel sent to cover Worldcon. 
+His report wasn't about the con, it was about *him* AT the con.  Here's
+the guy in the dealer's room, putting on funny hats.  Here's the guy
+telling jokes.  Here's the guy acting cute with a prosthetic puppet.  On
+and on and on.  (It's the same kind of annoyance you get with a restaurant
+review that tells you all about the reviewer, and how they got to the
+restaurant, and what their friend talked about, on and on, when all you
+want to know is if the food's good.)
+
+The stress was on oddly dressed fans, cuteness, bad jokes, clowning
+around, all by the "host," and virtually nothing of value on the con
+itself.  You'd get ten seconds of something potentially interesting, then
+he'd jump in again.  Nearly all of the interviews were with media people,
+with very few (and brief) exceptions like Connie Willis and James White.  
+
+And yeah, B5 got stiffed, but that's a lot less annoying than the feature
+overall, and how it was approached, to be cynical or cute by turns, to
+make fun of it all; it's the kind of approach I'd expect from the
+mainstream, not a channel dedicated to SF...of all the famous authors
+there they could've interviews, jeezus, maybe one of the last chances to
+get van Vogt, they could've talked to Silverberg, others, c'mon....
+
+(And no, that wasn't me in the shot, but someone who kinda looked like me.
+ And they misspelled my name on the hugo list.)
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Mr. JMS: A few questions.... (12 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: Mr. JMS: A few questions....

+12 Sep 1996
To your questions:
+
+Yes, we'll see Theo once more in year 3.
+
+You'll hear more from ISN in year 4.
+
+The new Vorlon arrives in "Walkabout," and Lyta's situation will be
+explored more in the first part of year 4.
+
+The Earth First and other groups haven't gone away, but been consolidated,
+as we'll find soon enough.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Changes? (12 Sep 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Changes?

+12 Sep 1996
I don't know that I'd *change* anything in the show if budget were not an
+issue, since it's story driven...I think I'd just do MORE of it all.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Sci-Fi Channel's WorldCon Coverage (Dissing B5) (12 Sep 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Sci-Fi Channel's WorldCon Coverage (Dissing B5)

+12 Sep 1996
I was *very* bugged by the bozo the SciFi Channel sent to cover Worldcon. 
+His report wasn't about the con, it was about *him* AT the con.  Here's
+the guy in the dealer's room, putting on funny hats.  Here's the guy
+telling jokes.  Here's the guy acting cute with a prosthetic puppet.  On
+and on and on.  (It's the same kind of annoyance you get with a restaurant
+review that tells you all about the reviewer, and how they got to the
+restaurant, and what their friend talked about, on and on, when all you
+want to know is if the food's good.)
+
+The stress was on oddly dressed fans, cuteness, bad jokes, clowning
+around, all by the "host," and virtually nothing of value on the con
+itself.  You'd get ten seconds of something potentially interesting, then
+he'd jump in again.  Nearly all of the interviews were with media people,
+with very few (and brief) exceptions like Connie Willis and James White.  
+
+And yeah, B5 got stiffed, but that's a lot less annoying than the feature
+overall, and how it was approached, to be cynical or cute by turns, to
+make fun of it all; it's the kind of approach I'd expect from the
+mainstream, not a channel dedicated to SF...of all the famous authors
+there they could've interviews, jeezus, maybe one of the last chances to
+get van Vogt, they could've talked to Silverberg, others, c'mon....
+
+(And no, that wasn't me in the shot, but someone who kinda looked like me.
+ And they misspelled my name on the hugo list.)
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Did you think you were going to win? (12 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Did you think you were going to win?

+12 Sep 1996
I honestly didn't know how it was going to work out.  I figured
+(correctly, as it turned out) that the main opposition would be Apollo 13.
+ Which for my money would've been a good selection.  (Is it SF?  The
+description John Campbell and, I think, Heinlein gave for SF is "the
+impact on humans of technology."  It even uses the Analog Magazine
+approach of finding a technical solution to a technical problem.  If
+Apollo 13 doesn't count that way, what does?  Is it fiction?  Nnnnnooo, I
+suppose, though certainly elements of it were fictionalized for purposes
+of drama, and I guess that counts somewhat.)
+
+Anyway, that dispute aside, and I can see why it's not a clear issues for
+a lot of folks...understand that I've never won a major award before. 
+I've been up for Ace Awards, the Writers Guild Award, the Gemini Award
+(the Canadian equivilant of an Emmy), the HWA Bram Stoker Award,
+others...but hadn't won, and as a result, you get very guarded about these
+things.  So I didn't know for sure until the words left Roger Corman's
+lips.
+
+And I have to say...this show has won a lot of awards in different areas,
+Emmys and others, but this one, for me, means the most.  Even Warners is
+excited about it, and is taking out a double-page ad in most of the trades
+this Friday, with others to appear the following week.  (We encouraged
+them to also congratulate the nominees for the award as wel, since they
+were all very deserving, it was stiff compettion.)
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS-Appreciation of Support Cast (12 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS-Appreciation of Support Cast

+12 Sep 1996
Supporting cast are *very* important, they add to the sense and feel of a
+working universe that exists outside the main characters.  Again, it's
+that sense of reality.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Another JMS award at Worldcon (12 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: Another JMS award at Worldcon

+12 Sep 1996
Yeah, the Shadow Hugo (an ominous name for what's basically a
+coaster-shaped circuit board with a bronze plate on it) went to B5 from
+Sci-Fi.Com, which was actually the first SF award B5 has gotten, beating
+the real Hugos by about 24 hours.
+
+The reason they had to come out of the SFFWA suite to give me the award
+had to do with my feelings toward SFFWA, from which I resigned over their
+attitude toward media writers and the dramatic nebula (bottom line: all
+media writers are hacks, and it's not real writing, and even though media
+work, scripts, are eligible for membership, or were then, they're not
+eligible for the Nebula because it isn't really writing).  
+
+Actually, what I said to the folks from scifi.com was..."I wouldn't go in
+there for the presentation if I were dying of lung cancer and they were
+offering free chemotherapy at the door."  Nothing against many of the
+SFFWA members, many of them are fine folks who're taking the rap for a
+provincially minded leadership, but after the grief I got from SFWA over
+all this before, the hate mail, the vindictiveness, the resignation (to
+this day they still haven't had the guts to print my letter of resignation
+in the Journal), I just couldn't go in there for the award.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Your AOL Home Page (12 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your AOL Home Page

+12 Sep 1996
Urrrk....that isn't set up yet for anybody else, I was just sorta screwing
+around with it, and having a hard time with the interface, basically
+abandoned it halfway through putting it together.  Please ignore it...I'll
+delete it asap.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Foundation Imaging Collapse - Sinking into the sand? (11 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Foundation Imaging Collapse - Sinking into the sand?

+11 Sep 1996
The post put up in public forums was a private email, and since I didn't
+keep a copy of it, I can't verify if every word is as I wrote it or not. 
+There's a lot I can't say on this publicly at this point, though I hope to
+be able to do so soon.  Business stuff that has to get ironed out first.
+
+What I will say about the CGI for season 4 is just this...that the
+equipment being used is equal to, or better than the equipment at
+Foundation; the animators are largely those who have worked on B5 in the
+past, who were let go some time ago when Foundation downsized, with a few
+outside additions, just as Foundation would add to its ranks from outside;
+and there should be *zero* difference onscreen to what has been the case
+on B5, except that it will continue to improve over what we've done in the
+past.
+
+As usual every season, we start out with lighter CGI episodes, and build
+to big stuff as we go.  That will be the same this season as last.  Our
+first really big CGI episode last season was "Messages," which was around
+episode #8, then "Severed," episode #10.  This season we'll hit with big
+stuff around episode #6, which will likely be as big as "Severed."  Rather
+than push stuff back, we've been able to move CGI stuff forward and expand
+on scenes.
+
+Basically, the bottom line is that whatever we've done on the show has
+been with one and only one goal: we thought we could make it better by
+doing X.  Invariably, when people hear what's up, the inititial reaction
+is to panic...until they actually SEE what we're doing...and then it
+becomes clear.  This is no different.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: Just at Thank You (3 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Just at Thank You

+3 Sep 1996
Thanks...we try.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: And the Rock Cried Out (* Spoilers *) (11 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: And the Rock Cried Out (* Spoilers *)

+11 Sep 1996
No, the song in "Rock" is an old gospel song.  I've always had a soft spot
+for old gospel songs and spirituals because of their wonderful use of
+language and imagery, and you can dance to 'em.  Not that I dance, but the
+theory is there, at least.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Your HomePage (14 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your HomePage

+14 Sep 1996
The homepage on AOL is just a dinky thing, and not able (I think) to use
+anything really fancy, it's a very "dumb" interface...not much to be done
+for it.  I have to get around to dumping it....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS : Possible re-edit of Grey 17 *spoilers* (17 Sep 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS : Possible re-edit of Grey 17 *spoilers*

+17 Sep 1996
We did the best we could with what we had...we'd have to go back and
+reshoot the whole sequence, and that we can't do.  
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Passing the torch . . . (13 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Passing the torch . . .

+13 Sep 1996
"Who exactly owns the 3D models, the textures, all the stuff that
+Foundation made for the EFX in the episodes?  I assume you or Warner Bro.
+does."
+
+WB owns it all.  WB owns the copyright on B5 (as does every studio
+producing a series, as Paramount owns ST), and anything produced in the
+process of making that show.  
+
+"Part of the reason I ask is, I swear I saw some models or parts of models
+in Hypernauts.""
+
+Very likely.  I think the rule is that if you change it more than 50%, you
+can use it for secondary purposes.
+
+"Are the new guys (NDE) still using Lightwave 3D/Video Toasters etc.?  It
+would be a major pain to try and convert all the 3D models over into a new
+format.  Also, I'm a Lightwave fan . . ."
+
+I'm reasonably sure it's all been ported over to a PC platform, but it's
+still Lightwave.  These are the latest machines off the line, and they're
+extremely fast and powerful.
+
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+Re: B5 dreams of Londo (13 Sep 1996)
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Re: B5 dreams of Londo

+13 Sep 1996
Speaking of dreams...I recently got caught in a dream feedback loop.
+
+When I was at Worldcon in Anaheim, I made the mistake of eating a hot
+pretzel in the shape of Mickey Mouse's head right before going to bed.  In
+the dream, I had this thick head of hair...and somebody asked me how it
+felt, having this thick head of hair, and I said, "Great, and now at last
+I have a title for my autobiography: `I Dreamed I Had Hair.'"
+
+And on this I shot staight awake, thinking "What the HELL was THAT?"
+
+It's Mickey's fault.
+
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+Re: JMS (Anyone) - New Designers? (13 Sep 1996)
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Re: JMS (Anyone) - New Designers?

+13 Sep 1996
"With the change in CGI houses, can we expect a "new approach" or
+substantial change in the *design* of new ships, cities, creatures, etc?"
+
+Nope.  The CGI is created by using set geometries, textures and other
+elements that are stored as data.  We have virtually all that data at
+hand; as a result, it is made of the same identical elements, and will be
+indistinguishable from anything done before.  So no, what's been
+established won't be changed at all.  What we will do is increase the
+level of detail and texturing in some of the models, so that we can bring
+them closer to camera, something I've been wanting to do for a while now. 
+(The closer we get to camera, the bigger and more massive the object
+appears.)  
+
+I saw some of the first renderings today, and as this was the first stuff
+off the line, I was in hyper-critical mode, looking for something to
+quibble with.  I couldn't see any difference between this and what we've
+had in the past.  (One was a nifty little sunrise shot, the lights going
+off as a group of starfuries fly past.)
+
+There are also about six or seven new major ships we'll be seeing in the
+first batch of year 4 episodes that are being built now, and the first
+renderings on them looked very cool.  
+
+"Or - are the show's principle designers still on board?"
+
+Yes and no.  Steve Burg was a principal designer of the Agamemnon, the
+Starfury design, the Minbari cruisers, B5 itself, and other ships.  He's
+hip-deep right now working on "Contact," and not available for a while
+yet.  We've always had to sandwich in Steve's stuff between his major film
+gigs.  (He did major design work on The Abyss, Waterworld, T2, others.) 
+As soon as he's free, we'll send some stuff his way.  Eric Chauvin, who
+has done our digital matte paintings (Centauri Prime exteriors, palace,
+others) and other stuff, like the ship-lift used by the Lumati, is still
+with B5, doing the same stuff.
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+Re: Mr. JMS: The Files from Foundation (14 Sep 1996)
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Re: Mr. JMS: The Files from Foundation

+14 Sep 1996
Virtually all of the graphics files are in hand, so all the pieces are
+already in place.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Captain Power (15 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Captain Power

+15 Sep 1996
There was a certain amount of teeth-cutting on CP, a chance to try bits
+and pieces of an arc, and some techniques we'd later use on B5.  It
+weren't a bad show, all things considered....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: You set the pace (15 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: You set the pace

+15 Sep 1996
Yeah,  a lot of folks seem unaware of what we're doing here...when we see
+articles on how net-folk and tv-folk interact, it's almost always about
+X-Files or the other shows.  We seem hardly visible, some days....
+
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+Re: TNT Showing Reruns.... (15 Sep 1996)
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Re: TNT Showing Reruns....

+15 Sep 1996
The series will begin on TNT 6-9 months after we finish our initial run.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Bradbury (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Bradbury

+3 Sep 1996
I think I probably haven't separated out Bradbury's work for special
+attention mainly because it's so much "in the air," that it's part of
+one's environment, and one doesn't notice it sufficiently to comment on
+it.
+
+Bradbury was one of the first SF authors I stumbled across, specifically
+"The Martian Chronicles," which just blew my brains across the wall and
+splattered them on the library windows.  His use of language, imagery, the
+very human details of his work...it astonished me.  Sometimes I hear
+Bradbury creeping into my dialogue from time to time...a turn of phrase or
+a word choice.  
+
+Interestingly enough, if you ask Bradbury who was one of his primary
+influences, prehaps the most singular influence, he'll cite Norman Corwin
+as well.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: WB's Perception on Newsgroups. (16 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: WB's Perception on Newsgroups.

+16 Sep 1996
I think the studios are gradually coming to perceive the importance of the
+nets, but their perception is probably 10 years behind the reality.
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+Re: Babylon 5 - the long slow slide (16 Sep 1996)
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Re: Babylon 5 - the long slow slide

+16 Sep 1996
It has to get real dark before it can get light; and if you're going to
+have a war, you have to have battles.  But believe me, there's a lot more
+coming down the pike of a different sort.
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+Re: JMS: Why no accent for Ivanova? (17 Sep 1996)
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Re: JMS: Why no accent for Ivanova?

+17 Sep 1996
As Ivanova's mentioned from time to time, she was born in the Russian
+Consortium but raised mainly outside the country, from boarding school to
+boarding school, to keep her one step ahead of the Psi Corps.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS, "Say Hello, Mister Quigley" (18 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS, "Say Hello, Mister Quigley"

+18 Sep 1996
Actually, I adapted my story for "Say Hello, Mr. Quigley" into an actual
+short story, and it appeared a year or two ago in the Midnight Grafitti
+Anthology, and in Pulphouse.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Starwolf -- what do you think so far? (19 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Starwolf -- what do you think so far?

+19 Sep 1996
I'd be happy to comment...except it ain't my project, and I think any
+commentary from me on David's project would be inappropriate.  It's his
+pony ride.  I'll say only that David's been around a LONG time, he's a
+solid writer, he knows and respects the genre, and if anyone can pull off
+a show like this, it's him.  I'm looking forward to it.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: May I quote you? (19 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: May I quote you?

+19 Sep 1996
You can quote my message...I'd have to dig through endless files to find
+my SFWA resignation...but the message only tells about 10% of the story,
+so it's almost not worth the trouble.  It's kinda like a Martian landing
+right after the end of the Civil War and asking a soldier trudging back
+from the final field of battle, "So, what happened?"  Where do you
+start...?
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+Re: Londo's Lament, Redemption or Fire?  (long) (19 Sep 1996)
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Re: Londo's Lament, Redemption or Fire?  (long)

+19 Sep 1996
There's another way to look at this, which occured to me as I was writing
+it, so I structured it accordingly.
+
+Morella: "You must save the eye that does not see."
+
+Londo:  "I...do not understand."
+
+I.
+
+Eye.
+
+We never actually saw how she spelled or meant this.
+
+Given Londo's background, one could almost make the case that the
+discussion was about him.  Not saying that's it, but it's a possibility
+and a subtext.
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+Re: JMS: (SPOILERS for Shadow Dancing) Babylon 5 kits? (19 Sep 1996)
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Re: JMS: (SPOILERS for Shadow Dancing) Babylon 5 kits?

+19 Sep 1996
Basically, Monogram/Revell will be doing the model kits; the deal just got
+put through so there aren't any other details yet.
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+Re: JMS: What happened to your website? (19 Sep 1996)
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Re: JMS: What happened to your website?

+19 Sep 1996
You have to understand, I'm a perfectionist...nothing leaves my hands
+until it's as good as I can make it.
+
+I was diddling around with the AOL software for making a web page, and
+seeing what worked and what didn't, on the theory that down the road I
+could use it to put out some more personally-oriented stuff (like my
+writing book) without taking up time on the public forums to do so. 
+Anyway, I was just playing with it, and had left what I was doing in
+place...and somebody found it.  It was never intended to be seen in that
+state, so I deleted it.
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+Re: JMS: "Grey 17" & Carl Sagan (20 Sep 1996)
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Re: JMS: "Grey 17" & Carl Sagan

+20 Sep 1996
No, I hadn't even read that passage...it basically goes back a lot longer
+than Sagan.
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+Re: Quit complaining about JMS's comments (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: Quit complaining about JMS's comments

+3 Sep 1996
"Something to think about.  If people complain too much about JMS's posts
+then perhaps he might not take so much time out of his busy schedule to
+enlighten us with them."
+
+Not much chance of that.  Zero, actually.  I've been riding the nets, and
+taking the brickbats with the praise, since 1984.  Very little fazes me. 
+Complaints are part and parcel, and sometimes they're justified, and
+sometimes they're not, but they're just a part of the process.  
+
+Nutcases are, natch, a somewhat different issue...but them we just deal
+with.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: New Sets? (20 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New Sets?

+20 Sep 1996
Yeah, we've got some new ones coming this next year...some underground
+stuff at other places, more Narn locations, exterior sets and interior
+sets on Centauri Prime, more Earth stuff...basically we're looking to
+continue expanding the show.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks! (21 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks!

+21 Sep 1996
This is obviously not your sister's fault, but rather her boyfriend's
+fault.  I think you have every right to be exercised about this, as it
+bodes poorly for future family relations should this relationship turn
+serious.  (Remember, the key to the universe is always having someone to
+blame, so you're halfway there.)  Go to him, man to man, and tell him to
+insist to your sister that you be allowed to watch the show.  
+
+Or watch it and lie about it later.
+
+I won't tell.
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+Re: Star Trek's and Babylon 5's special effects (21 Sep 1996)
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Re: Star Trek's and Babylon 5's special effects

+21 Sep 1996
The only problem with comparing B5 and ST EFX is that more and more, ST is
+going to our mode of doing things.  The first new Voyager ep up this
+season had most of their space EFX provided by Foundation, the CGI company
+we've been using.  So the fundamental elements were the same, by the same
+people, using the same technology, at the same company.  
+
+On the theory that one doesn't deliberately do things that will be
+*inferior* to what you have done before, that the ST shows are gradually
+changing over to CGI, in many cases from the same people that provided our
+CGI, would seem to imply that they themselves have decided it's
+better...which makes the whole discussion kinda moot.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: any more mysteries? (21 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: any more mysteries?

+21 Sep 1996
There are always new mysteries....
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+Re: Hi JMS (21 Sep 1996)
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Re: Hi JMS

+21 Sep 1996
Thanks.  None of the Zone episodes have been released on tape, as far as I
+know; they're available kind of spottily here and there on broadcast.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: How's Your Sanity?  ;-) (23 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: How's Your Sanity?  ;-)

+23 Sep 1996
Re: higher levels of mental disorder among writers...I don't agree with
+that at all.
+
+     Neither do I.
+
+Shut up, nobody asked you for your opinion.
+
+     Hey, I have access to the keyboard too, you know.
+
+I'm not listening.
+
+     Neither am I.
+
+Never mind...let me get back to this later, when Certain Parties --
+
+     I heard that.
+
+-- have gone to sleep.  Meanwhile, I'd just pass this along for your
+edification: in surveys of the clinically insane, the #1 goal for most of
+them when they get out, what they want...is to become psychologists or
+psychiatrists...like the fellow who made this analysis of writers.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:Darker show in season 4? (23 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:Darker show in season 4?

+23 Sep 1996
We do a lot of Dolby surround EFX, and often get compliments on it.  The
+problem may be in the station broadcasting it in your area.
+
+S4 will be...more mature, but darker per se...depends on what part of it
+you're talking about.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: I Demand Restitution!!!! (27 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: I Demand Restitution!!!!

+27 Sep 1996
Unfortunately, the laws regulating the transportation of dangerous goods
+do not permit the shipping of bagels through the mail service.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: How long to complete an episode? (3 Sep 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: How long to complete an episode?

+3 Sep 1996
Once I start writing, it takes me about 7-10 days to finish a script. 
+Usually scripts are done several weeks before preproduction begins.  Prep
+then starts about 2 weeks prior to shooting.  Shooting takes 7 work days. 
+Post takes on average 52 days.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATT JMS: Demon Night (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATT JMS: Demon Night

+3 Sep 1996
Morgan: in hearing the sorts of books you like, I have two words for you:
+Jonathan Carroll.  Try his "Bones of the Moon," or if you can find it,
+"The Land of Laughs."
+
+"Demon Night" was a decent first attempt; I never actually wrote it
+intending for it to ever be published; I just sorta wrote it for myself,
+as an exercise, then stuck it in a closet for almost 3 years until my
+agent one day suggested I write one someday, and I mentioned I had one. 
+Almost didn't give it to her, figuring it was an okay start, but I needed
+to really learn more.  She read it, loved it, gave it to her NY associate,
+who sold it to the first editor who looked at it, and it got a Bram Stoker
+Award nomination from the Horror Writers of America.  So what the heck do
+I know...?
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATT JMS: Demon Night (3 Sep 1996)
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Re: ATT JMS: Demon Night

+3 Sep 1996
Writing novels is something I do want to get back to; my next novel is
+already fully outlined, I have all the research stuff I need, but it's a
+1,000 page story, and I need one fairly focused year to write it.  So as
+much as I enjoy writing novels, it'll have to wait until I'm done with B5,
+alas.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Att JMS: BabPro Responsibilities? WAS Re: Cons and Your Health (1 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: Att JMS: BabPro Responsibilities? WAS Re: Cons and Your Health

+1 Oct 1996
John Copeland is a producer on the show, a line producer (technical term).
+ Problem is, he's only on AOL.  I try to direct people to the right areas
+in general terms -- if there's a fan club question, go to Jim Lockett at
+jplb5@aol.com, for instance -- but basically, I'm here, and if a question
+comes my way, I kinda have to answer it because there's nobody else here
+to do it.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: Attn: JMS:question on the warrior and the spirit (3 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: Attn: JMS:question on the warrior and the spirit

+3 Oct 1996
That relationship, the warrior, the spirit, and the flesh, is just what's
+dealt with in very short order....
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Justice in Genocide? (was Re: Z Ha Dum (* Spoilers *)) (3 Oct 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Justice in Genocide? (was Re: Z Ha Dum (* Spoilers *))

+3 Oct 1996
Spoiler reply:
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+
+Lemme put it to you this way, Neely.
+
+If someone pointed to an aggressor city (and for the shadows there's no
+distinction between civilian and military, it's all the same, the only
+thing that drives them on), which was unified by its desire to wreak havoc
+and commit massive warfare, and said, "By eliminating that city of 100,000
+agressors you will save the lives of 8 billion innocent bystanders," I'd
+push that button in a hot second, and never regret it.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Writing policy change (was: Walkabout) (6 Oct 1996)
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Re: Writing policy change (was: Walkabout)

+6 Oct 1996
"Was there some incident that we don't know about? It seems to me that
+there must have been. "
+
+Nope.  No incident.  The situation with year 3 was that *so much* was
+being paid off, and set up, and foreshadowed, and required such intimate
+knowledge of where the show was going, and where it'd been, that it made
+it nearly impossible to bring in any outside writers.  
+
+There has never been any series in television history where every episode
+was utterly beyond criticism.  Some are better, some are worse, some are
+average.  There are many Twilight Zones by Rod Serling that are utterly
+brilliant.  And some that just fall flat.  That's the nature of the beast.
+ Sometimes something will look great on the page, and fall flat on the
+stage.  (And sometimes it happens in reverse; you think you've got
+something that won't work, and somehow the filmed version just takes off.)
+ There's a lot about Walkabout I like; and there's some stuff that just
+didn't work out.  You try something different here and there, and
+sometimes it works, and sometimes it don't.  TV, or any form of writing,
+is the constant process of trial and error.  It's not like one day you
+forget how to write, or you're writing bad...you very rarely fall below a
+certain facility once you reach it.  
+
+There's not a writer alive who has turned out nothing but terrific stuff. 
+Now, one could turn out a lifetime of mediocre stuff, by not trying...but
+I think it's better to shoot high, and sometimes fall, knowing that you'll
+get something great one out of every five tries, than not try at all and
+just do okay.  
+
+"Grey 17" is the same thing, for me.  There are bits in that I like a lot.
+ And some parts of it just fell down dreadfully.  That's simply the nature
+of the beast.  I thought I'd try something different in the tone of "Grey"
+and while most of the writing works (mostly), the production fell down on
+a couple of aspects.  It happens.  It doesn't mean anything.  
+
+On the other hand, the following 3, "Rock," "Shadow" and "Z'ha'dum" are
+some of the best stuff we've done.  The preliminary P5 survey has
+"Z'ha'dum" as the best episode of the entire series to date.  Did I
+suddenly learn to write better?  If there were a problem with being tired,
+then by all rights you should see a descending order in quality.  But
+these last 3 are some of our best work.
+
+The real key here is something I heard someone say a while back about TV:
+a flaw, or a flop, or a misstep happens by accident as often as by
+inability; but real quality is never an accident.  So the latter is more
+indicative of the level of the show than the former, since accidents or
+missteps *always* happen.  
+
+"Walkabout," for me, is a good episode with a very few clunky parts; for
+me, it's a middle of the road episode.  "Grey" falls a bit short of that,
+for me.  But then, I'm very hard on my shows; a lot of folks have liked
+"Walkabout" a *lot*.  I didn't much like "Infection," but many did; and
+some shows I love dearly, like "Geometry," don't catch on.  It's
+subjective.  And where you say the battle falls short, others like it...so
+on one level, I'd caution against applying your standard as an objective
+one that is somehow more true than another, and thus asking "what's wrong
+with *you* that I had this opinion?"  If everyone on the planet shares
+that opinion, then you've got something.  Otherwise....
+
+And there are always some people who don't want the character stuff at
+all, they want battles...and some for whom the CGI is of secondary
+interest to the plot...and those who want arc stories *only*...and those
+who like the stand-alones.  Some of it is a function of what you want.
+
+Anyway...point being, and I went around the barn a few times to get there,
+no, there's no "incident" and I don't even know what this could refer to. 
+Some episodes work better for some people than others.  That will happen
+whether you've got 1 person or 50 people writing scripts.  I caught a lot
+of *very* negative comments on Peter David's script, which you cite (as
+well as many positive ones).  The Brits in particular seem to uniformly
+dislike that one.  And in the P5 surveys, the freelance scripts are *all*
+in the bottom third of the rankings.  So it's really not a question of
+freelancers or no, it's just that TV is variable, as is any kind of
+writing.  Not every episode is going to work for you.  Nor should you
+expect it to.  I'm very much an X-Files fan...but there are some scripts
+that work better for me than others.  Doesn't mean anything other than
+that show didn't quite jell for me.  That's the nature of TV.  
+
+I'm sure somebody will cite this as being defensive about it, but honest
+and true, I'm not.  I'm just trying to explain it from this end of things.
+ My prior exec producer said, "You're doing *real* good if, in a season,
+you've got one-third that are pretty good, one-third that are okay, and
+one-third you never want to see again the rest of your natural life."  I
+think we do a heck of a lot better than that, and that's a heck of an
+accomplishment.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: JMS: Season Four, the HUGO, and the WWWF Grudge Match (4 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: JMS: Season Four, the HUGO, and the WWWF Grudge Match

+4 Oct 1996
"1)I've noticed that, according to the Lurker's Guide, you have written
+the first eight episodes of season four.  Are you planning to write the
+entire season?  I hope so.  Season three kicked ass.  I can only assume
+that the Hugo must have revitalized your writing spirit."
+
+It was a big help, no mistake.  
+ 
+"2)How does it feel to be in a class of sci-fi writers that produced such
+classics as Star Wars, Alien, 2001, and of course old Harlan's classic
+Trek episode?"
+
+Well, that kind of approbation is granted by time and time alone, not by
+the person doing the work...if the show survives and thrives twenty years
+from now, as is my hope, ask me again then.  Now, it would be presumptive
+of me to do so.
+
+"3)Did you get a chance to read the WWWF Grudge Match a few weeks ago?"
+
+No....
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS   "Opus 322, blues in VCR-major repair" (4 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS   "Opus 322, blues in VCR-major repair"

+4 Oct 1996
Yeah, but didn't the hassle just add to the experience?  Now you've not
+only seen the episode, but you've got a great story to tell about it.
+
+Take the magic when it comes.
+
+
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: HELP!!!! (6 Oct 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: HELP!!!!

+6 Oct 1996
Writers known primarily for TV work are not generally the ones hired for
+high profile film work.  I've done some film assignments (none produced),
+but for a Heinlein, they'd go to a screenwriter, not a TV writer.
+
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+Re: Walkabout question (spoiler for Walkabout) (6 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: Walkabout question (spoiler for Walkabout)

+6 Oct 1996
In "Severed Dreams," the dilemma faced by the Alexander in the teaser is
+that if they jump, they'll end up leaving their fighters behind.  A jump
+engine rips the area open for that one ship, and closes it again right
+behind it.  What sometimes happens, as in "All Alone," is that *as a ship
+comes out*, it releases its fighters.  But you can't just follow a ship
+into a jump point formed by another ship.  You'd probably get torn apart
+when space folded back on you, because the field opening the point is
+primarily around the other ship.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Shadow Dancing assemblage (*SPOILERS*) (7 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Shadow Dancing assemblage (*SPOILERS*)

+7 Oct 1996
Simple....you don't bring in the big guns like that until you're ready for
+the final assault.  You don't whistle 'em up when convenient.  You can
+probably go to the well just once with these guys, and you want to do so
+only when you're ready for D-Day.
+
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+Re: "Walkabout" Enters the Twilight Zone (minor spoilage) (7 Oct 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: "Walkabout" Enters the Twilight Zone (minor spoilage)

+7 Oct 1996
Well, that's what happens when you invite a Narn to dinner.
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+Re: Attn JMS: Season 3 to 4 transition (7 Oct 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: Season 3 to 4 transition

+7 Oct 1996
The events in 401 take place roughly 7 days after 322.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writing With the Subsocscious (1 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writing With the Subsocscious

+1 Oct 1996
"Do you think that you write at both the conscious and subconscious level
+simultaneously."
+
+I think any writer has to operate at both levels at the same time.  You
+learn to trust your instincts.  There's a certain point when you're "in
+the zone," to use a sports phrase, and the logical part of you is
+structuring the plot, and the illogical, intuitive part of you is filling
+in the corners.  You have to be open to both voices for it to work.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Clarification (WAS Re: Writing policy change SPOILERS) (7 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Clarification (WAS Re: Writing policy change SPOILERS)

+7 Oct 1996
"By "incident", I meant perhaps a Roddenberry-esque communication
+breakdown between producer and writer"
+
+No, I get along with me fairly well most days...someone has to.  Of
+course, there are some days I won't talk to me, stalk out of the room
+whenever I walk in, and there was that time I locked me in the closet
+until I forced me to finish a script, the embarrassing moment when we both
+showed up for a meeting dressed in the same chiffon number and answering
+to the name Dorothy...but other than that, no, no noteworthy incidents to
+report.
+\
+
+ jms
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+Re: All that Jazz (WAS: Re: Walkabout Science Nit Pick) Spoilers removed (8 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: All that Jazz (WAS: Re: Walkabout Science Nit Pick) Spoilers removed

+8 Oct 1996
Here's what I think is a bit of cultural short-sightedness.  Everybody
+keeps saying, "well, if they had that kind of music, shouldn't it have
+been shown to be an oldies bar or something?"
+
+Look at classical music for a moment.  Goes back to Beethoven, Brahms,
+Bach and lots of composers whose names don't even begin with B.  And
+earlier.  Now, I don't mean to alarm anyone or startle anyone with this
+revelation, but classical music is *still being written and performed*
+hundreds of years later.  Not old stuff, new stuff, of that school and in
+that style.  The orchestral suites in the Star Wars movies are strongly
+based on classical compositions...is that "oldies" stuff?  You've got one
+of the longest running musical plays running now in London, in "Phantom of
+the Opera," a *new* composition (well, mostly, knowing how Webber works).
+
+Jazz and blues kinda formally began in the 1920s and 1930s, but its roots
+run back to spirituals and african-american music in the 1800s.  And it
+didn't just stop suddenly in the 1930s.  There's still new material being
+written in that style now; so should Stevie Ray Vaughn's albums or
+performances have been labeled "oldies?"  After all, it's sixty years
+later and more.
+
+Certain musical styles will stay with us for a long, long time.  Not
+performances based on old stuff, but new material in that vein, for those
+forms that have shown themselves to be enduring.  200 years from now, in
+addition to other forms, you're still going to have original blues songs,
+original classical compositions, original jazz, original compositions in
+the style of gregorian chants, on and on and on.
+
+It's odd when people try to apply illogical rules to the future that don't
+apply now; no one said, as noted, that a Stevie Ray Vaughn concert should
+be billed as an "oldies" event, or an oldies bar...even though it's over
+half a century since serious blues started going...it's just silly.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: How Deep Space Nine creates its special effects... (8 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: How Deep Space Nine creates its special effects...

+8 Oct 1996
All of which, of course, is why Foundation Imaging, which provided B5's
+CGI effects since the pilot, is now doing much of the EFX work for ST.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Epilogue Speeches (minor spolier?) (8 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Epilogue Speeches (minor spolier?)

+8 Oct 1996
The only thing worse than the way I look on camera, is my voice.  Eck. 
+No, not a chance.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: How does JMS feel about fan fiction? (9 Oct 1996)
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Re: How does JMS feel about fan fiction?

+9 Oct 1996
Bottom line, and real simple:
+
+I've asked that fans *not* write any fan fiction set in the B5 universe
+while the show is on the air.  Remember, most ST fanfic began after the
+show was over, to keep those characters alive.  We're still around.
+
+Fanfic is a threat to us, in that if someone writes a story, puts it in a
+fanzine, and something remotely similar is done in the show, that person
+could decide to sue.  It happens; Marion Zimmer Bradley lost an entire
+*book* over this, when her publisher refused to put the book out because
+of the threat of lawsuit from a fanzine with a similar story.  
+
+When someone posted a basic story idea similar to what was planned for
+"Passing Through Gethsemane," that script went into cold storage for over
+a year; only when the fan involved offered (greatly chagrined) to write
+and sign a legal release, and delivered it to me, could that story be put
+back into prep.  If he had not been this kind, THAT EPISODE WOULD NEVER
+HAVE BEEN MADE.  Roll that one around for a while.
+
+It seems to me that if someone wants to write B5 fanfic, it's because that
+fan likes the show, appreciates what's done, and respects those who
+created it.  And that selfsame fan would not want to jeapordize the
+continued existence of that show.  And would, therefore, honor this
+request from those who make it for the duration of the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Art of Screenwriting (9 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Art of Screenwriting

+9 Oct 1996
The script which, I hope, WB has included, for "The Coming of Shadows," is
+written exactly the same way I write *all* my scripts, whether for B5 or
+Murder, She Wrote or any other series.  And there's really no one way to
+do this, which is something I make clear in the book...you find the style
+that works for you.  I've seen, and bought, scripts that were very spare
+when it came to camera stuff, and scripts that were chockablock with them.
+ Ain't no one answer in this business.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS AND ALL: Interesting article in Chicago Tribune (9 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS AND ALL: Interesting article in Chicago Tribune

+9 Oct 1996
Re: places where B5 isn't mentioned and should be...here's another, which
+came out this week, and it's hit that point now where I just have to
+laugh....
+
+The current issue of Cinefantastique has a whole two or three page article
+about how Voyager is now using story arcs across episodes.  They consider
+it a new kind of storytelling for them, but cite the notion that it *has*
+been used here and there.  The magazine (not the folks at the show)
+enumerate such examples as Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, LA Law...of which
+2 out of 3 shows are no longer on the air...but what's the one they
+*don't* mention?  The only one really doing this in SF until lately?
+
+Yup.  I think the magazine deliberately pre-censored themselves on this,
+because they suspect that the folks at Paramount grind their gears bigtime
+if B5 is EVER mentioned as in any way having an influence on their shows. 
+
+
+Here's JMS's rule of journalism, which you'll see repeated in 90% of the
+articles on SF out there: if it's an article on B5, ST is almost always
+mentioned somewhere; if it's an article on ST, you almost *never* see B5
+mentioned.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: All that Jazz (WAS: Re: Walkabout Science Nit Pick) Spoilers removed (9 Oct 1996)
+
+
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Re: All that Jazz (WAS: Re: Walkabout Science Nit Pick) Spoilers removed

+9 Oct 1996
"But it *would* be nice to hear some Zeppelin, or Beatles, or Blues
+Traveller, rather than semi-mainstream fare."
+
+Yup.  Only problem...it costs an arm and a leg, and that's one limb more
+than we can afford.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: Philosophy ? (SPOILERS for F5) WAS JMS's "old" GEnie posts (9 Oct 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Philosophy ? (SPOILERS for F5) WAS JMS's "old" GEnie posts

+9 Oct 1996
"When is walkabout a legitimate choice, and when is it a cop-out?"
+
+When you're more afraid of what you're running *to* than what you're
+running *from*.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Profound thanks (10 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Profound thanks

+10 Oct 1996
The pleasure and the thanks are entirely mine; it's been a good run, and
+the new shows are just spiffy, and one is rarely afforded the chance to
+grow, and try new things, and push your luck.  I'm happy that viewers have
+stuck with us through it all.  It's been great.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: Attn: JMS: Writing season 4 (1 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: Attn: JMS: Writing season 4

+1 Oct 1996
Basically, nobody sees anything until it's in first draft form.  Harlan
+functions on an as-needed basis; if I have a question, or if there's an
+area which could benefit from his input, I call him in, but for the most
+part, the scriptwriting is a one-person affair.  The job of the writer is
+to listen to the small voice in the back of his head, and too often too
+many voices just get in the way.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

+
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+
+jms in Tampa, also jms book (10 Oct 1996)
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+
jms in Tampa, also jms book

+10 Oct 1996
Two quickies....
+
+1) This weekend, 11-13th, I'll be in Tampa Florida for Necronomicon, a
+convention being held at the Chamberly Plaza Hotel/Convention Center. 
+I'll be bringing the bloopers, some clips from as-yet unaired shows, and
+other goodies.
+
+2) My totally rewritten, updated and expanded "Complete Book of
+Scriptwriting" hits the stands this week in hardback, $21.99, from
+Writer's Digest Books (ISBN 0-8987-9-512-5).  The book can be found at
+stores, and you can pick up any copy of Writer's Digest Magazine and order
+from them via their 800 number (which I don't have at hand, alas).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Attn: MOJO, were there any regrets? (15 Oct 1996)
+
+
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Re: Attn: MOJO, were there any regrets?

+15 Oct 1996
RE: the notion of seeing a boat on a lake in the central Garden area...the
+reason I didn't want to do it was that it's silly.  It stretched credulity
+enough to show the baseball diamond (which I've since never returned to,
+for that very reason), but to waste water and space like that in a
+confined location like B5, which is always short, and needs everything to
+be somewhat functional, struck me as a Foolish Thing.  The whole idea here
+is that they're under stress, locked in a tin can.  To do a scene like
+this would undercut that.  Would it look cool?  Sure.  Would it be right
+for the story?  No.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Inside the mind of the Great Maker (15 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Inside the mind of the Great Maker

+15 Oct 1996
Thanks.  It's the sort of book -- a retrospective -- that would be useful,
+I agree.  On the one hand, I'm not sure I'd be up to writing it right
+after finishing the series; I think I'll probably be off in a coma
+somewhere.  But if I wait too long, some details will get lost.  I think
+I'll have to think about this some more....
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - Necronomicon (15 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Necronomicon

+15 Oct 1996
To the thread in general...thanks.  It was a great convention.  Kinda blew
+out my vocal cords a bit, but other than that, it was terrific.  Thanks.
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS (Z'Ha'Dum spoilers) WOW! & the Tea Set (15 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS (Z'Ha'Dum spoilers) WOW! & the Tea Set

+15 Oct 1996
The props department found the teapot, and found it very suiting to the
+environment, so they went with it.
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Love that title... (15 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Love that title...

+15 Oct 1996
Thanks.  I labor over titles a long time...I can't actually begin writing
+an episode until I have the title worked out; dunno why, it's just one of
+those glitches.  And yeah, it's a good and in this case, very apt title.
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: wasting Wayne (15 Oct 1996)
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: wasting Wayne

+15 Oct 1996
Wayne Alexander plays Lorien, a character you'll see throughout the first
+six episodes of season 4.  We wanted to give him more to do.\
+
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+
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+

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+
+Re: JMS gets a Trojan (18 Oct 1996)
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+
Re: JMS gets a Trojan

+18 Oct 1996
Just to jump in...I've now got most of the disk restored, still working on
+the windows system directory (logging on to AOL from work), but it's
+almost in hand, so there's no urgent need for email instructions at this
+time...it should be okay soon.  Thanks.
+
+
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+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Future Episodes (no spoilers, I think) (18 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Future Episodes (no spoilers, I think)

+18 Oct 1996
Yes, a substantial amount of the S4 storyline takes place off B5.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Your "virus" problem (18 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your "virus" problem

+18 Oct 1996
Alas, I didn't write down the email address, as the sender said that it
+was on the supposed jpg image.  And then my system went kablooey, so
+there's no way to backcheck it.
+
+
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+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS When are you going to rest? (1 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS When are you going to rest?

+1 Oct 1996
I rest when the series is finished.
+
+And I ain't complaining.  Believe me, I fought too long and too hard to
+get this story on the air; I'm not going to start complaining about the
+hours.
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: Sci-Fi Universe Awards-Congrats to Mira Furlan & Peter Jurasik (20 Oct 1996)
+
+
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Re: Sci-Fi Universe Awards-Congrats to Mira Furlan & Peter Jurasik

+20 Oct 1996
Peter Jurasik won for Best Supporting Actor, and Bruce won for Best Actor.
+
+The web site got it wrong; B5 won for Best Series, not X-Files...an error
+which was repeated onstage, as one of the presenters read the name
+X-Files, which was on the prompter, even though the card in his hand read
+B5.  This led to a very embarrassing moment for a poor X-Files fellow who
+went up there to accept, only to have it taken away.  
+
+Mira, btw, was never notified of her nomination, or invited to the awards.
+
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Where Credit Is Due? (20 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Where Credit Is Due?

+20 Oct 1996
WB determines and tells us how the credits are to be displayed; we have no
+latitude in this.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
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+
+And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place  (* Spoilers *) (20 Oct 1996)
+
+
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And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place  (* Spoilers *)

+20 Oct 1996
(* Spoilers for And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place  *)
+
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+
+Re: the rabbi singing the gospel song...a couple of points.  First, if
+you're visiting someone's church, it's only considered polite behavior to
+go along with what's there.  I have a number of Catholic friends who would
+sometimes go to temple with Jewish friends...and when it came time to
+sing, would do so.  Why should it not work the other way around?
+
+Second, as I seem to recall, the line about "no hiding place" is taken
+from the Old Testament, which forms a substantial portion of Judaic
+teachings (but not the whole of it, a mistake many make).  Yes, there's
+some later stuff worked in, but the heart of it is from a common ground.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place (* Spoilers *) (20 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place (* Spoilers *)

+20 Oct 1996
Waitaminnit...I retract part two of my reply...I think I just stooged the
+origins of that song.
+
+(whaddyawant from me, I just spend 12 hours putting my hard drive back
+together....)
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS  And The Rock Question ( * SPOILER * ) (20 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  And The Rock Question ( * SPOILER * )

+20 Oct 1996
I don't think she was so much withholding the information, as they just
+weren't ready yet, and the need for them wasn't there yet.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Your Druthers (20 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Your Druthers

+20 Oct 1996
Without commercials is always a preferable format for one-hour.  It's just
+more intense that way.  (But for something longer, some kind of break is
+good, even plays break up by acts and intermissions.)  
+\
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN:JMS  And the Rock...  (spoiler) (20 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN:JMS  And the Rock...  (spoiler)

+20 Oct 1996
Not sure it was so much a look of disappointment as..."Okay, I know
+something here isn't on the level...but he's got it very well
+surrounded...and is it worth sticking out my neck to get into this?"
+
+And yes, Refa was his last name/family name.
+
+ jms
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+jms scriptwriting book info (21 Oct 1996)
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jms scriptwriting book info

+21 Oct 1996
(This is the last time I'll be forwarding this info for a while; I got
+requests from several nets for more info, since the prior notice was
+fairly brief, and now that I have a minute to spare, I'm passing it along,
+but I don't want to monopolize this overmuch with what is, in essence, a
+commercial....)
+
+As I mentioned in my earlier note, bundled with the Tampa convention info,
+the new edition of my book, "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting," has just
+come out from Writer's Digest Books.  
+
+It has chapters on breaking in as a writer for film, TV, stage and radio,
+which have been rewritten stem to stern from the prior edition, fully
+updated, old info trashed, again completely revised...plus new chapters on
+animation, the Writer's Guild, Warning Signs, altogether about 100,000 new
+words.  (The book is huge, 424 pages, one stop shopping for the
+script-inclined.)  It's basically the book I wish someone had written when
+*I* was starting out in the biz.
+
+It also contains the *complete* script for the Hugo-award winning B5
+episode, "The Coming of Shadows," with material deleted from the actual
+episode for time.
+
+You can order the book via your local bookstore (ISBN# 0-89879-512-5), or
+via www.amazon.com, or direct from WD (800-289-0963).  It sells for $21.99
+in hardback.  
+
+It took me about 3+ years to finish the rewrite on this, because I wanted
+it to be right.  Now it is.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Third age no longer mentioned? (22 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Third age no longer mentioned?

+22 Oct 1996
By not mentioning it, now you're mentioning it, so to get something
+mentioned maybe it's better not to mention it, or mention not mentioning
+it, or by not mentioning that you've not mentioned it let someeone else
+mention that you've not mentioned it.
+
+By the time you finish the preceding sentence, the word "mention" will
+have lost all meaning.
+
+And we'll get back to this issue in season 4.
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks and public apology (22 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks and public apology

+22 Oct 1996
Thanks in return...and the intent of your message was clear, I'm not sure
+you have anything to apologize for, but lobbing one out there on general
+principle will rarely cause distress.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS When are you going to rest? (1 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS When are you going to rest?

+1 Oct 1996
PS...Stephen Furst will direct #8, "The Illusion of Truth," and we're
+shooting #4 right now, so we've got a ways to go yet.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS jms scriptwriting book (22 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS jms scriptwriting book

+22 Oct 1996
Thanks; I'm glad the book is of use (when you can pry it away); that's
+what I was  hoping for, to do some good with it.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: When? (B5 novel with Anna Sheridan) (23 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: When? (B5 novel with Anna Sheridan)

+23 Oct 1996
It's due to come out as the first of the next batch of three from Dell.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS (Re: And the Rock ) (23 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS (Re: And the Rock )

+23 Oct 1996
You gotta understand...nobody touches my computer.  It's a thing with
+me....
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+Re: Fanclub Problems -- how does one get a respo (23 Oct 1996)
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Re: Fanclub Problems -- how does one get a respo

+23 Oct 1996
I copied your note to Jim Lockett's account; this will expedite things.
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Shadow Dancing Director (!Spoilers!) (23 Oct 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: Shadow Dancing Director (!Spoilers!)

+23 Oct 1996
You're right; no one should have made a big deal out of her walking past;
+that was indicated to the director, but not followed through on.  Kim's
+done a lot of other shows, but after this one wasn't available again due
+to committments.  
+
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+Re: "ATTN JMS:A ratings question" (24 Oct 1996)
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Re: "ATTN JMS:A ratings question"

+24 Oct 1996
No, nothing new, and I'm really kinda bugged about it.  Because of the
+TNT/WB merger, most of our people over at WB who used to give us the
+ratings aren't there anymore or have been shifted over to other
+divisions...they don't like taking the time to give each individual show
+they work on the ratings breakdown because it takes up too much of their
+time.  
+
+The only figure I've heard so far was the overall national (final) rating
+on the first new episode, which was a 3.2, which is great for coming back.
+ The station by station figures I've seen for the second week are higher,
+so the overall should be higher, but until they see fit to tell me, I can
+only guess, and the trades don't usually publish comprehensive lists.  
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: the hype for Star Trek-Voyager (24 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: the hype for Star Trek-Voyager

+24 Oct 1996
I agree.  I've more or less reconciled myself to the reality that this
+show is only going to get its proper recognition once we've finished it,
+and it's running in long term syndication.  Such is life.
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS -- New B5 Cards -- what were you thinking?! :) (25 Oct 1996)
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Re: Attn: JMS -- New B5 Cards -- what were you thinking?! :)

+25 Oct 1996
We're limited to what WB has in stock; WB only sends a photographer to the
+set 1 day out of every 7 we shoot.  They usually send someone on days when
+there are action sequences.  So very often, guest stars don't get shot. 
+The Fleer folks have to make do with what WB chooses to shoot.
+
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+Re: SHADOW DANCING (spoilers) (25 Oct 1996)
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Re: SHADOW DANCING (spoilers)

+25 Oct 1996
>...and the BIGGEST bitch of all about the episode (and JMS - pay
+>attention) was the "miraculous" recovery of Marcus. I like him as a
+>character, and enjoyed the further development of his unrequited love
+>for Ivanova (along the Lancelot/Gueniviere parallel). But, two
+>episodes ago, he had the freaking SHIT beat out of him (remember the
+>bloody Minbari staff anyone???).
+
+Yes, I do remember.  But for starters, we're talking about more than two
+weeks of story time.  Between Grey 17 and Rock was several weeks, then
+you've got about 2 weeks from Rock to Shadow Dancing.  That's five weeks,
+and now you've got the issue of medicine 250 years from now...and you can
+be sure that these kinds of injuries will be fixed much more quickly.  It
+isn't like he showed up the very next day like this, we *did* allow for
+proper amounts of time.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Shadow Dancing Jungian Psychology... (25 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Shadow Dancing Jungian Psychology...

+25 Oct 1996
"Is Sheridan to meet his shadow next week?"
+
+Well, now that you mention it...
+
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+Re: Well, WE knew that! WAS JMS on Genie: September Messages (1 Oct 1996)
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Re: Well, WE knew that! WAS JMS on Genie: September Messages

+1 Oct 1996
sigh...I should never have said anything about this....
+
+I'm doomed.
+
+Besides, naked women already *have* ribs...it just takes a little more
+work to get to them....
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Attn JMS: Shadow Dancing at Avalon (Spoilers) (25 Oct 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: Shadow Dancing at Avalon (Spoilers)

+25 Oct 1996
"When I saw "A Late Arrival at Avalon," Marcus's line asking "Who is
+Morgana La Fey" got me to begin speculating that Anna Sheridan was alive
+and that she was working for the Shadows.  My question is whether or not
+Marcus's line was intended that way--i.e. as foreshadowing that a
+significant female figure not presently on the scene (Anna?) would arrive
+at B5 to play Morgana to Delenn's Lady of the Lake?"
+
+
+
+yup.
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS:What does the signed card look like (26 Oct 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS:What does the signed card look like

+26 Oct 1996
It's similar to the regular jms card, with a seal/imprint, my signature,
+and a blue area for the signature itself.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Captain Power question (26 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Captain Power question

+26 Oct 1996
I'm pretty sure the song was "Little Brown Jug."
+
+Or was it "Little Brown Bag?"  The first two words are correct.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS...your updated Scriptwriting book (26 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS...your updated Scriptwriting book

+26 Oct 1996
I definitely agree; the well-done 30 or 60 second spot is a true rarity,
+and requires just as much attention to detail, the story involved, it has
+to move you or touch you at some level...it's a *very* tough business.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: ratings --- here's some. (26 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: ratings --- here's some.

+26 Oct 1996
And here's some great info: I've mentioned that we've been consistently
+growing in ratings, and the second episode back, "Grey 17," hit #19 in the
+ratings, so we're back in the top 20 for the first time in quite a while!
+
+I've mentioned before the slow upward tracking, from 60s to 50s to 40s,
+and then to 30s...and now we're right smack into the top 20 (as per this
+past Friday's Daily Variety).  We're very pleased.
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Anti-male joke ruined my enjoyment of Shadow Dancing (*SPOILERS*) (26 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Anti-male joke ruined my enjoyment of Shadow Dancing (*SPOILERS*)

+26 Oct 1996
"I gritted my teeth tighter when the dialogue launched into some anti-male
+paranoia about "What if the male demands the female stay a second night?",
+and the various "vengeances" she could take for a custom that is, after
+all, steeply in her favor. I could accept all that in an anthropological
+sense: "Look what anti-male customs the Minbari have. Isn't that
+fascinating, if you put the moral judgements aside?". But then... Yeesh!"
+
+The "vengeances" she cites, should the male insist she stay another night,
+are "she can leave once he falls asleep, complain to the elders, even cut
+off his access to her family."  These hardly sound like anti-male
+rhetoric, but rather precautions taken to deal reasonably *should* someone
+get out of line.  It doesn't state that all men do this, but sets in place
+what to do should *some* men do this.
+
+This is not a problem of context.  It is a problem of perception.  It has
+nothing to do with the scene, and everything to do with how you perceive
+the role of males in society.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Awful sound problem on Shadow Dancing (26 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Awful sound problem on Shadow Dancing

+26 Oct 1996
We've been running this down, and we suspect that the tapes are being
+transmuted from digital to analog and back again when they insert the
+commercials after we turn over the eps to WB.  We're working to fix this,
+it happened before and we beat the crap outta some people at the
+subcontracting company.  We may have to do it again.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Your health (27 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your health

+27 Oct 1996
I eat fine, and in general am fine.  It's always a risk, though, going to
+conventions, because the odds of catching something from 2000 people in
+close quarters, with considerable contact is fairly high.  And the flu's
+running around this season.  So I got hammered just at the end of the last
+con I did in Tampa.  Probably caught it the first day of the con, 'cause
+it hit by Sunday.  But them's the breaks.  
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Back Home? (27 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Back Home?

+27 Oct 1996
It's a good question, to consider just how much Earth knows about all
+this.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Shadow Dancing Q: Audio Dropped? (27 Oct 1996)
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Re: Shadow Dancing Q: Audio Dropped?

+27 Oct 1996
No, we just figured we'd let the music take it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+Re: Cons and Your Health WAS: Re: ATTN JMS: Bizarre Story (1 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: Cons and Your Health WAS: Re: ATTN JMS: Bizarre Story

+1 Oct 1996
(enter embarrassed, chagrined mode)
+
+Folks, it's okay...I'm fine.  I get kinda ragged some days, but it goes
+with the turf, like I said.  I come from a fairly long-lived family,
+mainly out of spite....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Suggestions for SF marathon? (27 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Suggestions for SF marathon?

+27 Oct 1996
"I'm the SF Marathon Director for the MIT Lecture Series Committee, and
+was just wondering what you, Joe, would recommend...  what are your
+favorite SF movies of all time?"
+
+For starters, I'd include "Seconds" on your list, the only marginally SF
+film done by Rock Hudson which to this *day* scares the hell out of me. 
+John Frankenheimer was never better.
+
+I'd also include "Fail Safe," "Dr. Strangelove," "Seven Days in May" and
+"The Manchurian Candidate" which (for my money) do have some SF aspects to
+them...if "Alas, Babylon" is SF, then "Fail Safe" and the others can be
+included in that.  It's also a grouping that gives newer audiences a sense
+of where this country was at a very precarious point in its history.
+
+Of films more definitely in the SF area...Forbidden Planet, The Day the
+Earth Stood Still, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Invasion of the Body
+Snatchers, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (stop staring at me like that,
+it's got aliens and...and space ships...and...and mad scientists and stuff
+like that, and it's got a beat and you can dance to it), Aliens, High
+Plains Drifter (fantasy), Terminator 2, The Road Warrior, The Princess
+Bride (fantasy), On the Beach, Night of the Living Dead, Brazil, Alien,
+The Haunting of Hill House, Blade Runner, First Men in the Moon, When
+Worlds Collide, Village of the Damned, Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers,
+Phantom of the Paradise and Day of the Triffids.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Z'ha'dum Question...Spoilers (27 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Z'ha'dum Question...Spoilers

+27 Oct 1996
Yes, Justin is the man in-between...the "middle man," as he describes
+himself.
+
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+
+ jms
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+
+Re: I bought a book today, oh, boy! (28 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: I bought a book today, oh, boy!

+28 Oct 1996
That's a GREAT story, thanks.
+
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+
+Re: Babylon 5 Licensed Kits <> Revell 1997 Releases. (29 Oct 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Babylon 5 Licensed Kits <> Revell 1997 Releases.

+29 Oct 1996
They only got the license a couple/three weeks ago, long after the kit
+would've gone to press.  It's way too early to expect anything in print.
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: You and the Cast... (29 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: You and the Cast...

+29 Oct 1996
Except for tone meetings with directors, no, not really.  The cast are
+very happy with what's going on, so there isn't that much to say.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Z'ha'dum inquiry (SPOILERS) (29 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Z'ha'dum inquiry (SPOILERS)

+29 Oct 1996
Justin thought he had some influence...but perception and reality are
+often at odds.
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Confusion about ratings (29 Oct 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Confusion about ratings

+29 Oct 1996
I don't think those were the actual neilsens, but someone's assemblage of
+info.
+
+
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Z'Ha'Dum Double Whammy (*No* Spoilers) (29 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Z'Ha'Dum Double Whammy (*No* Spoilers)

+29 Oct 1996
That's terrific, hadn't yet heard the details.  Thanks.
+
+
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+
+Re: Captain Power Question (29 Oct 1996)
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Re: Captain Power Question

+29 Oct 1996
No, you're correct, that episode, "Retribution," was the last one
+produced.
+
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+
+402 Spoiler Warning (29 Oct 1996)
+
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402 Spoiler Warning

+29 Oct 1996
I just got a copy of the ad that's going to run in TV Guide for "Whatever
+Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" in two weeks.  It's a great ad, well composed,
+well done, but it's also a major spoiler for something you will NOT want
+spoiled.  So avoid the ad if possible.
+
+
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Risky Writing? (Z'ha'dum spoilers) (1 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Risky Writing? (Z'ha'dum spoilers)

+1 Oct 1996
Well, I think you can't do something like that without knowing how you're
+going to pull the character's fat out of the fire, and it has to make
+sense.  I think people will be satisfied with what they see.\
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Election Day			(bryoung2@vt.edu (Brian De Young)) (30 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Election Day			(bryoung2@vt.edu (Brian De Young))

+30 Oct 1996
Not that it does or should matter...voting is an individual act and how
+one person votes should not have influence or bearing on anyone else...but
+I plan to vote for Clinton.  For my money, Dole has shown himself to be a
+mean, venal little man who thinks that he should get the job because he
+earned it in the Senate.  He doesn't have any real plans for it, he just
+wants the pointy hat; he thinks he deserves it.  Feeling you're next in
+line for promotion, for me, isn't sufficient reason to be given the
+mandate to run the country.
+
+The only thing he's ever put on the table was the 15% tax cut, which
+strikes me as nothing more than a bribe.  
+
+Frankly, my gut -- which has almost always proven correct around election
+year -- tells me that Dole is gonna get whomped *badly* come November.  It
+may be the most punishing loss a republican has taken in years.
+
+Which, I suspect, will not be a surprise to the republicans.  I think they
+figured, on some level, that Clinton would probably be re-elected -- very
+few sitting presidents have been booted out of office while running for a
+second term -- and they decided to hold off on their big guns until the
+2000 election, rather than fritter them away in 96.  "Dole wants the
+nomination so bad, let him have it and get pasted; we'll be over in the
+bar, wake us when it's over."
+
+In 2000 you're going to have Gore running hard on the democratic side,
+again with an "I deserve it" attitude, though Veeps have traditionally not
+done that terribly well when going for the Big Chair.  He'll likely get it
+unless someone comes charging out of the corner with a dynamic program and
+personality, which is, of course, always a possibility, though he'll have
+the democratic establishment on his side.
+
+On the republican side, you're going to see Kemp and Pete Wilson
+scrabbling for the nomination for certain; who else, we'll see.  (Don't
+laugh re: Wilson.  Lemme tell you a story I heard back when I was a
+reporter in San Diego, at a time when Wilson was just mayor.  And an
+unpopular mayor at that.  One day one of the other reporters came into a
+restaurant we used to hang out at, and he was...well, he wasn't plastered,
+but he'd been knocking them back.  Very quiet.  Finally, we got him to
+talk.  He said, and this is pretty much verbatim, "Wilson met with the
+kingmakers today," he said.  "They're going to run him for senator, then
+they're going to run him for governor, and they're going to run him for
+president."  This was the most absurd thing we'd ever heard, and said
+so...again, he was barely holding on for *mayor*; prevailing logic was
+that he'd be lucky to be elected dogcatcher next time around.  He shook
+his head.  "They'll run him for senator, then governor, then president." 
+And after they ran Wilson (and won) for senator, then governor, and
+started poking him out the door for president (stopped only when his
+throat went out)...I stopped laughing.)
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: When the writer's block cometh.. (31 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: When the writer's block cometh..

+31 Oct 1996
"What I want to know is, when the muses fly away and bring the dreaded
+monster of writer's block on you, how do YOU deal with it?"
+
+You're going to kill me when you hear this...but since I started writing
+and selling at 17, I've never, ever had writer's block.  It's finding time
+to write it all, and deciding which thing to write, that's always been
+hard.  But (not to tempt the universe here), I've never had writer's
+block, and can't imagine it.  Even if it ever did hit, I've got so much
+outlined and premise'd out in the files I could work off that for
+literally *years*.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
+Re: Review of OTHERSYDE by J. Michael Straczynski (2 Oct 1996)
+
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Re: Review of OTHERSYDE by J. Michael Straczynski

+2 Oct 1996
I think I pretty much agree with the comments, criticisms inclusive. 
+OtherSyde was my second novel, and I was still learning my craft, so it
+has some rough edges, though overall I think it works.  
+
+Re: some dangling threads and a hurried sense to the last third...again, I
+agree.  The book was about 100 pages over what the publisher decided what
+he wanted to put out, and sliced off a lot of threads, and hurried a lot
+of the other stuff.  Which is one reason why I haven't let the book be
+reprinted since; I'd prefer to go to the longer version...and I'm
+embarrassed to say I don't know where the draft is.  (Or the files.)  I
+think the longer version worked a lot better.
+
+
+
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+Re: New FX (9 Nov 1996)
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Re: New FX

+9 Nov 1996
"The first S4 episode (Hour of the Wolf) doesn't have nearly as many FX as
+the later S3 episodes, and what is there is mostly stock shots of the
+station rotating, etc."
+
+There are as many CGI shots in "Wolf" as in most of our episodes, and more
+than in "Rock," a later S3 episode.  There's also the new establishers of
+Centauri Prime the planet, the revised Palace shots, new establishers of
+the station, a big new shot of the interior of the Garden that pans down,
+the beside-Z'ha'dum sequence...there's a LOT there.  So a) your latter
+observation is, I gently point out, factually inaccurate, and b) most
+station shots have been recycled stock since year one, adding new ones
+each season then dropping them into rotation (so to speak).
+
+We always balance big EFX shows with smaller ones, building up to some big
+stuff.  We're doing the same thing here this year as we've ever done.
+\
+
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+Re: Hour of the Wolf: non-spoiler(?) question (9 Nov 1996)
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Re: Hour of the Wolf: non-spoiler(?) question

+9 Nov 1996
There's more to Lorien than meets the eye.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: New Novels Known? (10 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New Novels Known?

+10 Nov 1996
The first book is by Jeanne Cavellos, following Anna Sheridan and the
+Icarus to Z'ha'dum; the second follows Vir and Londo to Centauri Prime at
+the time of the events in these first six episode; and the third follows
+Sinclair to Minbar after leaving B5 and setting up the rangers.  This time
+out, I decided to assign out the stories, to make sure they were accurate
+and in continuity.  The first one up may be the best to date, I'm 2/3rds
+through it and haven't made a note yet.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Another Hour Nit...*minor spoiler* (10 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Another Hour Nit...*minor spoiler*

+10 Nov 1996
"best I can tell from my (admittedly limited) knowledge of Centauri
+physiology, he would have been looking in the wrong place - kinda like
+looking down a human woman's socks, or something."
+
+Tell that to a foot fetishist.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Regarding B5 sets on 'FutureQuest' (11 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Regarding B5 sets on 'FutureQuest'

+11 Nov 1996
They asked if they could borrow our sets, and we said sure...anything to
+help.
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+Re: The Hour of the Wolf -- homonym question (* Spoilers *) (11 Nov 1996)
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Re: The Hour of the Wolf -- homonym question (* Spoilers *)

+11 Nov 1996
It's definitely born, not borne.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Spoilers in the "...Garibaldi" trailer for Ep #403 (11 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Spoilers in the "...Garibaldi" trailer for Ep #403

+11 Nov 1996
Correct, I have no editorial control or influence over the trailers; I see
+them when everyone else does.
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+Re: Wow! "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi" & a concern (12 Nov 1996)
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Re: Wow! "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi" & a concern

+12 Nov 1996
"when we were watching "Hour of the Wolf" G'kar had a line (when answering
+Zack) that caused all of us to bust out laughing because of it's relation
+to rec.humor.  Was this intentional?"
+
+As I've no idea what this refers to...nope.
+
+And thanks.
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+Re: Rumor of first season actually (finally) being released on video... (13 Nov 1996)
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Re: Rumor of first season actually (finally) being released on video...

+13 Nov 1996
No, like all WB rumors, this one isn't true either.
+
+Understand...if there were going to be a video release, I'd be all over
+the place announcing it.  
+
+If you hear a rumor, and it didn't come directly from me, you can almost
+always discount it.  What happens, I talk about.
+
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+Re: To JMS and the gang (12 Nov 1996)
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Re: To JMS and the gang

+12 Nov 1996
Thanks, and yes, there was a hint of Gene in her dialolgue about Turhan.
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: You Did It (WHt Mr. Garibaldi? *SPOILERS*) (12 Nov 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: You Did It (WHt Mr. Garibaldi? *SPOILERS*)

+12 Nov 1996
Thanks.  The script was easy to write story-wise, I think it only took me
+a few days (in general, the faster the write, the better the script, when
+it comes to something like this...writing in white heat is best), but
+*very* difficult from an emotional standpoint.  I was just about as wasted
+after writing it as you were after seeing it.  There's a lot of stuff in
+there that's difficult or painful to touch, and you can only hope that it
+comes out okay.  I'm happy it did.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS "The" Tony Dow? (13 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS "The" Tony Dow?

+13 Nov 1996
Yup, it's him.  He's also directing "Atonement" for us this season.\
+
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+small jms email rules (13 Nov 1996)
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small jms email rules

+13 Nov 1996
     Okay, it's time for the usual recitation of email rules.
+
+      1) Please do not send me inquiries about the storyline in private
+email.  You may think, "Well, it's just me," but at last Neilsen count
+there were about 15 million of you out there, and only one of me.  I can't
+get into lengthy discussions about the plot or storylines in email.  I end
+up answering the same questions multiple times, and the answers go to only
+one person at a time.  If you have a story question, ASK IT IN A PUBLIC
+FORUM, NOT IN EMAIL, so that others can benefit from the answers.
+
+     (Here's where this gets silly.  Often, when I'm speaking at a
+convention, I'll ask, at the end, "Any other questions?"  And nobody puts
+their hands up, even though we've got a few minutes left.  Then, as soon
+as the presentation is over, 50 people rush the stage with questions they
+want to ask...many of them very good, and which the audience would've
+loved to hear answered.  You tend to be a very smart, perceptive
+bunch...don't deny others the quality of your questions.)
+
+
+
+      2) Please, please, PLEASE do not send me story ideas in email.
+
+      3) Do not send jpgs or anything else that requires downloading; I
+was hit by a trojan horse and virus lately, and consequently I have a very
+firm no-download policy on anything else coming into me via email.
+
+      4) Private email should be used for things you cannot discuss in a
+public forum, or for which confidentiality is needed for other reasons. 
+I'm swamped with 500 messages a day...if it doesn't have to be sent email,
+please don't do so.
+
+      5) Requests for agent suggestions, or requests to read your scripts
+or stories, will be met by stony silence.
+
+      6) We cannot give studio tours, or afford to send out scripts, or
+story bibles, or actor photographs.  When the actors do this, bear in mind
+that it is a kindness *that comes out of their own pockets*, as there is
+no budget from WB to send photos.  
+
+      I hate to be as brusque as this, but I'm starting to get overloaded
+with email, and an occasional advisory seems necessary.
+
+      Many thanks.
+                                                                  
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+Re: Attn JMS: What ever happened to Quality? (13 Nov 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: What ever happened to Quality?

+13 Nov 1996
The characters figure it out later this season.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Stealing scenes from other works (13 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Stealing scenes from other works

+13 Nov 1996
But the thing is, I wasn't *thinking* of LoTR...I was thinking of Orpheus
+going into the underworld, of the classical notion of descending into hell
+to find oneself or something else...it just bugs me when someone assumes
+that they know what was in my head at a time when I wrote something, and
+then take that as a given and start making me explain it or acting as if
+this is true, when it ain't.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Faith in Future Eps? (13 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Faith in Future Eps?

+13 Nov 1996
Belief in one thing or another is *always* important.  Only the subject is
+sometimes worrisome.
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+Re: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi (* Spoilers *) (14 Nov 1996)
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Re: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi (* Spoilers *)

+14 Nov 1996
"I watched _What Ever Happened to Mr Garibaldi_ last night and was struck
+by the scene where Mr. G was being questioned by the disembodied voice. 
+That scene was very similar to the style of another one of my favorite
+shows _Homicide: Life on the Streets_.  I'm just wondering if that was an
+intentional nod to that show."
+
+This is kind of embarrassing, but...see, I don't watch much TV anymore.  I
+don't have time.  I think I've seen maybe two episodes of Homicide, total.
+ So we were in with the editor to do our producer's cut of 402, and I was
+trying to describe what I wanted...jarring, disorienting cuts, don't worry
+if it matches, use conflicting takes or overlaps of takes...and finally
+the editor said, "Oh, you mean the Homicide look."  And it'd been so long
+that I asked them to explain to me what that meant, and John got into it,
+me with him, and ended up with what we've got.  I've got to start watching
+TV again, beyond X-Files, 60 Minutes and Simpsons.  (Well, I've added
+Millennium, so that helps.)
+
+"Second question. Last year on ABC the show _Murder One_ tried having one
+main story, like an arc, through the whole season.  It was following a
+single
+trial (I assume you know this).  That show basically got a "that's nice"
+from the crowd and not much else.  Do you think that the  concept of an
+ongoing story works better in a science fiction show  than say a cop show?
+ Was it more the execution of _Murder One_  that did in the idea of one
+trial per season?  I would be curious to hear your thoughts."
+
+No, I don't really think it's genre specific.  Frankly, I think the
+viewing audience was *so* sick to death of the OJ trial that the idea of
+watching ANOTHER homicide trial take a week was just too much for them.  
+
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+Re: *SPOILERS* [ATTN:JMS] Observations after 'Whatever Happened ...' (15 Nov 1996)
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Re: *SPOILERS* [ATTN:JMS] Observations after 'Whatever Happened ...'

+15 Nov 1996
"They are being made to choose between life and death, action and
+inaction, hope and despair.  They are in the position of having to either
+lose faith, or keep it."
+
+Yup.  Got it in one....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Expanding Symmetries (No Spoilers) (15 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Expanding Symmetries (No Spoilers)

+15 Nov 1996
I briefly considered giving G'Kar a second, after the revolving door
+Na'Toths, but as I looked at it...as you say, the others all DO have one
+like that, and I figured it might be good to have someone *without*
+that...especially after the fall of Narn, when the staff would be
+canceled.  And there's something I like about G'Kar being alone in all
+this.  Anyway, it varies the mix a bit.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: I was right... (15 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: I was right...

+15 Nov 1996
Good luck to you.  In doing what you're doing, you are removing yourself
+from the system, and the system always objects to that.  Follow your
+voice, and your passion, and you will never go wrong.
+
+Again, good luck.
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+Re: ATT JMS: personal ? SPOILERS for Walkabout and after (15 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATT JMS: personal ? SPOILERS for Walkabout and after

+15 Nov 1996
"Are you *still* dealing with this, in Sheridan's situation on Z'ha'dum,
+and the decision he has to make? Is this where you get your strength of
+will, that you've faced this decision yourself?.....You've been dealing
+with the whole issue of finding something worth living for, rather than
+something worth dying for, since when, "Infection"? "
+
+In retrospect, that was something I probably should not have mentioned,
+and would not have, had the thing not just utterly blindsided me in the
+middle of the conference.  What got me through the attack, and its
+aftermath, those years ago, was sheer unadulterated rage...that I would
+not allow them to take my life because I had stories left in me to tell. 
+And no matter what, I'd tell those stories.  At first, I'd made my peace
+with myself...I'd never gone out of my way to hurt anyone, had helped
+where I could, had done some good work...I had a few things on the shelf,
+not a lot, but a start...but then I just started to get mad about it, and
+pulled myself back from the edge.  
+
+So yeah, in a sense, I've faced that black, implacable wall...and it does
+drive you, after a while.  And I do think, to a large degree, I'm still
+trying to define myself, to find what it is that's at the center for me,
+beyond the work.  But then, I don't think that's terribly special...it
+seems to be the standard dilemma in an industrial society.  
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia Christian & Episode 402 (spoilers for "Whatever...") (15 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia Christian & Episode 402 (spoilers for "Whatever...")

+15 Nov 1996
No, those scenes were always written with Franklin in mind.  There was a
+brief scene with Ivanova originally in the ep, but it was snipped for
+time.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: General B5 question (15 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: General B5 question

+15 Nov 1996
"Does reading through all these Internet discussions of your work,
+speculations, and analyses help you not only generate ideas but maintain a
+higher level of cohesion and complexity in the saga?"
+
+No, for one primary reason: there is no continuity of opinion about much
+of ANYdamnthing among the netizens out there.  Which is the good thing
+about all this; no two people see the same show.
+
+But from this end, the story is the story is the story.
+
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+Re: JMS: Archetypes in B5? (15 Nov 1996)
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Re: JMS: Archetypes in B5?

+15 Nov 1996
---->*My question, then, is this:  "Is babylon5 intended to be a modern
+myth?  If so, what influences might have lead to the scripting of the B5
+saga?  Jung? Campbell perhaps?"*<----
+
+Yes and no.  I'm aware of Campbell's work, and have read much of it...but
+bear in mind that his analyses came *after* the creative fact.  If you try
+to consciously implement that during the writing, it can start making the
+writing feel artificial.  It's the difference between the first two Road
+Warrior movies and Thunderdome...in the gap between 2 and 3, he read
+Campbell, and started doing things by the numbers rather than following
+his gut instinct.  Consequently, 3 feels the least natural.
+
+It's the job of the storyteller to provide myth, or perhaps more properly,
+to reinterpret and reinvent myth, since myth tends not so much to be
+created as to be newly understood, as we remake the world in our own image
+every 15 years.
+
+This is one responsibility that TV has, for the most part, abrogated.  So
+I'm trying as best I can to draw some archetypes and myths out of the
+collective ether and stitch them together into new patterns for new
+audiences....
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+Re: ATTN: JMS "Poss. Spoiler for next ep after Whatever Happened..." (15 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS "Poss. Spoiler for next ep after Whatever Happened..."

+15 Nov 1996
The scene was snipped for time.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: sory if you got this before, but I'm not sure it went through (16 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: sory if you got this before, but I'm not sure it went through

+16 Nov 1996
No, I didn't write for the V series, only did a 4-hour miniseries that was
+not produced because it was too costly for syndication...and no, haven't
+read the Niven book.
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+Re: jms and TV was: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi (* NO Spoilers *) (16 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: jms and TV was: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi (* NO Spoilers *)

+16 Nov 1996
I love the history channel.  I end up landing there late at night and
+watching whatever's on, especially the newsreel stuff.  Just terrific. 
+Interestingly, of all the new channels, THC is the one growing the fastest
+right now.  It gives me a small glimmer of hope....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: WHTMG Timeline inconsistencies?  (SPOILERS) (17 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: WHTMG Timeline inconsistencies?  (SPOILERS)

+17 Nov 1996
No, this is a case where jms screwed up.
+
+Originally, the script read, "It's now 14 days since Captain Sheridan left
+for Z'ha'dum and was presumed killed.  Nine days since Mr. Garibaldi
+disappeared while on patrol."
+
+I went to edit the first sentence to make it active rather than passive
+syntax.  In handwriting on the page (after the first draft, the typists
+take revisions and implement them), I meant to write, "It is now 9 days
+since Captain Sheridan was presumed killed at Z'ha'dum."  I either missed
+changing the days, or the typist didn't put it in (it happens), and that
+draft of the script is long gone.  But without knowing which, I'll just
+take the rap for it.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: JMS:Contract with Foundation dropped? (17 Nov 1996)
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Re: JMS:Contract with Foundation dropped?

+17 Nov 1996
We were unable to make a deal with Foundation this season.  All the new B5
+effects for fourth season, including the first two aired, were done
+in-house.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: More Homicide/B5 similarities of technique . . . (17 Nov 1996)
+
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+
Re: Attn JMS: More Homicide/B5 similarities of technique . . .

+17 Nov 1996
"HANNAH:  It's all trivial . . . It's wanting to know that makes us
+matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. -Tom Stoppard,
+"Arcadia""
+
+Saw this play while I was in London about a year and a half ago.  Liked
+parts of it, but as much as I like Tom Stoppard's work overall, I think
+that if they're going to produce a play like this they should at least
+have the politeness to TELL you that there's math involved.  I didn't know
+there would be a test.
+
+(And since somebody's bound to ask...in addition to Stoppard, I'm very
+fond of the work of Joe Orton, Harold Pinter (though a little of that goes
+a long way), and Alan Ayckbourn (whose "Norman Conquests" is/are
+wonderful).  I also saw "Dancing at Luhnasa," and to this day don't
+understand what all the furor was about, though it was a fine enough
+play.)
+
+Whenever I'm in London, I try to see as much theater as I can, because so
+much of it is so well done there.  Though, I must confess, I dozed off
+halfway through a Restoration period sex farce (well, an attempt at same)
+at the RSC Swan Theater that was dry as sawdust.  "The Woman in Black"
+remains one of the most entertaining small plays in London, a terrific
+little ghost story that draws you in whether you want to be drawn in or
+not.  (The Buddy Holly autobiographical play is thin on plot, great on
+music.  But then, so was "Return to Forbidden Planet," and that was a hoot
+also.)  And the new staging of "An Inspector Calls" is just terrific.
+
+This has been your theater review for the day.  Thankyew.
+
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: Universe Today #2 ??? (19 Nov 1996)
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+
Re: Universe Today #2 ???

+19 Nov 1996
I have the new edition on my desk, in final form, and it's going out now. 
+The problem is that normally, when licensed stuff comes through for
+approval, I get it in and out the door in 48 hours.  But since this is our
+own license, I can't approve our own stuff, and it has to go through WB. 
+WB sat on this thing for about two months.  We're trying to work it out
+with them to get things approved more quickly.  It's kinda ridiculous.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: Attn: JMS, videos, e-mail, 'n stuff (19 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Attn: JMS, videos, e-mail, 'n stuff

+19 Nov 1996
The problem is in getting WB to kick loose of the rights to the videos. 
+We've been negotiating endlessly with them to let us do them...but they're
+kinda like a monkey with its hand around a nut in a jar...it can't get it
+out, but won't let go, either.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Have you read... (19 Nov 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Have you read...

+19 Nov 1996
Nope, haven't read it, have no intention of reading it.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: Att JMS: Yes, I know you don't celebrate Christmas ... :-) (19 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Att JMS: Yes, I know you don't celebrate Christmas ... :-)

+19 Nov 1996
Oh, I know Levenger's, believe me...they have whole barrels of my money
+over there.
+
+Great catalog, and nifty stuff.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: How far away is the rim from B5? (19 Nov 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: How far away is the rim from B5?

+19 Nov 1996
They are separated by an infinite number of plot points....
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Pythonesque cat in episode 402? (19 Nov 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Pythonesque cat in episode 402?

+19 Nov 1996
The cat was my idea.  Cats are endless sources of humor.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS (and everyone else) : Why reruns after only four eps? (19 Nov 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS (and everyone else) : Why reruns after only four eps?

+19 Nov 1996
Yes, it was just 4 of 4, but you also had the last 5 of season 3, so
+that's 9 in a row.  
+
+Basically, WB airs the show during sweeps periods.  That means you've got
+November, February, May and sometimes July.  They've always done this.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Okay, this is dumb, but we've always wondered about it (19 Nov 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Okay, this is dumb, but we've always wondered about it

+19 Nov 1996
The "teeth" sections, which overlap the door, have metal dowels that slide
+into place into the door itself, holding it absolutely tight in case of a
+hull breach or other decompression.  
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: The Summoning: Welcome back to the 50's, kids! (Spoilers) (19 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: The Summoning: Welcome back to the 50's, kids! (Spoilers)

+19 Nov 1996
Re: "magictech"...I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who pointed out, "Any
+sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
+
+You wanna go argue with Clarke, feel free.
+
+Lemme just make one point here.  In the handful of decades between the
+discovery of the atom, and its use at Hiroshima, we learned how to blow up
+substantial portions of the planet and render it uninhabitable.  But it
+would've taken a lot of them, hundreds, to do the job.  In the 50 years
+since then, with the development of thermonuclear weaponry, the job is
+even easier.  It's been reckoned that you'd only need about 75 really
+decent sized thermonuclear detonations to render the entire continental
+United States dead and uninhabitable.
+
+The shadows and the vorlons are *millions* of years ahead of us.  We're
+talking differences in technology that are orders of magnitude beyond what
+we can hope to comprehend. 
+
+I think a planet killer eminently achievable.  
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 rumor (19 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 rumor

+19 Nov 1996
I've been repeating this time and again...and I'm going to stop now for a
+while, because I don't want to keep doing this 5 times a week.
+
+Nothing has been firmly decided by WB yet.  If there were, you would've
+heard it.
+
+Every season, we're barely into the new stories, and everyone asks, "Is
+this it?  Is it?  Huh?  ANSWER ME?  WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?  WHY WON'T YOU
+CONFIRM OR DENY THIS?"
+
+Because I don't know.  Because WB doesn't know.  Nobody will know ANYthing
+for sure until probably February.  Which is what I said last year, and the
+year before.  
+
+I don't mean to be sharp about this, your message was fine, I'm just
+getting a bit worn down by this every year.
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: WHtMG music (spoilers!) (19 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: WHtMG music (spoilers!)

+19 Nov 1996
During the music spotting session, where I indicate where music comes in
+and goes out, my main note to Chris on that final sequence was, "Break our
+heart."
+
+He did.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: WHtMG music (spoilers!) (19 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: WHtMG music (spoilers!)

+19 Nov 1996
"Was this scene redone for WHtMG?  I'd have to compare, but I think I
+would've noticed that hopeful smile at the end of Z.  It would've been
+just a -little- out of place, under the circumstances."
+
+It's *exactly* the same footage, frame for frame.  Only your perspective
+has changed.  
+
+Sort of like Shroedinger's TV show.
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Scripts? (21 Nov 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Scripts?

+21 Nov 1996
Dunno if they'll ever be released...currently the only commercially
+available copy of a B5 script is in my Complete Book of Scriptwriting, for
+"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS : Spoiler credits! (21 Nov 1996)
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+
Re: ATTN JMS : Spoiler credits!

+21 Nov 1996
Credits are done through screen actors guild regulations, and thus can't
+be helped if they appear in inconvenient places, I'm afraid.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Summoning (minor spoilers) (21 Nov 1996)
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Summoning (minor spoilers)

+21 Nov 1996
"Joe, as I just said to a friend,  you're spreading a madness with your
+writing.  Have you no shame, sir?  No conscience?  No compassion for the
+minds you're destroying?"
+
+Don't be silly...remember, I'm a television producer....
+
+
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+Re: JMS' Purpose for B5 (Philosophical) (21 Nov 1996)
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Re: JMS' Purpose for B5 (Philosophical)

+21 Nov 1996
"JMS leaves us to find our own answers and that looks like, to me, his
+message in Babylon 5.  You can't just have someone give you all the
+answers.  At some point you have to break away and find your own answers
+to your own questions.  This seems to be the idea in a lot of his
+scriptwriting and his posts.  In fact, the essence of B5 revolves around
+it.  You don't know what other people are thinking, the good guys arent
+always what they appear to be, and life is NOT black and white.  Relying
+on others for answers makes you a slave to them because you believe
+whatever they tell you."
+
+
+DING!
+
+Give that man a ceegar.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: The Summoning (* Spoilers *) (21 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: The Summoning (* Spoilers *)

+21 Nov 1996
Actually, to your question, I've taught before, and would enjoy doing so
+again in some kind of university environment.  (I taught writing at San
+Diego State University for a semester as well, but the other instructors
+didn't much like that a working writer was teaching writing instead of an
+academic doing it, as they felt it sullied the program and made it too
+commercial.)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Jackets (21 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Jackets

+21 Nov 1996
Those jackets are exclusively for cast and crew.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Who, What, Why (Philosophical) (21 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Who, What, Why (Philosophical)

+21 Nov 1996
That only works if you define yourself by what you do...not what you are.
+
+But as Lorien says, there's never a good answer to it.
+
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+Re: Pasadena Convention (22 Nov 1996)
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Re: Pasadena Convention

+22 Nov 1996
"And please JMS, don't be hard on Andreas--he's had a hard time the last
+few eposides, and with the stress of Peter messing with his nipples, you
+could see why he broke and did the gag."
+
+Oh, no...he doesn't get off that easy.  I've got 9 episodes left to write
+this season, and that's ample opportunity to make his life a living hell.
+
+"Let's see...he's my employer...he can make me do ANYthing he wants me to
+do...I've got an idea, let's fuck with his mind!"
+
+Oh, but I'm going to enjoy this *mightily*.
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 Advertisement!!!!! (22 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 Advertisement!!!!!

+22 Nov 1996
Cool, I gotta see that!  Thanks, I didn't know.
+
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+Re: Attn. JMS: Kevin Dobson? (22 Nov 1996)
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Re: Attn. JMS: Kevin Dobson?

+22 Nov 1996
No, this Kevin is an Australian director.
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+Re: Attn JMS: A Thank You (22 Nov 1996)
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Re: Attn JMS: A Thank You

+22 Nov 1996
Thank you, your words are most kind.
+
+I guess you have to understand...I come at this from the perspective of
+having been an SF fan myself, I've *stood* in those lines.  And been cut
+off.  I swore, up one side and down the other, that if I should ever get
+my chance to do something of merit, if I ever got known (outside of
+America's Most Wanted), that I wouldn't allow ANYone to experience that
+feeling.  I've signed for sometimes 3, 4 hours at a time.  Doesn't matter.
+ Nobody leaves emptyhanded.  Nobody.
+
+This has infected many members of our cast, who feel as I do...and they go
+far, far, FAR beyond the call of duty.
+
+'Cause, basically...it's the right thing to do.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Frightening Speech in Summoning (spoilers for same) (22 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Frightening Speech in Summoning (spoilers for same)

+22 Nov 1996
Yup, I'd say it's very likely that some people close to Sheridan are going
+to be wondering about his attitude...and maybe even acting on it.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Audio Advisory (from jms) (22 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Audio Advisory (from jms)

+22 Nov 1996
So earlier this week we did the audio mix on almost all of 404, "Falling
+Toward Apotheosis," which airs this coming week.  We did all but 7
+minutes, because they were seven...big...minutes.
+
+Last night, after working at the stage from early morning on, John
+Copeland, George Johnsen and I left about 7 p.m. to go and mix the audio
+for those seven minutes.
+
+We finished at 2:30 a.m.  (And I had to get up at 7:30 a.m. for a meeting,
+no less.)
+
+Point being...if you've got a friend with a good TV and a spiffy audio or
+surround sound system, you may want to watch this next one over at their
+place.  
+
+Just a thought.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: JMS over on CIS (23 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS over on CIS

+23 Nov 1996
It's a combination of the ease of the CIS interface, that I can do it
+offline more easily, and the type of questions.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: Question to JMS about the background of developing the alien nations & organizations (24 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: Question to JMS about the background of developing the alien nations & organizations

+24 Nov 1996
Yes, I certainly tend to draw on historical parallels for parts of the B5
+universe backstory.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS Ode to JMS: In honor of season four (24 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS Ode to JMS: In honor of season four

+24 Nov 1996
                                           ....hrmpfrh....
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+ jms
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+jms conference on Monday (24 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
jms conference on Monday

+24 Nov 1996
Just a quick advisory...I'll be doing the first major online conference on
+the B5 website at 6:00 p.m. Pacific time this coming Monday.  That's
+http://www.thestation.com for the official B5 fanclub site.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: Attn:JMS Babylon 5:Crusaders-Reality check (25 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Attn:JMS Babylon 5:Crusaders-Reality check

+25 Nov 1996
Actually, I've said pretty much from the very beginning of the first
+season, that there was a side-story that could go off, which I'd be
+interested in telling.  And that may be a possibility.
+
+And it's not Crusaders (which always makes me think of Crusader Rabbit);
+it's The Babylon Project: Crusade.  (That's the working title, anyway.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: Falling Toward Apotheosis (* Spoilers *) (25 Nov 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Falling Toward Apotheosis (* Spoilers *)

+25 Nov 1996
Remember, they do have a certain physicality about them, even in that
+form, and the nature of the poison was such that it would affect that kind
+of life form using a crystalline base (note in the pilot the screen reads
+analyzing crystallne structure, and you filter light or refract or distort
+it using a crystalline structure).
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS (B5 Videos) (25 Nov 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS (B5 Videos)

+25 Nov 1996
Yes, we shoot widescreen, and hope to release in that form eventually.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Arc ending this season? (26 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Arc ending this season?

+26 Nov 1996
"I then pick up a copy of TV Zone(UK Magazine for sci-fi etc) and read in
+it an interview with Bruce Boxleitner which clearly states the shows 5
+year arc is ending this year.  And then I pick up a copy of Cult TV, with
+an interview with JMS in it, and this also features the same info, except
+this time it states quite clearly that Warner Brothers have asked JMS to
+resolve the shows 5 year arc this season."
+
+Yes, I have those two magazines as well, both from the same publisher. 
+And I was rather upset when I saw them, because, if you will go back and
+read them again, you will see that nowhere are Bruce or I quoted as SAYING
+that there is only going to be 4 years.  The *magazine* says that, the
+writer says that, but they nowhere provide a quote from anyone backing
+that up.  I *sure* as hell didn't say that, and Bruce has indicated the
+same thing to me.
+
+The magazine is making assumptions.  Let me state this again: nothing has
+yet been decided for certain.  If it had been, I would tell you.
+
+Look...let's be logical about this, shall we?  If I knew this would be the
+last year, what possible mileage is there in keeping this secret?  I'd
+want to put this info out there in hopes of either a) getting a campaign
+going, or b) bracing the fans for the inevitable, if it were inevitable
+(the joke about your mom's on the roof and we can't get her down).  
+
+Let me repeat this: I DON'T KNOW.  WB DOESN'T KNOW.  Nothing has yet been
+decided for certain.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Monday chat screwup (26 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Monday chat screwup

+26 Nov 1996
Just a note to apologize to those who showed up at thestation.com for the
+chat Monday night.  DirectNet, the people who handle the server (and as of
+this moment we are giving strong consideration to going elsewhere, after
+this fiasco), figured (without asking us) that they'd get maybe about 100
+or so people, based on other chats.  They allocated memory and other
+resources accordingly.
+
+So when about 2,000 people showed up...it blew the system to hell and back
+again.  Result: chaos, confusion, lock-outs, angry calls to DirectNet,
+server errors...a mess.
+
+(It's always the same deal...at conventions, online...they always
+underestimate how many people are going to show up.  It's almost funny
+enough to make me reconsider gouging out the eyes of several DirectNet
+personnel and feeding them to hamsters.  Almost.)
+
+I can only apologize, and say that as with all things we try for the first
+time...this will *not* happen again.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN:JMS: A 5 Year Universe Done in 4 Years? (26 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN:JMS: A 5 Year Universe Done in 4 Years?

+26 Nov 1996
The story will be finished, one way or another.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: JMS: Next time, use IRC. =) (27 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: JMS: Next time, use IRC. =)

+27 Nov 1996
No, it wouldn't have been as bad if they'd been prepared for us.
+
+Also, while many boast about IRCs being the end-all of these things, the
+IRC that I did while in Tampa had just as many servers blow up, all over
+the place.
+
+Final figure was that 6,000 tried to get into this thing...there ain't a
+server on the planet that can handle that.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: how we spend Saturday evenings (28 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: how we spend Saturday evenings

+28 Nov 1996
Thanks.  I'm happy that the show can provide a bridge between so many
+diverse and interesting people.  It makes the efforth worthwhile.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Bright Mountain Range (28 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Bright Mountain Range

+28 Nov 1996
Those are city lights, visible as any big city is visible from space by
+the lights.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek (28 Nov 1996)
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Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek

+28 Nov 1996
"I felt as if I had been *deprogrammed,* and stopped thinking of the
+future in terms of that one vision of it, and being a hard scientist,
+that's a pretty embarrassing admission to make.  But it was stunning
+to*feel* it happen to myself.  After a lifetime of watching Trek as the
+*only* vision of the future that most people were aware of, it's amazing
+to become fully aware of the depth of the belief suspension, until it
+seems like the "real" future is the one with the Crayola uniforms and the
+communicators on the chest."
+
+This was something I began to really understand during the first season,
+and was something I hadn't anticipated going in.  Some of the reaction
+against B5 was so strong from some groups of ST fans...it wasn't just one
+show vs. another, there was a vehemence in it that was coming from
+something deeper.  
+
+Eventually I began to figure it out, that it was also two competing
+visions of the future.  I've mentioned before the angry letter I got that,
+among other things, said that the person was thrown every time one of our
+characters used a hand link when "everyone *knows* that by then we'll be
+using chest communicators."  It was a vision thing (to use a fairly recent
+campaign slogan).  The problem then becomes, for lack of a better term, a
+religious problem...competing ideologies, notions to which one has
+committed oneself.  And the most heated wars are always religious wars.
+
+It's been...interesting.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: What's happening this season? (28 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: What's happening this season?

+28 Nov 1996
Deanna: thanks.  Your words are most kind, and eminently appreciated.
+
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+ jms
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+jms & co at LosCon (LA) (28 Nov 1996)
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+
jms & co at LosCon (LA)

+28 Nov 1996
This Thanksgiving Sunday, from 2:30-4:30 p.m., there will be a B5
+presentation at LosCon, an annual fan-run convention here in Los Angeles. 
+LosCon was the very first convention to get behind B5 and support it, and
+our appearance there every year is something that means a lot to all
+involved.  It also tends to be the biggest event of each year's
+convention.
+
+For the first hour it'll be me, with clips from episodes as yet unaired,
+the first pass at the season four bloopers (shown here for the first time,
+still in rough form, some elements of which will be cut as we get further
+along), a music video or two, and the like.  The second hour I'll be
+joined by producer John Copeland (aka pigdog13 on AOL, frequent SF Vortex
+guest, and resident Media Sex God), co-producer George Johnsen, and
+conceptual consultant Harlan Ellison.  Peter Jurasik may make it by,
+contingent upon family obligations, but that's unconfirmed.  We always try
+and debut stuff there.
+
+LosCon is a good sized (1,000 or so) fan-run convention that's been going
+on here in LA for decades, and a great deal of fun.  This year it's taking
+place at the Burbank Airport Hilton, just abaft from, well, Burbank
+Aiport.
+
+Because the B5 presentations are the biggest thing at each year's LosCon,
+you may want to show up a bit early.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek (29 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek

+29 Nov 1996
"No one's claiming Trek doesn't have its failings.  The issue at hand is
+the B5 folk who feel compelled to constantly ridicule Trek.  There's not
+much point, and the attitude is suspiciously cult-like, even if they
+aren't really a cult."
+
+One fallacy in your thinking: while there are many ST fans who haven't
+seen B5, there are insofar as I know *no* B5 fans who haven't seen ST, and
+in most cases, began as ST fans.  These are the same complaints many of
+them have had with ST for a time long before B5 ever came on the
+map...only now in some cases they have a show which is doing what they
+have been saying should be done for some time now.  
+
+This is not a B5 problem...it's an internal ST problem.  
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS- Ever Been to Toronto? (29 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS- Ever Been to Toronto?

+29 Nov 1996
"I have noticed that you make appearances at many conventions and even
+went overseas but I have yet to hear you make an appearence in Toronto or
+any other part of Canada. Is it a matter of being invited or is it a lack
+of free time?"
+
+Yes, no, and none of the above.
+
+There is a time question, in that that's a LONG flight from L.A., and
+getting away is tough.  I do happen to like Toronto, I was there several
+times while working on Captain Power and The Twilight Zone, and when I was
+nominated there for a Gemini Award (the Canadian equivilent of an Emmy). 
+I've always enjoyed my time there, so it's nothing against the city,
+believe me.  
+
+The other problem is venue.  I've been invited by Toronto Trek, for
+instance, by some very nice people there...but I have kind of a standing
+policy about not going to any conventions whose names relate to Star Trek,
+because when I did them I always got gigged for "poaching" by many ST fans
+who still perceive this as a zero-sum game.  I don't put this onto my
+cast, who can go as they choose, but again they don't have the same onus
+in this regard that I do.
+
+Aside from that one, I haven't heard from any cons of sufficient size to
+make the long trip worth doing.  Going that far for less than about 1500
+people is hard to justify in the midst of filming.  (That's turned into
+one of my few rules about conventions...the further away it is, the more
+there has to be a goodly number of people to justify it...because I *hate*
+traveling, and really long trips also cut into my work on the show...so
+the more time away from the show, the more I have to justify it
+logistically.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+Re: ***ATTN JMS: Atonement*** (30 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: ***ATTN JMS: Atonement***

+30 Nov 1996
Thanks...I really do think that this show will be around for a long, long
+time....
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Londo and "Falling Towards Apotheosis" (30 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Londo and "Falling Towards Apotheosis"

+30 Nov 1996
Thanks.  The Londo stuff is nice, and you do get a sense of the kind of
+person he was before the empire began to slip, and his fortunes with it. 
+He can definitely pull it out when he wants to.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Attn: JMS: Does this apply (Andreas/Peter) (30 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: Attn: JMS: Does this apply (Andreas/Peter)

+30 Nov 1996
Suffice to say you'll hear about it.....
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS another compliment (possible *Spoilers*) (30 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS another compliment (possible *Spoilers*)

+30 Nov 1996
"What I like most about B5, I guess, is this: Shit happens.  Shit happens
+to us, not the guest aliens of the week.  Shit STAYS happened."
+
+That's a great last line...I may refer to that in future, thanks.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Biggus Headus (30 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Biggus Headus

+30 Nov 1996
"I have been wondering for a while...with the constant inundation of
+respect, adoration and awe from most on this newsgroup(not to mention
+conventions and fan mail), just how do you keep it all from going to your
+head?  I would personally find being dubbed 'Great Maker' a little
+intoxicating."
+
+I guess it's easy to not let that happen since, for me, it's all for the
+show, not for me personally.  I have a very hard time applying that to
+me...the show is the show.  I'm still the same goofball I was before I
+made B5.  And I find that whenever I start getting cocky, the universe
+whaps me upside the head, and makes me humble *real* fast.
+
+Example...the other day, we were finishing up the editing on 408, "The
+Illusion of Truth."  Making the producer's cut is the hardest thing I do,
+and I'm just exhausted at the end of it.  So I'm taking a five minute
+break, waiting for the elevator to go downstairs and grab a coke, just to
+wake up...and I'm alone, walking back and forth in the hall...in that
+kinda dopey way you do when you're just utterly whacked...I go a few
+paces, swing my leg around, half/stagger back the other direction, go a
+few paces, repeat...my mind elsewhere....
+
+And the door opens, mid-swing...and I start for it...and being off-balance
+I end up doing this drunken-looking stagger right past the elevator
+doors....
+
+The way it would've looked from the inside is as if the elevator doors
+opened up on the fourth deck of the Lusitania, tilted and going down, and
+some crew member was tumbling down the angled deck....and the door closes
+again.
+
+I was too embarrassed to get into it, and waited for the next one.
+
+So it's real easy for me to keep modest...I don't think I have much
+choice.
+
+"Do you ever find it affecting your writing?  Your dealing with the cast &
+crew?
+
+No, they also have their ways of keeping me modest...hence Andreas' recent
+little gag...for which he will pay dearly....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: JMS makes my wife squeal Saturday Nights! (30 Nov 1996)
+
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+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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Re: JMS makes my wife squeal Saturday Nights!

+30 Nov 1996
"My petite, demure wife, a professional woman of letters, turns the lights
+down on Saturday nights (when the show airs), sprawls on the floor,
+demands total control, and then when some piece of dailoge strikes her
+just so, shreeks, holding in laughter, so she can hear the rest.   Then
+when there is a great space scene, load moaning commentary like, "No, no,
+no...  YES! Yes, yes!!!" is shouted."
+
+(laying back, lighting a cigarette)
+
+I'm sorry, what were you saying?
+
+Okay, who wants pizza?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Congratulations on your current ratings trend! (30 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Congratulations on your current ratings trend!

+30 Nov 1996
Yeah, the rankings sometimes drop even when the hard numbers increase when
+you're in sweeps period, and everybody's fighting it out and there's a lot
+of stunt programming going on.  To stay in the top 25 is a great thing,
+and the growth in households is even better.  That's between 10-15 million
+core viewers, and that's very good for a syndicated show, especially when
+other dramatic shows like the ST series have seen definite drops (as per
+the latest Entertainment Weekly).  And our demographics remain the highest
+for any syndicated series, so that makes the show extremely attractive to
+advertisers.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: Women and B5 (was Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek) (1 Dec 1996)
+
+
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Re: Women and B5 (was Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek)

+1 Dec 1996
"And yet, these women can also be women. Delenn in her black dressturning
+heads, giggling at John's jokes, and teasing him. Then to turn around and
+destroy the Grey Council, save B5 from the Earth Alliance, and become
+Ranger One. The depth, the honesty, the reality of her. It is wonderful to
+see such a character, to know that there are role models for a feminine
+woman who can be hard as nails."
+
+I wish I could take more credit for this..."Oh, sure, I did this to create
+strong role models, it was all conscious"...but the truth is, those are
+the kind of women I've always found attractive: sharp, smart, funny,
+strong, sexually assertive, credible...*women*.  Those are always the ones
+I dated, the ones I hung out with as friends (on the theory that men and
+women *can* be friends, it doesn't have to turn into dating)...so it's
+just really a case of writing what I find appealing.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+joe's heart (from jms) (1 Nov 1996)
+
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+
joe's heart (from jms)

+1 Nov 1996
Honestly, people...I can't believe anyone still falls for this stuff.
+
+So there I was, over in the editing bays (away from the B5 stages),
+editing 406, merrily nipping and tucking and rearranging, when a phone
+call comes from the stage.  In a harrassed voice, the person on the other
+end explains that they have been flooded with calls asking about a rumor
+that I'd passed out on the way to work and had been taken to the hospital
+with a heart attack.
+
+C'mon, people...this is the oldest gag in the book.  It's been done to
+Harlan, Walter, Jimmy Doohan (which makes me thing a ST person is behind
+this) and others.  
+
+Lemme put it to you this way: if anything should ever happen to me, you
+will never have to hear about it from someone else, or a rumor.  I have
+people here who will post the information, and all pertinent details,
+direct from Babylonian on my behalf.  If you hear this sort of nonsense
+from anyone else, you can totally ignore it.
+
+And to the person who says he "heard it:" you obviously did not hear
+anything of the kind, and you made it up deliberately to cause trouble. 
+If you did hear it from someone else, let's hear a name.  If not, then you
+are to be held responsible for this.  And, frankly, for the grief caused
+to the set, the stage, and many other people who called out of concern,
+the person responsible for this is less than a creep.  This is just
+another form of interneterrorism.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: Sorry! (jms in hospital) (3 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: Sorry! (jms in hospital)

+3 Nov 1996
James: let me explain why what you did was a Bad Thing.  And let me now
+proceed to bust your chops over this.
+
+A rumor like that is started for only one reason: to hurt.  By passing it
+along, you compound the problem.  You become the instrument of their
+assault.  Too many people have a tendency to take what they see on the
+nets as either true, or worth investigating, and they then pass it on to
+the next net, and the next net...it becomes a kind of interactive virus,
+spreading further.
+
+The result: the small staff at Babylonian were harried with endless
+numbers of phone calls.  People got annoyed.  Time was wasted.  I got
+pulled out of editing to deal with this.  I spent several *hours* last
+night tracking this down and posting messages to other systems putting
+people's minds to rest.  Hours that could (and should) have been spent
+writing.  Very close friends of mine overseas and elsewhere saw this and
+panicked, some were deeply emotionally upset, and would like to get your
+throat someplace near their fingers for posting this in the first place.  
+
+Make no mistake: though it was not your intent, *you did harm*.  As does
+anyone who takes what some jerk says in IRC or elsewhere like this and
+reposts it without doing the least amount of checking.  And don't take the
+"I wanted more information" line with me, James.  You want information,
+all you have to do is send email to the moderators of this forum, who can
+call the stage, and find out.  Then you have your answer, real easy. 
+Instead what you did was the effect of lobbing a hand grenade into a herd
+of horses.  
+
+So don't blame the other person.  You posted the original message, and
+added two more "clarifications" to it that were equally bogus.  You
+started the stampede.
+
+"Sorry" doesn't cut it.  "Sorry" doesn't restore the lost hours of work,
+the annoyed employees, or placate the friends of mine who you deeply
+distressed.
+
+Never, ever, ever do this to me again.  
+
+Or I will be most upset.
+
+You wouldn't like me when I'm upset, James.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Censorship and "Wolf" (no spoilers) (3 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Censorship and "Wolf" (no spoilers)

+3 Nov 1996
"In "The Hour of the Wolf" there are two scenes -- you know which ones --
+that seemed quite a departure from what one usually sees on TV.  Did you
+write "Wolf" before or after your revelation that you were not bound by
+Standards and Practices.  'Cause if you wrote this *before*, then we're in
+for quite a ride."
+
+Aside from the desk scene, which was the other you're referring to?
+
+Oh...and the answer is...before.
+
+Hang on.  It's going to be a bumpy night.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN:JMS:Newsweek and E-Mail (4 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN:JMS:Newsweek and E-Mail

+4 Nov 1996
Darn, I was going to look for that one today and I forgot....
+
+Yeah, we're a fully wired show.  Scary, innit...?
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Hour of the Wolf (NitPick :) (4 Nov 1996)
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+
Re: Hour of the Wolf (NitPick :)

+4 Nov 1996
The ships provided by Delenn are White Star class ships, hence the useage.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN:JMS thanks from a new viewer (5 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN:JMS thanks from a new viewer

+5 Nov 1996
"Does it hurt to give birth to an entire universe?"
+
+Not really, but the post-partum depression is a bitch.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Great Book!! Thanks! (5 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Great Book!! Thanks!

+5 Nov 1996
Thanks.  The script is a good example of how things work,and how the
+writer forms what the director does.
+
+I'll try to stop by Bix...it's just the pace of so much stuff makes it
+hard.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: The lost hours of work and the worried people as a result of THE RUMOR (5 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: The lost hours of work and the worried people as a result of THE RUMOR

+5 Nov 1996
"As much as you hate to admit it, you're an important person, not just out
+there, but in the lives -- right there, in our faces, guiding us for a
+small, or large part of the day -- in the lives of millions of people.  We
+care about you enough to cause chaos.  But it's not any one person's
+fualt."
+
+I'm not important.  The story, yes, maybe...but not me.
+
+James was the one who initially posted it, having been exposed to the one
+person in IRC who wanted to do this.  If B5 is about choices, consequences
+and responsibility, we have to own up to making a choice to go public with
+something rather than check it out, recognize that there are consequences
+to other people when you do this, and then accept the responsibility for
+those consequences.
+
+"Quite frankly, when it comes to B5, I find that the people are a lot more
+polite and honest than other 'netters, and I have come to trust people."
+
+This part I agree with.  I can't tell you how often I've had convention
+organizers, from Worldcon and elsewhere, tell me how pleasantly surprised
+and pleased they were that the B5 fans were invariably well-spoken,
+polite, intelligent, and friendly.  We've got a good rep, and I guess I
+want to protect that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: JMS's "Complete Book of Scriptwriting" (6 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: JMS's "Complete Book of Scriptwriting"

+6 Nov 1996
The date stated obviously refers to the US, not to the UK.  The US
+experiments in TV fell a bit by the wayside when the war hit.  Some
+European communities kept at it.  But question: are you sure, when the BBC
+refers to its founding in 1936, that they're not referring to BBC *radio*?
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: your reading list? (6 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: your reading list?

+6 Nov 1996
I read him in college, but not much since then, I'm afraid.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: B5 Filming/Studio Question (8 Nov 1996)
+
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+
Re: B5 Filming/Studio Question

+8 Nov 1996
No, we don't film on the Warner Bros. lot, and we're not set up to do any
+kind of tours.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 MIDI on Web Page? (8 Nov 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 MIDI on Web Page?

+8 Nov 1996
I cannot give permission for *anything*, as the copyright is owned by
+Warner Bros., not me.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: HourOTWolf CGI *No Spoilers* (8 Nov 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: HourOTWolf CGI *No Spoilers*

+8 Nov 1996
The non-moving Centauri Prime shot is an original Foundation shot; the one
+where it's moving (with the cruiser fly-bys) is the new one, and there's a
+lot more detail now in the surface of the planet and other stuff.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Questions About Scriptwriting Book (8 Nov 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Questions About Scriptwriting Book

+8 Nov 1996
I debated long and hard about including a section about comics in the
+script book, and finally opted against it, on several grounds.  1) I
+wanted to specialize in performance-style scriptwriting, involving living
+people, and 2) while I've written some comics, I don't feel enough of an
+expert yet to set down my poor understanding in book form.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: For JMS (8 Nov 1996)
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Re: For JMS

+8 Nov 1996
Thanks, and good luck with your own writing.  Follow your passion; the
+rest will take care of itself.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Why is no one offended at BOTH old races?!? (8 Nov 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why is no one offended at BOTH old races?!?

+8 Nov 1996
"After watching Z'ha'dum and "Wolf"  (No spoilers here), my main thought
+was basically,  who the hell are these old races who assume moral
+superiority based on technical superiority?  How dare they interfere with
+our development as a species just to suit their own petty needs? I wonder
+if any character  on the show will take that same line of thought and
+expand upon it?"
+
+Well, until now, that's been primarily unknown to the other species.  Now,
+thanks to Sheridan's trip to Z'ha'dum, and stuff coming up, that
+information will start to get out.
+
+So yeah, you may find someone or someones picking this thread up....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: WOLF reaction (no spoilers) (9 Nov 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: WOLF reaction (no spoilers)

+9 Nov 1996
I seem to vaguely remember the title "It's a Very Nice Day," but will have
+to work to connect it to a story.
+
+And thanks...it's a good start to the season.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Why the Theme Change? (9 Nov 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Why the Theme Change?

+9 Nov 1996
We change the theme every season to reflect the tonaity and direction of
+that season's story.  Every season when it butts up against the previous
+season's intent, a lot of folks ask why change it, it was better
+before...and then, by the end of the season, when people see how it fits
+in, generally they like it a lot...and then ask why it got changed for the
+*next* season....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Gold Channel (1 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Gold Channel

+1 Dec 1996
We'll be updating the Gold Channel fairly often, there's lots of material
+there.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Fan Viewings of B5 in the UK (8 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Fan Viewings of B5 in the UK

+8 Dec 1996
It's Warners' position that the import and exhibition of episodes, at cons
+or at fan gatherings, is a violation of international copyright, and yes,
+they will prosecute.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Computer Games and story ideas (*spoiler for WHTMG*) (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Computer Games and story ideas (*spoiler for WHTMG*)

+9 Dec 1996
"In WHTMG, Marcus is talking to G'Kar about his friends and says he's had
+"Damn few of them, and most of them are dead." My instant reaction was
+"That can't be an allusion to Return to Zork." Can it?"
+
+Y'know, if I were to read this group as an outsider, I'd think that this
+jms person was incapable of coming up with a single line on his own.
+
+NO, it wasn't a Zork reference, for chrissakes.  Can we possibly get any
+more obscure here?  I don't even know what this REFERS to.  Marcus came
+from a mining colony.  The shadows struck, and killed everyone there. 
+Hence, the line above.  
+
+There was some goofing around with SF references early on in the show;
+this got out of hand, and it stopped.  I don't sit here, thinking, "Oh,
+goody, I can make a reference to The Day The Earth Stood Still here," or
+some other show.  I write what is appropriate for the character to say. 
+Period.
+
+I'm sorry if I'm a bit cranky in answering this, but jesus christ, people,
+give it a rest and stop looking for references that don't exist.  There
+are only so many permutations in the english language, and something has
+got to echo somewhere for everyone...but that ain't the source.  "Oh,
+look, he use the word THE in this episode, he must be nodding at "The
+Ipcriss Files" or "THEM" just leaving off the M to throw us off."
+
+Your point of reference is your point of reference, it's nothing to do
+with me.  It's like a Rorscharch test, you see what you're familiar with. 
+
+
+As a writer, you work your brains out trying to come up with something,
+and you try your damndest to make it original, and fresh, and
+interesting...do you have any idea how infuriating, how maddening, how
+bottomlin *insulting* it is to have 10,000 people parsing every sentence
+and saying, "Oh, here, did you take this from that?  Is this a reference
+to this over here?"  
+
+NO, IT'S NOT.
+
+I allowed a little of that in the first season or so, often in scripts by
+other people, on a couple of occasions by myself, but that's the end of
+it, because everyone decided that the show was one big easter egg hunt. 
+Fanfic is full of this stuff, which is perhaps why everyone keeps looking
+for it here.
+
+If it's an absolutely blantant, and extremely recognizeable line, line the
+Tolkein reference in year two's "Geometry," then yeah...but some of  this
+is getting so obscure and ridiculous that it's starting to make me crazy.
+
+Can we *please* declare a moratorium on this for a while?
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Does WB give you a raise? (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Does WB give you a raise?

+9 Dec 1996
We get a modest budget increase each year, yes.  Cast and producers
+usually get about a 10% bump each season, tied to contract, not the show's
+ratings.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+
+Re: Attn jms: Any ratings news? (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn jms: Any ratings news?

+9 Dec 1996
They're going very well.  The last batch of episodes were 3.8 in the
+ratings, which is much better than last year, and put us fairly
+consistently in the top 25.  Though the rankings dropped a bit because of
+the number of people watching during sweeps, and the stunt programming,
+the number of households watching the show went up about 100,000 per week.
+ So WB is extremely pleased; we stay at the #5 rated dramatic series, and
+that ain't bad.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: '97 Hugo - Which episode? (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: '97 Hugo - Which episode?

+9 Dec 1996
As I understand it, only the episodes aired in calendar year 96 are
+eligible for the Hugo in 97.  "Gethsmane" aired in November of 95, so it
+would be ineligible.
+
+Everything in season 3 starting in January/February through the first 4
+episodes of year 4 is eligible.
+ 
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Warner Bros (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Warner Bros

+9 Dec 1996
The potential problem is many-headed, like a hydra.  The short
+version...the entity that created PTEN was a consortium of independent
+stations and WB.  That entity basically no longer exists, and now WB is
+funding B5 in its entirety.  When a corporation disappears, the wise thing
+to do is to dissolve all the assets and cash it all in, NOT keep spending
+money on it.  
+
+It's a weird situation in that the *copyright* is owned by WB, but in many
+ways, the *show* is owned by PTEN, so WB can't just go around reassigning
+rights within its own organization.  And WB Network, as a network, must
+define its own image...we know, from in-house discussions, that they would
+not take on B5 because they want to create their own shows, not inherit
+them second-hand.
+
+See, with most companies, the goal for each division is real simple: make
+money for the parent company.  But WB is a series of little kingdoms which
+are DESIGNED TO COMPETE WITH EACH OTHER, *not* to cooperate, on the theory
+(when this was put into place as executive policy) that this would lead to
+more aggressive divisions.  
+
+WB is happy with the show...the problem, and we're (and they're) still in
+the process of gauging how much of a problem this is...is that we're
+caught in this kind of corporate spiderweb, and the spider is gone.  All
+that remains is this series of entanglements, contracts, rights provisions
+and the like.  
+
+You also have to remember that while B5 has been making money for WB from
+day one (a requirement of all WB shows these days), you don't start making
+any real money on a show until AFTER you've finished producing it...so you
+aren't spending anything, just reaping the financial benefits of long-term
+syndication.
+
+So we're just in this maze for now, trying to figure out if that glint in
+the distance is daylight, or a Minotaur with an Uzi.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Snow White WAS Re: JMS on CIS 12-08-96 (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Snow White WAS Re: JMS on CIS 12-08-96

+9 Dec 1996
"Of course the question that I have is, what prompted you to write the
+play in the first place?"
+
+Sigh....
+
+I was 18 years old.  I'd had about 5 or 6 one-act plays produced at
+Southwestern College, to generally good reviews.  (I really hate to use
+the term, but I was kind of a prodigy in some ways.)  Anyway, one day, the
+head of the theater department pulled me aside and said, "Look, every
+summer we do a summer stock production that runs about 12-16 weeks,
+usually for younger audiences.  Most of the time they're established
+plays, but sometimes we do an original if we see potential.  I'd love to
+see what you could do with something like the Snow White story.  And we
+can afford to pay a reasonable fee for it."
+
+Understand...this was the first time I'd been *commissioned* to write a
+full length play.  I was somewhat conflicted about the whole thing, most
+of the plays I'd done had been either offbeat comedies or these terribly
+indulgent and self-impressed treatises which will never, ever be seen by
+anyone again (I have the only recordings of them), and this was about as
+far away from that as you could get.  But it was the chance to have a
+long-running summer-stock production, and at 18, fresh out of high
+school...I fell for it.
+
+After it ran for that year, I sent the script off to a play publisher,
+figuring they'd turn it down, but not wanting to waste it...and they
+picked it up.  And it's still there.  And every six months, I get these
+royalty statements showing that it's being performed all over the
+planet...from the US to Singapore, Thailand, once from Burma,
+Germany...urk....
+
+It was intended for kids...and ONLY kids.  So when adults go see it,
+knowing my current work...I just blanch, that's all.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS:Re: Falling: Preview discrepancy (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn JMS:Re: Falling: Preview discrepancy

+9 Dec 1996
I am forever amazed by what ends up in the trailers, and never see them or
+know what's in them until they air.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS (Script Content and Analysis) (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS (Script Content and Analysis)

+9 Dec 1996
"If/when you have to review dialogue from an earlier episode, how do you
+do it?"
+
+I pick up the binder with the script and look at it.  We keep these around
+in an adjacent office.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: Snow White WAS Re: JMS on CIS 12-08-96 (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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Re: Snow White WAS Re: JMS on CIS 12-08-96

+9 Dec 1996
Also, you can't just go around buying rights back from publishers; the
+business doesn't work that way.  Only if it goes out of print can you get
+a reversion of rights.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:Re: New PPG blasts in S4? (spoilers for FtA) (1 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:Re: New PPG blasts in S4? (spoilers for FtA)

+1 Dec 1996
"She was specifically referring to the PPG blasts and the "Kosh's head
+exploding" effects.  After which I told her that the old company was gone,
+off to do ST:V."
+
+Actually, Foundation was not the sole source of PPG bursts; that's roto
+work, and was often done by Kevin Kutchaver, and others not at Foundation.
+ Oddly, we just had a meeting about PPG bursts, because we've done about 4
+or 5 different versions over the last 4 years.  We decided to go back
+closer to the ones in Soul Hunter in future, since they just look nastier.
+
+
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+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn JMS et al.: Cast and Crew comments (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn JMS et al.: Cast and Crew comments

+9 Dec 1996
We do encourage our crew to get out there, and some do, but most are
+fairly quiet types.  You have some of them over on AOL, pitching in, but
+still not as many as could be.
+
+I've taken it on myself to work to get more of our crew out into the
+limelight lately, to make sure they get proper attention for their work. 
+I dragged George Johnsen in front of the crowd at Worldcon, and again with
+producer John Copeland at LosCon a few weeks ago (those were,
+respectively, their first times appearing at cons).  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Snow White (9 Dec 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Snow White

+9 Dec 1996
"Besides, you're your own worst critic, aren't you?"
+
+Yeah...which is why I don't like anything out there that ain't 100% right.
+ Ah, well.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: Triluminary WAS NEVER CREATED??!? (JMS, what have you done?) (10 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Triluminary WAS NEVER CREATED??!? (JMS, what have you done?)

+10 Dec 1996
As will be noted in an upcoming episode, the Triluminaries originally came
+from Epsilon 3 with the other equipment brought aboard by Zathras.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Cranky (Rock Cried Out extremely minor spoilers) (12 Dec 1996)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Cranky (Rock Cried Out extremely minor spoilers)

+12 Dec 1996
"Who do you share the B5 burden with?"
+
+On reflection, I don't think I have much of a better answer than Sheridan
+did.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - President Clark and action on Earth? (14 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS - President Clark and action on Earth?

+14 Dec 1996
Suffice to say that the show's storyline has always proceeded in waves,
+and we're getting close to this particular one surging back into the
+foreground....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: What can *I* do to save B5? (14 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: What can *I* do to save B5?

+14 Dec 1996
Only the ratings count for Warner Bros.  Just keep watching the show, and
+getting others to give it a shot.  That's all anyone can ask for.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+
+Re: Gold Channel @ www.thestation.com (14 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Gold Channel @ www.thestation.com

+14 Dec 1996
We'll be dropping in new material on the Gold Channel about every 4 weeks
+for now, until all the fan club folks get on board, then move it up to
+about every 2 weeks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Lurker's Guide? (14 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Lurker's Guide?

+14 Dec 1996
I think The Lurker's Guide is an invaluable resource; I check it often
+when I need a quick fact about a prior episode and don't want to hassle
+with digging through scripts or tapes to find it.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS; the FX look fabulous! (14 Dec 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS; the FX look fabulous!

+14 Dec 1996
"However, there was the one shot where the - whoops!  Sorry - force of
+habbit."
+
+I assume you're referring to the one shot in the opening where we zip over
+the back of the station, which was never completed in the 3 years of the
+show, in which instead the polygons were just stretched rather than being
+properly mapped and given specularity.  We've subsequently fixed that.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: What about the unions (14 Dec 1996)
+
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Re: What about the unions

+14 Dec 1996
"But where does B5 get its money?"
+
+This was mentioned in an episode shortly after "Severed Dreams"-- they
+collect fees from the ships that come to B5 (docking fees, customs fees,
+storage and importation fees, taxes on identicards, credit chits, quarters
+and others).
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: The mother of all coincidences? (4 Dec 1996)
+
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+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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Re: ATTN JMS: The mother of all coincidences?

+4 Dec 1996
Actually, Kyle, we're all watching you and controlling you....
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Masters of the Universe (14 Dec 1996)
+
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+
Re: Masters of the Universe

+14 Dec 1996
This was the first TV series on which I was a staffer, acting as a story
+editor (with Larry DiTillio) and one of the main writers for the series,
+and its subsequent companion series, She-Ra.
+
+And I'm confident that sooner or later, I'll have to answer for this
+before the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Delenn=Johnnie's boot-licker? (Was Women and B5) (14 Dec 1996)
+
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Re: Delenn=Johnnie's boot-licker? (Was Women and B5)

+14 Dec 1996
"Considering her past role in Minbari society, though, I expect her to
+snap out of it pretty soon.  She was *trained* to take charge, and even
+the things she's endured lately won't supress that conditioning forever."
+
+Oh, most definitely...count on it.  She's done more than enough "oh john"
+stuff for my tastes...that will start to change, and soon.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Dear Santa-czynski: What I want for Chrysalis 1998 (14 Dec 1996)
+
+
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Re: Dear Santa-czynski: What I want for Chrysalis 1998

+14 Dec 1996
Well...I see SOMEone has just taken out a new life insurance policy....
+
+
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+Re: Little Boxes (was Re: Women and B5) (16 Dec 1996)
+
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Re: Little Boxes (was Re: Women and B5)

+16 Dec 1996
All of which is, of course, the irony in the situation...many times, fans
+ask for shows with colors other than black and white, shades of grey,
+changes in character...but when you start executing those changes, showing
+more than one side, even contradictory sides (as humans are masses of
+internal contradictions) often some of them yell "HEY! STOP THAT!"  
+
+Which goes back to the moral: "Be careful what you ask for."
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: CD-ROM? (18 Dec 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: CD-ROM?

+18 Dec 1996
"...hello from Starfire Sacramento, a sci-fi club that adores your work."
+
+Hello back.  I assume this refers primarily to B5?
+
+"Are there any plans for a CD-ROM game or somesuch based on Babylon 5? "
+
+Doug and I acquired the rights to do a B5 informational CDrom, which we're
+now in the process of developing for next year.  It's going to be a bit
+more than a guide, very subversive and funny in its way.
+
+There have been a number of inquiries about a game for CDrom, but so far
+no one has really come up to the plate in a serious fashion.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Little Boxes (was Re: Women and B5) (18 Dec 1996)
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Re: Little Boxes (was Re: Women and B5)

+18 Dec 1996
"I know, that you've quit jobs before over this, and that gives me the
+trust I need to keep watching, but I'm still a little nervous and I see no
+reason not to say that.  Or to stop from analyzing Delenn's character any
+more than I've done with anyone else on the show."
+
+Couldn't agree more.  Never said or implied otherwise.
+
+
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+Re: JMS: any more StarFury battles coming up? (18 Dec 1996)
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Re: JMS: any more StarFury battles coming up?

+18 Dec 1996
"Will we be seeing any more of that kind of battle this season?"
+
+(Insert Beavis and Butthead "huh-huh-huhhuh" sound here)
+
+Oh yeah.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Television vs. Theatre (18 Dec 1996)
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Re: Television vs. Theatre

+18 Dec 1996
"For JMS' background in theatre check out the Snow White threads"
+
+Actually, there's an awful lot more than that.  I used to be a theater
+reviewer for the Daily Californian and KSDO Newsradio, as well as having
+written a number of other produced plays.  The last one I did was "The
+Apprenticeship," a full length turn-of-the-century pseudo-British comedy
+which ran for about 16 weeks at the Marquis Public Theater in San Diego.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (18 Dec 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS

+18 Dec 1996
Yes, Ghar, and we all know what a bastion of patience and tolerance you
+are, and that your tastes are the norm and nobody else could possibly
+enjoy something if you do not unless they are an idiot, we've been down
+this road before.  
+
+You are free to have your opinion.  And I am free to hold mine.  And in my
+opinion, the Jeanne Cavellos book is probably the best one of all the Dell
+books to date.
+
+One reason for the difference in these next batch of books is that I got
+deeply and intensively involved with the books this time around, which
+time didn't permit me to do in the past.  I made the time, because I felt
+that they needed improving.  I worked closely with Jeanne on the backstory
+(Anna's experience leading up to, and on, the Icarus), made sure she got
+scripts prior to airing so she'd know what was being done, and so on.  The
+third book (based on an assigned premise) follows Sinclair to Minbar and
+starting up the Rangers, and though I haven't seen the manuscript yet,
+it's easily the most comprehensive tie-together of the B5 universe that
+I've seen yet.  The second book (this is in order of publication) by Al
+Sarrantino is also based on an assigned premise, set on Centauri Prime
+around the time of the first 4 episodes of season 4.
+
+In the past, it's been a question of outside writers coming up with a
+notion or a scientific idea (expressed poorly or well is a matter of
+opinion), and then trying to work that into the arc, or as a stand-alone. 
+This time the three books all fit tightly into continuity, and there
+aren't any based on goofy nonscience notions.  (The Sarrantino book is a
+little off the mark in terms of the way the characters speak, and I sent
+it back with some notes, whereas Jeanne's book went back without one
+single, solitary note.)  
+
+In the past, the books have been primarily about the guest characters,
+since that's what outside writers want to write about, the characters they
+introduce.  This time I insisted that our characters had to be at the
+*center* of the story, not the periphery.
+
+So overall, these three books are the best, especially Jeanne's.  Now,
+based on what went before, you may want to prejudge these.  Such is life. 
+But I do object to you smearing Jeanne's ability or accuracy without any
+information whatsoever on the content of the writing involved...she spent
+a great deal of time researching archaeology and anthropology to use in
+the background for Anna and the mission, and I think she's done a bang-up
+job.
+
+But like all things B5, the book will stand or fall on its own.  And this
+one will stand.  
+
+
+ jms
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+From jms re: year 4 or 5 or both (18 Dec 1996)
+
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From jms re: year 4 or 5 or both

+18 Dec 1996
There's been a fair amount of speculation and concern about the fifth
+season, and how the story is laying out to handle the possibilities of
+renewal vs. no renewal.  Though the ratings have continued to improve
+despite the shifts and changes in the syndication marketplace -- it's a
+very different market than it was when we first debuted -- nothing is
+certain yet about a fifth season.  Some at WB say yes, some say no.  My
+job is to pick my way through this minefield and make it all  work, and
+assure the story ending where is was meant to end.  So how does one do
+this?  
+
+Here's the skinny.
+
+First, you have to understand that writing is a *process*, and that
+process is constantly changing.  Ask any writer, and they'll tell you that
+many times they've been working on a short story, or a novel, and they
+have to edit for space.  This applies to both fiction and nonfiction
+writers.  Sometimes it's done by the writer, sometimes by the editor.  On
+my second novel, the editor told me at the halfway mark that we'd have to
+keep the book down to 100,000 words, which was about 75-100 pages less
+than I'd been planning on, so the story had to be adjusted to fit.  As a
+journalist, I've often walked into the office with a story in hand and
+been told, "Okay, you've got 15 column inches," or 25 column inches, or 10
+column inches...and you just learn to write to fit.  Every writer goes
+through this.  
+
+And in most cases, the average person never knows.  Done properly, it
+should be seamless.  Look at Stephen King's The Stand, cut by almost 25%
+by the editors at first, then later released with all the ancillary
+material replaced.  I've read both, and the latter is not appreciably
+better than the former...if you didn't know the material was there, you
+would never have missed it.
+
+This also happens on a per-episode basis.  At LosCon, I showed a finished
+scene from 405, and the daily of the master shot of the same scene, which
+had another minute or so of material cut from the finished scene.  We cut
+material all the time; if you added up all the material cut from the third
+season, you'd have enough for almost two episodes.  And we often slide
+manterial from one episode into another; we slid Ivanova's scenes in 402
+into 403, and another scene from 405 into 406...we've done that in prior
+seasons as well.  Sometimes you go back and you *add* material.  Again,
+it's all part of the process.
+
+(Interestingly enough, I just bought the new laserdisk of "Young
+Frankenstein," which has about 15 minutes of material cut from the movie
+for time.  I watched it the other night, and of those 15 minutes, 13 were
+easily expendable...only one scene was fairly interesting, but not really
+necessary.)
+
+Okay, so how does all this relate to B5?
+
+My obligation as a storyteller is to get to the end of the story in a
+satisfying way.  So after we got the year 4 renewal, and knowing that the
+PTEN business situation had the potential to impact us (when the network
+that supports you is no longer there, so now your entire structure is shot
+out from under you...you've got a problem), I looked at the structure for
+the story, and began planning adjustments so that it could go either way
+without padding anything, and without shortchanging the story.
+
+First thing I did was to flip out the stand-alones, which traditionally
+have taken up the first 6 or so episodes of each season; between two
+years, that's 12 episodes, over half a season right there.  Then you would
+usually get a fair number of additional stand-alones scattered across the
+course of the season.  So figure another 3-4 per season, say 8, that's 20
+out of 44.  So now you're left with basically 24 episodes to fill out the
+main arc of the story.  
+
+Now, that arc is very intensive, and has three primary threads: the
+resolution of the Shadow war, the situation regarding Earth, and a series
+of smaller sub-threads that feed off those main threads.  But if you
+charge right from one to the other, it's going to feel rushed, you're
+going to need some breathing room between major movements, particularly
+after the shadow war.  Not so much stand-alones as episodes that let you
+begin to rearrange your pieces for the next major movement.  So now you're
+back up to about 27.  
+
+Okay, so *now* what do you do?  The solution to that came in several
+unassociated pieces.  
+
+First came the word of the two B5 TV movies for TNT, which were envisioned
+as taking place within the arc of our main story.  Suddenly I had 4 hours
+into which I could slide some of this material.  One sub-thread I'd been
+planning on was a 3-episode arc that would look at how the Earth/Minbari
+War started, and Delenn's situation at the start of the war, joining the
+Council, that sort of thing.  Now I was able to split that out.  So in the
+series I can, in an episode, get into Delenn's role in the war and go into
+the background of how she got to know Dukhat, how she got into the Grey
+Council, and so on...all the stuff you'd need to see prior to the war. 
+Then the two hours covering the rest, the progress of the war itself,
+could be covered in the two-hour movie.
+
+With the *benefit* that we'd have a little more money for the movie than
+we would for two conventional hours, so we could do *more* in the way of
+EFX, production value, and so on, which you're going to need to really
+sell the E/M war.  So strangely enough, and as tends to happen, this has
+put us in the position of doing it *better* than if I'd dropped it into
+two standard-budget episodes, as was my original plan.
+
+Another sub-thread wouldn't have been introduced until late in year 5, in
+part to set up the possibility of a sequel (which, as I've stated from the
+very earliest days of the show, was always in the back of my head) and
+which would stand on its own in any event; a thread designed to illustrate
+the notion that the duration tends to be a lot longer than the war. 
+(You'll understand that one later.)  That sub-thread would've filled about
+3-4 episodes.
+
+Now, again, having the second 2-hour movie lets me slide that piece of
+story into that category and cover nearly all of that ground in doing so. 
+The remaining material could (and will, one hopes) be covered in the
+actual sequel itself.  (If the sequel never ends up going, the material
+will be sufficiently stand-alone to still work on its own.)
+
+Then, finally, you take the stand-alones you pulled out earlier (which
+nobody would miss, not knowing what was in them), and the final couple of
+sub-threads (not yet introduced or implied in the main series) and slide
+them into the sequel series, CRUSADE.
+
+So if we *had* to collapse everything into a fourth year, it would all fit
+perfectly.  If word came that there *was* going to be a fifth year, you
+commission some scripts early, drop some of the stand-alones back into the
+slot, and bring up the sub-threads that would otherwise have been
+transferred into the sequel.
+
+Bottom line is...you're covered either way.  You end up where you wanted
+to end up, the main threads get dealt with, secondary or tertiary threads
+have other venues in which they can be dealt with...you're solid.
+
+There's nothing particularly extraordinary or amazing in this...this is
+how all writers work, since there are always going to be varying
+constraints in length or venue.  Writing is a process, and that process is
+such that it is infinitely variable while still proceeding where you want
+it to go.
+
+So that's where I am currently.  If I know the fate of the fifth year by
+late February or early March, I can then flip either way and get out
+cleanly.  Worst case scenario is that I might have to write alternate
+scenes or alternate endings for scenes in the last few episodes if the
+word comes much later than that, just to give me the flexibility to adjust
+the story in editing, which would definitely take place after we wrapped,
+at which time we have to have word by contract.
+
+None of this could've been done in three seasons...we had to have a
+minimum of four to give us the flexibility of cutting either way.  There's
+no point to reading a book that leaves you hanging for an ending, and B5
+was meant to have an ending.  At this juncture, finishing off script 15, I
+feel very comfortable with the way all this is laying out.  The flow is
+there, and I know we'll get where we need to.  No matter what happens,
+we're covered.  We can handle year 5 without padding, and handle year 4
+without shortchanging the storyline.  Granted it took only slightly less
+planning than the invasion of Normandy, but it works, and that's the
+crucial thing.
+
+Anyway...I've gone on for longer than I'd intended.  I hope that this will
+answer some of the questions and concerns raised about the situation, and
+explains how you do some of the planning for this kind of thing.  Again,
+this online experiment is about letting people understand the process of
+telling a story like this, and of making a TV show in general.  As I've
+noted before, telling a story of this nature for television, with all the
+exigencies and real-life surprises involved, is like doing an elaborate
+step-dance while people are throwing live chickens and chainsaws at
+you...but I knew that would be the situation going in, and it was only a
+matter of whether or not the story was worth the grief involved in telling
+it.
+
+And it most definitely has been.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thank you! (4 Dec 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thank you!

+4 Dec 1996
Thank *you*, and my best to all our fans in Norway.  That's a long way to
+go, for a kid from New Jersey....
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: An Open Letter to JMS (19 Dec 1996)
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Re: An Open Letter to JMS

+19 Dec 1996
And this really isn't about setting records, that ain't the point, only a
+byproduct.  The emphasis has to be quality; quantity means nothing if it's
+a lot of bad TV.
+
+(If one chooses to really quibble, 92 TZs are mainly half-hours, so you're
+looking at about 50 hours, and the number of jms B5's have already
+exceeded that number.  But again, this is really a rather silly
+discussion.)
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS  New sets? (19 Dec 1996)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  New sets?

+19 Dec 1996
Well, let's see...more Earth sets, a lot of stuff on and in Mars, Minbar,
+some more on Narn...we've got quite a few coming, actually.
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Viacom on the Rampage (19 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Viacom on the Rampage

+19 Dec 1996
Actually, WB and I have already had discussions about this (along with
+John C. and others in B5 production).  What we proposed, because of the
+unique relationship between us and the online community, was that WB *not*
+go after the fan web pages AS LONG AS they attached the proper copyright
+info to any graphics or other material that's owned by WB.  This prevents
+the material from falling into the public domain, which is the main
+concern here.  (Most folks don't know that you can lose your copyright if
+you do not make best, concerted efforts to defend it.)
+
+It's a sane and sensible policy, and thus far it seems to be working.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Season's Greetings, jms! (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Season's Greetings, jms!

+20 Dec 1996
"But is there an original holiday greeting which applies to an atheist?"
+
+Yes.  Bah, humbug.
+
+Works for me.
+
+jm(are there no workhouses? are there no prisons?)s
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Syndication order Q (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Syndication order Q

+20 Dec 1996
"Do you folks hand them to them as a package?  Or does WB?  If the former,
+will you just hand them everything, as in "here's the show, here's the
+listing, here's the order, etc."?"
+
+WB handles all distribution, and they'll be given the airdate schedule,
+most likely, and that will become the template.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: From jms re: year 4 or 5 or both (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: From jms re: year 4 or 5 or both

+20 Dec 1996
"I for one appreciate your forthrightness, and the insight into how you
+handle the writing of such a huge arc-story was fascinating!"
+
+Thanks...again, that's part of the reason for all this, so people can
+better understand why things happen the way they happen when making a TV
+series.  There's so much misinformation and bad mythology out there...if
+this can ameliorate that a bit, all the better.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Chanting for enlightenment (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Chanting for enlightenment

+20 Dec 1996
Like most things one writes, the only real answer is, "A little of both." 
+One part of your brain says it's nifty, the other part sees the
+significance.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN. JMS?? Did Harlan get his silver "5" pin from San Diego? (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN. JMS?? Did Harlan get his silver "5" pin from San Diego?

+20 Dec 1996
Yes, I believe I did...though I don't recall his response...they're
+utterly gorgeous, though, and I've often worn them.  Thanks again for the
+gift, it's lovely.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: What was that? (* FTA Spoilers (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: What was that? (* FTA Spoilers

+20 Dec 1996
The idea was to short out and "crack" the suit, getting the vorlon out, so
+the last of Kosh and Lorien and Sheridan could deal with him in a weakened
+and more vulnerable state.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN: JMS The end (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS The end

+20 Dec 1996
"What this boils down to is... is the ending you invisioned at the start
+of Babylon 5 the same today as it was then?"
+
+For the most part, yeah...it's gotten a bit refined over time, the way it
+always does the closer you get to it...it's like seeing a mountain from a
+great distance, then closing in until you can make out the details.  But
+basically, yeah.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Why does JMS make you laugh right before horrifying you? (Spoilers for #403) (4 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Why does JMS make you laugh right before horrifying you? (Spoilers for #403)

+4 Dec 1996
It's the roller coaster theory: if you move someone to horror or fear or
+shock from a neutral place, the emotional jump is less than if they're
+laughing...then suddenly you whipsaw them into the absolute emotional
+opposite.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS (20 Dec 1996)
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS

+20 Dec 1996
Nothing is set yet.  See my recent note on this.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Fave charities (20 Dec 1996)
+
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+
Re: JMS: Fave charities

+20 Dec 1996
"I know you don't do Christmas. Any favorite charities you'd like to
+encourage fans towards, instead?"
+
+I'd say your local charities should come first: battered women shelters,
+AIDS hospices, and the like.  If you need something national, I'd say the
+Red Cross, or the Boy's and Girl's Clubs (which kept me off the streets
+and out of trouble for more years than I want to think about), or if you
+want a good political group, Norman Lear's People for the American Way or
+Harry Chapin's World Hunger Year.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: An Open Letter to JMS (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: An Open Letter to JMS

+20 Dec 1996
"Jerry 'Garibaldi' Doyle (sp) recently stated in an interview that he was
+looking to leave mid season this year (season four).  Whether the writer
+of the article (the interviewer) made it look like Doyle (sp) was unhappy
+or if Mr. Doyle real is unhappy, it came across that way.  He seems to
+blame the writing (you in this case) for not developing his character
+more.  To add fuel to the fire, the rumor mill has been grinding out that
+Bester will be reappearing soon and Doyle's character will be leaving on
+the same show.  How do you as the semi-sole writer of the series respond
+to an actor who believes that his abilities are not being fully used."
+
+First, I've never seen Jerry say that in print, and he's not leaving
+mid-season year 4, and in fact he's had more to do this season than he has
+in a long time.  He has a huge arc this season.  B5 is an ensemble show,
+so there's always going to be some times when actors get more or less to
+do, that's part of the job.  
+
+I commend to you the article that just came out in (you'll pardon the
+expression) Starlog this month...it's an interview with Jerry that
+addresses all of those points, and disputes all the commentrs you just
+made here.  
+
+"If WB in the US wouldn't sell the tapes to us and the UK is selling them.
+ Would it be possible to have a studio (anyone who has the equipment) over
+here set up to buy the tapes from the UK (which is done on PAL) and pull
+them off and record them back on to VHS standard without violating the
+copyright laws?"
+
+Nope.
+
+"Rod Sterling and the Twilight Zone will be mark that few writers and even
+few producers will ever be able to hit."
+
+It's Rod Serling.  If you're going to use the name, learn how it's spelled
+(you got it wrong each time you typed it).  On the matter of script
+numbers, I replied to that elsewhere.  On the rest...Rod is one of my
+icons, so believe me, I know his work far, far better than most people.  I
+have read his original scripts (many not available anywhere but via CBS),
+have collaborated with him posthumously on the Twilight Zone v2.5, I know
+his wife, Carol, and his neice, Sandi Serling, is one of our publicists. 
+Believe me, I know from Serling.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  The Christmas Thing - A Modest Proposal (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  The Christmas Thing - A Modest Proposal

+20 Dec 1996
Thanks, but no, the best gift you can give me is to get involved locally
+with the charities and causes that will directly affect your life and the
+lives of those around you.  Change the world before someone else does it
+for you.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  The Christmas Thing - A Modest Proposal (20 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  The Christmas Thing - A Modest Proposal

+20 Dec 1996
Thanks, but no, the best gift you can give me is to get involved locally
+with the charities and causes that will directly affect your life and the
+lives of those around you.  Change the world before someone else does it
+for you.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: An Open Letter to JMS, Part #2 (22 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: An Open Letter to JMS, Part #2

+22 Dec 1996
"My momentary laspe of mispelling doesn't take away from the fact that the
+path now being traveled by JMS was cut by people who came before him. 
+Remember that in the early 60's, News shows were from 15 minutes to 30
+minutes, your average show was only 30 minutes and no one was doing hour
+long SF shows.  RS was on the cutting (bleeding) of writing and networks
+were always ready to cut him loose. He didn't have an expensive budget for
+FX."
+
+He had an expensive budget for FX *for that time*, not in comparison to
+now in terms of dollar-for-dollar.  
+
+And yeah, we all stand on the shoulders of giants...so what's your point? 
+Before me there were others, like Rod...and barely preceding Rod there was
+Paddy Chayefsky and Reginald Rose and Arch Oboler...and on and on and on.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: TV Rating System (an obvious question) (22 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: TV Rating System (an obvious question)

+22 Dec 1996
"What rating will B5 receieve under the new TV Parental Guidelines system?
+TV-PG, right?"
+
+I have no idea.  Syndication may not come in for the same hits as the
+network shows.  
+
+I favor TV-RFI...TV-RUN FOR IT!
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Tnak you for your wonderfull book (23 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Tnak you for your wonderfull book

+23 Dec 1996
Thank you.  I understand that the book is doing extremely well, and the
+reaction so far has been very positive.  Thanks again, and good luck.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS Second Favourite show on TV (26 Dec 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS Second Favourite show on TV

+26 Dec 1996
I'd say probably either X-Files or 60 Minutes, which are starting to
+resemble one another more and more these days....
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Change of heart regarding the WB Network? (26 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Change of heart regarding the WB Network?

+26 Dec 1996
I don't think the WB network is a likely candidate in any event, so it's
+kind of a moot point.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS; the FX look fabulous! (4 Dec 1996)
+
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS; the FX look fabulous!

+4 Dec 1996
Thanks.  And we intend to continue pushing the EFX this season...the CGI
+in 406 will be either equal to or more than "Severed Dreams," for
+instance.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: The other door in "Z'Ha'Dum" (27 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: The other door in "Z'Ha'Dum"

+27 Dec 1996
In a way, I was going more for the visual, the image...the whole show is a
+matter of what door you choose to go through, and the door not taken.  If
+you wanted to take the scene *absolutely* literally, then since that room
+adjoined Justin's, the shadows were inside.  Or you can take it a little
+more metaphorically.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+
+Re: Joe's Relationship with B5 Viewers (27 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Joe's Relationship with B5 Viewers

+27 Dec 1996
"...do any other producers maintain this level of dialogue with their
+viewers?"
+
+None that I'm aware of.  Some maintain a presence on-line on an occasional
+basis, or on one or two services, or have someone filter their
+messages...but none at this level that I can name.  
+
+"But there must come a point when you turn away from the keyboard and
+laugh "it's just a tv show"."
+
+It is...?  Good heavens...then what's that Vorlon doing in the living
+room...?
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Frightening Speech in Summoning (spoilers for same) (27 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Frightening Speech in Summoning (spoilers for same)

+27 Dec 1996
Certainly there will be some people who will wonder exactly the same thing
+you do, within the context of the show...and wonder if Sheridan's gone too
+far, gotten too messianic in his approach....
+
+Ah, the fun never stops....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+
+
+Re: Inquest magazine spoils season 4 title (*spoiler*) (28 Dec 1996)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Inquest magazine spoils season 4 title (*spoiler*)

+28 Dec 1996
"Into the Fire"
+
+Nope.  That ain't it.
+
+It's the title of a script that nobody's seen yet.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Wanna bet? NO! (28 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Wanna bet? NO!

+28 Dec 1996
Actually, the Star Trek lottery scratchers are already out here in
+CA...someone gave me one a few weeks ago, astounded that Trek had now
+become part of legalized gambling...but with the ST casino going up in
+Vegas, a scratcher doesn't seem like that big a deal.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Wanna bet? NO! (28 Dec 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Wanna bet? NO!

+28 Dec 1996
Actually, the Star Trek lottery scratchers are already out here in
+CA...someone gave me one a few weeks ago, astounded that Trek had now
+become part of legalized gambling...but with the ST casino going up in
+Vegas, a scratcher doesn't seem like that big a deal.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re:  ATT:JMS WAS Joe's Relationship with B5 Viewers (28 Dec 1996)
+
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Re:  ATT:JMS WAS Joe's Relationship with B5 Viewers

+28 Dec 1996
"You've said that you're still afraid that you'll give a presentation and
+no one will come -- do *you* sometimes go home and think, "Boy, that was a
+dumb thing to say", "Geez, I didn't put that at all well" etc.?"
+
+The question is have I ever done a presentation and *not* thought that
+afterward.  I invariably will ask someone I know, if present, "Was that
+okay?  I really muffed that part before the tape...and I didn't get this
+guy's question, but now I see what he was trying to ask now that I'm off
+the stage..."  I always have this kind of grunge feeling that I muffed it,
+did I provide enough for the people who came all this way...on and on and
+on.
+
+So yeah...ALL the time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re:  ATTN JMS: Are B5 crew "Rangers"? (29 Dec 1996)
+
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Re:  ATTN JMS: Are B5 crew "Rangers"?

+29 Dec 1996
Yes, the second patch on the B5 command staff is a Ranger patch; the
+theory is that there's the League/B5 alliance on one side (one patch), the
+Minbari and the Rangers on the other (second patch), and the B5 command
+staff holding them all together.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: *only* 3 billion people on Centauri Prime? (30 Dec 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: *only* 3 billion people on Centauri Prime?

+30 Dec 1996
Basically, I figured with a culture in decline, often the birth rate goes
+down; it's also a fairly small world, all things considered...and a LOT of
+them live on other colonies, they've been spreading out a lot longer than
+we have...and of course they have always been sensible about birth control
+and population growth, one of their few wisdoms, and one we could learn
+from.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: To thank you (7 Dec 1996)
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Re: ATTN JMS: To thank you

+7 Dec 1996
Thanks.  Hope is one of the things that seems greatly missing from most
+commercial entertainments, and if they do try to do something in this
+area, it often tends to wander into the treacly or saccherine.  We have to
+entertain, that is the requirement...but there has to be more, for me, for
+it to be worth doing.
+
+Thanks for the kind words.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+Re: Women and B5 (was Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek) (7 Dec 1996)
+
+
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+
Re: Women and B5 (was Re: Paradigm shifts and B5/Trek)

+7 Dec 1996
Just checked back into this thread....
+
+"There was the instance in GROPOS of Delenn being saved by Dodger -- but I
+can't for the life of me think of a single instance of a MAN being in the
+victim's position.  I'm ready to be proven wrong, though, since my memory
+is faulty.  Anyone with counterexamples is welcome to provide them."
+
+ALL ALONE IN THE NIGHT.  Sheridan's taken by the Streibs, and it's Ivanova
+who puts together the rescue effort, and is directing the attack on the
+Streib vessel, and who decides "screw it, frag 'em" when it seems they
+killed Sheridan...then stops his pod from being killed, and orders his
+rescue.
+
+Also, in PARLIAMENT OF DREAMS, G'Kar was restrained and about to be killed
+but for the intervention of Na'Toth.
+
+I know there are other examples, but those are the two that come to mind
+off the cuff.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Fourth Season Title (8 Dec 1996)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Fourth Season Title

+8 Dec 1996
Nope, that ain't it...and since I haven't TOLD anyone what it is, not even
+Doug or John, anyone who says he's heard it is, of course, incorrect.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Actors in sequel (1 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Actors in sequel

+1 Jan 1997
Nothing has yet been finalized (or even near to it) on the cast.
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: V script on-line (5 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: V script on-line

+5 Jan 1997
I won't post the whole script, because I'm considering what can be done
+with it yet, including the possibility of getting WB to authorize a
+novelization, which would be the very last official chapter in the V
+story.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Question For JMS (8 Jan 1997)
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Re: Question For JMS

+8 Jan 1997
Thanks...and the eyes were a projection of a shadow face, as you can note
+in the main title.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: B5 Content Rating (8 Jan 1997)
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Re: B5 Content Rating

+8 Jan 1997
Nobody asked me about it...so I don't know who puts it on.
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN:JMS-On Location? (8 Jan 1997)
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+
Re: ATTN:JMS-On Location?

+8 Jan 1997
We've only gotten as far out as the parking lot.
+
+
+ jms
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+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Future Publications (8 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Future Publications

+8 Jan 1997
Actually, the writing book is out now...and I doubt the series bible will
+ever be made available.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Will we see more about any of these people? (9 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Will we see more about any of these people?

+9 Jan 1997
Out of those six, you'll be seeing 4 of them again, soonish.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS heros? (9 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS heros?

+9 Jan 1997
I think it's a matter of showing the formality and traditions of the other
+races.  You're right, that humans don't honor their fallen heroes as much
+as they should, but they never really have....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Whence came Apotheosis ... (10 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Whence came Apotheosis ...

+10 Jan 1997
Eye are a riter.  Eye read buks and eye remember wurds.  Wurds r my
+bizness.  Eye have seen that wurd many, many times. Like in the
+dikshonary. Eye read the dikshonary for funn.  Eye likes wurds.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Legality of burning downloaded clips into CD (10 Jan 1997)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Legality of burning downloaded clips into CD

+10 Jan 1997
If the clips were provided by WB, then I imagine it's legal, though again
+I'm not an attorney and am speaking off the cuff; if they're grabs off the
+broadcast, they're illegal to START with if they're being distributed over
+the net, so any secondary use is equally unlawful.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re: Why was CC looking for work in the first place? (was: Claudia Christian loses LadyLaw roll to Marcia Clark (14 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: Why was CC looking for work in the first place? (was: Claudia Christian loses LadyLaw roll to Marcia Clark

+14 Jan 1997
Lots of our cast members have always done projects on the side; Stephen
+did the Misery sitcom, Andreas has done some feature work, including
+Executive Decision, Peter did a miniseries for cable...the Lady Law gig
+would've required one day a week just introducing stuff a la Robert Stack
+on Unsolved Mysteries.
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+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: who can you hire/fire? (1 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: who can you hire/fire?

+1 Jan 1997
"You're the writer and executive producer, and also big and tall. My
+question are, within the limitations of the budget you get, who controls
+the money?  Who has the final say over who to hire or fire, and what to
+spend money on or not?  Do you control all of that, or do you
+havemini-budgets for individual groups and let managers below you handle
+the smaller details within?  Can you briefly list the parts of the
+management hierarchy above and below you for, say, 1-2 levels?  Who's your
+boss and your boss' boss?  To whom are you the immediate boss and who
+reports to them?  Or maybe it's all a very flat hierarchy?"
+
+Doug and I own Babylonian Productions.  Once the budget is allocated by
+WB, we have full, final and complete discretionary control over it all. 
+Now, if we're going to do something major -- fire or hire a recurring
+actor or director -- we have to contact our liaison at WB and explain why,
+and what impact it has on standing contracts.  Once they are brought into
+the loop, they generally stamp "okay" on it and we move on.  They only get
+into the major issues, not the smaller, day to day things.  
+
+Guest stars: Doug and I have final authority, no need to check with WB;
+costume designs, sets, CGI, prosthetics...I generally deal with all of
+that, with John Copeland.  John handles a fair amount of this stuff as
+well, but if there's any kind of decision that needs to be made, to
+finalize stuff, it comes to me.  
+
+And that's really the whole chain of command: me and Doug, then John; and
+at the approval process for major changes, WB.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: The WB and B5 (14 Jan 1997)
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+
Re: The WB and B5

+14 Jan 1997
Actually, the article got it wrong; at one point we went in to discuss the
+sequel to B5 with the WB network, but we have never talked to them about
+picking up B5, because we know that's not a possibility, given the
+competition between the two arms of WB.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: 415? (14 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: 415?

+14 Jan 1997
415 and 416 are both in (the latter entitled "The Exercise of Vital
+Powers"), and 417 should be in soonish.  S4 is going great so far, we're
+very happy with it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Can you go crazy with sequel? (16 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Can you go crazy with sequel?

+16 Jan 1997
In some ways, yeah, I think I will have some real opportunities that
+didn't exist with B5, in that for the first 3 years we had to fight to get
+ourselves taken seriously by everyone, including WB.  Now we have some
+credibility, and that gives you a certain freedom.  
+
+Also, the arc was, for me, a relatively new tool which took me about a
+year or so to really figure out how to use...then I used it relentlessly
+for a very long time.  Now it's just one more tool on my belt, and I can
+use it with a bit more precision.  It's the difference between using a
+rapier and a broadsword.  
+
+It'll probably start out looking fairly conventional, as did B5 our first
+year, just until the suits get comfortable and start ignoring us (they're
+all OVER you in your first year), and then, again as with B5, we'll start
+getting really subversive...ah loves being subversive....
+
+And there'll be the folks who'll say, "Oh, it's just X," just like they
+did with B5 in the beginning, saying "Oh, it's just like DS9," which is
+*perfect* because it lets me sneak up behind them and just WHACK 'em
+upside the head when they're not looking, as with B5.
+
+Basically, without saying too much, it'll be a MUCH larger canvas, and the
+kinds of stories I can tell will be CONSIDERABLY more varied and have more
+opportunities to explore all kinds of interesting stuff, so I can go a bit
+more nuts on production values, alien stuff, and other areas.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU APPROVED! (16 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU APPROVED!

+16 Jan 1997
Thing about the autographed cards...there was no money involved in this,
+it was done as a cool thing for the fans.  (Okay, I *did* ask for a full
+set of the Kingdom Come cardset, because I didn't want to run all over the
+planet running down chase cards)...and man, you have NO idea how long it
+takes to sign 900 cards.  Hours, I tell you...hours and hours.
+
+I suppose I could've signed more, to make more available to fans, but my
+right hand fell off and it took a day and a half to stich it back on
+again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: JMS has another job? (17 Jan 1997)
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Re: JMS has another job?

+17 Jan 1997
And you stiffed me for a tip, buddy....
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Why take net points? (17 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why take net points?

+17 Jan 1997
Because, if the show is successful in the long term, it gives you the
+authority to go back and audit the show so you *can* get something, maybe,
+years down the road.  If you don't get it into your contract, you can
+never go back.  So you just swallow it and hope you can do something with
+it someday.  It just becomes a bitch to prove they made a profit, because
+they control the books.
+
+For instance...we know that the first 3 years of B5 made a profit for WB
+because WB has a policy of not renewing unless a profit is being made. 
+Pure and simple.  We've heard, off the record, that the show posted
+profits of between $1.5-2 million per season.  (And mind, that's while
+we're still in production, spending money to make the show.  The instant
+you stop production, and there's no more negative cash flow into filming,
+it's all income from that moment on.)
+
+But the actual, official profit statement sent to Doug and I for season 2
+showed that we were about $42 million in the red.  The only way for that
+to happen is for not one commercial to ever be sold, not one merchandising
+deal ever to be made, not one cassette sold overseas...nada.
+
+The process is to assign percentages to various arms of the company.  The
+distribution fee is (these are off-the-cuff numbers, not necessarily
+accurate but indicative) 30%; then the overhead is 40% of all monies; 25%
+for publicity; 30% for production of prints, shipping, and the like.  So
+what you're looking at here is over 100% in fees...and when you start from
+that position, it takes you YEARS to whittle away at the production costs,
+costs of film...by which time additional fees have been charged against
+you...and on and on and on....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: FAN USE OF B5 STUFF (18 Jan 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: FAN USE OF B5 STUFF

+18 Jan 1997
You can use images, as I understand it, AS LONG AS they bear the proper
+copyright info, "copyright and trademark 1997 PTN Consortium."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: If WB owns B5, lock, stock, and barrel... (18 Jan 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: If WB owns B5, lock, stock, and barrel...

+18 Jan 1997
"This is what concerns me about a B5 spin-off.  If the show now becomes
+too
+popular, the anticipated spin-off just may turn into "Moppets in Space". 
+I guess I don't have much confidence that the successors to B5 will not
+turn into Voyager."
+
+I created B5.  I didn't create Voyager.  And I have no interest in doing
+moppets in space or anywhere else unless I can run a truck over them.
+
+This ain't gonna be a problem.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Just wanted to thank Joe again for the show (18 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: Just wanted to thank Joe again for the show

+18 Jan 1997
Thanks.  In some ways, the show created itself...but I'm more than happy
+to take the credit for it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: 415? (19 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: 415?

+19 Jan 1997
Let me clarify a small point in all this. 
+
+We shoot straight through, from August to May.  We don't stop, we can't
+stop, except for the occasional holiday, like Christmas or Thanksgiving,
+plus one four day hiatus in the fall, and one in the spring.  That's the
+only way to make our delivery dates, and to produce this or any OTHER
+series.
+
+You can't take a position of, "Okay, I'm going to stop writing scripts and
+wait to see what happens."  So if that's the point of concern -- why is
+Joe writing if he doesn't know? -- it's because you just can't stop
+filming.  The cost alone would be hideous, and that alone would guarantee
+the death of B5.
+
+You have to get the basic script into the hopper literally 6 weeks before
+you shoot it, so that there's adequate time to build costumes, design and
+construct sets, plan EFX shots and the like. 
+
+What you can do, though, and what's being done to some extent, is to plan
+out alternate scenes, and alternate endings to scenes, *within* those sets
+and using those EFX.  It's not that unlike a computer game tree.  Once we
+get closer to filming them, we'll have a better idea of where things
+stand, and I'll know which way to go.
+
+You want a bottom line, I'd say it's this: the last sweeps period, we
+averaged a 3.8 rating, the highest we've had in a long, long time.  A huge
+jump.  If we can crack a 4 rating in the February sweeps, I think it would
+be very hard for WB *not* to give us a fifth season.  If we fall short,
+then it becomes more problematic.
+
+So as of now, it's all in the hands of the Neilsen gods, starting January
+27th.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: What about your emotions? (writing question) (1 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: What about your emotions? (writing question)

+1 Jan 1997
The emotional impact is always strongest in the writing of the scene
+itself. 
+
+The only way to write scenes such as the ones you list is to feel them
+yourself, as strongly as the characters do.  Anything less, and it comes
+across as fake or forced.  I felt very strongly when I offed Kosh...it was
+very difficult for me, which was good, because then I knew it'd be hard on
+others as well.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Your bag of tricks (19 Jan 1997)
+
+
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Re: JMS: Your bag of tricks

+19 Jan 1997
"Is "the online experiment" also now in your bag of tricks? I.e. assuming
+you get to season 5, the 2 TV movies and/or Crusade, do you intend to have
+the same presence online or do you want to appear in forums and newsgroups
+less often?"
+
+Thing is...I don't consider the online thing part of my bag of tricks,
+which mainly I would consider technical or literary or structural devices
+used in the writing.  
+
+You've got to understand that I didn't just jump online when B5 rolled
+around.  I've been online since about 1984..logging onto Compuserve and
+other BBSs via a Kaypro II with 64K RAM and 128K floppies, NO hard drive. 
+When B5 came along, I just kept doing what I'd been doing from the start. 
+More of it, granted, but it's the same thing.
+
+So in future...yeah, I imagine I'd keep online, until it finally drove me
+nuts.  Perhaps not as much as now, only because the CTS acts up more some
+days than others, and it's only going to get worse and I'll have to
+concentrate that on the writing...but yeah, I'll be here.
+
+I've always been here.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: 415? (19 Jan 1997)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: 415?

+19 Jan 1997
It would be inappropriate for me to address a direct question about or
+which would be conveyed to a Neilsen family...all I can say is that in the
+syndication market, which has a much smaller base to begin with, every
+little bit helps.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS: Your bag of tricks (20 Jan 1997)
+
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+
Re: JMS: Your bag of tricks

+20 Jan 1997
I can't use voice recognition stuff...I think through my fingers.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ''ATTN   JMS'' (20 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: ''ATTN   JMS''

+20 Jan 1997
I can only say that you'll get most of the answers to those questions
+soon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Is the future all it's cracked up to be? (repost) (20 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Is the future all it's cracked up to be? (repost)

+20 Jan 1997
No, the future is now largely set...the Londo/G'Kar death scene will
+happen as foreseen.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Babylon 5 & Mormonism (20 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: Babylon 5 & Mormonism

+20 Jan 1997
"Two data points a statistical proof does not make, but the similarly
+between the names, and the similarity of the Mimbari/Earth soul transfer
+to the Mormon teaching (correct me here if I am wrong) that in the next
+life our souls go as a type of god to another planet to populate it make
+me wonder if there is some Mormon influence in the B5 mythos."
+
+Not no way, not no how.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: What about your comics about Marcus? (21 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: What about your comics about Marcus?

+21 Jan 1997
The Marcus story was folded into one of the upcoming novels.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Sweet Revenge (21 Jan 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sweet Revenge

+21 Jan 1997
Oh, I got him...but I'd prefer to save that story for the next convention
+rather than blow it online quite yet.  I'd like to have *some* new
+material that people haven't already heard.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows (21 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows

+21 Jan 1997
DS9 is still toward the top of the ratings, but the "naysayers" are
+correct about the decline in actual numbers.  (And DS9 does fall below
+Xena and Hercules in many cases, btw.)
+
+Here are the Neilsen figures for DS9 for the last several quarters:
+4th quarter 95: 7.1
+1st quarter 96: 6.7
+2nd quarter 96: 5.9
+3rd quarter 96: 4.8
+
+The jump in 4th quarter 96 is apparently due to a lot of new eps airing,
+and some stunting...the Tribbles episode and the like.
+
+By comprison, here are B5's numbers of the last number of quarters:
+3rd quarter 95: 2.7
+4th quarter 95: 2.9
+1st quarter 96: 3.0
+2nd quarter 96: 3.1
+3rd quarter 96: (being retablulated for some errors)
+4th quarter 96: 3.6
+
+DS9's season-to-date average has gone from 6.8 to 6.1.
+B5's STD average has gone from 3.0 to 3.3.
+
+And our demographics continue to be better than DS9.
+
+This isn't a qualitative statement, only to confirm what has been said:
+that DS9's ratings have been declining (also noted by the trades, which
+have found drops from 18% to 20% for both the ST shows) and that B5's
+ratings have been growing during the same period of time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+
+Re:  ATTN JMS: Watching TV (22 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re:  ATTN JMS: Watching TV

+22 Jan 1997
"when you're watching TV, especially shows like the Tick, which is clever
+and 
+well written, how much of you can just watch the show, and how much takes 
+mental notes and analyzes and second-guesses the writers?"
+
+It's about 50/50.  In terms of comedy, I'm always subconsciously working
+out the punchline as soon as the setup comes in.  I'm not one of those
+people who laughs out loud most of the time at TV shows or movies because
+I often get there early.  Where I do lose it is when the comedy is totally
+unexpected and unpredictable.  I love being surprised.  
+
+But in general, part of me is always studying, whether I'm consciously
+aware of it or not...structure, rhythms of dialogue, that sort of thing. 
+I didn't know quite how much I do this until one evening back in
+college...see, I have this habit of tapping my fingers to the rhythms of
+dialogue, on my knee, or on the desk, I'm not aware of it most days, it's
+just a way of physicalizing spoken rhythms, and we all have different
+rhythms when we speak that tell a lot about us...and I was at a movie with
+a young lady, and didn't realize I was tapping out the rhythms of the
+dialogue on her shoulder until she WHAPPED me a good one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS:  Delay in Season 4 title - waiting on year 5? (1 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: Attn JMS:  Delay in Season 4 title - waiting on year 5?

+1 Jan 1997
No, I'm mainly just sitting on the title because I'd like to set up the
+next movment into which that title plays; it's something that's said in an
+episode, and I want it to have the right context.  So I'm just sitting on
+it for a bit.  It's not waiting for any outside factors; John and others
+know the title, which is the title for episode 415.  No big.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+Re:  ATT JMS: Visual look of Season 4? (22 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re:  ATT JMS: Visual look of Season 4?

+22 Jan 1997
The lighting varies depending on what's being filmed; you go for a whole
+different mood in Z'ha'dum than in the Zocalo.  You can do more.  The
+sense and mood changes from episode to episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: JMS to Appear on IRC [97 jan 22] (23 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS to Appear on IRC [97 jan 22]

+23 Jan 1997
Hang on, though...I just found out tonight that they have a maximum
+capacity of 250 on this thing, and I'm determined not to have another
+debacle like the last one.  So this may not come off.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 vs. Sequel (23 Jan 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 vs. Sequel

+23 Jan 1997
I know it seems like a weird contradiction...it comes from a weird
+situation.
+
+PTEN, the network that airs B5, is no more.  Most of the stations have
+joined UPN, and the corporate structure is no more.  Imagine, for
+instance, the hassles in keeping a show on ABC if ABC suddenly no longer
+existed.  But the rights were tied to ABC, the people who once owned it
+want to cash in their chips and get out, and they can't take the show
+anywhere else...partly for competitive reasons, partly because the rights
+are held by a company that basically no longer exists.
+
+You may keep at it for a while, because you believe in it, and it's
+showing a profit, but there's always those guys in the corporation who
+keep pressuring you to let it go and clean out the books.  Those guys are
+in a tussle over B5 that has almost zilch to do with ratings, or letters,
+and everything to do with corporations and the  financial organization
+thereof.
+
+So while all this is going on...they're also saying, "Well, we believe in
+this, and if we can't move the show elsewhere, and the rights are tied up,
+perhaps another show that's free of the corporate entanglements and rights
+hassles would be a good idea, both on its own, as a fall back if the
+corporate wrangling gets too much, and/or if the series does go to 5
+seasons as a companion show for crossovers."
+
+In other words...it's all in a state of total flux while the corporate
+guys try to figure out what to do next.  And we're caught in the middle,
+unable to do anything but watch and see what happens.
+
+Does this explain some of the confusion and conflicting signals?
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows (23 Jan 1997)
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Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows

+23 Jan 1997
To confirm demographics...this stuff is usually in detailed form in the
+networks hands, but places like Broadcasting Magazine often do updates on
+it as well.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
+Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows (23 Jan 1997)
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+
Re: Ratings for syndicated action shows

+23 Jan 1997
"Someone should tell me why someone like me can't like B5 AND DS9 without
+having to defend one or the other; I like 'em both, don't shoot me!"
+
+I couldn't agree more.  My quibble was with those who look facts they
+don't like in the face and write them off as "naysayers."  Numbers is
+numbers, but personal tastes are personal tastes, and as far as I'm
+concerned, the more SF the merrier.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re:  ATTN JMS:  Atlanta Journal Article (24 Jan 1997)
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Re:  ATTN JMS:  Atlanta Journal Article

+24 Jan 1997
It's the same article that got printed in the NY Daily News, and a) it
+takes a comment of mine completely out of context, b) they're going to
+publish a follow up correction in a couple of days, and c) we get this
+every season.  We won't know for a little bit yet.
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+Re:  ATTN JMS: "End of History?" (24 Jan 1997)
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Re:  ATTN JMS: "End of History?"

+24 Jan 1997
"the end of history" is a term used by some sociologists, historians and
+social scientists to describe significant changes...some of them are
+referring to the present as the end of history.  That's a VERY poor and
+inadequate explanation of the term, and I'm confident that others here
+probably know the details and can explain it better than I can.
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+Re:  ATTN JMS: Janet Greek. (24 Jan 1997)
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Re:  ATTN JMS: Janet Greek.

+24 Jan 1997
Janet's off doing network stuff these days.
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+Re:  ATTN JMS: Fav tracks on new CD? (24 Jan 1997)
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Re:  ATTN JMS: Fav tracks on new CD?

+24 Jan 1997
I'm going to have to listen to this a few more times before I know which
+tracks I prefer.  There's a nifty extended version of the first season
+theme music that's very nice...other stuff that's most impressive...I'm
+very pleased overall.
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+Re:  ATTN:  JMS - Title of Season 4 (SPOILER?) (25 Jan 1997)
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Re:  ATTN:  JMS - Title of Season 4 (SPOILER?)

+25 Jan 1997
Yes, that's the correct title.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: faster graphics group? (4 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: faster graphics group?

+4 Jan 1997
"So, my question is, do you see an improvement in the way or speed f/x are
+done nowadays?  With what you have now, would you expect to ever have to
+change schedules b/c f/x was taking too long?"
+
+No, not really, because the system is about as fast as you can get it, and
+so far we haven't seen any need to rearrange episodes or put anything back
+due to cgi.  (#406 is as big as anything we've ever done...usually, we do
+something that big toward the end of a season, with Severed Dreams an
+exception.)  
+
+It's mainly faster now in terms of the approval process.  Foundation would
+lay off a jpg image of a shot in process, but it's just one frame...when
+they'd deliver, it would be on an exobyte or laser disk transfer, and it
+would come down from their offices in Santa Clarita once a day.  So often
+you can lose a day or so in that process.  Now, it's over at post, which
+is 12 minutes away.  We zip down, see the whole shot (sometimes in
+wireframe or low-res tests), and approve or make changes at that stage,
+saving a LOT of time in terms of re-do's and the like.
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+Re:  ATTN JMS:  Toys, premiums, tie-ins, and your input (25 Jan 1997)
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Re:  ATTN JMS:  Toys, premiums, tie-ins, and your input

+25 Jan 1997
We haven't done a whole lot of merchandising mainly because I want to get
+into that slowly, and not let it begin to influence the show or put
+priorities in the wrong order.  
+
+I work to varying extents with the licensees, but basically I get input at
+every stage of the product's development, from conceptual artwork or
+outlines, through to the final product.  
+
+For instance, today I got the revised transparency for the Delenn
+collector plate coming out from Hamilton...and it's gorgeous, just signed
+right off on that one, probaby the best of the two I've seen so far (#1
+being Sheridan).  Delenn/Mira almost glows off the image at you.  Others
+require more more work...when the novels come in, I do what I can, but
+often the deadlines are so tight that in the past it's been hard to get
+all the stuff I want revised, revised.  This time on the next 3 I worked
+more hand-in-glove at the outine stage, so that they would be better.
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+Re: News Service Report: Season 5 "Looks Doubtful" (26 Jan 1997)
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Re: News Service Report: Season 5 "Looks Doubtful"

+26 Jan 1997
The newspaper syndicated strip that carried the first report about the
+show being doubtful just ran a follow-up on Friday taking back that
+comment.
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+Re:  ATTN  JMS:  At this point, can we help w/renewal (26 Jan 1997)
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Re:  ATTN  JMS:  At this point, can we help w/renewal

+26 Jan 1997
No, at this point it's all between WB and the stations.
+
+One other complication to all this is that both WBN and UPN are adding
+another night each, and that chews up more available spots...and there are
+a LOT of other new syndicated shows coming out, from Stargate to Total
+Recall and others, and X-Files, NYPD Blue and Homicide are all also
+hitting syndication at the same time, so it's very, very, very scary out
+there right now.
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+Re:  ATTN JMS : Whatever Happened To . . . Mike Vejar (26 Jan 1997)
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Re:  ATTN JMS : Whatever Happened To . . . Mike Vejar

+26 Jan 1997
Mike got grabbed up by other shows for most of the fall before we got word
+of our pickup.  Once we got renewed, we booked him as fast as we could,
+and he's directing one for us right now.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Favorite SF authors (26 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Favorite SF authors

+26 Jan 1997
Sheckley's stuff is great.  His novel, "Mind Swap," I think the name was,
+is just hysterically funny.  And Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is always
+great stuff.
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+Re: TNT, B5 Movies, and Reruns (26 Jan 1997)
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Re: TNT, B5 Movies, and Reruns

+26 Jan 1997
Your understanding is correct, and basically the show would start
+rerunning on TNT about 6 months after the show is finished.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: What if season 5 gets a go too late (26 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: What if season 5 gets a go too late

+26 Jan 1997
That scenario is not very likely.  We should know soonish.
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+Re: Could B5 go to a network? (26 Jan 1997)
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Re: Could B5 go to a network?

+26 Jan 1997
No, there's no chance.  The problem is that B5 is owned by a consortium,
+with WB on one side, and the station group on the other.  When you see a
+show hopping networks, it's often (for instance) a Universal show that
+goes from ABC to CBS.  Universal still is the sole owner of the show, it's
+just a question of which network shows it, and the network doesn't own it.
+
+With PTEN, WB and the stations own the show, though the copyright for most
+actual artifacts of the show belongs to WB.  WB Network wants to carve out
+its own identity rather than taking leftovers from another, competing WB
+division.  The regular networks won't take an off-syndication show.  The
+idea of WB going to Paramount/UPN...well, that one's self-explanatory as a
+non-starter.
+
+It can't even go to TNT because of contractual elements between WB and the
+stations.  So it's either this arrangement, or nothing.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Favorite SF authors (27 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Favorite SF authors

+27 Jan 1997
And before anyone yells at me, 10 seconds after I posted this, I
+remembered that the Callahan's books were by Spider Robinson, I know, I
+know, mea culpa, I stooged it, what can I say...?
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  TNT Reruns of B5 (28 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  TNT Reruns of B5

+28 Jan 1997
It's my understanding that B5 will run daily on TNT, M-F, at 6:00 p.m.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Changes in belief (5 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Changes in belief

+5 Jan 1997
"During the creation, writing and producing of Babylon5, have any of your
+everyday beliefs been changed by your work? Has the planning and
+construction of say an individual scene or theme ever had a profound
+effect upon any of your personal views?"
+
+Changed...no, I'd have to say not.  What it has done is clarify much of
+it.  If I'm going to deal with some of these issues, I have to sit down
+and really *think* about them...what do I think, what do others think, and
+why do I/they think what I/they think?  So it has a tendency to make one
+more reflective.  And while I've got pins stuck in a few things -- so I
+can come back and consider them again when I have time -- overall, no, not
+really.
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+Re: F1 Resolution - Too Easy? (Spoilers 406 -> ) (29 Jan 1997)
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Re: F1 Resolution - Too Easy? (Spoilers 406 -> )

+29 Jan 1997
>Thanks to the super-wonderful Spoiler Junkies page
+>the apparent resolution of the problems imposed by the
+>ultra-powerful First Ones is revealed. 
+
+Except, of course, that ain't what happens in the episode.
+
+That's what you get for reading spoilers instead of watching the episode,
+especially summaries which a) sometimes don't present the whole picture,
+and b) which I've lately been able to get my hands on and, even though the
+main story has to go out, I'm able to...edit out...little but important
+details, JUST TO PISS OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO READ THE DAMNED THINGS!
+
+Finally, FINALLY, I have my vengeance over the spoiler junkies....ha HA
+ha-ha-HA ha HAAAA....
+
+I need a vacation....
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+Re:  Harlan Ellison on "Politically Incorrect" (29 Jan 1997)
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Re:  Harlan Ellison on "Politically Incorrect"

+29 Jan 1997
"H.E. was saying that the McCarthy hearings and red-hunting trials in the
+USA from 1947 to 1954 were "just as bad" as Stalin's justice system.
+(Which is of course absurd, but it's very Harlan.   It's unlikely he would
+actually defend such a claim if he weren't hyper-excited.  Of course, it's
+also unlikely he'll ever cease to be hyper-excited.)"
+
+Absolutely incorrect.  I and many other people feel the same way.  The
+House UnAmerian Activities Committee (HUAC) destroyed innocent people with
+just as much efficiency and cruelty as the Stalinist courts ever did. 
+(Remember the lesson from "Infection"..."when you become obsessed with the
+enemy, you BECOME the enemy.")
+
+J. Parnell Thomas and Joe McCarthy decided that there were X-number of
+communists in the military, industry, radio and the motion picture
+business, and they were determined to find them whether they existed or
+not.  People were brought before the committee and told to name names of
+those they thought might be red.  Not that they *were* red (and some, a
+very few, were), but that they *might be*.  And even if you didn't know
+anyone who *might be*, if you didn't name SOMEbody, you might be assumed
+to be hiding something...and end up blacklisted yourself.  
+
+It was crime by association, by implication, by innuendo, by distortion
+and by lie.  People saw their careers destroyed, their lives ruined, their
+families devastated.  They had to flee the country to work.  Some went to
+jail.  Some were so utterly destroyed by the process that they committed
+suicide.  
+
+No, it wasn't equal to the sheer numbers of the Stalinist death
+camps...but in terms of a one-to-one experience, the one was every bit as
+vile, sadistic and unholy as the other.  And just as random.  
+
+One film maker, hired BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT to make films during the
+second world war about the benefits of working with the Russians to defeat
+the Nazis later found those same films used to prove he was a commie
+sympathizer.
+
+A leading radio dramatist of his age was never even called before the
+committee, but his name was listed in Red Channels, a crummy little
+broadsheet published by the owner of a SUPERMARKET CHAIN in the East
+Coast, a guy who one day decided that this writer was a little too pink
+for his tastes...and that writer's career stopped THAT DAY.
+
+If Harlan got exercised about it...and if I got exercised about it...it's
+because we are writers, and many writers, actors and directors who had
+never done anything to anyone, who had nothing to do with reds, were
+destroyed in full light of the national media.  Jeff Corey didn't work for
+about 20 years after his run-in; same for Zero Mostel.  It's something we
+feel *very* strongly about.  
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+Re: ATTN:JMS  Are you at all concerned about "Farewell"? (30 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN:JMS  Are you at all concerned about "Farewell"?

+30 Jan 1997
"Are you at all concerned that, when it's all said and done, that some
+fans will scratch their heads and wonder:  "You mean thats it?""
+
+No, I don't think so.  The story for "Sleeping in Light," the last B5
+episode, is such that it is completely moveable, and self-contained, and
+buttons down the arc in what I think is a very moving fashin.  I think
+that when it's all said and done, the average reaction will be to sit back
+and say, "That was a good story."  Obviously you can't please everyone,
+and you can't expect to.  But basically, yeah, I think it's going to end
+well.
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+Re: YO JMS Dilbert & Geo. Washington (30 Jan 1997)
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Re: YO JMS Dilbert & Geo. Washington

+30 Jan 1997
"I've never actually seen the comic strip myself, but, gosh, I'd think
+Patrick McGoohan (sorry for the spelling) or one of the other actors or
+personalities (like yourself) we fans would like to see guest star or
+cameo on the program would be more appropriate?"
+
+We're still after McGoohan, but again that will depend entirely on the
+role.  I'm toying with one now that we'll send along and see what happens.
+ The Adams thing is a quick cameo...for McGoohan you want to do something
+major.
+
+"Another question: I was thumbing through some SF magazine or other when I
+spotted you posing with an award (sorry, I can't remember which one).
+Anyway, 
+you weren't smiling. All the photos I've seen of you you never smile. Come
+on
+Joe - smile for the birdy!! Once in a while? Sometimes I think you've got
+wooden teeth or something."
+
+I hate cameras.  I'm mind-bogglingly unphotographic.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - What about "The Babylon Project"? (30 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - What about "The Babylon Project"?

+30 Jan 1997
I just got in the full-color proofs of the main book, and it's not only
+gorgeous, it's the best single compilation of B5 universe information that
+I've ever seen.  They had to do a fair amount of filling in the gaps here
+and there, but what went in fits perfectly, and I highly recommend it. 
+They went to a great deal of work and research on the show, and you can
+see it in every panel.
+
+So it should be out soon, since this is the final version.
+
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+Re: jms graphics note (cgal repost) (31 Jan 1997)
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Re: jms graphics note (cgal repost)

+31 Jan 1997
"Joe, I don't think anyone *really* doubted that the new FX would be any
+good."
+
+Then, Mojo, if nobody "doubted that the new FX would be good," explain to
+me whence came all those messages from pseudonymous individuals posted on
+the newsgroup saying that they were going to be crap, that there wouldn't
+BE any EFX, that the show was going to hell...on and on.  My message was
+in reply to those individuals who set out deliberately to trash us.  If
+they didn't doubt the EFX would be good, then why did they say so?  If
+they did post messages that the EFX would be crap, which they did, then
+why would you say that no one doubted it?  Are you suggesting they
+deliberately lied in their messages?  Or that the messages, which exist,
+did NOT really exist (dream state) or that they were in fact accidentally
+crossposted from Bizarro World.  "New B5 EFX am bad!" meaning that they're
+great.  Perhaps that's what you're suggesting.
+
+"I'm sure that your Foundation Imaging-trained team, using Foundation
+Imaging objects and Foundation animation techniques will turn out some
+very fine work indeed!"
+
+It's nothing to do with Foundation one way or another...the message posted
+was in reference to the people who were slamming the people who were now
+doing the B5 EFX...that has nothing whatsoever to do with what I was
+discussing.
+
+If you felt this strongly about the quality of those doing the EFX, then
+I'm surprised you didn't defend these individuals from the attacks then
+being made.  If they're Foundation trained, using Foundation tech, and
+someone's out there trashing them, I'd think that Foundation would
+actively want to defend them.  I guess when it looked like they'd be crap,
+there wouldn't be much point to defending them...but when they came out
+well, then I can see why one would want to jump in and make sure that
+Foundation shared the credit.
+
+(BTW, your note accidentally left out Eric Chauvin's fine work on the
+show, who created many of the images of Minbar, Earth, the Garden and
+other amazing sights...or Steve Burg, who helped design the Starfuries and
+many other ships, neither of whom are part of Foundation.  It would be an
+error for people to assume that Foundation was the be-all and end-all of
+B5's EFX, and I know that neither you nor Ron would want to create that
+impression.)
+
+And certainly, we continue to use Eric on the show, and others, who were
+never a part of Foundation Imaging.  So it wold be an error to imply that
+they all came to us from there.
+
+Our animators have acquired a wide range of experience, at Foundation and
+elsewhere.  We have always spoken well of Foundation, which came into
+existence because Doug and I were willing to give Ron a chance.  And we
+have never wished them anything but good fortune.
+
+Our continued best wishes to everyone there.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+Re: Attn JMS: characters in control (5 Jan 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: characters in control

+5 Jan 1997
"Has a character (not actor) ever suggested a direction to you that you
+didn't take, but later on seemed like the direction you should have taken?
+I would think they would all be fighting for screen-time, or is that just
+some actors?"
+
+Not really, mainly because if my subconscious mind is sufficiently up in
+arms about something as to throw a fictional character at me and yell at
+me, it's usually a sign that I should Shut The Hell Up And Do As I'm Told.
+ So when it happens, I *very* rarely ignore it.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS -- several anecdotes (5 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS -- several anecdotes

+5 Jan 1997
Heath:
+
+It's very rare when I'm stunned into speachlessness.  That one (actually
+all of that as a unit) just did it.  Thanks.  
+
+Who knows...maybe this show might work out yet....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: We haven't got it yet. (5 Jan 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: We haven't got it yet.

+5 Jan 1997
I think you'll be getting the rest of the big picture with the next batch
+of eps.  Almost all the cards are on the table now.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: The Long Night ( *Spoilers* ) (1 Feb 1997)
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Re: The Long Night ( *Spoilers* )

+1 Feb 1997
+
+:I am unaware of any *deliberate* attempt to have people tortured to
+authenticate information. The deception consisted of several elements."
+
+That you may not be aware of it does not mean it's incorrect.
+
+I ran across this information in an article in The Los Angeles Times about
+8 years ago.  It was something of a big deal because the situation had
+been kept secret ever since the war, and when it came out it caused a
+great deal of distress (and discussion) about the ethics involved.
+
+I called a couple of other people who I talked to when the article first
+came out, and their recollection of it is the same as mine.
+
+I'll try and get around to doing a search on the LA Times database, to see
+if I can find the exact references, though I don't know if their search
+engine goes back that far.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Regarding Babylon 5: the Sequel (4 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Regarding Babylon 5: the Sequel

+4 Feb 1997
Yeah, there will be an arc to the sequel series, but not quite as
+intensive or rigorous as the one in B5.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Background graphics for ITF (no spoilers) (4 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Background graphics for ITF (no spoilers)

+4 Feb 1997
We use the Hubble images (provided by them) a lot on the show, including
+these current couple of episodes.  We digitize them, then enhance them
+into 3D.
+
+There aren't any official B5 paintings going on now, the only artwork of a
+collector's sort now is the collector's plate series from Hamilton, which
+is very nice (the Delenn plate in particular is *gorgeous*).
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS - "Into the Fire" (spoilers) (4 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - "Into the Fire" (spoilers)

+4 Feb 1997
Thanks...and the shadow voice was definitely Ed Wasser.
+
+
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+Re: Into the Fire ( *Spoilers* ) (5 Feb 1997)
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Re: Into the Fire ( *Spoilers* )

+5 Feb 1997
Over?  As Londo said..."Oh, I haven't even *started* with you yet."
+
+Was the story of Earth over after WW2?
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Attn JMS: Background graphics for ITF (new spoiler question) (6 Feb 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: Background graphics for ITF (new spoiler question)

+6 Feb 1997
Yeah, John Copeland and I picked the specific images used in that one.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN:JMS (6 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN:JMS

+6 Feb 1997
Yes, when you write a novel, you own the copyright; nobody can touch it
+without your permission.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Only on Babylon 5 . . . (no ITF spoilers) (7 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Only on Babylon 5 . . . (no ITF spoilers)

+7 Feb 1997
 1.) The CGI was excellent and seemed very different than in previous
+episodes, much larger, better defined, darker.  Was this an effort on
+your part, or the post-production department?
+
+We're trying some new rendering techniques...I think they're working very
+well.  (Some of the stuff in the next episode has a very realistic feel to
+it.)
+
+  2.) Have you found some way to slow down time or compress the episode
+into a shorter span?  When I finished this one, I swore I had watched a
+two hour movie.
+
+You did.  We arranged for a time dilation bubble to appear over your
+house.
+
+  3.) Any reaction from the actor or staff on this one?  Especially, Ed
+Wassner? (Might be a bit of spoilers in the answer to this one)
+
+Ed wants to come back as an alien.  I see no problem with this.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Revellogram model kits (8 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Revellogram model kits

+8 Feb 1997
I saw the ad copy for the first batch of models when they came through my
+office for approval...the Starfury is going to be one of the first ones
+out, and if the ad just came through, then it means they're about to start
+marketing it, so I'd keep my eyes open.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS & ALL: Very cool web site!! (8 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS & ALL: Very cool web site!!

+8 Feb 1997
The early information on Vorlons was just put in there to make the studio
+happy, since I didn't want to reveal what they were -- it'd be kinda hard
+to explain to business types -- because they wanted *something* to hold
+onto.  The same material includes drawings done again just to help them
+relax.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question about scores (9 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Question about scores

+9 Feb 1997
I think there are certain separated rights...but for the examples you
+cited, they were probably done via arrangements with the studios, not the
+composers.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: jms graphics note (cgal repost) (2 Feb 1997)
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Re: jms graphics note (cgal repost)

+2 Feb 1997
Mojo:
+
+I will point out to you that in my original message, I never even
+MENTIONED Foundation, or referred to it in any way, manner, shape or form.
+
+You did that on your own.  You made baseless statements about our entire
+EFX team coming from Foundation, when you know this is an absolute and
+utter fabrication on your part.  
+
+If you've got a problem with this topic being brought up, it's you who did
+it, so take your concerns to the mirror.
+
+Me, I'm out of this.
+
+"All I can say is that Joe REALLY doesn't know how to take a sarcastic
+comment in good stride!"
+
+Maybe, in future, if you didn't just drop in "sarcastic comments"
+randomly, you wouldn't have problems like this.  Every time I have made a
+positive comment about the EFX this season, you have jumped in with
+sarcasm.  Grow up, Mojo.
+
+Meanwhile, as far as I'm concerned, this thread is over.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS   <spoilers for #406> (9 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS   <spoilers for #406>

+9 Feb 1997
Ghar...your comments are well and good and have nothing to do with
+reality.
+
+First, the Rangers situation is not a typical military situation.  They
+are primarily from Minbar, both in terms of actual Minbari and humans
+trained there.  They are specifically under Delenn's charge, with Sheridan
+*sharing* that authority.  He did not know Ericsson because they're a
+large bunch to whom he has not been introduced, and likely they don't have
+very large records on them.  This is a *de facto* army, not a *de jure* (I
+hope I spelled that right) army...there ain't a lot of paperwork on the
+Rangers.
+
+Second, it was Delenn who sent for this particular White Star, more for
+its strategic location...which Sheridan used because it was closest to the
+goal.  Your observation is like saying that General Patton should know
+*instantly* about every soldier on the line in battle, however distant he
+is.  Which is simply absurd.  Watch some old WW2 footage someday...there's
+General MacArthur walking among some troops..."What's your name, son? 
+Where are you from?"  By your lights, he should have known that.  
+
+Third, re: the encryption notice...of *course* they're all
+encrypted...what Sheridan said was "we're RE-encrypting this message EVERY
+THREE SECONDS, so be sure to have your system keep up."  That's an
+escalation in layers of encryption so elaborate and involved that it makes
+the system actually slow down.
+
+Before you start flaming, I suggest you stop and consider what you're
+saying some time, and that there may be other elements at work beyond just
+what you THINK should be the case.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: I'm going "huminahuminahumina..." (9 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: I'm going "huminahuminahumina..."

+9 Feb 1997
Thanks.
+
+You can sit down now.
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+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS--Pushing the Envelope (SPOILERS, Into the Fire) (9 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS--Pushing the Envelope (SPOILERS, Into the Fire)

+9 Feb 1997
Thanks.  Now comes more fun...again, it's all about process...going from
+post-war (Minbari) to an uneasy peace, to showing how a war starts to come
+about, the actual beginning of a war, its progress, then the aftermath. 
+That arc really is at the core of the show...the changes that take place
+through this process.
+
+
+ jms
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+jms thinkpad story: end notes (9 Feb 1997)
+
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jms thinkpad story: end notes

+9 Feb 1997
Just a follow-up since a few have asked....
+
+A while back, I posted about the IBM Thinkpad 560 that I bought, which
+went kablooey within 24 hours and could not be fixed, and the multiple
+incompetent attempts to make it work by techs who had never touched this
+model before.  I vented here in my frustration about it all.
+
+Well, what then happened was that a Very Nice Man named Robert Kirk at IBM
+heard about this, and intervened.  Through his own resources, he had it
+checked out thoroughly, and discovered that the motherboard was wired
+wrong, and badly, with some connections not fully made, so it'd work one
+minute, and not the next.
+
+It's subsequently been replaced, and it has been running fine ever since. 
+I've held back saying anything more until I was sure...but it's a fine
+little machine, now that it's working.
+
+Sometimes, as with any bureaucracy, you have to get their attention, and
+that's what the nets are good for.  I heard from several others who had to
+go through similar steps..and if you plink them in public, they will
+sometimes do what they will never do for you in private.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Qs about Crusade (11 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Qs about Crusade

+11 Feb 1997
"Can you tell us if Crusade is going to be a definite length eg B5
+is/was supposed to be 5 years (still hanging on for season 5
+announcement and sadly for season 4 to start showing in UK)."
+
+There's a definite ending in mind, yes, but there's some room to play
+within that framework.  Again, there's an arc, but not quite as rigorous
+as with B5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: ATT JMS:  Proportions of writing (12 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATT JMS:  Proportions of writing

+12 Feb 1997
Thanks...at last, I'm well proportioned....
+
+I've always preferred the arc, both inside an episode, and between
+episodes, and even in the course of a season, where there's the resolution
+and then there's time to consider, reflect, and show the impact of these
+things.  It's not just about solving the technical problem that way...it's
+about the people who solve the problem and how they are affected by the
+problems and solutions.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATT:JMS Into the Fire ( *Spoilers* ) (12 Feb 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATT:JMS Into the Fire ( *Spoilers* )

+12 Feb 1997
Yes, if Sheridan had not pushed Kosh into the trigger event that started
+to accellerate the story, the events that followed...wouldn't have.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the job! (14 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the job!

+14 Feb 1997
Thanks...the show can be a nudge, but only a nudge...you have to do what
+needs to be done, and you did exactly this.  All praise and responsibility
+rests at your feet; I got nothing to do with it, but I will, with thanks
+and appreciation, reflect for a moment the sunshine of your accomplishment
+as though I actually had something to do with dawn.  Good luck.
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: Attn: JMS B5 Soundtrack Vol. 2 (14 Feb 1997)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn: JMS B5 Soundtrack Vol. 2

+14 Feb 1997
The two songs may show up somewhere someday, but I'm in no rush...I like
+the soundtrack being instrumental.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Comparison to "Lucifer's Hammer" (14 Feb 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Comparison to "Lucifer's Hammer"

+14 Feb 1997
I agree, it's often the aftermath that holds the greatest interest.  The
+Civil War tells one kind of interesting story; the Reconstruction that
+followed, which endured for many years longer than the war, tells another,
+just as interesting story.
+
+There's a line one of the characters will say soon, "The duration's going
+to be a lot longer than the war."  It's a very true comment.
+
+One of my favorite books is "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank, which is about
+a nuclear war (written in the early 60s).  But the war happens entirely
+off-stage, way in the distance...and the book focuses on one small
+township dealing with the after effects, and the day-to-day realities of
+surviving in a changed world.  I've always been partial to that kind of
+storytelling.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: pat tallman question (3 Feb 1997)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: pat tallman question

+3 Feb 1997
Unless it's a small stunt where we have to see her face, such as getting
+tossed against a wall, it's always a stuntwoman for the bigger stuff. 
+Same as all our cast.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: How could you? -- SPOILERS for 'Epiphanies' (14 Feb 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: How could you? -- SPOILERS for 'Epiphanies'

+14 Feb 1997
+
+"Was this your intention - to get a response from those of us who follow
+the Sheridan and Delenn story line closely? Some how, I feel manipulated
+and very disappointed."
+
+Yes, as I sat in the editing room, I thought, "Hmmm...if I do this, it'll
+get the Sheridan and Delenn fans' knickers all in a knot...."
+
+Every scene goes through some editing...there is barely a scene we film
+that doesn't get a line or two or three snipped.  Sometimes the edit is
+noticeable, sometimes it ain't.  The only thing you can decide is, "Does
+this move the story along or not?"  I was chasing about another 20 seconds
+(which was all we're talking about here), and the back-and-forth didn't
+really add anything to what was already in that scene.  I treated it the
+same as I would treat any other scene.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  A request for a "final curtain bow". (14 Feb 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  A request for a "final curtain bow".

+14 Feb 1997
+
+We've been considering something along those lines, but even broader,
+which is all I can say about it for now.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Holographic storytelling and irony (14 Feb 1997)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Holographic storytelling and irony

+14 Feb 1997
+
+I'd say that about 75% of the ironies are deliberately planned, and 25%
+come out of the general ether as I'm writing.
+
+
+ jms
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: promised end vs. non renewal (14 Feb 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: promised end vs. non renewal

+14 Feb 1997
+
+"As you seem to be very quiet about the possible futures, here is my
+question:
+	What do you *want*? :-)"
+
+To tell stories.
+
+It's all I've ever wanted.
+
+As for the future of B5, whatever happens...I proved that it could be
+done, when the Industry said it couldn't.  What I set out to achieve, I've
+achieved...now it's just surviving the last stages of it all.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+jms quickies (15 Feb 1997)
+
+
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+
jms quickies

+15 Feb 1997
For those in the Los Angeles area, I'll be doing a B5 presentation at
+Gallifrey, at the Airtel Hotel in Van Nuys, including a new blooper reel
+and scenes from episodes yet to come.
+
+I'll also be at Megacon in Orlando, Florida in about a month.
+
+Preliminary, unofficial word is that we got a 4.1 rating for the second
+new episode, our highest in 2 years.
+
+Also, the new issue of Sci-Fi Universe has two articles by Stephen Smith,
+one of which, a week following the production of B5, is probably the best
+and most comprehensive article ever written on the subject.  I commend it
+wholeheartedly.
+
+Finally, Antioch Publishing is hitting the bricks shortly with a line of
+B5 nifties, ranging from bookmarks to bookplates, and other stuff.  It's
+beautiful stuff, made for readers.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: ATT: JMS No Models from Revell? (16 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATT: JMS No Models from Revell?

+16 Feb 1997
"recently I read that you saw ads for the model ships to be made by
+Revell/Modello, and thought they'd be out soon.  I rushed out to the local
+hobby shop, where the owner had heard nothing new on the subject."
+
+These were ads that were coming through my hands for approval.  They won't
+be appearing for a while yet...but definitely later this year.  They
+wouldn't be sending me ad copy if they weren't planning to do something. 
+Since the ads just came through, they wouldn't have shown up in the latest
+catalog.
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: GenCon Attendance? (16 Feb 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: GenCon Attendance?

+16 Feb 1997
No, nothing is currently in place for GenCon.
+
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+Re: ATTN:JMS (16 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN:JMS

+16 Feb 1997
The PTEN logo remains because that's what owns B5; the thing is no longer
+functining as it did, but on the books it remains.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Epiphanies (spoiler (16 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Epiphanies (spoiler

+16 Feb 1997
My suspicion is that they're dropping the B5 promo into what was the Kung
+Fu promo spot, since KF ain't no more.  They can't put in any more
+commercials because they're up to the maximum limit, and most fans have
+indicated wanting to see the longer promo not the short one, which is
+often cut off.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question about B5 novels (16 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Question about B5 novels

+16 Feb 1997
In the past, we've taken pitches, but overall I've felt that the books
+strayed too far from canon by doing it that way; the latest batch were
+more directly influenced.  One is taken right out of B5 canon, the
+Anna/Icarus story, and it's one of the best to date; the second one up is
+based on a premise I wrote up and was assigned to the writer (it's the
+weakest of the three, set on Centauri Prime while G'Kar was still held
+prisoner, but still okay); the third is also based on a premise, and
+follows Sinclair after leaving B5 to form the Rangers...I worked very
+closely with the writer here to ensure that virtually *every line* is
+canon.  Frankly, if anyone asks from now on, "What happened to Sinclair
+after leaving B5?" I can point to this book and say, honestly, "It's all
+in there."
+
+I think we'll continue to work this way more in future.
+
+Dell only works with published authors with agents and credits.
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: From B5 to Crusade - A Transition $ Q! (3 Feb 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: From B5 to Crusade - A Transition $ Q!

+3 Feb 1997
We're still discussing how the transition would take place.
+
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+Re: JMS: quickies (Was: jms quickies) (16 Feb 1997)
+
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+
Re: JMS: quickies (Was: jms quickies)

+16 Feb 1997
Sorry...Megacon is the weekend of March 15th.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: 14th April for season 4 in UK? (16 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: 14th April for season 4 in UK?

+16 Feb 1997
"I had written to them about the repeats of Season 1 (which we're not
+getting in Wales) and after explaining that their commitment to Welsh
+langauge programming did not allow them sufficient airtime for as many
+repeats as the main C4, they went on to say, "However, you'll be glad to
+know that the next series has been provisionally scheduled to start on
+the 14th April 1997 on Channel 4. That series will definitely be shown
+by S4C, although I am unable to give you a date and time at present.""
+
+This is the first time I've heard a specific date, so I can't comment with
+any kind of competence one way or another...I can only nod wisely, as if I
+knew what the hell was actually going on....
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Complete Book of Scriptwriting (17 Feb 1997)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Complete Book of Scriptwriting

+17 Feb 1997
Thanks...no, haven't written any other technical books, and all my fiction
+is currently out of print.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN:JMS - WB Mixed Signals, Ratings... (16 Feb 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN:JMS - WB Mixed Signals, Ratings...

+16 Feb 1997
Yeah, it's enough to drive a Vorlon to hyperventilate....
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: audio problem during "The Illusion of Truth" (19 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: audio problem during "The Illusion of Truth"

+19 Feb 1997
My guess is it was caused by the downlink, but I'll try to verify.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Master story tellers are never boring (20 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS Master story tellers are never boring

+20 Feb 1997
Thanks...and yeah, I'll be at Marcon this year, story-bag in hand....
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question about B5 novels (20 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Question about B5 novels

+20 Feb 1997
"Is this book consistant with what happened to Sinclair in the first few
+issues of the DC comic? Or is the DC comic now non-canon?"
+
+It's *absolutely* consistent with the comic, the events of which are
+mentioned at some length in the novel.  I'm telling you...it ties in the
+comics, the first year, the following year, the development of the
+Rangers, what happened to Marcus and his brother, what happened to
+Catherine Sakai, we learn a lot more about Valen...it's going to be pretty
+cool.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+George is Here! (20 Feb 1997)
+
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+
George is Here!

+20 Feb 1997
I just saw the first message I can remember from George Johnsen, B5
+co-producer and head of Post Production on BABYLON 5.  His message here
+was signed George Johnsen <ndeiprod@earthlink.net>.
+
+For those interested in the details of post-production -- sound, music,
+editing, CGI, other stuff -- George is the guy to ask.  George is
+one-third of the Terrible Triumverate without which B5 would not happen,
+and even if it did happen, wouldn't be a fraction as good as it is.  (The
+other two being me, one presumes, and John Copeland, one fears.)
+
+Everybody join in welcoming George...make him feel at home...and feel free
+to ask him all the technical questions you've considered asking me, but
+knew you wouldn't get back an even reasonably intelligent reply.  (Insert
+evil laughter here.)
+
+(George also makes a *great* convention speaker, incidentally.  Simply a
+word to the wise.)
+
+George also did the closing voice-over in season 1 of B5, by the way.  
+
+This newsgroup is now officially bi-producial.  Bi-producerial. 
+Something....
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: I-CON (20 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: I-CON

+20 Feb 1997
I'm pretty sure we'll all be there for all 3 days...I know Harlan and I
+will, pending any last-minute adjustments.
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Drooling and muttering (21 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Drooling and muttering

+21 Feb 1997
Sounds like the drooling has stopped, but the muttering continues....
+
+And thanks muchly.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Is it really you? (3 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Is it really you?

+3 Feb 1997
"He (Mr. Ellison that is) also mentioned that J. Michael Straczynski took
+over hosting a radio show in the LA area. I haven't ever heard of this
+before (as opposed to knowing about Cap'n Power- one of my favs as a kid,
+Ghostbusters, etc.), and I was wondering if it was really you."
+
+Yeah, that was me.  The show was HOUR 25, a 2-hour weekly talk show
+covering SF, fantasy, comics, horror, you name it.  I hosted the show for
+5 years on KPFK-FM.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  MegaCon (21 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  MegaCon

+21 Feb 1997
My main B5 presentation will be that Saturday, March 15th, from 3-4:30, at
+the Orange County Convention Center there in Orlando.  I'll be there with
+bloopers, some scenes from episodes to air in May, and other gimcracks.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade/B5 ending?  ** SPOILERS** (21 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade/B5 ending?  ** SPOILERS**

+21 Feb 1997
"You have pretty consistently said that you would *end* B5, and that there
+would *never* be a sequel.  Instead, you would do something in the B5
+universe, but not realated to the B5 storyline.  The description sure
+sounds like a sequel to me."
+
+What I have said about this from the beginning, and the ONLY thing I have
+ever said about this, was that there was a side-story in the B5 universe
+that could go off from the main story.  That has been quoted in many
+different places, and on line, and definitely includes any plans for
+"Crusade."
+
+BTW, that new characters were mentioned does not exclude any current cast
+members...doesn't include them, either, but bottom line, that ain't a
+complete list of characters.  There's room and flexibility in there,
+depending on what happens.
+
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+ jms
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+
+Re: ATTN:JMS-New comics? (21 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN:JMS-New comics?

+21 Feb 1997
Yes, here's the skinny: 
+
+There's going to be a new 3-part story arc for the comics.  It'll first
+appear in the UK, serialized in the B5 magazine (which will be regularly
+published over there shortly, to coincide with new episodes), then it will
+be gathered together and published in the US by DC Comics.  The books are
+being written/assembled in-house, to avoid conflicts with editors.
+
+I've written the first issue, which brings the Valen story into the
+foreground, and the second two parts are being written by Peter David.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Complete Book of Scriptwriting (21 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Complete Book of Scriptwriting

+21 Feb 1997
"Are there any plans to put any of [my books] back in print?"
+
+Ehhhh...no, not really.  
+
+I'd rather see my next novel come out first, since it's going to be a
+better book than those preceding it.  (Yes, I'm writing it now in my
+copious free time.)
+
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+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: You really depress me (21 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: You really depress me

+21 Feb 1997
If it's a little close to home...you have to remember I came out of
+journalism, that was where I cut my teeth as a writer, working for
+newspapers and magazines.  You see a lot of the tricks, some good, some
+not so good, used for purposes that are sometimes good or not so good,
+distortions on the left and distortions on the right. So it wasn't hard to
+just tweak it a bit.
+
+Thing to remember, though, is that this isn't ISN as we've known it in the
+past, at least not to this extreme.  If anything, this ep should point to
+the difference between journalism, albeit biased, and propaganda, which is
+all ISN is now, and how only an informed viewership can prevent the one
+from sliding into the other.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: New book? (22 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New book?

+22 Feb 1997
Thanks.  I'm loathe to say too much about the book for now, because I tend
+to prefer to talk about these things closer to completion, so I know it's
+something that will *happen*.  I can say for now only that it's an SF
+novel, probably with a good mainstream appeal to it, in a contemporary
+setting.  I'm not able to work on it as much or as often as I'd like,
+stealing away a few hours here and there, but I'm about 100 pages into it
+now, and hope to have it done by the end of the year.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Sheridian's model :-) (23 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sheridian's model :-)

+23 Feb 1997
Actually, I think the Starfury model was an illegal one we confiscated.
+
+Waste not, want not...
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Sonic Images and B5 CD vol2 (23 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sonic Images and B5 CD vol2

+23 Feb 1997
"You should have gotten her name and asked to speak to the manager (or
+call back later).  I don't think that JMS will be able to do anything
+about this -- he doesn't work for or manage Sonic Images."
+
+No, but it never hurts to make a phone call (which I did)...
+
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+
+The Illusion of Truth ( *Spoilers* ) (23 Feb 1997)
+
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+
The Illusion of Truth ( *Spoilers* )

+23 Feb 1997
Spoilers for The Illusion of Truth
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+"3 - In the Delenn/Sheridan interview, there is a 
+    change in the vocal acoustics of the journalist
+    for the "new" questions he asked.  "
+
+
+And not just in the voice quality...look at the footage again.  He's
+sitting in a different chair, in a different room.
+
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+ jms
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+Re: Attn JMS: audio problem during "The Illusion of Truth" (24 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: audio problem during "The Illusion of Truth"

+24 Feb 1997
Hey Folks-
+
+The audio problem on TIoT was caused by the uplink at the uplink
+facility that Warners is using this year.  This facility is not all
+digital, like our facility was last year, and these analog-y problems
+creep in from time to time.  The buzzing mentioned happened specifically
+on the "hypertext" captions (tell the truth, how many people touched the
+button pads?), and was caused by the audio channel being too close to
+video with a high white level.  (Video pro alert- yes i know this is an
+overly simplified explanation) 
+
+WB is in the process of fixing the problem.
+
+Any of the other mentioned problems, voices shooting off into the
+surrounds, steering effects in stereo, dialog level fluctuations are a
+local phenomenon.  
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS -- The Long Night - Something magical happened... (3 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS -- The Long Night - Something magical happened...

+3 Feb 1997
That's an amazing (and amazingly gratifying) report...thank you very muc
+for that.  And my best to the NY fans.  Thanks again.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN GEORGE:  Equipment question (24 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN GEORGE:  Equipment question

+24 Feb 1997
Hey, Lee-
+
+Whoa- sounds more like a lightwave mailing list question! :-)
+
+The arsenal looks like the following- 
+
+Alphas for design stations serving 5 animators and one animation
+assistant (housekeeping and slate specialist).  Most of these stations
+run Lightwave and a couple add Softimage.  VERY plug-in hungry.  PVR's
+on every station, with calibrated component NTSC (darn it, I hates ntsc)
+right beside.
+
+P6's in quad enclosures for part of the renderstack, and Alphas for the
+rest, backed up 2x per day to an optical jukebox.
+
+Completed shots output to a DDR post rendering and get integrated into
+the show.
+
+Shots to composite go to the Macs running After Effects, or the SGI
+running Flint, depending on the type of comp being done, and then to the
+DDR (8 minutes capacity on the SGI).
+
+Boy it sure sounds easy!  The only problem is, we have a killer schedule
+and very picky producers, and ESPECIALLY picky viewers! :-)
+
+It is, however, a bunch of fun!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
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+Re: Attn GEORGE: Interceptors (24 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: Attn GEORGE: Interceptors

+24 Feb 1997
Mark-
+
+The interceptors have two components, one that throws a ball of energy
+at an incoming weapons charge (physical or energy) and causes
+dissipation, and the other is a net-like energy web that reduces the
+severity, but does not deflect or absorb, beam type energy.  This allows
+some time for maneuvers after beam contact.  
+
+Note that Major Ryan (He'll always be D-Day to my brother!) was very
+reticent to fire on the Clarkstown at all.  Knowing that the
+Interceptors were down made his job all the more difficult.  The rear
+facing beamn on the Alexander is similar in design to the front facers
+on the Clarkstown.  When the C-town fired on the rotating section ofthe
+Alexander, it did not explode, as the interceptors were still active.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
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+Re: ATTN: JMS: First question I've ever asked you (25 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS: First question I've ever asked you

+25 Feb 1997
No, the last name isn't dubbed, only Jarrico was dubbed, because it was
+mispronounced.
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+Re: ATT JMS: B5 in April '97 MacUser (25 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATT JMS: B5 in April '97 MacUser

+25 Feb 1997
Hey Tom!
+
+Even though the Joe uses "another" platform, the show actually uses
+many!  Macs have been essential to the creation of the show from the
+beginning.  Even farther back, the Amiga and the Newtek Toaster were
+employed.  
+
+Currently we use Pentiums and Alphas for animation, Macs for Editing,
+Matte paintings and Compositing, and SGI's for Compositing and titling. 
+If that isn't platform independent, I don't know what is!
+
+So, Andy can continue to like the show, AND be true to the magazine he
+works for!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+(and Mac user since the 128!)
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS or GEORGE--Questions about ISN cameras (25 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS or GEORGE--Questions about ISN cameras

+25 Feb 1997
Jeff-
+
+The ISN cameras are not capable of autonomous operation, but they can be
+progammed within a parameter set.  The wand is a control device to
+change those parameters.  Thus, one operator, two cameras (or more!)
+
+There was a distinct anti Minbar/Minbari sentiment among this particular
+crew, as evidenced by the later parts of the show, and it isn't hard to
+imagine that the bumping was at the behest of the wand wielder.  If
+Lennier was simply annoyed, advantage ISN.  If he reacted violently,
+advantage ISN. I'm sure that footage will be used on another ISN
+propoganda broadcast.  (You can see it on Channel 134 of your cable)(Oh,
+sorry, Channel 134 is not availbale in all sectors after curfew)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question on Ethics in Writing (25 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Question on Ethics in Writing

+25 Feb 1997
The line about meaning what you say is an old saying that goes 'way, way
+back, long before the O'Toole movie.  And as far as Caligula goes, the
+sense of it is there, but not the details...and even if they *were*,
+basing part of a story on historical precedent, on actual events, is
+hardly inappropriate.  (And in this case, again, it isn't based on
+that...evocative of it, yes, but nothing more.)
+
+The notion of the Vorlons and Shadows representing Order and Chaos goes
+back to the Babylonian creation myths, that the universe was born in the
+conflict between order and chaos, hence part of the reason I decided to
+name this show after Babylon.  That's called *research*.  It informs the
+show, but it is not the show.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Atonement; slight spoiler (26 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: Atonement; slight spoiler

+26 Feb 1997
"My question is, since we can see that the ship's engine is running, why
+aren't all of the objects in the hold laying against the bulkhead as a
+result of the ship's movement?  Aside from that, it was a pretty neat
+effects shot."
+
+Because it's accurate; it's the same reason you don't see everything
+slammed up against the back wall of the shuttle even though it's circling
+the earth at thousands of miles per hour.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  News release (26 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  News release

+26 Feb 1997
+
+No, the Netter release categorically does NOT state that there will not be
+a fifth season, only that TNT has the rights to the 88 episodes and is
+hoping to get them on ASAP...but we're told by WB that this does not
+preclude year 5, which would (in the case of renewal) run in syndication
+cuncurrently with the reruns on TNT.
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Can you elaborate on Netter Digital Press Release? (27 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Can you elaborate on Netter Digital Press Release?

+27 Feb 1997
Happy to explain.
+
+"And now this letter comes out from your company which seems to imply
+there won't be a fifth season."
+
+NDEI is not my company.  I don't own it, don't work for it, it's entirely
+Doug's separate company.  With a stockholder's meeting coming up, he told
+his financial PR person to pump out a release to get a little heat
+going...and there was the TNT deal to pick up the B5 episodes that clicked
+over at 88 episodes.  That is the point at which they can get the show
+clean, and there's the two movies for TNT to announce as go projects.  
+
+The financial PR person put this out, rather than the B5 publicists, or
+WB, and it never went in front of me or John Copeland.  It just went out. 
+That TNT gets access to 88 doesn't preclude a possible season 5, which
+could air concurrently, a la the way Lazarus Man did.  
+
+When I came in and found email on this, and saw the release, I raised hell
+with Doug about it.  He said "the entire 88 episodes" just refers to
+what's solid right now, it doesn't mean it's going to be all there is...to
+which I said it could be read that way, and many people *were* reading it
+that way, and his person could've saved everyone a lot of hassle if it'd
+been run past me first.
+
+One thing's for sure: This Will Never Ever Happen Again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: Sound problems? (27 Feb 1997)
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Re: Sound problems?

+27 Feb 1997
Steve-
+
+It is most assuredly NOT the way the sound is done on the show.  We do
+take advantage ofthe extra dynamic range offered by digital post
+production, and that sometimes results in a 2 or 3 db difference between
+us and the commercials, but not the phenomenon you describe.  I would
+love to speak with your affiliate to see if there is some help we can
+offer.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Choice of Music in "The Long Night" (3 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Choice of Music in "The Long Night"

+3 Feb 1997
It's not exactly a question of choosing the music: I sit with Chris
+Franke, our composer, and indicate, "Here's where the music starts, and
+ends."  If it's source music, we discuss the type of music, and he then
+composes it.  We don't choose from library stuff on the show.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS & George Johnsen: hi from .hu (27 Feb 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS & George Johnsen: hi from .hu

+27 Feb 1997
Andras-
+
+Cineon is not the only processor to have a grain remover/grain adder
+module in the software.  The discreet logic Flint, Adobe After Effects,
+and Lightwave 3D used on B5 also have various modules and plugins for
+grain manipulation.  We use 'em all the time on composite and blue
+screen shots to make the generated elements fit into the film elements.
+
+We shoot with Panavision Gold super 35.  We have tested nearly all of
+the emultions currently available, and 5298 is what John Flinn III, ASC
+likes the best, so that is what we use.  He feels it preserves the look
+he is going for the best.  I know an EXR test was scheduled, but we
+haven't gotten there yet.
+
+We record all of our CG elements to hard drive and optical disc.  The
+images are created "resolution independent" meaning they could be
+rendered for anything from video game to Imax, based on user input.  For
+the NTSC version, we output to digital tape, eventually.
+
+Hey, advertise Kodak all you want, they make good film.  Love that
+Kodachrome, even thogh it's disappearing.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATTN George Johnson: No more space battles like Long Twilight (27 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN George Johnson: No more space battles like Long Twilight

+27 Feb 1997
>Kevein responded to:
+|> 
+|> I was wondering why we haven't seen any other space battles like
+|> we saw in the Long, Twilight Struggle.  I believe this is the one
+|> where *SPOLIERS FOR LTS BELOW*
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+Kevin-
+
+Well said, well strategized!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProd, B5
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+Re: ATTN George: No more space battles like Long Twilight Struggle? (27 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN George: No more space battles like Long Twilight Struggle?

+27 Feb 1997
In article <5f1pep$jff@larch.cc.swarthmore.edu>,
+fox@allspice.cs.swarthmore.edu (Annie Fox) writes:
+|> 
+|> I was wondering why we haven't seen any other space battles like
+|> we saw in the Long, Twilight Struggle.  I believe this is the one
+|> where *SPOLIERS FOR LTS BELOW*
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+Peter-
+
+There are most likely both types of battles you mentioned plus a few
+more types we don't imagine as yet.  You will see more of the Long Range
+stuff if the story dictates.  Remember that there weren't any Shadow
+fighters in the scene you indicate, only battlecrabs (yes, now we call
+them that, too), so the weapon size and distance could be greater.  The
+element of surprise is also a player, as is the fact that these weapons
+were still quite unfamiliar to those being attacked.
+
+Our intention with the closer range battles was to convey several
+dramatic things.  One, a more intense, less calculated battle.  Two, a
+more personal fight for the participants, as these current fights are at
+once more desperate and more monumental,  Three, these are combination
+fighter and larger ship battles. In addition to the large capital ships
+being involved, there are a high number of smaller, more manueverable
+ships that have no reason to exist, if technology is so great that
+battles can only be fought from a distance. I am convinced that the
+distances displayed are plausible for fighter-type battles.  In all of
+the history of pilot to pilot combat, there is always a component of the
+direct engagement of the enemy.  Technology continues to advance, and
+after every major advance, the battle distances expand out..... for a
+time.  As soon as the pilots figure out how to react to the weapon, and
+defend against it, the engagement distances close up again.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: The Magic of Intention (28 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: The Magic of Intention

+28 Feb 1997
I'm kinda prohibited from saying anything leading to a neilsen family.
+
+I can only look out at the clouds and consider what a pleasant day it
+is....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Design of Novels' Covers (28 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Design of Novels' Covers

+28 Feb 1997
"What are the chances of the publisher choosing a new graphical theme
+for the novel covers? The previous covers mistakenly placed the books in a
+class unworthy of the subject: main character (B5 station), flanked by
+several alien and beautiful woman/heroic captain caricatures, adorned by
+dime store typography -- elements straight from Book Graphics 010. "
+
+I've been screaming about the covers from day one...and finally just put
+my foot down.  "But it helps give us continuity," they say.  "Sure," says
+I, "cover 1 is a crappy cover, so let's make a whole LOT of crappy covers
+that are all crappy in the same way so we can make 'em consistent."
+
+Jeanne's book is more or less of that mold; the second uses a similar
+philosophy but is better rendered; and the third book coming up has
+probably the best cover to date, showing the Minbari temple and some great
+sketches of Sinclair, Sakai and Cole.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Attn: JMS -- Say cheese! (4 Feb 1997)
+
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Re: Attn: JMS -- Say cheese!

+4 Feb 1997
Suddenly this whole photographic/photogenic discussion has taken a
+frightening turn....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Are *you* happy with S4 perceived "rush"? (1 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Are *you* happy with S4 perceived "rush"?

+1 Mar 1997
Truth: I go back and forth.  The "Into the Fire" thing, for instance...it
+would've likely been a two-part episode, but it still would've ended up
+exactly where it ended up.  A few more big explosions, but I wonder also
+if that really adds anything past a certain point.
+
+>From a production standpoing, since "Fire" darn near killed us in the CGI
+department, it's probably a darned good thing it DIDN'T go for 2 eps. 
+That puppy had something around 120 or 140 EFX shots.
+
+Overall, I'm actually quite happy with how this season is going, in terms
+of the intensity of the arc and the emotions and incidents.  Parts
+would've been a bit more laid-back if I had decided not to cover my bets
+on renewal, and maybe the situation has worked out to the best (again the
+ABA principle, Art By Accident).
+
+So I dunno...all I know is what's in the episodes this season, and it's
+pretty cool overall....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: How to send self-addressed envelopes for photos/autographs? (5 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: How to send self-addressed envelopes for photos/autographs?

+5 Mar 1997
Understand that WB does not provide photos to the cast for publicity
+purposes; neither does Babylonian.  Any photos provided by the cast come
+out of their own pockets.  The cost is *very* prohibitive given the number
+of fans requesting same.  The cast tries to oblige as much as they can,
+because that's the sort of people they are, but be advised that this is a
+burden on them....
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Finish of production (5 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Finish of production

+5 Mar 1997
We wrap season 4 on May 5th, with the two movies for TNT wrapping June
+30th.  But you also have to allow 52 days of post production for the final
+end of the episodes.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: JMS:  Kathryn's novel (5 Mar 1997)
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Re: JMS:  Kathryn's novel

+5 Mar 1997
Kathryn, for obvious reasons, is the only person on the planet whose
+knowledge of the B5 universe is second only to my own.  Especially the
+backstory, the history of the characters and worlds, and so on.  She's
+seen virtually every frame of film.  So when I got the idea of having one
+of the books follow Sinclair's story after leaving B5, through a year of
+story time that weaves in and out of the books, the comic, and the
+show...she was the logical candidate.  The only one that made sense.  She
+was hesitant to do so at first, for various reasons, but she's always been
+very fond of the Sinclair storyline, and Michael O'Hare, and wanted to
+tell that story.  So she agreed to write it.
+
+And of all the novels, this one is 100% canon...it's also the most
+exhaustive attempt to tie in all the storylines done to date.  Anybody
+wants to know what happened to Sinclair, it's in the book.  That's a
+genuine chapter of the story arc.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS: Any chance of more Dukhat? (5 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS: Any chance of more Dukhat?

+5 Mar 1997
Plans are to have Dukhat in the B5 prequel.
+
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+Re: Attn. JMS:  Who screamed "CUT!!"? (5 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: Attn. JMS:  Who screamed "CUT!!"?

+5 Mar 1997
+
+"While I'm certainly willing to believe that the director did it here,
+this is not a straight answer, in that "Cut" ended up part of the show,
+and was therefore in the script, at least after the fact."
+
+No, it was never in the script, before or after.  We just grabbed the
+whole audio because it worked.
+
+"By way of example, surely an actor playing a director shooting a scene
+could shout either instruction, yes?"
+
+Sigh...
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: My Clone, My Choice: Ignore the Ban! (5 Mar 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: My Clone, My Choice: Ignore the Ban!

+5 Mar 1997
"As an atheist, do you find Clinton's ban on human cloning somewhat silly?
+ Do you think of a cloned child as any different than any other child?"
+
+Go ahead, ask me the easy ones that won't get me into trouble....
+
+I think people are overly-frightened by the idea.  They have an
+exaggerated idea of what it means.  You can clone me (a scary thought on
+its own terms, but that's a different discussion) to your heart's
+content...but the fact is, though the genetic makeup is the same, the
+environmental, social and psychological conditions that made me what I am
+(insert joke here) will not be present for the new kid, and you'll get a
+VERY different adult.  
+
+In a sense, there's been 50% cloning going on throughout history; it goes
+on every day, every 30 seconds: a child is conceived using DNA templates
+from two people, the parents.  Now we're talking about DNA templates from
+one person. 
+
+Should caution be used?  Absolutely.  A total ban on research?  How can we
+make proper ethical decisions without the most thorough information we can
+get our hands on?  "No, let's not find out what's really involved until
+*after* we make our decision."  This is like having a trial after the jury
+has rendered a verdict.
+
+Because that technology has potential uses *outside* strict cloning.  If a
+father is infertile, could you use the cloning techniques to separate out
+his DNA and use it to fertilize his wife's eggs?  There are many other
+possible uses for this technology; to throw the baby out with the DNA
+seems to me a poor idea.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Seeing characters in your head (6 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Seeing characters in your head

+6 Mar 1997
+
+When I introduce a new character, I just kinda see a sense of the
+character in my head, an outline...if you take off your glasses, and
+you're nearsighted, that will give you some sense of it.  When an actor
+comes in and hits it, the character goes into sharp focus.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Finish of production (7 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Finish of production

+7 Mar 1997
Jms at B5 wrote:
+> 
+> We wrap season 4 on May 5th, with the two movies for TNT wrapping June
+> 30th.  But you also have to allow 52 days of post production for the final
+> end of the episodes.
+> 
+>  jms
+
+Assuming that the writer didn't put so much in the script that the poor
+post production unit can't finish it in 52 days!
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN:GEORGE - Slow-mo problems? (7 Mar 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN:GEORGE - Slow-mo problems?

+7 Mar 1997
Ralph-
+
+I just pulled the Atonement master and looked at the scene you
+mentioned.  I don't see the problem, but that doesn't mean that i doubt
+your tape.  There are several ways it could have happened, from uplink
+error to downlink error to local affiliate error.  We did experience a
+problem in the ISN broadcast recently where the uplink dropped out, and
+there was a hold frame during a shot of Dan the Reporterman for 2
+frames, but that doesn't appear to be the problem you describe. 
+
+Can you be any more specifc as to symptom?
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
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+

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+Re: I wish JMS had ignored the season 4 / season 5 thing. (7 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: I wish JMS had ignored the season 4 / season 5 thing.

+7 Mar 1997
Understand that you over-estimate the power of fandom in the current TV
+market.
+
+For starters the studios have gotten used to letter writing campaigns by
+SF fans, and no longer give it the same weight they used to.  
+
+If WB decides to drop year 5, it will be an internal business decision,
+and will not be subject to appeal.  About one-third of all new shows
+presented at NATPE this year to the stations either aren't going or are in
+serious trouble because WB, UPN and FOX are grabbing more nights of
+committed programming at local stations...in simple terms: there is no
+room at the inn.
+
+That's the single biggest obstacle right now to WB renewing the show, I'm
+told.  That the market has changed, and the stations either have other
+commitments, or are tempted by new, highly-promoted shows, as opposed to a
+fifth year of a show they know.  
+
+I've had to make adjustments to cover my bets in either direction; if I
+did what you describe, and there ended up not being a year 5, the story
+would not have an ending, and the thing would be pointless.  It's not a
+matter of "sticking to one's guns."  It's a matter of protecting the fans,
+and the story, because I have no control whatsoever over what's going to
+be decided shortly.  Neither do the fans.  It ain't the same world as when
+ST was saved for one more season.  We've been told, point-blank, that WB
+*wants* to do the show next year, because they're making a LOT of money on
+it...but if there's no room for the show at enough stations to make it
+viable, they won't be able to do it.  (And they can't take it to cable, we
+found out this week, because the PTEN contract for the show expressly
+forbids it).
+
+I've isolated the threads that would go into a year 5; if we get year 5,
+I'll pull the triggers on that, and we'll do those stories.  If not, those
+threads will go into the sequel.  Either way, we're covered...because I
+can't ask fans to stick around for 4 or 5 years of a show, and not achieve
+resolution.  It would be thoughtless and cruel.
+
+
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+Re: Atonement ( *Spoilers* ) (2 Mar 1997)
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Re: Atonement ( *Spoilers* )

+2 Mar 1997
The ship with Marcus and Franklin *wasn't* spinning...hence, no gravity.
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+Re: Worries about TNT showing B5? (7 Mar 1997)
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Re: Worries about TNT showing B5?

+7 Mar 1997
It's my understanding that TNT will not cut anything from the shows...in
+fact, due to PTEN dropping the Kung Fu 30 second promo (temporarily filled
+by a 30 second B5 promo at 40 minutes into the program), we were told this
+week that we now have an additional 30 seconds that we can add to the
+show's length.  When we heard this, we asked if we were to put this in
+only to have it cut by TNT later, but were told that it would be left
+intact.  (They can't put in any more commercials because it's currently at
+the maximum allowable limit under FCC rules.)
+
+I imagine the logo will appear, as it standard with all such shows.
+
+I have to say that TNT has proven to be *very* excited about picking up
+B5, and they want to do a great deal of promotion for it, and plan to make
+it a real centerpiece.  If fans of the show want to write to them to
+continue to encourage this, and to thank them for wanting to treat the
+show right (thus encouraging more of this in future), and suggest their
+support and creative freedom for the upcoming sequel now in negotiations,
+I certainly think nobody would object....
+
+
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+Re: Atten JMS:  re: merchandising (7 Mar 1997)
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Re: Atten JMS:  re: merchandising

+7 Mar 1997
"I read that you have decided to increase the amount of merchandising for
+the show.  Any guesses as to specific types of product?"
+
+We're going to be doing a few more things, incrementally.  Del Rey is
+coming out with more nonfiction B5 books, starting with reprints of the
+Bassom UK books on B5, then the 3 volume episode guide covering the first
+three seasons (with more to come, obviously), and a number of other
+nonfiction books that are starting to move ahead, detailing the production
+and related areas of B5.
+
+The Hamilton Collectors plates will start coming out shortly (the Sheridan
+one is very nice, but the real killer is the Delenn plate, which is just
+stunning), same for the Antioch Publishing stuff, including bookmarks,
+bookplates, journals, magnets and the like (and they've done some
+*terrific* stuff at Antioch, including bookmarks with each year's
+narration).  
+
+I saw a test run on the first part of the B5 informational CDrom which
+we're doing in-house the other day, and it's just spiffy...gorgeous
+looking, and it's going to be just a bit on the subversive side, as is
+standard with anything B5.  I'll have to check, but I think we're shooting
+for a spring release on this one.
+
+There's more cards coming out from Fleer, a new version fo the B5 comic
+(with a starting 3-issue arc written by me (issue 1) and Peter David (2
+and 3), some character figures to be released in groups of 3, and the
+Monogram/Revell models coming down the pike shortly.  The B5 RPG and
+tactical games are almost ready to ship.
+
+Not a lot, but a bit more.  Mainly, it's just the cool stuff I'd like
+myself....
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Atten George - film? (7 Mar 1997)
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Re: Atten George - film?

+7 Mar 1997
David-
+
+A complete film print is never made.........yet.  (I have learned that
+never is a very bad word used in this forum:-))
+
+The international (read PAL/SECAM) and archival (read 16:9) versions are
+from a conformed negative, that has black placed where the effects shots
+are.  Those shots are converted or remade from the digital source, and
+cut into the show in the WB resolution independent post environment.
+
+We have done tests (early on and recently) to prove that the CG and
+composites can hold up to film transfer, so who knows what the future
+will bring? BUT... there is no complete film prints of any episode at
+this time.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
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+Re: ATTN JMS and/or GEORGE:  Videssence, Inc.? (7 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS and/or GEORGE:  Videssence, Inc.?

+7 Mar 1997
Oh those Netter financial press releases!
+
+SRGB is a new calibration standard for a cool burning, stable,
+predictable lighting for entertainment and other uses.  Currently in
+development are a new "kit" of stage lights that will excite the
+emulsion of film properly so that what is seen on the set can be exactly
+what is realized on the film when it is transferred.  The lights are
+based on a custom flourescent formulation with a digitally switched
+power supply and exciter.  This is new territory, and has some exciting
+possibilities for production.
+
+The Videssence lighting is being used at B-5 primarily as "gimmick"
+lighting until such time as JFlinn3 decides that it is a reasonable
+replacement for the Incandescent lights that are the norm for film based
+production.  When the lights are perfected, there will be no visible
+color difference to the viewer.   The technology involved will allow 
+smaller instruments to be used, and there will be some different effects
+possible.  These will be realized after the baseline success has been
+achieved.
+
+When that happens, I will let you know what to look for!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Trinkets and Baubles (9 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Trinkets and Baubles

+9 Mar 1997
Re: t-shirts...I forgot to mention that the B5 official fan club now has 3
+t-shirts available that are pretty nifty.  And we plan on shortly coming
+out with Agamemnon caps, various pins and other stuff.  
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Buying the rights? (was Re: I wish JMS had ignored the (9 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Buying the rights? (was Re: I wish JMS had ignored the

+9 Mar 1997
"Could the fans form a co-op to buy the rights?  What would it cost?"
+
+WB would never sell.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Games (9 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Games

+9 Mar 1997
All some gaming company has to do is option the game from WB.  I'm for it.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 in Encyclopedia Britanica yearbook for 1996 (9 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 in Encyclopedia Britanica yearbook for 1996

+9 Mar 1997
Cool...at least we got mentioned.
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  SFWA  How about a new group? (9 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  SFWA  How about a new group?

+9 Mar 1997
I dunno about new groups...the more I see of SFWA, the more I begin to
+understand why writers work alone....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: The Day After Your "Bobby Ewing Moment" (9 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: The Day After Your "Bobby Ewing Moment"

+9 Mar 1997
Here is what will happen between now and 1 March 97
+        to your Babylon 5.  <long description follows>
+                You may change one -- and only one --
+                thing, large or small, that concerns
+                Babylon5.  Choose.  Choose NOW.
+Your choice, joe?
+
+
+More chocolate frosted doughnuts on the craft services table on days when
+we have lots and lots of extras and I don't get my fix when I arrive in
+the morning.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Compuserve's 'To Sysops from jms' (2 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Re: Compuserve's 'To Sysops from jms'

+2 Mar 1997
The CIS situation seems to now be working out; the policy of backrooming
+messages has been stopped, and the larger policy is being reexamined and
+may be restructured.  
+
+Again, it's the B5 rule...if you make a stand, and approach the problem
+from the perspective that you can make a difference, you can.  And it
+wasn't just that it was me, believe me...it was the many, many people who
+stood up and said the same thing.  You decide to change things, and you
+change things.  
+
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+Re: Attn: Jms "I want my Londo Action Figure" (9 Mar 1997)
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Re: Attn: Jms "I want my Londo Action Figure"

+9 Mar 1997
I forget which company, but one of the companies that produces
+high-quality figures (about 10" high, individually boxed) will be coming
+out with B5 characters in the near future, now that the deal is closed. 
+They'll come out in groups of three, starting with Sheridan, Delenn and
+G'Kar.  The second batch will be Londo, Ivanova and Kosh.  I can't recall
+the next batch offhand, though certainly Garibaldi is in it.
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS-----How many episodes? (9 Mar 1997)
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Re: Attn: JMS-----How many episodes?

+9 Mar 1997
422 wraps shooting in May, yes.  Then the two TNT movies will follow
+shooting in May/June.
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+Re: The Illusion of Truth: Gutsy and Brilliant! (spoiler) (9 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: The Illusion of Truth: Gutsy and Brilliant! (spoiler)

+9 Mar 1997
"This B5 episode should be required viewing in University media and
+history classes."
+
+Funny thing is, I've since received several requests from instructors at
+various colleges asking if they could use the show in their classroom to
+illustrate the points raised.  Kinda nice....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writing Question (10 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writing Question

+10 Mar 1997
"Do you always write the ending first?"
+
+No, because the exact *shape* of the ending never come clear to me until
+after I've written all the material preceding.  I *know* where it's going,
+I have a fairly clear vision whenever I write a script of where I want it
+to end, but I don't actually write it first, no.  Mark Twain said, "You
+should never write a story until you have finished it to your
+satisfaction."  So yeah, you do have to know it.
+
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+Re: Attn JMS or anyone who knows (10 Mar 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS or anyone who knows

+10 Mar 1997
In that kind of situation, my *guess* (and that's all it would be) is that
+the book would be eligible in its own Novel category, and the script would
+be eligible in that category, noting the "based on" in the credits.  But
+again, that's just a guess, as I haven't read *nearly* enough Alice in
+Wonderland to truly appreciate or wrap my brains around how SFWA would
+deal with this question.
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: B5 reference in X-Files episode (10 Mar 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: B5 reference in X-Files episode

+10 Mar 1997
Thanks...I hadn't heard that Psi Cop story...much appreciated.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS/SFWA/Scripts (10 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS/SFWA/Scripts

+10 Mar 1997
That's one of the things about scripts...lots of people (and I'm
+generalizing this beyond SFWA) like to pretend that a script is somehow
+vastly different than any other kind of writing, often because they have
+an agenda (including the notion that you have to pay $450 per session for
+a consultant to teach you how to read it), but fundamentally...a story is
+a story is a story.  Dialogue is dialogue.  Only the margins vary.  
+
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+Re: JMS: Why doesn't PTEN sell B5 to WB? (10 Mar 1997)
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Re: JMS: Why doesn't PTEN sell B5 to WB?

+10 Mar 1997
"My question is this: If PTEN is so anxious to close up for good, why not
+simply renegotiate the original contract and sell to WB, who can then
+consign the fifth season to TNT for production?"
+
+The show cannot appear in first-run on cable; the PTEN agreement
+specifically precludes this, it turns out.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Shakespeare (12 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Shakespeare

+12 Mar 1997
I've considered the "was it/who was Shakespeare" discussion...and while
+it's academically interesting, it doesn't much pull me in.  Doesn't
+matter, in one sense.  Doesn't matter of Macbeth was written by him, or
+someone else, or a frighteningly advanced species of peacock that to
+everyone's surprise evolved an opposable thumb...it's still one of the
+great masterworks of the english language.
+
+"Truth is beauty, and beauty truth; that is all you know and all you need
+to know."
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Directorial debut (12 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Directorial debut

+12 Mar 1997
Yes, I'll be directing 422, which I'll also write.
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+Re: ATTN JSM: Rolling Exposition (3 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JSM: Rolling Exposition

+3 Mar 1997
"How do you balance the twin needs of story advancement and plot-point
+repetition?"
+
+It ain't easy, lemme tell you.
+
+Basically, I sit back and say, "If I came into the story at this point,
+would I be able to follow the action and make even a rough sense of it,
+even if I might miss a few of the subtleties?"  If not, then I backtrack
+and layer in whatever I think is necessary.  Sometimes I think I err
+slightly in the direction of too much recap, but I'd rather do that than
+totally confuse people.
+
+I know it makes our regulars nutsoid, but there isn't any way around it
+since we can't do a "last week on B5" segment.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Intersections in Real Time (no spoilers) (12 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Intersections in Real Time (no spoilers)

+12 Mar 1997
As this has the potential to be a very cool and somewhat experimental
+episode, I'd rather say nothing until later.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Atten George - film? (12 Mar 1997)
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Re: Atten George - film?

+12 Mar 1997
Jay-
+
+No, I wouldn't like to have B5 lost in a nuclear holocaust, but film
+won't do us any good in that instance, as the theatres will also be
+blasted, methinks.  
+
+As to the issue of archival, there is no complete film print, but all of
+the live action sequences are conformed on negative, plus the animation
+files are stored so that they can be recreated and rerendered at
+whatever resolution is needed (post explosion, of course).
+
+This protects us from allowing our follow on civilizations from being
+fooled by the shadows.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS (14 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS

+14 Mar 1997
I think if I nudge George, I can get him to come to SDCC this summer....
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Thanks, but no thanks (14 Mar 1997)
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Re: Thanks, but no thanks

+14 Mar 1997
You're mistaken.  Gold Channel (my private journals and photos) is the
+only area closed to non-Fan Club members.  It's *free* to FC members,
+there is no other charge involved.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: Thanks, but no thanks (14 Mar 1997)
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Re: Thanks, but no thanks

+14 Mar 1997
"And by the way, I think it's pretty darn unscrupulous to take material
+that JMS published for the enjoyment and education of B5's fans and charge
+money for it. I somehow doubt that that was his intent, and your attempt
+at forcing me to pay to
+see material which costs you virtually nothing to publicize is disgusting
+and very untypical of the high-quality fan community that B5 posseses."
+
+Err...the material you mention is taken from my personal journal, and was
+never published anywhere.  When we were coming up with the maximum we
+could give to FC members to make it worth doing (and I tend to err in the
+direction of doing more than less), I thought as a bonus, a niceness for
+the FC members online, to put my journal up there.
+
+Whatever you may think, you are not entitled to everything I write for
+free.  And this section isn't charged for in ANY event; it wasn't even
+mentioned in the original FC applications or brochures.  It's a baker's
+dozen, lagniappe, a little extra we gave that only the fan club members
+can have access to.
+
+"If I wanted color photos, I'd've bought color photos. If I wanted a
+button,
+I'd've bought a button. But if I, as a fan, want to learn more about the
+show I love, and you have the means to provide me with that online and
+expect me to PAY for it."
+
+No, the only thing involved here in FC membership and the Gold Channel. 
+The informational areas on thestation.com are open to anyone; the chat
+area is open to anyone; the message center is open to anyone; the station
+tour is open to anyone; this one area alone is set aside for FC members.
+
+Bottom line...it's *my* material, and I can do with it as I so choose.  If
+I want to make of it a gift to FC members, I can do that.  I'm sorry you
+don't like it.  And I assume that you will now let anyone use anything of
+yours that they want, since to withhold or make them pay for something of
+yours is the old porno trick.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Model Stuation (14 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Model Stuation

+14 Mar 1997
Brad-
+
+The first model out will be the Starfury.  The model business is still a
+very tedious process, as any manufacturer will tell you.  We sent out
+blueprints and three views of the Starfury months ago, and they have
+just asked for more this week.  They have a sculptor building a master,
+and then they will cut steel tooling, whick will be test shot, test
+built, and refined before we see it on the shelf.  All in all a tediuos
+and frustrating process.  
+
+Fortunately, the process on different models can work simultaneously, if
+they are not using the same sculptor.  The release schedule will be
+adjusted as the project proceeds.
+
+It is interesting that the merchandising for B5 is starting to get
+REALLY hot.  Warners Special Products is really B5 happy right now. 
+Hope this bodes well for future products!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, Babylon 5
+
+
+
+
+

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+
+Re: New episodes (14 Mar 1997)
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Re: New episodes

+14 Mar 1997
Leo-
+
+Not exactly true!  We start new episodes the week of April 28 with
+episode 410 (Racing Mars), and go straight through  May with new eps.
+
+All of our syndication contracts are for the full season 4 with the
+entities that are broadcasting the show now.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, Babylon 5
+
+
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+

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+Re: Letterboxing (14 Mar 1997)
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Re: Letterboxing

+14 Mar 1997
Hi 5heads!
+
+Letterboxing will not happen on TNT.  Sorry. They will be showing the
+original episodes uncut, in their original broadcast form. 
+
+If and when DVD happens for B5 it will most certainly be 16:9.  All of
+the prep work is done for that release.
+
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
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+

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+Re: TNT in Dolby Surround? (14 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: TNT in Dolby Surround?

+14 Mar 1997
Confirmation:  TNT is indeed broadcasting in full Dolby Surround Stereo.
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Apologies for Megacon (18 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Apologies for Megacon

+18 Mar 1997
I was, and remain, very upset about the video/audio situation, especially
+since I made a point of going to the area a few hours earlier (as some who
+were sitting around waitinf for Peter's panel can testify) to check out
+the equipment, and told everyone concerned that I didn't think it was
+going to work out right, but they *insisted* that they'd tested it, and it
+would be fine...and wouldn't change it...and, of course, it sucked.
+
+I'm assured that, if I come there again, this will not happen again.  I
+don't know if that's going to be a good enough guarantee, it may take a
+little more than that next time.  
+
+I love it when someone tries to say, "No, no, our experts and techs
+checked it."  HEY!  I WORK IN TEEVEE!  I PRODUCE A SERIES!  I KNOW WHAT
+I'M TALKING ABOUT DON'T TAKE ME FOR HAVING JUST FALLEN OFF THE TURNIP
+TRUCK!  
+
+...sigh....
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS &.. George ..letter from Sweden (3 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS &.. George ..letter from Sweden

+3 Mar 1997
* How can I that live here in Sweden get a hold of your "Complete
+Scriptwriting..:", since I can't order by Mail order?
+
+Other than online, via www.amazon.com, you're stuck, I'm afraid.
+
+* How can a club get you to appear on a convent?
+
+Well, first you'll have to smuggle me past Sister Mary Theresa Thomas, and
+into the nun's quarters...then just leave the rest to me.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: JMS: Star Struck - Effects on your writing (18 Mar 1997)
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Re: JMS: Star Struck - Effects on your writing

+18 Mar 1997
"Have you ever had any problems writing a part for an actor you admire?"
+
+Not really, since in 99% of all cases the program, whatever it is, is cast
+*after* I turn in the script.  
+
+"Have you ever been star struck?"
+
+When we had Paul Williams, and Michael York...yeah, definitely.  And I
+turned all fanboy, had Paul autograph 2 of my CDs for "Phantom of the
+Paradise," and had York sign my laserdisk of "Cabaret."
+
+"How do you deal with writing for people you greatly admire?"
+
+See above.  It's usually after the fact.  In any event, I just write the
+character, not the actor.
+
+
+
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+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Sequel Scriptwriters (19 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Sequel Scriptwriters

+19 Mar 1997
I have some interesting ideas, but let's get the show off the ground
+first....
+
+
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+Re: JMS: Star Struck - Effects on your writing (19 Mar 1997)
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Re: JMS: Star Struck - Effects on your writing

+19 Mar 1997
I wasn't able to find the CDs anywhere here in the US, I located them in
+the UK, at Virgin Records.  Maybe a UK fan can help you find it.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: JMS: Thanks for MegaCon (19 Mar 1997)
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Re: JMS: Thanks for MegaCon

+19 Mar 1997
+
+I thought the fans were great, and in some respects the folks running it
+were good to work with, but the video/audio fiasco still irks
+me...especially considering what I found out later, which was that there
+was an Anime room with a perfectly good AV system which they'd glommed
+onto and we could've transferred to that room.  
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: Anybody who knows - Will JMS address the government breakup (20 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN: Anybody who knows - Will JMS address the government breakup

+20 Mar 1997
The problems caused by the breakup of the Grey Council will form a major
+part of the story arc about mid-season.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: The Shadow Within (25 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: The Shadow Within

+25 Mar 1997
Thanks...yeah, everything I've heard back so far from fans has backed up
+what I said here a while ago...that this one was the best B5 book to date.
+ 
+
+Re: C4's debut...I have no direct information from WB on this. 
+(Interestingly, many at WB don't know either.)  Ironicallly, I only know
+what's on the nets, and some British fans said that the C4 duty officer
+gave April 14th as a possible debut, but that's the extent of what I know
+(or don't know) (or might know in an alternate universe, in another
+incarnation) (truth is beauty, beauty truth, this is all you know and all
+you need to know).
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: - Ellison Reported to Say No 5th Season - (25 Mar 1997)
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Re: - Ellison Reported to Say No 5th Season -

+25 Mar 1997
There was another post by Harlan in his forum, and a few others on usenet,
+in which he retracts this, btw...it was late, he was tired, and he
+misspoke.  He's utterly chagrined by it.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Jms, are you OK? (25 Mar 1997)
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Re: Jms, are you OK?

+25 Mar 1997
Of the choices given....
+
+1. Too busy. Will get back when I'm not utterly snowed under.
+2. Not feeling very well at the moment.
+3. Haven't anything of interest to say right now. Thought I'd wait 
+    until I had some news.
+4. The questions being raised at the moment have already been 
+    answered or aren't addressed to me.
+5. Couldn't get my computer to post to the new address 
+    (b5mod@deepthot.cary.nc.us.).
+6. Other (please specify if it's not top secret).
+
+It's 1, 3, and 4, with a little of 6 going on.  I'm just completely up to
+my ass in alligators with production right now.  As usual, WB wants to
+hold 4 episodes for October, but that means because they held back there's
+going to be a big crunch of new shows in May sweeps.  Nine eps in a row. 
+So we're busting our butts to get stuff ready.
+
+They'll be airing 310 through 318 between April 18th and June 13th.  Which
+will at least give us a big boost and ramp things up.
+
+"You're getting us worried, Great Maker. Are you OK? ( }:-( )"
+
+Fine.  Pooped.  But fine.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Westercon? (26 Mar 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Westercon?

+26 Mar 1997
I'll definitely be at Westercon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS -- Jack McDevitt question (28 Mar 1997)
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Re: Attn: JMS -- Jack McDevitt question

+28 Mar 1997
Yeah, the Starship Straczynski is in Jack's novel as a result of a charity
+auction.  I could never do it in my own work, but the idea of a starship
+with that name was very funny to me, and I held my own in the auction
+(this was a long time ago) against a woman with an even longer and more
+convoluted name than my own to get that one.
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: What do you think of new MST3K? (3 Mar 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: What do you think of new MST3K?

+3 Mar 1997
I've only seen the first 2 installments (the second 2 are on tape,
+awaiting a time when I have 4 hours to spend), and I think they're doing
+well.  The new Crow is generally okay, though the person doing the
+voice/puppetry (his name just fell out of my head) needs to animate him a
+bit more.  Trace understood that you have to make Crow a living character,
+and it ain't just the voice.  Crow had very visual and expressive
+movements, which so far the new guy hasn't quite gotten yet.  
+
+I wasn't that impressed with Dr. Forrester's mom in the previous season,
+but she seems to be doing well now that she's out on her own, much more
+interesting.
+
+I still miss Trace, though...he added a LOT to that show's edge.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: - Ellison Reported to Say No 5th Season - (28 Mar 1997)
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Re: - Ellison Reported to Say No 5th Season -

+28 Mar 1997
Re: 422...this one is a stand-alone episode which I specifically designed
+in order to have the flexibility to air it either as 422 or as 522,
+depending on what happens.  This way if year 4 is all there is, we get to
+where we need to get; if we get year 5, then we shoot 501 and air it in
+422's spot, and air 422 in place of 522.
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Babylon 5 novels (29 Mar 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Babylon 5 novels

+29 Mar 1997
Yeah, Jeanne did a great job on the book.
+
+And what you describe is exactly the approach I've already begun taking
+with the books, and will continue to do so in future: using them to
+explore the areas and things that are mentioned in the show but not
+actually shown, background and foreground stories, linked to the history
+of B5.
+
+There's a thousand years of story there to play with....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Q on writers, religion, & the Oscars... (29 Mar 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Q on writers, religion, & the Oscars...

+29 Mar 1997
It's not my experience that most writers in town are agnostic, but I don't
+get around as much as Jodi (no sarcasm intended; she's done a wide range
+of work).  I wouldn't agree, though that doesn't make it untrue, just that
+my experience doesn't reflect that.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: "Seconds" on Laser (31 Mar 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: "Seconds" on Laser

+31 Mar 1997
On the release: cool, I'll definitely pick it up.
+
+On the remake: feh on Paramount.  They already made it right the first
+time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: JMS' Top 10 Pet Peeves (Humor) (fwd) (31 Mar 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: JMS' Top 10 Pet Peeves (Humor) (fwd)

+31 Mar 1997
Speaking of the Lucas thing in your list (reasonably funny, btw)....
+
+When I was in Orlando for Megacon, on Sunday, I didn't want to spend the
+whole time in the hotel, so I went out and had a perfectly awful night
+(it's too awful for details)...and I got back around 10 p.m., figured I'd
+go for a late dinner to the Sizzler's next door to the hotel.
+
+Went in, wearing my B5 jacket, and as the guy shows me to my seat, he
+says, "I know you...yessir, I know who you are."  
+
+I mumbled something at him, the usual bit about being recognized, and he
+continued.  "You're here for the convention, aren't you?"  So I allowed as
+how I was....
+
+"I knew it, I knew it," he said.  "You're one of them Trekkies."
+
+The only thing that kept me from killing him was that I didn't know the
+penalty for murder in Florida.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: Possible Tech-type Issues: EF Starship Questions (31 Mar 1997)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Possible Tech-type Issues: EF Starship Questions

+31 Mar 1997
The answer in Real Life vs. Reel Life is substantially correct.  There
+are always dramatic decisions to be made that can a) appeal to current
+tech eyes, and b) satisfy our fixed budget. 
+
+This is a hard line to walk, and we keep stepping over it in both
+directions.  We keep asking questions, and following advice (thanks,
+John!), but there are astill things that we do that simply look good,
+and fit the story.  We are constantly improving even our stock shots,
+though.  Notice the shuttle sequence in 410 now has retro fire in the
+bay before main engine burn, and the main engines don't burn forever,
+like they did before.  We had a reverse-burn (decelerating) transport
+coming into Mars in 410 that was cut for time, leaving the "manouvering
+to orbit shot" only (which, I'm sure, will get some people up in the
+air, but hey- we can't buy the commercials!) We will continue to improve
+the science we use as we go.
+
+One of things we discussed substantially before we did it was the
+rotating sections on the EA destroyers.  If we had locked them down, as
+some say we should have, we would be having this discussion about magnet
+shoes or something to explain why there were no floating folks in the
+interior shots during engagement.  
+
+As to explosive decompression, we have always postulated that anything
+hit hard enough to have serious ED would probably be hard pressed to
+sustain viable survivors.  I suspect that there will pressure suits used
+in the short term and some Webb suit variant that will be used in the
+mid term of outer travel.  We are not doing any "Nightflyers"- style
+decompression gags in the near future, so we will not deal with that
+issue yet.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN:JMS re:holding back final 4 eps till fall (31 Mar 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN:JMS re:holding back final 4 eps till fall

+31 Mar 1997
Kids-
+
+The WB MO has always been to hold some eps until the following season. 
+The only thing that has happened here is that the post production
+schedule has been moved up to allow a bigger block of new episodes in a
+continuous string.  Sine the ratings for B5 always grow through a period
+of new eps, imagine what will happen this time!
+
+Geez, folks, you always blast us during reruns- why is it that giving a
+bunch of new eps in a bunch is a trigger for much worry and speculation?
+
+There has been NO official or unofficial decision on S-5 at this time. 
+This occurance is independent of that decision.  That is not to say that
+there hasn't been discussions...........
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer (and meeting boy), B5
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Stealing lines from friends (slight Atonement spoilers) (3 Mar 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Stealing lines from friends (slight Atonement spoilers)

+3 Mar 1997
+
+Actually, several women at the stage wondered that LONG before the episode
+even aired.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: Attn. JMS:  Who screamed "CUT!!"? (3 Mar 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: Attn. JMS:  Who screamed "CUT!!"?

+3 Mar 1997
+
+Thanks.
+
+The ONLY one on a stage who is empowered to yell either "action" or "cut"
+is the director.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey (4 Mar 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Joseph Campbell and the Hero's Journey

+4 Mar 1997
I'm definitely familiar with Campbell's work.  In the case of B5, it was
+sort of in the back of my head, but I didn't work to stick to the
+progression point for point, because I was afraid then it becomes
+mechanical.  "Hero" is good for analysis *after* the fact, not during...if
+you try to apply it during the creative process, it becomes like the
+centipede asked which foot goes first.  It's an analytical device, not a
+creative device.  
+
+That was the problem with "Beyond Thunderdome."  Prior to then the Mad Max
+movies were written on their own terms; prior to BT, George Miller read
+"Hero," and worked too hard to make it all fit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: New episodes? (1 Apr 1997)
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Re: New episodes?

+1 Apr 1997
Penny-
+
+The new broadcast schedule starts the week of April 21 and runs 9 weeks
+straight.  This is quite similar to what we did last year, only the big
+block of episodes started the first week in April and ran through May.
+
+I can tell you that there are some mighty cool shows in the batch, and
+that the effects crew is really humping to make the satellite date on a
+few of them.  (Hey, if it was easy, everybody would do it!:-)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Is B5 ready for HDTV? (6 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Is B5 ready for HDTV?

+6 Apr 1997
There are several schemes in proposal form for both the upconversion on
+standard broadcast, to make new sets useful with those who prefer to
+continue to broadcast using the equipment they have, and downconversion
+for those whop wish to watch a new channel with an old teevee set.  This
+will take the form of an inline box that decodes the signal and puts out
+a standard NTSC compatible signal.
+
+I am off to the National Assoc of Broadcasters meeting to see what the
+latest lies, er I mean proposals concerning HDTV are.  Rest assured that
+B5 is ready whatever dopey backwards compatible signal format they come
+up with. We do a conformed film neg of every episode for archival that
+is just for this purpose.  CG and composites can be rerendered to
+whatever new rez that is required, and we welcome the opportunity. 
+
+The biggest problem is that storytellers and hardware folks aren't the
+only ones with input into the standard.  The computer folks want in, and
+this will make the format even more confused.  Recent gov rules have
+allowed the standard to be made more computer friendly.  This means that
+MSNBC is just the start!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN GEORGE: Severed Dreams-hole in a WALL? (6 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN GEORGE: Severed Dreams-hole in a WALL?

+6 Apr 1997
Boris-
+
+We don't really know where the Marines actually penetrated, but their
+first hole would be through the "floor". If we assume that they know the
+station well, it is likely they would punch through an "unimproved", or
+storage area first, as it would be easier than to burn through a fully
+habitable area. Then they would go through a wall or a door to get at
+the goal.  We postulate that they actually were shown entering through
+their second burn, and entering the occupied area.
+
+All the 95's are in the same relative position, sequenced from the
+center.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
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+Re: Omega-class cruiser design (7 Apr 1997)
+
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Re: Omega-class cruiser design

+7 Apr 1997
Okay, Okay- I'm the first contestant for the dumbass of the week award!
+
+Of course it is the Omega Class.
+
+Too many hours, too many ships, too many file names.  For those who
+care, the files in Lightwave are labelled AgClasDestr, so I fell back on
+most recent contact protocol.
+
+Anyway, the rest of the answer does not suffer from the same caffeine
+induced hallucination, and is correct.
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN George: The transmition in Epiphanies (Spoilers) (7 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN George: The transmition in Epiphanies (Spoilers)

+7 Apr 1997
David-
+
+Believe it or not, that piece started as color bars.  It was twisted
+using Flint software from Discreet Logoc on an SGI Maximum Impact using
+fractal morphing plug ins.
+
+Feedback is a wonderful thing......
+
+It is certainly concievable that Fractint would work to create a similar
+effect.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: B5 Spinoff / In the Beginning. (8 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: B5 Spinoff / In the Beginning.

+8 Apr 1997
Excuse me, but the Londo scene in question is the one that takes place
+moments before Sheridan and Delenn are brought in, and then allowed to
+escape.  (War Without End.)  He can't exactly see to their execution since
+they outlive him in story continuity, now can he?
+
+
+ jms
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+
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+
+Re: Omega-class cruiser design (POSSIBLE SPOILERS) (9 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: Omega-class cruiser design (POSSIBLE SPOILERS)

+9 Apr 1997
+
+Mark and folks-
+> :
+> : POSSIBLE SPOILERS
+> :
+> :
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+> :
+> :
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+> :
+
+
+You have it substantially correct.  (Even though i have been known to
+get it confooosed from time to time- too many hours, not enough pillows)
+
+The Nova Class Dreadnaughts have been around for quite a long time, but
+are getting a "sprucing up" for further development. As we discovered in
+our own navy, there is a need for several classes of ship of varying
+sizes.
+
+ The Omega Class are the next development in that series.  The habitat
+section was added, as well as more armored sections.  There is a further
+development of that class under discussion.  You can also see some
+design elements of the class contained in the Cortez.
+
+The newer ships under development are all of smaller classes, like the
+Olympus Class Corvette, the Badger heavy fighter, and the Cotten Class
+Deep Penetration Tender.  We will see these participate heavily in the
+second of the TNT movies.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for ICON! (10 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for ICON!

+10 Apr 1997
Thanks...and your question was a good one, which is why I kinda moved away
+from it....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: Ted Turner, WB and what if God was one of us. (10 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Ted Turner, WB and what if God was one of us.

+10 Apr 1997
Yes, the PTEN agreement excluded doing our show for first-run on
+cable...but it was the only offer anybody made to us.  We took it, because
+after five years of trying to find someone who'd trust us to do the show,
+you don't walk away from the table once you have what you wanted.  Who
+knew if it'd take *another* five years to get that far?  In year 1, it
+wasn't the venues, it was the notion that a show like this could be *made
+at all* let alone successfully.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: attn jms : autograph queues (10 Apr 1997)
+
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Re: attn jms : autograph queues

+10 Apr 1997
I think it would take about the same amount of time...and I don't know if
+I could take it seriously, it's too much like a receiving line at
+Buckingham Palace, and I share nothing in common with Lady Di (well, other
+than the wardrobe, but I digress...).
+
+(Then again, Di shaares nothing in common with Buckingham Palace
+anymore...)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JOE: B5 Informational CD question please (12 Apr 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JOE: B5 Informational CD question please

+12 Apr 1997
Janet-
+
+The CD will be multiple platform, as Joe uses several Intels, John
+several Macs, and I use a PowerMac, 32 NT's and 24 Alphas.  We gotta be
+able to run the darn thing ourselves!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: B5 and "ethical" awards (ATTN JMS) (2 Apr 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: B5 and "ethical" awards (ATTN JMS)

+2 Apr 1997
B5 has won the Space Frontier Foundation Award for Best Vision of the
+Future, and an award from the American Cinema Foundation for presentation
+of values in a dramatic television series.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN GEORGE: Babylon 5 on DVD? (12 Apr 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN GEORGE: Babylon 5 on DVD?

+12 Apr 1997
Clay, Jay, Claudia, and other DVD interested folks:
+
+The discussions we have had concerning DVD with Warners have all been
+based on 2 episodes per disk, with supplimental material, and full use
+of DVD's capability. 
+
+4 episodes per disc hits the compression scheme pretty hard, and I don't
+like the way it looks, so we will stick with two per, IF this were to
+become a product.
+
+(Big IF by the way, for reasons we have already discussed in this forum)
+
+And, btw, ehat do you mean where are you, George?  I've been here
+working my behind off getting these episodes out!  :-)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: Episode 422/522 Finale.. Question (12 Apr 1997)
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Re: Episode 422/522 Finale.. Question

+12 Apr 1997
"What are the chances of major spoilers being leaked from "Sleeping in
+Light" over the next year?!?!?!?"
+
+I'm sure some of that's bound to happen...but the reality of it is that if
+you add up all the people who are online and might get this information,
+you'd actually end up with only about 4% of the viewing audience...so
+it'll still have its desired impact.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 airing order on TNT (12 Apr 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 airing order on TNT

+12 Apr 1997
We definitely plan to work with TNT to make sure the air order is correct.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: I-CON notes and Drall (13 Apr 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: I-CON notes and Drall

+13 Apr 1997
Yeah, Michael was down with a very serious 24-48 hour intestinal flu bug
+that pretty much put him away, but he pushed past it to come to the con.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Gratuitous use of the word "Hell" (14 Apr 1997)
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Gratuitous use of the word "Hell"

+14 Apr 1997
The hell you say....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN GEORGE, JMS: the monkey, the nut, and the jar (15 Apr 1997)
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Re: ATTN GEORGE, JMS: the monkey, the nut, and the jar

+15 Apr 1997
> Do you enjoy it enough to want to do it again?
+> Can B5 episodes be re-rendered well enough for theater sized screens?
+
+Yes and Yes.  The resolution of the renders we are doing now allow for
+the highest rez digital video storage currently available in NTSC. For
+theatrical release, all we need do is flip this little chromium switch
+here.......and out comes a ready to transfer film frame render.
+
+
+> Not only would it be nice to see B5 on a really big screen "TV",
+> if fans flock to theaters to see B5 episodes,  WB's mind-set might allow
+> it to issue video tapes.
+
+I'm not really sure if this is a plausible strategy.  Someone at
+Warner's would need to book the theatres, and that would be the same
+folks who think home video wouldn't fly.
+
+> Does B5 have press kits that it gives to reporters?
+> If so, would WB allow tapes of "And Now for a Word" and "The Illusion
+> of Truth" to go into the press kits?
+> B5 might get more requests for press kits than there are reporters.
+> JMS would report this sad situation to WB with the suggestion that he
+> start charging most folks (non-reporters) for press kits.
+
+Creative thinking, but......
+
+ 
+> To sell "The Coming of Shadows" as a promotional item, would JMS have
+> to talk to the same monkey (Warner Home Video?) that has its hand around
+> the nut in the jar?
+
+Yup.  The home video issue is truly Warner's to deal with.  We can hope
+that it will eventually be dealt with, but i sure wouldn't guess when or
+in what format.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: new 67 year old viewer (16 Apr 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: new 67 year old viewer

+16 Apr 1997
That's truly wonderful...thanks for that report, it made my day.  Best to
+your dad.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: How's you directing debut going (18 Apr 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: How's you directing debut going

+18 Apr 1997
Not directing yet, still in prep, balancing that with finishing writing
+the first two movies.  Just finished the first draft on the second one
+this morning (about 4:45 am), then planning to take the weekend to revise
+them both.  Then it's back to prep.  Expect me to be offline a lot during
+that period, because I'll be going in at 6:25 a.m. and wrapping every day
+at 7:00 p.m.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Watching 24 B5 eps in a row... (21 Apr 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Watching 24 B5 eps in a row...

+21 Apr 1997
(grinning ear to ear)
+
+Thank *you*.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JOE: Surviving the idiots (21 Apr 1997)
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Re: ATTN JOE: Surviving the idiots

+21 Apr 1997
+One simply learns.
+
+And when negotiation fails, you just roll in a grenade and come in firing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: StarFury vs. Thunderbolt (2 Apr 1997)
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Re: StarFury vs. Thunderbolt

+2 Apr 1997
Hardware afficianados:
+
+As in all warcraft, there are different purposes for different
+vehicles.  The Starfury is still considered a front line craft by
+Earthforce (and a lot of other people, evidently, as the Black Omega
+Squadron uses it as their weapon of choice).  There are upgraded
+versions of the 'fury still being built and used.  In fact, the retrofit
+package is one of the things that the B5 armorers would dearly love to
+get their hands on now that the station is embargoed.
+
+Since the Thunderbolt is designed to handle atmospheric flight as well
+as space flight, some compromises were made making it a different beast
+to fly in space.  It is equipped with the latest in offensive and
+defensive systems, and has more to keep under control than the 'fury,
+hence the two person approach.  Control freak pilots don't care for the
+'bolt, as it takes two to operate.  It does have heavier armor, as well
+as the heat shielding that comes with atmospheric incursion.
+
+There are other ships in the EA arsenal that are of slightly different
+characteristic, like the Badger assault fighter and the Olympus class
+Corvettes that give a wider range of capabilities of a pretty well
+rounded force.  
+
+I suspect that the Earthforce arsenal is made up of the pet projects of 
+dreaming generals, greedy contractors, and plain old visionaries much
+like ours is now.  This means that there is a wide range of hardware yet
+to be seen.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Happy Passover! (23 Apr 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Happy Passover!

+23 Apr 1997
I do not celebrate Passover (wrong group, and I'm an atheist in any
+event), but I will pass along your kind wishes to the rest.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS: Sleeping in the Light (23 Apr 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS: Sleeping in the Light

+23 Apr 1997
+"But seriously, what kind of responses do you expect to see in this
+newsgroup
+the week following the last episode?"
+
+In a way you're kind of asking the wrong person, as I'm inside the
+fishbowl and can't see the show the way anyone outside can see it.  The
+only gauge I have is the reaction the script got around the stage when
+people on the crew and cast read it.  (With a note attached explaining the
+possibility of airing it as 522 or 422, but that either way thsi would end
+up the story.)
+
+Pretty much everybody cried.  I came home to a message on my machine from
+Mira, who was almost unable to speak, and another from Claudia who said
+she was honored and proud to be a part of this, and the script had made
+her cry.  Bruce, Richard, big beefy guys on the crew...all said the same
+thing.  And there I have to concur; I lost is several times as I was
+writing it, due to the content; there's one scene in particular...you'll
+know it when you see it...that put me away for an hour when I finished
+writing it.
+
+But here's the thing...*every single person* who cried at the script,
+ended it feeling that it was not a sad script in the end, or a down
+ending...that it left them feeling proud, and tall, and *positive*...that
+life goes on...that it was a reaffirmation of life itself, on its most
+primal level.  They felt good about the ending.  And that was a great
+relief for me, because I was trying something *very* difficult from a
+writing perspective, and at first blush it looks as if I've pulled it off.
+ (Now I get to go in as director and *totally* screw it up.)
+
+Only one fan has read the script...someone whose opinion I trust.  Because
+I was curious about the reaction from that side of the screen.  And the
+reaction was *exactly* the same.
+
+So how do I think people will react?
+
+I think a lot of people will cry.
+
+But by the end of it, I think it will come around, and be all right...and
+mainly, that people will then look back at the whole story, through all
+these long years, and say, "It was a good story."  And close the cover,
+and put it on the shelf with the other books that will be reread again
+down the years, and turn off the lights, and go to bed feeling that the
+time was well spent.
+
+Which is the most any writer can ever ask for.  To tell a tale worth
+telling  To make people cry.  To make people laugh.  And even, once in a
+while, make them think about things, and see the world just a little
+differently than when they began.
+
+And then they can centerpunch me on the freeway, or throw a plane at me,
+and I won't even mind.  Because everything I set out to prove, I proved. 
+Everything I set out to say, I said.  
+
+I've carried this story like a hermit crab carries its shell for five long
+years, counting the pilot.  It's been an *awfully* long and difficult
+road, and no one will ever really know just how hard this show was to
+make.  Nor should they, because it isn't the difficulty that makes the
+story, the *story* makes the story.  But one way or another, aired as 522
+or 422, when it airs the burden is off at last.  Then it no longer belongs
+to me.  It belongs to you.  As should be.
+
+And, in the end, I think you'll be pleased.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS OR GEORGE: ships changing size? (25 Apr 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS OR GEORGE: ships changing size?

+25 Apr 1997
Boris-
+
+Actually, we never change the size of the ships. (Okay, before you start
+furiously typing...)   The lenses that we use change often, and
+depending on the style of lens selected, the ships may appear closer or
+farther away from another object.  This makes things confusing for
+sure.  Add to that that the relative distance between two objects may be
+compressed to allow for better screen composition, and we may start to
+explain what you are realizing.  The hardware of B5 is a bit "undefined"
+from a tech point of view.  This will be remedied in upcoming
+publications.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Heartfelt thanks! (25 Apr 1997)
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Re: Heartfelt thanks!

+25 Apr 1997
Thanks.  And at least one of your wishes is assured...TNT will air reruns.
+ The rest is still being discussed.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: Action figures? (15 May 1997)
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Re: Action figures?

+15 May 1997
As much as i would like to have them on my desk....
+
+There has not been a license granted for traditional action figures at
+this time.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Contract Questions (22 May 1997)
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Re: Contract Questions

+22 May 1997
	--Considering the way you have been jerked around by WB, what are 
+your contract obligations to them, beyond the end of B-5? 
+	--If you are then a "free agent" with whom would you partner for 
+future TV projects?
+	--Are there any other brain-children waiting in the wings?
+	--Are any scifi TV projects contemplated?
+
+My contract is specifically for B5, if it were to go away (and there's
+some interesting, positive movement going on behind the scenes right now)
+I would have no further obligations or ties to WB.  I've turned down a
+number of network gigs along the way, preferring to stay with B5 (even
+though some of them would've paid twice or more what I get on B5) so
+finding another berth wouldn't be hard.
+
+And yeah, I have some other projects simmering in the background that
+might go with or without a fifth season.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS, *ALERT*  *ALERT* (23 May 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS, *ALERT*  *ALERT*

+23 May 1997
The host misspoke...
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Anything special done on last day of Shoot? (23 May 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Anything special done on last day of Shoot?

+23 May 1997
Around lunchtime, I began to notice people filtering out -- crew and
+others -- wearing white t-shirts with blue lettering that read, on front,
+"Shhh...the Great Maker is Directing."  And on the back, "...and on the
+seventh day we wrapped." JMS 4:22 May 5, 1997.  It was a nice thing, and
+we're considering making the shirts available via the fan club.
+
+Since it's customary for directors to bring in food on the last day of an
+episode shoot, I brought in food at the end of the day, and folks stayed
+around until late in the evening, just hanging around, chatting, eating,
+and the like.  (I headed home around 7 mainly because I was just bushed.) 
+We also took a big family picture that will go into the end credits of the
+episode, whenever it will finally air.  A lot of our past directors, crew,
+actors and others showed up for the thing, and stayed for the party,
+knowing that either way, this was going to be the last episode of the
+series, whether it's 4 or 5 years.  
+
+Then everybody went away for a few days, and now we're back shooting movie
+#1, "Thirdspace."
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Spoilers: Episode 422 Confusion (23 May 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Spoilers: Episode 422 Confusion

+23 May 1997
"In other words, because 422 takes place in the far future (2281), it is a
+
+stand-alone episode.  It can be dropped into ANY position in the B5
+schedule 
+....as long as its last.  Correct?"
+
+Bingo.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  522 always 2281? (23 May 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  522 always 2281?

+23 May 1997
Yes, the final chapter in the series was always going to fall in 2281, 20
+years after the events in 2261.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 PRESS ALERT! I'm dealing with reporter; need advice (3 Apr 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 PRESS ALERT! I'm dealing with reporter; need advice

+3 Apr 1997
The only things I'd mention, that are worth passing on to the
+reporter...the tendency of B5 to form communities...the use of fairly
+rigorous science in the basis of the show, and how we've become NASA's
+newest darling...the overall story arc...the ethical issues the show deals
+with...all the obvious stuff.
+
+If the reporter tries to create a B5 vs. ST dynamic, that's something to
+be cautionary about.  But that's all.
+
+Beyond that, you'll do fine.  Sheridan certainly hasn't had any problems
+with reporters, after all....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN GEORGE:  Severed Dreams nit-pick (4 Apr 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN GEORGE:  Severed Dreams nit-pick

+4 Apr 1997
John-
+
+Yup.  The show was seriously under the gun for delivery when those shots
+were done.  If I remember correctly, a couple of these shots came in on
+the same day we were to deliver, and there was no time to re-render them
+and still make the satellite.
+
+If I were to tell you it would never happen again, I would be a big
+liar, or a deluded optomist, but we try.  Animators are human, after
+all!  :-)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Omega-class cruiser design (5 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: Omega-class cruiser design

+5 Apr 1997
Kevin-
+
+Methinks you refer to the Aggie Class, not the Omega, as the O's have no
+rotator. 
+
+Anyway-  The Destoyers are all business.  There is no need for extra
+storage space onboard, and certainly no need for passengers!  This
+allows for a portion of the cylinder describing the same arc as the full
+cylider ships.  At one time, we strongly considered locking down the
+rotator section during battle to increase manouverability, and  not
+using a cylinder or sphere would have made this concept more practical
+in presenting a narrower target to the opposition.  As it is, we
+postulate that the control systems of the class can take into account
+the additional torque generated by the spinning section. 
+
+Besides- we would have to spend a heck of a lot more on filming Zero G
+sequences if we locked down, or strap all the actors to their seats. 
+Tough to do that acting thing in a 5 point belt for any length of time!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS (5 Apr 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS

+5 Apr 1997
See, Joe uses this wacky keyboard, and sometimes he just misses! :-)
+
+Yes, the new ones start with 410.  They will finish with 418 if and only
+if I can keep my crew awake for that long......:-o
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Afraid to criticise? Hardly! (was: criticism of B5 in RASTb5) (5 Apr 1997)
+
+
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Re: Afraid to criticise? Hardly! (was: criticism of B5 in RASTb5)

+5 Apr 1997
>From the perspective of the staff, I can say that rastb5m gets read with
+regularity, while rastb5 gets read from time to time.
+
+The issue is not criticism, which usally has some basis when offered in
+either group (okay, I'm being polite- sometimes it's just flamebait). 
+
+The issue is civility.  When the work is treated with respect, whether
+it is loved or hated, the poster gets taken seriously.  When the
+criticism is thoughtful, we can agree or disagree, but at least we can
+talk.  Whether it is through the moderator, or through moderation,
+rastb5m is a more homey place to hang out.  
+
+The fact is, there is not one episode that we wouldn't like to have at
+least one more tweak on before it really escapes into the cosmos. As a
+very good friend of mine says often, Art is never complete it is only
+abandoned.  From that perspective, criticism is mutual.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+PS- about the last scene bears...... really have to ask Joe.
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN GEORGE: Docking question (6 Apr 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN GEORGE: Docking question

+6 Apr 1997
Docking Procedures are under the control of C and C as soon as they lock
+on to their docking beacon.  Whenever a pilot tries an overide, you get
+the potential for an accident, like we saw with G'kar's G'Quan Eth
+plantin "By Any Means Necessary".
+
+The station's synchronizers lock into the ship's local computers and
+that's all that's needed.
+
+George J
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: No Surrender, No Retreat ( *Spoilers* ) (30 May 1997)
+
+
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Re: No Surrender, No Retreat ( *Spoilers* )

+30 May 1997
"were these White Stars tired or something? I would've expected that a
+couple of them could just go slice-slice, sever the rotating sections on
+the EA ships and have 'em for breakfast."
+
+Sure, if all you're interested in is slaughtering the opposition...they
+were designed for "destroy"...when you have to pull your punches to avoid
+just going in and killing EVERYthing in sight...which will only work
+*against* you in the long run, it becomes more difficult.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: "Proceed with messing it up" (was Re: ATTN JMS: (11 Jun 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: "Proceed with messing it up" (was Re: ATTN JMS:

+11 Jun 1997
There have only been a couple of very rare cases when a director has said
+"Why did you do this?"  Usually we explain why -- we were running long, an
+EFX shot didn't work out, whatever -- and it's never a problem.  There
+have been, I think, about 3 cases when a director said it was really
+important to him to do it a certain way in one shot, and if a director
+feels that strongly about it, we tend to think we should go along with it.
+ 
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+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: "In the Beginning" for newbies and vets (12 Jun 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: "In the Beginning" for newbies and vets

+12 Jun 1997
ItB contains surprises and turnarounds for many of the series veteran
+fans, and it does a great job of laying the foundation for the first two
+seasons for the newbies.
+
+It's a most elegant dance...and I'm actually kinda proud of it.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writer's Block (14 Jun 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writer's Block

+14 Jun 1997
"That, I think, explains how you got so damn good (with "the tools", as
+you've
+put it) so damn fast. Practice, practice, practice, they say---and you
+can't
+stop."
+
+Yep.  Especially the Can't Stop part.  I've written an average of 10 pages
+per day, every day of the year but 3, since I was 17.  
+
+I also think that working in journalism has helped a great deal; you can't
+walk into the office, a story needed by noon, and say, "Y'know, I just
+don't feel the muse today."  The next thing you'll feel is your butt on
+the concrete sidewalk.  You learn a certain discipline there that has
+helped me greatly over the years.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Directing (17 Jun 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Directing

+17 Jun 1997
"Having read through this months edition of Starburst (I think), Claudia
+Christian mentions that you enjoyed directing.  My question is a very
+simple one:  would you do it again, and what part of the directing the
+episode did you find the most enjoyable/rewarding?"
+
+I really don't know if I'd say that I *enjoyed* it...my main concern every
+day was somehow getting through it without embarrassing myself, or letting
+down the crew or the cast or, ultimately, the viewers.  I wanted the
+direction to the the equal to the performances I knew were waiting to be
+unlocked.  I haven't commented on it much for the same reason you rarely
+see me saying that a given script of mine is good...I'm too close to it
+and too critical of everydamnthing I do.  But so far everyone of the crew
+who's seen it, and a few others, were very much moved and satisfied by it.
+
+I don't know if I'll do it again or not...my gut says probably not.  If I
+*were* to even try it again, it couldn't be anything other than a final
+episode of a season, given how much is involved in prep if you're going to
+have a chance to get it right.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  I still love this show! (17 Jun 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  I still love this show!

+17 Jun 1997
Thanks...and they have definitely become more chapters lately, one running
+into the next, into the next...it's a lot of fun.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS/George - TNT Movies (videotapes?) in the UK (17 Jun 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS/George - TNT Movies (videotapes?) in the UK

+17 Jun 1997
Christopher-
+
+> But my question is this: for those of us who--on principle--don't have
+> either cable or satellite (just terrestrial TV), are TNT likely to
+> release
+> the B5 movies on videotape at some point here in the UK, given the market
+> success that the WB tapes of the B5 series have been over here?
+> 
+
+Nothing has been decided yet, but success breeds success, doesn't it?
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS (19 Jun 1997)
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Re: Attn: JMS

+19 Jun 1997
I appreciate the interest...as for my birthday, I don't generally spread
+that info around, mainly because I don't like to make a big deal out of
+it, and prefer to just let it go.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: "In The Beginning" is *linear*??? (2 Jun 1997)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: "In The Beginning" is *linear*???

+2 Jun 1997
Never said it was linear, only that it predates B5.
+
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+Re: Att: JMS, George, MOJO, etc., about CGI, EFX, etc. (3 Jun 1997)
+
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Re: Att: JMS, George, MOJO, etc., about CGI, EFX, etc.

+3 Jun 1997
Gary-
+
+As to what the process sounds like, I'll leave that to your imagination,
+but the rest of the process goes something like this:
+
+The script will dictate a direction to look.  Joe has some amazing
+pictures in his head, and sometimes they actually pop out and leak onto
+paper!  Other times it takes more help.  There is a discussion around a
+table not unlike the one that you describe, where the general
+characteristics of the race and their mode of conveyance are discussed
+in detail.  The ideas that result are communicated to a designer
+(creature specialist, futurist, technical illustrator, theortical
+scientist, or animator- depends on the type of design required) for a
+concept sketch.  Once that is adjusted and approved, a modeler builds
+the object in the appropriate animation software, and the surfacing
+begins!
+
+At completion of that point, a move test is done, approved or rejected
+by myself, John Copeland, and JMS, and the object is added to the
+animator's arsenal.
+
+Yes, it is collaborative, and fairly time consuming, but it does result
+in some cool ships that no single vision could produce!
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: "Conflict of Interest" and PPGs (Mild Spoiler) (3 Jun 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: "Conflict of Interest" and PPGs (Mild Spoiler)

+3 Jun 1997
Seriously Mild Spoiler for CoI:
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+PPG fire through an HVAC tube wall
+
+This is substantially correct.  The PPG blast is extremely hot, and will
+melt through the plastic coating and the metal lining inside the tube.
+The entire energy of a PPG will not come through the tube (unless by
+some coincidence the exact same area is hit twice or three times), and I
+believe that this was propoerly portrayed in the sequence.  Even if it
+isn't the entire energy blast, it will hurt like hell and de-mobilize an
+individual meat packet (person) for the bad guys to come get later.
+
+It did take a *very* long time to burn through the bulkhead door to
+allow them access to the hallway, and said door did mildly glow in the
+affected areas prior to melting through.  The station hull is even more
+heat resistant.
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
+
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+
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+
+The Blooper Show Response (7 Jun 1997)
+
+
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The Blooper Show Response

+7 Jun 1997
+I recieved this letter from Dick Clark Productions the other day, and I
+share it here with their permission:
+
+ 
+
+Dear Mr. Johnsen:
+
+We deeply regret any confusion or unintentional problems caused by the
+deletion of the Babylon 5 bloopers from our last special.  Although we
+had every intention of using the bloopers, last minute changes by the
+network, and overall time problems with the show, forced us to eliminate
+a number of good bloopers at the last minute.
+
+Unfortunately, the TV Guide ad, which our production company was never
+shown, was already put to bed at the time of the final edit.  Had we
+been aware that the Babylon 5 bloopers were listed in TV Guide, we would
+have made every effort to retain them in our show.  We hope to make this
+up to you by including Babylon 5 bloopers in our next special.
+
+Again, may we apologize for a situation that was not in our control.  We
+look forward to a long future with mutual benefits to both of our shows.
+
+Sincerely,
+
+Al Schwartz, Executive Producer/Director
+Barry Adelman, Producer/Writer
+
+
+
+
+
+After all of the posting, we thought you should know.  
+
+George J
+CoProd, B5
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN:  JMS (8 Jun 1997)
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Re: ATTN:  JMS

+8 Jun 1997
The schedule for 522 is separate and apart from the schedule for the
+movies, so there shouldn't be a problem.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: lunchtime on the set (8 Jun 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: lunchtime on the set

+8 Jun 1997
Lunchtime is one of the best times on set.  We have a large area set up
+outside the back of the stage, a big picnic tent sort of arrangement, in
+the open air, and the food is brought in, and it's kind of like a big
+family picnic 5 times a week.  A lot of goofing around, laughter, hanging
+out and BSing, big political arguments usually involving me (moderate to
+left), Jerry (slightly to the right of Atilla the Hun) and Jason (acting
+representative from Mars).  In the case of massive applied prosthetics,
+they stay on because it would take too long to reaply them, and in general
+they're not hard to work around; the background aliens just pop off their
+heads.
+
+Curiously...and I consider this something of a psychological or
+sociological study, albeit very informal...at lunchtime *almost
+invariabley* the Narn extras sit with the other Narn extras, Centauri sit
+with Centauri, Earth troops with Earth troops...it's interesting to see
+how fast this sort of thing happens.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writer's Block (11 Jun 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writer's Block

+11 Jun 1997
This is probably going to honk off a lot of other writers, but...I've
+never had writer's block.  Never.  Not ever.  Not in the 26 years since I
+started writing seriously at age 17.  My problem has only been in getting
+it all *down*, there's so much to work from.  If I dried up right now on
+stories, what I have in notes alone could probably carry me through the
+next 10 years.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  If S5 airs in January, what will happen to S5 on  (11 Jun 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  If S5 airs in January, what will happen to S5 on 

+11 Jun 1997
The S5 new eps and S1-4 reruns would be simultaneous...which would mean
+that one could piggy back on the PR of the other.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Season 5 **OFFICIAL** (28 Jun 1997)
+
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Re: Season 5 **OFFICIAL**

+28 Jun 1997
"OK, who's studios will it be filmed at? That's ashitload of equipment to
+move. Will WB rent thier stuff out (not likley) Does TNT have studios in
+the LA area equiped for this??"
+
+We never shot on the WB lot.  We have our own off-lot facilities, which
+will be the same for future episodes.  
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: "Deadloss"? (28 Jun 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: "Deadloss"?

+28 Jun 1997
"ust out of sheer curiosity, what did you think of Christopher Priest's
+"Deadloss"?  Anything printable?"
+
+Pathetic.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Gross or net? (30 Jun 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Gross or net?

+30 Jun 1997
"I hope you got more than 6% of the CDs I've bought."
+
+Don't get a penny of those...those are soundtracks and not included in the
+merchandise area (don't ask why, I barely understand it myself).  Ditto
+with videotapes.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN. JMS - Whiskers in real time?????  (Minor spoilers) (2 Jul 1997)
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Re: ATTN. JMS - Whiskers in real time?????  (Minor spoilers)

+2 Jul 1997
Bruce had some time between episodes, and began to grow the beard for
+real, and we darkened it down for later acts.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: B5 INFO CD-ROM (11 Jul 1997)
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Re: B5 INFO CD-ROM

+11 Jul 1997
Shou Ling wrote:
+> 
+> Heya!
+> 
+> Some time back there was discussion of a Babylon 5 Information CD-ROM,
+> which JMS said would be "kinda subversive" in some respects.
+> 
+> Is the bloody thing out yet?  If not, WHEN?!?!?!?!?!
+> 
+> I'm driving the local Electronics shop nuts!
+
+Geez!  Calm down a bit!  The check disk is being circulated through
+Babylonian Productions even as we speak for fact checking and
+operational stability.  We are working on a deal for distribution, and
+will let everyone know when the deal is done.  Shouldn't be long now,
+but in this group quoting a date or even a time frame is VERY
+dangerous.  :-)
+
+George Johnsen
+CoProducer, B5
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Likelihood of CC guest appearance in S5? (25 Jul 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Likelihood of CC guest appearance in S5?

+25 Jul 1997
I don't think it's a matter of reconciliation, though a number of folks in
+the cast are more than a bit upset with her decision.  But that aside....
+
+In fifth year terms, given the situation, and contractual problems in
+bringing a departed regular in to guest star...my guess is that the odds
+are slim and none.  It'll almost certainly have to wait for either the
+third TNT movie or feature projects.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: My last word on CC (hopefully) (25 Jul 1997)
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Re: My last word on CC (hopefully)

+25 Jul 1997
I've already stated that we will keep the door open for the third TV movie
+and the feature, should that happen.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia'n'residuals (25 Jul 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia'n'residuals

+25 Jul 1997
 Claudia's statement that the actors were asked to give up their
+residuals now makes sense ... to me, anyway, and I'm writing to ask 
+where or if I'm wrong in this deduction ... in that the actors *were*
+asked to give up residuals that might be able to cover their rent for
+a month in exchange for residuals that might be able to cover lunch.
+Her statement about "giving up residuals" could be taken as a bit 
+of exaggeration, as, by the previous scale, the basic cable residuals
+*are* pretty much nonexistent on a making-a-living basis."
+
+Prior to getting the S5 renewal, we called in as many actors as were
+present and explained that shows made for basic cable are, according to
+the Screen Actors Guild Basic Agreement, different in many ways from
+syndication, as syndication is different than network, in terms of
+residuals.
+
+In network, the fees generally start higher, and the residuals start at a
+higher percentage of that fee as well .  In syndication, the fees are
+smaller, and the residuals start at a lower percentage.  (For writers, for
+instance, I think the going fee for a network script is about $26-30,000
+and the first rerun gets a high percentage of that back to the writer; in
+syndication, the script fee is about $15-16,000 and the first rerun starts
+at an even lower percentage of that fee.)
+
+For basic cable, things get more complicated.  The fees paid stay the same
+as syndication, so across the board actors' fees, directors and writers
+don't get touched.  But the various Guilds gave basic cable a break in
+terms of encouraging original production, and in rerunning
+network/syndication fare.  For instance, there's one formula for something
+made for network/syndication and later run on cable, and another for
+something made *specifically* for basic cable.
+
+And it's the latter that we had to explain to the actors, because under
+SAG regs, again as part of the various guilds' decision to give cable a
+break to get it up and viable (so that it can later be brought up to par
+with syndication), the formula is that the amount paid to an actor above
+double-scale is credited against residuals.  Once that is burned through,
+residuals accrue to the actor again.
+
+That was the ONLY item mentioned in terms of residuals.  Bear in mind in
+ALL this that we *cannot* make ANY deal that contravenes what is
+established by the various guilds, so asking any actor to give up
+residuals forever, as some have suggested, cannot be done by us or ANYone
+because we are Guild signatories.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writing and Music (16 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writing and Music

+16 Sep 1997
>When I sit down to write, I tend to pick out a CD and set
+>it to loop only noticing hours later that I'd heard it 7 or 8 times in a
+>row (which drive my wife nuts).  Are you also a victim of the writing
+>coma?
+
+What an interesting question....
+
+There's this thing called "state related learning," which means that if
+you learn something while, say, in a given room, or under certain specific
+conditions, you will be able to remember it better in that same condition
+or state.  
+
+When I'm writing, often I'll find or stumble upon a CD that puts me in the
+right state of mind to work on it...and when I go in the next day, or a few
+hours later, that one will be the one I fire up, to get me going.  So it
+may play a lot over the course of a number of days.  It ain't *all* I
+listen to, though I do sometimes listen to it sequentially, I can't listen
+to just one thing endlessly, but it does get played a lot.
+
+That's the first time I've been asked that question.  It's rare when I
+find a new one.  Thanks.
+
+
+ jms
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+The Exercise of Vital Powers ( *Spoilers* ) (23 Sep 1997)
+
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The Exercise of Vital Powers ( *Spoilers* )

+23 Sep 1997
Spoilers for The Exercise of Vital Powers
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+>
+>Okay--in the last scene, when Garibaldi comes into Edgars's living
+>room to tell him that he's "in", Edgars is sitting on the sofa
+>reading a book. I suddenly realized I MUST know what book he was
+>reading.
+
+The Bible.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: More "Captain Power" Info (24 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: More "Captain Power" Info

+24 Sep 1997
The entire story is bogus.  This is just some company or person who has
+the rights to the old episodes, and may be trying to whip up enthusiasm.
+
+Whatever the case...we spoke to the folks at Landmark today, which company
+owns CP lock, stock and barrel, and they categorically denied that ANYthing
+is in the works.  They've been trying to get something off the ground for a
+long time, but no, there are NO new episodes in the pipeline.  It's a bogus
+story.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS-B5 at the University (24 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS-B5 at the University

+24 Sep 1997
Unfortunately, neither we nor WB are in a position to make tapes
+available; they will have to come through other sources.  I can only convey
+my best wishes and good luck with the class.
+
+You may also want to check in with the folks at the University of York who
+are doing an academic conference on B5 in December in case there are any
+papers that could be purchased and used.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: JMS: CGI setup? (24 Sep 1997)
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Re: JMS: CGI setup?

+24 Sep 1997
No, the setup hasn't changed.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (was Re: JMS on CompuServe (Sep 25, 1997)) (26 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS (was Re: JMS on CompuServe (Sep 25, 1997))

+26 Sep 1997
Baltimore will be Worldcon in July.
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+jms a bit out of action (27 Sep 1997)
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jms a bit out of action

+27 Sep 1997
Last Sunday, while at a convention in Tulsa, I threw my back out very
+badly about 90 minutes before I was to do my second presentation (slipped
+in the shower and badly wrenched my back).  Though I could barely move (a
+very nice lady tied my shoes for me because I couldn't reach that far
+without blacking out from the pain), I did the presentation anyway because
+I knew that a number of fans had driven as long as 5 hours to be there and
+I was determined not to let them down...and apparently that was a mistake,
+because though it seemed to be getting better Monday and Tuesday, by
+Wednesday it's almost incapacitated me.  Have been offline for 24 hours,
+seeing doctors and getting drugs (have all the advice and pharmaceuticals I
+need just now, thanks), and the few hours I have where I can be behind a
+keyboard have to be put in on scripts.  So I'll be a bit diminished here
+until I'm on my feet again.  Could be just a few days, maybe longer.  
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: New Ep titles? (27 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: New Ep titles?

+27 Sep 1997
In no particular order....
+
+The Paragon of Animals...In the Kingdom of the Blind...The Day of the Dead
+(Neil Gaiman's script)...A View from the Gallery...The Very Long Night of
+Londo Mollari...No Compromises...Strange Relations....
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 Shot Glass? (29 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 Shot Glass?

+29 Sep 1997
> No, I'm not confused; the confused person here is the one who claims to
+>> find alcohol abuse an ugly thing, and appears to have childhood memories
+>> of the horrific effect of intrafamilial alcoholism, whether in his own
+>> or someone else's...... and yet takes a willing part in the glorification
+>> of a product....
+
+Creation secured a license for glassware; I approved the license artwork,
+not thinking of anything other than regular glassware (mugs, whatever).  I
+was as astonished to see it used on shot glasses as anyone else...and
+subsequently made a recent call to Warner Bros. asking that the license for
+this particular item not be renewed after they are finished selling the one
+already made.  It's my fault, I should've anticipated a shot glass, it's
+just not something that I think of, but there's no reason to penalize
+Creation by making them warehouse stuff they can't sell.   So they'll sell
+what's there on hand, and that will be the end of it.
+
+It's already a dead issue.
+
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+
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+Re: So long... [SiL spoilers] (29 Sep 1997)
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Re: So long... [SiL spoilers]

+29 Sep 1997
>Up to ItF was good, but I can't stand the aftermath, or what I see as JMS'
+>condescending and holier than thou attitude towards fans.
+>
+>
+
+I was going to respond politely until I got to this part.  Let me put this
+to you plainly:
+
+You are an idiot if you take these spoilers at face value, and an equal
+idiot if you think from this you know how it's all going to go down.
+
+You don't know what SiL is about, since that hasn't been released in any
+form, btw, not even synopses...and for some time now I've been deliberately
+leaving some info out of the synopses *specifically* because people like
+you, who look ahead and write off the shows forthcoming, piss me off no end.  
+
+All I can say in conclusion is that your analysis of what's coming in the
+storylines is SO off-course, SO ill-informed and wrongheaded that it's
+hardly worth addressing.  You've not only jumped to conclusions, you've
+jumped right off the cliff.  Maybe, rather than being prejudicial, you
+might actually want to *see* what's there before making a judgment about
+it.  This is no different than the fundamentalists who pass judgment about
+a film based on what they read about it, rather than first-hand experience.
+
+Hope that wasn't too condescending....or the little gift I dropped into
+"Deconstruction" for folks who read spoilers and then dismiss the show as a
+result.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: ReBoot 3rd season (29 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: ReBoot 3rd season

+29 Sep 1997
I don't know if it's still the case, but Larry DiTillio, story editor for
+2 years on B5, was/is the story editor on ReBoot, and he's always been big
+on arcs, which is why he came to B5 in the first place.
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS at Defcon 4 in Tulsa (18 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS at Defcon 4 in Tulsa

+18 Sep 1997
The problem is in getting to Tulsa from LA...there is no good way to get
+there, they ALL require 2 planes, the latter invariably being a putt-putt
+job, and the shortest layover is about 90 minutes, and the show requires
+some time spent here that day...so I won't be in on Friday until late, but
+the main presentations are Saturday at 1:00 in any event, and on Sunday, so
+that's fine.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Question regarding a 6th season (29 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Question regarding a 6th season

+29 Sep 1997
I didn't say it would be difficult to turn down doing a 6th season, but
+that the situation would *be* difficult.  Obviously, their first choice
+would be to have me do it...but just as obviously I don't want to do a
+sixth season, 'cause the story ends in 5, and even TNT has been actively
+promoting S5 as the last season of B5.  Now, in theory, WB could do B5
+without me, since they own the copyright, and that would be the last bullet
+in their gun if I got real difficult about it.
+
+The only other option would be to do a "Tales from Babylon 5" sixth
+season, which would be an anthology series, to all intents and purposes,
+using our characters almost like a repertory group.
+
+But we'll see...it's still a long way off, and as Ted Kennedy once said,
+we'll drive off that bridge when we come to it.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN : JMS (or TWIMC) (30 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN : JMS (or TWIMC)

+30 Sep 1997
> Now there don't seem to be any more! I've asked here
+>previously, as well as sending messages to babylon5.com, but still
+>haven't heard a thing.
+
+Now that the show has moved on to TNT, rather than going througn WB itself, WB
+ has kinda moved on in many respects.  TNT will be leading the vanguard from
+ now on.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS. Not at all important question (18 Sep 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS. Not at all important question

+18 Sep 1997
>  I was wondering what television shows have influenced you with reguards
+>to your writing?   What shows did you watch before (or even after) you
+>started your writing career that you consider to have a large impact on
+>the way you view television?
+
+I'd say that the original Twilight Zone was a big  influence, as was the
+Outer Limits, the Prisoner, Blake's 7, and the original Trek.  The writers
+most influential were Serling, Chayefsky, Reginald Rose, Matheson,
+Bradbury, Ellison.
+>
+>  And the question that I am always dying to ask creators of my favorite
+shows. 
+
+>Did you ever catch the British espionoge show, The Sandbaggers? If
+>so what was your opinion of it?  How about the muhc more recent EZ Streets
+>and PIcket Fences? 
+>
+Only saw Picket Fences of those three, which I enjoyed, though it got
+kinda wonky in its last season or two.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 get an Emmy? Ever? (18 Sep 1997)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Can B5 get an Emmy? Ever?

+18 Sep 1997
>Seems to be some old story going around about how B5 isn't eligble for an
+>Emmy for some reason. I remember WB had something to do with it, said they
+>didn't want it in there for consideration - will that change at all with
+>the recent TNT deals, or is B5 just never going to be eligible
+
+No, we're eligible, and have been nominated and have won in other
+categories in the past, though all below the line stuff (i.e., not in the
+writing/directing/acting categories).  
+
+We had some problem when we (like 90% of other shows) sent tapes of our
+episodes to Academy members, many of whom had not been aware of the show. 
+Some people in WB PR got upset because we kind of upstaged them, and
+insisted we not do so again.  TNT, on the other hand, is going to be very
+helpful to us in this in future.
+
+However, since we are syndicated, and SF, the academy (which notoriously
+ignores both categories) we will almost certainly continue to be ignored.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+18 Sep 1997
>The Drazi god seems to bear an awfully strong
+>resemblance to the Chief of the Vogon Constuctor Fleet in "The
+>Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy"
+
+It was built up around a buddhist statue, as I recall.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS/GEORGE: A question about the TNT deal (23 Sep 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS/GEORGE: A question about the TNT deal

+23 Sep 1997
What we've been told by TNT is that they "intend to run B5 until they wear
+out the sprocket holes," meaning that they're going to keep doing it for a
+long, long time....
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: attn JMS: Warner Bros Negotiations (23 Sep 1997)
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Re: attn JMS: Warner Bros Negotiations

+23 Sep 1997
>I'm curious as to whether or not you have any part in the negotiations for
+>stations/networks that carry B5; like Space:TIS in Canada (the new SF
+>network).  
+>
+>--
+
+No, I've never been involved with that part of it in any way.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: MODERATE ME: Open letter from Spider Robinson (23 Sep 1997)
+
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Re: MODERATE ME: Open letter from Spider Robinson

+23 Sep 1997
I think Spider's got a perfectly valid point.  
+
+I can't see much in there to disagree with.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Casting of Rebo & Zooty (23 Sep 1997)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Casting of Rebo & Zooty

+23 Sep 1997
>
+>Joe,
+>
+>I heard a rumor that Rebo and Zooty may make an appearance in season 5.  
+>Is this true?  If so, I'd like to make a casting suggestion.  
+>
+>With a name like Zooty, I picture a short, somewhat squeaky-voiced type 
+>of guy.  I believe the perfect choice for this role is none other than 
+>Harlan Ellison.  Just imagine him lifting his leg and saying "Zooty - 
+>Zoot Zoot".   I bet he'd work real cheap too.  
+>
+>Rebo would probably be the straight man in the act.  You'd need a big, 
+>tall guy with a wry wit.  Someone with a natural chemistry with Harlan's 
+>character.  Who could be better qualified than yourself?  Why not, 
+>you've done just about everything else on the show .  It'd be great to 
+>see you in a cameo.
+>
+>What do you think?   :)
+
+I suggest Thorazine, and lots of it.
+
+jms
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Don't hate us spoiler junkies! (2 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Don't hate us spoiler junkies!

+2 Oct 1997
I understand what you're saying on one level...but you have to understand that
+ for every person who reads the spoilers just to savor what's coming, I get 1-2
+ who use it to jump funky on me and complain about what's coming before seeing
+ it.
+
+So you might understand why I get a bit cranky about this issue.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Stations are dropping B5 left and right! (3 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Stations are dropping B5 left and right!

+3 Oct 1997
> Is it at all conceivable that a certain B5-friendly
+>cable network could help us out here? 
+
+We're talking to them about some long-term solutions, but to the immediate
+ problem...no, there's nothing that TNT can do.
+
+What you're seeing is the reason we couldn't do B5 in regular
+ syndication...commitments were made to WBN, to UPN and Fox and other weblets
+ that are chewing up ALL the available slots on syndicated stations...there's
+ no room at the inn.  Also, we're now a lame duck show for the stations, some
+ of which are kind of annoyed that we're now going to cable (their direct
+ competition), and don't want to back-handedly promote somthing that's going to
+ their competitor.  (I think some of them would have preferred we go quietly
+ into that good night than become a competition.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Endgame ( *Spoilers* ) (3 Oct 1997)
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Re: Endgame ( *Spoilers* )

+3 Oct 1997
I can suggest for now that you hold off these questions until after the episode
+ airs, so I can discuss them more openly.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: thestation.com down again? (3 Oct 1997)
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Re: thestation.com down again?

+3 Oct 1997
+Dunno...it works fine when I log on.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+from jms: cool merchandise (5 Oct 1997)
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from jms: cool merchandise

+5 Oct 1997
I'm putting this in a few different places, so forgive any redundency....
+
+We're starting to pull together the licensed B5 merchandise being put out by
+ the fan club, and I'm very pleased by it...especially the pins, as noted
+ below.  For a long time now, pirate dealers have been putting out fake B5
+ Earth Alliance pins, and they've been crummily made, either flimsy or
+ breakable or thick and clumsy, and charging fair-sized bucks for rotten,
+ inferior products.  No more.  Now you can get the real things, identical to
+ the acual props in every single respect, and overseen directly by Babylonian
+ Productions to ensure that they're accurate.  (Along with everything else
+ here.)  But that's been a real sore point for me for a long time, and I'm glad
+ to have it taken care of once and for all.
+
+The following products are now available via the Fan Club website, located at
+ http://www.thestation.com
+
+1)  product # FCM - Fan Club Membership
+
+This gets you the quarterly Universe Today, access to the Gold Channel personal
+ logs on thestation.com, and discounts on all FC products.
+
+2) product # FCTC-01 - Fleer/Skybox Special Edition box with JMS autograph
+
+3) product # FCTC-02 - Fleer/Skybox Special Edition box with Bruce Boxleitner
+ autograph.
+
+4) product # FCJ-01 - Earth Alliance Pin
+
+Baked Enamel blue and gold-tone pin, just like the real ones. Pricing: member
+ $12, non $14
+
+5) product # FCS-04 - "The Great Maker" T-shirt
+
+When I directed "Sleeping in Light" (422), during lunch a substantial number of
+ cast and crew disappeared from the set, and returned wearing these shirts as a
+ surprise.  A lot of people asked for these to be made available, and now they
+ are.  Front reads, "Shh...The Great Maker is Directing". The back reads, "And
+ on the seventh day we wrapped". Pricing: member $14.95 L & XL $16.95 for XXL,
+ non $16.95 L & XL $18.95 for XXL.
+
+6) product # FCP-02 - Recognition Chart Poster
+
+This one I like a lot because it's just stinking cool...it's a perfect replica
+ of the recognition poster seen in pilot ready room on B5, struck from the same
+ master.  It has Minbari, Shadow, and Earth ship silhouettes, as you'd see on a
+ WWII battleship.  32"x24"  Pricing: member $8, non $10.
+
+7) product # FCH-01 - Aggie Hat
+
+The product number may be revised.  This is the crew cap for The Agamemnon,
+ Sheridan's ship prior to being assigned to B5, seen in "Knives" and which will
+ be seen in the fifth season as well.  (And those who see the final 4 will see
+ that the Aggy has a lot more to do with the story.)  Pricing is, I believe,
+ the same as the next item:
+
+8) product # FCH-02 - Psi Corps Hat
+
+This is another one we've been asked to produce by fans.  The cap is black with
+ the Psi Corps logo on front. "The Psi Corps is your friend" is embroidered on
+ the back.  Pricing: members $16, non $18
+
+9) product # FCBK - Antioch Babylon 5 Calendar 1998
+
+This is possibly the best graphic product associated with B5 publishing to
+ date.  It's just gorgeous, with montage prints, quotes from the series, photos
+ galore, and many of the major events in the B5 storyline noted by date.  This
+ is a limited edition with serialized numbers. We have the lowest numbers
+ available on the market. Pricing: members $11.95, non $14.95
+
+And there are the CD's available from us, done by Christopher Franke:
+
+  product # FCCD-01 - Original Soundtrack 
+  product # FCCD-02 - Messages From Earth
+  product # FCCD-03 - Avalon
+  product # FCCD-04 - Z'Ha'Dum
+  product # FCCD-05 - Shadow Dancing
+  product # FCCD-06 - Severed Dreams
+  product # FCCD-07 - Walkabout
+
+Again, all this can be obtained via the Fan Club site, which has an order form.
+  Some of this has yet to be added to the form, so in the case of short or
+ limited orders, this will let you get a jump on things before they're sold
+ out.
+
+What we're doing here is what I think should be done with this stuff: you make
+ what you personally would want just because you think it's just cool....
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: (Spoilers) 419 Question (5 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: (Spoilers) 419 Question

+5 Oct 1997
Yes, there was a small scene that got cut for time.
+
+Good catch.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: copyright issue (6 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: copyright issue

+6 Oct 1997
>I've put together a couple of B5 logo sets and was wondering if I
+>would be violating the copyright if I offered them free on my website.
+>all the pictures I used were taken from the newsgroups or free sites
+>on the web.
+
+I don't actually know the answer to this...my guess is that somewhere in the
+ files they would have to have the WB (c) notice, otherwise you run the risk of
+ turning them in to public domain stuff, which makes WB very cranky.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Between the darkness and the light (6 Oct 1997)
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Re: Between the darkness and the light

+6 Oct 1997
>I was wondering if any of the execs at 
+>paramount have looked at Babylon 5 and 
+>what it has become and thought something 
+>like,  "Boy I messed up when I didn't
+>grab that show when it was offered to
+>me."
+
+No, I doubt it...the only thing that has ever reached us was the frequent
+ lament at the top that we're "messing up the franchise that it took (them) us
+ 25 years to build."
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* ) (6 Oct 1997)
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Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* )

+6 Oct 1997
>Was Between the Darkness and the Light shot after it was known Claudia
+>Christian was leaving the show?
+
+Negative.  We'd finished all S4 shooting at the time this occured.
+
+  Unless something miraculous happens in the
+>next show....  Were new scenes shot and edited in to the ending?
+
+Negative.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: City of Sorrows - Great Job Kathryn!!!!! (6 Oct 1997)
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Re: City of Sorrows - Great Job Kathryn!!!!!

+6 Oct 1997
>Sinclair is stated
+>as missing for 48 hours rather than 24, but otherwise it's perfectly
+>correct).
+
+That was a typo we *both* missed...
+
+> I don't know if you've noticed this, but if one takes the Arisia 3
+>"twice the size" of Earth statistic as meaning twice the volume, it works
+>out to a little over 2-G. 
+
+Yeah, she transposed the mass figures when she was putting it all down, and
+ hopes to correct this and the above in the next printing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: T-shirt quality (10 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: T-shirt quality

+10 Oct 1997
Which shirts are you referring to?  If they're the Creation shirts, they've
+ been up and down in quality, but they've started working harder.  The All-U
+ shirts tend ot be extremely good.
+
+If they're pirated shirts, there's nothing I can do to help you.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* ) (2 Oct 1997)
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Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )

+2 Oct 1997
The other thing in all this to remember is that once I learned the source of
+ material for the spoilers' page (the synopses that WB is required to provide
+ to TV stations), I made it a point ot have WB route the synopses to me for
+ editing.  While I can't force too much stuff out of them or they become
+ useless to the purpose mandated by the FCC...stations have to be responsible
+ for, and informed about, what they broadcast...I *can* and do omit certain
+ little details whenever I can.
+
+Why?
+
+Because the spoilers page pisses me off...because no matter what's in them, I
+ get grief over them...and anybody who reads these things (altered or
+ otherwise) and assumes they know the full story and goes off because of it
+ deserves whatever they get.
+
+The synopses are not for general distribution outside the TV stations; if other
+ people are getting them, they're breaking the rules and ruining the dramatic
+ impact of episodes by letting the shape of the episodes get out before
+ broadcsat, and as far as I'm concerned, that entitles me to fuck with them.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* ) (10 Oct 1997)
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Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* )

+10 Oct 1997
>In the show In Between Darkness and the Light the woman in the
+>interrogation room said  "put a BULLET in his head" but, they do not
+>use guns any more???  Was this a mistake???
+
+Nope.  We've established (in Grey 17 is Missing, for instance) that guns are
+ still used on Earth and elsewhere; but in a space station, you don't want a
+ slug-thrower because it tends to a) ricochet a lot off metal walls, or b) cut
+ through something vital that would breach the hull potentially.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Time constraints and video (11 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: JMS: Time constraints and video

+11 Oct 1997
>There are ways of looking at this issue--1) this is a chance to restore
+>the original intention and 2) the forced changes really don't matter
+>much in the grand scheme of things.  Which side of this issue do you
+>come down on?  (As far as I can tell, the only episode you've really
+>wanted to get your hands back on is "The Gathering")
+
+Unfortunately, it would require doing a re-edit on the episodes, plus
+ re-scoring, and re-mixing, and that takes a fair amount of money, so it's not
+ something we can do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: I want B5 models dammit!!!!! (11 Oct 1997)
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+11 Oct 1997
They'll be out from Revell this Christmas.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Cover of _Locus_ (12 Oct 1997)
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+12 Oct 1997
>Just how tall *are* you, O Great Maker?
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+Right around 6'3"-6'4" depending on whether or not I slouch.
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+Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* ) (12 Oct 1997)
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Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* )

+12 Oct 1997
Spoilers for Between the Darkness and the Light
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+The Advanced destroyer group was still somewhat in the works when they hauled
+ it out to go after the fleet.  They'd been expecting mainly to go after other
+ Earth ships (as was noted in the episode), and didn't count on exclusively
+ being confronted by Whitestars.  Still, there were a lot of them here, and
+ they did a lot of damage by sheer force of numbers.
+
+Corwin would be running the station in everyone's absence.
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+Re: JMS: Shorter filming time? (12 Oct 1997)
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+12 Oct 1997
>I heard that Mira Furlan has been commenting about the shorter filming time
+>of 
+>season 5 (6 days instead of 7 days per episode) and that she feels she does
+>not 
+>have time to properly rehearse.
+
+I find that an odd statement, since the time to rehearse is still the same.  I
+ directed "Sleeping in Light" in 6 days, and we never had a problem with
+ rehearsal time.  Besides, most actors rehearse while other scenes are
+ shooting, running their lines.  So again, I don't know what she's referring to
+ here.
+
+Re: shooting time...yes, we went from 7 days to 6 days, which is an increase of
+ only about 1 page per day.  (Our shooting scripts are only about 42 pages, so
+ you're going from about 6 pages per day to 7 pages.)  There were several
+ reasons for this, one financial, but more important, TNT wants to run all the
+ S5 episodes STRAIGHT THROUGH WITHOUT BREAKS.  22 episodes in 22 weeks.
+
+Now, the first few aren't a problem, because you're looking at January and we
+ started filming in August.  Six months.  And it takes 52-65 days for
+ post-production work for each episode.  (Note: I'm not including 501, which we
+ had to rush through to air in 422's place.)  But there's a heck of a lot LESS
+ time between when we finish 522, and when we air it.  So we have to make sure
+ we can get all the episodes done in time.
+
+Frankly, I don't see that it's made that much difference.  If I could direct in
+ 6 days, anybody can.  And the prep time for the director is the same, so that
+ hasn't changed at all.  
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+Re: ATTN JMS: 8 minutes?  IIRT & BTD&TL spoilers) (12 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: 8 minutes?  IIRT & BTD&TL spoilers)

+12 Oct 1997
>At Defcon 4 in Tulsa, you mentioned that you had included eight minutes in
+>Intersections in Real Time which you pulled and added to Between the Darkness
+>and the Light.  Now that both episodes have aired, I hoped you might indulge
+>my curiosity by telling me which eight minutes. 
+
+The Garibaldi material through the map sequence with Number One was originally
+ in "Intersections."  It got shunted over to 419 when 418 ran 7-8 minutes long,
+ and 419 ran 8 minutes short.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Do you approved of this (FWD:### BABYLON 5 Card Game (12 Oct 1997)
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+12 Oct 1997
While the product is sanctioned, the email is apparently not coming from them,
+ but from a store that is *selling* the stuff.  That is not under my control,
+ unfortunately.
+
+Frankly, I object to this, and have sent email saying so.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: "The Gathering" re-edit a no-go? (13 Oct 1997)
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+13 Oct 1997
+No, the funding was approved, and we're working on it now.
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+14 Oct 1997
>I just think it would be great to watch the entire series
+>without knowing what will happen next.  I envy the future viewers of the show
+ on TNT.
+
+I sometimes think about this myself.  I'd love to be able to see the show the
+ way viewers do...without knowing what didn't go right, what got trimmed, what
+ line wasn't quite properly delivered...I'd love to be able to sit home and see
+ this unfold.
+
+>       And so.  Do you think I'm crazy?  
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+Just back away from the keyboard and keep your hands where we can see them.
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+2 Oct 1997
>What are your thoughts regarding this book?
+
+I don't know enough about it to form an intelligent opinion, so all I can do is
+ buy it when it comes out and see if it's any good or not.  
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+14 Oct 1997
>Some rumours have been going around the net that title sequences are very 
+>expensive to make and that's why they aren't updated very often... except of 
+>course on Babylon 5.  So, what's the truth?  Is a title sequence expensive or
+>is
+>this just another rumour/lie that has grown a life of its own on the net?
+
+(shrugs)
+
+I dunno...I guess there's some money involved, but not with B5.
+
+See, most shows hire somebody, a company, to design their title sequence.  That
+ costs about $20-30,000.  A fair chunk of change for some shows.  Also, they
+ like the same title each season to give that comfortable continuity networks
+ need.
+
+We don't have that kind of money to toss around on a title design, so each
+ season I design the titles.  I write the narration, and work with the editors
+ (sometimes with John Copeland) to choose the images, and then I work with
+ Chris to tell him what kind of music I want to go with the titles.  So our
+ cost is just the editing time, and the new composition...maybe a couple grand,
+ tops.
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+14 Oct 1997
Haven't seen the show yet...and the back is better.
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+14 Oct 1997
>JMS, you've always tried to show every point of view and what motivates your 
+>characters. Why have you not shown Clark's point of view?
+
+I tried to do it through his lieutenants and plenepotentiaries (hope I spelled
+ that right, I'm too tired to get the dictionary down).  ISN gives you his
+ point of view, ditto for Nightwatch, MiniPax, others.  I think if I had him
+ just saying it out loud, it would diminish him much the way that repeated
+ exposure to the shadow vessels gradually removed their mystery and menace. 
+ Less is more.
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+14 Oct 1997
>A few times you've mentioned you dream lucidly, and that most (all?) of
+>your dreams take place in a town that only exists in your head.
+>
+>Anything going on there recently? or is it all crowded out by the 2260's?
+>
+>
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+I don't know...lately, I've been falling asleep so exhausted that I don't
+ remember my dreams...I close my eyes, it gets black, and then it gets morning.
+  
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+We're in the final stages of finishing off the prequel, and between that and
+ everything else, I got a grand total of 90 minutes sleep yesterday through
+ today.  
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Re: Susan's Speech, "Darkness and Light" (Spoilers?)

+15 Oct 1997
Yeah, it was a bit over the top, deliberately so.
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+I put it in the category of a boxer who's going up against an opponent who may
+ be well matched...and wants to psych the other person out.
+
+If you look at "Give me liberty or give me death!" or similar statements, made
+ to rally support or make a point, they're generally bigger than life, a bit
+ over the top.  That's so we can know where the top is so we can climb up there
+ ourselves.
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Re: Endgame Problems (Spoilers)

+15 Oct 1997
Okay, one general response here...people are seeing rush where in many cases
+ there is NOT a rush.  Look, pay attention here: WE'RE IN THE FOURTH ACT OF THE
+ EARTH CYCLE.  Like the fourth act of an episode, you have to really start
+ cranking.  You want it to be at white-heat once you hit the ground.
+
+What's in Endgame, and most of Between... was always going to be there, with or
+ without a 5th season.  I made my trims in the period PRIOR TO these episodes,
+ for the most part.  
+
+This is the culmination of something we've been building now for three years,
+ and I'm going to make it as damned fast-paced as I can.  
+
+So don't go into this assuming it was rushed...it's *fast*, and that's the
+ difference here.  
+
+People complain when we do character stories that the arc isn't moving fast
+ enough...people complain that it's moving too fast when the arc is in full
+ gear...sombody get a concensus going here, okay?
+
+Now, to the other points, described as "flaws":
+
+>The absolute worst was the business of smuggling the telepaths aboard
+>the EA destroyers. You would have me believe that on 30 seperate ships,
+>not one cargo handler or quartermaster would happen to notice the giant
+>freezer cases with frozen bodies clearly visible through the glass? 
+
+In something like this, you don't move unless you have the main quartermaster
+ at the Mars base ON YOUR SIDE.  You stuff it all into cargo loaders and
+ crates, and ship it up.  Have you ever seen military shipments?  I looked into
+ this, and security for big crates like this is done *at the point of
+ shipping*.  So that one's down.
+
+
+>1) Marcus deserts to return to B5 to save Ivanova. Sheridan feels there
+>is nothing that can be done because radio contact is not possible due to
+>EA jamming. Why not detach a single Star Fury to get beyond jammer range
+>and warn B5 via radio? Or send it dashing back to B5 to warn the staff
+>in person? 
+
+>Mega screw up. It just doesn't work. Sheridan would have immedietly
+>authorized dispatch of a courier. Jammers are old technology and
+>doctrine would dictate the use of couriers as a regular fallback.
+
+Okay, here's where YOU'RE wrong.  (If you can sit there and say that things are
+ "mega-screwups" and say I "bit the big one" in places, you don't mind--can't
+ mind--if I take same tone, do you?
+
+You don't send a ship away to chase one person when you're going into a battle.
+  You don't KNOW what ships you are and aren't going to need.  In theory  you
+ took everything you had because you thought you needed it.  Yeah, Marcus was a
+ friend, but a lot of friends would die this day.  You think he would put
+ Marcus's situation ahead of the fleet?  Isolate one ship and risk it to go
+ after him?  Ever been in the military?  You talk about it, but what you
+ propose doesn't make sense.  Would Patton have sent back a tank because
+ somebody fell behind?  No.
+
+The other point comes where you clearly misunderstood what was being
+ said...massively misunderstood...bit the big one, one might say.  To
+ elaborate, since this touches a point above:
+
+>2) The Agememnon is about to ram the defense grid satellite, conveying
+>Sheridan and crew to certain doom. At the last moment, the Apollo saves
+>the day. The General says "We were monitoring the situation" or words to
+>that effect. 
+
+>HOW??? No communication is possible through hyper space due to earth
+>jamming. The Apollo is in Mars orbit,
+
+No, that's NOT what was said.  The jammers are set up to cut off communication
+ OUTSIDE MARS ORBIT.  That's what was said, that the jammers cut in once they
+ were past Mars (for security purposes).  The same thing was said in Lines
+ Of..., where Franklin was having a hard time getting word to B5 *past the Mars
+ jammers*.  Further, if all communications were cut off in Hyperspace, inside
+ Mars orbit, then you couldn't have had ship-to-ship communications to tell
+ Sheridan ABOUT Marcus, could you?  No, you couldn't.
+
+Do you know why you're seeing flaws that don't exist?  Because you think it's
+ rushed, so you're LOOKING for things, and actually misinterpreting things
+ because of it.
+
+> The effects of
+>season compression are painfully evident
+
+No, what's evident...is that you're not paying attention.
+
+And in future, you may want to phrsae things as questions, until you're
+ absolutely sure what's opinion and what's fact, and be as polite in your
+ comments as you would like me to be in my reply.  Okay?
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Re: ATTN JMS : Integrity of UK B5 Magazine

+15 Oct 1997
Yes, every argument has two sides.  But not all sides are equally valid or
+ truthful.  If they were, then you could never decide between A and B.  If I
+ say that the Germans won WW2, and you say they lost WW2, they are different
+ points of view...but one is slightly more valid than the other.
+
+What is stated in the magazine is what happened.  There are no subjective
+ characterizations here, those are the specific events which have been
+ corroborated now by a number of people.  Should the B5 magazine put in things
+ that we know to be utterly and totally false?  For instance:
+
+>For example, a key element in Claudia's contract "dispute" (for lack
+>of a better word) was that because the show was not being renewed par
+>se and was in fact being transferred to TNT, she was asked to give up
+>residuals for those shows - a "pay cut" to use her words. 
+> I expect
+>such a critical detail to be mentioned when presenting an unbiased
+>article on just why she did not renew her contract. Instead, the
+>article completely failed to mention it, choosing instead to mention
+>that she passed on renewal of her contract without giving any reason
+>why. 
+
+Let me put this to you in the most straightforward way I can: this is an
+ absolute and total fabrication, and has been from day one.  No actors have
+ been asked to give away their residuals, and no actor was asked to take a pay
+ cut.  It never, ever, ever happened.  
+
+What did happen was this: there are different formulas for residuals in
+ network, syndication, and cable TV.  The network formula is the largest fee
+ per rerun, followed by syndication and then cable.  In cable, AS PER THE
+ SCREEN ACTORS GUILD rules, the amount an actor is paid over double-scale is
+ credited against the domestic residuals (also not foreign residuals) in much
+ the way an advance is paid against a book.  When that amount is earned out,
+ the residuals begin again.  This is standard cable residuals.  So a) nobody
+ was giving away residuals, and b) all of the actors received their pay
+ increases this season as per their contracts.  Every one of them.
+
+So you ask me why that wasn't mentioned.  Because it is simply, flatly, and
+ categorically and PROVABLY untrue.  It's not a matter of presenting another
+ opinion.  It's not true.  Period.  Never happened.  
+
+As for not explaining why she chose not to re-up for S5, that would have
+ required subjective implication, and she never TOLD us.  She simply allowed
+ the offer from WB to lapse, let the contract expire, so we had no tie on
+ her..and she left.
+
+Yes, she asked for fewer episodes, but to be paid for all of them, and that was
+ expressed to me prior to her passing on the offer.  But nobody ever said,
+ "Okay, you didn't give us X, so we're passing."  They just let it pass without
+ comment.  TO THIS DAY they have not communicated to us their specific
+ reasoning.  Should the magazine speculate on what's going on inside the heads
+ of other people?
+
+>It also failed to mention Claudia's offer to work 18 of the 22
+>scheduled episodes 
+
+She didn't offer that.  She offered to work in 18 but get paid for 22, which
+ constitutes a pay raise, which violates our contracts with all the other
+ actors.  Again, why should we put something in that is not true?
+
+>and the fact that she had been dissatisfied with
+>her role, feeling it had afforded her little opportunity to develop.
+
+Again, she never said that to us, or said it to the magazine.
+
+>t is also on record that Claudia
+>said she was never given the option of working and being paid for 18
+>episodes, an option she said she would have been satisfied with.
+
+Where is that on record?  It was certainly never expressed to us during all of
+ this when it was going on.  And she has never said, in the post you mention,
+ that she would do 18 episodes  for only 18 episodes pay.  Check the original
+ post.  It's not there.
+
+You say that her POV was not represented.  Ours was not represented on her
+ websites (any of them).  I imagine therefore that you have sent email to those
+ sites, and to Claudia, protesting that as well.
+
+There's a kind of mentality that says that you can't make any kind of choice
+ between two arguments, that all sides are equally valid.  But that's not true.
+  Some statesments are more valid than others IF they can be proven.  Every
+ single statement we have made has been proven, and verified by cast members,
+ and even those at the Blackpool convention who were there as fans.  There is
+ not one shred of evidence to back up the statements that pay cuts were asked
+ for, or residuals were given away, both of which would violate SAG rules and
+ are simply untrue.  
+
+If something is a fabrication, should it be printed "as-is?"  Or do you post
+ rebuttals to it within the same article, and get into a brawl in the magazine?
+  Or do you simply state the absolute bare facts, without characterization, and
+ let what's *provable* stand on its own?
+
+That latter approach was the only way to go.  
+
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Re: Endgame ( *Spoilers* )

+15 Oct 1997
>Trav1701 (trav1701@aol.com) wrote:
+>: In article <tHlQ00O5IMlW091yn@teleport.com>, larryc@teleport.com (Larry
+>: Caldwell) writes:
+
+>: >Yup.  Gotta be the dumbest line ever voiced on B5.  I guess Sheridan's
+>: >lasers musta run out of bullets, so there's nothing for it but to stoke
+>: >the boilers and send her to the bottom.  Ew, ik, retch, gag.
+
+As long as I'm being cranky (it's 4:30 a.m. and I'm entitled)...I see you based
+ this reaction off the teaser.
+
+Y'know, you might actually want to see the episode, and put this in context,
+ before calling it "the dumbest line ever voiced in B5" and making fun of
+ "running out of bullets."
+
+Spoiler info....
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+
+
+
+THEY KICKED THE SHIT OUT OF THE SHIP AND BLASTED IT WITH MISSILES AND THE ONLY
+ THING HOLDING IT TOGETHER WAS BALING WIRE AND SPIT.
+
+Now...next time...maybe you'll wait and actually *see* the thing before you
+ judge something?
+
+Or am I expecting too much?
+
+Y'know...Morgan and Wong from X-Files used to be on the nets a lot, and they
+ got out because they were driven to despair by the casual, callous cruelties
+ of people who judge harshly and without any kind of information...Mira was on
+ for a while, and isn't on anymore, because she says people are just casually
+ cruel, they bitch about things that aren't even true half the time.
+
+I know a lot of others, actors and producers, who just don't want to put up
+ with this crap.
+
+Some days, I don't blame them.  Some days, I think I'd like to join them.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Effects in "Endgame" *POSSIBLE SPOILERS* (15 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Effects in "Endgame" *POSSIBLE SPOILERS*

+15 Oct 1997
>However, one thing I noticed is that the surface "shots" of Mars done by
+>your special effects people were beautiful.  Much, much, much better
+>than any other Mars shot you have done.
+
+Thanks...actually, most of the prior mars shots were done by an outside
+ contractor, who's been doing such shots for the history of the show.  NDEI's
+ boys wanted a chance to do them, and did so.
+
+>And, I am including the great
+>integration of moving figures on the graphics and the nice shots of the
+>shuttles leaving.
+
+Yeah, they're not bad...we still need to improve a bit on the movements, and
+ the camera still moves a bit too fast, which gives it that computer-y
+ feel...but overall, not bad.
+
+>One thing though...how long did it take too render the Mars exterior
+>shots used throughout "Endgame"?
+>
+Quite a lot, I understand.
+
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+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS - 4th and 5th season UK video tapes (16 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS - 4th and 5th season UK video tapes

+16 Oct 1997
>However, since WB has  dropped
+>the  series,  will  they nonetheless continue to release the UK videos
+>for the 4th season?
+
+No, WB hasn't dropped the series; it's just airing in the US on TNT, that
+ doesn't affect international distribution or video sales.  It'll be the same
+ as always.
+
+
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+

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+2 Oct 1997
Thanks...I do get short sometimes (especially under the current conditions of
+ the back annoyance, the carpal tunnel, and the pain killers)...but overall it
+ work out.
+
+>P.S. Thanks for giving me a reason to get a DDS dish;-]
+
+An interesting idea occurs to me, btw, now that you've mentioned this.  TNT has
+ wondered aloud how many people are going to sign up for cable or dishes
+ primarily for B5.  If you (reading this) have done so, you may want to let
+ them know over at http://www.tnt.turner.com
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Babylon 5 a failure? (16 Oct 1997)
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Re: Babylon 5 a failure?

+16 Oct 1997
Y'know, people who throw ST at us and say that B5 is a failure forget that the
+ first ST only went 3 seasons, and was considered a total and complete failure
+ by the television industry for years.
+
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+ jms
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+

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+Re: Endgame ( *Spoilers* ) (16 Oct 1997)
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Re: Endgame ( *Spoilers* )

+16 Oct 1997
>Same with "ramming speed".  There simply isn't one speed that's better
+>for ramming than other speeds.  
+>But just asking for "ramming speed" is Just Plain Silly.
+>It can be retconned, it can be foregiven, but it's Just Plain Silly.
+
+(he taps his foot as yet another expert lurches into the field)
+
+You are in a space ship, in a vacuum, heading toward target X.  You understand
+ that it takes time to transfer energy and movement toward another plane, so
+ you go at X-speed toward that object if you want the option of applying
+ thrusters and angling away from the object before you slam into it.
+
+If, on the other hand, you *want* to hit the object, and you have no interest 
+ in holding back your thrusters to allow you to diverge from the target in the
+ amount of space remaining between you and it, you proceed at Y speed, with
+ your thrusters putting out their maximum amount of fuel.  
+
+Y = ramming speed.  
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: The Rescue (BtDatL spoilers) (16 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: The Rescue (BtDatL spoilers)

+16 Oct 1997
(* Spoilers for Darkness and Light *)
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+>Or would the rescue have proceeded much as we saw?
+>
+Yes, it would have.
+
+Some have complained about the rescue, arguing that they wanted to see a big
+ battle.  (To which answer #1 is wait 7 days.)  They wanted to see the fleet
+ smack Mars and free him in a big battle.
+
+Well, if you do that, you can kiss goodbye any chance of the fleet then doing
+ what it's SUPPOSED to be doing, which is the ligberation of Earth.  While
+ they're tied up and planetbound (on one side) at Mars, Earth swoops in and
+ knocks them out.  Y ou also lose any possible aspect of surprise.
+
+It *had* to be done quickly, through the back door, rather than the fleet that
+ some might have been expecting, so it'd look like a Resistance job, not a
+ Fleet job.
+
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+Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* ) (16 Oct 1997)
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Re: Between the Darkness and the Light ( *Spoilers* )

+16 Oct 1997
>Here it is,
+>near the end of season 4 and you introduce a new important talent,
+>Ivanova's eidetic memory. I'm not saying it's out of character for her
+>or that it contradicts anything in the past. My point is that with all
+>that came before and your exposure on the web you must have planned this
+>well in advance>so as not to open yourself up to "why didn't she
+>remember ...?" questions. In a novel, if you or an editor finds a
+>contradiction with what came before, it can be changed.
+
+
+(also taps foot...)
+
+She's a latent telepath.  About a P1.  As has been established on the show in
+ the past.  That gives her a slight edge in many areas.
+
+Also, an eidetic memory does not equal facility with language.  I have a
+ somewhat eidetic memory.  I can usually remember visuals and things said to me
+ with extreme clarity.  (Unless I'm in convention mode at the time, at which
+ point all bets are off.)  But I have a real problem with learning languages,
+ which involves not just memorization, but *translation,* which is a skill, a
+ knack that some others have and some don't.  (Spanish rolled off me, but for
+ some reason I have a knack for German, though my vocabulary's gone all to
+ hell.)
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+Re: ATTN JMS : Integrity of UK B5 Magazine (17 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS : Integrity of UK B5 Magazine

+17 Oct 1997
>Joe can you confirm whether or not it is a copy of the WB press
+>release. If so, I think I just proved my point.
+>
+No, it's not.
+
+Look...the article posts items that have not been contradicted by Claudia.  The
+ basic series of facts as presented are, as far as I know, unchallenged.  
+
+It says that "opinions differ" on the background of the situation.  No, it
+ doesn't give her story on the background, but it ALSO DOESN'T GIVE MINE. 
+ Nowhere in there is there any background from this side of the desk.  If one
+ side were presented in detail, that's one thing...but NEITHER background was
+ quoted in this, only the specific facts of what happened: that she didn't give
+ the extension (she admits this), that the deadline passed and the offer was
+ withdrawn (ditto).  
+
+Other folks want to fight over the why, fine...the article only had the
+ obligation to go into *what* happened, not get into the fannish fight over the
+ whys and wherefores...which, frankly, if I'm to be honest, are really none of
+ anybody's business...and would never have been had Claudia not started this at
+ conventions.
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+Re: Attn. JMS: Should you take a vacation from the net? (17 Oct 1997)
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Re: Attn. JMS: Should you take a vacation from the net?

+17 Oct 1997
>Besides, you've mentioned before that you've been on the net for years;
+>I'd think you'd have learned how to shrug this sort of thing off by now.
+>If you can't stand the heat, get outta the kitchen. 
+
+It's not the heat, it's the stupidity....
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+Re: ATTN:JMS Question on the budget (19 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN:JMS Question on the budget

+19 Oct 1997
Specific dollar amounts are secondary to one basic truth: the studios aren't in
+ the charity business.  If a show makes money, if it is a *success*, they keep
+ it on the air.  If it ain't, the show is history, it's that simple.  If B5
+ were a "failure" it sure as hell wouldn't be on for a fifth year, and we
+ wouldn't be in serious, last-stage negotations with WB for a *sequel series*. 
+ You don't try and sell a sequel for something that didn't work.
+
+WB has made hideous amounts of money on this show.  From their point of view,
+ it's a massive success.  There's simply no other reason they would keep the
+ show on the air.  Period.
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+19 Oct 1997
>If you are sick of people asking you questions or bothering you about
+>the whole CC thing, and/or picking at the plot, why do you answer them
+>anymore ? 
+
+It's just hard, that's all...I have this belief that refuses to go away that if
+ you explain something in a reasonable way, with all the facts at your
+ disposal, people will, in the final analysis, generally be reasonable.
+
+I got on here in large measure because I wanted people to *understand* this
+ business, and I guess I keep trying to get them to really understand this one.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: _3_ projects this summer? (19 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: _3_ projects this summer?

+19 Oct 1997
I think your friend is confused....
+
+He may also have been thinking of Hypernauts, which was done by Doug in
+ coordination with Thornton and Optic Nerve.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: DO YOU *UNDERSTAND* Vorlons? (19 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: DO YOU *UNDERSTAND* Vorlons?

+19 Oct 1997
I could give you an answer, but it would take a million years to parse it, so
+ best to leave it be, I suppose....
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+Re: ATTN: JMS you insidious bastard!!!!!!(just kidding) (2 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS you insidious bastard!!!!!!(just kidding)

+2 Oct 1997
That's good to know.
+
+It's worth noting that I know a number of writers who have been, and in some
+ cases are, associated with ST in one incarnation or another (and some of the
+ cast), and they have been more than content to have us letting people know
+ that the problem is the studio's limitations, not the potential writing, that
+ has been the problem...so I'm glad that the studio may be loosening the reins
+ a little, possibly due to fan pressure, to let the writers do what they want.
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+Re: Attn: JMS; Episode time shorter? (20 Oct 1997)
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+20 Oct 1997
>We've noticed that the episode time has been cut back from the usual 44:00
+>even
+> to ~ 41:45. What's the story? Is it just our local affiliate or is this
+> universal? It doesn't seem like we're missing anything, other than obvious
+> edits to fit that have already been discussed here. What's the story?
+
+The time hasn't been cut back, unless your local station is cutting out stuff,
+ but the time you give second there is correct.  The only change is that we got
+ *back* 30 seconds to put into the show after last season, when they dropped
+ the Kung Fu promos.
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+Re: JMS:  TNT/PTEN/WB/etc (20 Oct 1997)
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Re: JMS:  TNT/PTEN/WB/etc

+20 Oct 1997
In Which our Correspondent Swallows His Fists....
+
+>Given the fact that TNT is putting much more into supporting and
+>promoting the show for the final season, do you regret that this kind of
+>support has not been there for the previous four seasons?  I know that
+>you have had minimal trouble with WB creatively, but they really didn't
+>*support* the show as well as they could have.
+>Do you think that the hands-off approach made the show better by making
+>you work harder?
+
+This is about as much a deal with the devil as I can imagine.
+
+But on the whole, without getting into specifics...the truth is that this show
+ is going to be around for 20, 30, maybe even 50 years, if I did it right.  30
+ years from now, it won't make any difference if we got good PR or we didn't,
+ if we were well received when we first went on or not...the story is the
+ story, and I was allowed, most remarkably, to tell it my way, with virtually
+ no creative interference, and that will be noted in years to come, not the
+ rest.
+
+I'd take that deal again in a hot second.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Endgame & Titles Question (20 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Endgame & Titles Question

+20 Oct 1997
>Second, and unrelated, a question occurred to me this weekend.  Will
+>"Sleeping in Light" have its own unique opening title sequence and/or
+>theme music?
+
+SiL won't air until next year...but yeah, we've done some stuff to the credits.
+
+BTW, saw the first pass today on the S5 title sequence, based on my outline to
+ the editors...looks pretty spiffy, and a big difference from what we've done
+ before, stylistically.
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+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Choosing what to show (SPOILERS for 421) (21 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Choosing what to show (SPOILERS for 421)

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+>slowly developing the relationship between John and Delenn, why did
+>you choose not to show their wedding onscreen?  I can think of several
+>perfectly legitimate reasons for doing this and am mainly curious as
+>to what factors went into that decision.
+
+This was something I debated back and forth for quite some time.  I finally
+ came to the idea of having it happen off-camera because I thought, frankly,
+ that it would come off as corny to show it; it would be an obvious appeal to
+ ratings and the like, and I tend to shy away from that.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: ENGAME & WRITING*****SPOILERS**** (21 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: ENGAME & WRITING*****SPOILERS****

+21 Oct 1997
>1. When you write, do you put in the "change of scene" to the special
+>effects scenes - the scenes which will be added after the cast filming -
+>or do you format the final product after the effects are done - in
+>editing?
+
+I don't quite understand the question...all of the show, every single shot, CGI
+ or live-action, is spelled out in the script, which is given to the various
+ departments to make it happen.
+
+The best way I can demonstrate this is if you want to go to your local library
+ and find a copy of my writing book, and check the script for The Coming of
+ Shadows against the episode.
+
+>2. How much of the final product is like what you have imagined?? More?
+>Less? Do you ever change the layout of an episode BECAUSE of the
+>finished visuals?
+
+It's generally 80-110% of what I saw in my head.  Sometimes I'll shift around
+ the scenes to better the flow of an episode once we see how they look on film.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN:  JMS,  B5 Cookbook??? (23 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN:  JMS,  B5 Cookbook???

+23 Oct 1997
The book is being edited now, and I should get it soon, so expect it about
+ Christmastime.  
+
+Basically, I just think it'll be a hoot.  The recipes are real, with
+ substitutions if you can't get the real thing from offworld caterers, and it's
+ set right in the B5 universe, as if it were written in that time period, with
+ all the usual Chef attitude that goes into it.
+
+I was kinda doubtful when WB first proposed it, and I still haven't seen the
+ final manuscript, but I think it could be kinda fun.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Season 5 writing style (26 Oct 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: Season 5 writing style

+26 Oct 1997
>Now that B5 has a guarenteed station and timeslot, and the previous
+>seasons will be run 5 days a week, does that mean you will be writing
+>season 5 with less of the recaps and other nods to "people just tuning
+>in"?
+>If you see a Klingon on Star Trek, or Cancer Man on X-Files, or Sideshow
+>Bob on the Simpsons, etc. etc. ad nauseam, they don't stop and point out
+>when and where we saw them before; they just go.
+
+Difference is, this is a continuing storyline, and so I think you do need to
+ have the occasional bit of exposition in there for the folks who don't (or
+ can't) watch and track every single episode.  You should be able to come in at
+ any point in the story, and watch an episode, and get something satisfying out
+ of it.
+
+Doesn't really have anything to do with the time slot, it has to do with being
+ fair to the majority of the audience.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
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+
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+Re: Rising Star ( *Spoilers* ) (26 Oct 1997)
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Re: Rising Star ( *Spoilers* )

+26 Oct 1997
+No, Sinclair's middle name was David, not Sheridan.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Sierra really has some fine people (26 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Sierra really has some fine people

+26 Oct 1997
+>Not only that, but "The Official Guide to J. Michael
+>Straczynski's Babylon 5" sounds like one wonderful CD ROM...
+
+I was very iffy on that...I am getting this vague sense that I'm becoming a
+ brand name, and I'm suspicious of that sort of thing.  At first they wanted it
+ in a proprietary sense, "J. Michael Straczynski's Guide to the Babylon 5
+ Universe," but I vetoed that because Jason Brezhinski did 90% of the actual
+ work on the thing, researching every smallest detail shown in the series, and
+ if anyone should get that credit, it's him.  The final title only came about
+ through a lot of haggling.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS what's left for S5 (26 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS what's left for S5

+26 Oct 1997
+Things that *could* show up (leaving in some ambiguity just to keep some
+ surprises):
+
+The start of the telepath war
+The start of drakh war
+Londo's fate on Centauri Prime
+The first year trying to make the Interstellar Alliance work
+Inter-faction fighting among the Alliance members
+The development of Mars as an independent state
+The legacy of William Edgars' black projects
+Fallout from the civil war, and the feelings about it
+How Lennier, Sheridan and Delenn will get along now
+
+How's that just for starters?
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Title for Season 5?  *Possible Spoiler* (2 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Title for Season 5?  *Possible Spoiler*

+2 Oct 1997
I had to give the S5 title to TNT today so they can begin promoting it, but
+ would rather they brought it out at this point.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+
+Re: TNT - Reshowing All episodes, 5 days a week Question (26 Oct 1997)
+
+
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Re: TNT - Reshowing All episodes, 5 days a week Question

+26 Oct 1997
Yes, seasons 1-4 will be shown in the proper order, AND it's 6 days a week, not
+ 5, they'll also do Saturday.
+
+TNT: All B5, All the Time.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - you fink... :-> Rising Star (*spoilers*) (27 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - you fink... :-> Rising Star (*spoilers*)

+27 Oct 1997
>After YEARS of buildup, you held John and Delenn's wedding off camera.  
+>A-HEM!  You sir, are a fink... :-> 
+
+You're such a sweet-talker....
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: 422, Questions and observations, SPOILERS (27 Oct 1997)
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Re: 422, Questions and observations, SPOILERS

+27 Oct 1997
>I was surprised that CC was cut from the opening credits. I was under
+>the impression that if an actor A appeared as character X in Y number of
+>episodes per year, actor A was entitled (actor's guild rules??) to an
+>opening credit in every episode that season. 
+
+Because Claudia was in the original 422, it changed the way we had to do the
+ credits, since that won't air until 5th season.
+
+>In the end, life looks
+>promising, but the getting ther part is pretty ugly.
+>
+>
+Yep, that's the way it usuallly is.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+

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+Re: Emotional Reactions to "Deconstruction"? ****SPOILERS (28 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: Emotional Reactions to "Deconstruction"? ****SPOILERS

+28 Oct 1997
I think it's fair to say that Sinclair has been in large measure forgotten by
+ Earth by the time of Deconstruction...but Valen lives on in the memories of
+ the Minbari...a reasonable trade-off.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Good supporting characters(possible spoilers for EndGame and (28 Oct 1997)
+
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+
Re: Good supporting characters(possible spoilers for EndGame and

+28 Oct 1997
>And the President in Rising Star, which I loved, had such a bad Russian
+>accent I couldn't get past it.
+
+I love comments like that.
+
+Beata, who played the President, is a native-born Russian.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Deconstruction of Falling Stars- Spoilers** (29 Oct 1997)
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+
Re: Deconstruction of Falling Stars- Spoilers**

+29 Oct 1997
>SPOILERS FOR DECONSTRUCTION OF FALLING STARS
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+
+Just a few quick reactions:
+
+>(although I did comment on the fact that they
+> were still using English in a million years)
+
+That's what you heard, that doesn't mean that's what it was; same as when you
+ go to Minbar, they're not speaking English, that's just our hearing of it.
+
+>  BTW when was the last time anyone heard a news anchor talk
+> about the old testament? 
+
+Ted Koppel.
+
+> the portrait of him as a kid done in Black and White.  What they
+> ran out of color film?
+
+Even now portraits are often done in black and white just for artistic merit.
+
+> (although I have a problem with the idea that NYU will be
+> around 100 years from NOW!)
+
+Trinity College is a working college in Ireland that dates back to the American
+ Revolution.  
+
+
+ jms
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: If you had a million more dollars a show... (29 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: If you had a million more dollars a show...

+29 Oct 1997
> What made you decide on the # of shows to do a year.  =
+>DS9 for instance does 26 I believe.  Dd the number 22 seem right, or is =
+>that standard TV practice?
+
+22 is what a network needs each season to get its money back.
+
+>If you had a million more dollars a show, what would you do with it? 
+
+I'd blow the sides off your TV set.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: voiceovers for S5 ads/trailers (29 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: voiceovers for S5 ads/trailers

+29 Oct 1997
We had nothing to do with the promos, so the guy probably worked only for WB.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS - Re: Deconstruction of Falling Stars- Spoilers** (30 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS - Re: Deconstruction of Falling Stars- Spoilers**

+30 Oct 1997
RE: what I do and don't respond to...often the criticisms you note as "meaty"
+ (including some of those you raise) are in large measure subjective...why did
+ I do *this* instead of *that* because the correspondent in question thinks X
+ should be done instead of or in addition to Y.  There is no way to actually
+ debate that, or answer it, because it's subjective...what you want in a story
+ may not be what I want, but too often because it isn't what someone else would
+ do, or like, it's "bad."  Or a plot hole.
+
+So it isn't so much as responding to the nitpicky notes as those that can be
+ objectively answered.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+
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+Rising Star ( *Spoilers* ) (30 Oct 1997)
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+
Rising Star ( *Spoilers* )

+30 Oct 1997
Spoilers for Rising Star
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+>1.Did you come up with Zathras(and Zathras, and Zathras, etc.)before
+>your morning coffee?
+
+After.  Caffeine akes all the difference in the world.
+
+>2.Can we assume that the wonderful little scene of Londo and G'Kar, at
+>the end of Rising Star, wondering how it was going in the Sheridan
+>bedroom, and the EYE being misplaced, says a little something about
+>Vous????
+
+Absolutely not.
+
+By the way...that's a nice outfit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Don't hate us spoiler junkies! (2 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Don't hate us spoiler junkies!

+2 Oct 1997
>You're implying at least  50/50 ratio of reasonable people like Alison to the
+> jerks who jump ugly on you.  
+
+Okay, okay...math not Zathras strength....
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Deconstruction and Sinclair (30 Oct 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: Deconstruction and Sinclair

+30 Oct 1997
>Were the headlines picked to foreshadow some events?
+
+In several cases, yes.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Earth:FC a B5 redux? (31 Oct 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Earth:FC a B5 redux?

+31 Oct 1997
>I've watched the first three "Earth: Final Conflict" (EFC) episodes that 
+>have shown in my area.  I recall that you were offered the opportunity 
+>to participate in its production and turned that down.  Is it fair to 
+>surmise now that, compared to "Babylon 5", EFC only offered you a "been 
+>there, done that" experience?
+
+Not really...but a) I want to do my own projects, b) it would always be first a
+ GR show not a JMS show, c) I had a suspicion htere would be hassles from ST
+ fans over it, and d) the story just didn't appeal to me.  I only do stuff I
+ can be excited about; life's too short to do otherwise.
+
+jms
+
+ jms
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+Re: to JMS: deconstruction (31 Oct 1997)
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Re: to JMS: deconstruction

+31 Oct 1997
It depends on your point of view.
+
+The fact, as I see it, is that no one and nothing will ever solve all of our
+ problems at once, now and forever.  People will always be people.  You can't
+ wave a magic wand and fix it all.
+
+Yes, there was another war...but had the Shadows not been stopped by our
+ characters, there likely wouldn't have been a human race at ALL anymore.  
+
+Yes, there was a war, and many died in it...as tends to happen in war...but the
+ nominal right side in it came out on top, which would not have been the case
+ but for Garibaldi's simulacra giving them a leg up on things.  
+
+We have had, continue to have, and will always have wars, and grief, and
+ struggle...we will climb up and fall down...but each time we climb a little
+ higher, and in the end, we *do* build the world that our ancestors would have
+ wanted for us...we *do* leave the cradle at last, and we take our place among
+ the stars teaching those who follow us.
+
+For my money, that's as happy an ending as we or anyone can ever hope for.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Are you going to do this again?? (31 Oct 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Are you going to do this again??

+31 Oct 1997
>	I was wondering, *if* Crusade becomes a reality....
+>	Are you really going to subject yourself to this Usenet thing
+>again?  Not only is it tough on you as far as the hours you keep, but
+>this isn't exactly joyride either.
+
+Not as much, no.  
+
+I promised I'd stay online in a major way as long as the show was being
+ broadcast to continue the online experiment...but once that's done, I've
+ already decided that I have to pull back and not be as substantive a presence
+ as I've been until now.
+
+I won't get off altogether -- I'm an onliner and have been since 1985 and I'm
+ too old and cranky to start making major changes to my lifestyle now -- but
+ some of the destructiveness of some of the stalkers out there has taken a real
+ toll on me over the years.  So I'll still be *around*, here and there, but not
+ as constant or major a way as present.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: "endgame" (*spoiler*) (2 Oct 1997)
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Re: "endgame" (*spoiler*)

+2 Oct 1997
You're right in terms of what Garibaldi did and didn't do, and we've avoided
+ the ultimate repercussions in other places for other things (he said vaguely,
+ not wanting to post spoilers)...but you can only do that so far, and if you go
+ further you start cheating.  You also remove the dramatic impact of the
+ actions of your characters if they do not have consequences.  In this case, it
+ ties very much into this character's background...and would, in another
+ universe in which CC decided to stay, have spun out into some rather
+ interesting developments.
+
+
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+

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+Re: JMS: Smokers? (3 Oct 1997)
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Re: JMS: Smokers?

+3 Oct 1997
You will eventually see one person smoking on B5, at the performer's
+ request...but other than that, I think it's not something I want to encourage.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: Ship Recognition Posters (1 Nov 1997)
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Re: Ship Recognition Posters

+1 Nov 1997
>The item that I was looking forward to recieving the most was the Ship
+>Recognition Poster.  When the shipment arrived< I recieved a note that
+>told me that there were problems with the printer and the posters had been
+>delayed. 
+>  Does anyone have any information about when these posters are
+>supposed to come out?
+>
+They just came in the door a couple of days ago, and they're *gorgeous*.  I got
+ mine right off the top, natch....
+
+That's the fun part, making the merchandise and cool stuff you'd just want for
+ yourself....
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN:JMS Who influences the actors? (2 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN:JMS Who influences the actors?

+2 Nov 1997
>The actors are
+>all quite talented, but who works with them to give them that extra bit
+>of insight, or inspiration that they all seem to have, and what form
+>does the feedback take?
+
+On a day-to-day "What the hell does THIS mean?" basis, that would be me, or if
+ I'm otherwise engaged, John Copeland.  On an episode-by-episode basis, that
+ would be the director.
+
+Most everything is covered in the script; if there are additional questions
+ they can go to one of the above.  If I or someone else in that group has a
+ note, we pass it on directly to the actor.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Playing with fire (humor) (2 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Playing with fire (humor)

+2 Nov 1997
Ah...Amerikanski humor.
+
+Is most funny.
+
+We bomb now.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Endgame--myth connection (3 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Endgame--myth connection

+3 Nov 1997
Them whacky ancient Greeks...popping up in all the least likely places....
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS and anyone who cares to read: Psicorp Pins (4 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS and anyone who cares to read: Psicorp Pins

+4 Nov 1997
>my heart is set on a PsiCorp Pin, instead of the EA pin.
+>Is there any chance a real and licensed replica of the Psicorp Pin going
+>to be made at all?
+
+By sheer coincidence, the prototype is in for the Fan Club, and we should have
+ the first full order in hand within the next 7 days.
+
+And they're totally cool and consistent with the show.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS  --- lessons Learned (4 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS  --- lessons Learned

+4 Nov 1997
>	Now that you are heading into the final season of the show I wonder
+>what you feel is the most important thing you;ve learned is?
+>That is, if you could go back in time and warn yourself of one thing, or
+>give yourself one piece of advice what would it be?
+
+As it happens, it was something Kathryn said about year 2: "Don't figh the
+ rabbits, the lions will get you."
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Letter From the TV Station (4 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Letter From the TV Station

+4 Nov 1997
TNT has all rights to the show in the US (doesn't affect foreign distribution)
+ for I think about 4-5 years.  They've told us they plan to wear the sprocket
+ holes out of it, because they believe it'll do very well for them.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: attn jms: are there new scenes in the TNT promos? (4 Nov 1997)
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Re: attn jms: are there new scenes in the TNT promos?

+4 Nov 1997
No, I believe the promos are all built out of S1-4 footage.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* ) (4 Nov 1997)
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The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )

+4 Nov 1997
Spoilers for The Deconstruction of Falling Stars.
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+>JMS... how can I put this... we know the ending.  I mean, we KNOW it.  We
+>know
+> it.  We know it.  They get rid of the virus.  There is no virus in 100
+>years. 
+> There is no Telepath domination in 100 years, and there is DEFINATELY an
+> Alliance in 100 years. 
+
+I think that, if we all put on our logic caps for a moment, I'm not liable to
+ wipe out all of Humanity in the course of pursuing the Crusade series.  (It
+ would wreak havoc with residuals, for one thing.)
+
+As with anything else, B5 (in whatever incarnation) is about *process*.  You
+ saw Londo being strangled by G'Kar...but you didn't know how they got there. 
+ You know the result of the Earth/Minbari war...but I suspect there will be a
+ lot of surprises in "In the Beginning."
+
+As with all things, the joy is in the going.  We all know we're going to die,
+ that as the poet said, "we are born astride the grave."  But knowing that
+ inevitable reality has never stopped human endeavor before....
+
+It's the journey and the doing that matters.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 renumbering? (5 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 renumbering?

+5 Nov 1997
+Yes, the S5 episodes will be renumbered prior to broadcast.
+
+More Soviet Revisionism in action....
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* ) (5 Nov 1997)
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Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )

+5 Nov 1997
+You hit it dead on the nose there every time...great and insightful message.
+
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: How does the cast/crew celebrate Halloween? (1 Nov 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: How does the cast/crew celebrate Halloween?

+1 Nov 1997
They're very odd...one came dressed as El Nino (hair blown to stay on one side,
+ wearing a slicker, with a watergun and minifan to blow spray on people), crew
+ members came dressed as *other* crew members...very odd....
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+
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+Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* ) (5 Nov 1997)
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Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )

+5 Nov 1997
+>you've provided characters and cultures that the fans of B5 
+>really come to appreciate, and it would have been a cool thing to have 
+>seen how all these facets of the B5 universe fared during the 100, 500, 
+>1000, and ultimately the million years later perspective that 
+>"Deconstruction" gave us.
+
+With another 45 minutes, would've loved to.
+
+>So what else has been happening with everyone all this time?
+>
+>
+KEG PARTY!!!
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: Hubris in "Deconstruction"... Minor Spoilers (5 Nov 1997)
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Re: Hubris in "Deconstruction"... Minor Spoilers

+5 Nov 1997
+>I find it disheartening that JMS would go to the trouble and expense of
+>removing her bit from the intro (and not, for instance, Jason Carter's.)
+>Yeah, so I'll learn to live without her on B5, but I LOVED her character and
+>am stung by this obvious slap.
+
+Here's another lesson: ask questions before making assumptions.
+
+As I've noted elsewhere, WB called us 3 days before we were to uplink the
+ episode and informed us that if we kept CC's credit in place on that episode,
+ since she also appears in S5's final episode, it would trigger a substantial
+ payment.  Jason we could leave in because he's not in Sleeping in Light,
+ whereas she was.
+
+It wasn't our choice, and it had nothing to do with anything other than the
+ fact that she's also in SiL.  If you'd prefer, I could've cut her out of that
+ one, and we could've had her credit in Deconstruction, but I doubt that's a
+ solution either of us would approve of.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+small note from jms (5 Nov 1997)
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small note from jms

+5 Nov 1997
+      Some general stuff; this has been posted elsewhere, so if you've seen it
+ before, there ain't much need to see it now.
+
+      Today, John Copeland and I finished re-editing "The Gathering," the B5 
+pilot movie.  While there were some areas we couldn't get into because of the 
+complexity in redoing the mix, virtually every scene got tinkered with to one 
+degree or another, and most important, the roughly 14 minutes of footage left 
+out of the original version is now back in.  The whole thing is tighter and 
+faster, and there's more recent CGI, we'll have Chris Franke re-score it, and 
+it's just in general a lot better.  (Some parts of it even make more sense 
+now.)  
+
+      One additional change: because of the desire on PTEN's part to have as 
+many commercial breaks as possible, the 6-act script was jerry-rigged and 
+broken down into 9 acts.  One side-effect of this is that 9 acts wears on 
+you, and wears you out, more than the standard 6.  You start to get a feeling 
+of being led up to things too often, and there isn't time to dwell on the 
+acts you're in.  I was finally able, with this re-edit, to move scenes back 
+around again to what I originally wanted in a 6-act structure (you'll see a 
+number of scenes juxtaposed from their original order).
+
+      Anyway...the TNT Special Edition is much improved over the original.
+
+      Other stuff: the fanclub site continues to expand and improve.  If you 
+haven't been around in a while, you may want to check it out again sometime 
+soon (http://www.thestation.com).  The chat room is running better than ever 
+before, there are new graphics, and the B5 Emporium should be online in a 
+matter of days allowing purchase of B5FC stuff online with credit cards.  
+(Mail order stuff is still being processed.)
+
+      Latest additions to the lineup: Psi Corps hats and pins, patches of 
+various sorts, Earth Alliance pins, Ship Recognition charts in poster form, 
+and others.
+
+      Finally, I'll be a Guest of Honor at this year's LosCon, held 
+Thanksgiving weekend in L.A. at the Burbank Airport Hilton.  My 2-hour B5 
+presentation will be Sunday afternoon, where I'll be showing clips from the 
+two TNT tv-movies (including lots of stuff from the finished prequel), from 
+upcoming S5 episodes, new bloopers and so on.  I'll also be joined by John 
+Copeland, producer, and Harlan Ellison, our conceptual consultant.  This is 
+always an SRO venue for us -- LosCon has been a part of B5 from the start -- 
+so you may want to get there early.  (Or even go the day before; it's a fun 
+convention.)
+
+                                                                    jms
+
+
+ jms
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+

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Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )

+5 Nov 1997
+If you listen to the computer system it mentions "atypical solar emissions"
+ causing the problem...someone or something's messed with the sun.
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* ) (6 Nov 1997)
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Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )

+6 Nov 1997
>When Sinclair referred the sun going cold and burning out in Season 1 in
+>the ISN interview, was he prescient or was Desconstruction mapped out then?
+
+One needn't be prescient...it's *going* to happen one day.
+
+And to the second half...yeah, Deconstruction (or at least the events that
+ would go into it)  was mapped out back then.  
+
+
+ jms
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Gathering SE: Kyle Scene (6 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Gathering SE: Kyle Scene

+6 Nov 1997
>Will the defining moment of Kyle's character, the scene in
+>which Laurel asks him what he saw in Kosh's encounter suit, be
+>re-added to the pilot? 
+
+Yep.
+
+Virtually everything left out, is now back in again.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+B5 Tape Fraud, from jms (7 Nov 1997)
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B5 Tape Fraud, from jms

+7 Nov 1997
A number of folks have been spammed by a series of notes from a group called
+ VulcanEntr@aol.com offering tapes of B5 bloopers and rarities.  Under any
+ circumstances, NO ONE has been licensed or authorized to sell ANY B5 bloopers,
+ extracts, excerpts or interviews, anywhere on the planet.  (And this goes for
+ the B5 electronic press kit, which is specifically denoted as freeware and
+ it's illegal to sell them.)  If you see these tapes for sale ANYwhere, be
+ advised that you are dealing with stolen goods.
+
+Back to VulcanEntr...it was brought to their attention by a fan that they did
+ not have the rights to sell these tapes...they replied to the fan that they
+ DID have the rights, and had verified this with the B5 production office; even
+ had a convention organizer send a similar note, both threatening the fan
+ slander suits for such statements (that they were bootleggers).  The
+ convention organizer, Jon Bernam, of JD Productions, said that he had received
+ a copy of a letter from B5 to Vulcan Entr. giving them the rights to sell this
+ material.
+
+All this was forwarded on to me...and I then contacted them and in very short
+ order, VulcanEntr said that they never, ever at any time had any B5 tapes,
+ that a couple of part-time employees had misused their account to put out
+ these notes offering these items for sale...although Bernam stated that these
+ tapes had been on a table at his convention....
+
+VulcanEntr said they never had any knowledge of any of this, so how then did
+ Bernam get a copy of a letter supposedly authorizing this?
+
+I think the operative phrase here is, "duck and cover."  You'd think they would
+ at least get their stories straight.
+
+So consider this a fact-finding and weasel-hunting expedition.  If you ordered
+ a tape from VulcanEntr, and that check has been cashed, then if Vulcan Entr.
+ is correct and these tapes never existed...that's mail fraud.  If you DID get
+ a copy of these tapes, it's piracy and in the purview of the FBI.
+
+Obviously, I would prefer to continue going straight to the source for my
+ answers here, but overnight BOTH parties canceled their AOL accounts and have
+ vanished from sight.
+
+Suffice to say that any information on this situation will be very much
+ appreciated.  So that we can arrive at all the facts.  Meanwhile, the moral is
+ to stay clear of video pirates and bootleggers.
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: Attn: JMS  Have you heard this CD? (7 Nov 1997)
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Re: Attn: JMS  Have you heard this CD?

+7 Nov 1997
I've heard about them, though I haven't had a chance to listen to them
+ yet...but I gotta give you a big recommendation:
+
+Portishead.
+
+Yes, that's the name of a group, fairly new, brilliant stuff.  Go and buy.  I
+ was right about Red Clay Ramblers, and Squirrel Nut Zippers (just before
+ everyone else discovered them) and now I'm telling you...these guys are gonna
+ be *huge*.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: "Babylon 5 Journal" (7 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: "Babylon 5 Journal"

+7 Nov 1997
I have no idea what this is.  Unless it's the blank-book from Antioch.
+
+jms
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+Re: You may never read this, but thank you JMS (7 Nov 1997)
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+
Re: You may never read this, but thank you JMS

+7 Nov 1997
Thanks...and my best to your father as well.  I'm glad the show can be
+ something that brings folks together like this.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Odd idea (1 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Odd idea

+1 Nov 1997
I would like to note here that I read this on November 1, 1997; almost 3 months
+ after the filming of "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari."  
+
+My reasons for this will be evident later; be careful on suggestions.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Talking to Rod (8 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Talking to Rod

+8 Nov 1997
>So you're an idol.  I know its still hard for you to
+>comprehend.
+>	Feels weird, doesn't it? 
+>
+>
+More than just a little.  I still have a hard time seeing myself in that role. 
+ I just sorta do what I do; I'm doing what I was doing 10 years ago, even
+ longer, just writing the kinds of stories I like.  Same person, different
+ context.  
+
+But I constantly doubt...I doubt if the show is good enough, if the work is
+ good enough, if we did it right...I wonder if the show is getting enough
+ attention, so I go out to try and get it, but then when it comes, I worry
+ about the cult of personality...and then I worry that I'm worrying needlessly
+ because one thing that typifies B5 fans is that the don't seem to fall for the
+ cult of personality BS... and then I watch something by Serling and I feel
+ like a total fraud...and then I have to face the blank page and worry that
+ whatever the heck it was I did last time, I won't be able to do it again....
+
+I know, I know...thorazine, and lots of it....
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  How did you hone your "Time-bubble" method of writing? (8 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  How did you hone your "Time-bubble" method of writing?

+8 Nov 1997
>The time-bubble has appeared much more recently, especially in
+>"Endgame".  The amount of story you can put into such a small time
+>frame is incredible.  I don't think I've seen anything quite like it.
+
+It's one of those things I don't know if I can explain adequately, or sensibly.
+  A lot of it is totally instinctive, I don't sit down and think about it, I
+ just do it.  But to dissect...part of it is the intensity of the scenes, I
+ think.  Strong emotion extends time, stretches it; if you've ever been in a
+ major traumatic situation, a few minutes can seem like hours.  The more you
+ can put your character into a situation of intense emotions, and create those
+ same emotions in the viewer, you will in effect slow down perceived time.  
+
+Also, there's the matter of context here.  If you've set something up in prior
+ episodes, in something like "Endgame" there's no set-up which means exposition
+ and chews up time; you go right for the high point in the story bell-curve,
+ and you stay there.  So the part you're used to seeing take only a few minutes
+ at the end of an episode becomes almost the entirety of the episode; same
+ result.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Deconstruction(spoilers) (8 Nov 1997)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Deconstruction(spoilers)

+8 Nov 1997
> was the use of
+>combined words such as "realfact" and "goodfact" in the 500 year
+>sequence similarly a tip of the hat to David Brin's "The Crystal
+>Spheres", which made considerable use of this technique?
+
+Since I never read it, the answer would be no.  
+
+This is a common technique in literary SF, from 1984 to Brave New World, some
+ cyberpunk stuff...it's pretty common stuff.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  I'd like a new book if you don't mind... (9 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  I'd like a new book if you don't mind...

+9 Nov 1997
+>So whats the latest news on any new literary projects of
+>yours?  And...will Demon Night or Othersyde ever be reprinted?
+
+Eventually, yes, but I don't want those to be the first books out the docket
+ after B5.  They're both pretty good, but I think that whatevert I do in the
+ aftermath of B5 has got to be a hell ofa lot better than "pretty good."  
+
+Basically, between the name value that has accrued to the show, and my
+ background, I figure that good will can carry me through 2 or 3 books...but if
+ they're not killer books, that's gonna be where it ends.  If anything, that
+ knowedge is going to make me work *harder* on the books than if there were a
+ lower profile involved, where you can make mistakes and nobody sees them.  
+
+As for the future, I'm working on a couple of novels at roughly the same time
+ as everything else...it's just a matter of when what gets finished, and how I
+ feel about it.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: Who cares if DS9 imitates B5 (12 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Who cares if DS9 imitates B5

+12 Nov 1997
>If the producers and writers of DS9 find inspiration in B5 fine. 
+
+It might be, maybe, if Paramount hadn't spent 5 years trying to shut us down,
+ bury us, along the way intimidating at least one director into not  working
+ with us, and generally doing everything imaginable  to drive us off television
+ so they'd have the only space show in town.  
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Will there ever be a B5 Encyclopedia?(or anyone who (12 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Will there ever be a B5 Encyclopedia?(or anyone who

+12 Nov 1997
The B5 cd-rom, coming out later this month, has a LOT of information on the
+ show and its races, so that may qualify.
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS, B5 merchandise (12 Nov 1997)
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Re: Attn: JMS, B5 merchandise

+12 Nov 1997
I'd say, strictly on an appearance basis, that the 6" figures are a bit better
+ than the 9" ones.  And as for the collector's plates, Hamilton did its usual
+ market tests with mainstream collectors (who don't know from B5) and ST fans,
+ and based on this decided that there wasn't any market out there for B5
+ collectibles.
+
+No comment.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Portishead (12 Nov 1997)
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Re: Portishead

+12 Nov 1997
>Consider yourself vindicated: they are really popular, but they've kind
+>of peaked already.
+
+Well, if I hadn't heard of them (and most people haven't that I've talked to)
+ then it's a new thing for me.  
+
+Peaked already?  The second album is great, and I think that their popularity
+ is only going to grow, particularly here in the US.  
+
+Folks looking on...I ain't kidding.  If you haven't listened to either fo the
+ Portishead albums, you're missing a real treat.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Why no Sinclair in "The Beginning" ? (12 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why no Sinclair in "The Beginning" ?

+12 Nov 1997
> How's it possible to make
+>a movie about the Earth-Minbari war without even mentioning
+>Sinclair?
+>
+>
+Nobody said he wouldn't be mentioned; using the footage we shto from "And the
+ Sky Full of Stars," he's in the last part of the movie.  Bear in mind that at
+ the time he was a squadron leader assigned to Earth as part of the defense
+ network there, so didn't have a great deal to do with the larger parts of the
+ war.
+
+Basically, each character (with the exception of one or two) gets one or two
+ scenes in the movie (we have a lot of them, remember).  To bring Michael out
+ from New York, at first class airfare, plus accommodations, salary, for one or
+ two scenes (one of which we already *had* him for) was impossible under the
+ budget, much as we discussed it and would've been interested in doing so.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Best Books International/B5 scripts? (14 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Best Books International/B5 scripts?

+14 Nov 1997
No, no scripts can be sold except the "The Coming of Shadows," and only in my
+ writing book, and the edition from Boxtree, that's it, anything else is
+ illegal.
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* ) (2 Nov 1997)
+
+
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+
Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )

+2 Nov 1997
+We hear this every season.  It's okay.  
+
+The season will be better than this one, which was better than the one before. 
+ 
+
+It's what we do.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Comic Queries? (17 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Comic Queries?

+17 Nov 1997
>  Have you written any other comics?
+> 
+Yes; wrote an issue of the Twilight Zone comic for NOW comics, a DC Teen Titans
+ Special, Two-Face vs. Cyborg, the ST comic you mention, and the first B5 comic
+ issue.
+
+>      What comics have you enjoyed reading and dare I ask, do you enjoy
+>reading nowadays?  (and you can't just say Neil's stuff.  That's
+>cheating.)
+>
+
+Most anything by Alan Moore, though he's started getting a tad obscure even for
+ me.  I loved Marvels, and just bought Alex Ross' Justice Society print.  Also
+ very fond of Grant Morrison's work.   
+>     Any new info on the B5 comic?
+
+It's already coming out in installments in the B5 UK magazine, and
+ solicitations are going out in Diamond Distributers catalog for the US
+ printing from DC (three issues).
+
+As it turns out, I've just approached Dark Horse as the top of my list for a
+ new comic I've come up with, also with a 5-year arc but with nothing to do
+ with B5, something I don't think has been done much in superhero comics
+ before.  I'm giving them a little while longer to get back to me on it, and
+ then I'm going to take it out to the marketplace.  Justd went to DH first
+ because I've loved their prior work.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Peter David's "In The Beginning" (17 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Peter David's "In The Beginning"

+17 Nov 1997
>Is Peter David's novelization of "In The Beginning" going to hit the
+> marketplace before the premiere on January 4th?
+
+It'll be timed pretty close to the airing.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn:  JMS - Change in Attitude Toward Bester (17 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Attn:  JMS - Change in Attitude Toward Bester

+17 Nov 1997
>Every time I see a telepath being treated as less-than-human, my sympathy for
+>Bester increases a bit.  Is that your intent?
+>
+>
+
+Yup.
+
+And there's an episode later this 5th season, "The Corps is Mother, The Corps
+ is Father," which will show the other side of the Psi Corps coin.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+request from harlan (19 Nov 1997)
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+
request from harlan

+19 Nov 1997
+Harlan has asked me to ask y'all if you could do him a favor:
+
+He is looking to get as many copies as he can of the Science Fiction Book Club
+ "Things to Come" booklet/circular for December listing his book "City on the
+ Edge of Forever" and any flyers that went with it.
+
+If you have these on hand still, if you could send it on to Harlan Ellison c/o
+ Babylon 5, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423, it
+ would be *very* much appreciated.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS:illegal ranger pins? (19 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Attn JMS:illegal ranger pins?

+19 Nov 1997
+Yes, the Ranger pins are illegal, pirate merchandise.  Also crap, from what
+ I've seen.
+
+We're moving as fast as we can to get high-quality pins out there to cut the
+ knees out from under the crooks.  Earth Alliance pins are now available
+ through thestation.com, and the Psi Corps pins just came in.  We hope to have
+ Ranger pins soon, though they will be a little more costly since they're huge
+ and require a great deal of work to produce if they're going to look like what
+ they're supposed to be.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn: JMS -- Thanks and Thoughts (*SPOILERS* for S4 final 4) (19 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Attn: JMS -- Thanks and Thoughts (*SPOILERS* for S4 final 4)

+19 Nov 1997
+Thank you for the kind words, and the sonnet.  It was lovely.
+
+As for Marcus...the characters will have more time to grieve down the road, and
+ the repercussions of his life and death will be felt long after his passing,
+ and echo through parts of the fifth season.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn. JMS - B5 Fan Club Emporium (19 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Attn. JMS - B5 Fan Club Emporium

+19 Nov 1997
+>Doesn't that Fan Club do phone orders?
+>
+We're not set up for phones yet. 
+
+>I just got two of the Antioch B5 Calendars Uncomyn Gifts.  They're
+>incredible!
+
+Yeah, they're great
+
+>Antioch calendars, and some other items
+>through the Fan Club to give to some B5 buddies for Christmas.  Snail
+>mail may not make it in time. A phone number for orders would cut the
+>time in half.
+
+As it happens, either today or tomorrow the B5 fan club website
+ (www.thestation.com) will be finally set up to take orders via the site
+ itself, with a *very* secure credit card server.  So you can log on as soon as
+ it's up, put in the info, and it'll get processed fast.  (Especially for
+ initial orders, before things start to get busy.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate? (19 Nov 1997)
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Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate?

+19 Nov 1997
+I'm not quoted at ALL.  I never, at any time, said that B5 fans were in any way
+ smarter than ST fans.  The person who wrote the article came up with that as a
+ lead that has, and had, nothing to do with anything I said.  All I talked
+ about was the close relationship with B5 fans through treating them with
+ respect.  I think he may have been looking for a quote like that, but I didn't
+ give him one, and thus it didn't appear.  
+
+Never said it.  If I had, it'd be there.
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Space Patrol/Planet Patrol? (19 Nov 1997)
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Re: Space Patrol/Planet Patrol?

+19 Nov 1997
+The UK series was named Space Patrol, but when it came time to show it in the
+ States, they renamed it Planet Patrol to avoid legal complications and
+ confusion in the marketplace.
+
+As it happens, I'm getting a full run of the tapes in about a week from the
+ distributer, and looking forward to it, as it was one of my favorite shows as
+ a kid, though nobody else I ever spoke to in 20 years had ever heard of it.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: Zathra not be liking Portishead (20 Nov 1997)
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Re: Zathra not be liking Portishead

+20 Nov 1997
>Zathra next is buying Portishead.  Zathra put CD in player, and dog of 
+>Zathra is starting to howl.  Zathra is rarely ever hearing such terrible 
+>noises.  Zathra is now looking for Zathras.  Zathra wants to be giving 
+>Zathras very big wedgie.  
+
+Zathras say Zathras has tin ear.  Zathras say Zathras behind times.  Zathras
+ would say "feh" but Zathras not having background in Early Eastern European
+ and Yiddish vocabularies would be stretching credulity.  Zathras not like
+ stretching credulity, always snaps back and hits poor Zathras in the face.
+
+But Zathras understand.  Many different kinds of music in universe, not all
+ Zathras like.  Is why there are nine of us.  All have different opinions, all
+ speak opinions, all good people.
+
+One has tin ear.
+
+feh.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn. JMS: Congratulations & Thank You (2 Nov 1997)
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Re: Attn. JMS: Congratulations & Thank You

+2 Nov 1997
No, the thanks are all mine, for your staying with us from the beginning.
+
+Thanks.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+from jms B5 online store is up! (20 Nov 1997)
+
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+
from jms B5 online store is up!

+20 Nov 1997
The B5 emporium, allowing online ordering of all B5 fan club stuff (including
+ the Great Maker t-shirts the crew made for 422, Agamemnon caps, Psi Corps
+ hats, Earth Alliance pins, autographed boxes of Fleer cards, Ship Recognition
+ Posters, and other cool stuff) is now up and working with a secure credit card
+ server at http://www.thestation.com and taking orders.  
+
+More cool stuff to come, including Psi Corps pins and the B5 informational
+ CDrom and so on.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Someone has seen an In the Beginning test screening (20 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Someone has seen an In the Beginning test screening

+20 Nov 1997
>
+>According to Ain't It Cool Coaxial News, TNT is currently test screening
+>In the Beginning.  The person who reported it was very impressed.  Ther
+>article is at http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/coaxial/971117/1.html but
+>it really doesn't say anything that we don't know.
+
+Actually, it wasn't a test screening, it was a screening for cast and crew.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Widescreen anywhere in world? (20 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Widescreen anywhere in world?

+20 Nov 1997
My reply was in reference to a widescreen film release, or at least that's what
+ I thought I was replying to.  To go to film for widescreen would take some
+ work and recompositing the stuff to film stock.
+
+Yes, B5 is shown in widescreen in France and Portugal.  Bear in mind that these
+ tend to be digital transfers from digital betacam to PAL format, as opposed to
+ transferring all the CGI to film stock.
+
+At the end of the day, when the series is done, we'll transfer all the CGI to
+ film so we can deliver the entire series on film stock.  
+
+jms
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+repost from jms (20 Nov 1997)
+
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repost from jms

+20 Nov 1997
For some reason my other message never showed up (and several others seem to
+ have not shown up)....
+
+1) Harlan Ellison asks that if you still have the December Science Fiction Book
+ Club circular, Things to Come, mentioning his book City on the Edge of
+ Forever, and/or the flyers that came with it, to send them along to him via
+ the B5 mail drop, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423.
+
+2) The B5 emporium is now available for online purchases at www.thestation.com.
+
+3) I'll be Guest of Honor at LosCon in Los Angeles over Thanksgiving Weekend at
+ the Burbank Airport Hilton showing clips from Season 5 and the prequel, and
+ new bloopers.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Directing creativity and richness in CGI (20 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Directing creativity and richness in CGI

+20 Nov 1997
>I was interested in how you're able to direct the CGI creations to
+>match the story so well.  They would work from scripts I'd expect -
+>are there story boards you use as well? How much lead time does all
+>that CGI creative process need?
+>
+>
+Sometimes there are storyboards, based on what's in the script, if it's a very
+ complex sequence.  Usually, it's shot for shot what's in the script, though
+ the animators find ways to visualize that in creative and exciting ways,
+ making it dynamic.
+
+Each numbered scene calling for CGI is done individually, then sent back for my
+ and John Copeland's approval.  Usually that means just saying yes, but
+ sometimes we ask for adjustments.  
+
+It takes about 52 days to finish all the CGI for one episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS : In The Beginning -> Ivy's Brother? (21 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS : In The Beginning -> Ivy's Brother?

+21 Nov 1997
>I was wondering, is there any chance that we'll see Ivanova's brother in In
+>The
+>Beginning?
+
+I'd say a very good chance.
+
+>P.S. What was that thing about Larry Ditillio setting your office on fire?
+
+We'd declared war on each other across the hall, and I'd stolen his platen. 
+>From there, it escalated.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: CD prices at B5 Emporium (21 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: CD prices at B5 Emporium

+21 Nov 1997
>The _correct_ regular prices for these CD's, from the Sonic Images web
+>site, are $13.99 for the soundtracks, and $10.98 (_below_ the Member
+>Price!) for the episodes. 
+
+That's because Chris, as maker of the CDs, can charge less since there's no one
+else in the loop.  That's pretty much the wholesale price.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate? (21 Nov 1997)
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Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate?

+21 Nov 1997
Didn't know that, so it's definitely the editor, then, not Craig.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: Official Guide to B5 CD Rom (23 Nov 1997)
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Re: Official Guide to B5 CD Rom

+23 Nov 1997
>Why does the babcom unit never work?
+>
+>
+
+It's broken.  But what it does now is let you eavesdrop on what's going on. 
+Click on the Babcom screen, and you get .wav files from some of the more
+memorable lines of the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS   B5 FanClub Emporium is GRREAT! (23 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS   B5 FanClub Emporium is GRREAT!

+23 Nov 1997
Thanks, though Jeffrey Willerth gets most of the credit for getting this puppy
+up and running.  
+
+So far the orders are coming in strong, and the first batch of orders (100 in
+the first day alone) went out the very next day.
+
+We're going to be adding more cool stuff shortly to the store.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: B5 is in wonderful company on TNt (2 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: B5 is in wonderful company on TNt

+2 Nov 1997
>Seen the TNT's first Monday night Nitro film starring Terry "Hulk" Hogan and
+>Carl "I can't find work" Weathers _Attack on Devil's Island_ ?
+>
+>
+
+Actually, the set night now for B5 is *Wednesday*, not Monday.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  How do TV critics see the show? (23 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  How do TV critics see the show?

+23 Nov 1997
The critics will usually get a copy of the cassette for review.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Copyright Infringement? (23 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Copyright Infringement?

+23 Nov 1997
I think Valen is a fine idea for a name...others have done similar, so don't
+fret it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Someone has seen an In the Beginning test screening (23 Nov 1997)
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Re: Someone has seen an In the Beginning test screening

+23 Nov 1997
>So, it's possible that the person who gave the glowing review was probably an
+>insider and probably biased to give a good review.
+
+Not necessarily.  A number of folks not directly involved with the show, who
+didn't know diddly about B5, were invited as sort of guinea pigs to see how the
+show would be received, and many of those on the show brought friends who
+hadn't seen it before, so it could've been anyone.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Harlan Ellison's job description (23 Nov 1997)
+
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+
Re: Harlan Ellison's job description

+23 Nov 1997
>What does he actually do?
+
+Anydamnthing he wants.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  The Third Age of JMS (23 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  The Third Age of JMS

+23 Nov 1997
>	JMS'  journey has just begun. I wonder if it will be as crazy as the
+other
+>two Ages of JMS...
+
+I've never had a sane one yet.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  What will be cut? (23 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  What will be cut?

+23 Nov 1997
>Joe, if you're going to put back some 14 minutes of material in 
+>the Gathering, what, if anything, will have to be cut to make room
+>for it?
+
+Not much, just little snippets of things...the show was *very* slow paced, and
+once you pick up the pacing within scenes, whole vast tracts of time appear.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate? (24 Nov 1997)
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Re: Attn: JMS Yahoo article accurate?

+24 Nov 1997
One more thing...
+
+>   Average IQ of a "Star Trek" fan: 152.
+>
+>            Average IQ of a "Babylon 5" fan: 170.
+>
+>            At least that's the way "Bab5" fans
+>            figure it.
+
+I never mentioned IQs, nor were they mentioned by the reporter to me during the
+ interview.  Further, the journalist here does not put those words in my mouth
+ in ANY event, he says that's "the way the B5 fans figure it."  
+
+In any event, I was as astonished to read that as anyone else.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: Criticism: Official UK Magazine (26 Nov 1997)
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Re: Criticism: Official UK Magazine

+26 Nov 1997
>Thankfully, many of the negative criticisms directed at the magazine
+>are now being dispelled. It is particularly gratifying to know that
+>the Editor, John Freeman, with whom I had talked regarding my
+>concerns, is open to ideas, is willing to listen and act on concerns,
+>has responded to ideas and most of all has had the integrity to
+>re-approach the CC affair in an open, honest and forthright manner. I
+>have been scathing in my criticism before, because I felt it was
+>wholly justified. Likewise, it is only fair now to give credit now to
+>John and his team for making the efforts they obviously have made to
+>improve the magazine to what is now a good standard.
+
+At risk of being perceived as doing an "I told you so," let me point out just
+one thing.
+
+The interview with CC that you cite as being fair and just and balanced *WAS
+ALREADY IN HAND AND TYPESET AND APPROVED BY ME PERSONALLY* when the previous
+issue appeared...before then, actually, because the production process runs
+about 7-8 weeks for articles, though news features tend to be more timely.  
+
+So basically John and I put up with a great deal of accusations and mudslinging
+and invective on not being fair when there was already a very fair ("too fair"
+some have grumbled) piece in and slated to appear in the very next issue.  The
+brief piece in 3 was just a last minute addition to the whole thing, because it
+couldn't go uncommented upon for that long to wait until issue 4.
+
+My point being...we do try and do the right thing.  We ask that you trust us to
+continue doing so, and let us have the benefit of the doubt until shown
+otherwise.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 online store is up! but at what cost? (26 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 online store is up! but at what cost?

+26 Nov 1997
The shipping costs of everything that comes out of the B5 fan club is on an
+absolute par with everyone else out there.
+
+As for shipping...yes, we could charge less for shipping, but we have been
+cognizent of the requests from B5 fans that their stuff arrive *intact*.  The
+calendars you cite don't just go out in regular envelopes, as others tend to
+ship them...they go out UPS in a very strong container to prevent damage to
+what is, after all, a collectible item.  Basically, you get what you pay for.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN:  JMS  Creation Vs. LosCon (26 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN:  JMS  Creation Vs. LosCon

+26 Nov 1997
>Did you guys get those travel pods working or is there a lot of cross
+>town drivin' going on?  Which should I attend?  At $40 bucks a wack I
+>just want to see the best show.
+
+Basically, the actors will be at Creation that Sunday; I will be doing my B5
+presentation (bringing clips and bloopers and other cool stuff) the same day at
+LosCon at the Burbank Airport Hilton.
+
+So basically it's a clear-cut choice; if one wants to see actors, one goes to
+Pasadena; if one wants to see writers (and there are many other writers at
+LosCon) one goes there.   
+
+(BTW, I'll be doing selected other panels at LosCon Friday and Saturday as
+well.  But the main B5 showcase is Sunday.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Deconstruction:  YOWZA YOWZA YOWZA!!! (2 Nov 1997)
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Re: Deconstruction:  YOWZA YOWZA YOWZA!!!

+2 Nov 1997
Yeah, a lot of folks have found the eventual "going out" of Sol to be
+ depressing...but as was stated 'way back in our VERY FIRST EPISODE, this is
+ the one thing we can be sure WILL happen, sooner or later (probably later).  
+
+All the more reason to get off the planet, asap.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Londo and G'Kar (26 Nov 1997)
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Re: Londo and G'Kar

+26 Nov 1997
>Has G'Kar forgiven Londo?  Why?  (Details are appreciated.)
+>
+>
+
+I should think there are a couple of steps that have to happen before that can
+take place.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATT: JMS: The Third TNT Movie (24 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATT: JMS: The Third TNT Movie

+24 Nov 1997
>I saw you mention the shooting dates for the third TNT movie, which must
+>mean the script is in the can -- would you please give us loyal fans
+>some tantalizing hints about this one?  When does it take place, which
+>characters does it feature, ANYTHING 
+
+Actually, no, it isn't written yet.  I won't be able to have a clear field to
+write it until after I've finished writing the 5th season.  I know in general
+what I want to do with it, have fleshed out a lot, but until I've run the
+premise past TNT and WB officially, I can't comment.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* ) (27 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )

+27 Nov 1997
Re: the whole money thing...if I'd been in this for the money, I would've
+stayed where I was on Murder, She Wrote.  I took a substantial pay cut to come
+do B5, even though the position here was higher than my position on M,SW.
+
+The script fees for syndication are a little over half what they are for a
+network show; the residuals are more in network; the producing fees are double
+what I'm getting in network...there ain't no pile of gold in syndication, boys
+and girls.  If I was in this for the money, I'd go back to nework TV.
+
+Thing is, I can't tell these kinds of stories in network TV.  So I'm here. 
+
+Nobody's put a pile of gold in front of me yet.  Not that I'm opposed to the
+idea, it'd be nice if someone did it, I'd certainly be inclined to be
+grateful...but it just hasn't happened.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: request from harlan (27 Nov 1997)
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Re: request from harlan

+27 Nov 1997
>Why does he want to take them away from us?
+
+Nobody's taking anything from anyone; he asked for any copies that people had
+which were probably going to be thrown out in any event, as most were.  That's
+the extent of it.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Attn JMS: thestation.com (27 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Attn JMS: thestation.com

+27 Nov 1997
We changed servers and the system upgrade when we changed providers; you need
+to go to the main menu and sign in now.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* ) (27 Nov 1997)
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Re: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. ( *Spoilers* )

+27 Nov 1997
>1) Will TNT 'shave' the show to put in more commercials?
+>
+
+Nope.
+
+>2) Is there a book or CD or site that you, JMS, would recommend
+>as a way for someone to pick up the story.
+
+There's the lurker's guide (www.midwinter.com) and thestation.com, and the new
+B5 informational CDrom which just came out has heaps of info about the B5
+universe.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATT: JMS: Those StarFury Models ... (27 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: ATT: JMS: Those StarFury Models ...

+27 Nov 1997
Yes, the models are a go, in fact I just recently approved the master mold for
+the station, which is going to be huge.  
+
+Should be out soon; we went back and forth a few times getting the texturing
+right on the Starfury wings, but we finally got that worked out, and the things
+look great.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: Official Guide to B5 CD Rom (27 Nov 1997)
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Re: Official Guide to B5 CD Rom

+27 Nov 1997
>I also kinda hoped that we'd be able to learn more about the Dilgar and
+>Markabs even though they are gone but this CD was full (640MB) so I guess VOL
+>2 :)
+
+The conceit we used in designing the cdrom was that it's a guide to the present
+B5 as of the end of the fourth season...them's what's gone, is gone, them's
+what remains, get discussed.  It's the guide you'd get upon arriving, rather
+than a history of the B5 universe, which is a daunting prospect.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Emporium (29 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Emporium

+29 Nov 1997
I don't believe the figures (the 6" or the 9" ones) will be available from the
+Emporium, no.
+
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: att: JMS -- Do you miss the feedback? (29 Nov 1997)
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Re: att: JMS -- Do you miss the feedback?

+29 Nov 1997
Well, bear in mind that I've had about 4 years of feedback, so there's
+that...and in our first season, there was just as much lead time so we're used
+to it.
+
+And there's only a 3 month break here between the last S4 ep and the new
+season, which is less than we've had in other cases.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Delenn & Deconstruction question... (2 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Delenn & Deconstruction question...

+2 Nov 1997
> How exactly did Delenn get into the studio so quickly?
+
+Most TV studios that I've seen have back doors that open out onto the back lot
+ or the outside for fire control reasons.  You can get into any of the 3 B5
+ stages from the outside in, oh, about 5 seconds through any of a number of
+ doors.  (Note to anyone looking on: yes, those stage doors are secured, and
+ there are guards, and unless you're a Minbari you're not getting in.)  And
+ most of the TV studios I've been in have been the same.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: Slightly off topic: zinc lozenges (29 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Slightly off topic: zinc lozenges

+29 Nov 1997
Your best bet is to combine the zinc lozenges with chewable vitamin C, usually
+at a base of about 2 to 1 in favor of the C.  I have found, each time, that it
+cuts down the symptom and duration of the cold or flu 30-50%.  Just be sure to
+eat something with it, because the acidity can build up pretty fast otherwise.
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Kudos to Peter David (29 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Kudos to Peter David

+29 Nov 1997
It's *out* already?  I thought it wouldn't be coming out until mid-December.  
+
+Anyway...yeah, Peter did a fine job with the book.  He added a few bits here
+and there, for which he should get the credit, and overall did a very good job
+of it.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: B5 fans support death penalty?? (29 Nov 1997)
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Re: B5 fans support death penalty??

+29 Nov 1997
>The death penalty clearly exists in the B5 universe;  I don't 
+>know how jms feels about the issue.  
+
+Basically, it's this.
+
+There are some individuals who, I believe, should never, ever, under any
+circumstances be allowed to return to free society, due to the heinous nature
+of their crimes and/or the degree of certainty that they will continue a
+pattern of such crimes.  Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, others.  
+
+For individuals such as these, I am in favor of the death penatly UNLESS...and
+this is a very important unless...life in prison, when rendered as a pentaly,
+MEANS life in prison.  All too often, someone who has committed the most
+heinous of crimes may be sentenced to life...but gets out in 15 or 20 years.  
+
+I'm a real simple guy, and from where I sit, if you take a life via murder in
+the first degree (as opposed to accidents, manslaughter or similar
+situations)...where you've done it deliberately, with malice and forethought,
+then you give up your life.  Now that can be a life spent behind bars.  I'm
+perfectly fine with that, and if that is the situation, then no, there's
+absolutely no need for a death penalty and I'd be first in line to have it
+struck down.
+
+The legal system needs teeth, but it also needs sanity.  It needs to make the
+violent among us understand that if you do this terrible thing, there will be a
+sure and certain penalty waiting for you that will remove your ability to take
+part in the free world.  It need not be the death penalty if some other sure
+and certain penalty is available.
+
+This, for me, ain't a political thing or about agendas or left-wing or
+right-wing.  The bird needs both wings or it ain't gonna fly.  The heart says,
+"There must be balance, in one way or another."  By the same token, I think we
+need better gun control laws and gun registration laws.  (Let's not get into a
+whole gun discussion because they fall apart real fast...I'm only offering my
+opinion, not seeking to change anyone's views.)
+
+I'd make the following exchange: we get stiffer gun control and registration
+laws, but if a citizen has had no history of violence or criminal activity, and
+can show cause why it would be useful, would make it easier to get carry
+permits so that lawful citizens could carry them.  And if a gun is used in a
+crime, you hit them with the full extent of the law.  
+
+The first part of that is probably perceived as the liberal idea; the second
+half conservative; the third, moderate.  Put them all together and you have
+something more cohesive than isolating any one of them.
+
+While I'm mouthing off, if I were running things (and aren't we all just a
+little glad I'm *not*?), I'd go into the inner city and declare eminent domain
+over the slums and the ghettos and other long abandoned buildings and
+tenaments, seize them, and send in the Army Engineering Corps to get them up to
+snuff for low-cost housing.  Hell, if we could build a city in Saudi Arabia in
+2 months, what could we do in Watts?
+
+Given that the president has sole authority over the waterways of the country
+(per the constitution), a flick of the pen could issue an order requiring that
+companies using river water for their manufacturing facilities have to locate
+their intake valves DOWNSTREAM from their output valves, so that if they don't
+clean up the stuff that goes into the river...they have to suck it in ten feet
+downstream.  You'd cut back on water pollution and it wouldn't cost the country
+a dime.
+
+I'd suggest that any corporation that came out of this country and shuts its
+doors, moving its operations overseas to use cheap labor and putting all the
+people who created that business out of jobs by the tens of thousands...should
+lose the right to sell to this country.  If we're good enough to buy your
+products, we're good enough to make them.
+
+If FDR could make a New Deal and get this country on its feet after something
+as financially debilitating as the Great Depression with work programs, surely
+in the 90s when the economy is, they tell us, booming, we should be able to
+create workfare programs to get people rebuilding the infrastructure, repairing
+our crumbling bridges and schools and sewers and fixing potholes.
+
+Now, obviously some people reading this will say "what's it gonna cost if we do
+this?"  (To which part of the answer is in the paragraph immediately preceding
+this.)
+
+To which I also say, "what's it gonna cost if we *don't*?"
+
+There...you now know more than you could possibly have wanted to know about my
+positions on stuff.  All of which is, incidentally, utterly and completely
+irrelevant to the show.  
+
+I just wish people would quit fighting over whether to use the left or the
+right oar when the boat is sinking.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Harlan Ellison going to court as witness???? (29 Nov 1997)
+
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Re: Harlan Ellison going to court as witness????

+29 Nov 1997
>Towards the end, in a paragraph beginning "AJ Bielow is working on this 
+>case,....." it is claimed that Harlan Ellison may be going to court as a 
+>witness in her favour.
+
+As soon as I read this, I called Harlan (9:10 p.m. Friday night) and he stated
+that he is not involved with any Dr. Who project or suit, and that he is not
+testifying as a witness in any such situation, and that this is not a true
+statment.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Anthology Series (2 Nov 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Anthology Series

+2 Nov 1997
>Outside of a sixth B5 season which you've said would be "Tales of..."
+>eps, would you ever consider creating an anthology series for
+>television?  Are anthology series as tough to get started and keep
+>rolling as I've heard?  Are they more expensive to produce?
+
+Actually, I've tried several times to get anthology series off the ground, but
+ unless they're tied to a pre-sold name, nobody's interested.
+
+
+ jms
+
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Sierra guide "easter egg" (Possible SiL spoiler?) (4 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sierra guide "easter egg" (Possible SiL spoiler?)

+4 Dec 1997
>Wording this carefully so as not to totally spoil the surprise for those who
+>haven't found the "hidden" area, as well as to avoid what could be a *major*
+>spoiler for the show... would this be the "multiple choice" answer section?
+
+Yup.
+
+And your conclusion is correct.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Could the dog be too heavy for the tail? (9 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Could the dog be too heavy for the tail?

+9 Dec 1997
>the least successful of the novels, and comic books,
+>were attempts at creating an original story based in the B5 Universe.
+>However, with B5, the Arc itself is so stringient, that it
+>makes it difficult to do the same thing.  Unless the B5 Universe is
+>expanded further with Crusade and the B5 TNT movies, I suspect that B5
+>novels will only succeed if they are parts of the Arc already set in
+>place. 
+
+I suppose ist's a matter of perspective.  B5 is future history; the events of
+that history are set (to my mind, at least), but that isn't much different from
+books about real history...there are a nearly infinite number of them, covering
+every possible subject.  Each passing year provides enough grist for several
+hundred books about the events that took place in that year.
+
+If -- and this is shooting pretty damned high -- IF we were able to use these
+books to fully flesh out a consistent universe, with a full and detailed and
+self-referential history, BUT making each of them interesting and sufficiently
+self-contained for the casual reader to get into them, and could do this over a
+number of years, look at the huge tapestry you'd create.
+
+That's the theory of what we're going to try and do with the Del Rey novels. 
+We may succeed, we may fail, but it's going to be an interesting experiment.
+
+For instance:
+
+The first of the 3 trilogies from Del Rey is a Psi Corps story that spans about
+a hundred years or so, from the early days of the Corps to the aftermath of the
+Telepath War, with Bester being the linchpin in the storyline bridging all
+three books.
+
+To make them absolutely canonical, or as much as conceivable, I sat down and,
+based on my background notes for the series, wrote the outlines for the first
+two novels, and will be finishing up #3 shortly.  These will then be assigned
+and fleshed out to novel length.
+
+So we'll see if this works.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS  Writing quality (9 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  Writing quality

+9 Dec 1997
>Do you ever get sloppy when you're writing, especially on deadline,
+>late at night, etc, and when/if it does happen, what do you do about it?
+>
+>
+
+On deadline, no, but late, when I'm tired...it can happen to anyone.  What you
+have to do is take steps to be self-correcting.
+
+For starters, I never sit down to write a scene until I've finished working it
+out in my head, which usually happens well before I get to a keyboard.  So if I
+hit the keyboard late, it's not a question of being creative, it's remembering
+precisely what I'd thought of earlier.  (Which is why my desk is a constant
+clutter of post-it notes.)  
+
+Even so, things can slip by, which is why my pattern of writing is to start the
+day's writing by going over and rewriting the last 5-10 pages I've already
+written, rather than just jumping right into the next scene.  I find this helps
+me find any stupid stuff that slipped in, and I get back into the swing of the
+writing again.  I trim and tighten, and I'm ready to go on the next section,
+while being sure that the one preceding is solid.  Which is why, when the
+script is finally published in-house for production, there's very little
+revision done to it because it's already been revised several times in the
+writing process.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Holiday celebration? (9 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Holiday celebration?

+9 Dec 1997
>I was just curious as to whether the cast and crew of B5 do anything to
+>celebrate the holidays together before breaking for Christmas?  If so,
+>what, party, exchange cards, etc?
+
+Every year we give gifts to the crew, ranging from B5 jackets to fleece
+sweaters to other cool stuff, and have a christmas party.
+
+Fewer seem to survive them every year.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Franchising the Final Frontier (9 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Franchising the Final Frontier

+9 Dec 1997
>Do you think that the Trek franchise, although a quality product, has grown a
+>bit stale and overextended as of late?  Due to oversaturation caused partly
+>by
+>the large number of shows under the Trek umbrella (TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager)
+>and
+>also in part by too much product mass marketing
+> it's reached a
+>point where the franchise sustains the need for the productions and
+overshadows
+>them, rather than the other way around.
+
+I think (actually, I know) from conversations with many of the folks over at ST
+that some of them are very aware of the problem, that there's a limit on how
+often they can go to the well.  The sense among fans I speak to is that it's
+become a license to print money, and that the driving force is avarice rather
+than storytelling, with the result that the creative people are straitjacketed.
+
+> With Crusade coming up, the TNT telefilms and
+>the exposure of B5 on TNT in a larger market than in syndication, the
+>prospect
+>of a feature film looming on the horizon, and the introduction of model kits,
+>reference and game CDs, and other collectibles, I wondered if you had similar
+>concerns and reservations about B5 becoming a marketing franchise in the long
+>run, if that franchising could possibly hurt either the quality of the shows
+>and the products stemming from them (novels, etc.). and how you would address
+those issues for the long-term?
+
+Well, for starters remember that it's taken ST 30 years to get to this point of
+saturation, and we're only 5 years in at this point, so in theory we've got 25
+years to go before we become real pains in the ass.  But that aisde....
+
+This is something that I've been wary and watchful of from the very first days
+of the show, which is why I've dragged my feet on licensing for the most part
+over the years, doing only a few things, seeing how they worked, they trying
+other things, to see where we could control the quality.  It's trial and error,
+but I'd rather do trial and error on a small scale and learn rather than on a
+big scale and crash and burn.
+
+I think it helps that there's one single voice behind all this, to make sure
+that the story remains at the center of the thing, and the tail does not begin
+wagging the dog.  What we do, should be cool stuff that I would like
+personally, which I can promote honestly and say "this is cool."  And that's
+where we're starting to get.
+
+Basically, if we apply the same common sense approach used in making B5 to the
+ancillary stuff, we should be okay.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Pegasus Publishing: A poor experience (11 Dec 1997)
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Re: Pegasus Publishing: A poor experience

+11 Dec 1997
There's two Pegasus companies out there (Pegasus? Pegasi?) and one is licensed,
+one is not.  Be careful which is which.  The nonlicensed one has been only
+trouble.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: credits on opening (12 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: credits on opening

+12 Dec 1997
Some actors just like being last 'cause they think it draws more attention to
+the credit.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Falling off roofs just to see season 5 (12 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Falling off roofs just to see season 5

+12 Dec 1997
Be careful up there...those damn reindeer are capable of anything, especially
+when they get too much rum up their snoots.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn:JMS:Excalibur (12 Dec 1997)
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Re: Attn:JMS:Excalibur

+12 Dec 1997
>Is the Excalibur that was given to Delenn in LDaA the "real" Excalibur or
+>just a symbolic representation of it?
+>
+>
+
+Since that wasn't really Arthur, the odds of that really being Excalibur are
+substantially reduced.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: The real end of the series (12 Dec 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: The real end of the series

+12 Dec 1997
>Since you're on ep 517, that must mean 521 is round the corner.. so I
+>gotta wonder when it's gonna hit ya (and the rest of the cast and crew)
+>that the end of writing, end of filming, end of post-production work, etc.
+>is coming soon.
+
+I dunno...on one level, I think everyone's too busy to give it much thought. 
+On another, having gone through all this last season, I think to some extent
+it's already been burned through, and we're past that stage now.  (Anger,
+denial, depression, bargaining, acceptance - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.)
+
+That there's going to be another TV movie is a big help for everyone, and the
+prospect of Crusade keeping our crew busy is a help to them, and WB is still
+muttering about a possible feature film which is keeping everyone's spirits
+up...so it's surprisingly low key and okay.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Does Harlan Also Want... (13 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Does Harlan Also Want...

+13 Dec 1997
Harlan's gotten copies of the material, so there's no need for more, except to
+thank those who sent stuff along on his behalf.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS  - Are these licensed? (4 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  - Are these licensed?

+4 Dec 1997
Yep, the stand-ups are licensed and legal.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Moore Watchmen question (13 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Moore Watchmen question

+13 Dec 1997
>I've read that you're a fan of Alan Moore (along with other comic book
+>writers).  Can I assume that you've read  Alan Moore's "Watchmen" comic
+>series,
+>which I think was the best comic story ever?
+
+Watchmen was bitching.  I think it redefined comics in much the same way as
+Dark Knight did (though not followed up on as much, and alas too many
+publishers thought that they could do DK by just getting dark and depressing
+which is why a lot of them lost a lot of readers).  DK also holds up well.
+
+>Also, what other comics had an impact on you?  You pull some of your
+>writers from the comic medium, and you use comics for B5 storytelling.  Is
+>there a reason you use so many comic writers on B5(Gaiman, David)? 
+
+I think the Miracleman series by Moore is still one of the most brilliant
+things I've ever read.  I'm partial to his work, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman,
+Peter David and a few others.  I also thought that Mage was one of the best
+books around (just this week discovered that apparently it is or has been
+coming out again with a new sequence, so I'm going to have to to back into the
+comics store again for the first time in a while).
+
+I loved Grendel, and some of the Grendel followups by diverse hands.  The
+Aliens comics from Dark Horse are (were) great most of the time, taking the
+storyline to new levels.  I enjoyed the heck out of Marvels, for the
+photorealistic approach which took a mortal's eye view of superheros.  Ditto
+for Uncle Sam and Kingdom Come.  And, of course, Cerebus; I think Dave Sim is
+the only other person who can understand what it is to do a story of this scale
+and duration.  Also enjoyed Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo.
+
+Comics are a visual, concise medium, which is why I think the writers involved
+can translate so well to television.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: B5 book submissions? (14 Dec 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: B5 book submissions?

+14 Dec 1997
>Since you're riding herd on the new Babylon 5 novels
+>to bring them more in line with series continuity and to create mini-
+>arcs, is Del Rey actually accepting submissions for Babylon 5 novels,
+>or are you or the editors assigning your story outlines to established
+>writers?
+
+At this point, I'm writing the outlines, which are being assigned to outside,
+established writers.  I've already turned in the first two installments of the
+first 3-volume series on the Psi Corps.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS or TNT People: Promo Question (15 Dec 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS or TNT People: Promo Question

+15 Dec 1997
If it's the one I'm thinking of...what happened was this: I never much liked
+the way WB in general promoted the show, which was an all-action, no-thought
+kind of approach.  Knowing TNT was going to be coming in, and not wanting to go
+through the process of reinventing the wheel, I wrote up what I thought would
+be a great approach to the commercials, and I made a version of it here, which
+I showed at a couple of conventions, noting that this is how I'd like the show
+to be promoted (showed it at Westercon, in fact).  
+
+When I went to Atlanta to meet with the TNT folks, I brought it with me, and
+showed it to them...and they loved it, and asked for copies.  What came out is
+extremely similar to the structure of the one we did here...and it works great.
+ It sells the overall story, the emotion, the rising and falling of
+empires...all that.  They've been extremely open to our ideas and suggestions,
+which is terrific.  I can't say enough good things about TNT.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+from jms re: email (15 Dec 1997)
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from jms re: email

+15 Dec 1997
Just a reminder that private email is expressly for matters of a private or
+personal nature.  General questions about story, character, theme or plot
+should be put forth in the public forums, so that others can benefit from the
+answers and to help keep me from answering the same questions repeatedly in
+private mail.  My mailbox is starting to fill up with this sort of mail, and
+I'd rather not just ignore it, but rather redirect it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Lockley (15 Dec 1997)
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Re: Lockley

+15 Dec 1997
>What role did TNT picking
+>up season 5 have to do with the casting of Tracy Scoggins?
+
+Zip.
+
+We picked her, she was the best person for the role, even Jerry felt that in
+the audition, we told TNT this is who we want, and they said great.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATT JMS: First scene? (15 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATT JMS: First scene?

+15 Dec 1997
>in more than one place you talk about
+>B5 coming to you in a flash (in the shower! IIRC) So I have 2 questions:
+>
+>1) Will/has that scene actually make/made it into the show? or did it
+>"wind up on the [virtual] cutting room floor"?
+
+It wasn't *a* scene...it was sort of a general view of the whole thing, a sense
+of the overall story, where it would go, who would be it...not any one
+particular scene.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: To JMS or anyone - UK viewer needs help! (15 Dec 1997)
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Re: To JMS or anyone - UK viewer needs help!

+15 Dec 1997
Tell the other British fans they can relax; one of the ways I made sure that
+neither WB nor anyone else could air Sleeping in Light was to simply not finish
+it.  The shooting is done, obviously, and it's all edited together...but we
+haven't even started rendering the CGI yet (no need to, and other stuff is
+pressing), haven't done the audio mix, none of that.  Just a little
+insurance....
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 fans not on cable or internet (16 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 fans not on cable or internet

+16 Dec 1997
> I would
+>guess, however, that many B5 fans think
+>it is over.  Is TNT doing anything to
+>attact the attention of B5 fans who are
+>not on cable or the internet?
+
+I know, I hear from a lot of folks who *are* on the net and who think the show
+has been canceled.  All TNT can do is what they're doing, a massive print and
+TV ad campaign to let folks know.  There's a ten million dollar value campaign
+behind the launch on TNT, print ads, bus ads, there will be commercials on ST
+and X-Files, a four-page spread in Entertainment Weekly in the next week or so,
+and I've been giving a busload of press interviews lately: TV Guide, USA Today,
+Chicago Tribune, others, and I'll be shlepped out to NY sometime in January to
+do more press stuff.  They're dedicated to really selling this thing.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: TNT versus WB (17 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: TNT versus WB

+17 Dec 1997
>Has TNT's involvement
+>influenced your decision to go with a spinoff? 
+
+No, the B5 story ends where it ends; I always wanted to do the follow-up story,
+from the beginning, and said so...so it didn't really affect that one way or
+another.
+
+But certainly, TNT has been extremely supportive of the show, on every
+imaginable level, and it's terrific.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+
+Re: JMS: how do execs constrain Voyager writers? (17 Dec 1997)
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Re: JMS: how do execs constrain Voyager writers?

+17 Dec 1997
A studio can influence the direction of any TV series, and its writers, by
+bouncing scripts that they don't like, by telling the producers what direction
+to take the show...they can influence the tone, the kinds of stories told (safe
+vs. controversial) because it's their money, and their show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
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+Re: ATT: JMS: Inconsistencies in the Canon -- SPOILERS FOR "IN THE (5 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATT: JMS: Inconsistencies in the Canon -- SPOILERS FOR "IN THE

+5 Dec 1997
I think that most of the inconsistencies you note are primarily due to the
+translation from scrilt to print, prior to Peter seeing any of the actual
+footage (it's never stated in the script, for instance, that any of the Grey
+Council have seen Valen).
+
+While Entil-zha has a vague translation, which is what is stated in"Dream,"
+we've translated isil-zha ever since Marcus appeared in the show...Franklin
+asks while they're in medlab, if you recall, and he points to the center stone
+and says it's called isil-zha, meaning the future.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Final Scene in 522 (17 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Final Scene in 522

+17 Dec 1997
The finale of 522 is just what I wanted it to be.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: JMS -Starfury Model Question (17 Dec 1997)
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Re: JMS -Starfury Model Question

+17 Dec 1997
The finished model just came in this week, with full shrink wrap, box, pieces,
+everything...very nice.  There were some delays that came from our side, as we
+worked to make it more authentic and more in keeping with how they look on
+screen.  Revell was happy to cooperate, even if it delayed things a bit...with
+the result that it's a better product.  (Among the things we asked for: to
+reposition the forward guns, alter the tilt of the engines, texture under the
+wings as well as on top, that sort of thing.)
+
+Basically, I'd rather have it *right* than have it Tuesday.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 fans not on cable or internet (17 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 fans not on cable or internet

+17 Dec 1997
Here's ironic...apparently the last ST cover didn't sell well at *all*, and
+because of that, TV Guide has wondered if a B5 cover would sell well...again,
+some of them have a hard time separating out one show from another, they seem
+to think they're all the same.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  "In the Beginning" and the Hugo...next year? (18 Dec 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  "In the Beginning" and the Hugo...next year?

+18 Dec 1997
>Just a quick question about which B5 episodes will be your
+>choice for the Hugo ballot ( we all know you will get several nods)
+>"The Face of the Enemy" would be my choice, with "Endgame" a
+>close second.
+
+Both those are good, "Face" could be best, but there's also "No Surrender, No
+Retreat," which gets forgotten sometimes in this.
+
+>Will "In the Beginning" be available for consideration this
+>year, or next year?  I'm guessing the Jan. release makes it next year,
+>but I'm not sure how they work things at the Hugos...
+
+Yes, ItB will be eligible for the following year, as will Sleeping in Light,
+which should make things interesting.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: JMS Should Have Written B5 *MY* Way (19 Dec 1997)
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Re: JMS Should Have Written B5 *MY* Way

+19 Dec 1997
BTW, the one big reason that Sakai could not have filled Anna Sheridan's role
+in awakening the shadows...and this is the one thing that everyone who
+advocates this theory tends to forget...is that they were *already up and
+awake* in the first season, as we saw in "Signs and Portents."  They were up,
+around, and had had some time to build stuff up, reclaim some of their ships,
+and in other ways get organized and develop their contacts.  
+
+Also, Morden was already working for them.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: attn jms: 3 Simple ???  In the Beginning SPOILER (22 Dec 1997)
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Re: attn jms: 3 Simple ???  In the Beginning SPOILER

+22 Dec 1997
>In the Beginning SPOILER
+>
+>
+>S
+>
+>P
+>
+>O
+>
+>I
+>
+>L
+>
+>E
+>
+>R
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>S
+>
+>P
+>
+>A
+>
+>C
+>
+>E
+>
+>
+>Since only *you* can really give us definitive answers to these questions,
+>I'm hoping you'll be feeling the generousity of the season....
+>
+>1.  Did Sinclair undergo a "preliminary psi probe" as assumed by Delenn in
+>Peter David's novelization of In the Beginning (page 246)?
+
+I don't have the book in front of me, but if that refers to the one after his
+capture, then yes.
+>
+>2.  Is the Eartforce Academy two, three, or four years?
+>
+It varies depending on what aspect and how far you want to go and what your
+goal is, as with some divisions of Officer Training School (OTC).
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 wardrobe question (22 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Season 5 wardrobe question

+22 Dec 1997
Sheridan: civvies (as President of the Interstellar Alliance).
+
+Franklin and Zack: the black uniforms.
+
+Lochley: in EA blues (and will stay that way).
+
+Garibaldi:  civvies (for a different sort of position).
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN:JMS Entertainment Weekly (22 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN:JMS Entertainment Weekly

+22 Dec 1997
TNT has *definitely* stepped up to the plate on all counts.  They said they
+intend for every person in the country to at least have *heard* of B5 by the
+time they launch S5.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  When do you feel most at home? (22 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  When do you feel most at home?

+22 Dec 1997
>When do you feel most at home during the creative process of
+>the show?
+>	Is it on the set...getting your hands dirty...actually seeing
+>your vision come to life?
+>	Or is it while you are writing...actually giving such
+>wonderful life to the characters that inhabit that vision?
+
+First and foremost, I'm a writer.  That's not just what I do, it's who and what
+I *am*.  So of all the things I do, that's when I'm most in my element.  John
+Flinn can beat me on stage in composing a shot, John Copeland can configure a
+fight scene better in editing than I can (most days), Chris Franke can come up
+with touches in music that I would never think of...
+
+But behind the keyboard, nobody can touch me.  (Hmm...I wonder what my
+subconscious would make of that statement; I think I just said more than I
+wanted to.)  
+
+Anyway...this is where I'm at home.  My goal is real simple: to write better
+than anyone who can write faster than me, and faster than anyone who can write
+better than me.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: Attn:  JMS -- Psi Corps pins (22 Dec 1997)
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Re: Attn:  JMS -- Psi Corps pins

+22 Dec 1997
The Psi Corps pins are in, have been in for a couple of weeks now, and they're
+just gorgeous...I don't know why they haven't been added to the Emporium yet,
+they should be there now or soonish.  They're absolutely the same as the ones
+we use in the show, same as with the Earthforce pins.
+
+Among the crew, so far the Psi Corps hats have turned out to be the most
+popular...they're buying 'em up fast.
+
+BTW, down the road there may be a limited edition of the Psi Corps pins signed
+by Walter....
+
+
+ jms
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS:  Before the break

+7 Dec 1997
>Can you tell us which episodes are in 1).  writing, 2).  pre-production,
+>3).  filming, 4).  post-production?
+
+1) 517
+2) 514
+3) 513
+4) 510-512 for editting, 507-509 for music and EFX.
+
+Normally I'd be writing 518 right now, but I'm still playing catch-up after the
+back and the flu hassles last month.  We're still 3 ahead, though, where most
+shows the pages are landing on the stage during filming, and I'll be completely
+caught-up and actually ahead after the Christmas break, which is when I'll turn
+my attention to writing the 3rd TNT movie.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS: what about Narn?

+22 Dec 1997
Yeah, we'll get back into a bit of the Narn thread in S5.
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  I-Con

+22 Dec 1997
>>>I was wondering why you decided to not go to I-Con this year.
+>>>
+
+Wasn't invited.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+No Compromises. ( *Spoilers* ) (23 Dec 1997)
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No Compromises. ( *Spoilers* )

+23 Dec 1997
> >1.  Is having such a large hole in the
+>        story [is this a parallel to JeffreyS?]
+>        gonna spoil Season 5 for us?
+>
+>        2. Should we just wait until TNT shows
+>        the Final 4 again and *THEN* watch S5?
+
+My gut reaction...because S5 starts pretty cleanly, and Sheridan's new
+situation is set up right from the git-go, I think that you'd be okay to just
+dive in.  Not knowing at the time that there'd be any kind of problem in the
+airing of the final 4, but having learned from experience that nothing about
+this show is EVER easy or predictable, I did sort of a primer about where
+things stand now in the top of the teaser, done breathlessly by Corwin as
+Lochley arrives.
+
+(That ain't much of a spoiler since it happens in the first few minutes of the
+show.)
+
+
+ jms
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: 4 on the floor?

+23 Dec 1997
>1.  Is having such a large hole in the
+>        story [is this a parallel to JeffreyS?]
+>        gonna spoil Season 5 for us?
+>
+>        2. Should we just wait until TNT shows
+>        the Final 4 again and *THEN* watch S5?
+
+My gut reaction...because S5 starts pretty cleanly, and Sheridan's new
+situation is set up right from the git-go, I think that you'd be okay to just
+dive in.  Not knowing at the time that there'd be any kind of problem in the
+airing of the final 4, but having learned from experience that nothing about
+this show is EVER easy or predictable, I did sort of a primer about where
+things stand now in the top of the teaser, done breathlessly by Corwin as
+Lochley arrives.
+
+(That ain't much of a spoiler since it happens in the first few minutes of the
+show.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Your involvement with Crusade (23 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your involvement with Crusade

+23 Dec 1997
> If Crusade is a go, what will be your involvement with the 
+>show compared to what you do on B5? The same? Much less?
+>
+>
+I'll exec produce, same as with B5, develop the overall arc, as with B5 (though
+it's not as rigorous an arc), do all the same stuff in editing, post, all the
+same stuff.  About the only real difference I foresee would be my intent to
+only write about half the episodes this time around; I'm looking forward to
+seeing what other writers can do in the B5 universe.
+
+
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+

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+Re: Aargh! Screwed by WB! (23 Dec 1997)
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Re: Aargh! Screwed by WB!

+23 Dec 1997
>Warner Bros couldn't sell it to a nationally available station.
+>N-o-o-o-o-o, that would have been too easy. They had to sell it to
+>individual stations in the major markets. 
+
+As I understand it, that's because the natinoal stations up there are less than
+interested in general in taking syndicated American shows, and mainly want
+American shows that have been on network TV (and American shows are becoming an
+increasingly hard sell up there).
+
+Translation: it ain't WB's fault.  I'm always more than happy to give them the
+rap if it's deserved...this time, it ain't.
+
+
+ jms
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Re: Attn JMS: Who writes Season 5?

+24 Dec 1997
There's other material there, including Neil Gaiman's "Day of the Dead."
+
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Re: Attn: JMS

+24 Dec 1997
Galoob has announced they're ONLY doing Star Wars stuff.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Attempting the Improbable (another writing question) (26 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Attempting the Improbable (another writing question)

+26 Dec 1997
>On a totally
+>hypothetical, if you had accepted the exec producer, writer job at a
+>suffering show (like SeaQuest, or Space Above and Beyond,) would you
+>place your focus on creating quality within the individual episode, the
+>season, or the story-arc. Or in other words, if a show is broke, how
+>would you go about fixing it?
+
+If a show doesn't work, there's only one way to fix it...and it ain't adding
+battles, or arcs, or chrome...it's the characters.  Audiences will tune in to
+see what happens next to the characters they care about.  If that bond ain't
+there...you've got nowhere to go.  It all proceeds from character.
+
+As for SeaQuest, about the only thing that would've helped there would've been
+depth charges.
+
+
+ jms
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Re: ATTN JMS: Bucconeer

+26 Dec 1997
Yes, I'll definitely be at Worldcon.
+
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+7 Dec 1997
They didn't individually number the boxes, apparently.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Rewriting on cue? (26 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Rewriting on cue?

+26 Dec 1997
>	Reading your script for "The Coming of Shadows" in "The
+>Complete Book of Scriptwriting", one can see that lines were cut from
+>the original show.
+>	I was wondering...do you often changes lines and/or entire
+>scenes on the set?  Anyone who writes always wants to improve on what
+>they wrote AFTER they re-read it.
+>	I keep wondering if any of the more memorable lines from the
+>show were written on-the-fly during shooting.
+
+No, never.  For starters, it's *vastly* unfair to the actors.  They have to
+memorizes pages and pages of dialogue, and to hit them with new stuff on the
+stage, when they haven't had a chance to digest the material and dig out the
+subtext and themes, means the performance will not be as good regardless of the
+material.
+
+There is *no* improvising allowed on the set, either.  If an actor wants to
+change even a word, the first AD has to come find me and get approval first.
+
+Where you make the revisions are in the stages prior to when the actors get to
+the stage.  A first draft is published, which goes to all the department heads.
+ Between the first and the final drafts (we only do about 2 drafts here), you
+have about a week to make any revisions you choose to make.  Bearing in mind
+that I don't publish the first draft until I'm absolutely satisfied with it,
+there ain't much that gets changed, usually bits of dialogue and production
+related stuff.
+
+The cuts you see were done in post-production, as the show is edited for time. 
+We slice lines and bits to fit in the available time.
+
+
+ jms
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS Cookbook??

+27 Dec 1997
>Any news about when the Cookbook will be out?
+>
+>
+
+I just finished my notes on it before we broke for the Xmas hiatus, so sometime
+in the early Spring, I would think.
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Actors and script changes

+27 Dec 1997
>Joe, you've mentioned this a number of times, that actors can't
+>change the dialog without approval.  I'm wondering whether it's
+>frequent for an actor to come and *ask* for a change, and whether
+>they tend to get the change if they ask for it, and if the changes
+>have made a difference.  Any memorable examples?
+
+Yeah, in most cases, unless it's an egregious change, or one that changes the
+meaning of a sentence, I usually go along with it.  It also doesn't happen very
+often.  Usually they come in with a question about something if I'm setting up
+a thread for the future, so they can give it the right subtext.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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+Re: B5 CCG review (27 Dec 1997)
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Re: B5 CCG review

+27 Dec 1997
Steven:
+
+Thanks for the review.  I'm not as up on card games as I'd like to be, and on
+some of this I have to essentially take some of the stuff on game-play on
+faith, because that's not something I know a lot about.  So it's good to know
+it worked out.
+
+
+ jms
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+

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Re: ATTN JMS:A Splendid Little Program..

+27 Dec 1997
>I had the sense that a small portion of the behind-the-camera shots came
+>from episode shootings that haven't been aired.  Was I grossly mistaken?
+
+No, you're correct...WB shot B-roll during other episodes in the past, and some
+of that got used, and TNT sent a crew out as well to grab some stuff during the
+last of season 4, including the two movies.
+>Have you ever considered using Andreas in a part without
+>makeup(ferinstance,as a close relative of a major character)?
+>
+>
+
+Yeah, but he won't do it.
+>And I am assuming this promotion show was shot before T.Scroggins joined
+>the cast...Y/N is ok.
+
+Yup.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Less of C-n-C this season? (28 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Less of C-n-C this season?

+28 Dec 1997
The 8 episodes is the *minimum guaranteed*, not the maximum.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: I want my xmas stuff!!! (29 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: I want my xmas stuff!!!

+29 Dec 1997
>My mom ordered me some stuff from the fan club for Christmas.  I got the 
+>ship recognition chart and the calendar and they are very cool.  She 
+>also got me a mebership, but never got any of the stuff from that, she 
+>wrote snail-mail asking about it, but hasn't gotten any response.  
+
+Because of the christmas rush, we got the actual gift items out first, and are
+getting the memberships out afterward.  We should be catching up soon.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Running Time for "In the Beginning" (29 Dec 1997)
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Re: Running Time for "In the Beginning"

+29 Dec 1997
Dry time: 94 minutes 10 seconds.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: Speaking at ICON 98 (29 Dec 1997)
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Re: Attn JMS: Speaking at ICON 98

+29 Dec 1997
>The people at ICON say you weren't invited this spring because they don't
+>like to have the same speakers two years in a row.
+
+Which is perfectly understandable; I didn't say there was anything amiss in not
+being invited.  Someone asked why I wasn't going to be there, and that was the
+answer.  I wouldn't expect them to invite the same folks two years running.
+
+>But what really got my attention was the fact that they're going to have
+>Claudia Christian instead. Is she going to be representing the show?
+>Because if she isn't, you should know that this is the impression the
+>ICON people are giving.
+
+Claudia is certainly capable of representing and discussing her experiences and
+time on the first 4 years of the show.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Ch 4 has Season 6!! Starfury kits out in UK and alcohol (30 Dec 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Ch 4 has Season 6!! Starfury kits out in UK and alcohol

+30 Dec 1997
>Is it normal for the writer/creator to have as much
+>input and power as you seem to?
+
+In TV, the writer/producer is the one in charge.  The more producer-heavy a
+show is, the more that gets spread around.  Certainly folks like Bochco and
+Kelley are unchallenged in this respect; ditto Chris Carter . It's simply a
+matter of whether or not it's sufficiently important to you that you'll fight
+like hell to maintain control.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Six Flags B5-themed attractions? (7 Dec 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Six Flags B5-themed attractions?

+7 Dec 1997
No, no plans for any kind of B5 attraction or park.  Some folks from Vegas came
+to us with an idea, but I nixed it for the same reasons I asked for the
+withdrawl of the B5 shot glasses from Creation, I just don't think lining
+something up with a Vegas operation is emblematic of what B5 stands for.
+
+What we *are* working on is something still in the development stage, which is
+a B5 showscan ride, the sort with the moveable seats, high-speed
+high-resolution film and a high-definition big screen you find at places like
+Universal Tours or elsewhere.  Here we could do something artistic, very
+exciting, with a lot of extreme CGI and put  you in the middle of a big Shadow
+battle on Mars, through the atmosphere of Jupiter, and ending at B5.
+
+Heck, I'd ride that one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Where is Jerry Doyle? (30 Dec 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Where is Jerry Doyle?

+30 Dec 1997
There were some contract hassles, and Jerry ended up not being in either of
+them (the blame tends to go with the agent at the time, which Jerry
+acknowledges, and that situation has been changed).  He and we definitely would
+like him to be in #3.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+B5 Starfury Models Out (30 Dec 1997)
+
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B5 Starfury Models Out

+30 Dec 1997
I'm hearing from the UK that the first Revell model, the Starfury, is out and
+for sale there.  Which means it may well be available here now as well.  Anyone
+out there confirm this?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Your goal for CRUSADE (30 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your goal for CRUSADE

+30 Dec 1997
>You've been fortunate to accomplish everything you set out to do with
+>BABYLON 5.  So, what's your goal for CRUSADE?  Aside from continuing the
+>year-to-year improvement?  If the BABYLON 5 story is about the need for
+>community and the need to look toward the horizon, what is the CRUSADE
+>story about?
+
+What I want to do with Crusade is take the tools we learned to use in B5 and
+apply them in a different (and in some ways, more ambitious) manner.  It'll
+have an arc, now that we've shown that it works, but not as rigorous an
+arc...less overtly political but more thematic.  Also, after 5 years of
+angst-driven storytelling, I'd like to see if I can use the same tools to do
+something a little more fun.  I've lived in the dark side of the B5 universe
+for a long time, and while there's plenty of darkness still out there, I kinda
+want to go and do something a bit more adventurous...and which explores all the
+places in the B5 universe that we've heard about, but never seen.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS' ego trip (30 Dec 1997)
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Re: JMS' ego trip

+30 Dec 1997
Point one: I had absolutely nothing to do with the content of the Guide except
+to review some of Bruce's on-camera narration for fact-checking purposes.  I
+didn't see it until it was done.
+
+Point two: "now I have to go to all the trouble of either buying illegal
+drugs...or become a serial killer."
+
+Wouldn't you find either option redundent?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Your goal for CRUSADE (31 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your goal for CRUSADE

+31 Dec 1997
I started including a sig on the net because I kept getting emails asking for
+the address of the fanclub site, and my own, so I figured this would take care
+of it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN TNT PARTYGOERS! Bring your camcorders! :-D (31 Dec 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN TNT PARTYGOERS! Bring your camcorders! :-D

+31 Dec 1997
Better still...how about folks bring digital cameras as well and take jpg shots
+of the various parties and upload 'em here?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Save me from Trek merchandize, please! (31 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Save me from Trek merchandize, please!

+31 Dec 1997
We'll be doing more stuff, gradually...I'd just prefer to do this stuff slowly,
+and do it right, than dump a whole lotta stuff out at once.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: The Guide Special (31 Dec 1997)
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Re: The Guide Special

+31 Dec 1997
>Actually, it made me wonder if leaving was her choice.
+
+Give me one good reason, ANY good reason, why WB or I (and those are the only
+two forces involved) would want her to leave.  If either of those had wanted
+her to go, then we wouldn't have been so upset when it was announced in the
+trades that she was leaving, now would we?  WB wouldn't have extended its offer
+to her until the very last minute, would they?  (Why put ANY offer out to her
+at ALL if they didn't want her back?  Remember, becasue she opted not to sign
+the extension, she was not an employee of B5 when she left.)  And I certainly
+wouldn't have been sitting across from her in a hotel pub in Blackpool at
+midnight trying to understand why she was leaving, and urging her to call her
+agent so she could stay, would I?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: attn: jms and everyone: revised episodes (31 Dec 1997)
+
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Re: attn: jms and everyone: revised episodes

+31 Dec 1997
That ain't revisionist history...them's typos.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN:JMS- YOU and your CABLE! (31 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN:JMS- YOU and your CABLE!

+31 Dec 1997
>And it's not only that, but ALL the cartoons!
+>("What's that, Avenger?  Bird-Boy's in trouble?")  And NOW it seems that I'm
+>going to have to watch B5 every day of the week!  This new season better be
+>pretty good, because my family's brains are turning to mush!
+
+Ruh-roh....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  3rd TNT movie... (7 Dec 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  3rd TNT movie...

+7 Dec 1997
>	Is there a title, or even a working title yet?
+Yes.
+>	Is there a tentative airing date?
+Under discussion.
+>	Who will be in it, from B5: TOS? 
+Ditto.
+>	Will it involve the legendary and often-mentioned battle between the
+"teeps" and the mundanes"?
+Negative.
+
+
+
+
+ jms
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Music.. (7 Dec 1997)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Music..

+7 Dec 1997
>You seem to be interested in music, and I was wondering if you have 
+>ever heard the singer Lorena McKennit?
+>
+>If yes. What did you think of her? 
+
+I'm aware of her work, and have enjoyed it.  As I've noted here before, I think
+that some of the best single artist work in rock now is being done by women
+artists: Meredith Brooks, Sarah Machlachlan (I think I misspelled that), Fiona
+Apple, others.
+
+Most of the good work coming from the guys these days seems to be coming from
+groups...Squirrel Nut Zippers has finally crashed the mainstream, and if you
+haven't checked out Cherry Poppin' Daddies, do so...it's a great mix of big
+band sound with rock style lyrics (and some cover stuff) that's real nice.
+
+I recently picked up a couple of Primus CDs and I'm still working out what I
+think of them...on the one hand, there's some really interesting stuff going on
+there, but it's completely weird. (Which is not a bad thing, btw.)  Their
+"Professor Nutbutter's House of Treats" (especially the video) makes the hairs
+on the back of my neck stand up...so I dunno...but it's interesting stuff. 
+Also just picked up Sneaker Pimps, but haven't had a chance to listen to it
+yet.
+
+Because I don't have time to watch much TV or see movies, music is about the
+only thing I have access to now since I can play it while I'm working.
+
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Escape from B5? (8 Dec 1997)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Escape from B5?

+8 Dec 1997
>I've noticed that a lot of artists have trouble escaping their creations
+>and moving on. Some like the state of affairs, others don't:
+>What about you? Is there life after B5, is it out of your reach, and how
+>do you feel about the situation?
+
+It's my sense that B5 will be kind of the capstone to my career; I will go on
+and do other things, including books, other TV projects, plays, as I've always
+done...but there's no doubt that B5 will loom large in that company.  And that
+doesn't bother me at all.  If it were something I was ashamed of, then yeah,
+it'd be a drag.  But that ain't the situation.
+
+I have, at last count, about 8 different TV projects out there, several
+different film scripts (just finishing up another this month), which have been
+optioned at one point or another, I'm working on 2 books and a stage play, none
+of which have *anything* to do with B5.  Some of them will go, and some won't. 
+That's the writing life, it's a mug's game.
+
+But the goal, at the end of the day, is to have enough stuff up on the shelf so
+that, when you're gone, people can wander in and take it down and say, "Oh,
+this is who that person was, and this is how he saw the world."  In that light,
+B5 is one heck of a big item on the shelf, and I'm perfectly happy to be
+associated with it.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+
+
+Re: Who Provides Lighting and Grip Equipment? (2 Jan 1998)
+
+
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+
Re: Who Provides Lighting and Grip Equipment?

+2 Jan 1998
All our hard equipment for actual photography (lights, camera, related stuff)
+is rented each season; same for most shows.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: attn: JMS, The Official Babylon 5 1998 Calendar (4 Jan 1998)
+
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+
Re: attn: JMS, The Official Babylon 5 1998 Calendar

+4 Jan 1998
I agree that Antioch should consider doing some of these as prints; the
+calendar is just gorgeous.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS : The complete book of scriptwriting (4 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS : The complete book of scriptwriting

+4 Jan 1998
Our first two seasons were roughly 40-50% freelance, which is a substantially
+higher average than most shows.  Years 3 and 4 were mine, mainly because of the
+difficulty in farming out stories in that situation.
+
+Crusade will almost certainly to back to the 40-50% freelance mode, which is
+frankly my preference, and it's been that way on all the previous shows I've
+done.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS- REAL dumb question. (4 Jan 1998)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS- REAL dumb question.

+4 Jan 1998
>So, I'm watching TNT's guide to B5 in the same room as my
+>parents, and when they mention the Centauri's 6 genitals, my mom asks
+>an all important question....  Which one do they use for urination?
+
+That assumes the urinate out of the same organs they use for sex; ain't
+necessarily the case.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 theme question (4 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 theme question

+4 Jan 1998
> I finally caught "Guide to Babylon 5" this morning on TNT, and right
+>after it was an episode of New Twilight Zone from 1989, penned by none other
+>than you.  Was TNT even conscious that they were doing this, or was it merely
+>strange luck?
+
+I certainly didn't know about it.
+
+>The episode of NTZ was the one where a secret military project
+>accidently opened up a wormhole.  The lead character was sent through for
+>"risk assessment" and also to find the others that had been sent through
+>before him.
+
+Ah..."The Wall."
+>the general theme of the episode seemed
+>very B5ish, in terms of personal responsibility, making sacrifices for the
+>greater good, questions of duty and honor, etc.  Which brings me to my
+>question.  
+> Did these themes become important to you in 1986(?) when you first had
+>the whole B5 story come to you in a flash, or did the B5 story come to you
+>because you had been dwelling on these themes for much of your life?
+
+I've always tried to deal with issues that matter to me in what I write.  I
+can't do it any other way.  If you pull out any of my work, from whatever show,
+I try to sneak in the issues that get caught in my filter.  Hell, it's even in
+the animated series I wrote.  
+
+I was with friends recently, and just for (as John Copeland says) shits and
+grins, I fired up an old episode of He Man a few weeks ago, which was my first
+TV staff writing gig of any substance.  I picked up "Origin of the Sorceress." 
+And the friends commented that virtually all of the themes in B5 are right
+there in that one episode.  Not the plot, the characters, none of that...the
+*themes*, the points of personal sacrifice, responsibility, on and on.
+
+I believe, very strongly, that TV should not be just entertainment.  It must
+entertain, yes, because if it doesn't entertain ain't nobody gonna watch
+it...but as Mark Twain said, while it must not overtly preach or overtly teach,
+it must *covertly* teach and covertly preach.
+
+It's there in about 95% of all my work...especially on The Twilight Zone, and
+in other shows to varying extents.  I don't tend to do moral shows -- if you
+haven't figured out by now that racism is bad, a TeeVee show ain't gonna teach
+it to you -- but I do try to do ethical shows, which get people to talk about
+what's at issue.
+
+No matter how dopey the show, as long as you approach it with, as Balzac said,
+"clean hands and composure," and tell the stories that matter to you, about the
+issues that count, the work is valid.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: new edit of The Gathering ( *Spoilers* ) (5 Jan 1998)
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Re: new edit of The Gathering ( *Spoilers* )

+5 Jan 1998
>So Kosh recognizes that Sinclair is the same person he knew  1000 years in
+>the past as Valen; since Kosh didn't know that this wasn't really Sinclair
+>(else why greet him so?) wouldn't this have given Sinclair a dangerous
+>foreknowledge? 
+
+Internal dialogue...what he was thinking, his reaction.  
+
+ jms
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Cost question... (5 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Cost question...

+5 Jan 1998
>	I'm going to make this extremely brief; About how much has it
+>cost so far in production costs so far, not including promotions?
+
+If "it" means the series, it's always been under $900 thousand per episode.  If
+"it" means ItB, the production cost was just a tick under three million bucks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: San Jose Merc's Faint Praise for B5 (5 Jan 1998)
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Re: San Jose Merc's Faint Praise for B5

+5 Jan 1998
The San Jose Mercury basically predicted our demise a long time ago, and
+critics have a way of getting snippy when what they say will happen, doesn't. 
+We've seen that in a few other reviews as well.  They don't like having their
+noses (and their predictions) rubbed in our success.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: One Quick Question. (5 Jan 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: One Quick Question.

+5 Jan 1998
>Do you get nervous at times like this?
+
+Nervous doesn't even come CLOSE to describing it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS- Cameo questions- ITB and tG (5 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS- Cameo questions- ITB and tG

+5 Jan 1998
>	Was that you negotiating in the scene with Patricia and the
+>crooked businessman in The Gathering?  
+
+Nope.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS  - Londo (5 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  - Londo

+5 Jan 1998
>He really is going to hell isn't he? He's going to burn like newspaper
+>dipped in sheep grease. 
+
+There's certainly a karmic point of no return, isn't there?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+
+Re: ATTEN: JMS  Re: my delicate question(s) (2 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTEN: JMS  Re: my delicate question(s)

+2 Jan 1998
No, I haven't yet, and I should.  Thanks for poking me.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+
+Re: The Missing Third Question (5 Jan 1998)
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Re: The Missing Third Question

+5 Jan 1998
"Why are you here?" asked by Lorien, is #3.  The balance point between the two.
+
+There's a fourth question coming, though.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: Production Crew? (5 Jan 1998)
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Re: Production Crew?

+5 Jan 1998
>You have freelance directors, freelance scriptwriters, freelance actors.. Are
+>there any "normal" crew associated with a production, and if so, under what
+>company do they fall?  (Babylonian Productions?)
+
+Those (actors, writers, directors) are all above-the-line people.  The
+below-the-line crew are all regular employees: camera operators and grips,
+carpenters, costumers, others.  Most of the company consists of regular
+employees, under BP.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* ) (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* )

+9 Jan 1998
>>>  (But what happened to "No kids or cute robots"?)
+>>
+>> I was wondering that, too.  It would have been
+>>more like JMS to have Keepers on the kiddies'
+>>backs.
+
+Hello...is anyone there...?  I always said that in relation to SERIES REGULARS
+AND RECURS.  Every time we have a kid on the show, and we've had several,
+somebody throws this at me without once remembering that this applies to series
+regulars/recurs, like Wesleys or the bots from Buck Rogers.  
+
+And then somebody gigs me for something I didn't say.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* ) (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* )

+9 Jan 1998
No, the karmic point of no return is the whole of his life, from ItB's events
+through the bombing of Narn, which led to the death of hundreds of thoudands or
+more.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Early shows... (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Early shows...

+9 Jan 1998
Thanks...I agree, the efx have to stay secondary to the characters.  You may
+not remember the details of a plot, but you remember Captain Ahab....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+
+jms note re: tapings (9 Jan 1998)
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jms note re: tapings

+9 Jan 1998
There was a glitch in the Sunday broadcast of In the Beginning.  They missed a
+commercial break after the first act (as Lenonn goes to see Dukhat), and
+inserted one in the middle of act 6.  That will be corrected in the next run,
+so anyone who wants to get a copy of the movie with the right act breaks should
+tape the next one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: ITB - the Party in Portland - Afterwords (no spoilers) (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ITB - the Party in Portland - Afterwords (no spoilers)

+9 Jan 1998
At the LA party, there was a second level above the one where we were all
+hanging out, and civilians were shooting pool and carrying on at the second
+level until an employee went to talk to them.  A beat later, one of them, a
+woman, leaned over the rail to look down at what we were doing (having been
+oblivious to it prior to this), saw the TVs showing ItB, and turned to her
+companion, saying, "Oh...it's something to do with Star Trek."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: View into C&C from outside of stattion updside down? (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: View into C&C from outside of stattion updside down?

+9 Jan 1998
Nope, they're in the right position.  The central docking bay is in the center
+of the station, and C&C is about one-third of the way away, so the head of the
+person is pointing up toward the docking bay.
+
+We don't make t hose kinds of mistakes.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN:  JMS (In the Beginning) (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN:  JMS (In the Beginning)

+9 Jan 1998
Thanks...and it wasn't so much a case of Ulkesh turning against the effort, but
+finally hitting the end of his patience with the humans, and his predecessor's
+decision to let the "natives" get out of control.
+
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+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Foreshadowing and "Infection" (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Foreshadowing and "Infection"

+9 Jan 1998
That's the thing...I wrote this show for the long-term, and if you watch it in
+the way it'll be shown in the long-term, daily, it becomes a whole different
+show.
+
+It was a bitch to pull off, too, lemme tell you....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Rewriting on cue? (2 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Rewriting on cue?

+2 Jan 1998
>Do you work differently when you write for the stage? Would you send the 
+>B5 scripts through additional revisions if you had the time? 
+
+No, in writing my play now, and in those I've written before, I generally just
+write it the way I hear it, and it's up to the actors to find a way to make
+that work.  (If something absolutely falls on its face and doesn't work and
+it's the fault of the words, however, then you gotta fix it.)
+
+As for question 2...understand that there isn't a frame of B5, or a page, that
+I wouldn't keep tinkering with ad infinitum.  Every time I look at ANYthing
+I've done, I always want to go back and tweak something.
+
+As somebody once said: art is never finished, only abandoned.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS, congrats on ITB (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS, congrats on ITB

+9 Jan 1998
The reactions were just terrific...and yeah, was very nervous and hoping it
+went well.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writing Question (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writing Question

+9 Jan 1998
>That started me wondering -- just how much can you separate the
+>characters from the plot?  Maybe you have a character with the potential
+>to be just fascinating, but if you don't give him anything interesting
+>to do, how will your audience know?
+
+People are fascinating by what they do or say, you can't have a character who's
+fascinating but does nothing, so it's kind of a moot point.
+
+But in general, plot proceeds from character...it's from defining who the
+character is, what he wants, how far he's willing to go to get it, and how far
+someone else will go to stop him.  From that comes all the rest.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: The Book Of G'Kar? (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: The Book Of G'Kar?

+9 Jan 1998
>Whatever happend to the Book Of G'Kar? Is he still working on it? Or
+>did his imprisonment by the Centauri distract him? Will we hear more
+>about it in the near future?
+
+Quite a bit, actually, and very soon.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: How does it feel... (9 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: How does it feel...

+9 Jan 1998
Relieved.  Pleased.  Tired.  Proud.  And very soon to be massively depressed as
+5 years worth of post-partum depression kicks in.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Under-budget? (9 Jan 1998)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Under-budget?

+9 Jan 1998
>B5
+>seems to be alone in an place where most producers think that budgets
+>are made to be ignored.
+
+On every season, and on every one of the TV movies, we have come in a bit under
+budget.  Every time.  Not by skimping, really, but simply by planning properly.
+ 
+
+See, I have this silly notion that if somebody gives you $21 million bucks or
+so to make a series, it kinda behooves you to act responsibly.  
+
+A little over $100 million will have passed through this company in making 5
+years and 3 movies of B5...and every dollar has been accounted for, well spent,
+and handled with sufficient responsibility that WB has gotten back its
+underbudget on each season.  We have periodic audits, as with every production
+company working with a studio, and they're gone within a few hours of arriving,
+proclaiming our books the best they've ever seen.  
+
+It's responsibility, a concept not often understood on this end of the coast.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: My Cat is a Vorlon! (9 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: My Cat is a Vorlon!

+9 Jan 1998
GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!  GET OUT OF THE HOUSE RIGHT NOW!
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: HEY JMS! Answer a couple of questions(****sanity**** warning) (9 Jan 1998)
+
+
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Re: HEY JMS! Answer a couple of questions(****sanity**** warning)

+9 Jan 1998
>1. Have you finished writing the last three scripts for the 5th season?
+>
+No.
+
+>2. Does Claudia Christensen have a guest shot anywhere in Season 5? 
+>
+No, and who is Claudia Christensen?
+
+>3. What exactly is Thirdspace supposed to be about? No spoilers please
+>
+Then don't ask.
+
+>4. Do you find me attractive? 
+For what purpose?
+>4b. Do you need a poorly paid lackey to beat people up and clean your boots?
+No.
+>4c. Can I be your friend? 
+Not without you contravening the restraining order.
+
+>5. Well there be a security guard named Kenny who will die before the end of
+every episode in season 5? 
+No.
+>5b. If so can I play Kenny?
+>
+Only if you will consent to being eaten by rats afterward.
+
+>6. Is your talent on loan from god like Rush Limbaugh's?
+No, I get to keep mine.
+>6b. Can I have some of the enormous sums of cash you must have? 
+What enormous sums of cash?  This ain't a real network, son.
+>
+>7. Shoes. What's the deal?
+>
+They're supposed to make it harder for you to swallow your foot.
+
+>Now that I am done with my serious questions I have a few that I am
+>legally obligatted to ask under the terms of the 1988 Arms Reduction Act:
+>
+>Why?
+Because.
+>Frog's Ass: watertight or simply waterproof?
+What you do in the privacy of your home is your concern.
+>Wrestling: fake or pretend?
+Kabuki Theater.
+>
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: In the Beginning? (12 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: In the Beginning?

+12 Jan 1998
You're most certainly welcome...the pleasure has been all mine.
+
+What's a storyteller without an audience?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Is this bogus mechandise? (12 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Is this bogus mechandise?

+12 Jan 1998
I"ve never seen the extra-sized card, so I can't say.  It doesn't sound
+amiss...you may just have had the worst string of luck in the last decade in
+terms of getting the righit boxes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: "Excaliber" Similarities (Possible Spoillers) (13 Jan 1998)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: "Excaliber" Similarities (Possible Spoillers)

+13 Jan 1998
>Anyway, as the movie "Excaliber" is at it's end, and Percival throws
+>Excaliber into the river, and King Arthur is boated away to his final
+>resting place.  A possible similarity to what comes for Sheriden? 
+
+Who can say...?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS   wait and see? (2 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS   wait and see?

+2 Jan 1998
>I'm wondering if both you and WB are waiting to see the B5 ratings on
+>TNT before finalizing a deal on Crusade.
+>
+>
+
+Nope.  The contract has been sent to me for signing several times, and each
+time it has had some problem or another that needed fixing.  (See, this is how
+the process works: your agent and the studio negotiate over the phone.  Come to
+terms.  Deal memos go out, which often don't reflect the conversations, but
+they hope you won't notice.  You catch the "errors" and send back the memos. 
+Next come the actual contracts, and sonuvagun, more "errors" have slipped
+through, and now THEY need to be corrected, if you can find them in the 90
+pages of 8 point type.  So that's been the only real holdup.  It's standard.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - Has anyone asked you this? (13 Jan 1998)
+
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Has anyone asked you this?

+13 Jan 1998
>1)  Who are YOU?
+>
+I am a writer.
+
+>2)  What do YOU want?
+>
+To tell stories.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Timing of Stories and Acts (13 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Timing of Stories and Acts

+13 Jan 1998
One thing I always try to do is to not end the story at the very last second,
+but rather give time for the implications of what we saw or eperienced to sink
+in (consequences and responsibility), and/or to set up what's coming next.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Best of Season 5? (13 Jan 1998)
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Re: JMS: Best of Season 5?

+13 Jan 1998
Actually, I say watch 'em all...usually each season we have one where you go,
+"oh, well, it was a good effort."  This time, so far they're all solid; in many
+ways, I think it's our best season to date.  There are a couple that will
+doubtless split the fan reactions down the middle, as Deconstruction did, but
+that's intended, just to keep folks from getting complacent...no, in general,
+I'm pleased with them all.  
+
+I'll leave it to the viewers to determine which of them is best.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  What about the Vorlon homeworld (14 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  What about the Vorlon homeworld

+14 Jan 1998
All I can say is that you'll hear about this more in S5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: JMS: Foundation Imaging authorizing models? (15 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: JMS: Foundation Imaging authorizing models?

+15 Jan 1998
Foundation Imaging does not have the authority to license or authorize anything
+of this nature.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Re-use of clips in "In the Beginning" (15 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Re-use of clips in "In the Beginning"

+15 Jan 1998
I think if you add up all the footage from other episodes, it's probably less
+than about 5 minutes total.
+
+I figure, if we shot it right the first time, why redo it?  Also, if we take
+the position that this "happened," it should be identical, and a restaging
+wouldn't be identical.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
+Re: Attn JMS - And The Sky Full Of Stars Question *SPOILERS* (15 Jan 1998)
+
+
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Re: Attn JMS - And The Sky Full Of Stars Question *SPOILERS*

+15 Jan 1998
>1. Who was the Minbari who was in Delenn's shower?
+
+A member of the Grey Council, seen in later episodes.
+
+>2. And, why would his order be: "He must never know what happened. If
+>he should find out, he must be killed. Do you understand, Delenn?" 
+
+Because if the word about the Sinclair/Valen/soul issue got out before their
+people could be prepared, it could rip Minbari society apart...and since the
+Minbari also believe in reincarnation, better to "recycle" Valen's soul than
+see the world he cared so much about torn asunder.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: B5 copyright (15 Jan 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: B5 copyright

+15 Jan 1998
Warner Bros. owns B5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: Attn. JMS: Room for Improvement - Kitchen? Bedroom? Living Room? (16 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: Attn. JMS: Room for Improvement - Kitchen? Bedroom? Living Room?

+16 Jan 1998
>While you are obviously a *very* gifted professional writer, I'm sure
+>that there is still at least one area in which you're specifically,
+>consciously working to perfect your skill. I'm wondering what that area
+>(those areas?) is - what do you find the most difficult to do well
+>writing-wise? What tends to disappoint you the most about your writing?
+>And what are you doing to try and improve that area (those areas?) that
+>give you trouble?
+
+There isn't any part of it that I think I've totally whipped...and I hope I
+never do, because the moment you think you've got it all sussed, you've stopped
+trying, and the work stultifies.
+
+So there isn't really any one area, just a general sense that I have to
+continue to get better...and the only way you get better is to keep trying new
+things, in different combinations.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: "...Sky Full of Stars" (*SPOILERS FOR ALL SEASONS*) (16 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: "...Sky Full of Stars" (*SPOILERS FOR ALL SEASONS*)

+16 Jan 1998
>Joe, as I was watching "And the Sky Full of Stars" I was struck by
+>something that seemed like the hand of the Great Maker was involved (and
+>you did write the ep).  Specifically, I was struck by the three questions
+>Sinclair asked of the Grey Council during his abduction:
+>Who are you?"
+>
+>"What do you want?"
+>
+>"Why are you doing this?"
+
+The first two definitely; the third is a bit of a stretch, though it may be my
+subconscious is again being smarter than I was at the time.  Note also that the
+"what do you want?" question is echoed over and over...as it would later be
+echoed all over by Morden.  If you go back over the actual logic of how the
+scene would have played, that bit only works if you allow for the
+hallucination.  That was the hand of the author showing where, frankly, it
+probably should not have showed.
+
+>P.S.  Is the (as you stated will be coming) *fourth* question located in
+>your Sierra reference guide?
+
+Could be....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Oscar Season perks (2 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Oscar Season perks

+2 Jan 1998
>I have noticed that studios routinely offer free entry to theaters for 
+>Academy and Guild members during award season.
+>Do you take advantage of the chance to see all your favorite flicks for 
+>free?  Or is it no big deal?
+
+Who has time to see movies?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
+
+Re: Attn JMS: Write how many episodes? (16 Jan 1998)
+
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Write how many episodes?

+16 Jan 1998
>>* Do you know yet how many episodes you will write
+>>in season 5?
+
+Because a couple of freelance scripts didn't work out, it's come in at 21.
+
+>>* To what number will your record-breaking string of
+>>consequitively written episodes extend?
+
+60
+
+>>* Counting all five seasons, how many of the
+>>110 episodes will you have written?
+
+I think it's 91.  If you put all the episodes, the pilot, and the 3 movies
+together, it's equal to 50 full-length feature films in 5 years.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  So that's why . . . (16 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  So that's why . . .

+16 Jan 1998
>It gave me goose bumps and made me feel wistful all
+>at the same time.  Excellent job, sir.
+
+I have the same reaction to it...thanks.
+
+>BTW, so that's why we never saw the back of the station!  I must ask,
+>whose idea was that?  I thought it was hilarious.
+
+I confess it was my idea...damn taggers are everywhere...it's my one indulgence
+in 5 years.  Doesn't any good artist sign his work?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Disappointed by Season 5 Credits (Credits Spoilers) (16 Jan 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Disappointed by Season 5 Credits (Credits Spoilers)

+16 Jan 1998
Re: the voices in the mov file...
+
+1) The separation left-right isn't correct, so it muddies the sound.
+
+2) We had to do audoi grabs from episodes for the first pass at the main
+titles, since there wasn't opportunity to revoice the lines and make them
+clearer.  Starting around episode 7 or so, we dropped in the re-do's and made
+the thing clearer overall.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: Attn. JMS: Verse drama? WAS Room for Improvement - Kitchen? (17 Jan 1998)
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Re: Attn. JMS: Verse drama? WAS Room for Improvement - Kitchen?

+17 Jan 1998
I've tried verse drama, even tried to do it with the new play I'm writing, then
+finally had to abandon it...it's just hideously difficult and I find gets in
+the way of my saying what it is that I want to say; I concentrate more on the
+how than the what, the pattern rather than the content.  I guess my brain can
+only work in one direction at a time.
+
+ jms
+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Are you the Universe? (minor random spoilers) (18 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Are you the Universe? (minor random spoilers)

+18 Jan 1998
>the show) has come from your mind.  You've stated on many
+>occations that you talk to them regularly to find out how each would react
+>to the situations you give them.  All of them (and their interactions) are
+>expressions of YOUR thought processes.  You are the universe!
+>
+>Is this what you were going for as you wrote the series?
+>
+Heavens, no...if I'm the universe then it's a low-rent galaxy, lemme tell
+you....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: JMS: R-M Starfury Models; Thank You! (18 Jan 1998)
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Re: JMS: R-M Starfury Models; Thank You!

+18 Jan 1998
Thanks...still haven't gotten mine yet, but we're very happy about the models. 
+Revell did a great job and was very open to our corrections and notes and nits.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn: JMS Season 5 Intro (18 Jan 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS Season 5 Intro

+18 Jan 1998
>I was wondering though if the way the intro is done (and that is all I will
+>say to prevent spoilage)
+>is not your way of getting to those who said B5 wouldn't last 5 years.  
+>
+>
+
+No, I dealt with that lot in 5 seconds of 422...no reason to give them any
+further attention.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn JMS:  When others write B5 episodes (21 Jan 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS:  When others write B5 episodes

+21 Jan 1998
>
+>How much influence do you have when others write the occasional B5 episode?
+>I
+>am particularly curious about the Kosh scenes.  Do you write up a thorough
+>outlines and assign them out, or are the writers give the guidelines and told
+>to think something up?
+
+Kosh often tended to get revised in-house to make him consistent, mysterious
+rather than a fortune-cookie, which often happened.
+
+Writers got variously verbal notes, a page or two, or in some cases, several
+pages of notes/outline material on an episode.  But a script is very long, so
+they had to come up with a lot to fill in the gaps.
+
+
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+
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+Re: Attn: jms Theatre? (21 Jan 1998)
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Re: Attn: jms Theatre?

+21 Jan 1998
I have a modest theatrical background, with about a dozen one-acts and a
+handful of full-length plays produced.  That's where I cut my teeth as a
+dramatic writer, so that tends to sneak out every once in a while.
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Not reshot?

+21 Jan 1998
Nope, we didn't reshoot that.
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Re: ATTN JMS

+2 Jan 1998
Thanks, to you and your cat.
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Who wrote this line? (21 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Who wrote this line?

+21 Jan 1998
>"The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
+>
+>Is that Gerrold, or Straczynski?
+
+That was Gerrold, as I recall.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS : Thirdspace -- Novelization? (21 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS : Thirdspace -- Novelization?

+21 Jan 1998
Haven't seen the manuscript yet on the Thirdspace novelization, so I can't
+comment, though I suspect he added stuff there to fill it out.
+
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+
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+Re: Ratings for B5 first season; how do they compare? (23 Jan 1998)
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Re: Ratings for B5 first season; how do they compare?

+23 Jan 1998
>  However, I lack a frame of reference for
+>pre-prime time syndicated strips.  In particular, how is B5 doing
+>compared to Lois and Clark, especially how did Lois and Clark do last
+>month when it ran in B5's current time slot?
+
+The daily ratings have been substantially higher in both number, and in the
+demographics, which is crucial for advertisers who want to reach a specific
+audience.  L&C did about a 1.4 or 1.5 average, which they'd be happy if B5
+reached or equaled.  The first 3 B5 eps of this week, for instance, all I have
+so far for this week, were all 2.0...so TNT is delerious.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: No Compromises. ( *Spoilers* ) (23 Jan 1998)
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Re: No Compromises. ( *Spoilers* )

+23 Jan 1998
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+>> I'm not sure exactly what it is about them...it just felt too contrived,
+>too
+>> much the "gotta add the new plot device here".  Especially with Sheriden's
+>> comment to Garibaldi along the lines of 'we both know there's going to be a
+>> telepath war any day now.'  Huh?  Did they watch "Deconstruction"
+
+This is hardly a new plot element...this has been brewing for 4 years now, with
+the growing telepath underground.  As for the latter part of that comment...did
+you already forget that in "Rising Star" there was a conversation between
+Sheridan and Bester about the coming telepath war?  
+
+Not my fault if you're not paying attention.
+
+>> I would think that these guys would believe exactly the opposite, that the
+>> peep/human conflict had been eliminated, since Edgars (the guy who planned
+>to
+>> direct the war) was taken out of the picture.
+
+No, Edgars wasn't trying to *start* a war, he was trying to solve it BEFORE it
+started.  He knew it was coming, is coming, and was trying to give normals an
+edge.  That edge is now gone.  Again, you're misinterpreting or misremembering
+what's been established and saying it's an error on our part.
+>>
+>> *       Why did the telepaths need permission to come to Babylon 5?  I
+>though it
+>> was open to anyone who could pay the rent.
+
+Individually, yes...but again, pay attention, we're talking about a COLONY,
+which means you've got several hundred people living in one area, under one
+authority (Byron), with an unknown or unspecified agenda, whose presence might
+bring problems from the Psi Corps and elsewhere.  So yeah, they're going to
+need somebody's permission.  
+>> *       Why did Sheriden promise a "hands-off" relationship (with
+>exceptions) in
+>> regards to Lochley's responsibilities and powers, and then, in the very
+>same
+>> episode, break that promise by finding an exception?  It seemed too
+>> convenient, too pat.
+
+He didn't break his promise...he moved this into a political decision, which is
+his purview.  He said specifically, "If it's a political problem, or involves
+the Alliance, it's my turf."  This is a strategic decision on behalf of the
+Alliance.
+
+>> *       Where the heck did this "image projection" power come from?  Can
+>Bester
+>> (one of the most powerful peeps we know) do it?  If so, why has he not?  If
+>> not, are these peeps more powerful than Bester?
+
+Well, now you've got a contradiction.  Either we have seen this before, or we
+haven't seen it before.  You say where did it come from, then cite an example
+of where it's been seen before.  And if you'll go back and rewatch that
+episode, you'll see that teeps can act collectively and be very strong.
+
+>It took an entire mob of
+>> peeps, in "A Race Through Dark Places", led by the Ironheart-intensified
+>> Talia and the rogue peep that Ironheart brought on board (previously seen
+>in
+>> "Chrysalis") to project visions into Bester's head.  
+
+No...again, you're distorting the situation.  The task wasn't just to send an
+image into his head, it was to CONVINCE HIM that this image had really
+happened, and it took a lot of them to do this to a Psi Cop.  That's why it
+took so many of them; he's a strong target.  It ain't the same as doing it to a
+normal.  You're not thinking through what you're saying.
+
+>Bester, a single
+>> powerful peep, was able to manipulate Garibaldi's personality and integrity
+>> in such a profound way that Garibaldi betrayed all his friends.  
+
+No, he wasn't...they had to drug him, and do all kinds of work on him to make
+that happen.  Again, you're in error.
+
+>Here we have
+>> a whole colony of peeps with the ability to vanish, create a sound-vacuum,
+>> and project visions.  And they need to ask permission to stay on the
+>station?
+>> Why don't they just move in, set up shop, and turn silent and invisible as
+>> necessary?
+
+Maybe because they are (or are trying to be) the good guys?  Maybe because they
+don't actually vanish, or turn off sound, they can individually manipulate
+somebody by pressing on receptors and distorting things like their time
+sense...but they're going to show up on cameras, and on sensors, and unless
+they want to constantly try and control every single person on the station in
+large groups as they pass by, they're going to be discovered, and booted off
+the station.  So they may as well do the right thing and ask.  Just because
+someone *can* steal doesn't mean they *should* steal.
+
+Besides, where are they going to live?  Quarters have to be assigned, and
+they're always short on space.  Food has to be paid for.  On and on.  Your
+contention doesn't make sense...they're not gods.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: Attn:  JMS Michelangelo

+23 Jan 1998
Folks...the opening credits are where we show the real names of the people
+involved.  They're not part of the show per se.  We went into the central
+docking bay to reveal the jms credit before; do we assume it's there?  It was
+revealed in a Starfury flyby, was it there?  We always place it somewhere in
+the shot.  
+
+
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+B5 comic out now! (23 Jan 1998)
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B5 comic out now!

+23 Jan 1998
The first issue of the B5 comic is now out, the first part of the 3 part story
+done by me (#1) and Peter David (2&3).  "In Valen's Name" is on stands now from
+DC Comics.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: My take on No Compromises (Beware of Spoilers) (25 Jan 1998)
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Re: My take on No Compromises (Beware of Spoilers)

+25 Jan 1998
>Agreed.  It's almost as if they were doing a first episode for a new
+>series...almost, except that we know most of these characters and know
+>where they've been and what they've been through.
+
+One note: due to the TNT ad blitz, we went into this on the assumption that we
+were (and did) pick up a LOT of viewers who had never before seen B5.  These
+folks would need to be brought up to speed on the returning characters and
+situations, and the regular viewers would need to be brought up to speed on
+Lochley...so I wrote it with that intention.
+>I personally liked Lochley a lot more than I thought I would.  Scoggins
+>really can act. <g>
+>
+>
+
+Yup.
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+Re: Well if "No Compromises" sucked: (25 Jan 1998)
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Re: Well if "No Compromises" sucked:

+25 Jan 1998
>Urm, FOUR in a row being bad, actually -- I forgot In the Beginning.  The
+>last two episodes of season four were tripe, ItB was tripe, and NC was
+>tripe.
+
+You forgot one very important phrase: "in my opinion."
+
+Because there other opinions out there, and in the case of ItB you are
+outnumbered around 99 to 1.  Just because you say it doesn't make it so.  
+
+Because all-encompassing general comments based on one person's subjective
+opinion is tripe...and surely you would not wish to commit tripe, woud you?
+
+
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+Re: JMS needs a technical advisor, was Re: Regarding "No Compromises" (25 Jan 1998)
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Re: JMS needs a technical advisor, was Re: Regarding "No Compromises"

+25 Jan 1998
Excuse me, folks, but he was using a B5 starfury, which is programmed like all
+starfuries there to sync up with the station's rotation for purposes of
+docking, ejecting, and holding position for repair purposes.  All a pilot would
+have to do is tell the on-board computer to sync up the thrusters with the
+station's rotation, and it'd be done.
+
+This is a no-brainer...which is why I didn't specify it in dialogue (also it
+would've killed the drama of the momen).  
+
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+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Ohhhhh.. you stinker.

+26 Jan 1998
>When Garibaldi is walking into Lochley's new room, an
+>aide is hanging the symbol of the Earth Alliance on the wall.  Garibaldi
+>looks at it and states, "Hmmm.. it's a little crooked."   Somehow I
+>think that he meant more than how the symbol was hung on the wall.  Is
+>that a hint of things to come?
+
+No, but it was certainly meant as a subtle double-entendre, given his recent
+experiences.
+
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+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Any future additions to Gold Channel? (3 Jan 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Any future additions to Gold Channel?

+3 Jan 1998
Yeah, I gotta give Jeffrey more chapters...I keep leaving the disk at home.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Original "The Very Long Night..." Question (spoilers) (29 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Original "The Very Long Night..." Question (spoilers)

+29 Jan 1998
Nothing like this was planned for Susan; I just liked the title and adjusted
+it.
+
+And in Russian, it's Ivanov for males, Ivanova for females.
+
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+
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Re: Cats:  Shadows or Vorlons?

+29 Jan 1998
>The setup:
+>
+>1.  One of our cats has decided that the cable box is a great place to
+>sleep.  It's warm, it's in a cozy spot.
+>
+>2.  We're taping B5.  We have choir rehearsals on Wednesday nights
+>(we're supplying our cantor with copies of seasons 1-3 as he didn't pick
+>up on B5 until late.
+>
+>3.  We get home, we get our snacks, we plop down to watch the episode.
+>
+>The payoff:
+>
+>We get approximately 10 minutes into "The Long Night..." and suddenly
+>we're watching a preschool thing.  I fast forward thinking it was a
+>problem with our cable company.  No--it switches a few minutes later to
+>some Charles Bronson movie.
+>
+>Now, I don't know if we're being made to pay for some transgression
+>(okay, we did throw him and the other felines into the garage while the
+>realtors were tramping through), but here's what he did:  he turned the
+>box on, switched channels twice, and turned in off!
+>
+>This is not normal feline intelligence.  You tell me, is this a Vorlon
+>or a Shadow we've got here?
+>
+>
+
+Neither.  He's like all cats: he's a Keeper...they sit on your shoulder,
+they're invisible unless they want to be seen, they glare at you out of one
+baleful eye, and gradually they take over your life.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Season 5 quotation marks? (no spoilers) (29 Jan 1998)
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Re: Season 5 quotation marks? (no spoilers)

+29 Jan 1998
I never wanted the quotation marks, so it'd be like a novel first page...but
+each season, before I could catch it, some went through and I had to eat it. 
+So this season I made sure to clarify that up front.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* ) (29 Jan 1998)
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Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* )

+29 Jan 1998
>It seems to be a shame (to me at least) that an atheist should have a
+>better grasp of spiritual truths than many Christians.  
+
+Only Nixon could go to China.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: TVLNoLM Directing/Camera Shots (Spoilers) (29 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: TVLNoLM Directing/Camera Shots (Spoilers)

+29 Jan 1998
>1) Was it just me THINKING that the lighting had changed or did it actually 
+>do so?
+>
+We did the light change, and enhanced it further in post.
+
+>2) Was the scene shot with a steady cam mounted to someone or was
+>that some sort of boom (or was it the floating cameras that ISN uses)?
+
+We attached the camera to his body.
+
+>3) Was the long single shot the idea of the director or was it spelled out
+>in the script by JMS?
+>
+It was in the script.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Londo Mollari, G'Kar, and my grandmother (30 Jan 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Londo Mollari, G'Kar, and my grandmother

+30 Jan 1998
Thank you for saying all of that; if we can be witnessses for hope, for the
+possibility of joy and dignity, to one another, then there's a chance for *all*
+of us.
+
+And my sincerest condolences on your loss.  From your comments and
+observations, I think she did a great job, and you should be proud.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Cats:  Shadows or Vorlons? (30 Jan 1998)
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Re: Cats:  Shadows or Vorlons?

+30 Jan 1998
>So--since there are 6 cats in the house (don't ask), just how much trouble am
+>I
+>in?
+
+I can't say exactly, but one of them just logged in under your account.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: JMS: sigs and baiting (3 Jan 1998)
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Re: JMS: sigs and baiting

+3 Jan 1998
>When I saw you and Claudia chatting live 
+>on AOL a few years ago, I read genuine respect and affection from both of 
+>you.  It couldn't have been as simple as just losing an employee, and it 
+>really burns my britches people haven't stopped to realize that you 
+>probably took a personal shot to the gut when she failed to sign.
+
+Steve...you have no idea.
+
+Thanks.  It needed saying.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* ) (4 Jan 1998)
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In the Beginning ( *Spoilers* )

+4 Jan 1998
Spoilers for In the Beginning
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+It's 35 years from the time in which Londo is speaking, and Anna and Sheridan
+weren't married during the war, they were married after.
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: ATTN: JMS - TVLNoLM

+2 Feb 1998
>You have come so far in the last five years.
+>
+I do hope so...we've learned a lot doing B5 over the years, and this kind of
+intense writing tends to teach you a LOT in a very short amount of time.
+
+>And what's really amazing is I'm pretty sure you're going to top it at 
+>some point this year!
+
+Hope so again...that's the other part.  I think we all have to keep challenging
+ourselves on a daily basis, or what's the point of going on?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: cats, CTS and clubs (3 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: cats, CTS and clubs

+3 Feb 1998
>Cats- I've always assumed that you don't like felines but a recent posting 
+>made me wonder if maybe you do.  So.... do you like cats?
+
+Absolutely.  But with all cats, it's half affection, half psychological
+warfare.  Goes with the turf.
+
+>CTS - are you still suffering? 
+
+It comes and goes.
+
+>Clubs - can members of the UK fan club access "thestation" site?
+
+If by that you mean members in the UK of the B5 official fan club, then yes;
+but membership in the UK fan club (a separate organization) is not membership
+in the official organization.  But of course anyone can access thestation.com,
+it's just that fans get certain areas and discounts others don't.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn:JMS Whatever happened to George Johnsen? (4 Feb 1998)
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Re: Attn:JMS Whatever happened to George Johnsen?

+4 Feb 1998
George was a NDEI employee who worked with us on Babylon 5, and after spending
+4 years of no sleep getting the show together, decided to move on and pursue
+other opportunities, of which there are many.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Chrysalis Credits Intact! (4 Feb 1998)
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Re: Chrysalis Credits Intact!

+4 Feb 1998
TNT has pledged to show one episode per season with out any kind of voice-over
+or crunching, as a nod to the fans.  Usually the season ender.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+from jms: life meets art? (4 Feb 1998)
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from jms: life meets art?

+4 Feb 1998
Check out this site:
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+http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9802/03/holliman/
+
+The photo of Node One, part of Nasa's new space station -- a city in space,
+they call it -- looks kinda like B5's core design. 
+
+Just a little frisson...kinda fun.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writing old ST:TOS comics (4 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writing old ST:TOS comics

+4 Feb 1998
I was always a fan of the original Trek, and really felt I had a handle on
+those characters; always wanted to write for them.  So I managed to talk my way
+into the gig.  It'sa favorite of mine, one of the better comics I did.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Declaration of Principles -- Spoilers for Paragon of Animals (5 Feb 1998)
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Re: Declaration of Principles -- Spoilers for Paragon of Animals

+5 Feb 1998
> No matter the pain
+>  No matter the darkness
+>  No matter the loss
+>  No matter the fear
+>We are one, here, gathered together in common cause.
+>We agree to recognize this singular truth
+>  and this singular rule:
+
+Just a typographical correction: this should be, at the midway point,
+
+No matter the fear:
+We are one.
+Here, gathered together in common cause,
+We agree...(etc)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: from jms: life meets art?

+5 Feb 1998
>Seriously, though... if an ant saw Node One, then asked another ant "What
+>was that?", what would the second ant say?
+>
+>
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+RUN FOR IT!
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: S5 script writing (6 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: S5 script writing

+6 Feb 1998
Peter and Bill's script didn't work out.
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: WHERE'S LOCHLEY? (6 Feb 1998)
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Re: WHERE'S LOCHLEY?

+6 Feb 1998
>Still, she's the new captain -- where is she?
+
+Settling in on station stuff...this is all Alliance stuff.  
+
+She'll be in a run of several starting next week.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATT JMS:  Is Harlan going (6 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATT JMS:  Is Harlan going

+6 Feb 1998
While we're not doing the Demon story this season, Harlan has co-story credit
+on two episodes this season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN:  JMS - Medium question (2 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN:  JMS - Medium question

+2 Feb 1998
It would've been 'way outside our budget capacity to produce it as an episode.
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+The Paragon of Animals ( *Spoilers* ) (6 Feb 1998)
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The Paragon of Animals ( *Spoilers* )

+6 Feb 1998
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+friendly fleet coming in, to join them in an offense, they would have their
+defenses down.  And a full-scale Drazi fleet would also somewhat outnumber the
+White Stars.  A Pearl Harbor style attack on White Stars would effectively
+decimate the fleet before they would have a chance to respond.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn jms : Where is SiL? (6 Feb 1998)
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Re: Attn jms : Where is SiL?

+6 Feb 1998
>who has the copy of SiL, Warner Brothers, Bab. Productions, or TNT?
+
+To make sure it didn't get out accidentally, we've held onto it, and have not
+yet put in the CGI to make sure it didn't get aired by accident.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: attn jms:  You've had a lot of fun writing these, (7 Feb 1998)
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Re: attn jms:  You've had a lot of fun writing these,

+7 Feb 1998
If it weren't fun, wouldn't be no point in doing it....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Last 3 titles (7 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Last 3 titles

+7 Feb 1998
>Now that you have written the last 3 episodes, could you reveal their
+>titles?
+
+I could.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel? (7 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel?

+7 Feb 1998
>Now that a major portion of your work
+>will be over are you not going to know what to do with all that free time?
+
+What free time?  
+
+>You must feel relieved, sad, euphoric, and proud because that's what you've
+>done to me in just the first few episodes this season.  I bet you'll be able
+>to identify with how Sinclair would have felt if he'd stayed after year one,
+>being outside the action a little more. 
+
+Certainly all those emotions and still others raced through me when I finished
+typing the last words of episode 522 a few days ago.  There's no way to
+describe it.
+
+>So what's left to do as Executive
+>Producer these next few weeks?   
+
+Writing the next 2 movies, to be shot in April/May; doing all the other
+production stuff (working with the various departments -- costume, prosthetics,
+CGI, sets, directors, actors), post production stuff (doing the editing,
+working with the composer on music, others on sound, more CGI, other stuff),
+dealing with the mountain of licensing approvals that has piled up on my desk
+due to being more interested in the show than that stuff, and (one hopes)
+shortly gearing up for Crusade.
+
+Also just had a new 4-hour miniseries that I wrote optioned by a major company.
+
+Other than that, not much going on.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Curious phrasing

+8 Feb 1998
No, I phrased it that way only because it isn't the last episode of the season,
+that's "Sleeping in Light," shot last year.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (9 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS

+9 Feb 1998
>-In season 2, we had all these cool 'exterior' kind of shots into
+>Sheridan's Office and Earhart's.  (Ex: the shot of Londo at the window
+>of Sheridan's office in "Geo. of Shadows")  What ever happened to them?
+>
+>
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+Bottom line...I keep forgetting to write them in.
+
+>-I'm a columbia house guy, collecting all the tapes -I wonder what
+>versions of the shows you are using.  For instance, in the US, we lost
+>the "Whole Garden Maze" in the ep with Londo and Morden in the Garden.
+>Are we gonna get the complete UK version or the US version?
+
+The US version was only for the first airing; all subsequent airings have been
+correct, and should be correct here (they told us they burned the incorrect
+master...we'll see).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel? (9 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel?

+9 Feb 1998
>About which, of course, being the modest person you are, you will not tell
+>us anything unless we specifically ask.
+>
+>Hint? Itty bitty spoiler? even an "eep", huh, prettly please, huh? :-)
+
+Because it's based on a true story, and I'd rather not have anyone else jump
+the claim here, I'll be quiet for now.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: I've got the B5 merchandise blues. (10 Feb 1998)
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Re: I've got the B5 merchandise blues.

+10 Feb 1998
+You can also order all this stuff from thestation.com, and we'll get it out
+fast.
+
+But I'll send a note to Sonic about your situation.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: your projectss (10 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: your projectss

+10 Feb 1998
+>Vocabulary lesson, please.
+>"Optioned" means that a major company can make the miniseries, but doesn't
+>have to, correct?
+
+An option is the standard protocol in deal making.  It is a fee paid to the
+writer allowing the studio or network to hold onto the material while it puts
+together the rest of the deal.  Consider it a downpayment.  Once the deal is in
+place, the rest of the money follows.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* ) (2 Feb 1998)
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Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* )

+2 Feb 1998
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+Re: the idea that Londo has "apologized" before....
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+Remember G'Kar's comment: that in other circumstances, Londo wasn't sorry he
+DID it, he was sorry he got CAUGHT.  That was the point of the exercise.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+A View from the Gallery ( *Spoilers* ) (12 Feb 1998)
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A View from the Gallery ( *Spoilers* )

+12 Feb 1998
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+>In one scene Byron and friends combine to turn away an
+>invading soldier, but in another scene Byron alone places images into the
+>mind of the maintenance worker, Bo. Why did Byron need help with the
+>soldier but not with Bo? 
+
+Because there's a substantial difference in will and intent in making a person
+who's come to murder you turn around, and creating a momentary illusion in
+someone's head.  It's the degree of effort involved.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS Gallifrey? (14 Feb 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS Gallifrey?

+14 Feb 1998
Yeah, I'll be blipping into the Gallifrey convention Sunday afternoon for an
+hour-plus presentation and some autographing thereafter.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Lockley's hair   was Re: First Take - A View from the Gallery (14 Feb 1998)
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Re: Lockley's hair   was Re: First Take - A View from the Gallery

+14 Feb 1998
Scoggins did exactly what you suggest, Diane.  She figured, "This isn't about
+hair."  She was awakened, and had to get to C&C fast, she ain't gonna do her
+hair, just ponytail it back.
+
+She didn't realize, in making that choice, that it would make her a) look that
+severe in the uniform, since she was still getting used to it, and b) give her
+the Ivanova "peanut-head" as she used to call it.  She later realized this was
+a bit of an error, and has never done it since.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: A View from the Gallery (14 Feb 1998)
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Re: A View from the Gallery

+14 Feb 1998
>Remember, with the gravity produced by the station's
+>rotation, portholes must be in the floor.  Hence, in _The Long Dark_,
+>Schultz's character appeared to be looking through a floor drain.  For
+>Bo and Mack to have looked out the porthole in the lower wall, they must
+>have been walking down a rather steep incline.
+
+Nope.
+
+Look carefully at the station.  It is in segments; and at the outer wall of
+each of those segments, as with the sanctuary, you can get an outer view.  You
+can see the lights from some of these areas that have portholes in the station
+when it's dark.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia line...direct hit! ("AVFtG" spoilers) (15 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Claudia line...direct hit! ("AVFtG" spoilers)

+15 Feb 1998
Correct;  it was never meant as a shot at Claudia, but rather at the folks out
+there whose only interest is in rumors, and starting trouble, and feeding
+feuds.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Where is B5 getting all its starfuries/ (15 Feb 1998)
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Re: Where is B5 getting all its starfuries/

+15 Feb 1998
This issue comes up in about a week.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Now that it's all over... (17 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Now that it's all over...

+17 Feb 1998
>How do you feel?
+>
+>
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+I've felt pretty much everything since finishing 522...but most of all, I guess
+I feel relieved that we actually did what we said we were going to do, and went
+the distance.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: To jms: Babylon 5 and other science fiction shows (17 Feb 1998)
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Re: To jms: Babylon 5 and other science fiction shows

+17 Feb 1998
>You have mentioned on many occasions
+>that one of the things you wanted to do with this show was deviate from
+>more "traditional" American science fiction, such as Star Trek. Do you 
+>actually not like these shows, or did you just want to make
+>something different? 
+
+It's the latter.  To do something differently isn't to say that it wasn't done
+right before.  It's not a good/bad issue.  I wanted to do something that
+nobody'd done before, in part BECAUSE nobody'd ever done it before...where's
+the challenge otherwise?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn. JMS: Many thanks for your help (19 Feb 1998)
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Re: Attn. JMS: Many thanks for your help

+19 Feb 1998
>Thanks much for helping out with my question a week or two ago regarding
+>Sonic Images' customer service.  My friend got his Christmas gift at last,
+>with apologies (and a little something extra) from the gang at Sonic Images,
+>and justice is done.
+
+I live to serve.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  No liscensed White Star models?  What's This...? (19 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  No liscensed White Star models?  What's This...?

+19 Feb 1998
It is most definitely and emphatically NOT licensed, and NOT official, and
+anyone buying this is being ripped off if they are being told otherwise.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* ) (2 Feb 1998)
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Re: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari ( *Spoilers* )

+2 Feb 1998
+Bill is still on the show; there's a bit of a break as his character is off on
+anla-shok training, but he does come back, and in fact has a rather substantial
+arc of his own at a certain point later in the season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS Re: TNT Cuts scene from V-in W part 1 (19 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS Re: TNT Cuts scene from V-in W part 1

+19 Feb 1998
Yes, this is true...an engineer punched in the wrong time-code on the act-in.
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+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  The New TNT Movie Story Ideas (19 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  The New TNT Movie Story Ideas

+19 Feb 1998
They asked what I'd like to do in a couple of movies...I thought about it, and
+sent on a couple of brief premises...they read 'em said they loved 'em, and to
+go and do.  Creatively, they're leaving us completely on our own, something
+we've earned with them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Marcus Cole (20 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Marcus Cole

+20 Feb 1998
There are no current plans for anything further from Marcus this side of the
+grave.
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+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Learning Curve ( *Spoilers* ) (20 Feb 1998)
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Re: Learning Curve ( *Spoilers* )

+20 Feb 1998
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+>please please don't throw in a typical jelousy-based story line with the
+>little woman mad about a prior relationship. Geeeez. 
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+It's amazing to see how many people (not speaking directly to you, but the
+flood of email and public posts on this) who go right for cliche in how
+something like this would be handled, and then have jumped to the conclusion
+that that's what would be done *here*.
+
+Believe me, that aspect ain't what this thread is about.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Another Quickie on further TNT movies (22 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Another Quickie on further TNT movies

+22 Feb 1998
Thirdspace is set in the 4th season, about one-third in.
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+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: My Take on Season 5 (22 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: My Take on Season 5

+22 Feb 1998
Charles, at risk of being terribly unproducerish...will you for chrsissakes
+relax?
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+Everything you're saying about Lochley here -- and I mean EVERYTHING -- was
+said about Claudia Christian when she came on board as Ivanova.  "Oh, she's
+wooden, she's trying to hard to be tough, get rid of her and bring back
+Takashima."
+
+I told people to give her time, they'd learn that there's more there than meets
+the eye.  They said I was making excuses for a poor casting choice.  So let's
+all just give the woman and the character a chance, okay?  You've seen her now
+in a total of 3 episodes, which were designed to put her toe-to-toe with
+Garibaldi.  There's more there.
+
+And yeah, I wanted to give viewers a rest-up for a bit after the excesses of
+S4.  Okay, so you can't see where it's going.  That's okay by me (you don't see
+the coming telepath situation, for starters?)...people were saying in seasons 1
+and most of 2 that they didn't see it then, either...then they saw it when I
+chose to let it be seen.  
+
+This year has one of the most intense series of arcs we've ever DONE.  And by
+the end of it you'll be happy you HAD these few lighter episodes because I'm
+going to kick the crap out of the viewers.  We have not just one, but two and
+maybe (depending on how it comes out) three episodes this season I'd put toe to
+toe with Coming of Shadows for intensity, for arc, for major shifts.
+
+Further:
+
+People saw "By Any Means Necessary," and said it wasn't an arc episode...it was
+just about a strike.  But later, after what came up, this was seen as the FIRST
+EPISODE in the real turn-around and reversal of Londo/G'kar...here Londo was
+being the bad guy for the first time, and here G'Kar was showing a spiritual
+side.  That one episode marked the absolute start of that reversal...which only
+became clear well AFTER the fact.  DURING the fact, I had to put up with people
+assuming that it had nothing to do with the arc.
+
+How can you say you don't think it's going anywhere when you haven't seen where
+it's gone?  
+
+Y'know if I were just an audience member, I'd be sitting back and enjoying this
+show and wondering where it's going to go without making judgements based on
+ZERO information on where it is or isn't going.  Have you read the scripts?  Do
+you know what's in 518?  
+
+Have you seen the shot where a tearful Delenn embraces Londo for what may be
+the last time?  Have you seen the phoenix that rises out of Byron's actions? 
+Have you heard about the bombing of Psi Corps back home?  Have you seen what's
+living under the palace on Centauri Prime?  Have you seen what the regent sees
+when he looks up on the very last night of his life?  Have you seen the
+terrible darkness that Lennier discovers at the worst possible moment of his
+life?  Have you seen the REAL other side of Lyta, and what she can do?  Have
+you seen the Drazi homeworld, and the terrible secret they're hiding there?  
+
+Have you?
+
+Because that's only a FRACTION of what is coming this season, the smallest
+part.
+
+Maybe you're getting reruns of episodes...I'm getting reruns of comments from
+past seasons...which were shown to be wrong then, and they're wrong now.
+
+Let's talk about Season 5 as a whole once you've actually SEEN it, shall we?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: My Take on Season 5 (22 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: My Take on Season 5

+22 Feb 1998
As long as I'm being unproducerish....
+
+>Still,
+>continuity is earned and not promised; it develops organically and not
+>merely retrospectively. Insisting that there is an arc on the basis of
+>future developments amounts to a cheat, and an embarassing one on the part
+>of a writer of JMS's stature.
+
+I'm sorry, but this comment ranks in the top ten percentile of astonishingly
+paralogical remarks I've ever seen.  What you're saying here is that the ONLY
+thing that constitutes an arc is if the audience sees it before it happens, if
+it's told it's there...as opposed to an arc that becomes clear in the light of
+FUTURE EVENTS.
+
+But an arc IS A STORY THAT GOES INTO THE FUTURE EVENTS.  That is the very
+DEFINITION of it.  How many people here said they started watching B5 in its
+first season and didn't know there was an arc until "Signs and Portents?" 
+Plenty, I've seen them.  So unless it's *predictible*, unless you've been
+briefed ahead of time that something's coming, paying it off in the future,
+which is how I'm writing it, doesn't count.
+
+Yes, I referred to future developments because THAT IS WHAT AN ARC IS, future
+developments.  
+
+This is the most astonishing conversation I've had on the nets in months.
+
+Excuse me, I think I'll go get a ball peen hammer and bang myself between the
+eyes for a couple of hours, it'd be easier and less painful in the long run....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: Strawmen, irritation with (23 Feb 1998)
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Re: Strawmen, irritation with

+23 Feb 1998
Russ:
+
+You're setting up just as many strawmen as those you cite.
+
+Basic and fundamental truism: if somebody doesn't like an episode, I'm
+absolutely okay with that.  Some episodes, like the Mack and Bo show, the
+coming Psi Corps show, Deconstruction, those are written with the full
+knowledge that it's going to divide people's opinions.  I *expect* that it'll
+be cleanly divided between those who hate it, and those who love it. 
+
+Basic and fundamental truism #2: No show, no single episode, will appeal to
+everyone.  It's a bell curve: some at one end will hate it, some at the other
+will love it, most will be generally in the middle.  It's if that bell curve
+starts to skew one way or the other that you have to watch.
+
+All that I and others have been doing is pointing out realities to those who
+have, in essence, said that something isn't there when it is.  How many times
+lately have I read, here or on other nets, "Now that we're in reruns we see all
+the threads that tied the show together that we didn't see before, all the
+foreshadowings of what was to come."  
+
+There's a lot of stuff seeded in these early episodes that will, as with the
+first several seasons, be more apparent in retrospect.  That's ALWAYS been the
+case with B5.  
+
+I'm also trying to provide a historical perspective.  People jump on Lochley
+saying she's wooden (meaning she doesn't overact and chew the scenery as with
+so much of what passes for TV acting)...and preferring Ivanova...completely
+forgetting that for most of the first season, and then some, people were
+complaining that Ivanova was wooden, they didn't like her Russian accent (which
+she didn't even have), they said "dump her."  They did the same thing with Vir.
+ "Flounder in space!  Throw him out an airlock."
+
+Then, later, as the characters continue on, the opinions change.  This has been
+the pattern from the very first day of this show.  I see nothing wrong with
+noting this.  If it's proper to critique the show, and it is, good or bad, why
+is it bad to critique the criticisms and bring a historical perspective to the
+discussion?
+
+Look...if somebody doesn't like an episode, I'm fine with that, always have
+been.  It's when it enters into the sweeping generalizations category,
+paralogia or downright silliness about the season as a whole, which nobody's
+seen yet, that I finally have to say "c'mon..."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: To jms: Babylon 5 and other science fiction shows (24 Feb 1998)
+
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Re: To jms: Babylon 5 and other science fiction shows

+24 Feb 1998
+I've actually heard from some other folks on other SF style shows that our
+tendency to push things has make it a bit easier for them to get tougher
+stories through.  This is a Good Thing.  The more quality SF series, the better
+for everybody.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS - Seven Days In May and the Earth arc (24 Feb 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS - Seven Days In May and the Earth arc

+24 Feb 1998
+Thanks...Seven Days in May is an excellent movie, one of several that, if I'm
+channel-surfing and come across, I can't *not* watch it.  They did a more
+recent version of it for cable -- HBO, I think -- but the original will always
+be my favorite.  
+
+And yeah, Rod had an amazing way with words...still holds me in awe.
+
+BTW, if you liked that one, I commend Fail Safe to you as well as The
+Manchurian Candidate.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Upcoming titles (3 Feb 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Upcoming titles

+3 Feb 1998
Yeah, I've used that quote in other places, back to CP days, so it was in the
+back of my head.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: What are you hiding? (24 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: What are you hiding?

+24 Feb 1998
+> WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?
+
+That would be telling.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+
+Re: Attn: JMS:  Silly questions (24 Feb 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS:  Silly questions

+24 Feb 1998
+>- My husband wants to know if there are really 10 Zathrai, or whether it is
+>just one that has been time travelling *way* too much.
+
+Yes, there are ten Zathri...despite the restraining order.
+
+>- I was wondering if you could explain a bit more about how you manage to do
+>things like bring in new major characters. You have said that you know what
+>threads need to be continued somehow, so I imagine you start with that.
+>What
+>needs to be accomplished and can any of the regulars take that over? If not,
+>I
+>picture in my mind your going to the B5 universe and saying " I need someone
+>who can, for example, run the station, keep the major characters on their
+>toes
+>and handle emergencies with minimal violence - who do we have that can handle
+>it?" Then a few people show up and you pick the one that suits your needs
+>best.
+
+That comes pretty close...it's a matter of looking at the logistics and
+backgrounds of people and, if a thread has to be adjusted ("What do you MEAN
+Wayne Alexander just got hit by an asteroid?!) you look at the next logical
+person in the show whom you can then beat up even further.  
+
+It's not quite "one of you step forward," but it's close.
+
+And sometimes it's a situation where you know that actor X hasn't had as much
+to do as might've been the case, and an opening in thread A lets you do more
+with that person.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Very Interesting Experiment/Suggestion (24 Feb 1998)
+
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Re: Very Interesting Experiment/Suggestion

+24 Feb 1998
+What the experiment also does, which you touch on, is to show how changing an
+angle on an actor, making it a close-up rather than a long shot, can make the
+scene more or less dynamic...how you can get out of scenes earlier than in the
+first version, and thus pick up the pace.  
+
+It is, as you say, most educational.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: attn. jms: one pass viewing or 2 pass? (25 Feb 1998)
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Re: attn. jms: one pass viewing or 2 pass?

+25 Feb 1998
>When you write the episodes with foreshadowing and other such puzzle
+>pieces to be clarified later, do you do so with the intent of the viewer
+>watching reruns of old episodes on a second pass and seeing how all the
+>pieces fit together, or do you write with the intent of the first
+>viewing pass, with the foreshadowing  having more of a subliminal effect
+>preparing for the further denouement? You couldn't have known that TNT
+>was going to pick up the show and run all the back episodes could you? 
+>
+>
+Whether it was TNT or someone else, it was inevitable that someone would pick
+up the reruns of the show; so I put stuff in to work both ways, as
+foreshadowing, and things you could pick up on later, on re-viewing, that
+suddenly jump out at you.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn:  JMS - History - Season 5 spoiler (sort of) (26 Feb 1998)
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Re: Attn:  JMS - History - Season 5 spoiler (sort of)

+26 Feb 1998
>Will we get to learn more about the history between Byron and Bester?
+>
+>
+
+A-yup.
+
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+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Nothing in this place is as it appears. (26 Feb 1998)
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Re: Nothing in this place is as it appears.

+26 Feb 1998
>But then again, he could be the cigar who's just a cigar.
+
+I thin Corwin's more of a tiparillo....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: SR song (27 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: SR song

+27 Feb 1998
No, I came up with that song for the episode, and designed it to sound like any
+of a zillion other such songs out there, so it'd sound familiar.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: When is the final day? (28 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: When is the final day?

+28 Feb 1998
+>1. When is the final day of Season 5 shooting?
+>
+It's either March 20th or 21st, I forget....
+
+>2. If the existing B5 cast is appearing in the currently planned movies,
+>when are they scheduled to finish shooting?
+
+We'll likely shoot in April through May.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Resolution (3 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Resolution

+3 Feb 1998
>Now that you are in the process of writing the final script, I'd just
+>like to ask has the season shaped up the way you wanted it? And will 522
+>provide the same sense of resolution that 421 did?
+
+Yes and no...the last part of the season is very tight, 17-19 are very much of
+a piece, 20 sets up one final thread, then 21 and 22 are more designed to *lead
+up to* the held-over 422.  That's one of the main differences...if it'd aired
+at the end of S4, it would've been a bit of a jump, but now can lead up to it
+more smoothly.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: comment on "TVLNoLM" (3 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: comment on "TVLNoLM"

+3 Feb 1998
Thanks...we're slowly bringing Londo full-circle, and what an odd little voyage
+it's been.  And so much sadness yet to come.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn: jms  - How was the directing for 517? (3 Feb 1998)
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Re: Attn: jms  - How was the directing for 517?

+3 Feb 1998
Haven't seen the director's cut yet, but Goran did a great job, based on
+dailies.
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS- semi-silly No Comprimises question. (3 Feb 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS- semi-silly No Comprimises question.

+3 Feb 1998
That would be *terribly* self indulgent of me....
+
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+
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+Re: Garibaldi/Lochley - Dare I Ask?!?! (1 Mar 1998)
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Re: Garibaldi/Lochley - Dare I Ask?!?!

+1 Mar 1998
>Is it just me or is there a strong possibility that there might be a pairing
+>up
+>of Garibaldi and Lochley?
+>
+>
+
+The odds are zero and none.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Just watched SOtS (9 Mar 1998)
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Just watched SOtS

+9 Mar 1998
Thanks..for all of that.  
+
+And yeah, once this season is over, my presence on the nets will substantially
+diminish...but it's been a great experience, for the most part, occasional
+nutcases and bozos notwithstanding.  In the last year, I think more could've
+been done in this ongoing conversation about educating people on the nature of
+making TV, which was one of the reasons for doing this...but in many ways I'm
+limited by the quality of the questions asked, and lately it's been more
+posting of reactions (good and bad, that isn't meant to be a critical comment)
+than questions related to who/how/why/what.
+
+Right now, we're shooting 521...three more weeks total, and the Babylon 5
+series is over.  Seems vaguely hard to believe.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS:  Witness for the Defense? (10 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: Attn JMS:  Witness for the Defense?

+10 Mar 1998
> Oftentimes when people criticize the show, or a character or
+>whatever, you rise to its defense.  I could understand you answering
+>questions people have about different aspects of the story - that helps
+>us all.  But rebutting people who don't like X or Y or whatever?
+>
+>Your work is your work.  There is no need to defend it or its quality.
+>
+>So, why do you do this?
+>
+Usually, I don't...if someone doesn't like something, he doesn't like
+something, that's fine and to be expected.  It's when someone deliberately
+distorts something that I tend to get into it.
+
+Why?
+
+Because I'm an idiot, that's why.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn. JMS:  The Gathering (10 Mar 1998)
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Re: Attn. JMS:  The Gathering

+10 Mar 1998
I don't know if the new version will be available, I doubt it, though.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: New line of B5 T-shirts released (11 Mar 1998)
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Re: New line of B5 T-shirts released

+11 Mar 1998
The glow in the dark sweatshirts are licensed, yes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN.: JMS - Writing Process (11 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN.: JMS - Writing Process

+11 Mar 1998
>When writing the scripts for B5 (or any other show), do you "see" the
+>script in novel format or in teleplay format in your mind?
+
+Neither.  I see the scene itself, as if watching a movie.  I play it over and
+over...initially, it's kind of out of focus, and incomplete, I have some
+pieces, not others...the more times I play it back in my head, the more it
+gradually comes into focus, and the missing pieces begin ot fill in...until I
+see the whole scene, end to end, in perfect focus.  Then I use whatever form
+I'm writing in -- a novel or a script -- and write it in that format.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Story Timing in General (11 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Story Timing in General

+11 Mar 1998
>One of the things that annoys me about some TV shows is the
+>unbalanced timing.  The main crisis takes too long to build
+>up to, and the resolution takes place in the last 5 minutes,
+>or in some cases, during the last commercial break.
+
+>B5 seems to me to be a lot more balanced in this respect.  Do
+>you try to begin the resolution by a certain time to allow
+>time to show the actual resolution before the final break,
+>and use the epilogue for something else?  Or just how do you
+>try to do it?  Is it in the editing?
+
+It's generally the same...I use a straightforward approach to the stories:
+teaser sets the tone for the episode, hooks the audience, makes you wonder what
+the heck's going on.  First act introduces the problem in greater detail; here
+and in act two you get the characters dealing with the problem, with a major
+problem or complication hitting at the bottom of act 2...act three prepares
+your characters to deal with the situation, and act four deals with the
+situation, leaving the tag (and sometimes part of the fourth act) to have some
+nice character moments.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Question, since you'll be online less often (11 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Question, since you'll be online less often

+11 Mar 1998
>When fans send you snail-mail, do you delegate someone else to read it, or
+>do you read it yourself?    How should it be addressed?
+>
+>
+No, nobody else answers my mail but me...however, remember that private email
+is only to be used for personal matters or confidential matters that can't be
+discussed elsewhere.  That won't change even after my online participation
+falls back a bit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - Day of the Dead **Spoilers** (12 Mar 1998)
+
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Day of the Dead **Spoilers**

+12 Mar 1998
>My question is that as much as people
+>who follow a particular religion might have a crisis of faith, do
+>atheist ever have the same crisis where they self examine what they
+>believe?  Not that you would change what you would believe, but the
+>characters in the series constantly show the signs of self doubt.
+
+I think you *have* to question what you believe (or don't believe, or believe
+you believe or believe what you don't believe) on a regular basis, the way you
+exercise any muscle.  If you leave it unattended, it gets flabby and soft and
+intellectually lazy.  The peril of the unexamined life is one of the things
+I've often railed about in one place or another...whether or not you come back
+to your original position after a lengthy self-examination, the important thing
+is that you *do* it from time to time, honestly and straightforwardly, because
+you could change your position, or if you don't, at least you now have more
+reasons and a better understanding of it, so that you can defend it and talk
+about it rationally rather than get angry because you can't articulate why you
+believe what you believe.
+
+And I believe that may be one of the longest unbroken sentences I've yet
+written....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: B5 newcomer thanks you (12 Mar 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: B5 newcomer thanks you

+12 Mar 1998
Thanks...that's great company for any writer.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Reduced Net Presence (14 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Reduced Net Presence

+14 Mar 1998
>You've mentioned that after B5, your net presence will be substantially
+>reduced, which I can certainly understand. But I'm curious--do you also
+>anticipate reading less on the net? As far as I can see, you now read
+>virtually every posting in several forums. Will you in future be more
+>like the rest of us, who only pick out the threads that interest them?
+>
+>
+Yes; the only other option is to go mad after a while.
+
+>I guess what I'm trying
+>to say is that the sense of wonder I felt then at the idea that a show's
+>creator would actually interact with fans in this way has never left me.
+>Thank you so very much for not only creating a great TV show, but for
+>sharing your thoughts with us.
+
+All things considered, it's been a pleasure.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Strange Relations, Sex, & JMS (Spoilers) (1 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: Strange Relations, Sex, & JMS (Spoilers)

+1 Mar 1998
>JMS is a
+>sexual conservative. Garibaldi isn't allowed to sleep with the
+>ground-pounder in GROPOS, Marcus is a virgin, saving himself for the
+>right one, Sheridan and Delenn don't actually have sex until after
+>they're married (unless they did in that Woo-Hoo Minbari ritual, but I
+>was never sure about that). There are other examples.
+>
+>
+The Garibaldi/GROPO thing was originally slated in the script for them to go to
+bed with each other...it was Jerry who objected loudly enough for that to be
+changed in the script.
+
+Then there's Franklin and Number One who jumped into bed very quickly, we have
+Garibaldi and Lise in bed in "Between the Darkness and the Light," Franklin and
+the singer in downbelow... there are plenty of counter-examples.
+
+Conservative I ain't.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS - Where do we send the gifts? (14 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS - Where do we send the gifts?

+14 Mar 1998
No presents necessary; we got to tell our story, our way...what greater present
+can anyone get than that?
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Day of the Dead (*Spoilers*) (14 Mar 1998)
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Re: Day of the Dead (*Spoilers*)

+14 Mar 1998
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+>Why didn't JMS bring Ivanova back to B5 to be visited by Marcus Cole, her
+>brother, or her father?
+>
+>Why didn't JMS put Sheridan in the zone to be visited by Kosh or Anne
+>Sheridan?
+
+I didn't write it.  It's Neil's script.  The characters he chose are the ones
+he wanted to play with.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: JMS--Who chose visitors for DotD? (14 Mar 1998)
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Re: JMS--Who chose visitors for DotD?

+14 Mar 1998
Neil chose the characters he wanted to play with.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Actors returning for "dead" roles - Day of the Dead (17 Mar 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Actors returning for "dead" roles - Day of the Dead

+17 Mar 1998
No, there's no prior understanding...Neil picked the actors he wanted, and we
+checked on their availabilities.  If they hadn't been available, we'd've gone
+for other characters.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: We're Missing out on some of the Arc! (18 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: We're Missing out on some of the Arc!

+18 Mar 1998
>But out of the first 8 episodes in season 5, only
+>two were arc episodes. 
+
+That's an assumption; it's not a correct one.  
+
+>That means that the
+>greatest number of arc episodes season 5 can
+>have is 16. From the plot summaries, it seems
+>that there are two or three more non-arc
+>episodes later this season, so this makes 13-14
+>arc episodes for season 5.
+
+No, there's now only one stand-alone left in the balance of S5.  And, again,
+you've got arc material in the first batch, whether you choose to recognize it
+now or not.
+
+>So the total number of
+>arc episodes in the series will only be 56 or so.
+>We'll be missing out on 5-8 episodes, which is
+>a good 10% of the arc.
+>
+>So what happened? Where do you think the
+>material was cut from?
+
+Nowhere.  You can't apply math to a creative situation, and in an ongoing
+process solidify everything so much in stone in season 1 that you can't adjust.
+ 
+
+It's going where it was meant to go.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Budgets for Season 5 (18 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: Budgets for Season 5

+18 Mar 1998
>With the move to TNT, one assumes that dollars spent per episode have
+>shrunk.  Is it just me, or do the shows seem to have a lot less CGI in
+>them this season?
+
+Yes and no and yes....
+
+Someone online did a recent breakdown, and actually the amount of CGI in the
+first batch of S5 episodes is slightly higher than S4, and S4 is slightly
+higher than S3 at that same point.
+
+But that said...I did keep the first batch just a *bit* on the light side in
+order to have room to do the massive amount of rendering on "In the Beginning"
+and "Thirdspace," the latter of which has (finally delivered) topped out at 27
+minutes of CGI out of 94 minutes, which has got to be some kind of record.
+
+And *that* said...each season we have increased the amount of CGI we've done,
+both in the amount and the complexity of the shots, and this season is no
+exception.  We're trying some new things, different kinds of CGI...you'll see
+some of that in "The Ragged Edge," for instance.  Much more sophisticated
+compositing, more difficult to shoot, but more visually interesting.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS : C&C Gravity (18 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS : C&C Gravity

+18 Mar 1998
>#I'm just curious about how C&C has normal gravity when it is located in
+>the center of the spinning station. In the fall of Night (And other
+>episodes) it is established that the middle of the station is low grav.
+
+It isn't.  The center is the docking bay.  C&C is one-third of the way below
+that, so it has about 1/3rd gravity, so a 200 pound person weigs 66 pounds, not
+likely to go floating around.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+new jms short story out (18 Mar 1998)
+
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new jms short story out

+18 Mar 1998
So Harlan says, "Only *you* could find having a new short story published to be
+as important as doing a multi-million buck TV series."  Okay, so it's true.
+
+I recently finished a new short story (almost novelette length), "We Killed
+Them In the Ratings," which has just been published in a new collection edited
+by Martin Greenberg, Blowout in Little Man Flats, a mystery anthology featuring
+a lot of Big Name folks.  It's kind of a fun (if dark) story about a local TV
+news program that comes up with a new approach to covering murder stories.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Last Days Saying Goodbye (18 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Last Days Saying Goodbye

+18 Mar 1998
>have you ever had the desire to continue the stories
+>of the surviving characters in the years leading up to Sleeping In The
+>Light.  Either through novels or comics or even CD-ROM multimedia?
+
+The planned novels are going to expand on the arc, getting into the history of
+the Psi Corps and Bester, the Technomages, and Centauri Prime.  Filling in the
+corners of what's established.
+
+>Do you want (or not want) to leave the world of B5?  Yes, I know
+>the story is almost over and there will be a new series, but it won't be
+>the same.  Not better or worse, just not the same. 
+
+Yes and no.  Make no mistake: this has been a burden, the heaviest one I've
+ever carried, and it's come close to ruining my health on more than one
+occasion.  I'll be glad to set it down....
+
+But it's going to be hard to set it down.  As you say, whatever follows, it
+won't be the same.  Everyone on set is feeling it right now.  
+
+It's just...it's just real hard, that's all.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: thank you for your work by french and belgian  (18 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: thank you for your work by french and belgian 

+18 Mar 1998
Thanks, and my best to the French fan community for their long term
+support...eventually the others will come around.  It may take decades, but
+that's okay.  The show is the show is the show, and always will be.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Merchandise located, licensed or not? (2 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Merchandise located, licensed or not?

+2 Mar 1998
Yes, the CCG is legitimate and licensed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Fans on Alabama radio (18 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Fans on Alabama radio

+18 Mar 1998
Everyone on the show does Londo saying "Viiiiirrrr," as well.  It's required, I
+think.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  The Run. (19 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  The Run.

+19 Mar 1998
Thanks...every promise we made, we tried to keep.  On balance, I think we
+succeeded.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATT: JMS: When are you "Leaving" Us? (20 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATT: JMS: When are you "Leaving" Us?

+20 Mar 1998
I'll start pulling back after the last ep has aired.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - Mack and Bo, Gravediggers and The Complete Book of (20 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Mack and Bo, Gravediggers and The Complete Book of

+20 Mar 1998
>While watching 'Gallery', my wife and I couldn't help but compare Mack
+>and Bo to the gravediggers in Hamlet.  Was that your intention,
+>especially in light of Byron's quote from the same act?
+
+It did come to mind at various points, but I didn't want to make it an homage
+to anything.
+
+> WGA rules prohibit a producer from soliciting anything written
+>from a freelancer (without paying for it) and so the oral pitch
+>evolved.  But I got the impression that in some cases it was acceptable
+>for a freelancer to prepare written treatments in lieu of a pitch if the
+>writer so decides and the producer agrees.
+
+Yes, some writers hate to pitch, and prefer to leave pages (called, most
+creatively "leave behinds"), which also eliminates the need to rely on the
+story editor to properly convey your story to the producer.
+
+>directors can
+>take offense when the narrative part of the script is too detailed
+>because it takes away from their ability to tell the story the way that
+>they see it.  I got the impression that you feel that one should have
+>enough of a narrative to tell the story and then it's up to the
+>director's discretion on whether to use the narrative instructions.
+
+Screw 'em.  Write it the way you see it.  If they don't like it, they can black
+it out; if it scares them that badly that they will fall apart, they shouldn't
+be directing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: wrap party emotions? (22 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: wrap party emotions?

+22 Mar 1998
>How intense were your feelings that day? At the chat room we were being
+>informed of what went on over there, but how much more things were in
+>your head?
+
+Everything...all of them...every possible emotion was going through me from one
+second to the next.  People were in tears.  It was hard.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Getting rid of the voices (22 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Getting rid of the voices

+22 Mar 1998
They will grow distant with time...that will attend to itself, though happily
+there will be visits from time to time, and all will be as familiar as if we
+had just seen one another.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  What now? (22 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  What now?

+22 Mar 1998
>In terms of what's still to be done on B5, how much is done at the
+>studios?  Will there still be people there for some time to come,
+>considering that you'll be doing the movies?
+
+Basically, everyone's around but the camera crew...we have to do construction
+and other work for the movies, so I'd say we're at 80% normal for the next 10
+days, until filming on the next movie starts on the 30th.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS  Season 5 Quick Question (22 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  Season 5 Quick Question

+22 Mar 1998
Those are colored trailers coming from the back of two starfuries.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: My personal thanks (22 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: My personal thanks

+22 Mar 1998
That's great to hear, thank you...and good luck in the continuing fight.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+
+Re: Thanks Joe, from a far of place (22 Mar 1998)
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Re: Thanks Joe, from a far of place

+22 Mar 1998
I read it....and my thanks to you and the other fans in Estonia.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Intersections/The Crucible Parallels (3 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Intersections/The Crucible Parallels

+3 Mar 1998
The parallels are in history, not in the literature.  These things happen....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: ATT JMS: So how Far behind is the US going to be for the end? (22 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATT JMS: So how Far behind is the US going to be for the end?

+22 Mar 1998
Nothing's confirmed yet, but from what I'm starting to hear, Canada and Great
+Britain may get the last few episodes before they air in the US.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Thoughts on 5 successful seasons (23 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thoughts on 5 successful seasons

+23 Mar 1998
Thanks...and "River" is a heck of a movie, I think...now we just have to film
+the darned thing.  (Janet Greek is directing.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: What makes you laugh? (25 Mar 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: What makes you laugh?

+25 Mar 1998
I like humor that surprises me...unexpected twists and turns of logic on the
+one hand, and just in-your-face screaming out loud humor on the other hand. 
+George Carlin is a favorite.  For reasons I do not fully understand, Buddy
+Hackett (of all people) leaves me absolutely breathless and on the floor.  Sam
+Kinneson had a much similar effect.  Dennis Miller's black-and-white HBO
+half-hour destroyed me; utterly hysterical.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the introductions (25 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the introductions

+25 Mar 1998
Thanks...the marginalia and sharing of info has been a great part of the fun
+for me as well.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+
+Re: In the Kingdom of the Blind ( *Spoilers* ) (25 Mar 1998)
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Re: In the Kingdom of the Blind ( *Spoilers* )

+25 Mar 1998
Because we have only $3 million on which to make these movies, we have to
+rotate the cast because we can't afford to have them all in any one of them. 
+Bruce and Mira were in the first two, so we gave Tracy a shot and put in Jerry
+as well as Corwin (his first), Zack and Franklin.
+
+We're just looking for ways to be fair to the maximum number of cast with the
+resources we have.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+
+Re: Attention :JMS (25 Mar 1998)
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Re: Attention :JMS

+25 Mar 1998
> I am about to graduate with a Ph.D. in sociology from the
+>University of Kansas, and I am curious to know where you studied
+>sociology. Excellent show!
+
+Thanks.
+
+I got my first BA in Clinical Psychology (with a minor in Philosophy) and my
+second BA in Sociology (with a minor in Literature) from San Diego State
+University.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Wow! (26 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Wow!

+26 Mar 1998
Thank you for all of that...and as you say, some fires may be averted, but for
+others, there is a point of no return, whatever we might feel about it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+
+Re: Attn: Anybody who knows: TNT B5 ratings - How are they? (26 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: Attn: Anybody who knows: TNT B5 ratings - How are they?

+26 Mar 1998
The last rating we got for last  week puts us in the top 15 of all basic cable
+shows, and we're the top-rated show on TNT after wrestling.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Season Intros (26 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Season Intros

+26 Mar 1998
>I was wondering when or perhaps what gave you the idea to
+>make each seasons intro different. Is this something you had planed from
+>the beginning or something the you came up with later.
+
+No, it was something I wanted to do from the git-go, even though it's costly to
+redesign the title sequence and music every season.  Each season is one volume
+in the overall story, and my theory is that in a trilogy, for instance, you
+have a different cover on each book that sets the tone for that particular
+volume.  If B5 is such a work, then it should have a similar to each season's
+"cover."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for everything (26 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for everything

+26 Mar 1998
Thanks, Cheryl...it's been great.
+
+(And yeah, I remember the "Murder She Wrote in Space" thing, lots of folks said
+it...didn't bother me.  There's no reason anyone should believe a TeeVee
+producer when saying the sorts of things I was saying, until the point could be
+proven.)
+
+And yes, you're right...whatever follows, it won't hold the same place, or have
+the same impact, as B5.  It'll be its own show, and it'll be exciting, but B5
+will always be a special and unique case.  I know this particular confluence of
+events will certainly never come my way again...but it doesn't have to.  It did
+so once.  And that's all that matters.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn:  JMS - Do you believe? (3 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: Attn:  JMS - Do you believe?

+3 Mar 1998
>Do you believe in telepathy and other such talents?
+
+I think there are certain non-supernatural phenomenon that are currently beyond
+adequate description, but which can sometimes be observed and will one day be
+classified...a lot of it to do with synchronicity....
+
+But if you ask me point blank, do I believe in mind readers...no.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Music recommendation (26 Mar 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Music recommendation

+26 Mar 1998
I've got all three of the CDs by Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and I think two of the
+three are terrific; the third (earlier) CD is kinda generic, I think they were
+still trying to find their sound.
+
+Zoot Suit Daddy is a nifty song, and it's impossible to listen to their current
+album and remain sad about anything.  I love that they mix a swing/big band
+sound with contemporary (and sometimes raw or edgy) lyrics.  They're just
+terrific.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
+Re: Attn: JMS -- Other Messages in Your Arc (26 Mar 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS -- Other Messages in Your Arc

+26 Mar 1998
I hope you're right.  I've long classified B5 not as a *moral* show, because I
+don't have any morals to give anyone, but rather as an *ethical* show, posing
+questions and bringing up issues as honestly as I can, to let the viewers
+discuss the implications and come to decisions on their own.  If we have
+succeeded in doing that, then I'm happy.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn. JMS: Virtual sets? (26 Mar 1998)
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Re: Attn. JMS: Virtual sets?

+26 Mar 1998
+We've done a lot with virtual sets and environments, and will continue to
+expand, both as needed for episodes now, and as R&D for future projects. 
+There's a nifty virtual environment in "The Ragged Edge," and we plan to do
+more.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Something's new about this season (AToT  * Spoliers *) (26 Mar 1998)
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Re: Something's new about this season (AToT  * Spoliers *)

+26 Mar 1998
+>What's left is everyone (the member races, the
+>Centauri, the Narn, the telepaths) trying to work out who's lying, who's
+>breaking the rules, and what to do about it.  Basically, group dynamics.  No
+>great enemies.  No ancient forces.  Just people.
+
+After any big war, that's the big battle that still awaits...how do we work out
+living together?  Do we fall apart, or stay together?  Wars of revolution have
+traditionally been followed by civil wars because the new dynamics are changing
+and people take a while to adjust.  And this show has always been about
+process: before, during and after.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: JMS: (ToT SPOILERS) Guest star credits (27 Mar 1998)
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Re: JMS: (ToT SPOILERS) Guest star credits

+27 Mar 1998
Screen Actors Guild rules specify where you can and can't put credits, and
+those rules don't concern themselves with spoilers.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Reusing effects shots (27 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Reusing effects shots

+27 Mar 1998
We've been using various establishers as stock from the very first year until
+now.  The show would be impossible to do otherwise.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS.... (27 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS....

+27 Mar 1998
>Anyways, now that the story arc is done, are the actors themselves still on
+>contract to do any more movies, or will they have to sign contracts for each
+>individual movie?
+
+No, it's all on a per-project basis from here on out.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: Phoenix Rising ( *Spoilers* ) (29 Mar 1998)
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Re: Phoenix Rising ( *Spoilers* )

+29 Mar 1998
You're both right.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Why did you call him Byron? (5 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Why did you call him Byron?

+5 Mar 1998
It's a play on words that becomes a bit clearer later.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (Secrets of the Soul) **Spoilers** (5 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS (Secrets of the Soul) **Spoilers**

+5 Mar 1998
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+>How did you (or do you) approach a regular on the show and tell them
+>that you want them to do a really intense scene the likes that has not
+>been done on the show before (ie Byron/Lyta)?  I had only seen stuff
+>like that on NYPD Blue, but people on that show know what they are
+>getting into.  Just curious.
+
+I talked to both actors involved, made sure they were okay with it, and then
+scripted it out in very detailed form, and shot with a closed set, just
+necessary crew, nobody else.  
+
+(Funny item: in the script, I'm right in the middle of describing the sex
+scene, and in the narrative description, I write, without even thinking about
+it, "I wonder which is more embarrassing, reading this or writing it?"  It goes
+out that way.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Day of the Dead moved? (6 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Day of the Dead moved?

+6 Mar 1998
We suggested moving up DotD because the NBA playoffs will hit after #12, and
+better to have 3-4 intense episodes in a row, culminating in 12, than to break
+up the middle, which would've been okay as a respite if there wasn't going to
+be a break, but since there is a break now, I want to slam the last few before
+it hits for more impact.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (9 Mar 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS

+9 Mar 1998
>It seems to me that things are not progressing (plotwise) as quickly as
+>they have in previous seasons.
+
+Folks have repeatedly said that in the first season, they weren't aware there
+WAS an arc until episode 16, "Signs and Portents."  Then, later, they would
+look back and see all the setups going on.
+
+That will be much the same situation here.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Top 10 never-to-be-solved mysteries of B5 (1 Apr 1998)
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Re: Top 10 never-to-be-solved mysteries of B5

+1 Apr 1998
Well, at least 3 of those do get answered....
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Crusade Confirmed (6 Apr 1998)
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Crusade Confirmed

+6 Apr 1998
As has come out in the press today, CRUSADE: The Babylon Project, is officially
+a go project as a series.  We start shooting July 27th to go on the air January
+6th.  More info will follow over time.
+
+Also, for those of a collecting nature...tomorrow will see the publication of
+the Babylon 5 issue of the Hollywood Reporter, a tribute to the show and some
+of the new production techniques we've pioneered.  You can try various news
+stands or libraries as a main source for this one.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS--Questions on Crusade Development Process? (6 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS--Questions on Crusade Development Process?

+6 Apr 1998
>what sorts of issues do you
+>consider in determining whether to *change* main people on the team for
+>new series. It's not just a matter of whether they have been doing a great
+>job or not because sometimes (as, I think, in the case of the DP) you
+>just want something quite different for the new series.  I'm not asking
+>who else you might be changing, but just how you, as Executive Producer,
+>go about thinking this issue through for each of the main production
+>people.
+
+We're not doing a lot of changing.  One thing that does tend to get changed for
+a new series is the *look* of the show, you want Crusade to have a different
+and distinct appearance, to be its own show.  So for instance we're bringing in
+new graphic designers to do screen stuff and signage and other related stuff.  
+
+Other times it's an individual choice.  Anne Bruice-Aling recently had a baby,
+and she wants to dedicate the next year or so toward raising her kid, so while
+she'll remain available for occasional stuff or consulting, we'll have someone
+else heading up the wardrobe department.
+
+Mainly, you want to hold onto as many of your original people as you can,
+because we've trained our folks to work in a certain, particular way.  Nobody
+else really does things the way we do them on B5, and it's wiser to hold onto
+your crew, and give incentives, to keep them around.  (We tend to promote from
+within the ranks and reward loyalty rather than bring in new folks, that sort
+of thing.)
+
+>(2) What does the document often called the series "bible" actually cover? 
+>What kinds of background do you think it is helpful to provide to other
+>writers in such a document, and what kinds of things do you prefer to
+>avoid?  (I'm guessing you may be actually writing such a thing right
+>around now.) 
+
+I put in it basically whatever I think will be useful to anyone, as much as I
+can think up.  Characters' names, backgrounds, descriptions, the kinds of
+stories we are looking for, the kinds of stories we *don't* want to see, what
+is good SF and what ain't, sample storylines we plan to develop, that sort of
+thing.
+
+I'm now in the process of converting over the "sell treatment," done for the
+network, to a working series bible, which will go out to those writers with
+whom I've either worked before, or whose work I know and have wanted to work
+with for a while (as was the case with Neil Gaiman).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: A Defining Moment (7 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: A Defining Moment

+7 Apr 1998
>What is the defining moment of Babylon 5 to you? The one moment when it all
+>comes together?
+
+If this is concerning individual episodes...it's in the editing and the audio
+mix stages, that's when it actually becomes an episode.
+
+For the series overall...I don't know how to answer that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: JMS: Rewriting Harlan in TV Guide (7 Apr 1998)
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Re: JMS: Rewriting Harlan in TV Guide

+7 Apr 1998
Negative; the revisions to Harlan's script were apparently done by DC Fontana
+and Gene L. Coon, not Roddenberry (see Harlan's book on this for more info).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTEN JMS    re:Earth Final Conflict (8 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTEN JMS    re:Earth Final Conflict

+8 Apr 1998
Haven't seen any of the show yet.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Why no techno-babble? (8 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why no techno-babble?

+8 Apr 1998
Because this show ain't that show, and I personally find it dull and
+impenetrable.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Flawed Concept in Crusade? (Possible Spoiler) (8 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Flawed Concept in Crusade? (Possible Spoiler)

+8 Apr 1998
A couple of other people have raised this question; here's why I consider it a
+non-issue.
+
+Does anyone here really think that, after X-years of following the Crusade
+story, we're going to come to the end in which our heroes look out through the
+window of the Excalibur at a dead Earth...glance at each other...shrug...and
+say, "Oh, well, I guess we should've found it ten minutes earlier, huh?"...and
+head off into the sunset.
+
+Anybody out there see this as a likely scenario?  Raise your hands.  
+
+Yes, they're going to find the cure at some point.  Where and when and how, and
+in what segments, is one issue...and the rest is the journey to *get* there. 
+It's like saying, "We know the wagon trains got to California, so nothing
+interesting could've happened along the way."  Tell that to those who died
+along the way.
+
+You're confusing the issues with the following:
+
+>If the 
+>show's basic premise is that the hero's are searching for something
+>(in 
+>Voyager's case, a way home; in Crusade, a cure) then the viewer knows in
+>
+>advance that they will not find it (until possibly the end of the series, if
+>at all). 
+>Because if they did, it would by defintion, change the shape of the
+>show. 
+
+There you make my point for me.  That's the frustration aspect: you know if
+they get home, the show's over.  So they will never get home, the viewer knows
+that, and gets frustrated.
+
+Here, you know that eventually, somehow, humanity will be saved.  So there's no
+frustration knowing it ain't ever gonna happen.  Instead, you can sit back and
+see how it happens, and who is affected by what happens.  
+
+This is something very common to what I've done with B5's story telling. 
+Starting at episode 1 of season 1, we learn that G'Kar and Londo will die
+strangling one another.  I put those cards right on the table, face-up.  Did
+that ruin anything for anybody?  Much to the contrary, as we learned the
+process that led up to, and following, that incident.  If anything, knowing
+that in advance added a whole new layer and subtext to the show.
+
+I've always looked for ways to experiment and turn viewers preconceptions
+upside down and back on themselves.  Crusade will let me take this a step
+further.
+
+Bottom line...I didn't turn suddenly stupid.  I know exactly what I'm doing
+with this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade/Net presence? (9 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade/Net presence?

+9 Apr 1998
No, once B5 is finished airing, I'll still be pulling back a bit.  It's that or
+go mad....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: Visions of Madaline Marie O'Hara? (9 Apr 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Visions of Madaline Marie O'Hara?

+9 Apr 1998
>If you (or any other atheist) saw a Vorlon out of his encounter suit, What
+>would you see?
+
+Probably Dick Cavett.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Five years (11 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Five years

+11 Apr 1998
>What if they hadn't respected your wishes? How would that have played 
+>out? Since WB owns the show, couldn't they continue to make it without 
+>your input?
+
+Two words: scorched earth.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS.  Comments on Phoenix Rising<spoilers> (1 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS.  Comments on Phoenix Rising<spoilers>

+1 Apr 1998
>Thank you for creating this beauty, and if any more new
+>episodes have this kind of feel to them, I feel like i'm going to have
+>to send you a medical bill, for I will surely end up in the hospital.
+
+Then you'd better up your insurance, real soon.
+
+I'll just say this: we were lucky to get one "Coming of Shadows" episode a
+year, a while back.  In the latter half of this season, especially from about
+516-520 or thereabouts, we have one just about eveyr week.
+
+I gave folks a respite for the first part, because in the second part of this
+season, I'm going to hurt you.  There will be some light at the end, because I
+wouldn't end this otherwise, but in the interim, it's gonna be pretty damned
+intense.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN.: JMS - Newsgroup Experiment (13 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN.: JMS - Newsgroup Experiment

+13 Apr 1998
>1) Do you consider the exchange of ideas with your viewers to have produced
+>the result you were expecting?
+
+I really wasn't looking to the result as much as the process.  I expected a
+conversation, and I got one.  Some of it has been odd, we've had the occasional
+boorish gatecrasher, but on the whole I think it has been instructive in both
+directions.  What more can one ask of a party?
+
+>2) Have other producers, such as  (but not limited to) Messrs. Wolf &
+>Bochco, ever asked you about this, and if  so, what was your advice?
+
+Nope.
+
+>3) Has the exchanges with a select few turned you away from the fans at all
+>(i.e., made you more jaded or wary)?
+
+Certainly the presence of the psychos has from time to time made it more
+difficult; one gets the urge to just yank the modem out of the wall rather than
+go out into the room one more time where the nutcases can get to you.  I've
+been lied to, lied about, slandered, libeled, accused, villified, tarred (and
+sometimes feathered) in absentia, and dead-catted for, essentially, the crime
+of talking to the people who like my show.  And the emotional cost of that does
+add up over time.  
+
+>4) Do *you* see any downside to having a moderated group - was there any
+>drop in *constructive* criticism from rastb5 to .mod?
+
+Nope.  There's as much constructive criticism there as anywhere else.  What it
+doesn't have is the same degree of whacko postings by the emotionally infirm.
+
+>5) Do the "joke" e-mails offend or flatter you?
+
+When they come to my private email account, yes; I have enough to wade through
+as it is, my private email should be used only when necessary, not for jokes or
+the like.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: HDTV (13 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: HDTV

+13 Apr 1998
We have, from the beginning, been shooting in widescreen and doing a complex
+audio mix and delivering conformed negatives for the purpose of working in the
+HDTV mode.  We plan to do more in terms of digital delivery and 5-1 audio sound
+for Crusade, among some other tricks we're planning.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Why We're Bored (13 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why We're Bored

+13 Apr 1998
There is an interesting story told about the first time that Gaugain (I know I
+probably misspelled that, I should know how to spell it but it's late and my
+art books aren't at hand) went to visit Van Gogh.  Van Gogh, anticipating his
+arrival, had filled the halls with his latest work, to display it for the
+master.  Because they fell into certain categories where he came to expect
+certain things, he did not notice the intricacies of what was going on in the
+composition.
+
+His guest walked down the hall, considering the work -- sunflowers, landscapes
+-- and at the end of the tour, announced, "You paint too fast."
+
+"No," Van Gogh said, "you LOOK too fast."
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Freelance writers and Crusade (13 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Freelance writers and Crusade

+13 Apr 1998
I'll be handing out premises to established writers I want to work with.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS, Crusade newsgroup... (13 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS, Crusade newsgroup...

+13 Apr 1998
I won't be involved online as much, no, and whether or not there's a Crusade
+group is not really my call.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  General Things (13 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  General Things

+13 Apr 1998
You will be hearing the fourth question, yes, and I haven't had time to keep up
+with Millennium, unfortunately.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: "The Ragged Edge" and Season 5 Comments (13 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: "The Ragged Edge" and Season 5 Comments

+13 Apr 1998
Thanks...after our last stand-alone this coming week, they're all on a par with
+"Edge" or better, frankly.  
+
+As for the virtual sets stuff...yeah, some of the early Mars stuff was iffy, I
+agree.  That's part of the experimentation process, you never hit it dead-on
+the first time.  We learned each time we did something like that, and continued
+to experiment until we could more carefully and completely integrate the CGI
+virtual sets with the live action, and we're continuing to get more ambitious
+about it.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: Why doesn't Sheridan warn him?! (13 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: Why doesn't Sheridan warn him?!

+13 Apr 1998
>Why the
+>heck doesn't Sheridan try to warn Londo about what he saw??
+
+This comes from not separating out what we the viewers know, from what the
+characters know.  
+
+What Sheridan knows is that 17 years from now, Londo had something on his
+shoulder called a Keeper, which may or may not have a direct connection with
+the apparent attack on Centauri Prime by Shadow allies.  
+
+What he doesn't know is, did this happen 16 years ago?  Or six months ago? 
+What process led it to happen?  What should he be warning Londo *about*?  He
+saw the result...but what process, what event should he warn Londo about to
+avoid this?  He doesn't know that the Regent has a keeper, the Regent could be
+acting in these ways for his own reasons entirely.
+
+Further, there's a certain trickiness about time stuff.  Okay, so he warns
+Londo about something he doesn't really understand...does he now change the
+future?  Does he have someone else other than Londo now on the throne, who
+won't spare his and Delenn's lives?  
+
+There are too many variables, and not enough actually known by him, to say
+anything that would be of any use to anyone.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
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+Re: Seeking confirmation (13 Apr 1998)
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Re: Seeking confirmation

+13 Apr 1998
Not true.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: [Season 5 Spoilers] A problem with the 'attack' arc. (14 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: [Season 5 Spoilers] A problem with the 'attack' arc.

+14 Apr 1998
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+Y'know, maybe you should wait to see how this pans out before you say it's a
+problem.  I *wanted* the audience to know the Centauri are behind this, for
+reasons that will become clearer in the episodes that follow.
+
+Again, with this show, it ain't the who or the how, it's the *why*.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Bruce B and Cast Turmoil? (1 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Bruce B and Cast Turmoil?

+1 Apr 1998
The real bottom line is, it's not easy when one's horse is shot out from under
+one.  There's no way to take it lightly.
+
+I've been saying for five years, "This is a five year story.  When it's over,
+it's over."  But there's the statement, and the reality of the statement; two
+different things.  To the viewers, it's the end of the story.  To an actor,
+it's "I'm out of work now because Joe said it was a five year story instead of
+a six year story."  
+
+I know that a lot of the cast have been in denial about this for a long time,
+many of them said in interviews, "Yeah, well, Joe's said it's a five year arc,
+but I don't see why it couldn't go longer."  But if you live in that notion,
+then when the reality hits, it hits hard.
+
+So the reaction is perfectly understandable on an emotional level.  When a show
+is over, everyone's gone.  In this town, that usually means "you're fired, the
+network doesn't like you or the show."  It's a personal rejection.  Here it was
+my decision, from the git-go, that this series would go five years and no more.
+ That's kind of a new thing, and takes some getting used to.  You can only
+interpret it by what you've experienced before.
+
+One or two cast members may transition over into Crusade, assuming it goes
+ahead, but that show *has* to be its own show, it can't be just a repackaged
+B5.  (And I'm referring to regulars here, there's plenty of room for
+guest-starring roles for nearly all of our characters at one point or another,
+plus the likelihood of more B5 TV movies, plus the real possibility of a B5
+feature.)
+
+It's an emotional reaction, and totally understandable.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Your "typical" day? (15 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your "typical" day?

+15 Apr 1998
>Howdy, I was just wondering what you'r typical day was/is like. I've heard
+>rumors about how much you write, but I've never hear that you actually "eat"
+>or
+>"sleep". 
+
+Too much of the former, not enough of the latter.
+
+>How much time did you spend on the B5 set while they were filming?
+
+It varies.  In the beginning of the series, I spent a lot of time on the stage,
+because we were setting the style and look of the show, and directors were
+still trying to figure out what I wanted, and how to deliver what I wanted. 
+Over the last couple of years, though, that's decreased...in part because the
+directors and the cast all know what's expected, and it's become a well-oiled
+machine.  It's also in part due to the increase of my responsibility on the
+writing/producing side...by the time I take care of what needs doing, the day's
+nearly over and I haven't even made it out to the set once (which kinda bums me
+out when it happens).
+
+>   How much time do you spend answering these on-line questions?
+
+I'm on line generally 2-3 hours a day.
+
+>   How much time do you get to sleep?
+
+On weekdays, during production, average about 3-4 hours a night.  I'm at the
+stage in the morning, lunch is usually about 1, I'm there until about
+6:30-7:00, I get a bite to eat on the way home in most cases, I get behind the
+keyboard at about 8-8:30, and I'm there until I crash about 4:30 a.m., and then
+I crash.  On weekends I try to make up for the lost sleep as best I can.
+
+>   How much time does it take to write or "fix" a script?
+
+Writing a script is invariably faster than fixing an outside script.  I can
+write a script from zero in an average of 5-7 days.  On a few rare occasions
+it's gone longer, but when that happens, I find I lose the white-heat of the
+story, and it wanders a bit.  In a few cases I've written a script in a day or
+two (A View from the Gallery all came out of my keyboard in one day, between
+about 4 p.m. and 3 a.m.)
+
+>   How much time do you spend at home or at "work".
+
+It's all work.  Just the office differs.
+
+>Just typical everyday things.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Attn.JMS (17 Apr 1998)
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Re: Attn.JMS

+17 Apr 1998
It's just experience.
+
+On the one hand, you have to be brutal with your *writing*, you can't be too
+close to the material.  You have to be able to look at how you present
+something from as objective a point of view as you can.  
+
+On the flip side, you have to be as faithful and true to your characters as you
+possibly can.  There's the person and there's the telling of the person, and
+they're two different creatures.  Learning how to differentiate the two is just
+a matter of experience.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: "River of Souls" Casting (20 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: "River of Souls" Casting

+20 Apr 1998
>I was wondering what prompted your casting of Ian McShane.  I loved
+>him in his comedic role in "Lovejoy."  But, are you planning to cast him
+>in a somewhat comedic role, or is it a more dramatic one?
+>
+>
+He's a fine actor; in fact, John is a major Lovejoy fan, so he was hot to get
+Ian on board.
+
+>And, hey, Martin Sheen.  Joe, you are moving up in the world.  Did you
+>ever think when this B5 started you'd be writing for Martin Sheen?
+
+No, and I'm very pleased.  I'm a huge fan of his work and have been forever.  I
+was knocked out when we got him...he considers it one of the best parts he's
+had lately on a creative level, and he's been a kick to work with.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father ( *Spoilers* ) (21 Apr 1998)
+
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Re: The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father ( *Spoilers* )

+21 Apr 1998
It says Maternis, Paternis.  Mother, father.  Latin.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Another B5 Movie Announced!? (21 Apr 1998)
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Re: Another B5 Movie Announced!?

+21 Apr 1998
>Just browsing through imdb and found a listing for another movie - after
+>River of Souls- to be called Shadows and Lies.
+
+Nope, never heard of it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+
+from jms re: email (21 Apr 1998)
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from jms re: email

+21 Apr 1998
Every so often I have to go out with a policy note, so this is it.  If you've
+seen this before, ignore it.  If not....
+
+Understand that my private email is reserved for matters that cannot be
+discussed pubicly, and extremely personal matters.  It is not to be used for
+questions about plot, or character, or theme.  Otherwise I end up answering the
+same question individually 50 times instead of answering it once publicly so 50
+people can get the same information.  
+
+Do NOT send me jokes, humorous forwarded notes, chain letters, spam or other
+stuff.  You may think, "Well, it's just me sending along one little joke," but
+bear in mind there are roughly 10.5 million "just me's" out there.  My email is
+getting to be impossible to deal with.  Unless there is an overwhelmingly good
+reason why a note should be sent via email instead of in a public forum...keep
+it public.
+
+Particularly difficult is if someone sends me multiple notes after I reply once
+or twice, and if I don't respond to subsequent notes, gets annoyed at me.  I
+reply if there is a reason to reply; if not, not.
+
+Please understand that my private email is a privilege, and not to be flooded
+with casual story requests or jokes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Attn: JMS - Credit Question (24 Apr 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS - Credit Question

+24 Apr 1998
>I am curious as to why Walter Koenig (who as far as I
+>can tell has appeared in more S5 eps than either Mumy or Furst) is left out
+>of
+>the canned opening credit sequence. Is this due to contractual
+>considerations?
+>Stylistic reasons (i.e. a no "bad" guys policy)?
+
+No, you put someone in the main titles when you make an overall deal, usually 8
+episodes or more, with an actor in advance of the season.  With Walter, we
+average about 4 eps per season, and they are each negotiated individually, as
+they come up.
+
+>I have one acquaintance - a S.T.
+>fanatic -
+>who solely justifies his condemnation of B5 as a S.T. clone by Koenig's
+>presence.... Kinda makes you wanna clean the gene pool, but there you have
+>it...)
+
+So in other words, your friend thinks that an actor who is in one successful
+show should never work in the TV business, ever again, on any other show,
+whether he's a good actor or not.
+
+Your friend is a yutz.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn jms: Season 5 Opening (26 Apr 1998)
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Re: Attn jms: Season 5 Opening

+26 Apr 1998
>I prefered the original Season 5 opening.  The newer one uses new voice
+>overs that are so...bland.  At least the original opening had sound bytes
+>directly from older episodes and they had life/emotion in them.
+
+The problem, however, is that since they came from the original production
+track, they had a great deal of background noise on them, and in many cases
+weren't satisfactory to be heard clearly by most people.  We could put them
+back, but then many people wouldn't be able to understand them well, which
+kinda defeats the point.
+
+>Also, there's always a greenish streak that flashes from left to right at
+>the end of the opening credits.  
+
+Those are colored streamers/trailers being made by a pair of Starfuries.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN Jms Season 4 Compression (26 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN Jms Season 4 Compression

+26 Apr 1998
I basically slid the thing forward about 4 episodes or thereabouts; the
+resolution as shown was always the planned resolution.
+
+Interestingly, there have been a number of reviews of the B5 videotapes running
+in the British SF magazines, and several of them have mentioned how Into the
+Fire actually played much better seen all as a piece with the preceding and
+following episodes than they thought it did the first time, which is what I
+kinda figured would be the case.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: Scripts & Studios (26 Apr 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Scripts & Studios

+26 Apr 1998
>It was pointed out in the Scriptwriting book that any script sent to a
+>studio and rejected is basically a black hole forever; it can't be
+>resubmitted there. But what about the writer? Is the writer shunned, or
+>just the script?
+>
+>
+Depends on how bad the script was.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: BAB5 Night of the Long Knives? (2 Apr 1998)
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Re: BAB5 Night of the Long Knives?

+2 Apr 1998
Read my lips.
+
+The Series Is Over.
+
+What did you *think* was gonna happen when the show ended?  Everybody was just
+gonna hang around?  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Writing staff (26 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Writing staff

+26 Apr 1998
>However, you have stated that you plan to write about half of the episodes
+>yourself, and give the other half to freelancers.  Won't using freelancers 
+>be difficult, as each writer will have to be taught about your universe?
+
+Yep, though having a series bible will help.
+
+>And won't it mean more work for you, having to make sure each script is
+>true to the Crusade characters and universe?
+
+Yep again...having freelancers is actually more difficult even than doing them
+myself, but frankly, the only way to find writers who you *can* eventually
+bring on staff is to make freelance assignments and see who can hear the music
+and who can't.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: Shadows and Hegel? (28 Apr 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Shadows and Hegel?

+28 Apr 1998
This has come up before...and yes, there is a certain amount of Hegelian
+thinking in the approach of the Shadows philosophy, that conflict is a
+requirement for progress.
+
+It's also couched somewhat in Jungian terms of the Shadow, which seemed as good
+a place as any to hide the necessity of conflict.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: TCIMTCIF Spoilers: Dating Error (29 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: TCIMTCIF Spoilers: Dating Error

+29 Apr 1998
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+>In this episode, a telepath named Harris develops Multiple Personality
+>Disorder, kills his room mate, and flees to Babylon 5.  He leaves behind
+>several documents.  One of them was dated with the year 2264.  The current
+>year is only 2262.  Why the calender error?
+
+One of his personalities was a Time Lord.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS:Black and white pictures, in the future??? (29 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:Black and white pictures, in the future???

+29 Apr 1998
Why not?  
+
+I have some pictures of me in B&W as well as color, mainly because in many
+cases B&W *looks* better under various lighting conditions.  Go to any good
+sized display of art photos, and you'll see that the *majority* of them are
+B&W.  
+
+There seems to be this notion that the future means throwing away anything that
+isn't at the edge...and it ain't true.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: TCIMTCIF Spoilers: Dating Error (30 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: TCIMTCIF Spoilers: Dating Error

+30 Apr 1998
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+And let us also remember, about this guy getting the date wrong on what he was
+writing....
+
+HE WAS A NUT.
+
+thankyew
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Lolita and the Public (I swear this is on-topic!) (2 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Lolita and the Public (I swear this is on-topic!)

+2 Apr 1998
There are no thoughts too radical for a people to view; there are just some
+people too radical to control the  thoughts of others.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Can Crusade really work? (3 Apr 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Can Crusade really work?

+3 Apr 1998
There are many other good writers out there who I have every confidence can do
+a good job on Crusade.  And bear in mind that any script that comes in
+generally gets revised by me, so I'll be in there.  The plan for now is that
+I'll do about 11 scripts out of 22, and have freelancers doing the other half.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Canadian TVGuide Article ATTN:JMS (4 Apr 1998)
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Re: Canadian TVGuide Article ATTN:JMS

+4 Apr 1998
Could you send me a copy of that issue?  The info about Gene rewriting him is
+totally incorrect.
+
+Send it to me if you can at 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks,
+CA 91423, I would be vastly appreciative, so I can get it to Harlan, who can
+correct their information.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: attn JMS: Byron's name (4 Apr 1998)
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Re: attn JMS: Byron's name

+4 Apr 1998
Well, we had Simon and Peter, who worked with Byron, and of course the most
+famous Byron is Lord Byron...
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: Better Things Come in Small Packages (6 Apr 1998)
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Re: Better Things Come in Small Packages

+6 Apr 1998
Significantly, while the Pasadena con was asking $50 for autographs, over half
+the B5 cast was at the Glendale Galleria today and yesterday (and me with them)
+meeting the fans face to face and signing autographs and getting to see props
+and other stuff...for free.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN: JMS  Big Screen Directors? (1 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  Big Screen Directors?

+1 May 1998
I wouldn't want to say anything on this issue that might preclude any
+discussions; everything is fluid at this time, since nothing is set.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity (10 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity

+10 May 1998
> To make the experience of viewing TNT programming
+>less painful for your fans, have you considered writing some
+>storylines for TNT Monday Nitro?  TKO was considered a less-
+>successful episode -- could you "redeem" yourself here?
+
+>The wrestler Sting appears to be a Crow knock-off.  Are you open to the
+>possibility of professional wrestlers dressing as Narns or Minbari?
+>How about the Nitro Fly Girls dressed as Centauri slaves?  I think
+>someone wrestling in a Vorlon encounter suit would be interesting.
+>
+>
+
+So...have the drugs worn off, or are they just kicking in...?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Voice of the Resistance Con - "Economical" with the  (20 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Voice of the Resistance Con - "Economical" with the 

+20 May 1998
Nope.  I said exactly what I meant.  I said that I would not have anything to
+do with any Wolf-associated convention virtually the week we got back, and
+announced it on the nets.  Now you say that 
+
+>the
+>decision was made (I believe) not to invite you to any more of their
+>conventions. This was some time before your public outburst at the
+>committee.
+
+This would seem a bit like time travel, since it happened right after the
+convention.  Also, I see you include "I believe."  So in fact you don't know
+for a fact that any such decision was ever made.  And if it had been, it's
+highly unlikely that it could've been made prior to my announcement.
+
+So having already said that I would not be involved with any Wolf convention or
+Brian Cooney until they got their act together in terms of their treatment of
+the fans, I wouldn't exactly expect to be invited, since I've already *said* I
+wouldn't go to any of them.  So your point is completely moot.  
+
+>To your credit (and to maintain truthfulness on my part) you did apologise
+>publically on the UK B5 group for your bad manners at the convention, but I
+>do not expect that this will make any difference to the committee's
+>decision - I know it made no difference to the unpaid volunteer stewards
+>that you upset.
+
+No, what I said on the group was that I was often in a bad mood at the
+convention...because of the utter incompetenced, ineptitude and gross stupidity
+I saw in the running and operations of the convention that started right from
+the top.  
+
+So the stewards were upset...well, then, perhaps they would not be upset if I
+hadn't had to yell about fans standing FOR THREE AND FOUR HOURS AT  A TIME to
+get the autograph of an actor only to find that the actor was no longer there,
+if I hadn't had to see people *literally* close to passing out from overheated
+conditions and long lines, if I hadn't had THE HANDWRITTEN OUTLINES FOR THE
+FIRST FEW SEASONF IVE EPISODES THROWN OUT at my hotel by staff when Wolf
+convention didn't take care of the room properly and my stuff got moved when I
+was away at the con, costing me several weeks worth of work.
+
+Yeah, I was in a bad mood...deal with it.  I kept it away from the fans, and
+directed it where it was most appropriate: at those who were involved in the
+day to day operations of the con, from the top to the bottom.  It was the
+single most incompetently run convention that I have attended in over a decade
+of convention going.  I was told, "Well, there are just too many people." 
+Crap.  I came to the last Wolf convention after WesterCon Seattle, which had
+JUST as many people, and was probably the BEST run convention I've seen in a
+long time.
+
+I'm sorry it upset a few stewards...but when I see fans in literal physical
+distress, when I see this kind of incompetence and abuse for people who paid a
+great deal of money to be there, when I ask for but do not receive promised
+statements that would set my mind at ease as to whether or not the money
+supposedly raised for the convention actually GOT where it was intended to go
+(information thta I have *still* not received, despite being told that it was
+both available and forthcoming)...I get pissed, because at core, I'm a fan, and
+I won't see fans being abused in this fashion.
+
+What I said was that I won't have anything to do with any Wolf associated
+convention until such time as I hear from the fans that the conditions at these
+cons have improved.  
+
+Deal with it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: The Death of Civility (20 May 1998)
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Re: The Death of Civility

+20 May 1998
Tim: sure, you can just choose to ignore it when someone does you a disservice,
+when they malign you or smear you...that's an option.
+
+Only problem with it, is that it doesn't work.
+
+For instance: over on the other group, a particular net-kook posted a message
+citing a supposed contract between me and AOL in which I would be paid to be
+exclusively on AOL and thus would not be contributing anything to any usenet
+group, and that THAT was the reason that I left the unmoderated group.
+
+It was, of course, an unvarnished lie, of the kind I've come to expect from
+such individuals.
+
+The problem is that this isn't a big, obvious lie...it's a subtle one.  And as
+a result, it got propagated and picked up around the nets, and I had to answer
+a couple dozen angry email messages from users saying that I'd sold out to AOL.
+ So tell me, how does ignoring that kind of thing solve anything?  
+
+You say ignore 'em.  I say you can't just ignore this kind of crap, or you end
+up condoning it by silence.  Difference in philosophy, that's all.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: Movie scripts (20 May 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Movie scripts

+20 May 1998
Actually, I think where my episodes have had problems has been where I've had
+too much time to think about them, and second guess myself.  The more time
+between starting it and finishing it, the more I tend to lose the fingerprints
+of the characters and the situation.  Both the examples you cite, for instance,
+were that way, and suffered from too MUCH tinkering on my part, frankly.
+
+As for the feature...that one is going to be the object of some considerable
+attention from me.  I'll probably do what I tend to do for special stuff
+(should it get into development): noodle it and play with it and outline stuff
+until finally it refuses to wait any longer, then take a week or so and do
+nothing else but burn through the draft, then stick it in a box for another
+week, not look at it, then come back and pretend somebody else wrote it and
+tear it to shreds, then rebuild.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - So-Cal cons (20 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - So-Cal cons

+20 May 1998
I'll definitely be at LosCon in November; that was where we first debuted B5
+footage and news, and this one will take place 2 days after the very last
+regular episode of B5 airs.  I'll be there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: The Official Guide to J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon (21 May 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: The Official Guide to J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon

+21 May 1998
>1) Why the guide contains no Government\Alien data on Vorlons or
+>Shadows?
+>
+>2) Why the guide contains no character reference to Morden, Bester,
+>Kosh, Lorien, Sinclair all crucial characters but does contain data on
+>Timothy Chase and Ashi Van Troc - each of whom had a 2 minute segment
+>in one episode (Long Twilight Struggle and Dust To Dust resp.)
+>3) Why the guide contains no pictures of Vorlon or Shadow ships?
+>
+Because the guide is set in the time period of the fifth season; it is a guide
+to B5 *as it is in the fifth year* of the show, at which point the Vorlons and
+the Shadows are all gone.  We had to choose which year in which to set the
+thing, because of folks going in and out of the story.  We took the conceit
+that this is the kind of thing that someone arriving at the station would
+reasonbly or conceivably get.  It isn't a guide to the history of B5, it's a
+guide to the station, and who's in it, in season 5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: B5, JMS and the net (21 May 1998)
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Re: B5, JMS and the net

+21 May 1998
>	As far as I can see, we are no longer talking about a place
+>where JMS is free from personal attacks.  We are beginning to discuss
+>a place where he is free from _creative criticism_.
+
+Show me one post where I have said that.  You and Charles both.  Just one post.
+ Any post.  Where?  
+
+This is a straw man argument; I've never said it, have said exactly the
+opposite on numerous occasions, and wouldn't want it.
+
+Nor am I asking anyone to change anything here.
+
+The topic came up.  I responded about what things are like at this end.  That
+was the end of it.  Frankly, I've already heard from some in the satai mailing
+list, and have told them I can't see what if anything could be changed, and
+that I'm not *looking* for anything to get changed.
+
+I was just talking about what this has been like.
+
+Can we please stop the unjustified, unmerited straw man arguments now?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
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+Re: Arc of JMS (21 May 1998)
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Re: Arc of JMS

+21 May 1998
BTW, Laura, congrats on the starfury art thing...I went to check it out, looks
+great.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+from jms re: the debate (21 May 1998)
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from jms re: the debate

+21 May 1998
If I can be allowed a moment's indulgence...this won't take much longer than
+that.
+
+This whole discussion began when someone posted a message noting that some of
+my messages of late have not been as chipper as those posted in earlier days. 
+I responded, and in some considerable detail, pointed out some of the
+shortcomings and problems in being on-line.  
+
+Never once in that note, or any of those that followed, did I say one word
+about not wanting criticism.  Not wanting to be stalked, sure, not much liking
+it when I get deliberately sandbagged or lied about or ambushed, absolutely. 
+But not one word about criticism.  I did not ask for changes in the moderated
+group, did not ask to have anyone booted, did not ask for a new charter or
+group, did not suggest that criticism be eliminated...did not do any of those
+things.  I have only said that, because of the problems that exist, after B5 is
+over, I would be pulling back (though not eliminating) my online presence,
+which is, after all, my right.  There is no written contract requiring that I
+remain on the firing line forever...let the next guy take his or her turn in
+front of the sniper nests for a while.
+
+But it's nothing to do with honest, fair criticism.
+
+For six years, I have answered honest criticism fairly, evenhandedly, and as
+objectively as I could.
+
+Those raising the flag in this current fracas, however, do not seem so
+inclined.
+
+It's like this: do I, or do I not, share the same right to free speech as
+anyone else here, especially those who raise that particular banner at a
+moment's notice?
+
+If so, then do I not have the same right to express a critical opinion as
+anyone else here?
+
+I have, for six years now, announced to anyone within listening range the
+benefits and the positive aspects of being on the nets.  I am not, however,
+blind to the faults and flaws of said correspondence, and said so, when someone
+asked.
+
+I raised a critical opinion.
+
+And for that, any number of folks have jumped up and down loudly announcing
+that this is somehow unfair, or a sign of censorship, or just generally, garden
+variety wrong...dumping all over that original message.
+
+Or, to quote Franklenstein's monster, "Criticism good.  Criticism of criticism:
+bad."
+
+So it seems to me that we have a logical contradiction going on here, in which
+it's okay for people to voice critical opinions of me or the show or anything
+B5...but it is NOT as right to voice a critical opinion of the nets and/or some
+of the people and/or gatekeeping processes involved.  Frankly, if I had been as
+brittle and quick to fire off flames in response to simple criticism as those
+here have done in answer to my opinion about the nets, I wouldn't have lasted
+five minutes.  
+
+So I would suggest that these same individuals try to apply a little of the
+patience toward criticism that I have had to show.  I've had to put up with
+positive and negative comments for six years, surely you can do so for a few
+days, in relation to the nets.  Or should no one criticize these things?
+
+It's real simple.  Either I have the same right to a critical opinion as
+everyone else, and the same right to express same, or I don't.  If I do, then
+those who argue in favor of open criticism should have nothing to complain
+about...unless they're upset because it's their ox being gored instead of mine
+for a change.  If I don't...then I would suggest that that is massively unfair
+and totally inappropriate to a free and open exchange of ideas.
+
+It's either a level playing field, or it's not.
+
+Let me know when you've decided.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Dumb Question Time (S1/S2) (22 May 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Dumb Question Time (S1/S2)

+22 May 1998
>That being the case (and here's where it gets dumb), was there an
+>overwhelming
+>reason why the switch was done *right* at the S1/S2 break?  As opposed to,
+>say,
+>keeping Sinclair on the station for one episode, maybe two, enough to make
+>the
+>fans think that it all was just a bad rumor -- and *then* yanking Sinclair
+>off
+>the board, using your patented
+>sneak-up-behind-the-viewers-with-a-sockful-of-sand (TM) technique?
+
+Several reasons.  For one, Michael is basically a New Yorker, and wanted to be
+back there to pursue some stage opportunities.  We went our separate ways in
+May, and filming for S2 didn't start until July/August, so he would've had to
+uproot himself twice to do a few eps at the start...also, contracts being what
+they are, we had to either renegotiate his contract, or renew it for all 22,
+contractual terms don't allow for you to bring on the actor like that for only
+a couple if the contract requires 22.  And, finally, it was just cleaner that
+way.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: about DofS and Phoenix Rising (very very mild spoiler) (22 May 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: about DofS and Phoenix Rising (very very mild spoiler)

+22 May 1998
>I just saw the reairing of DofS and ive got a question: did you already
+>shoot "phoenix rising" when you put together DofS or did you use the footage
+>of the Garibaldi hostage scene from DofS in "Phoenix Rising". 
+
+The latter.
+
+>also, i saw the promo for the next ep of season five.  Was Lennier lying
+>down in the minbari fighter or is it just the camera angle?
+
+The former.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
+Re: Finishing book 9, are there anyothers? (10 May 1998)
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Re: Finishing book 9, are there anyothers?

+10 May 1998
Del Rey Books will be coming out with a novelization of ThirdSpace in a little
+bit (also by Peter David), Yvonne Navarro has just started working on the
+novelization of The River of Souls, and John Gregory Keyes is doing the first
+planned original B5 trilogy around the birth of the Psi Corps (it covers about
+100 years), based on my outlines.  More are also in the works, including
+another trilogy based on the fall of Centauri Prime.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Many Thanks (22 May 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Many Thanks

+22 May 1998
Thank you; it's funny how synchronicity puts the right lessons in front of us
+at the right time, if we're willing to notice them.  And those questions are
+the ones we all have to wrestle with, and answer, sooner or later.  Good luck
+on your new journey.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS et al: Accountability - A Call to Revolution? (22 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS et al: Accountability - A Call to Revolution?

+22 May 1998
You're being far too reasonable, thoughtful and progressive.  Stop that, you
+know the rules....
+
+Thanks.  Good stuff.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Question and Thoughts regarding show continuity and (22 May 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Question and Thoughts regarding show continuity and

+22 May 1998
>Is there some sort of endemic problem with actors' contracts or long-term
+>script coordination which makes the unique quality of your show impractical
+>to implement in most other shows?  It would be truly sad if this was the
+>case.
+
+Nope, it's a philosophical thing, not a business thing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Some Self-Indulgence (22 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Some Self-Indulgence

+22 May 1998
>I was wondering what's it like for you as an sf
+>books/movies/TV fan when people mention you or talk to you in
+>the same breath as Gene Roddenberry or George Lucas and tell
+>you that what you've done in creating a universe that has
+>affected so many peoples' imaginations will probably be as
+>well-remembered and well-loved as the STAR TREK and/or STAR
+>WARS universes? 
+
+My first reaction is generally pretty much the same...I cringe, because on some
+level, it ain't me, it's the show.  (This ain't falses modesty, it ain't
+looking to be contradicted, I know and fully understand my role in the show
+*intellectually*, I'm talking about the *emotional* response.)
+
+To me, Lucas is LUCAS, all caps.  He's a big deal, a celebrity, a truly
+creative force of nature.  In my head, he's seven feet tall.  I'm just me.  So
+it's hard to look at myself in the same fashion.
+
+Which, I suppose, is a good thing.  It helps me avoid the whole ego inflation
+thing which, in my view, is what's ruined a lot of Ray Bradbury's work (for me)
+in recent years.  It's as if he's not as much interested in telling real
+stories as in being Ray Bradbury.  I don't know that that's the case, but that'
+s how I perceive it.  I think the moment you buy into your own public image,
+you're dead.
+
+>When you set out, did you have it in the back
+>of your mind,  "Y'know, one of these days, my universe could
+>well be up there with the others!!"
+
+I don't think I let myself think that far ahead; if I had, I would've frozen
+up.  The other day, somebody referred in a message to the Straczynskiverse, and
+I about fell over....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: In The Beginning Merchandise (23 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: In The Beginning Merchandise

+23 May 1998
>I was wondering if there were plans for releasing an
+>In The Beginning musc CD, since a lot of the music was amazing stuff.
+
+We've talked about it, and I know he'd like to do it, so it's a matter of time,
+I suppose.
+
+>Is Franke also creating a large
+>score for the B5 game?
+
+Yup.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: Arc Discussion Maelstrom? (24 May 1998)
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Re: Arc Discussion Maelstrom?

+24 May 1998
As I noted in my private reply to you on this...ain't nothing wrong with asking
+questions.  You only get pertinent information by asking impertinent questions.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS - Grief (24 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS - Grief

+24 May 1998
I think those are very good points...thanks for making them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Royalties question (24 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Royalties question

+24 May 1998
> a one second clip of the Babylon 5 station.  So my
+>question is: who gets paid for this use of WB copyrighted material, how
+>often do they get paid (one lump sum, every time the image is shown, etc.)
+>and about how much would they get paid?
+
+If I recall correctly, they asked for and received a waiver, so as far as I
+know, there's no money involved at all.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Many Thanks (24 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Many Thanks

+24 May 1998
Thansk; in addition to that....
+
+>Thanks Joe, for all the truly
+>outsanding writing!  Not just on TV, either.  I have loved your
+>postings where you let out a little of yourself... the chocolate
+>loving, Parker pen using self... the opinions on music and the
+>off topic stuff all add to making it a fuller experience
+
+Four words: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.  If you liked Cherry Poppin' Daddies (and who
+wouldn't?) you'll LOVE Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Plotline Arcs in Television Series (24 May 1998)
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Re: Plotline Arcs in Television Series

+24 May 1998
>Now that Babylon 5 has used the
+>plot-arc, and has shown that it can be done quite successfully, have any
+>other shows currently in production begun to use a predetermined arc?
+>One example may be Earth: Final Conflict; it definitely has an arc in
+>its development, but is the storyline for the series predetermined like
+>Babylon 5's?
+>
+>
+Dark Skies was announced as using a five-year arc, and in a recent interview
+with the producers (Starburst? TV zone?  one of those) of the Stargate series,
+they've said they're trying to do a B5 arc approach, though not quite as
+intensive.  I think it's great; the more we can add new tools, the more
+diversity we get as viewers.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Media blitz for end of series? (10 May 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Media blitz for end of series?

+10 May 1998
I don't know, no one's said anything to me about it yet, but it's a bit early
+for that.
+
+Personally, I think that a build-up to the end of the show would be great,
+although "Sleeping in Light" isn't exactly a big-bang lots of explosions kind
+of episode, so it might not be as promotable in that sense.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Defining Episodes? (24 May 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Defining Episodes?

+24 May 1998
It's hard to say...I think Deconstruction may be a defining episode, certainly
+Sleeping in Light is that way, as is 519.  Hard to say why until they air....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: The back burners (24 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: The back burners

+24 May 1998
>But...how easy is it for you to switch gears?  While writing itself is
+>simply telling a story, each medium calls for a completely different set of
+>rules and processes.  
+>	Do you find yourself, for example, saying "I think I'm in my
+novel-writing
+> mood today"..?
+>Or do you, being a somewhat obvious workaholic who just loves what he
+>does, find it easy to pick up any of these projects at any given time and
+>jump in full steam?
+
+What happens is that my main goal for the evening is, say, writing a B5 script.
+ I'll come to a point in it where I'll have to sit back and stew over what
+comes next, how to pull it off.  It's often easy to know WHAT you want to do,
+it's the HOW that's hard (worse still if you want to do the HOW *well*.)
+
+That's strictly subconscious stuff, letting the brain chew on it, so while
+that's going on, I'll go work on something else, or jump on the nets, whatever
+it takes so I *don't* leave the keyboard and go watch TV, since I can lose
+several hours that way.
+
+Which one I pick depends on who I want to play with that day.  This week I've
+been spending my "thinking" time on my play, just a page or two here and there,
+no rush.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks, comments, and some mild disagreements (24 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks, comments, and some mild disagreements

+24 May 1998
First, thanks for all the nice things.  >That said, I do disagree with a few
+things. As a Las Vegas
+>resident, I was disappointed a few months ago when you said that you
+>didn't feel that Las Vegas was a suitable place for a B5 Theme
+>attraction. Las Vegas is a fabulous place for such an attraction. Star
+>Trek the Experience is incredible. 
+>With the addition of a multitude of
+>attractions, we're a family destination as well as just a gambling
+>mecca. And, having driven through LA, I find Vegas much less offensive.
+
+On the other hand, Las Vegas as a family destination is made possible by and is
+a subset of the gambling.  Take it as read that a great many families and nice
+people live and work there; that ain't the issue.
+
+Vegas exists for one reason: to separate you from your cash as fast and as
+efficiently as humanly possible.  You feel it the moment you get off the plane.
+ Gambling is a real problem for a great many people, otherwise there woudln't
+be so many billions of bucks floating into Vegas every year.  At minimum,
+you'll leave Vegas a few hundred bucks poorer.  But at worst, particularly with
+compulsive gamblers, it provides a venue for the destruction of lives, the
+bankrupting of families, the sacrifice of college funds and pensions.  I've
+stood there and watched rows of people at the slot machines, most of them women
+(I don't know why the slots tend to attract more women than men, as opposed to
+other forms of gambling, but that's my perception of it), none at a glance much
+able to afford it, dropping dollar after dollar into the slots, from huge
+buckets, a buck a minute, minute after minute, hour after hour after
+hour...frankly, it creeped the hell out of me.
+
+See, I *know* what it is to be an obsessive-compulsive personality.  I get
+addicted to stuff real easy, which is why I have made it a painstaking process
+to stay away from drugs, alcohol, smoking and gambling.  I'd be lost if I EVER
+got into any of those things.  Writing is the ONLY addictive activity I allow
+(well, that and chocolate).  So it's extremely easy for me to put myself into
+that mindset, to know how it must feel to get lost in the activity of pulling
+the arm, listening to the whirring slots, the clicks, drop another dollar,
+pull, watch, drop, pull, watch....
+
+I've seen it destroy people.
+
+Yes, there are now many cool exhibits in Vegas...but if you pulled ou the
+gambling tomorrow, could they be self-sufficient?  They exist to pull in
+families, so the kids can play *here* while their inheritance is being placed
+on Red Seven over *there*.  If anything, it makes the whole place even MORE
+cynical, if that's possible.
+
+A while back, a license for B5 shot glasses slipped past me in an overall
+glasses-licensing deal.  I couldn't cancel the license legally, but I asked WB
+to intervene and ask the licensee to stop making them as a courtesy to me
+(which they did).  They sold out their inventory, and that was that.  They set
+a tone that I could not support morally.
+
+Similarly, I cannot morally justify any B5 association with Vegas.  I know a
+lot of folks don't find Vegas offensive, as you note above, and a lot of others
+thought the stance regarding shot glasses was overkill...but I have to follow
+my own conscience.  It's okay not to agree with it; it only has to keep me on a
+straight line, your straight line may vary.
+
+Sometimes it gets into some very grey areas.  For instance, one licensed shirt
+has "The Zocalo: Our Last, Best Chance for a Stiff Drink."  I puzzled over that
+one for almost two weeks before I finally decided whether or not to let it go
+ahead.  On this one, I felt it would be inappropriate to pull it, because in
+fact that's what one DOES in the Zocalo, I do show drinking there, and no one
+on Earth currently can get to the Zocalo to get a drink there.  (And if you
+*can* get to that Zocalo, you've had one too many.)
+
+If the Zocalo was a real place, or if it mentioned a real name of a drink, then
+I think I couldn't have approved it.  This is a reference to the activities
+that take place in a fictional universe, so it made it through on a
+technicality...though I'd be lying if I said I was still entirely 100%
+comfortable with that decision.  I go back and forth on ths one on an almost
+daily basis.
+
+(My problem is that I can argue 9 sides to any 8 sided argument.)
+
+>My other disagreement is in music. After seeing numerous posts
+>about the group "PortisHead", I broke down and bought an album.
+>Fortunately I had a gift certificate. Sorry, but I find loose fan belts
+>more enjoyable. Oh well, everyone's taste is different. 
+
+Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.  Trust me on this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: In awe of your post re"free speech" (24 May 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: In awe of your post re"free speech"

+24 May 1998
+Thanks....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Have I missed this? (24 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Have I missed this?

+24 May 1998
+Nothing has been set yet re: the music.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN. JMS:  Cookies? (25 May 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN. JMS:  Cookies?

+25 May 1998
I like oatmeal cookies, oatmeal/raisin cookies, chocolate cookies, mud pie
+cookies, and chocolate chip cookies.  Not big on biscuits or hard cookies.
+
+However, that said...sometimes folks very generously send me packages of
+cookies and the like, but unless I know the person sending them to me VERY
+well, they have to go out, because you should never put anything in your mouth
+unless you know where it came from.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Desires Engendered by DoFS (25 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Desires Engendered by DoFS

+25 May 1998
This is one of those imponderables that fits into the category of, "If I ever
+have enough time, I'll think about it."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Att JMS, pls: "writing" question? (25 May 1998)
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Re: Att JMS, pls: "writing" question?

+25 May 1998
>what part of "writing" are you referring to here? The "smashing words
+>together to see what happens" (another paraphrase, I think, but close
+>enough) or the storytelling part?
+>
+>
+
+I can't really separate them out.  There's foreplay and there's sex, and in a
+way they're both the same thing, same process, so to me it's all the same
+thing.
+
+>If you had to stop writing fiction, would you turn to a) writing
+>non-fiction, or b) some other form or storytelling? or are the two so
+>closely entwined that neither would satisfy you without the other, and
+>we'd be left with that "JMS-puff of smoke"?
+>
+>
+
+I'd find something.  If not scripts, then novels; if not novels, then short
+stories; if not stories, then articles; if not articles, then songs; if not
+songs, then plays...I get nervous when I ain't writing, and one way or another,
+I'd find something.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Crusade Newsgroup - Moderated (25 May 1998)
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Re: Crusade Newsgroup - Moderated

+25 May 1998
>An example in B5 context:  what if I posted "JMS, I think the
+>overall quality of Season 5 has suffered substantially because of
+>a lack of good dialogue editting."  Is that a flame?
+
+Nope.
+
+>What if I said,
+>"I think JMS suffers from Tom Clancy syndrome sometimes, and the
+>quality of the show would improve if someone less personally attached
+>to every word of dialogue were brought in to edit."
+
+Annoying, but not a flame.
+> Or what if
+>I said "The ending of the Shadow War sucked!  Why on earth would these
+>two exceedingly powerful species suddenly start listening to our
+>opinions and meekly taking our suggestions?  Totally ruined my
+>suspension of disbelief!"?  Is that a troll?
+
+Nope.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: The arc, the whole arc, and nothing but the arc... (26 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: The arc, the whole arc, and nothing but the arc...

+26 May 1998
Eventually I may do a book about the whole making of the show in general...but
+it's going to have to wait quite a while....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: A message for JMS on usenet (10 May 1998)
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Re: A message for JMS on usenet

+10 May 1998
It's a good idea...but River and Sleeping are very different in tone and
+attitude, and frankly, putting them together would work to de-emphasize certain
+special aspects of both.  And Sleeping, as the culmination of the 5 year story,
+really does merit a night of its own.  And as I look at that story, I think
+that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving may actually be the perfect time for it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Attn Jms : Crusade Production Questions (26 May 1998)
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Re: Attn Jms : Crusade Production Questions

+26 May 1998
>As my understanding goes, which may well be fallible, when a new
+>production starts it is the producer and the production designer who
+>get together to decide the feel and visual look of the show. 
+
+Your understanding is correct.
+>John
+>Iacovelli (spelling?) was production designer on B5. Will he occupy
+>the same role on Crusade or will a new perspective be brought to the
+>table to freshen things up and provide something a little different?
+
+No, John is still with the show, though we've brought in some new designers and
+graphics people to work alongside the folks we've had from day one, so there's
+definitely new blood (and the old blood ain't bad either).  
+
+I've stood on, and we've shot in, the set for the Excalibur, and I think it may
+be the coolest starship *I've* ever seen on film for TV, frankly.  
+
+>Also, how do things proceed from an outline\idea to fleshing out a
+>fully fledged production? How do the producer and production designer
+>pull everything together? How will the use of more virtual sets
+>influence what you guys are doing now?
+
+It goes from the scripts.  For instance, the first script written will be the
+third one produced, to allow more time for production design on some of the
+elaborate set and other requirements.  And yes, we'll be doing more with
+virtual sets.
+
+>Will you be using a script editor in Crusade, similar to the way Larry
+>De Tillio was used in seasons 1 and 2 of B5 before you started writing
+>all the episodes yourself?
+
+Even when Larry was on B5, I ended up rewriting the script to one degree or
+another, not to correct anything Larry did, 'cause he's one of the best, only
+to bring it into line with my view of B5, which is eccentric and subjective at
+best.  So at this point, there's no need to bring on a story editor, though
+I'll be keeping my eye out for possibilities to serve in that capacity on later
+seasons, once I find out who can write for this show and who can't.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: too may arc shows? (26 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: too may arc shows?

+26 May 1998
>So does that mean we will never see a B5type experience-show anywhere. 
+>That sort of thing, I would pay real money to see
+
+We've gone back and forth on a possible B5 Showscan ride that would be used in
+amusement parks, but we'll have to see.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+Re: vetoing glasses & Calvin and Hobbes (26 May 1998)
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Re: vetoing glasses & Calvin and Hobbes

+26 May 1998
Resisting the impulse to just merchandise the hell out of the show from day
+one, particularly in questionable areas, has certainly been ironic (and costly)
+since the ONLY area I get an actual, real (if small) percentage of the show
+(the studio will always work the books so it never shows a profit on paper) is
+in merchandising.
+
+>And has there been any fake B5
+>merchandise spotted?
+
+Plenty.  If you've bought a link or an EA insignia at a con, it's a fake.  All
+patches sold other than through the B5 fan club are fake.  There's a huge
+amount of fake 4th season posters that flooded in from Germany (you can tell
+the fakes by checking the poster: if it's unusually heavy photoreproduction
+paper, and the B5 logo is blurry...it's a fake).  The White Star models that
+are out there are unlicensed...it goes on and on....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde (26 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde

+26 May 1998
No, my version -- done for Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics -- starred
+Anthony Andrews and Laura Dern.  The cassette can be found here and there at
+some places.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS: god, I had no idea...thanks for sticking with us (26 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS: god, I had no idea...thanks for sticking with us

+26 May 1998
Thanks..it's been a trial, no mistake, but in the long haul, worth the effort.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Claudia at BayCon (26 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Claudia at BayCon

+26 May 1998
>I didn't actually make it to BayCon this weekend, here in Silicon Valley,
+>but I saw a flyer indicating that Claudia Christian was supposed to be
+>present.  Do you have an opinion on her appearing as a "B5 representative"
+>at conventions?
+
+I've never had a problem with it, though she obviously represents B5 as of the
+first four seasons, not the fifth or thereafter...sort of the ghost of
+Christians past....
+
+(couldn't resist)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+26 May 1998
>Does this include the stat bars/EA insignia (etc) sold by Janet Lawn
+>Costumes here in the UK? I know the uniforms she makes are authorised
+>(or were?) and just took the badges as part of the deal...
+
+No, those are okay, I was referring to the American scene.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Voice of the Resistance Con - "Economical" with the (27 May 1998)
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+27 May 1998
>I have just re-read the thread, and what you say is untrue.
+>
+>I'll explain my problem here in the simplest terms possible.
+>
+>Conventions invite guests. Not the other way around. If a convention
+>invites a guest who then refuses to go, then the convention can be said to
+>be "boycotted". If a convention does not invite a guest, then the guests
+>opinions of the convention, it's organisers, and anything else to do with
+>it is irrelevant.
+
+No, it's not.  Are you sure English is your first language?
+
+I said, immediately after the last Wolf, that I would not be involved with any
+Wolf or Cooney convention until they got their act together in their treatment
+of fans and their organization.  You can call it whatever you want...I made it
+quite clear that I would not be receptive to any invitation until they fixed
+the problems, so of course they're not going to issue an invitation having been
+told that I won't go.  
+
+What part of that is unclear?
+
+There are many concerns in how the fans in the UK are being treated and
+exploited.  For instance, Warner Bros. DONATED their theater in London for the
+purpose of a *free screening* for B5 fans as a gift.  Warner Bros. Legal
+Affairs has just discovered that those running the convention (which would be
+Bryan Cooney and other Wolf folks) are charging TWENTY POUNDS PER PERSON for
+what was set aside as a gift to the fans.  There was never supposed to be any
+admission fee charged for the screening.  (Suffice to say WB is investigating
+further.)
+
+And the beat goes on....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: BEST ways to say thanks? (longish) (27 May 1998)
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+27 May 1998
Thank you for those wonderful words.  If fans of this show can carry some of
+what they find here out into the real world -- building communities, asking
+questions, building the future *consciously* rather than letting others do it
+for you -- then that is the best testament, and the only thanks, that could
+ever be required.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+28 May 1998
>She apparently wasn't having enough business or wasn't making a large enough
+>profit to make it worthwhile.  Also, the license she had to make uniforms had
+>expired and in order to renew it WB was asking for a great deal of money.
+>After hearing that, I lost a great deal of respect to WB.
+
+The problem is that she was, in essence, a one-woman business, and the number
+of costumes she could put out was *very* small, meaning that most of the fans
+who wanted them wouldn't be able to get them.  Letting the license go to a
+larger entity means that more people would be able to get them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+10 May 1998
>Occurs to me that I can't think of a current scifi show that does. Nope.
+>Thinking about no scifi show currently in production has "cute kids and
+>robts as regulars." It's pretty wierd that JMS empahsizes this when it is
+>true of every show on the air. Even the ones that are worse than B5 has ever
+>been.
+
+Sisko's kid son in Deep Space Nine, and the Ferengi kid in the same series.
+
+That's two kids in the same show.
+
+Maybe the problem is not in the proposition as advanced, but rather in your
+thinking.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn Jms : Crusade Production Questions (28 May 1998)
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+28 May 1998
>This is my point, how did you and the production designers work on
+>this. Did you give them an outline of a few points and discuss the
+>feel \ look or did you give them a broad brush to be creative and come
+>up with something seriously cool?
+
+It's hard to define...it's a long process of give and take.  John Copeland and
+I both knew we wanted something different, a new kind of look, and we went back
+and forth discussing it between us until we were ready to talk to the
+production design folk.  We told them in general terms what we were looking
+for...then they went away, and came back with several preliminary designs.  We
+sat and talked about them, made revisions and suggestions, threw one thing out,
+kept the other thing, got another version done, and on and on until there was
+something that we felt worked.  Ditto for the CGI version (for which there is a
+very early version on the B5 fan club site).  The final look of the CGI is much
+sleeker and more refined.
+
+>What about costume design and alien design. Again is this a case of
+>you setting a rough overall position on what you want or is it more
+>hands on?
+
+Same process.  I discuss with Optic Nerve and the costume folks what I have in
+mind.  They go away and come up with drawings.  They submit those drawings;
+John and I go over them, pick the ones we like, suggest modifications, toss out
+what we don't like, and the process of refinement continues.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+28 May 1998
>I pondered that for a long time, and finally I came to see that the
+>*truly* important bits of writing are integrity, honesty, craft, and
+>heart.  I bought your scriptwriting book, which both reinforced this view
+>and made me see that there are a lot of interesting stories I could tell.
+
+You can tell a good story in just about any venue, provided you approach it
+with, as Balzac said, "clean hands and composure."  What matters is what you DO
+with the form, not the form itself.
+
+> I and my guests had fun, the actors had fun, and ... the audience
+>laughed themselves silly, threw marshmellows, booed, cheered, and fell in
+>love.  I'm getting paid for this, and hope to sell it to a play-publishing
+>company in the next few weeks.
+
+That's the real key: have fun with it, and do what you want, and the rest tends
+to take care of itself.
+
+Or to quote AnthonyHopkins quoting somebody else, "Be bold, and mighty forces
+will come to your aid."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: How Do You Read a Book? (28 May 1998)
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+28 May 1998
>1) How do you approach reading -- do you read novels differently
+>than manuals?
+>
+>
+Not that I'm aware of consciously, no.  I guess I go to a manual looking for
+information, and I go to *enjoy* a novel.
+
+I have to be careful doing research, because after a while I find that the
+facts get in the way of the *telling*...it's like, "Okay, I just spent $300 on
+books about this stuff, and now YOU'RE going to pay for it!"  I have to leave
+it alone for a while until the notes go away and the sense of it remains.
+
+>2) How did you transform the passage in _Le Morte DArthur_ to the
+>poignant counterpoint in B5?  Did you read the Cliff's Notes?
+>Was there some other play, book, etc. (i.e., _Excalibur_) that
+>moved you?
+
+I guess the difference is that a writer of fiction or scripts has to put him-
+or herself into the scene, to feel what someone else has described in technical
+terms.  From that comes emotion, from emotion comes contact.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Meditations on the Abyss ( *Spoilers* ) (28 May 1998)
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+28 May 1998
Sounds like voodoo psychology to me; never heard of it.
+
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+29 May 1998
>How can someone who claims to be an atheist write so eloquently and
+>profoundly about God?
+
+Only Nixon could go to China.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+29 May 1998
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+>I'm now reading that the £14000 paid to Wolf for the ITB screening is the 
+>fee for getting the actors to appear. This still seems rather a lot, but 
+>maybe Americans have different expectations? It seems a US actor gets 
+>paid more than a UK one. Does this kind of money seem extortionate to 
+>Americans, 'cos it does to me.
+
+That is absolutely not the case.  The actors are being paid their main fees by
+the convention, for the convention, has nothing to do with the screening.  They
+were offered a *small stipend* to also show up at the screening.  Again, I
+can't break the confidentiality of the actors, but I can say that if every
+person who came paid about 2-3 pounds, it would cover the whole nut.
+
+Which has nothing to do with the fact that Wolf *cannot* charge for this
+screening, which was set aside to be free for the fans, and as far as I know,
+will not be allowed to do so.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+29 May 1998
>When Dr. Franklin explained his religious beliefs to G'Kar, he
+>said what I have always believed.  When you boil down all the 
+>religions currently known, they all come back to the same
+>basic tenets of good and evil.  It is only money and politics
+>that distort religion.  So, now I know I am a "Foundationist".
+
+>For years, I have been looking for a way to define my 
+>beliefs.  (I was raised in a very fundamental Bible-thumping
+>way as is typical in the southern states.)  And in a few minutes
+>of dialog you made it all so clear. 
+
+Thank you.
+
+The first meeting is July 17th, 2005.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: ATTN: JMS  About you....

+29 May 1998
>The biggest benefit for me from all of this is developing consistency.
+>Watching you being consistent and true to your word and your past is a great
+>inspiration.  Now, more than ever, I do my best to be like you in this
+>matter.  That way, my past never 'catches up to me', so to speak.
+
+Thanks.  One of the few things a person has of any real value is his word. 
+Once given, you have to keep it.  That's a big deal with me.  And I tend to
+expect the same from others.  I guess it comes in part from having gotten a lot
+of promises as a kid growing up, which never came to fruition.  Promises were
+made to assuage guilt and soften disappointment.  I vowed that if I gave
+someone my word, then by god I was going to keep it.  
+
+Similarly, I try to repay the other side of things.  One of my other beliefs
+(could there be ANYthing more tedious than this, he thought, looking back over
+the last couple of self-indulgent paragraphs) is that I never forget a kindness
+given, or an injury received.  Probably not the most well-balanced of all
+philosophies, but it works for me.  
+
+>I know you occasionally fly off the handle, but who doesn't?  Not only have
+>you created a great story, but you've shown that someone can really be a
+>solid, unmovable rock in a harsh storm of senselessness.  And sometimes, you
+>have to throw that rock at a few people.
+
+I like that, and I may steal it for myself.  Thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: Noble Dignity in Meditations

+29 May 1998
>I know an episode of B5 ranks high when I not only laugh, but I also get
+>that combination of chills and teariness that uniquely expresses that
+>deep quality I call Noble Dignity. (Think of Patrick Doyle's "St.
+>Crispin's Day" music in Branaugh's "Henry V".)
+>
+>That's what Lenier and Montoya managed to evoke in me in MotA.
+>
+>And it makes me wonder, Joe, what it is in your life and readings that
+>has provoked so much of this quality in you. It shows up so often in B5
+>that it clearly functions as a core element in your soul.
+>
+Another one of those questions where I'll have to go for the "I" reply, which
+should always be viewed with suspicion as any answer given will be self-serving
+and massively one-sided.  That disclaimer aside:
+
+Understand that on the one hand, I am a massive and unrepentent cynic.  I've
+seen all the worst characteristics of humans toward one another, and have
+generally accepted it as common coin.
+
+And yet....
+
+And yet every day we hear stories of incredible self-sacrifice and
+selflessness.  There is -- on the other hand that is twin to the one above -- a
+stubborn nobility about humans that can't be denied.  At our worst, we are very
+bad indeed; at our best, we can be truly quite amazing.  I put those words in
+Delenn's mouth, long ago...that we are better than we think, and nobler than we
+know.  Usually, those qualities only tend to really come out when our backs are
+against the wall...then somehow the pressure turns lead to gold and tin to
+iron.
+
+It's the kind of thing I try to apply in my own life, usually with mixed
+results, occasionally failing, even occasionally pulling it off once in a
+while.  I think you have to fight for what you believe, that you can't ever
+back down and let a casual evil pass (and the casual ones are the really deadly
+ones), that you have to push every day to be somehow just a little better than
+you were the day before.  
+
+Lots of so-called religious groups try to force us to accept that we are by
+nature sinful and bad.  I don't buy it.  Any race that can split the atom, walk
+on the moon and write a sonnet has nothing to apologize for.  We do the best we
+can with what we've got, and on balance, allowing for the flaws and the
+occasinal Ayatollah, we've done pretty damned good, and we should be proud of
+that instead of beating ourselves over the head.  Yes, we still have a hell of
+a long way to go, yes there are problems, no we can't ever stop trying to
+address and fix the problems that exist, we can't get complacent... but we've
+beaten most of the microbes and the diseases, conquered the air, given birth to
+Mozart and Buddy Holly, and we ought to once in a while allow for a moment of
+quiet pride in that.
+
+Because you can't build on what you ain't proud of having done in the first
+place.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+31 May 1998
It got revoiced because the actor ended up sounding almost exactly like the
+cowardly lion....
+
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+
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Re: a message to JMS

+11 May 1998
>Anyway, I home school and my mom wanted me to write this. What she wanted
+>me to ask is why you like the poem Ulysses. Sinclair quoted it twice in the
+>show and I read it was a favorite of yours.
+
+Poems -- any incarnation of the writen word, really -- speak to us at various
+points in our lives, and at different ages we derive different things from
+them, meanings and subtleties and subtexts that we did not perceive before, but
+which become apparent as new layers are added to us.  It's not that the work is
+different, it's that we change and are able to see more in it.
+
+Ulysses was always a poem that spoke profoundly to me of new beginings and of
+endings, and of the ways in which we can, and perhaps should, face them...the
+stubborn nobility of the human spirit that does not surrender despite pain and
+overwhelming odds and the infirmity of age.  It is, at its heart, a *brave*
+poem, and it stirs me like little else.
+
+>Oh yeah, I also wanted to ask if you like comics, and if you do, which
+>ones?
+
+I've kind of gotten out of the comics habit lately, mainly because I've been
+busy, and for a while comics kind of went south, the writing was falling apart.
+ Now there's some good stuff being done, the Uncle Sam miniseries from DC, I'm
+also intrigued by what they're doing in the new approach to Superman (using
+many of the classic allusions and structures), and the new (to me) Martha
+Washington books from Gibbons and Miller, and the new Mage book from Matt
+Wagner, who has always been one of my favorite writers.  I think things are
+starting to look up again a bit for comics.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade - throw us a bone please (31 May 1998)
+
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade - throw us a bone please

+31 May 1998
We've cast one or two actors who will be in the series; the physical set for
+the Excalibur is built; the refined CGI Excalibur is nearly finished; costumes
+are being designed; and we have what we think is a pretty cool series logo.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Philosophies (31 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Philosophies

+31 May 1998
>>     B5 has been very refreshing. Besides being a wonderful story, for me
+>> very remeniscent of the first time I read the Lord of the Rings, I have
+>> found in the treatment of religion an the acceptance of its place in the
+>> human condition.
+
+Here's a funny aside.
+
+I got an email not long ago from a female pastor out in the midwest, who said
+she had just come back from one of these multi-faith, interdenominational
+retreats where everybody tries to find some common ground.
+
+Apparently the first day went pretty slow, lots of false starts and stops, then
+that evening, at dinner, somebody mentioned B5...and in short order you had a
+bunch of pastors, preachers, rabbis, priests, buddhist monks and others all
+pitching in with their own reactions to the show, and their interpretations.
+
+I think that's kinda cool.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Music Critic par excellence (31 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Music Critic par excellence

+31 May 1998
Thanks.  Music is very important to me, and I love finding really cool stuff
+(and if you like that stuff, don't forget Red Clay Ramblers, for a more
+bluegrass sound).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Your alter ego??? (31 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Your alter ego???

+31 May 1998
>My question is this -- was G'Kar always intended to be such an articulate
+>and wise character?  
+
+Yeah, he was always set to grow into this.
+
+> Does he serve as your favorite mouthpiece and alter
+>ego?
+
+Sometimes.
+
+>And if so, is this because the character resonates with you, or does
+>Andreas' superb acting skill have something to do with it?
+
+I think it's both.  Making G'Kar more of a writer, I've been able to get out
+some of that...and knowing that whatever I write, Andreas can bring to life is
+a big plus.  
+
+>In short, is it the character or the actor which seems to draw the best
+>writing out of you?  Over time I assume that you start writing to actors'
+>strengths...
+
+If you held a gun to my head, I'd have to say that of the scenes I write, the
+ones with both G'Kar and Londo are the ones that somehow just sing...I could
+write about those guys nonstop, and never get tired of it.  There's just some
+dynamic that comes into place more when they're together than seperately.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Noble Dignity in Meditations (31 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Noble Dignity in Meditations

+31 May 1998
>Now 
+>I have returned to read this, with the rhythms of Corwin still ringing in my 
+>ears and through my veins -- and what I hear is one of Corwin's spiritual
+>sons at work while at leisure, here on the Net!  
+
+(allows a quiet smile)
+
+There are a number of us who call ourselves Norman's Kids; we who drew on his
+inspiration and his words.  Others who have so identified themselves in one way
+or another are Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, Charles Kuralt, Edward R Murrow,
+Walter Cronkite, Stan Freberg and many, many others.
+
+Every once in a while, I'll think that something I've done reads a little bit
+close to something Norman Corwin would've written, and excusing the hubris of
+that, it's a tough goal to hit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Silencing the voices (31 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Silencing the voices

+31 May 1998
>If the characters speak to you inside your head, is killing them off the
+>only way to silence them?  I just had this scary thought that you might
+>want to shut them all up in order to move on.
+>
+There are other ways.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: Claudia Confirms She Quit (11 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Claudia Confirms She Quit

+11 May 1998
>My
+>question is Did she quit after the "Marcus sacrificing himself to save her"
+>part was filmed?  
+
+Yes.  It was after all the season 4 episodes had been filmed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN jms: Idees Fixes (was: Claudia Confirms She Quit) (11 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN jms: Idees Fixes (was: Claudia Confirms She Quit)

+11 May 1998
>... and you'd think the new photos of the Cydonia region from the Mars
+>Surveyor might lay to rest the stories about the face/city/pyramids that
+>sprung up from the Viking photos. 
+
+Difference is this time we have a note from the Cydonia equivilent stating the
+unequivocal truth here.  If we sent a camera over Mars and there was a big huge
+5 mile long sign saying IT AIN'T A FACE, OKAY, IT'S JUST A DUMP FOR OUR OLD
+PEPSI CANS, I think that would go a long ways toward resolving the situation.
+
+>Can you tell us whether we'll find out more about the Fourth Question
+>   in the next group of episodes? or do we have to wait until the ones
+>   being held back for fall are aired?
+
+It's in the last batch.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Landing on your feet (12 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Landing on your feet

+12 May 1998
+Some of it's landing on your feet, some of it is a conscious decision from day
+one to allow the random incidents of real life to affect the show, whether it's
+an actor leaving, someone breaking a leg, whatever.  It adds a sense of
+realism, rather than recasting or just ignoring the situation.  It's a
+challenge, no mistake, but it leads in some very cool directions.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Comments of New Fan since TNT Aired B5 (12 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Comments of New Fan since TNT Aired B5

+12 May 1998
+Thanks, and like you, I look forward to the next bunch of guys who'll take what
+we did, and do it better.
+
+(And with any luck, it'll be us.  But I'm okay with it even if it's somebody
+else.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS: Did cast changes have a real impact in the arc? (1 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn JMS: Did cast changes have a real impact in the arc?

+1 May 1998
No disrespect intended, but I have answered this question about as many times
+as I intend to.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting (12 May 1998)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting

+12 May 1998
+>The no-B5-regulars-in-crusade demand was made by TNT.  Someone said that
+>Bruce Boxleitner made some *choice* comments about that but I dont know
+>about that part for sure.
+>But im pretty sure JMS confirmed the TNT part of
+>it.  Check with Lurkers because something was put up on the nwes or crusade
+>guide page about it.  Again, I think JMS said something but I cant remember
+>if I found it here or elsewhere.
+
+Absolutely, positively untrue.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5 (12 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5

+12 May 1998
+You are obviously posting this to try and throw back my words at me about DS9,
+made several years ago, being without any new vision behind it.  Because that's
+all you're really capable of, trying to come up with new cheap shots.
+
+My message at the time dealt specifically with a context which you ignore: TNG
+was created by Gene Roddenberry (with some considerable help from David
+Gerrold); those who followed then took those elements and repackaged them into
+DS9 without actually *inventing* much: it was all made by someone else with a
+vision (Roddenberry, who also had the original ST vision).
+
+It was a new show, but not a new vision, because that vision was created before
+then, by others.  Hence, my comments at that time.
+
+In this case, the person who created the original vision of the Babylon 5
+universe (which would be me) is still alive.
+
+That's why the context in such a discussion is everything; the single message
+from me out of the context of the whole discussion results in missing the
+entire point: my feeling at that time that those making DS9 didn't bring much
+new to that show that was not created by others, who were no longer alive.
+
+And by the way, if you're going to steal my words, and put them in your message
+(while twisting the context) and pretend that they're your own, that's called
+plagiarism.
+
+Why don't you just give it a rest, Cronan?  And by the way, why don't you post
+your real name some time?  You sit there and snipe from the shadows constantly,
+attacking me and others in this forum, many of whose names are known...it takes
+a certain kind of coward to do this kind of crap from behind the safety of
+anonymity.  If you feel so strongly about your opinions, which you shove around
+as if they mattered, then you should be prepared to stand behind them.  You
+search out my posts by my name and twist them around, why not give us the same
+luxury by giving us your real name?
+
+Either you believe in the rightness of your opinions, in which case you should
+have no problem standing behind them, or you do not, in which case you are a
+coward.  Which is it?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Feeling Delphic? (12 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Feeling Delphic?

+12 May 1998
+I've said plenty about what's coming...now it's time to let the episodes speak
+for themselves.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+TV Guide Vote (12 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
TV Guide Vote

+12 May 1998
+For anyone interested, TV Guide is doing a poll about departing shows.  It's
+over at:
+
+http://www.tvgen.com/farewell98/vote.htm
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Film vs. Video (12 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Film vs. Video

+12 May 1998
Videotape is always cheaper than film, but looks flatter, so you only use it
+when you want to create a sense of a different kind of image or processing
+system, or to give some things a sense of immediacy.  The physical production
+requirements are about the same for film or video.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn JMS: A great cascade of words (12 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn JMS: A great cascade of words

+12 May 1998
"Of course everything has already been said.  But since no one was listening,
+we must begin again."  I don't recall the source of the quote offhand, but it
+applies here.
+
+There are billions of published words out there.  But no two people put them
+together in the same way.  That's the important difference.  You can't measure
+yourself against others in that respect; you can only figure out what you want
+to say.  If you say it interestingly, others will read it; if not, not.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN: JMS  Babylon 5 Models (12 May 1998)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS  Babylon 5 Models

+12 May 1998
I understand that Revell will be doing more beyond this, so this may become a
+big area for them.  To get a license, you have to have both the manufacturing
+and distribution capability to make it worth WB's while.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Good Schedule News (12 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Good Schedule News

+12 May 1998
For starters, for those who haven't heard yet, there are 4 new episodes to air
+starting May 27th.  They culminate in a hell of a dilemma at the end of the
+four, and in many ways they are the first four in a five parter.  
+
+The airing of The River of Souls has been pushed up to November 8th to allow it
+and Sleeping in Light (November 25th) to be given more individual attention and
+special promotion by TNT, so one won't get lost in the other.  It also means
+less of a wait.
+
+Also, when TNT starts rebroadcasting the whole 5th season starting the first
+week of July, that will correspond with their debut of their new satellite
+system, which will allow same-time broadcasts for both coasts...meaning the
+fifth season episodes will be on at 8 p.m. on both coasts...AND they're adding
+an 11 p.m. rebroadcast the same day to give folks the most flexibility with the
+show, something that many of you have asked for.
+
+TNT has been listening.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5 (12 May 1998)
+
+
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Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5

+12 May 1998
Another flaw in this argument -- other than the fact that Cronan totally misses
+the point of the entire original message of mine he took as his own and
+misappropriated, because it is in his vested INTERESTS to miss the point -- is
+that in point of fact, Crusade is going to cost MORE than B5.  DS9 was planned
+to cost less than TNG going in, that was one of the points at hand (whether or
+not it actually did cost less, I don't know, but that was the apparent intent).
+
+The first year budget on Crusade is substantially more than for B5's last
+season, and all the previous seasons (and we're going back to a 7 day shooting
+schedule), because in this case we're going to a lot of new alien worlds and
+locations, and that costs more.  So the premise of doing another show because
+it wiil cost less is invalid on the face of it.
+
+Not that matters to Cronan, because nothing matters to Cronan other than Cronan
+and his obsession with riding this show and looking for any possible
+opportunity to rag on it, me, and those who enjoy it.  
+
+It's getting old, Cronan (or whatever your real name is).  I don't know what
+your problem is, but get over it.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: LA OR NOT (OFF-TOPIC?) (12 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: LA OR NOT (OFF-TOPIC?)

+12 May 1998
For TV you have to live in LA; for films, you can go in and out.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+jms at MIT Monday (3 May 1998)
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jms at MIT Monday

+3 May 1998
For those in the Boston area, I'll be speaking at MIT this Monday (the 4th)
+from 7-10 p.m.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
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+Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5 (12 May 1998)
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Re: Crusade: A Fiscal Repackaging of B5

+12 May 1998
There is no point in replying further to you, Cronan, because the replies would
+mean nothing to you because you don't care about the content of the replies. 
+You say that you're here as a fan of the show, but in fact in the unmoderated
+group you've been ragging on B5 and its fans and jumping in with Holland and
+Theron and Ford and the rest of the dysfunctional gang over there for a long
+time before you decided to stick your snout in here. 
+
+You don't care about a reasoned discussion, you don't want a reasoned
+discussion, you're here simply to troll, to get a rise out of people, myself
+included.  
+
+Since you found it amusing to call up my own post, I decided to pull out your
+public replies from the unmoderated group concerning all this.  Do we see here
+the comments of someone generally concerned abou the show?  Or do we see here
+someone who is enjoying getting a rise out of people, someone who is doing this
+only to cause upset?
+
+I quote (the non-bracketed comments are your own words:
+*********
+>But look at all the willing little fishes, with their open gulping mouths!
+
+Silly boy.
+
+>Personally, I would have avoided introducing any "new" words of my own into
+>JMS', just to keep it purer, for a stronger backlash when the critics come
+>snarling along behind.  But that's just me, and you do P&SC better than I
+>ever could.
+
+If I didn't do Cronan and you didn't do Infinity then we'd have serious
+problems, wouldn't we. 
+
+>But look at all the willing little fishes, with their open gulping
+mouths!
+
+You people are out to embarass me.
+
+> ...why no AFT-S cross, you poop?  Was it something I said?  ;-)
+
+Well this wasn't the kind of thing that you usually goes to AFT-S...
+it is funnier than I'd hoped, BTW.
+
+*********
+
+You think it's funny.  You enjoy that your comments get these sorts of
+reactions from the "little fishes."  You say you're being quite open here about
+who you are, that it has nothing to do with your comments...and then you say
+that if you "didn't DO Cronan" you'd have serious problems.  Hardly the sort of
+thing one says about one's own name now is it?  I find that a very interesting
+statement, and a telling contradiction.
+
+A fan of the show?  No.  A troll?  Yes.  
+
+And I have far more interesting things to do with my life than deal with
+trolls.  Go find another target, Cronan.  I'm not buying, and I'm not  playing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: LA OR NOT (OFF-TOPIC?) (14 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: LA OR NOT (OFF-TOPIC?)

+14 May 1998
>> For TV you have to live in LA; for films, you can go in and out.
+>
+>For *United States*-oriented TV, maybe.
+>
+>For example, things have improved in Toronto since your last visit here.
+
+Yes, well, when the person asked about LA, I assumed they were interested in
+matters pertaining to the United States.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Fed up with S5 naysayers (14 May 1998)
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Re: Fed up with S5 naysayers

+14 May 1998
Bottom line for me is, I don't shy away from criticism.  Frankly, the things
+I've said about my own episodes have often been harsher than anything anyone
+else has ever said or will ever say.
+
+But what you have to be careful about is this kind of statement:
+
+>Was the fiasco known as A View from the Gallery planned well in
+>advance?  I hope not.  I prefer to consider it the result of being in
+>a rush to complete the writing for the season.  At best, maybe an idea
+>that sounded good at the time (and it was a damn good idea), that,
+>like Grey 17, just didn't get pulled off.
+
+This comes under the heading of "In my opinion."  All too often these things
+are stated as *facts*, which they are not, rather than *opinions*, which is
+what they are.  In point of fact, there are a LOT of people who enjoyed AVFTG
+enormously, some even considering it the best of the last year or so.  (In
+fact, interestingly enough, the British fans seemed to have across the board
+liked it far more than the US fans...I'm still parsing that one to figure out
+why...and many of them can't figure out why some folks here had such a
+reaction.)
+
+Anyone who has ever been involved with a writing workshop knows that there is a
+difference between constructive criticism and destructive criticism.  The main
+difference is the person who says "This sucks," rather than saying "This is why
+this story didn't work for me."  The former is a unilateral statement that does
+not allow for anyone else to hold different viewpoints; the latter allows you
+to more constructively address the elements that didn't work for you, and may
+not work for others.
+
+You didn't like View.  Fair enough.  I loved it, and still do, and many others
+do.  Also fair enough.  Doesn't mean it's bad, doesn't mean it's good.  Either
+way, it's precisely what I wanted to write, and in this show, I write what I
+want, what I enjoy, what I want to see.  If enough others like it that we stay
+on the air, then I'm doing it sufficiently well; if not, not.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: *S5 Spoilers* What is the proper order of "DotD"? (14 May 1998)
+
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Re: *S5 Spoilers* What is the proper order of "DotD"?

+14 May 1998
+It was originally intended to be set after "Phoenix Rising."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: A follow-up question to "A Defining Moment" (14 May 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: A follow-up question to "A Defining Moment"

+14 May 1998
+>Which scene, which line or which moment tears your heart out emotionally or
+>otherwise affects you as powerfully? Or is it yet to come in the remaining
+>episodes?
+>
+>
+It's yet to come.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: JMS: Question on a convention (15 May 1998)
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Re: JMS: Question on a convention

+15 May 1998
The primary folks running the Voice of the Resistance con are the same ones
+behind the Wolf conventions, which I'm actively boycotting until a) I hear from
+the fans that the way fans are treated there has improved, and b) until I get
+the promised accouting from the two conventions I attended, both of which were
+supposed to turn over the profits to local charities, both of whom were
+supposed to provide accountings when requested, neither of which has yet been
+done.  I want to be sure that the funds raised went where they were intended,
+in the full amounts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: Attn: JMS: Crusade and Lip Gloss (15 May 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS: Crusade and Lip Gloss

+15 May 1998
I agree, and this is something we try to watch, to keep the show looking
+properly military, and not fall into cliche.  We'll definitely continue trying
+to do this in future with Crusade.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
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+

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You have my support!

+14 May 98
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+Re: Attn JMS: Did cast changes have a real impact in the arc? (3 May 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Did cast changes have a real impact in the arc?

+3 May 1998
>No problem at all.  Most of us (who count ourselves as fans) won't consider
+>your answers to be evasive.  However, in light of our perception of "The
+>Business", I pray you'll forgive us our cynicism.  Just please don't be put
+>of by our perceptiveness.
+
+You don't seem to understand the issue here.
+
+Practically every person who gets on and finds this group (or others like it)
+believes he or she is the first to ask a given question.  I have now answered
+this question, in stultifying detail, at least two dozen times by now, and it's
+all in the faq files and on the lurker's guide and elsewhere.  Why should your
+cynicism compel me to retype again what I've already typed 24 times before? 
+The implication seems to be that your time is worth more than the time required
+to look it up in the faq file or the lurker's guide, but my time is such that I
+*must* repost the info for the 25th time or somehow appear suspect.
+
+I suggest you get your priorities straight.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+OT:  Words to live by (14 May 98)
+
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OT:  Words to live by

+14 May 98
One of my favorite great makers of a century past
+had these things to say that give me a reality 
+check when I need it.  And I think we need it here.
+
+Oscar Wilde (alledgedly) said:
+
+"The truth is rarely plain and never simple."
+
+"There is no sin except stupidity."
+
+"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things
+are corrupt without being charming.  This is a fault."
+
+"The well-bred contradict other people.  
+The wise contradict themselves."
+
+"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. 
+People are either charming or tedious."
+
+"It is only the intellectually lost who
+ever argue."
+
+"All art is quite useless."
+
+"We teach people how to remember, 
+we never teach them how to grow.
+
+"Life is far too important to be taken seriously."
+
+And, of course:
+
+Custom's Agent:  Do you have anything to declare?
+Oscar Wilde:  Only my genious.
+
+Rebo's definitely got a good taste for his 
+quotations.
+
+-- 
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+  Kathryn L. Morton            k.morton@wayne.edu    
+  Enrollment Systems                  
+  Wayne State University
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++    
+    All of us live in the gutter,    
+    but some of us are looking at the stars.	            
+				                                                     
+				-Oscar Wilde	                                        
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+
+
+

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Re: Attn: JMS: Crusade and Lip Gloss

+14 May 1998
I agree, and this is something we try to watch, to keep the show looking
+properly military, and not fall into cliche.  We'll definitely continue trying
+to do this in future with Crusade.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting (14 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting

+14 May 1998
+Diane K De wrote in message
+>When did JMS say THAT?  To my knowledge he has never said such a thing.
+Where
+>does this stuff come from.
+>
+>>That
+>>said, could someone please tell me if Jason Cartier's Departure from the
+>>show was on good terms.  If so, is he willing to do (or has he done if Ne1
+>>knows) Guest appearences on B5 or Crusade.
+
+I spent two days with Jason at the Pittsburgh Comicon. (Time with him is a
+real experience) ;)  He always corrects people when they say his character
+is dead.  Marcus gave his life-force for Ivanova and was subsequently frozen
+in Medlab.
+
+I don't think he's too happy about it, but he seems to understand that's the
+way things were going to be.  He did joke about how in the future, JMS is
+going to let everyone go and play every part in the Babylon 5 series
+himself.
+
+Funny guy, he said that his two sons in England are big Star Trek fans.  I
+don't think that he's kept up with the show since he's left, but if Marcus
+ever returns I don't he would have either.
+
+Bob Barker
+
+
+
+
+

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+Re: Season 5 so far(minimum spoilers) (14 May 1998)
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Re: Season 5 so far(minimum spoilers)

+14 May 1998
<<Subject: Re: Season 5 so far(minimum spoilers)
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+Date: 5/11/98 9:38 PM US Eastern Standard Time
+Date: 5/11/98 9:38 PM US Eastern Standard Time
+Message-id: <35572250.60A44BF4@mindspring.com>
+
+I really don't know why I bother except that I care for the show so
+much.
+
+I still cannot understand how someone, anyone, can take a part of a
+whole and decide that the whole is bad because that part is.  If you
+find part of an apple with a worm in it, do you get rid of the whole
+apple?  (I try not to, myself...but perhaps that is just me.)
+
+No, not every episode of season 5 has been slam bang whizzo!
+
+But that's no reason to conclude that the rest of the season will be
+bad.  It's also no reason to keep harping on the fact that *you* (and
+I'm using this in the general, not the specific) don't like the season. 
+You don't.  Okay.  
+
+I do.
+
+There are things coming up, I'm sure, that will knock people's socks
+off.  Too, this is a whole different type of show.  Personally, I'm
+applauding JMS for taking risks.  Not all of them succeed but that's the
+nature of risks, isn't it?
+
+Sue>>
+
+To pick a nit, the only "you" that said the season was 'shite' because of the
+bad eps is Cronan.  Others, myself included, have expressed concern/criticism
+about the content of some of the eps in S5 based on literary, technical, and
+artistic observations.  I don't think anyone besides Cronan has stated that
+they didn't like the season, merely that they were mildly disappointed that it
+did not seem to contain the same amount of attention to artistic detail that
+most of the rest of the series has.  NOONE has said anything about them not
+containing arc and therefore being bad.  If you examine the criticism/critiques
+in the light they were offered, perhaps you will see that it is because we DO
+care that we make them.  I personally LOVE B5 be it S1 or S5. I just know it
+might have been just a wee bit better, but the nature of producing  a series is
+enough of a challenge for even the best. Producing and writing is an
+increadibly herculean effort.  I have nothing but admiration for anyone who
+tries, and nearly religious awe for anyone who suceeds like JMS has. This fact
+does not blind me to minor flaws, however much I may admire JMS and his series.
+
+Alisane the InSane
+
+
+

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+Re: Good Schedule News (14 May 1998)
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Re: Good Schedule News

+14 May 1998
John W Kennedy <jwkenne@ibm.net> writes:
+> Bob MacAdu wrote:
+> > 
+> > Jms at B5 wrote:
+> > >
+> > > TNT has been listening.
+> > >
+> > 
+> > To what? The bitter hostility of the fans - ie the people they lied to
+> > when they said they *cared* about this show and that they would run all
+> > 22 episodes of S5 without a break? Hardly.
+> 
+> They never said that.  JMS said once that someone from TNT said that
+> they hoped they could do that.  Somehow that little story has expanded
+> into an oath sworn on the True Cross by Ted Turner himself.
+
+Actually, what JMS said was:
+"The plan for now is to air one new S5 ep per week every week for 22 weeks."
+
+(found in DejaNews, posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated on 1997/07/02.)
+
+And, what he said about the NBA finals was: "[TNT] came back to us
+with the notion that we would continue new episodes until hitting
+#100, break for the NBA games, then come back (starting with another
+possible half-hour special) afterward at the same time to finish the
+season."
+
+(found in DejaNews, posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info on
+1998/01/23 as part of message "JMS CIS Digest: 22-Jan-98 11:46 through
+23-Jan-98 12:41 (19 msgs)"
+
+So, my problem is this: 
+
+First we're told we'll get 22 episodes in a row.
+
+Next we're told that there will be a break for the NBA games and then
+we'll get the rest of the season.
+
+Now we're told that, after the break for the NBA games we'll get 4
+episodes, and then, at some time in the fall after all the other
+series have started their new seasons, we'll get the last 5 episodes.
+
+Where does it end? I think the series has suffered a lot from this
+bizarre practice of saving the last 5 episodes for the next
+season. Those episodes don't feel like part of any season because so
+much time has gone by since you last saw new episodes. Why does it
+keep happening? I can't think of any other series that does this.
+
+Frankly, I hate what all series are doing these days (showing 4
+episodes, then repeating them, then showing 3, then repeating them,
+etc.) I'd love it if everyone went back to the system of showing all
+the new episodes, then repeating them once, then showing summer
+replacements. It was a lot easier to keep track of things.
+
+--Adina
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Attn. JMS.  I quoted you in a sermon. (5 May 1998)
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Re: Attn. JMS.  I quoted you in a sermon.

+5 May 1998
Very cool....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+A call for peace (14 May 1998)
+
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A call for peace

+14 May 1998
Am I alone in the impression that this newsgroup is rapidly devolving into 
+a war zone?    Flames, trolls, counter-flames, counter-trolls,
+counter-counter-flames....ad nauseum.    Both sides believe that the other
+side is responsible for all the ugliness.   "He started it, I'm just
+defending myself!"...makes me think of the Centauri and the Narn.   
+Does it matter anymore, who started it?   What matters is that it is
+destroying the newsgroup.    Might I suggest a truly innovative response
+to truly offensive posts:   ignore them!   You might find that silence is
+a _most_ effective last word.
+
+
+Maia
+*******************************************************************************
+	I will arise and go now, for always night and day
+	I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
+	While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavement gray,
+	I hear it in the deep heart's core.
+
+                           --From "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W.B.Yeats
+********************************************************************************
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity (14 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity

+14 May 1998
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+JMS-Sir-'thank you, thank you, thank you-please-no WCW et al in any of your shows!!!!   
+
+-- 
+Jon
+To reply, use my link below.
+Jon1856@bigfoot.com
+ICQ # 948660
+Let us go in: The fog is rising.
+Emily Dickinson's last words-1886
+Jms at B5 wrote in message <1998051008114100.EAA28227@ladder03.news.aol.com>...
+>> To make the experience of viewing TNT programming
+>>less painful for your fans, have you considered writing some
+>>storylines for TNT Monday Nitro?  TKO was considered a less-
+>>successful episode -- could you "redeem" yourself here?
+>
+>>The wrestler Sting appears to be a Crow knock-off.  Are you open to the
+>>possibility of professional wrestlers dressing as Narns or Minbari?
+>>How about the Nitro Fly Girls dressed as Centauri slaves?  I think
+>>someone wrestling in a Vorlon encounter suit would be interesting.
+>>
+>>
+>
+>So...have the drugs worn off, or are they just kicking in...?
+>
+> jms
+>
+>(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+>B5 Official Fan Club at:
+>http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+

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+Re: Harlan Ellison's input to B5 (10 May 1998)
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Re: Harlan Ellison's input to B5

+10 May 1998
In <6j3ape$4n6$1@news7.ispnews.com> xocxoc <paul@xocxoc.nu> wrote:
+[. . .]
+: I do not know if this story was written before or after  Ellison
+: started working on B5, but the concepts of telepathic love making, brain
+: scans, brain wipes, and telepathic background noise are all very similar to
+: B5
+
+These are all old tropes in science fiction, going back past THE
+DEMOLISHED MAN, past SLAN.  
+
+
+
+-- 
+-- 
+Copyright 1998 by Gary Farber; Web Researcher; Nonfiction Writer, 
+Fiction and Nonfiction Editor; gfarber@panix.com; B'klyn, NYC, US
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+SF Cruise Officially Off (11 May 1998)
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SF Cruise Officially Off

+11 May 1998
Dear Friends-
+
+Sadly I have to inform you that the decision has been made to call off the
+Sci-Fi Sea Cruise for 1998.  So what happened?  The detailed cancellation
+announcement appears on the cruise web site (listed below), along with a fan
+survey that we hope you will respond to in order to help us decide how best to
+go about any rescheduling efforts for the future.
+
+Most sincerely- Dan Harris
+
+************************************************************************
+WhoCruiser's Personal Home Page: http://members.aol.com/WhoCruiser
+
+Read about The Sci-Fi Sea Cruise at: http://members.aol.com/SFCruise
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+Re: JMS: Year 5: To Arc or Not to Arc? (6 May 1998)
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Re: JMS: Year 5: To Arc or Not to Arc?

+6 May 1998
This was always a five year story.  All I did was move 4 episodes out of season
+5 into season 4 so we could close up the Earth Civil War story and provide
+closure to that part of it if there wasn't a season 5, isolating what was to be
+in 5 a bit.
+
+Once we got the go ahead for S5, I knew that this might be my last chance to
+experiment without anyone looking over my shoulder, in case Crusade didn't go
+and I ended up back at one of the networks (where intrusion and formula is the
+key).  I wanted to do off-format shows like The Long Night of Londo Mollari,
+and The Corps is Mother, and A View from the Gallery.  
+
+The ony way a writer learns is to try new things, and take the parts that work
+and add them to his toolbox.  I saw here some opportunities to experiment, to
+try new things, to mess with the format...to change the show, and the show is
+ABOUT change.  So I did so, and I'd do it again.
+
+There's always ALWAYS been a lull between major arcs in the show.  Always.  You
+need it in particular when you go to a daily strip syndication situation, for
+pacing.  The problem is that on the one hand you have a lot of adrenaline
+junkies who think that unless there's a whole lot of stuff blowing up nothing's
+happening, and those who think that unless they know in advance that this is an
+arc episode, it's not an arc episode...unless you telegraph it literally and
+hugely they dismiss it.  
+
+These are the same yahoos who were saying in year 1 that there was no arc at
+all, kept saying it right up until Signs and Portents, when finally I whacked
+them hard enough that even they could see it...and then, on the reruns on TNT,
+are now saying that the pieces were all there from the very, very start, they
+just didn't see them before.  
+
+And they're falling for the same thing again.  
+
+Without what's going on in the first half of the season, the major stuff that
+happens in the second half of the season won't matter, wouldn't play as well,
+and wouldn't have the same impact.  They are part and parcel.  This was what I
+wanted to do with the fifth season, this is precisely what I worked out, and
+once again it has to do with process, and change, and how one new set of events
+rises out of the ashes of the last one.
+
+So basically, my reply to the hysterics and the whiners is this: when this
+season is over, and you see how it all lays out...then we'll talk.  To say it
+ain't there before you know what's there, before you see the connections, is
+just plain stupid, and if they can complain to me about no arc, I can complain
+about their shortsightedness.
+
+Frankly, the remaining episodes of this season represent some of the very best
+work we've ever done, maybe even the best work we've done, but they wouldn't
+have NEARLY the impact they will have if we hadn't done what was done in the
+first half of this season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: ATTN JMS: Time Warners Synchronicity

+11 May 1998
On 10 May 1998 14:35:02 -0600, jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:
+
+>> To make the experience of viewing TNT programming
+>>less painful for your fans, have you considered writing some
+>>storylines for TNT Monday Nitro?  TKO was considered a less-
+>>successful episode -- could you "redeem" yourself here?
+>
+>>The wrestler Sting appears to be a Crow knock-off.  Are you open to the
+>>possibility of professional wrestlers dressing as Narns or Minbari?
+>>How about the Nitro Fly Girls dressed as Centauri slaves?  I think
+>>someone wrestling in a Vorlon encounter suit would be interesting.
+>>
+>>
+>
+>So...have the drugs worn off, or are they just kicking in...?
+>
+
+Whatever, the Narn Chapter of the Betty Ford Recovery Center stands
+ready to help in his detoxification.  
+
+Only they use the Wood, not Gold, Cure to drive out the toxins...
+--
+*Begin Subliminal Message*
+*You will use only virgin paper.
+*You will find uses for whale blubber.
+*You will drive large, gas-guzzling cars.
+*You will never, ever, recycle.
+*End Subliminal Message*
+
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+11 May 1998
And did you happen to catch this weeks DS9 episode?  Well o.k. they did kill off
+all
+but one of their crew, so they are redeemed in that sense.
+
+As a kid from the 80's (I do find it troubling actually considering that there is
+an
+entire generation that has no conception of the implications of that fact.  Truly
+a frightening time to grow up, of course this younger generation will probably
+have
+it tougher, what with power rangers, barney, spice girls, hanson and the rest
+of their ilk, yargh) I watched much of the japanimation that made it through to
+american TV.  At this time, those programs became the definition of popular
+Sci-Fi.  These shows stuck to a specific formula for generating their characters.
+(Dashing hero, Rouge/Smuggler, Princess, Big Guy)  As a part of this formula
+there was always a kid, usually he wore glasses and was some sort of prodigy,
+typically the kid would have some a robot as a companion, sometimes there
+would be some furry alien pet or mouse involved.
+
+    "Speed Racer, the Mach 5 vs. Racer X showed us the way."
+
+No, after living through all that, you're going to have to do a lot better than
+denial to
+convince me that B5 hasn't challenged a genuine stigma attached to SF.  It may
+not seem contemporary, but it's still fresh in my mind.
+
+
+
+Interesting and his dog Spot, what was your favorite Force Five story?
+
+
+Jms at B5 wrote in message <1998051008343200.EAA03335@ladder01.news.aol.com>...
+>>Occurs to me that I can't think of a current scifi show that does. Nope.
+>>Thinking about no scifi show currently in production has "cute kids and
+>>robts as regulars." It's pretty wierd that JMS empahsizes this when it is
+>>true of every show on the air. Even the ones that are worse than B5 has ever
+>>been.
+>
+>Sisko's kid son in Deep Space Nine, and the Ferengi kid in the same series.
+>
+>That's two kids in the same show.
+>
+>Maybe the problem is not in the proposition as advanced, but rather in your
+>thinking.
+>
+> jms
+>
+>(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+>B5 Official Fan Club at:
+>http://www.thestation.com
+
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+11 May 1998
Great Maker,
+I am a loyal B5 fan, having watched from the very beginning. A work the other day 
+I was listening to the ABC new the Item they were talking about the US envoy being sent to the Middle East trying to finalize a peace agreement.  They said that this agreement was "The Last Best Hope For Peace".  Babylon 5 is affecting the language of the world much like Star Trek has.  Others might have heard and reported it to you already, but just in case no one has I though you would like to hear about it.   
+
+I love the show, your writing, an also appreciate your diligence in keeping B5 a top quality show.  I really enjoyed "The inside B5" show where we finally got to see your face, love the beard.  We have something beside B5 in common, I love watching Dennis Miller Live.  His rants come pretty close to the truth (IMHO) most of the times.  I don't miss a show if I can help it.  Malia
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+Re: JMS Convention Schedule ATTN:JMS (9 May 1998)
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Re: JMS Convention Schedule ATTN:JMS

+9 May 1998
No, I'm still planning to attend the Calgary convention.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: status of  the non-Babylon work (15 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: status of  the non-Babylon work

+15 May 1998
>It's been a while since you've said anything about it, but are you going to 
+>get the time (with Crusade approved) to finish that other novel you were 
+>talking about?
+>
+>
+
+I'm working and have been working on a number of other, non-B5 projects (such
+as the short story that just came out in a mystery anthology), but they're all
+long-term projects that proceed at a page or two a day, as I have time for
+them.  There's a novel, a short story collection, a play, other stuff...but the
+show has to come first, so it'll be a while before anything happens to them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Intersections - Is there truth? (15 May 1998)
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Re: Intersections - Is there truth?

+15 May 1998
One way or another, it's always about truth.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+B5 Fan Club Addition (15 May 1998)
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+15 May 1998
As the fan club has expanded and been reworked, we've worked to play catch-up
+on orders, improve the site, and increase the numbers and quality of in-house
+products.  To that end, we've just brought on someone who will run the thing
+full time, instead of all of us pitching in part-time.  
+
+The new addition is Julie Walker, previously head of the MST3K fan club. 
+Knowing both the fan area and the environment, she should be a huge help in
+getting us to the next level.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: JMS, Your Voice from the Past (15 May 1998)
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Re: JMS, Your Voice from the Past

+15 May 1998
Thank you; and for me, it's enough just to be *mentioned* in the same message
+with Shakespeare.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+15 May 1998
>Just wondering, what kind of background, schooling, experience and
+>such is normally needed to fall into this line of work?  Any idea?  It's easy
+>to
+>guess what kind of background a secretary, doctor, lawyer, etc. needs - I
+>just am
+>curious about this kind of work as a profession
+
+It's an odd mix...one has to have a knowledge of the fans that is based on real
+experience, but not be a "fanboy" (if I can use that term) where it can become
+about self-aggrandizement...you have to want to serve the needs of the fans,
+and the company.  Also you have to be a business manager, able to pull together
+a real, honest to god company and expand it.  Sort of a fan technomage.  That
+she had been involved with a fan club based on a TV series, and made it into a
+going concern, was crucial to her selection.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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Re: ATTN: JMS Season 6 B5?

+15 May 1998
No, TNT has never announced there was going to be a sixth season; they have
+acceded to my wishes on this.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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Re: B 5 thoughts

+15 May 1998
Thanks...for me, it's been a covenant with the fans, to keep my promises when
+made.  I've been on the other end of broken promises by guys promising the
+moon, the stars and the sky, and don't want to do it to fans in return.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+17 May 1998
+>Um, what happens to Sandy Bruckner? She was working with the Fan Club.
+
+Nothing.  Sandy was never involved with the business operations of the fan club
+on a day-to-day managerial level.  Sandy's work for the club continues, in the
+same areas as always: cons, thestation.com and Universe Today/Headline News.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Harlan Ellison vs Frank Sinatra encounter? (17 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Harlan Ellison vs Frank Sinatra encounter?

+17 May 1998
+Yeah, I've heard it, but the details are fuzzy, and fairly elaborate, so it's
+best for me not even to try and recount them.
+
+As for the address to use for me...the B5 mail drop is fine, though soon I'll
+be shunting all that over to the main B5 fan mail address.  For now, send it to
+my attention, c/o Babylon 5, 14431 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 260, Sherman Oaks,
+CA 91423.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  "Babylon" by A.G. Stephens (17 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  "Babylon" by A.G. Stephens

+17 May 1998
+Never came across that one before...how totally, massively cool.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Claudia Confirms She Quit (9 May 1998)
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Claudia Confirms She Quit

+9 May 1998
To those folks who have been ragging on me when I said that Claudia was the one
+who quit the show, that she was NOT fired, and calling into question my honesty
+and my forthrightness...I point you toward the Summer issue of Sci Fi Invasion,
+containing an interview with Claudia wherein she confirms, point blank, without
+equivocation, that she quit the show.  
+
+I would hope these same individuals would now have the spine to apologize, but
+I very much doubt it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+18 May 1998
Thanks...the whole process of making this show has meant a great deal to me,
+and I suspect it will continue to be a major part of my life for years to come.
+ Sad and triumphant does kinda cover it, doesn't it?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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Re: Claudia Confirms She Quit

+18 May 1998
But see, this is where I lose all respect for this kind of discussion.  Just
+about every time we introduce a new character, some folks say he or she is
+wooden...then, later, this is a good character and THAT character is wooden.
+
+But then there's that word, which is the core of it for me.  These days,
+over-acting is taken as acting...acting which has any kind of subtlety or
+reality is termed "wooden" when it's simply not chewing up all the scenery in a
+room.
+
+On a strictly technical basis, my personal feeling is that Tracy is a better
+performer than Claudia; that's a non-biased appraisal, said in the same way
+that I can say that Andreas on a strictly technical basis is a better performer
+than Stephen...though I'd rather not use such words as "better," which gets
+into subjective appraisals, when some things -- extent of training, skills one
+brings to the job -- can be more objectively explored.
+
+Bottom line...Ivanova was a yeller; Lochley is a thinker.  They are two
+different characters.  You can't look at Lochley and expect her to be the same
+character or act like Ivanova.  That would be an insult to both the character,
+the actor and the audience.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Sequel theories/Pros & Cons (18 May 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sequel theories/Pros & Cons

+18 May 1998
I already answered this in the course of my initial reply, by putting it into
+the context of what was the situation before, and what is different now.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+jms/jc TV Guide Online Tuesday (19 May 1998)
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jms/jc TV Guide Online Tuesday

+19 May 1998
+John Copeland and I will be doing a chat on the TV Guide Online site tomorrow
+at 7:00 p.m. Pacific, 10:00 p.m. Eastern.  Just FYI.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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Re: Arc of JMS

+19 May 1998
+Let's play a game for a moment.  Let's say there are 30 people out there who
+don't like you.  For whatever reason.  They don't like your work, your face,
+whatever.  30 people out of a much larger universe of people.
+
+Now, those 30 people go online, where you hang out, and they leave dozens --
+literally dozens -- of messages attacking you, every day.  They put out
+absolute and downright lies, total fabrications...they cite contracts that
+don't exist, they put out the word that you've had a heart attack just so the
+switchboards at your office get flooded and people get upset, they send you
+trojan horses and viruses, and impugn your ability, your credibility, your
+honesty, your relationships with your co-workers.
+
+And they do this day after day, week after week, month after month...for six
+years.  Unflaggingly, untiringly, just one nonstop series of attacks.  Yeah,
+it's 30 people out ofa much larger universe, but over time, even a whole human
+being can be eaten by ants.  They have an impact substantially greater than
+their numbers or real influence would warrant.
+
+And you cannot hit them, you cannot strike back (it's okay for THEM to say
+whatever they want about you, but if you do it back somehow that's wrong), so
+your hands are tied unless you want to spend several hundred thousand dollars
+suing them (which mind you, you're not entirely ruling out), all you can do is
+take it, and take it, and take it.
+
+And then one of these jokers will come up with "Well, if you can't stand the
+heat..." and you vow you will make them eat their lower molars.  It's not heat,
+it's pathology.  It's netstalking.  It's a genuine mental aberration, a
+sickness, an obsession...these are the cyber equivilents of those who stab
+Theresa Saldana, or shoot John Lennon...the person who threw a cup of warm
+vomit in the face of an SF writer at a convention, the person who fills in fake
+magazine subscriptions to another SF writer, or stakes out their house, or eggs
+their house...only the weapon of choice varies.  Here it is the computer, the
+lie, the net.
+
+There's nothing wrong with criticism, I've said it a thousand times, I don't
+care if someone's opinion is positive or negative.  That has nothing to do with
+obsessive, destructive personalities...who use that smoke screen to divert
+discussion away from the fact that they're just plain nuts...and because there
+are little or no safeguards on the net, it drives away civility, it drives away
+real discussion, it dries away those who are tired of being attacked for daring
+to express a positive opinion about something...and in the end, it drives away
+people like me.  I know too many producers, directors and actors who just won't
+go on the nets because they don't need the grief that comes from the genuinely
+disturbed  personalities who hang out waiting to jump on them.  Just because
+someone can buy a computer and plug it into the wall doesn't mean that they
+themselves are wired up right.
+
+It's these types of individuals who are the main reason that I will be pulling
+back from the nets after B5 is over.  Had I not promised to stay here for the
+duration of B5, such that I do not make false promises, I would have been out
+of here long, long ago.  
+
+When people talk about taking better care on these newsgroups to keep out the
+loonies, the Free Speech issue comes up.  But what about the free speech of
+those who are, over time, intimidated and libeled and endlessly attacked by the
+fanatical few, derided and abused until they finally decide that it just ain't
+worth their time anymore to put up with the grief?  What about their free
+speech?  If an area is rendered toxic by a small handful of users...who
+benefits?  Where is the freedom to express oneself?
+
+I've seen one person come into a group, and leave vicious attacks to just about
+everyone in the group, and then to everyone who defended everyone in the group,
+until it's all just one huge brawl, with the abuser at the center of it,
+*glorying* in all the trouble he's caused, because now suddenly it's all about
+him...it's all how he did this, and he said that, and how dare he this, and it
+gives them a sense of importance.  They batten on it, they feed on it, and do
+all they can to make it worse.
+
+If you were standing in the street, and someone walked up to you discheveled,
+with madness in his eyes, clearly deranged, and began shouting at you two
+inches from your face, would you stand there and say, "No, it's okay, it's his
+free speech."  No, you would walk away, or help someone who was being assaulted
+verbally by this person.  (And before somebody says "it's just words," the
+Supreme Court and every court in the land has found that words have power to
+hurt, to defame, to abuse, and to incite.)
+
+Thing is, on the net, you can't see these twists for who and what they are. 
+Which is how they manage to get by.
+
+So yes, to the point of your message...they have taken a toll on me over these
+many years, to the point where I will be moving a bit off-net when B5 is done. 
+And I don't much like it; but there really isn't much choice.  Sure, I could
+keep on going toe-to-toe with them for the *next* five years, day in and day
+out...but to what end?  For what purpose?  To explain myself to them?  They
+have no interest in explanations.  If you counterattack, you just feed them; if
+you ignore them, they take it as permission to continue doing so, and others
+take it as implicit endorsement of what they said.  
+
+This group was founded not to be a criticism free group, but mainly to be a nut
+free group.  It has largely, though not consistently, succeeded at that.  Even
+so, stuff slips in under the radar nets that would never be allowed to stand in
+a paying system, which can provide some measure of security against the more
+serious brain-damage cases.  Point being that until and unless the newsgroups
+can find ways to deal NOT with critical posts, but with the genuinely, truly
+disturbed people who are attracted by certain forms of entertainment, it's
+always going to be a hostile place for people like me to enter.  So you're not
+going to get many folks who're willing to put up with it.  Fewer people to
+express opinions, or offer facts.  Which again seems rather contrary to the
+goal.
+
+Which, in some ways, is what the netstalkers want.  What matters to them most
+is their own opinion, and their own importance.  Neil Gaiman, in conversation,
+once rightly pointed out that these are the same folks who, at his signings,
+will position themselves next to the autograph table, and begin expounding
+their opinions as loudly as they can, to no one in particular, just to hear the
+sound of their own voice, and to make sure everyone else hears them.
+
+And there is one crime which they will never forgive: if you come at them with
+a fact that contradicts their opinion.  If they believe that everyone in
+Hollywood is a certain way, then they will do all they can to prove this of
+you, whether it's true or not, because they can't tolerate any other
+possibility.  Contradict them, and they will go after you forever and chase you
+away, because they don't want anything interfering with their view of the
+world.
+
+Free speech is a great concept.  I make my living at it.  But free speech is
+only possible with *accountability.*  If someone publishes an article that is
+defamatory, or abusive, you can go after them in court, and pursue legal
+penalities.  The nature of the net makes that far more difficult.  So there is
+no accountability: no peer pressure, no ostracism, no penalties...and thus, no
+free speech.  There is nothing in the constitution that guarantees that you can
+say anything you want about anyone you want, without ever fearing for the
+consequences if you're wrong, or malicious, or abusive, or destructive.  
+
+The net also allows people to fairly well conceal their identities, and with
+anonymity you further lose accountability...you can say anydamnthing you want,
+and they can't track you down,or at least it becomes massively difficult, and
+more difficult still to prove in court.  And so it goes on.
+
+Which is why, in the end, it will have to go on with me in a vastly reduced
+capacity.  The difference between me and them is that my name is on everything
+I write; I stand behind everything I write.  If I *ever* put out a provable lie
+-- and all lies are provable sooner or later -- it would come back to haunt me.
+ So I have to be honest.  They do not.  And you can't exist in a situation
+where it's not a level playing field, where both sides aren't playing by the
+same rules.
+
+And frankly, what would be the point?  Twenty years from now, who in hell is
+going to care what five or six guys in a usenet group said to each other in
+bagging on the show or myself?  The show is the show is the show; nothing they
+say can ever change that.  So why put up with it?  Some will say, "Just ignore
+them."  But you can't.  It doesn't work that way.  And that's the *problem*. 
+Too much gets ignored, and they don't go away, they only get louder.
+
+So all of this is what weighs on me every time I log on; and, I would suggest,
+weighs on more than a few users as well, given the multitude of emails I get
+that begin, "I hate to bother you in private mail, but I'm tired of being
+attacked every time I say in public that I like B5, so..."
+
+I guess you could say this is all about evolution and change, as you note.  I
+suppose you could even point to my messages, and note the changes there,
+wrought by five years of being dogged by the pathologically unstable.  It takes
+a toll, I won't lie.
+
+But at the end of the day, it ain't evolution and change.  It's just the usual
+bad apples messing up the barrel for everybody else.
+
+See, some things *never* change.
+
+And some people never, ever evolve.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Home Video question (19 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Home Video question

+19 May 1998
+>I think I saw in one of your
+>digests that they're may be a widescreen/letterbox version.  Is this
+>true?  and if so why would a show designed for television use movie
+>screen sizes?
+>
+>
+We've tried to stay ahead of the technology curve where possible.  So all of B5
+except for the pilot was filmed widescreen, and cropped for regular current TV
+aspect ratios.  Why?  We just think like that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn. JMS: Stephen Furst. (19 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn. JMS: Stephen Furst.

+19 May 1998
+Your information is not correct: Stephen Furst has not been signed to Crusade;
+there are no current plans to have him as a regular character, though we do
+hope to have him as an occasional guest star, and possibly to direct some
+episodes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: The answers to the questions. (19 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: The answers to the questions.

+19 May 1998
+There is no single answer; we each have to find our own.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Where's Vir? (19 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Where's Vir?

+19 May 1998
He's around...you'll see him quite a bit more in the new episodes to come.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Arc of JMS (19 May 1998)
+
+
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+
Re: Arc of JMS

+19 May 1998
>I want to clarify something from my earlier post, and the reply from
+>JMS.
+>
+>It was not intended as an attack that the man has changed over time in
+>his public responses on the net.  It was an observation that the tone of
+>his posts has changed, nothing more.
+
+I never took it as anything else.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting (10 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Questions about Crusade Casting

+10 May 1998
Though nothing has been set yet about Crusade, I would expect at least guest
+appearances by some or many of our previous B5 cast here and there.
+
+>P.S. About Garibaldi...havent you had enough fun with him? 
+
+Not by half.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS... B5 Fan Club (20 May 1998)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS... B5 Fan Club

+20 May 1998
Yeah, I'll definitely try to stop by there when I can, now that we've pretty
+much overcome the software glitches, which kinda kept me away for a bit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Sequel theories/Pros & Cons (20 May 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sequel theories/Pros & Cons

+20 May 1998
>This reminds me of the response given during Prime Minister's Question Time:
+>I
+>refer the right honourable gentleman (or woman) to the response I gave some
+>moments before.
+>
+>A very civilized response.
+
+Which is about where the civilized part ends...having watched a fair amount of
+Prime Minister's Question Time on CSPAN, I have to say it beats professional
+wrestling any day of the week.
+
+I understand only about half of what's under discussion, but it's pretty damned
+entertaining nonetheless.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS - Babylon 5 Wars and Babylon Project (20 May 1998)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS - Babylon 5 Wars and Babylon Project

+20 May 1998
One of the things we've begun doing is to start coordinating more closely all
+the licensees, and there are going to have to be some revisions in the game
+books to bring them into line with the overall story, and other licensees.  We
+just recently brought on a reference editor whose job it is to catalog every
+bit of information between licensees, and between B5 and the licensees, and
+start making it as canonical and consistent as possible.  It's a hideous job,
+but we're determined to do it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: The Death of Civility (20 May 1998)
+
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+
Re: The Death of Civility

+20 May 1998
>Here's a novel idea.  Once you've identified the people you consider
+>trolls, why not just killfile them and save yourself the aggravation?
+>The same principle applies here as it does out there you know.  If you
+>don't like what some people have to say, ignore them. 
+> I'm not willing to infringe on the rights of
+>others to freely express themselves just to protect him from the
+>verbal barbs and personal slights that we all endure on a daily basis.
+>Just remember,  there's always that killfile option. 
+
+Okay, Morgana, let's try an experiment.
+
+Let's say that somebody logging on under a pseudonym posts a message,
+identifying you by your true and complete name, and says that you have a
+criminal record for child molestation.  Since you have killfiled that person,
+that information zips on out there, unchallenged, until it gains common
+currency...and begins to come back at you from other sources.
+
+So by your lights, that's okay?  It wouldn't bother you in the least?  That's a
+good thing?
+
+It's one thing to killfile somebody because you don't care about their
+comments, their opinions...but what these people tend to have their opinions
+about...is me: personally, creatively, even legally.  
+
+And the scenario I posted a second ago, incidentally, is a valid one.  I have
+had people impersonating me on pedophile areas, another charged me with murder
+on another national system; yet another briefly suggested that I should be
+murdered.
+
+It's real easy when it's just a subject being discussed; but when it's you, by
+name, it ain't so easy, Morgana.  
+
+So I suspect that if the above scenario took place, you would not be quite so
+sanguine about it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+Re: Att JMS, please (20 May 1998)
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Re: Att JMS, please

+20 May 1998
>One, this week's _Zocalo_ quotes you as saying that the last bit of work
+>was done on B5 the Series as of May 15. 
+>
+>Congratulations! and thank you again for being living proof that a person
+>with a plan *can* beat the system, if they are willing to make the
+>committment and the sacrifices
+
+Thanks...it's been tough, but worth it.
+
+>n a recent post, you
+>mentioned that Usenet tolerates pathological behavior which the "paying
+>services" are less likely to put up with. 
+>
+>Does this mean that you'll be more active on the private nets than this
+>public forum, although in a reduced amount in all places, due to time
+>constraints?
+
+Dunno...haven't really thought that far ahead yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: DVD required for PC98 Standard (20 May 1998)
+
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+
Re: DVD required for PC98 Standard

+20 May 1998
Actually, I have a DVD drive in my new system, from Dell, and I have to say
+it's maximum coolness.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+ANOTHER poll...? (20 May 1998)
+
+
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+
ANOTHER poll...?

+20 May 1998
This one's cool...apparently ABC News is holding a poll for what the new Space
+Station should be named, and Babylon is holding at position #4.  
+
+The url for the poll is:
+
+http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/spacestation_name980510.html
+
+This could be funny....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN Jms: This still true (20 May 1998)
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+
Re: ATTN Jms: This still true

+20 May 1998
>Are we being whammed and not even knowing it?
+
+That's kind of what I've been saying for a bit...the whole Byron thing, for
+instance, ain't just a throwaway, ain't just there for what we saw.  It's a
+trigger for a series of things.
+
+But you'll see that soon enough.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: Att JMS, please (20 May 1998)
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Re: Att JMS, please

+20 May 1998
>One, this week's _Zocalo_ quotes you as saying that the last bit of work
+>was done on B5 the Series as of May 15. 
+>
+>Congratulations! and thank you again for being living proof that a person
+>with a plan *can* beat the system, if they are willing to make the
+>committment and the sacrifices
+
+Thanks...it's been tough, but worth it.
+
+>n a recent post, you
+>mentioned that Usenet tolerates pathological behavior which the "paying
+>services" are less likely to put up with. 
+>
+>Does this mean that you'll be more active on the private nets than this
+>public forum, although in a reduced amount in all places, due to time
+>constraints?
+
+Dunno...haven't really thought that far ahead yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Lochley? (1 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Lochley?

+1 Jun 1998
>Is it me, or have we not seen Captain Lochley for a while? Are we going
+>to see her more in these last seven episodes?
+
+Definitely.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: Darkness Ascending Spoilers (6 Jun 1998)
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Re: Darkness Ascending Spoilers

+6 Jun 1998
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+The amount of oxygen taken would have been very minimal, given the size of
+Lennier's ship (little more than coffin-sized), and the volume would be
+replaced by the carbon dioxide from Lennier's ship.  The hole would have been
+self-sealed by the Minbari fighter, which was designed to do this sort of thing
+in order to sneak past enemy lines.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: JMS: LodesTone President (6 Jun 1998)
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Re: JMS: LodesTone President

+6 Jun 1998
>Apparently, your 
+>online post has become their best advertisement. :)
+
+I live to serve.
+
+>During the course of the conversation, he shared with me that you are an 
+>extremely pleasant person,
+
+That's it, damn it, I'm suing.
+
+>and that thanks to your order, he himself is 
+>now a Babylon 5 fan!
+
+Well...okay, then maybe next time....
+
+>Oh, and one more thing, the president says he'd like to hear you scribe 
+>your own radio program.  So, what do you think of the idea?
+
+Love to.  I've been asked by the folks at Seeing Ear Theater at the SciFi
+channel to do some stuff, that's still in the discussion stages, though. 
+Beyond that, I'm always interested in doing radio drama.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Question (7 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Question

+7 Jun 1998
It's about half a mile long.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN. JMS - Columbia vs. Warner Video (7 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN. JMS - Columbia vs. Warner Video

+7 Jun 1998
Thing is...Columbia only had the rights to the first season, so the rest would
+*have* to come from WB...but the great thing is, the WB tapes are only $14.95
+per tape, 5 bucks less, and still for two episodes (and nifty covers).  And
+they will be released in order.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Episode Scripts (8 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Episode Scripts

+8 Jun 1998
This is one of those "we'll see" questions.
+
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Darkness Ascending ( *Spoilers* ) (8 Jun 1998)
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Re: Darkness Ascending ( *Spoilers* )

+8 Jun 1998
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+>It would be perfectly reasonable given his known personality for Sheridan
+>to have not assigned Lennier to the Centauri border for any number of
+>reasons, and not necessarily to "protect Delenn."  And if that *wasn't*
+>one of his reasons, he'd have her butt hand delivered with a singing
+>telegram to go with it.  But instead, her reasoning just happens to be
+>right.
+
+>Mind you, I love Delenn's character, but she should be right by reason
+>and not right by dramatic license.
+
+She's right because she's married to the guy and knows him inside and out,
+including how he thinks and why he does things.
+
+When you live with somebody like that, you can go out and buy a pair of shoes,
+and in the morning, complain that they're too tight...and never mention it
+again for the rest of the day...then in the evening you sigh, as you're taking
+them off, and he or she says, "Don't worry, we can always have them stretched."
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

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+Re: ATT: JMS: How is this done??? (9 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATT: JMS: How is this done???

+9 Jun 1998
Sometimes the video is done in advance, but most often on the show the person
+is within earshot, on a partial set, so they can interact live with the actor.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATT: JMS: Frustrated Fan Asks Merchandising Question (10 Jun 1998)
+
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Re: ATT: JMS: Frustrated Fan Asks Merchandising Question

+10 Jun 1998
Good point.  We should fix that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+from jms: spoiler junkie info wrong (10 Jun 1998)
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from jms: spoiler junkie info wrong

+10 Jun 1998
Invariably, there's wrong info out there, and I end up having to send out
+replies to ten zillion emails asking me about it.  
+
+The latest one: apparently the spoiler junkies page says that somebody named
+Paul Woodward has been cast as the captain on the new series, Crusade.
+
+We have not even *met* anyone named Paul Woodward, and we have not yet begun
+casting in earnest for the captain.  So this is completely untrue.
+
+Please be warned whenever you see stuff on some of these pages that there's a
+lot of speculation out there that gets passed around as being from "informed
+sources" and ninety percent of it is ka-ka.  Don't believe everything you read.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ##ATTN.: JMS In Re.: WB's 'Invasion America'##: (10 Jun 1998)
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Re: ##ATTN.: JMS In Re.: WB's 'Invasion America'##:

+10 Jun 1998
Haven't seen it, haven't had time.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: River of Souls (Movie #3) Question (1 Jun 1998)
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Re: River of Souls (Movie #3) Question

+1 Jun 1998
>I have a question that I was hoping someone could answer for me. I
+>was wondering where "River of Souls" takes place in the Season 5
+>storyline (i.e. between which episodes)? 
+
+It takes place six months into 2263.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn: JMS: Teaching B5 (10 Jun 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS: Teaching B5

+10 Jun 1998
As far as I know, academic use of the broadcasts is perfectly okay.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS:  Editing/directing/writing (12 Jun 1998)
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Re: JMS:  Editing/directing/writing

+12 Jun 1998
>I
+>would like to know how much of what we saw was due to his input.  Did
+>you write it specifically to be presented in this manner or was this
+>what he and the editor came up with?
+
+It's shot for shot what was in the script, but at the same time, a director
+must take that shot and make it live.  Goran did that admirably.  He kept the
+camera moving, framed his shots very nicely, got into the emotion of the scene,
+and worked very well with the editor; we only did a light dusting in the
+editing room.
+
+Since a number of folks have asked, here is the opening scene as written.  (I
+only have the first draft in my home computer, modifications were done in the
+office, which involved trimming some of this for time.)
+
+****************
+  
+FADE IN:
+
+EXT. BABYLON 5: A new shot, closer, emphasizing the darkness of the station in
+eclipse.
+
+INT. DELENN'S QUARTERS - BEDROOM
+
+Sheridan is in bed, alone as we will discover in a moment.  He rolls over,
+stirring, and we SHOOT PAST HIM to the doors, where we SEE a single flickering
+light through the translucent glass.  He sits up.
+
+INT. DELENN'S QUARTERS - FRONT ROOM
+
+REVERSING past Delenn to the bedroom doors.  She is seated on the floor, a
+single candle burning before her, the flame halfway down it, praying or
+meditating as the doors open and Sheridan stands in the opening.  His voice is
+quiet.
+
+			SHERIDAN		Delenn...?  Are you all right?
+
+She nods, distantly, not taking her eyes off the candle.
+
+			SHERIDAN		You should sleep.  It'll be morning 
+	soon.  You'll need all your strength 
+	for what's ahead.
+
+She nods again, but doesn't move.  He gives it a BEAT, knowing 
+she is in a place where he can never reach her, then goes back 
+into the bedroom, leaving the door open.  We PUSH IN SLOWLY on Delenn's face
+
+TIME-CUT - HER QUARTERS - LATER - ON THE CANDLE
+
+The fragile, guttering flame has now burned three-fourths of 
+the way down.  As we slowly PAN UP to Delenn's face, not having  moved in all
+this time, we become aware of the SOUND of the shower running.  She doesn't
+note it, until it stops.  Then 
+there's a BEAT and she looks up toward
+
+ANGLE - THE BEDROOM
+
+Still mainly dark, suggesting pre-dawn, mainly just the light 
+spilling from the bathroom entrance as Sheridan comes out in a 
+robe, toweling his hair.  His manner here is sober, almost 
+somber.  He's trying to keep this normal, but knows that this 
+is going to be a difficult and momentous day.  The more we can 
+set that tone here, the better.
+
+			SHERIDAN		It's...all yours.
+
+She nods, distantly.  WIDEN as he goes to the bed and sits.  He 
+pulls on one slipper, puts his foot down, and picks up the other 
+slipper...and just sort of stops.  He doesn't want to put it on.  
+He doesn't want this day to come.  He doesn't want to do what he 
+knows he's going to have to do.  The slipper just dangles from 
+his fingers, the strings cut. Delenn gets up, approaches and sits next to him,
+both with that faraway, haunted look.  She touches his back, and leans against 
+his shoulder for a moment, both taking comfort and strength in the momentary
+contact.  Then she gets up and moves into the bathroom, the robe sliding off
+her shoulders as she steps OS.
+  
+A BEAT, and Sheridan finds the wherewithal to put on the other 
+slipper...and sits there momentarily as we HEAR the VO SOUND of a GAVEL
+POUNDING, and the VO SOUND of the council, along with:
+			SHERIDAN (VO)		There comes a moment, in all of our 
+	lives, when we have to do something 
+	we'd rather not do.  When we know 
+	something we'd rather not know.  This 
+	is one such moment.
+
+He stands and moves OS.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Which "Gathering" from WHV? (12 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Which "Gathering" from WHV?

+12 Jun 1998
I don't know...I *suspect* it will be the original version, but I don't know
+that for a fact.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: AAMD,TA  Spoilers (12 Jun 1998)
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Re: AAMD,TA  Spoilers

+12 Jun 1998
>The one thing that is really bugging me though is; Isn't anybody on B5
+>wondering WHY the Centauri are doing this?  There really is no
+>rational explanation for them to be doing this.
+
+That question comes up bigtime in the very next episode.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn. JMS: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder - Producer's or (12 Jun 1998)
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Re: Attn. JMS: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder - Producer's or

+12 Jun 1998
>So....Director's Cut or Producer's Cut?
+
+There has never been anything BUT a producer's cut on the show.  John and I
+edit every episode after the director's cut is done, and that's what's aired.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Did Sakai become Minbari too? (14 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Did Sakai become Minbari too?

+14 Jun 1998
No, she didn't.  Which was part of the scandal that later came.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* ) (14 Jun 1998)
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Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )

+14 Jun 1998
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+>Yeah, I thought that was weak too.  A better method of establishing
+>the weapons as Centauri would have been by a thorough analysis of the
+>blast damage.
+
+That's what was said, in addition to the rest.  Reference was made to examining
+the damaged ships.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: and a bottle makes three (14 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: and a bottle makes three

+14 Jun 1998
>I am really enjoying the Cherry Poppin' Daddies and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
+>CDs you mentioned. Thanks for the heads up. 
+
+Not a prob.
+
+>In both I notice a major fascination with alcohol consumption, abuse and
+>its consequences the likes of which I haven't run into since the Gin
+>Blossoms debut. 
+>It lead me to wonder, in light of poor Mr. Garibaldi's current treatment
+>in your hands, exactly when did you start listening to this stuff?
+
+Unnecessary; there's a long history of that stuff in my family. 
+
+Which is why I stay far, far away from alcohol, drugs or ciggies; when you have
+addictive personalities in your family going back generations, it's generally a
+bad idea.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Regurgitation in S5 (14 Jun 1998)
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Re: Regurgitation in S5

+14 Jun 1998
Someone on the crew wondered aloud if this was a subconscious metaphor for me
+finally getting the last of the B5 story out of my system....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for never doing this! (15 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for never doing this!

+15 Jun 1998
Someone actually made that?
+
+Amazing....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn: JMS A Professor's Letter to JMS (forwarded) (2 Jun 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS A Professor's Letter to JMS (forwarded)

+2 Jun 1998
>At some point, I envision teaching a class in rhetorical
+>philosophy using B5 as the point of analysis.  I hope that is
+>something that would be acceptable to you as a use of your
+>universe--what a marvelous way to open up Plato, Aristotle, Cicero,
+>and Quintilian to new generations. 
+
+What, no Marcus Aurelius?  For shame.  We'll have to knock ten points off your
+grade for that one.
+
+Seriously, though...to the degree that the show can encourage discussion, and
+dialogue, and the free exchange of ideas that point to the history of
+literature and philosophy, I am a happy man.  By all means, if it's useful, use
+it.  (As I understand it, this spring there is a class nominally in the
+Philosophy of Babylon 5 at the University of Illinois at Urbana.)
+
+And thank you...not just for the kind words, but for the open mind that
+preceded them.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS:  Candle Metaphor in 'And All My Dreams ...' (15 Jun 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS:  Candle Metaphor in 'And All My Dreams ...'

+15 Jun 1998
Nicely deduced.  The problem is always in trying to work this stuff into
+dialogue without it sounding preachy or a big lump of exposition.  So all you
+can do is string it along, and hope folks notice.
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+
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+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: I think I just saw JMS on TV (15 Jun 1998)
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Re: I think I just saw JMS on TV

+15 Jun 1998
It repeats Thursday at 5:30 and 9:30 p.m.
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+Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* ) (16 Jun 1998)
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Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )

+16 Jun 1998
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+>Did the Centauri warships attack Centauri civilian ships as well as the ships
+>of other races?  Or were Centauri ships left alone (and was the Alliance
+>incredibly thick in not working out who was behind the raids?)
+
+It was stated in the episode that at least one Centauri low priority ship was
+attacked.
+
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+
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+Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* ) (16 Jun 1998)
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Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )

+16 Jun 1998
If some people are upset at the Centauri moon, that's a damned silly thing to
+be upset about.  Most moons are too small to have any real atmosphere, so
+there's nothing to keep meteors from hitting and causing craters rather than
+burning up on entry.  So you're going to have pockmarks.  We made it a point to
+have the patterns different than our own moon.  It's round because most
+planetary bodies *are*.  And the local sun has the same basic spectral
+qualities as Sol, so you're going to get similar bounce-back on the light.
+
+An equal amount of effort goes into making that moon or a more odd one.  But
+not everything has to be constantly different just to be different.  
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Season 5 - WOW (16 Jun 1998)
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Re: Season 5 - WOW

+16 Jun 1998
Actually, the S5 theme is a variation on the music in the second B5 soundtrack,
+the Voices of Authority track.
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+Thanks.
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Re: attn JMS: SD ComicCon

+16 Jun 1998
+I don't have an exact schedule; what I'm going to have to do is swoop down for
+the presentation, and come back the same day.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* ) (17 Jun 1998)
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Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )

+17 Jun 1998
No, what you're noting is just about right.
+
+I wanted this job to be something Sheridan grows into.  He's going to make
+mistakes; he's not trained for this kind of job, and errors are part of the
+learning process.  In Deconstruction it's noted that he said himself that the
+teep situation was the worst mistake of his entire career.  There were others.
+
+The first year of any new government is rocky at best; mistakes get made,
+sometimes huge ones.  What he will have to do is learn from them.  Even by the
+last few episodes, he has his act more together; moreso as the years pass.  In
+some ways, and this was something I was going for in "Asunder," he's been
+pulling back, trying to figure out what to do and in some ways, cutting against
+his best instincts to keep things together.  It's really after he blows at the
+end of "Asunder" that he begins to do what he should've done all along: go with
+his instincts, rather than second-guessing himself.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN:  JMS (17 Jun 1998)
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+17 Jun 1998
>My question to you is this:  If you (or anybody) had to do it all over again,
+>is there a way you could set up a contract so you would get what is rightly
+>yours?
+
+If I'd walked into the room with three or four hit series under my belt, I
+would've walked out with a considerably different deal.  As the deal currently
+stands...well, as you say, hell will be covered with frost before I see any
+profits, given the way such things are defined in a first-time series.  The
+definition on Crusade is a little better, but only a little.  
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+On the other hand...I find it very hard to get too upset about it, because the
+bottom line is I'm being paid to tell the kind of stories I'd have to tell
+anyway, for free.  Where else can you get a deal like that?
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS: Thirdspace note (17 Jun 1998)
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+17 Jun 1998
>The second movie from one of TV's most creative sci-fi series that is
+>far too complicated to explain but too good to miss, even if you don't
+>know the background.  
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+Now THAT'S comedy.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )

+17 Jun 1998
>Anyone see a 3? Somebody please tell me you see a 3......
+
+As you'll see in about 24 hours, really nothing could have been done to prevent
+this conflict; certain forces wanted it, and were going to have it, no matter
+what.  Awake or asleep, it would've been provoked somewhere, somehow.
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the recommendation (2 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the recommendation

+2 Jun 1998
>When did swing come back?  I must have been asleep or something...but
+>it's wonderful music and never fails to make me feel better if I'm down.
+
+I dunno...seems like the kids today call it "swank."  I first came across it
+with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, then Cherry Poppin' Daddies, now Big Bad Voodoo
+Daddy...there are any number of swing clubs opening up these days (we had the
+B5 wrap party at one of them here in LA)...I don't know what made it hit
+critical mass, but I'm glad it did.
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+What I like about some of these, like Cherry Poppin' Daddies, is that they
+apply the music of swing to some pretty raw-edged lyrics, which makes for a
+combination that is at once modern but familiar, edgy but reassuring.
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* ) (17 Jun 1998)
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Re: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder ( *Spoilers* )

+17 Jun 1998
Of course, everyone's assuming here that the awful state we find Centauri Prime
+in, in WWE, is caused entirely by war....
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: DS9 episode

+17 Jun 1998
Excuse me, but all I said was that I was amazed that the story, as described to
+me, got on.  I did not specifically condemn anything in the episode, and
+generally don't coment on DS9 stuff.  Someone mentioned it to me online and
+specifically asked for my reaction.  I was as brief as I could possibly be, one
+line, no more, no less.
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Re: attn JMS: SD ComicCon

+18 Jun 1998
I think it's going to be that Saturday, late morning/early afternoon.
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN: JMS:  writing and tears   (AAMDTA Spoilers) (18 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS:  writing and tears   (AAMDTA Spoilers)

+18 Jun 1998
+>A thoroughly impertinent question: do you ever cry when you write?
+>
+>	I'm curious because I occasionally start to cry when I am writing
+>poetry or fiction, though if I am deeply involved in the work I may not
+>even notice until later.  
+> I remember your saying once, I think on
+>this newsgroup, that if you do not move yourself, you will not move the
+>audience.     
+
+On occasion, yeah...I think you have to really feel that if you want to do it
+to someone else.  When I bumped off Kosh, there was a little of that...and
+there were some scenes in "Confessions and Lamentations" that did that, and
+definitely in "Sleeping in Light."
+
+Thing is, last night I pulled out the tapes for the last two episodes, "Objects
+at Rest" and "Sleeping in Light," and watched them back to back, and I was an
+absolute wreck afterward.  There are a couple of scenes in both of them that
+just put me away.  That's *good*, they should, they have to, but man...I was
+just gone.  
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+But strangest of all, the final credits sequence and what we did with them for
+SiL is also very deeply affecting...and I'm not entirely sure why, I think it's
+something operating at an almost subconscious level, about seeing certain
+images juxtaposed.  Darndest thing....
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: ATTN: Jms - MOFAS - A compliment

+19 Jun 1998
>How many other shoes have you got to drop on us?
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+A couple more shoes.
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+And a boot or two.
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Why did the Shadows need "Fresh bodies for their CPU's"????  (19 Jun 1998)
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+noted) is limited.  For the shadow vessels, you need a fast reaction,
+independent-thinking cpu of a higher order...also because a shadow vessel is a
+hell of a lot more advanced and complex than a Centauri cruiser.
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN  JMS:  Could you speak to TNT's lack of a Trailer for  (20 Jun 1998)
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+20 Jun 1998
+>It would be a big kindness to hear why TNT is not promoting Thirdspace
+>with the same vigor they did for B5 thus far. They haven't really
+>answered
+>the question
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+Usually you don't promote a show until a couple of weeks before it airs.  The
+promotion for ItB was also the promotion to launch the entire SERIES, which
+needed bigger lead time.  In TV, you rarely promote a standalone like
+Thirdspace more than a couple of weeks before airing.
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn: JMS - sorry - Clarification of "ruined summer" (21 Jun 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS - sorry - Clarification of "ruined summer"

+21 Jun 1998
I took it with humor, as it was clearly meant to be taken.
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+Re: AtTn JmS:  The Harlan Award (21 Jun 1998)
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Re: AtTn JmS:  The Harlan Award

+21 Jun 1998
>Tell us, for the sake of
+>future TV producers who may work with Harlan and the people who love them,
+>how did you do it?
+
+Simple.  Just respect what he brings to the table, and don't fuck with him.  In
+over a decade of calling Harlan a friend, I have never seen him go after
+anybody who didn't go after him first.
+
+>What I want to know is how much  of the quarter-million-book-library
+>mentioned in the same show Harlan has actually read.  Come to think of it,
+>I also want to know Harlan's reading speed, JMS's reading speed, and if
+>either of them can recommend an effective, reliable and reasonably priced
+>speed-reading course!
+
+I figure if somebody took time to get it right, you don't speed read past it.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: AttN jms: Where Are All the American Playwrights? (22 Jun 1998)
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Re: AttN jms: Where Are All the American Playwrights?

+22 Jun 1998
>Wasn't one of the original promises of PBS to bring back this type of
+>"alternate" programming to TV? They do have the occasional great
+>drama, but it seems to be wholly of British origins. Where are the
+>new Serlings or Chayefskys on the tube?
+
+Yeah, well, PBS seems to be dropping the ball, frankly, most notably with their
+decision not to do more Tales of the City, largely because of political
+concerns, leaving it to Showtime to take up the standard.
+
+>I hate to blame everything on American TV executives and their
+>perspectives (or lack thereof...). Would you mind sharing your
+>insider view?
+
+Main thing is the different time periods.  When TV first got going, they were
+frantic to legitimize the form, and drew in a lot of writers from radio drama
+and the stage.  (Actually, Serling came mainly from radio, not so much stage.) 
+So there was a concerted recruitment effort.  Also, one of the problems is that
+there's a bit of an onus attached to TeeVee in the Theater world, so a lot of
+folks who could do good work in TV don't come and play with us.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+from jms re: Norman Corwin (2 Jun 1998)
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from jms re: Norman Corwin

+2 Jun 1998
Every so often, Norman's name comes up here, and I get any number of emails
+asking about his work, and how to obtain it.  
+
+Norman Corwin is (and has always been) American's pre-eminent radio dramatist,
+as well as one hell of an essayist...he has written screenplays (such as the
+Oscar nominated Lust for Life), composed cantatas for the UN ("Yes, Speak Out,
+Yes"), was a contemporary and friend of Carl Sandburg and Edward R. Murrow (not
+to mention Humphrey Bogart and Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton), and his
+radio dramas run the gamut from important historical documents ("On a Note of
+Triumph" was commissioned to be broadcast on VE day by all three networks), to
+light fantasy/sf (from "The Reluctant Molecule" with none other than Groucho
+Marx and Vincent Price, to "The Curse of 589" starring William Shatner and Carl
+Reiner), to the biography of Miguel de Cervantes ("The Writer with the Lame
+Left Hand"), and his watershed collection, "Thirteen by Corwin."
+
+To give you some idea of the kind of actors who come out for a Corwin script,
+here are a few of the names who appear on his programs: Charles Kuralt, Pat
+Carroll, Franklin D. Roosevelt (yes, you read that right), Jimmy Stewart, Orson
+Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Marjorie Maim, Martin Landau, Jack Lemmon, Charles
+Durning, Ed Asner, Sammantha Eggar, Norman Lloyd, Frederic March, Robert
+Benchley, Henry Morgan, Richard Dysart, Jill Eikenberry, James Earl Jones, Fess
+Parker, Esther Rolle, and others, with music conducted by Bernard Herrmann and
+Leopold Stokowski among others.
+
+This is a writer who has inspired a generation of other writers, from Rod
+Serling to Ray Bradbury, Charles Kuralt, Studs Terkel, Norman Lear, Robert
+Altman, Stan Freberg, and somewhere far, far down the list...myself.
+
+Norman's work and his inspiration have been seminal for me as a writer, and as
+a person, though I'll never quite hit the same interstellar gulfs he leaves
+between his footsteps.  
+
+If you don't know his work...find out about it.  Let me give you a starting
+point:
+
+http://www.lodestone-media.com
+
+Here you can find the majority of his radio dramas, both from the heyday of the
+form, and more contemporary stuff, along with an excellent introductory program
+about Norman, as well as the actual scripts, which deserve the study of anyone
+who chooses to call himself a writer.  
+
+Norman is a *writer's writer*.  He's the sort we all point to and say, "That's
+what I'd like to be able to do someday."  
+
+I don't generally put up something that is as blatantly an advertisement as
+this.  But in this particular case, it's worth the attention of any B5 fan, as
+the core of the fire that set me in motion, inspires and informs much of the
+ethical content of Babylon 5.  He is not only my friend, he has been my mentor
+and my benchmark for nearly twenty years.
+
+If you're not sure what to get when you get to lodestone, I suggest the Charles
+Kuralt bio (featuring interviews with Terkel, Bradbury, Altman, Lear and
+Corwin) about "On a Note of Triumph," the actual broadcast of "Note" itself so
+you can hear the whole thing straight through, and "Thirteen by Corwin."  (John
+Copeland's personal favorite is "Fifty years after 14 August" commemmorating VJ
+day.)
+
+If you want only to go for the more modern stuff, then I'd suggest "We Hold
+These Truths," "The Writer with the Lame Left Hand," and for something truly
+unique, "No Love Lost," about a fictional meeting between Thomas Jefferson,
+Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
+
+Trust me on this one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Londo's "old" makeup (24 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Londo's "old" makeup

+24 Jun 1998
>It just struck me how *convincing* Londo looked 20 years into the future as
+>an
+>old man.  The makeup is startlingly believable, much more so than most other
+>"old" makeup I have ever seen
+
+>So what's the secret?  How were you and your crew able to pull off something
+>that no one else, with any size budget, was able to successfully accomplish?
+
+I think it comes from the makeup folk knowing every line in Peter's face from
+five years of working with him, and how to bring it out, something you don't
+often get in films.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Effects in MoFaS (24 Jun 1998)
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Re: Effects in MoFaS

+24 Jun 1998
The CGI is now being produced at 24 frame per second, starting about 517 or
+518, at a higher degree of resolution, nearer film-res.  We're doing 24 so it
+matches better with the live-action which is also shot at 24 fps.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Production quality = going down (5 Jun 1998)
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Re: Production quality = going down

+5 Jun 1998
>I have to say, Meditations did not impress me as being well shot, and
+>looking back I can see that as being characteristic of the season.  Boring
+>camera angles in recent episodes, the sets are much more plain than they
+>used to be, and most scenes are now just people standing around (no
+>action).
+
+I have to say this is one of those comments that just astonishes me.
+
+Some episodes have always been more action-oriented than others.  In order to
+move story along, you have to have dialogue scenes; the more complex the action
+you're trying to get across, the more you need to tell.
+
+Boring camera angles?  The director of "Darknes" was Mike Vejar, who is our
+most innovative director.  He did "In the Beginning," "The Face of the Enemy,"
+"Messages From Earth" and most of our really cool episodes.  He likes the
+close-up, it's where the good stuff happens.  He chose to direct the show in
+this style, what on earth does a stylistic decision have to do with production
+quality?
+
+"the sets are much more plain than they used to be."  How is this physically
+possible, since the sets we've been shooting on are the same ones we used
+before?  Nothing got removed or stripped out, they're *exactly* the same.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Prostitution on Babylon 5? (6 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Prostitution on Babylon 5?

+6 Jun 1998
I think it would be next to impossible to prevent prostitution in an
+environment such as this.  And in some cultures, it would not be a big thing at
+all, not illegal, and cultural behavior between members of the same species
+that is allowable within that society is generally allowed on B5 as well,
+provided that it does not affect anyone outside that species.
+
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+
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+Re: Darkness Ascending= Damn Amazing!  <Spoilers> (6 Jun 1998)
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Re: Darkness Ascending= Damn Amazing!  <Spoilers>

+6 Jun 1998
>Nice to see certain characters back in their old forms.
+>Delenn is not a lady to mess around with- even in an arguement.  She
+>didn't merely hand Johnny's butt back to him, she GIFTWRAPPED the
+>fragger, and put a pretty bow on it!  Nice verbal Judo, there. 
+
+That's one of my favorite scenes from that episode...she basically yanks his
+pants up over his head and ties them in a knot.  Someone trained in the
+religious caste can argue her way around just about anything and anyone.
+
+Minbari religious caste make Jesuits look like intellectual softies by
+comparison. 
+
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+
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+Re: ATT:JMS: FWD OF "HELP WANTED" (6 Jun 1998)
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Re: ATT:JMS: FWD OF "HELP WANTED"

+6 Jun 1998
Thank you for that; it was deeply moving, and I will make sure that this sees
+the light of day on the wall of stage B, where some posts are put up for the
+whole crew to see.
+
+My very best to you.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Why More Producers Aren't Here (3 Jul 1998)
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Why More Producers Aren't Here

+3 Jul 1998
Here's a small slice of life to explain why more producers and cast members
+aren't online.
+
+I kept getting emails (and public postings) from a fellow going by the handle
+of goodx6 here on AOL (goodx6@aol.com).  I have said before that I would rather
+that general plot questions (which these were) would be addressed in the public
+forums, but frankly, these were not questions that I really felt warranted
+answering because much of it had been covered.  So I didn't answer, and spent
+that time answering other questions.
+
+More of the same exact emails continued to come in.  I ignored them.  The
+person in question then *demanded* that I answer his emails and his public
+messages.  I explained that I did not *have* to answer any questions at all,
+and with limited time, tried to put my efforts and energies into questions we
+hadn't already covered.  He sent another very harrassing note, and I plinked
+him.
+
+So today, I found out I couldn't get email (and there were several important B5
+related emails that should have been here).  I found that I couldn't receive
+ANY email because I had received nearly 1,000 emails from the same account
+(masquerading under two different names, but sending identical emails) saying
+that I was a queer for not answering goodx6's questions.  (The handles were
+jesus4834 and TWare97181.)  Obviously goodx6 either asked this person to do
+this, since the conversation was originally carried out in email, or they are
+all the same person.
+
+The assumption here seems to be that I am *required* to respond to inquiries,
+and that if I don't, I'm entitled to be harrassed.  
+
+This is not the first time this has happened to me.  And this will probably not
+be the last.  It took me about 20 minutes to clear out my mailbox, deleting
+almost 1,000 harrassing emails by hand, another 10 minutes to send on the info
+to AOL's terms of service...and it shoved out all the online AOL email
+backfiles, some of which I use for reference.
+
+And this is the kind of thing that after a while makes one more convinced that
+pulling away down the road is exactly the right thing to do.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: White's Guide exclusive figure (12 Jul 1998)
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Re: White's Guide exclusive figure

+12 Jul 1998
The only figure I know is the one that's out at most any comics store, so I
+don't see how it's exclusive to them (and it looks like the regular one as
+well).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Not WS LD's- what happened? (12 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Not WS LD's- what happened?

+12 Jul 1998
>Havne't seen any explanation of why you had no pull in this, after
+>saying that you wanted to have WS LD's and DVD's.  We all thought your
+>merchandise pull was sufficient that you wouldn't have let these new
+>LD's go without the WS treatment.
+
+WB is one of those big companies where one branch often doesn't know what the
+other is doing.  No one told me about the LDs until I heard about it on the
+nets, because it never occured to anyone to mention it.  (I've since mentioned
+it to the folks at Image, so we'll see about the WS stuff.)  
+
+What you have to understand is that the video aspect of the show is not
+considered by contract a part of merchandising.  (I know, doesn't make any
+sense, but it's one more way of keeping money out of the hands of the writers
+involved.  Same with soundtracks, so I don't get a piece off either of those
+except for the WGA mandated royalty, which is more or less zero.)  
+
+As some note of how far off these things can be, a big full-page ad in Video
+Magazine this month for the VHS tapes mentions that the show  is now on TNT,
+instead of **UPN*** (it began on PTEN, which is WB, as opposed to UPN, which is
+Paramount).
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+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: ATTN JMS: Not WS LD's- what happened?

+12 Jul 1998
PS...just to be clear, btw, the show *is* available in widescreen *right now*,
+having worked with the WB high-tech boys to produce these versions over the
+last year for HDTV and foreign use.  I've seen a couple of the finished
+widescreen versions, and they're gorgeous.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Did you say... (12 Jul 1998)
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Re: Did you say...

+12 Jul 1998
>You were going to DragonCon because HE was going to be there? What be
+>your plans as of late on that con? I'm seriously looking into going
+>now....
+
+Nope, won't be there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS:RE: OTHERSYDE (14 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:RE: OTHERSYDE

+14 Jul 1998
Thanks, it's a good book.  "Demon Night" was a first novel, and therefore kinda
+rough in places.  "It's Getting Dark" has yet to be written.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: Way cool promo with JMS (14 Jul 1998)
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Re: Way cool promo with JMS

+14 Jul 1998
>And it had the added bonus
+>of actually seeing JMS talk about the movie.  Now I have a face to put with
+>the notes.
+
+Yeah, well, nothing's perfect....
+
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+
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+16 Jul 1998
Anybody can follow this movie and enjoy it; whether you've seen the show before
+or not.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn:  JMS (16 Jul 1998)
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Re: Attn:  JMS

+16 Jul 1998
>Do you watch your own shows after they are done?  If yes, (and I assume it is
+>yes), have you ever been able to watch the show with fresh eyes?
+
+I watch the episodes bunches of times; pieces during shooting in dailies, the
+directors cut (twice, once to just watch, again to make my notes), again when
+John and I do our producer's cut/edit, again when we do the audio spotting
+(sound EFX and music), again when we mix the episode, again on VHS to check how
+it sounds on a regular TV stereo, and again when it airs to check the
+transmission.  That's 7 times just to start.
+
+It takes me about a year or two to be able to really *see* the show,  to stop
+anticipating each line before I hear it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: ATT JMS    Re: Demon Night

+16 Jul 1998
Thanks...apparently, some dealers are selling the book(s) for a couple hundred
+bucks apiece, which I'm kind of chagrined about, wishing they were better
+books.
+
+Which is why the next one I write has got to be a good one, because a lot of
+folks will probably pick it up as an act of faith and a compliment to B5, and I
+don't want to disappoint them.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Thirdspace ( *Spoilers* ) (21 Jul 1998)
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Re: Thirdspace ( *Spoilers* )

+21 Jul 1998
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+>Was it just me or did that dream scene with Ivanova and Vir looking at
+>>the
+>>tower and the buildings around it look like something out of one of Wayne
+>>Barlowe's paintings?  
+
+If you check the credits, you'll see that we engaged Wayne's services to help
+us design both the creature, the artifact, and the dark city.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: ATTN: JMS: in the spinoff...

+7 Jul 1998
My feeling for now is to make the feature, if one gets done, fairly
+self-contained, since I imagine a lot of folks may go who haven't seen the
+show.
+
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+
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+Re: attnJMS:Gary Cole on Crusade? (24 Jul 1998)
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Re: attnJMS:Gary Cole on Crusade?

+24 Jul 1998
Yes, I can confirm that Gary Cole has signed on to play Captain Matthew Gideon
+of the Starship Excalibur in CRUSADE.  
+
+We're very excited to  have him aboard.
+
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+
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+Re: Thirdspace--------Why? (24 Jul 1998)
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Re: Thirdspace--------Why?

+24 Jul 1998
Okay, you want an answer to this, I got an answer for you.
+
+Because I felt like it.
+
+Because I've done five years worth of angst and dark storytelling, and I wanted
+to do one story that was just for fun.  
+
+Because I'm a huge fan of the type of Cthulhu mythos stories done by H. P.
+Lovecraft and August Derleth and Clark Ashton Smith and Lord Dunsany, and all
+my life I wanted to just cut loose and do something like that.
+
+Because I hadn't done a story like that for B5, and I want to try new things,
+experiment, do a funny story, a spooky story, a high-tech story.
+
+And because a show needs to be shaken up once in a while.  
+
+A while back, Neil Gaiman pointed out to me that the problem with a certain
+percentage of fandom is that they like your work for what it is, because it's
+different, but then they won't tolerate any variation from what you're doing,
+and what you've done in the past.  They condemn it because it isn't exactly
+what they figured they would be getting.
+
+No, this wasn't a huge part of the arc, which is one of the main complaints (as
+is the case here).  So what?  Look, not everything that happens to me in my
+life, or you in yours, is part of a specific thematic arc.  I came up with the
+idea of a five year arc as a tool to give me MORE flexibility in storytelling,
+to add a new tool to the form...not to find myself being told that if I do
+something outside that very rigid arc that it's meaningless and shouldn't have
+been made.
+
+It was meant to be a light entertainment set in the B5 universe, nothing more,
+nothing less.  That should be the purpose of the movies, to do some hard-arc
+stuff, some lightly related stuff, and some stuff that is totally
+self-contained...heavy stories and light stories, to provide the freedom to
+*play* in the B5 universe.
+
+And *that's* why I wrote the thing.  
+
+And the ratings were terrific, with each quarter hour improving over the one
+before, and I've gotten more positive email from people who have never watched
+the show before than I have on anything else.  Because you don't have to know
+the show to just sit back and enjoy this one.
+
+Not everything should require that you do a massive amount of homework in order
+to watch it; not everything has to be of the arc; not everything has to be
+about angst.
+
+I wrote this one just for fun.  
+
+If you don't like it, fine; but to say it should not have been written, that
+somehow it doesn't belong in the arc and therefore in your opinion shouldn't
+exist, ain't your call to make, frankly, and just slaps on more limitations.
+
+This is why there is so little divergence in the Star Trek shows; the studio
+has learned that it has to more and more narrowly define what constitutes a
+Star Trek story...and in time it becomes so narrow that you can't do much of
+anything new in it.  
+
+What the hell is the point of HAVING your own show if you can't from time to
+time go out and just do a story that's completely off-base, just for fun, just
+for yourself?  If nobody watches it, then you've got a problem...but in fact
+this came out to be the 5th highest rated cable movie of the week, so by gosh a
+lot of other people liked it as well.
+
+I'm not defending the movie because there is nothing to defend.  It succeeded
+for me, creatively, and it succeeded for TNT in the ratings, we got to test out
+some new tech and CGI, and I got to fulfill a years-long desire to play with a
+kind of Old Ones/Lovecraftian story.
+
+Deal with it.
+
+Maybe *you* want to so narrowly define the B5 universe that something like this
+could not be done...but *I* have no interest in doing that.
+
+The moment you lose the ability to change the format and play and tip-over the
+whole thing, and do totally arbitrary things because they please you...you may
+as well find yourself a comely shroud, because creatively you're dead.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Who Was Jack The Ripper Really??? (26 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Who Was Jack The Ripper Really???

+26 Jul 1998
Who was the one person whose wife actually wrote a letter to the London Times
+suggesting that the ripper maybe was trying to tell them something, and that
+maybe he'd stop if they listened?  Who was the last person to see at least two
+of the victims alive on missions of mercy to the jail?  Who was reported to
+have become unhinged by the filth in the area around the murders when he found
+a rat in his breakfast? Who had medical experience? Who left England suddenly
+after being questioned, with the murders stopping soon afterward?  Whose
+transcripts of interviews with church officials and British police are *still*
+kept under lock and key? Who is the sort of person who might say -- as the only
+witness to hear the ripper reported hearing him remark to one of his victims --
+"You would do anything but pray?"  Who had the same last name -- and was a
+likely relative -- of the man living with the very last victim, the only one
+killed in her room (suggesting she knew the killer)?
+
+The Reverend Samuel Barnett.  That's my choice.  
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: From UK: Final 5 - are they finished? (26 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: From UK: Final 5 - are they finished?

+26 Jul 1998
Yes, the episodes are finished, and in the can; have been for some time.  I
+suspect, given the time frame here, that WB felt they should wait until the
+final 5 are shown here for them to be shown overseas.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Cable Ace Awards? (29 Jul 1998)
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Re: Cable Ace Awards?

+29 Jul 1998
>I was wondering when the cable ace awards are during the year.  It
+>seems like a place ripe for B5 to pick up a few awards.
+
+Absolutely.
+
+Unfortunately, they just canceled the awards to fold cable into the regular
+Emmys.
+
+This is typical of our luck.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Making of? (29 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Making of?

+29 Jul 1998
>When B5 will show its final episode, it would be great to see a really big
+>"B5-Making of" with behind the scenes-scenes, bluper (blooper?) reels and so
+>on. I think that would be great for the fans.
+
+I'll mention it.
+
+>A week ago, "DF1", the german digital Pay-TV showed the whole 4th season at
+>once (!!!) Yes, really! No kidding! no breaks, one episode after the other
+>(I guess 18 or 22 hours.) 
+
+Holy smokes...I wonder what the reaction was for folks seeing it that way.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: Mind wanderings (29 Jul 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Mind wanderings

+29 Jul 1998
I dunno...I don't like to spend a lot of time poking around in my subconscious
+on these issues; there's albino alligators living down there, y'know.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Interesting B5 Experience (30 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Interesting B5 Experience

+30 Jul 1998
>I did some editing and found that I
+>could fit a season on two T-160 cassettes (in the EP mode) if I only had one
+>open/close credit per tape and cut all commercials.
+>
+>What I discovered is this, Babylon 5 really is incredible when viewed this
+>way, it's like a 7h 35m movie!   
+
+Exactly.  That was the challenge, to make it work on an episodic basis, but
+then run together.  
+
+This particularly works in S5 starting from about "Meditations" right through
+"Sleeping in Light."  Just play it straight through, and it's one long episode.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: jms-B5 Comic Collection? (30 Jul 1998)
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Re: jms-B5 Comic Collection?

+30 Jul 1998
Yes, they may collect other issues in future.
+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn JMS: Bravo on acquiring Cole! A few questions, though... (31 Jul 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Bravo on acquiring Cole! A few questions, though...

+31 Jul 1998
>So - when will the series start? Have you any episodes written / or even
+>started filming? Cole is to be the captain of what? A white star? A
+>Terran Starship?  I'm anxious to start on this new adventure!
+
+Begins airing January 6th; 6 episodes are now written; we start filming Monday;
+and Cole's character is captain of the Excalibur, a prototype destroyer
+combining human, Minbari and Vorlon tech.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: ATT: JMS: A Challenge!

+8 Jul 1998
It would be a question of what the group of rogue telepaths had *done* prior to
+his running into them.  If, for instance, they had killed any of his fellow Psi
+Cops, I think (to turn a phrase on its head) the gloves would come off.
+
+Byron's people weren't a threat to Psi Cops until the very end. 
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn JMS: A curious new effect of watching B5 (8 Jul 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: A curious new effect of watching B5

+8 Jul 1998
>Has exposure to "Babylon 5" innoculated me against the mass of US TV?
+
+Maybe...meanwhile, continue to take two episodes and call me in the morning.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thoughts and thanks (8 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thoughts and thanks

+8 Jul 1998
Thank you...as someone will note later this season, the part of me that is
+going will very much miss the part of you all that is staying.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN: JMS and all other victims of cyberstalking (8 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS and all other victims of cyberstalking

+8 Jul 1998
Thanks for the information...I'll be using it.
+
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ANT JMS - how many Vorlons could dance on the head of a pin? (9 Jul 1998)
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Re: ANT JMS - how many Vorlons could dance on the head of a pin?

+9 Jul 1998
>How many Vorlons could dance on the head of a pin?
+
+As many as want to.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN:JMS my deepest gratitude... (10 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN:JMS my deepest gratitude...

+10 Jul 1998
Thanks, that's great to hear, good luck.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS  The Kosh figure is hideous!!!! (11 Jul 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  The Kosh figure is hideous!!!!

+11 Jul 1998
I guess opinions vary...I think it looks kind cool.
+
+Question: did you get the one that actually says Kosh, or the Vorlon Visitor
+figure?  If the latter, the color scheme is off because it ain't Kosh.  The one
+that says Kosh is pretty close, in my view.
+
+Got mine the other day, and rather like it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn:JMS.... A GET WELL SOON message (1 Aug 1998)
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Re: Attn:JMS.... A GET WELL SOON message

+1 Aug 1998
Thanks...no, I'm still writing, even with the heavy antibiotic medications. 
+I'm still going into the office, but on half-day basis, which is about all I
+can handle right now (and probably more than I should).  The danger with this
+kind of pnumonia is that it can feel like it's getting better, and you push
+it...and then it nails your ass to the wall.  (That's what nailed Jim Henson,
+who had the same basic kind I have.)
+
+
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+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATN JMS:  Kathryn? (27 Aug 1998)
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Re: ATN JMS:  Kathryn?

+27 Aug 1998
In most ways, I think Kathryn does fit that description.
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+Re: jms-Season 5 Acting differences after SIL (28 Aug 1998)
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Re: jms-Season 5 Acting differences after SIL

+28 Aug 1998
I think it did add a small note of somberness and foreshadowing to the S5
+performances of a few cast members, which is why I had previously avoided
+letting them know too much, to avoid the trap of having them play the result
+instead of the process.  It happens.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: MOFAS and Captian Power Question - No Spoilers (1 Aug 1998)
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Re: MOFAS and Captian Power Question - No Spoilers

+1 Aug 1998
No, it's an Earthforce Academy logo.
+
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+Re: JMS: Thanks, I needed that! (1 Aug 1998)
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Re: JMS: Thanks, I needed that!

+1 Aug 1998
You're welcome....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: B5 on laserdisc (27 Aug 1998)
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Re: B5 on laserdisc

+27 Aug 1998
I spoke to the folks at Image just before leaving for the UK.  They had been
+told, repeatedly, by WB that there *were* no widescreen versions of B5
+available.
+
+Well, after hearing this, I gave 'em the names of the folks in the WB high-tech
+division who've been conforming the widescreen negatives, and the odds are good
+that they're going to do this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS  Where (if at all) to purchase episodes??? (27 Aug 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  Where (if at all) to purchase episodes???

+27 Aug 1998
The first new tapes from WB Home Video hit the stores this week.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: How's Joe's health? (27 Aug 1998)
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+27 Aug 1998
I'm getting better.  The pneumonia definitely knocked me for a serious 3-4 week
+loop.  I'm past nearly all of it now, just a bit weak at times from it all.  At
+the Wrap Party, I had to go up and rest between panels and presentations, and
+at same wasn't quite as energetic as I'm used to being. 
+
+But it's all pretty much over now...and I got to shed 12 pounds I wanted to
+lose in any event (didn't want to do that in 7 days, but there you are).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn. JMS:  Writing question (27 Aug 1998)
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Re: Attn. JMS:  Writing question

+27 Aug 1998
>How do you deal with cutting material?  Is it hard for you?  I notice in
+>Lurker's guide that sometimes you have slid things into other episodes. 
+>Any other way to use good material that has to be cut?  Can you suggest any
+>strategies for editing?
+
+Only one thing works, and that's to pretend the stuff was written by somebody
+else, so you can take a fairly objective look at it and cut whatever's dross.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Psi Corp pins made by 'Filmwelt,' Berlin, Germany (27 Aug 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Psi Corp pins made by 'Filmwelt,' Berlin, Germany

+27 Aug 1998
The german pins are licensed; I approved the final designs, and hadn't noticed
+that the Psi symbol was unstandard; we've used some variations in the show as
+well.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Thanks again for setting the example (27 Aug 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Thanks again for setting the example

+27 Aug 1998
Thanks, and good luck in dealing with folks like this, in this way.  It's
+tough, I know.
+
+Thanks again.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: to jms: westercon (3 Sep 1998)
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Re: to jms: westercon

+3 Sep 1998
Folks who came got a preview screening of Thirdspace.
+ jms
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+sleeping in light suggestion (21 Sep 1998)
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sleeping in light suggestion

+21 Sep 1998
+I was watching "Sleeping in Light" again today (I have a tendency to run the
+last ten minutes plus the credits over and over...to see if it'll stop getting
+to me, and so far it hasn't), and had some thoughts on it for folks out there. 
+
+People often ask if there's anything they can do in return for B5, something
+I'd like and I do have some ideas, here at the end, regarding SiL.
+
+I think it would be a wonderful thing if more folks than usual got together for
+viewing parties on this one.  Not newcomers, not folks who haven't seen the
+show, just the "family," if you will.  If B5 has helped to create communities,
+then I think this last episode should be for that community.
+
+I also think you'll find some interesting tie-offs in this show...something
+about Minbari beliefs about souls born in the hearts of suns, and a pay-off to
+why the narrations of this series have always been in the past tense, and a
+gift to the crew of this show...to which end I *strongly* suggest that even if
+you don't normally tape this series, that you do tape *this* episode so you can
+go back and check some stuff at the end.
+
+"Sleeping in Light" airs in just a little over two months, and every time I
+look at it, it has the sense of something very special coming to its
+conclusion.  It's so damned hard watching it...and yet there's something about
+it that is massively uplifting at the same time.
+
+Anyway, I was just thinking that often viewing parties are used to bring in new
+folks to B5, but this one, I think, should be for the family.  Maybe local fan
+groups want to get together, find someone with a good-sized TV, and watch. 
+It's one of those Moments, I think, that will be remembered a long time
+thereafter.
+
+And I've got TNT's promise not to run a voice-over or squish the credits at the
+end.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Outlining Dark Genesis? (22 Sep 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Outlining Dark Genesis?

+22 Sep 1998
+
+I think my outlines for each of the Psi Corps novels was about ten pages each. 
+It spelled out the broad strokes of what happened in each one of them, and left
+Gregory to fill in the gaps and work out the details in conjunction with myself
+and our reference editor, so that all the timelines jived and everything made
+canonical sense.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 23:28:43 +0100
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+Re: VORcon contract problems? (22 Sep 1998)
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Re: VORcon contract problems?

+22 Sep 1998
+
+Britwombat wrote in message <19980917115255.03502.00000582@ng155.aol.com>...
+>
+>>
+>>Has VORcon established contracts with the stars they have scheduled to
+appear
+>>next month? If not, how can you guarantee the convention will go on as
+>>planned?
+>>
+>
+>I was at Starcon at the end of August where Jason Carter was a guest.  He
+was
+>heavily promoting VorCon with his convention manager, Luther Trotter, and
+>according to him, it is all confirmed.
+>
+>Cari
+
+Luther is the co-organiser of VORcon, apparently.
+
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+Re: Fw: A word to the wise. (21 Sep 1998)
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Re: Fw: A word to the wise.

+21 Sep 1998
+In article <007e01bde43e$cffe59a0$5e327118@cr1003146-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com>, "Jeff Vavasour" <jeffv@physics.ubc.ca> writes:
+>     [The following text is in the "iso-8859-1" character set]
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+> 
+> Jms at B5 <jmsatb5@aol.com> wrote:
+> >The TNT memo was apparently real, from within the network to others in the
+> >network.  But the egregious points have gone away.  
+> 
+> Dare I ask, might the fan uproar have encouraged some reconsideration?
+
+It's probably encouraged some reconsideration of their security measures.
+
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+Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 13:29:40 -0700
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+
+*crunchcrunch*  What?? (was: ATTN JMS: Any more Crusade news? (21 Sep 1998)
+
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*crunchcrunch*  What?? (was: ATTN JMS: Any more Crusade news?

+21 Sep 1998
+ck@zipcon.net wrote:
+ 
+> See, it's not the coffee that's the problem for me, it's those damned
+> styrofoam cups. Other people look at me strange the first time they see me
+> finish one off, but I say, if you're going to enjoy a cup of coffee, you
+> might as well get the whole experience.
+ 
+> *burp*
+
+Huh? (blinking) B-but you're making it sound as if Styrofoam ISN'T
+supposed to be eaten!
+
+What do I do with all these packing peanuts and clam dip?
+
+Guess I'll have to call the family and tell 'em to stay home. Party's
+off 'til we find some crisps...
+
+I have to say that from context alone, one can NEVER tell for sure what
+Earthers consider to be food! Hph!
+
+Swan
+
+
+Psi Corps
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+Re: ATTN JMS: galen (22 Sep 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: galen

+22 Sep 1998
+> i'm
+>looking forward to "crusade" because of the galen-character.  i saw a
+>clip of galen at westercon, and i was really impressed.  is peter
+>woodward doing as well in the role as you had hoped?
+
+Peter is superb as Galen, utterly brilliant.  I think we lucked into a
+character and an actor that is going to be extremely popular with fans.  I
+couldn't be happier with his work to date; I'd put his work up there with Peter
+Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas, easily.
+
+>also, i live in the san diego area.  when did you move here, how long
+>did you live here, and did you like it?
+
+I lived in San Diego a few times, the last being from about 1974 to 1981.  I
+actually rather enjoyed living there (I went to and graduated from San Diego
+State during that time).  I cut my teeth as a journalist there, and got my
+first stage credits.  I felt that the town was a little too provincial, and
+still is a bit, but would've stayed if what I wanted to do could be done there,
+but living in LA is necessary to work in TV.  Figures that they'd upgrade the
+place just after I left....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - production halted? (22 Sep 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - production halted?

+22 Sep 1998
+Yeah, actually I mentioned this in passing a couple of days ago on
+Compuserve...wasn't that big a deal, but to recap for here:
+
+In addition to the Christmas break, we have always taken a one-week hiatus in
+the middle of shooting to avoid burning out cast and crew.  This was true of B5
+throughout its history.  One week in the fall, one in the spring.
+
+TNT has allocated additional money to build some major (large) new sets that we
+had thought we'd have to wait until season 2 to implement, and to improve some
+of the sets.  (We were always fighting to spiff up sets throughout B5, and we
+always had to bring in our new sets gradually, like Earharts and the War Room
+and others.) 
+
+Since they're going to give us the money for that now, we figued we'd extend
+the hiatus by a few weeks (a paid break for most of the actual shooting crew),
+though we still have the art department, costume, construction, props and
+several other departments still working away to build the sets and stuff.
+
+We start shooting again October 19th.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
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+
+new psi corps novel out (3 Sep 1998)
+
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+
new psi corps novel out

+3 Sep 1998
Just for those who haven't heard yet, the newest B5 novel -- first in a trilogy
+of books about the origins of the Psi Corps through and beyond the events of
+the fifth season -- is out.  "Dark Genesis," by J. Gregory Keyes, from a jms
+outline.  For my money, this is probably one of the best B5 novels ever done,
+and it takes quite a risk, because even though you see ancestors of some of our
+characters (the books cover about 80 years), there are none of the regulars in
+it.  It's our first attempt to really flesh out the B5 universe and future
+history.  
+
+Anyway, it's a hell of a read, and I commend it to you without reservation.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Sleeping in Light the day before Thanksgiving (US)? (23 Sep 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sleeping in Light the day before Thanksgiving (US)?

+23 Sep 1998
+>I looked at my calendar, and the schedule for the final episodes puts
+>"Sleeping in Light" on the day before Thanksgiving.  That's a lousy
+>place to put a season/series finale--lots of people are
+>traveling/visiting family on that date.
+>
+
+On the other hand, not everybody has family to travel to, or the means to
+travel.  So perhaps a family gathering of another type, particularly among
+folks new to each other in local fan areas, might be even more appropros.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
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+
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+

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+Re: Attn Joe: SIL viewing parties (25 Sep 1998)
+
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Re: Attn Joe: SIL viewing parties

+25 Sep 1998
+>But what I want to
+>suggest is that not only do we set up viewing parties at homes, but maybe
+>at Sports Bars as well, as long as it is cleared with the places to avoid
+>scheduling conflicts with a sporting event.
+
+Given the content, and the likely reaction of fans to that content, a sports
+bar is probably the *least* correct venue....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn Joe: SIL viewing parties (28 Sep 1998)
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Re: Attn Joe: SIL viewing parties

+28 Sep 1998
+>Great. We're gonna cry, aren't we?
+>
+Yup.
+
+At least twice.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: songwriting (29 Sep 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: songwriting

+29 Sep 1998
+>i read at the lurker's guide that you once wrote a song with a member of
+>the busboys.  what music-performer would you most like to write a song
+>for?
+
+I ain't that good to write for the people I like to listen to...
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - B5 LaserDisc Commentary (3 Sep 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - B5 LaserDisc Commentary

+3 Sep 1998
Apparently Image has now confirmed with WB that the widescreen versions do
+indeed exist, so that's good...on the other hand, they were produced in PAL
+format for overseas, and it costs a few pennies here and there to convert them
+to NTSC standard for American use, and WB is wondering if it's worth the time
+and effort to do so.
+
+So a bunch of emails to Image encouraging them to continue to press on this
+issue might have some weight....
+
+And yes, we've discussed adding further material, such as commentaries,
+bloopers, lost scenes, whatever.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Comparisons (6 Sep 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Comparisons

+6 Sep 1998
>Last night, I was browsing the latest issue of TV Guide (the Canadian
+>Edition) and was intrigued by the description of Mercy Point's premise
+>as:  "Think of it as ER meets Babylon 5."
+>
+>I'm just curious what your reaction is to new shows being compared to
+>B5.  
+
+I'm fine with it, though each show should be allowed to find its own identity,
+it shouldn't have to feel (nor should its viewers have to feel) it must be
+compared with B5.  
+
+That we've been able to create a new paradigm in SF TV is a niceness, and the
+notice is welcome and long-overdue.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+
+Re: jms- Some Dark Genesis Comments/Questions (Some spoilers) (12 Sep 1998)
+
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Re: jms- Some Dark Genesis Comments/Questions (Some spoilers)

+12 Sep 1998
The next book is in at the publisher, and I should be getting a copy of the
+manuscript in the next week or so.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: SiL postproduction (12 Sep 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: SiL postproduction

+12 Sep 1998
>Aside from it being done later and any changes in technology or technique
+>resulting from that, was anything done to Sleeping in Light in
+>postproduction differently from how it would have been done had there been
+>no fifth season?
+
+Nope.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: The death of ISN (18 Sep 1998)
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Re: The death of ISN

+18 Sep 1998
+Understand that video clips fall under the aegis of the various Guilds: screen
+actors guild, directors guild, writers guild, others.  Even *we* can't take,
+digitize, and put up digital clips of shows at ANY length on thestation.com. 
+This has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that this is not
+allowable by anyone, for any reason, other than WB itself.  To allow even a 10
+second clip on a TV talk show, there have to be waivers (usually automatically
+given) by the guilds; it's a contractual issue that supercedes anything and
+everything else.
+
+Attempts to broaden this out to anything else are invalid because everyone else
+is being left alone, because nobody else is doing this.  The policy stands.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
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+Re: VORcon contract problems? (18 Sep 1998)
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Re: VORcon contract problems?

+18 Sep 1998
+Apparently a number of people have not been confirmed for this, including
+Damien London, who sent me a note to say that while someone had spoken to him
+about this months back, nothing else ever happened, and he's definitely NOT
+confirmed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: A word to the wise. (19 Sep 1998)
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Re: A word to the wise.

+19 Sep 1998
+
+The TNT memo was apparently real, from within the network to others in the
+network.  But the egregious points have gone away.  
+
+Not only that, but they've allocated a huge chunk of change for us to upgrade
+sets and add a bunch of new sets to the series, stuff we'd been planning to do
+later, but can do now instead.  
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: JMS: Anti-VORcon? (8 Oct 1998)
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Re: JMS: Anti-VORcon?

+8 Oct 1998
+It should be noted that both Sierra FX and Precedence Publishing are taking
+steps to make it clear that while they are sponsoring *events* at the
+convention, they do not *endorse* this partuicular convention, distancing
+themselves from it.  Signs will appear at their booths further reinforcing
+this.
+
+Additionally, Tracy Scoggins will not appear, Bruce may or may not be there
+depending on what happens with a movie he's shooting in Toronto, Optic Nerve
+will not be bringing down an exhibit, and WB is this week putting VorCon on
+official notice about the showing of ANY copyrighted videotape material from
+the show.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: Two more days

+27 Oct 1998
This is a devastating episode, by the way...so much happens in this that it's
+kinda staggering, actually.
+
+Of the final 5, this one, and the last two, are my favorites.  And I like 'em
+all.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Top Cow?! (27 Oct 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Top Cow?!

+27 Oct 1998
I'd actually heard a lot of good things about Top Cow, and my understanding
+going into this was that I would have total creative freedom, and it would be a
+writer-driven book.  The artist they've talked to is someone whose work I've
+admired, and this book is going to have a very different look from the rest of
+their titles.  The folks over there seem to really have their act together. 
+They only launch about 2 new titles a year, and that means they have to be
+special...and they want this to be that kind of project.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Top Cow?! (27 Oct 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Top Cow?!

+27 Oct 1998
>How closely do you plan 
+>on collaborating with your penciller--will he have much leeway in 
+>layouts/"camera" angles/etc. or do you script a page pretty tightly?
+
+I script pretty damn tight...as much as a half-page to describe a panel, in
+great detail.  I'm doing those pages the same as I do my B5 and Crusade
+scripts: hideous amounts of detail.
+
+And yeah, we want to go for a much more realistic look to this book, because
+it's essential to making the story work.
+
+>if you seriously plan on bucking the System and 
+>producing a book that operates on the assumption that dialogue and 
+>characters are *not* interchangeable, I can guarantee you at least one 
+>regular reader.
+
+Done and done.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: computer games and comic - jms (27 Oct 1998)
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Re: computer games and comic - jms

+27 Oct 1998
>I'm not "tearing it down" as you put it.  I am simply
+>pointing out the fact that the idea is not original.
+>In fact, it sounds like a direct copy from the films,
+>although I'm sure JMS will make a LOT more
+>interesting story of it than the films.
+>
+
+Sorry.  Ain't the case.  Damned was about a colonization effort by aliens,
+achieved by getting human female pregnant, and the kids were strictly
+telekinetic, and died at about age 7.
+
+There is no alien colonization thing going on in the story, it only affects the
+women who are already pregnant, and it follows their whole lives.  You may as
+well say that the Three Mile Island story is a Damned story because it charts
+the effect of outside forces on pregnant women and their offspring.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: Two more days (28 Oct 1998)
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Re: Two more days

+28 Oct 1998
BTW, there's a couple of nifty reviews of the final 5 episodes by Glen and by
+Robogeek on ain't-it-cool-news...very touching stuff.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+from jms: crusade update (8 Oct 1998)
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from jms: crusade update

+8 Oct 1998
+It's been kinda hectic here, between the new sets under construction, meetings,
+and other stuff, some of which has been hinted around by others.  At this
+point, we're still on target for filming to start up on October 19th.
+
+One of the issues brought up by TNT had to do with a decision we all made early
+on that the first episode up, Racing the Night, would just jump right into the
+story, without doing the usual pilot-episode thing of showing the team coming
+together, which was our other option.  
+
+On reflection, TNT figured that the best thing might be to do that "coming
+together" episode after all, to set the stage for all that follows.  It's a
+lateral change, really, you could have it or not, either way, it's dealer's
+choice.  But if we're going to do that, we may as well get the sets and other
+stuff ready to go for that first episode and the ones that will immediately
+follow.  We're also making some adjustments to the wardrobe (and I've come up
+with a pretty funny way to make the transition in the story).  All of the prior
+produced episodes are still in, and still going to be broadcast, nothing's
+changed that as far as I know.
+
+Anyway, things continue to progress, the script for the alternate first ep is
+in, and all should be cool from this point on.  Which is not to say there
+haven't been some knife-fights...but we seem to have reached some
+understandings....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+Re: from jms: crusade update (mostly humor) (10 Oct 1998)
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Re: from jms: crusade update (mostly humor)

+10 Oct 1998
+More on the costumes in another thread, but suffice to say...skin tight they
+ain't.  We're going for a more conventional military look in terms of jump
+suits and cargo pants, something a little rougher looking...but that elsewhere.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+from jms II: more crusade (10 Oct 1998)
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from jms II: more crusade

+10 Oct 1998
+My newsreader was down for a couple days, and I've been hunkered down writing,
+so I'm just now getting a chance to get out and address some of the stories
+going around.  Best way to do that is with a quick overview....
+
+We're still set to go back into filming on October 19th.  As I mentioned in a
+prior post, TNT felt the need for an actual introductory episode, one that sets
+the story by bringing together our characters together for the first time, more
+of a conventional pilot in that respect.  "Racing the Night" was written to
+take place about 5 months after the Drakh attack, so that we got right into
+things.  The "bringing people into the story" story will, therefore, take place
+shortly after the Drakh attack, two-three days later, to be precise.
+
+Since we're doing a first introductory episode, TNT kinda wanted to have the
+new sets in place for the first few eps (though they can't appear in the first
+one for story reasons), and since we're making some wardrobe adjustments, they
+figured they may as well have those in place as well.
+
+Nothing in the story has been changed.  The five episodes already made will be
+aired, and you will see that the characters, the story, the feel of the show is
+*exactly* the same between those first 5 filmed, and those that follow.  What
+it comes down to are some cosmetic changes, some new sets, and an episode that
+sets things in place.  
+
+As we come back, the first two episodes up to be shot will be scripts we
+already had in hand, then the new introductory episode, "War Zone," another one
+we already have, one new one, then another one from on-hand, which will take us
+through into the Christmas break.
+
+No scripts are being thrown out, no episodes are being scrapped...none of that
+has taken place, or is taking place.  The show is the show is the show.
+
+(And on the costumes themselves...no, they're not going to be "skin tight"
+things; we're actually kinda going in the opposite direction.  They're more
+typically military jumpsuits, black, neatly tailored, similar to some Air Force
+or Marine uniforms.  And the only people who will be wearing these are the
+basic technical crew, Captain Gideon (Gary Cole) and Lieutenant John Matheson
+(Daniel Dae Kim); the others are civilians, and thus are not affected.
+
+Regarding air dates...we have thus far not been told if they want to push for a
+January airdate or not.  Part of the complication to all this is that if we
+make #8 in shooting order the first aired, we have to do a hideous amount of
+post-production on CGI to get it ready in time.  Rather than make us rush it,
+they have said they might consider waiting until the February sweeps.  Another
+option is to go in March, if they don't want to go up against the Network
+sweeps period (which is traditionally death for basic cable)...but the problem
+*there* is that you can only air 4 episodes and then TNT would go into the NBA
+playoffs, which means it would be another 6 weeks or so until any new eps could
+be shown.
+
+So on that score, nobody's decided anything yet, we don't know and haven't been
+told because they haven't decided where will best serve us, so we hit the
+ground with the least network opposition.
+
+Anyway, that's where things are.  Hope this puts to rest some of the rumors out
+there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: from jms II: more crusade (12 Oct 1998)
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Re: from jms II: more crusade

+12 Oct 1998
+>How much of the CGI could be done "speculatively", concurrent
+>or even before the filming of the episode?
+
+Zip.  Because until it's edited, you don't know how long to make the shots, or
+how they'll intercut with the live action...and there's all the stuff from
+other eps to deal with as well.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Starting on Harlan? (12 Oct 1998)
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Re: Starting on Harlan?

+12 Oct 1998
+>You should have seen him whining on Sci-Fi's StarTrek Special Edition.
+>
+>His story may have been butchered, but complaining 25yrs later isn't going
+>to help.
+
+Better then that lies should triumph?
+
+And I'd suggest Shatterday as a good place to begin with Harlan.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: CGI Re: from jms II: more crusade (13 Oct 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: CGI Re: from jms II: more crusade

+13 Oct 1998
>BTW how are you planning those CGI parts? Are you providing exact
+>storyboards with ships and beams or do the CGI people just create
+>something along your script or do you check it prior rendering in
+>wireframe form or similar
+
+Pretty much all of the above, depending on the complexity of the sequence.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+quickie update from jms (21 Oct 1998)
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quickie update from jms

+21 Oct 1998
To the gazillion or so folks who've asked in email...yes, we began shooting
+again on Monday the 19th, as scheduled, making the show we desired to make, and
+we're cranking along just fine.  Actors are happy, crew are happy, everybody
+happy but Zathras...but Zathras never happy...Zathras happy once, had friend
+once, but wheels fell off, very sad....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+computer games and comic - jms (26 Oct 1998)
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computer games and comic - jms

+26 Oct 1998
I posted this accidentally to the UK group, had meant to post it here:
+
+For a while now, every once in a while, one computer game company or other will
+drop me an email note, and ask if I'd be interested in lining up with one or
+the other to design games for them.  I haven't said yes to any of them because
+a) I'm not as familiar with the scene as I'd like to be corporately, c) I've
+been busy mounting Crusade, and c) I've been busy working on the Sierra B5 game
+to make it as good as possible.  But the thought keeps occuring...hell, I could
+put in the same amount of time I'm putting on the B5 game on a game of my
+own....
+
+So I figured...what the heck.  Everybody I know who's in computer games is
+online, and so I thought, all right, let's say I'm open to the possibility. 
+The B5 game is nearly finished from a design perspective, so that time is now
+open.  The filming on Crusade is going fine, we're ahead on scripts...it's a
+good time to have some talks, broaden out the work a bit.
+
+So to those who've inquired before (your info is long, long gone, I'm afraid),
+and anyone who's looking on from one of the game companies, who might be
+interested in a jms line of games...lemme know.
+
+Also, I'm also pleased to announce that I have a new comic title of my own
+coming out next year from Top Cow (a division of Image Comics, publisher of
+Witchblade and Spawn)... something I've been quietly working on for the last
+three, four months...and which I think may have a fairly considerable impact on
+the field.  
+
+(It's the way I'm hardwired...if I don't have 2-3 projects going at the same
+time, whether a book or a story of something else, I just get nuts....)
+
+More info has been posted about the comic in various places, including
+mania.com.  The comic is called RISING STARS, and it's set to debut next April.
+ I've just turned in the first script (for the preview issue), and will be
+getting down to writing issues 0 and 1 shortly.
+ 
+The story follows the events after the small town of Pederson, Illinois, is
+struck by a mass of energy from an unknown, but non-terrestrial source. 
+Everyone who was in utero at the time of the flash   is affected, resulting in
+113 individuals who develop abilities of a most unusual and highly individual
+form.  (The power is to some degree shaped by who they are, just as they are
+shaped to some degree by the power.)
+  
+It is set in a realistic universe, timed to real-world events (it covers a span
+of about 60 years, starting in about 1969), where there have never been
+super-powered individuals before.  It looks at how the world reacts to them,
+and how they react to the world.  We follow these characters through their
+early years, into adulthood and to the ends of  their lives, mapping all the
+changes they go through, and how they change the world.
+  
+It's an extremely ambitious 24 issue miniseries (with the potential to go back
+and further develop any of the stories presented earlier along the way).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: Pointless goodbyes (TFoCP)

+2 Nov 1998
If you want goodbyes, you should be happy soon.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Goodbye (13 Nov 1998)
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Re: Goodbye

+13 Nov 1998
>I get the feeling that I'll never find them again, though...except
+>in the  "Call to Arms" movie, of course.  (Sheridan and Garibaldi
+>*are* in that one, aren't they?) 
+
+Also Lochley and Zack.
+
+>I don't want to say goodbye.
+>
+
+Me either.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Subtext in Objects in Motion *spoilers* (13 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Subtext in Objects in Motion *spoilers*

+13 Nov 1998
>Was the scene Harlan's
+>idea, and if so, did he write the scene?
+>
+The general notion of the thread came up between us.  The actual scenes were
+written by me.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: How much longer you here, really? (13 Nov 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: How much longer you here, really?

+13 Nov 1998
I'll probably hang for a bit after SiL....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Hey joe!!!  teleplay???? (14 Nov 1998)
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Re: Hey joe!!!  teleplay????

+14 Nov 1998
>And, for the record, exactly one episode has been cowritten by JMS and
+>Harlan Ellison: "A View from the Gallery."
+
+For the record, it's two, counting "Objects in Motion."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Objects in Motion ( *Spoilers* ) (16 Nov 1998)
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Re: Objects in Motion ( *Spoilers* )

+16 Nov 1998
She was hoping somebody would be there.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: "Objects in Motion" (SPOILERS!!) (16 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: "Objects in Motion" (SPOILERS!!)

+16 Nov 1998
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+>earlier this year, you talked about a "B5"
+>episode where Bruce Boxleitner says the line "I'm going to miss this
+>place".  You then became so emotional, you had to leave the set.  Since
+>Bruce says the same line in "Objects in Motion", is this when it
+>happened? 
+
+It's in the next one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 lasers, Widescreen, and Image Entertainment (17 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 lasers, Widescreen, and Image Entertainment

+17 Nov 1998
The series is available on widescreen; in PAL format for overseas.  It would
+apparently cost WB about $1500 per ep to convert to NTSC, and they don't want
+to spend the money.  Absent that, the Image release will be the best release in
+the best form currently available, and I commend it highly.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Image info on B5 laserdisc (17 Nov 1998)
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Re: Image info on B5 laserdisc

+17 Nov 1998
Posted to another thread...
+
+The series is available on widescreen; in PAL format for overseas.  It would
+apparently cost WB about $1500 per ep to convert to NTSC, and they don't want
+to spend the money.  Absent that, the Image release will be the best release in
+the best form currently available, and I commend it highly.
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn jms: Before You Go... (18 Nov 1998)
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Re: Attn jms: Before You Go...

+18 Nov 1998
Thanks...it's been one of those true once in a lifetime expriences for me as
+well, that's for sure.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 lasers, Widescreen, and Image Entertainment (19 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 lasers, Widescreen, and Image Entertainment

+19 Nov 1998
>Um, it's not going to be in "the best form currently available", unless I
+>misread and Image is coming out with this on DVD.
+>
+>
+
+Because B5 is not currently availble on DVD, it is the best form currently
+available.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Schedule for next book(s) (3 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Schedule for next book(s)

+3 Nov 1998
The next book manuscript is in hand, it should be a month or two away.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN jms:  you SOB (20 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN jms:  you SOB

+20 Nov 1998
Thanks...and that's my job, hard as it is sometimes, to reach in and yank the
+feelings out.
+
+Because there ain't much TV that does that, and it's important from time to
+time that we feel.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: Start date for Crusade? (20 Nov 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Start date for Crusade?

+20 Nov 1998
Because 108 is now the slated fist episode, so that we can use it to introduce
+the new characters rather than jump in in-progress, it means it will take
+longer to complete the CGI and stuff than 103, since it was shot later.  TNT
+needs the eps a month or two prior ot airdate for critics...and there's the
+concern about showing only 4 episodes in March (which is when it would all be
+rady) and thenbeing cut off for 8 weeks by the NBA playoffs.
+
+So they figured going June 2nd would avoid all of the problems, and put the
+show out when the network shows were in reruns...meaning it has a better chance
+of scoring large numbers, a strategy that worked well with other shows like
+90210.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Playboy Online Article (20 Nov 1998)
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Playboy Online Article

+20 Nov 1998
For those completists, there's an article in the current Playboy Online about
+B5 coming to an end...it's kinda nice, actually.
+
+http://www.playboy.com/pop/tv/f-1.html
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Star Wars Trailer (21 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Star Wars Trailer

+21 Nov 1998
+>Just wanted to hear what you thought of the Episode 1 trailer
+
+Thought it looked great...and definitely raises the idea that maybe there
+shouldn't be a B5 movie until after the last of the three new SW films is out
+and done.  Ain't no way any other SF film project can compete with that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks (short form) (24 Nov 1998)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks (short form)

+24 Nov 1998
You're most welcome.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Thank you. (25 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Thank you.

+25 Nov 1998
Thanks...it's been fun.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATT: JMS Have your questions been answered? (25 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATT: JMS Have your questions been answered?

+25 Nov 1998
>Who are you? What do you want? Where are you going? ....
+>These questions of yours have had a...unexpected effect on me. Changed me in
+>ways I'm still trying to figure out.  So I have to ask:
+>In the last five+ years, have you, yourself, found answers to any of these
+>questions?
+>
+Yes, but they keep changing.  Maybe they're supposed to.
+
+
+
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+
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Re: Attn JMS:  With Much Thanks

+25 Nov 1998
Thanks...it's the moments that stay with me as well.  Plot details can blur,
+but Londo and G'Kar stuck in that tube...that goes on forever.
+
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Re: Attn JMS: Yet Another Heartfelt Thanks

+25 Nov 1998
Thanks, and good luck to you and your wife.
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Re: ATTN: JMS -- Gratitude and awe

+25 Nov 1998
Thanks....
+
+>Some people on the TNT boards have expressed some doubt about Crusade. 
+>And who can blame them?  It's hard for us mere mortals to imagine anyone
+>outdoing B5, even you.  But I think you can do it.  I don't think you've
+>exhausted your creativity just yet
+
+Folks had the same doubts before B5 hit the air.  I'm used to it.
+
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+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Who's Fiona Avery? (5 Nov 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: Who's Fiona Avery?

+5 Nov 1998
Fiona came aboard as our continuity editor to help keep all of the B5 licensing
+stuff as canon as humanly possible.  So that means learning all she can about
+the B5 and Crusade universes, second probably only to me.  
+
+A couple of months ago or so, she wrote a spec Crusade script just to see if
+she could do it, as an experiment, never intended or figured we'd buy it.  I
+read it...and walked into John Copeland's office and said, "Am I nuts, or is
+this as good as I think it is?"  He read it, said it was great...and we bought
+it, plus one more.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Your opinion of your work (25 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Your opinion of your work

+25 Nov 1998
>I don't intend to sound like I'm placing you on a pedestal but do you think
+>that in years to come film and language students of all ages will study
+>Babylon 5 In the same way that our generation studies the works of
+>Shakespear and even the authors you have paid homage to, such as George
+>Orswell and Isaac Asimov? The deep and complex storyline I think warrants a
+>fair bit of academic analysis.
+>
+>
+Actually, that's already started.  A number of academic essays on B5 have been
+collected in "The Parliament of Dreams," published in the UK (I think someone
+here may have the info on purchasing it).  I found in reading it that I was
+smarter, stupider, more liberal, more conservative, more progressive, more
+reactionary, than I had previously imagined.
+
+Such analysis (and it was/is good reading, btw) is flattering, sometimes
+daunting, but brings out stuff always worth considering.  Whether the subject
+matter is in the long run truly worth the ink, only history can tell. 
+Obviously I think so, but again, I have a vested interest in saying that.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+26 Nov 1998
>Remember, though, that those instructions were given in a season 5 episode,
+>after Sleeping In Light was filmed.  They wouldn't go out of their way to
+>refer
+>to a script that hadn't even been written.  And a Neil Gaiman script at that.
+
+Actually, in that scene, Neil didn't write Kosh's message.  He asked what it
+would be, and I gave him that, knowing that I'd been looking for a way to slip
+that in as early as season 4.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: SiL - The Best Thanksgiving Gift Ever (SPOILERS) (26 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: SiL - The Best Thanksgiving Gift Ever (SPOILERS)

+26 Nov 1998
>One more thing.  "Spiritual" and "atheist" are
+>not opposites.  And you are the most spiritual
+>atheist I have ever known.
+>
+>
+
+Threats will get you nowhere.  (said with humor).
+
+Thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )

+26 Nov 1998
Those were lovely words; thank you for them.
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Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )

+26 Nov 1998
>I admit: I like tidy endings.  Any thoughts (JMS?)
+>
+>
+
+They don't exist.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )

+26 Nov 1998
I agree about the end credits; as we see their faces the first time, and the
+last time, they appear in the series, you can see the years and the story in
+their faces.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: ATTN JMS: A Long Wonderful Trip

+28 Nov 1998
Thank you, and my condolences on your loss.
+
+If the show said anything of value, if the words took root and meaning, then
+the effort expended in making it was eminently worthwhile.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (ite, missus est) (28 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS (ite, missus est)

+28 Nov 1998
Thank you, and I hope that someday I can be worthy of such wonderful words and
+comparisons.  But to my eyes, I still got a long, long way to go to keep
+getting better as a writer.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: SiL - spoilers - Language? (28 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: SiL - spoilers - Language?

+28 Nov 1998
Yes, there was some element of ritual in their goodbyes; it's a Minbari
+farewell, hence the "good night," not goodbye.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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Re: Putting Money into JMS's Pocket

+30 Nov 1998
>Is there a B5 video sales outlet through which more money is put
+>directly into your pocket compared to others?
+>
+>Thought you should reap more of the $800+ I will be spending as official
+>videos are released.
+
+No...it may come as a surprise, but I don't get a direct cut in any way of the
+sales of videotapes (for whatever reason, Hollywood doesn't consider that
+merchandising, so I don't get it that way).  The only thing I get -- thanks to
+a wonderfully short-sighted WGA contract covering cassettes --  is the standard
+writer's royalty, which comes after the distributer gets his money back...which
+means you get zip for the most part.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: jms- Another TNT Commercial Break Question about River Of Souls (10 Nov 1998)
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Re: jms- Another TNT Commercial Break Question about River Of Souls

+10 Nov 1998
We've complained to TNT about this; it does seem to be a recurring problem,
+caused by the folks doing the broadcast stuff Not Paying Attention To The Cue
+Sheets.
+
+It is, to say the least...infuriating.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN: JMS--Thanks for B5, S5, and Holographic Writing (30 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS--Thanks for B5, S5, and Holographic Writing

+30 Nov 1998
But what was the end result of the class?  What final conclusions did they come
+to?
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5, TV movies, Crusade (30 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5, TV movies, Crusade

+30 Nov 1998
I think it's safe to say that we'll be hearing more about the telepath crisis
+and its consequences in Crusade....
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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Re: jms: More Than Words Can Say

+30 Nov 1998
Thanks...that's the goal, more than anything else: to make people feel
+something for the characters, to break the glass in the TV set and pull people
+through.  If we succeeded in that, then the effort was worthwhile.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: SiL Final Credits

+30 Nov 1998
We are bound to maintain the S4 credits by contract.  We could not modify them.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: You changed two lives for ever (30 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: You changed two lives for ever

+30 Nov 1998
That's great...congratulations and good luck to you both.
+
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+
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Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )

+30 Nov 1998
We are bound by contract to use the credits as they were applied in S4, when
+SiL was shot.  You can't just put people's credits in a show for sentimental
+reasons...they trigger residuals, royalties, fees, and other contractual areas.
+
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )

+30 Nov 1998
Dear Mr. Tolkien:
+
+I just wanted to say that I think the way you ended THE LORD OF THE RINGS was
+crap.  You didn't provide any closure.  Instead of spending time with the
+hobbits clearing out the shire (come on, urban renwal in LoTR? give me a break)
+and lots of goodbyes, you SHOULD have shown me what happened to Tom Bombadil,
+he was an important part of the story, and you just left his story thread there
+unresolved.
+
+You made a big deal out of the elves going to the west, but we never SAW it! 
+We never found out what was there, or what Bilbo found when he got there, or
+what happened to the dwarves, or what happened to Merry and Pippin....
+
+You betrayed your audience by not resolving every single plot thread you
+introduced in your book, and as a result, it is never going to be of value to
+anyone, ever, and will never go past its first printing.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )

+30 Nov 1998
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+>A single 5-mile long chunk of station is a hell of a lot Less of a 
+>hazzard to navigation  in the vastness of space than a tillion small chunks.
+>Yes, most will in 100 years de-orbit into the planet below, but surely not
+>all.
+
+There are weapons systems on board that station, computer systems, other stuff
+that would be too much of a hassle to dig out, and you don't want squatters
+setting up residence there, or raiding the place for what they can get, and
+maintaining a military presence there to prevent it would be expensive.  With
+trade no longer coming through, the money to keep the station operating was
+gone.
+
+>One ending which would requre less suspension of disbelief (for me) would 
+>have beren to de-orbit the station, then blowing it up, as it hits the 
+>atmosphere.
+>   This would fully consume the material of the station as small chunks burn
+>in the atmosphere, eliminating
+>free-space and orbital debris, and no big
+>chunks hitting the planet.   
+>   Coulda been a cool FX to watch the debris showering down with a camera
+>POV on the planet's surface.  
+
+I don't see how sending a 5 mile long station plummeting into the atmosphere of
+Epsilon 3 is any more or less real than blowing it up in space, where salvage
+crews can come in and take the metal.  We already *saw* bits of the debris
+burning up in the atmospher in the second shot... and as for sending the whole
+thing hurtling down, well, I think Draal might have a thing or two to say about
+that....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Novels vs. TV (30 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Novels vs. TV

+30 Nov 1998
>1)   Now that you've been through the whole series, which format do you
+>think allows you more creativity:  novels, where you can plan out your
+>vision from the beginning with no interference, or television, where the
+>real world intrudes with budget concerns, actors leaving, etc?  I guess the
+>real question is what do you like better, having time to plan things out, or
+>having to think on your feet?
+
+They're apples and oranges.  You really can't compare them.  For the bulk of
+B5, there *was* no interference, and I could write as I wanted.  Yeah, you have
+actors leaving and the like, but sometimes you can be halfway through a novel
+and realize you need to drop somebody...and go back and revise 200 pages.  
+
+Both are processes, neither is set in stone the first time you sit down to
+begin the actual writing.  Some tools are better meant for one form or the
+other, but the process is pretty much the same in both.  So I like working in
+both, equally, just for different reasons.
+
+>2)  You've explored a 5 year arc and stand alone TV movies, have you given
+>any thought to telling a story, either Babylon 5 related or something
+>completely new, in either a miniseries format (6-8 hours) or a limited run
+>series (maybe 22 episodes to start and end a story)?
+
+Not as such, though Crusade is a 5 year story.  And the new comic I have coming
+out from Top Cow/Image is a 24 issue limited series.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Sidelights (from jms) (11 Nov 1998)
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+11 Nov 1998
1) I spoke to TNT in more detail about the commercial weirdnesses in The River
+of Souls, and apparently the problem was not their fault.  The processing
+company that does transfers from our digibeta masters to what they can air puts
+timecode on the tape; that timecode is used to calibrate where commercials go
+from the format we provide.  The timecode was off by quite a bit, so when they
+put in the commercials, they were in the wrong spots.
+
+2) Interesting note...I've now heard from about a dozen people who've seen
+"Sleeping in Light" (critics and friends of critics who got advance copies). 
+And with at most one or two exceptions, every single one of them has been doing
+the same thing: running the last 8 minutes or so (from the start of act 4
+through to the very end credits) over and over and over, 5-6 times or more.  I
+find that interesting because that's *exactly* what I've been doing with it
+since getting the final tape in my hands.  I'm not sure exactly what motivates
+it, but there's something going on there that hits home across the board.  I
+was astonished to hear that others were doing the same thing I was in this
+respect.  Will be curious to see if others have the same reaction.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Squishing SiL credits in UK- HELP!! (11 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Squishing SiL credits in UK- HELP!!

+11 Nov 1998
No, I haven't talked to C4 about this...this may be something the fans may want
+to take up with them, as my contact and influence with C4 is limited at best.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Hey joe!!!  teleplay???? (12 Nov 1998)
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Re: Hey joe!!!  teleplay????

+12 Nov 1998
>I've noticed that you have been
+>co-writting some of these eps with Harlen.. but in the opening credits it
+>also
+>says teleplay by J. Michael Straczynski (my apologies if I just botched your
+>name)  so whats a teleplay??? and why all of a sudden are you making use of
+>one???  
+
+There are two parts of writing an episode: the basic storyline, sometimes
+presented as an outline, and then the actual script which is a more specific
+elaboration on that story.  Story is, "King John and Queen Mary live in the
+castle and they have a hard night between them."
+
+Script is: 
+
+EXT. CASTLE - NIGHT
+We see the banners unfurling in the breeze, and go to
+
+INT. CASTLE - NIGHT
+KING JOHN and QUEEN MARY are in bed.  He's awake, she's sleeping.  He looks up
+at the ceiling. 
+
+                                  KING JOHN
+                 Why me?  Of all the gin joints and
+                 castles in England, why did she have
+                 to step into mine?
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+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS  When was River of Souls Written? (13 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN: JMS  When was River of Souls Written?

+13 Nov 1998
>Was RoS written after all the bandwidth-slaying over carbon dating in
+>ThirdSpace?
+
+No, long before.  We shot it at the end of season 5, and Thirdspace was not
+aired until quite a bit later.  So it was written about two-thirds through S5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Bye for now, and thanks (13 Nov 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Bye for now, and thanks

+13 Nov 1998
Thanks, and good luck....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* ) (1 Dec 1998)
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Re: Sleeping in Light ( *Spoilers* )

+1 Dec 1998
>"...if you're going to criticize me for not finishing the whole thing
+>and tying it up in a bow for you, why, do us both a favor and write your
+>own damn book, only have the decency to call it a romance instead of a
+>history, because history's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of
+>ribbons and knots that can't be untied. It ain't a pretty package but
+>then it's not your birthday that I know of, so I'm under no obligation
+>to give you a gift."
+
+I knew there was a reason I liked his books....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: Sleeping in Light *Spoilers*

+1 Dec 1998
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+On a more serious reply (though no reply is actually needed, I think...no story
+this big can wrap up the stories of EVERYONE...and the point is that life goes
+on, we dip in and we dip out of the story at various points, but it goes on of
+its own volition...I posted this over on CIS earlier regarding the various
+threads:
+
+The Drak and Centari Prime?
+
+      Vir is Emperor now.  Londo asked Sheridan to free his people; we can
+assume he did this...but we will also be showing this in the Centauri Prime
+trilogy of books in more detail.
+
+Londo?
+
+      We saw Londo's fate in War Without End Part 2.
+
+Lyta?
+
+      The telepath crisis and events surrounding it will provide a lot of the
+background to Crusade.
+
+Bester and the Psi Corps?
+
+      Ditto.
+
+G'Kar?
+
+      We saw his fate in WWE2 also.
+
+Garibaldi and Bester?
+
+      This will be covered in the Psi Corps trilogy, of which volume 1 is out 
+now, and volume 2 is in my hands for editing.
+
+B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
+
+      Neither needless nor useless.  It was built cheapest of all the stations,
+and it takes a lot of money to maintain it.  With trade routes now going around
+it, there isn't enough income to support it.  So do you leave it  intact, for
+others to occupy or raid for weapons systems and other systems too difficult to
+yank out?  Or take it out, the same way we implode buildings 
+now?
+
+Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended keeper?
+
+      This will also be covered in the Centauri Prime trilogy...but if you sit
+back you can do some of the work to figure out a large part of this.  As Londo
+states, his situation in WWE2 (Sheridan and Delenn captured on Centauri Prime)
+takes place 18 years after the events in 2260, which would put it at 2278.  The
+urn, given to Sheridan in 2262, is supposed to be given to the heir at the
+occasion of his/her 16th birthday, by Centauri tradition.
+
+      That would put the urn presentation at...ding!...2278.
+
+      In 2278, Sheridan and Delenn have been drawn to Centauri Prime.  We know
+their son is involved, because Delenn says "David is safe."  So they  were
+somehow able to save him, because we know that in 2281, David is alive 
+and well and serving in the Rangers (SiL).
+
+      You can see the shape of the events there...once again the clues are more
+or less in plain sight...but again, this will be drawn out in the books in more
+detail.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Setting for A Call to Arms (2 Dec 1998)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Setting for A Call to Arms

+2 Dec 1998
Five years after the events of Season 5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn Joe:  A Piece of Lurker's History (2 Dec 1998)
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Re: Attn Joe:  A Piece of Lurker's History

+2 Dec 1998
That's quite lovely...thank you.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: New B5 novel by JMS? (3 Dec 1998)
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Re: New B5 novel by JMS?

+3 Dec 1998
It's the first 3 issues of the B5 comic from DC gathered in a graphic novel.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: The Future of B5 (tm) (4 Dec 1998)
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Re: Attn JMS: The Future of B5 (tm)

+4 Dec 1998
+>Could you PLEASE say a word or two about the direction of B5, and what
+>your attitude towards B5-the-series and B5-the-brand-name are? I.e.
+>could you take a shot at killing off some of this "franchise" bitching 
+>and moaning?
+
+>Specifically: many, many quotes in the Lurker's Guide, esp. on the SiL
+>page, talk about how you didn't want to turn B5 into a franchise. Some
+>people are now pointing at the books, comics, and WB's efforts to shut
+>down fan sites and shouting "the sky is... er, *ahem*, I mean, 
+>FRANCHISE!!! run!!". 
+
+Bear in mind that nearly all of those people are the same ones who said B5
+wasn't as good as Trek because it didn't have the same power in the
+marketplace...so now they try the other avenue to criticize.
+
+It's kinda hard to say there's a B5 franchise since the series is now OFF THE
+AIR, and I've already said to Doug that I don't want to even think about a
+feature for a while.
+
+They're also distorting the record.  What I have said at conventions since the
+dawn of time, or at least the dawn of B5, was that I didn't want to rush into
+merchandise, that I'd seen the tail wag the dog too often.  "If the show is a
+success, there's plenty of time down the road for merchandising...let's make
+the show first and worry about the rest later."
+
+Well, we did that.  We made the show.  So what is the problem exactly?  Are
+they saying that having sweated blood to make the show for 5 years, I shouldn't
+be entitled to earn a living from it?  That fans who want to see parts of the
+story shouldn't be allowed to?
+
+You shouldn't fall for these guys...these are primarily  people have no
+interest in a reasoned argument, they're just looking to make trouble.  At the
+beginning, they pointed to the dearth of B5 merchandise and said the show had
+to be crap...now they're pointing to a few things that have gone on the market
+and saying it's a franchise and now therefore it's crap.
+
+Same song, different tune.  Trolls, nothing more.
+
+In a few cases, you run into the folks who are well-intentioned, but come from
+the "SF is in the gutter and needs to stay there and never be successful or
+it'll lose its artistic integrity" school of thought.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+quickie from jms (14 Dec 1998)
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quickie from jms

+14 Dec 1998
Sorry I've been a bit quiet lately...I've answered a number of notes publicly
+here ad there, on rastm and elsewhere, but we've been putting the final touches
+to the first finished Crusade ep, "Racing the Night," shot 103...all the EFX,
+music, sound, all that stuff is in and it's done, so we know what we're dealing
+with, and it looks terrific.  WB called to say it's the best we've ever done,
+and possibly the best thing they've seen.  But it's taken a lot of long nights
+to do the final mix, and get caught up on scripts before the Christmas break,
+so I've been a bit absent.  
+
+I was also kind of overwhelmed by the responses to SiL..and to all those who
+said such kind things, thank you.  It's something I'm very proud of, and I'm
+pleased by the response.
+
+On the issue of unanswered questions, raised by some...the first question a
+writer has to answer is, "Who, ultimately, is my story about?"  In any novel or
+short story or movie or TV series, who are the essential protagonists?  B5 was
+always about the station, first and foremost, and the other main characters in
+this future history were Sheridan, Sinclair, Garibaldi, Delenn, Londo, G'Kar,
+Franklin and to an extent, Ivanova.  Everyone else comes under the heading of
+minor or secondary characters...on the long-arc series level, the same as a
+guest star in a single episode of a regular series.
+
+It would be impossible...let me say this again, impossible...to track the whole
+history of all of the other characters in this show; it would take another
+whole series just to do the Lyta/G'Kar adventures.  We showed the resolution of
+all the main characters in the story.  That was my primary obligation.  We can
+take some secondary measures to fill in information on some of the secondary
+characters, but in a TV show there's only so much you can do.  Hell, I've had
+people send me email demanding to know what happened to the people rescued from
+Babylon 4....c'mon, some common sense, please.
+
+And on another level, I think it's better to let people make up their own ideas
+about what happened with folks like G'Kar and Lyta...
+
+That said...that topic is closed, as far as I'm concerned.  I told the stories
+of the main characters of the show, which is what was promised.
+
+Mainly, this is intended as thanks to everyone for the kind words.  It seems
+fitting that having spent the last 5+ years sending out words, to now receive
+words in return.  The circle is closed by that, and it's been terrific.
+
+Thank you to everyone here...warts, weirdnesses and all, it's been fun.  As I
+said, I'll be pulling back a bit now, because I kind of need to get a life
+again, and I need to concentrate on Crusade...but this experiece will always
+count as one of the most astonishing and gratifying of my career.
+
+Thank you again.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn: JMS RISING STARS preview & #0 info? (26 Dec 1998)
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Re: Attn: JMS RISING STARS preview & #0 info?

+26 Dec 1998
>If you're still out there Joe, I'm hoping you can give further info
+>on your upcoming comic series.  There's a RISING STARS Preview issue, 16 
+>b&w pages for $5 (probably $7.50 Canadian, *ouch*!) solicited in the new 
+>Previews catalog from Diamond distributors.  Also, a #0 is to
+>be included in the March issue of Wizard magazine.
+>
+>
+
+I'm still here, just sorta coasting, mainly replying by email to stuff I see
+that needs replying to, and wondering why on earth people are still responding
+to Cronan as if a) he had anything of value to say, b) were actually a carbon
+based life form, instead of a juvenile troll in need of attention....
+
+>The info given is unclear whether the preview or #0 are actually comics 
+>style stories or text and art samples from #1-on?  And the preview only 
+>lists the artist as "various" and nothing for #0.  Who is/are the 
+>artist(s)?
+
+The preview is 70% story, 30% art samples and other supporting stuff for the
+book; the issue 0 is a full story.  Top Cow hasn't released info on the artist
+yet.
+
+So far, everybody there is massively jazzed about the new book; the scripts
+(I've turned in the preview, 0 and 1 so far) keep getting passed from person to
+person as they come in, and read and reread.  Apparently they're knocked out by
+it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: ATTN JMS (please):Tears

+2 Jan 1999
Many thanks...and I hope JRRT isn't spinning in his hobbit hole over that one.
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+Re: Attn JMS: Why, Joe, why? (13 Jan 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Why, Joe, why?

+13 Jan 1999
So in other words, I cannot have or express an opinion of my own.  You can say
+that you do not like the CTA music, but I cannot say that I do not like the
+droning Voyager music, is that it?  The freedom of expression goes only one
+direction?  
+
+Sorry, Von Bruno...that doesn't wash.  Either it's a level playing field or it
+ain't.
+
+Go repress somebody else.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS:News? Pretty Please? (13 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS:News? Pretty Please?

+13 Jan 1999
>How's filming going? What episodes have you filmed lately? 
+
+We finished shooting #12 today.  Tomorrow Stephen Furst begins shooting on
+"Appearances and Other Deceits."
+
+>(Or does that require Vorlon-level passcodes?)
+>How are the old crew and the new cast interfacing?
+
+They're getting along famously; the new cast are a very serious bunch, and
+totally dedicated to the work.
+
+>And how are you? Gotten any naps lately? :)
+
+In May.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Internet/Convention presence??? (13 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Internet/Convention presence???

+13 Jan 1999
I think I'm going to end up doing fewer conventions than in previous years; to
+some extent I think I may have gotten over-exposed, and over-personalized the
+show when it's the show that should be at the focus.  So yeah, overall I'll be
+doing a bit less than usual for the next year or so.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Matheson (18 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Matheson

+18 Jan 1999
>I noticed that the last name of the first officer of Excaliber in Crusade is
+>Matheson. (Hes supposed to be a teep, I think, am i right?)
+>
+>Is this a nod towards legendary horror writer Richard matheson?
+
+Yup.  I fell in love with Matheson's work as a kid, and since we had Bester in
+B5, I figured it might be good luck to have Matheson in Crusade.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  River of Souls (19 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  River of Souls

+19 Jan 1999
>Sorry to bother you, but I was wondering if you could shed any light on what
+>happened to the "River of Souls" novel.  According to Waldenbooks it was
+>supposed to come out in mid-December; according to Amazon.com, it's not
+>published until December 1999, and it isn't listed at all on the publishers'
+>order form in the back of the "Call to Arms" novel.  I'm asssuming it was
+>canceled, but was wondering why.
+>
+
+We pulled the book.  For a variety of reasons, it wasn't where we wanted it to
+be, and the quality we needed it to be, so it was dropped.  We hope we can try
+and do something else with the novelist at some point in the future.
+
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+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN: JOE PLEASE! (19 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JOE PLEASE!

+19 Jan 1999
>PLEASE! I know you couldn't stop the Big Breakfast debacle, but could you
+>phone C4 and explain why this is so important to us? You're the only one
+>they might listen to!
+
+No one listen to Zathras....not C4...not any other kind of explosives or
+gas...very sad...much hangings up at other end of phone...heard that C4 was
+taken back in time, was center for great war of britfans...Zathras not know
+what britfans means, but is sure it must be important to great war against
+darkness....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS: A couple of Crusade questions (19 Jan 1999)
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Re: JMS: A couple of Crusade questions

+19 Jan 1999
>Has the delay in starting the broadcast helped or hindered you in
+>production?  I can see how having some extra time in preparation can be
+>a help, but I imagine it can also encourage a little too much fiddling
+>around in search of perfection. 
+
+No real impact either way...we contract with our CGI and stuff to be done by a
+given date, and that date can't be expanded without additional fees, so it will
+still get done in the same amount of time.
+
+>Question 2:  assuming that the report of the content of "Appearances and
+>Other Deceits" is correct, what was the creative process involved in
+>coming up with this solution?  Was it one of those blinding flashes of
+>revelation or was it a more mundane logical solution?
+
+I was just thinking about how to use the changes to the benefit of the story
+rather than an annoyance, thought of my reaction to the level of annoyance,
+wondered how Gideon would react, and just started giggling...figured I could
+turn it around and in a sense take a shot across someone's bow...so there it
+is.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: A thank you & a small history of the net (19 Jan 1999)
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Re: A thank you & a small history of the net

+19 Jan 1999
Thanks, I appreciate all of that.  The Internet has had an effect on a lot of
+people in that way, and though there's much negative, those elements do count
+as positives.
+
+Continued good luck to you.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: jms- Megacon (19 Jan 1999)
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Re: jms- Megacon

+19 Jan 1999
>Fan-run cons are well-known, are non-profit 501(3)(c) organizations, are
+>run by long running organizations, etc.  JMS should know this, but for
+>some reason he asserts that his test of their legitimacy is whether they
+>are organized enough to pay him a large fee.  He says, as I recall, that
+>the test of gathering a large sum of money tests their organization.  Or
+>somesuch.  I hope I have that wrong.
+
+Yes, you have that wrong.  You have that MASSIVELY wrong, on just about every
+conceivable level.  I never said what you represent above.  
+
+Further, the majority of the conventions I do each year ARE fan run
+conventions.  From Marcon to LosCon to Stellar Occasion to WishCon to a small
+fan-run con in Calgary last year...from big ones to small ones, they are nearly
+ALL fan-run cons.  
+
+As for fees...there are usually fees because I'm being asked to take away a
+weekend, the only time I have a chance to rest up, and fly somewhere to,
+essentially, perform.  It's a very strenuous thing for me...I often lose as
+much as 5-10 pounds over a weekend convention because I'm running my brains
+out, sometimes from early morning to late evening with maybe a half-hour for a
+fast bite at lunch and often going straight through dinner.
+
+Even so, even with all that...it's a token fee, maybe one third what folks like
+Bruce get (or even less), and it's a function of distance traveled.  For
+LosCon, and Gallifrey, and other local cons...there's no fee at all, because I
+can go and come back.  If it's cross country, then yeah, the fee goes up with
+distance, because if I'm going to travel that far, I need to make sure that
+there are going to be a reasonable number of people there.  So that mitigates
+toward cons that can afford a speaker's fee.
+
+And again, I deliberately keep my fees to a fraction of what is generally
+required by cast members for the very reason that it puts me in reach of
+smaller conventions.  I do this as an act of respect toward the fan run cons
+across the country and elsewhere...so I take your comments here as a personal
+slap in the face.
+
+I never, ever, at any time said that a given fee somehow legitimizes a
+convention.  It's a stupid thing to say, and I never said it, never implied it.
+ 
+
+Please refrain from attributing to me things I never said.  I have a hard
+enough time handling what I DO say to worry about all the ones I didn't say.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Season 5 B5 cards (23 Jan 1999)
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Re: Season 5 B5 cards

+23 Jan 1999
I agree, I'm pretty pleased with how this set came out.  Some of the images are
+still a bit dark for my tastes, something we tried to address as best we could
+with screen grabs, but the set looks very nice.  Though that one picture about
+turning out the lights from SiL will doubtless just drive down the price of the
+whole darned set....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: Any ideas about the release dates of the novels? (2 Jan 1999)
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Re: Any ideas about the release dates of the novels?

+2 Jan 1999
>When is the second book of the Telepath Trilogy supposed to come out
+
+Literally any time now.
+, and
+>when
+>is the first novel of the Centauri Trilogy supposed to come out?
+
+Spring.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn JMS: Gold Channel (23 Jan 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Gold Channel

+23 Jan 1999
We're totally revamping Gold Channel; you should see the new version fo it
+shortly.  It's going to be updated more frequently as well, with
+behind-the-scenes photos from Crusade and elsewhere.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS Quick Questions (24 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS Quick Questions

+24 Jan 1999
>1) When you have to transfer the widescreen version of B5 to the regular
+>aspect, do you have to pan and scan, or are the side of the screen just used
+>as 'beauty space' when shot, and so can be clipped without damaging
+>composition?
+
+It's the latter, though we've been composing more for widescreen and actually
+putting the edges to good use in Crusade.
+
+>2) Back before B5 satarted and the media interest was muted at best,
+>Cinefantastique put together a knock out B5-dedecated issue, with previews of
+>most of the first season (when they were called things like 'The
+>Ressurectionist' and 'Raiding Party'). Interviews, the whole works. Is
+>anything similar planned around the start of Crusade?
+
+Dunno...nobody's said anything about it to me thus far.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+24 Jan 1999
1) For those who haven't heard, there are new Sifl and Ollie installments now
+airing on MTV at 8:00 p.m. East and West Coast times.  If you thought sock
+puppets couldn't have their own talk show, well, you're just wrong, that's all.
+ It's a wonderful, funny, utterly demented program.  Give it a shot.
+
+2) Stephen Furst asked me to mention that a huge portion of the B5 cast who
+attended VorCon here were stiffed for the bulk of their fees.  Michael O'Hare,
+Peter Jurasik, Mira, Bill, Pat, Jeffrey and others were never paid what they
+were promised.
+
+That the cast nonetheless came out and peformed and did their all for the fans
+in spite of this says a lot for them, I think.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: Interesting JMS Quote and Crusade

+24 Jan 1999
>> I saw this in my archives and found it interesting in
+>> respect of the mess Crusade got into having to reshoot
+>> material to insert into existing awful episodes.
+
+Nothing was reshot to be inserted into prior episodes.  The episodes are being
+aired as originally written and edited.  No changes have been made, no
+additional material filmed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!! (26 Jan 1999)
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Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!!

+26 Jan 1999
If I thought Evan Chen was an error, whether I chose to admit it or not, I
+would not have him on as composer on the series.
+
+But it was not an error, as testified by the many folks who've come out of the
+woodwork (many of them musicians) to say that they loved the music on ACTA. 
+Your opinion is your opinion, and that's fine...but there are other opinions
+just as valid.  So don't use your opinion as proof that an error of fact has
+taken place, and thus that I'm not admitting it somehow being indicative that
+I've changed.
+
+And Evan *is* doing the music on the series.  We've scored three so far, and he
+continues to improve with every episode, as Chris Franke improved with every
+episode.  WB thinks he's a genuine find.
+
+We will soon be putting up the main title for CRUSADE on thestation.com, and
+you can see some more of what he's doing musically, and I have to say it's
+great.
+
+I have no intention of making a change in composers for CRUSADE.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!! (26 Jan 1999)
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Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!!

+26 Jan 1999
>Will the Crusade opening theme and opening credits change with every season,
+>like
+>B5?
+
+Dunno yet...probably, though to what extent, I don't know.  We just finished
+this one, and it was the toughest one we've done, and the most unusual, so I
+don't even want to think about the next one yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN: JMS, was Re: Ramming Speed (26 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS, was Re: Ramming Speed

+26 Jan 1999
Since this debate began, I've heard from any number of people...and any number
+of military types who actually would be in a position to either hear this, or
+say this.
+
+And it's totally a reasonable line.  Some, including former commanders on
+shipboard and ordinary sailer-types  noted that there are two Really Worrisome
+Orders: the first is "Emergency speed," which means "kill warning bells,
+disable safety systems, give her everything she's got and let me know just
+beore the engines burn out."
+
+The other is...ramming speed.  Which means "kill warning bells, disable safety
+systems, full emergency speed, today is a good day to die."
+
+The basic delineation is that when you're in battle, you use the bare miminum
+of words to express what you're trying to say, because seconds can mean the
+difference between life and death and success and failure.
+
+One could, indeed, make the longer, more involved statements others have said
+they'd've preferred...but by that time, there would be no surviving ship to
+give the order to.  Further, you want to give the crew the minimum possible
+time to think about what these orders *mean*...so you keep it short and sharp
+and rely on their training to get them to do what the order implies.
+
+Yes, it's an old-fashioned term...but there's such a thing as tradition in
+military language, where ships have decks even though they're not wooden decks
+anymore...and there isn't a naval officer anywhere who on leaving port doesn't
+say "set sail," even though he could be commanding a nuclear vessel without a
+sail in sight.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!! (Ramming Speed Comment) (27 Jan 1999)
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Re: Evan Chen Not on CRUSADE yet!!!!!! (Ramming Speed Comment)

+27 Jan 1999
>Um, this is a non-existent concept.  It is meaningless.  The only
+>possible maximum speed is light speed.  This is simple ninth-grade
+>physics.  What part of this do you not understand?
+>
+>So long as thrust is applied, your speed increases.  It continues to
+>increase forever, never quite reaching lightspeed.  How many times must
+>people state simple facts of physics?
+
+This is true only if you do continue to maintain thrust without ever turning
+off your engines.  Which means you would burn out your engines, or run out of
+fuel.  
+
+This is a pedantic point.  Maximum speed would refer to what this given
+starship can do in regular operations, with finite fuel and common-sense
+applied to how long and how hard you burn the engines.  A Starfury knows what
+its maximum speed is if it ever hopes to return home; it's the OPERATING system
+we're talking about, not the greater laws of physics in the universe.  A pilot
+just needs to know "How fast can I push this puppy?"  Yeah, a jet fighter can
+exceed specs...and he'll black out, burn out, and crash.
+
+This is a case of not seeing forest for the trees.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Sheridan a bit too grey? (27 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Sheridan a bit too grey?

+27 Jan 1999
Actually, I believe that's Bruce's natural color.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Comicon (29 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Comicon

+29 Jan 1999
Yes, I do plan to be at ComicCon.
+
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Budgets, Budgets, and more budgets!!!! (4 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Budgets, Budgets, and more budgets!!!!

+4 Jan 1999
The B5 tv movies produced so far cost just a tick under $3 million.
+
+We could almost certainly do a high-quality theatrical feature for about $35-40
+million.
+
+The average going price for a feature these days is $55 million.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+note from jms re: evan chen (5 Jan 1999)
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note from jms re: evan chen

+5 Jan 1999
I posted this on Compuserve...just passing this along here as well on the topic
+of the music for A CALL TO ARMS.
+
+     I suppose we could've stayed with the safe choice, with Chris, or done 
+a nice, safe, droning Voyager style score that you don't even notice, but 
+we're looking to take chances, and that means some people will like what you 
+do, some won't.  Some won't like it because it's different.  Neil Gaiman told 
+me that a number of fans of any form, including his own, say they want 
+something new and challenging that takes chances...but it they don't like the 
+form of that chance, they blame you for somehow doing it wrong...and they 
+want the next new thing to be just like the last thing you did.
+
+      I can't tell you the number of people who said "why can't you just do 
+the John Williams style music instead of this?"  Because it's been done, and 
+it's cliche, and by god we're going to push what's "expected" to try some new 
+things.  Otherwise what the hell's the point?
+
+"Of course, you've been through this before.  I seem to recall a lot of 
+people complaining when Christopher Franke replaced the composer for the 
+pilot.  I don't doubt that a lot of the people screaming loudest now are the 
+very ones who complained about Franke when he started."
+
+      I don't know about the latter, but I can sure confirm the former.  And 
+that's why I sometimes wish the viewer responses were logged as much as my 
+own have been.  When we brought in Chris to replace Stewart Copeland, you 
+can't *believe* how much email I got from people saying to trash him, fire 
+him, it's that "euro-trash techno-crap" most called it.  "He uses sounds and 
+banging instead of music," people complained (which he did mainly in the 
+first two seasons), "it's distracting and it's not appropriate, get rid of 
+him."
+
+      But we didn't.  I told people to give him time to settle into the show, 
+and on the other hand to let them get used to a different kind of sound than 
+what they expected.  ("I guess you couldn't afford to hire a real composer 
+like TNG uses," was another popular line.)  
+
+      Evan ain't Chris, nor should he be, nor should he *have* to be.  He is 
+a brilliantly talented composer.  This is his first shot at a dramatic 
+series, and as he settles in (as Chris settled in), I think people are going 
+to be as loyal to what he's doing in Crusade as they were to Chris in B5.  
+He's a classically trained composer, who threw it all away to come study jazz 
+under some of the best jazz men in Chicago...washing dishes to support 
+himself when he had been at the top of his field in China...because he loves 
+music, and loves to experiment, and he took a chance.
+
+      In the course of Crusade, we're going to see some places we've never 
+seen before...and thanks to Evan, we're going to hear some things we've never 
+heard before.  He's a find, and a genuine, fresh talent, and I stand behind 
+him 100%.
+
+      And the people who say they are fans of Chris Franke's should think 
+twice before doing to him what so many people did so rudely to Chris when he 
+first came aboard.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Book Trilogies (10 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Book Trilogies

+10 Jan 1999
The third trilogy (actually the second to go into the works) is a Technomage
+trilogy, with Jeanne Cavelos writing.
+
+Peter David is doing the Centauri trilogy.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: copyright ownership (10 Jan 1999)
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Re: copyright ownership

+10 Jan 1999
Standard stuff: any studio owns all the rights to the show it makes.  Paramount
+owns ST, not Roddenberry's estate.  Similarly, WB owns B5, lock, stock and
+docking bay.  They also own all the designs, the ship models, and all of that. 
+It's all copyrighted and trademarked, down to the schematics.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Something Bugging me greatly!!!!! (11 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Something Bugging me greatly!!!!!

+11 Jan 1999
Peter David has already done one script for Crusade, "Ruling from the Tomb,"
+shot a few weeks ago.  Looks good.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - MegaCon99 (13 Jan 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - MegaCon99

+13 Jan 1999
>As a viewer of B5 since the beginning, I was thrilled to see that you are
+>finally making a trip to my part of the world at the MegaCon in Orlando
+>March 5-7.  I was wondering which day (or hopefully, days) that you will be
+>speaking?
+
+I believe that my main presentation in the big room will be on Saturday;
+there's one Sunday as well, but not as big a deal.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS: Outside Writers I'd Like to See... (13 Jan 1999)
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Re: JMS: Outside Writers I'd Like to See...

+13 Jan 1999
Peter David has done a script for Crusade this season, Larry DiTillio is
+currently working on one, as is Richard Mueller, in addition to a couple of
+scripts by Fiona Avery.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn: JMS - Directors for Crusade (1 Feb 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS - Directors for Crusade

+1 Feb 1999
Yes, Goran has been slated for a Crusade episode.
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+
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+Re: attn: JMS. Book release order? (12 Feb 1999)
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Re: attn: JMS. Book release order?

+12 Feb 1999
>There seems to be some confusion arising on the UK newsgroup about which
+>group of the three trilogies will be coming out next. I know a lot of us
+>want the Centauri Prime trilogy next (for obvious reasons) but it sounds as
+>though the Technomage trilogy is coming out first (after the Psi Corps
+>trilogy is finished). So which is it? And, if the Jeanne Cavelos novels will
+>be out before the Peter David ones, when can we expect Peter David's work to
+>hit the book shops?
+>
+>
+My guess (it's to some extent a matter of how fast they get it done after I
+turn in the outlines) is that we'll get the next Psi Corps novel first, then a
+Technomage novel, then the final Psi Corps/Bester novel, then the first
+Centauri novel, the second Technomage novel, and after that your guess is as
+good as mine.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: New Unauthorized Babylon 5 Book Out (13 Feb 1999)
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Re: New Unauthorized Babylon 5 Book Out

+13 Feb 1999
I would appreciate it if some kind soul could send me a copy of this book
+(notify me first so we don't have ten folks sending copies in, and wasting
+their time), because this book apparently uses vast tracts of my internet
+postings, which is a gross violation of my copyright.  I've given permission to
+use my postings on other internet systems, but never to be used in a book or to
+be sold for profit.  
+
+Under my AOL agreement, and my CIS agreement, and the electronic copyright
+acts, these public postings are my express property and cannot be used without
+my permission.
+
+This applies to magazines as well as books.  To anyone else thinking of
+poaching -- and we had to deal with a UK publisher on this very issue lately,
+and won -- the copyright to this material will be vigorously protected, so
+don't even *think* about using it and selling my words for your profit.
+
+These are freely provided, to fans, for their private and non-profit use, with
+my permission.  NO permission is granted for anyone or anything else.
+
+I fully intend to bring suit against Mr. Schuster for copyright infringement.
+
+
+>A new unauthorized Babylon 5 book was released recently.  I bought it in NYC
+>at
+>St. Mark's Comics.  Here is the book info:
+>
+>An Uncensored Guide, The Unauthorized, Uncensored Guide for Fans of Babylon 5
+>"Inside Babylon.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: attn.JMS.UK appearances (16 Feb 1999)
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Re: attn.JMS.UK appearances

+16 Feb 1999
There's nothing currently scheduled for the UK.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: New Unauthorized Babylon 5 Book Out (16 Feb 1999)
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Re: New Unauthorized Babylon 5 Book Out

+16 Feb 1999
As noted in another thread, the situation has been resolved, and Mr. Schuster
+has agreed to remove the copyrighted material from all future copies of the
+book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Schuster's unauthorized book (16 Feb 1999)
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Re: Schuster's unauthorized book

+16 Feb 1999
I've communicated with Mr. Schuster, and he has agreed to remove from future
+copies of the book all of the material taken from my internet postings.
+
+That doesn't affect the copies already on stands, but all copies produced
+henceforth (it's a self published operation, with limited numbers made at any
+time) will be done without that copyrighted material.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Next con appearance? (19 Feb 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Next con appearance?

+19 Feb 1999
I'll be at Megacon in Orlando, Florida the weekend of March 5th.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Sifl and Olly (20 Feb 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sifl and Olly

+20 Feb 1999
>In the latest B5 magazine, it says that you may be voicing one of the
+>puppets on an upcoming Sifl and Olly episode.  Will this still be
+>happening?
+>
+>
+
+Haven't heard back.  Liam said they wanted to make me into a sock puppet for
+the show.  I said it would be redundent, but they were welcome to go for it. 
+So we'll see....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Does cast/crew get paid? (21 Feb 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Does cast/crew get paid?

+21 Feb 1999
It depends on the department and the position within that department.  Some
+folks can get holding money, some go on the union roster for day-work elsewhere
+until the dust settles.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: Attn. JMS:  Writer Ageism/60 Minutes (22 Feb 1999)
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Re: Attn. JMS:  Writer Ageism/60 Minutes

+22 Feb 1999
>Is or was there any writer ageism present in your experience writing B5 and
+>elsewhere?  60 Minutes did an interesting piece on older writers having
+>trouble working?  What's your take on this issue?  I think a good writer
+>regardless of age with a good story can sell it.
+
+I haven't personally experienced it, but only because I'm still in my middle
+40s (44).  However I know a number of people who *have* been affected by it,
+and it's a genuine problem.  The irony is that many of the shows that say "we
+want mid-twenties writers only" are being run by guys in their fifties...so if
+they can create it and write for it, why can't somebody else in that age range?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+from jms re: Crusade (26 Feb 1999)
+
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from jms re: Crusade

+26 Feb 1999
Bottom line:
+
+The reason we've been waiting so long for news is that the SciFi Channel has
+been crunching numbers for weeks, trying to make the deal work with WB, and
+doing their level best.  The programming folks there loved the show (and
+special thanks has to go to Programming Head Tom Vitale at SFC who worked
+hardest to make this work).
+
+The problem is simply this: the money to fund a series is a BIG chunk of
+change.  SFC had already allocated its budget for the year as of January 1st,
+and there simply wasn't enough left in this year's budget to pull it off. 
+Also, the emphasis now is on spending money on shows where one owns a piece of
+it, and Crusade is owned entirely by WB.  
+
+At the end of they day, they just couldn't make the dollars work, though they
+tried their damndest, and are only to be thanked.
+
+I'm told that if the ratings are good on the 13 which TNT will still air, all
+the eps made so far will be shown, there may be a second season, but we'll see.
+
+Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off.  There have been seven offers for overall
+deals and multiple network pilot deals with both networks per se and studios on
+my desk for about a year now, ever since B5 ended, which I've been putting off
+to do Crusade.  Now I'll pick one of those deals and make it.  So the next
+thing from me you see will almost certainly be on one of the major networks. 
+I'm going back into the deep water again....
+
+Meanwhile, my thanks to all those who emailed and wrote and called and
+supported.  It's a good show, as will be seen when the shows are aired, and I'd
+rather lose a show I believed in than keep one I didn't believe in.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Star Trek style shuttle/fighter bays and TNT  (1 Feb 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Star Trek style shuttle/fighter bays and TNT 

+1 Feb 1999
> One part of it
+>that caught my attention is a reference to the shuttle and fighter bays
+>being pressurized, but having them open to space, the atmosphere being
+>kept in by a 'magnetic' shield or some technowizzit.
+
+No, there is a definite (and very large) airlock door that closes after ships
+enter the flight deck, so it can then be pressurized.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS & ALL: Do NOT despair. (27 Feb 1999)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS & ALL: Do NOT despair.

+27 Feb 1999
What you have to understand at this point is that there's really no time left. 
+It takes a large amount of money to hold a cast and crew together while other
+options are being sought, and even then options on varoius cast members and
+others begin to expire fast.
+
+WB can't keep spending holding money while they're seeking another prospect. 
+It's a business decision, but a sensible one, given the large amounts of money
+involved.  Their approach now is to believe in the show enough to get it on the
+air, let the ratings speak for themselves, and see what happens.
+
+My only regret is for the cast, who are all uniformly terrific, and who are
+caught out in all this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Attn JMS:  Are you still going to Megacon (27 Feb 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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Re: Attn JMS:  Are you still going to Megacon

+27 Feb 1999
Yup, I'll be there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Network projects! (27 Feb 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Network projects!

+27 Feb 1999
>So what sort of offers have you recieved? I'm just curious...anything
+>sci-fi-ish, or a drama? 
+
+It's a number of things; to run some network shows, to create others (blind
+pilot deals, meaning I write it, they buy it)...one network called late Friday
+as word got out and asked if I'd do a non-SF TV movie for them while the rest
+is in discussion (I said sure)...I can't talk about it much until the dust
+settles and I decide where to land.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: The A Call To Arms Poster (1 Feb 1999)
+
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Re: The A Call To Arms Poster

+1 Feb 1999
It's a typo.  The folks who did the poster never checked with us before they
+printed it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN jms: Sleeping in Light Novelization (6 Feb 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN jms: Sleeping in Light Novelization

+6 Feb 1999
> Have you ever thought of making a novelization of
+>"Sleeping in Light"? Either writing it yourself or assigning it to
+>another author?
+
+No, not really.  Not sure I'd want it done that way.  Let the internal
+thoughts/monologue stay internal.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Is "War Zone" History? (8 Feb 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Is "War Zone" History?

+8 Feb 1999
>will you be reverting back to your
+>original plan and air "Racing the Night" first? I ask since you stated that
+>TNT
+>requested you reshuffle your story and make an introductory episode, titled
+>"War Zone".
+
+No, because the season was structured in such a way as to make that impossible.
+ You'll understand when you see what was done.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: SIL Clip in B5 CD-ROM (8 Feb 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: SIL Clip in B5 CD-ROM

+8 Feb 1999
Yeah, it was meant as a surprise, but that's the only one like it there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Whatcha up to now? (10 Feb 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Whatcha up to now?

+10 Feb 1999
>I was just 
+>curious how you will be spending your time during this potentially nerve-
+>wracking waiting period? Will you be writing more eps for Crusade? 
+>Working on your new comic (I can't wait to see it!)? Actually getting 
+>some sleep for a change?
+>
+All that...plus working on the show, doing post production on the episodes
+already in hand (CGI, music, sound, editing)...I'm actually about as busy as we
+are during shooting.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: B5 on Drew Carey show (10 Feb 1999)
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Re: B5 on Drew Carey show

+10 Feb 1999
We worke with the folks from the DCS on this.  When they asked if they could do
+it, I only asked that they use our makeup and costume folks so it was
+authentic, rather than what Ellen did with 'em.  I think they did a great job
+with this on Drew.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+New Words (12 Feb 1999)
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New Words

+12 Feb 1999
Every so often, I come up with new words for stuff...came up with a couple the
+other day, thought I'd pass 'em along.
+
+When you're talking on the phone to someone who's online in a chat or doing
+email, and there's that constant pause between what you say and their
+reply...that's "net-lag."
+
+When you're making a turn in a car and there's people in the way: a flack of
+pedestrians.
+
+Tha'ts it...just a thought....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: Elia Kazan (3 Mar 1999)
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Re: Elia Kazan

+3 Mar 1999
>I find it rather grimly amusing that those who profess the
+>greatest horror at "The Black List" now demand that Elia Kazan
+>remain blacklisted, forty years later, and get indignant, bent
+>out of shape, and even violent at any cracks in *that* black list.
+
+Langauge and words have specific meaning.
+
+To be blacklisted means that you cannot work, cannot pursue your livelihood.
+
+Kazan has worked successfully for his entire life.
+
+Further, most of those prosecuted under the blacklist were totally innocent and
+never did the things they were accused of doing.  No one has ever said that
+Kazan didn't name names.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: Is the Pern TV Series JMS's next project? (8 Mar 1999)
+
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Re: Is the Pern TV Series JMS's next project?

+8 Mar 1999
Nope, ain't me.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 Scripts Available Through Fan Club (29 Aug 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  B5 Scripts Available Through Fan Club

+29 Aug 1999
Yeah, we plan to sell a number of B5 scripts in chronological order, for a
+limited period, one or so per month.  What that means is: we'll take orders on
+a script such as the Gathering from September 1 to the end of the month.  Then
+we'll print up only as many copies as have been ordered.  That's it.  Then we
+move to the next one.  It'll probably take years before it would cycle through
+all the scripts we make available before we got back to the Gathering again. 
+So when they're gone, for all intents and purposes, they're gone.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+Re: JMS:  What can't you? (29 Aug 1999)
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Re: JMS:  What can't you?

+29 Aug 1999
>Just by catagory, I know that you've written:
+>
+>stage plays          novels         short stories           comic books
+>song lyrics             newspaper articles       radio shows      magazine
+>columns
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

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+Re: When is TNT gonna make up there minds (29 Aug 1999)
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Re: When is TNT gonna make up there minds

+29 Aug 1999
>What Variety said about Babylon 5 is not very nice.  I won't
+>repeat it.
+
+To be precise, it was Variety's characterization of TNT's attitudes toward the
+show.  Which, given recent history, is to be expected.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
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+

+
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+Re: JMS:  What can't you? (29 Aug 1999)
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Re: JMS:  What can't you?

+29 Aug 1999
Ignore the other post...I hit the wrong flipping button.
+
+To quote again:
+
+>Just by catagory, I know that you've written:
+>
+>stage plays          novels         short stories           comic books
+>song lyrics             newspaper articles       radio shows      magazine
+>columns
+>screenplays for both live action and animated from 1/2 hour to MOW length 
+>a textbook
+>So my question is:  Is there anything you simply can't or won't write?  Or
+>have
+>you just not gotten around to poetry and symphonies yet? <g>
+
+I totally suck at poetry.  At best I can come up with a kind of doggerel that
+should never be seen by anydamnbody.
+
+My feeling is that each kind of writing you do makes you better at another kind
+of writing, therefore it behooves you to do it all, if at all possible. 
+Writing an article teaches you structure, which you use in a screenplay; a
+screenplay teaches you dialogue which you use in a short story; a short story
+teaches you narrative structure which you can apply to novels...and so on.
+
+It's all meant to be a learning experience.  It's when you stop learning that
+the trouble starts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

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+
+Re: Bad Feelings About the Fan Club Script Offerings (29 Aug 1999)
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Re: Bad Feelings About the Fan Club Script Offerings

+29 Aug 1999
>Of course, what is being offered are cheaply produced expensive
+>"collectors items."  It really gives me a bad feeling and I hope more
+>thought will go into this.
+>
+
+There's several differences.  You're getting the acutal physical *script*, not
+a published version OF a script, the real deal.  
+
+Second, the Art of Star Wars published several hundred thousand copies of that
+script; collector's value is zero.  We will be putting out, at most, a few
+hundred copies of each one.  The rarer something is, the more it costs, and the
+greater its value.
+
+Third, the $25 price ($20 for an episode) is equal to or less than what is
+charged by script houses.
+
+Fouth, unlike these script houses that copy scripts unlawfully and never pay a
+dime to the author or the studio, all the B5 authors whose scripts we publish,
+like Larry or David or DC or others, will get a 10% commission on the sales.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+Re: attn JMS: spoilers for: Path of Sorrows, Racing the Night, (30 Aug 1999)
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Re: attn JMS: spoilers for: Path of Sorrows, Racing the Night,

+30 Aug 1999
+>1.  Is the Apocalypse Box inspired by The One Ring from Tolkiens Lord of the
+>Rings?
+
+No.
+
+>2.  Is Galen named after the town in Jonathan Carrolls "Land of Laughter"?
+>
+
+No.  He's named after a certain ancient physician.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: Attn JMS: Medieval Metaphors (31 Aug 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Medieval Metaphors

+31 Aug 1999
>After all that said, I
+>want to know: why have you chosen all those medieval metaphors to depict
+>the future of mankind? Do you believe we are getting back to the values
+>of Dark Ages in some way?
+
+Not per se, no, just applying some of the myths and models from that period to
+the future.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: You Seem Disillusioned (4 Sep 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: You Seem Disillusioned

+4 Sep 1999
Logging on from Australia....
+
+Actually, I'm not disillusioned.  Disappointed, sure, in how TNT chose to treat
+the show...but understand that a 5 year run is the anomaly in TV, even more so
+in SF.  B5 was the first non-Trek space-based SF series to go more than 3
+seasons in 30 years.  So the record ain't great.
+
+But if anything, I've been just as busy on other projects since Crusade ended,
+and all of it is what Crusade was not during the last half-year of its
+production: they're fun again.  I'm enjoying myself, and that's what I got into
+this thing for in the first place.
+
+There's plenty of room to do good work; you just have to find proper vessels
+into which to place your work.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
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+

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+Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade final episode (spoilers) (4 Sep 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade final episode (spoilers)

+4 Sep 1999
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+
+>And the very 
+>last conversation was perfect, when Gideon says: "Life goes on." Was that 
+>something you put in after you knew this would be the last episode, or 
+>did it just happen to be there?
+
+Another Babylonian synchronicity.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Great ensemble of actors on Crusade! (10 Sep 1999)
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+10 Sep 1999
They're a good bunch, no mistake.  Thanks.
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+Re: PsiCorps 2: Deadly Relations...a readers review (8 Mar 1999)
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+8 Mar 1999
>By the way, is A Call To Arms novel canon with respect Galen was an
+>apprentice
+>to Elric or were these artistic embellishments by the author.
+
+Yes, that's canonical.
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL* (10 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*

+10 Sep 1999
>With the Sci-Fi Channel website reporting that the 1999 Hugo award for *Best
+>Dramatic Presentation* went to "The Truman Show" do you feel this was a
+>rebuke
+>of B5's fifth and final season (which many are saying has lead to a dramatic
+>softening of support for your sci-fi franchise)?
+>
+
+Not at all (and I still don't consider it a franchise; how can it be a
+franchise if it's not continuing?).
+
+What I was told by those involved is that SiL did not air in Australia during
+or before the voting period; it did not, in fact, finally air until after the
+WorldCon itself was over by three days.  And the majority of folks coming to
+WorldCon were, of course, Australians.  So they didn't *see* the episode to
+vote for it.  
+
+I would not expect, or want, anyone to vote for the episode sight-unseen.  To
+do so means you've missed the point of the show.
+
+Truman Show (a damned good movie and well worth the award, btw) was written by
+a New Zealander, and directed by an Australian, so was the next logical choice.
+
+
+Once I knew that SiL wasn't going to air until after the Hugos, I pretty much
+knew it wouldn't get the Hugo.  (As it was, according to the site with all the
+official  numbers, SiL did get more raw numbers of votes than any other
+nominee, but due to the Australian balloting system, which uses a weighted
+scale, TS got the actual award.)
+
+And I note that the question is phrased in your usual negative fashion, and
+frankly, I heard from many folks who said that S5 was their favorite season,
+and there's a great editorial in Frontier (the main SF magazine in Australia
+and a fine publication) that sang the praises of S5 as necessary and right.
+
+
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Wrestlers on Voyager (11 Sep 1999)
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+11 Sep 1999
>I recently heard that UPN wants to put wrestlers on Voyager now.  What
+>is your opinion on this?  I think the "Wrestlers on SF-Programs" thing
+>is really getting out of hand!
+>PS--I heard that the Voyager producers are going along with this
+>wrestling idea.  At least you had the integrity not to.
+
+I once heard someone say, in response to the idea of sendihng Geraldo Rivera
+into space on the Shuttle, "at least we'll finally be able to see the effect of
+a vacuum *on* a vacuum."
+
+I'm sorry, what was your question again...?
+
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+Re: JMS at Nasfic *spoilers* (12 Sep 1999)
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Re: JMS at Nasfic *spoilers*

+12 Sep 1999
>He then joked about a newmovie, "> > Women who go crazy every 28 days.  The
+>Blair Bitch Project." 
+
+Actually, it was about some women who, tied to the cycles of the moon, go nuts
+every 28 days, called "The Were Bitch Project."  Otherwise the pun doesn't
+work.
+
+I also apologized in advance for that, because of all the words I use -- and I
+use 'em all, I think every word in the King's english is fine by me -- that's
+the only one that I tend not to use and have never used before in a
+presentation, but as I said, I needed it to make the pun work.
+
+Other than that, when it comes to language...well, fuck it.
+
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+The Gathering Script Available (12 Sep 1999)
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+12 Sep 1999
Yesterday I was reading over the original script for "The Gathering," which we
+are making available via thestation.com for this month only.  (Everything that
+goes through for sale has to be approved by me personally, and I wanted to make
+sure the copy was solid and readable, it's been a long time, after all.)  And
+for those who've asked -- and I should've gotten to this before, it's just been
+kinda nuts -- it does have scenes that were filmed and didn't make it into
+either version of the aired pilot movie for reasons of length, and some scenes
+and partial scenes that were not filmed at *all.*  I was actually kinda
+surprised at just how much there was (including two very funny scenes with
+Garibaldi and a tiny drunk alien in the Zocalo bar that we couldn't shoot
+because the mechanical props kept breaking down).
+
+Anyway, to those who've asked, yes, there's a pretty goodly amount of new stuff
+there (well, new to anyone who never saw the script).  It was amazing to look
+back at it all, after 7 years, and see it in script form again; haven't touched
+it since we did the re-edit.  
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL* (12 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*

+12 Sep 1999
>Also, from what I understand, you have arranged for episode screenings at
+>conventions in the past ... was there any reason why no screening of *SiL*
+>was
+>setup for the convention prior to voting?
+
+Because the voting is done long before the convention, by mail.  Clearly you do
+not have any clear idea on the process.
+
+>That is their opinion and that is fine, however, the fact is that, honestly
+>speaking, season five IS generally hailed as the weakest and least satisfying
+>of the shows run.
+
+So if somebody else says something, that's their opinion, but if you say it,
+it's a fact, is that it?
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+Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL* (12 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*

+12 Sep 1999
My prior message was cut off before I finished...wonky computer today....
+
+To finish:
+
+>That is their opinion and that is fine, however, the fact is that, honestly
+>speaking, season five IS generally hailed as the weakest and least satisfying
+>of the shows run.
+
+To repeat...if someone else says they like it, then that's their opinion, but
+when you say something, it's the facts, right?  That's what you're saying here.
+
+Please give me the facts and figures to back this up, because it ain't what I
+hear at conventions, and it ain't reflected in the only -- ONLY -- objective
+form of reportage on B5's history: the P5 poll.  
+
+In the P5 poll, in which 2,403 people voted on episodes over the 5 year history
+of B5, the rankings are as follows, by season:
+
+PILOT: 6.32
+S1: 7.52
+S2: 8.11
+S3: 8.38
+S4: 8.58
+S5: 8.35
+
+With a standard deviation of .61, which means that the S5 rating could be as
+high as 9.  The .23 difference between S4 and S5 is statistically insignificant
+on every conceivable level, and even without that, the pilot, S1 and S2 ALL
+rated below S5 in the poll and it's essentially identical to S3.
+
+I've shown my homework, now you show yours.  Some people take it as read,
+because THEY didn't like it, that everybody else feels the same way (and I've
+heard from a LOT of people who very much liked S5 but just got tired of being
+shouted down by a few fanatics and stopped posting).  Again, the facts do NOT
+bear out your -- and I emphasize this word -- OPINION.  Sorry, but you do not
+have the key to unvarnished truth, only to your opinion, which is flatly and
+provably WRONG.
+
+So the facts definitely contradict you, as they tend to so often in your posts,
+from your claim through a "friend" that Harlan drinks, to this, to not knowing
+or understanding how the Hugo system works before criticizing it...it's a
+definite pattern on your part.
+
+
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+
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+Re: JMS: a new(?!) Crusade future question (spoil?) (13 Sep 1999)
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Re: JMS: a new(?!) Crusade future question (spoil?)

+13 Sep 1999
>I know that 3 Crusade scripts were written but not produced (To the Ends
+>of Earth, Value Judgements, The End of the Line).  I've heard you
+>respond maybe I'll put Crusade into novels, etc.  My question:  will you
+>somehow release these 3 already made scripts?  now that's something I'll
+>shell $20 bucks a pop for! 
+
+Dunno...haven't decided yet.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Wrestlers on Voyager (13 Sep 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Wrestlers on Voyager

+13 Sep 1999
>So, knowing how tough it is to make a living in *Hollywood,* your saying
+>simply
+>because someone makes their primary living as a professional wrestler YOU
+>would
+>preclude an individual from consideration for a role? I really do not believe
+>you're that shallow and superficial.
+
+Yes, I would, if it were done as a mandate from a studio as a ratings gimmick
+rather than for a legitimate story reason.
+
+As usual, your reasoning is specious.
+
+
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+Re: attn JMS: new Show - future of CRUSADE and BABYLON 5 (15 Sep 1999)
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Re: attn JMS: new Show - future of CRUSADE and BABYLON 5

+15 Sep 1999
>My friend is a big Dragon Riders of Pern fan and told me that he saw
+>an interview with Anne McAffrey. She stated that there was Babylon 5
+>writer who was coming over to write the Pern series.  That leaves me
+>with two possible writers: JMS or Fiona Avery.
+
+Nope.  It's probably Larry DiTillio, who is a big fan of Anne's, and was our
+story editor for 2 seasons (and is a perfect choice for the job).
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: First Run Of US-Based Shows In Non-USA Markets (16 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: First Run Of US-Based Shows In Non-USA Markets

+16 Sep 1999
The situation varies from market to market, but generally a non-US market buys
+the rights for a given period of time.
+
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+Re: attn: JMS (8 Mar 1999)
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+8 Mar 1999
>I'm curious if you have seen the commercials for the movie "Wing
+>Commander". It opens with the narrator saying "Earth's Last Hope", and
+>he sounds so much like the narrator for Babylon 5. I wondered if you
+>would think this a compliment to your opening of Babylon 5.
+
+No, I'm fine with it; it ain't like we copyrighted that phrase, and they
+probably didn't think of us at all in that regard.  I'll certainly try to see
+the film if I can, since I enjoyed the game.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Fan Fiction (16 Sep 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Fan Fiction

+16 Sep 1999
Fan fiction, however nice and fuzzy it may be as a community of folks, is still
+a form of copyright infringement...it takes characters which are owned by a
+studio and mass-produces them (well, even a few hundred copies is technically a
+mass).  So no, I can't authorize or sanction it because that would put me at
+legal odds with WB, which owns the copyright.
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS - Bryan Coney (16 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS - Bryan Coney

+16 Sep 1999
>Umm, on another list, Bryan Coney just contradicted what I have heard
+>you say regarding eithe Wolf 359 or Vorcon, or both about some of the
+>cast members not getting paid for their appearance. I totally don't want
+>to take him on, but I would like to know if I read you correctly
+>regarding this issue. If not, or if the situation has been cleared up
+>since last November, I need to know. I would rather not getting into a
+>war of words with him. 
+
+I was told, directly, by a number of cast members that they were most
+emphatically *not* paid for their appearances at VorCon, or in other cases paid
+only partially.  I have not heard anything to the contrary since then.  
+
+Beyond that, I know that WB has initiated action against Cooney on a variety of
+charges based on his convention activities, but that's all I know at this time.
+ I don't really keep track of it because he's not worth the expenditure of
+energy.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Rising Stars? (17 Sep 1999)
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+17 Sep 1999
>Has anyone seen the second Rising Stars yet?
+>
+
+It'll be out soon...just yesterday got the final colored pages and inks on the
+book, so they should be going to press at any time.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL* (18 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*

+18 Sep 1999
>> There are three kind of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.  Yes,
+>> but there is an error in the logic JMS. You have more viewers towards
+>> the end of the poll then you did at the begining. (Season 1 had fewer
+>> people then season two and so on and so forth).
+
+I'm sorry it's taken me this long to reply to this, but every time I see the
+quote preceding, I fall down laughing and I get bumped offline.
+
+Talking about errors in logic...once again, Von Bruno, you demonstrate your
+own, in the most glaring way imaginable.  It's the ultimate topper to your
+preceding inaccuracies.  This one is so massive and expansive that it's just
+breathtaking.
+
+Do you know *anything* about polling or public opinion measurement?  Before you
+answer, let me save you the time: no.  I do.  I have a degree in clinical
+psychology and a second degree in sociology, and as part of that had to take
+any number of specialized courses in polling and public opinion measurement.
+
+And here's where your logic falls down utterly.  Let me requote the above:
+
+>> There are three kind of lies. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.  Yes,
+>> but there is an error in the logic JMS. You have more viewers towards
+>> the end of the poll then you did at the begining. (Season 1 had fewer
+>> people then season two and so on and so forth).
+
+The more people you have in a poll, THE MORE ACCURATE IT IS.  The fewer people,
+the less accurate.  That utterly incontestable fact is at the core of every
+poll ever taken.  That's why they usually show you the raw numbers ("In a poll
+of two thousand people, ten percent thought Mars was not a planet but a candy
+bar").
+
+So the very element you claim made it LESS accurate in fact made it
+statistically MORE accurate.
+
+Just once, could you try to actually *know* something about what we're
+discussing here?  Do just a *little* homework from time to time?  Because right
+now, you're 0 for 5 on basic facts, just in the last round.
+
+And by the way, this is probably the last time I'm going to respond to you.  I
+can't lose that much work time laughing anymore.
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Rising Stars? (19 Sep 1999)
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Re: Rising Stars?

+19 Sep 1999
>> Has anyone seen the second Rising Stars yet?
+>
+>   Yep, but they took one look at the artwork and their heads exploded
+>like an outtake from "Scanners."
+
+Which is kind of difficult since I didn't approve the final artwork until a few
+days ago.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL* (19 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS, Re: No Hugo for *SiL*

+19 Sep 1999
>You can get some data out of it, but it's simply not an "utterly
+>uncontestable fact" that a greater sample size confers more accuracy
+>on a self-selected survey.
+
+What I was responding to was the statement that more responses made a survey
+*less* accurate.  Surely you're not saying that that's the case?  And yes, a
+larger sampling universe *does* make a survey more accurate within that
+preselected universe.  As long as the sampling within that universe is random
+-- and there's a wide range of diversity withih that preselected universe --
+the survey is accurate.
+
+For instance, phone surveys preselect anyone who has a phone.  At one point,
+there were still not a lot of phones in common use in the hinterlands, but that
+doesn't disqualify the poll.  A street corner poll preselects those who happen
+to be walking by the street corner.
+
+Now, if you're going to preselect for some particular specific variable -- all
+asians, for instance, or only people under 25 -- then you start to skew the
+data and thus the results, making it inapplicable to the greater, non-sampled
+universe.
+
+Point is, insisting that more numbers make a sample *less* accurate -- as VB
+was doing -- is utterly and totally inaccurate.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: JMS: Don't you get tired? (19 Sep 1999)
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Re: JMS: Don't you get tired?

+19 Sep 1999
>Don't you get tired of the 'I can't discuss it yet' and the 'I can neither
+>confirm or deny that' and the showing of a neutral or optimistic face for the
+>sake of the project even though it's gone to hell in a handbasket?  The
+>political crap seems that it would grind you down and sand off your
+>integrity.
+>How do you deal with it?
+
+I don't, basically, as the whole TNT situation makes fairly evident.  I'm
+simply not a political creature.  My life would be eminently simpler and less
+stressful if I *were*, but I ain't.  I go for the philosophy of "Be sand, not
+oil, in the machinery of the world."
+
+The peculiar thing about it is...by all rights I should be hard-core
+unemployable.  But any time I become available, the phone rings...people who
+work with me invariably come back to work with me again,fully knowing that I'm
+a major-league pain in the ass.  I think the reason they do so is because they
+know that I'm *not* political, that whatever some might say the truth is that
+when I show up at the office in the morning, I check my ego at the door and
+everything I do, I do if I sincerely believe it's the best thing for the show,
+and the story.
+
+Somehow, it works.  Damned if I understand it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Babylon 5 in retrospect (19 Sep 1999)
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Re: Babylon 5 in retrospect

+19 Sep 1999
>Maybe JMS will reply,  tell me I'm a fool, and that I've completely misread
+>him.
+
+Nah...you're a cutie pie.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: jms- B5 Copyright Ownership (19 Sep 1999)
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Re: jms- B5 Copyright Ownership

+19 Sep 1999
No, it's of no aid to me; WB owns B5 lock, stock and barrel.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars #2

+19 Sep 1999
The final colored pages have come through this past week, so it should be out
+shortly.  The interior artwork fell well behind what should have been the case.
+
+
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+
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+Re: Sleepin' In Light (9 Mar 1999)
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Re: Sleepin' In Light

+9 Mar 1999
>Does any one know where I can buy the score to "sleeping in light"?
+>
+
+www.sonicimages.com
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn: JMS - Bryan Coney (19 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS - Bryan Coney

+19 Sep 1999
What hasn't been mentioned in all of this is that Dreamwatch Magazine did an
+independent investigation of the situation, that cast members had not been
+paid, spoke with the actors, and confirmed, in print, that the story was
+correct.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: B5: Into the Fire Cancelled (21 Sep 1999)
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Re: B5: Into the Fire Cancelled

+21 Sep 1999
Yeah, I got word of this today from one of the developers on the game;
+apparently the problem is two-fold: 1) because Sierra has taken so long to get
+the game out, it has become expensive, and the additional million bucks used to
+relocate the facility north (and everyone involved) was charged against the
+game, and 2) they made a deal with WB for X number of games in Y years, and
+they've chewed up most of that time already, and WB is (I'm told, haven't had a
+chance to verify this yet) loathe to renegotiate since it's now taken --what?--
+three, four years to get this first game out.  
+
+There's rumors that another studio might be interested in picking it up and
+finishing it off -- it was literally inches from being finished, and it's a
+spectacular game -- but again that's only rumor, I don't know anything beyond
+that.
+
+(The game would have allowed players to go through all of the major wars of the
+B5 universe -- the Dilgar War, the Earth/Minbari War, the Shadow War and the
+Earth Civil War -- with a chance of affecting the outcomes and dealing with the
+temporal stresses caused by that.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Value Judgements (21 Sep 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Value Judgements

+21 Sep 1999
It's not my script, so it's not my call, but I don't think the author would
+overmuch like it.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: Hugo for Y2K??? Attn JMS (21 Sep 1999)
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Re: Hugo for Y2K??? Attn JMS

+21 Sep 1999
>I have a ?, since Sleeping in Light was not seen in Australia at the time of
+>the Hugo award presentation. Will it be eligible for consideration in Y2K??
+>
+
+Thanks for the kind words elsewhere.  To your question...no.
+
+The only B5 stuff that will be eligible would be A Call to Arms, The River of
+Souls, and Crusade stuff.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: JMS: Don't you get tired? (21 Sep 1999)
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Re: JMS: Don't you get tired?

+21 Sep 1999
>Major nosey questions:  Have you ever been personality typed?  what were the
+>results?  What did you think of them?
+
+The one time I took a career-oriented personality inventory, it said I was best
+suited to be an officer in the Army.  I think running a production company
+comes in right about there.
+
+Other than that, pretty much stayed clear of them...once had an IQ test that
+put me in the genius category (was in Mensa for about a year before I ran
+screaming out the door)...other than that, frankly, I think I'd rather not
+know.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn JMS: Typical Episode Budget (22 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Typical Episode Budget

+22 Sep 1999
>For example, one of the figures I remember from the early days of TNG was the
+>"$1 million an episode" factoid, and I was wondering how things compared.
+>
+
+The average Trek budget was about $1.4 million, sometimes going to $1.6.
+
+The average B5/Crusade budget was about $920,000 per.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Grimjack? (22 Sep 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Grimjack?

+22 Sep 1999
>I just remembered...it's been about...um...six years (what a
+>coincidence...) since you've mentioned the Grimjack screenplay you were
+>working on at one time.  Was there any further development on that?  Or
+>is it safely tucked into the back of a drawer somewhere?
+
+There was a rights problem between the writer of the comic and the publisher
+which could not be resolved; hence, it never got written.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: What's Next? (23 Sep 1999)
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Re: What's Next?

+23 Sep 1999
I think Harlan (no surprise) put it best one day: "You get the show you want,
+and it gets no PR, no respect; you get another show and a chance to redefine
+SF, and they want to make it into wrestling.  You get one thing and they take
+away another.  Kiddo, there is a war in heaven over you."
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn JMS:  Why SF? (23 Sep 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS:  Why SF?

+23 Sep 1999
>In the midst of a small debate about just what constitutes SF, it occured to
+>me
+>to ask: as a writer, why do you work in SF?  What attracts you to the genre?
+>
+
+I've worked in a variety of genres -- murder mysteries, SF, detective series,
+animation/comedy, horror...I kinda like all of them.  If I have a predilection
+toward SF it's simply because I grew up an SF fan.  In brief: ah likes it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: JMS: Don't you get tired? (24 Sep 1999)
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Re: JMS: Don't you get tired?

+24 Sep 1999
>Anyone here surprised???  It didn't take me long watching B5 to realize that
+>about ya Joe.  
+>I'm glad you've used it for good.  Thanks for everything.
+>
+
+Except, of course, that I don't believe it *means* anything.  At the very most,
+it may be some kind of indicator for potential or intuitive thinking, but at
+the end of the day it really doesn't mean anything; it's what you do with your
+potential that matters, and person A with less potential can do 100 times more
+than person B who had more potential but less *will*.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: What B5 spinoffs wouldn't WB own? (10 Mar 1999)
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Re: What B5 spinoffs wouldn't WB own?

+10 Mar 1999
WB owns it all, including any and all spinoffs.
+
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+Re: JMS: How does Del Rey do it? (26 Sep 1999)
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Re: JMS: How does Del Rey do it?

+26 Sep 1999
>Because of this, I'm curious what the process is in making a Babylon 5
+>novel from Del Rey?  Why Trilogies? 
+
+In Minbari, all things are three.
+
+> How are authors chosen?  
+
+By mutual consent; they'll suggest someone, and we'll talk about it.  Keyes'
+work I somewhat knew, and he seemed right...and Peter David *is* a Centauri. 
+Jeanne Cavelos' work on the shadow arc made her correct for the technomage
+books.
+
+>How did
+>the decision to spotlight the series' history and background, instead
+>of the lead characters and the station, come about?  
+
+It's that perverse "let's do the opposite of what the marketing people think"
+thing I get into sometimes; there's so much history in the B5 universe, and I'd
+worked so much of it out, it seemed a shame to waste it.
+
+Will there be any
+>single novels?  
+
+Dunno.
+
+Is Warners & Del Rey willing and/or interested in
+>adding Crusade characters and concepts into the B5 books?
+>
+There will be some...Galen is all through both the technomage books and a bit
+in the Centauri books.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Rising Stars #2 Is Out (2 Oct 1999)
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Rising Stars #2 Is Out

+2 Oct 1999
I think my prior message got munched...anyway, for those who've been following
+it, RISING STARS #2 hit comic stores this Wednesday.  Wanted to get the word
+out quickly because they have a tendency to vanish fast.
+
+
+jms
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+RISING STARS #2 OUT THIS WEEK (2 Oct 1999)
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RISING STARS #2 OUT THIS WEEK

+2 Oct 1999
Just wanted to let folks know that the new issue hits the stands this week. 
+It's a little mystery story about how one goes about eliminating someone who is
+invulnerable...and how being invulnerable doesn't solve all your problems, and
+how you get by and get a job and live a life when nothing can touch you.
+
+It's kinda cool.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: JMS:  A question on one of your quotes (2 Oct 1999)
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Re: JMS:  A question on one of your quotes

+2 Oct 1999
>When/how did Cavelos work on 'The Shadow Arc'?  I take it this means the
+>Shadow War (Seasons Three and Four), but as I understand it Cavelos was
+>only brought on in Season Five as a story editor (as well as editing the
+>B5 numbered novels and writing 7 herself), then she went on to Crusade.
+>
+>wait, do you refer to her writing "The Shadow Within" (B5 Book 7)?
+>
+Where did you get THAT information?  She was never a story editor on the
+series, she was the editor for the Dell books far earlier than S5.  And the one
+she wrote (noted above) dealt with Z'ha'dum and shadow technology and other
+advanced tech stuff, and so that made her right for the technomages.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: jms- Final Reckoning (Spoilers for this and Hannibal) (3 Oct 1999)
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Re: jms- Final Reckoning (Spoilers for this and Hannibal)

+3 Oct 1999
>The story issues aside, I am also curious how much of an outline do you
+>write for the trilogies.  Is it a couple of paragraphs or many pages?  Are
+>there any plans in the works that the fans would be able to view the
+>outlines?
+>
+
+It varies, but on average each outline is about 25-35 pages.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: RealVideo Cruasde Episodes on the web (3 Oct 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: RealVideo Cruasde Episodes on the web

+3 Oct 1999
>Since TNT is almost certainly not going to rerun the Crusade episodes, and we
+>don't known when (or ever) we'll see them on video, would you give us the
+>permission to encode the Crusade episodes and put them up on the web, until
+>such
+>time as they become available to the audience in some other form?
+
+No, because I can't give that permission, the show is owned by WB, and that
+would be massive copyright infringement, and deny actors their residuals.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: RealVideo Cruasde Episodes on the web (4 Oct 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: RealVideo Cruasde Episodes on the web

+4 Oct 1999
>Personally I think that WB are doing themselves no favours in blocking the
+>material being shown at cons which are run for charity or where any profits
+>go to charity. It helps broaden the audience and it's poor PR when it's
+>announced that "X has been pulled because the big bad men at WB/whoever
+>have said no" for me this passes onto guilds/unions/whatever if they're the
+>ones being sticky.
+>Hell the politicians will bend over backwards to bend the
+>rules if it's "For charity or in a good cause" and I'm cynical enough
+>to know that there's a goodly percentage doing it becuase it makes them
+>look good.
+
+Except, of course, that a number of conventions use the charity flag to cover a
+multitude of sins, often illegitimately...which also compromises the cons that
+ARE sincerely raising money for charity.  And that a con is giving money to a
+charity doesn't really mitigate the legalities involved; if I steal your car,
+sell it, and give the money to charity, the government isn't going to go
+"awwww" and let it go because the money ended up in a worthwhile cause.
+
+A secondary concern is that if ANY kind of money is involved, for a group
+screening, it can be legally constituted as a theatrical exhibition if any of
+the actors or others involved choose to press the point.  In fact, that
+happened to WB, after an episode of Lois and Clark was screened at a con.  One
+of the actors apparently took the position that this was a theatrical
+exhibition, and if you show a TV program in a theatrical venue, it triggers
+*substantial* payments per the various unions involved...and in this particular
+case, it cost WB in the vicinity of six figures.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+Reminder re: jms email (5 Oct 1999)
+
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Reminder re: jms email

+5 Oct 1999
Every so often I have to post this...folks who've seen this before and know the
+drill, feel free to ignore it.
+
+Folks...understand that there are roughly 10-15 million of you out there, many
+of whom own PCs with modems.  That's a lot of people, many of whom have similar
+questions/thoughts/comments.
+
+The best place for those is here, in this forum, not in my personal email
+account.  It puts me in the position of either not answering ("what a rude
+sonofabitch, he says he'll answer fans but he didn't answer my email after I
+sent it to him TEN TIMES asking the same question") (and one such email did
+come to me with that complaint, by the way), saying I can't reply in email,
+which takes nearly as much time as replying, or ultimately repeating the same
+information every time somebody asks in email a question somebody else asked a
+week earlier.
+
+*Please* reserve the use of this email account for *PERSONAL  MATTERS OR
+MATTERS WHICH YOU DO NOT WANT DISCUSSED PUBLICLY*, not questions about stories,
+props, plots, arcs, ship armaments (you have NO idea how many of THOSE I get
+daily), contracts or the like.  I'd really rather not have to change my email
+address because I've had this one for a long time, but the emailbox is filling
+up these days with just those sorts of questions, and I've started to miss
+important email because it gets lost in the piles of "so what does Ulkesh mean
+and what was Kosh's first name?" messages.
+
+Thankyew.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+B5 Jackets at thestation.com (5 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
B5 Jackets at thestation.com

+5 Oct 1999
Invariably, whenever I show up at a convention flying the colors, the #1
+question I get is about the B5 cast and crew jacket.  "Where can we get one of
+those?"  Up until now, the answer has always been the same: you can't.
+
+For JUST this month, that will change: we are making a limited number (only
+about 200) of these same jackets available on www.thestation.com.  These are
+identical to the crew jackets, made by the same manufacturer, same materials,
+same detailed embroidery, the whole thing.  On ebay these jackets have gone
+from anywhere from $400-$1000, which is kind of obscene, but these are
+available here for a hell of a lot less.
+
+Also: we stopped taking orders for The Gathering script, which is now out of
+print until some point in the distant future.  We're doing one per month, so
+for those who missed out...it's too late.  This month it's the script for the
+first B5 episode, "Midnight on the Firing Line."  Orders will be taken for this
+month, and that's it.
+
+Just to keep folks informed, especially in the case of the jackets, because I
+think they're going to go fast.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  The Gathering Script & Final Reckoning (Spoilers (5 Oct 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS:  The Gathering Script & Final Reckoning (Spoilers

+5 Oct 1999
>I liked the extra scene with Garibaldi & the insectoid-alien.  Was this
+>cut for time?  I think it would've been really funny.
+>
+
+We couldn't get the prosthetic to work right, so we never filmed it.  Unless
+you read the script, there's no other way to know about it.
+
+And yeah, Greg did a great job on the book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+Re: Babylon 5- Deadly Relations- Bester's Ascendant (10 Mar 1999)
+
+
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+
Re: Babylon 5- Deadly Relations- Bester's Ascendant

+10 Mar 1999
>I, for one, cannot bring myself to purchase a book that covers ground that
+>should have been covered in the Babylon-5 television series.
+>
+
+1) The B5 series was never about the Psi Corps, it was about the station and
+the people who live there.
+
+2) Should the show have told everything there was about IPX, the Psi Corps,
+EarthDome, and all of the various institutions involved?  Show me any series
+ever created that can do that.
+
+3) The Psi Corps books cover over a hundred years of history, and Bester's
+final fate comes years after the events of the B5 storyline.  There is NO WAY
+to include all of that in any one series.  You are asking the impossible, and
+complaining because we cannot do what simply cannot be done by any series,
+ever, anywhere, ever created.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: B5 Jackets at thestation.com (6 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
Re: B5 Jackets at thestation.com

+6 Oct 1999
>While I'm very interested in reading the scripts, I'm not particularly
+>excited
+>to have five seasons * 22 episodes of scripts weighing down a bookshelf.  I
+>would like to encourage JMS and the fan club to offer a CD-ROM (or two) with
+>all the scripts available in some convenient format (e.g., PDF or HTML). 
+
+Only problem with that is that it makes it very easy to print up and sell
+copies, or to send them out on the internet.
+
+BTW...I'm an idiot.  I meant to say Crusade jackets in my prior message, not
+the B5 jackets.  (And I'm told they'll keep taking Gathering orders until the
+8th because the system was down for a bit.)
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  The Gathering Script & Final Reckoning (7 Oct 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  The Gathering Script & Final Reckoning

+7 Oct 1999
>Tallman's afterword in Andy Lane's The Babylon File Vol. 2 confirms the
+>rumor.
+>
+
+The problem with that is the way it was presented.
+
+An actor has a fee he or she receives for a full week's work.  Let's say, for
+the sake of argument, it's 7,000 for a 7 day shoot, only because that will make
+the math simpler.  If you only need an actor for one or two days, it's typical
+that you only pay the actor for the one or two days of work.  If it's more than
+that, you generally pay full freight, seven days, $7,000.
+
+We did this with Richard Biggs, who didn't have a problem with it, as most
+don't.  When we went to shoot "Path," we only needed Pat for one day. 
+Actually, it would've been only a partial day, 3 scenes.  Out around lunchtime.
+ So we offered a day rate.  She wanted a full week's salary.  We couldn't do
+that.  End of story.
+
+No animosity, no acrimony, we had what we had, and that didn't work out.  But
+it is utterly consistent with how all TV is done.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+I'm an idiot (7 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
I'm an idiot

+7 Oct 1999
My prior message mentioned B5 jackets...I meant to type Crusade jackets, but
+somehow it came out B5.  I must have a mental block on that name....
+
+BTW, also to correct, because the web site was down for about a week, The
+Gathering is still available, through October 8th.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Oops...Crusade, NOT B5 jackets (7 Oct 1999)
+
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+
Oops...Crusade, NOT B5 jackets

+7 Oct 1999
I'd left this info under the heading "I'm an Idiot," then I realized that
+nobody would download that one to read because it isn't newsworthy or a secret.
+
+Anyway...I stooged it: I typed B5 jackets available when I meant to type
+Crusade jackets available on a prior message.  Terminal brain fart.  Mea culpa,
+mea culpa, mea maxima culprrrrrrrrpppppfhhhh.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the laugh. (7 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Thanks for the laugh.

+7 Oct 1999
>Oh, out of curiosity, is there anywhere I can fins enough (good) information
+>to
+>make a report on you? It seems that they had to tell the teachers (what a
+>moron) and I've gotten a wonderful extra assignment. "make a report on that
+>person whom you heard that from".
+
+I dunno, probably any of the grand jury hearings would suffice....
+
+That apart, do a yahoo search...you'll get more than anyone would want to know.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - dont leave us hangin (7 Oct 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - dont leave us hangin

+7 Oct 1999
>I dont like being left hangin.
+>
+>So what are you going to do? novels? online scripts? what?
+
+Something else.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
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+
+Re: Attn: JMS A Final Reckoning Question (Spoilers) (7 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
Re: Attn: JMS A Final Reckoning Question (Spoilers)

+7 Oct 1999
>Was Bester's job from the outline you gave Mr. Keyes
+
+I'd have to check the outline, but I think that part came from Greg.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (or anyone with possible knowledge) - Crusade re-runs (7 Oct 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS (or anyone with possible knowledge) - Crusade re-runs

+7 Oct 1999
>I note that from time to time someone announces that such-and-such a
+>local channel (in the US) is re-running Crusade.  This would seem to
+>indicate that TNT is starting to sell the syndication rights. 
+
+TNT doesn't own the rights to that, WB does.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: B5 Jackets at thestation.com (8 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
Re: B5 Jackets at thestation.com

+8 Oct 1999
>Almost as easy as it is to buy scripts from thestation, photocopy them and
+>sell copies or send them out on the internet after some OCR work, no?
+>
+We're talking hours of work in the latter scenario, as opposed to 30 seconds to
+download.  Thievery always happens, but you want to make it as difficult as
+possible.
+
+And photocopying a work into a scanner is a much clearer violation of copyright
+for purposes of prosecution than transferring something already in file form.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: and the cost would be...? (13 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
Re: and the cost would be...?

+13 Oct 1999
As far as I know it has a satin lining.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN: jms: Is there hope? (13 Mar 1999)
+
+
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+
Re: ATTN: jms: Is there hope?

+13 Mar 1999
"There's always hope, because it's the one thing nobody's figured out how to
+kill yet."  -- Galen.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: Crusade Writers Bible (13 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
Re: Crusade Writers Bible

+13 Oct 1999
>Does the Crusade Writers Bible, as presented on www.thestation.com,
+>contain the story outlines for the entire series? 
+
+No, that was kept out of writing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS - Telepath War (15 Oct 1999)
+
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+
Re: ATTN JMS - Telepath War

+15 Oct 1999
>I've finished the Bester series. As good as it was, I can't help
+>feeling a little disappointed that the Telepath War was not covered
+>in detail. Do you have any plan to tell the story or have we heard
+>everything we need to know?
+>
+
+Thing is, the war is too big and too important to slip into what is, basically,
+the personal story of Bester.  So we handled it in much the same way we handled
+the Minbari war in most of season 1 and some of 2...we hear about it, and see
+the ramifications.  And down the road, we may get a clearer picture of what
+happened, and why.
+                               
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Progress on new series (15 Oct 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Progress on new series

+15 Oct 1999
>I read on the net several months ago that you were working on a new
+>television series not releated to B5.  Can you say how that project is
+>developing?  When do you expect to get it on the air?
+>
+
+The process is long and slow; it took 5 years to get B5 on the air.  This one,
+if it goes, will take far less, but it still takes the amount of time it takes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+B5 game article (20 Oct 1999)
+
+
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+
B5 game article

+20 Oct 1999
This got sent to me from someone who got it off the Wired.com site...figured
+folks might be interested.
+
+jms
+--------
+
+
+'B5': Back B4 U Know It?
+by Andy Patrizio
+
+3:00 a.m. 20.Oct.99.PDT
+The dedicated fans of a game based on the Babylon 5 television series are doing
+their level best to find a new home -- and life -- for their favorite pastime. 
+
+When Sierra announced in September that it was killing off three games --
+including "Babylon 5: Into the Fire" -- as part of a massive reorganization
+that
+included 105 layoffs, angered fans went bonkers. 
+
+"A lot of people wanted to take out the Sierra servers and do other things to
+try and take Sierra out of the business," said Kevin MacNeil, aka Drazi Guy,
+one
+of the three coordinators of the FirstOnes.Com, a fan site that had been
+following development of the game. 
+
+"It took about a week to get everyone under control and to get ourselves
+coordinated and decide what direction we were going to
+head," he said. 
+
+The plan was to spread the news of the game's demise to every gaming site and
+Babylon 5 fan out there. It proved to be an effective
+tactic. 
+
+One editor for a gaming publication said he'd received more than 2,000 emails
+on
+the issue. Wired News has also been flooded with feedback from upset B5 fans. 
+
+Another target was game developers, and that campaign has also paid off. 
+
+"There are four companies who have shown interest in purchasing B5. We are now
+in discussions with all of them," said Dave Williamson, Sierra's senior vice
+president of business development. "Some have reviewed what we've got and some
+are in the process of scheduling meetings with us. So, we are actively pursuing
+the opportunities." 
+
+The B5 team members, who were all laid off together, bonded quickly with the
+FirstOnes crew. "They have been a great help for the team as far as morale,
+when
+it all first happened," lead programmer Dan Foy said. 
+
+Foy has been in the games industry for 10 years and has never seen anything
+like
+the FirstOnes' effort. "The show's popularity is certainly a part of it," he
+said. 
+
+Another reason for the loyalty is that the developers took an active role in
+the
+FirstOnes forums to discuss nuances of the game. "People really enjoyed
+participating with us and took it more personally when the project was
+cancelled," said Foy. 
+
+Even though the B5 team has a good severance package from Sierra, the crew is
+eager to renew work on the project. Foy said they need a pretty clear picture
+on
+a possible buyer within a month or they'll start losing members to other jobs.
+At that point, a new team will have to be rebuilt, which would delay the game
+even further. 
+
+He described the game as 65 percent complete. The engine is pretty much done,
+but artificial intelligence and some missions still needed work. 
+
+The FirstOnes faithful continue their work as well. A Web ring dedicated to
+spreading word of the game and trying to find a new publisher has sprung up. So
+far it has 16 member sites. Petitions to find a new publisher have almost 600
+signatures, and the message board on FirstOnes.com has 700 users posting to it.
+
+
+How long will they carry the torch? "We're going to hold out until the
+development team has moved on to other projects and there's no hope left," said
+MacNeil.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Wheel of Fire? (21 Oct 1999)
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+21 Oct 1999
>The meanings of the other season titles are pretty obvious:
+>Signs and Portents, The Coming of Shadows, etc.  But could
+>you give us any insight into the choice of "Wheel of Fire"
+>as the title for Fifth Season?
+
+"For I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that my own tears do scald like molten
+lead."  King Lear.
+
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: simple question (23 Oct 1999)
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+23 Oct 1999
>Do Humans evolve into Vorlons at the end of Deconstruction and then go
+>back in time to fight the Shadows?
+>
+
+No.
+
+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS (or anyone else who might know) first 3 stations? (23 Oct 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS (or anyone else who might know) first 3 stations?

+23 Oct 1999
>I was reading through the forums in the FirstOnes message boards a while ago
+>and there has been some discussion about what the first 3 Babylon stations
+>looked like and what colors they were
+
+They went in spectrum order, from red, a coule of interim colors I can't
+remember, to green, to blue.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: TechnoMage Tech (Spoilers for The Long Road and Final (25 Oct 1999)
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+25 Oct 1999
> I guess it begs the question:
+>Is Technomage technology, SHADOW technology?
+
+Expect more on that question in the forthcoming Technomage trilogy; for me to
+say too much now would give it away.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: What's Next? (26 Oct 1999)
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+26 Oct 1999
>Rising Stars is going smoothly, albiet a bit slow, and your new show is 
+>waiting for someone to latch onto it.  This makes me think you have some 
+>time on your hands (finally) - which being a workaholic, you're filling 
+>with something that hopefully you want to do.  A novel, perhaps?  What 
+>would you like to do next, if the show takes awhile to take off?
+
+I've been about as busy since Crusade as during it.  In addition to the comic
+(which is going great guns, but the schedule is a bit off, about which I've had
+some talks with the good folks at Top Cow), and the series project which is
+currently in rather serious development mode....
+
+There's the TV movie script I recently finished for CBS...the adaptation of CM
+Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" for NPR's Beyond 2000 radio series...I
+finished a novel outline now being sold in NY...I have a feature film in
+development that's now in script stage...I knocked down two of the B5 stories
+in Amazing Stories Magazine (with one coming out this month and another due
+from me in December)... the ongoing column in B5 Magazine...in the next little
+bit I should finally conclude a deal for an original computer game I've
+designed (have both a developer and a publisher who want to do it)...the bulk
+of the original B5 novel outlines were written after Crusade was
+completed...and there's been a bunch of other stuff.
+
+But the main thing that's consumed my time has been the series development,
+which has just recently begun to show signs of maybe some good news coming,
+though I can't say anything more about it at this point.
+
+Suffice to say, though, it's been kinda hectic around here for the last few
+months.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS:  Why TV? (26 Oct 1999)
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+26 Oct 1999
>With all of the media that you've worked in, why have you chosen to tell so
+>many of your stories on TV?  Isn't that awfully ephemeral for the breadth of
+>story you tell?  
+
+It's an ephemeral medium but a pervasive one; it hits millions of people at a
+time.  A best selling novel reaches 100,000 people or so; at its worst, the
+average B5 episode was seen by 10 *million* people here in the US alone.  If
+the task of the writer is to tell stories to the largest number of people, then
+TV gives you that ability.
+
+And why abandon such a powerful and pervasive medium to the visigoths?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+13 Mar 1999
>Would letters from viewers help them to make this decision?  And, if so,
+>who should we write to?  One source suggests writing to Bonnie Hammer,
+>the Senior VP of Programming.   Also, Stephen Chao, the President of
+>Television and Marketing for USA
+
+Yes, both those would be good choices.
+
+And the best time for this would be after the episodes start airing in June.  I
+think we have about 5 weeks before the actors' contracts expire in July.  (They
+will be running all 13 straight through, or so they tell me.)
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+26 Oct 1999
>::sigh:: yes, but a book you can re-read at leisure without the distraction
+>of
+>commercials.
+
+That's why god made VCRs.
+
+>BTW, I enjoyed "We Killed Them in the Ratings".
+>
+
+Thanks...I don't do that many mainstream stories, but that was one I enjoyed
+(if only to take a shot at TV in general).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS:  Why TV? (27 Oct 1999)
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+27 Oct 1999
>The reason I asked is that there's an ethical dilemma in "We Killed Them in
+>the
+>Ratings" that I think is a thorny problem for any journalist in any media.
+
+Exactly, which is why I chose to examine that particular question in the story;
+I like questions that don't have particularly easy or facile answers.  And this
+is one of them.
+
+There isn't any hard and fast rule.  For instance: in recent years there were
+two particular cases of self-immolation here in the US, both as protest but
+also both were just a little bit not right in the head.
+
+Anyway...in one case, the reporter saw what was happening, and rolled film,
+made no attempt to intervene.  He was pilloried for his inaction and
+inhumanity.  In the other case, the other reporter saw what was happening,
+grabbed a coat, and rushed to put the fire out...and was pilloried for getting
+personally involved with the story instead of staying the "objective outsider,"
+which in truth does not exist because the only way to be TRULY objective is to
+not have any prior beliefs, convictions or experiences that would color one's
+perceptions.  
+
+I don't think there is a right answer or perspective on the question...which
+makes it fun to explore as a writer.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS: How do you work? (27 Oct 1999)
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Re: JMS: How do you work?

+27 Oct 1999
>I was just wondering in what kind of environment you work in.  At home?
+>In an office?  And if in an office, do you rent a permenant one
+>somewhere or something (since you're obviously not working in a
+>TNT-Crusade office).
+
+Between shows, I work at my home office.  I travel light, don't have a lot of
+folks working for me, it's just me, so there's no need to maintain an office
+anywhere else.  I have a home office equipped with phone, fax, modem,
+computers, reference books, music, TV, every distraction I could ask for.
+
+>And during B5/Crusade, where did you work?  Was
+>there like an office of writers or something (which of course would have
+>gotten lonely in Y3, 4, 5 !)? 
+
+My office was in the B5 production building/studio in Sun Valley, at the end of
+the hall, bordering the Wall of Death (a wall where all the generators and
+power sources were, which was on the other side of the wall right behind
+mydesk...and for a studio we're talking a LOT of power...I didn't think much of
+it until we had an eletrician do an EMF sweep, came to the wall (where I sat
+every day for 3 years) and literally paled.  HIs comment, "Jesus, you could fry
+eggs over here."  So I moved to the other side of the office, and a lot of the
+fatigue I'd had for the preceding couple of years faded.)
+
+>Did you live/work near the set where they
+>shot? 
+
+Live, no...about 20 minutes away.  My office was about 15 feet from Stage C.
+
+>How much personal contact did you have with the actors?  Did you
+>ever watch them act/shoot the scenes?
+
+Constant personal contact.  We'd eat together at lunch, I'd go by the stage
+whenever possible (and often it wasn't) to watch scenes being shot, we
+sometimes would get dinner or otherwise hang out.
+
+>And is your office extremely
+>cluttered or organized?
+
+Yes.  It is extremely cluttered -- frighteningly so -- but I know where
+everything is.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: ATTN JMS: *sigh* a quick Question

+27 Oct 1999
>The only MAJOR changes were in "War Zone" and the other episodes, discluding
+>the last five, were only minor changes. Correct? They weren't something like
+>what they did in "War Zone"; they didn't change the plot/whichever that was
+>in WAR ZONE. Right?
+
+This is a greyer question than appears at first blush.
+
+You need to understand that the notes-giving process was ongoing, that every
+day was a fight, and every day there were pressures from WB and others to
+accede to those requests and notes.  We were told repeatedly, "Look, give 'em
+the show they want for the first year, then you can make it your way in the
+second season."  
+
+I've always had a policy that if a note makes sense, whoEVER it comes from -- a
+network, a grip, a carpenter, whoever -- then I'll listen to it.  So I tried,
+where possible, to listen for any notes that made sense in the whirlwind of
+ka-ka that came our way.  Some who were not there said that I was acting
+unreasonably, and that only the one script WarZone was really affected, that
+the other scripts were already written and thus not affected.  But nothing
+could be further from the truth.  They were all whittled at in big or small
+ways.
+
+If a note didn't make sense...then the answer had to be No.
+
+The "big no" meeting was specifically about a small percentage of the
+scripts...and only one meeting out of many.  They kept at us *constantly*.  
+
+As Michelangelo said, "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle." 
+Sometimes the notes nibbled at big issues, sometimes at small ones, but there
+are profound effects either way.  Sometimes doing something as small as
+changing the rhythm of a scene can destroy it.  Take a particularly memorable
+piece of classical music (I won't even name it to illustrate the point further)
+that begins "dah-dah-dah-DAAAH."  
+
+Now change it to "dah-dah-dah-BLAAAT."  It's only one note difference.  You can
+say it' s just a teensy change.  But your gut says it ain't right, something
+there doesn't work.  
+
+Just for the hell of it...I'm going to reprint now one of my memos to TNT,
+omitting the name of the person involved.  This is emblematic of some of the
+exchanges.  (This memo was widely distributed to TNT, WB and Babylonian folks
+involved in the creative stuff, so it's by no means private.)
+
+Message follows.
+
+**********************************
+
+To: 	
+

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+Date:	December 8, 1998
+Re:	Latest Notes on Cuts and Scripts
+
+Dear 
+
+We've had a chance to review the latest batch of comments, and have some
+thoughts on how some of them can be done.  Others, as will be examined below,
+are more problematic.
+
+Prior to that, though, a general thought: when the notes process began in
+earnest subsequent to 105, we voiced the concern that we seemed to be getting
+conflicting reactions…on the one hand we received requests for action, on the
+other hand we got requests for more dialogue about what the stories mean to the
+characters, scenes that allow them to express their feelings to one another. 
+Prior to then, with the possible exception of a few scenes in 101, we had been
+primarily an action-based series.
+
+We said at this time that we needed clarification: did TNT want more action, or
+more dialogue scenes/exposition?  Since then, the script notes have been
+primarily oriented toward creating more dialogue scenes, more background on the
+characters, their feelings toward one another and the situations they're in,
+and the emotional consequences.  Essentially, expository scenes of one sort or
+another.  We have complied with those notes as much as we possibly could.
+
+So you can understand my concern when, having done as TNT asked, we get notes
+on the cuts that essentially pillory us for having a slower pace.  The pace is
+in large measure the result of adding in those expository scenes.  If TNT asks
+for new scenes or to expand scenes in which characters talk about their
+feelings, it's going to perforce slow down the action aspect.  
+
+I feel it's unfair to take us to task for doing what we were told to do.
+
+The Senator scene in 108 is particularly emblematic of this.  That scene was
+originally much shorter.  TNT asked for more information about how this was
+affecting people back home, how they felt about it.  We did that, and now are
+being told that the scene is too long.  It wasn't too long when we started with
+it.  It only became too long after we added in all the things that TNT asked us
+for.
+
+It is both confusing and demoralizing for all of us involved in the production
+of Crusade to receive contradictory notes.  As I mentioned in our previous
+meetings, there has to be consistency; if the goal post keeps getting moved
+around the field, we have no idea what to move toward.
+
+To be honest, the pacing that the current notes seem to be asking for is most
+embodied by episodes 101-105, the kind of show we were making prior to the
+hiatus and notes process.  
+
+Anyway, that's a general reaction that I think we need to address at some point
+in the future.  Meanwhile, on to the specific notes.
+
+NOTES ON PRODUCER'S CUTS
+
+(jms note to reader: a producer's cut is made after the episode has been filmed
+and we edit the thing.)
+
+THE WELL OF FOREVER
+
+"The opening seems slow.  Is there a way to open with the scene in which Galen
+convinces the crew to go to the Well of Forever?  This scene will catch the
+attention of the audience."
+
+There are only two scenes in the opening: a walk-and-talk scene with Matheson
+and Gideon, in which we learn that Matheson is going to get tested to ensure
+that he has not been improperly scanning people telepathically, and the
+convince-the-crew scene.  The most we could do structurally would be to flop
+the two scenes in sequence.
+
+Both are dialogue scenes.  The first one keeps us in motion, and sets up that
+Gideon is en route to a meeting; the second scene is that meeting.  We cannot
+edit out that part because it comes at a point where the camera is moving and
+we're well into the scene.  It seems to us best to start in on movement, to
+pull the audience in, and end on the conference scene, because that sets up the
+mystery: no one has ever come back.  To have that moment, and then the
+walk-and-talk, would eliminate the dramatic end of the teaser, which we're
+hoping to use to make the audience want to come back after the commercial
+break.
+
+So on careful reflection, this one can't really be done without actually
+working against the overall pacing and structure of the episode.
+
+WAR ZONE
+
+'The pacing of this episode, as well as 106 and 107, is consistently slow."
+
+While there may be some validity to this as far as 106 is concerned, about
+which more later, I find "slow pacing" a very difficult concept to apply to
+this episode.  
+
+WAR ZONE contains 25 interior shots, 52 exterior shots, and a total of 115
+scenes over 43 pages, averaging 3 scenes or major shots per page, which is
+something of a record for a script on this or just about any other show.  It
+has stunts, fights, hand-to-hand combat, air-to-air combat, air-to-ground
+combat, sneaking, shooting, and buckets of other action.  It is, frankly, the
+most ambitious and fastest-paced episode we've ever produced, rivaled only by
+103, which is in your hands now, and which is anything but slow.
+
+I believe that, as with 103, the pacing will become more evident once the CGI
+and other effects are in. 
+
+"The fight scene in the opening…is choppy and unrealistic."  We did the best we
+could there with what we had in the dailies, which were also sent to TNT.  It
+was a small set, and we really only have the two scenes with which to play.  
+
+However:
+
+Ø I agree that there are some places where a couple of transitional shots (such
+as the downshot, and the crew running out the door coming into the stairwell
+scene) are a bit awkward, given the coverage we had.  We jumped into the scene
+a bit faster because we wanted to speed up the pacing, get into the
+confrontation with Gideon quickly, rather than wait for them to start at the
+top of the stairs and come all the way down.  
+
+Ø We can try to further expand the fight by lengthening the first piece, but
+only by double-cutting some of the footage we have from B-camera and grabbing
+bits of side-action, but this will add more cuts and that may also make it more
+"choppy."  
+
+Ø If you want additional fight stuff for that scene, it would have to be shot
+as new material, and there will be costs involved in doing that.
+
+"…the scenes which include the senator's speeches need to be cut back."  As
+noted previously, this scene was expanded to meet TNT's earlier notes. 
+Virtually all of the information presented here is necessary for the audience
+to understand what the show is about: the plague, the blockade, why Gideon was
+chosen, and what the mission is. 
+
+Ø However: there is a small piece or two that can be lifted, about 5-15 seconds
+worth, which may help to pick up the pacing.  It would, however, mean
+eliminating some of the material asked for in earlier notes.  So if TNT is okay
+with that, we can trim up the scene and add those seconds to the fight scene in
+the teaser.
+
+If "unrealistic" could be better defined for us, that would be very helpful,
+because that one has us kind of stumped.
+
+Ø One other thing we can do in future episodes that will help the pacing is to
+work more closely with the directors, who tend to loved their long panning
+shots to open up a scene, rather than just jumping into it.  (We sometimes get
+stuck with those long pans because coverage tends to start later into the
+scene, leaving us unable to cut into the scene any later.)   
+
+"Gideon doesn't seem to have an understanding or a rapport with his ship."
+
+So that I can better understand the note, at what point does Gideon indicate
+that he doesn't understand his ship?  
+
+As for "a rapport with his ship," in this episode he is assigned to the
+Excalibur for the first time.  He's only been there for a few hours; it seems
+unrealistic to expect to build a rapport with a place in just a few hours.
+
+"There are also logic problems.  How does he know where the conference room is
+on the Excalibur without some investigating?"
+
+In the first Excalibur scene, Matheson escorts Gideon to the bridge.  Gideon
+can see the conference room from his chair.  Since it is in his clear line of
+sight, I'm not sure how much further investigation is required in order to find
+it.
+
+"Introduce Trace by name earlier."
+
+Ø We don't have any footage of this, but we can add an ADR line using his name.
+
+Regarding the Chambers scene…here we must agree to disagree.  Her letter to her
+sister seems very emotional to everyone here and at WB.  Further, it's not a
+crying scene because that scene is about encouraging her sister about their
+intention to find a cure.  She has to be strong for her sister, not fall apart.
+ This had to be done as a recorded letter to her sister because we couldn't
+afford another actor at that point.
+
+Also, that scene was sent through in script, and everyone was fine with it at
+the time.
+
+Regarding 106 and 107…as we noted in our conversation prior to their
+publication in script form, having done massive action shows in 101-105, we
+needed to have a couple of smaller, quieter shows in order to balance out the
+costs involved.  So yes, they are slower episodes, as I noted at the time they
+would be.  You can't produce every episode at a screaming pace and expect to
+stay on budget.  Some are loud, some are quiet; the key is just to do more
+louds than quiets.
+
+SCRIPT NOTES
+
+(jms note to readers: this refers to scripts that were then in the
+preproduction stage)
+
+APPEARANCES AND OTHER DECEITS
+
+"Can we have one of our primary characters become inhabited by the being
+instead of either Rice or Janey?"
+
+This is not possible; in order to provide the solution to the problem, we need
+Chambers, Eilerson and Matheson outside, and free.  I chose those individuals
+specifically because they're the ones who together work out the solution.  If
+you take any of them out of the equation, you don't have the people necessary
+to resolve this.  So they can't become inhabited.
+
+If we choose another character from our roster of regulars, that means a
+substantial rewrite and increased cast costs…and we have further problems
+because we only have access to a limited number of episodes per cast member,
+and we're trying to spread them out for maximum effect.  So this one we can't
+really do.
+
+"It might be fun to play up the comedy with (the fashion consultant)…have him
+get the crew into more trouble, not out of it."
+
+That would be kind of the cliché way to go, in my view; to have him even
+inadvertently help the process is a nice surprise.  Also, to create a thread
+where we have to set up a third problem in the script (the changes being asked
+for by Earth being one, the infestation being the second) and pay it off
+requires more room than we have in 43 pages, and is an unnecessary beat.
+
+"Can we heighten the crew's annoyance with the changes being made on the ship?"
+ The changes are not actually made until the end of the episode, which makes
+this rather problematic.  We can add material in which they voice their
+concerns about what might be done, but this will again add expository dialogue
+that will slow down the pacing of the episode, and that seems to contradict
+what we are being asked for elsewhere.
+
+Ø Re: "decoding of 'the air is human,'"…I'll look at that and see if we can
+extend the discovery of what he's trying to communicate to make it clearer
+about how they get there.  Be advised, again, that this will add time and
+exposition and slow the pace.
+
+RULING FROM THE TOMB
+
+Regarding the recap of the request to edit down the Jehanne dialogue on page
+13, expressed at the time because it seemed too "far out"…as noted later in the
+script, we are using the actual dialogue of Joan of Arc in the script.  So if
+we are to retain our historical accuracy, we can't really change that material.
+
+"Henderson's murder at the end of the teaser needs to have more physical
+action…have it become more of a hand-to-hand struggle."
+
+We have already had to pull back on some of the stunt work in that episode due
+to budget limitations, and adding one more here is not within the limits of
+what we can do.  Also, the suddenness of the attack is what we're looking for,
+dramatically, rather than a prolonged struggle with someone we've never met.
+
+Ø However, I've spoken with John Copeland about this (he's directing this
+episode), and he will do what he can to maximize the action of that scene
+without having to add stunts or other costly elements.
+
+I hope that this will be of assistance in clarifying the situation.  We will
+certainly try and do what we can in the areas where we indicated we have some
+room to work, but as always, the degree to which we can make modifications is
+dictated to us by the budget, and we have an obligation to both WB and TNT to
+stay within those limits.
+
+Sincerely,
+
+Joe Straczynski
+
+********************************
+
+Back again.
+
+Hardly the picture of someone who is being hostile, I'd say.  But it does show
+that the notes process was ongoing.  Every script meant defending against the
+addition of exposition and dumb scenes (such as a scene in which Matheson shows
+Gideon where the conference room is, which is 10 feet from his chair, because
+somebody at TNT thought it would be confusing to the audience otherwise to
+figure out how he could know it's there.)
+
+>Meaning, you'd be pretty damn proud of those episodes [The Path of Sorrows,
+>Patterns of the Soul, Rules of the Game, ect.] that were only slightly
+>changed?
+>
+
+I'm proud of pretty much all of them, because of what they required.  If
+someone hands you a palm frond, a blender, and a car battery, and says, "Make
+me a radio out of this," and you actually DO it, you're proud of the result. 
+It ain't as pretty as it could be, but given the conditions under which you
+were laboring, it ain't bad.
+
+Some succeed more than others; but all would have been better *without* the
+kind of interference we received, the day to day battles, the war of attrition,
+the confusing and contradictory notes, and so on.
+
+That's why 101-105 are overall the best episodes, because they were troubled
+the least by outside forces.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+29 Oct 1999
>My question:  what the hell happened?  How did TNT change so much in
+>regards to B5/Crusade?  From what little I know, it seemed that the
+>execs thought since it was a new series they could change it (unlike the
+>already established B5), but what happened?!
+
+Simple answer: TNT Atlanta had never gotten involved before.  Also, B5 was a
+known commodity, it was never a question of getting input on the direction of
+the show, we just kept doing what we'd been doing.  Crusade was a new show, and
+people who didn't understand SF wanted a hand in determining the direction of
+the series.  
+
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+
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+29 Oct 1999
>Then, since hindsight is 20/20, it appears you should have sold Crusade to
+>TNT as being as B5-like as possible.  Ties to the known commodity could only
+>have helped here (e.g. B5 actors guest appearing on Crusade often). 
+
+Except at first TNT said they wanted NO connection to B5, or as little as
+possible, because they wanted it to be THEIR show...then, after they began to
+realize that the connection made sense (well into the writing process, I might
+add), they said no, no, it's OKAY to have B5 stuff going on...which is why
+Lochley is gone for so long.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+30 Oct 1999
Alyson: that's a very good analysis of the situation.
+
+>Compounded on this dynamic seems to be an additional one of lack of
+>knowledge on some (both?) of the TNT parties about when and where they
+>can affect the product.
+
+This is also very much true.  In one scene we shot, there's a slight reflection
+on the monitor wherein we can see Gideon's face reflected.  (Intentional on the
+director's part.)  They asked if we could give them the scene without the
+reflection.  No, we can't...unless we reshoot it.
+
+One other area where we ran up against a  problem with understanding was on the
+EFX and delivery.  They simply couldn't visualize what was going into a CGI
+shot before we actually *did* it.  They'd look at a scene where we'd slugged
+time for action, and think it was slow, because no, there isn't anything there
+NOW, but there will be when the CGI is done.
+
+They also kept saying (after the first 5) that the show was too dark, that they
+couldn't see anything, that the colors were muted.  That's one reason they
+wanted the sets repainted, to make them more colorful.  We kept saying, no,
+it's NOT too dark, we don't know where you're getting that.
+
+I finally found out when I went to visit someone at TNT and looked at what THEY
+were looking at...not the digibeta footage, or a good clean copy of the
+edit...they were looking at a fourth- or fifth-generation dub of the *avid
+output*, which is a digitized version of the film, somewhat low-res.  
+
+So finally, we brought in their tech guy, and showed him the digital beta
+version, the actual footage.  He looked at it, and said, "Oh, okay, you're
+right, it's not dark at all."  But by then the mandate had come down from on
+high, LIGHTEN THE SCENES.  Which is why the first five have a moodier, more
+stylistic look to them than the rest.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS:  A third story? (Was "Re: Attn JMS: What's Next?") (30 Oct 1999)
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+30 Oct 1999
> If I'm understanding correctly, and there
+>is a third story in the works, can you share what it will be about?
+
+Haven't decided yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+31 Oct 1999
>The Space channel (out of Toronto) is currently airing season 5 eps 3
+>times a day. (3 PM, 7 PM and 3 AM ET)  Think about this for a
+>moment--this amounts to fully one eighth of their broadcast day--not bad
+>for the little show that could, eh? 
+
+Cool...thanks, I had no idea.
+
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+
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+Re: Attn:JMS-Biography (16 Mar 1999)
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+16 Mar 1999
>I have just read "the last word" in this months B5 magazine and i was
+>glad to see you writing about yourself for a change.I found it a   very
+>interesting if brief insight into the man behind the story.
+
+Thanks, I'm always leery about that, and try to keep a low profile in that
+respect.
+
+>I was wondering if you would ,at some point in the future,consider
+>writing your biography, as i am sure a great many people would be very
+>interested.
+
+I dunno...I've actually been asked to write one, but have so far declined; it
+just ain't that interesting a life in many respects, and I'm only 44, writing a
+bio at this point would be rather self-indulgent.  I guess -- and I'm not being
+fascetious here -- I can't imagine anything less exciting to read than my bio.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: Attn JMS: A third story? (Was "Re: Attn JMS: What's Next?") (31 Oct 1999)
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+31 Oct 1999
>How have the tales been doing for Amazing?  The editorial says a lot of
+>copies cleared down at the con in Australia. 
+
+What the folks at Amazing have indicated is that the B5 story issues have been
+among their best sellers, beating out nearly everything else.  That's kinda
+nice...
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS--B5 Calendar canon? (2 Nov 1999)
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+2 Nov 1999
>I just picked up the new year 2000 B5 calendar from Slow Dazzle, a very nifty
+>thing btw, and was wondering if the various dates mentioned are considered
+>canon.
+
+I don't know since they still haven't sent me one (though I've asked).
+
+>I understand a detailed chronology of the B5 universe will be published
+>shortly
+>in the B5 magazine; looking forward to that quite a bit.
+
+It's *truly* an astonishing piece of work.  I commend everyone out there with
+even the vaguest interest in B5 to pick up these issues with the chronology
+(it's just *huge* and totally inclusive).  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+2 Nov 1999
>Unfortunately, Joe doesn't seem to be listening to us.  As I understand
+>it, some form of production memos are pretty normal on most shows. I had
+>thought Season 1 of B5 just for reasonable comparison.
+>
+
+No...it's just that there really aren't any, in terms of story.  The very few
+comments that came from our WB liaison were always sensible; if I disagreed, he
+deferred to my judgment; and they were always handled within a 2 or 5 minute
+phone call.  There's practically zero paper trail for that period.  
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  What did Walter Koenig think of Bester's fate? (2 Nov 1999)
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+2 Nov 1999
>Do you know if Walter Koenig had a chance to read the "PSI Corps Trilogy",
+>and if he did, what does he think of Mr. Bester's fate?  After all,
+>other than yourself, he was probably was the one most involved with the
+>character.
+
+I'm having lunch with him tomorrow...I'll ask.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+3 Nov 1999
Just a general note...because Amazing is a quarterly publication, they don't
+rush to get the magazine out nationwide...it's still hitting newsstands and
+will be for a while yet, so if it ain't there, it will likely be there soon.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: JMS in new Wizard magazine (6 Nov 1999)
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+6 Nov 1999
>You know.  I thing I hate the term comic book about as much Harlon
+>Ellison hates being termed a science fiction writer.
+>
+
+I dunno...*I* always thought I was writing a comic book....
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel TV show creators should treat fans? (8 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: How do you feel TV show creators should treat fans?

+8 Nov 1999
>However, creators such as Chris Carter (of X-FILES fame) are notorious
+>for "teasing" fans and then either not delivering or deliver something
+>totally different altogether, sometimes being more disappointing than
+>not. Or saying "we'll never do this on our show" and then a season or
+>two later, do it.
+
+Well, I don't really know if that's necessarily true of Chris, I think he
+always tries to be straightforward with folks.
+
+>How do you feel about this? Do you think this way of "teasing" the fans
+>is good or would you rather be upfront and truthful? And are your fans
+>important enough to you that you know if you cry "Wolf!" too many times
+>they won't believe/respect you?
+>
+I think you have to be careful to always be as accurate as possible.  (And bear
+in mind that one of the whole reasons for this exchange is to provide an
+accurate transcript of how a show is made, to help folks better understand the
+process and thus get better TV and have more input into that process...and that
+process is compromised if bad data is entered into the system.)
+
+I take some small pride in the fact that in 6 years of having this on-line
+conversation, when it comes to talking about this show, I have never once been
+caught out in a prevarication.
+
+Which is why I was kinda frustrated when the whole Claudia Christian situation
+went down, when she was saying she was fired when in fact she walked away over
+money.  People said "Well, who should we believe here?"  At that moment, to be
+honest, it felt to me like, "Why have I bothered to establish this reputation
+and conversation all this time if suddenly my word doesn't mean anything?" 
+Later, of course, Claudia came out and said, well, yeah, she did walk away, and
+it was over money, which is of course utterly her right, I just wish she'd said
+that at the start rather than much later...since the situatoion led to threats
+against me and abusive email and the like.
+
+So really, some people will believe what they choose to believe no matter how
+straight you've been with them in the past...that's been a hard lesson that
+I've had to learn.  All I can do is to keep doing what I've been doing, talking
+straight about the show to the best of my knowledge and ability.  And if I'm
+wrong about something, I cop to it instantly.
+
+What's good about that is that if I think a show didn't live up to
+expectations, I'll *say* so...quite bluntly sometimes.  But that way, when I
+say that show X is really, really *good*...fans know I ain't blowing smoke up
+their collective butts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+9 Nov 1999
>"Will you ever do a cameo on Babylon 5?"
+>
+>     "No."
+>
+>Ahem.
+>
+
+I said as straight as I can be about what happens in the show on the production
+side to within my knowledge and ability.  That means mainly what happens behind
+the scenes.  I a) consider the cameo to be a story thing, and b) what was I to
+say to that question?  "Oh, yes, I intend to be in the last episode shutting
+off the lights before B5 blows up"...?  That would be a massive spoiler.  And
+it ain't the point.
+
+
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+
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+9 Nov 1999
>Well, no speaking role, and really, who better to be the one to pull the last
+>switch to shut down B5?
+>
+>
+
+Besides, it was supposed to be a *surprise*.  There's a qualitative difference
+between talking about what's happening, and something planned for down the road
+(if I had the courage at the last to do it, which I was never sure about).
+
+
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+
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+Re: A dumb ratings question... (9 Nov 1999)
+
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Re: A dumb ratings question...

+9 Nov 1999
>> As someone who does nothing BUT watch TNT's air, I can tell you without
+>> a doubt that Crusade was promoted TO DEATH on TNT, and to a lesser
+>> extent on all the other Turner networks.  Although I have forgotten the
+>> exact figure now, I know that the ad campaign even before the first
+>> episode aired was well into the millions.  Lack of advertising was NOT
+>> the problem.
+
+That's simply not true.  For one thing, the few ads they had on TNT were comps,
+meaning they don't cost much of anything, and only appeal to viewers watching
+TNT to begin with.  For the B5 launch, they bought ads on other cable networks,
+bus ads, billboards, you name it...they did none of that for Crusade.  Zero. 
+Reviewers and journalists were constantly calling me to ask if they could get
+material for the show because TNT wouldn't give it to them.  I saw their ad
+campaign before they launched it, and even they admitted that it was only a
+small part of what they'd done for B5 and were doing for other shows.
+
+Your perception is your perception, but it doesn't jibe with the facts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: What about The Further Adventures of Lyta and G'Kar? (16 Mar 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: What about The Further Adventures of Lyta and G'Kar?

+16 Mar 1999
I'm writing 3 B5 short stories for Amazing Stories magazine; the first is a
+Londo (shortly after he became emperor) story; also doing a G'Kar/Lyta story,
+and a B5-setting story, all following these characters after the events of
+"Objects at Rest."
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available! (9 Nov 1999)
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Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!

+9 Nov 1999
Folkses:
+
+For the last six years, I've been asked repeatedly -- in email and at
+conventions -- "Are you ever going to make the original B5 series writers'
+bible available?"  My general reaction was to simply say...maybe someday.
+
+After considerable reflection, and as a Solstice present to B5 viewers...we're
+finally going to make it available.
+
+TWO such *its*, to be precise.
+
+First: The original Babylon 5 Series Treatment
+
+This is the 23 page document, written in September 1988, that was used to sell
+the series for the five years it took to find a buyer.  It has different
+characters than were ever seen in the show, such as Dr. Chakri Mendak (a role
+that later became Dr. Stephen Franklin) and more background on Vice-Commander
+Laurel Chang... Sinclair's background is also quite different from what we
+eventually ended up with (including the fact that he was widowed, a piece I
+pulled away from his character for the series and held for someone like
+Sheridan)....the Vorlons were warlike, squabbling aliens....
+
+This was the first attempt to put B5 down on paper, in a process that would
+change and evolve over the next 5 years.  Ideas that were never used,
+characters who would never be seen again, the first stirrings of the Minbari
+War story (including a never used alternate explanation for why they
+surrendered), Delenn was a male character... Kosh had a mate who came with him
+to B5...on and on and on.
+
+Second: The original Season One Babylon 5 Writer's Bible
+
+This massive tome weighs in at over 60 pages, with comprehensive backgrounds on
+all the characters as well as guidelines for writing SF for TV in ways that
+would be different than all of our predecessors.  It lays out the first year of
+the arc and warns potential writers away from areas we plan to explore in later
+years, has additional backgrounds on regular characters never actually used in
+the series (such as a strange fellow named Mr. Jones who would have been
+alternately a bane and ally to Garibaldi), stories that would eventually be
+filmed, other stories that would never be used, information on the the history
+and technology of the B5 universe, Psi Corps, Earthforce, the various
+governments, and other areas...this is the Big One, the Grail of the B5
+fictional world.  The table of contents alone covers 2 pages.
+
+This bible was ONLY given to prospective writers, who were in turn asked to
+keep the material totally confidential.  The treatment was ONLY given to
+network/studio. heads and others in a position to buy the series.
+
+In addition, BOTH of these documents will be peppered with the original
+illustrations by Peter Ledger used to sell and visualize the series in its
+earliest stage, including the original keyhole logo, many of them reproduced in
+full color, others b&w.  Some of these images have shown up in various places,
+but others will be seen here by the world at large for the first time.
+
+(Note: the page counts given do NOT include the pages of artwork, which expand
+the length further.)
+
+I debated long and hard about whether or not I would ever make these available,
+but finally decided to give in to the many requests for the release of this
+material.  
+
+This material will shortly be made available at www.thestation.com and via
+phone orders.  I don't know how long we'll make them available, but I suspect
+it may not be very long.  
+
+In reading through the documents, it's like taking a trip back through time to
+what was, to the very beginnings of the series, what would be, what might've
+been, what never was...what got abandoned on the side of the road, what was
+kept.  At times the material is coy, informative, deliberately misleading in a
+couple of places where I wanted to avoid leaks, rude and sometimes it actually
+makes a rough kind of sense.
+
+They're going to cost a bit more than the scripts, because at 60+ pages in the
+case of the bible, and with the color illustrations, they're more expensive to
+produce, and we're only doing a limited number of these.  
+
+Expect the full info to go up on thestation.com in a few days.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Rising Stars #3 Out November 22nd (9 Nov 1999)
+
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Rising Stars #3 Out November 22nd

+9 Nov 1999
Just wanted to say that...er, well...I guess the title of this message just
+said it.  The next issue of Rising Stars out 11/22 tells the story of Lee
+Jackson, the pyrokinetic whose fiery outburst started the whole thing rolling. 
+This one also features the artwork of Christian Zanier, who comes on board as
+regular penciler with this issue, and does a bang-up job.  This issue also
+hints at the motive for the ongoing murders.
+
+It's a corker.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: CRUSADE Rumor (10 Nov 1999)
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Re: CRUSADE Rumor

+10 Nov 1999
>The rumor is that Sci-Fi is negotiating with TNT to do some sort of
+>one-time special CRUSADE marathon.  All the episodes would be shown back
+>to back, and if the ratings were high enough to please the Skiffy Suits,
+>talks would begin for possible purchase of CRUSADE by Skiffy.
+>
+
+It's news to me, so I doubt its authenticity.  Also, they'd have to factor into
+the equation that the episodes have just run on TNT recently, so a lot of folks
+have seen 'em.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
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+Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available! (10 Nov 1999)
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Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!

+10 Nov 1999
>When I clicked to add either B5 Bible to my cart, it gave me the "We're
+>sorry, but this product is not currently available with the attributes you
+>selected." message.
+
+The info is *just now* starting to go up, so I imagine they are still adding in
+the info to the system.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available! (11 Nov 1999)
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Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!

+11 Nov 1999
>BB-01A  Babylon 5 Autographed Bible  $45.00  
+>BB-01  Babylon 5 Bible   $35.00  
+>173-CB-01  Crusade Writers Bible  $20.00  
+>
+>Are the items in question?
+>
+
+The Crusade bible is a different thing; it's the additional B5 treatment that's
+being made available starting right now.  The Crusade bible was made available
+a bit ago.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Sleeping In Light (and a heart-felt thank you) (13 Nov 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sleeping In Light (and a heart-felt thank you)

+13 Nov 1999
No, thank you...you are most kind.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available! (13 Nov 1999)
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Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!

+13 Nov 1999
>I've been meaning to ask this since I got the Crusade Bible...Does the
+>writers
+>bible change year to year?  I would think it would, if only to take into
+>account everything that is revealed in past seasons and to point out which
+>directions you want the show to go, but this is just guesswork.
+>
+
+I think we did a supplementary thing to the bible for year two, but that was
+it, and my memory could be off about that.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Sifl & Olly Will Return! (14 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Sifl & Olly Will Return!

+14 Nov 1999
Yeah, I heard that the other day...I'm looking forward to it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Hands Outstretched (14 Nov 1999)
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Re: Hands Outstretched

+14 Nov 1999
>Hand of Friendship--
+>
+
+Delenn reaching out her hand to Sheridan.
+
+And of course gloved hands in the Psi Corps.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available! (14 Nov 1999)
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Re: Finally! B5 Bible/Treatment Available!

+14 Nov 1999
>On that note, do you plan on releasing the supplementary things or
+>season 2 through 5 bibles of Babylon 5 for sale on The Station, now that the
+>S1 bible is up for sale?
+>
+
+I very much doubt it; there was just minor tinkering done to the thing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
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+Re: PsiCorps 2: Deadly Relations...a readers review (4 Mar 1999)
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Re: PsiCorps 2: Deadly Relations...a readers review

+4 Mar 1999
I think book 2 is terrific as well, maybe in some ways better than 1 because
+though it's not as epic, it really makes the Psi Corps come alive in some nifty
+ways.
+
+I haven't seen 3 yet, but it should be a real kick.
+
+The technomage trilogy, at this point, may work out to be my favorite, given
+how much of the B5 storyline it interweaves.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: From Orlando:  Thanks JMS (16 Mar 1999)
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Re: From Orlando:  Thanks JMS

+16 Mar 1999
Thanks, the pleasure was all mine.
+
+And it was important to get those two eps out there, because it's a *good*
+show, and nothing defeats the naysayers like the truth.  Independent reactions
+to the episodes is the best antidote to the nonsense.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
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+Re: ATTN. JMS - Odd questions (15 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN. JMS - Odd questions

+15 Nov 1999
>1) Is Kosh supposed to be the Oracle of Delphi? It just hit me today that he
+>has those babbling sounds in the suit (that sounds like wind rustling in
+>leaves) and then he makes a short statement that no one understands until
+>what he has said has come to pass.
+>
+
+Yeah, that's always how I kind of looked at him.
+
+>2) Did you, long ago, have a glimpse of your future like Londo did?
+>
+
+Some things I probably should not comment on.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Lyta & G'Kar Story (Spoilers) (17 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Lyta & G'Kar Story (Spoilers)

+17 Nov 1999
>Also, this may sound dumb, but I was wondering how Lyta was able to send
+>G'Kar a telepathic message in the story, since he isn't a telepath.  I
+>guess I missed something in the series!
+
+We've had other examples in the show of someone sending a telepathic signal to
+someone else who wasn't a teep...Kosh to Sheridan being the one that comes to
+mind right offhand.  We've established in the books that a teep can send into a
+normal, but obviously it doesn't work in the other direction.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: Rising Stars (19 Nov 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Rising Stars

+19 Nov 1999
Your words are most kind; thank you, and I hope you continue to enjoy the book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Chris Carter Rumor (19 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Chris Carter Rumor

+19 Nov 1999
I can't comment at this time.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: four quick questions (20 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: four quick questions

+20 Nov 1999
>I read in the german Babylon 5 newsgroup that all Crusade episodes will
+>be available as rental video tapes with german synchronisation in
+>february 2000. Do you know anything about that? Will Crusade also be
+>available in the stores?
+
+I'm afraid I've no idea.
+
+>The Lurkers Guide mentioned an artikel from Cleveland Live
+>(http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/pd/news/tuesday/e16scif.ssf)
+>with a very interesting quote:
+>
+>"X-Files" creator Chris Carter and "Babylon 5" creator J. Michael
+>Straczynski are teaming up for a CBS drama. 
+>Any comments from you? ;-)
+>
+Not at this time.
+
+>Is there a chance to see you next year in London? In march there will be
+>the Starfury Millenium Con (no Wolf359 con AFAIK) with
+>Peter, Andreas, Richard and Jason and some german B5 fans, too!
+>
+No, no plans for UK conventions next year, and would not be involved with this
+one in any event given some of the folks involved.
+
+>And final...any news from the DVD sector?
+
+Not that I've heard.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+Re: Crusade Jacket MIA? (20 Nov 1999)
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Re: Crusade Jacket MIA?

+20 Nov 1999
No, there's not a problem.  We wanted to wait until the last of the orders were
+in, and then ship everything pretty much at once, which is easier for the
+fulfilment house to deal with given the bulk of the items involved.
+
+I think they've either stopped taking orders, or will stop shortly, so stuff
+should go out soon.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade and NDEI site (20 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade and NDEI site

+20 Nov 1999
It's a typo.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS: Selling B5 Scripts & Pricing (21 Nov 1999)
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Re: JMS: Selling B5 Scripts & Pricing

+21 Nov 1999
>So we must spend $20 a script on thestation.com for a B5 script...
+>
+>just thought you'd be interested to know that for $20 you can buy a
+>multimedia CD which includes ALL 175 Deep Space Nine scripts along with
+>their video promos.  Same thing for Next Generation.  Why didn't you do
+>this?
+
+First, is this CD by any chance licensed?  
+
+Second, that is the going price for actual, physical scripts.  Go to any other
+place in town, X-Files, or a script store, and that's the going price to get an
+actual script.  Lots and lots of folks don't want just a CD, they want the
+physical script.  I can get all of an Mark Twain's books on CD, but I *prefer*
+to buy them in book form.
+
+Third, these are collectibles whose value is more than just the paper.
+
+If you don't get that concept, there's nothing I can do that will explain it to
+you.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS: Some bible questions/praise (21 Nov 1999)
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Re: JMS: Some bible questions/praise

+21 Nov 1999
>
+>s
+>p
+>o
+>i
+>l
+>e
+>r
+>
+>s
+>p
+>a
+>c
+>e
+>
+>p
+>r
+>o
+>v
+>i
+>d
+>e
+>d
+>
+>b
+>y
+>
+>m
+>e
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>
+>That should be enough space.  (maybe more than enough LOL).
+>
+>What I enjoyed most was seeing how you moved some of the pieces of
+>peoples lives around.  I can't find it know but one of your suggested
+>stories was Garibaldi talking with his father in the hospital, not
+>Ivanova.  Or the fact that you mentioned in the bible Franklin was
+>divorced with two kids, that didn't come out in the show (to my
+>recollection).  So many ideas to play with, so little TV time to show
+>it.
+>
+
+The first was a story that Larry looked at in the treatment and suggested would
+be better given to Ivanova since Garibaldi had already had a lot of
+character-related exposure.  And as for the latter...I didn't get a chance to
+bring it up early on, and finally vetoed the thing as laying in too many
+threads, especially since an ex-wife would end up playing significantly in the
+Sheridan thread.
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Babylon 5 "SERIES 1" Bible (21 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Babylon 5 "SERIES 1" Bible

+21 Nov 1999
>1) The bible refers out to a 200-page Arc document.  Can you tell me if
+>this is ever going to be released in any way, shape, or form.
+
+Not a chance.
+
+>2) The bible covers *Season 1* only !  Does this mean we have 4 more of
+>these bibles to look forward to (Please say "yes").
+>
+
+No, since there were only minor modifications done to the thing for S2, and
+there were no other changes done for S3-5.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+18 Mar 1999
>Haven't seen them yet, but just read description of Crusade opening titles.
+> Sounds sorta like the second part of the opening to The Prisoner, the part
+>with the episode title and episode credits.  Was this your intent?
+
+No, it draws from the primary questions asked in the B5 series.
+
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Re: SFX Magazine, JMS and Double Standards

+22 Nov 1999
I think that we have a British/American misunderstanding here, because the
+gesture reported is not designated as one that calls the person asking the
+question a "wanker," at least not in this country, though it may be in the UK. 
+It's more meant here as indicating that the person talking doesn't have a clue
+and is just jerking around with the answer.
+
+Though it's a moot point, since SFX is a fairly useless publication on just
+about every imaginable front.  Never have so many jumped-up fanboys done so
+little, with so much, for so long.
+
+Wankers.
+
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+
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Re: JMS: Selling B5 Scripts & Pricing

+22 Nov 1999
>I appreciate the fact that they are collectibles, my point is some people
+>(like
+>myself) aren't willing to spend about $2,200 on 110 scripts... it's too much
+>money!  I really do want these scripts, but it's too much.  Can't there be a
+>cheaper alternative?
+
+Well, for one thing, we're not going to release all 110 scripts, only the
+highlights and justifiable releases.  Grey 17 for instance will never be
+released, it may only plan to escape....
+
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: TV Production Role (22 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: TV Production Role

+22 Nov 1999
>I came across "Executive Story Consultant" but not Story Editor, is
+>Executive Story Consultant just another wording for Story Editor?
+>
+
+No.  A consultant can read scripts and give suggestions...a story editor
+rewrites.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - 200 page document (23 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - 200 page document

+23 Nov 1999
First, you have to understand that there is no requirement that I release
+*everything* that has ever been done for the show, and that I do have some
+rights to privacy, and to keep some things for myself.
+
+Second, the original document was such that is was random notes bunched
+together by time and character, sometimes cross-referenced, sometimes not. 
+It's like an outline to oneself that is never supposed to make sense to someone
+else because it was never *written* for someone else.  They are my private
+notes, to myself.
+
+Where does anyone here have a problem with the concept of private notes?
+
+Further still...the material contains bunches of quick premises for possible
+stories or episodes, some used, some not, and if I let them out then those
+not-used stories can never be used, and may end up elsewhere.
+
+Lots of people seem to have this idea that the final result was widely
+divergent from the original arc, hence this interest, and that proceeds from a
+false premise.  It really didn't change that much.  Anyone looking at the S1
+bible right now sees stuff that was laid out for the later seasons, and it was
+pretty much all done...right down to telling writers not to get Lyta into a
+relationship because she would eventually become starstruck by Byron, and I
+didn't want anything else to get in the way of that.
+
+So it really *isn't* that different.  What the original material *is* is
+scattergun, written in quick fragments or sudden thoughts dashed down in the
+middle of the night or while working on something...it's in no condition to
+release to anyone.  I'd have to go through the material, reorganize it in a way
+that would be all-chronological or all character, take out the stuff that I
+would want to hold onto for future use...and then it wouldn't *be* the original
+document anymore.
+
+Whereas the overall approach was there from the git-go, the details were always
+a work in progress, refining the ideas further and further during the five
+years it took to sell the darned thing.  Imagine five years of random notes as
+the story coalesced, and you've got a pretty solid idea of the mess it looks
+like.
+
+>JMS how often would you refer to this 200 page document yourself?  Did you
+>refer to it as much through out season 5 as you did the first season?  
+
+Yeah, I referred to it constantly.  Early on, to expedite things, since it is
+such a clutter, I broke out each season at the very start of S1, putting each
+episode on a card in a black binder, which had two-sided sheets that held 10
+cards per side.
+
+I did this for all five seasons before we ever shot a frame of film on S1.
+
+That binder sat on the first shelf on the left in my office for five years. 
+People would come in and ask where the material was, and I'd explain that the
+original material was in the triple-encrypted file...and they never knew that
+the distillation of that material was sitting right behind them, close enough
+to reach over and pull down off the shelf.
+
+>Did you
+>have a similar document for Crusades or was Crusades included in the
+>original document in some form
+
+Not as lengthy, no.
+
+>Several weeks ago I remember you saying
+>something about the final fate of a few of the major characters.  Does this
+>document contain this sort of information?  If so then I do understand the
+>desire to not release it
+
+There's a lot of that in it as well, on the theory that even if I never used
+it, *I* would have to know what it was, in terms of the history of the B5
+universe and where it and the characters were all going.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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Re: ATTN JMS: Final Approval

+23 Nov 1999
Damn...that one slipped by.
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Re: SFX Magazine, JMS and Double Standards

+23 Nov 1999
>Maybe now they aren't <that> good.  Most of their crimes are those of
+>self-indulgence, and self-congratulation.
+
+Having been a journalist myself, I also kind of have a problem with an editor
+of a publication using that publication as a tool in a fanboy vendetta.  But
+that's just me, I'm whacky that way.
+
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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Re: JMS:  Chronology question

+23 Nov 1999
>I'm really looking forward to the chronology in the upcoming B5 magazines.
+>Can
+>you tell us how it will be set up?  There are various 'canon' items that
+>weren't actually shown on screen (books, comics, magazines) and I wondered if
+>they will be included and annotated as to the source?  Also, how many issues
+>will it take?
+>
+>
+
+I think it'll be stretched across 2-3 issues.  The thing can't quite be
+explained as you've outlined the question here, it really kinda has to be seen.
+ It incorporates a LOT of stuff from various sectors into a detailed timeline
+that has been checked and cross referenced with our material to ensure its
+accuracy.  It's real nifty.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: ATTN JMS: four quick questions

+23 Nov 1999
>> In article <s3gg97ng3ef16@corp.supernews.com>, Ryan Nock
+>> <Tai_sa@hotmail.com> wrote:
+>> 
+>> > Jms at B5 <jmsatb5@aol.com> wrote in message
+>> >
+>> > "> >Is there a chance to see you next year in London? In march there will
+>be
+>> > > >the Starfury Millenium Con (no Wolf359 con AFAIK) with
+>> > > >Peter, Andreas, Richard and Jason and some german B5 fans, too!
+>> > > >
+>> > > No, no plans for UK conventions next year, and would not be involved
+>with
+>> > this one in any event given some of the folks involved."
+>> >
+>> >
+>> >
+>> > JMS, I hope it's not true, but that reply seems to imply that you have a
+>> > problem with Peter, Andreas, Richard, or Jason.  Again, I hope that's not
+>> > true, but I wouldn't expect you to explain why even if it is true.
+>> 
+>> I don't think he's referring to the actors, but rather the folks who
+>> put on the con. ISTR some problems with one of the UK cons last year...
+>
+>AFAIK is there only a problem with Wolf359 (a UK Con runner) since the
+>Wolf359-Con "The Alliance" 1997 in Blackpool. I hope there is no general
+>problem from JMS visiting Cons in the UK.
+
+Correct, I have no problems with the cast attending, or with the UK.  That
+unpleasantness with Boston Harbor is long,  long forgotten....
+
+ jms
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - 200 page document

+24 Nov 1999
>But, Joe, I would ask this of you.  Keep the thing around, and let it be
+>released someday -- 50 years after your death, if you like.
+
+You must understand: if you go through all of my files, for all the scripts and
+stories I have written, you will find ONLY final drafts.  I routinely destroy
+ALL of my annotated drafts, rough drafts, preliminary drafts and most notes.  I
+think that, in the end, what has to stand or fall is the work, and one doesn't
+let out one's rough drafts or unfinished work.  
+
+A while back, there was a long and heated debate between me and some other
+online folks on the issue of unfinished work and annotated drafts; I'm
+foursquare against them being released posthumously.  This, to me, falls under
+the same heading.
+
+All the rough-draft stories, all the MSW scripts, and all my B5 scripts with my
+handwritten edits, changes, annotations, deletions, and revisions...are mulch. 
+As they should be.
+
+One does not go out in public only partially dressed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Music Tastes (B5 Magazine) (26 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Music Tastes (B5 Magazine)

+26 Nov 1999
>In the latest B5 Magazine (US), they were asking people involved with
+>B5, including yourself, what their musical-tastes were.  You said that
+>you like a group called Kodo.  I have never heard of them--what kind of
+>music do they perform?
+
+It's KODO, all caps, and they're a Japanese...I don't know if group is the
+right word, collective?...bunch who use Kodo drums and similar massive drums
+for traditional Japanese music of the kind that gets the blood moving.
+
+For a newcomer to that kind of music, I suggest SAI-SO, their latest which is
+actually a remix of their Iridori album by Western DJ/mixer guys.
+
+If you just want to jump in, get their Live at the Acropolis CD...it's fucking
+brilliant.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Theme

+20 Mar 1999
+It's hard to separate out the two, the theme and the images.  We actually had
+the music first from Evan, which is normally not the way we do it, we do the
+visuals first.  So we set it aside, and did the edit on the shots, which are
+designed to create a fairly exotic feeling.  
+
+Then when we had it done, just out of curiousity as a temp track, we laid in
+Evan's original music...and it cut right to the music, beat for beat, shot for
+shot, right on the cuts, to the second.
+
+We wuz astonished....
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: JMS: Some bible questions/praise

+26 Nov 1999
>My recollection is that this is something that The Great Maker
+>has admitted lying about.  The triple-encrypted computer files
+>were actually a boxful of index cards on a shelf in his office
+>where he could stare at them while telling visitors about
+>the triple-encrypted computer files.
+
+No, that is completely untrue.  The cards were a distillation of my notes,
+broken down by season.  
+
+Please don't put words in my mouth, I have enough trouble with the ones that I
+put there on my own.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+26 Nov 1999
No, I understand the motivation and whence it comes; on a much higher plane,
+it's the kind of stuff that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had to deal with after he
+sent Sherlock Holmes over the falls of Reichenbach, after Dickens dispensed
+with some of his characters...so I do understand it.
+
+And thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+jms recommends.... (27 Nov 1999)
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jms recommends....

+27 Nov 1999
Flumadine.  You've never heard of flumadine?  
+
+Lemme explain, 'cause this stuff just saved my ass.
+
+Flumadine has to be taken within 48 hours of contracting the flu, which I just
+recently got.  (After you've had pneumonia, as I did about a year and a half
+ago, it makes you much more susceptible to flu and upper respiratory infections
+and the like...and I'm susceptible to begin with, you can set your flu-calendar
+by me).
+
+What does it do?  It's a prescription drug that produces an enzyme that blocks
+reproduction of the virus.  So what you have in the first 48 hours is all you
+have, and those die off in time.  The result is that your symptoms are cut by
+about 50%, and the duration can be similalry cut.
+
+It's only been out for about a year, so most folks don't know about it...even
+most of the staff at the medical center didn't know about it, though the doctor
+was familiar with it.  I figured, having gotten the flu, I didn't have anything
+to lose by taking a shot.
+
+And sonuvagun...it worked.
+
+So I commend it to you heartily.  Just remember, though: if you think you're
+getting the flu, you *have* to get it within the first 48 hours or it won't be
+effective.
+
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+
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Re: jms- Rising Stars #3

+27 Nov 1999
I believed it was supposed to be this week, but it looks like there's been a
+delay in shipping; expect it next week.  Much apologizings....
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5, TNT, & SCI-FI (27 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5, TNT, & SCI-FI

+27 Nov 1999
>My question is, is there a
+>time limit on this contract?  If so, how long before it expires?  Are there
+>other stipulations such as requiring them to air the reruns (even if it is
+>in a really crappy time slot)?  Has anybody (SCI-FI Channel included)
+>expressed interest at picking up the reruns after TNT's contract expires or
+>is it way to early for that?  And is Crusade part of the same contract or
+>is it another deal all together
+
+I believe that the license for TNT to run B5 runs through late 2001, so it
+would be available thereafter.
+
+>And speaking of Crusade, is it officially 100% dead yet?  I know that
+>budget concerns were the initial reasons SCI-FI couldn't pick it up (at
+>least that's the story we were told) and I know they've cancelled Slider's
+>and Poltergeist, but they're also producing a couple of new series, so is
+>there still no room in their budget for Crusade or is it too late even if
+>there were (what with your other projects and expired actor contracts,
+>etc)? 
+
+My feeling is that if it hasn't happened by now, it's probably not going to. 
+The efforts made by the fans have been terrific, and appreciated, and valued by
+all involved...but if it were to happen, it would have had to have happened by
+now, I think.  Mind, I could be wrong, odder things have happened, but that's
+how it looks to me at this point.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Strange "Rising Stars" Promo (27 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Strange "Rising Stars" Promo

+27 Nov 1999
>   On the other hand, the listing announcing "Rising Stars" #5 for 
+>January 2000 was decidedly different:
+>   The unknown issue! Tempers reach an all time high as deadline
+>     crunches weigh heavy on the shoulders of all! Atist, inker and
+>     colorist are still unknown but JMS will still deliver one heck of
+>     a story. Soon to be lengthened into a 900 page novel, grab
+>     yours today. Peace!
+>
+>What's *that* all about?
+>
+
+I've no idea, since the script for #5 was turned in *ages* ago.  In general,
+the scripts have stayed 3 issues ahead of the publishing schedule.  And even
+before it was turned in, I provided TC with a synopsis of the story for use in
+solicitations.
+
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Re: Attn: JMS - Souls

+27 Nov 1999
>I am told you are an atheist; I am just agnostic.
+>Question: do you believe in souls? (cf Soulhunter, River of Souls)
+>--
+
+Define exactly what you mean by souls.
+
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+Re: SFX Magazine, JMS and Double Standards (27 Nov 1999)
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Re: SFX Magazine, JMS and Double Standards

+27 Nov 1999
Paul...
+
+Re: your synopsis.
+
+Marry me.
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: I agree w/you re: original notes. (28 Nov 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: I agree w/you re: original notes.

+28 Nov 1999
>So to my mind, the B5 universe is closed fer business. It's as you wanted:
+>a good story, nothing more or less, to be re-read from time to time when
+>the real world isn't too appealing, up on the shelf with all the other
+>classics. 
+
+>Thanks for everything, from pilot episode to release of original scripts
+>and bibles. Thanks for a good time. Ciao.
+
+You're welcome.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: A way to get B5 reruns off TNT (28 Nov 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: A way to get B5 reruns off TNT

+28 Nov 1999
The B5 reruns expire on TNT around fall 2001, if I remember correctly.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Why are you so pessimistic? (not Crusade) (20 Mar 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Why are you so pessimistic? (not Crusade)

+20 Mar 1999
+Actually, I'm something of an optimist, all things considered.  I've just
+learned that only hard roads lead to good places.
+
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+Re: Attn: JMS - Souls (28 Nov 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS - Souls

+28 Nov 1999
>I think it's rather easy to define - a non-physical component of a 
+>person which is independant of their physical existence and still
+>incorporates all important elements of their personality such that
+>it would be unmistakeably unique.  (being non-physical it would
+>be undetectable and unaffected by any physical processes)
+
+Except of course that this also defines *mind* just as well as it does *soul*. 
+The mind exists IN the brain, as the soul reputedly exists IN the body, but you
+can poke around someone's cerebral cortex all you want, you won't find *mind*. 
+
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+Re: This rests on your shoulders. (30 Nov 1999)
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Re: This rests on your shoulders.

+30 Nov 1999
>What do *you* think souls are?  I would never 'define' souls, but since you
+>didn't say you outright did not believe in souls, your belief must go at
+>least to a certain point.
+
+But of course the definition is key to asking and answering the question. 
+Unless one can say what one means one can never mean what one says.  If you're
+talking about an immortal soul that goes to heaven or hell...then my answer is
+no.  If you're talking about the personality, as in "she's a very soulful
+person," or having a lot of soul in one's work...then that's a whole different
+*concept*, and in that case being more psychological than spiritual, then the
+answer is yes.
+
+As someone else once said...god is in the details.  Literally, in this
+discussion.
+
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+Re: Attn JMS:  Morden in shadows *spoilers for Macbeth* (30 Nov 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS:  Morden in shadows *spoilers for Macbeth*

+30 Nov 1999
>Then I remembered how two or three times Morden sort of shrank into shadows,
+>as though the lights above him dimmed.
+
+We moved a screen between him and the light-source, then moved it away again.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Would you ever do a DVD "special edition?" (1 Dec 1999)
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+1 Dec 1999
I'd be only thrilled to do something along these lines.
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Re: Attn: JMS - Loscon clarification

+1 Dec 1999
The project is being moved around, but the development season which goes from
+about June through October was pretty much over when all hell broke loose, so I
+expect nothing much can be done with it until next June at the earliest.
+
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+Re: jms Tells the Chris Carter/CBS story at Loscon (1 Dec 1999)
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Re: jms Tells the Chris Carter/CBS story at Loscon

+1 Dec 1999
Just to jump in a bit...
+
+The irony of course is that if Harsh Realm had been canceled even a week later,
+we would've concluded the deal with CBS for the show I'd created and which
+Chris, Frank Spotnitz and I would exec produce.  CBS had agreed to a pilot
+production deal, and they were haggling over the per episode license fee should
+the show get picked up for series when HR got canceled and the ripple effect
+started.
+
+The other thing I wanted to mention is that in my years in the biz, I have
+rarely enjoyed a partnership with anyone as much as with Chris and Frank, who
+are not only stand-up guys, but in all of our discussions I don't think a
+single idea got broached that didn't make sense.  
+
+Their approach is the same we had at B5: you check your ego at the door and do
+what's best for the story.  I have nothing but good things to say about them,
+and even though Fox felt that they needed to go forth only with 100% CC after
+HR was canceled (the logic being that it didn't work because Chris didn't
+actually create it), I consider the experience a positive one.
+
+They're good people over there at 1013.
+
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Re: ATTN JMS. Sleeping in Light

+1 Dec 1999
No, John's not in the ep.  We'd shot a group shot of all of us wheeling
+somebody down the hospital aisle, but cut it for time.
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - Re: 200 page document (1 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Re: 200 page document

+1 Dec 1999
>> Anyone looking at the S1 bible
+>> right now sees stuff that was laid out for the later seasons,
+>> and it was pretty much all done...
+>> right down to telling writers
+>> not to get Lyta into a relationship
+>> because she would eventually become starstruck by Byron,
+>> and I didn't want anything else to get in the way of that.
+>
+>I thought Byron was originally intended for Ivanova, up until Claudia
+>decided to leave the show...???
+>
+
+Correct.  Note the use of the word *starstruck*, not *involved with*.  The
+theory was that Byron would have gotten involved with Ivanova, who -- feeling
+she'd messed up by being too closed off to a somewhat similar person decides to
+take a chance with someone, only to have it blow up in her face -- while Lyta
+suffered from unrequited love (a constant B5 theme), which would no less fuel
+her desire to avenge him.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Difference between CoS script and actual filmed episode (2 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Difference between CoS script and actual filmed episode

+2 Dec 1999
Any time you shoot an episode, some lines or other, or even partial scenes (or
+whole scenes) can end up on the cutting room floor to fit.  Dry, we ran about
+42 minutes 15 seconds 12 frames (I think), and we had to hit that every time
+for formatting purposes.  So you edit it all to fit, and sometimes you have to
+leave stuff out to make it all work.
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+Re: ATTN:JMS Rising Stars #3 (4 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN:JMS Rising Stars #3

+4 Dec 1999
>In RS #3, a comment was made that Flagg had to change his name over the
+>copyright. Was this for real, (As I know there used to be another Flagg in
+>another company's line up.)
+
+To a certain extent.  After the PR for Rising Stars got going, Howard Chaykin
+noticed the Flagg name, and he did (and does) have the rights to Flagg.  I'd
+thought it was only American Flagg! that he had the rights to, and it wouldn't
+be an issue, but apparently it's otherwise.
+
+It wasn't a big deal, really...I saw Howard one night at dinner (we're not
+close friends, but we are friendly acquaintances, and I've always been a big
+fan of his work), and we chatted about it, and I suggested the solution that's
+in the book, he laughed, thought it was a great and funny idea, and that was
+the end of it.
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+21 Mar 1999
For those interested...the new issue of Wizard Magazine is out this week, with
+both an article about, and a preview issue for, my new comic series from Top
+Cow, RISING STARS.  Wizard can be found at nearly all comic stores and most
+newsstands.
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Characters Who Have Problems (4 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Characters Who Have Problems

+4 Dec 1999
>I've noticed, from watching B5 & reading Rising Stars, that you tend to
+>write characters who have problems they need to overcome.  This is what
+>I like about your writing the most.  I've all ready mentioned my problem
+>with depression & how B5 helped me to deal with it (along with therapy,
+>of course) here.  I also had to deal with OCD (obsessive-compulsive
+>disorder) along with it, so I had a tough time.  It's nice to see
+>characters who also face real problems on television & in print.  So
+>thank you again!
+>
+>
+Thanks...I don't believe in totally perfect people, we all have our flaws as
+well as our virtues, and that's what makes us interesting, particularly from a
+storytelling point of view.
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Re: jms Tells the Chris Carter/CBS story at Loscon

+4 Dec 1999
>How will this effect your writing workload?  More novels and/or short
+>prose stories?  Maybe another comic series?
+
+There's still plenty to do, and several other projects in the works while the
+project I was doing for Chris is being shopped elsewhere.
+
+Believe me, I never lack for stuff to work on.
+
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Re: ATTN JMS. Sleeping in Light

+4 Dec 1999
Yeah, that was me...but in truth, it was self-indulgent and at the end of the
+day, it was clear to me that it had no business being there.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Characters Who Have Problems (6 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Characters Who Have Problems

+6 Dec 1999
Marcus was a martyr waiting to happen, looking for something worth throwing his
+life away on because he could find little worth in his own.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS B5 section on the SFC Internet site (11 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS B5 section on the SFC Internet site

+11 Dec 1999
>Yes, but stopping Crusade was a breach of contract with WB.  Why doesn't WB
+>yank
+>B5?  The shows might be different, but the owner and broadcaster are the
+>same.
+
+You can't apply one situation against another; their license on B5 is solid and
+by contract until the end of 2001 or thereabouts.  To pull B5 would breach WB's
+contract with TNT, and they would be liable.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+various from jms (12 Dec 1999)
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various from jms

+12 Dec 1999
Some overall quick notes, just some business and housekeeping stuff to get out
+of the way....
+
+1) It looks like the genie.com site and address will be unreachable after the
+first of January, so anyone using that email address for me should delete it.
+
+2) By a similar token, after the first of the year I'm going to be
+quasi-retiring the jmsatb5@aol.com email address, since technically I'm *not*
+at B5 anymore, and I'm kind of clearing the decks for other stuff in future.  I
+won't delete the ID, because at AOL but rather let it go dormant, because if
+you delete it somebody else can begin using it soon after, but I'll gradually
+be shifting over to the new address, straczynski@aol.com in terms of answering
+email.  
+
+3) Folks sending fan mail to the cast should do so at the fan club mail address
+rather than the Ventura Blvd. address, because that's soon going to be set
+aside for only personal stuff.
+
+4) My Last Word column in the new B5 Magazine (as well as the one in the issue
+prior to this) got foreshortened by about 50% due to an apparent glitch at the
+magazine.  So if it ends kinda whacky, that's the reason for it.  They'll
+reprint the whole thing in an upcoming issue (and such errors will not occur in
+future).
+
+5) The Paul Harper wedding is off, I've decided instead to stay in the bathroom
+all night and cry.
+
+Thankyew.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: The Mars Missions (12 Dec 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: The Mars Missions

+12 Dec 1999
>In light of the recent failures of the Mars probes, I'm hearing
+>increased talk of cutting funds to NASA, launching Congressional
+>hearings, and just rethinking the whole space idea and/or strategy.
+>Your work and perspective are highly regarded by many at NASA, maybe
+>even Congress. As someone with a vision of space, is there anything
+>you can think of to say to these obviously frustrated people?
+>
+
+Maybe if they'd *had* proper funding, instead of having to scrape by and
+compromise things, the damned thing WOULD have landed intact.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN:JMS/PAD Centauri Prime Bk. 1 (SPOILERS) (12 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN:JMS/PAD Centauri Prime Bk. 1 (SPOILERS)

+12 Dec 1999
No real spoilers here....
+
+>1: Is Kane really Galen?
+
+No.
+
+>2:Is the Senna the young nanny in ItB?
+>
+
+Yes.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: Attn JMS: The Mars Missions (12 Dec 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: The Mars Missions

+12 Dec 1999
>She's been grumbling a lot about how all that
+>money for failed missions could've gone to the homeless and worthier
+>programs
+
+Or one stealth bomber.
+
+Do her and yourself a favor: buy her a copy of Michael Moore's DOWNSIZE
+THIS...and let her get a sense of where far, FAR more money is really going.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS:  B5 Declared Vulgar?! (14 Dec 1999)
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Re: JMS:  B5 Declared Vulgar?!

+14 Dec 1999
And I couldn't possibly be prouder.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: preview to jms comic out now (22 Mar 1999)
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Re: preview to jms comic out now

+22 Mar 1999
I'm going to be moving back and forth in the story's timeline, using an ongoing
+investigation into something happening in the present to get me into those
+backstories.
+
+Thanks on the comic...I think it's gonna be fun.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+two quickies (from jms) (14 Dec 1999)
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two quickies (from jms)

+14 Dec 1999
Forgot two points in my Various note...encroaching senility, I suppose....
+
+1) Many folks have sent me email asking when Rising Stars #3 comes out...it
+actually came out about a week ago.  So it's still out there, though copies are
+starting to get hard to find.
+
+2) For folks who are mainly planning to stay home New Year's Eve and watch the
+apocalypse happen on national TV...a special 2 hour edition of 48 Hours airs
+that night, with the Future being its topic.  Oddly, they thought I might have
+a thing or two to say about it, so in theory (at least until they develop the
+film and see the true horror that is joe), I'm supposed to be in a segment or
+two of the thing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: What's that Irish Poem again? (No Compromises on TNT) (14 Dec 1999)
+
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Re: What's that Irish Poem again? (No Compromises on TNT)

+14 Dec 1999
>> I'm paraphrasing it here but it's commonly a prayer for alcoholics.
+>
+>It's called The Serenity Prayer:
+>
+>
+
+And it never appeared in the show.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: JMS:  B5 Declared Vulgar?! (15 Dec 1999)
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Re: JMS:  B5 Declared Vulgar?!

+15 Dec 1999
>I can usually see where these groups are coming from (not agree with them,
+>but see where they are at - very important to remember that :-), but in this
+>case I can't even imagine what they might be on about...
+
+Doesn't matter, and don't bother, because it ain't about the show, it's about
+this group trying to garner publicity and attention by attacking TV shows, the
+oldest and smarmiest trick in the book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: two quickies (from jms) (17 Dec 1999)
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Re: two quickies (from jms)

+17 Dec 1999
>Would staying home and watching "Apocalypse Now" count?
+>
+
+Depends on whether or not you plan to burn down the house while you're doing
+it.
+
+And for folks looking on, as I'm sure is no surprise to many of you, this
+padguy is Peter David, author of the first of the Centauri books that just hit
+the stands.  (Who better to write one than a latent Centauri?)
+
+So if you have questions, here's the guy to ask.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+don't abuse jms email (18 Dec 1999)
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don't abuse jms email

+18 Dec 1999
Those of you know know the drill can ignore this.  The rest....
+
+I've said it here again and again: If you have a technical question, post it to
+the newsgroup.  MY PRIVATE EMAIL IS TO BE USED ONLY FOR PRIVATE MATTERS THAT
+CANNOT BE DISCUSSED PUBLICLY FOR WHATEVER LEGITIMATE REASON.
+
+Also, series on the air or not, DO NOT SEND ME STORY IDEAS, or send me a note
+with a question you're asking for a fanfic thing you're writing and then
+proceed to tell me the story as it's "not a story idea, it's the story I'm
+writing for my fanfic publication."  Only an idiot cannot perceive that these
+two are the same thing.
+
+Yet, despite this request, I continue to get constant email broaching those two
+requests, really the only ones I've put in, and I don't think they're asking
+too much.  And now they're starting to come in email to the straczynski@aol.com
+address.
+
+I'm appending just one of the endless such notes I get these days as an example
+of something that could be just as well posted publicly, and has a zillion
+questions, which if I answered every one, for every email I get, I would do
+nothing else, ever, at any time.
+
+Folks, and you know who you are, either you play by the few small rules I've
+asked you to honor, or I'm going to have to start closing off my email address
+to only people I know...because I use those addresses for business and I have
+to wade through ten thousand "what's the defense grid EMP output?" type
+messages to find the mail I have to answer.
+
+I don't want to have to do that, but if I continue to get essentially spammed
+with this sort of thing, I will.
+
+So do NOT send me the following sort of note.  Please honor the request
+detailed above (and sending me a note that says, "I know you said not to send
+you this kind of note, but this is just a one-time question" doesn't work
+because there are FIFTEEN MILLION of you with "one-time questions".)
+
+I've always tried to maintain an open email policy, but it really is starting
+to get abused beyond the point where I can handle it efficiently.
+
+Thank you.
+
+jms
+
+-----------------
+What Not To Send Me.  I have removed the person's name to avoid subjecting him
+to ridicule.  Call me a softy.  (And don't you love how it says "A question"
+when it's 8 questions?)
+
+Subj:	 A question about tech, the novels, etc.
+Date:	12/16/1999 9:39:39 AM Pacific Standard Time
+

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+To:	straczynski@aol.com
+
+I already sent you an email to your Jmsatb5@aol.com addy, so I will not make 
+this one tremendously long, because you'll have my other questions to answer 
+if you can get to them :)
+
+1.)  White Stars - did the Minbari actually have the ability to build more?  
+I know that Delenn mentions around season 3 that the "First Wave" of White 
+Stars have been built, yet around Season five, Sheridan's comments about 
+"running out" eventually make it sound like they cannot build them anymore.  
+Is this a case?
+
+2.) Some discussion amongst some friends and I have centered around a 
+definition for a "Defense grid."   Did you or anyone involved in B5 actually 
+define what a defense grid is? (I know that, at least for EF, its 
+interceptors and possibly ECM - is there more than just stealth or 
+interceptors to a defense grid?  Some speculation has included "EM Fields" 
+or "grav-fields" like some pseudo-shield technology, but I am wondering what 
+you have to say on this.)
+
+3.) Does ANY race on bablyon 5 use anti-matter based weaponry, or a type of 
+reactor system?  I recall a quote from SEason five from Franklin dealing 
+with the nature of weapons, and "disrupting" is mentioned, which is why i 
+asked. Also, do Minbari employ some sort of "Forcefield" in their weaponry?  
+I noticed that in In the Beginning, their tractor beams emitted from the 
+weapons emittors it would seem, so I ask because of this.
+
+4.) Vorlons and Shadows:  another discussion between me and some other 
+people considered whether or not the shadows employed nanotechnology in 
+their ships, rather than a more "biological" or "Cellular" approach for the 
+Vorlons.  Further, I was wondering if Vorlon and Shadow technology each 
+reflected their beliefs (The Vorlons favor a more "Evolutionary" approach - 
+they keep most of the same tech over a long period but refine it to great 
+degrees, making it more powerful, while the Shadows seem to appear to favor 
+many new and different approachs.. more revolutionary.)
+
+5.) Once in a comment you made reference to "gravimetric drives" on the 
+White Star being based on magnetic and gravitic principles - is this 
+something that you received from your tech advisors (JPL I think?)
+
+6.) I've noticed that with the demise of Crusade, a large influx of novels 
+seems to have started again...  is the B5 universe moving to a print media?  
+Or have you considered this?  (By the way, have the Technomage books you 
+mentioned Jeanne Cavelos, sorry If I misspelled her name, come out to your 
+knowledge?  I really enjoyed book 7, and have been wondering.)
+
+7.)  Just two verification notes, if you could.  In "Final Reckoning", we 
+learn Lyta apparently is dead.   Did she die during the telepath war, and if 
+so, was Bester involved?  (And do we learn in any way how she dies?)
+
+Secondly, I ran across a note that you had made a interview in a magazine 
+called "Dreamwatch" that talked about technomage technology, and had 
+mentioned that the Shadows had "loaned" technology to the technomages, and 
+if so, was ALL their technology shadow based, or did they have more beyond 
+that (IE other technology from other races, or their own tech) and you had 
+also mentioned that the reason the technomages left was to avoid repaying 
+the debt.  I missed the issue, so I am just wondering if you had mentioned 
+those things, and if there is anything you are allowed to add, or any 
+summary that i might have neglected mentioning or got wrong.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+jerry doyle runs for congress (18 Dec 1999)
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jerry doyle runs for congress

+18 Dec 1999
I'd heard this rumor the other day, and called Jerry to see if it were true or
+not.  Well, he called back, and it's true.  He's running for US Congress in the
+24th district, state of California (just north of the valley).  
+
+I differ with Jerry on just about every one of his political views, always
+have, but I think that his entering the race is great.  And while our views
+differ, the thing about Jerry is that he talks straight and you always know
+where he stands on an issue, no waffling.  So on that basis alone I think it'd
+be great if he won.  I don't have to agree with his positions to respect their
+origin, and the forthrightness with which they are expressed.
+
+Go get 'em, Jer.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
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+Re: SFX Tries to get one back... (18 Dec 1999)
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Re: SFX Tries to get one back...

+18 Dec 1999
>Then on the back page in the smallest of small type they suggest "a
+>course in British Sign language for JMS".
+
+Perhaps while they're recommending classes they could try taking Journalism 101
+to learn how real journalists work.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: River Souls Novel. (19 Dec 1999)
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Re: River Souls Novel.

+19 Dec 1999
>The lady who was going to write it supposedly posted to one of these B5
+>lists. The author and B5 continuity person (Avery I thinks her name) got
+>into a tiff. The author posted her side of the deal, I think on this list??
+>So if that was really her, she explained the continuity person wanted to be
+>listed as a co-author or something like that. Ended in a pissing match with
+>the author dropping the deal and moving on to other projects.
+>
+>
+Not correct.  
+
+The book felt massively padded to me.  For instance, we're into the vault in
+the movie within about 3 minutes.  That segment was stretched out to something
+like 20 pages or more.  
+
+I went through and made indications were the padding should be cut out...and
+after it was all cut, there was only about two-thirds of a book left.  It
+needed a b-story or elemen to flesh it out, which Peter and others did with the
+novelizations, but wasn't done here.  So I asked Fiona to come up with one,
+since I was frantic at the time with production and we didn't get any
+indication from Del Rey of a desire to come up with one.  She did so, writing
+out a detailed outline that fit and worked well.  There was no money involved,
+she did it just to help, and asked only for a small credit somewhere in the
+book, along the lines of "additional material supplied by...." 
+
+In any event, the process dragged on, and it didn't seem to work out, and
+finally the book was jointly killed.  It's obvious the author tried her best,
+but we look for a kind of approach that fits in with the rest of the books, and
+this one just didn't work on that level.
+
+If the author is slamming our reference editor, that's unfortunate, because it
+was my call on the book from start to finish.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS. Kosh and Lorien debate (20 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS. Kosh and Lorien debate

+20 Dec 1999
When Ulkesh said "we are all Kosh," he was simply being metaphorical, not
+literal; too many people took that as a literal statement.
+
+And yes, Lorien knew Kosh hisownself.  Long, long ago....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+(all message content (c) 2000 by
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+Re: 2 Questions about "Sleeping in Light" (20 Dec 1999)
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+20 Dec 1999
>When Shariden was talking to Franklin and said that Delenn was grey
+>concil in training if not in fact what did he mean?
+
+That she had been trained as Grey Council, and that even though she was no
+longer a member of the Council, hence not a member in fact anymore, that
+training was still much in evidence.
+
+>Vir signing something with a Ranger was the Ranger Zack Allen?
+
+It was Zack but he wasn't a Ranger, he was an advisor/counselor to the throne.
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Selling Crusade to foreign networks? (22 Mar 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Selling Crusade to foreign networks?

+22 Mar 1999
We can't sell the show anywhere, only WB can, as the owners of Crusade.
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+Re: JMS:  Synthetic Worlds? (20 Dec 1999)
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Re: JMS:  Synthetic Worlds?

+20 Dec 1999
>I just noticed a new addition to your online signature <g>.  Is Synthetic
+>Worlds your company?  Love the name.  Think the copyright will help?
+>
+
+Synthetic Worlds, Ltd. is my personal company, which has been around for about
+15 years, give or take.  (The credit appears on the original B5 pilot.)
+
+As for the copyright info...I've freely given permission for my material to be
+reposted to other groups, but NOT to anyone to put into magazines or books. 
+One publisher lately had to redo his entire book because he tried to use my
+material without permission.  Courts have ruled that internet postings are the
+copyrighted material of the poster...and one can deny permission as much as
+allow it.  So that's what I did.
+
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+22 Dec 1999
>they go on to say "SFX is the only SF magazine not afraid to say what it
+>thinks"
+
+If that were actually true, then the magazine would consist mainly of blank
+pages.
+
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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airdate correction

+30 Dec 1999
I was incorrect about the airing of the 48 hours thing for which I was
+interviewed; apparently it's going to air Thursday night on CBS, not Friday
+night.  Again, I have no idea how much of my interview they did or didn't use,
+so I can't guarantee anything, except that I probably said something stupid in
+there somewhere.
+
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+Re: B5 VCD, is this authentic?? (31 Dec 1999)
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Re: B5 VCD, is this authentic??

+31 Dec 1999
+
+It's certainly nothing *I've* ever seen before.
+
+>Saw this on Ebay, looks weird, so I don't know if it's authentic
+>(although I'm betting no)
+>
+>So if anyone could check this out and tell me if it's real or fake:
+>
+>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=226037261
+>
+
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+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Comments on KODO (31 Dec 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Comments on KODO

+31 Dec 1999
>Well, after reading your reccomendation, I put "KODO: Live at Acropolis" on
+>my
+>Christmas list
+
+>What are my thoughts?
+>
+>I think it's f*cking awesome, and I don't attach that label to many things.
+>In
+>fact, my fingertips are now bruised from drumming along with the CD too much.
+
+>Track 5 in particular ("O-Daiko") is mind blowing. 
+>
+
+Here's what you have to know about that cut.  Go look at the back cover.  See
+that massive drum off to the left, the one twice as big as a person?  Now look
+at the front cover.  See the guys standing there with the sticks in front of a
+smaller version of that drum?  Those sticks weigh something like 5-10 pounds
+each.  They hold those sticks high above their heads to reach the drum, one in
+particular who keeps the main beat going, and they keep doing that for the full
+length of that track, which is an astonishing accomplishment.  You think he's
+going to fall over after a while.
+
+When I heard that, and saw the video, my first thought was, "Ah, well, there's
+someone else who knows what it felt like to make B5."
+
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+
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+31 Dec 1999
I was even more incorrect than I thought; apparently (given a phone call today
+from CBS), they thought the piece was important enough to justify pulling it
+out and making it a stand-alone piece on its own.  It's going to air twice,
+once Sunday morning, once I think Monday (I'll have to check the message
+later); the longer version of the two runs about 8 minutes.
+
+More as I get specifics.
+
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+
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+Re: Attn: JMS - B5's impact on ordinary folk (31 Dec 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS - B5's impact on ordinary folk

+31 Dec 1999
That's really wonderful to hear; please extend my thanks for the kind words.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS  TNT scheduling & contractual obligations (31 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS  TNT scheduling & contractual obligations

+31 Dec 1999
>when we make a deal
+>for syndication of a show there are specifics as to when and how often it is
+>to be aired.  Is this not the case with TNT? 
+
+Apparently it wasn't done, especially since this is not syndication, but cable.
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN: JMS Crusade Jacket quality (31 Dec 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS Crusade Jacket quality

+31 Dec 1999
>Opened box for Crusade jacket with some forboding because ordering
+>clothing online is not something I do easily. Software, okay, but clothing
+>is so personal. However, I am VERY impressed with the  quality of material
+>(classy), design (simple but elegant), embroidery (tight, bright and
+>proportioned) and overall proportions and shape. 
+
+Thanks.  You have to understand that what we did was to make the jackets
+*identical in every way* with the ones we gave the cast and crew in workmanship
+and quality.  That's why it's kind of a big deal.  It costs a hell of a lot to
+get that quality, so there really ain't much profit in it, but if we were going
+to do it, I wanted it done right.
+
+>That said, I couldn't help bring back an old but related topic, namely the
+>Babylon 5 jackets. 
+
+We're planning those for the spring, again in a limited edition.
+
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+
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+Re: JMS: B5 mag story? (31 Dec 1999)
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Re: JMS: B5 mag story?

+31 Dec 1999
>
+>Is this connected to the Amazing Stories work?
+>
+
+No, totally separate.  Readers can clip out the entry, choose one of four story
+areas, and I'll write a story to fit that category.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars Question (25 Mar 1999)
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+25 Mar 1999
>I just got Rising Stars #0, & I was wondering when #1 will be out?
+>
+>
+July, to coincide with the big Wizard comics convention in Chicago.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Genie online service finally shut down (2 Jan 2000)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Genie online service finally shut down

+2 Jan 2000
>I think you were still a member when I left in early 1996, when its
+>new owners yanked up the rates, driving off many long-time users. This
+>withered the content. Did you stay until the end?
+
+Until they turned off the lights.
+
+>An aside: I recall that you appear regularly in a forum in CompuServe.
+>I have heard recently that owner AOL is making changes to CompuServe
+>that will make that service far less attractive to content providers
+>such as yourself.
+
+If true that would be most unfortunate; it's been a good forum, and the one
+I've been on the longest, since something like 1985.
+
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+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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Re: ATTN: JMS - A belated thank-you

+2 Jan 2000
>So thank you, for creating something very special.
+>
+
+Your words are most kind; thank you for them.
+
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+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: when is next Centauri Prime book scheduled? (5 Jan 2000)
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Re: ATTN JMS: when is next Centauri Prime book scheduled?

+5 Jan 2000
I'm not entirely sure; I have the cover for it in hand, so I suspect it will be
+arriving soon in manuscript form.  I'd hazard a guess at late spring.
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars Trades?

+5 Jan 2000
>Since Rising Stars is a maxi-series and not ongoing, will it be
+>collected in trade paperback/s in the future? 
+
+Dunno...I've heard rumblings about a graphic novel or suchlike, but haven't had
+time to pursue the conversation.
+
+BTW, Issue 4 hits newsstands THIS WEEK.
+
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+5 Jan 2000
>Thanks to Babylon 5 I am now majoring in Computer Animation.
+
+That's great; good luck to you, and thanks for the kind words.
+
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+5 Jan 2000
>
+>Can you tell us a little bit about the way you write your storys?
+>
+>How do you get your ideas for stories and characters and how do you handle
+>them?
+
+I always start with character.  Character gives you plot; if you start with
+plot and try to back your way into characater, you can go afoul very easily.
+
+You have to know who your character is, what he wants, how far he will go to
+get it, and how far someone else will go to stop him.  Answer those questions
+and 90% of the plotting work is done for you.  
+
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Re: Attn: JMS ... permission?

+6 Jan 2000
>Basically, I'm asking you now if we have your permission to "play" with
+>your characters in B5 fanfic?  I just wouldn't feel right doing it if
+>you said no.
+
+I can't give permission because WB owns the rights to those characters, not me.
+ And I think they would still view it as a form of copyright infringement.
+
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+
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+Re: Attn: JMS - The Complete Book of TV Production? (6 Jan 2000)
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Re: Attn: JMS - The Complete Book of TV Production?

+6 Jan 2000
>I was wondering if there are any plans for a companion tome to The Complete 
+>Book of Screenwriting that would deal with TV Production.
+>
+
+I think it would probably be a less viable book in the marketplace since that's
+a more specialized audience, so I don't know if I could make a go of it.
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars Trades?

+7 Jan 2000
>> BTW, Issue 4 hits newsstands THIS WEEK.
+>>
+>>  jms
+>Yeah, pull the other leg.  This series would probably be finished sooner if
+>it were on TV, rather than at Top Cow.
+>
+
+Actually, it IS out this week, and the rest of the schedule is falling into
+place as well.  Christian is massively catching up on the scripts in hand.
+
+
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+
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+13 Jan 2000
>I get to see KODO perform live in LA on January 30th, and I'm just
+>jumping up and down inside at the prospect. I've seen them live several
+>times, and it just gets better and better each time. I'm doing the happy
+>dance right now, you will just have to trust me on this one.
+
+Where are they performing?
+
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+Re: preview to jms comic out now (26 Mar 1999)
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Re: preview to jms comic out now

+26 Mar 1999
>There's a web article & art preview at:
+> http://www.detnews.com/metro/hobbies/comix/stories/9903/19/
+>
+>Are these pages from the #0 (art by Brian Ching), or #1 (art by series
+>regular Kui Cha)? 
+
+Dunno, I'll have to go look and see what they used.
+
+BTW, just closed the deal today to write a TV movie (non-SF) for one of the
+networks while we're waiting for pilots to be picked up in May.  Should be fun.
+ (Can't talk about it at this time beyond that.)
+
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+Rising Stars 4 is out (14 Jan 2000)
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Rising Stars 4 is out

+14 Jan 2000
Just FYI.
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Repost: fyi, Rising Stars #4 is out

+14 Jan 2000
Re-sent, since the prior message seems to have gotten crunched.
+
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+Third AMAZING STORIES Story (14 Jan 2000)
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Third AMAZING STORIES Story

+14 Jan 2000
The first one was a Londo story because I really wanted to do something
+different and cool with the character, go inside his head and show the
+transition to being emperor, let folks know that inside he was still the same
+Londo...the second one with Lyta and G'Kar was mainly for fun, to play with
+them and see their relationship together out there.
+
+The third, which I just finished and turned in to Amazing Stories, and which
+will appear I think around May, was written with one express purpose: to set
+the proverbial cat amongst the proverbial pigeons with something that's going
+to send a ripple all through B5 fandom; it's a story I don't think anyone ever
+expected to see.
+
+Just the first line alone should stun a number of B5 folks
+
+And that's all I'm going to say about it.  But just know...there's a real
+toad-strangler coming up in May.
+
+(And Rising Stars 4 is out now.)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: It could have been great

+16 Jan 2000
>Any chance we can burn the Galactica 1980 tapes and have a repeat shot at
+>the original concept with JMS at the helm?
+
+I'd sooner stick an ice pick in my ear.
+
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Re: jms-Amazing Stories?

+16 Jan 2000
>When's your third B5 story supposed to appear in Amazing Stories? 
+
+May.  Check my message in another thread about the third story....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Future of B5 On Space... (16 Jan 2000)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Future of B5 On Space...

+16 Jan 2000
>Have you done as well
+>financially as you hoped you might from B5?  I remember you saying that
+>you own a piece of the *net* profits from B5.  Has it shown a *net*
+>profit yet? 
+
+No, nor will it ever.  That's how Hollywood bookkeeping works.  We know,
+because e were told, that when the show was still first airing on PTEN, it was
+a mandate that ALL PTEN shows had to show a profit every season in order to be
+renewed.  That was a hard and fast rule.  
+
+Each year, we got renewed, because we made a profit for WB.  Once, in a meeting
+with the execs after year 3, they complimented us on how much money the show
+had made for WB.
+
+Then they turn right around and, for purposes of net participation, pump out
+balance sheets that show we'll forever be in the red.
+
+Net means nothing because they can continue to charge anything and everything
+against the revenue, and you can never show a profit on paper; it's only if you
+own a piece of the gross that actual money appears.
+
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+16 Jan 2000
>1) Are you going to do a letter column in the comic?  I'm not too
+>familiar with Image/Top Cow's policy.  It appears some comics have a
+>letter column and others just have advertisements.
+>
+
+We're discussing that now.
+
+>2) I've been searching the posts and haven't seen you state how long the
+>series is going to run. 
+
+24 issues.
+
+> Are you really running Flagg's new name
+>in front of focus groups?  Do the readers get to write in and help pick
+>the new name?
+
+Nope and nope.
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+16 Jan 2000
>One thing that is probably out of your hands somewhat is the loooonnnng
+>time between issues.  
+
+Actually, TC is really getting that part together; 4 came one month after 3,
+and we just locked down the pencils and inks on 5, so that's heading toward
+hitting the next deadline, or damn close to it.
+
+Five, by the way, is probably the strongest issue of the bunch, and definitely
+kicks over the table on the storyline.  
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+16 Jan 2000
Actually, Pyre -- Jerry -- is alive; it's the other firestarter, Lee Jackson,
+who's dead.
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+16 Jan 2000
> That being the case, does
+>WB have story approval? 
+
+Nope.  They don't get into it.
+
+Consequently, don't think I haven't played with the idea of going nuts from
+time to time....
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars & Wizard World Chicago '99 (27 Mar 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Rising Stars & Wizard World Chicago '99

+27 Mar 1999
Yes, I do plan to be at Chicago Comic Con this year, schedule permitting.
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Re: More comments, and a question

+16 Jan 2000
>All my friend wants is an
+>honest, balanced representation of her religion, and not one where the only
+>person who seems to have any faith in Rising Stars is a zealot. 
+
+1) Not every single so-called religious person is a good person, as Jimmy
+Swaggart and his ilk have shown.  I portray that which is appropriate to the
+story.  Having done some very even handed stuff on religion on B5, I don't feel
+I have anything to prove on this issue.
+
+2) If fairness is an issue with her, may I expect that she will solicit an
+honest, balanced representation of atheism from the pulpit of her church
+sometime soon?
+
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Re: Rising Stars #4

+16 Jan 2000
>I think the confusion between the two comes because Pyre hasn't been
+>named, to my recollection, in any of the regular issues yet, and there's
+>a scene of him fighting Flagg, Jason, in #3 while in the midst of Lee's
+>story.  See one guy on fire in the middle of the story of another and
+>it's understanable that one might confuse the two.
+
+Yeah, that's correct.  I'd wanted one panel in 3 that helped separate them out,
+but it didn't quite come out the way I'd described, but we should clarify that
+soon.
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+25 Jan 2000
>I was always surprised that for whatever reasons Harlan never wrote a
+>B5 episode.
+
+Except of course that we collaborated on a couple of produced episodes.
+
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Re: ATTN. JMS - One Question

+29 Jan 2000
>How would you characterize network interaction (notes, suggestions,
+>requests, demands, etc.) that occurred in Season 1 of Babylon 5 vs. Season 1
+>of Crusade?
+
+Our scripts were reviewed at WB by our liaison, Gregg Maday, who from time to
+time would call with what was basically a question.  "I'm wondering if we may
+need to clarify X for the audience," or "Is there some way to strengthen this
+element?"  In each case, the conversation was left with, "I'll leave the
+disposition of this to your discretion." 
+
+The thing about Gregg's notes or suggestions were that they were generally
+well-considered, thoughtful, and totally aimed at making the story work.  So we
+always got along great.  
+
+And by the time season 2 rolled around, we got a couple of notes on the first
+couple of episodes, then that was literally that...we were on our own after
+that.  He trusted us to do the right thing by the story, and we never violated
+that trust.
+
+>I'd have thought that after writing/producing five full seasons of Babylon
+>5, any network would have let you alone based upon your recent track record.
+
+Yeah, one would think that...though that's also what Rod Serling thought after
+doing Twilight Zone, only to find himself torpedoed amidships creatively during
+Night Gallery.
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Re: ATTN JMS: Dureena in "Path of Sorrows"

+31 Jan 2000
>Besides, how does Galen know what buttons to press? Didn't he meet
+>Dureena fairly recently? I didn't see them really getting to know so
+>much about each other during the show.
+
+If a technomage can know the 6 words to make someone fall in love with you
+forever, he can sure as heck know which buttons to push on Dureena.
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Untold Secrets?

+1 Feb 2000
>When Babylon 5 was finished, there were many plot threads left hanging -
+>some of them major ones.  For example - David Sheridan's fate
+
+That will be covered in one of the Centauri novels being written by Peter
+David.
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+1 Feb 2000
>Just got the word this afternoon about Mr. Kane's passing on. Heavy
+>mourning in progress on rec.arts.comics.misc and rac.dc.universe, by the
+>looks of it...
+
+I hadn't heard this until now.  It's a terrible loss.  He was the one person
+who could make the Atom *not* a silly character.
+
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Religion in B5

+1 Feb 2000
>But even if you don't
+>belong to any church or organized religion, I was wondering if you might
+>
+>be a Unitarian-Universalist and just didn't realize it...?
+
+The way I see it, if you're going to be a unitarian you may as well be an
+atheist and get it over with.
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Re: ATTN: JMS - Religion in B5

+2 Feb 2000
>Oh, dear--JMS isn't playing nice again!  :)
+
+Hey, c'mon, I'm pulling my punches here.
+
+>You should've heard what he said at Westercon in '98!  He said he
+>wouldn't believe in God until God put up a message in the sky, in huge
+>letters, saying "Come here, MF!" (I won't write it out, but you know
+>what the term is.)  It didn't go over well with some people, bu it made
+>me laugh (me & my irreverent sense of humor!).
+
+Yeah, but I also ended with, "But I'd *still* like to see where that neon
+sign's plugged in."
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+Voice in the Wilderness scripts (4 Feb 2000)
+
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+
Voice in the Wilderness scripts

+4 Feb 2000
Just as an FYI, we'll be making the scripts for the two-part episode "A Voice
+in the Wilderness" available via www.thestation.com for a limited time.
+
+ 
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+
+Re: Crusade : It's the ratings folks! (4 Mar 1999)
+
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Re: Crusade : It's the ratings folks!

+4 Mar 1999
>First, it's the ratings. As I remember ACTA got something in the range
+>of 2.3 to 2.8, something like that. That my friends is everything. If it
+>had gotten, say a 10, TNT would be falling over itself to keep the show.
+
+Nothing on cable -- nada -- gets a 10 rating.  The successful shows get
+somewhere from a 1 to a 3 rating, that's it.  That's all the penetration you
+can get given the number of sets that have cable.
+
+Sliders, considered a big hit on SFC, generally gets a 1.0 rating.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+
+Re: Attn. JMS: Rising Stars Comic (27 Mar 1999)
+
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+
Re: Attn. JMS: Rising Stars Comic

+27 Mar 1999
><<I saw a preview of your new comic "Rising Stars" and I'm looking
+>forward to a Watchmen quality story.  It's been a while since
+>something really good has been published in comics. >>
+>
+>It depends on what you mean by "a while"  There are some very good comics
+>currently being published although most of them lean more towards four color
+>action than watchmen-esque darkness.  
+>
+
+There's lots of good stuff out...the new Mage and Grendel books, the Alex Ross
+stuff (any of it, definitely liked his latest, Uncle Sam), I've bought but
+haven't yet read Kubuki which I hear is also quite good.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+rising stars #5 out 2/16 (7 Feb 2000)
+
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+
rising stars #5 out 2/16

+7 Feb 2000
Just to let folks know it's coming out next week.  I think this one's the best
+of the bunch so far, and a LOT happens and gets revealed.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
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+to reprint specifically denied to
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+
+Re: OT: The Haunting (7 Feb 2000)
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Re: OT: The Haunting

+7 Feb 2000
It's one of my all-time favorite films.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+
+Re: rising stars #5 out 2/16 (8 Feb 2000)
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Re: rising stars #5 out 2/16

+8 Feb 2000
>Is this the way you've structured most of the story: each chapter having 
+>more punch and being better than the preceeding one?  Thus each one will 
+>be the best of the bunch when published?  Or are there to be peaks and 
+>troughs? (I realize any particula issue might span the range, generally 
+>from low to high...)
+
+There are always peaks and valleys; the first bunch of Rising Star issues were
+really establishing the rules and who some of the characters are; the fact that
+the murders are going on, the possible motive, and introducing a bunch of
+suspects.
+
+Now all that pipe has been laid, and I can start to really move the arc of the
+story forward, do more in present-tense than in flashback.  That's kind of
+where the fun really kicks in.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+
+Re: OT: The Haunting (9 Feb 2000)
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+
Re: OT: The Haunting

+9 Feb 2000
>I'd seen it as a teenager, and I was not a fan of horror films, and
+>to prove the point it scared the bejeebers out of me. The scariest part of
+>'The Haunting' was that the audience never saw the monster. That's what
+>kept the intensity of the fear going throughout the movie.
+
+About the only film of that period that's more unsettling is SECONDS, with (of
+all people) Rock Hudson.  It's a terrific film, marginally speculative fiction,
+but it'll utterly leave you with the heebie-jeebies.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+Re: Voice in the Wilderness scripts (9 Feb 2000)
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Re: Voice in the Wilderness scripts

+9 Feb 2000
> The binding had snapped apart in the post and the thing had to be
+>treated with kid gloves. I've since heard others have had similar problems.
+
+The binding was done rather than just using brads because we thought it would
+make the thing spiffier.  I've copied your message to the manager of the club
+and we'll see about making the packaging better.  This is the first time I've
+heard of the problem.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+Re: Voice in the Wilderness scripts (9 Feb 2000)
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Re: Voice in the Wilderness scripts

+9 Feb 2000
I emailed Val, the current head of the fan club, concerning the few that have
+had problems, and this was her reply:
+
+**********8
+
+"Joe
+
+We are meticulous about padding our shipments.  We also replace damaged
+bibles to everyone who notifies us of any problems.  This binding is not
+cheap, it costs us $1.00 per unit plus labor in addition to duplication.
+Unfortunately, if these customers don't make me aware of the problem I can't
+rectify it.
+
+I am more than happy to replace damaged items.  I understand that sometimes
+despite padding and "Do Not Bend"
+stamped all over the package the US Postal Service still sees fit to mishandle
+packages.
+
+
+Val"
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 this year on DVD in UK (10 Feb 2000)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: B5 this year on DVD in UK

+10 Feb 2000
>I really hope that you will have the chance to work with the people from
+>WB and give some input to the project.
+
+So do I.
+>Did someone from Warner contact you?
+
+Nope.
+
+>Can you tell us something about what kind of material you want to see on
+>a Babylon 5 DVD? 
+>My first thoughts was comments from you, lost scenes, bloopers, story
+>background and some information about the CGI from FI and ND would be
+>great, too.
+
+You just answered that for me.  I'd like to see all that stuff on, plus
+commentaries from cast or crew, script pages, storyboards, sketches, all the
+stuff that is still find-able, but which may begin to disappear over the years.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+Re: Crusade on Video? (10 Feb 2000)
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+
Re: Crusade on Video?

+10 Feb 2000
>Anyone know if Crusade will appear on video in the near future? 
+
+Apparently it's now coming out in the UK on tape.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Kosovo [off topic] (29 Mar 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Kosovo [off topic]

+29 Mar 1999
I go back and forth on this whole thing.  On the one hand, I think the
+atrocities against the Albanian population *have* to be answered, and they
+*have* to be stopped, and the only voice the Serbian leaders seem to listen to
+is the voice of force.  (Though so far that doesn't seem to have happened.)
+
+On the other hand...I think there's a qualitative difference between this and,
+say, bombing Iraq, which is very much isolated from its neighbors, and has no
+desire to piss off its neighbors (for the moment and only for as long as it's
+in its own interest not to).  Yugoslavia is dead center of a lot of other
+countries into which this conflict could spill over into something considerably
+larger and more dangerous.
+
+Let's remember that WW1 began with a single gunshot in that region.
+
+So bottom line...I dunno, I go back and forth on an almost hourly basis. 
+Basically, I think either it'll work, or it'll start a massive war in a region
+noted for a resentful populace and any number of leftover nukes.
+
+Roll the dice....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: future Babylon 5 projects ? (1 Apr 1999)
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: future Babylon 5 projects ?

+1 Apr 1999
There are not more B5 TV movies on the boards, though next week we're shooting
+the live-action elements of the Sierra computer game (with Lochley, Sheridan,
+Delenn, Garibaldi and others).
+
+Aside from the coming novels, I've just turned in the first of three B5 stories
+that will be appearing in Amazing Stories Magazine.  The first one, "The Shadow
+of his Thoughts," is a Londo story taking place in the days shortly after his
+coronation as Emperor.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: George Lucas on 60 Minutes (1 Apr 1999)
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: George Lucas on 60 Minutes

+1 Apr 1999
I missed it, durn it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
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+Re: JMS: words coming back (3 Apr 1999)
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Re: JMS: words coming back

+3 Apr 1999
>I've said it before and I'll say it again as often as anybody'll stand still
+>to
+>listen.  What I see as your greatest strength as a writer is the 'density'
+>that
+>you bring to your stories. 
+
+It's just the way I'm hardwired.  Years ago, a bunch of us (college years) went
+in to help put down a carpet in a building, using scraps from a carpet store,
+and everybody's putting down these huge swaths of carpeting, and I'm over in
+the corner with these 2 and 3 inch pieces making a complex pattern, and they're
+all "will you STOP that and just grab some big pieces," but it ain't how I'm
+wired up.
+
+It's all in the details.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: effect of Crusade cancellation, SW:TPM on B5 theatrical (3 Apr 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: effect of Crusade cancellation, SW:TPM on B5 theatrical

+3 Apr 1999
It shouldn't have any effect on that one way or another.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Amazing Stories (6 Apr 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Amazing Stories

+6 Apr 1999
>You had written about some upcomming stories that you're writing for
+>the new Amazing Stories magazine. I hope that you'll let us know when
+>they'll be comming out.
+>
+>
+
+It should be in the one after the current one which just hit the streets this
+week.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for budding writers??? (7 Apr 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for budding writers???

+7 Apr 1999
>As someone who hopes to one day get into the television writing scene,
+>what advice do you have?
+>
+>I don't mean in terms of the actual writing of the show/project/etc, but
+>in terms of getting it on the air, getting the "important people" to
+>actually read it? I know you went through a lot to get B5 on the air
+>(especially wiht a premise that everybody doomed to failure as soon as
+>they heard it), so how did you do it? You were already known in the biz
+>when you pitched B5....but if someone new was trying to break through
+>what sort of things would he have to do?
+
+I get this question all the time.  There is only one reply that I can give you:
+it is impossible -- let me reemphasize that, impossible -- for a newbie to sell
+a TV series without a long track record working in the business.  So there's
+really no advice that can be given.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for budding writers??? (11 Apr 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Advice for budding writers???

+11 Apr 1999
>are you trying to say...it's impossible? :). I figured as much
+>already...but it seems like an endless circle. You cant get in w/o a
+>track record...but if you can't get in...then how do you get a track
+>record?
+
+Of course you're proceeding from a false assumption.  New people get in every
+year.  Every writer started out as an unknown, and not in the WGA, without a
+track record.  You start trying to sell individual scripts to shows on the air
+currently, then work your way up.
+
+New members in the WGA are added every year, in substantial numbers.  Those
+people all sold for the first time.  Happens all the time.
+
+Not to flog my book...but go to your local library (cheaper that way) and check
+out my Complete Book of Scriptwriting.  It may help.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Bradbury Award (13 Apr 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Bradbury Award

+13 Apr 1999
Thank you, I'm very pleased.  It's a recognition for the show, not just my
+work, as far as I'm concerned.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Is WB still interested in a B5 Feature Film? (4 Mar 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Is WB still interested in a B5 Feature Film?

+4 Mar 1999
Yeah, but I'd rather wait a bit.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+Re: ATTN:JMS (a few questions) (19 Apr 1999)
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Re: ATTN:JMS (a few questions)

+19 Apr 1999
>Is Sheridan alive during Crusade or does he die between A Call to Arms
+>and Crusade?
+
+Sleeping in Light is 17 years after the events of B5; Crusade takes place about
+5 years after the events of B5.  Sheridan is alive for the first part of SiL.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS: Congrats on Hugo Nomination (23 Apr 1999)
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+23 Apr 1999
We're all very pleased and honored by the nomination, thanks.
+
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+ jms
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS - Thoughts on "Earth: Final Conflict" (23 Apr 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS - Thoughts on "Earth: Final Conflict"

+23 Apr 1999
Haven't seen a full episode, so can't comment.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: And now for a word JMS- viewer reaction after SiL (24 Apr 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: And now for a word JMS- viewer reaction after SiL

+24 Apr 1999
Please convey to those  on de.rec.sf.babylon5.misc my thanks, both  to them and
+to all the B5 fans in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.  It's amazing to watch
+the end of the show roll out across the planet, with each new country
+experiencing the conclusion in a new wave each time.  
+
+Pardon the spellings and grammar in what follows, this is massively ugly on my
+part, all from memory, but:
+
+Meinen Deutsch ist nicht gut, aber zu alles B5folk auf de.rec.sf.babylon5.misc,
+Deutschland, Ostterreich und Switzerland: Danke Sie.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN: JMS - OT (The Matrix) (25 Apr 1999)
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Re: ATTN: JMS - OT (The Matrix)

+25 Apr 1999
>Just saw"The Matrix" for the second time. Not to often that I find a
+>story that tries and keep all the loose ends tight.
+>What did you think of it?
+
+I was blown away by it.  I think it's a terrific film and possibly a watershed
+for SF movies.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+jms = big rock (25 Apr 1999)
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+25 Apr 1999
Sent this a while back, but it never got on...
+
+For those who are interested in these sorts of things, I learned recently that
+Kitt Peak Observatory in Tuscon, Arizona, has just formally named an asteroid
+discovered by them in 1992 8379 STRACZYNSKI in recognition of B5.  (This is the
+formal designation, as per the Astronomical Union.)
+
+Suffice to say it's a tremendous honor.
+
+Finally, I'm a rock star....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS:  Sheridan:  "There is Some Much I Still Don't (26 Apr 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS:  Sheridan:  "There is Some Much I Still Don't

+26 Apr 1999
There was a certain amount of intentional symmetry there, yeah.
+
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+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: jms = big rock (27 Apr 1999)
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+27 Apr 1999
>Wes, it looks like I'll have to update straczynksi'ed to include a secondary
+>definition: straczynskied - (1) vt past tense - To be inspired towards
+>simultaneous and profound curiosity, anticipation, awe, dread, and somber
+>reflection through the skillful use of misdirection, foreshadowing, mental
+>torture, and other literary devices leading to disturbed sleep, frightening
+>nightmares, hallucinations, compulsive behavior, and general obsession. (2)
+>vt past tense - To be obliterated by a large asteroid with the name 8379
+>STRACZYNSKI that doesn't go boom 
+
+Oddly, I heard a while back from some Russian speaking folks, and depending on
+how you pronounce it and where you put the inflection, Straczynski can mean
+either "terror" or "passion."  I kind of like the symmetry of both....
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: jms = big rock (2 May 1999)
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+2 May 1999
>Straczynski is a Polish spelling which would make sense if it came from 
+>modern Belarus or western Ukraine, which Poland used to rule.
+
+That's my understanding, that its roots are in Belorussia (Belarus).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: jms = big rock (2 May 1999)
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+2 May 1999
>Methinks, we've discovered the fifth horseman. :-)
+
+Well, the first 3 horsemen were sabotaged and destroyed, and the fourth
+horseman disappeared mysteriously, and....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS:  Who pulled the plug? (4 Mar 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS:  Who pulled the plug?

+4 Mar 1999
>Was it your choice to cancel the series because you
+>felt it was being interfered with creatively, or did TNT cancel it because
+>you wouldn't do things their way?  
+
+I do not have the power, authority or contractual ability to cancel a show and
+take it elsewhere.  WB owns the show, lock stock and barrel.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: The Babylon File Volume 2 (5 May 1999)
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Re: The Babylon File Volume 2

+5 May 1999
There is a point, however, where bias and being opinionated leads to error and
+untruth, because one is so adamant to advance one's own viewpoint that all the
+other facts get skewed to support that.
+
+All through Lane's book, he skews the facts to bolster his point of view, much
+as a creationist skews the facts of science to bolster his point of view.
+
+For instance, he makes much of the fact that we shot 6 days instead of 7 for
+S5, and that this therefore led to a 1/7th decrease in quality.  Well, it
+didn't affect the writing, the stories were still the stories.  I wrote just
+what I would have written for a 7 day shoot.
+
+Further, a fact he omits because it would get in the way of his argument is
+that we *did* have the liberty to shoot 7 days when we thought it was
+appropriate *and did so*.  (I think it was either A Tragey of Telepaths or
+Phoenix Rising.)  
+
+He omits the fact, documented through shooting schedules, that on virtually
+ever episode from S1-S4, we wrapped early almost every day, sometimes by an
+hour, sometimes by a couple of hours.  In 110 episodes, we had only about 20
+days of serious overtime, over 5 years of shooting, and in each case the
+overtime amounted to only a couple of hours here and there.  Never once had a
+forced call on an actor.
+
+Why is this important?  Because if you take an average of wrapping early 1 and
+a half hours per day, over six days, you *have* a seventh day right there.
+
+When we went to a 6 day schedule, we added about a page to each day's shoot,
+and we generally didn't go home early, we wrapped on time.  (Though in fact we
+were able to go home early on some days, depending on the scenes.)  That's it. 
+The main burden was on the art department to turn around sets quickly enough. 
+But there was no other qualitative impact otherwise.  Not one.  Zilch.
+
+To be sure that it could be done effectively, I was the first one to do a 6 day
+shoot, on Sleeping in Light, figuring that if I as a first time director could
+do it, anybody could.  And we did just fine.
+
+Anyway, that kind of bias infects the whole book, because it wasn't done the
+way he would have done it, and therefore it has to be bad.  And he looks for
+anything to bolster that point of view, no matter how insupportable.  It's not
+just that this is his POV, it has to be the truth, and he insists that no one
+can have any other point of view, or that person is an uncritical fanboy.
+
+But it's possible to be an uncritical fanboy in a positive *and* a negative
+direction.  And that is the case with the Lane book.  He does not take the
+facts in a critical way, examining them on their own terms, he lines them up to
+try and reflect his thesis going in.  
+
+A person can have a bias that leads them to be blindly praising toward
+something; and a person can have a bias that leads them to be blindly negative
+toward something.  This is a case of the latter.
+
+I've never had a problem with critical reviews.  Diane mentioned the B5
+magazine, but if you actually look at the reviews in that magazine, many of
+them do say negative things about various episodes.  Mind you this is in a
+publication that's licensed, and which I could have deleted that material if
+I'd chosen to.  But I let it go through, because I think we can all learn from
+criticism, and if our own publication was exempt from that, then it was no
+longer a proper magazine.  I gritted my teeth a lot, but it went through.
+
+There seems to be this perception that if something says positive things, then
+it isn't being critical; if it's negative, then somehow it's more objective or
+critical.  This is fallacious reasoning.  Criticism should be fair and
+evenhanded and constructive and, where possible, based in factual reporting.
+
+This book is none of those things.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: The Babylon File Volume 2 (6 May 1999)
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Re: The Babylon File Volume 2

+6 May 1999
>I admit I have a bias going into it since I liked
+>Vol 1 a lot. Also I'm more inclined to agree based on the sole fact that
+>I felt the same way about many things and specifc episode. Maybe that
+>does not qualify me to look at it objectively,
+
+But that's okay, and that's the point...your feelings about the episodes are
+subjective, there's no such thing as an objective *opinion*.  Facts can be
+objective, opinions are a different creature.  The language means what it
+means.  And you're as qualified as anyone else to give your opinion on anything
+you so choose, and should not hesitate to do so.
+
+It's when others try to disguise opinion as fact that I think a line gets
+crossed.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Dormammu? (7 May 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Dormammu?

+7 May 1999
I enjoyed the early Dikto Dr. Strange books quite a bit.
+
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+
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+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Attn: JMS, re: B5 and DS9. (7 May 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS, re: B5 and DS9.

+7 May 1999
>Why did you not stand up
+>for yourself and protect your rights and property?
+
+I could not do so; once the contracts were signed for B5, WB owned B5 lock,
+stock and copyright.  They would have been the ones to have to sue Paramount,
+and they were not up for doing that on an issue like this.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: B5 Awards listing? (9 May 1999)
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Re: B5 Awards listing?

+9 May 1999
Let's see...this is from memory.
+
+Two Vision awards from the Space Frontier Foundation.
+
+Emmys forEFX and makeup.  
+
+A bucket of reader's choice awards from SFX magazine, Sci-Fi Entertainment and
+others.
+
+Two Hugo awards.
+
+(If you put the personal ones in the mix, you'd add the Bradbury Award and the
+Inkpot Award.)
+
+The American Cinema Foundation award.
+
+And others that have momentarily slipped my mind.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: Rising Star early release question.. (19 May 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Rising Star early release question..

+19 May 1999
>There also seemed to be a "Rising Stars" 0 (zero) issue that was
+>distributed along with Wizard magazine...  Is this true?  If so, do you
+>know which issue of Wizard it was in? 
+
+It's in the Top Cow issue with the Fathom cover, just came out about a month
+ago, most stores should have it.  I'd actually suggesting reading that one
+*first* since it sheds light on the preview issue.
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Star Wars Movie (No Plot Spoilers) (20 May 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Star Wars Movie (No Plot Spoilers)

+20 May 1999
No, figure I'll wait until the lines die down a bit.
+
+
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+
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+Re: Attn: JMS re. writers rights (20 May 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS re. writers rights

+20 May 1999
> I am concerned
+>that the ads,which imply a different plot line than the one you had
+>envisioned may come to pass, as a result of "artful" re-editing by the staff
+>at WB.
+
+
+WB doesn't make those ads, they're made by TNT.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Babylon 5 Magazine Column (21 May 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Babylon 5 Magazine Column

+21 May 1999
>One more thing--you said in an accompanying article that the lease on
+>Babylonian Productions' building is up in May.  Did you renew the lease?
+
+Warners is trying to extend so it's still in hand if there's a second season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: A Suggestion (21 May 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: A Suggestion

+21 May 1999
I calls 'em as I sees 'em.  Always have, always will.  To do any less would be
+a disservice and a dishonesty.
+
+And believe me, it ain't gonna factor into SFC's decision one way or another. 
+If any of that had even the potential for being true, then I wouldn't have
+pending offers from literally all 3 major networks and 4 studios to come in and
+run shows for them.
+
+It's a non-issue.  Honest.  Would this face lie?
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Crusade: What Episodes (4 Mar 1999)
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Re: Crusade: What Episodes

+4 Mar 1999
>I have seen upto 16 episode titles for Crusade.  My question is what are
+>the 13 episode titles that have been produced and will go to air?
+
+Warzone
+Each Night I Dream of Home
+The Memory of War
+Visitors from Down the Street
+The Well of Forever
+Patterns of the Soul
+The Needs of Earth
+Racing the Night
+The Long Road
+Path of Sorrows
+Ruling from the Tomb
+The Rules of the Game
+Appearances and Other Deceits
+
+
+The last one written and turned in was called "End of the Line."  John blames
+me for the synchronicity.
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Question (22 May 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Crusade Question

+22 May 1999
It could only be possible via licensed books, certainly, and if I'm going to
+write novels, I think I'd rather do originals.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn JMS: dvd release (23 May 1999)
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+
Re: Attn JMS: dvd release

+23 May 1999
>It seems that the release of Babylon 5 on DVD is in the works for the
+>near future.
+>Have you been approached by Warners to supply extra material or possibly
+>do  a director's commentary?
+
+No, not as of this writing.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
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+B5 Fan Mail Reroute (24 May 1999)
+
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B5 Fan Mail Reroute

+24 May 1999
Just a quick note to let folks know that any mail for the cast and crew should
+go to the fan club address henceforth, not to the Ventura Blvd. mail drop. 
+We're shifting all that stuff over to the FC address, which is P. O. Box 856,
+North Hollywood, CA 91603.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Rising Stars Preview Issues (25 May 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Rising Stars Preview Issues

+25 May 1999
Thanks, I think it's going to be a good book.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: B5 Fan Mail Reroute -- Arrggghhhh! (25 May 1999)
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Re: B5 Fan Mail Reroute -- Arrggghhhh!

+25 May 1999
>One hopes that the old address will still be alive for a day or two?
+
+For a bit, yeah, but the sooner the general transition takes place, the better,
+just to make sure nothing gets lost.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Third Psi-Corps Book (27 May 1999)
+
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Re: ATTN JMS: Third Psi-Corps Book

+27 May 1999
>When will the third Psi-Corps. book be out, & what will come out
+>next--the first Technomage book, or the first Centauri book?
+
+The third Psi Corps book just arrived in manuscript form, so it should be
+soonish.  After that, I'm not sure which comes next.
+
+>So TNT wanted Sci-Fi to fund
+>all 22 episodes for the first season in order for them to pick it up &
+>complete the season? 
+
+That's correct.
+
+>I also heard that TNT wanted Dureena to be the
+>"sexual-explorer".  TNT obviously has a bunch of morons running that
+>network!
+
+I think either Dureena or Eilerson would've been fine, as long as the requisite
+amount of sex got in, which was the reason behind the notion.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+

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+Re: Attn: JMS, Re: B5 Magazine. (27 May 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS, Re: B5 Magazine.

+27 May 1999
>Is it true that that the Babylon-5 magazine is suffering a drop in sales and
+>is in danger of no longer being carried by some national chain bookstores
+>such
+>as "Barnes and Noble?
+
+Nope.  If anything, the magazine has been increasing a bit in size and scope
+because sales are solid and increasing, allowing that to happen.
+
+There are always some folks out there spreading this stuff...they've been doing
+it for years.  They get off on it.  All anyone has to do is *look* at the
+magazine to see how it's doing.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: Funding Crusade (was Re: ATTN JMS: Third Psi-Corps (28 May 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: Funding Crusade (was Re: ATTN JMS: Third Psi-Corps

+28 May 1999
>Well it seems reasonable to me.  I assume if Sci-Fi had
+>picked up Crusade, they -- not TNT -- would have premiered
+>all 22 eps.
+
+Also correct.  Nor was it being stated as a bad or a wrong thing...the only
+point being that SFC would have to buy another 22 ep package at a time when
+they'd already picked up 3 other 22 ep series, AND made a huge deal with
+Spielberg in the $40 million range.  That's a lot for that net to bite off in
+one season.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+
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+Re: Attn: JMS, Re: B5 Magazine. (1 Jun 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS, Re: B5 Magazine.

+1 Jun 1999
Further on this point, I got the following today from John Freeman, editor of
+the B5 magazine.
+
+Text follows:
+
+Joe 
+(Hope you can forward this if you think it necessary... I checked with our
+distributor and the rumour is pure hogwash....)
+
+Further to your response below I can confirm that Eastern News, our news
+stand distributor in North America, is actively seeking to increase our news
+stand (i.e. Barnes and Noble, etc.) sales. We're experiencing an upswing in
+sales, but it's more evident in the direct sales market. BTW, in a complete
+reversal of the situation in the UK, direct sales shops are more likely to
+have Babylon 5 on their shelves faster than news stands.
+One area we are still trying to sort out is setting up  a North American
+subscription house, which has taken much longer than we would have liked,
+largely because we are a non-US magazine company. However, I hope that
+particular 'nut' will be cracked very soon now - the paperwork has been
+incredibly complex.
+I would like to thank North American readers for their patience and
+enthusiastic support, evidenced by the growing size of my B5 mailbag!
+Best wishes
+John Freeman
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
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+Re: Dreamwatch #58 Article (5 Jun 1999)
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Re: Dreamwatch #58 Article

+5 Jun 1999
It is, by the way, a very good and well informed article.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: Book outlines, how detailed? (4 Mar 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: Book outlines, how detailed?

+4 Mar 1999
The usual length of my outlines tends to be about 15-18 pages per book, so
+45-54 pages total per trilogy.  It's fairly extensive and has all the major
+beats worked out.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS: Crusade 'lost' episodes? (5 Jun 1999)
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Re: JMS: Crusade 'lost' episodes?

+5 Jun 1999
>I read that all of the scripts for Season 1 of Crusade had been written.
+>What
+>happens to them *when* we get Crusade Season 2?  Will those scripts get used
+>or
+>are they lost to us?  Do they belong to TNT or to Warner Bros?
+
+We only got as far as 16, which is annoying since 14 was where we *really*
+cranked up the arc, and 16 was to be the season cliffhanger, shot early to
+handle the rather hideous CGI that would have been involved.
+
+The last one written, 16, synchronistically enough, was entitled "End of the
+Line."
+
+And WB owns the TV rights to the scripts.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+jms on first eps (9 Jun 1999)
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jms on first eps

+9 Jun 1999
Just for the record: I think the first one -- the only one written directly at
+TNT's behest -- is probably the weakest one, certainly the one I find least
+interesting.  It's lumbered with buckets of exposition, explaining things that
+don't need explaining, too many fights, too many explosions, too much
+swaggering around, all stuff the net wanted. 
+
+Then we go back to the show we wanted to make...Path of Sorrows is terrific,
+Well of Forever is a solid character story, The Long Road is just pure fun
+(that's pretty much reverse broadcast order, btw)...there's one or two in the
+bunch that are a bit slower than I'd like, but those are the exception rather
+than the rule.  
+
+Just to get my own feelings on this out there.  
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+jms portland oregon query (9 Jun 1999)
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jms portland oregon query

+9 Jun 1999
I have some family members who are looking for a retirement village or place in
+the Greater Portland area (I'm told that Portlandians will know what that
+means).  It should be a nice place, with the possibility of extending health
+care or medical assistance, upscale is cool, middle of the road is cool, as
+long as it's genuinely a nice place, decent sized, friendly, that sort of
+thing.
+
+They've been looking on their own, but haven't found anything, and I
+figured...what the heck, I'd try this venue and see if anything came up.
+
+Replies via email, no need to burden the forum with this, thanks.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+Re: Attn JMS: The Practical Side of the Crusade Universe (12 Jun 1999)
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Re: Attn JMS: The Practical Side of the Crusade Universe

+12 Jun 1999
We do get into some of the dynamics of this, yeah...the impact of the
+quarantine on trade, lifestyles, other stuff.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ACtA/crusade: War Zone *spoilers* (15 Jun 1999)
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Re: ACtA/crusade: War Zone *spoilers*

+15 Jun 1999
>i've seen some people(not sure if here or un unmod) posting about
+>inconsistancies between the end of ACtA, and the beginning of crusade, and
+>while there is at least one(dureena acting like the excalibur is new to her)
+
+Actually, she never gives that impression; her reaction to the others seeing
+the ship and being impressed is to shrug and say, "It'll do."  She's not
+impressed because she's already been there.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Attn: JMS - Final Reckoning (Psi Corp trilogy) (16 Jun 1999)
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Re: Attn: JMS - Final Reckoning (Psi Corp trilogy)

+16 Jun 1999
I finished reading the book this past weekend, and it's possibly the best of
+the three, which I didn't think I'd say, given how much I liked the first two.
+
+What I think fans will like about it most is that while the first two dealt
+with what led up to B5's timeline, some of able to be inferred from stuff, this
+is all stuff that is yet to come...and it's nifty.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: JMS:  Development? (10 Aug 1999)
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Re: JMS:  Development?

+10 Aug 1999
>Could you possilby tell us what genre this Series will be?
+>
+
+If it goes, it's about 98% mainstream and 2% speculative fiction...kind of an
+Ivory Snow mix....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: After Crusade episode 13...then what? (11 Aug 1999)
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Re: After Crusade episode 13...then what?

+11 Aug 1999
>Always was more of a Yog Sothoth fan myself.
+
+ia ia Cthulhu fthagen. (spelled wrong so I won't piss off nyarlathotep)
+
+>Incidentally... did anyone else have nightmares for days after reading "The
+>Colour Out of Space"?
+>
+
+Me.  Bigtime.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: The reaction to Racing The Night (13 Aug 1999)
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Re: The reaction to Racing The Night

+13 Aug 1999
>I am not standing up for TNT here, but again I must point out what has been
+>said in other posts. All 13 episodes that TNT is airing have been stated by
+>JMS
+>to be *"True Crusade"* as he saw it in his vision.
+>
+>The show was stopped by TNT after they wanted to interfere. Since JMS did not
+>agree to the changes, TNT stopped production.
+>
+>I am not justifying what TNT did, but you can not blame them for the shows
+
+Not entirely true.  The 20 pages of notes we got that were truly offensive were
+turned down by me.
+
+But they kept after us on other stuff on a daily basis.  They wanted Dureena's
+makeup softened, on the theory that it was a cliche if she actually *looked*
+like an alien...they kept making demands of other scripts, including revisions
+in such already finished scripts as "Well" that weakened the script...
+
+What I said was that "War Zone" was the only one written at TNT's behest, not
+that they didn't have input into the rest of them.  It was only with
+"Appearances" that I finally hit the wall and simply stopped taking their
+notes.
+
+Every day there was a campaign of attrition and the constant threat that if
+things weren't done, either the first shut-down would be permanent, or there
+would be another shut-down.  The show was essentially held hostage.
+
+I think that there's more positive than negative in all the episodes aired, and
+I'm proud of what we did under the conditions under which we had to labor; but
+understand that their fingerprints are on all of the first 8 to various
+degrees.  I separated War Zone from the rest because structurally, that's a
+story I would never have told if there wasn't a gun to my head.
+
+The only episodes totally free of interference are the first 5 shot.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: The Needs of Earth rating? (15 Aug 1999)
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Re: The Needs of Earth rating?

+15 Aug 1999
>I just noticed that "The Needs of Earth" has been given a TV-14(DS) rating
+>which is for sexual content and language.  Wasn't this one of the ones
+>written before TNT asked for more sex and violence in the show?  Has JMS
+>mentioned anything about this?  
+
+No, this is actually pretty stupid...there's one shot where they think a nipple
+is visible (it isn't, we were very careful in editing) and another where they
+think a Eilerson says "goddamnit," but he doesn't.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: ATTN JMS: The beginning of the next GREAT story... (8 Mar 1999)
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Re: ATTN JMS: The beginning of the next GREAT story...

+8 Mar 1999
Thanks...I'm looking forward to playing in other worlds.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
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+Re: Rising Stars #2 (15 Aug 1999)
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Re: Rising Stars #2

+15 Aug 1999
Just a correction...the one that's out now is actually #1, following the
+previews, #2 will ain't out yet.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
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+Re: Common Sense, Anyone? ("Memory of War" spoilers) (15 Aug 1999)
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Re: Common Sense, Anyone? ("Memory of War" spoilers)

+15 Aug 1999
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+>And the prize our heroes win for resolving the crisis, the scientific
+>breakthrough that makes it all worthwhile, is the ability to infect
+>one's self with a reprogrammed alien biological warfare agent of
+>incredible sophistication - trust us, it's perfectly safe - in order
+>to avoid the indignity of wearing a filter mask for a couple of days.
+>
+>
+>This is an idiot plot, pure and simple.
+
+Funny...the microbiology experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who vetted
+the script thought it would be a) a useful thing indeed, and b) extremely
+useful as a template in attempting to understand how the Drakh virus works.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+

+
+
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+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Will You Do Another B5 Spinoff? (15 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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Re: ATTN JMS: Will You Do Another B5 Spinoff?

+15 Aug 1999
>If Crusade doesn't come back (although I am really hoping it does
+>return), would you consider doing another B5 spinoff?  I love that B5
+>universe, & the thought of no more of it (especially with how bad a lot
+>of the series are these days) makes me a bit sad.
+
+No.
+
+I like the B5 universe as well, but I would prefer to move on to other
+projects, and not become a one-trick pony.  None of the other projects
+currently in the works have anything to do with B5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN: JMS - Clark Ashton Smith? (15 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN: JMS - Clark Ashton Smith?

+15 Aug 1999
>"Genius Loci" is the name of a very well known story by C.A.
+>Smith.  Any chance you are a fan of his as well as Lovecraft?
+
+Yes, I'm a fan of Smith's work, but no, the title is not a nod to him, since
+the phrase precedes his book by several hundred years....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Gideon's PPG?  Double barrelled? (15 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Gideon's PPG?  Double barrelled?

+15 Aug 1999
It's a targeting sight.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Will You Do Another B5 Spinoff? (16 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Will You Do Another B5 Spinoff?

+16 Aug 1999
>Would there ever be a chance that there would be a movie done for the B5
+>univerce? 
+
+WB has inquired about one several times, but I'm in no real rush.  If I were to
+do one, it'd be a while down the road, and I'd want to take that time to think
+of a really good story, rather than rush something out just to do it.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Isn't someone at WB pissed? (16 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Isn't someone at WB pissed?

+16 Aug 1999
>Aren't any of those folks still around, and if so, aren't they really ticked
+>off at TNT management for damaging (possible irreparably) that potential???
+>
+
+The problem in some measure is that there is an ongoing power struggle between
+WB and TNT (WB owns TNT, but the biggest shareholder in WB is Ted Turner).  And
+nobody -- I mean *nobody* -- wants to get caught in the switches on this one.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: "Insider" info on Crusade future ???? (17 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: "Insider" info on Crusade future ????

+17 Aug 1999
TNT doesn't have options on *anyone*, only WB had options on the cast (which
+are now expired).
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

+
+
diff --git a/find/Usenet/latest/88.html b/find/Usenet/latest/88.html
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Synchronicity (18 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: B5 Synchronicity

+18 Aug 1999
>Many times when I go by the machines, they will call out "B5".  It's so
+>weird because some nights, it happens several times!
+>
+>Anyone else have some weird B5 concidences?
+
+One odd thing...seems like any time I have to leave Burbank airport, I end up
+going out of and returning in via gate B5.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Most Holy? (19 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Most Holy?

+19 Aug 1999
No, no Cerberus reference was intended.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Elia Kazan and Forgiveness-"Passing Through Gethsemane" (8 Mar 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Elia Kazan and Forgiveness-"Passing Through Gethsemane"

+8 Mar 1999
Usually a condition of forgiveness is apology and repentence.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: Phoenix Rising Series (20 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: Phoenix Rising Series

+20 Aug 1999
>Some people seem to think that your new series is Phoenix Rising, a
+>possible new Star Trek spinoff.  I hope it isn't, because, for one
+>thing, it has the same title as one of your B5 episodes (& I'm sure you
+>just hate that!).  Can you confirm or deny this rumor?
+
+No, totally and completely untrue.  I don't know where this stuff comes from.
+
+Some folks at Paramount have indicated privately that it'd be great if I could
+take over the ST TV franchise but I have no interest whatsoever in doing that. 
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

+
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+
+
+Re: Norman Corwin and Babylon 5 (20 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Norman Corwin and Babylon 5

+20 Aug 1999
I could do a hell of a lot worse than be compared with Norman....
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
+
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+

+
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+
+
+Re: JMS: new STAR WARS film (22 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: JMS: new STAR WARS film

+22 Aug 1999
>What do you think about the new STAR WARS movie?
+
+Pretty to look at, but not terribly involving.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Special Effects on Recent Episodes (22 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Special Effects on Recent Episodes

+22 Aug 1999
>Has anyone else
+>noticed this or am I projecting the overall better episode quality
+>onto the special effects?
+
+I think it's this to some extent...also we took a somewhat different approach
+to the look of the EFX, and it takes some getting used to.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
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+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN:JMS Crusade confusing (SPOILERS for AAOD & RTN) (22 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN:JMS Crusade confusing (SPOILERS for AAOD & RTN)

+22 Aug 1999
>Now, after watching the episode "Appearences and Other Deceits", obviously
+>all
+>episodes filmed, (#6-13) were filmed to have to air before #1-5.  Why would
+>someone do that?? JMS is also quoted to say that the last 5 to air are the
+>best. Again, why would you do that? You are wanting a campaign to try and
+>save
+>your series, yet you show the crappy episodes first, and drive the viewership
+>away.
+
+Let me ask you a real simple question:
+
+What makes you think it was my decision?
+
+TNT wanted the "new-look" episodes aired first.  They wanted to push the first
+5 back as far as possible.  I initially figured we'd do 5-6 of the "new look"
+ones first, the minimum possible, then the first 5, then the new-look (black
+uniform) ones to the end.
+
+TNT *mandated* that the black-uniform ones would go first.  It was not my
+choice.  I have NO control over broadcast.  
+
+Not only did they want to hold them back, they were debating if they'd even
+allow us to FINISH post on the first 5.  It was a struggle to let them finish
+'em, and they were the last ones to go through post.
+
+Before you fire, it's always a good idea to know what the target is first.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS:  Enjoyed Rising Stars #1, you dream-shaper you! (22 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS:  Enjoyed Rising Stars #1, you dream-shaper you!

+22 Aug 1999
I hear this from time to time from folks, that they grew up on my work as kids
+into adulthood.  (I started selling to TV in 1984, so that's...fifteen years.)
+
+Suddenly I feel absolutely ancient....
+
+On the other hand, if it causes some folks to grow up asking questions and
+thinking about stuff, then it's a good thing and a service to the commonweal. 
+
+Was it Emerson?  "Be ashamed to die until you have performed some service for
+humanity."  It's just TeeVee...and there ain't much that's more trivial than a
+TeeVee writer...but I do hope it's had an effect.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 book (25 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: ATTN JMS: New B5 book

+25 Aug 1999
>Noticed that there will be a new B5 book coming out in the UK in November(I
+>think) called the Babylon 5 Omnibus I.  It says it is written by J. Vornholt
+>and L. Tilton.  Would this be a collection of the 1st three Dell novels?
+
+Yep.  Don't know if they'll be doing any more.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/Usenet/latest/97.html b/find/Usenet/latest/97.html
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+
+
+Re: Authorized Scripts for sale at NASFIC (25 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Authorized Scripts for sale at NASFIC

+25 Aug 1999
>I wonder if there' s way to flip through them first? It might be good, but
+>the
+>televised versions of her previous scripts on Crusade were pretty bad. 
+>
+
+When thsi script came out (going for sale at Fiona Avery's table at 11:30
+Friday at NASFIC), Walter Koenig drove all the way across town specifically to
+say how much he loved it...he went on to memorize huge sections of it long in
+advance, and even performed sections of it in front of folks at at least one
+convention (as reported by several SF magazines) and apparently wowed them with
+it.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
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+
+
+Re: Attn jms: Are you letting Crusade die? (26 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
Re: Attn jms: Are you letting Crusade die?

+26 Aug 1999
>It was my understanding that when WB let TNT out of their contract (a favor),
+>TNT agreed to relinquish their hold on show if WB could find another customer
+>(a return of the favor).
+>
+
+Your understanding is most emphatically incorrect.  TNT would have had the
+chance to get out of it had another network been found...no such deal having
+been in place, the contract sticks, despite TNT's many attempts to get out
+without paying any of the promised production budget.
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/Usenet/latest/99.html b/find/Usenet/latest/99.html
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+
+
+NASFIC schedule change (27 Aug 1999)
+
+
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
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+
NASFIC schedule change

+27 Aug 1999
FYI for those who haven't checked the web site in the last few days, my
+presentation is now slated for 1:00 Saturday.
+
+Thankyew.
+
+
+ jms
+
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
+B5 Official Fan Club at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
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+
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+

+
+
diff --git a/find/Usenet/latest/dummy.html b/find/Usenet/latest/dummy.html
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/Usenet/latest/dummy.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+just a listtle dummy fiel to make the searches happy.
diff --git a/find/index.html b/find/index.html
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+
+The search function is
+here.
+
+
diff --git a/find/indexes/answers.conf b/find/indexes/answers.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f46e7bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/answers.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/find/Answers/
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile answers.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "jms-answers"
+IndexDescription "This indexes the jms-answers file"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/indexes/answers.swish b/find/indexes/answers.swish
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diff --git a/find/indexes/aol-latest.conf b/find/indexes/aol-latest.conf
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/aol-latest.conf
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+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/find/America-Online/latest
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile aol-latest.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "JMS America Online postings"
+IndexDescription "An index of jms's daily postings to America Online"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+#IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+#IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+#IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
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diff --git a/find/indexes/aol.conf b/find/indexes/aol.conf
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+++ b/find/indexes/aol.conf
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+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/find/America-Online
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile aol-static.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "JMS America Online postings"
+IndexDescription "An index of jms's daily postings to America Online"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+FileRules pathname contains latest
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+#IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+#IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+#IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
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diff --git a/find/indexes/credits-update.conf b/find/indexes/credits-update.conf
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+++ b/find/indexes/credits-update.conf
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+# Babylon5 Lurker's guide credits SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/credits
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile credits-update.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "Episode Credits"
+IndexDescription "The onscreen credits"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+FileRules filename is 245.html
+FileRules pathname contains bak
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/indexes/credits.conf b/find/indexes/credits.conf
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/credits.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Babylon5 Lurker's guide credits SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/credits
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile credits.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "Episode Credits"
+IndexDescription "The onscreen credits"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+FileRules filename is 245.html
+FileRules pathname contains bak
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
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diff --git a/find/indexes/cs-latest.conf b/find/indexes/cs-latest.conf
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+++ b/find/indexes/cs-latest.conf
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+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/find/CompuServe/latest
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile cs-latest.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "JMS Compuserve postings"
+IndexDescription "An index of jms's daily postings to CompuServe"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+#IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+#IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+#IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
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diff --git a/find/indexes/cs.conf b/find/indexes/cs.conf
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/cs.conf
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+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/find/CompuServe
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile cs-static.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "JMS Compuserve postings"
+IndexDescription "An index of jms's daily postings to CompuServe"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+FileRules pathname contains latest
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+#IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+#IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+#IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
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diff --git a/find/indexes/genie.conf b/find/indexes/genie.conf
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/genie.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Babylon5 JMS GENIE posts SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/find/GEnie
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile genie.swish.new
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "JMS GEnie postings"
+IndexDescription "An index of jms's daily postings to the GEnie system - home of the Grid Epsilon irregulars"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+#IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+#IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+#IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
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diff --git a/find/indexes/guide-update.conf b/find/indexes/guide-update.conf
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/guide-update.conf
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+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/guide/
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile guide-update.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "Lurker's Guide"
+IndexDescription "The episode descriptions from the Babylon 5 Lurker's Guide"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+FileRules filename is 245.html
+FileRules pathname contains bak
+FileRules pathname contains jpegpages
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/indexes/guide.conf b/find/indexes/guide.conf
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+++ b/find/indexes/guide.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/guide/
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile guide.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "Lurker's Guide"
+IndexDescription "The episode descriptions from the Babylon 5 Lurker's Guide"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+FileRules filename is 245.html
+FileRules pathname contains bak
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/reindex
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+swish-e -c usenet.conf
+swish-e -c answers.conf
+swish-e -c guide.conf
+swish-e -c synops.conf
+swish-e -c genie.conf
+swish-e -c cs.conf
+swish-e -c credits.conf
+swish-e -c aol.conf
diff --git a/find/indexes/swish.conf b/find/indexes/swish.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..852f8f90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/swish.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /u/mogens/public_html/babylon_5/answers
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile answers.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "jms-answers"
+IndexDescription "This indexes the jms-answers file"
+IndexPointer "http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wwwwais/"
+IndexAdmin "Christian (mogens@cs.stanford.edu)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/u/mogens/public_html/babylon-5" "http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/mogens/babylon-5"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/indexes/synops-update.conf b/find/indexes/synops-update.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b7ba4f07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/synops-update.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Babylon5 Lurker's guide Synopses SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/synops
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile synops-update.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "Episode Synopses"
+IndexDescription "The detailed episode synopses from the Lurker's Guide"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+FileRules filename is 245.html
+FileRules pathname contains bak
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/indexes/synops.conf b/find/indexes/synops.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4ed6c817
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/synops.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# Babylon5 Lurker's guide Synopses SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/synops
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile synops.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "Episode Synopses"
+IndexDescription "The detailed episode synopses from the Lurker's Guide"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+FileRules filename is 245.html
+FileRules pathname contains bak
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/indexes/synops.swish b/find/indexes/synops.swish
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diff --git a/find/indexes/usenet-latest.conf b/find/indexes/usenet-latest.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f2a80aa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/usenet-latest.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/find/Usenet/latest
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile usenet-latest.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "JMS Usenet postings"
+IndexDescription "An index of jms's daily postings to Usenet"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+#IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+#IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+#IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/indexes/usenet-latest.swish b/find/indexes/usenet-latest.swish
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diff --git a/find/indexes/usenet-static.swish b/find/indexes/usenet-static.swish
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diff --git a/find/indexes/usenet.conf b/find/indexes/usenet.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..830a47af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/indexes/usenet.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# Babylon5 JMS answers SWISH configuration file
+
+IndexDir /home/koreth/lurk/find/Usenet
+
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile usenet-static.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "JMS Usenet postings"
+IndexDescription "An index of jms's daily postings to Usenet"
+IndexPointer "http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/lurkfind"
+IndexAdmin "Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt 
+# .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 2
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks no
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/home/koreth/lurk/" "http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+# FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+# FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+FileRules pathname contains latest
+# FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+# FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn off auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+#IgnoreWords a all an and are be by for i in is jms keywords maybe me no
+#IgnoreWords  of off on or some the to 
+#IgnoreWords they us we what when where who will yes you
+
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/indexes/usenet.swish b/find/indexes/usenet.swish
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diff --git a/find/lurksearch.tar b/find/lurksearch.tar
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diff --git a/find/prep-files/abanner b/find/prep-files/abanner
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e000268f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/abanner
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[Entries from the JMS Answers File]
+Search
diff --git a/find/prep-files/answer-split.pl b/find/prep-files/answer-split.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f8e1838f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/answer-split.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#! /usr/local/bin/perl
+# Splits the JMS answer file up
+
+
+eval(`cat splitter.cf`) || die("Config file error!");
+
+$BANNER= `cat $ANSWERBANNER`;
+$COUNT=1;
+$START=1;
+$KEYS="";
+$BODY="";
+$QUESTION="";
+
+while (<>) {
+   $_=""    if /^=======/;
+   if (($START==0) && (/^====/)) {
+     $COUNT++;
+	print "\r File number $COUNT                           ";
+	print "\r File number $COUNT $QUESTION";
+     do save_it($COUNT,$KEYS,$QUESTION,$BODY);
+     $KEYS="";
+     $BODY="";
+     $QUESTION="";
+   }
+   $START=0;
+   $KEYS=$1 if /^==== +(.*)/;
+   $_=""    if /^====/;
+   
+   $QUESTION=$1 if (! $QUESTION) && (/^\?\?\?\? (.*)/);
+   $_ = "
$QUESTION
\n" if (/^\?\?\?\? (.*)/);
+
+   $_ = "" if $START;
+   $_ = "
\n" if /^---/;
+   $_ = "
\n" if /^ *$/;
+
+   $BODY.= $_;
+}
+
+print "\r\nDone\r\n";
+
+sub save_it {
+   local($COUNT, $KEYS, $QUESTION, $BODY) = @_;
+     $KEYS =~ tr/\~/ /;
+     $QUESTION= $KEYS if !$QUESTION;
+     open(OUT, ">$ANSWERDIR/answ$COUNT.html");
+     print OUT <
+$QUESTION
+
+$BANNER
+Keywords: $KEYS
+$BODY
+
+
+EOM
+     close(OUT);
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/find/prep-files/aol-split.pl b/find/prep-files/aol-split.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7d95ce33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/aol-split.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+#! /usr/local/bin/perl
+# Splits AOL archives by article
+
+# pull in directories...
+
+eval(`cat splitter.cf`) || die("Config file error!");
+
+
+# NEARLY CONSTS
+
+die("Please supply filename for splitter input\nUsage:  splitter  jms-95-01\nproduces files jms-95-01/nn.html") if ! $ARGV[0];
+
+foreach(@ARGV) {
+   $COUNT=0;
+   $FIRST=0;
+   $SKIPPING=0;
+   $SKIPCOUNT=0;
+   $DATE="";
+   $OLDDATE="";
+   $SUBJECT="";
+   $OLDSUBJECT="";
+   $BODY="";
+   $QUESTION="";
+   ($FNAME) = m!/([^/]+)$!;
+   $FNAME= $_ if ! $FNAME;
+   $NEWPATH= "$AOLDIR/$FNAME";
+   mkdir($NEWPATH, oct("777"));
+
+   open(INF, "< $_");
+   while () {
+     # first skip to the first date
+
+     s/\&/&/g;
+     s/\>/>/g;
+     s/\\n\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "$SUBJECT ($DATE)\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "\n\n";
+  	    print OUTFILE `cat $AOLBANNER`
+	          if -r $AOLBANNER;
+	  }
+	  print OUTFILE "
\n" if (! $FIRST);
+print OUTFILE "- Previous " if $FIRST && $PREVFILE;
+print OUTFILE "- Next\n
\n" if $FIRST && $NEXTFILE;
+	  print OUTFILE "
$SUBJECT
\n$DATE\n
";
+	  print "$FNAME File number $COUNT $SUBJECT\n" if (! $SKIPPING);
+	  $SUBJECT="";
+	  $FIRST= 0;
+	  next;
+     }
+     print OUTFILE $_;
+  }
+  close(OUTFILE);
+  close(INF);
+}
+print "\r\nDone, skipped $SKIPCOUNT messages\r\n";
+
+
+sub nextfile {
+	if (! $FIRST) {
+		if ($COUNT>0) {
+			print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n";
+			close OUTFILE;
+		}
+		$PREVFILE= "$COUNT.html" if $COUNT>0;
+		$COUNT++;
+		$NCOUNT= $COUNT + 1;
+		$NEXTFILE= "$NCOUNT.html";
+		$OLDDATE= $DATE;
+		$OLDSUBJECT= $SUBJECT;
+		if (-e "$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html") {
+			open(OUTFILE, ">/dev/null");
+			$SKIPPING = 1;
+			$SKIPCOUNT++;
+		}
+		else {
+			open(OUTFILE, ">$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html");
+			$SKIPPING = 0;
+		}
+		$FIRST=1;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/find/prep-files/aolbanner b/find/prep-files/aolbanner
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..166e3ff5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/aolbanner
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[America Online postings by JMS]
+Search
diff --git a/find/prep-files/banner b/find/prep-files/banner
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a3b54aa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/banner
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[Usenet postings by JMS]
+Search
diff --git a/find/prep-files/cbanner b/find/prep-files/cbanner
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..71b32c65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/cbanner
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[CompuServe postings by JMS]
+Search
diff --git a/find/prep-files/cis-split.pl b/find/prep-files/cis-split.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8ca6759
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/cis-split.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+#! /usr/local/bin/perl
+# Splits usenet archives by article
+
+# pull in directories...
+
+eval(`cat splitter.cf`) || die("Config file error!");
+
+
+die("Please supply filename for splitter input\nUsage:  splitter  jms-95-01\nproduces files jms-95-01/nn.html") if ! $ARGV[0];
+
+foreach(@ARGV) {
+   $COUNT=0;
+   $FIRST=0;
+   $SKIPCOUNT=0;
+   $SKIPPING=0;
+   $DATE="";
+   $OLDDATE="";
+   $SUBJECT="";
+   $OLDSUBJECT="";
+   $BODY="";
+   $QUESTION="";
+   $SECTION="";
+   ($FNAME) = m!/([^/]+)$!;
+   $FNAME= $_ if ! $FNAME;
+   $NEWPATH= "$CISDIR/$FNAME";
+   mkdir($NEWPATH, oct("777"));
+
+   open(INF, "< $_");
+   while () {
+     # first skip to the first date
+
+     s/\&/&/g;
+     s/\>/>/g;
+     s/\;
+       /^ *(.*)/;
+       $DATE = $1;
+       next;
+     }
+
+     if (/^Subject: (.*)/) {
+	$SUBJECT = $1;
+	do nextfile();
+	next;
+     }
+
+     if (/^Sb: #?[0-9]*-?#??/) {
+	$SUBJECT = $1;
+	do nextfile();
+	next;
+     }
+
+     if (/^Date: (.*)/) {
+	$DATE = $1;
+	do nextfile();
+	next;
+     }
+
+     if (/^Subj: (.*) *Section: (.*)/) {
+	$SUBJECT = $1;
+	$SECTION = $2;
+	if (! $FIRST) {
+	  do nextfile();
+	  $DATE="";
+	}
+	next;
+     }
+     if (/^  To: .*[, ]  *([^ ]*day, )?([A-Z].*[0-9] *[aApP][mM])/) {
+	$DATE = $2;
+	if (! $FIRST) {
+	  do nextfile();
+	  $SUBJECT="";
+	}
+	next;
+     }
+
+     next if ! $SUBJECT;
+
+     if (/^[~]*(From|To|Message-ID|References):/) {
+	  if ($FIRST) {
+		  next;
+	  }
+     }
+
+     if ($SUBJECT && $DATE && (/^ *$/)) {
+	  if ($FIRST) {
+	    print OUTFILE "\n\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "$SUBJECT ($DATE)\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "\n\n";
+  	    print OUTFILE `cat $CISBANNER`
+	          if -r $CISBANNER;
+	print OUTFILE "- Previous " if $PREVFILE;
+	print OUTFILE "- Next\n
\n" if $NEXTFILE;
+	    print OUTFILE "
$SUBJECT
\n";
+	    if ($SECTION != "") {
+	       print OUTFILE "
Section: $SECTION
Date: $DATE
\n
";
+	    }
+	    else {
+	       print OUTFILE "
Date: $DATE
\n
";
+	    }
+	    print "$FNAME File number $COUNT $SUBJECT\n" if (! $SKIPPING);
+	    $DATE="";
+	    $FIRST= 0;
+	  }
+	  next;
+     }
+     print OUTFILE $_;
+  }
+  print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n" if $COUNT > 0;
+  close(OUTFILE);
+  close(INF);
+}
+print "\r\nDone, skipped $SKIPCOUNT messages\r\n";
+
+sub nextfile {
+	if (! $FIRST) {
+		if ($COUNT>0) {
+			print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n";
+			close OUTFILE;
+		}
+		$PREVFILE= "$COUNT.html" if $COUNT>0;
+		$COUNT++;
+		$NCOUNT= $COUNT + 1;
+		$NEXTFILE= "$NCOUNT.html";
+		$OLDDATE= $DATE;
+		$OLDSUBJECT= $SUBJECT;
+		if (-e "$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html") {
+			open(OUTFILE, ">/dev/null");
+			$SKIPPING=1;
+			$SKIPCOUNT++;
+		} else {
+			open(OUTFILE, ">$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html");
+			$SKIPPING=0;
+		}
+		$FIRST=1;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/find/prep-files/gbanner b/find/prep-files/gbanner
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..242bdf7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/gbanner
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[GEnie postings by JMS]
+Search
diff --git a/find/prep-files/genie-split.pl b/find/prep-files/genie-split.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..54f1070c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/genie-split.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+#! /usr/local/bin/perl
+# Splits GEnie archives by message...
+
+
+# pull in directories...
+
+eval(`cat splitter.cf`) || die("Config file error!");
+
+
+# NEARLY CONSTS
+
+$COUNT=0;
+$CLOSED=1;
+$INHEADER= 1;
+$FIRST=0;
+$DATE="";
+$OLDTOPIC="";
+$TOPIC="";
+$SUBJECT="";
+$BODY="";
+$QUESTION="";
+
+die("Please supply filenames for splitter\nUsage:  genie-split  ../jms-95-01 \nproduces files jms-95-01/nn.html\n") if ! $ARGV[0];
+
+
+foreach(@ARGV) {
+  ($FNAME) = m!/([^/]+)$!;
+  $FNAME= $_ if ! $FNAME;
+  $NEWPATH= "$GENIEDIR/$FNAME";
+  mkdir($NEWPATH, oct("777"));
+
+  open(INF, "< $_");
+  while () {
+       #  ------------
+       # SFRT II RoundTable
+       # Category 18,  Topic 17
+       # Message 525       Fri Jun 02, 1995
+       # STRACZYNSKI [Joe]            at 23:55 EDT
+
+       # first skip to the first message
+
+       s/\&/&/g;
+       s/\>/>/g;
+       s/\0) {
+	       print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n";
+	       close OUTFILE;
+	    }
+	    $CLOSED=1;
+	    next;
+      }
+      if ($CLOSED) {
+	    $CLOSED=0;
+	    $PREVFILE= "$COUNT.html" if $COUNT>0;
+	    $COUNT++;
+	    $NCOUNT= $COUNT + 1;
+	    $NEXTFILE= "$NCOUNT.html";
+	    $OLDTOPIC= $TOPIC;
+	    print "\r $FNAME File number $COUNT $TOPIC";     
+	    open(OUTFILE, ">$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html");
+	    print OUTFILE "JMS Genie Message on $MMYY\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "\n";
+	    print OUTFILE `cat $GENIEBANNER`
+		      if -r $GENIEBANNER;
+	  print OUTFILE "- Previous " if $PREVFILE;
+	  print OUTFILE "- Next\n
\n" if $NEXTFILE;
+	    print OUTFILE "
\n";
+	    next;
+       }
+       print OUTFILE $_;
+  }
+  close(OUTFILE);
+  close(INF);
+}
+print "\r\nDone\r\n";
+
diff --git a/find/prep-files/old-cis-split.pl b/find/prep-files/old-cis-split.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..991138be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/old-cis-split.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+#! /usr/local/bin/perl
+# Splits usenet archives by article
+
+# pull in directories...
+
+eval(`cat splitter.cf`) || die("Config file error!");
+
+
+# NEARLY CONSTS
+
+$COUNT=0;
+$FIRST=0;
+$DATE="";
+$OLDDATE="";
+$SUBJECT="";
+$OLDSUBJECT="";
+$BODY="";
+$QUESTION="";
+
+die("Please supply filename for splitter input\nUsage:  splitter  jms-95-01\nproduces files jms-95-01/nn.html") if ! $ARGV[0];
+
+foreach(@ARGV) {
+   ($FNAME) = m!/([^/]+)$!;
+   $FNAME= $_ if ! $FNAME;
+   $NEWPATH= "$CISDIR/$FNAME";
+   mkdir($NEWPATH, oct("777"))  || 
+      print "Warning: Unable to create new directory $NEWPATH\n";
+
+   open(INF, "< $_");
+   while () {
+     # first skip to the first date
+
+     s/\&/&/g;
+     s/\>/>/g;
+     s/\;
+       /^ *(.*)/;
+       $DATE = $1;
+       next;
+     }
+
+     if (/^Sb: #?[0-9]*-?#??/) {
+       $SUBJECT = $1;
+	if (! $FIRST) {
+	  if ($COUNT>0) {
+	     print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n";
+	     close OUTFILE;
+	  }
+	  $PREVFILE= "$COUNT.html" if $COUNT>0;
+	  $COUNT++;
+	  $NCOUNT= $COUNT + 1;
+	  $NEXTFILE= "$NCOUNT.html";
+	  $OLDDATE= $DATE;
+	  $OLDSUBJECT= $SUBJECT;
+	  open(OUTFILE, ">$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html");
+	  $FIRST=1;
+       }
+       next;
+     }
+
+     if (/^Subj: (.*) *Section: (.*)/) {
+       $SUBJECT = $1;
+       $SECTION = $2;
+	if (! $FIRST) {
+	  if ($COUNT>0) {
+	     print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n";
+	     close OUTFILE;
+	  }
+	  $PREVFILE= "$COUNT.html" if $COUNT>0;
+	  $COUNT++;
+	  $NCOUNT= $COUNT + 1;
+	  $NEXTFILE= "$NCOUNT.html";
+	  $OLDDATE= $DATE;
+	  $OLDSUBJECT= $SUBJECT;
+	  open(OUTFILE, ">$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html");
+	  $FIRST=1;
+	  $DATE="";
+       }
+       next;
+     }
+     if (/^  To: .*[, ]  *([^ ]*day, )?([A-Z].*[0-9] *[aApP][mM])/) {
+	$DATE = $2;
+	if (! $FIRST) {
+	  # copied from ^From handling below - koreth
+	  if ($COUNT>0) {
+	     print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n";
+	     close OUTFILE;
+	  }
+	  $PREVFILE= "$COUNT.html" if $COUNT>0;
+	  $COUNT++;
+	  $NCOUNT= $COUNT + 1;
+	  $NEXTFILE= "$NCOUNT.html";
+	  $OLDDATE= $DATE;
+	  $OLDSUBJECT= $SUBJECT;
+	  open(OUTFILE, ">$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html");
+	  $FIRST=1;
+	  $SUBJECT="";
+	}
+	next;
+     }
+
+     next if ! $SUBJECT;
+
+     if (/^[~]*From:/) {
+	  if ($FIRST) {
+		  next;
+	  }
+     }
+     if ($SUBJECT && $DATE && (/^ *$/)) {
+	  if ($FIRST) {
+	    print OUTFILE "\n\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "$SUBJECT ($DATE)\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "\n\n";
+  	    print OUTFILE `cat $CISBANNER`
+	          if -r $CISBANNER;
+	print OUTFILE "- Previous " if $PREVFILE;
+	print OUTFILE "- Next\n
\n" if $NEXTFILE;
+	    print OUTFILE "
$SUBJECT
\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "
Section: $SECTION
Date: $DATE
\n
";
+	    print "$FNAME File number $COUNT $SUBJECT\n";
+	    $DATE="";
+	    $FIRST= 0;
+	  }
+	  next;
+     }
+     print OUTFILE $_;
+  }
+  print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n" if $COUNT > 0;
+  close(OUTFILE);
+  close(INF);
+}
+print "\r\nDone\r\n";
+
diff --git a/find/prep-files/sbanner b/find/prep-files/sbanner
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..708e1a9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/sbanner
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+
[Home]
+
+

+
+
diff --git a/find/prep-files/splitter.cf b/find/prep-files/splitter.cf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8444205c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/splitter.cf
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Splitter.cf
+# Perl config file 
+# Make sure semicolons terminate lines!
+
+# Destination directories, excluding final slash
+$USENETDIR= "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/Usenet";
+$GENIEDIR = "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/GEnie";
+$ANSWERDIR= "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/Answers";
+$CISDIR=    "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/CompuServe";
+$AOLDIR=    "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/America-Online";
+
+# Banner filenames - contents of these files is placed at
+#                    the top of the BODY of each new html file
+$USENETBANNER= "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/prep-files/banner";
+$GENIEBANNER = "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/prep-files/gbanner";
+$ANSWERBANNER= "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/prep-files/abanner";
+$CISBANNER=    "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/prep-files/cbanner";
+$AOLBANNER=    "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/find/prep-files/aolbanner";
diff --git a/find/prep-files/usenet-split.pl b/find/prep-files/usenet-split.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8d897140
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/prep-files/usenet-split.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+#! /usr/local/bin/perl
+# Splits usenet archives by article
+
+# pull in directories...
+
+eval(`cat splitter.cf`) || die("Config file error!");
+
+
+# NEARLY CONSTS
+
+
+die("Please supply filename for splitter input\nUsage:  splitter  jms-95-01\nproduces files jms-95-01/nn.html") if ! $ARGV[0];
+
+foreach(@ARGV) {
+   $FIRST=0;
+   $COUNT=0;
+   $SKIPPING=0;
+   $SKIPCOUNT=0;
+   $DATE="";
+   $OLDDATE="";
+   $SUBJECT="";
+   $OLDSUBJECT="";
+   $BODY="";
+   $QUESTION="";
+   ($FNAME) = m!/([^/]+)$!;
+   $FNAME= $_ if ! $FNAME;
+   $NEWPATH= "$USENETDIR/$FNAME";
+   mkdir($NEWPATH, oct("777"));
+
+   open(INF, "< $_");
+   while () {
+     # first skip to the first date
+
+     s/\&/&/g;
+     s/\>/>/g;
+     s/\\n\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "$SUBJECT ($DATE)\n";
+	    print OUTFILE "\n\n";
+  	    print OUTFILE `cat $USENETBANNER`
+	          if -r $USENETBANNER;
+	  }
+	  print OUTFILE "
\n" if (! $FIRST);
+print OUTFILE "- Previous " if $FIRST && $PREVFILE;
+print OUTFILE "- Next\n
\n" if $FIRST && $NEXTFILE;
+	  print OUTFILE "
$SUBJECT
\n$DATE
";
+	  print "$FNAME File number $COUNT $SUBJECT\n" if (! $SKIPPING);
+	  $SUBJECT="";
+	  $FIRST= 0;
+	  next;
+     }
+     print OUTFILE $_;
+  }
+  close(OUTFILE);
+  close(INF);
+}
+print "\r\nDone, skipped $SKIPCOUNT messages\r\n";
+
+
+sub nextfile {
+	if (! $FIRST) {
+		if ($COUNT>0) {
+			print OUTFILE "
\n\n\n";
+			close OUTFILE;
+		}
+		$PREVFILE= "$COUNT.html" if $COUNT>0;
+		$COUNT++;
+		$NCOUNT= $COUNT + 1;
+		$NEXTFILE= "$NCOUNT.html";
+		$OLDDATE= $DATE;
+		$OLDSUBJECT= $SUBJECT;
+		$NEWFILENAME="$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html";
+		if (-e $NEWFILENAME) {
+			open(OUTFILE, ">/dev/null");
+			$SKIPPING=1;
+			$SKIPCOUNT++;
+		}
+		else {
+			open(OUTFILE, ">$NEWPATH/$COUNT.html");
+			$SKIPPING=0;
+		}
+		$FIRST=1;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/find/print-hit-bold.cgi b/find/print-hit-bold.cgi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d73c0f53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/print-hit-bold.cgi
@@ -0,0 +1,268 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
+#
+# print_hit_bold.pl -- Display documents selected by a WAIS search interface.
+#     This attempts to "BOLD" every string which matches one of the search
+#     words. It skips over anything within <>'s so that it hopefully doesn't
+#     screw up any html stuff. It also skips over "non-formatted" sections
+#     (LISTING, XMP, PLAINTEXT) and over the TITLE section.
+#     It presents text files within 
 ... 
 tags.
+# Michael A. Grady, UIUC/CCSO June 1994 (m-grady@uiuc.edu)
+# Mike Grady
+# modified on 7/12/94 to fix a bug with the "first_hit" anchor when the first
+# term that gets bolded is the "text" for a link. Small change on 7/20/94 to
+# exempt TITLE field from being bolded. Change on 7/21/94 to have file read
+# work in line mode rather than paragraph mode -- paragraph mode appears to
+# be "dangerous" with lots of the WWW type files (few blank lines in
+# documents). Change on 8/15/94 to add BASE tag to front so relative URLs from
+# this document DO NOT go back thru print_hit_bold.
+# Change on 01/18/95 to fix occasional problem with placing of "first_hit"
+# anchor. Added a "buffer" (variable $buffer_it) to hold the anchor/link text
+# until we are sure we don't need to place the 'name="first_hit"' into it.
+
+# expects a URL of the form: http:
+# //your.www.server/cgibindir/print_hit_bold.pl/path/to/file?terms+to+hilite#first_hit
+# where the "path/to/file" is relative to your document root directory
+
+# Specify the url for this WWW server -- same as in "kidofwais.pl" script
+#  (this is the same string you added when you waisindexed (using -t url))
+$serverURL = "http://diglib.stanford.edu/";
+
+# For DEBUG purposes, specify the fully-qualified name of a file in the
+# logging directory for your server. Then if you turn on the $DEBUG flag,
+# all the lines that this script sends to the HTTPD server will instead be
+# sent into this logfile, except for the beginning "Content-type" lines and
+# the pointer to the original document before it has been mucked with by this
+# script. The match structure built by "prepare_matching_program()" is also
+# written into the log (actually will precede the "real file").
+$debugLOG = "/var/info/www/httpd/logs/cgi_log";
+$DEBUG = 0;	# set to 1 to turn on debugging code
+
+# Specify the "first hit anchor" to be used with hiliting,
+# should match up with anchor value in "kidofwais.pl". See &hilite.
+# Also need to add  to end of hit to end anchor.
+$anchor = ' name="first_hit"';
+
+# who maintains this service?
+$maintainer = 'Christian Mogensen';
+
+# you shouldn't have to edit anything below this line
+
+sub send_file {
+    print "Location: /$partial_name\n\n";
+}
+
+
+sub prepare_matching_program {
+    # prepare the query word matching patterns (will use eval on this to
+    # hopefully make it faster). Creates "$match_terms" and initializes
+    # "$looking_for_first" to "on" (=1). This sets up the terms that we will
+    # search and substitute for, adding BOLD tags around. The bold tags we
+    # add are  ... .  was chosen (with cap and space between B
+    # and >) so as to be unlikely to be the same as any of the original BOLD
+    # tags in the document. This enables us, on the "first match", to find
+    # the position in the string of the "first match" and add the anchor tag
+    # in front of that (so the document is positioned to the first hit when
+    # presented to the user).
+    local($searchterm);
+    $looking_for_first = 1;
+    $match_terms = "{study;\n";
+    foreach $searchterm (@query) {
+	# remove parens, quotes, words: and or not
+	$searchterm =~ tr/\(\)\'\"//d;
+
+	$searchterm =~ /^and$/i && next;
+	$searchterm =~ /^or$/i  && next;
+	$searchterm =~ /^not$/i && next;
+	$searchterm =~ /^\s*$/  && next;
+
+	$searchterm =~ /^.+\*$/ && $searchterm =~ tr/*//d &&
+	  ($match_terms .=
+	    "\$matched = 1 if s!\\b($searchterm)!\$1!ig;\n")
+			&& next;
+	#default case
+	$searchterm =~ tr/*//d;
+	$match_terms .=
+	  "\$matched = 1 if s!\\b($searchterm)\\b!\$1!ig;\n";
+    } #end foreach searchterm
+    $match_terms .= "}";
+    $DEBUG && print LOG "$match_terms\n";
+    return;
+}
+
+
+sub hilite {
+	# Search for the query words and place BOLD tags around each if found.
+	# If the "first hit" in this document, put in the "first_hit" anchor.
+	# Also need to add  to end of hit to end anchor.
+	local($_) = @_;		# text to hilite
+	local($position,$end_position);
+	$matched = 0;
+	eval ($match_terms);	# do the matching/replacing
+	if ($looking_for_first && $matched) { # something matched for the 1st
+		$looking_for_first = 0;	      # time, try to place an anchor
+		$position = index( $_, "" );
+				# put anchor text into string if above found
+		if ($position >= 0) {
+		    # If text that has been bolded first is already within a
+		    #  ..,  construct, then we can't put another such
+		    # construct around it. So instead stick the "name=" string
+		    # into the  construct that is already there. If it
+		    # already has a name= clause, not sure which will be
+		    # recognized.
+		    if ($buffer_it && $in_anchor) {
+			$position = index( $buffer_it, ">" );
+			substr($buffer_it, $position, 0) = $anchor;
+		    } elsif (! $in_anchor) {
+		    	substr($_, $position, 0) = "";
+		    	$end_position = index( $_, "", $position);
+		    	($end_position >= 0) &&
+				(substr($_, $end_position + 5, 0) = "");
+		    }
+		}
+	}
+	&print_it ( $_ );
+	return;
+}
+
+sub print_it {	# This routine does the actual "printing" of the document
+	# If we are in an anchor string, and have not yet found the
+	# "first_hit", then save the text to be printed in a buffer. This will
+	# allow us to put the 'name="first_hit"' into the anchor/link
+	# construct itself if the first hit happens to be in the text that the
+	# anchor/link is "around".
+
+	local($to_print) = @_;
+	if ($in_anchor && $looking_for_first) {
+		$buffer_it .= $to_print;
+	} else {
+		print $buffer_it if $buffer_it;
+		print $to_print;
+		$buffer_it = '';
+	}
+}
+
+sub process_file {
+
+    # if 'PATH_INFO'/'PATH_TRANSLATED' has a non-null value, then 
+    # 'PATH_TRANSLATED' should be the fully qualified path to the file to
+    # to be hilited. If these environment variables are null, then someone
+    # has constructed an incorrect url
+    $partial_name = $ENV{'PATH_INFO'};
+    $full_name    = $ENV{'PATH_TRANSLATED'};
+    if ($partial_name eq "") {
+    	print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
+	print "Incorrect url specified\n";
+	print "
Incorrect url specified
\n";
+	print "
";
+	print "This script has been referenced by an incorrect url. Please ";
+	print "contact $maintainer if you have any questions.
\n";
+	print "Main page for this server.\n";
+	return;
+    }
+    $partial_name = substr($partial_name,1); # remove beginning slash
+    TYPE: for ($partial_name) {
+	/.html$/	&& do { $type = 'html'; $ok = 1; last TYPE };
+	/.txt$/		&& do { $type = 'text'; $ok = 1; last TYPE };
+	/.TEXT$/	&& do { $type = 'text'; $ok = 1; last TYPE };
+	$ok = 0;
+    }
+
+    do { &send_file; return; } unless defined @ARGV; # nothing to hilite
+	# probably can't try to hilite without messing up file unless html/txt
+    do { &send_file; return; } unless $ok;
+
+    local(@query) = @ARGV;
+    local($pquery) = join(" ", @query);
+    # NCSA's HTTPD puts backslashes in front of "funny" or "dangerous"
+    # characters in the input supplied thru argv. In the case of search terms
+    # for WAIS, this can screw up the search (parens and "*" get backslashed
+    # and then don't work correctly). So remove the backslashes, AND the
+    # potentially "dangerous" characters ( ; ` ! ).
+    $pquery =~ tr/!\;\`\\//d;           # just in case, get rid of ;`! and \
+    @query = split(' ',$pquery);        # and recreate query word array
+
+    # DEBUG code - write stuff into file
+    $DEBUG && do { open (LOG, ">>$debugLOG") || die "can't open log";};
+
+    &prepare_matching_program;  # create $match_terms string
+
+    # just send file if there are no words left to hilite
+    do { &send_file; return; } if ($match_terms eq "{study;\n}");
+
+    # start the html document to "return"
+    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
+    print "\n";
+    print "Get the original (unBOLDed) document.
\n";
+
+    $DEBUG && select (LOG); # write rest of stuff to file for DEBUG
+
+    # try and open file for reading
+    open (FP, "$full_name") || print "File $full_name can't be read. Please contact $maintainer." && return;
+
+    if ($type eq 'text') {	# Start document for "text"
+    	print "File: $partial_name\n";
+	print "
\n
";
+    }
+
+    local($in_tag,$skip_till_endtag,$endtag,$line_left);
+    $in_tag = 0;
+    $skip_till_endtag = $in_anchor = 0;
+    $endtag = $buffer_it = '';
+    READ_LINE: while () {
+	$line_left = $_;
+	PROCESS_LINE: for ($line_left) {
+
+		($line_left eq "") && next READ_LINE;	# nothing left of this
+							# paragraph
+		$skip_till_endtag && $line_left =~ /$endtag/i && do {
+			   $line_left = $';
+			   &print_it ( "$`$endtag" );
+			   $skip_till_endtag = 0;
+			   $endtag = "";
+			   redo PROCESS_LINE;
+			};
+		$skip_till_endtag && do {  # endtag must be in next paragraph
+			   &print_it ( $line_left );
+			   next READ_LINE;
+			};
+		! $in_tag && $line_left =~ //  && do {
+			   $line_left = $';
+			   &print_it ( "$`>" );
+			   $in_tag = 0;
+			   redo PROCESS_LINE;
+			};
+		$in_tag   && do {	# ending ">" must be in next paragraph
+			   &print_it ( $line_left );
+			   next READ_LINE;
+			};
+		&hilite($line_left);  # default case: hilite rest of paragraph
+		next READ_LINE;
+	} # end line_left foreach
+    }
+    print $buffer_it if $buffer_it; # print out "leftover stuff" if any
+    close(FP);
+
+    print "\n
\n\n" if ($type eq 'text'); # end document for "text"
+    return;
+}
+
+open (STDERR,"> /dev/null");
+eval '&process_file';
+
diff --git a/find/search.cgi b/find/search.cgi
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e4ec0be4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/search.cgi
@@ -0,0 +1,349 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/perl
+#
+# Babylon 5 lurker's guide searching script.
+#
+# Config params
+#
+# Full path to the index search program
+$SWISHBIN   = "/opt/local/bin/swish";
+
+# Full path to where the index files are stored (no trailing slash)
+$swishdbdir = "/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/newlurk/find/indexes";
+
+# URL to the print-hit-bold script used to bold search results.
+# Note that a bunch of stuff is tacked onto this string, so no
+# trailing spaces or slashes, ok?
+$PRINTURL="http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/print-hit-bold";
+
+# These are for frobbing result urls on mirror sites - allows the mirror
+# to rip out bits of search result URLs and replace them with something else
+# (NB: these are Perl regexps, so mind your escaping of metachars like :
+
+# $PREFIX="http\://some.other.site/mirror/lurk/";
+# $REMOVE="http\://www.midwinter.com/lurk/";
+$REMOVE= "thiswillnevermatchanythign";
+
+# The directory where your swish binaries are residing
+# Full path name should be used.
+
+
+# Pulls in banner for search.
+$BANNER= `cat /home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/newlurk/find/prep-files/sbanner`;
+
+
+#
+# Maximum number of documents output
+#
+$maxout = 100;
+
+#
+# End Config Params
+#
+
+
+#
+# Get our parameters
+#
+$searchkey = $ENV{"QUERY_STRING"};
+$swishdb = $ENV{"PATH_INFO"};
+$server = $ENV{"SERVER_NAME"};
+$serverport = $ENV{"SERVER_PORT"};
+if ($serverport ne "80") {
+  $server .= ":" . $serverport;
+}
+$scriptname = $ENV{"SCRIPT_NAME"};
+$INFO{'GO'}="Internal error - no \"key\" field!";
+
+if ( $searchkey ) {
+	&form_at($searchkey, *INFO);
+    $searchkey= $INFO{'KEY'};
+
+    $printkey = $searchkey;
+    $printkey =~ s'<'<';
+    $printkey =~ s'>'>';
+}
+
+$INFO{"JMSANSWERS"} =1 if  $swishdb=~ /answers/;
+$INFO{'GUIDE'}      =1 if  $swishdb=~ /guide/;
+$INFO{'SYNOPS'}	    =1 if  $swishdb=~ /synops/;
+$INFO{'USENET'}     =1 if  $swishdb=~ /usenet/;
+$INFO{'GENIE'}      =1 if  $swishdb=~ /genie/;
+$INFO{'COMPUSERVE'} =1 if  $swishdb=~ /compuserve/;
+
+if ($INFO{'ALLJMS'}) {
+	$INFO{'JMSANSWERS'} =1;
+	$INFO{'USENET'} =1;
+	$INFO{'GENIE'} =1;
+	$INFO{'COMPUSERVE'} =1;
+}
+$swishdb = "";
+$swishdb.= "/answers"  	 if $INFO{"JMSANSWERS"};
+$swishdb.= "/guide"      if $INFO{"GUIDE"};
+$swishdb.= "/synops"     if $INFO{"SYNOPS"};
+$swishdb.= "/usenet"     if $INFO{"USENET"};
+$swishdb.= "/genie"      if $INFO{"GENIE"};
+$swishdb.= "/compuserve" if $INFO{"COMPUSERVE"};
+
+
+$myurl = "http://$server$scriptname$swishdb";
+
+#
+# Process request
+#
+if ( ! $searchkey ) {
+    &frontpage();
+} else {
+    &dosearch();
+}
+
+exit;
+
+sub form_at {
+	local($form, *data) = @_;
+	local($key);
+	$form =~ s/\r\n$//;
+	$form =~ s/\r$//;
+	$form =~ s/\n$//;
+	foreach(split(/&/, $form)) {
+		($key, $_) = split(/=/, $_, 2);
+		$_    =~ s/\+/ /g;				 # + -> space
+		$key  =~ s/\+/ /g;
+		$_    =~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2})/pack(C,hex($1))/eig;  # undo %nn
+		$key  =~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2})/pack(C,hex($1))/eig;  # escapes
+		$key  =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;				 # key in UPPER
+		$data{$key} = $_;
+	}
+}
+
+
+
+#
+# Return standard search form
+#
+sub frontpage {
+    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
+	
+    $JMSCHECKED 	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /answer/;
+    $GUIDECHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /guide/;
+    $SYNOPSCHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /synops/;
+    $USENETCHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /usenet/;
+    $GENIECHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /genie/;
+    $COMPUCHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /compuserve/;
+
+    print <
+Search the Lurker\'s Guide to Babylon 5
+
+
+
+$BANNER
+
Search the Lurker's Guide

+

+

+Enter words to search for: 
+
+

+Select areas to search:
+

+

+

+
All of the jms posting archives - or select individual archives below:
+
+

+

+
The jms answers file - collected highlights from jms postings put together by Dan Wood.
+

+
The Usenet postings archive
+

+
The GEnie messages archive
+

+
The CompuServe messages archive
+

+

+
The Episode Guide pages - fan written analysis of each episode
+

+ 
+
The Episode Synopses- detailed fan written summaries of each episode

+

+

+
Highlight keywords in documents?  
+ Yes
+ No
+
Search only titles and headlines?
+ Yes
+ No
+

+

+

+

+
Hints on searching

+

+You may combine search words with OR, AND and NOT.
+AND-expressions are evaluated before OR-expressions.  Words are
+ANDed togeth by default.  Hence sinclair duck is equivalent 
+to sinclair and duck.
+

+For instance the search expression londo AND g'kar OR delenn will
+find all documents containing both Londo and G'Kar, plus all
+documents containing Delenn.
+You may also write this as ( Londo AND g'kar ) OR Delenn.
+

+The search expression Londo OR Sheridan AND NOT G'Kar will find all\n";
+documents containing Sheridan and that does not contain G'Kar, plus all
+documents containing Londo.
+You may also write this as Londo OR ( Sheridan AND (NOT G'Kar) ).
+

+You can search for partial words by truncating them with *, for
+instance Vorl* will match all words beginning with Vorl.
+Note that this is also useful for getting plurals and posessives of
+words, so sinclair will not find sinclair's duck nor
+will it uncover the sinclairs have always been pilots. But 
+sinclair* will find both.
+
+
+EOM
+}
+
+#
+# Search and make a html doc of the results
+#
+sub dosearch {
+    # Remove the leading slash from pathinfo
+    $swishdb= substr($swishdb, 1);
+
+    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
+    print <
+Search for "$printkey" in the Lurker\'s Guide
+
+
+
+$BANNER
+
Search

+in  $swishdb
+

+You may search the selected databases with a new search expression.
+

+
Search for:
+ 
+

+Highlight keywords in documents?  
+ Yes
+ No
+

+Search only titles and headlines?
+ Yes
+ No
+

+

+

+
Search Results for \"$printkey\"

+EOM
+
+    if (! $swishdb) {
+	print "Sorry - you must select at least one database to search";
+	return;
+    }
+
+
+    push(@dblist, "-f");
+    foreach $db ( split(/\//, $swishdb ) ) {
+	push(@dblist, "$swishdbdir/$db.swish");
+    }
+
+    # Search only in title, headers and emphasized text.
+    push(@dblist, "-t", "the") if $INFO{'THE'};
+
+    push(@dblist, "-m");
+    push(@dblist, $maxout);
+
+    # The search itself
+    # opening the pipe this way prevents the args from being evaluated
+    # by the shell - the args can't be hacked as easily.
+    open(SWISHSEARCH, "-|") || 
+	exec($SWISHBIN, @dblist, "-w", $searchkey);
+    @docs = ;
+    close SWISHSEARCH;
+
+    # No docs found
+    if ( $#docs <= 0 ) {
+	print "
No documents found. Try repeat the search with a\n";
+	print "different search expression.
\n";
+    	print "\n\n";
+	return;
+    }
+
+    # Print results
+    print "
    \n";
+    foreach (@docs) {
+	/# Name: (.*)/ && ( $NAME= $1 );
+	/# Description: (.*)/ && ( print "
\n
$NAME
$1\n
    \n");
+	/^([0-9]+) (.+) \"([^\"]*)\" ([0-9]+)/ && (&print_url($1, $2, $3, $4));
+ 	/^err\:(.*)/ && ( print "
  •  $1
    \n");
+    }
+
+    print "
\n";
+}
+
+sub print_url {
+  local($SCORE, $URL, $NAME, $SIZE) = @_;
+  # URLify the searchkey
+  $searchkey=~s/\*//g;
+  $searchkey=~s/ /+/g;
+  if (($INFO{'BOLD'}) && (($URL =~ /$REMOVE/))) {
+	$URL=~s!$REMOVE!$PREFIX!;
+	print "
  •  $NAME
    \n";
+  } else {
+  	print "
  •  $NAME
    \n";
+  }
+  print "Score: $SCORE  Size: $SIZE\n";
+}
+
+
+#
+# Split a line with fieldnames and values into an associative array
+#
+sub get_fields {
+    local ( $inl, *outarr ) = @_;
+
+    @fields = split(/\|/, $inl);
+
+    foreach $f ( @fields ) {
+	$eq = index($f, "=");
+	$fname = substr($f, 0, $eq);
+	$fvalue = substr($f, $eq+1);
+	$fvalue =~ s/\/BAR_CODE\//\|/g;
+
+	$outarr{$fname} = $fvalue;
+    }
+}
+
+#
+# Unescape an URL
+#
+sub unescape {
+    local ($in) = @_;
+
+    # Any +'es -> space
+    $in =~ s/\+/ /g;
+
+    # Hex values
+    for ($start = 0; $start>=0;) {
+	$start = index($in, "%", $start);
+	if ( $start >= 0 ) {
+	    $ch = hex(substr($in, $start+1, 2));
+	    substr($in, $start, 3) = sprintf("%c", $ch);
+    	    $start++;
+	}
+    }
+
+    return $in;
+}	
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/CHANGES b/find/swish/swish.11/CHANGES
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fa7b44a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/CHANGES
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+Version Changes for SWISH
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+For more information, please see
+
+	http://www.eit.com/software/swish/changes.html
+
+	...or the HTML documentation that comes with this distribution.
+
+1.1.1 3/13/95
+	This is what I get for not beta testing...
+	Fixed bad merge bug, small tweaks.
+
+1.1 3/11/95
+	Added Makefile, maxhits fix, multiple dirs, title parse memory
+	bug fix, multiple files, running time, better offsets (faster
+	searching!), fixed string matching, multiple IndexDirs in conf file,
+	better suffix matching, FollowSymLinks, special decode flag, no
+	zero ranks, empty index fix, spaces in titles, IgnoreWords,
+	FileRules, directory contains, IgnoreLevel, IndexReport, simple
+	wildcarding, real parsing!, low memory index merging!, default
+	stopwords (SwishDefault), search multiple indices, wordchars,
+	converts entities, conf.h and word parameters, emphasis tweak,
+	multiple conf files, index name, description, pointer, admin.
+
+1.0 11/4/94
+	Thanks to Alan Schiffman and Eric Rescorla for bit-fiddling stuff...
+
+To Do
+~~~~~
+
+There still seem to be some problems with merging more than two
+	large files at once...
+It would be simple to add in a substring search, like *this*
+	with a fast strstr, but I didn't have time...
+The parser needs to be a bit more robust...
+Multiple custom field search.
+SWISH needs a man page.
+The distribution could use a sample gateway program.
+I need to double-check if multiple FileRules in multiple config files
+	overwrite. They shouldn't...
+Temp file cleanup could be better.
+Could check for overwriting existing files.
+I should make more command-line options override the config file!
+Proximity, stemming, soundex.
+File filtering.
+Implement a memory limit option; SWISH then saves to disk every once
+	in a while during indexing...
+Run SWISH as a server?
+
+Thanks!
+~~~~~~~
+
+Thanks to all who have contributed patches and suggestions! You know
+who you are...
+
+...this includes Tom Cozzolino, Kevin Altis, Colin Jitlal, Dave Heiland,
+Michael Pellmann, Scott Finnerty, Michael Ernst, Stefan Goebel,
+John Franks, Cristiano Gentili, Devin Hooker, Dan Anderson,
+Dave Disser, Bryan Beske, Rick Beach, Sami K|ykk, Scott Anguish,
+Rich Brandwein, Juergen Lind, Lincoln Stein, Robert Zacharias,
+and Marcel van der Peijl. Whew.
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/LICENSE b/find/swish/swish.11/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7d9e8d6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+Copyright 1994 Enterprise Integration Technologies Corporation
+
+Enterprise Integration Technologies Corporation (EIT) grants to the
+possessor of this copy (the Licensee) a royalty-free, nonexclusive
+license to use, copy, modify and distribute both the binary and source
+code of SWISH and any related documentation (the Software) for
+academic, research and internal business purposes only and subject
+to the following conditions:
+
+1. By using or copying the Software, Licensee agree to abide by
+the terms of this Agreement.
+
+2. Title and copyright to the Software remain with EIT and
+Licensee agrees to preserve the same.
+
+3. Licensee acknowledges that the Software is still in the development
+stage and that it is being supplied "as is", without any
+accompanying services from EIT. EIT MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
+WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. By way of example, but not
+limitation, EIT MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE
+THE SOFTWARE WILL NOT INFRINGE ON ANY PATENTS OR OTHER RIGHTS. EIT
+shall not be held liable for any liability nor for any direct,
+indirect or consequential damages with respect to any claim by
+Licensee or any third party with respect to this Agreement or any use
+of the Software.
+
+4. Licensee may distribute the Software or any derivative work based
+on the the Software to third parties provided (1) all copyright
+notices and this Agreement appear on all copies, and (2) no charge is
+associated with such copies. Unless Licensee labels the derivative
+work with the notice "No Grantback", Licensee agrees to grant EIT a
+royalty-free nonexclusive license to use, copy, modify and distribute
+any modifications to the Software owned by Licensee and distributed to
+third parties as a derivative work under this Agreement.
+
+5. If Licensee distributes a derivative work, then Licensee also
+agrees to (1) notify EIT of the distribution, and (2) clearly notify
+users that such derivative work is a modified version and not the
+original EIT Software.
+
+6. Any Licensee wishing to make commercial use of the Software should
+contact EIT to negotiate an appropriate license. Commercial use
+includes (1) integration of all or part of the source code into a
+product for sale or license by or on behalf of Licensee to third
+parties, or (2) distribution of the binary or source code to third
+parties that need it to utilize a commercial product sold or licensed
+by or on behalf of Licensee.
+
+7. Licensee agrees to abide by all applicable laws of the United
+States, including, but not limited to, copyright and export control
+laws.
+
+8. EIT has the right to terminate this license immediately by written
+notice upon Licensee's breach of, or non-compliance with any of its
+terms. Licensee may be held legally responsible for any copyright
+infringement that is caused or encouraged by licensee's failure to
+abide by the terms of this license.
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/Makefile b/find/swish/swish.11/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cd900019
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Makefile for SWISH
+# Kevin Hughes, 3/11/95
+
+all:
+	cd src; make
+	cd src; mv swish ..
+
+clean:
+	rm -f ./swish ./index.swish
+	cd src; make clean
+
+test:
+	./swish -i test.html -v -f index.swish
+	./swish -f index.swish -w test
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/README b/find/swish/swish.11/README
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..86a3fa07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/README
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+README for SWISH
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+	Thanks for grabbing SWISH! To compile this for your
+system:
+
+	1) Go to the src directory and edit the default
+           variables in "config.h" to your liking.
+	2) Go back to this directory and type "make".
+	3) Type "make test" for a simple indexing test.
+           The file "test.html" in this directory will be
+           indexed and searched. If it works, you'll see a
+           message reporting success.
+
+	Here's what else is included in this package:
+
+	* In the doc directory, there is the SWISH icon
+	  and the HTML documentation.
+	* In this top directory, you'll find:
+
+	  sample.swish - a sample index to play around with
+	  swish.conf - a sample SWISH configuration file
+
+The latest, most up-to-date SWISH documentation can be found at:
+
+	http://www.eit.com/software/swish/
+
+	This code has compiled successfully with cc and appears
+to execute without problems on these systems:
+
+	* SunOS 4.1.3
+	* Solaris 2.4
+	* IRIX 5.2
+	* IRIX 5.3
+	* OSF/1 2.0
+	* BSDI 1.1
+
+	...and is not guaranteed to compile under other environments.
+If you have been able to compile SWISH on different systems, please
+let me know. You can send all bug reports, feature requests, patches,
+and other program-related things to me as well.
+	Please note the LICENSE file that comes with this package. If you
+have licensing questions, please email Jay Weber at weber@eit.com.
+	Enjoy!
+
+	-- Kevin Hughes
+           kevinh@eit.com
+           3/11/94
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/sample.swish b/find/swish/swish.11/sample.swish
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f5a99265
Binary files /dev/null and b/find/swish/swish.11/sample.swish differ
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/Makefile b/find/swish/swish.11/src/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..32779b2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+# Makefile for SWISH
+# Kevin Hughes, 3/12/95
+
+CC= gcc
+
+CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe
+
+LIBS=	-lm
+
+OBJS=	check.o file.o index.o search.o error.o \
+	hash.o list.o mem.o string.o merge.o swish.o
+
+.c.o:
+	$(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $<
+
+all:	swish
+
+swish:	$(OBJS)
+	$(CC) -o swish $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
+	chmod 755 swish
+	strip swish
+
+quant:
+#	make clean
+	make CFLAGS="-g" $(OBJS)
+	make quant-link
+
+quant-link:
+	quantify $(CC) -o swish -g $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
+
+pure:
+#	make clean
+	make CFLAGS="-g" $(OBJS)
+	make pure-link
+
+pure-link:
+	purify $(CC) -o swish -g $(CFLAGS) $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
+
+$(OBJS):	Makefile config.h swish.h
+
+clean:
+	rm -f ./swish *.o .pure swish.pure* *qx *qv ./index.swish
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/check.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/check.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..35ec722e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/check.c
@@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "check.h"
+
+/* Check if a file with a particular suffix should be indexed
+** according to the settings in the configuration file.
+*/
+
+int isoksuffix(filename, rulelist)
+     char *filename;
+     struct swline *rulelist;
+{
+	int badfile;
+	char *c, suffix[MAXSUFFIXLEN], checksuffix[MAXSUFFIXLEN];
+	struct swline *tmplist;
+
+	tmplist = rulelist;
+        if (tmplist == NULL)
+                return 1;
+	if ((c = (char *) strrchr(filename, '.')) == NULL)
+		return 0;
+
+	badfile = 1;
+	strcpy(checksuffix, c + 1);
+        while (tmplist != NULL) {
+		if ((c = (char *) strrchr(tmplist->line, '.')) == NULL)
+			strcpy(suffix, tmplist->line);
+		else
+			strcpy(suffix, c + 1);
+                if (lstrstr(suffix, checksuffix) && strlen(suffix) ==
+		strlen(checksuffix))
+                        badfile = 0;
+                tmplist = tmplist->next;
+        }
+	return !(badfile);
+}
+
+/* Check if a particular title should be ignored
+** according to the settings in the configuration file.
+*/
+
+int isoktitle(title)
+     char *title;
+{
+        int badfile;
+        struct swline *tmplist;
+
+        badfile = 0;
+        tmplist = titconlist;
+        while (tmplist != NULL) {
+                if (lstrstr(title, tmplist->line)) {
+                        badfile = 1;
+                        break;
+                }
+                tmplist = tmplist->next;
+        }
+        if (badfile)
+                return 0;
+        else
+                return 1;
+}
+
+/* Should a word be indexed? Consults the stopword hash list
+** and checks if the word is of a reasonable length...
+** If you have any good rules that can work with most languages,
+** please let me know...
+*/
+
+int isokword(word)
+      char *word;
+{
+        int i, same, hasnumber, hasvowel, hascons,
+		numberrow, vowelrow, consrow;
+	char lastchar;
+
+	if (word[0] == '\0')
+		return 0;
+
+        if (isstopword(word))
+                return 0;
+        if (strlen(word) < MINWORDLIMIT || strlen(word) > MAXWORDLIMIT)
+                return 0;
+
+	lastchar = ':';
+	same = 0;
+	hasnumber = hasvowel = hascons = 0;
+	numberrow = vowelrow = consrow = 0;
+	for (i = 0; word[i] != '\0'; i++) {
+		if (word[i] == lastchar) {
+			same++;
+			if (same > IGNORESAME)
+				return 0;
+		}
+		else
+			same = 0;
+		if (isdigit(word[i])) {
+			hasnumber = 1;
+			numberrow++;
+			if (numberrow > IGNOREROWN)
+				return 0;
+			vowelrow = 0;
+			consrow = 0;
+		}
+		else if (isvowel(word[i])) {
+			hasvowel = 1;
+			vowelrow++;
+			if (vowelrow > IGNOREROWV)
+				return 0;
+			numberrow = 0;
+			consrow = 0;
+		}
+		else if (!ispunct(word[i])) {
+			hascons = 1;
+			consrow++;
+			if (consrow > IGNOREROWC)
+				return 0;
+			numberrow = 0;
+			vowelrow = 0;
+		}
+		lastchar = word[i];
+	}
+
+	if (IGNOREALLV)
+		if (hasvowel && !hascons)
+			return 0;
+	if (IGNOREALLC)
+		if (hascons && !hasvowel)
+			return 0;
+	if (IGNOREALLN)
+		if (hasnumber && !hasvowel && !hascons)
+			return 0;
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+/* Does a word have valid characters?
+*/
+
+int hasokchars(word)
+     char *word;
+{
+	int i, j;
+	char c;
+
+	c = word[strlen(word) - 1];
+	for (i = j = 0; BEGINCHARS[i] != '\0'; i++)
+		if (word[0] == BEGINCHARS[i])
+			j++;
+	if (!j)
+		return 0;
+	for (i = j = 0; ENDCHARS[i] != '\0'; i++)
+		if (c == ENDCHARS[i])
+			j++;
+	if (!j)
+		return 0;
+	for (i = 0; word[i] != '\0'; i++)
+		for (j = 0; WORDCHARS[j] != '\0'; j++)
+			if (word[i] == WORDCHARS[j])
+				return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* Is a letter a vowel?
+*/
+
+int isvowel(c)
+     char c;
+{
+	if (c == 'a' || c == 'e' || c == 'i' || c == 'o' || c == 'u')
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* This checks is a filename has one of the following suffixes:
+** "htm", "HTM", "html", "HTML", "shtml", "SHTML".
+*/
+
+int ishtml(filename)
+     char *filename;
+{
+	char *c, suffix[MAXSUFFIXLEN];
+
+	c = (char *) strrchr(filename, '.');
+
+	if (c == NULL)
+		return 0;
+	strcpy(suffix, c + 1);
+	if (suffix[0] == '\0')
+		return 0;
+
+	if (!strncmp(suffix, "htm", 3))
+		return 1;
+	else if (!strncmp(suffix, "HTM", 3))
+		return 1;
+	else if (!strncmp(suffix, "shtml", 5))
+		return 1;
+	else if (!strncmp(suffix, "SHTML", 5))
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/check.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/check.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..485b60a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/check.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+int isoksuffix();
+int isoktitle();
+int isokword();
+int isvowel();
+int hasokchars();
+int ishtml();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/config.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/config.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..93ef267b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/config.h
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+/*
+** SWISH Default Configuration File
+**
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+**
+** The following are user-definable options that you can change
+** to fine-tune SWISH's default options.
+*/
+
+/* #define NEXTSTEP */
+
+/* You may need to define this if compiling on a NeXTstep machine.
+*/
+
+#define INDEXPERMS 0644
+
+/* After SWISH generates an index file, it changes the permissions
+** of the file to this mode. Change to the mode you like
+** (note that it must be an octal number). If you don't want
+** permissions to be changed for you, comment out this line.
+*/
+
+#define PLIMIT 80
+#define FLIMIT 256
+
+/* SWISH uses these parameters to automatically mark words as
+** being too common while indexing. For instance, if I defined PLIMIT
+** as 80 and FLIMIT as 256, SWISH would define a common word as
+** a word that occurs in over 80% of all indexed files and over
+** 256 files. Making these numbers lower will most likely make your
+** index files smaller. Making PLIMIT and FLIMIT small will also
+** ensure that searching consumes only so much CPU resources.
+*/
+
+#define VERBOSE 0
+
+/* You can define VERBOSE to be a number from 0 to 3. 0 is totally
+** silent operation; 3 is very verbose.
+*/
+
+#define MAXHITS 40
+
+/* MAXHITS is the maximum number of results to return from a search.
+*/
+
+#define DEFAULT_RULE AND_RULE
+
+/* If a list of search words is specified without booleans,
+** SWISH will assume they are connected by a default rule.
+** This can be AND_RULE or OR_RULE.
+*/
+
+#define TITLETOPLINES 12
+
+/* This is how many lines deep SWISH will look into an HTML file to
+** attempt to find a  tag.
+*/
+
+#define EMPHASIZECOMMENTS 0
+
+/* Normally, words within HTML comments are not assigned a higher
+** relevance rank. If you're including keywords in comments
+** define this as 1 so matching results will rise to the top
+** of search results.
+*/
+
+#define MINWORDLIMIT 3
+
+/* This is the minimum length of a word. Anything shorter will not
+** be indexed.
+*/
+
+#define MAXWORDLIMIT 30
+
+/* This is the maximum length of a word. Anything longer will not
+** be indexed.
+*/
+
+#define ASCIIENTITIES 1
+
+/* If defined as 1, all entities in search words and indexed
+** words will be converted to an ASCII equivalent. For instance,
+** with this feature you can index the word "resumé" or
+** "resumé" and it will be indexed as the word "resume".
+** If defined as 0, only numerical entities will be converted
+** to named entities, if they exist.
+*/
+
+#define IGNOREALLV 1
+#define IGNOREALLC 1
+#define IGNOREALLN 1
+
+/* If IGNOREALLV is 1, words containing all vowels won't be indexed.
+** If IGNOREALLC is 1, words containing all consonants won't be indexed.
+** If IGNOREALLN is 1, words containing all digits won't be indexed.
+** Define as 0 to allow words with consistent characters.
+** Vowels are defined as "aeiou", digits are "0123456789".
+*/
+
+#define IGNOREROWV 4
+#define IGNOREROWC 5
+#define IGNOREROWN 4
+
+/* IGNOREROWV is the maximum number of consecutive vowels a word can have.
+** IGNOREROWC is the maximum number of consecutive consonants a word can have.
+** IGNOREROWN is the maximum number of consecutive digits a word can have.
+** Vowels are defined as "aeiou", digits are "0123456789".
+*/
+
+#define IGNORESAME 3
+
+/* IGNORESAME is the maximum times a character can repeat in a word.
+*/
+
+#define WORDCHARS "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&#;0123456789'-_"
+
+/* ADDED: ' for G'Kar etc, - and _ for filenames */
+
+/* WORDCHARS is a string of characters which SWISH permits to
+** be in words. Any strings which do not include these characters
+** will not be indexed. You can choose from any character in
+** the following string:
+**
+** abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&#;0123456789_\|/-+=?!@$%^'\"`~,.[]{}()
+**
+** Note that if you omit "0123456789&#;" you will not be able to
+** index HTML entities. DO NOT use the asterisk (*), lesser than
+** and greater than signs (<), (>), or colon (:).
+**
+** Including any of these four characters may cause funny things to happen.
+** If you have a pressing need to index 8-bit characters, please contact
+** me for possible user testing in the future.
+**
+** Also note that if you specify the backslash character (\) or
+** double quote (") you need to type a backslash before them to
+** make the compiler understand them.
+*/
+
+#define BEGINCHARS "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&"
+
+/* Of the characters that you decide can go into words, this is
+** a list of characters that words can begin with. It should be
+** a subset of (or equal to) WORDCHARS.
+*/
+
+#define ENDCHARS "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz;"
+
+/* This is the same as BEGINCHARS, except you're testing for
+** valid characters at the ends of words.
+*/
+
+/* Note that if you really want to edit the default stopwords, (words
+** that are deemed too common to be indexed) then you can do so in the
+** file "swish.h". They don't have to be in alphabetical order.
+*/
+
+#define INDEXTAGS 0
+
+/* Normally, all data in tags in HTML files (except for words in
+** comments) is ignored. If you want to index HTML files with the
+** text within tags and all, define this to be 1 and not 0.
+*/
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/error.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/error.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bf7058a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/error.c
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "error.h"
+
+/* Whoops, something bad happened...
+*/
+
+void progerr(errstring)
+     char *errstring;
+{
+        fprintf(stderr, "swish: %s\n", errstring);
+        exit(-1);
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/error.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/error.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d03f75c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/error.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+void progerr();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/file.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/file.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0237afdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/file.c
@@ -0,0 +1,309 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "file.h"
+
+/* Is a file a directory?
+*/
+
+int isdirectory(path)
+     char *path;
+{
+        struct stat stbuf;
+
+        if (stat(path, &stbuf))
+                return 0;
+        return ((stbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR) ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
+/* Is a file a regular file?
+*/
+
+int isfile(path)
+     char *path;
+{
+        struct stat stbuf;
+
+        if (stat(path, &stbuf))
+                return 0;
+        return ((stbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFREG) ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
+/* Is a file a link?
+*/
+
+int islink(path)
+char *path;
+{
+        struct stat stbuf;
+
+        if (lstat(path, &stbuf))
+                return 0;
+        return ((stbuf.st_mode & S_IFLNK) == S_IFLNK) ? 1 : 0;
+}
+
+/* Get the size, in bytes, of a file.
+** Return -1 if there's a problem.
+*/
+
+int getsize(path)
+     char *path;
+{
+        struct stat stbuf;
+
+        if (stat(path, &stbuf))
+                return -1;
+        return stbuf.st_size;
+}
+
+/* Reads the configuration file and puts all the right options
+** in the right variables and structures.
+*/
+
+void getdefaults(conffile, hasdir, hasindex, plimit, flimit, hasverbose)
+     char *conffile;
+     int *hasdir;
+     int *hasindex;
+     int *plimit;
+     int *flimit;
+     int hasverbose;
+{
+        int skiplen, gotdir, gotindex;
+        char *c, line[MAXSTRLEN], value[MAXSTRLEN];
+        FILE *fp;
+
+	gotdir = gotindex = 0;
+
+        if ((fp = fopen(conffile, "r")) == NULL) {
+		sprintf(errorstr,
+		"Couldn't open the configuration file \"%s\".", conffile);
+                progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+        while (fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp) != NULL) {
+                if (line[0] == '#' || line[0] == '\n')
+                        continue;
+                if (c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "IndexDir")) {
+                        c += strlen("IndexDir");
+                        while (!*hasdir) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        dirlist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(dirlist, value);
+					gotdir = 1;
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "IndexFile")) {
+                        c += strlen("IndexFile");
+                        while (!*hasindex) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        indexlist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(indexlist, value);
+					gotindex = 1;
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+/* IndexVerbose is supported for backwards compatibility */
+		else if (c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "IndexVerbose")) {
+                        c += strlen("IndexVerbose");
+                        strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+			verbose = (lstrstr(value, "yes")) ? 3 : 0;
+		}
+		else if (c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "IndexReport")) {
+                        c += strlen("IndexReport");
+                        strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                        if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' || value[0] == '\n')
+                                continue;
+                        else {
+                                c += skiplen;
+				if (!hasverbose)
+					verbose = atoi(value);
+                        }
+		}
+                else if (c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "IndexOnly")) {
+                        c += strlen("IndexOnly");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        suffixlist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(suffixlist, value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "NoContents")) {
+                        c += strlen("NoContents");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        nocontentslist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(nocontentslist, value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if ((c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "pathname contains")) &&
+		(char *) lstrstr(line, "FileRules")) {
+                        c += strlen("pathname contains");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        pathconlist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(pathconlist, value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if ((c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "directory contains")) &&
+		(char *) lstrstr(line, "FileRules")) {
+                        c += strlen("directory contains");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        dirconlist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(dirconlist, value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if ((c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "filename contains")) &&
+		(char *) lstrstr(line, "FileRules")) {
+                        c += strlen("filename contains");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        fileconlist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(fileconlist, value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if ((c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "title contains")) &&
+		(char *) lstrstr(line, "FileRules")) {
+                        c += strlen("title contains");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        titconlist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(titconlist, value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if ((c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "filename is")) &&
+		(char *) lstrstr(line, "FileRules")) {
+                        c += strlen("filename is");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        fileislist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(fileislist, value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "IgnoreWords")) {
+                        c += strlen("IgnoreWords");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+					if (lstrstr(value, "SwishDefault"))
+						readdefaultstopwords();
+					else
+						addstophash(value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if ((c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "IgnoreLimit"))) {
+                        c += strlen("IgnoreLimit");
+                        strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                        if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' || value[0] == '\n')
+                                continue;
+                        else {
+                                c += skiplen;
+				*plimit = atoi(value);
+                        }
+                        strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                        if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' || value[0] == '\n')
+                                continue;
+                        else {
+                                c += skiplen;
+				*flimit = atoi(value);
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c = (char *) lstrstr(line, "ReplaceRules")) {
+                        c += strlen("ReplaceRules");
+                        while (1) {
+                                strcpy(value, (char *) getword(c, &skiplen));
+                                if (!skiplen | value[0] == '\0' ||
+                                value[0] == '\n')
+                                        break;
+                                else {
+                                        c += skiplen;
+                                        replacelist = (struct swline *)
+                                        addswline(replacelist, value);
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+                else if ((char *) getconfvalue(line, "FollowSymLinks",
+		value) != NULL)
+                        followsymlinks = (lstrstr(value, "yes")) ? 1 : 0;
+                else if ((char *) getconfvalue(line, "IndexName",
+		value) != NULL)
+                        strcpy(indexn, value);
+                else if ((char *) getconfvalue(line, "IndexDescription",
+		value) != NULL)
+                        strcpy(indexd, value);
+                else if ((char *) getconfvalue(line, "IndexPointer",
+		value) != NULL)
+                        strcpy(indexp, value);
+                else if ((char *) getconfvalue(line, "IndexAdmin",
+		value) != NULL)
+                        strcpy(indexa, value);
+        }
+        fclose(fp);
+
+	if (gotdir && !(*hasdir))
+		*hasdir = 1;
+	if (gotindex && !(*hasindex))
+		*hasindex = 1;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/file.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/file.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ebcd083d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/file.h
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+int isdirectory();
+int isfile();
+int islink();
+int getsize();
+void getdefaults();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/hash.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/hash.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b159217f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/hash.c
@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "hash.h"
+
+/* Hashes a string.
+*/
+
+unsigned hash(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+
+        for (hashval = 0; *s != '\0'; s++)
+                hashval = *s + 31 * hashval;
+        return hashval % HASHSIZE;
+}
+
+/* Hashes a string for a larger hash table.
+*/
+
+unsigned bighash(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+
+        for (hashval = 0; *s != '\0'; s++)
+                hashval = *s + 31 * hashval;
+        return hashval % BIGHASHSIZE;
+}
+
+/* Reads the internal list of default stopwords.
+*/
+
+void readdefaultstopwords()
+{
+        int i;
+
+        for (i = 0; defaultstopwords[i] != NULL; i++)
+                addstophash(defaultstopwords[i]);
+}
+
+/* Adds a stop word to a hash table.
+*/
+
+void addstophash(word)
+     char *word;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+        struct swline *sp;
+
+	if (isstopword(word))
+		return;
+
+        sp = (struct swline *) emalloc(sizeof(struct swline));
+        sp->line = (char *) mystrdup(word);
+
+        hashval = hash(word);
+        sp->next = hashstoplist[hashval];
+        hashstoplist[hashval] = sp;
+}
+
+/* Sees if a word is a stop word by looking it up in the hash table.
+*/
+
+int isstopword(word)
+     char *word;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+        struct swline *sp;
+
+        hashval = hash(word);
+        sp = hashstoplist[hashval];
+
+        while (sp != NULL) {
+                if (!strcmp(sp->line, word))
+                        return 1;
+                sp = sp->next;
+        }
+        return 0;
+}
+
+/* Adds a file number and its associated file location
+** to a hash table.
+*/
+
+void addtofilehashlist(fileshort, filelong)
+     int fileshort;
+     long filelong;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+        struct filenum *fp;
+        char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        fp = (struct filenum *) emalloc(sizeof(struct filenum));
+        fp->fileshort = fileshort;
+        fp->filelong = filelong;
+
+        sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", fileshort);
+        hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+        fp->next = filehashlist[hashval];
+        filehashlist[hashval] = fp;
+}
+
+/* Looks up a file number in the hash table and
+** returns the file position of the associated file info.
+*/
+
+long getfilenum(filenum)
+     int filenum;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+        struct filenum *fp;
+        char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", filenum);
+        hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+        fp = filehashlist[hashval];
+
+        while (fp != NULL) {
+                if (fp->fileshort == filenum)
+                        return fp->filelong;
+                fp = fp->next;
+        }
+        return 0;
+}
+
+/* Adds a file number and the number of indexed words
+** to a hash table.
+*/
+
+void addtofwordtotals(filenum, ftotalwords)
+     int filenum;
+     int ftotalwords;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+        struct fwordtotal *fp;
+        char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        fp = (struct fwordtotal *) emalloc(sizeof(struct fwordtotal));
+        fp->filenum = filenum;
+        fp->totalwords = ftotalwords;
+        fp->next = NULL;
+
+        sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", filenum);
+        hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+        fp->next = fwordtotals[hashval];
+        fwordtotals[hashval] = fp;
+}
+
+/* Looks up a file number in the hash table and
+** returns the total number of words indexed in it.
+*/
+
+int gettotalwords(filenum)
+     int filenum;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+        struct fwordtotal *fp;
+        char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", filenum);
+        hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+        fp = fwordtotals[hashval];
+
+        while (fp != NULL) {
+                if (fp->filenum == filenum)
+                        return fp->totalwords;
+                fp = fp->next;
+        }
+        return 0;
+}
+
+/* Adds a file number to a hash table of results.
+** If the entry's alrady there, add the ranks,
+** else make a new entry.
+*/
+
+void mergeresulthashlist(filenum, rank, structure)
+     int filenum;
+     int rank;
+     int structure;
+{
+        unsigned hashval;
+        struct result *rp, *newrp;
+        char word[MAXWORDLEN];
+
+        sprintf(word, "%d", filenum);
+	hashval = hash(word);
+
+	rp = resulthashlist[hashval];
+	while (rp != NULL) {
+		if (rp->filenum == filenum) {
+			rp->rank += rank;
+			rp->structure |= structure;
+			return;
+		}
+		rp = rp->next;
+	}
+	
+        newrp = (struct result *) emalloc(sizeof(struct result));
+        newrp->filenum = filenum;
+        newrp->rank = rank;
+	newrp->structure = structure;
+        newrp->next = resulthashlist[hashval];
+        resulthashlist[hashval] = newrp;
+}
+
+/* Initializes the result hash list.
+*/
+
+void initresulthashlist()
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < HASHSIZE; i++)
+		resulthashlist[i] = NULL;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/hash.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/hash.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a8a1bde1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/hash.h
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+unsigned hash();
+unsigned bighash();
+void readdefaultstopwords();
+void addstophash();
+int isstopword();
+void addtofilehashlist();
+long getfilenum();
+void addtofwordtotals();
+int gettotalwords();
+void mergeresulthashlist();
+void initresulthashlist();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/index.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/index.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e4461f55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/index.c
@@ -0,0 +1,1008 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "index.h"
+
+/* Recursively goes into a directory and calls the word-indexing
+** functions for each file that's found.
+*/
+
+void indexadir(dir)
+     char *dir;
+{
+        int badfile;
+        DIR *dfd;
+#ifdef NEXTSTEP
+        struct direct *dp;
+#else
+        struct dirent *dp;
+#endif
+	static char s[MAXFILELEN], title[MAXSTRLEN];
+        struct sortentry *sortfilelist, *sortdirlist;
+        struct swline *tmplist;
+
+        sortfilelist = sortdirlist = NULL;
+
+	if (islink(dir) && !followsymlinks)
+		return;
+
+        if (dir[strlen(dir) - 1] == '/')
+                dir[strlen(dir) - 1] = '\0';
+
+        if ((dfd = opendir(dir)) == NULL)
+                return;
+
+        while ((dp = readdir(dfd)) != NULL && dirconlist != NULL) {
+                badfile = 0;
+                tmplist = dirconlist;
+                while (tmplist != NULL) {
+                        if (lstrstr(dp->d_name, tmplist->line)) {
+                                badfile = 1;
+                                break;
+                        }
+                        tmplist = tmplist->next;
+                }
+                if (badfile)
+                        return;
+	}
+	closedir(dfd);
+	dfd = opendir(dir);
+
+        while ((dp = readdir(dfd)) != NULL) {
+
+                if ((dp->d_name)[0] == '.')
+                        continue;
+		if (islink(dp->d_name) && !followsymlinks)
+			continue;
+
+                badfile = 0;
+                tmplist = fileislist;
+                while (tmplist != NULL) {
+                        if (!strcmp(dp->d_name, tmplist->line)) {
+                                badfile = 1;
+                                break;
+                        }
+                        tmplist = tmplist->next;
+                }
+                if (badfile)
+                        continue;
+
+                badfile = 0;
+                tmplist = fileconlist;
+                while (tmplist != NULL) {
+                        if (lstrstr(dp->d_name, tmplist->line)) {
+                                badfile = 1;
+                                break;
+                        }
+                        tmplist = tmplist->next;
+                }
+                if (badfile)
+                        continue;
+
+                sprintf(s, "%s%s%s", dir, dir[strlen(dir) - 1] == '/' ?
+                "" : "/", dp->d_name);
+		if (islink(s) && !followsymlinks)
+			continue;
+
+                badfile = 0;
+                tmplist = pathconlist;
+                while (tmplist != NULL) {
+                        if (lstrstr(s, tmplist->line)) {
+                                badfile = 1;
+                                break;
+                        }
+                        tmplist = tmplist->next;
+                }
+                if (badfile)
+                        continue;
+
+                if (!isdirectory(s)) {
+
+			if (!isoksuffix(dp->d_name, suffixlist))
+				continue;
+
+                        if (ishtml(s)) {
+                                strcpy(title, (char *) parsetitle(s));
+                                if (!isoktitle(title))
+                                        continue;
+                        }
+                        else {
+                                if (strrchr(s, '/') != NULL)
+                                        strcpy(title, strrchr(s, '/') + 1);
+                                else
+                                        strcpy(title, s);
+                        }
+                        sortfilelist = (struct sortentry *)
+                        addsortentry(sortfilelist, s, title);
+                }
+                else {
+                        sortdirlist = (struct sortentry *)
+                        addsortentry(sortdirlist, s, s);
+                }
+        }
+
+        closedir(dfd);
+
+        printfiles(sortfilelist);
+        printdirs(sortdirlist);
+}
+
+/* Calls the word-indexing function for a single file.
+*/
+
+void indexafile(path)
+     char *path;
+{
+        int badfile;
+        char *t, title[MAXSTRLEN];
+        struct sortentry *fileentry;
+        struct swline *tmplist;
+
+	if (islink(path) && !followsymlinks)
+		return;
+
+        if (path[strlen(path) - 1] == '/')
+                path[strlen(path) - 1] = '\0';
+
+        badfile = 0;
+        tmplist = fileislist;
+        while (tmplist != NULL) {
+                if (!strcmp(path, tmplist->line)) {
+                        badfile = 1;
+                        break;
+                }
+                tmplist = tmplist->next;
+        }
+        if (badfile)
+                return;
+
+        badfile = 0;
+        tmplist = fileconlist;
+        while (tmplist != NULL) {
+                if (lstrstr(path, tmplist->line)) {
+                        badfile = 1;
+                        break;
+                }
+                tmplist = tmplist->next;
+        }
+        if (badfile)
+                return;
+
+        badfile = 0;
+        tmplist = pathconlist;
+        while (tmplist != NULL) {
+                if (lstrstr(path, tmplist->line)) {
+                        badfile = 1;
+                        break;
+                }
+                tmplist = tmplist->next;
+        }
+        if (badfile)
+                return;
+
+	if (!isoksuffix(path, suffixlist))
+		return;
+
+        if (ishtml(path)) {
+                strcpy(title, (char *) parsetitle(path));
+                if (!isoktitle(title))
+                        return;
+        }
+        else {
+                if ((t = strrchr(path, '/')) != NULL)
+                        strcpy(title, t + 1);
+                else
+                        strcpy(title, path);
+        }
+
+        fileentry = (struct sortentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct sortentry));
+        fileentry->filename = (char *) mystrdup(path);
+        fileentry->title = (char *) mystrdup(title);
+        fileentry->left = fileentry->right = NULL;
+
+        printfiles(fileentry);
+}
+
+/* Indexes the words in the tree of files in alphabetical order.
+*/
+
+void printfiles(e)
+     struct sortentry *e;
+{
+        int wordcount;
+	char *s;
+
+        if (e != NULL) {
+                printfiles(e->left);
+                if (verbose == 3) {
+			if ((s = (char *) strrchr(e->filename, '/')) == NULL)
+                        	printf("  %s", e->filename);
+			else
+                        	printf("  %s", s + 1);
+		}
+                wordcount = countwords(e->filename, e->title);
+                if (verbose == 3) {
+                        if (wordcount)
+                                printf(" (%d words)\n", wordcount);
+                        else
+                                printf(" (no words)\n");
+                        fflush(stdout);
+                }
+		free(e->filename);
+		free(e->title);
+                printfiles(e->right);
+		free(e);
+        }
+}
+
+/* Prints out the directory names as things are getting indexed.
+** Calls indexadir() so directories in the tree are indexed,
+** in alphabetical order...
+*/
+
+void printdirs(e)
+     struct sortentry *e;
+{
+        if (e != NULL) {
+                printdirs(e->left);
+                if (verbose == 3)
+                        printf("\nIn dir \"%s\":\n", e->filename);
+                else if (verbose == 2)
+                        printf("Checking dir \"%s\"...\n", e->filename);
+                indexadir(e->filename);
+		free(e->filename);
+		free(e->title);
+                printdirs(e->right);
+		free(e);
+        }
+}
+
+/* Stores file names in alphabetical order so they can be
+** indexed alphabetically. No big whoop.
+*/
+
+struct sortentry *addsortentry(e, filename, title)
+     struct sortentry *e;
+     char *filename;
+     char *title;
+{
+        if (e == NULL) {
+                e = (struct sortentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct sortentry));
+                e->filename = (char *) mystrdup(filename);
+                e->title = (char *) mystrdup(title);
+                e->left = e->right = NULL;
+        }
+        else {
+                if (strcmp(e->filename, filename) > 0)
+                        e->left = (struct sortentry *)
+                        addsortentry(e->left, filename, title);
+                else
+                        e->right = (struct sortentry *)
+                        addsortentry(e->right, filename, title);
+        }
+
+        return e;
+}
+
+/* Adds a word to the master index tree.
+*/
+
+struct entry *addentry(e, word, filenum, emphasized, structure)
+     struct entry *e;
+     char *word;
+     int filenum;
+     int emphasized;
+     int structure;
+{
+        int isbigger;
+        struct location *tp, *oldtp;
+
+        if (e == NULL) {
+                e = (struct entry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct entry));
+                e->word = (char *) mystrdup(word);
+                e->tfrequency = 1;
+                e->locationlist = (struct location *)
+                emalloc(sizeof(struct location));
+                e->locationlist->filenum = filenum;
+                e->locationlist->frequency = 1;
+                e->locationlist->emphasized = emphasized;
+                e->locationlist->structure = structure;
+                e->locationlist->next = NULL;
+                e->left = e->right = NULL;
+		totalwords++;
+        }
+        else {
+                isbigger = wordcompare(e->word, word);
+                if (isbigger == 0) {
+                        tp = e->locationlist;
+                        while (tp != NULL && tp->filenum != filenum) {
+                                oldtp = tp;
+                                tp = tp->next;
+                        }
+                        if (tp == NULL) {
+                                tp = (struct location *) emalloc(sizeof(struct
+                                location));
+                                tp->filenum = filenum;
+                                tp->frequency = 1;
+                                tp->emphasized = emphasized;
+                                tp->structure = structure;
+                                tp->next = NULL;
+                                oldtp->next = tp;
+                                if (!emphasized)
+                                        e->tfrequency = e->tfrequency + 1;
+                        }
+                        else {
+                                if (tp->filenum == filenum) {
+                                        tp->frequency = tp->frequency + 1;
+					if (emphasized)
+						tp->emphasized =
+						tp->emphasized + 1;
+					tp->structure |= structure;
+				}
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (isbigger > 0)
+                        e->left = (struct entry *)
+                        addentry(e->left, word, filenum, emphasized,
+			structure);
+                else
+                        e->right = (struct entry *)
+                        addentry(e->right, word, filenum, emphasized,
+			structure);
+        }
+
+        return e;
+}
+
+/* Adds a file to the master list of files and file numbers.
+*/
+
+struct file *addtofilelist(filep, filename, title, size)
+     struct file *filep;
+     char *filename;
+     char *title;
+     int size;
+{
+        struct file *newnode;
+        static struct file *filelistp = NULL;
+
+        newnode = (struct file *) emalloc(sizeof(struct file));
+        newnode->filename = (char *) mystrdup(filename);
+        newnode->title = (char *) mystrdup(title);
+        newnode->size = size;
+        newnode->next = NULL;
+
+        if (filep == NULL)
+                filep = newnode;
+        else if (filelistp != NULL)
+                filelistp->next = newnode;
+
+        filelistp = newnode;
+
+        return filep;
+}
+
+/* Just goes through the master list of files and
+** counts 'em.
+*/
+
+int getfilecount(filep)
+     struct file *filep;
+{
+        int i;
+
+        for (i = 0; filep != NULL; filep = filep->next)
+                i++;
+
+        return i;
+}
+
+/* Returns the nicely formatted date.
+*/
+
+char *getthedate()
+{
+	static char date[MAXSTRLEN];
+	time_t time;
+
+	time = (time_t) getthetime();
+	strftime(date, MAXSTRLEN, "%x %X", (struct tm *) localtime(&time));
+	strftime(date, MAXSTRLEN, "%d/%m/%y %H:%M:%S %Z",
+	(struct tm *) localtime(&time));
+
+	return date;
+}
+
+/* Indexes all the words in a file and adds the appropriate information
+** to the appropriate structures.
+*/
+
+int countwords(filename, title)
+     char *filename;
+     char *title;
+{
+        int c, i, j, inword, ftotalwords, emphasized, structure;
+        static int filenum;
+        char word[MAXWORDLEN], tag[MAXSTRLEN];
+        FILE *fp;
+
+        if ((fp = fopen(filename, "r")) == NULL)
+                return 0;
+
+        ftotalwords = 0;
+        if (isoksuffix(filename, nocontentslist) && nocontentslist != NULL) {
+                filelist = addtofilelist(filelist, filename,
+                title, getsize(filename));
+                fclose(fp);
+                filenum++;
+                if (!(filenum % 128))
+                        filenum++;
+                addtofwordtotals(filenum, 100);
+                return (countwordstr(title, filenum, 0));
+        }
+
+        filelist = addtofilelist(filelist, filename, title, getsize(filename));
+        filenum++;
+        if (!(filenum % 128))
+                filenum++;
+
+	c = 1;
+        i = j = 0;
+        inword = 0;
+        emphasized = 0;
+	structure = 1;
+
+        while (c != EOF && (c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) {
+                if (!inword) {
+                        if (iswordchar(c)) {
+                                i = 0;
+                                word[i++] = c;
+				if (i == MAXWORDLEN)
+					i--;
+                                inword = 1;
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (inword) {
+                        if (!iswordchar(c)) {
+                                word[i++] = '\0';
+				if (i == MAXWORDLEN)
+					word[--i] = '\0';
+                                for (i = 0; word[i]; i++)
+                                        word[i] = tolower(word[i]);
+				i = 0;
+                                if (isokword(word))
+					strcpy(word, (char *)
+					convertentities(word));
+
+/* Sorry, have to do isokword() twice to filter out converted strings! */
+
+                                if (hasokchars(word) && isokword(word)) {
+#ifdef DEBUG
+printf("	%s %d\n", word, structure);
+#endif
+                                        entrylist = (struct entry *)
+                                        addentry(entrylist, word,
+                                        filenum, emphasized, structure);
+                                        ftotalwords++;
+                                }
+                                inword = 0;
+                        }
+                        else {
+                                word[i++] = c;
+				if (i == MAXWORDLEN)
+					i--;
+			}
+		}
+                if (c == '<' && !INDEXTAGS) {
+			j = 0;
+			while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) {
+				tag[j++] = c;
+				if (j == MAXSTRLEN)
+					j--;
+                        	if (c == '>') {
+					if (j)
+						tag[--j] = '\0';
+					else
+						tag[j] = '\0';
+#ifdef DEBUG
+printf("t: %s\n", tag);
+#endif
+					structure = getstructure(tag,
+					structure);
+#ifdef DEBUG
+printf("s: %d\n", structure);
+#endif
+					if (tag[0] == '!')
+						ftotalwords +=
+						parsecomment(tag,
+						filenum, structure);
+					if ((structure & IN_HEADER) ||
+					(structure & IN_TITLE))
+						emphasized = 5;
+					else
+						emphasized = 0;
+
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+                }
+        }
+
+        fclose(fp);
+
+        addtofwordtotals(filenum, ftotalwords);
+        return ftotalwords;
+}
+
+/* Indexes the words in a string, such as a file name or an
+** HTML title.
+*/
+
+int countwordstr(s, filenum, emphasized)
+     char *s;
+     int filenum;
+     int emphasized;
+{
+        int i, j, inword, wordcount;
+        char c, word[MAXWORDLEN], tmpstr[MAXFILELEN];
+
+        sprintf(tmpstr, "%s ", s);
+        for (j = inword = wordcount = 0; (c = tmpstr[j]) != '\0'; j++) {
+                if (!inword) {
+                        if (iswordchar(c)) {
+                                i = 0;
+                                word[i++] = c;
+				if (i == MAXWORDLEN)
+					i--;
+                                inword = 1;
+                        }
+                }
+                else {
+                        if (!iswordchar(c)) {
+                                wordcount++;
+                                word[i] = '\0';
+                                for (i = 0; word[i]; i++)
+                                        word[i] = tolower(word[i]);
+                                if (isokword(word))
+					strcpy(word, (char *)
+					convertentities(word));
+                                if (hasokchars(word) && isokword(word))
+                                        entrylist = (struct entry *)
+                                        addentry(entrylist, word,
+                                        filenum, emphasized, IN_FILE);
+                                inword = 0;
+                        }
+                        else {
+                                word[i++] = c;
+				if (i == MAXWORDLEN)
+					i--;
+			}
+                }
+        }
+
+        return wordcount;
+}
+
+/* This returns the value corresponding to the HTML structures
+** a word is in.
+*/
+
+int getstructure(tag, structure)
+     char *tag;
+     int structure;
+{
+	int len;
+
+	len = strlen(tag);
+	if (lstrstr(tag, "/title") && len == 6)
+		structure &= ~IN_TITLE;
+	else if (lstrstr(tag, "title") && len == 5)
+		structure |= IN_TITLE;
+	else if (lstrstr(tag, "/head") && len == 5)
+		structure &= ~IN_HEAD;
+	else if (lstrstr(tag, "head") && len == 4)
+		structure |= IN_HEAD;
+	else if (lstrstr(tag, "/body") && len == 5)
+		structure &= ~IN_BODY;
+	else if (lstrstr(tag, "body") && len == 4)
+		structure |= IN_BODY;
+	else if (tag[0] == '/' && tolower(tag[1]) == 'h' && isdigit(tag[2]))
+		structure &= ~IN_HEADER;
+	else if (tolower(tag[0]) == 'h' && isdigit(tag[1]))
+		structure |= IN_HEADER;
+	else if (lstrstr(tag, "/em") || lstrstr(tag, "/strong"))
+		structure &= ~IN_EMPHASIZED;
+	else if (lstrstr(tag, "em") || lstrstr(tag, "strong"))
+		structure |= IN_EMPHASIZED;
+	else if ((tolower(tag[0]) == 'b' || tolower(tag[0]) == 'i') &&
+	len == 1)
+		structure |= IN_EMPHASIZED;
+	else if (tag[0] == '/' && tag[2] == '\0' && (tolower(tag[1]) == 'b' ||
+	tolower(tag[1]) == 'i'))
+		structure &= ~IN_EMPHASIZED;
+
+	return structure;
+}
+
+/* Parses the words in a comment.
+*/
+
+int parsecomment(tag, filenum, structure)
+     char *tag;
+     int filenum;
+     int structure;
+{
+	int i, j, inword, wordcount, emphasized;
+	char c, word[MAXWORDLEN];
+
+	if (EMPHASIZECOMMENTS)
+		emphasized = 5;
+	else
+		emphasized = 0;
+	structure |= IN_COMMENTS;
+        for (j = 3, inword = wordcount = 0; (c = tag[j]) != '\0'; j++) {
+                if (!inword) {
+                        if (iswordchar(c)) {
+                                i = 0;
+                                word[i++] = c;
+				if (i == MAXWORDLEN)
+					i--;
+                                inword = 1;
+                        }
+                }
+                else {
+                        if (!iswordchar(c)) {
+                                wordcount++;
+                                word[i] = '\0';
+                                for (i = 0; word[i]; i++)
+                                        word[i] = tolower(word[i]);
+                                if (isokword(word))
+					strcpy(word, (char *)
+					convertentities(word));
+                                if (hasokchars(word) && isokword(word))
+                                        entrylist = (struct entry *)
+                                        addentry(entrylist, word,
+                                        filenum, emphasized, structure);
+                                inword = 0;
+                        }
+                        else {
+                                word[i++] = c;
+				if (i == MAXWORDLEN)
+					i--;
+			}
+                }
+        }
+
+        return wordcount;
+}
+
+/* Removes words that occur in over _plimit_ percent of the files and
+** that occur in over _flimit_ files (marks them as stopwords, that is).
+*/
+
+int removestops(ep, totalfiles, plimit, flimit)
+     struct entry *ep;
+     int totalfiles;
+     int plimit;
+     int flimit;
+{
+	int percent, wordfilecount, stopwords;
+        struct location *lp;
+
+	stopwords = 0;
+	if (ep != NULL) {
+		stopwords += removestops(ep->left, totalfiles, plimit, flimit);
+                lp = ep->locationlist;
+		wordfilecount = 0;
+                while (lp != NULL) {
+			wordfilecount++;
+                        lp = lp->next;
+                }
+		percent = ((float) wordfilecount / (float) totalfiles) * 100.0;
+		if (percent >= plimit && wordfilecount >= flimit) {
+			addstophash(ep->word);
+			stopwords++;
+		}
+		stopwords += removestops(ep->right, totalfiles, plimit, flimit);
+	}
+	return stopwords;
+}
+
+/* This is somewhat similar to the rank calculation algorithm
+** from WAIS (I think). Any suggestions for improvements?
+** Note that ranks can't be smaller than 1, emphasized words
+** (words in titles, headers) have ranks multiplied by at least 5
+** (just a guess), and ranks divisible by 128 are bumped up by one
+** (to make the compression scheme with with '\0' as a line delimiter
+** work). Fudging with the ranks doesn't seem to make much difference.
+*/
+
+int getrank(freq, tfreq, words, emphasized)
+     int freq;
+     int tfreq;
+     int words;
+     int emphasized;
+{
+        float d, e, f;
+        int tmprank;
+        char rankstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        if (freq < 5)
+                freq = 5;
+        d = 1.0 / (double) tfreq;
+        e = ((log((double) freq) + 10.0) * d) / words;
+        f = e * 10000.0;
+
+        sprintf(rankstr, "%f", f);
+        tmprank = atoi(rankstr);
+        if (tmprank <= 0)
+                tmprank = 1;
+        if (emphasized)
+                tmprank *= emphasized;
+        if (!(tmprank % 128))
+                tmprank++;
+
+        return tmprank;
+}
+
+/* Prints the index information at the head of index files.
+*/
+
+void printheader(fp, filename, totalwords, totalfiles)
+     FILE *fp;
+     char *filename;
+     int totalwords;
+     int totalfiles;
+{
+	char *c;
+
+	c = (char *) strrchr(filename, '/');
+
+	fprintf(fp, "%s\n", INDEXHEADER);
+	fprintf(fp, "# Name: %s\n", (indexn[0] == '\0') ? "(no name)" :
+	indexn);
+	fprintf(fp, "# Saved as: %s\n", (c == NULL && c + 1 != '\0') ?
+		filename : c + 1);
+	fprintf(fp, "# Counts: ");
+	if (totalwords)
+		fprintf(fp, "%d words%s", totalwords, (totalfiles) ? ", " : "");
+	if (totalfiles)
+		fprintf(fp, "%d files", totalfiles);
+	fprintf(fp, "\n");
+	fprintf(fp, "# Indexed on: %s\n", getthedate());
+	fprintf(fp, "# Description: %s\n", (indexd[0] == '\0') ?
+	"(no description)" : indexd);
+	fprintf(fp, "# Pointer: %s\n", (indexp[0] == '\0') ?
+	"(no pointer)" : indexp);
+	fprintf(fp, "# Maintained by: %s\n", (indexa[0] == '\0') ?
+	"(no maintainer)" : indexa);
+}
+
+/* Print the index entries that hold the word, rank, and other information.
+*/
+
+void printindex(ep, fp)
+     struct entry *ep;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+        int i, rank;
+        struct location *lp;
+
+        if (ep != NULL) {
+                printindex(ep->left, fp);
+		if (!isstopword(ep->word)) {
+
+			for (i = 0; indexchars[i] != '\0'; i++)
+				if ((ep->word)[0] == indexchars[i] &&
+				!offsets[i])
+					offsets[i] = ftell(fp);
+
+	                fprintf(fp, "%s:", ep->word);
+			lp = ep->locationlist;
+			while (lp != NULL) {
+				compress(lp->filenum, fp);
+				rank = getrank(lp->frequency, ep->tfrequency,
+				gettotalwords(lp->filenum), lp->emphasized);
+				compress(rank, fp);
+				compress(lp->structure, fp);
+				lp = lp->next;
+                	}
+                	fputc(0, fp);
+
+		}
+                printindex(ep->right, fp);
+        }
+}
+
+/* Prints the list of stopwords into the index file.
+*/
+
+void printstopwords(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int hashval;
+	struct swline *sp;
+
+	offsets[STOPWORDPOS] = ftell(fp);
+	for (hashval = 0; hashval < HASHSIZE; hashval++) {
+        	sp = hashstoplist[hashval];
+		while (sp != NULL) {
+			fprintf(fp, "%s ", sp->line);
+			sp = sp->next;
+		}
+	}
+	fprintf(fp, "\n");
+}
+
+/* Prints the list of files, titles, and sizes into the index file.
+*/
+
+void printfilelist(filep, fp)
+     struct file *filep;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i;
+
+	i = 0;
+	offsets[FILELISTPOS] = ftell(fp);
+        while (filep != NULL) {
+		addtofilehashlist(i++, ftell(fp));
+                fprintf(fp, "%s \"%s\" %d\n", ruleparse(filep->filename),
+                filep->title, filep->size);
+                filep = filep->next;
+        }
+}
+
+/* Prints the list of file offsets into the index file.
+*/
+
+void printfileoffsets(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i;
+
+	offsets[FILEOFFSETPOS] = ftell(fp);
+	for (i = 0; getfilenum(i) != 0; i++)
+		fprintf(fp, "%016li", getfilenum(i));
+}
+
+/* Takes a number and prints it to a file using the simple
+** accordion scheme of storing numbers.
+*/
+
+void compress(num, fp)
+     int num;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+        int i, r;
+        static char s[8];
+
+        i = 0;
+        while (num) {
+                r = num % 128;
+                num /= 128;
+                s[i++] = r;
+        }
+        while (i-- >= 0)
+                fputc(s[i] | (i ? 128 : 0), fp);
+}
+
+/* Prints out the decompressed values in an index file.
+*/
+
+void decompress(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+        int c, x, inword;
+	long pos;
+        char line[MAXSTRLEN], header[MAXHEADCHARS + 1];
+
+	readoffsets(fp);
+	fseek(fp, 0, 0);
+        inword = 1;
+
+        while (1) {
+                c = fgetc(fp);
+                ungetc(c, fp);
+                if (c == '#') {
+                        fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp);
+			printf("%s", line);
+                        continue;
+                }
+                else {
+                        fgets(header, MAXHEADCHARS + 1, fp);
+			printf("%s", header);
+                        break;
+                }
+        }
+
+        while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) {
+                if (c == ':' && inword) {
+                        inword = 0;
+                        putchar(c);
+                }
+                if (inword)
+                        putchar(c);
+                else {
+                        x = 0;
+                        do {
+                                c = fgetc(fp);
+				pos = ftell(fp);
+				if (pos == offsets[STOPWORDPOS]) {
+					putchar('\n');
+					while (fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp)
+					!= NULL)
+						printf("%s", line);
+						return;
+				}
+                                if (c == 0) {
+                                        putchar('\n');
+                                        inword = 1;
+                                        break;
+                                }
+                                x *= 128;
+                                x += c & 127;
+                        } while (c & 128);
+                        if (x)
+                                printf(" %d", x);
+                }
+        }
+}
+
+/* Parses lines according to the ReplaceRules directives.
+*/
+
+char *ruleparse(line)
+     char *line;
+{
+        char rule[MAXSTRLEN];
+        static char tmpline[MAXSTRLEN], newtmpline[MAXSTRLEN];
+        static char line1[MAXSTRLEN], line2[MAXSTRLEN];
+        struct swline *tmplist;
+
+	if (replacelist == NULL)
+		return line;
+
+        tmplist = replacelist;
+        strcpy(tmpline, line);
+        while(1) {
+		if (tmplist == NULL)
+			return tmpline;
+                strcpy(rule, tmplist->line);
+		tmplist = tmplist->next;
+		if (tmplist == NULL)
+			return tmpline;
+                if (rule == NULL) {
+                        replacelist = tmplist;
+                        return tmpline;
+                }
+                else {
+                        if (lstrstr(rule, "replace")) {
+                                strcpy(line1, tmplist->line);
+				tmplist = tmplist->next;
+                                strcpy(line2, tmplist->line);
+				tmplist = tmplist->next;
+                                strcpy(newtmpline, (char *) replace(tmpline,
+                                line1, NOWORD));
+                                strcpy(newtmpline, (char *) replace(newtmpline,
+                                NOWORD, line2));
+                        }
+                        else if (lstrstr(rule, "append")) {
+				sprintf(newtmpline, "%s%s", tmpline,
+				tmplist->line);
+				tmplist = tmplist->next;
+			}
+			else if (lstrstr(rule, "prepend")) {
+				sprintf(newtmpline, "%s%s", tmplist->line,
+				tmpline);
+				tmplist = tmplist->next;
+			}
+			strcpy(tmpline, newtmpline);
+                }
+        }
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/index.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/index.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4184b438
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/index.h
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+void indexadir();
+void indexafile();
+void printfiles();
+void printdirs();
+struct sortentry *addsortentry();
+struct entry *addentry();
+struct file *addtofilelist();
+int getfilecount();
+char *getthedate();
+int countwords();
+int countwordstr();
+int getstructure();
+int parsecomment();
+int removestops();
+int getrank();
+void printheader();
+void printindex();
+void printfilelist();
+void printstopwords();
+void printfileoffsets();
+void compress();
+void decompress();
+char *ruleparse();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/list.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/list.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8e34482d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/list.c
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/* This is a generic function that adds lines to a list -
+** these lists hold file rules, index files, files to be
+** indexed, etc.
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "list.h"
+
+struct swline *addswline(rp, line)
+     struct swline *rp;
+     char *line;
+{
+        struct swline *newnode;
+        static struct swline *nodep;
+
+        newnode = (struct swline *) emalloc(sizeof(struct swline));
+        newnode->line = (char *) mystrdup(line);
+        newnode->next = NULL;
+
+        if (rp == NULL)
+                rp = newnode;
+        else
+                nodep->next = newnode;
+
+        nodep = newnode;
+
+        return rp;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/list.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/list.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7d2b0ef2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/list.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+struct swline *addswline();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/mem.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/mem.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a3066ad7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/mem.c
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "mem.h"
+
+/* Error-checking malloc()...
+*/
+
+void *emalloc(i)
+     int i;
+{
+        void *p;
+ 
+        if ((p = (void *) malloc(i)) == NULL)
+                progerr("Ran out of memory (could not allocate enough)!");
+        return p;
+}
+
+void *erealloc(ptr, i)
+     void *ptr;
+     int i;
+{
+        void *p;
+ 
+        if ((p = (void *) realloc(ptr, i)) == NULL)
+                progerr("Ran out of memory (could not reallocate enough)!");
+        return p;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/mem.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/mem.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8d90014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/mem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+void *emalloc();
+void *erealloc();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c132992e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.c
@@ -0,0 +1,638 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "merge.h"
+
+/* The main merge functions - it accepts three file names.
+** This is a bit hairy. It basically acts as a zipper,
+** zipping up both index files into one.
+*/
+
+void readmerge(file1, file2, outfile)
+     char *file1;
+     char *file2;
+     char *outfile;
+{
+	int i, j, indexfilenum1, indexfilenum2, result, totalfiles,
+		skipwords, skipfiles;
+	long limit1, limit2, fileinfo1, fileinfo2, offsetstart;
+	char line[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct indexentry *ip1, *ip2, *ip3;
+	struct indexentry *buffer1, *buffer2;
+	FILE *fp1, *fp2, *fp3;
+
+	initindexfilehashlist();
+
+	if ((fp1 = fopen(file1, "r")) == NULL) {
+		sprintf(errorstr, "Couldn't read the index file \"%s\".",
+		file1);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+	if (!isokindexheader(fp1)) {
+		sprintf(errorstr, "\"%s\" has an unknown format.",
+		file1);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+	if ((fp2 = fopen(file2, "r")) == NULL) {
+		sprintf(errorstr, "Couldn't read the index file \"%s\".",
+		file2);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+	if (!isokindexheader(fp2)) {
+		sprintf(errorstr, "\"%s\" has an unknown format.",
+		file2);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+
+	ip1 = ip2 = ip3 = NULL;
+	buffer1 = buffer2 = NULL;
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("Counting files... ");
+	indexfilenum1 = getindexfilenum(fp1);
+	indexfilenum2 = getindexfilenum(fp2);
+	totalfiles = indexfilenum1 + indexfilenum2;
+	if (verbose) {
+		printf("%d files.\n", indexfilenum1 + indexfilenum2);
+		printf("Reading stopwords...");
+	}
+	readoffsets(fp1);
+	readstopwords(fp1);
+	limit1 = offsets[STOPWORDPOS];
+	fileinfo1 = offsets[FILELISTPOS];
+	readoffsets(fp2);
+	readstopwords(fp2);
+	limit2 = offsets[STOPWORDPOS];
+	fileinfo2 = offsets[FILELISTPOS];
+
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("\nReading file info...");
+	fseek(fp1, fileinfo1, 0);
+	for (i = 1; i <= indexfilenum1; i++) {
+		fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp1);
+		addindexfilelist(i, line, &totalfiles);
+	}
+	fseek(fp2, fileinfo2, 0);
+	for (i = 1; i <= indexfilenum2; i++) {
+		fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp2);
+		addindexfilelist(i + indexfilenum1, line, &totalfiles);
+	}
+
+	if ((fp3 = fopen(outfile, "w")) == NULL) {
+		sprintf(errorstr,
+		"Couldn't write the merged index file \"%s\".",
+		outfile);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("\nMerging words... ");
+
+	printheader(fp3, outfile, 0, totalfiles);
+
+        offsetstart = ftell(fp3);
+        for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+                fprintf(fp3, "%016li", offsets[i]);
+        fputc('\n', fp3);
+
+	readoffsets(fp1);
+	readoffsets(fp2);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+		offsets[i] = 0;
+
+	skipwords = 0;
+	while (1) {
+		if (buffer1 == NULL) {
+			ip1 = (struct indexentry *) readindexline(fp1, limit1);
+			if (ip1 == NULL)
+				break;
+			buffer1 = ip1;
+		}
+		if (buffer2 == NULL) {
+			ip2 = (struct indexentry *) readindexline(fp2, limit2);
+			if (ip2 == NULL)
+				break;
+			addfilenums(ip2, indexfilenum1);
+			buffer2 = ip2;
+		}
+		result = wordcompare(ip1->word, ip2->word);
+		if (!result) {
+			ip3 = (struct indexentry *) mergeindexentries(ip1, ip2);
+			printindexentry(ip3, fp3);
+			freeindexentry(ip1);
+			freeindexentry(ip2);
+			freeindexentry(ip3);
+			buffer1 = buffer2 = NULL;
+			skipwords++;
+		}
+		else if (result < 0) {
+			printindexentry(ip1, fp3);
+			freeindexentry(ip1);
+			buffer1 = NULL;
+		}
+		else {
+			printindexentry(ip2, fp3);
+			freeindexentry(ip2);
+			buffer2 = NULL;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (verbose) {
+		if (skipwords)
+			printf("%d redundant word%s.", skipwords,
+			(skipwords == 1) ? "" : "s");
+		else
+			printf("no redundant words.");
+	}
+
+        printstopwords(fp3);
+
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("\nMerging file info... ");
+
+	offsets[FILELISTPOS] = ftell(fp3);
+	for (i = j = 1; i <= indexfilenum1 + indexfilenum2; i++)
+		if (getmap(i) == j) {
+			addtofilehashlist(j++ - 1, ftell(fp3));
+			fprintf(fp3, "%s", lookupindexfilenum(i));
+		}
+
+	skipfiles = (indexfilenum1 + indexfilenum2) - totalfiles;
+	if (verbose) {
+		if (skipfiles)
+			printf("%d redundant file%s.", skipfiles,
+			(skipfiles == 1) ? "" : "s");
+		else
+			printf("no redundant files.");
+	}
+
+	printfileoffsets(fp3);
+
+	fseek(fp3, offsetstart, 0);
+        for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+                fprintf(fp3, "%016li", offsets[i]);
+	fclose(fp3);
+
+	fclose(fp1);
+	fclose(fp2);
+
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("\nDone.\n");
+}
+
+/* Gets the number of files in an index file.
+*/
+
+int getindexfilenum(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i;
+	char line[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+	readoffsets(fp);
+	fseek(fp, offsets[FILELISTPOS], 0);
+
+	i = 0;
+	while(ftell(fp) < offsets[FILEOFFSETPOS]) {
+		fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp);
+		i++;
+	}
+
+	if (ftell(fp) != offsets[FILEOFFSETPOS])
+		fprintf(stderr, "FILEOFFSETPOS is incorrect; corrupt index\n");
+
+	return i;
+}
+
+/* This adds an offset to the file numbers in a particular
+** result list. For instance, file 1 has file numbers going from
+** 1 to 10, but so does file 2, so I have to add 10 to all the
+** file numbers in file 2 before merging.
+*/
+
+void addfilenums(ip, num)
+     struct indexentry *ip;
+     int num;
+{
+	struct result *rp;
+
+	rp = ip->result;
+	while (rp != NULL) {
+		rp->filenum =
+		encodefilenum(getmap(decodefilenum(rp->filenum) + num));
+		rp = rp->next;
+	}
+}
+
+/* This reads the next line in the index file and puts the results
+** in a result structure.
+*/
+
+struct indexentry *readindexline(fp, limit)
+     FILE *fp;
+     long limit;
+{
+        int i, c, x, countnum, rank, filenum, structure;
+        char fileword[MAXWORDLEN];
+        struct result *rp;
+	struct indexentry *ip;
+
+        rp = NULL;
+
+	if (limit == ftell(fp))
+		return NULL;
+        for (i = 0; (c = fgetc(fp)) != 0; ) {
+                if (c == ':') {
+                        fileword[i] = '\0';
+                        break;
+                }
+                else
+                        fileword[i++] = c;
+        }
+
+        countnum = 1;
+
+        ungetc(c, fp);
+        while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != 0) {
+                x = 0;
+                do {
+                        c = fgetc(fp);
+                        if (c == 0)
+                                break;
+                        x *= 128;
+                        x += c & 127;
+                } while (c & 128);
+		if (c == 0)
+			break;
+                if (x) {
+                        if (countnum == 1) {
+                                filenum = x;
+                                countnum++;
+                        }
+                        else if (countnum == 2) {
+                                rank = x;
+                                countnum++;
+                        }
+                        else if (countnum == 3) {
+                                structure = x;
+                                rp = (struct result *)
+                                addtoresultlist(rp, filenum,
+				rank, structure);
+				countnum = 1;
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+
+	ip = (struct indexentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct indexentry));
+	ip->word = (char *) mystrdup(fileword);
+	ip->result = rp;
+
+        return ip;
+}
+
+/* This puts all the file info into a hash table so that it can
+** be looked up by its pathname and filenumber. This is how
+** we find redundant file information.
+*/
+
+void addindexfilelist(num, info, totalfiles)
+     int num;
+     char *info;
+     int *totalfiles;
+{
+	int i;
+	static int j;
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN], path[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct indexfileinfo *ip1, *ip2;
+
+	strcpy(path, extractpath(info));
+
+	i = lookupindexfilepath(path);
+	if (i != -1) {
+		*totalfiles = *totalfiles - 1;
+		remap(num, i);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	remap(num, j + 1);
+	j++;
+
+	ip1 = (struct indexfileinfo *) emalloc(sizeof(struct indexfileinfo));
+	ip1->filenum = num;
+	ip1->fileinfo = (char *) mystrdup(info);
+	ip1->path = (char *) mystrdup(path);
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	ip1->next = indexfilehashlist[hashval];
+	indexfilehashlist[hashval] = ip1;
+
+	ip2 = (struct indexfileinfo *) emalloc(sizeof(struct indexfileinfo));
+	ip2->filenum = num;
+	ip2->fileinfo = (char *) mystrdup(info);
+	ip2->path = (char *) mystrdup(path);
+
+	hashval = bighash(path);
+	ip2->next = indexfilehashlist[hashval];
+	indexfilehashlist[hashval] = ip2;
+}
+
+/* This extracts the pathname information from the file information
+** line as stored in the index file.
+*/
+
+char *extractpath(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+	int i;
+	static char path[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+	for (i = 0; s[i] && s[i] != '\"'; i++)
+		path[i] = s[i];
+	path[i - 1] = '\0';
+	path[i] = '\0';
+
+	return path;
+}
+
+/* This returns the file information corresponding to a file number.
+*/
+
+char *lookupindexfilenum(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct indexfileinfo *ip;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	ip = indexfilehashlist[hashval];
+
+	while (ip != NULL) {
+		if (ip->filenum == num)
+			return ip->fileinfo;
+		ip = ip->next;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/* This returns the file number corresponding to a pathname.
+*/
+
+int lookupindexfilepath(path)
+     char *path;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	struct indexfileinfo *ip;
+
+	hashval = bighash(path);
+	ip = indexfilehashlist[hashval];
+
+	while (ip != NULL) {
+		if (!strcmp(ip->path, path))
+			return ip->filenum;
+		ip = ip->next;
+	}
+	return -1;
+}
+
+/* This simply concatenates two information lists that correspond
+** to a word found in both index files.
+*/
+
+struct indexentry *mergeindexentries(ip1, ip2)
+     struct indexentry *ip1;
+     struct indexentry *ip2;
+{
+	struct result *newrp, *rp1, *rp2;
+	struct indexentry *ep;
+
+	rp1 = ip1->result;
+	rp2 = ip2->result;
+	newrp = NULL;
+
+	while (rp1 != NULL) {
+		newrp = (struct result *) addtoresultlist(newrp,
+		rp1->filenum, rp1->rank, rp1->structure);
+		rp1 = rp1->next;
+	}
+	while (rp2 != NULL) {
+		newrp = (struct result *) addtoresultlist(newrp,
+		rp2->filenum, rp2->rank, rp2->structure);
+		rp2 = rp2->next;
+	}
+
+	ep = (struct indexentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct indexentry));
+	ep->word = (char *) mystrdup(ip1->word);
+	ep->result = newrp;
+
+	return ep;
+}
+
+/* This prints a new word entry into the merged index file,
+** removing redundant file information as it goes along.
+*/
+
+void printindexentry(ip, fp)
+     struct indexentry *ip;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i, num;
+	struct result *rp;
+
+	for (i = 0; indexchars[i] != '\0'; i++)
+		if ((ip->word)[0] == indexchars[i] && !offsets[i])
+			offsets[i] = ftell(fp);
+	fprintf(fp, "%s:", ip->word);
+	initmarkentrylist();
+	rp = ip->result;
+	while (rp != NULL) {
+		num = rp->filenum;
+		if (!ismarked(num)) {
+			marknum(num);
+			compress(num, fp);
+			compress(rp->rank, fp);
+			compress(rp->structure, fp);
+		}
+		rp = rp->next;
+	}
+	fputc(0, fp);
+}
+
+/* This associates a number with a new number.
+** This function is used to remap file numbers from index
+** files to a new merged index file.
+*/
+
+void remap(oldnum, newnum)
+     int oldnum;
+     int newnum;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct mapentry *mp;
+
+	mp = (struct mapentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct mapentry));
+	mp->oldnum = oldnum;
+	mp->newnum = newnum;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", oldnum);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	mp->next = mapentrylist[hashval];
+	mapentrylist[hashval] = mp;
+}
+
+/* This retrieves the number associated with another.
+*/
+
+int getmap(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct mapentry *mp;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	mp = mapentrylist[hashval];
+
+	while (mp != NULL) {
+		if (mp->oldnum == num)
+			return mp->newnum;
+		mp = mp->next;
+	}
+	return num;
+}
+
+/* This marks a number as having been printed.
+*/
+
+void marknum(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct markentry *mp;
+
+	mp = (struct markentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct markentry));
+	mp->num = num;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	mp->next = markentrylist[hashval];
+	markentrylist[hashval] = mp;
+}
+
+/* Has a number been printed?
+*/
+
+int ismarked(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct markentry *mp;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	mp = markentrylist[hashval];
+
+	while (mp != NULL) {
+		if (mp->num == num)
+			return 1;
+		mp = mp->next;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* Initialize the marking list.
+*/
+
+void initmarkentrylist()
+{
+	int i;
+	struct markentry *mp;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < BIGHASHSIZE; i++) {
+		mp = markentrylist[i];
+		if (mp != NULL)
+			free(mp);
+		markentrylist[i] = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+/* Initialize the main file list.
+*/
+
+void initindexfilehashlist()
+{
+	int i;
+	struct indexfileinfo *ip;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < BIGHASHSIZE; i++) {
+		ip = indexfilehashlist[i];
+		if (ip != NULL)
+			free(ip);
+		indexfilehashlist[i] = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+/* Frees up used index entries, my best attempt at memory management...
+** I still have bytes leaking elsewhere...
+*/
+
+void freeindexentry(ip)
+     struct indexentry *ip;
+{
+	struct result *rp, *oldp;
+
+	free(ip->word);
+	rp = ip->result;
+	while (rp != NULL) {
+		oldp = rp;
+		rp = rp->next;
+		free(oldp);
+	}
+	free(ip);
+}
+
+/* Translates a file number into something that can be compressed.
+*/
+
+int encodefilenum(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	int i, j;
+
+	for (i = j = 0; i != num; i++) {
+		j++;
+		if (!(j % 128))
+			j++;
+	}
+	return j;
+}
+
+/* Translates a compressed file number into a correct file number.
+*/
+
+int decodefilenum(num)
+     int num;
+{
+        int i, extra;
+
+        for (i = 1, extra = 0; i < num; i++)
+                if (!(i % 128)) {
+                        extra++;
+                        i++;
+                }
+        num -= extra;
+
+	return num;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.c- b/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.c-
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..14645b7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.c-
@@ -0,0 +1,637 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "merge.h"
+
+/* The main merge functions - it accepts three file names.
+** This is a bit hairy. It basically acts as a zipper,
+** zipping up both index files into one.
+*/
+
+void readmerge(file1, file2, outfile)
+     char *file1;
+     char *file2;
+     char *outfile;
+{
+	int i, j, indexfilenum1, indexfilenum2, result, totalfiles,
+		skipwords, skipfiles;
+	long limit1, limit2, fileinfo1, fileinfo2, offsetstart;
+	char line[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct indexentry *ip1, *ip2, *ip3;
+	struct indexentry *buffer1, *buffer2;
+	FILE *fp1, *fp2, *fp3;
+
+	initindexfilehashlist();
+
+	if ((fp1 = fopen(file1, "r")) == NULL) {
+		sprintf(errorstr, "Couldn't read the index file \"%s\".",
+		file1);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+	if (!isokindexheader(fp1)) {
+		sprintf(errorstr, "\"%s\" has an unknown format.",
+		file1);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+	if ((fp2 = fopen(file2, "r")) == NULL) {
+		sprintf(errorstr, "Couldn't read the index file \"%s\".",
+		file2);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+	if (!isokindexheader(fp2)) {
+		sprintf(errorstr, "\"%s\" has an unknown format.",
+		file2);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+
+	ip1 = ip2 = ip3 = NULL;
+	buffer1 = buffer2 = NULL;
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("Counting files... ");
+	indexfilenum1 = getindexfilenum(fp1);
+	indexfilenum2 = getindexfilenum(fp2);
+	totalfiles = indexfilenum1 + indexfilenum2;
+	if (verbose) {
+		printf("%d files.\n", indexfilenum1 + indexfilenum2);
+		printf("Reading stopwords...");
+	}
+	readoffsets(fp1);
+	readstopwords(fp1);
+	limit1 = offsets[STOPWORDPOS];
+	fileinfo1 = offsets[FILELISTPOS];
+	readoffsets(fp2);
+	readstopwords(fp2);
+	limit2 = offsets[STOPWORDPOS];
+	fileinfo2 = offsets[FILELISTPOS];
+
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("\nReading file info...");
+	fseek(fp1, fileinfo1, 0);
+	for (i = 1; i <= indexfilenum1; i++) {
+		fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp1);
+		addindexfilelist(i, line, &totalfiles);
+	}
+	fseek(fp2, fileinfo2, 0);
+	for (i = 1; i <= indexfilenum2; i++) {
+		fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp2);
+		addindexfilelist(i + indexfilenum1, line, &totalfiles);
+	}
+
+	if ((fp3 = fopen(outfile, "w")) == NULL) {
+		sprintf(errorstr,
+		"Couldn't write the merged index file \"%s\".",
+		outfile);
+		progerr(errorstr);
+	}
+
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("\nMerging words... ");
+
+	printheader(fp3, outfile, 0, totalfiles);
+
+        offsetstart = ftell(fp3);
+        for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+                fprintf(fp3, "%016li", offsets[i]);
+        fputc('\n', fp3);
+
+	readoffsets(fp1);
+	readoffsets(fp2);
+
+	for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+		offsets[i] = 0;
+
+	skipwords = 0;
+	while (1) {
+		if (buffer1 == NULL) {
+			ip1 = (struct indexentry *) readindexline(fp1, limit1);
+			if (ip1 == NULL)
+				break;
+			buffer1 = ip1;
+		}
+		if (buffer2 == NULL) {
+			ip2 = (struct indexentry *) readindexline(fp2, limit2);
+			if (ip2 == NULL)
+				break;
+			addfilenums(ip2, indexfilenum1);
+			buffer2 = ip2;
+		}
+		result = wordcompare(ip1->word, ip2->word);
+		if (!result) {
+			ip3 = (struct indexentry *) mergeindexentries(ip1, ip2);
+			printindexentry(ip3, fp3);
+			freeindexentry(ip1);
+			freeindexentry(ip2);
+			freeindexentry(ip3);
+			buffer1 = buffer2 = NULL;
+			skipwords++;
+		}
+		else if (result < 0) {
+			printindexentry(ip1, fp3);
+			freeindexentry(ip1);
+			buffer1 = NULL;
+		}
+		else {
+			printindexentry(ip2, fp3);
+			freeindexentry(ip2);
+			buffer2 = NULL;
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (verbose) {
+		if (skipwords)
+			printf("%d redundant word%s.", skipwords,
+			(skipwords == 1) ? "" : "s");
+		else
+			printf("no redundant words.");
+	}
+
+        printstopwords(fp3);
+        fclose(fp3);
+
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("\nMerging file info... ");
+	fp3 = fopen(outfile, "a+");
+
+	offsets[FILELISTPOS] = ftell(fp3);
+	for (i = j = 1; i <= indexfilenum1 + indexfilenum2; i++)
+		if (getmap(i) == j) {
+			addtofilehashlist(j++ - 1, ftell(fp3));
+			fprintf(fp3, "%s", lookupindexfilenum(i));
+		}
+
+	skipfiles = (indexfilenum1 + indexfilenum2) - totalfiles;
+	if (verbose) {
+		if (skipfiles)
+			printf("%d redundant file%s.", skipfiles,
+			(skipfiles == 1) ? "" : "s");
+		else
+			printf("no redundant files.");
+	}
+
+	printfileoffsets(fp3);
+
+	fseek(fp3, offsetstart, 0);
+        for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+                fprintf(fp3, "%016li", offsets[i]);
+	fclose(fp3);
+
+	fclose(fp1);
+	fclose(fp2);
+
+	if (verbose)
+		printf("\nDone.\n");
+}
+
+/* Gets the number of files in an index file.
+*/
+
+int getindexfilenum(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i;
+	char line[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+	readoffsets(fp);
+	fseek(fp, offsets[FILELISTPOS], 0);
+
+	i = 0;
+	while(ftell(fp) != offsets[FILEOFFSETPOS]) {
+		fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp);
+		i++;
+	}
+
+	return i;
+}
+
+/* This adds an offset to the file numbers in a particular
+** result list. For instance, file 1 has file numbers going from
+** 1 to 10, but so does file 2, so I have to add 10 to all the
+** file numbers in file 2 before merging.
+*/
+
+void addfilenums(ip, num)
+     struct indexentry *ip;
+     int num;
+{
+	struct result *rp;
+
+	rp = ip->result;
+	while (rp != NULL) {
+		rp->filenum =
+		encodefilenum(getmap(decodefilenum(rp->filenum) + num));
+		rp = rp->next;
+	}
+}
+
+/* This reads the next line in the index file and puts the results
+** in a result structure.
+*/
+
+struct indexentry *readindexline(fp, limit)
+     FILE *fp;
+     long limit;
+{
+        int i, c, x, countnum, rank, filenum, structure;
+        char fileword[MAXWORDLEN];
+        struct result *rp;
+	struct indexentry *ip;
+
+        rp = NULL;
+
+	if (limit == ftell(fp))
+		return NULL;
+        for (i = 0; (c = fgetc(fp)) != 0; ) {
+                if (c == ':') {
+                        fileword[i] = '\0';
+                        break;
+                }
+                else
+                        fileword[i++] = c;
+        }
+
+        countnum = 1;
+
+        ungetc(c, fp);
+        while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != 0) {
+                x = 0;
+                do {
+                        c = fgetc(fp);
+                        if (c == 0)
+                                break;
+                        x *= 128;
+                        x += c & 127;
+                } while (c & 128);
+		if (c == 0)
+			break;
+                if (x) {
+                        if (countnum == 1) {
+                                filenum = x;
+                                countnum++;
+                        }
+                        else if (countnum == 2) {
+                                rank = x;
+                                countnum++;
+                        }
+                        else if (countnum == 3) {
+                                structure = x;
+                                rp = (struct result *)
+                                addtoresultlist(rp, filenum,
+				rank, structure);
+				countnum = 1;
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+
+	ip = (struct indexentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct indexentry));
+	ip->word = (char *) mystrdup(fileword);
+	ip->result = rp;
+
+        return ip;
+}
+
+/* This puts all the file info into a hash table so that it can
+** be looked up by its pathname and filenumber. This is how
+** we find redundant file information.
+*/
+
+void addindexfilelist(num, info, totalfiles)
+     int num;
+     char *info;
+     int *totalfiles;
+{
+	int i;
+	static int j;
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN], path[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct indexfileinfo *ip1, *ip2;
+
+	strcpy(path, extractpath(info));
+
+	i = lookupindexfilepath(path);
+	if (i != -1) {
+		*totalfiles = *totalfiles - 1;
+		remap(num, i);
+		return;
+	}
+
+	remap(num, j + 1);
+	j++;
+
+	ip1 = (struct indexfileinfo *) emalloc(sizeof(struct indexfileinfo));
+	ip1->filenum = num;
+	ip1->fileinfo = (char *) mystrdup(info);
+	ip1->path = (char *) mystrdup(path);
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	ip1->next = indexfilehashlist[hashval];
+	indexfilehashlist[hashval] = ip1;
+
+	ip2 = (struct indexfileinfo *) emalloc(sizeof(struct indexfileinfo));
+	ip2->filenum = num;
+	ip2->fileinfo = (char *) mystrdup(info);
+	ip2->path = (char *) mystrdup(path);
+
+	hashval = bighash(path);
+	ip2->next = indexfilehashlist[hashval];
+	indexfilehashlist[hashval] = ip2;
+}
+
+/* This extracts the pathname information from the file information
+** line as stored in the index file.
+*/
+
+char *extractpath(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+	int i;
+	static char path[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+	for (i = 0; s[i] && s[i] != '\"'; i++)
+		path[i] = s[i];
+	path[i - 1] = '\0';
+	path[i] = '\0';
+
+	return path;
+}
+
+/* This returns the file information corresponding to a file number.
+*/
+
+char *lookupindexfilenum(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct indexfileinfo *ip;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	ip = indexfilehashlist[hashval];
+
+	while (ip != NULL) {
+		if (ip->filenum == num)
+			return ip->fileinfo;
+		ip = ip->next;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/* This returns the file number corresponding to a pathname.
+*/
+
+int lookupindexfilepath(path)
+     char *path;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	struct indexfileinfo *ip;
+
+	hashval = bighash(path);
+	ip = indexfilehashlist[hashval];
+
+	while (ip != NULL) {
+		if (!strcmp(ip->path, path))
+			return ip->filenum;
+		ip = ip->next;
+	}
+	return -1;
+}
+
+/* This simply concatenates two information lists that correspond
+** to a word found in both index files.
+*/
+
+struct indexentry *mergeindexentries(ip1, ip2)
+     struct indexentry *ip1;
+     struct indexentry *ip2;
+{
+	struct result *newrp, *rp1, *rp2;
+	struct indexentry *ep;
+
+	rp1 = ip1->result;
+	rp2 = ip2->result;
+	newrp = NULL;
+
+	while (rp1 != NULL) {
+		newrp = (struct result *) addtoresultlist(newrp,
+		rp1->filenum, rp1->rank, rp1->structure);
+		rp1 = rp1->next;
+	}
+	while (rp2 != NULL) {
+		newrp = (struct result *) addtoresultlist(newrp,
+		rp2->filenum, rp2->rank, rp2->structure);
+		rp2 = rp2->next;
+	}
+
+	ep = (struct indexentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct indexentry));
+	ep->word = (char *) mystrdup(ip1->word);
+	ep->result = newrp;
+
+	return ep;
+}
+
+/* This prints a new word entry into the merged index file,
+** removing redundant file information as it goes along.
+*/
+
+void printindexentry(ip, fp)
+     struct indexentry *ip;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i, num;
+	struct result *rp;
+
+	for (i = 0; indexchars[i] != '\0'; i++)
+		if ((ip->word)[0] == indexchars[i] && !offsets[i])
+			offsets[i] = ftell(fp);
+	fprintf(fp, "%s:", ip->word);
+	initmarkentrylist();
+	rp = ip->result;
+	while (rp != NULL) {
+		num = rp->filenum;
+		if (!ismarked(num)) {
+			marknum(num);
+			compress(num, fp);
+			compress(rp->rank, fp);
+			compress(rp->structure, fp);
+		}
+		rp = rp->next;
+	}
+	fputc(0, fp);
+}
+
+/* This associates a number with a new number.
+** This function is used to remap file numbers from index
+** files to a new merged index file.
+*/
+
+void remap(oldnum, newnum)
+     int oldnum;
+     int newnum;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct mapentry *mp;
+
+	mp = (struct mapentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct mapentry));
+	mp->oldnum = oldnum;
+	mp->newnum = newnum;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", oldnum);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	mp->next = mapentrylist[hashval];
+	mapentrylist[hashval] = mp;
+}
+
+/* This retrieves the number associated with another.
+*/
+
+int getmap(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct mapentry *mp;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	mp = mapentrylist[hashval];
+
+	while (mp != NULL) {
+		if (mp->oldnum == num)
+			return mp->newnum;
+		mp = mp->next;
+	}
+	return num;
+}
+
+/* This marks a number as having been printed.
+*/
+
+void marknum(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct markentry *mp;
+
+	mp = (struct markentry *) emalloc(sizeof(struct markentry));
+	mp->num = num;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	mp->next = markentrylist[hashval];
+	markentrylist[hashval] = mp;
+}
+
+/* Has a number been printed?
+*/
+
+int ismarked(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	unsigned hashval;
+	char tmpstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	struct markentry *mp;
+
+	sprintf(tmpstr, "%d", num);
+	hashval = bighash(tmpstr);
+	mp = markentrylist[hashval];
+
+	while (mp != NULL) {
+		if (mp->num == num)
+			return 1;
+		mp = mp->next;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* Initialize the marking list.
+*/
+
+void initmarkentrylist()
+{
+	int i;
+	struct markentry *mp;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < BIGHASHSIZE; i++) {
+		mp = markentrylist[i];
+		if (mp != NULL)
+			free(mp);
+		markentrylist[i] = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+/* Initialize the main file list.
+*/
+
+void initindexfilehashlist()
+{
+	int i;
+	struct indexfileinfo *ip;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < BIGHASHSIZE; i++) {
+		ip = indexfilehashlist[i];
+		if (ip != NULL)
+			free(ip);
+		indexfilehashlist[i] = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+/* Frees up used index entries, my best attempt at memory management...
+** I still have bytes leaking elsewhere...
+*/
+
+void freeindexentry(ip)
+     struct indexentry *ip;
+{
+	struct result *rp, *oldp;
+
+	free(ip->word);
+	rp = ip->result;
+	while (rp != NULL) {
+		oldp = rp;
+		rp = rp->next;
+		free(oldp);
+	}
+	free(ip);
+}
+
+/* Translates a file number into something that can be compressed.
+*/
+
+int encodefilenum(num)
+     int num;
+{
+	int i, j;
+
+	for (i = j = 0; i != num; i++) {
+		j++;
+		if (!(j % 128))
+			j++;
+	}
+	return j;
+}
+
+/* Translates a compressed file number into a correct file number.
+*/
+
+int decodefilenum(num)
+     int num;
+{
+        int i, extra;
+
+        for (i = 1, extra = 0; i < num; i++)
+                if (!(i % 128)) {
+                        extra++;
+                        i++;
+                }
+        num -= extra;
+
+	return num;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..101596f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/merge.h
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+struct indexentry {
+        char *word;
+        struct result *result;
+};
+
+struct indexfileinfo {
+        int filenum;
+        char *fileinfo;
+	char *path;
+        struct indexfileinfo *next;
+};
+
+struct mapentry {
+	int oldnum;
+	int newnum;
+	struct mapentry *next;
+};
+
+struct markentry {
+	int num;
+	struct markentry *next;
+};
+
+struct indexfileinfo *indexfilehashlist[BIGHASHSIZE];
+struct mapentry *mapentrylist[BIGHASHSIZE];
+struct markentry *markentrylist[BIGHASHSIZE];
+
+void readmerge();
+int getindexfilenum();
+void addfilenums();
+struct indexentry *readindexline();
+void addindexfilelist();
+char *extractpath();
+char *lookupindexfilenum();
+int lookupindexfilepath();
+struct indexentry *mergeindexentries();
+void printindexentry();
+void remap();
+int getmap();
+void marknum();
+int ismarked();
+void initmarkentrylist();
+void initindexfilehashlist();
+void freeindexentry();
+int encodefilenum();
+int decodefilenum();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/search.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/search.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..723bbbbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/search.c
@@ -0,0 +1,862 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "search.h"
+
+/* The main search function.
+** Parentheses are stripped out, things made lowercase,
+** extra blanks removed, etc.
+*/
+
+void search(words, indexlist, structure)
+     char *words;
+     struct swline *indexlist;
+     int structure;
+{
+        int i, j;
+        float num;
+        char word[MAXWORDLEN];
+	struct result *resultlist;
+	struct sortresult *sortresultlist;
+	struct swline *tmplist;
+        FILE *fp;
+
+	searchwordlist = NULL;
+
+        for (i = j = 0; words[i] != '\0' && words[i] != '\n'; i++) {
+		if (isspace(words[i]) || words[i] == '(' ||
+		words[i] == ')') {
+			if (j) {
+				word[j] = '\0';
+				searchwordlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(searchwordlist, (char *)
+				convertentities(word));
+				j = 0;
+			}
+			if (words[i] == '(') {
+				searchwordlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(searchwordlist, "(");
+			}
+			if (words[i] == ')') {
+				searchwordlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(searchwordlist, ")");
+			}
+		}
+		else
+			word[j++] = tolower(words[i]);
+	}
+	if (j) {
+		word[j] = '\0';
+		searchwordlist = (struct swline *)
+		addswline(searchwordlist, (char *) convertentities(word));
+	}
+
+        printf("%s\n", INDEXHEADER);
+        if (words[0] == '\0') {
+                printf("err: no search words specified\n.\n");
+                exit(0);
+        }
+
+        printf("search words:");
+	tmplist = searchwordlist;
+	while (tmplist != NULL) {
+		printf(" %s", tmplist->line);
+		tmplist = tmplist->next;
+	}
+	putchar('\n');
+
+	while (indexlist != NULL) {
+
+		commonerror = bigrank = 0;
+
+		if ((fp = fopen(indexlist->line, "r")) == NULL) {
+			printf("# Name: unknown index\n");
+			printf("err: could not open index file\n.\n");
+			exit(0);
+		}
+
+		if (!isokindexheader(fp)) {
+			printf("err: the index file format is unknown\n.\n");
+			exit(0);
+		}
+
+		getheader(fp);
+
+		if (!getindexfilenum(fp)) {
+			printf("err: the index file is empty\n.\n");
+			exit(0);
+		}
+
+		readoffsets(fp);
+		readstopwords(fp);
+		readfileoffsets(fp);
+
+		resultlist = NULL;
+		tmplist = searchwordlist;
+		tmplist = (struct swline *) fixnot(tmplist, fp);
+		searchwordlist = (struct swline *) expandstar(tmplist, fp);
+		resultlist = (struct result *) parseterm(fp, 0);
+
+		sortresultlist = NULL;
+                while (resultlist != NULL) {
+			if (resultlist->structure & structure)
+                        	sortresultlist = (struct sortresult *)
+                        	addsortresult(sortresultlist, resultlist->rank,
+                        	lookupfile(resultlist->filenum, fp));
+                        resultlist = resultlist->next;
+                }
+
+        	fclose(fp);
+
+		if (sortresultlist == NULL) {
+			if (commonerror)
+				printf("err: a word is too common\n");
+			else
+		                printf("err: no results\n");
+		}
+		else {
+			if (bigrank)
+				num = 1000.0 / (float) bigrank;
+			else
+				num = 1000;
+		        printsortedresults(sortresultlist, num);
+		}
+
+		searchwordlist = tmplist;
+		indexlist = indexlist->next;
+
+	}
+
+        printf(".\n");
+}
+
+/* This puts parentheses in the right places around not structures
+** so the parser can do its thing correctly.
+*/
+
+struct swline *fixnot(sp)
+     struct swline *sp;
+{
+	int openparen, hasnot;
+	char lastline[MAXWORDLEN];
+	struct swline *tmpp, *newp;
+#ifdef DEBUG
+	struct swline *newp2;
+#endif
+
+	tmpp = sp;
+	newp = NULL;
+
+	openparen = 0;
+	hasnot = 0;
+	lastline[0] = '\0';
+	while (tmpp != NULL) {
+		if ((tmpp->line)[0] == '(')
+			openparen++;
+		if ((tmpp->line)[0] == ')')
+			openparen--;
+		if (!strcmp(tmpp->line, "not") && lastline[0] != '\0' &&
+		lastline[0] != '(') {
+			hasnot = 1;
+			newp = (struct swline *) addswline(newp, "(");
+		}
+		else if (hasnot && !openparen) {
+			hasnot = 0;
+			newp = (struct swline *) addswline(newp, tmpp->line);
+			newp = (struct swline *) addswline(newp, ")");
+			strcpy(lastline, tmpp->line);
+			tmpp = tmpp->next;
+			continue;
+		}
+		newp = (struct swline *) addswline(newp, tmpp->line);
+		strcpy(lastline, tmpp->line);
+		tmpp = tmpp->next;
+	}
+
+#ifdef DEBUG
+	newp2 = newp;
+	while (newp2 != NULL) {
+		printf("%s ", newp2->line);
+		newp2 = newp2->next;
+	}
+	putchar('\n');
+#endif
+
+	return newp;
+}
+
+/* Expands words with asterisks as wildcards into a series of
+** "or" searches. Terms like "quick\*" are expanded into
+** "quicktime or quickly", etc.
+*/
+
+struct swline *expandstar(sp, fp)
+     struct swline *sp;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i, firsttime, gotstar;
+	char foundword[MAXWORDLEN], searchword[MAXWORDLEN];
+        struct swline *newp;
+
+	newp = NULL;
+	while (sp != NULL) {
+		strcpy(searchword, sp->line);
+		if (searchword[0] != '*' && strchr(searchword, '*')) {
+			for (i = gotstar = 0; searchword[i]; i++)
+				if (gotstar)
+					searchword[i] = '\0';
+				else if (searchword[i] == '*') {
+					searchword[i] = '\0';
+					gotstar = 1;
+				}
+			firsttime = 0;
+			do {
+				strcpy(foundword, getmatchword(searchword,
+				fp, firsttime));
+				if (strcmp(foundword, NOWORD)) {
+					if (firsttime)
+						newp = (struct swline *)
+						addswline(newp, "or");
+					newp = (struct swline *)
+					addswline(newp, foundword);
+				}
+				else {
+					if (!firsttime)
+						newp = (struct swline *)
+						addswline(newp, NOWORD);
+					break;
+				}
+				firsttime++;
+			} while (strcmp(foundword, NOWORD));
+		}
+		else {
+			newp = (struct swline *) addswline(newp,
+			searchword);
+		}
+		sp = sp->next;
+	}
+	return newp;
+}
+
+/* If firsttime is 1, returns the first match to a beginnng of a word.
+** Else if it's 0, returns the next match, until nothing is found,
+** in which case NULL is returned.
+*/
+
+char *getmatchword(word, fp, firsttime)
+     char *word;
+     FILE *fp;
+     int firsttime;
+{
+	int i, c, found;
+        char *d;
+	static char fileword[MAXWORDLEN];
+
+	if (!firsttime) {
+		for (i = found = 0; indexchars[i] != '\0'; i++)
+			if (word[0] == indexchars[i]) {
+				fseek(fp, offsets[i], 0);
+				found = 1;
+			}
+		if (!found)
+			return NOWORD;
+	}
+
+	if (offsets[STOPWORDPOS] == ftell(fp))
+		return NOWORD;
+        for (i = 0; (c = fgetc(fp)) != 0; ) {
+                if (c == ':') {
+                        fileword[i] = '\0';
+			i = 0;
+			while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != 0)
+				;
+			if (fileword[0] != word[0])
+				return NOWORD;
+			d = (char *) strstr(fileword, word);
+                        if (d != NULL && d == &fileword[0])
+                                return fileword;
+			else {
+				if (offsets[STOPWORDPOS] == ftell(fp))
+					return NOWORD;
+			}
+                }
+		else
+			fileword[i++] = c;
+	}
+	return NOWORD;
+}
+
+/* Reads and prints the header of an index file.
+*/
+
+void getheader(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int c;
+	char line[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+	fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp);
+        while (1) {
+                c = fgetc(fp);
+                ungetc(c, fp);
+                if (c == '#') {
+                        fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp);
+                        printf("%s", line);
+                        continue;
+                }
+		else
+			break;
+	}
+	fseek(fp, 0, 0);
+}
+
+/* Reads the offsets in the index file so word lookup is faster.
+*/
+
+void readoffsets(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int c, i, k;
+	long j, num;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+		offsets[i] = 0;
+
+	fseek(fp, 0, 0);
+	while (1) {
+		c = fgetc(fp);
+		if (c == '#') {
+			do {
+				c = fgetc(fp);
+			} while (c && c != '\n');
+			continue;
+		}
+		else
+			break;
+	}
+
+        j = 0;
+        while (c != EOF && c != '\n') {
+		k = MAXLONGLEN;
+                for (num = 0; c && isdigit(c) && k--; ) {
+                        num = (num * 10) + (c - '0');
+			c = fgetc(fp);
+		}
+                offsets[j++] = num;
+        }
+}
+
+/* Reads the stopwords in the index file.
+*/
+
+void readstopwords(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i, c;
+	char word[MAXWORDLEN];
+
+	fseek(fp, offsets[STOPWORDPOS], 0);
+	for (i = 0; (c = fgetc(fp)) != '\n' && c != EOF; )
+		if (!isspace(c))
+			word[i++] = c;
+		else {
+			word[i] = '\0';
+			addstophash(word);
+			i = 0;
+		}
+}
+
+/* Reads the file offset table in the index file.
+*/
+
+void readfileoffsets(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int j, k, c;
+	long num;
+
+        j = 0;
+        fseek(fp, offsets[FILEOFFSETPOS], 0);
+        c = fgetc(fp);
+        while (c != EOF && c != '\n') {
+                k = MAXLONGLEN;
+                for (num = 0; c != EOF && isdigit(c) && k--; ) {
+                        num = (num * 10) + (c - '0');
+                        c = fgetc(fp);
+                }
+                addtofilehashlist(j++, num);
+        }
+}
+
+/* The recursive parsing function.
+** This was a headache to make but ended up being surprisingly easy. :)
+** parseone tells the function to only operate on one word or term.
+*/
+
+struct result *parseterm(fp, parseone)
+     FILE *fp;
+     int parseone;
+{
+	int rulenum;
+        char word[MAXWORDLEN];
+	struct result *rp, *newrp;
+
+	rp = NULL;
+
+	rulenum = OR_RULE;
+	while (searchwordlist != NULL) {
+		strcpy(word, searchwordlist->line);
+
+		if (rulenum == NO_RULE)
+			rulenum = DEFAULT_RULE;
+		if (isunaryrule(word)) {
+			searchwordlist = searchwordlist->next;
+			rp = (struct result *) parseterm(fp, 1);
+			rp = (struct result *) notresultlist(rp, fp);
+			continue;
+		}
+		else if (isbooleanrule(word)) {
+			rulenum = getrulenum(word);
+			searchwordlist = searchwordlist->next;
+			continue;
+		}
+
+		if (word[0] == '(') {
+
+			searchwordlist = searchwordlist->next;
+			newrp = (struct result *) parseterm(fp, 0);
+
+			if (rulenum == AND_RULE)
+				rp = (struct result *)
+				andresultlists(rp, newrp);
+			else if (rulenum == OR_RULE)
+				rp = (struct result *)
+				orresultlists(rp, newrp);
+			if (searchwordlist == NULL)
+				break;
+
+			continue;
+
+		}
+		else if (word[0] == ')') {
+			searchwordlist = searchwordlist->next;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		rp = (struct result *) operate(rp, rulenum, word, fp);
+
+		if (parseone) {
+			searchwordlist = searchwordlist->next;
+			break;
+		}
+		rulenum = NO_RULE;
+
+		searchwordlist = searchwordlist->next;
+        }
+
+	return rp;
+}
+
+/* Looks up a word in the index file -
+** it calls getfileinfo(), which does the real searching.
+*/
+
+struct result *operate(rp, rulenum, word, fp)
+     struct result *rp;
+     int rulenum;
+     char *word;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+        int i, found;
+	struct result *newrp, *returnrp;
+
+	if (isstopword(word) && !isrule(word)) {
+		if (rulenum == OR_RULE && rp != NULL)
+			return rp;
+		else
+			commonerror = 1;
+	}
+
+	for (i = found = 0; indexchars[i] != '\0'; i++)
+		if (word[0] == indexchars[i]) {
+			fseek(fp, offsets[i], 0);
+			found = 1;
+		}
+	if (!found) {
+		if (rulenum == AND_RULE)
+			return NULL;
+		else if (rulenum == OR_RULE)
+			return rp;
+	}
+
+	newrp = (struct result *) getfileinfo(word, fp);
+	if (rulenum == AND_RULE)
+		returnrp = (struct result *) andresultlists(rp, newrp);
+	else if (rulenum == OR_RULE)
+		returnrp = (struct result *) orresultlists(rp, newrp);
+	else if (rulenum == NOT_RULE)
+		returnrp = (struct result *) notresultlist(newrp, fp);
+	return returnrp;
+}
+
+/* Looks up a file name in the index file.
+*/
+
+char *lookupfile(filenum, fp)
+     int filenum;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+        static char line[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        fseek(fp, getfilenum(decodefilenum(filenum) - 1), 0);
+        fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp);
+
+	return line;
+}
+
+/* Finds a word and returns its corresponding file and rank information list.
+** If not found, NULL is returned.
+*/
+
+struct result *getfileinfo(word, fp)
+     char *word;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i, c, x, countnum, rank, filenum, structure;
+        char fileword[MAXWORDLEN];
+        struct result *rp;
+
+	rp = NULL;
+
+        for (i = 0; (c = fgetc(fp)) != 0; ) {
+                if (c == ':') {
+                        fileword[i] = '\0';
+			i = 0;
+                        if (!strcmp(word, fileword))
+                                break;
+                        else {
+				while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != 0)
+					;
+				if (offsets[STOPWORDPOS] == ftell(fp))
+					return NULL;
+				continue;
+			}
+                }
+		else
+			fileword[i++] = c;
+	}
+	if (c == 0)
+		return NULL;
+
+        countnum = 1;
+
+	ungetc(c, fp);
+	while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != 0) {
+		x = 0;
+		do {
+			c = fgetc(fp);
+			if (c == 0)
+				return rp;
+			x *= 128;
+			x += c & 127;
+		} while (c & 128);
+		if (x) {
+			if (countnum == 1) {
+				filenum = x;
+				countnum++;
+			}
+			else if (countnum == 2) {
+				rank = x;
+				countnum++;
+			}
+			else if (countnum == 3) {
+				structure = x;
+				rp = (struct result *)
+				addtoresultlist(rp, filenum, rank,
+				structure);
+				countnum = 1;
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return rp;
+}
+
+/* Is a word a rule?
+*/
+
+int isrule(word)
+     char *word;
+{
+	if (!strcmp(word, "and") || !strcmp(word, "or") || !strcmp(word, "not"))
+		return 1;
+	else
+		return 0;
+}
+
+/* Is a word a boolean rule?
+*/
+
+int isbooleanrule(word)
+     char *word;
+{
+	if (!strcmp(word, "and") || !strcmp(word, "or"))
+		return 1;
+	else
+		return 0;
+}
+
+/* Is a word a unary rule?
+*/
+
+int isunaryrule(word)
+     char *word;
+{
+	if (!strcmp(word, "not"))
+		return 1;
+	else
+		return 0;
+}
+
+/* Return the number for a rule.
+*/
+
+int getrulenum(word)
+     char *word;
+{
+	if (!strcmp(word, "and"))
+		return AND_RULE;
+	else if (!strcmp(word, "or"))
+		return OR_RULE;
+	else if (!strcmp(word, "not"))
+		return NOT_RULE;
+	return NO_RULE;
+}
+
+/* Takes two lists of results from searches and ANDs them together.
+*/
+
+struct result *andresultlists(r1, r2)
+     struct result *r1;
+     struct result *r2;
+{
+        static struct result *tmpnode, *newnode;
+
+        if (r1 == NULL || r2 == NULL)
+                return NULL;
+
+        newnode = NULL;
+
+        while (r1 != NULL) {
+                tmpnode = r2;
+                while (tmpnode != NULL) {
+                        if (r1->filenum == tmpnode->filenum)
+                                newnode = (struct result *)
+                                addtoresultlist(newnode, r1->filenum,
+                                (r1->rank + tmpnode->rank) / 2,
+				r1->structure & tmpnode->structure);
+                        tmpnode = tmpnode->next;
+                }
+                r1 = r1->next;
+        }
+
+        return newnode;
+}
+
+/* Takes two lists of results from searches and ORs them together.
+*/
+
+struct result *orresultlists(r1, r2)
+     struct result *r1;
+     struct result *r2;
+{
+        int i;
+        struct result *rp;
+        static struct result *newnode;
+
+	newnode = NULL;
+
+        if (r1 == NULL)
+                return r2;
+        else if (r2 == NULL)
+                return r1;
+
+	initresulthashlist();
+	while (r1 != NULL) {
+		mergeresulthashlist(r1->filenum, r1->rank, r1->structure);
+		r1 = r1->next;
+	}
+	while (r2 != NULL) {
+		mergeresulthashlist(r2->filenum, r2->rank, r2->structure);
+		r2 = r2->next;
+	}
+	for (i = 0; i < HASHSIZE; i++) {
+		rp = resulthashlist[i];
+		while (rp != NULL) {
+			newnode = (struct result *) addtoresultlist(newnode,
+			rp->filenum, rp->rank, rp->structure);
+			rp = rp->next;
+		}
+	}
+
+        return newnode;
+}
+
+/* This performs the NOT unary operation on a result list.
+** NOTed files are marked with a default rank of 1000.
+*/
+
+struct result *notresultlist(rp, fp)
+     struct result *rp;
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	int i, filenums;
+        struct result *newp;
+
+	newp = NULL;
+
+	initmarkentrylist();
+	while (rp != NULL) {
+		marknum(rp->filenum);
+		rp = rp->next;
+	}
+
+	filenums = getindexfilenum(fp);
+	for (i = 1; !ismarked(i) && i < filenums; i++)
+		newp = (struct result *) addtoresultlist(newp,
+		i, 1000, IN_ALL);
+
+	return newp;
+}
+
+/* Adds a file number and rank to a list of results.
+*/
+
+struct result *addtoresultlist(rp, filenum, rank, structure)
+     struct result *rp;
+     int filenum;
+     int rank;
+     int structure;
+{
+        struct result *newnode;
+        static struct result *head;
+
+        newnode = (struct result *) emalloc(sizeof(struct result));
+        newnode->filenum = filenum;
+        newnode->rank = rank;
+        newnode->structure = structure;
+        newnode->next = NULL;
+
+        if (rp == NULL)
+                rp = newnode;
+        else
+                head->next = newnode;
+
+        head = newnode;
+
+        return rp;
+}
+
+/* Adds the results of a search, sorts them by rank.
+*/
+
+struct sortresult *addsortresult(sp, rank, fileinfo)
+     struct sortresult *sp;
+     int rank;
+     char *fileinfo;
+{
+        if (rank > bigrank)
+                bigrank = rank;
+
+        if (sp == NULL) {
+                sp = (struct sortresult *) emalloc(sizeof(struct sortresult));
+                sp->rank = rank;
+                sp->fileinfo = (char *) mystrdup(fileinfo);
+                sp->left = sp->right = NULL;
+        }
+        else {
+                if (sp->rank < rank)
+                        sp->left = (struct sortresult *)
+                        addsortresult(sp->left, rank, fileinfo);
+                else
+                        sp->right = (struct sortresult *)
+                        addsortresult(sp->right, rank, fileinfo);
+        }
+
+        return sp;
+}
+
+/* Prints the final results of a search.
+*/
+
+void printsortedresults(sp, num)
+     struct sortresult *sp;
+     float num;
+{
+        int rank;
+
+        if (sp != NULL) {
+                printsortedresults(sp->left, num);
+                rank = (int) ((float) sp->rank * num);
+                if (rank >= 999)
+                        rank = 1000;
+		if (maxhits) {
+                	if (maxhits == -1)
+				printf("%d %s", (rank <= 0) ? 1 :
+				rank, sp->fileinfo);
+			else if (maxhits > 0) {
+				printf("%d %s", (rank <= 0) ? 1 :
+				rank, sp->fileinfo);
+				maxhits--;
+			}
+		}
+                printsortedresults(sp->right, num);
+        }
+}
+
+/* Reads a compressed line. This is just here for testing, etc.
+*/
+
+void getrawindexline(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+        int c, inword;
+
+        inword = 1;
+        while ((c = fgetc(fp)) != EOF) {
+                if (c == ':' && inword)
+                        inword = 0;
+                if (!inword) {
+                        do {
+                                c = fgetc(fp);
+                                if (c == 0)
+                                        return;
+                        } while (c & 128);
+                }
+        }
+}
+
+/* Does an index file have a readable format?
+*/
+
+int isokindexheader(fp)
+     FILE *fp;
+{
+	char line[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+	fseek(fp, 0, 0);
+	fgets(line, MAXSTRLEN, fp);
+	if (line[strlen(line) - 1] == '\n')
+		line[strlen(line) - 1] = '\0';
+	if (strcmp(line, INDEXHEADER)) {
+		fseek(fp, 0, 0);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	fseek(fp, 0, 0);
+	return 1;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/search.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/search.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4e66fa7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/search.h
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+void search();
+struct swline *fixnot();
+struct swline *expandstar();
+char *getmatchword();
+void getheader();
+void readoffsets();
+void readstopwords();
+void readfileoffsets();
+
+struct result *parseterm();
+struct result *operate();
+char *lookupfile();
+struct result *getfileinfo();
+
+int isrule();
+int isbooleanrule();
+int isunaryrule();
+int getrulenum();
+
+struct result *andresultlists();
+struct result *orresultlists();
+struct result *notresultlist();
+struct result *addtoresultlist();
+
+struct sortresult *addsortresult();
+void printsortedresults();
+
+void getrawindexline();
+int isokindexheader();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/string.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/string.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..14fca772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/string.c
@@ -0,0 +1,504 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include "swish.h"
+#include "string.h"
+
+/* My own case-insensitive strstr().
+*/
+
+char *lstrstr(s, t)
+     char *s;
+     char *t;
+{
+
+	int i, j, k, l;
+
+	for (i = 0; s[i]; i++) {
+		for (j = 0, l = k = i; s[k] && t[j] &&
+		tolower(s[k]) == tolower(t[j]); j++, k++)
+			;
+		if (t[j] == '\0')
+			return s + l;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/* Gets the next word in a line. If the word's in quotes,
+** include blank spaces in the word or phrase.
+*/
+
+char *getword(line, skiplen)
+     char *line;
+     int *skiplen;
+{
+        int i, inquotes;
+        char *start;
+        static char word[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        start = line;
+        if (!(*line))
+                return "\0";
+        while (isspace(*line))
+                line++;
+        if (!(*line))
+                return "\0";
+        if (*line == '\"') {
+                inquotes = 1;
+                line++;
+        }
+        else
+                inquotes = 0;
+        for (i = 0; *line && i < MAXSTRLEN &&
+        ((inquotes) ? (*line != '\"') : (!isspace(*line))); line++)
+                word[i++] = *line;
+        word[i] = '\0';
+        if (!(*line))
+                return "\0";
+        if (*line == '\"')
+                line++;
+
+        *skiplen = line - start;
+
+        return word;
+}
+
+/* Gets the value of a variable in a line of the configuration file.
+** Basically, anything in quotes or an argument to a variable.
+*/
+
+char *getconfvalue(line, var, value)
+     char *line;
+     char *var;
+     char *value;
+{
+        int i;
+        char *c;
+        static char tmpvalue[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        if ((c = (char *) lstrstr(line, var)) != NULL) {
+                if (c != line)
+                        return NULL;
+                c += strlen(var);
+                while (isspace(*c) || *c == '\"')
+                        c++;
+                if (*c == '\0')
+                        return NULL;
+                for (i = 0; *c != '\0' && *c != '\"' && *c != '\n' &&
+                i < MAXSTRLEN; c++)
+                        tmpvalue[i++] = *c;
+                tmpvalue[i] = '\0';
+                strcpy(value, tmpvalue);
+                return tmpvalue;
+        }
+        else
+                return NULL;
+}
+
+/* Extracts anything in <title> tags from an HTML file and returns it.
+** Otherwise, only the file name without its path is returned.
+*/
+
+char *parsetitle(filename)
+     char *filename;
+{
+        register int c, d;
+	register char *p;
+	char *tag;
+        static char title[MAXTITLELEN], shorttitle[MAXTITLELEN];
+        int i, j, lines, status, tagbuflen, totaltaglen;
+        FILE *fp;
+
+	tag = (char *) emalloc(1);
+	tag[0] = '\0';
+        lines = status = 0;
+        p = title;
+        *p = '\0';
+
+        if (strrchr(filename, '/'))
+                strcpy(shorttitle, strrchr(filename, '/') + 1);
+	else
+                strcpy(shorttitle, filename);
+
+        fp = fopen(filename, "r");
+        if (fp == NULL) {
+		free(tag);
+                return shorttitle;
+	}
+        for (; lines < TITLETOPLINES ; ) {
+                c = getc(fp);
+                if (c == '\n')
+                        lines++;
+                if (feof(fp)) {
+                        fclose(fp);
+			free(tag);
+                        return shorttitle;
+                }
+                switch(c) {
+                case '<':
+
+			free(tag);
+			tag = (char *) emalloc(MAXSTRLEN);
+			tag[0] = '\0';
+			tagbuflen = totaltaglen = 0;
+
+			tag[totaltaglen++] = '<';
+			tagbuflen++;
+                        status = TI_OPEN;
+
+			while (1) {
+                                d = getc(fp);
+                                if (d == EOF) {
+					fclose(fp);
+					free(tag);
+					return shorttitle;
+				}
+				else if (d == '>') {
+					tag[totaltaglen] = '\0';
+					tag = (char *) erealloc(tag,
+					totaltaglen + MAXSTRLEN);
+					sprintf(tag, "%s%c", tag, '>');
+					break;
+				}
+
+				tag[totaltaglen++] = d;
+				tagbuflen++;
+				if (tagbuflen >= MAXSTRLEN) {
+					tag = (char *) erealloc(tag,
+					totaltaglen + MAXSTRLEN);
+					tagbuflen = 0;
+				}
+			}
+
+                        if (lstrstr(tag, "")) {
+                                status = TI_CLOSE;
+                                *p = '\0';
+                                fclose(fp);
+                                for (i = 0; title[i]; i++)
+                                        if (title[i] == '\n')
+                                                title[i] = ' ';
+/*				for (i = 0; isspace(title[i]) 
+				     || title[i] == '\"' 
+				     ; i++)
+					;*/
+				for (j = 0; title[i]; j++)
+					title[j] = title[i++];
+				for (j = strlen(title) - 1;
+				(j && isspace(title[j]))
+				|| title[j] == '\0' 
+				     /* || title[j] == '\"' */
+				     ; j--)
+					title[j] = '\0';
+				for (j = 0; title[j]; j++)
+					if (title[j] == '\"')
+						title[j] = '\'';
+				free(tag);
+                                return title;
+                        }
+                        else {
+                                if (lstrstr(tag, ""))
+                                        status = TI_FOUND;
+                        }
+                        break;
+                default:
+                        if (status == TI_FOUND) {
+                                *p = c;
+                                p++;
+                        }
+                        else {
+                                if (status == TI_CLOSE) {
+                                        fclose(fp);
+					free(tag);
+                                        return shorttitle;
+                                }
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+        fclose(fp);
+	free(tag);
+        return shorttitle;
+}
+
+/* Malloc()'s a string, returns it.
+*/
+
+char *mystrdup(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+        char *p;
+
+        p = (char *) emalloc(strlen(s) + 1);
+        strcpy(p, s);
+        return p;
+}
+
+/* Is a character a valid word character?
+*/
+
+int iswordchar(c)
+     char c;
+{
+	int d, i;
+
+	d = tolower(c);
+	for (i = 0; WORDCHARS[i] != '\0'; i++)
+		if (d == WORDCHARS[i])
+			return 1;
+        return 0;
+}
+
+/* In a string, replaces all occurrences of "oldpiece" with "newpiece".
+** This is not really bulletproof yet.
+*/
+
+char *replace(string, oldpiece, newpiece)
+     char *string;
+     char *oldpiece;
+     char *newpiece;
+{
+        int i, j, limit;
+        char *c;
+        char beforestring[MAXSTRLEN], afterstring[MAXSTRLEN];
+        static char newstring[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+        if ((c = (char *) strstr(string, oldpiece)) == NULL)
+                return string;
+        limit = c - string;
+
+        for (i = 0; i < limit; i++)
+                beforestring[i] = string[i];
+        beforestring[i] = '\0';
+
+        i += strlen(oldpiece);
+
+        for (j = 0; string[i] != '\0'; i++)
+                afterstring[j++] = string[i];
+        afterstring[j] = '\0';
+
+        sprintf(newstring, "%s%s%s", beforestring, newpiece, afterstring);
+
+        while (strstr(newstring, oldpiece))
+                strcpy(newstring, replace(newstring, oldpiece, newpiece));
+
+        return newstring;
+}
+
+/* Like strcmp(), but the order of sorting the first char is
+** determined by the order of the characters in the wordchars array.
+*/
+
+int wordcompare(s1, s2)
+     char *s1;
+     char *s2;
+{
+	register int i, j;
+
+	if (s1[0] != s2[0]) {
+		for (i = 0; WORDCHARS[i] != '\0'; i++)
+			if (s1[0] == WORDCHARS[i])
+				break;
+		for (j = 0; WORDCHARS[j] != '\0'; j++)
+			if (s2[0] == WORDCHARS[j])
+				break;
+		if (i < j)
+			return -1;
+		else
+			return 1;
+	}
+	else
+		return strcmp(s1, s2);
+}
+
+/* This converts HTML numbered entities (such as ©)
+** to strings (like ©). Much is this function is
+** simply adding semicolons in the right places.
+** This and the functions it calls are not very fast
+** and could be made faster.
+*/
+
+char *convertentities(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+	int i, skip;
+	char ent[MAXENTLEN];
+	static char newword[MAXWORDLEN];
+
+	if ((char *) strchr(s, '&') == NULL)
+		return s;
+	if (strlen(s) > MAXWORDLIMIT)
+		return s;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < MAXWORDLEN; i++)
+		newword[i] = '\0';
+	for (; *s != '\0'; s++) {
+		if (*s == '&') {
+			strcpy(ent, getent(s, &skip));
+			if (ent[0] == '\0') {
+				sprintf(newword, "%s&", newword);
+				continue;
+			}
+			s += skip;
+			if (*s == ';')
+				s++;
+			sprintf(newword, "%s%s;", newword, ent);
+			s--;
+		}
+		else
+			sprintf(newword, "%s%c", newword, *s);
+	}
+
+	strcpy(newword, (char *) converttonamed(newword));
+	if (ASCIIENTITIES)
+		strcpy(newword, (char *) converttoascii(newword));
+
+	return newword;
+}
+
+/* Returns a matching entity that matches the beginning of a string, if any.
+*/
+
+char *getent(s, skip)
+     char *s;
+     int *skip;
+{
+	int i;
+	static char ent[MAXENTLEN], testent[MAXENTLEN];
+
+	*skip = 0;
+	strncpy(ent, s, MAXENTLEN);
+	if (ent[1] == '#') {
+		if (isdigit(ent[5]))
+			return "\0";
+		for (i = 2; ent[i] != '\0' && isdigit(ent[i]); i++)
+			;
+		while (ent[i] != '\0' && !isdigit(ent[i]))
+			ent[i++] = '\0';
+		*skip = strlen(ent);
+		return ent;
+	}
+	else {
+		for (i = 0; entities[i] != NULL; i += 3) {
+			strcpy(testent, entities[i]);
+			if (testent[0] != '\0') {
+				if (!strncmp(testent, ent, strlen(testent))) {
+					strcpy(ent, testent);
+					*skip = strlen(ent);
+					return ent;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return "\0";
+}
+
+/* This is the real function called by convertentities() that
+** changes numbered to named entities.
+*/
+
+char *converttonamed(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+	int i;
+	char testent[MAXENTLEN], newent[MAXENTLEN];
+	static char newword[MAXWORDLEN];
+
+	strcpy(newword, s);
+	for (i = 0; entities[i] != NULL; i += 3) {
+		sprintf(testent, "%s;", entities[i + 1]);
+		if (strstr(newword, testent) != NULL &&
+		(entities[i])[0] != '\0') {
+			sprintf(newent, "%s;", entities[i]);
+			strcpy(newword, (char *) replace(newword,
+			testent, newent));
+		}
+	}
+
+	while (hasnumbered(newword))
+		strcpy(newword, (char *) converttonamed(newword));
+
+	return newword;
+}
+
+/* Does a string still contain numbered entities that can be converted?
+*/
+
+int hasnumbered(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+	int i;
+	char testent[MAXENTLEN];
+
+	for (i = 0; entities[i] != NULL; i += 3) {
+		sprintf(testent, "%s;", entities[i + 1]);
+		if (strstr(s, testent) != NULL && (entities[i])[0] != '\0')
+			return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/* This function converts all convertable named and numbered
+** entities to their ASCII equivalents, if they exist.
+*/
+
+char *converttoascii(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+	int i;
+	char *c, *d, wrdent[MAXENTLEN], nument[MAXENTLEN];
+	static char newword[MAXWORDLEN];
+
+	strcpy(newword, s);
+	for (i = 0; entities[i] != NULL; i += 3) {
+
+		sprintf(wrdent, "%s;", entities[i]);
+		sprintf(nument, "%s;", entities[i + 1]);
+
+		c = d = NULL;
+		if ((entities[i])[0] != '\0')
+			c = (char *) strstr(newword, wrdent);
+		if ((entities[i + 1])[0] != '\0')
+			d = (char *) strstr(newword, nument);
+		if ((entities[i + 2])[0] != '\0') {
+			if (c != NULL)
+				strcpy(newword, (char *) replace(newword,
+				wrdent, entities[i + 2]));
+			if (d != NULL)
+				strcpy(newword, (char *) replace(newword,
+				nument, entities[i + 2]));
+		}
+	}
+
+	while (hasnonascii(newword))
+		strcpy(newword, (char *) converttoascii(newword));
+
+	return newword;
+}
+
+/* Does a string still contain numbered or named entities that can
+** be converted to ascii equivalents?
+*/
+
+int hasnonascii(s)
+     char *s;
+{
+	int i;
+	char *c, *d;
+
+	for (i = 0; entities[i] != NULL; i += 3) {
+		c = d = NULL;
+		if ((entities[i])[0] != '\0')
+			c = (char *) strstr(s, entities[i]);
+		if ((entities[i + 1])[0] != '\0')
+			d = (char *) strstr(s, entities[i + 1]);
+		if ((entities[i + 2])[0] != '\0')
+			if (c != NULL || d != NULL)
+				return 1;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/string.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/string.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e2c7dc87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/string.h
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+char *lstrstr();
+char *getword();
+char *getconfvalue();
+char *parsetitle();
+char *mystrdup();
+int iswordchar();
+char *replace();
+int wordcompare();
+char *convertentities();
+char *getent();
+char *converttonamed();
+int hasnumbered();
+char *converttoascii();
+int hasnonascii();
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.c b/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9da4ff53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.c
@@ -0,0 +1,480 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#define MAIN_FILE
+#include "swish.h"
+
+int main(argc, argv)
+     int argc;
+     char **argv;
+{
+        char c, word[MAXWORDLEN], wordlist[MAXSTRLEN],
+		maxhitstr[MAXSTRLEN], structstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	char tmpindex1[MAXFILELEN], tmpindex2[MAXFILELEN],
+		index1[MAXSTRLEN], index2[MAXSTRLEN],
+		index3[MAXSTRLEN], index4[MAXSTRLEN];
+        int i, j, hasindex, hasdir, hasconf, hasverbose, structure,
+		totalfiles, stopwords, index, decode, merge;
+	long offsetstart, starttime, stoptime, plimit, flimit;
+        FILE *fp1, *fp2;
+        struct file *filep;
+        struct entry *entryp;
+	struct swline *conflist, *tmplist;
+
+        index = decode = merge = 0;
+        hasindex = hasdir = hasconf = hasverbose = 0;
+	followsymlinks = stopwords = 0;
+        totalwords = stopwords = 0;
+        filelist = NULL;
+        entrylist = NULL;
+	dirlist = indexlist = conflist = tmplist = NULL;
+        suffixlist = nocontentslist = replacelist = NULL;
+        pathconlist = dirconlist = fileconlist = NULL;
+	titconlist = fileislist = NULL;
+        maxhits = -1;
+        verbose = VERBOSE;
+	plimit = PLIMIT;
+	flimit = FLIMIT;
+	structure = 1;
+        wordlist[0] = '\0';
+	structstr[0] = '\0';
+	indexn[0] = '\0';
+	indexd[0] = '\0';
+	indexp[0] = '\0';
+	indexa[0] = '\0';
+
+        if (argc == 1)
+                usage();
+        while (--argc > 0) {
+                ++argv;
+                if ((*argv)[0] != '-')
+                        usage();
+                c = (*argv)[1];
+		if ((*argv)[2] != '\0' && isalpha((*argv)[2]))
+			usage();
+                if (c == 'i') {
+                        index = 1;
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				dirlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(dirlist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c == 'w') {
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {                                strcpy(word, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                                sprintf(wordlist, "%s%s%s", wordlist,
+                                (wordlist[0] == '\0') ? "" : " ", word);
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c == 'f') {
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				indexlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(indexlist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+                }
+		else if (c == 'a') {
+			strncpy(indexa, *(++argv), sizeof(indexa));
+			argc--;
+		}
+                else if (c == 'c') {
+                        index = 1;
+                        hasconf = 1;
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				conflist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(conflist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+                }
+		else if (c == 'd') {
+			strncpy(indexd, *(++argv), sizeof(indexd));
+			argc--;
+		}
+                else if (c == 'l') {
+			followsymlinks = 1;
+			argc--;
+		}
+                else if (c == 'm') {
+			if ((argv + 1)[0] == '\0')
+				maxhits = -1;
+			else {
+				strcpy(maxhitstr, (++argv)[0]);
+				if (lstrstr(maxhitstr, "all"))
+					maxhits = -1;
+				else if (isdigit(maxhitstr[0]))
+                        		maxhits = atoi(maxhitstr);
+				else
+					maxhits = -1;
+                        	argc--;
+			}
+                }
+		else if (c == 'n') {
+			strncpy(indexn, *(++argv), sizeof(indexn));
+			argc--;
+		}
+		else if (c == 'p') {
+			strncpy(indexp, *(++argv), sizeof(indexp));
+			argc--;
+		}
+                else if (c == 't') {
+			if ((argv + 1)[0] == '\0')
+				progerr("Specify tag fields (HBtheca).");
+			else {
+				structure = 0;
+                        	strcpy(structstr, (++argv)[0]);
+                        	argc--;
+			}
+                }
+                else if (c == 'v') {
+			hasverbose = 1;
+			if ((argv + 1)[0] == '\0') {
+				verbose = 3;
+				break;
+			}
+			else if (!isdigit((argv + 1)[0][0]))
+				verbose = 3;
+			else
+                        	verbose = atoi((++argv)[0]);
+                        argc--;
+                }
+                else if (c == 'V')
+                        printversion();
+                else if (c == 'z' || c == 'h' || c == '?')
+                        usage();
+                else if (c == 'M') {
+			merge = 1;
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				indexlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(indexlist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+		}
+                else if (c == 'D') {
+			decode = 1;
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				indexlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(indexlist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+                }
+                else
+                        usage();
+                if (argc == 0)
+                        break;
+        }
+
+	hasdir = (dirlist == NULL) ? 0 : 1;
+	hasindex = (indexlist == NULL) ? 0 : 1;
+
+	if (index && merge)
+		index = 0;
+
+	if (decode) {
+
+		if (!hasindex)
+			progerr("Specify the index file to decode.");
+
+		while (indexlist != NULL) {
+
+                	if ((fp1 = fopen(indexlist->line, "r")) == NULL) {
+				sprintf(errorstr,
+				"Couldn't open the index file \"%s\".",
+				indexlist->line);
+				progerr(errorstr);
+			}
+			if (!isokindexheader(fp1)) {
+				sprintf(errorstr,
+				"\"%s\" has an unknown format.",
+				indexlist->line);
+				progerr(errorstr);
+			}
+
+                	decompress(fp1);
+			putchar('\n');
+                	fclose(fp1);
+
+			indexlist = indexlist->next;
+		}
+		exit(0);
+
+	}
+        else if (index) {
+
+                if (hasconf)
+			while (conflist != NULL) {
+                        	getdefaults(conflist->line, &hasdir, &hasindex,
+				&plimit, &flimit, hasverbose);
+				conflist = conflist->next;
+			}
+		if (!hasindex)
+			indexlist = (struct swline *)
+			addswline(indexlist, INDEXFILE);
+		if (!hasdir)
+			progerr("Specify directories or files to index.");
+
+		if (verbose < 0)
+			verbose = 0;
+		if (verbose > 3)
+			verbose = 3;
+		if (verbose)
+			starttime = getthetime();
+
+		while (dirlist != NULL) {
+			if (isdirectory(dirlist->line)) {
+				if (verbose >= 2)
+					printf("\nChecking dir \"%s\"...\n",
+					dirlist->line);
+	                	indexadir(dirlist->line);
+			}
+			else if (isfile(dirlist->line)) {
+				if (verbose >= 2)
+					printf("\nChecking file \"%s\"...\n",
+					dirlist->line);
+	                	indexafile(dirlist->line);
+			}
+			dirlist = dirlist->next;
+		}
+
+                if ((fp1 = fopen(indexlist->line, "w")) == NULL) {
+			sprintf(errorstr,
+			"Couldn't write the index file \"%s\".",
+			indexlist->line);
+                        progerr(errorstr);
+		}
+
+		if (verbose > 1)
+			putchar('\n');
+		if (verbose)
+			printf("Removing very common words... ");
+
+                filep = filelist;
+		totalfiles = getfilecount(filep);
+		entryp = entrylist;
+		stopwords = removestops(entryp, totalfiles, plimit, flimit);
+
+		if (verbose) {
+			if (stopwords)
+				printf("%d word%s removed.\n",
+				stopwords, (stopwords == 1) ? "" : "s");
+			else
+		                printf("no words removed.\n");
+                        printf("Writing main index... ");
+		}
+
+		printheader(fp1, indexlist->line, totalwords, totalfiles);
+
+		offsetstart = ftell(fp1);
+                for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+                        fprintf(fp1, "%016li", offsets[i]);
+                fputc('\n', fp1);
+
+                printindex(entrylist, fp1);
+		printstopwords(fp1);
+
+		if (verbose) {
+			if (totalwords)
+				printf("%d unique word%s indexed.\n",
+				totalwords, (totalwords == 1) ? "" : "s");
+			else
+		                printf("no unique words indexed.\n");
+                        printf("Writing file index... ");
+		}
+
+                printfilelist(filelist, fp1);
+		printfileoffsets(fp1);
+                fclose(fp1);
+
+                fp2 = fopen(indexlist->line, "r+");
+		fseek(fp2, offsetstart, 0);
+                for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+                        fprintf(fp2, "%016li", offsets[i]);
+                fclose(fp2);
+
+		if (verbose) {
+			if (totalfiles)
+				printf("%d file%s indexed.\n", totalfiles,
+				(totalfiles == 1) ? "" : "s");
+			else
+				printf("no files indexed.\n");
+
+			stoptime = getthetime();
+
+			printrunning(starttime, stoptime);
+                	printf("Indexing done!\n");
+		}
+#ifdef INDEXPERMS
+                chmod(indexlist->line, INDEXPERMS);
+#endif
+		exit(0);
+
+        }
+        else if (merge) {
+
+		if (indexlist == NULL)
+			progerr("Specify index files and an output file.");
+                if (hasconf)
+			while (conflist != NULL) {
+                        	getdefaults(conflist->line, &hasdir, &hasindex,
+				&plimit, &flimit, hasverbose);
+				conflist = conflist->next;
+			}
+
+		tmplist = indexlist;
+		for (i = 0; tmplist != NULL; i++) {
+			strcpy(index4, tmplist->line);
+			tmplist = tmplist->next;
+		}
+		j = i - 2;
+		if (i < 3)
+			progerr("Specify index files and an output file.");
+
+		sprintf(tmpindex1, tmpnam(NULL));
+		sprintf(tmpindex2, tmpnam(NULL));
+
+		i = 1;
+		strcpy(index1, indexlist->line);
+		indexlist = indexlist->next;
+		while (i <= j) {
+			strcpy(index2, indexlist->line);
+			if (i % 2) {
+				if (i != 1)
+					strcpy(index1, tmpindex2);
+				strcpy(index3, tmpindex1);
+			}
+			else {
+				strcpy(index1, tmpindex1);
+				strcpy(index3, tmpindex2);
+			}
+			if (i == j)
+				strcpy(index3, index4);
+			readmerge(index1, index2, index3);
+			indexlist = indexlist->next;
+			i++;
+		}
+#ifdef INDEXPERMS
+                chmod(index3, INDEXPERMS);
+#endif
+		if (isfile(tmpindex1))
+			remove(tmpindex1);
+		if (isfile(tmpindex2))
+			remove(tmpindex2);
+
+	}
+        else {
+
+		for (i = 0; structstr[i] != '\0'; i++)
+			switch (structstr[i]) {
+			case 'H':
+				structure |= IN_HEAD;
+				break;
+			case 'B':
+				structure |= IN_BODY;
+				break;
+			case 't':
+				structure |= IN_TITLE;
+				break;
+			case 'h':
+				structure |= IN_HEADER;
+				break;
+			case 'e':
+				structure |= IN_EMPHASIZED;
+				break;
+			case 'c':
+				structure |= IN_COMMENTS;
+				break;
+			default:
+				structure |= IN_FILE;
+				break;
+			}
+
+		if (maxhits <= 0)
+			maxhits = -1;
+		if (!hasindex)
+			indexlist = (struct swline *)
+			addswline(indexlist, INDEXFILE);
+		search(wordlist, indexlist, structure);
+
+	}
+
+        exit(0);
+}
+
+/* Gets the current time in seconds since the epoch.
+*/
+
+long getthetime()
+{
+        long thetime;
+        time_t tp;
+
+        thetime = (long) time(&tp);
+        return thetime;
+}
+
+/* Prints the running time (the time it took for indexing).
+*/
+
+void printrunning(starttime, stoptime)
+     long starttime;
+     long stoptime;
+{
+        int minutes, seconds;
+
+        minutes = (stoptime - starttime) / SECSPERMIN;
+        seconds = (stoptime - starttime) % SECSPERMIN;
+        printf("Running time: ");
+        if (minutes)
+                printf("%d minute%s", minutes, (minutes == 1) ? "" : "s");
+        if (minutes && seconds)
+                printf(", ");
+        if (seconds)
+                printf("%d second%s", seconds, (seconds == 1) ? "" : "s");
+        if (!minutes && !seconds)
+                printf("Less than a second");
+        printf(".\n");
+}
+
+/* Prints the SWISH usage.
+*/
+
+void usage()
+{
+	printf("  usage: swish [-i dir file ... ] [-c file] [-f file] [-l] [-v (num)]\n");
+	printf("         swish -w word1 word2 ... [-f file1 file2 ...] [-m num] [-t str]\n");
+	printf("         swish [-a x] [-d x] [-n x] [-p x] -M index1 index2 ... outputfile\n");
+	printf("         swish -D file\n");
+	printf("         swish -V\n");
+	putchar('\n');
+        printf("options: defaults are in brackets\n");
+        printf("         -i : create an index from the specified files\n");
+        printf("         -w : search for words \"word1 word2 ...\"\n");
+        printf("         -t : tags to search in - specify as a string\n");
+        printf("              \"HBthec\" - in head, body, title, header,\n");
+	printf("              emphasized, or comments\n");
+        printf("         -f : index file to create or search from [%s]\n", INDEXFILE);
+        printf("         -c : configuration file to use for indexing\n");
+        printf("         -v : verbosity level (0 to 3) [%d]\n", VERBOSE);
+        printf("         -l : follow symbolic links when indexing\n");
+        printf("         -m : the maximum number of results to return [%d]\n", MAXHITS);
+	printf("         -a : index administrator\n");
+	printf("         -d : description of index\n");
+	printf("         -n : name of index\n");
+	printf("         -p : URL of index page\n");
+	printf("         -M : merges index files\n");
+	printf("         -D : decodes an index file\n");
+        printf("         -V : prints the current version\n\n");
+        printf("version: %s\n", VERSION);
+        printf("   docs: http://www.eit.com/software/swish/\n");
+        exit(1);
+}
+
+void printversion()
+{
+        printf("SWISH %s\n", VERSION);
+        exit(0);
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.c- b/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.c-
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..320487d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.c-
@@ -0,0 +1,460 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#define MAIN_FILE
+#include "swish.h"
+
+int main(argc, argv)
+     int argc;
+     char **argv;
+{
+        char c, word[MAXWORDLEN], wordlist[MAXSTRLEN],
+		maxhitstr[MAXSTRLEN], structstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+	char tmpindex1[MAXFILELEN], tmpindex2[MAXFILELEN],
+		index1[MAXSTRLEN], index2[MAXSTRLEN],
+		index3[MAXSTRLEN], index4[MAXSTRLEN];
+        int i, j, hasindex, hasdir, hasconf, hasverbose, structure,
+		totalfiles, stopwords, index, decode, merge;
+	long offsetstart, starttime, stoptime, plimit, flimit;
+        FILE *fp1, *fp2;
+        struct file *filep;
+        struct entry *entryp;
+	struct swline *conflist, *tmplist;
+
+        index = decode = merge = 0;
+        hasindex = hasdir = hasconf = hasverbose = 0;
+	followsymlinks = stopwords = 0;
+        totalwords = stopwords = 0;
+        filelist = NULL;
+        entrylist = NULL;
+	dirlist = indexlist = conflist = tmplist = NULL;
+        suffixlist = nocontentslist = replacelist = NULL;
+        pathconlist = dirconlist = fileconlist = NULL;
+	titconlist = fileislist = NULL;
+        maxhits = -1;
+        verbose = VERBOSE;
+	plimit = PLIMIT;
+	flimit = FLIMIT;
+	structure = 1;
+        wordlist[0] = '\0';
+	structstr[0] = '\0';
+	indexn[0] = '\0';
+	indexd[0] = '\0';
+	indexp[0] = '\0';
+	indexa[0] = '\0';
+
+        if (argc == 1)
+                usage();
+        while (--argc > 0) {
+                ++argv;
+                if ((*argv)[0] != '-')
+                        usage();
+                c = (*argv)[1];
+		if ((*argv)[2] != '\0' && isalpha((*argv)[2]))
+			usage();
+                if (c == 'i') {
+                        index = 1;
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				dirlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(dirlist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c == 'w') {
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {                                strcpy(word, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                                sprintf(wordlist, "%s%s%s", wordlist,
+                                (wordlist[0] == '\0') ? "" : " ", word);
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c == 'f') {
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				indexlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(indexlist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c == 'c') {
+                        index = 1;
+                        hasconf = 1;
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				conflist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(conflist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+                }
+                else if (c == 'l') {
+			followsymlinks = 1;
+			argc--;
+		}
+                else if (c == 'm') {
+			if ((argv + 1)[0] == '\0')
+				maxhits = -1;
+			else {
+				strcpy(maxhitstr, (++argv)[0]);
+				if (lstrstr(maxhitstr, "all"))
+					maxhits = -1;
+				else if (isdigit(maxhitstr[0]))
+                        		maxhits = atoi(maxhitstr);
+				else
+					maxhits = -1;
+                        	argc--;
+			}
+                }
+                else if (c == 't') {
+			if ((argv + 1)[0] == '\0')
+				progerr("Specify tag fields (HBtheca).");
+			else {
+				structure = 0;
+                        	strcpy(structstr, (++argv)[0]);
+                        	argc--;
+			}
+                }
+                else if (c == 'v') {
+			hasverbose = 1;
+			if ((argv + 1)[0] == '\0') {
+				verbose = 3;
+				break;
+			}
+			else if (!isdigit((argv + 1)[0][0]))
+				verbose = 3;
+			else
+                        	verbose = atoi((++argv)[0]);
+                        argc--;
+                }
+                else if (c == 'V')
+                        printversion();
+                else if (c == 'z' || c == 'h' || c == '?')
+                        usage();
+                else if (c == 'M') {
+			merge = 1;
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				indexlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(indexlist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+		}
+                else if (c == 'D') {
+			decode = 1;
+                        while ((argv + 1)[0] != '\0' && *(argv + 1)[0] != '-') {
+				indexlist = (struct swline *)
+				addswline(indexlist, (++argv)[0]);
+                                argc--;
+                        }
+                }
+                else
+                        usage();
+                if (argc == 0)
+                        break;
+        }
+
+	hasdir = (dirlist == NULL) ? 0 : 1;
+	hasindex = (indexlist == NULL) ? 0 : 1;
+
+	if (index && merge)
+		index = 0;
+
+	if (decode) {
+
+		if (!hasindex)
+			progerr("Specify the index file to decode.");
+
+		while (indexlist != NULL) {
+
+                	if ((fp1 = fopen(indexlist->line, "r")) == NULL) {
+				sprintf(errorstr,
+				"Couldn't open the index file \"%s\".",
+				indexlist->line);
+				progerr(errorstr);
+			}
+			if (!isokindexheader(fp1)) {
+				sprintf(errorstr,
+				"\"%s\" has an unknown format.",
+				indexlist->line);
+				progerr(errorstr);
+			}
+
+                	decompress(fp1);
+			putchar('\n');
+                	fclose(fp1);
+
+			indexlist = indexlist->next;
+		}
+		exit(0);
+
+	}
+        else if (index) {
+
+                if (hasconf)
+			while (conflist != NULL) {
+                        	getdefaults(conflist->line, &hasdir, &hasindex,
+				&plimit, &flimit, hasverbose);
+				conflist = conflist->next;
+			}
+		if (!hasindex)
+			indexlist = (struct swline *)
+			addswline(indexlist, INDEXFILE);
+		if (!hasdir)
+			progerr("Specify directories or files to index.");
+
+		if (verbose < 0)
+			verbose = 0;
+		if (verbose > 3)
+			verbose = 3;
+		if (verbose)
+			starttime = getthetime();
+
+		while (dirlist != NULL) {
+			if (isdirectory(dirlist->line)) {
+				if (verbose >= 2)
+					printf("\nChecking dir \"%s\"...\n",
+					dirlist->line);
+	                	indexadir(dirlist->line);
+			}
+			else if (isfile(dirlist->line)) {
+				if (verbose >= 2)
+					printf("\nChecking file \"%s\"...\n",
+					dirlist->line);
+	                	indexafile(dirlist->line);
+			}
+			dirlist = dirlist->next;
+		}
+
+                if ((fp1 = fopen(indexlist->line, "w")) == NULL) {
+			sprintf(errorstr,
+			"Couldn't write the index file \"%s\".",
+			indexlist->line);
+                        progerr(errorstr);
+		}
+
+		if (verbose > 1)
+			putchar('\n');
+		if (verbose)
+			printf("Removing very common words... ");
+
+                filep = filelist;
+		totalfiles = getfilecount(filep);
+		entryp = entrylist;
+		stopwords = removestops(entryp, totalfiles, plimit, flimit);
+
+		if (verbose) {
+			if (stopwords)
+				printf("%d word%s removed.\n",
+				stopwords, (stopwords == 1) ? "" : "s");
+			else
+		                printf("no words removed.\n");
+                        printf("Writing main index... ");
+		}
+
+		printheader(fp1, indexlist->line, totalwords, totalfiles);
+
+		offsetstart = ftell(fp1);
+                for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+                        fprintf(fp1, "%016li", offsets[i]);
+                fputc('\n', fp1);
+
+                printindex(entrylist, fp1);
+		printstopwords(fp1);
+
+		if (verbose) {
+			if (totalwords)
+				printf("%d unique word%s indexed.\n",
+				totalwords, (totalwords == 1) ? "" : "s");
+			else
+		                printf("no unique words indexed.\n");
+                        printf("Writing file index... ");
+		}
+
+                printfilelist(filelist, fp1);
+		printfileoffsets(fp1);
+                fclose(fp1);
+
+                fp2 = fopen(indexlist->line, "r+");
+		fseek(fp2, offsetstart, 0);
+                for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++)
+                        fprintf(fp2, "%016li", offsets[i]);
+                fclose(fp2);
+
+		if (verbose) {
+			if (totalfiles)
+				printf("%d file%s indexed.\n", totalfiles,
+				(totalfiles == 1) ? "" : "s");
+			else
+				printf("no files indexed.\n");
+
+			stoptime = getthetime();
+
+			printrunning(starttime, stoptime);
+                	printf("Indexing done!\n");
+		}
+#ifdef INDEXPERMS
+                chmod(indexlist->line, INDEXPERMS);
+#endif
+		exit(0);
+
+        }
+        else if (merge) {
+
+		if (indexlist == NULL)
+			progerr("Specify index files and an output file.");
+                if (hasconf)
+			while (conflist != NULL) {
+                        	getdefaults(conflist->line, &hasdir, &hasindex,
+				&plimit, &flimit, hasverbose);
+				conflist = conflist->next;
+			}
+
+		tmplist = indexlist;
+		for (i = 0; tmplist != NULL; i++) {
+			strcpy(index4, tmplist->line);
+			tmplist = tmplist->next;
+		}
+		j = i - 2;
+		if (i < 3)
+			progerr("Specify index files and an output file.");
+
+		sprintf(tmpindex1, tmpnam(NULL));
+		sprintf(tmpindex2, tmpnam(NULL));
+
+		i = 1;
+		strcpy(index1, indexlist->line);
+		indexlist = indexlist->next;
+		while (i <= j) {
+			strcpy(index2, indexlist->line);
+			if (i % 2) {
+				if (i != 1)
+					strcpy(index1, tmpindex2);
+				strcpy(index3, tmpindex1);
+			}
+			else {
+				strcpy(index1, tmpindex1);
+				strcpy(index3, tmpindex2);
+			}
+			if (i == j)
+				strcpy(index3, index4);
+			readmerge(index1, index2, index3);
+			indexlist = indexlist->next;
+			i++;
+		}
+#ifdef INDEXPERMS
+                chmod(index3, INDEXPERMS);
+#endif
+		if (isfile(tmpindex1))
+			remove(tmpindex1);
+		if (isfile(tmpindex2))
+			remove(tmpindex2);
+
+	}
+        else {
+
+		for (i = 0; structstr[i] != '\0'; i++)
+			switch (structstr[i]) {
+			case 'H':
+				structure |= IN_HEAD;
+				break;
+			case 'B':
+				structure |= IN_BODY;
+				break;
+			case 't':
+				structure |= IN_TITLE;
+				break;
+			case 'h':
+				structure |= IN_HEADER;
+				break;
+			case 'e':
+				structure |= IN_EMPHASIZED;
+				break;
+			case 'c':
+				structure |= IN_COMMENTS;
+				break;
+			default:
+				structure |= IN_FILE;
+				break;
+			}
+
+		if (maxhits <= 0)
+			maxhits = -1;
+		if (!hasindex)
+			indexlist = (struct swline *)
+			addswline(indexlist, INDEXFILE);
+		search(wordlist, indexlist, structure);
+
+	}
+
+        exit(0);
+}
+
+/* Gets the current time in seconds since the epoch.
+*/
+
+long getthetime()
+{
+        long thetime;
+        time_t tp;
+
+        thetime = (long) time(&tp);
+        return thetime;
+}
+
+/* Prints the running time (the time it took for indexing).
+*/
+
+void printrunning(starttime, stoptime)
+     long starttime;
+     long stoptime;
+{
+        int minutes, seconds;
+
+        minutes = (stoptime - starttime) / SECSPERMIN;
+        seconds = (stoptime - starttime) % SECSPERMIN;
+        printf("Running time: ");
+        if (minutes)
+                printf("%d minute%s", minutes, (minutes == 1) ? "" : "s");
+        if (minutes && seconds)
+                printf(", ");
+        if (seconds)
+                printf("%d second%s", seconds, (seconds == 1) ? "" : "s");
+        if (!minutes && !seconds)
+                printf("Less than a second");
+        printf(".\n");
+}
+
+/* Prints the SWISH usage.
+*/
+
+void usage()
+{
+	printf("  usage: swish [-i dir file ... ] [-c file] [-f file] [-l] [-v (num)]\n");
+	printf("         swish -w word1 word2 ... [-f file1 file2 ...] [-m num] [-t str]\n");
+	printf("         swish -M index1 index2 ... outputfile\n");
+	printf("         swish -D file\n");
+	printf("         swish -V\n");
+	putchar('\n');
+        printf("options: defaults are in brackets\n");
+        printf("         -i : create an index from the specified files\n");
+        printf("         -w : search for words \"word1 word2 ...\"\n");
+        printf("         -t : tags to search in - specify as a string\n");
+        printf("              \"HBthec\" - in head, body, title, header,\n");
+	printf("              emphasized, or comments\n");
+        printf("         -f : index file to create or search from [%s]\n", INDEXFILE);
+        printf("         -c : configuration file to use for indexing\n");
+        printf("         -v : verbosity level (0 to 3) [%d]\n", VERBOSE);
+        printf("         -l : follow symbolic links when indexing\n");
+        printf("         -m : the maximum number of results to return [%d]\n", MAXHITS);
+	printf("         -M : merges index files\n");
+	printf("         -D : decodes an index file\n");
+        printf("         -V : prints the current version\n\n");
+        printf("version: %s\n", VERSION);
+        printf("   docs: http://www.eit.com/software/swish/\n");
+        exit(1);
+}
+
+void printversion()
+{
+        printf("SWISH %s\n", VERSION);
+        exit(0);
+}
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.h b/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f4e2d683
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/src/swish.h
@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+/*
+** Copyright (C) 1995, Enterprise Integration Technologies Corp.        
+** All Rights Reserved.
+** Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com 
+** 3/11/94
+*/
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <math.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#ifdef NEXTSTEP
+#include <sys/dir.h>
+#else
+#include <dirent.h>
+#endif
+#include <ctype.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <setjmp.h>
+
+#define VERSION "1.1.1"
+#define INDEXFILE "index.swish"
+#define INDEXHEADER "# SWISH format 1.1"
+
+#define MAXFILELEN 1000
+#define MAXSTRLEN 1000
+#define MAXWORDLEN 1000
+#define MAXTITLELEN 200
+#define MAXSUFFIXLEN 10
+#define MAXENTLEN 10
+#define HASHSIZE 101
+#define BIGHASHSIZE 1009
+
+#define TI_OPEN 1
+#define TI_CLOSE 2
+#define TI_FOUND 4
+#define NOWORD "thisisnotaword"
+#define SECSPERMIN 60
+
+#define NO_RULE 0
+#define AND_RULE 1
+#define OR_RULE 2
+#define NOT_RULE 3
+
+#define IN_FILE 1
+#define IN_TITLE 2
+#define IN_HEAD 4
+#define IN_BODY 8
+#define IN_COMMENTS 16
+#define IN_HEADER 32
+#define IN_EMPHASIZED 64
+#define IN_ALL 127
+
+#define MAXLONGLEN 16
+#define MAXCHARS 68
+#define MAXHEADCHARS MAXLONGLEN * MAXCHARS
+#define STOPWORDPOS MAXCHARS - 3
+#define FILELISTPOS MAXCHARS - 2
+#define FILEOFFSETPOS MAXCHARS - 1
+
+#include "config.h"
+
+struct sortresult {
+        char *fileinfo;
+        int rank;
+        struct sortresult *left;
+        struct sortresult *right;
+};
+
+struct result {
+        int filenum;
+        int rank;
+	int structure;
+        struct result *next;
+};
+
+struct file {
+        char *filename;
+        char *title;
+        int size;
+        struct file *next;
+};
+
+struct filenum {
+	int fileshort;
+	long filelong;
+	struct filenum *next;
+};
+
+struct location {
+        int filenum;
+        int frequency;
+        int emphasized;
+	int structure;
+        struct location *next;
+};
+
+struct entry {
+        char *word;
+        int tfrequency;
+        struct location *locationlist;
+        struct entry *left;
+        struct entry *right;
+};
+
+struct sortentry {
+        char *filename;
+        char *title;
+        struct sortentry *left;
+        struct sortentry *right;
+};
+
+struct swline {
+        char *line;
+        struct swline *next;
+};
+
+struct fwordtotal {
+        int filenum;
+        int totalwords;
+        struct fwordtotal *next;
+};
+
+#ifndef MAIN_FILE
+#define VAR extern
+#else
+#define VAR
+#endif
+
+VAR struct file *filelist;
+VAR struct entry *entrylist;
+
+VAR struct swline *pathconlist;
+VAR struct swline *dirconlist;
+VAR struct swline *fileconlist;
+VAR struct swline *titconlist;
+VAR struct swline *fileislist;
+VAR struct swline *suffixlist;
+VAR struct swline *nocontentslist;
+VAR struct swline *replacelist;
+VAR struct swline *searchwordlist;
+VAR struct swline *dirlist;
+VAR struct swline *indexlist;
+VAR struct swline *hashstoplist[HASHSIZE];
+
+VAR struct result *resulthashlist[HASHSIZE];
+VAR struct fwordtotal *fwordtotals[BIGHASHSIZE];
+VAR struct filenum *filehashlist[BIGHASHSIZE];
+
+VAR long offsets[MAXCHARS];
+VAR int verbose;
+VAR int bigrank;
+VAR int maxhits;
+VAR int totalwords;
+VAR int followsymlinks;
+VAR int commonerror;
+
+VAR char indexn[MAXSTRLEN];
+VAR char indexd[MAXSTRLEN];
+VAR char indexp[MAXSTRLEN];
+VAR char indexa[MAXSTRLEN];
+VAR char errorstr[MAXSTRLEN];
+
+#ifdef MAIN_FILE
+
+char *indexchars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz&#;0123456789_\\|/-+=?!@$%^'\"`~,.<>[]{}";
+
+char *defaultstopwords[] = {
+"a", "about", "above", "according", "across", "actually", "adj", "after", 
+"afterwards", "again", "against", "all", "almost", "alone", "along", 
+"already", "also", "although", "always", "among", "amongst", "an", "and", 
+"another", "any", "anyhow", "anyone", "anything", "anywhere", "are", "aren", 
+"aren't", "around", "as", "at", "be", "became", "because", "become", "becomes", 
+"becoming", "been", "before", "beforehand", "begin", "beginning", "behind", 
+"being", "below", "beside", "besides", "between", "beyond", "billion", "both", 
+"but", "by", "can", "can't", "cannot", "caption", "co", "could", "couldn",
+"couldn't", "did", "didn", "didn't", "do", "does", "doesn", "doesn't", "don",
+"don't", "down", "during", "each", "eg", "eight", "eighty", "either", "else",
+"elsewhere", "end", "ending", "enough", "etc", "even", "ever", "every",
+"everyone", "everything", "everywhere", "except", "few", "fifty", "first",
+"five", "for", "former", "formerly", "forty", "found", "four", "from",
+"further", "had", "has", "hasn", "hasn't", "have", "haven", "haven't",
+"he", "hence", "her", "here", "hereafter", "hereby", "herein", "hereupon", 
+"hers", "herself", "him", "himself", "his", "how", "however", "hundred", 
+"ie", "i.e.", "if", "in", "inc", "inc.", "indeed", "instead", "into", "is",
+"isn", "isn't", "it", "its", "itself", "last", "later", "latter", "latterly",
+"least", "less", "let", "like", "likely", "ll", "ltd", "made", "make",
+"makes", "many", "maybe", "me", "meantime", "meanwhile", "might", "million",
+"miss", "more", "moreover", "most", "mostly", "mr", "mrs", "much", "must",
+"my", "myself", "namely", "neither", "never", "nevertheless", "next", "nine",
+"ninety", "no", "nobody", "none", "nonetheless", "noone", "nor", "not",
+"nothing", "now", "nowhere", "of", "off", "often", "on", "once", "one",
+"only", "onto", "or", "other", "others", "otherwise", "our", "ours",
+"ourselves", "out", "over", "overall", "own", "per", "perhaps", "rather",
+"re", "recent", "recently", "same", "seem", "seemed", "seeming", "seems",
+"seven", "seventy", "several", "she", "should", "shouldn", "shouldn't",
+"since", "six", "sixty", "so", "some", "somehow", "someone", "something",
+"sometime", "sometimes", "somewhere", "still", "stop", "such", "taking",
+"ten", "than", "that", "the", "their", "them", "themselves", "then",
+"thence", "there", "thereafter", "thereby", "therefore", "therein",
+"thereupon", "these", "they", "thirty", "this", "those", "though",
+"thousand", "three", "through", "throughout", "thru", "thus", "to",
+"together", "too", "toward", "towards", "trillion", "twenty", "two", "under",
+"unless", "unlike", "unlikely", "until", "up", "upon", "us", "used", "using",
+"ve", "very", "via", "was", "wasn", "we", "we", "well", "were", "weren",
+"weren't", "what", "whatever", "when", "whence", "whenever", "where", 
+"whereafter", "whereas", "whereby", "wherein", "whereupon", "wherever", 
+"whether", "which", "while", "whither", "who", "whoever", "whole", "whom", 
+"whomever", "whose", "why", "will", "with", "within", "without", "won", 
+"would", "wouldn", "wouldn't", "yes", "yet", "you", "your", "yours",
+"yourself", "yourselves", NULL };
+
+char *entities[] = {
+"", " ", " ", "", "!", "!", """, """, "\"", "", "#", "#",
+"", "$", "$", "", "%", "%", "&", "&", "&", "", "'", "'",
+"", "+", "+", "", ",", ",", "", "-", "-", "", ".", ".",
+"", "/", "/", "", "0", "0", "", "1", "1", "", "2", "2",
+"", "3", "3", "", "4", "4", "", "5", "5", "", "6", "6",
+"", "7", "7", "", "8", "8", "", "9", "9", "", ":", "",
+"", ";", ";", "<", "<", "<", "", "=", "=", ">", ">", ">",
+"", "?", "?", "", "@", "@", "", "A", "A", "", "B", "B",
+"", "C", "C", "", "D", "D", "", "E", "E", "", "F", "F",
+"", "G", "G", "", "H", "H", "", "I", "I", "", "J", "J",
+"", "K", "K", "", "L", "L", "", "M", "M", "", "N", "N",
+"", "O", "O", "", "P", "P", "", "Q", "Q", "", "R", "R",
+"", "S", "S", "", "T", "T", "", "U", "U", "", "V", "V",
+"", "W", "W", "", "X", "X", "", "Y", "Y", "", "Z", "Z",
+"", "[", "[", "", "\", "\\", "", "]", "]", "", "^", "^",
+"", "_", "-", "", "`", "`", "", "a", "a", "", "b", "b",
+"", "c", "c", "", "d", "d", "", "e", "e", "", "f", "f",
+"", "g", "g", "", "h", "h", "", "i", "i", "", "j", "j",
+"", "k", "k", "", "l", "l", "", "m", "m", "", "n", "n",
+"", "o", "o", "", "p", "p", "", "q", "q", "", "r", "r",
+"", "s", "s", "", "t", "t", "", "u", "u", "", "v", "v",
+"", "w", "w", "", "x", "x", "", "y", "y", "", "z", "z",
+"", "{", "{", "", "|", "|", "", "}", "}", "", "~", "~",
+" ", " ", " ", "¡", "¡", "", "¢", "¢", "",
+"£", "£", "", "¤", "¤", "", "¥", "¥", "",
+"¦", "¦", "", "§", "§", "", "&die", "¨", "",
+"©", "©", "", "ª", "ª", "", "«", "«", "",
+"¬", "¬", "", "­", "­", "", "®", "®", "",
+"¯on", "¯", "", "°ree", "°", "", "±", "±", "",
+"²", "²", "", "³", "³", "", "´", "´", "",
+"µ", "µ", "", "&mu", "¶", "", "·", "·", "",
+"&Cedilla", "¸", "", "¹", "¹", "", "º", "º", "",
+"»", "»", "", "¼", "¼", "", "½", "½", "",
+"¾", "¾", "", "¿", "¿", "", "À", "À", "A",
+"Á", "Á", "A", "Â", "Â", "A", "Ã", "Ã", "A",
+"Ä", "Ä", "A", "Å", "Å", "A", "Æ", "Æ", "A",
+"Ç", "Ç", "C", "È", "È", "E", "É", "É", "E",
+"Ê", "Ê", "E", "Ë", "Ë", "E", "Ì", "Ì", "E",
+"Í", "Í", "I", "Î", "Î", "I", "Ï", "Ï", "I",
+"Ð", "Ð", "", "Ñ", "Ñ", "N", "Ò", "Ò", "O",
+"Ó", "Ó", "O", "Ô", "Ô", "O", "Õ", "Õ", "O",
+"Ö", "Ö", "O", "×", "×", "", "Ø", "Ø", "O",
+"Ù", "Ù", "U", "Ú", "Ú", "U", "Û", "Û", "U",
+"Ü", "Ü", "U", "Ý", "Ý", "Y", "Þ", "Þ", "",
+"ß", "ß", "", "à", "à", "a", "á", "á", "a",
+"â", "â", "a", "ã", "ã", "a", "ä", "ä", "a",
+"å", "å", "a", "æ", "æ", "a", "ç", "ç", "c",
+"è", "è", "e", "é", "é", "e", "ê", "ê", "e",
+"ë", "ë", "e", "ì", "ì", "i", "í", "í", "i",
+"î", "î", "i", "ï", "ï", "i", "ð", "ð", "",
+"ñ", "ñ", "n", "ò", "ò", "o", "ó", "ó", "o",
+"ô", "ô", "o", "õ", "õ", "o", "ö", "ö", "o",
+"÷", "÷", "", "ø", "ø", "o", "ù", "ù", "u",
+"ú", "ú", "u", "û", "û", "u", "ü", "ü", "u",
+"ý", "ý", "y", "þ", "þ", "", "ÿ", "ÿ", "y",
+NULL };
+
+#else
+extern char *indexchars;
+extern char *defaultstopwords[];
+extern char *entities[];
+#endif
+
+#ifdef MAIN_FILE
+int main();
+void usage();
+void printversion();
+void printrunning();
+long getthetime();
+#endif
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/swish b/find/swish/swish.11/swish
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e1198002
Binary files /dev/null and b/find/swish/swish.11/swish differ
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/swish.conf b/find/swish/swish.11/swish.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bc47953e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/swish.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+# Sample SWISH configuration file
+# Kevin Hughes, kevinh@eit.com, 3/11/95
+
+IndexDir /usr/local/www/
+# This is a space-separated list of files and
+# directories you want indexed. You can specify
+# more than one of these directives.
+
+IndexFile index.swish
+# This is what the generated index file will be.
+
+IndexName "Index of EIT's Web"
+IndexDescription "This is a full index of EIT's web site."
+IndexPointer "http://www.eit.com/cgi-bin/wwwwais/"
+IndexAdmin "Kevin Hughes (kevinh@eit.com)"
+# Extra information you can include in the index file.
+
+IndexOnly .html .htm .txt .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Only files with these suffixes will be indexed.
+
+IndexReport 3
+# This is how detailed you want reporting. You can specify numbers
+# 0 to 3 - 0 is totally silent, 3 is the most verbose.
+
+FollowSymLinks yes
+# Put "yes" to follow symbolic links in indexing, else "no".
+
+NoContents .gif .xbm .au .mov .mpg
+# Files with these suffixes will not have their contents indexed -
+# only their file names will be indexed.
+
+ReplaceRules replace "/usr/local/www" "http://www.eit.com"
+# ReplaceRules allow you to make changes to file pathnames
+# before they're indexed.
+
+FileRules pathname contains admin testing demo trash construction confidential
+FileRules filename is index.html
+FileRules filename contains # % ~ .bak .orig .old old.
+FileRules title contains construction example pointers
+FileRules directory contains .htaccess
+# Files matching the above criteria will *not* be indexed.
+
+IgnoreLimit 50 100
+# This automatically omits words that appear too often in the files
+# (these words are called stopwords). Specify a whole percentage
+# and a number, such as "80 256". This omits words that occur in
+# over 80% of the files and appear in over 256 files. Comment out
+# to turn of auto-stopwording.
+
+IgnoreWords SwishDefault
+# The IgnoreWords option allows you to specify words to ignore.
+# Comment out for no stopwords; the word "SwishDefault" will
+# include a list of default stopwords. Words should be separated by spaces
+# and may span multiple directives.
diff --git a/find/swish/swish.11/test.html b/find/swish/swish.11/test.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3890f047
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/swish/swish.11/test.html
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+<HEAD>
+<TITLE>If you are seeing this, the test was successful!
+
+
+
+This is an initial paragraph...
+
    
+
+
    This is a number one header.
    
+
+
    This is a number two header.
    
+
+This is a paragraph. I have typed some bold text, some
+italic text too.
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/find/update-indexes.sh b/find/update-indexes.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f51e235
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find/update-indexes.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/ucblib:/usr/openwin/lib
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+PATH=/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
+export PATH
+
+umask 022
+
+#
+# Split the latest Usenet messages up into files.
+#
+cd /home/koreth/lurk/find/prep-files
+
+./usenet-split.pl /home/woodstock/ftp/pub/Babylon-5/Usenet/latest
+./cis-split.pl /home/woodstock/ftp/pub/Babylon-5/CompuServe/latest
+./aol-split.pl /home/woodstock/ftp/pub/Babylon-5/America-Online/latest
+
+cd ../indexes
+
+swish-e -c usenet-latest.conf
+swish-e -M usenet-static.swish usenet-latest.swish usenet-tmp.swish
+mv usenet-tmp.swish usenet.swish
+mv usenet-tmp.swish.prop usenet.swish.prop
+
+swish-e -c cs-latest.conf
+swish-e -M cs-static.swish cs-latest.swish cs-tmp.swish
+mv cs-tmp.swish cs.swish
+mv cs-tmp.swish.prop cs.swish.prop
+
+swish-e -c aol-latest.conf
+swish-e -M aol-static.swish aol-latest.swish aol-tmp.swish
+mv aol-tmp.swish aol.swish
+mv aol-tmp.swish.prop aol.swish.prop
+
+swish-e -c guide-update.conf
+mv guide-update.swish guide.swish
+mv guide-update.swish.prop guide.swish.prop
+
+swish-e -c synops-update.conf
+mv synops-update.swish synops.swish
+mv synops-update.swish.prop synops.swish.prop
+
+swish-e -c credits-update.conf
+mv credits-update.swish credits.swish
+mv credits-update.swish.prop credits.swish.prop
+
diff --git a/footer b/footer
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..68a0ca9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/footer
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
diff --git a/gen b/gen
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..60a4348f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gen
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+cd credits
+if [ -f $1 ]; then
+	./gen.py $1
+fi
+cd ../guide
+if [ -f $1 ]; then
+	./gen.py $1
+fi
+cd ../synops
+if [ -f $1 ]; then
+	./gen.py $1
+fi
+cd ../background
+./gen.py $1
diff --git a/gif/000/docking.gif b/gif/000/docking.gif
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index 00000000..edd22004
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diff --git a/gif/000/index.html b/gif/000/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5ab0ae24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gif/000/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
diff --git a/gif/001/attacking-raghesh.gif b/gif/001/attacking-raghesh.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2f587d1f
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diff --git a/gif/001/index.html b/gif/001/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5ab0ae24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gif/001/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
diff --git a/gif/001/sinclair-mask-small.gif b/gif/001/sinclair-mask-small.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b599ed0c
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new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5ab0ae24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gif/002/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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index 00000000..1464da8d
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index 00000000..5ab0ae24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gif/003/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
diff --git a/gif/003/tricking-trakis.gif b/gif/003/tricking-trakis.gif
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index 00000000..5ab0ae24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gif/004/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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index 00000000..5ab0ae24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gif/005/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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index 00000000..5ab0ae24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gif/006/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/gif/007/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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+++ b/gif/008/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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+++ b/gif/009/index.html
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+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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+++ b/gif/010/index.html
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+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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+++ b/gif/011/index.html
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+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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+Babylon 5: TV Science Fiction Through New Eyes
+
+by
+
+Steven Grimm
+
+Imagine a future three hundred years hence.  Humankind has recently been
+beaten, badly, in a three-year-long war with an alien federation, who for
+reasons unknown pulled back and sued for peace on the eve of their final
+victory.  Ten years later, we're back on our feet, fast becoming a major
+player in a complex political milieu of alien civilizations, some of them
+huge empires and others barely spacefaring.
+
+That's the premise of "Babylon 5," a new science-fiction series from Warner
+Bros.' PrimeTime Entertainment Network, or PTEN.  It joins two existing PTEN
+series, "Time Trax" and "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues," both of which
+premiered last season.  It can be seen Wednesdays at 8PM on most PTEN
+stations.
+
+Set on an Earth-sponsored space station in the year 2258, "Babylon 5" is the
+story of station commander Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare), a survivor of
+the final climactic battle of the Earth-Minbari War and, unbeknownst to him
+until a recent episode, a key part of the puzzle of the Minbari Federation's
+sudden surrender during that battle.  The station is the fifth to bear the
+name Babylon; the first three were sabotaged and destroyed, and number four
+vanished without a trace shortly after becoming operational.  Its fate is
+another of the many ongoing mysteries of the series' universe.
+
+"Babylon 5" is the brainchild of executive producer J. Michael Straczynski, a
+longtime science-fiction buff and veteran of such shows as "Murder, She
+Wrote" and the new "Twilight Zone."  Straczynski has been developing "Babylon
+5" since 1987.  One result of this long gestation period is a detailed
+five-year plot outline, a roadmap for the entire series from start to
+finish.  In that respect, the show is like a novel for television, a story
+spanning five seasons with a beginning, middle, and end.
+
+Nonetheless, Straczynski says, "Babylon" isn't like "Twin Peaks," which
+required viewers to tune in each week or fall hopelessly behind in the
+ongoing storylines.  Each episode of "Babylon 5," by contrast, is intended
+to be enjoyed on its own by someone who has no idea there's a larger story
+being told.  "The way the story is constructed, you can come in at any
+point, even miss episodes, and still be able to follow the thing," says
+Straczynski.  "It's just that the *more* you watch, the more you'll get out
+of it, the more things you'll pick up on.  It's a very difficult task from
+a writing point of view, but worth the effort, I think."
+
+Since they know where the show will be headed down the line, Straczynski's
+team can schedule set construction, special-effects work, and casting well in
+advance when necessary, leading to much lower production costs than similar
+series.  The first-season finale, for example, was shot twelfth due to the
+extensive post-production work required.  It won't be aired until late
+November.
+
+Special-effects costs are also kept low by "Babylon"'s groundbreaking use of
+computer-generated imagery, or CGI.  Using computer graphics instead of
+models for outer-space scenes allows three to four minutes of new effects
+footage to be produced for each episode, something almost unheard-of in
+traditional science-fiction television.  But don't expect to see the effects
+spread evenly across episodes.  Straczynski's plot outline allows non-
+effects-intensive episodes to be grouped together in production, so that the
+effects team (Valencia-based Foundation Imaging) can use several episodes'
+worth of production time on one especially spectacular show.  A recent
+episode titled "And the Sky Full of Stars" featured a flashback to the
+disastrous final battle of the Earth-Minbari war.  That sequence is
+considered by many science-fiction aficionados to be the most complex space
+battle ever shown on series television.  And according to Straczynski, it
+pales next to some of the upcoming episodes.
+
+Another unusual aspect of "Babylon"'s production is Straczynski's interaction
+with potential viewers via computer networks.  He has been a regular user of
+the GEnie commercial data service since before the start of filming, and has
+shared the day-to-day details of production with other GEnie users.  Even
+more unusual, he has solicited comments, suggestions, and criticisms from his
+fellow users, many of which have resulted in changes to the series.  For
+those on Usenet, Straczynski can also be found answering questions and
+dropping tantalizing hints about things to come in the newsgroup
+"rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5".
+
+Reaction to the show has been generally positive.  The aforementioned "And
+the Sky Full of Stars" is the most popular episode to date; least liked is
+"Infection," the first series episode produced and fourth aired.  Viewers
+seem to enjoy the fact that the series is gradually telling a story spanning
+many episodes, even if only bits and pieces are revealed at any one time,
+and the special effects and makeup are very well-regarded.  The most common
+complaint among fans is the often wooden acting of several regulars.
+Straczynski counters that this is becoming a less frequent complaint as
+viewers come to know the characters.  Some viewers find the dialogue stilted;
+one scene in particular, a reconciliation between Sinclair and former flame
+Catherine Sakai (Julia Nickson), provoked an especially strong negative
+reaction.  But even those complaining most loudly continue to tune in to see
+where the story will go next.
+
+Like it or hate it, most viewers would agree that "Babylon 5" has a feel and
+a look all its own, and whether or not the show runs for five seasons and
+finishes telling its story, that's an accomplishment to be proud of.
+
+-----
+To find out more...
+
+GEnie: Go to page 471 (SFRT2), and choose message category 18.
+Usenet: See the newsgroup "rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5".
+Internet: Anonymous ftp to "ftp.hyperion.com" or "ftp.uml.edu".
+WWW: Go to URL "http://www.hyperion.com/lurk/lurker.html".
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+Path: spud.Hyperion.COM!spud.Hyperion.COM!not-for-mail
+From: koreth@spud.Hyperion.COM (Steven Grimm)
+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+Subject: Why "Shadows?" -- speculation on darkness, light, and souls
+Date: 14 Apr 1995 14:41:51 -0700
+Organization: Hyperion, Mountain View, CA, USA
+Lines: 66
+Message-ID: <3mmq6v$kak@spud.Hyperion.COM>
+NNTP-Posting-Host: spud.hyperion.com
+
+I don't think I've seen this brought up before.  Possible spoilers for the
+rest of the season and beyond; proceed at your own risk:
+
+
+Why are the apparent baddies called "Shadows?"  At first, I just sort of
+accepted the name at face value; shadows connote darkness, stealth, and so
+forth.  But the first time we hear the word used in reference to the new
+race (Lady Ladira in "Signs and Portents") it's not really used as a proper
+noun; it's more a description.  This makes me think there's more to the
+name than meets the eye.
+
+So what does the word "shadow" tell us about these folks?  Three possibilities
+come immediately to mind.  The first, which has been discussed here, is that
+they're related to one of the other races, a different aspect of one of them,
+connected but not really the same.  The obvious choice is the Vorlons, of
+course (though I'm not so sure about that.)  If this is what the word meant,
+it also implies that the shadows can never be destroyed; where there's light,
+there must also be shadow.
+
+Second, if you want to take "shadow" really literally, you can ask: what's
+the light, and what's causing the shadows to be cast?  I have a vague feeling
+that the Minbari, standing as they do between the darkness and the light, may
+be an integral part of the picture; their presence is preventing the light
+from going everywhere it should.  Maybe when they go, so do the shadows --
+and if that's true, and the prophecy says the shadows will be destroyed,
+Delenn's transformation is an act of self-preservation on her part, not
+self-sacrifice.
+
+This has some appeal, since it ties in with the whole soul-migration issue.
+Humans aren't getting Minbari souls; Minbari have been standing in the way
+of souls that were supposed to go to humans, recycling them over and over.
+Stealing them, if you want to look at it that way (a nice irony given their
+hatred of soul hunters!)  Where are the souls coming from?  The Vorlons.
+Yes, I'm suggesting that Vorlon souls are migrating into humans, not the
+other way around as has been discussed frequently.  Note Delenn's speech in
+"Babylon Squared," in which she says of humans: "They are the future."
+
+In this case, the shadows are the result of the souls not reaching their
+destinations, and maybe what they're up to is trying to rectify that problem
+in a way that's not clear to us yet.  Kosh's encounter with Morden in "Signs
+and Portents" suggests that the migration is not voluntary on the part of
+the Vorlons.
+
+Finally, the third possible meaning of "shadow" -- a remnant, a lesser
+version of something that came before.  Maybe they're the remains of some
+*really* ancient force that was nearly destroyed, and is now trying to
+regain some of its past glory or to finish work that it once started.  It
+has more important things to do than deal with a bunch of little races
+who might try to interfere.  It devotes a small fraction of its resources
+to getting them to squabble amongst themselves so they're too busy to
+notice what else is going on; its true aims have nothing at all to do with
+the Narn or the Centauri or mass killings.  In fact, if I were to hazard a
+guess along these lines, I'd say the current war's real purpose is to
+distract the Minbari by making the Centauri look like a threat.  (In that
+case, they'll probably try to arrange for the humans to join in the war on
+the Centauri side.)
+
+What defeated them when they were stronger than they are now?  Something we
+haven't seen yet, maybe.  Perhaps something that was itself destroyed in the
+process, but I doubt that.  If this third theory is right, there's yet
+*another* invisible player in this game.  I'm guessing we'll find out about
+it in the next batch of new episodes if so.
+
+Comments?
+
+-Steve
+
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+#!/bin/csh
+
+@ x=0
+@ y=0
+@ r=0
+@ h=100
+@ w=80
+@ pal=32
+@ maxwid=800
+
+while ($y < 400)
+	@ x = 0
+	@ c = 0
+
+	convert -crop 9999x${h}+0+${y} $1 r${r}.miff
+
+	while ($x < ${maxwid})
+		convert +dither -colors ${pal} -crop ${w}x9999+${x}+0 r${r}.miff r${r}c${c}.gif
+		echo $r $x
+		@ x += $w
+		@ c++
+	end
+
+	rm r${r}.miff
+
+	@ y += $h
+	@ r++
+end
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+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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+#define gopher_movie_width 20
+#define gopher_movie_height 19
+static char gopher_movie_bits[] = {
+   0xff, 0xff, 0x07, 0xf9, 0xff, 0x0c, 0x19, 0xe0, 0x0c, 0x1f, 0xc0, 0x0f,
+   0x19, 0xe0, 0x0c, 0x19, 0xc0, 0x0c, 0x1f, 0xe0, 0x0f, 0x59, 0xd5, 0x0c,
+   0xf9, 0xff, 0x0c, 0xff, 0xff, 0x0f, 0x19, 0xe0, 0x0c, 0x19, 0xc0, 0x0c,
+   0x1f, 0xe0, 0x0f, 0x19, 0xc0, 0x0c, 0x19, 0xe0, 0x0c, 0x5f, 0xd5, 0x0f,
+   0xf9, 0xff, 0x0c, 0xff, 0xff, 0x0f, 0xfe, 0xff, 0x0f};
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+Pictures
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+
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+#!/bin/csh
+
+@ chunksize=8
+@ x=0
+@ y=0
+@ h=120
+@ pal=4
+@ wid=999
+@ maxwid=5
+@ chunkheight = $chunksize * $h
+
+if ($#argv < 3) then
+	echo Usage: $0 file prefix startrow
+	exit 1
+endif
+
+@ r=$3
+@ chunks = 0
+
+echo -n determining image height...
+set imheight="`identify comictitles.gif |& cut -d' ' -f2 | cut -dx -f2`"
+echo $imheight
+
+while ($y < $imheight)
+	convert -crop ${wid}x${chunkheight}+0+${y} +compress $1 chunk${chunks}.gif
+	echo chunk $chunks
+
+	@ y += $chunkheight
+	@ chunks++
+end
+
+@ chunkno = 0
+
+while ($chunkno < $chunks)
+	@ y = 0
+
+	while ($y < $chunkheight)
+		convert +dither -crop ${wid}x${h}+0+${y} -colors $pal chunk${chunkno}.gif $2${r}.gif
+		echo $r
+
+		@ y += $h
+		@ r++
+	end
+
+	@ chunkno++
+end
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+Pictures
+To the pictures directory
+
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Vorlon ambassador is nearly killed by an assassin shortly after arriving
+at the station, and Commander Sinclair is the prime suspect.
+
+
+Tamlyn Tomita as Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima(*).
+Blaire Baron as Carolyn Sykes(*).
+Johnny Sekka as Dr. Benjamin Kyle(*).
+Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander(*).
+John Fleck as Del Varner.
+Paul Hampton as the Senator.
+
    
+
+
    
+(*) These characters were originally planned as recurring characters
+throughout the series, but were replaced for various reasons.
+
+
    P5 Rating: 6.00
+
+Production number: 0 (Pilot)
+Original air date: Feb 22, 1993
+DVD release date: December 4, 2001 (barebones)
+                  August 17, 2004 (full-featured)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+Note: There are two versions of "The Gathering," the original one
+as initially aired in 1993 and a reedited special edition first aired in
+1998.  Items that only apply to one version are so marked.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    The Station
    
+
      
+
    •  Why was Babylon 5 really built, and rebuilt, and rebuilt, and
+rebuilt, and... rebuilt?  Sinclair's story about human stubbornness
+doesn't hold water.  B5 is a monstrous project, especially for a society
+very recently decimated by war.  Yet it was made five times, the fifth
+time from SCRATCH.
+
+
    •  Who sabotaged B1-B3, and why?  Who vanished B4, and why?
+
+
    
+
+
    The Minbari Assassin
    
+
      
+
    •  How did the assassin get the voice and image of Sinclair in diplomatic
+dress before he poisoned Kosh?  For everyone else he obviously
+impersonated, we'd seen him in close proximity to them earlier.
+
+
    •  The assassin-as-Varner pointed a gadget at Lyta in the bazaar.  It
+is widely assumed that this acquired her visual pattern for the
+changeling net, but it could have been something else.
+
+
    •  Why did the assassin-as-Varner arrange to make Londo late for the
+reception?  He kept Londo in a public place, making him unframeable.
+
    
+
+
    Takashima
    
+
      
+
+
    •  What hold did G'Kar et al. have on her? (see 
+Analysis) Perhaps she was on the take in that
+corrupt mining colony, and she's still living on
+the take today.
+
+
    
+
+
    Lyta Alexander
    
+
      
+
    •  Why was she talking to the assassin-as-Varner, as reported by Garibaldi
+and Londo?  Garibaldi must have asked her at some point, but we never
+get to see this.
+
+
    •  How was she involved?  (see Analysis)
+Perhaps her role was only passive - agree to scan Kosh if asked, report
+any information she gathers (possibly via telepathy).
+
    
+
+
    Sinclair
    
+
      
+
    •  Judging by the headlines of Universe Today,
+Babylon 5 is a very big deal back on Earth.  Why is Sinclair, a lowly
+Commander, both in charge of the station and acting as the Earth
+diplomat? (cf: "Signs and Portents")
+
+
    •  What happened to Sinclair on the Line? 
+(cf: "And the Sky Full of Stars")
+
+
    •  What is the hole in his mind?  Is it simply the 24 hour
+memory loss from his experience on the Line, or something more
+significant?
+
    
+
+
    Del Varner
    
+
      
+
    •  According to Garibaldi's information, Del Varner would normally stay far
+away from B5.  So, why was he recognized by a local tech (Eric)?
+
    
+
+
    The Vorlons
    
+
      
+
    •  Why did they request that the monitors in the docking bay be turned
+off?  Kosh was walking out in public, hidden safely in his encounter
+suit.
+
+
    •  What is Kosh inside that suit anyway?  (cf.
+Lost Scenes from Babylon 5)
+
+
    • @@@883993127 How did the poison get through to Kosh?  He must have had his hand, or
+whatever the limb was, completely outside his encounter suit.  Perhaps that
+explains why the Vorlons wanted the monitors turned off; they didn't want
+anyone else to see Kosh's hand.  In that case, why did they want Sinclair
+to see it?
+Special Edition (spoiler for a pivotal revelation later in the
+series):
+Kosh greeted what he thought was Sinclair by addressing him as "Entil-zha
+Valen," indicating that he already knew Sinclair in some context.
+
+
    •  Is there anything to that legend about someone turning to stone when
+they saw a Vorlon?  Have people ever gotten into situations where they
+could conceivably have seen one?
+
+
    •  The Vorlons seem to be puppet thugs of the conspirators in the pilot,
+yet clearly they do some things for their own reasons.  Why such secrecy
+around their technological inferiors?  Why break the veil to send an
+ambassador to B5?
+
+
    •  For that matter, why agree to ship Sinclair to their world?  Surely
+that would mean him finding out about them.  Unless they never intended
+to bring him there alive, of course.
+
+
    •  Did Delenn really tell Sinclair everything the Minbari know about the
+Vorlons?  Either way, how much does he know now?
+
+
    
+
+
    The Minbari
    
+
      
+
+
    •  Why did they surrender at the Line?  It's already pretty clear that
+Sinclair had Something to do with it.  Furthermore, what was the real
+reason the Minbari were fighting the war to begin with?
+
    
+
+
    The Centauri
    
+
      
+
    •  Why have they fallen so far from power?  From Londo's stories it
+seems they were a great Empire within his
+lifetime (which may be quite long, for all we know).
+
    
+
+
    Miscellaneous
    
+
      
+
+
    •  Why was the access panel outside Varner's quarters busted, by the
+time Garibaldi arrived?  It probably has something to do with the
+assassin using Takashima's clearance to gain
+entry.  Perhaps the panel keeps the only record, locally, of who's used
+it, and thus breaking it would prevent the illegal entry from being
+discovered.
+
+
    •  The very presence of a changeling net aboard the station invites us to
+open the question, "Who else did we see that could have been that
+Minbari in disguise?"
+
+
    •  Four major actors in the pilot left the production for various
+reasons and do not have permanent roles in the series (though Lyta
+Alexander reappeared later.)  However, since
+jms slipped reasons why in the B5 universe two of
+the the characters no longer appear, it is meaningful to ask:
+	
        
+	
      •  Why was Lyta Alexander replaced as station telepath?  Did she
+	get in trouble for unauthorized mind-scanning after all, or was it
+	because she's been in the mind of a Vorlon?
+
+	
      •  Why has Carolyn drifted out of Sinclair's life?
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    The Plan
    
+
      
+
    •  G'Kar et al. wanted to start a war between the EA and the Vorlons.
+The primary plan was for Kosh to be dead; Takashima's announcement that
+the Vorlons had forbidden the opening of his suit should have nailed that
+coffin shut.  Framing Sinclair for the murder was probably also part of
+the primary plan (the Vorlons' request that the bay monitors be turned
+off could well have been a surprise to them).
+
+
    •  There may have been a secondary plan to achieve the same results:
+having Lyta scan Kosh.  This could have been foreseen, impromptu, or
+coincidence.
+
+
    •  The assassin was Minbari, which indicates a violent faction of the
+Minbari still exists (cf: "Deathwalker"). The goals
+of that group are unknown, but so are the goals of the mainstream
+Minbari government.
+
+
    •  In particular, the Minbari warrior class may have had their own reasons
+for getting Sinclair sent to the Vorlon homeworld.
+
    
+
+
    Takashima was somehow involved
    
+
      
+
+
    •  The assassin used Takashima's palmed security access
+to gain entry to Varner's quarters.
+
+
    •  Takashima agreed to Kyle's plan of getting Lyta to scan Kosh even
+though (by her own story) it went very much against her grain.  "I guess
+I'm about due" is hardly a believable reason.
+
+
    •  Takashima broke into Varner's files.  260 years from now, would
+someone be able to crack open a technology criminal's secure files in a
+matter of hours without inside information?
+
+
    •  There were lots of instances when very recent information was used
+to further the Plan, for all of which
+Takashima was in an ideal position to be responsible.
+	
         
+	
      •  The assassin met Kosh at the right docking bay at the right time.
+ 
+	
      •  In general, the Plan proceeded
+	smoothly in spite of Kosh's 48 hour early arrival (the angriest
+	response we saw from Takashima was to this very discovery).
+ 
+	
      •  Sinclair was trapped in a lift at just the right time for just
+	long enough, and the record cleared.
+ 
+	
      •  Someone actually contacted the Vorlons and told them about the
+	poisoning, thus acquiring the predictable response that opening
+	Kosh's suit is verboten.
+ 
+	
      •  Someone leaked - very quickly - the fact that Sinclair had
+	been fingered by a witness.  This is what brought on the Vorlon
+	cruisers.
+ 
+	
      •  G'Kar found out - again very quickly - that Kosh would recover
+	from the poisoning ("There has been a complication").
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    Lyta may have been involved
    
+
      
+
    •  She seems to have exchanged glances with the real Del Varner as she
+walked off with Sinclair at the very beginning.  The two probably came
+in on the same ship.
+
+
    •  Later, she's seen talking to the assassin-as-Varner.  Yet the
+latter scans her image for the changeling net without her knowledge 
+(if that was what he was doing), so their level
+of cooperation is mixed at most.
+
+
    •  The assassin, disguised as Lyta, didn't kill her in the ample moment
+they shared outside the medlab.
+
+
    •  On the other hand, her conversation with G'Kar within "privacy" would
+almost certainly have been very different if they were in cahoots.  So
+perhaps she was only in contact with Del Varner and/or the assassin.
+
    
+
+
    The Minbari assassin
    
+
      
+
+
    •  The assassin didn't need any special clearance to enter Varner's
+quarters; he was expected.  So he must have used
+Takashima's clearance in order to leave a record of her entry at
+that time.  Since the panel was broken before
+this could be discovered, this suggests clandestine cross-purposes.
+
+
    •  "There is a hole in your mind" may have been his response to
+Sinclair's question, "Why did you do it?"  Interesting.
+
+
    •  It was not part of the plan for the Minbari to set off his explosives.
+Else why arrange to be able to get off the station?  So, they were just
+to prevent his capture/interrogation.
+
    
+
+
    Sinclair is inexplicably trusting and friendly with Delenn
    
+
      
+
    •  He would have sacrificed his life to kill a few more Minbari during the
+war ten years ago, yet:
+
+
    •  He does not appear to be discomfited by Delenn's evasions in their
+Garden conversations.
+
+
    •  When he encounters Delenn after escaping the exploding assassin, it
+would have made sense for him to confront or question her, or at least
+be suspicious.  Instead, he was relaxed and jovial.  Later, he made sure
+Delenn knew he didn't hold her responsible.
+
    
+
+
    Delenn
    
+
      
+
    •  "The power of one mind to change the universe" likely refers to
+Sinclair.  (Recall the other Minbari's reference 
+to his mind.)
+
+
    •  There were two stones in the stone garden.
+
+
    •  She evades most of his questions, yet volunteers two big files
+during the episode, and drops lots of other hints to him.  As with 
+her abstention on the council, she seems subject
+to contrary forces.  Keep him in the dark, yet point him toward the
+light.
+
+
    •  She is a personally powerful representative of a very powerful
+race.  Yet we don't observe her taking any active hand in the big
+picture so far.
+
+
    • @@@884027214 In the B5 council vote to extradite Sinclair to the Vorlon homeworld,
+an abstention was equivalent to a "No" (presumably abstentions are
+interpreted to mean "None of the above" or "Take no action", whichever
+is appropriate).  So, what conflict prevented Delenn from explicitly
+voting against the motion?  Special Edition: Delenn claimed
+she couldn't vote one way or the other because she didn't yet have all the
+information at hand, and that her orders where Sinclair was concerned were
+simply to observe, not interfere.
+
+
    
+
+
    Londo
    
+
      
+
    •  He fills Garibaldi's ears with stories of the good old days of
+conquest. Bygone days, unlike the
+way things are now. He may be honest, or he may be trying to allay
+suspicions.  More likely the former, since Garibaldi's suspicions don't
+have much political significance.
+
+
    •  A heavy drinker and compulsive gambler.
+
    
+
+
    G'Kar
    
+
      
+
+
    •  Notice his jollity in telling Takashima his transport will submit
+to the weapons search (now that the assassin has successfully come
+aboard).  True, if she was in cahoots with him,
+that little exchange was for show, as was their earlier confrontation at
+Ops.  He's nonetheless consistently transparent in his emotional
+states.
+
+
    •  A schemer and warmonger.
+
    
+
+
    Takashima
    
+
      
+
    •  Some of her ideas were faultlessly loyal to the EA (eg "You better
+take a recorder - the way things are going you may need a witness.").
+So, her heart's in the right place, at least.
+
    
+
+
    Garibaldi
    
+
      
+
    •  Self-esteem trouble.  He's ready to give up on the investigation after
+Varner's death.  He's used to failure at his other jobs.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi also messes up the investigation in several ways:
+	
        
+	
      •  No guards around Kosh.
+ 
+	
      •  Losing sight of Varner while questioning Londo.
+ 
+	
      •  Not talking to Lyta about Varner while it's still relevant.
+ 
+	
      •  Not noticing all those Takashima timing
+	and information clues.
+ 
+	
      •  Lets the Commander get into a shooting fight with a superior
+	foe, alone.
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    •  An alternate
+introduction was written, but not filmed.
+
+
    •  Universe Today main headline: Vorlons to Make Contact
+
+
    •  Universe Today sub-headline: Narn Protest of EA's B5 Heats
+
+
    •  Among the messages flashing by on Lyta's identicard: ELVIS STILL LIVES
+
+
    •  When the assassin scans his hand at Varner's door, words are
+visible on the screen.  If you have a lucid pause function on your VCR,
+you too will be able to read what they say - "Laurel Takashima
+Cleared".
+
+
    •  Minbari ships have short-range FTL, or cloaking, or jamming
+(Sinclair: "They came at us out of nowhere").  Basically, they can put
+themselves right where they want to be without Starfuries noticing them
+en route.
+
+
    •  Cruisers can "wait" in hyperspace outside a jump gate.
+
+
    •  Unscheduled uses of the jumpgates, at least during this earlier
+part of B5's history, are practically unheard of.
+
+
    • @@@883993127 Special Edition: Two plot points, Kyle's
+use of stims to stay awake and Takashima's use of the Garden to grow coffee,
+were both transferred to the characters who replaced them in the series.
+
+
    • @@@884158807 Ed Wasser played C&C technician Guerra, and later
+went on to play Mr. Morden (first appearing in
+"Signs and Portents.")
+There's no evidence that the two characters are related, however.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    •  Actually, at one point or another, just about *everyone* lied
+in the course of the pilot...including Sinclair, who lied to G'Kar, and
+of course Delenn lying to Sinclair in the Garden...and so on.
+
+
      
+
    •  The one thing that I dropped fairly completely due to the
+delay in getting the series going was the Laurel thread, which has now
+mutated and become something even more interesting, actually.  It's
+something that's enabled me to now build in a trap door that you won't
+see for a long time, even though it's sitting there in plain sight.
+
+
      
+
    •   What happened to the old characters on the pilot, not working
+on the series? jms: On a classified mission (which I hope we
+will be able to get into at some point), Laurel has been reassigned out
+on the Rim, and Dr. Kyle is now working with the EA President on the
+issue of alien migration to Earth, a growing problem to some, a benefit
+to others.
+
+
      
+
    •  Pat Tallman passed on returning to the B5 project.  Our new
+telepath will be played by Andrea Thompson, with the character name
+Talia Winters.  Much of the Lyta arc will now go to Talia, but there's
+now a different way of getting her into that arc.
+
+
      
+
    •  What it *does* give me, which is kinda nice, is that the only two people to
+have ANY direct contact with a Vorlon have been transferred back to Earth.
+Which plays wonderfully into something sinister I'd kinda like to develop
+that the Earth Alliance is working on behind the scenes...
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, I think we broke [the "Return of the Jedi"] record for ships 
+on-screen in the pilot; Ron was rather pleased about it at the time.
+
+
      
+
    •  Will there be a director's cut?
      
+The odds are zero, since the first version of the B5 pilot existed
+only as a computer-graphic file edited movie.  It wasn't edited on 
+film, for real, until we'd pared it down.  We'd have to go in and
+totally re-edit and re-score, and I doubt that's going to happen.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Beats me, but if you find an uncut version of B5, lemme know, because
+I'D like one.
+
+
      
+The problem is that, unlike a motion picture, where you produce a
+cut on film, which you then trim down, we're editing on computerized
+image files.  We don't get around to finally cutting the film until 
+we've made our final edits.  So no complete version ever existed on 
+film.  The most that could be done is get those 25 minutes and *build*
+a new version with that footage...which would require additional 
+scoring, editing, and other stuff.
+
+
      
+
    •  The computerized cut of the pilot is now dumped out of memory, and
+those portions only exist on a few VHS tapes of marginal quality.  
+Also, the footage in computer file form is *very* low grade, like a
+poorly scanned gif file, very low resolution.  It would be useless on
+a laser disk.
+
+
      
+
    •  I'm certainly not showing disdain for the missing material; I'm just
+saying it ain't *there*.  Now, if B5 turns out to be a megahit, there
+may be money set aside to re-edit the pilot some years down the road,
+but I'm not currently counting on it.  My chief concern now has to be
+the series.
+
+
      
+
    •  There was a reason we gave Londo the pilot opening monologue, yes.
+And another reason why we're giving Sinclair the opening monologue
+over credits of the first season, though with some differences.  
+We're also considering rotating any such opening between other cast 
+members as well, but *always* in the past-tense, "Babylon 5 *was*...."
+We're dealing in future history here, and we plan to do some 
+interesting things with that aspect.
+
+
      
+
    •  Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two
+full acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
      
+But there are reasons for everything....
+
+
      
+
    •  Oh, yeah, the "mission of destruction" thing ONLY relates to this
+particular episode, the pilot.  It'll be gone from regular episodes.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to humans,
+not sentient aliens including his own race.  Earthers.  Which was one
+reason (of many) I wanted his character to be the narrator, someone
+looking in from the outside.
+
      
+As for the Third Age, it's -- oh, darn, look at the time, have to go....
+
+
      
+
    •  The alien section looked like a zoo!
      
+First, we decided that wasn't a right look for the alien sector, and
+that's the corridor we blew up at the end.  But the reason it was 
+designed that way is important.  Your reaction -- don't the aliens 
+have any privacy? -- is a very human, and specifically a very 
+*western* point of view.  Our feeling at the time was, why should 
+alien quarters look at all like human quarters?  Shouldn't they have 
+a different perspective than typical Western-style hotels?  (In some
+degree, the quaters were patterned after Japanese mini-hotels, where
+you get basically a slightly larger coffin-like setup, which you crawl
+into like a torpedo tube, with a window at one end, which has a 
+curtain, a TV over your head, and so on.  What we discovered is that
+many people ask for more alien aliens, but when we delivered on that,
+were asked why these things weren't more like what we expect, why 
+aren't they like human quarters?  It's really a losing battle.)
+
+
      
+The other point on this is that if you look closely, there are back
+areas accessible to residents, which can in particular be seen in the
+insectoid/antennae'd character's quarters.  The idea was that it would
+be sort of a front porch, where for lack of much else to do, you'd sit
+out on the porch, watching the passing parade.
+
+
      
+But the reaction was less than favorable, we had to keep explaining
+that this proceeds from an alien POV, and so our alien quarters are 
+more like human quarters now, minus the alternate atmosphere stuff. 
+I'm still not quite sure what to think of this.
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, it's Kosh's ship that comes out of the jump gate backward,
+engines forward to assist with deceleration.  The fighters don't want
+to be slow-moving targets, so it stands to reason they wouldn't be
+configured for rapid deceleration.  They want to get into position as
+fast as possible.
+
+
      
+
    •  Kosh's ship had to decelerate in order to dock inside the station.
+This is a reality of spaceflight...you must both accelerate and
+decelerate.  Both take time.  Especially if you're going to dock.  
+Plus there was time involved in setting up the docking procedure, 
+turning over control to Babylon Control, lining up vectors and so on.
+
+
      
+The fighters didn't have to worry about any of this.  They came
+shooting through the gate and barely slowed at all, speeding over to
+B5 and taking up position.
+
+
      
+There have now been several situations in which we've been accused
+of "mistakes" that have, instead, simply been things done 
+scientifically  accurately.  I have to say (and this isn't directed at
+you, just more of a general statement), we're not going to hand 
+everyone everything on a silver platter, serving up pablum...the nature
+of a *science fiction* series is that you should THINK about things.
+The acceleration/deceleration thing is one example; some thought about
+why this would be would have led to the answer.
+
+
      
+And, as evidenced by other messages here, others have taken the time
+to look at it from that perspective.  Which I think is great.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: the skin tab/Kosh's hand/encounter suit question...one of the
+reasons I can't wait for the series to get on the air is so that we
+can make one thing clear, once and for all: it is NOT an error, not a
+plot hole, it is a plot POINT.  It is a question that our *characters*
+will be asking each other.  How can this be?  This will come up more
+than once, starting with "The Parliament of Dreams" episode.
+
+
      
+
    •  As for the Vorlon handshake (so to speak)...this will be dealt with
+in the series.  You have to remember that the original plan was to air
+the pilot and go *immediately* into series, where we'd bring up some 
+of these questions.  There simply wasn't room to deal with EVERYTHING
+in that short pilot...and where we DID try and cover everything, we 
+got gigged for being expositional.
+
+
      
+Now we have to re-establish a few things since there's been a gap in
+time...but the poison incident will be raised in "The Parliament of
+Dreams" script to start with, and move on from there.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Senator of the pilot, who was back on Earth, is someone who has
+in past been someone that Sinclair has come to for backing on things;
+he's the equivilent of someone on the Armed Services Committee, here
+as one of those civilian Senators overseeing Earthforce.  He would not
+be in any position to just come in and take over, any more than a 
+Senator visiting a U.S. army base would be in a position to take over
+the base if there were a problem with the ranking officer.  But he 
+might be able to bring some force to bear back in Washington, which
+might double-back to be of some use.
+
+
      
+There are civilian branches and military branches, as with today, in
+which the civilian branch oversees the military, but in very 
+formalized ways.
+
+
      
+
    •  In the script, the privacy mode involved going from a standard
+looking open booth to what suddenly looked like a flat black cube,
+which you could neither hear nor see through.  The director decided
+to try the lights.  It didn't work.  We're dropping it.
+
+
      
+
    •  You're right; the events of the Line are something that Sinclair
+doesn't much like talking about, and has been advised *against* 
+talking about.  When the Minbari surrendered, Earth put the best
+possible spin on it, tried to make the survivors of the Line look 
+like heroes, but there's a general sense of what happened.  And a 
+great deal of dismay over it.
+
+
      
+
    •  Your assumption is correct; the assassin's weapon was a very small
+one...limited power, and a charge-up sequence that becomes longer the
+more it's used.  If the Minbari had shot Lyta, it would've taken too
+long for the gun to power-up again for him to shoot Sinclair...and he
+would've been captured.  We slightly expanded the power-up whine for 
+each shot after the first one.  You'll note that the first shot, the
+one that takes out Varner, is almost immediate.  Points and fires.
+Gradually it takes longer, and finally the gun runs out altogether 
+(which is why, though we probably should've been clearer in showing 
+this, the assassin finally went hand-to-hand with Sinclair...the gun
+was never meant as an assault weapon, more as a derringer, with a few
+shots in case he got into trouble).
+
+
      
+
    •  As for Sinclair going after the Minbari assassin...there were several
+reasons for this.  First, this was personal for him; if the guy
+*wasn't* caught, he would be blamed for the death and sent to the 
+Vorlon homeworld.  He had something very much at stake.  Second, if 
+you have somebody with shapeshifting technology on board, the LAST 
+thing you want is to send in a large group.  The tracking of the 
+energy web used for the holographic effect was good, but only to a
+certain point.  It could say "He's ten feet away," but if there's 5
+guys within that range, it'll take you just long enough to react for
+the assassin to wipe out the bunch of you before you figure out which
+one he is.  But if there's only *two* of you, and you hear the shifter
+is within 10 feet, you know *exactly* who it is and can react 
+accordingly.  It seemed logical.  Also, you'd want someone there who 
+you knew VERY well, in case there were a replacement...because while 
+someone could emulate a face, they can't replicate memories, and
+Sinclair or Garibaldi could quickly figure out if the other was an 
+imposter.
+
+
      
+Yes, I probably could've stopped to explain this...but I figured it
+was readily apparent, and there was already enough exposition in the
+pilot to stun a horse.
+
+
      
+
    •  "If JMS had not mentioned the hole in Sinclair's mind, what would
+have been the reason for the assassin to try and kill Sinclair?"
+
+
      
+Hello...did you see the same movie that I wrote?  The assassin was
+not there to kill Sinclair.  He was there to kill Kosh.  He tried to
+kill Kosh.  He tried to stay AWAY from Sinclair, did everything in his
+power to avoid Sinclair, ran from Sinclair, and only finally 
+encountered Sinclair when Sinclair came after HIM.  Then it was 
+nominal self-defense.
+
+
      
+Had the "hole in the mind" reference never been made, it would have
+been clear -- at least clear to every other carbon-based lifeform who
+saw the movie -- that the assassin 1) came to try and kill Kosh, 2) in
+the hope of disrupting the purpose of Babylon 5, with the added 
+benefit of 3) if he failed in his mission, setting up Sinclair to take
+the rap for his actions.  At the very end, rather than be captured and
+interrogated, the Minbari assassin killed himself with an implanted
+bomb.  His comment to Sinclair at that moment was more of an "Up yours"
+comment, designed to shatter Sinclair with the knowledge that he knew
+something Sinclair didn't.
+
+
      
+You keep saying he was there to kill Sinclair.  He wasn't.  He didn't.
+He didn't try.  It makes it hard to have this conversation with you if
+your comments don't touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+
+
      
+
    •  I never said that the [assassin's] intent wasn't to set up Sinclair;
+I only said that he wasn't there to *kill* Sinclair.  That aspect of 
+making Sinclair the patsy was very much part of the thing.  
+
+
      
+
    •  What Kyle suggests...is closer to the truth than might otherwise be
+suspected.  We had filmed a scene -- which never made it into the
+finished pilot -- where Garibaldi, growing suspicious of his boss -- 
+confronts Sinclair in the core shuttle.  One of the alibis he checked
+out doesn't hold up: Sinclair's.  The transport tube computer records
+don't indicate any delay.  Sinclair suggests that there's either a 
+problem with the system, or it's been deliberately altered to remove
+that information.
+
+
      
+It was, of course, the latter.
+
+
      
+Now...stop and think about this for a moment.
+
+
      
+The Observation Dome has equipment to detect approaching ships.  The
+spider transport approaches without being noticed.  The surface of the
+station would likely have sensors to detect something attaching itself
+to the hull.  Somehow these were over-ridden.  The only time that 
+anyone notices, up in the Dome, is later, when Laurel isn't there, 
+interestingly enough.  Someone deliberately programmed the transport 
+tube to delay Sinclair.  The assassin would have to know this in 
+advance.
+
+
      
+We saw Londo with the assassin.  We also saw Garibaldi, Lyta, Dr. Kyle
+and -- later -- Sinclair with the assassin, each relating to him in
+different ways.  Who was the one person we never saw with the assassin,
+whose reactions might have told us something?  Who was the one put in
+charge of the station when Sinclair was pulled out of circulation?
+
+
      
+Laurel.
+
+
      
+We had some...interesting things in mind for this character.  Now that
+another character has come in, some things will be modified, but other
+elements will come in to replace them.
+
+
      
+
    •  I kept Tamlyn in the dark about a lot of this.  She even mentioned
+this in an interview she gave somewhere.  I didn't want that knowledge
+to make her play the role anything other than it should have been 
+played:  as if absolutely innocent and sincere.  Sometimes you just 
+gotta be sneaky....
+
+
      
+
    •  There was an element of saving her own life...and another aspect of
+all this is that she may not have been acting entirely of her own
+free will during the first half.  There may be some influences that 
+will emerge later.
+
+
      
+
    •  Laurel was not being altogether honest, and was helping to cover the
+activities of the person who was doing the assassination attempt.
+
+
      
+(This, again, is a thread that would've come clear had we kept that
+character; nobody was supposed to figure it out going in, but rather
+put it together over time.)
+
+
      
+
    •  This has already been answered; had the character stayed with the
+show, gradually it would have emerged that the assassin had access to
+Laurel's codes because she provided them to him.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+This isn't so much a spoiler, since it concerns an abandoned story 
+like (or, let me rephrase that...a modified story line).  I mention
+this here since I just mentioned it elsewhere, and might as well do
+so here.
+
      
+Think hard about the pilot for a moment.  Whose job is it in the
+observation dome to monitor incoming ships...but apparently let the 
+spider transport slip through unnoticed?  The station's skin should 
+have (and likely did) detect something clamping onto it...but
+apparently someone over-rode that for the spider transport.  Someone
+had to PRE-arrange access via the computer for the assassin, since it
+easily palms its way into Varner's quarters.  (And what is the name of
+the person the access computer recognizes?)  Someone had to arrange
+for the transport tube to be delayed, and then *erase* that
+information from the computer system.  Someone who knew *exactly* when
+the Vorlon ship would be docking.  We see, at various times, the 
+following people interacting with the assassin, in different 
+capacities: Garibaldi, Lyta, G'Kar, Londo, Dr. Kyle, and of course,
+much later, Sinclair.  Who did we never see in direct contact with the
+assassin?  Who was put in charge of the station after Sinclair was 
+removed?
+
      
+Do you notice a pattern developing?  Do certain things here point to a
+certain individual...who may, or may not, have been acting on her own
+volition?
+
      
+And yes, this is something we planned to explore, though it wasn't on
+a *direct* line to the arc of our story.  It definitely impinged upon
+it, of course.  This has been modified due to the change in the 
+character of the Lieutenant Commander, and this now won't go where it
+was going to go...but we still have some very interesting plans for 
+our secondary character, not at all along the Takashima lines (which 
+is why this isn't a spoiler), but certainly intriguing on their own
+terms.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Now, I didn't say she was a villain.  I said that certain things may
+or may not have been done of her own free will, her own volition. 
+What this means...we'll see.
+
+
      
+
    •  The scruffy person in the Varner files was the same homeless person
+who we just happen to see sitting right outside Varner's quarters,
+watching as he moves along.  This was played by Ron Thornton, because
+we wouldn't be seeing him in a major role, we'd just have to know 
+someone was there.
+
+
      
+Again, this ties into a specific story line that has been modified
+with a) the departure of Laurel, and b) the length of time since the 
+pilot aired.  Who was the homeless man really?  It's no longer an 
+issue, but it was related, yes.
+
+
      
+But only in a very small way.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Would it be fair to compare the original ST pilot to B5's pilot?"
+
+
      
+No, it would not.  Because there is nothing in common with them other
+than that they are both SF.  You can compare TNG to DS9 to TOS,
+because they're in the same universe.
+
+
      
+Would it be fair to compare Cagney and Lacey with NYPD Blue?  After
+all, they're both cop shows.  But in fact, they're not the same kind
+of cop show; they share the same genre, but there ends the overlap. 
+The two shows are distinct, separate entities, just as Harlan Ellison's
+work is distinct from Bill Gibson's work, even though both incorporate
+elements of SF.
+
+
      
+The ST pilot existed in its own universe, and was primarily an action
+show.  The B5 pilot exists in its own universe, and primarily sets the
+stage for a political mystery/intrigue series.  It wasn't meant to 
+serve the same functions as the ST pilot.
+
+
      
+It seems to me that many SF fans continue to compare everything to
+ST because that's their primary frame of reference, and they continue
+to apply it whether it's relevant or not.  My suggestion...get another
+frame of reference.
+
+
      
+
    •  Once again, there's a lot of false analogies here in any attempt to
+compare pilots, as in this TOS and B5 thread.  You're talking about
+transporters and other *technological* items.  And you're right, they
+didn't explain their tech.  Neither did we, with the exception of the
+changling net in the pilot, and only because it was a plot point.  We
+didn't explain how the jump gates worked, how centrifugal force kept
+the gravity in place, or any of that.
+
+
      
+The difference isn't *technology*, it's *context*.  Once again, B5 is
+in many ways a *political* story.  Consequently it's necessary to 
+explain who the players are in some detail, something that ST didn't
+have to worry about.  If you're reading a political thriller about the
+U.S. and the (now defunct) USSR, it helps a lot to know who's who.
+
+
      
+Also, when ST started, there wasn't really a clear agenda, a place
+that they were going, story-wise.  B5 is a novel for TV.  And that 
+puts on some pressures and problems other shows don't have.  Others
+may not see it that way, but it isn't their call.  It's my call, and 
+I stand behind it, even while seeing some of the flaws in the pilot.
+
+
      
+All of which again points up the...well, *pointlessness* of trying
+to compare the two shows.  Compare MASH to ALL IN THE FAMILY.  They're
+both comedies.  The similarity ends there.  Everything doesn't have to
+be comparable or dissectable (to coin a term) in reference to ST.
+
+
      
+
    •  Let me just, against my better wishes, dive in here for just a moment
+moment on this discussion.  Especially as it relates to your slam
+against the characters and characterizations on B5.
+
+
      
+People keep comparing the B5 pilot to either the DS9 pilot or the TNG
+pilot, often favorably, sometimes less so, but the reality is that the
+B5 pilot had to suffer under a burden shared by neither of those two
+other shows: establishing a whole new universe, especially given that
+the B5 story is more of a political/action piece in which you really 
+have to understand where everyone's coming from.  By the time they got
+around to making the TNG pilot, just about everyone knew what a 
+Klingon was, what the Federation was, what phasers and teleporters 
+were...this was all established cultural coin.  When Jay Leno would
+make jokes about Klingons on the Carson show (which it still was back
+then), he didn't have to explain it to anyone.  There's 25 years of 
+shared history informing the story.  Same in DS9.  Thus in neither 
+pilot was that much really or substantially *new* introduced, they
+didn't have to create the universe from scratch.
+
+
      
+But that was exactly what was necessary for B5; the relationship
+between the five various governments is important to understanding the
+characters, and the show...as is the recent Earth/Minbari war, which
+isn't just backstory, it's something that will grow to play an 
+increasingly important role in the series as time passes.  So there 
+had to be time spent establishing each of those relationships, the 
+political backstory, the minor players.  AND we had to tell a fairly
+complex story within that framework.
+
+
      
+After you allocate the history of the B5 universe, for the
+establishment of the plot, for the establishment of who our various
+players are in relation to one another, you've got -- at MOST -- 3 
+minutes left per character out of a 92 minute movie.  You can't
+establish a lot of character in 3 minutes.
+
+
      
+Which is what strikes me as unfair in this conversation.  You're
+trying to compare 25-30 years of ST in its various incarnations, with
+its delivery of characterization over A WEEKLY SERIES to a single
+introductory TV movie of 92 minutes.
+
+
      
+Plus, the pilot was never meant to be a stand-alone; it was meant to
+get all the pieces moving, introduce us, and follow up the very next
+week with *character-oriented stories*.  That was always the plan.
+Had I known that it would be aired by itself, with a long delay until
+the series, I would have totally restructured it to make it more of a
+character story, and held off on the heavy background stuff until 
+later.  And in addition to THAT, I again point to the 25 minutes of
+good character stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor because
+we were over, some of which has been shown to people at conventions. 
+Some of them also felt as you do.  They saw the extra footage.  And
+their reaction: "Oh, so THAT'S who that is!" And their opinions of the
+characters did a fast turnaround.
+
+
      
+So what I'm saying here, fundamentally, is this: let's compare apples
+to apples and not apples to oranges.  You can't compare B5 to either 
+TNG's or DS9's pilots, because they operated in pre-existing universes.
+You can't compare the level of character  you get in a series to a TV
+movie, because one is 92 minutes long, the other is 22 hours long 
+times the number of seasons run.
+
+
      
+If you want to compare things, and that's certainly your right, may I
+suggest a moratorium on this entire discussion until the series comes
+on the air?  That will allow you to compare series to series, which 
+seems just a tad fairer to me.  Any seconds?
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: the pilot...I've hashed and rehashed this, and the bottom line is to
+see what we do in the series and judge the series by the series. The DS9
+pilot had to explain very little that wasn't specific to the plotline: you
+already knew what a Bajorran was, what a wormhole was, what the Federation
+was, what the Cardassians were, on and on and on. Because they didn't have to
+introduce any of that, they could spend time on other character moments. We
+didn't have that luxury in the pilot. We had to do what, in essence, ST has
+done over 25 years: establish our universe, painting it in broad strokes, as
+broad're done with that aspect. And now we can do our character-based
+stories. Which is exactly what we're doing. Each of the characters is being
+solidly rounded out in the series, showing multiple sides to each character.
+All I can say is that I think you'll like what we're doing.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I wasn't gonna jump in here, but I have to at least answer your
+question: "Where's the rest?"  The rest is in the series.  You haven't
+seen the series yet.  You're comparing it against 7 years of TNG; 
+rather consider if the ONLY thing you had EVER seen was "Farpoint." 
+We had a massive burden: to build an entire universe, based around a
+political drama, in basically 90+ minutes not counting commercials.
+That meant that more time went into exposition and backstory than I'd
+like.
+
+
      
+In my view, we've now done that, we've laid the foundation, and now
+we can sit back and tell stories...*character* based stories.  That's
+what I'm best at, and that's what the writers I've chosen to use on 
+the series are best at.
+
+
      
+The "rest" you ask for is there..in the series.  But I'm not asking
+you to take my word for it.  Check out the show.  Maybe you'll like
+it.  And maybe you won't.  That's showbiz.  You don' like it, you 
+don' gotta watch.  But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
+
+
      
+The miracle of the B5 pilot is that it got done at *all*, given the
+odds against us, given a team working together for the first time, 
+without the benefit of an established universe, and actors who had 
+never worked together before who had zero chance for rehearsal.  I'm
+not apologizing for the pilot; it had flaws, but I'm very proud of a
+lot that's in there.  
+
+
      
+Do the math.  You have a little over 90 minutes.  You have to 
+introduce 9 major characters in the course of that story.  That gives
+you ten minutes of attention for any one character.  Now you've also
+got to tell the backstory.  You've got to establish who the various 
+players are.  You've got to put the present-tense story into motion,
+with beginning, middle and end.  And now you're left with maybe 3-4
+minutes of "quality time" with any one character.  If we only had 2 or
+3 characters, then it's a very different story...but that isn't the 
+universe we have to work in.
+
+
      
+Now that the series is going ahead, we can spend an entire *episode*
+dealing primarily with one character.  And do the same for others.  We
+have the time.  And that's what's important.
+
+
      
+One last observation: you repeat the notion that it's all a "reaction"
+to TNG.  The treatment and screenply were complete and making the 
+rounds in Hollywood in Spring 1987.  The basic material was written in
+1986, at a point in some cases when TNG hadn't even *aired* yet.  So
+it could hardly have been written as a reaction to something that 
+hadn't been seen yet, could it?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You repeat several times your insistence that I study TNG to see
+what they did right, use them as a roadmap.
+
+
      
+Sorry.  I have no desire to study TNG.  I'm telling a different sort
+of story, in a different universe.  What TNG does right or wrong is
+more or less irrelevant to that universe.  That's like saying that
+(just to pick two names at random) Orson Scott Card should study Poul
+Anderson as a roadmap in his own novels.  This is utter nonsense.
+
+
      
+A while ago, I got an email from someone who didn't like the pilot
+(and it may have been on internet, btw) mainly because of the 
+communication devices.  He said, and I'm paraphrasing from memory, 
+that every time someone used the wrist-links, it broke the illusion
+for him, since we all KNOW that by then the REALITY is that we'll be
+using the chest communicators that TNG uses, and I should be sure to
+include that in future episodes as a capitulation to that reality.
+
+
      
+Sorry...TNG is a roadmap for TNG.  Not B5.
+
+
      
+
    •  The VOYAGER pilot is *$23 million*?!
+
      
+The BABYLON 5 pilot was $3.5 million.
+
      
+With $23 million, we could make 1.3 SEASONS of B5.  And have a bit
+of money left over for a wrap party.
+
      
+Amazing....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+My feeling here is, don't worry about the show, regarding your
+overcoming on the pilot.  Pilots are good, bad or uneven.  What matters
+in the analysis is the series.  You can have a great pilot and a
+disappointing series.  And vice-versa.  The series will air.  If it's
+good, people will watch, whatever they may have thought about the
+pilot.  If it ain't good, people won't watch, and deservedly so.  In 
+other words, the ball's in our court now.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"The pilot wasn't good.  Face it!"
+
+
      
+I'm at the head of the line to point out flaws in the pilot.  Flaws
+that we've dealt with.  But a) it still holds up, and b) you are 
+trying to make your opinion into *fact*.  It ain't.  An awful lot of
+people liked the pilot a lot.  To them, it was good.  Maybe to you, 
+it wasn't, but that's only true for you.  That you may think persimmon
+yoghurt is the best flavor ever created doesn't make it true for 
+everybody else.  Just a moment for perspective here....
+
+
      
+
    •  I was at the Emmys tonight for the presentation of the B5 Emmy, and
+in the visual efx area, more than one shoe can get an Emmy.  So we got
+one, DS9's pilot got one, and Lucas' Young Indy show got one.  (We sat
+at the next table to Lucas and his bunch, in fact, and noted that he
+watched the B5 footage with considerable interest.)  So when you come
+right down to it, here we were, our first shot out of the box, and we
+ended up on the same level of appreciation as Trek and Lucas.  Not too
+dusty....
+
+
      
+
    •  And y'know...it's absolutely in keeping with the Straczynski luck,
+and the history of this show, that the year B5 wins an Emmy is the 
+first year that they DON'T do the recap of last night's technical 
+awards.  Ah, well....
+
+
      
+
    •  I was asked to keep quite about this until April 23rd, which is when
+the announcement is to be made at the Nebulas, but now that it's 
+indeed the 23rd, and that announcement either has been made or is 
+being made now, I'm pleased to report that the Babylon 5 pilot movie,
+"The Gathering," has been nominated for a Hugo.
+
      
+Since we're up against Jurassic Park, I think I pretty much know where
+THAT award is going...but it is a tremendous honor and everyone 
+involved with the show is very pleased by it.
+
+
      
+
    •  Thanks.  As it turns out -- I today saw the list of nominees -- B5 is
+the ONLY TV-SF nominated for the Hugo.  The rest are all feature films
+(JP, Addams Family, Nightmare Before Christmas, Groundhog Day).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Eric...nothing would gladden my heart more than if the B5 pilot won
+a Hugo (except the series winning a Hugo, which I think is a bit
+likelier, maybe).  It is the highest compliment that can be paid by
+the SF community of readers and viewers.  But one must be realistic,
+and I just don't see it outpulling Jurassic Park in the ballotting.
+JP is the proverbial 500 pound gorilla.  Or the 50,000 pound T-Rex.
+
      
+While we are only small mammals....granted we're mammals with guns
+and an attitude, of course....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+JP won the Hugo
+
      
+Yep, that's pretty much what I said would happen.  And in my view,
+JP probably deserves the Hugo more than "The Gathering."  Next year,
+now, THAT is an open question....
+
+
      
+
    •  Nope, I was nowhere in the pilot, not under makeup, not nohow, not 
+no-way.  Nor will I do so in the series.  That just ain't my thing.
+
+
      
+
    •  Side-note...Londo baring his teeth had nothing to do with Delenn's 
+vote in "The Gathering."  That was gas.
+
+
      
+
    •  Both Christy Marx and Kathryn [Drennan, JMS's wife]
+can both be *briefly* seen in the pilot
+movie as BG in the casino...and in the main titles, Kathryn's back is
+to the camera in the wide downshot, though you really can't make it 
+out well in that one.  Also in the montage in the pilot movie, seated
+at the bar under narration, the fellow with the beard, is art director
+John Iacovelli.
+
+
      
+
    •  The most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character; the
+second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.  Believe 
+me, as you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot, I have no 
+problem dropping a body.  And as far as I'm concerned, only 2 or 3 
+characters in this series are indispensible...the rest are open to all
+kinds of interesting fates.
+
+
      
+
    •  The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+strength.  Lyta at P5 needs a little help.  A P10 could nail you from
+across the room.
+
+
      
+
    •  The background on that business meeting is similar to all such uses of
+telepaths: both sides agree to the presence of a telepath to monitor 
+the negotiations.  If one were to demur, the deal would be off because
+the person clearly has something to hide.  Which is why there is a 
+good market for various kinds of shields that don't LOOK like or feel
+like shields unless the telepath knows what to look for.  You can also
+just try and hide it and hope that the telepath isn't looking too deep
+or isn't really paying attention, which is what that guy was doing.
+(May have been reciting the "tensor" rhyme trying to keep his brain 
+occupied.)
+
+
      
+
    •  The encounter suit opened at the touch of a button (you can hear him
+press the button with a *click*).  Only for Lyta did it open on its 
+own.
+
+
      
+
    •  Here's the one thing that amazes me, speaking of seeing the pilot for
+the gadzillionth time...there is one great big huge gaping visual
+anomaly/inconsistency in the pilot that so far no one has noticed.  
+It's so massive that when I first saw it, I just about fell out of my
+chair.   But the director said "No one's ever gonna see it, no one's
+ever gonna notice it, *trust* me on this."  I was absolutely convinced
+that he was wrong.  Apparently he was right.  At some point in the
+future I'll tell you what it is...and when you see it, you're going to
+wonder how the hell you avoided seeing it before, it's *that* big.  
+But not for a while yet.   (And the few smaller things mentioned here
+...ain't it.)
+
+
      
+
    •  For the record...thtch has something to do with the second trial 
+scene.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It's the overhead shot of the courtroom; we didn't have a second 
+establisher, so we used the one of Kyle even though Sinclair was on
+the stand.
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, "beep-beep" was always there in the script; it was the part
+where we learn AFTER that that Sinclair only told G'Kar about the
+homing beacon, didn't really plant it, that came up during filming.
+
+
      
+
    •  Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5 has
+any idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one race has
+had dealings with the Vorlons before.  Watch the reception at the end,
+and see if you notice anything unusual in the way the various people
+respond to Kosh.
+
+
      
+
    •  How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot?  Some...bits and pieces.
+The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to 
+establish, with all the backstory that goes with that.  As it is, 
+it's fairly "information intensive," as one person put it.  We find
+out about the Earth/Minbari war, the curious surrender, Sinclair's 
+past, the missing 24 hours, the relations between the various 
+governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of what's to
+come.  This while establishing the backstory of all our characters,
+and telling a story in present time (for them).
+
      
+I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the
+series present in the pilot.  Which is why it bears watching more 
+than once; you'll pick up more information and more of a sense of 
+the world the more closely you inspect it.  (We tried to come up
+with a pilot that actually BENEFITS from close inspection, rather 
+than falling apart if you look at it too closely.)
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, the funny thing is, I don't much mind if people who hadn't
+seen the pilot don't catch the rebroadcast.  What we're doing now is 
+SO radically better than the pilot that I almost can't watch it now.
+
+
      
+
    •  Agreed, the pilot movie was much darker...unfortunately, it was SO 
+dark that we actually veered into what're called "illegal blacks," 
+that is, the picture is too dark, and this causes problems with 
+foreign distributers.  (This is what they tell me, and through an act
+of faith I have come to believe them.)  We're still about a half-stop
+or full stop below what's typical.  Be advised that many stations,
+when they broadcast the show, pump up the brightness a *lot*.  They
+just dial it up.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Laurel was not standing upside down in relation to the station's
+rotation.  The docking bay, at the center of the station, for zero-g,
+was above her head, her feet pointed down, toward the rim of the
+station, in correct orientation.  Just FYI.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We'd originally planned to go for a more vague sexuality for Delenn;
+a male physically and primarily in the voice, on top of the natural
+female movements one gets from an actress.  In post-production, 
+however, we couldn't get the voice to sound as good and male as we'd
+wanted.  In addition, a couple of convention showing of a rough cut 
+saw people responding VERY strongly to her voice as it was, so we 
+finally decided to let it stand and change the one reference to "he"
+to "she," and that was the end of it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Delenn was originally going to be a fairly sexually-ambiguous
+character...a male character, played by a female, with a computer 
+altered voice...but we couldn't make the alteration sound good enough
+to satisfy us, so we left her a her.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Kosh will "speak" in the series.  After a fashion.  But not as you
+might expect.  Suffice to say we've seen the final effect now in the
+mix of finished episodes, and it's *real* creepy.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Your memory is faulty.  It was stated in the pilot that Kosh's ship
+took roughly 4 days to travel via hyperspace to B5.  That's from 
+Vorlon space; we don't know where the fleet was when it entered jump.
+Because such ships can make their own jump points, it could've been a
+lot closer to B5 space when it went in.  (And was.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Okay, okay, 8 days not four...I knew it weren't no 3 weeks, though.
+The one thing to remember is that travel in hyperspace isn't the main
+problem; the real problem, time-wise, is the period required to get 
+from a world to its nearest jump gate.  It might take 4 days to travel
+from World X to the gate, and 1 day to B5 in hyperspace...while 
+another race, 1 day from the gate, and 1 day to B5 in hyperspace, only
+has 2 travel days.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+As I've noted elsewhere, G'Kar made mention of the need for genetic
+alteration/modification during the scene with Lyta.  Beyond that,
+though, G'Kar's personal perversion is sex with humans, which no one
+else seems quite able to understand....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Garibaldi was named after the famous Italian war hero of the same
+name.
+
+
    
+
+
    Special Edition (spoilers for future episodes)
    
+
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • @@@857153237 
+"Now that TNT has set a definite date for airing the
+series, have they given you a 'go' for re-editing The Gathering? If so,
+how much will you be able to put back (the character stuff with Sinclair?)
+Might you even re-score it with Christopher Franke music?"
+
+
      
+We're still negotiating that out, but in hopes of this going, we've begun
+redigitizing the footage so we can get into the main scenes we want to
+work on.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@857547322 
+We're also going to update the CGI, if we can do this.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@857554301 Why were any important scenes cut?
      
+The fault was mine, not the suits.
+
+
      
+Prior to exec producing B5, I had never edited a show before,
+never had final cut before...had never even been IN an editing room for
+more than 5 minutes before.  So here I am, given the director's
+cut...and I know it's real slow, but I haven't done this before, so I
+don't trust my instincts.  I let it go with very minimal changes.
+
+
      
+And I've been kicking myself ever since.  I should've followed
+my instincts, but instead I deferred to the director's cut.
+
+
      
+It's a mistake I have never made since.
+
+
      
+Even so, that first cut just gnaws at me...I *know* I can make
+it better, stronger, even if only a bit in a few places, that would
+help salve my soul over this thing.
+
+
      
+
    •  @@@859779286 
+Would you use new music by Christopher Franke?
      
+Yeah, Chris would re-score it.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@876776558 
+Is the reedit a dead deal?
      
+No, the funding was approved, and we're working on it now.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@877368299 
+Yep, we're working on the re-edit now.  There's still just so
+much that can be done, we can't shoot new material...but it's still
+going to be tighter, with additional material, new music, and new CGI
+in many places.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@878327316 
+Basically, it's new scenes with the characters, new CGI in many
+places, and new music.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@878327426 
+What was wrong with the original?
      
+I was new at exec producing, and deferred 'way too much to the
+director, whose cut was, frankly, slow and left all the best character
+moments on the cutting room floor.  We lost 14 minutes of good stuff,
+which is now going to go back and we're going to tighten and make it
+better, the way we do our cuts on all the episodes.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@878758531 
+"Will the 14 minutes being restored to "The Gathering" include
+Marianne Robertson's "hostage" scene?"
+
+
      
+Yup.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@878843594 
+Today, John Copeland and I finished re-editing "The Gathering,"
+the B5 pilot movie.  While there were some areas we couldn't get into
+because of the complexity in redoing the mix, virtually every scene got
+tinkered with to one degree or another, and most important, the roughly
+14 minutes of footage left out of the original version is now back in. 
+The whole thing is tighter and faster, and there's more recent CGI,
+we'll have Chris Franke re-score it, and it's just in general a lot
+better.  (Some parts of it even make more sense now.)
+
+
      
+One additional change: because of the desire on PTEN's part to
+have as many commercial breaks as possible, the 6-act script was
+jerry-rigged and broken down into 9 acts.  One side-effect of this is
+that 9 acts wears on you, and wears you out, more than the standard 6. 
+You start to get a feeling of being led up to things too often, and
+there isn't time to dwell on the acts you're in.  I was finally able,
+with this re-edit, to move scenes back around again to what I
+originally wanted in a 6-act structure (you'll see a number of scenes
+juxtaposed from their original order).
+
+
      
+Anyway...the TNT Special Edition is much improved over the
+original.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@880391734 
+What will be cut to make room for the new footage?
      
+Not much, just little snippets of things...the show was *very* slow paced, and
+once you pick up the pacing within scenes, whole vast tracts of time appear.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@882987588 you spare a few words on how you went about the re-edit?  Did you
+start with what you wanted to get back in, or trying to find out how
+much time you could recapture?"
+
+
      
+The first thing I did was to sit down with the editor assigned
+to the re-edit, Suzie, and go through the original script for the
+pilot.  My first words to her were, "Put everyhing in that ain't
+there."  To that end, she redigitized all of the footage from missing
+scenes, and had available all of the available footage of the other
+scenes for digitizing as we went.
+
+
      
+Note that I said all the *available* footage.  The folks at WB
+who held custody of the film (we don't keep that stuff, we're not
+allowed to by contract, they store film, negative, prints, all that
+stuff) put the negative canisters into storage...and at one point in
+the intervening 4 years, there had been water damage, and on another
+occasion, apparently rats had gotten in there and chewed some of the
+original negatives (and in most cases there weren't positive struck of
+those takes).
+
+
      
+Take your reaction to the foregoing, put it in front of the
+Hubble telescope, and you will have mine.
+
+
      
+However, we lucked out...where there were some takes that are
+gone, we were able to find enough others (masters instead of a
+two-shot, or a close-up instead of an over-shoulder) and B-camera
+footage that we were able to build solid versions of those scenes.  We
+didn't always have as many choices as we're used to but there was more
+than enough for our needs.
+
+
      
+Suzi then dumped all of the newly edited additional scenes into
+the existing pilot, and that gave us the new running time (we added
+about 14 minutes).  So at that point, John and I went in and worked to
+slice down the previously existing scenes, doing what we do with B5:
+tightening every loose screw and nut as much as we could.  One or two
+incidental, unimportant scenes in the original pilot went out, because
+they added nothing and shouldn't have been there in the first place (a
+total of about 3 minutes).  The remaining 11 minutes we made up in just
+tightening scenes, which were *so* lax and slow that it's amazing at
+times.
+
+
      
+In some cases, we substituted one take for another in the
+pre-existing pilot when we had a better reaction, or played scenes
+closer for more intimacy.  (One of the problems with the pilot is that
+it kept the audience far from the action, and the actors far from each
+other, something we changed in our shooting style for the series...here
+we tried to change it when we could and when we had the coverage.)
+
+
      
+Tiny example: when Kosh falls down upon arriving at B5, that
+sequence ends with a big honking wide downshot of a nearly empty
+docking bay, with Kosh far from us, and Sinclair looking down (away
+from us) when he says "Damn." Then we go from that to a wide shot of
+the medlab.  Same framing. So I had Suzie look for a take where we
+panned up from a close on Kosh, to a close on Sinclair for that line,
+so it's more immediate, more personal, and the jump to the next scene
+doesn't feel like the one before.
+
+
      
+See, directors like to stay wide in their cuts, so you can see
+their nifty camera angles, see the set, the lighting...but after you've
+established where we are, most people want to see the *characters*, not
+the walls or how the camera moves.  That was what we tried to fix where
+we could.
+
+
      
+We couldn't totally re-edit the pilot, because we hadn't been
+given the money for something that intensive (the main expense is in
+opening up all the audio stems in the sound mix).  But all the stuff I
+wanted back in, is now in, and the scenes I wanted to fix, I fixed.
+
+
      
+I also got the thing back to its original format.  All TV movies
+are 6 acts.  Because PTEN wanted more commercial breaks, I had to
+re-jig the structure of the thing into 9 acts, which meant moving some
+scenes into places where they weren't as effective, and frankly after 9
+acts you just get tired of watching.  Here I was able to move scenes
+around and get back to the original 6 act structure that was intended
+for the thing, and that alone makes a huge difference in how the film
+feels.
+
+
      
+One of the biggest changes is the one least immediately
+apparent. After we finished the original pilot, some folks at WB felt
+that Laurel was too...strong.  They will rarely put it in terms quite
+as blatant as that, but that was the message...she was "unlikeable,
+unsympathetic, harsh."  Meaning some of the guys felt she was too
+strong, let's cut to the chase, okay?
+
+
      
+They wanted her to loop her lines, soften their (her) delivery. 
+I fought this tooth and nail.  I fought this until finally I was pulled
+aside and it was communicated to me that B5 was, after all, still an
+unknown property, could be a big failure, and if we ever wanted to see
+this thing on the air, we'd accommodate this note (which was, I have to
+admit on balance, one of the few they had).  The advice was, in
+essence, "Pick your battles."
+
+
      
+So, reluctantly, I let it get looped by Tamlyn.
+
+
      
+But now, when the re-edit was commissioned, and with the person
+at the studio who insisted on this now no longer AT the studio, I told
+Suzie, "Screw it, put back her original production track and trash the
+loops."  Instantly, Laurel's energy level comes up, the performance is
+better...it just *feels* more natural now.
+
+
      
+So basically, we did a lot...some of it may not be immediately
+apparent (improving a sound here, altering coverage, adding additional
+sound layers, redoing a composite shot of the garden), but over the
+duration of watching it, it's just *better*.  It's still a *tad* slower
+around the middle than I would've liked, but that's a WP (writer
+problem), nothing that can be fixed in an edit.  It's just
+exposition-dense there, and nothing of a sort that can be cut.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@884632930 
+"Also, the reworking of Sinclair's narration of the Battle of the
+Line, with Requiem for the Line and the battle transmissions was just
+gripping, it really showcased Michael O'Hare's strengths as an actor."
+
+
      
+Yeah, that was an experiment I wanted to try.  When we did the
+audio spotting (me sitting with the sound folks, Chris, others), I
+explained what I wanted done with that scene, and they kinda got it but
+were a little dubious as to whether or not this could or would work. 
+When we came to the day of the audio mix, it was kind of a jumble...so
+I worked with the music and the voices to basically fill in the gaps
+between Sinclair's words.  Then I backed up and chose the ones that
+most related to what he had just said, or was about to just say.  It
+took about half an hour to get that 30 second piece down pat.
+
+
      
+One of the least visible things I do is mess with the music and
+how the music lays out on the track.  I'm often at the front of the
+mixing room, working with the mixers, bringing up one instrument
+(percussion, for instance), bringing down the horns for one piece, up
+in another.  In "In the Beginning," for instance, there was percussion
+all through the Battle of the Line itself...and we had big EFX of guns
+and explosions going off, and the two muddied together.  So I went with
+the explosions for the first of it, then replaced some of the
+gunfire/explosions with percussion, then ducked down the SFX altogether
+and just let the music take it.  You kind of have to be a conductor in
+these instances.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@884020341 
+Why would Kosh tell Sinclair he was Valen?
      
+Internal dialogue...what he was thinking, his reaction.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
+
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to
+blows.  Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
+
+
+Paul Hampton  as The Senator.
+Peter Trencher as Carn Mollari.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+P5 Rating: 6.99
+
+Production number: 103
+Original air date: January 26, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+
+
    •  The campaign issues in the presidential election,
+	especially the pledges of the winner of the election.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  From the things they say about each others' 
+	races at various times during this episode, neither Londo nor G'Kar
+	seem likely to strive for lasting peace:
+	
      
+	
       Londo: 
+	
       "We should have wiped out your kind when we had the chance!"
      
+		"On the issue of galactic peace I am long past innocence
+		and fast approaching apathy.  It's all a game, a paper
+		fantasy of names and borders.  Only one thing matters:
+		blood calls out for blood."
+
+	
       G'Kar: 
+	
       "Your time has come and gone!  It's our turn now.  One night
+		you'll wake up and find our teeth at your throat."
      
+		"I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have
+		cleansed the universe of the Centauri and carved their bones
+		into flutes for Narn children.  'Tis a dream I have."
+	
      
+
+
    •  Londo was absolutely consumed by anger and hatred.
+  	He would have sacrificed peace and justice for personal vengeance.
+	(cf: "By Any Means Necessary")
+
+
    •  The Narn attack a distant easy target with 
+	little military value.  This must have been to test the Centauri
+	reaction - see how many ships they send in response, how hard
+	they're willing to fight to defend any part of their territory.
+	The Narn are forced to withdraw for non-military reasons, but they
+	learn a great deal about their enemies with that move.
+
+
    •  Ivanova is surprised to hear Sinclair defend 
+	the honor of the Minbari. 
+	(cf: "The Gathering")
+
+
    •  The EA is not in a strong enough position at home
+	to take an ethical stance toward its neighbors.  "The Earth
+	Alliance can't go around being the galaxy's policemen," says the
+	senator, "They want to fight it out, let'em.  Just keep us out
+	of it - at least until after the election."
+
+
    •  One of the most alien moments was watching Delenn 
+	try to understand Garibaldi's cartoons and popcorn.  She is at
+	times a sage, and sometimes an innocent.
+
+
    •  Sinclair claims he confiscated data crystals 
+	detailing Narn communications that confirm Londo's claims about the
+	situation at Ragesh 3. However, Sinclair has bluffed before (cf:
+	"The Gathering").
+	There is no proof that the crystals actually contained data.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The first one-hour episode of the series, "Midnight on the Firing
+	Line," does a fair amount of re-introduction, for those who've seen
+	the pilot and need to be up to speed, and some introducing for those
+	who haven't.  It is, however, largely an action-oriented story, into
+	which we weave the characterization.  It manages to convey some of 
+	the same info as the pilot, but in a *much* more dramatic fashion.
+
+
      
+
    •  No, the show isn't a year and a half late.  As it is, it's less than
+	one year since the pilot aired.  It was our initial hope, and my 
+	initial belief, that we'd go straight into the series as soon as we 
+	finished the pilot.  But the studio, in its infinite wisdom, decided
+	that since they HAD a pilot, it kinda behooved them to air it and get
+	the ratings before committing to a series.  So we then waited until
+	February for the airing, got the go-ahead to production around 
+	April/May, began shooting in July, got a whole bunch of episodes in
+	the can, and now we're hitting the air.  That is the sum and substance
+	of it.
+
+
      
+
    •  We'd always figured on going right to series, but once we had done
+	the pilot, the studio said, in essence, "Well, we've got a pilot,
+	we don't know if the market will sustain more than one space SF
+	series, no other SF series has done well lately...maybe we ought
+	to air the pilot first, and get the ratings, before committing to
+	a series." And that's what happened...much to our consternation at
+	first, but in the long run it was a blessing in disguise, because
+	that interim period allowed us to really do a lot to make the show
+	better.
+
+
      
+
    •  Approximately nine months have passed since the time of the pilot and
+	the birth of the series.
+
+
      
+
    •  I *love*
+	"Duck Dodgers."
+	I have virtually all of the WB cartoons on
+	tape or disk, and from where I sit, that's wonderful stuff that'll
+	be around for a long, long time.  No omens, just something I
+	thought would be fun.  (Again, connecting past/present/future, sort
+	of our B5 theme.)
+
+
      
+
    •  "Midnight on the Firing Line" as a title was more my feelings about
+	the episode and the series.  I knew we'd come under considerable
+	fire, figured it was cool.
+
+
      
+
    •  "...and if our future lies on the firing line, are we brave enough
+	to see the signals and the signs...."  
      
+	-- Harry Chapin
        
+	Just a thought.
+
+
      
+
    •  Ah, but you're assuming that the Londo-strangling-scene is as it
+	seems to be; maybe it is, but maybe it isn't.  You don't know the
+	context yet.
+
+
      
+
    •  Down the road, we will be seeing more of Londo, and his people, and realize
+	that they aren't as human looking as they first appear.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Raghesh 3 claim is only about 20 years old; the Centauri came to
+	Narn over a hundred years ago.
+
+
      
+
    •  You're correct in your appraisal of the "coincidences" in the first
+	episode. Upon finding that Londo's nephew was there, they would of
+	course trot him out to try and undermine Londo's credibiltiy (you'll
+	note that G'Kar made special mention of this, as if to say, "Is the
+	Centauri ambassador calling his own nephew a liar?"). It'd be the same
+	thing if the son of an American ambassador was on-hand when hostages
+	were taken. As for the choice of the attack's location...Londo wanted
+	his nephew "far away from all this." Someplace safe. A fairly safe,
+	mundane place is not going to have a major military presence...and
+	hence is a perfect target for attack.
+
+
      
+
    •  RE: the spotlights, we'd figured that since the transport had been freshly
+	attacked, there'd be debris all over the place, and lots of particulate
+	matter which would show up in the light. 
+
+
      
+
    •  Quick replies to your questions: Spoo is.  What else can one say
+	about spoo?
+
+	
      
+	The Centauri station actually was rotating, as I recall, it's the
+	camera angle that I believe doesn't showcase it as well as it might.
+
+	
      
+	The scanners on the Starfuries detected no movement, no atmosphere,
+	no signals, no warmth of bodies.
+
+	
      
+	The lights on the fighters during the examination of the rubble were
+	visible due to particulate matter spewed out during and after the
+	attack.
+
+
      
+
    • 	What is spoo?   Spoo....is.
+	
      
+	(Spoo is also Oops spelled backward.)
+
+
      
+
    •  Spoo
+	is/are (the plural of spoo is spoo) small, white, pasty,
+	mealy critters, rather worm-like, and generally regarded as the
+	ugliest animals in the known galaxy by just about every sentient
+	species capable of starflight, with the possible exception of the
+	pak'ma'ra, who would simply recommend a more rigorous program of
+	exercise.  They are also generally considered the most delicious food
+	in all of known space, regardless of the individual's biology, almost
+	regardless of species, except for the pak'ma'ra, who like the flavor
+	but generally won't say so simply to be contrary.
+
+	
      
+	Spoo are raised on ranches on worlds with a damp, moist, somewhat
+	chilly climate so that their skin can acquire just the right shade of
+	paleness.  Spoo travel in herds, if moving a total of six inches in
+	any given direction in the course of a given year can actually be
+	considered moving.  They stay in herds ostensibly for mutual
+	protection, but the reality is that if they weren't propped up against
+	one another, most of them would simply fall down.  They do not howl,
+	bark, moo, purr, yap, squeak or speak.  Mainly, they sigh.  Herds of
+	sighing spoo can reportedly induce unparalleled bouts of depression,
+	which is why most spoo ranchers wear earmuffs even when it's only
+	mildly cold, damp, wet and dreary outside.  If there is any
+	life-or-death struggle for dominance within the spoo herd, it has not
+	yet been detected by modern science.
+
+	
      
+	Spoo ranching is one of the least regarded professions known.
+	Little or no skill is required, once you've got a planet with the
+	right climate.  You bring in two hundred spoo, plop them down in the
+	middle of your ranch, and go back to the nearby house.  Soon you've
+	got more.  When it comes time to cull out the ones ready for market
+	(the softest, mealiest, palest, most forlorn-looking spoo of the
+	pack), little physical effort is required since they're incapable of
+	rapid movement without falling over (see above).  They do not resist,
+	fight, or whine; they only sigh more loudly.  When spoo harvest time
+	comes, the air is full of the sound of whacking and sighing, whacking
+	and sighing.  Even an experienced spoo rancher can only harvest for
+	brief periods of a time, due to the increased volume of sighing, which
+	even the sound of whacking cannot altogether erase.  (also see above)
+	Some have simply gone mad.
+
+	
      
+	Spoo are the only creatures of which the Interstellar Animal
+	Rights Protection League says, simply, "Kill 'em."
+
+	
      
+	Fresh spoo (served at an optimum temperature of 62-degrees) is
+	served in cubed sections, so that they bear as little resemblence as
+	possible to the animal from which they have just been sliced.  Spoo is
+	usually served alongside a chablis, or a white zinfandel.
+
+	
      
+	Further information on the care, feeding, eating and whacking of
+	spoo can be found in the second edition of the Interstellar Guide to
+	Fine Dining.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...depends on whether or
+	not you ever want to have children later....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851198016 What does spoo taste like?
      
+	Meat Jello.
+
+	
      
+	Served chilled.
+
+
      
+   
    •  At the point in which we join the tale of the last of the Babylon
+	stations, *everything* is in a state of flux...one government is on 
+	the rise, another is declining, Earth is taking some new and disturbing
+	directions...so yes, they all feel there is a change coming.  It's a
+	little thing, but we keep it alive to keep a sense of something moving
+	on a web, and each movement makes the whole thing shake just a little.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the "last" of the Babylon Stations...y'all might want to bear
+	in mind the syntax of the narration.  It speaks of B5 in the *past
+	tense*.  "Bablyon 5 WAS the last of the Babylon stations...it WAS 
+	the dawn of the third age of mankind."  The narration is the voice
+	of future history, the storyteller, long after the fact, spinning
+	for us the tale of the last of the Babylon stations.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I never said it was an isolationist president.  The reporter doing 
+	the commentary at the election talked about preserving earth culture
+	in the face of growing alien influences, which isn't quite the same
+	thing as cutting off trade agreements.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You'll get a pretty good glimpse into why Sinclair jumps into a
+	fighter any chance he can get in "Infection."  Part of it is to 
+	escape from stuff...the other goes much deeper, and much darker....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Here's what I find curious (not necessarily in direct response to
+	anything you said, but in general on this topic)...is that when 
+	Ivanova makes her remark to Garibaldi about snapping his hands off at
+	the wrists, many people have assumed that she was insulting him, 
+	berating him, being bitchy, truly disliking and threatening him.
+	
      
+	But the same words, put in the mouth of another male, wouldn't have
+	drawn that reaction, and would've been classified under, "kidding
+	around" or affable sarcasm.
+	
      
+	Which is exactly what it is in this case.  In this place and this
+	time, they're comfortable enough to mess with each other without it 
+	being taken seriously (among these characters, that is).  There are
+	times they kinda like to phuque with each other a bit, justfor the
+	hell of it, as comrades will sometimes do.  ("Babylon Squared" has a
+	great example of Sinclair and Garibaldi messing with Ivanova.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair's line, "Cut acceleration," was in regards to forward
+	momentum, so he could more easily spin the fighter around.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: the Raider ships...they turned by a less effective system of
+	thrusters put in here and there, not nearly as powerful as the 
+	systems used by the Starfuries.  The reason -- verifiable by the 
+	shape of the Raider ships -- is that Raider ships are handicapped by
+	the fact that they're made to function both in space *and* within an 
+	atmosphere (hence the aerodynamic wing shapes), which gives it 
+	something of a problem when dealing with the Starfuries, which are
+	made ONLY for fighting in space, and are most ideally suited to it.
+	The Raider ships make compromises for greater utility, which is 
+	generally okay unless they run into superior forces of ships designed
+	for spaceborne combat.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The symbol Talia wears isn't a Link or any other kind of
+	communications system; it is *strictly* a form of identification, 
+	tagging her as a telepath and a member of the Psi Corps.  It serves
+	no other function.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct, Christopher Franke designed Kosh's voice.
+
+
      
+   
    •  That the Centauri *claimed* that we were a lost colony is not the
+	same as indicating that we *believed* them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I like it when people lie in television, and we find out about it
+	over time.  The "lost colony" routine was one such.  At one point,
+	Garibaldi confronts Londo with this as reason for why he doesn't 
+	trust the Centauri.  Londo shrugs it off as a "clerical error."  
+	There will be a few points in the series when we'll get information,
+	and we'll buy into it...and discover after a while that that 
+	character bald-facedly lied to the other character (and, by proxy,
+	to us).  And naturally there will be consequences to this....
+
+
      
+   
    •  In "Midnight," Sinclair is really not given a chance to show his
+	character, since it's basically a reintroduction to the series, and 
+	there is a lot to cover.  He functions throughout the episode only in
+	his official capacity.  In other episodes, you'll get to see some very
+	different sides to his character, particular in "Parliament of 
+	Dreams."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Sinclair getting into a fighter...there were a number of reasons
+	for this, one of which being he wanted a good reason to avoid being in
+	on the counsel vote, given his marching orders.  But more than that
+	...I would point out that this isn't Star Trek, and Sinclair isn't
+	Picard; he is first and foremost a pilot.  He loves to get into a
+	fighter and take it out  He's a fighter.  That's when he is most at 
+	ease.  That's what his character *is*.
+
+	
      
+	At the same time, however, there are consequences for that kind of
+	behavior, as you point out.  And there are deeper reasons for what he
+	is doing than even he want to admit.  Tell you what...table that 
+	aspect until after you've seen the last part of "Infection," which
+	deals *with this exact issue*.
+
+
      
+   
    •  My thought, at the time, was that if we play the reality of this for 
+	a moment, probably *all* of the ambassadors have some kind of weapon,
+	smuggled in via diplomatic pouches.  Garibaldi and Sinclair know
+	they're there...question is, is it worth starting a diplomatic incident
+	over, as long as they're not being used?  Garibaldi is saying, in 
+	essence, "Okay, you know it's there, and I know it's there, but now
+	you've made a point about it.  Lose it or hide it, or I'm going to 
+	have to charge you, and we're BOTH going to be up to our ears in it."
+	If Garibaldi confiscated it, there'd be a whole diplomatic hassle...
+	and Londo would just have another one sent to him via diplomatic 
+	pouch.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's interesting what we can read into faces...in Delenn's reaction,
+	I saw concern, angst, but not that she believed the story.  That
+	certainly wasn't the intent of the scene, or the script...faces are
+	interesting things.  As for the rest, you're right; not everyone wants
+	to do the Right Thing For The Right Reasons.  Some would prefer not to
+	get involved.  So some might want deniability, want a reason not to go
+	up against the Narns, or have sold out their votes.  A human looking
+	at that screen could tell that the person was being coerced...but what
+	about the other alien races, to whom a downcast face could be a sign
+	of joy?  In any event, suspicion is one thing, but *proof* is another,
+	and the legal system works on *proof*.  Nothing could be done until 
+	they had the proof that Sinclair got at the end, and chose to use
+	behind closed doors to the same effect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You may think it was obvious that the nephew was reading at gunpoint,
+	and in fact, he was...but thinking something or suspecting something 
+	isn't the same as proving it.  Londo could say, "He was reading at
+	gunpoint!"  And G'Kar could say, "No, he wasn't."  Where do you go 
+	from there?  (And, in fact, that's *exactly* what Londo said...only
+	to have G'Kar deflect it.)
+
+	
      
+	Re: why Londo didn't show the clips...at this point, there's not any
+	quesion in anyone's mind about the attack taking place.  The Narns
+	say they were invited in to help quell internal strife.  That the
+	events took place isn't at issue; it's *why* and whether or not they
+	were invited in.   (As with Germany in WWII indicating that some 
+	places "invited" them in.)
+
+	
      
+	Had Sinclair shown the evidence, it probably would've just hardened
+	G'Kar.  Also, most politics is back-room dealing.  You do this in
+	public, and you make a terrible enemy who'll strike back as soon as he
+	has a chance.  Let him have his dignity, save face, BUT get what you
+	want, and there's room to maneuver in future.  It's the difference 
+	between being a punch'em-out hero, and someone who has to be 
+	diplomatic, within limits.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair did not -- repeat, did NOT -- "tell Ivanova to defy Earth's
+	orders and deceive the council."  He set up a situation in which he
+	would say that he was unable to catch up with her and pass along the
+	Senator's instructions before he had to leave.  Her line would be 
+	that "The Commander never told me," and he would back this up.  (And 
+	that he would hedge the truth this way is hardly "perfect.")
+
+	
      
+	Defying the Senator's orders would be telling them that the vote will
+	NOT be made as ordered.  That never happened.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In "Midnight," Sinclair had to be pretty much in command mode all
+	during the episode as a character, so that influences the result.  But
+	in later episodes, we get him out of those situations, out of uniform,
+	and into other settings where he can be more relaxed.  So that's 
+	coming, and you'll see it *very* early on in the first season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, the Sea Witch is the one that rotates and fires at one of the
+	Raiders.  It's a woman's face in a green and blue background.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As a matter of fact, in a couple of episodes you'll see a photo of
+	the Earth Alliance president.  The photo itself is of Doug Netter, my
+	associate on the show and fellow executive producer.  (The woman 
+	running against the incumbent president in the election featured on
+	"Midnight" is played, in photo, by our wardrobe designer, Ann Bruice.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Vir is very obsequious in "Midnight."  That's done in order to
+	give his character somewhere to go, as gradually he begins to stand 
+	up to Londo and talk back.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Vir...that was the first episode filmed with his character, and 
+	he wasn't directed as well as he might have been.  We pulled him back
+	a lot in later episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Vir calms down.  Trust me.
+
+	
      
+	He even manages to nail Londo from time to time...as he does when
+	Londo suffers a rather nasty hangover in "Born to the Purple."
+
+
      
+   
    •  If there's anything about "Midnight" that I would change...ehh...
+	that's a tough question to ask any producer or writer.  I can't think
+	of anything I've done that I wouldn't want to go back and tweak.  The
+	only real drawback we had was that we were still building sets as we
+	filmed our first few episodes, so we didn't have access to all of the
+	full range of sets.  Not that we really needed them, the story works
+	fine in the sets we had, but we could've moved one or two shots around
+	into different sets just for variety.
+
+	
      
+	But aside from general tweaking, I don't think there's really
+	anything I'd change in it.  My problem is that I'm too close to it,
+	and there are a number of episodes we shot afterward that blow it 
+	right out of the water in terms of quality, production values and the
+	rest; I'd have to say that my favorite shows to date, in order, would
+	be The Parliament of Dreams, Mind War, And the Sky Full of Stars, Soul
+	Hunter, Born to the Purple, Midnight, Believers, Infection, The War
+	Prayer, Survivors and Grail.  Chrysalis, which we're shooting now, will
+	probably take over the Favorite #2 spot from Mind War.  We're fighting
+	to make every episode better than the one before it.
+
+	
      
+	We're going to have a brass plaque put up here in the offices one of
+	these days, before we finish, saying, "If you're not here to kick ass,
+	get out."
+
+
      
+   
    •  What you and the others seem to be pointing out is what I've been
+	trying -- imperfectly, as best I can -- to communicate for some time.
+	In the case of "Midnight," can you follow that show and enjoy it 
+	absolutely on its own terms?  I believe that is the case.  There's 
+	another level there, the "little clues and hints" you mention, which
+	will just skate past most casual viewers and not in any way interfere
+	with their viewing of the episode...but if you're paying attention, 
+	and you catch them, it adds a new level.  The more you see, the more
+	you begin to perceive that second level.  It's a cumulative effect
+	that doesn't diminish the single episodes as stand-alones.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (Lost the last paragraph of my message.)  In any event, what I'm
+	striving for is the idea that you can watch the episodes for the
+	character stories, OR the story arc, OR the individual stories, OR
+	all three at the same time, all in the same exact episodes.  You can
+	get out as much as you're willing to find.
+
+	
      
+	It's a very weird kind of writing...but at least on this end, it's
+	kinda fun, actually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I agree, most of the plot lines are tied up pretty well (except for
+	the telepath issue introduced at the end, which comes back at us
+	again...as does, incidentally, the Raghesh 3 incident and other 
+	stuff).  In responding to some of the criticism of the pilot, I tried
+	to make this one far more self-contained.  Which is why I much prefer
+	"Parliament," "Mind War" and "Soul Hunter" over "Midnight."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did we save anything for the rest of the season?  Lemme put it to you
+	this way...you ain't seen *nothin* yet.  "Midnight" makes just about
+	everything done before for TV look lame...but there's stuff coming 
+	down the pike that'll make "Midnight" look pale by comparison.  With
+	each show we get better, we learn more, and we can *do* more.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In the teaser scene you refer to in "Midnight," you've got a couple
+	dozen fighters coming in alongside about 3-4 motherships (or capital
+	ships, either term will suffice).  We've always said that big ships 
+	can punch through and form their own jump points.  That's how the
+	jump gates get there in the first place: a big ship comes through, on
+	its own, and leaves behind a jump gate. There's no contradiction.  
+	One (or more) of the big ships was creating the point of entry as it
+	went.
+
+
      
+   
    •  During the con appearance, Jerry told a story that *I* hadn't heard
+	before.  There's a scene in the script "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+	in which Talia (Andrea) goes into a transport tube, finds Garibaldi,
+	and asks some questions about Ivanova.  They rehearsed it several 
+	times, this being Andrea's first time on the set, and filmed one 
+	take.  She comes down the hall, comes to the pen...and Garibaldi's
+	pants are down around his ankles.  Needless to say, that shot did 
+	NOT end up in dailies....
+
+	
      
+	There are days I think -- between Jerry, Harlan, me and some others
+	involved on the show -- we ought to name this Loose Cannon 
+	Productions....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Behind-the-scenes humor: because it had been so long since the pilot,
+	it took a few of our actors a bit of time to get back into their 
+	characters, to find the characters' "fingerprints" for lack of a 
+	better term.  This is quite understandable given the long waiting 
+	period.  When he needed to find his character for a scene, Peter 
+	Jurasik mentioned that he would just stand up straight and yell, 
+	"MISter GariBALdi!" and he'd be right back in character.  Sort of 
+	the B5 version of "Shazam!"
+
+	
      
+	Minus the lightning bolt, of course.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Delenn is in danger when a soul hunter, an alien who captures the souls of
+the dying, arrives at the station.
+
+
+W. Morgan Sheppard as Soul Hunter #1.
+John Snyder as Soul Hunter #2.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense
+P5 Rating: 7.05
+
+Production number: 102
+Original air date: February 2, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The soul hunter of this episode has visited
+	Earth before.
+
+
    •  Minbari are trained from childhood to protect their
+	souls from soul hunters.
+
+
    •  The soul hunter had a unique perspective on a
+	significant event in Minbari history:
+	
      
+	[to Sinclair] "Minbari: jealous, selfish, private.  We have
+	saved only a few - very rare.  The rarest of all, their leader
+	Dukat, dying; your fault, your war; the pinnacle of Minbari
+	evolution.  We came, I, others.  They made a wall of bodies to
+	stop us!  He died.  And his dreams, his ideas - all that he was,
+	all that he could ever be - gone... wasted... jealous..."
+	
      
+	Later he recognizes Delenn from the Grey Council, which was
+	responsible for stopping him.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Delenn meets Sinclair just as he's going to check
+	out the injured pilot, and offers to help him ID the fellow.  She
+	has a knack for being at the right place at the right time.
+	(cf: "The Gathering").
+
+
    •  Sinclair did not call for backup when he
+	encountered the soul hunter, even though there were four others
+	nearby searching for Delenn.  He has a tendency to put himself into
+	dangerous situations. (cf: "Infection")
+
+
    •  During this episode there are three different
+	stories told about the soul.  Sinclair heard all three, and doesn't
+	know which to believe.  All he knows is what he saw.
+	
      
+
+	
       Franklin:
+
+	
       There is no soul that survives the body.  With advanced
+		technology, he allows, one could preserve a record of
+		someone's personality, but death is death.
+
+	
       Delenn:
+
+	
       All sentients have immortal souls.  When a Minbari dies its
+		soul merges with the souls of other dead Minbari.  These
+are
+		recycled into future generations, so as individuals advance
+		their own souls, the Minbari as a whole advance.
+
+	
       soul hunter:
+
+	
       All sentients have ephemeral souls.  When a person
+		dies, the soul expires into oblivion.  However, soul
+hunters
+		have a prescient attraction to death - if they so choose
+they
+		can capture and preserve a soul "for the greater good" at
+the
+		moment it leaves the body.  They carry with them a bag full
+of
+		the souls they have "saved", each in its own glass vessel.
+
+	
      
+
+	For a Minbari, the soul hunter's method of preservation is true
+	death, for it cuts a soul off from the rest and diminishes the next
+	generation; for a soul hunter, the true loss is
+uncollected
+	souls.
      
+	These are completely irreconcilable belief systems.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, I just saw a cut of the episode that's going to air second, the
+	one guest-starring Morgan Shepherd.  Oh, man...on the question of 
+	Did you learn anything from the pilot...this thing *moves* like a 
+	sumbitch.   It's a very unusual, very *creepy* episode in many ways.
+	And filled with character stuff...and a good bit of background about
+	some of our characters rendered in active ways.  I'm really dying to
+	see what people think of this one when it airs.  It manages to take 
+	what would normally be considered a science *fantasy* issue, and deal
+	with it from a  science fiction perspective, without compromising on
+	the latter at all.   It's a very, *very* strong episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who's right, the soul hunter or the minbari?
      
+	Yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We leave the question open: Is he actually taking souls, or simply
+	encoding the personality matrix and, in essence, creating an artificial
+	version of the individual's personality?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The various characters take their own stands, which vary.  Franklin 
+	only considers the possibility of cloning someone's personality 
+	matrix, for instance.  And again, it depends on how you *define* soul.
+	The Soul Hunter defines it not as something supernatural, but as the
+	collection of thoughts, personality, feelings and the very essence of
+	the person that dies with the body.  That definition is broad enough
+	to encompass just about anything.  Then you get into the more 
+	specific ideas of what a soul is.
+
+	
      
+	One person at a post production house we've used has indicated that 
+	he has "theological problems" with working on that episode; not 
+	because it's *against* what he believes -- he's worked on horror
+	movies and stuff with devils and the like -- but because it takes a
+	point of view he doesn't much like...in that he has to sit and defend
+	the whole *context* of his ideas...meaning, it's making him think.  
+	He can just poo-poo the stuff against what he believes, support what
+	he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure where this show comes
+	down, or where it makes *him* come down.  I've had any number of 
+	problems with people on a show before, but this is the first time
+	I've run into a theological problem.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What the soul was, who's right, and even whether this is SF or 
+	Science Fantasy, was it explained enough to merit one over the other
+	... how can I put this...?  I don't want to spoon-feed stuff to 
+	people.  What I want is not to hit someone with a MORAL, or a message,
+	or "This is what a soul is," or "This is what makes it an SF series,"
+	I want to start discussions.  Arguments.  Preferably a bar fight or
+	two.
+
+	
      
+	We present an issue.  Here are the sides.  Now...what do YOU think 
+	about it?  I want this show to ask, "Who are you?  Where are you 
+	going?"  That's half the fun.  Some of my favorites pastimes in 
+	college were sitting in the commons, or the library, arguing this 
+	stuff from every possible angle.  You think I'm gonna tell you what
+	to think?  What it means?  No.  The goal is to provoke discussion.
+	Preferably passionate discussion.
+
+	
      
+	Otherwise I might as well just start renting billboards and putting 
+	up signs.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: why soul hunter #1's ship was out of control...the second soul
+	hunter comments that they've been tracking him, and caught up with 
+	him a few days ago.  They attacked, "and he escaped, his ship 
+	damaged."  That is what brought him here...and led his pursuers to 
+	this place as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will we see more soul hunters?
      
+	Eventually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yes, humans would probably have *heard* of Soul Hunters, 
+	distantly, as a legend.  I see no reason why they would believe they
+	existed, particularly with a title like that, unless and until 
+	actually encountering one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Sinclair's actions toward the Soul Hunter...the device he uses was
+	trained on Delenn.  It was spiraling up to full power throughout the 
+	scene.  Just as Sinclair's thrown, you see it starting to come to 
+	critical mass...it's shooting at Delenn.  There isn't/wasn't time to 
+	sit there and figure out how it works, and shut off the right button. 
+	He turned it so that it faced away from her...and the Hunter was caught
+	in his own machine.
+
+	
      
+	There was nowhere else to go with the machine.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In "Soul Hunter," Franklin notes that the average human life span is
+	now about a hundred years.  It's quite a bit longer for the other races;
+	G'Kar is about 70 or more, but is considered mid-range, equal to a human
+	in early 40s, among Narns.  Delenn is in about the same position, equal
+	to 30s-40s in her terms, but in years a bit older.  They are a pretty
+	long lived people.  Centauri aren't quite as long-lived, but they do a
+	bit better than the Narns.  The Vorlons......are.
+
+
      
+   
    •  To the question about a Soul Hunter's strength...yes, it is *very*
+	considerable.  Even with one arm he was able to slam the hell out of
+	the commander, pick him up and again slam him against a wall before
+	throwing him about 10 feet across the room.  Had he not been stopped,
+	and stopped good, yes, he would've torn Sinclair to ribbons.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn was shattering the soul globes in order to let the souls 
+	escape, rather than playing with them.  Look on the floor around her,
+	and you'll see shattered globes.  There should also be a sound of 
+	them breaking in her hands, the light goes out, and something 
+	escapes....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911503837 Was Delenn only releasing Minbari souls, or all the souls?
      
+	It would be any and all so imprisoned.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You're most definitely welcome; it was something we did to honor
+	Asimov, who determined the shape of this genre for many writers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why is part of me tempted to decide that around the year 2223 the 
+	most revered figure in Earthforce Command was General Ira Asimov, a 
+	brilliant strategist for whom the liner was named....?
+
+	
      
+	There are certain benefits to a design-your-own-future universe....
+
+
      
+   
    •  I deeply admired Asimov.  Harlan Ellison, this series consultant, was
+	as dear a friend to Asimov as anyone could be.  I named the starliner
+	after Asimov shortly after his death, because I will personally miss
+	him, and for Harlan, as his friend.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In your complaints regarding the commander flying off on occasional
+	missions (and he only does it about 3 times out of 22 episodes, so I
+	hardly see this as a problem), you are forgetting several other 
+	*realities* of military life.  If you're a pilot, even as a commander,
+	you have to log in X-number of hours flying time per month in order to
+	continue to qualify for flight pay.  This is a *requirement*.  And it
+	doesn't just mean flying around the station a few times.
+	
      
+	Second, many commanders -- as recently as Vietnam and afterward --
+	did and continue to go out on missions and sorties because it is 
+	rather expected of them, and because it maintains the respect of the
+	rest of the squadron(s).
+	
      
+	Third, and possibly most important, Earthforce is the same as the
+	contermporary Air Force in one important respect: promotion up the 
+	ranks is tied *directly* to combat experience and, in this case,
+	combat flying.  That's why women fighter pilots and helicopter pilots
+	have been fighting so *vigorously* to be allowed to fly combat 
+	missions; they know that they can't be promoted fully up the line 
+	without that.  Sinclair has no desire to be a commander all his life,
+	he'd like to move on.  Hence it behooves him to get in combat time 
+	whenever possible.
+	
      
+	Your statement that it "doesn't wash" has nothing to do with how the
+	military *actually* works, and everything to do with the skewed and
+	inaccurate portrayal of the military that you get from Trek.  This is
+	absolutely legitimate, and the B5 mailbox these days is partly 
+	crammed with letters from vets thanking us for getting this part 
+	right.
+	
      
+	I suppose I could mention this in passing in dialogue, but then it
+	becomes a matter of sticking in dialogue not because it's important
+	to an episode, but because some folks would like things explained to
+	them.  I don't think that's my responsibility.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I answered you elsewhere here on this topic earlier this evening.  
+	To just nit for a moment, to say that Sinclair picks up "every 
+	derelict ship" seems a little unfair...he's picked up *one*, and only
+	one, and only picks up one this entire season.  Why him?  A) Because
+	he's good at it, B) he could use the flight pay, C) it'll look good 
+	on his record, and D) because as he says as he leaves, it's a 
+	potential first-contact situation.  (NOt to mention E, that he has a
+	death-wish.)
+	
      
+	I would submit to you that this is NOT the same as having one
+	character do a zillion different jobs on the station.  I think that
+	you're reacting to something you've seen on Trek, and are assuming 
+	based on an example of one that we're doing it in B5 as well.  We're
+	not.  Also, in "Purple," Garibaldi sends a different team out to 
+	handle the gunfire, so there are others who do things.  Question 
+	becomes, how many new and recurring characters do you want to 
+	introduce?  There are currently *14* regular and recurring characters
+	on B5, and there are many folks who are saying that's too many.  As it
+	is, we do introduce an aide to Garibaldi who takes care of some stuff
+	for him.  Just as Sinclair delegates to Ivanova, and Ivanova delegates
+	to the observation dome techs.
+	
      
+	I just feel that you're leaping to a conclusion based on a paucity of
+	evidence, built upon your experiences with another show.  We're simply
+	not doing this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Normally, I don't tend to respond to negatives, because I don't 
+	generally want to get in the way or be perceived to be getting in the
+	way of criticism.  I don't.  But I feel I have to respond to some of
+	this.   If the show is open to criticism, then it seems to me that
+	some of the critiques should be open as well.  And some of these I 
+	think are quite unfair.
+
+	
      
+	1) When did they move the jump gate (re: the time required to get from
+	the gate by Kosh's ship, as opposed to the Hunter ship).  They/we
+	didn't.  Once again, and I wish people could remember this, Kosh's 
+	ship BEGAN TO DECELERATE the instant it emerged from the gate, in 
+	order to dock with B5 without smashing into it.  The Soul Hunter ship
+	was out of control, careening in at full speed.  (This was a widely 
+	discussed reason why the Vorlon fleet got to B5 so quickly as vs. 
+	Kosh's ship.  They were moving fast to get into striking position.)
+
+	
      
+	2) The Hunter's ship was on autopilot, set to come out of the first
+	gate it came to.
+
+	
      
+	3) There was still time for the station's defense grid to blow the
+	ship.  Yes, pieces would have continued onward, but a hell of a lot 
+	of its inertia would've been taken out by the incoming fire, and any 
+	remaining pieces would've either been taken out as well, or would 
+	have been so small as to not damage the hull (which is *very* thick 
+	at that point) given its blast-enforced deceleration.
+
+	
      
+	4) Yes, Sinclair would've gone up with it.  You pays your money, you
+	takes your chances.
+
+	
      
+	5) There was no "the Earth is going to explode" story here; you have 
+	a ship colliding with the station, that has to be stopped.  It has 
+	to be stopped within the period between when it emerges from the gate,
+	and the time it would collide.  You want to know how much time you 
+	have to work in.  Maybe it's a dramatic device, but it's also exactly
+	what you would do.  What would you prefer?  "Lieutenant Commander, 
+	how much longer until impact?"  "Uh...I dunno...can you hang on a 
+	second?"
+
+	
      
+	6) Re: the "funny forehead" comment...it was not what I've understood
+	the FF syndrome to mean...a regular head with a little treatment on
+	the front.  This was a whole-head prosthetic, covering the entire back
+	of the head.  So wrong on that one.  And re: n'grath having 6 legs
+	rather than 4...who're you to say that?  Ever seen a praying mantis?
+	Do all insects all over the galaxy have to have six legs to qualify?
+	You don't like minimal makeup, you don't like full-body prosthetics
+	...you understand that this comes out as "nothing will please me 
+	except a real alien."  You tell me where to find one in Central
+	Casting, and I'll hire him.
+
+	
      
+	7) Okay, here's my biggest gripe: the note that the soul aspect was
+	Trek and "katra."  Let me be clear on this: I don't give a damn what
+	Trek has or has not done now, long ago, or will do in the future.  
+	We can't be constantly looking over our shoulder, limiting our
+	universe because of another show.  If your only frame of reference
+	when it comes to discussing the soul is Star Trek, then that's
+	profoundly disappointing, but it's got nothing to do with me.  The 
+	basic concept goes back to the beginnings of civilization (that your
+	soul can be captured somehow).  Further, there were no soul hunters 
+	in ST, it was placement of one's spirit in another body.   I'm getting
+	real tired of the notion that if Trek did something, nobody else ever
+	can do it.  Like the person who said that Trek invented nanotechnology,
+	and thus when we used it in the pilot episode in the nanotech machine
+	G'Kar swallows, we were just copying Trek's nanites.
+
+	
      
+	I refuse to surrender creative control of this series to the ghost of
+	Star Trek's used notions.  From time to time, we'll cross into areas
+	they have also touched.  We'll touch it differently.  Deal with it.  
+	But please don't put a Star Trek (tm) tag on the soul, and the history
+	of the soul.
+
+	
      
+	8) You say a guard's gun was taken *twice* in this episode.  Where is
+	#2 (if #1 is the medlab guard)?  I see a guard being attacked from
+	behind, but not his gun being taken.
+
+	
      
+	9) Re: the second soul hunter's makeup being "inferior" to the first:
+	they were essentially exactly the same...same material, same design,
+	minus the stone, which varied...I'm sorry, but they were made, applied
+	and used in exactly the same way.
+
+	
      
+	10) Why drain her of blood?  Why the hell not?  In some countries, 
+	that was used as a means of execution.  Bleeding was also used (in
+	theory) to heal.  Okay, let's say he used poison.  "Why use poison?"
+	you probably would've asked.  "Oh, it was the old poison gag, and 
+	they find a convenient antidote."  There's no difference.
+
+	
      
+	11) How did the hunter relate his sense of death to a wall map?  I 
+	ask again...why not?  If you can buy it happens at all, why not?  How
+	is that any different than walking through a hall, or being drawn to 
+	a planet?  This is strictly a straw-man example, as is much of what
+	you cite.
+
+	
      
+	This, frankly, is what I find so offensive in your note.  You take
+	things that as a matter of opinion you might have done differently,
+	and then try to hold it up as a fault.  You set up straw man 
+	arguments that could be just as easily turned around on anything, 
+	mischaracterizing something in order to take a cheap shot.
+
+	
      
+	12) Why didn't Sinclair link in when he found the hunter?  Because he
+	only "found" the hunter when he was being SHOT AT.  And at that point
+	you don't want to raise your voice because you'll be shot at again.
+
+	
      
+	13) You complain that the soul globes seemed to wait until the moment
+	Sinclair freed them to act (as though it were the bag that had been 
+	holding them in).  Sure, they could've emerged...and floated.  A lot
+	of good that would've done them.  What they needed was someone who 
+	could stop him, and that was Sinclair's task.  They were able to
+	distract the hunter long enough for that to happen.  Minus Sinclair, 
+	what were they supposed to do, bedazzle him to death?
+
+	
      
+	14) Re: shining things into the camera = NBC Mystery Movie.  See point
+	11a above.  I'm not responsible for your cultural reference points.
+
+	
      
+	I don't mean to yell, but thing is, I don't mind genuine criticism, if
+	we specifically do something that is objectively *wrong*.  If you 
+	don't like something, that's also fine.  But I'm tired of people who
+	confuse opinion with fact, and that if it isn't done their way, then
+	it isn't somehow *right*...and the notion that Star Trek has invented,
+	patented and qualified for sole claim on whole aspects of our history,
+	literature, culture, theology and language, and that anybody who 
+	touches on these areas is just doing Trek stuff.
+
+	
      
+	As far as I'm concerned, the Trek-soul-katra thing treated the soul as
+	little more than a misplaced pair of sunglasses.  Here we tried to get
+	into the issues *behind* the soul...where does it come from, where 
+	does it go, does it survive the death of the body, or does it go on
+	...to give some mystery and beauty to the notion.  To have it 
+	dismissed as just another riff on katra is offensive and insulting 
+	and narrow.  And all of those issues just seemed to flit by without
+	comment.
+
+	
      
+	I don't mean to get angry, but this is one I'm very proud of, and to
+	see it sideswiped and mischaracterized and straw-man'd to death in 
+	this fashion is just something that I had to respond to.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: your statement that the headwear of the S.H. is "stolen" from
+	the Ferengi...may I be so bold as to respond to your rather loud note
+	with some volume of my own?  To wit: watch something other than Star
+	Trek, and maybe spend a little time learning stuff about your own
+	world.  The headware is based upon the kind used in various african 
+	and aboriginal tribes.  Trek didn't invent it; we have photos of its
+	use through history, as well as sketches going back further.  As it 
+	happens, the costume designer has never seen "DS9," doesn't watch TNG,
+	has no idea what a Ferengi is.  Neither do I intend to not do
+	something, based in real history, just because some other show has 
+	done drawn on that same background.
+
+	
      
+	You clearly think that if something appeared in ST, then ST must have
+	invented it, and that if it appears anywhere else, it must've been
+	influenced by ST.  Wrong on both counts.  I would suggest that you 
+	have been watching too much ST, and not nearly enough of the Discovery
+	Channel.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the medical tools...we brought in a medical science consultant, 
+	who helped us design our instruments.  His sense was that we're moving
+	more and more toward light as a system of treatment, non-invasive 
+	procedures, that sort of thing.  No, there aren't anything like those
+	devices in today's operating rooms...but this is 250 years from now. 
+	In any event, it *is* based on the latest info we're getting on new
+	science from our medical advisor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I would not describe n'grath as a "Mafia boss," since that's a very
+	specific term.  Nor is it really any kind of organization.  He's a 
+	fixer, somebody you go to when you need something...a bodyguard, 
+	forged identicards, what-have-you.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi is quite aware of n'grath...and knowing that if he just
+	vanished, somebody'd take his place in five minutes, prefers the 
+	trouble he knows to the trouble he'd have to track down.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Londo's career is in jeopardy when a beautiful slave seduces him and steals
+a sensitive computer file.  Garibaldi investigates an unauthorized use of
+a restricted communications channel.
+
+
+Fabiana Udenio as Adira Tyree.
+Clive Revill as Trakis.
+Robert Phalen as Andrei Ivanov.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 6.79
+
+Production number: 104
+Original air date: February 9, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Trakis: "Do you know why a drunken fool like
+Mollari
+	has the power he does?  Because his family has been collecting
+	dirt on other families for years, like all the 'noble' houses of
+	the Centauri republic."
+
+
    •  Londo: "We Centauri live our lives for appearances:
+	position, status, title.  These are the things by which we
+	define ourselves.  But when I look beneath the mask I am forced
+	to wear, I see only emptiness."
+
+
    •  Centauri law permits individuals to own Centauri
+	slaves.  Owners are legally responsible for the actions of their
+	slaves.  This appears to be a slave system of economics rather
+	than of caste.  According to Trakis, powerlessness and slavery
+	is the fate of all Centauri who don't play the game of blackmail
+	and backstabbing.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  What was the Euphrates treaty compromise that Sinclair forced Londo
+to accept?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo and G'Kar agree over a drink that females are
+ 	the finest of all things in life.  They are much more friendly
+	with each other now than when last we saw them (cf:
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line").  The
+	Narn must have been very pacifying in the meantime.
+
+   
    •  Intense anger from a couple nearby people is enough
+	to send Talia away for a breather.
+
+   
    •  Londo agrees to Sinclair's compromise on the
+Euphrates
+	treaty in exchange for his personal help recovering the purple
+	files.  However, this should not be taken as another example of
+	Londo putting personal concerns above state concerns.  In a
+	profoundly blackmailable culture like the Centauri, power lost
+	by one individual or family would always be gained by another.
+	But if an outsider were to get hold of a treasure trove like
+	Londo's purple files, all of Centauri would be diminished.
+	There is an interesting parallel here to the Minbari concern for
+	souls (cf: "Soul Hunter").
+
+   
    •  Ivanova's brother was killed in the Earth/Minbari
+war,
+	her mother committed suicide
+	(cf: "Midnight on the Firing Line"),
+	and she's been estranged from her father for years.  Thus it's
+	unsurprising she's so hard-edged.
+
+   
    •  Talia is willing to skirt Psi Corps regulations
+	when
+	a life is at stake (though she has no concern for Londo's
+	career).  The Psi Corps' hold on remote psis appears to be
+	pretty weak.
+
+   
    • @@@884630840 When she was approached about the plan, Talia asked
+	Sinclair if Londo was serious about a woman's life being at stake.
+	Shouldn't she have sensed Londo's distress?  Strong emotions are
+	difficult to block out, she says
+	("Mind War,")
+	and with Adira's life and his career at stake, Londo would presumably
+	be quite anxious.  Of course, she may have sensed the anxiety but not
+	its reason.
+
+   
    •  Ivanova is willing to skirt EA regulations for
+	personal perks. (cf: "War Prayer")
+
+   
    •  When G'Kar meets with Trakis to exchange the
+	information, Trakis says to him, "You said nothing about a
+	telepath."  From this it is clear that G'Kar was the one who
+	contacted Trakis.  However, Trakis knew through the bug he
+	planted on Londo that Sinclair was onto him.  So, Sinclair must
+	have set up G'Kar's call to Trakis in such a way that it
+	wouldn't arouse his suspicions.
+
+   
    •  Telepath-aided negotiation must make future
+diplomacy
+	much different than it is now.  No posturing, tailored versions
+	of the situation back home, empty threats, or hidden agendas.
+	Parties have the same freedom to make choices for their
+	governments, but there are vanishingly few tactics left to gain
+	more advantage over one's adversary than one already has.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  We're currently finishing up production on "Born to the Purple,"
+with Clive Revell and Fabiana Udeno.  It's a very offbeat and funny
+story (by Larry DiTillio, natch) which adds a new side to Londo's
+character.  It puts our characters into different situations than we're
+used to, and it's fun seeing how they react to these new conditions.
+
+
      
+
    •  Trakis, Adira's owner, was not a Centauri, but (and this is something we
+may bring up at some point down the road), was at one point a Centauri slave.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: Londo as a romantic character...bless your heart.  You are the
+first to have nailed it absolutely on the head.  If I had to write a
+description of the character, I doubt I could have done any better 
+than what you just wrote.  There are a *lot* of episodes that bring
+this out in him, including the next one up, "Born to the Purple," 
+which I suspect will end virtually all of the hair jokes once and 
+for all.
+
+
      
+Anyway...yes, and thank you, that's it *precisely*.
+
+
      
+
    •  Let's just say for now that you'll learn something very unusual about
+Centauri "intimacy" in "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+
      
+
    •  Fabiana didn't shave her head to play Adira; that's a prosthetic head
+piece.  Ditto with all our Centauri women.  (Funnily enough, the one
+time we DID have a bald woman as a background extra, those not in the
+know on stage kept commenting on how fake the bald-cap looked....)
+
+
      
+
    •  The point you raise is exactly correct; which is why we've set up
+the Psi Corps in such a way as to *prevent* them from becoming a deus
+ex machina all the time.  This is what's always bothered me about the
+way "empaths" are treated on ST; it's a terrible invasion of privacy.
+The Psi Corps has strict rules about who can and can't be scanned, 
+and under what conditions.  In "Purple," she couldn't just go scan
+Trakis; she had to be hired, had to be already engaged in a business
+capacity, and had to find it *only* in surface thoughts, no deliberate
+poking.  And this is the ONLY -- repeat, the ONLY -- time this is 
+done in the entire season, aside from the accidental run-in with Londo
+in the pilot episode.
+
+
      
+We'll get deeper into the rules and regs of the Psi Corps as we go,
+further establishing that there's a lot they're expressly forbidden
+from doing by law.
+
+
      
+
    •  I confess I don't see the problem.  In real life, some women are
+scientists, and doctors, and atheletes...and some women dance in 
+bars, some women hook part- or full-time.  Some men are scholars and 
+diplomats and teachers...and some men are gigolos and thieves and 
+*also* dance in bars.  Where exactly is the problem in portraying 
+both sides of this?  Have we become so concerned with being 
+politically correct that we can not show a legitimate part of human
+existence?
+
+
      
+B5 has all kinds, and both sides of all kinds.  Male and female,
+equally.  I "chose" exotic dancers for a kind of sleazy, not-entirely
+legitimate operation, a backroom club.  What would one *expect* to 
+find there?  Opera singers?  You look at the situation, and you choose
+what is *appropriate to the situation*.
+
+
      
+I would also point out that the dancers didn't "eagerly rush forward
+to betray their friend."  Londo was trying to find Adira in hopes of
+helping her.  He didn't say he was going to do anything bad to her,
+and he was probably known to more than a few of them.  He was simply
+trying to find her.  The coin was an added incentive.  Back when I 
+was an investigative reporter, I did some research on strip joints
+while I was living in SAn Diego.  Spent a LOT of time talking to nude
+dancers (when they had their clothes on, I hasten to add).  And 99.9%
+of them had a rule: you want to ask questions, you pay.  That simple.
+That's how this stuff *works*.  My job is to keep the B5 reality as
+close as possible to our reality in that respect.
+
+
      
+Some of them probably wanted to help, knowing Londo was okay.  Some
+probably didn't care.  And some probably would've betrayed her at the
+tip of a coin.  Life's like that.  So again, where in this is the
+problem?
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: the club owner recognizing Sinclair (or not)...this is something
+we discussed.  Can Sinclair go places in the station and not be
+recognized?  In some cases, no.  In a place like the Dark Star, maybe
+so; this isn't the kind of place he generally hangs out in.  It's a
+question of how much day-to-day interaction somebody would have with
+him.  Yes, he's an important figure; but I'm not sure if I'd 
+immediately recognize L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan at first glance, 
+particularly in different style of dress, in an unusual location.
+We're *not* going to do it a lot -- just once this season -- but we
+thought it was a reasonable approach.
+
+
      
+
    •  This was a bit cut from the script for time; Gold Channels are ONLY 
+for official use, they're high-priority channels that can go anywhere
+back on Earth.  Commercial communications are less reliable and only
+have a few channels available; you've got to wait for a call to go
+through.  To use a Gold Channel for personal communications is a
+No-No.
+
+
      
+
    •  Regarding Ivanova...it's not really an attempt to pull at heart 
+strings, as it is to establish that this is someone who's had, and is
+still having, a pretty rough life.  It's a real roller-coaster for 
+her, and the way she survives it is to absolutely bottle it up 
+inside.  She has had angst throughout her life, and she's in for more.
+
+
      
+We start to track that in little ways that probably no one will 
+notice, as well as making it the occasional story point.  A little 
+way nobody'll notice: after this episode, she starts messing with her
+hair, which we'd deliberately set as extremely tight until now.
+Suddenly she doesn't have someone for whom she has to be a certain 
+way, and she has to start finding her *own* identity, and it ain't
+easy.
+
+
      
+
    •  Larry DiTillio's episodes this season are "Born to the Purple," and
+"Deathwalker."  He's currently working on a third, tentatively 
+entitled "TKO."  And yes, he uses blood instead of ink...unfortunately,
+it's mine.
+
+
      
+
    •  There will be both sex and romance on B5 (sometimes together, 
+sometimes not).  It's perversely appropriate that in the B5 series,
+it's not the Commander who gets laid first, or Garibaldi, or G'Kar...
+it's Londo.  And it's a very funny, but very touching and moving
+episode.
+
+
      
+
    •  It's a standard bed, works fine.  Though we *did* have a thing in 
+mind where Londo sits up in bed, having just had wonderful sex, and
+his hair is now hanging limp...but in a sudden burst of sanity we
+decided against it.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An archaeologist smuggles ancient artifacts onto the station, unleashing
+a living weapon.
+
+
+David McCallum as Dr. Vance Hendricks.
+Marshall Teague as Nelson Drake.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action
+P5 Rating: 6.33
+
+Production number: 101
+Original air date: February 18, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Ikarra 7, now a dead world, was a thousand years
+     ago home to a highly advanced space-faring society.  Their
+     technology was organic: tools and artifacts made of living tissue yet
+     immune to decay.  Invaded over a dozen times, they finally built 12
+     devastating organic warriors to protect them.  Programmed to
+     destroy any but "pure Ikarrans", those warriors repelled the last
+     invasion and went on to kill any Ikarran who deviated from the ideal
+     (ie all of them).  A
+     transcript
+     of the scene in which this is discussed is available.
+
+
    •  Organic technology is, according to archaeologist
+     Vance Hendricks, "The one trick Earth hasn't been able to crack.
+     The ability to create living ships that thrive in the vacuum of
+     space, to create weapons that produce their own power through
+     internal generation, like a firefly lights up at night."
+
+
    •  The Vorlons have organic technology, and it's
+     suspected that the Minbari do as well.
+
+
    •  Sinclair: "The last time I gave an
+     interview they told me just to relax and say what I really felt -
+     ten minutes after the broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so
+     far off the star maps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a
+     Ouija board."  It's not clear whether or not this was a joke.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi: (to the reporter) "...and
+     after walking 50 miles, we finally made it out of the desert.
+     Later when he was put in charge of Babylon 5, Commander Sinclair
+     asked if I'd come work security.  I said yes - it's been a great
+     time..."
+
+
    •  Garibaldi has been fired from 5 different jobs
+     for "unspecified personal problems".  His assignment on Babylon 5
+     is probably his last shot in Earth Force.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi was in Earth Force during the E/M war,
+     but not on the Line.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Who invaded Ikarra so many times?  What was so
+     valuable about it?
+
+
    •  Why is Sinclair so prone to heroism (read:
+     suicidal bravery)?  He's deliberately put his life on the line
+     three times now in the past year (cf "The
+     Gathering", "Soul Hunter").
+     Garibaldi suggests an answer: when the war ended it took away the
+     direction it gave his life, as happened to many veterans.  So now
+     he's "looking for something worth dying for because it's easier
+     than finding something worth living for."  Sinclair's not entirely
+     satisfied with that answer, and resolves to give it more thought.
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  A "Bio-weapons" supplier backed Hendricks'
+     original expedition to Ikarra - they must have had advance
+     information about what was to be found there.
+
+
    •  Ivanova has little faith in the ethics of big
+     government organizations (cf "Mind War",
+     "Deathwalker").
+
+
    •  Franklin appeared to seriously ponder the image
+     of great wealth Hendricks offered, before the guards took him away.
+
+
    •  A team from Earth Force Defense, Bio-weapons
+     Division confiscated the Ikarran artifacts just as the dust from the
+     weapon-chase was settling. Earth now has bio-tech of its own to study.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Garibaldi: "The commander's a hands-on
+     kind of guy, he'll grab any chance he can get to take out a ship -
+     he's like that."
+
+
      
+
    •  This episode occurs right around the 2nd
+     anniversary of Babylon 5 going on-line.
+
+
      
+
    •  In a poll, 75% of "Interstellar Network News"
+     said B5 wouldn't last 5 minutes.  Lloyd's of London put the odds at
+     500 to 1 against it lasting one year.
+
+
      
+
    •  The "Narn-Centauri negotiations" are to occur in
+     the near future.
+
+
      
+
    •  Sinclair: "How sharper than a serpent's
+     tooth." (His reply to Garibaldi's joking guess that Sinclair's
+     interview would get him shipped off the station and himself
+     promoted into Sinclair's position.)  This is a quote from
+     Shakespeare (King Lear.)
+
+
      
+
    • @@@884367861 Dr. Hendricks says to Franklin, "There's a Martian war
+	machine outside, and it wants to speak to you about the common cold."
+	That's a reference to H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," in which
+	the Martian invaders are killed by common microbes.
+
+
      
+
    •  Sinclair: "When you become obsessed with
+     the enemy, you become the enemy."
+
+
      
+
    •  At the last, the Ikarran begs forgiveness from
+     the "Great Maker".
+
+
      
+
    •  Franklin: "I'm starting to wonder if what
+     we just saw is a preview of things to come" (re: Pro-earth groups).
+
+
      
+
    •  The Interview
      
+     Reporter: "After all that you've just gone through, I have
+     to ask you the same question a lot of people back home are asking
+     about space these days.  Is it worth it?  Should we just pull back,
+     forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own
+     problems, at home?"
       Sinclair: "No.  We have to stay here,
+     and there's a simple reason why.  Ask ten different scientists
+     about the environment, population control, genetics - and you'll
+     get ten different answers.  But there's one thing every scientist
+     on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or
+     a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow
+     cold, and go out.  When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll
+     take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly,
+     Aristophanes - all of this.  All of this was for nothing, unless we
+     go to the stars."
+
+
      
+
    •  Ikarra may be an Australian Aboriginal word.
+     
      
+     The Australian DSTO (Defence Sciences and Technology Organisation) 
+     developed the anti-submarine weapon "Ikara" in the 1950's. It is no 
+     longer in use in the Australian Navy, having been fired for the last time 
+     in 1990. The Brazilian Navy may still use a variation of it.
+
+     
      
+     Since the DSTO has a tradition of naming its products after warlike
+     Aboriginal animals, it's plausible that the word refers to an animal.
+
+
      
+
    •  A slight visual gaffe: When the bioweapon self-destructs and falls to
+     the ground, its head is facing to the left (away from the camera.)  But
+     when Sinclair watches him turn human again, Nelson's head is facing to
+     the right (toward the camera.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  We'll definitely be dealing with the aspects of how fighting in a war
+     can affect you.  And this isn't just a vague promise: watch the end of
+     the third (currently) scheduled episode, "Infection," for a scene 
+     between Sinclair and Garibaldi that really deals very straightforwardly
+     with this issue.  It's a conversation you wouldn't expect to see in a
+     show like this.
+
+
      
+
    •  [Infection] has a lot of action, which you'd expect, and a big
+     conclusion, which you'd expect.  What you *won't* expect, I think,
+     is what happens afterward, in a conversation no one generally has
+     in TV after big action stuff has gone down.  And it's something to
+     chew on, I think....
+
+
      
+
    •  Thanks.  Sinclair's final speech there is the simplest truth about
+     space exploration that I can think of...and the most
+     compelling..and the most overlooked.  As Henry Kissinger once said,
+     "It has the added benefit of being true."
+
+
      
+
    •  Sorry; there's no one more critical of my work than me, and when it
+     comes to "Infection," I'd just kinda prefer it if it kinda vanished
+     in the night.  I feel that way about only two episodes out of 22,
+     so that's not too bad, I suppose.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Infection" is definitely not indicative of the season overall; that
+     is, in my view, one of our weaker, possibly weakest episodes.
+
+
      
+
    •  And like I said...I have problems with "Infection" as well, so there 
+     is no flame from me.  I guess part of it is knowing what was in the
+     script that should've been carried off better, but wasn't.  And part
+     of it is my fault; I tried to use the Nelson/machine as a metaphor;
+     it wasn't supposed to be about the Nelson/machine, but about the kind
+     of people who would create it, the kind of people who would sell it,
+     and the kind of people who would confiscate it even KNOWING what it
+     was (and of course the kind of people who would *use* it). 
+     Unfortunatly, when you put  somebody in that kind of suit, that
+     *becomes* the story, and from that point on you're pretty much doomed.
+     It was also in places too much an obvious metaphor, and the "hand of
+     the author" is showing too much.  It was the first script written for
+     this season, after the long break after the pilot, and I think I was
+     trying to find the characters' "fingerprints" and getting into the
+     flow of the series, which took a script or two.
+
+
      
+
    •  The problem with "Infection" from a writing POV is that it was the
+     FIRST one written for this season, and I was having a hard time 
+     finding the "fingerprints" of the characters again after so much time
+     had passed after the pilot (it was nearly a year between the revising/
+     shooting of the pilot, and the writing of the first series script). 
+     As on *any* show, it takes a while to get up to speed once you hit 
+     series.  That was the real problem, and there wasn't any  real way to
+     get past it except to write it, re-acquaint myself with the characters,
+     and move on.  I probably would have opted out of doing it had we had
+     more scripts on hand, but we didn't.  And oddly, many on the 
+     production team *liked* the script quite a lot, and kept saying it had
+     to be done.
+
+
      
+
    •  I'd slice this a little finer and suggest that it wasn't so much the
+     *stupidity* of racism and the whole genetic purity aspect, but the
+     IMPRACTICALITY of such ideas.  If you follow the idea to its logical
+     conclusion, *nobody* is pure.  Which was kind of the point.
+
+     
      
+     And oddly enough, there's a pro-genocide discussion in "Deathwalker."
+
+
      
+
    •  I allow a small smile...in the course of any given script, I put in
+     little things that I figure nobody will ever notice, but which for me
+     help just a bit to keep on track with the character, and which may
+     resonate to anyone paying attention.  You cite Sinclair's line about
+     joining Garibaldi "on the LINE," and Garibaldi noting that Sinclair
+     keeps putting his life "on the LINE," and the similarity to the 
+     phrase "the Battle of the Line."
+
+     
      
+     It was a throwaway...but a conscious one.
+
+     
      
+     He's still fighting the same battle.  He's never stopped.  In one way
+     or another, he keeps putting himself out there, caught in a loop....
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, the reporter's question was *not* (from a 2258 point of
+     view) stupid.  Earth is far enough from the other major races not to
+     have to worry about iminent invasion.  At the time of the story, there
+     is a VERY strong isolationist movement growing back home, which you'll
+     hear more about as we go in.  Space travel is *expensive*, even in
+     2258, and there are still a lot of problems to be resolved back home.
+     While the Earth administration in Earthdome keeps pressing to go
+     further and further, various nation/states in the Earth senate are
+     taxed further to finance explorations which they don't always share in
+     equally, the Mars Colony is threatening secession...things are falling
+     apart by degrees.  So in light of all that, the question is
+     *absolutely* valid.
+
+
      
+
    •  The ONLY reason that they were able to pick up the blasts in
+     "Infection" was because they were SO powerful that they registered on
+     the station's sensors.  Ordinary PPG blasts don't show up.
+
+
      
+
    •  I have nothing to do with the description applied to the show by
+     others.  In that episode, the affected person isn't "turned into" a
+     machine.  It is sort of a living armor-like compound that grows over 
+     the person's body, and begins to influence the person in question.  
+     That is the sum and substance of it; he isn't transmuted, his biology
+     isn't changed, his brain isn't replaced, and so on.
+
+     
      
+     My suggestion: judge the episode based on the episode, not on what
+     choice of words someone else used in trying to synopsize the episode.
+     Because Moby Dick can be summed up as, "A nut chasing a big fish."  
+     But there's obviously more to the story than that, and it's not 
+     entirely accurate.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
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+
    Doctor Stephen Franklin's Description of the Ikarrans and their
+Organic Technology Weapons
+
    Transcribed by Jeffrey Newman
+<jpn5@cornell.edu>
+
+
    Dr. Franklin enters Command and Control.  There, he finds Commander
+Sinclair, who is finishing getting dressed in battle gear.
+
+
    Franklin: Commander, we managed to access the organic memory
+banks of one of the artifacts.
+
+
    Sinclair: Make it short doctor, I don't have a lot of time.
+(To Ivanova, who is off screen) Let me know when it's on the move
+again.
+
+
    Franklin: Over the course of their history, the Ikarrans
+were invaded half a dozen times, each assault more deadly than the
+first.  They needed to create the perfect weapon, able to adapt to any
+situation.  An organic weapon, capable of independent thought.
+
+
    Ivanova: Temperature up ninety degrees in Brown 2 Level C.
+
+
    
+
+
    Shot of the monster/weapon, using its laser cannon to cut through
+the blast door.  Cut back to Command and Control.
+
+
    
+
+
    Franklin: Since it would take years to create synthetic
+intelligence, they incorporated the brainwave patterns of one of their
+researchers into the weapons.  (Franklin displays a picture of the
+researcher on a nearby screen.)  That's him.  His name was Teh
+Lahr(sp?).  But people can be fooled, so to prevent them from being
+confused by misleading instructions from the enemy, they hard wired
+the machines not to respond to anyone who wasn't pure Ikarran.
+There's one problem, commander.  How do you define a "pure" Ikarran,
+or a pure human?  No one is pure, no one.
+
+
    
+
+
    A shot of the monster/weapon, followed by a cut back to Ivanova.
+
+
    
+
+
    Ivanova: Temperature's up five hundred degrees.  It'll be
+through any time now.
+
+
    Sinclair: Doctor?  (He motions for Dr. Franklin to go with
+him.)  I'm joining Mr. Garibaldi on the line.
+
+
    Sinclair and Franklin walk out of Command and Control.  There is a
+brief shot of the monster/weapon; he has cut through the blast door.
+The scene returns to Sinclair and Franklin, walking through various
+hallways.
+
+
    Sinclair: So who set the parameters of what it meant to be a
+pure Ikarran?
+
+
    Franklin: A coalition of religious fanatics and military
+extremists that ran the government.  They programmed the weapons with
+a level of standards based on ideology, not science.
+
+
    Sinclair: Like the Nazi ideal of the perfect Aryan during
+World War Two.
+
+
    Franklin: Exactly.  The next invasion, eleven of the
+machines were released.  And they stopped the invaders by killing
+anything that didn't match their profile of the pure, perfect Ikarran.
+When they were finished, the machines turned on their creators.  They
+began a process of extermination based on the slightest deviation from
+what they were programmed to consider normal.  They killed; they kept
+killing until the last Ikarran was dead.
+
+
    Sinclair:  What about the weapons?
+
+
    Franklin: With no one to tend to them, they were destroyed
+by centuries of neglect.
+
+
    Sinclair: Except for Number Twelve, which is here, now,
+acting on a program to protect a world that's been dead for a thousand
+years.  You said they incorporated the brainwaves of one of their
+researchers into the weapons?
+
+
    Franklin: Teh Lahr, yes.
+
+
    Sinclair: Is there anything there we can talk to, reason
+with?
+
+
    Franklin: Well, there's a complete personality matrix, yes,
+but it's totally subsumed by its programming.
+
+
    Sinclair: Then we'll just have to find a way around the
+logic of the program.  Get back to medlab, doctor, I suspect we're
+going to need your services.
+
+
    
+   Transcript written by Jeffrey P. Newman.  Permission is
+   granted to distribute this transcript noncommercially as long as the
+   transcript and this copyright notice remain intact. "Infection"
+   was written by J. Michael Straczynski, and directed by Richard Compton.
+   Babylon 5 is a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+   copyright is intended by writing this transcription.
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a weeklong festival
+when humans and aliens demonstrate their religious beliefs.  An old enemy
+sends an assassin to kill G'Kar.
+
+
+Thomas Kopache as Tu'Pari.
+Julia Nickson as Catherine Sakai.
+
    
+
+Originally titled "Carnival!"
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.88
+
+Production number: 108
+Original air date: February 23, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+Emmy Award for Makeup Design
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+
+
    •  Look closely at the statue of Li, the Centauri
+	goddess of passion.  Something about it will be the subject of a
+	humorous revelation about the Centauri in a later episode.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  "Never fails," says Garibaldi when Catherine
+     comes aboard.  Apparently he's known her and Sinclair for a very
+     long time.  They seem to run into one another every three years,
+     though this is the first time in a while that they've both been
+     available.
+
+
    •  Sinclair and Carolyn have drifted apart - he
+     wasn't willing to quit and go into business with her as a trader.
+     (cf: "The Gathering")
+
+
    •  After he delivers G'Kar's death pronouncement,
+     councillor Du'Rog says, "This should come as no surprise to you
+     G'Kar.  You've ruined my family's name and humiliated me before the
+     council.  Retribution was inevitable."
+
+
    •  Later G'Kar explains to Na'Toth why he can't ask for
+     help: "...this would lead to some unfortunate revelations about my
+     years on the council, revelations that could affect my position.
+     Personally, I don't care if the information comes out.  My
+     only concern is that it might compromise our standing in the
+     negotiations."
+
+
    •  The best assassins among the Narn are the
+     "Thenta Makur."  They are well-organized and respectable in their
+     own way.  They leave a "death blossom" to give their mark time to
+     get their affairs in order, and offer a solid guarantee: they will
+     personally kill any assassin who betrays a commission.
+
+
    •  G'Kar has survived two prior assassination
+     attempts, but did not appear to have experience with the Thenta Makur.
+
+
    •  Vir explains the vivacious Centauri festival:
+     
      
+       It's a celebration of life.  It comes from a time in our
+       world's history when two dominant species were fighting
+       for supremacy: our people, and a species we called "Xon".
+       At year's end, we count how many of our people survived,
+       and celebrate our good fortune! 
+     
      
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The cross-species religious festival was Earth
+     Central's idea, and is consistent with Babylon 5's raison
+     d'etre. The Minbari and Centauri participated willingly, but
+     nothing was seen of Narn religion (cf: "By Any
+     Means Necessary").  No-one made note of this omission - perhaps
+     it's taken for granted that Narn religion is not for outsiders.
+
+
    •  The Narn employ couriers on a weekly basis. They
+     also have FTL communications.  Hence, they must not consider FTL
+     secure.
+
+
    •  Na'Toth is cool-headed, with a sarcastic sense of
+     humor - for G'Kar a great improvement over the literal and
+     over-enthusiastic Ko'Dath.
+
+
    •  When Lennier greets Delenn as "Satai," she rebukes 
+     him: "No-one here knows of my connection.  No-one must find out
+     [...] it would lead to certain questions I don't want to answer
+     just now."  Apparently, it is well-known among the Minbari who are
+     the members of the grey council.  They are also greatly revered,
+     judging by Lennier's reluctance to raise his eyes in her presence.
+
+
    •  Vir's speech is quite remarkable.
+     What endured after the Centauri conflict with the Xon was a
+     celebration of survival, rather than a mourning for those lost.  This
+     is notable both for what they chose to focus on (the joyous rather
+     than the sad), and for its suggestion that the Centauri may have
+     been nearly destroyed by the Xon (everyone was lucky to have
+     survived each year).
+
+
    •  A theme of real Babylonian history: a stronger 
+     race oppresses a weaker one, and generations of the weaker one grow
+     up fighting for their lives.  Eventually the once-weaker race
+     becomes so hardened and energized in their own self-protection that
+     they rise up and conquer their oppressors 
+     (cf:  History.Babylonia).
+
+
    •  This theme may be the very story of the Xon and
+     the Centauri, for the Centauri eventually destroyed them and didn't
+     lose momentum until they were an empire spanning an entire quadrant
+     of the galaxy (cf: "The Gathering" ).
+     This may also become the story of the Centauri the Narn: the
+     Centauri invaded their homeworld and held sway for a hundred years,
+     but now the Narn are free and bent on destruction, while the
+     Centauri are on the decline.
+
+
    •  Among the many Centauri household gods on the
+     banquet table are Ben-Zan, god of food, Mo-Goth, god of the
+     underworld and protector of front doors, and Li, goddess of
+     passion.  The golden statue of Li portrays her with both arms and
+     one leg raised.  Visible on her body are breasts, a very large
+     male hair-crest, and three tentacles emerging from her
+     hips on both sides.  (cf. "The Quality of Mercy")
+
+
    •  A
+     transcript of
+     Delenn's recital during the Minbari ceremony is available.
+
+
    •  This recital is very important, especially if
+     Sinclair is the incarnation of a figure in Minbari prophecy, for
+     which there are indications:
+     
+
+
    •  The giving of fruit to each of the main characters 
+     coincided with particular parts of Delenn's recital.  This could be
+     literary foreshadowing, but it's unlikely that Delenn herself
+     intended the juxtaposition.  
+     
       
+     "From birth {Londo}, through death and renewal {Vir},
+     you must put aside old things {Garibaldi}, old fears
+     {Sinclair}, old lives {Ivanova}.  This is your death
+     {G'Kar}, the death of flesh..."  
+     
      
+
+
    •  For the record, Londo and Vir eat their fruits,
+     Garibaldi declines, Ivanova puts hers down, G'Kar exchanges his
+     with hers, Ivanova (unawares) then eats hers, and G'Kar gives his
+     new fruit a distrustful sniff.  Sinclair, under Delenn's compelling
+     gaze, eats his as well.
+
+
    •  When Catherine hears about "red fruit" being part 
+     of the Minbari ceremony, she asks if there was a serious exchange
+     of looks.  When Sinclair confirms this, she chuckles, "Oh it's a
+     rebirth ceremony all right.  It also doubles as a marriage
+     ceremony.  Depending on how seriously anyone took it, somebody got
+     married the other day."  Sinclair did not mention who was seriously
+     looking at whom - he may in some sense now be married to Delenn.
+
+
    •  "You must put aside... old lives" reaffirms the
+     Minbari belief in reincarnation revealed in  
+     "Soul Hunter", and suggests that the Minbari may have
+     conscious access to their own past lives.  Else what would
+     they have to put aside?  (cf: "The War Prayer")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • @@@846702224 Regarding making people laugh until their sides hurt...this
+	is something I always go for.  It's easy to go for the "well, that's
+	amusing" stuff, but to make someone laugh out loud, or even until it
+	hurts, is tough.  In most (but not all) cases, I try to get one solid
+	laugh per episode, one moving scene per episode, and one "head-conk"
+	per episode.   The first obligation of a writer is to make you *feel*
+	something, and if I can do that in an episode, then I've done my job.
+
+	
      
+	It helps in that I'm not generally a big laugher; when I go to plays
+	or movies with other people, and they're comedies, afterwards I'll
+	always get "Why didn't you like it?"  "I did."  "You didn't laugh."
+	"I was just thinking about how funny it was."  Usually I can see a
+	punchline coming, and part of my brain is racing ahead to what it
+	might be.  (And half the time at least I'm right.)  So I've adopted
+	the philosophy that if I find something extremely funny, other people
+	will laugh at it; if I'm so tickled that I absolutely laugh out loud,
+	I know it'll probably kill several people.  As a result, if I'm going
+	for a funny scene, I don't leave it alone until I laugh at it.
+
+	
      
+	When I thought about Londo passing out face first on the banquet table
+	uttering "...but in purple, I'm *stunning*," I just about fell off my
+	chair laughing.  Sometimes I'm a little broad in my comedy, other
+	times I go for something a little more literate or (one hopes) witty
+	(most of these go to Ivanova, whereas the broad stuff tends to go to
+	Londo in most cases).  But I try to keep it varied.
+
+	
      
+	Strangely enough, the comics that *do* manage to break me up are all
+	the more assaultive ones...Jerry Lewis, Robin Williams, Buddy Hackett
+	(who can reduce me to tears), and a few others.
+
+
      
+
    •  By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to 
+     be discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on
+     "Parliament," and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War Prayer."
+     So we lifted that scene and inserted it into her episode, doing a 
+     small bit of ADR to facilitate the move.  It's now quite seamless.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846702224 Bill Mumy came in to audition, same as eveybody else.  It
+	was known then that it was a recurring role (contrary to his
+	recollection of things), and when he walked in the door, I knew he was
+	right.
+
+
      
+
    •  BTW, this week will Bill Mumy's first week on B5, and he's done a
+     very nifty job as Lennier.  He brings a wonderful sense of absolute
+     innocence...the proverbial innocent abroad...to Lennier's character.
+     The Minbari prosthetics look great on him, enhancing the sense he 
+     brings to the character.  He's also great with the cast, and keeping
+     things up during shooting.  At one point, as they're leaving camera,
+     Delenn says to Lennier, who has just arrived at the station, "Now 
+     tell me of home; I have been away far too long."  His ad-libbed
+     off-camera response: "Beatlemania is back."  (Another ad-lib for 
+     another shot:  "Minimalls...they're everywhere," and "Well, we just
+     got Pizza Hut and cable.")
+
+
      
+
    •  Regarding Catherine Sakai...believe me, this ain't a consort kind of
+     relationship.  It will be monogamous, but difficult in many ways.  
+     This has been an on-again/off-again relationship between them for 
+     years, made up of three parts passion and two parts teeth.  It will 
+     be a very fiery relationship.  And this is a woman with her own 
+     business, her own ship, who comes and goes as she wishes.  You have
+     to understand that I love writing strong female characters, and 
+     Catherine will be probably one of the strongest.
+
+
      
+
    •  Catherine Sakai is played by Julie Nickson Soul, an asian-american
+     actor who's done quite a bit of work in high-profile films.  Her
+     character is never Cathy, only Catherine (occasionally Cath to 
+     Sinclair, but *only* occasionally).  She's a planetary surveyer, 
+     working for one of the Earth corporations, looking for uninhabited
+     worlds and asteroids for exploitation.
+
+
      
+
    •  We've shot our first scenes between Sinclair and his new love 
+     interest, Catherine Sakai (as played by Julia Nickson).  This is a
+     very, very strong character, and she brings a wonderful vibrancy to
+     Sakai.   They have a unique relationship that looks and sounds like
+     a real relationship, with all its ups and downs and dumb moments. 
+     One way that I've reinforced this is that...well, in the first 
+     episode in which they meet again (they were involved before), just
+     about every scene between them is lifted almost directly from 
+     personal experience.
+
+     
      
+     And given some of the awkward, even painful conversations that take
+     place, it was very, *very* hard to watch this being rehearsed.
+     (Michael and Julia worked over a weekend with the director to get the
+     nuances just right.)  When it came time to shoot the scenes, much as
+     I wanted to be on-set, I just couldn't do it.  My heart just kept 
+     falling right down to my shoes.  I can't wait for the first person to
+     say "I don't buy this as a real relationship" just so's I can whap
+     him upside the head.  But I have a hunch that won't happen.  It comes
+     across as very real, and as a very vulnerable moment for both 
+     characters.
+
+     
      
+     "Write what you know," they said.  Right.  How about I just take a 
+     power drill and stick it in my ear...it'd be faster, less painful, 
+     and after a while I might even come to like it....
+
+
      
+
    •  A parliament is a gathering of officials, of representatives, which
+     matches the story in terms of representatives of different places,
+     and beliefs.  The dreams are the belief systems.
+
+
      
+
    •  The "stay put" line was ad-libbed by Andreas, because the crawfish
+     kept crawling off the table.
+
+
      
+
    •  Yes, definitely keep in mind the intent of the ceremony...but be
+     sure to remember *all* aspects of it.  (see
+     Analysis)
       
+     Also, take a good look at Li, goddess of passion, in Londo's
+     ceremony.  There's something about it that will be very funny
+     later.  (see Analysis)
+
+
      
+
    • @@@832309099 The quote Delenn recited in "Parliament" was the quote
+     from Valen when he formed the first Grey Council.
+
+
      
+
    •  RE: the glasses...it's not something I've been able to figure out
+     how to mention, but the Narn pride themselves on their physical
+     perfection.  Hence there is no market for physical aides; it's
+     something to be ashamed of.  So they have to crib stuff from other
+     species, like glasses that have a prescription close enough to be
+     useful.  I have *no* idea how to work that into a script, and am
+     not sure it is even a good idea to do so.
+
+
      
+
    •  The atheist was not only first in line, he was the best dressed and
+     smartest looking and nattiest one in the line.
      
+     jm(what a coincidence)s
+
+
      
+
    •  From a personal point of view, I'm very fond of "The Parliament of 
+     Dreams," which is a very funny show, and at times a very emotional
+     show.  "Parliament" is all over the place...it's got all of our
+     major characters, our ambassadors, their seconds, we see lots of
+     group scenes, we're all over the station, dipping in and out of
+     three different but interconnected stories...it's really a matter
+     of keeping a lot of balls in the air at one time, and I think we
+     pulled it off nicely.
+
+
      
+
    •  There's one truly remarkable shot we did for the current episode, shot
+	Friday evening. Generally, in any shot with a crowd, you need
+	about 20-45 people. That's usually enough to fill out the shot
+	in any set you can go to.  More than that gets costly, and
+	isn't really noticeable unless you frame your shot just *so*.
+	Yesterday's shot has 160 extras. It's a very impressive, and
+	very moving shot. It appears in the tag of "the Parliament of
+	Dreams." It's the kind of shot you just don't see anywhere
+	else. We had some people from PTEN and a film crew for a
+	behind-the-scenes piece on hand, and they all commented on how
+	only this show would do this shot...and how significant it is.
+	(I can't tell you what it was, because that gives it away, and
+	I want it to be kind of a surprise; suffice to say you'll
+	definitely know it when you see it.)
+
+
      
+
    •  The SkyDancer appears in the next episode. "See you next Wednesday"
+	is...well...it's when she's going to be back on the station. She has to
+	complete her run by Tuesday, and will be back on Wednesday. Sometimes a
+	cigar is just a cigar....
+
+
      
+
    •  [G'Kar's] song is an original, by our series composer, Christopher
+	Franke.
+
+
      
+
    •  The "fishy" song was composed by Christopher Franke specifically for
+	that scene.  I told him I wanted sort of a Narnish Gilbert and
+	Sullivan, and that's what we got.
+
+
      
+
    •  I would think that Londo and G'Kar might actually find something in
+	common in appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan.  In fact, G'Kar's 
+	"little fishie" song in "Parliament of Dreams" was intended to be a 
+	bit G&S in nature.
+
+
      
+
    •  One of my favorite exchanges, which never seems to show up, is from
+	PoD v.1, when G'Kar says to Tu'Pari, who has come looking for 
+	Ambassador G'Kar, "This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters.  This is 
+	Ambassador G'Kar's table.  This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner.  What 
+	part of this progression escapes you?"
+
+
      
+
    •  Episode #5 is the two year anniversary of B5 going on-line; not two
+	years since the pilot movie.  It took about a year and a half to
+	grow to this point, and for the final of the Big 5 ambassadors, Kosh,
+	to arrive, completing the group.  It's now roughly six months after
+	that, into the new year.
+
+
      
+
    •  "So, I've been wondering who made up Londo's line in Parliament,
+	`but in purple, I'm stunning!'"
+
+	
      
+	Ummmmm.....the scriptwriter?
+
+
      
+
    •  The Xon did evolve into fair amount of intelligence.  There are a
+	very few land masses on Centauri Prime, separated by huge oceans.
+	The two species evolved pretty much separately, on different 
+	continents that were absolutely unreachable until one or both sides
+	developed sufficient technology for extended sea travel...and that's
+	when all hell broke loose.
+
+
      
+
    •  There's a definite improvement arc in the show; the deeper we got 
+	into production, the better the stories generally became, and the 
+	better the production values.  (With a few exceptions.)  The biggest
+	change in the show came once we began writing scripts *after* we'd 
+	begun shooting episodes, so that we/I could again see the actors and
+	find their fingerprints.  "Parliament" is the first one I wrote after
+	we started filming; "Soul," "Infection" and "Midnight" were all
+	written prior to filming starting.
+
+
      
+
    •  You're seeing, btw, why this episode, much as it's a favorite, 
+	couldn't be shown any sooner; there has to be some familiarity with
+	the characters for this to be most effective.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: G'Kar being theatrical...that's who he is.  I like theatrical
+	characters.  I know many in real life that're much bigger than life,
+	very broad...and great fun.  Not every character has to be sonorous 
+	and serious and restrained.  The whole point of *having* alien 
+	characters is that they shuld act differently than the majority of
+	us.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Xon?  Dead.  All of them.  And good riddance.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Xon weren't any more evil or good than the race that survived;
+	two equally sentient species emerged on the Centauri homeworld over 
+	the course of evolution.  They were more or less separated by 
+	distance and land masses and oceans, so there was little contact
+	until either side developed the technology required to find the other.
+	It was the next best thing to a first contact situation, except it's
+	on their own world; they were very much alien to one another.  
+	Somewhere along the line, it was decided that this world wasn't big
+	enough for both of them, so they began a campaign of slaughter against
+	each other.  Londo's people won.
+
+
      
+
    •  Kosh was otherwise engaged....
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, many of the alien races do *not* have monolithic religious
+	beliefs.  You'll note that G'Kar didn't take part in the festival 
+	from the Narn POV.  You'll see Narn beliefs in "By Any Means 
+	Necessary," and there it's mentioned that there are many different
+	bliefs among Narns, G'Quon and G'Lan being the two larger systems.
+
+
      
+
    •  Sure, I could've gotten them into bed by the second act...but that 
+	wasn't the point.  What I wanted to show, what interests me, is the
+	give and take leading up to that moment, the feints and parries and
+	"how do we get past this?"  That to me is some of the most 
+	interesting stuff in a relationship.
+
+
      
+
    •  As to the interpretation of the final tag scene...my thought was that
+	it's a way of saying, "Our dominant belief is that ALL beliefs are
+	respected."
+
+
      
+
    •  There was a follower of Islam; right next to the orthodox jew at the
+	front of the line.  "Mr. Rashid, a Moslem."  I made sure we put them
+	side by side.
+
+
      
+
    •  I didn't say that Earth was the ONLY one with diverse religions.  I
+	don't understand why it is that when ONE thing is shown, it means 
+	that's the ONLY thing.  It's not.  Narns, as we'll see in "By Any
+	Means Necessary," have several competing beliefs.  The idea of the
+	festival wasn't to compare and contrast, only to show what *we* 
+	(whoever *we* is) believes.
+
+
      
+
    •  Well, we're doomed...I just realized today that our first *really* 
+	strong episode, "The Parliament of Dreams," airs the same night (in 
+	most markets, the 23rd) as the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan face off
+	in the olympics.
+
+	
      
+	Imagine a silence vast as space...that sound is neilsen ratings meters
+	stuck unmovingly on CBS....
+
+
      
+
    •  Needless to say, though, we got *creamed* by the Tonya/Nancy Show.
+	Which got a 64 share, the 3rd biggest ratings for a sporting event in
+	history.  But then, *everybody* got beat up by that one, so again
+	it's okay.
+
+
      
+
    •  The line, "See you next wednesday," was basically an offhand line,
+	slightly but not significantly based in the idea that in most markets,
+	B5 airs on Wednesdays.  It was never meant to be a John Landis 
+	reference, and if I'd known it was (I'd never heard it before), 
+	would've changed it.
+
+
      
+
    •  I keep constantly fighting the urge to have G'Kar return from a trip
+	to the Narn homeworld with a limp, a cane, and a (temporary) eyepatch,
+	muttering, "Boy, the Thenta Makur have *no* sense of humor."
+
+	
      
+	(Now we'll see how many get *that* one.)
+
+
      
+
    •  BTW, re: Sinclair remembering all those names...we used many of the
+	real names of the people standing in line, many of whom *did* belong
+	to the religion they had come to represent.  We went down this line 
+	of 250 people, and went over their names *twice* with O'Hare.  That's
+	all.  After that, he got each name right every time; amazingly quick 
+	memorization.
+
+
      
+
    •  This is something that Andreas and I discussed, and it's not so much 
+	that G'Kar *has* to cook, but that he *likes* to cook.  From the
+	singing, it's clear he's having a good time....
+
+
      
+
    •  Ko'Dath met with an unfortunate accident with an airlock.
+
+
      
+
    •  Just learned that Babylon 5 won an Emmy for its Makeup Design, for
+	"The Parliament of Dreams."  This is our second Emmy so far, our 
+	first for the series.  I'm determined that next year we get some 
+	notices for our acting and other above-the-line areas.
+
+	
      
+	In any event, congratulations to our makeup and prosthetics design
+	people.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
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+
    
+The Minbari Rebirth/Marriage Ceremony
    
+Transcribed by Jeffrey Newman
+<jpn5@cornell.edu>
+
+
    
+We see Garibaldi and Sinclair on screen.  The camera shot widens up, and we
+see what appears to be a small congregation of people.  In the front row,
+we see, from left to right:  Londo Mollari, Vir Cotto, Michael Garibaldi,
+Jeffrey Sinclair, Susan Ivanova, and G'Kar.  Behind them are a number of
+other aliens, of various species.  Delenn, Lennier, and another Minbari.
+The minbari are wearing cloaks.  Delenn has a hood over her head.  There is
+a triangular table, with some items on it, mostly triangular, including a
+triangular shaped glass basket.  The camera moves to Delenn.
+
+
    
+Delenn:  Will you follow me into fire, into storm, into darkness, into
+death?  And the nine said yes.  Then do it in testimony to the one who will
+follow, who will bring death,  (camera cuts to a shot of G'Kar,) couched in
+the promise of new life, (camera cut to Garibaldi,) and renewal, (camera
+cut to Sinclair,) disguised as defeat.
+
+
    
+There is a wider shot of the entire chamber.  Delenn takes one small red
+fruit from the glass basket.  Lennier then takes to basket to the others
+who were mentioned before.  He goes from left to right across the front of
+the seats, and offers the basket to each person in the front row.  They
+each take one of the same small red fruit.
+
+
    
+Delenn:  (Camera cuts to a shot of Londo) From birth, (Camera pans to the
+right, from Londo to Vir,) through death and renewal, (camera pans to
+Garibaldi,) you must put aside old things, (camera pans to Sinclair,) old
+fears, (camera pans to Ivanova,) old lives.  (Camera pans to G'Kar,) This
+is your death.  The death of flesh.  The death of pain.  (Camera cuts to
+Delenn, holding the red fruit.  Her back is, and apparantly has been,
+toward the others.)  The death of yesterday.  (Delenn turns around, to face
+them.)  Taste of it, (Camera cuts to Londo, who eats his fruit.  After a
+moment, he nods at Vir.  The camera moves to Vir.) and be not afraid, (Vir
+eats his fruit.  Camera moves to Sinclair.) for I am with you, (camera cuts
+to Delenn, who is staring at Sinclair,) to the end of time.
+
+
    
+Camera moves back to Sinclair.  He looks at Garibaldi.  Garibaldi shakes
+his head and puts the fruit down in front of him.  Camera moves to Ivanova,
+who eats her fruit.  Camera moves to G'Kar, who shiffs the fruit with a
+look of disgust.  Camera to Sinclair, who looks at G'Kar, and sort of
+smirks.  Camera back to Delenn, who is still looking at Sinclair.
+
+
    
+Delenn:  Taste of it.
+
+
    
+Camera to Sinclair.  He eats the fruit.  Camera back to Delenn, who eats
+the fruit, with her eyes closed.  She appears to savor it's taste, or savor
+the moment, while eating it.  Camera to Sinclair, who watches Delenn do
+this.  Camera to Delenn, who opens her eyes and looks back at Sinclair.
+She removes her hood.
+
+
    
+Delenn:  And so it begins.
+
+
    
+   Transcript written by Jeffrey P. Newman.  Permission is
+   granted to distribute this transcript noncommercially as long as the
+   transcript and this copyright notice remain intact. "Parliament of Dreams"
+   was written by J. Michael Straczynski, and directed by Jim Johnston.
+   Babylon 5 is a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+   copyright is intended by writing this transcription.
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Talia's old Psi Corps instructor, the victim of a secret experiment, is the
+target of a manhunt involving the Psi-Cops.  Catherine wants to survey a
+promising planet for possible mining, but G'Kar warns her to stay away.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+Felicity Waterman as Kelsey.
+William Allen Young as Jason Ironheart.
+
    
+
+
    +P5 Rating: 8.44
+
+Production number: 110
+Original air date: March 2, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Jason Ironheart was Talia's instructor and lover
+     at the Psi Corps Training Academy.  After she graduated and went
+     into commercial telepathy, they kept in touch by letter - until a
+     year ago when his letters stopped.  As Ironheart recounts, he
+     volunteered to undergo genetic and biochemical modification he
+     thought was intended to make him a stronger telepath.  The
+     experiment turned out to be an attempt to make him 
+     a stable telekinetic, and it after many months
+     and hundreds of injections it worked - stunningly!  Ironheart
+     became able to see through any mind like glass, and manipulate
+     matter and energy both.  He discovered then that those in charge
+     were after offensive military applications for TK, like secret
+     assassination.  So, he killed the head researcher (the only person
+     who could duplicate the work) and fled to Babylon 5, still
+     undergoing changes to his mind and body.
+
+
    •  What is it like to be a telepath?
      
+     Talia: "It's like staying in a hotel room where you can just
+     hear the people talking next door.  You can try and shut it out,
+     but it's always there.  The key is not to eavesdrop unless you're
+     invited... casual thoughts are very easy to block, but strong
+     emotions have a way of slipping through."
       
+     "Do you know what it's like when telepaths make love, commander?
+     You drop every defense, and it's all mirrors, reflecting each
+     others' feelings, deeper and deeper, until somewhere along the line
+     your souls mix, and it's a feeling so profound it makes you hurt.
+     It's the only moment in a telepath's life when you no longer hear
+     the voices."
+
+
    •  Ironheart: "We all thought Psi Corps was
+     controlled by the government, but that's changing.  The Corps is
+     starting to pull the strings behind the scenes; they're more
+     powerful than you could begin to imagine.  Telepaths make the
+     ultimate blackmailers..."
       
+     "The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing: control.  Control over
+     telepaths, the economy, the courts, over matter, over thought
+     itself."
      
+     A
+     transcript
+     of Ironheart's meeting with Sinclair is available.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •   If Ironheart's figures are true, and if there
+     are 20 billion human beings in existence, then there should be a
+     thousand people who are (or will become) stable telekinetics.  If
+     the Psi Corps' pursuit of a stable TK justified the extreme
+     measures they attempted with Ironheart, then something about
+     naturally occurring TK's must make them unusable.  It could be that
+     use of TK invariably drives one insane, or perhaps natural TK is
+     insufficiently fine-controlled enough for their purposes.
+
+
    •  Whatever it was that the Psi Corps scientists did to
+     Ironheart, it wasn't more than physical alterations to his
+     brain and body.  Yet those alterations started a process that led
+     to his essentially becoming a demigod.  This could represent a
+     latent potential in humanity as a whole, of which iceberg telepathy
+     is merely the tip.  Or perhaps not - "This is a power that we were
+     never meant to have," Ironheart tells Sinclair, "we're not ready
+     for it."
+
+
    •  Ivanova hates the Psi Corps with a passion
+     (understandably - cf "Midnight on the Firing
+     Line") "Good ol' Psi Corps.  You never cease to amaze me - all
+     the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper.  What do you do in your spare
+     time, juggle babies over a fire pit?  Oops, there goes another
+     calculated risk!"
+
+
    •  In spite of this, Ivanova gives Talia a glass of
+     water after she comes through the ordeal of being scanned by
+     Bester and Kelsey.  Ivanova's hatred is tempered with compassion
+     for individuals.  (see "jms speaks")
+
+
    •  By threatening to hold him accountable for
+     endangering the station and causing the death of his partner,
+     Sinclair strong-arms Bester into omitting from his report mention of
+     Ironheart's real fate and Talia's willful collaboration.  However,
+     this can only be an agreement about what gets made
+     official. Just as folks on Babylon 5 know full well that
+     Something happened to Ironheart (with the willing help of both
+     Talia and Sinclair) the right folks in the Psi Corps should know
+     the same through Bester's unofficial report.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Sinclair mentions to Catherine in the morning
+     that he's got a budget meeting with the construction guild that
+     day, in which he'll have to make some cuts to which he's not
+     looking forward.  ("By Any Means
+     Necessary")
+
+
    •  Universal Terraform: a mega-corporation that
+     explores and prepares new worlds for colonization or exploitation.
+
+
    •  The procedure for evaluating a newly discovered
+     planet: first, an unmanned sensor probe launched by the
+     exploring ship assesses gross features and composition.  If that's
+     promising, a manned survey is undertaken to determine its value for
+     various purposes.  Finally, if the corporation wants to continue,
+     a life sciences probe is sent out to determine the legality of
+     exploitation.  (If there are sentient species present then the
+     planet is off-limits.) (see "jms speaks")
+
+
    •  Due to an EA shortage of the material
+     "Quantium-40," jumpgate construction is backed up 6 months.
+     Catherine's survey mission to Sigma 957 is largely to determine
+     whether this material is present on the planet.
+
+
    •  The being that appeared at Sigma 957 appeared to
+     enter and leave through its own jumpgate.  It may have been there
+     for the Q-40.
+
+
    •  Just as the Narn fighters match up with
+     Catherine's ship, part of it sloughs off as it burns up in the
+     atmosphere.  The fighters are unaffected; presumably they are
+     atmosphere-capable ships.
+
+
    •  Rent for a spartan studio on Babylon 5 is 500
+     credits per week.
+
+
    •  Psi corps ratings:
      
+     P5 - level of commercial telepaths.  Can easily detect
+     deception and other surface thoughts at close range.  Deeper
+     probing is possible but difficult.
      
+     P10 - level of Psi Corps trainers.  Can observe the mental
+     actions of other telepaths, block some scans, cut through some
+     blocks, perform long-range scans, and may have some fringe skills.
      
+     P12 - level of Psi Cops.  Can communicate smoothly with
+     normals via telepathy.  Two Psi Cops can invasively probe a P5.
+
+
    •  Stronger telepaths have a harder time
+     shutting out "the voices".
+
+
    •   Upon graduation from the Academy all telepaths
+     take a telekinesis test - it's a much sought-after skill.  .1% of
+     human beings have some level of telepathic ability, and only .01%
+     of them have TK, half of whom are clinically insane.  (see
+     Analysis)
+
+
    •  Most telepaths have fewer human rights
+     than normals.  They're forbidden to possess psi abilities unless
+     they're in the Psi Corps or in prison 
+     ("Midnight on the Firing Line").
+     They're required to submit to scans by Psi Cops, and aren't even
+     allowed to have fleeting bodily contact with normals, since that
+     would raise the chance in inadvertent scans.  
+     (see "jms speaks")
+
+
    •  Psi Cops are afforded greater latitude than
+     other telepaths, "in the interest of efficiency."  For example,
+     they can perform at least surface scans on normals without
+     permission.
+
+
    •  As he leaves, Bester gives Sinclair an odd
+     salute - a circle of thumb and forefinger at the forehead - and
+     says, "Be seeing you, commander."  This is tribute paid to one of
+     jms's favorite shows, "The Prisoner," in which the line was
+     identical but the hand-motion framed the eye instead.  An
+     appropriate twist for a telepath salute!
+
+
    • @@@884711227 Continuity glitch: After Ironheart arrives in his quarters,
+	he pours some water into a cup.  When the cup is knocked over by his
+	mindquake a few seconds later, it's empty.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  In a tip of the cap to an SF writer, the Koenig
+     character in "Mind War" is named Bester.
+
+
      
+
    •  The direction and intent and background of the Psi Corps is *very*
+     different from Bester's "The Demolished Man."  What may cause some of
+     the confusion is that when I decided to name the Psi Cop we'll be
+     seeing, knowing of Alfie's work in the genre in general, and knowing
+     that he was a close friend of Harlan's, I decided it would be a nice
+     testimony to the man to name the Psi Cop Bester.  There's nothing
+     beyond that.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: my favorite thing about this episode...it's
+     that when all is said and done, *nobody knows anything*.  Bester
+     doesn't know what Ironheart is turning into; Sinclair doesn't know
+     if Ironheart was really telling the truth or not; nobody knows
+     where Ironheart went; nobody knows what the alien ship is/who they
+     were...the closest I can come to is to compare it to writing a
+     mystery novel, without revealing the killer, but *without*
+     frustrating anyone in the process, because there's *closure*.
+
+
      
+
    •  ...it was my intent to imply in the scene with
+     the guard and Bester ("nothing, just a drill") that he DID scan the
+     guard's mind.  He found out what he was hiding (which is how he
+     managed to show up to try and cut Ironheart off from his escape),
+     exchanged a glance with Kelsey, and headed away quickly.
+
+
      
+
    •  Bester wasn't killed because a) it took a *lot*
+     out of Ironheart to take out Kelsey, and b) Bester *shot him* prior
+     to being taken down, and the pain and trauma of being shot has a
+     tendency to have an adverse effect on one; it took all his strength
+     just to knock Bester down before collapsing to the floor, his
+     energy (as you can see in the film) fading away....
+
+
      
+
    •  We'll definitely see Bester again, probably
+     twice next season, in one capacity or another.  (And we'll *hear*
+     about him once more this season.)  
+     ("Eyes")
+
+
      
+
    •  Nope, Jason Ironheart will not be seen again,
+     insofar as I know.  I don't like beings with that much power
+     running around the plotline....
+
+
      
+
    •  Telepaths are the ultimate minority, and when
+     it comes to the use of their talents, and the protection of the
+     rights of the hysterical majority, their rights don't mean a whole
+     hell of a lot.
+
+
      
+
    •  Thanks for noticing that.  Yes, it *was* very
+     important (to me, at least, whether or not anyone noticed it), that
+     Ivanova was the one who handed Talia the water, and had that brief
+     moment with her.  For those who understand their relationship, it
+     adds a tiny layer; for those who don't, because the dialogue keeps
+     on going over it, it's not obtrusive.
+
+
      
+
    •  The episode of "Mind War" broadcast henceforth
+     will be the one with slight alteration.
+
+
      
+
    •  In the pursuit in the teaser, you could see one of the binary stars
+     THROUGH Ironheart's ship; we deleted that shot and replaced it.
+
+
      
+
    •  We discovered, when we went to put in the revised CGI, that the
+     international versions had already been made and transferred, and it
+     would be nearly impossible to recall that part of the process...so it
+     was left alone rather than have multiple versions of the same episode
+     floating around.
+
+
      
+
    •  Funny incident today, though, also at lunch.
+     Walter Koenig joined some of the cast members at their table for
+     lunch, and as he came to the table, they all stood up at attention.
+     When asked why, they explained that it's protocol for junior
+     officers to stand when a senior officer comes to the table.  It was
+     kind of a nice moment.
+
+
      
+
    •  Today, Walter Koenig's 2nd day working in the B5 universe, as a Psi
+     Cop in "Mind War."  He's doing well, taking part in some very
+     difficult scenes (fight scenes and the ilke), and it's a very 
+     powerful performance, not at ALL what people have seen before.  He's
+     a terrific performer when given a role with some meat to it.  And 
+     the dailies look great.  I think this episode will wake up a lot of
+     people who have never seen Walter as anything other than Chekov.
+
+
      
+
    •  Walter decided that an interesting character trait for Bester would
+     be if this skilled psi cop had a useless left hand.
+
+
      
+
    •  It's a funny thought, but knowing Walter as I do, I can say without
+     fear of contradiction that he was *not* doing Shatner.  Given the
+     chance here to do something *utterly* outside ST, which was his hope,
+     and our pleasure to provide, he wouldn't do this, and having spoken 
+     with him at some length about his character and his performance, know
+     that he *didn't* do this.
+
+
      
+
    •  Chekov is just one character, which was created by another, and played
+     by Walter.  Agreed, too many people have seen him as just this one person;
+     but there's a talented actor with a great range behind that character, able
+     to do *many* other things.  I'm glad we've been able to let him show that
+     range a little.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@840405234 "JMS is on an anti-typecasting crusade."
+
+     
      
+     That's actually true, in a lot of ways.  My sense is that here
+     we have many actors who created enduring works because they were good
+     at what they did; they're *good actors*.  But because they were so good
+     at it, they got typecast as only able to play that.  How many people
+     snickered, wrongly, when they heard Walter was going to be Bester?
+     "Chekhov in the Psi Corps," was the usual lament.
+
+     
      
+     Until they *saw* him.  And saw what he could do.
+
+     
      
+     To work against the typecasting is simply payment on a debt to
+     those who created enduring characters.  And I'll continue to do it
+     wherever and whenever I can.  (Look for Robert Englund in an
+     upcoming episode
+     playing a very different sort of character than he's played
+     elsewhere lately.)
+
+
      
+
    •  We'd initially offered Walter the role of Knight Two in "Sky," but
+     when his health prohibited using him, we went to Patrick McGoohan,
+     who loved the script, wanted to do it, but was going to be out of 
+     the country at the time of shooting.  We then shifted Walter to
+     "Mind War."
+
+
      
+
    •  "Commander" wasn't dubbed onto Walter.  That was Ironheart speaking
+     with  his back to us.
+
+
      
+
    •  We'll see more on Talia's additional talents in year two.
+
+
      
+
    •  Ironheart was created, as one of many reasons, to exemplify a problem
+     that is growing within Psi Corps.  There will be other symptoms, though
+     not as grand as that one.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Psi Corps doesn't exist just to help telepaths avoid infringing
+     on the privacy of others.  They service the business community, the
+     military, some other governmental agencies...it's important that they
+     control, regulate, and profit from telepaths.  You can't just leave
+     the corps.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Mind War" is important to the arc because Psi Corps, and certain
+     aspects of it, is important to the arc.
+
+
      
+
    •  Some of the events in "Mind War" are significant indeed.
+
+
      
+
    •  The ant was paid strictly according to SAG rules (Screen Ants Guild).
+
+
      
+
    •  But for the other stuff...no, there's no in-joke in Sigma 957, but 
+     ***CONGRATULATIONS!***  You are the FIRST person to pick up on the 
+     Native American line that Ironheart quotes when he goes up against
+     Kelsey.  (And yes, I believe it is ojibwe in origin.)  I've always 
+     considered it a very powerful line (a prayer of protection against 
+     one's enemies), and wanted to use it.  That seemed the perfect
+     opportunity to do so.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Who watches the watchmen" is an old Latin phrase, sometimes
+     translated as "who guards the guards?"  Given sufficient time I could
+     probably dig up the origin of the phrase; it's fairly common.
+
+
      
+
    •  My source on this was the original, classical quotation.
+
+
      
+
    •  Congratulations.  I was wondering when anyone was going to hit on the
+     CSICOP reference.  I was looking for a good name for the pit bulls of
+     the Psi Corps, and thought it made for a great play on words, and a 
+     very obscure almost-pun, to name them Psi-Cops.
+
+
      
+
    •  Talia's stress during Psi Cop scan
      
+     It's because they dig *deep*.  And to another telepath, who is 
+     sensitive to begin with...it hurts bigtime.
+
+
      
+
    •  A Psi-rating comes through training and examination of a person's
+     skills over time.  Ivanova's mother never went through the full
+     sequence to get rated.  (Although they generally don't bother with 
+     P1s through P2s, so she was at least a P3 or above, in terms of raw
+     ability.)  A psi rating isn't hereditary.
+
+
      
+
    •  Talia is a P5, as Lyta was in the pilot.
+
+
      
+
    •  The number of psi's in each category, from 1-12, gets rarer as you
+     get higher.  Lots of folks have a minimal tendency, very few have any
+     real talent.
+
+
      
+
    •  Yes, the abilities are often discrete; a TK may not be able to
+     scan anyone's thoughts.
+
+
      
+
    •  You don't have to read another book to "get it" re: psi's making
+     love.  Perhaps her problem was more with the making love part than 
+     the psi part.  Haven't read Julian May's book.  It's just the obvious
+     answer to what happens if and when telepaths make love: if they truly
+     open up, then you're going to get a mirror effect.  Have your lady 
+     friend stand between two mirrors and look at the effect.  This ain't
+     rocket science.
+
+
      
+
    •  Scanning only hurts if it's a deep scan, trying to dredge out lost
+     or buried thoughts, or if the other person is resisting.  It can be
+     anything from a headache to a migraine in intensity in general..
+
+
      
+
    •  There will be no more Ironhearts, and that character will not return.
+
+
      
+
    •  The vaporized Starfuries *weren't* from B5, they were a separate wing
+     not attached to this station.  Black Omega is a special forces unit.
+
+
      
+
    •  Ironheart blew out the Omega starfuries.
+
+
      
+
    •  No, this [the alien] isn't the mysterious sixth race.
+
+
      
+
    •  And in the case of Sigma 957, one can put in a gate, start to explore
+     that sector of space...and discover to your chagrin that there is one
+     planet where you don't dare go near.  It's not like they *knew* that 
+     there was a problem on Sigma 957 before they (the Narns) put the gate
+     in; that was discovered only afterward.  Sort of like buying a house
+     and then discovering that one room is haunted; you seal off the room
+     and tell the kids not to go near it.
+
+
      
+
    •  You don't leave one gate and fly light years to another; you use the
+     same gate for going in and going out.  Explorer Ship A comes out of
+     hyperspace; looks around; decides that there are planets in this area
+     that are worth possible colonizing, exploitation, that sort of thing;
+     it's a very quick overview.  (Or they go to systems that have been
+     already selected.)  They construct a gate, finish the job, and move
+     on. Other ships can now use this gate for entering and leaving this
+     system.  Is this clearer?
+
+
      
+
    •  The gate was set up in what was believed to be a reasonably fertile
+     and useful sector of space; the explorer craft can't take too long in
+     any one area.  They find likely areas for exploitation, take a fast
+     look around, drop a gate, and move on.  This allows other ships to 
+     come in and scope out the place in detail.  That's when they ran into
+     whatever's walking around Sigma 957.  (And it's not there all the 
+     time, only from time to time.)
+
+
      
+
    •  An Explorer-class vessel looks for areas that look like likely
+     prospects for exploitation, or which are good for logistical or other
+     reasons, do a fast survey, drop a gate and move on.  Nobody *knew* 
+     about the problems in Sigma 957 until well after the gate was in place.
+
+     
      
+     Generally, the race that builds the gate, owns it.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: the difference as to why Sinclair reacted the way he did...they
+     SPOKE to him in his head, the same way they did to the guard in 
+     customs.   This is different than just "listening" to someone's
+     thoughts, so to speak.
+
+
      
+
    •  The one thing that to me always typified SF was the sense of *wonder*.
+     Of something mysterious out there.  And that is the one thing that I
+     feel is so missing from much of TV SF; not to pick on ST, but the 
+     reality is that going from world to world seems like going from 7-11
+     to 7-11.  It's all established, there's not much mystery.  (Not in all
+     cases, I'm sure that one or two could be found, but in general.) 
+     There should be *differences*, and things we don't understand and will
+     *never* fully understand.  (For me, one of the best episodes in this
+     regard is "Mind War," specifically the tag of the episode, which still
+     gives me a shiver even though I've now seen it over a dozen times.)
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, no...Catherine Sakai is based more closely on another
+     woman of my acquaintance, with whom I was involved for quite some
+     time.  And that's all you'll get out of me on the subject.
+
+
      
+
    •  Incidentally..."Mind War" has come out so well that it looks like 
+     we're going to move it up in the schedule a bit.  It was originally
+     slated to run about episode 10 or so, but the studio is so hot on it
+     that it'll probably run #6, right after "Parliament."  And Walter
+     has agreed to be the voice-over and on-camera narrator for the
+     Behind the Scenes/Making of Babylon 5 documentary.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: moving "Mind War" up...no, doesn't affect continuity at all.  If
+     it did, it wouldn't have gotten moved.  It's what's called in the biz
+     a "moveable piece," able to go *almost* anywhere in the schedule, as
+     long as it's after episode 3 and before episode 15, since stuff in 
+     the first few set it up, and 15 pays off part of it.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
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+
    
+Jason Ironheart Explains what Happened to Him
    
+Transcribed by Jeffrey Newman
+<jpn5@cornell.edu>
+
+
    
+Sinclair and Talia Winters arrive at a partially destroyed part of the
+station.  They duck below some broken beams and see Ironheart.
+
+
    
+Ironheart:
+We need to speak.  (Camera cuts to Ironheart.)  The Psi Corps is
+dedicated to one thing, Commander: control.  Control over telepaths, the
+economy, the courts, over matter, over thought itself.  But there is
+something even more powerful, something they didn't even know existed.  I
+crossed the line.  Not mind over matter.  Mind over energy.  I was suddenly
+able to influence objects that were smaller and smaller.  Molecules.
+Atoms.  Neutrons.  I look at you, Commander, and I see not a man, but a
+galaxy of subatomic particles, which I can pull apart, and rearrange with a
+casual thought.  This is a power we were never meant to have.  We're not
+ready for it.
+
+
    
+Talia:  If the Psi Cops take him back, they'll dissect him.  Take him
+apart to find what combination of drugs released this power.
+
+
    
+Ironheart:  Can you imagine, Commander, what they would do with it,
+what anyone would do with it?
+
+
    
+Sinclair:  Which is exactly why they say you should not be allowed to
+leave here alive.  Why should I trust you not to misuse this?  I've already had
+six people hurt.
+
+
    
+Ironheart:  An accident.  At each new level, it takes me a while to
+adjust.  I have to fight every minute to control the forces in my head.  If
+I'm distracted, for even a second--
+
+
    
+Sinclair:  What about the researcher you killed?
+
+
    
+Ironheart:  I didn't want to, but he was the only one who could
+replicate the process.  There must never be any more like me.  I mean you no
+harm, Commander.  If I did I could vaporize you right now with a single thought.
+Please, you must believe me.
+
+
    
+Sinclair looks at Talia.  She nods.
+
+
    
+Sinclair:  Assuming I do, what is it you want from me?
+
+
    
+Ironheart:  Your help, and your trust.  I need to get away from here.
+I need time to finish becoming.  And then I'll be gone.  Please.
+
+
    
+   These transcripts written by Jeffrey P. Newman. Permission is
+   granted to distribute this transcript noncommercially as long as the
+   transcript and this copyright notice remain intact. "Mind War"
+   was written by J. Michael Straczynski, and directed by Bruce Seth Green.
+   Babylon 5 is a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+   copyright is intended by writing this transcription.
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A violent attack on a Minbari poet rocks B5 and leaves
+Sinclair scrambling to flush out a vicious pro-Earth group.  Two star-crossed
+young Centauri lovers seek Londo's protection.  Ivanova is shaken
+when a man from her past arrives at the outpost.
+
+
+Nancy Lee Grahn as Shaal Mayan.
+Danica McKellar as Aria Tensus.
+Rodney Eastman as Kiron Maray.
+Tristan Rogers as Malcolm Biggs.
+Michael Paul Chan as Roberts.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense
+P5 Rating: 6.82
+
+Production number: 107
+Original air date: March 9, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by D. C. Fontana
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The Homeguard, a radical pro-Earth group, has
+     wide support among humans, and is growing in popularity back on
+     Earth.
+
+
    •  Shaal Mayan is a renowned Minbari poet.  "I
+     create and perform Tee'la," she says: "poem songs that attempt to
+     recall old memories and prompt new ideas."
+
+
    •  The only two human beings ever to have direct
+     contact with a Vorlon have since been transferred to Earth -
+     Dr. Kyle to work closely with the president 
+     (cf "Infection"), and the telepath Lyta
+     Alexander just a week later.  Neither of them shared their
+     experiences with anyone on the station. (cf "The
+     Gathering")
+
+
    •  Londo has three wives, all
+     of them arranged marriages, all of them "great sacrifices."  "They
+     inspire me!  Knowing that they are waiting at home for me is what
+     keeps me here, 75 light years away."
+
+
    •  Ivanova used to be involved with a fellow named
+      Malcolm Biggs, but left him when she enlisted
+     in Earth Force 8 years ago.
+
+
    •  More insight into Londo's personality and Minbari
+     beliefs:
      
+     Mayan: Ambassador, you should listen to the girl.  We
+     Minbari consider love to be a most potent force for healing.  She
+     cares deeply for him.  Such feelings can turn the tide when all
+     else fails.
      
+     Londo: Oh I see.  And if he dies, despite this great power
+     of lo-
      
+     Mayan: If he dies, she will suffer enormous grief,
+     but every moment together will make her grief a little less.
      
+     Londo: I would expect such logic from a poet.  What can a
+     Minbari know about Centauri feeling?
      
+     Mayan: Ambassador, I have traveled far and seen much.  And
+     what I have seen tells me that all sentient beings are defined by
+     their capacity and need for love.
      
+     Londo: And she will learn to live without it!
      
+     Mayan: As you did?
      
+
    •  [later...]
      
+     Vir: Kiron may die because our "glorious" tradition values 
+     wealth and power over love.
      
+     Londo: My shoes are too tight.
      
+     Vir: Excuse me?
      
+     Londo: Something my father said.  He was old, very old at
+     the time.  I went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the
+     dark, crying.  So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My
+     shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have
+     forgotten how to dance."  I never understood what that meant until
+     now.  My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to
+     dance.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The black light camouflage suits worn by the
+     Homeguard henchmen were developed by Earth Force; friends of 
+     Malcolm's procured some prototypes for them.
+     Is a faction of Earth Force actually backing the Homeguard for its
+     own reasons?
+
+
    •  Londo seems to have had a troubled childhood
+     (see  Backplot).  What happened that he's so
+     aggressive and melancholy?  None of the other Centauri seem
+     particularly so.
+
+
    •  Why is Kosh studying human history, as 
+     Sinclair's conversation with him appears to
+     reveal, especially when he says "We have no interest in the affairs
+     of others?"  Perhaps for some reason Kosh does not consider humans
+     "others."  Or perhaps by "affairs" he meant the passing events of
+     the day, as compared to the millennia of a civilization.
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The Homeguard sign branded onto Shaal Mayan's
+     forehead is a combination of male and female symbols from ancient
+     Greek mythos.  Perhaps it's a contemporary symbol for humankind.
+
+
    •  Vir passed himself off as the Centauri
+     ambassador in letters to his cousins, and later 
+     rebukes Londo to his face about his decision on
+     the matter.  This is quite bold compared to the quavering fop he's
+     been before.
+
+
    •  Londo's nicknames for his wives are "Pestilence,
+     Famine, and Death" - three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
+     from ancient Christian mythos.  Who is the fourth horseman War?
+     Perhaps Londo himself.
+
+
    •  Talking to Kosh about the
+     attacks on non-humans, Sinclair breaks off right after asking him
+     to "lend a hand."  Not long later Sinclair wonders aloud to Ivanova
+     how an assassin had managed to poison Kosh on the "hand,"
+     through his encounter suit.  (cf "The
+     Gathering")
+
+
    •  Sinclair was brusque and callous to Delenn and
+     the Abbai agricultural representative at the diplomatic reception.
+     He also declared to the assembled Council that the hate-crime
+     investigation was closed, offering neither arrests nor evidence of
+     safety.  This was part of his ruse to win the Homeguard's trust,
+     but he may still have injured his reputation with other races.
+
+
    •  The Homeguard plot on the station was,
+     according to its leader Malcolm Biggs, part of a much bigger plot
+     to kill prominent aliens all over the Earth Alliance.
+
+
    •  Black light camouflage is a similar technology
+     to the chameleon net the assassin used in "The
+     Gathering."  However, it requires an entire body-suit and only
+     works while the user is motionless.  No mention was made of what
+     was done with the four suits captured with the Homeguard henchmen -
+     Garibaldi may have stashed them away somewhere.  And it's unlikely
+     that those were the only four suits in existence; perhaps the
+     technology will be seen again (cf.
+     "Babylon Squared".)
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
       
+
+
    •  Mayan, a childhood friend of Delenn's, arrived
+     on the station on a tour of other worlds.  Earth was to have been
+     her next stop.
+
+
    •  Mayan (of her attacker): "All I could see
+     was a shadow.  It was a shadow, that is all I know."
       
+     (cf "Signs and Portents", perhaps?)
+
+
    •  Ivanova is illegally growing coffee in the
+     station hydroponics area.
+
+
    •  Kosh speaks.
      
+     [...]
      
+     Sinclair: Meanwhile it might be
+     helpful if you spoke with the other ambassadors.
      
+     Kosh: We take no interest in the affairs of others.
      
+     Sinclair: Well I hope you'll reconsider.  If you could give
+     us a hand, we -
      
+     Kosh: Yes?
      
+     Sinclair: Nothing.  We'll respect your wishes. [pause]
      
+     That's quite a viewer.  I've never seen anything like it before.
+     What is it?
      
+     Kosh: Efficient.
      
+     Sinclair: Those are images from my world.  If I may ask, what
+     are you -
      
+     Kosh: I am studying.
      
+     Sinclair: Studying what?
      
+     Kosh: [shuts down]
+
+
    •  The images on Kosh's levitating viewer were
+     zoom-ins on pictorial records from Earth history throughout the
+     span of its civilization.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •   Correct; the title of "The War Prayer" is a nod to
+	Twain's piece of
+	the same name,
+	which should be read by *everyone*.  Given the growing
+	problems with illiteracy, I try to refer not to pop society so much, as
+	to literature...Tennyson, Twain, even writers whose last names don't
+	begin with T.
+
+
      
+
    •  Of course, you're assuming that a Centauri year is the same as our
+	year. The speed of light is constant...but defined by us by our own
+	12-month year.  For instance, in one episode, we mention that B5 is 12
+	of our light years from the Narn homeworld, which is equal to about 10
+	of their years.
+
+	
      
+	So without knowing the Centauri year, the figures are faulty.
+
+
      
+
    •  For those out there who still think the skin tab getting through Kosh's
+	encounter suit was an error...we're going to be dealing with that,
+	and some other interesting threads in [this] episode. Sinclair
+	comments on the whole question of how the poison ever got into
+	him...and notes how curious it is that, within weeks of that
+	incident, Dr. Kyle was transferred back to Earth to work directly
+	with the Earth Alliance President on matters of alien immigration,
+	and Lyta Alexander was similarly transferred a week or so after that.
+	The only two people to have personal knowledge of a Vorlon have been
+	shipped off and possibly locked up.
+
+
      
+
    •  By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to
+	be discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on
+	"Parliament," and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War Prayer."
+	So we lifted that scene and inserted it into her episode, doing a
+	small bit of ADR to facilitate the move.  It's now quite seamless.
+
+
      
+
    •  Why was Delenn unfamiliar with poetry in
+	"The Gathering?"
      
+	For the Minbari, it's tee'la, which is a kind of poem-song, sort of.
+	Delenn was mainly just unfamiliar with the term.
+
+
      
+
    •  Y'know...it's a funny old world.  And sometimes it just astonishes
+	you.
+
+	
      
+	About 2 months ago, one of our freelancers turned in a script that
+	has to do with a hate group, in the course of which a guest character
+	-- a Minbari -- is attacked and has her head branded with the symbol
+	of the group.
+
+	
      
+	So you will doubtless understand my astonishment when I turned on 
+	DS9 and saw the same thing happen.
+
+	
      
+	Unfortunately, we've already shot that episode, it's in the can, so
+	ther nothing we can do about it now.  Further -- and let me be 
+	totally clear about this -- there's no way that DS9 could've borrowed
+	the idea from us, or in any way been influence by us, and no way we 
+	could've been influenced by them.  To get on the air now, they 
+	would've had to shoot their episode some time before the writer 
+	turned in that draft for our show.  And none of us were in any way
+	aware of what was going on there until we saw it the night of the
+	broadcast...and came in the next day with looks of absolute shock.
+
+	
      
+	These things do happen...and when you're dealing with similar general
+	areas -- humans vs. aliens, or one alien group vs. another alien
+	group -- then something like this becomes inevitable.  And given the  
+	foreheads on Ferengi, and the foreheads on Minbari, the obviousness 
+	of that target becomes clear.  Still, it's amazing when it happens.
+	And I guess I just wanted it to be clear when this thing airs that
+	the sequence in our show was in the can and done when the DS9 episode
+	aired.
+
+
      
+
    •  We're in discussions to see if there's any way we can cut this from 
+	the show...the only problem is that the brand stays on throughout the
+	show.  If it were just in one shot, we'd cut the shot and find some
+	other way around it.  The only way we can lose it now would be if we
+	literally wiped off the brand by going into every frame in which it 
+	appears and digitally removing it from the frame...which is a *real*
+	pain in the butt...but we are considering it.
+
+
      
+
    •  The points made above are essentially correct; the brand goes on in
+	the very top of the show, in the teaser, and stay on throughout the
+	episode...and part of the story is dealing with this, and what it 
+	means.   An offer is made to remove it, but the victim decides *not*
+	to have it removed, because there are lessons in these things...and
+	it becomes almost a badge of defiance.
+
+	
      
+	In addition to the notes here, I've received a whole bunch of email
+	notes saying to leave it in, on the grounds that it *does* happen in
+	real life (or incidents close to it), and how we're handling it *is*
+	very different.  (Some indicated that it can illustrate how the two
+	hows handle their themes in different ways.)  So it's a tough call
+	...to change would also mean some re-shooting...but given the 
+	responses here, I think it's okay to leave it in place.
+
+	
      
+	File this one away the next time someone asks, "What sort of ways has
+	the BBS discussion actually affected Babylon 5?"
+
+
      
+
    •  There is some limited life within the garden...some birds (which you
+	can hear sometimes), and insects, and the like.  (In one shot you
+	can see an insect fly off one of our actors.  Yeah, sure, like we
+	planned that....)  It's generally one season in the Garden, and
+	plants requiringvariation are raised in a separate hydroponics 
+	area, such as the orchard (seen in "War Prayer").
+
+
      
+
    •  Lennier is not in the cargo area during the beating, nor is he in BG
+	during the negotiations.  That's a Minbari of the worker class.  (You
+	can generally tell from the orange-ish smock-thingie they wear.)  
+	Sorry.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by members of a pro-Earth group,
+determined to find out what transpired when the commander was briefly
+missing in action during the final battle of the Earth/Minbari
+war -- something Sinclair has never been able to remember.
+
+
+Judson Scott as Knight One.
+Christopher Neame as Knight Two.
+Jim Youngs as Frank Benson.
+Justin Williams as Mitchell.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense
+P5 Rating: 8.90
+
+Production number: 106
+Original air date: March 16, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  In the days before the Earth/Minbari war,
+     Dr. Franklin used to hitchhike starships, trading his services as
+     ship's doctor in exchange for free passage to places he'd never
+     been before.
+
+
    •  Franklin: "Towards the end, when things
+     got bad for our side, those of us involved in xenobiology were told
+     to hand over our notes to be used in genetic and biological
+     warfare. [...]  I took an oath that all life was sacred.  I
+     destroyed my notes, rather than have them used for killing."
+
+
    •  After his squad was shot down at the Line,
+     Sinclair's ship was disabled and taken aboard a Minbari cruiser.
+     He was tortured and examined, and at one point stood unfettered
+     within the circle of the grey council itself.  When they didn't
+     respond to his questions, Sinclair suddenly walked up to one of
+     them and pulled back the hood, revealing the face of Delenn.  He
+     was then knocked out again, and some time later returned to his
+     ship with no memory of the experience.
       
+     (A synopsis of the
+     events at the Line as Sinclair re-experiences them is available.
+     There is also
+     a separate Guide page devoted to those
+     events.)
+
+
    •  Knight Two: "Your ship was off the
+     screens for 24 hours.  You didn't just black out, your ship
+     disappeared!"
       
+     Sinclair: "The screens malfunctioned, the hearing proved that."
+
+
    •  This would explain why Sinclair 
+     "fell off the merry-go-round" promotion-wise.
+     Officers who've inexplicably disappeared in the presence of the
+     enemy tend to hit a glass ceiling even if their loyalty is
+     officially accepted.
+
+
    •  The Knights may be part of a covert operation
+     within Earth Force that's trying to find collusion between Earth
+     officials and the Minbari.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Sinclair: "Everyone lies, Michael.  The
+     innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something
+     they didn't do, and the guilty lie because they don't have any
+     other choice."
       This is extra reason to think twice before
+     taking anything said in this episode at face value.  Nor should one
+     assume that a lie covers up wrongdoing.
+
+
    •  Earth Force was researching the use of genetic
+     and biological warfare against the Minbari.  These are offensive,
+     not defensive methods, effective only on planets.  They must have
+     been planning a desperation ground strike of some kind.  
+     (cf: "Soul Hunter")
+
+
    •  After he punches Knight Two in VR, Sinclair
+     looks at his hand, making a fist and releasing it.  Scenes of him
+     in the cybernet chair after that show him clenching his fist in
+     real life as well, in unison with continued fist-clenching in VR.
+     Sinclair is rediscovering, slowly, how to get his brain to control
+     his body.  The pain of the remembered zap in the council chambers
+     is later enough to propel him all the way back, if groggily.
+
+
    •  While looking for Sinclair's body outside,
+     station forces discover the body of Benson floating outside Red
+     Sector.  Garibaldi visually identifies him (other Security folks
+     had not been able to), and says, "Whoever killed him couldn't have
+     carried the body very far without being noticed."  He may be wrong
+     in this conclusion - Knight One could have dumped it into a
+     nondescript cart and gone a long way, for example.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi: "If they dumped the body out
+     of an airlock, the station's gravity wouldn't let it get far."
+     This is true only if the body was dumped out of a no- or
+     low-velocity airlock.  Perhaps Garibaldi's assertion is correct
+     because there aren't any high-velocity airlocks on the station
+     other than the Cobra Bays.
+
+
    •  Knight Two: "Look at Earth: Alien
+     civilization.  Alien migration.  Aliens buying up real estate by
+     the square mile.  What they couldn't take by force, they corrupted!
+     Inch by inch!"
       This sounds very much like Homeguard propaganda
+     - perhaps there is a connection.  (cf: "War
+     Prayer")
+
+
    •  Delenn exhibits ignorance of the powers of Earth
+     telepaths - Ivanova had to explain to her that Talia, a P5, was not
+     capable of a search-and-recover mission.
+
+
    •  Ivanova's only contribution to the search effort
+     was to track all ships that left Babylon 5 in the previous 8 hours,
+     which turned out to be wasted effort.  This and several 
+     Unanswered Questions suggest she may have been
+     working with the Knights.
+
+
    •  Delenn: "It's me, commander."
      
+     Sinclair: "I know - I know you.  I know who you are."
      
+     Delenn: "I'm your friend, commander.  Ambassador Delenn.  
+     Your friend."
      
+     Sinclair: "NO!  I know you.  I know you."  
+     [Knight One prepares to fire, Sinclair shoots him down]
      
+     Delenn: "Welcome home."
      
+     [Sinclair collapses]
      
+     By his emphatic denial above, it should be clear to Delenn that
+     Sinclair is remembering something about 
+     his discovery of her at the
+     Line. He later denies remembering anything, but she must wonder
+     if he's lying.  (If the Analysis 
+     in the Line Guide page is correct, however, she should be
+     certain he is lying.)
+
+
    •  Knight Two apparently remembered nothing about
+     himself after Sinclair's destructive escape fried his memory.
+     However, the word "Commander" brings him up short, and he remembers
+     Sinclair's name, saying "There's something in my head.  It says:
+     'Maybe you're still inside.  Maybe we're both still inside.'"  His
+     phrasing there indicates that this is not his own current thought,
+     but a thought that survived his brain damage.  So, what did Knight
+     Two, in full possession of his faculties, mean by that suspicion?
+     The most obvious answer is "inside the simulation," but this is a
+     very weak explanation, and goes nowhere.
+
+
    •  Knight Two's last experience would have been
+     watching Sinclair's recollection of his Grey Council experience,
+     including his discovery of Delenn (whom Knight Two may not
+     have recognized).
+     
+
    •  See also the Guide page devoted to
+     Sinclair's recollection of the events on the Line.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  
      Universe Today Headlines:
      
+     
        
+     
      •  Sports: Zero-G Tennis Results Inside
+     
      •  Is There Something Living in Hyperspace?
+     
      •  Homeguard Leader Convicted: Jacob Lester Found Guilty
+          In Attack on Minbari Embassy
+     
      •  Narns settle Raghesh 3 Controversy
+     
      •  EA President Promises Balanced Budget by 2260
+     
      •  Psi Corps in Election Tangle: Did Psi-Corps Violate its
+          Charter by Endorsing Vice-President?  
+          (see jms Speaks)
+     
      •  San Diego Still Considered Too Radioactive for Occupancy:
        
+          A new study published by Earthforce Nuclear Regulatory Office 
+          declares San Diego, struck by the American States first act of
+          nuclear terrorism over 100 years ago, still uninhabitable for
+          the next 300 years.
+     
      •  SPECIAL SECTION: Pros & Cons of Interspecies Mating
+     
      •  Copyright Trial Continues in Bookzap Flap: Books Downloaded
+          Directly into Brain: Who Owns Them?
+     
      •  Is There Something Living in Hyperspace? (a repeat)
+     
      •  New Binary Star Discovered
+     
      •  Inside: Universe Today: Babylon 5 Edition:
+          
          
+          
        •  Classified              5-70
+          
        •  Crossword               60
+          
        •  Editorial/Opinion       10-11A
+          
        •  Lotteries               11C
+          
        •  Horoscope               8A
+          
        •  HoloComics              9E
+          
        
+     
      
+
+
    •  The text of all the articles are instructions for the "Babylon 5
+     Equation Editor," which looks like genuine documentation after a
+     search and replace has been performed from the product's name to
+     "Babylon 5."
+
+
    •  Source for Universe Today information: "Cinefantastique," April
+     1994, p. 35
+
+
    •  Dr. Franklin now has baseline medical readings
+     for a healthy adult Minbari.
+
+
    •  Casino regulations for officers: no gambling on
+     duty, off-duty gambling is limited to 50 credits per week.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi has security access to Sinclair's quarters.
+
+
    •  Jeffrey David Sinclair
      
+     2218: Born on Mars Colony May 3rd.
      
+     2237: Enlisted in Earth Force Defense.
      
+     2240: Promoted to Fighter Pilot.
      
+     2241: Promoted to Squad Leader (!)
+
+
    •  Sinclair's ancestors have been fighter pilots for many generations.
+
+
    •  Knight Two: "If I fail, more will come
+     after me, until the job is finished."
+
+
    •  Sinclair: (to Mitchell) "I tried to warn
+     you, but you wouldn't listen.  You never listen."
+
+
    •  Payoff money was deposited to Benson's account
+     at 0300, presumably soon after he delivered a big power supply to
+     the Knights.  At 0700 Sinclair "went missing" - presumably this was
+     when Delenn was supposed to meet with him in the Council room (see
+     Unanswered Questions).
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
      
+
    •  Absolutely unlike anything ever produced before for television.
+	Directorially, and in terms of the visual effects, the CGI, the
+	performances, right across the board, it's a stunner. And just...I
+	can't convey this enough...different. It just takes TV SF and yanks it
+	to a whole other level of complexity.
+
+
      
+
    •  As for a production report...things are going swimmingly. Today we started
+     getting dailies on our first day of shooting on "And the Sky Full of
+     Stars," which deals with the Battle of the Line. This is not going to
+     look like your conventional episode of television. We've brought in
+     equipment that you don't normally see on a television set, certain kinds
+     of cranes and lenses and lighting packages that will give this
+     particular episode a very strange, almost surreal look. It's quite
+     remarkable.
+     
+     
      
+     And Ron's pushing the envelope on the CGI...compositing some
+     live action stuff with CGI that'll blow your TV out.
+     
+     
      
+     It's going *well*.
+
+
      
+
    •  Spent a very, very, very long day today in editing...not out of any
+     problems, but because of the *astonishing* amount of detail we're 
+     putting into "And the Sky Full of Stars."  Leaving out all the live-
+     action shots, there are 25 CGI shots in one and a half minutes in 
+     one sequence alone.   (By way of comparison, there were 55 or so in
+     the full two hour pilot for B5.)  So we go frame by frame, making 
+     sure that everything meshes properly, through some pretty intense 
+     gistics.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+     
      
+     I've never seen the like of this particular episode before.  It's a
+     real gem. 
+
+
      
+
    •  On returns... Garibaldi's aide: yes.  Knights: yes, but not
+     identified as such.
+
+
      
+
    •  Lurkers is indeed a net reference.
+
+
      
+
    •  Psi Corps, as a government-regulated agency, is prohibited from
+     endorsing candidates or taking a political stance.
+
+
      
+
    •  I would *never* pull a "he wakes up and it was all a dream" on the
+     series.  I hate that kind of story.
+
+
      
+
    •  It has *always* been my sense that the body was
+     slipped out an access airlock in the zero-g cargo area.  Every
+     other access -- like the boarding area and standard cargo area --
+     is under close security to prevent this kind of thing, or the
+     influx of contraband.  There's really nowhere to GO from the zero-g
+     section, so it's a little looser.  As for how he got the body
+     there...there is an answer, and a reason, and if you look at this
+     episode again after the season is over, even the nitpickers who
+     brought it up will be able to figure it out.  I didn't address it
+     in the issue because I didn't think anyone would make a federal
+     case out of this, and for other reasons that will in time become
+     apparent.  Several other nits picked at this episode will *also* be
+     clarified by season's end.  It's not easy to sit quietly, knowing
+     the answer, and being unable to tell it, but that's simply what I
+     have to do for the time being.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Psi Cops are *authorized* to carry firearms.  The Knights had an in
+with Security, and by virtue of high government contacts, got their 
+stuff on board.  Those seem to me not requiring much explanation.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I can't believe this "explain how the guns get aboard" discussion is
+still going on.  This isn't the Enterprise, to use the cited example,
+which is a *military vessel*, and only the occasional rare civilian 
+gets on board. There are a QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE on board at any
+given moment.  (People = humans and aliens.)  Not staying there, but
+in a state of flux.  Going and coming.  Anywhere from 50 to 100 ships
+per day dock at B5.  Thousands upon thousands of boxes, crates, cargo
+loads, pallets, you name it.  If you stopped and inspected every 
+single box that came through, the system would grind to a halt.  So
+you do the best you can, you catch whatever you can, scan as much as
+possible, and accept that some stuff is bound to slip through.
+
      
+Further, this is the kind of explanation that has nothing to do with 
+a story, only with someone's need to have something explained to them.
+I think the time is spent better elsewhere.
+
+
      
+
    •  Yes, that is a triluminary on the grey council staff in "Sky."
+     (cf. "Babylon Squared")
+
+
      
+
    •  Bear in mind, though, that Sinclair really had no reason to doubt what he
+     remembered happening on the Line until the Minbari assassin uttered those
+     seven fateful words. As for others...there have been suspicions, but more
+     broadbased...and we'll deal with those a bit here and there.
+
+
      
+
    •  Also, check the readout on Sinclair's screen as he's trying to engage the
+     enemy. You'll see "negative lock" popping up. One problem in fighting the
+     Minbari vessels is that they have a kind of stealth tech that makes it very
+     hard for our weapons to lock on.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Bill Mitchell from "Sky" is a reference to General Billy Mitchell . . .
+
+
      
+
    •  Yeah, it was an off-the-cuff reference to Billy Mitchell . . . 
+     
      
+     (Didn't really mean that much; just thought it wuz cool.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: "Sky"...my theory is to *never* assume prior knowledge of the
+background info that goes into an episode.  If you never saw the 
+pilot, you will miss *nothing* going into "Sky" (though it'd be nice
+because of one quickie flashback to know where that came from).  I 
+don't think anyone will have a hard time following that one.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+This was one segment of the battle; there were others going on in 
+other areas as well.  It's said that no one ever *saw* the Battle of
+the Bulge; each saw a small part of it.  Same here.
+
+
      
+Reality is, no matter how big we would've made it, more would've been
+wanted.  (If anything, it seems that the more we show, the more is 
+wanted.)  But all things considered, best to have folks wanting more
+than wanting less....
+
+
      
+(And remember, we're managing to do all this with roughly *half* of
+TNG's budget.  Give us their budget, and I'll show you ALL of the 
+Battle of the Line, and the ENTIRE Earth/Minbari War, PLUS all their
+home worlds.)
+
+
      
+Nonetheless, as we go deeper into the season, the CGI/action sequences
+do get bigger and more detailed in many places.  In "Signs and 
+Portents" (formerly "Raiding Party"), you'll see three pretty good
+sized squadrons of ships engaged in a very fast-paced battle that goes
+on for most of an act and a half, as opposed to just a few scenes in
+"Sky."  Big battles weren't really the *point* in "Sky," it was more
+about his REACTIONS and his personal fate.  There were a number of 
+action/battle shots we had on hand, but decided not to use because we
+didn't want to dilute the *point* of the scene.
+
+
      
+And as stated elsewhere...yes, you'll be seeing the Minbari war
+cruiser(s) again.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, as you'll see in "Sky," sometimes the Good Guys *do* get
+their ships hit; sometimes they blow up and kill the person (as you
+will see), and sometimes they do damage without destroying the ship,
+in which case there is an eject mechanism that separates the cockpit
+part from the rest of the fighter, which contains the volatile 
+reactors.
+
+
      
+So in those circumstances, a flight suit is a *very* good idea....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We actually had a lot more shots we could've used to prolong the
+sequence, but felt we *really* had to get to Sinclair, and go into 
+his point of view more.  Also we step-printed the CGI to give it a 
+more dream-like appearance, since we're seeing this from inside 
+Sinclair's memory, and he wasn't really able to *see* all this,
+particularly stuff happening around and behind him, this is more his
+*sense* of the events of that time.  The sections we didn't step-print
+were those where he was RIGHT THERE, to make a subtle distinction.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What?  Who, me?  Near as I remember, the Question was, "What happened
+at the Battle of the Line?"  Answer: Sinclair was taken aboard the 
+Minbari cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back
+into his ship.
+
+
      
+The Question *now* is, "WHY was Sinclair taken aboard the Minbari
+cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back into his
+ship?"
+
+
      
+That question was not asked heretofore...so how could it be still
+unanswered?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A number of people have commented that they weren't much surprised by
+Sinclair being taken aboard, because on the nets -- and this has ONLY
+taken place on the nets -- this speculation has been bandied about 
+for some time.  We now have ten zillion speculations on the reason 
+*why*.  I will not comment on them one way or another (though I 
+suppose I could point, without making the real comparison between
+types of typists, to the idea that an infinte number of monkeys typing
+on an infinite number of keyboards would eventually produce Hamlet 
+simply by chance combination; sooner or later, something close to the
+reality might be stumbled upon...and let me ask a simple question: 
+what purpose does that serve?  It only lessens the enjoyment of those
+who would simply like to enjoy what happens WHEN it happens).
+
+
      
+Any good detective knows that you can't really begin to speculate
+about motive until you have all the information right at hand.  At 
+this point there is information you don't have...and absent that, any
+guesses will either be wrong, or close enough to hinder the fun but
+still essentially incorrect.  It's like trying to guess the contents
+of a box without knowing the size of the box...it could be a marble,
+it could be an elephant or a pre-fabricated house.
+
+
      
+All I'm suggesting is that you consider not trying to come up with
+every possible angle, and let the show progress on its own.  Right 
+now everybody seems to be scrambling to make sure every even remotely
+feasible possibility is covered, and there an infinite number.  As an
+organized activity, this will in time only prove frustrating.  By the
+end of the season, as with being near the end of a movie, you'll have
+enough info on hand to start making some educated guesses.  To do so
+now is to begin the proess of calling out possible endings during
+the first five minutes of a movie...you'll miss the important things,
+and annoy the people sitting behind you.
+
+
      
+I'm not saying stop; I'm just saying...relax, a little, I guess, and
+simply be aware that you *cannot* scatter-shot this thing without 
+having access to all the information.  It's like trying to guess the
+beginnings of World War One without knowing *any* of the background of
+the countries involved.  Suffice to say that the reason would not be
+simplistic, or cliched, or *easily deduced*.  One thing I learned in
+two years on "Murder, She Wrote" was to come up with a fairly complex
+mystery, something that can't be easily solved going in, but which
+makes perfect sense after you have all the facts and know which clues
+were the real ones, and which were simply red herrings.
+
+
      
+Just a thought....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We'd initially offered Walter [Koenig] the role of Knight Two in 
+"Sky," but when his health prohibited using him, we went to Patrick
+McGoohan, who loved the script, wanted to do it, but was going to be
+out of the country at the time of shooting.  We then shifted Walter
+to "Mind War."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Thanks.  I love Patrick's work.  Problem is he's *very* fussy on the
+roles he takes.  (And justifiably so.)  He has to be sold on the 
+script or there's no deal.  We'd sent him a copy of "And the Sky Full
+of Stars," which would have had him as the main interrogator, Knight
+Two...and he liked it, and was prepared to do it...when we checked our
+respective calendars and discovered that he was going to be out of the
+country when we were scheduled to shoot.
+
      
+We hope to get him at some later time.  He's just terrific.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The CGI scenes were deliberately step-printed to give the shots a
+more dreamlike look.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The CGI won't look as good in slow motion because we step-printed
+them deliberately, in order to give them a more dream-like appearance.
+For us, this wasn't about the ships, it was about one of the men in
+the ship, which is why we kept him in sharp focus, and went to step-
+printing whenever we went outside (and since we're seeing this from 
+his memory, clearly he wouldn't actually have *seen* most ofthis, 
+it's his *sense* of what happened).  You'll get plenty of clear CGI
+in "Signs and Portents," airing in May.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, there's a second shot in which you can see a body being 
+thrown out; it's between Mitchell and Sinclair being hit.  Remember
+that the body is strapped in in an angular fashion, and look for it
+as it blows (as I recall) from left to right.  It's there.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+This weekend, I was at the Space Frontier Foundation to receive an
+award for Babylon 5 for Best Vision of the Future, part of which was
+its recognition of our *deliberate efforts* to get things right.
+Zero-G maneuvering, civilian use of space, a working O'Neill station,
+on and on, all the stuff you think  happens by "coincidence."  And 
+which has not generally HAPPENED on TV before.  In attendence were 
+the Delta Clipper team of engineers, astronaut Pete Conrad, leading
+researchers with NASA, JPL, McDonnell-Douglas, you name it.
+
+
      
+And one of the people there, who had been with SDI and the Space
+Program for 12 years, currently a top-level NASA consultant, pulled
+me  aside and said that after seeing the line about the gravity not
+letting the body get very far . . . he said he sat down to do the 
+math required to come up with the actual MASS of B5, starting with
+the 2.5 million tons of actual structure, plus likely vegetation, 
+quarters, occupants, ships docked inside...and when you add it all
+up, it came to about the same mass as a fairly small moon...and IT 
+WOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP THE BODY FROM -- AS STATED IN THE SCRIPT -- 
+GETTING VERY FAR.
+
+
      
+The body would drift from the station a bit, get pulled back, hit
+the hull, bounce, drift a bit, and be pulled back.  Or go into a slow
+elliptical orbit.  (He mentioned that in the history of the Apollo
+program, little bits of debris that would flake off the outside of
+the ship would remain in proximity to the ship, just on the basis of
+ITS mass and gravity, and it's not very big.)
+
+
      
+A couple of other high-level engineers backed him up, and said that
+it was quite reasonable.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The 2.5 million tons of spinning *metal* refers only to that part,
+the metal casing.  It doesn't include the furniture, the structures,
+the Garden, the 250,000 humans and aliens...so the total mass of the
+thing is MUCH greater than the 2.5 megatons.  Also, the body was 
+shoved out of the area around the cargo bay, non-rotating, which 
+would also cut down on the momentum (as opposed to shoving out out of
+the rotating part, where it would speed away at 1g).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, it was always my assumption that the body was dumped out through
+the zero-g section, since that has more traffic with cargo loaders 
+and unloaders and less security than the passenger-oriented bays and
+airlocks.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There is a security problem on B5, yes.  And we hope to deal with it
+at some point.  It's inevitable, really; 250,000 residents, huge 
+crates being moved in and out every day, people going and coming...
+they try to confiscate what they can, but a lot slips through.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The second shot to Knight One is a gut-shot, and the security guard
+is shot through the chest.
+
+
      
+Bear in mind, also, that some of this may be expected by folks here
+on the nets because of the ongoing conversations, speculation and the
+bits of info I drop here; but for 99.9% of the rest of the nation,
+this IS new info.  And even with the nets, I suspect that there are
+some surprises here....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+'Universe Today' Headline
      
+I lived in San Diego from 1974-1981, and it's actually a great place,
+so I'm inclined to tweak it once in a while, just for funsies....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The wisp of smoke is a wisp of smoke, nothing more important than that.
+If something living in hyperspace bothers you...good, it
+should.  The Psi Corps article is in frame for a reason.  Yes, we
+sometimes put additional or important information in the background,
+but I don't think we can be fair and assume that everyone sees it, so
+if you don't see it in one place, it's stated out loud later on...the
+background stuff is to give the alert viewer a fighting chance to 
+guess some stuff BEFORE it happens; when stuff DOES finally happen,
+all the required information is supplied at that time.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Correct, Gregory.  One of the things we learned from the pilot was
+that we shoved too much information at people too fast.  So I
+deliberately held back a lot of arc stuff in the beginning of the
+series, allowing people to move gradually into the B5 universe, learn
+more about it, and THEN start whapping them with the arc.  It isn't
+until "Mind War" and "Sky" that we really begin cranking the arc.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
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+
+
    The Battle of the Line
    
+
+
    
+The following page is devoted to the events at the Battle of the Line
+as recalled by Sinclair during his drug-influenced VR experience in
+"And the Sky Full of Stars."
+
+
    
+See also
+"Points of Departure."
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  How did the Minbari appear out of nowhere?  (see 
+     Analysis)
+
+
    •  Why is Sinclair important to the Minbari?
+
+
    •  Why was he tortured?
+
+
    •  What was the talisman held up in front of him?  (cf 
+     "Legacies", Babylon Squared")
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    The Minbari singled out Sinclair for capture before
+     he prepared to ram their cruiser
     
+
      
+
+
    •  All the Starfuries around Sinclair are destroyed with one, sometimes two
+     Minbari beams.  However, a fighter spent several seconds on
+     Sinclair's tail and fired over twelve laser beams at him,
+     all of them missing.
+
+
    •  The only two Starfuries that suffered a damaging shot before being
+     destroyed were also the only two that made notable flight
+     maneuvers: Alpha-7, who was out in front, and Mitchell, who peeled
+     off after the attacking fighter and went on to shoot at a cruiser.
+     The Minbari may have been listening in on their ship-to-ship
+     chatter, deliberately damaging those two ships in the process of
+     determining which was the one they wanted.
+
+
    •  Once his squad had all been shot down, cruiser fire finally hit
+     Sinclair's Starfury, but it only damaged his engine strut.  Cruiser
+     fire had earlier taken off the engine struts of his
+     comrades.  After this, all enemy fire ceased.  Clearly the Minbari
+     could have destroyed him then if they'd wanted.
+
+
    •  Conclusion: One fighter was sent to herd Sinclair away so
+     maximum-strength lasers could be used on his squad.  A disabling
+     shot was then fired at his engine strut in preparation for taking
+     him aboard.  Then Sinclair set up for his ram.
+
+
    
+
+
    Minbari Cruisers are impossible to detect before
+     they're close enough to open fire
    
+
      
+
+
    •  Sinclair's squad took neither defensive nor offensive action when
+     Alpha-7, in advance of the rest, was destroyed by cruiser fire.
+     There was nothing for them to do but take note that enemy
+     transmissions were present and drift forward until visual contact
+     was made.
+
+
    •  When first spotted, the cruisers had already matched velocities
+     with the Starfuries and killed their engines.  They were also
+     perfectly positioned so that pilots would have to attack into the
+     sun.  This, with Sinclair's exclamation, "It's a trap!" definitely
+     paints the battle as an ambush.  The means of hiding remains a
+     mystery.
+
+
    
+
+
    Something significant may have happened to
+     Sinclair just before the cruiser captured his ship.
     
+
      
+
+
    •  Recall Sinclair's earlier accounts of his experience, he always
+     says "something passed in front of my eyes."  
+
+
    •  A wisp of smoke is mentioned in the  
+     Line synopsis.  This effect is hard to catch without a
+     freeze-frame VCR, but once it's been identified it's impossible to
+     miss, even at normal speed.  If it was something significant, then
+     Sinclair's change in expression and throwing up of arms may have
+     been in reaction to that rather than to the looming cruiser.
+
+
    
+
+
    The scenes of Sinclair standing within the
+     grey council circle were not two different events, but the same
+     event remembered twice
    
+
      
+
+
    •  The first Grey Council scene is
+     the only one Sinclair remembers out of order from the rest, and
+     comes right after he has been given a dangerously higher amount of
+     the mind- affecting drugs.  The 
+     second scene comes a while after the drugs were boosted, and he
+     remembers it in order with the rest of his experiences.
+
+
    •  The important elements of the first scene are all present in the
+     second: confronted by grey figures, shouted questions, getting
+     zapped.  However, the zapping is incomprehensible in the first
+     scene: why dramatically appear to Sinclair only to knock him out
+     again immediately thereafter?  In the second scene, there is a
+     clearer reason - he had just seen the face of a Council member.
+
+
    •  There are some details present in the first scene that were absent
+     or different in the second, but these differences are
+     insignificant: one-by-one lights, oddly echoing voices, being shot
+     in the chest rather than the back, and...
+
+
    •  ...Sinclair is in full uniform in the first scene.  This is flatly
+     impossible, since a fighter pilot wouldn't wear much more than
+     scrubs underneath a flight suit.  (In 
+     "Believers", for example, Ivanova is seen putting her uniform
+     jacket back on after returning from a flight.)  However, this is
+     exactly the kind of detail that people tend to fill in by
+     subconscious "guessing" when memories are incomplete.
+
+
    
+
+
    The exclamation 
+     "I know you.  I know who you are.  I know you." may be
+     the key to understanding that scene
     
+
      
+
+
    •  Sinclair suffered a mind-wipe during his experience on the cruiser.
+     He was examined and confronted by a group.  Perhaps it was
+     necessary to prove to this group that the mind-wipe was effective.
+
+
    •  If this is correct, then the scene reads in the following way:
      
+     Sinclair is presented to the Grey Council.  "What do you want?  Why
+     are you doing this?  Who are you?", he asks, obviously having
+     forgotten the answers to all these questions.  He is now safe to
+     release.  But wait, he's pulled the hood off of a Council member,
+     and even worse, he vaguely recognizes her!  He's obviously on the
+     verge of remembering his experience, which won't do at all.
+     ZAP.
+
+
    •  Under this interpretation, Sinclair's re-use of exactly those
+     words, again at the sight of Delenn's face, would make her
+     certain that he was reliving that same experience of
+     almost-remembering.
+
+
    •  Alternately, it may be that 
+     "I know you.  I know who you are.  I know you" was
+     not uttered by Sinclair at the Line, but rather he said it
+     within the VR experience when confronted with a face that he
+     now recognizes, while deep within a long-unseen memory.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The CGI of this sequence is incredibly detailed and subtle.  In
+     shots of Sinclair's face after the battle begins, exploding
+     Starfuries can be seen reflected in his visor.  Starfury wreckage
+     haunts the edges of some scenes.  Also, unlike normal B5 space
+     scenes, these images were deliberately crafted with much blurring
+     and streaking, to enhance the dreamlike feel.
+
+
    •  When Sinclair's Starfury tumbles, the number 20 is visible painted
+     on top.  20 is also the maximum number of Starfuries visible at any
+     one time during this sequence.
+
+
    •  The phrase "What do you want?", eerily repeated, occurs later in
+     the season.  (cf "Signs and Portents")
+
+
    •  The triangle visible on Delenn's forehead is similar, though less
+     ornate, to the one on the forehead of the Councilman who appears in
+     her quarters at the end of the episode. (cf also 
+     "Signs and Portents")
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Yeah, it was an off-the-cuff reference to General Billy Mitchell.
+     (Didn't really mean that much; just thought it wuz cool.)
+
+
    •  Also, check the readout on Sinclair's screen as he's trying to
+     engage the enemy.  You'll see 
+     "Negative Lock" popping up.  One problem in fighting the
+     Minbari vessels is that they have a kind of stealth tech that makes
+     it very hard for our weapons to lock on.
+
+
    •  The CGI won't look as good in slow motion because we step-printed
+     them deliberately, in order to give them a more dream-like
+     appearance.  For us, this wasn't about the ships, it was about one
+     of the men in the ship, which is why we kept him in sharp focus,
+     and went to step-printing whenever we went outside (and since we're
+     seeing this from his memory, clearly he wouldn't actually have
+     *seen* most of this, it's his *sense* of what happened).  You'll
+     get plenty of clear CGI in "Signs and Portents."
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan matt@uhs.uchicago.edu
+
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+
    Overview
    
+
+This is a transcript of Sinclair's experience at the Battle of the Line,
+as pieced together from images evoked from the VR memory probe he
+underwent in "And the Sky Full of Stars".  There
+is a separate Guide page devoted to the
+events recounted here. 
    
+
+Spoken lines are in bold.  Editor's notes are emphasized.
+Discontinuities in the action are marked by horizontal dividers. 
    
+
+
    
+
+Alpha-7: "Alpha-7 to Alpha leader, I'm hit!"
    
+Sinclair: "Pull out, pull out!  Alpha-7!" 
    
+
+A green energy beam just misses a lone Starfury, but second shot
+immediately destroys it.  No enemy is yet visible. 
    
+
+Mitchell: "He's gone.  Picking up enemy transmissions." 
    
+
+A squad of 20 Starfuries is moving through space, several seconds behind
+the one just lost.  (Only 14 are visible in the opening shot
+-ed.) The Earth and Moon are visible in the distance.  
    
+
+S: "Stay in formation.  Hold the line; no one gets through, no
+matter what."
    
+M: "Understood.  Alpha leader, you have a Minbari on your tail!" 
    
+
+A trilaterally-symmetric fighter about the same size as a Starfury is
+close behind Sinclair.  It fires about 12 green energy beams between and
+around his engine struts.  (The beams are tiny compared to the
+earlier laser fire from nowhere.) All miss, and the fighter
+ceases fire, still in close pursuit. 
    
+
+M: "I'm on him.  Targeting fighter." 
    
+
+One Starfury breaks formation to pursue the fighter, which appears to
+have chased Sinclair away from the rest. 
    
+
+S: "No!  Mitchell, stay in formation, it might be a... [computer
+alarm] Oh my god.  It's a trap!  Mitchell!" 
    
+
+Minbari cruisers are present, engines off, positioned so that pilots
+have to look into the sun when approaching.  Long booms extending in
+front of each cruiser are lasering ships in all directions. 
    
+
+M: "I got a clear shot, I can take him, I can take him!" 
    
+
+Mitchell is very close to a cruiser, and fires at least two cannon
+volleys. 
    
+
+S: "Mitchell!!!"
    
+M: "I'm hit!  Ejecting!" 
    
+
+Mitchell braces for ejection, and the pilot pod launches just as an
+energy beam destroys his craft.  Another immediately hits the pod. 
    
+
+M: [screams] 
    
+
+Sinclair stares in shock at an empty helmet floating
+by.  Light from exploding Starfuries reflects off his visor, and his
+console reads Negative Lock.  As Sinclair watches, cruiser fire
+demolishes his entire squad, one by one.  Finally, one of his own engine
+struts is hit, but the beam only pokes a hole part way through.  His
+ship tumbles. 
    
+
+Computer: "Aft stabilizers hit.  Weapons systems at zero.  Defensive
+grid at zero.  Power plant near critical mass.  Minbari weapons systems
+locking on. 
    
+
+Firing engines that kill his rotation, Sinclair careens toward the
+cruisers.
+
    
+
+Sinclair: "Not like this, not like this!  If I'm going out I'm taking
+you bastards with me!  Target main cruiser, set for full velocity ram,
+afterburners on my mark.  Mark!" 
    
+
+The Starfury is shaking badly from the acceleration.
+Two cruisers are visible, neither firing anymore.  Just after a
+collision alert shows up on his console, a 
+wisp of smoke descends onto Sinclair's helmet.  A moment later, his
+expression goes from intense to agonized, and he throws his arms up in
+front of his face.  Sparks fly around him, and the cockpit is covered in
+darkness (presumably as the looming cruiser blocks the sun's
+light). 
    
+
+Suddenly, a red beam from the cruiser's main weapons boom
+strikes, killing Sinclair's engines and his relative velocity.  Four
+continuous silver beams from the cruiser body then lock on and pull him
+in. 
    
+
+
    
+
+Seen from above through a metal grating, silent Minbari warriors wheel a
+dazed Sinclair on a cart down a hallway.  He is still in his flight suit
+but missing his helmet. 
    
+
+S: "Why are you... doing this?" 
    
+
+
    
+
+Sinclair is standing in a dark open area, in Earth
+Force uniform.  Overhead spotlights blast on one by one around him,
+illuminating nine grey cloaked and hooded figures standing in a circle.
+The first bears an ornate staff with an inset 
+triangular talisman. 
    
+
+S: "What are you doing here? [looks around] "What do you
+want?" 
    
+
+"What do you want" echoes around the chamber, the repetitions
+overlapping and varying in loudness.  (His first utterance, nearly as
+loud, did not echo at all.)  Sinclair whirls around, looking
+above him.  The holder of the staff then levels it at him, firing a
+purple blast at his chest.  Sinclair falls to the floor, stunned. 
    
+
+(There are good reasons to believe
+that this is supposed to be an event that he later
+remembers in more detail.) 
    
+
+
    
+
+Sinclair comes around inside the circle of
+spotlights.  He is standing, arms locked to the base of a great metal
+triangle suspended from above, stripped down to his undershirt and badly
+bruised about the head and shoulders.  The nine grey figures are
+whispering in a tight group outside the circle behind his field of view.
+One of them approaches Sinclair and raises another 
+triangular talisman in front of him.  It glows strangely, but there
+is no other visible effect.  As the figure recedes, Sinclair loses
+consciousness again. 
    
+
+
    
+
+Sinclair is again standing free within the circle,
+still stripped and battered.  At once, the nine grey figures step up to
+their positions underneath the lights. 
    
+
+S: "What do you want?  Why are you doing this?  Who are you?" 
    
+
+He steps boldly up to one of the cloaked figures across from the
+staff-bearer and pulls back the hood.  His eyes widen.  It is Delenn,
+whom he knows ten years later as an ambassador and a friend.  She is
+pale and expressionless, almost sinister.  Just visible, low on her
+forehead, is the outline of a triangle.  Its color resembles the
+washed-out purple of the fractal-like markings on her crown. 
    
+
+S: "I know you.  I know who you are.  I KNOW you." 
    
+
+The leader blasts him in the back with the staff again, and all is dark.
+
    
+
+
    
+Compiled by Matthew Ryan matt@uhs.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The station becomes a hotbed of galactic controversy when
+Sinclair is forced to protect a notorious war criminal -- a
+scientist who's invented an immortality serum.  Ambassador Kosh hires
+telepath Talia Winters to oversee a very unusual negotiation.
+
+
+Sarah Douglas as Deathwalker/Jha'Dur.
+Robin Curtis as Ambassador Kalika.
+Cosie Costa as Abbut.
+Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.21
+
+Production number: 113
+Original air date: April 20, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  The League of Non-Aligned Worlds and the Earth Alliance are allies,
+	thanks in large part to Earth's intervention while the League was
+	being devastated by the Dilgar thirty years earlier.  JMS says, "The
+	Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got into, soon
+	after establishing a presence in space.  We mainly entered it to try
+	and make a 'rep' for ourselves, then got more morally involved when we
+	saw what was going on.  That and the Minbari War are the only real major
+	conflicts Earth has been involved with, and Earth was not directly at
+	risk in the Dilgar war, though if they hadn't been stopped, that might
+	have changed eventually."
+   
    •  The Vorlons have a strong distrust of telepaths.
+   
    •  The Minbari warrior castes know about the hole in Sinclair's mind.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  What do the Vorlons know about immortality?
+   
    •  Why don't they like (non-Vorlon) telepaths?
+   
    •  Is this the last we'll hear about the immortality serum, or did Dr.
+	Franklin keep the sample he was testing?  (JMS has hinted that it's
+	not a simple plot device which'll never be mentioned again.)
+   
    •  Why do the Wind Swords speak often of Sinclair?  What do they know
+	about what happened to him?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+  
    •   Na'Toth's grandfather had the misfortune to be on a planet that Jha'dur
+	took, and her misuse of him is the source of Na'Toth's feud, yet the
+	Narn seem to give the incident no particular weight.  What world this
+	was is not disclosed, but either it wasn't a Narn colony, and Na'Toth's
+	grandfather was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, or it was
+	a Narn colony and the incident was smoothed over at the time.  Evidence
+	seems to point to the former, but it's unclear.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Jha'dur is a specialist in, "biochemical, biogenetic, and cyber-organic
+	weaponry." During the Dilgar invasion of the "non-aligned sectors" she
+	decimated whole planets to further her own research.  Presumably the
+	other Dilgar were equally vicious and callous.  She seems to be
+	especially notorious though, known by name 30 years after the event,
+	perhaps because her biological experiments seem especially horrible.
+
+
      
+  
    •   At the time of the Dilgar war humanity was fresh on the interstellar
+	political scene, having been discovered and given jumpgate/hyperspace
+	technology by the Centauri.  The non-aligned worlds seem to be
+	relatively low-tech, and they were being overrun by the Dilgar in a
+	particularly ruthless bid for an empire.  Earth's entry into the
+	conflict turned the tide against the Dilgar,  leading to the race's
+	confinement to their own system and their ultimate destruction when
+	their sun went nova.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Jha'dur was shielded and hidden by the Minbari Wind Swords, members of
+	their warrior caste, at the close of the Dilgar war 30 years ago.  The
+	Minbari didn't encounter humans until about 20 years later, at which
+	time the first contact went bad and initiated the Earth-Minbari war.
+	Up until now it seemed that neither side knew of the other, but how
+	could the Minbari have aided and supported Jha-dur for 20 years without
+	learning of Earth?  Moreover, when the Minbari are debating
+	their response to the loss of their leader the Wind Swords arrive on
+	the scene with new, very powerful weapons.  Presumably much of the
+	Minbari arsenal of weapons and ships derives from designs given them
+	by Jha'dur.  The circumstances
+	of the first contact problem between the Minbari and the Humans may
+	also indicate that it was the result of a plot by Jha'dur for revenge
+	on those who (at least indirectly) destroyed her race.
+
+
      
+  
    •   The serum designed by Jha'dur is insidious, requiring something
+	critical from living beings to make.  It's unclear whether this same
+	process would be applicable to every species, or whether the same
+	serum could be used across species.  But in any case it was designed,
+	perhaps intentionally, to cause a great deal of harm when used.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Just what benefit the Wind Swords derived from her research is
+	unstated.  Note, however, that she has (a) been permitted by the Wind
+	Swords to use up enough living entities to pursue her research, and
+	(b) used at least one dose on herself with
+	some amount left over.  She has also been permitted to leave to
+	negotiate with the Narn, her first entry into public view since the war.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Senator Hidoshi calls Sinclair while Jha'dur is still in medlab.
+	He insists that Jha'dur cannot be Deathwalker, but also insists that
+	she be sent to Earth immediately.  Still, he clearly knows all about
+	the situation, which implies that he has sources of information both
+	on B5 and perhaps among the Minbari or the Narn.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Talia Winters has an interesting time with Kosh during this episode.
+	Here we see the first of a known class of people called "vicars,"
+	short for "VCRs."  These people are human recorders, capable of
+	recording sensory and environmental information for later playback
+	through devices directly implanted in their brains.
+	This demonstrates a very high degree of possible integration between
+	people and computers at the time of B5.  How common this is and how
+	sophisticated it can be has yet to be seen.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Is Kosh a telepath?  During the interviews between Kosh and Abbut (the
+	vicar) Talia is occasionally goaded with an image dredged up from her
+	mind.  Clearly these are not her own thoughts, and clearly Abbut cannot
+	be the source since human telepaths are regulated.  That only leaves
+	Kosh him(it?)self.  Yet Talia doesn't seem to have any hint that Kosh
+	is doing this to her.  If Kosh is a telepath, what other abilities
+	does he have?  And if he is a telepath, and the cause of Talia's
+	distress, what did he need the vicar for?  It seems clear that
+	the byplay between Kosh and Abbut was intended as misdirection, to
+	divert, bore and confuse her leaving her open for Kosh to penetrate
+	her shields and stimulate the images he collected.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Kosh collects from Talia, in his words, "Reflection.  Surprise.
+	Terror.  For the future."  He may intend the data as a lever or weapon
+	against her.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Hour of Scampering is usually around tea-time, according to the
+	Vorlon/Human Translation Dictionary.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How do Vorlons scamper?
      
+	The Vorlons do not scamper terribly well, but no one has yet told
+	them this.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834863442 "Understanding is a three-edged sword."
      
+	The three edges: your side, my side, and the truth in between.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Your statement about the serum being a means of getting to the truth or
+	her truth at the very least is quite correct. And appropos to current
+	reality. We look back at the Nazis, and others, and say, "Well, WE
+	could never do that." But of course we could. Fine tune your
+	attention to the frequency of misery and inhumanity, and in short
+	order you'll pick up Rwanda, and Bosnia and a host of others. Our
+	capacity for greatness is as substantial as our capacity for evil.
+	And we must constantly be reminded of that duality; to pretend it
+	simply isn't there, or is somebody else's problem, inevitably leads
+	to tragedy. (For those interested, btw, I would encourage you to
+	check out a short story by Mark Twain, called "The Man Who Corrupted
+	Hadleyburg." I think you will find it *most* illuminating.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Abbut was not - repeat, NOTan imitation of Harlan, as some have
+	suggested. It was originally written for Gilbert Gottfried, who we later
+	learned was unavailable.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+	functions in much the same fashion as the Security Council and the
+	General Assembly in the U.N.  The smaller worlds and alliances can't
+	weild as much power as any of the Big Five.  Together, they as a 
+	group get a vote equal to one of the Big Five; they can deputize one
+	of their number to speak for them and cast that vote, which can often
+	break ties or create ties.  It is not a terribly equitible situation,
+	but it was the only workable solution that would be accepted by the 
+	other Ambassadors.  We'll see them chafing at this in "Deathwalker."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The prosthetics on our background aliens and the League started out
+	okay, but we felt we could do better, and began a series of 
+	improvements, which can be seen most clearly in "Deathwalker," where
+	they're all proper prosthetics rather than masks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We didn't have the League of Non-Aligned Worlds up and running for
+	the pilot.  They get one vote, determined by majority decision.  EAch
+	mamber of the main Advisory Council gets one vote, equal to that.
+
+	In "Deathwalker," you had one abstention (Kosh), two to try her 
+	(EA and League), and three against the trial (Narns, Centauri and
+	Minbari).  Abstentions don't count either way in such a vote; it's the
+	negatives vs. the positives, and there were more no's than yes's.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You assume the crowd meeting Sinclair could be placated.  They make it
+	clear, in dialogue: "You will have to kill us all."  They could not BE
+	placated.  Your assumption has nothing to do with what happened, or 
+	what was said.  Maybe in the ST universe, Picard can turn on the charm
+	and just talk people out of things.  That doesn't happen here, not
+	easily at any rate.  It was turn back or kill them.  Those were the
+	choices.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As far as we knew, Lennier was going to vote with Sinclair and the 
+	League.  So you hold off his change of vote for the end.  You get a  
+	few no votes, annoy the League, Sinclair raises their hope, and then
+	Lennier, much as he hates it, dashes that hope.  It's an arc that way,
+	rather than a descending staircase.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Except of course that Sinclair said that the non-aligned worlds would
+	have observers there at all times...there are no other Dilgar to help
+	break her out...the Narns have no desire to attack Earth installations
+	to break her out as long as they get their share of the serum...and
+	there really was no other alternative short of war.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's no one escaping Deathwalker's ship; it's just debris spinning
+	away.  She's dead as a mackeral.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just to clarify...the Vorlon ship destroyed only Deathwalker's ship,
+	not an EA vessel.  And the Vorlon ship waited until Deathwalker's 
+	ship was far from B5, just before entering the gate, before coming out
+	to strike.   At that range, it couldn't miss, and at that distance, 
+	B5 couldn't react fast enough.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The EA escort got her as far as the gate.  Then peeled away.  And then
+	the Vorlon ship came out.  That's what Sinlair said: "They will escort
+	you as far as the gate."  And even if they had stayed with her THROUGH
+	the gate, it would've made no difference.  Vorlon ship comes through.
+	Fires at Deathwalker's ship.  EA ships fire back.  No visible effect,
+	the cruiser shrugs it off and goes back the way it came.  Single 
+	Starfuries wouldn't even *dent* a Vorlon cruiser.  So same result.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair was taught by Jesuits...and as far as Kosh goes, better to
+	have him where you can see him, than not.  They *are* a powerful 
+	group, and it wouldn't serve to ignore them.  We courted them for 10
+	years for a first contact...and now we're stuck with them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jim, your thesis comes from the underlying assumption that, as in the
+	Trek universe, All Things Must Be Done Fairly, the government must in 
+	the end be wise and fair and sensible.
+
+	
      
+	That ain't our universe.  That ain't even *this* universe.
+
+	
      
+	Sinclair must follow orders.  He didn't want to escort Deathwalker off
+	and on to Earth, those were his marching orders.  *The same marching 
+	orders would be given to an ambassador representing Earth*.  So your
+	career diplomat would be in exactly the same position.  What, do you
+	think that career diplomats are independent agents of goodness?  They
+	all work for SOMEone, representing their interests.
+
+	
      
+	Earth put in the majority of the money required to build and operate
+	B5.  They have the right, as such, to appoint a provisional governor,
+	nad (and) that is the function that Sinclair mainly serves.  He runs
+	this place, AND he is responsible for maintaining good relations with
+	other representatives.  He is also on a short leash.  And in some 
+	cases, as in "By Any Means Necessary," other people are sent in to 
+	handle certain kinds of negotiations.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, it is a conflict of interest.  So what?  Do you think Earth cares
+	much about that?  Is it awkward?  Yes, of course.  It *should* put him
+	in moral quandries.  The Earth Government is constantly getting him
+	into binds.  What they wanted him to do in "Deathwalker" was more or
+	less of a dubious nature.  But in the end, he found a fairly moral
+	solution to the problem.  That's what he does.  He finds anhonorable
+	way out of very difficult and morally ambiguous situations.  What you
+	suggest is that we remove the moral ambiguities.  Ehhh.  I find that
+	boring as hell.
+
+	
      
+	Do the other species like it?  Of course not.  Okay, so what're they
+	going to do?  Boycott B5?  And let other species take advantage of all
+	the economic and political benefits the station provides?  Let others
+	grow in familiarity and form alliances that might in time turn against
+	them?  Not a chance.  Fair or not, it's the only game in town.
+
+	
      
+	So I don't buy your solution because I don't think it's a problem.  
+	You do.  That's life.  Political situations are rarely fair, or  
+	logical, or ethical.  If politics were based on ethics this would be
+	a MUCH better world.  But politics are generally based on who has the
+	power, and the money, and the guts.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got into,
+	soon after establishing a presence in space.  We mainly entered it to
+	try and make a "rep" for ourselves, then got more morally involved 
+	when we saw what was going on.  That and the Minbari War are the only
+	real major conflicts Earth has been involved with, and Earth was not
+	directly at risk in the Dilgar war, though if they hadn't been stopped,
+	that might have changed eventually.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846702265 Have we seen the last of the Dilgar?
      
+	They're dead as doornails.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yes, the Windswords were the warrior clan involved in the events
+	in "The Gathering."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Talia, like all Psi Corps members, wears gloves because she has to,
+	when in public, to minimize physical contact and accidental scans.  
+	As for others wearing gloves...sometimes it's a fashion statement
+	... and other times, well, space is very very cold....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Abbut was screwing around when he said "I'm a 23 myself," just 
+	messing with her.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Kosh's voice-the rumblings and bells and stuff, not the translation-
+	seemed to be missing a lot of the lower tones and bass that I 
+	remembered hearing previously."
+
+	
      
+	He had a cold.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "It also adds another piece of miracle tech never to be seen again."
+	
      
+	Wrong.
+	
      
+	In point of fact, virtually *none* of the new tech stuff is just
+	gone...you'd be surprised what'll be showing up again down the road
+	a piece....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: B5's roster of strong women characters...this is something of a
+	bugaboo/obsession with me.  I *love* writing strong women.  (For that
+	matter, I love strong-willed, independent, smart women in real life 
+	as well; I love being outsmarted, love it when someone can go toe-to-
+	toe with me on something.)  Generally, and this isn't entirely 
+	intentional, women on shows I work on tend to get some of the best 
+	lines, as is often the case with Ivanova.  It's not a case of being 
+	"one of the boys," but being one of the *people*.  There's a subtle 
+	difference.
+	
      
+	The women I write are often very close to many of the women I've been
+	involved with over the years.  So far, no one's sued....
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+and Steven Grimm.
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin asks Sinclair to intermediate with an alien family who, because of
+their religious beliefs, refuse to allow surgery that would
+save their dying child.
+
+
+Silvana Gallardo as Dr. Maya Hernandez.
+Jonathon Kaplan as Shon.
+Tricia O'Neil as M'Ola.
+Stephen Lee as Tharg.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 7.74
+
+Production number: 105
+Original air date: April 27, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by David Gerrold
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Some outside influence has interfered with the Minbari religion
+	in the past.
+   
    •  The Children of Time, a minor race with strong religious beliefs,
+	would rather let one of their number die than allow invasive surgery,
+	which they believe destroys the soul.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin's willingness to break the rules for a cause he believes in,
+	though indicative of a strong moral character, seems likely to
+	get him into hot water at some point.
+
+   
    •  On the other hand, Sinclair doesn't want to be placed in a position
+	in which he has to stop Franklin from doing what he believes in;
+	Sinclair would rather sidestep the issue than have his hand forced.
+	This is consistent with his handling of the Senator's instructions
+	in "Midnight on the Firing Line."
+
+   
    •  The parents' reaction when Delenn refused to help could be viewed as
+	hypocritical; they were perfectly willing to ask Delenn to violate
+	her beliefs so they wouldn't have to violate their own.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Kosh is aware that he was examined by Dr. Kyle (cf.
+	"The Gathering".)
+	When he's asked how he would feel if a doctor performed
+	an operation on him, he says, "The avalanche has already begun.
+	It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
+
+   
    • @@@877970962 The Shakespeare corporation and the pfingle eggs are
+	references to David Gerrold's novels "Under the Eye of God" and
+	"Covenant of Justice."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  By the way, here's something interesting: an outline got turned in
+	this week for an episode which I won't identify just now.  Came in 
+	from one of our writers, based on an assigned premise.  It's 
+	something you've never seen done in ANY SF-TV series, and I don't
+	think has ever been done in TV overall.  A very daring little story.
+
+	
      
+	Word finally came back from our liaison with PTEN.  "Number one, this
+	is absolutely against the demographics on the show.  Number two, no 
+	studio or network executive in his right *mind* would EVER approve 
+	this story in a million years.  Number three...it's a hell of a 
+	story, I love it, let's do it."
+
+	
      
+	This has been emblematic of our relationship with PTEN: they've left
+	us alone, and are trusting us in our storytelling.  We want to go 
+	right out to the very edge, and they're letting us, which is 
+	wonderful.  They've been, and continue to be, terrific to work with.
+
+	
      
+	If the end of this particular story doesn't absolutely floor you,
+	nothing will.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When I developed the basic Believers story, and was looking for someone
+	to assign it to, David was the first person we went to. He asked me
+	at the time why him...he's more generally associated with humorous
+	stuff. I had my reasons. See, lately, David adopted a young boy,
+	about the same age as Shon.  So about halfway into the outline, David
+	called and said, "NOW I understand." I knew that having a child of
+	his own now would mean that the story would be a lot more personal.
+	Especially the end scene, which I knew would have to be done *very*
+	carefully. I think David did a great job, and under his guidance it
+	turned into a very moving episode. And with any luck, he'll write
+	more down the road.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's some small amount of blurring that goes on in this show; a
+	freelancer turns in a script, and things get added.  For instance,
+	there was a need to really tighten up the story in "Believers," 
+	which could best be done by bringing in a small B story, which would
+	allow us to streamline and intensify the main story.  So I wrote the
+	B story and slipped it in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Today David Gerrold came by the set to watch some of the shooting 
+	on his episode, "Believers."  Unlike many shows, which basically
+	throw the writer off the set, our writers are welcome to hang around.
+	It's not only okay, it's *expected* that the writer will be there at
+	some point, to be a part of the process.  David was quite ebullient
+	about the whole thing; he thinks that this is the best script he's 
+	ever written, and it's being filmed exactly as he'd hoped, if not 
+	better.  So there he was, getting autographs, muttering something 
+	about somebody named "Hugo...."
+
+	
      
+	What was interesting was one comment he made, which echoed almost
+	verbatim something D.C. Fontana said when she came by the stage: that
+	the atmosphere on set, with the crew, the cast, the production people
+	is exactly the same as it was on the first season of the original
+	Star Trek.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I know from pfingle eggs...I let David have the reference because...
+	well, I don't know anymore...I think water torture was involved.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885407465 Who wrote Kosh's line about the avalanche?
      
+	That was Gerrold, as I recall.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Similarity between "Believers" & a DS9 novel?
      
+	A couple points.  1) When "Believers" was written, Peter's book hadn't
+	yet hit the stands.  2) Peter likely got his notion of the sick kid
+	and the religious parents from the same basic source we did: the
+	headlines.  This has been an ongoing problem in real life for some 
+	time.  So he took that real premise, and did one story based on it, 
+	and we did another extrapolation.  This notion did *not* originate in
+	the Trek universe....
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yeah, TV generally doesn't do this kind of ending. Which is
+	why we did it...and our liaison at Warner Bros. deserves a lot of
+	credit for letting us do it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It was important to tell David to pull no punches because in TV, most
+	producers *want* you to do so, and he had to know going in that this
+	was the way the story would go.  David's a great writer, and David's a
+	professional...meaning he understands where the general limits of TV 
+	are.  If you're going to move the lines around, it behooves you to  
+	tell your writer that.  Knowing the rules, he went out and did a 
+	bangup job on the episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I view Delenn's comment about "suffering the interference of others"
+	in regards to matters of the soul in "Believers" to be a reference to
+	the Soul Hunter.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happened to Ivanova when she encountered the raiders? She
+	got away by long-distance firing as she retreated as fast as she
+	could, taking shots as she went. It wouldn't look real exciting in
+	the long run.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How Ivanova got away from the Raiders was taking advantage of her
+	lead to run away, occasionally firing backward to deter pursuit,
+	until she got to the jumpgate.  It wasn't really anything dramatically
+	interesting, and at that point you would start distracting from the
+	main plot...and that couldn't be allowed to happen.  There's really
+	no place in the rest of the act where you can cut in without destroying
+	it.  And in the tag there's no room for the pursuit, only the arrival.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Excuse me....
+
+	
      
+	You don't think that "Believers" was SF.  Tough.
+
+	
      
+	No, it didn't have warp gates, or tachyon emitters, or lots of
+	technobabble...it was about people.  And the dilemmas they face.
+
+	
      
+	Part of what has screwed up so much of SF-TV is this sense that you
+	must utterly divorce yourself from current issues, from current 
+	problems, from taking on issues of today and extrapolating them into
+	the future, by way of aliens or SF constructs.  And that is 
+	*precisely* why so much of contemporary SF-TV is barren and lifeless
+	and irrelevant...and *precisely* why such series as the original Star
+	Trek, and Outer Limits, and Twilight Zone are with us today.
+
+	
      
+	Like Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry and Joe Stefano and Reginald
+	Rose and Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin and a bunch of other writers 
+	whose typewriters I'm not fit to touch, my goal in part is to simply 
+	tell good stories within an SF setting.  And by SF I mean speculative
+	fiction, which sometimes touches on hard-SF aspects, and sometimes 
+	doesn't.  Speculative fiction means you look at how society changes, 
+	how cultures interact with one another, how belief systems come into 
+	conflict.  And as someone else here noted recently, anthropology and
+	sociology are also sciences; soft sciences, to be sure, but sciences 
+	nonetheless.
+
+	
      
+	It's been pointed out that TV-SF is generally 20-30 years behind
+	print SF.  This whole conversation proves the point quite succinctly.
+	In the 1960s or so, along came the New Wave of SF, which eschewed 
+	hardware for stories about the human condition set against an SF 
+	background.  And the fanzines and prozines and techno-loving pundits
+	of hard-SF declared it heresy, said it wasn't SF, this is crap.  And
+	eventually they were steamrolled, and print SF grew up a little.  Now
+	the argument has come to settle here.  Well, fine.  So be it.
+
+	
      
+	I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that SF is anything I point
+	to and say, "That's SF."  Go pick up a copy of "A Canticle for 
+	Liebowitz," one of the real singular masterpieces of the science 
+	fiction genre, and it won't fit the narrow criteria you've set up for
+	what qualifies as SF by your lights.
+
+	
      
+	There is a tendency among the more radical hard-SF proponents to stamp
+	their feet and hold their breath until they turn blue, to threaten
+	that unless the book changes or the field comes around or the series
+	cottens to *their* specific, narrow version of what SF is -- and that
+	definition changes from person to person -- they'll take their ball 
+	and their bat and go home.  Fine and good.  And the millions who come
+	to take their place in the bleachers and on the field will get to have
+	all the fun.
+
+	
      
+	Some of our episodes will fit your definition of SF.  Some will not.
+	This worries me not at all.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The area that cannot be opened is the chest area, primarily; a nick or
+	cut or scratch really doesn't count; it's puncturing to the body 
+	cavity wherein the soul is housed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the parents were not charged with murder.  When a species on the
+	station acts against one of their own kind in a particular way, and no
+	other species is affected, they are judged by the laws that apply to 
+	their own species and culture.  In their culture, what they did is not
+	a crime, so they received no punishment.  Had they done this to a 
+	human, then yes, they would have been charged with murder.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm not quite sure if we're talking about the same thing; the
+	two parents never said that the kid would die if he underwent the
+	surgery, only that his soul would escape. This would leave him
+	"soul-dead," for lack of a better phrase. And how are we to tell that
+	they weren't right? I don't think it's quite as cut and dried as you
+	seem to present. (And again, they were acting very much out of their
+	real beliefs of how the universe operates. If someone here is
+	injured, and declared brain dead, most folks think it's okay to pull
+	the plug...even though one could make the argument that there's still
+	a living soul in the body. This is the opposite situation; one may
+	argue that there is still a mind somewhere in the body, but the soul
+	is dead or gone.  The phrase they use is that they put the shell out
+	of its misery. To their mind, he was dead already.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, I disagree when you say that the doctor was right.  Says 
+	who?  Not the parents.  Not the episode.  Nobody was really right, 
+	when you come down to it, except maybe Sinclair, who made the correct
+	call.  You say the boy was okay at the end...the parents didn't think
+	so.  Who's to say if there was or wasn't a soul inside?
+
+	
      
+	I think David's script walked a very fine line and really didn't
+	endorse either side.  (I've had people send me email upset because we
+	showed that the parents were right, and others because we said the 
+	doctor was right, and others because neither was right and the 
+	ambiguity bothered them.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of course the surgical scars would've been a dead giveaway that
+	surgery had been performed.  Also, lying to them would have also been
+	a violation of medical ethics.  This was not a story about easy 
+	solutions.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a wonderful scene in "Fiddler on the Roof" where Tevya is
+	caught in an argument between two Rabbis.  The first one makes a 
+	point. "You're right!" Tevya says.  The second Rabbi makes a
+	contradictory point. "You're right!" Tevya says.  A third Rabbi,
+	looking on, says, "Wait a minute, they can't *both* be right."
+
+	
      
+	"You know," Tevya says, "you're right too."
+
+
      
+   
    •  A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see
+	what you put into it.  "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-
+	religion, anti-religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has been
+	interpreted, as you note, as pro-capital punishment, and anti-capital
+	punishment.  We do, as you say, much prefer to leave the decision on
+	what things mean to the viewer to hash out.
+
+	
      
+	A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the
+	occasional bar fight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844403513 The thing about "Believers" is that, really, nobody's
+	right, and in their own way, from their point of view, everybody's
+	right.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "The concept of loving parents being able to kill their child for
+	their religions seems to be unrealistic."
+
+	
      
+	Funny...I seem to recall this little story in the Old Testament about
+	how a good and wise man was asked by god to sacrifice his own son, to
+	himself kill his own child, and he was willing to do it, and was only
+	stopped by god saying, in essence, "April fool."
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the "predictable" argument...I can only shrug.  The kid has a 50/50
+	chance...he'll survive or die.  And guessing the end isn't, for me, 
+	the key; this isn't a who-dunit; it's how our characters react on the
+	way there, and what it *does* to them, I think.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Since I suggested the ending to David, right down to the candles, I
+	suppose I'll take the rap...but the question you're raising isn't the
+	issue.  There are only two possible results: the kid lives, or the kid
+	dies, there ain't much in-between.  You ask, "Who on earth is going to
+	side with people who kill their own child?"  The audience isn't being
+	asked to *side* with anyone, there IS no easy solution, and no one is
+	100% in the right.
+	
      
+	There is a wonderful short story, which we adapted for Twilight Zone,
+	called "The Cold Equations," where a small shuttle is going from point
+	A to point B.  There is enough fuel for the shuttle, and one pilot, 
+	and no more.  The ship is bringing medicine to save 500 colonists.  A 
+	young girl has stowed away on the ship to see her brother.  She's 
+	discovered.  If the pilot does nothing, the ship won't arrive, and he 
+	and the girl will die, and the colonists will die.  If he sacrifices 
+	himself, she won't be able/won't know how to guide the ship to its 
+	destination.  The only way out is to ask her to enter the airlock so 
+	he can space her and continue the mission.  And that's what happens.
+	You can't argue with math.
+	
      
+	Sometimes, there are no-win scenarios.  And what matters then is how
+	your characters react, what they do and say, and how it affects them.
+	That, really, was the thrust of the episode.  And to go back to your
+	question, "Who on earth is going to side...."
+	
      
+	The operative word in your question is "Earth."  No, no human is going
+	to side with them (although I'd point out in the Bible that there is
+	the story of Abraham, who was quite willing to murder his own son at
+	god's request).  They're not humans.  They have a wholly different
+	mindset, cultural background and belief system.  People ask for ALIEN
+	aliens, then judge them by human standards, and feel it's wrong if
+	they don't behave like humans.  These didn't.  That's who and what 
+	they are.   If humans side with them, or accept them, doesn't enter 
+	into it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The choice *had* to be either/or.  That was the point; to put the
+	characters in a situation of conflict and see how they handle it.
+	Sometimes in life there are ONLY two choices, neither of them good.
+	Your message comes from a position of trying to avoid the hard
+	choices.  But the episode is ABOUT hard choices.  It *has* to be 
+	either/or.
+	
      
+	To support your thesis, you bring up the "Cold Equations" alternate
+	ending of the pilot cutting off both his legs to make up the weight
+	differential.  Lemme explain something to you.  I was there.  When we
+	turned in the script, by Alan Brennert, MGM went nuts.  "You can't 
+	have a sympathetic young woman commit suicide!  It'll kill the 
+	ratings!"  So they (the studio exec) suggested various "fixes."  One
+	was that instead of stepping willingly out the airlock, the pilot 
+	shoots her and has to deal with the guilt.  (This by them is a 
+	*better* idea?)  The other was the notion of the guy cutting off his 
+	legs to make up the weight.
+	
      
+	First and foremost, it was a dumb idea because he'd be in no shape to
+	pilot the ship.  Second it wouldn't be enough weight.  And finally, 
+	the very *nature* of "The Cold Equations," what the very TITLE means,
+	is that there are some occasions in which the choices are stark, and
+	there is NO way around them.  If the ship has X-weight, and the fuel
+	is for Y weight, and Y is less than X, then you've got a problem that
+	can only -- ONLY -- be resolved by someone walking out the airlock. 
+	(And yes, they tried dumping things, but the ship is lean, not much 
+	to get rid of.)   That's why it's the COLD equations; not the LUKEWARM
+	equations.
+	
      
+	I fought like hell to retain the original ending, and won.  (You
+	probably read about this, btw, in my articles for TZ Magazine.)  This
+	is studio-think, let's find a nice, unthreatening, safe, middle-ground
+	where we can resolve this without anybody being upset, threatened or
+	offended by the story.  I'm sorry, but life sometimes hands you hard
+	choices, there ARE either/or scenarios, in which nobody really wins,
+	and SF should be exploring those as well as the fuzzy feel-good 
+	stories.  It's time SF grew up a little, damn it, and started
+	confronting hard questions that can't always be resolved by reversing
+	the polarity on the metaphase unit.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Afterthought: I just wandered into the kitchen, still ranting (as I 
+	am wont to do), explained it to Kathryn...who brought me up short (as
+	*she* is wont to do) by pointing out the antecedent to BOTH stories.
+	The ultimate "hard choice" example in SF-TV is of course "The City on
+	the Edge of Forever," fromST.  There are only two choices, both hard:
+	either Edith Keeler dies, or the Nazis win WW II.  Kirk *has* to let
+	her die; there's no other choice.
+	
      
+	It is, at the same moment, gratifying and annoying to have someone
+	around who's smarter than I am....
+
+
      
+   
    •  There were no changes in dialogue made in "Believers" subsequent to
+	the first airing.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi's past catches up to him, with some disastrous consequences.
+He's blamed by some for an accident
+aboard B5, which leads to hitting the bottle again after a
+prolonged abstinence.
+
+
+Elaine Thomas as Lianna Kemmer.
+Tom Donaldson as Cutter.
+
    
+
+Originally titled "A Knife in the Shadows"
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.65
+
+Production number: 111
+Original air date: May 4, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by Mark Scott Zicree
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi was a shuttle pilot on Mars before coming to Babylon 5.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Who was the assassin working for?  Who wants Santiago dead?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova's reluctance to stop the countdown is suspicious.  Perhaps
+	she had some reason to want the launch to take place; perhaps she
+	even knew what was going to happen if it did.
+   
    •  Everyone from his past considers Garibaldi a no-good drunk.  Why
+	did Sinclair give him a second chance?  (Addressed in comic series,
+	"Shadows Past and Present.")
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@832092614 "For scripts that are given to other writers do you find
+	you do much if any mental picturing of the episode?  If so, how does
+	that affect the writing process between you and the other writer?"
+
+	
      
+	No, you only get into that part of it when you're going to sit down
+	and actually WRITE the sucker.  It's a matter of bringing in the
+	freelancer and (assuming s/he hasn't come up with a story independent
+	of me, which happened about 4-5 times in toto) saying, "Okay, in this
+	episode the giant blue penguins of Rigel 4 steal Ivanova's shoes," or
+	handing the person a few paragraphs to several pages with detailed
+	story notes.  Then the person goes away.
+
+	
      
+	The first "mental picture" I have of it is when the writer brings
+	back an outline based on those notes.  This is always hard for me, as
+	is the first draft script, because the characters rarely talk like
+	our characters talk.
+	 They don't sound right, don't always behave consistently, there's
+	 bits of backstory that contradict what's been established, and that
+	has to get fixed.  So it's like seeing a distorted picture, and your
+	job is to bring it closer into focus.
+
+	
      
+	(This is an inevitable aspect of freelancing.  There simply isn't
+	time to learn all there is to know about a show before you begin
+	writing; you have to come in, do it fast, and then move on to the
+	next assignment if you're going to make a living at this.  That's the
+	Freelance Life.  I hate the Freelance Life.  I like to stay around,
+	get to know the characters, rummage around inside their heads and
+	find what's there.  Freelance scripts almost always tend to be about
+	the guest star character; if you look at mine, most of them don't
+	really tend to have a big guest character, with some notable
+	exceptions.  I find our regular characters more than sufficiently
+	interesting.)
+
+	
      
+	What's most ironic about the freelance situation is that you often
+	have people who say, "Straczynski oughta use more freelance writers,
+	they bring in perspectives he doesn't have."  They cite the "moment
+	of perfect beauty" in Peter's script
+	["There All the Honor Lies"],
+	Londo's "my shoes are too
+	tight, and I have forgotten how to dance,"
+	["The War Prayer"]
+	the alien abductor
+	courtroom scene in Grail, Deathwalker's comments about how she plans
+	to create her monument...all of which are scenes or sections I wrote
+	and inserted into scripts by other people.  (One of my best lines for
+	G'Kar is one I'm not credited for, in Zicree's script, "The universe
+	runs on the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter,
+	and enlightened self-interest."  I actually saw some messages noting
+	that jms never seems to be able to write something that succinct.
+	Well, actually...I did.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  We're already doing it, and have done it. We've already begun
+	integrating "virtual sets" in with real ones. As an example...in the
+	next-to-last shot in "Survivors," someone is entering a ship in the
+	docking bay. The only real object in that room, aside from the actor,
+	is a ladder. Everything else is CGI...but you can't tell.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In "Survivors," we attempted a cgi/composite shot out the window, which
+	looks pretty spiffy, actually. It's in the teaser. We may do this in
+	future.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The *reason* we had Garibaldi go through all the hoops he went through
+	before finally falling into the bottle is because simply having Liana
+	show up and depress Garibaldi isn't, frankly, sufficient motivation.  
+	I don't buy it.  We wanted to strip away everything he had, and leave
+	him with only *himself*.  So we took away his job, his reputation, his
+	money, his home, neutralized his friends wherever possible...it was 
+	deliberate and systematic to peel him down to the bare essentials, to
+	just Garibaldi.  Take him all the way down before taking him back up 
+	again.  Because it's more dramatically interesting.  It's more logical
+	that it would take something this major to drive him back into the 
+	bottle after staying sober all this time.  I'm sorry, I don't accept 
+	your suggestion that Liana's "anger and accusations" would "drive him
+	over the edge as he deals with his guilt."  He's BEEN dealing with his
+	guilt, and her showing up wouldn't be enough to drive him back into 
+	the bottle again.  I'm sorry, but as a producer or a story editor, I 
+	wouldn't buy that from a writer as being sufficient motivation.  
+	Particularly not a character who's as strong and as bull-headed as 
+	Garibaldi.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What do I know about alcoholics, to portray them?  Well, aside from
+	a degree in clinical psychology, and some internship work in the area,
+	I come from a family with alcoholism going back at least four 
+	generations, and I'm talking *heavy duty*.  I am, in fact, the first
+	male Straczynski in my branch of this particular stunted tree NOT to 
+	have this problem.
+
+	
      
+	I have had far, far, far more experience with this area than I care
+	to recite...and from that perspective, I have no problem with
+	Garibaldi's portrayal.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Cutter went after Garibaldi only because that's who the dying worker
+	named as being responsible for the bomb.  (He didn't know he was dying,
+	and wanted to throw blame; and even if he did know, what better than
+	to nail the guy who'd hassled him before?)  Cutter only took advantage
+	of the situation.
+
+	
      
+	Luis Santiago is playing it both ways, allowing more trade and certain
+	kinds of immigration, while preserving earth *culture*; this isn't the
+	same thing as a trade embargo.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The name of General Netter was stuck in as a tweak to Doug, it's a
+	tuckerism (for those who know the term).  We've done it a bit here
+	and there; I kinda started shutting the process down after a while,
+	since it was getting carried away.  I don't want it to be obtrusive.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think Kemmer's name was inspired by the actor's name from the
+	Space Patrol series....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Drazi are a very violent, ill-tempered species; they were the ones
+	who first showed up in "Deathwalker" in a Sunhawk to threaten the 
+	station; they beat up the guy in "The War Prayer;" they show up here 
+	in "Survivors;" there's an episode about a form of martial arts among
+	the aliens that has a Drazi going at it...if there's a fight around, 
+	you can often find a Drazi at the center of it or at least nearby.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think you're taking what I said to the extreme; I didn't say [the 
+	Drazi] were bloodthirsty savages, only that they had a predilection 
+	toward violence, and were generally very cranky.  And not all great
+	thinkers have to sit around in elizabethan garb, delicate flowers
+	watching the skies rotate.  Aggressive people can be good thinkers;
+	it needn't be one or the other.
+
+
      
+   
    •  ...the end of "Survivors," where Kemmer enters her ship...in reality
+	there is only a ladder there.  The ship, the walls, the door she
+	enters, all that is CGI/virtual set.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An accident in the docking area kills a worker, threatening to spark an
+illegal strike.  Londo interferes in an
+important Narn religious observation which leads to a
+confrontation between him and G'Kar.
+
+
+John Snyder as Orin Zento.
+Katy Boyer as Neeoma Connoly.
+Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.
+
    
+
+Originally titled "Backlash"
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 rating: 7.84
+
+Production number: 114
+Original air date: May 11, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by Kathryn Drennan
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  The Narn homeworld is 10 Narn light years away, about 12 Earth
+	light years.
+   
    •  Narn ranks seem to connote some kind of religious authority; the
+	highest-ranked Narn is expected to lead religious services.
+   
    •  The Rush Act, put in place during the Earth-Minbari War, allows the
+	Earth government to break up labor strikes using any means necessary.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  How much trouble did Londo go through to get the G'Quan Eth plant,
+	and did he do it solely to upset G'Kar?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  The Earth government has a very low tolerance for troublemakers,
+	it seems -- at least, troublemakers who operate in the open.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    • @@@877717497 The G'Quan Eth plant, used in Narn religious rituals, is
+	prized by the Centauri for use as a pleasure drug, a use the Narn
+	consider sacrilige.
+
+   
    •  The Rush Act was named after conservative American television and radio
+	commentator
+	Rush Limbaugh.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nearly all of our production crew appear in "By Any Means Necessary"
+	at various spots; the guy yelling "I say we STRIKE!" is our director,
+	Jim Johnston.  And yes, John Flinn ["Grail"] was played by John Flinn,
+	our DP.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Rush Act only refers to unions, for the most part; it's not a
+	wide-ranging law. It was developed during the Earth/Minbari war to
+	deal quickly and effectively with corporations or unions which were
+	being difficult and otherwise holding up the war effort. (The air
+	traffic controllers union would be a good example of the government
+	doing whatever it felt necessary to resolve the situation.) The law
+	grants extraordinary power to resolve any kind of strike or union
+	action which endangers the operation of a military base or other
+	military operation, as Zento states. It applies only to that area,
+	and remains on the books, though (as is also pointed out) it hasn't
+	been used in a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A UK poster inquires about Rush Limbaugh, for whom the Rush Act
+	in this episode was named
      
+	Re: who is Rush Limbaugh....
+	
      
+	Leading American proctologist.
+	
      
+	Trust me.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair's decision is legal...but not politic, and it will come back as
+	one of many decisions to haunt him in "Eyes."
+
+
      
+   
    •  As for happy endings...you want some variety, I think; we had a tough
+	ending in "Believers," a bittersweet ending in "Survivors," and here 
+	things worked out for G'Kar and Connoly, but in a way did *not* work
+	out for Sinclair.  He's going to be hearing about this decision of 
+	his again, in the not too distant future.  He's getting further and
+	further behind the eight-ball with some of these decisions, and he's
+	going to get hammered about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Exactly my point; there are differences between similar alien groups
+	(like the Narn) in culture, language and religion, with BAMN being
+	a good demonstration of the latter.  Which is why I could only shrug
+	and say "Wait" after people started hammering on me here about 
+	monolithic alien religions after "Parliament."  We'd already filmed
+	BAMN by then, so I knew it was there.  That's one thing about this 
+	show that some have found out...generally, what you'd like us to do,
+	we've probably done or are about to do (hence the many times, when 
+	I'm asked about something, that we can just say, "Wait until X airs 
+	in 2 weeks" or somesush).
+
+	
      
+	Still dancing as fast as I can....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The writer for "By Any Means Necessary" is Kathryn Drennan, who is
+	very astute politically, a believer in the rights of workers (and all
+	folks, actually), and think that characters are more interesting if 
+	they act smart than if they act stupid.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kathryn's last name is Drennan.  Her full credit is Kathryn M. 
+	Drennan.  Not Straczynski.  Probably displaying considerable wisdom
+	on her part.  Ten thousand letters, no vowels.
+
+	
      
+	Absent a collaboration on a series of articles for TZ Magazine a few
+	years ago (a guide to the Night Gallery series), we don't collaborate.
+	Ever.  I also don't collaborate with Larry D., or any other of my
+	writer friends.  As I learned before, particularly on the one occasion
+	when Larry and I tried it -- we co-wrote a pilot and bible for CBS
+	based on the "Elfquest" books -- all parties concerned will live a LOT
+	longer by keeping a respectable distance.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One thing I can mention now, since it's nearly finished: see, I have
+	this real problem with nepotism.  Specifically...I hate it.  As a 
+	result, I make people I know work twice as hard.  The closer the tie,
+	the more the person has to work to prove him or herself.  
+
+	
      
+	Kathryn Drennan, my Spousal Overunit, is also a writer, and has 
+	written for many other shows, primarily in animation, but with some
+	forays into other areas.  (She was co-author on the Night Gallery 
+	series of articles I wrote for Twilight Zone Magazine, as one 
+	fr'instance, and was a producer with public televison for some time.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, she desperately wanted to write a B5 script.  But because of
+	my feelings about nepotism, I refused to give her an assignment.  (I
+	can be a REAL pain in the ass.)  Something similar happened when I was
+	working on The Real Ghostbusters; she loved the show, and wanted to 
+	write for it.  I put her through the wringer: she had to submit 
+	written premises, just like any other freelance writer, which were 
+	then sent on to the producers for final approval.  They did not know
+	of any relation between her and me; they based their approval only on
+	the merits of the story.  Period.  And she ended up writing two 
+	episodes: "Egon's Dragon" and "The Man Who Never Reached Home."  (The
+	former is considered a favorite by many viewers of the show.)  Only
+	long after we finished production did the exec producers on TRGBs 
+	learn that there was a relationship there; it was all based on the
+	quality of the work.
+
+	
      
+	But in the case of B5, I *am* the exec producer, so it became more
+	difficult.  At first I said simply no.  Finally, I set into place a
+	number of conditions/provisions.  NOT because she wouldn't do a great
+	script, but only because I don't like the look of nepotism; I hate it,
+	and I hate the way this town operates on the principles of nepotism. 
+	The conditions were that she had to write the script completely on
+	spec, no assignment; not a spec outline, which is shorter, but a spec
+	*script*.   It would then have to pass muster in-house; if even one
+	person thought it wasn't up to snuff, it got deep sixed.  And 
+	revisions would not be handled by me, for the most part; she would 
+	have to work with Larry, who has a reputation (as Katherine Lawrence
+	can attest) to not pulling his punches.  No favoritism.  Then the 
+	script would have to pass muster with Warners.  IF, after all that, 
+	the script was approved, then it would be bought, and not a moment 
+	before.  If anywhere along the line it didn't meet one of those 
+	criteria...then it would be a 50 page learning experience and nothing
+	more.
+
+	
      
+	Well, I'm pleased to say that it *did* pass muster with everyone, and
+	"By Any Means Necessary" is now over halfway through production, with
+	a number of people -- including Michael O'Hare -- saying it's their 
+	favorite so far, mainly for very odd reasons.  The premise is one that
+	ST would never, EVER do, which is one thing I like about it; it also 
+	shows us more on the inner workings of B5, the blue-collar types who 
+	keep the whole place operational...and what happens when that falls
+	apart.  The B story gets into a confrontation between G'Kar and Londo
+	when Londo interferes in an important Narn religious observation.
+
+	
      
+	We brought back John Snyder (Soul Hunter #2) minus prosthetics for
+	one guest role, and Katy Boyer as our other guest star.  They're both
+	doing terrific jobs, and it's a very intense script in which we 
+	basically put Sinclair through the wringer for 48 hours and try and
+	make him absolutely nuts.  And succeed, for the most part.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway...there you have it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The reference in "By Any Means" is to Matewan, where a terrible
+	labor strike took place (and a film was made about it); the other is
+	Matawan, which is where I lived for a while, but the reference is to
+	the former, not the latter.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A sharp increase in raider activity has the station on the defensive.
+Londo obtains a priceless Centauri artifact.  A mysterious stranger visits
+the station's alien ambassadors.
+
+
+Gerrit Graham as Lord Kiro.
+Fredi Olster as Lady Ladira.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "Raiding Party")
+
    +Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+P5 rating: 9.01
+
+Production number: 116
+Original air date: May 18, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • The Minbari refused to support Babylon 5 until Commander Sinclair was
+named as the Earth Alliance representative.
+
    • The emperor of the Centauri hasn't been seen in public for some time,
+contributing to an erosion of the government's credibility in the eyes of
+the Centauri populace.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Who or what is Morden, and who does he represent?
+   
    •  What do Delenn and Kosh know about him?
+   
    •  Why did the Minbari want Sinclair in charge of the station?
+   
    •  How big and organized are the raiders?
+   
    •  What impact will the Eye have on Londo's career?  Will he even return
+	it to the Emperor, or will he try to use it for his own gain?
+   
    •  How did Mr. Reno get his hands on the Eye?
+   
    •  How did Morden's associates locate the raiders and recover the Eye?
+   
    •  Who will escape on the shuttle in Ladira's vision?  When will the
+	vision come true, if ever, and what will the circumstances be?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn and Kosh clearly have some sort of perception beyond normal
+	senses, be it telepathy or something else.  Kosh's seems to be much more
+	advanced.
+   
    •  Delenn's perception seems to be connected to the appearance of the
+	triangle on her forehead.  Note that this triangle was also present
+	when Sinclair was interrogated by the Grey Council at the Battle of
+	the Line (cf. "And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+   
    •  Kosh recognized what Morden was immediately.  That suggests
+	previous contact between the Vorlons and Morden's people.
+   
    •  Kosh said, "They are not for you," referring to humans, though that's
+	not completely clear from the episode itself.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+   
    •  Morden and Kosh appeared to have fought, resulting in the damage to
+	Kosh's encounter suit.  Since Morden continued to go about his business,
+	perhaps Kosh capitulated or lost the fight, or perhaps he was only
+	interested in stopping Morden from seeing Sinclair.  One interesting
+	thing about this alleged fight is the light that shatters behind
+	Morden as the scene ends -- just a power surge from the attack, or
+	something else at work?
+   
    •  Babylon 5 may be destined for destruction, apparently with only a single
+	shuttle escaping in time.  (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+   
    •  Where did Morden's disembodied voice come from at the end?
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  This episode has the most complex battle sequence to date, spanning
+	nearly an act and a half.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The raider on Babylon 5 is "Six," a tip of the
+	hat to "The Prisoner."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ed Wasser, the actor who played Morden, also appeared as the main
+	C&C technician in the pilot movie,
+	"The Gathering."
+	The same character?  JMS won't say.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925829 As Sinclair and Garibaldi left the lavatory, another
+	person entered.  From the person's appearance, it seemed to be a woman,
+	even though they were leaving the men's room (the "Male" symbol was
+	clearly visible on the wall outside.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910861173 Date glitch: When Ivanova is awakened by the computer,
+	it claims the date is Wednesday, August 3, 2258.  But August 3, 2258
+	is a Tuesday, not a Wednesday.  The error is probably due to a
+	miscalculation of
+	leap years.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877371302 This episode's title may be a nod to Norman Corwin, one
+	of JMS' favorite writers.  Corwin's radio drama "On a Note of Triumph,"
+	broadcast at the end of World War II, examined how the war started and
+	what lessons it carried, and contemplated what would happen once it
+	was over.  The quote in question:
+
+	
      
+	Signs and portents!
      
+	It was no furtive tapping on the window sill at night,
      
+	But clamorous pounding in the public square.
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We're retitling "Raiding Party" (which I always figured was a working
+title, too prosaic) to "Signs and Portents."  Figured it'd be nice to
+have one episode title per (projected) year carrying the year-arc 
+title.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Signs and Portents" is the overall title for year one; but just as one may
+entitle a chapter in a book the same as the book itself, this episode has the
+year-title in it (which may signify that this one is, well, significant....).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What did Kosh mean by "they?"
+And who's on the shuttle?
      
+They refers to humans.  There was no need to ask Sinclair, and he
+was under orders not to.  And who is on that shuttle...is an excellent
+question.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why the same old launching scene?
      
+I tend to agree re: the launching shots.  There were going to be some
+new ones for S&P, but there were SO many new shots in that one that
+we just ran out of rendering time.  There's some new ones coming, though,
+and very dramatic looking, in "Babylon Squared" and the two-parter.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I agree; Ed [Wasser, who played Morden] did a great job.
+He was perfect for that role.  (He has an oddly Rod Serling-ish quality to
+his stance, I've noticed.)  And he will definitely be seen again.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ed Wasser is sort of our discovery; I pretty much wrote the part
+of Morden with him in mind for the role.  He's great in it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You noticed that too, huh?  Surprised me, too.  We'd cast him in the
+part of Morden, then the first day's dailies come in, and his stance,
+his manner, the way he looks...we all looked at the TV and said, more
+or less at once, "Holy shit, it's Rod Serling!"
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Funny story.  Saw Ed Wasser ("Morden") the other day, and asked him if
+he'd had any reaction to his first appearance on the show.  Just one,
+he said.  He was in a florist shop, picking out some stuff for a 
+friend who was sick.  The proprieter came over, asked, "What do you 
+want?"  Ed sorta mumbled about wanting some flowers.  "What do you
+want?" the owner asked again.  Ed -- still not getting it -- said he 
+was looking for some nice stuff for a friend who was sick.  "Yes, but
+what do you *want*?" the owner asked.  At which point Ed finally 
+twigged to what was going on.  He said afterward that it really *is*
+an unnerving approach, which was kinda the point.
+
+
      
+Of course, the owner then added that he thought the scene was from 
+DS9, but what the hell, it's an imperfect universe.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+One lovely thing about "Signs and Portents," which
+you picked
+up on, is something I like to play with; implying one thing while saying the
+opposite.  Look at all the shadow's main representative, Morden, does: he
+asks people what they want; he gets tossed out of Delenn's quarters; he
+is pleasant in his demeanor at all times, never yells, always smiles, and
+is courteous; he takes an action which saves one of our main characters,
+Londo, from disgrace and resignation, and helps in the process of scragging
+the bad guys in the episode.
+
      
+And yet everyone walks away thinking that the shadows are bad.  Which
+was of course the intent...by the way in which they did "good."
+
      
+Kosh prevents humanity from achieving immortality, scares the hell out
+of Talia (cf.
+"Deathwalker",)
+never gives anyone a straight answer, doesn't seem to mind it if
+people fear him...and we walk away with the presumption that he is good,
+by virtue of the way in which he did things that were "bad."
+
      
+[...] This is something I do a lot in my scripts, which I don't generally
+see a lot of other people doing.  You *really* have to construct the
+script very carefully to pull something like this off...a little game
+between me and the audience.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Morden tried to find out what the ambassadors would like.  Morden
+arranged to rescue an important Centauri artifact.  Morden helped 
+wipe out the crooks.  Morden saved Londo's career, and asked for
+nothing in return.
+
      
+And yet we get the sense that Morden is a bad guy.
+
      
+Kosh destroys our chance for immortality.  Refuses to get involved
+in the affairs of others.  Is plainly studying us.  Terrorizes one 
+of our main characters, Talia, for unknown reasons.
+
      
+And yet we get the sense that Kosh is a good guy.
+
      
+If anyone should ask, I really *love* writing this show....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, the origin of "What do you want?" comes from encounter
+groups I've run, and from other kinds of group psychotherapy, such as the
+original Synanon games; you ask, "Who are you?" over and over, refusing
+to take the same answer twice, to peel away the fabric of what the
+person is.  It's a slight jump to "What do you want?"  (I knew that
+degree in Psychology would come in handy one of these days.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why Londo?  Because he was the one who answered Morden's question
+correctly.  Things happen for a *reason* that is suited to who the person
+is.  G'Kar's ambitions aren't nearly big enough; Delenn knows better than
+to get near these guys; Kosh is against them; the EA are being kept at
+arm's length for now, the non-aligned worlds aren't big enough...so here
+we are.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There would have been more than one answer that would have sufficed,
+but one answer was better than all the rest.  Just the right mix of
+resentment, nostalgia, ambition, frustration and a sense of displaced
+destiny.  Londo was hitting all those cylinders when he answered Morden's
+question.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"jms, what do YOU want?"
+
      
+I'll have fries with that.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The working name for the sixth race is the Shadowmen.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@884374590 
+I named them Shadows after the Jungian notion of the Shadow,
+which is the part of the mind which is all desire, and is destructive.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+David: you hit it *exactly* on the head.  Again, as you point out,
+stuff here operates on a lot of different levels.  I try, where I can, to
+make a given scene do more than one thing.  The hall argument is a good
+example of this.  The script stipulated a human being stuck between G'Kar
+and Londo.  Not any other race.  Had to be a human.  Because that becomes
+emblematic of how we're stuck between the two sides in the war, something
+which is *very* strongly brought home in the next batch of episodes.
+
+
      
+Obviously, the first most important thing in that scene is just the
+gag, the humor.  It has to work on that level, and that's how it came to
+me first: just the gag.  Then, when it came time to write it, that's when
+I start poking at things to see if I can layer on another level of
+meaning, and I saw a way to do a little (very little) visual foreshadowing
+of stuff to come.  Didn't matter if anybody ever noticed it or not; it
+was never really intended to be of much note, just a little item that
+becomes a nice bit of irony later.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Londo does not have the Eye.  If he'd failed to turn it over, his 
+career would've been ruined; getting it back was the only thing that
+kept him on B5.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's a reason Morden didn't go to the Earth Alliance.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The raiders are gone for good, yes.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: Happy endings and non-happy endings
      
+As for "Signs and Portents," I don't quite know *how* to characterize
+the ending on that one.  Someone gets what they wanted, but this may 
+or may not be a good thing.  I'd say basically it has an ominous 
+ending.  We do try to keep it a mixed bag...one person may achieve a
+niceness, but somebody else pays the price, or gets nailed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Like Tolkien, and Jonathan Carroll, whose wonderful books start out
+looking very nice and comfortable...and gradually take you to
+someplace strange and dark and unique...I've tried to apply a similar
+structure to Babylon 5.  It seems to be chugging along at a good clip
+along relatively familiar terrain.  Now my job is to walk up alongside
+the story with a crowbar and give it a good, hard WHAM! to move it 
+into a different trajectory.  "Parliament" was just sort of a 
+preliminary nudge.  "And the Sky Full of Stars" was a good, solid 
+WHAM!  This week's episode, "Signs and Portents," is another WHAM, 
+even bigger than the one that precedes it.
+
      
+There are two more major WHAM episodes: "Babylon Squared," dealing
+with the fate of Babylon 4, and "Chrysalis," our season ender, which
+is really more of an atomic bomb rather than a crowbar.  So roughly
+about one-fourth of this season's episodes are WHAM episodes.  That 
+figure will increase in year two to about one-third.  Year three 
+(Neilsen willing) will be half-WHAM and hal-not.  Year four would be
+three-quarters WHAM.  And year five is all WHAM.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Let me dive in and take issue with you.  The problem you seem to 
+have with the show(s) is alas a part of basic dramatic structure.
+You have an introduction, a rising action, a climax, and then a 
+denouement.  Aside from experimental theater kinds of things, that is
+the basic underlying structure to all movies, plays and television 
+series.
+
      
+"Twin Peaks," which you cite, really isn't a very good example 
+because, in my view, TP *never* resolved ANYthing.  Thus it became an
+exercise in viewer frustration that eventually was a major reason why
+the show was canceled.
+
      
+The first batch of B5 episodes tended to be a little more self
+contained because, remember, we're trying to bring viewers in here,
+and do so without startling or pissing them off.  We get a little 
+funkier the deeper into the show we get.  In some cases, as with 
+"Sky," parts of the story are resolved, parts aren't.  Generally, it's
+our feeling that if you have an open-ended B story, you generally have
+to include an A story that has some measure of closure.
+
      
+"Signs and Portents" and "Babylon Squared" are two episodes offhand
+that I think are emblematic of what you're asking for.  The A story
+in "Signs" is resolved...but that episode really isn't *about* the A 
+story, it's about something unusual that happens with the B story that
+begins to set a lot of things in motion for this season.  And that 
+story is ended, but not *resolved*, if you get the distinction.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What you address in the last bit of the music in "Signs" is what
+I've been trying to get across.  The theme music appearing there is 
+not quite what we use otherwise.  I suggested to Chris that it'd be
+cool to have the B5 theme there in *minor keys* or minor chords.  It's
+a somewhat different version, and playing a theme in minor instead of
+major keys or chords makes it somber, sad, unsettling.  We've just 
+seen B5 explode, and doing that particular riff on the theme seemed 
+to both of us a good idea.   Play it again, then the regular theme,
+and you'll see the difference.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We've done a lot with themes over the season, and plan to do more,
+developing themes for all our characters.  I like interpolating bits
+and pieces of the B5 theme into parts of the show; the minor-key 
+version at the end of "Signs" has always struck me as very effective.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: the theme music at the end of"Signs," I think it was me (but I
+could be mistaken) who suggested to Chris, our composer, that he use
+the theme, but in *minor chords* rather than major chords.  Makes it
+very sad, and very effective.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Overall, though, I've always told Chris to push it...to go absolutely
+as far with the music as he wants.  If it goes too far, we can always
+pull it back or duck it down a little.  Basically, I'm a rock-and-roll
+kind of guy...I like my music loud, and I like a LOT of it.  This show
+is often wall-to-wall music.  Chris often composes as much as 20-25 
+minutes of new music per episode; most hour shows have maybe 13-16 
+minutes of music per hour episode.  And he is often called upon by us
+to do some VERY long cues.  Often, TV music is just there to cover a 
+transition (10-20 seconds), or establish a mood at the top or bottom 
+of a scene, and get out (1 minute to 1 minute-30 seconds average).  We
+have many, MANY cues on this show that go 2, 3, even 4 minutes.  I 
+think we actually had a 6 minute cue at one point in one episode.  
+Check act 3 of "Signs and Portents" and see how much music we crammed
+into that act; it's almost non-stop.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re:  The elevator scene
      
+For as long as I've been writing, I've had a very simple belief that
+comes across with B5 as well: try to get in one really great action 
+moment,minimum one real nice character moment, one solid dramatic 
+moment...and one moment or scene that's fall-down funny.
+
+
      
+I like humor.  I like that characters can show another side of
+themselves.  If there is any real test of sentience, one of them must
+surely be the possession of a sense of humor, since it requires self
+reflection.  And there is always unintentional (on the part of the
+character, at least) humor.
+
+
      
+SF-TV has generally taken itself either too seriously, with rods up
+butts, the humor forced...or it's not taken itself seriously at ALL,
+and gone campy.  This show takes itself seriously, but not in quite a
+way that lets it fit in either category.
+
+
      
+For me, as a viewer, I enjoy the shows that are roller-coasters, that
+take you from something very funny...and slam you headfirst into a
+very dramatic scene.  Hill Street was like that, Picket Fences is 
+like that now...why not SF?  I've also found that humor can help you
+reveal things about the characters.  The Londo/G'Kar scene at the
+elevator in "Signs and Portents," for instance.  It says something
+about both of them without coming out and *saying* it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In general, you don't see a lot of light reflecting off other
+objects when there's an explosion because in general those objects 
+aren't close enough to cause a reflection.  Now, in "Signs," which
+comes up in a couple weeks, there's explosions near a large object,
+and there we do get some reflected light.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+To have a station commander *and* a rep for Earth can be cumbersome
+in many ways, when someone has to give orders.  It's cleaner this 
+way; and no different than any of the sailing vessels of the 18th
+century and before, when each captain was viewed as, and expected to
+perform as, the official representative of his country.
+
+
      
+There is, however, a second agenda at work here, which you'll find
+out about a bit in "Raiding Party" ["Signs and Portents"].
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's not a lot of CGI in either "Legacies" or "The Quality of 
+Mercy" (which will follow "Raiding Party" in  the production lineup), 
+because neither story really called for it.  But there's a *lot* in 
+"Raiding Party," some of it very elaborate.  By way of comparison, in
+an average B5 episode, a script from beginning to end has about 60 or
+70 setups (a setup is a numbered scene or shot, i.e., INT. SCOCKPIT 
+or INT. ZEN GARDEN).  "Raiding Party" has around 112 setups.  That's
+more than in some movies.  It's a *very* busy script.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, we're doing virtual sets...and there's a doozy in the first
+little bit of act one in "Signs and Portents."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, this is the actual text of a script.  And a script contains scene
+descriptions, dialogue, directions.  (Contrary to popular opinion, the
+actors don't just make up their lines when they hit the stage, based 
+on loose ideas by somebody.)  My scripts tend to be *very* detailed, 
+with camera movement suggestions, optical notes, indications of 
+dissolves vs. cuts, on and on.  A typical scene might look like this:
+
+
        EXT. BABYLON 5 - ESTABLISHING
+
+  A scuttleship unloads cargo from a transport parked alongside the
+  station.  PAN ACROSS with the scuttleship, tracking with it until
+  it passes into the docking bay, then DOWN TO the observation dome
+  window, where we can just see into
+
+  INT. OBSERVATION DOME
+
+  where Lieutenant-Commander IVANOVA stands at the console, cup in
+  hand, staring bleakly out into the starscape as SINCLAIR comes up
+  alongside.
+
+		     IVANOVA
+	  I hate mornings...I've always had a
+	  hard time getting up when it's dark
+	  outside.
+
+		     SINCLAIR
+	  We're in space.  It's always dark
+	  outside.
+
+		     IVANOVA
+		(forlornly)
+	  I know...I know....
      
+
+(That, by the way, is a slight re-do of an actual shot from "Raiding
+Party.")
+
+
      
+A script page, single-spaced, works out to about the same wordage as a
+double-spaced prose fiction page, about 225-250 words per.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why was the ship in Lady Ladira's name instead of Lord Kiro's?
      
+Ladira was Kiro's aunt, and much of the family money/property is in
+her name.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I think that the Eye was returned the next day, so there was
+a goodly span between Ladira's vision, and the scene in Londo's
+quarters.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@852801471 What became of the Eye?
      
+The eye is now safely back home and on display.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I hate to burst your bubble, but the Raider ship *was* rotating.
+Look at it again.  It's most visible when the ship is being
+photographed from behind with B5 in the background.  You can see the 
+round part of the ship rotating (with the docking bay at center).
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An old friend of Garibaldi's arrives and tries to take part in a dangerous
+alien combat sport.
+A rabbi helps Ivanova come to terms with her father's death. 
+
+
+Theodore Bikel as Rabbi Koslov.
+Greg McKinney as Walker Smith.
+Soon-Tek Oh as The Muta-Do.
+Don Stroud as Caliban.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 rating: 6.41
+
+Production number: 119
+Original air date: May 25, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by John Flynn
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Ivanova's brother Ganya was killed in the Earth-Minbari war a year after her
+mother committed suicide.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The fact that aliens of several races -- including a Centauri -- all seemed
+to agree that humans had no business fighting in the Mutai seems to indicate
+that there is a lot of resentment toward humans among the other races, enough
+that they see the distinction between humans and themselves as much greater
+than the distinctions between each other.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Walker Smith was the real name of famed boxer
+	Sugar Ray Robinson.
+
+   
    • @@@908906455 Guest star Greg McKinney died on April 12, 1998.
+	Coincidentally, Sugar Ray Robinson died on April 12, 1989.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • 
+At one point, there was a discussion in the scene about the whole
+gills/scales/fins issue, to define kosher...but it *really* brought the
+scene to a screaming standstill, and we needed to concentrate on the
+relationships at that moment.  In addition, as we looked at it, you would
+have to get into the question of how alien gills/scales/fins compare to
+earthly gills/scales/fins, because they're going to be very different in
+many ways.  In short order it became a massive Talmudic discussion, and
+we only have an hour for the show....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Babylon 5 (the show) got not a dime for sticking in the
+Zima
+sign.  We just thought...well, it'd be funny.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, slappers = skin tabs, for introducing medication.  The ones in
+TKO had been stolen from B5 medsupplies.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Through a miscommunication, Warners thought TKO was in the slot in which
+we'd placed Quality [of Mercy], so that went out to TV Guide, and it's now
+too late to change the order back. Doesn't matter; neither are really
+arc-stories, though it was hoped to hold back some of Susan's development in
+TKO just a tad longer.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It was Larry's idea to name the character Walker Smith, after Sugar
+Ray Robinson.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If the deceased has been dead for quite a while, the period during
+which one must sit shiva is greatly reduced to a day or so, I'm told.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Larry wrote the shiva stuff all on his lonesome.  As for being an
+abbreviated version...apparently shiva lasts 3 days for someone 
+recently deceased.  If it's been months since the death, the service
+is usually much shorter, and again, there was only Ivanova and Koslov
+who actually were part of or knew the deceased.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'm told that shiva need not last 7 full days, if the death was not
+recent, and if the body has already been buried.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Now, on the samovar issue...whatever your background, if your family
+grew up in Russia and has been there for several hundred years or 
+more -- and the Ivanov family has been there since at LEAST the 1800s
+-- you do become part of the culture.  That, as I always understood 
+it, was part of the reason for making sure children learned hebrew,
+yiddish *and* the dominant language of the culture, to give their 
+kids a fighting chance in a difficult world.  It's not so much a case
+of the culture assimiliating the individual (though certainly that 
+happens as well), but the individual INCORPORATING the culture.
+
+
      
+Ivanova is jewish.  Ivanova is russian.  Of the two, she tends to see
+herself as a russian first.  There's no value statement there, that's
+just the way she is.  Her parents were both russian, going back many
+generations on both sides.  Some in her family tree were jewish, and
+some were not; there was some intermarrying.  That may be part of why
+she sees herself as more russian than jewish, but it may be just a 
+quirk.
+
+
      
+(And to the protest of, "Well, you created her," yes, I did.  But
+there comes a time, if you've done your job right as a writer, when
+the character more or less takes over, and starts telling YOU who and
+what he or she is.  There are times I mentally turn to Ivanova and 
+say, "Okay, what do *you* think?"  And she talks to me in my head, as
+do all of my characters.  It's part of making your characters real.)
+
+
      
+When she went off to boarding school overseas -- part of an ongoing
+international system put into place by EarthGov to help its various
+member nations get along with one another -- she identified most
+strongly with that russian aspect in relation to those around her.  
+She learned to speak English without a perceptible accent.
+
+
      
+The samovar is a valued and valuable part of russian life.  It is the
+family hearth, on one level, a possession passed on from generation to
+generation.  Knowing that Ivanova was not terribly religious herself,
+he would generally not leave her any of his personal religious
+artifacts, but would dnate them to the local synagogue, while some,
+like a menorah, might go to other relatives.  People who could
+appreciate them and use them.  The samovar is a very personal object;
+to the correspondent with a fiance who is russian...*I* am byeloruss,
+white-russian, one-and-a-half generation American born.  And I can 
+tell you that the biggest fights I've ever seen over bequeaths were 
+over a) money, and b) the samovar.
+
+
      
+The problem with this discussion is that it has very little to do
+with who Susan Ivanova *is*, and more to do with the politics of what
+a russian or a jew or a russian jew *should be*.  She is what she is,
+like it or not.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846702423 
+"The remark: '...pouting in that way that only 13 can...'"
+
      
+. . . the comment is essentially correct; ain't nobody 
+can pout like a 13 year old.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+To the problems some have with Theodore Bikell's accent not sounding
+real...it's my understanding that he was raised in Russia.
+
      
+Ivanova does not have an accent because she was educated overseas,
+her father wanting her to have certain advantages the rest of her 
+family did not.
+
      
+Nowhere did we say that Andrei or the rest of the Ivanov family ever
+emigrated.  They didn't.  They live in Russia.  Or lived, in any 
+event.  Not everyone migrates to the US or to Israel, and not everyone
+wants to.
+
      
+On the treel/kosher discussion...I can only shrug.  Nobody's ever
+shown that jews go forward into the future, placed them at the heart
+of a science fiction show as a regular character, nobody's shown shiva
+before in (and possibly out of) an SF series...and some folks are 
+complaining that not every aspect of a treel's kosher-ness was 
+discussed at dinnertime.
+
      
+Some days, you just can't win....
+
      
+Feh.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What was that Harlan Ellison book Ivanova was reading?
      
+The book is Harlan's autobiography, which he plans to write around
+the year 2000, and yes, that's his photo.  (He borrowed the prop when we
+were finished and casually carried it with him to a few places, just to
+make people nuts thinking there was a book out they'd missed....)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+[Posted 28 May 1994] BTW, there's an interesting couple of articles
+about this episode in this week's Jewish Journal, for another
+perspective on the show.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Channel 4 in the UK didn't show "TKO" during the initial run
      
+TKO's main importance is to the Ivanova arc, as she finally comes to
+terms with her father's death.  Do I have an opinion on C4's decision
+not to show TKO?
+
      
+Absolutely.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If the problem is showing bare-kunckle fighting to the death, then
+somebody should point out to C4 that *nobody dies* in the match.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Mutari are those who fight in the Mutai; and you *did* see Narns
+and Centauri and others hanging around the ring.  The only ones you 
+won't see there are Minbari.  It ain't their thing.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+As I've noted before, over the long haul, as you watch episodes, you
+will see things you didn't see before.  Sometimes they're clues, and
+sometimes they're comments which now read a different way than they 
+did the first time you saw them.  There's been a number of the latter
+very subtly sprinkled through the episodes aired so far...lines that
+everyone jumped on as meaning one thing, but which will mean something
+else, and lines which nobody thought much of the first time out...but
+which will elicit a wince of irony later on.
+
+
      
+There's a corker in "TKO," but at the moment, it's absolutely 
+invisible.  It's not a clue, it's not necessary for the story, it's
+just one of those things that, after you've seen all the rest of this
+season's episodes, you will go "Ouch," when you see it next.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, the idea of Zima lasting even into 1995 is hysterical.  I
+keep fighting the urge to have some guy show up on B5, "Zo then I 
+zays to him, nize ztation"...and five Narns just jump on him and beat
+the shit out of him, WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM!
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We've killed off all of Ivanova's close family, yes.  Maybe some 
+cousins are left, but that's about it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm quoting
+from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you / That you carry
+with a certain pride / It's the only part / Of a broken heart / You 
+could ever save."  That's Ivanova.
+
+
      
+She's had her heart stomped on a lot.  And she's been holding it in.
+Even with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought back the
+tears.  There is one episode, which will be right at the end of the
+year, where she finds she can't run from her pain anymore...can't run
+from the tears...and deals with them in a scene that's very moving 
+and absolutely brings tears to the eyes.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A traveller comes to B5, seeking the Holy Grail.  A series of unexplained
+attacks on several Lurkers may be linked to Ambassador Kosh.
+
+
+David Warner as Aldous Gajic.
+Tom Booker as Jinxo.
+William Sanderson as Deuce.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Mystery
+P5 Rating: 7.43
+
+Production number: 109
+Original air date: July 6, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by Christy Marx
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Babylon and Babylon 2 were sabotaged.  Babylon 3 blew up before it was
+	finished.  Babylon 4 vanished without a trace in front of witnesses.
+   
    •  The Minbari highly value people who spend their lives searching for
+	something.  Delenn seems to believe that's true of Sinclair.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn seems to consider Sinclair a true seeker.  What is he seeking?
+   
    •  Why didn't the feeder want Gajic?
+   
    •  What happened to Babylon 4?  (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Perhaps Delenn's comments about Sinclair simply refer to his
+	search for the truth about the Battle of the Line, if she realizes
+	he knows something of what happened to him.  Or there could be
+	a deeper meaning.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  This episode features the series' first
+	CGI alien (the na'ka'leen feeder, pictured above.)
+
+   
    •  The transport Marie Celeste, which Thomas boarded at the
+	end of the episode, is a reference to a sailing ship
+	found adrift on the sea in 1872 by the crew of the ship Dei
+	Gratia.  The Celeste's crew was missing, as was her
+	single lifeboat, but there were half-eaten
+	meals in the mess hall and other evidence the crew had left suddenly.
+	Investigators found that Captain Morehouse of the Dei
+	Gratia had
+	dined with Captain Briggs of the Celeste the night before
+	departure, and Morehouse and his crew were tried for murder.  There was
+	no hard evidence, and they were acquitted.  The missing crewmen were
+	never found.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  In an earlier version of the story, it was indeed Kosh who appeared out
+	of nowhere and scragged the Feeder, saying, "Some things we do not
+	allow," but it seemed kinda un-Kosh-like on one level, and it repeated
+	the Deathwalker finish, so it was dropped.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The grey-alien trial scene from "Grail" will be excerpted for a 
+	two-part "Sightings" on alien abduction.
+
+	
      
+	I'm *still* laughing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The human won the case, but damages awarded were minimal.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, this Christy Marx is the same as the one who writes games and
+	has written comics as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, Christy has gone on record (otherwise I would not have
+	noted it myself) that the trial scene at the top of "Grail" was
+	written and inserted by me, since it was a bit short.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852230750 Yeah, it's a lovely scene.  I dropped it into Christy's
+	script because it was something I always wanted to do.  I just figured,
+	okay, if these things really ARE happening, and it gets found out, and
+	we make contact with aliens, and find the ones responsible....
+	somebody's gonna want to sue their butts off.  So it became a very
+	logical extension of the judicial system (tongue somewhat in cheek). 
+	And...well, it was a hoot.  I'll forgive much if it's a hoot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, it was Christy Marx, who wrote Grail, who named Aldus after
+	Mira [Furlan]'s husband.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't think I've really said that much about "Grail."  The trick,
+	though, is that I don't approach the episodes in quite the same way 
+	that a viewer does.  I have somewhat different agendas and goals, and
+	there are times when hassles in *doing* the episode -- which in no 
+	way affect the show itself - - affects my *perception* of the episode.
+
+	
      
+	I did a small screening of "Grail" here about a week ago, to get some
+	other reactions, and they were all very positive; they enjoyed the
+	episode quite a bit.  (Similarly, there were people who thought that
+	"Infection" was one of the best of the season.)  There is *no one* who
+	is harsher in critiquing the episodes than I am.  I want each one to 
+	be absolutely perfect.  And sometimes that means that I see flaws that
+	no one else ever will.
+
+	
      
+	In any event, I definitely want people to come at this from an open
+	minded point of view.  For reasons that have nothing to do with
+	Christy's script, it still isn't one of my all-time favorite episodes;
+	if I said otherwise, I'd be lying through my teeth.  But different
+	opinions are what makes horse races, and as stated, most of those 
+	who've seen it so far *do* like it, so at the moment I'm considerably
+	outnumbered....
+
+
      
+   
    •  John Flinn, who is our DP, has at various times also been an actor,
+	and so we used him to play Mr. Flinn in the episode as well.  A 
+	cameo by yet another member of our talented and multifaceted 
+	production team.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There were no asymmetrical aliens in the pilot, but there's a real
+	dandy coming your way in the B5 episode "Grail."  You want nonhumanoid
+	aliens, you *got* non-humanoid aliens....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, the Feeder is pretty cool; wrapped up Foundation's rendering
+	machines for the better part of a week just to pull that one off.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the feeder being sentient...neither Sinclair nor anyone else on
+	"our" side of the story ever heard it speaking; all they knew was that
+	it was a killer, and it was dangerous, and had to be stopped.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who let the Feeders out?
      
+	Stupid bureaucrats who couldn't afford to maintain a quarantine
+	enforcement team in the sector.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be very
+	careful how much you use him, and what he says.  Too much and he 
+	loses his sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting fortune-
+	cookie type aphorisms.  He has a very deliberate way of speaking in
+	which everything, every smallest nuance and inflection means something,
+	but sometimes not what it appears to mean, or comes at it from a very
+	different angle than normal conversation.  So I go as minimalist as 
+	possible, to get the meaning down to the smallest number of words
+	possible.  And in one scene, one of only two he appears in, I got him
+	down to *one word*, and that one word -- and it's a totally inoffensive,
+	neutral word on its own terms -- should scare the hell out of 
+	*everybody*.
+	
      
+	Ah loves this show....
+	(Editor's note: the word in question is "Good.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  At one time we were working out what the time-reference would be on 
+	B5.  One of the early things we talked about were cycles, but in 
+	fairly short order I decided against it because it didn't seem to mean
+	much.   But this was, sadly, after "Grail" had been produced, and we
+	couldn't dub over the cycle references with anything else, so it 
+	stayed.  It won't be appearing anywhere else henceforth.  One of our
+	few continuity glitches.
+
+
      
+   
    •  After "Grail," we had a discussion with Chris about funny music.  We
+	do not anticipate further discussions.  (In a full season of music for
+	B5, this is the only discussion we've had of a critical nature, which
+	is extraordinary for any series; he's done a lot of wonderful work for
+	us . . . .)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, it was a bit of *really* perverse humor...Jinxo survives all
+	five Babylon stations, and leaves thinking all is well...on a ship
+	named the Marie Celeste?
+	
      
+	We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846702468 "...what company in their right mind would name one of
+	their ships the "Marie Celeste"?
+
+	
      
+	Dunno, but I'd bet good money that whoever it is, it's an Australian
+	company.  Nothing frightens those people; they're fearless.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I would love to have David Warner do another episode, though it 
+	would have to be an alien, for obvious reasons.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And the grail story was fairly self-contained, not much in the way of
+	arc related stuff there.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An internal affairs investigation of Sinclair forces him to answer for his
+recent command decisions.
+Ivanova confronts a member of Psi-Corps, as well as her own fears, when
+she is told to submit to a scan.
+
+
+Gregory Martin as Col. Ari Ben Zayn.
+Jeffrey Combs as Harriman Gray.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.16
+
+Production number: 122
+Original air date: July 13, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Some alarming developments on the Mars colony.
+
    • 
+A possible change in Ivanova's attitude toward Talia Winters.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The unrest on Mars is continuing to escalate; now the separatists have
+started carrying out terrorist attacks and are arming themselves.  (cf.
+"A Voice in the Wilderness")
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
    • 
+How will the powerful backers of the investigation react to Ben Zayn's
+failure?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Several interesting hints about Ivanova and Talia Winters are dropped, most
+notably the fact that Ivanova was thinking of Winters when she and Gray were
+talking in the lounge.  Ivanova's insistence that no one must ever intrude
+upon the memory of her mother's telepathic contact may foreshadow a less
+adversarial relationship between the two of them in the future.  (cf.
+"Mind War")
+
    • 
+The fact that Bester was able to intervene in the investigation at all
+suggests that he, and possibly Psi Cops in general, wield a lot of power
+in the Psi Corps.  It is also conceivable that Bester and at least some of
+the factions in the Senate who backed the investigation are related.
+
    • 
+Is Ivanova's reluctance to be scanned simply what she says it is -- a result
+of her contact with her mother and her general hatred of Psi Corps -- or does
+she more immediate reasons, perhaps something to hide?
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  The last episode [of Season 1] to be shot will be Larry DiTillio's
+	"Eyes," which is sort of a nice wrap-up to the season, almost an
+	overview.  Once again, nothing that happens this season is simply
+	forgotten...and a *lot* of it comes due in this episode.  It actually
+	manages to incorporate references to about 6 prior episodes without
+	being obscure about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW...about the time we were delivering "Eyes," somebody on one of 
+	the nets was going on and on about how "B5 continuity *stinks*...I'll
+	bet we NEVER hear about Deathwalker again, or the strike, or the 
+	Vorlons killing Deathwalker, or Raghesh 3...."
+
+	
      
+	And seeing what was at that moment on my TV, I wanted to reach through
+	the computer monitor, roll up my forefinger, and *plink* that person
+	right upside the nose.
+
+	
      
+	Unfortunately, I have not yet found a modem program that supports this
+	feature.
+
+	
      
+	But Ron is promising me something by the Fall....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The other thing about "Eyes," btw, is that it's not something dumped
+	in outta nowhere to make a conflict; it's the direct payoff of events
+	that take place throughout the season where Sinclair breaks or bends
+	the rules.  Lots of people on the various nets said, "Yeah, there he
+	goes, breaking the rules in the strike, but is this every gonna pay
+	off?  No, probably not."  If we're consistent with reality, and with
+	our story, and Sinclair's broken some rules, and pissed off some 
+	people back home, then it is *inevitable* that this will eventually
+	come home to roost in the form of an investigation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW, for those who saw the promo for "Eyes" at the end of "Grail," I
+	have *no* idea what it has to do with the episode.  Sometimes they
+	"enhance" the story to make it promote-able...but I think this time
+	they "enhanced" it right into a parallel dimension....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Lennier's chant scripted?
      
+	When it came time for that chant, nothing had been scripted; it was
+	supposed to be a soft, under one's breath kind of chant.  Bill came and
+	asked me and Larry if we had anything in mind.  We said no, whatever you
+	decide is fine...and he ended up chanting his album cover.
+	
      
+	Later...*much*...later...when I discovered this, we discussed it at
+	some length.
+
+
      
+   
    • 	There's another reason
+	why Macauley was used as Tragedy in a dream
+	mainly centered around Psi Corps; it's not really something anybody
+	needs to see or catch.  After "Revelations," it'll be clearer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, ben-Zayn is an Middle Eastern/Arabic name.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I believe the bike in question was a Ninja.  And Jerry Doyle is
+	something of an enthusiast, which is part of what led us to that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct; Kawasaki did not pay us a dime to use the bike in the show.
+	We called around, to see who would loan us a bike, with the 
+	understanding that we'd be tearing it apart.  Because Kawasaki does
+	advertise with some of the PTEN shows, someone there had a 
+	relationship with the company, and gave us a name.  After we tried a
+	couple of other companies, we tried Kawasaki, and they agreed...not a
+	donated bike, just a loaner.  And that's what we used.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The masks were the basic (though somewhat modified) tragedy and
+	comedy masks, associated with theater.  And a couple of times, 
+	Ivanova's mother does use the Russian nickname for her as well as 
+	the English version.  Susan was taught and raised to a large extent
+	overseas, and they always tried to keep her in both worlds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Psi Corps members must wear the Psi symbol at all times when in
+	public.  (Though since Grey was there undercover, that briefly went
+	by the boards.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  New Jerusalem is a planet; there's a side-story about it that I'm
+	contemplating getting into, so don't want to blow it here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  . . . Let me only emphasize some stuff here.  As stated, Larry never
+	SAW the Drumhead.  We generally make it a point NOT to watch what's
+	done on ST to avoid being influenced.  Second, the basic ending which
+	you feel is strictly ST's can be seen in the Caine Mutiny, A Few Good
+	Men and others.  "Eyes" was a direct consequence of all that preceded
+	it in our first season.  It came about because Larry suggested that 
+	with all that Sinclair has done, sooner or later somebody's going to
+	take notice back on Earth.  There would have to be some kind of 
+	investigation.  Because we are doing some very specific things with 
+	the Psi Corps this year and next, which I wanted to foreshadow, a PC 
+	telepath was inserted into the story, to show that they are starting 
+	to get a foothold into the military, with new laws concerning scans.
+
+	
      
+	We knocked the story back and forth for some time, and it went through
+	many different permutations.  We also figured that the episode should
+	be kind of a Cliff's Notes guide to season one, hitting the high 
+	points for those who joined the series later than those who were here 
+	at the beginning.  The ending also went through various changes, but 
+	what made the most logical sense was to get the Colonel to admit bias
+	in some fashion or another...and the only way to do this really was to
+	get him so angry, so furious, that he'd incriminate himself enough, or
+	open the door enough for Mr. Grey to verify the bias.
+
+	
      
+	That was how the structure was arrived at.  I was there.  It had
+	nothing -- *nothing* -- whatsoever to do with the Drumhead, which I
+	have a vague memory was written by Jeri Taylor, who is a friend of 
+	mine, and further invalidates the very idea.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Mr. Grey would've been a P10.  PsiCops are P12s.
+
+	
      
+	PsiCorps administrators at the upper reaches are P11 or better.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Grey reached into Ben Zayn's head and, for lack of a better term, 
+	pushed his "pain button," the same way you can stimulate someone's
+	memory or physical sensations with an electrode or chemicals.  It was
+	only a second, and he would've shrugged it off quickly, had Sinclair
+	not been there to follow up.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A girl entering puberty exhibits telepathic abilities, and the crew
+must decide whether to turn her over to the Psi Corps.  The corpse of the
+Minbari military leader who oversaw the Battle of the Line is the focus
+of a diplomatic incident.
+
+
+John Vickery as Neroon.
+Grace Una as Alisa Beldon.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.87
+
+Production number: 115
+Original air date: July 20, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by D. C. Fontana
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The Grey Council ordered the surrender at the Battle of the Line.
+
    • 
+Many among the Minbari warrior caste do not approve of the surrender, a
+fact which has caused something of a rift between the religious and
+warrior caste.
+
    • 
+Caste membership is determined by heritage.  Membership in the religious
+caste takes precedence if one parent is in the religious caste and the
+other is a warrior.  (This is ambiguous; Delenn's statement on the matter
+could be interpreted to mean that the mother's caste takes precedence over
+the father's.)
+
    • 
+The Earth-Minbari War began with the death of Dukhat, the head of the Grey
+Council at the time.
+
    • 
+The war was regarded as a holy war among the Minbari, and had the full
+support of the religious caste at least part of the time.
+
    • 
+One of the warleaders (heads of the military clans?) committed suicide
+rather than obey the order to surrender.
+
    • 
+Telepaths are highly regarded among the Minbari, and are fed and clothed
+by people in exchange for providing their services.
+
    • 
+The Narn keep alien slaves, or at least are reported to do so.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
    • 
+What is the significance of the word "chrysalis?"  Note that this is the
+title of the first-season finale.
+
    • 
+How was Delenn able to sense that she was being probed?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Delenn's identity doesn't seem to be a secret among the warrior caste, or
+at least its upper echelons.  The warriors seem to be playing along and
+keeping her secret safe.
+
    • 
+As JMS mentions below, in the original airing order, this episode came after
+"Babylon Squared."
+If that is the intended chronological order of the two episodes, then
+Delenn's statement to Neroon that she speaks for the entire Grey Council
+takes on different connotations; it is plausible in that case that she is
+lying and hadn't even consulted the Council.
+
    • 
+Likewise, the device used to stun the guard appears to be a triluminary;
+its presence makes much more sense if this episode is after
+"Babylon Squared."
+Its exact function is still a mystery; did it in fact stun the guard, put
+him in some sort of stasis, or something else?
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The only first season
+script that was developed outside the B5 offices.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Originally, this ep was to be broadcast later in the run, because I
+didn't want two PsiCorps episodes back-to-back, and for one little detail that
+will become clearer after "Babylon Squared" airs; it would've been better to
+have followed that episode, but again, these eps are made to be watched in
+just about any order, so it's okay in the long run.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yeah, the audio thing with Talia is something I thought of during the
+final audio mix.  We wanted to convey somehow her trying to get 
+through and initially it was just distortion.  Then I figured, wait a
+second, she is going to be thinking what she's going to say before 
+she says it, why not pre-lap the dialogue?  Unfortunately, for some
+damned reason, the high-tech studio wasn't set up to do that effect,
+so we took Talia's dialogue, digitized it, laid it in on a second side
+track, and played the one over the other, one preceding the other by I
+think about 20 frames or so.  The key was to make the *second* 
+voicing the one synched to her lips, not the first one.  Worked out
+pretty cool.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You will see some of the warrior caste in "Legacies," coming up in
+July.  You don't see them much because they only go where they're
+needed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Generally, the religious caste takes precedence over the warrior caste.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+From cradle to grave, the Minbari are taught that there is no greater
+goal, no nobler thing than to serve.  They are raised to be totally 
+self-sacrificing.  The only exception is when someone in the religious
+caste believes he or she has received a calling, which if sincerely
+felt cannot be contravened (since usually this too involves serving).
+So for a Minbari telepath, this is their means by which they may
+serve, and they are given great respect.  It never even occurs to them
+to do otherwise.
+
      
+Lately, there has been a bit of a change brewing; "a self-involvement
+above the needs of others" (as someone notes in "Voice") that has 
+begun creeping into the Minbari race.  And they're not happy about it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Overall, I'd say that "Legacies" came out better than "War Prayer,"
+because Dorothy had more time to get to know the characters, and 
+because it was better directed.  (As a parenthetical, Larry DiTillio
+has developed some of his own scripts as well, specifically "TKO" and
+"Eyes."  "Legacies" is the one I'd say was developed "outside the 
+office" in the sense of being a freelance effort.  Everything else 
+was either an assigned premise or done in-house by staff.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Stuff like wearing gloves is only enforced if you're a member of Psi
+Corps; Allysa wasn't.  In addition, though she had P10 *potential*, 
+the talent was sporadic, came and went.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Regarding "Legacies," there's one brief blip in there
+that we're going to see  again; I'm not sure I'd call it a
+clue, but certainly a cue...a hint of something to  come.  You
+won't have to wonder what it is; it'll be shown in a flashback
+in that  particular yet-to-air episode.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Seismic activity on the planet near the station uncovers what may be
+signs of an extinct alien civilization.  An old mentor pays a visit to
+Ambassador Delenn.  The unrest on the Mars Colony intensifies.
+
+
+Louis Turenne as Draal.
+Curt Lowens as Varn.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense/mystery
+P5 Rating: 8.50
+
+Production number: 120
+Original air date: July 27, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Before Sinclair asked him to be security chief on Babylon 5, Garibaldi was
+working for the security division on Mars Colony, where he fell in love with
+a woman named Lise Hampton.
+Their relationship was rocky ("I was pretty messed up") and ended when he
+accepted the B5 assignment.
+
    • 
+The Psi Corps has a secret training facility very close to one of the
+Mars Colony cities.
+
    • 
+There is growing lack of purpose and dissatisfaction among the ordinary
+citizens on Minbar.
+
    • 
+One of Londo's wives was a dancer at a club, who comforted him when he
+was depressed.  He married her that night, and regretted it the next morning
+and ever since.
+
    • 
+The planet the station is orbiting is called Epsilon 3.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
    • 
+What came through the jumpgate?
+
    • 
+What is the function of all the machinery buried beneath the planet's surface?
+
    • 
+Why was the alien connected to the machines, apparently against his will?
+
    • 
+How was he able to project himself to Sinclair and Londo on the station?
+
    • 
+Was the defense system designed to prevent someone from finding the machinery,
+or to stop someone from rescuing the alien?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The alien might well be native to Epsilon 3, since he was able to breathe
+the atmosphere once he was disconnected from the machinery.  In the shuttle,
+Ivanova can be seen fitting him with a breather unit, presumably since the
+shuttle's air is Earth-style.  Perhaps the proximity of Babylon 5 to Epsilon 3
+is not a simple coincidence.
+
+
    • 
+A possible inconsistency: if the missiles were being fired from within the
+fissure, how could Sinclair and Ivanova safely enter it?  All their cover
+fire was high in the atmosphere; the missiles could have hit them before
+they had time to react once they were underground.  Of course, it's possible
+the missiles are only useful above a certain altitude (true of some present-day
+surface-to-air missiles,) but in that case, why wasn't the fissure protected
+by short-range weaponry?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The scene with Ivanova and Sinclair crossing the tunnel bears similarity to
+a scene from the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.  (See
+jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+We're halfway through filming the two-parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness," which is coming along nicely.  From a CGI and sets point
+of view, this is the largest and most ambitious thing we've shot yet,
+with ore of each category than in any other episode.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In the two-parter, btw, [Christopher Franke] went absolutely full-out and
+gave us some of the best scoring of the season...gorgeous stuff, second only
+to either "Sky" or "Chrysalis."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+...Delenn has quite a few moments when she's laughing,
+and funny, but always in a dignified fashion; it's a strange but very
+appealing combination.  (And there's one scene she's in that is played
+*absolutely* straight, but is fall-down funny.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It was always intended to be a two-parter, and was written that
+way.  Background: the B5 2-hour pilot has done VERY well overseas in
+cassette form.  Many of the prejudices in the american press that caused
+us problems don't exist overseas (it's done *extremely* well in Japan on
+laserdisk, in Germany, and England, among others).  So they asked if we
+could do a two-parter that could be sold as a two-hour episode overseas.
+By all means, sez I.  So I structured it accordingly.
+
      
+     Bit of B5 trivia: during the dead of winter last year, I got hit by
+the flu as badly as I've ever been hit.  Temperature so high that I was
+near delerious at times, but refused to go to the hospital (I don't like
+doctors, and I was under deadline and couldn't afford the potential time
+away.)  We're talking mondo sicko here.  It was during this time that I
+wrote "The Quality of Mercy," a script which I have *no* memory of ever
+writing.  I know it's here, and I know I wrote it on an intellectual
+level, but the process...gone in the fever.
+
      
+     It was also around this time -- either at the top or bottom of the
+flu, I can't remember now -- that I wrote the "Voice" two parter.  And
+here's the trivia part...this isn't the original two-parter that I wrote.
+My brain already deteriorating, I wrote something that even I could see
+wasn't up to par.  Wrote the entire two-hour script.  Printed it up, and
+gave it to Doug and John.  Before they could even respond, I looked at it
+and decided it had to go.  So I trashed the entire script.  By now we
+were getting very close to pre-production, and I was getting sicker and
+sicker...but I more or less locked myself in my office, swallowed down
+massive amounts of vitamins (as much as my stomach could handle), kept
+forcing down coffee, and wrote 12 hours a day for about six days, after
+which the original draft was finished.  Turned it in; did some mild
+polishes thereafter, but what was filmed was essentially what I turned
+in in first-draft stage.  In this case I do remember some of the process
+because the only way I could focus was to keep the stereo up full blast;
+in the writing of "Quality," it didn't help...I was beyond recall.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I tried to develop a basic language structure for each of the races
+on B5.  There are certain commonalities to the structure of names.  I
+came up with some prefixes and suffixes, and assigned meanings to them,
+the same as real names.  For instance, Rathenn (referred to by Delenn
+in "Voices") and Delenn have the same suffix, which has a specific 
+meaning.  You can break it down; Ner-oon (Legacies), Del-enn, Rath-enn,
+Der-onn, and so forth.  The various parts do have specific meanings, 
+but I generally keep that to myself, just for amusement.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I try not to hype shows that I like unless I know beyond a doubt that
+it's absolutely kick-ass.  I like "Voice" a lot; it is the point at 
+which we really start cranking, speeding things up as we barrel 
+toward "Chrysalis."  I think the CGi is nothing less than terrific, 
+Christopher Franke went balls-to-the-wall and did an *amazing* job 
+with the music, the performances are good.  I like it a lot.  I haven't
+commented upon it a lot because it's kind of the weird child in the
+brood; when I write, I generally write tight and fast.  By the third
+act, you're *moving*.  In this case, you have to pace yourself out
+*very* differently, so part of my brain keeps doing this "c'mon, speed
+it up, speed it up" when I'm watching the first part because I'm used
+to a different one-hour kind of pacing.
+
+
      
+Kathryn says I'm nuts.  But then this is nothing new.
+
+
      
+Anyway, I do think it's pretty cool, and does a lot with virtual sets
+and composite sets.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: the elevator/transport tube gag...yes, we set this stuff up WAY
+in advance.  The first time is in the tube where he tells Talia
+about his second favorite thing in the universe. The second time is
+in "Mind War" when he gives her the mental once-over and she belts 
+him.  And then we paid it off later with her line about him always 
+being there.
+
+
      
+One nice thing about the way we're doing this show is that we don't
+just have to set up gags within an episode; we can set them up *weeks*
+ahead of time, as long as the payoff is self-contained, but then when
+you see the earlier shows, now you get more out of it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A First Contact situation is one unlike any other: you don't want
+junior officers around to screw it up.  Remember, the Earth/Minbari 
+War began when a First Contact situation got screwed up.  EA's policy
+is that it's better to risk two people than a full war, and those two
+people have got to be command-level personnel.  Soldiers get killed; 
+it happens.  And yeah, you can leave a backup person at the shuttle
+...but what if *he's* the one to make actual first contact?  You're
+screwed.  Ivanova and Sinclairhave been trained in this; in "Soul
+Hunter," Sinclair makes reference to the rules of First Contact
+Protocol.  If you like, I'll elaborate on this in some future episode.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: the commander and Ivanova going...remember, this is a First
+Contact situation, and that requires the presence of at minimum one
+command officer under EA regs.  Two is preferred.  You don't want
+junior officers hanging around or taking hostile stances which might
+provoke a fight.  Remember that the last major First Contact 
+situation was with the Minbari, which went afoul and gave us the 
+Earth/Minbari War.  EA would rather lose two replaceable officers than
+start another war via misunderstanding or a fouled move.  This is a
+part of their First Contact Protocol, referenced in "Soul Hunter."  (I
+should probably expandupon this a bit in future episodes.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+RE: the big bridge shot...the storyboard artist came up with 3 shots
+we could use.  One of them was a wide shot across a crystalline ground
+like area, through which a path can be seen at ground level, but it
+was narrow and still really didn't convey the scale of what I wanted. 
+One other was not much different.  The third was a downshot designed 
+to pull back, and though I knew it would make folks say "Krell!", I 
+knew that it was the right shot for that scene, so chose that one and
+decided to live with it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It's real simple.
+Ron Thornton showed me three variations on the
+Great Machine shot.  Because you're looking at a composite shot, you have
+to shoot either sharply angled down, or dead across, and full-figured,
+since you have to put them into another piece.  That meant either a
+horizontal shot, or a 3/4's vertical shot.
+
+
      
+Two of the shots on the storyboards were horizontal; one showed our
+characters way off in the distance on a ribboned path lined by crystals.
+It'd be pretty, but it looked like another tunnel shot, and I wanted to
+show something that wasn't claustrophobic.  Also, we'd be limited in the
+camera move, and our characters would look kinda like peanuts.  Not
+terribly dramatic.  The second shot just didn't work for me, I don't
+entirely recall the reason now.  The third possibility seemed the most
+dramatic...it was a high angle shot, it had depth, it would let us start
+on our characters and do a camera move/pullback in post production, it
+worked on every level.
+
+
      
+My second thought was, "Shit, somebody's going to gig us on the
+Forbidden Planet thing."  Nonetheless, it was the right shot, for the
+right reasons, and we chose to go with it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+How does one come up with stuff like Londo's song?  Easy, really; you
+start by putting yourself in the position of an alien trying to 
+understand us.  And if you step back for a second, we do some *very*
+weird stuff.  What he says about the song is exactly right in terms of
+its meaning.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yeah...I love Londo's song, that whole scene.  The director wanted to
+cut Ivanova's coda after her mantra, but I really felt we needed it,
+and it played perfectly with her Russian character, which tends to 
+have this unusual relationship with higher forces (he said vaguely). 
+I love character based humor, because it's very powerful once you know
+the characters, and it can really blind-side you if done right.  
+Ivanova's reaction in the core area was about as real as would 
+probably happen, but it's funny to hear her *say* it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Londo and Garibaldi really are two sides of the same coin, in some 
+ways.  There's an odd friendship there, almost grudging; Londo had
+little to gain by cheering up Garibaldi, except a drink perhaps, but
+that's what friends do.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I love monologues.  They are a legitimate part of any drama.  The MTV
+generation has had its tastes so thoroughly bastardized by quick cuts,
+lowering the attention span further and further, that any bite of more
+than ten seconds and they start to wander, it becomes a block of words
+and they blur out.
+
+
      
+Go rent Network by Paddy Chayefsky, watch nearly any of the TZs by Rod
+Serling, go see "The Lady's Not for Burning" by Christopher Fry...all
+chockablock with moments where you park for a moment and let fly with
+a chunk of dialogue that smashes your head against the wall.  Not every
+single exchange has to be foreshortened so that you lose the *impact*
+of what's being said.  Because people's attention spans have been 
+greatly foreshortened, suddenly more than 3 lines at a time is somehow
+viewed as wrong.  It ain't.  Just that lots of folks are afraid to try
+it, afraid to rely on just the words and the actors.  And sometimes it
+works, and sometimes it doesn't.  But it's legitimate.
+
+
      
+The monologue in particular, done right, isn't just to convey 
+information, it's to create a mood, to paint pictures with words, to 
+expand on the obvious.  Yeah, I could've just written, "The narns hate
+us, we hate them, it's equal math."  But that doesn't carry the same 
+meaning, the same sense as "so here we are...victims of mathematics." 
+The use of the word "victim" connotes, hey, it's not my fault.  Yeah,
+the former is shorter, but you lose the rhythms, the imagery, and the
+*sense* of what is intended.  You could say, "The narn hate us."  But 
+to say, "if the narns gathered together in one place, and hated, all
+at the same time, that hatred would fly across dozens of light years
+and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash," draws a picture, lends
+power to the emotion.
+
+
      
+Point being...I like 'em, there's nothing wrong with them, and they're
+staying.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: your suspenders of disbelief becoming unhitched....
+
+
      
+You will learn how the alien knows English in the next part of the
+two parter.  (Hint: after all, he's been there for a long while, in a
+high-tech machine...you'd think maybe he could monitor transmissions.)
+
+
      
+I don't think the Sinclair or Ivanova did automatically believe him;
+but they also had no real reason *not* to believe him.  And granted
+the place was going to hell, quakes and danger.  He wasn't armed, he
+seems rather sick, had to be helped away, almost carried...they won't
+turn the station over to him, they'll keep him isolated on the 
+station, but there was no reason *not* to try and help him.
+
+
      
+How do you know he's a good guy?  You don't.  But he wasn't exactly
+imprisoned in that thing; it was a support, more than anything else,
+a was shown by the fact that they were able to get him out fairly 
+easily.
+
+
      
+(And yes, your first guess was correct, it is a life support gizmo.)
+
+
      
+Regards to your suspenders.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Once removed from his place, Varn was able to lead them back to their
+shuttle.  It's not terribly dramatic, and I figured that was a fairly
+logical leap, so didn't feel the need to put in a scene which would
+just consist of Varn saying, "Left....now right...."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ivanova's line: "We don't know if we can find our way back or not," 
+not that it was closed off.  So showing them wandering around to find
+another open tunnel seemed not dramatically interesting; you have to
+pick what's important and what's not, and what will work dramaticall 
+on screen.  If she had said "there's no other way out," then you 
+would've had to show it.  She didn't.  One can also argue that the 
+alien showed them which way to get out.  Either way...all you've got
+is one hour to tell your story.  You can't show everything, you have
+to let your audience assume some things.
+
+
      
+Roy: there is a quantum difference between a computer game and a TV
+show.  It's not "lowest common denominator," which means making the 
+story stupid; I'm saying that if you showed the missiles at full speed, 
+YOU WOULD NOT SEE THEM AT ALL.  And, again, there's nothing nearby 
+with which to get a sense of how fast they're going, no landmarks, so
+it's very hard to convey that.  Again, look at space footage; the
+shuttle is going *incredibly* fast...but as far as we can tell it
+looks nearly motionless, because there are no landmarks.
+
+
      
+Re: not explaining WHY the Starfuries can't enter the atmosphere, we 
+did that.  Ivanova says that they're not built to function within an 
+atmosphere.  Now, I could stop the scene for a long dissertation on 
+the relative aerodynamics of planes with wings vs. starfuries, but 
+here you say only what you have to.  You show, don't tell.
+
+
      
+It seems like in the same breath, it's accused of catering to the 
+lowest-common denominator, and being over the head of its viewers by 
+requiring them to *think* about what they're seeing.
+
+
      
+Which means we're probably doing it right.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It seems to me that every generation thinks that things are changing,
+usually for the worse.  In some cases, they may be right.  The B5
+story is set at a point in time where things are very much in a state
+of flux.  Every so often, the wheel turns.  Everybody's feeling a 
+sense of growing uncertainty, of the chairs being moved around.  
+They're right.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, this was not the first B5 or Sinclair had heard about the
+escalating problem on Mars; remember, that was the main reason that 
+Ben Zayn had been sent to B5 in "Eyes," smoking out sympathisers with
+the Free Mars movement.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Mars Colony situation will be raising its ugly head on and off 
+again for quite some time to come.
+
+
      
+Also, the fissure wasn't created by the quakes; Tasaki mentions it
+was artificial, but nudged open by the tremors.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, a shuttle like this, which is designed to function in alternate
+atmospheres, and may have to evacuate groups, has about 7 standard or
+most common atmosphere cannisters.  Medlab has the same thing, but in
+larger numbers.  This is SOP on the show.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, the sets weren't redresses of regular sets; they were built new 
+and entirely for the two-parter; you can get a better look at them in
+the second part, and some angles of the first.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sinclair fights two turf battles at once as alien invaders claim the planet
+the station orbits, and an Earthforce captain disagrees with him about how
+to deal with the situation.
+
+
+Ron Canada as Capt. Ellis Pierce.
+Louis Turenne as Draal.
+Curt Lowens as Varn.
+Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton.
+Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action
+P5 Rating: 8.49
+
+Production number: 121
+Original air date: August 3, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+In his youth, Londo led the Centauri raid on a planet called Frallis 12.
+
    • 
+Five hundred years earlier, the last of Varn's race died, entrusting him
+with a legacy, the guarding and caretaking of Epsilon 3.  Some time prior
+to that, a violent, cruel faction of the race was cast aside by the rest,
+and since Varn took over Epsilon 3, they have been searching for it.
+
    • 
+Some Earth citizens feel they're heavily subsidizing the Mars colony, and
+that may in fact be true.
+
    • 
+The Centauri contributed a substantial amount of money to the construction
+of Babylon 5.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
    • 
+What is the intended use of Epsilon 3?
+
    • 
+What needs to happen before it will be deemed ready for consumption by the
+rest of the galaxy?
+
    • 
+Was Takarn's ship the only one of its kind, or are more outcasts from Varn's
+race still out there, searching (or heading) for Epsilon 3?
+
    • 
+Are there any other planets like Epsilon 3 waiting to be discovered?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The station potentially has a powerful new ally in Draal.  It remains to be
+seen if he will prove willing to come to the station's defense in the future,
+but the threat of retaliation by Epsilon 3 might be enough to keep any
+would-be attackers at bay.
+
    • 
+Garibaldi's tentative hopes of one day getting back together with Lisa have
+now been dashed.  This might make him that much more likely to hit the
+bottle again. (cf.
+"Survivors")
+
    • 
+Assuming Earth is successful in putting down the revolt on Mars, a continued
+presence will likely be necessary to keep things from flaring up again.
+This is bound to have political consequences back on Earth, and possibly
+on Babylon 5, as Earth has a harder time claiming the moral high ground
+if it's occupying one of its own members with soldiers.
+
    • 
+Londo's sense of adventure, now reawakened, might lead him to go even further
+in his quest for the "good old days."  Between this and his possession of
+the Eye (cf.
+"Signs and Portents")
+he may be a much more influential figure than he appears.
+
    • 
+Delenn's assessment of Sinclair jibes with the hints in
+"Grail"
+that she considers him a "true seeker," someone whose life is devoted to
+a cause.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
    • @@@858798423 
+The heavy cruiser EAS Hyperion was named after the Babylon 5 Internet archive
+(and home of the Lurker's Guide) originally located at Hyperion.COM.
+
+
    • 
+Ivanova seems to enjoy saying "Boom!" (cf.
+"Grail")
+
+
    • @@@839744251 
+When Capt. Pierce is going to launch fighters to land on the planet and
+Sinclair threathens to destroy them, Pierce argues for a moment and then
+backs down.  When he turns briefly to the screen and a computer graphic is 
+displayed showing him calling down the ships, one of the ships in the top
+left corner of the screen has the flight number THX-1138, the name of one of
+George Lucas' first films.
+
+
    • @@@867349958 
+More SF references can be found in the list of words being downloaded from
+the station's language files by the aliens.  For instance, "ORAC" is a
+computer from the British series Blake's 7, and "Skynet" is
+from The Terminator.
+The phrase "I am not a number, I am a free man" (from the title sequence of
+The Prisoner) can also be seen on several consecutive frames.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • 
+BTW, have named an Earth Alliance Cruiser Hyperion, in notation of
+the library....
+
+
    • 
+Does the Earth Alliance have capital ships?
      
+Of course there are capital ships.  We never said otherwise.
+There's one later this season, for instance, the EAS Hyperion, a heavy Earth
+cruiser.  There aren't as many as they'd like -- the majority having been
+wiped out in the war -- but they're building 'em as fast as possible.  (The
+Hyperion, though it's never mentioned, is one of the leftover capital ships,
+not one of the newer ones.)
+
+
    • 
+Will we see other ships like the Hyperion?
      
+That design will never be seen again.
+
+
    • 
+Correct; the Hyperion didn't have a gravity-positive section.
+
+
    • 
+Of course, insofar as I recall, it wasn't stated in the episode that 
+Varn's people actually *built* the Great Machine; after all, if they
+could build it, why would the others have been searching for it so 
+frantically for the last several hundred years?
+
+
    • 
+Actually the Hyperion is one of the few surviving heavy cruisers from
+the Earth/Minbari War period; after we lost a LOT of our ships, there
+were some new ones commissioned, which we haven't seen yet, which are
+far cooler than even the Hyperion (though we'll see them next season).
+
+
    • 
+The captain of the Hyperion specifically states that he was already
+IN hyperspace, en route to another system, when he was ordered to 
+stop here.  His ship was already in the area.  Also, there is a fair
+amount of time between the actions on the planet initially, and the
+arrival of the Hyperion...enough to know there's some kind of tech 
+there, based on the initial attacks.  The Hyperion continued to 
+monitor reports as they came in.
+
+
    • 
+And there we get into the contradiction; Ivanova and Sinclair down on
+the planet would be mainly more run-and-jump...Draal talking about his
+feelings, Delenn showing she is upset that her friend is going away
+and will never be seen by her again, their obvious friendship, that to
+me is characterization.  And not just throwaway stuff, either, but 
+important down the road.
+
      
+But hey, what do I know....
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 4 returns as abruptly as it vanished, but its reappearance may bode
+ill for the future.  Delenn receives a momentous offer.
+
+
+Kent Broadhurst as Major Krantz.
+Tim Choate as Zathras.
+Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue/mystery
+P5 Rating: 8.57
+
+Production number: 118
+Original air date: August 10, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •  A man shouts at Garibaldi and Sinclair; what he says might provide
+	clues about the nature of the opponents in another scene.
+   
    •  Look closely at what's inside a transparent case given to Delenn.
+	It's an object that's been shown in a previous episode.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Babylon 4 was stolen by people from the future, apparently at Sinclair's
+	behest during that time period, to act as a base of operations in a
+	tremendous war being fought between the forces of light and darkness.
+
+   
    •  Sinclair will be a great leader, possibly the leader, of the
+	forces of light in that war.
+
+   
    •  At some point, long before he participates in
+	Babylon 4's disappearance, Sinclair will flee a place (most likely
+	Babylon 5, cf.
+	"Signs and Portents")
+	that is about to be overrun by some evil creatures.  Garibaldi will stay
+	behind to fight, but will force Sinclair to leave.  A
+	transcript
+	of the scene in question is available.
+
+   
    •  The Grey Council stopped the war because of a prophecy.  Valen (a
+	revered figure, see
+	jms speaks)
+	said that humans, or some among them, had a destiny with which the
+	Minbari could not be allowed to interfere.
+
+   
    •  Delenn is on Babylon 5 to study humanity, to determine whether the
+	prophecy is correct.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Will Babylon 4 appear again?  If so, when?
+   
    •  Was it really Sinclair in the suit?  If not, who or what was it?
+   
    •  What was Sinclair trying to prevent from happening?
+   
    •  Who was waiting for Delenn and Sinclair?
+   
    •  Will Delenn keep her position on the council?
+   
    •  What is the purpose of the triluminary?
+   
    •  What was happening in Sinclair's flashforward?  Who or what was
+	attacking the station?  Is it related to the destruction of the station
+	as foretold in
+	"Signs and Portents?"
+   
    •  What was the crazed man referring to when he shouted about "monsters"
+	and said, "I see you... you think I can't?"  (see
+	Analysis)
+   
    •  Is the Grey Council's cruiser the same place Sinclair was taken during
+	the Battle of the Line?  (cf.
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+   
    •  Why is Delenn so convinced she must remain on Babylon 5, even at the
+	risk of her standing in the Council?
+   
    •  What "change" does Delenn believe is coming?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  None of the races have demonstrated an ability to travel through
+	time.  Yet within Sinclair's lifetime, such technology will either
+	be developed, discovered, or introduced by people from the distant
+	past or future.  Does it exist already?  If so, who has it?
+	Zathras' people may be the ones to provide the technology.
+
+   
    •  The voice that speaks to Sinclair sounds like Delenn's, but her face is
+	intentionally not shown.  Presumably there is a reason for that;
+	Delenn may be due to change in some way that will alter her appearance.
+
+   
    •  After Babylon 4 completes its time jump, a voice (presumably a
+	computer) announces that the atmosphere was breathable.  Why wasn't
+	it breathable before?  Zathras clearly had no trouble breathing in
+	the past, so is something about the future Sinclair different that
+	prevents him from breathing a normal atmosphere?
+
+   
    •  In the past, when we've seen Grey Council members, they have had silver
+	triangles on their foreheads
+	("And the Sky Full of Stars"
+	and
+	"Signs and Portents"
+	during Morden's visit to Delenn.)  Yet no such triangles were visible
+	this time.  What do the triangles mean, and what causes them to
+	appear?  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  The attacking force
+	in Sinclair's vision of the future seemed to be invisible.
+	Witness the fact that Garibaldi's men were firing in seemingly random
+	directions, as if they didn't know where the enemy was.  It also seems
+	unlikely that they'd use a flamethrower if they could aim at their
+	opponents.  When the unknown force finally cut through the wall, it
+	was forced inward, but nothing could be seen forcing it.  This also
+	explains what the crazed man on B4 was talking about; he'd seen
+	visions of a battle against invisible foes too.
+	
      
+	The only instance of invisibility seen in the series up until this
+	episode was in
+	"The War Prayer,"
+	and it was developed by the Earth Alliance military, suggesting
+	perhaps that the attackers might be humans.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi flashed back to an event two years earlier.  That may
+	suggest that Sinclair's flashforward (if indeed that's what it was)
+	was to two years in the future, which would put the scene somewhere
+	in the year 2260, season three of the series.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Babylon 4 is larger than Babylon 5.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
      
+   
    •  The one I'm most looking forward to writing just now, though, is
+	"Babylon Squared," in which we finally show what happened to Babylon
+	4, and in the process ask more questions than we answer (though at
+	least we DO answer the questions we asked about the fate of that
+	station in general...you'll know what happened to it, just not yet
+	what it means). The end of this episode will cause more speculation
+	and consternation and astonishment than anything you've seen on TV in
+	a long, long, very long time.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  What a weird day...filming "Babylon Squared," and one minute I'm 
+	standing in the anteroom/hallway of a Minbari cruiser that leads into
+	the Great Hall and the chambers of the Grey Council...a few minutes
+	later I'm standing in a section of Babylon 4, and the whole atmosphere
+	of the crew is *very* different, the whole sensibility is strange...
+	very strange.
+
+	
      
+	"Babylon Squared" has a *very* different look to it, and a very eerie
+	and foreboding feel about it, which I like a lot.  Jim Johnston, who
+	directed "Soul Hunter" and several others is doing it.  Very moody.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Yesterday, I got the final air-check versions of "Babylon Squared" 
+	and "Chrysalis" to QC before delivering them to PTEN.  Watched both
+	of them three times in the same day.  They're just stunning. 
+	Probably the two best episodes of the entire season.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Yes, you will see the Major Conflict that leads to the situation with
+	Babylon 4.  We're building toward a massive conflagration here.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Yes, you will definitely, at some point, see the flip side of the
+	B2 episode.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  No, actually, B2 was structured for maximum jarring effect, thus the
+	sudden cuts back and forth, the sickly green light in B4...makes the
+	person watching feel unexplainably anxious, which was a subliminal 
+	but definite intent.  So no, nothing much was cut.  And yes, 
+	eventually we will see the flip-side of the B4 story.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  In B-squared, we saw the present
+	events in the vanishment of B4; in a future episode, we'll actually see
+	our characters make the decision to go back in time and yank B4 forward,
+	what went wrong, and so on.
+
+   
      
+   
    • @@@877971397 The One's suit was very similar to the suits in
+	"2001."
      
+	Re: the suit...that wasn't an intentional 2001 nod...we went to
+	Modern Props to get a space suit for Babylon Squared, and the only one
+	they had on hand that would work for us was one left-over from 2010,
+	which I asked the folks in costume to change as much as
+	possible...though it was pretty much what it was regardless.  So that
+	one wasn't intentional.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Nope; Zathras is one of his race, which aren't offspring of any
+	other two groups.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  When Zathras shows up in time, it'll definitely be recognizeable as
+	Zathras.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  B5 is smaller than B4 because they sunk most of
+	their budget into B4; on B5 they had to get outside
+	funding, and scrimped.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some of
+	the materials from 1-3 leftover.  B5 was constructed about 3 hours
+	(traveling time in real-space) from the location of B4.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  No commander had yet been assigned to Babylon 4.  One Major Krantz
+	had been assigned to oversee the final stages of construction, and 
+	was on board -- along with about 1300 others in the construction 
+	crew -- when the station vanished.  The station had only been on-
+	line 24 hours, and the discussions of a commanding officer had just
+	begun when it disappeared.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Major Krantz wasn't so much in charge of B4 as he was (as noted in
+	dialogue) assigned to oversee the final stages of construction.  His 
+	job was to get the station finished, then turn it over to someone 
+	else to run.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Why no triangles on the Council's
+	heads?
+	
      
+	While the triangle is one element of the Grey Council
+	symbology, it is not present and visible at all times and
+	under all circumstances; it has a particular purpose or
+	meaning.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  The triangle only manifests itself for specific reasons, at specific
+	times, neither of which were appropriate to that moment.  And yes, 
+	the Triluminary is much cooler...and does something quite interesting.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Valen was the one who brought Minbari
+	civilization together, he is their Christ-figure.  And yes, the
+	heavyset Grey Council member is the same one as in "Sky."
+
+   
      
+   
    • @@@840129143 Does the Grey Council live permanently on that
+	ship?
      
+	They stay on the cruiser almost entirely during their tenure in
+	the council, only leaving for personal family crisis/situations and the
+	like.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's closing lines in Sinclair's flashforward are
+	reminiscent of "Aliens."
      
+	When you're shooting a show, invariably you get to the stage and
+	find that you have, for instance, three lines, one per character in the
+	room...and you're trying to get them out the door, and it moves better
+	if you give one line to one character and the other two to the other
+	character.  That sometimes happens.  But rarely.  In the Garibaldi's
+	yell case, it was written as a quick shot, he yells and we're out.  The
+	director wanted to extend the shot a bit, visually.  I wasn't in the
+	studio at the time, so Jerry improvised a series of yells.
+	
      
+	This sort of thing is *extremely* rare on the show; the actors and
+	directors know they *cannot* change dialogue on the set without approval
+	from me or Larry.  On any given script, no more than about 3-6 lines get
+	modified for staging purposes once we get to the set.  And always with
+	approval required.  This is an absolute, hard and fast rule.  The only
+	reason the Garibaldi thing happened is that they figured it was just a
+	yell, so nothing could get messed up story-wise (which is the primary
+	reason this is so strict; change one word in a line and it could screw
+	up plot points three episodes down the road) by having him yell a few
+	specific lines.  If I'd been there for that scene, I would've written
+	him something a little less reminiscent of "Aliens."
+
+   
      
+   
    •  The script called for Garibaldi to take up the Big Massive Gun and
+	fire, with a primal YELL that went on forever.  Any dialogue at that
+	point which replaced the yell came from the actor.  The "you're 
+	already dead" was only relevant to the scene, not T2.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Re: Garibaldi in the flash-forward scene...no, it wasn't any kind of
+	"homage" to Aliens.  (And for the most part, I try and stay clear of
+	any kind of homage unless it's primarily a throwaway; I want my story
+	to be MY story, not a bunch of homages.)
+
+	
      
+	The single most moving kind of story for me is the "last man on the
+	bridge"...the last defender who has to hold the line while others get
+	away, knowing he will probably not survive it.  This has great power
+	for me, and for many others, which is why it shows up again and again
+	in films, literature, TV and other venues.  The Garibaldi scene has
+	NOTHING to do with Aliens, and everything to do with that figure.
+
+	
      
+	Re: *why* it is that humans are special...has nothing to do with
+	sacrifice, or dedication (well, that's not quite true, it has 
+	something to do with it), but that's not the totality of it.  There's
+	one more element you don't know about yet, that won't be revealed 
+	until season two, episode one, "Points of Departure."  Once you see
+	that episode, you'll fully understand that there is one very 
+	particular thing about humans that is very special indeed.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  I kinda *have* to play fair with the story; if you hear Delenn's
+	voice, then you can be sure it's Delenn.
+	
      
+	In one form or another.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  "So who IS the One?  Some of the evidence points to Sinclair, but
+	other bits seem to indicate Delenn.  Yet neither seems to fit all the
+	facts above."
+ 
+	
      
+	Exactly.
+ 
+	
      
+	What you have here in your message are two pieces of the puzzle.
+	You're confounded by the fact that somehow they don't quite seem to fit
+	into one another.  That's because there's one last piece missing in this
+	part of the picture, which fits in between them.  The intent is to put
+	this piece into clear view in year three, probably between episodes 8
+	and 11 approximately.  At that point, the question of the One will be
+	fully answered.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Re: Sinclair as the One...funny how all this time very few folks have
+	really commented much on how it was that Zathras could look right into
+	Sinclair's face and say, "NOT the One."
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's eyes glow for one frame in the flashforward scene.
+	
      
+	(sigh)  Our rotoscope EFX guy was waiting for a bunch of PPG EFX to
+	finish rendering in that battle scene, and was bored, and like many 
+	such EFX types, filled in the eyes of Garibaldi with weird stuff 
+	while waiting around.  When the other scene finished rendering, he 
+	got out, believing that he had not saved that one frame.  Unknowingly,
+	he had.
+
+	
      
+	Nobody caught it until after broadcast.
+
+	
      
+	We talked.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  "It has been divulged that Sinclair is coexisting in a parallel
+	dimension Babylon 4."
+
+	
      
+	Actually, this has *not* been divulged...what it is is a speculation
+	based on an offhand comment by Michael at a convention.  I jump in 
+	here only because, well, that ain't it.  B4 is not in an alternate 
+	dimension, neither is there an alternate Sinclair.  Just a course
+	correction to the discussion.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  With only one exception, you won't see time travel anywhere in the
+	five-year run of the B5 story.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Which do you do first?
      
+	Fasten, button.
+	
      
+	Levi's Jeans forever!
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Why wasn't Franklin delivering the autopsy report?
      
+	Garibaldi is head of security, and Franklin would likely give him the
+	report, which Garibaldi then relays.  In such things there is a chain
+	of command.  And as you say, it seemed pointless to bring in the actor
+	just for one half-page scene.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Credits for two Gray Council members?
      
+	Mark Henrickson was the...rounder of the two Minbari.  The one with
+	the staff wanted to go uncredited.
+
+	
      
+	No real reason, he just felt it would be better for the character
+	to remain mysterious; and since it really wasn't a big part, it 
+	wouldn't make a real difference one way or another in his credits and
+	resume.  (I know that sounds weird, but as near as I can determine,
+	that's the reason.  He did a great job, and we're looking forward to
+	having him again.)
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Does the triluminary have anything to do with the sculpture in
+	Delenn's quarters?
      
+	Yes, the Triluminary does have a function in the
+	device she's been making.
+
+
    
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+
+Commander Jeffrey Sinclair's Flash Forward while on Babylon 4
    
+Transcribed by Jeffrey Newman
+<jpn5@cornell.edu>
+
+
    
+There's a bright flash of light as Sinclair's flashforward begins.
+
+
    
+There's a brief shot of Sinclair, standing in what appears to be a corridor
+on Babylon 5.  He's wearing battle gear, and looks as if he's already been
+through a big fight.  We hear Garibaldi yelling, "Commander!"
+
+
    
+This then cuts to a flash of fire, which dissapates quickly, revealing
+another person in Earth Force battle gear, in addition to a heavy helmet.
+He is wielding a flame thrower.  He fires again, toward a target that is
+behind and to the left of the camera.
+
+
    
+Cut to Garibaldi, also in battle gear.  He has several wounds on his face.
+He's got a shoulder strap that appears to be attached to a heavy weapon,
+which is out of view.  Garibaldi is still yelling for the Commander.  There
+are also other men with a weapons around, although we don't see any faces
+on screen.  One walks in front of the camera.
+
+
    
+Cut to a corridor.  A fire is burning in the foreground.  There are a
+number of panicing people running through the corridor.  Several others are
+along the sides of the corridor, firing away from us.
+
+
    
+Cut to a shot of an unidentified man in EA battle gear firing a heavy
+plasma weapon.  The camera pans right, showing another, similarly
+unidentified man in the same battle gear, firing a similar weapon.
+
+
    
+Cut to a view of a wall.  The wall is being cut through, as with a blow
+torch, from the otherside.  It appears to be cutting a rectangular shaped
+door.  There is nothing else in the shot to show what size a hole it is.
+
+
    
+Cut to Sinclair and Garibaldi, standing next to each other.  People are
+running accross in front of them.  Garibaldi says, "They've burned through
+levels seven and eight.  Can't stop them.  They're everywhere."  Sinclair,
+somewhat out of breath, says, "Garibaldi," as if there's something he has
+to tell him.  We hear more firing and sirens in the background.  Garibaldi
+continues, "Look, I've rigged the fusion reactors.  There's not much time."
+The camera shot widens, showing a longer corridor, with
+more panicked people.  We see the weapon that Garibaldi is wielding is a
+very large bazooka looking thing, several feet long.  "Get going, I'll hold
+'em as long as I can."  Sinclair mumbles, "No-"  Garibaldi quickly reponds,
+"Look, come on, this isn't a conversation.  Jeff... it's OK,  I
+finally understand.  This is the moment I was born for.  Now go.  Go."
+There is a flash  "GO!"  Sinclair is carried away in a mob of people.  He's
+yelling "Wait!  Wait!"
+
+
    
+We see the door that was being cut before, it has been completed.
+Something on the other side punches out the door with three quick blows.
+As the metal falls away, we see only a bright light from the other side.
+Garibaldi yells, "He's coming through!"
+
+
    
+Cut back to the same corridor as earlier, with troops firing away from us.
+There still is no enemy in sight.  As the continue to fire, they retreat
+back towards us.
+
+
    
+Cut to Garibaldi, who turns, and begins firing his weapon, apparantly in
+support of others.  As he fires off multiple shots in quick succession, we
+get a close-up of his face.  There is real anger there, as opposed to the
+expressions of pure survival on the other faces we have seen.  He yells,
+"Take that!  How 'bout you, how bout you!  Take some, take some, take
+some!"  (or something to that effect)
+
+
    
+Cut to Sinclair, still carried off by a mob of people, futilly waving to
+Garibaldi.  He yells, "Wait, Garibaldi!"
+
+
    
+There is another flash, as the flashforward ends.  The entire scene takes
+47 seconds.
+
+
    
+   These transcripts written by Jeffrey P. Newman. Permission is
+   granted to distribute this transcript noncommercially as long as the
+   transcript and this copyright notice remain intact. "Babylon Squared"
+   was written by J. Michael Straczynski, and directed by Jim Johnston.
+   Babylon 5 is a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+   copyright is intended by writing this transcription.
+
    
+
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Talia is involved in carrying out the sentence of a convicted murderer.
+Dr. Franklin investigates a possible medical scam in Downbelow.  Londo takes
+Lennier for a look at the less savory sections of the station.
+
+
+June Lockhart as Dr. Laura Rosen.
+Kate McNeil as Janice Rosen.
+Mark Rolston as Karl Mueller.
+Damian London as the Centauri Senator.
+Jim Norton as Ombuds Wellington.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "The Resurrectionist")
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense/drama
+P5 Rating: 7.29
+
+Production number: 117
+Original air date: August 17, 1994
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Lorraine Senna Ferrara
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+"Spacing" someone (tossing them out an airlock to die) is a punishment
+applicable only in cases of mutiny and treason.
+
    • 
+Evidence gained from a telepathic scan is inadmissible in court, as it
+violates the principles of due process.
+
    • 
+Very few members of Psi-Corps are trained to handle criminal cases, not
+for lack of demand, but because it's very a stressful field, with lots
+of burnouts.
+
    • 
+The station's indigent are denied medical treatment in Medlab if they
+can't afford it (cf.
+"Believers".)
+
    • 
+The station's prison is overcrowded already; there's no room for someone
+to serve a life sentence.
+
    • 
+Earth possesses the technology to brain-wipe people (cf.
+"Grail")
+and implant new memories;
+it's used as a punishment or rehabilitation measure in certain criminal
+cases.  A Psi-Corps member oversees the wipe, performing scans before and
+after to make sure it's complete.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+
    •  What will Dr. Franklin do with the machine?  Will it ever be seen again?
+
+
    •  Will Franklin and Janice Rosen continue to see each other in subsequent
+	episodes?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+This is the second instance in the series of a mechanism for stealing life
+from one being and giving it to another (cf.
+"Deathwalker".)
+Perhaps the two are related somehow.
+
    • 
+Judging by her reactions during the scan, it seems Talia was not trained to
+deal with hardened criminals.  Why, then, was she also stuck with the job of
+scanning a murderer on the Mars colony, a place that, as a major human
+settlement, presumably has a Psi-Corps presence?  (cf.
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1,"
+though admittedly the presence referred to there was not public knowledge.)
+
    • 
+The Centauri's claim that Earth was a lost colony (cf.
+"Midnight on the Firing Line")
+must have been a short-lived ruse, given the revelations about Centauri
+physiology in this episode.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    • 
+June Lockhart and Bill Mumy were in another science-fiction show together:
+"Lost in Space."
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Of all the scripts I've written, the only one that I'm less than
+absolutely 100% thrilled with is "The Quality of Mercy," because I wrote it
+while absolutely sick with the flu, and have NO memory even of writing it.  As
+it is, though, I'm about 90% happy with it, particularly the B-story with
+Londo and Lennier, which came out great.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In my original thoughts about the episode, there was more of a con
+man ressurectionist angle to the show, which later got dropped.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Psi Corps telepaths are ****NOT**** allowed to scan defendants in any
+official way connected to a criminal act.  It violates the right  to due
+process.  Even if requested, it's simply not allowed.  You do NOT want to even
+open the door a *crack* in letting a government-regulated agency begin making
+determinations about who is and isn't guilty of a crime.  That way lies
+dictatorship, Thought Police and Big Brother.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The scan is preparatory to the prisoner being mind-blanked.  It is, 
+as the Ombuds pointed out, the death of personality, the death of 
+one's mind. Hence the black band on the Psi symbol.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+How has your presence on the net affected the series?
      
+... I was
+initially going to gloss over some of the legal aspects of the Psi Corps
+in "The Quality of Mercy," but when so many people expressed interest in
+how that worked, and when I saw some measure of confusion about it, I
+took the time to indicate how the legal aspects work when it came time to
+complete that script, thus answering the questions.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The one major reason I decided to begin this interaction, despite
+CONSIDERABLE discourgement and disbelief from my peers, is that I 
+think it may be of some use, and because I think that one should be
+willing to stand publicly with what you create, and because though 
+many criticisms are issues of taste or subjective preference, 
+sometimes (fairly often, actually), I learn something from the
+discussion, or I'm corrected in something, and that realignment is
+eventually reflected in the show.  I'm giving some serious thought to
+either revamping n'grath or killing him off given the reaction (paired
+with my own).  I won't be dictated to, but in some cases, as with 
+n'grath, I may be uncertain, but willing to try and see if the
+experiment works.  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and the
+general perception here seems close to my own.  In addition, I was
+initially going to gloss over some of the legal aspects of the Psi 
+Corps in "The Quality of Mercy," but when so many people expressed 
+interest in how that worked, and when I saw some measure of confusion
+about it, I took the time to indicate how the legal aspects work when
+it came time to complete that script, thus answering the questions.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+About June Lockhart
      
+No, no scenes with Bill Mumy, though some consideration was given to the
+notion.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@840398824 
+Bill kept bugging me to put him in a scene with June, but
+I just felt it'd get in the way.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@840398824 
+It would've worked, but the scene would've forever been about
+the mini-LIS reunion.  If it isn't important to the story, it shouldn't
+be there.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We do tend to try and stay open to gender stuff; usuall there's a
+reason why someone is male or female, so it's cast that way.  But as
+an example...in "Quality of Mercy," the role as originally written 
+was for a father/daughter combination.  In the process of casting, we
+thought, why not mother/daughter?  So that's how it ended up.  In 
+"Points of Departure," we have one of your requests already taken 
+care of...a part of a war cruiser commander who could've been male or 
+female...cast female.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Q: What are Londo's appendages called?
      
+Tentisticularites?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Are Londo's appendages in addition to or instead of human-type
+"appendages"?
      
+That would be instead of, not in addition to.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846702607 
+As for the tentacles...well, there's no rules about showing
+tentacles on TV.  I think they didn't even want to deal with it.  There
+are some moments when they pretend they didn't see it, and I pretend I
+didn't write it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Centauri males have six.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Centauri females, btw, have six narrow...ummm...slots on their backs,
+three on either side of the spine, right around the base of the spine.
+
      
+The awful thing is that the two women in props -- who were having FAR
+too much fun with this -- kept bringing me the tentacle to verify the
+shape, size, consistency, do we see veins or not....
+
      
+I tell you here and now: our staff meetings are something else.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846702607 
+Actually, Centauri have six.  They extend out from the sides of
+the body, and "fold" in over the solar plexus when not in, er, use.
+(We actually saw one extended for other purposes in the first season,
+"The Quality of Mercy.") Female Centauri have six...er...slotted areas
+on either side of the spine, just above the hips, three on either side.
+
      
+To go any further would probably bring in the FBI.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846702607 Does that mean Centauri women have multiple births on
+a regular basis?
      
+No multiple births, in that sense, not any different than humans.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"What kind of birth control do the Centauri use?"
+
      
+Conversation.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@883993388 Which of the six do they use for urination?
      
+That assumes the urinate out of the same organs they use for sex; ain't
+necessarily the case.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We used a bullwhip sound effect for the
+"retraction" in QoM; when we were in sound editing,
+I asked for the hardest whip-crack they had...and
+got it put in REAL loud.  Every time I hear it, I'm
+on the floor....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+While the TP themes in "Quality" go back through the history of SF,
+including the Demolished Man, among others, the basic storyline (re:
+Talia) came out of the pilot.  At the time, I was asked -- frequently
+-- "Why didn't Lyta scan Sinclair to determine if he had tried to kill
+Kosh?"  My answer then -- which is in some of the archives -- was that
+it would violate the right to due process, that a defendant cannot be
+scanned to determine guilt or innocence (in fact, I recall a rather
+heated debate about that here a while back).  I promised that this 
+would be elaborated upon down the road, and mentally logged in to do a
+show with that premise...and I'd already decided about the death 
+penalty, and the use of telepaths in it.  So "Quality" came out of 
+that, long before "Mephisto" was even written.  At one point, knowing
+that there were some common story areas, I called Harlan to tell him 
+the "Quality" story, so that if there were any problems, I could 
+revise it, but he said he saw no problem.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Isn't brainwiping as bad as killing?
      
+     There are actually many issues to get into in all of
+this.  Which is really the "person," the mind, the soul,
+or the body?  If a person has an accident, getting amnesia,
+which wipes out his entire personality, is that person as
+good as dead?  Is there no difference between amnesia and
+death? If not, why not just kill the amnesiac?  But
+obviously there *is* a difference.  So what is the person?
+What constitutes death?
+
      
+     We consider the actual death of the *brain* through the
+cessation of brain activity to be the test for death.  But
+what if you simply rearrange those patterns?
+
      
+     There is also the question of *justice*.  If the person
+is dead, then that person cannot do much to correct the ills
+he visited upon society.  It is simply a waste of material.
+So why not take someone who, in any decent society, would be
+executed or forced to live in a 6x9 cage the rest of his life,
+and give the soul, and the body, a new chance by giving the
+person a new personality and letting him, as the Ombuds says,
+"serve the community harmed by his actions"?
+
      
+     Finally, if the person is dead, he's dead; let's say 5
+years down the road somebody finds evidence that proves the
+person was innocent.  There is at least the *chance* to
+reconstruct some of the original memories and personality
+profile.
+
      
+     All of this, again, has to be considered in light of the
+fact that we are talking about a *space station* with limited
+space and resources.  You cannot warehouse every person who
+kill somebody in a station that small; you would run out of
+space almost immediately.  (If you also include basic felons
+and near-killings.)  So what *do* you do with them?  As was
+noted, Earth doesn't want them and won't pay to have them
+shipped back...what's left?
+
      
+     That's the dilemma I wanted to pose in the episode...what
+*can* you do?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+     "...the 'personality' remaining in the body will
+be punished for a crime that 'personality' did not
+commit."
+
      
+     1) But again, which is the person...the old
+        personality, the new one, or something else?
+
      
+     2) Part of the new personality would be the delight
+        in serving others.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You will see the healing machine from "Quality" once more.  Part of
+the reason for that story was to set up something within the B5 universe
+that will come in handy a long time later (but I'm *not* going to have it
+lying around indefinitely; it would cause lots of long-term complications).
+
      
+(Some TV shows foreshadow/set-up stuff an act or two ahead of time;
+we do setups a full *year* ahead....)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There are limits to what the healing device can do, for starters; 
+it can't repair physical damage to the body, mainly it works with 
+disease and basic low-energy stuff; also, bear in mind that it was a 
+device used for *capital punishment*...meaning that to save one person's 
+life, another must sacrifice his or her own, if it's that far along, 
+so it's not really something you can trot out everytime somebody gets 
+nailed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+They cannot carry out the original sentence because the body is
+now dead, which would tend to diminish its social acceptability.
+
      
+Dr. Franklin did not know that Mueller had yet found Rosen, or even
+knew of it.  There are no Babcom systems in DownBelow quarters.  To
+send a security team, when they're out searching, without cause, is
+neither realistic nor sensible.  He did the correct thing: to go and
+warn her, while at the same time making sure that security knew where
+he was going, and if they didn't hear anything, to send in a team.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Franklin should have had a search warrant.
      
+Allow me to disagree with you.
+
      
+Dr. Franklin did not require a search warrant to enter Rosen's 
+quarters.  The door was basically open, and he is NOT an officer of
+the law. Only officers of the law are required to have search warrants.  
+Neither was he there to arrest her.
+
      
+Defense counsel was sitting with the defendant at the table.  He had
+no lines, but he was there.  The trial had been ongoing; this was the
+part where the verdict is rendered after a decision has been reached.
+
      
+The pattern of the judge passing sentence is exactly the same as when
+circuit court judges used to work the frontier areas of the US.  Where
+would you find a jury on B5?  Most civilians are passing through, on
+stop-over for only a day or two...unable to follow a long hearing.  
+The only other ones are station personnel, which represents a conflict
+of interest.  Your only choice is a circuit court style judge whose 
+loyalty is owed to no one.
+
      
+The alien device was being used on humans without any kind of license,
+she is not a certified doctor, and it was used in the death of a 
+human. Under those circumstances, it is within the judge s right to 
+confiscate the device for the greater good.  (You can have a 
+unlicensed firearm in a state that requires licensing, and use it in a
+righteous self-defense shooting, but it will be confiscated afterward.
+No compensation is required because its use is/was unregulated, 
+unlicensed, and she was/is not a working doctor.)
+
      
+It *is* due process.  Even according to 20th century terms.  Only 
+problem is in understanding what due process actually *is*, as 
+opposed to what we think it *should* be.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, part of the reason for the QoM episode was to set up the notion
+of an implanted personality as achievable tech.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+David: "The Quality of Mercy" title is drawn from the same source as
+Compton's book, Shakespeare.  It has a lot to do with that episode.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, absolutely; in "The Quality of Mercy," you'll get a look at
+how the justice system has come to grips with the uestion of how to
+handle violent crimes in an environment like a space station, which
+has limited room for cells, limited resources, and other complications.
+We do plan to get into this area a bit, without getting too LA LAW 
+about it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see
+what you put into it.  "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-
+religion, anti- religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has been
+interpreted, as you note, as pro-capital punishment, and anti-capital
+punishment.  We do, as you say, much prefer to leave the decision on
+what things mean to the viewer to hash out.
+
      
+A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the
+occasional bar fight.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's the sense that A, B and sometimes C stories in TV should
+intersect.  My attitude: sometimes yes, sometimes no.  Depends on if
+you look at this as a real place or not, as opposed to a thematic
+exercise.  What I go through in the course of a day has nothing to 
+do with what happens to Larry DiTillio across town, except and unless
+it involves our mutual work.  Sometimes, as in "Quality," the stories
+feel like they resonate, and can be used to illustrate one another, 
+and so they're linked.  In others, what I'm striving for is a sense 
+of a "day in thed (the) life" of Babylon 5.  The one kind of story is
+neither better nor worse than the other, they're simply different.  
+One may like one more than the other, but to say they're "better" 
+plots is just silly.  There's NO padding in this show, no stories put
+in to fill out time; just stories that we want to tell, period.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Minbari use base 11, not base 10, so twelve would be eleventy-first
+year, and so on.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Minbari base eleven includes fingers and head, from which the 
+principle of mathematics comes.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You're also looking at this from a strictly English-speaking 
+perspective; in German, for instance, 21 is "Ein und Zwanzig" (pardon
+any misspellings in there, it's been a while) which is exactly the 
+same structure, albeit reversed, used for Minbari counting (and, in 
+fact, is more or less what I based his "statement" on).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Eleventy-seven = Eighteen base ten.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+
      
+Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four, eleventy-
+five, eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight, eleventy-nine, 
+eleventy-ten, twelfy
+
      
+Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four, twelfty-five,
+twelfty-six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight, twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+
      
+And so on.
+
      
+Who here still has a problem with this?
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+First Season finale.  A dying man leads Garibaldi to a discovery that could
+cost him his life.  Londo receives help in a dispute with the Narns.
+Something begins to happen to Delenn.
+
+
+Macaulay Bruton as Garibaldi's aide.
+Edward Conery as Devereaux.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 9.38
+
+Production number: 112
+Original air date: October 26, 1994 (*)
+DVD release date: November 5, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+An episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    Watch for:
    
+
      
+   
    • 	A convenient departure just before an important event.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    • 	Before the Centauri occupation, Narn was a peaceful, agrarian world.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    • 	What is happening to Delenn?
+   
    • 	What does it have to do with Kosh, or with the Vorlons?  Why did
+	seeing Kosh help Delenn make up her mind?
+   
    •  What was the question she had Lennier relay?
+   
    • 	What is the function of the triluminary in Delenn's device?
+   
    • 	What is the function of the device itself?
+   
    • 	Why did Delenn want to tell Sinclair what happened on the Line?
+   
    • 	Who's behind the plot to kill President Santiago?
+   
    • 	Why were the jammers and triangulation devices being shipped
+	through Babylon 5?
+   
    • 	Why did Garibaldi's aide kill Devereaux?
+   
    • 	What are G'Kar's suspicions about the attack on the military base?
+   
    • 	What do the Shadows want from Londo once he's in a position of power?
+   
    • 	What were the invisible creatures in the room with Morden?  If they
+	were Shadows, why did they come to Babylon 5 themselves, assuming
+	Morden was still on the station?  For that matter, how did
+	they get onto Babylon 5?  On someone else's ship, or is one of theirs
+	parked outside, invisible to everyone?
+   
    • 	How did Morden know that Londo's name was being spoken in the highest
+	circles of the Centauri government?
+   
    •  How did Kosh know that Sinclair had forgotten something?  Does he
+	know what Delenn was planning to tell Sinclair, and if so, does that
+	imply he was involved in what happened on the Line?
+   
    •  Was Garibaldi's friend Lianna Kemmer (cf.
+	"Survivors")
+	on Earth Force One when it exploded?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    • 	The fact that Delenn decided to go ahead with the change after Kosh
+	revealed himself to her implies that there may be a much closer
+	relationship between the Minbari and the Vorlons than has previously
+	been suggested.  It is even possible that Delenn is turning into a
+	Vorlon somehow, and that Kosh showed her he resembled a Minbari.  On
+	the other hand, that doesn't explain Kosh's interest in humans, who
+	he arguably doesn't consider another race (cf.
+	"The War Prayer.")
+   
    • 	Morden seems to be more than just a representative for the Shadows;
+	they seemed to be consulting with him.  If he were a mere spokesman,
+	why would he reassure his masters?
+   
    • 	The Vice President is a prime suspect in the plot to kill President
+	Santiago.  He just happened to leave the President's ship shortly
+	before the assassination attempt.  He also presumably would be able to
+	arrange for an unregistered weapon for Devereaux -- or perhaps
+	Devereaux really was an agent working under the
+	Vice President, in a capacity so secret Garibaldi couldn't find any
+	reference to him.
+   
    • 	Casting more suspicion on the Vice President, and adding a darker,
+	more sinister note, is the newspaper headline from
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars" --
+	"Psi Corps in Election Tangle: Did Psi-Corps Violate its Charter
+	by Endorsing Vice President?"
+   
    • 	It's still not entirely clear where Garibaldi's aide's loyalty lies.
+	The killing of Devereaux and his men suggests there may be more than
+	one level of deception at work.  Or perhaps he was simply under orders
+	to tie up loose ends and wanted to ensure Devereaux could never
+	blow his cover if apprehended.
+   
    • 	The Shadows may have been the force overrunning Garibaldi's position
+	in the flashforward from
+	"Babylon Squared."
+	They may also be what the crazed man in that episode was shouting
+	about when he referred to invisible monsters.
+   
    • 	Chrysalis is the third stage in insect development (egg, pupa,
+	chrysalis, and adult form.)  There may be some relation to the third
+	age of mankind referenced in the opening monologue.
+   
    • 	Delenn has obviously seen her change coming for quite some time;
+	she has been building the crystal device in her quarters almost from
+	day one.  Her compatriots on the Grey Council appear to largely be
+	in the dark about it, though perhaps not all of them, as one of them
+	did give her the triluminary (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+   
    • 	Delenn's ability to breathe the atmosphere in Kosh's quarters with
+	only a single whiff of air from a mask is further evidence of some
+	connection between Vorlons and Minbari.  Or it could just mean the
+	Minbari don't need much oxygen (or that both Kosh's air and the
+	normal station air contain whatever they do need.)
+   
    • 	She has been disobeying the Council's order about Sinclair, perhaps
+	ever since
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars."
+	That suggests she may have intentionally been hiding her upcoming
+	transformation from them, as well.  Otherwise it would presumably
+	have come up when they considered her for the leadership of the
+	Council (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+   
    • 	Londo's disgust about the deaths of the Narn suggest he may not be
+	the iron-fisted leader the Shadows appear to be looking for (cf.
+	"Signs and Portents,"
+	in which Morden appeared to be looking for someone ruthless and
+	ambitious.)  In the future he may be placed in the position of
+	deciding whether people live or die, and may have to act against
+	the Shadows' wishes.
+   
    • 	G'Kar may be returning home to try to warn his superiors that a
+	sixth race exists and is out to get them.  Whether he has deduced
+	that the intent is to cause war between the Narns and the Centauri
+	(if, indeed, that is what the Shadows are up to) is an
+	interesting question.  It is also not clear what the Narns could do
+	about the situation even if the leadership was convinced there was
+	another player in the game; the Shadows appear to have an overwhelming
+	technological advantage over most of the other races.
+   
    • 	On the other hand, the Shadows did dispatch four ships to take care
+	of the Narn outpost.  That suggests that one ship might not have been
+	enough, in turn implying limits to their power.
+   
    •  "And so it begins," says Kosh.  That's the same line spoken by Delenn
+	during the ceremony in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams,"
+	after Sinclair eats the fruit.  Perhaps Kosh was referring to Delenn's
+	change rather than the death of President Santiago, and perhaps it
+	has something to do with the possible marriage of Delenn and Sinclair
+	in the aforementioned episode.  (But see
+	jms speaks.)
+   
    •  When Kosh emerges from his encounter suit for Delenn (assuming that's
+	what he was doing,) there's a sound not unlike wings moving through
+	the air.
+   
    •  In
+	"TKO"
+	(which was originally going to air much later in the season,
+	either immediately before or one episode removed from "Chrysalis,")
+	Walker mentions that Garibaldi was never any good at watching his
+	back, foreshadowing the events in this episode.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Shot twelfth out of 22 episodes due to the extensive post-production
+	work required.
+
+   
    •  First broadcast in the UK
+	on October 3, 1994.  PTEN didn't want to show it during August,
+	traditionally a month of low viewership, in the US, so
+	it was held back until the week before the first season-two episodes,
+	becoming, to all appearances, the season-two premiere.  In
+	fact, PTEN even advertised it as such.  But, as stated, it was
+	produced halfway through the first year of shooting, so definitely
+	qualifies as a season-one episode.
+
+   
    •  The original satellite feed in the US was missing a special effect.
+	In the first shot of Londo walking in the hedge maze, the scene was
+	supposed to show the maze at the bottom of the frame and a view down
+	the center of the station above that.  The actual broadcast showed
+	the back wall of the soundstage behind the hedges, complete with
+	"Exit" sign.  Oddly, the correct scene was used in the UK broadcast,
+	which occurred much earlier.
+	Bad
+	and
+	good
+	pictures of the scene are available.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi's aide appeared in three previous episodes:
+	"Mind War,"
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars,"
+	and
+	"Eyes"
+	(where he's in Ivanova's dream.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Today, incidentally, I finished the outline for "Chrysalis," which
+will be the last episode of this season, though we'll be shooting it
+much earlier, about 2/3rds through the run.  It's a real corker in
+which we absolutely kick over the table and all hell breaks loose
+*bigtime*.  This one I'm *really* looking forward to writing.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'm in the strange position of writing the season end episode now,
+to shoot #12, since it's going to require a lot of post production
+work, and it definitely puts one in a very strange state of mind. 
+I have to be careful to refer to things that've happened in the past
+episodes, from the perspective of the last episode of the season, but
+which haven't yet been written or filmed in real-time.  So I'm 
+writing the second half of some stories before having written the
+first half (though I obviously know where they're all going)...which
+really bends your brain around after a while.  
+
      
+This episode is going to be highly classified; we're going to limit
+distribution of scripts, and parts of scripts, put canary traps in
+all of the scripts that *are* distributed, and otherwise keep this 
+one quiet.  All I can say is that we're going to kick over every
+table we've got.   In any season finale, there are maybe 4-5 things
+you know when you sit down to watch the show that they'll NEVER ever
+do.  So we're doing all of them.  If this one doesn't keep you glued
+to your seats, you've lost your chair.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+But I'd say that our two *best* so far are still "And the Sky Full of
+Stars" and "Chrysalis."  I just watched a cut of "Chrysalis" today 
+which finally had all the CGI in it, and had to scrape my brain off 
+the opposing wall, it's *that* good.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I have just seen the director's cut of "Chrysalis," which will be the
+last episode of this season...and I think it has just displaced "Sky"
+as the most heavy-weight episode of the season.  Even knowing what was
+coming, I just sat here, stunned, at the end of it.  Seeing dailies, 
+bits and pieces, doesn't really prepare you for the whole thing.
+
+What I like most about it are two things: one, by about halfway in, 
+you really begin to understand that anything can happen, to anyone, 
+and the rules that normally carry you through a television episode no
+longer apply.  It's a very dangerous, dislocating feeling.  Two: you 
+get the very real feeling that, after this episode, nothing is the 
+same anymore.  The show has taken a very profound and *irrevocable* 
+turn that will have lasting effects on all of our characters.  Of all
+the episodes so far, this one has the most feeling of being the 
+chapter end in a novel.
+
+The really hard part will not avoiding the temptation to show this to
+people...because it really can't be allowed to get out prior to 
+airing.  There are too many twists and turns and revelations that spin
+one off into another.
+
+One other thing's certain: after you've seen "Chrysalis," you're going
+to want to go back and check out three prior episodes...because 
+something that you will have read/interpreted one way, without question
+or hesitation accepting it as what it obviously appears to be, will 
+suddenly be turned on its head, and a brand new interpretation will 
+emerge.  And it's *real* creepy.... 
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Chrysalis" makes "Mind War" look like a still-life painting by
+comparison....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We finally delivered "Chrysalis" to Warner/PTEN, and heard back: our
+liaison over there was stunned, describes it as the best season-ending
+cliffhanger he's ever seen, unlike anything done before.  Suffice to
+say we're pleased.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We have a New Year's celebration in one episode later
+this season, and at some point will probably show other
+stuff next year.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What I like most about it are two things: one, by about halfway in, you
+really begin to understand that anything can happen, to anyone, and the rules
+that normally carry you through a television episode no longer apply. It's a
+very dangerous, dislocating feeling. Two, you get the very real feeling that,
+after this episode, nothing is the same anymore. The show has taken a very
+profound and *irrevocable* turn that will have lasting effects on all of our
+characters. Of all the episodes so far, this one has the most feeling of
+being the chapter end in a novel.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Someone complains about the characters not staying the same
+
      
+Losing the characters she's come to enjoy?  No.  But the characters 
+are changing.  That's the point, and that's been the intent from day
+one.   But what's the alternative?  I've heard ST fans complain loudly
+and bitterly that after 7 years of TNG being on the air, nobody's 
+really changed, nobody's been promoted into different ships or major
+changes in responsibilities...they've had Riker as XO for seven years,
+which in the real military would mean his career is *over*.
+
      
+Change is the only other option.
+
      
+The goal, from the start, was to create an overall story, but which
+would also require arcs for every single major character.  They're all
+going somewhere.  In many cases, that "somewhere" plays into the larger
+arc; in some cases, not.  If a woman is single, then gets married, then
+gives birth, and she's your friend, have you "lost her" just because 
+she's gone through these changes?  Of course not.  She has changed, in
+good or bad ways, but she's still the same person.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+         I just showed "Chrysalis" to a couple of people today, who
+    didn't know what was in it.  And there's one thing that they had
+    seen over and over in prior episodes of the series which they never
+    thought twice about, which they just sorta accepted...only to
+    suddenly have this understanding totally turned on its head.
+
      
+         The look on their faces was *priceless*.
+
      
+         This is probably the longest and most extensive setup/payoff
+    in SF television history.  And afterward, once you discover what
+    that is, if you go back suddenly there's a LOT of different meaning
+    in prior episodes.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Chrysalis," a cliffhanger of sorts, leads right into "Points
+of Departure," which picks up some of the tables kicked over by
+"Chrysalis," the balance of which are picked up in the second episode,
+"Revelations."  By the end of the second new episode, pretty much
+everything is now in place for the rest of the second season...though
+not everything is in quite the same position as it originally was.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Except, of course, that where everyone goes is important to the rest
+of the story, and that the purpose of the episode is to introduce 
+massive change into the story overall; when Sinclair says "Nothing's
+the same anymore," he's deadly serious, and so are we.  The changes
+won't just be transitory or for a season-end hook; these are permanent
+and substantial changes in the arc.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Now that you've seen this much, now you can begin putting together
+the other level of the metaphor that is B5...consider: a war that did not
+end satisfactorily for us, not winning or losing, a sort of peace with
+honor....the death of a president...the rise of intelligence agencies
+and military power...start to sound familiar?  Now what we begin to do
+is to start moving around the pieces, shifting the mirror of the story
+to reveal different aspects of ourselves, as well as tell the other
+separate story of B5 itself.  Again, the idea is for this story to
+function on *many* different levels: future-history, myth, adventure
+story, mystery and a metaphor.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: the staging of Morgan Clark taking the oath of office; I gave
+very particular instructions to re-create the staging of the photograph
+in which Lyndon Johnson takes over from JFK after the assassination.  The
+same layout, posture, background, and so on.  We even had a photo on set
+for reference.  The creepy thing is that the day we shot the scene was the
+anniversary of the day it actually took place; very weird atmosphere on
+set that day.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, I was born in 54, so we're about the same age.  Oddly, I
+don't remember the day of the shooting; what I *do* remember is 
+watching JFK's funeral, and not entirely understanding the depth of
+the event, but fully grasping the emotions around me.  That will 
+linger forever.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+President Santiago is dead as a doorknob.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: being fooled into thinking the crystal construct in Delenn's
+quarters was nothing more than a meditation thing...in general, it helps
+to remember that I subscribe to Anton Chekov's First Rule of Playwriting:
+"If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the
+gun by act three, scene two.  If you fire a gun in act three, scene two,
+you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one."
+
      
+Waste nothing.
+
+
      
+
    • About the marriage ceremony in "Parliament"
+
      
+The marriage was a red-herring, a bit of misdirection.  The key for
+any magician is to get the audience to look at your hand so they don't see
+the elephant being wheeled onto the stage in full view.  The line in
+"Parliament" is, "It's a rebirth ceremony all right, and sometimes doubles
+for a marriage ceremony."  When I wrote that, I knew instantly that
+everyone would focus in on the second half (misdirection) and miss the
+first half.  (Note that Delenn's "And so it begins" is echoed by Kosh in
+the last episode.)  I put out something that I figured everybody would
+latch onto, ignoring the other meaning which is stated twice.
+
+
      
+
    • Why did they turn Garibaldi onto his back, where the wound was?
+
      
+I was told by our medical technology consultant that after you take
+care of the basic external wound, you always turn the body over and go
+after the internal damage from the *front*.  I was told why three times,
+but still can't retain it.  I think it involves easier access without
+cutting around the spine, and makes breathing less laborious.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The teaser of that episode [Chrysalis] is very
+much just the sort of thing we've seen before; designed to lull you into
+a sense of, "Yeah, yeah, we've seen this."  Right down to the tired look
+on Sinclair's face.  Been there, done that.  Then you yank the viewer's
+blanket.  And structurally, it was designed to somewhat mirror the events
+in the first episode; the balance is shifting, things are going in the
+reverse of what we saw before.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I don't like loose threads hanging around, so all this will get tied
+up.  In some cases, we'll see flashbacks to stuff that happened "around the
+corner," so to speak, and in others we'll have dialogue explanations.  We
+get the scoop on what question Delenn asked Kosh (via Lennier) before
+[season 2] is out.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If the Shadows are visible, how did they get onto the station?
+
      
+In "Chrysalis," they are distortions visible in the air when they
+wish to be...and not when they don't.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"There is good reason to believe the Minbari Triluminary device
+is an artifact not created by the Minbari."
+
      
+DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING!
+
+
      
+
    • @@@832888175 Actually, the first Triluminary was found by the Minbari, not
+made by them, in a vessel they ran into about a thousand years ago.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+About Walker's lines in "TKO"
+
      
+Re: "Watch your back," and "You never did know how to watch your 
+back," yep, that was a bit of deliberate foreshadowing for "Chrysalis."  When the episode aired,
+I mentioned at the time that there was something in that episode that
+would later be seen to be ironic or ominous, but didn't seem so at
+first.  One or two caught it, but most didn't.  This show is layered
+very, VERY carefully.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Correct; Garibaldi's aide has *always* been a plant.  I seeded him
+in from the beginning, specifically for that purpose.  It was the aide
+who got Sinclair out of his quarters in "Sky," was the liaison who got
+Benson on line (also in security, you'll remember), and helped dispose
+of the body. If you watch his reaction in "Sky," he's the one who 
+brings info to Garibaldi looking to clear Benson; and when Garibaldi
+sees through it, you can see his aide move off looking very worried.
+
      
+Originally, it was Laurel Takashima who would have betrayed those
+around her, as this character did.  When Laurel was transferred, I had
+a choice: keep that arc for her replacement (Ivanova), or give this 
+part of it to someone else.  Now, knowing how the folks here on the
+nets and elsewhere think, and knowing that they knew about the Laurel-
+possible-traitor thread, I figured that everyone would assume that
+Ivanova would get that part. (And, sure enough, a lot of people did.)
+This became a wonderfully convenient blind behind which to build the
+*real* plant.
+
      
+And thus far, *nobody's* seen it coming.  He was right there in clear
+view, we used him many times (also in "By Any Means Necessary," for
+instance), and nobody ever paid him the slightest attention.
+
      
+It is, in a way, the classic magician's trick of misdirection: you
+try to get everyone to look at your hand so they won't look at the 
+huge elephant being wheeled up onto the stage in plain sight.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, the shooting of Garibaldi was always a very strong
+part of the story for the  end of first season; that line goes
+all the way back to the pilot, and Laurel  Takashima.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, after the thread with Laurel was revealed, lots of
+people *assumed* that  that thread had been passed along to
+Ivanova.  It had never in fact been intended  for her, but
+when it was broached, I simply didn't reply, on the theory
+that if I said it  *wasn't* her, it'd narrow it down to who it
+*was*.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"I *liked* Laurel!"
+
+
      
+Well, yes, that's rather the point; tragedy is only
+tragedy if it happens to  someone you care about and like.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Shadowmen stuff was all CGI, no models.  Spiffy stuff.  And yes, 
+we'll find out in time what Delenn asked Kosh.  
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"If the Shadows are active on Earth, we need to ask why Psi-Corps
+haven't picked them up."
+
      
+Yep.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The chrysalis is virtually all prop, with some roto work to enhance 
+the glow in "Chrysalis."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Was it credible that President and Vice President would travel on
+the same flight?  Their twentieth-century American counterparts don't
+fly together on Air Force One.
+
      
+You're forgetting several elements.
+
      
+1) It would be in the VP's best interests to go along on the trip, 
+to help defuse any suspicion ("Boy, was I lucky.").
+
      
+2) Going a few hours out of the country is one thing; you're not 
+looking at the aspect that traveling in normal space takes a lot of
+time and expense...a ship as massive as EF1 is hideously expensive; 
+two would be a major waste of government money, and they'd both be
+traveling side by side, further wasting money.  Also, whereas Air 
+Force 1 travels nominally alone, EF1 has a full escort of fighters, 
+with a minimum of four in the "air" at any one time, plus another
+batch inside.
+
      
+Going between planets is a much different process than going between
+here and London; and if both parties are required at the other end, 
+the only sensible way is to have them go together.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Remember when I said there are things you learn midway into a series
+that you can learn no other way?  Yikes...
+
+
      
+As I've mentioned before, in our season ender, "Chrysalis," we tip 
+over every table we've got.  I'm talking here *major* stuff, that
+profoundly and permanently affects many of our primary characters.
+Well, you build that as a two parter, and even *try* to resolve all of
+that in the second part.  It doesn't work, because the repercussions 
+are so substantial.  (What it is, really, is something that'll be felt
+throughout the entire second season.)
+
+
      
+You can try to pack all the loose thread-tying into part two, but it's
+like trying to pack 10 pounds of potatos into a 5 pound bag.  One 
+other option is making it a six parter, but *that's* really silly.  So
+what I'm doing, I've decided, is to take the major elements and play
+them out over the first five or so episodes.  This will give me time
+to give each of the threads the necessary time to play out effectively,
+rather than rushing things.
+
+
      
+So Chrysalis stands alone as a season ender, and a prelude to the Big
+Stuff in season two.  Episode 1 of year two, therefore, won't be 
+"Chrysalis, Part Two," but have its own title, allowing me to spread 
+the stuff over the next few episodes.  (Probable title: "Points of 
+Departure.")
+
+
      
+I showed "Chrysalis" to some people the other day, and the reaction 
+was across the board astonishment.  Just stunned.  Which was pretty
+much the desired result.  It's an absolute left-turn for the series.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Since I mentioned it over on Internet (but not where it belongs), I
+give y'all a little gift...Kosh's very last line of the season, in 
+"Chrysalis."
+
+
      
+"You have...forgotten something."
+
+
      
+It's not nearly as straightforward as it looks, and that one line will
+carry with it *major* repercussions.  (And no, it doesn't refer to the
+24 hours.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Only two Shadowman vessels hit the Narn base at Quadrant 37, not
+three.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Sometimes it gets wonky.  We filmed "Chrysalis" twelfth in shooting
+order, to air twenty-second.  Part of the setup to "Chrysalis" is 
+"Signs and Portents," which shot 4 episodes later.  Meaning the 
+actors had to act familiar with elements they hadn't performed yet,
+and hadn't seen yet in script form.  So in that case, I had to sit 
+down and explain what the various aspects of "Chrysalis" meant, and
+where we were going, for it all to play.  Later, when "Signs" was 
+published in-house, they got to see in more detail how the setup fit
+in with the payoff.
+
      
+If asked, I would probably try to refrain from telling any of the
+actors the full story.  Let me rephrase: I simply wouldn't do it.  If
+they would ask where their individual character is going -- and some 
+have -- what I do is give them the general arc, but leave out a lot 
+of specifics.  For instance, Peter knows *in general* that his 
+character is going in a darker direction, but not how he's going to 
+get there or what it means to the overall story.  And that, I think,
+is as it should be.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Every so often, a screwup takes place that is so breathtakingly stupid
+that it defies all logic and reason.  I just learned of one this 
+evening, and I'm still reeling a bit from it.  Consequently, this is
+address to anyone who watched the satellite uplink of "Chrysalis" or 
+has seen it in the US in the last day or so.
+
      
+Once we deliver an episode, it goes to two places: Modern Video and CVC.
+CVC checks an episode of any series prior to uplink to make sure it's
+okay.  Though they've had it for four months, they only got around to
+checking it the day before uplink.  During this, they found a couple of
+small audio pops.  The kind of thing that could be fixed in about five
+minutes.  But since it was the evening, Modern Video decided to fix it
+for us...by *rebuilding the entire episode*.
+
      
+Without calling us, notifying us, or checking with us, when we could've
+easily had someone on-hand there to supervise at a moment's notice.
+
      
+Well, when they rebuilt the episode...they didn't use all the correct
+footage.  Some of what was used was RAW FOOTAGE.  Example: when Londo
+goes to meet someone in the Garden, there's supposed to be a great 
+composite shot there of the interior of the Garden area, and a hedge
+maze.  (The UK saw this version of it last month.)  But when the 
+episode was rebuilt, they used the raw footage segment showing Londo
+and a partial hedge IN THE SOUNDSTAGE, where you can see the stage 
+wall, and the pipes, and the EXIT sign.  No composite.  Nada.
+
      
+We don't yet know what else has been included incorrectly, because we
+won't see a copy until morning.  Suffice to say that this is being 
+taken care of *our* way overnight, and a correct version will be sent
+out via satellite in time for the Wednesday first airings in most 
+markets, and the reruns in those markets where it's already aired.
+
      
+At this moment, I am preternaturally calm about all this, having passed
+beyond anger earlier this evening into a kind of zen state of 
+consciousness, utterly unable to wrap my brain around the absolute 
+stupidity of something like this for more than two minutes at a time.
+
      
+By morning, this will have worn off.
+
      
+I'm looking forward to it immensely.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+As it turns out, we discovered that there were TWO comp shots missing 
+(including one in DownBelow), and that's how the "to be continued" got 
+added in at the end.  We rousted our people out of bed and had them at
+the Modern Video facility at 2:30 a.m. fixing other people's mistakes,
+rebuilding the entire episode so it could be birded out this afternoon.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If you saw TBC at the end of the episode, it was NOT the correct
+version.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Well, we tracked down more on the screw-up, and that's how the "To be
+continued" got in, and there's a second composite shot missing (from 
+the DownBelow area).  We rousted our post production people out of bed
+last night, and at 3:30 a.m. had them correcting the mistakes made by
+others, reassembling the entire episode.  The correct version is going
+out on the bird today, tomorrow, and tomorrow night.  It will also be
+hand-delivered to KCOP here in town to make sure they get it.
+
      
+I encourage anyone who saw "Chrysalis" over the last day or so to look
+at it again on the rerun; I think you'll find parts of it much better.
+
      
+This has been a complete and utter meltdown, and we're all out for 
+blood at the moment.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yeah, it can make you crazy.  Y'know that game, where you have a mallet
+and your job is to whack the gophers as they stick their head up out of
+the ground?  That's as good a description of my job as I've ever seen.
+And there are always new gophers....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+KCOP Channel 13 replaced the *good* version of Chrysalis with the 
+messed-up version
+
      
+I know...I know....
+
      
+Hand me my chainsaw, I'm going shopping for dinner.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The mistake wasn't made by us.  It was broadcast correctly overseas, 
+in the UK, perfectly.  This was done by the video house that supplied
+the satellite feed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Here is Londo's arc through the five year storyline:
+
      
+Funny and light; then funny and dark; then dark and tragic; then 
+tragic and light.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yeah, there's hope for Londo...but not in the way I think anybody 
+will expect, and not in the way Londo would like.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Londo is a fascinating character to write; there's layers upon 
+layers, and every time I sit down to write him, he surprises me with
+something else. And it's certainly more interesting to watch someone
+you like falling into something terrible than to set up a bad guy
+from day one; no complexity or sympathy there.  It's kind of like 
+watching an accident in slow motion.  But in the final analysis, all
+is not dark for Londo.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@839748926 What's the story on the god Vir doesn't consider part of
+the Centauri pantheon?
      
+Ah, yes...that one wasn't an emperor, that was Zoog, which was really just
+a household god, primarily associated with one noble family, that somewhat
+imposed Zoog where possible, forced the religious establishment to
+recognize the temple they'd built to Zoog...it was strictly an act of
+vanity on their part, to create a god, and elevate a household god, which
+never really carries much weight, to something greater, adding to the
+general pantheon.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, alas, Tech #1, Marianne Robertson has decided that she would
+like to travel next year with her husband Dick Robertson, and has 
+some other personal plans in mind, and thus won't be back next season.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Just FYI...Marianne Robertson, Tech #1, was Swedish, not Russian.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"JMS has specifically told us that one MAIN character will die in 
+Chrysalis or Points of Departure (I don't remember which)."
+
      
+No I haven't.
+
      
+Never said it.
+
      
+Sometimes, what happens is that people guess about what's going to 
+happen in the story...and gradually that becomes the assumption on 
+the part of some people that this WILL happen...which in time
+metamorphoses into "JMS said this would happen."
+
      
+This is yet another of those.  Never said it.
+
      
+While I understand how this happens (and it happens a lot), the only
+real complication that I get from it is that suddenly I'm being held 
+to promises I never made...and if it doesn't happen as I supposedly
+said, then it's somehow my fault.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Douglas Adams "homage."  Nope.  Eric Sevareid once wrote that
+"working in television is like being nibbled to death by ducks."  I
+think it was in his book "Not So Wild A Dream," itself a line 
+borrowed from a poem by Norman Corwin.  It's also a fairly common
+phrase.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Scenes you should look at differently after "Chrysalis"...one that
+comes to mind offhand is "Sky," in the various Garibaldi scenes 
+(can't be more specific than that right now).
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846702735 Have we learned the fate of Garibaldi's friend Lianna
+Kemmer, from "Survivors?"  Was she on Santiago's ship?
      
+No, we haven't established what happened to her, but we
+will in time.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846702735 
+If we go into what happened, and where she is, it
+kinda behooves us to  show her.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846702735 
+As with her arrival at B5, she would've
+been handling the  advance work on Io prior to Santiago's
+arrival.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Second season premiere.
+As a new commander assumes control of the station, a renegade Minbari
+warship arrives, threatening trouble.
+
+
+Robert Foxworth as General Hague.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "Chrysalis, Part II")
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.92
+
+Production number: 201
+Original air date: November 2, 1994
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  During the Earth-Minbari War, Captain John Sheridan managed to score
+	Earth's only real victory, destroying the Minbari flagship Black Star
+	and several cruisers by mining the asteroid belt between Jupiter and
+	Mars with fusion bombs.  This earned him the name "Starkiller" among
+	the Minbari warrior caste, as well as their continuing hatred.
+
+   
    • 	The Minbari population has been slowly declining for two millenia.
+
+   
    • 	The Grey Council ordered the end of the war after capturing Sinclair.
+	He was the first human to have direct contact with the Council.
+	Their original intent was to interrogate him and find out about
+	Earth's defenses, but upon scanning him, they found that Minbari
+	souls were somehow being reborn in human bodies.  Since Minbari
+	religion teaches that all the souls of the Minbari form a greater
+	whole, continuing the war would mean, in effect, killing part of
+	themselves.  Realizing that the knowledge that this was happening
+	to Minbari souls would prove destabilizing to society -- presumably
+	some would blame humans for the shrinking population, not to mention
+	how the humans would react to the news -- they decided
+	to keep their discovery a secret, and protect it with lethal force
+	if necessary.
+
+   
    • 	After the suicide of the warleader Sineval (cf.
+	"Legacies")
+	at the end of the war, the crew of his ship, the Trigati, defied the
+	surrender order and vanished into exile for nearly twelve years.
+
+   
    • 	Before her service on Babylon 5, Ivanova served under Sheridan at the
+	transfer point on Io.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    • 	How did a scan reveal that Minbari souls were being reborn in humans?
+
+   
    • 	Will the crew of the Trigati be considered martyrs by the warrior
+	caste in spite of their death at Minbari hands?
+   
+   
    •  Why did President Clark already know why the war ended?  (see
+	jms speaks, and comic
+	"In Darkness Find Me")
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    • 	The presence of the unnamed Grey Council member on Babylon 5 implies
+	that the Council knew Delenn would disobey its order, and further,
+	that they know the purpose of the chrysalis.  In fact, there seems to
+	be more division within the Council than they want to admit (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+	since one of the Councilmembers gave Delenn the triluminary even
+	though the council had advised her to wait.
+
+   
    • 	Sinclair was the first human to have contact with the Grey Council,
+	but there's still ample evidence that that's not the only thing
+	unique about him.  Delenn has hinted that she believes he has a great
+	destiny (cf.
+	"Grail"
+	and
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2")
+	and even in this episode, Lennier says, "A change is coming.
+	Sinclair was the first.  There will be others," implying that something
+	has happened to him that hasn't yet happened to anyone else.
+
+   
    • 	In fact, the Council may have identified a specific Minbari soul in
+	Sinclair, perhaps the reincarnation of a great figure in their history;
+	that would explain why they're so interested in him in particular.
+
+   
    • 	It's possible that the information about Minbari souls isn't even known
+	to all of the Grey Council.  When Delenn visited the Council (in
+	"Babylon Squared")
+	she spoke of the prophecy as the reason for ending the war, and some
+	of the other Councilmembers weren't sure that humans were the ones
+	the prophecy referred to.  If they had seen whatever scan results
+	convinced Delenn that humans had Minbari souls, they presumably would
+	have argued with her about those results rather than a vague
+	interpretation of the prophecy.
+
+   
    • 	The only thing that looked remotely like a scan in Sinclair's
+	recollection of his capture on the Line was when one of the Minbari
+	held a triluminary up to him.  (cf.
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+	It's at least plausible that the triluminary was instrumental in
+	determining that Sinclair had a reincarnated Minbari soul.  If its
+	function is indeed on such a spiritual level, the fact that it was
+	part of Delenn's machine (cf.
+	"Chrysalis")
+	suggests that her transformation may be as much mental as physical.
+	This interpretation of the triluminary's function is supported by
+	the comic issue
+	"In Darkness Find Me."
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's comment that he was the late president's choice
+	to replace Sinclair is odd; why would Santiago want someone who would
+	be sure to anger the Minbari and increase tensions?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Agamemnon was also a ship in the British fleet, at one point
+	commanded by Lord Nelson (best known for the Battle of Trafalgar.)
+
+   
    • @@@887274116 Possible factual error: Sheridan said the Dalai Lama ate
+	dinner with him, implying an evening meal.  But Buddhist monks,
+	including the Dalai Lama, don't eat after noon.  It is, of course,
+	possible that Buddhist practices have changed between the twentieth
+	and twenty-third centuries, or that "dinner" wasn't meant to imply
+	an evening meal, but rather the last meal of the day.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  As for Chrysalis, there's about 8 to 10 days in "story time" between
+	it and the events in "Points."  The next few shows track in real-time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why do the Minbari have a grudge against Sheridan?  It was wartime,
+	after all.
      
+	They don't much like the way he did it, which was rather sneaky.
+	My sense is that the Minbari have something of a superiority
+	complex; the idea of being beaten, even briefly, by a technically
+	inferior race is going to grate on them.  Also, bear in mind, that
+	the military caste has not been fully informed about WHY they were
+	ordered to surrender...so there's a great deal of animosity just
+	barely submerged there, which is pointed at the only real human
+	they know from the war...because he cost them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Heads definitely rolled (figuratively speaking) in the Minbari 
+	warrior caste after the Black Star incident.  They allowed themselves
+	to get cocky, and didn't do a proper job, which was more than an 
+	embarrassment to them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It kinda bothered their sense of superiority; also, their sense of 
+	honor lies more in the direction of one-to-one combat, rather than 
+	mining something as a trap.  Consider it the way British troops did 
+	toward American revolutionary fighters who hid behind trees and used 
+	guerilla tactics rather than fighting the way the British *wanted* 
+	them to fight, out in the open, in nice, easily shot-at rows....
+
+	
      
+   
    •  We will be changing the main title sequence after "Revelations"
+	airs to include the new version of Delenn.  Would be silly of us to
+	include the new version in episodes prior to her unveiling.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  The fact that Minbari believe in souls does not make it so.
+	
      
+	If a story is rigorously SF, but some of the people who inhabit the
+	story have belief systems, does that automatically invalidate it as SF?
+ 	
      
+	I don't think it's the position of this show to state whether or not
+	a belief system is true but rather to explore the actions of those who
+	THINK it's true; not to resolve arguments, but to start arguments.  (See
+	"Believers" for more on this one.)
+ 	
      
+	What the characters believe is subjective, and is their business.
+	Or, as Sheridan says in a later episode, "I'm not saying what I'm
+	saying.  I'm not saying what I'm thinking.  For that matter, I'm not
+	even THINKING what I'm thinking."
+
+	
      
+   
    •  This is correct.
+	Sheridan did NOT tell President Clark about the
+	Minbari soul situation.  Clark already knew about it.  Sheridan's line
+	is, "I spoke with the president.  He is the only other person who knows
+	why the Minbari surrendered."  Also, in the first issue of the comic,
+	this prior knowledge on Clark's part is clear as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW, and just for the heck of it...the line about paying off karma at
+	an accellerated rate is something Kathryn has been muttering for ages;
+	I popped it into the script for fun. 
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan asked what kind of scanners the fighters were using because 
+	he couldn't figure out why they were picking up the Minbari fighters. 
+	He wanted to be sure nobody had snuck by some kind of new tech.  Once
+	he knew they were the same tech as before, he knew something screwy 
+	was up.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct above; Sheridan says, quite specifically, in the conference 
+	room with Ivanova after the Grey Council guy is gone, "they used some
+	kind of stealth technology WE'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO BREAK."  It's not
+	a matter of old or cheaper tech; we just haven't broken their 
+	technology yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yes, ships can sit in hyperspace (something also mentioned by 
+	Laurel Takashima in the pilot, "If I were the Vorlons, I'd have a 
+	warship standing by in hyperspace just waiting to attack."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, I decided to name the EA Lounge "Earhart's" because she
+	is an important figure in aviation history, and I wanted a 40s art 
+	deco style to the place, down to big band music, and it fit perfectly.
+	There have been more women aviators, civilian and elsewhere, than we 
+	know, particularly during WW II at home, and they deserve recognition.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Earthforce lounge (EA personnel only) is Earhart's, named after
+	the famed aviator.
+	
      
+	(Consequently, as tradition, only swing or big-band music is ever
+	played in Earhart's.)
+	
      
+	Yes, we brightened things up a notch, but only a notch, because we
+	discovered that a lot of the good work being done on the sets and the
+	costumes wasn't being seen because we were too dark.  So we went up
+	about one f-stop, but at the same time began using more shadows, 
+	textures and colors, so the show has a denser look to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As noted elsewhere...we have previously established that the Dome is
+	periodically on Standby Mode, when the system is performing autmoated
+	(automated) backups, routine maintenance, that sort of thing.  It was
+	in "Midnight," when Garibaldi informs Ivanova that that's where he
+	likes to go, when it's on standby, and is quiet.  It was in "Sky," 
+	when Ivanova asks Tech 1 if there are any more ships due in for a 
+	while, is told no, and she puts her feet up on the console, nobody 
+	else around.
+
+	
      
+	Also, B5 tends to run on human cycles of day and night, something we
+	try to reflect in the sets and effects, showing the Garden bright 
+	during day times, and dark during night stuff (as around dinner time
+	in the Fresh Air Restaurant).  Maintaining such cycles has been found
+	to be critical in these kinds of environments.
+
+	
      
+	The standby mode only happens every 36-48 hours, for about an hour.
+	Most departments also have their own control areas, using C&C mainly
+	when command personnel are required.  In addition, there are folks 
+	monitoring C&C, and if anything *should* happen, someone could be 
+	there within seconds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Hyperion was built before the EM war, and survived.
+
+	
      
+	The Agamemnon, a much superior ship, was built afterward.  Sheridan 
+	was not commanding the Aggy during the war.  It's one of the best 
+	ships we've got, almost the equivilent of an aircraft carrier or 
+	battleship, and it took a lot of seniority and work to get it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, you will see the Agamemnon again.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nothing has been dumbed down or simplified; in a first season episode
+	(in other words, the first episode of any given season), you get a lot
+	of sampling.  If the show is obscure, or there's too much prior
+	knowledge required to get into it...they go away fast.  So there was a
+	bit more straightforward exposition in this episode in order to avoid
+	scaring off new viewers.
+
+	
      
+	And I stated, some time ago, that this was a lighter episode because 
+	it's sandwiched between two very intense episodes, "Chrysalis" and 
+	"Revelations," and I think you need some relief there.
+
+	
      
+	And as Walker noted, there are times when the dome is on standby, as
+	noted in "Midnight."  The systems every 36 hours or so go through a 
+	period of self-repair and maintainance for an hour or two; if anything
+	comes out of the gate or into local space, someone's there within 
+	seconds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I wouldn't look for too much of Garibaldi in the first episode; he
+	was shot in the back...my feeling is that, TV logic to the contrary,
+	it takes TIME to recover from that.  Consequently, this will take a
+	few episodes to get even remotely back on track.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the quote definitely comes from Lincoln.  I hated the old 
+	Babcom logo, so we dumped it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: yankeecentrism...we always strive for balance.  Yes, he quoted
+	Lincoln, but he also noted that on his 21st birthday, he flew to see
+	the new Dalai Lama being sworn in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  If you think PoD was a "wham," then I can't wait to see
+	your reaction to "Revelations."
+
+	
      
+	Interestingly enough, I figured on giving Sheridan a tie to the
+	Civil War through his ancestor, General Philip Sheridan (sometimes
+	called "Little Phil" by Lincoln).  Afterward, I discovered that Bruce
+	is a big civil war buff, so the Lincoln stuff worked very well.
+
+	
      
+	One of my favorite sequences from this episode is the stuff aboard
+	the Minbari cruiser during the Battle of the Line; the shots 
+	surrounding Delenn and the other Minbari gives it a very god-like 
+	aspect.  Just wonderful.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the
+	Union Army.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan is a soldier.  A soldier is told, in wartime, THIS is your
+	enemy.  You kill the enemy or your enemy kills you.  Afterward, 
+	you're in the same position American soldiers were in after the end
+	of WW II when it came time to reconcile with the Germans and the
+	Japanese.  It can sometimes be very awkward...and sometimes 
+	reconciliation takes a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  For what it's worth, Sheridan is neither a "space cowboy" nor a
+	"gung ho type."  This description has nothing to do with the 
+	character, and I'm not quite sure where you got this.  Certainly I
+	never said or implied it.
+
+	
      
+	Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the
+	only real victory of the Earth/Minbari War.  (Which means the Minbari
+	don't generally like him a lot.)  He did what he did because that's 
+	his job.  He's a professional soldier.  For the last two years, he's
+	been commanding the Agamemmnon, a high-visibility Earthforce starship
+	on deep patrol.  As such, he has had to learn to work with a number
+	of different races and species.
+
+	
      
+	In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was
+	the case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often 
+	seemed to hang.  Sheridan is often very thoughtful and introspective;
+	at other times, he can be just a bit eccentric; he leads by 
+	respecting those who work under him, and givingthem room to grow; 
+	like any career officer, he HATES the bureaucracy with a passion, and
+	this is the one thing that can drive him nuts; he knows that 
+	commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but he also knows that his 
+	presence brings certain complications with it, and he's very 
+	ambivilant about that aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic envoy who
+	disappeared on his 21st birthday, running off to see (of all things)
+	the new Dali Lama being installed; he has a very easygoing manner, 
+	and a great sense of humor.  He quickly re-forms a friendship with
+	Ivanova, for whom he has great respect and professional admiration.
+	(For a time she served under him at Io.)
+
+	
      
+	He is, actually, a fascinating and intriguing character with a lot
+	of different shadings...none of which have *anything* to do with 
+	being a "space cowboy" or "gung-ho type."
+
+	
      
+	Anyway...point being...when it was announced that there was going to
+	be a new Lieutenant-Commander, a number of folks went ballistic and
+	said the show would now be ruined.  I said, in essence, look...I 
+	created Takashima; I can create an interesting character to replace 
+	her.  And I thunk up Ivanova, who according to the rec.arts.b5 poll 
+	is the most popular character on the show.  When it was announced 
+	that Sinclair would be STAYING with the show, after the pilot, a 
+	number of folks said this was bad, he was wooden, he stunk, get him
+	off...and ended up being very enamored of him.  My only reply now 
+	about Bruce...give him, and me, a chance.  I genuinely think you will
+	like what you see a *lot*.
+
+	
      
+	In the course of the first season, Ivanova, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Londo,
+	Delenn, others...they've exploded into strong characters.  You need
+	an equally strong character designed to hold his own, and be 
+	memorable, in that august company.  Sheridan was designed knowing we
+	had a much elevated playing field around the character.
+
+	
      
+	Obviously, clearly, and irrefutably, an actor brings a *lot* to any
+	role.  No question.  But it tends to begin with what is created.
+	I've seen it said here, repeatedly, that none of the characters are
+	uninteresting; they all have lives, and agendas, that make them
+	fascinating to watch:  Londo, Morden, G'Kar, Delenn, Garibaldi, 
+	Ivanova...what those characters are came out of my head, in terms of
+	who tey are, what they say, what they believe, where they came from 
+	and where they're going.  Why would I invent a new character that was
+	any less involving, or interesting, or multifaceted?  Particularly 
+	knowing that he's going to be a central character?
+
+	
      
+	Speaking as someone who's been in fandom a long, long time, I know
+	there is always a tendency for panic, to assume the apocalpse is
+	upon us, that something is never going to be the same again.  I heard
+	this after the Enterprise was destroyed in "The Search for Spock." 
+	I've heard this a lot over the years.  It's generally over-reaction 
+	and worry before anyone has even seen a frame of film.
+
+	
      
+	Bottom line being...wait and see, then judge.  I've tried very hard
+	not to let you down, and I think so far I haven't done so...I have no
+	intention of starting now.  Bruce is doing an absolutely *brilliant*
+	job as Captain Sheridan, bringing a thoughtfulness and intensity and
+	charm and intensity to the part that is a joy to behold.  Give him a
+	chance.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Alas, I wrote my note about Bruce around 1 or 2 in the morning, and
+	I meant to balance out *intensity* with *intelligence*, but my
+	brain saw the first letters i-n-t-e, and vapor-locked.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How important to the Arc is Sheridan?
      
+	How critical was Aragorn to the storyline of Lord of the Rings?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The way in which Sheridan comes into the storyline is *absolutely*
+	consistent with everything that has come before, and everything that
+	follows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan was never on the original list [to command B5] because at
+	that time when the EA needed Minbari financing for B5, they knew it'd
+	piss off the Minbari to have it there, so he was never considered for
+	the post at that time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Sounds like a formula to really PO the Minbari."
+	
      
+	Yup.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just to clarify: in Soul Hunter we set in place the question of what
+	these things are, and do not resolve that question.  Dr. Franklin 
+	offers that with the correct technology, it might be possible to
+	make (for lack of a better term) a clone of someone's neural patterns,
+	copy his personality and memories into a storage device...but also
+	dismisses the notion of soul stealing.
+
+	
      
+	I traffic in ambiguity.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In a sense, yes, "Believers" now enters the arc...but so does "Soul
+	Hunter," in a big way.  Replay Lennier's talk to Sheridan and Ivanova,
+	then play Delenn's conversation with Sinclair and the Soul Hunter in 
+	that episode, and suddenly a lot of elements begin to intersect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: you're noticing the line, "You talk like a Minbari" from Neroon
+	to Sinclair in "Legacies"....yup.  Sometimes this stuff is in broad
+	strokes, sometimes in teeny little things like that.  Also ties in 
+	even further with where Sinclair goes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Note that Lennier says he wishes he could have told them (us) the 
+	*rest* of the prophecy...and there's definitely more to Sinclair, as
+	will be seen later in the season.  Remember, the Grey Council never 
+	tells anyone the whole truth (note how Kalain asks that question
+	upon being told that Sinclair is just an ambassador).
+
+
      
+   
    •  There really wasn't/isn't time in PoD to get into the angst everyone 
+	has over Sinclair leaving (though some of that is given to Sheridan, 
+	oddly enough).  But it WILL get brought up in subsequent episodes, 
+	especially from Garibaldi.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair was the first human the Minbari (or at least the Grey
+	Council) had ever met, having come this far for the final victory.
+	The Earth Explorer vessel was part of a military fleet that 
+	encountered a Minbari convoy, there was a miscommunication, a 
+	misperceived threat, and our ships opened fire.  There was no
+	person-to-person contact.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sure, you could blind-fire at a Minbari cruiser, but it's pretty 
+	heavily armored.  And while you're shooting at it, you're not only 
+	being hit by cruiser blasts, but the several dozen Minbari fighters
+	coming in behind you. And shooting at a sublight traveling fighter by
+	eye would absolutely never work.  It *has* to be computer guided.
+
+	
      
+	(BTW, for the sharp of eye...if you go back and sill-step through 
+	some of the cockpit screen shots in "Sky," you'll note that on the tac
+	screen in Sinclair's cockpit it says something to the effect of 
+	"Unable to lock-onto target.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, you can go in and shoot at a Minbari *cruiser* visually...but
+	the reality is that any long-range weapon will be intercepted by 
+	targeting fire, and if you get up real close and personal...well,
+	actually, you *can't* get up real close and personal because, as 
+	Mitchell learned in "Sky," you get shot by the fighters.
+
+	
      
+	What the fighters tend to remain engaged with are the Minbari fighters,
+	which are *incredibly* fast...much too fast to target visually.
+
+	
      
+	And believe me, as Sheridan stated, Earth's been *trying* to break 
+	the stealth tech for a while, just hasn't been able to.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: [Robert] Foxworth...he was someone we spoke to in case Bruce turned out not
+	to be available, and we liked him instantly, and he liked the show.  
+	So for good luck, we had him come in for this role, which may appear
+	again.  He's a terrific actor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What were all those ribbons on General Hague's chest awarded
+	for?
      
+	I'll have to check, but probably most of those medals are for 
+	actions during the Earth/Minbari War, and during the Dilgar War.  
+	I'll have to check to get anything more specific than that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, my thought at the time, and I probably should've put this
+	into dialogue in retrospect, was that there's a window about every 36
+	hours when the entire C&C system goes through self-maintainance for
+	about half an hour, backing things up, doing self-repair, filing logs
+	with Earth Central, that sort of thing.  They normally pick a slow
+	period in docking, and any other routine stuff is handled through the
+	backup C&C on the other side of the station axis (you can see it
+	directly above the docking bay when the normal C&C is directly below 
+	it).
+
+	
      
+	At first I'd considered putting that in Ivanova's mouth when she says
+	"Of all the time he could've picked," but then the reveal of where
+	he was and what he was doing fell flat; it needed to be a surprise or
+	it lost its impact and the humor.  Ah, well....
+
+
      
+   
    •  It has been established, in prior episodes, that there are brief
+	periods when C&C is in "standby mode," during which time no ships are
+	due, the station is in "night" cycle, and the operational equipment
+	in C&C goes through routine backup and maintenance.  In "Midnight on 
+	the Firing Line," our first episode, Ivanova is told by Garibaldi
+	that Sinclair is in C&C when it's in standby mode because he likes 
+	the quiet during those brief periods (usually only about an hour or
+	so); in "Chrysalis," Ivanova asks Tech 1 if any more ships are due in
+	for a while, is told no, and she puts her feet up on the console,
+	watching the news, with the place pretty much deserted.
+
+	
      
+	This isn't the bridge of a starship; this is mainly a center of
+	operations for docking and other station activities requiring command
+	personnel.  Every separate department -- environmental, other 
+	resources -- has its own separate control center, with lots of
+	redundency.
+
+	
      
+	In addition, there's always somebody monitoring stuff as it comes    
+	through, so if there *were* any kind of problem, there'd be somebody 
+	on site in C&C in thirty seconds.  Basically, we're talking an hour
+	or so once every 36 to 48 hours.  I could've explained this in 
+	dialogue, but it would've taken the edge off the revelation and humor,
+	and I figured we'd done this before enough times that it wouldn't be
+	an issue.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just as an advisory...the woman who spoke up in PoD (the tech who
+	told Sheridan that Security wanted him) is not a Tech 1 replacement;
+	she was there just for that one episode.  We have a number of folks
+	floating through that area now, because logically you would have 
+	rotating crews.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A vibe shower would theoretically use sonic waves (in combination 
+	with other elements, like disinfecting lighting, as seen in "Signs")
+	to remove dirt and kill bacteria.
+
+	
      
+	That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn staying while Sinclair goes is part of WHY Sinclair goes and
+	Delenn stays.  It's absolutely part and parcel.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834423619 Delenn had intended to tell Sinclair much about the soul issue
+	before entering the chrysalis.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's always interesting, if you have one character upon whom everyone
+	else leans, even depends, to *remove* that character for a time.  
+	Because then those characters have to *react*...to either stand or 
+	fall on their own.  It shakes things up a little...and vastly 
+	intensifies the characters.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm going to test myself, and see how much I can say without saying 
+	too much.
+
+	
      
+	You have X-number of characters.  They're all in the same place.  
+	You're trying to tell a story that has a great deal of scale, and 
+	covers all kinds of worlds, changing politics, alliances, on and on. 
+	The question becomes, how do you *illustrate* that?  To use a line
+	from the original Trek, when a mob guy is brought aboard the
+	Enterprise, he says later, "All I saw was a room and five guys."
+
+	
      
+	So now you start saying, "Hmmm...what if I remove Character A from 
+	the chessboard, and move him over *here* for a while?  He wasn't going
+	to be doing much for the next little bit anyway.  And we won't just
+	"deal" with that change, it's part of the story...it broadens out the
+	story to include Place A *and* Place B.  It has repercussions down the
+	road.  It comes up again in the future.  Elements from Place B now
+	become known on Place A.  Character A may even make an occasional
+	reappearance to keep us even more closely connected with Place B, 
+	which is necessary because Place B is very, very important."
+
+	
      
+	What we have in mind here isn't quite comparable to anything that's
+	been done before.  The character will still be alive.  The character 
+	will continue to have an impact on the story.  The character will be
+	spotted from time to time.  The character will continue to show up in
+	the comic and the novels.  And through this move, you have the benefit
+	of substantially opening up the B5 universe, you help create the 
+	realignment of characters and loyalties that was anticipated for this
+	season, and it helps kick over the tables, as we did in Chrysalis.
+
+	
      
+	Just a slight refinement on the argument.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I can probably answer your question a little better after you've seen
+	the second episode of this season.  For now, let's just say this: in
+	working out the story for year two, Sinclair's main line of connection
+	was to the Minbari.  But the Minbari storyline was diminishing in ways
+	onnected to the war in year two; obviously we all know what is on the 
+	upswing in year two, certain dark forces.  I needed someone who has a 
+	connection to *that* side of the story to personalize it, and Sheridan
+	brings that connection to the mix, although he doesn't know it yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Battle of the Line and the hole in Sinclair's mind was always
+	intended as the entry point or trigger to the story.  It's like Frodo
+	being given the Ring in LoTR.  The story isn't about that, that's how
+	we get INTO it.  Frankly, there's no way you can sustain that one 
+	element for five years, nor did we ever intend to do so.
+	
      
+	The only difference in the resolution of that aspect is this: we had
+	originally intended to resolve the missing 24 hours, and the Battle 
+	of the Line, by episode four, season two.  We've simply moved it up 
+	3 eps to the first episode.  Because new players are coming onto the
+	field, in the form of the Shadowmen, and other forces, and we now 
+	have to begin turning our attention to new mysteries.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Changes are coming; Sinclair was the first, there will be others."
+	He was referring to more changes coming.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan, or more specifically the need for someone *like* Sheridan
+	began to get through clearly toward the latter part of last season, 
+	as I began planning out season two's progression, and kept looking at
+	elements of the story and trying to find ways to get Sinclair into 
+	the heart of them.  They felt contrived, for the most part; and the 
+	other characters, like Londo and G'Kar and Delenn, were *really* 
+	moving forward in a big way.  The role of Sinclair was becoming 
+	primarily that of a "problem solver," and when that happens, a sort
+	of glass bell falls down around the character, and you can't do much
+	with him.
+	
      
+	So what the writer has to do is break that bell in one way or 
+	another; do something totally unexpected to him, and bring in someone
+	who has a direct, personal connection with the storyline emerging in
+	season two, so it's not contrived or forced.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@859396941 All the characters are unique; there seems to be this
+	bone-headed notion, that  I frequently run into, of "Well,
+	Ivanova's just Takashima renamed," or "Sheridan's  story is
+	just the same as Sinclair's, same guy just renamed."  They're
+	*not* and  never have been.  The story of one does not devlove
+	automatically upon the  other.  If you make a change, it's
+	because you have something better in  mind...otherwise why
+	make it?
+
+
      
+   
    •  I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling, no
+	single primary question could be allowed to go more than about one 
+	season before answering it, otherwise you get into a frustrating Twin
+	Peaks situation where *nothing* is resolved.  Basically, the events
+	begun in "Chrysalis" bleed over into three episodes; the Battle of the
+	Line answers were initially only a couple of episodes further down in 
+	my outline, about episode #3.  Making the change, for one thing,
+	allowed me to move that storyline forward to episode #1, blow through
+	it and get the story moving in year two faster, rather than delaying 
+	further with loose threads from season one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The idea of a Chrysalis II went by the boards once I really got into
+	the script, and realized that C1 had tipped over too many tables to 
+	even HOPE to resolve them in one follow-up episode.  So the threads
+	yanked in C1 will be paid off over several episodes, hence no C2; the
+	first episode of year two is "Points of Departure."
+
+
      
+   
    •  What about Catherine Sakai?
+	
      
+	This is the one thread that I'm still trying to decide about.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834859258 They didn't get married.  Wasn't time, and his new posting
+	precluded that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We're dedicated to improving all of these elements on a regular basis;
+	CGI, sets, directing, lighting, name it.
+	
      
+	The music will change every year, to get in sync with where the season 
+	is going; the tone and tenor and mood will shift.
+	
      
+	Re: the narration...last year, Michael had the benefit of being able to
+	see the sequence prior to reading the narration, and reading with the 
+	images.  That was when we were shooting in July to air in January.  In
+	this case, shooting in August to air in November, Bruce had to wing it,
+	without any images for reference, just text.  Now that we've got the
+	opening completed (and we weren't satisfied with it or done tinkering
+	with it until a few days before delivery), we'll probably let him do 
+	it again with the visuals before him, so he knows what he's reading to,
+	since it'll have a *big* impact on how he delivers the stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a reason for this: due to time constraints, we have to get 
+	Bruce to do the narration *without* having the images in front of him;
+	he had no way of knowing where beats would go with the images, or what
+	would be under it (since we were still putting the new opening 
+	together), so we had to artifically build in pauses when we did the 
+	final transfer (as opposed to year one, where we had the images
+	assembled long before we had Michael do the narration).  What took 
+	forever was that 5 fade/dissolve/wipe, which just killed us time-wise,
+	but is spiffy to look at.
+	
      
+	Now that it's all together, we plan to have Bruce re-do the narration
+	with the images in front of him, so he can respond naturally and make
+	it flow, the way he would've been able to do had we had the material 
+	ready in time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the theme music...to me, one is neither worse nor better than the
+	other.  They're *different*, and meant to convey different moods and 
+	themes.  Each year it'll change.  This year was heavy on strings and 
+	brass; next year it'll be heavy on percussion.  The main theme will be
+	reinterpreted and interpolated in different ways.  In the B5 universe,
+	change is the only constant.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Promoting Ivanova to running the station would not be logical, since
+	from a military and diplomatic standpoint she has nowhere *near* the
+	level of experience required.  It wouldn't be done in real life.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar brings news of a terrible new enemy.  The arrival of
+Sheridan's sister opens up old wounds for the new commander.
+Dr. Franklin employs an unorthodox procedure to try to bring Garibaldi
+out of his coma.  Delenn's mysterious change is completed.
+
+
+Beverly Leech as Elizabeth Sheridan.
+Macaulay Bruton as Garibaldi's aide.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 8.40
+
+Production number: 202
+Original air date: November 9, 1994
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    • 	Sheridan's wife Anna was killed two years ago when her ship exploded on
+	its way to explore the recently discovered ruins of an ancient
+	civilization on the Rim.
+
+   
    •  The Book of G'Quan, the holy book of G'Kar's religion (cf.
+	"By Any Means Necessary") mentions an ancient
+	enemy that rose to power a thousand years in the past, a power so
+	great it nearly overwhelmed the stars themselves.  And the book
+	contains drawings suspiciously siimilar to the Shadows' ships.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Is Delenn's new appearance an outward transformation, a complete
+	physical rebirth, or something even more fundamental?
+
+   
    •  What exactly has she become?
+
+   
    •  Was the result what she thought it would be?  She didn't seem to know
+	what had happened to her when she first emerged from the chrysalis;
+	clearly she didn't go into the process with detailed knowledge of the
+	outcome.
+
+   
    •  How much does G'Kar suspect about Londo's involvement with the
+	Shadows?
+
+   
    •  Why did President Clark order Garibaldi's aide returned to Earth?  Was
+	he aware that the clandestine transfer would take place, or did 
+	someone else arrange that to stop the prisoner from being interrogated
+	by Clark's people?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  The Book of G'Quan, assuming G'Kar was describing the text itself
+	rather than his interpretation, says that the ancient enemy came from
+	the rim of known space, the planet Z'ha'dum.
+	That implies that the Narns, or some among them, were
+	technologically advanced at least a thousand years ago; otherwise they
+	would presumably have had no way of knowing the origin of the enemy,
+	certainly not well enough to locate its home planet.  Given that they
+	are not particularly advanced compared to the other major races, one
+	of three things must have happened:
+
+	
        
+	   
      1. 	Some event, possibly the last great war, reduced their
+		capabilities enough that they had to start nearly from scratch.
+	   
      2.  They advanced technologically at a very slow pace, or not at
+		all, over the past millenium.
+	   
      3.  Another race used the Narn (or their world) in the war,
+		departing when it was over and leaving the Narn with only
+		legends of the great enemy.
+	
      
+
+	If the second is true, it's possible that some of the other races
+	acquired their technology from the Narns, an interesting twist
+	on the established idea that the Narns are obsessed with obtaining
+	technology from others (cf. "The Gathering.")
+
+   
    •  When G'Kar's wingman crashed into the Shadow fighter, the Shadow
+	ship appeared to writhe in pain.  It appears that employing living
+	technology is a common trait of the very advanced civilizations
+	(cf. "Infection.")  The question naturally
+	arises: are the Shadow ships ships in the traditional sense,
+	with crews or pilots aboard, or are they autonomous entities?
+
+   
    •  The fact that a one-man Narn fighter was able to destroy a Shadow
+	ship implies that the Shadows can be overcome by force, assuming they
+	aren't so numerous as to overwhelm all their opponents.
+
+   
    • 	Delenn flat-out lied when she said her government approved her
+	transformation (cf. "Points of Departure.")
+	Yet they have made no move to replace her as ambassador.  Perhaps
+	they fear the consequences of working against the prophecy more
+	than they fear what she's doing.
+
+   
    •  Dr. Franklin hasn't tried the healing machine on anyone, not even
+	experimentally.  Perhaps he hasn't been studying it -- which seems
+	strange, given its potential to utterly revolutionize the practice
+	of medicine.  Now that he knows it works, he may be more inclined to
+	use it in the future, possibly in place of hazardous conventional
+	treatments.
+
+   
    •  Anna Sheridan's research vessel was destroyed in an apparent accident
+	on the Rim, on its way to explore an ancient civilization.  The
+	similarities to the destruction of the Narn ship sent by G'Kar are
+	too great to ignore.  She very possibly was killed by the Shadows,
+	something which won't endear them to Sheridan if he learns about it.
+	If that's true, the question of how the ruins of the civilization
+	were discovered in the first place remains unanswered.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  The poem G'Kar read to Na'Toth is from "The Second Coming" by W. B.
+	Yeats (quoted sections emphasized):
+
+	
      
+		Turning and turning in the widening gyre
      
+		The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
      
+		Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
      
+		Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
      
+		The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
      
+		The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
      
+		The best lack all conviction, while the worst
      
+		Are full of passionate intensity.
      
+		
      
+		Surely some revelation is at hand;
      
+		Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
      
+		The Second Coming!  Hardly are those words out
      
+		When a vast image out of "Spiritus Mundi"
      
+		Troubles my sight:  somewhere in the sands of the desert
      
+		A shape with lion body and the head of a man
      
+		A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
      
+		Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
      
+		Reel shadows of the indigant desert birds.
      
+		The darkness drops again; but now I know
      
+		That twenty centuries of stony sleep
      
+		Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
      
+		And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
      
+		Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
      
+	
      
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi's aide is named Jack, though it's easy to miss; Garibaldi
+	mentions the name once after Talia leaves medlab and he speaks to
+	Franklin and Ivanova.
+
+   
    •  The closed captioning spells G'Quan "Sh'Quon," but JMS has used the
+	shorter spelling on several occasions, so it's the one used here.
+
+   
    •  Continuity gaffe:
+	In the scene with Sheridan
+	and his sister in his quarters, he drains his drink, walks
+	toward the bar, and before he gets there, the glass refills
+	and he drains it again.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the ever-improving CGI...there's an action scene in the teaser
+	of the second episode, "Revelations," that is particularly amazing.  And
+	there is one shot of a Narn ship in extreme close-up toward the end of
+	the scene that looks absolutely *solid*, and every bit as real and
+	detailed as any model, and then some.  It cannot be distinguished from
+	a physical object.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One aspect of the Yeats quote, and the Lincoln quote, and the
+	Tennyson quote(s), and the many others, is that I think a lot of folks
+	at some point tuned out of, or aren't interested in, literature and
+	poetry because they've never really been exposed to it.  So just to be a
+	little subversive, I work some of it into the show.  I choose that which
+	has meaning to the show, and the characters, in the hopes that (as has
+	happened here), viewers will dig out the original material and be
+	exposed
+	to some *really* nifty writing.  Granted that television must entertain
+	at minimum; it should also elevate and ennoble and educate, and this is
+	too good an opportunity to waste, provided one does not become didactic
+	about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Speaking of looking into the abyss...which comes from "Revelations,"
+	it's a partial quote.  Neitzsche: "When you look into the abyss, the
+	abyss looks also into you."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: inconsistent writing and Narns...please bear in mind that there
+	are two ways to encounter shadowmen: going out there, and them coming in
+	to see YOU.  The Narns need not be (and were not) spacefaring when they
+	encountered the shadowmen.  Or, more accurately, were encountered BY
+	them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Copies of the evidence were made, but the question is what is the
+	available evidence to BE copied?  Frankly, there isn't much.  There are
+	no witnesses, very little physical evidence.  If you tried to make a
+	case with what they've got, you'd be laughed out of the courtroom.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, since you've sussed it...the plan was to turn Delenn from
+	male to female in "Chrysalis," in my original plans, as well as making
+	her half-human.  And yes, it would've had one hell of an impact...but my
+	concern when I made that decision not do do this back in the pilot was
+	based on the reality that we couldn't do it well.  The "male" voice,
+	altered by computer-enhancement, just sounded REAL bogus; we couldn't
+	get it right, and I had to decide between dropping it, and doing
+	something the people would rightly describe as lame all season, just
+	for one big payoff.  It was a tough call, but it had to be made.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why does Delenn's hair go under her bone ridge?
      
+	When Delenn's structure changed, the epidermal layer on the head
+	grew thinner; there is now a gap between the skin, and the bone which
+	has grown out.  Hair can be draped through it, or laid over it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct; the Narn bridge is CGI.  Re: the explosion...we shot a
+	lot of live pyrotechnics for Ron's use; but don't recall offhand which
+	was used here, live or CGI.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Anna chose to take Sheridan's last name.  Her decision.  You have the
+	option.  Some do, some don't.  If you start to pass rules that no woman
+	CAN take her husband's name or she's betraying something, then you're
+	being just as restrictive as those who insist a woman MUST take her 
+	husband's name.  Me, I'm pro-choice on every level.  She felt like it.
+
+	
      
+	(And I note that my own spousal overunit kept her own name.  But then,
+	who in her right mind WOULD take Straczynski...?)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another thing that can be now re-interpreted is the look on Jack's
+	face when Garibaldi didn't go for the whitewash of the security 
+	guard's financial records in "Sky," and how that body managed to get 
+	out of the station without security being aware of it....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Next week, in "Revelations," you get G'Kar, Londo, Delenn, Lennier,
+	Na'Toth, Kosh, Garibaldi, Talia and everybody else.  Because there 
+	was SO much happening in #1, that got slid back a bit; also, there's
+	a fair amount of time required for everything to do what they're 
+	supposed to be doing.  (Note that we're operating pretty much in
+	real-time; "Points" is around 8 days after the events of "Chrysalis,"
+	and "Revelations" is about another week after that.)
+
+	
      
+	One thing I noted here some time ago, as a large part of the reason
+	I dropped "to be continued" from "Chrysalis" is that this is more of 
+	a three-parter than a two, and some threads pulled in "Chrysalis" 
+	won't be fully resolved in some ways until the third and fourth 
+	episodes.  There is a LOT going on, and if we try to cram it all into
+	one episode (as I at first tried with "Chrysalis, Part Two") you 
+	don't give ANY of them the proper time to have any impact.
+
+	
      
+	Finally, we're getting new people sampling the first episode of the
+	season, as is true of most shows.  Thus, you have to put into 
+	dialogue a fair amount of stuff that otherwise you could just imply
+	or rely on past experience/prior knowledge.  So you kind of introduce
+	the newbies to the situation, and that requires a fair amount of
+	exposition.  This is pretty much localized to "Points," however; with
+	the next episode, we're up to full speed.  Episode 2 deals with as 
+	many issues/plotlines as "Chrysalis," with the main difference being
+	that here, they're *resolved* rather than left hanging.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, generally stories are self-contained, but in the case of season
+	endings like "Chrysalis," it takes time to get everything back up and
+	running again.  The bigger the explosion, the longer it takes to clean
+	up the mess.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Lennier, the Grey Council fellow said, "Tell them what we've told
+	YOU," not someone else.  Just to clarify.
+
+
      
+   
    •  [Talia's] not seeing the shooter from outside Garibaldi's POV.  That
+	shot in particular is *exactly* from Garibaldi's POV.  It's a lot 
+	like what is done in hypnosis, going back into somebody's memory and
+	dragging out details they might have seen but not noted; the eye sees
+	more than the brain recalls at any given moment.  When we shot that
+	scene, I was on-set, and the camera was put *exactly* where Garibaldi
+	was standing, so we'd be very careful that it WAS his point of view.
+	So though I hate to contradict you, it's not "a stupid plot hole from
+	hell."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Oh, I'm quite sure there was backup made of the data.  But step back 
+	for a moment and ask what that entails, and will any of it stand up 
+	in ANY court of law?  There's a difference between that which we knor
+	or (make that know or) believe, and that which we can prove.  Without
+	the one most important piece of all, Garibaldi's aide, the rest is 
+	speculative, inconclusive, circumstantial and conjectural.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, if Laurel had stayed with the station, either she would have
+	pulled the trigger on Garibaldi, or been directly involved in other
+	ways.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Morden is the mongoose."
+
+	
      
+	So what's needed now is a conveniently placed cobra....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The platform seen in the opening of "Revelations" is a hazardous
+	materials platform, which is still cleaning up the radioactive debris
+	and other stuff from the blown Minbari cruiser in the last ep.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Na'Toth's change of actresses
      
+	The actor wanted to pursue other avenues.  She'd primarily worked as
+	a romantic lead in films, then came in at the last minute to help 
+	with season one.  She then wanted to go back to that.  The character
+	stayed because we need the character to have some prior knowledge of
+	the situation, rather than bringing in somebody new.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Na'Toth...you have to remember this was not our decision, but 
+	rather Caitlin's, in order to pursue some romantic lead parts.  We 
+	made an offer equal to the other cast, but she opted out to pursue 
+	films.  We cast the best actor to come in the door to fill Na'Toth's
+	boots, and we need that character there because of the prior knowledge
+	she needs to have to fill her role in the story.  Mary Kay is, I think,
+	trying to reinterpret the character.  We're nudging in the other
+	direction.  One way or another, this will be made to work.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, no, it's not a rumor; I'd mentioned this some time ago, but
+	apparently some didn't see it....
+	
      
+	So to repeat: we'd had to replace Mary Woronov with virtually no
+	notice after we found that she really had a hard time with the narn
+	prosthetics (wouldn't wear the contacts, and other stuff).  In a 
+	panic, our casting director called in a favor from Caitlin Brown, who
+	is mainly a leading-lady type actor.  She came in and, in fact, for
+	the first episode (shooting almost immediately afterward) wore a 
+	variation of the Ko'Dath makeup, because there wasn't time to make
+	one specific to her.
+	
      
+	She came in without being under the 5-year option that generally
+	exists in these situations.  Did one year, about 9 episodes, as 
+	Na'Toth.  And had to turn down a couple of leading-female parts. 
+	During the hiatus, she did a romantic lead character in a film with 
+	Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.  And had to ask the hard question: 
+	do I continue to grow as a romantic lead actor in feature films, or 
+	play Na'Toth?  She is a VERY gorgeous woman, and felt awkward hiding
+	behind the mask and cutting herself out of leading female parts in
+	feature films to do it.
+	
      
+	We went 'round and 'round about this for some time, it was a very
+	difficult decision for her because she likes the show and everyone
+	here, but finally opted out.  On one level it's a pain in the butt,
+	but we respect her decision.  And it *is* her call, not ours.
+	
      
+	(Quick aside...pfffttthhpplttt to those who, in their theory that
+	Sinclair/O'Hare quit, said that I'd naturally say it was mutual 
+	because I could never say it was the actors choice because somehow
+	I'd get in trouble.  No, I *would* say it if O'Hare had opted out on
+	his own.  And in this case, that's exactly what happened.)
+	
      
+	We didn't recast Sinclair because that character is going somewhere
+	from whence he may (and will) return, and because that serves the 
+	story; in this case, we are recasting Na'Toth.  By the end of season
+	one, Na'Toth knows stuff that I need that character, G'Kar's aide, 
+	to know.  (Though I was briefly tempted to do the Murphy Brown 
+	Secretary line, with G'Kar getting a new aide every so often due to
+	terrible airlock accidents...but I went to lay down for a while and
+	the notion passed.)
+	
      
+	So no, it's not a rumor, it's quite true.  In fact, we just finished
+	up a casting session and found someone who's very right for the part;
+	and though we weren't confined to this, is actually about the same
+	height, same build, same attitude as Caitlin, and whose voice is very
+	similar.  I don't think much difference will be noted in the long run,
+	really.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Narn aren't waiting.  Or, more accurately, G'Kar isn't.  The rest
+	of the Kha'Ri (Narn inner circle government) are still somewhat 
+	skeptical.
+
+	
      
+	The Minbari know the shape of what's coming, but they know full well
+	that if they go to us with this, we won't believe them; there's still
+	enough residual dislike over the war that they feel we have to find 
+	this out for ourselves (and we will).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Let's just say for now that about a thousand years ago, Narn was used
+	as a lay-over and supply spot for a Shadowman group that landed there
+	for a time, and used it briefly as a base of operations.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198604 Is the name "Z'ha'dum" a reference to Khazad-dum
+	from "The Lord of the Rings?"
      
+	Not really, no...I always imagined that Z'ha'dum was originally
+	the Minbari word for the place, and the Z'ha has echoes in Entil-zha
+	and Isil-zha. The dum (doom) part is obvious.  Not to say I wasn't
+	aware of Khazad-dum, but it wasn't on my mind at the time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: "switching places"...this is *exactly* what I noted early on; 
+	the intent to set up in the very beginning a situation where those 
+	who've seen basic SF before on the tube will go, "Oh, okay, I got it
+	...this is the Bad Guy, this is the Good Guy, this is the Comic 
+	Relief, this is the Ally," and so on, because that's generally what's
+	been the case in TV SF; you set up the various sides from day one, and
+	virtually nobody moves.
+
+	
      
+	So you get them to rely on their conditioning, then you begin to move
+	the chairs around, so suddenly what you THOUGHT was the good guy is 
+	maybe something else; and what you THOUGHT was the comic relief is a
+	tragic and dark figure; and what you THOUGHT was the bad guy is maybe 
+	one of the real heroes of the story.  And you try and make the path
+	that results in those changes as interesting, moving, or scary as 
+	possible.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of course Londo realizes he's being...not exactly set up, but that 
+	he's getting into a very bad situation.  But on the other hand, he 
+	sees that perhaps this is his last chance to grab for something more
+	than what he is; he's not a young man anymore, and offers such as
+	this, even though he knows there will be a price someday (as he 
+	states to Morden), do not come along every day.
+
+	
      
+	Here is the key to characterization: who is your character, what does
+	he want, how far will he go to get it, and what is he prepared to 
+	lose in that process?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Morden is human.
+	
      
+	Morden dat I can't say.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, G'Kar's makeup wasn't changed this year; the actor put on a
+	few pounds over hiatus, which shows in the face, which changes how the
+	prosthetic looks.  This was dropped very quickly by Andreas, however,
+	and the makeup has adjusted itself.  (Hell, we all put on a few pounds
+	during hiatus.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Oddly, the new makeup takes *longer* for Mira than the old, which went
+	on in a couple of fairly straightforward pieces.  Now there's a lot
+	more detail work and more pieces.
+
+	
      
+	Also, the intent is that G'Kar looked at both Sheridan and Londo, not
+	sure which of them may have leaked the info, though I think the 
+	editing may have focused too much on Londo in that shot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The only time a name is associated with his aide is when Garibaldi 
+	refers to him later, at which time he just says Jack.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jack had had contact with the PsiCops in "Mind War"
      
+
+	No, Jack wasn't *seduced* at that time ...but he WAS there to meet
+	them, and escort them to see Sinclair.  Why him?  Perhaps a contact 
+	there...?
+
+
      
+   
    •  What would be different if there hadn't been cast changes after
+	"The Gathering?"
      
+	The only problem with answering how things would've been different
+	is that some information might get out by inference about how things
+	might still *be*.  However, to do what I can with the question (never
+	let it be said I don't try to accommodate....).
+	
      
+	If Lyta had stayed on B5, her arc would be pretty close to that of
+	Talia, except that she would have begun to form a strong link to Kosh,
+	first in the form of dreams, then something with implications that 
+	could be read as menacing or benign.
+	
      
+	If Dr. Kyle would have stayed around, he would have moved more into
+	the position of advisor/paternal figure for Sinclair.  He also would
+	have continued to be more scientist than doctor.
+	
      
+	Takashima would have been revealed as having been in on the Vorlon
+	assassination attempt by season's end, and would have betrayed 
+	Garibaldi in the events in "Chrysalis," either giving him over to 
+	those involved with the coup, or pulling the trigger herself.  While
+	we would know this, our characters would not, for as much as another
+	full season.
+	
      
+	Carolyn Sykes would've gotten into major trouble with one of the
+	major EarthCorps.
+	
      
+	Finally, if Sinclair had stayed with B5 at this juncture, the events
+	in "Points" (the reveal of the Minbari surrender) would've taken place
+	in episode 3 instead of 1.  Episode 1 would've consisted mainly of the
+	events in "Revelations," which was mainly as a bystander to the events
+	around him, since the sister aspect specific to Sheridan obviously 
+	wouldn't be there.  Basically, with all the events surrounding Delenn,
+	Londo, G'Kar and others, he didn't have one whole hell of a lot to *DO*
+	in the first six to eight episodes, since that segment was set aside
+	primarily to introduce the Shadowman war and get that cranking, and
+	Sinclair had no real direct connection to that.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Ivanova is promoted and given a diplomatic assignment.  Londo seeks affirmation
+from an unusual source.
+
+
+Michael Ansara as Elric.
+William Forward as Refa.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Comedy/intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.68
+
+Production number: 203
+Original air date: November 16, 1994
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Every five years, the Drazi people divide by random selection into
+	two equal groups, green and purple, and fight for supremacy in a
+	contest that lasts a full year.  The group that wins is the dominant
+	one until the next battle.  Group membership isn't permanent and
+	has no deeper meaning than the color of cloth one happens to select
+	randomly from a container.
+
+   
    •  The only son of the Centauri Emperor recently died, leaving no clear
+	successor to the throne.  This has served to increase the scheming
+	among the Centauri nobility.  At least one group, disgusted with the
+	decay of the Republic, intends to grab for the throne when the Emperor
+	dies; Londo has all but pledged to support that group.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Where were the techno-mages going?
+   
    •  Will they return or otherwise make their influence felt?
+   
    •  How do they know about the upcoming conflict?
+   
    •  What do they know about it?  Are they aware of the Shadows,
+	for instance?
+   
    •  What part do Londo's new partners want him to play in their
+	machinations?
+   
    •  What repercussions will Ivanova's solution to the Drazi problem have?
+   
    •  Were the winged creatures on Londo's back significant, or just a
+	meaningless practical joke?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Londo seems to have made up his mind about following his ambition.
+	He appeared to be seeking the techno-mages' endorsement for his own
+	political gain, rather than for the good of the Republic.  It remains
+	to be seen whether he'll have the willpower to follow through with
+	his newfound assertiveness when lives are at stake, though Elric's
+	statement about the future indicates he will.
+
+   
    • 	Londo is willing to trust Vir with other people's secrets ("He can
+	be trusted!") but not with his own (e.g., his reluctance to discuss
+	Morden in
+	"Chrysalis.")  Vir is gradually becoming more
+	assertive, more willing to stand up to Londo.  Whether this will
+	cause Londo to respect or trust him more remains to be seen.
+
+   
    •  The two Drazi leaders were clearly only in charge of the groups on
+	Babylon 5, as evidenced by the fact that the decision to up the stakes
+	of the contest came from the Drazi homeworld.  What happens if one
+	group wins in one place and the other wins back home is open to
+	debate.
+
+   
    •  Londo's reference to the techno-mages' presence at the founding of the
+	Republic, and his recognition of the human mages, suggests that the
+	brotherhood of techno-mages is very old, and crosses species
+	boundaries.  Perhaps they have been around long enough to have
+	taken part in the great war recorded in the Book of G'Quan (cf.
+	"Revelations")
+	and can see signs of the same thing starting again.
+
+   
    •  The techno-mages seem to have found some technological way to emulate
+	the prophetic abilities of some of the Centauri, among others (cf.
+	"Signs and Portents.")
+	Such abilities are arguably related to time travel; perhaps it is
+	the techno-mages who supply the technology to bring Babylon 4 forward
+	in time (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+
+   
    •  When Garibaldi was playing with his weapon, it's plausible that he
+	was contemplating suicide.  He has hit rock bottom.  He has been
+	betrayed by a trusted member of his own staff and shot in the back.  The
+	only person he really trusted (Commander Sinclair) is gone.  And, he is
+	probably feeling that he was somehow responsible for the failure to
+	prevent the assassination of the EA President.  He is a recovering
+	alcoholic, and he has lost the woman he had fantasized about marrying.
+	If true, this lends a different meaning to Sheridan's comment, "The
+	universe doesn't give us points for doing the easy things."
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    • 	Ivanova's broken foot in this episode wasn't originally planned;
+	Claudia Christian broke her foot, and it had to be explained in the
+	context of the show somehow.
+
+   
    •  The end credits list Edward Conery as Devereaux (cf.
+	"Chrysalis")
+	but he doesn't seem to actually appear in the episode anywhere.
+	Since he did appear in the previous episode,
+	"Revelations,"
+	and wasn't listed in its credits, he may have been listed here to make
+	up for the omission.
+
+   
    •  Elric's warning to Vir is almost verbatim from Tolkien's Lord
+	Of the Rings, in which Gildor, an elf, tells Frodo (speaking
+	about Gandalf,) "But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of
+	wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
+
+   
    •  Elric's name is from Michael Moorcock's series of fantasy novels.
+
+   
    •  When Garibaldi turns up to rescue
+	Ivanova, there is a visual gaffe. The Drazi who starts to
+	get up to answer the door is the one in a red-accented suit
+	with epaulettes. When Garibaldi is admitted, it is by the
+	other Drazi, while the one who had started to get up is
+	guarding Ivanova.
+
+   
    •  Michael Ansara, who plays Elric, also played Kang, a Klingon, in the
+	original Star Trek episode "Day of the Dove" and the Deep Space Nine
+	episode "Blood Oath."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW, having now edited seven episodes, and seen several finished ones,
+	I think that of the first three, "The Geometry of Shadows" (#3) is my
+	personal favorite.  "Revelations" is certainly a biggie, a staggering
+	chunk of the arc...but "Geometry" is just an absolute hoot, something
+	of a breather from the intensity, and largely for fun with some 
+	undertones.   If you liked "The Parliament of Dreams," you'll probably
+	love "Geometry."
+
+
      
+   
    •  There were *substantial* differences made between the first draft
+	and the final, based on the fact that a lot of the physical stuff I'd
+	written for Claudia -- getting herself out of the problem she was in
+	with the Drazi -- had to be dumped because the actress had a broken
+	foot.  So that aspect has to be remembered.  We pushed her to the
+	limits, and I didn't want to push further.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You hit on the head *precisely*.  When Garibaldi was popping the
+	energy cap in and out of the PPG, he was on the floor, nominally in the
+	dark, thinking of killing himself.  I didn't want to play it up, didn't
+	want to make it what the story was about...just show him doing it, over
+	and
+	over.  And from Sheridan's face, seeing the last of this, it's clear he
+	got it...and I thought he handled the scene *perfectly*, by his whole
+	demeanor, but NOT talking about it except indirectly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If I told you what the 14 words were, they wouldn't mean anything
+	anymore.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't feel Sheridan was downplaying her promotion; he was sneaking
+	it up on her to surprise her, making it more of an unexpected delight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The idea behind the title "The Geometry of Shadows" was in a sense
+	a metaphor for the techno-mages; geometry bespeaking the use of math and
+	equations, the latter being generally something dark, or mysterious, or
+	mystical.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "The Geometry of Shadows" seemed to me a good metaphor for the
+	technomages; a mix of science with something dark and mysterious.
+	How do you work out the geometry of something that in one sense 
+	doesn't really exist, but is a projection of something else that 
+	DOES exist?  That seemed to me as good a notion of technomagic as
+	anything else.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Be assured, Vir's position continues to be important, and he moves a
+	bit closer to the limelight as he does so...remember, he's the one 
+	who has to watch Londo's actions like a man watching an accident in
+	slow motion, and try to do what he can to stop it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan wasn't talking to himself, but rather to the tech who just
+	seconds before asked if they should let the techno-mages go.  (I'd
+	trimmed the first part of his speech which made this a little clearer,
+	figuring it'd be evident who he was talking to.  What can I say...
+	sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Excuse me, but has *anyone* here considered that Sheridan just might
+	still be talking to the same tech he was speaking to not *five 
+	seconds earlier*?  He wasn't talking to himself, so much, or the
+	audience, though the push-in (the only shot we had) worked against
+	that.  He *was* talking to the tech.  Honest.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The technomages are from various races and worlds; there are some who
+	are Centauri, some who are human, even other races such as the Vree
+	and the pak'ma'ra, though these in particular happened to be from
+	Earth.   (If they were Centauri, why would Sheridan have been
+	interfering with their emigration?)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the Drazi...yeah, they all look different in that episode.  Our
+	prosthetics folks did a great job with that, as did the actors, and I
+	think this one should earn Optic Nerve another emmy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yeah, Garibaldi's "joke" was supposed to be pretty lame; we even
+	edited it to widen the awkward pause, to make it more difficult.  He's
+	trying too hard, and his spirit isn't in it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, actually, the technomage symbol (all of them, actually, including
+	the ones on the wall) are all derivations, specifically altered, of old
+	runes and the like.  In some cases, we removed words and inserted
+	mathematical symbols.  The fiery symbol is all one piece, and is also an
+	old rune.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, Londo has two coats, a cloak, several different colored
+	vests (blue, black, others), often wears just his shirt, we've seen
+	him in his PJs...he's got a fairly large wardrobe.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Also, Londo looks for the blessings of the technomages the same way
+	the witches performed that role in "Macbeth."  There are other parallels
+	one might draw as well, though again they're still two different
+	stories.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@842211102 What happened to the Emperor's son?
      
+	Ah...a very sad case, that.  Turhan's only child, his son, died during a
+	boating accident, of all things.  He drowned.  His personal guard, who
+	was apparently unable to find Turhan's son in the murky water, was found
+	dead several days after making his report; his own death was officially
+	ruled a suicide, out of grief.  But there are always stories....
+
+
      
+   
    •  How was it written before Claudia Christian injured her ankle?
+	
      
+	Mainly it was written with Ivanova solving her problem on her own,
+	without Garibaldi being there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re:  Squaring the account of Ivanova's promotion with Comic #1,
+	"In Darkness Find Me"
      
+	The president spoke truthfully; Sheridan could petition for a
+	promotion for her, but it's up to Earthforce to grant it, so the line
+	still tracks.  (Note also there's no pronoun there; "Giving her a 
+	field promotion."  The imperial We still stands, though.)  Also, 
+	Sheridan says he put through the paperwork the day after he got there;
+	which is fairly close to the time frame in the story in which the 
+	President says they'll be giving Ivanova a promotion.  There's no 
+	discontinuity here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, originally, the plan was for President Clark to indeed 
+	notify Ivanova in "Points of Departure," but introducing a new 
+	character in the General added some changes when we shot the scene.  
+	But by then it was too late to modify the comic [#1, "In Darkness
+	Find Me"].
+
+	
      
+	Also, in the comic, Clark doesn't *specify* who's giving Ivanova the
+	promotion, just that it's being done.  (And Sheridan comments that he
+	put through the paperwork the day after he arrived, which tracks with
+	this time-wise.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova did NOT take the kerchief off either of the Drazi leaders in
+	the council chambers; she walked PAST them, and signaled for two of
+	the regular Drazi to come down out of the cheap seats.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nope, that really was Claudia walking on her broken foot in the
+	council chambers.  She's a trooper....
+
+
      
+   
    •  "A race that speaks in macros" referred to the Drazi constantly
+	repeating their stance, Green must fight Purple, Purple must fight
+	Green, over and over...macros.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ann Bruice did a great job on the technomage costumes; I agree.  She
+	found ways to implement what was described in the script that were 
+	both creative and wore well, and fulfilled the function.  I wanted
+	black, with fine silver lines, and an almost circuitboard look to the
+	patterns in places, but not *obviously* that, stylized.  She took that
+	and came back with a true niftyness....
+
+
      
+   
    •  In order to create more involved alien makeups, and because many
+	actors have a hard time with prosthetics, we created what we call the
+	Babylon 5 Alien Rep Group; last year about five, and this year about 
+	12 actors who we have taken full head and (in some cases) body casts,
+	so we can use them in mid-level speaking roles as aliens and rotate
+	them in and out.  Since we had fewer last year, you saw Mark more than
+	you'll see him this year.  Green Drazi #1 in "Geometry" is one such 
+	rep group alien.
+
+	
      
+	We keep trying to find interesting solutions to interesting problems.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The techno-mages were not a homage to ShadowRun games, since I've
+	never seen the game, and have never heard of it prior to seeing this
+	message.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Ivanova's title in the opening credits *will* be changed to
+	Commander, to reflect her change in rank.  And we'll be adding a rank
+	for Lt. Keffer.  It's kind of funny; we keep treating the opening 
+	title this year as a work in progress, reflecting little changes here
+	and there...changes in faces, narration, little musical changes that
+	will come by about episode five or six.....
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Disaster strikes an old friend of Captain Sheridan.  Dr. Franklin offers
+nutritional advice to some reluctant patients.
+
+
+Russ Tamblyn as Capt. Maynard.
+Miguel A. Nuñez, Jr. as Orwell.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense
+P5 Rating: 7.34
+
+Production number: 204
+Original air date: November 23, 1994
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by D.C. Fontana
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •  Captain Maynard's footwear.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan's first commander, on Earth-Mars patrol duty, was Jack
+	Maynard, who Sheridan admired greatly.  "I thought he knew
+	everything," Sheridan says.  "He did, too."
+
+   
    •  The Earth Alliance has a small fleet of huge Explorer-class ships that
+	travel out on the rim of known space, mapping new systems and 
+	installing new jump gates.  More specialized scout ships follow later 
+	to perform detailed or specific surveys of these newly opened
+	systems.
+
+   
    •  The Explorer ships, which are considered choice commands, can
+	also repair jumpgates.  
+
+   
    •  Navigation in hyperspace involves locking onto jumpgate signals.
+	There seem to be no natural reference points in hyperspace, so
+	a ship must keep its own internal navigation references or lock
+	onto the signals of nearby gates or it will become lost.  Until this 
+	episode, no ship lost in hyperspace had ever been rescued.
+
+   
    •  Minbari society is built upon a strict caste structure and obedience
+	to superiors within that caste structure.  Delenn has challanged
+	that organization, and the Minbari are beginning to react.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Is something living in hyperspace?  (This isn't a new
+	question; it was the subject of a front-page Universe Today story in
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+   
    •  Why does Delenn feel she is more "one of us" now than she's ever been?
+	Is it because she views humans and Minbari as joined, and she feels
+	she's a part of both halves?
+   
    •  How does hyperspace work in the B5 universe?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The appearance of his friend and mentor Jack Maynard suddenly throws
+	Sheridan's new duties aboard Babylon 5 into contrast with his training
+	and experience, kindling a strong sense of dissatisfaction with the job.
+	"I've been beached," he says.  This is sure to crop up again in the future.  
+	Despite his newfound energy at the end of the episode, what Captain 
+	Maynard said is still true; being a governor and a diplomat isn't what 
+	Sheridan trained or even wished for.  If he's itching for action when a 
+	crisis comes up, that might cause him to look less thoroughly for peaceful 
+	solutions than someone like Sinclair might.
+
+   
    •  Delenn's transformation is something that's clearly a mystery to the
+	general Minbari population, suggesting that it is either unprecedented
+	or so rare as to be unheard-of.  Yet she seemed to know what she was
+	doing, as did at least some of the Grey Council.  The Council is
+	likely harboring many secrets that aren't simple matters of
+	religion and spirituality; what other technologies do they possess
+	that the Minbari public knows nothing about?
+
+   
    •  Jumpgates act as locator beacons in hyperspace, providing a three
+	dimensional homing signal detectable for a thousand kilometers or so
+	there.  To be useful in the featureless and chaotic void of hyperspace
+	it would have to provide both a relative and an absolute reference much
+	like a VOR does for aircraft.  If the beacon can respond to ship data
+	requests, then range data and traffic information could also be transmitted
+	to the approaching (or departing) ship.  Just how	this works is not explained.
+
+   
    •  Hyperspace is a featureless place, yet it has currents and eddies that
+	corrospond to gravity in normal space.  Sheridan says, "We know
+	there is a drift in hyperspace that can pull a ship down the gravitational
+	incline."  Gravity works in hyperspace, though apparently not in quite
+	the same way that it works in real space.  Electromagnetic waves
+	also propogate in hyperspace, but become distorted rapidly over
+	distance in a random and variable way.  Jumpgate beacons are, therefore,
+	very short range -- more like lighthouses in hyperspace -- and communications
+	with ships in hyperspace is possible only when the vessel is near a jumpgate.
+
+   
    •  What looks like a great deal of hand-waving over the Cortez accident
+	can be explained upon close examination of the circumstances.  The
+	timeline of the accident seems to be:
+	
      
+
        
+
      1. 	Cortez enters the jumpgate.
+
      2. 	Cortez exits the jumppoint in hyperspace and attempts a restart of her
+	primary power system.  The fusion reactor restart fails, and the power
+	system spikes, producing a powerful electro-magnetic pulse (and presumably
+	a sizable radiation pulse) which takes out some systems aboard Cortez,
+	including main propulsion, navigation, and some computer systems.  Cortez
+	is now adrift.
+
      3. 	Many hours later Cortez gets some main power back and systems running.  
+	Captain Maynard, after getting a damage report that tells him that nav won't
+	be back up for 48 hours, puts up a distress call, which is received (barely) by B5.
+	At this point Cortez is under power, but without reference points the best they
+	can do is hold station against the pull of a nearby gravity well.
+
+
      4. 	B5 receives the distress signal, and Captain Sheridan decides to make a rescue
+	attempt.  Cortez is effectively just "offshore" in hyperspace, and despite Ivonova's
+	misgivings he feels they stand a chance of recovering her.  Five fighters are 
+	launched into hyperspace by B5, and they form up on a line facing down the local 
+	gravity well at 1000km intervals.
+
      5. 	The fighters set up the search pattern, with Cdr. Galus (fighter group commander) 
+	and Lt. Keffer together at the far end.  This puts them about 4000km away from B5.
+
      6. 	A shadow ship enters hyperspace almost on top of Galus, colliding with and 
+	destroying his fighter.  It also rams Keffer's Star Fury, but only knocks out some
+	systems (comms, nav, and propulsion).
+	Keffer begins firing (presumably on internal references) in the direction of Galus's
+	last position.  Cortez figures it out, and at about the same time Keffer's fighter
+	gets communications back online.  Rather than risk losing a good bearing back
+	to the jumpgate, Keffer tells Captain Maynard to take Cortez directly back to
+	the gate, leaving him behind in his unmaneuverable Star Fury.  He is unable
+	to keep station and will drift, eventually losing any reference back to B5.
+
      7. 	About 24 hours later (more or less -- it seems like the next night, end of shift
+	in C&C, about midnight) Keffer is running out of oxygen--but his Star Fury has
+	succeeded in getting his thruster systems back online.  Shortly after that he
+	spots another shadow ship, and using that as a reference point he navigates
+	back to the jumpgate and returns to B5.
+
      
+
+	
+   
    •  This may not have been as much of a crisis as it seemed to be.  Cortez, given its
+	stated function of running about on the rim, must carry its own jumppoint 
+	generator.  The problem was the lack of main power.  Since it has already been
+	stated that opening a jumppoint takes a great deal of energy, the size of the 
+	Cortez fusion plant would therefore be determined by the power requirements
+	for creating the jumppoint.  With only partial main power, she was unable to do so.
+	But given the size of the ship and its presumed independence, it is possible that
+	Cortez could have repaired her main power plant herself, and then opened a
+	jumpgate of her own.  This possibility explains why Captain Maynard didn't broadcast a
+	mayday immediately following the accident -- he assumed they could get Cortez
+	out of trouble themselves.  It was only after he received the damage report 
+	detailing the slow recovery of main power and the long repair time for navigation
+	that he decided to call for assistance.
+
+   
    •  This episode further delineates the technological capabilities of
+	the Shadows, though not explicitly.  They use the same hyperspace
+	the major races do.  (As opposed to, for example, the Sigma 957
+	aliens from
+	"Mind War,"
+	who appeared to use something different.)
+
+   
    •  Though the Shadows presumably noticed the Starfuries and the Cortez
+	and realized they could be seen as well, they took no action against
+	the human ships.  This is somewhat in contrast to their apparent
+	desire to remain undetected.  Several explanations are possible.
+	Perhaps the Shadow ship was in a hurry; perhaps its weapons aren't
+	functional in hyperspace; or, most intriguing, perhaps it realized
+	that the ships were from Earth and chose to leave them alone for
+	that reason.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Captain Maynard has seen a shadow ship in the past, though he didn't
+	recognize it as such, and now Lt. Keffer has seen one as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's special dinner:
+
+	
      
+	Bagna Cauda (from Jeff Smith's -The Frugal Gourmet-)
+
+	
      
+	1/2 cup olive oil
      
+	1/4 lb. butter (1 stick) - not margarine!
      
+	5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
      
+	6 anchovy fillets, mashed
      
+	black pepper
+
+	
      
+	Heat oil and butter together in top of double boiler.  In a small
+	skillet cook the garlic in a bit of this oil until soft.  Add the
+	anchovies, and cook till the fish turns into a paste, about 5 min. Mix
+	this paste with the hot oil and butter. Transfer to a chafing dish or
+	fondue pot to keep warm on the table (it congeals as it cools.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864543530 The Egyptian blessing: "God be between you and harm, in
+	all the empty places where you must walk."  This blessing was
+	quoted by creative consultant Harlan Ellison in his short story,
+	"Paladin of the Lost Hour."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's speech about "starstuff" is very similar to a section of
+	Carl Sagan's Cosmos, as well as a section of the play
+	The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (unverified) As the Cortez exits the jumpgate, its hull numbers
+	can be read, "14286."  Later, when Sheridan grants clearance for
+	it to leave, its number is stated as "C199."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  To be filed under the heading of, "What I does, I takes the rap for;
+	what I does not, I doesn't take the rap for," when we discussed the
+	hyperspace accident in our production meetings, Jim -- our director --
+	asked if he could so some fratzing and sparking, some fire...I said I
+	did not *want* huge gouts of flame, just a few small sparks, fine, a
+	bit of smoke from components burned out, fine...and that day I was
+	over in the other facility overseeing a mixdown of the audio...and
+	guess what he did in my absence?  Yup.
+
+
      
+   
    •  So many questions about hyperspace came up over the last year or so
+	that we figured they should be addressed; be assured, we're staying 
+	as clear of technobabble as ever, despite my Spousal Overunit's 
+	absolute and unshakeable conviction that *everything* is, at its 
+	root, a math problem.
+
+
      
+   
    •  To get in and out of hyperspace you have to know where you are and
+	where you're going, otherwise you'll come out even *more* lost, 
+	hundreds of light years from home; you jump in, and you're even 
+	further gone now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846702887 Once in hyperspace, you can ride the navigational beams
+	between beacons (narrow beam stuff, to cut through the interference,
+	as noted in "Distant Star"), and by corrolating the beacons, know where
+	you have to come out.
+
+	
      
+	That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And the Cortez might've been able to locate some stars, but any fix
+	on its position would only have been within a few light-years, not 
+	nearly precise enough for their purposes.  They'd still be lost.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Should a ship have been named after Cortez, considering what
+	effect his arrival had on the native Americans?
      
+	If Cortez had NOT landed in northern Mexico, do you think it would
+	have remained undiscovered until now?
+
+	
      
+	Fact #1: somebody was bound to discover the Americas.
+
+	
      
+	Fact #2: any sufficiently advanced civilization or culture will
+	inevitably attempt to exploit any civilization or culture not 
+	sufficiently advanced to fight back on a level playing field.
+
+	
      
+	Blaming explorers for exploring has always seemed to me really kind
+	of silly; do people *really* think that if Columbus hadn't landed 
+	here, it'd be 1994 and we still wouldn't know the world was round and
+	that this continent was here?  It doesn't matter who discovered it,
+	the same result would've come.  Somebody had to discover it sooner 
+	or later.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846702887 Did the Cortez spin to produce gravity?
      
+	Yes, it rotated to create its gravity, as you can
+	see quite clearly in the episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (He coughs and speaks in his Executive Producer Voice:)  "I *LIKE* the
+	opening title sequence."
+	
      
+	Now...onto other matters.
+	
      
+	We re-mixed the narration and music today in the titles, and it's a LOT
+	better.  I slightly shifted the placement of some of the lines, and 
+	Bruce's rendition is very nice.  Really carries the weight.  Look for
+	it to appear starting in episode #4.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, we just redid the narration with Bruce yesterday, and it's 
+	MUCH better.  We'll be able to get it in starting in episode #4.
+	
      
+	While we were at it, btw, we took the opportunity to re-do the 
+	faceplate shot in the main title sequence.  It was fine, but it 
+	could've been better.  Now it is.  Expect it around the same time as 
+	the new VO.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+When a cryonic sleeper is awakened, a deadly, evil force is unleashed on
+the station.
+
+
+Anne-Marie Johnson as Mariah Cirrus.
+Dwight Schultz as Amis.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Horror
+P5 Rating: 7.64
+
+Production number: 205
+Original air date: November 30, 1994
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by Scott Frost
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •   An out-of-place cut of Garibaldi searching for Amis
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Earth got jumpgate technology from the Centauri in the mid-22nd
+	century.  Before then, humans were mostly confined to their own
+	solar system.
+
+   
    •   Sometime between the 20th century and the arrival of the Centauri,
+	signals of possible extraterrestrial and intelligent origin were 
+	detected.
+
+   
    •  A small number of explorers volunteered for long-term interstellar
+	missions, so long-term that they had to be cryogenically frozen for
+	the duration.  These missions were launched until the Centauri made
+	contact with Earth, eliminating the need for sleeper ships.  At least
+	some of these ships were set to home in on any signals they might
+	encounter.
+
+   
    •  During the war, Garibaldi was a "gropo" ("ground pounder"), stationed
+	on an outpost or base rather than a ship.  He and some of his companions
+	barely escaped death in a surprise attack by the Minbari.
+
+   
    •  Another outpost was attacked by a vicious creature of some kind,
+	an insidious beast that affected the minds of the soldiers stationed
+	there, then killed them one by one, ripping their internal organs
+	completely out of their bodies.
+
+   
    •  The Markab, like the Narn, believe there was a great darkness in the
+	past, something that was defeated only after a painful struggle.
+	At least some among them suspect that the darkness is rising again.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was the creature?  Was it really one of the Shadows?
+
+   
    •  How did it detect and board the Copernicus, which was travelling at
+	a significant fraction of lightspeed?
+
+   
    •  What did it want with people's internal organs?
+
+   
    •   Is it really dead?  (We suspect so, but without a body....)
+
+   
    •  What was the substance hanging off Amis when he was suspended in
+	midair?  Garibaldi makes a face as he tears it off Amis.
+
+   
    •   What happened to Amis afterward?
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi says to Amis, "You were just about to accuse the Centauri
+	ambassador of being in league with the devil... which might not be
+	too far from the truth."  Just a meaningless offhand remark, or does
+	Garibaldi somehow know what Londo is up to?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The fact that the Copernicus was headed for Z'ha'dum indicates that
+	the Shadows have been gathering their forces for some time, at least
+	10 years, leading to the possibility that they've been meddling in the 
+	affairs of the major races before their recent involvement with Londo.
+
+   
    •  Contempt for the Lurkers seems to be pervasive, if not almost
+	universal.  Even Dr. Franklin, normally a level-headed person, was
+	ready to dismiss a claim made by a Lurker out of hand, and one of
+	the security officers said, "Damn lurkers, we should space 'em all."
+
+   
    •  No mention was made of any attempt to retrieve the sleeper ships after
+	first contact with the Centauri.  Presumably such a task would have
+	been easily accomplished.  One explanation might be that the first
+	contact threw Earth into such turmoil that retrieving frozen
+	astronauts became an insignificant priority.  Perhaps an attempt
+	was made but was unsuccessful; if the Copernicus had locked onto
+	any signals along the way and changed course, it might be nearly
+	impossible to track down in the vastness of space.
+
+   
    •   The Copernicus timeline seems to be:
+
+	
        
+	   
      1.   Before the Centauri contact:  Signals of extraterrestrial origin were detected.
+	   
      2.   100+ years ago:  Sleeper ships were launched on long voyages,
+		Copernicus among them.
+	   
      3.   12+ years ago:  Copernicus detects signals from the Minbari CP in
+		an obscure system and homes in on them.  (Presumably the signals stop,
+		and Copernicus doesn't revive the crew.)
+	   
      4.   About 12 years ago:  Amis has his encounter with the creature.  The
+		EarthForce listening post is essentially destroyed by it.  Amis is kept
+		alive.  For some reason the creature does not interfere when he is rescued.
+	   
      5.   Less than 12 years ago:  Copernicus passes through the system.  The
+		creature boards, changes course, and kills Mariah's husband before settling 
+		into the "life tube" with her.
+	   
      6.   4+ years ago:  Copernicus detects signals from the region of space where
+		the Babylon stations are under construction.  In keeping with its underlying
+		directive to seek out such signals, the vessel changes course.
+	   
      7.   A year or less ago:  Copernicus begins decelerating, and apparently uses
+		up all its remaining fuel to do so.  At some point it begins transmitting 
+		a greeting signal.
+	   
      8.   Now:  Copernicus arrives, unpowered and without even any thruster fuel
+		remaining (it's tumbling when first spotted).
+	
      
+
+   
    •   10% of the air supply aboard Copernicus was lost when the creature boarded,
+	presumably vented into space.  This implies that for some reason the creature 
+	came in through the door (there was no airlock) or penetrated the hull physically 
+	to gain entry.  This is only odd because Amis insists that it could pass through walls.
+
+   
    •   Why wasn't Copernicus detected earlier?  There could be a few reasons.  First,
+	the ship apparently used up all of its hydrogen fuel and all of its thruster fuel
+	on approach to B5.  This leaves unanswered the question of what it was doing
+	for power afterward, but apparently it had enough to keep transmitting its
+	greeting message and keep internal systems going.  But tumbling, it may have
+	been unable to keep a high gain antenna pointed in-system.  Add to this the
+	fact that nobody was listening for it (Ivanova says it's on an unusual frequency)
+	and it becomes fairly reasonable that it came all the way insystem without being
+	detected.
+
+   
    •   How fast and far did Copernicus travel?  This one is more difficult.  The minimum
+	answer is 25 LY and .25C.  The distance between the Sol System and B5 seems to
+	be about 25 light years, and this is the minimum distance Copernicus had to cover.
+	To cover 25 LY in 100+ years, Copernicus had to travel at 1/4 C (on average).  
+	Typical predictions for nuclear engines driving ships to low-reletivistic speeds say
+	that it takes between 10 and 40 tons of reaction mass/fuel per ton of dry weight 
+	to accelerate a ship to low-C (1/10C to 1/4C more or less) and decelerate it again.  
+	So either the ship we saw was the core of a much larger ship and all the empty tanks 
+	were ejected, or it's made of very lightweight materials, or both.
+
+   
    •  100 years seems like a reasonable time for a slower-than-light
+	interstellar journey, yet Mariah was surprised to learn that much
+	time had passed.  Her reaction could just be due to the disorientation
+	she was probably experiencing, or perhaps the mission was planned
+	to be less than 100 years long due to limitations of the cryogenic
+	units or some other shipboard system.
+
+   
    •  The name Amis seems to be a pun, as in something is
+	amiss with Amis. The name Amis is pronounced the same as "Amos,"
+	the name of an Old Testament prophet. Prophets like
+	Amos spent lots of time warning folks about dire and
+	immediate events, much like what Amis did in the Zoccalo.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Writer Scott Frost was also on the writing staff of
+	Twin
+	Peaks,
+	a show whose atmosphere was often similar to that of this episode.
+
+   
    •  When Garibaldi is in the Zocalo, the Drazi sitting next to him is
+	not wearing a colored sash.  Since the ritual combat in
+	"The Geometry of Shadows"
+	was supposed to last 1.2 earth years, shouldn't he have been
+	wearing a purple sash, per Ivanova's solution to the problem?
+	A possible explanation is that once she did what she did, the
+	combat was over on Babylon 5 and sashes were no longer required.
+
+   
    •  A possible reference to Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to
+	the Galaxy" takes place as Amis leaves his cell.  With a towel around
+	his neck, he claims, "I've got everything a man needs."
+
+   
    •  Franklin administers a drug to a catatonic patient called
+	DeValera.  Eammon DeValera was an Irish politician and
+	poet, with a real gift for rabble-rousing.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  To follow up on your (Dianne's) other point...yes, from time to time,
+	as we push ourselves to the limit, we're going to crash and burn.
+	That's part of the risk if you really want to try and do something
+	different.  We push the envelope...and sometimes get a papercut.  I
+	had, for instance, MUCH more in mind for the EFX in the final
+	confrontation in "The Long Dark."  But we were, alas, about this
+	> < much ahead of the technology to pull off what I wanted.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The shadows have their servants, which are being
+	recalled to their places of power.  That was one of  their
+	lower-level types.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846702919 Shadow servent.  Soldier of darkness.  Not a shadow,
+	but a good, close friend of same.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: Londo looking "more wicked," we're doing some very small, 
+	subtle things to his appearance, his wardrobe, pulling him into a
+	darker range of fabrics.  (Honest to god, you wouldn't believe how
+	careful and detailed we are in setting this stuff up.)  He'll even 
+	be getting a new, slightly darker coat, straighter lines, closer in
+	style to Refa's, before the season's out.  It's really interesting
+	when you know where you're going....
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the race of that ambassador?
      
+	I believe that was a Markab.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Tom: the quibble you raise is one of the points I'm trying to make.
+	You say someone from 1890 would go crazy.  I vehemently don't agree. 
+	Go back and read letters from the 1890s.  Heck, go read letters from 
+	1776; the language, the emotions, they're all very much the same.  The
+	chrome of technology has changed, some social styles and attitudes 
+	have changed, but people still go through school (usually), get married,
+	raise kids, hold jobs, and look to a better future one day.
+
+	
      
+	Mariah was also a scientist, sent forth expecting and prepared to see
+	new things; this isn't the same thing as an average person just plucked
+	out of time.
+
+	
      
+	I think people -- Americans in particular -- over-emphasize how much
+	things change with time, in large measure because in a country that's 
+	only 200+ years old, we *really* don't understand what time IS here. 
+	The Romans who left grafitti all over parts of England are only one 
+	step removed from the South Central taggers of today....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Ivanova and Sheridan going into the Cortez upon it being pulled 
+	into B5...this was an Earth vessel, remember, stating it's on a mission
+	of peace, with a cryogenic suspension chamber in use.  There was zero
+	perceived danger.  Also, if I were the captain of a naval vessel today,
+	and I came across an intact sailing vessel that went missing in the 
+	1890s, you'd have to hold a gun at my head to KEEP me out of that ship.
+	People are, by nature, curious...and this would be a fascinating puzzle
+	to solve.  (Editor's note: the Cortez was the ship in "A Distant
+	Star."  JMS meant the Copernicus.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  A couple of thoughts on Sheridan, btw...triggered by messages I've seen
+	or had alluded to in which he's gigged for smiling too much, unlike
+	Sinclair...just checked back in some of my archives, and for the first
+	four or five episodes, the number one complaint about Sinclair was that
+	he either smiled or smirked too much....
+	
      
+	Meanwhile, just a little something for the folks on-line to
+	contemplate...remember the first rule of Babylon 5: nobody is what they
+	appear.  Not entirely, anyway.  There's always something going on, 
+	something that somebody's not telling.  Some folks are making the error
+	of looking at Sheridan -- as they looked at Sinclair, or Londo, or Vir,
+	or G'Kar -- and thinking "this is all that he is."  Except, of course,
+	that they weren't and he's not.  I would not create a character that is
+	just what you're seeing.
+	
      
+	Aside from that, and this is a separate issue...there are really two 
+	ways to deepen a character and give him a dark side.  One is to do
+	something to him *before* you meet him, which he's still recovering
+	from (Sinclair).  The other is to meet him, and THEN drop him down a
+	well.  In a way, Londo is illustrative of the latter; you get to know
+	him, and he's funny, colorful...and then you start to move him.
+	
      
+	So suffice to say that Sheridan is going to end up getting more and 
+	more conflicts, and getting booted to the head, and as someone noted
+	above, caught in the conflict between being a good officer and being a
+	patriot...which can sometimes be the same, and sometimes VERY different
+	things.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Talia is caught in a treacherous web of intrigue after she witnesses a murder.
+
+
+Adrienne Barbeau as Amanda Carter.
+Michael Beck as Abel Horn.
+Jessica Walter as Senator Voudreau.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "A Trick of the Mind")
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Mystery
+P5 Rating: 8.04
+
+Production number: 206
+Original air date: December 7, 1994
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+Directed by Kevin Cremins
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan's drink.
+   
    •  San Diego.
+   
    •  Shattering glass.
+   
    •  "Erronium."
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Talia's first assignment was on Mars Colony, where she scanned several
+	members of the radical group Free Mars (cf.
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+
+   
    •  Sheridan is a conspiracy buff; he collects information about all sorts
+	of black projects and secret organizations.
+
+   
    •  After the last rebellion, the Mars Conglomerate, a powerful group of
+	business interests, nearly pulled out of Mars.
+
+   
    •  In the 2230s, the Earth Alliance began experimenting with electronic
+	brain implants.  The experiments were unsuccessful because the
+	machines couldn't operate in conjunction with conscious thought.
+	Later, after the project was officially closed down, a group within
+	the Earth Alliance began trying a different approach.  They took people
+	who were nearly dead and, with telepathic deep scans by one or more
+	members of Psi Corps, fixated the subjects' minds on the moments of
+	their deaths, blocking out all other conscious thought.  That allowed
+	the implants to operate as long as the subjects remained fixated.
+
+   
    •  A secret group within the Earth government called Bureau 13 is
+	deeply involved in, if not responsible for, the continuation of the
+	experiments.  Bureau 13 has at least one officially deceased PsiCop
+	in its employ, possibly even its head.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who is the Bureau 13 "Control" Officer on B5?
+
+   
    •  If the cyber-experiments failed, what is Abbut, the "vicker" from
+	"Deathwalker?"
+
+   
    •  Is "Abbey," Talia's mentor from her first year in Psi Corps, the
+	Bureau 13 PsiCop?
+
+   
    •  The station's computer system has a secret override built in which
+	Bureau 13 has access to.  What, if any, other subversions are in place
+	on Babylon 5?
+
+   
    •  What role, if any, will the T'Kar play in the future, assuming they
+	decide to come to Babylon 5?  What's so special about them?
+
+   
    •  What did Sheridan learn when he was on the T'Kar ship?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Since Talia scanned Free Mars members, it's reasonable to assume that
+	Psi-Corps is still doing so.  Why, then, were they apparently caught
+	unawares by the rebellion in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness?"
+	In that episode, the Psi-Corps representative expressed surprise at
+	the size and well-equipped nature of Free Mars, something that
+	presumably would have been discovered during the course of scans.
+	Either some within Psi-Corps are actively hiding such information
+	from the rest of the Corps (and from Earth) or Free Mars is run very
+	tightly and almost no members know enough to compromise the
+	organization as a whole.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's interest in secret organizations and conspiracies may
+	explain why he was so ready to believe in an assassination plot
+	against the President (cf.
+	"Revelations.")
+	Most other people seem to believe the accident cover story (cf. comic
+	"In Darkness Find Me.")
+
+   
    •  What about Abbut, the "Vicker" or "VCR" from
+	"Deathwalker?"  He was quite clearly 
+	human, and also clearly carrying a brain implant.  (Indeed, his 
+	brain was exposed, surrounded and penetrated by what looked like
+	quite extensive implants.  The exact quote by Garibaldi was, "Most of
+	the cyber experiments were a bust."  Abbut could have been one of
+	those few that worked.  In principle implants recording and 
+	monitoring what Abbut experiences are fundimentally different from
+	an implanted AI that controls your actions.
+
+   
    •  In a related but more tenuous vein, what about the Technomages?
+	Some aspects of their abilities (all based on technology, remember)
+	seem to imply non-vocal, non-manipulatory control over their gear.
+	The production of an orange blossom while walking, talking and
+	gesturing.  Sleight of hand is one explanation, (sidestepping the
+	issue of how the orange blossom was produced,) but an alternative one
+	is that they have some kind of control device implanted someplace --
+	not necessarily their brains.  This would also explain their
+	preternatural knowledge.  Elric always seemed to know more than anyone
+	else, and some of that could have come from a built in data system or
+	an implanted link to one.  Add to this Elric's ability to pull up
+	holograms literally in the palm of his hand, and the arguement seems
+	strong for such an implant.  But again, it could be nothing but an
+	IO path, not an AI, and so again different from the cyber experiments'
+	failures.
+
+   
    • @@@887743545 Sheridan said Earth's cyborg research took place in the
+	2230s.  That places it just after the Dilgar war
+	("Deathwalker.")
+	In
+	"Deathwalker,"
+	Na'Toth recalled that the Dilgar were experimenting with brain
+	implants.  Was Earth continuing the Dilgar research?  Did they receive
+	research data after the war, the same way the allies obtained Nazi
+	advances in rocket technology after World War II?
+
+   
    •  B5's computer system is compromised.  At the very least, communications
+	are insecure and under the control of the Bureau 13 AI, including both
+	local and interstellar channels.  This is supported by the way the
+	public computer console is quickly taken over by the AI, and the
+	quickness with which it handled the exchange between the Bureau 13
+	Psicop in San Diego and the control officer on site at B5.  The extent
+	of the problem isn't known, but the AI isn't omnipresent.  It doesn't
+	prevent Captain Sheridan from modifying the environmental sensors, for
+	instance.
+
+   
    •  Is Bureau 13 set up in a cell structure, like an organized underground
+	or revolutionary movement?  We know of two Bureau 13 members, and we
+	saw them interacting via the Bureau 13 computer.  They never saw each
+	other, and never refered to one another by name.  This hints that Bureau
+	13 is indeed set up this way, which points to an an explanation for
+	the episode title.  The cell structure of an underground, with its
+	singular links between cells, is indeed a web.  And at the center of
+	such a web would be a central directing authority -- A Spider in the
+	Web.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  The title shown onscreen is "Spider in the Web," but all previous
+	references to the episode by JMS and others have called it
+	"A Spider in the Web," so that's the title listed here.  The
+	longer title was also listed on the title page before the
+	original satellite uplink.
+
+   
    •  The name "Bureau 13" may be a role-playing game reference; it is the
+	name of the US paranormal investigations branch in the game
+	"Stalking the Night Fantastic."  (Of course, that could just be a
+	coincidence; another theory is that it refers to P13-level telepaths.)
+
+   
    •  The ship that fired on Abel Horn was the Earth Forces Cruiser
+	Pournelle, according to the computer readout on his history.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan orders a Jovian Sunspot; the only other time that drink has
+	been referenced is in
+	"Deathwalker,"
+	which also involved Talia and a cyborg of sorts.  Probably just
+	a coincidence.
+
+   
    •  According to Isogi, Ms. Carter's great-grandfather John
+	piloted the first colony ship to Mars.  "John Carter of
+	Mars" is a classic SF story by Edgar Rice Burroughs; the
+	character also appears in other Burroughs stories such as
+	
+	"Princess of Mars."
+	See the
+	Project Gutenberg
+	home page.
+
+   
    •  The animation of the destruction of Abel Horn's ship by an EarthForce
+	cruiser over Phobos is quite detailed.  When his ship is hit, the 
+	window Abel Horn was looking through shatters, and the air
+	rushes out carrying odd bits and debris with it.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Having lived in San Diego from 1974-81, it's just my way of giving
+	a wink to the old home town.  Though there are some important things
+	going on underground, in areas no one goes...the choice of SD is just
+	a bit of fun.
+
+   
    •  San Diego was nuked by terrorists some time earlier; but if you dig
+	deep enough, you could probably build something with enough money; and
+	who knows how bad it *really* is.
+
+   
    • @@@846703007 How big was the San Diego Nuke?  Big enough, and dirty
+	enough, to make the area officially uninhabitable for a long time.
+
+   
    •  The San Diego wastelands was a physical model, yes.
+
+   
    •  Local in-house joke: Abby's last name...Normal.
+
+   
    •  If you're a telepath, Psi Corps IS your family.  (And no, that  wasn't
+	Abby, too young; also not a case of programming/rebuilding...the
+	DECEASED is a cover to get her out.)
+
+   
    •  Actually, the age on Abby is fairly straightforward...Talia came to the
+	Psi Corps as a young child; she was assigned to an adult Psi Corps
+	member to help her adjust.  So Abby would be anywhere from 15-20 years
+	older than Talia.  Or more.
+
+   
    •  No, the Bureau 13 rpg precedes our show; we weren't aware of it at
+	the time we did the episode.
+
+   
    • @@@846703007 We hadn't heard of the Bureau 13 game when we did the
+	episode, it was just something we came up with 'cause it sounded neat.
+	Later, we found out there was a game by that name.  At which point I
+	decided that it wouldn't be appropriate to use that name again, and had
+	a good conversation with some folks at the game company about it.  There
+	was no problem, I just didn't want to walk on their turf intentionally
+	or otherwise.  Logically, any secret group is going to change its name
+	from time to time *anyway* (it's not like they're in the yellow pages
+	or anything), so the organization would remain under varying names.
+
+   
    •  The security guard didn't trigger the detonation; he picked up some
+	energy buildup on his scanner the moment Horn's heart stopped.
+
+   
    •  Basically, Garibaldi's third favorite thing...is whatever the member
+	of the opposite sex is having....
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Londo summons his three wives to Babylon 5.  A mysterious man from Talia's
+past reappears.
+
+
+Jane Carr as Timov.
+Lois Nettleton as Daggair.
+Blair Valk as Mariel.
+Keith Szarabajka as Matthew Stoner.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "Pestilence, Famine and Death.")
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Comedy
+P5 Rating: 7.68
+
+Production number: 208
+Original air date: December 14, 1994
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by Peter David
+Directed by John C. Flinn, III
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •  G'Kar tossing something to someone at a party.
+   
    •  Daffy Duck.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
    
+Centauri culture is built largely on family stature, and virtually all of an
+individual's position and influence derive from the relative standing of
+the family.  Links between families can be very important, and marriages
+are the primary way of forging these links.  Marriages are almost always
+arranged by the families for the benefit of the families, regardless of the
+wishes (if any) of the Centauri being married. Londo's marriages are 
+notoriously bad.  Indeed, he calls his three wives Pestilence, Famine and 
+Death, and it's been hinted that he took a post  to Babylon 5, a post where 
+he knew he'd be forced to concede defeat after defeat to the hated Narn, 
+simply to escape the three of them.
+
    
+The control Psi-Corps maintains over its members is quite pervasive, 
+extending to all levels of their personal lives.  In one respect they are
+similar to the Centauri -- they arrange marriages between their members.
+This, coupled with the fact that all persons showing any psi talent at all
+are pressed into the Corps or nullified, makes them a budding closed
+society.  Most importantly, once in Psi-Corps you are theirs forever, and
+they can do anything with you they want.
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Why do G'Kar and Mariel know each other?  What's been going on in
+	the past with the two of them?
+   
    •  Why did Psi-Corps dissolve the marriage between Stoner and Talia?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Stoner is a puzzle.  Did he really ever leave Psi-Corps?  He is a strong projective
+	empath.  He may be a receptive empath as well--but since he treats 
+	people rather poorly this doesn't seem very likely...at best it's unproven.  
+	Given his talent he could have manipulated the people around him from 
+	the very beginning, up to and including letting him leave.  His claim that he 
+	lost his talent altogether is disproven rather quickly by a group of amateurs.  
+	Psi-Corps scientists working on modifying psi talents would have been very 
+	difficult to fool. On the whole, it's most likely that Sheridan is right, and
+	Stoner was actively working for Psi-Corps all along.
+
+   
    •  At first glance, one might wonder why on Earth Stoner would be in
+	on a plot to kill Londo.  G'Kar notes to Mariel that Stoner just happened
+	to bring the artifact onboard on the eve of Londo's ascension
+	anniversary, which would be too staggering a coincidence, if
+	it had been booby-trapped from the start.  However:
+
+   
    •  G'Kar may have been behind the plot to kill Londo.  In the
+	scene where Mariel notices his boots, just before he walks off,
+	G'Kar tosses something small to her.  Perhaps it's just a grape,
+	since he was picking them from the table.  Or it could be a set of
+	poison darts to load into the statue.  If so, Stoner is even more
+	innocent than he claims to Sheridan and Garibaldi; the statue really
+	was completely harmless when he brought it aboard.  However:
+
+   
    •  G'Kar later says to Mariel, "Mysteries give me a pain."  And the only
+	way that he can ease the pain is to decipher the mystery.  He
+	then goes on to describe the situation with Mariel and Londo as
+	the mystery that he had to solve.  If so, then he was uninvolved
+	in the attempt on Londo -- which again raises the question:  What
+	did G'Kar toss to Mariel?
+
+   
    •  If G'Kar was involved, perhaps G'Kar knows what Londo is up to with
+	the Shadows and wants to assassinate him for that reason, or perhaps 
+	it's just the general enmity between the two.  Or maybe the whole thing 
+	was Mariel's idea and G'Kar merely gave her the means.  
+
+    
    •  Whatever the answer to "who knew what, and when?" the relationships 
+	remain.  G'Kar knows Mariel well enough to have a private and 
+	informal discussion with her, and he may have been involved in the
+	plot to kill Londo.  Stoner (and by extension Psi-Corps) may know
+	Mariel, and may also have been involved in the plot to kill Londo --
+	at least insofar as Stoner delivered the instrument of his (near) death.
+
+   
    •  Talia's relationship to Psi-Corps is called into question here on both
+	ends.  First, it's clear that she is completely disillusioned with the
+	corps.  She confesses to Garibaldi that Psi-Corps frightens her.  She
+	is presumably deeply conditioned, but her loyalties are wavering
+	despite this.  On the other side of the equation, if Stoner is still
+	Corps then his offer to her is also on the behest of Psi-Corps.  Did
+	her actions during 
+	"A Spider in the Web"
+	bring her to the attention of Bureau 13?  And if so, are they trying to
+	unofficially take her out of the picture?  
+
+   
    •  Though it at first glance might appear to be a comedic throwaway line,
+	Delenn's final complaint may actually be the most important revelation
+	of the entire episode.  It implies that her transformation has given
+	her a human reproductive system.  Possibly that was even the point
+	of the transformation; if indeed the change was made to bring humans
+	and Minbari closer together, a child born of a human father and a
+	Minbari mother might be considered a powerful link by some.
+
+   
    •  Which, of course, begs the question: who does she intend the father
+	to be, if this is what she has in mind?  Sinclair seems an obvious
+	choice, given the evidence that she believes him to be the
+	reincarnation of a great Minbari soul (cf.
+	"Soul Hunter,"
+	among others.)
+
+   
    •  Psi Corps seems to be big on assigning companions.  In addition to
+	Stoner, Talia was assigned a support officer, Abby, during her first
+	year at the Psi Corps center when she was a girl
+	("A Spider in the Web.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The name of Timov's father, "Alghul," means "The Demon" in Arabic.
+	It may also be connected to the comic book character Ras Al-Ghul
+	("Head of the Demon") from the Batman series, debatably the Batman's
+	most dangerous foe.  Ras' daughter, Talia, has been the Batman's
+	lover, and is the mother of his child.  In any case, Londo has
+	remained married to the daughter of "The Demon," appropriate
+	given his recent acquaintances.
+
+
    
+
+
    Peter David speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Y'know...for the past five years I've been writing Trek novels, and
+	fans kept asking, "When are you going to start doing Trek TV 
+	episodes?"
+	
      
+	So here comes B5, I do an episode...and what do the fans keep asking?
+	When am I going to do a B5 novel.
+	
      
+	NYAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
+
+
      
+   
    •  [Re: Talia] My feeling was that it was something that had been 
+	building slowly within her ever since the Ironheart episode.  That
+	although she had been *saying* she was devoted, well...the difference
+	between the reality of a B5 and the frequent unreality of STTNG is 
+	that folks don't always say exactly what's on their mind (kind of like
+	the real world.)  As it turned out, my own thoughts on Talia
+	dovetailed with future plans for her.
+	
      
+	Daggair was Pestilence.  Timov was Famine.  Mariel was Death.
+	Originally I was going to have each of their names reflect their
+	respective "incarnations," but decided that was too cutesy.  The
+	only holdover from that idea is Timov's name which is, of course,
+	Vomit spelled backwards.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Daggair is Pestilence, Timov is Famine, and Mariel is Death.
+
+	
      
+	At first I was going to have all their names be reflections of the
+	titles "assigned" them by Londo, but I decided that would be too
+	cutesy.  The only holdover from that idea is Timov, whose name
+	backwards is, of course, Vomit.  (I'll never forget Jane Carr coming
+	over to me the fifth day of shooting and saying in that accented
+	voice of hers, "Peter...did you *know* that my character's name is
+	vomit spelled backwards?"  Uhhhh...well, yeah...)
+
+	
      
+	You all realize, of course, that Londo is--by process of elimination--
+	War.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  In response to someone who thought JMS wanted a line of
+	dialogue inserted
+	
      
+	This is a total misinterpretation of a statement I made, and yet another
+	example of how the information age can also be the misinformation age.
+	Incorrect "facts" can make the rounds at light speed and stay there.
+
+	
      
+	I did *not* say that Joe wanted one particular line put into the script.
+	What I *said* (in response to a question some time ago of "How much 
+	did JMS tell you to put into the script?  How much of the events were
+	dictated) was that all I was given was one line of *description* (much
+	like a log line you'd see in TV Guide).  The line was something to the
+	effect of, "Londo's wives show up on B5 and, in the way that Londo 
+	handles the difficulties that ensue, we learn something about the type
+	of man that he is."  I explained this in order to make clear how much
+	latitude JMS gives writers on the show, as opposed to the omnipresent
+	smothering hands-on attitude of other programs.
+
+	
      
+	And somehow this became mutated into "JMS has a line of dialogue that
+	he wanted inserted."
+
+
      
+   
    •  How funny.  Other people who stated flatly that they likewise knew
+	Londo loudly proclaimed (over on Usenet) that he would have chosen
+	Daggair.  Maybe he's a kind of tough guy to know.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Poster had no trouble guessing; the actress playing Timov "was the
+	most well-known actress of them all"
      
+	Oh, I don't know.  Lois Nettleton's career goes way further back than
+	Jane Carr's does.  Although Jane *is* from the Royal Shakespeare 
+	Company (and yes, she did work with Patrick Stewart.  She's so pleased
+	that now she too has portrayed a bald SF icon.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  *I* didn't get "bitch" past the censors.  I just put it in the
+	script.
+	
      
+	(What I loved was Daggair's expression on that line.  It's the only 
+	time she let her facade slip and she looked like she was ready to
+	slug Timov.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The second scene between Garibaldi and Stoner was intense
      
+	Tension really crackled between the two of them, didn't it?  In one 
+	of the takes, it was so intense that at the end, the director forgot
+	to yell "Cut."  Instead he shouted, "God, that was great!"
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks for showing us another side of Garibaldi
      
+	Oh, the side was already there, in my opinion.  I think back to
+	previous episodes where Garibaldi was all for spacing that serial 
+	killer.  When he encounters people he doesn't like, or have done dirt
+	to people who are Garibaldi's friends, he can be pretty ruthless.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As we've seen, Garibaldi doesn't exactly have the easiest time being
+	demonstrative in his feelings for women.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Originally, "Soul Mates" was intended to be broadcast after "A Race
+	Through Dark Places."  ARTDP required a rather substantial amount of
+	post production work and audio design; "Mates" did not.  Rather than
+	rush "Race," we decided it was okay to air those two in reverse order.
+	If they have aired with "Race" first in the UK, then yes, it's 
+	different than the US order, but it *is* the correct production and 
+	story order.
+
+
      
+   
    •  All things considered, the episode went through fairly cleanly, script-
+	wise, not much in the way of revision.  Peter has a good ear for
+	dialog (not surprising).  So for the most part it was little stuff; for
+	example...Peter came up with, "Either I'm in hell or in medlab," to 
+	which I appended, "...either way, the decor needs work."  Which is kind
+	of the fun in getting an outside script; you can hear the first part of
+	a line you'd never considered, and knowing the character, you can take
+	it just a little further.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Timov's "WHO IS THIS?!" in that high-pitched voice would also be a
+	great one for an answering machine.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What I love best about this is that given the time of year [of its
+	North American premiere], "Soul Mates" is basically our Christmas 
+	episode.
+
+	
      
+	I mean, are we perverse or what...?
+
+
      
+   
    •  . . . when you say "why wasn't Mariel arrested on the spot by 
+	Garibaldi and her quarters searched," you omit both legal procedure
+	and evidentiary law.
+
+	
      
+	You arrest someone AFTER you have reasonable cause and sufficent 
+	evidence to justify it.  You don't need enough evidence to convict, 
+	just to arrest or indict.  So the order is reversed for starters.
+
+	
      
+	Second, what evidence *was* there to be found if he HAD searched her
+	quarters?  She neither brought nor had ANYthing of an incriminating
+	nature. She bought the figurine in the bazaar...and that's all she 
+	had, and all she used.  There WAS no evidence in her quarters to find.
+
+	
      
+	(Believe me, I spent 2 years on MURDER, SHE WROTE, and we learned a 
+	lot about how this stuff works.  You can't just go around arresting 
+	people willy nilly, and the evidence must exist, and be sufficient, 
+	and locatable.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Peter's having the time of his life.  He loves where his character
+	is going, loves the range of emotions he gets to play...I saw him for
+	a bit on the set today, shooting "Soul Mates," and he's just tickled
+	(particularly since he's acting opposite Lois Nettleton, Jane Carr
+	and Blair Valk as his three wives).
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Compiled by Steven Grimm and Dave Zimmerman
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Bester asks Talia to investigate an "underground railroad" of unregistered
+telepaths.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.38
+
+Production number: 207
+Original air date: January 25, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+A minor character from a previous episode, who turns out not to be so
+minor after all.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+Michael Garibaldi says, "The Corps got started because of our own fears."  The
+sudden appearance of real psi abilities in otherwise unremarkable people
+caused so much concern among the general population that those showing such
+talents were gathered together into a group that could be more easily
+controlled -- and Psi-Corps was born.  Its members are deeply conditioned to
+prevent any psi from using his or her talents to dominate normal people or
+disrupt society.  But this conditioning isn't absolute, and attitudes molded
+early in life can still evolve over a persons lifetime.
+
+
    
+Given that psis were forced into this essentially closed society, shunned by
+the rest of humanity, it isn't surprising that the loyalties of the telepaths
+turned to the Corps itself.  Soon Psi-Corps gained control of itself, and
+eventually the organization began pursuing its own goals.  The leadership
+began to exert ever greater control over the lives of the members, in an
+effort to enhance the abilities of their people.  
+
+
    
+The level of control exerted by the Corps over its members grew as they 
+began seeking to enhance the abilities of their people, extending even to
+marriage and reproduction.  Eventually the onus became too great and too
+pervasive for newly awakened psis to tolerate, and they began seeking ways
+to escape.  The Psi-Cops exist to counter this, to search for and either
+capture or eliminate psi talented people who escaped early detection or who
+fled Psi-Corps.
+
+
    
+Now the Corps has become a power in its own right.  Though the organization
+was intended to keep psis under control, it has itself come under the control
+of those very people.  As a group, they must feel
+seperate and different if not outright superior to the rest of society, and
+who have long been held in a position of subservience.  They are
+organized, ruthless, and determined to pursue their own agenda. 
+
+
    
+"We created our own monster." -- John Sheridan
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where have all the unregistered psis been going?
+   
    •  How long has this "underground railroad" been running?
+   
    •  We see Ivanova giving Sheridan his morning briefing, and in it she says
+	that B5 has been running in the red for a while because, "there's been
+	a lot of Earth Force military transports coming through."  Where were
+	they going?
+   
    •  Has Talia turned completely against the Corps?
+   
    •  Why, and by whom, was Bester told that Sheridan would be sympathetic
+	to the Psi-Corps?
+   
    •  How much did Talia tell Ivanova about the situation, and about
+	what's happened to her?
+   
    •  "What am I?"  "The future."  What does that mean?  The future of
+	telepaths?  Of humans in general?  Does it refer to Talia's new
+	powers, to the fact that she's now likely to work against Psi-Corps
+	from within, or something else?  Is there even more to Ironheart's
+	gift?
+   
    •  Will Bester notice that his gun was never actually fired?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • The core of Psi-Corps indoctrination was summed up by Bester.
+	
      
+	You were raised by the Corps,
      
+	Clothed by the Corps.
      
+	We are your father,
      
+	And your mother.
      
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	What Psi-Corps has become was also demonstrated by Bester.  Standing
+	with another Psi-Cop, he looks down at a captured rogue telepath who
+	he has just forcibly mind-scanned.  "He's dead," the other Psi-Cop
+	says.  "It doesn't matter," Bester replies, apparently assuming she
+	was concerned he wouldn't be able to read the man any more.  Talia
+	doesn't see
+	this, since it happened on Mars Colony, but she does meet a stream of
+	rogues who are on B5, in transit through the "underground railroad."
+	From them she learns, first hand and with undeniable truth, that the
+	experience she has had with the Corps is far from unique.  Indeed,
+	her experiences were mild compared to the stories she hears.
+	Abductions.  Experiments.  Breeding programs that don't rely on
+	volunteers for subjects.  And as a telepath speaking to
+	telepaths, she can't avoid the full truth and force of the events
+	she hears.  
+
+
      
+   
    • How can a Psi-Corps operative turn against the Corps?  The impossibility
+	of it is clear:  The highest rated, strongest telepaths are "turned
+	into" Psi-Cops.  When the guardians are stronger than everyone else,
+	how do you turn against them?  Unless you are truly exceptional like
+	Matthew Stoner in "Soul Mates" you can only
+	flee, immediately, before someone else scans you and reads your
+	intention.  Matthew Stoner may or may not have eluded the clutches
+	of Psi-Corps for a time, but in the end he was firmly returned to
+	them.  Talia Winters' whole life experience tells her that she
+	cannot turn against the Corps, no matter what her
+	opinions may be about the integrity or intentions of the organization.
+
+	
      
+	But several events changed her mind about this -- and it was not the
+	tales of woe told by the folks in the underground railroad, though
+	they undoubtedly inclined her toward rebellion.  What allowed her to
+	rebel was the realization that her shields were much stronger than
+	she thought they were.  A year ago Jason Ironheart, a victim of
+	Psi-Corps experimentation, visited the station (cf.
+	"Mind War.")
+	He became something
+	vastly powerful, and departed.  But before he left, he gave his onetime
+	love Talia Winters a gift, the very thing that Psi-Corps was
+	trying to induce in him: telekinesis.  And the strength to keep
+	that gift secret.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Talia's telekinetic powers are at least somewhat stronger than
+	suggested at the end of
+	"Mind War."
+	She can not only move her penny with her thoughts -- she can cause
+	it to fly across the room with enough force to embed itself in the
+	wall.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Telepaths can combine their powers through physical contact.  What
+	are the limits to such unions?  Would a hundred linked telepaths
+	begin to approach some of Ironheart's power, or perhaps become
+	greater than just a collection of individuals?  Does this perhaps
+	have something to do with the Minbari prophecy suggesting that
+	humans are destined to walk among the stars? (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+
+	
      
+	Or it could simply be that by touching, the telepaths were able to
+	help each other focus their individual energies; that's supported by
+	the railroad leader's comment that what they did shouldn't have
+	worked.
+
+
      
+   
    • 	The "Underground Railroad."  The timeline of the underground railroad
+	stretches back to before B5.  There is a group of people that have
+	actively been working to keep people with psi ability out of
+	Psi-Corps.  Dr. Franklin implied that it was mostly doctors, and it
+	makes sense that their ability to alter or manipulate medical and
+	genetic records would make them logical and necessary members.  But
+	there is no reason to assume that the organization is comprised
+	solely of doctors.
+
+	
      
+	Dr. Franklin was a member before he came to Babylon 5.  When Jason
+	Ironheart came to B5 he brought with him another rogue, who disappeared
+	into downbelow while Jason went through his spectacular confrontation
+	with Bester and his subsequent transformation.  This unnamed telepath
+	(who we've met before, in 
+	"Chrysalis")
+	apparently contacted Dr. Franklin.  Between them, they extended the
+	underground railroad through B5 -- though where the rogues were going
+	after B5 is unclear.  Nor is it clear that Dr. Franklin will
+	actually put a stop to the railroad.  Dr. Franklin's answers to Captain
+	Sheridan's demand that he put a stop to it were quite evasive.  The
+	telepaths actually at the station agreed to leave, which they intended
+	to do anyway.  Dr. Franklin admitted that his part in it was over,
+	and that others would have to take over -- but he never actually said
+	it would stop.
+
+	
      
+	Ironically, the person Garibaldi first suspected was aiding the
+	railroad was Ivanova.  He was wrong.  She wasn't connected to it.
+	But neither was Talia at the time.  Now Talia is talking to Ivanova.
+	What did they discuss, alone and late at night in Ivanova's quarters?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Ironheart's unnamed friend have ulterior motives when he put
+	Garibaldi onto Devereaux' trail in
+	"Chrysalis?"
+	There's evidence the Corps was involved in Santiago's death (cf.
+	"Revelations")
+	so it's plausible the man knew something of the plot, and wanted to
+	foil it without revealing himself.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Along similar lines, Bester's request to Talia that she keep an eye
+	on Sheridan and the others for their reactions to President Santiago's
+	death implies that he knows something other than an accident occurred,
+	even that he (or someone he's associated with) was involved.  His
+	offhand comment that he'd been told Sheridan would be sympathetic
+	to the Psi-Corps also implies that there may be more to Sheridan's
+	appointment as head of Babylon 5 than meets the eye.
+
+
      
+   
    • "Who'd have thought?" John Sheridan asks Ambassador Delenn.  He was
+	speaking at the time about the common trait of laughter, shared by
+	humans and Minbari, but he could equally have been speaking of the
+	whole scene.  A human ship captain, commanding a giant station
+	on the fringe of human controlled space, having a quiet dinner with
+	the Minbari ambassador -- who also happens to be a member of their
+	ruling body and who is also, to some degree "half-human."  Moreover,
+	she has apparently chosen him to teach her about humanity on a
+	personal level.  How personal this can get... who can say?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Finally, there is a telepath who can
+	operate on the side of the "good guys."  True, there are all the
+	telepaths who have passed through the "underground railroad," but
+	they are untrained or at best, trained but fleeing.  Talia is fully
+	trained and Psi-Corps doesn't know that she has turned--and she is
+	strong enough to maintain her independence.  It's likely she will be
+	a very important player now, and her personality may develop in new
+	directions now that she isn't under the heavy hand of Psi-Corps.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  This episode takes place in March, 2259, three months into
+	Sheridan's tour of duty with B5.
+
+   
    •  There is a subthread in this episode about lack of sleep.  Bester gets
+	Talia out of bed, Talia gets Ivanova out of bed, and Ivanova and
+	Sheridan spend a night sacked out in his office (he in his chair, she
+	on the couch).  Coincidence?  
+
+   
    •  "Knock Knock"  (who's there)  "Kosh"  (Kosh who?)  "Gesundheit!"
+	-- Sheridan
+
+   
    • @@@876775538 Judy Levitt, who plays the Psi Cop opposite Bester in the
+	scene on Mars, is Walter Koenig's wife.
+
+   
    •  Production gaffe: In the scene outside Earhart's, when Delenn is asking
+	Sheridan to dinner, a boom microphone is visible for an instant at the
+	top of the screen.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Favorite line in the next new episode, from Sheridan: "I'm not saying
+	what I'm saying.  I'm not saying what I'm *thinking*.  For that matter,
+	I'm not even *thinking* what I'm thinking."
+
+   
    •  BTW, just to note a little something you might not notice in the
+	show...we've adopted the tradition of putting the symbol for a given
+	ship onto the bar in Earhart's, as many real contemporary officers'
+	clubs and airforce/naval base clubs put the logos or markings of big
+	planes or ships that come through there.  The Cortez symbol is the
+	most visible among the various emblems you can see in a shot of the
+	bar in "A Race Through Dark Places."  It comes at the moment we follow
+	*another* old military tradition.
+
+   
    • @@@846703182 As for the sound mix...yeah, we put a great deal of work
+	into that aspect, for the surround effect.  If you fire up "Race"
+	there's a LOT going on in that one.  It takes a great deal of time, but
+	it's worth it.
+
+   
    •  Yes, originally, "Soul Mates" was to air after "Race."  At that
+	time, PTEN was initially going to show just 6 new episodes, and we would
+	have come in after the rerun break with "Race," then "Soul."  When the
+	ratings came in and looked good, they didn't want to interfere with
+	the growth, and indicated they wanted to show 7 new eps in the first
+	batch.  "Race," as you can see, was a very complex episode visually, and
+	the only way to get it ready to run #7 in the first batch would've been
+	to compromise the integrity of the show, and we simply won't do that for
+	ANY reason.  "Soul Mates," on the other hand, required very little in
+	the way of post production, so that was moved forward into the #7 slot.
+
+   
    •  Q: How many telepaths does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
      
+	A:
+
+   
    •  I always have to have a title before I begin writing, since the
+	title always influences the feel of the show.  I try to design one 
+	that is literary, or refers to a literary influence; it should have a 
+	certain rhythm, and avoid coming at the subject of the episode too 
+	dead-on.  For instance, one could call the recent Psi Cop episode with
+	Bester, "Capture" or "Chase."  But I wanted it to be evocative, to 
+	conjure up the image of people slipping through the shadows, pursued by
+	others, and to continue this season's trend toward titles that indicate
+	a coming night.  Hence, "A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+   
    •  No repeat of Bester's salute from "Mind War"
      
+	Also, bear in mind that Bester's parting shot in "Mind War" was
+	exactly that, in essence an "Up yours" but subtle.  There was no 
+	reason for that to be given to anyone in "Race."
+
+   
    • @@@846703182 Correct, the penny was/is a keepsake.
+
+   
    •  Where did Ivanova's outfit in the last scene come from?
      
+	I think it came out of the Victoria's Secrets catalog....
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+When the Centauri emperor visits the station, Sheridan tries to keep G'Kar
+from going after him.  Londo and Refa plot to expand their power.
+A mysterious man seeks out Garibaldi.
+
+
+Turhan Bey as the Centauri Emperor.
+Malachi Throne as the Centauri Prime Minister.
+William Forward as Refa.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.59
+
+Production number: 209
+Original air date: February 1, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
+
+
    
+The shooting script for this episode is included in JMS'
+"The Complete Book of Scriptwriting."
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Sheridan joined the Earth military a few years before the
+	Earth-Minbari War.  A planetary draft was established during the war.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri have sent many ships into Vorlon space; none have
+	returned, but strange stories about the Vorlons have found their
+	way back to the Centauri homeworld.
+
+   
    •  Sinclair's duties on the Minbari homeworld extend far beyond normal
+	ambassadorial functions.  He is taking part in the preparation for
+	the fight against the great darkness that many of the Minbari
+	believe is approaching.  To that end, he is in command of a small
+	army of "rangers" -- individuals, Minbari and human, who roam the
+	frontier, gathering information too sensitive to report back via
+	normal channels.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri Emperor employs four telepaths, linked since birth; 
+	when he leaves the royal court, two accompany him and two stay
+	behind, so he and his representatives at the court are constantly
+	aware of each other's circumstances.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  What is the meaning of Londo's dream?  (see
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Why is Sinclair in charge of the rangers?  Is he the only one in
+	control, or is he a piece of a much larger chain of command?
+
+   
    •  How did the rangers get started?  How are they expanding?  What
+	or who is drawing them to Minbar, and how?
+
+   
    •  Why does Sinclair think Garibaldi should stay close to the Vorlon?
+	How much does he know, and how long has he known it?  (Recall that in
+	"The Gathering"
+	Delenn gave Sinclair information about the Vorlons, though it's not
+	clear how complete or accurate it was.)
+
+   
    •  Will Londo become emperor some day?
+
+   
    •  What will the Narn's first move against the Centauri be?
+
+   
    •  What did the Emperor know about Vorlons that caused him to want to
+	ask Kosh his question?  What does the question mean?  (see
+	Analysis)
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  When the two telepaths on Centauri Prime entered the throne room,
+	a human and two Minbari were talking to the prime minister.  Most
+	likely they were there on unrelated business, but it's possible they
+	were rangers, there to gather information.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  As soon as Londo lied about what the Emperor told him, the two
+	veiled telepaths exchanged a look and left the room hastily.  It
+	may be that they knew he was lying; whether they'll tell anyone,
+	and if so what impact that will have, remains to be seen.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh seems to have a perception that extends into the future; or
+	perhaps he is simply basing his comment on the results of the last
+	great war against the Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo's dream, which has been foreshadowed from
+	day one
+	("Midnight on the Firing Line")
+	contains a lot of information, if it's to be taken literally.
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  The hand seems a clear reference to the "great hand, reaching
+		out across the stars" as seen by Elric in
+		"The Geometry of Shadows."
+		If so, the hand is Londo's.  Presumably it is a metaphor
+		for his expanding power and influence.
+
+	   
      •  Londo stands in the middle of fine sand, a desert (or
+		perhaps decimated ruins; witness the dead vegitation and
+		patterns in the sand) and watches several Shadow ships fly
+		overhead.  This appears to be on Centauri Prime.  He is
+		dressed in his ambassadorial uniform and appears to be
+		roughly the same age as in the present.  One implication is
+		that the Shadows will either attack Centauri Prime or (more
+		likely) come to its defense.  It should also be noted that
+		Londo has never seen a Shadow ship in the present.
+		One reader suggests that Londo's expression can be interpreted
+		as Londo looking on, helpless, as a great evil is done; for
+		the first time realizing who's really the pawn in his
+		relationship with the Shadows.
+
+	   
      •  When Londo receives the crown, he is again not much older
+		than in the present, possibly slightly older than when he's
+		observing the Shadow ships.  Perhaps he is crowned after
+		calling in the Shadows to help defend Centauri Prime.  (Of
+		course, the new Emperor would have to be dead first.)
+		The person crowning him appears to be fairly old.
+	
+	   
      •  Much later -- twenty years, give or take -- Londo, in white
+		Imperial attire, sits in the throne and looks around,
+		face filled with regret or resignation.  Nobody else is
+		visible, and the throne room seems bare compared to the
+		scene at the beginning of the episode.  It's as if everything
+		has been lost; he is Emperor, but Emperor of nothing, perhaps
+		of a dead world.
+	
+	   
      •  Then he sees G'Kar, also aged 20 years, face half-covered
+		by a strip of black cloth.  The two try to strangle each other.
+		Londo appears to go limp as the dream ends; presumably he is
+		dying.  The cloth across G'Kar's face appears to cover an
+		injury; he may be missing his left eye.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Londo's old age in the last scene suggests that it takes place around
+	the same time as the attempt to snatch Babylon 4 through time (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+	Sinclair seemed to have aged about the same amount, though of course
+	humans and Centauri may age at different rates, and something may have
+	caused Sinclair to age prematurely.  But barring those two factors, it
+	suggests that the war is still raging at the time of Londo's
+	strangulation, and that it will last at least twenty years.
+
+	
      
+	It's also worth noting that the dream contained only one spoken line,
+	from
+	"Chrysalis:"
+	"Keep this up, G'Kar, and soon you won't have a planet to protect."
+	(It was spoken over a scene from
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo may well be serious when he tells Vir he has no wish to become
+	emperor; his premonition may have convinced him that it'd be bad
+	to seek the position.  But the vision remains; he may find himself
+	taking the throne in spite of himself down the road.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844882570 The state of G'Kar's left eye may be a reference to Norse
+	mythology, in which the god Odin gives up his left eye for wisdom.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "It's a small price to pay for immortality," says Refa.  A reference
+	to everlasting fame?  The Centauri propensity for elevating emperors
+	to godhood?  (cf.
+	"Chrysalis")
+
+
      
+   
    •  The emperor's question implies that he was
+	in on something that isn't general knowledge, possibly something about
+	the Vorlons.  One explanation may lie in dreams; perhaps the emperor's
+	death dream (according to Londo in
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line,"
+	such dreams are commonplace among the Centauri) told him that a war
+	would begin after his death.  Why he thought Kosh would know how the
+	war would end -- assuming the war is what the question referred to --
+	is still an open question, though.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Along similar lines, why did the emperor speak his dying words to
+	Londo, rather than Refa?  Did he know what Londo was really up to,
+	or was he simply guessing that Londo was likely the catalyst who
+	would bring his empire into war, based on Londo's handling of Quadrant
+	37 in
+	"Chrysalis?"
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Narn government apparently approved of G'Kar's would-be
+	assassination attempt, even though he lied about it in his will;
+	presumably he wanted to protect his people from revenge attacks
+	by the Centauri.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@845337411 The script for this episode is printed in its entirety in
+	JMS' "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting," ISBN 0-89879-512-5,
+	published by Writer's Digest Books.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 The votes for the Hugo Award were as follows.  The two
+	numbers listed are number of nominations received and final number
+	of votes cast.
+
+	
      
+	
      1st "The Coming Of Shadows"    93    457
+2nd "Apollo 13"               122    355
+3rd "12 Monkeys"               59    160
+4th "Toy Story"                79     76
+5th "The Visitor" (ST:DS9)     30     60
+6th No Award                          15
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+	
      
+   
    •  I love "The Coming of Shadows."  It's one of those episodes that just
+	knocks the breath out of you.  You know those moments when you're in the
+	passenger seat of a car, and the person driving is doing something
+	crazy, and your foot automatically keeps searching for a brake pedal
+	that isn't there because you know something awful's going to happen?
+	That's the feeling you get all through that script.  This episode,
+	like "Sky," "Signs," "Chrysalis" and "Revelations" again changes the
+	direction and ratchets everything one notch tighter.  It's also a
+	very visual script, and I like that, since I sometimes do rely too
+	much on dialogue from time to time, and it's good to go in a different
+	direction.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Kosh's brevity is one of the things I like best about him; in the
+	year two episode "The Coming of Shadows," he has just two words in the
+	whole episode...but they're guaranteed to give just about anyone the
+	willies.
+
+	
      
+   
    • @@@846703584 The G'Kar-Emperor thread was similar to the King
+	Arthur legend: Arthur's and Mordred's armies are poised for battle but
+	make one last attempt to negotiate, but a soldier raises his sword to
+	kill a snake and everyone attacks.
      
+	There's another applicable metaphor for the sword story; you'll see it
+	a little later this season.  Very good catch, btw.  "This season"
+	refers to season three.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  I generally don't let the actors know what's coming unless it's
+	important to the current performance.  Otherwise you risk having the
+	actor play the *result* instead of the *process*.  Had to make one
+	divergence from this recently, so that Peter could understand better
+	a sequence in "The Coming of Shadows," which you'll understand when
+	you see it.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  We're also taking advantage of some of the recent Hubble photographs
+	to scan them and use them as backgrounds in some far-space shots;
+	there's one in "The Coming of Shadows," for instance.  Real space is
+	*very* nice looking in places.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  I may not have been clear in my meaning when I said "accellerating
+	the arc."  This doesn't mean doing anything ahead of schedule; it just
+	means that now we begin cranking the story into a higher intensity
+	level.  We've been kind of floating toward our destination...now we
+	begin the process of accellerating.  If you recall Literary Structure
+	from English Lit 101, there's the Introduction, the Rising Action, the
+	Complication, the Climax, and the Denouement.  Year one up through
+	about the first eight episodes of year two are Introduction; we are now
+	in Rising Action stage.  Remember that this is structured like a novel,
+	and you'll generally have some idea of where you stand in the
+	progression.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  I ended up giving Peter info on "Signs" prior to shooting "Chrysalis"
+	last season; that was the biggie there.  For "CoS" in order for the
+	scene to match what's going to happen several years down the road in
+	the series, I had to kinda give him the context of the dream, and what
+	was really happening in that scene, and what caused it, and how he got
+	to that place with G'Kar's hands around his throat.
+
+	
      
+	He seemed quite...astonished.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Yeah, on several levels, writing "The Coming of Shadows" was hard;
+	there were times I felt as though I'd just jumped onto the back of a
+	runaway dynamite truck.  Halfway through that story you can feel the arc
+	kinda moving underneath you, like some huge, dark fish about to break
+	surface.
+
+	
      
+	The only way to make a viewer feel a character's pain is if you feel
+	it in the writing, and a lot of that came through.  I live with these
+	characters running around in my head 24 hours a day...and when I'd
+	finally finished "Shadows," it was as if they all sorta stopped and
+	looked at each other, and at me, and said, "Gee, thank you EVER so
+	fucking much, jeezus, why don't you just go pluck somebody's eye out
+	while you're at it?"
+
+	
      
+	To which the only reply is, "Now that you mention it...."
+
+	
      
+   
    • @@@852230868 The script for this episode is in JMS' "Complete Book
+	of Scriptwriting."
      
+	What might be interesting, next time you pick up the book, is to
+	fire up a copy of "The Coming of Shadows" and go through it with the
+	script in hand...it's a good way of seeing how you lay out a show
+	shot-for-shot.  And since there's stuff there that was cut from the
+	episode, you can also judge on what was left out, and why, and whether
+	it hurt or helped.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Not all Centauri dreams come true; however, the ones in which they
+	see their deaths tend to be pretty accurate.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Turhan originally came in to audition for Elric in "Geometry;" we
+	wanted someone with more menace (Ansara), but we were all just blown
+	away by how wonderful and sweet and nice a person he was, and as he
+	left, I told John Copeland, "I'm gonna write a part just for him."
+
+	
      
+	So I did, and we cast him, and everyone on the set loved him...to
+	the point that, at the end of the shoot, they were saying, "You BASTARD,
+	how could you bring this WONDERFUL man in here and then KILL HIM OFF SO
+	WE CAN'T HAVE HIM BACK?!"
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Are the Rangers a reference to the Chuck Norris series, "Walker,
+	Texas Ranger," with which you were involved, or to the Rangers in
+	Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings?"
      
+	For me, the concept of the Rangers isn't tied to Norris; that isn't
+	the reference I was talking about.  Being on that show, I kinda had to
+	look into the history of the Texas rangers in general, and being the
+	curious kind of guy I am, I widened out into the Army Rangers, and other
+	sorts.  I'd been looking for a kind of name to attach to this group, and
+	the more I thought about it, the more it fit.
+ 
+	
      
+	As far as the costume is concerned...it's not medeival based; if you
+	look at the ranger's outfit, than go look at a Minbari warrior outfit,
+	you will discover a LOT of points of comparison.  It was *designed* to
+	echo Minbari warrior caste clothes, to reflect the fact that these two
+	sides are working together.  Go fire up "Legacies" and look at his
+	uniform, then look at the ranger.  You'll see the similarities in
+	silhouette and line in various places.
+ 
+	
      
+	Of course I've read and enjoyed Tolkein.  But as I've said, I have
+	no interest in doing LoTR with the serial numbers filed off.  I've
+	dropped references to it in dialogue, but the structure of the story has
+	nothing whatsoever to do with LoTR.  Basically, a lot of people have
+	come up and said, "Oh, this is the same as Foundation," or "This is
+	the same as LoTR," or "This echoes a lot of Dune," or "This is
+	obviously a Homeric tale," or "There's a lot of Star Wars here."  It
+	uses the same tools as all mythic structure fiction uses.  Hence it
+	resonates.  But I didn't sit there and think, "Hmm...Gandalf left, so
+	I'll have Sinclair leave."  That's just plain silly.
+ 
+	
      
+	It's really a matter of what you bring to the table, that affects
+	what you see in the story.
+ 
+	
      
+	The roots of the symbolism and structure of B5 go back a hell of a
+	lot longer than this.  Here...I'll give you one free.
+ 
+	
      
+	G'Kar is in many ways my Cassandra figure, who in the Greek tales
+	was granted the gift of prophecy...all the disasterous things she
+	predicted would come true...but she was cursed by the gods that NO ONE
+	would ever believe her.  And later, when the war was at its height,
+	she ended up in the service of.....
+
+
      
+   
    •  One could certainly argue the position that those who become Rangers
+	are drawn to Minbar for that purpose, and speculate about what might be
+	propelling that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The broach worn by the Rangers was designed by me and Ann Bruice,
+	our costumer.  I sketched (dopily and badly) what I had in mind, which
+	was a stylized human and minbari on either side of a gemstone, both 
+	wokred (worked) into the same metal, and holding the gemstone.
+
+	
      
+	She then took this drawing that looked like it had been drawn by a
+	drunk five year old and translated it into a striking piece.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Rangers actually owe more to the Lone Ranger and the Texas Rangers
+	in general.
+
+	
      
+	FYI, Sinclair called Delenn "old friend" as far back as the 2-hour 
+	pilot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo, in his vision, sees the shadow vessels, but he does not know
+	(in his present tense version) that that's what they are.  He's had this
+	particular dream for years now, long before meeting Morden.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It didn't show up in the script, and probably
+	won't, but the Emperor probably did have a vision of his death, and the
+	Vorlon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: your question...at this juncture, I think I'd have to choose "The
+	Coming of Shadows" as the one episode I'd use to represent the series.
+	That one episode came out so close to perfect, so close to what I saw in
+	my head when I wrote it, that the difference is no difference at all.
+	It has all the elements I'd feature in a B5 discussion...the CGI, the
+	characterization, the complexity, the politics, the language, the
+	performances.
+ 
+
      
+   
    •  The handclasp used in "Coming of Shadows" was a traditional clasp
+	used by Romans, usually in order to check if the other person was
+	carrying a knife.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Because to some extent the roman civilization is one of the sources
+	for constructing the Centauri, I adapted their handshake (checking 
+	for knives) as their greeting; "I offer the hands of friendship."
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a difference between what I believe dreams mean, what the
+	Centauri believe dreams mean, and what dreams mean to the Centauri,
+	in that universe, and what they mean to me in our universe.
+
+	
      
+	I suspect the truth lay somewhere between Shroedinger and Jung.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  That scene [the attack on the Narn outpost] in "Coming of 
+	Shadows" is one of my favorites; it does, as you say, convey that 
+	sense of wonder which is one of my main goals with this show. 
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: parallel visuals between MotFL and CoS...yes, precisely.  In some
+	ways, they were set up as mirror-image parallels of one another, to 
+	show how the wheel turns, to quote G'Kar.  The opening council 
+	meeting, the attacks, the determination to kill the other, alternately
+	Garibaldi or Sheridan having to stop them by calling on the question 
+	of consequences if followed up on...it shows CoS as sort of the "dark
+	mirror" of the first episode.  Everything we saw when we first thought
+	we knew what the series was has now totally reversed and been turned 
+	on its head.
+
+	
      
+	They also focus on one of the main questions that B5 addreses itself
+	to: what is important to you? what are you willing to sacrifice? how
+	far are you willing to go to get what you want?  For me, a large 
+	measure of defining WHO we are is by WHAT we are willing to do, and 
+	what we want, and the means by which we pursue those goals.  The other
+	theme of course is sacrifice, which recurs throughout the show in one 
+	form or another.
+
+	
      
+	Sometimes, I think, people get so caught up in what's happening and
+	why that they miss what it's *about* on a more cellular level.  And 
+	that's the question of who we are.  Identity.  The importance of *one
+	single person* and the ability of that person to act as a fulcrum, 
+	intentionally or otherwise, upon which vast events can turn.  Choices.
+	What you value most.  Those, to me, are the issues most worth 
+	exploring.  We're told every day, beaten down with the notion that 
+	we're powerless, that we can't change things, you can't fight city 
+	hall...and of course it's not true.  You can fight.  And sometimes, 
+	you can even win.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair didn't send the same letter.  Same greeting, to keep the
+	recipient secret.
+
+	
      
+	Only the Ranger knew who got what.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The emperor falling scene, as with those around it, were shot as
+	written, down to the slow-motion notation, the close on his head 
+	hitting the floor, the women clutching one another...all in the 
+	script.  But it takes someone as skilled as Janet to take what 
+	somebody else might screw up and elevate it into something truly 
+	nifty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Slow-motion (or camera overcranked) is almost always indicated in
+	scripts.  I like slow-mo.  It can add a dreamlike quality to a shot, and
+	prolong a sense of imminent trouble.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You left out my favorite quote from the show, from the Emperor:  "The
+	past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us
+	...and our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, 
+	terrible in-between."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The centauri veiled telepaths are mainly wired into one another.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852230868 I'd say that Turhan was probably emperor for about 30
+	years or so.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The emperor said exactly what, in the hallway, Londo said he said.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The emperor was referring to Londo and Refa.  And if the Centauri 
+	telepaths suspected or picked up anything, to tell anyone would almost 
+	certainly lead to a quick demise.  When you're that high up in the royal
+	court, you learn to keep your mouth shut.
+
+
      
+   
    •  [Emperor] Turhan's death was exactly as stated, natural causes.  If
+	it were anything else, we'd have at least nodded in that direction at
+	some point.  It's not fair to do so otherwise.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Didn't the Narn behind Londo and Refa hear them?
      
+	The Narn was just passing quickly through scene, in a hurry, and
+	couldn't have heard what Londo and Refa were quietly discussing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Your feelings about the war starting are exactly what they should be,
+	and what I wanted to achieve with "Shadows."  In SF TV, very often, as
+	you state, it's "Yeah, let's get a war on!  Blow stuff up!"  But to 
+	hear of a *real* war...it's very, very sobering.  When we hear that 
+	Gulf troops were being sent into the Mideast, when we heard of soviet
+	troops sent into Prague...your heart stops for a moment.  When Kennedy
+	put American ships in a Cuban blockade and the world held its breath
+	...THAT is what it feels like to step into possible or real war.  All
+	you can think of is, "How the HELL did we get into this, and how the
+	hell do we get OUT of it?"  And that was at the emotional core of
+	"Shadows."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why not use the healing device from "Quality of Mercy?"
      
+	The alien healing device was specifically used in treatment of
+	illness; the Emperor suffered massive damage to his heart and othe
+	internal organs, which simply restoring some life energy wouldn't help.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Not a contradiction.  I don't believe in omniscient or all powerful
+	devices that function like literal deus ex machinas and heal everybody
+	all the time.  It was stated *plainly and clearly* that the device was
+	used in healing terminally ill patients.  They cannot undo physical 
+	damage from gunshots (the regen packs and other devices were used to 
+	heal Garibaldi's wound, and the alien device was used to raise his life
+	energy level enough to bring him out of the coma).  The emperor 
+	suffered a massive attack that destroyed parts of his heart.  Can't be
+	fixed by this device.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You may tell your friend that the city hit in "CoS" was CGI, not
+	a model.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Sanctuary is where Sheridan and the Emperor had their lengthy
+	conversation; it's *all* a virtual set except the floor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Sanctuary is entirely a virtual set.  It's all blue-screen, no 
+	walls, no windows, no stars, no nothing.  I made sure to ask 
+	Foundation and Mitch to blur the walls a bit in close up to give it 
+	the correct depth of field.  (Much of the CGI/background work is done
+	by Mitch, our effects guy, who works independent of Foundation, who
+	was also the main EFX guy on Predator, ET and others.)  Because that
+	was a LONG scene, the rendering time was just hideous.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Sanctuary set has ALWAYS been entirely virtual, except for a small
+	grating on the floor as a marker.  The walls, the windows, all of it.
+	Virtual.  We've actually done this a number of times.  I haven't said 
+	anything before because whenever I mention there's a virtual set, and
+	where it is, people look at it and say, "Oh, yeah, I could tell it was
+	virtual."  Because they knew ahead of time.  So I stopped mentioning it.
+
+	
      
+	We're sneaky that way.  You've seen, and will continue to see, sets 
+	that don't exist ANYwhere.  Hell, you know that bazaar shot in the
+	main title sequence?  The second floor?  Doesn't exist.  Digital 
+	compositing and virtual set melding.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The area where the reception was being held is the Rotunda.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the chance that the datacrystal might fall into the wrong hands, I
+	had Sinclair deliberately avoid using Garibaldi's last name, and 
+	avoid Delenn's altogether (since she has only the one).  The Ranger 
+	was told to deliver the crystals at the cost of his own life if 
+	necessary...but sometimes such orders don't end well for the messenger.
+	So both messages began the same way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm very happy at the reaction.  I was telling John Copeland a bit 
+	ago, when we finished the episode, "Maybe we ought to superimpose a 
+	crawl before the first frame of the teaser saying, "JUST IN CASE YOU 
+	THOUGHT WE WERE KIDDING.""
+
+	
      
+	An aside on the jms/kosh discussion, for whatever interest it may
+	have....when Ardwight comes in to do Kosh, they call me in to direct 
+	his performance so that it matches what the intent is now, and how it
+	will be interpreted later.  From where I sit in the control room, I 
+	can't see him, I can only hear his voice.  So it's kinda like talking
+	with Kosh there, and me saying, "Okay, can you try 'In Fire' hitting 
+	the second word harder, and with a sense of some anger behind it?"   
+	And between takes, he's still in Kosh-speak mode, muttering, "How will
+	this end, how do I know talk to my agent...go on, get out, buzz off
+	...."
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are some episodes coming that are about as intense as this, 
+	though not as much *happens*, in the sense of a bunch of events 
+	affecting lots of people in different places.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, intentional parallel structure to "Midnight," which is why I
+	included the shot from that episode in Londo's dream.  I like irony.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, "CoS" is a deliberate mirror-image of "Midnight," partly to
+	illustrate the notion that "the wheel turns," as G'Kar says...yes, it
+	does, and if you forget that it eventually turns on *you*, you'll be
+	ground beneath it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I will tell you a true and secret thing, re: Londo's dream, and looking
+	up into a blue sky to see the ships passing overhead.
+
+	
      
+	Ever since I was a kid, I've had that image in my dreams, of standing
+	out in the open and looking up as strange dark ships pass overhead. 
+	It's always been an unnerving image, and I really wanted to use it 
+	here to see if it would have the same effect on others.
+
+	
      
+	The other single most recurring image is to be standing at the bottom
+	of a long set of stairs, in a basement, and the door at the top of the
+	stairs is thrown open, and there's gunfire, and guards, and flares in 
+	the night beyond, and more ships firing down.
+
+	
      
+	Don't be surprised if this shows up as well, someday....
+
+
      
+   
    •  We nailed a piece with Michael before he left for New York; when we
+	shot "Points," he had long since returned to NY and was in the 
+	process of pursuing other things.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was with the human and Minbari in the
+	throne room?
      
+	They were discussing possible use of a world on the fringe of 
+	Centauri space for something of, they hoped, benign use.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846703584 One of the problems we had with the Hugo last year was
+	that whereas only a couple of TNG episodes were good enough to get
+	nominated, eight B5 episodes made it to the final cut.  Because folks
+	went for their favorite episodes, and they had a number that year.
+	The result was that the choices got split so much that TNG won, since
+	it had fewer good or great episodes that season.  ("All Good Things"
+	won with, I think, 57 votes; the top two B5 episodes on the list had
+	32 and 27 votes between them, enough right there to have won if
+	combined.  That was for "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis," with
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars" at 21, "Babylon Squared" at 19,
+	"Believers" at 10, "Mind War" at 9, "Voice in the Wilderness" at 8,
+	and "Soul Hunter" at 6.)
+
+	
      
+	So basically, we lost because we had too many solid episodes to choose
+	from.
+
+	
      
+	As a result, a lot of folks this year have been campaigning to have
+	participants go for "The Coming of Shadows," which is the highest
+	rated episode in all the informal polls on-line and elsewhere from
+	that time period.  It's the one nearly everybody seems to agree upon.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 Congratulations on winning the Hugo.
      
+	Thanks; that was the one where we felt we really hit our stride.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 The Hugo is a marvelous reward to everyone who's worked
+	so hard on the show these last 3+ years.  We're very proud.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 Did you think you were going to win?
      
+	I honestly didn't know how it was going to work out.  I figured
+	(correctly, as it turned out) that the main opposition would be Apollo 
+	13.  Which for my money would've been a good selection.  (Is it SF?  The
+	description John Campbell and, I think, Heinlein gave for SF is "the
+	impact on humans of technology."  It even uses the Analog Magazine
+	approach of finding a technical solution to a technical problem.  If
+	Apollo 13 doesn't count that way, what does?  Is it fiction?  Nnnnnooo,
+	I suppose, though certainly elements of it were fictionalized for
+	purposes of drama, and I guess that counts somewhat.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, that dispute aside, and I can see why it's not a clear issues
+	for a lot of folks...understand that I've never won a major award
+	before.  I've been up for Ace Awards, the Writers Guild Award, the
+	Gemini Award (the Canadian equivilant of an Emmy), the HWA Bram Stoker
+	Award, others...but hadn't won, and as a result, you get very guarded
+	about these things.  So I didn't know for sure until the words left
+	Roger Corman's lips.
+
+	
      
+	And I have to say...this show has won a lot of awards in different
+	areas, Emmys and others, but this one, for me, means the most.  Even
+	Warners is excited about it, and is taking out a double-page ad in most
+	of the trades this Friday, with others to appear the following week. 
+	(We encouraged them to also congratulate the nominees for the award as
+	well, since they were all very deserving, it was stiff competition.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 The reaction at the [WorldCon] to B5, at the awards
+	and elsewhere, was quite amazing.  Everywhere the show was mentioned at
+	panels, it appaarently got applause.  The attending fans were
+	*extremely* friendly, went out of their way to be nice.  The two B5
+	panels I gave (the second one added on when the first one wouldn't fit
+	into the room provided) were extremely enthusiastic. I think the two
+	presentations I gave that day totaled about 2,500-2,600 people total.
+
+	
      
+	When the winner was announced for Best Dramatic Presentation, and I
+	headed for the stage, for a moment I thought we were having an
+	earthquake, or there was a sudden thunder...but it was the fans
+	applauding and stomping their feet enough to make the ground shake.  It
+	was deafening down where the nominees were, and I noticed a couple of
+	them looking around with a "what the hell is THAT?" look on their faces.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 Reader congratulates JMS on the Hugo and adds that
+	she did so in person, but he didn't seem to hear her then.
      
+	Thanks...I'm not sure I heard much of anything that night....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 See the Notes section for the
+	vote tallies.
      
+	What's interesting, in noting the number of votes in the nominations, is
+	that if we hadn't withdrawn the second Hugo nominated B5 episode, "The
+	Fall of Night," DS9 wouldn't have had a nomination at all.  They moved
+	into the nominations when we withdrew "FoN."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 How many nominations did "The Fall of Night"
+	receive?
      
+	I don't know offhand; my guess is that it was #5 in the overall
+	nominations list, because (I understand) they had to jump past #6 (The
+	Long, Twilight Struggle) to get to #7 (the DS9 episode) to find a non-B5
+	candidate for the nominations list.  So we had 3 out of the top 6, and
+	apparently two more B5 episodes were high up on the list, I think in the
+	top 10.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 Is this the first TV episode to win since Harlan
+	Ellison's "City on the Edge of Forever" from the original Star
+	Trek?
      
+	Actually, no, two episodes of TNG also got Hugos.
+
+	
      
+	But what *is* significant here is that in 43 years, only 7 Hugos have
+	gone to dramatic TV series; 3 to the original Twilight Zone, 4 to Star
+	Trek (old and new).  This is the first Hugo in 43 years to go to a
+	science fiction TV series other than TZ or ST.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 Where will you display the Hugo?
      
+	I was thinking of putting the Hugo on display in my bedroom, 
+	but I decided it was 'way too Freudian.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 Have you taken it onto the set?
      
+	Absolutely, I took the Hugo out on the very next day, Tuesday.  The
+	whole place was very excited about it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843206491 B5 received another award at WorldCon.
      
+	Yeah, the Shadow Hugo (an ominous name for what's basically a
+	coaster-shaped circuit board with a bronze plate on it) went to B5 from
+	Sci-Fi.Com, which was actually the first SF award B5 has gotten, beating
+	the real Hugos by about 24 hours.
+
+	
      
+	The reason they had to come out of the SFFWA (Science Fiction and
+	Fantasy Writers of America) suite to give me the award
+	had to do with my feelings toward SFFWA, from which I resigned over
+	their attitude toward media writers and the dramatic nebula (bottom
+	line: all media writers are hacks, and it's not real writing, and even
+	though media work, scripts, are eligible for membership, or were then,
+	they're not eligible for the Nebula because it isn't really writing).
+
+	
      
+	Actually, what I said to the folks from scifi.com was..."I wouldn't go
+	in there for the presentation if I were dying of lung cancer and they
+	were offering free chemotherapy at the door."  Nothing against many of
+	the SFFWA members, many of them are fine folks who're taking the rap
+	for a provincially minded leadership, but after the grief I got from
+	SFWA over all this before, the hate mail, the vindictiveness, the
+	resignation (to this day they still haven't had the guts to print my
+	letter of resignation in the Journal), I just couldn't go in there for
+	the award.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843787022 ...sigh...I'm gonna regret this, I know it, I just
+	know it....
+
+	
      
+	C'mere.  Siddown.  Lemme 'splain.
+
+	
      
+	I resigned SFWA (back before it became SFFWA) for the reasons you
+	cite, and over the whole Dramatic Nebula issue, which was for me the
+	defining moment and the proverbial straw across the equally
+	proverbial camel's back.
+
+	
      
+	A number of us -- me, D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Mike Cassutt,
+	Harlan, others -- attempted to get SFWA to restore the Dramatic
+	Nebula, which had been dropped for a number of years.  In the course
+	of this, I received more abusive, vitriolic, hateful pieces of mail
+	and email than I can begin to describe to you.  It rivals or exceeds
+	*anything* ever sent to me in any flame war.  All from other SFWA
+	members.  One quote I remember vividly is emblematic of the whole: "I
+	work my ass off writing for pennies a word, while all you hacks in TV
+	churn out crap for thousands of dollars a page.  You and your LA
+	buddies will never get a Dramatic Nebula as long as I'm alive."
+
+	
      
+	And that was the nicest letter I got.
+
+	
      
+	It was explained to me, in mail, email and the SFWA journal, that
+	scriptwriting wsan't really *writing*, it was just typing.  That TV
+	writers weren't really writers.  That you can't read a script unless
+	you're trained, so you can't vote on it.  That since TV/film is often
+	a collaborative form, you don't know who contributed what, so how can
+	you give a nebula?  And there's George Martin's argument, that SFWA
+	should give Dramatic Nebulas to scriptwriters when WGA allows prose
+	writers to join.
+
+	
      
+	And the responses to this...it *is* writing, you *can* read the
+	script easily, it's just the margins that are different.  Editors
+	often contribute structure and ideas and other material to the books
+	they edit, but I don't see that stopping regular nebulas.  And SFWA
+	was built around a particular *genre*, anything in that genre is or
+	should be acceptable; WGA is built around *form*, the script, and any
+	genre within that form is acceptable.  We're talking apples and
+	oranges here.
+
+	
      
+	I was even willing to remove myself from all future DN consideration
+	to remove the notion that I was doing this to get one myself.  It was
+	the principle, for one vital reason:
+
+	
      
+	At that time, SFWA allowed scripts to qualify you for membership in
+	SFWA.  Scripts were fine as far as SFWA was concerned as long as it
+	brought in more in the way of membership dues.  If it brought money
+	INTO SFWA, then it was writing, and qualified script writers to join
+	SFWA.  But when it came time to give out the dramatic nebula...nope,
+	suddenly it ain't writing no more.
+
+	
      
+	It was a clear contradiction, and a bald-faced double-standard.
+	Hypocrisy at its most blatant.
+
+	
      
+	So finally, when the move to restore the Dramatic Nebula was vetoed,
+	I quit.  The final irony being this: over the 10 years or so I'd been
+	a member, I'd written maybe 7 or 8 letters to be published in the
+	SFWA Journal, which appears quarterly or monthly, I forget now.
+	There were (and are) people who had something in almost every issue,
+	often for pages at a time.  I sent my letter of resignation to the
+	Journal, and it has never to this day been printed.  Because once it
+	became clear that I was no longer going to continue paying dues
+	(though I was still a member at the time of the letter, and for
+	several months thereafter, until my prior payment ran out), they
+	really had no interest in hearing anything from a scriptwriter.  They
+	later tried the exuse that it was too long, but it was exactly the
+	same length as the majority of letters that appeared in the Journal.
+
+	
      
+	In fighting for the rights of script-members of SFWA on  the DN
+	issue, and the perception of scriptwriters in general, I was
+	insulted, abused, targeted, slandered, ridiculed, threatened and
+	harrassed.  While there are many fine individuals who belong to the
+	group, as an organization is is provincial and small minded and
+	insecure and jealous.  Any John Norman GOR novel would theoretically
+	be eligible for a Nebula, but 12 Monkeys would not.  If an SF novel
+	sells 35,000 copies, it's a great thing; 100,000 is a *terrific*
+	thing, much ballyhooed by the SF establishment.  B5 has a hardcore
+	audience of between 10 and 15 *million* people.
+
+	
      
+	So bottom-line...yeah, I left SFWA because I got tired of the
+	contempt the organization and many of its members held (and still
+	hold) for scriptwriters.  When it came time to accept the Science
+	Fiction Weekly's award for "The Coming of Shadows," I stepped into
+	the SFFWA suite (where they were to be given out) just long enough to
+	find the guys involved, and get out again.  And the award was
+	presented out in the hallway, because I didn't want it to happen
+	there.  As I told the organizer, I wouldn't go into the SFFWA suite
+	for this if I were dying of lung cancer and they were offering free
+	chemotherapy at the door.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843505162 The promo for the Hugo-commemorative rerun had a
+	"Winner 1996 Hugo Award" overlay.  Was it hard to get WB to do
+	that?
      
+	It was their idea.  They're impressed that we got the Hugo.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin's father arrives, leading 25,000
+ground pounding soldiers on the station.  The troops' arrival elicits fear from
+both humans and non-humans that the troops may be going on a secret mission
+that will involve the station becoming an armed camp.
+
+
+Paul Winfield as Gen. Richard Franklin.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 7.49
+
+Production number: 210
+Original air date: February 8, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Dr. Franklin's father is an Earth Alliance military hero, a veteran
+	of the Dilgar war and several internal conflicts on Earth.  He was
+	rarely around for his children when they were growing up; when he
+	was around, he tried to run the family like a boot camp.
+
+   
    •  With the advent of the Narn-Centauri war, the Earth Alliance is
+	trying to solidify its hold on several strategic sectors near both,
+	in anticipation of the day when Earth will have to choose sides.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan served a tour of duty on the planet Akdor, in a system
+	bordering on both Narn and Centauri space.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi's father, Alfredo, served under General Franklin in the
+	Dilgar war, and was a well-regarded soldier.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Babylon 5 is now heavily armed, ready to take on a warship.  Which
+	raises the question: why wasn't it before?  Mere
+	shortsightedness on the part of the designers -- a station like
+	Babylon 5 seems a natural target -- or something else?  Even if
+	there originally didn't seem any need to heavily arm the station,
+	the attacks on the station in
+	"Signs and Portents"
+	and
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2"
+	should have demonstrated that B5 will come under attack
+	from time to time.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, Franklin did say that the station was being
+	upgraded with the latest from Earth Force R&D, so maybe its previous
+	weapons were simply the best the previous generation of technology
+	had to offer.  Budget constraints may have also played a role.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  The tail end of the news broadcast mentions that more divisions
+	of Earth troops will join the 356th on Akdor.  That implies some
+	sort of permanent presence on the planet itself, as opposed to
+	just "in the system" as General Franklin mentioned.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Delenn's transformation doesn't appear to be getting the widespread
+	publicity one might expect; the troops didn't seem to recognize her
+	at all.  Perhaps they simply don't follow the news.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  "GROPOS" stands for "ground pounders" and refers to the Earth
+	Alliance's equivalent of the U.S. Marines.  In fact, the term
+	"Earth Force Marine Corps" was contained in the Gropos' marching
+	song.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@844403594 As for GROPOS, that one episode was so far over budget
+	that I had to write 2 smaller ones to make up for it, and the many
+	people you saw were really just one small group that took forever to
+	digitally composite into looking like a much bigger group.
+
+   
    • @@@846703642 Who was the woman Garibaldi referred to, the one he
+	doesn't normally have a chance with?
      
+	That would be Talia.
+
+   
    •  Everything in the battle sequence at the end of Gropos is CGI; no
+	models, despite the shadows.  Real fire was sampled for the flames,
+	though.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan is kidnapped and taken to an alien ship.  The Grey Council decides
+Delenn's fate.  General Hague makes an unofficial visit to the station.
+
+
+Robert Foxworth as General Hague.
+Marshall Teague as the Narn.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.33
+
+Production number: 211
+Original air date: February 15, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A momentary change of clothes.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Minbari have installed a new leader.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's appointment to Babylon 5 was more than a coincidence.  He
+	was picked by Santiago, who knew that his record made him look like a
+	hard-nosed military man, just the sort Santiago suspected Clark would
+	want to replace Sinclair with.  But Santiago also knew that Sheridan
+	was a patriot who would stand against the forces seeking to undermine
+	the Earth government.  In his first months on the station, Sheridan's
+	real assignment was to evaluate the crew, find out who could be
+	trusted.
+
+   
    •  General Hague, and others, are working to expose the machinations
+	behind Santiago's death and other recent events.  They suspect the
+	Psi-Corps is behind the conspiracy, but so far have been unable to
+	prove anything.
+
+   
    •  Alit Neroon (head of the Star Riders clan, cf.
+	"Legacies")
+	has replaced Delenn on the Grey Council.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's dream is a big unanswered question, lent weight by Kosh's
+	comment after Sheridan's return.  See Analysis.
+
+   
    •  Why was Neroon appointed to the Council?
+
+   
    •  What does Delenn think is about to happen?  Why does she believe she
+	is about to descend into darkness and fire?
+
+   
    •  Is the foray by the Streibs related to what the Shadows are doing,
+	or is it just coincidental timing?
+
+   
    •  How did the Narn know so much about the Streibs and their ship?
+
+   
    •  What was done to Sheridan?  He was left with three scars on his
+	face, one of them on his forehead.  Might he be carrying an implant
+	of some sort now?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Neroon's appointment to the council is troublesome.  Presumably new
+	members are approved by majority vote.  The three warrior-caste
+	members probably voted for him; that means one or two of the remaining
+	five members must have voted for him as well, probably from the
+	worker caste.  Valen's wishes seem to be held in less than the highest
+	regard by some Minbari.
+
+   
    •  With four members, the warrior caste now effectively controls the
+	Grey Council.  On any issue they need only win over one other member
+	to have a majority.  It is unclear how far the Council's power
+	extends now that a new leader has been installed, and that leader
+	conceivably sides with the religious caste, but it looks like hard
+	times have arrived for Delenn's compatriots.
+
+   
    •  That being the case, how does this mesh with Sinclair's gathering of
+	rangers?  (cf.
+	"The Coming of Shadows")
+	Some of them, recall, are Minbari.  Are they primarily religious
+	caste?  Is there enough difference of opinion within the warrior
+	caste about humans that he's able to attract warriors?
+
+   
    •  We never actually hear Sheridan's answer to Hague, though it is
+	probably "yes."  If it isn't, Sheridan's meeting with the
+	rest of the command staff may be a ruse to draw Hague's people out
+	into the open -- on the assumption that Hague will try to work
+	via one of the others -- and expose the counterconspiracy.  Sheridan's
+	possible link with Psi-Corps (see below and
+	"A Race Through Dark Places")
+	makes this at least a plausible scenario, if an unlikely one.
+
+   
    •  There's more to the dream sequence
+	than is apparent at first glance,
+	and it's chock full of ambiguities.  A shot-by-shot rundown with
+	analysis (another, simpler, possible interpretation follows the
+	rundown):
+
+	
        
+
+	   
      1. Sheridan is in his quarters, in uniform.  The lights are out.
+		
+
+	   
      2. Ivanova is in the quarters with him, in uniform, hair draped
+		over her left shoulder.  The door is open.  She raises her
+		fingers to her lips and says, "Shh."
+		
        
+		Analysis: Someone or something has entered Sheridan's
+		mind to give him a message, and is warning him to watch and
+		listen, not try to participate.  The "something" might also
+		simply be part of Sheridan's own subconscious.  This probably
+		relates to Kosh's answer to Sheridan's first question.
+
+	   
      3. Sheridan looks confused.
+
+	   
      4. Ivanova, now with a raven perched on her right shoulder,
+		says, "Do you know who I am?"
+		
        
+		Analysis: The raven is typically symbolic of death;
+		Ivanova may represent destruction, perhaps eventually siding
+		with the forces of darkness.  In older literature, the raven
+		was often a thief, rather than a harbinger of death.
+
+	   
      5. Sheridan looks to his right, and finds himself in a Babylon 5
+		corridor.  He looks up.
+		
+
+	   
      6. On a catwalk, in harsh lighting, gripping the railing, is
+		another Sheridan.  He looks to his right.
+		
        
+		Analysis: It's unclear what kind
+		of uniform the Sheridan on the catwalk is wearing; possibly
+		a Psi-Cop uniform.  The angle of the shot is similar to
+		Sinclair's first view of Knight Two in
+		"And the Sky Full of Stars."  This
+		Sheridan perhaps represents another side of Sheridan's
+		personality (more on that below.)
+
+	   
      7. 
+		Garibaldi, also apparently on the catwalk, is in uniform and
+		has a dove(?) on his left shoulder.  "The man in between is
+		searching for you," he says.
+		
        
+		Analysis: "The man in between" may refer to the
+		Sheridan on the catwalk, a part of Sheridan that isn't sure
+		which side it should be on.
+		Of course, it could be a reference to someone else
+		entirely: someone between light and darkness, for instance.
+		(Sinclair?)
+		As for Garibaldi's dove, the dove is traditionally a symbol
+		of peace, perhaps implying that Garibaldi will work to stop
+		the Great War.
+		"Babylon Squared"
+		strongly suggests that Garibaldi will ally himself with the
+		side of light.
+
+	   
      8. Ivanova, in a veil and black dress, is standing behind
+		Sheridan, who is now wearing a turtleneck and a jacket.
+		
        
+		Analysis: This funereal garb lends some weight to
+		the idea that Ivanova represents death.  (It really is
+		Ivanova, though some readers have disagreed; see
+		jms speaks.)
+
+	   
      9. 
+		As he turns, we get a brief glimpse of a metal pin on the
+		left breast of his jacket: a Psi-Corps badge.  And in fact,
+		his jacket appears to be the uniform of a Psi-Cop, with the
+		leather strap down the right side in front.
+		
        
+		Analysis: Sheridan's change of clothes is perhaps the
+		most ominous part of the entire sequence.  Combined with
+		Bester's comment in
+		"A Race Through Dark Places"
+		that he was told to expect Sheridan to be sympathetic to
+		the Psi-Corps, it suggests some yet-to-be-revealed connection
+		between Sheridan and the Corps, something that may cause
+		a conflict of interest as he works with Hague's people.
+
+	   
      10. Ivanova, still veiled, says, "You are the hand."
+		
        
+		Analysis: Hands abound in Babylon 5,
+		from Kosh's hand in
+		"The Gathering"
+		to Londo's dream hand in
+		"The Coming of Shadows."
+		Presumably Ivanova isn't referring to Kosh's hand.  If she
+		is referring to the hand from Londo's dream, it suggests that
+		Sheridan will become a pawn in Londo's machinations; recall
+		Elric's comment in
+		"The Geometry of Shadows" --
+		the hand reaching out across the stars is Londo's.
+		Alternately, if Sheridan's Psi-Cop uniform is taken to mean
+		that he's symbolic of Psi-Corps as a whole, perhaps she means
+		that Psi-Corps, not Sheridan, is the hand.  Or, more sinister,
+		that Sheridan is unknowingly acting on behalf of the Psi-Corps,
+		perhaps as the result of some mental conditioning (which
+		would explain Bester's comment at the end of
+		"A Race Through Dark Places.")
+
+	   
      11. Kosh is standing behind Sheridan in the corridor; Sheridan is
+		back in his normal uniform.  Sheridan starts to turn toward
+		him.
+		
+
+	   
      12. In what seems like a simple switch of camera angles, Sheridan
+		now appears to be sitting down in front of a backlit wall
+		with an organic look not unlike that of the Streib ship's
+		interior.  "Why are you here?" he asks.
+		
        
+		Analysis: The change of scenery suggests that "here"
+		refers to a different place or time or context than the rest
+		of the sequence.  Perhaps the question means, "Why are the
+		Vorlons involving themselves with the other races?"  Of
+		course, it could mean what it looks like: "Why are you in
+		my dream?"
+
+	   
      13. "We were never away,"
+		Kosh answers from the corridor.  "For
+		the first time your mind is quiet enough to hear me."
+		
        
+		Analysis: Depending on the meaning of Sheridan's
+		question, the answer says different things.  If the former
+		refers to the Vorlons in general, the answer can be taken to
+		mean, "We've only just allowed you to notice us."  The second
+		part of the answer suggests that Sheridan's question refers
+		to the dream, though.  See below for a possible explanation
+		of this question and the rest of the dream.  Also note that
+		Kosh uses both "we" and "me" -- see
+		jms speaks.
+
+	   
      14. Sheridan is back in the corridor, standing.  "Why am I here?"
+		he asks, in a tone that makes the question sound unconnected
+		to the previous one.
+		
        
+		Analysis: Again, it's unclear what "here" means.
+		Babylon 5?  The dream?  His circumstances?
+
+	   
      15. "You have always been here," answers Kosh.
+		
        
+		Analysis: Kosh's repetition of this statement after
+		Sheridan's return may mean it is very important; or perhaps
+		Kosh was indirectly telling Sheridan that the dream wasn't
+		a simple construct of his subconscious.  (Of course, Kosh
+		might have read Sheridan's mind outside medlab and pulled the
+		line from Sheridan's memory of the dream.)  As for the meaning
+		of the line itself, only time will tell.  "You" might refer
+		to Sheridan himself, or to some group (e.g. the human race)
+		of which Sheridan is a part.
+	
      
+
+   
    •  Another way of looking at the dream sequence, more metaphysical,
+	is that Sheridan entered a psychic continuum, an astral plane, for
+	lack of a better term.  That makes many of the comments less ambiguous:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  "We were never away.  For the first time your mind is quiet
+		enough to hear me."  This is the first time Sheridan has
+		been in a mental state to consciously recognize the plane;
+		Kosh and everyone else have always been there to some degree.
+	   
      •  "You have always been here."  Sheridan has always had some
+		presence in this psychic world; he just hasn't been able to
+		consciously recognize it.
+	   
      •  "The man in between" refers to someone between the physical
+		and spiritual worlds.  Perhaps the Sheridan in the sequence
+		is Sheridan's spiritual side, and "the man in between" is
+		Sheridan, searching for his higher soul.
+	   
      •  Ivanova and Garibaldi, as shown in the sequence, are either
+		the projections into this other world of the real people,
+		or are abstractions for something else (darkness and
+		light?)
+	   
      •  Sheridan's Psi-Cop uniform may mean that the Corps plays
+		a part in bridging the physical and astral worlds.
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Streibs are probably a reference to Whitley Strieber, whose popular
+	book "Communion" dealt with alien abduction.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864692014 Effects glitch: When Ramirez' damaged Starfury jumps back
+	to normal space, the vortex is orange, not blue as it normally is when
+	a ship is arriving.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Marshall Teague, the Narn, also played Nelson Drake, the assistant
+	turned living weapon, in
+	"Infection."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ravens and doves, from the King James Bible:
+	
        
+	
        
+	   
      •  And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
+		the window of the ark which he had made; and he sent forth a
+		raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried
+		up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to
+		see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
+		but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
+		returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face
+		of the whole earth; and then he put forth his hand, and took her,
+		and pulled her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet
+		another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the
+		ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and lo, in her
+		mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off; so Noah knew that the waters
+		were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet another seven
+		days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him
+		any more. --Genesis 8:6-12
+	
        
+	   
      •  And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead,
+		said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom
+		I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
+		according to my word. And the word of the Lord came unto him,
+		saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide
+		thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it
+		shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
+		commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
+		
        
+		So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; for
+		he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
+		And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and
+		bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
+		--1 Kings 17:1-6
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Some raven references in various other mythologies:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  Hugin and Munin: Odin's two ravens (thought and memory)
+
+	   
      •  Kurkil: Mongol creator god who flew to create the Earth and
+		mankind
+
+	   
      •  Mictla or Mictlantecuhtli: Aztec god who rules the underworld
+
+	   
      •  Moragga: Celtic.  The incarnation of the Goddess as war.
+
+	   
      •  Raven: Amerindian creator and trickster god. Created all living
+		creatures out of wood and clay. Similar to Coyote.
+
+	   
      •  Yangwu: Chinese. The sun-crow.
+
+	   
      •  Yetl: Amerindian. The thunder-raven who dragged the flooded
+		earth above the water.
+
+	   
      •  In Japanese culture, the dove symbolizes war because doves
+		were used as messengers during battles.
+
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  One episode will look very much unconnected to the arc until the
+	last five minutes, at which point there's a revelation that will likely
+	astonish some and confirm suspcions for some other viewers.
+
+   
    •  Streibs, actually.  Similar to, but not quite the same as the
+	Grail
+	bunch.
+
+   
    •  Delenn's flyer is called Zhalen.
+
+   
    •  Re: we/I...
+	yes, it's interesting, isn't it?  You'd almost think it
+	was contradictory or something.
+
+   
    •  And of course there's the story of the man who dreamed he was a
+	butterfly, and when he awoke, wondered if he was actually a human
+	who dreamed he had been a butterfly, or a butterfly who was dreaming he
+	was a human....
+
+   
    •  Who was the woman in the veil?
      
+	It's Ivanova.
+
+   
    •  In a way, there are several Sheridans in that dream, signifying
+	changes currently in the works, changes yet to come, messages
+	forthcoming or unrecognized.  It's a very reflective dream, which will
+	grow clearer the deeper one gets into the show.
+ 
+   
    •  Certainly there are some archetypes that always creep into a work
+	of this sort; for all we all not Jung at heart...?
+
+   
    •  You'll see at least one piece of Sheridan's vision decoded before
+	season's end.
+
+   
    •  Remember, Kosh was the one who sent those images into Sheridan's
+	brain, not anybody else; he was communicating useful information that
+	may come up down the road, but in rather symbological form.
+
+   
    •  Yes, Sheridan was speaking in the Drazi's native language, trying
+	(without success) to get through; they're a cranky species to start
+	with, and this didn't help.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan learned a smattering of various languages while on patrol on
+	the Agamemnon.
+
+   
    • @@@850607230 During the Minbari war, the Narns were selling us
+	weapons, so Sheridan and other Earthforce captains had to learn at
+	least a smattering of Narnish for purposes of negotiations.
+
+   
    •  The aliens from Grail are similar to, and distant relatives of, the
+	streibs, but not the same, no.  A closer shot would've revealed red
+	slitted eyes instead of the black eyes of the one in Grail.
+
+   
    •  Pledging oneself to someone's side is not common, and carries great
+	significance.  From that point onward, you are bound to that person
+	until your death, and you must defend that person at the cost of your
+	own life.
+
+   
    •  Some tie-ins...remember Sheridan in "A Distant Star" saying that he
+	was feeling beached, abandoned?  His unsureness in taking on this post,
+	what if it was a mistake?  A number of his actions come into a clearer
+	light once you know he was in essence checking them all out, and putting
+	on a hard "I'm a nice guy" attitude.
+
+   
    •  Wasn't attacking the Streibs an act of war?
      
+	The Streib saw an alliance between Earth and Minbar at that moment,
+	which is the LAST thing they wanted to go up against.  Also, you don't
+	go to war at the drop of a hat just because somebody sinks or shoots
+	down one of your ships.  This is one of the cliches in storytelling.
+	And what the Streibs were doing was totally unjustifiable in any event.
+	Do you gear up for the massive hassle of total war -- supply lines,
+	fleets, all the rest -- because of this incident?  Remember, the purpose
+	of the ship was to find races weak enough for them to attack with
+	impunity; they don't want to go up against a force that can strike
+	back.
+
+   
    •  I doubt we'll be seeing these guys again for a long time, if ever. 
+	So I don't consider them on the level of certain shadows or stuff. 
+	They came, they grabbed, we whomped.
+
+   
    •  By the way, in addition to the re-appearance of Neroon, you may have
+	noticed that the first Grey Council member Delenn addresses is the
+	same one we saw in "Points of Departure."
+
+   
    •  Membership in the Grey Council is usually for life; a person
+	can choose to leave but only under truly extraordinary circumstances
+	(kind of like being appointed to the Supreme Court).  In Delenn's case,
+	though, remember that she didn't quit, she was booted out.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan and the other fighters flew at a slight angle right past
+	the window in C&C.  I don't see where the problem is in this.  The 
+	window wasn't used as a monitor, it was used as a window.  The 
+	starfuries came out of the cobra bays as the station rotated them 
+	planet-side, they banked, and headed toward the gate, passing C&C.
+
+   
    •  Ejecting would not have purchased Ramirez's life because when the
+	system came back on line with its analysis, it announced that the
+	radiation was "already at terminal levels."  From the instant he 
+	heard that, he was a dead man waiting to stop moving.  He could've 
+	sent the ship back, risking a faulty autopilot...and might've died 
+	for nothing if it encountered the *slightest* glitch en route.
+
+   
    •  One of the themes in this show is how you face life...and how you
+	face death.  Ramirez faced his honorably.  In the end, honor and 
+	dignity are all we have left. 
+
+   
    •  If you trust Sheridan, there's no need for a lengthy report; plus,
+	a written report, no matter how well encrypted, can be broken or fall
+	into the wrong hands.  The best record of a secret meeting that could
+	get you fired or killed is no record at ALL.
+
+   
    •  Re: Kosh's voice carrying some emotion...starting at about "All Alone
+	in the Night," or maybe one before (memory fades), I took on the job 
+	of directing the voice sessions for Kosh.  He was moving from a neutral
+	delivery to things that had to carry specific emotions and implications
+	for the future, and nobody else knows what all this stuff means, so it
+	fell to me.
+
+   
    •  Also, I noted somewhere in a preview for upcoming episodes, among the
+	things coming, "conspiracies of light as well as dark."  Perhaps that
+	is now clearer.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar asks Sheridan to intervene militarily on behalf of the Narns; Ivanova
+tries to institute an ambassadorship with a visiting alien.
+
+
+Paul Williams as Taq.
+Ian Abercrombie as Correlilmerzon.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 7.97
+
+Production number: 212
+Original air date: February 22, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Narn pushed the Centauri off their world through a war of
+	attrition, so it was no longer worth the Centauri's effort to
+	stay -- open, direct warfare is new to them.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was that gift?
+
+   
    •  Will the Lumati's alliance with Earth be significant?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The situation between the Narn and the Centauri on Babylon 5 seems
+	destined to explode sooner or later, even if things were quelled
+	the first time.  If one side begins to lose badly, revenge will
+	be a natural reaction.  Perhaps it will be just such an incident
+	that pushes Earth into taking sides, assuming that's going to happen.
+
+   
    •  It also seems like only a matter of time before the Minbari smuggling
+	operation is discovered; eventually it's plausible that the Centauri
+	will get sick of the Minbari nosing around in the middle of war zones,
+	though they may decide they don't want to risk fighting them.
+	How much trouble Sheridan will be in if his plan is discovered
+	remains to be seen.
+
+   
    •  Given the Lumati's feelings about natural selection, it's unclear how
+	desirable they'll be as allies.  If Earth needs help, they might
+	well decide that that means humans are inferior, and withhold their aid.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In keeping with his newfound importance, Londo's outfit has changed
+	slightly; it is crisper, darker, with a slightly more military look.
+
+   
    •  On a more editorial note, this episode is arguably the first to drive
+	home how different the situation is now than it's been in the past.
+	The dark undercurrents that have always been present in the series
+	begin to surface here, in the form of G'Kar's desperation, Londo's
+	casual lack of concern over the killing and his calm assurance that
+	the Centauri will defeat the Narn, Sheridan's loss of composure with
+	G'Kar, and the general sense of hostility around the station.
+
+   
    •  The Lumati's arrogant attitude toward other species bears some
+	resemblance to Star Trek's Prime Directive.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  On an unrelated note...just finished another script tonight, "Acts of
+	Sacrifice," which despite its rather ominous title is more a slice of
+	life episode...and contains probably the funkiest, weirdest sequence
+	that I have ever written.  Full tilt whacko.
+
+
      
+   
    •  [Londo is] a fascinating character to explore, and the most careful
+	balancing act of the bunch; part of the character's appeal is that on
+	a very fundamental level, you *like* him, and you don't want to see 
+	him on this terrible slide downward.  So every so often, you have to
+	pull him back, go in a different direction, remind us of his basic 
+	humanity and potential for heroism.  He is, really, any of us caught
+	in a web of events spinning more and more out of control every day.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846703699 At the start of year one, Claudia came to me and said
+	she'd love to do more funny stuff in her role; don't change anything in
+	the story, just let her have some fun here and there before All Hell
+	Breaks Loose in year three.  I let her have that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As it happens, I made it a point to be on-set the day we shot what we
+	ended up calling "the Ivanova dance."  Wanted to make sure it was done
+	correctly.  We only had to shoot it about three times, only in the
+	master, no coverage.  The crew was absolutely breathless after the
+	first take, from keeping from laughing.  It was very funny.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, not to split hairs, the idea of sex sealing deals goes
+	back a heck of a lot longer than Larry Niven.  It's been part of treaty
+	signing and stuff going back to ancient Egypt, other parts of the middle
+	east, even parts of medeival europe.
+
+
      
+   
    •  To the question raised: yes, if Sheridan had shown the Lumati around,
+	the request would have been made to him, as it was to Ivanova.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Zathras (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+	a Lumati?
      
+	Zathras is not part of the Lumati species.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What's the deal with all the fans behind Sheridan's superior?
+	
      
+	I will only say that I was as surprised by those fans as anyone
+	else (I was in editing all day when that was shot).
+	 
+	
      
+	Well, we're always saying around here, the more fans the better....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was G'Kar laughing or crying?
+	
      
+	It's both; laughing at the absurdity, and crying...about as close as
+	we've seen to a nervous breakdown.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think one need look no further than the latest communiques from 
+	Dole and Newt to get some idea on the progenitors of the Lumati.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Katsulas actually fighting, or was it a stuntman?
      
+	It was a little of both, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Given that the Narns were agrarian prior to the arrival of the 
+	Centauri, and were under their heel, and got most of their tech FROM
+	the Centauri leftovers, no, they're not more advanced.  It's a lot 
+	like the Russian situation, seemingly this tremendous power, but once
+	you look deep, not as well off as they'd like you to think.
+
+	
      
+	Claudia loved the scene when I first described it to her, prior to
+	finishing the script.  She was dying to do it, and kept sort of 
+	"doing" it around people for some time prior to filming.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Narn were not out in space prior to the Centauri arriving.
+
+	
      
+	While Paul Williams was on set for this ep, I had him sign my two 
+	CDs of the "Phantom of the Paradise" soundtrack.  Ah, power....
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A fugitive with sensitive information about the Earth government flees
+to Babylon 5.
+
+
+Tony Steedman as Dr. Everett Jacobs.
+Bernie Casey as Derek Cranston.
+Richard Moll as Max.
+Wanda De Jesus as Sarah.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.20
+
+Production number: 213
+Original air date: March 1, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Menachem Binetski
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  After the victory over the Dilgar, the Earth Alliance experienced a
+	period of rapid expansion bolstered by a general sense of optimism,
+	a sense that the future was bright.  Somewhere along the way, that
+	was lost -- Dr. Franklin says the future was like waiting for that special 
+	toy for Christmas, and when you get it you find that the reality doesn't 
+	measure up to your expectations.
+
+   
    •  Dr. Franklin studied medicine at Harvard.  One of his teachers, Dr.
+	Everett Jacobs, went on to become then-Vice President Clark's personal
+	physician.  Dr Franklin says, "A lot of us looked up to him as a role model.
+	He's the best there is."
+
+
+   
    •  Dr. Jacobs examined Clark before and after the "accident" on Earth
+	Force One that killed President Santiago -- and found no evidence of
+	the viral infection Clark used as an excuse to leave the ship
+	shortly before it was destroyed.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How and when will Dr. Jacobs' data be used?
+
+   
    •  What did Kosh and his ship say to each other after Sheridan and the
+	others left the docking bay?
+
+   
    •  What did Kosh teach Sheridan?
+
+   
    •  How did Sheridan convince Kosh to allow his ship to be used to save
+	Dr. Jacobs?
+
+   
    •  What did the ship "sing" to Dr. Jacobs?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why was the fact that Kosh's ship is alive such a surprising thing
+	to have confirmed, when a simple "scan for life forms" was able to
+	detect it?  In all their surface probes while the ship sat in the
+	docking bay, it seems odd that nobody
+	thought to scan for life, especially since it was already known or at
+	least suspected that Vorlons use organic technology (cf.
+	"Infection.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan mentions to Kosh that there's a council meeting to discuss
+	the Narn refugee problem.  That might be related to the smuggling
+	operation started in
+	"Acts of Sacrifice"
+	-- has it been revealed already?  (Not necessarily, of course; there
+	are probably thousands, if not millions, of refugees who have nothing
+	to do with that operation.)
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Kosh speaks to his ship, and it displays some text in an unknown
+	script, presumably the Vorlon written language.  That implies that
+	Kosh and his ship are not in telepathic contact, or at least not
+	when he's not on board -- somewhat remarkable, considering that Kosh
+	and the ship have both demonstrated telepathy or something like it
+	(Kosh in
+	"All Alone in the Night"
+	and the ship in this episode, both with Dr. Jacobs and, more
+	importantly, the maintenance workers referred to by Ivanova.)
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  There may be a Ranger (cf.
+	"The Coming of Shadows")
+	in this episode, though it's very subtle.  As Sheridan and Garibaldi
+	reach the bottom of the stairs, just before Sheridan sees the red
+	ribbon, a man walks by the two of them, wearing the same outfit as
+	the Ranger from the aforementioned episode.  Which might be
+	coincidence, except that Garibaldi notices the man, even turns and
+	watches him climb the stairs, before looking back at Sheridan, who
+	is meanwhile occupied with the ribbon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A couple viewers have commented that Sheridan looks a bit too
+        smug as he gives the data crystal to his co-conspirator at the end,
+        almost as if that isn't the real crystal.  Is it?  Does he trust
+        her?  Is he up to something other than what the General thinks he is?
+        (Recall that we never heard his answer in
+        "All Alone in the Night.")
+        Also, he doesn't give her Dr. Jacobs' code to unlock the data, though
+        of course he could simply be giving her an unencrypted copy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On a related note, did Sheridan keep a copy of the crystal for himself?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan confronts Kosh twice.  The first time a bit tentatively, the second time 
+	directly.  Amazingly, he engages Kosh's interest and actually begins what may 
+	develop into a dialog (or at least a monologue) with Kosh.
+
+
      
+	Also of note, the first time Sheridan confronts Kosh he says that Kosh "called to 
+	him."  This is a reference to the dream sequence in "All Alone in the Night".
+	Kosh replies, "I sought understanding.  I listened to the song.  Your 
+	thoughts became the song."  Sheridan asks, "Has this ever happened before?" 
+	and Kosh says, "Once."  When was that?  One possibility is
+	Talia Winters (cf.
+	"Deathwalker")
+	-- Kosh told her to "listen to the music, not the song."
+
+
      
+   
    • 	Kosh's second conversation with Sheridan, of course, bears close analysis,
+	especially given its relation to Sheridan's dream in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+
+	
        
+
+	   
      1. Sheridan: "You wanted to see me?"
+	   
      2. Kosh: "You wanted to see me."
+	   
      3. "Well, I guess everybody does.  See what you really are,
+		inside that encounter suit."
+	   
      4. "They are not ready.  They would not understand."
        
+		Analysis: It's not obvious exactly who he means by
+		"they."  At least one person was ready to
+		see Kosh, namely Delenn (cf.
+		"Chrysalis.")
+		Of course, it begs the question once again:
+		what is Kosh, that one might not "understand" when
+		one saw him?  (And why does he care whether people understand?)
+	   
      5. "Am I ready?"
+	   
      6. "No.  You do not even understand yourself."
        
+		Analysis: Is Kosh speaking in a general sense here --
+		"You aren't self-actualized" -- or is there something specific
+		about Sheridan that Kosh knows and Sheridan doesn't?
+	   
      7. "Could you help me to understand you?"
+	   
      8. "Can you help me to understand you?"
+	   
      9. "Well, I can try.  Is that what you want?  An exchange of
+		information?  I tell you something about me, you tell me
+		something about you?"
+	   
      10. "No.  You do not understand.  Go."  Kosh turns away.
+	   
      11. "Dammit, what do you want?  What do you want from me?  You
+		know, ever since I got here I've had the feeling that... that
+		you've been watching me.  The records show you hardly ever
+		went to council meetings until I showed up.  When I was
+		captured... it was you who reached out and touched my mind.
+		Now you call me here... why?  Just to throw me out?  Are we
+		just toys to you?  Huh?  What do you want?"
+	   
      12. Kosh spins around to face Sheridan again.  "Never ask that
+		question."
        
+		Analysis: Almost undoubtedly a reference to Morden's
+		question in
+		"Signs and Portents"
+		-- but it raises another question of its own, namely, why does
+		that question mean anything special to Kosh?  How does Kosh
+		know what Morden asked of the various ambassadors?  Perhaps
+		it's what the Shadows always ask, since Kosh seems to know
+		about them.  Perhaps the Vorlons were, themselves, asked that
+		question a thousand years ago.
+	   
      13. "At least I got a response out of you.  So what'll it be,
+		Ambassador?"
+	   
      14. "I will teach you."
+	   
      15. "About yourself?"
+	   
      16. "About you.  Until you are ready."
+	   
      17. "For what?"
+	   
      18. "To fight legends."
        
+		Analysis: Two interpretations are immediately
+		apparent: "to fight the Shadows" (who are legendary to the
+		Narn and probably others) or "to dispel myths."  The first
+		seems too obvious, given Kosh's tendency to be
+		cryptic.  The second interpretation suggests that the Vorlons
+		aren't revealing themselves because they feel they'll be
+		associated with something from mythology.  Once Sheridan
+		learns to combat those preconceptions, he will be ready.
+                (See Notes.)  Alternately, it could
+		refer to Sheridan himself; he's a legend of sorts to the
+		Minbari, possibly an obstacle to the joining of humans and
+		Minbari as envisioned by Delenn (cf.
+		"All Alone in the Night.")
+	
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Do we now have a clue to the telepathic abilities of the Vorlons?
+	This reference to "the song" and Sheridan's thoughts "becoming" the
+	song during his dream sequence hint rather strongly that telepathy
+	is the Vorlon's primary means of communication.  If so, then this
+	confirms that Sheridan's dream wasn't altogether a dream, and that
+	he may have some latent/budding psi skills himself.
+
+
      
+	Further note:  The constant jabber that occurs when Kosh speaks.  It sounds like 
+	there are...many "voices" in it.  If telepathy is common to 
+	Vorlons, then they may have some equivalent to a "hive mind", or at least constant 
+	and unbounded access to each other.  If so, then why does Kosh periodically return 
+	to the Vorlon homeworld?  Further, does the same physical "Kosh" return?  Still 
+	further, if each Vorlon is to a greater or lesser extent all Vorlons, does it 
+	matter which physical Vorlon is present?  Taken to the extreme, the tag "Kosh" is 
+	simply a convenient referent supplied by the Vorlon hive-mind to the folks at B5.
+	(Of course, it may well be the ship that needs to return
+	home, not Kosh at all.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  In this episode we see that the ship is an independent entity, in essence a 
+	living creature.  It shows up as a non-human life form, even though we are shown 
+	that Kosh himself was not on board.  Further, Doctor Jacobs says that the ship 
+	"sang to him" while he was unconcious and aboard.  This hints strongly that the 
+	ship shares "the song," which means that it's part of the Vorlon community mind.
+
+
      
+	If the ship is part of the Vorlon super-entity, and if the ship is itself organic 
+	technology, then this implies that the Vorlons can create any kind of physical 
+	creature they want, with that creature sharing the community mind.  That means 
+	that the ship is nearly as much or as much a Vorlon as Kosh.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A number of readers have speculated that the ship is actually Kosh,
+	and the encounter suit just a remote probe or a servant.  That seems
+	unlikely, though, given the events of
+	"The Gathering,"
+	in which the Vorlons were ready to start shooting over an attack on
+	what was in the encounter suit.  But it's worthy of mention.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A Biblical reference that might be relevant, or might just be a
+	coincidence:  During Sheridan's secret meeting,
+	Sarah tells him "Whatever you do, I suggest that you do it quickly."
+	This is the same thing Jesus Christ said to Judas Iscariot
+	immediately before Judas went out to betray Jesus to the Sanhedrin.
+	If this isn't a simple coincidence, the implication is that Sheridan
+	will eventually betray someone.  The victim isn't clear, though.
+	His cadre on B5 are obvious
+	candidates, as is the cabal he and Hague are members of. But for that
+	matter, it might be the Psi-Corps (though his betrayal could be
+	for
+	the Psi-Corps, cf.
+	"All Alone in the Night"
+	and Bester's comment at the end of
+	"A Race Through Dark Places.")
+
+	
      
+	A more whimsical connection is that the actress speaking the line
+	is named Wanda de Jesus.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  A relevant reference might be "Childhood's
+        End" by Arthur C. Clarke (though the shape of the Vorlon encounter
+        suit suggests the opposite association from the one in the book.)
+
+   
    •  When Franklin and Garibaldi stop to eat, it appears they're actually
+        munching on Kellogg's NutriGrain Breakfast Bars (though the scene
+        doesn't provide a close enough look at the bars to tell for sure,
+        so it probably doesn't count as product placement.)
+
+   
    •  During Sheridan's meeting with Sarah, they are in what looks like an
+	equipment room.  She sets up two devices, presumably to defeat any
+	bugs or scans. The problem is that she leaves them there when she
+	leaves.  During their next meeting they are not in evidence at all,
+	and again she isn't shown retrieving them before she leaves.  Of
+	course, Sheridan could have taken them.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+
+   
    •  In addition to its ants (cf.
+	"Mind War")
+	B5 has roaches.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan has what he considers very good shielding on his office.  He 
+	talks to Ivanova quite openly there immediately after Agent Cranston
+	leaves.
+
+   
    •  Kosh's comments to Sheridan bear some resemblance to the Dalai
+	Lama's observation (cf.
+	"Points of Departure,")
+	namely, "It will be even better when you begin to understand what
+	you do not understand."
+
+   
    • @@@834857862 Minor continuity glitch: when the station's scanners are
+	configured to look for Dr. Jacobs, the display reads "Dr Evert Jacoby,"
+	not "Dr. Everett Jacobs."
+
+
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  There was no intended reference to Anne McCaffrey's story; Kosh tends
+	to speak naturally through a series of musical/tonal/atonal chords,
+	and I figured his ship would communicate in the same way, which to
+	another would sound a little like singing.
+
+   
    • @@@846703757 Will Richard Moll return?
      
+	At this point, Richard's part was a one-shot, but if we
+	come up with  the right role, I'd love to see him again.
+
+   
    •  What did Sarah leave behind at the
+	meeting?
      
+	It's a flashlight, and he's also holding one.  You caught 
+	a very small glitch.  Originally, he came out, flashed twice with 
+	his flashlight, giving the code; then she did the same, and 
+	THEN stepped out of the shadows, putting her flashlight down on 
+	the ledge beside her.  It took too long, though, interminably, 
+	so when we edited it, we cut out that sequence...and 
+	hoped nobody'd notice the flashlight sitting there.
+
+   
    •  From "Infection," the visiting Doctor points out that, regarding
+	organic technology, "some even say the Vorlons have got it."  All 
+	this stuff gets set up somewhere.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+and Steven Grimm.
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in hot water when he kills a Minbari warrior in self-defense.
+
+
+Caitlin Brown as Guinevere Corey.
+Sean Gregory Sullivan as Ashan.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Mystery
+P5 Rating: 7.75
+
+Production number: 215
+Original air date: April 26, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by Peter David
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Minbari clans are like close-knit families.  One surrenders some of
+	one's identity to the clan, and in return the clan is expected to
+	shoulder the responsibility for one's actions.  Despite this, clan
+	leaders sometimes engage in secret plots without the knowledge of
+	the clan members at large.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's tactics in the Earth-Minbari War (cf.
+	"Points of Departure")
+	are considered completely without honor by many Minbari; he used a
+	fake distress signal to lure the Black Star into a minefield.
+
+   
    •  Vir was considered a failure by his family.  He was sent to Babylon 5
+	at their behest, mostly to get him out of their hair.  There was little
+	competition for the post, which was thought to be something of a joke.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was Sheridan supposed to learn from Kosh's lesson?  (see
+	Analysis)
+   
    •  How did Kosh know what Sheridan would find in the chamber?
+   
    •  Who were the people living there?
+   
    •  Will Vir's family take him up on Londo's offer?
+   
    •  What fate awaits the teddy bear?
+   
    •  Who was the human who stole Sheridan's link?  Did he have an ulterior
+	motive for helping with the setup, or was he simply doing it for
+	money?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Considering her dramatic entrance, Sheridan's lawyer didn't actually
+	do much of anything.  Who sent her, and what was she supposed to
+	be doing for Sheridan?
+
+
      
+   
    •  One interpretation of Kosh's lesson
+	is that he was teaching Sheridan to give humanity the benefit of the
+	doubt.  Even in what Sheridan considered the most dangerous, nasty
+	place on the station, one can find beauty.  If Kosh's pledge in
+	"Hunter, Prey"
+	to teach Sheridan "about you" is taken broadly to mean
+	"about your kind," this is at least a plausible scenario.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another possible interpretation:
+	Going to the darkest, dingiest, "worst part" of B5 was an analogy to
+	Sheridan's current very "bad" situation.  This is partly confirmed by
+	Kosh's statement that having a "bad day" was perfectly appropriate for
+	the lesson he had planned.  What Sheridan saw there was "beauty... in
+	the dark", which was exactly what he needed.  He was obviously relaxed
+	and feeling much better after the experience, and he thanked Kosh for
+	helping him.
+
+	
      
+	The lesson?  When things are at their absolute worst, don't simply
+	satisfy your basic needs (eating, sleeping), take time out to enjoy
+	something that will make you feel better despite the conditions.  It
+	will help you deal with adversity.  Alternatively, the lesson is that
+	even in some of the worst places/situations, there can still be beauty
+	if you allow yourself to look for it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why the monastic chant?  Sheridan said in
+	"Points of Departure"
+	that he had met the Dalai Lama in Tibet.  The chant wasn't Tibetan --
+	it is a Gregorian chant, part of the Christmas Mass.
+	The entire incident may have been projected into Sheridan's mind
+	by Kosh or by someone else.  The fact that Sheridan could see it
+	might also be related to his dream in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+
+	
      
+	The Latin lyrics:
+
+	
      
+	Puer natus est nobis et filius datus est nobis;
      
+	cujus imperium super humerum ejus;
      
+	et vocabitur nomen ejus,
      
+	consilii Angelus.
      
+	
      
+	Cantate Domino canticum novum;
      
+	quia mirabilia fecit.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	One English translation of which is:
+
+	
      
+	Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given;
      
+	on whose shoulders the world's dominion rests;
      
+	whose name is;
      
+	He who was sent to us from the great Heavenly Wonder-Counselor.
      
+	
      
+	Sing unto the Lord a new song.  He has made wonders.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	There are two quotes here, one from Isaiah 9:6, the other from Psalm
+	98:1:
+
+	
      
+	For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
+	shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
+	Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	
      
+	O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things:
+	his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Whether this particular chant has any bearing on the story, or was
+	just selected because it sounds good, is an interesting question, but
+	a couple rather tenuous connections can be made:
+
+	
      
+	The second verse mentions a "hand" being
+	victorious; recall that Sheridan was told, "You are the hand," in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+
+	
      
+	The fourth issue of the
+	comic series,
+	dealing with Sinclair's appointment to the Minbari homeworld, is titled
+	"The Price of Peace," one letter removed from the description of Jesus
+	above.  (That one is probably just a coincidence.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's also worth comparing Kosh's lessons to his encounter with Talia in
+	"Deathwalker."
+	When she asked what his negotiations meant, he advised her to "listen
+	to the music, not the words" -- advice that might apply to Sheridan's
+	lesson as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The plight of the teddy bear mirrors the story Sheridan told to
+	Delenn; if the bear is really supposed to represent Sheridan, is its
+	fate perhaps a foreshadowing of Sheridan's?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo's mention of "a certain Minbari" lying is probably a reference
+	to Lennier's lie in
+	"The Quality of Mercy."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Centauri expect their dolls to be anatomically correct.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Honour and shame from no condition rise;
      
+	Act well your part, there all the honour lies."
      
+	- Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man" Epistle IV, 1733-34
+
+
      
+   
    •  Possible Ranger sighting: When Vir and Londo are talking in the
+	Zocalo, a man in what looks like a Ranger uniform walks by twice.
+	Once as Vir says, "Centauri Prime is sending a replacement," and
+	again as he says, "It's my problem, not yours."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The bear is from the
+	Vermont Teddy-Bear Company.
+	It's a "twenty inch" with "JS" embroidered on the front and
+	"Ba-bear-lon 5" on the back.  Peter David says:
+
+	
      
+	Specifically, on page 13 of their 1994 Winter Collection Catalogue,
+	they have the Custom Embroidered Bears. Ordered with a baseball shirt
+	and hat (NOT jacket), he's 20 inches high and his
+	fur color is 'Pockets (thick milk chocolate)'...
+
+	
      
+	I should point out that ordering the bear for Joe was my wife's idea.
+	She's a big bear fan. At present she's hard at work on a
+	Minbeari...
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889493189 Caitlin Brown, who plays Guinevere Corey, played
+	Na'Toth in season one.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890012596 The Minbari text Delenn showed Lennier can be deciphered
+	using the Minbari alphabet as rendered on the B5 trading cards.
+	Replacing Minbari characters with their corresponding Latin ones
+	yields the English text, "Chester is very spoiled.  I guess it's
+	my fault.  I loved him too much."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  So after I'd read Peter's script, and decided to go with it, he
+	asked about Ivanova's line, "This isn't some kind of Deep Space
+	franchise, this place is ABOUT something."
+	
      
+	"Are you really going to use that?" he asked.
+	
      
+	"Absolutely," I said.  "It's fall-down funny."
+	
      
+	Long pause.  "You people really ARE dangerous over there, aren't you?"
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the scene in the dark with the robed figures was not enhanced
+	with CGI or any other device.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Everything featured in the Babylon Emporium was just made up by us.
+	Insofar as I know, none of it is real merchandise.  (Everyone, 
+	including the crew, are so starved for B5 stuff that when we finished 
+	filming the ep, we sold off the stuff, at cost, to those in the crew
+	who wanted them.  Two guesses who wound up with the Londo and G'Kar 
+	dolls....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The B5 model in the gift shop in "Honor" is now in Sheridan's office, 
+	bronzed, as is his right as captain.
+	
      
+	Once the show is finally off the air, be assured that the model will 
+	end up in THIS captain's office.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Here's the story of the bear.
+
+	
      
+	I hate cute.  Everybody knows me, knows that.  So after buying Peter
+	David's script #2, Peter sends me a gift.  A bear.  A teddy bear.  With
+	my initials JS in front, and Bear-ba-lon 5 in the back.  I call Peter
+	back.  I say that I must now get him for this.  He asks what I had in
+	mind.  I said wait and see.
+
+	
      
+	So I wrote the entire bear thing at the end of the show, and inserted
+	it into his script.
+
+	
      
+	Never send me something cute.
+
+	
      
+	Best part was during filming, we shot the bear against blue-screen
+	to be composited into the CGI.  And there's our EFX supervisor, standing
+	there on film, against blue-screen, with this long rod up the teddy
+	bear's ass, spinning it round and round and round....
+
+	
      
+	Whilst doing that, I also wrote and inserted the Kosh/Perfect Beauty
+	scenes, since I was already in it at that point anyway, and I figured
+	it'd be cool.
+
+	
      
+	It also keeps the Sheridan Learning Stuff thread going, and works in
+	a nice balance to the rest of the episode.  Here he's going nuts, being
+	harrassed, and his command is on the line...so he has to learn to bend
+	his knee, accept silence, give up his command symbolically by giving up
+	the stat bar, and finding one perfect moment of peace.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Kosh asking Sheridan "what is this place?" was more for
+	his benefit than Kosh's, to underline where they were, and what he was
+	about to experience even in such a place.  Also, in psychotheraputic
+	terms, specifically dream analysis, when you travel to your cellar in
+	your dream, it's in part to confront something in your subconscious, to
+	learn something that may not be expressable in words.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, he did send a fake distress call, and took out the Black Star
+	when it came in to (they thought) wipe out a disabled ship.  He's never
+	denied this to anybody.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan sent an EA distress
+	signal; the Minbari were in genocidal mode, so it didn't matter to them
+	the condition of their enemy.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Narn and Centauri;
+an ISN reporter covers the story and tours the station.
+
+
+Kim Zimmer as Cynthia Torqueman.
+Christopher Curry as Senator Quantrell.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Introduction/Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.43
+
+Production number: 214
+Original air date: May 3, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Narn homeworld was invaded by the Centauri around 2110.  The
+	occupation lasted for approximately 100 years.
+
+   
    •  G'Kar joined the resistance after his father was executed by the
+	Centauri.
+
+   
    •  41% of Earth Alliance citizens feel that Babylon 5 isn't worth the
+	time and expense.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri have been using the space around the station as a
+	transfer point for weapons for the war effort.
+
+   
    •  Over 250,000 humans died during the Earth-Minbari War.
+
+   
    •  Back on Earth, the Clark government has formed the Office of Public
+	Information and the Ministry for Public Morale -- both very Orwellian
+	names.  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  Senator Hidoshi, Sinclair's main Senate contact in season one, is no
+	longer in office.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan received the EarthForce Silver Star for valor
+	during the Earth-Minbari war.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  How long have the Centauri been using Babylon 5's space to move
+	weapons?
+
+   
    •  Will the news report affect the public's perception of Babylon 5,
+	and if so, will the station become more popular or less?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Delenn's emotions seem to come to the surface much more readily now
+	than they did before her change.  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Earth-Minbari War wasn't very devestating at all in terms of
+	loss of life.  250,000 dead is tiny compared to, for example, the
+	tens of millions killed in World War II.  Since most of the war
+	was probably fought in space, in ships with relatively small crews,
+	that's understandable -- in fact, that many dead probably means
+	that Earth's combat fleets were nearly eliminated in their
+	entirety -- but the war seems to have had an impact on
+	Earth far greater than warranted by human losses.  Human pride may
+	ultimately have been the bigger casualty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The fact that the Narn cruiser destroyed a similarly-sized Centauri
+	ship in a one-on-one battle suggests that the two are fairly evenly
+	matched technologically.  If the Centauri are indeed crushing the
+	Narn military, as denied by G'Kar, they must have far superior
+	numbers, or frequent help from the Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One reason for keeping Babylon 5 around was conspicuously absent
+	from Senator Quantrell's list: the planet below the station is one
+	of the most strategically valuable places in the known galaxy,
+	considering what lies beneath its surface (cf.
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+	Given that the planet's contents were entrusted to the Babylon 5
+	Advisory Council, it's in everyone's best interest to keep the
+	station up and running.
+
+	
      
+	Earth would probably prefer to keep the planet a secret to keep people
+	from trying to take it (and Babylon 5), so it makes
+	some sense that Quantrell didn't mention it; but given the battle
+	that took place over control of the planet, it must be a poorly-kept
+	secret at best.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  "Subliminal" text during the Psi Corps ad: "The
+	Psi Corps is your friend.  Trust the Corps."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@841689985 Though the subliminal message was onscreen long enough
+	to satisfy American television regulations, in France, the message
+	was clipped out altogether due to tougher French rules.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833749598 The Minbari have three languages: Lenn-ah, Fik, and
+	Adrenato.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When present-day fighter pilots fire weapons, they say
+	"Fox one" over their tactical radio frequency when they
+	use radar-guided missiles, "Fox two" when they
+	use heat-seeking missiles,
+	"Fox three" for smart missiles, and "Fox four" (or
+	"Guns, guns, guns") for guns.
+
+	
      
+	Someone during the battle said "Fox five," suggesting
+	some other sort of weapon.  ("Fox five" is also used
+	for lighthearted remarks about midair collisions during dogfights!)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Interplanetary Expeditions, which has a brief ad at the beginning of
+	the episode, is the same firm that financed Dr. Hendricks' dig on
+	Ikara 7 in
+	"Infection"
+	-- in which it was discovered to be a front for a bio-weapons supplier.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Note the pine-tree air freshener on the bridge
+	of the Heyerdahl during the teaser.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Heyerdahl is probably named for Thor Heyerdahl, whose Kon-Tiki
+	expedition attempted to prove that South American natives could have
+	populated some South Pacific islands.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "And Now for a Word," will, I
+	think, be very popular, and to my knowledge does something that has
+	never been done in SF television before.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Speaking of which...on Monday I turned in a script called "And Now For a
+	Word."  It's probably the most unusual episode to date...so much so
+	that I was very concerned about Warners approving it, and indicated in
+	my letter (which explained why it was done, and why it should be
+	produced) that I wouldn't be putting in for a script payment until I
+	knew they would accept it and let us make it.  Finally heard back
+	today that they've approved it.  This will be shot as episode 214, and
+	what you've just read is ALL I intend to say about this script between
+	now and shortly before it airs in May.  (Though when we cast the guest
+	star, which we're in the process of selecting now, that I'll be able to
+	announce.)  It's not controversial per se, but does take our entire
+	show and put it on its head for the entire hour.  (I also had to make
+	sure we *could* physically produce the darned thing prior to turning
+	in the script.) No speculation, please; just let it be what it is, and
+	see it cold.
+
+
      
+   
    •  For those who've been nudging other folks to try out B5, you may want
+	to tell them that this coming batch of eps is probably the best time to
+	dive in.  In particular, our second new show (airing the first week of
+	May) is designed in part to help new viewers coming to the show to catch
+	up on background.  (No, not a clip show, or anything like that...I think
+	you'll like it.)  I also *strongly* recommend that you videotape this
+	episode, entitled "And Now For a Word."  There's something in there just
+	(or primarily) for the videotapers.  Consider this a heads-up from the
+	inside.  You'll know what it is when you sorta see it.  (See
+	Notes)
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a thing you do in theater training where you're told to talk
+	about a subject, never use the word "I" ...but in the end wind up
+	telling us more about *you* than the subject you're speaking about.  So
+	I began to wonder if I could apply this exercise, in a limited way, to
+	an episode of the show.  I can't say more than that without spoiling
+	things, but suffice to say you learn a lot about all kinds of people,
+	and the way you learn it says a lot about those involved.  It's a
+	*very* subversive and tricky episode, and I *very* much suggest taping
+	it, so you can go back and check something out later.  You'll know
+	what.  If you don't, you'll kick yourself later.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: the FCC...what we did in the commercial was totally legit.  We
+	researched and found that the FCC considers a subliminal to be 2 frames
+	per second (out of the standard 24).  So we made the blip 4 frames
+	total.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846703929 We've done a couple of steady-cam/CGI composite shots,
+	but not that much; in "And Now For a Word," you'll sometimes see a
+	floating recorder in C&C moving around...that was a steady-cam in use,
+	and we composited in the CGI.  It is, however, time-consuming, so we
+	only do that sort of thing as required.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The device of using a reporter's appearance
+	to go to another POV is
+	not new to either B5 or MASH (though B5 is first to use it in SF).
+	Where I would draw the distinction is in the sense that "Word" is
+	actually very subtly subervsive.  It's ostensibly about B5 (the
+	broadcast itself) but you learn a LOT about Earth in the process...how
+	the government wants the Mars situation interpreted ("an Earth-loyal
+	population held hostage by a violent minority"), the government
+	changing back home (suddenly we have an Office of Public Information
+	and a Ministry for Public Morale), how they see the end of the Minbari
+	war, and so on.  It's designed to show more than just who's being
+	interviewed; you reflect home as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The battle shouldn't have been audible in the station, right?
+	
      
+	Except, of course, that you have a space batttle going on right
+	outside B5, and explosions barely feet from the hull, plus debris
+	hitting the shell of the station and making it ring, so you're going to
+	hear stuff.  When the oxygen tank outside the main living area in
+	Apollo 13 blew, it sounded like a bomb going off.  It happens.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jeffrey Smith: your analysis of Delenn is dead-on...I don't quite
+	think she really understood what was required of her, and what would
+	happen; I think she believed it would go somewhat other than it has,
+	which has given her pause, she's rattled, alone and realizing the
+	magnitude of what is before her, and her choice to undergo the
+	chrysalis.  And that is EXACTLY the core of a huge Delenn episode in
+	the last part of this season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did the battleships keep missing each other?
+	
      
+	Actually, all sides in battle use ECM (Electronic Counter Measures)
+	to throw off the targeting systems on the "enemy" vessels.  But usually
+	it only takes a couple of quick firings to compensate (which is what
+	we've done).
+
+
      
+   
    •  New Vegas is on Mars.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The reporter didn't talk to Talia because the story wasn't about
+	what it's like to be a telepath.  That's a different story.  This was
+	about B5 and those who run it.  Talia doesn't directly work for B5,
+	she's employed by the Psi Corps.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Torque- part of her name came from Torquemada, that's correct. 
+	Just seemed appropriate since we were shortly doing an episode with an
+	inquisitor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  After we made initial contact with aliens, first being the Centauri,
+	there were a lot of disruptions to the social and religious and
+	political paradigms, many of which are whole stories unto themselves.
+	There was also a lot of paranoia running around.  Earthdome was
+	constructed in Geneva to be more or less impervious to an initial
+	assault from other races, should any come.  (It was really something
+	of a fiction, the way the star wars defense program might not have
+	been really effective, but the theory was to protect the seat of
+	Earth government.)  So it dates back about a hundred years.  (And
+	it's NOT in the middle of a blasted heath; that was done in the comic
+	by the inker, who should've colored it a nice green.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Whoever thought up the idea of *security cams* for FX shots...."
+	
      
+	That's how it was scripted.
+
+
      
+   
    •  G'Khamazad.
+    
+	
      
+	And G'Quon's primary follower/co-prophet was G'Lan.
+     
+	
      
+	Remember that name.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's also worth noting that this was likely Delenn's first real
+	encounter with Earth media/reporters on this level.  She's never been
+	put into such a situation before, being challenged on-screen, which
+	would be the height of disrespect back home.  (We refer to her desire,
+	after this, to learn more about the press in a later episode this
+	season.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Very few have noted the play on the title.  The usual complete phrase
+	is, "And now for a word from our sponsor."  So what was the only
+	sponsored commercial shown (in the 2259 version)...?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Interplanetary Expeditions was the bogus company from
+	"Infection."  Is it more than just a throwaway here?
      
+	Yeah, I'd say it's fair to say that you haven't heard the last of
+	Interplanetary Expeditions.  Remember the rule: before you use the gun,
+	you show it on the mantle.  You play fair.  And create the context in
+	which the payoff later works.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How can "Word" be a commentary on current allegations of bias (which
+	I think are out of all proportion) since the media is now supposedly
+	anti-government (nonsense), and the newscast in "Word" was more than
+	just a bit spoon-fed government propaganda?
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Z'ha'dum" has only been seen by a few people at this early stage, but
+	folks like it.  The big one, though, is really "And Now for a Word,"
+	which has gotten more responses from crew, cast and others than any 
+	other script to date.  From top to bottom, everyone is absolutely 
+	excited about it.  It's going to be a very challenging shoot, but the
+	result, I think,will be worth it.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan discovers a connection between Morden and the death of his wife.
+The station is inundated by Narn refugees.  A new Earth Alliance agency
+tries to recruit station personnel.
+
+
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 9.30
+
+Production number: 217
+Original air date: May 10, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Delenn and Kosh tell Sheridan about the Shadows and the Vorlons:
      
+
+	
      
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either of
+	our races.  Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants.
+	Vast, timeless... they taught the younger races, explored beyond the
+	Rim, created great empires.  But to all things, there is an end.
+	Slowly, over a million years, the First Ones went away.  Some passed
+	beyond the stars, never to return.  Some simply disappeared.
+
+	
      S:
+	
      
+	I'm sure this is all very interesting, but what does any of this
+	have to do with Morden?
+
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	Not all of the First Ones have gone away.  A few stayed behind.  Hidden
+	or asleep, waiting for the day when they may be needed.  When the
+	Shadows come again.
+
+	
      S:
+	
      
+	Shadows?
+
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	We have no other name for them.  The Shadows were old when even the
+	ancients were young.  They battled one another over and over across a
+	million years.  The last Great War against the Shadows was ten thousand
+	years ago.  It was the last time the ancients walked openly among us.
+	The Shadows were only defeated, not destroyed.  A thousand years ago,
+	the Shadows returned to their places of power, rebuilt them, and began
+	to stretch forth their hand.  Before they could strike, they were
+	defeated by an alliance of worlds, including the Minbari and the few
+	remaining First Ones who had not yet passed beyond the veil.  When
+	they had finished, the First Ones went away.  All but one.
+
+	
      S:
+	
      
+	There's still one of them left.  Where?
+
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	(indicates Kosh, to Sheridan's great surprise) That is why Kosh cannot
+	leave his encounter suit.  He would be recognized.
+
+	
      S:
+	
      
+	Recognized?  By who?
+
+	
      K:
+	
      
+	Everyone.
+
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	For centuries the Vorlons stood alone, the last remaining guardians.
+	Watching and waiting.
+
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's question to Kosh (cf.
+	"Chrysalis")
+	was, "Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?"
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Icarus, an Earth exploration vessel carrying Anna Sheridan, arrived
+	at Z'ha'dum in late 2256 (see
+	Analysis.)
+	A landing party, exploring a cave, inadvertently
+	discovered the Shadows, awakening them.  The Shadows destroyed the
+	Icarus so its crew could not return to warn others, and killed the
+	crewmembers who wouldn't cooperate.  Morden was one of the crew.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn and Kosh knew about the reawakening of the Shadows immediately --
+	maybe even witnessed it somehow as it was happening.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Earth government has formed a new agency, the Ministry of Peace
+	(nicknamed "Minipax" by its employees,) with the alleged goal of
+	helping reduce internal tensions among the EA's populace.  Its first
+	visible action was to establish a program called the Night Watch,
+	paying people 50 credits a week to wear black armbands and report
+	suspicious people to the authorities so that troublemakers can be
+	reformed before they disrupt the peace.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Is Sheridan's wife still alive?
+
+   
    •  What is the Ministry of Peace really up to?
+
+   
    •  Will Talia join?
+
+   
    •  Similarly, what significance is there in the fact that Delenn narrated
+	Sheridan's vision?  Was she sharing it with him, or had she seen it
+	before?
+
+   
    •  What kind of information did Morden bring for Londo?
+
+   
    •  What, if anything, happened to the ship that originally discovered
+	the ruins on Z'ha'dum?  Someone must have discovered them before the
+	Icarus' arrival, since the crew of the Icarus knew they were going
+	to explore an ancient civilization.
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Delenn's opening remarks about the First Ones bear a striking similarity
+	to G'Kar's comments about the beings at Sigma 957 (cf.
+	"Mind War.")
+	Could those beings also be First Ones?  If so, are the Vorlons aware
+	that they are still around in some form?
+
+   
    •  Her remarks also echo her comments about humans in
+	"Babylon Squared"
+	-- suggesting that she believes humanity has the capacity to eventually
+	rival the First Ones.
+
+   
    •  Delenn stated that all but one of the First Ones have gone away, and
+	that the last one is Kosh.  But does she mean that only one race
+	remains, or only one individual?  Or is there a difference where
+	Vorlons are concerned?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  If Kosh would be recognized by "everyone" because (as implied by Delenn)
+	his race had once walked openly among lesser ones, it's plausible that
+	Kosh may resemble something from legends thousands of years old -- an
+	angel, perhaps, since the Shadows bear some resemblance to demons and
+	Kosh's suit seems to have room for wings.  This would tie in with
+	Kosh's statement in
+	"Hunter, Prey"
+	that Sheridan must be ready "to fight legends" before Kosh will reveal
+	himself -- otherwise he'd be mistaken by some as a divine being rather
+	than an alien.  Of course, angels and demons are far from the only
+	figures in the human pantheon, let alone alien mythology, and Kosh
+	may be something else entirely.
+
+   
    •  Or the encounter suit may allow Kosh to control who gets visions like
+	Sheridan's; if he took it off, everyone who tried to look at him would
+	see something different, something personal.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+	This brings up a potential connection to the flashes in
+	"Babylon Squared";
+	perhaps the Vorlons were involved in Babylon 4's time travel, and
+	the flashes were a side effect of that.
+
+   
    •  Why did Delenn demand to see Kosh in
+	"Chrysalis"
+	before she was willing to undergo her change?  She seems to know enough
+	about Vorlons that she would have had some idea what he looked like.
+	Did she simply want to verify that Kosh was one of the First Ones
+	mentioned in the Minbari history books?  Or does his appearance have
+	something more directly to do with her wanting to become partially
+	human?  That's assuming he was showing himself to her at all, rather
+	than sending her a dream sequence.
+
+   
    •  How did Kosh know what happened on Z'ha'dum?  Or was he just inventing
+	the scene he showed Sheridan based on what he figured must have
+	happened?  Perhaps he gleaned it from his meeting with Morden in
+	"Signs and Portents,"
+	though Delenn claims she and Kosh have known about it for the past
+	three years.
+
+   
    •  The Icarus expedition
+	seems to have set forth in late 2256.  In
+	"Revelations,"
+	which is set in early 2259, Sheridan's sister says that it's been
+	two years since Anna's death.  In this episode, Delenn implies that
+	the Shadows were awakened three years earlier.  Late 2256 makes sense
+	if both of them were rounding.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows on Z'ha'dum may have been awakened in 2256,
+	but they weren't the first.  The creature in
+	"The Long Dark"
+	awoke during the Earth-Minbari War and was headed for Z'ha'dum.
+	What caused it to wake up before its masters did, assuming its
+	masters are the beings the Icarus discovered?
+
+   
    •  Delenn's question was, "Have the Shadows returned to
+	Z'ha'dum?"  That implies they were elsewhere; if so, where?  Perhaps
+	the same thing that drew the abovementioned creature to Z'ha'dum
+	also drew the Shadows there.  In that case, they may have already
+	been awake before the Icarus arrived.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan let Morden go so he wouldn't suspect that his true nature
+	is known.  But the damage may already be done; Morden and his
+	associates are likely to be suspicious of his sudden release.
+	The reason given to Morden -- "it was all a mistake" -- is going to
+	seem especially suspicious; "the Centauri asked for your release"
+	or "you're right; we can't hold you without charges" seem like they
+	would have been better excuses.  Of course, the latter may be what
+	Zack told Morden.
+
+   
    •  The Night Watch armbands seem more a tool of terror than of peace,
+	reminiscent of the armbands worn by Nazis and other tyrannical
+	regimes, a constant reminder to everyone that they're under
+	observation.  The program seems designed to cause people to turn in
+	their neighbors, and it's probably naive to believe that people
+	accused of suspicious behavior (or worse, suspicious "attitudes")
+	will simply be put into therapy and
+	released shortly thereafter.  Combined with the Ministry of Public
+	Morale (cf.
+	"And Now For a Word")
+	it suggests the Clark government is more interested in keeping the
+	citizenry under its thumb than anything noble.
+
+   
    •  If it's true that the Night Watch considers thoughts dangerous, they
+	may well be involved with Psi Corps somehow; certainly it would make
+	sense for them to try to involve telepaths in rooting out undesirables.
+	Or, perhaps more likely, they're simply another of Psi Corps'
+	machinations.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows aren't the only ones inhabiting places of power.  Londo
+	observed that the technomages (cf.
+	"The Geometry of Shadows")
+	were usually cloistered in their places of power.  And now the
+	technomages are headed for the Rim, or beyond it, because of a great
+	darkness approaching; what do they hope to achieve?
+
+   
    •  Unless the holding cell cameras are very advanced, the Shadows'
+	invisibility is not all that good.  Presumably there are aliens on the
+	station who can see well into the infrared or ultraviolet; the Shadows
+	would be easily detected by such beings in any public area.  Perhaps
+	that's how Kosh knew who Morden was in
+	"Signs and Portents."
+	On the other hand, it may simply be that some aliens have
+	seen the Shadows with Morden, but didn't think them remarkable enough
+	to be worth mentioning; they're probably far from the weirdest-looking
+	creatures walking around the station.
+
+   
    •  Talia was able to detect the Shadows without even trying.  That suggests
+	that telepaths will be a valuable weapon against the Shadows -- which
+	leads to the suspicion that the Shadows are working to co-opt Psi-Corps
+	behind the scenes so human telepaths will be less likely to work
+	against them.  It's not clear whether her ability to sense the Shadows
+	was typical for a P5 telepath, or a result of her enhanced abilities
+	(cf. "Mind War.")
+
+   
    •  It's also worth noting that Talia saw Morden darken the same way Delenn
+	did in
+	"Signs and Portents"
+	-- does this mean Delenn has some telepathic ability?
+
+   
    •  In
+	"Infection,"
+	Franklin says the Ikarans built their war machines to fend off
+	invasions, the last of which was 1000 years ago.  Could they have been
+	participants in the last conflict with the Shadows?  Will the
+	technology obtained by Earth in that episode be used in the upcoming
+	war?
+
+   
    •  Morden's triangular hand placement while he was in his cell is
+	reminiscent of Lennier's meditation posture.  Perhaps there's no
+	connection, or perhaps there is.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  The name "Ministry of Peace" and its abbreviation Minipax are from
+	George Orwell's "1984."
+
+   
    •  The convention mentioned by Talia is probably not the one described
+	in the novel
+	"Voices"
+	because the novel takes place before
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+   
    •  Delenn's narrative bears some resemblance to Gandalf's description of
+	the coming of Sauron near the beginning of the first book of "The Lord
+	of the Rings."  In particular, this passage:
+
+	
      
+	"The rumours that you have heard are true: he has indeed arisen again
+	and left his hold in Mirkwood and returned to his ancient fastness in
+	the Dark Tower of Mordor.  That name even you hobbits have heard of,
+	like a shadow on the borders of old stories.  Always after a defeat
+	and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again."
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" is an
+	episode that is as emotionally raw as
+	"Chrysalis"
+	with some major
+	revelations that force Sheridan to make the most important decision
+	of his life.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct; Delenn and Kosh have said nothing about G'Kar's claims
+	because they're trying to keep a low profile.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The shadows know that Kosh knows, because the Vorlons *always* know;
+	they also know (or think) that they're in a superior position because
+	if Kosh should tell the others, either a) most wouldn't believe him, 
+	or b) the shadows would move aggressively now, costing untold lives.
+	They're more worried about an alliance between lots of races than the
+	Vorlons alone.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I would not create a race as potentially unstoppable as the 
+	shadows without making sure they had one -- but only one -- Achilles'
+	heel.  Though it may take our characters a long time to figure out what
+	that is...almost *too* long....
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, "all but one" refers to the race,
+	not an individual.  The First
+	Ones are various species/races.  One of these species/races is still
+	around at this time.  The Vorlons.  Of which Kosh is one.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@882988098 BTW, the one big reason that Sakai [Catherine, Sinclair's
+	old flame in the first season] could not have filled Anna Sheridan's
+	role in awakening the shadows...and this is the one thing that everyone
+	who advocates this theory tends to forget...is that they were *already
+	up and awake* in the first season, as we saw in "Signs and Portents." 
+	They were up, around, and had had some time to build stuff up, reclaim
+	some of their ships, and in other ways get organized and develop their
+	contacts.  
+
+	
      
+	Also, Morden was already working for them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838583849 Why did Delenn demand to see Kosh?
      
+	She wanted to see Kosh to assure herself that the Vorlons, who
+	she'd never met before, were who she believed them to be, and that this
+	was a true Vorlon and not a pretender.  He had to be in place as part
+	of Valen's prophecy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The rim, and the "veil" beyond which the bulk of the First Ones
+	passed, is the Galactic rim.  As for why the shadows are doing what
+	they're doing...that's kind of the key to the whole thing, which we
+	haven't turned yet.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839189753 Some of the first ones just got bored after millions of years,
+	and went off in general.  The rest, for the most part, went beyond the
+	Rim for the same reason you cut down old trees to make room for new
+	ones.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Are the First Ones as old as the universe itself?
      
+	Well, to some degree you're limited by the amount of time it
+	takes to evolve life per se, then into intelligent life, then into
+	spacefaring life. You need time after the Big Bang for planets to be
+	formed, cool, develop environments capable of supporting life...then
+	the long haul begins.
+
+	
      
+	So yes, on the one hand, you've got races that are millions of
+	years older than humans, who were prowling around while we were still
+	furred, fanged, and slamming bones together.  But they're not as old as
+	the universe, because they can't be.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Exploration and archeological/scientific vessels like this usually
+	piggy-back on Explorer or other jump-capable ships, with an arrangement
+	that they'll be there for X-number of days or weeks, then another ship
+	will come that way and again piggy-back them out.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  I like Vir a lot.  Many folks were willing to write him off
+	in the beginning, not understanding that there was more beneath the
+	surface (a problem Vir has also had in his "life").  But you gotta be
+	careful; characters have a way of surprising you.  And I like that, and
+	intended that, Vir be the first one to stand up to Morden.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Again, look at the Kosh/Morden scene in
+	"Signs."
+	A light is suddenly blown out off to one side.  Morden didn't move.
+	So who did it...but his constant companions?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh's command to Morden in "Signs"
      
+	His comment would have been addressed to the shadows and their current
+	emissary.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839120486 How does Morden communicate with the Shadows so
+	easily?
      
+	Well, one can always assume that Morden received some help, in one form
+	or another, in adjusting to the shadows....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The difference is just in accent.  ZA HA DOOM is the way I pronounce
+	it, but ZA cHA DOOM is also acceptable (from someone who's learned to
+	more or less accept the 47 different ways in which one may pronounce
+	straczynski).
+
+
      
+   
    •  And, as you note, one of things that I like to play with is the 
+	layering of ambiguity.  Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that 
+	we set up two sides: Shadowmen vs. Vorlons, which looks like evil vs. 
+	good.  Fundamentally, I would find that boring.  What you would then 
+	have to do is get into WHY they're doing what they do, and HOW they're 
+	doing what they do.
+
+	
      
+	There is, for instance, the "good" that says, "We know what's best 
+	for you, we'll protect you, nurture you, but you'll do it our way, and 
+	we'll keep you away from ideas and beliefs you shouldn't be exposed
+	to." Okay, maybe that fits one definition of good...but is it?
+
+	
      
+	On the flip side, for instance, there's the "bad" that says "There 
+	must be conflict and death, because it's only through conflict and
+	death that we grow stronger, that we can eventually create an ordered
+	universe.  The gene pool must be kept strong.  To do that, there must
+	be war and strife and death."  Okay, maybe that fits the definition
+	of evil, but is it?
+
+	
      
+	The key, again and always, is that nothing is what it seems on 
+	Babylon 5.  And even if it looks like it IS what it is, you have to 
+	look at WHY it is what it is...and maybe at that point it isn't.
+
+	
      
+	One of the things about this show is that you see as much as 
+	you're willing to see.  You can gloss over it, say, "Okay, these are 
+	the good guys, these are the bad guys."  But the closer you look, the 
+	more you see the shades.  I imagine when the Shadowmen are more fully 
+	revealed, some folks'll think we're going for a basic good/evil 
+	conflict...but believe me, there's a hell of a lot more involved in 
+	it than that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (From a 1993 GEnie message -- presumably we can
+	replace "Sinclair" with "Sheridan" now.)
+
+	
      
+	I've just sat here for five minutes trying to decide how to phrase this
+	and not give something vital away...and it's damn near impossible.
+
+	
      
+	(another five minutes passes)
+
+	
      
+	Okay, look...do this.  Get a piece of paper.  Write down the following:
+	"Sinclair sees the hand, but Sinclair does not see the hand.   And
+	five other people standing in the room would not see the hand that
+	Sinclair sees, or see the hand that they see."
+
+	
      
+	I know it looks like gibberish.  But trust me on this.  Put the piece of
+	paper in your wallet (next to the condom) and hold onto it for about two
+	years.  Assuming we're still around that long, at some point that
+	message will make absolute and perfect sense.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no less and
+	no more.  At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* like what he
+	appears to be.
+
+	
      
+	These are not contradictory statements.
+
+	
      
+	And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the subject,
+	believe it or not.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think it would be just about impossible to put Kosh on the outside
+	of a mug.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Exactly.  You will note that Macabee says, of the Ministry, "...or
+	Minipax, as we like to call it around the office."  It's an in-house
+	joke, not the real name of the thing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the two speeches by G'Kar and Delenn...yes, they were constructed
+	specifically to echo one another, because the walkers at Sigma 957 are
+	one of the older races that flit through but don't really pay any
+	attention to us anymore.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846703990 The Vorlons are one of the remaining ancient races;
+	Kosh is one of the Vorlons, not the last of them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh is a Vorlon.  The Vorlons fought the Shadows.  There are many 
+	Vorlons, back home.  (The Writer committed an error in that he used 
+	too many pronouns in that segment of dialogue.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Kosh's line about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum a warning or a
+	threat?
      
+	Yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How do you get a shot of Morden's head on a pike past the censors?
+	
      
+	Easy.
+	
      
+	You frame the shot so the head is draped...in shadows.
+	
      
+	If I were to be planning such a thing, of course....
+
+
      
+   
    •  MPs (Military Police) also wear armbands.  So do the Red Cross and some
+	United Nations forces.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  How many times did you shoot the scene with Talia slapping
+	Sheridan?
      
+	Only twice.  Mainly 'cause she tended to whack him real hard.
+	[...]
+	The take you see is the first one printed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  He said stop because Zack had found the right wavelength (at least
+	briefly) and didn't want him to go further and lose it again.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will Vir, even metaphorically, get to wave at Morden?
      
+	That would be telling.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the Great Machine inside Epsilon 3 built by a member race of the
+	First Ones?
      
+	Could be.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, Varn was not one of the First Ones.
+
+
    
+
+
    Bruce Boxleitner speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Bruce: what has the most challenging episode been for you so
+	far, and why?
      
+	The episode we just finished filming today.
+	It's called In the Shadow of Za'Ha'Dum and my character deals with
+	some very personal issues.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An old acquaintance requests Londo's help.  Sheridan is plagued by visions
+nobody else can see.
+
+
+Carmen Argenziano as Urza Jaddo.
+William Forward as Refa.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama/Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.21
+
+Production number: 216
+Original air date: May 17, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Stephen Posey
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In his youth, Londo was a swordfighter of no small repute, and House
+	Mollari was one of the most well-respected in the Republic.
+
+   
    •  Earth Force has confiscated all the files on the Babylon 4 incident (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared,")
+	but Garibaldi had the foresight to make a copy first.
+
+   
    •  Refa and his associates on Centauri Prime are consolidating their
+	power by having their political opponents declared traitors.  Some
+	of those opponents are well aware of his involvement in the
+	assassination of the Prime Minister (cf.
+	"The Coming of Shadows.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was the creature?  Was it involved somehow in Babylon 4's
+	movement through time, or did it just happen by Sector 14 after the
+	fact?
+
+   
    •  Will Londo's support of Urza have an effect on Refa's plans?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The fact that there's still a spacetime rift of some sort in Sector
+	14 suggests that it may be possible to travel freely back and forth
+	between 2259 and whenever the creature came from.  Unless, of course,
+	the creature was involved in Babylon 4's time travel; in that case,
+	its presence may have caused the rift to reopen.
+
+   
    •  Londo believes he has a destiny to fulfill.  What exactly does he
+	think it is?  Is it based in part on his dream? (cf.
+	"The Coming of Shadows")
+	Or is it a more general notion of bringing the Centauri back to power
+	with the help of Morden, without any specific role for himself?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The names of the last Centauri Emperor and Prime Minister, Turhan and
+	Malachi respectively, just happen to be the first names of the
+	actors who played those roles in
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi and Sheridan were getting a large number of foul balls on
+	the baseball diamond.  Since the station is spinning,
+	the Coriolis effect would make playing baseball an interesting
+	proposition, to say the least, especially near the center of
+	rotation -- a high enough ball would pass beyond the axis and
+	land on some other section of the interior, perhaps even the
+	"ceiling!"
+
+   
    •  Visual gaffe: When Londo was knocked down and he dropped his
+	sword, the sword fell and skidded on Londo's left.  But when
+	he reached for the sword to deliver the fatal blow, it 
+	appeared that he reached to his right.
+
+   
    • @@@890036592 Effects glitch: In the closing shot of the station,
+	the background starfield and part of Epsilon 3 are briefly visible
+	through the docking bay, as if part of the station has just turned
+	transparent.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri method of dealing with traitors -- execution followed by
+	confiscation of property -- is similar to what the Romans used to do,
+	and it apparently has the same effect.  Romans who knew they were about
+	to be convicted of treason often committed suicide to prevent their
+	families' inheritances from being seized.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Actually,
+	Sheridan WAS hitting fair and home run balls in the front
+	of the show; later, though, when he was more rattled, they were all
+	foul.
+
+   
    •  Actually, the chronological order was *supposed* to be "Knives," THEN
+	"Z'ha'dum."  In "Knives" you get the reminder about Anna, then in
+	"Z'ha'dum" you get the payoff.  That was originally how they were
+	intended to be aired, but there was *so much* CGI work and rotoscope
+	work and creature animation involved in "Knives" that it got flopped
+	to second in that order.  So while it works *best* the way it was
+	intended, it still works okay in this order.
+
+   
    •  Correct, the critter in "Knives" was most *definitely* not a
+	Vorlon.
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The outbreak of a fatal disease among the Markab population prompts a panic on
+the station; Dr. Franklin races against time to find a cure.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 7.85
+
+Production number: 218
+Original air date: May 24, 1995
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Minbari expect Valen, the holy figure who founded the Grey Council
+	a thousand years ago (perhaps during the last conflict with the
+	Shadows) to return some day -- or at least, they have a religious
+	ceremony suggesting so.
+
+   
    •  A deadly virus appeared on an isolated island on the Markab homeworld
+	several hundred years ago, wiping the entire population out.  The
+	inhabitants of the island were known for what was widely considered
+	sinful behavior, and the virus came to be viewed as divine retribution
+	by the Markab.
+
+   
    •  Dr. Franklin visited the Markab homeworld once while he was hitchhiking
+	on starships in his youth.
+
+   
    •  Keffer has been taking trips into hyperspace in his spare time, looking
+	for the mysterious ship (a Shadow ship) he saw in
+	"A Distant Star."
+
+   
    •  When Delenn was a small child, she was separated from her parents in
+	an unfamiliar Minbari city.  Eventually she found refuge in an old,
+	apparently unused, temple, where she waited for hours.  Then, just
+	before her parents found her, she saw a vision of a figure, bathed
+	in light, who told her, "I will not allow my little ones to come to
+	harm in this place."
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Was the virus created artificially?  If so, who did it and why?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  How many Markab are still alive?
+
+   
    •  What's going on between Delenn and Sheridan?
+
+   
    •  Will someone lay claim to the dead Markab worlds?  Who?
+
+   
    •  Was Delenn's story about the temple true, or just a story to comfort
+	the lost Markab child?  If true, who or what appeared before her? (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  Will the disease spread among the Pak'ma'ra as well, or will Franklin's
+	treatment stop it from wiping them out?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  This episode's plague theme meshes with the story and ritual
+	practice of Passover. The Minbari dinnner ceremony Sheridan, Delenn, and
+	Lennier participate in is a ritualized meal, like Passover: foods must
+	be eaten in a particular order, and a table setting is left for a
+	revered historical figure (Elijah, Valen) who is supposed to return
+	some day. As the Markabs enter the de facto "quarantine" chamber, the
+	Markab ambassador suggests that if they pray and are pure, the plague
+	will "pass over" them -- a parallel with the original passover story,
+	where a certain sign on the house door made a plague attacking the
+	Egyptians pass over the Jews.  Franklin's discussion of the Black Death
+	also mentions how Jews were unjustly accused of spreading the infection.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin appears to have forgotten about the alien healing device he
+	acquired in
+	"The Quality of Mercy"
+	and used on Garibaldi in
+	"Revelations,"
+	which he could have used to help his friend and thus increase
+	the chance of finding a real cure.
+	Or perhaps he knows enough about it now to know that it wouldn't have
+	worked on plague victims for some reason.  (Obviously it wouldn't
+	have been of much use to the Markab population in general, since it
+	only works on one person at a time and only with a donor.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Babylon 5's crew may have inadvertently helped the disease spread
+	when they gathered all the Markab for blood tests; presumably some
+	of the subjects would have remained in their quarters if they
+	hadn't been dragged out and tested in a room full of possible
+	carriers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan presumably ordered Keffer to stop his expeditions because he
+	suspects Keffer's mystery ship is a Shadow vessel.  Will he let
+	Keffer in on that information, or will he continue to keep it to
+	himself and simply let the order stand?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin's frequent use of stims to stay awake while a medical crisis
+	is going on (cf.
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	may spell big trouble for him if he keeps it up.  Doctors on stims
+	are more likely to make mistakes (cf. Dr. Rosen in
+	"The Quality of Mercy")
+	and it appears the Earth medical community doesn't look kindly on the
+	practice of doctors drugging themselves to stay awake -- Dr. Rosen
+	lost her medical license as a result.
+	
+	
      
+	Whatever his good intentions,
+	his obsession with solving everything on his own may lead him into
+	a regrettable situation down the road.  There isn't yet enough evidence
+	to show that he's actually addicted to the stims, though.
+	(See jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's been argued that the Markab did die for their sins --
+	specifically, the sin of pride, by believing that they could keep the
+	disease to themselves and not involve any outsiders.  Had Franklin
+	learned of the disease when it first hit the station, he (or another
+	non-Markab doctor) might well have been able to save a billion lives.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn seems to be coming apart at the seams in many ways, probably as
+	a result of being made a pariah among her people.  If she's telling the
+	truth, or at least part of the truth, about undergoing her change to
+	help draw humans and Minbari closer together (cf.
+	"Revelations")
+	it must be frustrating in the extreme to be reviled by her own kind,
+	and resented by many humans (cf.
+	"And Now For a Word.")
+	Especially if she believes that she's special somehow, a unique player
+	in an immense drama (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+	This, in combination with the influence of her new biology, may explain
+	why she's reaching out to Sheridan now; he at least seems to respect
+	her and relate to her as an equal, and she probably trusts him a lot
+	more now that she sees he can be trusted with one of her biggest
+	secrets (cf.
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.")
+
+	
      
+	Or, of course, she could be planning something.  She's been trying to
+	get closer to Sheridan for quite some time (cf.
+	"A Race Through Dark Places")
+	and this could simply be the next step.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On a similar note, being locked in a room and helplessly watching
+	thousands of people die all around can't be good for Delenn's emotional
+	stability.  It remains to be seen if this will have an impact on her
+	personality; for many people it would be a profound shock.
+
+
      
+   
    •  But Sheridan's statement that Delenn wouldn't be able to come back
+	out if she entered the contaminated area doesn't make sense, given
+	that the plague was known to be airborne; she'd be exposed to it
+	either way, given that the station's air is recycled (as stated in
+	the episode.)  Presumably he was just trying to keep her from going in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The timing of the plague's reappearance, with
+	all the other events going on, is suspicious.  Of course, it might be a
+	simple coincidence, as
+	Franklin suspects, just a dormant disease whose time has come.  But
+	another interpretation is that the outbreak on the Markab island
+	centuries earlier was an early biological warfare test on an isolated
+	population, and the events in this episode were the real attack.  If
+	that's true, who is responsible, and do they have any connection with
+	the approaching Great War?
+
+	
      
+	Note that the Markab did have some contact with the Shadows last time
+	they rose up, as evidenced by the Markab ambassador's speech in
+	"The Long Dark"
+	-- perhaps someone (not necessarily the Shadows; maybe the man at the
+	bar was right) didn't want the Markab around to participate this time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin's cure protects possible victims against attack, rather than
+	eliminating the disease.  B5, with its recycled air supply, now
+	permanently carries the disease, which is dangerous to species with
+	yellow and green blood-cells (or cells that perform a similar function,
+	namely the manufacture of certain neurotransmitters) and might well
+	mutate to endanger
+	others.  This could affect the willingness of alien groups to use the
+	station in the future.  Even species not vulnerable to the disease
+	might keep away just to be safe.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834865421 When Sheridan wakes up from his nap in Delenn's quarters,
+	he mumbles, "In the memory of the nine and the one."  Presumably the
+	nine refers to the Grey Council, and the one refers either to Valen
+	or to The One, as mentioned in
+	"Babylon Squared."
+	There's also an echo of the story told in the Minbari ceremony in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  This episode features a previously unseen alien (or at least, a
+	humanoid who's presumably alien) wearing a suit with an elaborate
+	helmet.  The helmet bears a striking resemblance to the mask of
+	Morpheus, the King of Dreams, from Neil Gaiman's
+	"Sandman"
+	comic book.  As "Sandman" is one of JMS's favorite comics, this may be
+	an intentional homage.
+
+   
    •  "Markab" is Arabic for "boat."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "Confessions" isn't per se a wham episode, for instance, but it does
+	have some very sharp turns, and it's an extremely intense episode on a
+	par with "Believers."  It makes no compromises and takes no prisoners,
+	and I imagine it'll stir up about as much debate as did "Believers," if
+	not more.  When we did playback after doing the audio mix a few days
+	ago, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I would also point out that, upon returning from the Moon, Apollo
+	astronauts were quarantined routinely in case any virus might have been
+	encountered; also, Mars probes today are carefully sterilized prior to
+	launch to prevent any virus from our ecosystem interacting with anything
+	that might be there.  Further, there have been numerous hearings within
+	NASA, and in at least one case in the Senate Science Subcommittee, in
+	which biologists and scientists have expressed concern about the
+	possibility of viral contamination from new species.  So anyone who says
+	this isn't possible simply isn't reading the literature.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Tom, we *do* have a medical/biological advisor, whose primary
+	comment on the notion that a virus couldn't pass between one species
+	and another..."We have yet to contact one other alien life form to make
+	an analysis.  We do not know for a fact that their biology will be
+	radically different than our own.  Until we actually make contact, it's
+	as likely as not."  A biologist works from what's known; unless you've
+	got a specimen of alien life somewhere and aren't showing it to anyone,
+	or you're simply making a guess, which is neither more nor less correct
+	until we have something testable in our hands.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I will not defend the notion that
+	the episode stated that all Americans felt that AIDS was a penalty from
+	god because it never said that.  Ever.  In any way, manner, shape or
+	form.  The problem is that some people are so caught up in the current
+	situation that they lose all sense of perspective.  Fact is, most
+	people DID think that the Black Death was a punishment from God, or the
+	work of the devil, as Franklin says.  The Markabs had a similar belief.
+	Nowhere was that applied in dialogue to humans or the AIDS situation.
+
+	
      
+	The whole point of the episode is NOT political; it says that if you
+	make a disease political on either side, you're gonna die.  You have to
+	set aside all that crap and just Deal With The Problem.  The only "side"
+	this episode took was in advocating compassion for those afflicted.
+
+	
      
+	I have enough just dealing with what's actually *in* my series; don't
+	compound the problem by adding things that you saw only in your own
+	head, and which exist nowhere in dialogue or in the story.  You are
+	adding the template of your own beliefs as an overlay, and seeing this
+	story through it.  That ain't my problem.  If you see this disease as
+	political, that's your lookout.  This show says that ANY attempt to
+	politicize a disease is species-dangerous thinking.  Period.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On one level, this does indicate that we really *are* crazy over here at
+	B5.  Here we developed this race for nearly two years.  Developed their
+	culture.  Mentioned them prominently just last episode.  Had them speak
+	before the full Council (in "Long Dark").  Spent substantial amounts of
+	money making them the biggest single alien group we've got (some of the
+	group shots had 40-50 or more Markabs, all in full prosthetics and full
+	costume)...and now, never to be seen again.
+
+	
      
+	It couldn't be a race we've never seen before, not if it was to have the
+	impact I wanted.  It had to be a group that's been with us from the
+	start.
+
+	
      
+	In Council scenes for the balance of the season, the Markab seat remains
+	empty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "No disease in human history is 100% fatal."
+
+	
      
+	Not correct.  The Black Death was fatal to everyone infected by it.  It
+	was not, as Drafa, 100% contagious, but it *was* about 90% contagious.
+	The Black Death wiped out *three-quarters of the entire European
+	population*.  (Editor's note: not quite true; three-quarters of
+	the population in some areas was wiped out, but the total toll was
+	closer to one quarter -- still pretty devastating.  The mortality
+	rate was high, but some people survived and were immune thereafter.
+	It also hit Africa and Asia.)
+
+	
      
+	Roll that around for a while.  Three-quarters.
+
+	
      
+	The only thing that saved areas of Europe was that there wasn't as much
+	travel then as today between countries; it was reserved for those with
+	enough money to afford it, which were very few.  There were also fewer
+	means of entry; a river and a bridge closed to refugees was often enough
+	to keep people out.  There is now MUCH freer travel.  Had there been
+	freer travel in the 14th century, it's entirely possible that the
+	entire European population might have been completely eradicated, with
+	those few who might've been immune dying from associated diseases,
+	hunger and other problems caused by the presence of the disease.
+
+	
      
+	One person I spoke with at the CDC (Center for Disease Control) said
+	that, hypothetically speaking, the sudden eruption of a disease like
+	this is possible.  How likely depends on various circumstances.  There
+	are, for instance, regions in the Amazon and South America where certain
+	kinds of plant and animal life can only be found; and those specific
+	lifeforms can transfer diseases to humans...diseases that literally
+	melt the flesh off your body, or in another case, cause worm-like
+	infestations to burst through the skin covering the entire body.  (Let
+	me tell you, researching this was just a whole lotta laughs.) They are
+	*highly* contagious.  The only thing that has (so far) prevented a
+	massive outbreak is the fact that by the time you can generally get
+	OUT of these remote areas...you're dead.
+
+	
      
+	A particularly aggressive disease could perform very much like what is
+	described in the episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846704089 Any time there's a big disease,
+	we get Stupid.  The same exact thing happened with the Black Plague, as
+	was mentioned in the episode...instead of blaming gays, the leaders of
+	the time blamed jews and lepers.  The whole *point* is to drop politics
+	and scapegoating whichEVER disease it happens to be next...and there is
+	always a next...and focus on the problem: the disease.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834982268 There would've been a very few on deep space patrols, or on
+	isolated worlds that would've survived, yes, as was indicated in the
+	narration at the close of the episode, but you're talking about very,
+	very small numbers.  The race is still effectively dead.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What Colin misses, obviously, is that not *all* of the markabs are
+	"mindless religious fanatics," in that Dr. Lazarenn was not one, but
+	that was mainly because he had long been exposed to human/outsider
+	ideas, which most of his reclusive people are not.
+
+	
      
+	Second, y'know, I get asked a lot, "Give us ALIEN aliens."  So I do. And
+	then I get gigged because they don't act like we'd expect humans to act.
+	Sometimes I just throw up my hands....
+
+
      
+   
    •  You have to listen a little closer.  The dormancy period is several days
+	to several weeks, as Franklin says; once the disease *comes out of
+	dormancy*, then it kills within about a day.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't think his behavior was boorish at all.  After a very long day,
+	in which (he stated) he hadn't eaten a thing, he sits down in a cross
+	legged position for (if you track the time in the story) 3-5 *hours*,
+	alternately eating and meditating in a small, quiet room...who
+	*wouldn't* fall asleep?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The fighters aren't *inexpensive*, but not hideously costly either.  
+	Also, the pilots like to spend as much time out on patrol as possible,
+	to garner more flight pay.  Keffer's squad was already out earlier (as
+	noted by Sheridan); Keffer chose to stay out a little longer doing a bit
+	of reconnaisance.  Most of the hassle is in prepping the ship for
+	launch, maintainance and so on; once it's out, it's just a matter of a
+	bit more fuel. If he left *strictly* for this purpose, then yeah,
+	they'd nail his butt to the flight deck.  But since he was out anyway,
+	it's not as big an issue.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (Delenn's childhood experience)
      
+	Well, it's about TIME somebody noticed that
+	little exchange in "Confessions and Lamentations."  Sometimes I stick
+	stuff so obviously in the foreground that I'm afraid it's going to be
+	too blatant, and then nobody seems to notice it, looking instead at
+	the tiny stuff in the background.
+
+	
      
+	Unfortunately, all I can say for now is that it is significant to
+	Delenn's character and growth, and her sense of being special, and
+	called into the religious caste.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We joked a few times about having a mass burial for the Markab
+	prosthetics and costumes behind the stage....
+
+
      
+   
    •  A man is shot by a gun.  Now, you can either do a story about the guy 
+	and his life up to the moment he was shot and killed, or you can do a 
+	story about the people who are affected by his death.  The former 
+	story ends kinda fast.  But both are perfectly valid.  The main thrust
+	is how this story AFFECTS our main characters.  Would they have been 
+	more affected if it were the Drazi rather than the Markabs?  No.  It 
+	would've been just the same.  My job is not to sit here and say, "Hmm
+	... do I think audience members like the Drazi or the Markabs more?" 
+	and thus base my decision based on that.  I write my stories based on
+	what's right for the story, period.  In this case, I knew it had to
+	be one of the League races, and in particular, those prosthetics 
+	capable of expressing broad ranges of emotion, potentially sympathetic
+	characters.  The instantly cut out the pak'ma'ra as primary characters.
+	I considered the Drazi, but my sense was that the prosthetics couldn't
+	convey the depth of emotion I needed.   Finally, that led me to the 
+	Markabs.
+
+	
      
+	Enough terrible things happened, and continue to happen, to our major
+	races; best to give them a break and see how they react when it's 
+	someone else.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn and Lennier's exchange after Sheridan leaves
      
+	Isn't it more fun to leave the piece untranslated?  Shouldn't some
+	things be left to the imagination?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Plague stories are trendy these days.
      
+	Next time I will try and locate every other producer in town and
+	see what they plan to produce, so I can plan accordingly.  When I 
+	wrote the episode, Outbreak hadn't been promoted yet or known about,
+	Voyager hadn't aired, ER hadn't told me what they were going to do
+	...if I'd known there would be such a glut...well, I probably 
+	would've done so anyway, because this isn't so much about the plague
+	and saying its' dangerous, but about our attitudes when we are 
+	confronted by this, which really hasn't been dealt with that much in
+	SF.  (And I'm sorry, but don't even *try* to bring the Voyager story
+	into this; the ship is threatened by a cheese contamination?  I almost
+	fell off my chair.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  What you also have to do is step back for a moment and remember that
+	the dinner began prior to Keffer and the rest leaving B5; and was 
+	ending about the time they got back.  Add up the time indicated, and
+	you've got a ritual that has gone on for at LEAST 3-4 hours now, 
+	probably closer to 5-6; seated in a small room, legs crossed, after
+	what was almost certainly a busy day.  Show me somebody who WOULDN'T
+	doze off after a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The alien with a breathing apparatus a "Sandman" reference?
      
+	It's mainly an extrapolation on an alien breather based on WW II
+	style gas masks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin's use of stims here and in
+	"Z'ha'dum;" their disastrous consequences for Dr. Rosen in QoM
+	
      
+	Ah, about time; I was wondering when someone would get around to
+	remembering "Quality of Mercy" in this....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The use of markabs was definitely NOT a reference to Scientology in
+	any way, manner, shape or form.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846704089 There is absolutely, positively, NO scientology link or
+	reference in the name markabs.  I find the organization generally
+	abhorrent.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846704089 I had no idea that scientologists used an alien group
+	called Markab, and frankly would've changed it if I had known.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834859198 Marcabs had warships, though not a lot of them.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Lyta Alexander, the station's first telepath,
+returns with a warning that one of Babylon 5's officers is
+an operative for a top-secret government organization. A long-held
+secret of another Babylon 5 officer is revealed.
+
+
+Patricia
+Tallman as Lyta Alexander.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Mystery/Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.50
+
+Production number: 220
+Original air date: July 25, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 11, 1995 (US)
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Lyta Alexander is part of a secret movement against Psi Corps. She's
+	evidently been a dissident since she probed Kosh
+	("The Gathering.")
+	When Lyta probed Kosh, she felt something she then hid from the years of
+	subsequent interrogations from Psi-Corps.
+	She has been feeling drawn to Vorlon space and has desperately tried to
+	get there. She knows a lot more than she has ever told anyone, including
+	what Kosh is under his suit.
+
+   
    •  Talia Winters was programmed with a 'sleeper' personality by the Psi
+	Corps.  She is probably "Control" (cf.
+	"A Spider in the Web.")
+
+   
    •  Ivanova is a latent telepath. She is able to block some scans, knows
+	instantly if someone scans her,
+	can pick up on some feelings, but has never been able to scan anyone
+	except her mother.
+	She claims, though, that her psi rating is
+	"not even a P1." 
+
+   
    •  "Universe Today" has a section called 'Eye on Minbari'
+	which Delenn uses to find out things
+	about her homeworld she might not neccessarily have been told yet,
+	in addition to learning human perceptions of Minbari.
+
+   
    •  Lyta spent some time with Psi Cops as part of her training, but left
+	because she didn't like it and became a commercial telepath instead.
+
+
            
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Exactly how much does Talia's new persona know?  And what will
+	this do to B5 in the future? 
+
+   
    •  Is there really no chance of the old Talia recovering?  If not, what
+	good is the recording Kosh made?
+
+   
    •  How safe is Lyta's escape?  Will Psi-corps get her in the end?  The fact
+	that Kosh let her off the station suggests he's prepared to risk
+	Psi-Corps getting their grubby hands on whatever it is she knows from
+	the scan.
+
+   
    •  What did Lyta see when she asked Kosh to reveal himself?  Something
+	with a halo of light, but what?
+
+   
    •  Dr. Kyle also saw Kosh. Has Psi-Corps learned anything from
+	him that they didn't learn from Lyta?
+
+   
    •  How involved are Sinclair's rangers with the Mars resistance?
+
+   
    •  Was it Talia who attempted to kill Lyta?
+
+   
    •  How did (presumably) Talia get the lights in the security section to
+	go out, being replaced with red backups? And how did she know that she
+	had a chance to hit Lyta? She was being taken from one cell to another
+	on orders passed from Garibaldi to Zack to two ordinary security
+	people. Is Zack implicated in some way, perhaps by way of his
+	involvement in Nightwatch?  It seems conincidental that in
+	the few minutes available an attempt was made on Lyta's life.
+
+   
    •  What about Ironheart (cf.
+	"Mind War?")
+	If he saw "everything," would he not have known about the implanted
+	personality, however deep it was?
+
+   
    •  What will Psi Corps do with Talia now that the Artificial Personality
+	has taken control?
+
+   
    •  Was the 'Control' mentioned by Lyta the same one installed by Bureau 13?
+
+   
    •  Was Garibaldi really faking the transition to an artificial
+	personality?  And does he know more that he's letting on? (see
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  How will Sheridan and Delenn handle the growing feelings in their
+	friendship?
+
+   
    •  Why is Babylon 5 seen to be so important to several unknown
+	individuals/groups, and who are those people?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Whatever Ironheart did to Talia seems to have enhanced her powers
+	enormously, and she seems to be growing more powerful. Psi Corps, at a
+	minimum, now have the psychic assassin they were trying to create, and
+	potentially much more.  Assuming, of course, that Ironheart's gift
+	wasn't erased when Talia's original personality was destroyed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another possibility is that Talia wasn't destroyed, that
+	Ironheart's gift allowed her to prevent Control from taking over,
+	but she's playing along as a means of continuing her own investigation
+	into what's going on with Psi-Corps (cf.
+	"Spider in the Web.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867174534 Talia's implanted personality was foreshadowed in
+	"The Quality of Mercy."
+	After she was finished scanning Mueller, she was joined by Garibaldi
+	in the Garden.  As they talked about her experience, she commented
+	to him, "Things that live inside us, Mr. Garibaldi.  Terrible things.
+	Terrible."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's choice of articles in Universe Today is a
+	revealing one. This highlights the lack of information she is receiving
+	now that she is no longer a member of the Grey Council.  However, she
+	is learning to gather information from other sources and to "read
+	between the lines" more carefully.  It appears that she is regaining
+	confidence in her abilities.
+
+
      
+   
    •  During the attempted murder of Lyta while she is being transfered
+	between holding cells, we see the hand holding the assailants PPG.  It
+	is wearing a black glove, very similar to those worn by Talia.  However,
+	the lead time between Garibaldi ordering Lyta to be moved, and the
+	attempted assassination appears to be very short.  So how did Talia
+	know when to leave Ivanova's quarters in order to intercept Lyta?  And
+	does Talia know how to kill the main lights in a section?  Three
+	possibilities present themselves:
+
+	
      
+	
        
+	   
      1.  Coincidence.  Talia, under the control of the artificial
+		personality (AP), goes to hunt down
+		and kill Lyta while Ivanova is out getting some air.  The fact
+		that Lyta was being transferred made the attempt much easier.
+		Killing the main lights is knowledge that Talia has but we
+		aren't shown.  However, in
+		"A Spider in the Web,"
+		we are shown that Bureau 13 has cracked the station
+		computer's security, which presumably would allow Talia to
+		discover both Lyta's location and the time of the transfer.
+	
+	
        
+	   
      2.  There is an additional agent provocateur on Babylon 5.  Someone
+		who does have the knowledge of Lyta's movements, and would know
+		how to kill the main lights in a section.  This strongly
+		suggests Garibaldi, but might be Zack or another member of the
+		security staff.  A trigger message is sent to Talia, who then
+		attempts to kill Lyta.
+	
+	
        
+	   
      3.  As above, there is an additional mole on Babylon 5, but it is
+		this individual who knows about Lyta's movements, knows how to
+		short circuit the main lights, and attempts to kill Lyta.  In
+		this case, Talia is innocently caught up in the actions of
+		another individual attempting to protect themselves.  There is
+		additional evidence that might be seen to support this
+		(see below).
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  How does Talia know that Lyta Alexander is aboard Babylon 5?  She may
+	have guessed indirectly from a conversation with Ivanova and done some
+	digging of her own, but Ivanova only asks if Talia knew Lyta - not
+	telling her that she was aboard.  Alternatively, she learnt of this
+	through her PsiCorps contacts.  Or Talia arranged (at the suggestion of
+	the submerged AP) for her quarters to be out of use so that she could
+	be closer to Ivanova.  Once close enough, she could scan Ivanova and
+	learn about the cell group, also learning about Lyta at the same time.
+	When Talia wakes up (finding Ivanova gone) she has no gloves on.
+	Physical contact may be used to intensify mental contact, and Talia
+	might have done this while Ivanova was sleeping.  Talia's new
+	personality indicates that there was an ulterior motive for
+	getting close to Ivanova.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's flashbacks refer to
+	"Deathwalker,"
+	where Kosh uses a ViCaR (or VCR, an individual with an enhanced
+	photographic memory) to conduct a strange negotiation, with Talia
+	monitoring.  A data crystal was also passed to Kosh from the ViCaR, and
+	Talia doesn't know what it contained.  Kosh's comments seem to indicate
+	his awareness of Talia's AP and what will happen when it is activated.
+	So, has Kosh recorded a copy of Talia's personality onto a data
+	crystal? We have already seen that the Earth Alliance has the technology
+	to wipe a personality and build a new one
+	("The Quality of Mercy".)
+	Will this be a way for Sheridan to wipe out the AP and any knowledge
+	that PsiCorps might pick up from Talia? It may not be so easy (see
+	JMS Speaks).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi believed Lyta and her story.  Considering how strongly this
+	goes against his previous behaviour, does he have an ulterior motive? 
+	This may tie in with some of the speculation about Lyta's attempted
+	murder.  See also the following two points.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When Taro Isogi is killed by the modified Free Mars leader
+	("A Spider in the Web,")
+	Control identifies Talia Winters (who witnessed the murder) as
+	someone who should also be eliminated.  Given that Lyta Alexander
+	referred to the (then unknown) sleeper agent as 'Control', can we draw
+	the conclusion that Talia was part of a Bureau 13 operation?  Or are
+	there different sections of PsiCorps treading on each other's toes?
+	It seems unlikely that Talia ordered her own execution, especially if
+	Lyta is right about Control being programmed for self-preservation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's "faked" personality transition was taken by all the
+	others as being a joke in bad taste. But consider an alternative
+	explanation:  Lyta stated that the AP would say or do anything to
+	protect itself, and Garibaldi was behaving out of character.  He also
+	immediately turned everyone's attention to Ivanova.  Talia was
+	caught unprepared for the sending of the password, but Garibaldi knew
+	that the password would be sent.  Garibaldi knew, or could easily
+	have found out, when Lyta was slated to be moved, so could have pulled
+	the trigger.  And he was ready to bring Talia into the conspiracy,
+	perhaps in order to expose it indirectly.
+	
+	
      
+	However, it is unlikely that
+	two different sleepers would respond to the same password, and the
+	events in the "flashforward" scene in
+	"Babylon Squared"
+	would suggest that Garibaldi's loyalty is not in question.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova was also awake at the time, and unaccounted-for, making her
+	a suspect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How high up the chain of Psi-Corps command does this implanting go?
+	There is every indication the it's above Bester. Twice in the series
+	Bester has suspected and even accused Talia of conspiring against the
+	Corps. Why would he suspect or accuse her of this if he knew he had
+	an ally inside her brain?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Delenn/Sheridan relationship is growing stronger.  Neither Delenn or
+	Sheridan are making a strong attempt to hide their growing trust and
+	respect for each other.  After the events in
+	"Confessions and
+	Lamentations," Delenn has drawn emotional support from Sheridan.
+	Her growing affection for him is something that she clearly shows in
+	her face and actions while they are in the garden talking.  Sheridan
+	also appears to be happy that he has someone who he can turn to who
+	will help him when all around is madness, and is wondering just where
+	all this is leading.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The relationship between Talia and Ivanova is one that will attract
+	much debate.
+	
+	
      
+	At the start of the episode, it seems clear that they are just friends.
+	Talia would not hesitate to impose on Ivanova's sleeping quarters if
+	there were anything stronger.
+
+	
      
+	During the episode, as Ivanova becomes more and more worried about
+	revealing her (limited) telepathic ability, she relies on Talia during
+	the expression of her feelings and doubts.  There is an apparent
+	emotional tension between them that might be interpreted as a "should I
+	make the first move," or as Talia's giving support but hesitating to
+	probe further, and Ivanova's "should I trust her, even though she's a
+	telepath?"
+
+	
      
+	When Talia wakes up in Ivanova's bed, finding her missing, it is
+	tempting to jump to the "obvious" conclusion.  However we know that
+	Ivanova's quarters only has one cot (indicated in
+	"The Long Dark"
+	by Dr.  Franklin.) Of course, Ivanova probably has a sofa/couch that
+	might have been used.
+
+	
      
+	When Ivanova has her final conversation with the dominated Talia, she
+	indicates that it gave Talia the words that would get her close to all
+	Ivanova knew.  Just how much Talia knows about Ivanova is unclear, and
+	we have no indication of just how close in addition to the emotional
+	bond.
+
+	
      
+	Had Ivanova and Talia had a physical relationship then Ivanova might
+	have revealed her latent telepathy ("Do you know what its like when
+	telepaths make love?" in
+	"Mind War.")
+	Since the alternate Talia didn't goad Ivanova about this, then either
+	Ivanova maintained a block, or they didn't have a physical
+	relationship.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova's relationship with her mother is opened up further by her
+	revelation of being a latent telepath, although this is not explored
+	directly.  Since Ivanova could initiate contact with her mother, she
+	could obtain a clear mental as well as physical picture of her mothers
+	deterioration under the PsiCorps telepathic suppression drugs.  The
+	drugs would of course prevent any attempt at contact initiated by her
+	mother, and also of any blocking.
+
+	
      
+	We now have a clearer understanding of how Ivanova developed her strong
+	feelings against PsiCorps, and what she must have overcome in order to
+	establish her friendship with Talia.  This change in Talia (and the AP
+	claiming to have directed the growth of their friendship) may have far
+	reaching effects in her ability to trust again.
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan has now seen a part of his Kosh-induced dream
+	("All Alone in the
+	Night") come true.  In the dream he saw Ivanova with a black raven
+	on her shoulder, and heard her say: "Do you know who I am?"  At
+	what point will other parts of the dream come true? (If they
+	haven't already.)
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did Sheridan let Talia go so easily?  He could have held her on
+	charges of shooting two security guards, if nothing else.  Perhaps he
+	felt that doing so would draw too much attention to his covert
+	activities.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Since a Ranger was involved in smuggling the data crystal to Lyta,
+	Garibaldi may have been warned of her arrival.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn appeared to be turning down closer relations with the Lumati (cf.
+	"Acts of Sacrifice")
+	when Lyta called.  Why?  (Maybe their method of closing treaties is
+	a bit closer than she'd prefer the relations to get.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  JMS says (see
+	jms speaks)
+	that originally, Takashima
+	("The Gathering")
+	was going to be the plant, and that that
+	part of the storyline was transferred over to Talia with the cast
+	changes between pilot and series.  The other events in "The Gathering,"
+	combined with some revelations from the comic series (cf. comic 8,
+	"Silent Enemies")
+	suggest some disturbing connections.
+
+	
      
+	Psi Corps was working with Minbari dissidents to kill a Vorlon.  The
+	comic has also established a connection between Psi Corps and the
+	Shadows, although this has not yet been seen on screen.  If the comic
+	is to be believed, there is a link through Psi Corps between the
+	Shadows and elements of the Minbari warrior caste.  The effects
+	of that link on the coming war may be quite unfortunate for one side
+	or the other.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Zack is still wearing his "Nightwatch" armband
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	and Garibaldi is a little bemused by it. Clearly he doesn't quite
+	approve of the idea.
+
+   
    •  The Pak'ma'ra have separate toilet facilities.  Oddly, the warning
+	sign next to the door is written, among other languages, in Vorlon!
+	Or at least, in a script identical to that displayed by Kosh's ship in
+	"Hunter, Prey."
+
+   
    •  At least one of the fugitives in the sewers on Mars was clearly a 
+	ranger. The other may not necessarily have been. Lyta arrived
+	in a shot-up ship and knows that two men died for the information.
+	Obviously she has links with the rangers. 
+
+   
    •  Delenn lies yet again, and is caught immediately.
+
+   
    •  When Delenn is dictating her response to the Lumati, the computer
+	screen shows the text appearing (whether this is Lumati writing or
+	Minbari isn't clear.)  One odd thing about it is that it alternately
+	flows in both directions, up and down, across the width of the
+	screen from left to right.
+
+   
    • @@@862900923 Production gaffe: In the first live-action shot after
+	the title sequence, as Sheridan enters the restroom, one of the
+	production crew's hands (likely the director's) can be seen briefly at
+	the bottom of the screen.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  "Divided Loyalties" will
+	produce a stunning revelation about one of our major characters.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Pat is nothing less than terrific.  If there was any sense of hesitation
+	in her appearance in "Divided Loyalties," it can be attributed to the
+	fact that she had just given birth to her son something like 4-6 weeks
+	prior, if that much, and this was pretty much her first day back in
+	the saddle.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does the comic series contain spoilers for the series?
      
+	There's only one case of this conflict, so if you want to avoid any
+	spoilers, here's my recommendation: when the last issue of this current
+	story arc comes out, resolving the Mars/Sinclair/Garibaldi thread, pick
+	up that last issue and stick it in a bag until after the first new ep
+	airs in October.  THEN read it.  You'll know it when you find it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The impact of Talia's situation should be the same whether you saw
+	the comic or not.  (And, remember, the idea was that the comic would
+	come out AFTER the remaining year 2 episodes, as a nice little 
+	frisson, not as required data.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: things you don't expect to happen...that's kind of one 
+	aspect I was after here.  By way of comparison....
+	
+	
      
+	There's one great thing about The Shining, despite some other 
+	flaws in the film: they set up Scatman Cruthers (sp?) as the one guy 
+	who understands what's going on...he gets the Shining, he's a
+	potentially heroic character, and when all hell breaks loose, he's the
+	one to get into the snow plow, cross terrible weather, we're all sure
+	he's going to get there and fight the menace... he overcomes weather and
+	nonsense to get there... he blows through the front door, ready for
+	action...  and gets an axe in the middle of his chest and dies.
+	
+	
      
+	I *loved* that, and always kinda wanted to something of that nature, 
+	where you set someone up to be that kind of character, the future, 
+	whatever, then you yank it back and let the audience say, Oh, hell, 
+	NOW what?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846705133 "If Talia is 'the future' then why is she off the show?"
+
+	
      
+	Because stuff happens.  Because rocketry was the hope of the
+	German Luftwaffe to win the war.  Didn't work out that way.  Just
+	because a character says it, doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to
+	happen at all times. A parent can look at a child and say, "He's our
+	hope for the future," and the next day the kid gets turfed by a
+	semi-truck.  Stuff happens.  Nothing is guaranteed in the B5 universe;
+	any character -- ANY character -- is vulnerable.  That, for me, is part
+	of what's exciting.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: Talia...look, you've kinda got to look at this the way I do.
+	Stuff happens.  Yes, Talia was hoped for to be a key to the solution
+	of the problem.  (Not the key, but a key.)  But if you do that, every
+	single  time, you become predictable.  It means you, the audience,
+	can relax.   "Well, we know now that Talia will always get through
+	this because she's the one they're hoping for." Suspense: gone.
+	Story: suddenly predictable.  There's no rule that every person who
+	is hoped to help solve the problem in real life is gonna make it to
+	the end or BE that solution.  So if you delete that person, now it's
+	"Oh, hell, NOW what're they gonna do?" which is more intrinsically
+	interesting to me than the other option.
+
+	
      
+	Generally speaking, about once a year, toward the end of the year, I
+	kinda look around at the characters with a loaded gun in my hand, and
+	say, "Hmmm...if I take out *that* person, what happens?  Is there
+	anyone here I can afford to lose?  Would it be more dramatically
+	interesting to have this person alive, or dead?  What is the absolute
+	bare minimum of characters I need to get to the end of the story and
+	achieve what I have to achieve?"
+
+	
      
+	It helps to really remember that this is a *novel*, and uses the
+	structure of a novel.  That means you have to have some real suprises
+	as you go.  Anyone is fair game.  To the question "Why did you get
+	rid of Sinclair?  Why'd you get rid of [spoiler removed]?
+	Why'd you get rid of
+	Talia?   Why'd you get rid of....oh, er, that hasn't happened
+	yet...." there is only one answer: 'cause I felt like it, and 'cause
+	I thought it'd make the story a lot more interesting.
+
+	
      
+	The stories I like best are the ones that ratchet up the tension and
+	the uncertainty inch by inch until you're screaming.  This could
+	apply to any of Stephen King's novels (and recall that a lot of my
+	background is in horror writing).  Mother Abigail in THE STAND was
+	supposed to be their hope for the future.  So in short order she's
+	vulture-food, JUST when she's most needed.  *Because that's
+	interesting*.  It makes you say, "Oh, hell, NOW what?" (Stephen
+	actually does that a lot in his books, and it's a technique I've
+	learned as well.)  Boromir in LoTR was a capable, skilled fighter,
+	deemed absolutely essential to the Company of the Ring...oops, there
+	he is by the tree, full of Orc arrows.
+
+	
      
+	Stuff happens.
+
+	
      
+	Same here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One other thought on Talia...one of the motifes we've played 
+	with from the start was always showing Talia in mirrors...in Race, 
+	in Z'ha'dum and others...always showing the reflection, her opposite, 
+	just to set stuff up on an emotional/symbological level.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442154 The Talia situation likely could've been finessed more
+	smoothly than it was, no mistake.  Sometimes there are going to be
+	ragged spots.  It's going to happen.
+
+	
      
+	Here's the best comparison to what my position is with this
+	show: Harlan Ellison has, on occasion, done this routine where he'll go
+	into a bookstore and write a story in full view of everyone.  As each
+	page is finished, it's taped to the wall unti it's done.  This is
+	considered a pretty nifty trick, sustained over maybe 15-20 pages.
+
+	
      
+	That's pretty much what I'm doing here.  It's an ongoing story. 
+	I can't go back, I can only go forward.  As each page (episode) is
+	finished, it's put up on the wall, and I have to go on to the next one.
+	So far I've written 2,400 pages on that wall.  Again, I can't go back
+	and change anything, and if there's a bump caused by a real world
+	incident, it simply has to be accommodated as best I can while still
+	going where I have to go.
+
+	
      
+	From time to time, there's going to be a misstroke on the
+	keyboard, or there's going to be a typo that I'll miss.  That's
+	inevitable when you're out performing in front of a massive crowd on
+	the high wire without a net.  As long as the totality of it all hangs
+	together, as long as the story is told, the trick finally done...then
+	that's what fundamentally matters.
+
+	
      
+	That this happens on occasion should be obvious; that it happens
+	as rarely as it does is the point of wonderment, I think.  Remember,
+	it's all trial and error, because no one's ever done this before.  And
+	right about now I understand why.  But we're making it work.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846705133 Andrea Thompson has said in interviews that she felt
+	Talia got short shrift.
      
+	There are a number of actors who feel that if they're
+	in a story then they should be at the *center* of the story.  Andrea
+	seemed to feel that if she was in an episode, the episode should be
+	about her character, and was consistently lobbying for this, despite
+	the fact that it would cut into the arc, and time for the other
+	characters on-screen.  Babylon 5 is an ensemble show; time on screen
+	is determined by the story, not by whim or personal insistence.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, we used her 8 or 9 times in a given season; but by contract, we
+	paid her for a full 13 episodes, whether she appeared in them or not.
+	We were never under any obligation to give her *any* guarantee; we did
+	so to make her feel comfortable taking on the job.  For the first year
+	he was on the show Jeff Conaway didn't have a guarantee of episodes;
+	he was used as he was needed, and that grew with time.  Andrea wanted
+	time away from the show to do other projects; we accommodated where we
+	could, as we do with all our cast members, but if a request comes in
+	at the last moment, or conflicts with our schedule, we can't comply.
+	We feel that if we're paying someone a great sum of money to be
+	available to us, for episodes they may not even appear in, this is not
+	unreasonable.
+
+	
      
+	Finally, it was never Warner Bros. who hired her or pushed her on me.
+	WB didn't care one way or another.  I was the one who hired her, with
+	Doug Netter.  If I hadn't felt she was right for the role, I wouldn't
+	have hired her.  But I was also under no constraint to make the show
+	into the Andrea Thompson Show.  Andreas and Peter have often appeared
+	as many times in a season as Andrea, and didn't even *have* a
+	guarantee for the first two seasons.  (Now they do.)
+
+	
      
+	We did what we could to accommodate her without destroying the story
+	arc.  I regret that she has taken out her frustrations in this way.
+	Either one is a team player, part of an ensemble, or one is not.  We
+	are very proud of the fact that the cast members as they stand now are
+	all ensemble, team players.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In the B5 universe, as a general rule of thumb, people don't just 
+	come back after something like this.  "Talia" has been destroyed 
+	permanently; that's what it said in the episode, and that's the way 
+	it'll stay.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the password?  I'm hideously tempted to say, "Z'ha'dum."
+
+
      
+   
    •  One thing you have to remember is that while Talia is in the opening
+	credits, to Psi Corps she's just one more of many programmed
+	individuals in various places.  The character in "Spider" was a highly
+	valued infiltration unit, with very expensive "parts."  Of the two,
+	Talia would've been far more expendable.
+
+	
      
+	And I don't recall that Control actually issued any death order; it was
+	the Psi Corps/B13 in any event.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846705133 Was Garibaldi at Lyta's ship because the Rangers told
+	him she was coming?
      
+	No, Garibaldi was there because the ship's ID# didn't check out, as he
+	stated, and it could've been in the process of smuggling or who knows
+	what.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Absolutely *nothing* from prior seasons/episodes has been discarded.
+	So if that's your concern...don't worry about it.
+
+	
      
+	In very tense situations, some people feel compelled to somehow break
+	the tension.  Hence, that sequence.  [Garibaldi's "gotcha"]
+
+
      
+   
    •  The problem in trying to keep something mysterious and
+	vague is that sometimes you can outsmart yourself, and get
+	confusing.  The *theory* is that there was the Bureau as Control
+	overall back on Earth; and a minor Control figure on B5.  And
+	Controls are always referred to as "he"regardless of the facts
+	to avoid giving any means of identification to anoutsider based
+	on gender.
+
+	
      
+	So it would be
+
+
                                  BUREAU CONTROL
+            ----------------------|---------------------
+            |                     |                    |
+      Earthdome Control      B5 Control         Minipax Control
      
+
+	
      
+	(That's a breakdown using artificial and not necessarily
+	correct elements, just for illustration.)
+
+	
      
+	It is, however, a confusing bit of terminology, so it's been
+	amended subsequently.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846705133 Up until the coup, was the EA government pretty
+	good?
      
+	The EA was fairly easy going, but remember that people are used to a
+	heavy governmental hand during the Earth/Minbari War.  It's in a way
+	similar to the situation we had post WW2; the only way we could make it
+	past that war and survive was through strict discipline, following
+	orders, going along with rationing, conserving, everything.  And it was
+	that positive attitude that those who came later would exploit in the
+	McCarthy/Red Scare 1950s, and hit us sideways in the 60s.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If Talia was Control in "Spider in the Web," why would she order
+	herself eliminated?
      
+	My sense was that the Control part, which sometimes moved
+	at night,  reported that the mission could be jeapordized. 
+	Then B13 gave the order to  eliminate.  Nowhere does it say
+	that Control said the second half of the  sentence.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846705133 Control was referred to as "he."
      
+	You always refer to agents in the single "he" form to
+	avoid giving away  identities.
+
+	
      
+	That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the hand that fired the PPG a left or a right hand?
      
+	I don't remember offhand; I'll have to check the tape.  (I have a
+	vague memory that it was a right hand originally, flopped to shoot in
+	the other direction.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Not that it just looked better per se, but the gunshots came from 
+	right to left; the gun hand as originally shot fired from left to right.
+	It looked very funky when edited together, like it was going in a
+	different direction than the one it was fired in.  Flopping the shot
+	corrected that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, I wouldn't waste much time on the gun-hand, frankly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About "The Quality of Mercy"
      
+	Yes, part of the reason for the episode was to 
+	set up the notion of an implanted personality as acheivable tech.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Couldn't Ironheart have removed Control?  Was Talia the original
+	personality?
      
+	Control was the construct.  The alternate personality was dormant at
+	the time Ironheart was there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Remember that Ironheart was not seeing Talia under the best of
+	conditions...he was fighting hard NOT to use his abilities, for any
+	reason, because it created mindquakes...he was pulling everything IN.
+	And later he was shot, also not a good position.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does Psi Corps have Talia's gift now?  Isn't that a problem?
+	
      
+	Logically, yes, that would eventually pose a problem.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the new personality formed by modifying Talia's, or was it
+	created from scratch?
      
+	I'd rather let this aspect slide for the moment.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Remember, the *conscious* Talia did none of those things; she would
+	never dream of scanning without permission.  (And in Ivanova's case,
+	remember that she said she knows *instantly* if she's being scanned.
+	Note her strong reaction in "Eyes" when it happens.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Talia v 1.0 would not have violated Ivanova's privacy during any kind
+	of intimacy, as that would violate her profoundly; you can hold back,
+	and Talia would have, and Ivanova would've sensed if she had tried it.
+	The theory on telepaths making love is that they both willingly drop
+	the blocks they normally keep in place.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The real Talia was becoming more and more disenchanted with PC, and
+	this was in time going to pull her into resistance activities, which
+	Talia v2.0 would only be *thrilled* about.  The self-protection
+	mechanism only kicks in when the personality's existence is threatened.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did they kick Talia off the station?
      
+	Because the longer she was there, the more she'd discover (was about to
+	enter into Sheridan's cell group in fact), and the more damage she'd
+	be able to do.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Oh, to be sure, they'd have preferred to have Talia accidentally fall
+	out an airlock rather than turn her over to the Corps...but that's cold
+	blooded murder, and if they go that route, then there's no difference
+	between them and their opposite number.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846705133 . . . Re:  Talia...it's okay to be pissed about
+	that; it was intended to have that reaction.   Things *should*
+	get us annoyed when Psi Corps pulls a stunt like that.  And we
+	haven't heard the last of what happened to Talia, btw.  That's
+	the B5 universe for  you....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Lyta sense Ivanova's talent?
      
+	A non-telepath can learn certain tricks to make it harder to break
+	through, albeit briefly, so the reaction was sufficiently ambiguous and
+	the event sufficiently brief that it wouldn't raise too many concerns.
+	Which is why Sheridan dived in when he did; if she'd continue to block
+	much longer, just instinctively, it would've revealed her latent
+	potential.  It was his distracting Ivanova that in a sense helped Lyta
+	break through.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Could Ivanova sense when someone else was being scanned?
      
+	No, that she wouldn't really be capable of doing at her present level.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of *course* the telepath issue will have to be dealt with; this is a
+	logical progression of the story, no?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was a kiss between Ivanova and Talia edited out?
      
+	Nope, no such scene was cut.  It's just a slightly awkward 
+	match in the edited shots.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, nothing was cut; we had a matching problem at one point in the edit,
+	where Andrea reached with her left hand in one angle, and didn't reach
+	out with the other, and we had to come around for the shot on Ivanova,
+	so it looked a tick off.  But nothing was cut.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846705133 Film is shot on the stage, then transferred to video,
+	which is then digitized onto the Avid computer editing system, which
+	holds every take of every scene.  A scene is shot many times from
+	various angles: wide master shot, three-shots (3 people), two-shots,
+	singles, raking twos, close ups, medium shots, extreme closeups and
+	sometimes downshots (as well as CGI and composite shots).
+
+	
      
+	John Copeland and I then go in and work on the version of the episode
+	edited by the director to do the producer's cut.  We sit down with the
+	editor, and go scene by scene.  The usual construction is as follows:
+	you get a wide master shot so we know the geography, where we are, and
+	where everyone is in relation to that.  Gradually you go closer, into
+	threes or twos, then singles or closeups for dramatic emphasis, coming
+	out into the master from time to time when someone has to move, or to
+	break the sense of claustrophobia.
+
+	
      
+	When you get in close, you have over-the-shoulder shots, meaning
+	you're shothe same thing in reverse, so you see both sides of the
+	conversation.  You do these one at a time, for lighting purposes; you
+	light one side of the room for the scenes looking left-right, then
+	move the camera and the lighting around for the scenes when you're on
+	the right side looking left (or, phrased differently, you light for
+	Susan looking at Talia, then Talia looking at Susan).  The actors then
+	do the scene again, with the camera on the other side.
+
+	
      
+	The actor has to be very careful to always repeat each movement
+	exactly; if he picks up a teacup on th word "quibble," he has to make
+	absolutely sure he picks up the cup on exactly that same word, every
+	time, in every take, in the same way, in the correct hand.  If the
+	actor slips (and this sometimes happens), when you go to show tther
+	side of the scene, you suddenly find you have a matching problem; in
+	the shot over Talia's shoulder to Susan, the actor raised a hand; in
+	the shot over Susan's shoulder to Talia, the actor (generic term that
+	includes women) *didn't* raise a hand.  So when you edit the two, you
+	have a matching problem.  You can sometimes avoid this by just staying
+	on one side of the shot, but then you can't get the other character's
+	on-face reaction to what's being said.  And in that scene in
+	particular, we *needed* to see both sides.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We will see Lyta again.
+
+	
      
+	RE: alternate lifestyles...I said when stuff happened, we wouldn't make
+	a big deal out of it, it'd just be there...and I said we'd address it in
+	our own way, in our own time.  We've done a bit here, we'll do a bit
+	more down the road.  I won't give you or anyone a timetable; I'll do
+	stuff as the integrity of the story permits, not sooner, not later.  I
+	will not allow this to become a political football.  If you do nothing,
+	folks yell at you for ignoring it; if you do a little, they yell for
+	not doing more; if you do more, they yell for not doing it sooner.
+	Screw it.  I do what the story calls for, as the story calls for it.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846737775 Susan and Talia had been dancing around one another
+	for months; that night, though, would've been the first time they got
+	physically intimate.
+
+
      
+   
    •  See, here's where I start to have a problem.  For starters, I don't do
+	any thing to be politically correct, or politically incorrect, I do
+	what I do in any story because that's what the story points me
+	toward.  Anybody who says "It's not necessary" isn't entitled to that
+	judgement, frankly; you don't know what's necessary to the story.  And
+	by framing it in the  "is this NECESSARY?" way is designed to make you
+	defend your position when such defense isn't the point; is it
+	NECESSARY to have humor? to have a romance? to have correct science?
+	No, *nothing* is NECESSARY.  It's what the writer feels is right for
+	that scene, that story, that character.
+
+	
      
+	"Oh, well, I saw it, but was all that violence NECESSARY?"  This is,
+	frankly, a BS observation usually offered by someone with an agenda,
+	who wishes to invalidate the notion of an artistic view and impose
+	some kind of quota, or objective criterion to what is and isn't
+	necessary for a movie or film.  As far as I'm concerned, the first
+	person to throw this into a discussion has, frankly, just lost the
+	argument.
+
+	
      
+	Point the second: one of the most consistent comments I get, in email
+	and regular mail, is the spirituality conveyed in the show, that we
+	have shown, and will continue to show, tolerance toward religion, even
+	created sympathetic religious characters.  "Thank you for your
+	tolerance," they say...until we show somebody or some action THEY
+	don't like...and at that point suddenly it's a lot of tsk-tsking and
+	chest thumping and disapproval; so okay, how about I just stop all
+	positive religious aspects of the show?
+
+	
      
+	It seems to me, that if I do *all that* with religion, and with thje
+	(the) simple act of showing maybe ONE PERSON in all the long history
+	of TV science fiction across 40 years has a different view of life,
+	that the show is somehow degraded, or downgraded, or dropped in
+	opinion...this simply reinforces the notion, held by many, that a lot
+	of folks in the religious right wish to make sure no other perspective
+	or lifestyle is ever shown on television, at any time, unless in a
+	negative fashion.
+
+	
      
+	The thing of it is, while on the one hand I'm getting praise from
+	religious folks for addressing spirituality in my series (speaking
+	here as an atheist), I've gotten flack from others who think it has no
+	place in a SCIENCE fiction series, and why the hell am I putting
+	something in that goes right against my own beliefs?  "Because," I
+	tell them, "this show is not about reflecting my beliefs, or yours, or
+	somebody else's, it's about telling this story, about these people,
+	with as much honesty and integrity as I can summon up.  That means
+	conceding the fact that religious people are going to be around 260
+	years from now."  Well, fact is, all kinds of people are going to be
+	around 260 years from now.  And what did the anti-religion folks say
+	specifically about including spirituality in my series?  "It's not
+	*necessary*," they said.
+
+	
      
+	Translation: they didn't like it.  Well, tough.  It was right for this
+	story, and this show.  And it seems to me rather hypocritical for some
+	folks, who applaud the show for tolerance, for my standing up to
+	those who want to exclude religion from TV, to then turn around and
+	say the show is diminished because it showed that same tolerance...to
+	another group or perspective.  I guess tolerance is only okay as long
+	as it's pointed one way.
+
+	
      
+	You say that as a christian, you think any sex except that between a
+	husband and a wife to be wrong.  Well, as I recall, the bible also
+	speaks against murder.  We've depicted deaths by the hundreds of
+	thousands.  (And we're talking here about the *depicting* of the act,
+	simply showing it, not the value judgements made after the fact.)  Why
+	does the one (which is so barely hinted at as to be almost invisible)
+	cause the show to be diminished where the other does not?
+
+	
      
+	My job is not to reinforce your personal political, social or
+	religious beliefs.  My job is not to reinforce MY personal political,
+	social or religious beliefs.  Then it isn't art or storytelling
+	anymore, it's simply propaganda.  My job is to tell this story, about
+	these people, AS people, as mixed and varied as they are today.  And
+	there is no outside objective criteria as to what is, or isn't
+	*necessary* in a story; that is the sole province of the author.  You
+	may or may not like it.  You may or may not choose to watch it.  Just
+	as people who don't like to see religion and god discussed on TV may
+	dislike it or choose not to watch it.
+
+	
      
+	But you'll excuse me if I see complaints about this one little thing
+	from the religious side, after all I've done to present religious
+	characters and the religious life in a positive fashion, to be
+	hypocritical and frankly somewhat ungrateful.  It's as though all this
+	means nothing because of one thing, one outside-imposed litmus test
+	that disregards anything and everything else that has been done.
+
+	
      
+	So straight up...if I should stop tolerating or showing viewpoints
+	that are not my own (spoken as someone who is absolutely straight),
+	then should I now stop showing religion as well?  Because that's what
+	this comes down to.  Is that what you want?  Because religion is
+	included at my discretion as well as anything else on this show.  You
+	want me to be less tolerant?  Just say the word.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ken: yes, showing does not mean endorsing, showing just means saying
+	"this is here," not to make an issue of it.  If I'm going to start
+	endorsing ANYbody's POV around here, it's going to be mine, and I think
+	we all know how dreadful THAT would be.
+
+	
      
+	As for "including controversy rather than skirting it," this is
+	more or less the point.  The goal here is to not have our characters
+	or our show make *value judgments* about what our characters do,
+	because then you're hitting the audience over the head with the
+	MESSAGE.  "Believers" is a good example of that; some came away using
+	parts of that to argue pro and anti interference in medical
+	situations; ditto for "Confessions" which hit squarely on BOTH sides
+	of the issue (no, you can't blame morality for disease...but then, we
+	had our characters openly requiring blood testing, which annoys many
+	on the other side of the issue)....my sense is that our audience is
+	smart enough to take the elements we present them with, and discuss
+	them, and come to their own conclusions and draw their own meanings
+	from them.  It's the part of objecting to even *presenting* the
+	situation that seems to me a marginal position at best.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840398921 They weren't shown in separate beds.  We saw Talia
+	reaching over to the empty space in the bed where Ivanova had been, and
+	finding her gone.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I didn't show a kiss because, in my experience, it's easier on all
+	around if one steps into the shallow end of the pool first, and walks
+	into the deep end rather than diving in and splashing everybody in the
+	process.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840399020 Wouldn't Talia have discovered Ivanova's secret if
+	they were intimate?
      
+	Well, a telepath can also hold it back and avoid dipping any
+	further into someone's mind, if not permitted or asked not to do so.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As for Ivanova...remember that the core of good drama is conflict.  So
+	here we have a situation where a possible romantic involvement is
+	shaping up for her in year three.  It shouldn't be made too easy.  So
+	you create a situation that really hurts her deeply; she made a
+	difficult step, got over her distance, opened herself up, became
+	vulnerable...and got hurt very badly as a result.  The same thing that
+	happened in first season, when her old flame was discovered to be a
+	big guy with Home Guard.
+
+	
      
+	You now have someone who's freshly hurt, who is going to be unwilling
+	or slow to open up again, who's now experienced every kind of
+	relationship and NONE of them have worked...in short, she's one
+	exposed nerve ending, perfect for someone now to come in who may be
+	right, but for whom she has little time, and is disposed not to get
+	involved.
+
+	
      
+	Sounds a lot like my own dating history...keep them razor blades and
+	salt sprays a'comin.....
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the Ivanova revelation in "Loyalties" has nothing to do with
+	replacing Talia; that is a moot point in many ways, since Lyta is back,
+	and since other things happen which take that issue off the table in
+	any event.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Didn't say Talia WAS a psi-cop, Talia said she *interned with* the
+	PsiCops.  Bear in mind that you're going to need support staff, lower
+	level liaisons, and a bunch of other positions as well as the actual
+	cops.  JMS has names confused; Lyta interned with the PsiCops.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Bester try to befriend Talia because she was Control? (cf.
+	"A Race Through Dark Places")
      
+	You're assuming Bester knows everything.  Also, Bester's interest
+	may have been more...carnal than PsiCorp oriented.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If Laurel Takashima had stayed with the crew and shot Garibaldi
+	in "Chrysalis," would she have been Control?
      
+	Yes, Laurel would've been Control.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Mike: your assessment is pretty much correct.  Laurel was to be the
+	traitor initially; as I noted long, long time ago, and you quoted, she
+	was not, in fact, acting entirely under her own volition.  There would
+	indeed have been an implanted personality there, acting without even
+	her knowing about it.  And it would've been this implanted personality
+	that would've shot Garibaldi.
+
+	
      
+	When I took Laurel off the board, elements of this were transferred
+	to other characters.  This is the kind of thing I mean when I say that
+	even with changes here and there, the story continues to go where I
+	want it to go.  We don't necessarily remember *which* general put the
+	briefcase with a bomb next to Hitler's chair in the bunker, only that
+	it got done.  Some chairs are moveable, some are not, as anyone who's
+	ever written a novel from an outline can tell you...you start moving
+	the chairs around, but you always keep going where you're going.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, originally it was the Kosh-scan that would've gotten Lyta in
+	trouble; the TK aspect was originally going to come in from another
+	angle, but I was able to collapse the two in Talia, and then bring Lyta
+	in from a different direction, as you'll see in one of the first batch
+	of new year 3 eps.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If Laurel *had* stayed with the show, by the middle of
+	year two the fact that she  was Control would've been revealed
+	via the password incident. At that point, one  particular
+	possibility was that her second in command under her -- a
+	rather dour  Russian lieutenant named Ivanova -- would've been
+	promoted to take her place,  while Laurel was moved off the
+	chessboard. (This was planned because we  knew going in that
+	Tamlyn Tomita had a growing film career, and we probably 
+	could've only kept her for a couple of years in the best of
+	circumstances.  So why  not turn that to your advantage?)
+
+	
      
+	The position now being occupied by Corwin, Ivanova's
+	second, is the position  that Ivanova would've held (though
+	more prominently) if Laurel had stayed on.   (And no, Corwin
+	doesn't now have that arc lurking in the background.)
+
+	
      
+	See, it's easy to stick to an outline and never diverge
+	if you're writing  characters in a novel; in a TV show, with
+	live actors, you have to be flexible, plan  ahead, come up
+	with contingency plans, and have threads that weave and 
+	interlock in ways to leave you maximum flexibility while still
+	proceeding toward  your destination.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Takashima would have been the one to be Control.  A Psi
+	Corps plant.  (Her background on Mars would've been the perfect time
+	for it to have happened.)  When Laurel went away, I took that one
+	thread and passed it along to Talia, setting it up as early as the very
+	first episode, when Talia and Ivanova first meet, and later reluctantly
+	have a drink.
+
+	
      
+	At one point, Ivanova says to Talia, referencing Ivanova's
+	mother, "You're as much of a victim as she was."  To which Talia
+	replies, "I don't feel like a victim."  And, of course, that's exactly
+	what she was, though she didn't know it yet.  Ivanova's analysis was
+	100% correct.
+
+
    
+
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Narn-Centauri War reaches a turning point. Sheridan is contacted by a
+powerful ally, who offers assistance.
+
+John Schuck.
+W. Morgan
+Sheppard as Warleader G'Sten.
+William
+Forward as Refa.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action/Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 9.49
+
+Production number: 219
+Original air date: August 1, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 18, 1995 (US)
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn
+
    
+
+
    
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares.
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+   
    •  A change in the number of
+	candles
+	in G'Kar's quarters.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The new Centauri emperor, Cartargia, is acting mostly as a
+	figurehead, a front for Refa and his compatriots.
+
+   
    •  A treaty among all the aligned worlds outlawed the use of
+	mass drivers as a weapon of war, similar to the Earth
+	treaties outlawing the use of chemical and biological weapons.
+
+   
    •  Draal says he has found other beings on Epsilon 3, ones
+	who take care of the great Machine Draal is at the heart of.
+	One of them is a fellow named Zathras (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+
+   
    •  Delenn has been in charge of all the Rangers on Babylon 5.
+	She now shares that command with Sheridan.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan does not know that Sinclair is behind the Rangers.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri seem to have gravity control technology.
+	Londo watches as the Centauri bombard the Narn homeworld,
+	standing -- seemingly in gravity -- aboard a motionless ship.
+	(Either that, or they have magnetic shoes.)
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  What's Zathras doing on Epsilon 3, and how did he get there?  If the
+	planet has been undisturbed for at least the past 500 years
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2,")
+	is he that old?
+
+   
    •  Where was Zathras such that Draal, with sight that extends across
+	light-years, couldn't find him?  Perhaps he wasn't in another place,
+	but another time (see
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+
+   
    •  Will the great machine be involved in pulling Babylon 4 through time?
+
+   
    •  Now that Londo has stated he no longer wishes to associate with the
+	Shadows, his usefulness to Lord Refa is at an end.  How will Refa handle
+	this?
+
+   
    •  What exactly was G'Kar told to do in the Kha'Ri's last message?
+	Ask for sanctuary, obviously, but anything else?
+
+   
    •  What other technology do the Shadows have that we haven't seen yet?
+
+   
    •  Have the Narn unwittingly discovered a weakness of the Shadows? (see
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Now that G'Kar has been stripped of his homeworld and position on
+	Babylon 5, what can he contribute to the battle against the Shadows?
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo is now convinced that his associates are far too powerful for
+	their motives to be solely for his benefit.  He realises that he has
+	become a pawn in their larger game, and that his personal quest for
+	more power has lead to the death of esteemed friends and many innocents.
+	While convinced of this, and that he has allowed himself to be
+	maneuvered at every turn by the will of others, he still carries
+	through with his role as a paper tiger politician/ambassador.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Shadows show some new weaponry.  It appears that each ship can "give
+	birth" to a cluster of forty or so of the smaller fighters G'Kar
+	encountered at Z'ha'dum in
+	"Revelations."
+	We are not shown that these fighters are re-assimilated at the end of
+	the confrontation, and it is also unknown how many times each Shadow
+	can do this.
+
+	
      
+	The second weapon has the ability to disrupt a jump point so that it is
+	fatal for any ship to attempt to use it.  Once an attack against the
+	Shadows begins it appears you can leave only when they so allow it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Shadow "wounded" during the battle is thrown off course by the loss
+	of one of its spines.  After the battle is finished, a second Shadow
+	joins with it as if to assist it.  The broken
+	spine is clearly visible on the ship that does not move during the
+	docking procedure.  It suggests that the damaged Shadow was unable to
+	function as effectively, perhaps because it was in pain.
+
+
      
+   
    •  With Draal offering the resources of the highly advanced technology at
+	his command, it appears that Babylon 5 is one of the few places that may
+	withstand a Shadow assault.  That it can become the base of operations
+	for the Army of Light is now clear.
+
+	
      
+	Perhaps more importantly, Babylon 5 can probably also withstand a
+	frontal assault by Earthforce, though they might prefer to destroy it
+	from within.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Centauri use of mass drivers flauts all previously signed
+	conventions, and it appears (cf.
+	"And Now for a Word,"
+	where the Centauri are discovered using Babylon 5 to transport mass
+	drivers and energy weapons) that they have been planning this kind of
+	assault on the Narn homeworld for some time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839395288 A mass driver uses a heavy object (such as a small
+	asteroid) launched
+	from orbit toward a planet's surface at low speed.  As it falls
+	through the planet's gravity well it gains considerable momentum.  On
+	impact the immediate area becomes a crater, and huge quantities of dust
+	are thrown up into the atmosphere, blocking out sunlight and causing
+	something like a nuclear winter.  E. E. "Doc" Smith's
+	Lensman
+	series, written from 1937 to 1948, is the first literary SF work to use
+	mass drivers as weapons for planetary bombardment as shown in this
+	episode.  (If you know of an earlier work, send me mail!)
+
+
      
+   
    •  All of the major governments (with the exception of the Vorlons) are
+	now under serious internal stress.  They are either introspective
+	(Earth,) skeptical of present danger (Minbari,) overextended (Centauri,)
+	or occupied (Narn).  It appears that the Shadows have achieved, either
+	directly or indirectly, effective destabilization of every major power
+	that might stand up to their forces.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ambassador Kosh openly lets the Rangers know of his involvement.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It appears that Garibaldi's friendship with Londo has strained to the
+	breaking point.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan now has access to the Rangers.  This appears to be fulfilling
+	the dream induced by Kosh (cf.
+	"All Alone in the Night")
+	where he is described as being "The Hand."  Presumably this reference
+	is to his role as someone who will help lead the forces of light as
+	the right hand man of "The One."
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  A fully prepared numerically superior Narn task force is easily
+	destroyed by the Shadows.  Unless more effective combat techniques are
+	discovered, the battle with darkness will have to involve more subtle
+	tactics.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo hasn't forgiven Refa for the death of his friend Urza Jaddo
+	("Knives.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo's cough in the council chamber scene sounds suspiciously like
+	the one in his dream in
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+	Could he be coming down with something?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  JMS premiered this episode at the Chicago Comicon on July 1, 1995.
+
+   
    •  W. Morgan Sheppard also appeared in the first season episode
+	"Soul Hunter"
+	as the title character.
+
+   
    •  The episode's initial airing, in the UK, was 50 years, almost to the
+	day, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima during World War
+	II.  Considering the obvious parallels between the Centauri use of
+	mass drivers and the American use of the atomic bomb, that's a
+	serindipitous, if unintentional, bit of timing.
+
+   
    •  "Now the trumpet summons us again:
+	not as a call to bear arms, though
+	arms we need; not as a call to battle, though in battle we are; but as
+	a call to bear the burdens of a long, twilight struggle--year in and 
+	year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation--a struggle against
+	the common enemies of man--tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."
+	--John Fitzgerald Kennedy.  An
+	audio
+	version of his speech is available.
+
+
+   
    • 	In the first Londo-Refa scene, just before Refa sits, what looks like
+	a wooden duck with its wings outstretched is visible on a shelf
+	beside the throne.  Perhaps it's a Centauri cat (cf.
+	"Chrysalis.")
+
+   
    •  Candles are used subtly to represent hope,
+	here and in previous episodes (see
+	jms speaks.)
+	At the beginning of G'Kar's prayer scene, the shelf behind him
+	is filled with burning candles -- but by the end, as his people's last
+	hope is destroyed by the Shadows, they've all gone out.
+
+   
    •  Likewise, when Londo and Refa are talking, they're both cloaked in
+	shadow -- until Londo expresses misgivings about his associates and
+	emerges into the light.
+
+   
    •  The battle sequence was directed by Mojo of Foundation Imaging; the
+	mass-driver sequence was directed by John Teska.  The episode has more
+	effects footage than any previous one, nearly five minutes' worth.
+	The effects took almost a month to produce.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "The Long, Twilight Struggle" is probably the
+	biggest episode of the entire two years to date, story and EFX and
+	character wise, and will have a profound effect on the series that
+	I'd compare to a cross between "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis".
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't want to say anything about "The Long Twilight Struggle" at
+	this time, to avoid hyping people.  Suffice to say it's a very strong
+	episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Hell, in some ways, when compared with "Struggle," "The Coming of
+	Shadows" is a light comedy in which nothing much happens.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Without spoiling anything...yes, in this regard, I've always noted
+	that there are some echoes of WW II in the overall storyline, and some
+	applies here.  Also, again, the purpose of a large measure of the show
+	is to elicit discussion of such issues as this...where are the mora,
+	(moral) responsibilities in such a situation?  What are the ethics of
+	mass warfare?  Where does expediency begin and compassion end?  *Should*
+	compassion have to end for the greater good?
+	
+	
      
+	If we can start some bar fights, I'll have done my job.
+	
+	
      
+	Fact is, I don't have one single damned good answer.  But I've got a
+	whole LOTTA questions...
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Yes, there's a WW II parallel, not in terms of
+	justifying one or the other -- one can make compelling 
+	arguments for and against the use of atomic weapons to close 
+	the war, but I leave it to those who were there to have 
+	made the right decision, because they had to live with it -- 
+	but in terms of strategy and wartime logic.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thank you.  I'm quite frankly thrilled beyond words at the preliminary
+	reactions from the UK to this episode; we worked *really* hard on it,
+	and I can't tell you what the reactions mean to us.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  It's definitely one of my favorite episodes.
+	The intensity is terrific.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, "They're being bombed back to the stone age" is a Vietnam era
+	quote.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: what you could see of the planet's surface...one of the side
+	effects of the technology used is that, realistically, it would throw up
+	a *hideous* amount of smoke, dust and debris, and you wouldn't see much
+	of anything.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why isn't Londo floating weightless?
      
+	Some races, like the Centauri and the Minbari, use drive systems built
+	to varying degrees on magnetic and gravitational forces;
+	some of them don't so much go to a planet as create a situation where
+	they are drawn toward it.
+	One of the side effects of this is a field allowing for artificial
+	gravity.  Earth doesn't have this level of technology, however.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: your note about 500 Narns for every 1 Centauri...you may want to
+	check our own history.  During the occupation of some parts of Europe
+	during WW II, similar tactics were used.
+	In some cases the threat rose as high as 100-200 Jews or Russians
+	executed for every Nazi killed; much the same has been done in earlier
+	history.  Five hundred to one is a figure relatively consistent with
+	what humans have done from time to time when we wish to instill terror.
+	So I find this a curious quibble.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, Londo *specifies* that the 500 will include "the
+	perpetrator's own family."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Draal's voice dubbed?
      
+	No, his voice wasn't dubbed, or changed, by anyone; might've been a
+	glitch in local audio or something.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Draal's played by John Shuck, who did a great job.  
+	And yes, we'll definitely be seeing him again.  (We first met him in 
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  I loved the part with Draal calling out for Zathras
      
+	Yeah, that was a rather Draal bit of humor, wasn't it?
+
+
      
+   
    •  In part it's John's take on the character, but what I indicated to him
+	was that Draal's gone through some considerable changes by entering the
+	heart of the machine; it's given him greater understanding, and the
+	freeing aspects of greater humor.  It's almost like -- and I hate to
+	even use the reference because somebody'll say "Oh, that's what he's
+	doing," and I ain't, it's just a point of comparison -- Tom Bombadil in
+	LoTR...quite funny, but also someone not to be trifled with.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It wasn't intended that Delenn should touch Draal; it sorta happened
+	on the set, and no one really noticed, and it wasn't worth going 
+	back and reshooting the whole thing.  My sense is that if it's
+	like a virtual reality situation, she would "feel" it even though
+	it's not there, if the image was impinging correctly on the brain.
+
+	
      
+	But in either event, the image is not and should not be considered
+	to be solid.
+
+	
      
+	As for Londo's shot...the director called "cut" I think a bit too
+	soon, we used every frame we had to extend that shot (and, in fact, 
+	we even went so far as to freeze the final frame and extend the shot
+	by a smidge, if you look at it carefully).  Nonetheless, I think it 
+	works pretty spiffily.
+
+	
      
+	As for the mass drivers, the amount of energy required to move
+	something that big would generate huge amounts of heat, possibly 
+	making them even white-hot hence the glow.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852231085 An actor's job is to physicalize the script.  Can you
+	give an example?
      
+	Yes, I think that's accurate.  The most obvious place where it worked
+	was where Londo looks through the window to Narn being bombed below. 
+	There's no dialogue, and he has to convey a range of emotions just
+	through his face....which is a terribly difficult thing to do, and he
+	did a superb job of it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846711459 Mass drivers use asteroids freely available in space,
+	accelerated and fired into a planetary atmosphere.  EA non-rotational
+	ships have zero g.  EA tech is generally much lower in weapons tech and
+	other areas than the Minbari and Vorlons, among others.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, what Delenn said was, "...the Rangers *in this area* are
+	under my direct command."  So Sinclair's post as Ranger One remains
+	back on Minbar.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, Sinclair has apparently been described as the One...but you
+	must ask...the one *what*?
+
+	
      
+	Expect final answers to this one late this coming season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On each season's music for the opening credits reflecting the 
+	mood of the season
      
+	What do I have in mind for season three?  What I indicated to Chris
+	Franke was to look at a piece of music he did in "The Long, Twilight
+	Struggle" and interpolate some elements of that into the main theme, 
+	with a very hard sound.  The piece in question is about the middle of
+	the first really...um...busy scene after the act break.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Until "The Long Twilight Struggle," nothing else has come close to
+	that scene [the attack on the Narn outpost in "Coming of Shadows"] 
+	for me.  But there's some stuff in there that finally manages to
+	to surpass it.  Just gorgeous and scary and awe-inspiring.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846711459 These Narn heavy cruisers were different than the
+	ones in
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line."
      
+	There are various kinds of ships the Narns have, some older than others;
+	the ones in the first ep were older ones.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the Narn/Shadow battle
      
+	Thanks.  Yeah, that scene is one of my favorites; a lot of work
+	went into it, and I think it shows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Secret of Narn success in injuring a Shadow ship?
      
+	Not much to the secret...they coordinated their firepower on one of
+	the ships, in hopes of doing damage.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846711459 G'Kar's prayers would have been unrelated to the wounding
+	of the shadow vessel.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846711459 Was the Shadow ship permanently disabled?
      
+	It was in shock, but it would've recovered in a bit more time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846711459 Were there four Shadow ships stacked together after
+	the battle?
      
+	Actually, what's probably confusing is that the shadow vessels are
+	bi-level, so when two come together it looks like four or so; but it's
+	just the two.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  One of the things I wanted to try was to find a way to stage 
+	long-range combat. One of the things everyone says is that even though
+	real aerial combat tends to be at great distance -- and space combat
+	would be conducted over thousands of kilometers, you probably wouldn't
+	be able to even SEE your opponent at that range, just pick up the enemy
+	ships on your scanners -- you can't do that for TV because you need to
+	have both in frame, hammering each other short-range, to make it work
+	for viewers.
+
+	
      
+	But I've always liked a challenge, so I thought I'd see if I could make 
+	it work.  The two sides are, as noted, thousands of kilometers apart,
+	and take most of that sequences just to catch up with each other.  And
+	frankly, I think it's probably one of the most dynamic battle sequences
+	we've ever done, so you can expect more in the future, now that I've
+	kind of got the hang of how to do this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Agreed.  The use of different tactics and weapons at different distances
+	gives a sense that there is a *strategy* behind what's going on, that
+	it's not just two ships coming with city blocks of one another and
+	clobbering each other.  Strategy implies intelligence, and to see
+	intelligence in the shadow vessels is scary indeed.....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The reason for the placement of the jump points is *very* straight
+	forward.
+
+	
      
+	By virtue of their size and the tremendous forces unleashed by
+	punching a hole into hyperspace, you want to form it a little distance
+	away or risk being severely damaged.
+	If they formed the points between them and the enemy, which was quite
+	capable of avoiding them, it would be entirely possible for the shadows
+	to get in front of the point and cut off their sole means of escape.
+	Usually, better to form them behind you, so the enemy can't block your
+	way out, and take a possible hit or two to your aft sections than be
+	totally cut off.
+	They didn't anticipate the extra weapons the shadows had.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Were those Narn cruisers especially big?
      
+	The cruiser is the same size as that sent to look into Z'ha'dum; it's
+	just a matter of perspective and how close the camera gets.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did the shadow ships phase out to avoid the energy mines?
      
+	No, they didn't phase out so much as absorb the energy, 
+	at cost of great pain.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, they're organic technology, so they can feel, but only 
+	after a fashion.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Why didn't the fighters do anything?"
+	
+	
      
+	They did.  Look more closely.  They engaged the Narn fighters in
+	dogfights all over the place.  They're hardly more than specks against
+	the huge ships, but they're definitely there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One Shadow ship in "Signs and Portents," two in "Chrysalis,"
+	three in "The Coming of Shadows," four here?
      
+	Give Tim Lynch a ceegar.  Yes, more ships are starting to appear,
+	as more ships become available.
+
+
      
+   
    •  They only have four ships?
      
+	Never said you're seeing their entire fleet, you're seeing what they
+	can afford to send out at any given moment on relatively low-priority
+	jobs.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Dave: yup.  Londo's never coughed before, and
+	this was very deliberately placed.  He's on the path, like it or not.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Vorlons lodged an official protest!  Is this the first time
+	they've taken an action like that?
      
+	Yeah, that's pretty much the first time since the pilot where the
+	Vorlons got involved with the Sinclair situation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bingo.  As I mentioned before, the "long twilight struggle" title
+	is a quote; you correctly identified the source in the
+	JFK quote.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Sheridan's closing speech
      
+	Certainly, Sheridan is slowly growing more into a leader who must
+	be able to step to the front in this kind of way, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What does "the balloon is going up" mean?
      
+	There have been many explanations for where this phrase comes
+	from.  Most of them are obviously spook etymology, but the first one I
+	heard -- and who knows if this is right -- comes from WW I, where just
+	before one side would go into battle, they'd send one man up in a hot
+	air balloon to scout the enemy's location.  If you saw the balloon
+	going up, you knew combat wasn't far behind.
+
+	
      
+	Wherever it comes from, though, that's the general meaning of
+	the phrase.
+
+	
      
+	@@@846086891 Editor's note: Apparently the term dates back to
+	the American Civil War, during which balloons were deployed by the
+	Signal Corps before battles.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Candles are, I think, wonderfully emblematic
+	of life, and of being
+	a single ray of light, or hope, in a dark place.  The Grey Council
+	stands between the candle and the star; watch G'Kar's action re: a
+	candle in his quarters...and in that scene (for those who've seen TLTS)
+	note how many candles are in the room in the beginning, and at the end.
+
+	
      
+	We are the candle that burns brightly, stubbornly, effectively...but
+	briefly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The candles in G'Kar's quarters
      
+	Sherry...thank you.  The level of attention to detail is the *only*
+	way that this story will be told properly.  It means you sit down with
+	the director, and others, and you make totally clear -- there, and in
+	the script -- what you saw in your head when you wrote it.  As well as
+	repeatd verbal themes, cues, phraseologies, it's important (since this
+	is a visual medium) to incorporate visual cues that add to the thematic
+	thrust of the piece, that create a mood, or convey an emotion or a
+	thought on an almost cellular level.  The hardest part is being careful
+	not to OVER use them, because then they lose all meaning and impact.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846705275 Re: G'Kar's position on the council...Sheridan could have
+	carried on, but it would've been basically useless.  The Centauri now
+	occupy and run Narn, and thanks to the surrender and agreement to the
+	Centauri terms, call the shots as far as who can legitimately speak for
+	Narn.  Sheridan could've kept G'Kar *in the room*, but he'd still be
+	powerless, without portfolio, and the whole concept of the council would
+	be shot.  He is now simply Citizen G'Kar, same as any other Narn.  No,
+	Londo isn't of higher rank in the council than Sheridan, but he speaks
+	for the Centauri, and the Centauri speak for Narn.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846711459 Re: Earth's attitude toward the Centauri...stick around
+	for 2 more episodes.
+
+	
      
+	Re: not recognizing the Centauri rule...on what basis would or could
+	Earth do this?  If the Narns had not agreed to total and unconditional
+	surrender, sure, there might be a case you could make...otherwise, one
+	doesn't have a leg to stand on.
+
+	
      
+	Vampyr...okay, (poink), I've now made you Babylon 5 Person here.   So
+	how could Sheridan "take Londo down a peg" in any manner consistent with
+	reality? Yell at him?  Sure, but to what effect?  He had nothing to back
+	it up.  Before, in "Shadows," he had a bluff he could run; now that's
+	not relevant because the actions have all been taken, and there is
+	nothing that can be done to stop it.  Sometimes, things happen in the
+	real world, and we'd love to see the person taken down a peg, as you
+	say...but sometimes actually *doing* that in a real world situation, or
+	a fairly rigorous fictional situation, is a different matter.
+
+
    
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+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar tries to rally the Narn on Babylon 5.
+Kosh tests Delenn's allegiance by summoning an ancient
+inquisitor.
+
+
+Wayne
+Alexander as Sebastian.
+Jack Kehler
+as Mr. Chase.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.47
+
+Production number: 221
+Original air date: August 8, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 25, 1995 (US)
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Laurence Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+@@@837715831 Emmy nomination for cinematography
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Vorlons have visited Earth in the past, as recently as the
+	nineteenth century, and have even taken humans to their homeworld.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi maintains friendships with people he knows are dealing in
+	illegal smuggling operations.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How did the Rangers get the message from Narn in 24 hours? (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Exactly how long have the Vorlons been visiting Earth, and for what
+	purpose?
+
+   
    •  How did they discover Sebastian, and what made them choose him as their
+	inquisitor?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+All of the key players on the side of light have now had their commitment and
+loyalty to their cause tested.  Sheridan, Garibaldi, Ivanova,
+and Franklin in their battle against the current Earth Alliance
+administration (cf.
+"Divided Loyalties.")
+And now Delenn and Sheridan as the
+"spirit" and "warrior," respectively, of the Army of Light.
+The pieces seem to be falling into place on the side of light.
+
+
    • 
+G'Kar preaching about what the Centauri will do next is somewhat chilling.
+Most people just don't want to believe it.  Yet in
+"The Long, Twilight Struggle"
+we heard that the Centauri have already annexed several non-Narn
+worlds.  JMS has said that G'Kar is his Cassandra character, gifted with
+the power of prophesy yet heeded by none.  The fact that it was a human
+who argued against G'Kar may be an indication of things to come.
+
+
    • 
+Based on Sebastian's comments, Sheridan determines that he is most likely
+Jack the Ripper.  Sebastian's final comment also appears to confirm this.
+The murderer killed five prostitutes between August 7th and November 10th
+of 1888 in the East End of London (Sheridan stated the West End, but got
+the date correct), and was never caught.  He stalked the streets at night,
+slitting his victims' throats and then mutilating their bodies.  The
+nickname "Jack the Ripper" reportedly came from several letters sent to
+the police, but their authenticity has been questioned.
+
+
    • 
+The Vorlons have been to Earth on many occasions, and all over the galaxy
+in general.  This is quite likely part of the reason why Kosh will be
+recognised by everyone if he(?) steps out of the encounter suit.
+
+
    • 
+This marks the second time a major, secretive power has sent a human
+representative to Babylon 5 to ask a question: the Shadows with Morden and
+"What do you want?" and the Vorlons with Sebastian and "Who are you?"
+Why do the Vorlons, in particular, feel the need to act through a third
+party?  Delenn obviously knows about Kosh already, so why couldn't Kosh
+have conducted the interrogation?  Perhaps he simply chooses to remain
+aloof and let others do his dirty work, or perhaps for some reason he felt
+he wouldn't have been as effective as Sebastian was.
+
+
    • 
+Sheridan and Garibaldi have given the Rangers their first trial in a
+combat zone, on behalf of G'Kar.  They succeeded in the allotted 24 hours
+but we are given no information on how.  Perhaps they are able to penetrate
+the Centauri communications network.  Or perhaps it involved two "hit
+and run" jumps into the Narn homeworld system.  The first to deliver the
+message to search for this family (there must already be Rangers on Narn,)
+and the second to pick up the required transmission.  This runs the risk
+of being detected and caught by Centauri forces patrolling the system (a
+jump point presumably has a very bright characteristic energy signature on
+scanners).  While the search might have been initiated via telepathic
+contact (cf.
+"The Coming of Shadows,"
+specifically the Centuari Emperor's
+telepaths, who can communicate over interstellar distances)
+this is unlikely, and telepathy almost certainly cannot transmit
+the contents of a data crystal.  Another possible explanation is that there
+are Centauri Rangers.
+
+
    • 
+Vir's encounter with G'Kar indicates the depth of the hatred that the Narn
+feel for their oppressors.  An apology is no longer possible in G'Kar's
+eyes, only the release of his people from their occupation and the
+destruction of the Centauri along the way.  Something inside Vir might
+well give soon; he has already stood up to Morden
+("In The Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+and tried to tell Londo of the consequences of his actions - what next?
+
+
    • 
+Vir's dismissal of the Centuari businessman, "I have already told you the
+Ambassador can do nothing for you."  Is that a polite way of telling the
+businessman to go away, or has Londo's sphere of influence been reduced by
+his refusal to involve the Shadows again?
+
+
    • 
+There's an interesting parallel between the main storyline and Garibaldi's
+talk with G'Kar.  Both Garibaldi and Sebastian go into their respective
+conversations expecting a certain outcome, but allowing room for the other
+person to act otherwise.  The difference is that Garibaldi is an optimist --
+he expected G'Kar to do the right thing -- while Sebastian expected to be
+disappointed as he so often had been in the past.
+
+
    • 
+This isn't the first reference to Jack the Ripper on the show.  In
+"Mind War,"
+Ivanova accuses Psi Corps of having "all the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper."
+Whether that's just a coincidence remains to be seen.
+
+
    • 
+Given the fact that Delenn was a member of the Grey Council, the
+choice of Grey section (by Sheridan) as the place for the inquisition
+was rather interesting.  In addition, some elements of the lighting inside
+Grey 19 (the circles of light on the floor, arranged in a circular
+pattern, with Delenn in a center circle) were reminiscent of the Grey Council,
+especially the last time she was in their presence.
+
+
    • 
+On a more speculative numerological note, the number nineteen (the inquisition
+occurred in Grey 19) is composed of the digits "1" and "9."  Taking the
+analysis to an extreme, perhaps the "9" represents the Grey Council and the
+"1" represents the chosen one.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  One of the Narn in the meeting with G'Kar is played by Dennis
+	Michael, a CNN reporter who was doing a story on B5's makeup group,
+	Optic Nerve, and was made up as a Narn as part of his news story.
+
+   
    •  Was someone named Sebastian an actual suspect in the murders?
+
+   
    •  In the original UK broadcast, the scene between G'Kar and Vir was
+	edited to not show G'Kar cutting his hand.  The edit is obvious once
+	you know it's there.
+
+   
    •  One of Sebastian's closing remarks resembled a Biblical quote, John
+	15:13: "There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's life for
+	one's friends."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  "CtI is the only episode in the last four that we know nothing about."
+
+        
      
+        And if I figure out how I happened to achieve that (short of just
+        keeping my big yap shut), I'll do it some more.  There should be some
+        surprises, yes?
+
+        
      
+        And it's an arc story, yes, but in a very odd way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (Referring to Delenn's actions in
+	"Confessions and Lamentations")
      
+	Re:  why Delenn would do such a thing . . . hold out for "Comes
+	the Inquisitor" . . . it gets into her rationales on such things.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "I can't wait to see how you torture us next week!"
+
+	
      
+	Funny line, that, which you'll understand in a few days.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Inquisitor was a great episode to write, and Wayne did a killer
+	job with it (so to speak).  That one episode has received more mail than
+	most others, particularly from those in the religious community, as well
+	as at universities, crisis centers, you name it.  Something there seemed
+	to strike a chord.
+
+	
      
+	It's easy in an SF show to cut to the EFX and let it rock; to me, the
+	challenge is what's shown in those scenes: two people, locked in a room,
+	no (or few) EFX, no car chases, not even much of a set...with explosions
+	of dialogue and character.  Ah loves it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@837966102 Emmy nominations
      
+	John Flinn got a nomination for cinematograhy for "Inquisitor."
+	Last year we sent videotapes of our up-for-nomination episodes, and got
+	three nominations for it.  But WB got upset by this -- they don't do
+	this for their other shows, we did it on our own -- and ordered us not
+	to do it again.  The other shows don't need it because they're network
+	shows and get good exposure; most syndicated shows (non-Trek) tend not
+	to be Emmy aspirees, so it's not a problem there.  We're in between,
+	and we were, in effect, producing videotapes, and they didn't want
+	that.  So we had to sit on our hands and not do what we knew would
+	result in getting more noms. It's very frustrating.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832092680 "With Comes The Inquisitor...how obvious was it to you that
+	G'Kar  was
+	going to be the counterpoint to Delenn and Sebastian.  was it an
+	immediate connection, or did you have to sit and look, and then
+	think "Ah...that's the one?"
+
+	
      
+	That one was a pretty easy one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As for locale, it was similar to, but not exactly the same as the one
+	in which the Marcabs died [in "Confessions and Lamentations"], though
+	I did want to somewhat evoke the memory of that when I indicated the 
+	set I had in mind.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sebastian was played by Wayne Alexander, a British actor of great 
+	skill who hasn't been seen much on TV before this, but should now, 
+	with this performance as a calling card.  It was a stunning 
+	performance.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't think Wayne has done that much TV work before, he's primarily
+	a stage actor, but in any event, he's certainly brilliant as Sebastian.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why bring up Sebastian's past?  Because it's integral to who he is
+	now, and what he's doing, and why he's doing it.  Also, there's 
+	something very important here about greying up the Vorlons a little;
+	of all the people they could've chosen for this job, why THIS kind 
+	of person?  It makes them a trifle more morally ambiguous, which is
+	necessary.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "It doesn't fit in with the way the Vorlons have been portrayed.  It 
+	bothered me."
+
+	
      
+	Good.  That was the intended result.
+
+	
      
+	Part of the reason for the story was to grey up the Vorlons a little; 
+	one shouldn't fall too easily for what other people *say* they are.
+
+	
      
+	(One might also say much the same of the old testament god who would 
+	have Job so severely tested, btw.)
+
+	
      
+	One should always be cautious of taking *anyone* at face value on B5.
+
+	
      
+	"...you could consider them a force for good."
+
+	
      
+	Ah, but what *is* good?  And whose *version* of good are we 
+	discussing?
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'd say there's a very good chance that the Vorlons have more than
+	one Inquisitor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Sebastian based on Star Trek's "Q"?
      
+	No, had nothing to do with Q, it's deciding what kind of person our 
+	Mr. Sebastian might've been, and working from  there.  When you have 
+	a character with as vivid and powerful as his, you don't need 
+	to look to ST for any ideas on character.  
+	And unlike Q, Sebastian has no powers of his own, just the force of his 
+	personality.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the last word in Sebastian's "What about" litany?
      
+	Actually, the last one, since it was going to be drowned out, was an
+	adlib, "eternity."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 "What about eternity?"  It was an adlib from the actor
+	just to cover the moment when Delenn rises, knowing it would likely
+	never get heard over the rest of it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Also, check Sebastian's reaction when he asks Delenn what if she's 
+	wrong, "have you ever considered that?  HAVE YOU?"
+
+	
      
+	She responds, softly, "....yes."
+
+	
      
+	Look at his face when she says this.  It rattles him.  It's not the
+	answer he expected, but more important, it's not the answer he wanted,
+	needed to hear.
+
+	
      
+	He needed to hear her say that she had never had the slightest 
+	*scintilla* of doubt, that as he had been, she was a True Believer, a 
+	fanatic, incapable of doubt of mistake...and thus doomed to failure.
+	He can't even meet her gaze; he turns, looks away, and suggests an 
+	"intermission" that is more for his benefit than hers.
+
+	
      
+	There's an awful lot going on in this show, a great deal of it sub 
+	rosa, under the surface, implied in gestures or hesitations or looks, 
+	some implied, some stated outright.  He *hates* the memory of Jack; 
+	it's not his name, the one thing that is his...remember, he is caught 
+	up with "who ARE you?" and his answer to that is lost in the persona 
+	created by history...his true name, is what's totally forgotten to
+	history.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sebastian learns quite a bit in the 
+	course of that encounter about himself...especially when she rubs it
+	in his face as she does.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of course, bear in mind that there *is* no correct answer to
+	Sebastian's question...because no matter what answer you give, the
+	question will be repeated.  It's a process, not a goal, designed to
+	tear down the artifices we construct around ourselves until we're left
+	facing ourselves, not our roles.  At some point the "answer," such as it
+	is, must transcend language.
+
+	
      
+	Since the episode aired, I've received many notes from philosophy
+	teachers and religious instructors and those who ran the Synanon game
+	noting that they've used that technique as well, or intend to do so from
+	now on.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The episode underlines that there are two fundamental questions in 
+	B5: who are you, and what do you want?  
+	The order in which you answer those two questions can either make you 
+	great...or destroy you.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 About "Who are you?"
      
+	Yeah, that's one of the primal questions, isn't it?  And
+	one that we are too often  distracted from considering.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 The key to the questions is that you generally have to
+	first be able to answer "who are you?" before you can intelligently
+	determine "what do you want?"  To deal right with "what do you want"
+	before you know who you are is destructive in almost any situation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think that, in the long run, the vorlons and the shadows will answer 
+	the questions Who are you and What do you want...in that that's kind of 
+	what they *are*, if that makes any sense.
+
+	
      
+	Well, it will.  Eventually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's not that there's a *correct* answer, but that there's an
+	*informed* answer.  If you decide what you want, before you know
+	who you are, you're likely to get something that will destroy you;
+	if you know who you are, you can then ask for something that will be
+	of greater use to you.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The pain is necessary because it's easy to consider laying down one's 
+	life intellectually; when the pain and the 
+	agony bring it home, it's no longer as easy.
+
+	
      
+	And there *is* no correct answer to "Who are you?"  The only real 
+	answer is no answer, because as soon as you apply someone's term for it,
+	you have limited yourself, defined yourself in someone else's terms.
+
+	
      
+	Doing things in a refined, gentle, intellectual manner is the sort of 
+	thing Delenn's used to, she can handle that easily...the goal of
+	Sebastian was to try and *break* her.  
+	That's not intended to be done gently.  You don't break someone over a
+	cup of tea discussing philosophical concepts and the nature of personal 
+	identity.  
+	It's also not terribly dramatic to watch.
+
+	
      
+	Because of her position, rank and authority, she expected to be 
+	treated a certain way...which was why it was important to treat her just
+	the opposite.  
+	It's easy to put oneself into a grand prophecy, to assume one has a 
+	destiny...to pay the price for that is something else again.  
+	Anyone can do the former; very few can ever do the latter.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sacrificing oneself happens frequently...but for just one other 
+	person, AND in a situation where no one else would ever know about it.  
+	Bear in mind that he wasn't testing people randomly; only those who felt
+	that they were chosen of god, fulfillers of prophecy...people who
+	assumed that they were part of some grand scheme, and thus to whom an
+	anonymous death is an intolerable thought.
+
+	
      
+	Also, most probably never *got* that far, unable to stand the real 
+	pain of being placed in this position.  Everybody can talk the talk;
+	very few can walk the walk.  Most probably just yanked off the bracelets
+	and split, on the theory that they weren't being sufficiently coddled or
+	glorified...or because being a potential prophet isn't as much fun as
+	they'd thought.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There have been a great number of films and TV programs with one sort
+	of interrogation scene or other; I'd commend "Closetland" for something
+	else on this order.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Mentioning just the first name may not have been necessary for
+	UK viewers, but it was necessary for the rest of the planet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of course, his real name was never Jack Sebastian; "Jack" is his 
+	working name, Sebastian could be a first or last name.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I tied him [Sebastian] to a specific person because
+	in writing, you *always* try to go for specifics, because generalities
+	don't really work.  It's the difference, in prose, between, "The room
+	smelled good," and "The room smelled of cinnamon and fresh coffee."  
+	Also, the specific connotations to who and what Jack was were essential
+	and integral to the storyline.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Jack" was the media appellation; whether Sebastian is a first or
+	last name is left open.
+
+	
      
+	I looked at who this historical figure could be, but no one else fit
+	into the area I wanted.  It was a decision born of necessity, not 
+	whim.  I needed someone far enough removed not to have any current 
+	victims' families still alive; someone known to a worldwide population
+	(anonymous wouldn't have worked because why would Sheridan have known 
+	about him, why should we care, why should it resonate, and we'd spend 
+	time explaining what he did that would have meant cutting out other 
+	material in the episode); the other serial killers tend to have clear
+	fates, whereas Jack vanished and is thus "available" to us; visually 
+	that period makes for a striking contrast to 2259.
+
+	
      
+	And, again, you have to look at who he *was*...a fanatic, trying to
+	clean up Spittlefields (good cause) by hatred (wrong reason) and 
+	murder (wrong means), the EXACT thing Delenn warns against at the 
+	very start of the show.  (Did you know there's a letter in the London
+	Times for that period that tries to explain the Ripper's motives as a
+	cry ofr (for) understanding about conditions in that part of London?)
+	He felt he was a divine messenger, learned he was not, and in 
+	bitterness has become the single best inquisitor you could've had in 
+	that job.
+
+	
      
+	Every single thing about Jack made him *perfect* for that role, as
+	mirror, menace and warning sign.  So I used him.  And I'd do it again.
+	You have to find what works best for the story, and do it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865282699 I used Jack because he was perfect for that particular job,
+	which was what the Vorlons had decided as well.  Simple as that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jack the Ripper has been used too much in SF.
      
+	So, in other words, if a historical, real character has been used in 
+	some other venue, if the use of that same character in another, 
+	wholly different world/series/show/universe is absolutely, totally and 
+	completely the right thing for that story, 
+	one should instead do what's *wrong* for the story and leave it out?
+
+	
      
+	Sorry.  Don't buy it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 You can't exclude or include anything in your story
+	just because a character or concept has been used by others.  If we
+	were to do that, then we might as well never make the show, because
+	others have shown starships and hyperspace and aliens.  Okay, yes,
+	others have used Jack.  But not in the same way.  It was *right* for
+	this show...should it not be used because oths have also used this
+	character?  I think that the moment you begin constantly
+	course-correcting your show in reaction to other shows, you're dead in
+	the water.  You have to do what's right for *this* story, in *this*
+	episode.  And I think we showed a very different aspect of the
+	character and the situation than has been shown before.  If we just
+	did the same old gag -- Jack comes to B5 and begin murdring people
+	again -- then I'd agree.  But we didn't.  I think you have to judge a
+	show by what's IN the show, and how well it's done, not against what
+	has been done in other places.
+
+	
      
+	Otherwise we might as well throw out starships and beam weapons and
+	aliens and all the rest, since those have ALL been done a lot more
+	than Jack.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 The original Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold"
+	also centered around Jack the Ripper.
      
+	In the TOS show, that revelation was the whole *point* of the episode,
+	where here it's a filligree, dropped in at the last.  It also *has* to
+	be that character, as the flip side of the story, to contrast with
+	Sheridan's "holy cause" as warning, and because of his own reflection
+	of what Delenn might have been if she went the wrong way for the right
+	reasons.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the "Jack sucks" threads, phrased various ways...doesn't really 
+	bother me. I knew going in that some folks would react well to that, and
+	some wouldn't, for an assortment of reasons, some valid, some less so.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I guess also that the key to avoid something becoming cliche is to
+	turn it on its head.  Which was the case with Sebastian.  One thing
+	I neglected to mention was the need to have an absolute
+	mirror-counterpoint to Morden.  Here you've got the smiling,
+	pleasant, utterly charming and good looking fellow who is our
+	"mirror" if you will in which we see the Shadows reflected.  So now
+	you need something dark and ominous and terrible as the mirror
+	through which we briefly glimpse the Vorlons, which has to be done
+	all in one episode, you can't develop it gradually as with Morden.
+	So everything about Sebastian was the opposite of Morden...and each
+	is the opposite of what they represent.  As it appears to us now,
+	anyway.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "it just didn't pay off in the long run."  For you.  For others it 
+	did. Let's not start getting grandiose.  You feel this way, that's fine,
+	but it's not the ultimate truth.  Otherwise you're totally dismissing
+	the opinions of others who liked it a lot.
+
+	
      
+	"Jack...has become a real cliche."  So because others have used that 
+	figure in their work, well or poorly, no one should ever use this 
+	historical figure ever again in the next thousand years of human
+	history.  One should not do what one thinks is right for a story because
+	of what someone else did in a different story.
+
+	
      
+	Sorry.  I don't work that way.  By your logic, I should not be using 
+	starships or hyperspace or aliens, either, because they've been used a
+	LOT more than Jack.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, I think I saw more *annoyance* at Jack being used from the 
+	UK folks than the US folks, that's the main difference, I think.  
+	Probably because it's a peaceful, wonderful country which is *still*
+	paying off, in the public eye, one particularly nasty creature in their
+	recent history. They're probably tired of hearing about him, and to
+	some extent, correctly so.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will: thanks, and you're quite right; it does say something about the
+	Vorlons that they'd use Jack for this purpose.  Now we just have to
+	further define what that is.
+
+	
      
+	BTW, just to append it here, not strictly appropos of your message...
+	I've noted a number of people say, in essence, "Boy, was I disappointed
+	that he said Jack at the end, what does he think we are, morons?"  And
+	I've seen plenty of comments from people who didn't know it was Jack
+	until that very last moment, for whom it was a revelation.
+
+	
      
+	It's pretty clear, to lots of folks, that the test was in some ways
+	(most, actually) more for Delenn's benefit than Kosh's...lots of folks
+	got this...and then others have said, "Well, if that's what he meant,
+	why didn't he just have one of them come out and SAY this, say what
+	was learned or that this was for THEIR benefit?"
+
+	
      
+	So frankly, whether one comes out and says something, or does not come
+	out and say something, someone on one side or the other is going to give
+	you a hard time about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jack's murders took place in the East End of London, not the
+	West End
+
+	
      
+	What happened is...basically...Joe is a moron.
+
+	
      
+	I did my research. I called up the info on the encyclopedia, got 
+	all the dates right, and my eyes saw East End and for whatever 
+	stupid, idiotic reason, my fingers typed West instead of East, and
+	nobody, NObody, caught it until now.  I'd loop it, but alas the line
+	is on his face, and it'd look real stupid, and the delivery is *so* 
+	perfect as it is; if we looped it, we'd destroy it.
+
+	
      
+	So I content myself with the notion that it's west...of B5.
+
+	
      
+	Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go shoot myself.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Maybe the West End fell into the ocean and the East End is now
+	West.
+
+	
      
+	No, no, it's hopeless...I'll have to turn in my writer's card.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Unfortunately (yes, we discussed this), he says the line *on camera*,
+	and the shape of the mouth for West is very different than for East;
+	also the performance wouldn't be nearly as good.  So there it is....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Though I knew about the gaff a LONG time before it was to
+	air here in the US, I let the east/west thing go through as shot for
+	the very first broadcast because I was afraid that the loop might
+	hurt the scene, and it was *so* perfectly done.  That over, I decided
+	it was worth taking a shot at it.  If your friend didn't notice, then
+	we did it right.   So now those who taped the first broadcast have
+	something that'll never be seen again (if I have anything to say
+	about it).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 Yes, I *know* it's the East End not the West End; I
+	looked right at my notes when I was writing the script, and they said
+	East and I typed West and nobody noticed it until it went out.  I
+	could've replaced it with a looped line prior to first airing here, as
+	this was found during the UK airings, but looping never improves only
+	diminishes the performance, and he's on-camera and the words wouldn't
+	match his mouth.  So I decided to let it go out this way once for
+	performance, and we'll correct this aspect with a loop in later
+	airings, even though that will somewhat lessen the performance aspect.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 What I'd said, and maybe I wasn't sufficiently clear, but
+	my sense was that I wasn't going to change it *prior to the first US
+	airing.*  I found out about the mistake -- it was a typo, I knew the
+	difference, I just became momentarily stupid and wrote west when I meant
+	to type east -- after the show aired in the UK, and had a couple of
+	months in which I could've chosen to make the change.  But I was
+	concerned that the dub wouldn't have the same power as the original
+	performance, so I was willing to let it go until after it aired, so
+	it would've had that impact, then make the change later.  Happily, the
+	loop came out *very* well, so it worked out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 Even in the fixed version, the closed captions still
+	say West.
      
+	Y'know, I'd totally forgotten about the captions.
+
+	
      
+	Nuts.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, it's always the dopey, small stuff that slips past, and nobody
+	notices until it jumps out at you when it's too late.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sebastian's final words were part of the same sentence he began
+	while speaking directly to Sheridan's face...insofar as I have ever
+	considered the scene, he IS talking to Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, yes, I do have a pet theory about who the Ripper was, but
+	I'm so embarrassed over the west end/east end typo in one of our
+	episodes that I don't know if I'll ever have enough courage to broach it
+	to anyone.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Okay, here's one clue for any would-be Ripperologists out there.
+	
+	
      
+	In all the long story of Jack, when he was out doing his nightly work, 
+	only one person, a woman, wrote an actual letter, published in the
+	London Times, offering an *explanation* for the Ripper's work, 
+	arguing that he was trying to send a message, that maybe people should 
+	listen to that message. It was as close as anyone's ever come to an 
+	actual *defense* of what he was doing.
+
+	
      
+	Note the woman's name, and who her husband was...a man who was twice 
+	interviewed by Scotland Yard, and interviewed by many Church officials,
+	the transcripts of which have been *sealed* by the Church ever since, 
+	at the request of the family...a person who was the last man to see at 
+	least one of the victims alive...and who was a direct blood relative of
+	the man who was living with the final victim (who was killed indoors, 
+	leading to the speculation that she knew her assailant)...who suffered a
+	breakdown just before the murders began, was obsessed with cleaning up 
+	the Whitechapel area, and after whose sudden, hasty transfer, the
+	murders stopped...and whose profession is tied *directly* to the only
+	thing the Ripper was overheard to say to one of his victims.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 The mistake everyone makes is in going for somebody
+	famous, a celebrity.  I've done a lot of looking into this, and have
+	spoken with a number of other Ripperologists, and the single most likely
+	person is one who's name you've never heard mentioned as a suspect, but
+	if you read the record, his name keeps coming up again and again and
+	again.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713304 Nope, Sebastian wasn't the name of the one I'm thinking of.
+
+	
      
+	And from what I've read, a lot of folks *did* need to hear the name to
+	get it....
+
+
      
+   
    •  How did Lennier know where Delenn was?
      
+	Well, given Delenn's position, I think she'd have let Lennier know 
+	where she was, or that he'd heard Sheridan tell Delenn in the scene we 
+	played the voice-over.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, there *was* a scene where Lennier, concerned, tracks down Kosh
+	to inquire after Delenn's situation, which report alarms him and sends
+	him after Sheridan.  It was filmed...but cut for time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Censorship by C4 in Great Britain
+
+	
      
+	They SNIPPED the shot of G'Kar slicing his hand?  You're kidding!  I
+	find that quite astonishing; it was done discreetly.  I'm dumbfounded.
+	No wonder there was confusion about that scene.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You're right, btw; I was informed in another message here that they 
+	did snip that piece of G'Kar's action.  Suffice to say I had *no* 
+	idea, and now that I *do* have an idea...I'm simply wog-boggled.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Can G'Kar grow to forgive?  I don't think so...and yet in a way he must
+	come to something more than rage, and other than forgiveness.  There is
+	an important step in his development yet to come.  And he will have to
+	go there by a very hard road.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the Centauri war escalates, a Narn warcruiser seeks help from Babylon 5.
+Earth takes a position in the war.  Keffer makes a terrifying discovery.
+Kosh takes a drastic step to save a life.
+
+
+Roy Dotrice as Frederick Lantze.
+John Vickery as Mr. Welles.
+Rick Hamilton as Mitch.
+Robin Sachs as Na'Kal.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.40
+
+Production number: 222
+Original air date: August 15, 1995 (UK)
+                   November 1, 1995 (US)
+DVD release date: April 29, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Think twice before reading what's below if you haven't seen the
+episode -- major spoilers follow!
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The Ministry of Peace has been recruiting other high-level B5 staff members
+for its Nightwatch program.
+
+
    • 
+Vorlons appear as angelic, winged beings of light, whose appearance is
+different to each observer.  They can fly.  (But see
+jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Is Keffer mercifully dead, or might he reappear as "worse than dead" -- a
+tool of the Shadows a la Morden?
+
+
    • 
+What will be the ramifications of Zack's turning the shopkeeper in to the
+Nightwatch?
+
+
    • 
+How far will the Centauri expansion push?
+
+
    • 
+Why did Londo see nothing when he looked at Kosh? (see
+Analysis)
+
+
    • 
+Who was behind the bombing of Sheridan's tram? Who were the young Centauri
+taking orders from, if anyone?
+
+
    • 
+What ramifications will there be to Kosh's appearance, since it was such a
+closely kept secret before?
+
+
    • 
+What will happen to the Narn cruiser?
+
+
    • 
+What other forces do the Narn have that were not caught by the Centauri?
+
+
    • 
+Where did the cruiser go?
+
+
    • 
+Have the Centauri made any arrangements with the Minbari, or are they
+relying on their non-interference in the affairs of other races?
+
+
    • 
+Will Sheridan's planned apology be enough to satisfy his superiors at
+Earthdome, or is he in danger of losing his position?
+
+
    • 
+What effect will the open transmission by ISN of Keffer's recorder log have
+on the Shadows' plans?  Will it force them to show their hand?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Night has indeed fallen. As the Centauri government
+continues to expand by attacking other races like the Drazi and the
+Pak'ma'ra, the Earth government has entered into an appeasement pact with
+them. Meanwhile, the inward-turning Earth government is using their
+"Nightwatch" as a means to silence dissent. However, Keffer's last flight
+has made the presence of the Shadows in hyperspace known to all of Earth,
+relayed to them via ISN.
+
+
      
+
    • It's interesting that Kosh risks revealing himself to save one life - the
+same criterion for saintliness/being the Chosen that the Inquisitor established
+(cf. "Comes the Inquisitor.")
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Vir and Lennier are both feeling the pressures of knowing a great deal
+about what is going on but not being involved in the planning and
+decision making stages.  That they have found each other to talk to is
+somewhat ironic, since each is working for masters who have taken
+opposing sides - Light and Dark - in the coming battle.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"We will, at last, know peace in our time."  This phrase, given by Lantze
+when he announces the Earth-Centauri non-aggression pact, is very similar
+to a phrase used by Neville Chamberlain after signing an appeasement
+agreement with Hitler in 1938 just prior to the invasion of Czechoslovakia, an
+agreement that failed to stop Hitler's expansionist policy.  The choice of
+words is probably intended to highlight the futility of such a pact with
+an aggressive party and a foreshadow of future events.  There are other
+parallels with Nazi actions (divided between the actions of both
+signatories,)  but the motivations of the Earth government are not race
+related nor moving towards the domination/submission of other groups.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+NightWatch openly tries to recruit highly placed individuals, not
+appearing too concerned if they refuse.  This suggests that they feel
+confident about circumnavigating these people with a strong sense of
+loyalty at a later date, replacing them with a more easily manipulated
+individual.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Had Sheridan refused to apologize publicly and been replaced, it would
+have been with Ivanova had she accepted Welles offer to work with the
+NightWatch.  Otherwise they would have brought in an easily manipulated
+person to command Babylon 5, as Welles indicated.
      
+
+
    • 
+This episode shows the new defense grid (cf.
+"GROPOS")
+in action for the
+first time.  As promised it is an even match for a heavy battle
+cruiser.  The battle doctrine for the B5 universe is one of fighters
+engage fighters, heavy ships engage heavy ships.  During this combat
+sequence we see what happens when a heavy ship ignores the fighters and
+fails (for whatever reason) to deploy its own fighters.  While not capable
+of inducing complete destruction of a heavy vessel in the short term, the
+fighters can strip a heavy vessel of its offensive/defensive armament
+since such weaponry is small compared to the ship and necessarily exposed
+in order to be effective.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Lantze is a dreamer and idealist, taking any steps to ensure peace for
+Earth.  He is someone who feels that the ends justify the means so long as
+it does not involve Earth.  This is a direct expression of the anti-alien
+feelings present at the moment on Earth.  That Lantze is not directly
+involved in the NightWatch suggests that, while he understands the aims of
+the NightWatch, his concience is not capable of handling the individual
+betrayals involved.  Perhaps the ideal politician.
+
+
      
+Welles, on the other hand, is very much caught up in the management of the
+NightWatch.  He has no conscience pangs about the betrayal of individals.
+While he is a co-director of The Ministry of Peace, he probably has more
+real power than Lantze because of what he is managing.  He is also gifted
+with the art of manipulating people as shown with both Zack and Sheridan
+(although the latter is more aware of the manipulation and capable of
+defending against it.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Narn cruiser will probably use other races threatened by the Centauri
+for assistance, perhaps acting as a mercenary.  Or it may find
+somewhere quiet to lie low until it can be called into the service of
+homeworld.  The Minbari cruiser Trigati managed to avoid capture for over
+ten years (cf.
+"Points of Departure.")
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Shadows did not destroy the recorder marker dropped by Keffer.  Either
+they failed to detect it (they aren't omnipotent,) or they chose to ignore
+it (they are confident it would make no difference, or were unaware of the
+contents.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Keffer's recording log has been transmitted by ISN.  This is exactly what
+Delenn and Sheridan wanted to avoid.  Will it force the Shadows' hand now
+that they have been seen?  Or will it push the forces of Light into even
+greater efforts?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The commentary by ISN at the end of the episode suggests that the events
+on Earth are not being manipulated by the Shadows.  Of course this could
+just be a politically expedient newscast.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Kosh's rescue of Sheridan is like a blessing from the heavens.  This will
+no doubt be taken as a sign of Sheridan's worthiness to lead the forces of
+Light, as it has already been taken to indicate that Babylon 5 is blessed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+When Kosh left his encounter suit only Delenn was present.  She has
+already seen Kosh.  The other ambassadors only saw a being of light
+rise up and rescue
+Sheridan.  Kosh also landed in an empty part of the Zen garden before
+returning to his encounter suit.  The conversation in the Zocalo between
+the Narn and the Drazi suggests they are not aware it is Kosh.  What would
+the reaction be if these races were to find out that the Vorlons had been
+interfering (apparently benevolently) in the development of their race?
+Would religions collapse under the revelation that their supernatural
+beings were simply ancient aliens?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Does each Vorlon appear as a particular entity to each type of observer,
+an entity that remains the same over time?  If so, could Kosh be the original
+G'Lan, and thus be at least a thousand years old?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Londo failed to see Kosh when he revealed himself.  Does this extend to
+all Centauri, or is it peculiar to Londo?  If it is the former then it
+suggests that either the Vorlons have not openly visited the Centauri
+(why?) or that their worship of their deceased Emperors as gods has
+diminished the effect of exposure to Vorlons.  If it is the latter then it
+must be because of Londo's association with the Shadows.  If this is the
+case then what would be the response of other Centauri on seeing a Vorlon? (see
+jms speaks)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Carrying the above a step further, are Vorlons invisible to Centauri and/or
+to anyone of a race they haven't dealt with before?  That suggests the
+possibility that the Shadows might be the same way, visible to some people
+and not to others.
+
+
      
+
    • @@@884249864 
+Perhaps the Vorlons did visit the Centauri homeworld in the past, but
+manipulated the Xon
+("The Parliament of Dreams")
+instead of the Centauri.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Delenn seemed somewhat taken aback by Sheridan's unflattering appraisal of
+the Vorlons' motives; she seems willing to regard them as, if not completely
+good, at least altruistic, and is clearly awed by them.  It's plausible she
+has perceived Kosh as a Minbari religious figure from the start, which has
+colored her perceptions of him in exactly the way Sheridan describes.
+
+
      
+Might Sheridan's less starry-eyed view of the Vorlons be due in part to the
+training he's been getting from Kosh, the point of which (for a while,
+anyway) was to help Sheridan and Kosh understand each other?  Put another
+way, has Sheridan learned to fight the legends he believes Kosh's appearance
+is intended to evoke?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why do the Vorlons appear as the particular religious figures they do?  Each
+of the figures we saw was an idealized version of the race in question.
+Perhaps this is to make themselves seem less alien, more familiar and therefore
+less threatening.  The fact that they feel the need to do this suggests that
+their true appearance may be very alien indeed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+When Sheridan mentioned to Delenn that everyone saw something different in
+Kosh, Delenn replied that each person saw something "according to his or
+her type."  That choice of words can be interpreted in a disturbing way, to
+suggest that the Vorlons have organized other sentients into categories.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Might the Shadows' appearance also be subjective?  What do they look like
+to Morden, for instance?  It may be that the Shadows feel no need to deceive
+others about their appearance, as it might not advance their goals (whatever
+those goals might be.)  Clearly the Shadows prefer not to be seen, to work
+through others, but that might be the result of small numbers or caution as
+much as anything else.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Kosh's true form is probably smaller than what everyone saw; for one thing,
+his encounter suit is shorter than he appeared to be.  When he was behind
+the screen in
+"Midnight on the Firing Line"
+he appeared to be much smaller as well.  But he probably does have a physical
+form of some kind, since he was able to touch Sheridan (if it were just
+telekinesis, presumably he wouldn't have needed to leave his suit.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Zack is having second thoughts about the NightWatch.  Up until now he has
+been happily accepting their money in return for just wearing the armband
+and giving in few reports.  He misunderstood their intentions and now
+realizes that should he try to leave he will be branded in the same way as
+the shopkeeper in the Zocalo.  The fear of being taken out of society
+and branded as a traitor is greater than the urge to stand up for what he
+believes to be right.  Zack's dissatisfaction with the
+NightWatch might be useful at a later date.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The signal for the Centauri weapons lock on to Babylon 5 sounded like that
+of a submarine sonar.  It represents an active weapons lock (ship sending
+out signals to locate its target) rather than a passive lock (ship
+detecting emmissions from its target.)  It brings a tension to the
+situation inherited from the submarine warfare genre of films.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+How compatible is an Earth Alliance career and raising children?
+Ivanova's conversation with Lantze suggests that women do bear children
+while actively continuing with their careers.  Another hint from JMS that
+the military at least are an equal oppourtunities employer.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The celebration of Winter Solstice described by Lantze is a pagan
+festival.  The celebration of Christ's birth, though important in
+Christian teaching, was not begun until the 4th century.  The time of year
+was chosen to counter the celebration of the Winter Solstice.  Presumably
+the reference to the public celebration of the solstice indicate a more
+open tolerance of religion on Earth in the 22nd century, and that there
+are other religious groups that celebrate the same period for different
+reasons.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It's Keffer's obsession with the shadow ship he saw in hyperspace in
+"A Distant Star"
+that leads to his demise.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Kosh has now offered his hand to Babylon 5's commander twice, both times
+with potentially disastrous results.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The exchange between Lennier and Vir might have been more than mere comic
+relief.  Perhaps they were actually passing information back and forth
+using a code of some kind -- Vir now appears strongly motivated to do
+something like that.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+
+Ivanova's lighting of candles at the end of the episode had a deeper meaning
+
+than may initially be obvious.  In Orthodox Jewish tradition, Chanukah
+(the Festival of Lights)
+celebrates both the victory over the conquerors of Jerusalem and the victory
+of those who wanted to uphold traditional values over those who wanted to
+assimilate with the enemy, an internal struggle which is also arguably the
+main theme of the episode.  (See jms speaks,
+here and in "The Long, Twilight Struggle")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The character "Corwin" is no doubt named after Norman Corwin,
+JMS' friend and mentor.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ivanova's comment about Sheridan being weightless depends on one's point
+of view.  In a strict, pedantic sense, everyone on Babylon 5 is close to
+weightless, since weight is defined as the force with which a mass is
+gravitationally attracted to another mass, and B5 achieves the illusion
+of weight by rotation, not by gravity.  (Leaving aside, of course, the
+gravity of the planet below the station.)
+
+
      
+Sheridan's movement away from the station's axis is due to three factors.
+First, the tram wasn't exactly at the axis, so it was revolving
+at some speed.  Just as a rock flies in a straight line if you swing it
+on a piece of string then let go, Sheridan would have moved toward the ground
+even if he'd just stepped gingerly out the door.
+
+
      
+Of course, he didn't; he leapt.  Depending on whether the door was facing
+into or against the station's spin, this might have either
+accelerated his descent or slowed it.  The fact that he appeared to not
+leap very hard suggests that the door was facing spinward and he wanted to
+stay in the air as long as possible.
+
+
      
+The final factor is the atmosphere, which rotates in the Garden along with
+the ground and everything else.  As Sheridan fell, he would be pushed along
+by air revolving at speeds closer and closer to the speed of the ground; this
+would tend to accelerate his fall, since it would cause him to revolve more
+quickly.  So the longer he fell, the faster he would be going.  That effect
+would probably be fairly weak for most of the fall, so it might
+not have accelerated him to high enough speed to cause serious harm when he
+hit the ground.
+
+
      
+Unfortunately, his inertia would keep him from achieving ground speed even
+with the push of the wind, so as Ivanova said, he would have hit the ground
+as if he'd fallen out of a car on the freeway, even if his rate of descent
+alone wouldn't have been enough to hurt him seriously.
+
+
      
+In any case, Sheridan is probably quite glad Kosh chose that moment to make an
+appearance.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Janet [Greek] was not available to us for most of this season due to
+	illness (flu turning into pneumonia), but she's better now, and will be
+	directing our season-ender, "[The Fall of Night]."  We hope to have her
+	do five or six next year, and will of course try to get her for our
+	first and last as with this year and the last of year one; she's kind
+	of our good luck charm.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On Monday we begin our last week of filming.  We're going for an
+	eight-day shoot this one time, rather than our usual seven-day shoot,
+	because of the extraordinary EFX requirements to pull off the finale.
+	It should be a doozy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How does the finale compare?  Hmmm...depends on what you're looking
+	for.  "Inquisitor" is primarily a character piece, virtually no EFX,
+	but very intense.  The story is kind of straightforward, with a few 
+	kickers along the way.  "Twilight" is a heavy story episode, that 
+	zips all over the B5 landscape, between the Narns, the Centauri, and 
+	elsewhere (he said vaguely).  The finale, "The Fall of Night," is 
+	actually kind of deceptive; it starts out fairly calmly and tightens 
+	fairly fast.  The story is not as back-and-forth or layered as Twilight
+	or Coming, it's really about one thing.  Visually, it's the most 
+	ambitious thing we've done to date, and probably the most ambitious 
+	EFX stuff done for a TV series *ever*.  I don't think you'll feel left
+	wanting after the episode is done.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the last ep of this season wasn't per se a cliffhanger, though it
+	does tip over a few things, so it flows from 222 to 301 fairly smoothly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, this is the other structure that's kind of a favorite of mine.  
+	I used it also in "Coming of Shadows."  It starts out kind of slow, it
+	lulls you into a sense that this is going to be a fairly ordinary story,
+	nothing major...allowing me to sneak up behind you in the story and just
+	*whack* you real hard when you're not expecting it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713900 We've been consistently giving Jeff Conaway more and more
+	to do in the show because he's a very gifted actor; there are some
+	moments in the coming month's episodes, particularly "The Fall of
+	Night," that should knock the word "mediocre" out of anyone's mouth.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840399188 This episode had enough votes for a Hugo nomination,
+	but JMS didn't accept the nomination.
      
+	Yes, since the last time we were in Hugo contention,
+	the splitting of votes cost us the award (combined votes would've been
+	enough going in to win), the folks gave us the option of withdrawing
+	one of the two, and since "The Coming of Shadows" seems the overall
+	favorite, that one was the one kept.
+
+	
      
+	One other good thing about the withdrawl of one episode was that
+	it allowed Terry Gilliam's "12 Monkeys" onto the ballot, which
+	otherwise would've been frozen out, and it deserves the recognition of
+	the nomination.
+
+	
      
+	We're all *very* pleased and excited by the nomination.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840399188 They gave me the option of
+	having the two nominations or withdrawing one of the two, and we
+	decided to go ahead and withdraw "Fall," to avoid splitting the vote,
+	and to allow another entry into the field, which was apparently "12
+	Monkeys," which definitely deserves the recognition of the nomination.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840399188 Apparently this option is often given.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In a few days we will begin shooting the final episode of
+	season two: "The Fall of Night."  In terms of action, this is the
+	biggest thing we've ever attempted.  Where normally our scripts have
+	50-80 scenes/shots (as noted in numerical sluglines), this one has 134;
+	of which 64 are EFX shots, some in combinations.  To understand the
+	weight of that, there were 60 EFX shots in the entire two-hour pilot.
+	In addition, this has more and more *complex* CGI than the first 13
+	episodes of our first season put TOGETHER.  Nothing on quite this scale
+	has ever been attempted in series TV before, and the irony is that the
+	major part of this covers only a few minutes in the fourth act.
+
+	
      
+	This stuff is going to involve every one of our EFX divisions,
+	compositing, makeup, prosthetics, costuming, practical effects, mattes,
+	CGI; the visual EFX meeting was the biggest we've ever had, and
+	everyone's both sober and excited.  Because there are only two options
+	when you go for something this substantial: either you're going to do
+	something truly amazing, or you're going to massively fall on your
+	face.  For our EFX people, this is kinda like boarding the wildest ride
+	at Magic Mountain and leaving off your seatbelt on a dare...it's one
+	hell of a ride, but boy is it dangerous.
+
+	
      
+	But as Ron Thornton pointed out: no guts, no glory.
+
+	
      
+	This is also going to be a Janet Greek-directed episode, who for
+	various reasons was only available to do our first episode prior to
+	this, but she's kind of our good luck charm, and we wanted someone
+	who's  done as much for us as she has to come in here and helm
+	this...because it could probably break a less experienced (on B5)
+	director.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  That last sequence is the single biggest effects sequence
+	done for TV, insofar as I know.  There are 34 composite shots in a
+	matter of just a few minutes.  Our guys nearly went blind doing it,
+	but it's cool.  The whole feel, I think, is quite nice.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Definite agreement on the shuttle sequence, works nicely.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A wire harness was used; and the effect you ask about 
+	[Kosh] was a mix of CGI, live action, and rotoscope.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think the Kosh stuff is *very* cool...but I don't want to over-sell
+	it; best to see it cold.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh's wings looked like those of the aliens in "The Abyss."
+	
      
+	There was no deliberate homage, but the individual who helped design
+	that, working with me, was Steve Burg, who has worked on Abyss and T2.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How long did the Kosh scene take to get right?
      
+	It took, literally, months of trial and error, design and
+	redesign, which is why  we did it as the last episode of that
+	season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Since "The Fall of Night"
+	has now aired in the UK, and word is getting
+	out, herewith a post I left on GEnie about Kosh's now-revealed 
+	identity.  I thought it came out fairly well, so I'm repeating it here.
+
+	
      
+	*****
+
+	
      
+	Okay.  Here it is.  I'm gonna do it.  I'm gonna reveal Kosh.
+
+	
      
+	I'm not kidding.  Bail now if you're looking in and don't want to know.
+
+	
      
+	No backsies.
+
+	
      
+	I mean it.
+
+	
      
+	Last chance.
+
+	
      
+	Okay, this is it.
+
+	
      
+	"If he leaves his encounter suit, he will be recognized."
      
+	"By who?"
      
+	"Everyone."
+
+	
      
+	"The First Ones taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim,
+	built civilizations...."
+
+	
      
+	Kosh is what you're pointing at when you say "That's Kosh."
+
+	
      
+	"Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth, the Vorlons have been everywhere.
+	The Vorlons *are*."
+
+	
      
+	They *are*.
+
+	
      
+	"For centuries, the Vorlons have helped the younger races, guiding us,
+	and --"   "And manipulating us?"  "It is, as you say, a matter...
+	of perspective."
+
+	
      
+	They *are*...a matter of perspective.
+
+	
      
+	Each race who sees them, sees something out of their own past, their
+	own legends, religions, faiths.  A being of light, if you will, but a
+	Drazi sees the Drazi version of that, Droshalla; the Minbari see the 
+	Minbari version of that, Valeria; humans see a human version of that.
+
+	
      
+	It is the mirror in which we see our beliefs reflected, but is it the
+	progenitor of those beliefs...or an implanted image that overlays that
+	vision on top of the true form of the Vorlon?  Is it revelation, or is
+	it manipulation?
+
+	
      
+	The Vorlons are a cypher.  The Vorlons are a matter of perspective.
+	The Vorlons are guides...or users, emissaries or puppeteers, who wish
+	to be seen a certain way, so that we will react properly.
+
+	
      
+	Is this good, or is this bad?
+
+	
      
+	And the truth is, even though you have seen a Vorlon, have you seen
+	THE Vorlon, the one behind the image that dances somewhere between your
+	optic nerve and your brain?
+
+	
      
+	Or to quote a message I left long ago, paraphrased from memory, "The 
+	hand Sinclair sees is not the hand Sinclair sees, and the hand Sinclair
+	sees is not the same hand someone else in the room sees, and is not 
+	even the hand that that person sees."
+
+	
      
+	The Vorlons Are.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh is weak. He allowed himself to be poisoned by a Minbari and
+	attacked by Morden.  He needed a Vicar to probe Talia and needed
+	Sebastian to test Delenn.  He rarely does anything directly, preferring
+	to use others.  I find Kosh slightly righteous.
      
+
+	Thanks.  And finding Kosh slightly righteous is pretty much the desired
+	intent.  So you're clicking on all the right cylinders.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@894388635 Was he really poisoned, or just pretending?
+	("The Gathering")
      
+	No, he wasn't faking it.  Understand that their appearance as a
+	being of light is only how they want to appear; they are life forms
+	much the same as many others, and can be poisoned if one knows the
+	right combination of substances.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh is an angel!  But which one?
      
+
+	
      
+	Actually, no, not really; Kosh is what you see when you look at him.
+	And if a Drazi looks at him, the Drazi sees something different
+	than a Minbari; yes, a being of light, BUT....
+
+	
      
+	Is that what they actually ARE, or how they have programmed us to
+	react when we see them?  As Sheridan said, have we been *manipulated*
+	to seeing them a certain way, seeing a certain image?  We may not be
+	seeing what they ARE, but what they WANT us to see.
+
+	
      
+	It goes a heck of a lot deeper than what it seems.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713900 "Joe identified the figure Sheridan saw as the angel
+	Gabriel."
+
+	
      
+	No I didn't.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713901 Kosh *appears* to us
+	as a being of light...doesn't mean that's entirely what he is, that's
+	how we've been programmed to see him.
+
+
      
+   
    •  That's the irony, in a sense...what's inside Kosh's biomechanical 
+	encounter suit...is a *perceptual* encounter suit....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would a Hindu, or a Buddhist, see Kosh differently?
      
+	Yes, there would be some amount of variation among humans, though not
+	in terms of beliefs that may have come along post-Vorlon influence.  
+	This sort of thing has been implanted almost at a genetic level, and 
+	they do have a hand, or a mind, in activating it when seen.  The more 
+	people who see them in different ways, the longer they must maintain 
+	that, the greater the strain on them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The more people who have to *see* Kosh as one of their own, the
+	greater the strain on Kosh, as you'll note in the first ep of year
+	three.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839744359 Being seen by one person is automatic, no strain
+	involved, it's almost an autonomic reflex...it's extending the
+	influence to more than one person that's difficult.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Vorlons aren't prepared to fight?  They'll refuse?
      
+	As for the Vorlons line..."prepared" 
+	should be taken in the same sense as "ready"...so they may not yet be 
+	ready.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the Shadows know that the Vorlons are still around, and that Kosh 
+	is there.  That's never been any kind of secret.  They're just hoping
+	that the Vorlons and anyone who might believe them won't find out that
+	they're out and about again until too [late.]
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713901 The vorlons were never intending to hide themselves
+	from the shadows; they both know where the other can be found.  The
+	concern was in the vorlons potentially revealing themselves to others,
+	and standing openly as what they were.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Vorlons aren't yet ready; they can't take on the shadows by
+	themselves, and must bring together other forces.
+
+	
      
+	And in each case, re: Kosh, what they saw was not the *head* of 
+	their belief, but in essence a supporting being of light; it wasn't 
+	G'Quon, but G'Lan that G'Kar saw, which was a being that story tells us 
+	served G'Quon. So you wouldn't see the head of the religion, 
+	since there can only be one of those, and lots of Vorlons, but each
+	tends to have a supporting cast, for lack of a better term.  Those are
+	what we perceive the vorlons to be.
+
+	
      
+	And remember, we didn't see any other human's POV of Kosh but 
+	Sheridan's.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, she wouldn't.  Again, you don't see the *top* of the echelon of any
+	belief, because there can be only one of those; it's the servants of
+	light you see (and even the Old Testament makes reference to such
+	things).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, those are pretty much the two interpretations...
+	that the Vorlons *created*  the myth of angels, or that they
+	came in and *exploited* it for their own purposes.  In my
+	view, the latter seems more logical in some ways.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713901 It has not been stated anywhere that the Vorlons created
+	the angel element; they could easily just have come in and tried to
+	exploit it....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713901 I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks the use of an angelic (or
+	seemingly angelic character), whose likes have been written about for,
+	oh, about 4,000 years, is ripping off Star Trek, has his head so
+	thoroughly up his ass as to have blipped into an entirely new
+	intestinally-based reality and desperately needs to get a wider frame
+	of reference.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When one Vorlon looks at another, he sees a proper Vorlon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will WE see a proper Vorlon?
      
+	We will see them.  Eventually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What, I should begin catering to prurient interests?  
+	Broadcasting picture postcards (likely French) of Vorlons 
+	in provocative poses, in lingerie?  A terrible thing, that 
+	a nice young man such as yourself should be asking about.  
+	Does your mother know you're out here doing this?  Good heavens.
+
+	
      
+	And who said they reproduce anymore?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did Kosh go afterwards?
      
+	First he returned to his encounter suit, then he went to his ship,
+	and stayed there for quite a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, he had the momentum from his jump, plus that of the
+	core shuttle itself  (which is considerable), plus the wind
+	currents toward the center of the station  area/garden, which
+	area also considerable.  Together that would be enough to 
+	keep him moving toward the outer edge of the garden area.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840399188 What keeps people on their seats in the core
+	shuttle?
      
+	There are mag-strips, also hand-holds, seat belts and
+	foot-straps.  As you enter you hear the voice warning that this is a
+	reduced gravity area, and to exercise proper precautions.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nnnnnnoo, not really;
+	the Centauri don't actually have an equivalent to G'Quan or Valen.
+
+	
      
+	Believe it or not, this one answer may add another layer to a scene
+	in one of the last episodes of this season.  You can infer it backwards
+	once you see it, but now you'll have it going in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  They [Centauri]
+	believe in a variety of afterlives; the god you worship, of the
+	centauri pantheon, holds dominion over a given "heaven" or afterworld.
+	If you appease the god sufficiently during life, it will accept you 
+	into that afterworld, in preparation for the day when all heavens are
+	united; if not, you will have to be reborn and choose another until 
+	one accepts you.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo saw what he said he saw.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, all that was indicated in the script was that he for a beat
+	isn't sure what's up...then lets it go.  I generally don't drop specific
+	points explaining foreshadowing in the scripts, in case they leak out.
+	If a line like that isn't sufficiently clear for the actor's intent,
+	they then come to me and I explain it verbally.  This was done in
+	particular when we had to shoot "Chrysalis" before "Signs and Portents,"
+	even though the latter aired before the former.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "It doesn't matter.  This place has been blessed."  Nobody was
+	trying to claim it was only THEIR deity.
      
+	Thanks.  I think that, with so many races around, you couldn't go into 
+	holy wars or jihads at every occasion.  In a 
+	way, what was seen was a validation for many...a moment they all came 
+	together, instead of coming apart.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Clark reprimand Sheridan personally?
      
+	From a strictly logical standpoint, a president would not lower 
+	himself to deal with this personally.  When MacArthur and Patton earned
+	the disfavor of the president, it was intermediaries who pulled them
+	aside and registered this.  Also, gradually more authority is being
+	vested in Nightwatch and the Ministry of Peace, as that's his arm, and
+	so he'd be inclined to use that since he's in most direct control.
+	(Just to explain why what was done was done.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Zack trusting the Nightwatch
      
+	And bear in mind that it's never just a common sense "oh, these guys
+	are  lying to me from Nightwatch, they're the bad guys."  It's always
+	couched in such a  way that it sounds like it *might* be a real concern.
+	That was how McCarthy and  others terrorized this country during the
+	1950s.  There were plenty of people who  really *believed* that the Reds
+	had infiltrated every aspect of society, as well as  those who might've
+	had doubts, but figured that maybe where there's smoke  there IS fire.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's also a certain amount of McCarthyism inherent in the 
+	Nightwatch, the emphasis on revealing spies in our midst, enemies of the
+	people.
+
+	
      
+	The problem with pointing to the Nazis or the Gestapo exclusively is 
+	that it allows us the safety of saying, "Well, it happened just there,
+	and only once, *we* could never fall for that."
+
+	
      
+	Wrong.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bear in mind that Sheridan specifically states that the treaty had 
+	*not* been finalized yet between Earth and the Centauri, so the attack
+	was not a violation of a treaty that hadn't been signed yet.  (And very
+	likely the Centauri captain was unaware of it *anyway*, just as Sheridan
+	was taken by surprise by it all.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  I hope Sheridan verified those orders.
      
+	And the really great thing is...you're quite right about verifying 
+	orders from one arm of the government with another...as we'll see in the
+	first third of the coming season.  Good call.
+
+
      
+   
    •  After the Centauri tried to kill him, the need for an apology was
+	somewhat obviated.  Had he still been forced to do so, the one he
+	rehearsed was the one he intended to give.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The "peace in our time" reference
      
+	Yes, it was a definite nod to Chamberlain, and a bit of foreshadowing
+	for ominous things to come.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are a number of metaphors in the show that operate on many
+	different levels; it can't be a one-to-one corrolary to WW II, 
+	because that limits and makes predictable your story.
+
+	
      
+	In musical terms, it's almost a tonal piece, taking elements to
+	which we respond, almost subconsciously, and then rearranging them 
+	into something that is, one hopes, a new construct.  You can find 
+	here echoes of Vietnam, of Kennedy, of Chamberlain, of WW II, of 
+	Korea, of the Mideast; in a way, it's a thematic piece that touches 
+	how we have come to think of war, and conflict, across the 
+	development of the 20th century, and the role of the individual in 
+	that regard.
+
+	
      
+	We have learned to think of war as something now on a huge scale,
+	an entity in itself.  Once upon a time, before the gatling gun and 
+	the automatic rifle, combat was something individual, even in larger
+	wars, one person against the enemy...and that person was honored, one 
+	person could turn the tide against the enemy.  In a world in which 
+	weapons of mass destruction exist, where then is the individual?  
+	Where then the bravery, the struggle, the triumph...and the failure?  
+	Where, fundamentally, is the responsibility?
+
+	
      
+	All of that is intertwined with the storyline, and to communicate that
+	I'm not averse to taking elements of history that resonate with that 
+	theme and reworking them, knowing that on a cellular level, we 
+	*recognize* that aspect, we've seen it...but now in a new context, we 
+	can see it differently, discuss its implications, *learn* from it.
+
+	
      
+	This is one of the things I rarely talk about, because it's the kind 
+	of thing that is best left simply implied, or implicit, in the work, 
+	and because if you have to draw attention to something in the work, 
+	somehow I think it lessens it, because it works best unspoken.  And 
+	because I guess it sounds kinda presumptuous, and high-falutin' and 
+	self-indulgent.  But it's one the things that matters to me in the
+	context of the story.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Symbolism in Ivanova's
+	candle-lighting
      
+	Moshe: an excellent analysis of the theme behind that scene, which
+	as you state ties directly into the theme of the whole episode, and
+	moreover, somewhat sets up the theme for the coming season...who will
+	determine your identity, the rules you follow, who will lead you, and
+	who you are...the question of, as you say, those who wish to accommodate
+	and give in to pressures from within and from without.
+
+	
      
+	Didn't want to be heavy-handed about it, so I figured those who got
+	it, got it; those who didn't, would see a nice candle scene which sets
+	the mood, even if they don't get the full thematic/symbolic aspects that
+	others would get.
+
+	
      
+	(not a Talmudic scholar, but I play one on TeeVee....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The narrative [at the end] was a tonal setup for next season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Imagery in Season Two episode titles?
      
+	Yes; work it out as you have, but take it further...we start with a
+	point of departure...then after some revelations, examine the geometry
+	of shadows, then begin to more forward, a race through dark places.  We
+	come toward the long dark, our past a distant star.  We carry the motif
+	of a world getting dark.  The coming of shadows that darkens into the 
+	long twilight struggle, the last period between day and night...and we 
+	end the season on...the fall of night.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, the "snitch" was the C&C tech, NOT the pilot, they just
+	have a somewhat similar appearance.
+
+	
      
+	We've established that klaxons go off elsewhere in the station
+	during an attack to warn civilians, but they aren't going off in C&C
+	because they make it impossible to concentrate, as per military 
+	tradition (see
+	"And Now For a Word" to confirm this).
+
+	
      
+	There wasn't time to call Draal, and they can't begin relying on him
+	for every problem; they have to be able to hold their own.  You would
+	only bring in Draal on something really major.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Keffer dead?
      
+	He is an Ex-Keffer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does that mean he's dead?
      
+	Dead as the proverbial doorknob.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Keffer jettisoned his recording as soon as the Shadow ship started
+	scanning him. But the ISN broadcast showed the Shadow ship turning and
+	firing.
      
+	Yeah, I kinda figured that recorders like this would be outfitted with
+	a receiver for the ship's gun camera.  This would be vital to locate 
+	ships that got lost, and track as long as possible what happened after
+	the log was ejected, and before the recorder moved out of range.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the camera was still mounted on the Starfury, but cameras even
+	today are constantly transmitting to other locations; TV cameras don't
+	just transmit on a cable to the box they're attached to, they are 
+	uplinked to other places.  Similarly, the recording device continued 
+	to receive transmission from the Starfury until such time as it either
+	went out of range or, in this case, the transmitter was destroyed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the part of the station that was shot off?
      
+	It's an area for helping secure ships while being offloaded 
+	into the zero-G cargo bay right behind it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713901 We'll see both the tines being repaired, and the core
+	shuttle being fixed, in ep 1 of year 3.  The tines are mainly to
+	stabilize incoming cargo ships so they can be offloaded (something we've
+	shown there from time to time) into the zero-g cargo bay.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What does "time on target" mean?
      
+	It's an actual military term for launching a lot of stuff, so that
+	even though it's launched at different times, it all arrives at once.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The interceptors line refers to the fact that there are so many 
+	incoming bursts that the interceptors are only knocking down 90% of them
+	at this point, meaning that some of them (the incoming bursts) are
+	getting through.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Visually, yeah, I'd have to say TFoN is one of our biggest from year
+	two, and I'm quite fond of it; the only reason that it isn't in my
+	top three is because while the last half is very intense, it takes a
+	little bit to get there; I like 'em intense from the first frame on.
+
+	
      
+	For the growing use of montage/intercutting...it's really just a
+	process of continuing to learn my craft.  So I try out and experiment
+	with different techniques.  While I love dialogue, and lots of it, I'm
+	also coming more and more to appreciate moments where you *only* play
+	the visuals, and the music, and get out of the way of the Moment.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's fair to say that you will be seeing that Narn cruiser again; it's
+	still out there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846713901 Keffer wears a blue scarf with white stars; Mitch
+	wears a white scarf with red stars.  Is scarf color indicative of
+	squadron?
      
+	I do believe they relate to squadrons, yes.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+While an Earth official investigates the mystery ship encountered by Lt.
+Keffer in hyperspace, Londo attempts to sever his ties with Morden.
+Sheridan receives a new tool in the fight against the Shadows.
+
+
+Tucker Smallwood as David Endawi.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.60
+
+Production number: 301
+Original air week: November 6, 1995
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A little over a thousand years ago, long before the Narn achieved
+	spaceflight, the Shadows set up a base on one of the Narn homeworld's
+	southern continents.
+
+   
    •  Morden is involved with the Psi Corps and some part of the Earth
+	government.  The Corps knows about the Shadows.  Morden has also been
+	in contact with Lord Refa without Londo's knowledge.
+
+   
    •  If Delenn is correct about Morden always having Shadow companions,
+	then the Psi Corps, at least, presumably knows about the Shadows.
+	Talia, in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	was able -- or even forced -- to sense the Shadows when she passed
+	Morden in the hall; presumably a Psi Cop would easily be able to
+	do the same.  (Unless, of course, Talia's perception was a result of
+	Ironheart's gift from
+	"Mind War.")
+
+   
    •  The Shadows aren't particularly interested in the section of the
+	galaxy containing the Centauri Republic; what they're after (or rather,
+	what they claim to be after) is on the other side.
+
+   
    •  What they are interested in, though, is the Rangers --
+	interested enough to have Morden go over Londo's head and get Refa to
+	give them a world known to house a Ranger training camp.
+
+   
    •  The Markab homeworld has been looted by scavengers since the race
+	became extinct
+	("Confessions and Lamentations.")
+
+   
    •  The Minbari religious caste, without the knowledge of some members of
+	the Grey Council, have built a new ship using Minbari and Vorlon
+	technology.  Called the White Star, it has been granted to Sheridan
+	for use against the Shadows.
+
+   
    •  The fleet of Shadow ships in Londo's dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows")
+	are flying over Centauri Prime, as far as Londo can tell.
+
+   
    •  Being seen by many people is a strain on Kosh.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What other details of Londo's dream weren't shown in
+	"The Coming of Shadows?"
+
+   
    •  What in particular are the Shadows after, that they don't care what
+	the Centauri do with a good 30% of the galaxy?  What's in the
+	remaining section?  (For example, where are the major races in
+	relation to the boundary Morden drew?)
+
+   
    •  How did Marcus leave Medlab?  Is he able to put himself into a
+	trance deep enough to pass unnoticed in an admittedly cursory
+	medical examination?
+
+   
    •  What do the Shadows know about the Rangers?
+
+   
    •  How did Ivanova find out about the Rangers?
+
+   
    •  What is the "program" referred to by the Psi Cop?
+
+   
    •  Why are some on Earth working with the Shadows?  What do they hope to
+	gain from the association, and how does that tie in with whatever the
+	Shadows want?
+
+   
    •  Will Endawi's report ever make it to real strategic analysts?  Did
+	G'Kar tell him about Z'ha'dum?
+
+   
    •  What else can the White Star do?
+
+   
    •  Was the Shadow vessel actually destroyed, or did it manage to escape?
+	If it was destroyed, did it have a chance to relay information about
+	the White Star first?  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Lennier says, "Not all of my people are comfortable with the idea of
+	the Rangers."  That implies that the Rangers aren't as secret an
+	organization on the Minbari homeworld as they are elsewhere.
+
+   
    •  Likewise, the fact that Marcus' brother was able to sign up for the
+	Rangers, and that Marcus apparently knew about them too at the time,
+	suggests that they're operating at least somewhat in the open.  That
+	might also explain how Ivanova and the Shadows found out about them.
+	The fact that the Drazi government apparently knew about the Ranger
+	training base is further evidence.
+
+   
    •  Londo severing his ties with Morden may have little
+	impact on the Shadows' association with the Centauri; Morden may
+	continue to meet with Refa, rendering Londo's newly prominent
+	position among the Centauri obsolete.
+
+   
    •  Shadow ships are actually entering and leaving hyperspace when they
+	shimmer in and out of sight; they aren't just becoming invisible.
+	Obviously they know a good deal more about hyperspace than most of
+	the other races (also evidenced by the jump-point weapon they used
+	in "The Long, Twilight Struggle.")  It's
+	interesting to note that another ancient race, the walkers at Sigma
+	957 ("Mind War") also had an atypical way of
+	entering hyperspace -- assuming that's what they were doing in that
+	episode.
+
+   
    •  Perhaps the fact that Kosh feels he must maintain his illusory
+	appearance when out of his encounter suit, and the fact that doing
+	so is a strain on him, is another reason he wears the suit in the
+	first place.  If it weren't a strain to be seen by many people,
+	perhaps he would be willing to walk around the station in full view.
+	(Probably not, though; otherwise he'd most likely have been more
+	willing to show himself in the confines of his quarters.)
+
+   
    •  Was the White Star constructed with Sheridan in mind?  Giving it that
+	name seems certain to stir up resentment among the warrior caste when
+	they find out about it, especially if it turns out that the man they
+	call Starkiller was the intended commander from the start.  (Sheridan
+	destroyed the Minbari cruiser Black Star in the Earth-Minbari War.)
+
+   
    •  The White Star has some obvious Minbari characteristics, not the least
+	of which are the distinctive spade-shaped fins at the rear (also visible
+	on Minbari flyers and battle cruisers.)  If the Shadows are at all
+	familiar with Minbari ships, they probably won't be fooled by the
+	White Star for long.
+
+   
    •  Either the Minbari and Vorlons have mastered the art of intuitive
+	user interfaces, or Ivanova is an extremely quick study; she was
+	operating the White Star's weapons systems, presumably not a trivial
+	task, with at most a few hours of training.  Perhaps the controls
+	are partially telepathic in nature.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows are aware of the fact that some Narn (if only G'Kar) know
+	about them; they don't seem to consider it significant, especially
+	now that the Narn have been beaten into submission.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows are even willing to be heard in public; they're plainly
+	audible telling Morden to set up a second meeting with Londo (assuming
+	that's what they're saying.)
+
+   
    •  Was the Shadow base on Narn a unique thing, or did they have bases on
+	other races' worlds as well?  In
+	"The Long Dark,"
+	the Markab ambassador claimed to have heard the same stories of an
+	ancient enemy that G'Kar was recounting.  Perhaps the Shadows had a
+	base on the Markab homeworld as well -- and if so, perhaps they 
+	unleashed the plague
+	("Confessions and Lamentations")
+	in order to reacquire that base without anyone noticing.  If that's
+	the case, Sheridan may have inadvertently helped the Shadows out by
+	destroying the Markab jumpgate; that'll make it harder for someone
+	to stumble on the base by accident.
+
+   
    •  Is the former Shadow presence on Narn related to the fact that there
+	are no Narn telepaths?
+	("The Gathering")
+	Given how unpleasant -- even painful -- being near the Shadows was
+	for Talia
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	perhaps prolonged exposure to the Shadows caused so much trouble for
+	Narn telepaths that they didn't survive to breed new generations of
+	telepaths.
+
+   
    •  Morden has had contact with the Centauri and with Earth.  Has he also
+	been talking to other races?  The Minbari warrior caste, for instance?
+
+   
    •  When Londo asks for assurances that the Shadows won't bother the
+	Centauri, Morden says dismissively,
+	"You and I both know what treaties are worth."
+	This could be a reference to the Centauri's disregard for the treaties
+	against mass drivers
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle")
+	-- but there's another, more recent, treaty that could also be the
+	one in question, namely the pact with Earth.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan has now destroyed two indestructible enemy vessels in his
+	career.
+
+   
    •  Marcus claims his brother was killed in a Shadow attack on a mining
+	colony.  Which colony was that?  Was Marcus working on a Narn mining
+	colony, or have the Shadows been attacking other targets as well?
+
+   
    •  Marcus' reason for joining the Rangers is similar to Ivanova's reason
+	for joining Earthforce
+	("And Now For a Word.")
+	Both of them joined after losing a brother in a war.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan orders the White Star's aft jump engines online.  If this
+	can be taken to mean that it has two (or more) sets of jump engines,
+	it may be that the White Star can duplicate the Shadow-killing
+	explosion without the aid of a jump gate by using both its jump
+	engines at the same time.  On the other hand, it may be that there's
+	only enough power to run one set of engines at a time, or that
+	there's something about jumpgates, rather than jump points, that
+	causes the effect.  (The closed caption quotes him as saying "Half
+	jump engines.")
+
+   
    •  The Centauri automated defense systems appear to be able to track
+	the White Star, evidence that Centauri weapons technology is more
+	advanced than Earth's
+	("Points of Departure.")
+
+   
    •  Endawi says that Earth pulled the Shadow footage off ISN shortly
+	after it first aired.  In what sense?   Did they just record it from
+	ISN, or did they force ISN to stop airing the report?
+
+   
    •  In the conference room, after Endawi leaves, Delenn tells Sheridan
+	that she has never seen such a ship, that only descriptions of the
+	ships have been passed down from the last war.  Presumably, if the
+	Minbari were involved in the last war against the shadows, they were
+	capable of spaceflight (recall: the Narn, who were not capable of
+	spaceflight, were ignored in the last war.)  That they should have no
+	recorded images of the shadow ships from that conflict seems odd, since
+	recording technology would clearly have been within their grasp.
+	Possibilities:
+
+	
        
+	   
      1.  Someone, or something, quietly eradicated whatever images did
+		exist at some point in the past.  We have certainly seen the
+		Shadows act through their agents to suppress information
+		regarding their past activities (i.e. the Narn being beaten
+		down.)  No one said all the "information suppression" had to
+		be as spectacular as a planetary conquest.  This of course
+		begs the question, "Who are the agents?"
+	
+	   
      2.  The last shadow war was so devastating that all recorded images
+		were lost.
+	
+	   
      3.  Delenn was lying.  (There doesn't seem to be a good reason
+		for her to do so, though.)
+
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A small effects glitch is visible in the opening shot.  As the camera
+	pans down from the repair crew, look at the stationary ring around
+	the front of the station.  At about the eight o'clock position,
+	there's a small shaded area, the bottom half of which flickers on
+	and off.
+
+   
    •  When Endawi leaves the conference room after meeting with Sheridan,
+	Delenn, and Ivanova, he forgets to take his data crystal with him.
+	It is left in the viewer.  He does in fact remove it when visiting
+	Londo.  Presumably, since it was pulled just after airing on ISN,
+	he would not want to leave copies lying around.
+
+   
    •  This episode has Delenn's first action scene of the series.
+
+   
    • @@@852231177 Alcohol's effect on Minbari was first noted by Lennier in
+	"The Quality of Mercy."
+	It causes paranoia and homicidal rages.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  July 23, 1995:
+	Finally, one week from tomorrow, we start filming on year three, with
+	episode #301, "Matters of Honor," which also introduces a new recurring
+	character named Marcus.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, the lead guest character in the first episode of year three,
+	one Mr. Endawi, is a Nigerian, and our new recurring character, Marcus
+	Cole (a Ranger) is British, and played by Jason Carter.  So you have two
+	non-American accents occupying major parts of the first ep next year.
+
+
      
+   
    •  New sets: yes, and we're creating situations in which we can see more of
+	Earth, Mars, our other local planets, plus Narn, Centauri, Minbari and
+	one other major world.  As the Shadow War cranks into gear, you're
+	going to need a place to meet in security and plan for it, so we're
+	also building that.  We'll see more of Draal's place on Epsilon 3.
+	And there's one other major set that we'll see in the first episode,
+	and quite a bit thereafter.
+ 
+	
      
+	New characters: well, there's Marcus Cole, a Ranger assigned permanently
+	to Babylon 5, played by British actor Jason Carter; we'll see Lyta
+	Alexander more this year; and Theo...what can I say about Theo...well,
+	perhaps better to let you see for yourself.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 It's predictable that I'd put someone into the show with
+	who's a guy with thick, long hair...since every time I look in the
+	mirror I realize more and more that where I'm concerned, thick, long
+	hair will always be an unattainable, science fiction concept....
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the title sequence
      
+	"Why are starfuries firing on starfuries?"
+
+	
      
+	Noticed that, eh?
+
+	
      
+	Wait and see.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 Any significance to some characters' heads turning in
+	the opening credits?
      
+	No, I don't think even I could ever manage to be that obscure.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 Overall, I'm very happy
+	with how this season's main title sequence came out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 Why aren't there many scenes from season three in the
+	title sequence?
      
+	Because we have to make the season 3 title sequence *very* early
+	in the shooting process; we need shots to go out in the first episode
+	title sequence, but we've only shot a few episodes by the time we need
+	to deliver. So most shots tend to come from the preceding season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898572087 What's with Ivanova's line?  Isn't peace a more
+	desirable goal than victory?
      
+	Peace can be a surrender as well as an achievement, especially
+	when facing an enemy dedicated to something unpleasant.  Chamberlin
+	returned from a visit to Germany with a so-called agreement in his
+	hands, and announced that by granting concessions to Hitler, he had
+	achieved "peace in our time."
+
+	
      
+	Peace is a byproduct of victory against those who do not want
+	peace.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 We had considered refurbishing C&C, but didn't get
+	around to it this season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will the station still be damaged?
      
+	Repairs will be visible being done in the first episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When the fighting staff expanded, it was CGI; physical otherwise.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was that noise after Morden and Londo spoke?
      
+	No, you heard something, all right...just a little bit of shadow whisper
+	for those who got it; those who don't, won't notice.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Are Morden and his "associates" equal partners?
      
+	Well, he may sometimes *think* of his associates as equals...and my cat
+	thinks he actually owns this house....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn lied!  A continuity glitch?
      
+	Re: Minbari lying...it has been established, repeatedly, that the
+	Minbari do lie *when it means saving someone else's honor*.  That was
+	even stated, openly, in the very same episode about Sheridan's frame
+	job, "There All The Honor Lies."  Londo says, right there, that the
+	Minbari will lie for a greater cause, another's honor.  The same was
+	done in "The Quality of Mercy."  Delenn fibbed about the ship in
+	"Matters" because in so doing, she saved Sheridan's honor.
+
+	
      
+	This is not a plot hole, it's been established clearly in the series
+	on multiple occasions.  We have never, ever, at any time said
+	conclusively that Minbari never, ever lie.  This is another example of
+	certain persons simply not paying attention, and then blaming the show
+	for their own lack of continuity in attention.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Endawi is more or less a good guy, in that he's totally
+	uninvolved with Morden or anyone on that side.  He was doing what he
+	said he'd been assigned to do.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 Was that Bester in the senator's office?
      
+	No, it wasn't Bester at the Senator's office.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 Any reason why it wasn't?
      
+	Yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the Shadow ship destroyed?
      
+	Be of good cheer; the jumpgate blast destroyed the pursuing vessel.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's two separate mechanisms; no one has been able to open a
+	jump point in a jump point because of the hideous amount of energy
+	needed by the ship in question.  They used the White Star to open a
+	jump point within a standing *jump gate* that was already there, and
+	had a secondary source of power.  The competing energies were
+	impossible to control, and blew the whole thing.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 I don't consider the "bonehead maneuver" to be
+	technobabble, for several reasons.  For starters, the "babble" part
+	isn't there; TB goes on into long explanations of neutrino waves and
+	particle theory and elements that have to be recalibrated, on and on
+	and on....
+
+	
      
+	Second, a prime requisite for TB is that it's a technology that
+	comes out of nowhere, artifically invented to create a problem and/or
+	create a solution.  Neither applies here; we've seen jump gates and
+	jump points now for three years; we've seen them disrupted in "The
+	Long Twilight Struggle."  It was just using the tech we've already
+	established.
+
+	
      
+	In a way, it's kind of unfair that we get hammered when we use a
+	little teeny piece of technology because ST has abused it for so many
+	years.  That's not our fault, and one shouldn't develop a kneejerk
+	response so that ANY reference to technology becomes technobabble.  If
+	that's the case, then the term becomes meaningless.
+
+	
      
+	This is, also, a *science* fiction show; if sometimes we have a
+	touch of science, it's the nature of the show; you can't have SF
+	without at least some measure of tech...otherwise you've got fantasy.
+	The day we do a page and a half of discussions about particles being
+	recalibrated, particles that didn't exist twenty minutes before the
+	need became apparent, *then* we can get gigged on technobabble.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 The more people who have to *see* Kosh as one of their
+	own, the greater the strain on Kosh, as you'll note in the first ep of
+	year three.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where Delenn gets all those wardrobe changes is one of those
+	questions that, in a real world, doesn't warrant close scrutiny.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, her costumes tend to be emblematic of where the character
+	is, and who she is.  Consequently, there will be some year three 
+	additions to underscore her more assertive nature; there's a green
+	costume in particular that shows up in the first episode that's just 
+	*killer*.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Delenn's bone crest changed?
      
+	Yeah, we made some small modifications to the headpiece (good call,
+	Corun).  It merges more seamlessly behind, it's raised slightly at the
+	crest, and the ends blend more smoothly into the skin in front, to make
+	the whole thing more natural.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840404585 Will we ever see alcohol's effect on the
+	Minbari?
      
+	No immediate plans for this, but knowing how my brain works,
+	we'll probably see this sooner or later.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the plant pictured in G'Kar's book?
      
+	The leaf shown is the G'Quon-eth, the plant featured in "By Any Means
+	Necessary."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Had a Minbari been running that sensor, he would've nailed it instantly;
+	but Ivanova had never actually encountered that ship before, and was
+	running off the initial scan reports.  (Also it was just phasing in at
+	that point.)
+
+	
      
+	The White Star uses local drive engines based on magnetic and
+	gravitational principles; in a sense, it doesn't so much push itself
+	toward other worlds as *pull* itself or *repel* itself.  One side effect
+	of creating a powerful gravitational system is the ability to create
+	artificial gravity.
+
+	
      
+	That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839782124 The Minbari built the White Star, borrowing some
+	Vorlon tech, so
+	it's primarily Minbari, and built with their sensibilities, all the
+	controls are in Minbari, and so on.  They allow Sheridan to command it
+	because Delenn said to do so, and in battle an unpredictable human
+	might have options that a more regimented Minbari might not.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 The White Star was always in the plans for the series;
+	it's an outgrowth of everything that has gone before.  We've seen big
+	warships, dreadnoughts, smaller ships, and personal fighters.  This fits
+	right in.  If you're going to have a war over a long distance, you kinda
+	need something to get in and out with.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 Shouldn't they have taken the White Star on a test
+	flight?  Why aren't they preparing for conflict with the
+	Shadows?
      
+	Yeah, but it's very hard to do a story about preparation in the sense
+	you suggest.  "Well, let's go check out the White Star."
+
+	
      
+	"Well...sure is a fast ship, all right...so, what're the Rangers doing?
+	Keeping an eye on stuff?  Good..good...so, what's for dinner?"
+
+	
      
+	Each individual episode must be *about* something, must have a story
+	that can stand on its own, separate from the arc, while adding to it.
+	For what it's worth, "Voices of Authority," which was originally slated
+	to run in the first 4, *is* a preparation kind of story...it gets into
+	how they should be gearing up for what's coming, the accumulation of
+	allies and resources, all that.  Had it run as planned as #4, this would
+	be answered.  But the sheer volume of CGI required, which was pretty
+	hideous, put it into the #5 slot, which we thought would still be in the
+	first block of episodes.  Then we found that #4 was the cutoff point.
+
+	
      
+	All I can tell you is that what you're asking for is *there*, plain as
+	can be, right in the very next batch of episodes.  (Also, do bear in
+	mind that the "shadow war" referenced in the show operates as more than
+	just discussing the shadows themselves, but what's going on back home as
+	well.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the Drazi was not a Ranger, only a supporter/collaborator (if I can
+	use, or misuse that term.)
+
+	
      
+	At this stage, the Rangers are exclusively either human or minbari.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890560 The Ranger colony was financially supported by the
+	Minbari; the Drazi allowed them to use one of their colony worlds as a
+	base.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A series of bombings threatens the station, and Ivanova calls on some
+unusual investigators to help solve the mystery.
+
+
+Patrick Kilpatrick as Robert Carlson.
+Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.75
+
+Production number: 302
+Original air week: November 13, 1995
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  All explosives manufactured in the Earth Alliance are laced with
+	special chemical codes to allow them to be traced to a particular
+	buyer.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was Londo doing on a transport arriving from the Minbari
+	homeworld?  (Assuming he was; he may have been on the Centauri
+	transport mentioned to G'Kar by Garibaldi.)
+
+   
    •  How will the influx of missionaries affect the station?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Lennier has saved Londo twice now, once here and once (in a less
+	extreme way) in
+	"The Quality of Mercy."
+	And now he's likely to be decorated by the Centaurum.  How will
+	that affect his position in the battle between light and dark,
+	and his apparent new friendship with Vir
+	("The Fall of Night?")
+
+   
    •  Londo apparently doesn't place absolute faith in the dream of his
+	death twenty years in the future
+	("Midnight on the Firing Line,"
+	"The Coming of Shadows.")
+	Otherwise he wouldn't have been afraid he was going to die in the
+	elevator.  (Which isn't to say he wouldn't have still tried to call
+	for help, of course.)
+
+   
    •  Lennier's own convictions, namely his prohibition against lying except
+	to save face for another, seem to have weakened since his arrival,
+	despite his pledge to do penance later.  On the other hand, perhaps
+	he justified it in his mind by figuring he was saving face for
+	the obnoxious man by getting him to stop making a fool of himself.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  G'Kar's song in the elevator is based on the ditty he sang at the
+	beginning of
+	"The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+   
    •  We may have seen Carlson before, if briefly.  In
+	"The Fall Of Night,"
+	as the Earth officials arrive, there's a man in the arrival area.
+	He's slapped by a woman and walks after her when she leaves.  The
+	man bears some resemblance to Carlson without the beard.  Perhaps
+	the woman was his wife.
+
+   
    •  Lennier's fake disease, Netter's Syndrome, is no doubt named for
+	executive producer Doug Netter.
+
+   
    •  The name Theo (short for Theodore) comes from the Greek word
+	theodoros which means "gift of God."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What's great is that this [the second] season, we haven't had one
+	single episode on
+	the level of War Prayer or Infection or Grail, some of our weaker first
+	season eps.  The worst we've done is pretty darned good.  What we're now
+	working for in year three is that they're all better than that at their
+	baseline rating.  And so far, they're killer...our second episode for
+	year three, "Convictions," has a very different feel from anything
+	we've done on the show to date, a very dark, scary and gritty feel, and
+	probably one of the best character sequences in the series to date.
+	We're also doing some major EFX blow-outs of a type other than "they go
+	into space and shoot stuff."  Very interesting, creative, offbeat stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    •  September 7, 1995:
+	I am thus far *very* happy with season three; we've got three shows
+	in the can (edited, not yet scored or mixed), and shooting number four
+	as I type this.  I think we're already a notch above our general
+	episodes
+	from year two, and "Convictions" is extremely intense, with a very
+	different look and feel from anything we've done before.  Has kind of an
+	NYPD Blue feel to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW, on the question of effects...here's one that's kinda
+	interesting, in that I've seen a few comments here and there about
+	how we must've mapped the CGI fireball into the hallway in
+	"Convictions" where Londo jumps into the transport tube.  Some even
+	offered you could tell the fire was CGI.
+
+	
      
+	Nooooooop.
+
+	
      
+	Here's how that shot was done: we built a miniature hallway
+	(actually, "miniature" ain't the right word; it was something like 30
+	feet long or more).  Painted it so that it looked exactly like the
+	regular B5 hallways.  On film you absolutely can't tell the
+	difference.  Then we mounted the hallway *vertically* alongside the
+	outside of the main building here.  Set the camer at the top,
+	pointing down into the hall.   We built a firebomb and set it at the
+	far end of the hall (on the bottom, in other words).  We then set off
+	the firebomb (with all the proper authorities present), so that it
+	shot up the length of the vertical hall.   We overcranked the camera
+	so it'd start in slow- motion, then pulled the plug so that the
+	camera slowed down to normal speed...giving the sense of the fire
+	swelling, then suddenly rushing forward with a huge fireball.   So
+	when it looks like the "hallway" is on fire...it is.  Real fire.
+
+	
      
+	Next we shot Londo (Peter) against a bluescreen, reacting to this,
+	then diving to his left.  We then comp'd the bluescreen into the
+	hallway, and used CGI to build a transport tube door to Londo's left,
+	which then closed just as the fire reached it.
+
+	
      
+	It was an utterly immense amount of work for, basically, a five
+	second shot...but it looks 'way cool.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Effects shots like this one were/are supervised via our EFX supervisor,
+	Ted Rae, working closely with the director and folks from Foundation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sue: as you're looking at the fireball approaching toward camera, he
+	jumps to our left.  Trust me on this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another scene with Londo and Lennier,
+	btw, contains a small nod to the online fans of the show; we can't and
+	won't use story ideas, but there's been so much humor, reams and reams
+	of it, every imaginable kind of joke, that I dropped one of these jokes
+	into an episode...one that's come up at a lot of conventions and on the
+	nets endlessly.  Just to acknowledge the fans in the only way I can.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't actually know for certain the origin of the joke; it was all
+	over the nets, and the BBSs, uploaded places with several gazillion other
+	lightbulb jokes (after I'd made the original version of this in the show),
+	which is why I figured I'd drop it into the episode, since it was so common
+	and associated with the nets.  While in the UK, I met a young man who said
+	that he had been the first with that variation, and I have no reason not
+	to believe him.  (A couple other people sent me email saying that they
+	had also come up with that one; it's kind of obvious I guess, but again,
+	I have no way of knowing what's true because it was just all over the
+	place, never with attribution.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833492207 Actually, variations on that joke were told at a number of
+	conventions; it's the obvious one to go for, given that for a while the
+	"how many X does it take to change a lightbulb?" question was racing
+	all around the nets. There were literally hundreds of them; of which,
+	this or a variation on it was the most common one floating around...so
+	I let it go in as a nod to the nets.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo and G'Kar no longer really have much to discuss; they're past that
+	point, I figure.  They hate each other.
+
+	
      
+	Londo wasn't on Minbar; he was seeing someone off on a ship going to
+	Centauri Prime.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890688 Londo *does* have his moments when one almost likes him in
+	spite of oneself; the second episode of year three has scenes in which
+	you don't like him, and then you *do* like him enormously...then you
+	don't again.  He's caught in the scissors...and trying madly to find
+	some way out of the situation he's in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct.  Louis was not available to use for "Twilight" for health
+	reasons, but we like Louis a lot, and vowed to use him in another, even
+	better role, at the first opportunity.  We seized it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Finding character names is sometimes easy, sometimes hard; it really
+	does vary.
+
+	
      
+	And Theo was named for Vincent's brother.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It was a mild Spring day, warm, clear, sunny, when Vincent Van
+	Gogh picked up his easel, and some paints, and walked a mile and a half
+	to an open field where he often painted landscapes.  He set up his
+	easel, sat under a tree for a while, ate part of an apple, composed a
+	brief note to his brother Theo.  Then he pulled out a derringer and
+	shot himself in the chest.
+
+	
      
+	After an hour, realizing that he was not going to die for a
+	while yet, he picked himself up and staggered the mile and half back to
+	Theo's house, where a few hours later that evening he passed away in
+	Theo's arms.
+
+	
      
+	Some say his sad ending came about because he felt he was a
+	burden to his brother Theo, and the guilt did him in; others because he
+	sold only one painting during his life, for 48 francs, and he felt he
+	would never become a painter of any worth.
+
+	
      
+	On reflection, perhaps it was the thought of people bidding for
+	his ear that did it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I've always liked the name Theo, from Vincent's brother, so there
+	was the sound of it; also the sense of it, in that Theo was a guide, a
+	counselor, a confidante, which Theo might come to be in this; and,
+	finally, Theodore means (I just lapsed on the actual definition) but
+	either chosen (favored) of god or messenger of god (have to check my
+	dictionary of names again), which is appropos.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We'll see Theo here and there as we go along this season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Any relation to the technomages?
      
+	No, I wouldn't think of them in technomage terms; if you look at the
+	history of many of these orders, they've generally pulled together
+	people of varying skills.  Ain't really that new an idea....
+   
+
      
+   
    •  Any connection between Theo's mission and the short story "The
+	Nine Billion Names of God?"
      
+	No, there's no connection whatsoever.  The Tibetan monks in the
+	story were specifically coming up with all the names of god in order to
+	bring about the end of the world; Theo et al have come as an exercise in
+	comparative religion, to learn what the other races call god, and how it
+	compares.  As others have done before, right here on good old earth.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: "The Nine Billion Names of God," the
+	whole purpose of that story had nothing to do with alien contact; it had
+	to do with gettting all the earthbound names of God into a computer, so
+	they could create the end of the world.  The monks are on B5 in an
+	attempt at studying the different religions out there for the purpose of
+	better understanding...or more succinctly, comparative religious
+	studies, which long predate Clarke by, oh, about 500 years.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890688 Are these the monks from
+	"There All the Honor Lies?"
      
+	No, these are not the monks Sheridan met earlier.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What were the floating discs at the crime scene?
      
+	It's a floating (air-compression) vidrecorder.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "B5 has gravity defying video cameras"
+
+	
      
+	Only if you consider a plane or any other reasonable technology
+	of flight to be gravity defying.
+
+	
      
+	The video recorders are made of an extremely ultralight
+	material, new alloys that in total weighs less than an ounce; it has a
+	visible (and audible) air propulsion system, a high speed fan with a
+	stabalizer/gyroscope that keeps it steady, and move it forward.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890688 If you didn't notice the effect, that's good; you
+	shouldn't in many cases.  (How many folks noticed that the two-story
+	shot of the blown sector of Convictions after the elevator boom is a
+	digitally composited set, using two different sets?)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did the "bomb squad" have to go out into
+	space in order to gain access to the fusion reactor?
      
+	Going in the vacuum door was the fastest way to get a bunch of people in
+	there, and presumably get a big object out again.  Instead of riding
+	transport tubes to the core shuttle, then the core shuttle to the far
+	end, then tubes to the bottom...you jump out, get picked up and dumped
+	at the far end.  Takes 2 minutes rather than 10 or 15.  Remember, this
+	place is five miles long.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833443678 "We have a wonderful security system on B-5. Our monitors
+	will show you everything, except a twenty foot long fusion reactor
+	trigger that was put in the most sensitive part of the station by a
+	certified nut case."
+
+	
      
+	Show me where we ever said our monitors "will show you everything."
+	They don't, they can't, and never have.  This is a city, and a
+	quarter million people live here.  It would be impossible to monitor
+	it all.  As for the fusion reactor...that was a ten foot object
+	attached to a place where only station maintenance people went,
+	which was his job.  He was cleared for that kind of access, and
+	until/unless the device was activated, it was electronically
+	dormant, you wouldn't notice anything.  Nor did it attract much
+	attention.  Even though they *knew* something was there, they STILL
+	had to look long and hard to find it, because it had been made to
+	look just like everything else in the area.
+
+	
      
+	And it's not like everybody *knew* he was a "certified nutcase" at
+	the time.  He didn't have an identicard that said CERTIFIED NUTCASE
+	on it.  He worked in station maintenance.  Nobody knew Tim McVeigh
+	was a nut until he blew up a building.  Nobody knew that quiet
+	little man in Boston was out strangling women in his spare time.
+
+
+
      
+   
    •  Doug's reaction to Netter's Syndrome was...amused, chagrined,
+	and the promise of swift and terrible revenge.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova try to deal with an association of cargo pilots.  An
+alien probe makes first contact with the station.  G'Kar's position among the
+Narn is threatened by the arrival of a Centauri-appointed liaison.
+
+
+Stephen Macht as Na'Far.
+Marshall Teague as Ta'Lon.
+Anne Betancourt as Dr. Gonzalez.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.85
+
+Production number: 303
+Original air week: November 20, 1995
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Centauri diplomatic mission on Minbar has been closed for
+	several years.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Who sent the probe?
+
+   
    •  Will Franklin's continuing use of stims have greater repercussions,
+	especially now that he's willing to lie about it?
+
+   
    •  What will become of Na'Far?  And of Ta'Lon, for that matter -- will
+	he remain on the station, and will he look after Sheridan?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Vir is leaving Londo just when Londo seems to need him most; Londo
+	is becoming darker and darker, as his conversation with Na'Far
+	demonstrates.  Now he'll have nobody to slow his descent (though
+	it's not clear how much he listened to Vir in the first place.)
+
+   
    •  The favor Delenn owed Londo was most likely the one he earned by
+	transporting her and Draal to Epsilon 3 in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2."
+
+   
    •  Franklin's stim use is nothing new; it was touched on as recently as
+	"Confessions and Lamentations."
+	He may feel he has no choice and no problem, but he seems to be
+	ignoring the example of Dr. Rosen in
+	"The Quality of Mercy,"
+	who lost her medical license over her stim use.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A picture of the probe is
+	available.
+
+   
    •  Vir's departure has, in part, a real-world cause: actor Stephen Furst
+	is starring in a sitcom on the Fox network.  He will still appear on
+	Babylon 5 from time to time.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's reference to the probe as a "berserker" is probably a
+	nod to Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" novels, which feature huge
+	automated war machines that seek out and destroy sentients.
+
+   
    •  A small gaffe: At the end of the episode, when the probe is headed away
+	from the station, Sheridan asks the tech if there are any security bots
+	in the area.  The tech replies that there is just one, at 5000km.
+	The next shot is of the bot in question, except that there are clearly
+	2 bots in the shot, and they look identical.  
+
+   
    •  A related goof: Sheridan orders a securebot sent to look at the probe,
+	but the display on the screen reads "Maintbot 12."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "A Day in the Strife," a fair number of threads, a day in the
+	life episode with everything that can go wrong going wrong, some
+	elements of humor but mainly a straight-ahead kind of episode...
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Marshall Teague playing the same character he did in
+	"All Alone in the Night?"
      
+	Yes, it's the same character, and his name is Ta'Lon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "A narn resistance is going to be pretty hard to organize."
+
+	
      
+	*Exactly* the issue we'll explore in "A Day in the Strife."  (Well,
+	one of many issues.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  How many Narn dead are there?
      
+	Actually, yes, there are millions of dead; I think that either Vir
+	or Na'Far gets it right in "Strife," and the other misstates the figure
+	in the same episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just went back and checked the script; Ta'Lon refers to millions in
+	his  meeting with Sheridan.  (Knew I wasn't nuts....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo's comment, "It's nothing personal, Vir," was the same one
+	the bomber echoed in "Convictions."
      
+	Yeah, "it's nothing personal" does echo the other theme; those
+	who inflict great harm tend to shrug it off that way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You will see Vir many times again in the course of the third season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't they ask Delenn or Kosh for help with the
+	questions?
      
+	Because Delenn doesn't know that information offhand, any more than you
+	or I would have casual access to detailed scientific information from
+	our own world just off the top of our heads; she'd still have to go to
+	her own homeworld for the info, as our characters did.  And it's not
+	that we didn't have it, it was just collating it all.  And given how
+	Kosh answers questions, would you really want to use his responses in
+	this thing?
+
+
      
+   
    •  My sense is that Delenn is not a godlike font of information; I don't
+	think anyone, alien or human, at the station would just happen to know
+	all the information required.  How much would Delenn know about
+	molecular biology, for instance?  (And if you asked Kosh a question
+	about the subject, he'd probably come back with "The heart does not
+	sing with its parts."  Not exactly useful.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyone there would have to go back to their own world for experts in
+	the various fields...so you're back where you started.  Earth *has*
+	the info, it's just getting it, and getting it fast.  If you add the
+	overlay of going through another government, you're going to run out
+	of time that much faster.
+
+	
      
+	Logically, a probe like this would be sent off looking for information
+	on the very cusp of technology that could pose a threat.  That's why
+	it *didn't* go off when the probe presumed them to be a less developed
+	civilization; it was looking for civilizations that *are* sufficiently
+	advanced to pose a possible threat; Sheridan says exactly that as he
+	walks across C&C.
+
+	
      
+	Interesting aside on this, btw, in the "where do you get your ideas?"
+	department.  The US House Science Sub-Committee held a series of
+	hearings into the question of extraterrestrial contact during the
+	1970s, to determine what we should do in the event of contact.  The
+	most likely scenario, the scientists agreed, was a probe coming into
+	our solar system.  So what do we do in response to a message asking if
+	anybody's home?
+
+	
      
+	Believe it or not, it was the consensus of the Subcommittee that we
+	should not respond...in case it was a berserker, just as shown in the
+	episode.  That is our government's official policy on the subject.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I just went through my stuff trying to find it...there was a formal
+	report published by the Government Printing Agency in around 1978 or
+	so.  I think it was entitled something like "Prospects for Contact by
+	Extra- Terrestrial Intelligence," and went into the whole CETI issue
+	at great length.  (Back then, it was CETI, for Contact With
+	Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, changed shortly after the House
+	hearing on the subject to SETI, Search For Extra-Terrestrial
+	Intelligence.)  Any GPA office should have the report on file.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would the explosion have taken out a planet?
      
+	No, it probably couldn't take out a planet, though it'd sure disrupt all
+	communications in and out for a long time, maybe throw up a dust
+	curtain to bring down the temperature quite a bit.  Certainly it'd
+	debilitate the planet long enough for additional probes to be sent in.
+	If one can do the job, one does the job; if more are required, more
+	are sent.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What kind of alien was sick in medlab?
      
+	I'll have to go back and check, but from memory I'm pretty sure he's a
+	Llort.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happened to Na'Fon?
      
+	When he failed to convince the other Narns to accept him as
+	their new leader -- which was the whole point to his being sent to B5
+	in the first place -- he had no choice but to go home.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864890926 Why don't we ever see worker-caste Minbari?
      
+	Worker caste tend to fade into the background; we've seen them here and
+	there; pilots and traders (visible in "Strife") are worker caste, and
+	others.  They don't have as much a stylized manner of bone-carving as
+	the other castes.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Lyta Alexander returns to the station at Kosh's behest.
+One of Theo's brothers discovers that he may have a hidden past.
+
+
+Brad Dourif as Brother Edward.
+Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
+Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.38
+
+Production number: 305
+Original air week: November 27, 1995
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Adam Nimoy
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Mindwipes were instituted after Earth decided that they were more
+	humane than the death penalty.  They are apparently not very
+	complete; the old memories remain in some form or another, but are
+	inaccessible without the intervention of a telepath.  (See also
+	"The Quality of Mercy.")
+
+   
    •  Minbari religion is based on the notion that souls are part of a
+	larger whole, of the universe itself, which is in the process of
+	trying to discover itself.  Souls can only be perceived via the
+	physical bodies they inhabit, but the real soul is something only
+	dimly related to the body.
+
+   
    •  Valen, the great Minbari spiritual leader and founder of the Grey
+	Council, appeared a thousand years ago.  He is believed to be a
+	Minbari not born of other Minbari, according to Lennier.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What happened to Lyta?  Was Kosh inhabiting her body?  Was the
+	body not even Lyta's to start with?  She has gills on her neck that
+	allow her to breathe in Kosh's quarters, and several health problems
+	have been completely repaired.  What else did the Vorlons do to her,
+	and why?
+
+   
    •  Given how easily she pulled the information from the Centauri, have
+	her telepathic powers increased?  Or could any P5 do the same?
+
+   
    •  What did she see on the Vorlon homeworld?
+
+   
    •  Why is Londo so anxious to find out what she saw that he'd resort to
+	threatening her?
+
+   
    •  What was Lyta's mission for Kosh?  Why does he want an aide all of a
+	sudden, when he hasn't had one before?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  If Garibaldi and Sheridan are any indication, mindwipes are widely
+	considered to be insufficient punishment for serious crimes.  How
+	widespread that perception is isn't known.
+
+   
    •  Could the techniques used to put a mindwipe in place be related
+	to the method used by Bureau 13 to implant hidden personalities 
+	("Divided Loyalties"
+	and, more ominous, comic #8,
+	"Silent Enemies?")
+	Both seem to involve submerging one personality and causing another
+	to become dominant, though in the case of Control, it's not clear
+	which was the original.
+
+   
    •  Edward's execution was not only a sort of crucifixion (notice how
+	he's suspended from the metal frame) but also resembles Sheridan's
+	suspension from what looks like the same kind of frame in
+	"Comes the Inquisitor."
+
+   
    •  Might Valen have been a Vorlon, or a Minbari under Vorlon influence?
+	If, as Lennier says, he was truly not born of Minbari parents, that
+	strongly suggests he wasn't Minbari at all, and Vorlons certainly
+	have the power to appear as Minbari.
+
+   
    •  If Minbari consider the universe to be a manifestation of a single
+	soul, how did they ever find it conscienable to fight the
+	Earth-Minbari War?  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  The Vorlons didn't hear, or didn't respond, to Lyta's signals, and
+	took five days to respond to her telepathic broadcast.  What's
+	interesting is that they apparently didn't come until she was nearly
+	unconscious.  Could that be related to what happened to Sheridan in
+	"All Alone In the Night?"
+	Maybe she was only able to make contact when, as Kosh said of Sheridan,
+	her mind was quiet enough to hear the Vorlons.  Or, of course, it
+	could simply have taken them several days to locate and reach her, in
+	which case they could even have been responding to the non-telepathic
+	signals.
+
+   
    •  Why didn't Franklin notice Lyta's gills?
+	Perhaps he did and didn't feel they were worth mentioning (gill 
+	implants aren't completely alien concepts; G'Kar has them, as
+	noted by the assassin in
+	"The Gathering.")
+	It's also possible she didn't get them until her errand in the
+	middle of the episode.
+	Franklin did note that she had elevated oxygen levels in her
+	bloodstream, though, which would tend to indicate both that she had
+	the gills before he examined her and that he didn't notice them.
+	Given the powers of illusion Vorlons have demonstrated, covering
+	up gills would probably have been a small matter with Kosh's help.
+
+   
    •  Whatever left Lyta to enter Kosh's suit looked a lot like the creature
+	inhabiting Sheridan in
+	"Knives."
+	Could Sheridan have inadvertently been inhabited by a Vorlon?
+	Certainly it would be consistent with him being made to see things
+	that weren't there; Kosh clearly has that power.
+
+   
    •  Psi Corps may have strict rules against unauthorized scans, but
+	Sheridan and Garibaldi don't hold those rules in particularly
+	high esteem.  Now that they have a non-Corps telepath at their disposal,
+	someone whose loyalty is presumably above reproach thanks to her
+	association with Kosh, will they begin calling her in on a regular
+	basis?
+
+   
    •  The Centauri telepath, likewise, seemed to show contempt for the Corps'
+	regulations.  What regulations, if any, are Centauri telepaths
+	obligated to follow?  Clearly they're not simply allowed to roam
+	freely, since Londo had this particular telepath's name on a list.
+
+   
    •  If Lyta can implant nightmares, other psis can presumably do the same.
+	We've seen one nightmare: Londo's prophetic dream.  Is it possible
+	that someone or something implanted it in him?  (He says, in
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line,"
+	that Centauri have such dreams as a matter of course, but that
+	doesn't rule out an external influence.)
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The title, as noted in the episode,
+	is a Biblical reference.  In the New Testament,
+	Matthew 26:30-50,
+	Jesus goes to Gethsemane with Peter and two others to pray and
+	contemplate his imminent betrayal.  They fail to keep watch over
+	him, and Judas is able to lead the Romans to Jesus.  Gethsemane
+	is also referred to, not always by name, in
+	Mark 14:32-52,
+	Luke 23:39-51,
+	and
+	John 18:1-13.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's opinion of Garibaldi's eye-for-an-eye attitude echoes that
+	of Gandhi, who said, "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Malcolm, Edward, and Charles are all names of rulers of Scotland.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The names Edward and Charlie may also be a reference to two H.P.
+	Lovecraft stories.  In "The Thing On the Doorstep," a character
+	named Edward falls in love with a woman whose grandfather has
+	shifted his soul into her body, replacing hers.  In "The Strange
+	Case of Charles Dexter Ward," the title character becomes obsessed
+	with the memory of an ancient ancestor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Shooting began on September 11, 1995.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  I'd rather not say anything at all about "Gethsemane," because a
+        large part of the plot turns on something you need to discover
+        mid-viewing, and anything I might say would only detract from it.
+        It's a lovely, sad, very moving story; it's kind of my Twilight Zone
+        story in the B5 universe, with some very strong emotional twists as
+        we go along.  It's not the kind of story I get to do within the B5
+        structure very often, and I'm extremely pleased with this one (and
+        Adam Nimoy did a *bang-up* job directing it; he thinks it may be his
+        best work ever).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Adam did a great job interpreting the script on
+	that one, and it's  definitely one of our most successful
+	episodes...though today I took a look at  another, more
+	completed version of episode 8, "Messages," and *man* is this 
+	amazing...just a knockout...trouble is we keep raising our own
+	bar and won't  accept anything less...so the pressure becomes
+	quite astonishing after a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Adam was great in that he's a *very* serious director
+	who sits down and  really thinks through the subtext of the
+	episode, the thematic aspects, the  underlying symbology, and
+	then sits with the actor and *really* works with them  so that
+	they fully understand the nuances of the scene.  A lot of TV
+	direction can  be rushed...you're always under the gun...so
+	it's rare to find someone who really  takes his time and
+	prepares the cast.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Gethsemane" isn't a horror-type story at all, though it does have a
+	very TZish [Twilight Zone] feeling, so it doesn't owe to any of
+	those.  Best to just let you see it when it airs.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Brad read the script, fell in love with the part, and dived for it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Two things on the upcoming episode ("Gethsemane")....
+
+	
      
+	1) This is episode #5 in shooting order; I'd originally planned to end
+	the first batch of new episodes with #4, "Voices of Authority," which
+	is a major -- and I mean major -- wham episode.  But the EFX
+	requirements were pretty hideous (though not as bad as "Messages"), so
+	I moved "Gethsemane" into that slot, which is a very strong episode,
+	though not an arc'er.
+
+	
      
+	2) On the story question...yes, this was the story that someone else
+	(don't want to use names, no sense in blaming anyone) had accidentally
+	suggested while I was working on it early in season two.  So I had to
+	scuttle the script for nearly a year.  Finally, very chagrined over
+	what happened, the individual gave me a notarized form explaining the
+	situation. At that point, I was able to reactivate the story.  So no,
+	it's not any kind of "it's okay to do this" notion about story ideas;
+	as it is, the story was tied up for about a year, and might never have
+	seen the light of day had not the other person made great efforts to
+	set the situation straight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 On another service, someone without
+	considering what he was saying (not his fault, it just happened) said,
+	in essence, "What if somebody on B5 found out that he had been
+	mind-wiped, and used to be something awful previously?"
+
+	Well, I'd had "Passing Through Gethsemane" on the wire at that time, but
+	when I saw this, I had to scuttle the story.  It lay there, untouched,
+	for over a year, until I could finally meet the fellow and get a signed
+	release indicating what'd happened.  If that fan had not been fair and
+	reasonable, that episode -- which many consider one of our best --
+	would never have been made.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was there any nod to the person who suggested the idea, and what
+	was the story originally like?
      
+	No, no nod to the person who suggested it, since this isn't a
+	competition, and the suggestion cost me a year where I couldn't do the
+	story.  (So I wasn't in the cutest frame of mind about this for a long
+	time, even though it wasn't really his fault.)
+
+	
      
+	Basically, it would've been a one-shot, with two monks arriving to
+	scope out B5 for the arrival of the rest later on.  (You'll notice
+	that none of the other monks get into the story here; that's a
+	hold-over from the original outline, which I saw no need to change at
+	this point.)  So this would've been folded into an introduction to the
+	order as they come to check out B5's facilities.
+
+
      
+   
    •  They would've gotten the info in a different way, without resorting to a
+	telepath.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Carol: *exactly* the right point.  In his earlier talk about
+	Gethsemane, Edward  mentioned that old JC had to go through all that to
+	atone for the sins of others;  when he sees Theo later, through the
+	grate, he uses the same notion of  atonement for the acts of another,
+	in this case, *his* other.  The logical parallel  parses pretty closely.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Not sure he *wanted* to die, as much as he felt it was *necessary* in
+	order to atone for the sins of another...his own "other," in this case.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where was Malcolm's mind wiped?
      
+	We established in "The Quality of Mercy" that the equipment to handle
+	mindwipes is there on-station, locked away until mandated by a court.  A
+	court assigned telepath is usually brought in to do a preliminary scan
+	before it happens and to verify the wipe immediately afterward.  In that
+	same episode, Talia was used only because a court teep wasn't available.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, B5 has a court system, authorized by the Earth Alliance
+	Judicial System,  to conduct trials of this sort (which we've seen
+	before).  And in this case, again,  there wasn't a trial per se as
+	Ivanova noted; he pleaded guilty from the start, quite  proud of what
+	he'd done. So all that remained was the sentencing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'd say there were extenuating circumstances here that made it more than
+	just a simple murder (and not all murders get wiped, esp. in cases like
+	second-degree or manslaughter).  He'd stalked Edward for years; arranged
+	to break the mindwipe; and engaged in slow, deliberate, methodical
+	torture unto death.  The degree of premeditation is staggering.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the other brothers aren't mind-wiped.
+	
+	
      
+	You're mis-remembering "The Quality of Mercy."  Telepaths do NOT
+	perform mindwipes.  A court appointed teep makes a scan before and after
+	for purposes of comparison, but the wipe is done by a device held under
+	lock and key until ordered out by a court.  The only reason Talia did it
+	in QoM was because they couldn't get a court teep there in the required
+	time (which was also stated in the episode).  So here the court
+	appointed telepath would have come and gone by now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Mindwiping was presented too positively.
      
+	I'm not sure I presented it positively; I just presented it, didn't make
+	a moral judgement about it.  Some of those in the show did, but then we
+	had Edward saying it *isn't* moral, that it's a monstrous thing to do.
+	Like any form of punishment it can seem fair to those not facing it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are templates used, with some variations.  In a government
+	monitored  situation (which this wasn't, they thought he was dead),
+	mindwipes are kept in servile positions, not allowed to achieve, as that
+	would be a kind of reward.   Those guys you see along the roadsides
+	picking up trash and putting them in  bright orange bags?  Mindwipes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: mindwipes no longer considered people...this really is not that
+	much  different from prison inmates, who are given numbers, have no real
+	civil rights,  and are treated like cattle.  (And many of them deserve
+	it; a few deserve worse; a  few deserve better.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the moral ambiguity
      
+	Thanks.  That's really the intent; to get people to talk about the
+	issues raised, and to examine the issues.  We won't tell you what to
+	think about an issue, because I don't have an answer myself...but if it
+	made you stop and consider this stuff, and decide for yourself where
+	you fall in the discussion, then it's done its job.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 It's a hard thing to walk the line between not
+	being effective and  being heavy-handed...I think it worked
+	quite well in that respect.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 The Centauri did not steal the bag; he had left long
+	before Edward lost it (we see him drop and leave it behind in the
+	hallway).  As Garibaldi said, someone found it and tried to sell it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If the Centauri teep had had more time to react he probably would have
+	gone after Garibaldi...but Lyta came in too fast, and she took his
+	attention quickly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the Centauri...note that Edward wasn't killed where
+	they found him. He  was taken and killed elsewhere, in a area
+	they'd more or less secured for that  purpose.  That was the
+	area he knew about.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the use of Lyta to extract the info...this is the main reason why
+	there's a Psi Corps, and there are exacting rules, otherwise it can
+	easily become deus ex machina.  We won't ever do this sort of thing
+	trivially, and here it was definitely meant to be a little
+	disturbing...it was a sheer matter of life or death, the guy was a
+	creep, and somewhere Edward was bleeding to death.  Even after so many
+	viewings, and even having written the thing, I find that one scene
+	vaguely scary.
+
+	
      
+	It's the best of the first four, I think.  But better is coming....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 The interrogation scene was disturbing.
      
+	Yes, that's definitely the sense I was going for.  That scene frankly
+	unsettles and scares me a little, because it does show our characters
+	skirting the line...yes, it's absolutely necessary, every moment is
+	precious if they're going to try to save Edward's life...but it's still
+	a bit creepy.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 How Sheridan and Garibaldi got away with it?
+
+	
      
+	"Telepath?  What telepath?  Never happened.  Can you describe her?  No?
+	I see.  Well, I don't remember seeing anyone in there, Mr. Garibaldi, do
+	you? We'd check the logs to be absolutely sure, because we'd hate for
+	this sort of thing to happen, but we had a small glitch in the software,
+	and the recorders didn't work...still, we're working on it, and we hope
+	to have it taken care of in the next few months.  Would you like some
+	more tea, Ambassador?"
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833696560 What Kosh was doing with Lyta (that
+	sounds vaguely suggestive) wasn't a one-time event.  There was a
+	transference going on, and that aspect will be heard from again.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833868577 Why did it take Lyta so long to get to the
+	Vorlons?
      
+	Well, she didn't go directly into Vorlon space; she left, went
+	around a bit, had to find a pilot willing to take her...it was a time
+	consuming process.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 Contacting the Vorlon government isn't the hard part;
+	getting into and out of their space is what's hard.  We showed in the
+	pilot that B5 and Earth were in *contact* with the Vorlons; Lyta was
+	trying to get inside their turf, and they aren't exactly neighborly in
+	that respect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did it take so long for a med team to get to Edward?
+	They were in a pretty distant part of DownBelow, and in B5 you don't
+	have trains or cars; there's just the transport tubes, and the central
+	core shuttle.  Even if they gave a damn about what happens to lurkers in
+	DownBelow (and they generally don't), it would still take at least 5-10
+	minutes to get a trauma team down there, and he was dead within about 3.
+	(I was once mugged half a mile from a police station and a mile from a
+	hospital; took 'em 30 minutes to get there.)
+
+	
      
+	Sheridan and Theo didn't *discover* that Edward was using the
+	computer; Theo was concerned that he was looking into it in general.
+	And if they had blocked the computer in his quarters, he would have been
+	able to access one somewhere else.  They didn't know he'd actually done
+	it until after the fact.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The absolution scene, based on what used to be called the rites of
+	extreme unction, or last rights, is now called the "celebration" of
+	passing, and I went to the Catholic church's information office, and
+	got the actual text.  I made a few adjustments here, condensing it a
+	bit (on the logic that Edward didn't have a lot of time), and
+	modifying a few small points here and there, on the second logical
+	point that in 250 years, such might have taken place (as the current
+	ritual has been adjusted a bit here and there over the years).  So if
+	it felt right, it was.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One caveat here overall...it's been complimented and commented upon
+	that I would expose a belief system in my show which I do not personally
+	agree with (presenting the face of religion even though I'm an atheist).
+	That I could be this  tolerant is apparently praiseworthy.
+
+	
      
+	I would just suggest that at some point, when and if I should offer
+	a point of  view from another perspective, which one watching might not
+	personally agree  with, the same tolerance is given, since the virtue of
+	tolerating divergent attitudes  has been deemed praiseworthy...and is
+	something ever to strive for....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 Basically, Sheridan believes in a lot of things; he's
+	very eclectic in his views, can incorporate lots of different
+	perspectives, and has a respect for all views.  In one of the early
+	season 3 eps, in fact, one character upbraids him for having "no
+	clearly defined pattern of faith," to which Sheridan replies, "I'm
+	eclectic, open-minded."
+
+
      
+   
    •  "The themes of faith and forgiveness were worthy of a theologian. Are
+	you sure  there isn't something you'd like to tell us?"
+
+	
      
+	Never shoot pool at a place called Pop's.  Never eat food at a place
+	called  Mom's.  The difference between horses and humans is that
+	they're too smart to be on what *we'll* do.
+
+	
      
+	And I have lost people.  Too many people.  Lost them to chance,
+	violence,  brutality beyond belief; I've seen all the senseless,
+	ignoble acts of "god's noblest  creature."  And I am incapable of
+	forgiving.  My feelings are with G'Kar, hand  sliced open, saying of
+	the drops of blood flowing from that open wound, "How do  you
+	apologize to them?"  "I can't." "Then I cannot forgive."
+
+	
      
+	As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious,
+	because it's only  here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark,
+	and then it's gone forever.  No  afterlives, no second chances, no
+	backsies.  So there can be nothing crueler  than the abuse,
+	destruction or wanton taking of a life. It is a crime no less than
+	burning the Mona Lisa, for there is always just one of each.
+
+	
      
+	So I cannot forgive.  Which makes the notion of writing a character
+	who CAN  forgive momentarily attractive...because it allows me to
+	explore in great detail  something of which I am utterly incapable.
+	I cannot fly, so I would write of birds  and starships and kites; I
+	cannot play an instrument, so I would write of  composers and
+	dancers; and I cannot forgive, so I would write of priests and  monks
+	and minbari....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 In legal terms, in order to qualify for "a crime of
+	passion" there cannot be premeditation; it happens suddenly, in the heat
+	of the moment.  By virtue of stalking Edward for nine years, the "crime
+	of passion" defense quickly goes by the boards.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 From what Ivanova tells Lyta, about two weeks have passed
+	since the apprehension of Edward's killer; and yes, with slight
+	modifications to prevent mindwipes from running into one another, they
+	usually use preset templates in creating a basic history for the person
+	to be wiped.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891412 Why did Ivanova tolerate Lyta?
      
+	Real simple.  Lyta has proven that she was telling the proof about the
+	traitor; and she's on the run from the Psi Corps herself, putting her
+	and Ivanova on the same side; and she helped when she was asked to try
+	and find Edward.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If there were just one pure and unchanged
+	universal soul running through  everything, there wouldn't be any point
+	in breaking itself into pieces and investing  itself in different
+	species/people...it would just keep running into identical  versions
+	of itself.
+
+	
      
+	So the soul form in Minbari is different from the soul form in
+	humans; also, in  their view, having been civilized longer than us,
+	their soul form is more elevated,  more evolved...and thus the pieces
+	are more precious, to them, and to the Soul  Hunters.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, there's really just the one Minbari religion, and the warrior
+	caste tends to  follow it, but not lead it.
+
+
    
+
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Draal helps the crew attempt to contact more of the First Ones.  Sheridan
+works to hide his conspiracy from the Nightwatch.
+
+
+Shari Shattuck as Julie Musante.
+John Schuck as Draal.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.20
+
+Production number: 304
+Original air week: January 29, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Menachem Binitsky
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Morden was directly involved in the assassination of President Santiago,
+	and was in contact with then-Vice President Clark at the time.
+
+   
    •  There is bad blood of some kind between the Vorlons and at least some
+	of the First Ones.
+
+   
    •  G'Kar's operatives have told him something of the Rangers, though
+	they don't know the whole story.  He suspects Delenn is involved
+	somehow.
+
+   
    •  The Ministry of Peace is planning to purge a number of high-level
+	officials from the Earth government on charges of sedition, immoral
+	conduct, and espionage.  It has gained even wider powers recently,
+	including the ability to investigate people based on past associations.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Why were the First Ones upset at the Vorlons?  Could it be related
+	to the reason the Vorlons stayed behind when the other First Ones
+	left?  What did they say to Ivanova?
+
+   
    •  What does G'Kar want Garibaldi to find out from the Book of G'Quan?
+	The book mentions the Shadows; how detailed is its information?
+
+   
    •  How did the Machine record the conversation between Clark and Morden?
+	Is it monitoring all communications in a vast region of space, or does
+	it concentrate on Shadow-related conversations?
+
+   
    •  What impact will the recording have?
+
+   
    •  Will Musante return to the station?  What did she make of Zack's
+	question?  Will she link it to the release of the recording?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The First Ones at Sigma 957 were annoyed at the mention of the Vorlons,
+	suggesting that the two races had a disagreement at some point in the
+	past.  Perhaps the Vorlons prevented, intentionally or otherwise, the
+	final defeat of the Shadows in the previous war.  It could also have
+	something to do with the Vorlons' manipulation of younger races
+	("The Fall of Night.")
+	Perhaps the Vorlons didn't depart with the other First Ones because
+	they weren't allowed to do so.
+
+   
    •  "When it is time, come to this place.  Call our name.  We will be
+	here."  But what is their name?  Does Draal know?  Did the
+	recognition code the White Star sent call them by name, or is this
+	an additional hurdle to obtaining help from the Sigma 957 aliens?
+
+   
    • @@@832310247 The manifestation of the First Ones bore some resemblance
+	to a Native American totem, or an African wood figure.  Coincidence,
+	or are the Vorlons far from the only visitors to Earth?
+
+   
    •  Ivanova was able to extract more information from the Great Machine
+	than any normal human could have, according to Draal, and she managed
+	to find a pretty specific recording in what must have been huge
+	mountains of data (literally!)  Is that due to her latent psi ability?
+	What would happen if a full telepath like Lyta were to step into the
+	machine?  (See
+	below.)
+
+   
    •  The Shadows (if that's what they were) sensed Ivanova's "presence"
+	at Sigma 957.  That implies that the Machine was actually projecting
+	something there rather than passively scanning, and that the projection
+	was tangible enough to provoke Ivanova to comment that the enemy
+	"knows my name," an odd remark in itself.
+
+   
    •  There may be something significant in Draal's use of the term "the
+	enemy" to describe Ivanova's visitors; he didn't say "Shadows."  On
+	the other hand, given that she heard the typical Shadow chitter and
+	that the floating lights were in the same pattern as the glowing
+	Shadow eyes seen by Sheridan in Kosh's vision
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	and in the season three title sequence) it's probably safe to assume
+	that she was in fact being observed by the Shadows.
+
+   
    •  Just how much contact there was between Ivanova and the Shadows wasn't
+	clear.  Did they find out enough about her to know about the conspiracy
+	of light?  Did they have a hand in her discovery of the Clark recording?
+	Given their apparent affinity for chaos in the ranks of potential
+	enemies, the release of the recording and the subsequent upheaval on
+	Earth might be exactly what they want.
+
+   
    •  The fact that Ivanova was able to escape the Shadows by returning to
+	the "path" that connects all living things is perhaps more significant;
+	what does it imply about the Shadows that they're somehow excluded
+	from that path?  Does that have anything to do with their motive in
+	participating in war after war across the millenia?
+
+   
    •  Presumably the machine was projecting Ivanova's consciousness out among
+	the stars; her greater-than-expected control over the machine, as
+	mentioned above, suggests that the experience was telepathic in nature.
+	That implies that to sense her, the Shadows must have some telepathic
+	abilities as well; or perhaps they have a machine like Draal's that
+	can provide the equivalent.
+
+   
    •  The path might be related
+	to the way telepathy works in the first place;
+	if all life is connected on some level, then perhaps telepaths are
+	simply beings who can make use of those connections.  The Shadows'
+	involvement with Psi Corps
+	("Matters of Honor,"
+	among others) suggests that they consider telepaths important; that may
+	relate to their apparent exclusion from the path as noted above.  There
+	may also be a reason they chose to use the Narn homeworld as a base
+	in the last war
+	("Matters of Honor")
+	--
+	the Narn have no telepaths of their own
+	("The Gathering.")
+	A more sinister possibility is that the Shadow occupation is the
+	reason there are no Narn telepaths; perhaps the Shadows
+	eliminated them, leaving the Narn without the genetic code for psi
+	ability.  If that's true, they may be cultivating contacts with the
+	Psi Corps so they have an easy way to do the same to humans when the
+	time comes.
+
+   
    •  The assignment of a "political officer"  to military units
+	is reminiscent of the way in which the Soviet Union
+	maintained control over military units.  Each unit had
+	its own political officer whose job it was to maintain
+	ideological purity.  These officers were tolerated at best,
+	and were generally despised and feared.
+
+   
    •  Another link to Soviet history was Musante's allusion to
+	purging a number of high officials in a very public and
+	permanent way.  This brings to mind the purges experienced
+	by the Soviet Union in the 30s -- the great show trials
+	of prominent individuals, the mass purges of the army
+	(which wrought such havoc over the military that, by the
+	time that the Soviets were actively engaged in World War II, most
+	of the experienced officers had been removed, thus
+	weakening the Soviet army to the point where the Germans
+	felt they could easily defeat the Soviets.)
+
+   
    •  Why would Musante have to be recalled to Earth?  Is she the low-level
+	operative she appears to be, or someone more important?  Perhaps the
+	Nightwatch is simply short-staffed enough that they need all the
+	manpower they can get to deal with such a potentially damaging
+	situation.
+
+   
    •  Delenn's denial of knowledge about the Rangers was an out-and-out lie,
+	not a deception or a mistruth or a careful omission.  Whose honor was
+	she protecting, or does that rule no longer apply to her?
+	("There All the Honor Lies")
+	Perhaps, since her transformation, she no longer feels quite so bound
+	by Minbari tradition; on the other hand, she still seems to cite it
+	regularly.
+
+   
    •  Zack's uniform troubles may be a metaphor for his situation; he doesn't
+	know where he fits in the scheme of things, and is uncomfortable no
+	matter what he does.
+
+   
    •  Now that Ivanova has made contact with the First Ones at Sigma 957,
+	might the forces of light be able to use the quantium-40 (if there
+	actually is any on the planet) that Catherine Sakai was sent to
+	investigate in
+	"Mind War?"
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The First Ones at Sigma 957 were first seen in the first-season episode
+	"Mind War."
+	Although the existence of the First Ones hadn't been revealed at that
+	point, G'Kar's description of this race coincided almost exactly with
+	Delenn's description of the First Ones, an early piece of foreshadowing.
+
+   
    •  Julie Musante is named after two fans, Julie Helmer and Mark Musante.
+
+   
    •  Musante's Earth-bound ship is the Loki, named for the Norse god of fire
+	and mischief.
+
+   
    •  The silhouetted figure on the Nightwatch poster on the wall during
+	Musante's presentation bears a striking resemblance to the figure of
+	Lenin used in Soviet propaganda posters between World Wars I and II.
+
+   
    •  The same figure also appears to have a raven on its shoulder,
+	reminiscent of Ivanova's appearance in Sheridan's dream in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+
+   
    •  The skeletal spines sticking out of the Sigma 957 aliens' ship are
+	made of a computer model of a human footbone replicated and arranged
+	in rows; that earned the ship the nickname "the footbone ship" at
+	Foundation Imaging.  There are also some triceratops parts used in
+	the model.
+
+   
    •  Ardwight Chamberlain, who does Kosh's voice (or rather, the English
+	translation thereof) was also the voice of the First One in this
+	episode.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  I do plan to do more with Ivanova this season, yes, and get her out
+	of C&C a bit more often.  (Especially in "Voices of Authority," coming
+	up.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where's this big war we've been hearing about?
      
+	What we're doing in the meantime is plenty.  Originally, the fourth and
+	final episode in this first batch of four was going to be "Voices of
+	Authority," which deals with just this question of preparing for the war
+	in a big way, has major developments, gets into the White Star...but the
+	CGI requirements of that episode were hideous, so we had to move it to
+	#5 in the lineup, moving up "Gethsemane."  Once we come back with new
+	episodes, we'll hit the ground running hard on all this stuff.
+
+	
      
+	Also bear in mind that wars aren't instant; in the real world, you have
+	to line up support, get into alliances, move all your pieces around
+	before you can get into it.  We're taking a similar path here.  Also,
+	the term "shadow war" refers to more than just the shadows as a race;
+	they refer to what's going on back on earth as well, as metaphor as
+	well as plot point, and that's a huge part of the next batch of eps.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, I'd intended to end with "Voices of Authority," which is a HUGE
+	arc episode this week, but the EFX weren't ready yet (huge
+	requirements), so we put "Passing" in its place.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  It takes us no longer to make the episodes or the EFX really
+	than it did before.  But PTEN will not air shows out of sweeps periods,
+	for the most part. The episodes on hand now were finished weeks, and in
+	a couple of cases over a month ago.  They sit on the shelf until PTEN
+	decides to air them.  The only thing we did was swap "VoA" with
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane" to give that one a little bit more time. 
+	That's it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891987 You should use Claudia Christian more.
      
+	You're absolutely correct, which is why in the very first episode up in
+	the next batch, we send Ivanova off in the White Star as its commander,
+	and we involve her and her charactder more strongly in subsequent
+	episodes as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Voices of Authority" - Earth begins tightening the screws on the folks
+	at B5 to try and exert more control there.  Steps are taken to
+	help prepare for the shadow conflict.  (Here, again, the
+	"shadow war" means both the obvious, and the more subtle
+	conflict brewing at home; it's description and metaphor.)  The
+	White Star voyages to some territory not seen since the first
+	episode, Ivanova helms the ship, a major dramatic turning point
+	is reached, and there is the single funniest scene in probably
+	the series to date.  A strong arc story.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If you want some fun with your wham, and there's a lot of
+	fun to be had in this  one, go for the first one up, "Voices
+	of Authority."  If you want serious, serious  wham, go for
+	"Messages From Earth."
+
+
      
+   
    •  As y'all know, next week the latest batch of new episodes
+	begins to air.  The first one up, "Voices of Authority," is an absolute
+	hoot; if you've been looking to bring in other viewers, that's a good
+	one to start them with, because it sets up a lot of what's going to
+	happen in this episode, it has a lot of background, and it's a lot of
+	fun.
+
+	
      
+	The next two are somewhat more straightforward, stand-alones
+	(to some extent; there's some arc stuff there, however, which becomes
+	more important later).  Then the last two in this batch represent some
+	of the best work we've ever done, "Messages From Earth" and "Point of
+	No Return."  They follow directly on the footsteps of "Voices," so
+	those three together would be great for new viewers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If you're talking about the conference room scene...Draal wasn't
+	put into the scene digitally.  You do a split screen, with the camera
+	locked off.  In one Delenn walks over to a point just short of the
+	line; in another you get a shot just of the wall; then Draal walks up. 
+	You then use a dissolve technique to fade him into the room on his side
+	of the split screen.  But he's not being put *into* the room, he's
+	already there, so he's neither bigger nor smaller than he is in real
+	life, since he IS in real life there, not added in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And what about the machine room scene on the planet?
      
+	We shot two plates, first with him in the machine, then him out,
+	never moving the camera, so it matched exactly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891987 The crew you see on the White Star doesn't reflect those in other
+	parts of the ship.  Also, being fairly advanced, it doesn't require a
+	big crew in command.  You could even fly it single-handedly if it came
+	to that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The First Ones sure have fragile egos.
      
+	The other part, I think, is that they were kind of amused to see
+	this dinky little ship getting in their face, when they *knew* the
+	First Ones could blast 'em to bits....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova wanted to get in the face of the First Ones, to say,
+	"Look, you can blow me away, but damn it, listen to me."  If she'd said
+	that "more reverently," as your friend noted, it would've worked
+	against the logic of the scene and the resolution.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would it be fair to say the First Ones weren't pleased to hear
+	the Vorlons mentioned?
+	Fair, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, this isn't a *literal* translation, because some words don't
+	translate, but the *sense* of the sentence would be "the vorlons can
+	kiss my ____."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891987 Was the mask image just a representation, or was it
+	what the Walkers actually look like?
      
+	It's certainly a form of representation, an icon, rather than the
+	literal entity, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840476527 "So who is older, the Shadows or the Walkers???"
+
+	
      
+	The shadows, but just by a smidge.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't they recognize Morden's voice?
      
+	Who said they didn't recognize it?
+
+
      
+   
    •  What's fun, for me, about the Minipax lady, is that she *clearly*
+	knows that this is a game on one level, her comment about just
+	rewriting the dictionary...she knows the problems aren't *really* gone,
+	they just defined them away.  But when she's in front of a crowd of
+	folks predisposed to her message, she goes full-tilt.  Showmanship.....
+
+
      
+   
    •  A lot of the Nightwatch members looked pretty disturbed by
+	what Musante was saying.
      
+	Now the weeding out process starts.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What do civilians think of Nightwatch?
      
+	Some are scared of Nightwatch, others feel it's a good thing, and
+	darn it, it's about time....
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the other hand, Zack *didn't* rat out the code 7-R stuff to
+	her in any detail.  He's absolutely caught between the two sides, and
+	not sure which way to jump.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Parallels between Nightwatch and the Gestapo?
      
+	While yes, there are some intentional WW II parallels here, do
+	bear in mind that you don't have to go all the way back to the Gestapo
+	to find this kind of mentality...Sen. McCarthy would've been quite at
+	home in Nightwatch.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891987 Is Nightwatch going to clear the lurkers out of
+	the station?
      
+	Nightwatch has bigger goals than dealing with lurkers....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891987 Is the Nightwatch the same group referred to as
+	Bureau 13 in
+	"A Spider in the Web?"
      
+	No, the Bureau would've been a secret organization, a la the NSA
+	or a covert military/spy group.  This is a much more public face.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The political officer: improbable dialogue?  Most of it was
+	taken direct from political statements, public ones, made by Goebbels,
+	Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, Stalin, and other fanatics.  The kind of Big
+	Lie dialogue people continue to fall for today.  Go to a Pat Buchanan
+	rally sometime and tell me it's unlikely dialogue.
+
+
      
+   
    •  DLyulkin...exactly.  You don't just take something and transplant it
+	wholecloth...you change and modify it.  Nightwatch was never meant to be
+	on a one-to-one corrolation to the SS, or Stasi, or McCarthy...the whole
+	POINT is that this kind of mentality crops up in new forms from time to
+	time, in different names, different approaches, but at its heartmeat
+	core the same thing.  By saying it's "That over there," we can relax,
+	since that specific incident can't recur...making us vulnerable to the
+	next version.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, those were shadow eyes; and it was probably a raven on the
+	poster.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Can the machine see everywhere, or can it be blocked?
      
+	No, Varn's people aren't first ones...and the machine can be
+	blocked.
+
+
      
+   
    •  My sense was that basically Ivanova jumped onto the wrong path as she
+	fled...the shadows were in proximity, and she ended up briefly on
+	their path, which took her to the interception of the transmission.
+
+	
      
+	The one comment that I find most interesting, repeated here a few
+	times, is that they didn't buy the Nightwitch (as some have dubbed
+	her) because in her address to the Nightwatch, she was not exactly
+	what you might call subtle, and thus nobody'd believe her, and see
+	her for what she was.
+
+	
      
+	I find it interesting because we always think we're smarter than
+	that, when history proves *exactly* the opposite.  The Big Lie,
+	spoken not just openly, but loudly, firmly and with conviction, has
+	been one of the most successful tactics in history.  When Hitler and
+	Goebbels stood before a crowd and blamed jews for destroying society,
+	circulated pamphlets with ugly cariacatures, indicated that they
+	weren't *really* human (this in actual newsreels provided to the
+	medical profession members charged with eliminating "mental
+	defectives and jews")...when Joseph McCarthy stood up in front of the
+	nation waving a list of names of commies in the state department, the
+	military, congress, showbiz, and the sciences...the public didn't
+	suddenly wake up, hear the voice of the fanatic, and say, "Hey, this
+	guy's nuts!"
+
+	
      
+	They bought it.  Because they were primed to believe it.  Because
+	they wanted to believe it.  Because they were afraid *not* to believe
+	it.   No, she wasn't subtle.  Because there's a time for subtlety,
+	and there's a time to perform grandly for your hand-picked audience
+	and go for the Big Lie.  If she were addressing a larger audience,
+	she might softpedal her message.  To the Nightwatch, she's got to
+	hammer them, just as the Hitler Youth were hammered, as the
+	Anti-Communist Youth meetings were hammered about the Red Peril, as
+	Croatian or Serbian soldiers were hammered about the need to rape
+	women of the other "race" to make the resultant babies more
+	ethnically pure...which happened.
+
+	
      
+	Most of her dialogue was paraphrased from actual speeches given over
+	the decades, or longer, by fanatical leaders to their followers.
+	There's bits of Hitler, of Goerring, of Goebbels...bits of McCarthy,
+	bits of Stalin, bits of Pat Buchanan and Rep. Dornan.
+
+	
      
+	Because people fell for it.  It did work.
+
+	
      
+	It does work.
+
+	
      
+	And it will *continue* to work...for as long as people think that
+	THEY would NEVER fall for such a thing....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Never said they're all convinced of it.  Just as all Germans weren't
+	convined of the views advanced by Hitler.
+
+	
      
+	You don't need all of them.  You just need *enough* of them.
+
+	
      
+	Preferably, enough of them with guns.
+
+	
      
+	Remember, too, that we just came out of the Earth/Minbari War about ten
+	years ago, when we stood at the edge of extinction.  The threat of a new
+	alien race makes a good device.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How much does Nightwatch pay members?
      
+	Basically, it's a weekly bonus added onto their weekly salary; 50 creds
+	is a pretty enticing bump, equal to about 50 pounds British.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Didn't the security people already know about the
+	assassination?
      
+	You have to remember that all Garibaldi's people knew was that a
+	few guys came through the station that may have been involved in the
+	assassination. That is NOT the same thing as showing that Clark is
+	involved.  There was no apparent connection.  We the audience suspect
+	it, from what happens, but until now there has been no evidence of it. 
+	So yes, they know that Santiago is dead; that there's some indication
+	that he may have been assassinated...but that's a long way from
+	pointing to Clark.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864891987 Why aren't Sheridan and company going public with
+	this information?
      
+	With Clark removing all the evidence, and others giving orders to
+	drop it, and knowing Clark would stop any kind of investigation, what
+	is there for them to do officially?  They had to begin working covertly
+	to prove it, which is what they've been doing ever since "Hunter,
+	Prey."  If you're a military officer, and you're given a direct order
+	from your commander in chief or the Senate Oversight Committee to drop
+	something, and you violate those orders, you're up on charges or fired.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was that Ed Wasser's voice?  (He plays Morden.)
      
+	It was definitely Ed Wasser.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Musante seduce Zack?
      
+	No, that wasn't the relationship between her and Zack, much as he
+	might've wished for it.  As for the walkers at sigma 957...the
+	recognition signal is their name, which is 15,000 letters long (we had
+	to cut this line for time).  So I can't really repeat it here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did she think seducing Sheridan would work?
      
+	Her feeling was likely that it has always worked with her in the
+	past. He's widowed, probably hasn't had any in a long time, he's
+	vulnerable, a perfect target.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, like many manipulative people, she projects whatever
+	she thinks will work best with her audience.  Appealing to Zack's
+	patriotism, trying to find Sheridan's affections by flattering him
+	mercilessly (on many levels), playing the straight-chinned leader in an
+	address to security forces...she puts on whatever face she thinks will
+	work.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Sheridan just get rid of her?
      
+	This is the difference between TV logic and Real logic.  In TV
+	logic, yeah, she should've tossed her outta there...but we try to be
+	rigorously real about the B5 universe.  She was sent by the Senate
+	Oversight Committee, as is their province, with the backing of several
+	governmental offices, in an area over which Sheridan doesn't have
+	jusrisdiction: the political arena back home. In the real world, you
+	can't just toss somebody out the door because you don't like them...not
+	if you're a career military officer who answers to a civilian authority
+	or government.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did I imagine Marcus's line about the French?
      
+	You didn't imagine it....
+
+	
      
+	Part of what appeals to me is the idea that the English/French
+	animosity you often see (though clearly not in all cases) would
+	continue not only into the future, but outside Earth.  Realistically,
+	if you go into Europe, you find people holding grudges 500 years old,
+	or more.  Seemed appropriate to carry this small one forward as well.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852231211 I wrote that particular line; knowing the longstanding
+	British/French "feud," for lack of a better term, it seemed appropriate.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What does Marcus know about Vorlon theology?
      
+	Marcus was making that part up.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Weren't me.  It was Marcus.  Blame him.
+
+
      
+   
    •  So the actor ad-libbed that line?
      
+	Actor?  What actor?  I'm talking about Marcus here.  I just
+	write down what he says.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The First Ones had Kosh's voice.
      
+	I figured that some elements of the First Ones should be consistent
+	with one another; others should have specific differences.  Using
+	Ardwight subliminally reinforced some of the consistencies.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An addictive drug with telepathic effects is found on the station,
+prompting a visit by Bester.  G'Kar reaches a turning point.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.62
+
+Production number: 306
+Original air week: February 5, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo's original assignment to Babylon 5 was at the direct request of
+	Emperor Turhan, who chose him after everyone else turned the position
+	down.
+
+   
    •  Dust, an addictive drug, allows non-telepaths of several races to
+	probe the minds of others, experiencing all the victim's memories and
+	thoughts in the space of a few minutes.  Unfortunately, this leaves the
+	victims unconscious, and telepathic victims never recover.  The more
+	often Dust is taken, the more is required to achieve the effect the
+	next time.  Dust was originally developed, and is apparently still
+	being produced, by Psi Corps in an attempt to induce permanent
+	telepathy in normal humans; the experiment has been a failure so far.
+
+   
    •  The Narn used to have telepaths, long ago, but they and their families
+	were exterminated.  The genes for telepathy were too weak in the
+	survivors to allow the Narn to breed natural telepaths, but their
+	abilities can still be unlocked, briefly, by Dust.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How much does G'Kar know about Londo's association with the Shadows?
+	Did Kosh stop him before he was able to discover everything?
+
+   
    •  Why did Kosh stop G'Kar?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@833220507 How did Kosh know what was happening?
+
+   
    •  Was Bester telling the truth about the Psi Corps combatting secret
+	threats to the human race, things ordinary people never hear about?
+	If so, what are those threats?
+
+   
    •  What happened to the Narn telepaths?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Will the Dust have a permanent effect on G'Kar, such as giving him
+	some measure of telepathic ability?
+
+   
    •  What did the Corps learn from Talia?  Was she actually dissected, or
+	was Bester just baiting Garibaldi?  Did they find out about Ironheart's
+	gift
+	("Mind War?")
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What is the rest of the Psi Corps' business on Babylon 5?  Perhaps
+	it involves Lyta Alexander; her presence is probably common knowledge
+	by now.
+
+   
    •  The extermination of Narn telepaths
+	may be connected to the Shadow
+	occupation of the Narn homeworld in the last war.  See
+	"Voices of Authority."
+	Or perhaps the Centauri were responsible, during their previous
+	occupation.  It's also possible, though perhaps less likely, that
+	the Narn killed all their own telepaths.
+
+   
    •  G'Kar asks Londo if being helpless helps him understand the plight of
+	the Narn.  But the reverse effect may have taken place as well; G'Kar
+	has experienced at least some of the past several years from Londo's
+	point of view now, and thus presumably understands why Londo did what
+	he did.  Whether that understanding can lead to forgiveness, though,
+	is another question.
+
+   
    •  Kosh's intrusion into G'Kar's probe of Londo can certainly be viewed
+	as manipulation, especially given the use of the image of G'Lan.  What
+	Kosh is trying to achieve by appearing to G'Kar, and why he's willing
+	to interfere with the Narn and Centauri now when he expressed no
+	interest in them before
+	("Midnight On the Firing Line")
+	isn't clear.
+
+   
    •  In addition to the mention of the Narn and Centauri being alone and
+	dying, reminiscent of
+	"Midnight On the Firing Line,"
+	Kosh also tells G'Kar, "I have always been here."  This echoes Kosh's
+	statement in Sheridan's dream in
+	"All Alone In the Night."
+	It's still not entirely clear what he means, however.
+	Could it have something to do with the "path" revealed to Ivanova in
+	"Voices of Authority?"
+
+   
    •  Kosh may have stopped G'Kar
+	to prevent him from learning too much about the Shadows, on the
+	assumption that G'Kar would likely speak out about them in public.
+	Since the forces of light are still gathering, that'd be something
+	Kosh would want to prevent.  It's also likely that Kosh was maneuvering
+	G'Kar to be of greater use in the future, perhaps testing his ability
+	to influence G'Kar's behavior through the use of religious visions.
+
+   
    •  Probably just a coincidence: Kosh ends G'Kar's quest for Shadow
+	information in Londo's mind by saying, "It is enough."  That's exactly
+	what Londo said to Endawi
+	(Matters of Honor")
+	after recalling his dream of the Shadow ships flying overhead on
+	Centauri Prime.
+
+   
    •  Did G'Kar overdose on Dust?  It is possible that he was about to die,
+	given the intensity of all the images he was seeing - the drug hasn't
+	been tested on Narn.  And that would be consistant with Kosh's previous
+	appearances, when Sheridan was in danger of dying
+	("All Alone in the Night"
+	and
+	"The Fall of Night.")
+	Is Kosh's direct manipulation restricted only to near-death
+	appearances?
+
+   
    •  Who are the characters in G'Kar's vision?  The man on the tree is
+	his father (which G'Kar mentions, and which fits with his recounting in
+	"And Now For a Word.")
+	It's not clear who the second person is, the old man.  G'Quon, perhaps?
+	The third person we know as G'Lan, from G'Kar's exclamation in
+	"The Fall of Night."
+
+   
    • @@@868381277 Kosh dodged the Vorlon question when G'Kar put it to him;
+	in response to being asked, "Who are you?" the vision replied, "I am
+	who I have always been," a self-referential answer that conveys
+	reflection rather than information.
+
+   
    •  Kosh's statement about sacrifice can be interpreted to cover the entire
+	Narn race; he may be saying that the Narn (and perhaps the Centauri,
+	given his earlier statement about the two races) must die so that the
+	rest can live.  If that interpretation is correct, Kosh is preparing
+	G'Kar to accept the death of his people as inevitable.  Will G'Kar
+	continue to fight for the Narn?
+
+   
    •  Vir's position on Minbar was a joke to Londo (strictly a means of
+	getting him out of his hair) just as Londo's position was originally
+	viewed.  Could Vir parallel Londo's ascension to power, potentially
+	rising to great importance in the coming war?  Given his newfound
+	affinity for the Minbari, and his distaste for Londo's politics (and
+	especially Morden,) he could be a great ally of the Army of Light.
+	On the other hand, Londo did get Vir the position in the
+	first place, and at the time he told Delenn that it was to get Vir
+	out of danger.
+
+   
    •  Franklin continues to be on edge; could this be a consequence of his
+	stim habit?
+	("A Day in the Strife")
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Dust has been mentioned before; for example, in
+	"Hunter, Prey,"
+	Max, the kidnapper, asks Dr. Jacobs if he's a dust smuggler.
+
+   
    • @@@877023485 A possible inconsistency: Bester said the Corps had
+	been working on Dust for five years.  But in
+	"Survivors,"
+	Garibaldi recalled a Dust problem on Mars 17 years ago.  Perhaps the
+	Corps took over production of an existing drug, or perhaps the Corps
+	worked on Dust for five years sometime in the past.
+
+   
    •  The Dust vendor's two aliases, Lindstrom and Morgenstern, are the
+	surnames of two characters from the comedy series "The Mary Tyler
+	Moore Show."
+
+   
    •  Morgenstern means "morning star," one of the names used to refer to
+	Lucifer in Judeo-Christian texts.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Walter [Koenig]'s first appearance this season will be in "Dust to
+	Dust," #306.
+
+
      
+   
    •  An interesting thought...as for Bester's personality, keep an eye out
+	for "Dust to Dust," episode #6, where you see Bester from a different
+	and very interesting angle.  Some of what you say here, he says.  (Not
+	about the corps, but about doing what's right as he sees it.)
+
+	
      
+	'Course, whether or not one should *believe* anything he says is another
+	question altogether.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Kosh...we'll see him again outside his suit in "Dust to Dust," but
+	in a somewhat unconventional fashion....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The end credit music changed!
      
+	Yes, we did change that.  Because we -- I -- forgot to have
+	Christopher re-score it when we were re-doing the main title.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865181914 Why didn't we do the music change in the end credits at
+	the very start of the season, you ask?  Why, what a silly question, it
+	was all planned, all intentional, it means...er...it means....
+
+	
      
+	It means we *forgot*.  More correctly, *I* forgot.  We were all so busy
+	getting the new main titles done, we just kinda forgot about it until
+	the first mix...and then we sorta looked around and said, "....oops."
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Dust To Dust" - Looks like a non-arc episode initially, but by the end
+	it has a strong effect on the overall storyline, and makes some
+	permanent changes in one of our characters.  Combines Bester, the
+	telepathic-assault drug Dust, weapons dealers, and brings to a head a
+	major part of the G'Kar/Londo thread.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Dust to Dust" is what I call one of my "pretty box" episodes. 
+	I set down the pretty box in front of you, and you think you know what
+	it is. Then something else entirely jumps out of it at your face. 
+	There's more coming here and there.  I like pretty boxes....
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's about time we had some heavy arc episodes!
      
+	I get this at the start of every season.  Let me repeat
+	what I've said, oh, about two dozen times already before.
+
+	
      
+	At the start of every season, we have new people sampling the
+	show. Do you want the show to continue?  If you do, then you have to
+	continue to add new viewers.  If viewers tune in and they're lost in
+	the overall arc, they're going to tune out again.  So you give them
+	some stand-alone episodes in the beginning, shows that are a little
+	more accessible, but introduce them to the characters, the situations
+	and the universe so that when the arc begins to move again, they know
+	enough to get into what's going on.
+
+	
      
+	Sure, I could've just kept going right with the strong arc
+	episodes. Which the new viewers, 90% of whom sample shows in the first
+	few weeks of a new season and not thereafter, wouldn't have been able
+	to follow well.  And they would've tuned out.  And it would've been a
+	very big nail in the cancellation coffin.  You can bring in new
+	viewers, or you can get canceled and never tell the whole story.  Pick
+	one.
+
+	
      
+	Second, you cannot -- CANNOT -- sustain the kind of intensity
+	you have in the final four over the course of a season.  You need to
+	have some lighter moments as contrast or people are going to start
+	sticking their heads in ovens all across the country.  So at the start
+	of a season, I try to do some lighter stuff, to bring people back up a
+	little, bracing for the next drop in the roller coaster.  You need
+	peaks and valleys to develop any kind of rhythm, or to appreciate the
+	other side of it.
+
+	
      
+	I got the same thing in season one, and season two..."Why these
+	light episodes?  What's happened to this arc?"  Then by season's end,
+	the chorus usually turns to "That was a GREAT season!"  So my response
+	is, Unless you think I've suddenly turned stupid, or I've decided to
+	betray the series I've now worked 10 years of my life to produce...will
+	you for chrissakes *trust* me once in a while?  Show a little patience.
+	When I introduced Vir, everybody on the planet jumped funky all over
+	me.  "He's just a comic character!  It's Flounder!  He's dumbing down
+	the show!  Space him!  He stinks!  Joe's losing it!"  And now, of
+	course, we see what Vir is, and in many surveys he's now one of the
+	most popular characters.
+
+	
      
+	You know what the #1 comment from the pilot was, on the nets
+	and elsewhere?  "LOSE the guy with the funny hair!  He's just
+	ridiculous." Londo. Every time I've done something a little different
+	in the show, I've usually been jumped on, because they're not willing
+	to trust that I know what I'm doing...until they've seen it for a
+	while, then they Get It, and it's "Oh, now I see it."  Great, thanks,
+	now that you've been beating on my head for six months.  Next time show
+	a little patience.  (And btw, ALL of the comments related above are
+	real ones, many of them right here on Compuserve, from people still
+	around here.)
+
+	
      
+	Every story can't be an arc story at this point; you've got to
+	see the characters outside the arc, in the way they live their lives,
+	in other things that happen to them, or else you won't CARE what
+	happens to them in the arc. No, the Purple/Green Drazi story didn't
+	move the arc ahead, but it showed you a lot about Ivanova, didn't it? 
+	So now if and when something should happen to her in the arc, you care
+	about her.  It's the difference between just being chess pieces, and
+	being *people*.
+
+	
      
+	Okay, here's the breakdown.  Season 3.  You had arc episodes
+	only a bit in the first batch.  "Honor," "Voices" and now a little in
+	"Dust." You've got one more stand-alone next week, "Exogenesis." 
+	That's the last one for a LONG time.  Episodes 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15,
+	16, 17, 20, 21 and 22 are ALL arc stories, most of them heavy, none
+	less than moderate.
+
+	
      
+	I said, from the start, that each season would have
+	stand-alones and arc stories.  About 20% in year one, 35% in year two,
+	50% in year three, 70% in year four, and 100% in year five.  And the
+	stand-alones tend to get pushed toward the beginning of a season for
+	the reasons stated.  Is nobody paying attention when I say these
+	things?  Because if so, then why do I get gigged each season at the
+	start by people saying "HEY!  HOW COME THESE AREN'T ARC EPISODES?" 
+	(And as it looks now, year 3 has closer to 13-14 arc episodes, so we're
+	ahead a bit.)
+
+	
      
+	Before people start making sweeping generalizations about the
+	season, it might behoove you to see the season first.  If anything, my
+	concern in looking at what's been done for year 3 is that we're too
+	GRIM for the larger portion of it, and maybe a bit complex...so I'm
+	working to clarify a few things here and there as I do these last few.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865181914 You'll see Walter again this season after "Dust," and I'm
+	trying to work in one more before the end of the season, but it's
+	tough, given what's been going on in the latter half of 2260.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833560613 BTW, here's something to notice when you watch DTD
+	again.  The montage scene with Londo and G'Kar lasts, I think, 10 maybe
+	12 seconds.  But that one piece took John and me *hours* to put
+	together.  Go through frame by frame, and you'll see some of those bits
+	are only 3 or 4 frames long (one second is 24 frames).  We were nearly
+	blind by the time we were done, but it was worth it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: Bester...thanks.  I'd decided a while ago that the next time
+	we saw him, he either had to win, or he had to be right.  If he lost
+	again, it'd cut his credibility out.  This gave me a chance to do some
+	interesting things with him.  He's a fascinating guy...a creep, and I
+	wouldn't trust him for a second, but fascinating nonetheless....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Wouldn't the telepaths have tipped Bester off that something was
+	going on between Sheridan and the Minbari?
      
+	Simple fact is, the rules of the
+	Psi Corps would forbid them from engaging ANY human telepath for this
+	purpose. So the only other recourse is non-humans.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Bester read Franklin when he was injected?
      
+	I think you're misremembering; Bester nudged up his right sleeve with
+	his left hand and held it out; Franklin stuck the needle in.  I don't
+	believe he held his hand (which was gloved in any event).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865181914 If Garibaldi knew Bester was drugged, why did he
+	suspect Bester of reading the smuggler?
      
+	I think it came out of the fact that Garibaldi doesn't trust ANYthing
+	about Bester, and that it's not out of the realm of possibility for
+	Bester to find some way to defeat the drug.  If not, then his line was
+	basically another way of stating "What the ___ are you pulling and why
+	are you doing it and why the hell didn't you TELL me you were going to
+	do this before pulling it?"
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo knows G'Kar knows, yes.  He couldn't not know.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the music during G'Kar's rush of images from Londo new?
      
+	With some thematic exceptions, most of the music Chris composes
+	for us each week is unique, and tailored for that episode.  So yes,
+	it's all mainly new.
+
+	
      
+	Re: the coat of welcoming...here's a little tidbit...we had to
+	make up an entire alphabet for most of our major races (and I've been
+	gradually building up a dictionary here and there for languages).  So
+	they came and asked if they could embroider something in Minbari on the
+	shirt Vir's wearing when he comes back.  I said sure.  Did I have
+	anything in mind?  No, not really.
+
+	
      
+	So I'm on the set that day, and I see the embroidered shirt, and
+	I ask what these five letters spell, since I don't offhand read Minbari
+	yet.  He looked up at me and smiled.  "It spells out ALOHA."
+
+	
      
+	We have a very demented crew.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh would rather sacrifice all the Narn through manipulation
+	than take direct action?
      
+	Exactly.  I mean, in three years, what the heck have the Vorlons
+	actually *done* to help "our side?"  Let the others do it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, I tend to agree with that assessment.  They've guided
+	and instructed and pointed, yes...and manipulated...but they still
+	haven't had to step up to the plate in other areas.
+
+	
      
+	And I don't think the Narns have sacrificed nearly enough yet. 
+	You can always sacrifice more.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A person can be sincere and still manipulative, in Kosh's case. 
+	If he believes he's right, perhaps he's willing to manipulate anyone
+	toward that goal, if it's worth it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865181914 Oh, the Vorlons can be *very* invasive, when they want
+	to be, if it suits their purposes.  There's no Vorlon prime
+	directive...it's manipulation, whether small or large.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why not sooner?
      
+	Because G'Kar needed to hit bottom, real bottom, before he
+	would be receptive to the message...because time doesn't mean to the
+	vorlons what it means to us...and because he was finally mentally
+	receptive due to the dust.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850297524 It was his father in the first part, G'Lan in angelic
+	form, since after all that was G'Lan's form.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865181914 The figure he was talking through during the scene
+	appeared to him as his father; the very last figure, seen departing,
+	was that of G'Lan.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, G'Kar doubtless *thinks* he saw a spirit, possibly the
+	spirit of his father, possibly something else...revealed later as
+	G'Lan, of course, taking that image in order to give him a revelation.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840404655 Why didn't G'Kar embrace his father?
      
+	Logically, G'Kar knows that
+	his father is dead.  He saw him die.  So whoever this was, wasn't his
+	father, even though he was appearing that way.  Or was a spirit, and
+	either way, he would've been sufficiently apprehensive about it not to
+	go blithely around embracing something he didn't understand.  I sure as
+	hell wouldn't.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct.  They see reality, and time, and space somewhat
+	differently than we do.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, I wouldn't say that the shadows and vorlons see space, time
+	and reality in the same ways.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What did G'Kar shout out?
      
+	And what G'Kar said was, "Dear G'Quon, no more...."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did G'Kar recognize Morden?
      
+	G'Kar probably has not yet put that together; remember, he only
+	met Morden once, for about 4 minutes, a couple of years previous to
+	this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does Kosh find it easier to appear to people when they're in
+	altered mental states?
      
+	Yes, it helps if the person's mind is in a different state --
+	asleep, exhausted, in a heightened state of awareness -- for the
+	Vorlons to make contact, which is why their presence is often
+	associated with dream imagery.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The sign behind Kosh says, "WARNING!"
      
+	Yes, the sign does indeed say warning.  Look for another sign
+	right behind somebody at the end of "Severed Dreams."
+
+
      
+   
    •  G'Kar really beat Londo up.
      
+	Implying more than one sees is something that you kinda have to
+	learn over time.  It can be very effective, as here.
+
+	
      
+	You just have to kinda put yourself out on a limb, as a writer
+	or as an actor.
+
+	
      
+	This scene *should* be very affecting.  It goes to Joe's Theory
+	of Violence on TV.  To wit...that we need more of it, but it has to be
+	realistic violence.  It has to show consequences.  You glorify or
+	desensitize violence when you shoot somebody, and they just go down, no
+	yelling in pain, no sobbing as their guts fall out onto the street. 
+	It's just gunfire, loud noises, excitement and fun.  If you're going to
+	show violence, then show it for what it *is*, and show it the way
+	people would react to it.  Make the audience understand that this is a
+	*person*, not one in a series of body counts.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, just to clarify the legalese, the judge sentenced him
+	to *no less* than 60 days; that's the minimum, it could be more.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The female Psi Cop here *was* the same as in ARTDP, played by
+	Judy Levitt, who is also Walter's wife.
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, everyone turned in great performances in this one, very
+	intense and layered.  And as a result of G'Kar's attack, the next
+	several episodes will find him still in prison.  In the B5 universe,
+	you don't just go in for a long time at the end of an ep and next thing
+	you're out again.  He has to serve his time, and now we'll see him in a
+	cell for a while.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, you'll learn more about what happened to the Narn
+	telepaths in coming months.
+
+
      
+   
    •  With Ivanova, I've tried to construct a small emotional arc, in
+	that when she arrived, she was the new kid, she was a bit uncomfortable
+	with the job, and responded by being very formal, very businesslike, a
+	bit on the snide side.  As she's gotten more comfortable with the job,
+	and the people around her, she's relaxed a bit around her
+	co-workers...but if somebody crosses her, as Bester tends to do, she
+	lets fly with some pretty sharp lines.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Marcus and Dr. Franklin combat an invasion by parasitic aliens that attach
+themselves to humans.  Ivanova investigates the possibility of bringing a
+new member into the conspiracy.
+
+
+Joshua Cox as Corwin.
+Aubrey Morris as Duncan.
+James Warwick as Matthew Duffin.
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.34
+
+Production number: 307
+Original air week: February 12, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  Signs on the wall in the Brown Sector marketplace.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A race of symbiotes, the Vindrizi, has existed for half a million
+	years.  They were created as
+	recorders, observing events all over the galaxy so that others
+	can learn about the past when all the books and records have been
+	swallowed by the next dark age.  They survive by passing from host
+	to host, always seeking volunteers who have nothing left to live for
+	and want to live out their lives participating in a grand endeavor.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows have been building up forces in sector 800, near the border
+	of Centauri space.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What is the "package" from Mars that Marcus is waiting for?
+
+   
    •  Why are the Shadows building up their forces in sector 800?
+
+   
    •  Will Corwin prove problematic for the conspiracy of light?
+
+   
    •  Who created the Vindrizi half a million years ago, and what made
+	them think such living histories would become necessary?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  It's never made clear how much time has passed before the Vindrizi's
+	departure, but it's odd that Sheridan and company didn't jump at the
+	chance to get all the information they could about the Shadows and
+	the previous wars while the Vindrizi were still aboard.  Of course,
+	it's possible such discussions took place, but they're never mentioned.
+
+   
    •  Now that Sheridan and his people know about the Vindrizi, perhaps
+	they'll call upon them in the future.
+
+   
    •  What came in on the ship at the beginning of the episode?  The two
+	people waiting for the ship were quite happy to see it arrive.  Were
+	they not yet joined with the Vindrizi, or did the ship simply carry
+	more of their kind?
+
+   
    •  Marcus seems a good deal less concerned with
+	secrecy than his
+	coconspirators; he was talking to Garibaldi openly, and loudly, about
+	his network of contacts in a public place.  By contrast, Ivanova and
+	Sheridan didn't even want to be seen with him at the
+	Earhart's party for fear of raising questions.
+
+   
    •  Why is Ivanova so hostile toward Marcus?  Have her last few romantic
+	experiences made her want to discourage any new developments in that
+	area?  (For example,
+	"The War Prayer"
+	and
+	"Divided Loyalties.")
+
+   
    •  During the medical staff meeting, Franklin mentions that there's a
+	need for Drazi blood.  Is the station being flooded with Drazi refugees,
+	much like it was with Narn refugees while the Narn-Centauri War was at
+	its peak?  If so, is Babylon 5 becoming a sort of haven for refugees
+	of all stripes?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Duncan's line, "I don't like being poked by doctors," is also spoken
+	by the main character Alex in Stanley Kubrick's
+	"A Clockwork Orange."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The ship carrying the Vindrizi is called the Dyson, most likely named
+	for physicist Freeman Dyson.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Marcus quotes from Dickens'
+	"A Christmas Carol" to Garibaldi, and from
+	Shakespeare's "Macbeth" when he wakes Duncan up.  Note that Marcus
+	refers to Macbeth as "the Scottish play," and replaces "Macbeth" with
+	"Marcus" in his quote -- there is a superstition
+	among actors that referring to Macbeth by name is bad luck.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+	
      
+	The particular Macbeth quotes are from Act II, scene 2:
+
+	
      
+	Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!
      
+	Macbeth does murder sleep" -- the innocent sleep,
      
+	Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
      
+	The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
      
+	Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
      
+	Chief nourisher in life's feast.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Then, a moment later:
+
+	
      
+	Still it cried "Sleep no more!" to all the house.
      
+	"Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
      
+	Shall sleep no more.  Macbeth shall sleep no more."
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Glamis and Cawdor are two earl titles that Macbeth holds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Marcus refers to his fighting staff as a "Copeland J5000" while trying
+	to convince the Vindrizi it's a medical instrument.  That's most likely
+	a reference to producer John Copeland.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Vindrizi's musing about what they've experienced is reminiscent of
+	Batty's dying words at the end of the movie
+	"Blade Runner."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "Exogenesis," which we just started filming this week, is probably our
+	most "ordinary" story of the batch, though it puts a new spin on
+	several traditional story elements.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865182196 Sometimes I do like to take stories that have always
+	been done one way, and turn them on their heads to see what new
+	possibilities tumble out. It's fun....
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Exogenesis" - The last non-arc episode for some time.  Puts Dr.
+	Franklin and Marcus together investigating some odd happenings in
+	DownBelow that may indicate some kind of alien influence.  Does,
+	however, introduce a thread that will play out over time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another "oh, yeah, I nearly forgot"...for those out there who have
+	young kids, or if you're a bit on the squeamish side yourself...there's
+	one EFX shot at the end of the teaser for "Exogenesis" that you may want
+	to avoid. When it was finished, John Copeland brought it into my office,
+	fired it up on my TV, and looked away, saying, "You look, it creeps me
+	out too much to look at it again."  It's...pretty strong. So you'll miss
+	the minimum possible, here's the sequence: first there's the Screaming
+	Man (a), then a cutaway to two people (b), then back at the Man for the
+	first part of the shot (c), the two people again (d), the man (e), and
+	finally the two people.  What you want to avoid, if there are real young
+	kids in the room, are shots c and e.  That's it for the whole episode.
+	For non-netted folks, it'll go by pretty fast, but I figured it'd be
+	worth mentioning as an added piece of info for the netted amongst us.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865182196 How is your mental image of the arc holding
+	up?
      
+	The overview still holds up pretty well, I think.  Toward the end of
+	season two, I think things got just a *tad* too convoluted in places, so
+	that's being cleared up a bit, the dry brush trimmed back, the red
+	herrings cleared away, because we've got to start focusing on the real
+	story, not the misdirections.  That's probably the one thing I'd go back
+	and revise, because in general, you can't just bring something up and
+	walk away form (from) it later; it's got to either fit, or be
+	reasonably, logically explained away.  So some time has to be spent on
+	that now.  But that's been done pretty effectively in this first batch
+	of episodes, and now we're down to really cranking on the shadow war.
+
+	
      
+	In four more episodes (writing-wise), I'll be at the exact midpoint
+	in the story, which on one level is a little hard to believe; it's gont
+	(gone) by so fast.  Seems like yesterday that we just got started. 
+	Which is why the overview is very helpful; by constantly reminding me
+	where we should be, it doesn't let me get lost in the neverwhere of TV
+	production.
+
+	
      
+	All things considered...we've had some bumps on the ride, a detour
+	here and there, the occasional flat tire, but doggone it if the old
+	thing seems to have a mind of its own; I started writing #7 the other
+	day, and I'm well past halfway finished writing it, it's coming out
+	almost as though it already existed, and I've just managed to "tune
+	into" it, like the sculpter who knows that inside a block of wood is a
+	horse, he just has to start chopping and cutting until he finds and
+	relases it.
+
+	
      
+	So long answer to a short question...we're still on course, and I'm
+	still quite pleased with where we're going, and how we're getting there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Yeah, Exo is the last non-arc episode for a long time,
+	and the last chance to catch one's breath before the big fall.
+
+	
      
+	My personal evaluation of the episode is that it's okay.  The
+	second half, I think, isn't as strong as the first half.  Halfway
+	through writing the episode, we had a problem come up in production
+	that unexpectedly took me away from the script for about a week. 
+	(Nothing major, but it had to be dealt with and it took time.) 
+	Usually, I write copious notes on a script before I begin writing it. 
+	In this case, the story was so crystalline clear in my head that I just
+	dived in, and was blasting away terrific when the hit came midway 
+	through.  By the time I got back, I'd lost some of the fingerprints of
+	the story, and had to kind of re-find them again.  Mainly, I think the
+	expository sequence at the end could've been done better.
+
+	
      
+	Needless to say, that's the last time I trusted myself without
+	notes, no matter how well I "see" the episode in my head.  It'd be a
+	great script for second or first season, but we have to keep raising
+	the bar, every aspect has to be better than the last thing we did, so
+	for my money it's not quite up to that standard.  Happily, it's the
+	*only* episode this season that I feel that way about...the rest are
+	all just nifty.
+
+	
      
+	That said, I think it has some great moments for Marcus, Franklin
+	and others...and yes, there's a lot more planned with Franklin coming
+	up this season, particularly toward the latter third of the season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks (I think).  Yeah, I've said from the git-go that in my
+	view the second half of Exo isn't up to the first half.  It is, in my
+	view, the weakest of this season's 22.  On the flip side, that means
+	the other 21 are pretty nifty.
+
+	
      
+	Agree with you on Marcus.  I'm finding I have the same problem
+	with him I have with Londo...getting him to shut up once I wire him up
+	and let him go. He's a lot of fun to write, in that he can do the
+	physical action stuff very well, he can do comedy, more dramatic
+	emotional stuff...the whole range.  I can take him places and do things
+	with him that I can't in some ways for the other characters, in that he
+	has only one responsibility, whereas the others have larger
+	responsibilities to more people.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865182196 What did Joshua Cox think of Corwin getting to leave
+	C&C for a change?
      
+	He loved it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the avoidance of the name "Macbeth"
+	
      
+	Just figured I'd use that description of it
+	rather than Macbeth, to make it a bit more obscure, but also some
+	actors do have a problem saying the name Macbeth or being around it
+	when it's said (note: Jason isn't one of them). so it was also a
+	courtesy.  (Later on, while shooting "A Late Delivery From Avalon,"
+	one of the hair dressers made the error of referring to Macbeth out
+	loud in front of Michael York, and had to go through the whole
+	undo-the-curse routine, walking around the stages three times, etc.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  I like Marcus quoting literature, Shakespeare included.  So
+	it's something I've peppered through his character, though trying to
+	avoid too much of it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Marcus and Ivanova should get along
+	well...assuming one doesn't kill the other first....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865182197 Why doesn't Marcus wear a link?
      
+	I just summoned up Marcus in my head.  Here's what he said: "Because I
+	won't wear the bloody thing, that's why.  Bad enough you've got those
+	pagers you wear in 1996, no privacy, no chance to get away, always at
+	somebody's beck and call.  Why not just put a leash around your neck and
+	get it over with? It'd be faster and a good deal more honest.  I'm down
+	in the bar trying to be inconspicuous, dangerous characters on all
+	sides, trying not to be noticed...and the link goes off, and I'm dead.
+	Or at minimum seriously thumped.  No, absolutely not.  You'll never get
+	me to wear one of those."
+
+	
      
+	(This is btw the reason why I absolutely *refuse* to wear a pager
+	myself.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was that Sean Connery's voice at the beginning?
      
+	It was a voice in the walla group that basically came out
+	sounding that way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@869590206 Response to the above from producer George
+	Johnsen
      
+	No, it is Doug Cook, one of our Walla people doing a fair Sean
+	imitation which was not his intention.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did Franklin's stim abuse problem go?
      
+	It hasn't come to a head yet.  Any abuser of substances has moments
+	when he's up, and moments when he's down, moments when he seems fine,
+	moments when he's not.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the Senate continues to investigate President Clark,
+an archaeologist brings news of a development back home that forces Sheridan
+to act against the Earth government.  The Nightwatch tightens its grip on the
+civilian population.
+
+
+Nancy Stafford as Dr. Kirkish.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.06
+
+Production number: 308
+Original air week: February 19, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Seven years ago, an archaeological team working for Interplanetary
+	Expeditions (see
+	"Infection")
+	discovered a disabled Shadow ship buried 300 feet under the Martian
+	surface, underground for at least a thousand years.  Another Shadow
+	ship, apparently with the cooperation of Earth, finished excavating
+	the first, and both flew away.  Garibaldi was witness, and recovered
+	a Psi Corps badge from the site.  See comic issue 8,
+	"Silent Enemies."
+	Most of the archaeologists have died or disappeared since.
+
+   
    •  More recently, a second Shadow ship was discovered under the ice on
+	Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
+
+   
    •  A Shadow ship requires a living being at its core; the two merge,
+	becoming one entity.  If the pilot isn't properly prepared, the
+	result is a confused, insane ship.
+
+   
    •  Translating the Book of G'Quan is considered sacrilege by the Narn.
+	"It must be read in the mother tongue, or not at all," says G'Kar.
+
+   
    •  Shadow forces have continued to build up on the edge of Centauri space.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What were Shadow ships doing on Mars and Ganymede a millenium ago?
+	Was Earth involved in the last war?
+
+   
    •  How does Delenn know that Shadow ships have sentient beings at their
+	core?  What else does she know about them that she hasn't told
+	Sheridan?
+
+   
    •  What kind of preparation is needed to properly merge with a Shadow ship?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's unwillingness to fire on the Agamemnon may be a sign of
+	trouble to come; he's not ready to think of Earth's military as an
+	enemy.  How long that loyalty will last is unclear, but at some point,
+	if conditions on Earth continue to escalate and Sheridan continues to
+	act covertly against the government, he'll be forced to choose
+	between firing on his own people and death or capture.
+
+   
    •  The White Star is a Minbari vessel, yet Sheridan believed the Agamemnon
+	would be able to track it.  (See
+	"Points of Departure.")
+	Perhaps that was simply because the White
+	Star was in Jupiter's atmosphere; it was thus unable to outrun the
+	Agamemnon, and could be tracked via atmospheric disturbances.
+
+   
    •  The White Star is a formidable vessel, in any case; it has as much
+	firepower as several Narn heavy cruisers, judging by its attack on
+	the Shadow vessel (see
+	"The Long, Twilight Struggle,") although
+	this Shadow ship might have been smaller than those faced by the
+	Narn.  The Agamemnon was able to damage the White Star, but only
+	after it had been grazed by a Shadow weapon and subjected to
+	atmospheric conditions far outside its safety limits.
+
+   
    •  G'Kar's book should make for interesting reading now that he knows
+	what's going on from Londo's point of view as well as his own
+	("Dust to Dust.")
+	Given his visitation by what he believes to be G'Lan in that episode,
+	will he consider his writings to be on the same level as the Book of
+	G'Quan?  More importantly, will other Narn feel the same way, and
+	become followers of the Book of G'Kar?
+
+   
    •  Dr. Kirkish says of Earth, regarding the Shadows, "They want us to
+	become more like them."  What does she mean by that?  How can humans
+	become more like Shadows, and what would that entail?
+
+   
    •  Someone on Earth wanted to go behind the Shadows' backs; if the
+	Shadows discover that (assuming they don't already know,) the
+	consequences for Earth could be disastrous.  Assuming, of course, that
+	the Shadows didn't tell Earth about the second ship for their own
+	reasons.
+
+   
    •  The events on Mars make it clear that the Shadows were awake to some
+	degree before the Icarus visited Z'ha'dum
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.")
+	The Icarus visited Z'ha'dum in 2256, but Kirkish saw a functioning
+	Shadow vessel seven years ago, in 2253.  The Psi-Corps connection
+	also implies that the Shadows were aware of humanity at the time.
+
+   
    •  Given Marcus' apparent disregard for secrecy
+	("Exogenesis")
+	Ivanova would be well-advised to make sure his chart is destroyed
+	or hidden lest a Nightwatch sympathizer stumble across it.
+
+   
    •  Perhaps the Shadows bury their ships underground intentionally.  Since
+	the ships are at least partially alive, it's even concievable that
+	the Shadows bury an egg or something similar, then dig up the fully
+	grown ship later on.  In that case, where else are such ships buried?
+	Do the Shadows know, or did they lose track of their ships in the
+	last war?
+
+   
    • @@@832018767 The Shadows attacked the mining colony where Marcus and his brother
+	lived
+	("Matters of Honor.")
+	Could they have been trying to prevent the miners from discovering
+	another buried ship?
+
+   
    •  Now that the Agamemnon has observed the White Star at close proximity,
+	Earth Force will presumably treat it as hostile on sight in the future.
+	That will probably severely limit Sheridan's ability to finesse his
+	way out of another fight.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows are far from alone in requiring living beings to merge with
+	their machinery.  In fact, it seems to be a staple of advanced
+	technologies in the B5 universe:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  The Ikarran weapon in
+		"Infection."
+	   
      •  The anti-agathic drug in
+		"Deathwalker,"
+		which required an extract from another living being.
+	   
      •  The Great Machine in Epsilon 3, which goes berserk without a
+		core
+		("A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+	   
      •  Shadow ships, as shown here.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Are Vorlon ships similarly powered?  They show up as living beings
+	in scans, though that isn't conclusive one way or the other.
+
+   
    • @@@884630518 Delenn's promise to Sheridan, "I will watch and catch you
+	if you should fall," is strikingly similar to the Soul Hunter's
+	comment to her when she was being held captive: "You will feel
+	as if you are falling; do not be afraid, I will be there to catch
+	you."
+	("Soul Hunter.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Narn is written from right to left.
+
+   
    •  "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom" is a variation on a quote
+	from Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States
+	(1801-1809.)  The original meaning was that people should closely watch
+	their governments to avoid excessive encroachment on personal liberty;
+	its use by a Nightwatch member is especially ironic.
+
+   
    •  The events on Mars were first revealed in the comic series, issues
+	"Survival the Hard Way"
+	and
+	"Silent Enemies,"
+	six months before this episode's first airing.  Garibaldi also made
+	a reference to the story contained therein in the first-season
+	episode
+	"Infection."
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  In the middle
+	of the White Star's jump to hyperspace, there's a single
+	frame of note.  The frame takes place as the White
+	Star emerges into hyperspace, as it heads toward the camera.  The
+	hyperspace background changes to what looks like an alien cityscape.
+	Apparently it's a shot from
+	Hypernauts,
+	a children's sci-fi show whose special effects are being done by
+	B5's effects company.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
+ 
+	
      
+	For a couple months now, I've been looking down the road at episode #7, 
+	because I couldn't quite see the shape of it...I knew what I had to do
+	in it, but I couldn't break the spine of the story...until ten minutes
+	ago, and it hit me with all the force of a meat axe right smack between
+	the eyeballs.
+ 
+	
      
+	Hot damn...if I can pull this script off, it may well be the best one
+	of the series to date.  Granted it'll probably give Ron a cardiac
+	infarction, but what the heck, he's had it too easy lately.
+ 
+	
      
+	Oh, man, is this gonna be cool, assuming I can pull it off.
+ 
+	
      
+	Working title: "Messages from Earth."
+
+
      
+   
    •  A bit of a bland title?
      
+	Whether it's "bland" or not depends on what the messsages might be,
+	yes?  The only thing I'll say for the episode is that it may be one of
+	the biggest whams of the first half of year three, and one of our most
+	ambitious episodes of the series.  Generally, my feeling is that titles
+	should augment the episode, or add something, or collapse something into
+	a thematic whole.  When you see what convictions are at hand, the
+	episode "Convictions" as a title works better; ditto for "Messages."
+
+	
      
+	Besides, a nice, quiet, inoffensive little title gives me a better
+	chance to sneak up behind you and whack the heck out of you....
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Messages," for my money, is so far the best we've ever done, though
+	I'll be more able to lock that down once I've seen the final CGI.  It
+	and "Dreams" are real CGI blowouts; in the latter, there are literally
+	100 shots -- CGI, live action, and compositing -- in *four pages* of
+	action.  This is an all time record for us (and that doesn't count the
+	stuff earlier in the episode).
+
+	
      
+	I don't usually go this far, but folks, let me give you my personal
+	guarantee: you're in for one hell of a ride come mid-season, with these
+	three episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Not only did "Messages From Earth" come out as well as I'd hoped or
+	thought it would, it came out *better*.  It is, potentially, either
+	one of the best or the best thing we've ever done in the whole series
+	to date. There are some episodes that come close this season, like
+	"Point of No Return," "A Late Delivery From Avalon," "Sic Transit
+	Vir" (for absolutely different reasons), and parts of "Dust to Dust,"
+	but so far -- at least until the CGI for "Severed Dreams" is
+	finished, which has at least a shot at knocking "Messages" out of the
+	box -- "Messages" is as close to perfect as we've ever come.
+
+	
      
+	Like "The Coming of Shadows" there's a real sense of a *story* being
+	told, and major events happening at breakneck speed.  It's just a joy
+	to watch.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'd suggest, btw, that if there are any folks you've been waiting to
+	bring into the fold on B5, you may want to consider 8 and 9 in the new
+	cycle, the last of that bunch in February.  Eight is potentially one of
+	the best, possibly the best episode we've produced to date.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Here's something that occured to me today.  Any time you have
+	someone you're trying to convince about the quality of a show, and you
+	say, "Here, just watch it next week," that's always the one that comes
+	a-cropper.
+
+	
      
+	"Messages From Earth" airing this coming week is possibly the
+	best thing we've done to that point.  It's guaranteed to grab anybody
+	who watches it.  So this would be a good one to use.
+
+	
      
+	Pick ten friends who you know haven't yet tried B5, or are
+	diffident about it, and give them a call.  Tell them to give THIS one a
+	look.  Then all you have to do is sit back, and wait for the jaws to
+	drop.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Messages From Earth" - This begins the three-episode mini-arc within
+	the larger arc that, by its conclusion, totally changes the
+	structure of the B5 universe.  A mega-wham episode.  Because so
+	much comes to a head so quickly, little can be said about it
+	without spoiling stuff.  Our characters begin making the final
+	and irrevocable steps that will put them on a collision course
+	with everything they have believed in until now.  There are
+	four or five episodes this season that push the limits of our
+	effects and CGI to the absolute wall; this is one of the
+	biggest.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: an "edge" to the show....I suspect you're going to get all the edge
+	you could possibly want with episodes 8, 9 and especially 10.
+
+	
      
+	Be *very* careful what you wish for.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 "...I didn't think things would start moving this fast so
+	soon!"
+
+	
      
+	Well, this is what I kinda kept trying to tell people was
+	coming, when they said things were moving too slowly....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Randy, I honestly don't think, after episodes 8-10 have aired,
+	that you're going to have any problems with how fast the main story is
+	progressing. And do bear in mind that the "main story" isn't just the
+	war; if you wanted to do that, you'd just do Space A&B.  It's operating
+	on a whole lot of other levels.  Nonetheless...this entire season is
+	much faster overall in developing than the two before.  The first two
+	seasons we were mainly putting the guns into position.  Now we're
+	pulling all the triggers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Bruce did an excellet job in this episode, I agree. 
+	As did everyone else.  This is, in my opinion, about as flawless an
+	episode as we have ever made.  It's one of those cases where the sum is
+	even greater than the sum of its parts...and the sum of its parts ain't
+	bad.
+
+	
      
+	From here on through the next batch, the intensity level
+	continues to crank up.
+
+	
      
+	We definitely pushed the envelope in terms of EFX this time
+	out; mixing and matching, and in sheer amounts of shots, and their
+	complexity. But the result, I think, is eminently worth the effort.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I entirely agree; I think she did a dynamite job as Kirkish.  Totally
+	convincing.  When she walked into the audition, and did the part, there
+	was no question...it was her.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the alien city
      
+	The executive producer thinks, "He's mistaken, has to be; it must be 
+	a series of patterns in the image that look like a city." Being a
+	thorough person, however, the executive producer fires up his copy of
+	the tape, and fast forwards to the shot in question. Pauses, then
+	advances, frame by frame. 
+
+	
      
+	Then stops.  The executive producer stares at the screen for a very, 
+	very long time.  Eventually, words form.  The executive producer knows 
+	that if he posts those words here, not only will they throw him off the 
+	system, they will come to his house, burn it down, and sow the ground
+	with salt. 
+
+	
      
+	The executive producer knows what that single frame is, knows that it 
+	has nothing to do with his show, knows that it's a frame from Hypernauts
+	that somehow crossed into the EFX shot in double-exposure via a computer
+	glitch while rendering.  No one saw it.  No one noticed it.  Until now.
+
+	
      
+	Tomorrow morning, the executive producer is going to make phone 
+	calls, and say all the words he can't say here.  When he is finished, 
+	twenty seven miles of telephone coaxial cable are going to hang melted 
+	from the telephone poles.  Shortly thereafter, the executive producer is
+	going to put a gun to his head and blow his brains out, in the sure 
+	knowledge that if he does not do so, he will most assuredly do it to 
+	someone else.
+
+	
      
+	The executive producer thanks you for bringing this to his attention, 
+	and would write further, but is currently modeming from a laptop
+	computer on top of his roof, from which he is considering jumping, and
+	the wind up here is causing line noise.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 The White Star looked different.
      
+	Different camera work, mainly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 The Eternal Vigilance line is from history, not Wing
+	Commander.  Ten Green Drazi points to the person who can name its
+	origin.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where's the press during all this Nightwatch buildup?
      
+	You'll find more on this in the next three episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You need a clear and present danger, and with a
+	population that nearly got wiped out by the Minbari, who are skittish
+	to begin with, you drag out the possibility of someone else doing the
+	same thing and it makes it a lot easier to do what you want to do.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 Why aren't eggs and bacon available?
      
+	Mainly it's the expense involved per volume.  It still costs big bucks,
+	and you generally need refrigeration.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, it's the cost involved in transporting something as
+	basically trivial as eggs.  Yes, it can be done, but the cost per egg
+	would be quite substantial, given limited space in ships.  Space flight
+	is still very expensive.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, a shadow vessel has one "core" sentient, and once in,
+	it's very difficult for that person to ever get out again.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 Wouldn't Ivanova's religion keep her from eating
+	bacon?
      
+	Ivanova's not what you'd call orthodox under any circumstances.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the blue goop?
      
+	Actually, I think it was blueberry yogurt.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Any relation to the moment of perfect beauty in
+	"There All the Honor Lies?"
      
+	Yes, the way Sheridan removes his EA pin here is an
+	echo, or a shadow, so to speak, of his moment in "Honor."  The latter
+	is meant to sort of indicate what might be ahead for him, what he may
+	have to do at some point along the line.  He has to give up things that
+	mean something to him. (We'll get more of this philosophy in a few more
+	eps, I don't want to get too specific here.)  Visual foreshadowing.
+
+	
      
+	From here on in, things get very interesting....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, what he's writing will, in time, become the Book of G'Kar.
+
+	
      
+	And correct, I went for a different feel in this episode, on
+	the theory that a little change is a good thing, if used to a purpose. 
+	It's built like a series of waves, with quite moments in between.
+
+	
      
+	This is the second so far to strongly tie into the comic, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does G'Kar consider his book on par with G'Quon's?
      
+	No, he hasn't thought of it that far yet...but it will find
+	that role.
+
+
      
+   
    •  IXP has been in business, in one form or another, for between 50-80
+	years.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who was the human in the Shadow ship?
      
+	It doesn't really matter in the long run; some poor shlub who
+	got conned into it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would a human be sane after piloting a Shadow ship?
      
+	Almost certainly not.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Could someone on Sheridan's side "pilot" a Shadow ship, or are
+	the ships intrinsically evil?
      
+	It's certainly a *very* good question.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, I wouldn't say there's a corrolation to life force and the shadow
+	ships; they need a living organism as the central processing unit
+	because an organic unit can think faster than most computer systems, and
+	react faster in terms of formulating strategy and the like.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 What condition was the ship on Mars in?
      
+	It was dormant.  The core element was dead, certainly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 Yes, the first batch of eps from season 3, up through 9
+	or so, give a lot more background on the shadow ships, what they are and
+	how they work.  And as you say, virtually everything in this show is
+	here for a reason; there's an offhand remark from Garibaldi in
+	"Infection" about his long struggle out of the Martian desert that pays
+	off in both the comic, and in a third-season episode.  So some of the
+	year three stuff was being set up as early as episode 2 of year 1, in
+	what was designed to look like just plain old throwaway dialogue.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is a Shadow ship itself a kind of Shadow?
      
+	It's not a kind of shadow, no.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is there an official name for the Shadow ships?
      
+	I just call them shadow vessels.  For now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Sheridan use the jumpgate trick again?
      
+	Because there wasn't a jumpgate he had access to, only a jump
+	point created by the White Star.  In the prior situation, he blew up a
+	standing jump gate.  The only one in the vicinity would be at the
+	transfer point near Io, which if destroyed would seriously harm Earth
+	interests.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846717165 Three days is the time to the jumpgate off Io.  Once
+	you're within our solar system, it takes another several days or more
+	to reach Earth itself. It's fairly common to keep your jump gate a bit
+	removed from your "core" planet so you have warning if any aggressors
+	come out of it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How could the Agamemnon detect the White Star?
      
+	It can be for a number of reasons.  The White Star was moving
+	through a highly charged atmosphere, which would leave detectable
+	trails; it was being fired at by the shadow vessel, which would've
+	attracted considerable attention from the flares; diving at that speed
+	and coming back up there would be considerble heat on the surface of
+	the ship (not normally a problem in space); and it was pretty much
+	shaken up/partially damaged during the fight.  Also, at that range,
+	once you're near enough, you can pick it up visually as it gets close;
+	it's not a cloaking system, only a stealth system.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Neither situation relied on introducing new technology, only on
+	taking advantage of what's known currently.  It's a simple equation:
+	ship A is more powerful than ship B.  In a head-to-head situation, ship
+	A (shadow) will destroy ship B (white star).  If you can't directly
+	confront a stronger enemy, you have to find some way to work around it,
+	outsmart it.  (And fortunately, this one was flawed, "insane," as
+	Delenn put it.)
+
+	
      
+	And the minbari know more than they're saying.  But then that's
+	generally true of them.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, the shadow ship arrived with a new "core" for the
+	buried ship.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How does Delenn know so much about Shadow ships?
      
+	The info came from the Vorlons, and from the last war the Minbari fought
+	against them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The ship was hidden there to avoid it being destroyed during the war.
+	May or may not see General Franklin again anytime soon.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851545490 The shadows had allies, who watched over their cities,
+	maintained their machines, waited for their awakening...one of their
+	tasks was to send out one of the few dormant shadow vessels whenever
+	one was discovered or unearthed. This way, slowly, over centuries, the
+	fleet would be built back up in strength.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are no shadow vessels buried on Narn, no.  The shadow influence
+	on the Psi Corps has been growing for about 7 years now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844381189 Who sent the second ship to Mars?
      
+	They had some of their servants and allies taking care of
+	things; whenever a signal was sent, and a ship found, they'd dispatch
+	one of the standby ships to go and pick it up, slowly regathering their
+	forces.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How is Sheridan going to defeat a Shadow ship head-to-head?
      
+	Exactly.  The goal would seem to be impossible.  So how do we
+	do it? Is there a vulnerability that's been laid out but not picked up
+	yet?  Is there an advantage we don't necessarily see yet?
+
+	
      
+	We have to be smarter.  Humans are at our best when against the
+	wall. And we have to do it ourselves, in the final analysis, nobody
+	else can do it for us.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the spine that the White Star shot off the Shadow vessel
+	recovered?
      
+	Nope.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 The shadow vessel was still a little wobbly
+	from its long hibernation and the improper melding.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  Given that we're looking at a high-energy weapon capable of
+	burning through a four-mile wide Narn orbital base as though it were
+	made of butter, it's putting out enough energy, I figured, to lead to a
+	reaction with the hydrogen, whether it's a fusion reaction of some
+	other.
+
+	
      
+	We're talking a concentrated level of energy equal to a
+	thermonuclear reaction on a controlled level, or a fusion weapons
+	system with an energy output well beyond contemporary science to
+	calculate (particularly since this system is capable of delivering the
+	energy, undiluted, to targets tens or dozens of miles distant).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, perhaps a better word than ignite could've been used. 
+	But hey, the guy was being shot at...I'd be sitting in a corner going
+	bibble-bibble...
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the massing Shadow forces
      
+	The forces will continue to build over the course of this
+	season. The White Star would be detected because it was inside the
+	atmosphere, where it could be picked up by its emissions, the
+	disruption caused in the air by the engines, and frankly by plain
+	sight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What's the symbol at the front of the White Star bridge?
      
+	The symbol on the WS isn't on the floor, it's the top of a
+	console that can be used for holographic tactical displays.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The shot of G'Kar writing was flipped!
      
+	Not a gaffe; we flopped the shot because the writing was done
+	left to right, instead of right to left, which is Narnish script.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  We've featured Minbari script going straight up and
+	down like Japanese, right to left with Narns, and other variations. 
+	Because they would naturally occur.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Also, bear in mind that Sheridan went into Earth-space knowing
+	the risks.  For him to fire on the Aggy would be selfish, and wrong; he
+	knew full well that this could be a one-way ride.
+
+	
      
+	If you're going to have a situation where Sheridan fires on EA
+	ships, it has to be the ONLY way of dealing with the situation, and it
+	has to be SUPREMELY motivated, so that it's not just him or one of our
+	guys who's at stake.  It has to be a big situation to merit taking the
+	lives of fellow officers, in the same service.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 Nobody seemed to be translating Sheridan's orders
+	to the White Star's crew.
      
+	Lennier was muttering his translations off-screen.
+
+	
      
+	That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think they know the White Star (aka the unidentified ship)
+	got away, but they put the best face on it back home.  Which is one
+	more reason why Clark's declared martial law.  Things are spinning out
+	of control, he's in increasingly hot water back home, and he has to
+	seize control.  Whoever was in that alien ship knows too much about his
+	operations...if that were to come out, he's finished.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 Are rights suspended during Clark's martial
+	law?
      
+	Yes, right to assemble, free speech rights, they're all open to
+	abridgement.  Travel can also be restricted.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 What happened to Ivanova's discovery in
+	"Voices of Authority?"
      
+	That information was sent to Earth, where it's led directly to the
+	series of current investigations that were launched...and which forced
+	Clark's hand into declaring martial law to distract from all that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Are we near the end of the Nightwatch plot thread?
      
+	The thread will diminish for a while, then return down the road
+	in later seasons, after the story takes its third major turn.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why does anyone on Earth believe Clark?
      
+	It all depends on how you frame the issue...i.e., the attacks
+	are groundless, baseless, and part of a campaign to destroy the
+	government, he's the attacked innocent....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan's conspiracy should be falling apart about now.
      
+	Of course it can't hold.  And they're going to go through
+	plenty of fire.  Remember, this is the first of three that accomplish
+	that.  Each escalates upon what went before.  Don't worry...you'll get
+	your wish.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the current mini-arc (8-10) is the second major turn in
+	the storyline.  The third starts with the last episode of this season,
+	going into the fourth year.  Then you've got one more big turn about
+	the last quarter or one-third of year four, and then a bit of a flip at
+	the end.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We already knew everything this episode revealed.
      
+	If I can, let me address one aspect of this, for your
+	consideration.
+
+	
      
+	Back when I was working on MURDER, SHE WROTE, we'd sometimes
+	get letters saying, "This wasn't a good episode because I figured out
+	the ending. It wasn't a surprise."  (Which is, to some extent, your
+	point here.)
+
+	
      
+	The problem we had with that particular letter was this: of
+	COURSE you figured it out.  Because you were paying attention to all
+	the clues we had put out there in the episode.
+
+	
      
+	There seems to be this notion that nobody should be able to
+	jump ahead, or else something's wrong or bad about the episode. 
+	Absolutely not true.  If you're going to play fair with the audience,
+	whether it's B5 or M,SW, you've got to put enough bits of information
+	out on the table so that the person who's really following it can
+	figure it out...so that at the end, those who *didn't* figure it out
+	can back up the tape, watch for the clues or leads, and see where it
+	all came from.  That's playing fair.
+
+	
      
+	If NObody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+
+	
      
+	If EVERYbody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+
+	
      
+	The best case scenario is a bell-shaped curve.  Some don't have
+	a clue what's coming, some manage to figure it out, and the majority
+	have a kind of vague sense where it's going, but there are still
+	surprises along the way.  If the bell-curve shifts one direction or the
+	other, then you're in trouble.
+
+	
      
+	So far, B5 seems to be hewing right to the bell-curve.  For
+	every person who says "okay, this was expected," there's been another
+	saying, "I had no *idea* this was going to happen here, or so fast." 
+	(Many of these have been right on this forum, in fact.)
+
+	
      
+	Finally, do bear in mind that you have an advantage here that
+	99% of all the viewers don't: the discussion here on CIS, and direct
+	comments from me.  For instance, I just noted elsewhere that we've got
+	major turns at the end of this season, and one 2/3rds into year 4. 
+	Now, if at those points, somebody says, "Well, I knew this was coming,
+	that's bad," I intend to whap them, because the reason they likely knew
+	it was coming was because I *said so* right here.
+
+	
      
+	But that same 99% doesn't have this advantage.
+
+	
      
+	This is the main difference I've noted in the mail that's come
+	in: the net-folks are constantly trying to figure out what's coming up
+	next, treating it like a mystery story (which, really, it's not, any
+	more than ANY novel is a mystery in that you don't necessarily know its
+	turns and twists as you're reading it), whereas the non-netted folks
+	tend to just take it as it comes.
+
+	
      
+	See, that's the other part of this.  People on the nets tend to
+	treat it as though it's a mystery novel, and when it doesn't hit that
+	aspect, say it's flawed as a result...when it was never INTENDED to
+	function as a mystery novel.  It's a novel period.  A mystery novel
+	depends absolutely on the riddle at the center of it.  This is a saga,
+	which uses a different structure.  It isn't a mystery any more than
+	Lord of the Rings is a mystery, even though when I first read it I was
+	wondering what was going to happen next.
+
+	
      
+	Also, a mystery novel is done when the mystery is finally
+	unraveled. Not so the B5 story.  By the end of this season, most of the
+	mysteries will be unraveled, and the pieces laid on the table for all
+	to see.  It then becomes a matter of what the characters *do* about it
+	thereafter.
+
+	
      
+	If I'm doing my job right, and setting up things to come
+	properly, and giving all the clues to it, then by definition a certain
+	number of people HAVE to figure out what's coming.  As long as it's the
+	smaller portion, that's as it *should* be.  So you'll understand why I
+	tend to get in here for a moment when that's held up as something bad
+	or poorly done. (And, again, even you note that the only reason you
+	knew about the shadows on Mars was via reading it here, or others read
+	it via the comics.  Again, that's a very small portion of the audience;
+	most I've heard from had NO idea about that aspect of it.  If you
+	hadn't read it here, you likely would have been surprised by it.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, just something to consider in all of this....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 "Was the "package" mentioned in Exo the blonde woman
+	giving us the Mars Shadow info? Or was it the eggs and bacon?  Or have
+	we not seen it yet?"
+
+	
      
+	Yes, the package referred to Kirkish.
+
+	
      
+	"It seems Sheridan is destroying his Shadow ships by using tricks - not
+	a straight up battle.  At some point won't he be one on one with a
+	Shadow and have to deal with it?"
+
+	
      
+	Sooner or later.  Right now he's outgunned hideously.  He'll have to
+	find a way.
+
+	
      
+	"At some point won't Sheridan have to fight Earth? (I really don't
+	expect an answer to this one)"
+
+	
      
+	Stick around.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843956012 Why didn't Kirkish notice the huge Psi-Corps
+	installation as shown in the comic?
      
+	The building was a lot bigger in the book than it should've been, more
+	like a quonset hut arrangment hastily erected.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843956063 I don't know if the shadow pilot was aware of the Psi
+	Corps research installation...they're not really aware of much of
+	*anything*, except their orders...I'd just suggest that there may be
+	something beneath that particular installation, and a reason they built
+	it there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Garibaldi mention he was with Sinclair?
      
+	There was an outsider, Kirkish, in the room.  Yes, she's helped him, but
+	he's still going to hold back some info because he doesn't know what
+	impact it might have on Sinclair.  He's protective of him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183215 Didn't Sheridan already know about the badge, from the
+	comic issue
+	"Silent Enemies?"
      
+	I believe Sheridan wasn't shown the badge in the comic; and
+	Garibaldi is always cautious about what he says in front of others,
+	like Kirkish.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Kosh should've been there.  Kosh wasn't.  Kosh hasn't been carrying
+	his weight, if you ask me.  I hope this doesn't cause a problem
+	somewhere....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Don't have the shadow dimensions offhand; and yes, you'd think Sheridan
+	might begin to wonder about Kosh's level of involvement.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Weren't the cameras at Ganymede recording?
      
+	Of course.  But who controls those cameras?  Answer: the very
+	folks who wouldn't want it to get out what they had there.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the Earth Alliance plunges toward civil war, internal strife threatens to
+shatter the command structure of B5.  Zack's loyalties are put to the test
+when the Nightwatch is ordered to take over station security.  Londo receives
+another glimpse of his destiny.
+
+
+Majel Barrett as Lady Morella.
+Marshall Teague as Ta'Lon.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.31
+
+Production number: 309
+Original air week: February 26, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  After the death of a Centauri emperor, custom states that his spirit
+	lives on in the body of his consort, who speaks both for herself and
+	her late husband.
+
+   
    •  Londo is destined to become emperor.  That part of his future cannot
+	be avoided, according to Lady Morella.  Vir is also destined to
+	become emperor.  One will become emperor after the other dies, but
+	it's not clear which.
+
+   
    •  Londo has already passed up two chances to avoid the destiny he fears
+	awaits him.  There will be three more.  He must save the eye that does
+	not see.  He must not kill the one who is already dead.  And failing
+	those, at the last, he must surrender himself to his greatest fear,
+	knowing that it will destroy him.
+
+   
    •  One result of G'Kar's Kosh-inspired revelation in
+	"Dust to Dust"
+	is the belief that humans are the key to the salvation of the Narn
+	race.  He also believes, as Kosh suggested, that the Narn must give
+	up their pride and their vengeance or risk being completely destroyed,
+	and that his people must sacrifice themselves by the hundreds or
+	even the millions if all are to benefit in the end.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Is General Hague on his way to the station?
+
+   
    •  What impact will Sheridan's new security forces have?  Will they
+	immediately turn Earth against him?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  One of Londo's two squandered chances was undoubtedly his action in
+	"The Coming of Shadows,"
+	which sparked the Narn-Centauri War.  The other is less clear.
+	Perhaps it was his initial meeting with Morden, or the attack on the
+	outpost in
+	"Chrysalis."
+	It may also have been his decision to ask the Shadows to defend Gorash 7
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle,")
+	without which the Centauri wouldn't have been able to crush the Narn
+	as thoroughly as they did.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "The eye that does not see" might refer to the Eye, the
+	symbol of Centauri nobility that marked the start of Londo's association
+	with Morden
+	("Signs and Portents.")
+	It may also refer to G'Kar's eye, which appears to be injured or missing
+	in Londo's dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832090870 The one who is already dead might be Morden, who's officially dead
+	according to Earth Alliance records
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	or perhaps G'Kar,
+	whose old life is certainly gone.  It's also possible that it refers
+	to the memory of someone who is to die; Londo may be presented with
+	an opportunity to discredit someone who would otherwise serve as a
+	martyr.  Along similar lines, it may refer to the wishes of someone
+	already dead; for instance, destroying the chance for peace that
+	Emperor Turhan sought before his death, something that would have
+	been the Emperor's legacy.
+	
+	
      
+	Another possibility is a connection to the transfer of
+	Minbari souls to humans; the owner of a particular previously-deceased
+	Minbari soul (perhaps Sinclair) may prove troublesome to Londo in the
+	future.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo's greatest fear might be the downfall of the Republic,
+	or perhaps his own death.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's likely Londo will squander at least the first two of his remaining
+	chances, given the fact that there will be a third -- assuming Morella
+	is correct.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What did Sheridan and the others say to convince Zack to go along with
+	their ruse?  It may have been as simple as convincing him that the
+	order from the Political Office was illegal, just like Sheridan told
+	the trapped Nightwatch members.  Using that to convince him would
+	have been the safest course of action, since as a loyal officer
+	he'd be inclined to go along with the plan even if his sympathies had
+	shifted toward Nightwatch.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What were all the non-security Nightwatch members doing during the
+	crisis?  Were they unaffected by the takeover order in the first place,
+	and thus largely unconcerned with what was going on?
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+An official
+press release
+about Majel Barrett's appearance is available.
+
+
    • 
+Many of the Nightwatch members in this episode are production staff
+members, including the production secretary and an assistant director.
+
+
    • @@@834426130 
+Lady Morella is said to be returning from a visit to Ragesh 9.  The Ragesh
+system is the same one attacked by the Narn in
+"Midnight on the Firing Line."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Posted to the CompuServe Star Trek forum
      
+Before you hit the *kill* button...a thought or two in your general
+direction.  First, if you're eager for the actual news part of this message
+-- and it is kinda important -- it appears at the end of this message.  If
+you've got a second, stick around.
+
+
      
+In every interview he's given on the subject, Walter Koenig has spoken
+glowingly of BABYLON 5, as a show he feels is fighting for genuine quality
+SF in television, with serious, mature stories for fans who grew up on STAR
+TREK and are looking for more of that quality...none other than Majel
+Barrett Roddenberry has gone on record at conventions, including Toronto
+Trek and the recent Wolf 359 convention, as saying that BABYLON 5 was "the
+only other intelligent science fiction series out there" besides the ST
+shows, and urged ST fans to support it.
+
+
      
+If you've tried the show, and it wasn't to your tastes...fair enough.
+No one should be expected to like everything.  If you'd like to give it
+another shot, that's fine, but there is no need to defend your opinion; we
+respect it.  Not every show works for every viewer.
+
+
      
+If you *haven't* tried the show...if you liked the original ST and the
+work of Majel and Walter and Harlan and others involved in it...if you like
+the work of Peter David, who has written for B5 and supports it...you may
+want to give it a shot in October/November.
+
+
      
+The final four episodes from year two will be broadcast starting the
+week of October 11th, with the new year three episodes beginning the second
+week of November.  These nine episodes in a row contain some of the best
+work we have ever done.  Acting, writing, directing, effects...we stand
+behind all of them.  (The year two Final Four were held back from earlier
+broadcast to lead into the debut, so these are new to the US, although they
+have already aired to substantial praise in the UK.)
+
+
      
+If perhaps you have been turned off by some of the more vigorous
+messages from B5 viewers, I'd only ask that you consider those comments in
+light of the fact that Paramount (NOT the people doing ST, but the studio
+itself) has done everything possible to hinder the progress of B5, which
+engenders certain reactions from everyone; and that to a man or woman,
+virtually all of the more vigorous posts have come from those who have long
+considered themselves fans of STAR TREK, voicing many of the concerns which
+are stated right here in this forum by current viewers...which they had long
+before there was a B5...  as well as some of the praises found here.
+
+
      
+The ironic thing is that there is no problem between those who make B5,
+and those who make ST..Jeri Taylor is a friend, Majel supports the show,
+when ST does an episode with great EFX we call them, when we do a good one
+they call us...it's almost entirely a matter of perception.
+
+
      
+So for what it's worth, direct from those of us who make BABYLON 5, if
+you haven't checked out the show before, or if you're curious to see where
+we stand now...I would like to personally invite you to check out the new
+batch of episodes starting around October 11th.  If you want to give us all
+nine episodes, that's great; if less, that's fine too.  If not at all,
+that's also fine.
+
+
      
+Over a late dinner with Majel, I observed that after the original STAR
+TREK, which for the first time presented truly *human* characters, with all
+their flaws and frailties and bravery and nobility, in a science fiction
+series, the ball was dropped, and no one picked it up again for years.  She
+agreed with this...and it is my hope that you will find this coming season
+of BABYLON 5 to be that show.
+
+
      
+Because it isn't an either/or, sum/zero game...one can watch, and
+enjoy, BABYLON 5 and STAR TREK equally, for different reasons, since their
+approaches are very different.  And this is the perfect time to come into
+B5, since these episodes encapsulize a lot of background, and will take you
+quickly into the background, the universe and the characters.
+
+
      
+Which is why, I'm pleased to announce, Majel Barrett will be appearing
+as a guest star on BABYLON 5 this coming season...a gesture of support from
+her, and a gesture of respect from all of us at B5.  The deal has been
+signed, it's a done deal...she'll be appearing in episode #9, "Point of No
+Return," as Emperor Turhan's third wife, Lady Morella.  We're very much
+looking forward to her appearance in the B5 universe.
+
+
      
+For all these and other reasons, I hope you'll give BABYLON 5 a try.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+She'll be playing a Centauri female, the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's
+third wife; also a prophetess and seer.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+When we first announced casting Walter Koenig on B5, lots of people
+moaned, "Oh, no, not Chekov on B5."  What you got was Bester, who has
+become one of our most noted and discussed characters.  It's unfortunate,
+but some people confuse the role with the person.  "...the worst character
+ever in the entire ST universe" has nothing to do with the person, or the
+role she will be portraying: the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's third
+wife, a prophetess and seer.  It's a *very* serious, significant role,
+absolutely unlike anything she's done before.
+
+
      
+This, btw, is called "typecasting," which is one of the primary
+reasons why so many talented actors who helped to create Star Trek and
+other series couldn't get work for so many years...they did so good a
+job that they forever *became* that character.  Let's not be guilty of
+that crime here.  Majel's character will no more be Troi than Bester is
+Chekov.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ellen: thanks.  As for the episode in question, it's entitled "Point of
+No Return," and the role of Lady Morella was written specifically for Majel.
+I hustled to get it finished prior to the Wolf 359 convention, where I gave
+her a copy of the script.  She read it overnight, and fell in love with the
+story, the character, and what it was going to do with and to the BABYLON 5
+universe (to wit: start turning it upside down).  Next morning, she said
+"I'm in." And she is.
+
+
      
+Yes, it's a jms script, and is one of the most pivotal of this season,
+episode #9, which with the one before it, "Messages from Earth," builds to a
+major turning point in #10, so it should be a very popular, intense and
+memorable episode in every respect.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'd just like to say that Majel did a great job for us
+on B5, and we are hoping  we can come up with other opportunities
+for the character to return.  I know that  Majel is
+interested in pursuing other acting gigs outside ST, and I
+wish her all the  best.  I think other shows would do well to
+utilize her abilities; everyone had a  great time working with
+her, and she should be recognized for work other than  ST.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Was Morella's speech about greatness intended as a tribute to
+Gene Roddenberry?
      
+There's probably a fair amount there that could apply to Gene, yes...
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If a word comes out of a character's mouth, it's usually mine. 
+The bit about greatness was one of them; had a number of different
+subtexts going on behind it.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Of course, there are many who don't see such people in a Good
+Light; even Washington had people out smearing his name every day
+(which, among more altruistic reasons, was why he didn't want to stay
+in charge forever). We are never so greatly appreciated as when we're
+safely and conveniently deceased.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Btw, on the topic of titles...it's important for the season title to
+accurately reflect the events of the season.  And as I've watched more and
+more of season 3 being filmed, it becomes increasingly clear that "I am become
+Death, the destroyer of worlds" isn't as apt, emotionally, for what's going
+on.  (I've actually felt this for a while, which is why I've been hesitating
+on locking down the title publicly.)  The single most emblematic title, and
+single episode, for the whole season, really, is "Point of No Return," because
+on every level, that's what happens this season.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Thanks...it ratchets things up a bit more, certainly.  The big
+stuff's just around the corner.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Most of the Omega class of destroyers are given Greek names,
+such as Achilles, Alexander, Agamemnon and others.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Correct, the Alexander would've come off the assembly line a
+bit after the Aggy.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We could've easily played the EFX full-screen, as WB used them in the promos,
+after all.  But it's a slow tease, a reveal.  You do it big in Messages, hold
+it back just a bit, at arm's length, in PoNR, then bring it all REAL close
+again in the next episode.  By putting it at some remove in PoNR, it makes
+the viewer almost like one of those in the Zocalo, fighting for a better
+look, stranded out far away, trying to figure out what's going on.  
+
+
+
      
+
    • @@@846737924 Did someone call out "Furillo, Francis" during the roll
+call of security guards?  Furillo was a "Hill Street Blues" character.
      
+No, actually, the name was Pirello, Francis...hadn't realized it was a
+sound-alike for Furillo until dailies came in.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I think Zack was mainly nervous in that last bit,
+which may account for his twitchiness.  And yes, Morella often
+prophesied for Turhan.
+
+
+
      
+
    • @@@843260322 About Morella's prophecy
      
+There's another way to look at this, which occured to me as I was writing
+it, so I structured it accordingly.
+
+
      
+Morella: "You must save the eye that does not see."
+
+
      
+Londo:  "I...do not understand."
+
+
      
+I.
+
+
      
+Eye.
+
+
      
+We never actually saw how she spelled or meant this.
+
+
      
+Given Londo's background, one could almost make the case that the
+discussion was about him.  Not saying that's it, but it's a possibility
+and a subtext.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Which side is Dr. Franklin's father on?
      
+Stephen's father is a by-the-book guy; he doesn't think his job
+is to set policy, only to implement policy.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Aren't those Nightwatch posters a bit too much?  Wouldn't people
+object?
      
+It's not always as simple as that.  You also take a uniquely
+Western perspective.  Look around at Russia, Cuba, 1930s Germany and
+the beer hall putsch, Iraq, Iran...a leader can survive all kinds of
+opposition if he has sufficient control of the armed forces.  After the
+Gulf War, it was generally assumed that Saddam would be gone within a
+few months; now his position is stronger than ever.
+
+
      
+Also, Clark didn't (ostensibly) declare martial law to protect
+himself, he did it because of an imminent alien threat which was
+detected long before these allegations came out, we just had Ganymede
+attacked and that's spitting distance from the primary Earth jump gate
+at Io...there is indication of collaboration and conspiracy among some
+in the Joint Chiefs (and in fact that's correct, from his point of
+view, given Hague's activities)...there's enough ammo there to justify
+martial law.  Dissolve the Senate?  Just happened a couple years ago in
+Russia, when we had tanks firing on the Senate building. Some might say
+that Yeltsin was in the same position as Clark in that his motives
+might be saving himself.
+
+
      
+(The majority of our posters, btw, are taken from genuine WW II
+propaganda and war-support posters that were actually in use.  We make
+some slight modifications, but the gist is there.  Yes, we do fall for
+these things, we do go for these things.  We always have.)
+
+
      
+As for the USA-western perspective...during WW II we saw
+Japanese civilians interned in camps along the West Coast...afterward
+we saw people prosecuted for being Reds, saw careers and lives
+destroyed by even the hint of "commie" influence.  If you look at
+newsreels and documentary footage from the time, you see a populace,
+fresh out of a war, who survived by focusing on the Enemy, given a new
+enemy.  Might they have gone along with some kind fo martial law if
+they thought that if they *didn't* cooperate, the nation might be
+vulnerable to Russian nukes or invasion?  I think the climate was
+perfect for it.
+
+
      
+Could it happen right here, right now?  No, because the
+surrounding climate isn't right.  Could it happen if the conditions
+*were* right?  Of course it could.  We're not genetically or
+evolutionarily different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans
+or the Iraquis.  If we think we'd never fall for that, we place
+ourselves in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall
+for it.  Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify
+and rationalize it as something else.
+
+
      
+Yeah, people back on Earth still have guns.  What of it?  Right
+now, with martial law, the streets are quiet, the news is more positive
+than usual for a change, the quarrelsome jerks in the senate have been
+given a good kick in the butt, the president's getting things *done*,
+we've all still got our jobs, the muggers are hiding out, life goes on
+except for the lawbreakers. You gonna go out on your own and start
+shooting at Earthforce troops armed to the teeth with *vastly* more
+advanced weaponry?  On whose behalf?  The aliens? The troublemakers? 
+What're we rallying for?  Or against?  This'll blow over soon, it
+always does.  It never lasts.  Right now, just ride it out, wait and 
+see what happens.  Who knows...maybe Clark's right?  Who wants to be
+perceived as a traitor?
+
+
      
+Those are the thoughts of any populace in this situation.  Just
+as when Yeltsin declared martial law in Moscow, as when Mayor Daly sent
+in the shock troops in Chicago, on and on.
+
+
      
+Here's the number one rule: a population will always stay
+passive for as long as they perceive that they stand to lose more by
+opposing the government than by staying quiet.  It's when they have
+little or nothing left to lose that they rise up; the politicos first,
+then, more reluctantly, the general population.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Here's something to consider in this.
+
+
      
+It's easy -- safe and reassuring -- to dismiss Nightwatch and the whole
+political climate on Earth at this time as referring to Nazi germany...SS,
+Stormtroopers, informers...but if we know our history, it shows that this is
+not so isolated as we might think.  If we say it was just the Nazis, then
+it's a non-repeatable phenomenon, we needn't worry about it again.
+
+
      
+But, of course, it does happen again...it did, and it will, to varying
+degrees.  Go back to the Inquisition, and forward to Joe McCarthy and the
+House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) which destroyed lives and
+reputations based on association, past history, social contacts and party
+affiliations (the items specified by Musante to the EA folks in Nightwatch).
+Stalin and to a lesser extent Lenin would have been right at home in
+Nightwatch.  Several of the leaders speaking for parties in the ruins of what
+was once Yugoslavia would also fit.  
+
+
      
+It's easy, and safe, for us to say, "Oh, we would never do that, only THEY
+did that."  But the "they" in this ARE the we on the other side...and "we"
+have done it, are doing it now, and will continue to do it.  Only when we
+*know* the history of such things, when we recognize the rhetoric of control,
+when we oppose blacklisting and scapegoating and dead-catting do we help to
+assure that they *won't* arise again.  Remember the quote: "Those who do not
+remember history are condemned to repeat it."
+
+
      
+There's a great deal of generalized historical and political metaphor in the
+show, never one-to-one because that's too easy, but disguised in one form or
+another, transumted.  The Centauri Republic isn't a real republic by any
+stretch of the imagination...any more than the Roman Republic from which it
+draws some of its political structure, particularly the Centarum, the ruling
+body.  There's a great deal of Japanese political and social structure to the
+Minbari, in their culture and art and some of their philosophy.  You can find
+parallels to the story in World War II, and the bible, among a few dozen
+others.
+
+
      
+Too little of TV these days is *about* anything...it's all context, no
+subtext.  This show is about a lot of things...but never in the mode of
+telling you what to think.  We'll ask *that* you think, that you consider the
+world around you, and your place in it...but defining that is your business,
+not ours.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"I don't believe a conservative nightwatch would be tolerated
+either."
+
+
      
+Senator Joseph McCarthy.  The House Un-American Activities
+Committee. You can look it up.
+
+
      
+Also, there was a PBS documentary this past week on the
+blacklist; I suggest that ANYone who thinks we would never fall for
+something like the Nightwatch should take a look at it.  It makes the
+Nightwatch look pale by comparison.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  The House Un-American Activities Committee wasn't that powerful.
+
      
+I disagree.  When even Truman was loathe to take on HUAC and
+McCarthy, you've got a real problem.  You make the impact sound
+minimal; but people committed suicide when their careers were ruined by
+HUAC and Tailgunner Joe. I personally know writers who were at the top
+of their form and their careers who never worked again because they
+were blacklisted or greylisted.
+
+
      
+It was also the climate created by HUAC that threatened much
+more widely than the actions of the committee itself.  Take Red
+Channels, a sleazy little rag published by the owner of a *SUPERMARKET
+CHAIN* in which he listed those he considered -- based on whim or
+divine revelation -- reds or sympathetic to reds.  Even a publication
+like that had tremendous destructive power.  I know one of the writers
+listed in Red Channels; the networks grey-listed him instantly.  It was
+*years* before he could work again.
+
+
      
+The whole red-baiting hysteria of the 50s came as close to
+destroying the American dream as any threatened invasion.  If it had
+been led by someone a little less self-destructive than McCarthy, I
+hate to think what would've happened.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Even in the USSR the military would not support an attempt of
+martial law."
+
+
      
+You mean like when Yeltsin called up the military, dissolved
+the Senate, and had tanks open fire on the Senate building to keep from
+being ousted in a coup...you mean like that?
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, right to assemble, free speech rights, they're all open to abridgement.
+Travel can also be restricted.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Thanks.  No, I understand the point, I'm just getting into the
+details a bit.  One last point I forgot to mention was that even for
+the US, there has never yet been a situation where we as an entire
+*species* stood on the brink of extinction by an alien race.  That'll
+definitely affect your mindset a bit....
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Zack is the key figure here.  He's the one questioning if he's on the right
+side and just what his allies are up to.  I've heard some good analogies to
+present days situations kicked around on these boards, but It seems mostly
+Republicans want to accuse democrats and vice versa.  What we need is more
+Republicans willing to criticise fellow republicans and democrats willing to
+criticise fellow democrats."
+
+
      
+A very good point.  Zack is, to all intents and purposes, the Everyman
+character in this; he wants, desperately, to do what's right.  But he doesn't
+exactly *know* what's right, because he's getting conflicting
+information...or rather, a lack of *real* information and a plethora of
+agendas.  Who is he to believe?  Which way does he jump when he's not sure
+which pit holds the lion?
+
+
      
+When a culture become factionalized, when it becomes us vs. them, everyone
+starts setting up consistently smaller camps...first it's democrats vs.
+republicans...then it's mainstream republicans vs. conservative
+republicans...then it's conservative republicans vs. religious right
+republicans (with the democrats having equal problems on their side).  As
+soon as we forget that we're *all* US, it begins to fall apart.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Corwin's question is really one that hits a lot; you see things
+starting to fly apart, but you keep thinking it's gonna work out..then it all
+goes to hell, and you're standing there trying to figure out how it all
+slipped away.  It's a very innocent, yet universal question.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"...I wanted Sheridan &Co. to cut themselves free of Earthgov,
+and they didn't."
+
+
      
+'Course, if you were to do anything that monumental, you'd
+spike right smack in the middle of your three-part story.
+
+
      
+One of the things about these three episodes that's again worth
+stressing is that they're really one story, linked carefully.  Each of
+the three begins *one frame* after the other.  After they've aired, if
+you sit down with a VCR and edit them together, you'll find that they
+flow absolutely SEAMLESSLY from one to the other.  So PoNR is at the
+dead center of the piece that propels you toward the last third, like
+the second act in a three-act play (which was my structure for this).
+
+
      
+That may help.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We knew that at some juncture they'd be split, so numbering
+them as parts 1, 2 and 3 would be awkward.  And distribution hates
+having to market multi-parters, for reasons of their own.  So...three
+episodes.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Glad you enjoyed "Point."  It sets everything up, so we can
+knock it all down in "Severed Dreams."  Now everyhing I need is right
+where I need it to be....
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Certainly G'Kar has had...a revelation, I suppose is the best way of putting
+it, and that tends to transform you.  What form emerges from this remains to
+be seen.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Ta'Lon's line about answers and replies
      
+No, I don't think that's a quote from anywhere but the show, at
+least insofar as I know.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Was bringing Ta'Lon back something you wanted to do from the
+start?
      
+I liked Ta'Lon, and definitely wanted to bring him back.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We've already established in the episode that the bodyguard is the same as in
+"All Alone."  We did that when the two had a drink in the zocalo.  It was in
+dialogue.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  I liked Londo's line about politics.
      
+Thanks, and I agree with those scenes.  (For me, the Vir/Londo
+scene in the tag is just hysterical.)  Re: "politics has nothing to do
+with intelligence," yeah, I kinda liked that one.  I have fun....
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Centauri are always suspicious, and if you knew you might be
+emperor after the other is dead, you might be encourage to...help that
+process along, however you might like someone.  It's just good
+business.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+When we come back, the very next episode has a very funny scene
+re: Londo and Narn security.  And yes, that was the Schwartzkopf.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Is the fact that Hague was on the Alexander a reference to Alexander
+Haig?
      
+Y'know, I think this was one of those subconscious things the
+brain does sometimes...I hadn't put it together when I put him on that
+ship.  It's a sad thing when you can't even trust your own brain
+anymore.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Ok, at the end of this ep. Susan explains that 4 of the 5 cruisers with
+Gen. Hague where distroyed. So did Earthforce get them or did Clark have the 
+shadows do it?"
+
+
      
+It was an ambush by Earthforce ships.  (Actually, only 3 were destroyed,
+the other two took off separately, trying to throw off a united pursuit. 
+But you know how ISN's been lately....)
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Delenn was taking care of some business on Minbar.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's not a lower house in the EA, in the sense that each
+nation/state has its own various houses, and its own leader, but that
+leader is also part of the EA senate.  One per nation/state.  Each
+nation/state has its own constitution, but must not contravene the
+larger principles of the EA constitution.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+When President Clark tries to seize control of Babylon 5 by force, Sheridan
+is faced with the prospect of severing the station's ties with Earth.  Delenn
+receives disturbing news from a Ranger.
+
+
+Bruce McGill as Major Ryan.
+Kim Miyori as Captain Hiroshi.
+James Parks as Drakhen.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.81
+
+Production number: 310
+Original air week: April 1, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+Winner of the 1997 Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers if you haven't seen it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The former Minbari leader, Dukhat, died in Delenn's arms.  Before he
+	died, he named her as his chosen successor.
+
+   
    •  Clark has been filling command positions with his people since taking
+	office, thus enabling him to retain control of most of Earth Force;
+	many officers who oppose his policies feel forced to go along, since
+	their superiors will accuse them of treason otherwise.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows have formed alliances with many of the non-aligned worlds,
+	allegedly to protect them from Centauri aggression; later, they've
+	prompted those races to attack their neighbors with the belief that
+	association with the Shadows is a guarantee of victory.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Was Londo finally able to leave the station?  Where was he going?
+	(Or, if he was coming aboard, where was he coming from?)
+
+   
    •  Is there more to the prophecy of the return of the Shadows, or has
+	it now played itself out, leaving the future uncertain?
+
+   
    •  What does Sheridan's mother do with her time?
+
+   
    •  What has ISN known for a year but been unable to talk about?  Did
+	they find out about Santiago's death, or perhaps about Earth's
+	involvement with the Shadows?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Sheridan said he wanted to keep Draal a secret, and thus didn't ask for
+	help defending the station.  But anyone with two eyes now knows he has
+	some interesting non-human technology at his disposal; he used the Great
+	Machine to broadcast his holographic image all over the station.  While
+	Earth has free-floating holography (such as the Knights' image of
+	Sinclair at the beginning of
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+	it's a far cry from what Sheridan did.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Five hooded Councilors followed Delenn from the council chamber;
+	presumably the remaining four were all warrior caste, as established in
+	"All Alone in the Night."  (Only three are
+	visible onscreen, but the whole Council wasn't visible at the start
+	of the scene, either.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did the religious and worker castes get three Minbari warships
+	and the crews to pilot them?  Are there more on Delenn's side, or just
+	those?  In
+	"Matters of Honor,"
+	Lennier implied that the religious-caste crew of the White Star was
+	rare, if not unheard-of.  Did some of the warrior caste side with
+	Delenn?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's confrontation with the Grey Council is counter to her own
+	stated goal of laying low so the Shadows aren't forced to attack
+	immediately.  She accused them of standing by and doing nothing in
+	the face of Shadow encroachment -- but doing nothing was exactly what
+	she insisted on in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	among other places.  If the warrior caste had moved to prevent some
+	of the non-aligned worlds from warring, as she seemed to be suggesting,
+	it surely would have alerted the Shadows to the fact that their return
+	has been discovered.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, it may be that she was accusing them of not even
+	preparing for eventual open conflict with the Shadows; perhaps she
+	believed their current indifference would continue even after the
+	army of light was fully assembled.
+
+	
      
+	Finally, she may have wanted them to simply take a stand in the local
+	conflicts without addressing the Shadows' presence directly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan's secession from the Earth Alliance plays directly into Clark's
+	hands in some respects.  Clark can use the secession, and the Minbari
+	involvement, to paint a picture of an alien-supported military coup
+	against an elected civilian government, further proof of the need for
+	martial law, the Nightwatch, and other draconian measures.  No doubt
+	he'll be able to make that version of the story believable to a large
+	number of people back home, thus solidifying his power base.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did only four destroyers jump into Babylon 5 space for the
+	initial attack?  Perhaps the fleet commander didn't want to
+	increase the chance of casualties from friendly fire, but that
+	seems dubious at best; or perhaps he didn't know there were more
+	ships on the way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Which side of the war does the Agamemnon and its crew support?  Will
+	Sheridan be forced into conflict with his old ship, something he
+	definitely doesn't want?
+	("Messages From Earth")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Given the reason for the Minbari surrender during the war
+	("Points of Departure")
+	would Delenn have made good on her threat to fire on the Earth ships?
+	Minbari religious beliefs would forbid her from doing so, though she
+	might well consider it a necessary evil.
+
+
      
+   
    •  During the initial attack on the Alexander, Major Ryan claims that
+	they can't jump to hyperspace without losing their fighters.  But
+	fighters have been shown jumping alongside a larger ship before --
+	some emerged with the destroyers to attack Babylon 5 later in the
+	same episode -- so what would have kept the fighters from jumping
+	with the Alexander?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Shadows are apparently perfectly willing to double-cross the
+	Centauri, at least in words.  By offering to protect the League
+	worlds from Centauri aggression, when the Centauri are using the
+	Shadows to act out that aggression, they've effectively taken
+	control of both sides of any potential Centauri border conflicts.
+	What they'll do with that control, and why they want it, remains to
+	be seen.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The new Starfury in this episode is called a "Thunderbolt."
+
+   
    •  Many of the Nightwatch members in this episode are production staff
+	members, including the production secretary and an assistant director.
+
+   
    •  Minor effects mismatch:
+	A group of Starfuries attacks a friendly
+	destroyer.  Its name is clearly visible as the Churchill.  But the
+	scene immediately cuts to Major Ryan reacting to the hit -- even though
+	he's on the Alexander, not the Churchill.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    • @@@865359100 Just after Major Ryan says, "Right down their throats,"
+	a Starfury shoots another one with B5 in the background.  For one
+	frame, the exploding Starfury is replaced with a bright yellow square;
+	then the explosion replaces it.
+
+   
    •  Four ships emerge from the jumpgate at the end of act three, two
+	Omega-class destroyers and two older Hyperion-style heavy cruisers
+	("A Voice In the Wilderness, part 2.")
+	But we only see and hear about two, the Agrippa and the Roanoke.  One
+	possible explanation is that the destroyer rammed by the Churchill
+	isn't supposed to be the Roanoke; since Sheridan offers assistance to
+	the Roanoke at the end of the battle, that's plausible.  However, the
+	rammed ship's name is (barely) visible as "Roanoke" during the
+	collision.
+
+   
    • @@@833301876 One of the two destroyers in the second wave was called
+	the Nimrod; the second was the Olympic.
+
+   
    •  The Roanoke is named after an early English colony in North Carolina.
+	After a hard winter, a ship came to check on the colony and
+	found it totally deserted, no sign of the inhabitants or of a
+	struggle, just the word CROATAN carved into a tree.  The fate of
+	the colonists was never discovered.
+
+   
    • @@@872747538 The Agrippa was probably named for the
+	famed Roman general/admiral, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa.
+	He served for Octavian (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus),
+	the nephew of Julius Caesar.  He was the inventor of the
+	harpax, or harpago, which was a pole with a hook on the end
+	which was attached to a rope.  Fired toward another ship,
+	it allowed the two ships to be pulled together, allowing
+	the Romans to board.  It was first used in 36 BC at the battle
+	of Naulochos (Mylae), and later at the battle of
+	Actium, where it helped to defeat Mark Anthony's fleet,
+	leading to the eventual crowning of Octavian as Augustus,
+	the first Roman emperor in 27 BC.
+
+   
    • @@@864920329 In the UK video release, three seconds were cut from the
+	episode, presumably from one of the boarding-party fight scenes.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The number of scenes varies depending on the amount of action
+	required.  On balance, the average TV script has about 60-75 scenes or
+	shots in it.  From time to time, in B5, we've gone as high as 130 shots
+	in episodes like "Twilight" or "Fall."  I think we just blew out our
+	record here with "Severed Dreams," which has close to 140.
+
+	
      
+	Number of scenes shot on any day depends on how long the scene; you
+	can do 4 really long shots or 8 fairly short scenes.  The amount of
+	rehearsal varies depending on the scene, how many extras or what kind of
+	action/stunts are required.  The more action, the more you rehearse, to
+	ensure nobody gets hurt.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Much as I'd
+	have wished PTEN would've aired 10, the final part of the 3-episode arc
+	that changes direction on the show, a week after 9, even though it'd be
+	out of sweeps period...it's probably for the best.  When producer George
+	Johnson saw the scrpt for #10, "Severed Dreams," he laughed, walked over
+	to me and said, "Boy, this is the best episode we're never gonna
+	deliver.  ARE YOU NUTS?!"
+
+	
      
+	As an example of "ARE YOU NUTS?!" in "The Fall of Night," in the
+	sequence between the first Garden shot and the end of Sheridan's rescue,
+	about 6-7 pages of script, there were, I think, about 60 or 65 EFX and
+	practical shots.  In just the span of 4 pages in 310 there are roughly
+	100 EFX and practical shots.  In EFX terms, it's probably one of the
+	biggest shows we've done, so it's better to give Foundation a little
+	extra time to get it right rather than rush them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  All I'll say here is that there were *so* many EFX here that we
+	mixed the episode a few days before delivery, and got it down there 2
+	hours before the process for uplinking the episode to stations.  It was
+	the hardest thing we've ever done...but it was worth it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why are these three episodes not marked as a three-parter?
      
+	For the most part, it's a matter of how the episodes feel to
+	me, what length they feel as if they require.  When I did the big three
+	this year -- Messages, Point and Dreams -- I hadn't really figured
+	they'd be as tightly connected as they ended up being.  I knew they'd
+	relate strongly to one another, but in a sense, they're really a three
+	parter.  The War Without End story I knew was WAY too big for one
+	episode, but due to the structure of the story wouldn't take being
+	extended for one more episode; at that point you'd just be dragging it
+	out.
+
+	
      
+	It's all instinct, I wish I had a more concrete answer.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183765 I think you hit the distinction between MfE and PoNR...the
+	former is exciting, the latter is tense, with "Severed Dreams" a good
+	blend of the two, particularly the latter.  We did our final producer's
+	cut today, and man, it moves....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why the title?
      
+	If B5 was a dream given form, and the EA had the potential to be
+	something more than it has become, and the two part ways, then you have
+	severed dreams.  (I had a much more elegant and interesting reply, but
+	obviously it entered Vorlon space and hasn't been allowed out again.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Messages," for my money, is so far the best we've ever done, though
+	I'll be more able to lock that down once I've seen the final CGI.  It
+	and "Dreams" are real CGI blowouts; in the latter, there are literally
+	100 shots -- CGI, live action, and compositing -- in *four pages* of
+	action.  This is an all time record for us (and that doesn't count the
+	stuff earlier in the episode).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Have begun shooting episode 11, "Messages From Earth," a hideously
+	complex episode, outmatched only by #10, "Severed Dreams," which is the
+	single most visually ambitious episode we've done in the three years of
+	the show.  It's just totally outrageous, and it'll probably kill us in
+	sheer man-hours to produce...but the result should drop jaws all over
+	the place.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Foundation "adding a new flame effect"...sort of.  One
+	night, we just went out into the parking lot, set up a camera pointing
+	up behind a plexiglass screen, and set off a bunch of explosions above
+	it.  Went great until one of the blasts was so big it melted through
+	the plex *and* the camera lens....
+
+	
      
+	Looked good though, didn't it?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The PPG blasts looked different.
      
+	That was because there were so MANY of them; our PPG bursts
+	usually take a great deal of work.  If we'd given all of them in this
+	scene that amount of work, we'd still be doing them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How did you do the lighting as Ivanova's ship tumbled?
      
+	We fixed a light atop a gimble, and pre-determined the
+	rotation of the starfury, then moved the lighting to match.  Gives it a
+	much more realistic feel.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@837965380 "In an ep like "Severed Dreams" where cgi effects take
+	up literally almost 1/4 of the script, how much input does the director
+	have on "camera" angles, close ups of 'Fury pilots, and the way in
+	which the SFX is intercut with live action?  Or is that entirely your
+	job?"
+
+	
      
+	Generally, a lot of that material is either storyboarded, or
+	supervised by our on set EFX supervisor, who determines the angles to
+	be used.  This is especially important in an episode like Severed
+	Dreams when you have to make sure that the pilots are oriented the
+	right way on camera (i.e., going from left to right, and facing left
+	to right) if that's the direction their ships are going in; otherwise
+	you'd have to flop the film to make it match.  In larger set pieces,
+	using virtual sets and composite shots, the director has more
+	influence.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860697367 From coproducer George Johnsen, about the
+	effects glitch
      
+	The show was seriously under the gun for delivery when those shots
+	were done.  If I remember correctly, a couple of these shots came in on
+	the same day we were to deliver, and there was no time to re-render them
+	and still make the satellite.
+
+	
      
+	If I were to tell you it would never happen again, I would be a big
+	liar, or a deluded optomist, but we try.  Animators are human, after
+	all!  :-)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Funny thing is, how much as you note the show corresponds to some of
+	the things Mira's been through...some of it intentional, knowing that
+	if I dig into this area, it'll come out of her with the ring of
+	truth...some of it quite unintentional.  When I finished writing
+	"Severed Dreams," and the actors got it, Mira's first words to me were,
+	"So...how long DID you live in Yugoslavia?"  The parallel wasn't
+	intentional...but it fit.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Toni: thanks.  All of the characters shine in this one, Mira in
+	particular as Delenn.  It's a nice contrast; her speech to the Grey
+	Council is an intense piece of work that goes on for a while; her
+	declaration to the EA ships is short, to the point, and absolutely
+	deadly.  The right tool for the right job.
+
+	
      
+	I'm utterly pleased and proud of the job we did here.  Partly
+	because it's just so nifty on its own terms, and partly because it
+	gives us a new level to try and beat.  Up until now, I've been looking
+	to top "Coming of Shadows;" now the goal is to top this one...and I
+	think it's possible there may be one or two even this season that'll do
+	that, but tonally I think they're different enough that it might end up
+	as a tie.
+
+	
      
+	I definitely wanted the close-in, hand-to-hand fighting to
+	personalize what's going on.  It's also very logical strategically. 
+	You send in your forces to disable or overwhelm C&C, distract them,
+	slip in a cadre of troops to a station that (you hope) didn't know you
+	were coming...then they race to C&C and seize control from inside,
+	shooting anyone they have to en route.  If Sheridan et al hadn't known
+	the ships were coming in, this could've gone very differently.  But
+	once they were in, they were in close quarters, and you want to get in
+	closer if you're on the defensive side so that they can't use their 
+	weapons without cutting down their own people.  After that you have to
+	hope you can overwhelm the intruders with sheer force of numbers.  It's
+	an ugly, awful way to win a fight, because it *guarantees*
+	casualties...but what war doesn't?
+
+	
      
+	Something to bear in mind when rewatching, btw...it was during
+	this scene that Jerry fell and broke his right arm and right wrist. 
+	And they still had one last scene to film.  He stuck it out and they
+	rolled film, to get the shot of him and Zack at the end of the fight. 
+	Next time you watch it, keep an eye on the right arm as he releases the
+	helmet...it bends in directions never intended by evolution.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I agree, but Jerry was determined to do it, and more time
+	would've been lost arguing about it than it took to do the takes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183765 The arm broken was his right arm and wrist; we worked it
+	into the show, in a way which actually worked well with what went right
+	before it. Jerry's doing fine now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183765 Oddly enough, Jerry's broken arm tied *beautifully* into
+	something that had happened in the course of the episode we were
+	filming, so all it took was a line or two to sell it.
+
+	
      
+	The funny thing is...in the very next episode after the incident,
+	there was a line in the script I'd written *weeks* earlier, and it
+	freaked everybody out...when Garibaldi asks someone to do something,
+	and the person responds, "What, you've got a broken arm or
+	something?"  At first some people thought I'd put it in there to
+	pink Jerry, but it'd been there the whole time.  Similarly, in the
+	Claudia incident, there was a line (cut for time) where Sheridan
+	says talking to the Drazi is like trying to talk to your right
+	foot...and Ivanova replies "I'll have you know I have a sublime
+	relationship with my right foot."  Yep, the next day...that's the
+	foot she broke.
+
+	
      
+	Just recently, I was trying to explain time travel to one of the
+	actors.  I used the analogy, over lunch, "Suppose you finished
+	eating your chicken here, then got sick as a dog a few hours later,
+	then got in a time machine to go back in time and warn yourself not
+	to eat the chicken."  Well, a few hours after that...the actor got
+	sick as a dog from the chicken.
+
+	
      
+	I have been asked, expressly, not to make any further mention of
+	actors' body parts in scripts....
+
+
      
+   
    •  We shot that last scene with Garibaldi *after* we'd shot the sequence
+	showing his injured leg.  We don't shoot in sequence.  So we had to
+	cover it in the next episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We shot the last scene with the cane *before* we shot the scene
+	in which Jerry broke his arm.  It costs way too much to go back and
+	reshoot.  At the time we shot the later scene, he hadn't yet broken his
+	arm.
+
+	
      
+	And G'Kar isn't all the way in yet; he wants to be, but so far
+	he's still being held at arm's length a bit...he may make an issue of
+	this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, though, because he *did* have his hand in his pocket,
+	it let me handle the break in the next episode without stretching
+	credulity too far. It was...well...I guess you'd call that part of it a
+	lucky break.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is General Hague shown?
      
+	Foxworth was slated for "Severed Dreams" when he bailed on us.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We had booked Foxworth
+	long in advance.  Later, out of the blue, a rep for the actor said that
+	by accident he'd been double-booked on B5 and DS9 for the same
+	period...and even though we had prior claim, because the other was a
+	two-parter, more money, they went for that.  One can only wonder when
+	the other offer *really* came in....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Foxworth bail resulted in a change of about three lines,
+	that's about it.  You'll know which lines when you hear them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We'd booked the actor long, long in advance.  At the last
+	minute, he bailed to do a DS9 episode playing, essentially, the same
+	character, despite our having first dibs.
+
+	
      
+	So I killed off the character.  Didn't change the story by the
+	smallest measure.  May actually have helped, since it raised the stakes
+	in the story right from the start.
+
+	
      
+	Rule #1: Never honk off the writer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Regarding Hague...it's much harder to hold an actor on a once-in-a-while
+	basis.  Every show is hostage to that.  It's a reality of life.  We
+	don't have contracts with folks who play one or two parts a year.
+	Screen Actors Guild doesn't allow that; you make deals as they come up.
+	You can't stop an actor if he wants to jump ship under those conditions;
+	and if you try, you have an unhappy actor on your set who'll just walk
+	through it because he or she doesn't want to be there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Foxworth...it was really the only thing to do.  I'd created
+	the character *specifically* to have him available for this episode,
+	after which he'd basically fade away while others took up his standard.
+	It was all leading up to this.  Without being in this episode, there
+	was nothing more to do with Hague, hence I felt quite comfortable with
+	his fate, it changed nothing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Major Ryan was overstepping his rank.
      
+	Except, of course, you now have an extraordinary situation in
+	which the Major, through the death of his CO, was now the commanding
+	officer of the Alexander.  In ordinary circumstances, this would mean
+	he'd be given a field promotion.
+
+	
      
+	Second, I don't recall any situation where the Major was "giving
+	orders to a commander."  The aide on the deck of the Alexander was a
+	Lieutenant, as I recall.  Also, if Hague indicated that he was to be
+	given command as he died, that would likely be honored.  Finally, yes,
+	the Major was involved in the discussions of strategy, but in *every
+	case* he presented Sheridan and Hiroshi with options, and because it
+	was Sheridan's neck of the woods, it was left to Sheridan to give
+	orders.  He coordinated the defense, and was the only one speaking
+	directly with the Agrippa.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think Sheridan was kinda up to his ears in matters graver than
+	the Major's field promotion, though you're right, he had one coming (as
+	I noted in an earlier message).  Given that they'd just broken away
+	from Earthforce, and walked away from the rank structure to some
+	extent, it would seem a rather indulgent exercise, since Earth
+	certainly wouldn't recognize the field promotion of a renegade officer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "...hit between the eyes."   Yeah, that's the correct reaction,
+	I'd say.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, it's easy to fire on the enemy when it's a faceless
+	entity; not as easy when it's someone you know.  Kinda brings it home,
+	makes it personal.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Exactly.  If you're going to do something as monumental as what
+	Sheridan does here re: B5's status and Earth, it can't be done lightly
+	or frivolously or without sufficient cause.  It has to be an absolutely
+	last resort.  If we'd done it any sooner, it would've been less
+	effective, and more of a cheat.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, after two breather stories, "Ship of Tears" starts the
+	arc moving again, and with very few exceptions doesn't let up for the
+	rest of the season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the warning sign in
+	"Dust to Dust"
      
+	Yes, the sign does indeed say warning.  Look for another sign
+	right behind somebody at the end of "Severed Dreams."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, yes, I tend to ask for musical counterpoint in the
+	show from time to time.  For instance, when Sheridan et al were going
+	to the area where the crowd was waiting, I told Chris to fool us...give
+	us an ominous sounding sting going into what's going to be a very "up"
+	scene.  In the battle earlier on, when you'd normally do something fast
+	and exciting, I asked him to give me something more somber, to pull out
+	the Requiem theme in a few places. Sometimes, in other shows, I ask for
+	music that works against a scene to control the emotional core of it;
+	if it's a bit too silly, perhaps, then I go for a more serious musical
+	cue to balance it out.  Where a scene would seem to ask for major keys,
+	I go for minor chords.
+
+	
      
+	It's all just part of the tapestry.
+
+	
      
+	(BTW, a little secret...just for fun, I wrote a couple of songs
+	that you'll be hearing in an upcoming episode.  I used to write songs
+	here and there, even did a couple for an ABC prime-time special, and
+	figured I'd try it again.  I wrote the lyrics, discussed the music with
+	Chris, and he took care of the score, and it's about what I first
+	conceived.  Came out pretty well, actually.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where was Kosh during all this?
      
+	Yeah...Kosh seems to have retreated a bit so far...worrying,
+	that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Sheridan ask for help from Draal or Delenn?
      
+	The other thing to bear in mind about all this is the question of a
+	"clean fight."  If Sheridan were to bring in alien forces at his order
+	to kill humans, it would pretty much destroy his credibility.  Delenn
+	came in at the end but only after he'd made his stand on his own.
+
+	
      
+	One of the things that kicked off the French Revolution was the
+	allegation that the King had brought in or was bringing in
+	Prussian troops to help put down dissenters.  As long as it was
+	all more or less in the family, that was one thing...but to
+	bring in outsiders was an absolute affront to them.  (One of
+	the singular incidents that started the fighting itself was a
+	group of Prussian soldiers sighted sitting in a cafe having
+	lunch, which caused this rumor about outsiders coming in to
+	spread like wildfire, and led to the some of the first major
+	incidents of rioting.)
+
+	
      
+	Two brothers may fight one another, but let a third unrelated person
+	come in and shove one of the brothers around, and they'll *both* turn
+	on him.
+
+	
      
+	During the worst days of the civil war, even Lincoln was offered
+	assistance in troops from at least one other country; he declined,
+	because it was an internal matter, and had to be resolved by those
+	involved, not outsiders.
+
+	
      
+	Sheridan's logic was exactly the same.  It had to be a clean fight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405641 We'll establish in coming episodes that they have to
+	become more
+	self sufficient; the Minbari will help some, others will also have a
+	reason to help support the station for the advantages it gives them,
+	the services it provides, and eventually docking fees will have to rise
+	if they can make a go of it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405641 I'd have to check my figures, which are at the office and I'm
+	at home, but I *think* we've got about 600 crew and support on a
+	Minbari cruiser.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the push in on Delenn revealed her in the White Star, and
+	yes, a fair number of the new 'furies B5 inherited are Thunderbolt
+	class.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183765 "Severed Dreams had a line that was better than Ivanava's
+	sex scene.  Wow, do these women get lines!"
+
+	
      
+	Can't help it.  I've always been vastly enamoured of strong, sharp,
+	funny, independent and strong-willed women.  (Well, me and 99% of the
+	rest of the male population, most of them just won't admit it.)
+
+	
      
+	I love it when anyone -- male or female -- comes up with a killer line.
+	Claudia and I are always going at it, each trying to top the other...and
+	I've found out the hard way that you don't challenge her on the theory
+	that she'll back down.  Won't happen.  Ivanova's just the same.  Mira is
+	also dedicated, fierce in her convictions, extremely bright and worldly.
+
+	
      
+	So why should their characters be any less than the women themselves?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183765 "...my favorite part, I must say was when Sheridan kissed
+	Delenns hand.  I've been waiting anxiously for this to happen and it
+	finally did!  My housemates all laughed at me but I guess I'm just an
+	incurable romantic."
+
+	
      
+	This is a problem?
+
+	
      
+	We are in need of more romance.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Aren't Starfuries space-only craft?
      
+	Yes, the Thunderbolt furies were seen both on Mars and
+	attacking B5.
+
+	
      
+	A normal Starfury can't function in an atmosphere environment. 
+	The new Thunderbolt models have airfoils/wings that are folded back
+	over the body of the ship for non-atmospheric maneuvering, and then
+	extend out to full sized wings when entering an atmosphere.  (You'll
+	get to see in detail how this works back and forth in "Ship of Tears.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405641 How does ejection from a Starfury work?
      
+	You can see explosive bolts going off, and a series of small
+	thrusters behind the cockpit are which allow for navigation.  This
+	gets the pilot away from the main body which has either been crippled,
+	or is about to explode, the same way a modern fighter has an ejection
+	system.  (Check the main credit sequence for a better shot of an
+	ejection.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405641 How did the pilots tell which other Starfuries were
+	which?
      
+	FOF...Friend Or Foe systems on board the furies.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864846873 About the Alexander/Clarkstown battle
      
+	The interceptors have two components, one that throws a ball of energy
+	at an incoming weapons charge (physical or energy) and causes
+	dissipation, and the other is a net-like energy web that reduces the
+	severity, but does not deflect or absorb, beam type energy.  This allows
+	some time for maneuvers after beam contact.  
+
+	
      
+	Note that Major Ryan (He'll always be D-Day to my brother!) was very
+	reticent to fire on the Clarkstown at all.  Knowing that the
+	Interceptors were down made his job all the more difficult.  The rear
+	facing beamn on the Alexander is similar in design to the front facers
+	on the Clarkstown.  When the C-town fired on the rotating section ofthe
+	Alexander, it did not explode, as the interceptors were still active.
+
+	
      
+	George Johnsen
      
+	CoProducer, B5
+
+
      
+   
    •  If you're opening a jump point,
+	usually you make it a habit to have all
+	your fighters on board or else risk leaving them behind.  A jump gate
+	can be more easily used and held open for fighters.  When you arrive at
+	your destination, you can launch your fighters as you emerge.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Why was it impossible to jump into hyperspace (in the beginning of the
+	show) and not take the Starfuries with the ship?  We've seen it done
+	before."
+
+	
      
+	No, I don't believe so.  You've seen a jump GATE used, but that's
+	different from a jump POINT which basically closes right behind the ship
+	like a rabbit pulling its hole in after it.  If the ships stayed behind
+	to protect its rear, they'd be left behind.  Ships coming out of a jump
+	point into normal space sometimes will let their fighters zip out AS
+	they're coming out, alongside the main ship.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852231474 In "Severed Dreams," the dilemma faced by the Alexander
+	in the teaser is that if they jump, they'll end up leaving their
+	fighters behind.  A jump engine rips the area open for that one ship,
+	and closes it again right behind it.  What sometimes happens, as in
+	"All Alone," is that *as a ship comes out*, it releases its fighters.
+	But you can't just follow a ship into a jump point formed by another
+	ship.  You'd probably get torn apart when space folded back on you,
+	because the field opening the point is primarily around the other ship.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't they shut down the jumpgate?  Why did the EA ships
+	use it?
      
+	The answer to both your questions is about the same.  It takes
+	about a day to power down, or power up a jump gate.  It operates more
+	like a fusion reactor than a light bulb.  So not only wasn't there
+	enough time, even if they *had* had enough time, you'd want to leave
+	the gate up and running in case you needed to evacuate for any reason;
+	otherwise you'd cut off your main escape route.
+
+	
      
+	For the incoming fleet, knowing the gate was active was the way
+	to go, since it would let them launch their fighters prior to coming
+	in; if you use a jump point, you kinda have to launch while you're
+	coming out to avoid anyone being stuck behind.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What good are small fighters if it's the big ships that decide
+	the battle?
      
+	A lot more ships came in with the Roanoke and the Agrippa, support
+	ships and others.  Probably more breaching pods.  They took out those.
+	They're also used to keep the enemy starfuries from disabling the
+	defense grid on the station, leaving B5 free to use its weapons on the
+	larger target/worse threat.  They're often used to soften up the enemy,
+	harrass them like a pack of hounds falling on a prey.  In "Fall of
+	Night," we saw a Centauri vessel in large measure taken out by the
+	Starfuries with some B5 support.  So they definitely play a part.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Starfuries serve a *lot* of functions which we've shown before
+	on the series.
+
+	
      
+	They can take out a ship's defensive screens and
+	countermeasures, allowing access by the big ships' armaments.  In a
+	group, they can take out a good sized ship on their own (a la the
+	Centauri cruiser in "Fall of Night"). They also serve to protect the
+	station's defense grid from aggressor starfuries.
+
+	
      
+	Also, a number of small support ships, including a Hyperion
+	class ship came through as part of the "carrier group" that went after
+	the station.  It was up to the starfuries to take care of those ships
+	while B5 and the other destroyers took out the biggest threats.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What about all the debris from the battle?
      
+	We've shown clean-up crews before outside, including a hazmat
+	station that goes out to clear away fuel cores or other toxic material.
+	They would've been dispatched for this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Fighters re-enter via the main docking bay and are recharged
+	and lowered into the fighter bays.
+
+	
      
+	No question, spare parts would be a problem, and they'll have
+	to cannibalize a lot (plus whatever they scrounged up from the fighters
+	blown apart outside).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bear in mind that if we had gone over to the other captains and
+	what was going on in the other ships, to make room for those scenes we
+	would've had to cut anywhere from 3-5 minutes of the other stuff.  You
+	can't just add to the show's time; if that goes in, something else has
+	to come out.  So you'd probably have to cut the scene between Sheridan
+	and his father since that was the only stand-alone set piece.
+
+	
      
+	Any time you write something, you must decide "who is it
+	about?" This episode was about *our characters*, the ones we've come to
+	care about, and how they deal with this.  To take away from that and
+	spend time with people we've never seen before, and won't see again,
+	would be to cheat our characters of the time on screen needed to pay
+	off all the things we've set up over the years.
+
+	
      
+	Would it have been an interesting aside to show the other
+	captains? Sure.  In a movie, with an open-ended running time, I
+	probably would have. But there's nothing I would want to cut out of the
+	episode as it now stands to make room for it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405115 Why no scenes from the opposition's point of
+	view?
      
+	We haven't seen those scenes because we don't know anyone there
+	really, and in an hour show you only have so much time, and within our
+	budget we only can do so much.  Every speaking role you add costs
+	thousands of dollars. Every set costs thousands of dollars.
+
+	
      
+	We're doing the absolute best we can with a budget roughly 1/2
+	of any of the ST episodes.
+
+	
      
+	If it isn't *absolutely necessary* to the scene, it isn't in.
+	Yeah, seeing some folks in EA talking back and forth about well, maybe
+	this isn't a good idea, maybe it is, well, let's get back to
+	work...it'd be an interesting aside, but in addition to slowing down
+	the pace of the episode, and this one had to move like a house afire,
+	it's just not something I felt we could or should do.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405115 About the boarding party's uniforms
      
+	Instead of going for a sinister EA look, I wanted the
+	uniforms to be something we're used to, "our side," as you say.  There
+	aren't many blacks-and-whites on this show.  It's all greys...and
+	sometimes olive drab.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi wanted to hold up, cut off the boarding party at a bottleneck,
+	but the Narns, *being* Narns, raced right into the battle.  At that
+	point Garibaldi had to follow them in or let them get wiped out for no
+	good reason.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the Narn sacrifice
      
+	What you also have to bear in mind sometimes is that *this* is
+	the only way to get things done.  When the Allies stormed Normandy
+	Beach, they knew that German bunkers and machine nests and fortified
+	positions were right there on the beach waiting for them.  But they
+	stormed out, onto the beach, and the first lines were cut down, one
+	after another after another, hundreds, literally thousands of soldiers.
+	But those behind were able to get through, take up position as best
+	they could.  Some of them clung to the edges of cliffs as Germans above
+	laughed and threw down grenades into their midst.
+
+	
      
+	Sometimes there's no other way.  But you do it because those who
+	command you have the moral authority to say "You probably will not come
+	back, but the cause is just, and fair, and necessary."
+
+	
      
+	Thus do we go off to die.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Themes of personal sacrifice
      
+	"It's all this stuff that I think really makes the show. The mystery
+	certainly helps, but the puzzles are no longer my main reason for
+	watching."
+
+	
      
+	Aaron: exactly.  This was something I said a lot around the
+	first part of the second season, that this really *isn't* a
+	mystery novel, in any conventional sense, no more so than any
+	novel whose ending is yet to be revealed.
+
+	
      
+	You picked up on exactly the themes that are present in the
+	show, with some more to come shortly.  Personal sacrifice for a
+	cause -- perhaps a good cause, perhaps not, depending on how
+	wisely we make our decisions -- is probably the dominant theme
+	at this point in the story.
+
+	
      
+	It's worth mentioning that this story was initially
+	conceived in the midst of the Me Generation, the decade of
+	"I've got mine, jack, screw you all." Since then the culture
+	has gotten increasingly factionalized, groups of Me's pulling
+	and tugging at the fabric not only of the country, bvut of the
+	planet itself.  The idea of personal sacrifice, of personal
+	service to a cause, seems to have become...passe.  Old
+	fashioned.  Silly.
+
+	
      
+	We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and
+	trusts.  That does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be
+	exploited.  But it does mean that we should look out for one
+	another when and as much as we can; and that we have a personal
+	responsibility for our behavior; and that our behavior has
+	consequences of a very real and profound nature.  We are not
+	powerless.  We have tremendous potential for good or ill.  How
+	we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must
+	choose to use it.  We're told every day, "You can't change the
+	world."
+
+	
      
+	But the world is changing every day.  Only question
+	is...who's doing it?  You or somebody else?  Will you choose to
+	lead, or be led by others?
+
+	
      
+	(Y'know, there are moments I look at the preceding
+	paragraphs, and I realize that it wa said more succinctly, and
+	better, and more movingly in "Lost Horizon," with this simple
+	sentence: "Be *kind* to one another.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  The easy thing to do, the TeeVee thing to do, would've
+	been to go from Sheridan's line "All ships return to base," to the
+	exterior with the big ships, and fade out.  But I try to keep this show
+	from doing the easy thing.  Yes, you had a victory.  Yes, it was
+	necessary.  But what's the cost? We shouldn't glamorize these things. 
+	Even at the end, as you notice, even at the end of the reception...we
+	go out on an ominous note.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405115 The older I get, the more I realize there are
+	things you can do with silence you can't do with words, though I still
+	love the form of the speech.  There was a lot of counterpoint in this
+	episode, a tool I'm still playing with as a writer; eventually I'll
+	figure out how to really use it properly.  (Though there's an
+	interesting scene up later this season using another kind of ironic
+	counterpoint which I think works pretty well.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405115 Counterpoint?
      
+	In a sense, it's going from one emotion or thematic element to a
+	very different, but equally strong one, either as bookends or through
+	intercutting. Going from the high of the victory, to the sudden shot of
+	the dead troops, is thematic counterpoint.
+
+	
      
+	Here's another...in "Cabaret" you've got a scene where the
+	performers in the Cabaret are doing the sort of German dance where you
+	slap your knees and thighs and chest...and they take it a bit further,
+	slapping one another, it's all for comic effect...but during this,
+	you're intercutting the owner of the cabaret being beaten to within an
+	inch of his life by some Brownshirts outside.  You go from comic to
+	brutal and back, with the result that the happy little dance suddenly
+	takes on ugly characteristics, and the beating takes on the sense that
+	the participants are having a sick kind of fun, that it's all just
+	another kind of dance, a ritual.
+
+	
      
+	That's what you have to look at as a writer...how this scene
+	works, and how it interacts with the scenes in front, behind and
+	"beside" it (for things happening simultaneously).  Sometimes, with the
+	proper counterpoint, you can add whole new levels of meaning to a
+	scene, or make the scene much stronger than it would've been on its
+	own.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did the Earth ships recognize the White Star as the ship from
+	the incident on Ganymede?
      
+	Probably not.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, President Clark would know it [the White Star], from the Aggy
+	records, but the general population wouldn't know it yet, since those
+	records weren't released. But it does give him a card to play at some
+	point in the future.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Any relation between Captain Hiroshi and the Hiroshi on Garibaldi's
+	staff from
+	"Convictions?"
      
+	No intentional relation, no.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why wasn't the boarding party coming up through the floor?
      
+	I figured that they'd come in through the outer hull, secure the inner
+	hull area, then go up in and through a side wall, which would be faster
+	for purposes of a mass entrance.  If you blow a hole in the floor,
+	everybody has to crawl out one at a time; you blow a hole in the wall,
+	bunches can come through at once.  There was a fair amount of distance
+	between where they came in, and the hull.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes and no.  They came through the "floor" which would be the
+	outer hull.  Like any good ship, the station has two hulls for
+	protection, an inner hull and an outer hull.  Once breaching the outer
+	hull, they moved into the inner hull, then angled up for a wall they
+	could blow out.
+
+	
      
+	I figured this would make more tactical sense because if they
+	just blew through the floor, they'd have to *crawl* out one or two at a
+	time, whereas if they angled in safely and then came in through a wall,
+	they could pour in more quickly, en masse, and be less vulnerable.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865282739 From coproducer George Johnsen
      
+	We don't really know where the Marines actually penetrated, but their
+	first hole would be through the "floor". If we assume that they know the
+	station well, it is likely they would punch through an "unimproved", or
+	storage area first, as it would be easier than to burn through a fully
+	habitable area. Then they would go through a wall or a door to get at
+	the goal.  We postulate that they actually were shown entering through
+	their second burn, and entering the occupied area.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was there not much blood in the on-station fight because the guns
+	were firing plasma?
      
+	Correct, PPG bursts, being superheated helium, tend to
+	cauterize the wounds as they go through.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, it's a different scene than the flash-forward in Babylon
+	Squared.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  That's exactly the impression I wanted...you do the
+	dolly/zoom move, isolating Sheridan visually...you don't cut back to
+	the others as they speak, just let the camera stay on him, put the
+	other voices down under the music and off to the side, just *HOLD*
+	there...works great.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183765 I'm always getting this confused in my own mind, but
+	basically it's using two contradictory moves with the camera.  You dolly
+	in (push the camera toward the object) and push out with the lens (or
+	vice versa...that's the part I'm forever getting confused about...like
+	remembering battery connections, is it positive to positive or positive
+	to negative...?).  In either event, you're basically going in and
+	out/away at the same moment.  It's a nifty effect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "There is a certain sweetness between Sheridan and his father.
+	Sheridan's father is certainly the one that I wish I had.  Is he yours,
+	JMS?"
+
+	
      
+	Not by the farthest stretch of the imagination, which is all I'll say on
+	this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was that Ashan (from
+	"There All the Honor Lies")
+	blocking Delenn?
      
+	That wasn't Ashan, no.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why isn't the Council on Minbar?
      
+	We've hinted at it...the Grey Council always stays on its ship, being
+	part of the universe, giving it an exotic, distant feel for its
+	people...as though among the gods.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Grey Council could've taken a lot more action to be
+	supportive behind the scenes, getting the warrior caste more involved
+	with the rangers, giving aid to the non-aligned worlds...there was a
+	LOT they could have been doing all this time that wouldn't have
+	required tipping their hand. Instead they sat and did nothing.  And
+	now, with B5 on the edge of falling, to say it's not their problem was
+	too much.  Now is the time they have to start coming forward.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, the warrior caste doesn't think it's their war;
+	there's also a certain amount of resentment in it, I think...they *led*
+	the last war, they *did* their job, and got yanked back and forced to
+	surrender.  That was a terrible blow to their pride, caused in part by
+	an alien race, so their attitude now tends to be more or less, "Screw
+	'em."
+
+
      
+   
    •  How did Delenn know B5 needed help?
      
+	Real simple.  Lennier was still on-station.  All she had to do
+	was check in with him en route and find out.  Also, she went to the
+	council for the purpose of getting military support because she knew
+	heavy stuff was coming down, in one form or another.  Knowing that "the
+	humans are fighting one another" as she said to the council, it's
+	evident that if they didn't come to B5 that day, they'd come shortly
+	thereafter.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865183765 
+	She already knew that civil war had broken out between EA ships and
+	forces, and that B5 had already faced one takeover bid, and that
+	whether or not it happened today or the next day, it was definitely
+	coming.  That was unmistakeable.  Also, bear in mind that Lennier
+	stayed behind.  She would have checked in with him en route and
+	found out what was going on, or picked up the radio broadcasts of
+	the battle in progress.  I could've shown this, but that would''ve
+	blown the surprise of her arrival.
+
+
      
+   
    •  At this point, with the Council broken, Delenn isn't currently
+	running Minbar...there's a vacuum of power.  The system can carry on
+	for a while, the balance between the castes is pretty efficient, but
+	this is going to have to be resolved, and some in the warrior caste may
+	suspect Delenn of doing this so she *can* rise to power.
+
+	
      
+	
+	As part of Valen's covenant, to prevent one caste from taking
+	
+	over the other, each caste has access to its own warships.  This was
+	done to create trust a thousand years ago, and since then, since there
+	hasn't been any conflict between Minbari, the three castes own their
+	own warships still, but in general are assigned to Warrior caste as a
+	courtesy, which can be revoked. As Delenn noted, the worker and
+	religious castes control 2/3rds of their forces.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Each caste populates the ships in their jurisdiction with their
+	own people.  Which is why those on the Minbari warships that came in,
+	which we'll see shortly, are religious caste, no warriors among
+	them...but even the religious caste is well trained in combat, as part
+	of their education in temple.  We've seen some of this already in
+	Lennier's abilities in a fight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, 5 left the council with her.  And one can wonder, Did she
+	turn down the position of leader of the Grey Council, which would be a
+	balance for that role, in order to eliminate the council and become
+	primary ruler? (That is what some of the warrior caste are bound to
+	begin wondering after a while.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the brief pause as one of the council members left a sign
+	of a single caste breaking apart?
      
+	No, just a member of the warrior caste making sure one he
+	considered a friend *really* wanted to do this....
+
+
      
+   
    •  I was living in Delenn's head when she uttered those lines for the first
+	time.
+
+	
      
+	She wasn't bluffing.
+
+	
      
+	Delenn *never* bluffs.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks, and yes, there's definitely fire and steel in Delenn,
+	which she calls upon when she needs it.  And nobody crosses her when
+	that happens.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Now that she's gone through her own personal fire,
+	she's a much stronger character, and very interesting to write. 
+	There's steel, and there's humanity and compassion, and she feels no
+	need to defend or justify any of those traits.  What she is, she is.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair survived a battle with Minbari warships.
      
+	Her exact line was, "No human captain has ever survived battle with a
+	Minbari fleet."  Sinclair wasn't a captain.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Dukhat was killed at the start of the Minbari war (that
+	*caused* the Minbari war), and the Council did without a leader for a
+	long time.  She was taught and sponsored by Dukhat.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does Delenn feel responsible for Dukhat's death?
      
+	No, she doesn't feel responsible; it's an artifact of the way
+	they approach certain things.  "His word is on my lips, his spirit is
+	in my eyes." It's almost a way of saying he's speaking through me, back
+	off.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Sheridan asking the Roanoke to surrender
      
+	Yeah...the reference was kafuffled.  There was so much going on,
+	so many EFX shots, so much rearranging of shots to make everything work
+	(we literally delivered this 2 hours before the process for uplinking
+	started) that this slipped past.  I'll assume that Sheridan got excited
+	and said the wrong name. It'd happen to anyone.  Right?  Right?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Roanoke is a place rich with history.  Some of it a little
+	odd, given the colony's disappearance, but rich nonetheless.  (Clark
+	has edged away from giving Omega class destroyers and others names from
+	Greek mythology and history, toward more conventional names like the
+	Clarkstown and the Roanoke.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  President Clark got away from the tradition of using Greek
+	names.  And the Roanoke was a Virginia colony that disappeared in the
+	1600s.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What about the disappearing destroyer?
      
+	That would've been killed off-camera.  We tried to fit in every
+	ship getting nailed, but finally realized it would've required another
+	half an act.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What did ISN know?
      
+	I'm sorry, but we cannot answer your question at this time.  We
+	are experiencing temporary transmission problems with ISN, but hope to
+	have the situation remedied very soon.  Meanwhile, you can direct any
+	inquiries for information to the Ministry of Peace, and the Ministry
+	for Public Information, which has been aiding all public information
+	broadcasts for almost two years now.
+
+	
      
+	At the tone, please leave your name and identicard number. 
+	Don't worry about calling back.  We'll find you.
+
+	
      
+	<beep>
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862241018 Clark had inside info that ISN would be going public
+	soon with info on what was *really* going on on Mars, his planned
+	attack on B5, and other stuff he wanted quiet.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840405641 I'm looking to find a way to bring Franklin's father
+	back into the storyline now, to help resolve this.  (Note: no
+	suggestions, please.)  I think he would tend to fall on the other side,
+	and it'd be good to show that some people may think that yes, there's a
+	problem, but you solve that problem from within, not by breaking away.
+	Could make for some nice drama....
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Nightwatch orders its members on Babylon 5 to target Delenn in an
+attempt to undermine Minbari actions during the recent crisis.  Londo
+presents Refa with an ultimatum.
+
+
+William Forward as Refa.
+Paul Perri as The Sniper.
+Don Stroud as Boggs.
+Kim Strauss as Lenann.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.30
+
+Production number: 311
+Original air week: April 8, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In the old days of the Centauri Republic, poison was a common political
+	tool.
+
+   
    •  Some humans learned the Minbari language from POWs during the war.
+
+   
    •  The rebirth ceremony in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams"
+	was just a small part of a much larger renewal ceremony, traditionally
+	performed in response to, or in anticipation of, a great change.
+	Lennier believes B5's inhabitants are currently between two such
+	changes.
+
+   
    •  The Minbari prophecy foretells fire and darkness after the two halves
+	of the Minbari soul unite to combat the ancient enemy.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How many more Nightwatch members are still on the station?
+
+   
    •  Did Garibaldi's people get rid of the artificial intelligence?
+
+   
    •  What else is buried in B5's computer system?  (At least one unfriendly
+	thing, as shown in
+	"A Spider In the Web.")
+
+   
    •  Who does Lennier believe Delenn is fated for?  Sheridan?  If so, is
+	that due to his observation of the growing relationship between
+	Delenn and Sheridan, or due to something in the prophecy?
+
+   
    •  What was Delenn planning to give up and to tell someone at the ceremony?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo is playing a dangerous game with Refa; Refa will no doubt not
+	take kindly to having his life threatened, and may retaliate against
+	Londo either overtly or behind the scenes.  Refa seems to have
+	much of the royal court in his pocket while Londo's influence has
+	waned since he broke off his association with Morden.  Londo may find
+	that he's bitten off more than he can chew.
+
+   
    •  However, the extent of the risk he's taking is a good indication that
+	his realization of the dark nature of his former pact with Morden is
+	complete; after this it will be very hard to turn back.  It's
+	interesting to note, though, that his basic goal hasn't changed,
+	only his methods; note that he tries to dissuade Refa by talking
+	about how dangerous the current Centauri policies are to their people.
+	Londo is still first and foremost a patriot, not unlike G'Kar (at
+	least until Kosh's revelation in
+	"Dust to Dust.")
+
+   
    •  Londo and Sinclair have something in common; Londo's poisoning of
+	Refa bears a passing resemblance to Sinclair planting a transmitter
+	in G'Kar's intestinal tract.  Or rather, claiming to -- which raises
+	the question, did Londo really poison Refa, or just say so?
+	Like Sinclair, Londo might figure that the poison that doesn't exist
+	can't be flushed out by doctors.
+
+   
    •  How did the Nightwatch get so much information about the Minbari,
+	especially the details of Delenn's means of getting the war cruisers
+	to Babylon 5?  It may be as simple as Earth's normal intelligence
+	channels, which, under Clark, presumably make at least some of their
+	findings available to the Nightwatch.
+
+   
    •  Boggs' claim that the Minbari "think [Delenn]'s the second coming!"
+	indicates that many among the Minbari agree with Delenn's assessment
+	of herself as the chosen one, the vehicle of prophecy (see also
+	"Comes the Inquisitor.")  Marcus also hints
+	at this when he tells Delenn that his brother believed in the Rangers
+	and in her; apparently her involvement with them is richer in
+	symbolism than has previously been hinted at.  How, and whether, that
+	relates to the nature of Sinclair's involvement remains to be seen.
+
+   
    •  This isn't the first time Delenn has been referred to as "the second
+	coming," at least indirectly.  G'Kar quoted a passage from the Yeats
+	poem of the same name in
+	"Revelations,"
+	a passage visually accompanied by Delenn's first look at her new
+	appearance.  Ominously, that Second Coming refers to the
+	Antichrist.
+
+   
    •  The Army of Light is now dressed in black uniforms.  Whether that's
+	an intentional contrast on Delenn's part, or simply her fashion sense,
+	only time will tell.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The voice of Sparky the Computer, the artificial intelligence,
+	is Harlan Ellison.  Sparky's name is visible both in the ending
+	credits and, very briefly, as the last line item in the computer's
+	status messages when it reboots.
+
+   
    •  The recording Londo shows Refa is slightly wrong; Morden was sitting
+	when he mentioned Refa's name
+	("Matters of Honor.")
+
+   
    •  The station logo on the wall in C&C has changed.  It used to be
+	a 5 with a pair of olive branches overlaid, presumably signifying
+	peace; now it's a 5 over a sword.  The new logo can also be seen on
+	the top of the conference room table in the scene with Delenn and
+	the officers from the Minbari ships.
+
+   
    • @@@865359221 There's a minor continuity glitch involving the new
+	logo.  When the command staff walks into C&C in the final scene,
+	the camera pans across the side of C&C to show the startled
+	techs.  The new logo is visible on the wall between two computer
+	displays.  But in the next shot of the same wall, there's no logo
+	there.
+
+   
    •  "Dem Bones" was also sung in the final episode of "The Prisoner."
+
+   
    •  The formation in which one of the Starfuries peels away
+	as the squadron performs a fly-by of the caskets is called
+	the Missing Man formation.  It is used today whenever a flyby
+	is part of military honors at a funeral.
+
+   
    •  As Delenn and Marcus wait for Lenann,
+	a "Wet Floor" sign can be seen in a corridor in the background.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's closing line, "Babylon 5 is open for business," echoes
+	Laurel Takashima's in 
+	"The Gathering."
+	In both cases it marked a new beginning for the station.
+
+   
    • @@@834859914 Sheridan's line to Ivanova, "My hypocrisy only goes so
+	far," is a Mark Twain quote.
+
+   
    • @@@834861046 Don Stroud got his scar by jumping into a crowd of men
+	with knives to stop a woman from being raped, according to former
+	story editor Larry DiTillio.
+
+   
    • @@@839219258 The eulogy recited by Sheridan is the same one spoken
+	by Ivanova in
+	"Soul Hunter."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  As it happens, episodes 8, 9 and 10 ("Messages," "Point of No Return,"
+	and "Severed Dreams") are kind of a triptych, linked at the hip and
+	designed to pull together/blow out several major hanging plot threads
+	once and for all, and send the show spinning off in an entirely
+	different direction.  The hardest one to write was 10, because it's a
+	very emotional episode for the characters, and for me.
+ 
+	
      
+	And next is #11, which I begin to write this weekend...and #11, year
+	three, is the *exact* midpoint of the 5 year story.  This is the hump,
+	the dead center of the journey.  It took so long to get here, and
+	suddenly we're halfway finished.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The episode is in the halfway mark, and that IS its significance,
+	because it signals a major change.
+
+	
      
+	When we were midway through that episode, the halfway mark of the whole
+	series, John, Doug and I were given these spiffy leather script books
+	with silver inlaid initials by the crew, to commemmorate the event.  It
+	was really nifty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Delenn and Lennier
      
+	As for Lennier...it's an unusual relationship, which you'll learn a
+	LOT more about in "Ceremonies of Light and
+	Dark."  Which is all I can say for now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I was kind of afraid that after the big Stuff Blowing
+	Up Episode, anything afterward would be a let down because it couldn't
+	have the same level of huge action (without killing everyone making the
+	show).  So the way to deal with that is to go in an entirely different
+	direction; I was hoping that'd work, and glad that so far it has.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Earthgov sees B5 in much the way China now sees Taiwan.  (Though on
+	reflection that may not be the best metaphor....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  You only send an ambassador if you recognize something as legitimate,
+	and EA will never recognize an independent B5.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't G'Kar join in the ceremony?
      
+	Because he saw the actual co-running of security, and their
+	duties, more important...that is physical, and concrete, and he feels
+	is his surest way to win a seat in the new council.  Actions, not
+	ceremonies.  He's very direct that way.  (Which is pretty much what he
+	said at the time.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838837617 Was this the same ceremony as in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams?"
      
+	Yes, it's the same ceremony; Delenn states as much in the
+	episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was this one of Londo's chances for redemption?
      
+	No, this wasn't an opportunity for redemption.  It would be
+	flagged as much more important than this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't think Londo feels he needs to be redeemed; his reasons
+	as stated were quite sincere.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Delenn being "destined for another" part of the prophecy?
+	
      
+	It is now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838837617 Certainly various sorts of love was at the core of the episode,
+	and what we do for one another.
+
+	
      
+	But no, not all relationships have to end badly (despite my own
+	general history in that regard).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Lennier really satisfied with Delenn's destiny lying
+	elsewhere?
      
+	Well, there was certainly that little catch in his voice, that
+	hesitation, before he added "...in my heart."
+
+
      
+   
    •  "...note on Lennier: "a pure, higher love"? Pshaw, I've heard that
+	before and seen the results in my own life. Are Minbari so different?"
+
+	
      
+	One would certainly hope so.
+
+	
      
+	And there are such different kinds of feelings even among
+	humans; yes, you're right, often it doesn't work out that way...and
+	sometimes it does.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I didn't see or intend any element of Lennier being racist;
+	but there are definitely differences in culture and physiology between
+	Minbari and humans.  Minbari are very careful about personal space, and
+	they don't like to be talked to a certain way.  Marcus momentarily
+	forgot himself, and acted inappropriately.  Lennier corrected him.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn, Lenann, Lennier.  What does "len" mean?
      
+	Basically, I went through and came up with common suffixes and prefixes
+	for Minbari names, the way Russian names have combinations of certain
+	letters (-ovna, -ova, -vich), and associated various backgrounds and
+	castes and houses (fanes) to them.  So you have Delenn, Rathenn, and
+	others of similar name.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the slow buildup of the Delenn/Sheridan relationship
      
+	What you say about relationships is quite true.  The
+	slow process of getting to know somebody, the courtship, the parries
+	and feints and false starts are 85% of the fun.  It's the process of
+	getting into somebody's mind, discovering who they are.  And that's
+	what these two are doing.  It's an awful lot of fun.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The "romance angles" aren't "late additions," but you don't
+	just leap into a romance right off.  You couldn't have had the
+	Delenn/Sheridan thing right in the beginning of year two, it had to be
+	built, and grow gradually.  Things are introduced as it is time for
+	them to be introduced. The shadows weren't even named until season two,
+	and didn't make their first appearance until late in season one.  Is
+	that a late addition?
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm doing a lot to deepen up Marcus and Lennier, to let
+	people see parts of them we might not have seen before.  Everyone grows
+	on the show; even at this point, compare Lennier to the wide-eyed
+	innocent who first arrived at the station and couldn't even bring
+	himself to look Delenn in the eyes.
+
+	
      
+	The computer voice, Sparky, wasn't really a nod of
+	any kind to Hitchhiker's.  (And 2001's HAL beat them to the punch a
+	long time before that in any event.)  No, I just figured, if the
+	computer system had a glitch, what would it sound like? 
+	Answer...Harlan.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, we had 3 more quickie scenes with the computer voice,
+	but the ep ran long over time, and we were locked into some
+	walk-and-talks where we couldn't make other trims.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is the name Sparky a reference to anything?
      
+	No, just figured it'd be a great name.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I also like the look between Marcus and Delenn as they stand in
+	the customs area...he looks like he desperately wants to say more, and
+	she like she desperately wants to hear it...but he turns and walks
+	away, the moment lost.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838837617 About female fans' reaction to Marcus
      
+	It's okay...so are most of the women who work in the editing
+	bays at B5. The first few days of this season, as his stuff started
+	coming in, one of them pulled me aside, and with hand firmly on my arm,
+	to let me know she meant business, said, "Listen very carefully: I want
+	to see a LOT more of Marcus."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838837617 Was Marcus' beard different before?
      
+	Your memory is correct.  Just before he did the first episode,
+	he had to shave his full beard for some commercial audition.  It hadn't
+	grown all the way back, and we had to darken it down a bit to make it
+	work.  It's all back now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Nightwatch members looked a lot more sinister than in the past.
+	
      
+	I went just a little here for a kind of metaphorical
+	approach; prior to this, Nightwatch folks have always been presented as
+	starched, scrubbed, visually appealing...the face they wanted others to
+	see.  Now we see their true face, the scarred, dark, empty eyes, no
+	longer pretending to hide. So we kinda cast in that direction.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Boggs' scar wouldn't have moved like it did.
      
+	The physical dynamics of the scar *would* have worked as seen,
+	actually, mainly because that wasn't a piece of makeup, that's a real
+	scar, and it does work that way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The scar is real.  He had some rough times a few years
+	ago. (Actually, he also appeared with the scar as it's seen here in
+	"TKO," as Garibaldi's corner man, though there it was hidden a bit.) 
+	He's still doing a lot of work though.
+
+	
      
+	(The funny thing was seeing the occasional comment on the nets
+	saying how fake they thought the makeup looked, and why couldn't we
+	manage to do something a bit more realistic looking?)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, no, the song in "Ceremonies" was not intended as a
+	Prisoner riff or homage of any kind.  If the song originated with The
+	Prisoner, that'd be one thing, but the song goes back a long, LONG ways
+	before The Prisoner was even thought of.
+
+	
      
+	What happened, actually, was this...I'm a big fan of the Red
+	Clay Ramblers, a terrific group that does sort of bluegrass but very
+	offbeat.  I was writing that episode, and I was playing with the
+	torture aspect, and had one of their albums on.  At just the moment I
+	got to that scene, up came their rendition of "Ezekiel in the Valley of
+	the Dry Bones."  The notion was perfect, so I went back to the original
+	version of the song, which is public domain (rather than their
+	variation on it), and used it.  Synchronicity.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the uniforms
      
+	I wanted it to have a crossed look, certain
+	Minbari elements and textures, lines that are reminiscent of the
+	Rangers, but also of Earthforce.  Hence, the result.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838837617 There's a certain perverseness in making those on the side of
+	light wear black uniforms.  It reverses our expectations.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In general, it's my understanding that the cast really like the new
+	uniforms.  They're lighter, easier to move around in, cooler under the
+	lights, and they like the styling, the rogue element to it, and the
+	Minbari aspect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Couldn't Refa just have all his food and drink tested?
      
+	Of course the flip side of this is that you'd have to check
+	every single thing you ate or drank every day, every week, for the rest
+	of your natural life.  Not the kind of life *I'd* like to live.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Londo introduces Vir to a surprising new acquaintance.  A heavy influx of
+Narns to the station raises suspicions.
+
+
+Carmen Thomas as Lyndisty.
+
    
+
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.53
+
+Production number: 313
+Original air week: April 15, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Ivanova has been in the military for 13 years.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri are attempting to pacify the Narn homeworld's population.
+	Among other techniques, they send troops to Narn villages to root out
+	aggressive citizens and "put them to sleep."  Sometimes entire villages
+	are found to be aggressive and are burned to the ground.
+
+   
    •  Vir, using his power as head of the diplomatic office on Minbar, has
+	been running a Schindleresque underground railroad for Narns.  He
+	created a fake persona in the Centauri government, "Abrahamo Linconi,"
+	and faked death certificates for over two thousand Narn after "Linconi"
+	ordered them transferred to work camps on Centauri Prime.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri consider marriage for the sake of love rather than politics
+	a radical act.
+
+   
    •  Vir's uncle doesn't think highly of him, claiming that Vir is capable
+	of "a well-deserved humility."
+
+   
    •  Vir has an interest in human history.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How was Ivanova able to flesh out Vir's fake official, whose records
+	were presumably in the Centauri Republic's private databases?
+
+   
    •  What did Vir and Lyndisty do with the bound Narn?  Obviously Vir didn't
+	kill him, but what did he tell Lyndisty?
+
+   
    •  Will Lyndisty's family cancel the
+	arrangements now that Vir has been demoted?
+
+   
    •  Does G'Kar know of Vir's efforts?  Will he be able to forgive Vir
+	in spite of himself
+	("Comes the Inquisitor?")
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  If Ivanova and Allen could follow the paper trail to discover that
+	Vir apparently sent thousands of Narn to their deaths, others might
+	be able to as well.  Vir may find himself a target if any
+	Narn who aren't in on his secret manage to access the records in
+	question.  Certainly Lyndisty is still in danger; lots of other Narn
+	would undoubtedly like to get their hands on someone with her history.
+
+   
    •  Vir can still help the Narn if he chooses, though it'll be riskier.
+	He presumably has retained his post as Londo's attache, which should
+	have some authority in itself.  And by tempering Londo, however
+	slightly, he may do more good than he did on Minbar.
+
+   
    •  Vir isn't alone in wanting to help the Narn; he referred to others
+	working with him.  Will those others be able to continue, especially
+	with Ivanova's assistance?  The presence of other Centauri might
+	explain how she was able to access the Centauri government's files.
+
+   
    •  Given Londo's feelings about bugs, what will his reaction be when he
+	sees an arachnoid Shadow warship for the first time?  Perhaps his
+	fear of insects (and spiders) stems in part from his dream
+	("Matters of Honor.")
+
+   
    •  There may also be a parallel between Londo's insect hunt and the
+	typical Centauri attitude toward the Narn, who they regard as little
+	more than bugs on two feet.  If that parallel is intentional, Londo's
+	line about the insects "evolving before my eyes" might have some
+	relation to the Narns' changing position in the universe -- with
+	G'Kar's help (and some prodding from Kosh) they're becoming something
+	quite different than they were mere months earlier.
+
+   
    •  Evidence of the pressures of independence are starting to appear:
+	B5's officers now drink an unidentified liquid instead of morning
+	coffee and the ambassador of a major race -- albeit an ally of the
+	government the station opposes -- can't get a maintenance crew to
+	his quarters.  The loss of Earth funding and support is likely to
+	grow worse over time.
+
+   
    •  Vir's smuggled Narn are considered dead by the Centauri -- perhaps
+	making one of them the subject of Lady Morella's prophecy to Londo,
+	that he "must not kill the one who is already dead"
+	("Point of No Return.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The title is something of a pun; it's Latin for "thus passes the man"
+	(roughly speaking.)  It's probably a reference to the saying "sic
+	transit gloria mundi" ("thus passes the glory of the world.")
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@838919868 Why are the command crew still wearing their old
+	uniforms in the opening credits?
      
+	Because changing one picture, or a credit caption, is a *heck*
+	of a lot simpler than changing 4 pictures and redoing the whole thing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why were this episode and
+	"A Late Delivery From Avalon"
+	swapped?
      
+	We flipped them around because after "Ceremonies" we NEED something
+	lighter, and because York's episode in the new slot now coincides with
+	the first week of sweeps.  They were written to play in either order.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Can you tell us more about Vir's family?
      
+	I can, but I'd rather show it; you'll find out a lot more about Vir and
+	family relations in "Sic Transit Vir" in mid-april.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838919868 About the title
      
+	thus passes Vir (it's a signal of transition)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865184132 Re: "...a Vir intensive script."
+
+	
      
+	Just finished one.  Script for episode #13, "Sic Transit Vir."  I
+	think it's gonna be a hoot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, it's sort of a double pun in that respect...thus passes
+	the man, which can have many meanings, also entering manhood, or dying,
+	or going away, or the more Vir transitioning, or going...lots of
+	variations.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865184132 It's accurate as far as it goes, and a pun on another
+	level.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just an advisory...I finally saw the trailer for "Sic Transit Vir," and
+	I'd suggest anyone who wants to enjoy the show *not* watch the trailer,
+	as it gives away stuff that shouldn't be given away.
+
+	
      @@@882120672 [Spoiler for "The Maltese Falcon"]
      
+	I.e., if the trailer for The Maltese Falcon said, "...and see the
+	surprise when the black bird is discovered to be an imitation."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838919868 [Spoiler for "Citizen Kane"]
      
+	I wasn't happy with that aspect of the promo either
+	(which was the national spot, not cut by the stations).  It's kinda
+	like doing a promo for Citizen Kane, "...it all began with a child's
+	sled named Rosebud...."
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Vir
      
+	He's a much stronger character than anyone
+	might think.  He's sort of the "God's Fool" character, to get literary
+	for a second, who somehow manages to make it through it all.
+
+
      
+   
    •  At this point, with the rethinking going on back home, he's
+	bethrothed and promised, the marriage arranged, but not yet fully,
+	*formally* married. There's still ritual to go through.  The other
+	family could still choose to withdraw the arrangement.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Even the babble is pretty tightly scripted.  The hesitations and
+	occasional stumble-restatements are the actor's delivery.  There's
+	occasionally a very tiny bit of improv in that kind of scene, but very
+	little.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo is a very sharp, cunning character.  He does what he
+	does for sheer patriotism, to serve his people.  *Whatever* that may
+	entail.  And Vir gets whipsawed a lot...he's a great character, with a
+	wide range of characteristics I can play with, from comic to tragic.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When Londo goes to Delenn earlier this season to ask about having Vir
+	appointed to the Centauri diplomatic mission, he mentions then that the
+	mission has been closed for some time, "some trouble I believe with our
+	previous liaison."  This just paid that off; those Minbari are just a
+	darned bad influence, I guess.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839749088 What happened to the previous liaison?
      
+	Went native.  Bought into the whole Minbari theological system, dropped
+	his Centauri citizenship, was last heard of in a distant retreat trying
+	to grow a bone.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happened to the Narn?  And what were the Narns doing in Vir's
+	room?
      
+	I could've *sworn* there was a line there about the Narn
+	recovering; I'm going to have to check this.  I hope I didn't
+	accidentally cut it for time while doing something else.  (It was a
+	LONG editing session.)
+
+	
      
+	I figured the Narns were there to discuss the fates of their
+	families back home, but yeah, to a certain degree it was there as a
+	great end for the teaser.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838919868 Was the door to Vir's room computer-generated?
      
+	The door was quite real.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who said the line that was cut?
      
+	It was in the observation dome scene with Ivanova; I realized
+	that we'd cut a small piece for time that was expendable, but in the
+	back and forth went one line too far without realizing it.  Sigh....
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the line?
      
+	The only line was that "the Narn is recovering in Medlab,"
+	something to that effect.  Sigh....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838919868 Basically, after seeing what he's done for the Narns, and
+	knowing who Vir is all this time, and seeing his reaction of horror to
+	what Lyndisty was suggesting, anybody who thinks he offed the Narn
+	isn't paying attention.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did the Centauri politician know Vir's secret?
      
+	No, he didn't know, and would've been horrified if he had.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838919868 About different Centauri speaking with different
+	accents
      
+	We've just always assumed that not everyone on any given
+	planet is going to speak with the same accent as everybody else from
+	that planet. Seems more realistic.
+
+	
      
+	Certainly, among Centauri, a certain accent is more associated
+	with the "old school" of court nobility and the like.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833443367 "Did Sheridan and Ivanova really think that Vir was
+	killing off thousands of Narn while he was on Minbar. Hey, this
+	is Vir, not Josef Mengele we are talking about. Did they really
+	think it was necessary to drag this all out in front of Londo
+	instead of privately."
+
+	
      
+	No, they didn't think he was doing it personally, only that he
+	was expediting the transfer of Narns offworld for this
+	purpose.  You think someone like Vir could not do this.  But
+	most of the Nazis who send Jews to die weren't Josef Mengele,
+	carving into bodies...they processed numbers from behind
+	wire-framed glasses, and were quiet, sometimes even cheerful
+	individuals with wonderful wives and children.  The greatest
+	evil can often wear a benign, smiling, affable face.  And
+	remember, people can change on this show.  You look at Londo in
+	season one, is this someone you could buy taking part in the
+	bombing of the Narn homeworld and the death of millions of
+	Narns?  Yet that's what happened.  And their belief was that it
+	was probably Londo who was behind it all...it's Londo to whom
+	Ivanova expressed her outrage, not Vir, who she figured was
+	probably being pushed into it at his behest, so logically she
+	*would* take this right to Londo.  She figured, as you did,
+	that Vir certainly wouldn't think of this on his own, but Londo
+	could (and says so in the episode).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838919868 "Londo is a hell of a leader."
+
+	
      
+	Perfect fodder for an Emperor, no...?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838919868 I love the Ivanova/Vir scenes; I fall down laughing every
+	time.
+
+	
      
+	"the wife is always right."  Hmm...I must convey this to Ivanova
+	for her reaction the next time she pops out of my subconscious.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the saucer-shaped ship outside the station?
      
+	It's a Vree ship, which we've seen before.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the patches on the sleeves of the new uniforms
      
+	One of the patches is a Ranger patch; the other is the new B5
+	sword and shield logo.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's been established that Minbari can and do lie when it's done to save
+	the honor of another.  Here, Delenn saved face for Sheridan at dinner.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865184132 When will Delenn and Sheridan kiss?
      
+	Me?  A tease?  Moi?  I just report the news, I don't make it.
+
+	
      
+	The kiss is coming.  But I wanted to do it in such a way that it
+	somewhat unexpected, in a way that would have even more weight than
+	under any other possible conditions.  How do you turn a kiss into a
+	wham?  (Aside from kissing the right person, natch.)  Stay tuned....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo and the bugs had nothing to do with any notions about the Shadows.
+
+	
      
+	Sheridan is a war historian, with his main interests in the civil war,
+	where one of his ancestors fought.  He's very big on Lincoln.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As Sheridan and Ivanova try to gain recognition of the station's new status
+among the alien governments, a traveler arrives with an unbelievable story out
+of distant legend.
+
+
+Michael York.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.79
+
+Production number: 312
+Original air week: April 22, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  G'Kar has been using a human courier to get messages back and forth
+	between the station's Narn and the homeworld.
+
+   
    •  The first Earth vessel to encounter a Minbari warship was the
+	Prometheus.
+	As the Minbari ship approached with gun ports open, a sign of respect
+	("Legacies")
+	the Prometheus' captain ordered its crew to open fire.  The resulting
+	battle destroyed two Minbari warships and killed the leader of the
+	Grey Council, Dukhat.
+
+   
    •  20,000 people were sent to defend Earth in the Battle of the Line.
+	Only 200 survived.  (Presumably the bulk of the 20,000 were aboard
+	large ships, not individual fighters.)
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Given how badly outmatched humans were during the war, how did the
+	Prometheus manage to inflict so much damage?  Simply a matter of the
+	element of surprise?
+
+   
    •  How much truth is there in Marcus' joking speculation about the
+	Vorlons?  Or in his drawing of parallels between the B5 crew and
+	Arthurian legend?  (If there's a lot of truth there, then who
+	is the Morgana Le Fay figure?)
+
+   
    •  What is the "dawn of a new age" Marcus referred to when he told
+	Franklin about the Ranger pin?  Any relation to the Third Age of
+	Mankind as mentioned in the opening monologues of seasons one and
+	two?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Relying on a large number of races for the station's defense may turn
+	out to be a logistical nightmare.  Ivanova will have to deal with
+	questions like the structure of the chain of command (does she have
+	the authority to order a Vree ship to fire?) and what to do about
+	races who've agreed to participate but whose enemies haven't, which
+	could lead to a situation like the one in
+	"The Fall of Night."
+	Still, as a simple show of force and a deterrent, the arrangement may
+	well end up being sufficient.
+
+   
    •  How did Marcus know about the events in
+	"Comes the Inquisitor?"
+	He arrived on the station after that was all over.  Perhaps Sheridan
+	or Delenn told him.  Is the fact that the Vorlons have visited Earth
+	in the past now common knowledge?
+
+   
    •  The Prometheus didn't destroy all the Minbari ships, since Delenn
+	held Dukhat in her arms as he died
+	("Severed Dreams.")
+
+   
    •  At what point did the Soul Hunter
+	("Soul Hunter")
+	show up during the battle between the Prometheus and the Minbari ships?
+	From Arthur's description, it sounded like the battle didn't last
+	long; the Soul Hunter would almost have had to be onboard Dukhat's
+	ship before the fighting began.
+
+   
    •  The Drazi ambassador now speaks for the League of Non-Aligned Worlds,
+	whose membership seems to have gotten much smaller than a year ago.
+	Perhaps many of the races have been taken over by their neighbors
+	already, with Shadow help
+	("Severed Dreams.")
+
+   
    • @@@832096377 Arthur's line about returning "because I am most needed here
+	and now" is analogous to Sebastian's description of Delenn and Sheridan
+	as "the right people in the right place at the right time"
+	("Comes the Inquisitor.")
+	
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@832007836 For more information about Arthurian legend, see
+	Arthurian Resources
+	on the Internet.
+
+   
    • @@@838499380 It should be noted that Arthurian legend is exactly
+	that: legend.  While there are historical figures who match bits
+	and pieces of the legend, there almost certainly was never an actual
+	King Arthur.
+
+   
    •  The Minbari name for the Ranger pin is Isil'zha.
+
+   
    •  Prometheus is a figure from Greek mythology, a Titan who gave fire to
+	mankind.  For more information see
+	The Creation of Man by Prometheus.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Michael York is currently shooting with us in "A Late Delivery From
+	Avalon," and doing an amazing job.  This may turn into one of our best
+	episodes, from a performance and emotion perspective.  I had a few
+	doubts about the script -- it has a kind of writing style I don't use
+	very often, and very stylized in appearance -- but it's coming out
+	great.
+
+
      
+   
    •  York finished with us quite some time ago.  Great episode, and a nice
+	man.  Very friendly, very polite, nothing of the "I'm a STAR"
+	attitude one often gets with...well, *stars*.  He was even very nice
+	when I gleepily asked him to sign my laserdisk of CABARET.
+
+
      
+   
    •  York's a major film actor who's starred in many films,
+	including one of my personal favorites, "Cabaret."  Also in the
+	"Logan's Run" movie.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839199590 If you've got someone new to the show, who might not
+	know the backstory very well, then probably the Michael York episode,
+	"A Late Delivery From Avalon" would be a good one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I *really* like this episode a lot.  The performance,
+	the music, everything works; I tried to get a little artsy, try out
+	some different kinds of stuff, stretch some muscles I haven't used
+	enough, and it came out very nicely.  It's just nifty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I like this one a lot.  Not really an arc episode,
+	except in going into some backstory elements, but just nicely done. 
+	I'm quite proud of this one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Delenn/Arthur moment played out very well; no
+	lines, not a word, just the images, and the emotions under the surface.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865184429 I'll say one thing about one of those eps, but I won't say
+	which one; when people hear what it appears to be about, the immediate
+	reaction is going to be "Oh, god, they're not doing THAT are they?"
+	and there'll be a lot of sarcasm and head shaking...until the
+	episode airs, and folks see that what it's about...is *not* what it's
+	about...and I think it'll be a very popular episode thereafter.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the title
      
+	I often labor a long time on these
+	things, to try and give them many layers, or turn the title in on
+	itself, or do a play on words.  I can't start work on a script until I
+	have a title, because the title sets the mood.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Arthurian legends influence the heroic-epic style of B5's
+	storyline?
      
+	Well, if you're going to look at heroic epic, sure, the
+	Arthurian story is a classic...but the earliest and best of these
+	remain the Illiad and the Odyssey.  Homer was definitely hitting all
+	cylinders with that.
+
+	
      
+	If there's an aspect that informed B5's development, it's the
+	arc of that heroic epic, which if you look at it dispassionately, is as
+	much about the people *around* the hero as the hero himself.  And all
+	too often, the hero achieves the goal, but falls or falters or is
+	changed by the end of it. Much of what passes for contemporary "heroic
+	epic" assumes that it means the Good Guys Win.  Heroic here as a term
+	goes back to its much earlier origins, a "heroic effort" is something
+	that takes everything you have, against terrible or impossible odds.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, you achieve the goal...but you fall in battle in the
+	fields of Troy.  Yes, you create Camelot, but in the end you are
+	destroyed and Camelot falls.  There's tragedy and mistakes side by side
+	with the glory and the gains.  The accounts of Arthur's meeting with
+	Mordred at Camlan field, and how the final battle began is classic
+	ironic drama, a tragedy of great proportions...and an aspect of that
+	fed directly into the development of the B5 backstory, as you'll learn
+	later this season.
+
+	
      
+	Histories are written about the soldiers who won their battles;
+	but songs are sung about the soldiers who fell in battle struggling for
+	a greater cause.  What inspires us is the unfinished work, the dream of
+	picking up the fallen standard and taking it ten more feet up the hill,
+	knowing that even if you fall, the next man in line will take it
+	another ten feet, until finally the hill is taken.  Humans are
+	constantly throwing their lives away on causes logic tells us are
+	hopeless...but which in time become real for that reason.
+
+	
      
+	It's a dangerous romance with myth, heroism, and death.  On the
+	one hand, it inspires an Arthur...on another, it inspires a car bomber
+	to blow himself and 27 bystanders to bits en route to an appointment
+	with Allah.
+
+	
      
+	What makes the heroic epic work is that it taps into all the
+	myths and archetypes that have been with us for all of recorded
+	history, and much of its oral history.  Where B5 gets into this area is
+	in trying to look at the kinds of myths and epics that have gone
+	before, and finding not the specifics, but the themes which are
+	universal, the *sense* and the feel of it, which are intangible, and
+	which is what makes doing an epic so hard. Either you feel the 
+	structure, or you don't; if you try to hammer it down into a formula,
+	a step-by-step process, it turns to quicksilver in your hands and slips
+	away. You have to take it all in, then listen to the inner voice and
+	write accordingly.
+
+	
      
+	I remember a stanza from a poem I read a long time ago; "Love
+	will die if held too tightly; love will fly if held too lightly;
+	lightly, tightly, how do I know, whether I'm holding or letting love
+	go?"  This kind of fiction operates on the same basis.  Substitute the
+	word epic or story for love, and the logic holds.
+
+	
      
+	So the epic hero or story can't be a *model*, to use your
+	phrase; it can only be an inspiration for what has gone before...an
+	echo in the back of your mind that whispers and guides you through all
+	the dark places.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865184429 Was the "who is Morgana Le Fay?" scene a dig at people
+	on the net who say B5 is just some other story with different
+	trappings?
      
+	The references given (he said vaguely, to avoid spoiling anybody) were
+	first and foremost intentional to the story and to set up stuff...but
+	as I wrote it, the way this stuff has been discussed online did come to
+	mind, and on some level it was probably a slight *plink*, yes.
+
+	
      
+	Sort of a "yeah, well, TWO can play at that game, and most of you missed
+	THIS particular analogy, so THERE."
+
+	
      
+	I am in serious need of a vacation, I think....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did the 515 date for the Battle of Camlan come from?
      
+	I dug through a number of recent Arthurian texts, and that date come out
+	the most often; I've heard the other date, which was about 20 years
+	later, but the one most often used is the 515 date, at least in what
+	I researched.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844028193 Virtually all food used is real, for health reasons.  The
+	liquid drunk
+	by G'Kar and Arthur in "Avalon" is Yoo-Hoo; the mountain of stuff
+	Garibaldi's eating in the Zocalo in first season is piled meatloaf; the
+	spaghetti and bagna cauda was real; the only problem is that no matter
+	what you do, it's going to get cold after 18 takes, even with reheating,
+	and by the 17th take...well, it's an ugly sight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the Excalibur in the episode a real sword?
      
+	Yes, it's a real sword...I'm trying to remember where we got it,
+	it may have been a vendor in these things, one of many that frequent
+	catalogs and Ren faires.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846742073 What happened to it after Delenn took it?
      
+	It went back to our prop department....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846742073 You were being clear, I was just being puckish.
+
+	
      
+	Well, in theory.
+
+	
      
+	I actually haven't worked out what she did with the sword, or who has
+	it now.  I have several options on this, all of them interesting, and
+	never made the final decision.  Maybe they used it to make the new
+	emblem.  Lemme dwell on this.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@882037869 Was that the real Excalibur?
      
+	Since that wasn't really Arthur, the odds of that really being
+	Excalibur are substantially reduced.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890935544 Will we hear more about "Arthur's" exploits with
+	the Narn?
      
+	It's one of those stories I doubt we'll hear much about.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was some of the music by Clannad?
      
+	No, we can't use any outside music; it all has to be done via our
+	composer (unless we purchase the rights, obviously).  Here, though, it's
+	all Chris.  We had a long conversation about the kind of music I wanted,
+	I encouraged him to think in terms of Celtic music, natural
+	instruments primarily instead of synth or electronic instruments, that
+	sort of thing.  But no, no Claanad was used.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865184429 I think Chris did a great job on this one (he's done some
+	spectacular work overall this season, on Severed, Interludes, Ship and
+	others later this season).  What I'd told him in this case I wanted was
+	as much as possible in the way of natural instruments as opposed to
+	synth, so that it fit more with the feel of the episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How is the station supporting itself now that it's seceded?
      
+	We'll establish in coming episodes that they have to become more
+	self sufficient; the Minbari will help some, others will also have a
+	reason to help support the station for the advantages it gives them,
+	the services it provides, and eventually docking fees will have to rise
+	if they can make a go of it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Marcus and Franklin make a good team, it's a
+	nice balance.  And Marcus did fit in well with the whole Arthur
+	storyline (it's kind of an obvious but well-fitting match).
+
+	
      
+	As for Marcus' line...sometimes offhand remarks are only offhand
+	remarks...and sometimes they aint....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Because we've played back and forth with this
+	stuff before, a la the Inquisitor, it *could've* been him, which made
+	it all the more interesting.  Certainly Marcus *wanted* it to be
+	him....
+
      
+   
    • @@@837191770 What was Delenn told before she went to
+	Medlab?
      
+	She was told the whole background...including who David really
+	was. She was in a way taking the pain from someone who had attacked the
+	very ship she and the other Grey council members had been aboard.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839199590 Is there anyone among the humans from whom Delenn
+	could receive absolution?
      
+	You're right, that's a good question.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865184429 The ability to forgive is certainly one of the foremost
+	principles of sentient life, even Draal would agree with that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@837967627 The Earth/Minbari war ended in 2247, and there were several
+	ships in the initial contact convoy, the Amundsen and the Prometheus.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You basically had two large convoys meeting one another.  Two Minbari
+	ships were hit and destroyed, a third damaged badly; this was the one
+	carrying Dukhat and the Grey Council, including Delenn.  
+
+	
      
+	Just for the record, what happened after that...the Minbari ships opened
+	fire, and a number of the Earth ships were fragged.  The rest fled as
+	the Minbari ships hesitated, waiting to see what happened to Dukhat. 
+	When it
+	was learned that he was killed, they took off and pursued the ships back
+	to an Earth base.  Initially, one of the Earth captains explained that
+	they had encountered hostiles (trying to cover his ass), and when the
+	Minbari ships appeared, all hell broke loose.
+
+	
      
+	It was shortly after this "cowardly attack" on their ships, and the
+	assassination of their leader, that the Minbari declared what is in
+	essence a jihad, a holy war, against Earth.  The worker class went along
+	with it, even though the religious caste was unsure...but divided, they
+	couldn't raise sufficient objections to the war to stop it initially.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The contact was made late in the year, and while that was the
+	first blow, it takes a while for any war to really get going; you
+	aren't at war instantly.  The Minbari had to pull their forces
+	together, make the open declaration of war, establish supply lines and
+	all the other elements needed for warfare.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839199590 Open gun ports as a sign of respect?
      
+	It goes back a long time...if you look at certain members of the
+	animal kingdom, they will often flash their teeth or growl to establish
+	their identity, to show equality with someone else.  You have to step
+	outside a human perspective and ask how an alien would show respect,
+	which may not be how we would logically do so.  (Heck, in many cultures
+	here on earth, a perfectly normal habit -- crossing your legs and the
+	bottom of your foot showing -- is taken as a grave insult in some
+	cultures.  Certain customs are deeply rooted in cultural backgrounds or
+	incidents that are often incomprehensible to us.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839199590 "Different (alien) doesn't mean illogical in my book."
+	
+	
      
+	I can think of a number of Zen schools of thought that you would
+	consider vastly illogical...but quite human.  There are many things we
+	would consider illogical to a western mind that are perfectly
+	reasonable elsewhere.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839199590 "However, neither is it appropriate to view all alien behavior as
+	acceptable just because it is different....."
+
+	
      
+	Never implied it was.  In general, on the B5 station, though, if
+	an alien acts toward one of its own kind in a cultural oddity (to us),
+	we tend not to interfere unless so requested; if, however, an alien
+	turns that cultural oddity toward one not of its own species, then the
+	B5 staff would definitely intervene.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a small clue about the third age in the discussion
+	between Marcus and Franklin about the ranger pin.  I mean, it's really
+	pretty blatant.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The name of the Ranger pin is spelled Isil'zha.
+	
+	
      
+	The Minbari term for Ranger One, btw, is Entil'zha.
+
+	
      
+	Z'ha'dum is where the shadows live.  Odd, that reversal....
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Bester finds himself at odds with others within the Psi Corps and seeks
+Sheridan's help, offering information about the Shadows in return.
+G'Kar presses for admission to the conspiracy of light.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+Joan McMurtrey as Carolyn.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.70
+
+Production number: 314
+Original air week: April 29, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Telepaths who refuse to take sleeper drugs to suppress their
+	abilities, or to join the Psi Corps, are sent to reeducation camps,
+	one of which is on Mars.   The Corps refers to them informally as
+	"blips."
+
+   
    •  The Shadows killed most of the Narn telepaths a thousand years ago.
+	They were driven off by G'Quan and the remaining telepaths.
+
+   
    •  Telepaths can disrupt the link between Shadow ships and their
+	non-telepathic pilots.  The Shadows have thus been infiltrating
+	Psi Corps, taking control of it from inside to prevent it from
+	being used as a weapon against them.  They are also capturing
+	rogue human telepaths and altering them with cybernetic implants,
+	possibly with the intent of using them as telepath-proof pilots.
+
+   
    •  Telepaths can locate ships by focusing on the occupants' thought
+	patterns.  Their range is greatly expanded in hyperspace.  Psi Corps
+	kept that a secret to prevent the Earth military from putting its
+	members on the front lines.
+
+   
    •  Psi Cops are trained to pilot all the latest Earth Alliance vessels.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Were Franklin and Bester able to save Carolyn?
+
+   
    •  Are the rest of the telepaths still in cryonic suspension and on B5?
+	Where were they taken, if not?
+
+   
    •  How much more does Bester know about the Shadows and their involvement
+	with the Corps?
+
+   
    •  Who were the aliens in Carolyn's flashback and on the bridge of the
+	cargo ship?
+
+   
    •  Was Carolyn telekinetic, or did her modifications give her that
+	ability?  If the latter, are the Shadows telekinetic too?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Delenn still isn't being completely open with G'Kar -- she neglected
+	to tell him about Kosh's involvement, for instance.  Perhaps she knows
+	of Kosh's manipulation of G'Kar
+	("Dust to Dust")
+	and doesn't want the illusion shattered.
+
+   
    •  Even someone as highly ranked as Bester isn't immune from the Corps'
+	rules about arranged marriages.  On the other hand, given his obvious
+	sense of genetic superiority, he may feel it's his duty to the future
+	of the human race to help breed a better telepath.
+
+   
    •  The mere presence of Bester stopped the Shadow warship from attacking
+	the White Star (assuming it didn't stop to avoid risking damage to
+	the "weapons components.")  Was that because it couldn't get close
+	enough to attack without Bester interfering with its pilot's bond?
+	In any case, the effect is consistent with Talia's experience in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	in which she was able to sense, even see, the Shadows without
+	consciously probing for them.
+
+   
    •  A telepath who consciously chooses to disrupt a Shadow ship might be
+	even more dangerous to them, though that isn't clear.
+
+   
    •  Is there a reason the Shadows are choosing human telepaths in
+	particular?  Sheridan speculated that "they're using humans to pilot
+	their ships."  Is that universally true, or are humans simply one
+	of a large number of races being used for that purpose?  Would, for
+	instance, a Centauri telepath be any good against a Shadow ship with
+	a human pilot?  The events on Narn suggest that telepathy's effect on
+	the Shadows isn't race-specific.
+
+   
    •  If telepathy is a weapon against the Shadows, Sheridan may want to
+	stock up on Dust
+	("Dust to Dust.")
+	And given that the Psi Corps produces the stuff, Bester may be able
+	to arrange that.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows may also be looking for telepaths for use as hyperspace
+	trackers; presumably they know about the scanning abilities revealed
+	by Bester.
+
+   
    •  Is detecting other ships in hyperspace something peculiar to human
+	telepaths?  If not, do other races use telepaths for that purpose?
+	It seems odd that the ability would remain a secret for so long if all
+	races with telepaths can use them to scout in hyperspace.  On the
+	other hand, each race who's discovered the effect might consider it
+	a military advantage and thus keep it under wraps.
+
+   
    •  Did Bester find out about Ivanova when she slapped him?  Physical
+	contact intensifies psi ability (established as early as
+	"The Gathering")
+	but the slap was probably too brief to be of any use.  However, he did
+	take care to make her angry, which, as she herself has observed
+	("Dust to Dust")
+	makes scans much easier.
+
+   
    •  Does Ivanova's latent telepathy provide any protection against attack
+	by a Shadow ship?  Ivanova has only encountered a Shadow ship once, in
+	"Matters of Honor,"
+	and it fired at the White Star -- but it didn't hit the
+	White Star.  Perhaps Sheridan was wrong about why the Shadows missed.
+	On the other hand, given the behavior of the Shadow ship in this
+	episode, it's unlikely the ship in the previous encounter would have
+	pursued the White Star like it did.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  As the only major race without telepaths, the Narn may be in for even
+	more bloodshed and loss; they will be unable to protect themselves
+	from the Shadows as they were (barely) able to before.
+
+   
    •  The cybernetic implants were perhaps put in place at the Mars facility
+	destroyed by Garibaldi and Sinclair in comic #8,
+	"Silent Enemies."
+	If so, it implies that the Corps, or some component of it, was abetting
+	the Shadows in their quest to make human telepaths useless as weapons.
+	However, the presence of the unidentified aliens, both on the cargo
+	ship and in Carolyn's flashback, strongly suggests that the operation
+	was performed elsewhere, or without the Corps' assistance.
+
+   
    •  Carolyn's entanglement is slightly reminiscent of Draal's attachment
+	to the Great Machine in Epsilon 3
+	("Voices of Authority.")
+	When she said that telepaths prevent her from "hearing the machine,"
+	was she talking about Shadow ships, or something similar to Epsilon 3?
+	The Machine does seem to be affected by telepathy; witness Ivanova's
+	ability to pull extra information out of it when she was there.
+
+   
    •  What effect will Carolyn's modifications have on her unborn child,
+	assuming the Shadows' agents allowed it to live?
+
+   
    •  The White Star can no longer be considered even remotely secret now
+	that Bester has been allowed to wander around the bridge.  Even if
+	he truly opposes the Shadows, his primary motives might prompt him to
+	tell others about the ship.
+
+   
    •  Bester is presumably still safely in his position at the Psi Corps;
+	even if he's unable to get any Corps telepaths to help combat the
+	Shadows, he'll likely be able to arrange for Franklin's
+	underground railroad to continue its work unmolested, providing the
+	army of light with a supply of telepaths with which to man its ships.
+
+   
    •  His discovery of the Shadows and their involvement with the Corps,
+	though, indicates that he's not above unauthorized scans of his own
+	people if it suits his purposes.  Presumably he's very careful to
+	only scan people he's confident won't be able to sense him; or he
+	scans them on some other pretense and they're unable to tell that
+	he's pulling Shadow information from their heads too.
+
+   
    •  Bester claimed he last saw Carolyn four weeks earlier, but never
+	elaborated on what happened to her after that.  Was she spirited off
+	on official pretenses, or did the Shadows or their agents kidnap her
+	out of the middle of a Psi Corps installation on Mars?
+
+   
    • @@@831919911 Bester's entrance into the army of light bears similarity to Marcus'
+	and Sheridan's.  All three vowed to fight on the side of light after a
+	loved one was killed or taken by the Shadows.
+
+   
    •  Now that G'Kar is a full member of the war council, perhaps he'll
+	save Garibaldi the trouble of poring slowly through the Book of G'Quan
+	for clues and will tell the others everything his people know about
+	the Shadows and how to defeat them.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The title may be a reference to the Trail of Tears, the forced march
+	of thousands of American Indians away from their ancestral lands
+	onto government-apportioned reservations half a continent away.
+
+   
    •  Vorlons also dislike telepaths, according to Garibaldi in
+	"Deathwalker."
+
+   
    •  Bester quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's
+	"The Cask of Amontillado."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@865184465 Today Walter Koenig and Bill Mumy had a scene together;
+	this (saith Bill) marks the first time a Lost in Space regular and a
+	Star Trek regular have acted together in the same scene.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How does Bester fit into the Shadows/Psi Corps connection?
      
+	This question will be dealt with in "Ship of Tears," around mid-season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Christmas hiatus ends after the 1st, so we're back at work on
+	the 2nd shooting "Ship of Tears," with Walter Koenig returning as
+	Bester.  Expect some major revelations about Bester's background, and
+	where his character is going.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Bester's first name a reference to Alfred Bester, the writer?
+	
      
+	Yes, it's certainly a tribute to Alfie, a giant in the field.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did the prop for the book come from?
      
+	The book was made by Mark Walters of our prop department; and
+	when all is said and done...it'll likely end up in my office....
+
+	
      
+	Creation hath its perks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did you put the war room set?
      
+	Since we're not using the casino much this season -- not a lot
+	of room for frivolity -- we yanked it out and put up the war room on
+	stage C.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How were the reflections on Sheridan's faceplate done?
      
+	The reflections you cite were all done real-time with an LCD projector.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832965854 Was Garibaldi's voice dubbed?
      
+	If this refers to the War Room scene with Garibaldi at the end...yes,
+	there was some looping done.  The best performed scene had some
+	unacceptable noise in it from the chair Jerry had been sitting in at the
+	first part, then he went slightly off-mike at the second point.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who's behind the shadows?  Nobody.  The shadows are the shadows (though
+	that's not the name by which they call themselves), a race of their own.
+	Question is, why are they doing what they're doing?
+
+	
      
+	You'll find out by season's end.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did Garibaldi need a computer to read the Book of G'Quan?
+	
      
+	To follow the book, there still has to be a knowledge of the language.
+	You need to have a dictionary around, which is what was used.
+
+	
      
+	The comparison, I suppose, would be those who say that Jorge Luis
+	Borges' work can only be most truly appreciated in the original
+	Spanish.  There's a *translated* version, which someone has gone through
+	and made the translation for you, written it all out in English...or
+	you can learn the language, and then read the original manuscript.
+
+	
      
+	Garibaldi doesn't know Narn, so how other than with a dictionary could
+	he read the original material, except by sleeping with it under his
+	pillow and praying for divine intervention.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How could G'Quan and the Narn telepaths fight the Shadows if the
+	Narn telepaths were all killed?
      
+	Those were the last remaining ones, the older telepaths, their
+	children all killed, too old now to produce any further children, and
+	the technology of cloning or genetics was still way beyond them.
+
+	
      
+	The story of the last crusade of G'Quan is actually quite
+	interesting; I hope to get it into the show at some point.  Right now
+	it's mainly background, even though I've worked it out fully.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How about an episode showing G'Quan's crusade?
      
+	No, because that would mean doing a story without our main
+	characters, since G'Quan's story took place about a thousand years ago,
+	and I don't think I could sell that.  (Unless I did another time travel
+	number, and I only intend to go to that well once, with the B4
+	storyline.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200015 Then how about telling us the story online?
      
+	I think I'd rather hold it for now, on the chance that I can use
+	it somewhere, or in time turn it into something larger.
+
+
      
+   
    •  That's one of the things about the show that makes it
+	very appealing to write; you can go from fall down funny, broad comedy
+	in "Vir" to something more emotional, almost lyrical but serious in
+	"Avalon," then right into something vaguely horrific in "Ship."  You
+	get to use all your muscles, not just the same ones over and over.  I
+	like to stretch, try something I haven't tried before.  Which means
+	from time to time I fall on my face, but that's okay; it's the only way
+	to learn.  I have absolutely no qualms about making an ass of myself
+	and failing if it means that the next time, I can do it right.
+
+	
      
+	I didn't give Mira or Andreas any instructions on that scene
+	except what was in the script, which was minimal.  When you have two
+	performers that solid in the room, just give them the lines and run
+	like hell.
+
+	
      
+	Speaking of going back and rewatching episodes...part of this
+	goes right back to the *pilot*, where, you'll recall, G'Kar tried to
+	seduce Lyta, mentioning that there are no Narn telepaths, and they feel
+	very strongly it's important to their survival that they start breeding
+	them at the first opportunity.
+
+	
      
+	Ding....!
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did the lack of Narn telepaths give the Shadows an extra advantage
+	during recent encounters?
      
+	Certainly, that there were no teeps on Narn made them easy
+	targets, as were their ships.  They would also have a vested interest
+	in subduing them because of the knowledge they have, revealed here.  If
+	you'll remember, in "Matters of Honor," they mention to Morden that
+	they've only been able to track down some Narn legends.  Morden's
+	reply: "Well, we've taken care of that problem."  Had G'Kar not been
+	out and about, they might have succeeded.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846742790 Why didn't all the Narn support G'Kar's request to
+	send an expedition to Z'ha'dum in
+	"Revelations,"
+	if G'Quon wrote about the Shadows?
      
+	Narn is somewhat factionalized itself, as is every world; there are
+	different followers of different denominations of sometimes similar
+	basic beliefs.  Catholics and Protestants are both members of the same
+	faith, but a Protestant doesn't recognize the power of the Pope; neither
+	does a Mormon, or a Lutheran.  Similarly, not everyone invests G'Quon
+	with the same amount of reverence or credibility.  And G'Kar can call
+	upon those who believe similarly to send out an expedition, but may not
+	have the clout in the rest of the government to do much more afterward.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, initially the shadows had no interest in the Narns, until 
+	such time as the Narns, led by G'Quon, began to engage in sabotage and 
+	direct attacks to drive them off their homeworld.  Then the killing
+	started.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Minbari telepaths can also have an effect, as we'll see
+	soon.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846742790 Bester's line about being the only thing standing
+	between humanity and the abyss in
+	"Dust to Dust"
+	wasn't as arrogant as it sounded.
      
+	Yeah...we're slippery that way....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Everybody's agendas remain the same...but for the
+	moment, they are on the same alignment.  As soon as it's over, as
+	Ivanova says, he'll turn on them, no mistake.  Enlightened
+	self-interest, nothing more.
+
+	
      
+	The new command center was cobbled from what's on the station,
+	with some additional Minbari funding.  And yes, by now, pretty much the
+	whole crew knows what's at stake with the shadows.  And now that
+	they're not hiding anymore, the whole *thing* is out in the open.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the cargo ship's pilot the same species as the surgeons?
+	
      
+	Yep.  Same species.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's no relation between the aliens working for the shadows
+	and the Streib.  The ones you saw in the flash were "doctors" of a sort
+	doing the work; there was no abduction required except of course the
+	covert kidnapping from the Psi Corps Re-education Center.  As for
+	Bester's look behind, he was just looking to the guards behind him, and
+	the ones in front of him.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The implants are part of the preparation process Delenn
+	referred to in "Messages."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Bester read Ivanova when she slapped him?
      
+	I think the contact would've been too fleeting, and too much a shock
+	(and it likely hurt like the dickens) that by the time he knew it was
+	there, it was too late, and she would've sensed it in either event.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833443567 "Was it just me, or did anyone stop to think just how
+	Bester got to B-5 space in a Starfury without using the local jumpgate.
+	Who brought him and more important, why?"
+
+	
      
+	He simply tagged along with an Earthforce jump-capable ship, and asked
+	to be dropped off.  I considered bringing this up, but it was just dead
+	exposition; it would be easy enough to do.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200015 Why didn't B5's sensors pick up the jump point when
+	he was dropped off?
      
+	It's far enough outside B5...about an
+	hour or so in normal space...that they wouldn't have picked it up.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Bester stay with Carolyn?
      
+	Logically, he can't just go away indefinitely, and it's going to
+	take a long time before they can get Carolyn in shape.  A very long
+	time.  If he stays, he'd be noticed and hunted down by the Corps, which
+	ends his usefulness.  His staying served no purpose.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It'll be a long time before Bester's ladyfriend comes anywhere
+	near being whole again.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will Bester covertly help B5?
      
+	Yes, that'll be something Bester will do now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was this change of heart planned from the start?
      
+	Yes, this was definitely intended from the start with Bester.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "If the theme of the relationship is "All Bester needed was to love
+	and be loved, or he wouldn't have been the slimeball he is today", I
+	will be a bit disappointed."
+
+	
      
+	Then you won't be.
+
+	
      
+	"It's just a little too simplistic."
+
+	
      
+	Absolutely.
+
+	
      
+	One mongoose can love another; that won't change its attitude toward
+	pythons.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bester's connection to Carolyn was too much of a coincidence.
+	It would have worked better if they'd brought him a list of names and
+	he'd seen her there.
      
+	Yeah, they could've brought him a list...and he'd have seen the
+	name instantly, and wouldn't have been hit with his own "blip" careless
+	attitude right in his face...also, she needed to be already being
+	defrosted at that point, and you can't defrost all of them at once.
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, it was a coincidence.  Synchronicity.  It happens.  It
+	doesn't happen much on this show, hardly ever.  I figured she'd be one
+	of the last in, and thus the first out.  Synchronicity and coincidences
+	*do* happen.  How many times have you reached for the phone to call
+	someone to find the phone ringing, and it's them on the other end? 
+	What're the odds of Oedipus killing his father and marrying his mother
+	out of all the possible kingdoms in the area?  It happens.  As long as
+	it doesn't happen to excess, it's not something I'm worried about.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833443567 "Then out of the hundred popcycles in the Shadow transport,
+	we just happen to pick the one guiding light in Bester's life. God,
+	aren't we lucky."
+
+	
      
+	Yes, and how amazingly coincidental that of all the women
+	around, Oedipus would just happen to murder his father and
+	marry his mother without knowing he had done so.  Okay, it was
+	a coincidence, I'll own up to that.  We have very, very few of
+	them on the show.  And the reason the word "coincidence"
+	exists, and the word "synchronicity," is that sometimes stuff
+	like that does happen.  You ever pick up the phone to call
+	somebody and have that person already on the line calling you?
+	You ever think of someone you haven't seen in a while and run
+	into them the next day?  It happens.  As long as it doesn't
+	happen to excess, and become a venue for sloppy storytelling
+	every week, it doesn't bother me, it's a legitimate plot
+	device.
+
+	
      
+	And you misspelled popcicle.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are a number of medlabs, which are broken into various
+	areas; each has a larger wing attached to it, which we've seen on
+	occasion, such as when the young girl in "Legacies" is in the infirmary
+	in bed, same with Shon in "Believers."  They each have a pretty fair
+	capacity for patients.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why aren't other TV networks available?  What happened to the two
+	reporters at the ISN desk when it was shut down?
      
+	ISN is one of the only interstellar networks bounced via the
+	tachyon relay systems from Earth to the outer colonies and beyond. 
+	There are lots of other channels back home, but to get this far out you
+	need the support of the government.
+
+	
      
+	The other two reporters are, to say the least, in deep guano.
+
+
      
+   
    •  That's Brakiri space they attacked; more on that in the next
+	episode. (They're a League world.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832236637 Ivanova isn't a strong
+	enough teep for the incoming shadow vessel to really even notice.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200015 How close does a telepath need to be to read
+	someone?
      
+	The person has to be in their line of sight;
+	they don't have to look into the person's eyes or anything as silly as
+	that.  It doesn't matter if the person's head or body are covered, as
+	long as there's a definite "focus" for them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200015 If the person is behind a door, or otherwise can't be
+	located visually, it's difficult to impossible to scan.
+
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan tries to rally support for his cause as direct confrontations with
+the Shadows begin in earnest.  Friction increases between Londo and Morden.
+
+
+Jennifer Balgobin as Dr. Hobbs.
+Jonathan Chapman as Brakiri.
+Rance Howard as David Sheridan.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.31
+
+Production number: 315
+Original air week: May 6, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  During the last war with the Shadows, a thousand years ago, they did
+	roughly what they're doing this time, seemingly attacking at random
+	in the form of quick strikes.  The intent may be simply to keep the
+	major powers off guard, so they never know when the next attack will
+	occur.
+
+   
    •  Vorlon ships are linked closely to their individual owners.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Who will replace Franklin as head of medlab?
+
+   
    •  Why did the Shadows wait until the Vorlon attack to move against Kosh?
+	They could presumably have done it at any time.  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Do the Shadows know that the Vorlon attack was just a one-time thing,
+	or do they now believe that the Vorlons are on the march?  How will
+	that affect their strategy, if at all?
+
+   
    •  How did Delenn know there wouldn't be a body?
+
+   
    •  What was the flash of energy that coursed through the station after
+	the fight was over?
+
+   
    •  Does Lyta know about Kosh?  How will she react when she finds out?
+
+   
    • @@@832011799 Was the data crystal on Talia Winters
+	("Deathwalker")
+	placed on Kosh's ship?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo's new pact with Morden may foreshadow the loss of his second
+	chance for redemption
+	("Point of No Return.")
+	With Londo's poison coursing through his veins, Refa certainly qualifies
+	as "the one who is already dead," and now Londo has vowed to kill him.
+	Along similar lines, Kosh qualifies now too; Londo may attempt to kill
+	Kosh's replacement, not realizing it's another Vorlon entirely.
+
+   
    •  Londo played right into Morden's hands.  Morden was obviously
+	responsible for Adira's death (he paid off one of the ship's crew,
+	and he found out about her arrival from the Zocalo vendor) and it's
+	unlikely Refa even knew about her, much less participated in her
+	poisoning.  But any such protest on Refa's part will likely fall
+	on deaf ears if Londo speaks to him.
+
+   
    •  On the other hand, it's also possible that Londo is attempting to
+	fool Morden.  Certainly Londo knows that Morden is up to no good --
+	their conversation in the hallway, and Londo's glare when he talks
+	about people who deserve to die -- are evidence of that.  Maybe he's
+	playing along with Morden in an attempt to trip up the Shadows' plans.
+	The same hallway conversation offers evidence to the contrary, though;
+	even then, Londo felt he had already been through worse than Morden's
+	associates could dish out, and with Adira's death, that's probably
+	only intensified.
+
+   
    •  "The galaxy can burn.  I no longer care," says Londo.  This echoes the
+	conversation between Emperor Turhan and Kosh in
+	"The Coming of Shadows:"
+	"How will this end?"  "In fire."
+
+   
    • @@@832236893 Londo's conversation with Morden -- putting an end to a previous
+	pledge and going on the offensive due to the loss of a loved one --
+	is in some ways a parallel of Sheridan's conversation with Kosh at
+	the end of
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum."
+
+   
    •  Londo promised to pluck the Shadows' eye out if it turned toward the
+	Centauri homeworld.  Foreshadowing, perhaps, for whatever happens
+	to G'Kar's eye in Londo's dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows.")
+
+   
    •  What do the Shadows want?  Delenn seems to know more than
+	she's telling.  Morden's keen interest in the Centauri's continued
+	aggression may provide a clue, but it's ambiguous at best.  If they
+	simply want a constant state of chaos in the galaxy, their current
+	strategy will eventually backfire; there won't be anyone
+	left to carry on fighting.
+
+   
    • @@@832057944 The fact that the Shadows attacked Kosh
+	immediately after the Vorlon victory over the Shadow fleet smacks of
+	the notion that there was a deal of some sort between the two races:
+	the Vorlons stay out of the fighting, and the Shadows leave them
+	alone.  If that's true, one sobering interpretation is that both
+	races consider the war something of a game.  On the other hand, the
+	truth could be just the opposite; the Shadows may not have wanted
+	to touch Kosh for fear of causing Vorlon retribution.
+
+   
    •  Along similar lines, Kosh told Sheridan that the Vorlons didn't want
+	to attack because "it is not our time."  What did he mean by that?
+	What constitutes the Vorlons' time?  Kosh also mentioned that the
+	Vorlons were still few in number, and were still preparing.  Are their
+	preparations simply a matter of boosting their manpower?
+
+   
    •  Even in his last moments, Kosh still chose to hide behind disguises and
+	symbolism, appearing as Sheridan's father rather than himself.  Or
+	maybe it's not by choice after all; maybe all he can do is communicate
+	with people in terms they already understand, though his recreation of
+	the Icarus expedition in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+	suggests otherwise.
+
+   
    • @@@832266293 A more charitable explanation is that Kosh didn't want
+	Sheridan to realize he was in trouble, since Sheridan would have been
+	inclined to race to Kosh's quarters to try to save him -- something
+	that would have meant certain doom.
+
+   
    • @@@832056132 Kosh treated Sheridan like a child, calling him "impudent"
+	and "disrespectful" before finally giving him what could be considered
+	the Vorlon equivalent of a spanking.  Then he appeared as Sheridan's
+	father.  That suggests a certain condescending attitude on the part
+	of the Vorlons toward the other races.  Is that attitude based on
+	anything?  Delenn said the First Ones guided the younger races; maybe
+	to Kosh, humans are children, and the war against the Shadows
+	is a test of maturity.
+
+   
    •  How long has Kosh known what was going to happen to him?  He implies
+	here that Sheridan will die on Z'ha'dum because he won't have Kosh's
+	help ("You said that if I went to Z'ha'dum I would die."  "Yes, now.")
+	Did he know why that would be when he first warned Sheridan in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum?"
+	Were his lessons for Sheridan, teaching the latter to fight legends,
+	meant to provide Sheridan with the confidence to disobey Kosh's wishes
+	when the time was right?
+
+   
    •  There is something of a thematic link between Kosh's expectation of
+	death and the story of Jesus played out by Brother Edward in
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane."
+	Kosh knew what was coming, perhaps knew he could avoid it for
+	a little while, but also believed it would be the wrong thing to do.
+	So he waited in his quarters to face his executioners.  Of course,
+	Edward didn't try to fight his killers off, so the parallel isn't
+	exact.
+
+   
    •  Kosh's death was instantly known to the Vorlons, which suggests that
+	all the Vorlons are linked together in some fundamental way.  Perhaps
+	the killing of Kosh, then, was less a blow against him personally than
+	a slap in the face of the Vorlons as a whole.
+
+   
    •  If Kosh knew what was going to happen, why did he remain in his
+	quarters, easily found?  Perhaps he believed that the Shadows would
+	go after Delenn or Sheridan in that case, and he considers them more
+	valuable than himself.
+
+   
    •  Why can't Kosh's replacement continue Sheridan's education and assist
+	him at Z'ha'dum as Kosh would have?  Presumably there was nothing
+	special about Kosh from the Vorlons' point of view.  Or maybe the
+	Vorlons are so few in number that Kosh was the only one among them
+	who's able to provide whatever assistance he had in mind.
+
+   
    •  The Vorlons still use conventional jump points rather than the faster
+	hyperspace entry and exit technique employed by the Shadows.  Is that
+	a conscious decision on their part, or does it imply that the Shadows
+	are more technologically advanced in at least some respects?
+
+   
    • @@@832096164 The Vorlons' telepathy must be different than what humans
+	are capable of; the Shadow ships were able to function as the Vorlons
+	attacked, unlike the ship near the White Star when Bester was aboard
+	("Ship of Tears.")
+	On the other hand, the small Vorlon fighters did seem to be doing
+	a good job of confusing the Shadow warship they were attacking; it
+	seemed to spin around randomly, and never fired back.
+
+   
    •  This episode was full of power surges and drains: the one noted by
+	the C&C tech when Kosh and Sheridan were arguing, the lights
+	dimming when Morden confronted Londo, the battle between Kosh and
+	the Shadows, and whatever happened when Kosh died.  Perhaps someone
+	will put two and two together and have security promptly investigate
+	any odd power level changes.
+
+   
    • @@@831974299 The C&C tech said that the power surge was "a non-localized
+	phenomenon" -- exactly the phrase used by Delenn to describe the
+	Minbari concept of the soul in
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane."
+
+   
    •  What is Earth's official reaction now that open hostilities with the
+	Shadows have broken out?  Has Sheridan usurped Earth's official
+	relationships with all the alien governments he's recruited into his
+	alliance?  The Shadows certainly have their fingers in at least some
+	aspects of the Earth Alliance, but they don't have total control yet;
+	there must be some people in the Earth government advocating taking
+	up arms against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    • @@@831941341 The masked alien is a Gaim, whose name is probably a
+	reference to Neil Gaiman.  The title character of Gaiman's "Sandman" --
+	one of JMS's favorite works -- has a mask of similar appearance.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839232139 The character of Dr. Lilian Hobbs is named after a
+	fan,
+	Dr. Lilian Hobbs,
+	who won the bidding at a charity auction at the Wolf 359 convention
+	in Manchester in 1995.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Script 15 is entitled "Interludes and Examinations," and has a plot
+	turn I hadn't seen coming, but which fits perfectly into the arc; I
+	think you're going to be stunned.  (I was.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200375 Re: titles...yeah, you got to watch out with this show,
+	sometimes I put on deliberately dull titles when I want to sneak up
+	behind you quietly.  The more innocuous sounding, the more you should
+	worry....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188788 The visual styles in transition between shots came from
+	the director, which he went over with me when we had our tone meeting.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Just wondering if we would see the First Ones from Sigma 957 this
+	season, since there are supposed to be some direct confrontations
+	between the Army of Light and the Shadows?"
+
+	
      
+	No.  It isn't their time yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Let me answer this way...whenever I'm going to unveil something
+	on the show, I begin to point to it in upcoming episodes.  I've begun
+	pointing to the question of what the shadows want, and why they're
+	doing it.  So, logically, I'm now going to have to follow up on
+	that....
+
+
      
+   
    •  In general, you always know when I'm going to
+	start answering a question, because I begin to point at it in episodes;
+	I'm now beginning to point to the shadows and ask, "What do THEY want?"
+
+	
      
+	The answer is coming.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It wasn't my idea.  It was Kosh's idea.  It was his pulling me that way
+	that led to it.  "Trust me," he said.  I followed.
+
+	
      
+	And yeah, it does hurt.  Pat Tallman was devastated at the screening. 
+	Even my own crew wouldn't talk to me for a day or so after the script
+	came out.
+
+	
      
+	Which is when I knew it was the right thing to do.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831941341 It's funny, out of all the awful terrible things I've done
+	to our characters over these 3 years, the one that honked off the whole
+	crew was the Kosh development.  On one level, they loved it...loved how
+	it tightened the screws...but they still didn't want to know from me
+	for a day or two.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, that's [Kosh's death]
+	the story turn that surprised even me.  (And, of course,
+	I can't wait for the folks who'll say it was over a contract dispute
+	with the actor....)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831940922 I'm just waiting for some nit to come out of the
+	woodwork and announce that the real reason for what happened to Kosh
+	was that Kosh had a contract dispute over money or walked off the
+	show....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831919210 The mentor always dies in heroic sagas.
      
+	I think Kosh sort of "hit the wall" when he saw that Sheridan wasn't
+	going to go away; I think finally he was ashamed, and recognized his
+	fear, and in a sense the air went out of him, and he reconciled himself
+	to what had to be.
+
+	
      
+	You're right about the mentor; sooner or later, the mentor has to
+	step aside (or fall by the wayside) for the others to grow into the
+	hero's journey.  Originally this was slated to happen a bit later...I
+	think, on some level, I was reluctant to do it, because to write this
+	kind of stuff you have to *feel* it yourself, and I think I was
+	avoiding that as much as Kosh was avoiding his fate.  I didn't want
+	to go through writing that.  So I kept putting it off.  I knew it
+	*had* to be done...but not yet....
+
+	
      
+	And that's when, for lack of a better explanation, Kosh stepped up
+	and began to pull me in that direction in the script.  It was time.
+	His passing shouldn't be frittered away or minimized; it should
+	happen at the right moment, and this was that moment.  It's almost
+	impossible to describe this to a non-writer, but the character, this
+	fictional construct, was simply determined to have his way, and that
+	was the end of it.  I kept trying to dance away in the script, to go
+	back into safer waters...but each time was pulled back in this
+	direction, until finally I had to admit that yes, this was the right
+	time, and the right way, to do this.
+
+	
      
+	And Kosh fell.
+
+	
      
+	But what finally convinced me was the realization that this was not
+	only right for now, but right for *later*...though you won't know
+	what that means for a while yet.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831973132 Mainly, I think I was just trying to avoid it...put it off as long as
+	possible...but the character knew, even more than I did, that
+	this was the right time to do this.  It's a very hard thing to
+	do this to a character; the only way to get that kind of
+	emotion into a script is to feel it yourself as you're writing
+	it, and that's a painful thing to do.  So I was avoiding it.
+	But he outfoxed me...as usual.
+
+	
      
+	That's Vorlons for you.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188788 "So, to sum up, has it been hard making these changes
+	after you and all of the fans have gotten to know them?  Or is it simply
+	a matter of: "Well...it's their time...?"
+
+	
      
+	It's both, kinda.  In the case of one character, who's been with us a
+	long time, and who...shall we say delicately, is en route to becoming
+	an ex-character by the end of this season...it was hard knowing the
+	actor, because the actor said, "Was there something I did wrong?"  To
+	which you can only answer truthfully and say no, not at all, just the
+	opposite...you did a GREAT job, that's why we're offing you.  If you'd
+	been just mediocre, nobody'd CARE."
+
+	
      
+	In another case, also later this season, it was *very* difficult for
+	me personally to do it, very emotional...and I wouldn't probably have
+	done it at all if the character hadn't basically grabbed me by the
+	lapels and dragged me kicking and screaming to that point of the story
+	and said, "Look, this is right, you know it, I know it, now DO it."
+	So I did.  (And the cast and crew were equally stunned.  Of everything
+	that's been done on the show to date, THAT one thing got the biggest
+	reaction; nobody'd eat across from me for two days at lunch after
+	that.)
+
+	
      
+	Bottom line...you've got to go where the story leads you.  That *has*
+	to be your first and foremost obligation.  If it's anything else --
+	catering to the audience's expectations, or your own preferences --
+	rather than doing what the cold logic of the story *demands* you to
+	do...you're finished.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Kosh stuff, his scene with Sheridan, and his
+	passing, is very moving.  I showed it at Marcon this weekend in Ohio,
+	and many folks, including Patricia Talman -- who hadn't seen it yet --
+	were in tears at that. That, to me, is the moment when you know you've
+	done something, when you can make people *feel* something.  Not just a
+	plot exercise, but you hit down deep where it hurts, or can make
+	someone laugh.  It's all about touching emotion...or what's the point?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200375 Actually, there wasn't much about Kosh I disliked...except his
+	cryptic ways...they're all annoying that way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834863602 When they shot the scene itself...no, not a lot of emotion
+	in the Kosh sequence in his quarters, because it was all very
+	technical, bits and pieces.  But in the hallway scene with Sheridan,
+	and the later scene with Delenn and the others...yes, very much so.
+
+	
      
+	It was *extremely* difficult to write.  As a writer, the only way
+	to evoke a feeling in your audience is to feel it yourself and
+	communicate that honestly in the text.  It was just awful.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839220461 "1. presumably Adira was actually poisoned by Mordens cronies,
+	since he was looking for a way to hurt Londo, and we saw him finding out
+	information about her?"
+
+	
      
+	Correct.
+
+	
      
+	"2. In the final credits, a ranger is mentioned. I don't
+	remember seeing any rangers in this episode - where did he come in?"
+
+	
      
+	His scene was snipped for time, it was a small one, didn't add much to
+	the story, but you have to keep those credits in under SAG rules.
+
+	
      
+	"3. Will we ever find out why Kosh allowed himself to be "poisoned" in
+	the pilot episode now?"
+
+	
      
+	You're assuming he allowed it.
+
+	
      
+	"4. What was the flash of light running across B5 when Kosh died?"
+
+	
      
+	A non-localized phenomenon.
+
+	
      
+	"5. Early on, when Sheriden was talking to Delenn, he wants to know
+	"what the Shadows are really after". Delenn looks like she is
+	resolutely not saying anything and hoping that the conversation moves
+	on before Sheriden presses for an answer... which it does. Does Delenn
+	know what the shadows are after (considering the war from a 1000 years
+	ago, I would have thought that the star faring Minbari would have had
+	pretty good records)?"
+
+	
      
+	They do, and she does, and she's making a few mistakes that may come
+	back to haunt her in the not too distant future.
+
+	
      
+	"6. Will you tell us? (answer = cryptic "YES" no doubt!)"
+
+	
      
+	In the fullness of time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188788 The Delenn/Sheridan axis is proceeding, but I've been very
+	deliberately holding off the kiss, and what would follow that, so I
+	could do it in a very special way.  You'll see soon enough....
+
+
      
+   
    •  "JMS, why did you edit out the scene where the Ranger follows Morden and
+	ends up being killed by the Shadows?  Don't you think fans of the show
+	would rather see that than the scene in the bar where Garibaldi asks for
+	info on Franklin's blood from the other doctor?  When you edit the show
+	please keep in mind what the fans would what to see.  Rangers and
+	Shadows fighting is much more exciting than a unimportant scene that
+	could have been left out easily."
+
+	
      
+	Because it was important to set up what Garibaldi wanted, where it was,
+	and how he was going to gain access.  It had to show his concern for
+	Franklin, the moral ambiguity in asking for this, the betrayal we see on
+	Franklin's face, the difficulty in Dr. Hobbs dealing with his request. 
+	The ranger scene was a brief piece that was really unconnected to the
+	rest of the story, had no setup elsewhere or payoff, was only a brief
+	piece of action.  I needed the time to establish the character and plot
+	information in the Garibaldi scene.
+
+	
      
+	And when you cite what "the fans" want to see, bear in mind that there
+	ain't no such critter.  There's what *you* like, but *you're* not the
+	entirety of the fans.  Some fans thought "Avalon" was one of the best of
+	the series to date; others thought it was just a character piece and
+	wanted more action and arc and called it a "waste."  Some people when
+	they read a novel read for the action, then when they come to a few
+	pages that establish the look of the forest, or some character
+	background, jump ahead a few pages to where the action starts up
+	again.  Some do just the opposite.
+
+	
      
+	My obligation, first and foremost, is to the story, and to tell that
+	story as best I can.  If I start trying to second guess what *The Fans*
+	want, when there is no ready concensus, when there ain't no such
+	thing, when different fans want different things, it'll just get
+	watered down and wander around lost.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832057944 The voice-over is something I mentioned here a few
+	months ago as a tool I was adding to my toolbox to use as counterpoint,
+	or segue, in ways I hadn't tried before.  I use it again here and
+	there, though the key with any new tool is not to go nuts and use it
+	all over the place when a better one, maybe the one you already had, is
+	better suited to the task.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832088589 Just a quickie aside...the background/depiction of Brakiri
+	space was taken right from a Hubble deep-space shot.  We use them a lot,
+	as provided to us by the folks who keep track of it all and keep it
+	running.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831940922 One can certainly argue that Franklin's actions were hasty,
+	that he is basically running away from the *consequences* of the
+	problem he has, as much as from the problem itself.  This will, of
+	course, have to be dealt with.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834863400 Is Franklin still on the war council?
      
+	Franklin would be off the council for a while; he has to go and figure
+	his life out first.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200375 You'll see more of Franklin, as he tries to deal with his
+	problem. At first it's not too bad, but with time....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why is Londo still on the station?  Why do they let him stay?
+	
      
+	B5 is still a place of considerable commerce, access to lots and
+	lots of other races and diplomats...it serves Londo's purposes for now,
+	and there are probably lots of Centauri back home who would prefer he
+	stay here.  As for the rest...better the devil you know than the devil
+	you don't.  At least on B5 they can keep somewhat of an eye on him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831941608 Why didn't Londo mention Adira periodically?
      
+	Basically because it's hard in an episode to just bring up
+	something out of the blue unless you're going to use it.  You're stuck
+	with, "Boy, I wish Adira were here...so what's for dinner?"  Which will
+	mean nothing to the folks who didn't see the first season unless you
+	then talk more about her, show her...and then suddenly you REALLY have
+	to deal with it or it's intrusive.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200632 Will Londo discover Morden's role in Adira's death?
      
+	Anything's possible.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@835076861 One theme of the show is how we each deal with the
+	traumas that beset us, and the choices we make.  The difference is in
+	how we handle them.  In "Shadow" and "Interludes" both Londo and
+	Sheridan have to confront somewhat similar losses: the death of a loved
+	one.  But Sheridan, at the last, was willing to suck in the pain and do
+	what was right, however much it grieved him, and forego
+	revenge...Londo, on the other hand, has embraced revenge.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200632 Why doesn't Londo just have Refa killed?
      
+	Refa is a powerful guy now, with powerful allies; he [Londo] needs
+	money, in large amounts, and more influence, so when and if Refa would
+	get it, there wouldn't be the kinds of repercussions that might
+	otherwise come, as with a mafia hit, for instance.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why don't they keep Morden off the station?
      
+	They would do so, but since the fall from Earth, as Susan
+	mentioned, they've had to hire guards who may not be above bribes, as
+	we saw in the teaser.  And Morden is good at covering his footsteps.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834982205 Did Morden eliminate Adira's killer to cover his
+	tracks?
      
+	No, Adira's killer is still alive...can be useful, those folks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The "crystals" were diamonds, he was bribing various people to
+	let him in and otherwise do things for him.  And yes, Delenn's holding
+	back some information still, and Kosh was outnumbered.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839189267 Sheridan has doubtless noticed by now that Delenn is
+	holding stuff back from time to time...may even mention this in a few
+	episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834864258 The shadows looked for Morden's opinion; he's an advisor,
+	in a sense, on lower-species politics.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832057944 Have the Shadows been getting bigger?
      
+	No, they're about the same height consistently; it's probably an
+	artifact of the camera angles and lighting.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832308801 How did the Shadows get aboard?
      
+	They physically come aboard.  There's no beaming-in tech in the
+	B5 universe.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Sheridan's confrontation with Kosh
      
+	I don't think Sinclair would've handled that
+	scene in the same way; it needed someone who'd go toe to toe with
+	something very old and dark and dangerous in his way.  He had to get
+	under Kosh's "skin," as it were. Needle and outrage and upset him until
+	he got through...whatever the cost.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839747946 There was a bit edited out of the Sheridan/Kosh
+	conversation, but
+	nothing of real importance.  It was at the beginning, as he catches up
+	with Kosh, and discusses his meeting with the League worlds and how
+	important it would be for the Vorlons to get involved.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bruce did a great job in that scene; there's a touch of
+	madness in it, which is quite understandable.  As for the Rangers, they
+	get a new, added role later this season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188788 Bruce is doing a *great* job, and definitely growing into
+	the part.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200375 Bruce is a hell of a lot better than some folks were
+	willing to give him credit for in the beginning.  I think that's coming
+	out now as his role becomes more deep and more serious.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200375 "The "arc" is fully alive for you now, I think.  Without these
+	characters living and breathing inside your mind I don't see how one
+	man could write as much as you have over the past two seasons.  What I
+	*have* noticed is that all the actors now seem to be responding to the
+	story you're telling."
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, it's kind of a funny thing...the deeper we got into the season,
+	as the actors saw only one name on script after script, and they began
+	to understand what was coming, and it's all *very* consistent...the
+	sense of this being a novel really came through for everyone in a very
+	profound way.  You could really feel a change in everyone's attitude,
+	though it'd be hard to put into words.  A sense of, "This is it, this
+	is the story, we're moving now, we're doing something nobody's ever
+	done."  They know how hard it is for anyone to write this many scripts,
+	which is why it's never been done before, and I think they not only
+	respected that, but felt they had to rise to the challenge and give
+	just as much at that end of it.  Usually you tend to hit a slump
+	energy-wise in your third year; not here.  Everyone's just hitting all
+	cylinders.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832145313 Sheridan has almost certainly not learned all he needed to
+	know.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Kosh leave?
      
+	Because I think, on some level, Kosh knew it was inevitable; a
+	price had to be paid.  In a way, Lincoln had the same feelings...why
+	was he to live when so many had died?  In a way, he knew he wouldn't
+	live much longer. Also, it would mean running...and the Vorlons don't
+	run.  If he fled, another would pay the price...and that also wouldn't
+	be right.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188789 I think Kosh realized that some things have to be, and
+	that as we've said from the start, there is always a price to pay.
+
+
      
+   
    •  He knew a price had to be paid, and if it wasn't him,
+	it'd be someone else.  Because he knew there was no getting around it. 
+	He's too prideful to run.
+
+	
      
+	Remember Gethsemane....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh fought and fought hard.  And he did not go down easily...and one
+	might say that yes, he did not go down alone...but not entirely in the
+	way you're thinking.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846743027 How could you kill Kosh before explaining Sheridan's
+	dream in
+	"All Alone in the Night?"
+	The problem is we're telling different stories.  What makes
+	it interesting for me is that Sheridan *isn't* prepared, Kosh *didn't*
+	finish his training.  It isn't nice and tidy.  And to stop and explain
+	the dream in "Interludes" would've meant taking, oh, about 3-5 minutes
+	OUT of that episode, and it's very tight as it is.  And it would've just
+	been a case of, "Here, here's this bit of exposition relating to
+	something you've seen before."
+
+	
      
+	No, the dream *does* get explained...and it gets explained *this
+	season*, in the course of the final five.  In detail.  But at the right 
+	time, and in the right place.  To have explained it sooner wouldn't
+	work, it has to come at the right moment, with the last bits of
+	information our characters need to *use* that interpretation.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840129315 Did Delenn's certainty that there wouldn't be a body
+	stem from her knowledge of the Vorlons, or of the Shadows?
      
+	More about the Vorlons than the shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188789 Why doesn't Delenn tell Sheridan what she
+	knows?
      
+	Delenn's been holding back.  More than she should.  There will be a
+	price.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833443446 "Why didn't the Shadows get on the horn and start screaming
+	that they just made sushi out of Kosh. The alliance is new,
+	shaky, unsure of Sheridan.  What a great time to screw over
+	everyone by announcing we killed Kosh."
+
+	
      
+	Because for starters, it's bad form.  If you kill somebody
+	else's ambassador, that's not the sort of thing you proclaim
+	proudly, it tends to bounce badly back onto you.  Also, this
+	was primarily a personal situation.  There's more, but it's a
+	bit further down the road story-wise that might help clarify
+	this further.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832445539 Why wasn't a Soul Hunter present at Kosh's
+	death?
      
+	Because it was very sudden, and they learned the hard way to leave
+	Vorlons alone.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839189679 Could the Soul Hunters sense Kosh's death?
      
+	It's not that easy a question, or that straightforward a
+	situation, as you'll see soon enough.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832443832 Why didn't you show the fight between Kosh and the
+	Shadows?
      
+	I thought about that long and hard when writing the script, and
+	I finally came to the conclusion that there was literally *nothing* we
+	could show that wouldn't be disappointing...it's a conflict on another
+	whole plane, and should have an almost cosmic or ethereal feel to it. 
+	If we showed Kosh shooting a defensive field, or a shadow opening his
+	suit with a can opener, or anything else obvious and physical, it
+	would've diminished the scene.  The vorlons are mythic, indirect, you
+	see them out of the corner of your eye, so it fit that the proper
+	metaphor would be to handle the battle that way.
+
+	
      
+	Even if we'd had ten million bucks to do that sequence...I
+	would've made the same choice.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832145313 Did Sebastian know about Kosh's fate when he asked
+	Delenn about dying alone?
      
+	Actually, Sebastian said that bit about dying alone to both
+	Sheridan and Delenn.  Who knows, he may have known something....
+	
+	
      
+	If Kosh had run, which wasn't in his character in the first
+	place, someone else would've paid that price.
+
+	
      
+	Londo still has chances, if he doesn't blow them.  You'll see a
+	bit more about this in the two-parter.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, some Vorlons do appear to us as female versions.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832145313 Did the Shadows only realize what Kosh was when they
+	fought him?
      
+	Oh, no, the Shadows and the Vorlons know each other from way,
+	way back.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188789 Did one of the Shadows attacking Kosh have
+	wings?
      
+	No, none of the shadows there were winged.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832145313 There is something thematically present about growing up,
+	and parents, and coming of age that threads through the story.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, there's the deliberate irony...that just as we finally
+	start to really hear from Kosh...he's gone.  Snatched away just as we
+	got close. Which would add to the feelings.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839232714 Kosh also appeared as G'Kar's father
+	("Dust to Dust.")
      
+	That's what Kosh tends to play into, the whole
+	father aspect, though others might take the other approach in this.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840043012 It's likely a matter of both, choosing an element which
+	is strongest in the other person, which for Sheridan and G'Kar would be
+	their respective fathers, who would also be authority figures to
+	them...so it's both manipulation and emotion.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832145313 What happens to Lyta now?
      
+	She'll now have to work with the incoming replacement Vorlon,
+	who might be just a bit miffed....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831941608 As for Kosh's ship...it headed for the nearest star, the
+	local one, and basically dived into it....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832057944 Why was one of the Vorlon ships red?
      
+	Not special per se, just to establish that they have more than
+	one design.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834863400 Lyta was off-station running an errand for Kosh.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832057944 The red ship was simply another variation on the standard;
+	nothing too major about it...and yes, when Lyta returns from her
+	errand, she'll definitely get into this, and there will have to be some
+	explanations made, though not to her....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852231524 The different color just goes to show some measure of
+	individuality in design, and there are some hierarchies implied here.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832145313 Are there lots of Vorlons in the big mother
+	ship?
      
+	There's a bunch in the big ship.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839232766 Why didn't the mother ship attack?
      
+	I think we just didn't see those shots; it was used in the
+	attack.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834864162 Vorlon/Shadow tech is more or less at the same level; the
+	Vorlons had the benefit of surprise.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188789 Are the Shadow ships more sensitive to pain than the
+	Vorlon ships?
      
+	I suppose you could say they are, yes....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834864120 What were the ambassadors doing in the war
+	room?
      
+	Usually you only get the main war council and the support staff who
+	monitor the progress of the war; the ambassadors were called in on
+	Sheridan's hunch that now the vorlons would get involved.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831940922 About the flash of light on Morden's mask, as compared
+	to the end of "Divided Loyalties"
      
+	Certainly the flash of light was an echo of Lyta's mask. 
+	As for Delenn, I think she was just stunned, just emotionallly worn out
+	over this.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832144699 Delenn mentions in the tag that the Vorlons will
+	be sending someone to quietly replace Kosh.  It's a bit darker
+	character.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832236556 Will we be able to tell the difference between Kosh and
+	the replacement?
      
+	You'll know the difference.  Believe me.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831941248 The two aliens in the start of the episode were a
+	Brakiri and a Gaim.
+
+	
      
+	"Interludes" for me marks a slight transition in the story, from
+	one "shape" to the next up...the demarkation between the hero-cycle and
+	the myth-cycle in the arc.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832145313 Answers to a few reader questions
      
+	1.  Kosh died fighting, I guess, and I'm also guessing that he took
+	some Shadows with him.  How was this fight different than the one we
+	didn't see in "Signs and Portents"?  Were there more Shadows this time
+	or are they getting stronger?
+
+	
      
+	They were not initially prepared to kill him.  That was a territorial
+	or jurisdictional squabble.  This was retribution.
+
+	
      
+	2.  If Kosh did take out some Shadows, will more be sent to Morden as
+	replacements?
+
+	
      
+	He didn't.  Hurt 'em good, but didn't take them out.
+
+	
      
+	3.  Did Kosh project to Delenn, G'Kar, or anyone else besides Sheridan
+	during the fight?
+
+	
      
+	No.
+
+	
      
+	4.  Did Garibaldi ever get a chance to speak with Kosh about the
+	Talia/Abbut data crystal as hinted at in "Divided Loyalties"?
+
+	
      
+	Yes.
+
+	
      
+	5.  Besides being extremely old, was Kosh an average Vorlon or
+	particularly special in terms of strength, skill, or status?  No other
+	ambassador on the station has demonstrated the clout back home to
+	sortie an entire fleet at a moments notice.  Delenn and Londo have only
+	called on forces from a particular faction in their polities.
+
+	
      
+	He was certainly well regarded...one of the older of the vorlons.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832443729 I'll put it to you this way...Kosh was old enough to have
+	had a first hand familiarity with Valen.  Vorlons live a REAL long time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832444107 Valen led the prior shadow war and formed the grey council
+	roughly 1000 years before B5's current time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833224665 Won't anyone notice Kosh's ship leaving?
      
+	For Kosh himself, yes, very few had direct contact with him; so
+	that's workable.  As for the ship...this objection assumes omniscience
+	on the part of the outside characters.
+
+	
      
+	Consider: the quarter million people aboard B5 get their information
+	about what happens outside second-hand, filtered through B5 itself.  If
+	the staff manning C&C decide to not show that information, or give
+	access to it, it doesn't exist.  As for the ships outside, they move to
+	and from the jump gate, and are only interested in what's happening in
+	this small area of space to avoid running into anything.  They don't
+	generally keep track of where all the other traffic is going; that's
+	C&C's job.
+
+	
      
+	And it isn't as simple as looking out your window.  The distance
+	from Epsilon 3 to its local star is more or less equal to the distance
+	from Earth to our sun.  That's a LOT of space and a very small ship.
+	You are not going to be able to track it visually, and who'd want to
+	keep an eye on it all the way to the local star?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839200632 About Kosh's ship
      
+	It was made for Kosh, as Delenn points out, was almost a part of
+	him; it wouldn't function as well, if at all, for anyone else.  There
+	was nothing else to be done.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839232464 A personal transport is assigned to one vorlon for life,
+	changing and evolving over time.  Little fighters have a more primitive
+	system.  It's not the same thing as a shadow-vessel merge.  A big
+	Vorlon cruiser has a full crew.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Ambassador Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time
+("Babylon Squared.")  Part 1 of 2.
+
+
+Michael O'Hare as Ambassador Sinclair.
+Tim Choate as Zathras.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.28
+
+Production number: 316
+Original air week: May 13, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers if you haven't seen it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 The last Shadow war nearly ended in defeat when the command
+	center, a Minbari space station, was destroyed by Shadow forces.  But
+	shortly thereafter, a replacement arrived out of nowhere: Babylon 4.
+	With Babylon 4 in place, the Minbari, the Vorlons, and their allies were
+	able to drive the Shadows off Z'ha'dum and destroy a good two-thirds
+	of the Shadows' warships.  Until Delenn arrived at Babylon 5, the
+	origin of the replacement station was a mystery to the Minbari.
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 Six years ago, just before Babylon 4 vanished, some of the
+	Shadows' allies recognized the station from the last war.  A group of
+	Shadow fighters tried to deliver a fusion bomb onto the station, whose
+	destruction would look like an accident and would lead to a Shadow
+	victory, or a stalemate, in the previous war.  They were fought off by
+	the White Star, which travelled back in time through the rift in
+	Sector 14 to stop them.  These events were recorded by Varn in the
+	Great Machine.
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 The Great Machine is responsible for opening the time rift
+	and allowing Babylon 4 to be pulled backward through time.  However,
+	opening the rift strains the Machine, and Draal, to its limits.
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 The White Star's Vorlon technology includes the ability to
+	learn from past experiences.  Its previous encounters with Shadow
+	vessels have strengthened its resistance to some Shadow weapons.
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 There is at least one Vorlon on Minbar, a fact that's known
+	to at least some of the former Grey Council.
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 In one possible future, Sheridan is destined to win the war
+	against the Shadows, but not entirely destroy them; some Shadow minions
+	will come to Centauri Prime, where an older Londo reigns as Emperor, and
+	lay waste to the capital city.
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 While on Minbar, Sinclair gained a reputation among the
+	Rangers for answering questions cryptically.
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 The Rangers were put together with the help of the Grey
+	Council, or at least some of its number, including Rathenn, the Minbari
+	who restored Sinclair's memory in the comic issue
+	"In Darkness Find Me."
+	He's an old friend of Delenn's; she asked Draal about him in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1."
+	And he seems to revere her, accepting Sinclair's status without
+	question at her behest.
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 At the close of the last Shadow war, someone who knew
+	Sinclair would be on Minbar left him a note in a sealed box.  The box
+	was stored in a temple for over nine hundred years with instructions to
+	not open it until a specific date, a date which has now arrived.
+
+   
    • @@@832006488 During their first visit to Babylon 4, Garibaldi and
+	Sinclair both saw the same flashforward of Garibaldi defending the
+	station against unknown attackers.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    • @@@831940422 Who left the note for Sinclair?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@832444915 Sinclair has a scar on his cheek (as also shown in
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+	Where did he get it?
+
+   
    • @@@832059717 Where did Delenn's note come from?  How long has she had it?
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 What was the Vorlon doing on Minbar?  Has he/she/it been
+	there all along?
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 How far into the future has Sheridan been thrown?
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 Why did Sheridan end up on Centauri Prime, presumably some
+	distance from Sector 14?
+
+   
    • @@@832059717 What did Londo mean by greeting Sheridan, "Welcome back from
+	the abyss?"
+
+   
    • @@@833172496 Where did Zathras come from?  Has there been a community
+	of his people on Epsilon 3 for generations, or are they more recent
+	arrivals?
+
+   
    • @@@832058597 Why was Zathras honored to meet Sheridan?  What were the
+	things Draal instructed him not to mention?
+
+   
    • @@@832749392 When Zathras was looking at the Great Machine, he said,
+	"Not good."  What was he talking about?  Was the strain of opening
+	the time rift causing the Machine to malfunction?
+
+   
    • @@@832060088 Were the Shadows, or their allies, also responsible for
+	the sabotage of Babylons 1, 2, and 3?  If so, why didn't they destroy
+	Babylon 4 before it was finished?
+
+   
    • @@@832096008 Did Babylon 4 survive the war?  If so, where is it now?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 It seems likely
+	that Sinclair left himself the note.  In
+	"Babylon Squared,"
+	Sinclair was shown to be present on Babylon 4 when it shifted through
+	time; and from his message to Garibaldi, it seems the note told him
+	he was destined to stay in the past and help defeat the Shadows then.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831940422 If that's correct, and the Minbari holy books contain
+	instructions about the box, it suggests Sinclair was involved in writing
+	the books.  Very possibly he was Valen, "a Minbari not born of Minbar,"
+	as Lennier described Valen in
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane."
+	Sinclair, as the Grey Council discovered
+	("Points of Departure")
+	somehow has a Minbari soul.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831940422 Which leads to the question, what does Sinclair's time
+	travel have to do with the Minbari soul migration, if anything?  Does
+	he have a Minbari soul because he's a giant figure from Minbari legend,
+	or vice versa?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832058597 Presumably, if Sinclair is Valen and Draal knows about it,
+	that's why Zathras was honored to meet Sinclair.  What Zathras knows
+	about Sheridan, though, is an open question -- perhaps he has been
+	watching recent events unfold on Babylon 5 and simply respects
+	Sheridan's stand against Earth and the Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832581786 Rathenn appears to defer to Sinclair.  If a former member
+	of the Grey Council looks to Sinclair for direction, Sinclair must be
+	one of the most influential people on Minbar.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831940422 Londo's description of Sheridan's victory over the Shadows
+	makes it sound like a fairly distant event, but the Centauri capital
+	city was burning while Sheridan stood there.  Perhaps the Shadow minions
+	Londo mentioned have been slowly destroying the city, building by
+	building, since the close of the war, and the Centauri have been
+	powerless to stop them.  Or, perhaps, the end of the war isn't as
+	far back as Londo implies.  (It's interesting to note that Londo
+	doesn't appear surprised by Sheridan's appearance or by the fact that
+	Sheridan hasn't aged.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832581494 Sheridan looks older (his hair is lighter) and may be
+	dressed in something other than his uniform
+	as he visits Londo in the throne room -- it looks like he's wearing
+	a leather jacket, but his outfit isn't shown clearly enough to tell
+	for sure.  If it's different, though, could his trip forward be along
+	the lines of the flashforward experienced by Sinclair and Garibaldi,
+	rather than a physical transfer?  If so, where is his body?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832006488 If Babylon 4 is being sent back to help defeat the Shadows
+	in the previous war, will other equipment be sent too?  For instance,
+	loading the docking bays full of Minbari fighters (or better still,
+	Vorlon fighters) could do as much to turn the tide of battle as the mere
+	presence of the station, especially assuming that Minbari and Vorlon
+	weapons have improved in the intervening thousand years.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, perhaps the non-destruction of the Shadows in the
+	last war wasn't a matter of military strength after all; perhaps
+	the Shadows hid somewhere such that they were impossible to wipe out.
+	If so, will the same thing happen again?  Londo's accusation suggests
+	it will, to some extent.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832096008 How long after Delenn arrived on Babylon 5 did she figure
+	out where Babylon 4 came from?  Were the Minbari really so uninterested
+	in Babylon 4 that the Grey Council never saw a picture of the station?
+	Did Delenn recognize the similarity in design as soon as she arrived,
+	or did she find a picture of Babylon 4 in B5's archives?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832096008 Along similar lines, was the station not identified as
+	"Babylon 4" when it appeared in the past?  If it was, the Minbari
+	should have at least heard of the Babylon Project in its earlier
+	stages, and would have known B4's identity before Delenn arrived on
+	B5.  It's possible the Minbari
+	lost whatever records contained the name of their second base of
+	operations, or that Sinclair convinced the Minbari to leave such
+	information out in the interest of not altering the future.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832007102 If the Great Machine opened a rift for Babylon 4 six years
+	ago (while, it should be noted, the machine was under Varn's control,
+	not Draal's) and can still open a rift today for the White Star, will it
+	be able to open other rifts to send more people back?  Or is Draal
+	simply not as capable of handling the strain as Varn was?
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, maybe the original time rift was generated from the
+	present day by Draal, and Varn wasn't involved at all.  In that case,
+	the Machine may only be able to manipulate time once.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832357291 If B4 was being pulled back in time, why did it reappear
+	four years later than it vanished?  Sinclair, according to
+	"Babylon Squared,"
+	interrupted the station's time travel to allow the crew to get off.
+	But if it was travelling backward through time, that should have
+	caused it to reappear some time before it vanished.
+
+	
      
+	Maybe B4 will have to be pulled forward to the present day, from which
+	point Draal can send it back -- that is, maybe Draal can only open
+	rifts between the present day and some other time, not between two
+	arbitrary times.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832058597 The Great Machine's time-manipulation abilities suggest that
+	perhaps it was built specifically to pull Babylon 4 back through
+	time.  If so, who built it, and how did they know about Babylon 4?
+	Their technology in that area exceeds the Minbari's, which says that
+	the Machine's builders were First Ones.  In that case, what was the
+	role of Varn's people?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832058597 Delenn told Sheridan that the Minbari did not have the
+	technology to control a time field "as unstable as this one."  How
+	much time-manipulation technology do they have?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832181516 If there's a Vorlon on Minbar, could it have been
+	responsible for Delenn's childhood vision
+	("Confessions and Lamentations?")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832444915 In
+	"Babylon Squared,"
+	Zathras hands his time stabilizer to the space-suited figure (possibly
+	Sinclair,) who promptly vanishes.  Was that a replacement for Sheridan's
+	stabilizer, or for another broken one?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832444915 Ivanova's wish has come true -- she's on Babylon 4 and
+	Garibaldi is left behind.
+	("Babylon Squared")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832749298 In Ivanova's distress call, she says, "This is Earth
+	Alliance station Babylon 5."  Presumably in the heat of the moment
+	her Earth Force training kicked in and she didn't consider that B5
+	isn't an Earth Alliance station any more.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@831940422 As in
+	"Babylon Squared,"
+	the term "unstuck in time" is a reference to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s
+	"Slaughterhouse Five."
+
+   
    • @@@832444169 Garibaldi's attempted passwords:  "Jeff," "Jeffrey," "peekaboo"
+	(Garibaldi's computer password, most recently used in
+	"Ceremonies of Light and Dark,")
+	"Susan," "Michael,"
+	"socks," "fasten," "zip" (the last three from the conversation between
+	Sinclair and Garibaldi on their way to Babylon 4 in
+	"Babylon Squared,")
+	and finally, "hello, old friend," Sinclair's opening line in the
+	message delivered to Garibaldi by the Ranger in
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+   
    • @@@839287158  
+	Viewers outside North America may have some difficulty recognizing 
+	all the partnerships to which Sinclair compares himself and Sheridan.
+	"Butch and Sundance" were Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, two
+	outlaws from the days of the Old West (of more recent fame for the
+	movie in which they were portrayed by Paul Newman and Robert Redford).
+	"Lewis and Clark" were not Lois Lane and Clark Kent, but Meriwether 
+	Lewis and William Clark, who explored much of the territory of the
+	Louisiana Purchase (a vast expanse between the Mississippi River and
+	the Rocky Mountains that the United States acquired from France in 
+	1803) from 1804 to 1806, eventually reaching the Columbia River in 
+	the Pacific Northwest.  "Lucy and Ethel" were Lucy Ricardo and Ethel 
+	Mertz, the characters portrayed by Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in 
+	the 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy."
+
+   
    • @@@832444431 The building in which Sinclair and Rathenn talk bears
+	some resemblance in outline to the encounter suit of the Vorlon
+	inside -- and even more resemblance to a Shadow.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  November 30, 1995 -
+	As I write this, I've just started
+	writing "War Without End, Part One," #316, the first part of the two
+	episodes that bring Sinclair to Babylon 5, which we'll shoot sometime
+	after the first of the year.  It's been touch and go, but we've finally
+	been able to schedule all of the guest cast members from "Babylon
+	Squared" for this one, which is the flip side of that episode.  It's
+	probably going to be the most expensive show we've done yet, due to
+	the hideous production requirements for this one.  It's also the one
+	I'm most nervous about writing, even more than "Fall of Night,"
+	because an awful lot happens here, and it has to be done just right.
+	It's going to be probably the toughest writing job of the series to
+	date.
+
+	
      
+	I'll be putting Sinclair and Sheridan together a lot, which is
+	shaping up to be an interesting combination.  We're also going to see
+	Minbar for the first time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188944 "In WWE(1)I noticed a larger than usual group of
+	offhand lines (ethel &.../wait in car.../cool-you know what I'm
+	talking about).  Was this scripted?  Or was someone just ad libbing?"
+
+	
      
+	There's almost NO ad-libbing allowed on the show.  You can't change a
+	word unless someone comes to my office and approves it, and it can't
+	change the meaning.  (I.e., the actor is having a hard time saying
+	"shibboleth" or something.)  Everything said in this show is scripted,
+	offhand comments included.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832444086 Did you work out the circular sequence of events
+	as you went, or was it all mapped out beforehand?
      
+	No, it all has to hang together, or it's kinda useless.  It just
+	required working out the details of what was, is, and will be.  Then I
+	walked on water....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832553946 Why didn't Sinclair interact with G'Kar?
      
+	The problem is that you've got about 42 minutes to tell your
+	story.  You have to get into it, and get into it fast.  Unless there's a
+	reason for the scene to be there, if it doesn't move the plot along, it
+	shouldn't be there.  You'll note there isn't even a B-story in the
+	two-parter...there wasn't room.
+
+	
      
+	Sure, it would've been nice to have Sinclair  meet G'Kar, sit around,
+	talk about how they've changed...have Sinclair and Londo meet, talk
+	about stuff...have him and Ivanova sit around, talk about stuff...but
+	then you've got just a bunch of scenes that are basically, "Well,
+	hello, how've you been?"
+
+	
      
+	The next sounds you would've heard would be the click of remote controls
+	changing channels across the nation.
+
+	
      
+	As it is, in that two-part episode, you've got Delenn, Garibaldi,
+	Sinclair, Sheridan, Marcus, Ivanova, Lennier, Zathras, Major Krantz,
+	Krantz's second...it's our most character-intensive episode in a long
+	time, all of them being present in every other scene, plus the other
+	three characters we see in part two.  It was, quite simply, stuffed to
+	the gills, and there wasn't room for a single wasted word.  
+
+	
      
+	That's the difference between a novel and a television show; you can
+	stop the action in a book as often as you want to have asides, but you
+	can't do that in TV with as much facility.  To do the scenes you
+	describe would've meant turning this into a three-parter, and as it is
+	part one is almost an extended teaser for part two.  It would've been
+	moreso with these additional scenes.
+
+	
      
+	If it isn't necessary, it shouldn't be there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832581630 It would've been
+	nice to see some of those scenes, it just wasn't practical.  And you
+	have to make hard choices.  As someone once said of writing, "You have
+	to kill all your darlings," meaning the nifty little things you'd *like*
+	to do, as opposed to the things you *have* to do.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, Mike Vejar is directing the two-parter, and I'm
+	absolutely thrilled about  it; Mike's been our mainstay for
+	some time, and he's just terrific.  (He directed  "Convictions,"
+	and "Inquisitor.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, reactions have been coming in on the two parter, and so far
+	everyone's wog-boggled.  Peter Jurasik called to say he didn't know
+	what I'm smoking these days, but to please send ten pounds of it to
+	his house at *once*.  Mumy went nuts over it, everyone's very
+	excited...including and especially Michael O'Hare, who got his copy
+	of the script today, read it straight through, and is *extremely*
+	excited by the story, and what happens with his character, and is
+	VERY much looking forward to the shoot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (Oh, and lest I forget, yes, Zathras does return in "War," as does
+	Sinclair, who has a lot of great scenes with Marcus, Sheridan, Delenn,
+	Zathras and others.  It also has some real surprises in store, including
+	some flash-forwards from WAY down the line.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  January 22, 1996
      
+	Today was a very interesting day; today Michael O'Hare returned to the
+	Babylon 5 stages in preparation for shooting the two-parter, which
+	begins tomorrow.  Today he came by for his wardrobe fitting and to get
+	his hair trimmed, say hi to folks, and hang out...lunch was me, John
+	Copeland, Michael and Bruce Boxleitner eating together at one of the
+	tables in the lunch area behind the stage, lots of laughing and kidding,
+	and the two get on great. (Turns out they'd worked on other projects
+	before, including the short-lived A Rumor of War series by Sterling
+	Siliphant.)  
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, it's a great atmosphere, and everybody's psyched for the
+	two-parter.  It's like he never went away.
+
+
      
+   
    •  January 23, 1996
      
+	[...] today is Michael O'Hare's first day of shooting here on
+	the B5 stages for the two-parter, featuring his return to the station
+	from Minbar, and propels him into the center of attention for most of
+	the two parts. Everyone's having a great time so far, he and Bruce have
+	been hanging out a lot, and the episode should be a real toad-strangler
+	when it's finished.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A toad-strangler, a barn-burner, a doozy...it's a good thing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Won't Sheridan and Sinclair both be standing around giving orders?
+	
      
+	The similarity is only if
+	you choose to define them by their narrow roles.  Their personalities
+	are vastly different.  Also, Sinclair's been through a lot in the
+	intervening couple of years, he's grown, he and Marcus would definitely
+	have something of a relationship since he would've been there while
+	Marcus was being trained, and so on.  And their roles in the story are
+	very different.
+
+
      
+   
    •  My guess is that "War Without End" may well pass by
+	"CoS"
+	as all time favorite...until the next one comes along.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did you reuse footage from
+	"Babylon Squared?"
      
+	We did both; we reshot some scenes from B2, and used some footage
+	directly from that episode.  Some pretty elegant matches, too, I think.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839783104 The vision of B5 blowing was the same as the one from
+	Signs.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833178382 Why weren't the new uniforms in the flashforward in
+	"Babylon Squared?"
      
+	We only saw the black flak
+	uniforms in B2, because I knew we'd be changing them, but wanted to
+	hide that fact (as I did with Delenn's line to Sinclair in B2, done
+	off-camera to hide her change). And the Minbar cityscape was done by
+	Eric Chauvin.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833560031 About Ivanova cracking under pressure
      
+	With most of their systems down, everyone around her dead,
+	Sheridan dead, knowing she's about to die and there's nothing she can
+	do about it, and obviously knowing full well who's out there...about to
+	witness the deaths of a quarter million sentients on the station...I
+	felt a bit of an outburst, a final letting go of the emotions, was not
+	inappropriate for her. (Although I do think Claudia may have played it
+	a bit too hysterical at times; separate the lines from the performance
+	and look at it again.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839783104 "You hand this woman a script and say to her,
+	'Miss C., everyone around you is dead and you are in command.
      
+	The station is falling down around you and you're in terrible
+	pain, about to die by decompression or laser burns or crushing--or
+	worse, you could become a Morden and be controlled by the Shadows the
+	rest of your life.
      
+	You have no hope of rescue.
      
+	You may not know where you are.'
      
+	And then you say she was a tiny bit on the hysterical side?"
+
+	
      
+	Hey...from where I sit, that's just another day at the office.
+
+	
      
+	Don't know many producer/writers, do you?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839783849 I don't believe anyone on Minbar was wearing shorts.
+	It's not the season for that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832308936 Was the voice of the Vorlon on Minbar the same actor
+	who did Kosh?
      
+	Yes, that was Ardwight again.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832444086 There probably wasn't a credit there because it was an
+	incidental voice rather than a recurring voice.
+
+	
      
+	The other Vorlon also sounded different because I directed
+	Ardwight in different inflections...literally stood there outside the
+	booth using my hand like a baton to indicate the rising and falling
+	inflections as he spoke, to give it a wave kind of sound.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834863912 Sinclair's Minbari words are subtitled "alright,"
+	which is a misspelling -- it's really "all right."
      
+	Yep, it was misspelled, and it wasn't misspelled in the script.  When I
+	saw that on the final tape, it was too late to correct it for this
+	airing.  It'll be corrected later.  (Somebody wasn't being careful when
+	they did the captioning.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  As Sinclair notes when he arrives at B5, his status as ambassador is
+	pretty much gone after the coup.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833560520 Won't Earth ask where its ambassador is?
      
+	Well, Minbar isn't being very receptive to Earth at the moment,
+	and will probably just put them on hold...indefinitely....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 How did Sinclair get so cryptic so quickly?
      
+	He was kinda Zen when he left, frankly...and two years living
+	among Minbari, learning their language, learning to think the way they
+	do, learning the whole history of the shadow war...that can have a
+	pretty profound effect on you.  It obviously wasn't all hanging around
+	the Hyatt Minbar and watching reruns of I Love Lennier for two
+	years....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179405 Sinclair wasn't on Mars during the riots in the first
+	season, so how does Sheridan know him from them?
      
+	It's been established that there have been previous riots on
+	Mars, including the food riots referenced in, I believe, the pilot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will the relationship between Delenn and Sheridan cause problems
+	with Sinclair?
      
+	Well, remember that we never defined what those feelings were between
+	Sinclair and Delenn; she had a great deal of respect and admiration
+	for him, yes.  And she had a fair measure of faith in him as well.
+	Question is, what's the root of that?  We'll learn some of that in
+	the two-parter.  As for Sinclair, he was mainly involved with Sakai.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 Sakai certainly wouldn't have wanted to get tied down to life on
+	Minbar, and Sinclair knew that his life would be difficult now with the
+	rangers, so they parted ways.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 Marcus's look came because he overheard the Minbari-language
+	part of the discussion, and knew something was up.  It made him more
+	watchful of Sinclair, which pays off in WWE2.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832144671 I like Zathras...he's just nuts.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832236521 Will we learn who Zathras' people are?
      
+	Eventually, though that answer isn't terribly important.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832308936 Why didn't the Shadows destroy B5 before it went
+	online?
      
+	B5 wasn't destroyed because it wasn't the one that would be
+	taken back. Yes, the prior stations would've looked more like B4 but
+	they were sabotaged *very* early in the construction process.  You'll
+	learn why he didn't want Garibaldi along next ep.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832444086 The B1-B3 sabotages had nothing at all to do with the B4
+	situation; it was just done by forces opposed to the very notion of the
+	Babylon Project.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833491960 The first 3 Babylon stations never got much past
+	the very earliest stages of construction, just some hull elements, that
+	sort of thing, nothing that could be recognized.  Other forces took
+	them out, mainly for political reasons.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832308936 B4 survived the prior shadow war, but in very bad shape;
+	didn't last much longer after that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839783104 Is the war room staffed continuously?
      
+	Yes, the war room would have to have support personnel there
+	when the big guys are off having fun or sleeping.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833178161 Why did Sheridan's clothes change?
      
+	His clothing is different because that's the future Sheridan,
+	into whom the current Sheridan has sort of slid....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 Was whatever destroyed Sheridan's stabilizer related
+	to the creature in "Knives?"
      
+	No, that was just the result of the blast.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846743236 
+	The energy being that got Sheridan in "Knives" had no relation to
+	anything in the ongoing story; it just existed outside our normal
+	universe, and got in and out via the rift (which also served to remind
+	us that it was still there).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 Sheridan "leapt" into his future self, hence the difference
+	in wardrobe and appearance.  Londo wasn't suprised to see him.  If you
+	recall the Centauri guard when we first arrive in the Palace, he says,
+	"I think he's awake again, would you like to see?"  The implication
+	being that he's been beaten into unconsciousness, hence Londo's line,
+	"Welcome back from the abyss."  It was at that moment of
+	unconsciousness that he "slid" into his future self.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832443782 The time-flash (which in Sheridan's case is much more
+	pronounced than what we've seen before) slides you forward or backward
+	in time to where you are at that moment.  At that moment, 18 years from
+	now (in the story), Sheridan was/will be on Centauri Prime.  So when he
+	slid along the time line, that's where he ended up.  Just as in Babylon
+	Squared, when Garibaldi had a timeflash back to his time on Mars.  It
+	blips your perception to another point in your life, wherever you
+	happen to be.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833560655 Sheridan slid forward in time, to wherever he was
+	at that moment in the future.  He didn't just go hopping around
+	aimlessly; if he flipped 10 days ahead, he'd come into his body at that
+	point 10 days from now, wherever he happened to be.  At that moment, 17
+	years down the road, he happened to be on Centauri Prime.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865188944 I'd rather let part 2 get into what exactly happened to
+	Centauri Prime....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832444086 Has Sheridan slid past his death on Z'ha'dum?
      
+	Well, who can say at this point *what* happens on Z'ha'dum...?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833560145 Would the future Sheridan notice being slid
+	into?
      
+	The future Sheridan would have a little memory of what happened
+	during that time, but it'd be almost dreamlike, two steps removed.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833475135 How did the Shadows know about Babylon 4?
      
+	Well, if the Minbari had records of B4's visual look, given that
+	the Shadows are advanced, would they not also have the potential to
+	recognize it for what it was once it was nearing completion from their
+	own records?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832444086 Did the Minbari agree to help fund B5 because they
+	knew about B4?
      
+	No, because if you remember, even Delenn didn't know where B4
+	came from until she came to B5, well after completion.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839190055 Why don't the Minbari have many records of the last
+	war?
      
+	It was also a very devastating war, and one of their mistakes
+	was that there were those who were entrusted to keep the past, sort of
+	a more advanced version of storytellers, who put all their data in one
+	basket, as it were...very possessive and jurisdictional.  When they and
+	that center of data were taken out, a lot was lost.  One drawback of a
+	very rigid and structued society.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839190055 But if that happened early in the war, wouldn't they
+	have records from after that point?
      
+	Certainly it would've occured in the last days of the war.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179293 Do the Minbari have time travel?
      
+	They've played with some research in this area, but they aren't
+	anywhere near the tech required to actually do anything with time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179293 Why hasn't Minbari ship design changed?
      
+	The design *has* changed; the main section is much longer, and
+	more primitive looking, less tricked out.  You can see a bit of it
+	there, but you will see them in more detail in part two.
+
+	
      
+	Sinclair was scarred during ranger training duties.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784051 Would arguing with Kosh in
+	"Interludes and Examinations"
+	have been the original source of the scar?
      
+	No, because you'll note that Sheridan isn't scarred by it.  No,
+	you have to remember that one doesn't just transplant one storyline
+	onto another.  It doesn't work that way.  Sinclair has his arc,
+	Sheridan has his own.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784051 Sheridan wasn't a "backup"
+	for Sinclair, he was brought in specifically because I needed somene
+	who could and would do things in a different way, and had a different
+	arc.  If it was going to track 1-to-1 you wouldn't *need* a new
+	character.
+
+	
      
+	And the swipe Kosh took at Sheridan wouldn't be *nearly* enough
+	to cause a huge scar like that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832493213 "1) Assuming the present is the time period during which
+	we watch Babylon 5 and the period we saw at the beginning of the WWE
+	episode, does the possible fall of B5 (if the mission fails) take
+	place in the past or the future?  We see Ivanova screaming in the
+	mysterious transmission that "they're killing us" and that the
+	Captain is dead, so I assume this indicates that the possible fall of
+	B5 takes place in the future since Sheridan is the only Captain
+	(Sinclair was a Commander, non?).  But we also see Sinclair reliving
+	his flashback with Gerabaldi from Season one in which B5 falls, and
+	he then seems to indicate that his mission is to prevent such a
+	catastrophe.  Since Sinclair is there, with Gerabaldi, this would
+	seem to suggest that the fall of B5, if the mission fails, takes
+	place in the past in relation to the present with which we are all
+	familiar.(Breath) So, if the mission fails, when will B5 fall; past
+	of future???  Or perhaps put another way:  Will B5 possibly fall
+	under Sheridan's command or Sinclair's?  <-- God, that's
+	complicated."
+
+	
      
+	Nope.  The scenes are all in the future.  Garibaldi specifically
+	identifies the distress call as coming from 8 days in the future.
+	Sinclair's vision wasn't a flashback, but a flash forward; even the
+	blowing of B5 was identified by Lady Ladira as in the future.  It's
+	*always* been placed in the future, though most of this was in the
+	first season, which hasn't been reshown.  Also, in the first act,
+	Garibaldi again *specifically states* that when they went to B4,
+	there was a glimpse of the future and the fall of B5.
+
+	
      
+	"2) Faced with the end, why would the bloodied Ivanova feel compelled
+	to deliver a play-by-play to a non-existant audience?  Or even to one
+	that is there?  I found that strange."
+
+	
      
+	First she was trying to get help.  Second, there should be some
+	record of what happened for those who would investigate.  They would
+	need to know, just the way a signal operator sends out a distress
+	call for as long as possible as the ship sinks.  SOP.
+
+	
      
+	"4) About Delenn's slide show:  It looks as though Minbari ships have
+	remained basically the same for the past 1000 years.  I could not see
+	one change.  Why is that?"
+
+	
      
+	Because you weren't looking closely enough.  The older Minbari ships
+	are much longer and tubular in design; you'll see them better in the
+	second half, but there's definitely a difference.
+
+	
      
+	"5) The preview showed Gerabaldi giving 'em hell with a big gun.  Why
+	wasn't that in the episode (I know, some scenes in previews don't
+	show up in the actual ep, but it seemed important)?"
+
+	
      
+	Because we were seeing the sequence from Sinclair's point of view; he
+	was gone by the time Garibaldi began firing, so he wouldn't have seen
+	it.  Story logic.
+
+	
      
+	"7) Londo spoils us all by telling us Sheridan wins the war--suspense
+	exit stage left--unless the time line is somehow further altered,
+	which would go against the inevatability theme JMS seems to be
+	playing."
+
+	
      
+	Okay, everybody who thought I was going to have our heroes fight a
+	war for two whole years or so, and then *lose it*...a major dramatic
+	disappointment to say the least...raise your hands.
+
+	
      
+	In any event...quite frankly, several of your "serious nitpicks" are
+	actually incorrect, and come from making assumptions or simply not
+	paying attention when someone says something clearly in dialogue, as
+	Garibaldi does, that the flash was of future events, and then IDs the
+	signal as from 8 days ahead.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839783104 If Sinclair had stayed with the station, who would
+	have been transported to Centauri Prime?
      
+	I appreciate the questions, but there are so many alternate
+	timelines flying around right now...I'm not sure I want to further
+	complicate the issue.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865282881 I could answer this, but if I expand the time paradox loop
+	any further, I would end up not answering it because I'd already
+	answered it, which means it wouldn't get answered, requiring me to
+	answer it now, and pretty soon the universe implodes, and I don't want
+	that on my conscience.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833177878 There are no alternate univeses, only alternate or possible
+	futures. If they didn't go back, the future in which Sinclair is there
+	with Garibaldi -- having come back to see through the final battle --
+	and in which Sheridan is killed, and Ivanova is calling for help...that
+	future will come true.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832554014 Why was Garibaldi left behind?
      
+	It's a story point, and it'll be explained clearly in part two.  What,
+	you think I'd have something this odd going on and not explain it?
+
+	
      
+	It's coming.  Be patient.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179293 The flash to the firefight was Sinclair's, not
+	Garibaldi's.
      
+	Actually...incorrect.  Whenever there's a timeflash, people see
+	one thing or another.  When Sinclair and Garibaldi first came aboard,
+	there was a timeflash.  We saw what Sinclair saw, we have no idea from
+	that scene what Garibaldi saw.  No reason he couldn't have seen
+	something from about that same period.  It wasn't stated either way at
+	the time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839747849 But Krantz said it was different for
+	everyone.
      
+	Hey, who're you gonna believe, Krantz or me?
+
+	
      
+	Besides, it could've been a sequence from the fall of B5, but
+	not that exact MOMENT, so it WOULD be different, so NYAH.
+
+	
      
+	(suddenly I'm five years old)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833177826 How did Zack know about the White Star?
      
+	The White Star has been common knowledge ever since it
+	came in at the end of "Severed Dreams."  Certainly, by virtue of being
+	Garibaldi's second in command, he'd know about it.  At this point, most
+	everything is out in the open now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833475135 I'm sure Garibaldi will eventually end up on the White
+	Star; and the Minbari will also probably begin slowly acquiring
+	English, and vice versa.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846743236 Why was Delenn so nervous after Sheridan
+	vanished?
      
+	She didn't know what was coming, and that worried her.  She is most
+	secure when she has a definite plan of action, and variables aren't
+	something the Minbari are good at in any event, they're very rigid and
+	structured.
+
+	
      
+	And we'll be seeing the Sigma walkers again in the not too distant
+	future.  And some of their pals.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@837967816 Was Sinclair speaking Minbari during his entire
+	conversation with Delenn, with English presented for the viewers'
+	benefit?
      
+	No, he slid into Minbari at that point to try and conceal what
+	was being said from the others on the bridge.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833177985 Why did Ivanova claim B5 was
+	an Earth Alliance station?
      
+	The name of the station is still the same; it was built by the
+	Earth Alliance.  So that's how she'd refer to it.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Ambassador Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time
+("Babylon Squared.")  Part 2 of 2.
+
+
+Michael O'Hare as Ambassador Sinclair.
+Tim Choate as Zathras.
+Kent Broadhurst as Major Krantz.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.40
+
+Production number: 317
+Original air week: May 20, 1996
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Note: this episode resolves several mysteries from past episodes.
+Think twice before proceeding to the spoilers if you haven't seen it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@832578586 Sinclair and Zathras travelled back in time with Babylon 4.
+	Since the Minbari would never accept a station commanded
+	by a human (a race they hadn't encountered yet,) Sinclair entered a
+	chrysalis using the same kind of device Delenn used to become half
+	human.  His transformation was complete, though, not halfway; to all
+	appearances he became a Minbari.  When he arrived in the past, he was
+	accompanied by two Vorlons.  He introduced himself to the Minbari as
+	Valen, and went on to lead the war and form the first Grey Council.
+
+   
    • @@@832578586 Later, he wrote himself a note describing what was to come,
+	and what he would have to do.  He also wrote a note to Delenn.
+
+   
    • @@@832609266 Sinclair's transformation caused the start of the migration
+	of Minbari souls to human bodies by linking the two species.  Delenn's
+	transformation in the other direction was, in part, an attempt to
+	restore the balance that had been upset.  (See
+	Notes)
+
+   
    • @@@832610961 "The One," explains Zathras, is really three: Sinclair is
+	The One who was, Delenn is The One who is, and Sheridan is The One who
+	will be.  The three are a whole, consistent with the Minbari tendency
+	to divide things into threes.  (Or, perhaps, The One is responsible
+	for that tendency somehow, maybe due to Sinclair's teachings.)
+
+   
    • @@@832578586 Sheridan and Delenn, in at least one possible future, will
+	have a son named David.
+
+   
    • @@@832578586 Londo, as emperor of a wrecked Centauri Republic seventeen
+	years after the start of the Shadow War, will be made
+	to wear a "keeper," a creature of some sort attached to the side
+	of his neck.  It's visible only when asleep.  When it's awake, it
+	forces him to do its bidding, apparently on behalf of the Shadows.
+	In the end, he will ask G'Kar to kill him
+	before the keeper forces him to betray Sheridan and Delenn.  But
+	the keeper will awaken as G'Kar strangles Londo, and the two will
+	die at each other's hands, leaving an astonished Vir to pick up the
+	imperial emblem.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@832578586 Who was at the door in Delenn's flashforward?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@832578586 Was one of the Vorlons accompanying Sinclair Kosh?  Was
+	the other the Vorlon who later spoke to Rathenn on Minbar in part 1?
+	The two encounter suits were the same as that Vorlon's.
+
+   
    • @@@832963592 Why was there an explosive discharge when Sinclair
+	touched Delenn's suited hand?
+
+   
    • @@@832964609 What became of Zathras?  Did he have a hand in the planning
+	of the Great Machine?
+
+   
    • @@@846701420 Is Sheridan's vision of the future inevitable?
+
+   
    • @@@846993314 What is the price of victory over the Shadows, and why
+	was Delenn so dismayed about it?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832888831 How did Sinclair get the chrysalis machine?  Did the
+	Vorlons supply it?  It seemed to do a much more thorough job on
+	Sinclair than it did on Delenn; in appearance, at least, Valen
+	was a pure Minbari, not half-human.
+
+	
      
+	An odder explanation is that Sinclair got it from Delenn, who got
+	it (indirectly) from Valen; in that case, the machine was never
+	actually invented.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578586 When and how did the Vorlons board Babylon 4?  There
+	were two Vorlon ships next to the station when the Minbari cruisers
+	approached it; did they come back in time with Sinclair, or did
+	the Vorlons of a thousand years ago know where and when B4 would
+	appear?  Perhaps Sinclair called them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832964609 Delenn's transformation took several weeks.  Presumably
+	Sinclair's was comparable.  Did it take that much subjective time
+	to travel back 1000 years, or did the station sit unnoticed in the
+	past until Sinclair was ready?  If the former, then the Vorlons
+	must have boarded the station while it was in transit through time
+	(assuming they gave Sinclair the machine.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578586 Why did Sinclair choose to call himself Valen?  Was it
+	simply because of the contents of his letter?  In that case, nobody
+	ever actually invented the name; it was chosen because it was the
+	name he ended up using.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578586 Did the Grey Council realize that they'd captured Valen
+	at the Battle of the Line?  Most likely not, or Delenn's counterpart
+	wouldn't have ordered her to kill him if he remembered what happened
+	("And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832609266 On the other hand, if Delenn's transformation was really
+	in part an attempt to restore the balance upset by Sinclair's change a
+	thousand years earlier, then Delenn must have known about Valen's
+	true nature for quite some time.  Perhaps she alone recognized
+	Sinclair's true identity at the Line, but couldn't tell the rest of
+	the Council, who almost certainly would refuse to believe what she'd
+	discovered.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846743959 Why did the machine transform Delenn into a hybrid human
+	and Minbari, while Sinclair (from all outward appearances) was
+	transformed into a full Minbari?  Did Delenn choose to only transform
+	herself halfway?  If so, has she truly restored the balance between
+	humans and Minbari, or is there still something left to do?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@835077089 Besides Delenn and the people on the White Star bridge,
+	how many others know Valen's true identity?  If it became widespread,
+	the information might seriously alter the face of Minbari religion;
+	learning that their greatest spiritual leader was actually a member
+	of a race many of them hold in contempt would probably test the faith
+	of many Minbari.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833151417 Sinclair flashed back to the Soul Hunter telling him that
+	he was being used, presumably by the Minbari
+	("Soul Hunter.")
+	Exactly what did he mean by that?  Perhaps there was a Soul Hunter
+	present at Valen's death, and Sinclair was familiar to them already.
+	Or maybe the Soul Hunter found out about Sinclair's eventual identity
+	when he peered into Delenn's mind.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833151595 Probably of less significance, Sinclair's other memory
+	was of Neroon
+	("Legacies,")
+	who eventually ended up on the Grey Council.  What impact, if any,
+	that had on Sinclair's tenure on Minbar is unknown.  Given Neroon's
+	dismissal of the reason for the Minbari surrender at the Line
+	("All Alone in the Night")
+	it seems any respect he had for Sinclair was short-lived, and that
+	if the Council did know of Sinclair's true identity, Neroon didn't
+	believe it.  Neroon was also Sinclair's prosecutor in comic issue 3,
+	"In Harm's Way."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832609266 Now that Sinclair has travelled back in time, the accuracy
+	of Valen's prophecies is probably at an end.  Valen could predict
+	the start of the Shadow War, and the breaking of the Grey Council,
+	because he'd lived through it, but anything after his departure to
+	the past is a complete unknown to him (unless, of course, the
+	Vorlons have some way of telling him.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578586 The appearance of two Vorlons next to an unfamiliar
+	Minbari might not have been such a shock to the Minbari warriors
+	who found Sinclair.  In
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	Delenn claimed that the previous Shadow war marked the last time the
+	ancients walked openly among the younger races.  So it's entirely
+	possible that the appearance of a Vorlon was, if not commonplace,
+	then nothing resembling miraculous.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, the two Vorlons were flying above encounter suits;
+	maybe they've been secretive all along, and even when they walked
+	openly among the other races, always hid behind masks.  That would
+	make sense if they wanted to maintain the illusion of angelic
+	appearance, since as Kosh said in
+	"Matters of Honor,"
+	maintaining that appearance in front of a lot of people is a great
+	strain on a Vorlon.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832964609 Did Babylon 4 travel through space as well as time, or
+	did it appear in what would later become Sector 14?  If the latter,
+	does its appearance there have anything to do with the location of
+	the Great Machine?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578586 What is Londo's "keeper?"  Who gave it to him?  What
+	exactly is it forcing him to do, and why?  The fact that it's invisible
+	when awake suggests that it's associated with the Shadows, who have
+	mastered the art of invisibility.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832609644 Does Morden have a keeper too?  Is that why the Shadows
+	treat him as an equal -- because they know he'll never betray their
+	cause?
+
+	
      
+	Or maybe the Shadows are being controlled by some other
+	party, though that seems unlikely.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578586 "We all have our keepers," Londo says.  Does that include
+	Sheridan and Delenn?  Perhaps there's a connection between Londo's
+	guest and the dream sequence in
+	"All Alone in the Night,"
+	in which Ivanova and Garibaldi both have birds on their shoulders.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832889377 By granting a reprieve to Sheridan and Delenn, Londo may be
+	fulfilling one of his chances for redemption
+	("Point of No Return.")
+	Morella told him he must not kill the one who is already dead;
+	perhaps that refers to Sheridan -- who certainly qualifies as "the
+	one" now in another context.  Londo's greeting in part 1, "Welcome
+	back from the abyss, Sheridan," tends to support this possibility,
+	though of course it's not clear what Londo meant by that.
+
+	
      
+	Kosh's warning to Sheridan in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+	and
+	"Interludes and Examinations,"
+	"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die," probably also ties into this,
+	especially since, judging by Delenn's plea, it seems that Sheridan has
+	gone to Z'ha'dum at some point in the intervening seventeen years.
+	The "death" Kosh referred to may simply be the death of innocence
+	as noted by Delenn, and not literal physical death.
+
+	
      
+	@@@832964609 Londo's death at G'Kar's hand may also be the last part
+	of Morella's prophecy; death may be Londo's greatest fear, or perhaps
+	death with the knowledge that he hasn't righted his wrongs.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838503118 Londo's dream in
+	"The Coming of Shadows,"
+	in which he sees a fleet of Shadow ships flying overhead while he
+	stands alone in a desolate wasteland, may be a vision of the Shadows'
+	minions coming to Centauri Prime as he says they did.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838542344 Kosh's prediction to the Centauri Emperor in
+	"The Coming of Shadows"
+	appears to be literally true: For Centauri Prime, the war has
+	ended in fire.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832749664 What were the Centauri, or perhaps someone else, trying
+	to get out of Delenn?  She refused to answer their questions, she says;
+	what were they trying to learn? It appears the Centauri captured her,
+	which implies there's still a conflict of some kind going on, even
+	after the Shadows have been driven off.  The presence of Londo's
+	keeper makes it unclear that the Centauri were the ones trying
+	to question her.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833160676 "We created something that will endure for a thousand
+	years," Delenn tells Sheridan.  What will they create?  And what
+	happens in a thousand years -- will the Shadows return again and
+	break up their creation, much as Valen's creation, the Grey Council,
+	has recently been destroyed?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578586 In the Centauri cell, Delenn tells Sheridan, "Our son is
+	safe.  Nothing else matters."  Why is David in danger, and what has
+	Delenn done to ensure his safety?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832964609 What could possibly happen to G'Kar in the intervening
+	seventeen years to cause Londo to refer to him as an "old friend?"
+	Londo, of course, may simply have been speaking facetiously -- but
+	in that case, what was G'Kar doing in the Centauri palace?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578793 Is death at G'Kar's hands Londo's greatest fear, and
+	thus his final chance for redemption
+	("Point of No Return?")
+	Or is his fear more abstract than that, the fear that his death dream
+	will come to pass as he's envisioned it?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578793 When Londo sees himself strangled by G'Kar in his dream,
+	does he know that it's at his own request?  How much of the context
+	of his death does he know already?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832750357 In
+	Babylon Squared,"
+	the crewman who sees the blue-suited figure
+	appear in the hallway tells Krantz, "It's back."  Presumably the
+	B4 crew had seen Sheridan appearing and disappearing, since Delenn had
+	only recently switched places with him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832750004 Delenn appears in the hallway in the present time (or
+	rather, the same
+	timeframe she'd reached via the White Star,) so in that specific
+	instance there was no time-shifting, just movement through space.
+	How did she do that?  Perhaps, as she implied in Part One, the Minbari
+	have the technology for rudimentary time manipulation, so she used
+	something from the White Star.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832608867 The woman at the door in Delenn's
+	flashforward causes her to drop the snowglobe in shock.  Very few
+	people would cause someone as poised as Delenn to do that.  One of
+	them, though, and one whose arrival has been foreshadowed, would be
+	Anna Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832578586 Why does Delenn urge Sheridan to avoid going to Z'ha'dum?
+	If he has already gone there by the time she is thrown into the cell
+	with him, then Kosh's prediction about Sheridan dying if he goes there
+	is wrong, or at least not as immediate as it originally sounded.
+	On the other hand, the fact that they have a son is good evidence
+	the two of them will become much closer; perhaps the arrival of
+	Anna Sheridan (if that's who's at the door in Delenn's flashforward)
+	will complicate their relationship, and it's to avoid finding out
+	about Anna that Delenn tells Sheridan to stay away from Z'ha'dum.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833302690 Are the flashforwards completely random, or might there
+	be something guiding people to visions of certain events?  The Vorlons
+	appear to have some perception that extends beyond time; perhaps they
+	are manipulating that perception when it appears, even briefly, in
+	others.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832608867 The assumption at the end of the episode seems to be that
+	by successfully pulling Babylon 4 back in time, the crew has averted
+	the Shadow attack on Babylon 5 in eight days, in which Ivanova sends
+	out the distress call heard in part one.  Does that mean that
+	Sinclair's flashforward to the firefight aboard B5 has also been
+	averted?  What about Lady Ladira's vision of the destruction of
+	Babylon 5?
+	("Signs and Portents")
+	If all those glimpses of the future are no longer true, how much
+	validity do the remaining ones have?  Each of them could be from a
+	completely different possible future, none of which will end up ever
+	taking place.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832610961 Was Zathras supposed to tell Sheridan, Delenn, and Sinclair
+	about The One?  Were Draal's instructions simply to not reveal anything
+	until prompted by Sinclair?
+
+	
      
+	Where did he come up with the term, and with its definition?  If he
+	knows Sheridan is The One who will be, he must have been using the
+	Great Machine to peer forward in time (not unreasonable, given its
+	obvious time-bending abilities.)  Will Draal be able to do the same
+	and offer insights into the events to come?  Zathras implies that
+	perhaps he can do things even Draal can't, and that may be one of
+	them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833149654 The distinction between the three members of The One echoes
+	the migration of Minbari souls.  Sinclair, after his transformation,
+	appears to be fully Minbari, and is The One who was.  Delenn is
+	halfway between human and Minbari, and is The One who is.  Sheridan
+	is completely human and is The One who will be.  Perhaps it's symbolic
+	of a shift of power from the Minbari to humanity.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Inconsistencies with
+	"Babylon Squared" (B2).  See also
+	jms speaks.
+	
        
+	   
      • @@@832964609 Not an inconsistency per se, but in B2, there was
+		no mention by Krantz of the explosion of the Shadow bomb
+		or the presence of possibly hostile personnel on the station,
+		which he definitely knew about in WWE2.  If it's not an
+		inconsistency, why didn't he mention it to Sinclair?
+
+	   
      • @@@832578586 In B2, Krantz told
+		Sinclair that Zathras was
+		first seen in a conference room.  "There was a flash, and
+		there he was," Krantz said.  In this episode, Zathras was
+		discovered in a supply room by security guards.
+
+	   
      • @@@832750005 Zathras tells Sinclair and Krantz that The One has
+		stopped B4's motion through time to let the crew get off.  But
+		in WWE2, the station appears in 2258 by accident after Major
+		Krantz unexpectedly powers up the time equipment.  And the
+		idea of faking a power drop in the fusion reactor to cause
+		the crew to evacuate was Ivanova's, not any of The One's.
+
+	   
      • @@@846722520 In B2, when The One appears in the corridor,
+		there are audible grunts of pain; they're clearly in a male
+		voice, not a female one.
+
+	   
      • @@@832578586 When Sinclair returns to the station and removes
+		his helmet, the B2 version of events includes a computer voice
+		intoning, "Present time atmosphere now breathable."  No such
+		voice is heard in WWE2, though arguably Delenn was meeting him
+		just inside an airlock, and the suit computer was referring
+		to the fact that there was no longer a vacuum outside.
+
+	   
      • @@@832578586 Delenn puts her hand on Sinclair's shoulder in B2,
+		and her arm is draped in a red robe.  But in WWE2, she's wearing
+		much darker colors.
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840127706 Another possible inconsistency:
+	Delenn claims that Sinclair's transformation began the migration of
+	Minbari souls to human bodies that ultimately led to the end of the
+	Earth-Minbari War.  However, in
+	"Points of Departure,"
+	Lennier claims that the soul migration has been going on for roughly
+	two millenia, twice as far back as Sinclair took Babylon 4.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832608867 The voice at the door seems to be that of Bruce
+	Boxleitner's real-life wife, Melissa Gilbert, though of course that
+	doesn't imply anything about which character she'll be playing on the
+	show.  However, she's been announced as a guest star in the
+	season finale,
+	so the flashforward may well have been only a month or two ahead.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  YAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH.....
+
+	
      
+	Well, I *finally* finished writing the two-parter, "War Without End,"
+	which is probably the toughest thing I've written for the series to
+	date.  Given everything that has to fit in here, and the fact that
+	it's the other half of the B4 storyline (this ain't a spoiler,
+	that'll be common knowledge in ads and the like), it became a pretty
+	difficult job, moreso than when I'd originally thunk it up.  It's
+	kinda like cramming 20 pounds of potatoes in a 10 pound bag...but I
+	*think* I got it all in, even though the initial drafts came out at
+	about 7 pages too long.  As I commented to one person, "I'm
+	definitely dancing on the edge of my ability here."  But I'm pretty
+	sure I pulled it all off...and I think folks are going to be quite
+	pleased.
+
+	
      
+	But *man* that was tough....
+
+	
      
+	Now, having written 16 and 17, only 5 scripts remain to be written
+	for this season.  And there's still an awful lot to fit in before the
+	big season ender, which I suspect will raise quite a few eyebrows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In my last general posting to rastb5, I mentioned that from time to
+	time, I'd try to post the occasional "letter to home" just to keep folks
+	up to date on matters Babylonian.  Now that I can catch a breather, I
+	figured I'd take this opportunity to do so (though since it's 3:15 a.m.,
+	this'll likely be short).
+
+	
      
+	"catching a breather" refers to the script situation.  I've just
+	finished writing 316 and 317, the two parter, "War Without End,"
+	which was a very difficult task, given the amount of story and
+	logistics that had to be put into it.  While writing "Babylon
+	Squared," to which this is the flip-side, I figured, "Oh, sure, yeah,
+	I can get this all in on the other side, no problem," but when it
+	came time to do it, it got awful tight, but finally I fit it *all*
+	in.  (Well, all except one teeny, tiny sentence, about where Zathras
+	was first seen, and how, 'cause to do what I'd first had in mind
+	would've taken another 3 pages, and I didn't have that, so that one
+	element I'll have to just deal with later somehow.  But that's it.)
+	Hopefully, one need never have seen B2 in order to watch and follow
+	WWE.  (Which was one of the hard parts, since B2 may or may not be
+	aired prior to this, all the background information *had* to be in
+	the episodes, so that's a lot of background to include.)
+
+	
      
+	This now leaves 5 episodes to be written for this season.  At this
+	point, Lyta should factor strongly in one or two of these, there will be
+	some direct confrontations between our side and the shadows, then a
+	really nasty final episode for year three.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865189224 "One would find it hard to believe that episodes like
+	"Severed Dreams", "I&E","A Late Delvery From Avalon" and of course,
+	WWE could be written by the same guy.  The pace, dialog, everything
+	are adapted so well for each episode."
+
+	
      
+	Suddenly I'm having an identity crisis....
+
+	
      
+	I like to try different styles for different moods.  I also like to vary
+	the tone of the show; one will be more comedic, as with Sic Transit Vir,
+	others much darker, like Ship of Tears.  I enjoy trying new things,
+	risking a bit, failing on occasion, but learning in the process.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832965926 As I wrote the episodes prior to WWE2, I kept leading up
+	to that first kiss, over and over, but deliberately never quite getting
+	there.  I knew that when it came time to do it, I wanted to do it in
+	just the way you describe...it would and wouldn't be a first kiss,
+	both at exactly the same time.  So there's the moment everyone's been
+	waiting for, but not in quite the way anyone had expected. 
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840126127 I knew everyone would be waiting for that
+	first kiss, so I made sure it was different, that it was a first kiss
+	for one of them, but not the other, that it was natural and totally
+	unforced and surprising. So for Sheridan, his first kiss of Delenn was
+	actually his second (by a long ways), and his second, when it comes,
+	will be her first.
+
+	
      
+	Just can't do anything the conventional way on this show....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839749327 Did you write WWE at the same time as B2?
      
+	No, I didn't write them at the same time, but I
+	did a basic outline of what the follow-up (WWE) would be, so it'd all
+	match up when the time came to show that half of the story.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784231 It all has to hang together, or it's kinda useless.
+	It just required working out the details of what was, is, and will be. 
+	Then I walked on water....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833178275 Did Sinclair's departure from the show cause changes
+	in the B4 storyline?  Was it originally meant to go into the
+	future?
      
+	No, B4 was never intended to go forward in time.  The aging was
+	done pretty much as intended.  And the Soul Hunter meant they're using
+	him to create their old Leader.  Still tracks.  I'll have more to say
+	about all this after everyone's seen the episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865189224 The curious thing...the interesting thing...is that in
+	just about everything I've ever written, yes, I generally follow where I
+	want to go, end up where I want to end up, but once I get *into* it,
+	once the characters come alive on the page, I inevitably find better
+	ways of doing things, stronger and more muscular paths to the story,
+	more interesting side roads.
+
+	
      
+	Also, this original story was worked out in 1986/87; that's nearly ten
+	years ago.  In those ten years, I've become -- or like to think I've
+	become -- a better writer, learned more, written more, picked up some
+	new tools I didn't have then.  So you have a situation where the writer
+	in 1996 looks at the writer in 1986 and says, "No, listen...there's a
+	better way.  Yes, we'll still get to Disneyland on time, you'll still
+	have plenty of time to ride the haunted mansion...but if we go *this*
+	way, we can stop off and also see Knotts Berry Farm, and the Winchester
+	Mystery Mansion, and maybe even Hearst Castle on the way."
+
+	
      
+	The destination is still the same..but I've found a *lot* more
+	interesting ways of getting there.  Which, after all, is what an outline
+	is for: a safe home base that allows you to wander off, knowing that you
+	can always return to it if you get lost.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833177794 Foreshadowing is tough, because it implies the audience
+	is going to BE there x-years down the road to Get It, and you have to
+	risk the audience going "huh?" one time too many and wandering
+	away...but nothing good comes without risk.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833477724 Why "War Without End?"
      
+	As Delenn says, the war is never entirely over...there are always new
+	battle to be fought.  If it ain't the shadows, it's the shadows over
+	Earthdome of a more human nature.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@837965529 "When dealing with an ep with a lot of flashbacks or
+	reused footage (WWE, especially part 2), how much freedom does the
+	director have?  Does he/she have to match the style of the previously
+	show footage (in terms of angles, close ups, pacing, etc), or is
+	there more room for the director's own style?"
+
+	
       In the case of WWE, you had to match lighting and composition
+	pretty closely.  That's about the only time it's really become an
+	issue.
+
+	
       "(one more question: if someone other than you had written
+	"Babylon Squared", would they have to be paid royalties for the reuse
+	of parts of that episodes script and footage in "War Without End"?)"
+
+	
       Anyone who writes a scene which is reused gets residuals.
+	Doesn't matter if it's me or anybody else, as a Writers Guild member,
+	it's guaranteed and required.  Also the actors, the director, and
+	others get re-use fees of varying amounts depending on how long the
+	sequence is.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833559802 The Garibaldi scenes in part 2 were all from the first
+	season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784231 Zathras looked familiar.  Was the character created
+	by the actor?
      
+	Well, Zathras appeared in Babylon Squared, so you might have
+	seen him there.  Beyond that...no, the actor came to what was written
+	on the page and made it come to life, but didn't invent the character.
+	I just sorta thunk him up.  It's what I do.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832581591 Londo looks older, but Sheridan and Delenn
+	don't.
      
+	No, both Sheridan and Delenn *are* made up older.  If you particularly
+	look at Delenn out in the light of later scenes in WWE2, you can
+	DEFINITELY see the difference.  With Sheridan, it's a greying of the
+	hair, and some lining on the face.  Londo, though, if you recall, is
+	much older than Sheridan to begin with.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179532 It was a good sendoff.  (At one point, Bruce said to me
+	over lunch, with Michael sitting with us, "Hey, so how come HE gets to
+	go off and become the next best thing to God and I get the crap kicked
+	out of me?"  I shrugged.  "Seniority.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 The scenes with Zathras pinned under the
+	strut were the same scenes from B2, we didn't reshoot that material.
+
+	
      
+	The hardest shot was matching the lighting and composition in
+	the central corridor *exactly* for the Ivanova-on-the-link scene, and
+	the walk by seconds later by Garibaldi and Sinclair.  That came out
+	pretty seamless.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 Why does Krantz have a leather strap on his uniform,
+	when there weren't leather straps in "The Gathering?"
      
+	The leather strip was also present when we shot the original,
+	Babylon Squared, in year one.  I was kinda thinking at the time that
+	the change was gradually being introduced in various divisions of
+	Earthforce.  Krantz is from the Marines division, I believe (note the
+	brown uniform), from that part which functions sort of like the Army
+	Corps of Engineers, overseeing the building of space stations and the
+	like.  Since it takes time to introduce a uniform change across
+	divisions and light years, I figured some might have them earlier than
+	others, or to try them out.  So I gave Krantz the leather strip.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833560255 The B4 insignia looks like a 3.
      
+	Those aren't 3s, those are Bs in which there's a stylized 4.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832888831 About the
+	"Babylon Squared" inconsistencies
      
+	Yes, the conference room thing is a glitch, in that I had the way
+	to do it, but it would've meant adding about 3 minutes to the episode,
+	and I just couldn't fit it in.
+
+	
      
+	(It basically would've involved him being hidden in the room when
+	there's a timeflash.)
+
+	
      
+	Ivanova et al *were* working actively to get the crew to evacuate,
+	using the fake reactor reading.  If they hadn't really cared about it,
+	they would've let the station continue running through time to its
+	destination, or the present; they fought to stop it so they could let
+	the crew get off.
+
+	
      
+	No, Delenn hadn't been appearing/disappearing before this, but
+	Sheridan *had*, so it's reasonable to assume he was seen.  Also, we
+	don't know how much time passed between the sighting we notice, and
+	the alert to Krantz.
+
+	
      
+	We couldn't match the clothing properly, so we dispensed with it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833559802 I know about the sleeve...and actually she didn't touch
+	him in WWE2.  It was one of those days when it was a hideous production
+	schedule, and I wasn't on set, and it slipped by everybody else.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833475135 The element I couldn't quite fit into War....
+	
+	
      
+	In B2, Krantz says they found Zathras when there was a flash,
+	and he appeared in a conference room.
+
+	
      
+	Now, I sketched out that scene when it came time to actually
+	write the whole WWE two-parter.  What happened, basically, was that
+	Zathras was passing by a room where he saw the one piece he still
+	needed to finish his repairs on the time stabalizer.  He slips in, as
+	best he can, unnoticed...the meeting goes on as he goes under a table
+	to get the piece of equipment...he finishes just as there's another
+	time-flash...as it ends, momentarily disoriented, he's discovered, and
+	captured.
+
+	
      
+	This would've matched what was in B2, as I'd intended. 
+	Unfortunately, it added several minutes of screen time that I couldn't
+	afford.  I would've had to cut something somewhere else, and that
+	script was so tight it screamed as it was.  So I had to fudge how I did
+	that and let the small inconsistency go.  The only other thing I
+	could've cut, the one moveable piece, was Sinclair trying to radio
+	Garibaldi at the end...and I didn't want to lose that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784231 No, WWE couldn't have been 3 episodes.  Yes, it had enough
+	story for it, and then some, but you can't take one storyline and
+	stretch it out that far.  I wouldn't have done it even if I could.
+	I'd've had to introduce a B story just to break it up a little, because
+	3 hours of just a straight line one-story plot is murder.  And that
+	defeats the purpose of expanding it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839232537 Will we see Garibaldi's reaction to finding out
+	about Sinclair being Valen?
      
+	I think it'd be hard to just drop in Garibaldi's attitudes
+	about Valen without it having something to do with an episode; if it
+	doesn't move that particular episode along, it shouldn't be there.  So
+	that sort of thing is tough to pull off, making the show more
+	unfriendly to new viewers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784648 Wasn't sending a message to Garibaldi a big
+	risk?  And why didn't he tell Garibaldi before the shuttle
+	left?
      
+	I think his message to Garibaldi was a momentary lapse, it
+	wasn't something he'd planned, his emotions momentarily got in the way
+	of his reason. To do so would be dangerous, so it wasn't done by him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833559802 Throughout the episode, whenever there's a tachyon burst,
+	pretty much everyone has a timeflash of one sort or another (as also
+	mentioned in Babylon Squared).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833491921 Why did Delenn leave the White Star?
      
+	Mainly just a feeling she had, best to check everything out for
+	herself, make sure things were going properly, since they were getting
+	right down to the wire.  Also, in case Ivanova got into trouble trying
+	to get into C&C, she wanted to be closer to the situation to help,
+	if necessary.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839232874 When Delenn takes off her stabilizer and puts it on Sheridan,
+	taking on his suit for whatever small protection it might offer, at
+	that point he stabalized and she became lost/unstuck in time.  So it
+	was she who appeared in the last sequence there.  She took the risk to
+	ensure saving Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832965264 1.  Since you've stated that the Babylon squared time
+	travel incident
+	would be the only one for the entire series, is there any way we might
+	get answers to some of the questions that seemed to be raised from the
+	far future?
+
+	
      
+	In a sense.
+
+	
      
+	2.  How much will sinclair's knowledge of the future affect what is to
+	come?
+
+	
      
+	Sinclair has no further knowledge of the future; he knows only what he
+	saw up through and including the White Star.
+
+	
      
+	3.  The question I'm really dying for an answer to though, is this: 
+	Hasn't this episode in a sense made a large part of the arc
+	anti-climactic?  I mean, we now know that the forces of light are
+	victorious again, at least to some degree, we know of David (named for
+	sinclair?), we know what becomes of Londo etc.  Whenever most of the
+	major characters are in a life threatening situation, we now know that
+	they survive it (it would seem).  
+
+	
      
+	We also "knew" that G'Kar would strangle Londo...what you didn't have
+	was context.  As we saw in part two, context is everything, and getting
+	there is half the fun.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 It's a literary...I hate to say the word trick, but it's the
+	most descriptive.  You show somebody the end right off the bat, as we
+	did with the Londo/G'Kar scene.  But how do we get there?  What
+	happens?  Yes, the war is eventually won...but what *was* the price? 
+	And what does it mean to everyone involved?
+
+	
      
+	The best magic is when it's right there in your face, and you
+	can't see how it's being done.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 What happens with the future of Londo and G'Kar...is what
+	you see. Course, how they got there is the meat of the story.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833559802 Showing the end of a story at or near the middle is a
+	literary device that's sometimes used by novelists that can be very
+	effective, if used properly.  It shows you what happens, but leaves
+	open *how* you got there, and what it means.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784648 The storyline began millions of years ago.
+
+	
      
+	We're coming in in the middle of the story.
+
+	
      
+	But then, that can be said of all of us.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833177934 Does this blow the mystery of whether Sheridan goes to
+	Z'ha'dum?
      
+	Who said there was a mystery about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum? 
+	Kosh seems to treat it as a fait accompli; so does Sheridan.  It seems
+	fated that he will go...the question is when, why, and under what
+	circumstances, with what results?
+
+	
      
+	See, sometimes the story works in the shadows (so to
+	speak)...and other times we're right out in the open, we hand you the
+	playbook and tell you we're coming right up the middle.  And *that's*
+	when you've got to really worry.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 Sheridan wouldn't know anything of what happened after
+	he blipped out of that future situation.
+
+	
      
+	As for David, remember that Sheridan's father is also David.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 Sheridan's stabilizer basically broke into two major pieces,
+	the front section which fell off in the White Star, and the back half
+	which was still clipped to his belt, and later came off as Zathras
+	watched.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833475135 Is David the Third Age of Mankind?
      
+	Not as such.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846743399 Will we see him?
      
+	Well, I wouldn't want to preclude anything at this point.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833178090 Were the Minbari fighting amongst themselves before
+	Valen arrived?
      
+	There was certainly some division among Minbari; Valen
+	straightened a lot of that out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179114 That divisiveness has been growing lately, culminating in
+	the breakup of the Grey Council which Valen formed.  There's bound to
+	be some fallout....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179114 Did the Council know Sinclair was Valen when they
+	demanded he be B5's commander?
      
+	No, they didn't know at the time; most of them were still trying
+	to figure the whole damned thing out; some refused to accept it, and if
+	he was indeed bogus, wanted him killed to avoid becoming a false
+	prophet and undoing Minbari society; some *did* believe it was him. 
+	This disagreement in a sense became the first loose thread in
+	unraveling parts of Minbari society.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845974843 Did Delenn know?
      
+	She had suspicions starting from the Battle of the Line; we'll
+	have more on that later.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, the Grey Council knows [now], but the general Minbari population
+	does not know.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833178275 Where did the chrysalis machine come from?
      
+	The machine came up with Zathras from Epsilon 3.  It
+	first appeared with Sinclair, then later got into Delenn's hands.  So
+	she still has that version of it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 Re: the Chrysalis device...it came from Epsilon 3.  There
+	was one shot that should've been made more of, where we see a long box
+	with a silver triangle on one side being set up, and left.
+	Unfortunately,
+	the shot didn't make much of it (you can see Zathras putting it out
+	there), and a later shot we dropped showing it again because it wasn't
+	properly featured and you couldn't really tell what it was.  There was
+	so much in this episode that had to be pulled off, in a short amount of
+	time, that sometimes things in the background don't get framed as they
+	might be.  But that's where it came from: from Epsilon 3 to Sinclair to
+	Delenn, who still has it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833560255 It was on Epsilon 3, then taken into the past
+	with B4, held on Minbar until Delenn got it, and still has it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840214151 And the triluminary?
      
+	It originated on Epsilon 3.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179114 The Londo stuff is just incredibly powerful...very moving.
+	As for the voice...well, we'll just have to wait a bit, won't we?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179114 Re: G'Kar and Londo changing positions as Sinclair and
+	Sheridan have done, these two moving from certainty to uncertainty in
+	either direction, that ain't bad.  That ain't bad at *all*.  I like
+	symmetry, and both journeys are interesting explorations.  What I've
+	been doing in complex terms, you explained in an astonishingly few
+	words.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784231 I seem to recall, after that Londo/G'Kar
+	scene was shown the last time, posting somewhere that folks now knew
+	*what* has happened, but they don't yet know the *context*.  Very few
+	picked up on that and thought to actually reverse what they *thought*
+	they were seeing to what they *might* be seeing.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784648 Will you see Londo and G'Kar together later this season?
+
+	
      
+	Hmmmm......
+
+	
      
+	Yes and no.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179114 Whose eye opened during the strangulation?
      
+	The eye was of the keeper on Londo's shoulder, you can see
+	G'Kar's fingers gripping a part of it.  It woke up.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834865716 About G'Kar's eye
      
+	One of his eyes had been plucked out some time before.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833475135 Londo does not currently have a Keeper attached to him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833492263 You needn't concern yourself with the keeper...for a while
+	yet.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833559874 Vir doesn't have a keeper.  They would, of course, try to
+	take care of that detail afterward.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833697128 It's not a shadow host, no, but one of the many things
+	that work for them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@832236720 Will we see Kosh in the past?
      
+	Not exactly, not as you might think, but in a sense....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179347 Suffice to say that Kosh knew Valen from way, way back....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839190199 If Kosh recognized Sinclair as Valen, why were the
+	Vorlons so anxious to extradite Sinclair in
+	"The Gathering?"
      
+	He could only recognize him once he
+	actually saw him, and that didn't happen until he arrived at B5, after
+	which he wasn't in any condition to talk to anyone until after things
+	were over.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839220595 But surely they must have known he was B5's
+	first commander?
      
+	Bear in mind that there have been lots of folks named Sinclair
+	in the last 900 years; that we don't know how much Valen told anyone
+	about his prior life; that the Minbari had had little to no direct
+	contact with the Vorlons in well over a hundred years and likely would
+	not have told them what they found at the Battle of the Line until such
+	time as personal contact had been made again, which only happened at
+	Kosh's arrival...and there wasn't exactly time to make a report after
+	he rolled into B5 for the first time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846721620 How did they know to meet Babylon 4?
+	Prescience?
      
+	Well, the other obvious solution, since the Vorlons were then
+	out and running around and actively involved in the war of that time
+	period, he just sent out a signal, and they got there first.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846721856 But they accepted the station right away.
      
+	Given that there's a massive war on, they just had
+	their major starbase destroyed, they were left without a platform from
+	which to stage the last part of the war...and here comes someone
+	offering a 6 mile long, perfectly empty and eminently useable base for
+	the last phase of the war, no charge...hell, I'd take him up on it too.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846722408 Did B4 have more firepower than B5?
      
+	Yeah, B4 had more firepower, and it had one thing B5
+	doesn't...engines that can move it forward if necessary.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833492165 Did the Minbari recognize the Vorlons?
      
+	They'd recognize them from legends of their own past, yes.  But
+	bear in mind that the Minbari and Vorlons had already been working
+	together in the war effort.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865189224 The Vorlons were called in after B4 arrived.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784231 When you see a LOT of vorlons together, that's when it's
+	time to run like hell.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 How long did Sinclair live after going back?
      
+	He lived close to a hundred years as a Minbari; they're a long
+	lived race, and they did all they could to maintain his health as one
+	of their truly great figures.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839749239 Valen did not have any children.  And there's some
+	difference of opinion over exactly what Valen's final fate was.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846721989 There are some legends about Valen returning someday,
+	but so far they've been only legends, nothing more.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839125979 The Valen aspect was set up in the first season, long
+	before anything was decided about Michael.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833442235 I'd love to someday tell the story of Valen and
+	Zathras in the most recent shadow war.  It's quite a tale, actually....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@834982322 Is this Zathras' exit from the series?
      
+	I'd love to see Zathras again somehow....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846743399 I'm often tempted to create Zathras' brother, Mathras, or
+	somesuch, if only for the look of terror in their eyes when he says, of
+	Zathras, "Ah, yes...Zathras...was the quiet one in the family...."
+
+	
      
+	Who knows, it might be something I might do someday....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833492165 Is Zathras "the man in between" from Sheridan's dream
+	("All Alone in the Night?")
      
+	 No, Zathras isn't the man in the middle.  Someone else is.  And
+	 it isn't/wasn't Sinclair, either.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844880098 Valen only knew what Sinclair would've known.  Zathras
+	wasn't speaking from what Sinclair had told him, but on the basis of
+	things he'd figured out on his own.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865282994 Sinclair went back because he would always go back and
+	always went back; the "alternate" timeline phrase isn't quite correct...
+	t's more like the moment when the two possible wave forms of
+	*possibilities* must collapse into one probability or certainty, both
+	tugging at the same time.  For instance, you've got Shroedinger's cat,
+	put into a box, with a 50/50 chance of a poison gas capsule opening and
+	killing the cat.  At the instant before you open the box, Shroedinger
+	said, the cat is neither dead nor alive, but *both*, until you open the
+	box and the two possibilities collapse into one. It isn't that the cat
+	had two alternate timelines, only that there were two possibilities 
+	fighting it out to become the real one.
+
+	
      
+	That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843504961 What happened to Babylon 4?
      
+	B4 survived the prior shadow war, but in very bad shape;
+	didn't last much longer after that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833179532 Does the future with the Shadow attack no longer
+	exist?
      
+	Yes.  Up until that moment, the total forces available to the
+	shadows were an unknown to us...sort of like Shroedinger's Cat, is it
+	alive in the box or is it dead?  It could be either one.  If they
+	didn't go into the past, didn't affect the outcome, it would be one
+	reality; if they did, then it'd be another.  As soon as they achieved
+	one or the other of those two, the two possible results collapsed into
+	the one, singular possibility.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833475136 Will Delenn and Sheridan have to pay too high a price
+	for their victory and happiness?
      
+	Depends on how you define "too high" a price.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833697232 What they were after from Delenn was info relevant to that
+	time, some of it related to their son.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833559802 The reason Delenn dropped the globe will be gone into by
+	the end of the season; as for "when will (you) no longer be confused?"
+	that's rather outside my purview.  Have you considered meditation?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833697232 Was Delenn a passive observer in her flash?
      
+	She more just saw it as a passive recipient, whereas he was
+	actively There.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784232 There's not much point to asking me "when are we going to
+	learn who Delenn saw in her flashforward."  Or similar questions.  I
+	will not throw away the impact of something happening in an episode by
+	blowing it out in a message.  There have to be surprises along the way.
+	You'll see it when it happens.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865189225 You'll have to wait and see who entered the room.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833560256 Time travel isn't that easy, and at this juncture it will
+	never happen again in the B5 universe.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@836932214 Sheridan, by taking the actions he took to keep history on
+	track, has now pretty much assured that the events we see *will*
+	happen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@836932402 Events will unfold as we saw them.  Sheridan might try to
+	use his knowledge to change things...but who knows, that may just bring
+	them about.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@836932553 Of course there's free will.  But if I pull a trigger, and
+	the bullet flies out hitting someone in the head, what happens between
+	the moment of the trigger, and the impact, has nothing to do with free
+	will.  Sheridan made the choice -- free will -- to do what was done in
+	WWE.  There were two probable results, depending on whether he did or
+	didn't do as asked.  Once he did that, the two probabilities folded
+	into one actuality (a la Shroedinger's Cat).
+
+	
      
+	Which doesn't mean to say he won't *try* to change things....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@839784648 What did Zathras mean when he said he was the oldest
+	living caretaker of the Machine?
      
+	Just that Zathras has worked on the machine, and survived
+	it, the longest of all the others.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856979423 From George Johnsen, co-producer
      
+	The Zathras tool is not a speed loader, but a wrench of some sort.
+
+	
      
+	There is this wonderful electronic surplus store down the street from
+	the stage, and the place is swarming with art directors from all over
+	the basin.  Our folks also frequent this place, and came back one day
+	with a box marked "interesting shapes $10".  At any other place in the
+	world, this would be a box of recyclables at best or a box of garbage at
+	worst.  In Hollywood, however........ it is a box of tools for Zathras!
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Lyta tests the limits of the Shadows' newly-discovered weakness.
+Dr. Franklin goes on a journey to discover his place in life, and meets a
+singer in Downbelow. The new Ambassador Kosh arrives on the station.
+
+
+Erica Gimpel as Cailyn.
+Jennifer Balgobin as Dr. Hobbs.
+Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander. Robin Sachs as Na'Kal.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.89
+
+Production number: 318
+Original air week: August 18, 1996 (UK)
+                   September 30, 1996 (US)
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  Lyta has previously carried "pieces" of Kosh with her.  This is
+	most likely what she was doing at the end of
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane."
+
+   
    •  At least ten Narn ships have survived the battle with the Centauri,
+	damaged but able to be repaired. A new Narn fleet seems to be gathering.
+
+   
    • @@@864894608 It takes the White Star 20 minutes to recharge its jump
+	engines after they've been taken offline and their energy diverted into
+	the weapons systems.
+
+   
    •  The Vorlons are a long-lived race, are relatively few in number, and
+	death is a rarity among them. It had been a very long time since a
+	Vorlon had died.
+
+   
    • @@@844797640 Franklin is a Foundationist.  The Foundation apparently
+	borrows customs and beliefs from various cultures, perhaps in the
+	belief that no one people has all the right spiritual answers.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
+   
    •  What was the message the Vorlon ship showed to Sheridan?
+
+   
    •  Lyta, a P5, could barely hold one Shadow ship at bay. How much
+	telepathic energy is required to defeat a Shadow ship? What effect
+	would a high-rated telepath like Bester have on a Shadow vessel?
+
+   
    •  Is Lyta still "only" a P5, or has she been enhanced by her relationship
+	with Kosh?
+
+   
    •  Why does the new Vorlon insist on being called Kosh in public and
+	private? What does he mean by his statement that "We are all Kosh?"
+	(see Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Where did the pattern in Kosh's quarters come from, and what does it
+	mean? (see Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Why did Lyta bleed from her eyes during the battle? Was it just the
+	strain, or is there some deeper explanation?
+
+   
    •  Why didn't the forces of Light take the destroyed Shadow craft in tow
+	for analysis?
+
+   
    •  Why didn't the Minbari cruiser open fire on the "held" shadows?
+
+   
    •  Lyta required 'line of sight' to the Shadow ship in order to attack it.
+	Did the Minbari telepaths also need to see the Shadows in order to
+	attack them?
+
+   
    •  How did the Vorlon ship know where to find Sheridan?
+
+   
    •  Does the "piece" of Kosh that may be left behind in Sheridan have
+	anything to do with Sheridan's place as "The One?" How might it fit in
+	with Kosh's statement that if Sheridan goes to Z'ha'dum, he will die?
+	It may explain Kosh's final words to Sheridan: "As long as you're
+	here, I'll always be here."
+
+   
    • @@@847070191 Do the Shadows know a piece of Kosh survived?
+
+   
    •  Does the different style and color of the new Vorlon ambassador's
+	encounter suit denote anything?
+
+   
    • @@@871091092 Is this the same Vorlon who was on Minbar in
+	"War Without End?"
+
+   
    •  How did G'Kar manage to persuade the other races to come to Sheridan's
+	aid in his battle against the Shadows?
+
+
      
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
+   
    •  The strange pattern which the new Vorlon sees on the screen in
+	Kosh's quarters could be a representation of Kosh's death.  It could be
+	construed as a diagram of two or more Shadows attacking a Vorlon. It
+	could also be construed as a diagram of Shadows being accompanied by a
+	human.  Presumably the human would be Morden, and the images were
+	burned into the wall in some form, silhouettes, when Kosh was killed.
+
+   
    •  It's clear that Lyta believes, based on her vision, that Sheridan may
+	hold part of Kosh within him. What that means -- for Sheridan, for
+	Lyta, and for Kosh -- remains to be seen.
+
+   
    • @@@844797979 How did the piece of Kosh get into Sheridan's mind?  If
+	it was the result of Kosh's contact with Sheridan, might G'Kar also
+	have a piece of Kosh following their contact in
+	"Dust to Dust?"
+
+   
    • @@@844881004 More disturbingly, might Morden also have a piece of Kosh,
+	present as he was at Kosh's death?  Perhaps that was why the Shadows
+	brought Morden along; they wanted someone there who could carry
+	part of a Vorlon.
+
+   
    • @@@844797979 In
+	"All Alone in the Night,"
+	Kosh tells Sheridan, "I have always been here."  Could he perhaps
+	have been referring to Sheridan's mind, implying that Sheridan has
+	carried a piece of Kosh for quite some time?
+
+   
    •  Might the statement that "We are all Kosh" suggest that the Vorlons
+	exist more as a collective whole than as individual entities? (See also
+	JMS speaks.)
+
+   
    •  The tide may be turning, now that it's clear that telepaths are
+	effective weapons against the Shadows, especially considering that all
+	major races except the Narn have telepaths. (Which begs the question:
+	what will the Shadows' response be?)
+
+   
    • @@@844376937 Telepathic control over Shadow ships is tenuous at
+	best, and may be limited to preventing them from attacking; the three
+	ships being held by the Minbari telepaths were free to flee the scene
+	when G'Kar and the others arrived.
+
+   
    • @@@844376937 In
+	"Revelations,"
+	G'Kar told Na'Toth that when Narn warships jump into normal space,
+	they're briefly out of contact because of the energy drain of the
+	jump engines.  Yet the G'Tok was able to fire on the Shadow warship
+	before it even left the vortex.  Does that mean that the weapons
+	systems take less energy than establishing faster-than-light
+	communications?  Perhaps Narn FTL communication involves the use
+	of the jump engines to beam a signal into hyperspace, and the
+	effect in "Revelations" was simply a matter of the jump engines
+	needing to recharge from the ship's main power source.
+
+   
    • @@@844895893 The Shadows now probably know that the White Star is
+	capable of solo jumps.  It seems Sheridan has decided that keeping
+	that capability a secret is no longer of strategic importance
+	("Matters of Honor.")
+	Or perhaps he figures that the secret is out by now anyway, perhaps
+	as of Delenn's emergence from a jump point in the White Star in
+	close proximity to Babylon 5, and thus presumably in full view of
+	a large number of people
+	("Severed Dreams.")
+
+   
    • @@@844376937 The new Kosh's ship is reddish in color, as is his
+	encounter suit's eyepiece, perhaps suggesting the link between Vorlons
+	and their ships.
+
+   
    • @@@844900656 Every sentient race, according to G'Kar, has food resembling
+	Swedish meatballs.  The Narn call it "breen."  Since the Vorlons have
+	manipulated all the younger races, perhaps Swedish meatballs are really
+	a Vorlon delicacy, part of an intricate plan to defeat the Shadows
+	through culinary unity.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In Australian aboriginal cultures, a "walkabout" is a ritual in which
+	a young man goes on a solitary journey through the wilderness in an
+	attempt to learn more about his own character and strength.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850757656 Metazine, the painkiller Cailyn used, was also used on
+	Sinclair to keep him unconscious in
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844882197 In the initial UK broadcast, as
+	well as the first-run US broadcast, Patricia Tallman's first name
+	was misspelled "Patrica" in the opening credits.
+
+
      
+   
    •  JMS wrote both songs in this episode.  See
+	jms speaks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When the ship bearing the new ambassador arrives, Sheridan originally
+	says, "Welcome to Babylon 5."  This line was edited out later.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  As it happens, as soon as I finish the two-parter, this
+	week, the next script will  get a lot more into Lyta and the
+	Vorlons and all that jazz.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 It came out pretty well; it's exceeded by Shadow Dancing, 
+	Z'ha'dum and Rock, but it ain't bad.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 Re: "Walkabout," thanks...of the final 5, it's not at the top,
+	but it ain't bad.  If you happen to be out of the house this coming
+	Thursday, and miss "Grey 17 is Missing," you miss a little, but not a
+	lot.  It's okay.  But the ones after that are just *killer*.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 Was this supposed to come before "War Without
+	End?"
      
+	Correct.  Initially we'd wanted to put Walkabout in first, but
+	that would have meant airing only WWE1 in that sweeps period, and
+	having to wait until the fall for part 2, which seemed not only
+	excessive but remarkably stupid.  So we reversed the shooting/airing
+	order to accommodate that, and the fact that we knew we'd need a LOT of
+	EFX in WWE1, and this would give us time to do it properly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 Will the order be corrected when TNT airs the
+	series?
      
+	Not really, because it doesn't make *that* much difference to
+	risk confusing them about it....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844882197 About
+	Patricia Tallman's misspelled name
      
+	WHAT?!?!
+
+	
      
+	Are you sure?  We changed it on my copies here.....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844882197 (slow burn)
+
+	
      
+	We delivered a corrected print ages ago.
+
+	
      
+	Someone gon' DIE.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's fair to say that Lyta has been...aided, slightly, in
+	her abilities. But I'm not ready to pull the trigger on that one for a
+	while yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The new Vorlon arrives in Walkabout.
+
+
      
+   
    • Is the new ambassador the same as Kosh?
      
+	Actually, no, the replacement isn't Kosh, as you say, it's
+	another Vorlon, with a very different personality...the "we are all
+	Kosh" is more of a conceptual thing....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 I'd say this Kosh has a bit more of an edge to him....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 Will we ever find out what was written on the side
+	of Kosh's ship?
      
+	What, do I look like someone who can speak Vorlon?  Oh, sure, a few
+	words, mainly "Where is the bathroom" and "What's that smell?" but to
+	translate something like that...pfsh, please.
+
+	
      
+	(Answer: probably not.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865960802 What did the ship say?
      
+	"Welcome to Hawaii."
+
+	
      
+	There was apparently a hideous malfunction...they never talked
+	about it thereafter....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin isn't gone from the show; he's in the very next
+	episode, in a major way, and has a big part in "Shadow Dancing."  He
+	just has a lot to work out right now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844912488 "When is walkabout a legitimate choice, and when is it
+	a cop-out?"
+
+	
      
+	When you're more afraid of what you're running *to* than what you're
+	running *from*.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's not widely known -- I guess
+	mainly
+	because I haven't ever mentioned it much -- but from time to time I've
+	written songs. Mainly the lyrics; I know how the music should sound,
+	but I'm incapable of reading music...I think it's the same mental
+	glitch that hits me when I try to do certain kinds of math.  "X is a
+	numerical value." "No, X is a letter, 7 is a numerical value."  I can't
+	ever seem to make the one equal the other in my head.  Similarly, a
+	black note on a piece of paper isn't the music...anyway, it's a
+	glitch.)
+
+	
      
+	So when I write songs, and I have a specific melody I'm hearing
+	in my head, I'm invariably placed in the humiliating position (since I
+	can't play a musical instrument) of humming it, or somehow trying to
+	suggest it to the music-person.  Suffice to say it looks really goofy
+	and stupid.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway...despite this, I do sometimes write songs, and like to
+	keep my hand in, as they say.  I did two songs for an ABC-TV prime-time
+	Real Ghostbusters special, did a few songs that have been recorded by
+	small groups (you've never heard of any of them, trust me), another
+	song that, much to my chagrin, is apparently still being used in church
+	songbooks (and that's all I will ever say about that)...and when I
+	decided to do a show with a singer for B5, I wrote a couple of songs
+	for that one, with Chris Franke providing the music.
+
+	
      
+	They're bluesy, Billie Holliday kinds of songs, updated
+	slightly. I'm actually very pleased with how they came out (Erica
+	Gimpel, one of the cast members from Fame, plays the part and sings the
+	songs).  Several folks around here want either or both songs to come
+	out on the next B5 album, but I"m loathe to do so, on the theory that
+	the soundtracks work better in the style we've already used, all
+	instrumental.  (There've even been some inquiries from music people
+	who've heard the songs about releasing them commercially, but that
+	would mean adding about 30 seconds to each song to make them airplay 
+	compatible, and I'm not sure I want to take on the extra hassle just
+	now.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who did the music?
      
+	I wrote the lyrics, Chris Franke did the music.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 Are the songs linked to elements of the
+	story?
      
+	Not coincidences, no, but not quite as tightly linked as you suggest.
+	Thematically indicative more than anything that points to story specific
+	elements.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 I figured it might be cool to continue the song over the
+	credits.  That happens one more time this season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844881146 Here's what I think is a bit of cultural short-sightedness.
+	Everybody keeps saying, "well, if they had that kind of music,
+	shouldn't it have been shown to be an oldies bar or something?"
+
+	
      
+	Look at classical music for a moment.  Goes back to Beethoven,
+	Brahms, Bach and lots of composers whose names don't even begin with
+	B.  And earlier.  Now, I don't mean to alarm anyone or startle anyone
+	with this revelation, but classical music is *still being written and
+	performed* hundreds of years later.  Not old stuff, new stuff, of
+	that school and in that style.  The orchestral suites in the Star
+	Wars movies are strongly based on classical compositions...is that
+	"oldies" stuff?  You've got one of the longest running musical plays
+	running now in London, in "Phantom of the Opera," a *new* composition
+	(well, mostly, knowing how Webber works).
+
+	
      
+	Jazz and blues kinda formally began in the 1920s and 1930s, but its
+	roots run back to spirituals and african-american music in the
+	1800s.  And it didn't just stop suddenly in the 1930s.  There's still
+	new material being written in that style now; so should Stevie Ray
+	Vaughn's albums or performances have been labeled "oldies?"  After
+	all, it's sixty years later and more.
+
+	
      
+	Certain musical styles will stay with us for a long, long time.  Not
+	performances based on old stuff, but new material in that vein, for
+	those forms that have shown themselves to be enduring.  200 years
+	from now, in addition to other forms, you're still going to have
+	original blues songs, original classical compositions, original jazz,
+	original compositions in the style of gregorian chants, on and on and
+	on.
+
+	
      
+	It's odd when people try to apply illogical rules to the future that
+	don't apply now; no one said, as noted, that a Stevie Ray Vaughn
+	concert should be billed as an "oldies" event, or an oldies
+	bar...even though it's over half a century since serious blues
+	started going...it's just silly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844028242 Vorlon ships come out backwards when possible to help
+	decelerate.
+
+	
      
+	Pat has interesting eyes...they're slightly larger than is the norm, and
+	they take some getting used to.  Those eyes are one of the things that
+	beckoned to me to cast her...they're the eyes of a telepath, who sees
+	more than should be seen.  They're terrific eyes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  So, were the shadows following Lyta, or were they an image on the
+	wall?
      
+	They weren't following Lyta.  We were in Kosh's old quarters, and those
+	images were burned into the wall when Kosh died.  Bear in mind that she
+	doesn't actually meet the new ambassador until the next scene.
+	
+	
      
+	It was the same effect you would get in a massive energy burst that
+	"paints" shadows on the wall, which only he could see.
+	
+	
      
+	Those are two different scenes; the first one takes place in Kosh's
+	quarters, the second one out in the hallway.  Perhaps that could've been
+	made clearer....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 Garibaldi said he went over Kosh's quarters with a
+	fine-toothed comb.  How'd he miss the image?
      
+	Watch the scene again; the first time the new Vorlon looks at the wall,
+	he sees nothing; the next time he looks at it, the lens wide open, the
+	image is somewhat distorted around the edges, and now he's seeing the
+	afterflash.  Only certain types can see it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is there significance to the different eye-piece colors
+	of the two Koshes? Why no one would suspect Kosh suddenly
+	having a different encounter suit?
      
+	No signicance to the eyepiece color; no reason to assume Vorlons only
+	have one encounter suit their entire life.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 Actually, the new Vorlon's encounter suit is more
+	purple/red than green.  The design is a matter of form following
+	function.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On differences between the two Koshes:
      
+	They're not that far apart in age, but yes, Kosh would be a bit
+	older.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The look of the new Vorlon was developed by John Vulich of Optic Nerve
+	based on my suggestions.  I got in after a bit and redesigned/sketched
+	the headpiece a bit, and recommended the colors used.  We're actually
+	doing a bit of fine-tuning on the new Vorlon prior to next season.
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844880143 Re: the new Kosh...yeah, the look is intentional.  I
+	worked with Optic Nerve to get the new lines right, messed with their
+	sketches until I had what I wanted.  It's very effective in some lights,
+	less so in others, but the sense comes across.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889494600 Is the new Kosh really Ulkesh from the novel
+	"To Dream in the City of Sorrows?"
+	
      
+	The new Vorlon was Ulkesh, yes...the Kosh thing was meant in a
+	Vorlon philosophical sense.  They ain't wired up like the rest of us.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 Sheridan commands the Army of Light, Delenn as second.
+	If the AOL speaks with one voice on something of importance, they have
+	to be listened to.  When Sheridan put himself on the front lines, he was
+	then taking on the role of soldier, not commander.  They also felt it
+	risked leaving them without said commander if it went wrong.
+
+	
      
+	Bear in mind that their orders in *no* way compromised his actual
+	mission, or over-rode his decision.  They were sending along a secondary
+	mission to keep an eye on the primary mission.  I don't see a conflict
+	here.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 Just some comparisons to illustrate...during
+	WW II, the head of naval operations for the Japanese fleet insisted
+	on being on board during several of their more pivotal missions.  His
+	subordinates insisted that additional ships be sent as escorts given
+	his importance to war strategy.  That's a very rigid military
+	structure, but when *all* the subordinates get together on something,
+	to go against it causes more problems than it's worth.
+
+	
      
+	Even within the context of a conventional military situation, there's
+	flexibility.  If a commanding officer gives an order which is
+	immoral, illegal, or against the rules of engagement, a subordinate
+	can refuse to implement that order, even give a countermanding order
+	which, depending on the situation (such as a nuclear missile firing)
+	would take precedence over the CO's order (though you'd first have to
+	relieve the CO of command, and if you do that, you'd darned well
+	better be prepared to back it up with every legal and moral means at
+	your disposal, or it's mutiny).  Heck, it was just this kind of
+	dilemma that was at the core of the movie "Crimson Tide," and was
+	brought up in the recent war crime trials going on investigating what
+	happened in Bosnia, with a soldier being asked why he didn't refuse
+	to carry out an order to kill civilians.
+
+	
      
+	Ain't a lot of black-and-whites in the world, but a whole lotta
+	greys.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 There's nothing dangerous at all about a fleet coming out of
+	hyperspace or a jump point together.
+
+
      
+   
    • The UK cut Lyta's line from the Shadow battle, "Burn, you
+	bastards!"
      
+	They cut that?  How curious...I didn't know that.  From what I'd seen of
+	British TV, some shows use the word bastard like I use a comma, they're
+	ubiquitous....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 Why not use Bester in the test?
      
+	Because Bester is on Earth or Mars, can't just drop everything and come
+	when beckoned, and it would take 3 days to get there, and they were in
+	kind of a hurry to test this.  Besides, P10s are very few and far
+	between; they're more likely to have lower levels as their main weapons,
+	so best to see what impact those will have.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844882375 The fragmentation or fractionalizing is also
+	visually cued by the last shot of Franklin through the window, split
+	into many versions of himself.
+
+	
      
+	Re: the hand-on-shoulder gesture, from Marcus it was an
+	upbraiding, stop-him motion, whereas from Sheridan it was one of
+	congratulation.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845974618 It's imagery, yes, of his still being fractured, still
+	looking to find himself, as it were.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 Why isn't Sheridan setting up propaganda to help
+	turn the Shadows' allies, such as Earth, against them?
      
+	There's really no need for propgaganda.  By about now, everybody out 
+	in this part of space knows the situation...and what's going on back
+	home is secondary to winning the war.  Also, you can be sure that if
+	they set up a network -- and who has time in the middle of a war -- you
+	can be sure Earth would find some way to jam it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 You're the leader of an isolated space station with a
+	quarter million inhabitants, who need air, food, supplies, space,
+	support.  You no longer have ties to Earth, no support from there, no
+	money, so you have to rely on whatever docking fees you can get from
+	other worlds.  You're in the midst of a war in which you have few
+	resources, little money, allies that have a tendency to turn on one
+	another, nobody's giving you a break, your position is tenuous as
+	hell, you're constantly undermanned, shorthanded....
+
+	
      
+	Now you tell me where the heck you're going to get the time,
+	resources, money and manpower to launch a propaganda operation, which
+	if you're going to broadcast (and what's the point otherwise?) on an
+	interstellar basis is going to require extensive and expensive
+	facilities, broadcast repeaters, tacyhon carrier wave generators to
+	get around the time-delay aspects, writers, directors, broadcast
+	engineers, spokespersons, propaganda specialists, psychologists,
+	technicians, camera equipment, space in which to PUT all of this
+	stuff...on and on and on.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 The Minbari could help with the propaganda.
      
+	For starters, having just had a MAJOR WAR with the Minbari, which
+	nearly wiped out Earth, and many folks back home *hating* the
+	Minbari...do you think for one second that they're going to believe a
+	word of what the Minbari say to them?  Do you think the government
+	would allow this to go through unjammed?  Hell, EarthGov would have a
+	field day with this..."See?  It's all alien propaganda, just like we
+	told you, they're trying to destabalize Earth."
+
+	
      
+	Second, I don't think the Minbari have the propagandists, writers,
+	directors, and others needed to put together a propaganda network,
+	and would find the whole idea immoral to begin with...and a couple of
+	paragraphs of text are meaningless...Earthgov says "it's not true,"
+	and it's your word against theirs.  That's why you must have
+	absolute, unvarnished PROOF, otherwise it blows up in your face,
+	which any journalist worth his or her salt knows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843430375 Does the Army of Light have access to any of the
+	Minbari's resources?
      
+	Yes, they do...but bear in mind that the Minbari are currently having
+	their own problems.  The Grey Council has fallen apart, the Military
+	Caste (as we'll see in one of the next episodes) is having some
+	serious doubts about how the Religious Caste is handling things, and
+	that much of the support given Earth (by way of B5) has been covert;
+	the White Star program was launched in secret, and the greater amount
+	of the Minbari population aren't aware they're so much "in bed" with
+	the humans (as it were).  As far as they're concerned, we're
+	apparently necessary to the plan, but not much more than that.  So I
+	think they wouldn't be warm to the notion of extending their services
+	overmuch to Earth.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844882375 Is the White Star more powerful than a regular Minbari
+	cruiser because of the Vorlons' involvement in its design?
      
+	The Vorlons were cooperating in the recent past, yes, and it
+	still takes a couple of Minbari cruisers under most circumstances to
+	take out an immobilized shadow vessel, though one can do it if the
+	firepower is concentrated and prolonged.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Delenn agrees to lead the Rangers, but Marcus must protect her from a 
+deadly threat. Garibaldi investigates a secret level of the station. 
+
+
+Robert Englund as Jeremiah.
+John Vickery as Neroon.
+Time Winters as Rathenn.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 6.93
+
+Production number: 319
+Original air week: September 10, 1996 (UK)
+                   October 7, 1996 (US)
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The forces of light are now actively recruiting telepaths, but it's
+	been a slow process.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi's grandmother was a police officer in Boston.  (First
+	mentioned in
+	"By Any Means Necessary.")
+
+   
    •  Valen originally set up the Rangers 1000 years ago, under the
+	control of the Warrior Caste, but they have been inactive until
+	recently.
+
+   
    •  Grey Sector in B5 is mainly comprised of industrial units.
+
+   
    •  No Minbari has killed another Minbari in 1000 years.
+
+   
    •  Delenn's father died ("passed beyond the veil") 10 years ago because he
+	was heartbroken about the Earth-Minbari war. Delenn's mother entered
+	the Sisters of Valeria.
+
+   
    • @@@845319895 The security forces on B5 use PPGs rather than bullets
+	because bullets run the risk of puncturing the station's hull.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  What will be the limits of Ivanova's promise to Franklin?
+   
    •  How will being chosen as leader of the Rangers change Delenn?
+   
    •  Is Neroon right in suggesting Delenn is taking over control of Minbar?
+   
    •  Who or what was responsible for an entire level of Grey sector being
+	lost from the view of the B5 residents?
+   
    •  What will happen to Grey 17 and the people there?
+   
    •  What will the future relationship be between the Warrior Caste and the
+	Rangers?
+   
    •  Was Kosh present at the ceremony? If not, why not?
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Tension among the Minbari castes is increasing.
+	Some members of the warrior caste think Delenn is a religious zealot
+	who is trying to grab hold of military and political power. The warrior
+	caste is unhappy about the religious caste building warships without
+	telling them; believes the Rangers should be commanded by one of them,
+	now that Sinclair has left; and is unhappy about non-Minbari being
+	trained with Minbari in the Rangers. However, Neroon's experience with
+	Marcus may change some of these perceptions.
+
+   
    •  Delenn's mother joined the Sisters of Valeria. Valeria is also the
+	being that Minbari who were present at Kosh's appearance in the garden
+	("The Fall of Night")
+	claimed to have seen. Is this just a coincidence, or is there a deeper
+	relationship?
+
+   
    • @@@845316165 Jeremiah's group must have contained some highly skilled
+	computer hackers.  Getting the lifts to pass by their level would be
+	the least of their troubles; since the station spins to simulate
+	gravity, lower levels have greater apparent gravity.  Everyone below
+	their level would be expecting slightly lower gravity than they'd
+	actually experience.  Perhaps the difference would be too slight to
+	alert people in a residential sector, but presumably industrial
+	operations would be affected if gravity was off by a few percent.
+
+   
    • @@@845318928 Jeremiah clearly knew about Minbari religion, given
+	the similarity of his view of the universe and Delenn's
+	("Passing Through Gethsemane.")
+	Yet in that episode, Brother Edward clearly hadn't learned about
+	Minbari beliefs, implying that the Minbari aren't generally open
+	or forthcoming about them.  How did Jeremiah learn about Minbari
+	religion?
+
+   
    • @@@845319402 Garibaldi's makeshift gun couldn't have worked as
+	shown.  Even if the steam were enough to detonate the gunpowder in
+	one of the bullets, the first one to go off would almost certainly
+	have been the one closest to the back of the pipe, where the heat was
+	greatest; all the bullets would have been propelled out the pipe
+	at once, and probably at low speed.
+
+   
    • @@@845319850 Franklin's backup file on the underground railroad
+	is code-named "Harriet."  This is probably a reference to Harriet
+	Tubman, an escaped slave who was instrumental in running the original
+	underground railroad in the United States.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@845621030 Sinclair's belongings include a medal for fighting on the
+	Battle of the Line, his identicard, an Earthforce insignia,
+	and the Ranger brooch.
+
+   
    • @@@857686152 When Garibaldi falls unconscious,
+	the surrounding rubble
+	includes, among other things, a newspaper with the headline "Santiago
+	Elected."  That may indicate the amount of time the cult spent
+	sequestered in Grey 17; Santiago's re-election took place three
+	years earlier
+	("Midnight on the Firing Line.")
+	It's unlikely the paper dates from Santiago's original election;
+	unless his previous term was less than a few years, the previous
+	election would have happened long before Babylon 5 was constructed,
+	possibly even before Babylon 4 vanished in 2254.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi has a big role in "Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Lennier will be getting some more screen time shortly,
+	in the next batch of episodes.  (There's some very nice stuff with him
+	and both Delenn and Marcus in "Grey 17 Is Missing.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  You'll hear about Delenn's parents in
+	"Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Jeremiah thread was
+	one of those things that looks great on paper, but when you get it into
+	a camera...I dunno, it's one of those weirdnesses that happens in
+	television.  Sometimes you've got what you think is an average script
+	and it just roars to life on-camera, and something that looks great on
+	paper, but in real life...ehh...I'm happy with all the other stuff in
+	the episode, but the Jeremiah thread didn't come off as it should've.
+
+	
      
+	I think in part it's also my fault, in that my brain was gearing up for
+	the stuff that begins ramping up starting with the next episode, and the
+	Grey 17 thing was something I'd wanted to do for a long time, and there
+	wasn't going to be a chance to do it down the road, if at all, after
+	this season, so I went for it.  As for the Zarg, that's also one of
+	those things that didn't come off visually as I'd wanted.  So overall,
+	I'd agree...of all the season 3 eps, this one is probably the least
+	effective of them all.  But one in a season, that ain't too bad....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844797477 Why did you write all the episodes this
+	season?
      
+	"Was there some incident that we don't know about? It seems to me that
+	there must have been. "
+
+	
      
+	Nope.  No incident.  The situation with year 3 was that *so much* was
+	being paid off, and set up, and foreshadowed, and required such intimate
+	knowledge of where the show was going, and where it'd been, that it made
+	it nearly impossible to bring in any outside writers.  
+
+	
      
+	There has never been any series in television history where every
+	episode was utterly beyond criticism.  Some are better, some are
+	worse, some are average.  There are many Twilight Zones by Rod
+	Serling that are utterly brilliant.  And some that just fall flat.
+	That's the nature of the beast.  Sometimes something will look great
+	on the page, and fall flat on the stage.  (And sometimes it happens
+	in reverse; you think you've got something that won't work, and
+	somehow the filmed version just takes off.) There's a lot about
+	Walkabout I like; and there's some stuff that just didn't work out.
+	You try something different here and there, and sometimes it works,
+	and sometimes it don't.  TV, or any form of writing, is the constant
+	process of trial and error.  It's not like one day you forget how to
+	write, or you're writing bad...you very rarely fall below a certain
+	facility once you reach it.
+
+	
      
+	There's not a writer alive who has turned out nothing but terrific
+	stuff.  Now, one could turn out a lifetime of mediocre stuff, by not
+	trying...but I think it's better to shoot high, and sometimes fall,
+	knowing that you'll get something great one out of every five tries,
+	than not try at all and just do okay.
+
+	
      
+	"Grey 17" is the same thing, for me.  There are bits in that I like a
+	lot.  And some parts of it just fell down dreadfully.  That's simply
+	the nature of the beast.  I thought I'd try something different in
+	the tone of "Grey" and while most of the writing works (mostly), the
+	production fell down on a couple of aspects.  It happens.  It doesn't
+	mean anything.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, the following 3, "Rock," "Shadow" and "Z'ha'dum"
+	are some of the best stuff we've done.  The preliminary P5 survey has
+	"Z'ha'dum" as the best episode of the entire series to date.  Did I
+	suddenly learn to write better?  If there were a problem with being
+	tired, then by all rights you should see a descending order in
+	quality.  But these last 3 are some of our best work.
+
+	
      
+	The real key here is something I heard someone say a while back about
+	TV:  a flaw, or a flop, or a misstep happens by accident as often as
+	by inability; but real quality is never an accident.  So the latter
+	is more indicative of the level of the show than the former, since
+	accidents or missteps *always* happen.
+
+	
      
+	"Walkabout," for me, is a good episode with a very few clunky parts;
+	for me, it's a middle of the road episode.  "Grey" falls a bit short
+	of that, for me.  But then, I'm very hard on my shows; a lot of folks
+	have liked "Walkabout" a *lot*.  I didn't much like "Infection," but
+	many did; and some shows I love dearly, like "Geometry," don't catch
+	on.  It's subjective.  And where you say the battle falls short,
+	others like it...so on one level, I'd caution against applying your
+	standard as an objective one that is somehow more true than another,
+	and thus asking "what's wrong with *you* that I had this opinion?"
+	If everyone on the planet shares that opinion, then you've got
+	something.  Otherwise....
+
+	
      
+	And there are always some people who don't want the character stuff
+	at all, they want battles...and some for whom the CGI is of secondary
+	interest to the plot...and those who want arc stories *only*...and
+	those who like the stand-alones.  Some of it is a function of what
+	you want.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway...point being, and I went around the barn a few times to get
+	there, no, there's no "incident" and I don't even know what this
+	could refer to.  Some episodes work better for some people than
+	others.  That will happen whether you've got 1 person or 50 people
+	writing scripts.  I caught a lot of *very* negative comments on Peter
+	David's script, which you cite (as well as many positive ones).  The
+	Brits in particular seem to uniformly dislike that one.  And in the
+	P5 surveys, the freelance scripts are *all* in the bottom third of
+	the rankings.  So it's really not a question of freelancers or no,
+	it's just that TV is variable, as is any kind of writing.  Not every
+	episode is going to work for you.  Nor should you expect it to.  I'm
+	very much an X-Files fan...but there are some scripts that work
+	better for me than others.  Doesn't mean anything other than that
+	show didn't quite jell for me.  That's the nature of TV.
+
+	
      
+	I'm sure somebody will cite this as being defensive about it, but
+	honest and true, I'm not.  I'm just trying to explain it from this
+	end of things.  My prior exec producer said, "You're doing *real*
+	good if, in a season, you've got one-third that are pretty good,
+	one-third that are okay, and one-third you never want to see again
+	the rest of your natural life."  I think we do a heck of a lot better
+	than that, and that's a heck of an accomplishment.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844381513 I think it's about 3/4ths of a good episode.  Where it
+	falls down, for me, is the Zarg...I just have this constant desire to
+	go to everyone's house and personally apologize....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844393625 How did they sneak the Zarg onto the station?
      
+	There was a line about slipping the egg into the station...don't
+	remember now if it made it through the edit or not.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852231693 Entil-Zha, whoever that is at the time, is for all intents
+	and purposes the One for the Rangers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does Neroon's revelation at the end of the episode mean that
+	the warrior caste is now more willing to fight beside the religious 
+	caste?
      
+	I think he's closer to an understanding, but we'll see if the others all
+	feel the same way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852231693 Why did Sinclair/Valen leave the warrior caste in
+	charge of the Rangers, if they aren't involved in the war?
      
+	Because *at the time* the Warrior Caste *was* involved, and it
+	would've been a slap to them to do so.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Do Minbari beliefs have some bearing on the true nature of the B5
+	storyline?
      
+	It has some bearing, in a way, but more in a thematic than literal
+	sense.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Delenn's visit to the city as a child deeply important, since
+	she only saw her mother twice?
      
+	You're right that it was a big deal to them, but it doesn't really
+	center in the story much, so I don't know if it'll ever be explored.
+	It's just background detail at this point.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happened to Delenn's father?
      
+	He croaked.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844393738 Were the people in Grey 17 there by choice?
      
+	Depends on your definition, but basically, they were there as
+	part of this cult...but any good cult leader knows you should make it
+	just a *bit* hard for them to get out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845974766 It's Harriet for Harriet Tubman, who ran the slave
+	underground railroad around the time of the Civil War.
+
+	
      
+	And no matter how much Ivanvoa trains, she'll never be much
+	past a P1, and that's more or less useless to them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845974896 So her ability is never going to factor into the
+	story?
      
+	Only if one assumes everything applies only to the Shadow war.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Londo uses G'Kar and Vir to gain power in the
+Centauri Royal Court.  Sheridan is consumed by his analysis of the Shadows'
+strategies.
+
+Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
+William Forward as Lord Refa.
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.71
+
+Production number: 320
+Original air week: September 8, 1996 (UK)
+		   October 14, 1996 (US)
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Minbari have been constructing a fleet of warships based on the
+	White Star design.  They are manned by Rangers.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan has stayed away from Delenn up until now because "she has
+	enough problems of her own."
+
+   
    •  There is a thriving underground on Earth opposing President Clark.
+
+   
    •  Na'Toth is believed to have been on Narn at the time of the Centauri
+	attack
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  What does the countdown to Z refer to?
+	(See Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Why didn't Delenn inform Sheridan of the fleet of White Star-class
+	ships before now?
+
+   
    •  How long have the Minbari been building the ships?
+
+   
    •  How big is the White Star fleet?
+
+   
    •  What will Sheridan use the data crystal given to him by the Reverend
+	for?
+
+   
    •  Will Virini use the data crystal that Londo gave him? Will it result
+	in Refa's family being discredited?
+
+   
    •  Will G'Kar respect Londo more now that he has freed the Narns,
+	or does he see Londo's ploy as purely self-serving?
+
+   
    • @@@845932780 How did Londo get G'Kar to listen to him long enough to
+	describe the plot, and how did he convince G'Kar it wasn't a trick?
+
+   
    • @@@845932842 Virini mentions that Londo's house is gathering a lot
+	of funds.  Where is Londo getting the money?
+
+   
    • @@@845972766 Did Refa's telepath find out about any of the activities
+	Vir has been involved in, such as his work to help the Narn?
+
+   
    •  What is the real reason for the Shadows' attack pattern?
+
+   
    •  Is Na'Toth in fact still alive?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  It seems likely that the "Z Minus..." times refer to Z'ha'dum,
+	but they might also refer to a more specific "Zero Hour." The
+	question remains, what happens at Z? A Shadow offensive?
+	An offensive against Z'ha'dum?  Someone's arrival on or from
+	Z'ha'dum?
+
+   
    •  G'Kar, in cooperating with Londo and
+	killing Refa, has become an unwitting help to Londo in serving the
+	Shadows. His desire for revenge against Refa and his need to save a
+	small number of his people seems to have served the Shadows' greater
+	purposes, at least to the extent that Londo's good fortune is part
+	of their plans.
+
+   
    • @@@846748219 G'Kar may have been in on Londo's plan even before he
+	left Babylon 5, possibly even before Vir spoke to him.  The story about
+	Na'Toth
+	was solely intended to lure Refa to Narn; there was no need for Londo
+	to deceive G'Kar about his intentions, since G'Kar would almost
+	certainly have been willing to risk a trip to Narn for the sake of
+	two thousand prisoners.
+
+   
    •  If the already-poisoned Refa could be considered "one who is
+	already dead," Londo may have just passed by one of his prophesized
+	chances for redemption.
+
+   
    •  Neroon's statement in "Grey 17 is Missing" that non-Warrior
+	Minbari had constructed ships may have been foreshadowing of
+	the fleet revelation.
+
+   
    • @@@846749879 Why did Delenn find Sheridan's attempt to think like
+	the Shadows so abhorrent?  Are there things about them she knows
+	but hasn't revealed yet that would cause that reaction?
+
+   
    • @@@846746161 Delenn said that the first wave of White Star-class ships
+	was now ready.  How many waves are planned?
+
+   
    • @@@846747247 Now that Londo thinks he has avenged Adira's death
+	("Interludes and Examinations")
+	will he be less eager to continue dealing with the Shadows?  And will
+	he ever discover that it was Morden, not Refa, who arranged to have
+	her killed?
+
+   
    • @@@846891016 A few readers have commented that since a replica of the
+	Centauri throne room is being built on Narn, perhaps that's where
+	Sheridan's flashforward
+	("War Without End, Part Two")
+	takes place.  That's unlikely, though, since Londo forces Sheridan
+	to look out the window and see the devastated landscape of Centauri
+	Prime.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The
+	song
+	from which the title is derived, "No Hiding Place," refers to the
+	Book of Revelation, in which man attempts to hide from the wrath
+	of God in mountains and rocks.
+	Revelation 6:15-17.
+
+   
    • @@@904014086 During Refa's death scene,
+	as the vocalist sings, there's a closeup of G'Kar just as she
+	sings the name "Jesus."  G'Kar-as-Jesus allusions are found elsewhere
+	in the series as well, but this may be the most direct one.
+
+   
    •  The mass driver attack affected the climate of Narn much as
+	it's theorized a nuclear winter or asteroid/comet strike would
+	affect Earth: the particles thrown up by the asteroids used in the
+	bombardment have created a layer in Narn's atmosphere blocking out
+	the sunlight and altering the heating of the atmosphere,
+	which has disrupted the wind patterns on the planet.
+
+   
    • @@@846006824 Refa's death scene may be a homage to "Cabaret," one of
+	JMS' favorite films.  See
+	jms speaks.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Where does the title come from?
      
+	It's from an old gospel song/spiritual.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Did Harlan Ellison suggest it?
      
+	No, as a rule, Harlan doesn't suggest titles; "Rock" came from the 
+	quote from the Bible, which was later made into a gospel song, used in
+	the show.  So it's a real song, though I did write 2 for "Walkabout."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865189277 Why's it called that?  Because it's quite appropos.
+	How do we fit it? Not a big deal.  Longest title up to now was one I did
+	for MURDER, SHE WROTE, a quote from Moby Dick, "To The Last Shall I
+	Grapple With Thee."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 The song in "Rock" is an old gospel song.  I've always
+	had a soft spot
+	for old gospel songs and spirituals because of their wonderful use of
+	language and imagery, and you can dance to 'em.  Not that I dance, but
+	the theory is there, at least.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844403652 My own take on "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place,"
+	which airs tomorrow in the UK...I like it.  The Brother Theo stuff is a
+	tad stilted in a couple of places, but it's only a couple of minutes,
+	and the rest works real well.  It's a very subversive episode in its
+	way, and a part of it still creeps me out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 I like symmetry...both as a word, and as a concept.
+	It plays into the show a lot, showing the balance that the universe
+	tends to impose whether we like it or not.  What goes around, comes
+	around.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864607027 Some of the Narn buildings looked like Hiroshima after
+	the atomic bomb.  Intentional?
      
+	Yes, there was some element of that.  It's not a moral judgment thing,
+	but a referential point.  As for Narn architecture overall, I told them
+	I wanted sort of an alien culture as the Soviet Union might've designed
+	it....  everything tending toward the blocky, the functional, less
+	aesthetic than you would find on Minbar.  This is a culture that has
+	crawled up from war, and functionality is more important.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Was there a Narn standing in the queue of
+	telepaths?
      
+	Not in the queue, but providing security within the station... remember,
+	many of the Narns have joined B5 security.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 We're generally very careful about what aliens show up
+	in what scenes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Was the fact that the countdown started at
+	14 days an intentional reference to the season finale being two
+	weeks later?
      
+	Somewhat intentional; in the long run, the show will end up either 
+	aired daily, or stripped weekly, so either way the 14 days until climax 
+	works well, as it does now for the UK.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 The countdown aspect does add a lot to this, gives it a
+	forward momentum and a kind of subliminal ominousness.  And as for the
+	Refa situation presented in counterpoint...I love how that came out. 
+	It's almost subversive in a way...just gives me the quiet chills.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845932780 Re: the rabbi singing the gospel song...a couple of
+	points.  First, if you're visiting someone's church, it's only
+	considered polite behavior to go along with what's there.  I have a
+	number of Catholic friends who would sometimes go to temple with Jewish
+	friends...and when it came time to sing, would do so.  Why should it
+	not work the other way around?
+
+	
      
+	Second, as I seem to recall, the line about "no hiding place" is taken
+	from the Old Testament, which forms a substantial portion of Judaic
+	teachings (but not the whole of it, a mistake many make).  Yes, there's
+	some later stuff worked in, but the heart of it is from a common ground.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845932780 Waitaminnit...I retract part two of my reply...I think I
+	just stooged the origins of that song.
+
+	
      
+	(whaddyawant from me, I just spent 12 hours putting my hard drive back
+	together....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the juxtaposition of Refa's fate with the song
      
+	It's comical...and it ain't comical...it's designed to elicit
+	conflicting emotions, between what you *are* feeling, what you *should*
+	be feeling, and so on.  I like uneasy laughter....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 That was one of those scenes which, when you do it,
+	you know it's gonna stay around for a while....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 When I thought of that one, I just sat there and
+	grinned.  It's so perverse, but yet so appropriate, all at the same
+	time.  Just to further add a bit of creepiness to it, in the sound mix I
+	had the editors verb up the music toward the fade out, so it had a
+	slightly distorted edge to it.  The details are everything in a scene
+	like that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845974553 Vir has to be *very* careful...he's on the razor's edge
+	these days.  The higher up you go, the more you know, the higher the
+	stakes and the greater the risk of choosing badly.
+
+	
      
+	Re: "funny yet chilling," those are the scenes I love most...the
+	ones where you're utterly conflicted, it's grotesque or frightening on
+	the one hand, and comic or absurd on the other.  It leaves you
+	uncertain which way to jump emotionally, and I love that
+	feeling...caught betwixt and between.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846006824 Originally in response to
+	"Severed Dreams."
+	"Cabaret" is one of JMS' favorite movies.
      
+	In a sense, it's going from one emotion or thematic
+	element to a very different, but equally strong one, either as bookends
+	or through intercutting. Going from the high of the victory, to the
+	sudden shot of the dead troops, is thematic counterpoint.
+
+	
      
+	Here's another...in "Cabaret" you've got a scene where the
+	performers in the Cabaret are doing the sort of German dance where you
+	slap your knees and thighs and chest...and they take it a bit further,
+	slapping one another, it's all for comic effect...but during this,
+	you're intercutting the owner of the cabaret being beaten to within an
+	inch of his life by some Brownshirts outside.  You go from comic to
+	brutal and back, with the result that the happy little dance suddenly
+	takes on ugly characteristics, and the beating takes on the sense that
+	the participants are having a sick kind of fun, that it's all just
+	another kind of dance, a ritual.
+
+	
      
+	That's what you have to look at as a writer...how this scene
+	works, and how it interacts with the scenes in front, behind and
+	"beside" it (for things happening simultaneously).  Sometimes, with the
+	proper counterpoint, you can add whole new levels of meaning to a
+	scene, or make the scene much stronger than it would've been on its
+	own.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846748723 That was an elaborate scheme if the goal was simply
+	to have Refa killed.
      
+	Londo points out that he could easily
+	have killed Refa elsewhere...as he says, the point was to do it on Narn
+	so that he could dishonor his house back home.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Was William Forward the one who said, "Why me?" as
+	mentioned in one of your Usenet messages?
      
+	Yes, it was with the actor who plays Refa that I had that conversation.
+	He was initially bummed out, figured I was doing what I was doing in
+	"Rock" because I wasn't happy with his performance or something. So I
+	pulled him aside and explained the situation, and indicated that we'd
+	likely use him again as an alien character, under prosthetics.  If he
+	hadn't done such a good job, this wouldn't have happened, because no one
+	would've cared about the character.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 You said a major character would die in season 3.
+	Refa wasn't major.
      
+	Well, given that Refa has been around for two years, and Keffer was 
+	only in a few in one season, I'd hardly put them in the same league. 
+	Part of all this is how you define "major."  Usually, I've refrained
+	from using that term...I would say someone you've seen since the first
+	year, for instance, or an important character.
+
+	
      
+	Certainly I was primarily referring to Kosh in my original note about
+	all this...but a lot of folks took that and extended it past that point,
+	which I just let go rather than correct, because the show should do any
+	correcting.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 I think the message of mine you're referring to are the
+	ones I wrote with Kosh in mind, not Refa.  But since I obviously
+	couldn't say that at the time, some of it sloshed over into how folks
+	viewed later episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Will 500 Narns die in retaliation?
      
+	Except, of course, that going on at length about the death of Refa 
+	would require revealing what he was doing there...and I doubt very much
+	that the Royal Court would like even the suspicion that one of its own
+	was making deals with the Narns to become public knowledge...so it's
+	extremely unlikely that there would be any retribution.  This is one the
+	Centauri would prefer to sweep under the rug, I think.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845974432 Why didn't Refa's allies help him?
      
+	Bear in mind that all of Refa's people were *back on Centauri
+	Prime*. He didn't bring them with him; to send word to Centauri Prime
+	to bring them all the way out here, then on to Narn, would double the
+	time required to get there, and by then the "rescue" would've been
+	over.  That was part of Londo's scheme...he wouldn't have much time, he
+	had to get in and get out.  Refa only brought a few with him, and they
+	were needed to watch Londo and guard Vir.
+
+	
      
+	As for the Centauri back home...you proceed from the assumption
+	that all Centauri act as one.  I'm basing this somewhat on the early
+	Roman civilization and government, where one side would sell out the
+	other, arrange for deaths and murders, turn people over to their hated
+	enemies as long as it advanced their position, or if they were allied
+	with persons of power on a particular side.  Why did the Roman guards
+	escorting Tiberius (a much less worthy emperor) kill the heir to the
+	throne in "I, Claudius" (a much better leader, and well liked among the
+	military)?  Because they were told to do so.
+
+	
      
+	SF in TV has the tendency to portray aliens as monolithic...they
+	put the good of their species as a whole above everything else.  Some
+	do that; some do not.  Just as with humans.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864607027 Refa had a flashlight, not a gun.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864607027 Refa was his last name/family name.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864607027 Minister Virini looked disappointed by the
+	outcome.
      
+	Not sure it was so much a look of disappointment as..."Okay, I know
+	something here isn't on the level...but he's got it very well
+	surrounded...and is it worth sticking out my neck to get into this?"
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848346057 Why wasn't Na'Toth replaced?
      
+	I briefly considered giving G'Kar a second, after the revolving door
+	Na'Toths, but as I looked at it...as you say, the others all DO have one
+	like that, and I figured it might be good to have someone *without*
+	that...especially after the fall of Narn, when the staff would be
+	canceled.  And there's something I like about G'Kar being alone in all
+	this.  Anyway, it varies the mix a bit.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Why did G'Kar help Londo?
      
+	Well, you combine the release of 2,000 prisoners, many of whom were
+	likely resistance fighters, and the payback to one who orchestrated the 
+	bombing of Narn, and that adds up to a pretty good incentive to get Refa
+	even WITHOUT Londo's presence in the deal.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845974106 I wouldn't say they hate one another any less now than
+	before; and yes, he would've sent word to G'Kar and arranged a private
+	meeting, just the two of them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864607027 These two characters, Londo and G'Kar, are linked at
+	the hips. That is their beauty and their tragedy.  And you will see
+	some new colors to this in the first part of season 4.  This story is
+	as much about them as anyone else.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846748219 I think that if Londo sent word via the Babcom unit
+	that he wanted a one-to-one with G'Kar, and that thousands of Narn lives
+	were on the line, he would come.  G'Kar has nothing to fear from Londo
+	as long as he's on B5...and if anything, I think he'd be amused if Londo
+	did try anything.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Wayne Alexander was listed as playing G'Dan.  Which
+	one was he?
      
+	He was the Narn who first met G'Kar on their homeworld; the only one
+	with any lines.
+
+	
      
+	Wayne has a considerably larger role in year 4 as an alien named 
+	Lorien.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Why doesn't Vir leave Londo now?
      
+	I don't know if Vir really has anywhere else to go....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 John and Delenn kissing in front of a big group of
+	warships seemed a little odd.
      
+	I guess it's really a matter of perspective.  It depends on what the
+	fleet is *there* for, as well.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843940517 Why didn't Delenn mention the fleet before?
      
+	Well, as she indicates, she didn't *have* them before.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845932780 I don't think she was so much withholding the
+	information, as they just weren't ready yet, and the need for them
+	wasn't there yet.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan launches a preemptive strike against the Shadows.  Franklin
+jeopardizes his life while trying to do a good deed.
+
+
+Shirley Prestia as Barbara.
+Melissa Gilbert as Anna.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.25
+
+Production number: 321
+Original air week: September 15, 1996 (UK)
+                   October 21, 1996 (US)
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kim Friedman
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  In Minbari tradition, when two Minbari become close it is the
+	custom for the female to keep vigil at the male's side for three nights
+	while he sleeps. This is thought to reveal the male's true
+	personality, because while you're asleep, you can't keep up your guard,
+	and this helps the female decide whether the relationship should
+	continue.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  How many ships did the League worlds withhold from the battle?
+
+   
    •  How many ships were destroyed in the battle? How many people died?
+
+   
    •  Why has Anna Sheridan come to Babylon 5? Is she as much of a pawn of the
+	Shadows as Morden? (See Analysis)
+
+   
    •  How will Anna Sheridan's presence affect Sheridan's near-engagement to
+	Delenn?
+
+   
    • @@@847013324 How did Anna get into Sheridan's quarters?
+
+   
    •  Why have the Shadows not yet attacked Babylon 5?
+
+   
    •  How badly were the Shadows hurt by this battle?
+
+   
    •  Why did Sheridan keep dreaming the dream after Kosh died?  Is it
+	because of the piece of the Vorlon inside of him, and if so, is it
+	somehow guiding him?  
+
+   
    •  How did Anna know Delenn's name?  Did Morden tell her?
+
+   
    •  Were the Vorlons approached to be part of the battle fleet?
+
+   
    •  Who else might have survived the Icarus?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In this battle, it's said that for each Shadow ship that was destroyed,
+	two Army of Light ships were destroyed. This forces the question: who
+	has more ships, the Army of Light, or the Shadows? And if the Shadows
+	have as many or more, what does that bode for the coming battles of this
+	war?
+
+   
    •  It's plausible that Anna Sheridan is acting on behalf of the
+	Shadows just as Morden is.  Will Sheridan react to her
+	presence with an understanding that she's now an emissary of the
+	Shadows?
+
+   
    • @@@847042418 Delenn had a flashforward to Anna's arrival
+	("War Without End, Part Two.")
+	Why, then,
+	was she surprised to see Anna?  Perhaps she didn't expect it to happen
+	that night.  It's also true that Anna didn't identify herself in
+	Delenn's flash, so perhaps Delenn didn't get as complete a view of the
+	future as Sheridan (and earlier, Garibaldi and Sinclair) did.
+
+   
    •  This episode resolves, at least initially,  most of Sheridan's dream
+	from
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+	Sheridan is "the hand," one half of a pair of opposing forces. He wears
+	the Psi Corps badge to signify their alliance with Bester, and his
+	position as someone in charge of large numbers of telepaths. Ivanova's
+	statement, "Do you know who I am?" refers to her latent telepathic
+	ability
+	("Divided Loyalties.")
+	However, it's still not clear who the "man in between" is.  It's also
+	not clear whether Sheridan's analysis, even with the help of Delenn
+	and Ivanova, is actually correct.
+
+   
    •  Perhaps Anna Sheridan is the "man in between" from Sheridan's dream,
+	despite the personal pronoun problems. Or perhaps she's an envoy of that
+	man.
+
+   
    • @@@846747133 "The man in between" implies someone on the other side.
+	Who might that be?
+
+   
    • @@@846745949 Sheridan openly talked about Ivanova's latent telepathy
+	in front of Delenn.  Does Ivanova no longer consider it such a secret,
+	now that she's presumably beyond the reach of the Psi Corps?  Or does
+	Sheridan simply trust Delenn so much that it didn't occur to him he
+	might be violating Ivanova's trust?
+
+   
    • @@@846746028 Who is the third spotlight on the Minbari flagship meant
+	for?  Most likely it's simply a result of the Minbari doing everything
+	in threes.  Sheridan and Delenn gave orders from more than one place
+	in the tactical center, so it's probably not a matter of the lights
+	denoting different functions.
+
+   
    • @@@865734490 Garibaldi's empathy for Franklin, to the point of waiting
+	next to Franklin's bed, is likely due at least in part to Garibaldi's
+	own experience with substance abuse
+	("Survivors,"
+	among other episodes.)  He presumably knows something of what
+	Franklin has been through.
+
+   
    • @@@910036385 When Franklin and Sheridan are discussing Franklin's
+	experience, the doctor comments, "Moments are all we have."
+	Sheridan pauses as if remembering something.  He may be recalling
+	Delenn's similar comment in
+	"War Without End part 2:"
+	"Savor the moments, for they will never come again."
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@844798195 Franklin's stumble into the crowd was reminiscent of
+	two scenes from
+	"Chrysalis,"
+	both Petrov's approach toward Garibaldi, and Garibaldi's later
+	emergence at the party.
+
+   
    •  In Britain, Channel 4 edited out seven seconds of the attack on
+	Franklin.
+
+   
    •  In a video message in
+	"Revelations,"
+	Anna Sheridan was originally played by Beth Toussaint, not
+	Melissa Gilbert.
+
+   
    • @@@844077101 Some people have pointed out an apparent continuity
+	glitch, but it's not.  When Franklin is being wheeled into medlab after
+	being stabbed, he sees Garibaldi, Ivanova, and Sheridan above him, even
+	though Sheridan hasn't yet arrived on the station.  But if you look
+	at the surrounding shots from Franklin's point of view, it's clear
+	he's simply hallucinating and imagining that the doctors around the
+	gurney are his fellow officers; nowhere but that one shot do any
+	people in command uniforms appear.
+
+   
    • @@@898569598 The Egyptian blessing was first mentioned in
+	"A Distant Star."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  It takes 7 days to film an episode.  My favorite is
+	probably "Shadow Dancing," which you haven't seen yet, mainly because
+	I haven't been able to poke any holes in it yet.  It's a good ep.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Which of the last five episodes is your
+	favorite?
      
+	It would be an even tie I think between the final two, "Shadow Dancing"
+	and "Z'ha'dum."  The two episodes are also linked at the hip, so they're
+	really more like one unit...not so much a two-parter, but siamese twins,
+	story-wise.  They're both very exciting, move the arc forward hugely,
+	and though they rely on a lot of backstory, are also good points for
+	folks new to the show to dive in, because they also *explain* a lot of
+	backstory, so they can get into it.
+
+	
      
+	They're both just lovely, knockout episodes.  And, at times, scary as
+	hell.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the UK possibly not showing the episode due to
+	violent content
      
+	Yeah, when you get "Shadow Dancing," I'd love to see
+	how much they slice outta this one....
+
+
      
+   
    •  
+	It is, not to put too fine a point on it...EXTREMELY important
+	to see "Shadow Dancing."  If they choose to cut the nasty bits that's
+	one thing, it won't affect what You Need To See, but to not run it at
+	all would be a disaster of substantial dimensions.  Still, I imagine
+	they'll run it; the nasty bits can be excised pretty well, if
+	necessary, I should think.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If they cut 7 seconds, it's likely the 7 seconds of the actual stabbing
+	itself, which is implicit in what happens afterward, so it shouldn't
+	have a major effect on being able to follow the story.  It's a
+	reasonable edit, and about what I'd expect given the general attitudes
+	on TV violence among the UK TV networks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "You've mentioned a couple times that the upcoming
+	"Shadow Dancing" will be quite violent.  Should I be concerned about,
+	say, my two-year old watching it?  She's as hooked on the show as I
+	am, and would probably feel quite left out..."
+
+	
      
+	This is a tough one...I've given it a lot of thought since I saw
+	this, and my sense is to advise the following:
+
+	
      
+	If you possibly can, videotape the episode.  Get the time code on the
+	various pieces.  We cut in and out of two stories, an A and a B
+	story.  One is violent, the other is not.  You don't have to see the
+	one, or see much of it, to follow the other.  For someone as young as
+	2, I'd suggest fast-forwarding past the B story stuff.  It's still
+	within what's generally permitted on TV, but it is kinda harsh.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I've seen and received some email recently that seems
+	to have taken a message of mine and misconstrued it.  Someone asked
+	me if it were possible that "Shadow Dancing" might be snipped or
+	dropped for some of the violence therein.  I offered an *opinion*
+	that it might be edited, and have no idea what their plans are for
+	airing the episode itself.  Let me repeat: this was only my opinion,
+	offered in response to a hypothetical question.  I have *no*
+	information on anything C4 might -- or might NOT -- do with "Shadow
+	Dancing," so my inclination would be to wait and see what happens
+	rather than acting prematurely on something that might not happen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 Have you ever gone walkabout?
      
+	Well....yeah, kinda.  Back when I was living in San Diego (before it got
+	nuked...well, that hasn't happened yet, but soon)...I got into a kind of
+	similar mode of thought, and would go for walks through....downtown San 
+	Diego at 2-4 in the morning.  Hours, hours, hours, just walking through 
+	parts of the area where I could've gotten killed.  When folks asked me
+	why, I couldn't answer, all I could come up with...was that I was
+	looking for something.  And I found it, kinda, and in a somewhat similar
+	situation...  but that gets into some other personal areas, and this may
+	not be the right forum for that.  Suffice to say I was....almost killed
+	myself, and leave it at that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 Here's a funny thing.
+
+	
      
+	Well, funny weird.
+
+	
      
+	See, every so often, someone will ask, "How much of you goes into a
+	script?" and I'll answer, "More than I know at the time," and they
+	ask for an example.  A few questions ago, someone asked about if I'd
+	ever gone...on walkabout, and I thought of the San Diego thing...and
+	it suddenly dawned on me that that was behind the Franklin thing.
+	Long story short: I got attacked and mugged by a gang, and beaten
+	nearly to death....and survived only by a sheer act of will.  And
+	I'd honestly never, ever put that together with Walkabout, until the
+	question, and suddenly there it was, I was working out *exactly*
+	what I'd gone though, denying it to myself...the whole time that it
+	was going on.  Well.  Anyway.  That just hit me like a ton of
+	bricks, and thought I'd pass it along.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864605945 In retrospect, that was something I probably should
+	not have mentioned,
+	and would not have, had the thing not just utterly blindsided me in the
+	middle of the conference.  What got me through the attack, and its
+	aftermath, those years ago, was sheer unadulterated rage...that I would
+	not allow them to take my life because I had stories left in me to tell.
+	And no matter what, I'd tell those stories.  At first, I'd made my peace
+	with myself...I'd never gone out of my way to hurt anyone, had helped
+	where I could, had done some good work...I had a few things on the
+	shelf, not a lot, but a start...but then I just started to get mad about
+	it, and pulled myself back from the edge.
+
+	
      
+	So yeah, in a sense, I've faced that black, implacable wall...and it
+	does drive you, after a while.  And I do think, to a large degree, I'm
+	still trying to define myself, to find what it is that's at the center
+	for me, beyond the work.  But then, I don't think that's terribly
+	special...it seems to be the standard dilemma in an industrial society.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In response to a review
      
+	Slight correction to the preview of the final 5 scenes at Worldcon; in
+	the Delenn/Sheridan scene, she never said female Minbari can cut off the
+	partner's sexual organs if they're pressed...what she said was, "If he
+	forces the issue, she can complain to the elders, leave once he is
+	asleep, even cut of his --"  she searches for the right word "--
+	*access* to her family."  The humor is in his horror at what she
+	might've been searching for in that word.  A small correction in an
+	otherwise great review, but as someone once said, god is in the
+	details....
+	[That quote is from the architect Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe.]
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Minbari greeting is a hoot...there's a lot in that episode I
+	just like a lot.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550678 Earth is still letting people come to Babylon
+	5 as tourists?
      
+	It's difficult and limited, but yes, there's still some travel,
+	just as one may travel to countries that the US does not recognize
+	officially or have diplomatic relations with.  How long they continue
+	to allow this...we'll see.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846747781 How did Marcus heal so quickly?
      
+	For starters, we're talking about more than two
+	weeks of story time.  Between Grey 17 and Rock was several weeks, then
+	you've got about 2 weeks from Rock to Shadow Dancing.  That's five
+	weeks, and now you've got the issue of medicine 250 years from now...and
+	you can be sure that these kinds of injuries will be fixed much more
+	quickly.  It isn't like he showed up the very next day like this, we
+	*did* allow for proper amounts of time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847068834 How did you think up the Shadows' strategy?
      
+	I dunno...I just thunk it up as efficient and ruthless.  I
+	guess it comes naturally when you're a producer.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846747495 "Seems to me the strategy is: wait in hyperspace "near"
+	the flock of refugee ships, and when they signal for help (as they will
+	when the Shadow fleet appears), pop out of hyperspace and engage the
+	Shadow fleet.  The point is, the Shadow fleet is going after a known
+	target (or so Sheridan guesses), if you hang around near the target,
+	they will tell you when the attackers appear.  No need to for your
+	ships, even a scout, to sit in normal space, the refugee ships are all
+	"scout ships" in a sense."
+
+	
      
+	Massive logic problem.  If you wait until they're right on top
+	of the refugee ships, or very near, they'll just dive into the midst of
+	the refugee ships and there's no way you can have a clean battle
+	without resulting in *MASSIVE* amounts of civilian casualties.  What
+	you suggest would all but insure that the refugee ships would be
+	destroyed (defeating the purpose of the mission) and the piles of
+	civilian ships running for cover in every direction would hinder our
+	side, but not the other side, and we'd lose even MORE of our own ships.
+
+	
      
+	"2) Delenn and Sheridan spend the night together and we get to
+	watch... comercials. Talk about giving "short shrift" to a rather
+	interesting event. Couldn't this have been pushed into a different
+	episode?  I mean, here they are, alone together, in a "ostensibly"
+	romantic situation, lots for them to talk about I should think.  Well,
+	I'd like to know what was said... And what do we see?  Sheridan is
+	already asleep!"
+
+	
      
+	It's not a matter of being pressed for time.  The whole point of
+	the ritual was to watch him sleeping.  We had that nice moment right
+	before they took off with the fleet, and bunches of others, including
+	the big kiss, right in the previous episode and throughout the whole
+	thing.
+
+	
      
+	"3) I think the battle could have been done with a bit more of
+	an "umph" to it.  Perhaps the use of intercutting between the two plots
+	was distracting in this case.  It was a good battle, just not quite as
+	effective as "Severed Dreams" or "Long Twilight Struggle" (which did
+	have effective intercutting)."
+
+	
      
+	That's because there was more emotional content to the other two
+	battles you mention; the bombing of the Narn homeworld, and EA fighting
+	EA in SD.  Not all battles are created equal, it's a matter of context.
+	You can't expect to get exactly the same reaction to all of them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690006 Why didn't the Shadows emerge right next to their
+	targets?
      
+	So they could drive any other ships toward the center, into the
+	killing zone.  If they come in into the center, everybody splits in
+	every possible direction, and that makes running 'em all down harder.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690006 If the shadows were to materialize in the midst of the
+	refugee ships, they'd just scatter in every direction.  The purpose is
+	to wipe out all those ships quickly and efficiently...so you start at
+	the outer fringe, drive everyone inward, and then wipe them all out.
+	To jump into the middle of them makes it very hard to do this...it's
+	like herding kittens.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690006 Most refugee ships are NOT jump capable.
+	Remember, it takes a LOT of power...you've got the heavy cruisers, and
+	long range exploratory vessels, and not much else.  That's what makes
+	the White Star so special, that it can be as small as it is and still
+	generate a jump point. The Asimov class passenger liners, for instance,
+	can't jump, and have to rely on gates.  The smaller ships the refugees
+	would've been using would have had to get to their local gate, and then
+	line up to go through it in small groups. Which means 85% of them
+	would've been trapped there, ducks in a shooting gallery.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847069906 Did the Minbari telepaths need line of sight to
+	affect the Shadow ships?
      
+	Actually, we never showed what the Minbari telepaths were
+	looking at; for all you could tell, there could've been viewers or
+	other ports above their beds.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690006 We couldn't hear the characters speak at the end of
+	the battle.  Audio problem?
      
+	No, we just figured we'd let the music take it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846747653 "When I saw "A Late Arrival at Avalon," Marcus's line
+	asking "Who is Morgana La Fey" got me to begin speculating that Anna
+	Sheridan was alive and that she was working for the Shadows.  My
+	question is whether or not Marcus's line was intended that way--i.e. as
+	foreshadowing that a significant female figure not presently on the
+	scene (Anna?) would arrive at B5 to play Morgana to Delenn's Lady of
+	the Lake?"
+
+	
      
+	yup.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, Sheridan isn't the man in the middle...the man in the middle is the
+	one out there who sent Anna.  As Ivanova says, his opposite number.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690006 Why did Kosh send those dream images?
      
+	Well, certainly Kosh was accessing that which he could, in part
+	to prove he knew what he knew, in part to set things up.  Although who
+	knows, there may be more to it...that that's what they came up with
+	doesn't necessarily mean that is the full extent of it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The snow globe was shown as a flash-forward in "WWE-2," and we 
+	did see that image of Sheridan in Psi Cop uniform in "All Alone."
+
+
      
+   
    •  With "Shadow" my hope is really to erase most (though obviously
+	not all) suspicions or predictions on how the last one will go.  If we
+	already had our big EFX battle, it won't be that...Anna's here, so it
+	can't be that...it can't ever be a return to tabula rasa, an empty
+	slate, but by doing what's normally done in the season closer one
+	episode prior to that, it may help ease the way for a different
+	tonality to come in.
+	
+	
      
+	And thanks again...you definitely won't be disappointed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was "Commander Ivanova is on channel 4" a reference to the UK
+	network?  And what could possibly come next?
      
+	Yeah, the channel 4 reference was a nod to the UK.  Wondered if 
+	it'd get noticed....
+
+	
      
+	Good point, when you do a battle like that...what do you do next that
+	won't seem anticlimatic?  Usually you save something like that for your
+	last episode of the season, not your next-to-last, or you've blown your
+	big EFX show 1 show early.  It makes for a real challenge...what do you
+	do to follow THAT up?
+
+	
      
+	I think we figured it out....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why not show more of Sheridan getting ready to sleep, with Delenn
+	watching over him?
      
+	Basically...we've got 44 or so minutes...we could've shown the whole
+	battle as shown, or shown Sheridan trying to sleep.  One would have to
+	go to make room to include the other.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did the White Star make its own jump point when there was
+	a jumpgate nearby?
      
+	And then, there are just times you do it 'cause it feels more dramatic
+	that way....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Do people on Earth hear about events like this battle?
      
+	They've heard rumors, usually the ones furthest away from Clark's
+	confining influence....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why the change in actresses playing Anna?
      
+	There was a combination of reasons, including production schedules,
+	for the decision.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why were station personnel seemingly surprised to see Anna?  And
+	why did Melissa Gilbert come last in the list of guest stars?
      
+	The script said the extras shouldn't make a big deal about seeing her.
+	The director did that on the set.  That's not what I had in mind, but it
+	isn't that big a deal...I figure she's a striking looking woman, maybe 
+	that's a good justification.
+
+	
      
+	The ordering of credits was done to de-emphasize and hide (as much as
+	possible) the appearance of Melissa.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Under SAG rules, you must put guest stars of a certain calibre in the
+	opening credits; also, for Melissa to take back-billing would have been
+	a break in her work to date elsewhere.  We had no choice in this, it's
+	all stuff regulated by the guilds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Were the Vorlons absent from the battle because of the death of
+	Kosh, or for some other reason?
      
+	There are other reasons, which yes, will be addressed soon....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844797198 Why didn't they call in the Walkers from Sigma 957
+	("Voices of Authority?")
      
+	Simple....you don't bring in the big guns like that until you're ready
+	for the final assault.  You don't whistle 'em up when convenient.  You
+	can probably go to the well just once with these guys, and you want to
+	do so only when you're ready for D-Day.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844393815 Was the bit about true faces taken from an existing
+	religion on Earth?
      
+	As far as I *know*, at least, that bit about seeing your true
+	face revealed as you sleep is something I came up with on my own. 
+	There's just something I like about it, and if you've ever watched
+	someone's face while they're sleeping, you understand.
+
+	
      
+	Though one person did comment, "So a man's true face is all
+	mushed up against the pillow and drooling?"
+
+	
      
+	We don't talk anymore.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846747092 "I gritted my teeth tighter when the dialogue launched
+	into some anti-male paranoia about "What if the male demands the
+	female stay a second night?", and the various "vengeances" she could
+	take for a custom that is, after all, steeply in her favor. I could
+	accept all that in an anthropological sense: "Look what anti-male
+	customs the Minbari have. Isn't that fascinating, if you put the moral
+	judgements aside?". But then... Yeesh!"
+
+	
      
+	The "vengeances" she cites, should the male insist she stay another
+	night, are "she can leave once he falls asleep, complain to the
+	elders, even cut off his access to her family."  These hardly sound
+	like anti-male rhetoric, but rather precautions taken to deal
+	reasonably *should* someone get out of line.  It doesn't state that
+	all men do this, but sets in place what to do should *some* men do
+	this.
+
+	
      
+	This is not a problem of context.  It is a problem of perception.  It
+	has nothing to do with the scene, and everything to do with how you
+	perceive the role of males in society.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Third season finale. 
+A face from Sheridan's past takes him on a dangerous mission to meet his Shadow counterpart.
+Londo receives important news about his political future. The
+Shadows mass a fleet against Babylon 5. 
+
+
+Melissa Gilbert as Anna.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+Jeff Corey as Justin.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.73
+
+Production number: 322
+Original air week: September 22, 1996 (UK)
+		   October 28, 1996 (US)
+DVD release date: August 12, 2003
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Adam Nimoy
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Warning: This episode reveals a lot of information, and there are
+spoilers below.  Think twice before reading on if you haven't seen
+the episode.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Shadows claim that the Icarus was sent to Z'ha'dum by
+	Earth after Interplanetary Expeditions planted a homing device on the
+	Shadow ship discovered on Mars
+	("Messages from Earth")
+	and traced its path through hyperspace.
+
+   
    •  A million years ago there were many immensely powerful species
+	roaming the galaxy, but most left for "greener pastures," leaving
+	the Vorlons and the Shadows behind.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows claim they and the Vorlons are "shepherds," guiding younger
+	races through the evolutionary process, though they have different
+	methods: the Vorlons are like parents, trying to get their children
+	to play nice and get along, while the Shadows believe that only through
+	conflict and death can races become stronger and more advanced.
+	They also claim that by enlisting the help of the Minbari and others
+	against the Shadows, and by manipulating the younger races genetically,
+	the Vorlons haven't been playing by the rules.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows claim that the Vorlons' genetic tinkering is responsible
+	for the sudden appearance of telepathy in humans, and that they
+	got involved with Psi-Corps to try to minimize the threat to
+	themselves.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows' own name for themselves is 10000 letters long, and
+	unpronounceable.
+
+   
    •  Z'ha'dum is, according to Delenn, the Shadows' homeworld.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows badly want to have Sheridan on their side because he has
+	succeeded in uniting the various races into the "Army of Light,"
+	something that's anathemic to their goal of growth through universal
+	conflict.  If he unravels the Army of Light, it'll stay unravelled,
+	but past experience has shown that killing him would simply cause
+	someone else to take his place.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  If the future as seen in
+	"War Without End"
+	is unchangeable, then how does Sheridan survive?
+
+   
    •  What was left of Anna after she was removed from the Shadow ship and
+	sent to Sheridan?
+
+   
    • @@@847097295 Was the entire crew of the Icarus put inside Shadow ships,
+	or were some of them killed?
+
+   
    • @@@847043767 What was behind the door Anna wouldn't let Sheridan open?
+	(See JMS Speaks)
+
+   
    •  How much truth is there in the Shadows' statements?
+
+   
    •  Why did the Vorlons and Shadows stay behind when the other First Ones
+	left?
+
+   
    •  Where exactly did the other First Ones go, and why?
+
+   
    •  Were the Vorlons also responsible for telepathy in Narns and Minbari
+	around the time of the last war?
+
+   
    • @@@847218922 If the Vorlons and the Shadows are trying to guide the
+	evolution of the younger races, do they have an objective in mind?
+	If so, what?
+
+   
    •  Who or what is Justin? Where did he come from? Was he also a member of
+	the Icarus crew?
+
+   
    •  What is the pit Sheridan jumped toward?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@846912771 Anna told Sheridan that time doesn't work the same way
+	on Z'ha'dum as elsewhere.  How does time work there, and
+	why is it different?
+
+   
    •  Was the destroyed city the only city on Z'ha'dum?
+
+   
    •  How badly have the Shadows been hurt?
+
+   
    •  Did Morden and/or Justin survive?
+
+   
    •  Did Londo get off the station after his warning?
+
+   
    • @@@847444283 Where were the Minbari ships shown at the beginning of
+	the episode when the Shadows appeared?
+
+   
    •  Why did the Shadows take Garibaldi? Luck? Their plan? His plan?
+
+   
    •  What ever happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Given that Anna most likely lied about the fate of the Icarus' crew,
+	and that they tried to mislead him about what had been done to her,
+	much of what Sheridan was told may be lies or misrepresentation as
+	well, and it's possible that important elements of the relationship
+	between the Vorlons, Shadows, and the other First Ones were left
+	unsaid.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Shadows have a similar worldview to that of the Lumati
+	("Acts of Sacrifice,")
+	namely that individuals deserve to fall by the wayside if they aren't
+	strong enough to fend for themselves.  The Drazi and others might
+	also come to agree with the Shadows' motives if they were explained.
+	Assuming Sheridan has survived somehow, what will Delenn and Kosh
+	do to keep the Shadows' side of the story from becoming public?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Anna told Sheridan, "It was supposed to be an equal balance between
+	our side and the Vorlons." According to who?
+	Did both sides agree to follow rules of conduct?  Are they
+	acting on behalf of some other party who wants to see which
+	style of evolutionary help will prove more fruitful?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Some part of Kosh is definitely in Sheridan's head -- Sheridan sees
+	or hears him twice.  The first time is just before he leaves for
+	Z'ha'dum, when Kosh says, "If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die."  The
+	second time is just before the White Star crashes into the Shadow city,
+	when he tells Sheridan to jump into the pit.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan decides he is willing to sacrifice himself in the nuclear
+	destruction of the Shadow city for two main reasons -- first, to help
+	defeat the Shadows, and second, to try to avoid the destruction of the
+	Centauri Homeworld he has foreseeen
+	("War Without End.")
+	His willingness to sacrifice himself also brings to mind the judgment
+	of Sebastian
+	("Comes the Inquisitor")
+	that both Sheridan and Delenn can sacrifice themselves for their cause.
+	Delenn also told Sebastian the same thing the Shadows told Sheridan:
+	that if they were killed, another would come along to take their place.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846743775 Anna claims that the Shadows believe they'll die if
+	anything Vorlon touches Z'ha'dum.  Is that simply a superstition, or
+	do they have some reason to think that's true?  Perhaps they foresaw
+	the detonation of the White Star in some way -- as it turned out, that
+	belief wasn't too far from the truth.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Justin is probably "the man in between" from Sheridan's dream
+	("All Alone in the Night")
+	-- Sheridan's counterpart.  But if he's truly equivalent to
+	Sheridan, does that mean he's in control of the Shadows?  Of
+	course, given the amount of manipulation by the Vorlons and the
+	Minbari, it's questionable whether Sheridan is really in control
+	of the army of light in any meaningful way; Kosh and Delenn have
+	steered him toward their viewpoints from the beginning.  Still,
+	if Justin is Sheridan's counterpart, he's more than a simple
+	spokesman, and if that's the case, it begs the question, how did
+	he achieve that position?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846746561 Another interpretation is that "the man in between"
+	implies that there's a third person, a "man on the other side."
+	The presence of Garibaldi and two versions of Sheridan in his dream
+	supports that interpretation.  In that case, who is Sheridan's
+	opposite?  Perhaps it's Sheridan himself: if Justin had managed to
+	convert him to the Shadows' side, he would have become the man on
+	the other side.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Both Justin and Sheridan drink tea to help them sleep
+	("And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847044315 Sheridan's first question to Justin is, "Who are you?"
+	That's the same question Sebastian asked Delenn and Sheridan
+	("Comes the Inquisitor.")
+	One could plausibly consider it the Vorlon question, their version of
+	the Shadows' "What do you want?"
+	("Signs and Portents.")
+	Significantly, Justin refuses to answer the question in any direct
+	way, even claims it's not important who he is.  That probably points
+	to a major philosophical difference between the Vorlons and the
+	Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847134359 Justin claimed there were two elder races left behind.
+	Does that mean the Shadows don't know about the Walkers at Sigma 957
+	("Voices of Authority?")
+	Or would they not consider that race to be remaining behind?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847044425 What did Justin mean when he called Sheridan a nexus?
+	Does it imply there's something inherently special about Sheridan,
+	or does one become a nexus simply by being in the right place at
+	the right time?  Certainly Sheridan's decisions affect the fates of
+	millions of people now, but was that destined to be the case?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847013287 Delenn said that nobody returns from Z'ha'dum the same
+	as they arrived.  How does she know, and what does she mean by that,
+	exactly?  Is it simply a matter of all visitors to Z'ha'dum being
+	put inside Shadow warships?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Shadows don't seem to have very good security, given that they 
+	failed to detect that Sheridan was carrying a second gun.  On the
+	other hand, it's possible they did detect it, but elected
+	for some reason not to do anything about it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844646097 Z'ha'dum's defenses are similarly flawed; the White
+	Star was able to crash into the surface of the planet intact, apparently
+	with no opposition on the way down.  Why weren't the Shadows vigorously
+	protecting their homeworld?  Obviously they left the White Star alone
+	while it was in orbit because of their guarantee to Sheridan, but
+	once it started plummeting toward one of their cities, it's odd
+	that they didn't shoot it out of the sky.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The pit Sheridan jumped into
+	was more than a simple depression; as he fell, just before the
+	White Star detonated, he appeared to be passing through a tunnel
+	of some kind.  Perhaps he was transported to safety by some means;
+	that would explain Kosh urging him to jump.  If so, what is the
+	pit, and did the Shadows build it, or are they merely taking
+	advantage of something that predates their presence on Z'ha'dum?
+	If the latter, was the city surrounding the pit a Shadow installation,
+	or was it peopled by someone else?
+
+	
      @@@844646097 
+	It's also odd that, given that they moved their base underground
+	"for security purposes," the Shadows would build a large, exposed
+	dome above the pit.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847013010 Perhaps the pit is related to the Shadows' absence.  In
+	"Chrysalis,"
+	Delenn asked Kosh, "Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?"  That
+	implies they'd been somewhere else.  Perhaps the pit is a gateway
+	of some kind, and Sheridan will survive by passing through it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845621508 Is Sheridan's descent into the pit related to Londo's odd
+	greeting in
+	"War Without End, Part One,"
+	"Welcome back from the abyss, Sheridan?"  If so, does that mean he
+	somehow spends the intervening seventeen years either in the pit or
+	associated with it in some way?  The former is unlikely if Sheridan
+	and Delenn already have a son seventeen years later.
+
+	
      
+	
+	A parallel to Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" is possible:
+	
+	Gandalf fell into the pit at Khazad-dum with the Balrog, died (as
+	Sheridan will, according to Kosh) and was reborn as Gandalf the White,
+	an even more powerful figure.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847013010 Sheridan may also, if he survives in some fashion,
+	qualify as "the one who is already dead" from Lady Morella's prophecy
+	("Point of No Return.")
+	It's an even closer fit since Sheridan would be The One who is already
+	dead.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847134359 In
+	"Interludes and Examinations,"
+	Kosh said he wouldn't be there to help if Sheridan went to Z'ha'dum.
+	But that's not how it turned out; Kosh was there, though it's not
+	yet clear how much help he was.  What would Kosh have done for
+	Sheridan on Z'ha'dum if he hadn't been killed?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846887775 This is the second time Sheridan has leapt from great
+	heights to avoid a bomb
+	("The Fall of Night.")
+	And both times, Kosh was involved, though Sheridan didn't know that
+	when he leapt the first time.  Will Kosh's presence in Sheridan's
+	mind somehow save him once again?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847137184 Ivanova's plan (or possibly Sheridan's) to plant mines
+	near an upcoming Shadow attack is the same strategy Sheridan used to
+	defeat the Black Star in the Earth-Minbari War
+	("There All the Honor Lies.")
+	How will the Minbari, who denounced Sheridan's tactic as dishonorable
+	then, feel about its use against the Shadows?  Perhaps they'll have
+	no problem with it, since presumably Ivanova won't use a fake distress
+	call to lure the Shadows in as Sheridan did to the Minbari.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865727965 Sheridan has now destroyed both the Black Star and the
+	White Star, further justifying the Minbari nickname for him, Starkiller
+	("Points of Departure.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847217835 If the Shadows were planning to implant Sheridan, as the
+	arrival of the Shadow implied, why did they surround the station?
+	Would they have attacked?  Their warning to Londo implies so.
+	Perhaps they came both to attack if necessary and to pick up
+	Garibaldi.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847134359 Shadow ships seem to have instantaneous communication
+	with Z'ha'dum; they left Babylon 5 as soon as the explosion occurred.
+	That's perhaps not so remarkable; B5 has near-instantaneous contact
+	with Earth, and it's not clear how far Z'ha'dum is from B5.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847013593 The Shadows may have taken Garibaldi to try to alter him
+	and get him to work for them.  Justin said, "Once you've been inside of
+	one of those ships for a while, you're never quite whole again.  But 
+	you do as you're told."  Garibaldi may already be altered by virtue of
+	his transportation in the belly of the Shadow ship.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847042174 Ivanova immediately knew that Sheridan was gone.  Simple
+	deduction based on the missing bombs and White Star and the sudden
+	departure of the Shadows, or did she sense something telepathically?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845427732 If human telepathy is the result of Vorlon genetic
+	tampering, is the same also true of Minbari and (former) Narn
+	telepathy, and of other races as well?  What, then, of the Centauri,
+	who (to judge by Londo's failure to see Kosh in
+	"The Fall of Night")
+	haven't been altered by Vorlons?  Where did they get their telepathy?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845427732 Again assuming that all human telepaths owe their
+	abilities to Vorlon modifications, Ivanova's genes, or rather those of
+	her ancestors, have been altered by the Vorlons.  What other changes
+	did the Vorlons make in addition to granting telepathy?  Will Ivanova,
+	for instance, be more susceptible than other crewmembers to images
+	projected by the new Kosh?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845427732 The Vorlons may have had more than one motive for
+	creating telepathy among the younger races.  There's the obvious reason,
+	namely that telepaths are useful as weapons against the Shadows.  But
+	it may also be that the Vorlons' goal of universal cooperation, if
+	Justin's representation is to be believed, is furthered by widespread
+	telepathy.  Presumably people are less likely to fight if they can
+	feel their blows landing on an opponent's body from the other person's
+	point of view, and certainly direct mind-to-mind contact would enable
+	much more productive cooperation.  The Vorlons may feel that telepathy
+	is ultimately most useful as a means of pacification, not as a weapon.
+
+	
      
+	If so, the path to that goal cuts straight through Shadow territory;
+	the Psi Corps, as represented by Bester in
+	"Ship of Tears,"
+	is perhaps internally cohesive, and its members cooperate with one
+	another effectively, but its leaders hold the rest of the human
+	population in contempt ("Normals are expendable," as Bester put it.)
+	It's plausible that eventually that will lead to conflict between
+	telepaths and normals, with the winners in charge afterwards -- exactly
+	the process the Shadows advocate.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@845427732 Likewise, the Shadows' actions seem to be at odds with
+	their stated goal.  As Morden said to Sheridan, every time the Shadows
+	come out and try to put their plans in motion, someone tries to unite
+	all the other races against them.  Given that the Shadows seem to have
+	been defeated in at least the last two wars, and probably many others,
+	it's likely that someone succeeds in uniting all the races
+	against them every time.  By attempting to create conflict, they
+	instead promote unity and cooperation.
+
+	
      
+	Of course, it could be that the Shadows and Vorlons actually want
+	exactly the opposite of what Justin claimed, and they realize that
+	if they push in one direction, the younger races will move in the
+	other.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846186676 The Vorlons' tinkering with humans may have been
+	foreshadowed as far back as
+	"The War Prayer,"
+	in which Kosh told Sinclair, "We take no interest in the affairs of
+	others," while he was studying images of Earth history.  Perhaps he
+	was simply studying the effects of Vorlon intervention.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847218922 Morden seemed disgusted by the thought of the Vorlons
+	tampering genetically with humans.  Why is that more objectionable
+	to him than the Shadows' implantation?  Perhaps it's because the
+	Shadows aren't aiming to directly modify the species with their
+	tinkering; presumably humans who are put inside Shadow ships never
+	return to human society.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The episode's title, originally under wraps as mentioned
+	below, was announced by JMS at the San Diego Comicon on July 6, 1996.
+
+   
    • @@@847044592 The concept of someone being a nexus also appeared in
+	the novel "The Demolished Man" by Alfred Bester, which also contains
+	the inspiration for the Psi Corps.  In the novel, the term is "focal
+	point," and it's suggested that a focal point can cause tremendous
+	changes not only to the lives of other people, but to the very
+	structure of the universe.
+
+   
    • @@@852599233 Delenn's rendition of the human saying, "What is past is
+	prologue," is from Shakespeare's "The Tempest."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  I'm going to hold the title of 22 confidential as long as
+	possible.
+
+
      
+   
    •  By the last few episodes, pretty much all of my cards are on
+	the table. But by the last episode of this season, we find that the
+	game we've assumed we've been playing ain't necessarily the game at
+	all.  The show takes a fairly subversive direction, and of all the
+	seasons so far, the one that follows, year four, represents the
+	greatest writing challenge to make this actually work.
+
+	
      
+	Which is another reason why it's important to get the B4
+	storyline and several other threads out in the open, and clear the
+	decks, because this is gonna take every bit of whatever talent I've got
+	to pull off.
+
+	
      
+	Year four is the point in the novel when you're just past the
+	halfway mark; you know the reader thinks he or she has got the story
+	sussed out. The reader knows all your tricks by now, or thinks he/she
+	does.  You've been pulling doves out of your hat for 243 pages.
+
+	
      
+	Now you'd damned well better be able to pull out an alligator.
+
+
      
+   
    •  February 27, 1996
      
+	Well, it's done.  I have today turned in the first draft of
+	script #22 for year three, which I suppose could be called a
+	cliffhanger episode. This marks the first time in the 50+ year history
+	of American television that one person has singlehandedly written an
+	entire season of a series. (The closest record is Terry Nation, who
+	wrote the 13-episode first season of Blake's 7.)
+
+	
      
+	(I have no plans to do this next season, btw; this was
+	necessary because of the substantive changes in the B5 universe this
+	season.  Next season is a very different story...literally as well as
+	figuratively.)
+
+	
      
+	So far the film based on those 1,000+ pages represents some of
+	our best work on Babylon 5.  There's some nifty stuff coming.
+
+	
      
+	We are currently filming episode #18.  Four more after this,
+	and we'll be finished shooting year three, as of April 9th.  Not long
+	after, we should get the word on year four, probably by late
+	April/early May.  But the writing is finished...and for the first time
+	in 8 months, I will be able to go out, see a movie, play Wing
+	Commander, find something that vaguely resembles a life.  This is where
+	I now also become a director's worst nightmare: a writer-producer who's
+	finished writing and finally has time to hang out on the set and give
+	lots and lots of helpful advice.
+
+	
      
+	It was a hideous task; two-thirds through I began to understand
+	that there was a *reason* nobody's ever done this before...you'd have
+	to be outta your ever-loving mind to even try.  But as with everything
+	else on B5, if we don't know it's impossible, we just go ahead and do
+	it.
+
+	
      
+	The title, as stated elsewhere, is classified, though you may
+	get a sense of what's coming in the two eps that precede it. 
+	Regardless, the writing on year three is now complete.  Overall, I'm
+	quite pleased, and I think by the time you hit this episode, you'll
+	feel the same.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, there's what one would *prefer*, and there's that which is
+	*sensible*.  And the sensible answer is that no, once the last S3
+	episode airs in the UK, there's no way on earth you're gonna keep that
+	out of the public eye, and there ain't much sense to protecting it or
+	hitting it with spoiler regs.  I'd let it go at that point.  
+
+	
      
+	(And, frankly, it'll probably slip out some time before that; when it
+	hits, it hits, I've decided to let it go at that point...you just ain't
+	gonna hear it from ME, that's all.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Or is it a matter of the title being a spoiler for an episode between
+	now and then?"
+
+	
      
+	Yes, that's my concern.
+
+	
      
+	While I'm on the subject, an advisory: I gave a short interview to
+	Entertainment Weekly the other day for their story about cliffhanger
+	endings for various shows.  Now, the piece is going to run in May since
+	that's when most shows (most *sensible* shows) will be doing their
+	cliffhangers.  Ours won't run until July or October, depending on who
+	you talk to.  
+
+	
      
+	There's a point where you have to decide between publicity (good for
+	show) and secrecy (good for viewers), in the process of keeping the show
+	on the air (also good for viewers).  So I let a few things out of the
+	bag.  If you don't want to be spoiled, then you may want to avoid
+	picking up and reading that story.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why a cliffhanger, if WB is likely to delay the final episode
+	until the start of season four?
      
+	Because the story calls for it.  Whether they show the cliffhanger three
+	months or two weeks before the fourth season (assuming renewal), this is
+	where the story goes.  It was constructed like a series of novels, a
+	multi-volume saga, and like any good series of novels, you end on
+	something big.
+
+	
      
+	And this year, season three ends on something really honking big.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It has some surprises, with teeth....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did you reveal the title at the San Diego
+	convention but refuse to do so earlier in Chicago?
      
+	At Chicago, the assumption was still that the UK wouldn't be
+	getting the final 5 until the US did.  But since now they'll be getting
+	new (to the US) episodes starting in August, keeping the title quiet
+	now seems kind of a moot issue.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm definitely looking forward to the reaction.  
+	Today, for
+	instance, we did the final audio mix of "Z'ha'dum," our third season
+	ending episode. All of the EFX were in place, the sound, the
+	music...and after we did the piecemeal mix, layering in things in a
+	stop-and-go fashion, we did our playback, watching it straight through.
+	I don't think anyone was breathing for the fourth act.  Everyone was
+	just wog-boggled.  The emotional impact of it all is quite strong.
+
+	
      
+	When the lights came up, and I looked around to the stunned
+	faces in the room, the only thing I could say was, "Welcome to history,
+	gentlemen."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who was in the room?
      
+	The only people in the room are those involved in the mix,
+	this isn't a screening, it's part of post-production.  It's me, John
+	Copeland, co-producer George Johnsen, the sound editors, mixers, sound
+	supervisor, a few others on the periphery.
+
+	
      
+	At one point, one of the mixers was working on putting in the
+	sounds as he went, hadn't yet gone through it all...and kept telling
+	the sound supervisor (who was asking questions about how we wanted to
+	handle some later scenes) "don't let me hear this, I don't want to
+	know, I just want to see what happens next, this is great."  Which in
+	this town, from folks who work on a lot of shows, is a good reaction.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's a lovely episode.  This is the one where, after we 
+	watched the final audio mix playback, prompted me to say to the other 
+	producers working on the show, "gentlemen, we have just entered
+	history."
+
+
      
+   
    •  One of the things I like about the episode is the emotional
+	content, as it builds toward the end of the ep.  I've watched it (in
+	finished form) a half dozen times or more...but certain sequences never
+	stop being interesting.
+
+
      
+   
    •  An emotional rollercoaster is a good image for that episode; 
+	it takes you in every direction and then just drops you.
+
+	
      
+	Re: the Revelations scene...we actually shot that entire sequence, 
+	with the notion of possibly re-editing "Revelations" and inserting the 
+	Melissa piece instead...sort of TV by way of soviet revisionism...and of
+	course it was *always* that way...what other version was there?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865283090 It's something we're considering; we had her do the entire
+	message, and shot Bruce in those sequences, so we have that option. 
+	Sort of a Soviet revisionism approach to television....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844381404 Was using Melissa Gilbert instead of Beth Toussaint
+	Bruce's idea?
      
+	No, since it was my idea re: Melissa.  It was a scheduling
+	situation involving availabilities.  If it wasn't her, it would've had
+	to be someone else...so I figured, why not?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847444370 Were the wedding photos in the episode actually photos
+	from Bruce and Melissa's wedding?
      
+	Yes, we used their actual wedding photos.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The flashforward in "War Without End" seemed to not be quite the
+	same as the scene in this episode.
      
+	Sometimes there are practical considerations in the overall
+	staging; when we shot the flash-forward, Melissa wasn't there, so when
+	she was, there was some interest in restaging things.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844028475 As for the music, no, it's the same orchestra Chris
+	has always used. I've seen times when people assumed he was using synth
+	and wasn't.  He uses the Berlin Film Symphonic Orchestra for a goodly
+	amount of the work for the show.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The other crew of the Icarus shown on Z'ha'dum were all done CGI.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was G'Kar's makeup different, or was it just the lighting?
      
+	Probably the lighting.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "So basically, what I'm asking is does the fact that
+	G'Kar gets the last major speech in season 3 mean that he gets to do
+	the voiceover for season 4?"
+
+	
      
+	Not as such, no....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Andreas did a terrific job on the end monologue.  Very
+	moving.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852060283 Andreas did two takes on it; I think we used the first of
+	the two.
+
+	
      
+	The writing of it...this is just an estimate, trying to
+	remember, but I think it took me about 10-15 minutes.  Which is
+	actually a long time for me to stay parked on any part of the page. 
+	Obviously I already had kind of a sense of what was going to go into it
+	before hitting the page, but the actual shape of it had to come in the
+	moment.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is G'Kar's willingness to sacrifice himself a sign that he'd be
+	sympathetic to the Shadows?
      
+	I think that reasoning can be applied to any side.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "I hate you."
+
+	Thank you.  I try.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the destruction of the vessel in "Walkabout" the catalyst that
+	caused them to send Anna?
      
+	It's certainly gotten their attention...but it's the events in 
+	"Shadow Dancing" that tipped them into moving directly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If the Shadows can get to Kosh and kill him, why
+	are Delenn and Sheridan still alive?
      
+	A good question, which we'll answer in the last episode of this
+	season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847613747 The shadows are *much* older technologically than a
+	thousand years...that's just what Anna promised Sheridan we could jump
+	ahead, between 1 and 10,000 years.  They're profoundly older than that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851907372 What was behind the door
+	Anna warned John away from?
      
+	In a way, I was going more for the visual, the image...the whole show
+	is a matter of what door you choose to go through, and the door not
+	taken.  If you wanted to take the scene *absolutely* literally, then
+	since that room adjoined Justin's, the shadows were inside.  Or you can
+	take it a little more metaphorically.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The portrayal of [the Shadows'] motives is somewhat more elaborate, but
+	the sense is there, and as you yourself note, there's a certain cold
+	logic there which can be agreed with at some level.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is the Shadows' story true?
      
+	What Sheridan is told, in that episode, by them, concerning their
+	motives, is absolutely true, certainly from their point of view.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does the Shadows' story "explain it all" about this
+	subject?
      
+	Well, it sorta answers all the questions...it's hard to explain until
+	you've seen the episode and the ones that follow.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847081639 If that's really their goal, why are they attacking
+	the younger races directly?
      
+	Well, look what happened when the shadows came out and attacked
+	a couple of places...first they did so without anyone knowing it was
+	them doing it, as we've shown.  So now everyone's running around like
+	ants, scurrying for cover and trying to figure out what the hell's
+	going on, accusing one another...then the Centauri got the credit/blame
+	for it, causing further conflict...then they came out and sent everyone
+	scurrying again, some to make alliances they thought would protect
+	themselves (and thus enable them to make war on their neighbors, as
+	shown), only to have that fall apart and they turn on themselves/each
+	other.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The First Ones, Vorlons and Shadows aren't parents in any sense of
+	the word...we all evolved on our own, there's no common genetics, and
+	they didn't seed life here or elsewhere.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What do the Vorlons and Shadows get out of this game?  Why did
+	the other First Ones leave?
      
+	All those get answered in the first part of season four, so I'd rather
+	leave it to that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690715 The Vorlons and Shadows don't seem to know who they
+	are or what they want.
      
+	That's an extremely good and cogent analysis.  And you hit the
+	theme right on the head, one we'll explore in year four with the
+	Vorlon/Shadow situation...and which was presaged in "Infection," right
+	in the first season, the first episode shot.  Sinclair says, in the
+	ultimate moment in that conflict, "You forgot the first rule of the
+	fanatic: When you become obsessed with the enemy, you *become* the
+	enemy."  That is what is happening here, with these two and other
+	parties.
+
+	
      
+	It all comes together....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690715 Did either side foresee Sheridan's leap?
      
+	I think the two sides have been too caught up in their own
+	agendas to realize what was happening right under their noses until it
+	was too late... except for Kosh, whose last traces did what they
+	did...for a number of reasons.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844393914 I thought I heard Kosh say, "If you go to Z'ha'dum,
+	will you die?"
      
+	No, he says "you will die."  Very odd...check it again.  We used
+	the same audio track from before.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844381405 I've checked it, and I think it was just the actor sliding a
+	vowel to make it clearer; "if you go to Z'ha'dum (ah) you will die."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844394086 Did Justin go to Z'ha'dum on the Icarus?
      
+	No, he was assigned there later.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846737717 Was Justin's description of who he was and who he
+	worked for a reference to anything?
      
+	No, it's not from anything I'm aware of, though it's a concept that
+	seems very natural.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846745468 What influence did Justin have over the Shadows?
+	
      
+	Justin thought he had some influence...but perception and reality are
+	often at odds.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846746561 Justin is the man in-between...the "middle man," as he
+	describes himself.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why weren't there ships guarding B5?
      
+	Most would've been getting repaired from their recent
+	engagement. And the shadows phased in too close to B5 for either ship
+	to ship combat, or anything from Epsilon 3.  Any attack on them
+	would've also destroyed B5.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One thing to also note is that when the shadows appeared, they swarmed
+	all OVER B5 as fast as they could, circling it without slowing down
+	much.  So if Draal *did* launch an offensive, it'd take out B5 in doing
+	so.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847070040 The props department found the teapot, and found it very
+	suiting to the environment, so they went with it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't the door make a sound as it opened to let the Shadow
+	in?
      
+	The shadows entered through a different door/entrance; it was to the
+	right of the room, which would've adjoined the room next door.  Anna and
+	John came through the door on camera left.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's just a sound of stone grinding on stone.  With a slight animal 
+	like sound, as though entering someone's maw.  Which is what I wanted.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How did Sheridan get bloodied?
      
+	Basically, my thought was that it was just the one shadow in the room,
+	and there was a tussle with some others, and he started running, made a 
+	break for it...didn't seem worth the time to show what would've been
+	only a few minutes of hit 'em and run.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844381405 He was in close quarters with a small group, and fought
+	his way out. This picks up right after that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850938149 The PPG bursts would've wounded the shadow, allowing him
+	time to scramble out of there before Morden could draw.  He then had
+	to fight some other humans in the area, scramble down some ridges into
+	the cave areas, and then walk out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844393863 Were the creatures chasing Sheridan actual Shadows,
+	or just their servants?
      
+	No, those were definitely shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844028475 The final fate of the first White Star is very moving,
+	like some great silver bird plunging on fire out of the sky, bringing
+	retribution and striking one last time.  That kind of image is a very
+	powerful one to me, and it works very well here.
+
+	
      
+	As for what Morden and Justin told Sheridan...I'd say it was pretty 
+	much the truth.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690715 Do you agree with the Shadows?
      
+	Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.  Motives are one thing; the means to
+	achieving that motive, however, are a different issue.  And those means
+	I do not agree with.  But on some level, their motives can make
+	sense...as can the Vorlons' motives....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690715 It's...not that easy.  Can I make a pretty good argument
+	for some elements of what they're about?  Yes.  (And did, in the ep.)
+	It's a matter of extremes...their notion is fine, taken in small
+	doses...in larger doses, no.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690715 Why didn't the Vorlons reveal the Shadows'
+	motives?
      
+	Because they don't trust us.  They know what's best for us, and would
+	rather make the decisions for us.  That means controlling information.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690715 Aren't the Shadows defeating themselves by giving
+	everyone a common enemy?
      
+	Nope.  First they attacked careful to not let anyone know who was doing
+	it, so they'd accuse each other.  Then they'd let another take the 
+	credit/blame for it, the Centauri in this case.  That'd spin off new 
+	alliances and new...wars, and everyone's scurrying for cover.  THEN they
+	reveal themselves, and now you've got re-scurrying, some who try to make
+	deals, and then attack others (as stated) thinking they have an
+	unbeatable ally....most of the killing up until this point was done by
+	the others, not the shadows.  This current campaign would also lead to
+	scattering the pins,
+	and watching as they restructure, and they'd pull out again to let them
+	scurry...and keep chewing at each other, only coming out when necessary
+	to tip things over, then recede again into the....shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844028475 Did the White Star have a Vorlon consciousness, and
+	if so, did it eject before the ship exploded?
      
+	No, the White Star didn't have any substantial consciousness to eject
+	before impact.  It's gone.
+
+	
      
+	And thanks, on it all...  G'Kar's final litany is very moving, and the
+	music throughout works so well...as you say, it's going to be hard to
+	beat.
+
+	
      
+	But that's what we do around here.  Because if we ain't pushing it 
+	every day to get better, what's the point of living?
+
+	
      
+	Having now seen the first two finishedS4 episodes...I think people 
+	are going to be pleased.  What strikes me about the new season is that
+	it seems suddenly very mature, more filmic...everyone's very excited
+	about it here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who programmed the White Star?
      
+	Garibaldi programmed it from the intructions given him by Sheridan; it
+	would've been set to explode at a certain point.  He [Sheridan]
+	gave it final
+	detonation instructions when he signaled it via his link.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the talking bomb a nod to the movie "Dark Star?"
      
+	No.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why were the bombs speaking English?
      
+	Who said they were speaking English?  In a WW II movie, when you go 
+	to the Germans, you can understand what they're saying on the premise
+	that yes, it's German, but we're hearing it as English.  On the other
+	hand, if Garibaldi programmed them, then they may have been in
+	English...there's no way to tell exactly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846748272 The White Star blowed up real good, so it couldn't save
+	Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Refering to the shot of Sheridan above the city
      
+	The parapet shot was one I was very particular about, I 
+	really wanted it to feel *high*, and impressive.  That whole sequence is
+	one I run again and again, it's very moving.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550019 Why build an easily penetrable dome over an underground
+	city?
      
+	It's an efficient way of lighting an underground city several
+	miles across; you can open or close it to allow the big vessels in for
+	construction purposes, and so on.  If you build something that big, you
+	need some way of getting stuff IN there, then lighting it without
+	consuming vast amounts of energy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, you're right, and the first one to pick up on that aspect, that
+	with Anna, he never had the chance to say goodbye.  Finally, here...he
+	did, with Delenn.  Also, the look on his face as he turns to her at the
+	parapet...you feel every inch of his loss, being trapped, the end of the
+	road.  He did a great job.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848311263 About Delenn and Sheridan's relationship
      
+	I don't think Minbari galvanize in quite the same way...with
+	them, I think it's more a gradual, growing relationship, and as many
+	do, there's just one day when the closeness crosses a point without you
+	almost being aware of it...and there it is.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Whose voice told Sheridan to jump?
      
+	That was Kosh's voice, treated the same as always.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, it was either jump or get vaporized....
+
+	
      
+	In that sense, as someone else once pointed out, Sheridan is a hero 
+	in the Heinleinian tradition.  He does the logical thing, whatever that
+	is, to survive.  "Okay, I'm about to get vaporized...but if that hole is
+	several miles deep, it might shield me and keep me alive for another 10
+	seconds. Yes, there's the *splat* at the end problem, but I'll have 10
+	seconds in which to figure out that problem...."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844381405 Is the hole a jump gate?
      
+	Nope.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690715 How deep is it?
+	Several miles deep, maybe a lot more.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Sheridan's line in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	"I won't go down easily and I will not go down alone," foreshadowing
+	of his leap here?
      
+	The leap was always in mind, yes, but that line always kinda stood on
+	its own.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844795579 Sheridan murdered a city full of Shadows!
      
+	If someone pointed to an aggressor city (and for the shadows there's no
+	distinction between civilian and military, it's all the same, the only
+	thing that drives them on), which was unified by its desire to wreak
+	havoc and commit massive warfare, and said, "By eliminating that city of
+	100,000 agressors you will save the lives of 8 billion innocent
+	bystanders," I'd push that button in a hot second, and never regret it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864690715 The city didn't look very alien.  Was that meant to
+	imply it was inhabited by humanoids?
      
+	That wasn't the intent, no.  I think it's more the way it ended up. And
+	it does have some nice elements, but it could've been stranger...if we'd
+	had more time and more money.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happened to Anna?
      
+	She's an ex-Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847081639 What about Morden?  Oh, wait about 7 days, you'll find out.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Was he [Garibaldi] captured, or did he volunteer?"
+
+	
      
+	We'll have to see....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844394086 There was a very specific reason why Garibaldi was picked
+	up, and there's a suggestion of it in what Justin says at one point to
+	Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844945885 Nope, I never identified Garibaldi as the support
+	mechanism, only B5.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Garibaldi going with the Shadows to rescue Sheridan?
      
+	Well, given that Garibaldi is any number of light years away at the
+	moment at which Sheridan is dropping, I'd say any attempt to arrive
+	before Sheridan would hit bottom would be less than useless.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If the Shadows were in league with EarthGov, why did IPX send a
+	ship to Z'ha'dum?
      
+	Two different things...the allies of the shadows can know about us,
+	can have used influence to start infiltrating the Psi Corps, long before
+	we found out about them.  And bear in mind that Earth is not monolithic;
+	the FBI may not know what the CIA is doing.  That some in the Psi Corps
+	may have had something going on there doesn't mean anyone from IPX knew
+	about it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846737717 Then why didn't the Corps notice the big building
+	next to the dig site, as shown in the comic?
      
+	The building was a lot bigger in the book than it should've been, more
+	like a quonset hut arrangment hastily erected.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846716619 "1) Why has Z'ha'dum not been destroyed by the Vorlons et
+	al in one of the previous wars to prevent the Shadows return?"
+
+	
      
+	Funny, that...you'd think maybe there was something of interest there.
+
+	
      
+	"2) If the planet has been there for so long, would not the star that it
+	orbits have died quite some time ago, given that the Shadows are so
+	old?"
+
+	
      
+	I don't think so.  Stars live an awfully long time.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846742028 Oh, be assured, the interesting times for
+	Londo haven't even *started* yet.
+
+	
      
+	But they will, real soon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would the Hugo people make an exception to their usual rules of
+	nomination for dramatic presentations and allow all of season 3 to
+	be nominated as a unit, since you wrote the whole thing?
      
+	But is it really an exception?  You have two books as potential
+	nominees.  One is 100,000 words long, the other is a huge 300,000 word 
+	potboiler.  But they're both written by one author, so they're both 
+	eligible.  If a two-part episode can be considered a dramatic unit
+	because it has one author, and a single episode can be considered
+	because it has one author, then why not a 22-parter with only one
+	author?  Just because the unit has more pages shouldn't mitigate against
+	it any more than the 300,000 word novel should be disqualified.
+
+	
      
+	If you stop and think about it dispassionately for a moment, the
+	exception would be in NOT allowing a whole one-author season be
+	nominated.  The committee has already allowed the notion of
+	multiple-part nominees by accepting two-parters.  You've crossed the
+	one-episode barrier already.  So logically if you've accepted that, why
+	suddenly change it to just one episode?
+
+	
      
+	Conceivably, I could take all 22 scripts, put a huge binder on it, and
+	slap a cover page on it reading SEASON THREE, WRITTEN BY J. MICHAEL
+	STRACZYNSKI, and drop that one single unit on the desk of the committee
+	and say, "Here, here's one dramatic unit."
+
+	
      
+	On one level, it's really kind of an intellectual exercise; I like to
+	feather around the rules and see what things mean when little things get
+	changed, and what the *sense* of the rule is vs. how it's applied
+	sometimes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What about the entire 5-year run?
      
+	Actually, I'd mitigate *against* the 5-year story being considered as 
+	a whole dramatic unit because it has multiple writers.  I think that
+	would tend to violate the spirit of the Hugos.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan's disappearance begins to unravel the alliance.
+Londo discovers that Emperor Cartagia has
+struck a disturbing deal.  G'Kar decides to search for Garibaldi.  Ivanova,
+Delenn, and Lyta head toward Z'ha'dum to search for Sheridan.
+
+
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia.
+Wayne Alexander as Lorien.
+Damian London as Minister.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.89
+
+Production number: 401
+Original air week: November 4, 1996
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@847096870 A thousand years ago, the Shadows seeded hundreds of
+	worlds with their ships so their forces couldn't be wiped out in
+	a single attack.
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 The explosion on Z'ha'dum destroyed the Shadows' biggest
+	city and threw them into chaos.  Now they've decided to seek outside
+	help, and have enlisted the Centauri to shelter a small fleet of
+	their ships in case Z'ha'dum is attacked while they're weak.
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 Londo and Vir are scheming to kill Emperor Cartagia, who
+	Londo believes has seriously endangered Centauri Prime by giving land
+	to the Shadows.
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 According to Kosh, Sheridan opened an unexpected door
+	on Z'ha'dum.  Whatever that means, Sheridan somehow survived the
+	two-mile fall, and now finds himself in the company of an enigmatic
+	being, Lorien, who appears to know why Sheridan survived.
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 The nonaligned worlds, believing Sheridan dead and the
+	battle against the Shadows at an end, are beginning to withdraw from
+	the alliance.
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 The Shadows have something called "the Eye" near Z'ha'dum.
+	It appears to be able to telepathically contact normals, probing their
+	minds and drawing them to the planet.  It was this "Eye" that sensed
+	Ivanova during her journey in the Great Machine on Epsilon 3
+	("Voices of Authority.")
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 The Vorlons are aware of what happened on Z'ha'dum, but
+	according to Kosh, plan to do nothing about it.  Lyta, however,
+	believes they're planning something.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 What did Kosh mean about Sheridan opening an unexpected
+	door?  A door to where, and why was it unexpected?
+
+   
    • @@@847443478 Was Morden the human who introduced Cartagia to the term
+	"the big picture?"
+
+   
    • @@@847303489 What happened to Lyta while she was scanning for
+	Sheridan?
+
+   
    • @@@847303489 What is the "Eye" at Z'ha'dum?
+
+   
    • @@@847613691 Why does it speak with a voice of infinite sadness?
+
+   
    • @@@847097073 How did Sheridan survive his fall?
+
+   
    • @@@847097073 Where is he now?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 The Eye spoke to Ivanova and Delenn in the voices of
+	their fathers.  That's the same image the old Kosh chose on more
+	than one occasion (to Sheridan in
+	"Interludes and Examinations"
+	and to G'Kar in
+	"Dust to Dust.")
+	Is there a connection?
+
+   
    • @@@847065886 Is the Eye at Z'ha'dum the one Lady Morella referred to
+	in the first of her prophecies
+	("Point of No Return?")
+	If so, how will Londo be able to save it?  Will it be moved to Centauri
+	Prime, or is it perhaps already there in some form as a result of
+	Cartagia's arrangement with the Shadows?
+
+   
    • @@@848684747 Perhaps the Eye is the Shadows' main defense system on
+	Z'ha'dum.  That would explain why the White Star was able to get
+	to the surface unharmed in
+	"Z'ha'dum."
+	It wasn't touched by the Eye because there was nobody onboard to
+	influence.
+
+   
    • @@@848684605 The blackening of Lyta's eyes was similar to G'Kar's
+	telepathic experience in
+	"Dust to Dust."
+	Perhaps it's simply a side effect of intense telepathic activity.
+
+   
    • @@@847702441 In "Interludes and Examinations,"
+	Morden warned Londo that the Shadows might turn their eye toward
+	Centauri Prime if Londo stood in their way.  Was he speaking in
+	general terms, as it appeared to Londo, or was he referring to
+	something more specific?  If he meant the Eye in this episode, what
+	implications are there in Londo's reply that the Centauri would
+	pluck the eye out?
+
+   
    • @@@848344628 Morden said Sheridan's actions forced the Shadows to seek
+	outside assistance earlier than they'd planned.  That implies they
+	thought they'd eventually have to do so.  When were they originally
+	planning to get help, and from whom?  Seeking outside help would seem
+	to put them on par with the Vorlons, who Morden castigated for doing
+	exactly the same thing in
+	"Z'ha'dum."
+
+   
    • @@@847613691 G'Kar credits Garibaldi with giving him a second chance
+	and allowing him to redeem himself.  Garibaldi probably had that
+	capacity in part because he'd been given a second chance himself,
+	by Sinclair.
+
+   
    • @@@847067361 The White Star seems to have been replaced with one of
+	the other ships from the fleet; Ivanova and Lyta talked about taking
+	the White Star to Z'ha'dum without referring to the fact that Sheridan
+	destroyed the original White Star.
+
+   
    • @@@847097073 Kosh may not have meant that Sheridan opened a door in a
+	literal sense; perhaps it's more figurative.  Maybe Sheridan's attack
+	on the Shadows has weakened them enough to make it possible for the
+	Vorlons to wipe the Shadows out, if indeed that's what they want.
+
+   
    • @@@847702124 "Some must be sacrificed for the greater good" is a
+	sentiment that's widely shared, and "the greater good" typically means
+	"your own good."  Kosh planted the idea in G'Kar's mind, implying it
+	was the way to the salvation of the Narn people
+	("Dust to Dust.")
+	Justin told Sheridan that some races are lost along the path of
+	evolutionary progress, but that humans would likely come out on top
+	("Z'ha'dum.")
+	And here, Cartagia uses the same reasoning to justify, in his mind,
+	the destruction of his own people, if it means his deification.
+	About the only one firmly opposed to the idea is Delenn, who, as
+	Lennier observed, treasures each life
+	("Grey 17 Is Missing")
+	and would sacrifice herself to save another
+	("Comes the Inquisitor.")
+	The latter, of course, also applies to Sheridan, and is amply
+	demonstrated by his journey to Z'ha'dum to save Centauri Prime.
+
+   
    • @@@847695355 What did Lyta mean about the new Kosh being darker than
+	the old one?  His demeanor is certainly less pleasant, but does she
+	sense something beyond a simple difference in personality?
+
+   
    • @@@847483734 Why did Lyta put on the mask after returning Kosh to his
+	suit, if she has gills and can breathe in his quarters?  Perhaps
+	simply to conceal her modification from anyone who might see her
+	emerging from his quarters.  But gill implants aren't unheard of
+	("The Gathering")
+	and it's presumably widely known that she's Kosh's aide, so there
+	would seem to be little to gain by concealing that.
+
+   
    • @@@847701166 Ivanova may not have been the only one awake during the
+	hour of the wolf.  Emperor Cartagia visited his heads late at night,
+	and Londo called Vir in the middle of the night.
+
+   
    • @@@847395993 Who or what is Lorien?  Quite possibly, he's a Soul
+	Hunter
+	("Soul Hunter")
+	since he has a similar gem implanted in his forehead.  If so, does
+	that mean Sheridan is indeed physically dead?  The Soul Hunters
+	capture the personalities of the dying, then spend their days talking
+	with the dead souls and learning from them.  Sheridan's environment
+	might simply be what one of the Soul Hunters' globes looks like to
+	the occupant, and Lorien might be projecting himself inside somehow
+	in order to converse with Sheridan.
+
+   
    • @@@847445291 If, on the other hand, Sheridan survived physically,
+	could it have been due to the presence of Kosh in his mind?  Kosh
+	has already shown that Vorlons can fly
+	("The Fall of Night")
+	and that they have telekinetic power
+	("Interludes and Examinations.")
+	The latter might well have softened Sheridan's landing.
+
+   
    • @@@847613691 Does Lorien's presence on Z'ha'dum (if that's where he's
+	speaking with Sheridan) imply some connection to the Shadows?
+
+   
    • @@@847445291 Sheridan and Lorien greet each other with the Vorlon
+	question: "Who are you?"  Perhaps Lorien knows what significance
+	that question has to the Vorlons.
+
+   
    • @@@847483734 Sheridan dropped his rank insignia on the ground.  This
+	parallels his experience in
+	"There All the Honor Lies,"
+	in which he had to give up his insignia during one of Kosh's lessons
+	and in return was granted "beauty... in the dark."  His current
+	situation is certainly the darkest he's seen.
+
+   
    • @@@847216936 Now that the Shadows are on Centauri Prime, will they
+	begin eliminating Centauri telepaths as they did to the Narn?
+	("Ship of Tears")
+
+   
    • @@@847303489 Why didn't Ivanova bring along more than one telepath on
+	the White Star?  Given that for all she knew, Z'ha'dum was crawling
+	with Shadow vessels, going there with only Lyta ran the risk of
+	the White Star being blown out of the sky the moment it emerged
+	from hyperspace.  Granted, telepaths are a scarce, strategically
+	valuable resource, but she could probably have justified bringing
+	three or four others to hold any nearby Shadow ships at bay.
+
+   
    • @@@847216936 Is this the arrival of the Shadows and their minions 
+	mentioned by Londo in
+	"War Without End, Part Two?"
+	If so, why did Londo blame Sheridan for it?  Certainly Sheridan's
+	attack on Z'ha'dum prompted the Shadows to seek shelter, but as Londo
+	described it, it seemed more like he thought Sheridan had intentionally
+	neglected Centauri Prime.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@839122108 Filming began August 26, 1996.
+
+   
    • @@@847695807 Continuity glitch: During the
+	Morden-Londo scene, when Londo is about to sit down, Morden begins
+	picking at his left hand.  After Londo is seated, he drops a flake of
+	skin he clearly just removed from his right hand.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@840214223 When I can announce the overall year 4 title, I will.
+	Filming starts August 26th.  The writing is coming well.  Actually
+	walked the sets today for the first time since we wrapped in May; it's
+	just too depressing to walk on a dead set.  Lots of work going on now,
+	new sets being built, noise and energy and enthusiasm...much better
+	now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833267888 Re: vacation...I wish.  We're still doing post production,
+	still editing, mixing, spotting for music and sound...it's a long
+	process that will take us right through the prep time for year four,
+	assuming renewal.  I can grab a day here or there, that's about it.  And
+	even while awaiting word, I still have to begin working on year four
+	scripts.  (The tentative title for the first episode of year four is
+	"The Hour of the Wolf.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@833868130 The Hour of the Wolf is that hour around 3 a.m. when you
+	can't sleep because you're worried about one thing or another....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843864950 Well, just finished the first (writer's) draft of
+	"The Hour of the Wolf," the first episode of year 4, to be directed by
+	David Eagle.  It was a tough one, like all first-episode scripts...but
+	quite interesting, in its way.  Once again the show takes a somewhat
+	different tone, I'm using some tools I somewhat developed in the
+	background in year 3 and am now trying in foreground, very interesting
+	mood change...a good start.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847070457 Did you know what was going to happen to Sheridan
+	when you wrote "Z'ha'dum?"
      
+	Well, I think you can't do something like that without knowing how
+	you're going to pull the character's fat out of the fire, and it has to
+	make sense.  I think people will be satisfied with what they see.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847070339 "In "The Hour of the Wolf" there are two scenes -- you
+	know which ones -- that seemed quite a departure from what one usually
+	sees on TV.  Did you write "Wolf" before or after your revelation that
+	you were not bound by Standards and Practices.  'Cause if you wrote
+	this *before*, then we're in for quite a ride."
+
+	
      
+	Aside from the desk scene, which was the other you're referring to?
+
+	
      
+	Oh...and the answer is...before.
+
+	
      
+	Hang on.  It's going to be a bumpy night.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@838583972 "Have you ever contemplated doing an episode of B5 that
+	unfolds in real time (i.e. one minute of screen time is one minute
+	of plot time, as done in the movies "Miracle Mile" and "Nick of
+	Time"), or would that be counterproductive to the sorts of stories
+	you're trying to tell?"
+
+	
      
+	Actually, yeah, I have considered doing that...it can be a very
+	limiting structure, and the story has to be just right for it to
+	work.  Haven't quite worked out all the snags yet.
+
+	
      
+	"Or is "Hour of the Wolf" a story of that particular variety?"
+
+	
      
+	Nope.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843864950 How was the first day of filming?
      
+	It's frenetic, nuts, lots of running around and little fixes, we all 
+	get a little crazy on first days...but it'll be okay.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894298 How do the actors get back into character after a
+	long summer break?
      
+	Usually they just pick up the script...and get right back into it.
+	They've got the characters down now, so there's not a lot needed to get
+	back into it.  Some of them run lines with each other, like Stephen and
+	Peter, since that relationship is something very special, but mostly
+	they just learn the lines and come in.  Some of them want to see the
+	final episodes, but some don't.  The only one to see most of the last
+	two episodes thus far is Bruce, who was just totally knocked out by
+	them.
+
+	
      
+	Peter has said that whenever he needs to get back into character, he
+	just straightens and says, "MISter GARiBALdi," and he's right back into
+	it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843864950 John Copeland and I just got finished with 
+	the main title for year 4, which is, again, different from last year's.
+	This time I wanted a whole new approach, on just about every level, and
+	designed the thing myself, working with John and the editors to get the
+	best shots and pull it all together.  It's *majorly* cool.  We showed it
+	to some members of the crew, and they're all jazzed by it, they think
+	it's our best main title ever.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894298 The B5 story is told from
+	everyone's point of view, and they're all a part of it, so the opening
+	now reflects that.  And it gives me the chance to do an opening that's
+	sort of a prose poem, which is a nice touch.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894298 Why the new music?
      
+	We change the theme every season to reflect the tonality and direction
+	of that season's story.  Every season when it butts up against the
+	previous season's intent, a lot of folks ask why change it, it was
+	better before...and then, by the end of the season, when people see how
+	it fits in, generally they like it a lot...and then ask why it got
+	changed for the *next* season....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844403731 Today John Copeland and I did our producer's cut on the
+	first episode of year 4, "The Hour of the Wolf."  Granted my opinion is
+	subjective and biased...but of all the first-episodes we've had each
+	season, this one is the best.  I was searching for the right word after
+	looking at the director's cut, and finally came to it...maturity.  It
+	has a depth we've only skated through before, all meat, no filler.  This
+	one and the next batch are also all over the map, literally...B5, Narn,
+	Centauri Prime, elsewhere...so it's a real challenge.  But it looks
+	great.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847217394 Everybody's just cooking on this one, it has a
+	very filmic, grand look to it.  I love it a lot.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847445039 It's a terrific episode.  The music now echoes season
+	one because in some thematic areas, we're starting to bend back on
+	ourselves, and close some circles, as you'll see soon.
+
+	
      
+	That it affects the emotions is, for me, the goal.  If you can
+	make an audience *feel* something, in a medium as cold as TV, you've
+	done your job right.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854987688 Wortham [Krimmer] came in to audition, same as everybody
+	else...and we thought he was great.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847070068 Wayne Alexander plays Lorien, a character you'll see
+	throughout the first six episodes of season 4.  We wanted to give
+	him more to do.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848311301 Lorien's eyes look odd.
      
+	The eyes have metallic gold contact lenses; you can't see them
+	as well in the red light, but later, you'll see them better.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847583603 There's more to Lorien than meets the eye.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847445039 I'll string out the Sheridan info for a while; as for
+	Morden, as he said, his associates can repair flesh, replace flesh
+	(though where they got replacements from is something I don't want to
+	know)....
+
+	
      
+	It's definitely a packed episode.  I still find myself realizing
+	that the end of act one feels like two acts.  And the next three are
+	every bit as intense, if not moreso.  I love it....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847581324 Why bother with the Sheridan scene at all?
      
+	To not do so would've been vastly unfair.  And it nicely
+	replaces one mystery, is or isn't he, with "who the heck is THAT?"
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852708505 Sheridan dropped his insignia during Kosh's lesson in
+	"There All the Honor Lies."
+	And he dropped his stat bar here.  Was Kosh preparing him to
+	see Lorien?
      
+	I think it was a more general sense than preparing him
+	specifically for Lorien.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894298 It's not a captain's bar it's a stat bar (gold for
+	command, gold and silver for command/administrative liaison, red for
+	medical, green for security), and it's Sheridan's.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894298 This is a pretty bleak episode.
      
+	Yeah, it's deliberate...take 'em apart, separate 'em, see how
+	they react, and make everything as dark as possible in anticipation of
+	some kind of dawn, though getting there will be a struggle.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843864950 Season 4 definitely starts in dark mode.  Bigtime.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847445039 Did you have Londo put on his old coat so there
+	wouldn't be the costume mismatch there was with Delenn in "Babylon
+	Squared" and "War Without End?"
      
+	I never make the same mistake.
+
+	
      
+	I just learn how to make new ones.
+
+	
      
+	(And I'm very pleased with that scene...it's kinda goofy, with
+	the minister in particular...he's just nuts.  Well, not as much as
+	Cartagia, obviously....)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847443920 The non-moving Centauri Prime shot is an original
+	Foundation shot; the one where it's moving (with the cruiser fly-bys)
+	is the new one, and there's a lot more detail now in the surface of
+	the planet and other stuff.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847583603 "The first S4 episode (Hour of the Wolf) doesn't have
+	nearly as many FX as the later S3 episodes, and what is there is mostly
+	stock shots of the station rotating, etc."
+
+	
      
+	There are as many CGI shots in "Wolf" as in most of our episodes, and
+	more than in "Rock," a later S3 episode.  There's also the new
+	establishers of Centauri Prime the planet, the revised Palace shots, new
+	establishers of the station, a big new shot of the interior of the
+	Garden that pans down, the beside-Z'ha'dum sequence...there's a LOT
+	there.  So a) your latter observation is, I gently point out, factually
+	inaccurate, and b) most station shots have been recycled stock since
+	year one, adding new ones each season then dropping them into rotation
+	(so to speak).
+
+	
      
+	We always balance big EFX shows with smaller ones, building up to some
+	big stuff.  We're doing the same thing here this year as we've ever
+	done.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894298 About the visual of Kosh leaving Lyta
      
+	The streams were done on a flint, and there were not two takes 
+	edited together, there was just the one continuous take.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894298 The streams aren't technically considered CGI as we use
+	it.  That's roto work.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894298 CGI is specifically graphics generated on a computer,
+	usually 2d or 3d animation.  Roto work like the streams from Lyta's eyes
+	are done by hand, frame by frame.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844796984 The events in 401 take place roughly 7 days after 322.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847581324 The alien ambassadors' English has improved.
      
+	Ambassadors have been learning as they've gone along; I took the
+	notion that the higher ups didn't have that much contact with humans,
+	so their grasp of english was halting at best, but over 4 years,
+	they've gotten better.  The grunts/lower echelons, though, are still
+	marginal at best.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847694781 About Cartagia looking up women's dresses
      
+	"best I can tell from my (admittedly limited) knowledge of Centauri
+	physiology, he would have been looking in the wrong place - kinda like
+	looking down a human woman's socks, or something."
+
+	
      
+	Tell that to a foot fetishist.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847581324 It's fun and interesting to see Londo now
+	having to deal with being in a sense on the same side as Sheridan, but
+	for vastly different reasons.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851074419 By building up Cartagia offscreen, it helped pave
+	the way for what we do finally see.
+
+	
      
+	And the only reason to not hold back Sheridan for one more ep
+	was my feeling that if I held him *and* Garibaldi back, it'd be a bit
+	much.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847217342 Why did Lyta refer to the White Star as if it hadn't
+	been destroyed?
      
+	The ships provided by Delenn are White Star class ships, hence the
+	usage.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847694894 Why am I here?
      
+	Yes, the last piece there is kind of the key, isn't it?
+
+	
      
+	I've always kept the minister just that, no name, for the
+	reasons you cite.  This is someone who's a survivor, who bends with the
+	wind, and somehow keeps going by not being noticed, or taken seriously.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, this season I was noticing that eyes have become a
+	predominant image, from Lyta to the shadows to Lorien to some stuff
+	coming in the next few episodes...funny, how this stuff creeps up on
+	you.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847445039 Check out "Voices of Authority."  You've seen those eyes
+	before.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865283204 The eyes were a projection of a shadow face, as you can
+	note in the main title.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865283204 Any connection between the Shadows speaking with a
+	father's voice and Kosh appearing to Sheridan as his dad?
      
+	I figured that they would both tend to use a patriarchal
+	influence, which would tie into so many races having that system.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851074567 Actually, the ship was what technically saved them...
+	Lennier also began to fall under the influence of the shadow voice, as
+	we saw. There was some forethought on his part, but the ship activated
+	itself on timer.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847613692 "After watching Z'ha'dum and "Wolf"  (No spoilers here),
+	my main thought was basically,  who the hell are these old races who
+	assume moral superiority based on technical superiority?  How dare
+	they interfere with our development as a species just to suit their
+	own petty needs? I wonder if any character  on the show will take that
+	same line of thought and expand upon it?"
+
+	
      
+	Well, until now, that's been primarily unknown to the other species.
+	Now, thanks to Sheridan's trip to Z'ha'dum, and stuff coming up, that
+	information will start to get out.
+
+	
      
+	So yeah, you may find someone or someones picking this thread up....
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar tries
+to avoid capture by the Centauri while continuing his search.  Delenn urges
+the Rangers to strike against the Shadows.
+
+
+Wayne Alexander as Lorien.
+Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia.
+Lenny Citrano as Isaac.
+Anthony DeLongis as Harry.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.98
+
+Production number: 402
+Original air week: November 11, 1996
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Dobson
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@847699354 Garibaldi's Starfury was found abandoned in space, but
+	someone from Interplanetary Expeditions
+	("Infection,"
+	"Z'ha'dum")
+	knew where to find it.  Garibaldi was captured and is apparently
+	in the custody of Psi Corps.
+
+   
    • @@@847699354 Lorien claims to be the first of the First Ones, and lives
+	deep within Z'ha'dum.  He says the Shadows return to Z'ha'dum because
+	he's there, and that Kosh knew about his presence when he told Sheridan
+	to jump.
+
+   
    • @@@847907490 G'Kar has been captured by the Centauri.  In exchange
+	for help overthrowing Emperor Cartagia, Londo has promised G'Kar
+	that the Centauri will withdraw from Narn after Cartagia is gone.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@847699354 Exactly who captured Garibaldi, and why?  The Psi
+	Corps, or some other group associated with them?  How did they
+	recover him from the inside of a Shadow vessel?  Did the Shadows
+	give him up voluntarily?
+
+   
    • @@@847699354 Why did they want to know what he remembered?
+
+   
    • @@@847699354 Is Lorien's claim true?  Is he a member of a race of
+	elder beings, or is he somehow the first intelligent lifeform in
+	the galaxy?  What is he, exactly?
+
+   
    • @@@848432708 When, and under what circumstances, did Lorien meet Kosh?
+
+   
    • @@@847699354 How is Londo planning to use G'Kar to unseat Cartagia?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847907011 If Garibaldi has indeed been captured by the Psi Corps,
+	why do they need to question him?  Presumably they could just pick
+	whatever information they need out of his mind.  Perhaps they're
+	simply trying to get him to cooperate, on the assumption that if he
+	cooperates in one area, he'll be more malleable in others.
+
+	
      
+	@@@848787762 Alternately, perhaps they're making sure he doesn't
+	remember what happened to him because they've done something to him and
+	wiped his memory of the event.  That would explain the conclusion of the
+	interrogation scene; they gassed him to transport him elsewhere once
+	they were satisfied that their memory wipe was solid.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847907011 Centauri torture is likely to result in the loss of
+	G'Kar's left eye
+	("The Coming of Shadows,"
+	"War Without End, Part Two.")
+	Whether that eye is the subject of Lady Morella's prophecy
+	("Point of No Return")
+	isn't clear; it's certainly plausible that Londo could redeem himself
+	by halting the torture of G'Kar, but there are other eyes that don't
+	see (e.g. the Shadows' Eye at Z'ha'dum in
+	"The Hour of the Wolf,"
+	or the Centauri Eye from
+	"Signs and Portents.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865731365 Given Lorien's assessment of his situation,
+	Sheridan presumably qualifies as "the one who is already
+	dead" in Morella's prophecy.  And, in fact, Londo spares his life 17
+	years in the future
+	("War Without End, Part Two.")
+	Assuming the prophecy is correct and Londo was thus redeemed, obviating
+	the need for a third chance, what form would that chance have taken?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847699354 Why is Lorien so interested in what happens to Sheridan?
+	He said Sheridan was "the only one to make it this far."  Was he
+	referring to the physical descent down the chasm, or some more
+	spiritual journey?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848360087 Lorien said neither Kosh nor Sheridan wanted to die.
+	Assuming he was able to resurrect Sheridan, is Kosh also still alive?
+	If so, what did Kosh find to live for?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847913276 Lorien said he had been waiting for someone to talk to.
+	He also said, several times, that Sheridan was trapped between life and
+	death, between seconds.  Given that he was there with Sheridan, and
+	that Kosh knew about Lorien's presence, it's plausible that Lorien, not
+	Justin, is in fact "the
+	man in between" from Sheridan's Kosh-induced dream
+	("All Alone in the Night.")
+	If so, what will he do now that he's found Sheridan?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847699354 Lorien, if that's who the formless being in Sheridan's
+	dream is, asked both the Vorlon and the Shadow questions.  Why are
+	those questions significant to him?  He said that there was no good
+	answer to "Who are you," implying perhaps that the search for an
+	answer is what matters.
+
+	
      
+	Did the Shadows and the Vorlons get those questions from Lorien?
+	Lorien claims to have met Kosh (who, oddly, he knew by name, which
+	would seem to contradict the new Kosh's statement that "we are all
+	Kosh") so presumably he has also met the Shadows.  Perhaps each race
+	latched onto one of the two questions, adopting it as its own.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848344773 Later, however, Lorien asked Sheridan three
+	questions: who he was, why he was, and what he wanted.  The middle
+	question is new.  If the Vorlons and the Shadows are supposed to
+	ask the first and last questions, is there supposed to be another
+	group asking the second?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848612588 One person did ask all three questions once: Sinclair,
+	when he was captured during the Battle of the Line
+	("And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550166 Kosh may have implied the presence of a third question in
+	"Deathwalker"
+	when he told Talia, "Understanding is a three-edged sword."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854122542 Lorien echoed another statement of Sinclair's, also from
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars."
+	Sinclair said of his wingman Mitchell, "I tried to warn you, but
+	you wouldn't listen... you never listened."  Lorien said the same
+	of the Shadows and Vorlons, or so it seemed, though he didn't provide
+	any more context or explanation.
+
+	
      
+	Vir made a similar comment to G'Kar in
+	"Comes the Inquisitor:"
+	"I wish... there was something that I could do. I tried telling them,
+	but they wouldn't listen. They never listen..."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867026668 In
+	"Infection,"
+	Garibaldi observed to Sinclair that people look for things to die for,
+	because it's easier than finding something to live for.  Lorien echoed
+	that sentiment at the end of this episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847699354 Lorien said he hated to see his children fighting.  Does
+	that imply he doesn't approve of Sheridan's war against the Shadows?
+	For that matter, does it mean he doesn't approve of the Vorlons and
+	the Shadows fighting?  If so, can he do anything about it?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847699354 Can Lorien leave Z'ha'dum?  Perhaps the planet is part
+	of him, or he's bound to it in some way; in that case, Delenn's plan
+	to attack Z'ha'dum could prove disastrous, assuming the Vorlons are
+	as interested in Lorien as the Shadows are.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847907011 Lorien said the Shadows think they return to Z'ha'dum to
+	show him respect, but that they don't understand any more.  What don't
+	they understand?  Why did they originally start returning to Z'ha'dum,
+	and why don't they understand now what they did long ago?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@847907490 The lighting at the end of the prison cell scene is
+	symbolic; as soon as Londo agrees to free Narn, the cell door opens
+	and G'Kar is bathed in white light, his life's goal finally within
+	reach.
+
+   
    • @@@848345720 The passage of time on Z'ha'dum, or at least in Sheridan's
+	condition, is similar to the effect of a black hole at the event
+	horizon: time slows down to a standstill from the point of view
+	of an outside observer.
+
+   
    • @@@870367756 As originally broadcast, Franklin cites the date as January
+	8 in his opening monologue, and says it's been 14 days since Sheridan
+	disappeared.  In the second US broadcast of the episode
+	Franklin's opening monologue was fixed
+	to say it was 9 days since both Sheridan and Garibaldi disappeared.
+	(See
+	jms speaks)
+	However, the UK broadcast, and possibly others, used the original
+	incorrect date.
+
+   
    • @@@905790308 The engine part G'Kar handed to the man in the bar
+	is an overthruster prop from "Buckaroo Banzai."
+
+
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@846744605 I just got a copy of the ad that's going to run in TV
+	Guide for "Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" in two weeks.  It's a
+	great ad, well composed, well done, but it's also a major spoiler for
+	something you will NOT want spoiled.  So avoid the ad if possible.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@847907011 The script was easy to write story-wise, I think it
+	only took me a few days (in general, the faster the write, the better
+	the script, when it comes to something like this...writing in white
+	heat is best), but *very* difficult from an emotional standpoint.  I
+	was just about as wasted after writing it as you were after seeing
+	it.  There's a lot of stuff in there that's difficult or painful to
+	touch, and you can only hope that it comes out okay.  I'm happy it
+	did.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848311051 Sheridan's fall was like Gandalf's in "The Lord of
+	the Rings," or like the descent into the underworld in Dante's
+	"Inferno."
      
+	I've mentioned elsewhere that I was going more for
+	the roots of this.  Though the Dante thread you mention is closest in
+	many ways (again, you dig into archetypes you end up with similar
+	structures, that's the nature of the beast), it was Orpheus going into
+	the underworld for his wife, and losing her, that was in the back of my
+	head when I was blocking out that part of the story.  (You can also
+	toss in Christ's temptation by the devil, and descent into the
+	wilderness, if you want.)
+
+	
      
+	This will probably get me in trouble, but...on the one hand, I
+	am always delighted and impressed with the breadth and depth of
+	analyses and thought of the larger group of SF fans, and the
+	insightfulness with which they apply those perceptions.
+
+	
      
+	On the flip side of this discussion...for a certain percentage
+	of them, that breadth and depth is only or primarily within SF and
+	mainstream fantasy. The wellspring of material from which to draw when
+	making comparisons is not often as broad as it should be in classical
+	literature, mythology, medieval studies, and so on.  They see a drop
+	into a chasm, they think "Oh, Gandalf." Not understanding that the root
+	of this goes back way, way, way further...to Orpheus and his kindred
+	spirits.
+
+	
      
+	I was copied a note from someone on another newsgroup who
+	insisted that everything in the show had an elvish/Tolkein base,
+	including and *especially* the names of everyone, citing the Agamemnon
+	as meaning something or other in LoTR elvish.  The symbol is RIGHT
+	THERE, in the name, Agamemnon, and the whole unfortunate history of
+	that character and his wife, and the Cassandra character (which is at
+	the center of G'Kar's character)...and yet she says, "No, no, it's all
+	a clue, it means this thing over here."
+
+	
      
+	My background is as an SF fan myself, so I offer the above
+	without stereotype or pejorative intent.  But as well as reading SF, I
+	spent most of my early adult life reading from classical sources. 
+	Goethe's FAUST informs Londo in many ways, as well as the history of
+	early Rome, and Hegelian notions on the role of conflict, and the
+	divine role of the emperor.  You're talking to someone who read
+	Plotinus' The Aenneads just for kicks, and whose favorite character was
+	Zeno and his paradoxes.  You want to talk Plato's perfect forms? The
+	Socratic method of teaching?  Greek tragic structure as embodied in 
+	Oedipus?   The overall work of Sophocles?  The Bible?  I've read that
+	one cover to cover twice...anyone else in the room who's done that,
+	raise your hands and tell me you didn't fall asleep halfway through
+	Numbers and Deuteronomy, the two most boring books in the whole darned
+	thing.
+
+	
      
+	There was a period in my life -- from around 1976 through 1981
+	-- when I devoured everything I could in these areas.  Mythology. 
+	Existentialism. Zen. 18th century literature.  I took part time jobs in
+	libraries so I could get access to the widest possible range of books,
+	especially new ones in areas that interested me.  A lot of the details
+	have washed away over the years, but the cumulative *sense* of that
+	remains.  I can still remember how excited I was when a brand new
+	translation of the Inferno, the Purgatario and the Paradisio came out
+	(from Penguin, I think), putting it all back into the proper lyric
+	form, and I devoured them, one day each, then read them all again using
+	the footnotes and marginalia.
+
+	
      
+	All that time, I never knew I was preparing myself to write this
+	show, because it could *only* be done with a generalist background,
+	knowing a little about a lot of areas...just enough to get into
+	trouble, ususally, but still the grounding is there.
+
+	
      
+	Funny thing...about two, three weeks ago, I got an email from a
+	woman who is a professor of medieval studies at a major university, who
+	said she'd been nudged into watching the show by her graduate students,
+	and is now a big fan of the show.  She said that as she watched, she
+	"clicked" constantly on the sources from medieval and classical
+	literature, mythology, and other deep well sources, and was pleased to
+	see them being used in a contermporary or futuristic venue.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, it's what I've always said about this show...you see the
+	paradigm with which you are most familiar.  Sometimes that's great,
+	and sometimes it's a curse.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851242973 But the thing is, I wasn't *thinking* of LoTR...I was
+	thinking of Orpheus going into the underworld, of the classical notion
+	of descending into hell to find oneself or something else...it just
+	bugs me when someone assumes that they know what was in my head at a
+	time when I wrote something, and then take that as a given and start
+	making me explain it or acting as if this is true, when it ain't.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@843865104 Larry DiTillio made the point, while on the
+	show, that some SF
+	fans reared on ST expect everyone to talk like English earls, very
+	proper.  We go for vernacular every time.  I like the rough edges, the
+	hesitations, the stumbles.  In editing 402 the other day, there's
+	several takes to choose from in a particular scene, but I picked the
+	one where the actor slightly stumbled over the line, because it was at
+	the heat of the moment, and in that kind of situation, we all get
+	flustered.  It made it feel more real.
+
+	
      
+	Slang and idiom have been with us forever, and always will be.
+	Now, on the other hand, I don't go full-tilt bozo with it, by peppering
+	the dialogue with lots of techtalk and futureslang because I think it
+	becomes intrusive. So we try to find a balance.  Some people don't like
+	it, and like their SF to all sound the same.  That's fine.  Tastes
+	vary.
+
+	
      
+	Also, I use some dialogue styles that lean toward the
+	theatrical, what you'd see on the stage, or hear in a radio drama.
+	Other times I'm right in the gutter.  You use different tools for
+	different jobs.  My influences are from Rod Serling and Charles
+	Beaumont and Norman Corwin and Ray Bradbury, so you're going to hear
+	those colors from time to time, and because you don't hear a lot of
+	that particular style in TV these days, some people think it's
+	bad...no, it's just a different approach to dialogue.
+
+	
      
+	Look at Harold Pinter, then look at Christopher Fry, then look
+	at Joe Orton.  Between just those three you've got three very stylized,
+	consistent approaches to dialogue, not like the other two at all, and
+	between them more diversity than in a hundred TV shows.  In theater,
+	which is where I cut my teeth, it's *okay* to have dialogue that's
+	somewhat stylized, or a bit more formal, a bit more literate, or
+	whatever.  In TeeVee it's all gotta be the same.  To which I say...why?
+
+	
      
+	(I've also made the mental assumption of a return to a new
+	formality in 2260, since styles go in and out of fashion.  People use
+	the word Mr. and Ms. more often, there's a more formal stance with
+	people you often get when a culture comes out of a major war, as we did
+	after WW2.)
+
+	
      
+	But dialogue tastes are utterly individual; what works for one
+	may not and likely will not work for someone else.  And that's okay.
+	That's as it should be.  As long as the totality works.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848344884 "I watched _What Ever Happened to Mr Garibaldi_ last
+	night and was struck by the scene where Mr. G was being questioned by
+	the disembodied voice.  That scene was very similar to the style of
+	another one of my favorite shows _Homicide: Life on the Streets_.  I'm
+	just wondering if that was an intentional nod to that show."
+
+	
      
+	This is kind of embarrassing, but...see, I don't watch much TV
+	anymore.  I don't have time.  I think I've seen maybe two episodes of
+	Homicide, total.  So we were in with the editor to do our producer's
+	cut of 402, and I was trying to describe what I wanted...jarring,
+	disorienting cuts, don't worry if it matches, use conflicting takes or
+	overlaps of takes...and finally the editor said, "Oh, you mean the
+	Homicide look."  And it'd been so long that I asked them to explain to
+	me what that meant, and John got into it, me with him, and ended up
+	with what we've got.  I've got to start watching TV again, beyond
+	X-Files, 60 Minutes and Simpsons.  (Well, I've added Millennium, so
+	that helps.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848389230 Actually, the Garibaldi intercuts like that were something
+	that I came up with in the editing room, and John Copeland and I
+	thereafter assembled it, with the editor.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864607391 This one's a favorite of mine as well.  On the
+	Garibaldi scene, it was shot fairly conventionally, but as we got into
+	editing, I said, "Let's do something we don't normally do, let's try a
+	visual approach that's not usually part of SF shows."  So we put that
+	sequence together.  Again, my feeling is, break your format once in a
+	while or get stuck in a rut.  Take chances.  The worst that'll happen
+	is that you'll fail.
+
+	
      
+	It's a lovely episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864607391 Is the director the same Kevin Dobson who was on
+	"Kojak?"
      
+	No, this Kevin is an Australian director.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864607391 About the voiceover recap at the top of the
+	episode
      
+	I figured, since this year was much more serial than in the
+	past, you kinda *had* to put little recaps at the top...also, it gives
+	it a different, narrative feel, which I kinda like.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848360273 Franklin said it was 14 days
+	since Sheridan's death
+	and 9 days since Garibaldi's disappearance, but the two happened
+	at the same time.
      
+	This is a case where jms screwed up.
+
+	
      
+	Originally, the script read, "It's now 14 days since Captain Sheridan
+	left for Z'ha'dum and was presumed killed.  Nine days since Mr.
+	Garibaldi disappeared while on patrol."
+
+	
      
+	I went to edit the first sentence to make it active rather than passive
+	syntax.  In handwriting on the page (after the first draft, the typists
+	take revisions and implement them), I meant to write, "It is now 9 days
+	since Captain Sheridan was presumed killed at Z'ha'dum."  I either
+	missed changing the days, or the typist didn't put it in (it happens),
+	and that draft of the script is long gone.  But without knowing which,
+	I'll just take the rap for it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848607080 I'm considering revoicing it...we just didn't catch it until
+	it was gone.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850298170 "In WHTMG, Marcus is talking to G'Kar about his friends
+	and says he's had "Damn few of them, and most of them are dead." My
+	instant reaction was "That can't be an allusion to Return to Zork." Can
+	it?"
+
+	
      
+	Y'know, if I were to read this group as an outsider, I'd think that
+	this jms person was incapable of coming up with a single line on his
+	own.
+
+	
      
+	NO, it wasn't a Zork reference, for chrissakes.  Can we possibly get
+	any more obscure here?  I don't even know what this REFERS to.  Marcus
+	came from a mining colony.  The shadows struck, and killed everyone
+	there.  Hence, the line above.
+
+	
      
+	There was some goofing around with SF references early on in the show;
+	this got out of hand, and it stopped.  I don't sit here, thinking,
+	"Oh, goody, I can make a reference to The Day The Earth Stood Still
+	here," or some other show.  I write what is appropriate for the
+	character to say.  Period.
+
+	
      
+	I'm sorry if I'm a bit cranky in answering this, but jesus christ,
+	people, give it a rest and stop looking for references that don't
+	exist.  There are only so many permutations in the english language,
+	and something has got to echo somewhere for everyone...but that ain't
+	the source.  "Oh, look, he use the word THE in this episode, he must
+	be nodding at "The Ipcriss Files" or "THEM" just leaving off the M to
+	throw us off."
+
+	
      
+	Your point of reference is your point of reference, it's nothing to do
+	with me.  It's like a Rorscharch test, you see what you're familiar
+	with.
+
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	As a writer, you work your brains out trying to come up with
+	something, and you try your damndest to make it original, and fresh,
+	and interesting...do you have any idea how infuriating, how maddening,
+	how bottomlin *insulting* it is to have 10,000 people parsing every
+	sentence and saying, "Oh, here, did you take this from that?  Is this
+	a reference to this over here?"
+
+	
      
+	NO, IT'S NOT.
+
+	
      
+	I allowed a little of that in the first season or so, often in scripts
+	by other people, on a couple of occasions by myself, but that's the
+	end of it, because everyone decided that the show was one big easter
+	egg hunt.  Fanfic is full of this stuff, which is perhaps why everyone
+	keeps looking for it here.
+
+	
      
+	If it's an absolutely blantant, and extremely recognizeable line, like
+	the Tolkein reference in year two's "Geometry," then yeah...but some
+	of  this is getting so obscure and ridiculous that it's starting to
+	make me crazy.
+
+	
      
+	Can we *please* declare a moratorium on this for a while?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848469520 About the final scene with Sheridan remembering
+	Delenn
      
+	During the music spotting session, where I indicate where music comes in
+	and goes out, my main note to Chris on that final sequence was, "Break
+	our heart."
+
+	
      
+	He did.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848469520 About the shot of Sheridan as he sees the pit
      
+	"Was this scene redone for WHtMG?  I'd have to compare, but I think I
+	would've noticed that hopeful smile at the end of Z.  It would've been
+	just a -little- out of place, under the circumstances."
+
+	
      
+	It's *exactly* the same footage, frame for frame.  Only your perspective
+	has changed.  
+
+	
      
+	Sort of like Shroedinger's TV show.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848310677 About Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas
      
+	Yeah, those two are terrific.  You know you can write *anything*
+	for them, and they can play it.  Just terrific stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848389230 Who thought up the cat sound when G'Kar extended
+	the pike?
      
+	The cat was my idea.  Cats are endless sources of humor.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848346518 Ivanova wasn't in this episode.  Was she supposed to
+	be the one cleaning out Sheridan's quarters?
      
+	No, those scenes were always written with Franklin in mind.  There was a
+	brief scene with Ivanova originally in the ep, but it was snipped for
+	time.
      
+	The scene was inserted into the next episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848607080 Londo is very careful with his wording around
+	Cartagia.
      
+	Which is why Cartagia likes Londo...he stands up to Cartagia,
+	but does so in such a way that Cartagia can't touch him...doesn't give
+	him any excuse or way in.  He's got nowhere to go...and in a way, he
+	admires and respects that.
+
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850299355 I will, on *rare* occasions, address a note or correction
+	directly to an actor while we're shooting, but in general I give any
+	notes to the director on the set, who passes them on to the actor.
+	There really can't be a multiplicity of voices talking to actors on the
+	set...it can become confusing, and they can get contradictory 
+	directions.  They can get skittish and lose concentration. 
+
+	
      
+	One occasion where I *did* do this recently...in the scene
+	where Londo explains to Cartagia why he shouldn't be killed for being
+	late, the director had Londo playing that scene submissive and nervous
+	in rehearsals, didn't understand that the whole point of the exercise
+	was Londo standing up to Cartagia, but doing so in a very sly way, not
+	giving him any room to maneuver. Cartagia likes Londo because there's
+	intelligence and steel, in a very manipulative fashion..."you think the
+	same way I do," Cartagia says. So before we shot the scene, I pulled
+	Peter aside and gave him the correction, and that's how we shot it.
+
+	
      
+        But, again, those incidents are fairly rare.
+
+
           
+   
    • @@@850299471 Do actors ever ask you for clarification?
      
+	That, yes...very often, while the actor is prepping, they'll
+	come by my office, or at lunch ask about a particular passage, for
+	clarification on my part, as opposed to an adjustment on their
+	performance.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848607080 Wasn't Londo afraid G'Kar's cell was bugged?
      
+	I figured Londo would've bribed the guards to shut down the
+	bugs. Also, there's reason to bug a political figure's quarters...but a
+	cell in which there is just one person, who in theory has no allies
+	with whom to conspire...that would likely have a low priority.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848310677 Female is an irrelevant concept to the vorlons.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550307 I think Lorien is beyond concepts of male and female as they
+	pertain to the Vorlons...that's our perception of them, not his.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848311051 How long can bits of Vorlon consciousness
+	survive?
      
+	They can't survive for long on their own.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850298282 What did the Vorlons tell Lyta about their
+	intentions?
      
+	Only that they'd still respect her in the morning.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848311423 Was there a reason the Psi-Cop had the same build as
+	Bester and wore an opaque mask?
      
+	Who would do a thing like that?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848786247 Did the interrogation scene actually happen, or is it
+	an implanted memory?
      
+	No, that scene happened in reality.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848346604 About Sheridan and G'Kar
      
+	"They are being made to choose between life and death, action and
+	inaction, hope and despair.  They are in the position of having to
+	either lose faith, or keep it."
+
+	
      
+	Yup.  Got it in one....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848389230 Is Lorien God?
      
+	The first sentient being.  He ain't god in any sense of the
+	word.  That he's still puzzling out this "word/thought" business shows
+	that, even after all this time, he's still trying to suss things
+	out....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848472561 The first being, or the last survivor of his
+	race?
      
+	First, as far as he knows.  To quote from a later episode, "So
+	we left, and found no others like us."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848786174 He'll discuss his origins at considerable length in
+	about 3 or 4 more episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850298839 Well, technically speaking, I suppose you could say that the
+	Vorlons and Shadows are second ones, since Lorien's people came first,
+	about which you'll hear more in the next batch of eps.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851907233 Was Lorien waiting for Sheridan in particular?
      
+	He was waiting for whoever would be first to get that far.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884020583 About the questions
      
+	"Why are you here?" asked by Lorien, is #3.  The balance point between
+	the two.
+
+	
      
+	There's a fourth question coming, though.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Zack makes a discovery in the search for Garibaldi.  Delenn's plan to attack
+the Shadows runs into trouble.  Ivanova and Marcus attempt to solicit aid from
+more First Ones.
+
+
+Wayne Alexander as Lorien.
+Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia.
+Eric Zivot as Verano.
+Jonathan Chapman as Ambassador Lethke.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.66
+
+Production number: 403
+Original air week: November 18, 1996
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John McPherson
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@848311149 Lyta's telepathic abilities were enhanced by the Vorlons
+	to enable her to more easily carry one of them.
+
+   
    • @@@848310531 The Vorlons, apparently determined to wipe the Shadows
+	out once and for all, have begun destroying worlds that have had
+	contact with the Shadows, and to that end have amassed a fleet of
+	thousands of ships.
+
+   
    • @@@848310531 Sheridan has returned to Babylon 5, as has Garibaldi.
+
+   
    • @@@848310531 Initially, when the Vorlons and Shadows took on the task
+	of looking after the younger races, they were equally balanced, obeyed
+	rules of engagement, and respected each other's perspectives.  But at
+	some point, one of them grew tired of the arrangement and the two
+	started fighting in earnest, with the younger races caught in the
+	middle.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@848647375 Who, if anyone, was on the ship that carried Garibaldi's
+	lifepod?  Why were they transporting him, and why did they
+	self-destruct?
+
+   
    • @@@848310531 What was done to Garibaldi?  Was he implanted with a new
+	personality, like Talia Winters?
+
+   
    • @@@850299655 What was the program that activated as Garibaldi's pod
+	was ejected?
+
+   
    • @@@848310531 Why did Lorien accompany Sheridan?
+
+   
    • @@@848310531 How did they get to Babylon 5?  Was that Lorien's ship?
+
+   
    • @@@848647375 What exactly did Lyta learn when she scanned Kosh?
+
+   
    • @@@848785481 What exactly does Sheridan have in mind to end the war
+	once and for all?
+
+   
    • @@@848989312 What happened to Marcus' family?  His brother died in a
+	Shadow attack
+	("Matters of Honor,")
+	but what about his parents?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848786516 Delenn said, "Everyone I hold dear is gone."  She didn't
+	list Lennier among them.  Why not?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848481032 Lyta says she allowed the Vorlons to modify her because
+	she believed.  Believed in what?  What did they tell her about their
+	intentions?  Does she know anything about the Shadows and Vorlons,
+	and the nature of their conflict, that Sheridan would find useful?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848358319 What made the Vorlons change their strategy?  Most likely
+	it has something to do with the "unexpected door" they feel Sheridan
+	opened on Z'ha'dum
+	("The Hour of the Wolf.")
+	By attempting to wipe out the Shadows, it's arguable they've lost the
+	war on a philosophical level; attempting to wipe out a race to gain
+	supremacy is exactly the method the Shadows advocate.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, if there's no way to get the Shadows to stop
+	fighting and causing wars except by completely destroying them, the
+	Vorlons may have reached the conclusion that the very existence of the
+	Shadows means their philosophy can never take hold.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848358319 Given that the old Kosh, at least according to Lyta,
+	cared about the younger races, would he have approved of the Vorlons'
+	change in strategy?  If not, will the piece of him still alive in
+	Sheridan try to stop the plan?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865641416 Lyta referred to the old Kosh as "the real Kosh."
+	What isn't real about the new Kosh?  What is the new Kosh's actual
+	name (or its human-pronounceable version?)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848785482 Lorien's visit to B5 would seem to indicate that he, at
+	least, still cares about the younger races.  What can
+	he do about it?  Presumably he'll be able to provide valuable
+	information, but does he have any capabilities beyond that?  For
+	example, does he have access to technology millions of years more
+	advanced than even the Shadows and Vorlons?
+	
+	
      
+	In
+	"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?"
+	he appeared to have a significant presence on the "dream plane" (for
+	lack of a better term) through which Kosh sent the dreams to Sheridan in
+	"All Alone in the Night"
+	and
+	"Interludes and Examinations."
+	It's plausible that that's where much of a Vorlon's consciousness
+	lives; if so, Lorien may be capable of much more direct impact on the
+	Vorlons than his physical presence implies.  Whether the same is true
+	in the Shadows' case is less clear, but the fact that the Eye at
+	Z'ha'dum found Ivanova while she was in the Great Machine
+	("Voices of Authority")
+	suggests that they too have some presence in that mode of existence.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848614209 Destroying planets may seem excessive, but perhaps the
+	Vorlons are doing so, rather than simply wiping out all surface life,
+	because of the Shadows' habit of burying their ships underground
+	("Messages From Earth")
+	and building cities underground
+	("Z'ha'dum.")
+	They may feel that completely destroying a planet that's been visited
+	by the Shadows is the only way to ensure that there are no surprises
+	left behind.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854124175 Is the current Vorlon rampage due in part to the death
+	of the original Kosh at the hands of the Shadows?  If so, there's a
+	parallel to the Earth-Minbari War, in which, according to Delenn
+	("Ceremonies of Light and Dark")
+	the Minbari went collectively mad after the death of their leader
+	Dukhat at human hands.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848358915 By wiping out younger races as they battle the Shadows,
+	the Vorlons can no longer really claim to be looking after their
+	juniors.  What will the other First Ones think of that?  They don't
+	seem to be on particularly good terms with the Vorlons to begin with
+	("Voices of Authority")
+	and this change in attitude may further irritate their peers.  Lorien
+	will likely be able to provide greater insight into the feelings of
+	the other First Ones toward the Vorlons.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848684259 If the Vorlons are truly intent on wiping out any worlds
+	the Shadows have touched, that means they'll be targeting Mars,
+	Centauri Prime, Earth, and B5.  Depending on how recently a planet
+	has to have had contact to be considered tainted, they may also
+	destroy Narn.  Only the Minbari seem, so far, to have never been
+	under Shadow influence, so their homeworld may be spared.
+
+	
      
+	The only evidence so far of Shadow influence is the assassination
+	attempt against Kosh in
+	"The Gathering,"
+	but given that the Shadows didn't try to touch Kosh until the Vorlon
+	offensive in
+	"Interludes and Examinations,"
+	the hallway meeting in
+	"Signs and Portents"
+	notwithstanding (Kosh initiated that confrontation too)
+	it's more likely the Minbari warriors were acting of their own
+	volition.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865733889 The Vorlons' new tack is somewhat ironic, given that they
+	filed an official protest when the Centauri used mass drivers to
+	bombard Narn from space
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle.")
+	Clearly the Vorlons don't have any qualms about attacking planets
+	from space if they're the ones doing it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848684377 Since the Shadows have already come to Centauri Prime,
+	could the blasted landscape of
+	"War Without End, Part Two"
+	be due to a Vorlon attack, not the doing of the Shadows?  If the
+	Vorlons attack because of the Shadow presence, that would explain
+	Londo's bitterness toward Sheridan, who he might consider to be
+	on the side of the Vorlons.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848786082 Does Sheridan share the Vorlons' goal of wiping the
+	Shadows out completely, or does he have some other plan in mind?  The
+	fact that Lorien accompanied him suggests the latter, since Lorien
+	commented that he didn't approve of warfare among his juniors
+	("Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+	On the other hand, his speech to the crowd did imply that he had
+	genocide against the Shadows in mind.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848787026 The original Kosh tried to train Sheridan "to fight
+	legends"
+	("Hunter, Prey.")
+	But in his speech, Sheridan appeared to be setting himself up as a
+	legend of sorts: "the only man to come back from Z'ha'dum alive."
+	(A claim, incidentally, which isn't true; Morden and Anna were on
+	Z'ha'dum and left alive, if changed.) His bravado seems to indicate he
+	now sees himself as having a larger role to play than before, and
+	validates the Shadows' view of him as a nexus
+	("Z'ha'dum.")
+
+	
      
+	@@@850286419 Oddly, in
+	"Interludes and Examinations,"
+	Sheridan pointed out to Kosh that the Vorlons were legends,
+	or wanted to be perceived as such.  Did Kosh know that eventually
+	Sheridan might have to combat the Vorlons?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848787026 Sheridan returned from Z'ha'dum under unknown
+	circumstances, accompanied by an alien he won't tell anyone about.
+	Garibaldi's whereabouts were unknown for two weeks, and he turned up in
+	a ship that self-destructed to avoid being closely investigated.  Why,
+	then, do Delenn, Ivanova, and the others accept both of them back
+	seemingly without question?  Given the threat of implanted
+	personalities and other modifications
+	("Divided Loyalties,"
+	"Z'ha'dum")
+	the crew should at least be skeptical that both returnees are what they
+	appear.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865734218 Sheridan's speech from the catwalk echoes his appearance
+	on the catwalk in the dream in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+	If Garibaldi symbolized "the man in between," a description that fits
+	Lorien at least as well as anyone else, then was the Sheridan on the
+	catwalk "the man on the other side," presumably the other side of
+	death?  If so, Sheridan has now become that man.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855943691 G'Kar's refusal to scream was foreshadowed in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams."
+	In that episode, when he was put into paingivers by the Narn assassin
+	and tortured, he said he would rather die than cry out.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@853315199 Marcus has never been romantically involved with anyone.
+	This was hinted at in
+	"A Late Delivery From Avalon,"
+	in which he jokingly compared himself to Sir Galahad, the chaste knight
+	from Arthurian legend.  In
+	"Ceremonies of Light and Dark,"
+	he told Delenn he'd lost a woman he cared a great deal for, but that's
+	not necessarily a contradiction; he didn't say she felt the same way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848346315 The scene in which Ivanova asks Delenn for one of the White
+	Star ships was originally written and filmed for
+	"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?"
+	but was cut from that episode for time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850502410 This is the first regular episode to feature all the cast
+	members listed in the opening credits; aside from
+	"The Gathering,"
+	all the earlier episodes were missing at least one.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848389578 G'Kar was whipped 39 times, because 40 would kill a Narn.
+	That's probably a reference to the Old Testament.
+	Deuteronomy 25:1-3
+	warns against whipping a man more than 40 times; more than that will
+	cause one to lose the respect of one's brothers.
+
+	
      
+	@@@850286419 Some renditions of the New Testament also show Jesus
+	being whipped 39 times by Pilate, though that number doesn't appear
+	in the Bible itself.  The Apostle Paul was whipped 39 times, which
+	was the maximum number under Jewish law, to ensure that miscounting
+	wouldn't cause one to give more than 40 lashes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878759696 This is the second time Garibaldi has awakened from a
+	traumatic event and found his commanding officer missing; Sinclair
+	left the station while he was in a coma
+	("Revelations.")
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850327099 About Londo and Vir deferring to each other before
+	the G'Kar torture scene
      
+	It's the roller coaster theory: if you move someone to horror or fear or
+	shock from a neutral place, the emotional jump is less than if they're
+	laughing...then suddenly you whipsaw them into the absolute emotional
+	opposite.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848469111 A planet-busting weapon is so improbable as to be
+	more magic than technology.
      
+	Re: "magictech"...I believe it was Arthur C. Clarke who pointed out,
+	"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
+
+	
      
+	You wanna go argue with Clarke, feel free.
+
+	
      
+	Lemme just make one point here.  In the handful of decades between the
+	discovery of the atom, and its use at Hiroshima, we learned how to
+	blow up substantial portions of the planet and render it
+	uninhabitable.  But it would've taken a lot of them, hundreds, to do
+	the job.  In the 50 years since then, with the development of
+	thermonuclear weaponry, the job is even easier.  It's been reckoned
+	that you'd only need about 75 really decent sized thermonuclear
+	detonations to render the entire continental United States dead and
+	uninhabitable.
+
+	
      
+	The shadows and the vorlons are *millions* of years ahead of us.
+	We're talking differences in technology that are orders of magnitude
+	beyond what we can hope to comprehend.
+
+	
      
+	I think a planet killer eminently achievable.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848607166 If the Shadows and Vorlons are so far advanced, why
+	haven't the Shadows wiped everyone out already, including B5?
      
+	Because up until now, they haven't been out to destroy
+	everyone, that's not the point...you can't sow chaos if there's no one
+	around in which to sow that chaos.  And they may have some ideas on how
+	B5 could be turned to their advantage....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848786154 Bear in mind that the White Stars are partially based on
+	Vorlon technology, which is similar in strength to the Shadows.  That
+	helps a lot. Also, other ships can have an influence in sufficient
+	numbers. Even a lion can be brought down by a sufficient number of
+	hyenas.  The idea that higher technology always equals victory didn't
+	help Custer.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850325094 I don't see it really as a change of heart...they've always
+	been very ruthless in their way.  Remember, it was the Vorlons who
+	simply decided to off Deathwalker in first season.
+
+	
      
+	There's some amount of escalation going on, obviously, which
+	will be explained a bit more in upcoming episodes, but they've always
+	been this way, it's your perception of them that's at odds.  You fell
+	for what they wanted you to see them to be.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850523463 Who's the worse enemy, the Shadows or the
+	Vorlons?
      
+	Who is the greater foe?
+
+	
      
+	It is always the one closest to where you live.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848917005 About the original Kosh
      
+	Certainly he came to care about us more than the vorlons
+	intended.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848481032 Kosh can keep secrets from Lyta when she's carrying
+	him.  Can she do the same?
      
+	She can keep secrets a little...but not if he pushes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848917005 Was Sheridan's uniform different?
      
+	No, that's the funny thing...I've seen a number of posts about
+	how his uniform was changed, but it *wasn't*.  It was exactly the same
+	outfit right out of the wardrobe closet...not sewn, not cleaned, just
+	dusted off a bit, by hand, the way he might've upon coming in.  You can
+	clearly see that the sleeve is still torn as he's up there.
+
+	
      
+	All I can figure is that the red Z'ha'dum lighting made it look
+	a lot worse than it was.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550250 Is Ivanova's hug a sign she's attracted to
+	Sheridan?
      
+	No, it was just relief, letting her guard down, allowing
+	herself to feel, which she hadn't done much before this.  There's no
+	romantic interest there.  You can have situations where men and women
+	work together, and can care about one another, without it turning into
+	more than that.
+
+	
      
+	Men seem to understand this less often than women.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848684042 Sheridan seemed a lot more belligerent, and
+	seemed to be suggesting genocide against the Shadows.
      
+	Yup, I'd say it's very likely that some people close to Sheridan are
+	going to be wondering about his attitude...and maybe even acting on it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848786154 Someone should get outraged...and will.  It's
+	simply a matter of picking the right time and place to *do* something
+	with it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865283274 Certainly there will be some people who will wonder
+	exactly the same thing you do, within the context of the show...and
+	wonder if Sheridan's gone too far, gotten too messianic in his
+	approach....
+
+	
      
+	Ah, the fun never stops....
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Vorlons step up their battle against the Shadows.  Londo uncovers a new
+wrinkle in his plan to unseat Emperor Cartagia.  Sheridan asks Garibaldi to
+remove Kosh from the station.  Delenn gets a surprise from Sheridan.
+
+
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia.
+Wayne Alexander as Lorien.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.78
+
+Production number: 404
+Original air week: November 25, 1996
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 With the help of Lorien and the original Kosh, Sheridan
+	has successfully removed the new Vorlon ambassador from the station,
+	possibly killing it in the process.
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Lorien healed Sheridan at Z'ha'dum by transferring some of
+	his own life energy into Sheridan.  Sheridan has at most 20 years
+	left to live.
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Londo owes Sheridan a favor.
+
+   
    • @@@849006901 Emperor Cartagia has plucked out G'Kar's eye, as Londo
+	saw in his dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Why is Lorien keeping such close watch on Sheridan?
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 How does Sheridan plan to stop the Vorlons?
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Why did Kosh's ship go berserk during the battle?  What
+	was it trying to do?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Now that the Vorlons have been seen without their
+	illusions in place, will they still bother to maintain their angelic
+	facades around the younger races?
+
+   
    • @@@854693691 What was the Vorlon "cause" that compelled Lyta to
+	cooperate with them?  Did they explain their true motives to her, or
+	did they feed her a palatable lie?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Sheridan and Lorien appear to have gotten to know each
+	other well.  What has each of them been getting from the relationship?
+	So far, Lorien doesn't appear to be feeding Sheridan specific
+	information about the Vorlons or the Shadows (though that could be
+	happening offscreen.)  He seems to be providing moral and
+	philosophical support more than anything else, aside from the
+	occasional dose of life energy.  What is Sheridan giving him in
+	return?  Presumably it's something worth leaving Z'ha'dum to get.
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Sheridan authorized the transfer of refugees to Epsilon 3
+	without even consulting with Draal.  How does he know Draal wouldn't
+	object?  If the planet is still available as a defense mechanism for
+	the station, Draal would most likely need to tell the crew where to
+	set up camp, lest they put refugees right on top of an underground
+	weapon.  It's also interesting that the surface of Epsilon 3 is
+	apparently habitable, given that oxygen masks were required to
+	breathe underground
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+	Perhaps the crew is assuming Draal will provide an appropriate
+	atmosphere.
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Kosh expressed outrage, not surprise, that a human could
+	mentally imprison a Vorlon.  Perhaps the Vorlons have a weakness like
+	the Shadows', and can be contained by sufficiently powerful telepaths.
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Is the difference in color between the two Vorlons
+	significant?  It may simply be due to the fact that what emerged from
+	Sheridan wasn't just Kosh, but a combination of Kosh, Sheridan, and
+	Lorien.
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Delenn recognized Kosh immediately.  Does that mean she
+	had previously seen his true form?  If so, it was most likely in
+	"Chrysalis,"
+	though why he would let her see through his mask then isn't clear,
+	since he most likely projected an image to her in
+	"The Fall of Night."
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Lorien's healing technique resembles that of the healing
+	machine from
+	"The Quality of Mercy."
+	Could that machine be used to further extend Sheridan's life, or
+	Lorien's, for that matter?  How much life does Lorien have left?
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 When he used it on Z'ha'dum, it obviously extended to the
+	original Kosh as well, since Kosh was able to battle his successor.
+
+   
    • @@@850299819 Sheridan's shortened lifespan may be the terrible price
+	Delenn mentioned in the flashforward in
+	"War Without End, Part Two."
+	At that time, 17 years in the future, he would only have another two
+	or three years left to live, barring other developments.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Kosh gave his life willingly to stop the other Vorlon.
+	Perhaps that goal was what he needed to live for, his version of
+	Sheridan's devotion to Delenn.  If he had to come to terms with his
+	own death as Sheridan did, such self-sacrifice was presumably somewhat
+	easier when the time came.
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Is the original Kosh the only Vorlon to oppose what's
+	going on now?  Perhaps they're factionalized much like the Minbari,
+	and the new Kosh represented the more belligerent faction, which has
+	the upper hand at the moment.  In any case, why did the original Kosh
+	care about the younger races more than his replacement?
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 How much of Kosh is still left in Sheridan in the form of
+	memories and knowledge?  Was Kosh's presence instrumental in putting
+	together whatever plan Sheridan has in mind?
+
+   
    • @@@848919207 Londo clearly plans to strike at Cartagia on Narn, where
+	presumably he'll be an easier target than he is in the royal palace.
+	But even if he succeeds, what then?  The Shadows will still be on
+	Centauri Prime, with only a few days left until the projected arrival
+	of the Vorlon fleet.  It's unlikely Morden and his associates would
+	look favorably on a request to leave the planet, and even if they
+	went away immediately, Centauri Prime would still have been touched
+	by the Shadows and thus would still be a target.
+
+   
    • @@@865731509 By failing to suggest a punishment for G'Kar, Londo has
+	likely just wasted his first chance for redemption: saving the eye
+	that does not see
+	("Point of No Return.")
+
+   
    • @@@850523208 Cartagia's vision of the end of Centauri Prime ("Let it all
+	end in fire") may be related to Kosh's reply to Emperor Turhan in
+	"The Coming of Shadows,"
+	to whom he said that things would end "in fire."
+
+   
    • @@@852059217 In fact, Kosh may have been saying more than the Emperor
+	knew; perhaps he foresaw the deployment of the Vorlon planet-killer, or
+	believed it likely, and figured it'd be used against Centauri Prime.
+	If so, how long have the Vorlons been planning their current course
+	of action?
+
+   
    • @@@859396839 Garibaldi theorized to Franklin that he might have been
+	caught in the hyperspace backwash when the Shadows pulled out.  This
+	was first mentioned as a danger in
+	"Signs and Portents,"
+	in which Sinclair warns Ivanova to stay away from the raider mothership
+	to avoid being pulled into its backwash.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877241620 The list of sites accepting refugees from Ventari III,
+	as shown in Ivanova's broadcast:
+	
        
+	   
      •  Tizino Prime (presumed destroyed later in the episode)
+	   
      •  Mokafa Station
+	   
      •  Drazi Fendamir Research Colony
+	   
      •  Kazomi III
+	   
      •  D'Grn IV
+	   
      •  L'Gn'Daort
+	   
      •  Nacambad Colony
+	   
      •  7 Lukantha
+	   
      •  Oqmritkz
+	   
      •  Velatastat
+	   
      •  Lesser Krindar
+	   
      •  Greater Krindar
+	
      
+
+   
    • @@@850298803 The rightmost head in Cartagia's shadow cabinet is Andreas
+	Katsulas (G'Kar.)  See
+	jms speaks.
+
+   
    • @@@839551695 "Apotheosis" means "elevation to divine status," or
+	more simply, deification.
+
+   
    • @@@848919344 The two Koshes left the scene of the firefight through the
+	ceiling.  If they were headed for space, they took the long way there;
+	to get outside through the ceiling, they'd have to pass through the
+	center of the station.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@839611509 In response to a
+	CompuServe message
      
+	That was really excellent.  Let me explain to you how excellent
+	it was: I was taking a break on CIS because I was trying to work
+	through the heart of a scene between Delenn and Sheridan in script 403.
+	It was a little fuzzy there in places, and I usually log off and putter
+	around rather than trying to write it when it isn't all there yet in my
+	head.  Your analysis helped me clarify something in my own mind which
+	was there in the first place but hadn't yet racked into focus yet.  It
+	would've done so eventually, it always does, but you may have saved me
+	an hour or two of going back over their relationship in my head and
+	pulling out the emotional and thematic undercurrents of what's been
+	established over the last couple of seasons.
+
+	
      
+	Good stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@844028525 One is falling toward something which is rising, therefore
+	promising imminent conflict.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550081 Which storyline does the title refer to?
      
+	Interpretation is everything...I prefer to leave it that way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848310645 Does it end in a cliffhanger?
      
+	No, it doesn't exactly end with a cliffhanger.
+
+	
      
+	It does, however, end on a cliff.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848682626 So earlier this week we did the audio mix on almost all
+	of 404, "Falling Toward Apotheosis," which airs this coming week.  We
+	did all but 7 minutes, because they were seven...big...minutes.
+
+	
      
+	Last night, after working at the stage from early morning on, John
+	Copeland, George Johnsen and I left about 7 p.m. to go and mix the
+	audio for those seven minutes.
+
+	
      
+	We finished at 2:30 a.m.  (And I had to get up at 7:30 a.m. for a
+	meeting, no less.)
+
+	
      
+	Point being...if you've got a friend with a good TV and a spiffy audio
+	or surround sound system, you may want to watch this next one over at
+	their place.
+
+	
      
+	Just a thought.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851232246 Which seven minutes?
      
+	From Lyta's entrance to Kosh's place, to Lorien's hand.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850298803 About the shadow cabinet
      
+	Yes, that's Andreas' head, which I personally moved over to
+	where it would be beside Peter...who complained (in jest) that Andreas
+	was again stealing the scene from him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851907178 Why is everyone acting strangely toward
+	Garibaldi?
      
+	The main reason for the non-big reaction to Garibaldi is that
+	none of them really know of anything that went on.  He says he just got
+	caught in the hyperspace backwash, and his ship got swiped.  And it's a
+	fairly thin story, so there's some questioning of what's not being
+	said, or is this the whole story?  So people are bound to be a bit more
+	tentative...and, again, there's a big huge war on, and pilots returning
+	from missions at the height of WW2 were given a handshake and told to
+	get back into the plane for the next mission.
+
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850328566 Have we seen a Vorlon's true appearance?
      
+	That's pretty much what they look like.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865283336 Actually, we kinda decided to cut back a bit on lens
+	flare...because that particular one is now used in so many places, it's
+	become a cliche.  We tried out a new kind of flare in the Kosh2 scene,
+	when he nails Sheridan, you can just sorta see it...once everyone else
+	does what we've been doing, we tend to move on to newer areas.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857328062 Why didn't Kosh project an illusion?
      
+	Because it takes concentration to pull it off, and Kosh2 was
+	kinda distracted....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850328566 The encounter suit was mainly to mask them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851074022 The idea was to short out and "crack" the suit, getting
+	the vorlon out, so the last of Kosh and Lorien and Sheridan could deal
+	with him in a weakened and more vulnerable state.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850328566 The Vorlons looked a bit like Shadows.
      
+	I didn't think they looked that much alike.  But then, no two
+	people ever see Vorlons in quite the same way, I guess.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848919344 If Vorlons are amorphous energy beings, how was Kosh
+	poisoned in
+	"The Gathering?"
      
+	Remember, they do have a certain physicality about them, even in that
+	form, and the nature of the poison was such that it would affect that
+	kind of life form using a crystalline base (note in the pilot the screen
+	reads analyzing crystalline structure, and you filter light or refract
+	or distort it using a crystalline structure).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851198236 Silicon or crystalline based lifeforms are still lifeforms,
+	just not the same as carbon-based lifeforms (like us).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850328566 Yes, that's a Vorlon...and there was a physicality to them,
+	shown by the fact that it could strike out and hit things.  It's not a
+	ghost or anything of that nature, it can be hurt and killed.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550437 What was Delenn doing at the fight?
      
+	Well, I think it's pretty obvious she would've known about it,
+	given her proximity to Sheridan...and if I knew something this big was
+	going on, sure as heck *I'd* want to be there to see it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850328567 What was Kosh's ship
+	doing?
      
+	It was responding to Kosh2's commands to get out of there so
+	he/it could enter it and escape.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850328567 Wouldn't the original Kosh have stopped it from
+	tearing the station apart?
      
+	There wasn't enough left for that...it was just a hint of him,
+	that later needed to be bolstered by both Lorien and Sheridan to hit
+	even a part of its original ability.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850539271 Kosh went with the new vorlon into the ship, and that final
+	blast was what did the job ultimately.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850539271 Didn't Lyta already tell the new Kosh that
+	Sheridan had a piece of the old Kosh?
      
+	Actually, she said, "I think, it's possible, someone else does."
+	But she didn't specify Sheridan, and likely wouldn't have until she
+	knew absolutely for certain...and until she knew a little more about
+	the vorlon she was dealing with.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550719 Was Kosh aware of what was being planned?
      
+	I'd say it was aware of this, yes...and you can hear just a
+	trace of its voice just before it emerges.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850522934 All trace of Kosh is gone.  He/it will never be seen again,
+	in any form, exempting flashbacks, of which none are currently planned.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854124767 Was it necessary to kill the new Kosh?
      
+	Had Kosh2 left when asked, it wouldn't have had to be done, no. 
+	It was vaguely possible, but they had to plan as if he would not do so,
+	which in fact was what happened.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864588843 The idea was to force Kosh2 out of the station, to where it
+	could be destroyed outside with a minimum of damage to the station. 
+	Delenn wasn't happy about it, but also recognizes that war means
+	sometimes having to kill somebody.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850539271 With two of their ambassadors dead, won't the Vorlons
+	take revenge against B5?
      
+	Of course, at the moment, the vorlons are a little busy...but
+	given time, yes, they would do exactly that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894531 Did the original storyline call for the first Kosh
+	to be killed in this episode?
      
+	Best to leave what might've been out...what is, is better.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894531 There's a lot more to be said of the story of Kosh, and
+	the Vorlons in general...and part of me says explain it later...and
+	another part says that if you explain mysteries too much, it destroys
+	them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550856 Morden is living in denial...he's afraid, and hoping he's
+	right.  Centauri Prime has more civilians than any other planet or
+	colony hit so far: three billion people.  The shadows are hoping a
+	figure that high will daunt even the Vorlons.
+
+	
      
+	The wings are just how we perceived them, to some extent, though
+	we did see a hint of wings as the last of Kosh emerged from Sheridan. 
+	(We also heard the wing flap sound, and the sound of Kosh's voice for
+	the last time right after Lorien's "Now.")
+
+	
      
+	Dr. Kyle saw the angelic form...even in its reduced state, it
+	held itself together enough to maintain that form.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850328567 Was Sheridan almost dead in
+	"War Without End, Part Two?"
      
+	Yep, at the time of that flash-forward, Sheridan has at most
+	2-3 years left to live.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855248233 Had he followed Delenn's advice, would he be in
+	the same situation anyway?
      
+	Had he not gone to Z'ha'dum, he would've avoided that fate,
+	but caused another.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850298803 Minbari can easily live to about 140 or so.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864894531 Was it fair of Sheridan to propose to Delenn after
+	Lorien's bad news?
      
+	Well, I think it's better for someone to know that first, then
+	find out about it later.  "Oh, good, we're going to spend the rest of
+	our lives together...oh, by the way, now that you've committed, you
+	should know...."
+
+	
      
+	Uh, uh.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850647613 Delenn is spending a lot of time fawning over
+	Sheridan.
      
+	"Considering her past role in Minbari society, though, I expect her to
+	snap out of it pretty soon.  She was *trained* to take charge, and even
+	the things she's endured lately won't supress that conditioning
+	forever."
+
+	
      
+	Oh, most definitely...count on it.  She's done more than enough "oh
+	john" stuff for my tastes...that will start to change, and soon.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850757478 Too much depression and guilt lately, and she's
+	been for the most part a passive character lately, while others acted
+	around her. Now it's about time for her to start becoming active again.
+	There's fire and steel in *use*, and fire and steel waiting to be
+	called upon...time to shift from the latter to the former.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850938080 How does the Minbari sleep-watching ritual compare in
+	seriousness to Sheridan's marriage proposal?
      
+	Well, I think it fair to say that with Delenn starting the
+	ritual, there had already been kind of an implicit understanding that
+	this was going to be more than just a fling...and there's still a long
+	road ahead of them before this can be finalized.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850328567 Why doesn't Cartagia have the telepaths seen in
+	"The Coming of Shadows?"
      
+	They weren't prophetesses, they were communications-telepaths,
+	and the emperor can use them if he perceives the need to keep in
+	contact with events in the royal court.  Cartagia could give a fig for
+	what goes at home, which will be ash soon anyway....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850523392 Cartagia wouldn't go to Narn just because Londo
+	asked.
      
+	Except, of course, this trip with G'Kar was in his best
+	interest, and Cartagia is always responsive to what's best for
+	Cartagia.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850550856 For my money, the truly frightening thing about Cartagia
+	is that he is motivated entirely by whim, by caprice...he can give you
+	something wonderful one moment, then turn around and have you killed
+	the next.  You *never* know which way he'll flip from moment to moment.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850522934 Why didn't Londo try to save G'Kar's eye?
      
+	Yeah...would've been nice if Londo had at least tried to do
+	something about the eye that did not see Cartagia's splendor....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850978352 The Londo stuff is nice, and you do get a sense of the
+	kind of person he was before the empire began to slip, and his fortunes
+	with it. He can definitely pull it out when he wants to.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851939219 Only 3 billion people on Centauri Prime?
      
+	Basically, I figured with a culture in decline, often the birth rate
+	goes down; it's also a fairly small world, all things considered...and a
+	LOT of them live on other colonies, they've been spreading out a lot
+	longer than we have...and of course they have always been sensible about
+	birth control and population growth, one of their few wisdoms, and one
+	we could learn from.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@859325143 Was Kosh's comment about Sheridan opening an unexpected
+	door in
+	"The Hour of the Wolf"
+	related to the change in Vorlon strategy?
      
+	They couldn't break the rules of engagement, but he
+	did...and started things moving.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@859325128 Wasn't the planet-killer a break in the rules?
      
+	That *followed* his trip to Z'ha'dum...so yes, the rules
+	began to slip after that.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the Army of Light prepares to strike, Londo and Vir
+continue to plot Cartagia's downfall.  Ivanova and Lorien look for more
+First Ones.  The Shadows unleash a terrible new weapon.
+
+
+Wortham Krimmer as Emperor Cartagia.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.82
+
+Production number: 405
+Original air week: January 27, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John LaFia
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854665360 The Shadows have deployed a planet-killer of their own,
+	striking against Vorlon-aligned worlds much as the Vorlons are
+	decimating worlds touched by the Shadows.
+
+   
    • @@@854665360 After the success of his assassination plot, Londo has
+	taken Cartagia's place as head of the Centauri, though for the moment
+	only as prime minister, not as emperor.
+
+   
    • @@@854665360 Making good on his promise to G'Kar in
+	"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?"
+	Londo has ordered the withdrawal of Centauri forces from Narn.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854665360 Who were the Centuari nobles in the secret meeting with
+	Londo and Vir?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854665360 Now that Narn is free, will G'Kar retain his stature?  Or
+	will most of his countrymen come to feel the way the Narn in the
+	palace did, that G'Kar's sacrifice wasn't significant and doesn't
+	give him any special moral authority?
+	
+	
      
+	It's unlikely the Narn could
+	mount any meaningful offensive against the Centauri regardless of
+	their antagonism, given the near-total destruction of their fleet and
+	the razing of their planet.  But G'Kar's warnings have a habit of
+	being ignored until it's too late
+	("Revelations"
+	and
+	"The Long, Twilight Struggle,"
+	to name two instances) and given the justifiable rage many Narn no
+	doubt feel, they may well ignore him again.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864689600 The Narn clearly don't know why the Centauri really left
+	their world.  How will they react if and when they learn that it was
+	a bargain on G'Kar's part, not the stubborn resistance of the Narn
+	people as a whole, that caused their invaders to leave?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854665360 In
+	"Falling Toward Apotheosis,"
+	Garibaldi speculated that in a week's time, the crush of incoming
+	refugees would overwhelm Babylon 5's resources.  That doesn't seem to
+	have happened.  Has the diversion of people to the surface of Epsilon
+	3 gone smoothly enough to take the load off the station?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854665360 This episode marks the first time Sheridan has been shown
+	ordering someone to certain death, though perhaps it's
+	something he had to do during the Earth-Minbari War as well.  His
+	death and rebirth on Z'ha'dum likely makes such orders more credible:
+	he was willing to die for the cause, so he's clearly not sending
+	others into the fire just to save his own skin.  Delenn, on the other
+	hand, might not be ready for that aspect of command; as Lennier
+	pointed out in
+	"Grey 17 Is Missing,"
+	she holds individual lives in high esteem and is reluctant to risk them
+	even for a greater good.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854693608 What did Londo mean when he told the other Centauri that
+	when he died, there would be a reckoning?  He could have been
+	referring to his own alleged complicity in the death of Prime Minister
+	Malachi,
+	or to a reckoning for Refa's actions.  If the former, he was probably
+	thinking in particular of his rather ignoble death, strangulation at
+	the hands of G'Kar as foreseen in his dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows,"
+	"War Without End, Part Two.")
+
+
      
+  
    • @@@855251439 Although it was clearly unintentional (see
+	jms speaks)
+	one of Vir's earliest appearances has what could be considered
+	foreshadowing of his killing of Cartagia.  In
+	"Born to the Purple,"
+	Londo asks Vir, "What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?"
+	Vir has turned out to be an assassin, and by killing 
+	Cartagia, Vir has undone some of the damage that began when Londo first 
+	answered Morden's question, "What do you want?" in
+	"Signs and Portents."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865730716 Another possible unintentional foreshadowing of Vir's
+	actions was the Minbari rebirth ceremony in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams."
+	During the ceremony, Delenn handed out fruits while she recited a
+	Minbari holy text.  As she gave Londo his fruit, she spoke of birth;
+	Vir's, death and renewal.  Obviously it wasn't JMS's intent at the
+	time, but Londo can be seen as bringing on the birth of the newly
+	ascendant Centauri Republic by helping Refa bring Cartagia to power.
+	Vir brings its death in the form of the assassination, and its
+	rebirth in the resulting shift in power.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854352579 The poem recited by Sheridan at the end of the episode was
+	probably left by Sinclair, who quoted it to Delenn as far back as
+	"The Gathering."
+	It is Tennyson's
+	"Ulysses."
+
+   
    • @@@854665360 When Londo first saw G'Kar, G'Kar commented that his eye
+	offended Cartagia.  That's no doubt a Biblical reference, to
+	Matthew 18:9.
+
+   
    • @@@854957172 G'Kar's newfound vision bears some resemblance to Norse
+	mythology, in which the god Odin sacrificed one of his eyes in
+	exchange for the ability to perceive things beyond the normal senses.
+
+   
    • @@@854352661 In the initial US broadcast, the third-season theme was
+	played over the closing credits.
+
+   
    • @@@851839066 The Shadow weapon was devised by Harlan Ellison.
+
+   
    • @@@865967620 Effects glitch: About a half-second before the executive
+	producer credit, as the fleet is leaving Babylon 5, some Starfuries
+	enter the picture on the right side.  As they appear, they flicker
+	out of existence for a frame or two.  The effect is visible (barely)
+	at normal speed, more obvious in slow motion.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@855428420 Was the use of the third season end theme
+	deliberate?
      
+	It was an error...but as with many errors on the show, it
+	worked to our benefit.  It's the ABA principle....Art By Accident.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854727959 I'm quite happy with this episode.  It's fun.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@840408489 I'm writing 405, "The
+	Long Night," and there's something that one character was supposed to
+	do in the script, that had been the plan all along, that was my intent
+	even as near as 1 page from where it was going to happen...then just as
+	I got to that scene, another character stepped up and said, "no, let me
+	do it."  I was kinda flummoxed.  "You?!  You're the LAST person anyone
+	would think to do this." The character nodded.  "Exactly."  And the
+	symmetry was perfect, the impact would be greater...so that's who did
+	it.
+
+	
      
+	On one level, it's always wonderful when this happens; on
+	another, it scares the hell out of me....
+
+	
      
+	It's at the bottom of act two, you'll figure it out when you get
+	there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852231899 Which character has surprised you the most?
      
+	Probably Vir.  He's surprised me on many levels.  Suffice to say that in
+	the first 6 somewhere next season, there's something I'd slotted for
+	another character to do.  I'd intended for that character to do it right
+	up....  until the page before that other character was going to do it,
+	when Vir stepped up in my brain and said, "No, *I* should do this."  And
+	as soon as he said it, I knew it was right.  You'll see.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854693845 It was gonna be Londo right up until 2 pages before the
+	scene...then Vir said, "Nope."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854957225 Nothing about it was at all accidental...he had to go
+	pick it up, turn, move to Cartagia, stick it in, and then pull the
+	trigger. Nothing accidental about it.  But if we'd shown him doing all
+	the prep, the shock wouldn't have been as substantial.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@852471331 "Has a character (not actor) ever suggested a direction
+	to you that you didn't take, but later on seemed like the direction you
+	should have taken? I would think they would all be fighting for
+	screen-time, or is that just some actors?"
+
+	
      
+	Not really, mainly because if my subconscious mind is sufficiently up in
+	arms about something as to throw a fictional character at me and yell at
+	me, it's usually a sign that I should Shut The Hell Up And Do As I'm
+	Told.  So when it happens, I *very* rarely ignore it.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855249305 What did Londo mean when he said there'd be a
+	reckoning?
      
+	Well, the reckoning in the next life for his actions in this
+	one, would be the best way of putting it.  That's what he expects.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@859454157 Was G'Kar's stock a visual reference to Jesus on
+	the cross?
      
+	I think one can make the argument there is some symbolism in
+	there from christian literature, but that kind of scene takes place in
+	other belief systems as well, and historically that sort of torture was
+	used in many places, including the Roman empire in general.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855249226 Did Londo's men weaken the chains after all, or was
+	G'Kar just really determined?
      
+	That was one determined Narn.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854694708 The White Star mission in that ep has definite roots;
+	during WW2 to convince the Germans we weren't going to land at
+	Normandy, our own agents were fed incorrect information, set
+	loose...and then info was leaked to the Germans allowing them to pick
+	up the agents and torture the information out of them.  This wasn't
+	quite as bad as that, the crew at least knew what they were getting
+	into...but there are often no good choices in war.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854957259 The Ericsson scene was moving.
      
+	Thanks...I think a lot of it there has to do also with the
+	performance of the actor playing Ericsson.  He brought a real sense of
+	presence to the job.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855334858 He asked if Ericsson was married because, if he was,
+	that was a call that Sheridan would have to make, over Stellarcom or in
+	person, to notify her that her husband was dead.  And, for Sheridan, I
+	suppose there was a tinge of relief, knowing that at least he wouldn't
+	be creating a widow as well as ordering Ericsson to do what was
+	necessary.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@872263596 What was the meaning of the phrase Ericsson used when
+	he signed off?
      
+	The Minbari phrase was the standard way for Rangers to end a
+	conversation, with a salute to the Entil-zha, the head of the Rangers,
+	which is Delenn in this case.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854871953 Why did the promo feature Ericsson when his was a
+	pretty minor part?
      
+	Certainly I would never have made a big deal about the Ericsson
+	thing, because then it *does* set up certain expectations.  I didn't
+	hear about the promo until you did.
+
+	
      
+	There actually *was* a Lorien scene in that episode, but it got
+	slid a bit when we ran out of time in that ep.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855479889 Sheridan should have known Ericsson wasn't
+	married.
      
+	First, the Rangers situation is not a typical military situation.  They
+	are primarily from Minbar, both in terms of actual Minbari and humans
+	trained there.  They are specifically under Delenn's charge, with
+	Sheridan *sharing* that authority.  He did not know Ericsson because
+	they're a large bunch to whom he has not been introduced, and likely
+	they don't have very large records on them.  This is a *de facto* army,
+	not a *de jure* (I hope I spelled that right) army...there ain't a lot
+	of paperwork on the Rangers.
+
+	
      
+	Second, it was Delenn who sent for this particular White Star, more for
+	its strategic location...which Sheridan used because it was closest to
+	the goal.  Your observation is like saying that General Patton should
+	know *instantly* about every soldier on the line in battle, however
+	distant he is.  Which is simply absurd.  Watch some old WW2 footage
+	someday...there's General MacArthur walking among some troops..."What's
+	your name, son? Where are you from?"  By your lights, he should have
+	known that.  
+
+	
      
+	Third, re: the encryption notice...of *course* they're all
+	encrypted...what Sheridan said was "we're RE-encrypting this message
+	EVERY THREE SECONDS, so be sure to have your system keep up."  That's an
+	escalation in layers of encryption so elaborate and involved that it
+	makes the system actually slow down.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865288361 More on Sheridan's sacrifice of the ship
      
+	I think it also showed the League that he was willing to
+	sacrifice his own people, that he *means business*...and is prepared to
+	go all the way for this, and they'd damned well better be as well.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Army of Light mounts its final assault.  Londo learns some surprising
+information about Morden.
+
+
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.30
+
+Production number: 406
+Original air week: February 3, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Dobson
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854957043 The first of Lorien's people were effectively immortal,
+	but later generations grew old and died.
+
+   
    • @@@854957043 The Shadows and Vorlons never attacked one another
+	directly because their goal wasn't to defeat the opposition in a
+	military sense, but to convince their charges, the younger races,
+	to forsake the opposing philosophy.  Along the way, both races
+	lost track of who they were and what they wanted.
+
+   
    • @@@854957043 All the First Ones, including the Shadows and Vorlons, are
+	gone, ushering in the third age of mankind (which seems to refer to the
+	younger races as a group, not just humanity.)  In the first age, man
+	was too primitive to be considered part of the larger
+	picture.  In the second age, man was intelligent and aware of the
+	greater world, but his fate was manipulated by outside forces.  Now,
+	with all the older races gone, man has entered an age of
+	self-determination.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854957043 What lies beyond the galactic rim?  Why do all the elder
+	races want to go there?
+
+   
    • @@@854957043 How far did Lorien's broadcast of the conversations with
+	the Vorlons and Shadows extend?  Just to the crews of the ships at
+	Coriana 6, or more broadly than that?
+
+   
    • @@@854989151 Does Londo sending Vir back to Babylon 5 mean that Vir is
+	now the Centauri Ambassador?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854957043 The First Ones were of surprisingly little help,
+	considering the trouble to which Ivanova and Lorien went to secure
+	their assistance. They amounted to little more than strange-looking
+	guns, just there to pop in, destroy the Vorlon planetkiller, and
+	do little else (though one of them can be seen destroying a few
+	Shadow and Vorlon ships.)  Why were the Shadows and Vorlons seemingly
+	undisturbed by the intervention of their peers, preferring instead
+	to continue fighting as before?  Why didn't the First Ones do anything
+	about the Shadow planetkiller?
+
+	
      
+	It could be argued that they had to be present because Lorien needed
+	them to see that it was time to depart.  But given how reclusive
+	most of the remaining First Ones were, they could likely have remained
+	right where they were without ever significantly affecting mankind's
+	reign of the galaxy.  Only the Shadows and Vorlons were actively
+	interfering with the younger races.  For all intents and purposes the
+	remaining First Ones were already gone anyway.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855428614 Sheridan's plan -- luring the Shadows to Coriana 6 with
+	false information, then planting bombs in nearby asteroids --
+	is the same strategy he employed to good effect against the
+	Black Star during the Earth-Minbari War
+	("There All the Honor Lies.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855424386 The representation of the Shadows and Vorlons while
+	Sheridan and Delenn were talking to them was symbolic of their nature.
+	The Shadows moved around, shifted form, and spoke with many voices,
+	representative of chaos.  The Vorlons were frozen in ice, cold and
+	aloof and unchanging.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865709913 The episode's title can be read as a reference to a
+	crucible, which certainly fits the theme of the storyline.  Sheridan
+	brought together the concentrated forces of the Shadows, Vorlons, the
+	First Ones, and the younger races; as they were all forced to interact,
+	they were transformed.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854957043 How did Londo know Morden was accompanied by
+	Shadows?  Perhaps he simply put two and two together after noticing
+	the strange sounds near Morden in
+	"Interludes and Examinations,"
+	but this is the first evidence that Londo has been doing research on
+	Morden's associates.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856977107 What happened to the Shadow hit by the guard's weapon?
+	Was its body recovered?  In
+	"The Long Dark,"
+	when the Shadow warrior was killed, it didn't leave a body behind,
+	so perhaps it's some kind of standard protection mechanism used by
+	the Shadows and their servants.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855249157 By killing Morden and destroying the Shadow base, Londo
+	has probably sealed the fate of Centauri Prime as seen in
+	"War Without End, Part Two."
+	As Morden said, the Shadows may be gone, but they have allies, and
+	Londo told Sheridan in that episode that the Shadows' allies were
+	the ones laying waste to Centauri Prime.
+	
+	
      
+	Whether those allies will also be responsible for putting the keeper
+	on Londo isn't clear.  If so, they would appear to be after more than
+	simple revenge, since they were trying to extract information from
+	Delenn.
+
+	
      
+	Ironically, if Londo had left the base and Morden alone, the Vorlons
+	would have turned back anyway, since their planet-killer was summoned
+	to Coriana 6 before it fired a shot at Centauri Prime.  Of course, he
+	had no way of knowing that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889479051 When he first appeared in
+	"Signs and Portents,"
+	Morden asked G'Kar, Delenn, and Londo what they wanted.  Later, in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	he asked the same of Vir.  The irony is, only Vir actually ended up
+	getting exactly what he asked for.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865730452 As the Vorlon ship passed overhead, Londo and everything
+	around him fell under its shadow, underscoring the point about Londo's 
+	Shadow involvement.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855688842 After Selini was destroyed, Morden clutched almost
+	desperately at his pendant.  Just a reflex, or was it perhaps some
+	form of link to the Shadows?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855249157 Given his fate when Sheridan destroyed the White Star on
+	Z'ha'dum, and the fact that only extreme intervention restored any
+	semblance of his physical body
+	("The Hour of the Wolf")
+	Morden may qualify as "the one who is already dead" from
+	Lady Morella's prophecy
+	("Point of No Return.")
+	By killing Morden and thus condemning Centauri Prime to the dismal
+	future seen 17 years hence, Londo has plausibly given up a chance to
+	redeem himself.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855250685 The Shadows themselves may have departed, but what have
+	they left behind?  Many of their ships were manned by other races.
+	Did the pilots leave for the Rim as well, or are there still Shadow
+	ships flying around the galaxy?  What about their cities on Z'ha'dum,
+	and the ships they buried on worlds all over the galaxy?  Did all
+	their representatives on Earth and elsewhere leave too?
+
+	
      
+	Similarly, is the Vorlon homeworld now accessible to anyone who cares
+	to visit?  What did the Vorlons leave behind?
+
+	
      
+	Lorien also may have left something behind, namely the ship he and
+	Sheridan took to Babylon 5 in
+	"The Summoning."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854989151 Who will force mankind to step down when our time has
+	passed?  The Vorlons and Shadows likely wouldn't have left were it
+	not for Lorien's intervention.  With both of them, and their peers,
+	gone, there'll be no father figure to coax mankind out of the way
+	millions of years hence, when we're the mysterious elder race
+	meddling in the affairs of the newcomers.
+
+	
      
+	Perhaps that role will be filled by Jason Ironheart
+	("Mind War.")
+	He indicated he'd be back in a million years.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@855041263 In the initial US broadcast, the end credits were
+	accompanied by the theme music from season three, not season four.
+
+   
    • @@@855250214 Reflecting his increased status, Vir's hair appears to
+	be somewhat longer in this episode than previously.
+
+   
    • @@@855424526 The space background in the opening sequence, when the
+	White Star awaits the arrival of more First Ones, is from a
+	Hubble
+	Space Telescope photo,
+	part of the Eagle Nebula.
+
+   
    • @@@855594640 The island of Selini, shown being destroyed by Londo,
+	bears strong similarity to the island of Sicily, Italy, as seen
+	from space.
+
+   
    • @@@855520811 The scene in which Lorien tells Ivanova about his people
+	and about his immortality was originally written for the previous
+	episode,
+	"The Long Night."
+	That's why it takes place aboard Babylon 5 rather than the White
+	Star, forcing a rather strange detour to the station when Ivanova
+	would have wanted to head directly to the scene of the battle.
+	When Lorien says, "I was told you were ready to leave," he's referring
+	to Ivanova's departure on Sheridan's mission to find more First Ones.
+	To cover for this inconsistency, an extra line of voiceover dialogue
+	was added to the first scene in the episode, Ivanova telling Lorien
+	that they need to get back to Babylon 5 and rejoin the fleet.
+
+   
    • @@@855595571 Lorien said there were six First Ones, but only five can
+	be seen leaving the scene of the battle.  Of course, the sixth might
+	have left separately, or Lorien could have been referring to himself.
+
+   
    • @@@861607080 When Londo arrives in the throne room, he gathers his
+	WITS about him: he orders the unnamed Minister to gather the ministers
+	of War, Information, Transportation, and Security.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854987635 One of the things about the way events come to a head
+	and finish in ITF is that it's very unnerving...okay, *now* what?  The
+	ongoing conflict has become something you could count on, you knew the
+	rough shape of what might be coming along.  Now all that's kicked over,
+	and you have to get on with the next aspect: making a new life.
+
+	
      
+	What interests me, what I wanted to do with making this show,
+	was in large measure to examine the issues and emotions and events that
+	precede a war, precipitate a war, the effects of the war itself, the
+	end of the war and the aftermath of the war.  The war is hardware; the
+	people are at the center of the story.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855596749 So far the general reaction has been, "But...but...what
+	NOW?" which is *exactly* the reaction I was hoping for.
+
+	
      
+	Everybody keeps commenting, "This is the sort of episode you
+	have at the end, not 6 eps into your season."  Yep.
+
+	
      
+	We're funny that way....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855520133 Now comes more fun...again, it's all about process...going
+	from post-war (Minbari) to an uneasy peace, to showing how a war starts
+	to come about, the actual beginning of a war, its progress, then the
+	aftermath. That arc really is at the core of the show...the changes that
+	take place through this process.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855798440 I've always preferred the arc, both inside an episode, and
+	between episodes, and even in the course of a season, where there's the
+	resolution and then there's time to consider, reflect, and show the
+	impact of these things.  It's not just about solving the technical
+	problem that way...it's about the people who solve the problem and how
+	they are affected by the problems and solutions.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855941361 It's often the aftermath that holds the greatest
+	interest.  The Civil War tells one kind of interesting story; the
+	Reconstruction that followed, which endured for many years longer
+	than the war, tells another, just as interesting story.
+
+	
      
+	There's a line one of the characters will say soon, "The
+	duration's going to be a lot longer than the war."  It's a very
+	true comment.
+
+	
      
+	One of my favorite books is "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank, which
+	is about a nuclear war (written in the early 60s).  But the war
+	happens entirely off-stage, way in the distance...and the book
+	focuses on one small township dealing with the after effects, and
+	the day-to-day realities of surviving in a changed world.  I've
+	always been partial to that kind of storytelling.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855996831 As for the story being over...not by a long sight.
+	Frankly, some of what's coming in the latter part of this season is more
+	intense than anything we've done previously.  We really focus in on the
+	characters and the after-shocks of the war, in ways usually ignored.
+
+	
      
+	After all, we all know how nice and calm and civilized Europe
+	was after the War To End All Wars came to an end...we hardly heard a
+	peep from that part of the world thereafter....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848786435 As usual every season, we start out with lighter CGI
+	episodes, and build to big stuff as we go.  That will be the same this
+	season as last.  Our first really big CGI episode last season was
+	"Messages," which was around episode #8, then "Severed," episode #10.
+	This season we'll hit with big stuff around episode #6, which will
+	likely be as big as "Severed." Rather than push stuff back, we've been
+	able to move CGI stuff forward and expand on scenes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854694606 Just a quick note with two purposes: 
+
+	
      
+	1) to alert folks interested in Lightwave to check out the B5 episode
+	airing in about 2 weeks, "Into the Fire," the second new episode back,
+	to see some nifty stuff one can do when one applies oneself.  That
+	episode has roughly 114 CGI shots in 43 minutes, and are easily some of
+	the most elaborate ever done for TV.  (There's some nice stuff toward
+	the latter half of this coming week's episode, but the following one is
+	the big blow-out.)
+
+	
      
+	and
+
+	
      
+	2) to plink the noses of those on here who came on proclaiming that
+	"good sources" told them that the CGI EFX on B5 would either go to hell,
+	or look crappy, or be less than before.  We're now doing far more EFX
+	than in any previous season, and more elaborate shots.  I said these
+	individuals were full of it then, and the facts have spoken for
+	themselves in the time since.  These individuals have since dropped
+	away and gotten real silent. I hope they'll be as forthright now that
+	they've been shown to be wrong as they were in their original
+	proclamations.
+
+	
      
+	Otherwise we'd have to assume that these individuals were spewing out
+	things they knew weren't true, just to poison the well and cause us
+	grief, and I just can't *imagine* that *anyone* would do something like
+	that....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855334932 Why wasn't the Vorlon shown in its true form?
      
+	Because we'd still be rendering it.  There are 114 EFX shots in
+	that episode, and as it was we just barely made the satellite uplink. 
+	If it wasn't absolutely necessary, better to do it more simply.  As it
+	was, we were rendering the shadow form too.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857325978 Are you happy with having to hurry season four along
+	in case the show isn't renewed?
      
+	Truth: I go back and forth.  The "Into the Fire" thing, for instance...
+	it would've likely been a two-part episode, but it still would've ended
+	up exactly where it ended up.  A few more big explosions, but I wonder
+	also if that really adds anything past a certain point.
+
+	
      
+	From a production standpoing, since "Fire" darn near killed us in the
+	CGI department, it's probably a darned good thing it DIDN'T go for 2
+	eps. That puppy had something around 120 or 140 EFX shots.
+
+	
      
+	Overall, I'm actually quite happy with how this season is going, in
+	terms of the intensity of the arc and the emotions and incidents.  Parts
+	would've been a bit more laid-back if I had decided not to cover my bets
+	on renewal, and maybe the situation has worked out to the best (again
+	the ABA principle, Art By Accident).
+
+	
      
+	So I dunno...all I know is what's in the episodes this season, and it's
+	pretty cool overall....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855335304 1.) The CGI was excellent and seemed very different than
+	in previous episodes, much larger, better defined, darker.  Was this an
+	effort on your part, or the post-production department?"
+
+	
      
+	We're trying some new rendering techniques...I think they're working
+	very well.  (Some of the stuff in the next episode has a very realistic
+	feel to it.)
+
+	
      
+	2.) Have you found some way to slow down time or compress the episode
+	into a shorter span?  When I finished this one, I swore I had watched a
+	two hour movie.
+
+	
      
+	You did.  We arranged for a time dilation bubble to appear over your
+	house.
+
+	
      
+	3.) Any reaction from the actor or staff on this one?  Especially, Ed
+	Wasser? (Might be a bit of spoilers in the answer to this one)
+
+	
      
+	Ed wants to come back as an alien.  I see no problem with this.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855689033 Any significance to Morden's pendant?
      
+	It may have its uses.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855168180 The shadow voice was definitely Ed Wasser.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857328385 Yeah, that was Ed's voice.  Seemed appropos.
+
+	
      
+	Definitely didn't want it to end in a big explosion.  We've seen
+	many of those; how many more can you see?  One is the same as the other
+	after a while. And if we destroyed everything, how would that show we'd
+	grown enough to create the new age?  It's a matter of evolution, not
+	destruction.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855594069 I've suggested the
+	use of a minor chords version of the theme music to Chris on several
+	occasions, where it seemed right, here, Signs and Portents, and in
+	others.  The change from minor to major chords does signal an emotional
+	transition, and it works well.
+
+	
      
+	The director initially didn't want to do the Londo rage scene in
+	one take; it was something I felt very strongly about, and I think it
+	works well.
+
+	
      
+	BTW, there's another example of a long single take coming up
+	soon, on Epsilon 3, which is all I'll specify.  I kinda wanted the
+	scene to play itself out, without cutting, and to show just how
+	amazingly capable some of our actors can be.  We're talking here almost
+	4 minutes of footage, not one cut in the whole thing, very fast
+	dialogue, and not a single muffed line, with the performances working
+	wonderfully.  You'll know it when you see it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@859738308 Why were the other First Ones still around?
      
+	They were all still hanging around here, for one reason or
+	another, mostly to do with inertia, familiarity...but finally
+	recognized that it was time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855424386 The Sigma 957 ship was one of the First One ships, yeah.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855334932 I don't think the shadows speaking through Lyta referred to
+	Delenn by name; they said only, "And you they have left for us."
+
+	
      
+	The jostling from the asteroid was an accident, though the
+	others would've figured out what was going on soon enough.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855424386 Any relation between the Vorlon representative's
+	outfit and Ivanova's in the
+	"All Alone in the Night"
+	dream?
      
+	No, no relation to Ivanova's outfit.  I just wanted a sense of
+	something that was both ancient and ageless, frozen, formal, distant.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855596749 The woman was in ice as a symbol of their ridigity, their
+	inflexibility, "frozen in time," as the shadows say.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855248171 Two ancient adversaries gave up just because Delenn
+	and Sheridan told them to?
      
+	I think that, for me, what mitigates against that is that a) it
+	wasn't just Delenn and Sheridan, it was with virtually every other
+	major civilization around backing their play, and adding their support,
+	their voice, even being willing to die for the sake of this
+	confrontation.  If it were just the two of them...they'd be scragged. 
+	The two forces needed to be shown that the others had turned against
+	them, and that their true faces had been exposed.
+
+	
      
+	b) The other key for me is that neither the Vorlons nor the
+	Shadows saw themselves as conquerers or adversaries...both believed
+	they were doing what was right for us.  And like any possessive parent,
+	they'll keep on believing that until the kid is strong enough to stand
+	up and say, "No, this is what *I* want."
+
+	
      
+	Most wars tend to end with one singular event...sometimes it's a
+	big bomb, or a series of big bombs...and sometimes it comes with a
+	negotiation. The two sides meet in a room, sometimes with
+	representatives of other nations, and together they hammer out a truce,
+	or a peace.  There's the Nagasaki solution on the one hand, and the
+	"let's meet in a room and talk about this" of Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat
+	and Minister Begin.
+
+	
      
+	Both work.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855424386 There is a definite parent/child/parent dynamic going
+	on there, in that Lorien is, in a way, in that role to the Vorlons and
+	the Shadows, they're in that role to us, and we're in that role to
+	those who will follow. It's the endless cycle.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855593947 About the final scene between Lorien and the Vorlon
+	and Shadow images
      
+	One could almost argue for the whole scene as a classic
+	"intervention" out of psychotherapy or group counseling.
+
+	
      
+	Very early on, John Copeland asked me, "Okay, bottom line it for
+	me, what's the war about?"  I said, "It's about killing your parents." 
+	And his eyes went wide, and I explained, "No, not literally...but at
+	some point you have to step outside the control of your parents and
+	create your own life, your own destiny.  That process is
+	inevitable...and if there are indeed older races, and they're
+	interfering, that puts them smack in the middle of that same process."
+
+	
      
+	It's not about who has the biggest gun, because there's *always*
+	somebody else with a bigger gun...it's about *understanding* your way
+	out of a problem.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884031006 Will we ever learn why the first Kosh was more
+	sympathetic to the younger races than his replacement?
      
+	That's a good question, and one of the things I'd like to do
+	(but which I can't see any way to do in the series) is the whole story
+	of who Kosh was, how he got to be who and what he was, why he felt the
+	way he did toward humans (part of it was knowing Valen)...maybe this
+	will have to go into one of the novels.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884632799 Did Kosh go to B5 knowing that the conflict would
+	soon be over?
      
+	I think Kosh came late to the
+	table. I don't think he came to B5 with that intent, but it grew in him
+	over time that this cycle had to end, and he could be instrumental to
+	that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856337751 The main motive for going beyond the rim...there's a heck
+	of a big Taco Bell out there....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856920989 The notion of the Vorlons and Shadows representing
+	Order and Chaos goes back to the Babylonian creation myths, that the
+	universe was born in the conflict between order and chaos, hence part of
+	the reason I decided to name this show after Babylon.  That's called
+	*research*.  It informs the show, but it is not the show.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855249157 Certainly Londo would like to avoid his fate, and Lady
+	Morella prophesied certain ways of doing this...and he's had some
+	chances, and blown them.  As you say, he's creating the very future he'd
+	hoped to avoid.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Bester arrives with news of an Earth Alliance plan to further isolate
+Babylon 5.  Garibaldi delivers some surprising news to Sheridan.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+Damian London as Minister.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.43
+
+Production number: 407
+Original air week: February 10, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 With his Shadow allies gone, President Clark now views
+	Babylon 5 as a significant threat to his power.  There are still
+	elements of the Psi-Corps loyal to the Shadows.
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 The telepaths rescued from the Shadows in
+	"Ship of Tears"
+	are being kept aboard Babylon 5 in cryonic suspension until a means
+	can be found of disentangling them from their implants.
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 Lyta's telepathic powers have definitely been enhanced
+	by the Vorlons, to the point where she can easily block a scan by
+	a P12-level telepath while making telepathic contact across
+	several light-years.
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 Z'ha'dum has been destroyed, but not before the Shadows'
+	allies left with unknown quantities of Shadow technology and artifacts.
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 The Shadows' allies have arrived on Centauri Prime and
+	begun deploying the keepers seen in
+	"War Without End, Part Two."
+
+   
    • @@@855694042 After receiving a strange message from an unknown source,
+	likely related to what was done to him in
+	"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?"
+	Garibaldi has resigned as head of security.  Zack has been promoted
+	to take his place.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 Since some in the Psi Corps apparently still side with
+	the Shadows, did the Corps participate in the looting of Z'ha'dum?
+	If not, is the Corps in contact with the looters?
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 Did all the Shadows' allies go to Centauri Prime, or
+	are there more of them headed for other destinations?
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 Exactly how powerful is Lyta now?  Does she in fact have
+	additional programming of which she's not yet aware?
+
+   
    • @@@855635078 What does Bester know about Lyta that she doesn't want
+	others to find out?
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 What was the message Garibaldi received?  If it activated
+	an implanted personality or some hidden programming, why did he resign
+	after receiving the message?
+
+   
    • @@@856342884 What exactly were the "station lock-down codes" Garibaldi
+	gave Zack?  Are they something Garibaldi knows, or something he might
+	have kept a copy of?
+
+   
    • @@@855596642 What is Bester's "ace in the hole?"  Is it Garibaldi?
+
+   
    • @@@855635078 How does he plan to recover Carolyn?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855596642 Even Bester isn't let in on the entirety of Clark's plan,
+	just the part involving the Black Omega squadron.  What else is
+	planned?  Bester's superior said the plan involves the Ministry of
+	Peace and the Nightwatch, at least.
+
+	
      
+	Apparently Bester either isn't strong enough to scan his superior
+	without being detected (telepathic strength may determine one's
+	placement in the Corps, so that's not surprising,) or he's loyal
+	enough to the Corps as a whole to simply accept his boss's statement
+	that he doesn't need to know the entire plan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857587089 Bester took quite a personal risk by warning Babylon 5 of
+	Clark's impending plan.  The entire plan was known only by a select
+	few, according to Bester's superior; presumably only Bester and his
+	superior knew about the Black Omega operation.  If that was the only
+	part of the plan that failed, some degree of suspicion would naturally
+	fall on Bester as head of the squadron, subjecting his recent
+	activities to scrutiny.  And if even one Nightwatch member noticed
+	Bester's presence on Babylon 5 -- not too farfetched, since he entered
+	through a public customs area -- Clark's people would presumably be
+	able to put two and two together and conclude that Bester must have
+	leaked the information.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855943187 The Shadows, according to Anna Sheridan
+	("Z'ha'dum")
+	believed they'd die if anything Vorlon touched Z'ha'dum.  Many of
+	them did die when Sheridan arrived with a piece of Kosh.  And now
+	Lyta's telepathy, enhanced by the Vorlons (and, indeed, genetically
+	seeded by the Vorlons in the first place) has triggered the
+	destruction of Z'ha'dum itself.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857890334 Why did Sheridan not realize where the Shadows' minions
+	were headed?  In
+	"War Without End, Part One,"
+	he saw that they had gone to Centauri Prime.  His failure to do
+	anything about their arrival there probably explains Londo's
+	accusation in that episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856343437 The pattern of light in Garibaldi's message resembles the
+	light shining on him from above in the escape pod in
+	"The Summoning."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856651345 Why did Bester, who took pleasure in needling Garibaldi
+	on his previous visits to Babylon 5, make no inquiry about Garibaldi's
+	absence from the station's command staff?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855943187 If Garibaldi's resignation is indeed a sign that he's
+	been programmed, the programming may be much more subtle than the
+	Control personality implanted into Talia Winters
+	("Divided Loyalties.")
+	The effect of the programming may simply be to cause Garibaldi to
+	become disillusioned about Sheridan and his cause.  That would be
+	useful to Clark, who could use Garibaldi as a weapon in his
+	propaganda attack on Babylon 5.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856812639 On the other hand, it may be that Garibaldi's programming
+	hasn't been fully activated, and his resignation is his own choice;
+	he may believe he can't be trusted until he can piece together what
+	happened to him, and doesn't want to be in a position where he can
+	compromise Babylon 5.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857892236 In either case, Garibaldi's situation was foreshadowed in
+	"Divided Loyalties,"
+	in which he pretended briefly to be Control while Lyta was sending
+	the password to the command staff.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856651346 Was Delenn's remark to Sheridan, "We are old souls," a
+	casual observation, or does it have something to do with Minbari-human
+	soul migration?  Might it relate to her observation in
+	"Soul Mates"
+	that Minbari believe that souls that have known one another in one life 
+	meet again in later lives to relive good relationships and to 
+	correct bad ones?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855943486 Do the Vorlons have allies like the Shadows do?  If so,
+	are they looting the Vorlon homeworld?  The Vorlons have been known
+	to keep members of other races on their homeworld (e.g. Sebastian in 
+	"Comes the Inquisitor")
+	and presumably those people were left behind when the Vorlons
+	departed the galaxy.  What will become of them?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855943486 At least some Vorlon technology was left behind: the
+	White Star Fleet.  That would seem to give Sheridan a huge military
+	edge against Earth, whose armed forces aren't even on par with the
+	Minbari, let alone the Vorlons.  (Assuming, of course, that Clark
+	and the Psi Corps didn't manage to procure any Shadow technology.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855997432 Who is in charge on Centauri Prime?  The minister told
+	Londo that the position of regent was mostly ceremonial.  Londo is off
+	on Babylon 5, presumably not spending his time dealing with matters
+	of state.  That would seem to leave a rather large power vacuum.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856167448 Why did G'Kar return to Babylon 5?  It's not a sanctuary
+	for him any more, now that the Centauri have left Narn.  Perhaps
+	he was simply returning to collect his belongings, or perhaps he
+	intends to resume his role as ambassador from Narn.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855997432 Sheridan's comment about further troubles at the beginning
+	of the episode, "But that's tomorrow," echoes Vir's admonition to
+	Londo to be happy about his victories
+	("Into the Fire.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855997432 Zack and Garibaldi parallel each other to some extent.
+	Garibaldi was willing to go on instinct and hire Zack when he was
+	warned against it.  Sinclair made the same leap of faith by hiring
+	Garibaldi
+	("The Gathering.")
+	Further, Zack's socializing with Lyta parallels Garibaldi's interest
+	in Talia Winters.  Given the way Garibaldi is acting now, do these
+	parallels foreshadow any unpleasant developments for Zack?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@855943187 Bester founded the Black Omega Squadron.
+
+   
    • @@@855597447 The season-three theme music was played at the end of
+	the end of this episode during the original US broadcast, just like
+	"The Long Night"
+	and
+	"Into the Fire."
+
+   
    • @@@856303420 A visual pun: Zack commented to his staff that he wanted
+	to get away before the next person came through the customs area, since
+	with his luck it'd be the Second Coming.  The next people through the
+	door were three Kings -- Elvis impersonators, a little far from
+	Bethlehem.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@855593777 The rest of the season will actually continue to
+	increase in intensity, not decrease.  "Epiphanies" for me is an episode
+	where I can feel the gears changing between war and post-war just a
+	bit, but overall it's not bad.  And there's some *mean* stuff coming up
+	very soon.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856812689 That's one more reason why I wanted to get the war out
+	of the way...because too many people were focusing in on the show as
+	being about the war.  It ain't.  It's about the changes that happen
+	before, during, and *after* a war.  And what's coming up is in some
+	ways stronger because it's more personal.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856337711 About the dance music
      
+	Chris [Franke] wrote the music for us, in Big Band style.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860653613 How was Garibaldi's message produced?
      
+	(Answered by coproducer George Johnsen)
      
+	Believe it or not, that piece started as color bars.  It was twisted
+	using Flint software from Discreet Logoc on an SGI Maximum Impact using
+	fractal morphing plug ins.
+
+	
      
+	Feedback is a wonderful thing......
+
+	
      
+	It is certainly concievable that Fractint would work to create a similar
+	effect.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855800798 Sheridan was very sharp with Bester.
      
+	Yeah...Sheridan's taking a different tone with a lot of people
+	these days.  I guess being dead for a while does that to you....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855800798 Was Bester trying to scan everyone at the conference
+	table?
      
+	He tried to scan, but she kept blocking him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855997598 The scene between Sheridan and Delenn on the White
+	Star was edited.
      
+	"Was this your intention - to get a response from those of us who follow
+	the Sheridan and Delenn story line closely? Some how, I feel manipulated
+	and very disappointed."
+
+	
      
+	Yes, as I sat in the editing room, I thought, "Hmmm...if I do this,
+	it'll get the Sheridan and Delenn fans' knickers all in a knot...."
+
+	
      
+	Every scene goes through some editing...there is barely a scene we film
+	that doesn't get a line or two or three snipped.  Sometimes the edit is
+	noticeable, sometimes it ain't.  The only thing you can decide is, "Does
+	this move the story along or not?"  I was chasing about another 20
+	seconds (which was all we're talking about here), and the back-and-forth
+	didn't really add anything to what was already in that scene.  I treated
+	it the same as I would treat any other scene.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855996602 Lyta doesn't officially work for Sheridan, but she has
+	nowhere else to go, and is beholden to him just for everyday survival
+	and protection against the Corps.  That makes her answerable to him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855941071 Why didn't Londo have guards while he was
+	shopping?
      
+	Because Londo wouldn't abide that for more than five minutes;
+	it'd cramp his style.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856342615 The G'Kar/Londo dynamic isn't quite over yet...there's
+	more to come, and that relationship is going to continue having its ups
+	and downs.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856337851 RE: the regent...well, if you want to do something
+	really nasty, you want to do it to somebody everybody kinda likes, so
+	you feel for the situation.
+
+	
      
+	Ah likes doing that sorta thing...dropping anvils on characters
+	to see what pattern splat they make....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855996861 Disneyplanet?
      
+	Give 'em time, and they'll try to buy a planet.  It's
+	inevitable.
+
+	
      
+	With Earth now in the present, that'd make two.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857554667 Speaking of visual puns, someone pointed out that
+	in "Epiphanies," you've got Zack leaving customs, saying of whoever
+	comes through next, "it might be the Second Coming and I'm five sins
+	behind on penance," and who walks in...but the Three Kings....
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+ISN sends a team to do a second story about Babylon 5.
+
+
+Jeff Griggs as Dan Randall.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.56
+
+Production number: 408
+Original air week: February 17, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Stephen Furst
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@856161850 Clark has reinstated the Earth Senate in some form.  It
+	has begun investigating alleged alien influence in the entertainment
+	industry and extracting confessions and lists of collaborators from
+	writers and directors.
+
+   
    • @@@856161850 Sheridan's father was a diplomat.  The family farm has
+	been burned to the ground, and his father's whereabouts are unknown.
+
+   
    • @@@856161850 Earth, according to ISN, is slowly retaking Mars from the
+	rebels who took over when Clark's forces attacked
+	("Severed Dreams.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@856161850 Will the newscast prove convincing to people on Earth?
+
+   
    • @@@856161850 Where is Sheridan's father?  What about his mother?
+
+   
    • @@@856652157 What names did Sheridan give his father?
+
+   
    • @@@856652157 Is Garibaldi's salvage business as it appears, or is he
+	using it as a cover for other activities?
+
+   
    • @@@856810832 How did Randall get into the cryogenic freezer area?  If
+	it's really restricted as he says, someone must have let him in.
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856651781 Psi Corps presumably now knows the fate of the telepaths;
+	two of their names are plainly visible behind Randall (see
+	Notes.)
+	Will the Corps try to come after them?  What about the allies of
+	the Shadows, who may have some interest in the telepaths' implants?
+	If Shadow ships were left behind (not unlikely, considering there
+	were lots of them buried underground) they'll need pilots who've
+	gone through the proper preparation
+	("Messages From Earth")
+	and the telepaths are ready-made candidates.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856651781 Garibaldi seems to have turned against Sheridan
+	completely, going so far as to allude to him as "the devil."  Is that
+	a direct result of his programming (or whatever was triggered by the
+	message in
+	"Epiphanies")
+	or is there some other reason?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862901244 ISN's new title sequence reflects the provincial,
+	Earth-centric views of the Clark government: after a flight through
+	space, the sequence ends up centered on Earth and the Moon.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856652157 The newscast was broadcast on April 12, 2261.  Four
+	historical events were cited as taking place on the same date:
+	Yuri Gagarin's flight into space (April 12, 1961,) President Clinton's
+	establishment of a "Commission on the Future" in 1999, the start of
+	construction of the first lunar colony in the Sea of Tranquility in
+	2018, and the founding of the Psi Corps in 2161.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856735671 The confession of the director bore strong resemblance to
+	the confessions extracted by the House Un-American
+	Activities Commission in the US during the 1950s.  In that case it
+	was Communists and homosexuals, not aliens, but the focus on
+	entertainers was the same, as was the practice of demanding lists of
+	collaborators.  Those who refused to cooperated were "blacklisted," and
+	found themselves unable to get work in Hollywood.
+
+	
      
+	In fact, the names cited are based on actual people blacklisted in the
+	1950s.  Beth Trumbo is likely a reference to writer Dalton Trumbo,
+	Adrian Mostel to producer Adrian Scott and actor Zero Mostel, and
+	Carleton Jarrico to writer Paul Jarrico.
+
+	
      @@@878169371 
+	Paul Jarrico died in an automobile accident on October 28, 1997, the
+	day after receiving a standing ovation at a Hollywood ceremony honoring
+	the surviving blacklisted screenwriters.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856201937 Two names
+	are visible on the cryogenic freezers during
+	Randall's report.  One, Carolyn Sanderson, is Bester's love
+	("Ship of Tears.")
+	The other is John Flinn III, one of the show's directors.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@924983666 The psychological phenomenon of hostages sympathizing
+	with their captors is the Stockholm syndrome, 
+	not the Helsinki syndrome as stated in the episode.  Some readers
+	have commented that both names are correct, but that appears to not be
+	the case according to psychological literature.  For example,
+	"Stockholm syndrome" appears 30 times in the journals of the American
+	Psychological Association from 1887 to 1999, but "Helsinki syndrome"
+	isn't mentioned even once.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857324834 The newscast misspelled Yuri Gagarin's name; it was
+	spelled "Gargarin" on the screen.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865288546 It's a good and creepy episode.  I like it when things
+	get creepy.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856650112 Stephen has directed before, yes, though he hasn't done
+	that much episodic TV work.
+
+	
      
+	The final shot was strictly described in the script; the monitor
+	POV, the relative positions of everyone, the slight fisheye look and
+	the absolute silence.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857326170 Was Garibaldi's flashback shot in advance?
      
+	Somtimes, yeah, we'll gang together shots in one location that will
+	spill across several episodes, and definitely did that in Garibaldi's
+	case.  I just figure out what's coming, and write those specific
+	additional scenes prior to the rest of the scripts.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856812947 Where did the Starfury model Sheridan was looking at
+	in the war room come from?
      
+	Actually, I think the Starfury model was an illegal one we confiscated.
+
+	
      
+	Waste not, want not...
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856650112 Was the psychologist reading from a
+	teleprompter?
      
+	Actually, no, he wasn't reading off a teleprompter at all.
+	His eyes may have been moving, but there was no reading involved.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856734326 "In the Delenn/Sheridan interview, there is a 
+	change in the vocal acoustics of the journalist
+	for the "new" questions he asked."
+
+	
      
+	And not just in the voice quality...look at the footage again.  He's
+	sitting in a different chair, in a different room.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856337819 About the names cited in the confession
      
+	Yes, they're based on the real names of writers who were
+	blacklisted, Dalton Trumbo and Paul Jarrico.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856556184 Parks (the person who's naming names) was also named after
+	one of those who testified before HUAC.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856914572 Were the names dubbed in?
      
+	Only Jarrico was dubbed, because it was mispronounced.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856432607 It's a period too few people really know much about,
+	and it never hurts to point to the past in order to warn about the
+	future.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865288546 This ep is one that'll be discussed a lot, but not
+	rewatched a lot, because it's just really hard to watch, knowing what's
+	coming.  It really does tend to upset people.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856557332 If it's a little close to home...you have to remember I
+	came out of journalism, that was where I cut my teeth as a writer,
+	working for newspapers and magazines.  You see a lot of the tricks, some
+	good, some not so good, used for purposes that are sometimes good or not
+	so good, distortions on the left and distortions on the right. So it
+	wasn't hard to just tweak it a bit.
+
+	
      
+	Thing to remember, though, is that this isn't ISN as we've known it in
+	the past, at least not to this extreme.  If anything, this ep should
+	point to the difference between journalism, albeit biased, and
+	propaganda, which is all ISN is now, and how only an informed viewership
+	can prevent the one from sliding into the other.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@861327215 Aren't there networks besides ISN?
      
+	ISN is the one network that can handle *interstellar*
+	broadcasts, which reqire a massive amount of energy, logistics,
+	setup...there are other, local, planetary networks around Earth, and a
+	few specialized channels for military and some commercial use...but ISN
+	is the biggest, and because of that is very much in Earthgov's pocket.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857326119 It was most definitely difficult and painful for me to
+	write. I I am as much involved with these characters as anyone else, and
+	doing this kind of thing to them is hard.  And you have to put yourself
+	in the minds of those doing this, and that's a dark place to be.
+
+	
      
+	And yeah, I know people who were harmed in the blacklist, and
+	I've seen others, and myself, sometimes harmed by those who like to
+	twist things around to their own benefit.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857334668 "FWIW, that was your most courageous episode yet, IMHO."
+
+	
      
+	I appreciate the sentiment, so don't take this as lack of
+	gratitude on my part; I'm happy you perceive it that way.
+
+	
      
+	But courageous?  No.
+
+	
      
+	Courageous as an apellation belongs to the South American
+	writers who insist on telling the truth about their governments, who
+	risk death on a daily basis for doing so...and to other writers doing
+	similar work in other countries.
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, it was kind of a shot to the midsection for some groups,
+	with a certain element of biting the hand that feeds you, but the truth
+	is, ain't nobody gonna come to my door in the middle of the night with
+	death squads, take me away, and torture me.  If you want to hear about
+	real courage, join PEN International, or Amnesty International.  They
+	can always use the help.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857981577 "This B5 episode should be required viewing in University
+	media and history classes."
+
+	
      
+	Funny thing is, I've since received several requests from instructors at
+	various colleges asking if they could use the show in their classroom to
+	illustrate the points raised.  Kinda nice....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857334746 I don't make any blanket condemnations of journalists.
+	For one thing, there's a difference between portraying journalism in a
+	relatively free society, and one that's operating under a dictatorship,
+	a la President Clark. It's the difference between journalism and
+	propaganda.
+
+	
      
+	In "Midnight on the Firing Line," we had a reporter there doing
+	a straight-ahead story; in "Point of No Return" we had the Good
+	Journalists fighting to reveal the truth even as Clark was shutting
+	them down.
+
+	
      
+	There have been favorable portrayals; it's just that under the
+	current regime, they don't have access to the media.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@861086670 I am definitely *not* anti-reporter...I'm against the
+	*control* of truth by any government or political agenda.  We are made
+	stronger by a multiplicity of voices, and the more those voices are
+	allowed access to a level playing field, the more often the truth will
+	come out to play.
+
+	
      
+	The third name was Jarrico, after Paul Jarrico, also
+	blacklisted.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864846949 The ISN cameras are not capable of autonomous operation,
+	but they can be progammed within a parameter set.  The wand is a control
+	device to change those parameters.  Thus, one operator, two cameras (or
+	more!)
+
+	
      
+	There was a distinct anti Minbar/Minbari sentiment among this particular
+	crew, as evidenced by the later parts of the show, and it isn't hard to
+	imagine that the bumping was at the behest of the wand wielder.  If
+	Lennier was simply annoyed, advantage ISN.  If he reacted violently,
+	advantage ISN. I'm sure that footage will be used on another ISN
+	propoganda broadcast.  (You can see it on Channel 134 of your cable)(Oh,
+	sorry, Channel 134 is not availbale in all sectors after curfew)
+
+	
      
+	George Johnsen
      
+	CoProducer, B5
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Delenn is recalled to Minbar to resolve a problem concerning her relationship
+with Sheridan, and must finally face up to her role in the Earth-Minbari War.
+Sheridan sends Marcus and Franklin to Mars on a secret mission.
+
+
+Brian Carpenter as Callenn.
+Reiner Schone as Dukhat.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.55
+
+Production number: 409
+Original air week: February 24, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@856745633 After the last Shadow War, Valen, who was still genetically
+	partially human
+	("War Without End, Part Two,")
+	had children.  The children, fearing persecution because they weren't
+	pure Minbari, fled Minbar until after Valen's death.  They returned
+	and had children of their own, spreading human genes through the
+	Minbari population to the present day.
+
+   
    • @@@856745633 Valen's body was never found after his death.
+
+   
    • @@@856745633 Delenn is a descendant of Valen, and as such had some
+	human DNA even before her transformation in
+	"Chrysalis."
+
+   
    • @@@856745991 The Grey Council elected not to make contact with humans,
+	who they heard about through the Centauri.  When the Grey Council's
+	cruiser came upon the human convoy some time later
+	("A Late Delivery from Avalon")
+	only Delenn, who had researched humans in the meantime, knew which race
+	they belonged to.  Dukhat realized that the Minbari practice of
+	approaching with gun ports open could be dangerous, but before his
+	order to close them could be carried out, the Earth ships attacked.
+
+   
    • @@@856745633 Enraged over the death of Dukhat, Delenn gave the order
+	that started the Earth-Minbari War.  She was later unable to stop it
+	from proceeding.
+
+   
    • @@@856745633 The Triluminaries used by the Grey Council were
+	made specifically for Sinclair.  They activate in the presence of
+	Sinclair/Valen's DNA.
+	They were made on Epsilon 3 and brought back in time by Sinclair
+	("War Without End, Part Two.")
+
+   
    • @@@856979209 Franklin has given G'Kar a prosthetic eye, which can see
+	and transmit images to G'Kar's brain even when it's not in its socket.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@856745633 Why was Valen's body never found?  Is he perhaps still
+	alive or in suspended animation?
+
+   
    • @@@856809066 In
+	"Babylon Squared,"
+	Delenn was given a triluminary and told there were still two left.
+	Why was Sinclair given three of them, when only one was required to
+	operate the chrysalis machine?
+	("Chrysalis,"
+	"War Without End, Part Two")
+
+   
    • @@@856809127 Did Delenn maintain the secret of Valen's human DNA,
+	allowing Callenn to cover up for her as he suggested?
+
+   
    • @@@857554159 Exactly what is the dreaming?  Does it have a will of its
+	own, or does it simply stimulate the dreamer's subconscious?
+
+   
    • @@@856979209 How far can G'Kar's eye transmit?  Is it useful for
+	spying purposes?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@856745633 Callenn said the number of Minbari with traces of human
+	DNA were beyond measure.  A rough estimate can be made, however.  If
+	Minbari couples have, on average, two children, and have children at
+	age fifty (since Minbari have longer lifespans than humans, a longer
+	delay between generations is plausible) then in a thousand years,
+	there would be twenty generations of Valen's descendants, the most
+	recent numbering about 1,000,000.  That estimate assumes no
+	interbreeding among his descendants, and a variation in the number
+	of children of the first few generations could greatly alter the number.
+	Still, it's a useful discussion point.
+
+	
      
+	1,000,000 probably works out to a tiny fraction of the Minbari
+	population, which, it's not unreasonable to assume, is many billions
+	of people spread across various worlds despite Lennier's claim
+	("Points of Departure")
+	that Minbari population has been on the decline for some time.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, if Valen's descendants
+	were markedly more prolific than average Minbari, e.g. with a 30-year
+	generation time rather than a 50-year one (and both numbers are
+	pure conjecture!) there'd have been 33 generations, with 8,600,000,000
+	in the most recent, in which case the term "countless" would easily
+	apply.  Obviously interbreeding, very probable in a population that
+	size, would reduce the number markedly.
+
+	
      
+	Either way, a substantial percentage of the Minbari population most
+	likely still has pure Minbari genes.  This is supported by Dukhat's
+	reaction to the triluminary glowing when Delenn touched it; if Valen's
+	progeny were in fact a large percentage of the population, presumably
+	previous Grey Council members would have triggered the triluminary.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857892773 Callenn's horror at the prospect of human DNA mingling
+	with Minbari genes parallels the newscast in
+	"The Illusion of Truth,"
+	which attempted to suggest that Delenn and Sheridan wanted to
+	introduce Minbari genes into humans.  In fact, just the opposite has
+	occurred.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857586065 David, Delenn and Sheridan's son
+	("War Without End, Part Two")
+	will be a direct descendant of all three of The One.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877199700 Dukhat's conversation with Delenn is echoed years later
+	when Lennier arrives on Babylon 5
+	("The Parliament of Dreams")
+	and she tells him the same thing Dukhat told her: "I cannot have an
+	aide who will not look up.  You will be forever walking into things."
+
+	
      
+	In
+	"Rumors, Bargains, and Lies,"
+	Delenn said she'd been training Lennier as Dukhat trained her.
+	Delenn eventually succeeded Dukhat as leader of the Minbari, both in
+	this episode and in
+	"Babylon Squared,"
+	though she turned the position down in both cases.  Will the parallel
+	between Lennier and Delenn in her youth continue into the future?  Is
+	Lennier destined to a prominent place in Minbari society?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865624085 Dukhat said he could override the Council's decision
+	to avoid contacting the humans.  What is the relationship between the
+	Council and the leader?  Do they simply serve as an advisory body,
+	with the final decisions ultimately made by the leader?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857586446 Lennier's pledge to Delenn, to be by her side through
+	fire, storm, darkness, and death, echoes the pledge of the Nine to
+	the One in the Minbari ceremony in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865732097 Delenn feels responsible for the Earth-Minbari War.  Her
+	father committed suicide, heartbroken over the war
+	("Grey 17 Is Missing.")
+	Does Delenn thus feel personally responsible for her father's death?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857335050 Why did Dukhat suspect Delenn was descended from Valen?
+	With so many descendants, he couldn't have followed Valen's entire
+	bloodline, even assuming it was all documented.  Perhaps he simply
+	researched the heritage of all the acolytes working with the Grey
+	Council.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@875586691 Delenn's childhood vision
+	("Confessions and Lamentations,")
+	in which a figure appeared to her in a temple and said he wouldn't
+	allow "any of my little ones" to come to harm there, takes on new
+	significance now.  If the figure was some kind of manifestation of
+	Valen, "little ones" might have referred to his descendants, and
+	the vision might have been Delenn's first clue that she was
+	somehow related to him.  If so, the vision was probably a powerful
+	motivating force for her, perhaps even the source of her belief in
+	her own destiny.
+
+	
      
+	If Delenn told Dukhat about the vision, or he found out about it
+	some other way, that might explain his suspicion that she was a
+	descendant of Valen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857335050 Did Dukhat know Valen was part human?  Callenn was aware
+	of it; was it common knowledge among the Grey Council after Sinclair
+	was interrogated and the triluminary indicated his relation to Valen?
+	("And the Sky Full of Stars")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857890134 Do Valen's descendants have distinguishing features?
+	Perhaps the presence of human DNA explains why a small number of
+	Minbari men have facial hair, e.g. Dukhat, Draal
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness")
+	and Kalain
+	("Points of Departure.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857326883 In
+	"Soul Hunter,"
+	the soul hunter recalls that the Minbari made a wall of bodies to stop
+	Dukhat's soul from being taken.  Although soul hunters appeared as the
+	battle began, no attempt to stop them was shown, and Delenn was
+	seeminly unaware of them as Dukhat lay dying in her arms.  Perhaps the
+	soul hunter was speaking metaphorically; there were so many Minbari
+	dead that their ability to sense death didn't lead them to Dukhat in
+	particular.  However, since the soul hunter recognized Delenn years
+	later, he must have arrived at Dukhat at some point, perhaps after she
+	ordered the attack on the humans.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857889258 Zack's discomfort with his new uniform mirrors his
+	discomfort with the Earthforce uniform in
+	"Voices of Authority."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857325791 G'Kar is wearing rags around his eye in the flashforward
+	in
+	"War Without End, Part Two."
+	Where was his eye?  Destroyed or discarded, or simply recharging or
+	sending him images from somewhere else?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857325791 Ivanova is likely still the leader of half the Drazi
+	on Babylon 5.  She wore the green leader's sash to the party.
+	Presumably the fact that all the formerly green Drazi are now wearing
+	purple
+	("The Geometry of Shadows")
+	didn't cause any problems.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@857326883 One of the heavy cruisers in the Prometheus convoy is the
+	Hyperion
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness, Part Two.")
+	The name can be seen briefly on the side of the ship in one scene.
+	According to coproducer George Johnsen, that was intentional, not
+	just an accidental reuse of a computer model,
+	implying the Hyperion escaped from the Minbari counterattack on the
+	Earth base.
+
+   
    • @@@900954390 More than five days may have elapsed between the first
+	scene, Zack's fitting, and the second, the arrival of Callenn and his
+	entourage.
+	("Thirdspace")
+
+   
    • @@@856981120 A slight inaccuracy:
+	The ship carrying Franklin and
+	Marcus is shown to have zero gravity.  But the exterior shot shows its
+	engines firing.  The resulting acceleration (in the vacuum of space,
+	any thrust will result in acceleration) would have pushed all the
+	objects in the cargo hold toward one of the walls.  Of course, it's
+	possible the engines were glowing but not actually in use; perhaps
+	they were in some sort of standby mode.
+
+   
    • @@@857891914 Continuity glitch: During the conference scene with
+	Sheridan, Franklin, and Marcus, Franklin is reading over his documents
+	with the folder flat on Sheridan's desk.  When the view shifts to show
+	all three characters, Franklin is holding the folder.
+
+   
    • @@@875231634 The tune sung by Marcus is
+	"I Am the Very
+	Model of a Modern Major General,"
+	from
+	"The
+	Pirates of Penzance"
+	by Gilbert and Sullivan.  Marcus misquotes the song slightly: he
+	says, "quote the facts historical," when the original lyrics are,
+	"quote the fights historical."
+
+   
    • @@@857376446 Delenn's family name, Mir, may be a reference to Mira
+	Furlan's first name.
+
+   
    • @@@859361670 Sheridan's line about his true face being mashed up
+	against a pillow and drooling was based on a 
+	rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated message commenting on
+	"Shadow Dancing,"
+	where the Minbari ritual was first introduced.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857554603 Did Dukhat come out the way you imagined him?
      
+	Yeah, that's pretty close to how
+	I saw him in my head.  Definitely a bigger than life fellow.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857685549 When I introduce a new character, I just kinda see a
+	sense of the character in my head, an outline...if you take off your
+	glasses, and you're nearsighted, that will give you some sense of it. 
+	When an actor comes in and hits it, the character goes into sharp focus.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@850297586 Will Delenn appear in flashbacks with her pre-chrysalis
+	appearance?
      
+	Yes, Mira got into the original year-one makeup.  It's
+	funny...when I walked out onto the set, and saw her in that prosthetic,
+	the first words that came out of my mouth were, "It's *you*!  I haven't
+	seen you in almost three years, how've you been?"
+
+	
      
+	I don't think Mira quite knew what to make of me.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855996679 Actually, though the tougher Delenn is in flashbacks in 2
+	weeks [referring to this episode], the foreground/contemporary story
+	has her very tough, and very
+	smart. Basically, the next mini-arc sequence focuses a LOT on
+	Delenn...she has many facets, and while part of that is the
+	relationship, there's steel there as well, and we're going to explore
+	that.  As she at one point comments to Sheridan, "I appreciate that you
+	have come to care for what I have become... but never forget who I am,
+	or what I can do."
+
+	
      
+	After this arc of hers, nobody's ever going to make that
+	mistake.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857376321 How could Dukhat override the Grey Council, if he was
+	simply a member?
      
+	There's the One, and the Nine...when Dukhat was alive, there
+	were 9 grey council members and him as the head of it, making ten. 
+	(Look at the picture and count the number of people.)  1 and 9.
+
+	
      
+	Valen called together the Grey Council, formed the first one;
+	until then the castes had been in constant competition.  He wanted to
+	operate outside of that a bit, so he made sure he was not one of the
+	Nine.  That tradition has continued.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857547292 But when he introduced Delenn, there was an empty
+	spotlight.
      
+	No, if you keep watching Dukhat comes in, followed by Delenn,
+	through the opening (the empty spot) and then another Minbari comes in
+	to fill that spot.
+
+	
      
+	(Sudden thought...I have to check to see if we *used* that shot
+	or if it was just in dailies...but if you count the Minbari there at
+	the end of the scene, you'll find the count is correct.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857328008 Calenn was not Delenn's brother; the grey councilor speaks
+	of brothers in the generic sense.
+
+	
      
+	Draal, in his first appearance, also had a small beard.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857554509 Other Minbari have had facial hair; including Draal
+	v1.0 and Kalain in "Points of Departure."  It's certainly not common,
+	though.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857547292 Who were the other ships at the battle?
      
+	Those were Soul Hunters, who in the first season we learned
+	showed up to attempt to grab Dukhat's soul...they were prevented from
+	successfully boarding the ship by the Minbari, who threw up a wall of
+	bodies to stop them (which is why there were few around with Delenn and
+	Dukhat; Soul Hunters are a pretty advanced sort, the terror of Minbari,
+	and it took a lot to stop them). After Dukhat died, Delenn went down
+	and joined in, confronting them about this.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857554776 Others in the Council died, as was noted when the one
+	says, "Our brothers?"  "Dead," Delenn says.  So there were others.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864693044 Won't Sheridan be upset when he finds out Delenn
+	ordered the war?
      
+	"Listen, honey, while you were out I went to the store and I
+	bought some new candles, you know how we're always running out, and
+	Lennier took the cat in to be cleaned, and oh, did I mention I was
+	directly responsible for the deaths of two hundred and fifty thousand
+	of your best friends and fellow officers?  Pass the sugar."
+
+	
      
+	She'll never tell him.
+
+	
      
+	Because it's over...what would be the point, except to ruin what
+	they have now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864693194 The reality is...in war, one does what one does.
+	Afterward, as we heal, we try to forget what we did, and what they did.
+	He killed as many Minbari as he could; she was on the Grey Council that
+	directed the war.  One doesn't go into it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857889979 Why didn't Sinclair leave Dukhat a message warning
+	him about meeting the humans?
      
+	He could have left Dukhat a message...but tampering in the
+	future is VERY chancy business, and could even make things worse, for
+	all we know.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857889418 Did the triluminary sense Sinclair?
      
+	Yeah, we showed it glowing when Sinclair was catpured.  Since
+	it happened with Valen, they assumed it was because he had a Minbari
+	soul, maybe Valen reborn.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864692860 Dukhat was not descended from Valen; yes, the Grey Council
+	now knows who Sinclair was; and general knowledge of what happened
+	would certainly have an upsetting effect on Minbari society, so they
+	will continue to keep it indefinitely back-roomed....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@859454397 Some Minbari on the Grey Council think that Sinclair opened
+	up the "soul door," for lack of a better term, and Delenn's actions can
+	be seen as a kind of back-fire, closing the door again.  Ain't
+	necessarily what's true, but what they believe.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, they would've had Delenn remain childless, but would be
+	allowed to marry a Minbari.  And, again, it's a matter of marrying a
+	non-Minbari with or WITHOUT kids...it's a very inflammatory sort of
+	thing from a cultural perspective.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857376321 Did Delenn's human DNA allow her to undergo the
+	transformation?  Will this be important in the future?
      
+	Yeah, the human DNA definitely helped...and overall, this isn't
+	so much the arc as the overall story and history.  It's filling out the
+	world.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857547292 Is it a coincidence that Delenn's family name is
+	Russian for "peace?"
      
+	Yeah, there's that, and it nicely intersects with the fact that
+	Delenn is portrayed by MIRa Furlan.  It's kind of a bank shot.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857554225 Mir is her family; you are generally born into a caste
+	unless you at some point decide that the calling of your heart is
+	elsewhere, at which point you enter training for that other caste (with
+	the permission of your caste leaders) until such time as it's finalized
+	that that's what you want, at which time you're assigned to a clan
+	within that caste.  If you choose to stay in the caste you're born
+	into, you automatically are in your familiy's clan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865731956 Lennier is religious caste; and all members of a given
+	clan belong to one caste.
+
+	
      
+	There are, for instance, no religious caste members of the Star
+	Riders (military caste) clan.
+
+	
      
+	This seems to be contradicted by
+	"There All the Honor Lies,"
+	in which Levell, a warrior, was a member of Lennier's clan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857554509 How does the dreaming know whose memories to probe?
+	Is it whoever drinks the drug first?
      
+	I think the order or dominance of the drug is probably
+	determined by the contents of the script....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856981247 "My question is, since we can see that the ship's engine
+	is running, why aren't all of the objects in the hold laying against
+	the bulkhead as a result of the ship's movement?  Aside from that, it
+	was a pretty neat effects shot."
+
+	
      
+	Because it's accurate; it's the same reason you don't see everything
+	slammed up against the back wall of the shuttle even though it's
+	circling the earth at thousands of miles per hour.
+
+	
      
+	Ed. note: This is wrong; that effect does occur on the shuttle
+	when its maneuvering thrusters fire, which is why shuttle crews lock
+	everything down during maneuvers.  See
+	Notes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857325171 The ship with Marcus and Franklin *wasn't* spinning...
+	hence, no gravity.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857327683 Coproducer George Johnsen
      
+	Re: your comment that the Hyperion was more likely a re-used computer
+	model.  All of the models used in the show are stored "nameless" with a
+	link to the naming/numbering file that has to be activated to add the
+	name to the ship to avoid this kind of problem.  (Instigated when it
+	happened on an earlier episode).  The ship in the picture is the
+	Hyperion 'cuz Joe wanted it that way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857554509 There was the Prometheus, which was there; and others,
+	including the Amundsen.  The one you saw, which looks a bit like the
+	Aggy but without the rotating section, is another, smaller class of
+	destroyer also seen, I believe, in [Severed] "Dreams."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@874689595 How did the Earth ships hit the Minbari ships, if
+	human targeting systems can't lock on?  Why weren't Franklin and
+	Marcus floating?
      
+	They targeted visually, it was close enough to do so.
+
+	
      
+	A hit with full guns of a major destroyer and accompanying
+	ships will kill damn near any single ship that does not have some kind
+	of defensive screen going (fighers or counter-lasers or missiles or the
+	like).
+
+	
      
+	The fightes were launched in main while on approach.
+
+	
      
+	Franklin and Marcus *were* strapped in, which if you look more
+	closely you can see.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857889979 In your comments on
+	"War Without End, Part Two,"
+	you said Valen had no children.  Is your message right, or is the
+	episode?
      
+	What airs is considered canon; in 15 years, nobody's gonna be
+	hauling these messages around.  But the show will still be on the air. 
+	If it airs, it's canon.
+
+	
      
+	And in another one of those posts, I did mention that on just a
+	couple of small occasions, I have fibbed when asked major story arc
+	questions to protect future storylines from being deflated....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862818943 If you check the archives, when people said, "But what
+	about the relationship between Sinclair and Delenn we see?" (and this
+	is back a long time ago), I said that there is a relationship there,
+	yes, but it isn't what you think it is.  Now we see what it was.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@859316095 Minbari society doesn't seem to have been affected
+	much by the loss of the Grey Council.
      
+	The problems caused by the breakup of the Grey Council
+	will form a major part of the story arc about mid-season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860558543 Was the song Jason Carter's idea?
      
+	The song was in the script; Jason then had to learn it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865288657 What was involved in using the song in the end
+	credits?
      
+	Nothing, really...we just grabbed one of the audio bits from the
+	day's filming and dropped it in.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Franklin and Marcus arrive on Mars to begin their undercover mission.
+Sheridan confronts Garibaldi about his behavior.
+
+
+Mark Schneider as Wade.
+Donovan Scott as Captain Jack.
+Clayton Landey as Number Two.
+Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.73
+
+Production number: 410
+Original air week: April 21, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862331870 Mars has been subjected to a news blackout and an embargo
+	for at least as long as Babylon 5 has, likely as far back as their
+	refusal to submit to martial law in
+	"Severed Dreams."
+	People on Mars have heard little more than vague rumors about the
+	Shadow War.  They also appear to know nothing about the Rangers.
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 Someone has begun planting Keepers
+	("War Without End, Part Two")
+	on members of the Earth resistance movement with the apparent intent of
+	wiping it out.
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 A Keeper can be partially removed, but portions remain
+	embedded in the victim, and the rest of the organism grows back,
+	sometimes within hours.
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 Garibaldi has pledged to support a group that claims to
+	feel the Army of Light has become a cult of personality centered
+	on Sheridan, and that this will ultimately damage the cause.
+	Garibaldi feels the same way, he says, and that's why he said what
+	he did during the ISN interview.
+
+   
    • @@@861658172 Ivanova has begun setting up amnesty deals with smugglers
+	to keep the station supplied with food and spare parts.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 Who planted the Keeper on Captain Jack?
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 How did they know about his involvement with the
+	resistance?
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 Who are the people Garibaldi promised to help?
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 What was the large ship being escorted toward Mars by
+	a group of Starfuries?
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 "Woo hoo?"
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 The head of the group that recruited Garibaldi may have
+	betrayed his true intentions with a slip of the tongue.  When he
+	first spoke to Garibaldi, he said Sheridan's actions weren't good
+	for Earth, weren't good for business, and weren't good for the
+	President -- not something likely to come from the mouth of someone
+	opposed to Clark.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@861954426 The second time Garibaldi met with the mysterious group,
+	the leader made a point of saying, "Are you with us?" several times.
+	Could that be some kind of key phrase related to whatever was done
+	to Garibaldi while he was captured
+	("Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@861982136 That phrase, or one like it, was used by someone else:
+	Sheridan, who shouted, "Are you with me?" to the assembled crowd in
+	"The Summoning."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862331634 If "Are you with us?" was indeed a key phrase, Sheridan
+	inadvertently foreshadowed it earlier in the episode, when he told
+	Delenn that he could make Garibaldi come around "if I could just find
+	the right words."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@861954426 Since Garibaldi knows the group is planning to move
+	against Sheridan at some point (they told him as much,) perhaps his
+	acceptance of their offer is, instead of a rejection of Sheridan,
+	actually part of a plan to root out possible threats to Babylon 5's
+	security.  If so, a natural question is, does Sheridan know about
+	that plan, or is it Garibaldi's doing?  Was the confrontation
+	between Sheridan and Garibaldi just a premeditated ploy to help
+	Garibaldi gain the trust of the new group?  Sheridan's conversation
+	with Delenn after the first confrontation argues against that idea,
+	but it's still plausible.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862331634 It's also possible the Brakiri woman was a setup, sent by
+	the group to fawn over Sheridan at just the right time and push
+	Garibaldi over the edge.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862331634 Garibaldi's rejection of Sheridan parallels Judas'
+	rejection of Jesus.  Both were part of their leader's inner circle.
+	Sheridan's warning to Garibaldi to stop undermining him can be read
+	as analogous to Jesus' warning to Judas at the Last Supper
+	(Matthew 26:24:
+	"woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good
+	for that man if he had not been born.")  
+	John 13:2
+	says the Devil caused Judas to betray Jesus; Garibaldi has also
+	been influenced in some way, in his case by Psi Corps
+	("Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+
+	
      
+	Many scholarly analyses ascribe motives similar to Garibaldi's to
+	Judas.  Tim Rice's lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber's
+	"Jesus Christ Superstar," while perhaps not scholarly, put it
+	succinctly:
+
+	
      
+	My mind is clearer now.
      
+	At last all too well I can see where we all soon will be.
      
+	If you strip away the myth from the man,
      
+	You will see where we all soon will be.
      
+	Jesus!
      
+	You've started to believe
      
+	The things they say of you.
      
+	You really do believe
      
+	This talk of God is true.
      
+	And all the good you've done
      
+	Will soon get swept away.
      
+	You've begun to matter more than the things you say.
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864846302 When Marcus discovered Jack aboard the transport ship,
+	he had his arm around Jack's neck.  Why didn't he feel the Keeper?
+	Does it have some way of hiding itself, or was it simply that Jack
+	was wearing heavy clothing to cover his lower neck, and Marcus
+	couldn't feel anything through the fabric?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862818754 Marcus' comment about hating parasites is probably a
+	reference to
+	"Exogenesis,"
+	in which his friend Duncan was taken over by an alien parasite.
+
+   
    • @@@862817570 Minbari have 52 rituals related to relationships.
+	Sheridan and Delenn have now completed the first three.  One is the
+	female watching the male for three nights, and the third (according to
+	Delenn, who called it the Third Movement of Love and Mutual
+	Understanding) is the mutual exploration of pleasure centers.
+
+   
    • @@@862332082 Garibaldi's hair loss is due to something a smuggler brought
+	aboard the station.
+
+   
    • @@@862188956 The Pope is a woman in 2261, according to Garibaldi.
+	During his second confrontation with Sheridan, he said, "He's not
+	the Pope.  He doesn't look anything like her."
+
+   
    • @@@861606952 The subcommander and head of the resistance cell called
+	themselves "Number Two" and "Number One," a nod to the cult classic
+	"The Prisoner."  Another reference to "Number One" can be found in
+	"Signs and Portents."
+
+   
    • @@@862332082 The name "Captain Jack" is a nod to the Billy Joel song
+	of the same name.
+
+   
    • @@@866747394 A slight glitch: When Captain Jack ripped open the
+	insta-heat pack, Franklin said, "That's beef and potatoes."  But his
+	lips don't match those words; apparently the original line was
+	something different.
+
+   
    • @@@867570393 Marcus and Franklin were playing "I Spy" when they
+	discovered a spy.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@851545085 Is B5 about the Shadow War?
      
+	Not just that, but events back on Earth, Mars and elsewhere that
+	are either not touched by the shadow war, or barely touched by it.  (In
+	one upcoming episode, where a couple of our characters have gone to
+	Mars, they find that very few on Mars know anything even *happened*.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856689448 Not everyone back home even knows
+	there *was* a war.  Which our characters will find rather annoying....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862818920 About the Pope
      
+	Yeah, you heard the "her" line.  Got a fair amount of flack for
+	that one, btw.
+
+	
      
+	And it's Woo Hoo.
+
+	
      
+	If Yahoo wants a reference they should call me....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863020881 From some extremist Catholics...and also got some flack from
+	Born Again Rightists over my comments in TV Guide about being an
+	atheist.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862989835 I don't think Earthforce cares about sexual orientation; the
+	reason we just set it out there without comment is that, having come
+	through the realization of other non-human races...a little thing like
+	sexual orientation, nobody even cares about anymore.  It ain't an
+	issue.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864920072 Why didn't Ivanova ask Lyta to oversee her
+	negotiations with the smugglers?
      
+	Because telepaths only function in very limited ways due to
+	privacy laws.  You couldn't just use them broad-based as lie detectors
+	in the way you suggest, because it first requires getting the
+	*permission* of those involved, and you can be reasonably sure that
+	smugglers aren't going to want people poking around in their heads;
+	second, there was a large group there, and a midrange teep can usually
+	handle only one or at most two people with any degree of accuracy; it
+	goes down dramatically after that.
+
+	
      
+	I specifically set up rules for telepaths to avoid letting them
+	become the deus ex machina, the easy solution to any problem.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Franklin and Marcus try to convince the leaders of the resistance to go along
+with Sheridan's plan to unseat Clark.  Delenn investigates a series of attacks
+on Minbari allies.  Minbar begins to slide toward civil war.
+
+
+Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+Paolo Seganti as Phillipe.
+G.W. Stevens as Forell.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.30
+
+Production number: 411
+Original air week: April 28, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
    
+
+
    
+An
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 At least one race, the Drakh, made its home on Z'ha'dum
+	during the Shadows' tenure there.  They evacuated before Z'ha'dum's
+	destruction and are in search of a new home and revenge against the
+	people who defeated their masters.
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 Marcus and Franklin have convinced the resistance movement
+	on Earth and Mars to follow Sheridan's lead, and to refrain from
+	future terrorist attacks aimed at destabilizing Earth's government.
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 Ivanova is preparing for an additional job, as head of the
+	"Voice of the Resistance," an attempt to counter ISN by broadcasting
+	opposition views, as well as messages intended for the resistance
+	fighters themselves, to Mars and Earth.
+
+   
    • @@@862820397 ISN, meanwhile, seems to be preparing Earth's citizenry
+	for an eventual assault on Babylon 5, building up public support for
+	such a move in advance.
+
+   
    • @@@862215725 Sheridan was involved in the suppression of the food
+	riots on Mars after the Earth-Minbari War, for which he's resented
+	by some Mars residents.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 Are the Drakh the only survivors of Z'ha'dum?  How many of
+	them remain?
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 Are the Drakh the ones responsible for planting Keepers on
+	the Centauri Regent
+	("Epiphanies")
+	and Captain Jack
+	("Racing Mars")?
+
+   
    • @@@862724503 Why did the Drakh emissary appear to shimmer?  Do the
+	Drakh have access to the Shadows' invisibility technology?
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 What does the warrior caste hope to gain by forcing the
+	other castes out of cities?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 Franklin has bought into Sheridan's cult of personality,
+	though it's not entirely clear why.  His reaction to the skeptical
+	resistance leader is exactly the kind of thing Garibaldi complained
+	about in
+	"Racing Mars,"
+	and may be counterproductive in that it makes Garibaldi's allegations
+	all the more credible.
+
+   
    • @@@862821766 Phillipe bombed the Red Planet Hotel, which was where
+	Franklin and Marcus were staying.  Was the appearance of the Earth
+	security forces there a coincidence, or were they after Franklin and
+	Marcus?
+
+   
    • @@@862820397 Why does Sheridan think he has the power to promise Mars
+	independence after Clark is out of office?  Does Sheridan plan to
+	assume the presidency himself?  Or was that simply more improvisation
+	on Franklin's part?  Presumably not; it's unlikely Sheridan gave him
+	the authority to make that kind of promise without consultation.
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 How will Sheridan break through Earth's jamming of
+	outside broadcasts?  Franklin was able to get a message back to
+	Babylon 5, but presumably it's a thornier problem to try to
+	broadcast programming to all of Earth.  Perhaps he'll enlist the
+	help of Draal; Epsilon 3 likely has the power to cut through
+	whatever interference Earth can muster.  Delenn is unlikely to be
+	able to provide any Minbari assistance, considering what's going
+	on on Minbar, though the White Star fleet might be useful mobile
+	transmitters.
+
+   
    • @@@862513121 If Number One indeed treats all her former lovers like
+	she treated Phillipe, Franklin may be in for a rough ride.
+
+   
    • @@@863024596 In the first scene with Franklin, Number One rubbed her
+	neck, similar to Captain Jack before his Keeper was discovered
+	("Racing Mars.")
+	Any significance, or just a stiff neck?
+
+   
    • @@@862188871 The Drakh ships, especially the transport, looked more
+	Vorlon in design than Shadow.  Have they looted the Vorlon homeworld
+	as well, or is it just a coincidence?
+
+   
    • @@@865362770 The Drakh aren't the only race who worked for the Shadows,
+	though of course they might have been the only ones to escape with
+	technology from Z'ha'dum.  Neither the surgeons and pilot in
+	"Ship of Tears"
+	nor the creature in
+	"The Long Dark"
+	were Drakh in appearance, though the latter arguably bore a
+	resemblance when it was shown briefly reflected in Mariah's tube.
+
+   
    • @@@862858863 It's also possible the Drakh weren't allies of the Shadows
+	at all; the Vorlons may have similarly had minor races acting as
+	aides, and those aides would likely be just as upset as the Shadows'
+	about Sheridan and Delenn driving their masters away.  Of course,
+	the statement that the Drakh had just lost their home would seem to
+	indicate that Delenn's supposition about their association with
+	the Shadows was correct; the Vorlon homeworld is probably still intact.
+
+   
    • @@@862817771 The Drakh may have some kind of group mind.  At the very
+	least, they have a different notion of personal identity than most
+	other races.  They appear to regard the name "Drakh" as both a
+	collective name and a personal one, and their emissary interrupted
+	Forell before he could utter Delenn's name, dismissing it as
+	"unimportant."  On the other hand, they're familiar enough with the
+	notion of individual names to recognize Delenn's once it was spoken.
+
+   
    • @@@862793127 Delenn's reaction to the destruction of White Star 16,
+	while arguably justified, bore similarity to her reaction to the
+	death of Dukhat: ordering a relentless attack on those responsible.
+	Of course, this time she was in control of the situation and wasn't
+	enraged, but it's interesting in light of her earlier comment that
+	she wouldn't repeat the mistakes made during first contact with
+	humanity.
+
+   
    • @@@864957852 Delenn commented to Sheridan that she felt humans could
+	have been Minbar's most dangerous enemy due to their ability to form
+	communities of diverse elements.  This echoes her comment in
+	"And Now For a Word,"
+	in which she said that the forming of communities was one of humanity's
+	greatest strengths.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862815695 Marcus said he was from Arisia Colony.  That's a reference
+	to the Lensman series by E. E. "Doc" Smith.
+
+   
    • @@@862793127 Sheridan referred to the Drakh as "wild cards."  And in
+	fact, "Drakh" is "card" pronounced backwards.
+
+   
    • @@@861953516 One of the Minbari seen reacting in fear from the
+	Drakh emissary is Dennis Michael, a 
+	CNN entertainment reporter and a big fan of the series.
+	He was also a Narn in
+	"Comes the Inquisitor."
+
+   
    • @@@862858863 As the Drakh emissary entered the White Star's bridge,
+	the lights on the wall dimmed.  
+
+   
    • @@@866950614 The real reason the Drakh shimmered, according to
+	special effects technician Ken Busick, was that the costume didn't
+	look convincing enough.  So to give the Drakh an otherworldly
+	appearance, the scene was digitally manipulated in postproduction.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862724503 Why did Franklin send a video message?
      
+	So they could see him and know by seeing him that he arrived
+	safely; a text message could be sent by *anyone* who could've
+	intercepted them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862765238 The issue of waste of bandwidth is not as big a deal to
+	an advanced technology (from today's standards); also, any really good
+	telepath could rip out those codes and keys in about 10 seconds. 
+	Further, they would've had a password to use (as in "the board," which
+	he used) to verify that he was all right and not being forced to make
+	the call.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863020903 In that scenario, there is no such thing as ANY kind of
+	secure communication, which puts us pretty much back where we started.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862818984 About the Drakh ships
      
+	I indicated a flower-like design.  With the lethalness
+	behind them, it seemed like a nice contrast.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862989808 White Star 16 wasn't too tough.
      
+	Of course, you have no way of knowing how many previous hits it
+	took during the fight, and are assuming it only got two.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863020810 Why did Delenn run?
      
+	As she states in the episode, they were at that time
+	*surrounded* and if they turned to fire, would get destroyed. 
+	Firepower doesn't solve every problem; one good hand-held Lancet
+	missile can put down a full-sized cruiser if it hits right.  They were
+	in the MIDDLE of the Drakh, just as they said, and that's NOT a
+	defensible position.  They had to get away, outside that group, so they
+	could mount an offensive.  This they did.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi takes on a new job.  The resistance's counter-propaganda
+broadcasts begin.  Sheridan proposes a plan to protect the Non-Aligned Worlds
+from raiders.
+
+
+Tim Choate as Zathras.
+Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton.
+Mark Schneider as Wade.
+Charles Walker as Ben.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.04
+
+Production number: 412
+Original air week: May 5, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 Wade and his group still consider Garibaldi expendable.
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 Lise Hampton, Garibaldi's ex-lover
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness")
+	divorced her first husband and eventually married one of the richest
+	men on Mars, William Edgars.  Among other things, Edgars is the owner
+	of the largest medical research center on the planet.
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 Some medical researchers believe that one of the genes
+	responsible for telepathy in humans has the potential to mutate into
+	some form of communicable disease, lethal to other telepaths.  There
+	may be a cure, but there are those on Earth who'd rather the basis
+	of the cure be destroyed to rid Earth of telepaths.
+
+   
    • @@@862814854 Sheridan has proposed to assign the Rangers to patrol
+	the borders between the various parts of alien-controlled space,
+	protecting civilian transports from the Drakh
+	("Lines of Communication")
+	and others.
+
+   
    • @@@862814854 The Centauri have had contact with the Drakh in the past,
+	but long enough ago that nowadays they're considered little more than
+	legends.
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 Zathras had nine brothers, all named Zathras but with
+	slightly different intonations.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 What exactly was the substance Lise was picking up?
+
+   
    • @@@863201143 Were Wade and Lise and their contact telling the truth about
+	the telepath virus, or was the substance something else entirely?
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 Who were the gunmen?  Were they with Psi Corps, or were
+	they rogue telepaths?  What did they mean by the phrase, "To the
+	future?"  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@864583160 Why didn't Garibaldi fire at the telepath?
+
+   
    • @@@862817066 Did Wade know about Garibaldi's past association with
+	Lise?  Was she part of the test, to see how emotional stress would
+	affect his performance?
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 Does William Edgars' job offer conflict with whatever
+	plans Wade and his cohorts have for Garibaldi, or is his employment
+	just another part of the plan?
+
+   
    • @@@862821469 Why didn't Edgars show Garibaldi his face?
+
+   
    • @@@863076125 What was in the message Lise left for Garibaldi?
+
+   
    • @@@863716541 Why did she send it using her maiden name?
+
+   
    • @@@862817066 Did G'Kar and Londo take Sheridan up on his offer?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 If Garibaldi takes the job, will he be working close to
+	William Edgars?  That would imply he'll also have frequent contact
+	with Lise, which likely wouldn't be easy for either of them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862817234 His consideration of the job offer is at odds with the
+	glimpse of his programming, if that's what it was, in
+	"The Illusion of Truth."
+	In that flashback, Garibaldi recalled being drilled over and over
+	with the idea that he worked for nobody but his captors.  Of course,
+	if Edgars is involved with his captors, that might not be inconsistent.
+
+	
      @@@865362949 
+	It's also possible his captors want to get him close to
+	Edgars, and that by taking the job he'd in fact be following their
+	implanted orders.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863202655 Edgars claimed to have checked up on Garibaldi.  Checked
+	up on him how?  Garibaldi himself has said on more than one occasion
+	that his past is checkered at best, and his history isn't too closely
+	guarded a secret (for example, the Senator knew about him in
+	("The Gathering.")
+	Maybe Edgars was taking Garibaldi's performance as security chief
+	on Babylon 5 into account, or maybe his "checking up" involved talking
+	to whoever captured Garibaldi
+	("Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863490143 The Daffy Duck cartoon Garibaldi was watching (1953's
+	"Duck Amuck!")
+	can be
+	viewed as a metaphor for his situation; depending on what was done
+	to him after his capture
+	("Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+	he may well no longer be in control of his own fate, and is certainly
+	being influenced by forces he can't detect.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862814145 If the researchers are correct and the human telepathy
+	genes can indeed mutate into a lethal virus, what are the parameters?
+	Likely it's something that's telepathically transmitted.  For example,
+	it might cause a telepath to broadcast noise on whatever medium
+	telepaths use to read thoughts.  Telepathic interference can cause
+	physical effects (Ben Zayn doubling over in
+	"Eyes,"
+	or Lyta's bloodied eyes in
+	"Walkabout")
+	so it's not inconceivable that telepathic broadcasts of the right
+	type could kill someone attuned to them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862814145 Which begs the question, was this some kind of genetic
+	timebomb intentionally implanted by the Vorlons when they modified
+	humans to give them telepathic ability
+	("Z'ha'dum?")
+	Since the Vorlons, according to Morden, created human telepaths to
+	use as weapons against the Shadows, perhaps the Vorlons also put a
+	time limit on human telepathy so it wouldn't remain once the upcoming
+	conflict with the Shadows was resolved.
+
+	
      
+	That would put a different spin on the disappearance of Narn telepaths
+	("Ship of Tears.")
+	The Book of G'Quan was probably correct about the Shadows killing
+	most of the Narn telepaths.  But maybe the reason the gene never
+	resurfaced in the Narn population wasn't that it wasn't strong
+	enough, as G'Kar supposed, but that it was only designed to last a
+	few generations, and once the previous Shadow War was over, its time
+	simply ran out.  Of course, that assumes the Vorlons implanted
+	telepathy into the Narn.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862956627 The threat isn't limited to Psi Corps; Ivanova's latent
+	telepathy makes her vulnerable to any sort of disease that's
+	transmitted between telepaths.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862814377 The fact that Wade was cooperating with Lise in her effort
+	to get the vial into her husband's hands implies that he's at least
+	somewhat sympathetic to telepaths, and perhaps to the Psi Corps.
+	If he were one of the people who wanted to see all telepaths dead,
+	presumably he'd've arranged for the vial to quietly vanish on
+	its way to Lise.  That ties into the apparent contradiction mentioned
+	above between Garibaldi's programming
+	("The Illusion of Truth")
+	and his consideration of Edgars' job offer.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865363280 The telepathic assassins' closing
+	phrase
+	bears some similarity to a description of another telepath: Talia
+	Winters in
+	"A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+	
      
+	Lurker: You tipped the balance.  I felt it when we were joined.
+	You're more than you think you are.
+	
      
+	Talia: Then what am I?
+	
      
+	Lurker: The future.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864585035 The last time Garibaldi resigned, even briefly
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	he offered up his gun, his station ID, and his link.  So did the
+	security staff who resigned rather than join Nightwatch in
+	"Point of No Return."
+	Why did Garibaldi keep them this time?  Was he perhaps intending
+	to return at some point?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862814444 Sheridan said of Garibaldi, "I don't like the company he's
+	been keeping."  How does Sheridan know what kind of company Garibaldi
+	has been keeping?  Is he having Garibaldi watched?  And is he referring
+	specifically to Wade's people?  If so, what does Sheridan know about
+	them?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862817302 Was there a reason Sheridan kept the lights in his office
+	low when he met others there, or was it just a directorial touch?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864846643 Franklin commented to Ivanova that Mars was cold.  But in
+	"Racing Mars,"
+	the tunnels where Franklin and Marcus were staying were noted as
+	uncomfortably warm.  Significant, or was Franklin simply referring
+	to the surface, which is indeed cold?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 In
+	"Babylon Squared,"
+	Zathras complained, "Zathras warned, but nobody listens to poor
+	Zathras."  In this episode, that's doubly true: even Zathras
+	doesn't listen to Zathras.
+
+   
    • @@@864002892 G'Kar's artificial eye is now brown, rather than red like
+	his natural one or blue like its initial color
+	("Atonement.")
+
+   
    • @@@862814145 The onscreen logo displayed while Garibaldi spoke to
+	William Edgars read "EI" (presumably short for "Edgars Industries"
+	or some such.)  Underneath, it read, "Mars - Phobos - Deimos."
+	Phobos and Deimos are the two moons of Mars.  Presumably this
+	implies that there are people living or working on those moons,
+	which in fact are little more than large asteroids and would thus
+	be attractive for microgravity pharmaceutical research.
+
+   
    • @@@863215545 William Edgars' voice was played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
+
+   
    • @@@864585237 The telepaths' PPG blasts penetrated the floor of the air
+	duct.  In
+	"Grey 17 Is Missing,"
+	Garibaldi commented that PPGs are used rather than traditional guns
+	because they don't penetrate hulls.  Of course, an outer hull is
+	likely quite a lot thicker than an air duct wall, and likely made
+	of material with a higher melting temperature, so this most likely
+	isn't a contradiction.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863023688 BTW, there's another example of a long single take
+	coming up soon, on Epsilon 3, which is all I'll specify.  I kinda
+	wanted the scene to play itself out, without cutting, and to show just
+	how amazingly capable some of our actors can be.  We're talking here
+	almost 4 minutes of footage, not one cut in the whole thing, very fast
+	dialogue, and not a single muffed line, with the performances working
+	wonderfully.  You'll know it when you see it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867048477 Our cast invariably comes in knowing full scenes, and
+	can hit them without breaking or blowing a line.  So we have a tendency
+	at times to just let the master play out, keeping the intensity, which
+	can sometimes be broken by too much cross-editing.  (Note that the
+	Zathras/Ivanova scene a few episodes back is *entirely* one shot, four
+	minutes.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863716015 Re: Daffy...I knew that cartoon, and had that definitely
+	in mind when I wrote the script.  Took some maneuvering to get WB to
+	let us use that much of it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862989776 Re: the cartoon...I'm a big WB cartoon fan, and knew that
+	one very well, and there were two places where it would've fit with the
+	story; the other one, which I almost used, was when you see two Daffy's
+	arguing with each other.
+
+	
      
+	Re: the CGI...we've been fairly conventional with the CGI in
+	recent seasons, we're trying to get a bit more adventurous.
+
+	
      
+	The Lise flashback material is all exactly as was filmed for
+	"Babylon Squared."  I think we used a few more pieces of the original
+	footage, but it was all stet.
+
+	
      
+	Why didn't we see what happened to Delenn, since she
+	left in the previous episode?
      
+	Re: Delenn...these episodes happen close to one another in
+	time, so you have to allow travel time for her to get to Minbar.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@862989776 Lise was the typical "woman in distress."
      
+	Re: Lise...well, everybody can't be a fighter; we've had guys
+	and the occasional female character who isn't used to being shot at.  I
+	daresay I'm not terribly used to being shot at, and someone who's
+	mainly a civilian would probably react about that same way.  It's just
+	a matter of showing that diversity realistically rather than saying,
+	"Okay, let's have a helpless female now."  Having every female (or
+	male) hard-nosed and laughing off PPG bursts is as unrealistic as its
+	opposite.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864028652 Was there anything important in Lise's
+	message?
      
+	No, nothing you need worry about.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863715985 Why didn't Edgars show his face?
      
+	As we'll learn shortly, he doesn't want his face seen around.
+
+	
      
+	But we'll see him soon enough.
+
+	
      
+	(And the voice belongs to Efram Zimbalist Jr.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865786929 Did the PPG blasts melt through the air conditioning
+	duct wall?
      
+	This is substantially correct.  The PPG blast is extremely hot, and will
+	melt through the plastic coating and the metal lining inside the tube.
+	The entire energy of a PPG will not come through the tube (unless by
+	some coincidence the exact same area is hit twice or three times), and I
+	believe that this was propoerly portrayed in the sequence.  Even if it
+	isn't the entire energy blast, it will hurt like hell and de-mobilize an
+	individual meat packet (person) for the bad guys to come get later.
+
+	
      
+	It did take a *very* long time to burn through the bulkhead door to
+	allow them access to the hallway, and said door did mildly glow in the
+	affected areas prior to melting through.  The station hull is even more
+	heat resistant.
+
+	
      
+	George Johnsen
      
+	CoProducer, B5
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan tricks the League of Non-Aligned Worlds into accepting his proposed
+defense pact.  Delenn tries to work with an old rival to defuse a brewing
+Minbari civil war.
+
+
+John Vickery as Neroon.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.33
+
+Production number: 413
+Original air week: May 12, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@863427621 The League of Non-Aligned Worlds has agreed to give the
+	White Star fleet authority to operate as a police force along its
+	borders.
+
+   
    • @@@863465106 Civil war has broken out in the Minbari capital city.
+
+   
    • @@@863465106 Three quarters of Clark's cabinet resigned in protest of
+	his martial law decree.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@863427621 Is Neroon really betraying Delenn?
+
+   
    • @@@864002776 The episode focused on the religious and warrior castes.
+	What happened to the worker caste?  Are they participating in
+	the fighting, and if so, which side have they taken?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@863465106 Will the Non-Aligned Worlds' pledge to help Sheridan with
+	any larger missions extend to his conflict with President Clark?  Even
+	in its diminished state, the combined forces of the Non-Aligned Worlds'
+	navies would likely be a great asset if the conflict came down to a
+	direct, prolonged series of battles.  On the other hand, intervening
+	in internal Earth matters isn't what the ambassadors had in mind; they
+	might balk at sending their ships to die for the cause of overthrowing
+	Earth's government.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864003857 By allowing the White Star fleet to patrol Centauri space
+	in search of the Drakh (among others,) Londo has given Sheridan
+	direct influence over the ability of the Shadows' allies to exact their
+	revenge on Centauri Prime.  Perhaps that's the source of Londo's
+	comment in
+	"War Without End"
+	about Sheridan allowing the Shadows' dark servants to slip through to
+	Centauri Prime; if Sheridan uses the White Star fleet for some larger
+	mission as he hints he might, it'll presumably be at the cost of
+	Centauri Prime's defense against the Drakh.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865971732 During the conversation between Londo and the Drazi
+	ambassador, Londo's duplicity is underscored by the staging of the
+	scene.  In most of the scene, two images of Londo can be seen: his
+	reflection in the mirror or his portrait.  The rest of the time
+	his face is obscured by a curtain.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863427621 In the past, Delenn has attempted to preserve Lennier's
+	innocence (e.g. by trying to leave him behind in
+	"Atonement.")
+	But from Lennier's point of view, she has an innocence of her own, and
+	he sees himself as its guardian.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863427621 Neroon may not be betraying Delenn at all; he told Shakiri
+	the he knew the religious caste's counterattack plans, but Delenn
+	made no mention of a counterattack.  It's possible his departure
+	was, in fact, all part of Delenn's plan; Lennier wasn't privy to
+	the conversation between Delenn and Neroon, so he wouldn't know
+	the details and would be fooled by Neroon's departure.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864003334 By revealing how much she relies on Lennier, Delenn may
+	have given valuable information to an opponent.  Neroon was honorable
+	enough and helped Lennier, and seems uninterested in directly battling
+	or hurting Delenn (if he'd been interested in that, he wasted several
+	opportunities while on her ship.)  But if Neroon passes the information
+	along to Shakiri, Lennier may find himself in danger.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864028581 Neroon said of the situation on Minbar, "We are a world
+	gone mad."  That's the same thing one of the council members told
+	Delenn in
+	"Atonement,"
+	before declaring, as Neroon did, that the fire would have to burn
+	itself out and couldn't be stopped.  Yet the Earth-Minbari War
+	did stop abruptly; perhaps the same will happen in this case.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864584789 Neroon's comment about loving a good mystery also echoed
+	"Atonement,"
+	in which Delenn said to the Grey Council that mysteries are a gift
+	from the universe and shouldn't be ignored.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864588190 The religious caste member said he heard Delenn say,
+	"The religious caste could not be allowed to win this war."  But she
+	actually said, "The warrior caste cannot be allowed to win this
+	war.  The religious caste cannot be allowed to win either."  Was he
+	simply embellishing a half-overheard comment (e.g. if he only heard
+	the second sentence up to "win") or did he choose to ignore or lie
+	about the context?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864588347 The religious caste has been the butt of jokes about
+	surrendering "ever since the war," according to the same religious
+	caste member.  Clearly that can't be referring to the Shadow War,
+	since they didn't surrender.  Does the comment indicate that most
+	Minbari still consider the Earth-Minbari War to be the major war of
+	recent memory?  Since the warrior caste is the group making the jokes,
+	the implication is that they didn't particularly participate in the
+	Shadow War.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863427621 The two storylines in the episode can be seen as point and
+	counterpoint on the subject of deception and secrecy (the title is
+	evidence that this isn't an accident.)  Delenn kept
+	her plans secret from her compatriots and nearly died with them as
+	a result.  Neroon was attacked for the same reason.
+	Sheridan kept secrets as well, and asked Franklin and Londo to lie
+	for him, and it helped his plans come to fruition.
+
+	
      
+	Lennier's deception played into the theme; he kept the true nature
+	of the sabotage from Delenn, with no immediate ill effect.  However,
+	it's possible that by maintaining Delenn's excessive faith in her
+	caste, Lennier in fact deprived her of vital information she'd do well
+	to take into account in the future.
+
+	
      
+	Ivanova held fast to the ideal of truth, but every
+	other major player in the story participated in some form of deception:
+	the rebellious religious caste members hid their plot, the League
+	ambassadors kept their "knowledge" of the new enemy from Sheridan,
+	and Neroon lied to either Delenn or Shakiri about his intentions.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864003655 Delenn mentioned this as the second time she'd seen
+	Lennier near death.  The first was in
+	"Convictions,"
+	in which he risked his life to save Londo Mollari.
+
+   
    • @@@865705464 Ivanova tells Sheridan that Marcus is waiting for him on
+	channel 4.  That's a reference to the network that shows B5 in the UK.
+
+   
    • @@@864582344 Editing glitch: during the opening scene, a piece of
+	food appears on Marcus' fork while the camera shifts to Sheridan;
+	the scene shifts again and he hasn't picked the food up yet.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@863798106 The Sheridan stuff was fun, in that I got to play
+	Sheridan as the one being manipulative for a change, smart for a
+	change...not just Londo or the usual suspects.  It made for a nifty
+	change of pace.
+
+	
      
+	And yeah, Mira brought a lot of truth to this episode...and will
+	bring even more in next week.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863715772 Ivanova looked like she was reading from a
+	teleprompter.
      
+	Yeah, we had Claudia use a teleprompter there to add to the
+	sense of having to read something...and enjoy the happy-go-lucky
+	Sheridan...it's the last you'll see of him for a long time....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864002776 Lennier seems to be doing more peacemaking than
+	Delenn.  Is he the real bridge between races?  Why does the religious
+	caste follow Delenn?
      
+	No, I wouldn't say Lennier is a bridge in any sense along those
+	lines.
+
+	
      
+	Delenn, you must understand, is a True Seeker, and among the
+	religious caste there isn't much more admirable than that...combined
+	with the fact that she *did* fulfill prophecy, she *was* the chosen of
+	Dukhat, she *did* help end the Shadow War...yeah, she's had some
+	problems here and there, but what important leader doesn't?  Any one of
+	those items would be a sufficient crown on a lifetime of
+	achievement...the cumulative effect is quite daunting and impressive.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864893404 Are Lennier's patience, humor, and devotion
+	unique?
      
+	No, many Minbari share in those traits.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864060805 "Are tears a normal Minbari physical reaction, or is
+	weeping (for Delenn) one of the changes mandated by her chrysalitic"
+
+	
      
+	We've seen Delenn cry before, when she and G'Kar were in her
+	quarters and she was explining why she did not get involved in the
+	Narn/Centauri war.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864500179 How did Londo see an Earth sitcom if all broadcasts
+	to B5 are being jammed?
      
+	Easy.  The incident Londo is mentioning happened prior to the
+	blackout. He never said it *just* happened, he said the *last* time
+	Rebo and Zooty did their routine, everybody was doing it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864542764 Were Rebo and Zooty references to real
+	people?
      
+	No, not intended as tributes to anyone, just a cool sounding
+	pair of names (but also annoying sounding).
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The warrior caste demands Delenn's surrender.  Bester makes an offer to an
+increasingly desperate Lyta.  Sheridan is compelled to act after receiving
+horrible news from Ivanova.
+
+
+Scott Adams as Mr. Adams.
+Bart McCarthy as Shakiri.
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+John Vickery as Neroon.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.73
+
+Production number: 414
+Original air week: May 19, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864065604 Delenn has formed a new Grey Council, with the worker
+	caste holding 5 of the 9 positions.  The position of leader is
+	reserved for "The One who is to come."
+
+   
    • @@@864065604 In the days before Valen, when caste wars erupted, the
+	warring leaders would gather in the temple of Varenni, which is
+	equipped with planetwide broadcast facilities and a device called
+	the Starfire Wheel.  The Starfire Wheel would consume the opposing
+	leaders in fire.  Whichever one willing was to die for the rightness
+	of their side would remain in the fire until death; that caste would
+	lead.
+
+   
    • @@@864065604 Unable to find work, Lyta has rejoined the Psi Corps in
+	name only, striking a deal with Bester to give him custody over her
+	body when she dies so he can try to understand what the Vorlons
+	did to her.  In exchange, the Corps will list her as a member
+	when potential clients try to do a background check on her.
+
+   
    • @@@864065604 Bester is directly involved in whatever was done to
+	Garibaldi.  Among other things, Bester's plan is to pull Garibaldi
+	further and further from his former associates, though the ultimate
+	purpose is still unclear.
+
+   
    • @@@864065604 William Edgars, Garibaldi's employer, is extremely
+	secretive; though he's one of the wealthiest men in the Earth Alliance,
+	no pictures of him have ever been published.  He also claims to have an
+	intense distrust of telepaths and refuses to let any of his high-level
+	employees work with them.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864065604 Who is The One who is to come?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@864065604 What will happen to Shakiri?  Does he still lead the
+	warrior caste?
+
+   
    • @@@864067304 What were Delenn's instructions to Lennier?
+
+   
    • @@@864065604 What is Bester's plan for Garibaldi?
+
+   
    • @@@866938177 What happened between Zack and Bester after Bester
+	provoked Garibaldi?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864542424 The One who is to come may be Sheridan;
+	in
+	"War Without End,"
+	Zathras referred to him as "The One who will be."  The main thing
+	arguing against it being Sheridan is the generally xenophobic
+	attitude expressed by many Minbari in the past (e.g. Callenn in
+	"Atonement.")
+	On the other hand, perhaps such xenophobia is only a disease of the
+	warrior and religious castes; the worker caste might have less
+	trouble accepting a human as their leader.
+
+	
      
+	Another candidate is David, Sheridan and Delenn's future child
+	("War Without End, Part Two.")
+	As a direct descendant of all three of The One, and a partial Minbari
+	genetically, he might be more palatable.
+
+	
      
+	She might even have meant Sinclair: in
+	"Atonement,"
+	she mentioned Valen's body was never found, and at least one Minbari
+	ritual, the extra placesetting seen in
+	"Confessions and Lamentations,"
+	indicates a belief in Valen's eventual return.
+
+	
      
+	It's also possible Delenn didn't intend her comment in any sort of
+	prophetic way.  She may simply have been referring to the next head of
+	the Grey Council.  The Minbari went ten years between leaders after
+	Dukhat's death; perhaps there will be a similar period of mourning
+	for Neroon, and the new leader won't be chosen for a while.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864544191 Both Sheridan and Delenn have accepted death (Sheridan
+	with Lorien in
+	"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+	Will the experience change Delenn as it changed Sheridan?  Arguably,
+	this isn't the first time for Delenn -- she accepted at least the
+	possibility of death in
+	"Confessions and Lamentations"
+	and gave herself in exchange for Sheridan in
+	"Comes the Inquisitor."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864067551 Despite Delenn's denial, the religious caste members on
+	her ship in
+	"Rumors, Bargains and Lies"
+	were at least partially right: her plan did involve
+	surrendering to the warrior caste, if only temporarily.  If Lennier's
+	reaction was at all typical, that must have come as a horrible blow
+	to her caste when they heard about it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867903582 Delenn's line to Shakiri, "The warrior caste started this
+	war.  Now the religious caste has ended it," echoes the lesson Sheridan
+	learned from his father
+	("Severed Dreams")
+	-- "Never start a fight, but always finish it."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864067551 Neroon's loyalties at the beginning of the episode were
+	unclear.  Shakiri's contempt for life clearly convinced Neroon that
+	Delenn's plan was the right way to go.  But would he have carried out
+	her plan if Shakiri hadn't been so fanatical and had been able to
+	provide some valid justification for the war?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864541332 Neroon's sacrifice will probably play much better in the
+	long run than Delenn's death would have. Shakiri's fear and 
+	actions brought dishonor to the Warrior caste; had they
+	simply lost to the religious caste the resentment and stain 
+	of dishonor would have remained.
+
+	
      
+	By sacrificing himself for Delenn, Neroon gave honor back
+	to the warriors, since one of their own
+	remained and died in the Starwheel. His conversion to religious
+	caste assured that the honor would be shared with them as well.
+
+	
      
+	Neroon's last-minute conversion meant both a religious and a warrior
+	caste member perished on the wheel. Thus, technically, neither caste
+	won, just as Delenn wanted.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865710832 Neroon wasn't the first Minbari to switch castes.  His
+	former commander, Branmer, was originally religious caste but switched
+	to warrior caste during the Earth-Minbari War
+	("Legacies.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865179896 Neroon's interaction with Delenn revolves around
+	sacrifice.  In
+	"Grey 17 Is Missing,"
+	he was ready to attack or possibly kill her, but yielded when he saw
+	that Marcus was ready to sacrifice his life for her sake.  Here, he
+	himself made that sacrifice.  At the end of "Grey 17," Marcus asked
+	Neroon, "Next time you want a revelation, could you possibly find a way
+	that's not quite so uncomfortable?"  Apparently not.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864588681 While Delenn was bringing peace to her people, Sheridan
+	was preparing to go to war with his.  What will Delenn think of his
+	decision when she returns?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864067304 Ivanova's broadcast mentioned a Starfury squadron defecting
+	to Proxima 3.  How many Earth ships have gone over to the resistance?
+	Presumably the Alexander is still at large
+	("Severed Dreams.")
+	Are there other ships of that caliber, and if so, will they take
+	orders from Sheridan?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864670730 Bester implied he'd seen the Voice of the Resistance
+	broadcasts.  Does that mean the broadcasts are in fact reaching Earth
+	and/or Mars, or has he simply seen them because he travels a lot in
+	the course of his job?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864588681 Bester's contract says he gets Lyta's body if she dies
+	of natural causes.  Would the telepath disease in
+	"Conflicts of Interest"
+	count as natural causes?  If so, Bester and the Corps may have a
+	specific reason to want to gain control of the cure.  Perhaps Bester
+	was the one responsible for sending the telepaths to try to procure it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864067304 Lyta is slowly lifting the veil of secrecy she's
+	maintained about the Vorlons and their changes to her.  In
+	"Epiphanies,"
+	she was only willing to obliquely acknowledge the possibility that
+	something might have happened.  Here, she tacitly admitted it to 
+	Bester, and told Garibaldi in no uncertain terms that she wasn't a
+	mere P5 any more.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864067304 Will Lyta be more willing to scan Garibaldi now that he
+	has, from her point of view, turned against her?  If she were to
+	discover evidence of Bester's involvement in whatever was done to
+	Garibaldi, she'd presumably want to investigate and find out what
+	Bester was up to.  Of course, she might still consider Garibaldi's
+	privacy a more compelling concern, and presumably whatever programming
+	he received would prevent him from agreeing to be scanned.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864845195 Sheridan's insistence that Lyta move to smaller quarters
+	to help the station stay financially afloat is somewhat hypocritical,
+	given his refusal to do the same in
+	"A Race Through Dark Places."
+	Lyta made the same argument Sheridan did against being forcibly moved:
+	her value to the station entitles her to special treatment.
+
+	
      
+	It's worth noting that Zack said the order came from Station Resources,
+	not from Sheridan himself, but presumably if there were a reasonable
+	chance Sheridan would overturn the order, Zack would have asked him
+	before burdening Lyta with the news.
+
+	
      
+	And given Bester's presence on the station, was Zack even relaying a
+	real order?  Bester might have planted the belief in such an order
+	in Zack's mind without Zack being any the wiser.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864542058 This is the second time Zack has been asked to relay
+	bad news to someone close: first Garibaldi in
+	"Conflicts of Interest,"
+	and now Lyta, who appears to have warmed up considerably to Zack
+	since he brought her pizza in
+	"Epiphanies."
+	Though Zack is clearly loyal to Sheridan, bearing bad news to
+	friends probably won't have any positive effect on his attitude.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864542058 Zack no longer calls Garibaldi "chief."  Likely he's given
+	up hope of Garibaldi's return.  Any respect Zack had for Garibaldi
+	was probably destroyed by Garibaldi's use of a duplicate identicard
+	to get past customs
+	("Conflicts of Interest.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
+   
    • @@@862819784 
+	Cartoonist Scott Adams,
+	creator of the
+	"Dilbert"
+	comic strip, has a cameo appearance in this episode.  A
+	press release
+	about his appearance is available.
+
+	
      
+	Mr. Adams' lost dog and cat are no doubt a reference to the characters
+	of Dogbert and Catbert from the comic strip.  Dogbert is constantly
+	scheming to take over the world.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885536282 The new Grey Council (spellings approximate): Dalidi and Burli of
+	the religious caste, Mazik and Shaka of the warrior caste, and
+	Dulann, Katz, Zaca, Nur, and Barenn of the worker caste.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864542729 The title of this episode echoes G'Kar's closing
+	monologue in
+	"Z'ha'dum":
+	"The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of
+	transition, to be born in moments of revelation.  No one knows the
+	shape of that future or where it will take us.  We know only that it is
+	always born in pain."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@870242784 The security guard may have been stumped by Bester's
+	Dickens quote because it wasn't quite right.  In "A Christmas Carol,"
+	Marley's Ghost said, "Mankind was my business," not "Humanity is my
+	business."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@870027128 Edgars claimed to be available 24 hours a day.
+	The Martian day is closer to 25 Earth hours long.  But even now,
+	scientists divide the Martian day into 24 Martian hours, each slightly
+	longer than a terrestrial hour.  It's reasonable to assume that that
+	practice continues into the 23rd century.
+	(More on
+	Mars)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866394205 This episode takes place around August 3, 2261.  August 3
+	is a recurring date in the series: August 3, 2258 was the date of
+	the initial mayday from the raiders in
+	"Signs and Portents;"
+	August 3, 2260 was the date the Shadows began attacking openly
+	("Interludes and Examinations;")
+	and August 3, 2261 was the date in Bester's log entry in this
+	episode.
+
+
      
+	
+   
    • @@@869851585 In the original US broadcast, the cruiser firing on the
+	commercial transports was shown as the Agamemnon, Sheridan's old ship.
+	That was a production slipup (see
+	JMS Speaks)
+	and in later airings, the cruiser was labeled the Pollux.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865613058 In response to an earlier JMS
+	message saying the cruiser wasn't the Agamemnon
      
+	I have to recant my correction.
+
+	
      
+	The image as shown in the monitor was supposed to be shown
+	*only* on the monitor, not blown up.  The animators figured,
+	it'll be too small to read the name on it, so we may as well
+	grab a ship out of the library rather than building a new one
+	(a sensible choice)...but when John and I got into editing, we
+	grabbed the original video and did that close-up...and neither
+	of us, NObody, ever even noticed the Aggy name until after it
+	was mentioned here...and I then checked, and to my chagrin, it
+	was there.
+
+	
      
+	But in true Soviet Revisionist fashion, you can be assured that
+	down the road, this will mysteriously be replaced by another
+	shot....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865288720 If you had been 100% sure there'd be a season 5,
+	would this have been the season 4 finale?
      
+	No, this could never have been the finale for 4.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864666022 Will John Vickery return, perhaps as Mr. Welles from
+	"The Fall of Night?"
      
+	No, not as that role, but we're definitely open to using him in
+	other roles, as with Wayne Alexander.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867911142 We'll keep our eyes out for a way to bring him around again,
+	same as with Wayne.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864542729 How does this story relate to G'Kar's speech?
      
+	In a way, it was the second half of G'Kar's sentence...that life
+	can be broken down into moments of transition and moments of
+	revelation...and there with Neroon at the end we had both.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864580628 Did he really realize he belonged in the religious
+	caste, or did he just do it for Delenn's sake?
      
+	Whether it was true or not, he knew his actions would bring the
+	castes back together...so out of respect for the dead, best to leave
+	the issue unresolved, and accept his gesture for what it was.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864500122 What was wrong with Walter Koenig's hand?
      
+	As for Walter...he made the decision to play Bester
+	with a deformed or useless hand, which he's compensating for as a teep.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864580628 Then how does he put his gloves on?
      
+	Ask Walter.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865362300 What's been great about B5 has been the chance to give many
+	talented actors like Walter and others a chance to show the many other
+	hues and colors they are capable of delivering, but which were rarely
+	seen because the material didn't allow them the opportunity.  I know
+	Walter's loved it, and it's been great for us as well.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864580988 Were Delenn and Neroon secretly in contact, or was
+	the whole plan worked out in advance?
      
+	They were worked out in advance, and the instructions were
+	for posthumous use.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864500323 Did Delenn's instructions include a message for
+	Sheridan?
      
+	Almost certainly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864236121 Are any members of the old Grey Council on the new
+	one?
      
+	Yeah, some of the new council would've been on the old one.
+
+	
      
+	And Bester was named for a well-known SF writer, now gone.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864666022 The Grey Council stucture, visually, is designed to bring
+	the Starfire wheel to mind.  Valen, being something of a smart cookie,
+	figured it would be wise to tie in whatever he was doing to the
+	traditions that preceded him.  So they're arranged in a circle, with a
+	series of lights above them, and the one central light (for Dukhat, for
+	instance) reserved for the one who had endured and grown to leadership,
+	but through a somewhat less violent means.
+
+	
      
+	"Finally, the diversity of cultures on Babylon 5 must be a
+	satisfaction for you as a writer to have so many different voices to
+	express. "MoT" for me was almost like seguing between playwrights --
+	Damon Runyan (Garibaldi) to Oscar Wilde (Bester) to Aeschylus (Minbar).
+	One of the things I have found most appealing about Babylon 5 as a
+	whole is that the language is similar to the language of the stage. 
+	That seems rare in a television milieu defined for the most part by
+	diseases-of-the-week, talk-show spew and courtroom maneuverings."
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, I like that part a lot, being able to write in lots of
+	different voices, lots of different styles.  You have to remember that
+	I cut my teeth writing dialogue back when I was writing plays and
+	getting them produced.  I love theater, love plays, and love really
+	well done or rich dialogue.  So it echoes that now...which as you say
+	isn't necessarily the style of dialogue seen on most television (which
+	is why a few react weirdly to it), but I like it, and it's my show....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@874513609 Lyta refused to scan Garibaldi, but was willing to
+	scan the Centauri in
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane."
      
+	Yes, it's an inconsistency; because humans are inconsistent. 
+	But it's only an inconsistency subject to Lyta's
+	rationalizations...which are quite reasonable.
+
+	
      
+	She didn't know the Centauri; she knew Garibaldi...they knew
+	beyond a shadow of a doubt that Brother Edward's *life* was in
+	jeapordy, and that this person may hold the key to saving his life and
+	every instant they waited meant he could be dying, whereas there is no
+	such crisis in the Garibaldi situation...they were able to hide her
+	identity from the Centauri whereas they would not be able to do so with
+	her and Garibaldi....
+
+	
      
+	The decision to scan or not to scan is essentially a moral or
+	ethical decision.  When someone's life is on the line, that raises one
+	ethical concern, as opposed to Zack just having a vague suspicion about
+	Garibaldi's character and asking her to engage in a fishing expedition.
+	There is a quantum difference between the two of them.
+
+	
      
+	Would a physician give someone the tools necessary to end his
+	life? No. Would he do so if the person were chronically ill and in
+	constant, terrible pain?  Very possibly.  It's the *context*.  You
+	can't expect people to act the same in every situation regardless of
+	context, context is everything.
+
+	
      
+	People are not robots, they rationalize, they are inconsistent,
+	but they generally have *reasons* for it that they can justify.  As
+	somebody once said, rationalizations are more important than sex,
+	because you can *go* a day without sex....  [Ed. note: this is
+	a quote from "The Big Chill."]
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864666022 Why didn't Lyta go to Sheridan for help?
      
+	I think Lyta had just emotionally gotten to the place where she
+	had to do something on her own rather than continuing to rely on the
+	kindness of strangers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864500122 Did Bester tell Edgars that Garibaldi had hired
+	Lyta?
      
+	Nope.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864542729 Is Edgars really Bester?
      
+	Not a chance.
+
+	
      
+	Edgars is played by Efrem Zimbalist Jr., which by itself
+	precludes that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864636708 Bear in mind that Edgars also has Wade working for him
+	right there on the station, and he is more or less Garibaldi's liaison
+	with Edgars, so logically that would be his source of information.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan's forces attempt to liberate Proxima 3. Londo tries to enlist G'Kar's
+aid in backing Sheridan against Earth.
+
+
+Marcia Mitzman Gaven as Commander Levitt.
+Richard Gant as Captain MacDougan.
+Ken Jenkins as Captain Hall.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.16
+
+Production number: 415
+Original air week: May 26, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864600713 Sheridan's forces have liberated Proxima 3.  In the
+	process, several additional Earth Alliance cruisers defected to his
+	side.  Some are remaining to guard Proxima 3 against retaliation
+	by President Clark.
+
+   
    • @@@864600713 During the Earth-Minbari War, G'Kar personally supervised
+	the sale of Narn weapons to Earth.
+
+   
    • @@@864600713 Londo and G'Kar have agreed to throw the support of their
+	respective governments behind Sheridan.  The nonaligned worlds have
+	apparently dissolved their mutual defense pacts with Earth and are
+	staying out of the conflict, aside from loaning ships to help defend
+	Babylon 5 itself.
+
+   
    • @@@864605370 Garibaldi has left the station for Mars, and never intends
+	to return.  He plans to try to help free Earth, but not in concert
+	with Sheridan, whose methods Garibaldi opposes.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864667703 What exactly will come of the declaration of support by
+	Centauri Prime and Narn?  Will they provide military support to
+	Sheridan?  Did he know the declaration was coming?
+
+   
    • @@@865125941 Does Londo's declaration mean that he has voided the
+	nonagression treaty between Centauri Prime and Earth
+	("The Fall of Night?")
+	Does the implantation of a Keeper on at least one Centauri official
+	("Epiphanies")
+	spell trouble for Centauri support of Sheridan's cause?
+
+   
    • @@@865180478 What was Vir writing when he fell asleep?
+
+   
    • @@@866393918 What business did Garibaldi have in Centauri space?
+
+   
    • @@@864605370 What does Garibaldi plan to do to fight for Earth?
+
+   
    • @@@864605370 How does Sheridan hope to use the frozen telepaths?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864667703 Sheridan told Commander Levitt the League wasn't getting
+	involved because he wanted this to be a clean fight, presumably
+	meaning no alien involvement.  But in fact, aliens are already
+	involved; the crew of the White Star fleet is largely Minbari,
+	and the ships themselves are a Minbari/Vorlon concoction.
+
+	
      
+	Earth forces being attacked by Minbari-made vessels with Minbari
+	crews would seem perfect propaganda fodder for Clark, further
+	"evidence" that Sheridan has gone over to the Minbari side as
+	suggested in
+	"The Illusion of Truth."
+
+	
      
+	Of course, it could be argued that many Minbari are part human anyway
+	("Atonement")
+	and thus aren't completely out of place in a human civil war,
+	but that argument would likely do little to dampen the effect of
+	Clark's propaganda, should he choose to concoct any.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865017413 Patriotism and its effects played a key thematic role in
+	this episode.  Sheridan's patriotism (as described when he spoke to
+	the other captains about the ideals of the Alliance) drove him to
+	attack his own people.  Garibaldi's patriotism, if his conversation
+	with Vir is to be believed, is strong as well, but Sheridan's
+	methods are abhorrent to him.  Londo's patriotism led him to forsake
+	his friends, and now he finds himself alone.  G'Kar's patriotism
+	lost him his eye.
+
+	
      
+	Perhaps even Clark believes he's acting in Earth's best interest,
+	though that puts him on a collision course with Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865184651 Did Garibaldi tell Edgars about Sheridan's imminent
+	campaign?  If so, Edgars doesn't appear to have relayed the information
+	to Earth Force, since the commanders at Proxima 3 were unaware Sheridan
+	was on the move.  On the other hand, Garibaldi didn't know the
+	particulars of the first phase of the campaign.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865180152 Garibaldi apparently
+	didn't visit G'Kar to say goodbye (or at least, no such visit was
+	shown.)  Why not, especially given what G'Kar went through while
+	searching for him?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865180478 G'Kar is apparently still working on the book he started
+	while in prison
+	("Messages from Earth.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865798185 When Londo asked about G'Kar's eye, G'Kar responded,
+	"It sees."  His eye is therefore probably not, at present, the "eye
+	that does not see" from Lady Morella's prophecy
+	("Point of No Return.")
+	Was his natural eye in fact the one referred to by the prophecy?
+	Since it needs to be recharged nightly to continue seeing
+	("Atonement")
+	and since it's not in evidence 17 years in the future, when G'Kar
+	and Londo kill each other
+	("War Without End, Part Two")
+	the artificial eye may yet turn out to be the one Morella was referring
+	to.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865180478 Londo offered a toast to the humans, who he regards as
+	a bridge between the Centauri and Narn.  This echoes Delenn's statements
+	("And Now For a Word,"
+	"Lines of Communication")
+	that humanity's greatest strength is the ability to form communities
+	of diverse people.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865016822 The drink Londo referred to while talking to G'Kar was in
+	"The Coming of Shadows,"
+	bought by G'Kar after he learned the Centauri Emperor had come to
+	make peace with the Narn.
+
+	
      
+	Shortly thereafter, Londo did have some inkling that he was losing
+	his friends thanks to his activities; he offered Garibaldi a drink in
+	"Acts of Sacrifice,"
+	acknowledging that the two were still "friends, if only for a little
+	while."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865533963 Londo's rationale for the joint declaration was nearly
+	identical to Sheridan's argument for allowing the White Star fleet
+	to patrol Narn and Centauri space
+	("Conflicts of Interest.")
+	However, since Sheridan apparently decided not to publicize the
+	fact that both the Narn and Centauri had agreed to the patrols
+	(assuming the Narn agreed -- it's only been explicitly stated that
+	the Centauri did) this joint declaration is the first official
+	act of unity that's been shown.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865180152 Vir's nightmare presumably related to the assassination
+	of Cartagia
+	("The Long Night.")
+	It's odd that he cried out, "I didn't do it," when in fact he did
+	kill Cartagia, perhaps an indication that part of him still doesn't
+	believe what he did.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, it's possible he was dreaming of something else,
+	perhaps one of the precognitive dreams Centauri have.  In that case,
+	one candidate that'd fit his exclamation would be his discovery of
+	the dead bodies of Londo and G'Kar
+	("War Without End, Part Two.")
+
+	
      
+	One other Centauri has been shown awakening from a nightmare recently:
+	the Regent in
+	"Epiphanies,"
+	who awoke to discover he had a Keeper attached to his neck.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864920269 Earth appears to have improved its scanning technology;
+	White Star ships were hit more than once during the battle.  Previously,
+	Earth weapon systems haven't been able to lock onto Minbari ships (e.g.
+	"Points of Departure.")
+	Presumably the White Stars, which incorporate much more advanced
+	Vorlon technology as well, are even harder to get a fix on.  Perhaps
+	the Shadows supplied Earth with some technical tips.
+	
+	
      
+	It's possible manual targeting was used (novel
+	"The Shadow Within")
+	and the Earth ships simply got in a few lucky shots, but that runs
+	counter to Sheridan's message to the other captains that he wouldn't
+	consider them hostile if their weapons didn't lock on.  That message
+	wouldn't make sense if they weren't capable of locking on anyway.
+	On the other hand, since Sheridan wanted to test the hostility of
+	the Earth ships, he may have ordered the White Stars to turn off
+	their countermeasures.  In
+	"Points of Departure"
+	Minbari ships were able to make themselves trackable by the station's
+	scanners as desired.
+
+	
      
+	Either way, only one White Star was seen to have been destroyed,
+	and then only because it smashed into a cruiser seconds after being
+	hit.  Possibly the White Stars are advanced enough that a momentary
+	loss of control is the only real impact from a single hit by Earth
+	weapons.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865277191 While Marcus was gathering information on the hostility of
+	the Earth cruisers, his contact on Proxima 3 was under attack by ground
+	forces.  What happened to the ground forces after the space battle?
+	Sheridan appeared to consider the planet liberated once the commander
+	of the Heracles capitulated; did she have authority over all Earth
+	forces in the region, or are there still holdouts on the surface?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865277191 Sheridan promised to liberate Proxima, then take the battle
+	to Mars and finally to Earth.  What about the colony on Orion 7, which
+	seceded from the Earth Alliance at the same time Proxima 3 did?
+	("Severed Dreams")
+	Perhaps it has already fallen, or maybe it's not under as much duress
+	as Proxima was, so Sheridan felt the best way to liberate it was to
+	take back Earth.  Or perhaps it's a small colony and Clark didn't
+	deem it worth the effort to take back.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865016930 In
+	"War Without End, Part One"
+	the White Star's Vorlon technology adapted its defenses to shrug off
+	blasts from Shadow fighters after it was hit.  Will the surviving
+	White Stars from the battle at Proxima 3 now be more resistant to
+	Earth's weapons, and thus even more potent weapons?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865708521 Commander Levitt knew that the League worlds had sided
+	with Sheridan.  How did she know, if Babylon 5 is officially cut off
+	from Earth?  The most likely answer is that she'd been watching the
+	Voice of the Resistance broadcasts, which indicates that they are
+	indeed reaching the colonies.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864885020 The Alexander
+	("Severed Dreams")
+	has survived and is apparently now patrolling Proxima 3 to guard
+	against retaliation by Clark's forces.
+
+   
    • @@@865016309 The Vesta's logo (visible on the bridge) is a stylized
+	flame in a brazier.  Vesta is the Roman goddess of the hearth.
+	The Heracles' logo appears to incorporate arrows in the "H" at
+	the bottom, probably a reference to Heracles' poison arrows from
+	Greek mythology.
+
+   
    • @@@865277191 The ship that withdrew from the battle was the Juno.
+	In Roman mythology, Juno was the goddess of light and birth.  In Greek
+	mythology she was called Hera.
+
+   
    • @@@866783759 The names of two of the ships that surrendered had
+	symbolic relation to Sheridan's campaign.  The Furies were goddesses
+	who punished crimes against one's kin.  Nemesis was the goddess who
+	punished hubris -- putting oneself above the gods.
+
+   
    • @@@865533511 The Pollux was named after Greek mythology as well.
+	Castor and Pollux, the two main stars of the constellation Gemini,
+	were brothers.  When Pollux was killed, Castor was so despondent that
+	Zeus agreed to turn them both into stars so they could always be
+	together.
+
+   
    • @@@865533369 Possible continuity glitch: Just before Garibaldi's
+	arrival, Vir drops his pen while he's asleep.  When he stands up,
+	he's holding the pen again.  Of course, he might have picked it
+	up upon awakening.
+
+
+
+   
    • @@@874859104 Effects glitch: The Earth Alliance logos on the Pollux
+	and the Furies are backwards.  The "E" can be seen to point to the
+	left rather than the right.
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@864752359 Why don't we ever see Clark?
      
+	I wanted to keep Clark more a force than a person...and Vir
+	has just been off doing his usual Vir stuff...he's back this coming
+	week.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865362300 Proxima 3 is in the Proxima Centauri system, next door to
+	Proxima 2, but no one goes there because the tourist season is way too
+	short.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865269464 "It seems to me that the White Stars (particularly in
+	the numbers I perceived in this Ep)  should have been able to deal with
+	the Earth ships like lamb to a slaughter."
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, if all you want is to slaughter fellow humans and
+	officers; if you want to try to minimize the body count of your fellow
+	officers, who you want to eventually side with you, it's more
+	difficult, you have to keep the kid gloves on...which endangers you in
+	the long run.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865446689 "were these White Stars tired or something? I would've
+	expected that a couple of them could just go slice-slice, sever the
+	rotating sections on the EA ships and have 'em for breakfast."
+
+	
      
+	Sure, if all you're interested in is slaughtering the opposition...they
+	were designed for "destroy"...when you have to pull your punches to
+	avoid just going in and killing EVERYthing in sight...which will only
+	work *against* you in the long run, it becomes more difficult.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865492857 There were a lot of ethical decisions on all
+	sides, something you don't usually see in military SF.  Were you
+	in the military?
      
+	No, I wasn't in the military, just having missed the Vietnam
+	draft. The points you mention are all the ones I wanted to get into
+	with that episode, and the ones a lot of folks have overlooked in
+	suggesting that it should have been an episode about slicing-and-dicing
+	the enemy (the enemy in this case being our own species).  The show, at
+	root, is about ethics, among other things, and the ethical choices will
+	continue to get more difficult the deeper you go.  There is a very fine
+	line that Sheridan's walking in all this.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865492857 It's certainly an issue I care about quite a lot, and the
+	delicate balance between orders and conscience, between what you think
+	you should be doing vs. what you feel you *must* do, is the heart of
+	99% of all drama.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865578466 "G'Kar seems to know that it's Mollari at his door -- why
+	else would he wait so long to call, "Enter?"  But how did he know --
+	was it an official request by Londo?"
+
+	
      
+	If you recall, when Garibaldi visited Vir, Vir mentioned that
+	Londo was arranging a meeting with G'Kar, so it was definitely set up
+	in advance.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865269464 The Londo/G'Kar stuff was nifty...and yes, he's
+	struggling toward redemption as best he can, making a real effort, which
+	is important, because if he's going to end up with a Keeper on him
+	eventually, as we've seen, best to feel for him, which you can't if
+	he's a bad guy.
+
+	
      
+	Set 'em up, knock 'em down....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865492857 If G'Kar came around too easily or quickly, it would
+	ring false; it had to go through some time and reflection.  But even
+	though one could certainly agree with his anger over what's happened,
+	G'Kar has to try and overcome that and even transcend it.
+
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi arrives on Mars and meets William Edgars.  Lyta helps Franklin
+in an attempt to make contact with the frozen telepaths.
+
+
+Denise Gentile as Lise.
+Mark Schneider as Wade.
+Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as William Edgars.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.62
+
+Production number: 416
+Original air week: June 2, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John LaFia
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@865323625 Sheridan's forces have liberated the colony at Beta
+	Durani, as well as a midrange military outpost.
+
+   
    • @@@865323625 Lyta is able to awaken the implanted telepaths
+	("Ship of Tears.")
+	After observing the effect of her mental contact with them, Franklin
+	has devised an artificial equivalent and feels he's well on his way
+	to reviving them.
+
+   
    • @@@865621220 Garibaldi is still in love with Lise.
+
+   
    • @@@865621220 Edgars runs the fourth-largest corporation
+	on Earth.  His company is involved in chemical and biological
+	weapons manufacturing as well as pharmaceutical production.
+
+   
    • @@@865545104 Edgars says President Clark has become increasingly paranoid
+	since taking office.  Learning of the Shadows' interest in Psi Corps,
+	Clark developed an interest as well.  As his paranoia increased, he
+	started giving the Corps more and more power, since telepaths were able
+	to tell him absolutely whether the people around him were loyal.  The
+	Corps, of course, isn't eager to give up its newfound clout, and
+	Edgars and others fear that if Sheridan takes his battle to Earth,
+	Clark may panic and give the Corps unprecedented control over society,
+	a development that wouldn't be easy to reverse.  He therefore wants
+	Sheridan's campaign stopped for Earth's own good.
+
+   
    • @@@865621220 Clark's forces still haven't located Sheridan's father.
+
+   
    • @@@865323625 According to Edgars, the real power in Earthdome has never
+	been in the hands of the politicians; the mega-corporations have
+	always called the shots.  They let Clark declare martial law, but
+	didn't foresee the Psi Corps connection until it was too late.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@865323625 What does Sheridan plan to do with the telepaths?
+
+   
    • @@@865364116 Will Psi Corps come looking for the murdered telepath?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@865621220 Lise tried to warn Garibaldi off.  Why?  How much does
+	she know about what her husband is planning?  How far will she go to
+	protect Garibaldi?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865968765 Garibaldi said Mars had tried to kill him before.  One
+	of those occasions was his trek across the surface with Sinclair
+	("Infection"
+	and issues 4-8 of the
+	comic series.)
+	What were the other two?
+
+	
      
+	The incident that killed Frank Kemmer
+	("Survivors")
+	has been suggested, but Garibaldi said that took place on Europa,
+	not Mars.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865797858 He also said he'd sworn never to come back to Mars.  But
+	in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness part 2,"
+	he told Lise he had some leave coming up and was thinking of taking it
+	on Mars.  Maybe he only considered that after he realized Lise was in
+	danger during the uprising.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865622080 In
+	"Moments of Transition,"
+	Bester claimed in his log entry that Garibaldi was inching closer to
+	where Bester needed him to be.  It's plausible that Bester has been
+	priming Garibaldi to join up with Edgars.  The Corps seems to be
+	aware of the telepathic virus (the assassins in
+	"Conflicts of Interest"
+	were likely Corps operatives) and is thus probably aware that Edgars
+	has some interest in it.  Given the presence of the virus, they
+	wouldn't be able to use a telepath as an undercover agent.  Setting
+	up a non-telepath to be their spy and/or saboteur in Edgars'
+	organization would be the Corps' only recourse, and they'd have to
+	do it with subconscious programming since Edgars isn't above using
+	telepaths to test potential employees' loyalties.
+
+	
      
+	Garibaldi was a logical choice because the Corps knew of his connection
+	to Lise; in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness,"
+	Garibaldi asked Talia to look into Lise's condition by going through
+	Corps channels.  It wouldn't be much of a leap for the Corps to assume
+	that Lise would therefore recommend Garibaldi to her husband, making
+	Garibaldi the best possible candidate for the job of unwitting spy.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865706778 Edgars appeared to accept Garibaldi's answer that he
+	didn't remember what happened to him while he was missing
+	("Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+	Given how paranoid Edgars is in other respects, will that really be
+	the end of the matter?  Does Edgars know more than Garibaldi does
+	about what happened? Perhaps Edgars' seeming trust of Garibaldi is
+	really an application of the old adage, "Keep your friends close, but
+	keep your enemies closer."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866938139 During his questioning, Garibaldi told Edgars, "Everyone
+	lies."  In
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars,"
+	Sinclair said the same thing to Garibaldi, and elaborated: "The innocent
+	lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do,
+	and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866938139 Garibaldi stood in front of a mirror during his
+	questioning, staring at his own reflection.  But the mirror was
+	warped, distorting his image.  Garibaldi studied the image as he spoke;
+	perhaps he viewed it a metaphor.  Garibaldi also studied his reflection
+	in
+	"Conflicts of Interest."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865728347 The telepath indicated that Garibaldi was telling the truth
+	when he claimed not to remember what happened during his absence.  Yet
+	Garibaldi has had flashes of memory, so that answer wasn't entirely
+	honest.  Was the telepath lying herself, perhaps to protect the
+	interests of the Corps, or did Garibaldi simply believe he was telling
+	the truth, in that he can't recall more than brief cryptic flashes?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865364116 The people in Edgars' laboratory are presumably telepaths.
+	If that's true, their condition is probably related to the telepathic
+	disease Garibaldi learned about in
+	"Conflicts of Interest,"
+	and the drug Edgars' people were withholding was most likely derived
+	from the substance Garibaldi helped smuggle through the station.
+
+	
      
+	It's worth noting, however, that the placement of the sores on the
+	patient's face were very similar to the insertion points of the
+	Shadow implants in the telepaths on the station.  Perhaps Edgars
+	managed to get his hands on some implanted telepaths and is performing
+	his own experiments on them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865706271 It's also possible the substance Garibaldi saw wasn't a
+	cure for the virus, though that was implied by Edgars here in that there
+	was clearly some drug that can be given to ease whatever illness his
+	test subjects were suffering from.  If instead Edgars is developing
+	the virus itself with the intent of releasing it and wiping out all
+	human telepaths, spreading rumors before its release about a
+	genetic flaw inherent in telepaths might help deflect suspicion later.
+
+	
      
+	Or, to take it further, Edgars may be producing both the virus and
+	the cure, with the intent of infecting Earth's telepaths then using
+	availability of the cure -- which apparently requires continuous
+	usage -- to gain control over the Corps himself.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865969018 Franklin said Sheridan hadn't changed since returning from
+	Z'ha'dum, "except for..."  He stopped himself before completing that
+	sentence.  Was this just a reference to Lorien's life-restoration
+	energies, which Franklin noted in
+	"Falling Toward Apotheosis?"
+	Or does he know about something else?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865364116 Assuming Sheridan asked Franklin to bring the newly
+	awakened telepaths with him to Mars, it's likely he's anticipating
+	some kind of conflict with the Psi Corps when he moves to liberate it.
+	Given Franklin's reaction, it's unlikely Sheridan proposed anything as
+	innocuous as using the telepaths to help shield members of the Mars
+	resistance from detection.
+
+	
      
+	It's also not clear where the frozen telepaths' loyalties will lie
+	even if Franklin manages to extract their implants and give them back
+	control of their own minds.  They're all fugitive telepaths ("blips,"
+	as Bester called them in
+	"Ship of Tears")
+	so presumably have no love for the Corps, but that doesn't necessarily
+	mean they'll be willing to act on Sheridan's behalf.
+
+	
      
+	Of course, that assumes Sheridan wants Franklin to give them back
+	mastery of their own thoughts; perhaps his order was instead for
+	Franklin to find a way to use the implants to take control of the
+	telepaths.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865787203 Given the frozen telepaths' effect on computer systems,
+	one possible use would be to smuggle them onto Mars and wake them up
+	near some of Earth Force's communication network; they'd presumably
+	throw it into disarray and allow Sheridan's forces to move in on a
+	disorganized enemy.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865364116 Lyta's expanded powers were in evidence again.  The psi
+	rating of the telepath in Medlab was never mentioned, but Lyta was
+	telepathically strong enough to force him to stop in his tracks
+	as he tried to kill himself.  If she can do that to a fellow telepath,
+	who presumably would have instinctively tried to block her, can she
+	do the same -- or worse -- to a normal human?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866938418 The awakened telepath didn't react reflexively to Lyta's
+	Psi Corps badge the way Carolyn did in
+	"Ship of Tears."
+	Why not?  He wasn't merged with any machinery as Carolyn was, so he
+	couldn't have thrown lightning bolts.  But he didn't appear
+	to react at all.  Perhaps the Shadows' anti-Corps conditioning wasn't
+	universally applied.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865622552 Lyta's indignant response to Zack's request was likely
+	brought on by his previous request that he scan Garibaldi
+	("Moments of Transition.")
+	That request may have led her to automatically assume the worst when
+	Zack asked for her services.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865622456 Edgars and Clark may believe that Clark is using the
+	Psi Corps, but it's just as plausible that by now, they're using him.
+	The Corps could feed misinformation to Clark in order to bolster its
+	own standing, and since, as Edgars said, Clark is trusting the Corps
+	to ferret out liars and turncoats, he'd be unable to tell that they
+	were leading him on.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@854134623 The title is a reference to Aristotle's definition
+	of happiness: "The exercise of vital powers
+	along lines of excellence in a life affording them scope."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865970223 Edgars alluded to "Clark's 'Night of the Long Knives.'"  
+	That's a reference to Roman history,
+	when, in the year 31 AD, the emperor Tiberius had his aide Sejanus and
+	his followers killed in a purge.
+
+	
      
+	A more recent use of the same term was to describe Hitler's
+	purge
+	of the rival SA faction of the Nazi Party in 1934.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865442107 The title as shown at the top of act one is missing
+	the leading "The."  But the "The" was present in the pre-show
+	information screen on the initial US satellite feed, and it's
+	present in the episode listings sent out by Warner Bros., so
+	it's included here.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865621220 Both Edgars and Sheridan love fresh orange juice
+	("The Geometry of Shadows.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884248227 Continuity glitch: When Lise and Garibaldi are talking
+	in his room, after she brings him dinner, she starts to leave, but
+	stays and closes the door most of the way.  After she's done talking,
+	Garibaldi moves across the room to her and shuts the wide-open door.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865498639 It's a very different feel...leisurely, in a way, but no
+	less tense.  A good addition to the mix.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865969998 One thing on the line Wade speaks...the actor consistently
+	got the line wrong.  It read, "Everything is illusion, Mr. Garibaldi;
+	constructs of light, language, metaphor," rather than concepts.
+
+	
      
+	There is a subtle but distinct difference.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865498639 Garibaldi's said he doesn't trust telepaths ever
+	since the pilot movie.  It's a question of degrees at this point.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@875077421 What book was Edgars reading when Garibaldi walked
+	in?
      
+	The Bible.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866152425 Were the scars on the sick telepaths from the removal
+	of implants?
      
+	No, just standard lesions.
+
+	
      
+	Remember, a man as smart and rich as Edgars can surely afford
+	private lesions for his "kids."
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan's search for his father leads him into danger on Mars.  Lyta warns
+Franklin of an impending clash between telepaths and mundanes.  Garibaldi
+chooses between loyalty to Sheridan and to Edgars.
+
+
+Richard Gant as Captain MacDougan.
+Denise Gentile as Lise.
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+Mark Schneider as Wade.
+Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as William Edgars.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.26
+
+Production number: 417
+Original air week: June 9, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Warning: This episode reveals a lot of information, and there are
+spoilers below.  Think twice before reading on if you haven't seen
+the episode.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865841437 Clark's ship commanders have been convinced that if they
+	surrender to Sheridan, they'll be killed and their crews replaced by
+	Minbari.  Perceiving they have nothing to lose, they are therefore
+	willing to fight the rebel forces to the death.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865841437 Sheridan has been captured by Clark's forces.  Garibaldi
+	personally sprung the trap, which earned him a commendation
+	from ISN and condemnation from Ivanova: she has ordered B5's
+	personnel to shoot him on sight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865843518 Ivanova is now in command of the rebel fleet, and has
+	vowed to keep up the fight with or without Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865843518 Sheridan's old ship, the Agamemnon
+	("Points of Departure")
+	has joined the rebel fleet.  (See
+	Notes)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865841437 The telepath virus described by Wade and Lise in
+	"Conflicts of Interest"
+	is indeed real, as is the drug to suppress it -- but the virus was
+	developed by Edgars' company.  It is airborne, 100% contagious, and
+	completely harmless to normals.  Telepaths have to take
+	the cure every two weeks, or they'll die.  Edgars' plan was to release
+	it on Earth and use control of the cure to effectively enslave all
+	the telepaths, preventing them from ever gaining the upper hand
+	over normals.  Bester believes the virus was developed with the help
+	of the Shadows, who had a vested interest in wiping out telepaths.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865841437 When Justin told Sheridan that the Shadows wouldn't kill
+	him because someone else would come along and take his place
+	("Z'ha'dum")
+	he had specific people in mind: Delenn, Ivanova and Garibaldi.  The
+	Shadows decided that given his innate paranoia, Garibaldi would be
+	easiest to cause to turn away from Sheridan's cause, thus sabotaging the
+	Army of Light in Sheridan's absence.  The Psi Corps was given the
+	assignment of programming Garibaldi.  They took him to a secret
+	facility on Mars, where Bester intervened and added some programming
+	of his own.
+
+	
      
+	Bester was aware that some kind of action was being planned against the
+	Corps, but he didn't know what or by whom.  Given Garibaldi's proven
+	track record at ferreting out conspiracies, Bester instructed his
+	colleagues to leave Garibaldi's personality largely intact, and to
+	accentuate his natural sense of paranoia and distrust.  Garibaldi's
+	resignation was an unexpected bonus that put him in a perfect position
+	to infiltrate Edgars' organization.
+
+	
      
+	Garibaldi's mission was to gather information about the threat to
+	the Psi Corps if the opportunity arose, then signal Bester.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865841437 Bester has removed Garibaldi's programming, leaving him
+	with full memory of what was done to him and what he's done to
+	Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865841437 Bester's people have murdered Edgars and Wade and may
+	have taken the virus.  Lise's whereabouts are unknown.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865841437 The Corps has engaged in clandestine operations in the
+	past.  While Lyta was interning with the Psi Cops
+	("Divided Loyalties")
+	someone started murdering telepaths.  The Corps engaged in illegal
+	scans of civilians, and eventually found the killer.  Rather than
+	simply kill him, they twisted his mind.  According to Lyta, he's
+	now in a cell in a secret facility on Beta 2, straitjacketed 24
+	hours a day to keep him from clawing out his own eyes to stop the
+	nightmare visions only he can see.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865843518 The Corps has gone even further with the establishment of
+	"bloodhound units," special undercover detachments of the Earth
+	military who are accompanied by telepaths.  Their mission is to
+	perform random scans of the public and arrest any members of the
+	resistance they come across.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865841437 Lyta believes there's likely to be a war between telepaths
+	and mundanes some day, when word of such operations gets out and
+	the trust the Corps has managed to build up evaporates as a result.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@865841437 Where is Lise?
+
+   
    • @@@871079445 What does Bester plan to do with the virus, assuming he
+	has it?
+
+   
    • @@@865843518 Does Franklin know the full extent of Sheridan's plans
+	for the frozen telepaths, and can he carry them out with Sheridan
+	out of the picture?
+
+   
    • @@@866145360 Why didn't Franklin detect Garibaldi's false tooth during
+	his medical exams?
+
+   
    • @@@866271627 Now that Ivanova is leading the fleet, will she continue
+	her Voice of the Resistance broadcasts?
+
+   
    • @@@866347436 Is the Agamemnon's defection to the resistance what it
+	seems?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865843518 The resolution of the battle between Sheridan and Clark's
+	forces points out what may be Sheridan's most potent weapon against
+	Clark: not White Stars or superior strategy, but the presence of
+	previously loyal human commanders who lend credibility to the rebel
+	cause.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866949092 The White Stars appear to have adapted to Earth's weapons;
+	a hit from an Earth heavy cruiser only disables a White Star until
+	the auto-repair systems come online.  Even without the defection
+	of so many Earth ships, Ivanova is in command of an unstoppable
+	military force.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866948931 Sheridan told the Agamemnon's captain that the rebel
+	forces had lost some battles, but had kept the news to themselves.
+	("We've lost a few.  We just made damned sure nobody heard about it.")
+	How is that possible?  Wouldn't Clark jump at the chance to spread
+	news of victory over Sheridan's forces?  And for that matter, would
+	Ivanova participate in covering up any losses, given her insistence
+	on telling the truth in her Voice of the Resistance broadcasts?
+	("Rumors, Bargains and Lies")
+
+	
      
+	Perhaps Sheridan simply has a more specific definition of "victory"
+	than most other people.  He didn't seem to consider the outcome of
+	the Proxima 3 battle a victory
+	("No Surrender, No Retreat")
+	so perhaps he'd consider it a loss if he wound up having to fight
+	Clark's forces to the death.
+
+	
      
+	Or maybe Sheridan wasn't referring to his current campaign, but was
+	speaking in general of his military career.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865843969 Sheridan demonstrated a lack of caution in this episode,
+	first going over to the Agamemnon on a moment's notice (it could
+	easily have been sent by Clark as a trap) then agreeing to go to
+	Mars by himself.  He even walked straight into a public place without
+	attempting to obscure his face, which has no doubt been featured daily
+	on ISN.  That can be seen as evidence of what Garibaldi
+	referred to as a "God complex" -- Sheridan appears to have disregarded
+	his own fallibility.
+
+	
      
+	It's possible that this stems in part from the glimpse of his own
+	future in
+	"War Without End, Part Two,"
+	which might lead Sheridan to believe that no matter what he does now,
+	he'll be alive and free in 17 years.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866618297 Sheridan's capture was similar to G'Kar's in
+	"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?"
+	Both of them left a place of relative safety to try to rescue someone
+	they cared about, and both were captured by a regime that was
+	oppressing their people.  Both were tortured after capture.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866347436 The Agamemnon, according to its captain, had been
+	modified to track Sheridan's forces down.  What, specifically, were
+	the modifications?  And more importantly, how likely is it that Clark
+	would equip a ship specifically to seek Sheridan out without being
+	very sure of its loyalty?
+
+	
      
+	The Agamemnon would make a perfect plant.  Clark's people might have
+	figured that Sheridan's emotional attachment to it would likely prompt
+	him to put it in a position of trust, all the better to sabotage
+	Sheridan's efforts at a critical juncture.  Of course, Ivanova isn't
+	biased toward trusting the Agamemnon, but at the time the Agamemnon
+	was sent out to find the rebel fleet, Clark had no idea Sheridan's
+	capture was imminent.
+
+	
      
+	Its arrival just after the battle was also very convenient; its
+	captain could claim to be joining up with the rebels without actually
+	having to fire on Clark's forces.  If it had indeed been chasing
+	after Sheridan for weeks, emerging from hyperspace at just that
+	moment was quite a coincidence.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866618536 Was the Agamemnon's captain the one in command when it
+	fired on the White Star?
+	("Messages From Earth")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866950838 The Agamemnon has been involved in skirmishes with
+	raiders near Io.  Who are the raiders?  Are the Drakh
+	("Lines of Communication")
+	encroaching on Earth's territory?  Or are the raiders simply
+	opportunists out to take advantage of Sheridan's campaign and its
+	likely effect of drawing Earth forces away from their home system?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865968823 The Shadows were apparently right about Ivanova; she is
+	indeed taking Sheridan's place, just as Bester says they feared.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866827988 Bester's manipulation of Garibaldi was foreshadowed in
+	"Dust to Dust."
+	Bester told Garibaldi, "I enjoyed working with you.  We made a good
+	team.  Perhaps we'll do it again sometime."
+
+	
      
+	It was also foreshadowed, if obliquely, in
+	"Divided Loyalties,"
+	in which Garibaldi pretended to have a personality implant,
+	if only as a joke.
+
+	
      @@@867174664 
+	And before then, ironically, in
+	"The Quality of Mercy,"
+	Talia and Garibaldi shared a moment of mutual foreshadowing when she
+	said to him, "Things that live inside us, Mr. Garibaldi.  Terrible
+	things.  Terrible."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866132660 Bester referred to the Corps as "my telepaths."  This
+	echoes his comment to Ivanova in
+	"Ship of Tears"
+	that he had plans for Earth's telepaths and didn't want the Shadows
+	interfering.  Apparently he considers himself responsible for Earth's
+	telepaths, even if he's not officially in charge of the Corps.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865929593 Did Bester's people get the virus?  It's possible Lise took
+	it when she fled Edgars' compound.  She wanted Garibaldi to help her
+	stop him, and taking the virus would be a big step in that direction.
+	Of course, that's assuming she could get to it; the Psi Cops could
+	presumably take control of Edgars and force him to use the handprint
+	reader, but Lise would have had a harder time getting to the vials.
+
+	
      
+	Garibaldi did see blast marks around the secret compartment, though,
+	suggesting that it was opened by force.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866949231 The ISN broadcast showed investigators picking up a
+	necklace from the floor of Edgars' residence.  That necklace, or one
+	like it, was being worn by Lise when she listened in on Edgars'
+	conversation with Garibaldi, suggesting she was in the room after
+	Edgars and Garibaldi left.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865972353 Bester's supposition that the virus was developed with
+	the help of Shadow technology is consistent with the courier's claim in
+	"Conflicts of Interest"
+	that coming up with the cure was a job beyond the capabilities of
+	Earth's biologists, and that alien help had been enlisted.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865978102 If Bester is right about the Shadows helping create the
+	virus, it means Edgars was in contact with the Shadows, even if
+	indirectly.  And indeed, Edgars and Wade seemed to espouse something
+	like the Shadow philosophy: the enslavement of normals by telepaths or
+	vice versa was a natural consequence of evolution.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866303309 References to the Nazis abound: Edgars described his
+	plan as a solution to "the telepath problem," an echo of Hitler's
+	"Jewish problem."  Bester told Garibaldi that he had just prevented
+	a Holocaust.  Edgars even referred to the Nazis directly, though he
+	misspoke a date; he claimed they came to power in 1939, but in fact
+	Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866346960 Garibaldi's line about the last person with his job being
+	paid 30 pieces of silver is a
+	Biblical
+	reference.
+	Judas was paid
+	30 pieces of silver to betray Jesus to the Romans.  Even under the
+	influence of his altered personality, Garibaldi apparently has moral
+	qualms about betraying Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866393326 After Edgars told Garibaldi the full extent of his plans,
+	Wade told Garibaldi he wouldn't be allowed to leave Edgars' compound.
+	The implication was that any passing telepath (e.g. one of the
+	"bloodhound units") would be able to scan Garibaldi and learn about
+	the virus.
+
+	
      
+	Why, then, was Wade allowed to travel to Babylon 5, and stay there to
+	recruit Garibaldi? Was Wade unaware of the big picture until his return
+	to Mars?  The laboratory scene near the end of
+	"The Exercise of Vital Powers"
+	doesn't give the impression that Wade just found out what Edgars was
+	up to; he seemed to have witnessed similar experiments in the past.
+
+	
      
+	Perhaps Wade was drugged or brainwashed in some way that made him
+	more difficult to scan or that caused him to believe the story he
+	told Garibaldi in
+	"Conflicts of Interest."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867090072 Bester's release of Garibaldi was, in some ways, an act
+	of arrogance; in essence, Bester was saying that he didn't consider
+	Garibaldi a threat.  Given Garibaldi's determination in the past, he'll
+	likely seek revenge or justice, and he won't rest until he has it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867090072 Despite Bester's apparently accurate warning that
+	Garibaldi's old comrades wouldn't want to have anything to do with him
+	any more, Garibaldi did try to get in touch with Babylon 5.  How will
+	he be able to prove his story to them, and prove that he's no longer
+	under Bester's influence?  One obvious answer is to submit to a scan
+	by Lyta, whose Vorlon-enhanced powers appear to far exceed Bester's.
+	She would easily be able to verify Garibaldi's story, and her word
+	might be enough to convince the others.
+
+	
      
+	Edgars' order to Garibaldi to fire Lyta
+	("Moments of Transition")
+	may, ironically, have been his downfall.  If Edgars hadn't forced
+	Garibaldi to get rid of her, she might have eventually detected
+	Bester's handiwork and removed it, and Edgars would still be alive.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866044386 Why didn't Edgars release the virus?  What was he waiting
+	for?  In
+	"The Exercise of Vital Powers,"
+	he seemed satisfied that the virus worked, and even asked that a
+	test of its effectiveness be terminated.
+
+	
      
+	Since his aim was to control the telepaths, not simply wipe them out,
+	perhaps he needed to wait until he had enough of the cure manufactured
+	to supply to millions of victims.
+
+	
      
+	Edgars said he was waiting for Clark to drop his guard, but it's
+	not clear what difference that would have made; Clark's level of
+	paranoia would presumably have little effect on the spread of the
+	virus and the demise of the telepaths.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865843518 Edgars' plans didn't amount to anything in the end.  He was
+	the only known credible threat to the Psi Corps.  Now that he's dead
+	and the Corps has control of his weapon against them, and Ivanova is
+	continuing the rebel advance even in the face of Sheridan's capture,
+	Edgars' fear of Clark panicking and giving increasing amounts of
+	control to the Psi Corps may well become a reality.
+
+	
      
+	Of course, Sheridan may have anticipated that problem, and
+	the frozen telepaths may be his answer.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867602156 In
+	"The Exercise of Vital Powers,"
+	Edgars implied that there were other powerful megacorps dissatisfied
+	with Clark, and that his company was one of several planning to move
+	against the government.  Will any of the others act now that Edgars
+	is out of the picture?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865972353 The problem may have gotten even worse thanks to Edgars:
+	if the Corps has the virus, they'll presumably spend a good
+	deal of effort studying it.  The virus selects its victims via the
+	presence of the telepathy genes.  Developing that selectivity from
+	scratch may have required the aid of the Shadows, but it might not
+	be beyond Earth's biotechnology to use it as a blueprint and produce
+	a modified version that selects for the lack of the
+	telepathy gene -- thus giving the Corps the same power over normals
+	that Edgars wanted to gain over telepaths.
+
+	
      @@@866151770 
+	Or the Corps could use the virus to cement its own control over all
+	human telepaths.  By releasing the virus and only giving the cure to
+	members of the Corps, they'd eliminate the problem of rogue telepaths
+	overnight.  Latent telepaths like Ivanova would no longer be able to
+	hide themselves from the Corps.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@868380941 Bester could possibly also use the virus on Lyta; death
+	by the virus might be considered natural causes under the terms of her
+	contract
+	("Moments of Transition.")
+	Of course, such an operation would be very risky, since Lyta would
+	be contagious.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866303491 Assuming Edgars kept detailed personnel records, the
+	police will most likely look to Garibaldi as a prime suspect in the
+	murders.  Lise might also be a suspect.  Both of them disappeared
+	suddenly at the time of the murder, and given their past history,
+	the police might conclude that Edgars' murder was a crime of passion
+	committed by two old lovers who wanted to be together again.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@874306737 The bloodhound units may have been in evidence before
+	this episode.  In
+	"Conflicts of Interest,"
+	the two telepaths chasing Garibaldi, Wade and Lise seemed to fit the
+	description pretty well.  And, more speculatively, they could have
+	been the ones to plant the Keeper on Captain Jack in
+	"Racing Mars,"
+	since they presumably would have had little trouble learning of his
+	personal association with Number One.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867904346 Lyta's description of the Corps' treatment of the murderer
+	is strikingly similar to her threat to Londo in
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane."
+	Perhaps she was present when the murderer was implanted and knows
+	firsthand how to do such things.  Maybe she was even involved in
+	the process; that could be the secret about her Bester threatened
+	to reveal in
+	"Epiphanies."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866304051 Number One said that when Lyta passed through Mars a
+	year and a half earlier
+	("Divided Loyalties")
+	she made no mention of being a telepath on the run from the Corps.
+	That's inconsistent with Lyta's story in that episode.  She told
+	Sheridan and the others at that time that she'd been helping out
+	the resistance, and implied that they'd hired her for her telepathic
+	skills.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866948542 Number One apparently really does treat all
+	her former lovers like she treated Phillipe
+	("Lines of Communication.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
+   
    • @@@863468689 Harlan Ellison has a cameo appearance in this episode.
+	He's the Psi Cop Bester instructs to alter Garibaldi's personality.
+
+   
    • @@@866313791 Bester's parting salute to Garibaldi, "Be seeing you," is
+	a reference to the 60s TV show "The Prisoner."  Bester first used the
+	salute in
+	"Mind War."
+
+   
    • @@@865843518 Garibaldi is now missing a molar.
+
+   
    • @@@865843969 The appearance of the Agamemnon
+	contradicts the attack scene at the end of
+	"Moments of Transition,"
+	in which the Agamemnon can be seen attacking civilian targets.
+	However, as JMS noted in response to comments on that episode,
+	the use of the Agamemnon was a slipup on the part of the production
+	team.
+
+   
    • @@@866303309 The Cadmus, the ship that surrendered to Sheridan and
+	MacDougan, is named after a mythological hero.  Cadmus slew a dragon,
+	and when he sowed the dragon's teeth, a race of warriors sprang from
+	the ground.
+
+   
    • @@@866303559 This is the series' second attack on someone using a
+	skin tab.  The first was the poisoning of Kosh in
+	"The Gathering."
+
+   
    • @@@866783885 The Sheridan fight scene, shot in slow motion, was
+	interspersed by editor David Foster with shots taken by still
+	photographer Byron Cohen, who does most of the B5 publicity stills
+	sent out to TV stations.
+
+   
    • @@@867001532 The shot of Garibaldi shown on the ISN broadcast is
+	from the season-three opening credits.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@866442821 I agree that it's probably one of the best we've done. 
+	I've now watched it at least a dozen times in finished form, and it
+	still works for me.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866442821 One thing I've been doing with the latter part of
+	season 4 is to experiment a little more, try different things.  I feel
+	that we need to push visually to try new things, the sort of visual
+	techniques you don't see much in SF-TV, which for the most part is
+	fairly prosaic as these things go. And to push the writing, to try some
+	things that may succeed, or may fail, but you learn something either
+	way.  In its way, next week's ep is just as experimental, but in a very
+	different direction.
+
+	
      
+	Mike Vejar definitely did a great job with this episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866619976 Zimbalist did a great job for us...he took huge gobs of
+	exposition and not only delivered them, he made them interesting.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866620147 Was he a fan of the show?
      
+	Nope, just figured he'd be great for the job, and cast him
+	without audition.  He didn't know anything about the show before that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866620147 What was the shimmering wall Sheridan stood near on
+	the White Star bridge?
      
+	Those were the autorepair systems at work.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866620147 ""The Face of the Enemy" might represent the flipside of
+	young Delenn's claim in "Atonement" that the most dangerous enemy is the
+	one you know nothing about.  Now the face of the enemy is the one you
+	know all too well, one which you take for granted until it's revealed
+	that the face is actually a mask."
+
+	
      
+	Yep.  It's one thing facing implacable, vast enemies...it's
+	quite another when you friend betrays you.  That's personal.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866617854 There isn't that much direct,
+	personal violence in the show.  My feeling is that if you do that a
+	lot, it loses any potential for impact.  You only pull out that card
+	when you really need it, to best effect...don't waste it.  It's like
+	harsh language, after you've heard someone going on using all the more
+	remarkable Anglo-Saxon words for a while, it loses all impact.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866618128 "I thought the fight was a bit too long for much the
+	same reason as you. All I can suggest is that John's metabolism isn't
+	"normal" any more, and perhaps this had an effect. (And maybe the
+	bullyboys were doing less damage than we think, simply to prolong
+	the "fun".)"
+
+	
      
+	1) It was for dramatic/stylistic effect.  Not everything done
+	with some style has to have a scientific explanation.
+
+	
      
+	2) Having been mugged myself, time expands and slows down.
+
+	
      
+	3) It's the TV cliche that fights are over in a second.  Ask
+	anyone who's ever been in a real knock-down fight.  It goes on a heck
+	of a lot longer than we showed here.  When I got mugged it went on for
+	10 minutes.
+
+	
      
+	One of the ironies in other messages on this (not this one here
+	specifically) is that some have noted the fast-paced editing, which is
+	supposedly associated with music video/short attention span
+	material...and then turn around and say it wasn't over fast enough.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866044536 Was Lyta's story the secret from her past alluded
+	to by Bester in
+	"Epiphanies?"
      
+	No, Franklin's comment to Lyta didn't involve her past, though
+	we will find out more about that in a bit.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866619976 Was Bester's salute a "Prisoner" reference?
      
+	Nope, not a Prisoner homage at all, in any way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866619976 Why mess Edgars' place up so thoroughly?
      
+	They wanted it to look like it was done by the Resistance;
+	too much "attention" to his death would've drawn attention to the
+	Corps.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866443179 Wade specificially says Lise wasn't there when they got
+	back, so that eliminates her from the scenario.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866617855 Why haven't the other races had conflict between
+	their telepaths and their normals?
      
+	Obviously some, like the Minbari, dealt with it more easily than
+	others; and in some places it came through Vorlon interference, while
+	in others it came about naturally.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866949468 "Wade had a great line about the clash of homo sapiens
+	and Neanderthals in Carthage.  Was this line inspired by some of the
+	recent Neanderthal finds? Or was this part of your orignial
+	conception for the story?"
+
+	
      
+	Not recent stuff, just a general knowledge of this area.
+
+	
      
+	"Did Edgars really believe the Earthgov propaganda that Sheridan was
+	operating under the malignant influence of aliens?
+
+	
      
+	Nope.
+
+	
      
+	"Is Bester really done with Garibaldi?"
+
+	
      
+	For the moment.
+
+	
      
+	"One of the captains of the Earth vessels is named Leo Frank.  Was
+	this a deliberate historical reference?"
+
+	
      
+	Not intentionally.
+
+	
      
+	"Franklin and Number One seem to have cooled their relationship.
+	Any further developments in the works here?"
+
+	
      
+	Any more personal stuff got set aside when Franklin showed up
+	a) with another female, and b) she was a teep.  When #1 calms
+	down, they might take another shot at it.
+
+	
      
+	"Lastly, there is a bit of irony in the fact that the stage for
+	Sheridan's capture is set when he steps aboard his old ship, the
+	Agamemnon.  Agamemnon was the supreme commander of the Greek forces
+	at Troy, who survived that long war, but who was betrayed and
+	murdered by his wife when he returned home. He blindly and arrogantly
+	stepped into a trap, as Sheridan also seemed to do."
+
+	
      
+	Yeah...that's one of many reasons why I picked that
+	image/reference. It plays on a LOT of levels in the story.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866999604 Wasn't Edgars' complex guarded to keep people from
+	leaving without permission?
      
+	If anybody could slip away, Garibaldi could.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867904437 Ivanova quoted Sheridan as saying, "The person is
+	expendable.  The job is not."  But in fact, it was Sinclair who
+	said that, in
+	"War Without End."
      
+	But then, if I did everything perfectly, wouldn't it be boring?
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan faces an inquisitor from Earthdome.
+
+
+Wayne Alexander as Drazi.
+Raye Birk as William.
+Bruce Gray as Interrogator.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.08
+
+Production number: 418
+Original air week: June 16, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John LaFia
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@866580699 Sheridan continues to be held in an interrogation center,
+	most likely on Mars.
+
+   
    • @@@866580699 Clark believes Sheridan's credibility as a war hero is a
+	threat to the credibility of the administration.  He wants Sheridan to
+	recant in public to restore the public's belief that "you can't beat
+	the system."
+
+   
    • @@@866580699 Among the weapons Earth purchased from the Narn during the
+	Earth-Minbari War were paingivers
+	("The Parliament of Dreams.")
+	The paingivers appear to work as well on humans as they do on Narns.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@866828767 Was the interrogation real, or was it all in Sheridan's
+	mind like the interrogation of Sinclair in
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars?"
+
+   
    • @@@866783581 Was it really morning?
+
+   
    • @@@866948664 Is Sheridan's father still being held?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@866617559 With Ivanova presumably continuing the campaign to retake
+	Earth, it's interesting that Clark's people seem intent on breaking
+	Sheridan to the exclusion of trying to interrogate him for information
+	about battle plans or other practical matters.  Perhaps they figure
+	that he wouldn't give up such information until he had gone over to
+	their side anyway, but given the fact that Clark is willing to send
+	Psi Corps units out to scan the general public
+	("The Face of the Enemy")
+	it's strange a telepath hasn't been brought in to pull military
+	information from Sheridan's head.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867089577 In
+	"The Face of the Enemy,"
+	Ivanova quoted Sheridan as saying, "The person is expendable.  The
+	job is not."  The interrogator told Sheridan much the same thing,
+	with one exception: Sheridan himself wasn't expendable.  But that
+	was only true as long as there was the possibility of him performing a
+	different job: communicating to the public that Clark couldn't be
+	beaten.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866828327 The interrogator appeared to have disabled the paingivers
+	after Sheridan's first exposure to them; on several occasions after
+	that, the two of them were close together but Sheridan wasn't shocked.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866828616 Assuming the images of Delenn weren't telepathic
+	projections of some kind on her part, Sheridan's repeated visions of
+	her echoed his experience on Z'ha'dum in
+	"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?"
+	The knowledge that Delenn is still out there, awaiting his return, is
+	an island of stability Sheridan can cling to.
+
+	
      
+	The interrogator clearly knew of his relationship with Delenn -- not
+	a big secret after the ISN report in
+	"The Illusion of Truth."
+	Will the next interrogator realize that Sheridan is using her as an
+	anchor, and try to undermine that directly, e.g. by presenting faked
+	evidence that something has happened to her?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866951349 "Room 17" is probably a reference to George Orwell's
+	"1984," in which Winston Smith, the protagonist, hears of people
+	taken to Room 101, but has no idea what goes on there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867001429 The interrogator insisted that he was telling Sheridan
+	the truth, but also insisted that the truth is fluid.  That means
+	little, if anything, the interrogator told Sheridan can be taken
+	at face value.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867173945 The interrogator said he thought his speech about poison
+	was a metaphor for something, but he couldn't figure out what.  In
+	addition to the historical nod (see
+	Notes)
+	the speech can be interpreted as a metaphor for what he
+	was trying to do to Sheridan.  First he convinced Sheridan to agree
+	to little lies (the time of day.)  After a steady diet of small
+	untruths, the interrogator hoped, Sheridan would become more and
+	more receptive to bigger and bigger lies, until he was ready to
+	swallow anything suggested to him.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@866650292 The interrogator mentioned that Sheridan had been
+	interrogated once before.  That referred to
+	"Comes the Inquisitor,"
+	in which Sheridan was interrogated by Jack the Ripper (played by
+	Wayne Alexander, who played the Drazi in this episode.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@881045445 Possible continuity glitch: When the interrogator left the
+	room and the loud voice started repeating its message, Sheridan covered
+	his ears.  At the beginning of the next act, when the interrogator
+	returned, Sheridan's hands were bound to the chair.  Of course, it's
+	possible other people came into the room in the interim and forced
+	him to listen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867001429 The interrogator
+	didn't get sick from the sandwich, he
+	claimed, because he'd been eating a little poison every day and had
+	built up a resistance.  This has historical precedent; for instance,
+	King Mithridates of Pontus, 135-63 BC, who eventually tried to
+	commit suicide by swallowing large quantities of poison but couldn't
+	kill himself because his resistance was too great.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866951349 Perhaps simply by coincidence, this "1984"esque story
+	is the 84th one-hour episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867570277 Taking numerology to an absurd extreme, add episode 84 to
+	room 17 and you get 101, the mystery room number from "1984."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@867048518 About the title
      
+	Each act took place in real time, no time jumps...the
+	conversation happened as it happened.  Since you had act breaks in
+	between them, those became intersections...in real time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@858187727 As this has the potential to be a very cool and somewhat
+	experimental episode, I'd rather say nothing until later.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864893341 I don't usually comment on this, but...if I had known
+	*with absolute certainty* that there would be a season 5, then season 4
+	would have ended with 418, "Intersections in Real Time."  So you only
+	pull 4 episodes forward, really.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866949567 I like this one a lot.  It takes some real chances, and
+	it has some nasty twists and turns.  I like that in a story....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866783933 Actually, one episode coming up in this batch is,
+	according to John Copeland, the single most subversive thing we've ever
+	done on the show.  It's a *mean* episode and completely, unabashedly
+	underhanded in its way of illuminating certain things.  While, oddly
+	enough, ending in a positive fashion, despite George Johnsen's comment
+	at playback during the audio mix, "Okay, what sadistic m-----f-----
+	wrote this thing?"
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866999499 "You understand the concepts of breaking down a human
+	psyche."
+
+	
      
+	(shrugs)  Well, sure...I work for Warner Bros.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866620204 Warner Bros.' wacky scheduling is actually appropriate
+	this time.
      
+	Yep...it is that.  At last I have a proper cliffhanger and a
+	proper wait afterward.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866949714 Why do people do end-of-season cliffhangers?
      
+	It's basically a means to get the audience, which has been away
+	for a long time, to come back to resolve a hanging point and jump-start
+	them into the episodes.  If it ends cleanly, apparently a lot of folks
+	in any series will just forget to tune in the following season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@868631882 Was Bruce Boxleitner's beard for real?
      
+	Bruce had some time between episodes, and began to grow the beard for
+	real, and we darkened it down for later acts.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866999499 The costumes and set design were ripoffs of "The
+	Prisoner."
      
+	You're wrong.  The costumer has never even *seen* the Prisoner,
+	as far as I know, and the suit he wore was one of our standard earth
+	suits which we've used before on the show, just tailored it to fit his
+	form.  And the set design is just your basic black room with chairs,
+	nothing more.  I also doubt muchly that Flinn has ever seen The
+	Prisoner...which was a very well and brightly lit show, whereas this
+	played to darkness.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866617925 Was the Drazi really there?  He was played by the
+	same actor who played Jack.
      
+	The Drazi was really there...has to be, or the ep loses some of
+	its teeth.
+
+	And yeah, we kinda liked the symmetry of Wayne being in this ep.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867175103 Yes, the Drazi was working with the EA the whole time,
+	rendering Sheridan's "victory" impotent.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867048567 What was the message of this episode?
      
+	The message is just that, that we *all* have to choose
+	to resist from time to time, and that one individual can fight the
+	system.  And we are all that individual at one time or another.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867168871 There was a lot of give-and-take in that episode, and
+	at times maybe the interrogator was near the truth, or a form of
+	it...but always distorting it, using it for his benefit.  Slippery
+	slopes indeed....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867168871 "Theres alot of truth to your notion of the TRUTH.  It
+	raises points I'd rather not think about.  Where do these notions of
+	yours originate?"
+
+	
      
+	Usually at 3 in the morning when I can't sleep....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866949540 Why doesn't Clark just have Bester reprogram
+	Sheridan?
      
+	Because they don't want him reprogrammed; as William says,
+	another teep could see that he'd been altered.  They want him
+	*sincerely broken*.  Not just rewired.
+
+	
      
+	And yeah, I wanted this to function almost as a play in
+	structure.  In fact, when we shot it, we did it in full-act chunks. 
+	The actors would come in in the morning, rehearse it as they would a
+	play, then we'd shoot it the way we'd shoot a play, straight through.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866999499 But if Clark is in control of the Corps, no other
+	teep would scan Sheridan, right?
      
+	It matters because there are plenty of alien teeps out there as
+	well as human ones, and you can always get a rogue in there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867168871 Did Sheridan say very little to avoid giving the
+	interrogator anything to use against him?
      
+	That's one reason (among many) that I kept Sheridan silent
+	for the most part; a) because the less he says the better overall from
+	his position, and b) the audience would want to respond for him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867168871 The interrogator looked like an ordinary
+	person.
      
+	Exactly.  The banal face of evil.  You look at most of the guys
+	who ran Treblinka, or Bergen-Belsen, and they're largely ordinary
+	looking guys, who could be accountants or repair men or car salesmen. 
+	They're *us*...and this was designed to remind us of that.  The evil,
+	mustache-twirling villain is too easy, and too far from the truth of
+	it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@872709849 This was one of the elements that made the episode
+	interesting for me; most SF tends to ignore the darker sides of the
+	common person.  They deal with the big bad guys, the evil federations
+	and Darth Vaders and all the other major forces out there, but all too
+	often the real damage is done not by the single Evil Leader, but by the
+	ten million people who *follow* him, the bookkeepers who track the
+	bodies and the trains and the pain by placing the right figures in all
+	the right columns, who make the trains run on time, who run the gulags,
+	who build the new state empires that will be built with slave labor, any
+	or all of whom could say, as many have, "I was just doing my job."
+
+	
      
+	Not so much "following orders," we've heard that before, applied to the
+	military...but just "doing my job."  To the interrogator, he was simply
+	doing his job, and doing it to the best of his ability.  It is something
+	he does, then he goes home to his wife and kids, and has dinner, and
+	sits out on the porch trying to forget what he does because he thinks
+	he *has* to do it...assuming he thinks about it at all.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867513059 Referring to
+	"Comes the Inquisitor"
      
+	"It's Johnny who's "alone in the dark", facing unrelenting pressure to
+	give up, knowing that if he dies under torture his friends may never
+	know for certain what happened to him."
+
+	
      
+	Which is what the Inquisitor said he would have to face.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867447827 This story must have been based on
+	"Closetland."  There were a bunch of similarities...
      
+	The one room;  
+
+	
      
+	Interrogations usually take place in one cell.  Take a look at "Midnight
+	Express," or any of a dozen or so other interrogation movies.
+
+	
      
+	the two main characters;  
+
+	
      
+	Closetland had just two; here we had others, a second interrogator, the
+	Drazi, others.
+
+	
      
+	the taunting with food and drink;  
+
+	
      
+	Standard fare for any such interrogation.
+
+	
      
+	the recorded message about cooperation and rewards;  
+
+	
      
+	ditto
+
+	
      
+	the talk about breaking the body to then break the mind; 
+
+	
      
+	ditto again
+
+	
      
+	the ruse of taking the prisoner to another room, yet having it be just
+	another prison.
+
+	
      
+	Where did this happen in Closetland?  It didn't, from what I dimly
+	recall of the thing.
+
+	
      
+	I based this episode on a fairly substantial amount of reading and
+	background in knowing about how people are treated in prison camps and
+	the like.  There are only so many things you can do to someone in a
+	closed room to try and break them.  Heck, look at William Saroyan's
+	"Hello, Out There" for other similarities that *way* precede Closetland.
+	I'm sorry to astonish you, but the techniques of interrogation existed
+	long before B5 or ST or Closetland came into existence, and will
+	continue (sadly) long afterward.  The techniques are the techniques,
+	and those are well documented.  The *stories* have nothing whatsoever
+	in common.
+
+	
      
+	Over the last ten years or so, there have been a number of films which
+	have looked at the process of interrogation in South American and
+	European countries, using a very similar structure to what was done
+	here, because the ways in which the "problem" are handled are pretty
+	much universal.  They don't all stem from the same film, or book, or
+	story...but rather from the realities involved.  They did what they
+	did, and we did what we did, for the same reasons: to bring this sort
+	of behavior into the light.  There have also been innumerable plays
+	with a similar structure.
+
+	
      
+	In cop movie #1, a suspect is arrested, read his Miranda rights, brought
+	to the station, stuck into a cell with one or two other people, brought
+	into an interrogation room with one or two cops, goes round and round
+	with them, and finally confesses.  Cop movie #2 does a similar
+	thing...now, did movie #2 take from movie #1, or did it just draw on
+	what is *done*?
+
+	
      
+	No, I'm sorry, but I wasn't thinking about Closetland, or Star Trek,
+	or The Prisoner, or much of anything else when I wrote this episode.
+	I was thinking about this character, from this show, who must be made
+	to confess to alien influence, *which has been paraded by Earthforce
+	for almost a year now*.  It is an absolute and logical extension of
+	what has gone before.  As someone who has degrees in both Psychology
+	and Sociology, and who has been a supporter of PEN International (a
+	multinational group that monitors the treatment of writers who are
+	prisoners of conscience in other countires) for years, I have had a
+	longstanding interest and familiarity with this area...and through my
+	European roots with relatives who were in Germany and Poland when the
+	camps were in full swing, and later when the Russian government beat
+	down its people.  I have plenty of personal background on this one.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is captured by the Mars Resistance.  Ivanova's fleet clashes
+with Clark's forces.  A plan to free Sheridan is launched.
+
+
+Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.84
+
+Production number: 419
+Original air week: October 6, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 With the help of a deep scan by Lyta, who is able to break
+	past blocks put in place by P12 telepaths, Garibaldi has convinced
+	Franklin and the others that Bester manipulated him into betraying
+	his fellow officers.
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 Garibaldi, Franklin, and Lyta have freed Sheridan.
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 Londo and G'Kar have convinced the League of Non-Aligned
+	Worlds to join the fight against Clark and help Sheridan, who came
+	to their aid against the Shadows.  Sheridan's fleet now contains
+	Narn and Centauri warships, among others.
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 Not all the so-called defectors to the rebel fleet have
+	really betrayed Earth; there are some spies who have been feeding
+	information about fleet movement back to Earth.
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 Earth has been adapting Shadow technology for use in its
+	own ships.  The resulting vessels are capable of putting up a strong
+	fight against White Star-class ships.
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 Ivanova was mortally injured during a clash with a
+	fleet of Shadow-enhanced Earth ships.  Minbari physicians estimate she
+	has no more than a week left.
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 At Ivanova's request, Sheridan has assumed command of the
+	Agamemnon once again.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 What other Shadow technology has Earth adapted?
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 What impact has Sheridan's interrogation had on his
+	psyche?
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 How badly was the White Star fleet damaged by the battle?
+
+   
    • @@@876017430 Did Garibaldi and the others leave Mars with Sheridan?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@876167753 G'Kar's feeling of debt to Sheridan is obvious:
+	Sheridan gave him sanctuary
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle")
+	and aided the Narn during their war with the Centauri
+	("Acts of Sacrifice"
+	and
+	"The Fall of Night,"
+	among others.)  It's less clear why Londo would be willing to put
+	his people on the line to the same extent.  Londo, at least from his
+	perspective, took care of the Centauri Republic's Shadow "problem"
+	on his own, without Sheridan's intervention
+	("Into the Fire.")
+	While he may since have learned of Sheridan's role in sparing Centauri
+	Prime from destruction by the Vorlon planet-killer, he never worked
+	closely with Sheridan as G'Kar did.
+
+	
      
+	One possibility is that Londo feels he has to repay Sheridan for telling
+	him of the approach of the Vorlons
+	("Falling Toward Apotheosis.")
+	Londo did tell Sheridan he owed him a favor in return.
+
+	
      
+	Or it may be a simple matter of redemption: Londo certainly realizes
+	that he helped the Shadows, and he may feel he needs to make up for
+	his past misdeeds.  In
+	"No Surrender, No Retreat,"
+	Londo told G'Kar that he wanted to help the humans because they'd
+	been friends, and he'd been ignoring his friends too long.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877023361 G'Kar praised humanity as a bridge that has allowed the
+	other races to work together.  That's the same argument Londo made to
+	him in
+	"No Surrender, No Retreat."
+	Delenn has expressed the same sentiment as well, e.g. in
+	"And Now For a Word"
+	with her closing remark about humans building communities.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876778441 The League's unanimous vote ran counter to Sheridan's
+	request that they stay out of Earth's civil war
+	("No Surrender, No Retreat.")
+	Upon his return, however, he didn't seem to object to the presence
+	of the alien vessels; has he changed his mind about the need to
+	credibly deny that his campaign is due to alien influence?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876017430 Just how powerful is Lyta?  She has set off planetary
+	defense systems from light-years away
+	("Epiphanies,")
+	is able to easily slide past defenses put in place by the Psi Corps'
+	most talented members, and can project detailed memories into the
+	minds of others.  There must be limits to her ability; Kosh was
+	able to block her out
+	("Falling Toward Apotheosis.")
+	But she appears to be light-years ahead of any other human telepath
+	since Jason Ironheart
+	("Mind War.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876778441 Lyta appeared startled when Garibaldi mentioned the
+	conspiracy against the Psi Corps.  Did she pull the details out of
+	his mind, and if so, is the knowledge useful to her in any way?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876778441 Why did Number One believe the images Lyta sent to her?
+	Given Number One's distrust of telepaths, wouldn't she suspect that
+	Lyta was feeding her fictitious images?  Of course, it's possible
+	she believed it because Lyta also transmitted the belief that the
+	images were legitimate.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, it's strange that Number One's people were also
+	convinced immediately; given the resistance's innate distrust of
+	telepaths, why weren't they suspicious of her immediate reversal
+	of attitude after Lyta apparently did something to her mind?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876240506 How much does Ivanova know about Marcus' feelings for
+	her?  When he walked into the sleeping chamber, he didn't think she
+	suspected -- hence his "You will never know" comment -- but clearly she
+	suspects something now that she knows what he said to her
+	earlier
+	("Shadow Dancing.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876788218 How was Earth able to adapt Shadow technology so
+	quickly, given that it's millions of years more advanced and apparently
+	has a completely dissimilar basis (living matter as opposed to steel
+	and wires?)  Did Clark's people, or maybe the Psi Corps, receive
+	technical assistance from the Shadows at some point?
+
+	
      
+	Earth's weapons researchers weren't completely new to the concept of
+	living weapons; the confiscated Ikarran artifact in
+	"Infection"
+	was in their hands for nearly four years.  It's possible that studying
+	that artifact, which presumably was a less advanced form of organic
+	technology than that used by the Shadows, gave them the context they
+	needed to begin to understand Shadow artifacts.  The ships on
+	Mars and Ganymede
+	("Messages from Earth")
+	would have provided chances for experimentation, if brief ones.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876202457 Was Sheridan's father freed too, or is he still being
+	held?  The interrogator implied that Clark's forces still had him.
+	Even without Garibaldi's help, Sheridan's father can presumably
+	still be used as leverage against Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877243413 Sheridan was in a rather confused mental state when he
+	was rescued.  Will his interrogation have any lasting effect on his
+	psyche?  Many people would be scarred for life from such an experience.
+	On the other hand, Sheridan has already been through a rough time --
+	death -- and after that, the rest may seem minor in comparison.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876775761 Why did Ivanova ask Sheridan to lead the final battle
+	from the bridge of the Agamemnon?  Symbolism, most likely, since
+	she expressed concern about it earlier.  But clearly, he'd be safer
+	on the bridge of one of the White Star ships, Ivanova's injury
+	notwithstanding.  She must be aware that her request puts the
+	integrity of the fleet -- which depends on Sheridan himself as a
+	symbol, every bit as much as it depends on the participation of
+	Earth ships -- in greater jeopardy.
+
+	
      
+	The symbolism aspect is the most likely explanation; a fleet led by
+	an Earth warship will be harder for Clark to explain away as mere
+	alien interference.
+
+	
      
+	It's also possible, given the discovery that not all the defecting
+	ships are loyal to Sheridan, that Ivanova wanted Sheridan on the
+	bridge of the Agamemnon to ensure that its captain couldn't betray
+	the rebel cause.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876942935 Sheridan's use of the Agamemnon
+	after Ivanova's fall has
+	symbolic meaning on another level: Agamemnon was the commander of the
+	Greek forces during the Trojan War, and he sacrificed his daughter
+	Iphigenia to ensure fair wind for his ships.  Ivanova, while obviously
+	not Sheridan's daughter, sacrificed herself to ensure that the fleet
+	would make it to Mars.
+
+	
      @@@877632271 
+	In Euripides' version of the Greek myth, Iphigenia was switched with
+	a hind (a deer) at the last minute
+	by Artemis, who among other things was the goddess of virgins.
+	Iphigenia
+	lived thereafter in a distant country as the high priestess in one of
+	Artemis' temples.  The
+	"Endgame"
+	page has more on that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876017430 Garibaldi doesn't have very good luck with his back,
+	between the knifing in this episode and the gunshot in
+	"Chrysalis."
+	An additional irony is that he was stabbed in the back while helping
+	rescue Sheridan, who he stabbed in the back in a metaphorical sense.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@876788218 Earthforce is expanding the underground Mars tunnel system,
+	leading to instability in the existing tunnels.
+
+   
    • @@@876035140 Ivanova has eidetic memory (photographic memory or
+	perfect recall, as it's more commonly known.)
+
+   
    • @@@876778441 The VR machine used to interrogate Sheridan is similar
+	to the machine used to interrogate Sinclair in
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars."
+
+   
    • @@@877200353 After Franklin finishes sewing up Garibaldi's wound, the
+	team proceeds down the tunnel.  Part of a discarded newspaper is
+	visible in the background, including the headline "TIAGO" and "TED"
+	on the next line.  The headline is probably "Santiago Elected,"
+	the same newspaper headline visible in
+	"Grey 17 Is Missing."
+
+   
    • @@@876778441 The Damocles, which Ivanova's fleet fought at the
+	beginning of the episode, is named after a figure in Greek mythology.
+	As told by Cicero, Damocles was a courtier
+	under Dionysius of Syracuse, who had risen to power by violence.
+	He envied what he imagined to be his
+	ruler's pampered and carefree life, so Dionysius decided to let
+	Damocles experience what his life was really like.  In the midst of a
+	sumptuous banquet, Damocles discovered that a sword was suspended by a
+	horsehair over his head, ready to drop at any moment.  Dionysius said
+	he felt the same anxiety every day, surrounded by enemies waiting to
+	take his life at the first sign of weakness.
+
+   
    • @@@876017671 The title most likely refers to the mantra recited by
+	Delenn and others upon entering the Grey Council: "I am Grey.  I stand
+	between the candle and the star.  We are Grey.  We stand between the
+	darkness and the light."
+	("Babylon Squared,"
+	among others.)  It may also refer to a transition from darkness to
+	light; Sheridan's return certainly qualifies.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877368075 It's a nice, quiet little episode.
+
+	
      
+	Well, at least, in comparison to what's coming....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876154414 Was this episode filmed after Claudia Christian
+	decided to leave?
      
+	Negative.  We'd finished all S4 shooting at the time this occured.
+
+	
      
+	Were new scenes shot and edited in?
      
+	Negative.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876154935 Was there a scene missing between Sheridan shooting
+	the guard and his arrival on the Minbari ship?
      
+	Yes, there was a small scene that got cut for time.
+
+	
      
+	Good catch.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876779128 The Garibaldi material through the map sequence with
+	Number One was originally in "Intersections."  It got shunted over to
+	419 when 418 ran 7-8 minutes long, and 419 ran 8 minutes short.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876776365 During the interrogation, the female interrogator
+	said, "Put a bullet in his head."  But Earth uses PPGs now, not
+	bullets.
      
+	Nope.  We've established (in Grey 17 is Missing, for instance) that
+	guns are still used on Earth and elsewhere; but in a space station,
+	you don't want a slug-thrower because it tends to a) ricochet a lot off
+	metal walls, or b) cut through something vital that would breach the
+	hull potentially.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877026924 About Ivanova's eidetic memory
      
+	She's a latent telepath.  About a P1.  As has been established
+	on the show in the past.  That gives her a slight edge in many
+	areas.
+
+	Also, an eidetic memory does not equal facility with language.
+	I have a somewhat eidetic memory.  I can usually remember
+	visuals and things said to me with extreme clarity.  (Unless
+	I'm in convention mode at the time, at which point all bets are
+	off.)  But I have a real problem with learning languages, which
+	involves not just memorization, but *translation,* which is a
+	skill, a knack that some others have and some don't.  (Spanish
+	rolled off me, but for some reason I have a knack for German,
+	though my vocabulary's gone all to hell.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876779061 "These new EA ships with Shadow tech...Are they
+	susceptible to telepaths like the shadow vessels were?"
+
+	
      
+	Negative...they don't have living beings as CPUs, they're still
+	working at adapting the basic tech, the other stuff is still a bit
+	advanced.
+
+	
      
+	"By the way, the EA adaptation to the shadow tech is accurately done.
+	Keep the basic Omega design and modify where needed."
+
+	
      
+	Got it in one.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876779178 The Advanced destroyer group was still somewhat in the
+	works when they hauled it out to go after the fleet.  They'd been
+	expecting mainly to go after other Earth ships (as was noted in the
+	episode), and didn't count on exclusively being confronted by
+	Whitestars.  Still, there were a lot of them here, and they did a lot
+	of damage by sheer force of numbers.
+
+	
      
+	Corwin would be running the station in everyone's absence.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876937571 About Ivanova's speech
      
+	Yeah, it was a bit over the top, deliberately so.
+
+	
      
+	I put it in the category of a boxer who's going up against an opponent
+	who may be well matched...and wants to psych the other person out.
+
+	
      
+	If you look at "Give me liberty or give me death!" or similar
+	statements, made to rally support or make a point, they're generally
+	bigger than life, a bit over the top.  That's so we can know where the
+	top is so we can climb up there ourselves.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877368362 "If we want to be logical here, it really seems
+	improbable that a White Star could run into a piece of debris.  Ok,
+	the pilot (Marcus) wasn't paying attention, they were at high speeds
+	and visability was poor."
+
+	
      
+	Well, if you want to go back and listen to what's being said in
+	the episode, Marcus calls out that the navigational system was damaged,
+	and they were trying to repair when the big chunk of debris hit them. 
+	They couldn't get out of the way for that reason.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877026924 Some have complained about the rescue, arguing that they
+	wanted to see a big battle.  (To which answer #1 is wait 7 days.)  They
+	wanted to see the fleet smack Mars and free him in a big battle.
+
+	
      
+	Well, if you do that, you can kiss goodbye any chance of the
+	fleet then doing what it's SUPPOSED to be doing, which is the
+	liberation of Earth.  While they're tied up and planetbound
+	(on one side) at Mars, Earth swoops in and knocks them out.  
+	You also lose any possible aspect of surprise.
+
+	
      
+	It *had* to be done quickly, through the back door, rather than
+	the fleet that some might have been expecting, so it'd look
+	like a Resistance job, not a Fleet job.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@881082627 "Why were there no cameras monitoring Sheridan?"
+
+	
      
+	Torturers rarely videotape their work, thus assuring that it can
+	never be used against them should things not go their way all the time.
+	This is kinda pro forma in South America, for instance.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan's forces make their final strike. Marcus weighs a vital decision.
+
+
+J. Patrick McCormack as General Lefcourt.
+Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+Carolyn Seymour as Senator Crosby.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.27
+
+Production number: 420
+Original air week: October 13, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Copeland
+
    
+
+
    
+An
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+Warning: This episode resolves several major plot threads.
+Think twice before reading on if you haven't seen the episode.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@876782152 Sheridan's plan for the frozen telepaths
+	("Ship of Tears")
+	was to smuggle them onto as many Earth warships as possible and
+	activate them.  The telepaths would wake up and merge with the ships'
+	computer systems, making the ships unable to maneuver or attack and
+	thus removing the need for Sheridan's forces to destroy them.  The
+	plan succeeded in disabling the better part of the Earth fleet at
+	the Mars colony.
+
+   
    • @@@876781979 Sheridan's forces have arrived at Earth, prompting
+	President Clark to commit suicide rather than face capture or trial.
+	A member of the Earth Senate, apparently friendly to Sheridan, has
+	at least temporarily filled in the power vacuum.
+
+   
    • @@@876781979 Marcus has used the alien healing machine
+	("The Quality of Mercy")
+	to give his life to Ivanova, apparently dying in the process.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@876781979 What happened to the telepaths on the destroyers?
+
+   
    • @@@877127172 Was Bester's lover Carolyn
+	("Ship of Tears")
+	among the telepaths used against the destroyers?  Did she survive?
+
+   
    • @@@876781979 What was meant by "The ascension of the ordinary man" on
+	Clark's suicide note?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@876781979 Did Clark have a vice president?  Will he or she become
+	the new head of the Earth Alliance, and if so, will Earth continue
+	the policies of the Clark administration?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877200229 When General Lefcourt addressed the fleet at Mars, he
+	didn't bother repeating Clark's propaganda about Sheridan's forces
+	being under alien influence.  That could be a sign that few people
+	in Earthforce really believed it anyway, so there was little point
+	maintaining the pretext.  Or it could have been a result of his
+	knowledge of Sheridan; that might lead him to believe that Sheridan
+	would take up arms against Clark of his own free will.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877200229 Both Sheridan and Lefcourt were in charge of Omega-class
+	destroyers, and they both displaced the destroyers' usual captains.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884246713 The device Franklin placed on Lyta was most likely the
+	one he mentioned developing in
+	"The Exercise of Vital Powers."
+	He claimed to be working on a repeater to help broadcast her thought
+	patterns.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876781979 The formation of the assault team on Mars was planned
+	oddly; all the top-ranking people were together in a single
+	group (Garibaldi, Number One, Lyta, and Franklin,) which would
+	have been disastrous if they'd failed to take over the outpost.
+	However, it's not an arrangement without merit: Franklin and
+	Lyta obviously had to be together for him to hook her up to the
+	device, and Number One probably wanted to keep an eye on both
+	Garibaldi and Lyta.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876781979 After her bad treatment at the hands of Sheridan and
+	company, treatment which forced her to reassociate herself with the
+	Psi Corps
+	("The Exercise of Vital Powers,")
+	Lyta was surprisingly willing to put herself on the line yet again.
+	Has her arrangement with Bester made her comfortable enough to set
+	aside her past annoyance with Sheridan and the B5 crew, or does she
+	simply believe so strongly in the cause that she's willing to
+	disregard personal considerations?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877286086 Marcus viewed several log entries from Franklin.  The
+	first referred to the death of Cailyn, Franklin's lover in
+	"Walkabout."
+
+	
      
+	The second might have referred to Marcus' recovery from his
+	fight with Neroon in
+	"Grey 17 Is Missing,"
+	although at that time Franklin was on walkabout and thus couldn't
+	have recorded the log entry -- a possible gaffe.  It couldn't have
+	referred to any event before
+	"Ceremonies of Light and Dark,"
+	since Franklin was wearing his Army of Light uniform.
+
+	
      
+	The third, of course, was in reference to the use of the alien
+	healing machine on Garibaldi in
+	"Revelations."
+	Franklin's flashback recounted
+	"Revelations"
+	as well.
+
+	
      
+	These log entries paralleled Marcus' own dilemma.  The first dealt
+	with the death of a woman Franklin cared about.  The second (assuming
+	it truly referred to
+	"Grey 17 Is Missing")
+	was the last time Marcus was willing to give up his life for a woman
+	he cared for, namely Delenn.  And the third message was a warning about
+	the consequences of what Marcus was contemplating.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876858859 The phrase on Clark's suicide
+	note ("The ascension of the ordinary man") is a cipher, but it might
+	have some discernable meaning.  The theme of death leading to
+	ascension is common in religion; perhaps the "ordinary man" referred
+	to the innocent civilians who'd be killed by the defense platforms,
+	and Clark believed they'd ascend to heaven.
+	
+	
      
+	There's also an echo of Cartagia's belief that his involvement with the
+	Shadows would allow him to ascend to godhood; though Cartagia's belief
+	was rooted in Centauri religion (other emperors had been elevated to
+	godhood, as noted by Vir in
+	"Chrysalis")
+	it's possible Clark believed the same was true of himself.
+
+	
      
+	It's also possible that "ordinary" referred to non-telepaths: by
+	scouring Earth's surface, a mundane was determining the fate of his
+	evolutionary superiors, thus ascending above them.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876781979 How did the Senator know so quickly what Clark had done,
+	and how much damage the particle beams could cause Earth?  One
+	possible answer to the second question is that the potential
+	danger to Earth might have been discussed in the Senate, for
+	example while debating funding of the defense platforms.  And
+	perhaps the control panels on Clark's desk made it obvious
+	that he'd turned the defense platforms against Earth, though the
+	implication is that she guessed his plan simply from the words
+	"scorched earth."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876781979 It's odd that the Agamemnon was the only ship available
+	to destroy the last defense platform, since only moments earlier it
+	was in the midst of a swarm of other friendly vessels.  Obviously
+	this was a matter of artistic license, but why couldn't one of the
+	Minbari cruisers, for example, have fired a beam weapon at the 
+	platform from a distance?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876783815 Now that Sheridan's forces have removed Earth's defenses
+	to a large extent -- the orbital platforms are all gone, many ships
+	have been destroyed, and the advanced destroyer group is no more --
+	an aggressive alien government, perhaps the Drakh
+	("Lines of Communication")
+	might consider this an ideal time to try to attack Earth or some of
+	its colonies.  Sheridan may have to station some of the White Star
+	fleet and/or the League ships at Earth to help make up for the damage
+	his campaign has done and ensure Earth's security.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876783815 On the other hand, after Earth has had a chance to build
+	up its forces again, it may be far in advance of the rest of the galaxy,
+	even the Minbari.  Assuming Sheridan relinquishes command of his
+	fleet to Earthgov now that Clark is out of the picture, Earth will
+	have both Vorlon and Shadow technology at its disposal.  Given that
+	some progress has obviously been made in integrating Shadow technology
+	into Earth's
+	("Between the Darkness and the Light")
+	it's not implausible that the Vorlon technology in the White Stars --
+	not to mention their Minbari components -- could be analyzed by the
+	same researchers.  Will the Minbari stand for that if it's attempted?
+	How much do they value their current technological edge over the other
+	major races?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877072454 The
+	parallel between Greek myth and Sheridan's command of the Agamemnon
+	has further resonance here, especially the variant in which Agamemnon's
+	daughter Iphigenia is saved from death by Artemis.  Marcus, a
+	self-described virgin
+	("The Summoning")
+	has brought Ivanova back from the dead (assuming the alien device
+	does in fact successfully revive her.)  What parallel, if any, there
+	will be with the rest of the myth -- Iphigenia living the rest of her
+	life in a distant temple, far from her family -- remains to be seen.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877912167 The design of the rocket launching from Mars just before
+	and after the opening credits may be a visual homage to the
+	DC-X,
+	a prototype of a reusable lightweight space vehicle.  DC-X performed
+	eight test flights between 1993 and 1995.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876786524 Effects glitch: One of the destroyers attacked by the White
+	Stars at Mars was the Nemesis.  Unfortunately, the Nemesis defected
+	to Sheridan's side in
+	"No Surrender, No Retreat."
+	Of course, it could have been one of the fake defectors
+	("Between the Darkness and the Light")
+	and gone back to Clark's side after gathering information about the
+	rebel fleet.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877199937 Effects glitch: When the fleet first approaches Earth,
+	it's daytime in east Africa, Asia, and the Indian Ocean.  But when
+	the Agamemnon is about to ram the defense platform, North America
+	is in sunlight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877110295 Clark's suicide and note are similar to a scene in the
+	film "Dr. Strangelove."  In the movie, a base commander launches a
+	nuclear strike against the Soviet Union.  As troops try to break in
+	to capture him and get the abort code, he shoots himself.  They
+	discover on his desk a sheet of paper with mad ramblings and a number
+	of circled letters.
+
+	
      
+	And of course, many real despots in history have committed suicide
+	rather than be captured by the enemy, such as Adolf Hitler.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876965010 The episode seemed rushed.
      
+	Okay, one general response here...people are seeing rush where in many
+	cases there is NOT a rush.  Look, pay attention here: WE'RE IN THE
+	FOURTH ACT OF THE EARTH CYCLE.  Like the fourth act of an episode, you
+	have to really start cranking.  You want it to be at white-heat once
+	you hit the ground.
+
+	
      
+	What's in Endgame, and most of Between... was always going to be there,
+	with or without a 5th season.  I made my trims in the period PRIOR
+	TO these episodes, for the most part.  
+
+	
      
+	This is the culmination of something we've been building now for three
+	years, and I'm going to make it as damned fast-paced as I can.  
+
+	
      
+	So don't go into this assuming it was rushed...it's *fast*, and that's
+	the difference here.  
+
+	
      
+	People complain when we do character stories that the arc isn't moving
+	fast enough...people complain that it's moving too fast when the arc is
+	in full gear...sombody get a concensus going here, okay?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@879013222 How did you fit so much into one hour?
      
+	It's one of those things I don't know if I can explain adequately,
+	or sensibly.  A lot of it is totally instinctive, I don't sit down
+	and think about it, I just do it.  But to dissect...part of it is
+	the intensity of the scenes, I think.  Strong emotion extends
+	time, stretches it; if you've ever been in a major traumatic
+	situation, a few minutes can seem like hours.  The more you can
+	put your character into a situation of intense emotions, and
+	create those same emotions in the viewer, you will in effect slow
+	down perceived time.
+
+	Also, there's the matter of context here.  If you've set something
+	up in prior episodes, in something like "Endgame" there's no
+	set-up which means exposition and chews up time; you go right for
+	the high point in the story bell-curve, and you stay there.  So
+	the part you're used to seeing take only a few minutes at the end
+	of an episode becomes almost the entirety of the episode; same
+	result.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877629093 What is Earth Standard Time?  GMT?
      
+	Yes, EST = GMT.
+
+	
      
+	And this episode wasn't rushed; it's what you do when you're
+	bringing any story to its climax.  It's like watching Aliens, going
+	away before the last 20 minutes, coming back and saying, "Well, it
+	moved awfully fast."  It has to, you're in the big moment.  No, there
+	isn't time for everything, there is NEVER time for everything, there's
+	always stuff we might want to see...but what's in Endgame is what was
+	always going to be in Endgame.  If I'd known there would be a 5th
+	season at the time, I still would've written it exactly the way it was
+	written.
+
+	
      
+	The collapsing was done for the most part *long* before we ever
+	got to this part of the season.
+
+	
      
+	It's just fast because that's what you need to do at this point.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878327267 A hideous amount of rendering power and time went into
+	that episode, and the result is all there on-screen.  The only bigger
+	CGI feast is in the prequel, which is approximately 21% EFX, most of it
+	pure CGI and composites.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877023683 The Mars surface effects looked different.
      
+	Actually, most of the prior mars shots were done by an outside
+	contractor, who's been doing such shots for the history of the show.
+	NDEI's boys wanted a chance to do them, and did so.
+
+	
      
+	They're not bad...we still need to improve a bit on the movements, and
+	the camera still moves a bit too fast, which gives it that computer-y
+	feel...but overall, not bad.
+
+	
      
+	How long did those shots take to render?
      
+	Quite a lot, I understand.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877629418 Has Mars' air pressure been increased so pressure
+	suits are no longer needed?
      
+	My feeling is that there's been some small terraforming, which
+	has helped a little, but there's still a long way to go.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877708577 One thing we've noted is that there's been some minor
+	terraforming on Mars over the 175 or so years we've been there.  It's
+	still a hostile climate, but not as bad as it is right now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877629093 Shouldn't moving around the surface of Mars look
+	odd due to its lower gravity?  Or has its gravity been increased
+	somehow?
      
+	No, there was no change to the gravity...what should we see to
+	show that the gravity was still less?  Someone like Garibaldi is still
+	going to weight about 75 pounds, so he's not about to go around
+	floating or bouncing, that's pretty solid.  I don't see many
+	13-year-olds walking around like they're on the moon....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877941352 "If you had time to spare in the episode (ho ho), you
+	might have
+	suggested the different ratio of inertial mass to weight by having
+	character's feet skid out from under them when stopping, bouncing off
+	walls while turning corners, overbalancing on turns, or catching things
+	they had dropped two seconds after dropping them.  Maybe tossing a CGI
+	grenade."
+
+	
      
+	Except, of course, this would've looked awfully silly on camera.
+
+	
      
+	BTW, remember that Number One and Garibaldi, as well as Lyta,
+	have experience with living on Mars, so they would automatically
+	compensate.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876965010 Wouldn't the ship's quartermaster notice a frozen
+	telepath arriving?
      
+	In something like this, you don't move unless you have the main
+	quartermaster at the Mars base ON YOUR SIDE.  You stuff it all into
+	cargo loaders and crates, and ship it up.  Have you ever seen military
+	shipments?  I looked into this, and security for big crates like this
+	is done *at the point of shipping*. 
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@880879145 "What was needed was at least talk of a major Mars
+	resistance attack occuring at the same time to draw off the security."
+
+	
      
+	There was.  Go back to the scene on the Apollo when the first
+	word of attacks comes in...it says specifically that they're hitting a
+	number of places *including* a White Star hitting that particular base.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877629418 How did Marcus contact B5 through the
+	jammers?
      
+	Because Marcus sent the signal to B5 before the fleet jumped
+	into hyperspace, leaving Mars, toward Earth.  We in hyperspace for the
+	result, the search being concluded based on what was downloaded.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876965010 Why didn't Sheridan send another ship after
+	Marcus?
      
+	You don't send a ship away to chase one person when you're
+	going into a battle.  You don't KNOW what ships you are and
+	aren't going to need.  In theory  you took everything you had
+	because you thought you needed it.  Yeah, Marcus was a friend,
+	but a lot of friends would die this day.  You think he would
+	put Marcus's situation ahead of the fleet?  Isolate one ship
+	and risk it to go after him?  Ever been in the military?  You
+	talk about it, but what you propose doesn't make sense.  Would
+	Patton have sent back a tank because somebody fell behind? No.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876017761 Garibaldi's betrayal didn't have any lasting
+	consequences.
      
+	You're right in terms of what Garibaldi did and didn't do, and we've
+	avoided the ultimate repercussions in other places for other things
+	(he said vaguely, not wanting to post spoilers)...but you can only do
+	that so far, and if you go further you start cheating.  You also
+	remove the dramatic impact of the actions of your characters if they
+	do not have consequences.
+	
+	
      
+	Why did Marcus have to do what he did?
      
+	In this case, it ties very much into this
+	character's background...and would, in another universe in which CC
+	decided to stay, have spun out into some rather interesting
+	developments.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877971306 "Well, unless its a coincidence, the "circled doodled
+	message left by
+	madman after he commits suicide" is VERY similar to what happens in Dr.
+	Strangelove. Again, maybe its JMS's homage to Kubrick (like the "2001"
+	style spacesuit that appeared in a second or third season episode, I
+	forget which, of B5)."
+
+	
      
+	Just to clarify this....
+
+	
      
+	Re: the note...the script as written calls only for the finding
+	of a note with the words "scorched earth" on it.  It was John
+	Copeland's idea to do the note as shown, and yes, he's said quite
+	openly over on AOL that it was his nod to Strangelove.  (John directed
+	that episode.)
+
+	
      
+	Re: the suit...that wasn't an intentional 2001 nod...we went to
+	Modern Props to get a space suit for Babylon Squared, and the only one
+	they had on hand that would work for us was one left-over from 2010,
+	which I asked the folks in costume to change as much as
+	possible...though it was pretty much what it was regardless.  So that
+	one wasn't intentional.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877026658 What did Sheridan mean by "ramming speed?"
      
+	You are in a space ship, in a vacuum, heading toward target X.  You
+	understand that it takes time to transfer energy and movement toward
+	another plane, so you go at X-speed toward that object if you want the
+	option of applying thrusters and angling away from the object before
+	you slam into it.
+
+	
      
+	If, on the other hand, you *want* to hit the object, and you have no
+	interest in holding back your thrusters to allow you to diverge from
+	the target in the amount of space remaining between you and it, you
+	proceed at Y speed, with your thrusters putting out their maximum
+	amount of fuel.  
+
+	
      
+	Y = ramming speed.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877368135 "...the symmetry and symbolism in how you structured that
+	final battle.  The story of Babylon 5 basically started with the Minbari
+	fleet coming to Earth to destroy it at the Battle of the Line.   To
+	have the Minbari fleet return to Earth, not to destroy humanity, but to
+	save it, especially along side Earth fighters and capital ships was
+	stunning."
+
+	
      
+	Noticed that little touch, did you....?
+
+	
      
+	What goes around, comes around.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876965010 How did the Apollo monitor Sheridan's situation if
+	communications were being jammed?
      
+	The jammers are set up to cut off communication OUTSIDE MARS
+	ORBIT.  That's what was said, that the jammers cut in once they
+	were past Mars (for security purposes).  The same thing was
+	said in Lines Of..., where Franklin was having a hard time
+	getting word to B5 *past the Mars jammers*.  Further, if all
+	communications were cut off in Hyperspace, inside Mars orbit,
+	then you couldn't have had ship-to-ship communications to tell
+	Sheridan ABOUT Marcus, could you?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877629418 Lefcourt does not think that his job is to set policy
+	or overthrow presidents.  The military executes orders that emanate
+	from the head of the government, through the chain of command.  Once
+	that chain of command was changed, the orders were no longer valid.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@876858996 Why wasn't Clark allowed to present his point of
+	view, even at the end?
      
+	I tried to do it through his lieutenants and plenepotentiaries (hope I
+	spelled that right, I'm too tired to get the dictionary down).  ISN
+	gives you his point of view, ditto for Nightwatch, MiniPax, others.  I
+	think if I had him just saying it out loud, it would diminish him much
+	the way that repeated exposure to the shadow vessels gradually removed
+	their mystery and menace. Less is more.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877629093 About the return of the old ISN anchor
      
+	"I've been thinking about the rapidity of her return to ISN.  I agree
+	that there wasn't time to break her out of prison and get her old
+	dressing room back for the morning news"
+
+	
      
+	When the Soviet Union fell, and the prison doors were thrown
+	open, a number of reporters who had fallen out of favor with the Party
+	and were sitting in cells walked out, went across the street, and went
+	on the air within a matter of hours.
+
+	
      
+	Humans are resilient and determined sorts.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Earthgov decides Sheridan's fate. Delenn makes a remarkable proposition to
+the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.  Garibaldi searches for Lise.
+
+
+Denise Gentile as Lise.
+Rance Howard as David Sheridan.
+Beata Pozniak as President Luchenko.
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.90
+
+Production number: 421
+Original air week: October 20, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Delenn has overseen the coming together of the nonaligned
+	worlds, the Centauri, the Minbari, the Narn, and Earth into a new
+	Interstellar Alliance, and
+	Sheridan has been elected its first president.  The Alliance, which
+	among other things promises to share advanced technologies like
+	artificial gravity with Earth, is a confederation whose members
+	retain most of their sovereignty, aside from certain rules of
+	conduct.  Its armed forces are the Rangers and the White Star fleet,
+	and its temporary headquarters are on Babylon 5 until permanent
+	facilities are built in the Minbari city of Tuzanor (novel
+	"To Dream In the City of Sorrows.")
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Sheridan only used 30 telepaths out of 100 to attack the
+	destroyer fleet
+	("Endgame.")
+	The rest, including Bester's lover Carolyn Sanderson, remained on
+	Babylon 5.
+
+   
    • @@@877630606 Clark has been succeeded by President Susanna Luchenko
+	of the Russian Consortium.
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Ivanova has been promoted to captain and reassigned to
+	shake down an experimental new Earth military vessel, a Warlock-class
+	destroyer, for one year.
+
+   
    • @@@877333607 Londo has been asked to return to Centauri Prime; the
+	Regent is ill and after his death the royal court plans to name Londo
+	the next Emperor.
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Garibaldi and Lise are together, and she has apparently
+	inherited some or all of William Edgars' money.
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Sheridan and Delenn have been married.
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Sheridan's father has been released; Clark's forces never
+	captured his mother.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Did all the nonaligned worlds join the Alliance?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877971225 Delenn's reply to Lennier's comment about unrequited love
+	can be read either of two ways: that she is indeed oblivious to his
+	feelings for her
+	("Ceremonies of Light and Dark")
+	or, more likely, that she loves him too, albeit not
+	in the same way she does Sheridan.  The latter interpretation seems
+	to have been lost on Lennier if true.
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Sheridan knew about the telepath virus
+	("The Face of the Enemy,"
+	among others.)  How many more have been told?  Will its existence
+	become common knowledge, and if so, will the fact that it's known to be
+	possible prompt enemies of the Corps to start trying to duplicate it?
+
+   
    • @@@877333607 Bester goaded Sheridan about Garibaldi by telling him
+	that only a scan performed by a member of Psi Corps would be
+	admissible in Earth court if Garibaldi's memory were used as evidence.
+	The implication was that since Bester controls the Corps to some
+	degree, no Corps telepath would cooperate.  But Lyta is now a Corps
+	member, officially anyway
+	("The Exercise of Vital Powers")
+	and is certainly no friend of Bester's.  To refute her credentials
+	in court, he'd have to reveal the deep-cover program he's using to
+	give her the appearance of Corps membership.
+
+   
    • @@@878759283 Sheridan told Bester he knew what it was like to lose
+	someone, only to find them again and lose them again, clearly a
+	reference to Anna
+	("Z'ha'dum.")
+	He said he'd never wish that on anyone.  But
+	in a sense, he's putting Delenn through the same ordeal
+	over a much longer timespan: she lost him at Z'ha'dum, got him back
+	thanks to Lorien, and knows that in 20 years she'll lose him again
+	("Falling Toward Apotheosis.")
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 The Alliance was most likely what Delenn was referring
+	to in
+	"War Without End part 2"
+	when she told Sheridan that they'd built something that would endure
+	for a thousand years.  Whether that figure was just a generality on
+	her part or reflected additional knowledge about the future isn't
+	clear.
+
+   
    • @@@878022972 Sheridan and Londo have followed similar paths: both of 
+	them rose up against their own governments to fight Shadow influence,
+	and both were helped in their quests by resistance movements working
+	against those governments (the Mars resistance in Sheridan's case,
+	the Narns in Londo's.)  Both of them arranged to have the captive
+	populations freed after defeating the old order.  Are their fates
+	going to be similar as well?  Londo sacrificed himself to kill his
+	Keeper and allow Sheridan and Delenn to escape
+	("War Without End part 2.")
+	Will Sheridan make a similar sacrifice to save someone?  One could
+	argue he already has, by dying on Z'ha'dum to save Centauri Prime
+	("Z'ha'dum.")
+
+	
      @@@878106933 
+	All the major ambassadors on Babylon 5 have been offered leadership
+	roles of some sort, in fact.  In addition to Sheridan and Londo,
+	G'Kar was offered leadership of his people in
+	"The Long Night."
+	Delenn was elected leader of the Minbari in
+	"Babylon Squared."
+	And Sinclair became leader of the Minbari of 1000 years past in
+	"War Without End part 2."
+	Kosh is apparently an exception, though for all anyone knows, he
+	already was the leader of the Vorlons.
+
+	
      @@@879107321 
+	Perhaps not coincidentally, all the major ambassadors have been willing
+	to sacrifice themselves for the greater good.  Delenn was willing to
+	die to stop the Minbari civil war
+	("Moments of Transition.")
+	Londo was ready to give up his life to save Centauri Prime from the
+	Vorlon planetkiller
+	("Into the Fire.")
+	Sheridan ordered a suicide run to stop Earth from being razed by a
+	defense platform
+	("Endgame.")
+	G'Kar offered to return to Narn and face certain death to save the
+	families of the Narn on Babylon 5
+	("A Day in the Strife.")
+	Kosh forfeited his life when he arranged for the Vorlon fleet to
+	attack the Shadows
+	("Interludes and Examinations.")
+
+   
    • @@@877243084 Ivanova apparently only gets promotions when her
+	commanding officers leave: she went from Lt. Commander to Commander
+	when Sinclair left Babylon 5, and from Commander to Captain when
+	Sheridan resigned Earthforce.
+
+   
    • @@@877333607 Has Babylon 5 reverted to Earth ownership?  If so, who's
+	in command now that Sheridan is no longer a member of Earthforce?
+	Presumably Corwin is in charge temporarily until a new commander
+	is assigned.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877243147 Both Clark and Sheridan were succeeded by Russian women
+	after their deaths (though Sheridan didn't remain dead.)  Both women
+	have similar first names.
+
+   
    • @@@877630606 President Luchenko's comment about "the better angels of
+	our nature" was a reference to the last line of
+	Abraham Lincoln's
+	first inaugural address,
+	in which he urged the United States not to lapse into civil war.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877629153 "If this had been it, I would've walked away with a
+	great big smile and a full heart."
+
+	
      
+	Exactly..it doesn't *end* the story, as people kept saying, "Oh,
+	the arc is being finished in year 4," it provides a sense of
+	*resolution*, which is different altogether, and leaves plenty of room
+	for other planned stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878022574 President Luchenko's accent sounded fake.
      
+	I love comments like that.
+
+	
      
+	Beata, who played the President, is a native-born Russian.
+
+	
      @@@878182322 
+	Ed. note: Beata Pozniak was actually born in Gdansk, Poland, not
+	Russia.  The accent is her own, however.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877368470 If Marcus had survived, it would have been a
+	copout.
      
+	As for Marcus, that's precisely the point.  If we do
+	what we do to Ivanova, then let her get bailed out, then do the same
+	for Marcus, it becomes a double-cheat, and that's not fair to do to the
+	audience.  If you bail her out but only at great cost to someone else,
+	it's not a cheat on either level.
+
+	
      
+	And yeah, generally, if you follow the threads, you can pick up
+	on where things are going.  It's something I learned on Murder, She
+	Wrote, where at the end, when the killer's been revealed, you should be
+	able to back up the tape, watch it again, and this time see all the
+	little bits that point to his (or her) identity.  It's basically about
+	playing fair with the audience.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878327718 It was hard doing that to the character [of
+	Marcus], but it was
+	the only way to handle the situation with any integrity and honesty. 
+	Very hard to write.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@944510023 Marcus was a martyr waiting to happen, looking for something
+	worth throwing his life away on because he could find little worth in
+	his own.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374529 "In the scene with Franklin and the very upset Ivanova,
+	when she uses the word "boffed" (like Marcus), was this intended as
+	just a cute scene or a hint that the transfer would have had lasting
+	effects?"
+
+	
      
+	No, nothing more was intended than what was seen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877971225 Why did Lennier tell Delenn what Ivanova said?
      
+	Because Lennier is quite familiar with the concept of unrequited
+	love, and because hope burns eternal.
+
+	
      
+	Which is probably the most damnable part of unrequited love.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877629093 Was the shot of Claudia Christian at the end from
+	another episode, inserted when she decided not to return?
      
+	No, that's a new shot (Claudia at the window).  She was shot for
+	that episode for that voice-over...we just changed one line.  The basic
+	thrust was that she was going to take some time to *decide* whether to
+	take on B5, or to take on a Warlock class destroyer.  So we just went
+	with the decision.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877629241 What was different about the closing shot?
      
+	The only really different thing about the shot is the
+	length of it; usually our shots average 5-8 seconds; that one was about
+	15 seconds, so you have more time to get used to what you're seeing,
+	and absorb it, and make it real.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877890336 Everything's wrapped up now.  What's left to do in
+	season five?
      
+	Things that *could* show up (leaving in some ambiguity just to keep some
+	surprises):
+
+	
      
+	The start of the telepath war
      
+	The start of drakh war
      
+	Londo's fate on Centauri Prime
      
+	The first year trying to make the Interstellar Alliance work
      
+	Inter-faction fighting among the Alliance members
      
+	The development of Mars as an independent state
      
+	The legacy of William Edgars' black projects
      
+	Fallout from the civil war, and the feelings about it
      
+	How Lennier, Sheridan and Delenn will get along now
+
+	
      
+	How's that just for starters?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878327395 Will we see Luchenko again?
      
+	Would love to use her again.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878327718 The Rangers are independent in authority, answering
+	only to Delenn and Sheridan and the members of the Alliance council and
+	advisory board.  (In roughly descending order.)  But their jurisdiction
+	is exclusively in interplanetary situations between various member
+	races.  Each member race has the sovereign authority to govern its
+	people in its own way.
+
+	
      
+	The closest comparison is that overall, the states are free to
+	enact their own laws, but the US Government has sole claim over
+	international matters.  Except here the states would have far more
+	autonomy than is currently the rule; more like pre-Civil War America.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878327718 If you'd known there'd be a fifth season when
+	you wrote the episode, would Delenn's speech have changed?
      
+	I don't know if I would've done her speech differently or not,
+	to be honest...knowing it now, I'm not sure how I'd improve it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878327718 Is Sheridan and Delenn's bed horizontal or tipped up
+	in the Minbari style?
      
+	They will alternate, as you'll see soon....
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Fourth season finale.  A look back at the impact of Babylon 5 from 100, 500,
+1000, and 1000000 years in the future.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.50
+
+Production number: 422 (but see Notes)
+Original air week: October 27, 1997
+DVD release date: January 6, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Stephen Furst
+
    
+
+Warning: This episode contains spoilers for future episodes, as
+it's mostly in the form of retrospectives from future viewpoints.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 Some people on Earth are highly skeptical that the
+	Interstellar Alliance will work, and distrust Sheridan's motives and
+	ability.
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 The station will be under the command of a Captain
+	Lochley in 2262.
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 With Sheridan's permission, a colony of telepaths will be
+	established on Babylon 5 sometime in 2262.  Eventually they will turn
+	against him.
+
+   
    • @@@878761096 Garibaldi will be held hostage, possibly by the telepaths,
+	in 2262.  The hostage situation will end in gunfire.
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 Babylon 5 will be destroyed (though under what
+	circumstances isn't clear) in 2282.
+
+   
    • @@@877941253 Sheridan will die in 2282 under mysterious circumstances
+	that will still be debated 80 years later.  Popular opinion will hold
+	that he died on Minbar, but not everyone will agree.  Later legend will
+	hold that he was carried bodily into heaven.
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 Delenn will live until at least 2362, though she'll spend
+	many of the intervening years out of public view, leading some to
+	wonder if she's still alive.
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 In 2762, Earth will again be divided into two factions,
+	one in favor of breaking away from the Interstellar Alliance and
+	another in favor of remaining.  The two sides will launch a devastating
+	war, rendering the surface of the Earth nearly uninhabitable.
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 In 3262, the survivors of that war, now known as the
+	"Great Burn," will largely have lost all records of the time before
+	the war.  At least one order of monks, marginally part of the Roman
+	Catholic Church, will work to gather and preserve historical records.
+	They'll be aided in secret by agents of the Rangers, who will slowly
+	"discover" pieces of pre-Burn technology to inch Earth's people
+	back toward the stars.
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 The Rangers will still exist in some form a million years
+	hence, and will still consider Sheridan and Delenn to be their
+	founders.  They will be involved in the building of something called
+	"New Earth," though what that is isn't clear.
+
+   
    • @@@878548310 One million years in the future, humans will apparently
+	have evolved into noncorporeal entities (like Lorien,
+	"Into the Fire")
+	and will make use of Vorlon-style encounter suits and organic ships.
+
+   
    • @@@877892014 Earth's sun will go nova in a million years.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@878106431 Is Garibaldi back on B5 to stay?  What about Lise?
+
+   
    • @@@877891621 Who were the people holding Garibaldi hostage?  The
+	telepaths?
+
+   
    • @@@878109828 Who, if anyone, did Garibaldi's captor shoot?  Or was
+	the shot fired by someone else?
+
+   
    • @@@878107064 What was the incident with Sheridan and Delenn's son?
+
+   
    • @@@878760370 What happened to Mars and Earth's other colonies
+	during the Great Burn?
+
+   
    • @@@877941253 Why did the sun go nova?  As the sun isn't expected to
+	do so naturally for billions of years, if at all (according to
+	20th-century astrophysics, anyway) did someone or something cause it
+	to happen?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@878760738 Among the crowd greeting Sheridan and Delenn as they
+	returned to B5 was a man holding a sign reading, "Sic transit gloria
+	mundis."  That translates approximately to, "Worldly glory/fame is
+	transitory."  That could be viewed as a negative comment, expressing
+	the opinion that whatever they build will be temporary.  On the other
+	hand, that's also the Latin phrase spoken to a newly elected Pope after
+	the ballots are burned and the ashes dropped before him, a reminder
+	that a greater purpose is being served and any individual's contribution
+	is small in comparison.  In any case,
+	it appears at least one human agrees with Londo's opinion that marriage
+	celebrations should include somber reflection.
+
+	
      @@@898570420 
+	The historical origin of the phrase is of note, given Sheridan's
+	recent victory against Earth.  Whenever a Roman general returned from a
+	successful campaign, a great parade or Triumph would be held for him. 
+	The general would ride in a chariot, face painted red and in purple
+	robes.  Behind him, a slave would hold a golden crown of laurels and
+	whisper the phrase into his ear.
+
+   
    • @@@879106936 Though the implication was that the gunshot at the end of
+	the video clip in 2362 was directed at Garibaldi, that's not certain.
+	It could as easily have been someone else firing at one of his captors
+	to prevent his death.
+
+   
    • @@@879106936 The 2362 historians' interpretation of the outcome of
+	Sheridan allowing telepaths to set up a colony of Babylon 5 -- the
+	worst mistake of his career, they claimed he as much as said -- may
+	have been shaded by their less than charitable views about Sheridan.
+	The actual events may have been much less disastrous than they
+	implied.
+
+   
    • @@@879105829 It's possible Delenn's appearance in 2362 wasn't entirely
+	a coincidence.  The moderator appeared to be sympathetic to her point
+	of view (though he could have just been playing devil's advocate to
+	spark discussion) and may have warned her of the upcoming broadcast
+	and its likely tone.
+
+   
    • @@@878760738 The holographic simulation of Franklin was trying to
+	create alien/human hybrids, the same accusation that was leveled against
+	B5 by the Clark administration's propagandists
+	("The Illusion of Truth.")
+
+   
    • @@@877892014 The Ranger said he still had time to join "the
+	celebration" before the sun went nova.  What was being celebrated?
+	The Earth's destruction?  New Earth's creation?
+
+   
    • @@@884632135 Londo said when he came aboard the station that jubilant
+	celebration was how Centauri celebrated a funeral.  Perhaps the humans
+	of a million years hence took up that custom, and were celebrating
+	the death of their homeworld Centauri-style.  If so, it would provide
+	a subtle symmetry between the beginning of the episode and the end.
+
+   
    • @@@877941253 The Ranger's rush to send the records to New Earth would
+	seem to imply that the sun going nova wasn't an expected event,
+	which in turn implies that it was artificially induced.  If the nova
+	were a natural event, there would presumably have been years -- more
+	likely centuries -- of warning, plenty of time to evacuate people and
+	historical records.
+
+   
    • @@@878761096 The Ranger's effort to preserve Earth's history echoes
+	Sinclair's comment in
+	"Infection"
+	that all of humanity's accomplishments would be lost when the sun
+	died unless people took to the stars.
+
+   
    • @@@878759526 The Ranger's parting line, "This is how the world ends.
+	Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness," echoes Kosh's reply to
+	Emperor Turhan
+	("The Coming of Shadows")
+	that the situation would end in fire.
+
+   
    • @@@878106388 One other event was predicted to occur in a million years:
+	it's when Jason Ironheart said he'd see Sinclair again
+	("Mind War.")
+	Coincidence, or does Ironheart (or Sinclair) play some part in whatever
+	is happening in the distant future?  The Ranger appeared to be
+	noncorporeal, implying perhaps that the rest of humanity took a
+	million years to catch up to Ironheart's level of development.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@878938771 The 2262 newscast referred to Sheridan's visit to the
+	Dalai Lama in Tibet.  But the picture shown was of a group of Buddhist
+	monks with golden robes, typical of the Golden Triangle area (Vietnam,
+	Thailand, Cambodia.)  Tibetan Buddhist monks wear maroon robes.  Of
+	course, it's possible that changed between the 20th and 23rd centuries.
+
+   
    • @@@878760018 The first question in the 2362 sequence was asked by
+	someone named Ray Winston.  This may be a reference to the cartoon
+	"The Real Ghostbusters," on which JMS served as producer.  Ray and
+	Winston were the names of two of the characters.
+
+   
    • @@@878106758 The insignia on Daniel's uniform in 2762 was nearly
+	identical to the logo of the Nazi SS organization.
+
+   
    • @@@878761448 Daniel's language (e.g. "realfacts" and "goodfacts")
+	is a reference to George Orwell's "1984," which introduced terms
+	such as "doublespeak" and dealt heavily with the relation between
+	language and propaganda.
+
+   
    • @@@879106565 Daniel also made a brief mention of "psychohistory,"
+	which is a reference to Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" novels.  In the
+	novels, psychohistory is a science that can predict large-scale
+	human societal behavior.
+
+   
    • @@@878109743 It's possible Garibaldi is responsible for the Great
+	Burn.  The war between Earth's two factions might have proceeded
+	the same way with or without Garibaldi's subterfuge.  But it's not
+	inconceivable that if Daniel's superiors had made the first strike,
+	the other side might have capitulated, or the war might have been
+	over more quickly for other reasons.  Of course, it's also possible
+	that it would have been even worse, perhaps wiping out Earth
+	altogether.
+
+   
    • @@@877971071 The 3262 sequence may be a nod to Walter Miller's novel
+	"A Canticle for Leibowitz," about an order of monks trying to preserve
+	the knowledge of the past after a devastating war.
+
+   
    • @@@877901477 During the 3262 sequence, the Roman numerals in the lower
+	left corner appear to be camera numbers; they corresponded to the
+	different angles from which the scene was shown.  Presumably the
+	cameras were all well-hidden.
+
+   
    • @@@879105726 The caption under the picture of the Ranger in the book
+	Brother Stephen is illuminating appears to say, "Rangers eis nomen
+	est," which translates to, "Their name is Rangers."
+
+   
    • @@@878326923 Although this episode is part of
+	the fifth-season production run, it's actually the fourth-season
+	finale.  The fifth-season finale,
+	"Sleeping in Light,"
+	was shot during the fourth-season production run because it wasn't
+	clear that the show was being renewed; once the renewal was announced,
+	another episode had to be substituted.  For some reason the onscreen
+	credits at the end of the episode don't reflect that; they list a
+	production number of 422 rather than the more accurate 501.
+
+   
    • @@@877892102 The title sequence was changed slightly from the regular
+	season four sequence.  A clip of the Agamemnon flying through the
+	explosion of the defense platform in
+	"Endgame"
+	was inserted just before the cast credits, and Claudia Christian's
+	name was removed from the cast list.
+
+   
    • @@@877892014 The episode's dedication: "Dedicated to
+	all the people who predicted that the Babylon Project would fail in its
+	mission.  Faith manages."  This is probably a dig at pundits on Usenet
+	and elsewhere who confidently said every year that B5 wouldn't
+	be renewed for another season.
+
+   
    • @@@871238027 Shooting began August 18, 1997.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@878151773 Why was Claudia Christian's name taken out of the
+	credits but Jason Carter's left in?
      
+	We had no choice.  Contractually, when we moved "Sleeping in Light" into
+	the fifth season, we had to move her credit from "Deconstruction" or
+	incur an additional episode's payment.  We didn't even realize this
+	until WB called and put us on notice about this literally 3 days before
+	the episode was uplinked.  It wasn't a choice we had; they said that it
+	had to be moved.  We could leave Jason in the credits because he didn't
+	appear in SiL.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878760264 Any significance to the Agamemnon clip used to
+	replace her credit?
      
+	It seemed an appropriate placeholder when WB told us we had to
+	omit Claudia's credit because she also appears in (the new) 522,
+	"Sleeping in Light," to avoid incurring fees.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878843757 Since this episode was numbered 422 rather than 501,
+	will the production numbers of season 5 episodes be changed
+	too?
      
+	Yes, the S5 episodes will be renumbered prior to broadcast.
+
+	
      
+	More Soviet Revisionism in action....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878758482 Do you ever get the urge to thumb your nose at
+	people on the net who predict B5's demise?
      
+	Nope...no intentions of doing that.
+
+	
      
+	I have something MUCH better in mind....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878758482 It's discreet...but not obscure.
+
+	
      
+	And best of all...it's eternal...and the whackos who've bugged me 
+	for five years are not.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878760264 A few people have interpreted the final
+	card as "meanspirited" (when it's on one level a reaction *to* five
+	years of constant carping and meanspiritedness from lots of sectors,
+	from the nets to the press and elsewhere)...but what it is, is a
+	statement of hope.  That whenever you try something different, there
+	are going to be naysayers, and people who say it can't be done, and
+	certainly can't be done by *you*.
+
+	
      
+	It ain't just B5, it's any dream out there.
+
+	
      
+	And in the end, they are wrong.
+
+	
      
+	Faith manages.
+
+	
      
+	That's the message of the card.
+
+	
      
+	That, and the truth that in 10 years the naysayers will be
+	forgotten, and made irrelevant...but the show, the *show*...goes on. 
+	And will be around long after they and I have gone to dust.  And all
+	people will know when they see that card, 50 years from now, was that
+	some jerks said it couldn't be done, and they were wrong, because they
+	are *always* wrong.  If you have the dream, the ability and the
+	passion, you can bring your dreams to life despite overwhelming
+	opposition.  That's the message.
+
+	
      
+	But for those on the other side, they will never see anything
+	other than meanspiritedness because that's all they can *ever*
+	see...because that's all they can bring to the table.
+
+	
      
+	There's an old saying about books, which I'll rephrase to
+	include B5: Babylon 5 is like a book, and a book is like a mirror: if
+	an ass peers in, you can't exactly expect an apostle to peer out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878843545 There will always be short-term
+	setbacks, but as long as we climb back a few inches higher than we were
+	before we fell down, we keep moving toward the goal of becoming a
+	better people, and getting off the planet.  Taking our place among the
+	stars.  While it's vaguely possible that I may *see* a Mars colony
+	sometime within my lifetime, I know that I will never live there...but
+	that ain't the point, it isn't a victory if *I* do it, and a failure if
+	*I* don't, it's if *we* do it or not.  Maybe we'll do it today, maybe
+	we'll do it tomorrow, the point is to decide to DO it, and then by god 
+	DO IT.
+
+	
      
+	And yeah, that little closing card is going to remain on the
+	show for its life...which will be long, long after its detractors (and
+	admittedly myself) have gone to dust.  On the one hand, it is a
+	statement of hope to anyone else out there who has a dream, to follow
+	it no matter who speaks against you, no matter the odds, no matter what
+	they say to or about you, no matter what roadblocks they throw in your
+	way.  What matters is that you remain true to your vision.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, for the reviewers and the pundits and the
+	critics and the net-stalkers who have done nothing but rag on this show
+	for five years straight, it is also a giant middle finger composed of
+	red neon fifty stories tall, that will burn forever in the night.
+
+	
      
+	In billiards, we call that a bank-shot.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878892882 Does the Great Burn mean the B5 crew ultimately
+	failed?
      
+	It depends on your point of view.
+
+	
      
+	The fact, as I see it, is that no one and nothing will ever solve
+	all of our problems at once, now and forever.  People will always be
+	people.  You can't wave a magic wand and fix it all.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, there was another war...but had the Shadows not been stopped by
+	our characters, there likely wouldn't have been a human race at ALL
+	anymore.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, there was a war, and many died in it...as tends to happen in
+	war...but the nominal right side in it came out on top, which would
+	not have been the case but for Garibaldi's simulacra giving them a
+	leg up on things.
+
+	
      
+	We have had, continue to have, and will always have wars, and grief,
+	and struggle...we will climb up and fall down...but each time we
+	climb a little higher, and in the end, we *do* build the world that
+	our ancestors would have wanted for us...we *do* leave the cradle at
+	last, and we take our place among the stars teaching those who
+	follow us.
+
+	
      
+	For my money, that's as happy an ending as we or anyone can ever
+	hope for.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878758392 You spoiled the events of season five!
      
+	As with anything else, B5 (in whatever incarnation) is about *process*.
+	You saw Londo being strangled by G'Kar...but you didn't know how they
+	got there. You know the result of the Earth/Minbari war...but I suspect
+	there will be a lot of surprises in "In the Beginning."
+
+	
      
+	As with all things, the joy is in the going.  We all know we're going to
+	die, that as the poet said, "we are born astride the grave."  But
+	knowing that inevitable reality has never stopped human endeavor
+	before....
+
+	
      
+	It's the journey and the doing that matters.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@879621150 Re: speechwriters and others hanging around after the
+	fall...look at the remains of the Soviet Union.  After the fall of the
+	communist party, you'd think they would all have been run out of town
+	on a rail.  But many of them just shifted over and found similar
+	positions, or kept the communist party going, after everything they'd
+	done.
+
+	
      
+	The problem with most people is that they don't hold a grudge
+	near long enough.
+
+	
      
+	I'd have to check, but yeah, I believe we stuck a ranger symbol
+	on the encounter suit.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878761612 About the 2362 sequence
      
+	Stephen filmed that sequence by having all of the cast on the
+	set at the same time, running multiple film cameras to get each version
+	"live."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@879105446 From a discussion of a 1997 convention featuring
+	Stephen Furst
      
+	BTW, if you want to flip Stephen out, and you get this before leaving
+	the con, give him the following message from me (I don't have the hotel
+	info at hand).  Tell him Joe says this:
+
+	
      
+	"Don't worry anymore about using mainly securecam style coverage in act
+	3, I've just come up with another approach where I can cover it in
+	dialogue to let you do whatever you want with the camera, so you'll
+	have all the flexibility there you want."
+
+	
      
+	Here's a use of a convention you haven't seen much before....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878843545 The "Just Married" label was missing from the
+	shuttle when it docked.
      
+	The painted letters were on the *right* side of the shuttle as
+	it went in.  The CGI inside the bay showed the left side.
+
+	
      
+	We don't miss these things.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878761096 How did Delenn get into the studio?
      
+	Most TV studios that I've seen have back doors that open out onto the
+	back lot or the outside for fire control reasons.  You can get into any
+	of the 3 B5 stages from the outside in, oh, about 5 seconds through any
+	of a number of doors.  (Note to anyone looking on: yes, those stage
+	doors are secured, and there are guards, and unless you're a Minbari
+	you're not getting in.)  And most of the TV studios I've been in have
+	been the same.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878843545 It was mainly Earth that bore the burden of the great
+	Burn, and yes, that was the one Garibaldi got into....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878956489 Wouldn't the colonies offer Earth some help?
      
+	Some probably would offer to help...but if technology is now
+	suspect, some might not want that help...other colonies might be of the
+	"screw 'em, they got what they deserved" perspective...often politics
+	gets in the way of charity.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878761612 "By any chance, is the post-apocalyptic religious order
+	shown in "Deconstruction . ." a direct decendant of Brother Theo's
+	order on Babylon 5?"
+
+	
      
+	It's altogether possible....
+
+	
      
+	And Theo is only awaiting a story worth bringing him in for.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878956403 Interesting aside...for the last 6-8 months, I've been
+	doing a fair amount of research into medieval England, especially the
+	medieval church, for a play I'm writing (which may become a novel if I'm
+	not careful).  Dumped several hundred dollars on a massive order from
+	Amazon.com back a few months ago to fill out what I needed.  That was
+	what tangentially led me into the post-Burn sequence in
+	"Deconstruction."  My brain has been full of monks for the last 8
+	months or so, and knowing the role they played in maintaining secular
+	knowledge from about 500 AD and for some time thereafter, that seemed 
+	the perfect route to go that would also resonate with the look of the
+	Rangers and the religious caste Minbari and the whole feel we were
+	setting up.
+
+	
      
+	It was only when I was about halfway into the act that I
+	thought, "Oh, crud, this is the same area Canticle explored."  And for
+	several days I set it aside and strongly considered dropping it, or
+	changing the venue (at one point considered setting it in the ruins of
+	a university, but I couldn't make that work realistically...who'd be
+	supporting a university in the ruins of a major nuclear war?  Who'd
+	have the *resources* I needed?  The church, or what would at least LOOK
+	like the church.  My sense of backstory here is that the Anla-shok
+	moved in and started little "abbeys" all over the place, using the 
+	church as cover, but rarely actually a part of it, which was why they
+	had not gotten their recognition, and would never get it.  Rome
+	probably didn't even know about them, or knew them only distantly.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyway...at the end of the day, I decided to leave it as it was,
+	since I'd gotten there on an independent road, we'd already had a
+	number of monks on B5, and there's been a LOT of theocratic science
+	fiction written beyond Canticle...Gather Darkness, aspects of
+	Foundation, others.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878758601 The future wasn't being transmitted back; we were seeing
+	the records of the past from the point of view of the final character,
+	one million years hence, who has come to collect them prior to the final
+	chapter in Earth's history.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877941396 "My personal nit is that JMS has the sun going nova in
+	only a million years. This seems several orders of magnitude too soon
+	for me."
+
+	
      
+	Actually, the computer voice specifies that it is continuing to
+	note atypical solar emissions...atypical meaning something unusual is
+	going on.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@882987516 And what if you, say, interfered substantially with
+	the mass of the sun by, say, causing a series of jump points to open
+	up *inside* the sun across several days?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@882987516 You'd also substantially decrease the mass of Sol,
+	which as I understand it, would result in the sun going nova.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878761096 A lot of folks have found the eventual "going out" of
+	Sol to be depressing...but as was stated 'way back in our VERY FIRST
+	EPISODE, this is the one thing we can be sure WILL happen, sooner or
+	later (probably later).  Ed. note: "Infection" was indeed the first
+	episode shot, but aired fourth.
+
+	
      
+	All the more reason to get off the planet, asap.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@879065360 Did the future humans leave the galaxy as the Vorlons
+	did?
      
+	No point in leaving the galaxy; stars go nova, it only affects
+	the immediate vicinity (big as that is).  By this point, they were in
+	the position of the Vorlons, and now have to take their (our) place
+	guiding the younger races, the next wave, while not getting in the way
+	and remembering the lesson of the shadow/vorlon conflict.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657681 What about the other races?
      
+	The Minbari eventually make it; the Narn and Centauri do not. 
+	They don't die out, they just don't hit a state of First One-ishness,
+	which is darn close to immortality (barring violence).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878920722 Was Sinclair prescient?  Did you have the sun's
+	destruction mapped out way back in season one?
      
+	One needn't be prescient...it's *going* to happen one day.
+
+	
      
+	And to the second half...yeah, Deconstruction (or at least the
+	events that would go into it)  was mapped out back then.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878022324 I think it's fair to say that Sinclair has been in large
+	measure forgotten by Earth by the time of Deconstruction...but Valen
+	lives on in the memories of the Minbari...a reasonable trade-off.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878194707 They were speaking English a million years in the
+	future?
      
+	That's what you heard, that doesn't mean that's what it was; same as
+	when you go to Minbar, they're not speaking English, that's just our
+	hearing of it.
+
+	
      
+	Since when do news anchors quote the Bible?
      
+	Ted Koppel.
+
+	
      
+	Why were Sheridan's childhood photos in black and white?
      
+	Even now portraits are often done in black and white just for artistic
+	merit.
+
+	
      
+	NYU is still around in the future?
      
+	Trinity College is a working college in Ireland that dates back to the
+	American Revolution.  Ed. note: In fact, Trinity College is even
+	older than that -- it was founded in 1592.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878327742 Did Lise and Garibaldi get married?
      
+	No, they're not yet married.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the station adjusts to the arrival of a new command officer and prepares
+for Sheridan's inauguration, a group of telepaths arrives looking
+for sanctuary.
+
+
+Robin Atkin Downes as Byron.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.45
+
+Production number: 502
+Original air date: January 21, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
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+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 B5 is now under the command of Captain Elizabeth Lochley,
+	an Earth Force officer hand-picked by Sheridan for her ability to
+	defuse crises without resorting to violence, and her ability to
+	fight effectively when required.  He has placed her in charge of
+	all aspects of station operation except political decisions affecting
+	the Interstellar Alliance.
+
+   
    • @@@885923970 B5 hasn't rejoined Earth yet.  The Alliance is discussing
+	buying it from Earth.  In the meantime it remains an independent state.
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 Sheridan has allowed a group of rogue human telepaths, led
+	by a man named Byron (whose psi powers seem to be quite strong) to
+	establish a colony on Babylon 5.
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 Narns aren't given their adult names at birth; they're
+	given temporary ones for the first ten years of their lives, after
+	which they're allowed to select their true names from whatever pantheon
+	they've come to believe in.  G'Kar was no exception.
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 G'Kar has assembled a declaration of principles for the
+	Alliance.  It consists of the first page of every holy book of every
+	race in the Alliance, a reminder that the Alliance is a multitude of
+	voices and beliefs, all worthy of respect.  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 G'Kar continues to write his own book
+	("Point of No Return")
+	and has shown it to other Narn and to Garibaldi.  The other Narn
+	have even begun quoting it.
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 Sheridan has named Garibaldi the head of the Alliance's
+	covert operations division.
+
+   
    • @@@885924386 B5 continues to employ Narns in its security forces.
+
+   
    • @@@885924386 Sheridan's first assignment in Earthforce was the 54th
+	North American Unit.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@885479607 When they first met, Sheridan told Lochley, "It's good
+	to see you again."  Under what circumstances were they previously
+	acquainted?
+
+   
    • @@@885480715 Who was the girl in Simon's vision?  What was happening
+	between (or to) the two of them?
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 Did anyone discover the murder of the Gaim ambassador?
+	What repercussions, if any, will it have?
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 Who was the original G'Kar?  A character in the Book of
+	G'Quon?  Why did G'Kar choose that name?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@885924316 Why wasn't Lochley at the swearing-in ceremony?
+
+   
    • @@@885448558 Did G'Kar put the first page of his own book in the
+	declaration of principles?
+
+   
    • @@@885491393 Which side was Lochley on in the civil war?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@885492665 Lochley was described as Ivanova's replacement, but she
+	really replaced both Ivanova and Sheridan, since the latter isn't in
+	charge of station affairs any more.  Will Lochley bring in additional
+	staff to help fill that apparent gap?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885492665 Both Zack and Lochley are in the unenviable position of
+	having their predecessors nearby, now civilians but still
+	second-guessing their decisions.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885492665 Sheridan's story about washing his own socks echoes his
+	conversation with Lorien
+	("Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?")
+	about his life being predicated on finding something to live for.  In
+	a less drastic sense, that's exactly what Sheridan's drill instructor
+	was doing by washing his socks every night.  Presumably "washing my
+	socks" wouldn't have sufficed as an answer to Lorien, though.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885448558 How strong is Byron?  He was able to project his image to
+	Lochley, something most telepaths don't seem to be able to do.  Is
+	that simply a normal ability of high-level psis, or is there something
+	different about Byron?  One other example of someone able to push
+	thoughts to others was Matthew Stoner, Talia's ex-husband
+	("Soul Mates.")
+	Another example was
+	"A Race Through Dark Places,"
+	in which the combined power of Talia and the rogue telepaths was able
+	to project images into Bester's mind.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885448558 Byron alluded to Franklin's participation in the
+	underground railroad
+	("A Race Through Dark Places.")
+	How many of his people did Franklin assist?  Do they feel indebted to
+	Franklin as a result?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885479935 How was the assassin able to steal a Starfury so easily?
+	It's been previously implied
+	("Survivors,"
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2")
+	that Starfury launches -- or more specifically, the launch bay doors
+	-- are controlled from C&C.  If that's true, the assassin might
+	have had inside help, which would in turn imply a wider conspiracy.
+
+	
      
+	If he did receive inside help, there's some indication (not very
+	conclusive) that it might have been Lochley.  The assassin served
+	with her in the past.  Her evasive answer to Garibaldi implied that
+	she opposed Sheridan in the civil war.  She argued for the inauguration
+	to proceed on schedule.  She would have had the authority to launch
+	the assassin's Starfury, and she wasn't present at the ceremony.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, the assassin may have been the computer expert
+	Garibaldi supposed, and may have launched the Starfury the same way
+	he sent untraceable messages to Sheridan.  His task would have been
+	made easier, perhaps, by the fact that it appeared the pilot he knocked
+	unconscious was getting dressed for a launch -- a Starfury launching
+	on schedule would presumably raise no alerts in C&C.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885491393 How was Garibaldi able to get to a Starfury?
+	As a civilian (at the time Sheridan hadn't yet appointed him to any
+	official position) he should have been barred from the launch bay as
+	well.  Of course, by his own admission, Garibaldi is perfectly able to
+	circumvent B5's security measures when he needs to.
+
+	
      
+	Garibaldi's ship, incidentally, was his own personal Starfury, as
+	evidenced by the Daffy Duck emblem on the right side, between the
+	wings -- Garibaldi has been a Daffy fan
+	from day one (the cartoon he shared with Delenn in
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885448558 Sheridan's decision to allow Byron's people on B5
+	may be a point of contention with Lochley, even
+	though it was arguably a political question from the start.  If she
+	denied Byron's request, she clearly thought it fell within her
+	jurisdiction to make such decisions, and may now feel that any
+	decision she makes can be declared a political issue by Sheridan
+	and overturned.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885448558 Sheridan's assumption was that by allowing the colony to
+	form on the station, he'd be gaining telepathic allies in any future
+	war between telepaths and normals.  But doesn't that depend on the
+	nature of the war?  It might be sparked in such a way that it's not
+	just a matter of Psi Corps versus everyone else, in which case having a
+	colony of telepaths, some quite powerful, aboard Babylon 5 would be a
+	tremendous liability.  For example, Edgars' telepath virus
+	("The Exercise of Vital Powers")
+	would clearly be seen as a threat by all telepaths, regardless of their
+	political affiliation, and all normals would be potential carriers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885491687 If Psi Corps propaganda can be believed (comic
+	"The Psi Corps and You")
+	the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the Corps (a 
+	telepath foiling the assassination of the Earth Alliance president)
+	closely resemble those of the establishment of Byron's colony.  Whether
+	the colony will mirror the Corps in other ways remains to be seen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885492665 Another on-station colony, of sorts, also helped uncover a
+	murderous criminal: Theo's monks, who identified the bomber in
+	"Convictions."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925199 Byron said his people refuse to have anything to do with
+	technology (except, presumably, the ships that brought them to the
+	station.)  In some ways that makes his group the opposite number of the
+	technomages
+	("The Geometry of Shadows.")
+	Both achieve near-magical results, the technomages using advanced
+	technologies honed to an art, Byron's people using no technologies at
+	all.  And both want to be left alone by the rest of society.
+	Will the two groups ever meet?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885492665 This wasn't the first time an attempt was made on
+	Sheridan's life following a shift in political power: in
+	"Ceremonies of Light and Dark,"
+	a gunman almost killed him in the Zocalo following B5's break from
+	Earth, and a ceremony celebrating the new order (the Minbari rebirth
+	ceremony) was disrupted.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886360919 How do Garibaldi's new job duties differ from Delenn's
+	as head of the Rangers?  Though their presence is public knowledge
+	now, the Rangers have traditionally been a covert intelligence-gathering
+	group.  Are they no longer performing that function?  Will they be
+	reporting to both Garibaldi and Delenn, or will Garibaldi put together
+	a separate group answerable only to himself?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885923970 The exact workings of the Narn
+	naming custom are still unknown.  G'Kar said that Narns pick their true
+	names at ten years of age, but he didn't say what that meant exactly.
+	He named three examples of religious persuasion: G'Quon, G'Lan, and
+	Na'Kiri.  From that, it's possible to infer that only the prefixes of
+	Narn names come from their religions (G'Kar, Na'Toth, etc.)  But it's
+	equally possible that Narns select their entire true names from their
+	religious texts.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885492665 Which holy books did G'Kar choose to represent humans? In 
+	"The Parliament of Dreams,"
+	it was implied that humans have a far greater diversity of religious
+	beliefs than the other races.  Did G'Kar attempt to represent all
+	of humanity's religions, or just the major ones?  He might have had
+	some help from Theo's monks, who, if they're still on the station,
+	are already engaged in the work of cataloguing the religious beliefs
+	of all the races on the station
+	("Convictions.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885924287 It's possible that the book
+	G'Kar used for the swearing-in wasn't intended to be the declaration of
+	principles at all, and that G'Kar is still writing the declaration.
+	Swearing on a holy book may be as common among alien races as it is
+	among humans, so G'Kar may have intended the book of holy books simply
+	as a ceremonial device.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885538410 The question of who controls B5 is a bit muddled.
+	Lochley is an Earthforce officer, but at least some of her senior
+	staff (Zack and Franklin) are, judging by their uniforms, affiliated
+	with the Interstellar Alliance.  So is Sheridan, who is in some ways
+	her superior and in others not.  The rest of her subordinates, the
+	crew of the station, are presumably employees of a sovereign state
+	until B5's final disposition is determined.  Though on a day-to-day
+	basis this jumble of affiliations may not be problematic, it's
+	probably untenable in the long term.  For example, if some of the
+	crew want higher pay, as in
+	"By Any Means Necessary,"
+	it's not clear to whom they'd make their appeal.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@885492665 Sheridan and Delenn are alternating between their
+	quarters, apparently on a nightly basis.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885479607 Garibaldi's comparison of Sheridan to
+	Joan
+	of Arc
+	is another instance in which the prospect of burning in fire is used a
+	metaphor for imminent danger.  Others are Delenn's repeated
+	references (following Valen) to going into darkness and into 
+	fire, and Kosh's predicting all would end "in fire"
+	("The Coming of Shadows.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885493590 As Garibaldi tried to figure out the assassin's identity,
+	he mused about the historical references in the message to Sheridan.
+	Though the error did lead him in the right direction, he was wrong
+	about Lincoln's assassin being a soldier on the opposite side in the
+	Civil War:
+	John Wilkes
+	Booth
+	was never in the Confederate army, though he was in the Virginia
+	militia for a time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887272943 The Gaim have been around since season two (they first
+	appeared in
+	"Confessions and Lamentations")
+	but this episode was the first time one was shown without its helmet.
+	According to the
+	official CD-ROM encyclopedia,
+	Gaim ambassadors aren't typical of their species, but are specially
+	bred bipedal creatures engineered to more comfortably interact with
+	other races.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885538615 Despite the title, there were several compromises in
+	this episode: Sheridan and Lochley compromised over responsibility
+	for the station.  Garibaldi took a job that's a compromise between
+	reenlisting and remaining a civilian.  Sheridan and Delenn compromised
+	about their quarters.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885923970 Continuity glitch: During the swearing-in ceremony, after
+	the assassin was dispatched, G'Kar held out the book to Sheridan.
+	He was holding it in his left hand in the shots showing him from
+	the front, and in his right hand in the shots showing him from behind.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885923970 Possible continuity glitch: The Acheron, the ship that
+	brought Lochley to the station, was an Omega-class destroyer (the
+	type with the rotating middle section.)  Later, an exterior shot
+	of the station showed an Earth ship nearby, but it was missing the
+	rotating middle section (a Nova-class destroyer.)  It's not clear
+	that they were intended to be the same ship, though.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885755966 Effects glitch: When the Starfury is shown floating
+	outside the station, maintaining a more or less fixed position
+	relative to the window, the lateral thrusters on the right
+	side of the ship (from the pilot's point of view) can be seen
+	firing, presumably to keep up with the window as the station
+	rotates.  Unfortunately, that's wrong.  The thrusters on the
+	bottom of the Starfury should have been firing instead.
+
+	
      
+	To see how this works, imagine B5 as a planet and the Starfury as
+	a satellite that wants to attain a circular orbit.  To do so, it
+	has to get the desired distance away from the surface of the planet
+	(not very far, in this case, but with no atmosphere to create drag
+	that's fine) and move in the direction of its orbit at a high
+	enough speed that it's always inching away from the surface at the
+	same rate that gravity is pulling it down.  Once that speed is
+	reached, no further adjustments are required; momentum will pull
+	it away from the planet and gravity will pull it toward the planet
+	and the two will cancel each other out.
+
+	
      
+	In the case of the Starfury and B5, there's no appreciable gravity
+	from the station.  So the Starfury would have to apply the same
+	force gravity would have supplied, thrusting toward the axis of the
+	station at the same rate that it was drifting away.  Since the pilot's
+	head was facing the station (implying, incidentally, that the ship
+	had a slight spin) that would mean continuously firing the bottom
+	thrusters.
+
+	
      
+	Once the correct orbital speed is in place, any acceleration in the
+	direction of the orbit would cause the Starfury to move past the
+	window.  In an atmosphere, of course, the side thrusters would have
+	to fire just to maintain that speed, thanks to drag slowing the
+	Starfury down otherwise.  But there's no appreciable atmosphere
+	outside B5, so that wouldn't have been a factor here.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887703539 Possible timing glitch: Byron visited Lochley in a cafe
+	and asked her to meet him in two hours.  Franklin interrupted her lunch
+	by asking her to come to Medlab right away; she agreed and left.
+	She arrived in Medlab and was there only a few minutes when she
+	received a call from C&C reminding her
+	of an appointment, which (judging by the fact that it was the next
+	scene) was the meeting with Byron.  That means it took her two hours
+	to get from the cafe to Medlab to the meeting with Byron.  Of course,
+	it's possible she did something else on her way to Medlab, or that
+	the station's transportation systems are just that slow.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@886064865 About the title
      
+	I picked "No Compromises" because that was my approach for this
+	season: we aren't going to give an inch on the quality of the show.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@874171922 John Copeland and I just did the producer's
+	cut on 502, the first S5 episode...and Tracy [Scoggins] is *terrific*.
+	I think she's going to go over like gangbusters.  It's a solid episode,
+	and her presence adds a great deal to the show.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877413204 BTW, saw the first pass today on the S5 title sequence,
+	based on my outline to the editors...looks pretty spiffy, and a big
+	difference from what we've done before, stylistically.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885407265 Whose idea was it to put your name on the back of the
+	station?
      
+	I confess it was my idea...damn taggers are everywhere...it's my one
+	indulgence in 5 years.  Doesn't any good artist sign his work?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885407362 This in some ways is my favorite title sequence. 
+	It took a long time to make it, and it was very difficult to assemble. 
+	Usually I can design the title sequence on paper, and the working with
+	the editors part doesn't take that long...here it took a Long Time to
+	painstakingly choose the images, use counterpoint dialogue, pick the
+	high moments and make it all flow from one year to the next, sort of a
+	Cliff's Notes version of the history of the show.  And the music is
+	terrific...very mature, solid sounding.
+
+	
      
+	As for the back of the station...y'know, those damn taggers are
+	everywhere, aren't they?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885407362 In about two dozen comments so far about the S5 title,
+	only one has been negative, the rest loving it.  It helps to place each
+	season for the new viewers, recaps things, hits the high points, and
+	the new music gives it a more mature sound.  I'm pleased.  (Since I
+	designed it, I guess I'd better be....)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885480715 Won't it confuse new viewers?
      
+	I think the newbies will be fine...unless and until you know the
+	context of the scenes from S1-4, they're just pretty pictures.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@882987731 My local station didn't show the end of season 4.
+	Should I avoid season 5?
      
+	My gut reaction...because S5 starts pretty cleanly, and Sheridan's new
+	situation is set up right from the git-go, I think that you'd be okay to
+	just dive in.  Not knowing at the time that there'd be any kind of
+	problem in the airing of the final 4, but having learned from experience
+	that nothing about this show is EVER easy or predictable, I did sort of
+	a primer about where things stand now in the top of the teaser, done
+	breathlessly by Corwin as Lochley arrives.
+
+	
      
+	(That ain't much of a spoiler since it happens in the first few minutes
+	of the show.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885761816 One note: due to the TNT ad blitz, we went into this on
+	the assumption that we were (and did) pick up a LOT of viewers who had
+	never before seen B5.  These folks would need to be brought up to speed
+	on the returning characters and situations, and the regular viewers
+	would need to be brought up to speed on Lochley...so I wrote it with
+	that intention.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889549848 Robin Atkin Downes played Morann in
+	"In the Beginning."  Coincidence?
      
+	We were impressed by his portrayal of Minbari, and that led to
+	him coming in for Byron.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925199 Garibaldi is completely bald this season, and Sheridan
+	has a beard.  Whose choice was that?
      
+	Jerry has been shaving his head, getting shorter each year, and
+	it worked for where his character is going, so I let it stay...Bruce
+	would love nothing more than to get rid of the beard (I suspect Melissa
+	doesn't like it also), but for me it's important to make the character
+	visually different, and to give him a more mature look, so Bruce
+	graciously indulges me.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925199 We always start out slow each
+	season...especially in this case, knowing that we're going to get a lot
+	of new viewers, I structured the show so it would bring folks up to
+	date asap on who everybody is, and where things stand.  Believe me,
+	there's plenty of tragedy and pathos lurking right around the corner. 
+	It picks up at the end of the season, after some very rough things for
+	the characters, because I can't end it all on a downer, but at the same
+	time, it has to have meat to it.
+
+	
      
+	"Isn't the Psi Corps still formally a branch of EarthGov? If so, then
+	wasn't Captain Lochley duty-bound to report Byron's people to the Psi
+	Cops as soon as she found out that they were rogues?"
+
+	
      
+	You'll find that question answered soon enough.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925199 About Lochley
      
+	It's easy to mistake the actor for the character in
+	situations like this.
+
+	
      
+	It's a vastly different character from Ivanova also, not meant
+	to fit in the same place, do the same things, or be the same person. 
+	They're both strong characters, but different in their approach. 
+	Ivanova tended to be a shouter, and on the impatient side...Lochley is
+	a thinker, and more inclined to the blade than the ball-bat.  But both
+	are equally lethal.
+
+	
      
+	Lochley, I think, also has the maturity of character you need to
+	rise to the rank of captain in the military, and the voice of moral
+	authority, which both Sinclair and Sheridan had, in comparable
+	positions.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925199 Oh, she has a sense of humor...but we don't see it
+	here in this episode any more than when Ivanova first came in, because
+	both are in new situations and that requires a certain degree of
+	seriousness. We'll see some of her humor along the way...it's also
+	different from Ivanova's, more a sly kind of humor, the sort that slips
+	past you and ricochets around the corner half an hour later to nail you
+	between the eyes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885480715 About Sheridan
      
+	There's certainly a messianic streak running through the
+	character, though he himself might challenge that notion.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925199 What is G'Kar's position now?
      
+	A lot of that will be established this season, but technically,
+	he's still the Ambassador from Narn.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886064821 The ship that brought Lochley was named the
+	Acheron
      
+	Actually, the Acheron is the river of woe....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885480715 "Does anyone know whether Byron's "The geometries that
+	circumscribe your waking life draw narrower until nothing fits inside
+	them anymore" came from anywhere. My first (rather obvious) guess was
+	that it was a line from Byron."
+
+	
      
+	No, that was me.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889482428 Why did you name the character Byron?
      
+	It's a play on words that becomes a bit clearer later.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925199 "Why couldn't the young telepath just broadcast his
+	discovery to the others, vs. having to deliver it himself?"
+
+	
      
+	Line of sight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886401531 How does Sheridan know about the telepath
+	war?  Did he watch
+	"Deconstruction"
+	or something?
      
+	This is hardly a new plot element...this has been brewing for 4 years
+	now, with the growing telepath underground.  As for the latter part of
+	that comment...did you already forget that in "Rising Star" there was a
+	conversation between Sheridan and Bester about the coming telepath war?  
+	
      
+	Not my fault if you're not paying attention.
+
+	
      
+	Wouldn't Garibaldi believe the telepath war had been averted since
+	Edgars was killed?
      
+	No, Edgars wasn't trying to *start* a war, he was trying to solve it
+	BEFORE it started.  He knew it was coming, is coming, and was trying to
+	give normals an edge.  That edge is now gone.  Again, you're
+	misinterpreting or misremembering what's been established and saying
+	it's an error on our part.
+
+	
      
+	If B5 is a free port, why did Byron need to ask permission?  Isn't
+	the station open to anyone?
      
+	Individually, yes...but again, pay attention, we're talking about a
+	COLONY, which means you've got several hundred people living in one
+	area, under one authority (Byron), with an unknown or unspecified
+	agenda, whose presence might bring problems from the Psi Corps and
+	elsewhere.  So yeah, they're going to need somebody's permission.  
+
+	
      
+	Why did Sheridan break his promise to Lochley?
      
+	He didn't break his promise...he moved this into a political decision,
+	which is his purview.  He said specifically, "If it's a political
+	problem, or involves the Alliance, it's my turf."  This is a strategic
+	decision on behalf of the Alliance.
+
+	
      
+	How can Byron project images?  We haven't seen that before.  It
+	took an entire mob of telepaths in
+	"A Race Through Dark Places"
+	to fool Bester.
      
+	Well, now you've got a contradiction.  Either we have seen this before,
+	or we haven't seen it before.  You say where did it come from, then
+	cite an example of where it's been seen before.  And if you'll go back
+	and rewatch that episode, you'll see that teeps can act collectively
+	and be very strong.
+
+	
      
+	[...] No...again, you're distorting the situation.  The task wasn't
+	just to send an image into his [Bester's] head, it was to CONVINCE HIM
+	that this image had really happened, and it took a lot of them to do
+	this to a Psi Cop.  That's why it took so many of them; he's a strong
+	target.  It ain't the same as doing it to a normal.  You're not
+	thinking through what you're saying.
+
+	
      
+	Why don't Byron and his people just turn invisible and live on
+	the station without anyone knowing they're there?
      
+	Maybe because they are (or are trying to be) the good guys?  Maybe
+	because they don't actually vanish, or turn off sound, they can
+	individually manipulate somebody by pressing on receptors and
+	distorting things like their time sense...but they're going to show up
+	on cameras, and on sensors, and unless they want to constantly try and
+	control every single person on the station in large groups as they pass
+	by, they're going to be discovered, and booted off the station.  So
+	they may as well do the right thing and ask.  Just because someone
+	*can* steal doesn't mean they *should* steal.
+
+	
      
+	Besides, where are they going to live?  Quarters have to be assigned,
+	and they're always short on space.  Food has to be paid for.  On and
+	on.  Your contention doesn't make sense...they're not gods.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885480715 "That last one is what hooked me. I figured you'd be
+	spending the next few weeks explaining how you really hadn't broken the
+	cardinal rule of B5 ["No cute kids or robots"] by introducing
+	little Simon."
+
+	
      
+	That means you went for the okeydoke...and thus didn't see the
+	last bit coming.  That was the intent.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925271 How did the assassin manage to position himself
+	outside the window so precisely?
      
+	Excuse me, folks, but he was using a B5 starfury, which is programmed
+	like all starfuries there to sync up with the station's rotation for
+	purposes of docking, ejecting, and holding position for repair purposes.
+	All a pilot would have to do is tell the on-board computer to sync up
+	the thrusters with the station's rotation, and it'd be done.
+
+	
      
+	This is a no-brainer...which is why I didn't specify it in dialogue
+	(also it would've killed the drama of the moment).  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885925199 Was Garibaldi's "it's a little crooked" comment
+	about the EA logo meant as foreshadowing?
      
+	No, but it was certainly meant as a subtle double-entendre, given his
+	recent experiences.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Londo suffers a serious heart attack and must face his greatest fear to
+survive.  Lennier decides to start training as a Ranger.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.52
+
+Production number: 503
+Original air date: January 28, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@886062758 Citing discomfort with his personal situation now that
+	Delenn and Sheridan are married, as well as a desire to fill the void
+	left by Marcus' death, Lennier has left the station to train as a
+	Ranger.  He promises he'll return from time to time.
+
+   
    • @@@886062758 Ever since he started dreaming of his own death, Londo
+	has felt somehow that Sheridan would be nearby at the end.  He doesn't
+	appear to know the details of Sheridan's presence
+	("War Without End, part 2.")
+
+   
    • @@@886062758 Londo has apologized to G'Kar for all his past misdeeds.
+	It's the first time, he claims, that he's apologized for anything in
+	his life.
+
+   
    • @@@886361666 Londo's first wife was a dancer, as he mentioned to
+	Garibaldi in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 1.")
+	His family later forced him to divorce her; they claimed she wasn't of
+	a high enough social class and threatened to strip him of his
+	inheritance if he didn't obey.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@886062758 Was G'Kar aware of Londo's dream?  Was G'Kar's in-dream
+	suggestion that he was a projection left over from their
+	telepathic contact
+	("Dust to Dust")
+	at all true?
+
+   
    • @@@886100581 Was Lennier truly following the calling of his heart as
+	he claimed, or was he simply running away as Sheridan conjectured?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@886062758 How did Londo know about Sheridan's limited lifespan?
+	Why would Sheridan (or Delenn) have told him about it?
+
+	
      
+	If it's common knowledge, then Lennier probably knows too.  What
+	influence did that knowledge have on his decision to leave?  He
+	as much as said that he wanted to become a Ranger so he'd be more
+	attractive to Delenn; does he believe that by becoming a warrior
+	like Sheridan, he'll be able to take Sheridan's place at Delenn's
+	side in twenty years?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886062758 During his conversation with Londo, Sheridan's clothing
+	changed several times, in line with his changes of uniform over the
+	course of the show: first he wore an Earthforce uniform, then a
+	shirt with no coat
+	("Severed Dreams.")
+	Then he wore his Army of Light uniform
+	("Ceremonies of Light and Dark.")
+	Next, he was dressed in the robes of the Entil'zha, just like
+	Sinclair's garb in
+	"War Without End."
+	Finally, he was dressed in a simple white robe and hood like that of
+	a Minbari acolyte, before he turned into a ball of light similar to
+	the million-years-hence Ranger in
+	"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars."
+
+	
      
+	Londo's dreams can be prophetic at least some of the time, the
+	obvious example being the dream of his death.  If this one can be
+	taken literally, the implication is that Sheridan will be the next
+	Entil'zha.  That's consistent with Zathras' claim that he is "The
+	One who will be"
+	("War Without End, part 2.")
+
+	
      
+	The meaning of the white robe is less clear; perhaps after he
+	heads the Rangers he will turn his attention to Minbari spiritualism.
+	It's worth noting that Delenn wore a similar robe during the rebirth
+	ceremony in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams,"
+	during the funeral ceremony in
+	"Legacies,"
+	and after her transformation in
+	"Revelations."
+	Dukhat wore a similar robe in
+	"Atonement."
+	That last reference may be the most significant when considered in
+	light of Delenn leaving the center space in the Grey Council open for
+	"the one who is to come"
+	("Moments of Transition.")
+
+	
      
+	The robe, it should also be noted, shielded most of Sheridan's head
+	from view.  Could that be a trick similar to showing Delenn's arm in
+	"Babylon Squared?"
+	Will Sheridan, late in life, transform into a Minbari-human hybrid,
+	possibly to cement his role as Dukhat's successor?
+
+	
      
+	The ball of light may be related to whatever event will lead to the
+	legend (in
+	"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars")
+	that he was carried bodily into heaven after his death -- perhaps
+	Lorien, a ball of light in his own right, will return and take Sheridan.
+	Or perhaps there's still part of Lorien remaining in Sheridan, and it's
+	that part that will depart when Sheridan's body dies.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886359843 Once again the theme of finding something to live for is
+	in evidence; it's a recurring one most strongly in evidence in
+	"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi,"
+	in which Lorien told Sheridan that something to live for was required
+	if he was to continue living at all.  The most relevant previous
+	appearance of the theme, though, was in
+	"Shadow Dancing."
+	Dr. Franklin had similar near-death visions that caused him
+	to reexamine his past and gave him the determination to live in order
+	to correct past mistakes, a closer analog to Londo's experience than
+	what Sheridan went through.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886062758 Londo said he had never apologized for anything in his
+	life, presumably referring to serious apologies rather than off-the-cuff
+	conversational remarks.  If that was because he was afraid to face the
+	fact that he'd done great harm in the past, apologizing might count as
+	facing his greatest fear, his last chance for redemption as prophesied
+	by Lady Morella
+	("Point of No Return.")
+	Of course, she was more likely referring to allowing himself to be
+	strangled by G'Kar, since his next-to-last chance was to not kill the
+	one who is already dead -- quite likely a reference to letting
+	Sheridan go as he'll do in his final moments
+	("War Without End, part 2.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886361479 Lennier's decision to join the Rangers may have other
+	aspects in addition to the ones mentioned in the episode.  For example,
+	he may feel personally responsible for Marcus' death, since he was the
+	one who inadvertently led Marcus to discover the existence of the alien
+	healing device
+	("Endgame.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886361816 Both Lennier and Londo followed the callings of their
+	hearts in this episode, though Londo's heart was rather more emphatic
+	about it.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@886062758 Londo's taste for fine bravari was first established in 
+	"Knives."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886062758 Londo has apologized seriously twice before.  First he
+	apologized to Garibaldi for casting his vote against Sinclair in
+	"The Gathering."
+	The second time, he reluctantly apologized to Elric for recording
+	their conversation in
+	"The Geometry of Shadows."
+	He has also apologized in casual conversation (e.g. telling Vir he
+	was sorry to call so late in
+	"The Hour of the Wolf")
+	though he likely doesn't consider those to be true apologies.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886062849 Lennier and Vir first sat together at the bar in
+	"The Fall of Night,"
+	and according to that episode, it was a regular weekly event.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886062758 Vir drank a Shirley Temple at the bar.  Shirley Temple
+	was a child film star, but a more subtle reference is that she later
+	served as the U.S. ambassador to several countries.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886062758 Vir said goodbye to Lennier using the Minbari hand sign
+	(fingers and thumbs touching to form a triangle.)  Presumably he
+	learned that during his time as the Centauri ambassador to Minbar.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886062965 An old Centauri story says that sometimes an angelic soul
+	can be trapped inside a body that's done great evil, and can kill its
+	host in an effort to break free and inhabit another body.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@870968410 The title of this script is similar to an earlier
+	story, "The Very Long Night of Susan Ivanova," which was never
+	produced.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886359399 Medical gaffe: When Franklin described Centauri anatomy
+	to Sheridan, he said they had a "bipulmonary system," clearly intended
+	to mean that they had two hearts.  But in medical jargon, "pulmonary"
+	refers to the lungs, not the heart.  A term like "bicardial" would have
+	been correct.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898571511 Medical gaffe: Franklin ordered a "toxology report" on Londo.
+	Though it's a common mistake, he meant "toxicology."  Toxology is
+	the study of the bow (as in bows and arrows.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@871230710 Is this the same story as "The Very Long Night of
+	Susan Ivanova?
      
+	No, just that since I ain't doing that story, the title became
+	available, and it was most apt for this episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886100020 Nothing like this was planned for Susan; I just liked the
+	title and adjusted it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886360328 Was the lighting changed for the transition between
+	Vir entering the transport tube and Londo emerging in the hall?
      
+	We did the light change, and enhanced it further in post.
+
+	
      
+	How was the cameraman holding the camera during the rest of
+	that scene?
      
+	We attached the camera to his body.
+
+	
      
+	Was the single unbroken shot the director's idea?
      
+	It was in the script.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886464544 Is Bill Mumy off the show?
      
+	Bill is still on the show; there's a bit of a break as his character is
+	off on anla-shok training, but he does come back, and in fact has a
+	rather substantial arc of his own at a certain point later in the
+	season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886100020 G'Kar's artificial eye isn't red yet.  Did the actor
+	not want to wear the contact?
      
+	No, the contact omission was kept because of the story and the
+	character; it'll be dealt with down the line in more detail, but for
+	now, that's why it's there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886359137 How did Londo know about Sheridan's shortened
+	lifespan?
      
+	It's common knowledge within the inner circle of the Alliance
+	advisory board.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886573242 Are Sheridan's last two outfits a preview of things
+	to come in season five?
      
+	Could be....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886573282 Re: the idea that Londo has "apologized" before....
+
+	
      
+	Remember G'Kar's comment: that in other circumstances, Londo wasn't
+	sorry he DID it, he was sorry he got CAUGHT.  That was the point of the
+	exercise.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704064 We're slowly bringing Londo full-circle, and what an odd
+	little voyage it's been.  And so much sadness yet to come.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657731 He can learn, yes, and he can better himself...but
+	because of his actions, so many have died, so much grief has occured,
+	that perhaps no amount of self-revelation can cover the blood on the
+	floor.
+
+	
      
+	There's an excellent moment in the Night Gallery movie, where a
+	prison camp commandant has fled to Brazil and, years later, is trying
+	to live out his life in peace, realizes that mistakes were made, is
+	actually trying to find a better life...but as one man dies at his
+	hands says, "You have hung too many Christs on crosses for any god to
+	forgive you."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886360328 Could Delenn have stopped the Rangers from accepting
+	Lennier?
      
+	Yes, she could have...but it would have devastated
+	him and undermined the Ranger structure.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan clashes with the League ambassadors over G'Kar's declaration of
+principles.  Garibaldi attempts to enlist the aid of the refugee telepaths.
+
+
+Robin Atkin Downes as 
+Byron.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.16
+
+Production number: 504
+Original air date: Feburary 4, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@886670096 The Centauri have been using telepaths in their military
+	for over 300 years.
+
+   
    • @@@886670096 At Garibaldi's behest, and with great trepidation, Sheridan
+	has approved the use of telepaths as intelligence operatives of the
+	Interstellar Alliance.  Byron has agreed to supply Garibaldi with
+	two members of his group, well-trained telepaths who will ferret
+	out dark secrets wherever they lie.
+
+   
    • @@@886670096 For the past 10 years, the Drazi have been secretly
+	supporting raiders who attack minor worlds on the edge of Drazi space.
+	Byron has uncovered the secret and brought it to Sheridan's attention,
+	and now the Drazi have most likely stopped the practice.
+
+   
    • @@@886670096 Lyta has been in the mind of two people at the moment of
+	death.  It's a tremendously traumatic experience; a telepath actually
+	sees what she believes is the soul departing, and a little of the
+	telepath's departs as well.  She says Bester has scanned the dying
+	on numerous occasions in an attempt to try to see what's on the other
+	side -- something she says isn't supposed to be known by the living --
+	and his soul has been diminished as a result.
+
+   
    • @@@886709948 Byron believes that telepaths are superior to mundanes,
+	and feels that mundanes don't think of telepaths as anything but tools
+	to be used when needed.
+
+   
    • @@@886709304 Byron's telepaths, if he's to be believed, make no effort
+	to shield their thoughts from one another.  Nor do they make any effort
+	to avoid picking up the thoughts of others around them, something
+	Byron claims takes a lot of effort to avoid.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@886670096 When did Lyta previously scan a person at the time of
+	death?
+
+   
    • @@@886670096 Is her story about Bester true?
+
+   
    • @@@886670096 Have the Drazi stopped supporting the raiders entirely?
+
+   
    • @@@886670096 How did the raider ships nearly destroy a White Star?
+	Are they getting support from people other than the Drazi?
+
+   
    • @@@886702789 Did the Enphili join the Alliance?
+
+   
    • @@@886708396 Did the Drazi sign the declaration?  Have they cut off
+	their support for the raiders as a result?
+
+   
    • @@@886708396 Did Earth join the Alliance?  If so, who signed the
+	paperwork on Earth's behalf?  Lochley?
+
+   
    • @@@886670245 What changes did G'Kar make to the declaration?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886709804 How did the Ranger get to the Enphili homeworld?  Are
+	White Stars routinely patrolling the territories of governments who
+	haven't joined the Alliance yet?  Sheridan did arrange for border
+	patrols
+	("Rumors, Bargains and Lies")
+	so perhaps the Enphili were close enough to the Drazi border to be
+	within range of existing Ranger patrols.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886709804 Sheridan has the power to order the White Star fleet into
+	combat.  Is that a power of the President of the Alliance in general,
+	or Sheridan in particular?  Do the Rangers still owe allegiance to
+	Sheridan and Delenn personally, or will command of them pass to
+	Sheridan's successor when he leaves office?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886670096 Lyta's first experience scanning a dying person may
+	be related to the secret Bester knows about her
+	("Epiphanies.")
+	It might also be related to the reason she left the Psi Cop division
+	("Divided Loyalties.")
+	One possibility is that she was with Bester when he had the experience
+	she recounted to Garibaldi; if what he was doing was forbidden in
+	some way, her secret might be guilt by association.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886708122 Is Lyta's sympathy with Byron's cause what it appears
+	to be?  Clearly she's dissatisfied with her treatment at the hands
+	of Sheridan and the others, and has been for some time (she complained
+	about it to Zack in
+	"Epiphanies.")
+	At the same time, though, she does appear to see that her work with
+	the Alliance is doing a lot of good, and Sheridan does appear to be
+	appreciative of her, despite Byron's claims to the contrary.
+
+	
      
+	So the question is, what's Lyta's motivation for returning to Byron and
+	asking to learn more about his ideas?  Is she genuinely interested in
+	joining his cause, or does she sense that he's a potential danger?  If
+	it's the latter, she might be engaging in a covert operation of her
+	own, learning all she can about Byron's plans with the intent of
+	reporting them to Sheridan if they turn out to be a threat to the
+	Alliance.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886670096 Sheridan appears to be dead wrong in his reasoning for
+	allowing Byron's colony on the station.  His assumption, stated again
+	in this episode, is that they'll be on his side should war erupt
+	between telepaths and normals.  But from Byron's conversation with
+	Lyta, it appears more likely that his group will be the ones to
+	start a conflict against mundanes.  It's even possible
+	they'll find themselves at odds with the Psi Corps, since the Corps
+	appears to prefer taking control in more subtle, insinuative ways
+	and might view an open conflict as too great a risk.
+
+	
      
+	If Byron's group really does spark a conflict between telepaths and
+	mundanes, it would explain the 2361 commentator's view that allowing
+	the colony was the biggest mistake in Sheridan's career
+	("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886703118 Byron promised Lyta he'd give Garibaldi two "highly
+	trained" telepaths.  Where were they trained?  Are they former Psi
+	Corps members?  Were they trained by nonhuman telepaths?  Did the other
+	refugees conduct the training?
+
+	
      
+	If they're former Corps members (or even if not) the possibility
+	exists that there are Corps agents in Byron's group.  The Corps is
+	capable of implanting hidden personalities such that extremely powerful
+	telepaths don't notice them (e.g. Talia's implanted alter ego,
+	which wasn't noticed by Ironheart in
+	"Mind War.")
+
+	
      
+	That's assuming, of course, that Byron's group is legitimate at all;
+	they might all secretly be working for the Corps, their
+	refugee story simply a cover to convince Sheridan to allow large
+	numbers of telepaths to gather unquestioned on the station.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@870986860 The title is from Shakespeare's
+	"Hamlet,"
+	specifically Hamlet's speech in
+	act 2, scene 2:
+
+	
      
+	What a piece of work is a man!  How noble in reason!  How infinite
+	in faculty!  In form and moving how express and admirable!  In action
+	how like an angel!  In apprehension how like a god!  The beauty of
+	the world!  The paragon of animals!  And yet, to me, what is this
+	quintessence of dust?  Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither,
+	though by your smiling you seem to say so.
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886668869 The beginning of the second draft of the Interstellar
+	Alliance Declaration of Principles:
+
+	
      
+	The Universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice.  
      
+	The language is not Narn or Human or Centauri or Gaim or Minbari.
+
+	
      
+	It speaks in the language of hope.  It speaks in the language of trust.
      
+	It speaks in the language of strength, and the language of compassion.
      
+	It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul.  
      
+	But always it is the same voice.
+
+	
      
+	It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us.  
      
+	And the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born.  
      
+	It is the small, still voice that says we are One.
+
+	
      
+	No matter the blood, no matter the skin, 
      
+	No matter the world, no matter the star, 
      
+	We are One.  
      
+	No matter the pain, no matter the darkness,
      
+	No matter the loss, no matter the fear.
      
+	We are One.
+
+	
      
+	Here, gathered together in common cause 
      
+	We agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule: 
      
+	That we must be kind to one another.
+
+	
      
+	Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us,  
      
+	And each voice lost diminishes us.  
      
+	We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, 
      
+	The fire that will light the way to a better future.
+
+	
      
+	We are One.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888082633 The text of Franklin's letter to the Ranger's parents:
+
+	
      
+	Your son served with honor and died bringing us news that may help to
+	save the lives of literally thousands of people, people he did not
+	know, but whose lives mattered more to him than his own.
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657453 When Franklin is composing the
+	letter
+	to the Ranger's parents, the words "Spell Check Online" are visible
+	at the top of the screen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886709304 Byron's comment that telepaths have to concentrate on
+	songs or other distractions to keep from inadvertently reading the
+	thoughts of others may be a reference to the novel "The Demolished
+	Man" by Alfred Bester, in which the protagonist, seeking to shield
+	his thoughts from telepaths, forces himself to concentrate on a
+	catchy tune.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887658019 The name of the new race
+	being harassed by the Drazi,
+	Enphili, sounds almost identical to the name of a Minbari cruiser in 
+	"Shadow Dancing."
+	In that episode, Sheridan ordered the Minbari cruiser Imphili to
+	protect a group of Drazi ships.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887783860 Continuity glitch: Sheridan handed a copy of the
+	declaration to the Hyach ambassador (the orange-skinned alien with
+	the large cranial lobes.)  Immediately afterward, G'Kar passed copies
+	of the declaration out to everyone, including the Hyach ambassador,
+	who no longer had the one Sheridan gave him.  Of course, it's possible
+	Sheridan took the scroll back.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898570048 Continuity glitch: During Lyta's time in the mind of the
+	Ranger, as he's dying, he approaches the door and is casting a shadow on
+	the equipment to the left of him, just inside the door. There is a
+	cut to Lyta, then back to the Ranger, and his shadow has disappeared.
+	Most likely the actor was digitally added to the picture in the final
+	shot so he could be made to stretch into the distance, while he was
+	actually standing on set before the cut to Lyta.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704582 About Kim Strauss
      
+	He does tend to play Drazis a lot, primarily the ambassador, for
+	purposes of continuity, unless he's not available.
+
+	
      
+	Re: Hamlet...one of the wonderful aspects of Shakespeare's work
+	is that it lends itself to reinterpretation and reinvention; cynical
+	lines can be read with hope, and vice versa, and somehow, the darned
+	thing tracks.  One recent version of Hamlet mounted by Joseph Papp
+	starred a woman actor in the title role, and it worked beautifully.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704657 What were Sheridan and Delenn drinking at dinner?
+	Did Delenn's transformation enable her to drink alcohol?
      
+	Nonalcoholic wine, at worst...I sometimes have it myself, since
+	I don't drink.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704582 I like the declaration a lot.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704582 The funny part of it is...the editors made a point of
+	dropping in my writing credit just when G'Kar says his muse is talking
+	to him....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657633 The declaration didn't say anything about
+	rights.
      
+	That's fine, if this were a constitution or something based on
+	coming out from under an opressive government, as the colonies did. 
+	This is an incremental process; get the principles in place, and then
+	build the laws and the constitution on that.  Get them on board for one
+	thing they can sign, and then use that as a platform to get them to
+	sign the more restrictive stuff. And bear in mind you only heard part
+	of it; the full thing would go on for many many pages.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704582 Byron's feelings about mundanes comes out later in more
+	detail...I wouldn't call it a hatred.  A resentment, yes, and certainly
+	there's a sense of having been mistreated...but he's surprisingly not a
+	violent person, as we'll find.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704582 "I wouldn't be surprised to see Byron realize that
+	the mundanes have talents that teeps generally do not."
+
+	
      
+	Clog dancing...?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704582 "Quick question: regarding what Byron said about the
+	amount of effort it takes to block out the thoughts of mundanes, I was
+	wondering--have any non-teep humans given thought, time, or effort to
+	creating any sort of artificial 'shielding' device to keep their
+	thoughts to themselves? Is it impossible, or just not something they
+	would bother with, figuring it's up to the teeps to deal with it?"
+
+	
      
+	Some of them have trained at it a bit, and learned little tricks
+	that can help...one such tries it later this season.
+
+	
      
+	"As for Lyta, I felt like she was sort of an abused child, always
+	looking for that benevolent authority figure."
+
+	
      
+	Yep, that's what she's doing, looking for someone to believe in.
+
+	
      
+	"I don't know if I buy the idea of death of the soul, but if it
+	explains Bester, I guess I can swallow it."
+
+	
      
+	Bear in mind, though, that Lyta also said that that's the mind's
+	only way of interpreting what it's seeing, not that it *is* what she's
+	seeing, so it doesn't necessarily validate or invalidate the notion of
+	a soul.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888082462 About the shot of Lyta looking into the council
+	chamber
      
+	The Lyta-outsider view was to further reinforce her on the
+	outside of the group.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657633 Why enlist only human telepaths?
      
+	Remember though that the purpose of the teeps is to gather
+	covert intelligence.  There are two operative words there: covert and
+	intelligence.
+
+	
      
+	Intelligence against whom?  Logically, this would involve in
+	part keeping tabs on worlds not in the Alliance...and some that *are*
+	in the Alliance.  If you think the Drazi are up to something, and you
+	have Drazi telepaths on your team...are they going to cooperate against
+	their own government?  If you leave them out, won't they find out if
+	they're in the company of the other teeps on a daily basis?  The covert
+	part also goes out the door.
+ 
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657633 "But if the hypothetical Drazi teeps are Rangers,
+	would they have loyalty to the Drazi government, or to Entil'zha?"
+
+	
      
+	Maybe they would..one hopes they would...but why take that
+	chance if you're in Sheridan's shoes, trying to make this thing work?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657788 Yeah, I'm sure that some Minbari teeps could be
+	trusted...but would they function well in a covert situation?  They're
+	mainly out in the open.
+
+	
      
+	One other thing I forgot to mention in my note to Nancy...if you
+	put out the word that you want 2 teeps from each world...that kind of
+	kills any chance of putting together a group of telepaths that's going
+	to operate IN SECRET, a covert unit, yes...?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887658091 About the word
+	"Enphili"
      
+	Coincidence.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704789 White Stars are not invulnerable.  If they saw what they
+	were told were a friendly fleet coming in, to join them in an offense,
+	they would have their defenses down.  And a full-scale Drazi fleet would
+	also somewhat outnumber the White Stars.  A Pearl Harbor style attack
+	on White Stars would effectively decimate the fleet before they would
+	have a chance to respond.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the station defends itself against an alien attack, two ordinary crewmen,
+Mack and Bo, try to carry on and keep the station running.
+
+
+Robin Atkin Downes as 
+Byron.
+Lawrence LeJohn as Bo.
+Raymond O'Connor as Mack.
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.87
+
+Production number: 505
+Original air date: February 11, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Story by J. Michael Straczynski & Harlan Ellison
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@887271921 An alien attack force of unknown origin is sweeping
+	through local space, probing for weak planets that
+	are ripe for invasion.  The force has attacked the Gaim and Babylon
+	5 already, but seems to be no match for the White Star fleet.
+
+   
    • @@@887272469 During the initial occupation of Narn, the Centauri tried
+	to demoralize the resistance movement by bombing the seven largest
+	cities on the planet.
+
+   
    • @@@887272469 G'Kar spent much of his childhood in bomb shelters thanks
+	to the Centauri bombardment.
+
+   
    • @@@887272469 Brown sector is considered an undesirable assignment by
+	the maintenance crew; it's generally staffed by new people.
+
+   
    • @@@887306541 Before the Dilgar War, Franklin's father was captured by
+	one of the factions in a civil war after his ship crashed.  Though
+	injured, he survived because a military doctor treated him despite the
+	protestations of the other members of the faction.  When Franklin saw
+	his father alive and learned what had happened, he decided he wanted
+	to become a doctor and that he would always care for all the injured,
+	whether they were his own people or the enemy.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@887271921 Who were the aliens?
+
+   
    • @@@887271921 What does the device Bo used on the floor do?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887272469 Byron's telepathic reach is long; he was able to send his
+	senses out into the space around the station, find a single Starfury
+	pilot, and transmit the pilot's experiences into the mind of a
+	non-telepath.  Assuming, of course, he wasn't inventing the scene
+	for Bo's benefit.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887394198 Before he projected the Starfury experience into Bo's
+	mind, Byron asked Bo whether the plight of the pilots really mattered
+	to him.  That's the same question Byron asked of Lyta before agreeing
+	to help Garibaldi.  What significance does the question have to Byron?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889495008 Telepaths seem to have a perspective on death that's quite
+	different from that of normals.  Lyta's story about being inside the
+	mind of a dying person
+	("The Paragon of Animals")
+	is one difference.  And now Byron has revealed that telepaths can read
+	telepathic imprints on inamimate objects someone has recently died near.
+	That ability was foreshadowed in
+	"Walkabout,"
+	in which the new Kosh was able to view an afterimage of his
+	predecessor's death.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887324144 The "crawlers" Mack found in the C&C console and
+	which were mentioned as being common in Brown Sector may be related
+	to the infestation in
+	"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari,"
+	which prompted new import regulations on food.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887394198 If Lochley was concerned enough about the safety of the
+	station to order Sheridan and Delenn to be ready to flee in lifepods,
+	why wasn't Draal's help enlisted in the station's defense?  Does she
+	know about Draal's promise to put the Great Machine at Sheridan's
+	disposal
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle?")
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@874172141 The script for this episode was written in one day.
+
+   
    • @@@887305792 The conversation between Mack and Bo about Ivanova's
+	departure was a reference to the controversy stirred up on the net
+	and elsewhere when
+	Claudia Christian's departure
+	from the show
+	was announced.
+
+   
    • @@@887739335 The price of spoo is highly volatile: near the beginning
+	of the episode, as Mack and Bo ate lunch, Mack claimed it cost 10
+	credits an ounce.  At the end of the episode, he said it cost 15.
+
+   
    • @@@887306068 The Narn day is 31 hours long.
+
+   
    • @@@887306541 Sheridan referred to Delenn's promise to see him again
+	"in the place where no shadows fall."  She spoke those words before
+	entering the Markab isolation area in
+	"Confessions and Lamentations."
+
+   
    • @@@890719511 The incident recalled by Mack and Bo, in which Sheridan
+	chased down someone who injured Delenn, was in
+	"Ceremonies of Light and Dark."
+
+   
    • @@@887306823 Byron seems to be a
+	"Hamlet"
+	fan; he quoted Hamlet's speech to Yorick's skull from
+	Act 5, Scene 1.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@871230814 Harlan is working on something now, and suggested
+	something that I then based an episode on, so we share story credit on
+	"A View from the Gallery."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887394198 One of the things I always do is look for ways to turn the
+	series format on its head, and show us our characters from other
+	perspectives, since perspective is so much at the heart of the show. 
+	Whether that's jumping forward in time, or an ISN documentary, or
+	seeing everything through the eyes of a third party (or two), it's
+	always a risk, because it's never what one expects to see, and a lot of
+	people like to see what they expect to see.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@893013143 Writing a script is invariably faster than fixing an
+	outside script.  I can write a script from zero in an average of 5-7
+	days.  On a few rare occasions it's gone longer, but when that happens,
+	I find I lose the white-heat of the story, and it wanders a bit.  In a
+	few cases I've written a script in a day or two (A View from the
+	Gallery all came out of my keyboard in one day, between about 4 p.m.
+	and 3 a.m.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657318 About the Ivanova-rumors scene
      
+	It was never meant as a shot at Claudia, but rather at the folks out
+	there whose only interest is in rumors, and starting trouble, and
+	feeding feuds.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657240 Did the actors who played Bo and Mack learn to mimic
+	you and Harlan Ellison?
      
+	No, they didn't.  What they did do...they got along famously,
+	the two actors, and they spent their off-hours rehearsing the scenes,
+	over and over, until they got it down to a patter, very natural.  They
+	loved the roles.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889481855 While there was a little of Harlan in Mack, there wasn't
+	intentionally any jms in Bo.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887477381 Lochley's hairstyle was really severe.  Did she pull
+	it back in a hurry?
      
+	Scoggins did exactly what you suggest, Diane.  She figured, "This isn't
+	about hair."  She was awakened, and had to get to C&C fast, she ain't
+	gonna do her hair, just ponytail it back.
+
+	
      
+	She didn't realize, in making that choice, that it would make her a)
+	look that severe in the uniform, since she was still getting used to it,
+	and b) give her the Ivanova "peanut-head" as she used to call it.  She
+	later realized this was a bit of an error, and has never done it since.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887305885 Why could Byron alone project to Bo's head, while
+	it took the whole group of telepaths to control the alien?
      
+	Because there's a substantial difference in will and intent in making a
+	person who's come to murder you turn around, and creating a momentary
+	illusion in someone's head.  It's the degree of effort involved.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887394198 Garibaldi's position is hardly covert if Lochley
+	chews him out in public.
      
+	No, there's nothing secret in Garibaldi being head of covert
+	intelligence, any more than it's secret who the head of the CIA is. 
+	There was no reason she couldn't say that in front of them, or anyone
+	else; it's common knowledge.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887823099 "Well, actually she still wouldn't discuss it in public."
+
+	
      
+	What public?
+
+	
      
+	These are two STATION PERSONNEL, who work for her, who are part
+	of the military command structure, who have the same loyalty oaths as
+	she has.  They didn't have this conversation in the Zocalo, in front of
+	civilians, it was in a closed area with two other STATION PERSONNEL,
+	who are entrusted with a high enough security clearance that they can
+	work on C&C firing consoles during heavy action, in a situation where
+	every second counts in getting things ready for the next wing of an
+	imminent attack.
+
+	
      
+	This is a non-starter issue, frankly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887477381 Where are the portholes visible from outside the
+	station?
      
+	Look carefully at the station.  It is in segments; and at the outer wall
+	of each of those segments, as with the sanctuary, you can get an outer
+	view.  You can see the lights from some of these areas that have
+	portholes in the station when it's dark.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887657240 Why wasn't Draal called?
      
+	I don't think Draal wants to be bothered each and every time B5
+	is in a hassle.  He specifically said he wanted to be left alone. 
+	Otherwise you also get into a "god in the box" deus ex machina
+	situation where, "Oh, we're in trouble, quick, get Draal."  Truth is,
+	if they called him every time they got in trouble, he'd never get ANY
+	sleep.
+
+	
      
+	Now, if B5 had failed in stopping this advance force, and the
+	main fleet came in, then yeah, they might very well call him.  But this
+	was just an advance force, and she knew they could take it, and she was
+	right...so where's the need for Draal?  He should be a last resort
+	ONLY.
+
      
+   
    • @@@887963699 But wouldn't she want to minimize casualties?
      
+	True, but is it *her* resource to do with any time she wants? 
+	It is a separate institution and operation, that has said, politely and
+	not terribly politely, that on balance it would prefer to be left
+	alone.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887823099 "Hmmm, wouldn't Draal likely be aware of what was
+	happening so close anyway? And would it not be possible that he may also
+	be aware of how strong the force was, how soon the white stars would
+	arrive, etc, and thus know if he was needed as a last resort?"
+
+	
      
+	You're not describing Draal, you're describing God, and he ain't
+	in this show.  For one thing, we couldn't afford him....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887903603 "The "let them attack someone else, just not us" was
+	actually a little startling to me. If they were going to blow these guys
+	up, I kinda wished they'd put a little more effort into it rather than
+	just foisting them off onto the next, perhaps less-fortunate people."
+
+	
      
+	Given that this is a little-known, distant, entire *race* out
+	preying on weaker races, of which this was just an expeditionary force,
+	how (short of planetary genocide) would you have stopped them? 
+	Moreover, is that really Lochley's (or B5's) mandate, to eliminate
+	every hostile race out there?
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Two Minbari Rangers-in-training come to the station and learn a difficult
+lesson.  A new underworld boss tries to take control of DownBelow.
+
+
+Nathan Anderson as Rastenn.
+Turhan Bey as Turval.
+Brendan Ford as Tannier.
+Trevor Goddard as Trace.
+Brian McDermott as Durhan.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.65
+
+Production number: 506
+Original air date: February 18, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@888197814 Lochley wasn't on Sheridan's side in the civil war,
+	though she may not have been on Clark's side either.  She
+	feels her role as a soldier is to follow orders until she's given a
+	specific order she finds immoral.  As a soldier, she says, the most
+	important words in her vocabulary are loyalty, duty, and honor,
+	and turning against the chain of command would mean sacrificing one
+	of the three, rendering the other two meaningless.
+
+   
    • @@@887871957 Sheridan and Lochley appear to have had a relationship of
+	some sort in the past.
+
+   
    • @@@887871957 Several races are now represented in the ranks of Ranger
+	trainees, including the Pak'ma'ra, who will specialize as couriers
+	and infiltrators since they're so unpleasant to most other races
+	that everyone goes to great lengths to ignore them.
+
+   
    • @@@887871957 The two telepaths supplied by Byron to Garibaldi
+	("The Paragon of Animals")
+	have begun their training.
+
+   
    • @@@888197896 Lennier, according to one of his instructors, is pushing
+	himself too hard in his Ranger training, most likely in an attempt to
+	impress Delenn.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@887927755 Did Lochley disobey any of Clark's orders during the
+	war, as Garibaldi tried to discover?
+
+   
    • @@@887871157 What history do Sheridan and Lochley share?
+
+   
    • @@@888197814 Lochley said Garibaldi was the second man she'd met who
+	was as stubborn as she was; who was the first?  Sheridan?
+
+   
    • @@@888197896 Did Garibaldi read Lochley's file after Zack left?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@887871957 One aspect of Ranger training is Mora'Dum, the application
+	of terror.  Marcus referred to that aspect during his conversation
+	with Franklin in
+	"A Late Delivery from Avalon."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887927344 The friction between the Minbari castes hasn't gone away
+	completely, but does seem to have been reduced to the level of
+	conversational sarcasm, at least within the ranks of the Rangers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887927344 Durhan has been mentioned once before, during the
+	fight between Marcus and Neroon in
+	"Grey 17 is Missing."
+	Marcus was given personal training in pike combat by Durhan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888481178 Turval's philosophy about meaningful deaths isn't shared
+	by Delenn: in
+	"The Paragon of Animals,"
+	she told Franklin that the Ranger's death would be meaningless if he
+	took his information to the grave with him.  Turval wouldn't consider
+	it meaningless, since the Ranger was pursuing a noble cause when he
+	died.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887927543 This episode marks the second time Lochley has been
+	overruled on something she considered a station matter (the first was
+	Sheridan's decision to allow the telepath colony in
+	"No Compromises.")
+	Given her insistence to Sheridan that she be allowed the authority to
+	run the station her way, this incident probably isn't sitting well with
+	her.  At what point will she decide she's had enough and begin to
+	confront Sheridan on the subject?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888197814 It's not clear whether Lochley actually fought for
+	Clark or not.  By her own admission she didn't support the rebellion,
+	but as she pointed out to Garibaldi, not every conflict has only
+	two sides.  Her comment about making a decision that affects only
+	oneself suggests she might have deserted or otherwise refused to
+	cooperate.  Perhaps she was even punished for it.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@887871957 The station's underworld has had a hole in its power
+	structure since the departure of n'grath
+	("Soul Hunter,"
+	among other episodes.)  It wasn't explicitly stated, but the implication
+	was that n'grath was assassinated.
+
+   
    • @@@887871957 Turhan Bey played the Centauri Emperor in
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+   
    • @@@889480981 A conceptual error on Trace's part: Trace's right-hand man
+	told him that "everybody in security went up two levels or down one."
+	Moments later, Trace posited that whatever was going on was "just
+	these three levels."  But if security went up two levels or down one,
+	it'd only leave two levels empty: if, for illustration's sake, Trace
+	were on level 5, the security people would have gone down to level 6 or
+	up to level 3, leaving levels 4 and 5.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@888197289 Lochley would never get away with chewing out a
+	superior like she did Garibaldi.
      
+	That might apply in a straight hierarchical organization, but
+	Garibaldi is not her superior; they are on parallel lines of command,
+	not vertical, he doesn't answer to her, she doesn't answer to him.  She
+	has total and complete authority over the station and is answerable
+	only to Earthdome and, in political matters, to Sheridan.
+
+	
      
+	You may not think this sort of thing happens, but it does, and
+	it would. You're talking to the only producer to go out and berate
+	Angela Lansbury's son who was then directing an episode of Murder, She
+	Wrote, in front of his whole crew, and still remain employed afterward.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Bester arrives to try to retrieve the refugee telepaths.  Garibaldi confronts
+Lochley.  Delenn chooses a bodyguard for Londo.
+
+
+Robin Atkin Downes as 
+Byron.
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.84
+
+Production number: 507
+Original air date: February 25, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John C. Flinn III
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Lochley and Sheridan were married for a brief time many
+	years ago.  The relationship ended quickly because both of them wanted
+	to be in control all the time.  But it's thanks to their time together
+	that Sheridan knows he can trust her even though she was on the other
+	side in the civil war.
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Lochley was stationed on an outpost on which a rogue
+	telepath murdered two crewmen.  Bester and his people arrived and
+	tracked down the rogue, saving the lives of additional people under
+	Lochley's command.
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Many of Byron's people have been the subjects of Psi Corps
+	medical experiments, and don't trust doctors.
+
+   
    • @@@888481016 Lyta appears to have genuinely joined Byron's cause.  The
+	two of them appear to be developing either a close friendship or
+	romantic attraction.
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 G'Kar is now working as Londo's bodyguard.  He accepted
+	the assignment largely to see the looks on the faces of the Centauri
+	royal court when a Narn is present at important state functions and
+	the like.
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Londo is the second Mollari to become Emperor.  Londo
+	says his ancestor's life ended badly.
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 The Centauri Regent's health is failing; Londo will soon
+	spend much of his time shuttling back and forth between B5 and Centauri
+	Prime.
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Franklin has been given a new assignment, to thoroughly
+	catalog any diseases of various races which might be able to cross
+	species.  His new duties will take him away from Babylon 5 to visit
+	the homeworlds of Alliance member races.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Who tried to assassinate Londo?
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Do the Regent's health problems have anything to do
+	with the Keeper on his neck
+	("Epiphanies?")
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Is there actually a quarantine regulation as Lochley
+	claimed?  If not, how did she get her lie past Bester?  If so, did
+	Franklin invent it on her behalf, implying that he has the authority to
+	issue medical regulations on his own?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Lyta's power has limits, though even she doesn't know
+	exactly what they are.  Could she have held off all of
+	Bester's men?  Is she telekinetic, or was she simply activating
+	nerve endings as Bester speculated?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889635224 What's the significance of Lyta removing her Psi Corps
+	badge as she joined Byron's song?  Is she officially resigning her
+	fake Corps membership
+	("Moments of Transition?")
+	If so, does that mean that the entire contract with Bester is canceled,
+	or just that she's giving up the benefits of supposed Corps membership?
+	Will she be considered a rogue when Bester returns in sixty days?  Or
+	did she just remove it to be polite and avoid offending the others?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890010985 Lyta has all the makings of a cult member:
+	she feels abandoned by the world, she appears to have a need to follow
+	someone (be it Kosh or Sheridan or Byron,) and she's used to complying
+	with others' demands without question (as Byron pointed out in
+	"The Paragon of Animals.")
+	Byron's group appears very much like a cult: a small group of
+	people who feel they're different than everyone else (in this
+	case, of course, they are) and a charismatic leader who's
+	willing to sacrifice himself for his cause and to give personal
+	attention to each of his people.  He's even holding out the hope
+	of a promised land in the form of B5 (and eventually a homeworld.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888480810 Byron's people have a sixty-day reprieve, at least until
+	Bester either decides Lochley was lying or that he's waited long
+	enough.  If Byron's people aren't allowed to leave the station
+	before then, what will they do when the sixty days are up?  That
+	deadline may be what sparks the hostage situation shown in
+	"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars,"
+	if indeed Byron's people (or some non-pacifist faction of his
+	group) were the ones holding Garibaldi hostage.
+
+	
      
+	Zack described Byron as a martyr.  If that's literally true -- if he
+	is indeed fated to die for his cause (and he does appear to be willing
+	to do so) -- then his death might also incite his followers to
+	violence.  Of course, his death and the expiration of the sixty-day
+	grace period aren't necessarily separate events; Bester's people
+	are willing to injure him at the very least.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888480810 What medical experiments did Byron's people undergo?  Lyta
+	said many of them don't trust doctors as a result, but as telepaths
+	who don't block out normals' thoughts, wouldn't they be able to
+	sense Franklin's good intentions?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889502663 What did Bester mean when he commented that Byron knew
+	all about turning against someone?  What history do Bester and
+	Byron share?  Perhaps Byron was once a Psi Cop, which would be
+	consistent with the level of psi ability he's displayed in the
+	past (appearing in front of Lochley in
+	"No Compromises,"
+	putting Bo in the Starfury pilot's mind in
+	"A View from the Gallery.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888522924 Psi Corps' hold on the colonist telepaths, according to
+	Lochley, is due to their status as Earth Alliance citizens.  Can they
+	switch citizenships?  Does Mars fall under Corps jurisdiction, for
+	example?  If not, there must be other races willing to grant
+	citizenship to telepaths, either for free or for the right price.
+	The Narn, for instance, would probably welcome them with open arms.
+	Presumably Sheridan, in his position as President, could ask one of
+	the Alliance member races to take the telepaths in as asylum-seekers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888507739 Now that G'Kar is Londo's bodyguard, who will represent
+	the Narn on the Alliance advisory council?  Does G'Kar retain his
+	position as ambassador?  If not, isn't appointment as Londo's
+	bodyguard a rather substantial demotion?
+	
+	
      
+	For that matter, who will
+	represent the Centauri while Londo is away and after he's crowned?
+	Vir?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890011912 Franklin has experience with at least one cross-species
+	disease: the Drafa plague that wiped out the Markab
+	("Confessions and Lamentations")
+	crossed over to the Pak'ma'ra.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890012383 How have Lochley and Sheridan kept their past marriage
+	a secret?  Are marriage records not public information?  It seems
+	odd that, for example, ISN wouldn't have turned up anything in even
+	a cursory investigation of Lochley's background (they would presumably
+	have reported on her appointment, given B5's high profile.)  Maybe
+	divorce under Earth Alliance law can result in all official records of
+	the marriage being erased -- which would still leave unofficial ones,
+	of course.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890012169 As Lochley mentioned to Garibaldi, Sheridan has had three
+	wives (Londo is still one up on him.)  Sheridan's wives mirror the
+	Minbari caste system: Lochley was a warrior, Anna a worker, and
+	Delenn a religious caste member.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Corwin reported Ms. Connoly's estimate for clearing the
+	cargo backlog.  Connoly appeared in
+	"By Any Means Necessary"
+	and is the head of the dockworkers' guild on the station.
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 Lochley has a phoenix on her flight helmet.
+
+   
    • @@@888480810 The Descartes joke Bester was telling Lochley is an old
+	one, a play on "I think, therefore I am" -- I think not, therefore
+	I'm not.  The joke was told by Neal Barrett, Jr. when he was toastmaster
+	at the 1997 Hugo Awards Ceremony, at which JMS received a Hugo award for
+	"Severed Dreams."
+	(It predates that ceremony, though.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@884632658 The astute will notice a slight change in the main
+	title music starting with 507.  I was down sick when they had to do the
+	main title mix, and couldn't get into it.  When we had to modify some
+	voice stuff for 507, I went in and pulled out all the music stems and
+	rebalanced stuff to bring out the themes more, which kind of got buried
+	a little in places.  All the same individual pieces are there, but in
+	different perspectives.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@888605187 Was the song at the end a traditional tune?
      
+	No, I came up with that song for the episode, and designed it to sound
+	like any of a zillion other such songs out there, so it'd sound
+	familiar.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Franklin discovers one race's centuries-old secret.  Byron and Lyta reach
+an understanding.
+
+
+Robin Atkin Downes as Byron.
+Fiona Dwyer as Kirrin.
+Jana Robbins as Ambassador Tal.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.62
+
+Production number: 508
+Original air date: March 4, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@889084941 The Hyach are a gerontocracy, with the oldest members of
+	society ruling the younger.
+
+   
    • @@@889084941 The Hyach were one of two related races on their world.
+	The other race, the Hyach-doh, was systematically slaughtered by the
+	Hyach hundreds of years ago.  Unfortunately, the Hyach are now slowly
+	dying out because they had evolved to require interbreeding with the
+	Hyach-doh.
+
+   
    • @@@889085052 Some of the League worlds, such as the Drazi, have had
+	interstellar travel for hundreds of years.
+
+   
    • @@@889084941 Byron has discovered the Vorlons' role in the creation of
+	telepaths, and intends to use it to justify demanding reparations from
+	the Alliance in the form of a homeworld for his people.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@889119663 What does Byron intend to do to force the Alliance to
+	give his people a world?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@889084941 The Centauri also shared their world with another
+	intelligent race, the Xon
+	("The Parliament of Dreams.")
+	Were the Xon a related species as well?  How common is that arrangement?
+	Will the Centauri have problems similar to the Hyach's because of the
+	extermination of the Xon?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889119412 Byron said he didn't know who had taken
+	revenge for the attack.  That's odd, considering that he has previously
+	said, in
+	"The Paragon of Animals,"
+	that his people don't hide their thoughts from one another.
+	Perhaps Lyta was the murderer; she's the one person who has been
+	consistently shielding herself from him, and she certainly didn't seem
+	to share his nonviolent philosophy.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889119412 How widespread among the refugee telepaths was the
+	desire to retaliate violently? Byron said not all of his people were in
+	favor of the idea.  Are the majority of the refugees dedicated to
+	nonviolence?  If not, would his presence have prevented the attacks?
+	His strong sense of self-importance lead him to believe he could have
+	stopped the murder, but that's not necessarily true -- it might have
+	happened over his objections had he been there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890011541 Given the Psi Corps' intense interest in telekinetics
+	("Mind War")
+	they're not likely to take kindly to the news that Byron is harboring
+	at least one teek.  And it appeared that Byron had given Peter some
+	kind of telekinetic training (Peter said he'd been practicing just like
+	Byron told him to) which suggests more than a passing familiarity with
+	telekinesis on Byron's part.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890011541 Lyta followed Byron into the arrivals area in much the
+	same way she used to follow Kosh (especially the second Kosh, e.g. in
+	"The Hour of the Wolf,")
+	hanging back slightly but staying close.  Has she simply replaced one
+	master with another?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889118512 The Vorlons wore encounter suits even on their own world,
+	if Lyta's memory is to be taken literally.  That may not be too
+	surprising, though, if they didn't allow the people in the tubes to
+	see their true forms; Kosh admitted in
+	"Matters of Honor"
+	that being seen by lots of people was a strain on him.  Donning
+	encounter suits might have been an effort-saving move by the Vorlons
+	reflected in Lyta's tube.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889084941 The races in the tubes next to Lyta appeared to be
+	Hyach (or possibly Markab,) Centauri, and Llort.  Why did the Vorlons
+	have babies of those races, if they had already planted telepath genes
+	among those races long ago?  Were they performing other experiments or
+	making other modifications?
+
+	
      
+	It's also possible her memory was less literal than that; maybe it
+	was more a more representational image conveyed to her by the Vorlons,
+	Lyta's presence representing the Vorlons'
+	tampering with humans and the babies similarly representing that
+	their races had been altered.  If so, the Vorlons have altered quite a
+	lot of races.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890011541 If the Vorlons visited the Hyach homeworld, perhaps they
+	took Hyach-doh specimens.  If so, the salvation of the Hyach race
+	may hinge on venturing into Vorlon space and finding the lab Lyta
+	remembers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889479720 Where can Byron's people go?  There are at least two
+	deserted homeworlds available.  In
+	"Confessions and Lamentations"
+	the Markab race died out; Sheridan might consider it within the
+	rights of the Interstellar Alliance to grant that world to Byron's
+	people.  It presumably still has modern infrastructure in place;
+	Sheridan blew up its jumpgate in
+	"Matters of Honor,"
+	soon enough after the plague that there wouldn't have been time for
+	looters to clean the planet out very thoroughly, so it'd be a good
+	deal from Byron's point of view.  Populating the
+	planet with telepaths might dissuade any additional raids.
+
+	
      
+	Another possibility is the Vorlon homeworld.  In some ways Byron's
+	people are the perfect ones to inhabit it; if Byron is to demand
+	reparation for the Vorlons' manipulation of his people, offering up
+	their homeworld does have a certain symmetry.  In addition, it'd be
+	the best possible place for his people to explore exactly what was
+	done to them and how.  That's assuming, of course, that anyone knows
+	where it is, and that it hasn't been booby-trapped like Z'ha'dum was
+	("Epiphanies.")
+
+	
      @@@889635437 
+	One snag might prevent Sheridan from acting to grant Byron's people
+	any world at all: Lochley's promise to Bester to not allow the
+	telepaths to leave Babylon 5 for sixty days
+	("Strange Relations.")
+	If he tried to allow them to leave the station, he could justifiably
+	be accused of interfering with Earth's internal laws, the very reason
+	he wasn't able to prevent Bester from coming aboard to begin with.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@889084941 Pak'ma'ra can't eat fish.
+
+   
    • @@@889084941 When Byron is released from the
+	brig, he talks to Zack for a few minutes, his hands bound.  Then
+	he walks out of the room with the restraints still tied around his
+	wrists.  The same thing happened after he talked to Lochley in
+	"Strange Relations."
+	Is that symbolic, or simply a sign that restraints are removed in
+	some outer area rather than in the brig?
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889196493 Any special procedures for the scene between Lyta
+	and Byron?
      
+	I talked to both actors involved, made sure they were okay with it, and
+	then scripted it out in very detailed form, and shot with a closed set,
+	just necessary crew, nobody else.  
+
+	
      
+	(Funny item: in the script, I'm right in the middle of describing the
+	sex scene, and in the narrative description, I write, without even
+	thinking about it, "I wonder which is more embarrassing, reading this or
+	writing it?"  It goes out that way.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889474297 Wasn't that considered a personal thing by Byron
+	and Lyta?  The other telepaths seemed to be sharing the
+	experience.
      
+	I had the group there to further reinforce their tightness, and
+	that it's a different way of living...as for Pat, no, no body double
+	was used.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889474297 Who was broadcasting Lyta's memories to the other
+	teeps?  Lyta or Byron?
      
+	It was everything being stimulated, and coming to the surface,
+	mainly from her, but echoing off him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889116249 Yes, Neil's episode is up next...and as for the Xon, the
+	difference is that the Centauri main-line clashed with the Xon when
+	both were primitive and fighting for food, resources, that sort of
+	thing, similar to our Neanderthal - Cro Magnon struggle, whereas the
+	Hyach did it when they were more advanced, and it wasn't a struggle,
+	more of a program of extermination.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889474297 BTW, the pak'ma'ra used a translator
+	before in "Legacies."
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Some of the crew are caught with the Brakiri as they celebrate their "Day of
+the Dead," a remembrance of the recently deceased.  A pair of famous
+entertainers visits the station.
+
+
+Harlan Ellison as the voice of Zooty.
+Bridget Flanery as Zoe.
+Penn and Teller as Rebo and Zooty.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.44
+
+Production number: 511
+Original air date: March 11, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by Neil Gaiman
+Directed by Doug Lefler
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@889724959 Once every 200 years, a comet approaches the Brakiri
+	homeworld and signals the Day of the Dead, in which, for one night,
+	people can interact with those who've died.
+
+   
    • @@@889724959 In their youth, Lochley and her friend Zoe spent much of
+	their time on drugs and lived in squalid conditions.  Lochley's
+	father, an EarthForce marine, had no idea where she was.  Zoe eventually
+	committed suicide, something which has haunted Lochley her entire
+	life.  After the suicide, Lochley's father located her, and shortly
+	thereafter, putting her old life behind her, Lochley enrolled in the
+	military.
+
+   
    • @@@889724959 Kosh has sent a message to Sheridan via one of the
+	visiting deceased: "When the long night comes, return to the end of
+	the beginning."
+
+   
    • @@@889724959 According to Morden, Lennier is fated to betray the
+	Rangers.  Morden also hinted that Lennier would die soon.
+
+   
    • @@@889724959 Rebo and Zooty have starred in a variety of shows and
+	movies.  Zooty speaks via a small handheld device, and both of them
+	have studied Minbari, Narn, and other forms of humor.  Minbari humor,
+	Rebo says, is based on failure to attain spiritual enlightenment,
+	though puns seem to be effective in Minbari humor as well.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@889724959 What does Kosh's message mean?  Any relation
+	to the episode
+	"The Long Night?"
+
+   
    • @@@889724959 Was Morden's prediction about Lennier correct?  If so,
+	how and why will Lennier betray the Rangers?
+
+   
    • @@@889998781 What is Zooty's machine?  What does it tell him to do?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 There are two possible explanations for the visitations.
+	First, one of Lochley's suspicions may have been correct, that the
+	whole affair was an illusion or a trick of some kind.  A sufficiently
+	powerful telepath might have pulled memories of Dodger, Adira, Zoe,
+	and Morden from the people in the Brakiri section.  The memories of
+	Morden would more likely have come from Londo than from Lennier, of
+	course.  Zoe's message from Kosh could have been based on Lennier's
+	memories; Lennier almost certainly knew about the close relationship
+	between Kosh and Sheridan.
+
+	
      
+	The other possibility, of course, is that what appeared to happen
+	really did happen: the dead returned.
+
+	
      
+	If the Day of the Dead can be taken at face value, then given
+	Lyta's description of being inside someone's mind at the time of death
+	("The Paragon of Animals")
+	and Byron's description of the echoes of a sentient mind persisting in
+	nearby objects after death
+	("A View from the Gallery")
+	it seems that there's more going on with death in the B5 universe
+	than meets the eye.
+
+	
      
+	It's possible that the echoes mentioned by Byron never actually go away,
+	and that a powerful enough telepath can pick them up long after the
+	fact.  In that case, the Day of the Dead may be the result of group
+	telepathy on the part of the Brakiri (several telepaths joining
+	together can produce greatly amplified powers, e.g. in
+	"A Race Through Dark Places.")
+
+	
      
+	Clues to another possibility are found in the Soul Hunters' practice
+	of capturing the souls of the dying
+	("Soul Hunter.")
+	Perhaps the Soul Hunters aren't the only ones doing so -- and whoever
+	else is involved does it on a much larger scale and in such a way
+	that they aren't noticed.  In that case, the tunnel of light Lyta saw in
+	"The Paragon of Animals"
+	might simply be a representation of the dying person's mind being
+	extracted for storage.  And her belief that the living aren't supposed
+	to know what's on the other side of that tunnel would be consistent
+	with a clandestine Soul Hunter-esque group that wanted its presence to
+	remain unknown.  If that's what's happening, a natural question is,
+	why?  And why would that group allow some minds to escape on a day of
+	significance only to the Brakiri?  Perhaps the Brakiri are involved with
+	the group somehow.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 All the people who returned suffered untimely
+	or violent deaths: Morden was decapitated on Londo's orders
+	("Into the Fire,")
+	Adira was poisoned
+	("Interludes and Examinations,")
+	Zoe committed suicide, and Dodger was killed in combat
+	("GROPOS.")
+	Is that significant, or is it simply that people who die in such a
+	manner are more likely to have unfinished business with the living?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 Lochley's escape from the squalid lifestyle she described
+	was a sort of rebirth.  Perhaps that's why she has a phoenix on her
+	flight helmet
+	("Strange Relations.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 Judging by Garibaldi's interaction with Dodger, he and
+	Lise are still together.  Is she still on Mars?  In the past, she
+	wasn't willing to tolerate Garibaldi going off to live on Babylon
+	5 while she stayed on Mars
+	("Babylon Squared.")
+	Has her attitude changed now, or is she expecting him to return
+	in the near future?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890001887 Dodger mentioned "technomancy" as a possible explanation
+	for her appearance.  A reference, most likely to the technomages
+	("The Geometry of Shadows.")
+	How widely-known is the existence of the technomages?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 Lennier told Morden that Sheridan hadn't died on Z'ha'dum.
+	Did he simply mean that Sheridan didn't die permanently, or does
+	he not believe Sheridan died at all?  Given Lennier's jealous
+	feelings toward Sheridan (manifested, for instance, by referring
+	to him as "your partner" to Delenn rather than by name) it's possible
+	he's not inclined to believe in any of the larger-than-life stories
+	concerning Sheridan.
+
+	
      
+	Also of note is Morden's surprise that Sheridan wasn't back for the
+	Day of the Dead.  Is that a sign that Morden, or what's left of him,
+	doesn't know that Sheridan survived?  That's unlikely, given that
+	Morden himself survived long enough to hear about Sheridan's return
+	to Babylon 5
+	("The Summoning.")
+	Or does Morden know something Sheridan doesn't about the nature of
+	Sheridan's second lease on life?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890001887 Morden said to Lennier, "And you want wisdom?"  Lennier
+	replied yes.  That marks the first time he's been able to find out what
+	a Minbari wants (he failed to get an answer to that question from
+	Delenn in
+	"Signs and Portents.")
+	Telling Morden what one wants, and getting it, has usually had
+	disastrous consequences in the past.
+	Is Lennier's willingness to answer the question further
+	foreshadowing of his alleged betrayal of the Rangers?  Will his
+	betrayal hinge on acquiring some sort of wisdom?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890005628 Morden told Lennier, "One does not go to the dead for
+	wisdom."  That's not an opinion shared by the Brakiri, though: the
+	greeting for the holiday, judging by the conversation between the
+	merchant and Londo, is, "May the Comet bring you wisdom."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890001887 Morden told Lennier that the other end of the corridor
+	was over 200 million light-years away, while Lochley said to Sheridan
+	that she was 27 light-years away.  Who was right?  If Morden was
+	right, where was the Brakiri section really taken?  200 million
+	light-years is a distance on an intergalactic scale.  The fact that
+	Lochley was able to contact Sheridan in real time suggests that Morden
+	was exaggerating the distance.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 As is often the case with his pronouncements, Kosh's
+	message can be taken several ways.  "The long night" may refer to
+	Sheridan's death in 19 years.  "The end of the beginning" is more
+	ambiguous.  Does it refer to the end of Sheridan's original life?
+	If so, it might mean Sheridan should return to Z'ha'dum (odd, since
+	Z'ha'dum was destroyed in
+	"Epiphanies")
+	or perhaps that he should seek out Lorien.  It's even possible Kosh
+	was referring to Coriana 6, where, as Sheridan said, the second age
+	of mankind ended; what good it would do Sheridan to return there
+	isn't clear.
+
+	
      
+	It might also refer to the end of Babylon 5, which was the site of
+	the beginning of the Interstellar Alliance.  If Sheridan is to take
+	up residence on Minbar as planned
+	("No Compromises")
+	but returns to Babylon 5 at the end of his life in 2282, also the
+	year of the station's destruction
+	("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars")
+	that might account for the ambiguity surrounding his place of death
+	("Deconstruction.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889724959 Morden likes coffee.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 Brakiri are nocturnal.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 Garibaldi sleeps with a gun under his pillow.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889727611 Morden's head is still on the pike outside the
+	Centauri Imperial Palace
+	("Into the Fire.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 Universe Today front-page headlines:
+	
        
+	   
      •  Meet Rebo & Zooty Up Close and Personal
+	   
      •  Babylon 5 will air Rebo & Zooty Movie Marathon
+	   
      •  Rebo and Zooty Arrive
+	   
      •  Interstellar Alliance Talks to Resume
+	   
      •  Londo Mollari to Become Centauri Emperor (this news story was
+		briefly referred to by the Brakiri merchant Londo talked to:
+		"You are Centauri emperor-to-be.  Universe Today.")
+	   
      •  Reclamation of San Diego Wasteland gets Underway (the
+		nuking of San Diego was mentioned in
+		"Midnight on the Firing Line,"
+		and the wasteland was shown in
+		"Spider in the Web.")
+	
      
+
+	Back page headlines:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  Stocks: How your credit Rates
+	   
      •  Narn Consulate Opens on Mars amid Controversy
+	   
      •  Earth Senate Votes More Money for Titan Terraforming
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 The poem Dodger recited was actually "A Few Figs from
+	Thistles" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, not an Emily Dickinson poem.
+	Garibaldi's attempt was by Dickinson, however, a poem titled "Because
+	I could not stop for Death."
+
+	
      
+	Because I could not stop for Death--
      
+	He kindly stopped for me--
      
+	The Carriage held but just Ourselves--
      
+	And Immortality. 
+
+	
      
+	We slowly drove--He knew no haste
      
+	And I had put away
      
+	My labor and my leisure too,
      
+	For His Civility--
+
+	
      
+	We passed the School, where Children strove
      
+	At Recess--in the Ring--
      
+	We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain--
      
+	We passed the Setting Sun--
+
+	
      
+	He passed Us--
      
+	The Dews drew quivering and chill--
      
+	For only Gossamer, my Gown--
      
+	My Tippet--only Tulle--Or rather--
+
+	
      
+	We paused before a House that seemed
      
+	A Swelling of the Ground-- 
      
+	The Roof was scarcely visible-- 
      
+	The Cornice--in the Ground-- 
+
+	
      
+	Since then--'tis Centuries--and yet
      
+	Feels shorter than the Day 
      
+	I first surmised the Horses' Heads 
      
+	Were toward Eternity--
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890334816 Dodger's parting line, "Parting is all we know of heaven,
+	and all we need of hell," is from another Emily Dickinson poem,
+	"#1732," published in 1896:
+
+	
      
+	My life closed twice before its close -
      
+	It yet remains to see
      
+	If Immortality unveil
      
+	A third event to me
+
+	
      
+	So huge, so hopless to conceive
      
+	As these that twice befell.
      
+	Parting is all we know of heaven,
      
+	And all we need of hell.
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890346793 Rebo's line upon arriving in customs, "I have nothing to
+	declare except my genius," is a quote from Victor Hugo (later quoted
+	by Oscar Wilde among others.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898570635 Morden's comment that he could see the future, but not the
+	past, may be a reference to Dante's "Inferno."  In Canto X, Farinata
+	degli Uberti, a heretic, prophesizes Dante's banishment from Florence.
+	When Farinata is asked how the dead can know the future, but not the
+	present, he replies that according to the Divine Plan, the damned can
+	see far into the future, but nothing of what is present or what has
+	happened.  After Judgement, when there is no longer any future,
+	the intellects of the damned will be void.
+
+	
      
+	"Ah, so may your soul sometime have rest,"
      
+	I [Dante] begged him [Farinata], "solve the riddle that pursues me
      
+	through this dark place and leaves my mind perplexed:
+
+	
      
+	you seem to see in advance all time's intent,
      
+	if I have heard and understood correctly;
      
+	but you seem to lack all knowledge of the present."
+
+	
      
+	"We see asquint, like those whose twisted sight
      
+	can make out only the far-off," he said,
      
+	"for all the King of All still grants us that much light.
+
+	
      
+	When things draw near, or happen, we perceive
      
+	nothing of them.  Except what others bring us
      
+	we have no news of those who are alive.
+
+	
      
+	So may you understand that all we know
      
+	will be dead forever from that day and hour
      
+	when the portal of the Future is swung to."
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889727611 Dodger was a visiting ground-pounder in
+	"GROPOS;"
+	she died in battle.  Adira met Londo in
+	"Born to the Purple"
+	and was killed in
+	"Interludes and Examinations."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889727228 The comet as a symbol of death among the Brakiri was
+	first mentioned in
+	"A Day in the Strife,"
+	which, by coincidence, aired in reruns on TNT the same day this episode
+	premiered.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877307266 Rebo and Zooty were previously mentioned in
+	"Rumors, Bargains and Lies"
+	and
+	"Rising Star."
+	In the former episode Londo complained that he didn't find them funny,
+	an opinion he no longer holds.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889727611 Another coincidence: On the day the episode premiered,
+	news organizations reported that an asteroid was expected to make a
+	close pass by Earth in 2028.  The Brakiri comet's close approach,
+	of course, is what signals the start of the Day of the Dead.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889724959 The Day of the Dead has an Earthly equivalent; there's a
+	Mexican holiday
+	of the same name on November 2 (it's celebrated elsewhere in Latin
+	America too.)  It's based partially on the Roman Catholic day of
+	remembrance for the deceased, All Souls Day.
+	Candy skulls are a common feature of Mexican Day of the
+	Dead celebrations.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 One of Rebo and Zooty's movies was called "Sons of the New
+	Desert."  That's a reference to a 1933 Laurel and Hardy film,
+	"Sons of
+	the Desert."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890717909 "Zoe" means "life" in Greek.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890000343 This episode was the first one not written by JMS since
+	"Knives"
+	in season two.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877307266 According to Neil Gaiman on
+	The Dreaming,
+	"It's a ghost story about religion, or a drama about comedy and the
+	nature of metaphor, or something like that."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@879115474 Production start date: November 13, 1997.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 Harlan Ellison, who played the voice of Zooty's machine,
+	played another machine voice previously: Sparky the computer
+	("Ceremonies of Light and Dark.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889474479 This episode was originally supposed to be three slots
+	later in the airing sequence, but was pulled back due to the spring
+	hiatus on TNT (see
+	JMS Speaks.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909426451 TNT used the intended the airing sequence when the
+	episode was rebroadcast, putting it between
+	"Phoenix Rising"
+	and
+	"The Ragged Edge,"
+	but that causes a continuity problem: Londo and G'Kar are featured in
+	this episode, and neither of them is on the station between
+	"Phoenix Rising"
+	and
+	"The Ragged Edge."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889998781 Continuity glitch, possibly due to the aforementioned
+	schedule shuffling: at the end of
+	"Strange Relations,"
+	Londo and G'Kar left for the Centauri homeworld, yet they were on
+	the station again in this episode.  Not necessarily a glitch, since
+	they could have been to Centauri Prime and back again, but that
+	wasn't mentioned.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896989466 Londo's comment, "If Vir can be emperor, an Earth cat
+	can be emperor," may be a reference to
+	"Chrysalis,"
+	in which Londo and Vir confused cats and ducks.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@879297730 About the casting of Rebo and Zooty
      
+	Their name came up in discussions, and they just seemed a
+	perfect match.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890000626 Neil wrote for R&Z, and we looked around for
+	casting...it occured to someone -- may have been me, maybe casting, I
+	don't remember -- that it might be better to use a real comedy team
+	than create one. B5 called P&T, and they said yes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@879357255 Do both characters have lines?
+
+	
      
+	Yes and no.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890333127 "Was it always part of the script for Zooty to speak
+	through a machine, or was that something added so that Teller won't
+	have to speak on camera?"
+
+	
      
+	The latter.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890000626 Was the audience's laughter genuine or just
+	acting?
      
+	Depending on which take was being shot...half and half.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@881861257 Why was this episode shot after
+	"Phoenix Rising,"
+	which was originally scheduled to air first?
      
+	We shot it out of story-sequence to give us more time to prep
+	512, which was a big episode.  So it'll actually be aired as 513.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@895440619 It was originally intended to be set after "Phoenix Rising."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889474479 We felt it wise to adjust the airing
+	order so we could ramp up the following episodes prior to the NBA delay
+	without having any interruption in the tone of the episodes (i.e., 2
+	tense, 1 funny, 2 tense vs 1 funny and 4 tense in a row).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889474479 We suggested moving up DotD because the NBA playoffs
+	will hit after #12, and better to have 3-4 intense episodes in a row,
+	culminating in 12, than to break up the middle, which would've been okay
+	as a respite if there wasn't going to be a break, but since there is a
+	break now, I want to slam the last few before it hits for more impact.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889815646 How much do you have to get involved in outside
+	scripts?
      
+	It varies, I get involved to different degrees with different
+	writers; with Neil, it was more "What do you want to write?"  He
+	noodled around with some ideas, ran one past me that he liked, and I
+	liked it...he asked for a truckload of scripts for reference, picked
+	the characters he wanted to use, researched them, we talked on the
+	phone and via email a number of times as he refined his ideas further,
+	then wrote the script.  I tucked and nipped a little here and there,
+	but pretty much left it alone.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889815646 Neil kept the humor sort of off-base...operating on the
+	assumption that there are some things that become au courant or funny
+	because of context: Steve Martin's "excuuuuse me," for instance.  Now,
+	it ain't funny, it's just annoying...at the time, EVERYbody was saying
+	it and laughing.  R&Z are similar cultural phenomena...their "with a
+	machine" catchphrase, for instance, which the crowd new and reacted to.
+	To us, and Lochely, it didn't mean anything. Lochley's reaction was
+	tailored to be EXACTLY the same as most women's (and some guy's)
+	reaction to the Three Stooges: either it's funny, or you can't figure
+	out why people are laughing.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890000626 Why didn't you have Marcus visit Lennier?
      
+	I didn't write it.  It's Neil's script.  The characters he chose are
+	the ones he wanted to play with.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912190517 How did Neil know what Kosh's message should
+	be?
      
+	Actually, in that scene, Neil didn't write Kosh's message.  He asked
+	what it would be, and I gave him that, knowing that I'd been looking
+	for a way to slip that in as early as season 4.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Byron's telepaths present the Interstellar Alliance with an ultimatum.
+Londo and his bodyguard visit Centauri Prime.
+
+
+Robin Atkin Downes as Byron.
+Damian London as Regent.
+Ian Ogilvy as Lord Jano.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.54
+
+Production number: 509
+Original air date: March 18, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@890331630 Someone is secretly using Centauri war cruisers to stage
+	random attacks on the cargo vessels of all the Alliance worlds.  The
+	Alliance is aware of the attacks, but doesn't yet know of the Centauri 
+	connection.
+
+   
    • @@@890331630 The Centauri Regent continues to be controlled by his
+	Keeper
+	("Epiphanies.")
+	He has started drinking heavily, something he never did in the past,
+	and, like Captain Jack
+	("Racing Mars")
+	occasionally lets slip that something is wrong, even getting as far
+	as asking a palace guard to kill him.
+
+   
    • @@@890331630 The Keeper, in turn, appears to be under the control of
+	as-yet-unidentified aliens lurking in the shadows on Centauri Prime.
+	The aliens, according to the Regent, believe they have a lot in
+	common with Londo, and in fact have already thwarted one attempt to
+	assassinate Londo.  They appear to be telekinetic (though whether by
+	psi or technological means is unclear.)
+
+   
    • @@@890331630 Byron has attempted to blackmail the Alliance into giving
+	his people a homeworld by using his people to scan the minds of all
+	the ambassadors, allegedly gathering a stockpile of sensitive
+	information.  His threat to make all the information public has
+	backfired and erupted into violence at least once.  Now the Alliance,
+	including Sheridan, is clamoring for Byron's arrest, and most of his
+	people (including Lyta) have sealed themselves into a small section of
+	Brown Sector in an attempt to hold out as long as they can and give
+	cooler heads time to prevail.  A militant faction of telepaths has left
+	the group and promises to take a more active approach, sabotaging
+	station operations if necessary until the Alliance capitulates.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@890331630 Is the Regent dead?
+
+   
    • @@@890331630 Who were the aliens?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@890332320 The aliens were almost certainly
+	allies of the Shadows.  They're also almost certainly behind the
+	attacks on Alliance ships, which bear some resemblance to the Shadows'
+	tactics: random strikes of no seeming military value, designed
+	apparently to demoralize the Alliance and cause conflicts within its
+	ranks.  They also appear to have the ability to turn invisible,
+	a signature Shadow technological trick.
+
+	
      
+	Are the aliens related to the Drakh, or are they a totally different
+	Shadow ally?  If the latter, how many ally races did the Shadows have?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890332320 Are the aliens telepathic as well as telekinetic?
+	Ironheart implied that only telepaths can be telekinetic
+	("Mind War.")
+	But of course that might only apply to Vorlon-induced telepathy.
+	As Byron told his people, on some worlds telepaths evolved naturally,
+	and those worlds might have evolved telekinesis.  It's also possible
+	that the aliens stopped the knife from hitting Londo via some
+	technological means, rather than via psi power.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890333825 Lord Vole might have also been behind the previous attempt
+	on Londo's life
+	("Strange Relations.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890332320 The militant faction of telepaths is much more likely
+	than Byron's faction to hold Garibaldi hostage
+	("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars.")
+	They aren't opposed to the use of violence to get what they want,
+	and they're loose on the station; Byron's people will, by his own
+	admission, eventually be reached and arrested unless the Alliance
+	decides otherwise in the meantime.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890332320 Sheridan still sits behind the "Earth Alliance" placard
+	at Council meetings.  Is he the Earth Alliance representative?  If
+	not, who is, and why wasn't that person present at the council?
+	Given that Sheridan is still held in contempt by some people back
+	on Earth, it seems like an unacceptable conflict of interest for him
+	to represent both Earth and the Alliance as a whole.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@878893197 The title is probably a reference to a line by Gerard
+	Erasmus: "In the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
+	The one-eyed Keeper on the Regent seems the most likely king in
+	this case -- certainly it appears to be in control.  G'Kar is
+	another possibility, of course.
+
+   
    • @@@890332320 Continuity glitch: Byron and Lyta spoke as if their
+	first lovemaking
+	("Secrets of the Soul")
+	had occurred the night before.  But that would mean Rebo and Zooty's
+	arrival, and the Day of the Dead, took no time at all.  The
+	discrepancy, of course, is simply due to
+	"The Day of the Dead"
+	being moved from its original intended air date.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@893013539 Revealing that the Centauri were behind the attacks
+	spoiled the surprise.
      
+	Y'know, maybe you should wait to see how this pans out before you say
+	it's a problem.  I *wanted* the audience to know the Centauri are behind
+	this, for reasons that will become clearer in the episodes that follow.
+
+	
      
+	Again, with this show, it ain't the who or the how, it's the *why*.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The telepath situation continues to deteriorate.  The attacks on Alliance
+ships continue.  Londo and G'Kar find an old friend in a nearly forgotten place.
+
+
+Robin Atkin Downes as 
+Byron.
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally titled "Cat and Mouse"
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.18
+
+Production number: 510
+Original air date: March 25, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@890895097 Na'Toth was on Narn when the Centauri bombed it
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle.")
+	She was captured by Centauri troops, along with other Narns, and brought
+	to Centauri Prime to serve as entertainment in the royal palace.  When
+	she proved insufficiently entertaining, she was locked in a cell and
+	forgotten.  Londo and G'Kar have returned her to the care of the Narn,
+	but G'Kar believes it'll be some time before she recovers from the
+	experience of being locked in a Centauri prison cell for two years.
+
+   
    • @@@890895097 The militant faction of Byron's telepaths have obtained
+	weapons and have staged violent attacks on station personnel.  They
+	believe they're doing what they're doing because it's the only way
+	to protect Byron; he is dismayed that they're killing in his name.
+
+   
    • @@@890895097 At Lochley's request, Bester and a team of bloodhound
+	telepaths have come to the station to take the telepath colonists
+	away.
+
+   
    • @@@890895097 The attacks (presumably still by Centauri forces) on
+	Alliance ships continue.  The attackers have attempted to up the ante
+	by planting evidence that points to various members of the Alliance
+	being responsible for the attacks, but Sheridan has so far managed
+	to keep the member races from attacking one another in revenge.
+
+   
    • @@@890895097 Sheridan has positioned a fleet of White Stars near a
+	Drazi fleet at the border of Brakiri space.  If the Drazi attack the
+	Brakiri in retaliation for the apparent Brakiri attacks on Drazi
+	ships, Sheridan says, the White Stars will retaliate against the
+	Drazi.  This gambit is working so far, but both the Drazi and the
+	Brakiri are furious about what they see as an infringement on their
+	right to self-defense.
+
+   
    • @@@890938620 According to reports received by Londo, Centauri weapons
+	manufacturing has risen 15 percent recently, something counter to
+	normal Centauri peacetime policy.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@890938620 The increased weapons production is presumably being used
+	at least in part to back the attacks on Alliance ships.  But a
+	sustained increase of 15 percent in the manufacturing output of
+	a technologically advanced race like the Centauri would produce a
+	lot of weapons and supplies.  Is someone stockpiling arms
+	for a larger conflict?  Are other races' production facilities
+	being similarly coopted?
+
+	
      
+	The Centauri may be easier to use for such purposes than many other
+	races because of their unquestioning acceptance of monarchy, as
+	Londo demonstrated; if the order to increase production looked like
+	it came from the Royal Court, most Centauri probably wouldn't
+	question it in public.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@890895097 Centauri don't like fresh spoo, but Narns do; Centauri
+	consider it an insult to be offered fresh spoo.  That may have added
+	to Londo's indignity in the Zocalo in
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line,"
+	in which G'Kar offered him a plate of fresh spoo.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@890000654 Why the title change?
      
+	Cat and Mouse was a) a working
+	title which I kept out there to b) avoid possible spoiling of various
+	directions for as long as possible.
+
+   
    • @@@890333069 I figured, a flock of geese, a herd of buffalo, a tragedy
+	of telepaths...actually, though, the credit for that must go to John
+	Copeland, who came up with it over lunch one day.
+
+   
    • @@@891305244 Why was Na'Toth listed in the credits at the start
+	of the episode?  It spoiled the surprise.
      
+	Screen Actors Guild rules specify where you can and can't put credits,
+	and those rules don't concern themselves with spoilers.
+
+   
    • @@@891547710 SAG rules specify where credits go; it's sometimes a
+	bummer if you're trying to keep something secret, but there you go.
+
+	
      
+	The Na'Toth thing was something I wanted to do, called Caitlin,
+	she was up for it, and I wrote the ep.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The telepath situation becomes critical and Bester attempts to take control,
+triggering a strong reaction by Garibaldi.
+
+
+Robin Atkin Downes as Byron.
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+Leigh J. McCloskey as Thomas.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.25
+
+Production number: 512
+Original air date: April 1, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@891500932 Byron grew up in the Corps.  He was rated a strong P12,
+	so was inducted into the Psi Cops and served as Bester's protege.
+	During one mission, Bester ordered Byron to destroy an unarmed ship
+	full of mundanes who were helping smuggle telepaths out of Psi Corps'
+	reach.  Byron followed the order reluctantly, but shortly thereafter
+	fled the Corps, convinced that telepaths could build a society based
+	on nobler principles than violence.
+
+   
    • @@@891500932 To avoid being taken by the Psi Corps, Byron and the
+	militant faction of the telepath colonists have killed themselves.
+	The other members of Byron's group have been allowed to go free,
+	despite Bester's objections.
+
+   
    • @@@891500932 The Psi Corps headquarters on Earth has been bombed.
+	The bombers haven't been found, but they did leave the message,
+	"Remember Byron."
+
+   
    • @@@891500932 During Garibaldi's conditioning, Bester implanted a
+	modified version of one of Asimov's Laws of Robotics: Garibaldi is
+	incapable of harming Bester, or through inaction, allowing Bester
+	to come to harm.  (See
+	Notes.)
+	As far as Garibaldi knows, the prohibition doesn't apply to all
+	telepaths, just Bester.  His inability to exact revenge has driven
+	Garibaldi back to drinking (but see
+	Analysis.)
+
+   
    • @@@891500932 Lyta's powers include sending her senses far away from her
+	body, scouting ahead for danger.  Bester is able to project himself
+	into someone's mind from a distance, similar to Byron's projection to
+	Lochley in
+	"No Compromises."
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@891500932 What involvement will Lyta have with the telepaths
+	now that Byron is gone?  Will she take his place?
+
+   
    • @@@891544383 Do the telepaths still hold all the alien ambassadors'
+	secrets?  Will they be hunted by the alien races?  For that matter,
+	will the Corps actively pursue them once they're offstation?
+
+   
    • @@@891500932 Who bombed the Psi Corps headquarters?  Garibaldi didn't
+	appear surprised by the news; was he involved somehow?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@891500932 The militant telepaths made poor use of their talents in
+	combat.  They appeared to rely on verbal communication.  Granted, none
+	of them had military training (or at least, it wasn't stated) but for
+	a group whose stated purpose was being able to make free, unrestrained
+	use of their telepathic abilities, it's odd that they didn't do so
+	when it would have been of some tactical advantage.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891544985 Were all the militant telepaths really killed?  Sheridan
+	had only Byron's statement that the identicards and confessions 
+	represented all the militants.  Byron didn't have any reason to want
+	to lie, but was he able to extract confessions from all the parties
+	responsible for the violence?  All the confessions and cards were
+	probably those of violent telepaths, but Sheridan had no way of knowing
+	that it was a complete set, despite Byron's promise that Sheridan would
+	have everything he needed to be sure.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891544383 Bester had more than one reason for wanting to take the
+	telepaths alive.  Had he gained custody over them, he might well have
+	been able to extract whatever information they gained from the alien
+	ambassadors.  He would also have discovered the information Lyta
+	broadcast to the group while making love to Byron in
+	"Secrets of the Soul."
+	Of course, he might already know all about the Vorlons' actions by
+	other means, such as the Corps' previous association with the Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891546144 The theme of suicide as redemption for past sins has
+	appeared before, most notably in
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane,"
+	in which Brother Edward allowed himself to be killed to atone for his
+	murderous past.  Byron's self-immolation had a different twist, though:
+	after he killed Thomas, he may have come to believe that the noble
+	lifestyle he wanted was an impossible dream.  Edward, though no
+	choice of his own, had given up his past tendencies but
+	still came to believe he needed to die to atone for them.
+
+	
      
+	Byron's personality shift after being asked to fire on an innocent
+	vessel also echoes David McIntyre's transformation into Arthur in
+	"A Late Delivery from Avalon."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891545739 Byron's experience with Bester echoed Lyta's experience
+	with the Psi Cops: she was made to do something traumatic (in her
+	case, helping to plant images in a murderer's mind to drive him
+	insane, as she described in
+	"The Face of the Enemy")
+	and decided that she had to leave the Psi Cops.  She left by
+	transferring to another division of the Corps rather than running
+	away entirely, but the similarity of experience begs the question of
+	how many other former employees of the Psi Cops have left
+	under similar circumstances.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891544383 Why didn't Lyta already know Byron's secret?  If Talia's
+	description is to be believed
+	("Mind War")
+	lovemaking between telepaths involves dropping all defenses and diving
+	deeper and deeper into each other's minds.  Given how central Byron's
+	experiences in the Corps were to his personality, and that, by his own
+	admission, he hadn't hidden his past from other members of the group,
+	why wouldn't Lyta have come across his memories while they were
+	together?
+
+	
      
+	It's possible that Lyta was so much more powerful than Byron that her
+	memories drowned his out; she did warn him that the experience might
+	be overwhelming.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891500932 If Lyta does take Byron's place and become a champion
+	of rogue telepaths, she may be vulnerable to blackmail by Bester.  In
+	"Epiphanies,"
+	he claimed to know secrets about her that she wouldn't want revealed.
+	Whatever those secrets are, they may still hold some sway over her.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, Lyta implied she'd received secrets from Byron, so
+	she may be able to counter-blackmail Bester just as easily.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891544985 Bester claimed that all races dealt with telepaths
+	through laws, religion, or extermination.  That contradicts Garibaldi's
+	assertion in
+	"The Paragon of Animals"
+	that Centauri telepaths "can do whatever they want."  The Minbari
+	treatment of telepaths
+	("Legacies")
+	might arguably be religious, but it's really more cultural: telepaths
+	are treated with respect and are expected to devote themselves to
+	serving others.  It's unclear how other races treat their telepaths,
+	though, so Bester might be right in most cases.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891545421 What does the departure of the telepath colony do to
+	Garibaldi's plan to use some of its members as Alliance spies
+	("The Paragon of Animals?")
+	They only helped Garibaldi at Byron's behest, and with Byron gone,
+	it's not clear they'll feel any obligation to make good on the promise.
+	If Garibaldi does lose his telepathic spies, the whole exercise was
+	largely a waste of his time; the only piece of information he's
+	received from the telepaths was the warning about the Drazi fleet in
+	"Paragon,"
+	and that happened before he started spending time training operatives.
+
+	
      
+	It's possible, in fact, that Garibaldi's training sessions will end
+	up working against him: if his two trainees were among the telepaths
+	who left the station, and they're working on their own now, their
+	training makes them more dangerous to everyone involved.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891500932 Does Garibaldi's conditioning prevent him from revealing
+	its presence to people who might be in a position to either remove
+	it or take revenge on Bester for him?  He appeared to be having some
+	difficulty asking Franklin about circumventing it.  Could he, for
+	example, tell Lise about it?  If not, how will he explain his return
+	to the bottle?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891536018 Garibaldi's return to the bottle
+	might not be quite what it seems.  It's possible that "alcohol" is the
+	answer to his question, "Are there any drugs that can suppress a
+	telepathic block?"  In that case, Garibaldi faces a choice between
+	confronting his alcoholism once again and being powerless to take
+	revenge on Bester.
+
+	
      
+	Using alcohol to nullify mind control has precedent: Londo used it to
+	evade his Keeper in
+	"War Without End part 2,"
+	and the Regent, also Keeper-encumbered, was said to have taken up
+	drinking in
+	"In the Kingdom of the Blind."
+	Alcohol only puts the Keepers to sleep, though; it doesn't actually
+	stop them from taking control while they're awake.  So the precedent
+	is an imprecise one at best.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891709896 While he was describing Asimov's Laws to Garibaldi, Bester
+	said that "pre-ban cyberneticists" on Earth had built them into their
+	machines.  That implies that at one time, Earth had intelligent robots
+	or machines of some kind, but later decided to put an end to them.
+	Why?  Was there a problem with the machines?  What happened, and when?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891500932 The hostage scene was foreshadowed in
+	"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars,"
+	but it wasn't previously clear who was shot.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891501107 Byron's song was the same one sung by the telepaths in
+	"Strange Relations."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891536018 Asimov's Laws of Robotics are:
+	
        
+	   
      1.  A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction,
+		allow a human being to come to harm.
+
+	   
      2.  A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except
+		where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
+
+	   
      3.  A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
+		protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
+	
      
+
+	
      @@@891715464 
+	Garibaldi's programming only includes the first law, not the first two
+	as Bester claimed (though arguably Bester was referring to the two
+	rules contained in the first law.)
+
+	
      
+	It's also possible Bester implanted the second law but didn't
+	quote it to Garibaldi.  In that case Garibaldi would have to follow
+	Bester's orders.  There's a slight hint of that possibility in Bester's
+	mocking request that Garibaldi turn out the lights when he leave (though
+	that could just as easily be simple baiting.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891544383 The phoenix of the title probably refers to the birth
+	of a new telepath movement following Byron's death by fire.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@902864748 How would the Byron story have been different if
+	Claudia Christian hadn't left?
      
+	It's no secret that I would've had Ivanova becoming somewhat
+	linked to Byron romantically (she would see him as a character like
+	Marcus, which is why there are certain similarities, and she would take
+	a chance only to find it wrong this time, underlining that she'd missed
+	her one major opportunity thus far for a good relationship).  This was
+	expressed to Claudia toward the last part of S4, so she knew at that
+	time that her latent ability would be coming out, and that she'd have a
+	big part in S5.
+
+	
      
+	In this scenario, Lyta would have become a devoted follower of
+	Byron's, much as she has, but it would have been more love from afar:
+	protective, somewhat unrequited but hoping for more...so that when he
+	met his fate, Lyta would end up right where she is now, just by a
+	different road.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Another attack on an Alliance ship brings Garibaldi to the Drazi homeworld
+to search for a witness.  G'Kar finds himself the object of unwanted attention.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.57
+
+Production number: 513
+Original air date: April 8, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Copeland
+
    
+
+
    
+An 
+episodic soundtrack is available.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 Garibaldi's drinking has begun to seriously impair his
+	ability to do his job, and although he seems to realize he has a
+	problem, he has so far refused to mention it to anyone.
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 While G'Kar was with Londo on Centauri Prime, some Narn
+	broke into his quarters and stole his book.  It has, in under a month,
+	gained great popularity, and may soon outsell the Book of G'Quon.  As
+	a result, many Narn now consider G'Kar a holy figure, and are gathering
+	on Babylon 5 to hear him speak.
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 Franklin has been offered a position in Earthdome, as
+	head of xenobiological research.  The position is currently held by
+	Dr. Benjamin Kyle
+	("The Gathering")
+	but Kyle intends to step down at the end of the year.  Franklin will
+	use the position to continue his research on cross-species diseases
+	("Strange Relations.")
+
+   
    • @@@892089227 Although Alliance member worlds are officially obliged
+	to boycott certain products (dust and some other drugs, certain
+	biological weapons, etc.) many of them simply use smugglers to
+	trade in forbidden goods unofficially.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 Who was the Drazi who attacked Garibaldi's friend?
+
+   
    • @@@892089630 Did G'Kar get the original copy of his book back?  Will
+	he continue to work on it, or was it finished?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 Although the conclusion was correct, Garibaldi's evidence
+	that the Centauri are involved in the attacks on Alliance ships wasn't
+	very solid.  Londo appeared to believe that buttons from palace guards
+	weren't particularly hard to come by; given that the parties behind
+	the attacks had planted evidence before, an item pointing to the
+	Centauri could have been just another attempt at misdirection.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 G'Kar started writing his book in B5's brig in
+	"Messages from Earth."
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 Garibaldi drinks "Afterburner" brand whiskey.
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 It hurts more to punch Drazi than other races.
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 Drazi are vulnerable to motion sickness.
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 The streets of Drazi cities are all extremely narrow,
+	an architectural holdover from pre-flight times intended to make it
+	harder for invading armies to maneuver.
+
+   
    • @@@892086202 Drazi homes tend to have large open patio areas,
+	since Drazi are traditionally an outdoor race.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@890333453 Each season we have increased the amount of CGI we've done,
+	both in the amount and the complexity of the shots, and this season is
+	no exception.  We're trying some new things, different kinds of
+	CGI...you'll see some of that in "The Ragged Edge," for instance.  Much
+	more sophisticated compositing, more difficult to shoot, but more
+	visually interesting.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892532194 Now that Londo is back, why doesn't Sheridan warn
+	him about what he saw in
+	"War Without End?"
      
+	This comes from not separating out what we the viewers know, from what
+	the characters know.  
+
+	
      
+	What Sheridan knows is that 17 years from now, Londo had something on
+	his shoulder called a Keeper, which may or may not have a direct
+	connection with the apparent attack on Centauri Prime by Shadow allies.
+
+	
      
+	What he doesn't know is, did this happen 16 years ago?  Or six months
+	ago? What process led it to happen?  What should he be warning Londo
+	*about*?  He saw the result...but what process, what event should he
+	warn Londo about to avoid this?  He doesn't know that the Regent has a
+	keeper, the Regent could be acting in these ways for his own reasons
+	entirely.
+
+	
      
+	Further, there's a certain trickiness about time stuff.  Okay, so he
+	warns Londo about something he doesn't really understand...does he now
+	change the future?  Does he have someone else other than Londo now on
+	the throne, who won't spare his and Delenn's lives?  
+
+	
      
+	There are too many variables, and not enough actually known by him, to
+	say anything that would be of any use to anyone.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Bester pursues a murderous telepath, using the pursuit to train two rookie
+Psi Cops in the finer points of their new jobs.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.42
+
+Production number: 514
+Original air date: April 15, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Stephen Furst
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@892694760 Very high on the Corps' list of priorities is that
+	mundanes believe that nothing ever goes wrong within the Corps.  To
+	that end, and because they justifiably don't believe mundane security
+	forces would be of much use in capturing rogue telepaths, they use
+	the Psi Cops to track down rogues with a minimum of publicity.
+
+   
    • @@@892694760 The Psi Corps maintains a fleet of large transport ships
+	in hyperspace, where they're used to ferry shuttles back and forth
+	between jump points.  Eventually they'll be used for some other
+	unspecified purpose.  Nobody outside the Corps is supposed to know
+	the ships exist.
+
+   
    • @@@892694760 Psi Corps field operatives must be able to maintain a
+	mental block against a telepathic probe for at least one hour to
+	ensure that they're safe against attack by untrained rogues.  Even the
+	most powerful rogues, according to Bester, can't sustain a psi attack
+	for more than 30 or 40 minutes.
+
+   
    • @@@892694760 Bester's parents were killed in an accident when he was
+	barely a month old.  The Corps found him thanks to a random DNA
+	screening, and raised him from childhood.
+
+   
    • @@@893010614 The Corps is training some of its members in offensive
+	skills known as "mind shredding."  A P10-rated shredder is a danger
+	even to a P12-rated telepath, and a P12-rated shredder can kill a
+	mundane telepathically in a matter of seconds.
+
+   
    • @@@892694760 If a telepath has multiple personalities, each of the
+	personalities can exhibit different levels of psi ability.  The
+	Corps' screening program doesn't detect multiple personalities.
+
+   
    • @@@892694760 Even new Corps trainees are willing to act as judge, jury,
+	and executioner for mundanes who kill telepaths.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@892694760 What are the Corps motherships for, aside from ferrying
+	shuttles?
+
+   
    • @@@892695282 What were the circumstances of Bester's parents' deaths?
+
+   
    • @@@892855690 What is a Pak'ma'ra's hump?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892694760 According to the Corps propaganda film, 42.5% of
+	telepaths who leave the Corps commit suicide within nine months of
+	leaving the Corps.  How many of those
+	"suicides" are thanks to the Psi Cops?  Even if the Cops don't
+	kill a significant number of rogues directly, the very fact that a
+	rogue is being relentlessly pursued might make suicide or an accident
+	more likely.
+
+	
      @@@893010973 
+	And of course, Gordon only said that the suicides were committed by
+	people who'd left the Corps, not rogues; how many of the suicides were
+	telepaths forced to take sleeper drugs like Ivanova's mother?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892694760 Why didn't anyone in the Corps communicate
+	telepathically within their own walls?  As Bester told Sinclair
+	("Mind War,")
+	telepathic communication saves time.  It's perhaps understandable that
+	the Corps would want its members to speak to each other verbally while
+	in public, to avoid appearing needlessly strange to mundanes, but that
+	consideration wouldn't apply within the walls of a Corps training
+	academy.  Perhaps telepathic communication requires more effort than
+	speech.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892717633 Bester believes that to be a telepath is to be something
+	special, and that telepaths have to stick together and protect one
+	another, even more so than mundanes.  That's very similar to Byron's
+	philosophy
+	("The Paragon of Animals.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892751325 What was Bester doing with the mirror just before his
+	departure for Babylon 5?  Since he didn't glean any useful information
+	from his vision of Harris, it was most likely just an exercise in
+	intuition, a moment of deep concentration to try to figure out some
+	reason why Harris might have committed the murder.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892751552 The Corps motherships are perhaps not as well-kept a
+	secret as Bester would like to think.  There are probably lots of
+	rogue telepaths who learned of them before leaving the Corps.  For
+	example, Byron would almost certainly have known about them (he had
+	gone out on missions with Bester) and thus it's plausible that some
+	or all of the other members of his group know as well.  Since they
+	have no particular stake in keeping the ships' existence secret,
+	information about them might well have already leaked out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892717633 When Lauren mentioned to Bester that she wished there
+	were a way to record thoughts, he said, "Give us time."  Is the Corps
+	working on such a capability?  Does that imply that they've discovered
+	a technological means for reading other people's thoughts?  If so, the
+	implications could be far-reaching, not least the possibility that
+	mundanes could be equipped with simulated telepathy.
+
+	
      
+	Abbut's recording of Talia's thoughts
+	("Deathwalker")
+	indicates that the process is possible, though perhaps not without
+	the involvement of a living brain.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892694760 The Corps' inability to detect multiple personalities
+	is consistent with Talia's hidden personality
+	("Divided Loyalties.")
+	Talia was in close contact, even linked briefly, with a group of
+	telepaths
+	("A Race Through Dark Places")
+	who failed to detect her alternate personality.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892847338 If different personalities can have different psi
+	abilities, the Corps might not have gotten anything useful out of
+	their examination of Talia after she returned to them
+	("Dust to Dust.")
+	Her Ironheart-enhanced psi abilities
+	("Mind War")
+	might have been destroyed along with her original personality.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892752034 Lauren's visualization of the attack/block exercise had
+	a subtext she probably didn't recognize: the attacker was probing with
+	spikes not dissimilar to the spines on a Shadow vessel, while the
+	attacker was encased in what looked like shards of ice, not unlike the
+	ice surrounding Sheridan's vision of the Vorlon in
+	"Into the Fire."
+	Vorlons created human telepaths and the Shadows wanted to destroy or
+	undermine them, which is consistent with that imagery.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@892694760 The love of Bester's life is Carolyn Sanderson, who is
+	most likely still in stasis awaiting removal of her Shadow implants
+	("Ship of Tears.")
+	Whether or not she's still on Babylon 5 isn't clear; Sheridan mentioned
+	transferring her to Earth for further medical study
+	("Rising Star")
+	but that might not have happened yet.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892752340 "Prisoner"esque signs on the walls at the Corps academy
+	(not a complete list yet):
+	
        
+	   
      •  The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father
+	   
      •  Protect the Family.
+	   
      •  Obey
+	   
      •  Trust the Corps
+	   
      •  Maternis, Paternis (this also appears on the Psi Corps logo
+		during the training film)
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892752340 Babylon 5 uses its sword and shield logo even on its
+	commercial sales literature.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892950054 Text of the cover of the Babcom brochure:
+	
      
+	Stay in touch with
      
+	family and business
      
+	alike with state of the
      
+	art communications and
      
+	delivery services.  Let
      
+	us be your new partner.
+
+	
      
+	BABYLON 5
      
+	FOR THE
      
+	BUSINESS
      
+	OF TODAY
      
+	AND THE
      
+	HOPE OF
      
+	TOMORROW
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@895442513 One of Harris' documents,
+	visible when Bester examines
+	them, is dated 2264, even though the episode takes place in 2262.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892695183 Bester's childhood was recounted differently in comic
+	"The Psi Corps and You."
+	The official Corps propaganda about Bester is that he entered its
+	ranks at age 10.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892752034 Bester keeps his disabled hand gloved even when he's
+	home by himself.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892798144 The rogue's name was Jonathan Harris.  That name might
+	be familiar to some fans; another
+	Jonathan
+	Harris
+	played Dr. Smith on the original "Lost in Space" TV series, which
+	also starred Bill Mumy (Lennier) as Will Robinson.  However, that's
+	not the reference here.  By coincidence, Jonathan Harris was the name
+	of the winner of a raffle run by the B5 Fan Club at a convention (the
+	1997 Worldcon in San Antonio.)  The raffle's grand prize was the
+	winner's name appearing in an episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892752168 One of the interns, Chen Hikaru, shares a name with
+	Hikaru Sulu of the original "Star Trek."  Sulu was a colleague and
+	friend of Chekov, played by Walter Koenig (Bester.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892717873 This is the third episode directed by Stephen Furst, who
+	also plays Vir.  All three of his episodes (this one,
+	"The Illusion of Truth,"
+	and
+	"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars")
+	are told from the points of view of people other than the series' main
+	characters.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892694848 The title sequence was changed for this episode: instead
+	of the "Babylon 5" title, a Psi Corps logo with the words "Trust the
+	Corps" was substituted.  The B5 logo was moved to the back of the
+	station in the closing FX shot, and JMS's name was displayed as a
+	normal credit.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@885925487 About TNT's decision to postpone the episodes
+	the ones following this one until the fall of 1998
      
+	Re: the schedule...it was brought to our attention that the NBA
+	coverage would lead to episodes being shunted around and pre-empted for
+	a number of weeks.  Obviously this concerned us, and would concern
+	viewers, so we discussed it with TNT, and they came back to us with the
+	notion that we would continue new episodes until hitting #100, break
+	for the NBA games, then come back (starting with another possible
+	half-hour special) afterward at the same time to finish the season.
+
+	
      
+	It was either this, or get shuffled around the schedule due to
+	the NBA, and the former is infinitely preferable.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887319407 Bester is NOT a nice guy...but not everyone sees him in
+	that light, which is why I did one episode from inside the Psi Corps
+	this season, to show how others in the PC see him....
+
+	
      
+	Even Hitler painted roses.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@893095748 Shouldn't the other Psi Cops have been afraid of
+	Bester?
      
+	I don't consider it a mistake at all...you never heard much of
+	other Psi Cops talking about Bester, and they would have more knowledge
+	of him than anyone else.  As with Dirty Harry, some of the other
+	officers above and below him liked him...and he scared the crap out of
+	others.  Same here.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@893270106 What is a Pak'ma'ra's hump?
      
+	I was thinking that the hump is where their mates are...they're
+	symbiotically bonded, and the female is much smaller than the male,
+	reflecting similar disparities in the insect kingdom.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@895442513 About the oddly-dated
+	document
      
+	One of his personalities was a Time Lord.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@895442513 And let us also remember, about this guy getting the date wrong on
+	what he was writing....
+
+	
      
+	HE WAS A NUT.
+
+	
      
+	thankyew
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Without Sheridan's knowledge, Delenn sends Lennier on a mission to try to
+figure out the source of the raids.
+
+
+Martin Cast as Findell.
+Richard Ynigues as Montoya.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.21
+
+Production number: 515
+Original air date: May 27, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 Delenn has sent Lennier to train on a White Star.
+	Unbeknownst to its captain, he's secretly on the lookout for evidence
+	of Centauri involvement with the raids on Alliance ships.
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 Franklin, like many Narns on the station, is reading
+	G'Kar's book and finds it impressive.
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 Londo has selected Vir to be the next Centauri Ambassador
+	to Babylon 5 (and thus presumably to the Alliance.)
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 The Drazi suspect that the Centauri are involved in the
+	attacks on the cargo ships.  They've attempted to bug Londo's
+	quarters at least once.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 Did Sheridan notice Delenn's extended absence during
+	the night, or did he go back to sleep until she returned?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 How did the Drazi find out about the Centauri
+	involvement?  Or are they just lucky guessers?  Since Londo isn't aware
+	of what's going on, they couldn't have found out from him, even if they
+	had successfully bugged his quarters at some point.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896389261 Londo was correct about Vir not being ready to be the
+	ambassador: Vir is thought of as weak and ineffectual by the other
+	races, as demonstrated by the Drazi merchant.  Though Londo's comment
+	to Zack was probably at least partially in jest, a little confrontation
+	may well be necessary before people will take Vir seriously enough
+	to make him an effective ambassador.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896325834 G'Kar used an analogy of a light shining on a wall
+	to describe how people perceive God.  Lennier used a similar analogy in
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane"
+	when he described the Minbari conception of the soul to Brother Edward.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896374316 Lennier cautioned Findell about joining the Anla'shok for
+	the wrong reasons -- but it's arguable that that's exactly what
+	Lennier himself has done, since one of his goals is to impress
+	Delenn (he said as much in
+	"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari.")
+	That may hold the key to his eventual betrayal of the Rangers as
+	predicted by Morden
+	("Day of the Dead.")
+	If faced with a choice of serving Delenn directly or serving the
+	Anla'shok, he might well choose the former, especially if the
+	choice involved a significant threat to Delenn.  Such an eventuality
+	appears to be foreshadowed here in the conversation between Delenn
+	and Lennier.
+
+	
      
+	Findell's reasons for joining are very close to Marcus': the death
+	of a family member and the desire to carry on that person's work.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896326426 Garibaldi's drunkenness won't remain a secret for long
+	if he's as careless as he was in ordering the pizza; the staff of
+	Fresh Air now potentially knows about his return to the bottle.
+	Whether that information will make it to anyone who knows Garibaldi
+	personally, of course, remains to be seen.  It's possible that the
+	Fresh Air staff doesn't consider it out of the ordinary to deliver
+	food to a drunk off-duty crewmember.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896373347 Eavesdropping figured in both storylines: the Drazi bug
+	in Londo's quarters and Captain Montoya listening in on Lennier's
+	communications.
+
+	
      
+	Franklin's installation of G'Kar's eye suggests another possible
+	instance of eavesdropping.  The eye has a long range, so it's
+	possible someone might pick up its signals from a distance.  Perhaps
+	that's how the Drazi found out about the Centauri -- if G'Kar read
+	a document on the subject they might have picked up the image from
+	his eye.
+
+	
      
+	If that's indeed happening, G'Kar may discover it and decide the eye
+	isn't worth the risk.  That could explain why he's missing it in the
+	future
+	("War Without End part 2.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 G'Kar's old artificial eye has been replaced with one
+	of his natural color.
+
+   
    • @@@896389261 G'Kar intended his book to be published after his death.
+
+   
    • @@@896389261 The coffee stain in the book was first mentioned in
+	"No Compromises."
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 Narn: What is truth?  And what is God?
      
+	G'Kar: Truth is... a river.
      
+	Narn: And what is God?
      
+	G'Kar: God is the mouth of the river.
+
+   
    • @@@896389261 White Stars carry Minbari fighters.
+
+   
    • @@@896454631 Minbari fighters carry about 6 hours and 40 minutes of
+	air (Lennier and Findell had an hour of air at 15% capacity.)
+
+   
    • @@@896325834 The Fresh Air restaurant delivers pizza.
+
+   
    • @@@896326426 While Londo is away, Vir eats at McBari's, a fast-food
+	restaurant in Brown Sector (symbol: golden headbones.)  As he puts it,
+	"It tastes so good going down.  Coming back up, it's not so good."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Lennier uncovers hard evidence about the source of the cargo ship attacks.
+Lise arrives to see Garibaldi.  Lyta attempts to strike a deal on behalf of
+the rogue telepaths.
+
+
+Denise Gentile as Lise.
+Richard Ynigues as Montoya.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.74
+
+Production number: 516
+Original air date: June 3, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@896925016 Lennier has observed firsthand an attack on civilian
+	Brakiri ships by a Centauri attack force.  He has brought a recording
+	of the attack back to Sheridan and Delenn, who have called a closed
+	meeting of all the Alliance worlds except the Centauri.
+
+   
    • @@@896926070 The Centauri royal court has learned that Sheridan and
+	other Alliance representatives believe the Centauri responsible for
+	the attacks on Alliance ships.  They've asked Londo to do whatever he
+	can to keep the Centauri from being blamed, and have suggested to him
+	that the real culprits are Narns making use of ships and weapons left
+	behind when the occupation of Narn ended.
+
+   
    • @@@896926070 Lyta has made a deal with G'Kar: in exchange for a few
+	deep-space-capable ships and a considerable sum of money, she will
+	give the Narn access to the genetic codes of hundreds of rogue
+	telepaths, enough to allow the Narn to isolate the genetic basis of
+	telepathy and start to engineer it back into their race.  She intends
+	to send telepathic scouting parties into deep space in search of a
+	world suitable for habitation by a telepath colony.
+
+   
    • @@@896986273 Garibaldi has started having nightmares about failing to
+	be around to help the Alliance when he's needed.  In one dream, he
+	saw a vision of Lyta, who said she'd decided to stop hiding what the
+	Vorlons did to her and was testing the limits of her powers.
+
+   
    • @@@896926609 Lise has discovered Garibaldi's drinking, though for the
+	moment he seems to have convinced her that he has it under control.
+	He doesn't, though: despite promising to her that he wouldn't drink
+	while she was visiting, he hasn't been able to resist the urge.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@896925016 What was happening in Garibaldi's dream?
+	Was Lyta really involved at all?
+
+   
    • @@@896926609 What unpleasant secrets has Lise discovered about her
+	newly-inherited company?
+
+   
    • @@@898541644 Did Lise take Garibaldi's advice and flee the station?
+
+   
    • @@@898541644 Was Lise fooled by Garibaldi's attempt to convince her he
+	could stop drinking?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@896925016 Is Lennier's solo mission what Morden was referring to
+	as "betraying the Anla'shok" in
+	"Day of the Dead?"
+	He did indirectly disobey the chain of command by disregarding
+	Sheridan's order to return to Babylon 5, but on the other hand he was
+	arguably still well within the bounds of loyalty since he was acting
+	on behalf of the head of the Rangers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896925016 Delenn strongly implied that Sheridan had considered
+	sending Lennier to the Centauri border, but had decided against
+	it.  Is that the case, or was she just assuming that he would do so if
+	presented with the choice?  If he did consciously decide not to send
+	Lennier at some point, why didn't Delenn attempt to argue the case with
+	him then?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898543790 Delenn apparently thinks the situation with the Centauri
+	is going to end badly.  Londo was obviously surprised when she
+	hugged him, a departure from her normal reserve.  What did she think
+	was going to happen to Londo such that this was her last chance to
+	embrace him?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896926609 Does Garibaldi actually intend to return to Mars?  That
+	doesn't square with accepting the job of director of covert
+	intelligence for the Alliance.  Though it's possible he could perform
+	many of his job duties from an office on Mars, he'd be far away from
+	one of the most convenient sources of intelligence information:
+	Babylon 5.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896986946 Garibaldi's dream was ambiguous.  It may have been
+	completely metaphorical, his own mind warning him about his alcoholism.
+	His vision of Lyta may have been a manifestation of his distrust of
+	telepaths and his knowledge that they're still affecting his mind.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, much of it could be literal.  Kosh had the ability
+	to visit people in dreams
+	("All Alone in the Night,"
+	"Interludes and Examinations")
+	so the Vorlons might have given Lyta the same power.  Glimpses of
+	possible futures have been seen, e.g. Ladira's vision of the
+	destruction of Babylon 5
+	("Signs and Portents")
+	or Londo's dream of the arrival of the Shadows on Centauri Prime and
+	his eventual coronation and death
+	("The Coming of Shadows.")
+	If such visions are an extension of telepathic power, it's possible
+	that contact with Lyta was allowing Garibaldi to incorporate elements
+	of precognition into his dream.
+
+	
      
+	Depending on how much of Garibaldi's dream was based in reality, it
+	raises some questions: What was happening in the Zocalo?  Why were
+	Lyta's eyes glowing white, instead of going black as they generally
+	do while she's exercising her enhanced powers?  (They glow white
+	when she's possessed by a Vorlon, e.g. in
+	"Into the Fire,"
+	but are otherwise black even when she's doing something
+	Vorlon-related, e.g. remembering her time on the Vorlon homeworld in
+	"Secrets of the Soul.")
+	What exactly was she doing to Garibaldi, and why did she choose him?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896987744 The rough time the waiter at Fresh Air gave Garibaldi
+	may have been due to knowledge of Garibaldi's heavy drinking, since he
+	has had food from the restaurant delivered to his quarters while drunk
+	("Meditations on the Abyss.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896987934 G'Kar's test of Lyta wasn't as useful as he seems to
+	think: if she was scrupulous in the use of her powers, she'd
+	have little choice but to answer "no" to his request.  But if she was
+	willing to go to any lengths to get what she wanted, she would almost
+	certainly have been scanning him and would have easily discovered why
+	he was really asking her to spy on the ambassadors.  Armed with that
+	knowledge, she would also have said "no."  So her answer doesn't
+	actually say much about how far she's willing to compromise her
+	principles on behalf of the rogues.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@896925016 Lyta's conversation with G'Kar took place in
+	"The Gathering."
+	The Narn interest in acquiring telepaths was also a factor in
+	"Legacies."
+
+   
    • @@@896987744 Garibaldi mentioned that Catherine Sakai disappeared
+	over a year ago.  Her disappearance is covered in more detail in the
+	novel
+	"To Dream In the City of Sorrows."
+	One possible chronological discrepancy is that according to the book,
+	Sakai disappeared before Sinclair returned to the station in
+	"War Without End,"
+	which would make it at least two years, not one.  Of course, Garibaldi
+	may not have found out about her disappearance until some time after
+	it happened.
+
+   
    • @@@896987744 In
+	"Meditations on the Abyss,"
+	a Minbari fighter with 15% of its oxygen remaining only had an hour's
+	worth of air, implying a six-hour air supply.  But in this episode,
+	Montoya mentioned that fighters normally have over thirty hours of
+	air.  It's possible that the oxygen supply isn't a reserve of oxygen
+	per se, but rather the capacity remaining in an air recycling
+	system, and that the system recycles more efficiently when it's at
+	full capacity.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@897030289 "OK, so is anyone going to try to pass *this* one off
+	as non-arc 'filler'?"
+
+	
      
+	Exactly.  See, that's where I get nuts about some of the other
+	comments. A number of folks said last week's was just filler...but last
+	week we saw the process by which Lennier was sent to White Star 27,
+	what he was looking for, and why...we were introduced to the captain,
+	the mission...and now this week it pays off.  It seems like the
+	*result* is considered arc, and the set-up is considered "filler."
+
+	
      
+	Similarly, Lyta's actions in this episode (and those that are
+	going to follow) are a direct result of the whole Byron thread, which
+	is going to spiral further in some interesting directions.  Some said
+	the Byron stuff was just filler...but it was there to move Lyta into a
+	whole new direction that will have a substantial effect on the show and
+	her character (and at least one other).
+
+	
      
+	It seems to me that repeatedly, people dismiss something new in
+	the mix as filler or non-arc...when in fact it's ABSOLUTE arc stuff
+	once you've seen the whole thing.  (Except for those who only seem to
+	feel that results are arc, not setups, which is as nutty a view as I've
+	ever heard.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897030289 Was Lyta flirting with G'Kar?
      
+	I wouldn't say she has any sexual interest in G'Kar...she had
+	her pleasure threshold expanded with Byron just recently, and as for
+	her parting comment, I think it came more under the category of "you
+	ain't getting it, but since you were still wondering..."  A friendly
+	plink.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898543837 How would a human and Narn mate, anyway?
      
+	Well, as G'Kar said in the pilot, there would have to be rather
+	substantial genetic manipulation and adjustment to allow for the
+	different DNA structures to mix.
+
+	
      
+	After that, it would require the usual: dinner, flowers, and
+	being willing to sit through a chick-flick....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898543471 Delenn didn't take any guff from Sheridan.
      
+	That's one of my favorite scenes from that episode...she basically yanks
+	his pants up over his head and ties them in a knot.  Someone trained in
+	the religious caste can argue her way around just about anything and
+	anyone.
+
+	
      
+	Minbari religious caste make Jesuits look like intellectual softies by
+	comparison. 
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898544209 But she made a big assumption about why he didn't
+	want to send Lennier.
      
+	She's right because she's married to the guy and knows him inside and
+	out, including how he thinks and why he does things.
+
+	
      
+	When you live with somebody like that, you can go out and buy a pair of
+	shoes, and in the morning, complain that they're too tight...and never
+	mention it again for the rest of the day...then in the evening you sigh,
+	as you're taking them off, and he or she says, "Don't worry, we can
+	always have them stretched."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898543523 Wouldn't the Centauri have noticed air
+	escaping?
      
+	The amount of oxygen taken would have been very minimal, given the size
+	of Lennier's ship (little more than coffin-sized), and the volume would
+	be replaced by the carbon dioxide from Lennier's ship.  The hole would
+	have been self-sealed by the Minbari fighter, which was designed to do
+	this sort of thing in order to sneak past enemy lines.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The evidence of a Centauri connection to the cargo ship attacks is revealed
+to the Alliance.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.21
+
+Production number: 517
+Original air date: June 10, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Goran Gajic
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@897549573 The Alliance has formally declared war on the Centauri.
+
+   
    • @@@897549573 Londo and G'Kar have returned to Centauri Prime, where
+	they've been imprisoned because Londo refused to allow G'Kar to
+	be arrested as ordered by the Regent.
+
+   
    • @@@897585142 Zack has discovered Garibaldi's drinking problem, but
+	has agreed to give Garibaldi time to work it out on his own.
+	Garibaldi's drunkenness has started to cost lives, and contributed
+	to the start of the war since he was unable to warn Sheridan about
+	Centauri ship movements.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@897585142 Why didn't the White Stars have a secondary contact
+	other than Garibaldi?  Garibaldi wouldn't have been in his office on
+	alert 24 hours a day even if he weren't drinking; given the gravity of
+	the situation, it's odd that the White Star captain didn't try to get
+	in contact with someone else (Delenn or Lennier, for example, would
+	presumably have been sufficiently trustworthy) to make sure the report
+	was heard in time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897585142 In a sense, the minister was probably right; the
+	attacks really are being staged by a third party, namely the
+	aliens in the Royal Court.  And it's possible their goal is exactly
+	what he accused the Narn of: to implicate the Centauri.  Perhaps they
+	want to see Londo's empire crushed by the Alliance,
+	revenge for Londo's rejection of the Shadows
+	("Into the Fire.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897592140 Sheridan's declaration of war on the Centauri gives
+	Londo's comments in
+	"War Without End"
+	a different spin.  Londo said, "There's the legacy of your war,"
+	referring to the flames engulfing the city below the Centauri royal
+	court.  Perhaps Alliance forces were responsible for the destruction,
+	and Londo's comments about Sheridan allowing the Shadows' minions to
+	come to Centauri Prime referred to the fact that they caused the war
+	to start.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898534358 Londo and G'Kar watching the Centauri fleet fly overhead
+	is a visual reference to Londo's dream in
+	"The Coming of Shadows"
+	in which he watches a fleet of Shadow ships fly over the palace.
+	His dream eventually came true in
+	"The Hour of the Wolf."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898541873 Which parts of his book do G'Kar's later chapters correct?
+	Perhaps the parts the Narn in
+	"The Ragged Edge"
+	was referring to when he quoted the book as saying the Centauri
+	shouldn't be trusted.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898537086 Garibaldi's failure to warn Sheridan was foreshadowed in
+	his dream in
+	"Darkness Ascending."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909090791 Sheridan's blockade of Centauri space could make life
+	more difficult for his father, who needs a rare Centauri drug to treat
+	a blood disease
+	("The Exercise of Vital Powers").
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@902861573 Garibaldi had a bowl of oranges on his table, a pretty
+	expensive commodity on the station
+	("The Geometry of Shadows.")
+	That may mean he's making a lot more money as Director of Covert
+	Operations than he was as the station's security chief.  Or, more
+	likely, that Lise isn't above spending some money to keep his diet
+	healthy; she can no doubt afford to ship oranges just about anywhere.
+
+   
    • @@@897593295 Director Goran Gajic is Mira Furlan's husband.  The
+	character of Aldous Gajic in
+	"Grail"
+	was named after him.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897935317 "I have to say this was one of the best episodes of
+	the entire series.  If this is any indication of what the rest of the
+	season is like.......watch out."
+
+	
      
+	Well, the next episode is even more so...and the one after that,
+	more so still.  You get a slight breather for an episode or so -- still
+	very strongly arc, though, just not as in-your-face hardhitting -- and
+	then the last are whammers.
+
+	
      
+	"I suspect a stream of apologies to you are about to begin."
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, right, and pandas will fly out of my butt.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@887704242 Haven't seen the director's cut yet, but Goran did a
+	great job, based on dailies.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897585142 It was shot for shot what I wrote...but at the same
+	time, a director can realize that well, or poorly.  I thought that
+	Goran did a terrific job.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897933568 How much of the tension in the opening scene was
+	thanks to the director?
      
+	It's shot for shot what was in the script, but at the same time, a
+	director must take that shot and make it live.  Goran did that
+	admirably.  He kept the camera moving, framed his shots very nicely,
+	got into the emotion of the scene, and worked very well with the
+	editor; we only did a light dusting in the editing room.
+
+	
      
+	Since a number of folks have asked, here is the opening scene as
+	written.  (I only have the first draft in my home computer,
+	modifications were done in the office, which involved trimming some of
+	this for time.)
+
+	
      
+	****************
+
+	
      +FADE IN:
+
+EXT. BABYLON 5: A new shot, closer, emphasizing the darkness of the station in
+eclipse.
+
+INT. DELENN'S QUARTERS - BEDROOM
+
+Sheridan is in bed, alone as we will discover in a moment.  He rolls over,
+stirring, and we SHOOT PAST HIM to the doors, where we SEE a single flickering
+light through the translucent glass.  He sits up.
+
+INT. DELENN'S QUARTERS - FRONT ROOM
+
+REVERSING past Delenn to the bedroom doors.  She is seated on the floor, a
+single candle burning before her, the flame halfway down it, praying or
+meditating as the doors open and Sheridan stands in the opening.  His voice is
+quiet.
+
+			SHERIDAN
+	Delenn...?  Are you all right?
+
+She nods, distantly, not taking her eyes off the candle.
+
+			SHERIDAN
+	You should sleep.  It'll be morning 
+	soon.  You'll need all your strength 
+	for what's ahead.
+
+She nods again, but doesn't move.  He gives it a BEAT, knowing 
+she is in a place where he can never reach her, then goes back 
+into the bedroom, leaving the door open.  We PUSH IN SLOWLY on Delenn's face
+
+TIME-CUT - HER QUARTERS - LATER - ON THE CANDLE
+
+The fragile, guttering flame has now burned three-fourths of 
+the way down.  As we slowly PAN UP to Delenn's face, not having  moved in all
+this time, we become aware of the SOUND of the shower running.  She doesn't
+note it, until it stops.  Then there's a BEAT and she looks up toward
+
+ANGLE - THE BEDROOM
+
+Still mainly dark, suggesting pre-dawn, mainly just the light 
+spilling from the bathroom entrance as Sheridan comes out in a 
+robe, toweling his hair.  His manner here is sober, almost 
+somber.  He's trying to keep this normal, but knows that this 
+is going to be a difficult and momentous day.  The more we can 
+set that tone here, the better.
+
+			SHERIDAN
+	It's...all yours.
+
+She nods, distantly.  WIDEN as he goes to the bed and sits.  He 
+pulls on one slipper, puts his foot down, and picks up the other 
+slipper...and just sort of stops.  He doesn't want to put it on.  
+He doesn't want this day to come.  He doesn't want to do what he 
+knows he's going to have to do.  The slipper just dangles from 
+his fingers, the strings cut. Delenn gets up, approaches and sits next to him,
+both with that faraway, haunted look.  She touches his back, and leans against 
+his shoulder for a moment, both taking comfort and strength in the momentary
+contact.  Then she gets up and moves into the bathroom, the robe sliding off
+her shoulders as she steps OS.
+  
+A BEAT, and Sheridan finds the wherewithal to put on the other 
+slipper...and sits there momentarily as we HEAR the VO SOUND of a GAVEL
+POUNDING, and the VO SOUND of the council, along with:
+
+			SHERIDAN (VO)
+	There comes a moment, in all of our 
+	lives, when we have to do something 
+	we'd rather not do.  When we know 
+	something we'd rather not know.  This 
+	is one such moment.
+
+He stands and moves OS.
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897935317 Was the part about Sheridan dropping the slipper
+	added in a later draft?
      
+	Yeah, that was a visual pun written into the script, the other
+	shoe dropping...but also reflecting that kind of low energy thing in
+	the morning, when you put one slipper on, and you just *don't* want to
+	leave...and you just let the energy drain away, and the slipper falls
+	from your hand...which also overlaps the gavel dropping, as scripted.
+
+	
      
+	I took a great deal of care in blocking out every shot in that
+	one, as opposed to some other cases, as with Mike Vejar, where I wrote,
+	in "The Face of the Enemy," "They pull down Sheridan like a pack of
+	wolves bringing down a lion" knowing that he would then take that and
+	turn it into art.  And he did.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897935317 Why did they check the bodies to determine what kind
+	of weapon was used?  Why not the debris from the ships?
      
+	That's what was said, in addition to the rest.  Reference was made to
+	examining the damaged ships.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@897935317 Why doesn't Sheridan warn Londo about the Shadows'
+	allies being on Centauri Prime as he saw in
+	"War Without End?"
      
+	Well, do bear in mind that the events in "War" were 17 years
+	after the fact, so the shadow allies could have come at any time;
+	Sheridan didn't fully understand what a keeper was, and also bear in
+	mind that there is no reason to suspect anything in this situation. 
+	People can indeed start wars without having keepers on them, you know. 
+	We do it all the time.  He would have to have some overwhelming
+	proof...and even then, if he says anything to Londo, he might risk
+	changing the timeline, and that would have potentially disasterous 
+	consequences.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Centauri situation escalates.  Lyta and Franklin visit the Drazi homeworld
+on a mission of mercy at Vir's request.
+
+
+Wayne Alexander as Drakh.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.43
+
+Production number: 518
+Original air date: June 17, 1998
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 Sheridan has authorized the White Star fleet to engage
+	the Centauri if they're involved in hostilities with other Alliance
+	forces.
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 The White Star fleet has been taking steady losses since
+	its construction: many ships were lost during the Shadow War, more
+	during the conflict with Earth, and now more in battle with the
+	Centauri.
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 Sheridan has asked Delenn to relay a request to the Grey
+	Council: release the technologies needed to build White Star-class
+	ships to Earth, which will begin construction of White Star destroyers
+	and cruisers to supplement the existing White Star fleet.
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 On their way to deliver the message, Delenn and Lennier
+	have been attacked by Centauri warships.  Their White Star was left
+	crippled and drifting in hyperspace.
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 Centauri ships have been destroying jumpgates.
+
+   
    • @@@898535531 The Centauri ships carrying out the attacks on Alliance
+	ships have been piloted not by Centauri crews, but by Shadow-derived
+	autopilot organisms.  As a result, no Centauri bodies have been
+	recovered from the wreckage of cruisers destroyed by Alliance forces.
+
+   
    • @@@898538062 Not all the Alliance races are participating in the war.
+	The Vree, and possibly others, have declared their neutrality.
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 Londo has been released from prison, though G'Kar is
+	still there.
+
+   
    • @@@898533327 The Drazi and Narn have launched an offensive against the
+	Centauri homeworld, fully aware that they'll cause large civilian
+	casualties.  Sheridan is trying intercept them with a large fleet
+	of White Stars in time to stop the attack; it's not clear if he has
+	succeeded.  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 The Regent, acting under the control of the Shadows'
+	allies on Centauri Prime, has rendered the planet defenseless against
+	the attack by ordering the ships stationed in orbit to go elsewhere in
+	response to a fake emergency, and by deactivating the automated
+	defense systems.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 What was done to Londo?  Was his experience with the
+	aliens real or a dream?  Does he now have a Keeper
+	("War Without End?")
+	If his experience was real, what was done to G'Kar, if anything?
+
+   
    • @@@898533328 Did Sheridan make it to Centauri Prime in time?
+
+   
    • @@@898537754 What was G'Kar writing in his cell?  More chapters of the
+	Book of G'Kar?
+
+   
    • @@@898537754 What was the gift from Sheridan that Delenn refused to
+	wear?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 Why wasn't Delenn's ship accompanied by any escorts?
+	Granted, the specifics of her mission were supposed to be kept secret.
+	But the Minbari ambassador returning home to consult with her
+	government just after the start of a war would hardly appear
+	suspicious, and given Sheridan's obvious concern for her safety, an
+	escort could easily be justified even if she were simply returning
+	home to deliver a status report or receive new instructions.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898535531 Delenn's White Star was badly damaged by a small group of
+	Centauri cruisers.  Since they were built to fight Shadow ships with
+	immensely more powerful weaponry, its relatively easy near-destruction
+	might seem a bit inconsistent, but that's not necessarily true.
+	First, Delenn was caught by surprise here.  Second, in previous
+	combat situations, White Stars have relied heavily on maneuverability
+	to avoid being hit by the same weapon in rapid succession, giving their
+	defenses time to adapt to particular weapons (as Lennier mentioned in
+	"War Without End part 1.")
+	In this case Delenn's ship took several direct hits in a row.  Third,
+	it might not be a correct assumption that her ship was hit by ordinary
+	Centauri weapons; with the Alliance and its White Stars stepping into
+	the fray, the Drakh and their cohorts may well have applied some
+	leftover Shadow technology to the weapons systems of the cruisers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898143770 Garibaldi's drinking problem seems to have lessened in
+	severity a bit, perhaps as a result of Zack discovering it.  It didn't
+	appear to interfere with his job duties as it has in the past.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898144732 Lyta said the Vorlons gave her knowledge of Shadow
+	technology in case she encountered any of it while working for them.
+	What other knowledge did they give her, and how detailed is it?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898535723 Lyta's enhanced powers were in evidence again; she forced
+	the Drazi assassin to shoot himself.  In a similar situation, it took
+	several telepaths joining forces with Byron to force their will on
+	an enemy soldier
+	("A View from the Gallery,")
+	and they weren't trying to make the alien kill itself.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898537754 Between her deals with Vir and G'Kar, Lyta is accumulating
+	a large sum of money for her cause.  What exactly does she intend to
+	spend it on, given that G'Kar has already promised her ships?  Maybe
+	she's saving it to fund construction once a suitable colony planet
+	has been located.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898541560 Lyta told G'Kar that the deal between the two of them had
+	to be kept secret, but she told Vir what she wanted the money for
+	and didn't exact a similar promise from him.  What part of her deal
+	with G'Kar was Lyta afraid would become public knowledge?  The fact
+	that she was supplying human genes to the Narn?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898541290 Lyta mentioned that she'd heard the Psi Corps had
+	acquired a couple of the Shadow control modules.  What has the Corps
+	done with them?  Is there any relation to the secret mothership the
+	Corps keeps in hyperspace
+	("The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father?")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898536972 Why wasn't the fact that the Centauri ships are operating
+	without normal crews detected before?  Obviously the fact that they
+	didn't leave behind any survivors would have made it difficult for
+	that information to find its way back to the Alliance even if it was
+	detected.  And Lennier's one-man fighter might not have been equipped
+	to perform that kind of scan when he was attached to the cruiser
+	("Darkness Ascending.")
+	But the Centauri warships have been under observation by White Stars
+	for a little while
+	("And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder")
+	and it seems odd that one of Babylon 5's probes could sense that
+	there was no crew while a White Star couldn't.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898537754 Sheridan claimed that nobody started a war "just to honk
+	off your neighbors."  But that's exactly the goal of this war from
+	the Drakh point of view.  Not coincidentally, it was also the strategy
+	of the Shadows: turn everyone else against one another.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898538344 The Narn and Drazi disobeyed the orders of the President
+	of the Alliance on a military matter.  What will the political
+	consequences be?  Does the Alliance charter allow member races to
+	carry out their own attacks against an enemy of the Alliance, or
+	are they supposed to defer to the Alliance?  They appear to be
+	allowed to determine their own defense policies and refuse Alliance
+	intervention, but that isn't necessarily the same as carrying out
+	an attack.  And even if military coordination isn't required under
+	the terms of the Alliance, given that G'Kar wrote the Declaration
+	of Principles, attacks on civilians are almost certainly forbidden.
+	Will the Drazi and Narn be removed from the Alliance?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898537754 The Centauri Minister of Defense may or may not be in
+	on the conspiracy.  If he is, his refusal to consider Londo's proposal
+	was a foregone conclusion.  But given that Londo discovered that
+	military production was being stepped up, and that that fact was
+	classified such that only the Regent was supposed to know about it
+	("In the Kingdom of the Blind")
+	it's entirely possible that the Minister, and his fleet commander,
+	truly believe that the attacks are being staged by the Narn or
+	someone else using surplus ship hulls.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898143770 Londo's mad dash from the Regent when he was told the
+	planet was defenseless may be evidence that he doesn't yet have a
+	Keeper (though arguably a Keeper wouldn't bother stopping him
+	from doing what he did since there was no chance of undoing the
+	Regent's sabotage.)  The Regent's comment that Londo should enjoy his
+	remaining "free" time further implies that Londo isn't under alien
+	control yet.
+
+	
      @@@898537969 
+	But it's possible that a Keeper isn't implanted all at once.  In
+	"Racing Mars,"
+	Captain Jack's Keeper grew back after most of it had been removed;
+	maybe a Keeper is implanted by placing a spore of some kind in the
+	victim and letting it grow.  In that case, Londo may indeed have
+	been implanted and the Regent may have been referring to the amount
+	of time it takes a Keeper to become active.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898144732 The alien's comment that Londo was "sufficient" implied
+	that he might not have been -- how was Londo being measured?
+	Given that he's in line to be the next Emperor, how much latitude do
+	the Shadow allies have in their selection of subjects?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898535531 Once again, Londo has stood in the sand garden looking
+	skyward, just as in his dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows,")
+	its eventual fruition
+	("The Hour of the Wolf")
+	and his observation of the Centauri fleet
+	("And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898533328 It's not clear
+	whether Sheridan arrived too late to stop the attack on Centauri Prime.
+	The sequence as shown was: the Narn/Drazi fleet jumped out of
+	hyperspace.  Londo saw some jump points open in the sky.  The Narn and
+	Drazi started firing.  What's unanswered is, were the jump points
+	Londo saw the same ones the Narn and Drazi opened?  If not, it's
+	possible Sheridan's fleet arrived just in time, and the Narn and
+	Drazi opened fire on the White Stars, not on Centauri Prime itself.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898535531 If Sheridan didn't arrive in time, then it's
+	possible the attack caused some of the devastation of Centauri Prime
+	seen in
+	"War Without End."
+	(See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@898537754 Two of the principles in the Declaration of Principles
+	are rules of engagement: no destruction of jumpgates, and the return
+	of enemy bodies.
+
+   
    • @@@898143770 The alien surgeons, and their drill, previously
+	appeared in
+	"Ship of Tears,"
+	and
+	"The Exercise of Vital Powers,"
+	in which telepaths recalled receiving Shadow cybernetic implants.
+
+   
    • @@@898537827 Visual inconsistency: When Delenn and Sheridan kiss,
+	she embraces him and puts her hand on his shoulder.  The point of
+	view shifts and they're still kissing, but her hand has jumped to
+	his neck.
+
+   
    • @@@898541424 Franklin's initial refusal to ask anyone for directions
+	to the hotel was a subtle counterpoint to his demand for directions
+	from the Drazi doctor later in the episode.
+
+   
    • @@@898144732 The Minbari-human collaboration on new ships based on
+	White Star technology may eventually form the basis for the Excalibur,
+	the ship in the spinoff series
+	"Crusade."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898328976 How many other shoes have you got to drop on
+	us?
      
+	A couple more shoes.
+
+	
      
+	And a boot or two.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898328167 "Actually, it's possible that this is all just a
+	coincidence of timing. After all, JMS didn't write these episodes
+	knowing when the breaks in the season would take place. On the other
+	hand, I hate coincidence and this is one hell of a big one..."
+
+	
      
+	Funny thing about that.  When I wrote this, this was the first
+	part of a very tight two parter (well, actually, it's part 4 of a five
+	parter; if you watch them straight through, one dovetails right smack
+	into the next, it's one really huge episode).  Anyway, for the fifth
+	one, the next one to air, I decided to do a recap in the teaser, a
+	"Previously on Babylon 5..." compilation.  Hadn't done it with the
+	others, but just decided to do it with this one, since it picks up
+	seconds after the other.
+	 
+	
      
+	Later, after putting it together, in a phone call with TNT, they
+	told me about the decision to put in a break after this episode.  "So
+	you may want to consider putting a recap into the teaser, since this is
+	a two-parter and it's been a long time and that's something you didnt'
+	anticipate."
+
+	
      
+	"Well, actually...I already did that."
+
+	
      
+	A long pause.  "How did you know?"
+
+	
      
+	"I didn't."
+
+	
      
+	Scared 'em real good with that one.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898328167 "and i guess we now know why the attacking centauri
+	vessels wouldn't have noticed lennier exchanging a little
+	breathing--since they weren't really using it thmselves."
+
+	
      
+	Ding!
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898328976 If the Shadows have devices for piloting combat
+	ships, why did they need bodies for their own ships?
      
+	The control pods mainly work via remote control, their functionality
+	(as Lyta noted) is limited.  For the shadow vessels, you need a fast
+	reaction, independent-thinking cpu of a higher order...also because a
+	shadow vessel is a hell of a lot more advanced and complex than a
+	Centauri cruiser.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898535531 Is this attack what caused the damage in
+	"War Without End?"
      
+	Of course, everyone's assuming here that the awful state we find
+	Centauri Prime in, in WWE, is caused entirely by war....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898329151 Why wasn't the beginning of the season more like
+	this?
      
+	Well, it's kinda what I've been saying all along...the bigger
+	the planned wham, the longer the quiet ramp-up.  And, again, the arc
+	was there when it didn't seem to be: this whole thing started when the
+	raids started to take place, which goes back quite a ways.  And Lyta
+	would not be in this position, not this assertive with her abilities,
+	had she not gone through the fire (literally and figuratively) with
+	Byron, whose fate more or less kicked her out of her shell.  The old
+	Lyta would never have just up and gone to the Drazi homeworld on her
+	own; but the money, needed to follow her and Byron's dream, propelled
+	her.
+
+	
      
+	It was ALL there, more or less in plain view.
+
+	
      
+	And without it, without all that careful and deliberate setup,
+	this episode (and especially those that follow) would never have played
+	as well, if at all.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@902865149 "I agree the coldness was disturbing, but I feel this
+	reveals the deep emotion she feels at Byron's death and her consequent
+	ruthless determination to achieve his goals."
+
+	
      
+	This was the point I was going for with people who were saying
+	that the Byron thing was totally extraneous.  To get Lyta to this point
+	as a character -- remembering her "I'll sue" tirade as the last time
+	she even sorta kinda got mad -- she would *have* to go through the
+	fire, and lose something that meant enough to push her to this point. 
+	So you had to let the relationship with Byron go full term, follow it
+	over time, and see what it meant to her to justify and motivate what
+	happens to and with her in the last part of the season.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As Sheridan races to stop the Alliance ships from attacking Centauri Prime,
+Londo's fate, and that of his people, is decided.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.22
+
+Production number: 519
+Original air date: October 28, 1998 (US)
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Douglas Wise
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+   
    • @@@909646871 Sheridan didn't arrive in time to stop the Alliance
+	ships from bombarding Centauri Prime.  The capital city was hard hit.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 The Regent is dead, killed by the Drakh to give Londo
+	an alibi for the attacks on the Alliance cargo ships.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Though he believes the Narn can never forgive the
+	Centauri as a whole for what they've done, G'Kar has personally
+	forgiven Londo.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 The Drakh have planted a Keeper on Londo.  He has agreed
+	to the implantation, forced into it by the Drakh's claim that they've
+	planted hundreds of fusion bombs all over Centauri Prime and will
+	detonate them unless Londo cooperates.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Londo has been crowned as emperor of the Centauri
+	Republic.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Delenn and Lennier have been rescued from hyperspace
+	by the Centauri and reunited with Sheridan.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Londo has officially appointed Vir as the new ambassador
+	to the Alliance.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 The Alliance has demanded large war reparations from the
+	Centauri, large enough that the Centauri economy will be on the brink
+	of collapse.  Londo has agreed, but has told his people that they'll
+	rebuild Centauri Prime alone, without any help from other worlds.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Over a dozen ships have been sent to the Vorlon homeworld
+	since the Vorlons left.  All have been destroyed by the Vorlon
+	automatic defense systems.  According to Lyta, the Vorlon homeworld
+	is off limits "until we're ready... in a million years."
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 What work was the Drakh referring to when he claimed
+	Centauri Prime was "perfect ground for us to do our work?"
+
+   
    • @@@909684733 What will happen to the Alliance now that at least two
+	of its member races have disregarded the President's orders?
+
+   
    • @@@909684733 How badly was Centauri Prime hit?
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Why didn't Londo tell G'Kar about the Drakh?  Was he
+	afraid that the knowledge would put G'Kar's life at risk?
+
+   
    • @@@910043603 What happened to the Keeper that was attached to the
+	Regent?  Was it the same one the Drakh later removed from his chest?
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 What other Shadow technology do the Drakh have?
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 What's on the Vorlon homeworld?  What determines whether
+	humanity is ready to go there?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910045031 One of the first things the Drakh said to Londo was
+	the Vorlon question, in this case, "Who are we?  What are we but a
+	shadow of a shadow?"  Most likely it's completely innocuous, but it's
+	possible that with their masters gone, are the Drakh now
+	beginning to ask themselves questions other than the one put forth
+	by the Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909646871 The Drakh told Londo that they wanted a home.  That's the
+	same thing the Drakh representative told Delenn in
+	"Lines of Communication."
+	If she had given them a world as they'd requested, would they have
+	settled there and not come in force to Centauri Prime?  Likely not;
+	they were already on Centauri Prime in at least some capacity, since
+	the Regent had already been implanted with a Keeper
+	("Epiphanies").
+
+	
      @@@910043845 
+	The Drakh desire for a homeworld echoes the telepaths'
+	struggle for the same thing.  Both the servants of the Vorlons and
+	the servants of the Shadows have been left adrift and homeless after
+	the First Ones' departure.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 The Regent was under Drakh control, but there may have
+	been others; someone had to plant the fusion bombs all over Centauri
+	Prime (assuming that wasn't just a bluff) and place the Shadow pods
+	on the Centauri warships.  Obviously it's possible that all this was
+	done by ordinary Centauri under the Regent's orders (which can only be
+	disobeyed on threat of death, as Londo said in
+	"In the Kingdom of the Blind")
+	but the question still remains, how many other Centauri
+	are under Keeper control?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 The Regent died when his Keeper was removed, but in
+	"Racing Mars,"
+	Captain Jack survived the loss of his Keeper -- and it even grew back.
+	Maybe it's simply that the Regent's Keeper completely removed itself,
+	while Captain Jack's was still partially in place.  Or it may be that
+	a Keeper can control whether its host lives or dies when it leaves.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909646871 Keepers grow, or at least live, on the bodies of Drakh.
+	That suggests that the Keepers aren't independent entities per se, but
+	are instead appendages of the Drakh.  Shadow organic technology can
+	receive instructions over large distances as evidenced by the pods,
+	so it's possible that Keepers employ the same techniques to stay in
+	contact with their parent Drakh even when far away.
+
+	
      
+	It may also be the case that Keepers are in extremely short supply;
+	for example, it's possible that each Drakh can only be linked to
+	a single Keeper.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 Accepting the Keeper -- and the position of Emperor --
+	may have been the fulfillment of the last of Lady Morella's prophecies
+	("Point of No Return"):
+	"You must surrender yourself to your greatest fear, knowing it will
+	destroy you."  Londo accepted the loss of his autonomy and moved one
+	step closer to his dream of death
+	("The Coming of Shadows")
+	for the sake of saving his people.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910252056 Londo's acceptance of the Keeper, self-sacrifice for the
+	sake of his people, is in line with the Third Principle of Sentient
+	Life as taught to Minbari
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness").
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909646871 Londo told Sheridan that in exchange for freeing Delenn,
+	he might ask Sheridan for a favor in the future.  What nature of favor
+	did he have in mind?  Was asking for a favor Londo's idea or the
+	Keeper's?  Londo has exchanged favors for favors before
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness")
+	and the fact that his tone abruptly became belligerent just after he
+	asked for the favor implies that the Keeper took control of him at
+	that point.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, this favor may just cancel out the one Londo
+	already owed Sheridan for telling him about the approach of the Vorlon
+	fleet
+	("Falling Toward Apotheosis").
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 Delenn speculated that she and Lennier might find a
+	million-year-old jumpgate left behind by the First Ones.  That has
+	already happened at least once
+	("Thirdspace").
+	Given what happened in that case, Delenn would probably have second
+	thoughts about actually trying to activate such a device.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909686798 The Centauri warships that rescued Delenn and Lennier
+	might well have been preparing to destroy them, only to receive orders
+	to the contrary from Centauri Prime at the last moment.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909646871 Lennier's admission to Delenn probably won't change her
+	attitude toward him significantly, since as she said, she already knew
+	he was in love with her.  But it may eliminate any possibility that
+	he can maintain his facade of platonic devotion toward her, and may
+	make it harder for him to convince himself that he can win her love.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910044090 How did Londo convince the Drakh not to kill Delenn?
+	Or did he give the order on his own?  If the Keeper didn't regard such
+	an order as a threat to its interests, it might have allowed him to
+	do so.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 What were the reparations demanded of the Centauri?
+	Are they the reason the Centauri apparently still hadn't rebuilt after
+	17 years
+	("War Without End")?
+	Why would Sheridan go along with a demand that would crush an entire
+	world for two decades?  As a student of Earth history, and given his
+	familiarity with World War II in particular
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	Sheridan must have recognized that crushing war reparations can have
+	unintended consequences, e.g. the rise of the Nazi party in a Germany
+	crippled by humiliating sanctions after World War I.  Why would he
+	risk something similar happening on Centauri Prime?
+
+	
      
+	One possibility is that he felt he had no
+	choice; the Narn and Drazi had already amply demonstrated their
+	willingness to take matters into their own hands when they weren't
+	getting satisfaction from the Alliance.  Sheridan may have felt that
+	anything less than outrageous sanctions would prompt some of the
+	Alliance races to start killing again.
+
+	
      
+	It's also possible, of course, that the reparations will have nothing
+	to do with the state of Centauri Prime seventeen years hence (at which
+	time there will once again be fires burning in the capital city.)
+	Perhaps Centauri Prime's future condition will be due to the Drakh
+	or the war against them (which will take place in the next twenty
+	years, according to Delenn's recollection at the end of
+	"Rising Star.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 The Narn and Centauri are now mutually responsible for
+	large numbers of civilian deaths on each other's homeworlds.  Each
+	homeworld ended up under the control of enemy forces after being
+	bombarded, though most of the Centauri don't know about their occupiers
+	yet.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909646871 The particulars of Londo's speech were almost certainly 
+	dictated by the Drakh.  By isolating Centauri Prime from the other
+	worlds, the Drakh will more easily be able to work in secret without
+	attracting the Alliance's attention.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 Londo said the Centauri were now alone in the universe.
+	That resonates with Kosh's description of the Centauri
+	("Midnight on the Firing Line"):
+	"They are alone.  They are a dying people.  We should let them pass."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910045130 Londo referred to the war, and the attack on Centauri
+	Prime, as "the long night."  Is that related to Kosh's message to
+	Sheridan in
+	"Day of the Dead,"
+	"When the long night comes, return to the end of the beginning?"
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 This is the second time Londo has sent Vir away to
+	protect him from Shadow influence; he arranged for Vir to be the
+	ambassador to Minbar in
+	"A Day in the Strife."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909646871 Franklin said, "We know the Shadows had hundreds of
+	allies."  Did he mean hundreds of individuals, or hundreds of races?
+	If the latter, who were the Shadows' allies besides the Drakh, and how
+	does Franklin know about them?
+
+	
      
+	One possibility is that the word "Drakh" refers to Shadow servants in
+	general, not one particular species.  That would also explain why the
+	Drakh on Centauri Prime doesn't look like the alien who boarded the
+	White Star in
+	"Lines of Communication."
+	(That alien identified himself as an emissary of the Drakh, though,
+	so it's possible he wasn't Drakh at all.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909684733 Is the Vorlon homeworld related to the new Earth
+	mentioned in
+	"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars?"
+	That episode took place a million years in the future, at which time
+	humanity would, according to Lyta, be allowed onto the Vorlon
+	homeworld.  There's some symmetry if the Vorlon homeworld is the new
+	Earth: the Drakh had a home but lost it thanks to the Vorlons (in the
+	form of Lyta's enhanced powers, which set off Z'ha'dum's self-destruct
+	mechanism in
+	"Epiphanies")
+	while humanity lost a home but gained a new one thanks to the Vorlons.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Keepers can't be seen unless they choose to be seen.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 A Keeper doesn't control its host all the time, according
+	to the Regent; it only does so when its interests are at stake.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 The primary weapons of a White Star produce recoil.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Weapons-console sequence for continuous fire of a White
+	Star's main weapons: Green, then red twice.
+
+   
    • @@@910039130 Centauri warships are equipped with tractor beams, just
+	like Minbari ships
+	("And the Sky Full of Stars,"
+	among others).  It may be that tractor beams are a natural extension
+	of artificial gravity technology, which both the Centauri and Minbari
+	employ.  Earth ships, at least until Earth's recent acquisition of
+	artificial gravity
+	("Rising Star"),
+	have to tow objects conventionally
+	("Soul Hunter").
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Either Centauri encryption isn't very thorough, or
+	Vorlon/Minbari codebreaking technology falls just short of being able
+	to crack it in real time.  Sheridan's first officer was able to discern
+	voices in the transmission to the Centauri fleet, but not any words. 
+	That implies that the transmission was encrypted using some form of
+	audio transformation.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 The idea of boarding up all the windows in the palace
+	("In the Beginning")
+	was originally Vir's.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 Shadow remote-control pods aren't as efficient as
+	directly employing a sentient being as the brains of a ship.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 It's possible to visit the San Diego ruins.
+
+   
    • @@@909646871 The weapons used in the terrorist nuking of San Diego
+	("Midnight on the Firing Line")
+	could be traced back to the breakup of the Soviet Union, according to
+	Franklin.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@909690725 This is a devastating episode, by the way...so much
+	happens in this that it's kinda staggering, actually.
+
+	
      
+	Of the final 5, this one, and the last two, are my favorites.  And I
+	like 'em all.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910251884 Yes, the capital was getting beat up, but there's a
+	difference between thousands of dead and billions dead...Londo sacrified
+	himself to save the lives of billions.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Lochley and Garibaldi discover they have some shared history.  A confrontation
+with Lyta leads to a startling revelation.
+
+
+Denise Gentile as Lise.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.58
+
+Production number: 520
+Original air date: November 4, 1998 (US)
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 Sheridan has placed Garibaldi on suspension until he takes
+	care of his drinking problem.  Sheridan suspected Garibaldi had started
+	drinking again, but hoped he was wrong.
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 The Narn government is desperate to get G'Kar back.
+	According to Franklin, half of Kha'ri want him to return to become
+	leader, while the other half want him to return to give them his
+	blessing to lead on his behalf.  They have threatened to boycott
+	Babylon 5 unless he returns home.  G'Kar, though, has no desire to
+	return; he's certain he'd become the focus of a cult of personality
+	that would drown out the message he's trying to spread.
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 There have been a dozen attacks on Psi-Corps facilities
+	in the past month.  In every case, the attackers left behind a message:
+	"Remember Byron."  Earth officials have traced the money trail back to
+	Babylon 5, and more precisely to Lyta.
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 Lochley's father was an alcoholic, and she became the same
+	thing; she ran away from home and became a drug addict until someone
+	close to her died
+	("Day of the Dead").
+	Now she, like Garibaldi before his relapse, never touches alcohol.
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 Lyta's powers have been growing dramatically; now she's
+	capable of controlling a large roomful of people.  Sheridan, however,
+	is immune to her influence, since he has also been touched by the
+	Vorlons.
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 Delenn is pregnant.
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 Lochley, concerned about Garibaldi's condition, has
+	called Lise to Babylon 5 on his behalf.  She has convinced Garibaldi
+	to give up his post on Babylon 5 and return home to Mars with her to
+	help run Edgars Industries as her husband.
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 Lyta has been arrested, but Garibaldi plans to get a
+	senator who owes favors to Edgars Industries to intercede on her behalf.
+	That's part of a larger deal between the two of them.  Lyta knows she
+	isn't qualified to hide the funds she's getting from the Narn
+	("Darkness Ascending")
+	so Garibaldi will do it for her under cover of Edgars Industries.
+	He'll maintain two funds: a token public fund to help telepaths in
+	need, and the real fund, which he'll use to hurt the Corps and help
+	Lyta assemble a force she can use against them.  After two years, if
+	Lyta is satisfied with his progress, she will remove his inhibition
+	against harming Bester
+	("Phoenix Rising").
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 Lyta has come to believe that her telepathic enhancements
+	are a form of doomsday weapon built by the Vorlons, something they'd
+	use when they'd run out of other weapons against the Shadows.
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 Since neither of them can remain on the station without
+	causing trouble, and neither of them can go home without attracting
+	huge amounts of unwanted attention, G'Kar has offered to take Lyta
+	along as a traveling companion as he visits alien worlds.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910291887 How much of Lochley's history does Sheridan know, given
+	that she was recovered when he married her?
+
+   
    • @@@910291887 Is Delenn's baby the son she referred to in the cell
+	on Centauri Prime
+	("War Without End")?
+
+   
    • @@@910251188 How did Garibaldi find out about the deal between Lyta
+	and G'Kar?  Has he been tracing the same money flows the Earthgov
+	investigators have?
+
+   
    • @@@910293580 Where will G'Kar and Lyta go?  Could she return to
+	the Vorlon homeworld with him?
+
+   
    • @@@910729924 Who will replace G'Kar on the Alliance advisory board?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910469027 If Sheridan really did suspect that Garibaldi had started
+	drinking again, why did he entrust him with delicate intelligence
+	duties such as monitoring the Rangers' messages during the Centauri
+	blockade?  Granted, Sheridan didn't want to believe Garibaldi
+	had relapsed, but given that he knew one slipup on the Alliance's
+	part might lead to a shooting war, why did he risk the lives of
+	billions of people?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910291887 Is Sheridan immune to telepathic influence in general?
+	For example, can he be scanned?  If not, that might explain why Clark's
+	people tried to brainwash him with drugs and interrogators
+	("Intersections in Real Time")
+	without employing any telepaths (visibly, at least) to either help the
+	procedure along or sense how well it was working.
+
+	
      @@@910729880 
+	One question is how much of Sheridan's seeming immunity is due to his
+	contact with Kosh as opposed to his contact with Lorien.  He's carrying
+	part of Lorien now, the part Lorien gave up to keep him alive after
+	the battle with Kosh
+	("Falling Toward Apotheosis").
+	It's likely that Lorien is resistant or immune to Vorlon telepathic
+	influence.
+
+	
      @@@911070201 
+	If Sheridan really is immune to telepathic scans for whatever reason,
+	it'd explain his seemingly odd behavior in
+	"Falling Toward Apotheosis,"
+	in which he kept his plan secret from Garibaldi and others for fear
+	Kosh would read it from them, but was apparently unconcerned that he
+	himself would be scanned.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910293580 Sheridan can justifiably be pretty confident that Delenn
+	can carry a child to term; she mentioned a son during his flashforward
+	in
+	"War Without End."
+	But of course, he has no way of knowing whether she was referring to
+	the baby she's carrying now, or whether that future is set in stone.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910730175 Lochley commented to Garibaldi that he couldn't hurt
+	the people who hurt him, people like Bester.  How does she know
+	Garibaldi can't hurt Bester?  Is she aware of the neural block, or is
+	she simply assuming that Bester is too well-protected or distant for 
+	Garibaldi to have any hope of striking at him?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910293580 Parallels between Garibaldi's situation and Franklin's
+	stim abuse: Both were in denial about the effect it was having on their
+	job performance.  Both wanted to control or fix everything, but couldn't
+	and turned to drugs as that became apparent.  Both took leaves from
+	their jobs to deal with their problems.  Franklin had to "meet himself,"
+	which he did, while Sheridan said Garibaldi's fight was with himself.
+	Both turned to women to seek help: Cailyn the singer in Franklin's case
+	("Walkabout")
+	and Lise in Garibaldi's.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910251188 Garibaldi's neural block doesn't prevent him from trying
+	to remove it.  Perhaps this is just a sign of Bester's overconfidence;
+	he might have assumed that nobody would be capable of removing it, so
+	it wouldn't matter if Garibaldi tried.  Why he wouldn't have realized
+	Lyta might be capable isn't clear, since he was familiar enough with
+	her enhanced abilities to want her body for research after her death
+	("Moments of Transition").
+
+	
      
+	He didn't learn about her enhanced abilities until after Garibaldi's
+	kidnapping, though, and it's possible that planting an additional
+	mental block would have required more extensive contact than he had
+	with Garibaldi after Garibaldi's return.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910251188 Garibaldi's initial offer required that Lyta leave Babylon
+	5.  Why?  Obviously Lochley and the rest of the crew don't want her
+	around, and it may be that Garibaldi was simply looking out for the
+	station's interests.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910251188 Will Lyta's removal of Garibaldi's inhibition help spark
+	the Telepath War?  She implied that she'd wait two years to make use
+	of whatever forces Garibaldi assembled for her.  With the two of them
+	going after the Corps full force at that point, a full-fledged war
+	could well be the result.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910342555 Lyta told Garibaldi she couldn't undo an addiction.
+	Does that mean, for example, that a person who undergoes death of
+	personality
+	("The Quality of Mercy")
+	would retain whatever addictions existed under the original
+	personality?  Or did she really mean she couldn't undo an addiction
+	without seriously altering other aspects of someone's personality?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910342086 By sponsoring acts of violence, Lyta has arguably betrayed
+	Byron's philosophy in the name of carrying out his work.  How does she
+	reconcile the situation in her mind?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910251188 How powerful can Lyta become?  Will she transform into a
+	being similar to Ironheart
+	("Mind War")
+	if her abilities extend far enough?  She's arguably already more
+	powerful than a Vorlon; she's able to control a large group of people
+	and still carry on a conversation, while the second Kosh did nothing
+	of the sort while he was being killed
+	("Falling Toward Apotheosis").
+	Of course, Kosh was being attacked, which might have been
+	enough of a distraction to prevent him from taking control of his
+	assailants.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910475572 Garibaldi has been exposed to Lyta's enchanced powers in
+	the past: his dream in
+	"Darkness Ascending,"
+	in which she told him she'd decided to stop hiding what the Vorlons
+	did to her.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910341324 Lyta said that in a war, you make one or two big weapons.
+	Did the Vorlons make more than one, or is Lyta the only one?  If there's
+	another, what or who is it?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910475744 Lyta's description of herself as one of the Vorlons'
+	big weapons echoes Franklin's comments about weapons remaining after the
+	end of a war
+	("The Fall of Centauri Prime").
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910251405 G'Kar and Lyta are in the same position Londo was in
+	"The Fall of Centauri Prime"
+	-- all the power they could ever want, and no choices.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910251823 G'Kar's idea is similar to the Minbari tradition of "going
+	to the sea"
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness"):
+	travelling among the stars in the hopes of finding one's calling.
+	The difference, of course, is that both G'Kar and Lyta believe they
+	already know what their callings are, but G'Kar thinks he can only
+	achieve his goal by leaving home behind.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910469306 G'Kar has been touched by Vorlons too, in the form of his
+	brief but highly influential contact with Kosh in
+	"Dust to Dust."
+	Did that contact confer any resistance to Lyta's abilities?  Probably
+	not anything close to Sheridan's, but he may well be a better choice
+	to accompany her off the station than he realizes.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910251405 G'Kar mentioned turning down leadership of the Narn.
+	That was in
+	"The Long Night,"
+	after Londo withdrew Centauri forces from the Narn homeworld.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889493140 The title may be a reference to Shakespeare's "King Lear,"
+	act 4, scene 7:
+
+	
      
+	You do me wrong to take me out o' the grave:
      
+	Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound
      
+	Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears 
      
+	Do scald like molten lead.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	The quote is from King Lear as he lies sick on his bed, his response
+	to attempts to save his life.  That might apply to Garibaldi's
+	situation in this episode.
+
+	
      
+	Another possible reference is to Greek mythology (and in fact, the
+	Shakespeare quote might itself be a reference to the myth.) Ixion, son
+	of the god Ares, tried to seduce Zeus's wife Hera.  As punishment, Zeus
+	bound Ixion on a fiery wheel, which rolled unceasingly through the air.
+
+	
      
+	Finally, in Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings" (specifically "The Return
+	of the King") the One Ring is likened to a wheel of fire.  If that's
+	the source of the title, the reference might be to Lyta's powers.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910475351 The wheel of fire visually has spokes proceeding out
+	from a central flame; the center burns outward.  And several of the
+	fires smoldering lately have done that; with Byron it was a literal
+	flame that has now gone out along the spokes and had substantial
+	repercussions, with more to come years down the road.
+
+	
      
+	It's also a Shakespeare quote, "I am bound upon a wheel of fire,
+	that mine own tears do scald like molten lead."  Which tends to
+	describe Londo's situation as well.  (King Lear)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910468703 Doesn't Sheridan remember what he saw and heard
+	during his flashforward in
+	"War Without End?"
      
+	Y'know, this discussion kinda baffles me to some extent.
+
+	
      
+	For starters, Sheridan was only in the future briefly; he was
+	being beaten and was confused and not sure how much of it was real; he
+	doesn't know if his going to Z'ha'dum *changed* any of that
+	future...the events he did see were 20 years down the road, and
+	there's no way for him to know (as we know, the audience) what
+	connects to what...he sees only destruction, and that could have
+	happened two weeks before (there's no rule that says a capital city
+	can be bombed only once)...no way to know if the keeper may have been
+	implanted days or months before.  To try and impose a quick
+	understanding of events 20 years down the road on things happening
+	right now, without knowing the context, would be madness...you don't
+	need a keeper to start a war, or half our own leaders here would have
+	had keepers on them.
+
+	
      
+	As for Delenn...yes, he heard her talk about their son, but at the
+	same time, again, that's 20 years down the road.  Their son could be
+	any age, so the news that she's pregnant will still be a shock
+	whenever it comes; you may know that you're planning to have kids,
+	that the doctor says its possible, but when you actually hear the
+	news, it's a stunner every time.
+
+	
      
+	His question is a natural one...he doesn't know if the kid in the
+	future had to be taken out of utero to be sustained until it came full
+	term, doesn't know if extreme measures had to be taken...his question
+	is a sensible and justifiable one.
+
+	
      
+	People are assuming that what *they* know as the audience, Sheridan
+	knows, which he does not...and assuming that he knows everything that
+	is to come, or what it means, or how it happens, or in what context,
+	which he does not.
+
+	
      
+	His memory is not faulty.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As some longtime residents prepare to leave the station, the crew races
+to stop an assassin.
+
+
+Denise Gentile as Lise.
+Marjorie Monaghan as Number One.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.62
+Production number: 521
+Original air date: November 11, 1998 (US)
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Story by J. Michael Straczynski and Harlan Ellison
+Directed by Jesus Treviño
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Number One
+	("Racing Mars"),
+	whose real name is Tessa Holloran, joined the Mars 
+	government after Mars gained independence from Earth.  She is now the
+	head of security for the Interstellar Alliance, replacing Garibaldi.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 After Mars' independence day, corporations which had
+	been exploiting Mars rushed to cover their tracks.  The Martian
+	government has been going to great lengths to track down the dirty
+	secrets of Earth-based corporations.  Earth, meanwhile, has been
+	making it very difficult for the new Martian government to conduct
+	its business, throwing up bureaucratic roadblocks at every opportunity.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Sheridan has offered to set up a fund for Mars that's
+	independent of any Earth influence.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Garibaldi replaced the entire board of Edgars Industries
+	after they sent an assassin to kill him and Lise, and has set up an
+	account that will pay a 500,000-credit reward for the board's death
+	should anything happen to him or to Lise.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Garibaldi and Lise are now married and have left for
+	Mars.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Lyta and G'Kar have left the station to travel among the
+	stars in an explorer ship G'Kar purchased.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910895819 What was the delayed-delivery message G'Kar left?
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Was Delenn's visit to Minbar successful in securing an
+	agreement to construct more White Star-class warships?
+	("Movements of Fire and Shadow")
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Sheridan noted that wars of independence are frequently
+	followed by civil wars.  One example would be the Shadow War, which
+	ended up being about independence from the manipulation of the First
+	Ones; it was followed by civil wars on both Earth and Minbar.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910856752 When Sheridan told him about the plan to catch the
+	assassin, Garibaldi seemed skeptical that Zack had come up with the
+	idea on his own.  That suggests that Garibaldi still considers Zack
+	somewhat green and inexperienced.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910856752 There was no mention of Lyta's departure or her
+	contributions to Sheridan's cause in his going-away speech.  An
+	intentional omission to keep her out of the limelight, or is it
+	another example of the problem she's complained about in the past,
+	that nobody thinks of her or appreciates her unless they need
+	to make use of her?
+
+	
      
+	Her belief that that's always the case is evident in her reaction to
+	G'Kar's offer to take her with him; she assumes he's doing it because
+	he wants her DNA, not because he genuinely wants her as a traveling
+	companion.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Normals can train themselves to defend against telepathic
+	scans by singing songs or doing math calculations in their heads.  This
+	is likely a reference to Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man," in which
+	the main character uses a song to avoid being scanned.
+
+	
      @@@910938858 
+	Telepaths in the underground railroad
+	("A Race Through Dark Places")
+	also used songs and rhymes to shield themselves from telepathic scans.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Links stick to the hand using a molecular bonding
+	mechanism that doesn't adhere to metal.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Links are DNA-coded to respond to a particular user, but
+	that can be overridden with the right modifications.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 A Minbari can be seen
+	cheering G'Kar in the crowd at the departure ceremony.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Partial list of the previous Edgars Industries board
+        members:
+	Mr. Paretti, Mr. Everson, and Mr. Amastoy.
+
+   
    • @@@910856752 Garibaldi's parents both died a long time ago.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910983723 The opening credits say "Story by Harlan Ellison and
+	JMS" and "Teleplay by JMS."  What's a teleplay?
      
+	There are two parts of writing an episode: the basic storyline,
+	sometimes presented as an outline, and then the actual script which is
+	a more specific elaboration on that story.  Story is, "King John and
+	Queen Mary live in the castle and they have a hard night between them."
+
+	
      
+	Script is: 
+
+
      +EXT. CASTLE - NIGHT
+We see the banners unfurling in the breeze, and go to
+
+INT. CASTLE - NIGHT
+KING JOHN and QUEEN MARY are in bed.  He's awake, she's sleeping.  He looks up
+at the ceiling. 
+
+                                  KING JOHN
+		 Why me?  Of all the gin joints and
+		 castles in England, why did she have
+		 to step into mine?
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911070244 Who wrote the scenes concerning G'Kar's
+	admirer?  JMS or Harlan?
      
+	The general notion of the thread came up between us.  The actual scenes
+	were written by me.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911440954 Before Lyta left, she looked behind her.
+	Did she know Zach was there, or was she just hoping someone
+	would be there?
      
+	She was hoping somebody would be there.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Interstellar Alliance headquarters moves to Minbar.  Lennier faces the
+consequences of a terrible mistake.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.91
+
+Production number: 522
+Original air date: November 18, 1998 (US)
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Copeland
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 The Alliance headquarters on Minbar (in Tuzanor, described
+	in novel
+	"To Dream In the City of Sorrows")
+	has been completed, and Sheridan and Delenn have moved in.
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 G'Kar has named Ta'Lon
+	("All Alone in the Night")
+	as his successor on Babylon 5.
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 Franklin has appointed Dr. Hobbs
+	("Interludes and Examinations")
+	as the new chief of staff of B5's medlab, thanks to her diverse
+	experience and her willingness to stand up for what she believes in.
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 Tessa Holloran (Number One) is, Lochley and Sheridan agree,
+	working out well as the new head of Alliance intelligence.  She's
+	not joining Sheridan and Delenn and the rest of the Alliance cabinet
+	on Minbar.  Sheridan feels that Babylon 5, as a center of commerce
+	and travel, is a better venue for intelligence-gathering.
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 Garibaldi has taken over the day-to-day operations of Edgars
+	Industries.  Since the previous board of directors is gone
+	("Objects in Motion")
+	he has gathered a group of the most vocal whistleblowers and critics
+	from within the company and named them the new board.
+
+   
    • @@@911504597 Lennier has, through inaction, tried to kill Sheridan.
+        He has fled in shame and vowed not to return until he finds a way
+        to redeem himself in Delenn's eyes.  This is just as the ghost
+	of Morden prophesized in 
+	("Day of the Dead").
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 Londo has given Delenn and Sheridan a gift for their
+	child: an ancient Centauri urn, which Londo says is traditionally
+	passed to the heir to the throne.  The urn contains a Keeper.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 Is the giving of the urn a real Centauri tradition as
+	Londo claimed, or just something concocted by the Drakh to get a Keeper
+	into Alliance headquarters?
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 How can Lennier redeem himself?  Where has he gone?
+
+   
    • @@@911547249 In
+        "The Deconstruction Of Falling Stars"
+        we learn that a something newsworthy befalls Sheridan and Delenn's son
+        David.  Could this have something to do with the keeper in the urn?
+
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911462615 G'Kar's statement that Ta'Lon is as ready as G'Kar was
+	when he first came to Babylon 5 echoes Londo's reassurance to Vir
+	("The Fall of Centauri Prime")
+	that Vir would do at least as good a job as Londo had.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911462615 Londo's request for alcohol during dinner was more
+	emphatic than might be expected.  Has he already discovered that alcohol
+	can put the Keeper to sleep
+	("War Without End")?
+	If so, what was he hoping to say or do with the Keeper out of the way?
+	Would he have warned Sheridan and Delenn about the Urn, told them about
+	the Drakh, or something else?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911462615 Delenn's ability to see the Keeper, if only vaguely,
+	is reminiscent of her sense that Morden was touched by the Shadows
+	("Signs and Portents").
+	In this case, though, it seemed she didn't quite know what to make of
+	the sensation, since she didn't mention it to Sheridan after Londo
+	left.  What enables her to sense Shadow influence?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911462615 Londo believes the Centaurum will eliminate the position
+	of Emperor after he's gone, which implies that he either doesn't believe
+	or doesn't remember Lady Morella's prophecy that Vir would become
+	emperor after Londo's death
+	("Point of No Return").
+	Or, of course, the Keeper might have been forcing him to say what he
+	said, in order to encourage Sheridan to accept the gift.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 The first Centauri imperial palace was built 2000 years
+	ago, according to Londo.
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 Minbari have no word for "goodbye."
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 Zack believes he'll still be on Babylon 5 when they turn
+	out the lights.
+
+   
    • @@@911462615 Of the original major players from the start of the
+	series, only Vir is still on the station.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@889482760 When is the final day of season 5 shooting?
      
+	It's either March 20th or 21st, I forget....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911504597 Did you make any special notes in the script of "Objects
+	At Rest"?
      
+
+	Yeah, my instructions to Chris were the same there as for
+	another scene next week, "break our hearts."  And the two
+	themes are actually pretty much the same, since they proceed
+	from similar contexts.  That section of "Rest" just puts me
+	away every time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@921691787 Will we ever find out what happened to Lyta
+	and G'Kar?
      
+	I'm writing 3 B5 short stories for Amazing Stories magazine; the first
+	is a Londo (shortly after he became emperor) story; also doing a
+	G'Kar/Lyta story, and a B5-setting story, all following these
+	characters after the events of "Objects at Rest."
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+In Sheridan's final days, old friends gather to celebrate.
+Takes place in 2281, approximately
+twenty years after the end of the rest of the series.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.34
+
+Production number: 523 (see Notes)
+Original air date: November 25, 1998 (US)
+DVD release date: April 13, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by J. Michael Straczynski
+
    
+
+
    
+Nominated for 1999 Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@912068997 David, Sheridan and Delenn's son, is in Ranger training in
+	2281.  Sheridan and Delenn have given strict instructions to the
+	teachers to not give any special treatment to their son.
+
+   
    • @@@912102269 As predicted by Lorien
+	("Falling Toward Apotheosis")
+	Sheridan has died.  His body was apparently carried away by Lorien.
+
+   
    • @@@912068997 Ivanova has been promoted to the rank of General in
+	2281, and works in an office on Earth.  Or rather, she did, but has been
+	appointed head of the Rangers after Sheridan's death.
+
+   
    • @@@912068997 Garibaldi has a daughter in 2281 and still lives with
+	Lise on Mars.
+
+   
    • @@@912102269 After the Alliance headquarters moved to Minbar, Babylon 5
+	saw less and less use; its original mission of uniting the galaxy in
+	peace had succeeded.  It was finally deemed not worth the cost of
+	keeping around, and has been destroyed.
+
+   
    • @@@912102591 Zack retired from the military and went back to Earth.
+	Then, years later, he re-upped and returned to the station, where
+	he stayed until its demise.  Afterward, he joined Vir (now Emperor
+	of the Centauri) on Centauri Prime.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@860876414 NOW what?
+
+   
    • @@@912068997 What happened to Sheridan's body?
+
+   
    • @@@912102269 What happened to Lennier?
+
+   
    • @@@912102591 Why was Zack limping?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@912068997 Sheridan's disappearance echoes the disappearance of
+	Valen, who is presumed dead but whose body was never found
+	("Atonement").
+	Was Valen spirited away by Lorien as well?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912102269 Why did the station fall into disuse over time?  It's
+	true that its political mission became irrelevant with the founding
+	of the Interstellar Alliance, but that was only one of several
+	purposes the station served: it was also a bustling trade hub located
+	in a convenient area of space, an outpost of the Earth Alliance, a way
+	station for people travelling elsewhere, and after the founding of the
+	Alliance, a place of historical interest as well.  
+
+	
      
+	One possibility is that it became less and less convenient relative to
+	other hubs as the Alliance equalized member races' technologies,
+	causing, for instance, artificial gravity to become the norm.  Better
+	hyperspace navigation technology might have made it irrelevant as a
+	waypoint and less necessary as a trading center.
+
+	
      
+	Still, the argument about it being a hazard to navigation seems a bit
+	odd; in the vastness of space, it's a tiny speck.  Granted, it's
+	possible to emerge out of control from the jumpgate and be on a
+	collision course with the station
+	("Soul Hunter")
+	but a slight change of orbital position would almost certainly
+	eliminate that possibility.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912102591 Since Garibaldi is still alive and well in 2281, he
+	wasn't killed by either Lyta or Bester during the Telepath
+	War, which had already taken place by the time of Sheridan's death
+	(Delenn mentioned it at the end of
+	"Rising Star").
+	Was his mental block removed?  Did he get his revenge on Bester, and
+	did Lyta succeed in destroying the Corps?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@913017823 Why didn't any Soul Hunters
+	("Soul Hunter")
+	arrive to capture Sheridan's
+	soul at Coriana 6?  He almost certainly fits the profile of a soul
+	worth preserving in their view.  A few possibilities: he was taken
+	away by Lorien, but didn't die per se; the Soul Hunters changed their
+	policies or disbanded after the events of
+	"The River of Souls";
+	or Lorien somehow prevented them from approaching.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@860757087 Shooting ended May 5, 1997.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867479749 Although this is the final episode
+	of the series, and airs
+	at the end of season five, it was actually shot during the
+	fourth-season production run, and originally carried a production
+	number of 422.  At the time, it wasn't clear whether
+	the show would be renewed for a fifth season, and JMS wanted this
+	episode to close the series whether it ended after four or five years.
+	Since it's set 20 years after the rest of the story, it works equally
+	well as an epilogue to
+	"Rising Star"
+	or to the last regular season-five episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912068997 Several B5 staff members have cameos in this episode,
+	including producer John Copeland and coproducer George Johnsen.  JMS
+	appears briefly as the maintenance worker shutting off the station's
+	lights.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912068997 The Hugo award that JMS won for
+	"The Coming of Shadows"
+	appears at the beginning of the scene in General Ivanova's office.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912710200 As Sheridan dresses to leave Minbar, the reflection in
+	the mirror includes the illusion of a cross.  This was unintended,
+	as noted by JMS below.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@913017503 Text of the display on Marcus' suspension chamber in
+	the closing credits:
+
+	
      
+	CRYOGENIC SUSPENSION CHAMBER
      
+	SUBJECT: Marcus Cole
      
+	Designation: Ranger
      
+	Status: Deceased
      
+	Comments: Indefinite Hold in the event of new resuscitation
+	technology
+
+	
      
+	REQUESTED BY: CMDR. S. IVANOVA
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@988363485 Why
+	there's a duck at the top of the page.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  On GEnie, 11 April 1992:
      
+	A few days ago, I sat down with our line producer, John Copeland, and
+	production designer John Iacovelli, and we were talking about the need 
+	to move quickly on some stuff, and how painful the process is to have
+	the whole story in your head, already told, really, and then have to
+	make it all over again so we can put it on film.  "You think you've got
+	it bad," I noted, "I've already worked out the last scene in the last
+	episode of the last season (#5)...and I've still got to make Movie #1."
+	They called me on it and asked what that scene was.  Just to see their
+	reaction, I told them.  They looked at me as if I'd suddenly sprouted
+	three heads and feathers.  It was worth it.  (Happily, they're sworn to
+	secrecy.)  It was also good because I think that, even without filling
+	in the beats in between, it gave them a good sense of where the series
+	was going to go.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@848646937 What will be revealed over the course of the series?  All of it.
+
+	
      
+	By the time the series has run its five-year course (Neilsen willing),
+	there will only be ONE unanswered question left: "NOW what?"
+
+
      
+   
    •  My titles are often in a state of flux; "Signs and Portents" was
+	originally titled "Raiding Party" in my notes, as the B5 FAQ notes
+	somewhere.  So it may change, but for the time being, in my notes for
+	the series, the last episode of year five has this note: Title? --
+	"Farewell" or "Sleeping in Light."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Babylon 5 story ends at the final episode of year five.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And there will never be a Babylon 6.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If I didn't have a good, solid, consistent ending, I wouldn't have
+	started the story.  I always have the ending before I begin writing
+	the beginning.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@851073979 "What this boils down to is... is the ending you
+	envisioned at the start of Babylon 5 the same today as it was then?"
+
+	
      
+	For the most part, yeah...it's gotten a bit refined over time, the way
+	it always does the closer you get to it...it's like seeing a mountain
+	from a great distance, then closing in until you can make out the
+	details.  But basically, yeah.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854608470 "Are you at all concerned that, when it's all said and
+	done, that some fans will scratch their heads and wonder:  "You mean
+	thats it?""
+
+	
      
+	No, I don't think so.  The story for "Sleeping in Light," the last B5
+	episode, is such that it is completely moveable, and self-contained, and
+	buttons down the arc in what I think is a very moving fashin.  I think
+	that when it's all said and done, the average reaction will be to sit
+	back and say, "That was a good story."  Obviously you can't please
+	everyone, and you can't expect to.  But basically, yeah, I think it's
+	going to end well.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846714236 In theory, the final episodes would air in the summer of 1998.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's always been a side-story that could spin off from B5, but the
+	main core story is over at the five-year mark.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I've always said that there's a side story that could follow the 5
+	year B5 storyline, which takes place in the B5 universe, and follows
+	on the heels of the events in B5...but who knows if that would happen?
+	
      
+	The one thing I would hate is for B5 to become any kind of so-called
+	"franchise."  Because as soon as that happens, you're prevented from
+	making any changes, from doing anything that might startle people,
+	cutting into the piggy-bank.  Once that happens, you're dead.
+	
      
+	I've also made no secret of my sense that, should B5 run its full
+	five year course (and assuming the side-story doesn't go, which I 
+	would not exactly count on)...I plan to get out of TV.  By that 
+	point, I would have said pretty much everything I want to say in TV,
+	and it's time to get out, buy a small house somewhere outside London,
+	and spend the rest of my years writing novels, which is kinda where
+	this all began.  (I've had 2 novels, 1 anthology, and a bunch of 
+	short stories published, as well as 500 or so articles.)
+	
      
+	I never got into this to make a ***FRANCHISE***, and never really
+	intended to become an executive producer.  I just don't like being
+	rewritten...so I climbed higher, until finally there was nobody over
+	me messing with my scripts.  Outside of the B5 reality, if someone 
+	came to e and offered me *staff writer* on a show -- the lowest
+	position in the TV totem pole -- but with the guarantee that I
+	wouldn't be rewritten, they wouldn't change the words...I'd take it
+	in a hot second.  I'm here, now, strictly out of self-defense.
+	
      
+	Two valuable social skills are knowing when to enter a room, and when
+	to leave a room.  At some point, you have to get out or become 
+	something you don't want to become.  I've never really been part of 
+	the Hollywood SYSTEM, and have no desire to do so.
+	
      
+	In "The Velvet Alley," Rod Serling wrote of a young advertising writer
+	who becomes a success at writing television.  At one point, the 
+	character says (paraphrased from memory): "Here's the trap...in TV 
+	they pay you lots of money for what you do...then, slowly, your 
+	standard of living rises until you *need* that constant flow to stay 
+	at that level.  Then...they threaten to take it away from you if you
+	don't behave.  And THAT'S when they've got you."
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happens at the end of the five year arc?  The "Babylon 5" series
+	ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do).  If something 
+	else follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be the same series,
+	or the same title, or really the same characters.
+	
      
+	Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year 
+	arc, I take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+
+
      
+   
    •  I've mentioned before that there's a side-story that could go off,
+	within the B5 universe, with a few of our characters, once the
+	Babylon 5 story itself comes to an end in its fifth year, but that's
+	a long ways off, and I don't know if that's realistic.
+	
      
+	You have to understand...I never came in wanting to be a producer.
+	I'm a *writer*, and I only got here because it was the only way to
+	protect the words...create and run the damned show so nobody can mess
+	with it.  Once I've finished the Babylon story, assuming it runs its
+	full length, (5 years alone, more if there is that doubtful spinoff),
+	the story is over.  Every story has a beginning, middle and end, and
+	the story's over when it's over.
+	
      
+	I've also made no bones about the fact that, should the Babylon story
+	run its full term, I will have said just about everything I want to 
+	say in television, and plan to get out, go back to writing novels.
+	
      
+	My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say
+	it, and get the hell out.  (Second philosophy behind that one: when 
+	in doubt, roll in a grenade and come in firing.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846714236 From the start, I've indicated that there's a side-story
+	that could go off in the B5 universe after the 5 year story is up, but
+	it wouldn't be B5. Frankly, however, given the current state of the
+	syndication market, I'd suggest that the odds of that happening are
+	slim and none.
+
+	
      
+	So barring anything truly exceptional -- like someone handing
+	me an anthology series -- my plan at the moment is to retire from TV at
+	the end of the five years and go back to writing novels and plays.  At
+	that point, I think I'll have said just about everything I want to say
+	for TV.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@846714236 If B5 goes its full five years, I think I'd probably
+	prefer to get out of TV and go back to writing novels and plays.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860875811 Re: 422...this one is a stand-alone episode which I
+	specifically designed in order to have the flexibility to air it either
+	as 422 or as 522, depending on what happens.  This way if year 4 is all
+	there is, we get to where we need to get; if we get year 5, then we
+	shoot 501 and air it in 422's spot, and air 422 in place of 522.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864500234 501 isn't written yet, won't be until we get the final
+	word.  We could certainly get it finished in time for the US airing in
+	422's spot, and as for getting it done in the UK, assuming a mid-July
+	start for season 4, means you'd run episodes through late October/early
+	November so again you're okay.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864580843 The final 4 would get aired in October.  If there's no
+	season 5, then the fourth one aired is 422, "Sleeping in Light."
+
+	
      
+	If there is a season 5, 422 is yanked out of the mix and moved
+	down to occupy 522's slot, and we shoot 501 and get it done in time to
+	air in place of 422 in October.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864500289 To repeat what I've said here several times, we would move
+	501 into 422's slot and make that the cliffhanger ending, then 502
+	becomes the first episode of season 5, and 422 is the last.  So each
+	season works out to 22 episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863715725 Wouldn't season five take place after the final scene
+	you mentioned?
      
+	Negative; season 5 would take place in 2262, 19 years before
+	the "final scene" you mention.  And no, I wouldn't want season 5 to be
+	just a setup for the sequel; it was sketched out long before that
+	became any kind of possibility, and I have no interest in doing that
+	sort of thing.  We'd do one or two small things, but no more than that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864580923 There's no need for confusion.  Season 4, as you know,
+	takes place in 2261.  Season 5 would take place in 2262.
+
+	
      
+	422, or 522, depending on the breaks, takes place in 2281.  So
+	it plays just fine either way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864668075 Was the story always intended to end in 2281?
      
+	Yes, the final chapter in the series was always going to fall in 2281,
+	20 years after the events in 2261.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860888700 "What are the chances of major spoilers being leaked from
+	"Sleeping in Light" over the next year?!?!?!?"
+
+	
      
+	I'm sure some of that's bound to happen...but the reality of it is that
+	if you add up all the people who are online and might get this
+	information, you'd actually end up with only about 4% of the viewing
+	audience...so it'll still have its desired impact.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863715925 "You have spent the last 4 years keeping your actors in
+	the dark as to their final fates (for the most part).  Will their
+	knowledge of the ending have adverse effects on the acting from this
+	point forward?  I expect the answer is they are good at their jobs and
+	will continue to be outstanding in their performances, but many of them
+	have mentioned that the lack of knowledge of their future had  played a
+	part in their performances."
+
+	
      
+	Not really, no more so than seeing G'Kar and Londo strangling
+	each other as early as year one...but we didn't know what that *meant*
+	until later.  And there's still a long, long way between that episode
+	and where we leave off at 421.  A lot happens there that nobody else
+	knows, inclusive of the cast.
+
+	
      
+	"Also, if you've neatly tied everything up, what does that really
+	leave for season 5?  Filler, non-arc stories?  This has been my biggest
+	fear.  That season 5 will now be farmed out to other scriptwriters, who
+	don't have the intimacy with the story that you have, and that the
+	quality of stories will take a nose dive with filler material."
+
+	
      
+	Without giving too much away, season 5 would be empire building.
+	It wouldn't be filler at all, but a logical extension of what has gone
+	before.
+
+	
      
+	Basically...I often get messages from people worrying about what
+	might be...then they see what *is* and it's, "Oh...okay, got it." 
+	Generally speaking, I think it's better to react to what is rather than
+	what might never in fact be an issue.  I ain't let you down yet....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864692770 With great trepidation, and at the urging of Warner
+	Bros., I've decided to direct one episode this season...not because I
+	have any particular ambition to be a director, but because I think it
+	will help me become a better writer by more fully understanding that
+	side of the camera.  Given how massively busy I am already, this
+	decision will almost certainly be called as evidence in any sanity trial
+	that might take place in future.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860888700 "Why were they [Warner Bros.] so interested in you
+	directing?"
+
+	
      
+	Well, they know the show is really my vision, and they're
+	curious what it would look like if it was also followed through behind
+	the camera.  And as our liaison with WB said, "We like it when our
+	creative people spread their wings a little."  They like the show, and
+	it does well for them, and they're just generally supportive that way.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@863715925 "I'm sincerely curious about how you found the experience
+	of directing your baby -- of being responsible for creating, writing,
+	producing *and* directing it."
+
+	
      
+	My main goal was not to embarrass myself overmuch.  I think I
+	came out okay.  I've now seen an editor's assembly of the material, and
+	it plays real nice.  Now I get to go in and make the director's cut,
+	which will to all intents and purposes also stand as the producer's
+	cut.
+
+	
      
+	The main thing is...this one is *exactly* the way I saw it in my
+	head. It has a somewhat different feel than prior episodes, though hard
+	to quantify. But I think it came out nicely.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867088736 "Having read through this months edition of Starburst (I
+	think), Claudia Christian mentions that you enjoyed directing.  My
+	question is a very simple one:  would you do it again, and what part of
+	the directing the episode did you find the most enjoyable/rewarding?"
+
+	
      
+	I really don't know if I'd say that I *enjoyed* it...my main concern
+	every day was somehow getting through it without embarrassing myself,
+	or letting down the crew or the cast or, ultimately, the viewers.  I
+	wanted the direction to the the equal to the performances I knew were
+	waiting to be unlocked.  I haven't commented on it much for the same
+	reason you rarely see me saying that a given script of mine is
+	good...I'm too close to it and too critical of everydamnthing I do.
+	But so far everyone of the crew who's seen it, and a few others, were
+	very much moved and satisfied by it.
+
+	
      
+	I don't know if I'll do it again or not...my gut says probably not.
+	If I *were* to even try it again, it couldn't be anything other than a
+	final episode of a season, given how much is involved in prep if
+	you're going to have a chance to get it right.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864580539 Did you do anything special on the last day of
+	shooting?
      
+	Around lunchtime, I began to notice people filtering out --
+	crew and others -- wearing white t-shirts with blue lettering
+	that read, on front, "Shhh...the Great Maker is Directing."
+	And on the back, "...and on the seventh day we wrapped." JMS
+	4:22 May 5, 1997.  It was a nice thing, and we're considering
+	making the shirts available via the fan club.
+
+	
      
+	Since it's customary for directors to bring in food on the last
+	day of an episode shoot, I brought in food at the end of the
+	day, and folks stayed around until late in the evening, just
+	hanging around, chatting, eating, and the like.  (I headed home
+	around 7 mainly because I was just bushed.) We also took a big
+	family picture that will go into the end credits of the
+	episode, whenever it will finally air.  A lot of our past
+	directors, crew, actors and others showed up for the thing, and
+	stayed for the party, knowing that either way, this was going
+	to be the last episode of the series, whether it's 4 or 5
+	years.
+
+	
      
+	Then everybody went away for a few days, and now we're back
+	shooting movie #1, "Thirdspace."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@861835387 "But seriously, what kind of responses do you expect to
+	see in this newsgroup the week following the last episode?"
+
+	
      
+	In a way you're kind of asking the wrong person, as I'm inside the
+	fishbowl and can't see the show the way anyone outside can see it.  The
+	only gauge I have is the reaction the script got around the stage when
+	people on the crew and cast read it.  (With a note attached explaining
+	the possibility of airing it as 522 or 422, but that either way this
+	would end up the story.)
+
+	
      
+	Pretty much everybody cried.  I came home to a message on my
+	machine from Mira, who was almost unable to speak, and another
+	from Claudia who said she was honored and proud to be a part of
+	this, and the script had made her cry.  Bruce, Richard, big
+	beefy guys on the crew...all said the same thing.  And there I
+	have to concur; I lost is several times as I was writing it,
+	due to the content; there's one scene in particular...you'll
+	know it when you see it...that put me away for an hour when I
+	finished writing it.
+
+	
      
+	But here's the thing...*every single person* who cried at the
+	script, ended it feeling that it was not a sad script in the
+	end, or a down ending...that it left them feeling proud, and
+	tall, and *positive*...that life goes on...that it was a
+	reaffirmation of life itself, on its most primal level.  They
+	felt good about the ending.  And that was a great relief for
+	me, because I was trying something *very* difficult from a
+	writing perspective, and at first blush it looks as if I've
+	pulled it off.  (Now I get to go in as director and *totally*
+	screw it up.)
+
+	
      
+	Only one fan has read the script...someone whose opinion I
+	trust.  Because I was curious about the reaction from that side
+	of the screen.  And the reaction was *exactly* the same.
+
+	
      
+	So how do I think people will react?
+
+	
      
+	I think a lot of people will cry.
+
+	
      
+	But by the end of it, I think it will come around, and be all
+	right...and mainly, that people will then look back at the
+	whole story, through all these long years, and say, "It was a
+	good story."  And close the cover, and put it on the shelf with
+	the other books that will be reread again down the years, and
+	turn off the lights, and go to bed feeling that the time was
+	well spent.
+
+	
      
+	Which is the most any writer can ever ask for.  To tell a tale
+	worth telling  To make people cry.  To make people laugh.  And
+	even, once in a while, make them think about things, and see
+	the world just a little differently than when they began.
+
+	
      
+	And then they can centerpunch me on the freeway, or throw a
+	plane at me, and I won't even mind.  Because everything I set
+	out to prove, I proved.  Everything I set out to say, I said.
+
+	
      
+	I've carried this story like a hermit crab carries its shell
+	for five long years, counting the pilot.  It's been an
+	*awfully* long and difficult road, and no one will ever really
+	know just how hard this show was to make.  Nor should they,
+	because it isn't the difficulty that makes the story, the
+	*story* makes the story.  But one way or another, aired as 522
+	or 422, when it airs the burden is off at last.  Then it no
+	longer belongs to me.  It belongs to you.  As should be.
+
+	
      
+	And, in the end, I think you'll be pleased.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898329026 Last night I pulled out the tapes for the last two
+	episodes, "Objects at Rest" and "Sleeping in Light," and watched them
+	back to back, and I was an absolute wreck afterward.  There are a couple
+	of scenes in both of them that just put me away.  That's *good*, they
+	should, they have to, but man...I was just gone.  
+
+	
      
+	But strangest of all, the final credits sequence and what we did with
+	them for SiL is also very deeply affecting...and I'm not entirely sure
+	why, I think it's something operating at an almost subconscious level,
+	about seeing certain images juxtaposed.  Darndest thing....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877368251 "Between the Darkness and the
+	Light"
      
+	"...as I am a visual artist, I tend to notice lighting and
+	structure,etc., especially on the second (or 3rd) viewing, and the
+	thorny crown was striking to  my eyes, as was the sad,
+	dark-circles-under-the-eyes, immensely tired look on his face, which
+	lent to the illusion."
+
+	
      
+	It's interesting when that happens.  There's a halo around
+	Sheridan's head at one point when he's yelling at Delenn in the big
+	room in "Z'ha'dum," and, just as a pointer to something you won't see
+	for another year....
+
+	
      
+	When I was directing "Sleeping in Light," there's a scene with
+	Sheridan and a mirror.  (That's all I'll say about it, so there's no
+	spoiler info there.)  As John Flinn lit the shot, and angled the
+	mirror...I froze at what I was seeing on the monitor.  I called John
+	over, and pointed to it.  "Do you see what I see?"  It took him a
+	moment, but then his eyes went wide, and by his own reckoning, "the
+	skin on my arms crawled."  He turned to the guys dressing the set and
+	said, in a very loud, clear voice, "NOBODY TOUCHES THAT MIRROR!  YOU
+	HEAR ME!?  NOBODY!"
+
+	
      
+	It's not a big...but it's a pretty cool unintended illusion
+	(though once we saw it, we kept it).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906657212 It airs the day before Thanksgiving.  Won't most
+	viewers be travelling home to their families?
      
+	On the other hand, not everybody has family to travel to, or the means
+	to travel.  So perhaps a family gathering of another type, particularly
+	among folks new to each other in local fan areas, might be even more
+	appropros.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@895442799 Any big promotional plans for this episode?
      
+	Personally, I think that a build-up to the end of the show would be
+	great, although "Sleeping in Light" isn't exactly a big-bang lots of
+	explosions kind of episode, so it might not be as promotable in that
+	sense.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450875 I was watching "Sleeping in Light" again today (I have a
+	tendency to run the last ten minutes plus the credits over and
+	over...to see if it'll stop getting to me, and so far it hasn't),
+	and had some thoughts on it for folks out there. 
+
+	
      
+	People often ask if there's anything they can do in return for B5,
+	something I'd like and I do have some ideas, here at the end,
+	regarding SiL.
+
+	
      
+	I think it would be a wonderful thing if more folks than usual got
+	together for viewing parties on this one.  Not newcomers, not folks
+	who haven't seen the show, just the "family," if you will.  If B5 has
+	helped to create communities, then I think this last episode should be
+	for that community.
+
+	
      
+	I also think you'll find some interesting tie-offs in this
+	show...something about Minbari beliefs about souls born in the hearts
+	of suns, and a pay-off to why the narrations of this series have
+	always been in the past tense, and a gift to the crew of this
+	show...to which end I *strongly* suggest that even if you don't
+	normally tape this series, that you do tape *this* episode so you can
+	go back and check some stuff at the end.
+
+	
      
+	"Sleeping in Light" airs in just a little over two months, and every
+	time I look at it, it has the sense of something very special coming
+	to its conclusion.  It's so damned hard watching it...and yet there's
+	something about it that is massively uplifting at the same time.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, I was just thinking that often viewing parties are used to
+	bring in new folks to B5, but this one, I think, should be for the
+	family.  Maybe local fan groups want to get together, find someone
+	with a good-sized TV, and watch.  It's one of those Moments, I think,
+	that will be remembered a long time thereafter.
+
+	
      
+	And I've got TNT's promise not to run a voice-over or squish the
+	credits at the end.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912623822 Why weren't Lochley or Sinclair included in the
+	credits?
      
+	We are bound by contract to use the credits as they were applied in S4,
+	when SiL was shot.  You can't just put people's credits in a show for
+	sentimental reasons...they trigger residuals, royalties, fees, and
+	other contractual areas.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912623822 I agree about the end credits; as we see their faces the
+	first time, and the last time, they appear in the series, you can see
+	the years and the story in their faces.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912623822 We chose the shots that showed them the first time and
+	the last time we saw the characters.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912796002 Was anything changed as a result of the episode
+	airing at the end of season 5 rather than season 4?
      
+	I had the option to change stuff if I'd been so inclined...but
+	felt it was right as it was.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912623236 What about all the plot threads left
+	dangling?
      
+
+	
      
+	The Drak and Centari Prime?
+
+	
      
+	Vir is Emperor now.  Londo asked Sheridan to free his people; we can
+	assume he did this...but we will also be showing this in the Centauri
+	Prime trilogy of books in more detail.
+
+	
      
+	Londo?
+
+	
      
+	We saw Londo's fate in War Without End Part 2.
+
+	
      
+	Lyta?
+
+	
      
+	The telepath crisis and events surrounding it will provide a lot of
+	the background to Crusade.
+
+	
      
+	Bester and the Psi Corps?
+
+	
      
+	Ditto.
+
+	
      
+	G'Kar?
+
+	
      
+	We saw his fate in WWE2 also.
+
+	
      
+	Garibaldi and Bester?
+
+	
      
+	This will be covered in the Psi Corps trilogy, of which volume 1 is
+	out now, and volume 2 is in my hands for editing.
+
+	
      
+	B5's seemingly needless and useless destruction?
+
+	
      
+	Neither needless nor useless.  It was built cheapest of all the
+	stations, and it takes a lot of money to maintain it.  With trade
+	routes now going around it, there isn't enough income to support it.
+	So do you leave it  intact, for others to occupy or raid for weapons
+	systems and other systems too difficult to yank out?  Or take it out,
+	the same way we implode buildings now?
+
+	
      
+	Sheridan's son - we guess he survived the Drak and their intended
+	keeper?
+
+	
      
+	This will also be covered in the Centauri Prime trilogy...but if you
+	sit back you can do some of the work to figure out a large part of
+	this.  As Londo states, his situation in WWE2 (Sheridan and Delenn
+	captured on Centauri Prime) takes place 18 years after the events in
+	2260, which would put it at 2278.  The urn, given to Sheridan in 2262,
+	is supposed to be given to the heir at the occasion of his/her 16th
+	birthday, by Centauri tradition.
+
+	
      
+	That would put the urn presentation at...ding!...2278.
+
+	
      
+	In 2278, Sheridan and Delenn have been drawn to Centauri Prime.  We
+	know their son is involved, because Delenn says "David is safe."  So
+	they  were somehow able to save him, because we know that in 2281,
+	David is alive and well and serving in the Rangers (SiL).
+
+	
      
+	You can see the shape of the events there...once again the clues are
+	more or less in plain sight...but again, this will be drawn out in the
+	books in more detail.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912623822 I think it's safe to say that we'll be hearing more
+	about the telepath crisis and its consequences in Crusade....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912623822 Dear Mr. Tolkien:
+
+	
      
+	I just wanted to say that I think the way you ended THE LORD OF THE
+	RINGS was crap.  You didn't provide any closure.  Instead of spending
+	time with the hobbits clearing out the shire (come on, urban renwal in
+	LoTR? give me a break) and lots of goodbyes, you SHOULD have shown me
+	what happened to Tom Bombadil, he was an important part of the story,
+	and you just left his story thread there unresolved.
+
+	
      
+	You made a big deal out of the elves going to the west, but we never
+	SAW it!  We never found out what was there, or what Bilbo found when
+	he got there, or what happened to the dwarves, or what happened to
+	Merry and Pippin....
+
+	
      
+	You betrayed your audience by not resolving every single plot thread
+	you introduced in your book, and as a result, it is never going to be
+	of value to anyone, ever, and will never go past its first printing.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@913017000 You have
+	to really decide *Who is the story about?*  You can really only track a
+	couple of characters to the end...here we tracked a number there or
+	nearly there. This story is a history -- told from a future perspective
+	-- about the events of the Babylon station, and those who passed
+	through it, during a specific period in its history.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915700705 Re: Lyta in SiL...okay, if they mentioned Lyta, I'd get
+	nailed for not mentioning Na'Toth...or Sinclair...or Keffer...or
+	somebody else.  You can't do five minutes of roll call in a TV show. 
+	That would be deadly.  They each picked one character to name, because
+	they had a close relationship in some way with that character.  Who
+	among them really had a close relationship with Lyta?  Name me that
+	person.
+
+	
      
+	Had Zack been there, then yeah, maybe he would've named Lyta (or
+	not, given what happens with her later).  THAT would have been
+	appropriate.  But it would NOT have been appropriate to have her named
+	just because somebody wants to hear her name called.
+
+	
      
+	The persons named were ones to whom they had an emotional
+	attachment... Vir to Londo, Garibaldi to G'Kar, Ivanova to Marcus,
+	Sheridan to Londo, Delenn to Lennier.  Lyta did not have that
+	connection to anyone at that table that would be on an equal footing.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912710201 Was that a Hugo on Ivanova's desk?
      
+	Yeah, that was our first Hugo...just sorta slipped it in with
+	Ivanova's other awards.  It was kind of a nod back to our fans...and I
+	think the first time that a Hugo has been shown on-screen in a series
+	that has *won* a Hugo.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912796002 Everybody figured the pak'ma'ra were just a waste...which
+	is why this seemed so right.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912623822 John and Delenn's goodbye seemed a bit formal.
      
+	Yes, there was some element of ritual in their goodbyes; it's a Minbari
+	farewell, hence the "good night," not goodbye.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912796002 What was the ship Sheridan flew?
      
+	It's a smaller, personal version of a White Star.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912623822 Why scuttle the station?
      
+	There are weapons systems on board that station, computer systems,
+	other stuff that would be too much of a hassle to dig out, and you don't
+	want squatters setting up residence there, or raiding the place for what
+	they can get, and maintaining a military presence there to prevent it
+	would be expensive.  With trade no longer coming through, the money to
+	keep the station operating was gone.
+
+	
      
+	Why not send it into Epsilon 3's atmosphere?
      
+	I don't see how sending a 5 mile long station plummeting into the
+	atmosphere of Epsilon 3 is any more or less real than blowing it up in
+	space, where salvage crews can come in and take the metal.  We already
+	*saw* bits of the debris burning up in the atmospher in the second
+	shot... and as for sending the whole thing hurtling down, well, I think
+	Draal might have a thing or two to say about that....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@913016372 Why not tow it somewhere else?
      
+	You couldn't tow something as massive as a 5 mile long station
+	like this through hyperspace; it'd tear apart.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@913493962 It can be moved, sure, but can it *survive* the move?
+	Also, you'd have to bring B5 through a jump point in order to bring it
+	anywhere, and the stresses involved in that would be hideous.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915610877 Was that you turning out the lights?
      
+	Yes, that was me...I couldn't do it before the very last ep for
+	the reasons I'd always stated, and because I was holding it out for
+	this moment. Of course I couldn't *say* that since it would give stuff
+	away....
+
+
      
+   
    • Jan 12, 2004:
+	For S5 I did commentaries on The Fall of Centauri Prime and
+	Sleeping in Light.  The latter was the hardest, since it was the
+	first time I'd seen the episode since it aired. (I just couldn't,
+	it was too hard.)
+
+	
      
+	I should have done so, though, because when we got to B5's
+	destruction, I'm ashamed to admit that my voice broke, it just
+	hit me so hard. After we were done, i wanted to go back and do
+	it again, to fix that, which I thought was unprofessional, but
+	the WB boys prevailed upon me to leave it alone. I just hope it
+	doesn't come across as dumb or something.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Two-hour TV movie.
+Covers the Earth-Minbari War in more detail, including Delenn's involvement
+and the death of Dukhat.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.94
+
+Production number: TNT MoW 2
+Original air date: January 4, 1998
+DVD release date: December 4, 2001 (barebones)
+                  August 17, 2004 (full-featured)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+Novelization by Peter David
+Music by Christopher Franke
+
    
+
+
    
+Note: This guide page assumes prior knowledge of the first four
+seasons of the show, since the movie originally aired after season four
+was complete.  There are spoilers here for the series.
+
+
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@883991639 Londo was among the Centauri delegation to Earth at the
+	start of the Earth-Minbari War.  He advised Earth's leaders not to
+	seek contact with the Minbari, or if they did so, to send only one
+	ship so as not to appear threatening.  Earth's military leaders,
+	full of hubris after the victory over the Dilgar
+	("Deathwalker")
+	ignored that advice and sent an expedition, led by the Prometheus
+	("A Late Delivery from Avalon")
+	to gauge whether the Minbari represented a threat to Earth's
+	expansionist ambitions.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991639 The Rangers existed during the thousand-year interval
+	between the previous Shadow War and the present, but weren't well
+	thought of by Minbari in general.  They were poorly funded and had
+	few members.  Their head at the time of the war, Lenonn, attempted to
+	persuade the Grey Council that the Shadows were awakening and that
+	the Rangers should be granted more funding and manpower, but his word
+	alone wasn't persuasive enough.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991639 Kosh and another Vorlon, probably Kosh's replacement
+	("Walkabout")
+	were present both on Minbar and onboard the Grey Council's ship and
+	consulted with Dukhat.  After his death, Delenn spoke to both of
+	them on a few occasions, though in typical Vorlon fashion they offered
+	little in the way of decipherable advice.  Their presence was known
+	only to Dukhat, and later to Delenn and Lenonn, but not to the rest of
+	the Grey Council.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991639 The Grey Council was on its way to Z'ha'dum, to verify
+	the truth of Valen's prophecy, when the Prometheus attacked and
+	began the war
+	("Atonement.")
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991639 The Centauri refused to provide Earth with weapons or
+	support during the war, fearing the wrath of the Minbari.  The Narn,
+	however, were more than happy to sell modified Centauri weaponry.
+	G'Kar personally closed the deal with the Earth government, noting
+	that if the Minbari discovered the weapons, they'd likely identify
+	them as Centauri in origin and attack the Centauri anyway.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991639 At one point during the war, while Sheridan was serving
+	as first officer aboard the Lexington, a Minbari ambush in an
+	asteroid field killed the captain and left Sheridan in charge.  The
+	ship was disabled and its support vessels destroyed.  He ordered his
+	weapons officers to remove the warheads from three tactical nuclear
+	weapons and plant them on nearby asteroids.  Then he sent a distress
+	signal, which drew a Minbari cruiser into the area.  Two of the nukes
+	were sufficient to destroy the cruiser, which later turned out to be
+	the flagship Black Star.  His victory boosted flagging morale among
+	Earthforce.
+
+	
      
+	This incident has been referred to several times during the course
+	of the series, first upon Sheridan's arrival on the station
+	("Points of Departure")
+	and later, in more detail, in
+	"There All the Honor Lies."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991639 After he destroyed the Black Star, Sheridan was sent on
+	a secret mission.  Accompanied by Franklin and G'Kar, he was to meet
+	with Lenonn, the head of the Rangers, to attempt to arrange peace
+	negotiations.  Unfortunately, Londo learned of the meeting and,
+	mistaking it for an arms shipment thanks to G'Kar's involvement,
+	arranged for a Centauri sneak attack that killed Lenonn.  The
+	Minbari captured Sheridan and Franklin, but Delenn ordered them
+	released after Sheridan relayed a message from Lenonn indicating
+	that Earth hadn't been responsible for his death.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991639 After scanning Sinclair with the triluminary
+	("And the Sky Full of Stars")
+	the Grey Council learned not only that he had a Minbari soul, but
+	specifically that he had Valen's soul.  Delenn volunteered to watch
+	Sinclair after his memory was wiped, to ensure he never learned what
+	had happened to him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991982 Londo watched most of Delenn and Sheridan's conversation
+	in the Centauri prison cell
+	("War Without End part 2.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@883991639 What was the Omega incident?  (See
+	Notes)
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884711589 Dukhat's ritual line during Delenn's induction into the
+	Grey Council, "Will you follow me into fire, will you follow me into
+	darkness?" was a reference to Valen's founding of the Council.  The
+	questions also occur in the Minbari rebirth ceremony
+	("The Parliament of Dreams")
+	suggesting that the founding of the Council was considered a rebirth
+	by the Minbari (not unreasonable, if it gave them new hope in their
+	losing war against the Shadows as well as fundamentally altering the
+	structure of their society.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884116342 According to
+	"Points of Departure,"
+	Sheridan destroyed the Black Star by mining the asteroid belt in
+	Earth's solar system.  The implication here, however, was that the
+	attack took place far away; at that point in the war, it's said
+	several times, the Minbari were only attacking outlying colonies
+	and minor, poorly-defended worlds.  Of course, it's possible they
+	were making occasional forays deeper into Earth space as well,
+	possibly to force Earth to spread its defenses thin.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884711169 It only took two nuclear warheads to knock out the Black
+	Star.  Why didn't Earth start attacking the Minbari with nuclear
+	weapons as a matter of course?  Perhaps it was simply that any
+	incoming missiles or ships were destroyed before they could get close
+	enough to be effective, though on a few occasions (e.g. the
+	Battle of the Line) Starfuries did seem to get as close to the Minbari
+	cruisers as the Lexington's asteroids were.  Was the Black Star only
+	vulnerable because its defenses were down due to the Lexington's
+	apparent lack of power?  If so, that implies the Minbari have some
+	way to counteract the effects of nuclear explosions.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884157630 The meeting between Lenonn and Sheridan took place on
+	an outpost world in the Epsilon system.  That may be the same system
+	where B5 was eventually built (it orbits Epsilon 3.)  That makes some
+	sense, as B5 is located in neutral space bordering the major races.
+
+	
      @@@889493609 
+	In the novelization, the meeting place was described as an abandoned
+	Drazi colony (which doesn't preclude it being in the same system as
+	B5, of course.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883991639 How did Sheridan and Franklin get away from the Minbari
+	cruiser?  Did the Minbari really take the time to drop them off at
+	some neutral location from which they could find their way back to
+	Earth?  Unless it was done in secret, that would presumably have
+	attracted some attention -- two humans arriving on a Minbari ship
+	wouldn't have been a common sight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884247891 When the triluminary glowed for Sinclair, Delenn
+	immediately knew that it meant he had Valen's soul.  Why, then, did
+	it take her another fourteen years, until
+	"Atonement,"
+	to recall that the triluminary also glowed for her, and to
+	thus deduce that she was somehow related to Valen as well?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884116342 Delenn's promise to watch Sinclair explains why the
+	Minbari insisted that he be the one to head Babylon 5
+	("Signs and Portents.")
+	Putting him in a position in which he'd be forced to have contact
+	with her simplified her task greatly.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@884157291 Londo claimed to have had 4 wives.  One of them, depending
+	on how his statement is interpreted, could be the Centauri Republic
+	itself.  The other three were Timov, Daggair, and Mariel, the last
+	two only for a short while before Londo had their marriages annulled
+	("Soul Mates.")
+	Of course, he also claimed to have been fond of all his wives, which
+	didn't appear to be true of Timov, Daggair, or Mariel.
+
+	
      
+	Another wife may have been mentioned in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness part 1."
+	Londo told Garibaldi about marrying a dancer in his youth, then
+	regretting it soon after.  She may have been one of the three wives
+	from
+	"Soul Mates,"
+	or not; it was never made clear.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884157394 One detail about the attack on the Grey Council's ship
+	was left out: the appearance of Soul Hunter ships, as shown in
+	"Atonement."
+
+	
      @@@889493609 
+	In the novelization, a Soul Hunter appeared, and the Minbari made
+	a wall of their bodies to prevent him from getting to Dukhat's body.
+	Delenn was among those forming the wall.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889493609 According to the novelization,
+	the Omega Incident was an unjustified attack on a Dilgar ship by
+	Captain Jankowski.  The attack led to Earth's involvement in the Dilgar
+	War.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884116342 During the series, Ivanova wears one earring; it's one of
+	a pair of lucky earrings.  She gave the other to her brother Ganya
+	before he flew out on his final mission.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884276058 Londo quotes the human saying, "Pride goeth before a
+	fall."  Though widely known, this is actually a misquote of
+	Proverbs
+	16:18,
+	"Pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884116342 The brief glimpse of a gunner onboard the Prometheus
+	after the order to fire was given was from
+	"A Late Delivery from Avalon."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860696890 The story is framed by the old Londo Mollari
+	("War Without End")
+	telling the tale to a group of Centauri children before Sheridan and
+	Delenn are brought before him.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+	
      @@@889493609 
+	According to the novelization, the children are related to Urza Jaddo,
+	who Londo was forced to kill in
+	"Knives."
+	Londo promised to care for Urza's house, thus the presence of his
+	relatives in the royal palace.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865704805 Filming ended June 30, 1997.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884631046 A slight glitch: When Captain Sterns was killed, his
+	blood floats into the cabin since there's no gravity (which is logical
+	since the Lexington had no rotating section.)  But another crewman
+	had blood running down his face, which wouldn't happen without gravity.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884631179 Continuity glitch: While Sheridan was on the Minbari
+	cruiser, his uniform's stat bar was sometimes on and sometimes
+	dangling.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@881254979 A
+	sample chapter
+	from the novelization is available from the publisher's site.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1089729443 This movie was released twice on DVD, once as a
+	barebones edition
+	along with
+	"The Gathering"
+	and later as part of a collection of the
+	B5 Movie Collection.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@881861493 We've finished the producers' cuts of the two TNT
+	Movies, and have come through without notes.  Everyone loves 'em, and
+	agrees that while Thirdspace is very cool, In the Beginning is the
+	best thing we've ever done.  On every level: acting, writing, the
+	directing, sets, costumes...everything.  This one's got Hugo written
+	all over it.  (Which makes it hard to look at, but there you are.)
+	Maybe even Ace.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884632629 It's a very moving and emotional movie in a lot of
+	places, which was the goal.  If it doesn't touch you, there ain't much
+	point to doing it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884020417 How much did it cost?
      
+	If "it" means the series, it's always been under $900 thousand per
+	episode.  If "it" means ItB, the production cost was just a tick under
+	three million bucks.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854165392 TNT will show the pilot movie.  The theory is to do the
+	prequel first, then the pilot, then the series through one run at
+	least, then the second original TV movie to freshen the cycle, then
+	onward.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867512979 In the Beginning will air in January, on a Sunday, in
+	a 4 hour block the other half of which is the original B5 pilot, and
+	then it will go to daily M-F runs of the first 4 seasons at 6 or 7 p.m.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864919949 TNT is a commercial cable network, so there will be
+	commercials.  As I recall, the running time to which I wrote the
+	scripts was 94 minutes 10 seconds.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884632629 We got the ratings, and I can't release them yet,
+	that has to come from TNT, but suffice to say they're dancing in the
+	aisles over at TNT.  Again, I can't give specifics yet, but they had a
+	very specific rating in mind that they felt was the best we would
+	probably get, which we beat handily, and they felt that the pilot, being
+	a rerun, wouldn't do that well...and it ended up doing as well as the
+	maximum they'd hoped the prequel would get.
+
+	
      
+	They're stunned.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374485 Turns out we virtually tripled our regular audience, and
+	*built* each quarter hour, which means folks were jumping in all
+	through, and those who came, stayed.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374485 There were a number of big fans of the show in TNT
+	programming who kept bugging management to pick up the show, do the
+	movies...and whose necks were on the line if it didn't work...who are
+	now dancing in the aisles.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865719116 Is "In the Beginning" a linear story?
      
+	Never said it was linear, only that it predates B5.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867175069 No, the movie won't be linear per se, but broken up by
+	Londo's narration, which will collapse some events together so we can
+	cover the whole history of the war in about 2 hours.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@857584668 Plans are to have Dukhat in the B5 prequel.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867911105 Will Delenn's makeup be the version from the
+	pilot?
      
+	No, we're using the series makeup, rather than add one more
+	permutation.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889494163 It made more sense to put it in line with the series, since
+	there's 22 of the first season, and only 1 of the pilot.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865719137 You may not find out who built the Great Machine in
+	the series, but that will be one of the features of one of the planned
+	TNT movies. And there will be more on the Valen/Sinclair transformation
+	as well.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@866443970 ItB contains surprises and turnarounds for many of the
+	series veteran fans, and it does a great job of laying the foundation
+	for the first two seasons for the newbies.
+
+	
      
+	It's a most elegant dance...and I'm actually kinda proud of it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@874424493 Will ItB spoil some of season one's
+	mysteries?
      
+	That's an interesting question.  When I sat down to write In the
+	Beginning, my feeling was that I should look at the long term.  Would
+	the hole in Sinclair's mind be the same mystery it was in season one,
+	or would it be kind of known thereafter?  If so, then do you want to
+	play with the mystery, or set up what actually happened?  I figured,
+	okay, let's go for the latter...let's let the audience know (which will
+	mostly know by now anyway), and set up the background, with the
+	characters not knowing the first season. I took basic greek tragedy as
+	my model, with ItB functioning more or less as a Greek chorus that sets
+	things up.
+
+	
      
+	If you want to play it as a strict mystery, then no, probably
+	don't go near ItB...but frankly, if I were going to start someone off
+	on B5, I'd definitely want to start with ItB, which sort of skims in
+	and out of the overall storyline in a beautiful fashion.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889494163 "I know you probably couldn't have made a movie about the
+	Earth-Minbari War without giving away the ending, but I was kind of
+	hoping the details would be left more vague than they were for the
+	benefit of new viewers."
+
+	
      
+	I came to that part of my decision-making process, and realized
+	that in 2, 5 or 10 years, the secret ain't gonna be secret anymore...so
+	why not play into that, and make the audience aware up front, which
+	adds a different kind of tension, like seeing the bomb under the table
+	when the characters eating dinner don't know it's there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889494163 Sheridan and Franklin had already met when Sheridan
+	arrived on B5.
      
+	Yeah, in my notes on Sheridan I had him meeting Sheridan before,
+	but never did much with it at the time...we never see the first time
+	Sheridan and Franklin meet in the second season, and when we do they're
+	hanging out pretty casually, as people who've met each other before
+	might.  Bear in mind, also, that there's about 11 years between the two
+	incidents, and at best they were casual acquaintances on one mission.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860696654 From coproducer George Johnsen
      
+	The Nova Class Dreadnaughts have been around for quite a long time, but
+	are getting a "sprucing up" for further development. As we discovered in
+	our own navy, there is a need for several classes of ship of varying
+	sizes.
+
+	
      
+	The Omega Class are the next development in that series.  The habitat
+	section was added, as well as more armored sections.  There is a further
+	development of that class under discussion.  You can also see some
+	design elements of the class contained in the Cortez.
+
+	
      
+	The newer ships under development are all of smaller classes, like the
+	Olympus Class Corvette, the Badger heavy fighter, and the Cotten Class
+	Deep Penetration Tender.  We will see these participate heavily in the
+	second of the TNT movies.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883993504 How long between the war and Londo's recounting of
+	it?
      
+	It's 35 years from the time in which Londo is speaking, and Anna and
+	Sheridan weren't married during the war, they were married after.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374100 Didn't you promise no cute kids or robots?
      
+	Hello...is anyone there...?  I always said that in relation to SERIES
+	REGULARS AND RECURS.  Every time we have a kid on the show, and we've
+	had several, somebody throws this at me without once remembering that
+	this applies to series regulars/recurs, like Wesleys or the bots from
+	Buck Rogers.  
+
+	
      
+	And then somebody gigs me for something I didn't say.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@860696890 Spoiler for "War Without End
+	part 2"
      
+	The Londo scene in question
+	is the one that takes place moments before Sheridan and Delenn are
+	brought in, and then allowed to escape.  (War Without End.)  He can't
+	exactly see to their execution since they outlive him in story
+	continuity, now can he?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374485 The karmic point of no return is the whole of his
+	[Londo's] life, from ItB's events through the bombing of Narn,
+	which led to the death of hundreds of thoudands or more.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884632630 Londo's first wife was a dancer, who he was forced to
+	divorce by his family.
+
+	
      
+	Adira reminds him of her a lot.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884632630 "But that still doesn't explain the "cared for them
+	all deeply" part in relation to the other three..."
+
+	
      
+	We remember what, and how, we choose to remember.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374485 "Did you consider putting the scene of the hunter
+	confronting the Minbari at the battle of the line into the movie?"
+	(Ed. note: not the Battle of the Line, but the initial attack
+	on the Grey Council ship, as mentioned in
+	"Soul Hunter.")
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, for some time, in fact...but the logistics involved in
+	staging a full-scale assault, dozens of soul hunters, the fight itself,
+	would've taken up about 10-15 minutes minimum, which would have had to
+	come out elsewhere, and I can't find 15 minutes in that movie that's
+	expendable.  One can only do so much in the amout of space, and time,
+	and money, one has.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374669 There wasn't time to do it in the movie...it would've
+	taken about 10-15 minutes to set it up and pay it off properly, and I
+	couldn't find 15 expendable minutes in ItB.  There's a brief window
+	after the body's death where the soul hunters can still move in, so
+	there was time...we showed their ships moving in in Atonement, and to
+	do so again here would get in the way and really confuse new viewers.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374485 About Kosh and Ulkesh, the other Vorlon
      
+	No, I wouldn't call them friends.  They had a certain respect
+	for one another, but Ulkesh always thought Kosh was soft, and Kosh
+	always worried that Ulkesh was dangerous.  In their own ways, both were
+	right.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884630587 It wasn't so much a case of Ulkesh turning against the
+	effort, but finally hitting the end of his patience with the humans,
+	and his predecessor's decision to let the "natives" get out of control.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374485 Were Kosh and Ulkesh near the top of the Vorlon power
+	structure?
      
+	It's not a hierarchy as you or I would understand it...and the
+	weird thing is, though I kinda know how it functions, I'll be damned if
+	I can figure out how to explain it in words.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884632738 Zha is the usual reference for the future, whose meaning
+	changes depending on whether it's a suffix or a prefix, and what it's up
+	against. Isil-zha usually means change, changing the future, coming of
+	a new age; entil-zha is the one who creates or guides the forces
+	creating the future; and z'ha'dum (with the broken zha) is the death of
+	the future, or the dark future.
+
+	
      
+	Kosh and Ulkesh were contemporaries, though Ulkesh was
+	the more military of the two, very isolationist, while Kosh was the
+	curious one, interested in the younger races, and more willing to
+	extend himself (with sometimes unfortunate results).  Kosh always
+	worried what Ulkesh would do without his moderating presence...and
+	ultimately had to be the one to take him down to allow the younger
+	races to step forward.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884374485 About the sequence leading up to the Battle of the
+	Line
      
+	Yeah, I'm real happy with that sequence, starting with the top
+	of the act and straight through to the President's speech...I think
+	it's one of those moments when we committed art.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@885924539 "In the "2 years" montage in "In The Beginning", we
+	see an Earth Alliance ship ram a Minbari cruiser amidships, blowing a
+	hole through its middle. Does this mean that Sheridan's was not the
+	only ship that destroyed a Minbari battleship during the war?"
+
+	
      
+	Sheridan was the only one to score a *victory* against a Minbari
+	war cruiser.  Meaning he survived.  Ramming one, and dying in the
+	process, ain't a victory...at best it's a draw.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884632630 "I nearly cried when the President asked the military
+	to "hold the line" so that a pitiful few hundred could escape. In that
+	single moment, you feel that even if the Minbari had done it, those few
+	refugees would have sired a people who, eventually, would have made it.
+	Just at that moment, you see the echo to the ball of light flying into
+	the encounter suit a million years hence."
+
+	
      
+	It's a very moving scene, even for me.  There's something in
+	particular about a female president making that request, and giving
+	those orders, that is especially strong.  I don't know why that should
+	be, but somehow it is. We as a people tend to forget our own strength,
+	and as Londo says, our stubborn nobility.  We only seem to remember it
+	when we stand on the edge of the abyss, when it's almost too late to do
+	anything about it.
+
+	
      
+	"I always have felt this show is about him."
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, in many ways, it is.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@879537326 Will Sinclair even be mentioned?
      
+	Nobody said he wouldn't be mentioned; using the footage we shot from
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars," he's in the last part of the movie.  Bear
+	in mind that at the time he was a squadron leader assigned to Earth as
+	part of the defense network there, so didn't have a great deal to do
+	with the larger parts of the war.
+
+	
      
+	Basically, each character (with the exception of one or two) gets one
+	or two scenes in the movie (we have a lot of them, remember).  To
+	bring Michael out from New York, at first class airfare, plus
+	accommodations, salary, for one or two scenes (one of which we already
+	*had* him for) was impossible under the budget, much as we discussed
+	it and would've been interested in doing so.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889494471 How do you work out using footage of an actor
+	from one episode in another episode?
      
+	You just call up their agent and work out an arrangement.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889503646 I think if you add up all the footage from other episodes,
+	it's probably less than about 5 minutes total.
+
+	
      
+	I figure, if we shot it right the first time, why redo it?  Also, if we
+	take the position that this "happened," it should be identical, and a
+	restaging wouldn't be identical.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@882987794 Did Sinclair undergo a "preliminary psi probe" as
+	assumed by Delenn in the novelization?
      
+	I don't have the book in front of me, but if that refers to the one
+	after his capture, then yes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889494471 "There was one notable flashback scene [from
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars"]
+	that did not make it into the movie, in which Sinclair rushes Delenn and
+	pulls her hood off.  Also we never saw Sinclair surrounded by the Grey
+	Council and blasted by the staff.  Given how "In the Beginning"
+	progressed I'm not sure how those scenes could have fit in."
+
+	
      
+	This happened shortly after the events shown.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889503542 "That would be the only place they would fit, but then
+	I wonder why a Grey Council member would blast Sinclair after they
+	already know he has Valen's soul."
+
+	
      
+	Remember that Sinclair was going for them at that moment, and
+	the blast didn't hurt him, only knocked him out...they were
+	deliberately *not* trying to hurt him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@880917882 About the novelization
      
+	Peter did a fine job with the book.  He added a few bits here
+	and there, for which he should get the credit, and overall did a very
+	good job of it.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@881861605 I think that most of the inconsistencies you note are
+	primarily due to the translation from script to print, prior to Peter
+	seeing any of the actual footage (it's never stated in the script, for
+	instance, that any of the Grey Council have seen Valen).
+
+	
      
+	While Entil-zha has a vague translation, which is what is stated in
+	"Dream," we've translated isil-zha ever since Marcus appeared in the
+	show...Franklin asks while they're in medlab, if you recall, and he
+	points to the center stone and says it's called isil-zha, meaning the
+	future.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Two-hour TV movie.
+The crew discovers a mysterious, ancient artifact in hyperspace.
+
+
+Shari Belafonte as Dr. Trent.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.05
+
+Production number: TNTCF1
+Original air date: July 19, 1998
+DVD release date: August 17, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Treviño
+Novelization by Peter David
+
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@900914902 Over a million years ago, the Vorlons, believing
+	themselves just one step short of godhood, decided to build a device
+	to open a doorway to what they believed was the well of souls, the
+	source of life.  The device, similar in basic function to a jumpgate, 
+	did open a hole to another place: a universe
+	inhabited by an alien race even more powerful than the Vorlons, a
+	race that believed itself the only intelligence worthy of existence.
+	The aliens were extremely powerful telepaths, able to take control of
+	many of the Vorlons and turn them against their own kind.  Eventually
+	the aliens were beaten back, but before the device could be destroyed,
+	some of the Vorlons under alien influence flung it into hyperspace.
+	The Vorlons never found it.
+
+   
    • @@@900918110 The Vorlons implanted Lyta with a memory fragment
+	detailing the story of the device, and instructions for its destruction
+	should it be found.  They also left her with memories of some of their
+	other mistakes.
+
+   
    • @@@900914902 Interplanetary Expeditions operates outside the bounds
+	of the Earth Alliance regulations that govern most companies.
+
+   
    • @@@900914902 Babylon 5 carries a small supply of tactical nuclear
+	weapons small enough to be carried by hand.
+
+   
    • @@@900962814 Zack wants to date Lyta, and has gone so far as to tell
+	her so.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@900914902 What were the Vorlons' other mistakes?  What else does
+	Lyta know about Vorlon history?
+
+   
    • @@@900974298 How long did it take the Vorlons to vanquish the aliens?
+
+   
    • @@@900919178 What did the Vorlon writing on the artifact say?
+
+   
    • @@@900918110 Who built the original set of jumpgates?
+
+   
    • @@@900919178 What was the alien city, and what was the spire in its
+	center?  Why were so many people having visions of it?  Possibly
+	the city was on the alien homeworld, but why would they broadcast
+	images of their world to strangers?
+
+   
    • @@@900914902 How much of Dr. Trent's supposition about thirdspace was
+	correct?  Barring the obvious problem of the alien race, could
+	thirdspace be used as she described, like a faster version of
+	hyperspace?  Are there other spaces beyond thirdspace, perhaps an
+	infinite number of them?
+
+   
    • @@@900956645 Does Lyta remember anything Zack said to her?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900953736 This story took place after
+	the Shadow War, but before the declaration of war against Earth.  That
+	puts it between
+	"Into the Fire"
+	and
+	"Moments of Transition."
+
+	
      
+	Other clues allow it to be placed more precisely.  It took place after
+	"The Illusion of Truth"
+	because that was the last time Zack wore his Earth Alliance uniform.
+	Just after Zack was fitted with his new uniform in
+	"Atonement,"
+	Delenn greeted Callenn and told him she'd be ready to leave for
+	Minbar in one day, less than the amount of time elapsed in this story
+	(Sheridan remarked to Trent that she'd had five days to examine the
+	artifact.)  It couldn't have taken place after
+	"Atonement"
+	since Dr. Franklin left in that episode before Delenn returned; the two
+	of them weren't on the station at the same time again until after the
+	declaration of war.
+
+	
      
+	That puts "Thirdspace" between the first and second scenes of
+	"Atonement"
+	(a slight inconsistency since Callenn's ship can be seen to arrive
+	in the opening shot, before Zack's fitting) unless Zack's visit to the
+	Minbari tailors wasn't the first time he wore the uniform.  If his visit
+	was just an adjustment, possibly a result of being in fistfights
+	in "Thirdspace," the story takes place between
+	"The Illusion of Truth"
+	and
+	"Atonement."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900918111 The raiders fighting Ivanova's squadron were attempting
+	to steal a shipment of Quantium 40, which is used in jumpgate
+	construction
+	("Mind War.")
+	That resonates with the discussion between Trent and Morishi about
+	the building of jumpgates.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900919178 Why didn't the White Stars open jump points for Ivanova's
+	squadron after the fight with the raiders, rather than forcing her
+	to travel slowly to the nearest jumpgate?  One answer is that
+	Starfuries aren't equipped to navigate in hyperspace unless they
+	start off from a known location and can follow a beacon.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900918111 How did Dr. Trent know that the Vorlons enhanced Lyta's
+	telepathic abilities?  One possibility is that Bester, or someone
+	else in the Psi Corps, told IPX about it.  Bester discovered Lyta's
+	enhancement in
+	"Epiphanies."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900962752 In Ivanova's dream, Vir was caressed by women while Ivanova
+	was killed.  That may have been because Vir was willing to give in to
+	the alien influence, while Ivanova insisted on questioning it.  He was
+	rewarded for his compliance while she was punished for her resistance.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900956361 How did the Vorlons get into thirdspace to begin with?
+	If, as Lyta said, the door has to be opened from both sides, that
+	would imply that the aliens in thirdspace already had their side
+	open and were waiting for someone from normal space to reciprocate.
+	Or maybe they somehow become aware of what the Vorlons were up to, and
+	opened their side at roughly the same time.  Either way, they've been
+	waiting for the door to reopen for over a million years, though of
+	course time may not pass at the same rate in thirdspace and normal
+	space.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900956645 The fighters that emerged from the gateway appeared
+	similar in basic form to Vorlon ships.  Were they examples of ancient
+	Vorlon ship design?  The aliens might have kept possessed Vorlons
+	around to use as cannon fodder in case the gate opened again, on the
+	assumption that it might be the Vorlons doing the opening.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900956361 Were the Vorlons alone in their fight against the aliens?
+	Given the potential danger, it's possible the Vorlons found themselves
+	fighting alongside the Shadows and other First Ones against the alien
+	forces; the Shadows would have as much of a vested interest as anyone
+	else in seeing the aliens beaten back (though it'd be consistent with
+	Vorlon arrogance to not mention anyone else's involvement to Sheridan.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900919179 It may have been the conflict with the alien race that
+	prompted the Vorlons to invest effort into researching and developing
+	telepathy.  The Vorlons were almost certainly strong telepaths before
+	the conflict, though, since Lyta mentioned that they had already been
+	making themselves appear as beings of light when they visited other
+	worlds.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900924492 Though it was never stated outright, the purpose of
+	concentrating fire on the front of the artifact (which itself begs
+	the question of which side was the "front") was probably to redirect
+	shield energy away from the other side.  That's evidenced by the fact
+	that a hole opened in the force field in the rear when Ivanova ordered
+	everyone to fire at the same time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900924492 Why wasn't Draal's help enlisted?  The Great Machine might
+	not have had enough power to destroy the artifact outright, but its
+	weaponry would presumably have been helpful in the assault.  Given
+	the high stakes -- a powerful, implacable enemy even the Vorlons
+	considered a threat -- it's not clear what reason Sheridan would
+	have had for holding Draal in reserve.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900914902 What were the creatures in the artifact?  Were they members
+	of the alien race?  Did they arrive after the artifact was powered
+	on, or were they lying dormant for millenia?  The fact that they
+	had the same shape as the shadow in Lyta's vision, and their tentacles
+	looked like the one in Ivanova's dream, suggests that they were from
+	thirdspace.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900914902 This was the fourth time Sheridan used nuclear weapons
+	against vastly superior alien forces; he used nuclear mines to destroy
+	the Minbari cruiser Black Star
+	("In the Beginning")
+	and a Shadow city
+	("Z'ha'dum.")
+	He also used nukes to get the attention of the Vorlons and Shadows at
+	Coriana 6
+	("Into the Fire.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@882989498 Chronologically, the movie takes place during
+	season four, after
+	"Into the Fire."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@867698018 According to producer George Johnsen, "Thirdspace" contains
+	more new special effects shots than all of season one combined.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@869037257 Noted science-fiction illustrator
+	Wayne Barlowe,
+	author of
+	"Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials,"
+	designed the artifact.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900914902 Deuce also appeared in the season-one episode
+	"Grail."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@900921140 In the crowd scene on the observation deck just after the
+	artifact is powered up, the albino smuggler from
+	"Racing Mars"
+	can be seen briefly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@901169987 Spelling error: during Trent's voiceover, when she's
+	examining the displays on several of the monitors in her office,
+	the text "EMF EMMISSIONS" can be seen running vertically down the
+	side of one of the computer displays.  It should be "emissions."
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@901351057 Science goof: Ivanova claimed that carbon dating was
+	used to determine that the artifact was over one million years old.
+	Unless she meant some different process than what's referred to as
+	"carbon dating" today, that wouldn't have been possible.  Carbon
+	dating is a very specific process: it is used to determine the age
+	of dead plants and animals, and is based on the assumption that the
+	amount of carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, in the Earth's
+	atmosphere has remained more or less constant over time.  The theory
+	is that a living organism will ingest C14 from the air and maintain
+	about the same ratio of C14 to normal carbon in its body as exists
+	in the atmosphere.
+
+	
      
+	After an organism dies, the C14 in its body breaks down and isn't
+	replaced; a rough time of death is determined by measuring the
+	difference between the amount of C14 in the atmosphere and the amount
+	remaining in the organism's body.
+
+	
      
+	Thus there are several reasons the B5 crew couldn't have used carbon
+	dating to determine the age of the artifact.  First, the artifact
+	wasn't alive (though that point is debatable considering its Vorlon
+	origin.)  Second, given that the B5 crew had no idea where the artifact
+	came from, they wouldn't have had a baseline to compare against, and
+	thus couldn't have determined a difference in C14 levels.  Third,
+	C14 has a fairly short half-life; carbon dating can't be used to
+	determine ages much beyond 50,000 years since all the C14 breaks
+	down in that amount of time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@901351057 Sheridan's passphrase contained the word "Abraxas."
+	The Abraxas was a figure from Gnostic mythology, most commonly found
+	on small talismans called
+	"Abraxas
+	stones"
+	which were popular for a time in the Roman Empire.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@889482571 When will it air?
      
+	I checked my figures, and apparently it's either
+	the 9th or the 19th of July for Thirdspace...they've moved it up at TNT
+	from their original November plans as sort of a way of giving a present
+	to B5 fans after having to wait for the NBA Playoffs to finish.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889503710 Barlow did a great job for us designing very alien looking 
+	stuff that looks different than what we've done before...a nice break
+	in our format...
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865269566 "You mentioned that you were already shooting Thirdspace,
+	the first B5 movie. Wasn't "In The Beginning" the Minbari war story
+	going to be first?"
+
+	
      
+	The prequel is aired first, but produced second, because B5
+	didn't exist during the prequel time period, so rather than tear and
+	and rebuild sets, we're doing Thirdspace first.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865969769 How is having more money affecting the
+	production?  How is the crew handling making a movie?
      
+	Actually, we don't really have that much more money.  Each
+	episode costs a tick under $1 million; for purposes of discussion,
+	let's round that up to 1. So you're now talking 2 million for 2 hours. 
+	Now you've got another million to spend.  *But* ALL the prices go up by
+	union scale and whatever else can be negotiated.  Actors fees go up,
+	writers fees go up, directors fees go up, crew fees go up...so at the
+	end of the day, you find you have a *little* more to spend, but not
+	really that much.
+
+	
      
+	As for how everyone's handling it...really no different than the
+	series. Actors learn their lines, directors do their shots, the
+	atmosphere on set really isn't much different.  The only substantive
+	difference is that, because we know we won't be airing these until
+	January and March/April, at soonest, we have more time in post and can
+	therefore do more EFX.
+
+	
      
+	George calculated that there are as many EFX in "Thirdspace" as
+	in the entire first season of B5.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890333528 Early season five doesn't seem to have much
+	CGI.
      
+	I did keep the first batch just a *bit* on the light side in
+	order to have room to do the massive amount of rendering on "In the
+	Beginning" and "Thirdspace," the latter of which has (finally delivered)
+	topped out at 27 minutes of CGI out of 94 minutes, which has got to be
+	some kind of record.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@882989498 Is it set at the end of season
+	four?
      
+	No, it would be about mid-fourth season.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@902700637 Anybody can follow this movie and enjoy it; whether
+	you've seen the show before or not.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884031156 "I have heard that Thirdspace might be the pilot or
+	lead-up to Crusade. True,untrue?"
+    
+	
      
+	Untrue.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+This spinoff series deals with the exploits of a Ranger ship, the Excalibur,
+and its search for the cure to a plague that threatens humanity.
+
+
+David Allen Brooks as Max Eilerson.
+Gary Cole as (Captain) Matthew Gideon.
+Jeff Conaway as Zack Allan (rumored).
+Carrie Dobro as Dureena Nafeel.
+Marjean Holden as Dr. Susan Chambers.
+Daniel Dae Kim as Lt. Matheson.
+Tracy Scoggins as Capt. Elizabeth Lochley.
+Peter Woodward as Galen.
+
    
+
+
    +Start date: June 9, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+           Fiona Avery
+	   and others
+Directed by many people
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Episodes
    
+
+
    
+Only 13 episodes (of a planned five years) were produced due to creative
+differences between TNT and JMS.
+
+
    
+Chronological episode order (ignoring the uniform change in favor of
+maintaining as much storyline continuity as possible):
+
+
      
+   
    1.  War Zone
+   
    2.  Racing the Night
+   
    3.  The Memory of War
+   
    4.  The Needs of Earth
+   
    5.  Visitors from Down the Street
+   
    6.  Each Night I Dream of Home
+   
    7.  The Long Road
+   
    8.  The Well of Forever
+   
    9.  The Path of Sorrows
+   
    10.  Patterns of the Soul
+   
    11.  Ruling from the Tomb
+   
    12.  The Rules of the Game
+   
    13.  Appearances and Other Deceits
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891976541 TNT officially announced the series on April 7, 1998.
+	JMS confirmed that the series was a go on April 3, 1998 on Los Angeles'
+	"Hour 25" radio program (which he once hosted.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891709627 Shooting began August 3, 1998.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@903390030 The production team enlisted the help of scientists
+	at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help ensure that the series'
+	alien worlds are consistent with the latest planetary science.  See
+	Netter Digital Entertainment's
+	press
+	release
+	on the subject.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@905812458 NASA's
+	press
+	release
+	has more detail and includes an image of the Excalibur.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450790 Some behind-the-scenes machinations
+	which will probably prove
+	to be good Crusade trivia: On September 8, 1998,
+	Ain't It Cool News
+	ran a
+	story
+	describing a memo from TNT containing a list of proposed changes to
+	Crusade, mostly focused on greatly increasing the amount of sex and
+	violence.  The next day, JMS
+	posted
+	on CompuServe and elsewhere that
+	he couldn't officially confirm or deny the report. 
+
+	
      
+	The fan community's
+	reaction ranged from hostility to skepticism to alarm.  Many
+	doubted the story was for real, and TNT would only say that no such
+	memo had been sent to the Crusade producers (but not that it didn't
+	exist).  On September 19, however, JMS
+	verified
+	that it had in fact existed, but that it had been withdrawn.  He
+	also announced that TNT had decided to spend some extra money on
+	Crusade's sets, and for that reason, filming ceased for a month. 
+
+	
      
+	Later, it became clear that the show TNT wanted -- a space shoot-em-up
+	with lots of sex and violence -- wasn't the show JMS was producing,
+	and that he wasn't willing to change the flavor of the series just to
+	satisfy TNT.  As the 13th episode was wrapping up filming, TNT
+	informed Warner Bros. and Babylonian Productions that they weren't
+	interested in funding any additional episodes, and production stopped.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
    About the cancellation and events leading up to it
    
+
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-01-30: Rumors abound that TNT has pulled the plug
+	on Crusade production.
+
+	
      
+	The plug has not been pulled by TNT, which cannot pull the plug
+	because we don't work for TNT, we work for WB.  TNT is a distributor.
+
+	
      
+	All I can say for now is that, like Oliver Stone's project for
+	TNT, Witchblade, we have found that TNT (known primarily for westerns,
+	historical dramas and wrestling) is not SF-friendly in terms of really
+	getting what SF is about, and it may not entirely reconcile with what
+	their core audience expects from them...and that a new, more SF
+	friendly venue is being explored.
+
+	
      
+	So if folks wanted to drop an encouraging note to, let's say,
+	the Sci-Fi Channel, for instance, that would certainly be okay by me.
+
+	
      
+	But in the interim...no, we're not canceled.  We're taking off
+	next week to allow WB to work its magic, but that's about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-01-31: How about releasing the series to video or a satellite
+	service?
+	
+	
      
+	No, you can't do a series to video, it has to be aired.  And DTV
+	is considered a poor man's venue, for stuff that couldn't make it
+	elsewhere.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-01-31: Can the show move to the WB Network?
+
+	
      
+	WB Network is out of the question, due to the way WB is
+	structured. It's a very long, corporate story, just take my word for
+	it...SFC is the best option for us.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-02-10: What are you doing now?  Writing?  Working on your
+	new comic?  Sleeping?
+
+	
      
+	All that...plus working on the show, doing post production on the
+	episodes already in hand (CGI, music, sound, editing)...I'm actually
+	about as busy as we are during shooting.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-02-26: Will the episodes already shot be aired?
+	
+	
      
+	All 13 eps produced so far will be shown; we'll be doing post
+	production (CGI, music other stuff) through April 22nd.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-02-26: Why would TNT change its mind when they'd already
+	had good success with B5?
+
+	
      
+	One element to the whole discussion is that B5 was already an
+	entity in its own right, and taking on the fifth year entailed
+	basically buying what was already there, as opposed to becoming
+	involved with the creative process of influencing a new series.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-02-26: The Sci-Fi Channel tried to arrange to pick Crusade
+	up after TNT decided to only order 13 episodes.
+
+	
      
+	Well, we took our best shot.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it
+	don't.
+
+	
      
+	The SciFi Channel programming guys wanted the show; they wanted
+	it a lot.  They crunched numbers for almost two weeks trying to make it
+	work.  But at the end of the day, the problem was that they had already
+	allocated or spent their budget for the year, and couldn't come up with
+	the huge chunk of change necessary to get an entire season.  Had this
+	come up prior to January 1st, things would almost certainly have gone
+	differently.  But they have their budget, as we have ours, and it was
+	already allocated.
+
+	
      
+	So TNT will now air the full 13 produced, and that's the end of
+	it for now.  I say for now because WB has told us to fold and hold all
+	the sets, rather than scrap them, because they believe strongly in the
+	show, and feel that when the ratings come in we may well be able to
+	pick up a second season. We'll see.
+
+	
      
+	Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off, and deciding which of a
+	number of offers from networks and studios, sitting on my desk since B5
+	finished, to pick up.  I had declined to go that route so I could do
+	Crusade and keep playing in this universe, but absent that, there's no
+	reason not to go back to the networks and apply there some of what
+	we've been able to do in B5 and Crusade.
+
+	
      
+	My thanks to all those who wrote, and called, and emailed, and
+	lent their support to the process.  And I think that when you see the
+	show, you'll be quite pleased by what we did.  We're all very proud of
+	it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bottom line:
+
+	
      
+	The reason we've been waiting so long for news is that the
+	SciFi Channel has been crunching numbers for weeks, trying to
+	make the deal work with WB, and doing their level best.  The
+	programming folks there loved the show (and special thanks has
+	to go to Programming Head Tom Vitale at SFC who worked hardest
+	to make this work).
+
+	
      
+	The problem is simply this: the money to fund a series is a BIG
+	chunk of change.  SFC had already allocated its budget for the
+	year as of January 1st, and there simply wasn't enough left in
+	this year's budget to pull it off.  Also, the emphasis now is
+	on spending money on shows where one owns a piece of it, and
+	Crusade is owned entirely by WB.
+
+	
      
+	At the end of they day, they just couldn't make the dollars
+	work, though they tried their damndest, and are only to be
+	thanked.
+
+	
      
+	I'm told that if the ratings are good on the 13 which TNT will
+	still air, all the eps made so far will be shown, there may be
+	a second season, but we'll see.
+
+	
      
+	Meanwhile, I'm taking the day off.  There have been seven
+	offers for overall deals and multiple network pilot deals with
+	both networks per se and studios on my desk for about a year
+	now, ever since B5 ended, which I've been putting off to do
+	Crusade.  Now I'll pick one of those deals and make it.  So the
+	next thing from me you see will almost certainly be on one of
+	the major networks.  I'm going back into the deep water
+	again....
+
+	
      
+	Meanwhile, my thanks to all those who emailed and wrote and
+	called and supported.  It's a good show, as will be seen when
+	the shows are aired, and I'd rather lose a show I believed in
+	than keep one I didn't believe in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "So, has the success of B5 brought more offers than before?"
+
+	
      
+	Definitely.  It showed that I could run a series and keep it on
+	budget and make it an international success.  Right now those elements
+	are in heavy demand at the networks.  Even though the pay is half in
+	cable what you get at the network level, I was content to stay with
+	Crusade if it meant keeping our team together, and playing in the B5
+	universe a bit longer.  Absent that, then there's every reason to take
+	up one or two of those offers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-02-27: A fan asks if a letter-writing campaign would
+	help.
+
+	
      
+	What you have to understand at this point is that there's
+	really no time left.  It takes a large amount of money to hold
+	a cast and crew together while other options are being sought,
+	and even then options on varoius cast members and others begin
+	to expire fast.
+
+	
      
+	WB can't keep spending holding money while they're seeking
+	another prospect.  It's a business decision, but a sensible
+	one, given the large amounts of money involved.  Their approach
+	now is to believe in the show enough to get it on the air, let
+	the ratings speak for themselves, and see what happens.
+
+	
      
+	My only regret is for the cast, who are all uniformly terrific,
+	and who are caught out in all this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-03-13: Is there still hope?
      
+	"There's always hope, because it's the one thing nobody's figured out
+	how to kill yet."  -- Galen.
+
+
      
+   
    •  1999-03-13: A fan suggests writing to Bonnie Hammer,
+	senior VP of programming at the Sci-Fi Channel, or to Stephen
+	Chao, president of television and marketing for SFC's parent
+	company, USA Networks, in the hopes of convincing SFC to include
+	the show in their next annual budget.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, both those would be good choices.
+
+	
      
+	And the best time for this would be after the episodes start airing in
+	June.  I think we have about 5 weeks before the actors' contracts
+	expire in July.  (They will be running all 13 straight through, or so
+	they tell me.)
+
+
    
+
+
+
    About the series in general
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  WB has asked for a treatment on a sequel, and TNT is interested in doing
+	two original B5 movies set during the B5 main story arc, with one of
+	them a prequel.  We'll see....
+
+
      
+   
    •  I've worked out the details for 1,000 years in either direction
+	for the B5 storyline in general, and in specific for 100 years in
+	either direction; there's no chance of anything getting watered down no
+	matter what happens...there's enough story there for several novels. 
+	And WB is currently very interested in the side-story/sequel series
+	that I've mentioned from the beginning is a possibility.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, I've said pretty much from the very beginning of the first
+	season, that there was a side-story that could go off, which I'd be
+	interested in telling.  And that may be a possibility.
+
+	
      
+	And it's not Crusaders (which always makes me think of Crusader Rabbit);
+	it's The Babylon Project: Crusade.  (That's the working title, anyway.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  It would take place after the main B5 arc.  As for specifics on
+	cast, nothing can be said until things get closer to being nailed down;
+	there's still a lot that can change on this, and it's a question of
+	what works best for the show, and who wants to move on, and other
+	aspects.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@878760330 Does the series touch on the Rangers' work on Earth
+	as shown in
+	"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars?"
      
+	No, that part isn't the crux of the Rangers series,
+	because that takes place 'way down the road, but monks have always been
+	around on the show, starting with Brother Theo, so I imagine we'll see
+	them in future.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@854165337 Yeah, the sequel and the fifth year could conceivably happen at
+	the same time...or not...or one or the other...it's utterly in flux. 
+	Totally fluxed up.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It would have an arc, yes, but not as rigorous as the one in B5;
+	I've kind of done that now, and would like to try something
+	different...I don't like to try and walk in the same stream twice, to
+	borrow a metaphor from Greek philosophy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  But you've already worked on non-arc shows.
      
+	Well, basically, all there *is* are either arc shows or
+	stand-alone shows (or maybe somewhat stand-alones with a slight thread
+	running through them).  My feeling for now is that I just don't want to
+	do the same thing twice in a row...and maybe find some new approaches
+	along the way to the next project.
+
+	
      
+	You must understand how hideously difficult and exhausting
+	telling a 5 year tightly constructed story like this is...basically,
+	over the course of 4 years, I'll have written 3,000 pages all in one
+	universe, primarily telling one story.  That's the equivilent of 6 or 7
+	full-size novels in 4 years, telling one story.  After something like
+	that, you want to do something a little different for a bit.
+
+	
      
+	Four years ago, when I started carrying this elephant, I barely
+	had a grey hair on my head...now it's gone almost entirely grey, I look
+	as if I've aged 10 years, and people who see me after a gap of a few
+	years all say the same thing: "What the hell HAPPENED to you?"  I tell
+	them: Babylon 5.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I never SAID "Crusade" would not have a story
+	arc. I have only said that it won't be as *intense* an arc as that on
+	B5, because the tone is somewhat different, because I don't want to do
+	the exact same thing twice.  But it will have an arc to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  My general sense for what comes next for me...assuming the B5
+	sequel goes...I've done a hard-linked and extremely intense drama with
+	an adventure component...and now, having done that, and proved that it
+	*could* be done, despite many who said it couldn't, my feeling now is,
+	"Okay, we've done that, how can we tweak it so that the sequel has a
+	different feel to it?" So I'm looking at something that's a little more
+	in the adventurous mode, with a serious underpinning, with an arc to it
+	that's not quite as intense in tone, but is still good drama. 
+	Characters that grow and change, a definite ending, several mysteries
+	enclosed inside other mysteries, with a much larger canvas, and an even
+	stronger sense of wonder.  B5 I did to prove a point, to some extent;
+	now I'd like to try something where, having achieved that, I can sit 
+	back and, knowing the format now, have some fun with it.  Maybe turn
+	it on its head in a few places.
+
+	
      
+	As with everything else I do, I try to find what I'd enjoy as a
+	viewer, and take it from there.  That was how B5 came about, and that's
+	how the new show would come about, should it happen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@855739129 "Can you tell us if Crusade is going to be a definite length eg B5
+	is/was supposed to be 5 years (still hanging on for season 5
+	announcement and sadly for season 4 to start showing in UK)."
+
+	
      
+	There's a definite ending in mind, yes, but there's some room to play
+	within that framework.  Again, there's an arc, but not quite as rigorous
+	as with B5.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864919901 "Crusade" would take place about 3 years
+	after the events of season 5, in 2265.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@864919901 What years would the story span?
      
+	2265-2270.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In some ways, yeah, I think I will have some real opportunities that
+	didn't exist with B5, in that for the first 3 years we had to fight to
+	get ourselves taken seriously by everyone, including WB.  Now we have
+	some credibility, and that gives you a certain freedom.
+
+	
      
+	Also, the arc was, for me, a relatively new tool which took me about a
+	year or so to really figure out how to use...then I used it
+	relentlessly for a very long time.  Now it's just one more tool on my
+	belt, and I can use it with a bit more precision.  It's the difference
+	between using a rapier and a broadsword.
+
+	
      
+	It'll probably start out looking fairly conventional, as did B5 our
+	first year, just until the suits get comfortable and start ignoring us
+	(they're all OVER you in your first year), and then, again as with B5,
+	we'll start getting really subversive...ah loves being subversive....
+
+	
      
+	And there'll be the folks who'll say, "Oh, it's just X," just like
+	they did with B5 in the beginning, saying "Oh, it's just like DS9,"
+	which is *perfect* because it lets me sneak up behind them and just
+	WHACK 'em upside the head when they're not looking, as with B5.
+
+	
      
+	Basically, without saying too much, it'll be a MUCH larger canvas, and
+	the kinds of stories I can tell will be CONSIDERABLY more varied and
+	have more opportunities to explore all kinds of interesting stuff, so
+	I can go a bit more nuts on production values, alien stuff, and other
+	areas.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@884031252 What I want to do with Crusade is take the tools we
+	learned to use in B5 and apply them in a different (and in some ways,
+	more ambitious) manner.  It'll have an arc, now that we've shown that
+	it works, but not as rigorous an arc...less overtly political but more
+	thematic.  Also, after 5 years of angst-driven storytelling, I'd like
+	to see if I can use the same tools to do something a little more fun.
+	I've lived in the dark side of the B5 universe for a long time, and
+	while there's plenty of darkness still out there, I kinda want to go
+	and do something a bit more adventurous...and which explores all the
+	places in the B5 universe that we've heard about, but never seen.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nothing has yet been finalized (or even near to it) on the cast.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890000755 Recent reports say you've decided which characters
+	from the first series will be in Crusade.
      
+	This is not quite correct, but that's all I can say for now. 
+	There are one or two actors who might slide to Crusade, depending on
+	circumstances, and we have spoken to them on the QT about it...which is
+	probably why this was said, because I asked the actors in question not
+	to say anything until we got closer to seeing how things were going to
+	work out; the inquiries were mainly of an "if we had this role, would
+	you be interested in doing it?" nature, checking avails and
+	possibilities so we could plan accordingly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@895442605 Though nothing has been set yet about Crusade, I would expect at
+	least guest appearances by some or many of our previous B5 cast here
+	and there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@865288769 Have you given thought to the male/female ratio of
+	the cast?
      
+	I never ever give thought to ratios, or making a political
+	statement, or anything other than the story.  If that meant using 100%
+	female cast in the movie, or 100% male cast, or some variation thereof,
+	then that's what it'll be.  I think the *instant* you start putting
+	agendas ahead of the creative process, of saying "What is the story
+	*about*?" then I think you're dead. 
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898572188 What's the optimum cast size for a show like
+	Crusade?
      
+	There's really no best regular size.  B5 generally had about 9-
+	11 regulars and recurring (i.e., in the main credits) actors in any
+	given season, which was necessary because you had 4 different,
+	competing forces, each of whom required some representation (Earth/B5,
+	Minbar, Narn, Centauri Prime). With an ambassador plus aide, that's 8
+	minimum, plus at least one or two others for station operations.
+
+	
      
+	In Crusade, we're really dealing with one force encountering
+	others on a per-episode basis (mostly), so we've got 6 regulars/recurs,
+	with a subset of reappearing characters (a la Morden, Bester or Corwin
+	in B5).  That feels about right to me.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891976625 Any changes to the production crew?
      
+	We're not doing a lot of changing.  One thing that does tend to
+	get changed for a new series is the *look* of the show, you
+	want Crusade to have a different and distinct appearance, to be
+	its own show.  So for instance we're bringing in new graphic
+	designers to do screen stuff and signage and other related
+	stuff.
+
+	
      
+	Other times it's an individual choice.  Anne Bruice-Aling
+	recently had a baby, and she wants to dedicate the next year or
+	so toward raising her kid, so while she'll remain available for
+	occasional stuff or consulting, we'll have someone else heading
+	up the wardrobe department.
+
+	
      
+	Mainly, you want to hold onto as many of your original people
+	as you can, because we've trained our folks to work in a
+	certain, particular way.  Nobody else really does things the
+	way we do them on B5, and it's wiser to hold onto your crew,
+	and give incentives, to keep them around.  (We tend to promote
+	from within the ranks and reward loyalty rather than bring in
+	new folks, that sort of thing.)
+
+	
       What's in the series "bible?"
      
+	I put in it
+	basically whatever I think will be useful to anyone, as much as
+	I can think up.  Characters' names, backgrounds, descriptions,
+	the kinds of stories we are looking for, the kinds of stories
+	we *don't* want to see, what is good SF and what ain't, sample
+	storylines we plan to develop, that sort of thing.
+
+	
      
+	I'm now in the process of converting over the "sell treatment,"
+	done for the network, to a working series bible, which will go
+	out to those writers with whom I've either worked before, or
+	whose work I know and have wanted to work with for a while (as
+	was the case with Neil Gaiman).
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@892111238 I imagine we'll keep about 95% of the production crew on
+	the move to Crusade.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896374481 How does the new look get decided?
      
+	It's hard to define...it's a long process of give and take.
+	John Copeland and I both knew we wanted something different, a
+	new kind of look, and we went back and forth discussing it
+	between us until we were ready to talk to the production design
+	folk.  We told them in general terms what we were looking
+	for...then they went away, and came back with several
+	preliminary designs.  We sat and talked about them, made
+	revisions and suggestions, threw one thing out, kept the other
+	thing, got another version done, and on and on until there was
+	something that we felt worked.  Ditto for the CGI version (for
+	which there is a very early version on the B5 fan club site).
+	The final look of the CGI is much sleeker and more refined.
+
+	
      
+	And the costume/makeup design?
      
+	Same process.  I discuss with Optic Nerve and the costume folks what I
+	have in mind.  They go away and come up with drawings.  They submit
+	those drawings; John and I go over them, pick the ones we like, suggest
+	modifications, toss out what we don't like, and the process of
+	refinement continues.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@921834231 How will the shuttle bay work?  A force field a la
+	Star Trek?
      
+	No, there is a definite (and very large) airlock door that closes
+	after ships enter the flight deck, so it can then be pressurized.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450790 Who's doing the music?
      
+	We haven't yet set a composer for Crusade; we're giving a shot
+	to Evan Chen, a chinese-born classical composer with a strong jazz
+	background, on A Call to Arms.  How that turns out will determine much
+	that follows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450790 Evan's an amazing composer...he came out of Shanghai,
+	studied music in Russia and Germany, was fast becoming a leading,
+	classically trained composer, and discovered jazz in his twenties,
+	dropped everything to come to Chicago and study under some of the best
+	jazz men around (even if it meant washing dishes to get by).  His stuff
+	is the most amazing blend of asian influence, classical instrumentation,
+	jazz and rock backbeats I've ever heard, even using asian scales
+	(somewhat different from western musical scales) in unexpected places to
+	make western music sound totally different.
+
+	
      
+	For a show as different as this, I wanted a completely
+	different, totally unique sound, something I've never heard before, and
+	Evan Chen has it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906745365 Is Evan playing with any groups right now?
      
+	Not that I'm aware of.  I think we got in and found him before
+	anybody else could get their hands on him.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221874 "Will a CD of Chen's music be put out?  I can't wait..."
+
+	
      
+	Yep, in fact, I have it right here, having gotten the first
+	pressing of the thing for approval.  Chris's company will be putting it
+	out.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450790 About the TNT
+	memo, September 9, 1998
      
+	At this time, officially, I cannot confirm or deny the report.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450790 September 19, 1998
      
+	The TNT memo was apparently real; however, the egregious points
+	have now been withdrawn, and on top of that, TNT has allocated a big
+	chunk of change to let us build some new sets and expand stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450790 I think that to dwell on the thing would be to just open
+	wounds that are better left healed.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450790 Things are going well overall; we've filmed 5 episodes, and have
+	just extended a planned 1 week production hiatus (we take two such
+	hiatuses -- hiati? -- every year, one in the fall, one in the spring)
+	and added three paid weeks in order to allow time for construction on a
+	number of new sets.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906450790 What we've done is to try and expedite this so we can
+	have the new stuff in hand for the maximum number of episodes as quickly
+	as possible.  We always take a one-week hiatus in every block of
+	episodes we shoot, all the way through B5's history and now.  One week
+	around the start of October (depending on the start of filming), then
+	the Christmas break, then another one-week hiatus midway through the
+	last 10 episodes.
+
+	
      
+	So what we did here was to add on three weeks to the hiatus,
+	starting Tuesday.  Well, three paid weeks off for most of the crew
+	directly involved with the actual filming, anyway.  Construction, art
+	department, props, wardrobe and other departments will still be working
+	away to build and dress the sets and stuff so we can get right back
+	into shooting on with the new stuff in place.
+
+	
      
+	We're talking here improvements to the corridors, to the
+	quarters to enlarge them, adding a wardroom/mess hall, an exercise
+	area...other stuff. We generally add sets each season, and wanted to do
+	these down the road, but now we have the chance to do them now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906591943 In addition to the Christmas break, we have always taken
+	a one-week hiatus in the middle of shooting to avoid burning out cast
+	and crew.  This was true of B5 throughout its history.  One week in
+	the fall, one in the spring.
+
+	
      
+	TNT has allocated additional money to build some major (large) new
+	sets that we had thought we'd have to wait until season 2 to
+	implement, and to improve some of the sets.  (We were always fighting
+	to spiff up sets throughout B5, and we always had to bring in our new
+	sets gradually, like Earharts and the War Room and others.)
+
+	
      
+	Since they're going to give us the money for that now, we figued we'd
+	extend the hiatus by a few weeks (a paid break for most of the actual
+	shooting crew), though we still have the art department, costume,
+	construction, props and several other departments still working away
+	to build the sets and stuff.
+
+	
      
+	We start shooting again October 19th.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@907952425 It's been kinda hectic here, between the new sets under
+	construction,
+	meetings, and other stuff, some of which has been hinted around by
+	others.  At this point, we're still on target for filming to start up
+	on October 19th.
+
+	
      
+	One of the issues brought up by TNT had to do with a decision we all
+	made early on that the first episode up, Racing the Night, would just
+	jump right into the story, without doing the usual pilot-episode thing
+	of showing the team coming together, which was our other option.
+
+	
      
+	On reflection, TNT figured that the best thing might be to do that
+	"coming together" episode after all, to set the stage for all that
+	follows.  It's a lateral change, really, you could have it or not,
+	either way, it's dealer's choice.  But if we're going to do that, we
+	may as well get the sets and other stuff ready to go for that first
+	episode and the ones that will immediately follow.  We're also making
+	some adjustments to the wardrobe (and I've come up with a pretty funny
+	way to make the transition in the story).  All of the prior produced
+	episodes are still in, and still going to be broadcast, nothing's
+	changed that as far as I know.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, things continue to progress, the script for the alternate
+	first ep is in, and all should be cool from this point on.  Which is
+	not to say there haven't been some knife-fights...but we seem to have
+	reached some understandings....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@908224277 We're still set to go back into filming on October 19th.
+	As I mentioned in a prior post, TNT felt the need for an actual
+	introductory episode, one that sets the story by bringing together our
+	characters together for the first time, more of a conventional pilot
+	in that respect.  "Racing the Night" was written to take place about 5
+	months after the Drakh attack, so that we got right into things.  The
+	"bringing people into the story" story will, therefore, take place
+	shortly after the Drakh attack, two-three days later, to be precise.
+
+	
      
+	Since we're doing a first introductory episode, TNT kinda wanted to
+	have the new sets in place for the first few eps (though they can't
+	appear in the first one for story reasons), and since we're making
+	some wardrobe adjustments, they figured they may as well have those in
+	place as well.
+
+	
      
+	Nothing in the story has been changed.  The five episodes already made
+	will be aired, and you will see that the characters, the story, the
+	feel of the show is *exactly* the same between those first 5 filmed,
+	and those that follow.  What it comes down to are some cosmetic
+	changes, some new sets, and an episode that sets things in place.
+
+	
      
+	As we come back, the first two episodes up to be shot will be scripts
+	we already had in hand, then the new introductory episode, "War Zone,"
+	another one we already have, one new one, then another one from
+	on-hand, which will take us through into the Christmas break.
+
+	
      
+	No scripts are being thrown out, no episodes are being scrapped...none
+	of that has taken place, or is taking place.  The show is the show is
+	the show.
+
+	
      
+	(And on the costumes themselves...no, they're not going to be "skin
+	tight" things; we're actually kinda going in the opposite direction.
+	They're more typically military jumpsuits, black, neatly tailored,
+	similar to some Air Force or Marine uniforms.  And the only people who
+	will be wearing these are the basic technical crew, Captain Gideon
+	(Gary Cole) and Lieutenant John Matheson (Daniel Dae Kim); the others
+	are civilians, and thus are not affected.
+
+	
      
+	Regarding air dates...we have thus far not been told if they want to
+	push for a January airdate or not.  Part of the complication to all
+	this is that if we make #8 in shooting order the first aired, we have
+	to do a hideous amount of post-production on CGI to get it ready in
+	time.  Rather than make us rush it, they have said they might consider
+	waiting until the February sweeps.  Another option is to go in March,
+	if they don't want to go up against the Network sweeps period (which
+	is traditionally death for basic cable)...but the problem *there* is
+	that you can only air 4 episodes and then TNT would go into the NBA
+	playoffs, which means it would be another 6 weeks or so until any new
+	eps could be shown.
+
+	
      
+	So on that score, nobody's decided anything yet, we don't know and
+	haven't been told because they haven't decided where will best serve
+	us, so we hit the ground with the least network opposition.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, that's where things are.  Hope this puts to rest some of the
+	rumors out there.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@914520472 The intro movie, "A Call to Arms," is still slated for
+	January 3rd; the series initially was going to go in January, then they
+	moved it to June 2nd to make room for the NBA playoffs, and now that it
+	looks like the playoffs may not happen, I'm hearing March/April.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@908224277 How much of the CGI for the new initial episode
+	could be done ahead of time, before filming starts?
      
+	Zip.  Because until it's edited, you don't know how long to make the
+	shots, or how they'll intercut with the live action...and there's all
+	the stuff from other eps to deal with as well.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@908606256 Do you provide storyboards with ships and beams
+	or do the CGI people create something from the script or do you check
+	it prior to rendering in wireframe form or similar?
      
+
+	
      
+	Pretty much all of the above, depending on the complexity of the
+	sequence.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@909090496 To the gazillion or so folks who've asked in email...yes,
+	we began shooting again on Monday the 19th, as scheduled, making the
+	show we desired to make, and we're cranking along just fine.  Actors
+	are happy, crew are happy, everybody happy but Zathras...but Zathras
+	never happy...Zathras happy once, had friend once, but wheels fell
+	off, very sad....
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@856652269 "You have pretty consistently said that you would
+	*end* B5, and that there
+	would *never* be a sequel.  Instead, you would do something in the B5
+	universe, but not realated to the B5 storyline.  The description sure
+	sounds like a sequel to me."
+
+	
      
+	What I have said about this from the beginning, and the ONLY thing I
+	have ever said about this, was that there was a side-story in the B5
+	universe that could go off from the main story.  That has been quoted in
+	many different places, and on line, and definitely includes any plans
+	for "Crusade."
+
+	
      
+	BTW, that new characters were mentioned does not exclude any current
+	cast members...doesn't include them, either, but bottom line, that ain't
+	a complete list of characters.  There's room and flexibility in there,
+	depending on what happens.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@859536035 Actually, there'd be no rush at all in terms of getting a sequel
+	into prep and out the door.  The discussions now are in the area of
+	fall 97 to shoot and January 98 to air (with or without a simultaneous
+	S5 of B5).  We have a lot of the stuff we'd need for the sequel
+	(costumes, uniforms, some sets, prosthetics, that sort of thing), so
+	the lead time would be very short.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@877274170 With luck, we hope to have this puppy finally negotiated
+	and a Real Deal within the next few weeks.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883868609 The contract has been sent to me for signing several
+	times, and each time it has had some problem or another that needed
+	fixing.  (See, this is how the process works: your agent and the studio
+	negotiate over the phone.  Come to terms.  Deal memos go out, which
+	often don't reflect the conversations, but they hope you won't notice.
+	You catch the "errors" and send back the memos. Next come the actual
+	contracts, and sonuvagun, more "errors" have slipped through, and now
+	THEY need to be corrected, if you can find them in the 90 pages of 8
+	point type.  So that's been the only real holdup.  It's standard.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891976541 As has come out in the press today, CRUSADE: The Babylon
+	Project, is officially a go project as a series.  We start shooting
+	July 27th to go on the air January 6th.  More info will follow over
+	time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911667926 Because 108 is now the slated fist episode, so that we
+	can use it to introduce the new characters rather than jump in
+	in-progress, it means it will take longer to complete the CGI and stuff
+	than 103, since it was shot later.  TNT needs the eps a month or two
+	prior to airdate for critics...and there's the concern about showing
+	only 4 episodes in March (which is when it would all be ready) and
+	then being cut off for 8 weeks by the NBA playoffs.
+
+	
      
+	So they figured going June 2nd would avoid all of the problems, and put
+	the show out when the network shows were in reruns...meaning it has a
+	better chance of scoring large numbers, a strategy that worked well
+	with other shows like 90210.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@882987634 If "Crusade" is made, what will your involvement
+	be?
      
+	I'll exec produce, same as with B5, develop the overall
+	arc, as with B5 (though it's not as rigorous an arc), do all the same
+	stuff in editing, post, all the same stuff.  About the only real
+	difference I foresee would be my intent to only write about half the
+	episodes this time around; I'm looking forward to seeing what other
+	writers can do in the B5 universe.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@883993339 Our first two seasons were roughly 40-50% freelance,
+	which is a substantially higher average than most shows.  Years 3 and
+	4 were mine, mainly because of the difficulty in farming out stories
+	in that situation.
+
+	
      
+	Crusade will almost certainly to back to the 40-50% freelance mode,
+	which is frankly my preference, and it's been that way on all the
+	previous shows I've done.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@891709736 There are many other good writers out there who I have
+	every confidence can do a good job on Crusade.  And bear in mind that
+	any script that comes in generally gets revised by me, so I'll be in
+	there.  The plan for now is that I'll do about 11 scripts out of 22,
+	and have freelancers doing the other half.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@921834231 Has Goran Gajic been approached about directing a
+	Crusade episode?
      
+	Yes, Goran has been slated for a Crusade episode.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898572630 Will it start off with a movie?
      
+	No, the first episode will be of normal length.  A Call to Arms
+	is primarily a B5 movie, which sets the incidents in place that lead to
+	Crusade, which then hits the ground running with its first episode,
+	regular length, same as the other 21 TNT has signed for.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@905790074 Is the Biblical reference in Captain Gideon's
+	name intentional?
      
+	There are certain reasons for that name choice, yes, which is
+	all I'll say for now.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@906591943 Peter is superb as Galen, utterly brilliant.  I think
+	we lucked into a character and an actor that is going to be extremely
+	popular with fans.  I couldn't be happier with his work to date; I'd
+	put his work up there with Peter Jurasik and Andreas Katsulas, easily.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@916729235 Is Matheson's name a reference to horror writer
+	Richard Matheson?
      
+	Yup.  I fell in love with Matheson's work as a kid, and since we had
+	Bester in B5, I figured it might be good luck to have Matheson in
+	Crusade.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221492 "But you are saying that dispite the numerical sequence
+	being disordered, Crusade remains a contining story rather than
+	standalone episodes?"
+
+	
      
+	They're somewhat stand alone that was introducing characters and
+	setting up the details that would kick the arc into gear with #14.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A group of Soul Hunters come to the station demanding the return of something
+that was stolen from them.
+
+
+Ian McShane.
+Martin Sheen as Soul Hunter.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.77
+
+Production number: TNT MoW3
+Original air date: November 8, 1998
+DVD release date: August 17, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+Novelization by Yvonne Navarro
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910698649 Ten thousand years ago, the Soul Hunters were drawn to
+	Ralga, a world whose inhabitants were apparently about to die en masse.
+	Deviating from their usual practice of capturing individual souls,
+	the Soul Hunters placed all 1 billion Ralgans in a soul globe.
+	But they were wrong about the impending mass extinction, and
+	inadvertently captured the race as it was about to transcend its
+	physical form and become pure energy.  Over the course of the ten
+	thousand years they've been in captivity, half have gone insane.
+
+   
    • @@@910698649 The Minbari are the only race to have stopped the Soul
+	Hunters from collecting a soul
+	("Soul Hunter").
+
+   
    • @@@910698649 Soul Hunters never capture each other's souls; they
+	believe themselves unworthy of preservation.
+
+   
    • @@@910698649 Soul Hunters store their captured souls in "whisper
+	galleries," immense halls in which the souls can communicate with
+	one another.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910698649 Which other two races did the Soul Hunters capture
+	en masse?  Were those legitimate extinctions, or have the Soul Hunters
+	made the same mistake twice?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910698649 The two storylines shared a thematic link: both the
+	brothel operator and the Soul Hunters captured some aspect of people
+	without permission and used the simulacra for their own purposes.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910698649 "Infection"
+	and
+	"Thirdspace"
+	shared several plot elements with this story: an ancient artifact is
+	probed by a scientist funded by a major corporation; it's brought
+	to Babylon 5 and activated with deadly results.  The scientist is
+	motivated by greed or power.  The artifact was created by a powerful
+	race due to their belief that they were the most pure, the smartest,
+	or knew better than others.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910698649 Transcending of physical bodies seems to be a common
+	evolutionary path for races who survive long enough; even humanity is
+	destined to take that step sometime in the next million years
+	("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars").
+	Other examples of transcendence: Lorien
+	("Into the Fire"),
+	Ironheart
+	("Mind War"),
+	and arguably the Vorlons
+	("Falling Toward Apotheosis")
+	though they retained at least some physical form and could be poisoned
+	("The Gathering").
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915470841 One of the other two races captured by the Soul Hunters
+	might have been the Markab, who died suddenly from a virulent disease
+	("Confessions and Lamentations").
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@910696690 Soul Hunters are very long-lived; a four-thousand-year-old
+	is considered young and naive.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@910859445 Soul Hunter ships all have the ability to attach to
+	other ships and burn through, a capability they need since they're
+	rarely welcomed by other races.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890719726 The following press release is dated March 23, 1998.
+	It contains some spoilers.
+
+	
      
+	RIVER OF SOULS -- The Next TNT Movie!
+
+	
      
+	An ancient vault filled with relics believed to hold the secret
+	to eternal life is the centerpiece of the Turner Network
+	Television (TNT) Original Film BABYLON 5: The River of Souls.
+	Julie Weitz, executive vice president of original programming
+	for TNT, today confirmed that series stars Tracy Scoggins,
+	Jerry Doyle, Richard Biggs and Jeff Conaway will headline TNT's
+	next BABYLON 5 full-length movie. Douglas Netter and series
+	creator J.  Michael Straczynski will executive-produce the
+	two-hour film from the script by Straczynski. The film is a
+	co-production of TNT and Babylonian Productions.
+
+	
      
+	After a brief absence from Babylon 5, Michael Garibaldi (Doyle)
+	returns to the station as a harbinger of doom. An archeologist
+	in his employ has stolen an ancient relic he believes to be the
+	key to eternal life from the Soul Hunters, immortal creatures
+	who capture and preserve souls throughout the galaxy. With the
+	station under siege from the Soul Hunters, the explorer
+	releases thousands of enraged souls from the relic who merge
+	with others, attempting to taste life one more time. Captain
+	Elizabeth Lochley (Scoggins) must save Babylon 5 from an
+	impending attack of the Soul Hunters and the wrathful entities
+	looking for retribution.
+
+	
      
+	TNT is the exclusive home of the BABYLON 5 franchise, featuring
+	the eagerly anticipated fifth season of 22 all-new episodes
+	(Wednesday at 10 PM ET)and a Monday-through-Friday airing of
+	the series' award-winning first four seasons. Building on the
+	success of BABYLON 5: In the Beginning, TNT's first full-length
+	BABYLON 5 movie, the network will premiere BABYLON 5:
+	Thirdspace this summer.
+
+	
      
+	Turner Network Television, the number one-rated cable network
+	in prime time and currently seen in more than 72 million homes,
+	is Turner Broadcasting System, Inc's 24-hour,
+	advertiser-supported service offering original motion pictures
+	and miniseries; contemporary films from the world's largest
+	film library, the combined Turner and Warner Bros. film
+	libraries; exciting NBA sports action; popular television
+	series; and timeless cartoons.
+
+	
      
+	Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a subsidiary of Time Warner
+	Inc., is a major producer of news and entertainment product
+	around the world and the leading provider of programming for
+	the basic cable industry.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886335088 Is there a title yet?
      
+	Yes.
+
+	
      
+	Is there an air date yet?
      
+	Under discussion.
+
+	
      
+	Who will be in it?
      
+	Ditto.
+
+	
      
+	Will it involve the Telepath War?
      
+	Negative.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@886335088 Actually, no, it isn't written yet.  I won't be able to
+	have a clear field to write it until after I've finished writing the
+	5th season.  I know in general what I want to do with it, have fleshed
+	out a lot, but until I've run the premise past TNT and WB officially,
+	I can't comment.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889490633 Just got clarification and verification: 
+	Thirdspace does indeed air July 19th, and another B5 TV movie airs
+	November 23rd, and one more on January 3rd.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@895441655 TNT has moved up the airdate for "The River of Souls" to
+	November 8th (from November 22nd) so that a) B5 fans won't have so long
+	to wait, and b) to make sure both that and Sleeping in Light both get
+	equal promotion, and one doesn't get lost in the other.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@890717935 "River" is a heck of a movie, I think...now we just have
+	to film the darned thing.  (Janet Greek is directing.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@896746067 When does it take place?
      
+	It takes place six months into 2263.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@898571834 Because we have only $3 million on which to make these movies,
+	we have to rotate the cast because we can't afford to have them all in
+	any one of them. Bruce and Mira were in the first two, so we gave Tracy
+	a shot and put in Jerry as well as Corwin (his first), Zack and
+	Franklin.
+
+	
      
+	We're just looking for ways to be fair to the maximum number of cast
+	with the resources we have.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911284786 Why did Martin Sheen's soul hunter
+          speak so oddly at first?
      
+	What we had discussed (actor, director and me) was that soul
+	hunters don't generally get much chance to hang out and talk to people;
+	they can empathically sense the language, however, when they encounter
+	others.  At first, he didn't know the language very well, and gradually
+	became more able to express himself.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Drakh launch a devastating attack against Earth.
+Leads into the sequel series,
+"Crusade."
+
+
+Tony Todd as Captain Anderson.
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: TNT MoW4
+Original air date: January 3, 1999
+DVD release date: August 17, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+Novelization by Robert Sheckley
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 The telepath war took place sometime between 2262 and 2267.
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 The Drakh obtained a Shadow planet-killer when their
+	masters left.  It was the only one, and it has been destroyed.
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 As a result of the joint human-Minbari effort to build
+	a new class of large warships
+	("Movements of Fire and Shadow")
+	two prototypes were built, the Excalibur and the Victory.  Both
+	feature powerful weaponry, including a main gun that almost
+	completely discharges the ship's power reserves in one burst.
+	The Victory was destroyed defending Earth and the Drakh wiped out
+	the Alliance's shipyard, leaving the Excalibur the only ship of its
+	class for some time to come.
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 Earth has been infected with an extremely advanced
+	plague built with Shadow technology.  It was released into Earth's
+	atmosphere before the Drakh could adjust it to attack Earth's
+	biologies.  Alliance scientists, though they lack the technical
+	ability to counteract the plague, have examined it and believe that
+	it will take the disease about five years to fully adjust to human
+	physiology.  Some people will fall victim earlier, but once the
+	disease has adapted itself, nobody will be left alive on Earth.
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 As a result of the plague, Earth has been quarantined.
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 The Rangers have been given a new top priority: seeking
+	out all the worlds where ancient races have walked, in the hopes of
+	uncovering technologies that might help cure the plague.  The
+	Excalibur will act as a research vessel and will follow up on any
+	leads the Rangers uncover.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 Where are the technomages?
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 Is Dureena the last of her kind, or were others able
+	to escape before the Shadows destroyed her world?
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 For what purpose did the Shadows build the plague?  Was
+	it simply intended as a means of genocide, or does it do something
+	else as well?
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 Why did Galen go to Babylon 5?
+
+   
    • @@@916161855 Were any of the B5 crew (Ivanova and Franklin, for
+	instance) on Earth during the attack?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915442325 One element of technomage society is a group known as
+	the Circle.  It's unclear whether there's just one, but individual
+	technomages appear to be accountable to the Circle.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915442325 How long has the Thieves' Guild operated on Babylon 5?
+	Garibaldi clearly learned about it at some point.  Was he aware of
+	it while he was head of security on the station?  Has he told Zack
+	about it?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915442325 The jump points formed by various Alliance and Drakh
+	ships looked different than earlier in the series.  Was there an
+	advance in hyperspace technology in the five years since the founding
+	of the Alliance?
+
+	
      
+	At least one advance in hyperspace technology (Earth's, anyway) was
+	in evidence: Sheridan ordered the Excalibur to move off the hyperspace
+	beacon to slip around the Drakh fleet.  Perhaps improved hyperspace
+	navigation is a benefit of the Minbari or Vorlon components of the
+	Excalibur's design; Earth-built ships were previously unable
+	to navigate in hyperspace without using the beacons
+	("A Distant Star").
+	Whether the rest of Earth's fleet has been upgraded with improved
+	navigation systems remains to be seen.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915443113 What was the null-space effect that took the Excalibur
+	from Daltron 7 to the Drakh fleet?  Do the Drakh have the ability to
+	set up an instantaneous link between two points in space?  If so,
+	that's a capability that's beyond anything the Shadows were seen to
+	have; Shadow ships traveled in hyperspace regularly.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915442325 The Shadow plague may be nanotechnological rather than
+	biological in nature.  The fact that it's known to be actively
+	adapting to Earth's biology implies that it possesses at least
+	rudimentary analytical powers; if it were simply mutating at
+	random there would be no way to give any kind of estimate of
+	how long it'd take to affect humans.
+
+	
      
+	Does each individual germ or nanodevice act autonomously or are they
+	in communication with each other?  Perhaps the plague as a whole is
+	a sentient being of sorts, its component parts exchanging information
+	as neurons do but on a much larger scale.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915442325 Sheridan appeared to believe that on some world, there
+	would be a ready-made cure for the plague; he didn't state the
+	Excalibur's mission in terms of seeking out new technologies that
+	might allow a cure to be developed by the Alliance.  His assumption
+	only holds true if the Shadows used their plague in the distant
+	past; in that case some of the older races might have found a way
+	to combat it.  If, on the other hand, the plague was a more recent
+	development or it was never deployed, the First Ones might not
+	have had an opportunity to develop a cure specifically aimed at it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915602941 Since he seemed to have some knowledge of the whereabouts
+	of the First Ones
+	("Voices of Authority")
+	Draal and the Great Machine might be a logical place to begin the
+	search for a cure to the plague.  Exactly how much information he
+	has is unclear; he might have only known about those First Ones
+	who were still around when he took up stewardship of the Great Machine.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915471360 As a key member of the Alliance, Earth is no doubt host
+	to thousands of alien visitors of various races.  Will they be wiped
+	out by the plague as well?  Will it adapt to their respective biologies
+	at the same rate as humans', or will it leave them alone in favor of
+	eliminating the dominant lifeforms on the planet?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915701816 Sheridan is probably not terribly popular on Earth. He
+	mentioned people are still wary of him from "the last time
+	[he] led a fleet to Earth Space." He is also actively
+	supporting Mars, which may not be very popular on Earth. 
+
+	
      
+	And now, many will probably blame him for the plague the
+	Drakh unleashed on Earth, as it was revenge for the Shadow
+	War, a war in which Earth took little to no part. It is
+	likely that many people will die in the plague, even if
+	a cure is eventually found (Sheridan said some would 
+	die of it sooner than others).
+
+	
      
+	This may help explain the attitude of the academics 100 years
+	in the future
+	("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"),
+	who seemed annoyed at the mythology surrounding Sheridan. 
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@916162342 How will the quarantine be maintained?  There are
+	undoubtedly some number of people on Earth who'll want to leave
+	despite the quarantine -- maybe they don't believe the plague really
+	exists, for example.  How will they be prevented from piloting a
+	ship off the planet?
+
+	
      
+	An Alliance blockade is a likely possibility; it'd be too risky to
+	allow Earth to patrol its own skies since the people on patrol might
+	very well be the ones who decide to leave.
+
+	
      
+	If there are in fact alien ships orbiting Earth shooting down anyone
+	who tries to leave, that probably serves to make Sheridan even less
+	popular, even among those who believe the plague really exists.  No
+	doubt some on Earth will use the situation to stir up the same
+	anti-alien sentiment President Clark was able to tap into.  If so,
+	after a cure is found and the quarantine ends, Earth might not be a
+	very supportive member of the Alliance.  Resentment from the time of
+	the plague may well be the seeds of Earth's later break from the
+	Alliance
+	("The Deconstruction of Falling Stars").
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@915700823 Technomages were introduced in the season-two episode
+	"The Geometry of Shadows."
+
+   
    • @@@915827189 The flu hasn't been cured in 2267.
+
+   
    • @@@915442325 This movie acts as a bridge between the original B5
+	series and the sequel,
+	"Crusade."
+	Originally, TNT planned to premiere the movie on January 3, 1999
+	and begin airing "Crusade" the same week, but "Crusade" ended up
+	being delayed.
+
+   
    • @@@915471020 Drazi sex organs are located under their left arms,
+	and include an orifice that can be used to stash small items.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@889490546 Just got clarification and verification: 
+	Thirdspace does indeed air July 19th, and another B5 TV movie airs
+	November 23rd, and one more on January 3rd.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915700588 Why wasn't the movie promoted heavily?
      
+	I am in total darkness when it comes to understanding TNT's
+	philosophy of promotion.  They did little for this, I guess because it
+	was the last of B5 in someone's view, promoted the hell out of the
+	Houdini flick, which cost about 3 times more than we did...and we ended
+	up getting exactly the same ratings.  With a little real promotion, we
+	could've done even better.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915700588 It did 2.8, which was a higher number than they were expecting
+	(they'd sold the ads at 2.7, which means they made money off it), and
+	equal to the Houdini movie.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@894388070 A Call to Arms isn't a Crusade pilot, it's a B5 movie that
+	somewhat sets the stage for the new show, but is not a part of it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@911070058 How would you characterize the movie?
      
+	It's very different than all the rest; I thought that River would be the
+	better story of the last two, but Call is a better *movie*, oddly
+	enough.  It rips straight through with the action of ItB, but very
+	self-contained.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@894134577 Why no Mira Furlan in this movie?
      
+	Basically, I'm just trying to move around the characters because we 
+	have a huge cast, and we can't afford to have every one of them in 
+	every movie.  Mira had big parts in two of the movies, so we gave 
+	some other folks a chance (like Josh Cox, who had not been in any of 
+	them, and Tracy).  We even did one without Bruce (River) so we could 
+	again spread things around a bit in an attempt to be fair to
+	the largest number of cast members.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@912704656 When does Crusade take place?
      
+	Five years after the events of Season 5.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915610802 About the score by Evan Chen
      
+	I suppose we could've stayed with the safe choice, with Chris,
+	or done a nice, safe, droning Voyager style score that you don't even
+	notice, but we're looking to take chances, and that means some people
+	will like what you do, some won't.  Some won't like it because it's
+	different.  Neil Gaiman told me that a number of fans of any form,
+	including his own, say they want something new and challenging that
+	takes chances...but if they don't like the form of that chance, they
+	blame you for somehow doing it wrong...and they want the next new thing
+	to be just like the last thing you did.
+
+	
      
+	I can't tell you the number of people who said "why can't you
+	just do the John Williams style music instead of this?"  Because it's
+	been done, and it's cliche, and by god we're going to push what's
+	"expected" to try some new things.  Otherwise what the hell's the
+	point?
+
+	
      
+	"Of course, you've been through this before.  I seem to recall a lot
+	of people complaining when Christopher Franke replaced the composer for
+	the pilot.  I don't doubt that a lot of the people screaming loudest
+	now are the very ones who complained about Franke when he started."
+
+	
      
+	I don't know about the latter, but I can sure confirm the
+	former.  And that's why I sometimes wish the viewer responses were
+	logged as much as my own have been.  When we brought in Chris to
+	replace Stewart Copeland, you can't *believe* how much email I got from
+	people saying to trash him, fire him, it's that "euro-trash techno-
+	crap" most called it.  "He uses sounds and banging instead of music,"
+	people complained (which he did mainly in the first two seasons), "it's
+	distracting and it's not appropriate, get rid of him."
+
+	
      
+	But we didn't.  I told people to give him time to settle into
+	the show, and on the other hand to let them get used to a different
+	kind of sound than what they expected.  ("I guess you couldn't afford
+	to hire a real composer like TNG uses," was another popular line.)
+
+	
      
+	Evan ain't Chris, nor should he be, nor should he *have* to be. 
+	He is a brilliantly talented composer.  This is his first shot at a
+	dramatic series, and as he settles in (as Chris settled in), I think
+	people are going to be as loyal to what he's doing in Crusade as they
+	were to Chris in B5. He's a classically trained composer, who threw it
+	all away to come study jazz under some of the best jazz men in
+	Chicago...washing dishes to support himself when he had been at the top
+	of his field in China...because he loves music, and loves to
+	experiment.
+
+	
      
+	In the course of Crusade, we're going to see some places we've
+	never seen before...and thanks to Evan, we're going to hear some things
+	we've never heard before.  He's a find, and a genuine, fresh talent,
+	and I stand behind him 100%.
+
+	
      
+	And the people who say they are fans of Chris Franke's should
+	think twice before doing to him what so many people did so rudely to
+	Chris when he first came aboard.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915700588 It kind of goes to show you how thin the layer of trust
+	goes...you'd think by now, after doing 5 years of B5, people would
+	think to cut a little slack and give a chance, assume that there's an
+	intent here, rather than saying suddenly I'm an idiot for not putting
+	in the kind of music they expected.
+
+	
      
+	What's most interesting, and in some ways most galling, is the
+	number of posts I've seen in the last day or so from people who watched
+	CTA again, and said, "On second viewing, the music didn't bother me as
+	much, and I kind of like it in places."  Maybe they should've been a
+	little less quick on the trigger and the condemnation.
+
+	
      
+	As for some of the comments I've seen, basically saying he
+	should be killed (literally, someone suggested putting a gun to his
+	head and pulling the trigger) to some *very* xenophobic comments about
+	his being asian and that's the problem, with *that kind* of
+	music...they do not even merit a reply.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915610802 Actually, Chris Franke is sufficiently impressed with
+	Chen -- who has never scored a TV show before, this is his first shot
+	and he shows much potential, we're very happy -- that he's going to
+	release Chen's score to ACtA and later episodes via his own label.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915610802 "Is Franke gone then with the end of B5 and is Chen
+	the Man behind Crusade's music? Or is Call an interim step music?"
+
+	
      
+	Yes and no.  If there are any other B5 TV movies, or features,
+	we'll almost certainly use Chris.  For Crusade, it's Evan.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915610802 "Submitted for your consideration: sometimes the
+	music and sound effects became confused - was that a weapons
+	discharge/hit, or a techno-percussion note?  Were the repeated
+	clashing/crunching sounds at the end of the battle mood conveying
+	music, or the sound of the Drahk hatches opening to spew out the
+	bio-weapon?  I also thought that the music was occasionally mixed too
+	loudly."
+
+	
      
+	The first part of that is a common problem in an action show;
+	most of the really interesting music happens at the bottom, using the
+	lower frequencies.  But the lower frequencies are also where you'll
+	usually find explosions, clashing, crunching, banging and the like...so
+	sometimes the two get muddy.  You clear out one or the other as much as
+	you can, but sometimes it overlaps and you get fuzziness in the track.
+
+	
      
+	As for mixing it loudly...yeah, I've generally done that on B5. 
+	I like my music loud.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915700588 I like the music.  I like the edginess of it.  I wouldn't do
+	that particular style on a regular basis, because I think it would wear
+	thin after a while, but for this movie it was right.  He's doing more
+	thematic stuff for the series, but keeping the approach of using a
+	variety of styles, including Chinese scales and stuff, which makes the
+	episodes sound nifty and exotic.
+
+	
      
+	So yeah, I like it...but I also like the kind of edgy, growly
+	stuff Ry Cooder did for LAST MAN STANDING, so go figure.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915610802 I spot the music on everything, from movies to the
+	episodes. That means sitting with the composer and saying "music in at
+	1:07:13 (one minute, seven seconds, 13 frames), out at 2:23:18."  When
+	we did the pilot, I wasn't sure how much music it did or didn't need,
+	never having done this before, so I went drier than I should have.
+
+	
      
+	In the case of CtA, I knew we were going to have some wall-to-
+	wall music later, so I held back a bit earlier on, otherwise you do way
+	too much to fit in, and you over-burden the composer.  River was also
+	spare at the top.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915610802 What's "ramming speed?"
      
+	Ramming Speed.
+
+	
      
+	If you are approaching a target at speed X, you still have a
+	chance to peel away at the last moment.  If you are approaching a
+	target at the top speed your engines can provide, such that you cannot
+	turn away or be deflected, that's speed Y.  Speed Y is ramming speed.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915700588 "Seems an odd order.  Why not maximum speed or full
+	speed ahead?  Does EF rules provide for ramming of other starships?"
+
+	
      
+	Because it also implies "...and we're going to HIT that ship." 
+	Ramming speed says both.  You could say, "Give me maximum speed, set a
+	course to RAM the ship," or you could say "Ramming speed."  Same exact
+	content, shorter terms.  Brevity is our friend.  Pedantry is not.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915700588 Will the disease be totally implausible to
+	people who know about biology?
      
+	We have covered all three of the virus concerns in the way we
+	built this particular virus, thanks to help from the Jet Propulsion
+	Laboratory, which consulted with us on its design.  Trust me, it's
+	solid, and totally thought-through.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@921525450 The novelization says Galen was an apprentice
+	to Elric.  Is that official or just the author's invention?
      
+	Yes, that's canonical.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Galen joins an Earthforce intelligence officer investigating an unknown
+force that is unleashing Shadow technology on the galaxy.
+
+This B5 theatrical movie was underway for filming in 2005, but the financing
+couldn't be worked out and the production was halted.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Steven Beck
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • December 8, 2004:
+	Production begins in April 2005 in the UK.
+
+
      
+   
    • December 9, 2004:
+	The film's production manager is
+	Peter Helsop,
+	whose other production management credits include the first two
+	Star Wars prequels, "Gladiator," and the 2005 film version
+	of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
+
+
      
+   
    • December 15, 2004:
+	The casting call for the movie has details on the four main characters.
+	One of them, Galen, was of course a character on "Crusade." It is
+	not clear whether the original actor, Peter Woodward, will play
+	Galen in the film; a
+	fan campaign
+	is underway to urge Warner Bros. to retain the original cast.
+
+	
      
+	PLOT SPOILERS BELOW.
+
+	
        
+	
      • DIANE BAKER: A bright and attractive woman in her late 20s or early 30s, she's an Earthforce Intelligence Officer in civilian clothes who is reputed to be one of the best agents in the service. When her beloved brother is killed in a mysterious explosion on his spacecraft, Diane sets out to learn what caused the tragedy. She suspects a top-level cover-up -- but before she can get to the root of the problem, she is herself accused of conspiracy and murder. Despite the efforts of her friend, Elizabeth Lochley, to shield her, Diane finds herself behind bars, prey to a corrupt official who will stop at nothing to protect his greedy self-interest. But to Diane's amazement, the remarkable Galen, a techno-mage of near-supernatural skill and daring, enlists her help in unraveling the real mystery behind the recent deaths. Their investigation reveals that an ancient technology perfected by the mystic extinct Shadow race is being unleashed upon mankind by some as yet unknown conspirator. Once unleashed, the huge and all powerful shadow vessels could enslave the entire galaxy -- unless quick steps are taken to avert calamity...
+	
      • GALEN: A cloaked, mysterious figure, 30-45, he appears to be human -- but there's an intensity about him that bespeaks something supernaturally powerful and enigmatic. Yet there's also something wry and urbane about Galen, a suggestion that he has humor and wicked wit lurking under his inscrutable exterior. A techno-mage -- one of an ancient sect that used science to perform apparently miraculous feats -- Galen is the guardian left behind by his kind to ensure that the ancient Shadow technology did not fall into the wrong hands. Aghast when he realizes that his long vigilance has been violated, Galen sets out to learn who is behind the Shadow technology that now threatens the galaxy. He teams with the feisty Diane in his investigation -- and he comes to feel real tenderness for his human ally. A hero and a deeply moral force, Galen stands strong against the forces of corruption that have been unleashed by his own people...
+	
      • COLONEL JOSS MORGAN: A dashing and handsome officer in his late 20s or early 30s with the Earthforce Marines, he is the head of a security detachment sent to Babylon 5 to protect a contingent of inter-galactic diplomats who are meeting there. Humorous and daring, Morgan tries to befriend Elizabeth Lochley, the current commander of Babylon 5, but she's a bit prickly about having her jurisdiction violated by his forces. Later, Morgan and his forces prepare to battle the Hunter Killers unleashed by the evil Tyrell -- a virtual suicide mission that they face with gallantry, bravery and resolve...
+	
      • TYRELL: 35-45, dark, enigmatic, striking and chilling, he is another techno-mage, Galen's old childhood rival, who supposedly departed for a distant sector of the galaxy years ago. Yet Tyrell has been secretly infiltrating the area, developing the ancient shadow technology and putting it on sale to the highest bidder. A deadly adversary of supernatural skill and power, he is not a rogue, as initially suspected. In fact, he is actually carrying out a mandate of his own kind. When Galen resists the corruption and madness, Tyrell prepares to battle him to the death...
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • Apr 30, 1998:
+	Any idea who'd direct the movie?
      
+	I wouldn't want to say anything on this issue that might preclude any
+	discussions; everything is fluid at this time, since nothing is set.
+
+
      
+   
    • May 20, 1998:
+	As for the feature...that one is going to be the object
+	of some considerable attention from me.  I'll probably do what I tend
+	to do for special stuff (should it get into development): noodle it and
+	play with it and outline stuff until finally it refuses to wait any
+	longer, then take a week or so and do nothing else but burn through
+	the draft, then stick it in a box for another week, not look at it,
+	then come back and pretend somebody else wrote it and tear it to
+	shreds, then rebuild.
+
+
      
+   
    • Nov 21, 1998:
+	What did you think of the trailer for the new
+	"Star Wars" movie?
      
+	Thought it looked great...and definitely raises the idea that maybe
+	there shouldn't be a B5 movie until after the last of the three new SW
+	films is out and done.  Ain't no way any other SF film project can
+	compete with that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@915471593 In response to a 1998 rumor on the Coming Attractions
+	B5 page
      
+	No posters have been created. Nor have I spoken to WB about any movie
+	concept concerning the Vorlons' impact on Earth. There were some
+	preliminary discussions about a possible storyline (none of which has
+	been accurately reported anywhere, that info is still held only by
+	us), but it's my feeling that a) it's best to concentrate on getting
+	CRUSADE right first, and b) I'm loathe to compete with the new Star
+	Wars movies, and would rather wait until that's all done, so we can
+	also take advantage of new technologies to make the show. Simply
+	put...I'm in no hurry. I'd rather get it right than get it done on
+	Tuesday.
+
+
      
+   
    • Jan 4, 1999:
+	The B5 tv movies produced so far cost just a tick under $3 million.
+
+	
      
+	We could almost certainly do a high-quality theatrical feature for about
+	$35-40 million.
+
+	
      
+	The average going price for a feature these days is $55 million.
+
+
      
+   
    • Nov 30, 2003:
+	On the B5 front, there has been something of rather substantial
+	proportion that's finally gone from talk to money, such that
+	I'm now working frantically to meet some deadlines, but there's
+	nothing I can say about this until after January 15th, probably
+	closer to the end of that month.
+
+	
      
+	The only thing I can say is that phase one of the new project is
+	a go, hence the furious writing schedule at this end of things,
+	which is why I've been silent until deciding to kick up some
+	dust on the political discusion. I've been writing my little
+	brains out.
+
+	
      
+	I know the immediate result of this will be speculation, but if
+	we could keep that to a low roar on the nets to avoid precluding
+	anything, that would be a wonderfulness. But trust me: I wouldn't
+	go on about something in this way if it wasn't a significant
+	development. Just trust me on this one for a bit and hold fire
+	until further word.
+
+	
      
+	(Longtime followers of the various news groups know that an
+	eep means that something significant has happened, but that
+	I can't talk about it...the eep is just a way of saying, on
+	the QT, that something has, indeed, happened and it's real,
+	not just speculation or maybe-gonna-happens. So on that basis,
+	you may consider this an eep.)
+
+
      
+   
    • Jan 29, 2004:
+	It's taken longer than hoped for to be able to talk about this,
+	because it's taken longer than hoped for to go through all
+	the machinations of the deal.  Depending on the nature of a
+	given deal, it can take a few weeks to a couple, three months to
+	actually cut the deal and finalize the language in terms everybody
+	can agree with. We only literally finished the deal last week.
+
+	
      
+	Writing on B5:TMoS is complete, and as soon as the powers that
+	be sign off on everything, it can be turned in and we can start
+	moving. At that point, I can say more about this.
+ 
+ 	
      
+	Figure another couple of weeks.
+
+
      
+   
    • Jan 30, 2004:
+	Just to honk you off even further about all this...in the speculation
+	of titles...one of you was correct.
+
+
      
+   
    • Feb 17, 2004:
+	Movie business decisions are made based on perceived quality.
+
+	
      
+	Your point could not possibly be more incorrect.
+
+	
      
+	Movies are green-lit because the studios think they can make
+	money from it.	Period. If it's a quality movie, great, but
+	that's secondary to: will we get a profit out of it? Frankly,
+	it's *harder* to ge a quality movie made these days than ever. It
+	took "Secondhand Lions" ten years to get made, as just one
+	recent example.
+
+	
      
+	But commercial movies that can get cranked out and pull in
+	the money, regardless of the actual quality of the product,
+	are simplest of all to put forth. Freddy vs. Jason, Alien
+	vs. Predator, the last couple of Batman movies...80% of what
+	gets pumped out to movie theaters is awful. What we remember are
+	the stellar 20%, but those are the ones that were hardest to get
+	going, that took years and blood and shouting to get made...but
+	for which everyone subsequently takes full credit.
+
+	
      
+	Your assumption, and the truth, dine at totally separate tables.
+
+
      
+   
    • Feb 26, 2004:
+	Y'know, if there's anything more annoying than having to sit
+	on good news, I can't think of what it might be. (Well, okay,
+	being staked to an ant hill at high noon is a pretty obvious one,
+	but you get the idea.)
+
+	
      
+	The only things I can say right now about B5:TMoS is that now
+	that all the correct agreements have been signed, sealed and
+	delivered, the draft has gone in, met with great enthusiasm
+	all around, notes have been received, and the next draft is
+	in process and has to be delievered within two weeks so that
+	certain other steps can be set into motion.
+
+	
      
+	I still can't tell you what it *is* because that has to come
+	from the proper people through the proper channels at the proper
+	time...but I can tell you a few cases of what it *isn't*...it
+	isn't a novel, or a short story, a comic, an animated series,
+	a radio drama or a stage play. Beyond that, deponent sayeth not.
+
+	
      
+	Except to say that it's pretty cool.
+
+
      
+   
    • Apr 29, 2004:
+	I know I've been absent for a while now, but there are reasons,
+	especially in regards to B5:TMoS. In a project of this nature,
+	and this size, there's stage one (let's do this) stage two (let's
+	make everybody's deal) and stage three (making it). We're hip-deep
+	in stage two just now, and it's taking a freaking long amount of
+	time to get through it all. Stage two is also the most unnerving
+	and nerve-wracking stage when there's a lot of money involved,
+	as there is in this situation.
+
+	
      
+	So every day is a case of "Are we there yet?" and being told
+	yes...almost.
+
+	
      
+	I swear, it's the kind of thing that could lead a monk to murder.
+
+	
      
+	Thing of it is...there's a LOT happening right now in the B5
+	universe, on a multitude of fronts, some of it in response to
+	TMoS, some of it coming up completely on its own. All I can say
+	at this moment is that if you've been waiting for new stuff in
+	the B5 universe, you may be getting your wish in spades very soon.
+
+	
      
+	Soon, I promise, all will be made clear. I don't like being
+	Mr. Mysterioso on this, but if I say too much, the-powers-that-be
+	will use my head to make a 2.35:1 sized hole in the wall.
+
+
      
+   
    • Jun 14, 2004:
+	My apologies for the prolonged absence, but
+	the loss of Richard
+	Biggs kind of took the wind out of our sails and it's taken a
+	while for me to feel up to saying anything about B5. This has also
+	had the effect of slowing up anything to do with B5:TMoS (which
+	as some of you have guessed or inferred does indeed stand for The
+	Memory of Shadows), because in the writing we/I never imagined
+	he wouldn't be here to be a part of it. More on that another time.
+
+
      
+   
    • Jun 15, 2004:
+	One oddity...constant readers will remember a while back when I was
+	asked what TMoS was, and I provided a list of things it *wasn't*. The
+	aforementioned oddity is...one of those things has come up as an
+	adjunct to TMoS. 
+
+
      
+  
    • Aug 3, 2004:
+	What effect has Richard Biggs' death had on the project?
      
+	It's resulted in a slowdown to make changes and adjust things.
+
+
      
+  
    • Aug 7, 2004:
+	Who will be cast as Dr. Franklin in Richard Biggs' place?
      
+	That character will not be recast.
+
+
      
+  
    • December 17, 2004:
+	Any truth to the rumor that Warner Bros. wants to replace the
+	original cast?
      
+	I would like to be able to comment on this, but for the time being I am
+	not able to do so.
+
+
      
+  
    • January 30, 2005:
+	I'd say that the next two weeks are going to be critical for the future
+	of TMoS. There have been a variety of conversations about a variety of
+	things and people, and some offers are starting to go out to various
+	individuals...so we shall see what we shall see.
+
+
      
+  
    • February 25, 2005:
+	The rule of thumb in Hollywood is that for every thousand scripts that
+	get written, only a few dozen get into development, and out of those,
+	only one will ever get made...if that.
+
+	
      
+	A little over a year ago, I was approached by a company that wanted to
+	make a Babylon 5 movie. They optioned the rights, and commissioned a
+	script. (It's worth mentioning that I, not WB, own the rights to a B5
+	movie. When we were negotiating the original B5 deal -- by whose terms
+	I will never see a dime in profit -- the one thing they did let me have
+	were the movie rights, figuring they'd never be worth anything in the
+	long run.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyway...on December 27th of 2003, the script for "The Memory of
+	Shadows" was turned in, and the process began of trying to make the
+	deal work with all the various forces involved. It is, to say the
+	least, a very difficult process on any movie where the studio does not
+	directly take the financial reins. In terms of B5, Warner's position
+	was esssentially, "We only do big-budget movies with big names, so
+	you're on your own." If there were big-name movie actors in the film,
+	they'd get behind it; without that, things become very problematic,
+	especially as far as the financing was concerned. You much have to put
+	together a consortium of international interests and business plans
+	rivaled in complexity only by the Allied invasion of Normandy Beach.
+
+	
      
+	Nonetheless, every attempt was made by the people involved to get this
+	deal in place. This was not being done by Doug or myself, but rather
+	by the company/individuals who approached us and optioned the rights.
+	At times, it seemed we were inches away from a deal...stages were
+	reserved at Elstree, actors were contacted, a director was in place,
+	the script went through many revisions, a few key staff were hired,
+	again not by me...it was really a year-long roller coaster ride.
+	During that time, the people involved, with every good intention, tried
+	very hard to pull the necessary pieces together on the deal. The
+	option expired in late December 2004, but I renewed it without cost, to
+	give those involved more time to try and make things work.
+
+	
      
+	In the end, however, the deal could be put together, and it did not
+	look as if that was going to change at any point in the foreseeable
+	future. So the option has reverted, and to all intents and purposes,
+	the project has dead ended. Nor do I think this particular incarnation
+	will arise again at any point in the future, though prognostication has
+	always been a tricky art, especially if you have to do it without the
+	benefit of hindsight.
+
+	
      
+	This was not the first time someone's taken a run at a B5 feature film,
+	and it will not be the last. Eventually it will happen, because such
+	things are simply inevitable. If they can do a Brady Bunch movie, you
+	can be sure that sooner or later, somebody's going to do a B5 movie.
+	The only thing I can say without equivocation is that when that day
+	comes, as the rights-holder, I will make darned sure that it's done
+	right, because I'd rather have no B5 movie than one that doesn't live
+	up to what fans and I myself would want to see.
+
+	
      
+	To that end...I can wait.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, just thought you should know the story.
+
+
      
+   
    • February 27, 2005:
+	"Forgive me if you're tired of talking about this right now, but are you
+	currently looking to follow up on this (maybe negotiate deals to put the
+	possibility of making the movie again sometime in the near future), or
+	are you tabling it for now until all the loose ends are tied up?"
+
+	
      
+	My own feeling is that, after all that's gone on, best to let it rest
+	for a year or two, then see what happens. Gearing up for sometehing
+	like this takes a lot of time, energy and visceral material, and when
+	something like this happens, it's best to just take a breather for a
+	bit. Besides, there are other fish in need of frying now, and I have
+	to turn my attention to them.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The crew of a Ranger ship encounters an ancient, deadly foe.
+
+
+Andreas Katsulas as G'Kar.
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: ???
+Original air date: January 19, 2002
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@1011605666 A hostile race known as The Hand (or more fully, the
+	Hand of God) was banished to a region outside of normal space a
+	billion years ago.  They have been searching for a way back ever
+	since, and now appear to have found one.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@1011605666 What do The Hand want?
+
+   
    • @@@1011605666 Why do they need help from younger races, if they're as
+	powerful as described?
+
+   
    • @@@1011605666 Who built the underground city, and how did they banish
+	The Hand originally?
+
+   
    • @@@1011605666 How did The Hand escape their prison?
+
+   
    • @@@1011605666 What happened to Lyta such that G'Kar would describe
+	her as "gone?"
+
+   
    • @@@1011605666 Who betrayed the previous crew of the Liandra, and why?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@1011605666 Knowledge of The Hand seems to be very limited,
+	suggesting that the Vorlons either didn't know about them (possible,
+	if their disappearance significantly predated the Vorlons' contact
+	with other races) or didn't consider them enough of a threat to
+	warrant mentioning to the Minbari.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1011605666 Some of the information that is known about The
+	Hand is potentially wrong.  They would have a vested interest in
+	exaggerating their capabilities in an attempt to attract new
+	servants, so they may not be the all-powerful force Minister Kafta
+	described.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1011605666 Since Lorien claimed to be the oldest sentient being in
+	the universe
+	("Into the Fire")
+	he would have been around to see The Hand in action and might have
+	been privy to whatever was done to defeat them.  Did he mention
+	them to Sheridan?
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1011605666 If Delenn's speech at the end of
+	"Rising Star"
+	can be taken as her recollection of what happened in the twenty
+	years after that episode, the conflict with The Hand won't be a
+	huge, devastating one; she mentioned the Telepath War and the Drakh
+	War but didn't specifically name any other major conflicts.  Of
+	course, it's possible that either of those wars also involved The
+	Hand.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1011605666 The fire control system on the Liandra seems to be
+	based on the idea of making maximum use of the Rangers' physical combat
+	training.  Arguably from a purely practical point of view, it would be
+	more effective (and less physically exhausting) to let a computer
+	handle target selection and firing control based on guidelines from
+	the command crew.  But the Rangers' combat techniques aren't purely
+	pragmatic (for example, their use of fighting sticks rather than
+	firearms) and appear to include the notion that fights should be
+	personal, one-on-one affairs rather than remote-controlled proxy
+	battles.  Making a ship's weapons an extension of a weapon officer's
+	body is consistent with that aesthetic.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@993065219 Official site
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@987749541 Production start date: May 14
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@985122603 The SciFi Channel's press release:
+
+	
      
+	Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is working on a
+	two-hour telefilm called Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers
+	that will premiere on SCI FI later this year.  The film will
+	take up the story of the legendary Ranger fleet as it attempts
+	to restore order to hundreds of civilizations devastated by the
+	Shadow War.
+
+	
      
+	This new chapter of the Babylon 5 story finds the mysterious
+	Ranger force--a combination of humans and alien Minbari trained
+	in space warfare as well as the unique alien philosophy of the
+	Rangers and just about every conceivable form of martial
+	arts--faced with deadly challenges in its attempt to create
+	peace out of the war's destruction.
+
+	
      
+	Babylon 5 cast members may appear in the movie, which will also
+	serve as the pilot for a potential SCI FI Channel series.
+	Douglas Netter is executive producing the series along with
+	Straczynski.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@995527751 The air date was announced on July 10, 2001 at a
+	press conference.  SCI FI announced that they'll wait to see how
+	well the movie does before deciding on a series.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@985166209 Well, that's at least ONE weight off my chest....
+
+	
      
+	To those who've heard the news already, and those just now
+	finding out...the SciFi Channel today announced that we have a
+	new Babylon 5 TV movie going into production that will also
+	serve as a pilot for a likely new series.
+
+	
      
+	The movie (and the series) is under the heading of BABYLON 5:
+	THE LEGEND OF THE RANGERS.  The specific title for the 2-hour
+	movie's story is "To Live and Die in Starlight."
+
+	
      
+	There isn't much I can tell you about the story because we're
+	kinda keeping the details under wraps as much as possible for
+	the time being.  What little I can say....
+
+	
      
+	It's set in the B5 universe just under 3 years after the events
+	of "Objects at Rest."  At this point there's one major
+	character from the B5 universe in the script (a fan favorite).
+	Where B5 was a heavy drama with some adventure/action elements,
+	this one is a little more skewed toward adventure with
+	underlying drama (which is about what you'd expect from the
+	Anla-Shok).
+
+	
      
+	We've been sitting on this information for a while now...such
+	that we're already well into pre-production.  We'll be shooting
+	this movie around mid-May, well in advance of any potential
+	actor's strike (the script is done and so far everybody likes
+	it a LOT).
+
+	
      
+	We've already got designs coming in on a new ship, and a new
+	*kind* of ship...and we're going to be getting more into
+	Minbari aesthetics, technologies and philosophy.
+
+	
      
+	It's got some great characters, and it's a lot of fun.
+
+	
      
+	I have other news to announce on other fronts...have since the
+	end of the year, in fact...but I'm still sitting on the details
+	awaiting another press release from another studio.  What I
+	*can* say is that I have a firm GO order to executive produce a
+	new series (nominally SF) that will go into production after
+	the potential SAG strike.  When that's finally over, if the
+	strike indeed happens, we pull the trigger and go into
+	principal photography and it's an order for a full season's
+	worth of episodes.
+
+	
      
+	I can't give you any details right now on the subject, title,
+	studio or network.  That will have to await the studio's
+	release...so don't even ask.
+
+	
      
+	As far as doing both projects at the same time is
+	concerned...it's actually quite common, as testified to by
+	folks like John Wells and Aaron Sorkin and David Kelly and
+	others.  So there won't be any conflict.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1011643981 Why such an inexperienced crew?  Is it because
+	the Rangers have had to expand like crazy, leading to a shortage
+	of trained officers?
      
+
+	Exactly, and after the shadow war, a lot of higher ranking/experienced
+	rangers were dead, leading to getting promoted earlier.
+
+	
      
+	Also, the Liandra isn't like the Enterprise, it's more like a PT boat,
+	and there's a huge difference between the captain of a PT boat and a
+	captain of the John F. Kennedy, though both are technically captains
+	on their vessels.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1011643981 The Valen didn't look like a Minbari ship.
      
+	As Dulann mentioned in his talk with David in the hall, it was
+	influenced by human military designers.  David also made fun of it
+	earlier.
+
+	
      
+	Where were the White Stars?
      
+	The 80 or so surviving whitestars were either on station at Minbar or
+	doing larger more important work.  This was considered a milk run. 
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1011643981 The Liandra looked nothing like the Minbari ships
+	from the Earth-Minbari War era.
      
+	The Liandra is a Ranger ship.  The Rangers, if we recall our
+	history from In the Beginning, were not directly involved in
+	Earth related hostilities during the Minbari War.  The EM war
+	was under the aegis of the Warrior caste.
+
+	
      
+	It is also, by design, a small, fast (crew of maybe 20) patrol
+	ship designed to go on the edge, it's not meant to go out there
+	and pulverize fleets.  It would have been instantly outgunned
+	and destroyed in the EM war's bigger battles.
+
+	
      
+	(One thing I'm curious about is the assumption that we've seen
+	all of the Minbari ships.  We've literally seen only a handful.
+	Go to Jane's books on military weapons, planes in particular,
+	and you get all *kinds* of variation...from ospreys to f16s to
+	cargo jets to hovercraft...why should there be less variation
+	in a more advanced society like the Minbari?)
+
+	
      
+	And the Valen was ugly.
      
+	Yes.  That was the intent.  That's why David made fun of it on the
+	balcony.  Nobody likes it, it was a compromise between Humans and
+	Minbari (which Dulann also mentions), more politically motivated than
+	structurally sound.  We won't be seeing its kind again. 
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@1011643981 Why were the raiders able to hurt the Enfali?
      
+	Even a lion can be brought down by a pack of smaller predators.  The
+	Enfalli was alone and the pursuit was a long one, and they just kept
+	taking hit after hit.
+
+	
      
+	Raider ships don't have aft guns.
      
+	Raider fighter craft come in as many variations as human fighter craft.
+	The error is in thinking monolithically.
+
+	
      
+	Where was the White Star fleet?
      
+	Bear in mind that there were only ever about a hundred, maybe a hundred
+	and fifty whitestars built during the Shadow War.  A LOT of those got
+	wiped out during said war, so now you've got maybe 80 or so.  You
+	conserve your best ships for big jobs, you don't have them doing this
+	kind of grunt work.
+
+	
      
+	Is Tannier the same character as the Tannier in
+	"Learning Curve?"
      
+	Meant to be the same character, but it's not the same actor.
+
+	
      
+	The hyperspace special effects looked different.
      
+	Hyperspace is now *much* more complex than it was using lightwave, with
+	more levels.  It was always meant to look pretty hellish, but we could
+	never quite pull it off with lightwave, it always looked 2d.  This is
+	more what I originally had in mind.
+
+	
      
+	In Dulann's vision, Minister Kafta's face was already beaten
+	up, even though it hadn't happened yet.
      
+	Recheck your tape...that shot ain't there.
+
+	
      
+	The Liandra is smaller than a White Star and has jump engines.
+	But Sheridan was surprised about the White Star's ability to jump.
+	
      
+	He also didn't know everything about Minbari ships and classes.
+
+	
      
+	Why didn't the Valen fire a shot?
      
+	The Valen never had time to fire; they were hit within a second of the
+	hand ships coming out of hyperspace (actually *as* they were coming
+	out)...the hits disabled most of the systems on the new ship (you can
+	see eruptions all over the bridge).  The weapons systems were intact
+	elsewhere, but the control mechanisms were down.  That's why they kept
+	hammering the Valen, to make sure it wouldn't be able to fire.
+
+	
      
+	Why not just hide on the other side of the comet?
      
+	Two-dimensional thinking.  Only works if the comet is directly between
+	you and the enemy.  If it moves at any other angle, you're revealed.
+
+	
      
+	How is it possible to lose someone on such a small ship?
      
+	Given the small ins and outs and access hatches and panels and sub-halls
+	and the like...real possible.
+
+	
      
+	Why didn't the Leandra have beam weapons like other Minbari
+	ships?
      
+	Not a big enough ship with a big enough power source.
+
+	
      
+	The Liandra would never stand a chance against a Shadow
+	battlecrab.
      
+	It wasn't a shadow battlecrab.  It was tough, but it wasn't one of
+	those.  The hand wouldn't give out that kind of power to flunkies.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+While travelling from Minbar to Babylon 5 to celebrate the 10th
+anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance, Sheridan picks up an
+unexpected guest with a dire warning. Meanwhile, Lochley summons a
+priest to the station to help with a problem that may have
+supernatural implications.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: ???
+ DVD release date: July 31, 2007
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by J. Michael Straczynski
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    • tvshowsondvd.com
+	reports
+	that the DVD will be released in the US on July 31, 2007, will sell for
+	$24.98, and is approximately 75 minutes long.
+
+
    • JMS has posted some
+	photos
+	from the set.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • December 1, 2006:
+	As I write this, we have finished principal photography on "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales," coming in under budget and finishing a full day ahead of schedule.
+
      
+	This first DVD, entitled "Voices in the Dark," covers the same 72 hour period of time as Sheridan travels on board a Presidential Cruiser en route to Babylon 5 from Minbar for a celebration marking the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Interstellar Alliance. One part of the story follows Sheridan as he picks up an unexpected visitor on the edge of Centauri space, Prince Regent Dius Vintari, and a warning about what will come afterward delivered by the techno-mage, Galen. The other part of the story is set aboard Babylon 5, as Colonel Lochley summons a priest from Earth space to deal with a problem that may have dark supernatural overtones. The two parts of the greater story intersect at certain key plot and thematic points, so that they overlap and complement each other while telling separate, but simultaneous, stories.
+
      
+	The first DVD is going to require nearly 200 EFX shots, taking us all over Alliance space, and Babylon 5, which is being redesigned using the latest CGI technology. The same CGI is being used to create virtual sets a la Sin City, but on an even more detailed basis, in many cases integrating them with practical sets based on the original blueprint designs for Babylon 5.
+
      
+	A number of behind-the-scenes pieces were shot for inclusion on the DVD, as well as a number of original short pieces that will be filmed in February which feature glimpses into the future of Babylon 5 and her characters.
+
      
+	We have set-up a temporary webpage of photos from the shoot from my personal collection. These images mark the very first photos to emerge from production. [http://babylon5scripts.com/TLT-JMS-photos.html]
+
      
+	For more information, keep an eye on www.babylon5.com as well as Babylon5scripts.com. WB will be integrating the internet as a key component for promoting B5:TLT and we are pleased to be a part of that effort.
+
+
      
+
    • November 22, 2006:
+	Just a quick hello direct from the set of Babylon 5: The Lost Tales. It's 4:51 p.m. and we just finished lunch (crew call at 10 a.m. lunch at 4). Bruce Boxleitner just completed a series of shots in a Starfury, his first time back in the saddle. We're ahead of schedule and might actually wrap filming a day early. (It always goes faster if you don't actually put film in the camera.) We've introduced a new Centauri character -- Prince Regent Vintari, third from the throne -- a new ISN reporter played by Teryl Rothery, a priest played by Alan Scarfe, and a character who may have come too close to certain dark forces played by Bruce Ramsey. Part One of "Voices in the Dark" wrapped on Friday, and we should have part two done tomorrow, after a long sequence shooting in the hallway of a new Minbari Presidential Cruiser built for the Interstellar Alliance.
+
+
      
+
    • November 15, 2006:
+	 This will be brief, because it's late and I have an early call tomorrow -- a longer update will be coming soon via the Babylon5scripts.com mailing list and elsewhere soon -- but I just wanted to let folks know that filming is going very well. We're three days in, and so far we're ahead of schedule, usually about an hour or two. We actually moved a couple of shots up from tomorrow's call sheet to today. It's just going really well.
+
      
+	 The B5 we see here is similar to but somewhat more sophisticated or rethought in places. For instance, in B5 halls we used to have wooden strips painted green or blue or red to signal various sectors. Here we ran these really lovely light panels that can change colors and at the same time add a light source and warm up the halls. We also went back to the original B5 blueprints and found some elements that we wanted to do in the show but couldn't, and we've incorporated them into the new sets. We're also re-engineering the look of B5, the starfuries, various alien ships and the like.
+
      
+	 Tonight there was a dinner with Doug, me, Tracy and Bruce, with Peter Woodward scheduled to fly in tomorrow so everybody's here for a couple of pivotal scenes that will cross the two segments. (One aside...Bruce was openly lamenting the small sub-section of british fans -- most of whom we all agreed couldn't be niftier -- who are determined to try and drive a wedge between him and me and the rest of the crew. No sooner was his involvement announced than this same "bunch of whackos" started the same rumors again, including the one where he supposedly burned his crew jacket after the end of B5. Determined to put that to rest, he pulled out all crew coats we made up for him that were personalized by the wardrobe department and -- minus the one that was auctioned for charity at a well publicized convention -- brought them ALL up here to dispel that myth once and for all. So tomorrow we're going to get a picture of him and me, with either all the coats, or at minimum the one the nutcases keep saying he burned, just to put THAT baldfaced lie to bed. The photo will be posted on the nets somewhere soon.)
+
      
+	 Otherwise, all is good, and the scenes are cutting together well. Three days down, seven to go.
+
+
      
+
    • October 26, 2006:
+Well, tomorrow I head back to LA for meetings on other projects for two days, then it's back to Vancouver again on Sunday to continue prep. So far everything's laying out very cleanly. We have an EFX house on board now, which was the last big step to be undertaken. It wasn't until the last day or so that we could really get into the CGI issues, which are huge on these stories.
+
      
+And in regard to that...the initial goal was to try and do three big stories in one DVD. So I wrote three scripts, featuring Sheridan, Lochley, Galen and Garibaldi. (I wanted to focus on the human characters initially so we'd have more time for prosthetics R&D for the next one.) The stories, as noted previously, were huge...all over the map, from Minbar, to Earth, Mars, the future, the distant past, as well as B5 itself obviously. We're also going to be trying some new production technologies, again trying to stay ahead of the tech curve, the way B5 has always stayed ahead on these things.
+
      
+And over the last few days, as we began to bring on crew and lay out the production, looking at just how complicated these mini-movies were going to be, the idea of making three of these monsters began to become a bit much for us to pull off on out first time out the gate, especially since I'm still kind of new as a director. So we decided to postpone one of the three to the next DVD, and lengthen the other two to make up the difference. GIven that the Garibaldi story was the most complicated visually and technically, also the most difficult from a CGi perspective, that's the one that got pushed until, potentially, next time.
+
      
+And if the sales are anywhere near what WB expects, and I think they will be, there's no question that there will be more of these down the road. So we're gong to focus in on those two stories and knock them out of the park. Same length, same running time, and now even bigger than at first anticipated since the budget on number three will now be applied to the other two.
+
      
+Part of what we're doing is to re-think the look of B5 to some degree. The show was created using 1993 technology, video toasters and amigas, and was to some extent limited by the paradigms and production methods we used in that. But it's now 13 years later, and while I will keep the feel of the show the same, and the silhouettes and designs, there's no reason to limit the look of the feel to what we could do six years ago (from when we stopped). So we're going to invest a lot of time, effort and money into really re-imagining some of the visuals at the present level -- looking at shows like Battlestar and the like -- and bringing those tools into B5 while still maintaining the feel of the show.
+
      
+I also managed to work in a nice nod to Andreas and Richard in the two mini-movies.
+
      
+So with that...the team is now in place, the last personnel have been hired, and as soon as I get back to Vancouver, I get to take off the producer's hat and put on the director's hat.
+
+
      
+
    • October 14, 2006:
+Fast follow-up....
+
      
+Just got back tonight from Vancouver, and we've now nailed down/hired
+nearly all of our key department heads and the Director of Photography
+who I'll be working with closely during production. We spent today in
+the first informal production meeting going over how we're going to
+shoot this, reviewing the storyboards, determining what's going to be
+green screen and what's going to be practical set...this should be a
+pretty cool looking project, with some sights we haven't really seen
+before as well as some more familiar sights.
+
      
+What I can say about the three episodes is that we go to Mars, Minbar
+and of course B5, we introduce a new kind of Minbari cruiser, and
+there's a rather startling sequence on Earth. I've decided to shoot
+each segment a little differently from each other, so they each have
+their own visual style that complements that particular story. On
+Monday the B5 team up north will be checking out the stages, and about
+a week or so from now the actual B5 offices will open up and folks will
+start moving in.
+
      
+It's starting to feel a lot like fun.
+
      
+We'll also be working with WB to put together a special reel from the
+shoot that we can bring to debut at San Diego Comic Con next year.
+
+
      
+
    • October 12, 2006:
+Just a quick follow-up...I'm in Vancouver (coming back in 24 hours)
+finishing up a round of final staff interviews for B5:TLT. Thus far,
+we've hired two other producers, a script supervisor, a post
+supervisor, the editor, a production manager, a conceptual
+artist/storyboard guy, an art director/production designer, a first
+assistant director, and closed several cast deals, with the rest
+probably to be closed next week, at which time I may be able to say who
+they are. Pending final negotiations, Chris Franke has agreed to come
+on board to do the music. We're interviewing CGI houses up here to
+decide which to go with. The three scripts have been completed, and
+are now being storyboarded. We've narrowed down the director of
+photography options to just a few last guys, and should have that
+decided by week's end. We've also locked down the stage and have
+started putting together our package (camera, lights, grip and
+electrics).
+
      
+By this time next week, about 80% of our crew will be in hand, the rest
+coming aboard during the start of prep.
+
+
      
+
    • October 3, 2006:
+Will TLT be shot on film or digital HD?
+The latter. I figure if I'm gonna learn this stuff, I may as well dive
+in at the deep end.
+
      
+In for a penny, in for a pounding, I say....
+
+
      
+
    • October 3, 2006:
+I'm kind of up against it right now on an assortment of deadlines, so
+this'll be quick, but I did want to address some of the questions that
+have been asked.
+
      
+Yes, we're shooting this HD, so this is going to be quite a learning
+curve for me as a director, since I've never shot HD before. There's
+also a HUGE amount of green-screen involved, so again, lots of learning
+to be done.
+
      
+For those who are getting the B5 scripts books -- and eventually the
+B5:TLT scripts will be released -- you'll notice a substantial
+difference between them and these scripts in that I decided to kind of
+direct them on the page more than usual: calling out specific angles
+and camera directions, locations and setups more than in any prior B5
+script. It probably resembles an animation script more than a standard
+TV script, because it incorporates my directorial notes, shot for shot,
+as we go.
+
      
+The first three-segment DVD is called "Voices in the Dark." We've
+narrowed down the cast, and hope to have their deals closed this week.
+There are already ten crew members working on this thing up in
+Vancouver, pulling together stages, offices and other prep work. The
+first day of shooting will likely be either November 13th or 14th (due
+to a Canadian holiday). The last twiddlings to the script should be
+done by this coming Monday. Storyboarding starts the end of this week.
+
      
+It's balls-to-the-wall right now, but it should be fun in the end.
+
+
      
+
    • September 27, 2006:
+We had to push shooting to mid-November in order to accommodate
+availabilities of different people, because this had all come up in
+kind of short notice...but we'll be in the new stages by the end of
+October, and a few key members of the crew have already been hired. So
+we're good to go.
+
+
      
+
    • September 5, 2006:
+Will you do an on-camera intro to each segment?
+I think the next thing you'd see would be DVD sales plummeting....
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Dodgers undertakes a perilous journey to Planet X, where a powerful alien
+force awaits.
+
+
+Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+G5 rating: Second-favorite thing in the universe
+
+Original air year: 1953
+
+   Story by Michael Maltese
+Directed by Chuck Jones
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Shaving cream is made using Alludium Phosdex.
+
+   
    •  Earth has used up valuable natural resources and must look elsewhere
+	in the universe for certain mineral needs.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  How are people able to breathe at an altitude of approximately 32 miles
+	(17,000 stories)?
+
+   
    •  How did Marvin Martian manage to land on Planet X immediately after
+	Dodgers did?  Has Mars run out of Alludium Phosdex as well?
+
+   
    •  What biological function is responsible for the glow emanated by Dodgers
+	when he shouts out his name?
+
+   
    •  Are Duck Dodgers and the infamous Sinclair's Duck one and the same?
+
+   
    •  Was the actual matter of Planet X destroyed, or was its mineral content
+	dispersed throughout the galaxy, where it might be found at some future
+	date?
+
+   
    •  How do Duck Dodgers, Porky, and Marvin, ever leave the remains of the
+	planet?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  When Dodgers falls several stories during the first act, he suffers only
+	minor injuries.  Perhaps Dodgers, by being DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24-1/2TH
+	CENTURY, has powers greater than the average mortal.  Further evidence
+	corroborates this when it is considered that Dodgers survives several
+	lethal blasts, including one that decimates an entire planet.
+
+   
    •  Marvin Martian's ship, the "Martian Maggot" looks suspiciously like a
+	Vorlon cruiser.  And yet, Ambassador Kosh is suspected to actually be
+	Duck Dodgers.  So perhaps The Martian Maggot was actually stolen
+	Vorlon technology.
+
+   
    •  Duck Dodgers, representing the Earth Alliance, and Marvin Martian,
+	representing Mars, do seem to share a great deal of technology. (Both
+	sides use machines with brand names such as "A-1" and "Acme" and have
+	similarly designed secret weapons.)  It is thus logical that this
+	storyline takes place after "A Voice in the Wilderness," in which the
+	Mars colony secedes from Earth.  However, this conflicts with the
+	timeline in "Midnight on the Firing Line" in which Garibaldi and
+	Delenn view this episode, several episodes before the
+	revolution on Mars.  Perhaps they just weren't paying attention to
+	the signs and portents of an upcoming Mars revolution.
+
+   
    •  JMS has stated that there is no Trek-like "transporter" technology in
+	the B5 universe; however, Dodgers uses the Evaporator to transport
+	himself to the airport.  This may be an inconsistency in the B5 setting.
+
+   
    •  It is reasonable to assume that the "unknown" area displayed by Dr. I.Q.
+	Hi is equivalent to "the rim" (of known space) that the Icarus had been
+	exploring when Sheridan's wife dissapeared  (c.f. "In the Shadow of
+	Z'ha'dum").  Could Planet X be near Z'ha'dum, or perhaps be controlled
+	by the Shadows?  Its markings indicate a long-dead civilization, perhaps
+	one of the oldest civilizations in the Galaxy.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  This is the only Babylon 5 episode to be entirely animated, and using
+	absolutely no CGI for special effects.  Considering how well
+	the episode turned out, Ron Thornton may have to start working on his
+	resume.
+
+   
    •  This episode features no regular B5 cast members.  (Except, perhaps,
+	Kosh.)
+
+   
    •  Though the character's name is common knowledge, the name Marvin Martian
+	is not actually uttered on-screen.
+
+   
    •  Strangely, this episode was broadcast before the birth of
+	JMS.  How this happened is not clear, but it's probably just one of
+	those things.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  I *love* "Duck Dodgers." I have virtually all of the WB cartoons on
+	tape or disk, and from where I sit, that's wonderful stuff that'll
+	be around for a long, long time. No omens, just something I thought
+	would be fun. (Again, connecting past/present/future, sort of our B5
+	theme.) 
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't understand...what does Sinclair's duck have to do with
+	anything?  We weren't even planning on introducing the duck until late
+	in season two.  I suspect a leak.  Nothing worse than a leaky duck.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "How did Sinclair's duck thing get started?"
+	
      
+	Probably by watching an attractive woman walk across the room.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Me, I'm just waiting for somebody to refer to "The Long Dark" as "The
+	Long Duck"....
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's a duck.  Yes, why, of course it's a ducky.  Why would I think
+	anything else?  What a silly question.
+	
      
+	It's a duck.
+	A texture mapped metallic
+	duck coming out of a jumpgate.
+ 	
      
+	A duck.  Of course.  A duck.
+ 	
      
+	AAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
+ 	
      
+	(I wanna see it...and I wanna see it now.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of the options you listed, only D poses a real problem; A-C are
+	more or less okay.  The problem comes not so much from speculating on
+	elements already introduced, as introducing *new* plot elements that
+	have not been seen in the show to back up speculation or conjecture,
+	which may or may not approximate what we're doing.  "The Minbari
+	surrendered because in some episode we'll see someday the Earth had
+	developed a giant killer space duck hidden on the dark side of the
+	moon that would nibble the Minbari homeworld to destruction."  That is
+	kind of the dividing line between what's safe and not-safe.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As Earth reacts to the Drakh plague, the Excalibur sets out on its mission
+to find a cure.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 108
+Original air date: June 9, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929003660 Earth has been quarantined since the Drakh plague was
+	released.
+
+   
    • @@@929004549 The Excalibur has captured the first Drakh prisoner of
+	war.
+
+   
    • @@@929003660 Galen saved Gideon's life nine years ago, during the
+	technomages' exodus from known space
+	("The Geometry of Shadows").
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929003660 Why was Gideon's ship destroyed nine years ago?
+
+   
    • @@@929003660 What are the new rules regarding telepaths?  Clearly
+	they aren't exactly the same as the old Psi Corps rules; Matheson, for
+	example, wasn't wearing gloves.  Who enforces the rules now?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929081490 How strong a telepath is Matheson?  Would he have been
+	of any use in the interrogation of the Drakh commander?  Or is such
+	probing forbidden by the new rules governing telepaths?
+
+   
    • @@@929003660 Gideon referred to the Excalibur as the most advanced
+	warship ever built by humans.  Is he aware of the Minbari involvement
+	in the ship's construction?
+
+   
    • @@@929004549 The Drakh commander referred to himself as a councilman.
+	Is there a Drakh government distinct from the military?  What is the
+	relationship between the two apparently different species who make
+	up the Drakh?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929003660 Assuming the technomages all departed at once and weren't
+	in transit for a very long time, this episode takes place in 2268.
+	The technomages departed B5 in 2259
+	("The Geometry of Shadows")
+	and Gideon said he'd been rescued nine years earlier.
+
+   
    • @@@929003660 Explorer-class ships such as the one commanded by Gideon
+	before he was assigned to the Excalibur were first introduced in
+	"A Distant Star."
+	Their missions typically take them far beyond known space for
+	extended periods of time, mapping out new systems and making
+	contact with alien civilizations.
+
+   
    • @@@929003660 The question of whether life ever existed on Mars is
+	still unresolved in 2268.
+
+   
    • @@@929004316 Effects oddity: the fire burning in front of the crashed
+	Drakh ship is symmetrical.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929037218 Just for the record: I think the first one -- the only one
+	written directly at TNT's behest -- is probably the weakest one,
+	certainly the one I find least interesting.  It's lumbered with buckets
+	of exposition, explaining things that don't need explaining, too many
+	fights, too many explosions, too much swaggering around, all stuff the
+	net wanted. 
+
+	
      
+	Then we go back to the show we wanted to make...Path of Sorrows is
+	terrific, Well of Forever is a solid character story, The Long Road is
+	just pure fun (that's pretty much reverse broadcast order, btw)...
+	there's one or two in the bunch that are a bit slower than I'd like,
+	but those are the exception rather than the rule.  
+
+	
      
+	Just to get my own feelings on this out there.  
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 My take on #1 is that this is the weakest of the bunch,
+	because this is the only one written at the behest of TNT; it's
+	exposition heavy, too much swaggering macho stuff, no real depth, just
+	stuff blowing up.  The ones that follow are much better.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 All that exposition is what TNT wanted...and one of the
+	reasons was that they weren't going to rerun
+	ACtA
+	before it...then they
+	were, which made it all unnecessary...then they ran ACtA AFTER the
+	ep...which makes NO kind of sense.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 "The mutiny was clumsy, but I like Gideon, Galen, Dureena
+	and Trace.  (And from the way it opened, my first thought was, "this
+	must be some of the extra violence TNT wanted.  Ugh.")
+
+	
      
+	Ding.
+
+	
      
+	"Will we find out why Gideon wouldn't have his exec scan the Drakh?"
+
+	
      
+	The rules about unauthorized scans still apply.  Matheson has to
+	operate even under stricter rules re: privacy now than before.  You'll
+	see more on this later.
+
+	
      
+	"The only really weak spots, to me were the " Earth in a panic"
+	scenes, which looked an awful lot like newsreel footage"
+
+	
      
+	TNT note: we need to SEE Earth in turmoil, if we just hear about
+	it nobody's going to get it.  They had us insert that.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 "The opening scene cracked me up. Look there's a fight,
+	as close to wrestling as you can get on a starship."
+
+	
      
+	Yep.  That's one of the mandates they put on the first ep...they
+	wanted to start with a fist-fight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 Were any of the riot scenes staged?
      
+	It was all real footage.
+
+	
      
+	As for the exposition...one reason they asked for so much was
+	because they said it was going to air months after ACTA, and nobody'd
+	remember, and it wouldn't get rerun...then after we shot WZ they
+	decided they *would* rerun ACTA before WZ...then a few weeks ago they
+	decided to run ACTA -- which has all the info needed for WZ -- AFTER
+	WZ.
+
+	
      
+	Now perhaps you get a small sense of what we've been up against.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930036787 "I admit, I'm one of the folks who didn't
+	particularly warm to the [riot] footage. It seemed not to fit."
+
+	
      
+	It didn't.  Moreover, the order for that stuff came in about two
+	days before we were supposed to begin shooting, so we had to hurriedly
+	redesign the set to include the wall monitor, and change other aspects
+	of the filming, then hurriedly find some footage that would work
+	(sorta).
+
+	
      
+	"I suppose there were few options."
+
+	
      
+	None.  What you have to understand is that we were at this
+	point, in the writing of this episode, on hiatus...awaiting the okay to
+	go back into filming.  And though it was never said overtly, there was
+	always the undercurrent of "If TNT doesn't get this one script the way
+	they want it, they may not give the OK.  So give them what they want
+	just this one time."
+
+	
      
+	I did what I could with what they demanded, and tried to fight
+	as much as I could.  For instance, in one scene, where Gideon tells the
+	others to meet him in the conference room, the TNT note was, "How does
+	Gideon know where the conference room is?  We should have a scene where
+	he's shown the conference room."
+
+	
      
+	My reply: "He knows where the conference room is because when
+	he's escorted to the bridge by Matheson, *HE CAN SEE IT FROM HIS
+	CHAIR*."
+
+	
      
+	(It was one of those bang-your-head-against-the-wall moments.)
+
+	
      
+	The overall problem, which many folks don't understand, is that
+	in a script you have a finite number of minutes and pages.  Let's say
+	42 pages. Now, the script is written the way you want, kinda, with some
+	nice character moments and stuff.  Then they want more exposition.  You
+	can't just append it to the page count, you have to stay at 42 pages. 
+	So you have to cut stuff *out* to make room for the stuff they want put
+	*in*.  The first thing out the door is character, followed quickly by
+	humor.
+
+	
      
+	There was, for instance, a nice clash with the senator and the
+	intelligence guy over Gideon's background, why he's the wrong person
+	for the job, why Sheridan picked him specifically for the job...which
+	had to go in order to put in more exposition (and lengthen the opening
+	fight scene in the teaser by about a third, another TNT request).
+
+	
      
+	For me, a lot of what makes an episode fun are the character
+	moments, but there was no longer room for them...they had to go out to
+	make room for dry expositional stuff or stuff blowing up.
+
+	
      
+	Which is why I picked "The Long Road" as the one to follow in
+	the broadcast order...it's one big character piece, with a fair amount
+	of humor, and just fun.  A little expository in the second act, but
+	nothing unreasonable.
+
+	
      
+	Stil, I'm proud of what we did with "War Zone," because it was a
+	little like someone handing you an inner tube and a tree branch and
+	telling you to make a radio telescope out of it.  It ain't pretty, but
+	it does the job we had put in front of us.
+
+	
      
+	(One aside...some folks on the net picked up my comments about
+	War Zone made here earlier and said I was apologizing after the fact
+	for the episode, once the reactions came in...but the date stamp on the
+	message, here and on the nets, clearly indicate that I made those
+	statements BEFORE the episode aired.  I know *exactly* where the faults
+	are in the eps, where they work and where they don't work, and have
+	always tried to be the first one on record about them because that
+	seems right to me.  This is, after all, about the process of educating
+	people about how TV works, the decisions that get made and how you deal
+	with them.)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930036787 Why did the scene with the senator and the
+	intelligence guy have to be cut?
      
+	Because something had to go time-wise to make room for other
+	stuff.  If we'd kept *that*, then something ELSE of similar time would
+	have to go, such as Dureena's scene in the cell with Gideon, or the
+	like.  The amount of air time we have per episode does not change.
+
+	
      
+	Also...they said the senator scene was too long (which it
+	*wasn't* before the big montage/video/the senator explains it all for
+	you sequence was added in), and to cut stuff out of that scene and add
+	it to the fight in the beginning.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930036787 Why did Sheridan pick Gideon?
      
+	Sheridan picked him for the qualities that made him exactly the
+	*wrong* person from their point of view...obstinate, difficult,
+	independent, not prone to following orders from home, not politically
+	astute...but he'll get the job done.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 "Somehow I get the feeling that the reason the Detroit
+	Free Press reviewer said that Crusade looked "like it came from the
+	planet Cheez-Whiz" can be summed up in 3 letters.... TNT. 
+	Unfortunately, if the first episode were all I had to go by I'd have to
+	agree with him."
+
+	
      
+	And I would as well.
+
+	
      
+	That's the thing about all this...in the negative comments about
+	War Zone -- and actually there have been far fewer than I'd anticipated
+	-- there ain't much that I'd disagree with.  If anything, they've
+	tickled me because they reflect EXACTLY what I'd said when these things
+	were asked for.  It's been a massive validation.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 "Did they at least give you a blindfold and a cigarette? "
+
+	
      
+	Not orally, no.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 "And the differences were SO transparent (the fist fight,
+	the earth scenes, the posturing, etc.)  I sure wish I could have seen a
+	JMS script as opposed to a "JMS with TNT" script."
+
+	
      
+	The other 12 fit the bill.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 "And yet I don't recall a scene in which you fragged the
+	head of ITN or any other network."
+
+	
      
+	No, but there were occasional little hidden messages in the
+	episode, as when a character says, "We've had to make some compromises
+	to get this show on the road."  No one noticed that one, despite being
+	rather literal.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@929221939 "In the scenes with the Senator on Mars I wasn't sure Cole
+	was in the same room with the other two during the dialogue.  Too many
+	cuts back and forth and his eyes seemed to move around oddly.  Was this
+	scene editted back together from separate filmings?"
+
+	
      
+	At one point in editing we needed some close-ups, and there
+	weren't any in that part, so we kind of borrowed some from earlier in
+	the sequence. We do this a lot, when there isn't coverage of some parts
+	of scenes, rarely does anyone notice the eyeline difference.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930036787 Why does Dureena give the impression she's
+	never seen the Excalibur before?
      
+	Actually, she never gives that impression; her reaction to the others
+	seeing the ship and being impressed is to shrug and say, "It'll do." 
+	She's not impressed because she's already been there.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A renegade technomage stands in the way of a mining operation that could
+save lives on Earth.
+
+Scott Paetty as Lt. Meyers.
+Mik Scriba as Barkeep.
+Marshall Teague as Capt. Daniels.
+Edward Woodward as Alwyn.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 107
+Original air date: June 16, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929645109 Galen was taken in by Elric
+	("The Geometry of Shadows")
+	after Galen's father died.  Elric died shortly after the technomages
+	reached their hiding place.
+
+   
    • @@@929645109 Galen isn't the only technomage who disagrees with
+	the group's decision to go into hiding.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929645109 What did Alwyn mean when he said darkness was coming?
+
+   
    • @@@929645109 How many other technomages split off from the group and
+	are wandering around the universe?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929645109 Could Alwyn really have destroyed ships in orbit?
+	Clearly Gideon's use of the Excalibur's main gun was the backup
+	plan advocated by Galen, so it's plausible that Alwyn's preparations
+	were little more than a light show in reality.
+
+   
    • @@@930036047 Gideon referred to Alwyn as a technomage while speaking
+	to Captain Daniels; Daniels didn't seem surprised to hear the term.
+	How widespread is knowledge of the technomages?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@929645109 Alwyn was played by Edward Woodward, father of Peter
+	Woodward, who plays Galen.
+
+   
    • @@@929645109 Marshall Teague is a longtime B5 actor; he guest-starred
+	as Nelson Drake in the very first hourlong episode filmed,
+	"Infection,"
+	and later played Ta'Lon, the Narn who eventually succeeded G'Kar
+	as ambassador to B5.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@930036445 It's a favorite of mine...nice character and humor
+	stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930036188 "By that I mean have the technomages always had
+	abilities just slightly ahead of their contemporaries (and used in a
+	way to APPEAR miraculous), or have they had the benefit of technology
+	from another civilization?"
+
+	
      
+	This is a question that we were going to build, and answer, in
+	the latter part of the first season...a lot of which will also be in
+	the 3 technomage novels.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Galen convinces Gideon to take the Excalibur deep into hyperspace to find a
+mythical place of power.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 106
+Original air date: June 23, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by Fiona Avery
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 The Well of Forever is a mausoleum deep in hyperspace,
+	where various races have left shrines and monuments to their honored
+	dead over the millenia.
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 Technomage ships have extremely sensitive sensors that
+	allow them to navigate much further from hyperspace beacons than
+	Alliance races can.  As a result they're able to travel through
+	hyperspace without encountering others.
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 At least one race of creatures lives in hyperspace, huge
+	jellyfishlike creatures called the Fen.  The technomages have
+	encountered them before and consider tham harmless.
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 Matheson is the first telepath since the abolition of the
+	Psi Corps to achieve a high-ranking military position.  He's thus
+	a well-known role model among younger telepaths.
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 The Psi Corps has been abolished by the Senate and
+	replaced with an organization called the Bureau of Telepath Integration,
+	which, like the Corps, sends watchmen
+	(all named "Mr. Jones") around to probe the minds of other telepaths
+	and make sure the new telepath regulations aren't being violated.
+	The new regulations are aimed at integrating telepaths into society.
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 When he was younger, Galen and a technomage named Isabelle
+	were in love.  She devoted her life to finding the Well of Forever,
+	and when she died, he promised to bring her there.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 What personal significance does the question "Why?" have
+	to Galen?
+
+   
    • @@@930554687 What was Gideon's question?
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 What answer would Matheson have found had he ventured
+	into hyperspace at the Well?
+
+   
    • @@@930554445 What were Matheson's minor violations of the telepath
+	rules?
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 Who created the Well of Forever?  How long has it existed?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@930294581 In the montage at the end of the episode, Gideon is holding
+	a photograph titled "EAS Cerberus."  That, combined with his
+	comment to Galen that he's already made a promise to honor the
+	memories of 300 people, suggests that he was the only survivor
+	when his ship was destroyed nine years earlier
+	("War Zone").
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930294581 The Psi Corps may have vanished in name, but its spirit
+	appears to be alive and well if Mr. Jones is any indication; he
+	was just as willing as any Psi Cop to abuse his authority.  It's
+	even possible he was a Psi Cop when the Corps was still
+	around.
+
+	
      
+	The new rules regarding telepaths are presumably the result of
+	the Telepath War, and it can be deduced that after the war, the
+	Senate decided that keeping telepaths segregated in their own
+	shadow society was partly to blame for the conflict.
+
+	
      
+	The fact that there are watchmen like Mr. Jones suggests that
+	telepaths are probably still required to register with the
+	government.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931244313 Who was Gideon playing chess with?  He made his move from
+	the side of the board, rather than the front or back; perhaps he's
+	playing solo.  If so, an obvious question is whether the board is
+	a metaphor for something.
+
+	
      @@@931542158 
+	The game may relate to his answer to Galen's final question ("Who do
+	you serve and who do you trust?")  Gideon may not be sure whose side
+	he's on.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931244235 Mr. Jones was played by Michael Beck, who played Abel
+	Horn in
+	"A Spider in the Web".
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930554445 Galen's elegy for Isabelle is a quote from Act 4, Scene 2
+	of Shakespeare's "Cymbeline".
+
+	
      
+	Galen also makes a reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's
+	"Sonnets from the Portugese" (#43):
+
+	
      
+	How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. 
      
+	I love thee to the depth and breadth and height 
      
+	My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight 
      
+	For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. 
      
+	I love thee to the level of every day's 
      
+	Most quiet need, by the sun and candle-light. 
      
+	I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; 
      
+	I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. 
      
+	I love thee with the passion put to use 
      
+	In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. 
      
+	I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 
      
+	With my lost saints- and, if God choose, 
      
+	I shall but love thee better after death.
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930554445 As Galen describes the Well's answers to Dureena,
+	the game "Pong" can briefly be seen on the monitor behind Eilerson
+	at the very start of his scene.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@930295794 Possible continuity error: Gideon quotes Galen as
+	saying that the crew of the Excalibur is like a family to him.
+	While it's possible that Galen said that offscreen, also possible
+	is that the comment appeared in an episode that was produced
+	before this one but comes after it in chronological order.  The
+	jury will be out on whether this is a glitch until after the
+	first 5 produced episodes have aired.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931244235 Galen's ship has a front landing wheel.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931244650 "Fen" is often used as a plural form of "fan", as in
+	"science fiction fan."  Galen's comment is a tongue-in-cheek poke
+	at SF fandom: "They're barely sentient.  They're attracted to bright,
+	shiny objects, but they lose interest quickly."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@930554746 Why two Galen-centered episodes in a row?
      
+	The original air order would have spread out the Galen episodes,
+	so that he would appear every second or third episode...that changed
+	with the short order, and they all got bunched together.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@933009474 "Can (will) you tell us about Fiona Avery's connection
+	to B5 and Crusade? I just picked up the first PsiCorp novel and she was
+	in the dedication. Got me to wondering..."
+
+	
      
+	We brought Fiona aboard during the last part of S5 as a
+	reference editor to keep the continuity straight, and for Crusade
+	(about which more in a bit). There was a growing problem keeping the
+	licensees and licensed material accurate; stuff slipped through the RPG
+	books and elsewhere (this was before she got here).  She was brought on
+	to stop the problem, and to annoy the licensees in the sense that it's
+	often easier not to get things right, and she has to stay on top of
+	them and make them crazy in order to ensure that the accuracy the fans
+	(and I) expect is maintained.
+
+	
      
+	She was also brought on with an eye toward Crusade because she
+	has a degree in Archaeology and Crusade's an archaeological SF series. 
+	Along the way, she began writing spec scripts for Crusade which ended
+	up being good enough to buy, and we bought 4 of which 2 were produced,
+	Well and Patterns. The last one she did, Value Judgments, was probably
+	the best of the bunch; it's a Bester script that Walter considered one
+	of his best roles, and would tie in directly with the Psi Corps books.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The discovery of a mysterious alien causes the crew to reflect on significant
+events in their lives.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 109
+Original air date: June 30, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198143 Gideon was an ensign on the Cerberus ten years earlier
+	when it was attacked by an alien ship, possibly a Shadow vessel.
+	The ship was destroyed while he was in the middle of a spacewalk to
+	survey some hull damage.  Shortly after the Shadow ship withdrew,
+	the technomage fleet arrived and he was rescued by Galen.
+	After he returned to Earth, his story was met with skepticism by
+	his superiors.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198143 At one point, Gideon won a device called an "apocalypse
+	box" in a poker game.  The box's previous owner killed himself
+	immediately after losing it, though apparently more to escape
+	the box's influence than because he was upset about losing it.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198143 Galen and Isabelle
+	("The Well of Forever")
+	were injured and stranded on a planet after being betrayed by
+	three other technomages.  She died as he comforted her.  Thereafter,
+	Galen refused to believe in any kind of higher purpose or design in
+	the universe, since it would imply that someone decided that Isabelle
+	deserved to die.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198143 Matheson was working at a secret Psi Corps base during
+	the Telepath War.  He was asked to administer sleeper drugs to a
+	captured rogue telepath.  The rogue convinced him to look at the
+	Corps in a less forgiving light; he ended up betraying his masters
+	and unwittingly helping the rogues destroy the Psi Corps base.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 Who did Galen apologize to, and for what?
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 What were the circumstances of Dureena's previous
+	failure, and who died as a result?
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 Who and what was the alien in the orb?
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 Who attacked the Cerberus?  The Shadows?  Given that
+	Earth was allied with them during the Shadow War, why would they
+	attack an Earth Alliance ship?
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 Was it just a coincidence that the technomage fleet
+	appeared in precisely the same location as the attack on the Cerberus?
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 What was the apocalypse box?  Where did it come from?
+	What happened to it?
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 Who betrayed Galen and Isabelle?  Why?  What precisely did
+	they do?
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 Was the message to Galen genuine, or did the alien cause
+	it to be sent?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 Since Matheson has been deep-scanned on at least one
+	occasion
+	("The Well of Forever")
+	it's possible that his role in the Corps base's destruction is known
+	to at least a few other people.  Have there been any repercussions,
+	or does the fact that it was wartime (and, more to the point, that
+	the Corps was apparently on the losing side of the war) mean he
+	wasn't officially held accountable?
+
+   
    • @@@936001489 The word "apocalypse" has two meanings.  The commonly-used
+	one is a cataclysm, generally involving the destruction of life on
+	a large scale.  But the word also means "a prophetic revelation."
+	Which sense applies to the box remains to be seen.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 Matheson's psi ability is stronger than P2, though
+	how much higher isn't clear.
+
+   
    • @@@931457216 Galen's reason for refusing to believe in a larger
+	design echoes a comment by Marcus.  He told Dr. Franklin that
+	he preferred to think that things didn't happen for a reason, since
+	otherwise it would mean that people deserved it when bad things
+	happened to them.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931198143 This one is a favorite of mine as well.  It was one of
+	the scripts written while we were still shooting the first 5, before
+	TNT got into the process.  When that happened, they made it clear that
+	they *hated* this story, felt that nobody would be interested in all
+	this backstory...and asked for it all to be taken out, let them run
+	into this alien and make him an evil character, an emotional vampire
+	who drives them insane.
+
+	
      
+	This was one of the first scripts where I dug in my heels
+	bigtime and refused to do what they asked.  I knew it would be
+	powerful; they thought it would be utterly uninteresting.  They were
+	wrong.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198143 What was the ship that attacked the Cerberus?
      
+	That remains to be revealed.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198143 Was Lyta supposed to be in this episode?
      
+	Yeah, Lyta would've been in that ep but Pat was on a movie at
+	the time.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198143 Re: the Matheson scene...that one was cut back by about 40%
+	because the episode ran long.  (That sometimes happens on dialogue-
+	intensive episodes.) The original version had it go over a longer
+	period of time, and showed him coming over gradually.  It is a bit
+	abrupt as it is now, though I still think it plays.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198143 Why didn't the rogue have a beacon that sent out a
+	continuous signal?
      
+	A device that small would run out of power if it were on all the
+	time, and might be detected.  My feeling was that it was switched off
+	and had to be removed to power it up, then the telepathic signal would
+	activate the beacon and bring in the troops.  You'd have a two-stage
+	process to a) avoid detection, and b) ensure that if it *were* found it
+	couldn't be used by anyone else to stage a trap.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@931198449 "I'm very curious where Joe's going with Galen's
+	character."
+
+	
      
+	Actually, Galen has quite a secret he's carrying around with
+	him.  It formed the basis of scripts 114 ("To the Ends of the Earth")
+	and 116 ("End of the Line," which would've been the cliffhanger).  It's
+	also a major element of the coming technomage novels.  There's a very
+	small reference to it in the episode airing this week, when Galen
+	mentions that he and someone else have been "betrayed by our own kind."
+
+	
      
+	It also ties into why they were in such a rush to get the hell
+	out of known space during the shadow war.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A group of refugees from Earth may be spreading the Drakh plague offworld.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 110
+Original air date: July 7, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by Fiona Avery
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 Dureena's people didn't develop spaceflight on their own;
+	they were taken offworld to act as workers for another race.
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 Dureena is not the last of her race alive.  A transport carrying
+	workers for a new colony was attacked by the Shadows, and 100 of
+	the workers managed to escape in lifepods.  They formed a small
+	colony on an otherwise uninhabited world, Theta 9.
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 Dureena's race is more susceptible to the plague than
+	humans are; their genetic makeup is apparently closer to the template
+	the plague uses as a starting point.
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 Gideon has access to top-secret materials thanks to a card
+	game he played against a drunk Earth official some years earlier;
+	the official put up his access codes as collateral and lost.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 Are there other instances of the plague being
+	exported intentionally from Earth?
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 How did Max know about the Pro Zeta corporation?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 Was the cybernetic implant program related to the one
+	involving Abel Horn
+	("A Spider in the Web")?
+	The specifics were different, but may have been part of the same
+	larger operation.
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 Given the huge risk involved if even a single person
+	outside the Earth quarantine is infected and able to travel freely,
+	Gideon has a strong motivation to report this incident to someone,
+	even at the risk of the General Thompson finding out about it.  Will
+	Gideon do so?  Since the plague can easily jump species, he could
+	legitimately take the approach of reporting it directly to the
+	Interstellar Alliance rather than going through his normal chain
+	of command.
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 This episode has the first reference in the series to
+	the Interstellar Alliance, though an oblique one: General Thompson
+	claimed that his authority to redirect the Excalibur came directly
+	from President Sheridan.  Which implies that the Excalibur isn't
+	entirely under Earthforce control; given the Alliance's founding
+	principle of autonomy for member races, Sheridan presumably doesn't
+	have the power to directly meddle in Earth's internal military affairs.
+
+   
    • @@@933044642 Dureena's race hasn't had good luck with the Shadows
+	and their cohorts; they destroyed the worker transport, then wiped
+	her planet out.  Just a coincidence, or did Dureena's people pose some
+	kind of threat to the Shadows?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931456768 Theta 9 is Canada.  The views from orbit are images of
+	Earth landmasses: the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, the St. Lawrence
+	Seaway, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland can be seen.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@933017794 Chambers could be seen on the shuttle in the
+	footage Gideon showed General Thompson.  Won't people wonder why she's
+	still alive?
      
+	It's only ever going to be seen by the general, and bear in mind
+	that in that shot Chambers was WAY in the background, it was only seen
+	for a moment on the monitor, with the General more concerned about
+	what's happening in FG, and in any event he would have to instantly
+	recognize her by sight, and he didn't know her.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Gideon and Lochley clash on Mars as a group of religious zealots threatens
+a conference on the plague.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 111
+Original air date: July 14, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by Peter David
+Directed by John Copeland
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 Since the plague hit Earth, a number of doomsday cults
+	have appeared on Earth.  One of the most extreme, Sacred Omega,
+	is willing to kill to prevent a cure from being found, since it
+	believes the plague is God's punishment for mankind's corruption.
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 Trace Miller
+	("War Zone")
+	was once studying to be a Foundationist priest.  He witnessed
+	something horrible, which shattered his faith and caused him to
+	drop out of his training.
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 Max grew up on Mars.  He spent most of his childhood
+	studying, but occasionally was able to slip away and venture into
+	the seedier sections of town.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 What did Trace see?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 Dureena said she gave a guy a chance once.  What were
+	the circumstances, and what happened?
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 Franklin is still on Earth, according to Lochley.
+	Assuming he still holds his post as head of the Earth's xenobiological
+	research program
+	("The Ragged Edge")
+	he is presumably playing a key role in Earth-based research to find
+	a cure.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 Max is an expert dancer.
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 When Trace is interrogated after being attacked, a sign
+	on the wall can be seen; it reads "Phobos."  That was the name of the
+	bar where Sheridan was captured in
+	"The Face of the Enemy."
+	On the other hand, it may be a common name for Martian bars, since
+	Phobos is one of Mars' moons.
+
+   
    • @@@933008963 The streets mentioned in the episode are all named
+	after well-known pieces of Mars fiction.  Bradbury Street is a
+	reference to Ray Bradbury, author of "The Martian Chronicles."
+	Burroughs Street refers to Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote a series
+	of stories about Mars featuring a character named John Carter, for
+	whom Carter Street is named.  This isn't the first reference to
+	John Carter in the B5 universe; a John Carter is referred to as one
+	of the first Martian colonists in
+	"A Spider in the Web."
+
+   
    • @@@933014242 Another Bradbury reference: Max was drinking "dandelion
+	wine" at the bar.  "Dandelion Wine" is the name of a 1957 novel by
+	Bradbury.
+
+   
    • @@@932976890 Text of the conference banner:
+	
      
+	EARTH ALLIANCE HEALTH ORGANIZATION
      
+	Plague Eradication
      
+	Management Strategies
      
+	Mars Conference
      
+	June 15, 2267
+	
      
+
+   
    • @@@933009543 The bomb timer stops on 18.  In Hebrew, 18 is spelled
+	out as "chai," which means "life."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 Gideon can be seen to wear a ring in this
+	episode.  What's it for?
      
+	It's his Earthforce Academy graduation ring.
+
+   
    • @@@932974890 When Chambers is waiting to be met by Gideon,
+	it looks like there are people holding signs reading "Copeland"
+	and "Straczynski".  True?
      
+	Yes on the first, no on the second.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Gideon attempts to negotiate for the right to land on an alien planet, but
+the aliens have other ideas.
+
+Jamie Rose as Cynthia.
+Tim Choate as Polix.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 112
+Original air date: July 21, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Treviño
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 The original inhabitants of the planet Lorka 7 were
+	wiped out a long time ago, but the details are unknown.  The new
+	inhabitants, who were led to the planet five hundred years ago by
+	a being they call "The Most Holy," have agreed to let the Excalibur
+	land and investigate to see what happened to their predecessors.
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 Lochley and Gideon have consummated their budding
+	relationship.
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 Max was a child prodigy, always getting beaten up in
+	school for being smarter than his peers.  He had a lonely life until
+	he met a woman named Cynthia Allen; the two of them were married for
+	some time, but she eventually left when it became clear that his
+	devotion was more to IPX than to her.  Her business, trading alien art
+	and antiquities, was devastated by the quarantine of Earth.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 Who or what was the Lorkans' "Most Holy?"  A Vorlon?
+	Why were they led to Lorka 7?  Where were they before then?
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 What wiped out the previous population of Lorka 7?
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 What other alien artifacts does Max have in his
+	quarters?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 Dr. Chambers was clearly no stranger to fighting.  Was
+	she formally trained?  Perhaps she has served in Earthforce; on the
+	Excalibur it's not entirely clear whether she's a civilian.
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 Five years after the founding of the Alliance, Babylon 5
+	is still teeming with activity.  Yet a decade and a half later, at
+	the time of Sheridan's death
+	("Sleeping in Light")
+	it's considered useless.  What happens in the intervening years to
+	cause people to stop coming to the station?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 Lochley likes to retreat to Downbelow when the stresses
+	of running the station become too great.
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 Just after the shower scene, a ship is shown entering
+	B5's docking bay.  This is a tongue-in-cheek variant on an old
+	cinematic metaphor, more typically rendered as a train going into a
+	tunnel.
+
+   
    • @@@936120474 Tim Choate, who plays Polix, was Zathras in the original
+	series.
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 Dedication:
+	
      
+	In Memory of Mister Kitty
      
+	198? to May 17, 1999
      
+	Now chasing star-mice
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@932976564 "I presume that Mr. Kitty was yours?"
+
+	
      
+	Yup.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@932976564 Was the Lorcan at the end played by Wayne
+	Alexander?
      
+	No, it wasn't Wayne, and the name slips away at the moment.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As a group of propaganda specialists visits the Excalibur to try to improve
+its image, the crew comes across a derelict alien ship.
+
+John Vickery as Mr. Welles.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 113
+Original air date: July 28, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Stephen Furst
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@933615846 Mr. Welles
+	("The Fall of Night")
+	is still working as a propagandist for the Earth government.
+
+   
    • @@@933615846 Somewhere in the galaxy there exists a race of aliens who
+	are able to pass their consciousness from one body to another by
+	touch, effectively possessing the new host.  They reproduce by
+	subdividing as they spread, the old host retaining part of the
+	alien presence and passing it on to the new.  Rather than send
+	their physical bodies out on risky space journeys to colonize
+	other worlds, they sent out a series of probes, each imbued with
+	a piece of the alien consciousness.  As the probes are discovered,
+	the aliens take over the worlds in question.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@933615846 Where is the mind-altering aliens' original homeworld? 
+
+   
    • @@@933615846 How many other probes are drifting through space waiting
+	to be discovered?
+
+   
    • @@@933615846 Where did the derelict spacecraft come from?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@933615846 Though it turned out to be correct, Max's line of thought
+	about the alien writing missed an obvious possibility.  He noted that
+	the writing on the ship and the aliens' spoken language seemed to bear
+	no relation to one another.  The explanation could have been as simple
+	as the ship being manufactured by one group of aliens and crewed by
+	another; the crew might have bought or stolen the ship from someone
+	else.
+
+   
    • @@@933658333 As the alien was being forced out the airlock, it tried
+	to say to Gideon, "I know what you're looking for.  I know where you
+	can find it!"  Was it referring to a cure for the Drakh plague?  If
+	so, did it in fact know of a cure, or was it just trying to tell
+	whatever lie was necessary to save its life?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931207368 Director Stephen Furst played Vir in the original series.
+
+   
    • @@@931207368 The costume changes in this episode are a result of a
+	quirk in the series' production: after five episodes were
+	filmed with the "new" costumes and set designs introduced in this
+	episode, TNT increased the show's budget.  This episode and the
+	ones before it in the airing sequence were filmed after the budget
+	increase.  Had the series continued beyond 13 episodes, the 14th
+	episode would have featured an "accident" in the laundry room that
+	forced the crew back to their more expensive uniforms.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@935688992 It's obvious that the episodes filmed 6th through
+	13th were intended to air before the first 5 that were filmed.  Why
+	on Earth would you do that?
      
+	Let me ask you a real simple question:
+
+	
      
+	What makes you think it was my decision?
+
+	
      
+	TNT wanted the "new-look" episodes aired first.  They wanted to push
+	the first 5 back as far as possible.  I initially figured we'd do 5-6
+	of the "new look" ones first, the minimum possible, then the first 5,
+	then the new-look (black uniform) ones to the end.
+
+	
      
+	TNT *mandated* that the black-uniform ones would go first.  It was not
+	my choice.  I have NO control over broadcast.  
+
+	
      
+	Not only did they want to hold them back, they were debating if they'd
+	even allow us to FINISH post on the first 5.  It was a struggle to let
+	them finish 'em, and they were the last ones to go through post.
+
+	
      
+	Before you fire, it's always a good idea to know what the target is
+	first.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@934310433 "As Gideon was preparing Greenberg's body for Airlock'nLoad,
+	the alien within was pleading:"Don't do this! I know what you're looking
+	for!" Was this a reference to the Plague/Cure?"
+
+	
      
+	Yep.  But since the body couldn't talk aloud, it couldn't
+	communicate this effectively.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The crew discovers a planet that was devastated by a plague similar to the
+one threatening Earth.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 103
+Original air date: August 4, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@934310143 The Shadows used the plague in the last Shadow War, a
+	thousand years ago.  They infected a planet, not yet technologically
+	advanced enough for starflight, that refused to allow
+	them to set up a base.  After three years of struggling to find a
+	cure, the inhabitants of that planet froze themselves.  Every two
+	years, when the five-year clock expires, another individual is
+	awakened to guard over the planet.  Anyone who stumbles onto
+	the planet is abducted and dissected in the hopes that they'll
+	prove immune to the plague and thus show the way to a cure.
+
+   
    • @@@934310143 Gideon consults the apocalypse box
+	("The Path of Sorrows")
+	to find out about new planets to explore.  It knows about worlds the
+	Rangers haven't discovered yet.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@934310143 How did the apocalypse box know about the planet?
+	Did it know what was really going on there?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@934310143 In
+	"A Call to Arms,"
+	Sheridan said that the reason the plague will take five years to kill
+	everyone on Earth is that the Drakh didn't have time to adjust it for
+	Earth biology before releasing it.  If that's true, why didn't the
+	plague act more quickly on the aliens, given that it was the Shadows
+	themselves who released it?  Maybe they released it at the very end
+	of the last Shadow War and, like the Drakh, didn't have time to
+	adjust it beforehand, but it's also possible that the analysis Sheridan
+	was quoting was flawed.  If so, the five-year figure might be incorrect
+	as well.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@931207368 This episode was originally slated to air first, until
+	TNT decided that it preferred to have some introductory episodes
+	to ease viewers into the series' premise.
+
+   
    • @@@934310691 Galen's closing line, "Expect me when you see me," is
+	a quote from "The Lord of the Rings," spoken by Gandalf.  The quote
+	was also used by G'Kar in
+	"Chrysalis."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936120977 Racing was finished last December.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936120833 What does the box say to Gideon?
      
+	"Things change...long time gone."
+
+	
      
+	And in later instances when the box talks, it's Gideon's/Gary's
+	voice. You may take that as foreshadowing if you wish.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936120977 Also, no one else on the crew knows about the box.  Well,
+	officially. One other person knows about it, but he's not supposed to
+	know.  And Galen suspects something amiss from his passing comment at
+	the end of the ep.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936120977 "Do we find out who this is in the remaining four
+	(*sniff*) episodes? And if not, can you give us a little hint?"
+
+	
      
+	Nope.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936121166 Gideon can take the moral high ground now.  But how
+	long will he keep being polite when there are billions of lives at
+	stake?
      
+	Exactly.
+
+	
      
+	As Eilerson said, "Wouldn't you sacrifice a hundred Narns to
+	save Earth?"  It was a question Gideon didn't answer.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936121166 "JMS has hinted elsewhere that the cure might be found
+	before the end of the series. He's also said the show we think we're
+	watching will turn out not to be the show we're actually watching.  Put
+	these two together, and I wonder greatly if, had the next few years
+	played out, he might have gradually uncovered some other, greater theme
+	or conflict that would overshadow the plague, and take over the plot
+	for the last year or so."
+
+	
      
+	If not sooner....
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+While exploring the ruins of a long-dead planet, the crew discovers the
+remains of a terrible weapon.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 102
+Original air date: August 11, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Tony Dow
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936001244 About a hundred years ago, one of two warring parties on a
+	planet hired a technomage to build a weapon.  He designed a virus using
+	nanotechnology
+	that infected the minds of its victims, causing them to murder each
+	other.
+
+	
      
+	The apocalypse box guided Gideon to the planet, claiming there was
+	something of value there.
+
+	
      
+	Galen and Dr. Chambers have adapted a quantity of the nanovirus
+	to form a shield to line the insides of the lungs; the shield allows
+	someone to enter an area infected with the Drakh plague for up to
+	about 48 hours without becoming infected themselves.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936001244 What other guiding principles have the technomages ignored?
+
+   
    • @@@936001244 What were the devices implanted in Galen's back?
+
+   
    • @@@936001244 What does Galen's staff do, exactly?  How is it linked to
+	him?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936001244 Why did the apocalypse box recommend that Gideon not trust
+	Galen?  Is it lying to him?  This may be a continuity glitch, a
+	reference to
+	"The Well of Forever."
+	That episode was produced after this one and was probably originally
+	supposed to take place later in the series' timeline.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936001244 The Pope's name in 2267 is Bernadette II.  The first
+	reference to a female Pope was made by Garibaldi in
+	"Racing Mars."
+
+   
    • @@@936001244 Galen's staff is linked to him; he says it's like a part
+	of him, and refers to it as a control mechanism.
+
+   
    • @@@936001244 Continuity glitch: the nanovirus shield invented in this
+	episode was used in an earlier story,
+	"Patterns of the Soul."
+	That episode was produced after this one, so the shield was probably
+	considered a piece of established background information at that point.
+
+   
    • @@@936001244 A similar continuity glitch occurred in
+	"The Well of Forever."
+	In that episode, Gideon referred to Galen's comment that the Excalibur
+	crew is like his family now.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936120549 Was Gideon's PPG double-barrelled?
      
+	It's a targeting sight.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936120662 The nanovirus shield seems like a silly plot
+	device.
      
+	Funny...the microbiology experts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who
+	vetted the script thought it would be a) a useful thing indeed, and b)
+	extremely useful as a template in attempting to understand how the
+	Drakh virus works.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936121215 "'The Memory of War' by JMS brings a level of intensity
+	to Crusade that is surprising for what would have originally been the
+	second episode."
+
+	
      
+	That's because we knew what the show was from the git-go.
+
+	
      
+	Second one we shot, and we were already fully up to speed.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An alien refugee may hold useful secrets about the Drakh plague, but isn't
+willing to give up its information easily.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 101
+Original air date: August 18, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@935657127 Dureena was sold into slavery by her parents when she was
+	young.  At one point, she was taken to Praxis 9, a seedy colony
+	outside of Alliance jurisdiction; she may have been auctioned
+	off there.
+
+   
    • @@@935657127 The Rangers divide their time between enforcing the laws
+	of the Alliance and searching for information that might help Earth
+	fight the plague.
+
+   
    • @@@935657127 The government of Marata 7, a world outside the Alliance,
+	has destroyed all its people's art and music and literature, on the
+	grounds that it's ideologically incompatible with the goals of
+	the state.  One copy of the planetary archives was smuggled offworld
+	by a Maratan named Natchok Var; a copy of his copy is now in the
+	hands of the Excalibur crew.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@935657127 Gideon told Dureena that slavery was legal on Praxis 9.
+	But some of the slaves were Drazi, and were thus presumably Alliance
+	citizens; what, if anything, does the Alliance do when its people are
+	held by nonmembers?  Perhaps slavery is legal among the Drazi as well,
+	and the Alliance is simply practicing its policy of nonintervention
+	by allowing the situation to persist.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@935657127 Max likes to watch pornography involving aliens,
+	including titles such as "Snow White and the 7 Narns" and
+	"Who's My Little Pak'ma'ra."
+
+   
    • @@@935657127 Gideon's quip about Mozart is originally from
+	Tom Lehrer's spoken introduction to the song "Alma,"
+	which is in his "That Was The Year That Was" album. In
+	Lehrer's case, however, Mozart had only been dead for
+	two years.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936120741 The show was rated as having sexual content and
+	adult language.  Why?
      
+	No, this is actually pretty stupid...there's one shot where they think a
+	nipple is visible (it isn't, we were very careful in editing) and
+	another where they think a Eilerson says "goddamnit," but he doesn't.
+
+   
    • @@@935657127 About governments suppressing art
      
+	I think you also need only read the ongoing battle over the
+	National Endowment of the Arts to realize that the battle is still an
+	ongoing one.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Excalibur encounters a pair of aliens who are convinced that humans
+have visited their world and their government has conspired to cover
+the contact up.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 104
+Original air date: August 25, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jerry Apoian
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@935999889 A few hundred years ago, the inhabitants of an unknown
+	planet began to pick up broadcasts from other worlds, including Earth.
+	The planet was undergoing a constant series of civil wars at the time,
+	so its government hatched a plan to create a scapegoat for its domestic
+	problems: fabricate fake visits by humans and establish the appearance
+	of a conspiracy to cover up the "truth."  The plan worked; when the
+	people believed that the government was secretly under alien control,
+	revolting no longer seemed useful, and the civil wars came to an end.
+
+	
      
+	After learning of that conspiracy, Gideon took the Excalibur to the
+	planet and dropped a series of probes near several large cities,
+	each containing a copy of the Interstellar Encyclopedia as well as the
+	details of what he'd learned about the nature of the coverup.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@935999889 The alien world must be quite close to Earth.  If, as
+	claimed, they first started picking up human transmissions a couple
+	hundred years before the encounter with the Excalibur (and assuming the
+	alien year isn't substantially different than an Earth year) that would
+	mean they first started receiving the broadcasts no later than about
+	the mid-21st century.  That would put their world within about 150
+	light-years of Earth, since the first video signals from Earth were
+	sent in the early 1900s and travelled at lightspeed.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@935999889 The new telepath regulations permit Matheson to project
+	thoughts into another being's mind in life-or-death situations.
+
+   
    • @@@935999889 Gideon enjoys feeling the wind on his face when he's
+	visiting a planet.
+
+   
    • @@@935999889 This episode is a parody of the TV series
+	"The X-Files."
+	References to that show abound:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  The subtitle showing the location and time (Eridani Sector,
+		May 13, 2267 2:37PM EST) is ubiquitous on "The X-Files."
+	   
      •  The red color of Lyssa's tentacles suggests Agent Scully's
+		red hair.
+	   
      •  Cell phones are a constant presence on "The X-Files."
+	   
      •  Kendarr's cigarette addiction is like that of the Cigarette
+		Smoking Man, one of the heads of the "X-Files" conspiracy.
+	   
      •  The "Y" in masking tape on Durkani's office window is a
+		reference to the "X" Mulder placed on his window in early
+		"X-Files" episodes when he wanted to contact Deep Throat.
+	   
      •  The alien wearing a human mask under an alien mask is a
+		reference to the X-Files episode, "Jose Chung's 'From Outer
+		Space.'"
+	   
      •  Arguably, Durkani's name is a variant on "Duchovny."
+	   
      •  Durkani's closing line, "The truth is out..." and Kendarr's
+		conclusion, "...out of fashion," is a reference to the
+		X-Files tagline, "The Truth is Out There."
+	
      
+
+   
    • @@@936119636 In addition, there are references to real-life conspiracy
+	theories:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  The photo of Mount Rushmore is a reference to the
+		Face on Mars.
+	   
      •  The report of a crashed Earth ship, with human bodies
+		taken away and the whole thing explained away as a weather
+		balloon, is a reference to the crash in
+		Roswell, New Mexico
+		in 1947.
+	   
      •  The blimp being dismissed as "swamp gas" mirrors a frequent
+		explanation for UFO sightings.
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936119636 "I'm glad to see somewhat else comment on the 'Y' in
+	the window. That was absolutely classic -- and pure Joe!"
+
+	
      
+	Y makes it the show right next door to that other show....
+
+
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Excalibur is sent on a top-secret mission and faces an attack by the
+Drakh.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 105
+Original air date: September 1, 1999
+DVD release date: December 7, 2004
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Stephen Furst
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936558483 12 members of the Senate were offworld when the Drakh
+	attacked Earth.  They now act as Earth's official representatives.
+
+   
    • @@@936558483 The plague isn't a virus, but rather a nanotechnological
+	device.  It appears to be able to coordinate its actions across
+	wide distances, and may even have a sort of hive-mind consciousness.
+
+   
    • @@@936558483 The plague has already started killing people on
+	Earth.  It is constantly reshaping itself, and sometimes happens to
+	find a lethal, but not genocidal, configuration.  The five-year
+	time limit is based on the rate of deaths so far; even if it never
+	discovers a single 100% deadly configuration, after that long its
+	experiments will have wiped everyone out.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936558483 Aside from the fact that both are nanotech-based,
+	is there any connection between the technomage virus
+	("The Memory of War")
+	and the Drakh plague?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936558483 The plague may have some goal other than killing off all
+	life on Earth as quickly as possible.  Its level of sophistication --
+	being able to differentiate between vital and non-vital organs in
+	the human body and navigate the bloodstream as it sees fit -- suggests
+	that it has already figured out quite a lot about human biology.
+	Something as simple as introducing large amounts of chemical waste into
+	its host cells would be sufficient to kill any Earthly organism.
+
+	
      
+	One possibility is that it's acting as a research mechanism, designed
+	with the intent of fully exploring the host ecosystem's biology and
+	reporting its findings back to the Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@936558483 If the plague is intelligent, can it communicate with
+	other lifeforms?  If so, it might be possible to convince it to stop
+	its experiments, eliminating the threat without physically removing
+	the plague itself.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936558483 Continuity glitch: Gideon and Lochley appeared to have
+	no more than a friendly familiarity with one another in this episode,
+	inconsistent with their earlier contact in
+	"The Rules of the Game"
+	(which was produced after this episode but aired earlier.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    • @@@936558483 Was Gideon's "Life goes on" line added after you
+	knew this would be the last episode, or was it just a
+	coincidence?
      
+	Another Babylonian synchronicity.
+
+
    
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+Episode guide
+
+ 
+
+
    Episode guide entries
    
+ 
+If you want to see a much nicer-looking list, please use the
+episode list
+page.  This display is for people who want to see when the entry for a
+particular episode was last changed.
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Vorlon ambassador is nearly killed by an assassin shortly after arriving
+at the station, and Commander Sinclair is the prime suspect.
+
+
+Tamlyn Tomita as Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima(*).
+Blaire Baron as Carolyn Sykes(*).
+Johnny Sekka as Dr. Benjamin Kyle(*).
+Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander(*).
+John Fleck as Del Varner.
+Paul Hampton as the Senator.
+
    
+
+
    
+(*) These characters were originally planned as recurring characters
+throughout the series, but were replaced for various reasons.
+
+
    +Subgenre: Mystery
+P5 Rating: 6.00
+
+Production number:  0 (Pilot)
+Original air date:  Feb 22, 1993
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    The Station
    
+
      
+
    •  Why was Babylon 5 really built, and rebuilt, and rebuilt, and
+rebuilt, and... rebuilt?  Sinclair's story about human stubbornness
+doesn't hold water.  B5 is a monstrous project, especially for a society
+very recently decimated by war.  Yet it was made five times, the fifth
+time from SCRATCH.
+
+
    •  Who sabotaged B1-B3, and why?  Who vanished B4, and why?  (cf.
+"Babylon Squared")
+
+
    
+
+
    The Minbari Assassin
    
+
      
+
    •  How did the assassin get the voice and image of Sinclair in diplomatic
+dress before he poisoned Kosh?  For everyone else he obviously
+impersonated, we'd seen him in close proximity to them earlier.
+
+
    •  The assassin-as-Varner pointed a gadget at Lyta in the bazaar.  It
+is widely assumed that this acquired her visual pattern for the
+changeling net, but it could have been something else.
+
+
    •  Why did the assassin-as-Varner arrange to make Londo late for the
+reception?  He kept Londo in a public place, making him unframeable.
+
    
+
+
    Takashima
    
+
      
+
+
    •  What hold did G'Kar et. al. have on her? (see 
+Analysis) Perhaps she was on the take in that
+corrupt mining colony, and she's still living on
+the take today.
+
+
    
+
+
    Lyta Alexander
    
+
      
+
    •  Why was she talking to the assassin-as-Varner, as reported by Garibaldi
+and Londo?  Garibaldi must have asked her at some point, but we never
+get to see this.
+
+
    •  How was she involved?  (see Analysis)
+Perhaps her role was only passive - agree to scan Kosh if asked, report
+any information she gathers (possibly via telepathy).
+
    
+
+
    Sinclair
    
+
      
+
    •  Judging by the headlines of Universe Today,
+Babylon 5 is a very big deal back on Earth.  Why is Sinclair, a lowly
+Commander, both in charge of the station and acting as the Earth
+diplomat? (cf: "Signs and Portents")
+
+
    •  What happened to Sinclair on the Line? 
+(cf: "And the Sky Full of Stars")
+
+
    •  What is the hole in his mind?  Is it simply the 24 hour
+memory loss from his experience on the Line, or something more
+significant?
+
    
+
+
    Del Varner
    
+
      
+
    •  According to Garibaldi's information, Del Varner would normally stay far
+away from B5.  So, why was he recognized by a local tech (Eric)?
+
    
+
+
    The Vorlons
    
+
      
+
    •  Why did they request that the monitors in the docking bay be turned
+off?  Kosh was walking out in public, hidden safely in his encounter
+suit.
+
+
    •  What is Kosh inside that suit anyway?  (cf.
+Lost Scenes from Babylon 5)
+
+
    •  How did the poison get through to Kosh?  He must have had his hand, or
+whatever the limb was, completely outside his encounter suit.  Perhaps that
+explains why the Vorlons wanted the monitors turned off; they didn't want
+anyone else to see Kosh's hand.  In that case, why did they want Sinclair
+to see it?
+
+
    •  Is there anything to that legend about someone turning to stone when
+they saw a Vorlon?  Have people ever gotten into situations where they
+could conceivably have seen one?
+
+
    •  The Vorlons seem to be puppet thugs of the conspirators in the pilot,
+yet clearly they do some things for their own reasons.  Why such secrecy
+around their technological inferiors?  Why break the veil to send an
+ambassador to B5?
+
+
    •  For that matter, why agree to ship Sinclair to their world?  Surely
+that would mean him finding out about them.  Unless they never intended
+to bring him there alive, of course.
+
+
    •  Did Delenn really tell Sinclair everything the Minbari know about the
+Vorlons?  Either way, how much does he know now?
+
+
    
+
+
    The Minbari
    
+
      
+
    •  In the B5 council vote to extradite Sinclair to the Vorlon homeworld,
+an abstention was equivalent to a "No" (presumably abstentions are
+interpreted to mean "None of the above" or "Take no action", whichever
+is appropriate).  So, what conflict prevented Delenn from explicitly
+voting against the motion?
+
+
    •  Why did they surrender at the Line?  It's already pretty clear that
+Sinclair had Something to do with it.  Furthermore, what was the real
+reason the Minbari were fighting the war to begin with?
+
    
+
+
    The Centauri
    
+
      
+
    •  Why have they fallen so far from power?  From Londo's stories it
+seems they were a great Empire within his
+lifetime (which may be quite long, for all we know).
+
    
+
+
    Miscellaneous
    
+
      
+
+
    •  Why was the access panel outside Varner's quarters busted, by the
+time Garibaldi arrived?  It probably has something to do with the
+assassin using Takashima's clearance to gain
+entry.  Perhaps the panel keeps the only record, locally, of who's used
+it, and thus breaking it would prevent the illegal entry from being
+discovered.
+
+
    •  The very presence of a changeling net aboard the station invites us to
+open the question, "Who else did we see that could have been that
+Minbari in disguise?"
+
+
    •  Four major actors in the pilot left the production for various
+reasons and do not have permanent roles in the series.  However, since
+jms slipped reasons why in the B5 universe two of
+the the characters no longer appear, it is meaningful to ask:
+	
        
+	
      •  Why was Lyta Alexander replaced as station telepath?  Did she
+	get in trouble for unauthorized mind-scanning after all, or was it
+	because she's been in the mind of a Vorlon?
+
+	
      •  Why has Carolyn drifted out of Sinclair's life?
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    The Plan
    
+
      
+
    •  G'Kar et. al. wanted to start a war between the EA and the Vorlons.
+The primary plan was for Kosh to be dead; Takashima's announcement that
+the Vorlons had forbidden the opening of his suit should have nailed that
+coffin shut.  Framing Sinclair for the murder was probably also part of
+the primary plan (the Vorlons' request that the bay monitors be turned
+off could well have been a surprise to them).
+
+
    •  There may have been a secondary plan to achieve the same results:
+having Lyta scan Kosh.  This could have been foreseen, impromptu, or
+coincidence.
+
+
    •  The assassin was Minbari, which indicates a violent faction of the
+Minbari still exists (cf: "Deathwalker"). The goals
+of that group are unknown, but so are the goals of the mainstream
+Minbari government.
+
+
    •  In particular, the Minbari warrior class may have had their own reasons
+for getting Sinclair sent to the Vorlon homeworld.
+
    
+
+
    Takashima was somehow involved
    
+
      
+
+
    •  The assassin used Takashima's palmed security access
+to gain entry to Varner's quarters.
+
+
    •  Takashima agreed to Kyle's plan of getting Lyta to scan Kosh even
+though (by her own story) it went very much against her grain.  "I guess
+I'm about due" is hardly a believable reason.
+
+
    •  Takashima broke into Varner's files.  260 years from now, would
+someone be able to crack open a technology criminal's secure files in a
+matter of hours without inside information?
+
+
    •  There were lots of instances when very recent information was used
+to further the Plan, for all of which
+Takashima was in an ideal position to be responsible.
+	
         
+	
      •  The assassin met Kosh at the right docking bay at the right time.
+ 
+	
      •  In general, the Plan proceeded
+	smoothly in spite of Kosh's 48 hour early arrival (the angriest
+	response we saw from Takashima was to this very discovery).
+ 
+	
      •  Sinclair was trapped in a lift at just the right time for just
+	long enough, and the record cleared.
+ 
+	
      •  Someone actually contacted the Vorlons and told them about the
+	poisoning, thus acquiring the predictable response that opening
+	Kosh's suit is verboten.
+ 
+	
      •  Someone leaked - very quickly - the fact that Sinclair had
+	been fingered by a witness.  This is what brought on the Vorlon
+	cruisers.
+ 
+	
      •  G'Kar found out - again very quickly - that Kosh would recover
+	from the poisoning ("There has been a complication").
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    Lyta may have been involved
    
+
      
+
    •  She seems to have exchanged glances with the real Del Varner as she
+walked off with Sinclair at the very beginning.  The two probably came
+in on the same ship.
+
+
    •  Later, she's seen talking to the assassin-as-Varner.  Yet the
+latter scans her image for the changeling net without her knowledge 
+(if that was what he was doing), so their level
+of cooperation is mixed at most.
+
+
    •  The assassin, disguised as Lyta, didn't kill her in the ample moment
+they shared outside the medlab.
+
+
    •  On the other hand, her conversation with G'Kar within "privacy" would
+almost certainly have been very different if they were in cahoots.  So
+perhaps she was only in contact with Del Varner and/or the assassin.
+
    
+
+
    The Minbari assassin
    
+
      
+
+
    •  The assassin didn't need any special clearance to enter Varner's
+quarters; he was expected.  So he must have used
+Takashima's clearance in order to leave a record of her entry at
+that time.  Since the panel was broken before
+this could be discovered, this suggests clandestine cross-purposes.
+
+
    •  "There is a hole in your mind" may have been his response to
+Sinclair's question, "Why did you do it?"  Interesting.
+
+
    •  It was not part of the plan for the Minbari to set off his explosives.
+Else why arrange to be able to get off the station?  So, they were just
+to prevent his capture/interrogation.
+
    
+
+
    Sinclair is inexplicably trusting and friendly with Delenn
    
+
      
+
    •  He would have sacrificed his life to kill a few more Minbari during the
+war ten years ago, yet:
+
+
    •  He does not appear to be discomfited by Delenn's evasions in their
+Garden conversations.
+
+
    •  When he encounters Delenn after escaping the exploding assassin, it
+would have made sense for him to confront or question her, or at least
+be suspicious.  Instead, he was relaxed and jovial.  Later, he made sure
+Delenn knew he didn't hold her responsible.
+
    
+
+
    Delenn
    
+
      
+
    •  "The power of one mind to change the universe" likely refers to
+Sinclair.  (Recall the other Minbari's reference 
+to his mind.)
+
+
    •  There were two stones in the stone garden.
+
+
    •  She evades most of his questions, yet volunteers two big files
+during the episode, and drops lots of other hints to him.  As with 
+her abstention on the council, she seems subject
+to contrary forces.  Keep him in the dark, yet point him toward the
+light.
+
+
    •  She is a personally powerful representative of a very powerful
+race.  Yet we don't observe her taking any active hand in the big
+picture so far.
+
    
+
+
    Londo
    
+
      
+
    •  He fills Garibaldi's ears with stories of the good old days of
+conquest. Bygone days, unlike the
+way things are now. He may be honest, or he may be trying to allay
+suspicions.  More likely the former, since Garibaldi's suspicions don't
+have much political significance.
+
+
    •  A heavy drinker and compulsive gambler.
+
    
+
+
    G'Kar
    
+
      
+
+
    •  Notice his jollity in telling Takashima his transport will submit
+to the weapons search (now that the assassin has successfully come
+aboard).  True, if she was in cahoots with him,
+that little exchange was for show, as was their earlier confrontation at
+Ops.  He's nonetheless consistently transparent in his emotional
+states.
+
+
    •  A schemer and warmonger.
+
    
+
+
    Takashima
    
+
      
+
    •  Some of her ideas were faultlessly loyal to the EA (eg "You better
+take a recorder - the way things are going you may need a witness.").
+So, her heart's in the right place, at least.
+
    
+
+
    Garibaldi
    
+
      
+
    •  Self-esteem trouble.  He's ready to give up on the investigation after
+Varner's death.  He's used to failure at his other jobs.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi also messes up the investigation in several ways:
+	
        
+	
      •  No guards around Kosh.
+ 
+	
      •  Losing sight of Varner while questioning Londo.
+ 
+	
      •  Not talking to Lyta about Varner while it's still relevant.
+ 
+	
      •  Not noticing all those Takashima timing
+	and information clues.
+ 
+	
      •  Lets the Commander get into a shooting fight with a superior
+	foe, alone.
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    •  An alternate
+introduction was written, but not filmed.
+
+
    •  Universe Today main headline: Vorlons to Make Contact
+
+
    •  Universe Today sub-headline: Narn Protest of EA's B5 Heats
+
+
    •  Among the messages flashing by on Lyta's identicard: ELVIS STILL LIVES
+
+
    •  When the assassin scans his hand at Varner's door, words are
+visible on the screen.  If you have a lucid pause function on your VCR,
+you too will be able to read what they say - "Laurel Takashima
+Cleared".
+
+
    •  Minbari ships have short-range FTL, or cloaking, or jamming
+(Sinclair: "They came at us out of nowhere").  Basically, they can put
+themselves right where they want to be without Starfuries noticing them
+en route.
+
+
    •  Cruisers can "wait" in hyperspace outside a jump gate.
+
+
    •  Unscheduled uses of the jumpgates, at least during this earlier
+part of B5's history, are practically unheard of.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    •  Actually, at one point or another, just about *everyone* lied
+in the course of the pilot...including Sinclair, who lied to G'Kar, and
+of course Delenn lying to Sinclair in the Garden...and so on.
+
+
      
+
    •  The one thing that I dropped fairly completely due to the
+delay in getting the series going was the Laurel thread, which has now
+mutated and become something even more interesting, actually.  It's
+something that's enabled me to now build in a trap door that you won't
+see for a long time, even though it's sitting there in plain sight.
+
+
      
+
    •   What happened to the old characters on the pilot, not working
+on the series? jms: On a classified mission (which I hope we
+will be able to get into at some point), Laurel has been reassigned out
+on the Rim, and Dr. Kyle is now working with the EA President on the
+issue of alien migration to Earth, a growing problem to some, a benefit
+to others.
+
+
      
+
    •  Pat Tallman passed on returning to the B5 project.  Our new
+telepath will be played by Andrea Thompson, with the character name
+Talia Winters.  Much of the Lyta arc will now go to Talia, but there's
+now a different way of getting her into that arc.
+
+
      
+
    •  How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot? Some...bits and pieces. The
+problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to establish, with all
+the backstory that goes with that. As it is, it's fairly "information
+intensive," as one person put it. We find out about the Earth/Minbari War,
+the curious surrender, Sinclair's past, the missing 24 hours, the relations
+between the various governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of
+what's to come. This while establishing the backstory of all our characters,
+and telling a story in present time (for them)...
+
+
      
+
    •  I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the series
+present in the pilot. Which is why it bears watching more than once; you'll
+pick up more information and more of a sense of the world the more closely
+you inspect it. (We tried to come up with a pilot that actually BENEFITS from
+close inspection, rather than falling apart if you look at it too closely.)
+
+
      
+
    •  What it *does* give me, which is kinda nice, is that the only two people to
+have ANY direct contact with a Vorlon have been transferred back to Earth.
+Which plays wonderfully into something sinister I'd kinda like to develop
+that the Earth Alliance is working on behind the scenes...
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, I think we broke [the "Return of the Jedi"] record for ships 
+on-screen in the pilot; Ron was rather pleased about it at the time.
+
+
      
+
    •  Will there be a director's cut?
      
+The odds are zero, since the first version of the B5 pilot existed
+only as a computer-graphic file edited movie.  It wasn't edited on 
+film, for real, until we'd pared it down.  We'd have to go in and
+totally re-edit and re-score, and I doubt that's going to happen.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Beats me, but if you find an uncut version of B5, lemme know, because
+I'D like one.
+
+
      
+The problem is that, unlike a motion picture, where you produce a
+cut on film, which you then trim down, we're editing on computerized
+image files.  We don't get around to finally cutting the film until 
+we've made our final edits.  So no complete version ever existed on 
+film.  The most that could be done is get those 25 minutes and *build*
+a new version with that footage...which would require additional 
+scoring, editing, and other stuff.
+
+
      
+
    •  The computerized cut of the pilot is now dumped out of memory, and
+those portions only exist on a few VHS tapes of marginal quality.  
+Also, the footage in computer file form is *very* low grade, like a
+poorly scanned gif file, very low resolution.  It would be useless on
+a laser disk.
+
+
      
+
    •  I'm certainly not showing disdain for the missing material; I'm just
+saying it ain't *there*.  Now, if B5 turns out to be a megahit, there
+may be money set aside to re-edit the pilot some years down the road,
+but I'm not currently counting on it.  My chief concern now has to be
+the series.
+
+
      
+
    •  There was a reason we gave Londo the pilot opening monologue, yes.
+And another reason why we're giving Sinclair the opening monologue
+over credits of the first season, though with some differences.  
+We're also considering rotating any such opening between other cast 
+members as well, but *always* in the past-tense, "Babylon 5 *was*...."
+We're dealing in future history here, and we plan to do some 
+interesting things with that aspect.
+
+
      
+
    •  Yeah, Londo seems like the *least* likely person to do the opening
+narration for a show like this; you don't even see him for nearly two
+full acts, and it's the kind of thing you'd expect the Commander to do.
+
      
+But there are reasons for everything....
+
+
      
+
    •  Oh, yeah, the "mission of destruction" thing ONLY relates to this
+particular episode, the pilot.  It'll be gone from regular episodes.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Mankind" was being used by Londo specifically in relation to humans,
+not sentient aliens including his own race.  Earthers.  Which was one
+reason (of many) I wanted his character to be the narrator, someone
+looking in from the outside.
+
      
+As for the Third Age, it's -- oh, darn, look at the time, have to go....
+
+
      
+
    •  The alien section looked like a zoo!
      
+First, we decided that wasn't a right look for the alien sector, and
+that's the corridor we blew up at the end.  But the reason it was 
+designed that way is important.  Your reaction -- don't the aliens 
+have any privacy? -- is a very human, and specifically a very 
+*western* point of view.  Our feeling at the time was, why should 
+alien quarters look at all like human quarters?  Shouldn't they have 
+a different perspective than typical Western-style hotels?  (In some
+degree, the quaters were patterned after Japanese mini-hotels, where
+you get basically a slightly larger coffin-like setup, which you crawl
+into like a torpedo tube, with a window at one end, which has a 
+curtain, a TV over your head, and so on.  What we discovered is that
+many people ask for more alien aliens, but when we delivered on that,
+were asked why these things weren't more like what we expect, why 
+aren't they like human quarters?  It's really a losing battle.)
+
+
      
+The other point on this is that if you look closely, there are back
+areas accessible to residents, which can in particular be seen in the
+insectoid/antennae'd character's quarters.  The idea was that it would
+be sort of a front porch, where for lack of much else to do, you'd sit
+out on the porch, watching the passing parade.
+
+
      
+But the reaction was less than favorable, we had to keep explaining
+that this proceeds from an alien POV, and so our alien quarters are 
+more like human quarters now, minus the alternate atmosphere stuff. 
+I'm still not quite sure what to think of this.
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, it's Kosh's ship that comes out of the jump gate backward,
+engines forward to assist with deceleration.  The fighters don't want
+to be slow-moving targets, so it stands to reason they wouldn't be
+configured for rapid deceleration.  They want to get into position as
+fast as possible.
+
+
      
+
    •  Kosh's ship had to decelerate in order to dock inside the station.
+This is a reality of spaceflight...you must both accelerate and
+decelerate.  Both take time.  Especially if you're going to dock.  
+Plus there was time involved in setting up the docking procedure, 
+turning over control to Babylon Control, lining up vectors and so on.
+
+
      
+The fighters didn't have to worry about any of this.  They came
+shooting through the gate and barely slowed at all, speeding over to
+B5 and taking up position.
+
+
      
+There have now been several situations in which we've been accused
+of "mistakes" that have, instead, simply been things done 
+scientifically  accurately.  I have to say (and this isn't directed at
+you, just more of a general statement), we're not going to hand 
+everyone everything on a silver platter, serving up pablum...the nature
+of a *science fiction* series is that you should THINK about things.
+The acceleration/deceleration thing is one example; some thought about
+why this would be would have led to the answer.
+
+
      
+And, as evidenced by other messages here, others have taken the time
+to look at it from that perspective.  Which I think is great.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: the skin tab/Kosh's hand/encounter suit question...one of the
+reasons I can't wait for the series to get on the air is so that we
+can make one thing clear, once and for all: it is NOT an error, not a
+plot hole, it is a plot POINT.  It is a question that our *characters*
+will be asking each other.  How can this be?  This will come up more
+than once, starting with "The Parliament of Dreams" episode.
+
+
      
+
    •  As for the Vorlon handshake (so to speak)...this will be dealt with
+in the series.  You have to remember that the original plan was to air
+the pilot and go *immediately* into series, where we'd bring up some 
+of these questions.  There simply wasn't room to deal with EVERYTHING
+in that short pilot...and where we DID try and cover everything, we 
+got gigged for being expositional.
+
+
      
+Now we have to re-establish a few things since there's been a gap in
+time...but the poison incident will be raised in "The Parliament of
+Dreams" script to start with, and move on from there.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Senator of the pilot, who was back on Earth, is someone who has
+in past been someone that Sinclair has come to for backing on things;
+he's the equivilent of someone on the Armed Services Committee, here
+as one of those civilian Senators overseeing Earthforce.  He would not
+be in any position to just come in and take over, any more than a 
+Senator visiting a U.S. army base would be in a position to take over
+the base if there were a problem with the ranking officer.  But he 
+might be able to bring some force to bear back in Washington, which
+might double-back to be of some use.
+
+
      
+There are civilian branches and military branches, as with today, in
+which the civilian branch oversees the military, but in very 
+formalized ways.
+
+
      
+
    •  In the script, the privacy mode involved going from a standard
+looking open booth to what suddenly looked like a flat black cube,
+which you could neither hear nor see through.  The director decided
+to try the lights.  It didn't work.  We're dropping it.
+
+
      
+
    •  You're right; the events of the Line are something that Sinclair
+doesn't much like talking about, and has been advised *against* 
+talking about.  When the Minbari surrendered, Earth put the best
+possible spin on it, tried to make the survivors of the Line look 
+like heroes, but there's a general sense of what happened.  And a 
+great deal of dismay over it.
+
+
      
+
    •  Your assumption is correct; the assassin's weapon was a very small
+one...limited power, and a charge-up sequence that becomes longer the
+more it's used.  If the Minbari had shot Lyta, it would've taken too
+long for the gun to power-up again for him to shoot Sinclair...and he
+would've been captured.  We slightly expanded the power-up whine for 
+each shot after the first one.  You'll note that the first shot, the
+one that takes out Varner, is almost immediate.  Points and fires.
+Gradually it takes longer, and finally the gun runs out altogether 
+(which is why, though we probably should've been clearer in showing 
+this, the assassin finally went hand-to-hand with Sinclair...the gun
+was never meant as an assault weapon, more as a derringer, with a few
+shots in case he got into trouble).
+
+
      
+
    •  As for Sinclair going after the Minbari assassin...there were several
+reasons for this.  First, this was personal for him; if the guy
+*wasn't* caught, he would be blamed for the death and sent to the 
+Vorlon homeworld.  He had something very much at stake.  Second, if 
+you have somebody with shapeshifting technology on board, the LAST 
+thing you want is to send in a large group.  The tracking of the 
+energy web used for the holographic effect was good, but only to a
+certain point.  It could say "He's ten feet away," but if there's 5
+guys within that range, it'll take you just long enough to react for
+the assassin to wipe out the bunch of you before you figure out which
+one he is.  But if there's only *two* of you, and you hear the shifter
+is within 10 feet, you know *exactly* who it is and can react 
+accordingly.  It seemed logical.  Also, you'd want someone there who 
+you knew VERY well, in case there were a replacement...because while 
+someone could emulate a face, they can't replicate memories, and
+Sinclair or Garibaldi could quickly figure out if the other was an 
+imposter.
+
+
      
+Yes, I probably could've stopped to explain this...but I figured it
+was readily apparent, and there was already enough exposition in the
+pilot to stun a horse.
+
+
      
+
    •  "If JMS had not mentioned the hole in Sinclair's mind, what would
+have been the reason for the assassin to try and kill Sinclair?"
+
+
      
+Hello...did you see the same movie that I wrote?  The assassin was
+not there to kill Sinclair.  He was there to kill Kosh.  He tried to
+kill Kosh.  He tried to stay AWAY from Sinclair, did everything in his
+power to avoid Sinclair, ran from Sinclair, and only finally 
+encountered Sinclair when Sinclair came after HIM.  Then it was 
+nominal self-defense.
+
+
      
+Had the "hole in the mind" reference never been made, it would have
+been clear -- at least clear to every other carbon-based lifeform who
+saw the movie -- that the assassin 1) came to try and kill Kosh, 2) in
+the hope of disrupting the purpose of Babylon 5, with the added 
+benefit of 3) if he failed in his mission, setting up Sinclair to take
+the rap for his actions.  At the very end, rather than be captured and
+interrogated, the Minbari assassin killed himself with an implanted
+bomb.  His comment to Sinclair at that moment was more of an "Up yours"
+comment, designed to shatter Sinclair with the knowledge that he knew
+something Sinclair didn't.
+
+
      
+You keep saying he was there to kill Sinclair.  He wasn't.  He didn't.
+He didn't try.  It makes it hard to have this conversation with you if
+your comments don't touch reality at any two contiguous points.
+
+
      
+
    •  I never said that the [assassin's] intent wasn't to set up Sinclair;
+I only said that he wasn't there to *kill* Sinclair.  That aspect of 
+making Sinclair the patsy was very much part of the thing.  
+
+
      
+
    •  What Kyle suggests...is closer to the truth than might otherwise be
+suspected.  We had filmed a scene -- which never made it into the
+finished pilot -- where Garibaldi, growing suspicious of his boss -- 
+confronts Sinclair in the core shuttle.  One of the alibis he checked
+out doesn't hold up: Sinclair's.  The transport tube computer records
+don't indicate any delay.  Sinclair suggests that there's either a 
+problem with the system, or it's been deliberately altered to remove
+that information.
+
+
      
+It was, of course, the latter.
+
+
      
+Now...stop and think about this for a moment.
+
+
      
+The Observation Dome has equipment to detect approaching ships.  The
+spider transport approaches without being noticed.  The surface of the
+station would likely have sensors to detect something attaching itself
+to the hull.  Somehow these were over-ridden.  The only time that 
+anyone notices, up in the Dome, is later, when Laurel isn't there, 
+interestingly enough.  Someone deliberately programmed the transport 
+tube to delay Sinclair.  The assassin would have to know this in 
+advance.
+
+
      
+We saw Londo with the assassin.  We also saw Garibaldi, Lyta, Dr. Kyle
+and -- later -- Sinclair with the assassin, each relating to him in
+different ways.  Who was the one person we never saw with the assassin,
+whose reactions might have told us something?  Who was the one put in
+charge of the station when Sinclair was pulled out of circulation?
+
+
      
+Laurel.
+
+
      
+We had some...interesting things in mind for this character.  Now that
+another character has come in, some things will be modified, but other
+elements will come in to replace them.
+
+
      
+
    •  I kept Tamlyn in the dark about a lot of this.  She even mentioned
+this in an interview she gave somewhere.  I didn't want that knowledge
+to make her play the role anything other than it should have been 
+played:  as if absolutely innocent and sincere.  Sometimes you just 
+gotta be sneaky....
+
+
      
+
    •  There was an element of saving her own life...and another aspect of
+all this is that she may not have been acting entirely of her own
+free will during the first half.  There may be some influences that 
+will emerge later.
+
+
      
+
    •  Laurel was not being altogether honest, and was helping to cover the
+activities of the person who was doing the assassination attempt.
+
+
      
+(This, again, is a thread that would've come clear had we kept that
+character; nobody was supposed to figure it out going in, but rather
+put it together over time.)
+
+
      
+
    •  This has already been answered; had the character stayed with the
+show, gradually it would have emerged that the assassin had access to
+Laurel's codes because she provided them to him.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+This isn't so much a spoiler, since it concerns an abandoned story 
+like (or, let me rephrase that...a modified story line).  I mention
+this here since I just mentioned it elsewhere, and might as well do
+so here.
+
      
+Think hard about the pilot for a moment.  Whose job is it in the
+observation dome to monitor incoming ships...but apparently let the 
+spider transport slip through unnoticed?  The station's skin should 
+have (and likely did) detect something clamping onto it...but
+apparently someone over-rode that for the spider transport.  Someone
+had to PRE-arrange access via the computer for the assassin, since it
+easily palms its way into Varner's quarters.  (And what is the name of
+the person the access computer recognizes?)  Someone had to arrange
+for the transport tube to be delayed, and then *erase* that
+information from the computer system.  Someone who knew *exactly* when
+the Vorlon ship would be docking.  We see, at various times, the 
+following people interacting with the assassin, in different 
+capacities: Garibaldi, Lyta, G'Kar, Londo, Dr. Kyle, and of course,
+much later, Sinclair.  Who did we never see in direct contact with the
+assassin?  Who was put in charge of the station after Sinclair was 
+removed?
+
      
+Do you notice a pattern developing?  Do certain things here point to a
+certain individual...who may, or may not, have been acting on her own
+volition?
+
      
+And yes, this is something we planned to explore, though it wasn't on
+a *direct* line to the arc of our story.  It definitely impinged upon
+it, of course.  This has been modified due to the change in the 
+character of the Lieutenant Commander, and this now won't go where it
+was going to go...but we still have some very interesting plans for 
+our secondary character, not at all along the Takashima lines (which 
+is why this isn't a spoiler), but certainly intriguing on their own
+terms.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Now, I didn't say she was a villain.  I said that certain things may
+or may not have been done of her own free will, her own volition. 
+What this means...we'll see.
+
+
      
+
    •  The scruffy person in the Varner files was the same homeless person
+who we just happen to see sitting right outside Varner's quarters,
+watching as he moves along.  This was played by Ron Thornton, because
+we wouldn't be seeing him in a major role, we'd just have to know 
+someone was there.
+
+
      
+Again, this ties into a specific story line that has been modified
+with a) the departure of Laurel, and b) the length of time since the 
+pilot aired.  Who was the homeless man really?  It's no longer an 
+issue, but it was related, yes.
+
+
      
+But only in a very small way.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Would it be fair to compare the original ST pilot to B5's pilot?"
+
+
      
+No, it would not.  Because there is nothing in common with them other
+than that they are both SF.  You can compare TNG to DS9 to TOS,
+because they're in the same universe.
+
+
      
+Would it be fair to compare Cagney and Lacey with NYPD Blue?  After
+all, they're both cop shows.  But in fact, they're not the same kind
+of cop show; they share the same genre, but there ends the overlap. 
+The two shows are distinct, separate entities, just as Harlan Ellison's
+work is distinct from Bill Gibson's work, even though both incorporate
+elements of SF.
+
+
      
+The ST pilot existed in its own universe, and was primarily an action
+show.  The B5 pilot exists in its own universe, and primarily sets the
+stage for a political mystery/intrigue series.  It wasn't meant to 
+serve the same functions as the ST pilot.
+
+
      
+It seems to me that many SF fans continue to compare everything to
+ST because that's their primary frame of reference, and they continue
+to apply it whether it's relevant or not.  My suggestion...get another
+frame of reference.
+
+
      
+
    •  Once again, there's a lot of false analogies here in any attempt to
+compare pilots, as in this TOS and B5 thread.  You're talking about
+transporters and other *technological* items.  And you're right, they
+didn't explain their tech.  Neither did we, with the exception of the
+changling net in the pilot, and only because it was a plot point.  We
+didn't explain how the jump gates worked, how centrifugal force kept
+the gravity in place, or any of that.
+
+
      
+The difference isn't *technology*, it's *context*.  Once again, B5 is
+in many ways a *political* story.  Consequently it's necessary to 
+explain who the players are in some detail, something that ST didn't
+have to worry about.  If you're reading a political thriller about the
+U.S. and the (now defunct) USSR, it helps a lot to know who's who.
+
+
      
+Also, when ST started, there wasn't really a clear agenda, a place
+that they were going, story-wise.  B5 is a novel for TV.  And that 
+puts on some pressures and problems other shows don't have.  Others
+may not see it that way, but it isn't their call.  It's my call, and 
+I stand behind it, even while seeing some of the flaws in the pilot.
+
+
      
+All of which again points up the...well, *pointlessness* of trying
+to compare the two shows.  Compare MASH to ALL IN THE FAMILY.  They're
+both comedies.  The similarity ends there.  Everything doesn't have to
+be comparable or dissectable (to coin a term) in reference to ST.
+
+
      
+
    •  Let me just, against my better wishes, dive in here for just a moment
+moment on this discussion.  Especially as it relates to your slam
+against the characters and characterizations on B5.
+
+
      
+People keep comparing the B5 pilot to either the DS9 pilot or the TNG
+pilot, often favorably, sometimes less so, but the reality is that the
+B5 pilot had to suffer under a burden shared by neither of those two
+other shows: establishing a whole new universe, especially given that
+the B5 story is more of a political/action piece in which you really 
+have to understand where everyone's coming from.  By the time they got
+around to making the TNG pilot, just about everyone knew what a 
+Klingon was, what the Federation was, what phasers and teleporters 
+were...this was all established cultural coin.  When Jay Leno would
+make jokes about Klingons on the Carson show (which it still was back
+then), he didn't have to explain it to anyone.  There's 25 years of 
+shared history informing the story.  Same in DS9.  Thus in neither 
+pilot was that much really or substantially *new* introduced, they
+didn't have to create the universe from scratch.
+
+
      
+But that was exactly what was necessary for B5; the relationship
+between the five various governments is important to understanding the
+characters, and the show...as is the recent Earth/Minbari war, which
+isn't just backstory, it's something that will grow to play an 
+increasingly important role in the series as time passes.  So there 
+had to be time spent establishing each of those relationships, the 
+political backstory, the minor players.  AND we had to tell a fairly
+complex story within that framework.
+
+
      
+After you allocate the history of the B5 universe, for the
+establishment of the plot, for the establishment of who our various
+players are in relation to one another, you've got -- at MOST -- 3 
+minutes left per character out of a 92 minute movie.  You can't
+establish a lot of character in 3 minutes.
+
+
      
+Which is what strikes me as unfair in this conversation.  You're
+trying to compare 25-30 years of ST in its various incarnations, with
+its delivery of characterization over A WEEKLY SERIES to a single
+introductory TV movie of 92 minutes.
+
+
      
+Plus, the pilot was never meant to be a stand-alone; it was meant to
+get all the pieces moving, introduce us, and follow up the very next
+week with *character-oriented stories*.  That was always the plan.
+Had I known that it would be aired by itself, with a long delay until
+the series, I would have totally restructured it to make it more of a
+character story, and held off on the heavy background stuff until 
+later.  And in addition to THAT, I again point to the 25 minutes of
+good character stuff that ended up on the cutting room floor because
+we were over, some of which has been shown to people at conventions. 
+Some of them also felt as you do.  They saw the extra footage.  And
+their reaction: "Oh, so THAT'S who that is!" And their opinions of the
+characters did a fast turnaround.
+
+
      
+So what I'm saying here, fundamentally, is this: let's compare apples
+to apples and not apples to oranges.  You can't compare B5 to either 
+TNG's or DS9's pilots, because they operated in pre-existing universes.
+You can't compare the level of character  you get in a series to a TV
+movie, because one is 92 minutes long, the other is 22 hours long 
+times the number of seasons run.
+
+
      
+If you want to compare things, and that's certainly your right, may I
+suggest a moratorium on this entire discussion until the series comes
+on the air?  That will allow you to compare series to series, which 
+seems just a tad fairer to me.  Any seconds?
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: the pilot...I've hashed and rehashed this, and the bottom line is to
+see what we do in the series and judge the series by the series. The DS9
+pilot had to explain very little that wasn't specific to the plotline: you
+already knew what a Bajorran was, what a wormhole was, what the Federation
+was, what the Cardassians were, on and on and on. Because they didn't have to
+introduce any of that, they could spend time on other character moments. We
+didn't have that luxury in the pilot. We had to do what, in essence, ST has
+done over 25 years: establish our universe, painting it in broad strokes, as
+broad're done with that aspect. And now we can do our character-based
+stories. Which is exactly what we're doing. Each of the characters is being
+solidly rounded out in the series, showing multiple sides to each character.
+All I can say is that I think you'll like what we're doing.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I wasn't gonna jump in here, but I have to at least answer your
+question: "Where's the rest?"  The rest is in the series.  You haven't
+seen the series yet.  You're comparing it against 7 years of TNG; 
+rather consider if the ONLY thing you had EVER seen was "Farpoint." 
+We had a massive burden: to build an entire universe, based around a
+political drama, in basically 90+ minutes not counting commercials.
+That meant that more time went into exposition and backstory than I'd
+like.
+
+
      
+In my view, we've now done that, we've laid the foundation, and now
+we can sit back and tell stories...*character* based stories.  That's
+what I'm best at, and that's what the writers I've chosen to use on 
+the series are best at.
+
+
      
+The "rest" you ask for is there..in the series.  But I'm not asking
+you to take my word for it.  Check out the show.  Maybe you'll like
+it.  And maybe you won't.  That's showbiz.  You don' like it, you 
+don' gotta watch.  But I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
+
+
      
+The miracle of the B5 pilot is that it got done at *all*, given the
+odds against us, given a team working together for the first time, 
+without the benefit of an established universe, and actors who had 
+never worked together before who had zero chance for rehearsal.  I'm
+not apologizing for the pilot; it had flaws, but I'm very proud of a
+lot that's in there.  
+
+
      
+Do the math.  You have a little over 90 minutes.  You have to 
+introduce 9 major characters in the course of that story.  That gives
+you ten minutes of attention for any one character.  Now you've also
+got to tell the backstory.  You've got to establish who the various 
+players are.  You've got to put the present-tense story into motion,
+with beginning, middle and end.  And now you're left with maybe 3-4
+minutes of "quality time" with any one character.  If we only had 2 or
+3 characters, then it's a very different story...but that isn't the 
+universe we have to work in.
+
+
      
+Now that the series is going ahead, we can spend an entire *episode*
+dealing primarily with one character.  And do the same for others.  We
+have the time.  And that's what's important.
+
+
      
+One last observation: you repeat the notion that it's all a "reaction"
+to TNG.  The treatment and screenply were complete and making the 
+rounds in Hollywood in Spring 1987.  The basic material was written in
+1986, at a point in some cases when TNG hadn't even *aired* yet.  So
+it could hardly have been written as a reaction to something that 
+hadn't been seen yet, could it?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You repeat several times your insistence that I study TNG to see
+what they did right, use them as a roadmap.
+
+
      
+Sorry.  I have no desire to study TNG.  I'm telling a different sort
+of story, in a different universe.  What TNG does right or wrong is
+more or less irrelevant to that universe.  That's like saying that
+(just to pick two names at random) Orson Scott Card should study Poul
+Anderson as a roadmap in his own novels.  This is utter nonsense.
+
+
      
+A while ago, I got an email from someone who didn't like the pilot
+(and it may have been on internet, btw) mainly because of the 
+communication devices.  He said, and I'm paraphrasing from memory, 
+that every time someone used the wrist-links, it broke the illusion
+for him, since we all KNOW that by then the REALITY is that we'll be
+using the chest communicators that TNG uses, and I should be sure to
+include that in future episodes as a capitulation to that reality.
+
+
      
+Sorry...TNG is a roadmap for TNG.  Not B5.
+
+
      
+
    •  The VOYAGER pilot is *$23 million*?!
+
      
+The BABYLON 5 pilot was $3.5 million.
+
      
+With $23 million, we could make 1.3 SEASONS of B5.  And have a bit
+of money left over for a wrap party.
+
      
+Amazing....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+My feeling here is, don't worry about the show, regarding your
+overcoming on the pilot.  Pilots are good, bad or uneven.  What matters
+in the analysis is the series.  You can have a great pilot and a
+disappointing series.  And vice-versa.  The series will air.  If it's
+good, people will watch, whatever they may have thought about the
+pilot.  If it ain't good, people won't watch, and deservedly so.  In 
+other words, the ball's in our court now.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"The pilot wasn't good.  Face it!"
+
+
      
+I'm at the head of the line to point out flaws in the pilot.  Flaws
+that we've dealt with.  But a) it still holds up, and b) you are 
+trying to make your opinion into *fact*.  It ain't.  An awful lot of
+people liked the pilot a lot.  To them, it was good.  Maybe to you, 
+it wasn't, but that's only true for you.  That you may think persimmon
+yoghurt is the best flavor ever created doesn't make it true for 
+everybody else.  Just a moment for perspective here....
+
+
      
+
    •  I was at the Emmys tonight for the presentation of the B5 Emmy, and
+in the visual efx area, more than one shoe can get an Emmy.  So we got
+one, DS9's pilot got one, and Lucas' Young Indy show got one.  (We sat
+at the next table to Lucas and his bunch, in fact, and noted that he
+watched the B5 footage with considerable interest.)  So when you come
+right down to it, here we were, our first shot out of the box, and we
+ended up on the same level of appreciation as Trek and Lucas.  Not too
+dusty....
+
+
      
+
    •  And y'know...it's absolutely in keeping with the Straczynski luck,
+and the history of this show, that the year B5 wins an Emmy is the 
+first year that they DON'T do the recap of last night's technical 
+awards.  Ah, well....
+
+
      
+
    •  I was asked to keep quite about this until April 23rd, which is when
+the announcement is to be made at the Nebulas, but now that it's 
+indeed the 23rd, and that announcement either has been made or is 
+being made now, I'm pleased to report that the Babylon 5 pilot movie,
+"The Gathering," has been nominated for a Hugo.
+
      
+Since we're up against Jurassic Park, I think I pretty much know where
+THAT award is going...but it is a tremendous honor and everyone 
+involved with the show is very pleased by it.
+
+
      
+
    •  Thanks.  As it turns out -- I today saw the list of nominees -- B5 is
+the ONLY TV-SF nominated for the Hugo.  The rest are all feature films
+(JP, Addams Family, Nightmare Before Christmas, Groundhog Day).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Eric...nothing would gladden my heart more than if the B5 pilot won
+a Hugo (except the series winning a Hugo, which I think is a bit
+likelier, maybe).  It is the highest compliment that can be paid by
+the SF community of readers and viewers.  But one must be realistic,
+and I just don't see it outpulling Jurassic Park in the ballotting.
+JP is the proverbial 500 pound gorilla.  Or the 50,000 pound T-Rex.
+
      
+While we are only small mammals....granted we're mammals with guns
+and an attitude, of course....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+JP won the Hugo
+
      
+Yep, that's pretty much what I said would happen.  And in my view,
+JP probably deserves the Hugo more than "The Gathering."  Next year,
+now, THAT is an open question....
+
+
      
+
    •  Nope, I was nowhere in the pilot, not under makeup, not nohow, not 
+no-way.  Nor will I do so in the series.  That just ain't my thing.
+
+
      
+
    •  Side-note...Londo baring his teeth had nothing to do with Delenn's 
+vote in "The Gathering."  That was gas.
+
+
      
+
    •  Both Christy Marx and Kathryn [Drennan, JMS's wife]
+can both be *briefly* seen in the pilot
+movie as BG in the casino...and in the main titles, Kathryn's back is
+to the camera in the wide downshot, though you really can't make it 
+out well in that one.  Also in the montage in the pilot movie, seated
+at the bar under narration, the fellow with the beard, is art director
+John Iacovelli.
+
+
      
+
    •  The most entertaining thing for a writer is creating a character; the
+second most entertaining thing is killing off a character.  Believe 
+me, as you'll see in the Fight To The Death in the pilot, I have no 
+problem dropping a body.  And as far as I'm concerned, only 2 or 3 
+characters in this series are indispensible...the rest are open to all
+kinds of interesting fates.
+
+
      
+
    •  The amount of contact required varies according to the telepath's
+strength.  Lyta at P5 needs a little help.  A P10 could nail you from
+across the room.
+
+
      
+
    •  The background on that business meeting is similar to all such uses of
+telepaths: both sides agree to the presence of a telepath to monitor 
+the negotiations.  If one were to demur, the deal would be off because
+the person clearly has something to hide.  Which is why there is a 
+good market for various kinds of shields that don't LOOK like or feel
+like shields unless the telepath knows what to look for.  You can also
+just try and hide it and hope that the telepath isn't looking too deep
+or isn't really paying attention, which is what that guy was doing.
+(May have been reciting the "tensor" rhyme trying to keep his brain 
+occupied.)
+
+
      
+
    •  The encounter suit opened at the touch of a button (you can hear him
+press the button with a *click*).  Only for Lyta did it open on its 
+own.
+
+
      
+
    •  Here's the one thing that amazes me, speaking of seeing the pilot for
+the gadzillionth time...there is one great big huge gaping visual
+anomaly/inconsistency in the pilot that so far no one has noticed.  
+It's so massive that when I first saw it, I just about fell out of my
+chair.   But the director said "No one's ever gonna see it, no one's
+ever gonna notice it, *trust* me on this."  I was absolutely convinced
+that he was wrong.  Apparently he was right.  At some point in the
+future I'll tell you what it is...and when you see it, you're going to
+wonder how the hell you avoided seeing it before, it's *that* big.  
+But not for a while yet.   (And the few smaller things mentioned here
+...ain't it.)
+
+
      
+
    •  For the record...thtch has something to do with the second trial 
+scene.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It's the overhead shot of the courtroom; we didn't have a second 
+establisher, so we used the one of Kyle even though Sinclair was on
+the stand.
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, "beep-beep" was always there in the script; it was the part
+where we learn AFTER that that Sinclair only told G'Kar about the
+homing beacon, didn't really plant it, that came up during filming.
+
+
      
+
    •  Here's one little extra for you: only one person aboard Babylon 5 has
+any idea of what a Vorlon is, inside that suit, and only one race has
+had dealings with the Vorlons before.  Watch the reception at the end,
+and see if you notice anything unusual in the way the various people
+respond to Kosh.
+
+
      
+
    •  How much of the basic "saga" is in the pilot?  Some...bits and pieces.
+The problem, always, is that we have a whole new universe to 
+establish, with all the backstory that goes with that.  As it is, 
+it's fairly "information intensive," as one person put it.  We find
+out about the Earth/Minbari war, the curious surrender, Sinclair's 
+past, the missing 24 hours, the relations between the various 
+governments and their own personal agendas, and a hint of what's to
+come.  This while establishing the backstory of all our characters,
+and telling a story in present time (for them).
+
      
+I think you will find indications of what we've talked about for the
+series present in the pilot.  Which is why it bears watching more 
+than once; you'll pick up more information and more of a sense of 
+the world the more closely you inspect it.  (We tried to come up
+with a pilot that actually BENEFITS from close inspection, rather 
+than falling apart if you look at it too closely.)
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, the funny thing is, I don't much mind if people who hadn't
+seen the pilot don't catch the rebroadcast.  What we're doing now is 
+SO radically better than the pilot that I almost can't watch it now.
+
+
      
+
    •  Agreed, the pilot movie was much darker...unfortunately, it was SO 
+dark that we actually veered into what're called "illegal blacks," 
+that is, the picture is too dark, and this causes problems with 
+foreign distributers.  (This is what they tell me, and through an act
+of faith I have come to believe them.)  We're still about a half-stop
+or full stop below what's typical.  Be advised that many stations,
+when they broadcast the show, pump up the brightness a *lot*.  They
+just dial it up.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Laurel was not standing upside down in relation to the station's
+rotation.  The docking bay, at the center of the station, for zero-g,
+was above her head, her feet pointed down, toward the rim of the
+station, in correct orientation.  Just FYI.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We'd originally planned to go for a more vague sexuality for Delenn;
+a male physically and primarily in the voice, on top of the natural
+female movements one gets from an actress.  In post-production, 
+however, we couldn't get the voice to sound as good and male as we'd
+wanted.  In addition, a couple of convention showing of a rough cut 
+saw people responding VERY strongly to her voice as it was, so we 
+finally decided to let it stand and change the one reference to "he"
+to "she," and that was the end of it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Delenn was originally going to be a fairly sexually-ambiguous
+character...a male character, played by a female, with a computer 
+altered voice...but we couldn't make the alteration sound good enough
+to satisfy us, so we left her a her.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Kosh will "speak" in the series.  After a fashion.  But not as you
+might expect.  Suffice to say we've seen the final effect now in the
+mix of finished episodes, and it's *real* creepy.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Your memory is faulty.  It was stated in the pilot that Kosh's ship
+took roughly 4 days to travel via hyperspace to B5.  That's from 
+Vorlon space; we don't know where the fleet was when it entered jump.
+Because such ships can make their own jump points, it could've been a
+lot closer to B5 space when it went in.  (And was.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Okay, okay, 8 days not four...I knew it weren't no 3 weeks, though.
+The one thing to remember is that travel in hyperspace isn't the main
+problem; the real problem, time-wise, is the period required to get 
+from a world to its nearest jump gate.  It might take 4 days to travel
+from World X to the gate, and 1 day to B5 in hyperspace...while 
+another race, 1 day from the gate, and 1 day to B5 in hyperspace, only
+has 2 travel days.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+As I've noted elsewhere, G'Kar made mention of the need for genetic
+alteration/modification during the scene with Lyta.  Beyond that,
+though, G'Kar's personal perversion is sex with humans, which no one
+else seems quite able to understand....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Garibaldi was named after the famous Italian war hero of the same
+name.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
+
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to
+blows.  Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
+
+
+Paul Hampton  as The Senator.
+Peter Trencher as Carn Mollari.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+P5 Rating: 6.99
+
+Production number: 103
+Original air date: January 26, 1994
+
+ Written by: J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by: Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+
+
    •  The campaign issues in the presidential election,
+	especially the pledges of the winner of the election.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  From the things they say about each others' 
+	races at various times during this episode, neither Londo nor G'Kar
+	seem likely to strive for lasting peace:
+	
      
+	
       Londo: 
+	
       "We should have wiped out your kind when we had the chance!"
      
+		"On the issue of galactic peace I am long past innocence
+		and fast approaching apathy.  It's all a game, a paper
+		fantasy of names and borders.  Only one thing matters:
+		blood calls out for blood."
+
+	
       G'Kar: 
+	
       "Your time has come and gone!  It's our turn now.  One night
+		you'll wake up and find our teeth at your throat."
      
+		"I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have
+		cleansed the universe of the Centauri and carved their bones
+		into flutes for Narn children.  'Tis a dream I have."
+	
      
+
+
    •  Londo was absolutely consumed by anger and hatred.
+  	He would have sacrificed peace and justice for personal vengeance.
+	(cf: "By Any Means Necessary")
+
+
    •  The Narn attack a distant easy target with 
+	little military value.  This must have been to test the Centauri
+	reaction - see how many ships they send in response, how hard
+	they're willing to fight to defend any part of their territory.
+	The Narn are forced to withdraw for non-military reasons, but they
+	learn a great deal about their enemies with that move.
+
+
    •  Ivanova is surprised to hear Sinclair defend 
+	the honor of the Minbari. 
+	(cf: "The Gathering")
+
+
    •  The EA is not in a strong enough position at home
+	to take an ethical stance toward its neighbors.  "The Earth
+	Alliance can't go around being the galaxy's policemen," says the
+	senator, "They want to fight it out, let'em.  Just keep us out
+	of it - at least until after the election."
+
+
    •  One of the most alien moments was watching Delenn 
+	try to understand Garibaldi's cartoons and popcorn.  She is at
+	times a sage, and sometimes an innocent.
+
+
    •  Sinclair claims he confiscated data crystals 
+	detailing Narn communications that confirm Londo's claims about the
+	situation at Ragesh 3. However, Sinclair has bluffed before (cf:
+	"The Gathering").
+	There is no proof that the crystals actually contained data.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The first one-hour episode of the series, "Midnight on the Firing
+	Line," does a fair amount of re-introduction, for those who've seen
+	the pilot and need to be up to speed, and some introducing for those
+	who haven't.  It is, however, largely an action-oriented story, into
+	which we weave the characterization.  It manages to convey some of 
+	the same info as the pilot, but in a *much* more dramatic fashion.
+
+
      
+
    •  No, the show isn't a year and a half late.  As it is, it's less than
+	one year since the pilot aired.  It was our initial hope, and my 
+	initial belief, that we'd go straight into the series as soon as we 
+	finished the pilot.  But the studio, in its infinite wisdom, decided
+	that since they HAD a pilot, it kinda behooved them to air it and get
+	the ratings before committing to a series.  So we then waited until
+	February for the airing, got the go-ahead to production around 
+	April/May, began shooting in July, got a whole bunch of episodes in
+	the can, and now we're hitting the air.  That is the sum and substance
+	of it.
+
+
      
+
    •  We'd always figured on going right to series, but once we had done
+	the pilot, the studio said, in essence, "Well, we've got a pilot,
+	we don't know if the market will sustain more than one space SF
+	series, no other SF series has done well lately...maybe we ought
+	to air the pilot first, and get the ratings, before committing to
+	a series." And that's what happened...much to our consternation at
+	first, but in the long run it was a blessing in disguise, because
+	that interim period allowed us to really do a lot to make the show
+	better.
+
+
      
+
    •  Approximately nine months have passed since the time of the pilot and
+	the birth of the series.
+
+
      
+
    •  I *love*
+	"Duck Dodgers."
+	I have virtually all of the WB cartoons on
+	tape or disk, and from where I sit, that's wonderful stuff that'll
+	be around for a long, long time.  No omens, just something I
+	thought would be fun.  (Again, connecting past/present/future, sort
+	of our B5 theme.)
+
+
      
+
    •  "Midnight on the Firing Line" as a title was more my feelings about
+	the episode and the series.  I knew we'd come under considerable
+	fire, figured it was cool.
+
+
      
+
    •  "...and if our future lies on the firing line, are we brave enough
+	to see the signals and the signs...."  
      
+	-- Harry Chapin
        
+	Just a thought.
+
+
      
+
    •  Ah, but you're assuming that the Londo-strangling-scene is as it
+	seems to be; maybe it is, but maybe it isn't.  You don't know the
+	context yet.
+
+
      
+
    •  Down the road, we will be seeing more of Londo, and his people, and realize
+	that they aren't as human looking as they first appear.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Raghesh 3 claim is only about 20 years old; the Centauri came to
+	Narn over a hundred years ago.
+
+
      
+
    •  You're correct in your appraisal of the "coincidences" in the first
+	episode. Upon finding that Londo's nephew was there, they would of
+	course trot him out to try and undermine Londo's credibiltiy (you'll
+	note that G'Kar made special mention of this, as if to say, "Is the
+	Centauri ambassador calling his own nephew a liar?"). It'd be the same
+	thing if the son of an American ambassador was on-hand when hostages
+	were taken. As for the choice of the attack's location...Londo wanted
+	his nephew "far away from all this." Someplace safe. A fairly safe,
+	mundane place is not going to have a major military presence...and
+	hence is a perfect target for attack.
+
+
      
+
    •  RE: the spotlights, we'd figured that since the transport had been freshly
+	attacked, there'd be debris all over the place, and lots of particulate
+	matter which would show up in the light. 
+
+
      
+
    •  Quick replies to your questions: Spoo is.  What else can one say
+	about spoo?
+
+	
      
+	The Centauri station actually was rotating, as I recall, it's the
+	camera angle that I believe doesn't showcase it as well as it might.
+
+	
      
+	The scanners on the Starfuries detected no movement, no atmosphere,
+	no signals, no warmth of bodies.
+
+	
      
+	The lights on the fighters during the examination of the rubble were
+	visible due to particulate matter spewed out during and after the
+	attack.
+
+
      
+
    • 	What is spoo?   Spoo....is.
+	
      
+	(Spoo is also Oops spelled backward.)
+
+
      
+
    •  Spoo
+	is/are (the plural of spoo is spoo) small, white, pasty,
+	mealy critters, rather worm-like, and generally regarded as the
+	ugliest animals in the known galaxy by just about every sentient
+	species capable of starflight, with the possible exception of the
+	pak'ma'ra, who would simply recommend a more rigorous program of
+	exercise.  They are also generally considered the most delicious food
+	in all of known space, regardless of the individual's biology, almost
+	regardless of species, except for the pak'ma'ra, who like the flavor
+	but generally won't say so simply to be contrary.
+
+	
      
+	Spoo are raised on ranches on worlds with a damp, moist, somewhat
+	chilly climate so that their skin can acquire just the right shade of
+	paleness.  Spoo travel in herds, if moving a total of six inches in
+	any given direction in the course of a given year can actually be
+	considered moving.  They stay in herds ostensibly for mutual
+	protection, but the reality is that if they weren't propped up against
+	one another, most of them would simply fall down.  They do not howl,
+	bark, moo, purr, yap, squeak or speak.  Mainly, they sigh.  Herds of
+	sighing spoo can reportedly induce unparalleled bouts of depression,
+	which is why most spoo ranchers wear earmuffs even when it's only
+	mildly cold, damp, wet and dreary outside.  If there is any
+	life-or-death struggle for dominance within the spoo herd, it has not
+	yet been detected by modern science.
+
+	
      
+	Spoo ranching is one of the least regarded professions known.
+	Little or no skill is required, once you've got a planet with the
+	right climate.  You bring in two hundred spoo, plop them down in the
+	middle of your ranch, and go back to the nearby house.  Soon you've
+	got more.  When it comes time to cull out the ones ready for market
+	(the softest, mealiest, palest, most forlorn-looking spoo of the
+	pack), little physical effort is required since they're incapable of
+	rapid movement without falling over (see above).  They do not resist,
+	fight, or whine; they only sigh more loudly.  When spoo harvest time
+	comes, the air is full of the sound of whacking and sighing, whacking
+	and sighing.  Even an experienced spoo rancher can only harvest for
+	brief periods of a time, due to the increased volume of sighing, which
+	even the sound of whacking cannot altogether erase.  (also see above)
+	Some have simply gone mad.
+
+	
      
+	Spoo are the only creatures of which the Interstellar Animal
+	Rights Protection League says, simply, "Kill 'em."
+
+	
      
+	Fresh spoo (served at an optimum temperature of 62-degrees) is
+	served in cubed sections, so that they bear as little resemblence as
+	possible to the animal from which they have just been sliced.  Spoo is
+	usually served alongside a chablis, or a white zinfandel.
+
+	
      
+	Further information on the care, feeding, eating and whacking of
+	spoo can be found in the second edition of the Interstellar Guide to
+	Fine Dining.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: your desire to make and eat spoo at home...depends on whether or
+	not you ever want to have children later....
+
+
      
+   
    •  At the point in which we join the tale of the last of the Babylon
+	stations, *everything* is in a state of flux...one government is on 
+	the rise, another is declining, Earth is taking some new and disturbing
+	directions...so yes, they all feel there is a change coming.  It's a
+	little thing, but we keep it alive to keep a sense of something moving
+	on a web, and each movement makes the whole thing shake just a little.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the "last" of the Babylon Stations...y'all might want to bear
+	in mind the syntax of the narration.  It speaks of B5 in the *past
+	tense*.  "Bablyon 5 WAS the last of the Babylon stations...it WAS 
+	the dawn of the third age of mankind."  The narration is the voice
+	of future history, the storyteller, long after the fact, spinning
+	for us the tale of the last of the Babylon stations.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I never said it was an isolationist president.  The reporter doing 
+	the commentary at the election talked about preserving earth culture
+	in the face of growing alien influences, which isn't quite the same
+	thing as cutting off trade agreements.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You'll get a pretty good glimpse into why Sinclair jumps into a
+	fighter any chance he can get in "Infection."  Part of it is to 
+	escape from stuff...the other goes much deeper, and much darker....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Here's what I find curious (not necessarily in direct response to
+	anything you said, but in general on this topic)...is that when 
+	Ivanova makes her remark to Garibaldi about snapping his hands off at
+	the wrists, many people have assumed that she was insulting him, 
+	berating him, being bitchy, truly disliking and threatening him.
+	
      
+	But the same words, put in the mouth of another male, wouldn't have
+	drawn that reaction, and would've been classified under, "kidding
+	around" or affable sarcasm.
+	
      
+	Which is exactly what it is in this case.  In this place and this
+	time, they're comfortable enough to mess with each other without it 
+	being taken seriously (among these characters, that is).  There are
+	times they kinda like to phuque with each other a bit, justfor the
+	hell of it, as comrades will sometimes do.  ("Babylon Squared" has a
+	great example of Sinclair and Garibaldi messing with Ivanova.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair's line, "Cut acceleration," was in regards to forward
+	momentum, so he could more easily spin the fighter around.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: the Raider ships...they turned by a less effective system of
+	thrusters put in here and there, not nearly as powerful as the 
+	systems used by the Starfuries.  The reason -- verifiable by the 
+	shape of the Raider ships -- is that Raider ships are handicapped by
+	the fact that they're made to function both in space *and* within an 
+	atmosphere (hence the aerodynamic wing shapes), which gives it 
+	something of a problem when dealing with the Starfuries, which are
+	made ONLY for fighting in space, and are most ideally suited to it.
+	The Raider ships make compromises for greater utility, which is 
+	generally okay unless they run into superior forces of ships designed
+	for spaceborne combat.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The symbol Talia wears isn't a Link or any other kind of
+	communications system; it is *strictly* a form of identification, 
+	tagging her as a telepath and a member of the Psi Corps.  It serves
+	no other function.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct, Christopher Franke designed Kosh's voice.
+
+
      
+   
    •  That the Centauri *claimed* that we were a lost colony is not the
+	same as indicating that we *believed* them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I like it when people lie in television, and we find out about it
+	over time.  The "lost colony" routine was one such.  At one point,
+	Garibaldi confronts Londo with this as reason for why he doesn't 
+	trust the Centauri.  Londo shrugs it off as a "clerical error."  
+	There will be a few points in the series when we'll get information,
+	and we'll buy into it...and discover after a while that that 
+	character bald-facedly lied to the other character (and, by proxy,
+	to us).  And naturally there will be consequences to this....
+
+
      
+   
    •  In "Midnight," Sinclair is really not given a chance to show his
+	character, since it's basically a reintroduction to the series, and 
+	there is a lot to cover.  He functions throughout the episode only in
+	his official capacity.  In other episodes, you'll get to see some very
+	different sides to his character, particular in "Parliament of 
+	Dreams."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Sinclair getting into a fighter...there were a number of reasons
+	for this, one of which being he wanted a good reason to avoid being in
+	on the counsel vote, given his marching orders.  But more than that
+	...I would point out that this isn't Star Trek, and Sinclair isn't
+	Picard; he is first and foremost a pilot.  He loves to get into a
+	fighter and take it out  He's a fighter.  That's when he is most at 
+	ease.  That's what his character *is*.
+
+	
      
+	At the same time, however, there are consequences for that kind of
+	behavior, as you point out.  And there are deeper reasons for what he
+	is doing than even he want to admit.  Tell you what...table that 
+	aspect until after you've seen the last part of "Infection," which
+	deals *with this exact issue*.
+
+
      
+   
    •  My thought, at the time, was that if we play the reality of this for 
+	a moment, probably *all* of the ambassadors have some kind of weapon,
+	smuggled in via diplomatic pouches.  Garibaldi and Sinclair know
+	they're there...question is, is it worth starting a diplomatic incident
+	over, as long as they're not being used?  Garibaldi is saying, in 
+	essence, "Okay, you know it's there, and I know it's there, but now
+	you've made a point about it.  Lose it or hide it, or I'm going to 
+	have to charge you, and we're BOTH going to be up to our ears in it."
+	If Garibaldi confiscated it, there'd be a whole diplomatic hassle...
+	and Londo would just have another one sent to him via diplomatic 
+	pouch.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's interesting what we can read into faces...in Delenn's reaction,
+	I saw concern, angst, but not that she believed the story.  That
+	certainly wasn't the intent of the scene, or the script...faces are
+	interesting things.  As for the rest, you're right; not everyone wants
+	to do the Right Thing For The Right Reasons.  Some would prefer not to
+	get involved.  So some might want deniability, want a reason not to go
+	up against the Narns, or have sold out their votes.  A human looking
+	at that screen could tell that the person was being coerced...but what
+	about the other alien races, to whom a downcast face could be a sign
+	of joy?  In any event, suspicion is one thing, but *proof* is another,
+	and the legal system works on *proof*.  Nothing could be done until 
+	they had the proof that Sinclair got at the end, and chose to use
+	behind closed doors to the same effect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You may think it was obvious that the nephew was reading at gunpoint,
+	and in fact, he was...but thinking something or suspecting something 
+	isn't the same as proving it.  Londo could say, "He was reading at
+	gunpoint!"  And G'Kar could say, "No, he wasn't."  Where do you go 
+	from there?  (And, in fact, that's *exactly* what Londo said...only
+	to have G'Kar deflect it.)
+
+	
      
+	Re: why Londo didn't show the clips...at this point, there's not any
+	quesion in anyone's mind about the attack taking place.  The Narns
+	say they were invited in to help quell internal strife.  That the
+	events took place isn't at issue; it's *why* and whether or not they
+	were invited in.   (As with Germany in WWII indicating that some 
+	places "invited" them in.)
+
+	
      
+	Had Sinclair shown the evidence, it probably would've just hardened
+	G'Kar.  Also, most politics is back-room dealing.  You do this in
+	public, and you make a terrible enemy who'll strike back as soon as he
+	has a chance.  Let him have his dignity, save face, BUT get what you
+	want, and there's room to maneuver in future.  It's the difference 
+	between being a punch'em-out hero, and someone who has to be 
+	diplomatic, within limits.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair did not -- repeat, did NOT -- "tell Ivanova to defy Earth's
+	orders and deceive the council."  He set up a situation in which he
+	would say that he was unable to catch up with her and pass along the
+	Senator's instructions before he had to leave.  Her line would be 
+	that "The Commander never told me," and he would back this up.  (And 
+	that he would hedge the truth this way is hardly "perfect.")
+
+	
      
+	Defying the Senator's orders would be telling them that the vote will
+	NOT be made as ordered.  That never happened.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In "Midnight," Sinclair had to be pretty much in command mode all
+	during the episode as a character, so that influences the result.  But
+	in later episodes, we get him out of those situations, out of uniform,
+	and into other settings where he can be more relaxed.  So that's 
+	coming, and you'll see it *very* early on in the first season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, the Sea Witch is the one that rotates and fires at one of the
+	Raiders.  It's a woman's face in a green and blue background.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As a matter of fact, in a couple of episodes you'll see a photo of
+	the Earth Alliance president.  The photo itself is of Doug Netter, my
+	associate on the show and fellow executive producer.  (The woman 
+	running against the incumbent president in the election featured on
+	"Midnight" is played, in photo, by our wardrobe designer, Ann Bruice.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Vir is very obsequious in "Midnight."  That's done in order to
+	give his character somewhere to go, as gradually he begins to stand 
+	up to Londo and talk back.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Vir...that was the first episode filmed with his character, and 
+	he wasn't directed as well as he might have been.  We pulled him back
+	a lot in later episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Vir calms down.  Trust me.
+
+	
      
+	He even manages to nail Londo from time to time...as he does when
+	Londo suffers a rather nasty hangover in "Born to the Purple."
+
+
      
+   
    •  If there's anything about "Midnight" that I would change...ehh...
+	that's a tough question to ask any producer or writer.  I can't think
+	of anything I've done that I wouldn't want to go back and tweak.  The
+	only real drawback we had was that we were still building sets as we
+	filmed our first few episodes, so we didn't have access to all of the
+	full range of sets.  Not that we really needed them, the story works
+	fine in the sets we had, but we could've moved one or two shots around
+	into different sets just for variety.
+
+	
      
+	But aside from general tweaking, I don't think there's really
+	anything I'd change in it.  My problem is that I'm too close to it,
+	and there are a number of episodes we shot afterward that blow it 
+	right out of the water in terms of quality, production values and the
+	rest; I'd have to say that my favorite shows to date, in order, would
+	be The Parliament of Dreams, Mind War, And the Sky Full of Stars, Soul
+	Hunter, Born to the Purple, Midnight, Believers, Infection, The War
+	Prayer, Survivors and Grail.  Chrysalis, which we're shooting now, will
+	probably take over the Favorite #2 spot from Mind War.  We're fighting
+	to make every episode better than the one before it.
+
+	
      
+	We're going to have a brass plaque put up here in the offices one of
+	these days, before we finish, saying, "If you're not here to kick ass,
+	get out."
+
+
      
+   
    •  What you and the others seem to be pointing out is what I've been
+	trying -- imperfectly, as best I can -- to communicate for some time.
+	In the case of "Midnight," can you follow that show and enjoy it 
+	absolutely on its own terms?  I believe that is the case.  There's 
+	another level there, the "little clues and hints" you mention, which
+	will just skate past most casual viewers and not in any way interfere
+	with their viewing of the episode...but if you're paying attention, 
+	and you catch them, it adds a new level.  The more you see, the more
+	you begin to perceive that second level.  It's a cumulative effect
+	that doesn't diminish the single episodes as stand-alones.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (Lost the last paragraph of my message.)  In any event, what I'm
+	striving for is the idea that you can watch the episodes for the
+	character stories, OR the story arc, OR the individual stories, OR
+	all three at the same time, all in the same exact episodes.  You can
+	get out as much as you're willing to find.
+
+	
      
+	It's a very weird kind of writing...but at least on this end, it's
+	kinda fun, actually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I agree, most of the plot lines are tied up pretty well (except for
+	the telepath issue introduced at the end, which comes back at us
+	again...as does, incidentally, the Raghesh 3 incident and other 
+	stuff).  In responding to some of the criticism of the pilot, I tried
+	to make this one far more self-contained.  Which is why I much prefer
+	"Parliament," "Mind War" and "Soul Hunter" over "Midnight."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did we save anything for the rest of the season?  Lemme put it to you
+	this way...you ain't seen *nothin* yet.  "Midnight" makes just about
+	everything done before for TV look lame...but there's stuff coming 
+	down the pike that'll make "Midnight" look pale by comparison.  With
+	each show we get better, we learn more, and we can *do* more.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In the teaser scene you refer to in "Midnight," you've got a couple
+	dozen fighters coming in alongside about 3-4 motherships (or capital
+	ships, either term will suffice).  We've always said that big ships 
+	can punch through and form their own jump points.  That's how the
+	jump gates get there in the first place: a big ship comes through, on
+	its own, and leaves behind a jump gate. There's no contradiction.  
+	One (or more) of the big ships was creating the point of entry as it
+	went.
+
+
      
+   
    •  During the con appearance, Jerry told a story that *I* hadn't heard
+	before.  There's a scene in the script "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+	in which Talia (Andrea) goes into a transport tube, finds Garibaldi,
+	and asks some questions about Ivanova.  They rehearsed it several 
+	times, this being Andrea's first time on the set, and filmed one 
+	take.  She comes down the hall, comes to the pen...and Garibaldi's
+	pants are down around his ankles.  Needless to say, that shot did 
+	NOT end up in dailies....
+
+	
      
+	There are days I think -- between Jerry, Harlan, me and some others
+	involved on the show -- we ought to name this Loose Cannon 
+	Productions....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Behind-the-scenes humor: because it had been so long since the pilot,
+	it took a few of our actors a bit of time to get back into their 
+	characters, to find the characters' "fingerprints" for lack of a 
+	better term.  This is quite understandable given the long waiting 
+	period.  When he needed to find his character for a scene, Peter 
+	Jurasik mentioned that he would just stand up straight and yell, 
+	"MISter GariBALdi!" and he'd be right back in character.  Sort of 
+	the B5 version of "Shazam!"
+
+	
      
+	Minus the lightning bolt, of course.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Delenn is in danger when a soul hunter, an alien who captures the souls of
+the dying, arrives at the station.
+
+
+W. Morgan Sheppard as Soul Hunter #1.
+John Snyder as Soul Hunter #2.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense
+P5 Rating: 7.05
+
+Production number:  102
+Original air date:  February 2, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+
+
    •  The Soul Hunter mentions the death of someone
+	to Sinclair.  That name will come up again.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The soul hunter of this episode has visited
+	Earth before.
+
+
    •  Minbari are trained from childhood to protect their
+	souls from soul hunters.
+
+
    •  The soul hunter had a unique perspective on a
+	significant event in Minbari history:
+	
      
+	[to Sinclair] "Minbari: jealous, selfish, private.  We have
+	saved only a few - very rare.  The rarest of all, their leader
+	Dukat, dying; your fault, your war; the pinnacle of Minbari
+	evolution.  We came, I, others.  They made a wall of bodies to
+	stop us!  He died.  And his dreams, his ideas - all that he was,
+	all that he could ever be - gone... wasted... jealous..."
+	
      
+	Later he recognizes Delenn from the Grey Council, which was
+	responsible for stopping him.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Delenn meets Sinclair just as he's going to check
+	out the injured pilot, and offers to help him ID the fellow.  She
+	has a knack for being at the right place at the right time.
+	(cf: "The Gathering").
+
+
    •  Sinclair did not call for backup when he
+	encountered the soul hunter, even though there were four others
+	nearby searching for Delenn.  He has a tendency to put himself into
+	dangerous situations. (cf: "Infection")
+
+
    •  During this episode there are three different
+	stories told about the soul.  Sinclair heard all three, and doesn't
+	know which to believe.  All he knows is what he saw.
+	
      
+
+	
       Franklin:
+
+	
       There is no soul that survives the body.  With advanced
+		technology, he allows, one could preserve a record of
+		someone's personality, but death is death.
+
+	
       Delenn:
+
+	
       All sentients have immortal souls.  When a Minbari dies its
+		soul merges with the souls of other dead Minbari.  These
+are
+		recycled into future generations, so as individuals advance
+		their own souls, the Minbari as a whole advance.
+
+	
       soul hunter:
+
+	
       All sentients have ephemeral souls.  When a person
+		dies, the soul expires into oblivion.  However, soul
+hunters
+		have a prescient attraction to death - if they so choose
+they
+		can capture and preserve a soul "for the greater good" at
+the
+		moment it leaves the body.  They carry with them a bag full
+of
+		the souls they have "saved", each in its own glass vessel.
+
+	
      
+
+	For a Minbari, the soul hunter's method of preservation is true
+	death, for it cuts a soul off from the rest and diminishes the next
+	generation; for a soul hunter, the true loss is
+uncollected
+	souls.
      
+	These are completely irreconcilable belief systems.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, I just saw a cut of the episode that's going to air second, the
+	one guest-starring Morgan Shepherd.  Oh, man...on the question of 
+	Did you learn anything from the pilot...this thing *moves* like a 
+	sumbitch.   It's a very unusual, very *creepy* episode in many ways.
+	And filled with character stuff...and a good bit of background about
+	some of our characters rendered in active ways.  I'm really dying to
+	see what people think of this one when it airs.  It manages to take 
+	what would normally be considered a science *fantasy* issue, and deal
+	with it from a  science fiction perspective, without compromising on
+	the latter at all.   It's a very, *very* strong episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who's right, the soul hunter or the minbari?
      
+	Yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We leave the question open: Is he actually taking souls, or simply
+	encoding the personality matrix and, in essence, creating an artificial
+	version of the individual's personality?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The various characters take their own stands, which vary.  Franklin 
+	only considers the possibility of cloning someone's personality 
+	matrix, for instance.  And again, it depends on how you *define* soul.
+	The Soul Hunter defines it not as something supernatural, but as the
+	collection of thoughts, personality, feelings and the very essence of
+	the person that dies with the body.  That definition is broad enough
+	to encompass just about anything.  Then you get into the more 
+	specific ideas of what a soul is.
+
+	
      
+	One person at a post production house we've used has indicated that 
+	he has "theological problems" with working on that episode; not 
+	because it's *against* what he believes -- he's worked on horror
+	movies and stuff with devils and the like -- but because it takes a
+	point of view he doesn't much like...in that he has to sit and defend
+	the whole *context* of his ideas...meaning, it's making him think.  
+	He can just poo-poo the stuff against what he believes, support what
+	he does believe in...but he isn't quite sure where this show comes
+	down, or where it makes *him* come down.  I've had any number of 
+	problems with people on a show before, but this is the first time
+	I've run into a theological problem.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What the soul was, who's right, and even whether this is SF or 
+	Science Fantasy, was it explained enough to merit one over the other
+	... how can I put this...?  I don't want to spoon-feed stuff to 
+	people.  What I want is not to hit someone with a MORAL, or a message,
+	or "This is what a soul is," or "This is what makes it an SF series,"
+	I want to start discussions.  Arguments.  Preferably a bar fight or
+	two.
+
+	
      
+	We present an issue.  Here are the sides.  Now...what do YOU think 
+	about it?  I want this show to ask, "Who are you?  Where are you 
+	going?"  That's half the fun.  Some of my favorites pastimes in 
+	college were sitting in the commons, or the library, arguing this 
+	stuff from every possible angle.  You think I'm gonna tell you what
+	to think?  What it means?  No.  The goal is to provoke discussion.
+	Preferably passionate discussion.
+
+	
      
+	Otherwise I might as well just start renting billboards and putting 
+	up signs.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: why soul hunter #1's ship was out of control...the second soul
+	hunter comments that they've been tracking him, and caught up with 
+	him a few days ago.  They attacked, "and he escaped, his ship 
+	damaged."  That is what brought him here...and led his pursuers to 
+	this place as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will we see more soul hunters?
      
+	Eventually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yes, humans would probably have *heard* of Soul Hunters, 
+	distantly, as a legend.  I see no reason why they would believe they
+	existed, particularly with a title like that, unless and until 
+	actually encountering one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Sinclair's actions toward the Soul Hunter...the device he uses was
+	trained on Delenn.  It was spiraling up to full power throughout the 
+	scene.  Just as Sinclair's thrown, you see it starting to come to 
+	critical mass...it's shooting at Delenn.  There isn't/wasn't time to 
+	sit there and figure out how it works, and shut off the right button. 
+	He turned it so that it faced away from her...and the Hunter was caught
+	in his own machine.
+
+	
      
+	There was nowhere else to go with the machine.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In "Soul Hunter," Franklin notes that the average human life span is
+	now about a hundred years.  It's quite a bit longer for the other races;
+	G'Kar is about 70 or more, but is considered mid-range, equal to a human
+	in early 40s, among Narns.  Delenn is in about the same position, equal
+	to 30s-40s in her terms, but in years a bit older.  They are a pretty
+	long lived people.  Centauri aren't quite as long-lived, but they do a
+	bit better than the Narns.  The Vorlons......are.
+
+
      
+   
    •  To the question about a Soul Hunter's strength...yes, it is *very*
+	considerable.  Even with one arm he was able to slam the hell out of
+	the commander, pick him up and again slam him against a wall before
+	throwing him about 10 feet across the room.  Had he not been stopped,
+	and stopped good, yes, he would've torn Sinclair to ribbons.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn was shattering the soul globes in order to let the souls 
+	escape, rather than playing with them.  Look on the floor around her,
+	and you'll see shattered globes.  There should also be a sound of 
+	them breaking in her hands, the light goes out, and something 
+	escapes....
+
+
      
+   
    •  You're most definitely welcome; it was something we did to honor
+	Asimov, who determined the shape of this genre for many writers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why is part of me tempted to decide that around the year 2223 the 
+	most revered figure in Earthforce Command was General Ira Asimov, a 
+	brilliant strategist for whom the liner was named....?
+
+	
      
+	There are certain benefits to a design-your-own-future universe....
+
+
      
+   
    •  I deeply admired Asimov.  Harlan Ellison, this series consultant, was
+	as dear a friend to Asimov as anyone could be.  I named the starliner
+	after Asimov shortly after his death, because I will personally miss
+	him, and for Harlan, as his friend.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In your complaints regarding the commander flying off on occasional
+	missions (and he only does it about 3 times out of 22 episodes, so I
+	hardly see this as a problem), you are forgetting several other 
+	*realities* of military life.  If you're a pilot, even as a commander,
+	you have to log in X-number of hours flying time per month in order to
+	continue to qualify for flight pay.  This is a *requirement*.  And it
+	doesn't just mean flying around the station a few times.
+	
      
+	Second, many commanders -- as recently as Vietnam and afterward --
+	did and continue to go out on missions and sorties because it is 
+	rather expected of them, and because it maintains the respect of the
+	rest of the squadron(s).
+	
      
+	Third, and possibly most important, Earthforce is the same as the
+	contermporary Air Force in one important respect: promotion up the 
+	ranks is tied *directly* to combat experience and, in this case,
+	combat flying.  That's why women fighter pilots and helicopter pilots
+	have been fighting so *vigorously* to be allowed to fly combat 
+	missions; they know that they can't be promoted fully up the line 
+	without that.  Sinclair has no desire to be a commander all his life,
+	he'd like to move on.  Hence it behooves him to get in combat time 
+	whenever possible.
+	
      
+	Your statement that it "doesn't wash" has nothing to do with how the
+	military *actually* works, and everything to do with the skewed and
+	inaccurate portrayal of the military that you get from Trek.  This is
+	absolutely legitimate, and the B5 mailbox these days is partly 
+	crammed with letters from vets thanking us for getting this part 
+	right.
+	
      
+	I suppose I could mention this in passing in dialogue, but then it
+	becomes a matter of sticking in dialogue not because it's important
+	to an episode, but because some folks would like things explained to
+	them.  I don't think that's my responsibility.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I answered you elsewhere here on this topic earlier this evening.  
+	To just nit for a moment, to say that Sinclair picks up "every 
+	derelict ship" seems a little unfair...he's picked up *one*, and only
+	one, and only picks up one this entire season.  Why him?  A) Because
+	he's good at it, B) he could use the flight pay, C) it'll look good 
+	on his record, and D) because as he says as he leaves, it's a 
+	potential first-contact situation.  (NOt to mention E, that he has a
+	death-wish.)
+	
      
+	I would submit to you that this is NOT the same as having one
+	character do a zillion different jobs on the station.  I think that
+	you're reacting to something you've seen on Trek, and are assuming 
+	based on an example of one that we're doing it in B5 as well.  We're
+	not.  Also, in "Purple," Garibaldi sends a different team out to 
+	handle the gunfire, so there are others who do things.  Question 
+	becomes, how many new and recurring characters do you want to 
+	introduce?  There are currently *14* regular and recurring characters
+	on B5, and there are many folks who are saying that's too many.  As it
+	is, we do introduce an aide to Garibaldi who takes care of some stuff
+	for him.  Just as Sinclair delegates to Ivanova, and Ivanova delegates
+	to the observation dome techs.
+	
      
+	I just feel that you're leaping to a conclusion based on a paucity of
+	evidence, built upon your experiences with another show.  We're simply
+	not doing this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Normally, I don't tend to respond to negatives, because I don't 
+	generally want to get in the way or be perceived to be getting in the
+	way of criticism.  I don't.  But I feel I have to respond to some of
+	this.   If the show is open to criticism, then it seems to me that
+	some of the critiques should be open as well.  And some of these I 
+	think are quite unfair.
+
+	
      
+	1) When did they move the jump gate (re: the time required to get from
+	the gate by Kosh's ship, as opposed to the Hunter ship).  They/we
+	didn't.  Once again, and I wish people could remember this, Kosh's 
+	ship BEGAN TO DECELERATE the instant it emerged from the gate, in 
+	order to dock with B5 without smashing into it.  The Soul Hunter ship
+	was out of control, careening in at full speed.  (This was a widely 
+	discussed reason why the Vorlon fleet got to B5 so quickly as vs. 
+	Kosh's ship.  They were moving fast to get into striking position.)
+
+	
      
+	2) The Hunter's ship was on autopilot, set to come out of the first
+	gate it came to.
+
+	
      
+	3) There was still time for the station's defense grid to blow the
+	ship.  Yes, pieces would have continued onward, but a hell of a lot 
+	of its inertia would've been taken out by the incoming fire, and any 
+	remaining pieces would've either been taken out as well, or would 
+	have been so small as to not damage the hull (which is *very* thick 
+	at that point) given its blast-enforced deceleration.
+
+	
      
+	4) Yes, Sinclair would've gone up with it.  You pays your money, you
+	takes your chances.
+
+	
      
+	5) There was no "the Earth is going to explode" story here; you have 
+	a ship colliding with the station, that has to be stopped.  It has 
+	to be stopped within the period between when it emerges from the gate,
+	and the time it would collide.  You want to know how much time you 
+	have to work in.  Maybe it's a dramatic device, but it's also exactly
+	what you would do.  What would you prefer?  "Lieutenant Commander, 
+	how much longer until impact?"  "Uh...I dunno...can you hang on a 
+	second?"
+
+	
      
+	6) Re: the "funny forehead" comment...it was not what I've understood
+	the FF syndrome to mean...a regular head with a little treatment on
+	the front.  This was a whole-head prosthetic, covering the entire back
+	of the head.  So wrong on that one.  And re: n'grath having 6 legs
+	rather than 4...who're you to say that?  Ever seen a praying mantis?
+	Do all insects all over the galaxy have to have six legs to qualify?
+	You don't like minimal makeup, you don't like full-body prosthetics
+	...you understand that this comes out as "nothing will please me 
+	except a real alien."  You tell me where to find one in Central
+	Casting, and I'll hire him.
+
+	
      
+	7) Okay, here's my biggest gripe: the note that the soul aspect was
+	Trek and "katra."  Let me be clear on this: I don't give a damn what
+	Trek has or has not done now, long ago, or will do in the future.  
+	We can't be constantly looking over our shoulder, limiting our
+	universe because of another show.  If your only frame of reference
+	when it comes to discussing the soul is Star Trek, then that's
+	profoundly disappointing, but it's got nothing to do with me.  The 
+	basic concept goes back to the beginnings of civilization (that your
+	soul can be captured somehow).  Further, there were no soul hunters 
+	in ST, it was placement of one's spirit in another body.   I'm getting
+	real tired of the notion that if Trek did something, nobody else ever
+	can do it.  Like the person who said that Trek invented nanotechnology,
+	and thus when we used it in the pilot episode in the nanotech machine
+	G'Kar swallows, we were just copying Trek's nanites.
+
+	
      
+	I refuse to surrender creative control of this series to the ghost of
+	Star Trek's used notions.  From time to time, we'll cross into areas
+	they have also touched.  We'll touch it differently.  Deal with it.  
+	But please don't put a Star Trek (tm) tag on the soul, and the history
+	of the soul.
+
+	
      
+	8) You say a guard's gun was taken *twice* in this episode.  Where is
+	#2 (if #1 is the medlab guard)?  I see a guard being attacked from
+	behind, but not his gun being taken.
+
+	
      
+	9) Re: the second soul hunter's makeup being "inferior" to the first:
+	they were essentially exactly the same...same material, same design,
+	minus the stone, which varied...I'm sorry, but they were made, applied
+	and used in exactly the same way.
+
+	
      
+	10) Why drain her of blood?  Why the hell not?  In some countries, 
+	that was used as a means of execution.  Bleeding was also used (in
+	theory) to heal.  Okay, let's say he used poison.  "Why use poison?"
+	you probably would've asked.  "Oh, it was the old poison gag, and 
+	they find a convenient antidote."  There's no difference.
+
+	
      
+	11) How did the hunter relate his sense of death to a wall map?  I 
+	ask again...why not?  If you can buy it happens at all, why not?  How
+	is that any different than walking through a hall, or being drawn to 
+	a planet?  This is strictly a straw-man example, as is much of what
+	you cite.
+
+	
      
+	This, frankly, is what I find so offensive in your note.  You take
+	things that as a matter of opinion you might have done differently,
+	and then try to hold it up as a fault.  You set up straw man 
+	arguments that could be just as easily turned around on anything, 
+	mischaracterizing something in order to take a cheap shot.
+
+	
      
+	12) Why didn't Sinclair link in when he found the hunter?  Because he
+	only "found" the hunter when he was being SHOT AT.  And at that point
+	you don't want to raise your voice because you'll be shot at again.
+
+	
      
+	13) You complain that the soul globes seemed to wait until the moment
+	Sinclair freed them to act (as though it were the bag that had been 
+	holding them in).  Sure, they could've emerged...and floated.  A lot
+	of good that would've done them.  What they needed was someone who 
+	could stop him, and that was Sinclair's task.  They were able to
+	distract the hunter long enough for that to happen.  Minus Sinclair, 
+	what were they supposed to do, bedazzle him to death?
+
+	
      
+	14) Re: shining things into the camera = NBC Mystery Movie.  See point
+	11a above.  I'm not responsible for your cultural reference points.
+
+	
      
+	I don't mean to yell, but thing is, I don't mind genuine criticism, if
+	we specifically do something that is objectively *wrong*.  If you 
+	don't like something, that's also fine.  But I'm tired of people who
+	confuse opinion with fact, and that if it isn't done their way, then
+	it isn't somehow *right*...and the notion that Star Trek has invented,
+	patented and qualified for sole claim on whole aspects of our history,
+	literature, culture, theology and language, and that anybody who 
+	touches on these areas is just doing Trek stuff.
+
+	
      
+	As far as I'm concerned, the Trek-soul-katra thing treated the soul as
+	little more than a misplaced pair of sunglasses.  Here we tried to get
+	into the issues *behind* the soul...where does it come from, where 
+	does it go, does it survive the death of the body, or does it go on
+	...to give some mystery and beauty to the notion.  To have it 
+	dismissed as just another riff on katra is offensive and insulting 
+	and narrow.  And all of those issues just seemed to flit by without
+	comment.
+
+	
      
+	I don't mean to get angry, but this is one I'm very proud of, and to
+	see it sideswiped and mischaracterized and straw-man'd to death in 
+	this fashion is just something that I had to respond to.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: your statement that the headwear of the S.H. is "stolen" from
+	the Ferengi...may I be so bold as to respond to your rather loud note
+	with some volume of my own?  To wit: watch something other than Star
+	Trek, and maybe spend a little time learning stuff about your own
+	world.  The headware is based upon the kind used in various african 
+	and aboriginal tribes.  Trek didn't invent it; we have photos of its
+	use through history, as well as sketches going back further.  As it 
+	happens, the costume designer has never seen "DS9," doesn't watch TNG,
+	has no idea what a Ferengi is.  Neither do I intend to not do
+	something, based in real history, just because some other show has 
+	done drawn on that same background.
+
+	
      
+	You clearly think that if something appeared in ST, then ST must have
+	invented it, and that if it appears anywhere else, it must've been
+	influenced by ST.  Wrong on both counts.  I would suggest that you 
+	have been watching too much ST, and not nearly enough of the Discovery
+	Channel.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the medical tools...we brought in a medical science consultant, 
+	who helped us design our instruments.  His sense was that we're moving
+	more and more toward light as a system of treatment, non-invasive 
+	procedures, that sort of thing.  No, there aren't anything like those
+	devices in today's operating rooms...but this is 250 years from now. 
+	In any event, it *is* based on the latest info we're getting on new
+	science from our medical advisor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I would not describe n'grath as a "Mafia boss," since that's a very
+	specific term.  Nor is it really any kind of organization.  He's a 
+	fixer, somebody you go to when you need something...a bodyguard, 
+	forged identicards, what-have-you.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi is quite aware of n'grath...and knowing that if he just
+	vanished, somebody'd take his place in five minutes, prefers the 
+	trouble he knows to the trouble he'd have to track down.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Londo's career is in jeopardy when a beautiful slave seduces him and steals
+a sensitive computer file.  Garibaldi investigates an unauthorized use of
+a restricted communications channel.
+
+
+Fabiana Udenio as Adira Tyree.
+Clive Reville as Trakis.
+Robert Phalen as Andrei Ivanov.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 6.79
+
+Production number:  104
+Original air date:  February 9, 1994
+
+ Written by: Larry DiTillio
+Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Trakis: "Do you know why a drunken fool like
+Mollari
+	has the power he does?  Because his family has been collecting
+	dirt on other families for years, like all the 'noble' houses of
+	the Centauri republic."
+
+
    •  Londo: "We Centauri live our lives for appearances:
+	position, status, title.  These are the things by which we
+	define ourselves.  But when I look beneath the mask I am forced
+	to wear, I see only emptiness."
+
+
    •  Centauri law permits individuals to own Centauri
+	slaves.  Owners are legally responsible for the actions of their
+	slaves.  This appears to be a slave system of economics rather
+	than of caste.  According to Trakis, powerlessness and slavery
+	is the fate of all Centauri who don't play the game of blackmail
+	and backstabbing.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  What was the Euphrates treaty compromise that Sinclair forced Londo
+to accept?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  We're currently finishing up production on "Born to the Purple,"
+with Clive Revell and Fabiana Udeno.  It's a very offbeat and funny
+story (by Larry DiTillio, natch) which adds a new side to Londo's
+character.  It puts our characters into different situations than we're
+used to, and it's fun seeing how they react to these new conditions.
+
+
      
+
    •  Trakis, Adira's owner, was not a Centauri, but (and this is something we
+may bring up at some point down the road), was at one point a Centauri slave.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: Londo as a romantic character...bless your heart.  You are the
+first to have nailed it absolutely on the head.  If I had to write a
+description of the character, I doubt I could have done any better 
+than what you just wrote.  There are a *lot* of episodes that bring
+this out in him, including the next one up, "Born to the Purple," 
+which I suspect will end virtually all of the hair jokes once and 
+for all.
+
+
      
+Anyway...yes, and thank you, that's it *precisely*.
+
+
      
+
    •  Let's just say for now that you'll learn something very unusual about
+Centauri "intimacy" in "The Quality of Mercy."
+
+
      
+
    •  Fabiana didn't shave her head to play Adira; that's a prosthetic head
+piece.  Ditto with all our Centauri women.  (Funnily enough, the one
+time we DID have a bald woman as a background extra, those not in the
+know on stage kept commenting on how fake the bald-cap looked....)
+
+
      
+
    •  The point you raise is exactly correct; which is why we've set up
+the Psi Corps in such a way as to *prevent* them from becoming a deus
+ex machina all the time.  This is what's always bothered me about the
+way "empaths" are treated on ST; it's a terrible invasion of privacy.
+The Psi Corps has strict rules about who can and can't be scanned, 
+and under what conditions.  In "Purple," she couldn't just go scan
+Trakis; she had to be hired, had to be already engaged in a business
+capacity, and had to find it *only* in surface thoughts, no deliberate
+poking.  And this is the ONLY -- repeat, the ONLY -- time this is 
+done in the entire season, aside from the accidental run-in with Londo
+in the pilot episode.
+
+
      
+We'll get deeper into the rules and regs of the Psi Corps as we go,
+further establishing that there's a lot they're expressly forbidden
+from doing by law.
+
+
      
+
    •  I confess I don't see the problem.  In real life, some women are
+scientists, and doctors, and atheletes...and some women dance in 
+bars, some women hook part- or full-time.  Some men are scholars and 
+diplomats and teachers...and some men are gigolos and thieves and 
+*also* dance in bars.  Where exactly is the problem in portraying 
+both sides of this?  Have we become so concerned with being 
+politically correct that we can not show a legitimate part of human
+existence?
+
+
      
+B5 has all kinds, and both sides of all kinds.  Male and female,
+equally.  I "chose" exotic dancers for a kind of sleazy, not-entirely
+legitimate operation, a backroom club.  What would one *expect* to 
+find there?  Opera singers?  You look at the situation, and you choose
+what is *appropriate to the situation*.
+
+
      
+I would also point out that the dancers didn't "eagerly rush forward
+to betray their friend."  Londo was trying to find Adira in hopes of
+helping her.  He didn't say he was going to do anything bad to her,
+and he was probably known to more than a few of them.  He was simply
+trying to find her.  The coin was an added incentive.  Back when I 
+was an investigative reporter, I did some research on strip joints
+while I was living in SAn Diego.  Spent a LOT of time talking to nude
+dancers (when they had their clothes on, I hasten to add).  And 99.9%
+of them had a rule: you want to ask questions, you pay.  That simple.
+That's how this stuff *works*.  My job is to keep the B5 reality as
+close as possible to our reality in that respect.
+
+
      
+Some of them probably wanted to help, knowing Londo was okay.  Some
+probably didn't care.  And some probably would've betrayed her at the
+tip of a coin.  Life's like that.  So again, where in this is the
+problem?
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: the club owner recognizing Sinclair (or not)...this is something
+we discussed.  Can Sinclair go places in the station and not be
+recognized?  In some cases, no.  In a place like the Dark Star, maybe
+so; this isn't the kind of place he generally hangs out in.  It's a
+question of how much day-to-day interaction somebody would have with
+him.  Yes, he's an important figure; but I'm not sure if I'd 
+immediately recognize L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan at first glance, 
+particularly in different style of dress, in an unusual location.
+We're *not* going to do it a lot -- just once this season -- but we
+thought it was a reasonable approach.
+
+
      
+
    •  This was a bit cut from the script for time; Gold Channels are ONLY 
+for official use, they're high-priority channels that can go anywhere
+back on Earth.  Commercial communications are less reliable and only
+have a few channels available; you've got to wait for a call to go
+through.  To use a Gold Channel for personal communications is a
+No-No.
+
+
      
+
    •  Regarding Ivanova...it's not really an attempt to pull at heart 
+strings, as it is to establish that this is someone who's had, and is
+still having, a pretty rough life.  It's a real roller-coaster for 
+her, and the way she survives it is to absolutely bottle it up 
+inside.  She has had angst throughout her life, and she's in for more.
+
+
      
+We start to track that in little ways that probably no one will 
+notice, as well as making it the occasional story point.  A little 
+way nobody'll notice: after this episode, she starts messing with her
+hair, which we'd deliberately set as extremely tight until now.
+Suddenly she doesn't have someone for whom she has to be a certain 
+way, and she has to start finding her *own* identity, and it ain't
+easy.
+
+
      
+
    •  Larry DiTillio's episodes this season are "Born to the Purple," and
+"Deathwalker."  He's currently working on a third, tentatively 
+entitled "TKO."  And yes, he uses blood instead of ink...unfortunately,
+it's mine.
+
+
      
+
    •  There will be both sex and romance on B5 (sometimes together, 
+sometimes not).  It's perversely appropriate that in the B5 series,
+it's not the Commander who gets laid first, or Garibaldi, or G'Kar...
+it's Londo.  And it's a very funny, but very touching and moving
+episode.
+
+
      
+
    •  It's a standard bed, works fine.  Though we *did* have a thing in 
+mind where Londo sits up in bed, having just had wonderful sex, and
+his hair is now hanging limp...but in a sudden burst of sanity we
+decided against it.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An archaeologist smuggles ancient artifacts onto the station, unleashing
+a living weapon.
+
+
+David McCallum as Dr. Vance Hendricks.
+Marshall Teague as Nelson Drake.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action
+P5 Rating: 6.33
+
+Production number:  101
+Original air date:  February 18, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Ikara 7, now a dead world, was a thousand years
+     ago home to a highly advanced space-faring society.  Their
+     technology was organic: tools and artifacts made of living tissue yet
+     immune to decay.  Invaded over a hundred times, they finally built 12
+     devastating organic warriors to protect them.  Programmed to
+     destroy any but "pure Ikarans", those warriors repelled the last
+     invasion and went on to kill any Ikaran who deviated from the ideal
+     (ie all of them).  A
+     transcript
+     of the scene in which this is discussed is available.
+
+
    •  Organic technology is, according to archaeologist
+     Vance Hendricks, "The one trick Earth hasn't been able to crack.
+     The ability to create living ships that thrive in the vacuum of
+     space, to create weapons that produce their own power through
+     internal generation, like a firefly lights up at night."
+
+
    •  The Vorlons have organic technology, and it's
+     suspected that the Minbari do as well.
+
+
    •  Sinclair: "The last time I gave an
+     interview they told me just to relax and say what I really felt -
+     ten minutes after the broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so
+     far off the star maps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a
+     Ouija board."  It's not clear whether or not this was a joke.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi: (to the reporter) "...and
+     after walking 50 miles, we finally made it out of the desert.
+     Later when he was put in charge of Babylon 5, Commander Sinclair
+     asked if I'd come work security.  I said yes - it's been a great
+     time..."
+
+
    •  Garibaldi has been fired from 5 different jobs
+     for "unspecified personal problems".  His assignment on Babylon 5
+     is probably his last shot in Earth Force.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi was in Earth Force during the E/M war,
+     but not on the Line.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Who invaded Ikara so many times?  What was so
+     valuable about it?
+
+
    •  Why is Sinclair so prone to heroism (read:
+     suicidal bravery)?  He's deliberately put his life on the line
+     three times now in the past year (cf "The
+     Gathering", "Soul Hunter").
+     Garibaldi suggests an answer: when the war ended it took away the
+     direction it gave his life, as happened to many veterans.  So now
+     he's "looking for something worth dying for because it's easier
+     than finding something worth living for."  Sinclair's not entirely
+     satisfied with that answer, and resolves to give it more thought.
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  A "Bio-weapons" supplier backed Hendricks'
+     original expedition to Ikara - they must have had advance
+     information about what was to be found there.
+
+
    •  Ivanova has little faith in the ethics of big
+     government organizations (cf "Mind War",
+     "Deathwalker").
+
+
    •  Franklin appeared to seriously ponder the image
+     of great wealth Hendricks offered, before the guards took him away.
+
+
    •  A team from Earth Force Defense, Bio-weapons
+     Division confiscated the Ikaran artifacts just as the dust from the
+     weapon-chase was settling. Earth now has bio-tech of its own to study.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Garibaldi: "The commander's a hands-on
+     kind of guy, he'll grab any chance he can get to take out a ship -
+     he's like that."
+
+
      
+
    •  This episode occurs right around the 2nd
+     anniversary of Babylon 5 going on-line.
+
+
      
+
    •  In a poll, %75 of "Interstellar Network News"
+     said B5 wouldn't last 5 minutes.  Lloyd's of London put the odds at
+     500 to 1 against it lasting one year.
+
+
      
+
    •  The "Narn-Centauri negotiations" are to occur in
+     the near future.
+
+
      
+
    •  Sinclair: "How sharper than a serpent's
+     tooth." (His reply to Garibaldi's joking guess that Sinclair's
+     interview would get him shipped off the station and himself
+     promoted into Sinclair's position.)  This is a quote from
+     Shakespeare (King Lear.)
+
+
      
+
    •  Sinclair: "When you become obsessed with
+     the enemy, you become the enemy."
+
+
      
+
    •  At the last, the Ikaran begs forgiveness from
+     the "Great Maker".
+
+
      
+
    •  Franklin: "I'm starting to wonder if what
+     we just saw is a preview of things to come" (re: Pro-earth groups).
+
+
      
+
    •  The Interview
      
+     Reporter: "After all that you've just gone through, I have
+     to ask you the same question a lot of people back home are asking
+     about space these days.  Is it worth it?  Should we just pull back,
+     forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own
+     problems, at home?"
       Sinclair:No.  We have to stay here,
+     and there's a simple reason why.  Ask ten different scientists
+     about the environment, population control, genetics - and you'll
+     get ten different answers.  But there's one thing every scientist
+     on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or
+     a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow
+     cold, and go out.  When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll
+     take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly,
+     Aristophanes - all of this.  All of this was for nothing, unless we
+     go to the stars.
+
+
      
+
    •  Ikara may be an Australian Aboriginal word.
+     
      
+     The Australian DSTO (Defence Sciences and Technology Organisation) 
+     developed the anti-submarine weapon "Ikara" in the 1950's. It is no 
+     longer in use in the Australian Navy, having been fired for the last time 
+     in 1990. The Brazilian Navy may still use a variation of it.
+     
      
+     Since the DSTO has a tradition of naming its products after warlike
+     Aboriginal animals, it's plausible that the word refers to an animal.
+
+
      
+
    •  A slight visual gaffe: When the bioweapon self-destructs and falls to
+     the ground, its head is facing to the left (away from the camera.)  But
+     when Sinclair watches him turn human again, Nelson's head is facing to
+     the right (toward the camera.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  We'll definitely be dealing with the aspects of how fighting in a war
+     can affect you.  And this isn't just a vague promise: watch the end of
+     the third (currently) scheduled episode, "Infection," for a scene 
+     between Sinclair and Garibaldi that really deals very straightforwardly
+     with this issue.  It's a conversation you wouldn't expect to see in a
+     show like this.
+
+
      
+
    •  [Infection] has a lot of action, which you'd expect, and a big
+     conclusion, which you'd expect.  What you *won't* expect, I think,
+     is what happens afterward, in a conversation no one generally has
+     in TV after big action stuff has gone down.  And it's something to
+     chew on, I think....
+
+
      
+
    •  Thanks.  Sinclair's final speech there is the simplest truth about
+     space exploration that I can think of...and the most
+     compelling..and the most overlooked.  As Henry Kissinger once said,
+     "It has the added benefit of being true."
+
+
      
+
    •  Sorry; there's no one more critical of my work than me, and when it
+     comes to "Infection," I'd just kinda prefer it if it kinda vanished
+     in the night.  I feel that way about only two episodes out of 22,
+     so that's not too bad, I suppose.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Infection" is definitely not indicative of the season overall; that
+     is, in my view, one of our weaker, possibly weakest episodes.
+
+
      
+
    •  And like I said...I have problems with "Infection" as well, so there 
+     is no flame from me.  I guess part of it is knowing what was in the
+     script that should've been carried off better, but wasn't.  And part
+     of it is my fault; I tried to use the Nelson/machine as a metaphor;
+     it wasn't supposed to be about the Nelson/machine, but about the kind
+     of people who would create it, the kind of people who would sell it,
+     and the kind of people who would confiscate it even KNOWING what it
+     was (and of course the kind of people who would *use* it). 
+     Unfortunatly, when you put  somebody in that kind of suit, that
+     *becomes* the story, and from that point on you're pretty much doomed.
+     It was also in places too much an obvious metaphor, and the "hand of
+     the author" is showing too much.  It was the first script written for
+     this season, after the long break after the pilot, and I think I was
+     trying to find the characters' "fingerprints" and getting into the
+     flow of the series, which took a script or two.
+
+
      
+
    •  The problem with "Infection" from a writing POV is that it was the
+     FIRST one written for this season, and I was having a hard time 
+     finding the "fingerprints" of the characters again after so much time
+     had passed after the pilot (it was nearly a year between the revising/
+     shooting of the pilot, and the writing of the first series script). 
+     As on *any* show, it takes a while to get up to speed once you hit 
+     series.  That was the real problem, and there wasn't any  real way to
+     get past it except to write it, re-acquaint myself with the characters,
+     and move on.  I probably would have opted out of doing it had we had
+     more scripts on hand, but we didn't.  And oddly, many on the 
+     production team *liked* the script quite a lot, and kept saying it had
+     to be done.
+
+
      
+
    •  I'd slice this a little finer and suggest that it wasn't so much the
+     *stupidity* of racism and the whole genetic purity aspect, but the
+     IMPRACTICALITY of such ideas.  If you follow the idea to its logical
+     conclusion, *nobody* is pure.  Which was kind of the point.
+
+     
      
+     And oddly enough, there's a pro-genocide discussion in "Deathwalker."
+
+
      
+
    •  I allow a small smile...in the course of any given script, I put in
+     little things that I figure nobody will ever notice, but which for me
+     help just a bit to keep on track with the character, and which may
+     resonate to anyone paying attention.  You cite Sinclair's line about
+     joining Garibaldi "on the LINE," and Garibaldi noting that Sinclair
+     keeps putting his life "on the LINE," and the similarity to the 
+     phrase "the Battle of the Line."
+
+     
      
+     It was a throwaway...but a conscious one.
+
+     
      
+     He's still fighting the same battle.  He's never stopped.  In one way
+     or another, he keeps putting himself out there, caught in a loop....
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, the reporter's question was *not* (from a 2258 point of
+     view) stupid.  Earth is far enough from the other major races not to
+     have to worry about iminent invasion.  At the time of the story, there
+     is a VERY strong isolationist movement growing back home, which you'll
+     hear more about as we go in.  Space travel is *expensive*, even in
+     2258, and there are still a lot of problems to be resolved back home.
+     While the Earth administration in Earthdome keeps pressing to go
+     further and further, various nation/states in the Earth senate are
+     taxed further to finance explorations which they don't always share in
+     equally, the Mars Colony is threatening secession...things are falling
+     apart by degrees.  So in light of all that, the question is
+     *absolutely* valid.
+
+
      
+
    •  The ONLY reason that they were able to pick up the blasts in
+     "Infection" was because they were SO powerful that they registered on
+     the station's sensors.  Ordinary PPG blasts don't show up.
+
+
      
+
    •  I have nothing to do with the description applied to the show by
+     others.  In that episode, the affected person isn't "turned into" a
+     machine.  It is sort of a living armor-like compound that grows over 
+     the person's body, and begins to influence the person in question.  
+     That is the sum and substance of it; he isn't transmuted, his biology
+     isn't changed, his brain isn't replaced, and so on.
+
+     
      
+     My suggestion: judge the episode based on the episode, not on what
+     choice of words someone else used in trying to synopsize the episode.
+     Because Moby Dick can be summed up as, "A nut chasing a big fish."  
+     But there's obviously more to the story than that, and it's not 
+     entirely accurate.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a weeklong festival
+when humans and aliens demonstrate their religious beliefs.  An old enemy
+sends an assassin to kill G'Kar.
+
+
+Thomas Kopache as Tu'Pari.
+Julia Nickson as Catherine Sakai.
+
    
+
+Originally titled "Carnival!"
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.88
+
+Production number:  108
+Original air date:  February 23, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+Emmy Award for Makeup Design
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+
+
    •  Look closely at the statue of Li, the Centauri
+	goddess of passion.  Something about it will be the subject of a
+	humorous revelation about the Centauri in a later episode.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  "Never fails," says Garibaldi when Catherine
+     comes aboard.  Apparently he's known she and Sinclair for a very
+     long time.  They seem to run into one another every three years,
+     though this is the first time in a while that they've both been
+     available.
+
+
    •  Sinclair and Carolyn have drifted apart - he
+     wasn't willing to quit and go into business with her as a trader.
+     (cf: "The Gathering")
+
+
    •  After he delivers G'Kar's death pronouncement,
+     councillor Du'Rog says, "This should come as no surprise to you
+     G'Kar.  You've ruined my family's name and humiliated me before the
+     council.  Retribution was inevitable."
+
+
    •  Later G'Kar explains to Na'Toth why he can't ask for
+     help: "...this would lead to some unfortunate revelations about my
+     years on the council, revelations that could affect my position.
+     Personally, I don't care if the information comes out.  My
+     only concern is that it might compromise our standing in the
+     negotiations."
+
+
    •  The best assassins among the Narn are the
+     "Thenta Makur".  They are well-organized and respectable in their
+     own way.  They leave a "death blossom" to give their mark time to
+     get their affairs in order, and offer a solid guarantee: they will
+     personally kill any assassin who betrays a commission.
+
+
    •  G'Kar has survived two prior assassination
+     attempts, but did not appear to have experience with the Thenta Makur.
+
+
    •  Vir explains the vivacious Centauri festival:
+     
      
+       It's a celebration of life.  It comes from a time in our
+       world's history when two dominant species were fighting
+       for supremacy: our people, and a species we called "Xon".
+       At years end, we count how many of our people survived,
+       and celebrate our good fortune! 
+     
      
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The cross-species religious festival was Earth
+     Central's idea, and is consistent with Babylon 5's raison
+     d'etre. The Minbari and Centauri participated willingly, but
+     nothing was seen of Narn religion (cf: "By Any
+     Means Necessary").  No-one made note of this omission - perhaps
+     it's taken for granted that Narn religion is not for outsiders.
+
+
    •  The Narn employ couriers on a weekly basis. They
+     also have FTL communications.  Hence, they must not consider FTL
+     secure.
+
+
    •  Na'Toth is cool-headed, with a sarcastic sense of
+     humor - for G'Kar a great improvement over the literal and
+     over-enthusiastic Ko'Dath.
+
+
    •  When Lennier greets Delenn as "Satai", she rebukes 
+     him: "No-one here knows of my connection.  No-one must find out
+     [...] it would lead to certain questions I don't want to answer
+     just now."  Apparently, it is well-known among the Minbari who are
+     the members of the grey council.  They are also greatly revered,
+     judging by Lennier's reluctance to raise his eyes in her presence.
+
+
    •  Vir's speech is quite remarkable.
+     What endured after the Centauri conflict with the Xon was a
+     celebration of survival, rather than a mourning for those lost.  This
+     is notable both for what they chose to focus on (the joyous rather
+     than the sad), and for its suggestion that the Centauri may have
+     been nearly destroyed by the Xon (everyone was lucky to have
+     survived each year).
+
+
    •  A theme of real Babylonian history: a stronger 
+     race oppresses a weaker one, and generations of the weaker one grow
+     up fighting for their lives.  Eventually the once-weaker race
+     becomes so hardened and energized in their own self-protection that
+     they rise up and conquer their oppressors 
+     (cf:  History.Babylonia).
+
+
    •  This theme may be the very story of the Xon and
+     the Centauri, for the Centauri eventually destroyed them and didn't
+     lose momentum until they were an empire spanning an entire quadrant
+     of the galaxy (cf: "The Gathering" ).
+     This may also become the story of the Centauri the Narn: the
+     Centauri invaded their homeworld and held sway for a hundred years,
+     but now the Narn are free and bent on destruction, while the
+     Centauri are on the decline.
+
+
    •  Among the many Centauri household gods on the
+     banquet table are Ben-Zan, god of food, Mo-Goth, god of the
+     underworld and protector of front doors, and Li, goddess of
+     passion.  The golden statue of Li portrays her with both arms and
+     one leg raised.  Visible on her body are breasts, a very large
+     male hair-crest, and three tentacles emerging from her
+     hips on both sides.  (cf. "The Quality of Mercy")
+
+
    •  A
+     transcript of
+     Delenn's recital during the Minbari ceremony is available.
+
+
    •  This recital is very important, especially if
+     Sinclair is the incarnation of a figure in Minbari prophecy, for
+     which there are indications:
+     
+
+
    •  The giving of fruit to each of the main characters 
+     coincided with particular parts of Delenn's recital.  This could be
+     literary foreshadowing, but it's unlikely that Delenn herself
+     intended the juxtaposition.  
+     
       
+     "From birth {Londo}, through death and renewal {Vir},
+     you must put aside old things {Garibaldi}, old fears
+     {Sinclair}, old lives {Ivanova}.  This is your death
+     {G'Kar}, the death of flesh..."  
+     
      
+
+
    •  For the record, Londo and Vir eat their fruits,
+     Garibaldi declines, Ivanova puts hers down, G'Kar exchanges his
+     with hers, Ivanova (unawares) then eats hers, and G'Kar gives his
+     new fruit a distrustful sniff.  Sinclair, under Delenn's compelling
+     gaze, eats his as well.
+
+
    •  When Catherine hears about "red fruit" being part 
+     of the Minbari ceremony, she asks if there was a serious exchange
+     of looks.  When Sinclair confirms this, she chuckles, "Oh it's a
+     rebirth ceremony all right.  It also doubles as a marriage
+     ceremony.  Depending on how seriously anyone took it, somebody got
+     married the other day."  Sinclair did not mention who was seriously
+     looking at whom - he may in some sense now be married to Delenn.
+
+
    •  "You must put aside... old lives" reaffirms the
+     Minbari belief in reincarnation revealed in  
+     "Soul Hunter", and suggests that the Minbari may have
+     conscious access to their own past lives.  Else what would
+     they have to put aside?  (cf: "The War Prayer")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to 
+     be discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on
+     "Parliament," and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War Prayer."
+     So we lifted that scene and inserted it into her episode, doing a 
+     small bit of ADR to facilitate the move.  It's now quite seamless.
+
+
      
+
    •  BTW, this week will Bill Mumy's first week on B5, and he's done a
+     very nifty job as Lennier.  He brings a wonderful sense of absolute
+     innocence...the proverbial innocent abroad...to Lennier's character.
+     The Minbari prosthetics look great on him, enhancing the sense he 
+     brings to the character.  He's also great with the cast, and keeping
+     things up during shooting.  At one point, as they're leaving camera,
+     Delenn says to Lennier, who has just arrived at the station, "Now 
+     tell me of home; I have been away far too long."  His ad-libbed
+     off-camera response: "Beatlemania is back."  (Another ad-lib for 
+     another shot:  "Minimalls...they're everywhere," and "Well, we just
+     got Pizza Hut and cable.")
+
+
      
+
    •  Regarding Catherine Sakai...believe me, this ain't a consort kind of
+     relationship.  It will be monogamous, but difficult in many ways.  
+     This has been an on-again/off-again relationship between them for 
+     years, made up of three parts passion and two parts teeth.  It will 
+     be a very fiery relationship.  And this is a woman with her own 
+     business, her own ship, who comes and goes as she wishes.  You have
+     to understand that I love writing strong female characters, and 
+     Catherine will be probably one of the strongest.
+
+
      
+
    •  Catherine Sakai is played by Julie Nickson Soul, an asian-american
+     actor who's done quite a bit of work in high-profile films.  Her
+     character is never Cathy, only Catherine (occasionally Cath to 
+     Sinclair, but *only* occasionally).  She's a planetary surveyer, 
+     working for one of the Earth corporations, looking for uninhabited
+     worlds and asteroids for exploitation.
+
+
      
+
    •  We've shot our first scenes between Sinclair and his new love 
+     interest, Catherine Sakai (as played by Julia Nickson).  This is a
+     very, very strong character, and she brings a wonderful vibrancy to
+     Sakai.   They have a unique relationship that looks and sounds like
+     a real relationship, with all its ups and downs and dumb moments. 
+     One way that I've reinforced this is that...well, in the first 
+     episode in which they meet again (they were involved before), just
+     about every scene between them is lifted almost directly from 
+     personal experience.
+
+     
      
+     And given some of the awkward, even painful conversations that take
+     place, it was very, *very* hard to watch this being rehearsed.
+     (Michael and Julia worked over a weekend with the director to get the
+     nuances just right.)  When it came time to shoot the scenes, much as
+     I wanted to be on-set, I just couldn't do it.  My heart just kept 
+     falling right down to my shoes.  I can't wait for the first person to
+     say "I don't buy this as a real relationship" just so's I can whap
+     him upside the head.  But I have a hunch that won't happen.  It comes
+     across as very real, and as a very vulnerable moment for both 
+     characters.
+
+     
      
+     "Write what you know," they said.  Right.  How about I just take a 
+     power drill and stick it in my ear...it'd be faster, less painful, 
+     and after a while I might even come to like it....
+
+
      
+
    •  A parliament is a gathering of officials, of representatives, which
+     matches the story in terms of representatives of different places,
+     and beliefs.  The dreams are the belief systems.
+
+
      
+
    •  The "stay put" line was ad-libbed by Andreas, because the crawfish
+     kept crawling off the table.
+
+
      
+
    •  Yes, definitely keep in mind the intent of the ceremony...but be
+     sure to remember *all* aspects of it.  (see
+     Analysis)
       
+     Also, take a good look at Li, goddess of passion, in Londo's
+     ceremony.  There's something about it that will be very funny
+     later.  (see Analysis)
+
+
      
+
    •  RE: the glasses...it's not something I've been able to figure out
+     how to mention, but the Narn pride themselves on their physical
+     perfection.  Hence there is no market for physical aides; it's
+     something to be ashamed of.  So they have to crib stuff from other
+     species, like glasses that have a prescription close enough to be
+     useful.  I have *no* idea how to work that into a script, and am
+     not sure it is even a good idea to do so.
+
+
      
+
    •  The atheist was not only first in line, he was the best dressed and
+     smartest looking and nattiest one in the line.
      
+     jm(what a coincidence)s
+
+
      
+
    •  From a personal point of view, I'm very fond of "The Parliament of 
+     Dreams," which is a very funny show, and at times a very emotional
+     show.  "Parliament" is all over the place...it's got all of our
+     major characters, our ambassadors, their seconds, we see lots of
+     group scenes, we're all over the station, dipping in and out of
+     three different but interconnected stories...it's really a matter
+     of keeping a lot of balls in the air at one time, and I think we
+     pulled it off nicely.
+
+
      
+
    •  There's one truly remarkable shot we did for the current episode, shot
+	Friday evening. Generally, in any shot with a crowd, you need
+	about 20-45 people. That's usually enough to fill out the shot
+	in any set you can go to.  More than that gets costly, and
+	isn't really noticeable unless you frame your shot just *so*.
+	Yesterday's shot has 160 extras. It's a very impressive, and
+	very moving shot. It appears in the tag of "the Parliament of
+	Dreams." It's the kind of shot you just don't see anywhere
+	else. We had some people from PTEN and a film crew for a
+	behind-the-scenes piece on hand, and they all commented on how
+	only this show would do this shot...and how significant it is.
+	(I can't tell you what it was, because that gives it away, and
+	I want it to be kind of a surprise; suffice to say you'll
+	definitely know it when you see it.)
+
+
      
+
    •  The SkyDancer appears in the next episode. "See you next Wednesday"
+	is...well...it's when she's going to be back on the station. She has to
+	complete her run by Tuesday, and will be back on Wednesday. Sometimes a
+	cigar is just a cigar....
+
+
      
+
    •  [G'Kar's] song is an original, by our series composer, Christopher
+	Franke.
+
+
      
+
    •  The "fishy" song was composed by Christopher Franke specifically for
+	that scene.  I told him I wanted sort of a Narnish Gilbert and
+	Sullivan, and that's what we got.
+
+
      
+
    •  I would think that Londo and G'Kar might actually find something in
+	common in appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan.  In fact, G'Kar's 
+	"little fishie" song in "Parliament of Dreams" was intended to be a 
+	bit G&S in nature.
+
+
      
+
    •  One of my favorite exchanges, which never seems to show up, is from
+	PoD v.1, when G'Kar says to Tu'Pari, who has come looking for 
+	Ambassador G'Kar, "This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters.  This is 
+	Ambassador G'Kar's table.  This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner.  What 
+	part of this progression escapes you?"
+
+
      
+
    •  Episode #5 is the two year anniversary of B5 going on-line; not two
+	years since the pilot movie.  It took about a year and a half to
+	grow to this point, and for the final of the Big 5 ambassadors, Kosh,
+	to arrive, completing the group.  It's now roughly six months after
+	that, into the new year.
+
+
      
+
    •  "So, I've been wondering who made up Londo's line in Parliament,
+	`but in purple, I'm stunning!'"
+
+	
      
+	Ummmmm.....the scriptwriter?
+
+
      
+
    •  The Xon did evolve into fair amount of intelligence.  There are a
+	very few land masses on Centauri Prime, separated by huge oceans.
+	The two species evolved pretty much separately, on different 
+	continents that were absolutely unreachable until one or both sides
+	developed sufficient technology for extended sea travel...and that's
+	when all hell broke loose.
+
+
      
+
    •  There's a definite improvement arc in the show; the deeper we got 
+	into production, the better the stories generally became, and the 
+	better the production values.  (With a few exceptions.)  The biggest
+	change in the show came once we began writing scripts *after* we'd 
+	begun shooting episodes, so that we/I could again see the actors and
+	find their fingerprints.  "Parliament" is the first one I wrote after
+	we started filming; "Soul," "Infection" and "Midnight" were all
+	written prior to filming starting.
+
+
      
+
    •  You're seeing, btw, why this episode, much as it's a favorite, 
+	couldn't be shown any sooner; there has to be some familiarity with
+	the characters for this to be most effective.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: G'Kar being theatrical...that's who he is.  I like theatrical
+	characters.  I know many in real life that're much bigger than life,
+	very broad...and great fun.  Not every character has to be sonorous 
+	and serious and restrained.  The whole point of *having* alien 
+	characters is that they shuld act differently than the majority of
+	us.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Xon?  Dead.  All of them.  And good riddance.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Xon weren't any more evil or good than the race that survived;
+	two equally sentient species emerged on the Centauri homeworld over 
+	the course of evolution.  They were more or less separated by 
+	distance and land masses and oceans, so there was little contact
+	until either side developed the technology required to find the other.
+	It was the next best thing to a first contact situation, except it's
+	on their own world; they were very much alien to one another.  
+	Somewhere along the line, it was decided that this world wasn't big
+	enough for both of them, so they began a campaign of slaughter against
+	each other.  Londo's people won.
+
+
      
+
    •  Kosh was otherwise engaged....
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, many of the alien races do *not* have monolithic religious
+	beliefs.  You'll note that G'Kar didn't take part in the festival 
+	from the Narn POV.  You'll see Narn beliefs in "By Any Means 
+	Necessary," and there it's mentioned that there are many different
+	bliefs among Narns, G'Quon and G'Lan being the two larger systems.
+
+
      
+
    •  Sure, I could've gotten them into bed by the second act...but that 
+	wasn't the point.  What I wanted to show, what interests me, is the
+	give and take leading up to that moment, the feints and parries and
+	"how do we get past this?"  That to me is some of the most 
+	interesting stuff in a relationship.
+
+
      
+
    •  As to the interpretation of the final tag scene...my thought was that
+	it's a way of saying, "Our dominant belief is that ALL beliefs are
+	respected."
+
+
      
+
    •  There was a follower of Islam; right next to the orthodox jew at the
+	front of the line.  "Mr. Rashid, a Moslem."  I made sure we put them
+	side by side.
+
+
      
+
    •  I didn't say that Earth was the ONLY one with diverse religions.  I
+	don't understand why it is that when ONE thing is shown, it means 
+	that's the ONLY thing.  It's not.  Narns, as we'll see in "By Any
+	Means Necessary," have several competing beliefs.  The idea of the
+	festival wasn't to compare and contrast, only to show what *we* 
+	(whoever *we* is) believes.
+
+
      
+
    •  Well, we're doomed...I just realized today that our first *really* 
+	strong episode, "The Parliament of Dreams," airs the same night (in 
+	most markets, the 23rd) as the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan face off
+	in the olympics.
+
+	
      
+	Imagine a silence vast as space...that sound is neilsen ratings meters
+	stuck unmovingly on CBS....
+
+
      
+
    •  Needless to say, though, we got *creamed* by the Tonya/Nancy Show.
+	Which got a 64 share, the 3rd biggest ratings for a sporting event in
+	history.  But then, *everybody* got beat up by that one, so again
+	it's okay.
+
+
      
+
    •  The line, "See you next wednesday," was basically an offhand line,
+	slightly but not significantly based in the idea that in most markets,
+	B5 airs on Wednesdays.  It was never meant to be a John Landis 
+	reference, and if I'd known it was (I'd never heard it before), 
+	would've changed it.
+
+
      
+
    •  I keep constantly fighting the urge to have G'Kar return from a trip
+	to the Narn homeworld with a limp, a cane, and a (temporary) eyepatch,
+	muttering, "Boy, the Thenta Makur have *no* sense of humor."
+
+	
      
+	(Now we'll see how many get *that* one.)
+
+
      
+
    •  BTW, re: Sinclair remembering all those names...we used many of the
+	real names of the people standing in line, many of whom *did* belong
+	to the religion they had come to represent.  We went down this line 
+	of 250 people, and went over their names *twice* with O'Hare.  That's
+	all.  After that, he got each name right every time; amazingly quick 
+	memorization.
+
+
      
+
    •  This is something that Andreas and I discussed, and it's not so much 
+	that G'Kar *has* to cook, but that he *likes* to cook.  From the
+	singing, it's clear he's having a good time....
+
+
      
+
    •  Ko'Dath met with an unfortunate accident with an airlock.
+
+
      
+
    •  Just learned that Babylon 5 won an Emmy for its Makeup Design, for
+	"The Parliament of Dreams."  This is our second Emmy so far, our 
+	first for the series.  I'm determined that next year we get some 
+	notices for our acting and other above-the-line areas.
+
+	
      
+	In any event, congratulations to our makeup and prosthetics design
+	people.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Talia's old Psi Corps instructor, the victim of a secret experiment, is the
+target of a manhunt involving the Psi-Cops.  Catherine wants to survey a
+promising planet for possible mining, but G'Kar warns her to stay away.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+Felicity Waterman as Kelsey.
+William Allen Young as Jason Ironheart.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.44
+
+Production number:  110
+Original air date:  March 2, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Jason Ironheart was Talia's instructor and lover
+     at the Psi Corps Training Academy.  After she graduated and went
+     into commercial telepathy, they kept in touch by letter - until a
+     year ago when his letters stopped.  As Ironheart recounts, he
+     volunteered to undergo genetic and biochemical modification he
+     thought was intended to make him a stronger telepath.  The
+     experiment turned out to be an attempt to make him 
+     a stable telekinetic, and it after many months
+     and hundreds of injections it worked - stunningly!  Ironheart
+     became able to see through any mind like glass, and manipulate
+     matter and energy both.  He discovered then that those in charge
+     were after offensive military applications for TK, like secret
+     assassination.  So, he killed the head researcher (the only person
+     who could duplicate the work) and fled to Babylon 5, still
+     undergoing changes to his mind and body.
+
+
    •  What is it like to be a telepath?
      
+     Talia: "It's like staying in a hotel room where you can just
+     hear the people talking next door.  You can try and shut it out,
+     but it's always there.  The key is not to eavesdrop unless you're
+     invited... casual thoughts are very easy to block, but strong
+     emotions have a way of slipping through."
       
+     "Do you know what it's like when telepaths make love, commander?
+     You drop every defense, and it's all mirrors, reflecting each
+     others' feelings, deeper and deeper, until somewhere along the line
+     your souls mix, and it's a feeling so profound it makes you hurt.
+     It's the only moment in a telepath's life when you no longer hear
+     the voices."
+
+
    •  Ironheart:"We all thought Psi Corps was
+     controlled by the government, but that's changing.  The Corps is
+     starting to pull the strings behind the scenes; they're more
+     powerful than you could begin to imagine.  Telepaths make the
+     ultimate blackmailers..."
       
+     "The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing: control.  Control over
+     telepaths, the economy, the courts, over matter, over thought
+     itself."
      
+     A
+     transcript
+     of Ironheart's meeting with Sinclair is available.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •   If Ironheart's figures are true, and if there
+     are 20 billion human beings in existence, then there should be a
+     thousand people who are (or will become) stable telekinetics.  If
+     the Psi Corps' pursuit of a stable TK justified the extreme
+     measures they attempted with Ironheart, then something about
+     naturally occurring TK's must make them unusable.  It could be that
+     use of TK invariably drives one insane, or perhaps natural TK is
+     insufficiently fine-controlled enough for their purposes.
+
+
    •  Whatever it was that the Psi Corps scientists did to
+     Ironheart, it wasn't more than physical alterations to his
+     brain and body.  Yet those alterations started a process that led
+     to his essentially becoming a demigod.  This could represent a
+     latent potential in humanity as a whole, of which iceberg telepathy
+     is merely the tip.  Or perhaps not - "This is a power that we were
+     never meant to have," Ironheart tells Sinclair, "we're not ready
+     for it."
+
+
    •  Ivanova hates the Psi Corps with a passion
+     (understandably - cf "Midnight on the Firing
+     Line") "Good ol' Psi Corps.  You never cease to amaze me - all
+     the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper.  What do you do in your spare
+     time, juggle babies over a fire pit?  Oops, there goes another
+     calculated risk!"
+
+
    •  In spite of this, Ivanova gives Talia a glass of
+     water after she comes through the ordeal of being scanned by
+     Bester and Kelsey.  Ivanova's hatred is tempered with compassion
+     for individuals.  (see "jms speaks")
+
+
    •  By threatening to hold him accountable for
+     endangering the station and causing the death of his partner,
+     Sinclair strong-arms Bester into omitting from his report mention of
+     Ironheart's real fate and Talia's willful collaboration.  However,
+     this can only be an agreement about what gets made
+     official. Just as folks on Babylon 5 know full well that
+     Something happened to Ironheart (with the willing help of both
+     Talia and Sinclair) the right folks in the Psi Corps should know
+     the same through Bester's unofficial report.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Sinclair mentions to Catherine in the morning
+     that he's got a budget meeting with the construction guild that
+     day, in which he'll have to make some cuts to which he's not
+     looking forward.  (cf: "By Any Means
+     Necessary")
+
+
    •  Universal Terraform: a mega-corporation that
+     explores and prepares new worlds for colonization or exploitation.
+
+
    •  The procedure for evaluating a newly discovered
+     planet: first, an unmanned sensor probe launched by the
+     exploring ship assesses gross features and composition.  If that's
+     promising, a manned survey is undertaken to determine its value for
+     various purposes.  Finally, if the corporation wants to continue,
+     a life sciences probe is sent out to determine the legality of
+     exploitation.  (If there are sentient species present then the
+     planet is off-limits.) (see "jms speaks")
+
+
    •  Due to an EA shortage of the material
+     "Quantium-40", jumpgate construction is backed up 6 months.
+     Catherine's survey mission to Sigma 957 is largely to determine
+     whether this material is present on the planet.
+
+
    •  The being that appeared at Sigma 957 appeared to
+     enter and leave through its own jumpgate.  It may have been there
+     for the Q-40.
+
+
    •  Just as the Narn fighters match up with
+     Catherine's ship, part of it sloughs off as it burns up in the
+     atmosphere.  The fighters are unaffected; presumably they are
+     atmosphere-capable ships.
+
+
    •  Rent for a spartan studio on Babylon 5 is 500
+     credits per week.
+
+
    •  Psi corps ratings:
      
+     P5 - level of commercial telepaths.  Can easily detect
+     deception and other surface thoughts at close range.  Deeper
+     probing is possible but difficult.
      
+     P10 - level of Psi Corps trainers.  Can observe the mental
+     actions of other telepaths, block some scans, cut through some
+     blocks, perform long-range scans, and may have some fringe skills.
      
+     P12 - level of Psi Cops.  Can communicate smoothly with
+     normals via telepathy.  Two Psi Cops can invasively probe a P5.
+
+
    •  Stronger telepaths have a harder time
+     shutting out "the voices".
+
+
    •   Upon graduation from the Academy all telepaths
+     take a telekinesis test - it's a much sought-after skill.  .1% of
+     human beings have some level of telepathic ability, and only .01%
+     of them have TK, half of whom are clinically insane.  (see
+     Analysis)
+
+
    •  Most telepaths have fewer human rights
+     than normals.  They're forbidden to possess psi abilities unless
+     they're in the Psi Corps or in prison 
+     (cf: "Midnight on the Firing Line").
+     They're required to submit to scans by Psi Cops, and aren't even
+     allowed to have fleeting bodily contact with normals, since that
+     would raise the chance in inadvertent scans.  
+     (see "jms speaks")
+
+
    •  Psi Cops are afforded greater latitude than
+     other telepaths, "in the interest of efficiency".  For example,
+     they can perform at least surface scans on normals without
+     permission.
+
+
    •  As he leaves, Bester gives Sinclair an odd
+     salute - a circle of thumb and forefinger at the forehead - and
+     says, "Be seeing you, commander."  This is tribute paid to one of
+     jms's favorite shows, "The Prisoner", in which the line was
+     identical but the hand-motion framed the eye instead.  An
+     appropriate twist for a telepath salute!
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  In a tip of the cap to an SF writer, the Koenig
+     character in "Mind War" is named Bester.
+
+
    •  The direction and intent and background of the Psi Corps is *very*
+     different from Bester's "The Demolished Man."  What may cause some of
+     the confusion is that when I decided to name the Psi Cop we'll be
+     seeing, knowing of Alfie's work in the genre in general, and knowing
+     that he was a close friend of Harlan's, I decided it would be a nice
+     testimony to the man to name the Psi Cop Bester.  There's nothing
+     beyond that.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: my favorite thing about this episode...it's
+     that when all is said and done, *nobody knows anything*.  Bester
+     doesn't know what Ironheart is turning into; Sinclair doesn't know
+     if Ironheart was really telling the truth or not; nobody knows
+     where Ironheart went; nobody knows what the alien ship is/who they
+     were...the closest I can come to is to compare it to writing a
+     mystery novel, without revealing the killer, but *without*
+     frustrating anyone in the process, because there's *closure*.
+
+
      
+
    •  ...it was my intent to imply in the scene with
+     the guard and Bester ("nothing, just a drill") that he DID scan the
+     guard's mind.  He found out what he was hiding (which is how he
+     managed to show up to try and cut Ironheart off from his escape),
+     exchanged a glance with Kelsey, and headed away quickly.
+
+
      
+
    •  Bester wasn't killed because a) it took a *lot*
+     out of Ironheart to take out Kelsey, and b) Bester *shot him* prior
+     to being taken down, and the pain and trauma of being shot has a
+     tendency to have an adverse effect on one; it took all his strength
+     just to knock Bester down before collapsing to the floor, his
+     energy (as you can see in the film) fading away....
+
+
      
+
    •  We'll definitely see Bester again, probably
+     twice next season, in one capacity or another.  (And we'll *hear*
+     about him once more this season.)  
+     (cf: "Eyes")
+
+
      
+
    •  Nope, Jason Ironheart will not be seen again,
+     insofar as I know.  I don't like beings with that much power
+     running around the plotline....
+
+
      
+
    •  Telepaths are the ultimate minority, and when
+     it comes to the use of their talents, and the protection of the
+     rights of the hysterical majority, their rights don't mean a whole
+     hell of a lot.
+
+
      
+
    •  Thanks for noticing that.  Yes, it *was* very
+     important (to me, at least, whether or not anyone noticed it), that
+     Ivanova was the one who handed Talia the water, and had that brief
+     moment with her.  For those who understand their relationship, it
+     adds a tiny layer; for those who don't, because the dialogue keeps
+     on going over it, it's not obtrusive.
+
+
      
+
    •  The episode of "Mind War" broadcast henceforth
+     will be the one with slight alteration.
+
+
      
+
    •  In the pursuit in the teaser, you could see one of the binary stars
+     THROUGH Ironheart's ship; we deleted that shot and replaced it.
+
+
      
+
    •  We discovered, when we went to put in the revised CGI, that the
+     international versions had already been made and transferred, and it
+     would be nearly impossible to recall that part of the process...so it
+     was left alone rather than have multiple versions of the same episode
+     floating around.
+
+
      
+
    •  Funny incident today, though, also at lunch.
+     Walter Koenig joined some of the cast members at their table for
+     lunch, and as he came to the table, they all stood up at attention.
+     When asked why, they explained that it's protocol for junior
+     officers to stand when a senior officer comes to the table.  It was
+     kind of a nice moment.
+
+
      
+
    •  Today, Walter Koenig's 2nd day working in the B5 universe, as a Psi
+     Cop in "Mind War."  He's doing well, taking part in some very
+     difficult scenes (fight scenes and the ilke), and it's a very 
+     powerful performance, not at ALL what people have seen before.  He's
+     a terrific performer when given a role with some meat to it.  And 
+     the dailies look great.  I think this episode will wake up a lot of
+     people who have never seen Walter as anything other than Chekov.
+
+
      
+
    •  Walter decided that an interesting character trait for Bester would
+     be if this skilled psi cop had a useless left hand.
+
+
      
+
    •  It's a funny thought, but knowing Walter as I do, I can say without
+     fear of contradiction that he was *not* doing Shatner.  Given the
+     chance here to do something *utterly* outside ST, which was his hope,
+     and our pleasure to provide, he wouldn't do this, and having spoken 
+     with him at some length about his character and his performance, know
+     that he *didn't* do this.
+
+
      
+
    •  Chekov is just one character, which was created by another, and played
+     by Walter.  Agreed, too many people have seen him as just this one person;
+     but there's a talented actor with a great range behind that character, able
+     to do *many* other things.  I'm glad we've been able to let him show that
+     range a little.
+
+
      
+
    •  We'd initially offered Walter the role of Knight Two in "Sky," but
+     when his health prohibited using him, we went to Patrick McGoohan,
+     who loved the script, wanted to do it, but was going to be out of 
+     the country at the time of shooting.  We then shifted Walter to
+     "Mind War."
+
+
      
+
    •  "Commander" wasn't dubbed onto Walter.  That was Ironheart speaking
+     with  his back to us.
+
+
      
+
    •  We'll see more on Talia's additional talents in year two.
+
+
      
+
    •  Ironheart was created, as one of many reasons, to exemplify a problem
+     that is growing within Psi Corps.  There will be other symptoms, though
+     not as grand as that one.
+
+
      
+
    •  The Psi Corps doesn't exist just to help telepaths avoid infringing
+     on the privacy of others.  They service the business community, the
+     military, some other governmental agencies...it's important that they
+     control, regulate, and profit from telepaths.  You can't just leave
+     the corps.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Mind War" is important to the arc because Psi Corps, and certain
+     aspects of it, is important to the arc.
+
+
      
+
    •  Some of the events in "Mind War" are significant indeed.
+
+
      
+
    •  The ant was paid strictly according to SAG rules (Screen Ants Guild).
+
+
      
+
    •  But for the other stuff...no, there's no in-joke in Sigma 957, but 
+     ***CONGRATULATIONS!***  You are the FIRST person to pick up on the 
+     Native American line that Ironheart quotes when he goes up against
+     Kelsey.  (And yes, I believe it is ojibwe in origin.)  I've always 
+     considered it a very powerful line (a prayer of protection against 
+     one's enemies), and wanted to use it.  That seemed the perfect
+     opportunity to do so.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Who watches the watchmen" is an old Latin phrase, sometimes
+     translated as "who guards the guards?"  Given sufficient time I could
+     probably dig up the origin of the phrase; it's fairly common.
+
+
      
+
    •  My source on this was the original, classical quotation.
+
+
      
+
    •  Congratulations.  I was wondering when anyone was going to hit on the
+     CSICOP reference.  I was looking for a good name for the pit bulls of
+     the Psi Corps, and thought it made for a great play on words, and a 
+     very obscure almost-pun, to name them Psi-Cops.
+
+
      
+
    •  Talia's stress during Psi Cop scan
      
+     It's because they dig *deep*.  And to another telepath, who is 
+     sensitive to begin with...it hurts bigtime.
+
+
      
+
    •  A Psi-rating comes through training and examination of a person's
+     skills over time.  Ivanova's mother never went through the full
+     sequence to get rated.  (Although they generally don't bother with 
+     P1s through P2s, so she was at least a P3 or above, in terms of raw
+     ability.)  A psi rating isn't hereditary.
+
+
      
+
    •  Talia is a P5, as Lyta was in the pilot.
+
+
      
+
    •  The number of psi's in each category, from 1-12, gets rarer as you
+     get higher.  Lots of folks have a minimal tendency, very few have any
+     real talent.
+
+
      
+
    •  Yes, the abilities are often discrete; a TK may not be able to
+     scan anyone's thoughts.
+
+
      
+
    •  You don't have to read another book to "get it" re: psi's making
+     love.  Perhaps her problem was more with the making love part than 
+     the psi part.  Haven't read Julian May's book.  It's just the obvious
+     answer to what happens if and when telepaths make love: if they truly
+     open up, then you're going to get a mirror effect.  Have your lady 
+     friend stand between two mirrors and look at the effect.  This ain't
+     rocket science.
+
+
      
+
    •  Scanning only hurts if it's a deep scan, trying to dredge out lost
+     or buried thoughts, or if the other person is resisting.  It can be
+     anything from a headache to a migraine in intensity in general..
+
+
      
+
    •  There will be no more Ironhearts, and that character will not return.
+
+
      
+
    •  The vaporized Starfuries *weren't* from B5, they were a separate wing
+     not attached to this station.  Black Omega is a special forces unit.
+
+
      
+
    •  Ironheart blew out the Omega starfuries.
+
+
      
+
    •  No, this [the alien] isn't the mysterious sixth race.
+
+
      
+
    •  And in the case of Sigma 957, one can put in a gate, start to explore
+     that sector of space...and discover to your chagrin that there is one
+     planet where you don't dare go near.  It's not like they *knew* that 
+     there was a problem on Sigma 957 before they (the Narns) put the gate
+     in; that was discovered only afterward.  Sort of like buying a house
+     and then discovering that one room is haunted; you seal off the room
+     and tell the kids not to go near it.
+
+
      
+
    •  You don't leave one gate and fly light years to another; you use the
+     same gate for going in and going out.  Explorer Ship A comes out of
+     hyperspace; looks around; decides that there are planets in this area
+     that are worth possible colonizing, exploitation, that sort of thing;
+     it's a very quick overview.  (Or they go to systems that have been
+     already selected.)  They construct a gate, finish the job, and move
+     on. Other ships can now use this gate for entering and leaving this
+     system.  Is this clearer?
+
+
      
+
    •  The gate was set up in what was believed to be a reasonably fertile
+     and useful sector of space; the explorer craft can't take too long in
+     any one area.  They find likely areas for exploitation, take a fast
+     look around, drop a gate, and move on.  This allows other ships to 
+     come in and scope out the place in detail.  That's when they ran into
+     whatever's walking around Sigma 957.  (And it's not there all the 
+     time, only from time to time.)
+
+
      
+
    •  An Explorer-class vessel looks for areas that look like likely
+     prospects for exploitation, or which are good for logistical or other
+     reasons, do a fast survey, drop a gate and move on.  Nobody *knew* 
+     about the problems in Sigma 957 until well after the gate was in place.
+
+     
      
+     Generally, the race that builds the gate, owns it.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: the difference as to why Sinclair reacted the way he did...they
+     SPOKE to him in his head, the same way they did to the guard in 
+     customs.   This is different than just "listening" to someone's
+     thoughts, so to speak.
+
+
      
+
    •  The one thing that to me always typified SF was the sense of *wonder*.
+     Of something mysterious out there.  And that is the one thing that I
+     feel is so missing from much of TV SF; not to pick on ST, but the 
+     reality is that going from world to world seems like going from 7-11
+     to 7-11.  It's all established, there's not much mystery.  (Not in all
+     cases, I'm sure that one or two could be found, but in general.) 
+     There should be *differences*, and things we don't understand and will
+     *never* fully understand.  (For me, one of the best episodes in this
+     regard is "Mind War," specifically the tag of the episode, which still
+     gives me a shiver even though I've now seen it over a dozen times.)
+
+
      
+
    •  Actually, no...Catherine Sakai is based more closely on another
+     woman of my acquaintance, with whom I was involved for quite some
+     time.  And that's all you'll get out of me on the subject.
+
+
      
+
    •  Incidentally..."Mind War" has come out so well that it looks like 
+     we're going to move it up in the schedule a bit.  It was originally
+     slated to run about episode 10 or so, but the studio is so hot on it
+     that it'll probably run #6, right after "Parliament."  And Walter
+     has agreed to be the voice-over and on-camera narrator for the
+     Behind the Scenes/Making of Babylon 5 documentary.
+
+
      
+
    •  Re: moving "Mind War" up...no, doesn't affect continuity at all.  If
+     it did, it wouldn't have gotten moved.  It's what's called in the biz
+     a "moveable piece," able to go *almost* anywhere in the schedule, as
+     long as it's after episode 3 and before episode 15, since stuff in 
+     the first few set it up, and 15 pays off part of it.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A violent attack on a Minbari poet rocks B5 and leaves
+Sinclair scrambling to flush out a vicious pro-Earth group.  Two star-crossed
+young Centauri lovers seek Londo's protection.  Ivanova is shaken
+when a man from her past arrives at the outpost.
+
+
+Nancy Lee Grahn as Shaal Mayan.
+Danica McKellar as Aria Tensus.
+Rodney Eastman as Kiron Maray.
+Tristan Rogers as Malcolm Biggs.
+Michael Paul Chan as Roberts.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense
+P5 Rating: 6.82
+
+Production number:  107
+Original air date:  March 9, 1994
+
+Written by D. C. Fontana
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The Homeguard, a radical pro-Earth group, has
+     wide support among humans, and is growing in popularity back on
+     Earth.
+
+
    •  Shaal Mayan is a renowned Minbari poet.  "I
+     create and perform Tee'la," she says: "poem songs that attempt to
+     recall old memories and prompt new ideas."
+
+
    •  The only two human beings ever to have direct
+     contact with a Vorlon have since been transferred to Earth -
+     Dr. Kyle to work closely with the president 
+     (cf "Infection"), and the telepath Lyta
+     Alexander just a week later.  Neither of them shared their
+     experiences with anyone on the station. (cf "The
+     Gathering")
+
+
    •  Londo has three wives, all
+     of them arranged marriages, all of them "great sacrifices".  "They
+     inspire me!  Knowing that they are waiting at home for me is what
+     keeps me here, 75 light years away."
+
+
    •  Ivanova used to be involved with a fellow named
+      Malcolm Biggs, but left him when she enlisted
+     in Earth Force 8 years ago.
+
+
    •  More insight into Londo's personality and Minbari
+     beliefs:
      
+     Mayan: Ambassador, you should listen to the girl.  We
+     Minbari consider love to be a most potent force for healing.  She
+     cares deeply for him.  Such feelings can turn the tide when all
+     else fails.
      
+     Londo: Oh I see.  And if he dies, despite this great power
+     of lo-
      
+     Mayan: If he dies, she will suffer enormous grief,
+     but every moment together will make her grief a little less.
      
+     Londo: I would expect such logic from a poet.  What can a
+     Minbari know about Centauri feeling?
      
+     Mayan: Ambassador, I have traveled far and seen much.  And
+     what I have seen tells me that all sentient beings are defined by
+     their capacity and need for love.
      
+     Londo: And she will learn to live without it!
      
+     Mayan: As you did?
      
+
    •  [later...]
      
+     Vir: Kiron may die because our "glorious" tradition values 
+     wealth and power over love.
      
+     Londo: My shoes are too tight.
      
+     Vir: Excuse me?
      
+     Londo: Something my father said.  He was old, very old at
+     the time.  I went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the
+     dark, crying.  So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My
+     shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have
+     forgotten how to dance."  I never understood what that meant until
+     now.  My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to
+     dance.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The black light camouflage suits worn by the
+     Homeguard henchmen were developed by Earth Force; friends of 
+     Malcolm's procured some prototypes for them.
+     Is a faction of Earth Force actually backing the Homeguard for its
+     own reasons?
+
+
    •  Londo seems to have had a troubled childhood
+     (see  Backplot).  What happened that he's so
+     aggressive and melancholy?  None of the other Centauri seem
+     particularly so.
+
+
    •  Why is Kosh studying human history, as 
+     Sinclair's conversation with him appears to
+     reveal, especially when he says "We have no interest in the affairs
+     of others?"  Perhaps for some reason Kosh does not consider humans
+     "others."  Or perhaps by "affairs" he meant the passing events of
+     the day, as compared to the millennia of a civilization.
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  The Homeguard sign branded onto Shaal Mayan's
+     forehead is a combination of male and female symbols from ancient
+     Greek mythos.  Perhaps it's a contemporary symbol for humankind.
+
+
    •  Vir passed himself off as the Centauri
+     ambassador in letters to his cousins, and later 
+     rebukes Londo to his face about his decision on
+     the matter.  This is quite bold compared to the quavering fop he's
+     been before.
+
+
    •  Londo's nicknames for his wives are "Pestilence,
+     Famine, and Death" - three of the four horsemen of the apocalypse
+     from ancient Christian mythos.  Who is the fourth horseman War?
+     Perhaps Londo himself.
+
+
    •  Talking to Kosh about the
+     attacks on non-humans, Sinclair breaks off right after asking him
+     to "lend a hand".  Not long later Sinclair wonders aloud to Ivanova
+     how an assassin had managed to poison Kosh on the "hand",
+     through his encounter suit.  (cf "The
+     Gathering")
+
+
    •  Sinclair was brusque and callous to Delenn and
+     the Abbai agricultural representative at the diplomatic reception.
+     He also declared to the assembled Council that the hate-crime
+     investigation was closed, offering neither arrests nor evidence of
+     safety.  This was part of his ruse to win the Homeguard's trust,
+     but he may still have injured his reputation with other races.
+
+
    •  The Homeguard plot on the station was,
+     according to its leader Malcolm Biggs, part of a much bigger plot
+     to kill prominent aliens all over the Earth Alliance.
+
+
    •  Black light camouflage is a similar technology
+     to the chameleon net the assassin used in "The
+     Gathering".  However, it requires an entire body-suit and only
+     works while the user is motionless.  No mention was made of what
+     was done with the four suits captured with the Homeguard henchmen -
+     Garibaldi may have stashed them away somewhere.  And it's unlikely
+     that those were the only four suits in existence; perhaps the
+     technology will be seen again (cf.
+     "Babylon Squared".)
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
       
+
+
    •  Mayan, a childhood friend of Delenn's, arrived
+     on the station on a tour of other worlds.  Earth was to have been
+     her next stop.
+
+
    •  Mayan (of her attacker): "All I could see
+     was a shadow.  It was a shadow, that is all I know.
       
+     (cf "Signs and Portents", perhaps?)
+
+
    •  Ivanova is illegally growing coffee in the
+     station hydroponics area.
+
+
    •  Kosh speaks.
      
+     [...]
      
+     Sinclair: Meanwhile it might be
+     helpful if you spoke with the other ambassadors.
      
+     Kosh: We take no interest in the affairs of others.
      
+     Sinclair: Well I hope you'll reconsider.  If you could give
+     us a hand, we -
      
+     Kosh: Yes?
      
+     Sinclair: Nothing.  We'll respect your wishes. [pause]
      
+     That's quite a viewer.  I've never seen anything like it before.
+     What is it?
      
+     Kosh: Efficient.
      
+     Sinclair: Those are images from my world.  If I may ask, what
+     are you -
      
+     Kosh: I am studying.
      
+     Sinclair: Studying what?
      
+     Kosh: [shuts down]
+
+
    •  The images on Kosh's levitating viewer were
+     zoom-ins on pictorial records from Earth history throughout the
+     span of its civilization.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •   Correct; the title of "The War Prayer" is a nod to
+	Twain's piece of
+	the same name,
+	which should be read by *everyone*.  Given the growing
+	problems with illiteracy, I try to refer not to pop society so much, as
+	to literature...Tennyson, Twain, even writers whose last names don't
+	begin with T.
+
+
      
+
    •  Of course, you're assuming that a Centauri year is the same as our
+	year. The speed of light is constant...but defined by us by our own
+	12-month year.  For instance, in one episode, we mention that B5 is 12
+	of our light years from the Narn homeworld, which is equal to about 10
+	of their years.
+
+	
      
+	So without knowing the Centauri year, the figures are faulty.
+
+
      
+
    •  For those out there who still think the skin tab getting through Kosh's
+	encounter suit was an error...we're going to be dealing with that,
+	and some other interesting threads in [this] episode. Sinclair
+	comments on the whole question of how the poison ever got into
+	him...and notes how curious it is that, within weeks of that
+	incident, Dr. Kyle was transferred back to Earth to work directly
+	with the Earth Alliance President on matters of alien immigration,
+	and Lyta Alexander was similarly transferred a week or so after that.
+	The only two people to have personal knowledge of a Vorlon have been
+	shipped off and possibly locked up.
+
+
      
+
    •  By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to
+	be discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on
+	"Parliament," and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War Prayer."
+	So we lifted that scene and inserted it into her episode, doing a
+	small bit of ADR to facilitate the move.  It's now quite seamless.
+
+
      
+
    •  Why was Delenn unfamiliar with poetry in
+	"The Gathering?"
      
+	For the Minbari, it's tee'la, which is a kind of poem-song, sort of.
+	Delenn was mainly just unfamiliar with the term.
+
+
      
+
    •  Y'know...it's a funny old world.  And sometimes it just astonishes
+	you.
+
+	
      
+	About 2 months ago, one of our freelancers turned in a script that
+	has to do with a hate group, in the course of which a guest character
+	-- a Minbari -- is attacked and has her head branded with the symbol
+	of the group.
+
+	
      
+	So you will doubtless understand my astonishment when I turned on 
+	DS9 and saw the same thing happen.
+
+	
      
+	Unfortunately, we've already shot that episode, it's in the can, so
+	ther nothing we can do about it now.  Further -- and let me be 
+	totally clear about this -- there's no way that DS9 could've borrowed
+	the idea from us, or in any way been influence by us, and no way we 
+	could've been influenced by them.  To get on the air now, they 
+	would've had to shoot their episode some time before the writer 
+	turned in that draft for our show.  And none of us were in any way
+	aware of what was going on there until we saw it the night of the
+	broadcast...and came in the next day with looks of absolute shock.
+
+	
      
+	These things do happen...and when you're dealing with similar general
+	areas -- humans vs. aliens, or one alien group vs. another alien
+	group -- then something like this becomes inevitable.  And given the  
+	foreheads on Ferengi, and the foreheads on Minbari, the obviousness 
+	of that target becomes clear.  Still, it's amazing when it happens.
+	And I guess I just wanted it to be clear when this thing airs that
+	the sequence in our show was in the can and done when the DS9 episode
+	aired.
+
+
      
+
    •  We're in discussions to see if there's any way we can cut this from 
+	the show...the only problem is that the brand stays on throughout the
+	show.  If it were just in one shot, we'd cut the shot and find some
+	other way around it.  The only way we can lose it now would be if we
+	literally wiped off the brand by going into every frame in which it 
+	appears and digitally removing it from the frame...which is a *real*
+	pain in the butt...but we are considering it.
+
+
      
+
    •  The points made above are essentially correct; the brand goes on in
+	the very top of the show, in the teaser, and stay on throughout the
+	episode...and part of the story is dealing with this, and what it 
+	means.   An offer is made to remove it, but the victim decides *not*
+	to have it removed, because there are lessons in these things...and
+	it becomes almost a badge of defiance.
+
+	
      
+	In addition to the notes here, I've received a whole bunch of email
+	notes saying to leave it in, on the grounds that it *does* happen in
+	real life (or incidents close to it), and how we're handling it *is*
+	very different.  (Some indicated that it can illustrate how the two
+	hows handle their themes in different ways.)  So it's a tough call
+	...to change would also mean some re-shooting...but given the 
+	responses here, I think it's okay to leave it in place.
+
+	
      
+	File this one away the next time someone asks, "What sort of ways has
+	the BBS discussion actually affected Babylon 5?"
+
+
      
+
    •  There is some limited life within the garden...some birds (which you
+	can hear sometimes), and insects, and the like.  (In one shot you
+	can see an insect fly off one of our actors.  Yeah, sure, like we
+	planned that....)  It's generally one season in the Garden, and
+	plants requiringvariation are raised in a separate hydroponics 
+	area, such as the orchard (seen in "War Prayer").
+
+
      
+
    •  Lennier is not in the cargo area during the beating, nor is he in BG
+	during the negotiations.  That's a Minbari of the worker class.  (You
+	can generally tell from the orange-ish smock-thingie they wear.)  
+	Sorry.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by members of a pro-Earth group,
+determined to find out what transpired when the commander was briefly
+missing in action during the final battle of the Earth/Minbari
+war -- something Sinclair has never been able to remember.
+
+
+Judson Scott as Knight One.
+Christopher Neame as Knight Two.
+Jim Youngs as Frank Benson.
+Justin Williams as Mitchell.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense
+P5 Rating: 8.90
+
+Production number:  106
+Original air date:  March 16, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  In the days before the Earth/Minbari war,
+     Dr. Franklin used to hitchhike starships, trading his services as
+     ship's doctor in exchange for free passage to places he'd never
+     been before.
+
+
    •  Franklin: "Towards the end, when things
+     got bad for our side, those of us involved in xenobiology were told
+     to hand over our notes to be used in genetic and biological
+     warfare. [...]  I took an oath that all life was sacred.  I
+     destroyed my notes, rather than have them used for killing."
+
+
    •  After his squad was shot down at the Line,
+     Sinclair's ship was disabled and taken aboard a Minbari cruiser.
+     He was tortured and examined, and at one point stood unfettered
+     within the circle of the grey council itself.  When they didn't
+     respond to his questions, Sinclair suddenly walked up to one of
+     them and pulled back the hood, revealing the face of Delenn.  He
+     was then knocked out again, and some time later returned to his
+     ship with no memory of the experience.
       
+     (A synopsis of the
+     events at the Line as Sinclair re-experiences them is available.
+     There is also
+     a separate Guide page devoted to those
+     events.)
+
+
    •  Knight Two: "Your ship was off the
+     screens for 24 hours.  You didn't just black out, your ship
+     disappeared!"
       
+     Sinclair "The screens malfunctioned, the hearing proved that."
+
+
    •  This would explain why Sinclair 
+     "fell off the merry-go-round" promotion-wise.
+     Officers who've inexplicably disappeared in the presence of the
+     enemy tend to hit a glass ceiling even if their loyalty is
+     officially accepted.
+
+
    •  The Knights may be part of a covert operation
+     within Earth Force that's trying to find collusion between Earth
+     officials and the Minbari.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Sinclair: "Everyone lies, Michael.  The
+     innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something
+     they didn't do, and the guilty lie because they don't have any
+     other choice."
       This is extra reason to think twice before
+     taking anything said in this episode at face value.  Nor should one
+     assume that a lie covers up wrongdoing.
+
+
    •  Earth Force was researching the use of genetic
+     and biological warfare against the Minbari.  These are offensive,
+     not defensive methods, effective only on planets.  They must have
+     been planning a desperation ground strike of some kind.  
+     (cf: "Soul Hunter")
+
+
    •  After he punches Knight Two in VR, Sinclair
+     looks at his hand, making a fist and releasing it.  Scenes of him
+     in the cybernet chair after that show him clenching his fist in
+     real life as well, in unison with continued fist-clenching in VR.
+     Sinclair is rediscovering, slowly, how to get his brain to control
+     his body.  The pain of the remembered zap in the council chambers
+     is later enough to propel him all the way back, if groggily.
+
+
    •  While looking for Sinclair's body outside,
+     station forces discover the body of Benson floating outside Red
+     Sector.  Garibaldi visually identifies him (other Security folks
+     had not been able to), and says, "Whoever killed him couldn't have
+     carried the body very far without being noticed."  He may be wrong
+     in this conclusion - Knight One could have dumped it into a
+     nondescript cart and gone a long way, for example.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi: "If they dumped the body out
+     of an airlock, the station's gravity wouldn't let it get far."
+     This is true only if the body was dumped out of a no- or
+     low-velocity airlock.  Perhaps Garibaldi's assertion is correct
+     because there aren't any high-velocity airlocks on the station
+     other than the Cobra Bays.
+
+
    •  Knight Two: "Look at Earth: Alien
+     civilization.  Alien migration.  Aliens buying up real estate by
+     the square mile.  What they couldn't take by force, they corrupted!
+     Inch by inch!"
       This sounds very much like Homeguard propaganda
+     - perhaps there is a connection.  (cf: "War
+     Prayer")
+
+
    •  Delenn exhibits ignorance of the powers of Earth
+     telepaths - Ivanova had to explain to her that Talia, a P5, was not
+     capable of a search-and-recover mission.
+
+
    •  Ivanova's only contribution to the search effort
+     was to track all ships that left Babylon 5 in the previous 8 hours,
+     which turned out to be wasted effort.  This and several 
+     Unanswered Questions suggest she may have been
+     working with the Knights.
+
+
    •  Delenn: "It's me, commander."
      
+     Sinclair: "I know - I know you.  I know who you are."
      
+     Delenn: "I'm your friend, commander.  Ambassador Delenn.  
+     Your friend.
      
+     Sinclair: "NO!  I know you.  I know you."  
+     [Knight One prepares to fire, Sinclair shoots him down]
      
+     Delenn: "Welcome home."
      
+     [Sinclair collapses]
      
+     By his emphatic denial above, it should be clear to Delenn that
+     Sinclair is remembering something about 
+     his discovery of her at the
+     Line. He later denies remembering anything, but she must wonder
+     if he's lying.  (If the Analysis 
+     in the Line Guide page is correct, however, she should be
+     certain he is lying.)
+
+
    •  Knight Two apparently remembered nothing about
+     himself after Sinclair's destructive escape fried his memory.
+     However, the word "Commander" brings him up short, and he remembers
+     Sinclair's name, saying "There's something in my head.  It says:
+     'Maybe you're still inside.  Maybe we're both still inside.'"  His
+     phrasing there indicates that this is not his own current thought,
+     but a thought that survived his brain damage.  So, what did Knight
+     Two, in full possession of his faculties, mean by that suspicion?
+     The most obvious answer is "inside the simulation", but this is a
+     very weak explanation, and goes nowhere.
+
+
    •  Knight Two's last experience would have been
+     watching Sinclair's recollection of his Grey Council experience,
+     including his discovery of Delenn (whom Knight Two may not
+     have recognized).
+     
+
    •  See also the Guide page devoted to
+     Sinclair's recollection of the events on the Line.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  
      Universe Today Headlines:
      
+     
        
+     
      •  Sports: Zero-G Tennis Results Inside
+     
      •  Is There Something Living in Hyperspace?
+     
      •  Homeguard Leader Convicted: Jacob Lester Found Guilty
+          In Attack on Minbari Embassy
+     
      •  Narns settle Raghesh 3 Controversy
+     
      •  EA President Promises Balanced Budget by 2260
+     
      •  Psi Corps in Election Tangle: Did Psi-Corps Violate its
+          Charter by Endorsing Vice-President?  
+          (see jms Speaks)
+     
      •  San Diego Still Considered Too Radioactive for Occupancy:
        
+          A new study published by Earthforce Nuclear Regulatory Office 
+          declares San Diego, struck by the American States first act of
+          nuclear terrorism over 100 years ago, still uninhabitable for
+          the next 300 years.
+     
      •  SPECIAL SECTION: Pros & Cons of Interspecies Mating
+     
      •  Copyright Trial Continues in Bookzap Flap: Books Downloaded
+          Directly into Brain: Who Owns Them?
+     
      •  Is There Something Living in Hyperspace? (a repeat)
+     
      •  New Binary Star Discovered
+     
      •  Inside: Universe Today: Babylon 5 Edition:
+          
          
+          
        •  Classified              5-70
+          
        •  Crossword               60
+          
        •  Editorial/Opinion       10-11A
+          
        •  Lotteries               11C
+          
        •  Horoscope               8A
+          
        •  HoloComics              9E
+          
        
+     
      
+
+
    •  The text of all the articles are instructions for the "Babylon 5
+     Equation Editor", which looks like genuine documentation after a
+     search and replace has been performed from the product's name to
+     "Babylon 5".
+
+
    •  Source for Universe Today information: "Cinefantastique", April
+     1994, p35
+
+
    •  Dr. Franklin now has baseline medical readings
+     for a healthy adult Minbari.
+
+
    •  Casino regulations for officers: no gambling on
+     duty, off-duty gambling is limited to 50 credits per week.
+
+
    •  Garibaldi has security access to Sinclair's quarters.
+
+
    •  Jeffrey David Sinclair
      
+     2218: Born on Mars Colony May 3rd.
      
+     2237: Enlisted in Earth Force Defense.
      
+     2240: Promoted to Fighter Pilot.
      
+     2241: Promoted to Squad Leader (!)
+
+
    •  Sinclair's ancestors have been fighter pilots for many generations.
+
+
    •  Knight Two: "If I fail, more will come
+     after me, until the job is finished."
+
+
    •  Sinclair: (to Mitchell) "I tried to warn
+     you, but you wouldn't listen.  You never listen."
+
+
    •  Payoff money was deposited to Benson's account
+     at 0300, presumably soon after he delivered a big power supply to
+     the Knights.  At 0700 Sinclair "went missing" - presumably this was
+     when Delenn was supposed to meet with him in the Council room (see
+     Unanswered Questions).
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+
      
+
    •  Absolutely unlike anything ever produced before for television.
+	Directorially, and in terms of the visual effects, the CGI, the
+	performances, right across the board, it's a stunner. And just...I
+	can't convey this enough...different. It just takes TV SF and yanks it
+	to a whole other level of complexity.
+
+
      
+
    •  As for a production report...things are going swimmingly. Today we started
+     getting dailies on our first day of shooting on "And the Sky Full of
+     Stars," which deals with the Battle of the Line. This is not going to
+     look like your conventional episode of television. We've brought in
+     equipment that you don't normally see on a television set, certain kinds
+     of cranes and lenses and lighting packages that will give this
+     particular episode a very strange, almost surreal look. It's quite
+     remarkable.
+     
+     
      
+     And Ron's pushing the envelope on the CGI...compositing some
+     live action stuff with CGI that'll blow your TV out.
+     
+     
      
+     It's going *well*.
+
+
      
+
    •  Spent a very, very, very long day today in editing...not out of any
+     problems, but because of the *astonishing* amount of detail we're 
+     putting into "And the Sky Full of Stars."  Leaving out all the live-
+     action shots, there are 25 CGI shots in one and a half minutes in 
+     one sequence alone.   (By way of comparison, there were 55 or so in
+     the full two hour pilot for B5.)  So we go frame by frame, making 
+     sure that everything meshes properly, through some pretty intense 
+     gistics.  You'll understand when you see it.
+
+     
      
+     I've never seen the like of this particular episode before.  It's a
+     real gem. 
+
+
      
+
    •  On returns... Garibaldi's aide: yes.  Knights: yes, but not
+     identified as such.
+
+
      
+
    •  Lurkers is indeed a net reference.
+
+
      
+
    •  Psi Corps, as a government-regulated agency, is prohibited from
+     endorsing candidates or taking a political stance.
+
+
      
+
    •  I would *never* pull a "he wakes up and it was all a dream" on the
+     series.  I hate that kind of story.
+
+
      
+
    •  It has *always* been my sense that the body was
+     slipped out an access airlock in the zero-g cargo area.  Every
+     other access -- like the boarding area and standard cargo area --
+     is under close security to prevent this kind of thing, or the
+     influx of contraband.  There's really nowhere to GO from the zero-g
+     section, so it's a little looser.  As for how he got the body
+     there...there is an answer, and a reason, and if you look at this
+     episode again after the season is over, even the nitpickers who
+     brought it up will be able to figure it out.  I didn't address it
+     in the issue because I didn't think anyone would make a federal
+     case out of this, and for other reasons that will in time become
+     apparent.  Several other nits picked at this episode will *also* be
+     clarified by season's end.  It's not easy to sit quietly, knowing
+     the answer, and being unable to tell it, but that's simply what I
+     have to do for the time being.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Psi Cops are *authorized* to carry firearms.  The Knights had an in
+with Security, and by virtue of high government contacts, got their 
+stuff on board.  Those seem to me not requiring much explanation.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I can't believe this "explain how the guns get aboard" discussion is
+still going on.  This isn't the Enterprise, to use the cited example,
+which is a *military vessel*, and only the occasional rare civilian 
+gets on board. There are a QUARTER MILLION PEOPLE on board at any
+given moment.  (People = humans and aliens.)  Not staying there, but
+in a state of flux.  Going and coming.  Anywhere from 50 to 100 ships
+per day dock at B5.  Thousands upon thousands of boxes, crates, cargo
+loads, pallets, you name it.  If you stopped and inspected every 
+single box that came through, the system would grind to a halt.  So
+you do the best you can, you catch whatever you can, scan as much as
+possible, and accept that some stuff is bound to slip through.
+
      
+Further, this is the kind of explanation that has nothing to do with 
+a story, only with someone's need to have something explained to them.
+I think the time is spent better elsewhere.
+
+
      
+
    •  Yes, that is a triluminary on the grey council staff in "Sky."
+     (cf. "Babylon Squared")
+
+
      
+
    •  Bear in mind, though, that Sinclair really had no reason to doubt what he
+     remembered happening on the Line until the Minbari assassin uttered those
+     seven fateful words. As for others...there have been suspicions, but more
+     broadbased...and we'll deal with those a bit here and there.
+
+
      
+
    •  Also, check the readout on Sinclair's screen as he's trying to engage the
+     enemy. You'll see "negative lock" popping up. One problem in fighting the
+     Minbari vessels is that they have a kind of stealth tech that makes it very
+     hard for our weapons to lock on.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Bill Mitchell from "Sky" is a reference to General Billy Mitchell . . .
+
+
      
+
    •  Yeah, it was an off-the-cuff reference to Billy Mitchell . . . 
+     
      
+     (Didn't really mean that much; just thought it wuz cool.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: "Sky"...my theory is to *never* assume prior knowledge of the
+background info that goes into an episode.  If you never saw the 
+pilot, you will miss *nothing* going into "Sky" (though it'd be nice
+because of one quickie flashback to know where that came from).  I 
+don't think anyone will have a hard time following that one.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+This was one segment of the battle; there were others going on in 
+other areas as well.  It's said that no one ever *saw* the Battle of
+the Bulge; each saw a small part of it.  Same here.
+
+
      
+Reality is, no matter how big we would've made it, more would've been
+wanted.  (If anything, it seems that the more we show, the more is 
+wanted.)  But all things considered, best to have folks wanting more
+than wanting less....
+
+
      
+(And remember, we're managing to do all this with roughly *half* of
+TNG's budget.  Give us their budget, and I'll show you ALL of the 
+Battle of the Line, and the ENTIRE Earth/Minbari War, PLUS all their
+home worlds.)
+
+
      
+Nonetheless, as we go deeper into the season, the CGI/action sequences
+do get bigger and more detailed in many places.  In "Signs and 
+Portents" (formerly "Raiding Party"), you'll see three pretty good
+sized squadrons of ships engaged in a very fast-paced battle that goes
+on for most of an act and a half, as opposed to just a few scenes in
+"Sky."  Big battles weren't really the *point* in "Sky," it was more
+about his REACTIONS and his personal fate.  There were a number of 
+action/battle shots we had on hand, but decided not to use because we
+didn't want to dilute the *point* of the scene.
+
+
      
+And as stated elsewhere...yes, you'll be seeing the Minbari war
+cruiser(s) again.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, as you'll see in "Sky," sometimes the Good Guys *do* get
+their ships hit; sometimes they blow up and kill the person (as you
+will see), and sometimes they do damage without destroying the ship,
+in which case there is an eject mechanism that separates the cockpit
+part from the rest of the fighter, which contains the volatile 
+reactors.
+
+
      
+So in those circumstances, a flight suit is a *very* good idea....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We actually had a lot more shots we could've used to prolong the
+sequence, but felt we *really* had to get to Sinclair, and go into 
+his point of view more.  Also we step-printed the CGI to give it a 
+more dream-like appearance, since we're seeing this from inside 
+Sinclair's memory, and he wasn't really able to *see* all this,
+particularly stuff happening around and behind him, this is more his
+*sense* of the events of that time.  The sections we didn't step-print
+were those where he was RIGHT THERE, to make a subtle distinction.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What?  Who, me?  Near as I remember, the Question was, "What happened
+at the Battle of the Line?"  Answer: Sinclair was taken aboard the 
+Minbari cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back
+into his ship.
+
+
      
+The Question *now* is, "WHY was Sinclair taken aboard the Minbari
+cruiser, tortured, interrogated, mind-wiped and shoved back into his
+ship?"
+
+
      
+That question was not asked heretofore...so how could it be still
+unanswered?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A number of people have commented that they weren't much surprised by
+Sinclair being taken aboard, because on the nets -- and this has ONLY
+taken place on the nets -- this speculation has been bandied about 
+for some time.  We now have ten zillion speculations on the reason 
+*why*.  I will not comment on them one way or another (though I 
+suppose I could point, without making the real comparison between
+types of typists, to the idea that an infinte number of monkeys typing
+on an infinite number of keyboards would eventually produce Hamlet 
+simply by chance combination; sooner or later, something close to the
+reality might be stumbled upon...and let me ask a simple question: 
+what purpose does that serve?  It only lessens the enjoyment of those
+who would simply like to enjoy what happens WHEN it happens).
+
+
      
+Any good detective knows that you can't really begin to speculate
+about motive until you have all the information right at hand.  At 
+this point there is information you don't have...and absent that, any
+guesses will either be wrong, or close enough to hinder the fun but
+still essentially incorrect.  It's like trying to guess the contents
+of a box without knowing the size of the box...it could be a marble,
+it could be an elephant or a pre-fabricated house.
+
+
      
+All I'm suggesting is that you consider not trying to come up with
+every possible angle, and let the show progress on its own.  Right 
+now everybody seems to be scrambling to make sure every even remotely
+feasible possibility is covered, and there an infinite number.  As an
+organized activity, this will in time only prove frustrating.  By the
+end of the season, as with being near the end of a movie, you'll have
+enough info on hand to start making some educated guesses.  To do so
+now is to begin the proess of calling out possible endings during
+the first five minutes of a movie...you'll miss the important things,
+and annoy the people sitting behind you.
+
+
      
+I'm not saying stop; I'm just saying...relax, a little, I guess, and
+simply be aware that you *cannot* scatter-shot this thing without 
+having access to all the information.  It's like trying to guess the
+beginnings of World War One without knowing *any* of the background of
+the countries involved.  Suffice to say that the reason would not be
+simplistic, or cliched, or *easily deduced*.  One thing I learned in
+two years on "Murder, She Wrote" was to come up with a fairly complex
+mystery, something that can't be easily solved going in, but which
+makes perfect sense after you have all the facts and know which clues
+were the real ones, and which were simply red herrings.
+
+
      
+Just a thought....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We'd initially offered Walter [Koenig] the role of Knight Two in 
+"Sky," but when his health prohibited using him, we went to Patrick
+McGoohan, who loved the script, wanted to do it, but was going to be
+out of the country at the time of shooting.  We then shifted Walter
+to "Mind War."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Thanks.  I love Patrick's work.  Problem is he's *very* fussy on the
+roles he takes.  (And justifiably so.)  He has to be sold on the 
+script or there's no deal.  We'd sent him a copy of "And the Sky Full
+of Stars," which would have had him as the main interrogator, Knight
+Two...and he liked it, and was prepared to do it...when we checked our
+respective calendars and discovered that he was going to be out of the
+country when we were scheduled to shoot.
+
      
+We hope to get him at some later time.  He's just terrific.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The CGI scenes were deliberately step-printed to give the shots a
+more dreamlike look.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The CGI won't look as good in slow motion because we step-printed
+them deliberately, in order to give them a more dream-like appearance.
+For us, this wasn't about the ships, it was about one of the men in
+the ship, which is why we kept him in sharp focus, and went to step-
+printing whenever we went outside (and since we're seeing this from 
+his memory, clearly he wouldn't actually have *seen* most ofthis, 
+it's his *sense* of what happened).  You'll get plenty of clear CGI
+in "Signs and Portents," airing in May.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, there's a second shot in which you can see a body being 
+thrown out; it's between Mitchell and Sinclair being hit.  Remember
+that the body is strapped in in an angular fashion, and look for it
+as it blows (as I recall) from left to right.  It's there.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+This weekend, I was at the Space Frontier Foundation to receive an
+award for Babylon 5 for Best Vision of the Future, part of which was
+its recognition of our *deliberate efforts* to get things right.
+Zero-G maneuvering, civilian use of space, a working O'Neill station,
+on and on, all the stuff you think  happens by "coincidence."  And 
+which has not generally HAPPENED on TV before.  In attendence were 
+the Delta Clipper team of engineers, astronaut Pete Conrad, leading
+researchers with NASA, JPL, McDonnell-Douglas, you name it.
+
+
      
+And one of the people there, who had been with SDI and the Space
+Program for 12 years, currently a top-level NASA consultant, pulled
+me  aside and said that after seeing the line about the gravity not
+letting the body get very far . . . he said he sat down to do the 
+math required to come up with the actual MASS of B5, starting with
+the 2.5 million tons of actual structure, plus likely vegetation, 
+quarters, occupants, ships docked inside...and when you add it all
+up, it came to about the same mass as a fairly small moon...and IT 
+WOULD BE ENOUGH TO KEEP THE BODY FROM -- AS STATED IN THE SCRIPT -- 
+GETTING VERY FAR.
+
+
      
+The body would drift from the station a bit, get pulled back, hit
+the hull, bounce, drift a bit, and be pulled back.  Or go into a slow
+elliptical orbit.  (He mentioned that in the history of the Apollo
+program, little bits of debris that would flake off the outside of
+the ship would remain in proximity to the ship, just on the basis of
+ITS mass and gravity, and it's not very big.)
+
+
      
+A couple of other high-level engineers backed him up, and said that
+it was quite reasonable.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The 2.5 million tons of spinning *metal* refers only to that part,
+the metal casing.  It doesn't include the furniture, the structures,
+the Garden, the 250,000 humans and aliens...so the total mass of the
+thing is MUCH greater than the 2.5 megatons.  Also, the body was 
+shoved out of the area around the cargo bay, non-rotating, which 
+would also cut down on the momentum (as opposed to shoving out out of
+the rotating part, where it would speed away at 1g).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, it was always my assumption that the body was dumped out through
+the zero-g section, since that has more traffic with cargo loaders 
+and unloaders and less security than the passenger-oriented bays and
+airlocks.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There is a security problem on B5, yes.  And we hope to deal with it
+at some point.  It's inevitable, really; 250,000 residents, huge 
+crates being moved in and out every day, people going and coming...
+they try to confiscate what they can, but a lot slips through.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The second shot to Knight One is a gut-shot, and the security guard
+is shot through the chest.
+
+
      
+Bear in mind, also, that some of this may be expected by folks here
+on the nets because of the ongoing conversations, speculation and the
+bits of info I drop here; but for 99.9% of the rest of the nation,
+this IS new info.  And even with the nets, I suspect that there are
+some surprises here....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+'Universe Today' Headline
      
+I lived in San Diego from 1974-1981, and it's actually a great place,
+so I'm inclined to tweak it once in a while, just for funsies....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The wisp of smoke is a wisp of smoke, nothing more important than that.
+If something living in hyperspace bothers you...good, it
+should.  The Psi Corps article is in frame for a reason.  Yes, we
+sometimes put additional or important information in the background,
+but I don't think we can be fair and assume that everyone sees it, so
+if you don't see it in one place, it's stated out loud later on...the
+background stuff is to give the alert viewer a fighting chance to 
+guess some stuff BEFORE it happens; when stuff DOES finally happen,
+all the required information is supplied at that time.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Correct, Gregory.  One of the things we learned from the pilot was
+that we shoved too much information at people too fast.  So I
+deliberately held back a lot of arc stuff in the beginning of the
+series, allowing people to move gradually into the B5 universe, learn
+more about it, and THEN start whapping them with the arc.  It isn't
+until "Mind War" and "Sky" that we really begin cranking the arc.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan mbr2@kimbark.uchicago.edu
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The station becomes a hotbed of galactic controversy when
+Sinclair is forced to protect a notorious war criminal -- a
+scientist who's invented an immortality serum.  Ambassador Kosh hires
+telepath Talia Winters to oversee a very unusual negotiation.
+
+
+Sarah Douglas as Deathwalker/Jha'Dur.
+Robin Curtis as Ambassador Kalika.
+Cosie Costa as Abbut.
+Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.21
+
+Production number:  113
+Original air date:  April 20, 1994
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  The League of Non-Aligned Worlds and the Earth Alliance are allies,
+	thanks in large part to Earth's intervention while the League was
+	being devastated by the Dilgar thirty years earlier.  JMS says, "The
+	Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got into, soon
+	after establishing a presence in space.  We mainly entered it to try
+	and make a `rep' for ourselves, then got more morally involved when we
+	saw what was going on.  That and the Minbari War are the only real major
+	conflicts Earth has been involved with, and Earth was not directly at
+	risk in the Dilgar war, though if they hadn't been stopped, that might
+	have changed eventually."
+   
    •  The Vorlons have a strong distrust of telepaths.
+   
    •  The Minbari warrior castes know about the hole in Sinclair's mind.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  What do the Vorlons know about immortality?
+   
    •  Why don't they like (non-Vorlon) telepaths?
+   
    •  Is this the last we'll hear about the immortality serum, or did Dr.
+	Franklin keep the sample he was testing?  (JMS has hinted that it's
+	not a simple plot device which'll never be mentioned again.)
+   
    •  Why do the Wind Swords speak often of Sinclair?  What do they know
+	about what happened to him?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+  
    •   Na'Toth's grandfather had the misfortune to be on a planet that Jha'dur
+	took, and her misuse of him is the source of Na'Toth's fued, yet the
+	Narn seem to give the incident no particular weight.  What world this
+	was is not disclosed, but either it wasn't a Narn colony, and Na'Toth's
+	grandfather was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, or it was
+	a Narn colony and the incident was smoothed over at the time.  Evidence
+	seems to point to the former, but it's unclear.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Jha'dur is a specialist in, "biochemical, biogenetic, and cyber-organic
+	weaponry." During the Dilgar invasion of the "non-aligned sectors" she
+	decimated whole planets to further her own research.  Presumably the
+	other Dilgar were equally vicious and callous.  She seems to be
+	especially notorious though, known by name 30 years after the event,
+	perhaps because her biological experiments seem especially horrible.
+
+
      
+  
    •   At the time of the Dilgar war humanity was fresh on the interstellar
+	political scene, having been discovered and given jumpgate/hyperspace
+	technology by the Centauri.  The non-aligned worlds seem to be
+	relatively low-tech, and they were being overrun by the Dilgar in a
+	particularly ruthless bid for an empire.  Earth's entry into the
+	conflict turned the tide against the Dilgar,  leading to the race's
+	confinement to their own system and their ultimate destruction when
+	their sun went nova.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Jha'dur was shielded and hidden by the Minbari Wind Swords, members of
+	their warrior caste, at the close of the Dilgar war 30 years ago.  The
+	Minbari didn't encounter humans until about 20 years later, at which
+	time the first contact went bad and initiated the Earth-Minbari war.
+	Up until now it seemed that neither side knew of the other, but how
+	could the Minbari have aided and supported Jha-dur for 20 years without
+	learning of Earth?  Moreover, when the Minbari are debating
+	their response to the loss of their leader the Wind Swords arrive on
+	the scene with new, very powerful weapons.  Presumably much of the
+	Minbari arsenal of weapons and ships derives from designs given them
+	by Jha'dur.  The circumstances
+	of the first contact problem between the Minbari and the Humans may
+	also indicate that it was the result of a plot by Jha'dur for revenge
+	on those who (at least indirectly) destroyed her race.
+
+
      
+  
    •   The serum designed by Jha'dur is insidious, requiring something
+	critical from living beings to make.  It's unclear whether this same
+	process would be applicable to every species, or whether the same
+	serum could be used across species.  But in any case it was designed,
+	perhaps intentionally, to cause a great deal of harm when used.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Just what benefit the Wind Swords derived from her research is
+	unstated.  Note, however, that she has (a) been permitted by the Wind
+	Swords to use up enough living entities to pursue her research, and
+	(b) used at least one dose on herself with
+	some amount left over.  She has also been permitted to leave to
+	negotiate with the Narn, her first entry into public view since the war.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Senator Hidoshi calls Sinclair while Jha'dur is still in medlab.
+	He insists that Jha'dur cannot be Deathwalker, but also insists that
+	she be sent to Earth immediately.  Still, he clearly knows all about
+	the situation, which implies that he has sources of information both
+	on B5 and perhaps among the Minbari or the Narn.
+
+  
    •   Talia Winters has an interesting time with Kosh during this episode.
+	Here we see the first of a known class of people called "vicars",
+	short for "VCR's."  These people are human recorders, capable of
+	recording sensory and environmental information for later playback
+	through devices directly implanted in their brains.
+	This demonstrates a very high degree of possible integration between
+	people and computers at the time of B5.  How common this is and how
+	sophisticated it can be has yet to be seen.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Is Kosh a telepath?  During the interviews between Kosh and Abbut (the
+	vicar) Talia is occasionally goaded with an image dredged up from her
+	mind.  Clearly these are not her own thoughts, and clearly Abbut cannot
+	be the source since human telepaths are regulated.  That only leaves
+	Kosh him(it?)self.  Yet Talia doesn't seem to have any hint that Kosh
+	is doing this to her.  If Kosh is a telepath, what other abilities
+	does he have?  And if he is a telepath, and the cause of Talia's
+	distress, what did he need the vicar for?  It seems clear that
+	the byplay between Kosh and Abbut was intended as misdirection, to
+	divert, bore and confuse her leaving her open for Kosh to penetrate
+	her shields and stimulate the images he collected.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Kosh collects from Talia, in his words, "Reflection.  Surprise.
+	Terror.  For the future."  He may intend the data as a lever or weapon
+	against her.
+
+
      
+  
    •   Kosh may be a telepath, and a very subtle one at that.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Hour of Scampering is usually around tea-time, according to the
+	Vorlon/Human Translation Dictionary.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How do Vorlons scamper?
      
+	The Vorlons do not scamper terribly well, but no one has yet told
+	them this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Your statement about the serum being a means of getting to the truth or
+	her truth at the very least is quite correct. And appropos to current
+	reality. We look back at the Nazis, and others, and say, "Well, WE
+	could never do that." But of course we could. Fine tune your
+	attention to the frequency of misery and inhumanity, and in short
+	order you'll pick up Rwanda, and Bosnia and a host of others. Our
+	capacity for greatness is as substantial as our capacity for evil.
+	And we must constantly be reminded of that duality; to pretend it
+	simply isn't there, or is somebody else's problem, inevitably leads
+	to tragedy. (For those interested, btw, I would encourage you to
+	check out a short story by Mark Twain, called "The Man Who Corrupted
+	Hadleyburg." I think you will find it *most* illuminating.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Abbut was not - repeat, NOTan imitation of Harlan, as some have
+	suggested. It was originally written for Gilbert Gottfried, who we later
+	learned was unavailable.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+	functions in much the same fashion as the Security Council and the
+	General Assembly in the U.N.  The smaller worlds and alliances can't
+	weild as much power as any of the Big Five.  Together, they as a 
+	group get a vote equal to one of the Big Five; they can deputize one
+	of their number to speak for them and cast that vote, which can often
+	break ties or create ties.  It is not a terribly equitible situation,
+	but it was the only workable solution that would be accepted by the 
+	other Ambassadors.  We'll see them chafing at this in "Deathwalker."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The prosthetics on our background aliens and the League started out
+	okay, but we felt we could do better, and began a series of 
+	improvements, which can be seen most clearly in "Deathwalker," where
+	they're all proper prosthetics rather than masks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We didn't have the League of Non-Aligned Worlds up and running for
+	the pilot.  They get one vote, determined by majority decision.  EAch
+	mamber of the main Advisory Council gets one vote, equal to that.
+
+	In "Deathwalker," you had one abstention (Kosh), two to try her 
+	(EA and League), and three against the trial (Narns, Centauri and
+	Minbari).  Abstentions don't count either way in such a vote; it's the
+	negatives vs. the positives, and there were more no's than yes's.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You assume the crowd meeting Sinclair could be placated.  They make it
+	clear, in dialogue: "You will have to kill us all."  They could not BE
+	placated.  Your assumption has nothing to do with what happened, or 
+	what was said.  Maybe in the ST universe, Picard can turn on the charm
+	and just talk people out of things.  That doesn't happen here, not
+	easily at any rate.  It was turn back or kill them.  Those were the
+	choices.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As far as we knew, Lennier was going to vote with Sinclair and the 
+	League.  So you hold off his change of vote for the end.  You get a  
+	few no votes, annoy the League, Sinclair raises their hope, and then
+	Lennier, much as he hates it, dashes that hope.  It's an arc that way,
+	rather than a descending staircase.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Except of course that Sinclair said that the non-aligned worlds would
+	have observers there at all times...there are no other Dilgar to help
+	break her out...the Narns have no desire to attack Earth installations
+	to break her out as long as they get their share of the serum...and
+	there really was no other alternative short of war.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's no one escaping Deathwalker's ship; it's just debris spinning
+	away.  She's dead as a mackeral.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just to clarify...the Vorlon ship destroyed only Deathwalker's ship,
+	not an EA vessel.  And the Vorlon ship waited until Deathwalker's 
+	ship was far from B5, just before entering the gate, before coming out
+	to strike.   At that range, it couldn't miss, and at that distance, 
+	B5 couldn't react fast enough.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The EA escort got her as far as the gate.  Then peeled away.  And then
+	the Vorlon ship came out.  That's what Sinlair said: "They will escort
+	you as far as the gate."  And even if they had stayed with her THROUGH
+	the gate, it would've made no difference.  Vorlon ship comes through.
+	Fires at Deathwalker's ship.  EA ships fire back.  No visible effect,
+	the cruiser shrugs it off and goes back the way it came.  Single 
+	Starfuries wouldn't even *dent* a Vorlon cruiser.  So same result.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair was taught by Jesuits...and as far as Kosh goes, better to
+	have him where you can see him, than not.  They *are* a powerful 
+	group, and it wouldn't serve to ignore them.  We courted them for 10
+	years for a first contact...and now we're stuck with them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jim, your thesis comes from the underlying assumption that, as in the
+	Trek universe, All Things Must Be Done Fairly, the government must in 
+	the end be wise and fair and sensible.
+
+	
      
+	That ain't our universe.  That ain't even *this* universe.
+
+	
      
+	Sinclair must follow orders.  He didn't want to escort Deathwalker off
+	and on to Earth, those were his marching orders.  *The same marching 
+	orders would be given to an ambassador representing Earth*.  So your
+	career diplomat would be in exactly the same position.  What, do you
+	think that career diplomats are independent agents of goodness?  They
+	all work for SOMEone, representing their interests.
+
+	
      
+	Earth put in the majority of the money required to build and operate
+	B5.  They have the right, as such, to appoint a provisional governor,
+	nad (and) that is the function that Sinclair mainly serves.  He runs
+	this place, AND he is responsible for maintaining good relations with
+	other representatives.  He is also on a short leash.  And in some 
+	cases, as in "By Any Means Necessary," other people are sent in to 
+	handle certain kinds of negotiations.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, it is a conflict of interest.  So what?  Do you think Earth cares
+	much about that?  Is it awkward?  Yes, of course.  It *should* put him
+	in moral quandries.  The Earth Government is constantly getting him
+	into binds.  What they wanted him to do in "Deathwalker" was more or
+	less of a dubious nature.  But in the end, he found a fairly moral
+	solution to the problem.  That's what he does.  He finds anhonorable
+	way out of very difficult and morally ambiguous situations.  What you
+	suggest is that we remove the moral ambiguities.  Ehhh.  I find that
+	boring as hell.
+
+	
      
+	Do the other species like it?  Of course not.  Okay, so what're they
+	going to do?  Boycott B5?  And let other species take advantage of all
+	the economic and political benefits the station provides?  Let others
+	grow in familiarity and form alliances that might in time turn against
+	them?  Not a chance.  Fair or not, it's the only game in town.
+
+	
      
+	So I don't buy your solution because I don't think it's a problem.  
+	You do.  That's life.  Political situations are rarely fair, or  
+	logical, or ethical.  If politics were based on ethics this would be
+	a MUCH better world.  But politics are generally based on who has the
+	power, and the money, and the guts.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Dilgar War was one of the first conflicts that the EA got into,
+	soon after establishing a presence in space.  We mainly entered it to
+	try and make a "rep" for ourselves, then got more morally involved 
+	when we saw what was going on.  That and the Minbari War are the only
+	real major conflicts Earth has been involved with, and Earth was not
+	directly at risk in the Dilgar war, though if they hadn't been stopped,
+	that might have changed eventually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yes, the Windswords were the warrior clan involved in the events
+	in "The Gathering."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Talia, like all Psi Corps members, wears gloves because she has to,
+	when in public, to minimize physical contact and accidental scans.  
+	As for others wearing gloves...sometimes it's a fashion statement
+	... and other times, well, space is very very cold....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Abbut was screwing around when he said "I'm a 23 myself," just 
+	messing with her.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Kosh's voice-the rumblings and bells and stuff, not the translation-
+	seemed to be missing a lot of the lower tones and bass that I 
+	remembered hearing previously."
+
+	
      
+	He had a cold.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "It also adds another piece of miracle tech never to be seen again."
+	
      
+	Wrong.
+	
      
+	In point of fact, virtually *none* of the new tech stuff is just
+	gone...you'd be surprised what'll be showing up again down the road
+	a piece....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: B5's roster of strong women characters...this is something of a
+	bugaboo/obsession with me.  I *love* writing strong women.  (For that
+	matter, I love strong-willed, independent, smart women in real life 
+	as well; I love being outsmarted, love it when someone can go toe-to-
+	toe with me on something.)  Generally, and this isn't entirely 
+	intentional, women on shows I work on tend to get some of the best 
+	lines, as is often the case with Ivanova.  It's not a case of being 
+	"one of the boys," but being one of the *people*.  There's a subtle 
+	difference.
+	
      
+	The women I write are often very close to many of the women I've been
+	involved with over the years.  So far, no one's sued....
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+and Steven Grimm.
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin asks Sinclair to intermediate with an alien family who, because of
+their religious beliefs, refuses to allow surgery that would
+save their dying child.
+
+
+Silvana Gallardo as Dr. Maya Hernandez.
+Jonathon Kaplan as Shon.
+Tricia O'Neil as M'Ola.
+Stephen Lee as Tharg.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 7.74
+
+Production number:  105
+Original air date:  April 27, 1994
+
+Written by David Gerrold
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Some outside influence has interfered with the Minbari religion
+	in the past.
+   
    •  The Children of Time, a minor race with strong religious beliefs,
+	would rather let one of their number die than allow invasive surgery,
+	which they believe destroys the soul.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin's willingness to break the rules for a cause he believes in,
+	while it's indicative of a strong moral character, seems likely to
+	get him into hot water at some point.
+
+   
    •  On the other hand, Sinclair doesn't want to be placed in a position
+	in which he has to stop Franklin from doing what he believes in;
+	Sinclair would rather sidestep the issue than have his hand forced.
+	This is consistent with his handling of the Senator's instructions
+	in "Midnight on the Firing Line."
+
+   
    •  The parents' reaction when Delenn refused to help could be viewed as
+	hypocritical; they were perfectly willing to ask Delenn to violate
+	her beliefs so they wouldn't have to violate their own.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Kosh is aware that he was examined by Dr. Kyle (cf.
+	"The Gathering".)
+	When he's asked how he would feel if a doctor performed
+	an operation on him, he says, "The avalanche has already begun.
+	It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  By the way, here's something interesting: an outline got turned in
+	this week for an episode which I won't identify just now.  Came in 
+	from one of our writers, based on an assigned premise.  It's 
+	something you've never seen done in ANY SF-TV series, and I don't
+	think has ever been done in TV overall.  A very daring little story.
+
+	
      
+	Word finally came back from our liaison with PTEN.  "Number one, this
+	is absolutely against the demographics on the show.  Number two, no 
+	studio or network executive in his right *mind* would EVER approve 
+	this story in a million years.  Number three...it's a hell of a 
+	story, I love it, let's do it."
+
+	
      
+	This has been emblematic of our relationship with PTEN: they've left
+	us alone, and are trusting us in our storytelling.  We want to go 
+	right out to the very edge, and they're letting us, which is 
+	wonderful.  They've been, and continue to be, terrific to work with.
+
+	
      
+	If the end of this particular story doesn't absolutely floor you,
+	nothing will.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When I developed the basic Believers story, and was looking for someone
+	to assign it to, David was the first person we went to. He asked me
+	at the time why him...he's more generally associated with humorous
+	stuff. I had my reasons. See, lately, David adopted a young boy,
+	about the same age as Shon.  So about halfway into the outline, David
+	called and said, "NOW I understand." I knew that having a child of
+	his own now would mean that the story would be a lot more personal.
+	Especially the end scene, which I knew would have to be done *very*
+	carefully. I think David did a great job, and under his guidance it
+	turned into a very moving episode. And with any luck, he'll write
+	more down the road.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's some small amount of blurring that goes on in this show; a
+	freelancer turns in a script, and things get added.  For instance,
+	there was a need to really tighten up the story in "Believers," 
+	which could best be done by bringing in a small B story, which would
+	allow us to streamline and intensify the main story.  So I wrote the
+	B story and slipped it in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Today David Gerrold came by the set to watch some of the shooting 
+	on his episode, "Believers."  Unlike many shows, which basically
+	throw the writer off the set, our writers are welcome to hang around.
+	It's not only okay, it's *expected* that the writer will be there at
+	some point, to be a part of the process.  David was quite ebullient
+	about the whole thing; he thinks that this is the best script he's 
+	ever written, and it's being filmed exactly as he'd hoped, if not 
+	better.  So there he was, getting autographs, muttering something 
+	about somebody named "Hugo...."
+
+	
      
+	What was interesting was one comment he made, which echoed almost
+	verbatim something D.C. Fontana said when she came by the stage: that
+	the atmosphere on set, with the crew, the cast, the production people
+	is exactly the same as it was on the first season of the original
+	Star Trek.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I know from pfingle eggs...I let David have the reference because...
+	well, I don't know anymore...I think water torture was involved.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Similarity between "Believers" & a DS9 novel?
      
+	A couple points.  1) When "Believers" was written, Peter's book hadn't
+	yet hit the stands.  2) Peter likely got his notion of the sick kid
+	and the religious parents from the same basic source we did: the
+	headlines.  This has been an ongoing problem in real life for some 
+	time.  So he took that real premise, and did one story based on it, 
+	and we did another extrapolation.  This notion did *not* originate in
+	the Trek universe....
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yeah, TV generally doesn't do this kind of ending. Which is
+	why we did it...and our liaison at Warner Bros. deserves a lot of
+	credit for letting us do it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It was important to tell David to pull no punches because in TV, most
+	producers *want* you to do so, and he had to know going in that this
+	was the way the story would go.  David's a great writer, and David's a
+	professional...meaning he understands where the general limits of TV 
+	are.  If you're going to move the lines around, it behooves you to  
+	tell your writer that.  Knowing the rules, he went out and did a 
+	bangup job on the episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I view Delenn's comment about "suffering the interference of others"
+	in regards to matters of the soul in "Believers" to be a reference to
+	the Soul Hunter.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happened to Ivanova when she encountered the raiders? She
+	got away by long-distance firing as she retreated as fast as she
+	could, taking shots as she went. It wouldn't look real exciting in
+	the long run.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How Ivanova got away from the Raiders was taking advantage of her
+	lead to run away, occasionally firing backward to deter pursuit,
+	until she got to the jumpgate.  It wasn't really anything dramatically
+	interesting, and at that point you would start distracting from the
+	main plot...and that couldn't be allowed to happen.  There's really
+	no place in the rest of the act where you can cut in without destroying
+	it.  And in the tag there's no room for the pursuit, only the arrival.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Excuse me....
+
+	
      
+	You don't think that "Believers" was SF.  Tough.
+
+	
      
+	No, it didn't have warp gates, or tachyon emitters, or lots of
+	technobabble...it was about people.  And the dilemmas they face.
+
+	
      
+	Part of what has screwed up so much of SF-TV is this sense that you
+	must utterly divorce yourself from current issues, from current 
+	problems, from taking on issues of today and extrapolating them into
+	the future, by way of aliens or SF constructs.  And that is 
+	*precisely* why so much of contemporary SF-TV is barren and lifeless
+	and irrelevant...and *precisely* why such series as the original Star
+	Trek, and Outer Limits, and Twilight Zone are with us today.
+
+	
      
+	Like Rod Serling and Gene Roddenberry and Joe Stefano and Reginald
+	Rose and Arch Oboler and Norman Corwin and a bunch of other writers 
+	whose typewriters I'm not fit to touch, my goal in part is to simply 
+	tell good stories within an SF setting.  And by SF I mean speculative
+	fiction, which sometimes touches on hard-SF aspects, and sometimes 
+	doesn't.  Speculative fiction means you look at how society changes, 
+	how cultures interact with one another, how belief systems come into 
+	conflict.  And as someone else here noted recently, anthropology and
+	sociology are also sciences; soft sciences, to be sure, but sciences 
+	nonetheless.
+
+	
      
+	It's been pointed out that TV-SF is generally 20-30 years behind
+	print SF.  This whole conversation proves the point quite succinctly.
+	In the 1960s or so, along came the New Wave of SF, which eschewed 
+	hardware for stories about the human condition set against an SF 
+	background.  And the fanzines and prozines and techno-loving pundits
+	of hard-SF declared it heresy, said it wasn't SF, this is crap.  And
+	eventually they were steamrolled, and print SF grew up a little.  Now
+	the argument has come to settle here.  Well, fine.  So be it.
+
+	
      
+	I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said that SF is anything I point
+	to and say, "That's SF."  Go pick up a copy of "A Canticle for 
+	Liebowitz," one of the real singular masterpieces of the science 
+	fiction genre, and it won't fit the narrow criteria you've set up for
+	what qualifies as SF by your lights.
+
+	
      
+	There is a tendency among the more radical hard-SF proponents to stamp
+	their feet and hold their breath until they turn blue, to threaten
+	that unless the book changes or the field comes around or the series
+	cottens to *their* specific, narrow version of what SF is -- and that
+	definition changes from person to person -- they'll take their ball 
+	and their bat and go home.  Fine and good.  And the millions who come
+	to take their place in the bleachers and on the field will get to have
+	all the fun.
+
+	
      
+	Some of our episodes will fit your definition of SF.  Some will not.
+	This worries me not at all.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The area that cannot be opened is the chest area, primarily; a nick or
+	cut or scratch really doesn't count; it's puncturing to the body 
+	cavity wherein the soul is housed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the parents were not charged with murder.  When a species on the
+	station acts against one of their own kind in a particular way, and no
+	other species is affected, they are judged by the laws that apply to 
+	their own species and culture.  In their culture, what they did is not
+	a crime, so they received no punishment.  Had they done this to a 
+	human, then yes, they would have been charged with murder.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm not quite sure if we're talking about the same thing; the
+	two parents never said that the kid would die if he underwent the
+	surgery, only that his soul would escape. This would leave him
+	"soul-dead," for lack of a better phrase. And how are we to tell that
+	they weren't right? I don't think it's quite as cut and dried as you
+	seem to present. (And again, they were acting very much out of their
+	real beliefs of how the universe operates. If someone here is
+	injured, and declared brain dead, most folks think it's okay to pull
+	the plug...even though one could make the argument that there's still
+	a living soul in the body. This is the opposite situation; one may
+	argue that there is still a mind somewhere in the body, but the soul
+	is dead or gone.  The phrase they use is that they put the shell out
+	of its misery. To their mind, he was dead already.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, I disagree when you say that the doctor was right.  Says 
+	who?  Not the parents.  Not the episode.  Nobody was really right, 
+	when you come down to it, except maybe Sinclair, who made the correct
+	call.  You say the boy was okay at the end...the parents didn't think
+	so.  Who's to say if there was or wasn't a soul inside?
+
+	
      
+	I think David's script walked a very fine line and really didn't
+	endorse either side.  (I've had people send me email upset because we
+	showed that the parents were right, and others because we said the 
+	doctor was right, and others because neither was right and the 
+	ambiguity bothered them.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of course the surgical scars would've been a dead giveaway that
+	surgery had been performed.  Also, lying to them would have also been
+	a violation of medical ethics.  This was not a story about easy 
+	solutions.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a wonderful scene in "Fiddler on the Roof" where Tevya is
+	caught in an argument between two Rabbis.  The first one makes a 
+	point. "You're right!" Tevya says.  The second Rabbi makes a
+	contradictory point. "You're right!" Tevya says.  A third Rabbi,
+	looking on, says, "Wait a minute, they can't *both* be right."
+
+	
      
+	"You know," Tevya says, "you're right too."
+
+
      
+   
    •  A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see
+	what you put into it.  "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-
+	religion, anti-religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has been
+	interpreted, as you note, as pro-capital punishment, and anti-capital
+	punishment.  We do, as you say, much prefer to leave the decision on
+	what things mean to the viewer to hash out.
+
+	
      
+	A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the
+	occasional bar fight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "The concept of loving parents being able to kill their child for
+	their religions seems to be unrealistic."
+
+	
      
+	Funny...I seem to recall this little story in the Old Testament about
+	how a good and wise man was asked by god to sacrifice his own son, to
+	himself kill his own child, and he was willing to do it, and was only
+	stopped by god saying, in essence, "April fool."
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the "predictable" argument...I can only shrug.  The kid has a 50/50
+	chance...he'll survive or die.  And guessing the end isn't, for me, 
+	the key; this isn't a who-dunit; it's how our characters react on the
+	way there, and what it *does* to them, I think.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Since I suggested the ending to David, right down to the candles, I
+	suppose I'll take the rap...but the question you're raising isn't the
+	issue.  There are only two possible results: the kid lives, or the kid
+	dies, there ain't much in-between.  You ask, "Who on earth is going to
+	side with people who kill their own child?"  The audience isn't being
+	asked to *side* with anyone, there IS no easy solution, and no one is
+	100% in the right.
+	
      
+	There is a wonderful short story, which we adapted for Twilight Zone,
+	called "The Cold Equations," where a small shuttle is going from point
+	A to point B.  There is enough fuel for the shuttle, and one pilot, 
+	and no more.  The ship is bringing medicine to save 500 colonists.  A 
+	young girl has stowed away on the ship to see her brother.  She's 
+	discovered.  If the pilot does nothing, the ship won't arrive, and he 
+	and the girl will die, and the colonists will die.  If he sacrifices 
+	himself, she won't be able/won't know how to guide the ship to its 
+	destination.  The only way out is to ask her to enter the airlock so 
+	he can space her and continue the mission.  And that's what happens.
+	You can't argue with math.
+	
      
+	Sometimes, there are no-win scenarios.  And what matters then is how
+	your characters react, what they do and say, and how it affects them.
+	That, really, was the thrust of the episode.  And to go back to your
+	question, "Who on earth is going to side...."
+	
      
+	The operative word in your question is "Earth."  No, no human is going
+	to side with them (although I'd point out in the Bible that there is
+	the story of Abraham, who was quite willing to murder his own son at
+	god's request).  They're not humans.  They have a wholly different
+	mindset, cultural background and belief system.  People ask for ALIEN
+	aliens, then judge them by human standards, and feel it's wrong if
+	they don't behave like humans.  These didn't.  That's who and what 
+	they are.   If humans side with them, or accept them, doesn't enter 
+	into it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The choice *had* to be either/or.  That was the point; to put the
+	characters in a situation of conflict and see how they handle it.
+	Sometimes in life there are ONLY two choices, neither of them good.
+	Your message comes from a position of trying to avoid the hard
+	choices.  But the episode is ABOUT hard choices.  It *has* to be 
+	either/or.
+	
      
+	To support your thesis, you bring up the "Cold Equations" alternate
+	ending of the pilot cutting off both his legs to make up the weight
+	differential.  Lemme explain something to you.  I was there.  When we
+	turned in the script, by Alan Brennert, MGM went nuts.  "You can't 
+	have a sympathetic young woman commit suicide!  It'll kill the 
+	ratings!"  So they (the studio exec) suggested various "fixes."  One
+	was that instead of stepping willingly out the airlock, the pilot 
+	shoots her and has to deal with the guilt.  (This by them is a 
+	*better* idea?)  The other was the notion of the guy cutting off his 
+	legs to make up the weight.
+	
      
+	First and foremost, it was a dumb idea because he'd be in no shape to
+	pilot the ship.  Second it wouldn't be enough weight.  And finally, 
+	the very *nature* of "The Cold Equations," what the very TITLE means,
+	is that there are some occasions in which the choices are stark, and
+	there is NO way around them.  If the ship has X-weight, and the fuel
+	is for Y weight, and Y is less than X, then you've got a problem that
+	can only -- ONLY -- be resolved by someone walking out the airlock. 
+	(And yes, they tried dumping things, but the ship is lean, not much 
+	to get rid of.)   That's why it's the COLD equations; not the LUKEWARM
+	equations.
+	
      
+	I fought like hell to retain the original ending, and won.  (You
+	probably read about this, btw, in my articles for TZ Magazine.)  This
+	is studio-think, let's find a nice, unthreatening, safe, middle-ground
+	where we can resolve this without anybody being upset, threatened or
+	offended by the story.  I'm sorry, but life sometimes hands you hard
+	choices, there ARE either/or scenarios, in which nobody really wins,
+	and SF should be exploring those as well as the fuzzy feel-good 
+	stories.  It's time SF grew up a little, damn it, and started
+	confronting hard questions that can't always be resolved by reversing
+	the polarity on the metaphase unit.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Afterthought: I just wandered into the kitchen, still ranting (as I 
+	am wont to do), explained it to Kathryn...who brought me up short (as
+	*she* is wont to do) by pointing out the antecedent to BOTH stories.
+	The ultimate "hard choice" example in SF-TV is of course "The City on
+	the Edge of Forever," fromST.  There are only two choices, both hard:
+	either Edith Keeler dies, or the Nazis win WW II.  Kirk *has* to let
+	her die; there's no other choice.
+	
      
+	It is, at the same moment, gratifying and annoying to have someone
+	around who's smarter than I am....
+
+
      
+   
    •  There were no changes in dialogue made in "Believers" subsequent to
+	the first airing.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi's past catches up to him, with some disastrous consequences.
+He's blamed by some for an accident
+aboard B5, which leads to hitting the bottle again after a
+prolonged abstinence.
+
+
+Elaine Thomas as Lianna Kemmer.
+Tom Donaldson as Cutter.
+
    
+
+Originally titled "A Knife in the Shadows"
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.65
+
+Production number:  111
+Original air date:  May 4, 1994
+
+Written by Mark Scott Zicree
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi was a shuttle pilot on Mars before coming to Babylon 5.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Who was the assassin working for?  Who wants Santiago dead?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova's reluctance to stop the countdown is suspicious.  Perhaps
+	she had some reason to want the launch to take place; perhaps she
+	even knew what was going to happen if it did.
+   
    •  Everyone from his past considers Garibaldi a no-good drunk.  Why
+	did Sinclair give him a second chance?  (Addressed in comic series,
+	"Shadows Past and Present.")
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  We're already doing it, and have done it. We've already begun
+	integrating "virtual sets" in with real ones. As an example...in the
+	next-to-last shot in "Survivors," someone is entering a ship in the
+	docking bay. The only real object in that room, aside from the actor,
+	is a ladder. Everything else is CGI...but you can't tell.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In "Survivors," we attempted a cgi/composite shot out the window, which
+	looks pretty spiffy, actually. It's in the teaser. We may do this in
+	future.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The *reason* we had Garibaldi go through all the hoops he went through
+	before finally falling into the bottle is because simply having Liana
+	show up and depress Garibaldi isn't, frankly, sufficient motivation.  
+	I don't buy it.  We wanted to strip away everything he had, and leave
+	him with only *himself*.  So we took away his job, his reputation, his
+	money, his home, neutralized his friends wherever possible...it was 
+	deliberate and systematic to peel him down to the bare essentials, to
+	just Garibaldi.  Take him all the way down before taking him back up 
+	again.  Because it's more dramatically interesting.  It's more logical
+	that it would take something this major to drive him back into the 
+	bottle after staying sober all this time.  I'm sorry, I don't accept 
+	your suggestion that Liana's "anger and accusations" would "drive him
+	over the edge as he deals with his guilt."  He's BEEN dealing with his
+	guilt, and her showing up wouldn't be enough to drive him back into 
+	the bottle again.  I'm sorry, but as a producer or a story editor, I 
+	wouldn't buy that from a writer as being sufficient motivation.  
+	Particularly not a character who's as strong and as bull-headed as 
+	Garibaldi.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What do I know about alcoholics, to portray them?  Well, aside from
+	a degree in clinical psychology, and some internship work in the area,
+	I come from a family with alcoholism going back at least four 
+	generations, and I'm talking *heavy duty*.  I am, in fact, the first
+	male Straczynski in my branch of this particular stunted tree NOT to 
+	have this problem.
+
+	
      
+	I have had far, far, far more experience with this area than I care
+	to recite...and from that perspective, I have no problem with
+	Garibaldi's portrayal.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Cutter went after Garibaldi only because that's who the dying worker
+	named as being responsible for the bomb.  (He didn't know he was dying,
+	and wanted to throw blame; and even if he did know, what better than
+	to nail the guy who'd hassled him before?)  Cutter only took advantage
+	of the situation.
+
+	
      
+	Luis Santiago is playing it both ways, allowing more trade and certain
+	kinds of immigration, while preserving earth *culture*; this isn't the
+	same thing as a trade embargo.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The name of General Netter was stuck in as a tweak to Doug, it's a
+	tuckerism (for those who know the term).  We've done it a bit here
+	and there; I kinda started shutting the process down after a while,
+	since it was getting carried away.  I don't want it to be obtrusive.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think Kemmer's name was inspired by the actor's name from the
+	Space Patrol series....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Drazi are a very violent, ill-tempered species; they were the ones
+	who first showed up in "Deathwalker" in a Sunhawk to threaten the 
+	station; they beat up the guy in "The War Prayer;" they show up here 
+	in "Survivors;" there's an episode about a form of martial arts among
+	the aliens that has a Drazi going at it...if there's a fight around, 
+	you can often find a Drazi at the center of it or at least nearby.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think you're taking what I said to the extreme; I didn't say [the 
+	Drazi] were bloodthirsty savages, only that they had a predilection 
+	toward violence, and were generally very cranky.  And not all great
+	thinkers have to sit around in elizabethan garb, delicate flowers
+	watching the skies rotate.  Aggressive people can be good thinkers;
+	it needn't be one or the other.
+
+
      
+   
    •  ...the end of "Survivors," where Kemmer enters her ship...in reality
+	there is only a ladder there.  The ship, the walls, the door she
+	enters, all that is CGI/virtual set.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An accident in the docking area kills a worker, threatening to spark an
+illegal strike.  Londo interferes in an
+important Narn religious observation which leads to a
+confrontation between him and G'Kar.
+
+
+John Snyder as Orin Zento.
+Katy Boyer as Neeoma Connoly.
+Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.
+
    
+
+Originally titled "Backlash"
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 rating: 7.84
+
+Production number:  114
+Original air date:  May 11, 1994
+
+Written by Kathryn Drennan
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  The Narn homeworld is 12 Narn light years away, about 10 Earth
+	light years.
+   
    •  Narn ranks seem to connote some kind of religious authority; the
+	highest-ranked Narn is expected to lead religious services.
+   
    •  The Rush Act, put in place during the Earth-Minbari War, allows the
+	Earth government to break up labor strikes using any means necessary.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  How much trouble did Londo go through to get the G'Quan Eth plant,
+	and did he do it solely to upset G'Kar?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  The Earth government has a very low tolerance for troublemakers,
+	it seems -- at least, troublemakers who operate in the open.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  The Rush Act was named after conservative American television and radio
+	commentator
+	Rush Limbaugh.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nearly all of our production crew appear in "By Any Means Necessary"
+	at various spots; the guy yelling "I say we STRIKE!" is our director,
+	Jim Johnston.  And yes, John Flinn ["Grail"] was played by John Flinn,
+	our DP.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Rush Act only refers to unions, for the most part; it's not a
+	wide-ranging law. It was developed during the Earth/Minbari war to
+	deal quickly and effectively with corporations or unions which were
+	being difficult and otherwise holding up the war effort. (The air
+	traffic controllers union would be a good example of the government
+	doing whatever it felt necessary to resolve the situation.) The law
+	grants extraordinary power to resolve any kind of strike or union
+	action which endangers the operation of a military base or other
+	military operation, as Zento states. It applies only to that area,
+	and remains on the books, though (as is also pointed out) it hasn't
+	been used in a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A UK poster inquires about Rush Limbaugh, for whom the Rush Act
+	in this episode was named
      
+	Re: who is Rush Limbaugh....
+	
      
+	Leading American proctologist.
+	
      
+	Trust me.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair's decision is legal...but not politic, and it will come back as
+	one of many decisions to haunt him in "Eyes."
+
+
      
+   
    •  As for happy endings...you want some variety, I think; we had a tough
+	ending in "Believers," a bittersweet ending in "Survivors," and here 
+	things worked out for G'Kar and Connoly, but in a way did *not* work
+	out for Sinclair.  He's going to be hearing about this decision of 
+	his again, in the not too distant future.  He's getting further and
+	further behind the eight-ball with some of these decisions, and he's
+	going to get hammered about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Exactly my point; there are differences between similar alien groups
+	(like the Narn) in culture, language and religion, with BAMN being
+	a good demonstration of the latter.  Which is why I could only shrug
+	and say "Wait" after people started hammering on me here about 
+	monolithic alien religions after "Parliament."  We'd already filmed
+	BAMN by then, so I knew it was there.  That's one thing about this 
+	show that some have found out...generally, what you'd like us to do,
+	we've probably done or are about to do (hence the many times, when 
+	I'm asked about something, that we can just say, "Wait until X airs 
+	in 2 weeks" or somesush).
+
+	
      
+	Still dancing as fast as I can....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The writer for "By Any Means Necessary" is Kathryn Drennan, who is
+	very astute politically, a believer in the rights of workers (and all
+	folks, actually), and think that characters are more interesting if 
+	they act smart than if they act stupid.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kathryn's last name is Drennan.  Her full credit is Kathryn M. 
+	Drennan.  Not Straczynski.  Probably displaying considerable wisdom
+	on her part.  Ten thousand letters, no vowels.
+
+	
      
+	Absent a collaboration on a series of articles for TZ Magazine a few
+	years ago (a guide to the Night Gallery series), we don't collaborate.
+	Ever.  I also don't collaborate with Larry D., or any other of my
+	writer friends.  As I learned before, particularly on the one occasion
+	when Larry and I tried it -- we co-wrote a pilot and bible for CBS
+	based on the "Elfquest" books -- all parties concerned will live a LOT
+	longer by keeping a respectable distance.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One thing I can mention now, since it's nearly finished: see, I have
+	this real problem with nepotism.  Specifically...I hate it.  As a 
+	result, I make people I know work twice as hard.  The closer the tie,
+	the more the person has to work to prove him or herself.  
+
+	
      
+	Kathryn Drennan, my Spousal Overunit, is also a writer, and has 
+	written for many other shows, primarily in animation, but with some
+	forays into other areas.  (She was co-author on the Night Gallery 
+	series of articles I wrote for Twilight Zone Magazine, as one 
+	fr'instance, and was a producer with public televison for some time.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, she desperately wanted to write a B5 script.  But because of
+	my feelings about nepotism, I refused to give her an assignment.  (I
+	can be a REAL pain in the ass.)  Something similar happened when I was
+	working on The Real Ghostbusters; she loved the show, and wanted to 
+	write for it.  I put her through the wringer: she had to submit 
+	written premises, just like any other freelance writer, which were 
+	then sent on to the producers for final approval.  They did not know
+	of any relation between her and me; they based their approval only on
+	the merits of the story.  Period.  And she ended up writing two 
+	episodes: "Egon's Dragon" and "The Man Who Never Reached Home."  (The
+	former is considered a favorite by many viewers of the show.)  Only
+	long after we finished production did the exec producers on TRGBs 
+	learn that there was a relationship there; it was all based on the
+	quality of the work.
+
+	
      
+	But in the case of B5, I *am* the exec producer, so it became more
+	difficult.  At first I said simply no.  Finally, I set into place a
+	number of conditions/provisions.  NOT because she wouldn't do a great
+	script, but only because I don't like the look of nepotism; I hate it,
+	and I hate the way this town operates on the principles of nepotism. 
+	The conditions were that she had to write the script completely on
+	spec, no assignment; not a spec outline, which is shorter, but a spec
+	*script*.   It would then have to pass muster in-house; if even one
+	person thought it wasn't up to snuff, it got deep sixed.  And 
+	revisions would not be handled by me, for the most part; she would 
+	have to work with Larry, who has a reputation (as Katherine Lawrence
+	can attest) to not pulling his punches.  No favoritism.  Then the 
+	script would have to pass muster with Warners.  IF, after all that, 
+	the script was approved, then it would be bought, and not a moment 
+	before.  If anywhere along the line it didn't meet one of those 
+	criteria...then it would be a 50 page learning experience and nothing
+	more.
+
+	
      
+	Well, I'm pleased to say that it *did* pass muster with everyone, and
+	"By Any Means Necessary" is now over halfway through production, with
+	a number of people -- including Michael O'Hare -- saying it's their 
+	favorite so far, mainly for very odd reasons.  The premise is one that
+	ST would never, EVER do, which is one thing I like about it; it also 
+	shows us more on the inner workings of B5, the blue-collar types who 
+	keep the whole place operational...and what happens when that falls
+	apart.  The B story gets into a confrontation between G'Kar and Londo
+	when Londo interferes in an important Narn religious observation.
+
+	
      
+	We brought back John Snyder (Soul Hunter #2) minus prosthetics for
+	one guest role, and Katy Boyer as our other guest star.  They're both
+	doing terrific jobs, and it's a very intense script in which we 
+	basically put Sinclair through the wringer for 48 hours and try and
+	make him absolutely nuts.  And succeed, for the most part.
+
+	
      
+	Anyway...there you have it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The reference in "By Any Means" is to Matewan, where a terrible
+	labor strike took place (and a film was made about it); the other is
+	Matawan, which is where I lived for a while, but the reference is to
+	the former, not the latter.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A sharp increase in raider activity has the station on the defensive.
+Londo obtains a priceless Centauri artifact.  A mysterious stranger visits
+the station's alien ambassadors.
+
+
+Gerrit Graham as Lord Kiro.
+Fredi Olster as Lady Ladira.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "Raiding Party")
+
    +Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+P5 rating: 9.01
+
+Production number:  116
+Original air date:  May 18, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • The Minbari refused to support Babylon 5 until Commander Sinclair was
+named as the Earth Alliance representative.
+
    • The emperor of the Centauri hasn't been seen in public for some time,
+contributing to an erosion of the government's credibility in the eyes of
+the Centauri populace.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Who or what is Morden, and who does he represent?
+   
    •  What do Delenn and Kosh know about him?
+   
    •  Why did the Minbari want Sinclair in charge of the station?
+   
    •  How big and organized are the raiders?
+   
    •  What impact will the Eye have on Londo's career?  Will he even return
+	it to the Emperor, or will he try to use it for his own gain?
+   
    •  How did Mr. Reno get his hands on the Eye?
+   
    •  How did Morden's associates locate the raiders and recover the Eye?
+   
    •  Who will escape on the shuttle in Ladira's vision?  When will the
+	vision come true, if ever, and what will the circumstances be?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn and Kosh clearly have some sort of perception beyond normal
+	senses, be it telepathy or something else.  Kosh's seems to be much more
+	advanced.
+   
    •  Delenn's perception seems to be connected to the appearance of the
+	triangle on her forehead.  Note that this triangle was also present
+	when Sinclair was interrogated by the Grey Council at the Battle of
+	the Line (cf. "And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+   
    •  Kosh recognized what Morden was immediately.  That suggests
+	previous contact between the Vorlons and Morden's people.
+   
    •  Kosh said, "They are not for you," referring to humans, though that's
+	not completely clear from the episode itself.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+   
    •  Morden and Kosh appeared to have fought, resulting in the damage to
+	Kosh's encounter suit.  Since Morden continued to go about his business,
+	perhaps Kosh capitulated or lost the fight, or perhaps he was only
+	interested in stopping Morden from seeing Sinclair.  One interesting
+	thing about this alleged fight is the light that shatters behind
+	Morden as the scene ends -- just a power surge from the attack, or
+	something else at work?
+   
    •  Babylon 5 may be destined for destruction, apparently with only a single
+	shuttle escaping in time.  (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+   
    •  Where did Morden's disembodied voice come from at the end?
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We're retitling "Raiding Party" (which I always figured was a working
+title, too prosaic) to "Signs and Portents."  Figured it'd be nice to
+have one episode title per (projected) year carrying the year-arc 
+title.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Signs and Portents" is the overall title for year one; but just as one may
+entitle a chapter in a book the same as the book itself, this episode has the
+year-title in it (which may signify that this one is, well, significant....).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What did Kosh mean by "they?"
+And who's on the shuttle?
      
+They refers to humans.  There was no need to ask Sinclair, and he
+was under orders not to.  And who is on that shuttle...is an excellent
+question.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why the same old launching scene?
      
+I tend to agree re: the launching shots.  There were going to be some
+new ones for S&P, but there were SO many new shots in that one that
+we just ran out of rendering time.  There's some new ones coming, though,
+and very dramatic looking, in "Babylon Squared" and the two-parter.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I agree; Ed [Wasser, who played Morden] did a great job.
+He was perfect for that role.  (He has an oddly Rod Serling-ish quality to
+his stance, I've noticed.)  And he will definitely be seen again.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ed Wasser is sort of our discovery; I pretty much wrote the part
+of Morden with him in mind for the role.  He's great in it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You noticed that too, huh?  Surprised me, too.  We'd cast him in the
+part of Morden, then the first day's dailies come in, and his stance,
+his manner, the way he looks...we all looked at the TV and said, more
+or less at once, "Holy shit, it's Rod Serling!"
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Funny story.  Saw Ed Wasser ("Morden") the other day, and asked him if
+he'd had any reaction to his first appearance on the show.  Just one,
+he said.  He was in a florist shop, picking out some stuff for a 
+friend who was sick.  The proprieter came over, asked, "What do you 
+want?"  Ed sorta mumbled about wanting some flowers.  "What do you
+want?" the owner asked again.  Ed -- still not getting it -- said he 
+was looking for some nice stuff for a friend who was sick.  "Yes, but
+what do you *want*?" the owner asked.  At which point Ed finally 
+twigged to what was going on.  He said afterward that it really *is*
+an unnerving approach, which was kinda the point.
+
+
      
+Of course, the owner then added that he thought the scene was from 
+DS9, but what the hell, it's an imperfect universe.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+One lovely thing about "Signs and Portents," which
+you picked
+up on, is something I like to play with; implying one thing while saying the
+opposite.  Look at all the shadow's main representative, Morden, does: he
+asks people what they want; he gets tossed out of Delenn's quarters; he
+is pleasant in his demeanor at all times, never yells, always smiles, and
+is courteous; he takes an action which saves one of our main characters,
+Londo, from disgrace and resignation, and helps in the process of scragging
+the bad guys in the episode.
+
      
+And yet everyone walks away thinking that the shadows are bad.  Which
+was of course the intent...by the way in which they did "good."
+
      
+Kosh prevents humanity from achieving immortality, scares the hell out
+of Talia (cf.
+"Deathwalker",)
+never gives anyone a straight answer, doesn't seem to mind it if
+people fear him...and we walk away with the presumption that he is good,
+by virtue of the way in which he did things that were "bad."
+
      
+[...] This is something I do a lot in my scripts, which I don't generally
+see a lot of other people doing.  You *really* have to construct the
+script very carefully to pull something like this off...a little game
+between me and the audience.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Morden tried to find out what the ambassadors would like.  Morden
+arranged to rescue an important Centauri artifact.  Morden helped 
+wipe out the crooks.  Morden saved Londo's career, and asked for
+nothing in return.
+
      
+And yet we get the sense that Morden is a bad guy.
+
      
+Kosh destroys our chance for immortality.  Refuses to get involved
+in the affairs of others.  Is plainly studying us.  Terrorizes one 
+of our main characters, Talia, for unknown reasons.
+
      
+And yet we get the sense that Kosh is a good guy.
+
      
+If anyone should ask, I really *love* writing this show....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, the origin of "What do you want?" comes from encounter
+groups I've run, and from other kinds of group psychotherapy, such as the
+original Synanon games; you ask, "Who are you?" over and over, refusing
+to take the same answer twice, to peel away the fabric of what the
+person is.  It's a slight jump to "What do you want?"  (I knew that
+degree in Psychology would come in handy one of these days.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why Londo?  Because he was the one who answered Morden's question
+correctly.  Things happen for a *reason* that is suited to who the person
+is.  G'Kar's ambitions aren't nearly big enough; Delenn knows better than
+to get near these guys; Kosh is against them; the EA are being kept at
+arm's length for now, the non-aligned worlds aren't big enough...so here
+we are.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There would have been more than one answer that would have sufficed,
+but one answer was better than all the rest.  Just the right mix of
+resentment, nostalgia, ambition, frustration and a sense of displaced
+destiny.  Londo was hitting all those cylinders when he answered Morden's
+question.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"jms, what do YOU want?"
+
      
+I'll have fries with that.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The working name for the sixth race is the Shadowmen.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+David: you hit it *exactly* on the head.  Again, as you point out,
+stuff here operates on a lot of different levels.  I try, where I can, to
+make a given scene do more than one thing.  The hall argument is a good
+example of this.  The script stipulated a human being stuck between G'Kar
+and Londo.  Not any other race.  Had to be a human.  Because that becomes
+emblematic of how we're stuck between the two sides in the war, something
+which is *very* strongly brought home in the next batch of episodes.
+
+
      
+Obviously, the first most important thing in that scene is just the
+gag, the humor.  It has to work on that level, and that's how it came to
+me first: just the gag.  Then, when it came time to write it, that's when
+I start poking at things to see if I can layer on another level of
+meaning, and I saw a way to do a little (very little) visual foreshadowing
+of stuff to come.  Didn't matter if anybody ever noticed it or not; it
+was never really intended to be of much note, just a little item that
+becomes a nice bit of irony later.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Londo does not have the Eye.  If he'd failed to turn it over, his 
+career would've been ruined; getting it back was the only thing that
+kept him on B5.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's a reason Morden didn't go to the Earth Alliance.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The raiders are gone for good, yes.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: Happy endings and non-happy endings
      
+As for "Signs and Portents," I don't quite know *how* to characterize
+the ending on that one.  Someone gets what they wanted, but this may 
+or may not be a good thing.  I'd say basically it has an ominous 
+ending.  We do try to keep it a mixed bag...one person may achieve a
+niceness, but somebody else pays the price, or gets nailed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Like Tolkien, and Jonathan Carroll, whose wonderful books start out
+looking very nice and comfortable...and gradually take you to
+someplace strange and dark and unique...I've tried to apply a similar
+structure to Babylon 5.  It seems to be chugging along at a good clip
+along relatively familiar terrain.  Now my job is to walk up alongside
+the story with a crowbar and give it a good, hard WHAM! to move it 
+into a different trajectory.  "Parliament" was just sort of a 
+preliminary nudge.  "And the Sky Full of Stars" was a good, solid 
+WHAM!  This week's episode, "Signs and Portents," is another WHAM, 
+even bigger than the one that precedes it.
+
      
+There are two more major WHAM episodes: "Babylon Squared," dealing
+with the fate of Babylon 4, and "Chrysalis," our season ender, which
+is really more of an atomic bomb rather than a crowbar.  So roughly
+about one-fourth of this season's episodes are WHAM episodes.  That 
+figure will increase in year two to about one-third.  Year three 
+(Neilsen willing) will be half-WHAM and hal-not.  Year four would be
+three-quarters WHAM.  And year five is all WHAM.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Let me dive in and take issue with you.  The problem you seem to 
+have with the show(s) is alas a part of basic dramatic structure.
+You have an introduction, a rising action, a climax, and then a 
+denouement.  Aside from experimental theater kinds of things, that is
+the basic underlying structure to all movies, plays and television 
+series.
+
      
+"Twin Peaks," which you cite, really isn't a very good example 
+because, in my view, TP *never* resolved ANYthing.  Thus it became an
+exercise in viewer frustration that eventually was a major reason why
+the show was canceled.
+
      
+The first batch of B5 episodes tended to be a little more self
+contained because, remember, we're trying to bring viewers in here,
+and do so without startling or pissing them off.  We get a little 
+funkier the deeper into the show we get.  In some cases, as with 
+"Sky," parts of the story are resolved, parts aren't.  Generally, it's
+our feeling that if you have an open-ended B story, you generally have
+to include an A story that has some measure of closure.
+
      
+"Signs and Portents" and "Babylon Squared" are two episodes offhand
+that I think are emblematic of what you're asking for.  The A story
+in "Signs" is resolved...but that episode really isn't *about* the A 
+story, it's about something unusual that happens with the B story that
+begins to set a lot of things in motion for this season.  And that 
+story is ended, but not *resolved*, if you get the distinction.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What you address in the last bit of the music in "Signs" is what
+I've been trying to get across.  The theme music appearing there is 
+not quite what we use otherwise.  I suggested to Chris that it'd be
+cool to have the B5 theme there in *minor keys* or minor chords.  It's
+a somewhat different version, and playing a theme in minor instead of
+major keys or chords makes it somber, sad, unsettling.  We've just 
+seen B5 explode, and doing that particular riff on the theme seemed 
+to both of us a good idea.   Play it again, then the regular theme,
+and you'll see the difference.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We've done a lot with themes over the season, and plan to do more,
+developing themes for all our characters.  I like interpolating bits
+and pieces of the B5 theme into parts of the show; the minor-key 
+version at the end of "Signs" has always struck me as very effective.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: the theme music at the end of"Signs," I think it was me (but I
+could be mistaken) who suggested to Chris, our composer, that he use
+the theme, but in *minor chords* rather than major chords.  Makes it
+very sad, and very effective.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Overall, though, I've always told Chris to push it...to go absolutely
+as far with the music as he wants.  If it goes too far, we can always
+pull it back or duck it down a little.  Basically, I'm a rock-and-roll
+kind of guy...I like my music loud, and I like a LOT of it.  This show
+is often wall-to-wall music.  Chris often composes as much as 20-25 
+minutes of new music per episode; most hour shows have maybe 13-16 
+minutes of music per hour episode.  And he is often called upon by us
+to do some VERY long cues.  Often, TV music is just there to cover a 
+transition (10-20 seconds), or establish a mood at the top or bottom 
+of a scene, and get out (1 minute to 1 minute-30 seconds average).  We
+have many, MANY cues on this show that go 2, 3, even 4 minutes.  I 
+think we actually had a 6 minute cue at one point in one episode.  
+Check act 3 of "Signs and Portents" and see how much music we crammed
+into that act; it's almost non-stop.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re:  The elevator scene
      
+For as long as I've been writing, I've had a very simple belief that
+comes across with B5 as well: try to get in one really great action 
+moment,minimum one real nice character moment, one solid dramatic 
+moment...and one moment or scene that's fall-down funny.
+
+
      
+I like humor.  I like that characters can show another side of
+themselves.  If there is any real test of sentience, one of them must
+surely be the possession of a sense of humor, since it requires self
+reflection.  And there is always unintentional (on the part of the
+character, at least) humor.
+
+
      
+SF-TV has generally taken itself either too seriously, with rods up
+butts, the humor forced...or it's not taken itself seriously at ALL,
+and gone campy.  This show takes itself seriously, but not in quite a
+way that lets it fit in either category.
+
+
      
+For me, as a viewer, I enjoy the shows that are roller-coasters, that
+take you from something very funny...and slam you headfirst into a
+very dramatic scene.  Hill Street was like that, Picket Fences is 
+like that now...why not SF?  I've also found that humor can help you
+reveal things about the characters.  The Londo/G'Kar scene at the
+elevator in "Signs and Portents," for instance.  It says something
+about both of them without coming out and *saying* it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In general, you don't see a lot of light reflecting off other
+objects when there's an explosion because in general those objects 
+aren't close enough to cause a reflection.  Now, in "Signs," which
+comes up in a couple weeks, there's explosions near a large object,
+and there we do get some reflected light.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+To have a station commander *and* a rep for Earth can be cumbersome
+in many ways, when someone has to give orders.  It's cleaner this 
+way; and no different than any of the sailing vessels of the 18th
+century and before, when each captain was viewed as, and expected to
+perform as, the official representative of his country.
+
+
      
+There is, however, a second agenda at work here, which you'll find
+out about a bit in "Raiding Party" ["Signs and Portents"].
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's not a lot of CGI in either "Legacies" or "The Quality of 
+Mercy" (which will follow "Raiding Party" in  the production lineup), 
+because neither story really called for it.  But there's a *lot* in 
+"Raiding Party," some of it very elaborate.  By way of comparison, in
+an average B5 episode, a script from beginning to end has about 60 or
+70 setups (a setup is a numbered scene or shot, i.e., INT. SCOCKPIT 
+or INT. ZEN GARDEN).  "Raiding Party" has around 112 setups.  That's
+more than in some movies.  It's a *very* busy script.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, we're doing virtual sets...and there's a doozy in the first
+little bit of act one in "Signs and Portents."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, this is the actual text of a script.  And a script contains scene
+descriptions, dialogue, directions.  (Contrary to popular opinion, the
+actors don't just make up their lines when they hit the stage, based 
+on loose ideas by somebody.)  My scripts tend to be *very* detailed, 
+with camera movement suggestions, optical notes, indications of 
+dissolves vs. cuts, on and on.  A typical scene might look like this:
+
+
        EXT. BABYLON 5 - ESTABLISHING
+
+  A scuttleship unloads cargo from a transport parked alongside the
+  station.  PAN ACROSS with the scuttleship, tracking with it until
+  it passes into the docking bay, then DOWN TO the observation dome
+  window, where we can just see into
+
+  INT. OBSERVATION DOME
+
+  where Lieutenant-Commander IVANOVA stands at the console, cup in
+  hand, staring bleakly out into the starscape as SINCLAIR comes up
+  alongside.
+
+		     IVANOVA
+	  I hate mornings...I've always had a
+	  hard time getting up when it's dark
+	  outside.
+
+		     SINCLAIR
+	  We're in space.  It's always dark
+	  outside.
+
+		     IVANOVA
+		(forlornly)
+	  I know...I know....
      
+
+(That, by the way, is a slight re-do of an actual shot from "Raiding
+Party.")
+
+
      
+A script page, single-spaced, works out to about the same wordage as a
+double-spaced prose fiction page, about 225-250 words per.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why was the ship in Lady Ladira's name instead of Lord Kiro's?
      
+Ladira was Kiro's aunt, and much of the family money/property is in
+her name.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I think that the Eye was returned the next day, so there was
+a goodly span between Ladira's vision, and the scene in Londo's
+quarters.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I hate to burst your bubble, but the Raider ship *was* rotating.
+Look at it again.  It's most visible when the ship is being
+photographed from behind with B5 in the background.  You can see the 
+round part of the ship rotating (with the docking bay at center).
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An old friend of Garibaldi's arrives and tries to take part in a dangerous
+alien combat sport.
+A rabbi helps Ivanova come to terms with her father's death. 
+
+
+Theodore Bikel as Rabbi Koslov.
+Greg McKinney as Walker Smith.
+Soon-Teck Oh as The Muta-Do.
+Don Stroud as Caliban.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 rating: 6.41
+
+Production number:  119
+Original air date:  May 25, 1994
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by John Flynn
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Ivanova's brother Ganya was killed in the Earth-Minbari war a year after her
+mother committed suicide.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The fact that aliens of several races -- including a Centauri -- all seemed
+to agree that humans had no business fighting in the Mutai seems to indicate
+that there is a lot of resentment toward humans among the other races, enough
+that they see the distinction between humans and themselves as much greater
+than the distinctions between each other.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Walker Smith was the real name of famed boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • 
+At one point, there was a discussion in the scene about the whole
+gills/scales/fins issue, to define kosher...but it *really* brought the
+scene to a screaming standstill, and we needed to concentrate on the
+relationships at that moment.  In addition, as we looked at it, you would
+have to get into the question of how alien gills/scales/fins compare to
+earthly gills/scales/fins, because they're going to be very different in
+many ways.  In short order it became a massive Talmudic discussion, and
+we only have an hour for the show....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Babylon 5 (the show) got not a dime for sticking in the
+Zima
+sign.  We just thought...well, it'd be funny.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, slappers = skin tabs, for introducing medication.  The ones in
+TKO had been stolen from B5 medsupplies.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Through a miscommunication, Warners thought TKO was in the slot in which
+we'd placed Quality [of Mercy], so that went out to TV Guide, and it's now
+too late to change the order back. Doesn't matter; neither are really
+arc-stories, though it was hoped to hold back some of Susan's development in
+TKO just a tad longer.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It was Larry's idea to name the character Walker Smith, after Sugar
+Ray Robinson.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If the deceased has been dead for quite a while, the period during
+which one must sit shiva is greatly reduced to a day or so, I'm told.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Larry wrote the shiva stuff all on his lonesome.  As for being an
+abbreviated version...apparently shiva lasts 3 days for someone 
+recently deceased.  If it's been months since the death, the service
+is usually much shorter, and again, there was only Ivanova and Koslov
+who actually were part of or knew the deceased.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'm told that shiva need not last 7 full days, if the death was not
+recent, and if the body has already been buried.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Now, on the samovar issue...whatever your background, if your family
+grew up in Russia and has been there for several hundred years or 
+more -- and the Ivanov family has been there since at LEAST the 1800s
+-- you do become part of the culture.  That, as I always understood 
+it, was part of the reason for making sure children learned hebrew,
+yiddish *and* the dominant language of the culture, to give their 
+kids a fighting chance in a difficult world.  It's not so much a case
+of the culture assimiliating the individual (though certainly that 
+happens as well), but the individual INCORPORATING the culture.
+
+
      
+Ivanova is jewish.  Ivanova is russian.  Of the two, she tends to see
+herself as a russian first.  There's no value statement there, that's
+just the way she is.  Her parents were both russian, going back many
+generations on both sides.  Some in her family tree were jewish, and
+some were not; there was some intermarrying.  That may be part of why
+she sees herself as more russian than jewish, but it may be just a 
+quirk.
+
+
      
+(And to the protest of, "Well, you created her," yes, I did.  But
+there comes a time, if you've done your job right as a writer, when
+the character more or less takes over, and starts telling YOU who and
+what he or she is.  There are times I mentally turn to Ivanova and 
+say, "Okay, what do *you* think?"  And she talks to me in my head, as
+do all of my characters.  It's part of making your characters real.)
+
+
      
+When she went off to boarding school overseas -- part of an ongoing
+international system put into place by EarthGov to help its various
+member nations get along with one another -- she identified most
+strongly with that russian aspect in relation to those around her.  
+She learned to speak English without a perceptible accent.
+
+
      
+The samovar is a valued and valuable part of russian life.  It is the
+family hearth, on one level, a possession passed on from generation to
+generation.  Knowing that Ivanova was not terribly religious herself,
+he would generally not leave her any of his personal religious
+artifacts, but would dnate them to the local synagogue, while some,
+like a menorah, might go to other relatives.  People who could
+appreciate them and use them.  The samovar is a very personal object;
+to the correspondent with a fiance who is russian...*I* am byeloruss,
+white-russian, one-and-a-half generation American born.  And I can 
+tell you that the biggest fights I've ever seen over bequeaths were 
+over a) money, and b) the samovar.
+
+
      
+The problem with this discussion is that it has very little to do
+with who Susan Ivanova *is*, and more to do with the politics of what
+a russian or a jew or a russian jew *should be*.  She is what she is,
+like it or not.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+To the problems some have with Theodore Bikell's accent not sounding
+real...it's my understanding that he was raised in Russia.
+
      
+Ivanova does not have an accent because she was educated overseas,
+her father wanting her to have certain advantages the rest of her 
+family did not.
+
      
+Nowhere did we say that Andrei or the rest of the Ivanov family ever
+emigrated.  They didn't.  They live in Russia.  Or lived, in any 
+event.  Not everyone migrates to the US or to Israel, and not everyone
+wants to.
+
      
+On the treel/kosher discussion...I can only shrug.  Nobody's ever
+shown that jews go forward into the future, placed them at the heart
+of a science fiction show as a regular character, nobody's shown shiva
+before in (and possibly out of) an SF series...and some folks are 
+complaining that not every aspect of a treel's kosher-ness was 
+discussed at dinnertime.
+
      
+Some days, you just can't win....
+
      
+Feh.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What was that Harlan Ellison book Ivanova was reading?
      
+The book is Harlan's autobiography, which he plans to write around
+the year 2000, and yes, that's his photo.  (He borrowed the prop when we
+were finished and casually carried it with him to a few places, just to
+make people nuts thinking there was a book out they'd missed....)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+[Posted 28 May 1994] BTW, there's an interesting couple of articles
+about this episode in this week's Jewish Journal, for another
+perspective on the show.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Channel 4 in the UK didn't show "TKO" during the initial run
      
+TKO's main importance is to the Ivanova arc, as she finally comes to
+terms with her father's death.  Do I have an opinion on C4's decision
+not to show TKO?
+
      
+Absolutely.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If the problem is showing bare-kunckle fighting to the death, then
+somebody should point out to C4 that *nobody dies* in the match.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Mutari are those who fight in the Mutai; and you *did* see Narns
+and Centauri and others hanging around the ring.  The only ones you 
+won't see there are Minbari.  It ain't their thing.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+As I've noted before, over the long haul, as you watch episodes, you
+will see things you didn't see before.  Sometimes they're clues, and
+sometimes they're comments which now read a different way than they 
+did the first time you saw them.  There's been a number of the latter
+very subtly sprinkled through the episodes aired so far...lines that
+everyone jumped on as meaning one thing, but which will mean something
+else, and lines which nobody thought much of the first time out...but
+which will elicit a wince of irony later on.
+
+
      
+There's a corker in "TKO," but at the moment, it's absolutely 
+invisible.  It's not a clue, it's not necessary for the story, it's
+just one of those things that, after you've seen all the rest of this
+season's episodes, you will go "Ouch," when you see it next.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, the idea of Zima lasting even into 1995 is hysterical.  I
+keep fighting the urge to have some guy show up on B5, "Zo then I 
+zays to him, nize ztation"...and five Narns just jump on him and beat
+the shit out of him, WHAMWHAMWHAMWHAMWHAM!
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We've killed off all of Ivanova's close family, yes.  Maybe some 
+cousins are left, but that's about it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm quoting
+from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you / That you carry
+with a certain pride / It's the only part / Of a broken heart / You 
+could ever save."  That's Ivanova.
+
+
      
+She's had her heart stomped on a lot.  And she's been holding it in.
+Even with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought back the
+tears.  There is one episode, which will be right at the end of the
+year, where she finds she can't run from her pain anymore...can't run
+from the tears...and deals with them in a scene that's very moving 
+and absolutely brings tears to the eyes.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A traveller comes to B5, seeking the Holy Grail.  A series of unexplained
+attacks on several Lurkers may be linked to Ambassador Kosh.
+
+
+David Warner as Aldous Gajic.
+Tom Booker as Jinxo.
+William Sanderson as Deuce.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Mystery
+P5 Rating: 7.43
+
+Production number:  109
+Original air date:  July 6, 1994
+
+Written by Christy Marx
+Directed by Richard Compton
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Babylon and Babylon 2 were sabotaged.  Babylon 3 blew up before it was
+	finished.  Babylon 4 vanished without a trace in front of witnesses.
+   
    •  The Minbari highly value people who spend their lives searching for
+	something.  Delenn seems to believe that's true of Sinclair.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn seems to consider Sinclair a true seeker.  What is he seeking?
+   
    •  Why didn't the feeder want Gajic?
+   
    •  What happened to Babylon 4?  (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Perhaps Delenn's comments about Sinclair simply refer to his
+	search for the truth about the Battle of the Line, if she realizes
+	he knows something of what happened to him.  Or there could be
+	a deeper meaning.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  This episode features the series' first
+	CGI alien (the na'ka'leen feeder, pictured above.)
+
+   
    •  The transport Marie Celeste, which Thomas boarded at the
+	end of the episode, is a reference to a sailing ship
+	found adrift on the sea in 1872 by the crew of the ship Dei
+	Gratia.  The Celeste's crew was missing, as was her
+	single lifeboat, but there were half-eaten
+	meals in the mess hall and other evidence the crew had left suddenly.
+	Investigators found that Captain Morehouse of the Dei
+	Gratia had
+	dined with Captain Briggs of the Celeste the night before
+	departure, and Morehouse and his crew were tried for murder.  There was
+	no hard evidence, and they were acquitted.  The missing crewmen were
+	never found.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  In an earlier version of the story, it was indeed Kosh who appeared out
+	of nowhere and scragged the Feeder, saying, "Some things we do not
+	allow," but it seemed kinda un-Kosh-like on one level, and it repeated
+	the Deathwalker finish, so it was dropped.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The grey-alien trial scene from "Grail" will be excerpted for a 
+	two-part "Sightings" on alien abduction.
+
+	
      
+	I'm *still* laughing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The human won the case, but damages awarded were minimal.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, this Christy Marx is the same as the one who writes games and
+	has written comics as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, Christy has gone on record (otherwise I would not have
+	noted it myself) that the trial scene at the top of "Grail" was
+	written and inserted by me, since it was a bit short.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, it was Christy Marx, who wrote Grail, who named Aldus after
+	Mira [Furlan]'s husband.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't think I've really said that much about "Grail."  The trick,
+	though, is that I don't approach the episodes in quite the same way 
+	that a viewer does.  I have somewhat different agendas and goals, and
+	there are times when hassles in *doing* the episode -- which in no 
+	way affect the show itself - - affects my *perception* of the episode.
+
+	
      
+	I did a small screening of "Grail" here about a week ago, to get some
+	other reactions, and they were all very positive; they enjoyed the
+	episode quite a bit.  (Similarly, there were people who thought that
+	"Infection" was one of the best of the season.)  There is *no one* who
+	is harsher in critiquing the episodes than I am.  I want each one to 
+	be absolutely perfect.  And sometimes that means that I see flaws that
+	no one else ever will.
+
+	
      
+	In any event, I definitely want people to come at this from an open
+	minded point of view.  For reasons that have nothing to do with
+	Christy's script, it still isn't one of my all-time favorite episodes;
+	if I said otherwise, I'd be lying through my teeth.  But different
+	opinions are what makes horse races, and as stated, most of those 
+	who've seen it so far *do* like it, so at the moment I'm considerably
+	outnumbered....
+
+
      
+   
    •  John Flinn, who is our DP, has at various times also been an actor,
+	and so we used him to play Mr. Flinn in the episode as well.  A 
+	cameo by yet another member of our talented and multifaceted 
+	production team.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There were no asymmetrical aliens in the pilot, but there's a real
+	dandy coming your way in the B5 episode "Grail."  You want nonhumanoid
+	aliens, you *got* non-humanoid aliens....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, the Feeder is pretty cool; wrapped up Foundation's rendering
+	machines for the better part of a week just to pull that one off.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the feeder being sentient...neither Sinclair nor anyone else on
+	"our" side of the story ever heard it speaking; all they knew was that
+	it was a killer, and it was dangerous, and had to be stopped.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who let the Feeders out?
      
+	Stupid bureaucrats who couldn't afford to maintain a quarantine
+	enforcement team in the sector.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The hardest part is always writing Kosh, because you have to be very
+	careful how much you use him, and what he says.  Too much and he 
+	loses his sense of mystery, and you don't want him spouting fortune-
+	cookie type aphorisms.  He has a very deliberate way of speaking in
+	which everything, every smallest nuance and inflection means something,
+	but sometimes not what it appears to mean, or comes at it from a very
+	different angle than normal conversation.  So I go as minimalist as 
+	possible, to get the meaning down to the smallest number of words
+	possible.  And in one scene, one of only two he appears in, I got him
+	down to *one word*, and that one word -- and it's a totally inoffensive,
+	neutral word on its own terms -- should scare the hell out of 
+	*everybody*.
+	
      
+	Ah loves this show....
+	(Editor's note: the word in question is "Good.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  At one time we were working out what the time-reference would be on 
+	B5.  One of the early things we talked about were cycles, but in 
+	fairly short order I decided against it because it didn't seem to mean
+	much.   But this was, sadly, after "Grail" had been produced, and we
+	couldn't dub over the cycle references with anything else, so it 
+	stayed.  It won't be appearing anywhere else henceforth.  One of our
+	few continuity glitches.
+
+
      
+   
    •  After "Grail," we had a discussion with Chris about funny music.  We
+	do not anticipate further discussions.  (In a full season of music for
+	B5, this is the only discussion we've had of a critical nature, which
+	is extraordinary for any series; he's done a lot of wonderful work for
+	us . . . .)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, it was a bit of *really* perverse humor...Jinxo survives all
+	five Babylon stations, and leaves thinking all is well...on a ship
+	named the Marie Celeste?
+	
      
+	We're a sick bunch, but we're fun.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I would love to have David Warner do another episode, though it 
+	would have to be an alien, for obvious reasons.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And the grail story was fairly self-contained, not much in the way of
+	arc related stuff there.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An internal affairs investigation to find out
+what's been going on at B5 leads to Sinclair having a
+problem with the military when he has to answer for his
+actions in settling the labor strike (cf.
+"By Any Means Necessary")
+as well as other
+decisions made during the course of the season.
+Ivanova confronts a member of Psi-Corps, as well as her own fears, when
+she is told to submit to a scan.
+
+
+Gregory Martin as Col. Ari Ben Zayn.
+Jeffrey Combs as Harriman Gray.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.16
+
+Production number:  122
+Original air date:  July 13, 1994
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Some alarming developments on the Mars colony.
+
    • 
+A possible change in Ivanova's attitude toward Talia Winters.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The unrest on Mars is continuing to escalate; now the separatists have
+started carrying out terrorist attacks and are arming themselves.  (cf.
+"A Voice in the Wilderness")
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
    • 
+How will the powerful backers of the investigation react to Ben Zayn's
+failure?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Several interesting hints about Ivanova and Talia Winters are dropped, most
+notably the fact that Ivanova was thinking of Winters when she and Gray were
+talking in the lounge.  Ivanova's insistence that no one must ever intrude
+upon the memory of her mother's telepathic contact may foreshadow a less
+adversarial relationship between the two of them in the future.  (cf.
+"Mind War")
+
    • 
+The fact that Bester was able to intervene in the investigation at all
+suggests that he, and possibly Psi Cops in general, wield a lot of power
+in the Psi Corps.  It is also conceivable that Bester and at least some of
+the factions in the Senate who backed the investigation are related.
+
    • 
+Is Ivanova's reluctance to be scanned simply what she says it is -- a result
+of her contact with her mother and her general hatred of Psi Corps -- or does
+she more immediate reasons, perhaps something to hide?
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  The last episode [of Season 1] to be shot will be Larry DiTillio's
+	"Eyes," which is sort of a nice wrap-up to the season, almost an
+	overview.  Once again, nothing that happens this season is simply
+	forgotten...and a *lot* of it comes due in this episode.  It actually
+	manages to incorporate references to about 6 prior episodes without
+	being obscure about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW...about the time we were delivering "Eyes," somebody on one of 
+	the nets was going on and on about how "B5 continuity *stinks*...I'll
+	bet we NEVER hear about Deathwalker again, or the strike, or the 
+	Vorlons killing Deathwalker, or Raghesh 3...."
+
+	
      
+	And seeing what was at that moment on my TV, I wanted to reach through
+	the computer monitor, roll up my forefinger, and *plink* that person
+	right upside the nose.
+
+	
      
+	Unfortunately, I have not yet found a modem program that supports this
+	feature.
+
+	
      
+	But Ron is promising me something by the Fall....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The other thing about "Eyes," btw, is that it's not something dumped
+	in outta nowhere to make a conflict; it's the direct payoff of events
+	that take place throughout the season where Sinclair breaks or bends
+	the rules.  Lots of people on the various nets said, "Yeah, there he
+	goes, breaking the rules in the strike, but is this every gonna pay
+	off?  No, probably not."  If we're consistent with reality, and with
+	our story, and Sinclair's broken some rules, and pissed off some 
+	people back home, then it is *inevitable* that this will eventually
+	come home to roost in the form of an investigation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW, for those who saw the promo for "Eyes" at the end of "Grail," I
+	have *no* idea what it has to do with the episode.  Sometimes they
+	"enhance" the story to make it promote-able...but I think this time
+	they "enhanced" it right into a parallel dimension....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Lennier's chant scripted?
      
+	When it came time for that chant, nothing had been scripted; it was
+	supposed to be a soft, under one's breath kind of chant.  Bill came and
+	asked me and Larry if we had anything in mind.  We said no, whatever you
+	decide is fine...and he ended up chanting his album cover.
+	
      
+	Later...*much*...later...when I discovered this, we discussed it at
+	some length.
+
+
      
+   
    • 	There's another reason why Macauley was used as Tragedy in a dream
+	mainly centered around Psi Corps; it's not really something anybody
+	needs to see or catch.  After "Revelations," it'll be clearer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, ben-Zayn is an Middle Eastern/Arabic name.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I believe the bike in question was a Ninja.  And Jerry Doyle is
+	something of an enthusiast, which is part of what led us to that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct; Kawasaki did not pay us a dime to use the bike in the show.
+	We called around, to see who would loan us a bike, with the 
+	understanding that we'd be tearing it apart.  Because Kawasaki does
+	advertise with some of the PTEN shows, someone there had a 
+	relationship with the company, and gave us a name.  After we tried a
+	couple of other companies, we tried Kawasaki, and they agreed...not a
+	donated bike, just a loaner.  And that's what we used.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The masks were the basic (though somewhat modified) tragedy and
+	comedy masks, associated with theater.  And a couple of times, 
+	Ivanova's mother does use the Russian nickname for her as well as 
+	the English version.  Susan was taught and raised to a large extent
+	overseas, and they always tried to keep her in both worlds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Psi Corps members must wear the Psi symbol at all times when in
+	public.  (Though since Grey was there undercover, that briefly went
+	by the boards.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  New Jerusalem is a planet; there's a side-story about it that I'm
+	contemplating getting into, so don't want to blow it here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  . . . Let me only emphasize some stuff here.  As stated, Larry never
+	SAW the Drumhead.  We generally make it a point NOT to watch what's
+	done on ST to avoid being influenced.  Second, the basic ending which
+	you feel is strictly ST's can be seen in the Caine Mutiny, A Few Good
+	Men and others.  "Eyes" was a direct consequence of all that preceded
+	it in our first season.  It came about because Larry suggested that 
+	with all that Sinclair has done, sooner or later somebody's going to
+	take notice back on Earth.  There would have to be some kind of 
+	investigation.  Because we are doing some very specific things with 
+	the Psi Corps this year and next, which I wanted to foreshadow, a PC 
+	telepath was inserted into the story, to show that they are starting 
+	to get a foothold into the military, with new laws concerning scans.
+
+	
      
+	We knocked the story back and forth for some time, and it went through
+	many different permutations.  We also figured that the episode should
+	be kind of a Cliff's Notes guide to season one, hitting the high 
+	points for those who joined the series later than those who were here 
+	at the beginning.  The ending also went through various changes, but 
+	what made the most logical sense was to get the Colonel to admit bias
+	in some fashion or another...and the only way to do this really was to
+	get him so angry, so furious, that he'd incriminate himself enough, or
+	open the door enough for Mr. Grey to verify the bias.
+
+	
      
+	That was how the structure was arrived at.  I was there.  It had
+	nothing -- *nothing* -- whatsoever to do with the Drumhead, which I
+	have a vague memory was written by Jeri Taylor, who is a friend of 
+	mine, and further invalidates the very idea.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Mr. Grey would've been a P10.  PsiCops are P12s.
+
+	
      
+	PsiCorps administrators at the upper reaches are P11 or better.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Grey reached into Ben Zayn's head and, for lack of a better term, 
+	pushed his "pain button," the same way you can stimulate someone's
+	memory or physical sensations with an electrode or chemicals.  It was
+	only a second, and he would've shrugged it off quickly, had Sinclair
+	not been there to follow up.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A girl entering puberty exhibits telepathic abilities, and the crew
+must decide whether to turn her over to the Psi Corps.  The corpse of the
+Minbari military leader who oversaw the Battle of the Line is the focus
+of a diplomatic incident.
+
+
+John Vickery as Neroon.
+Grace Una as Alisa Beldon.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.87
+
+Production number:  115
+Original air date:  July 20, 1994
+
+Written by D. C. Fontana
+Directed by Bruce Seth Green
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The Grey Council ordered the surrender at the Battle of the Line.
+
    • 
+Many among the Minbari warrior caste do not approve of the surrender, a
+fact which has caused something of a rift between the religious and
+warrior caste.
+
    • 
+Caste membership is determined by heritage.  Membership in the religious
+caste takes precedence if one parent is in the religious caste and the
+other is a warrior.  (This is ambiguous; Delenn's statement on the matter
+could be interpreted to mean that the mother's caste takes precedence over
+the father's.)
+
    • 
+The Earth-Minbari War began with the death of Dukhat, the head of the Grey
+Council at the time.
+
    • 
+The war was regarded as a holy war among the Minbari, and had the full
+support of the religious caste at least part of the time.
+
    • 
+One of the warleaders (heads of the military clans?) committed suicide
+rather than obey the order to surrender.
+
    • 
+Telepaths are highly regarded among the Minbari, and are fed and clothed
+by people in exchange for providing their services.
+
    • 
+The Narn keep alien slaves, or at least are reported to do so.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
    • 
+What is the significance of the word "chrysalis?"  Note that this is the
+title of the first-season finale.
+
    • 
+How was Delenn able to sense that she was being probed?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Delenn's identity doesn't seem to be a secret among the warrior caste, or
+at least its upper echelons.  The warriors seem to be playing along and
+keeping her secret safe.
+
    • 
+As JMS mentions below, in the original airing order, this episode came after
+"Babylon Squared."
+If that is the intended chronological order of the two episodes, then
+Delenn's statement to Neroon that she speaks for the entire Grey Council
+takes on different connotations; it is plausible in that case that she is
+lying and hadn't even consulted the Council.
+
    • 
+Likewise, the device used to stun the guard appears to be a triluminary;
+its presence makes much more sense if this episode is after
+"Babylon Squared."
+Its exact function is still a mystery; did it in fact stun the guard, put
+him in some sort of stasis, or something else?
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The only first season
+script that was developed outside the B5 offices.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Originally, this ep was to be broadcast later in the run, because I
+didn't want two PsiCorps episodes back-to-back, and for one little detail that
+will become clearer after "Babylon Squared" airs; it would've been better to
+have followed that episode, but again, these eps are made to be watched in
+just about any order, so it's okay in the long run.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yeah, the audio thing with Talia is something I thought of during the
+final audio mix.  We wanted to convey somehow her trying to get 
+through and initially it was just distortion.  Then I figured, wait a
+second, she is going to be thinking what she's going to say before 
+she says it, why not pre-lap the dialogue?  Unfortunately, for some
+damned reason, the high-tech studio wasn't set up to do that effect,
+so we took Talia's dialogue, digitized it, laid it in on a second side
+track, and played the one over the other, one preceding the other by I
+think about 20 frames or so.  The key was to make the *second* 
+voicing the one synched to her lips, not the first one.  Worked out
+pretty cool.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You will see some of the warrior caste in "Legacies," coming up in
+July.  You don't see them much because they only go where they're
+needed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Generally, the religious caste takes precedence over the warrior caste.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+From cradle to grave, the Minbari are taught that there is no greater
+goal, no nobler thing than to serve.  They are raised to be totally 
+self-sacrificing.  The only exception is when someone in the religious
+caste believes he or she has received a calling, which if sincerely
+felt cannot be contravened (since usually this too involves serving).
+So for a Minbari telepath, this is their means by which they may
+serve, and they are given great respect.  It never even occurs to them
+to do otherwise.
+
      
+Lately, there has been a bit of a change brewing; "a self-involvement
+above the needs of others" (as someone notes in "Voice") that has 
+begun creeping into the Minbari race.  And they're not happy about it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Overall, I'd say that "Legacies" came out better than "War Prayer,"
+because Dorothy had more time to get to know the characters, and 
+because it was better directed.  (As a parenthetical, Larry DiTillio
+has developed some of his own scripts as well, specifically "TKO" and
+"Eyes."  "Legacies" is the one I'd say was developed "outside the 
+office" in the sense of being a freelance effort.  Everything else 
+was either an assigned premise or done in-house by staff.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Stuff like wearing gloves is only enforced if you're a member of Psi
+Corps; Allysa wasn't.  In addition, though she had P10 *potential*, 
+the talent was sporadic, came and went.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Regarding "Legacies," there's one brief blip in there
+that we're going to see  again; I'm not sure I'd call it a
+clue, but certainly a cue...a hint of something to  come.  You
+won't have to wonder what it is; it'll be shown in a flashback
+in that  particular yet-to-air episode.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Seismic activity on the planet near the station uncovers what may be
+signs of an extinct alien civilization.  An old mentor pays a visit to
+Ambassador Delenn.  The unrest on the Mars Colony intensifies.
+
+
+Louis Turenne as Draal.
+Curt Lowens as Varn.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense/mystery
+P5 Rating: 8.50
+
+Production number:  120
+Original air date:  July 27, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Before Sinclair asked him to be security chief on Babylon 5, Garibaldi was
+working for the security division on Mars Colony, where he fell in love with
+a woman named Lise Hampton.
+Their relationship was rocky ("I was pretty messed up") and ended when he
+accepted the B5 assignment.
+
    • 
+The Psi Corps has a secret training facility very close to one of the
+Mars Colony cities.
+
    • 
+There is growing lack of purpose and dissatisfaction among the ordinary
+citizens on Minbar.
+
    • 
+One of Londo's wives was a dancer at a club, who comforted him when he
+was depressed.  He married her that night, and regretted it the next morning
+and ever since.
+
    • 
+The planet the station is orbiting is called Epsilon 3.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
    • 
+What came through the jumpgate?
+
    • 
+What is the function of all the machinery buried beneath the planet's surface?
+
    • 
+Why was the alien connected to the machines, apparently against his will?
+
    • 
+How was he able to project himself to Sinclair and Londo on the station?
+
    • 
+Was the defense system designed to prevent someone from finding the machinery,
+or to stop someone from rescuing the alien?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The alien might well be native to Epsilon 3, since he was able to breathe
+the atmosphere once he was disconnected from the machinery.  In the shuttle,
+Ivanova can be seen fitting him with a breather unit, presumably since the
+shuttle's air is Earth-style.  Perhaps the proximity of Babylon 5 to Epsilon 3
+is not a simple coincidence.
+
    • 
+A possible inconsistency: if the missiles were being fired from within the
+fissure, how could Sinclair and Ivanova safely enter it?  All their cover
+fire was high in the atmosphere; the missiles could have hit them before
+they had time to react once they were underground.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The scene with Ivanova and Sinclair crossing the tunnel bears similarity to
+a scene from the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.  (See
+jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+We're halfway through filming the two-parter, "A Voice in the
+Wilderness," which is coming along nicely.  From a CGI and sets point
+of view, this is the largest and most ambitious thing we've shot yet,
+with ore of each category than in any other episode.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In the two-parter, btw, [Christopher Franke] went absolutely full-out and
+gave us some of the best scoring of the season...gorgeous stuff, second only
+to either "Sky" or "Chrysalis."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+...Delenn has quite a few moments when she's laughing,
+and funny, but always in a dignified fashion; it's a strange but very
+appealing combination.  (And there's one scene she's in that is played
+*absolutely* straight, but is fall-down funny.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It was always intended to be a two-parter, and was written that
+way.  Background: the B5 2-hour pilot has done VERY well overseas in
+cassette form.  Many of the prejudices in the american press that caused
+us problems don't exist overseas (it's done *extremely* well in Japan on
+laserdisk, in Germany, and England, among others).  So they asked if we
+could do a two-parter that could be sold as a two-hour episode overseas.
+By all means, sez I.  So I structured it accordingly.
+
      
+     Bit of B5 trivia: during the dead of winter last year, I got hit by
+the flu as badly as I've ever been hit.  Temperature so high that I was
+near delerious at times, but refused to go to the hospital (I don't like
+doctors, and I was under deadline and couldn't afford the potential time
+away.)  We're talking mondo sicko here.  It was during this time that I
+wrote "The Quality of Mercy," a script which I have *no* memory of ever
+writing.  I know it's here, and I know I wrote it on an intellectual
+level, but the process...gone in the fever.
+
      
+     It was also around this time -- either at the top or bottom of the
+flu, I can't remember now -- that I wrote the "Voice" two parter.  And
+here's the trivia part...this isn't the original two-parter that I wrote.
+My brain already deteriorating, I wrote something that even I could see
+wasn't up to par.  Wrote the entire two-hour script.  Printed it up, and
+gave it to Doug and John.  Before they could even respond, I looked at it
+and decided it had to go.  So I trashed the entire script.  By now we
+were getting very close to pre-production, and I was getting sicker and
+sicker...but I more or less locked myself in my office, swallowed down
+massive amounts of vitamins (as much as my stomach could handle), kept
+forcing down coffee, and wrote 12 hours a day for about six days, after
+which the original draft was finished.  Turned it in; did some mild
+polishes thereafter, but what was filmed was essentially what I turned
+in in first-draft stage.  In this case I do remember some of the process
+because the only way I could focus was to keep the stereo up full blast;
+in the writing of "Quality," it didn't help...I was beyond recall.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I tried to develop a basic language structure for each of the races
+on B5.  There are certain commonalities to the structure of names.  I
+came up with some prefixes and suffixes, and assigned meanings to them,
+the same as real names.  For instance, Rathenn (referred to by Delenn
+in "Voices") and Delenn have the same suffix, which has a specific 
+meaning.  You can break it down; Ner-oon (Legacies), Del-enn, Rath-enn,
+Der-onn, and so forth.  The various parts do have specific meanings, 
+but I generally keep that to myself, just for amusement.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I try not to hype shows that I like unless I know beyond a doubt that
+it's absolutely kick-ass.  I like "Voice" a lot; it is the point at 
+which we really start cranking, speeding things up as we barrel 
+toward "Chrysalis."  I think the CGi is nothing less than terrific, 
+Christopher Franke went balls-to-the-wall and did an *amazing* job 
+with the music, the performances are good.  I like it a lot.  I haven't
+commented upon it a lot because it's kind of the weird child in the
+brood; when I write, I generally write tight and fast.  By the third
+act, you're *moving*.  In this case, you have to pace yourself out
+*very* differently, so part of my brain keeps doing this "c'mon, speed
+it up, speed it up" when I'm watching the first part because I'm used
+to a different one-hour kind of pacing.
+
+
      
+Kathryn says I'm nuts.  But then this is nothing new.
+
+
      
+Anyway, I do think it's pretty cool, and does a lot with virtual sets
+and composite sets.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: the elevator/transport tube gag...yes, we set this stuff up WAY
+in advance.  The first time is in the tube where he tells Talia
+about his second favorite thing in the universe. The second time is
+in "Mind War" when he gives her the mental once-over and she belts 
+him.  And then we paid it off later with her line about him always 
+being there.
+
+
      
+One nice thing about the way we're doing this show is that we don't
+just have to set up gags within an episode; we can set them up *weeks*
+ahead of time, as long as the payoff is self-contained, but then when
+you see the earlier shows, now you get more out of it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A First Contact situation is one unlike any other: you don't want
+junior officers around to screw it up.  Remember, the Earth/Minbari 
+War began when a First Contact situation got screwed up.  EA's policy
+is that it's better to risk two people than a full war, and those two
+people have got to be command-level personnel.  Soldiers get killed; 
+it happens.  And yeah, you can leave a backup person at the shuttle
+...but what if *he's* the one to make actual first contact?  You're
+screwed.  Ivanova and Sinclairhave been trained in this; in "Soul
+Hunter," Sinclair makes reference to the rules of First Contact
+Protocol.  If you like, I'll elaborate on this in some future episode.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: the commander and Ivanova going...remember, this is a First
+Contact situation, and that requires the presence of at minimum one
+command officer under EA regs.  Two is preferred.  You don't want
+junior officers hanging around or taking hostile stances which might
+provoke a fight.  Remember that the last major First Contact 
+situation was with the Minbari, which went afoul and gave us the 
+Earth/Minbari War.  EA would rather lose two replaceable officers than
+start another war via misunderstanding or a fouled move.  This is a
+part of their First Contact Protocol, referenced in "Soul Hunter."  (I
+should probably expandupon this a bit in future episodes.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+RE: the big bridge shot...the storyboard artist came up with 3 shots
+we could use.  One of them was a wide shot across a crystalline ground
+like area, through which a path can be seen at ground level, but it
+was narrow and still really didn't convey the scale of what I wanted. 
+One other was not much different.  The third was a downshot designed 
+to pull back, and though I knew it would make folks say "Krell!", I 
+knew that it was the right shot for that scene, so chose that one and
+decided to live with it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It's real simple.
+Ron Thornton showed me three variations on the
+Great Machine shot.  Because you're looking at a composite shot, you have
+to shoot either sharply angled down, or dead across, and full-figured,
+since you have to put them into another piece.  That meant either a
+horizontal shot, or a 3/4's vertical shot.
+
+
      
+Two of the shots on the storyboards were horizontal; one showed our
+characters way off in the distance on a ribboned path lined by crystals.
+It'd be pretty, but it looked like another tunnel shot, and I wanted to
+show something that wasn't claustrophobic.  Also, we'd be limited in the
+camera move, and our characters would look kinda like peanuts.  Not
+terribly dramatic.  The second shot just didn't work for me, I don't
+entirely recall the reason now.  The third possibility seemed the most
+dramatic...it was a high angle shot, it had depth, it would let us start
+on our characters and do a camera move/pullback in post production, it
+worked on every level.
+
+
      
+My second thought was, "Shit, somebody's going to gig us on the
+Forbidden Planet thing."  Nonetheless, it was the right shot, for the
+right reasons, and we chose to go with it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+How does one come up with stuff like Londo's song?  Easy, really; you
+start by putting yourself in the position of an alien trying to 
+understand us.  And if you step back for a second, we do some *very*
+weird stuff.  What he says about the song is exactly right in terms of
+its meaning.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yeah...I love Londo's song, that whole scene.  The director wanted to
+cut Ivanova's coda after her mantra, but I really felt we needed it,
+and it played perfectly with her Russian character, which tends to 
+have this unusual relationship with higher forces (he said vaguely). 
+I love character based humor, because it's very powerful once you know
+the characters, and it can really blind-side you if done right.  
+Ivanova's reaction in the core area was about as real as would 
+probably happen, but it's funny to hear her *say* it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Londo and Garibaldi really are two sides of the same coin, in some 
+ways.  There's an odd friendship there, almost grudging; Londo had
+little to gain by cheering up Garibaldi, except a drink perhaps, but
+that's what friends do.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I love monologues.  They are a legitimate part of any drama.  The MTV
+generation has had its tastes so thoroughly bastardized by quick cuts,
+lowering the attention span further and further, that any bite of more
+than ten seconds and they start to wander, it becomes a block of words
+and they blur out.
+
+
      
+Go rent Network by Paddy Chayefsky, watch nearly any of the TZs by Rod
+Serling, go see "The Lady's Not for Burning" by Christopher Fry...all
+chockablock with moments where you park for a moment and let fly with
+a chunk of dialogue that smashes your head against the wall.  Not every
+single exchange has to be foreshortened so that you lose the *impact*
+of what's being said.  Because people's attention spans have been 
+greatly foreshortened, suddenly more than 3 lines at a time is somehow
+viewed as wrong.  It ain't.  Just that lots of folks are afraid to try
+it, afraid to rely on just the words and the actors.  And sometimes it
+works, and sometimes it doesn't.  But it's legitimate.
+
+
      
+The monologue in particular, done right, isn't just to convey 
+information, it's to create a mood, to paint pictures with words, to 
+expand on the obvious.  Yeah, I could've just written, "The narns hate
+us, we hate them, it's equal math."  But that doesn't carry the same 
+meaning, the same sense as "so here we are...victims of mathematics." 
+The use of the word "victim" connotes, hey, it's not my fault.  Yeah,
+the former is shorter, but you lose the rhythms, the imagery, and the
+*sense* of what is intended.  You could say, "The narn hate us."  But 
+to say, "if the narns gathered together in one place, and hated, all
+at the same time, that hatred would fly across dozens of light years
+and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash," draws a picture, lends
+power to the emotion.
+
+
      
+Point being...I like 'em, there's nothing wrong with them, and they're
+staying.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: your suspenders of disbelief becoming unhitched....
+
+
      
+You will learn how the alien knows English in the next part of the
+two parter.  (Hint: after all, he's been there for a long while, in a
+high-tech machine...you'd think maybe he could monitor transmissions.)
+
+
      
+I don't think the Sinclair or Ivanova did automatically believe him;
+but they also had no real reason *not* to believe him.  And granted
+the place was going to hell, quakes and danger.  He wasn't armed, he
+seems rather sick, had to be helped away, almost carried...they won't
+turn the station over to him, they'll keep him isolated on the 
+station, but there was no reason *not* to try and help him.
+
+
      
+How do you know he's a good guy?  You don't.  But he wasn't exactly
+imprisoned in that thing; it was a support, more than anything else,
+a was shown by the fact that they were able to get him out fairly 
+easily.
+
+
      
+(And yes, your first guess was correct, it is a life support gizmo.)
+
+
      
+Regards to your suspenders.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Once removed from his place, Varn was able to lead them back to their
+shuttle.  It's not terribly dramatic, and I figured that was a fairly
+logical leap, so didn't feel the need to put in a scene which would
+just consist of Varn saying, "Left....now right...."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ivanova's line: "We don't know if we can find our way back or not," 
+not that it was closed off.  So showing them wandering around to find
+another open tunnel seemed not dramatically interesting; you have to
+pick what's important and what's not, and what will work dramaticall 
+on screen.  If she had said "there's no other way out," then you 
+would've had to show it.  She didn't.  One can also argue that the 
+alien showed them which way to get out.  Either way...all you've got
+is one hour to tell your story.  You can't show everything, you have
+to let your audience assume some things.
+
+
      
+Roy: there is a quantum difference between a computer game and a TV
+show.  It's not "lowest common denominator," which means making the 
+story stupid; I'm saying that if you showed the missiles at full speed, 
+YOU WOULD NOT SEE THEM AT ALL.  And, again, there's nothing nearby 
+with which to get a sense of how fast they're going, no landmarks, so
+it's very hard to convey that.  Again, look at space footage; the
+shuttle is going *incredibly* fast...but as far as we can tell it
+looks nearly motionless, because there are no landmarks.
+
+
      
+Re: not explaining WHY the Starfuries can't enter the atmosphere, we 
+did that.  Ivanova says that they're not built to function within an 
+atmosphere.  Now, I could stop the scene for a long dissertation on 
+the relative aerodynamics of planes with wings vs. starfuries, but 
+here you say only what you have to.  You show, don't tell.
+
+
      
+It seems like in the same breath, it's accused of catering to the 
+lowest-common denominator, and being over the head of its viewers by 
+requiring them to *think* about what they're seeing.
+
+
      
+Which means we're probably doing it right.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It seems to me that every generation thinks that things are changing,
+usually for the worse.  In some cases, they may be right.  The B5
+story is set at a point in time where things are very much in a state
+of flux.  Every so often, the wheel turns.  Everybody's feeling a 
+sense of growing uncertainty, of the chairs being moved around.  
+They're right.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, this was not the first B5 or Sinclair had heard about the
+escalating problem on Mars; remember, that was the main reason that 
+Ben Zayn had been sent to B5 in "Eyes," smoking out sympathisers with
+the Free Mars movement.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Mars Colony situation will be raising its ugly head on and off 
+again for quite some time to come.
+
+
      
+Also, the fissure wasn't created by the quakes; Tasaki mentions it
+was artificial, but nudged open by the tremors.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, a shuttle like this, which is designed to function in alternate
+atmospheres, and may have to evacuate groups, has about 7 standard or
+most common atmosphere cannisters.  Medlab has the same thing, but in
+larger numbers.  This is SOP on the show.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, the sets weren't redresses of regular sets; they were built new 
+and entirely for the two-parter; you can get a better look at them in
+the second part, and some angles of the first.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sinclair fights two turf battles at once as alien invaders claim the planet
+the station orbits, and an Earthforce captain disagrees with him about how
+to deal with the situation.
+
+
+Ron Canada as Capt. Ellis Pierce.
+Louis Turenne as Draal.
+Curt Lowens as Varn.
+Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton.
+Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action
+P5 Rating: 8.49
+
+Production number:  121
+Original air date:  August 3, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+In his youth, Londo led the Centauri raid on a planet called Frallis 12.
+
    • 
+Five hundred years earlier, the last of Varn's race died, entrusting him
+with a legacy, the guarding and caretaking of Epsilon 3.  Some time prior
+to that, a violent, cruel faction of the race was cast aside by the rest,
+and since Varn took over Epsilon 3, they have been searching for it.
+
    • 
+Some Earth citizens feel they're heavily subsidizing the Mars colony, and
+that may in fact be true.
+
    • 
+The Centauri contributed a substantial amount of money to the construction
+of Babylon 5.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
    • 
+What is the intended use of Epsilon 3?
+
    • 
+What needs to happen before it will be deemed ready for consumption by the
+rest of the galaxy?
+
    • 
+Was Takarn's ship the only one of its kind, or are more outcasts from Varn's
+race still out there, searching (or heading) for Epsilon 3?
+
    • 
+Are there any other planets like Epsilon 3 waiting to be discovered?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+The station potentially has a powerful new ally in Draal.  It remains to be
+seen if he will prove willing to come to the station's defense in the future,
+but the threat of retaliation by Epsilon 3 might be enough to keep any
+would-be attackers at bay.
+
    • 
+Garibaldi's tentative hopes of one day getting back together with Lisa have
+now been dashed.  This might make him that much more likely to hit the
+bottle again. (cf.
+"Survivors")
+
    • 
+Assuming Earth is successful in putting down the revolt on Mars, a continued
+presence will likely be necessary to keep things from flaring up again.
+This is bound to have political consequences back on Earth, and possibly
+on Babylon 5, as Earth has a harder time claiming the moral high ground
+if it's occupying one of its own members with soldiers.
+
    • 
+Londo's sense of adventure, now reawakened, might lead him to go even further
+in his quest for the "good old days."  Between this and his possession of
+the Eye (cf.
+"Signs and Portents")
+he may be a much more influential figure than he appears.
+
    • 
+Delenn's assessment of Sinclair jibes with the hints in
+"Grail"
+that she considers him a "true seeker," someone whose life is devoted to
+a cause.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The heavy cruiser EAS Hyperion was named after the Babylon 5 Internet archive
+(and home of the Lurker's Guide) at Hyperion.COM.
+
+
    • 
+Ivanova seems to enjoy saying "Boom!" (cf.
+"Grail")
+
+
    • 
+When Capt. Pierce is going to launch fighters to land on the planet and
+Sinclair threathens to destroy them, Pierce argues for a moment and then
+backs down.  When he turns briefly to the screen and a computer graphic is 
+displayed showing him calling down the ships, one of the ships in the top
+left corner of the screen has the flight number THX-1138, the name of
+George Lucas' first film.
+
+
    • 
+More SF references can be found in the list of words being downloaded from
+the station's language files by the aliens.  For instance, "ORAC" is a
+computer from the British series Blake's 7, and "Skynet" is
+from "The Terminator."
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • 
+BTW, have named an Earth Alliance Cruiser Hyperion, in notation of
+the library....
+
+
    • 
+Does the Earth Alliance have capital ships?
      
+Of course there are capital ships.  We never said otherwise.
+There's one later this season, for instance, the EAS Hyperion, a heavy Earth
+cruiser.  There aren't as many as they'd like -- the majority having been
+wiped out in the war -- but they're building 'em as fast as possible.  (The
+Hyperion, though it's never mentioned, is one of the leftover capital ships,
+not one of the newer ones.)
+
+
    • 
+Will we see other ships like the Hyperion?
      
+That design will never be seen again.
+
+
    • 
+Correct; the Hyperion didn't have a gravity-positive section.
+
+
    • 
+Of course, insofar as I recall, it wasn't stated in the episode that 
+Varn's people actually *built* the Great Machine; after all, if they
+could build it, why would the others have been searching for it so 
+frantically for the last several hundred years?
+
+
    • 
+Actually the Hyperion is one of the few surviving heavy cruisers from
+the Earth/Minbari War period; after we lost a LOT of our ships, there
+were some new ones commissioned, which we haven't seen yet, which are
+far cooler than even the Hyperion (though we'll see them next season).
+
+
    • 
+The captain of the Hyperion specifically states that he was already
+IN hyperspace, en route to another system, when he was ordered to 
+stop here.  His ship was already in the area.  Also, there is a fair
+amount of time between the actions on the planet initially, and the
+arrival of the Hyperion...enough to know there's some kind of tech 
+there, based on the initial attacks.  The Hyperion continued to 
+monitor reports as they came in.
+
+
    • 
+And there we get into the contradiction; Ivanova and Sinclair down on
+the planet would be mainly more run-and-jump...Draal talking about his
+feelings, Delenn showing she is upset that her friend is going away
+and will never be seen by her again, their obvious friendship, that to
+me is characterization.  And not just throwaway stuff, either, but 
+important down the road.
+
      
+But hey, what do I know....
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 4 returns as abruptly as it vanished, but its reappearance may bode
+ill for the future.  Delenn receives a momentous offer.
+
+
+Kent Broadhurst as Major Krantz.
+Tim Choate as Zathras.
+Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue/mystery
+P5 Rating: 8.57
+
+Production number:  118
+Original air date:  August 10, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •  A man shouts at Garibaldi and Sinclair; what he says might provide
+	clues about the nature of the opponents in another scene.
+   
    •  Look closely at what's inside a transparent case given to Delenn.
+	It's an object that's been shown in a previous episode.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Babylon 4 was stolen by people from the future, apparently at Sinclair's
+	behest during that time period, to act as a base of operations in a
+	tremendous war being fought between the forces of light and darkness.
+
+   
    •  Sinclair will be a great leader, possibly the leader, of the
+	forces of light in that war.
+
+   
    •  At some point, long before he participates in
+	Babylon 4's disappearance, Sinclair will flee a place (most likely
+	Babylon 5, cf.
+	"Signs and Portents")
+	that is about to be overrun by some evil creatures.  Garibaldi will stay
+	behind to fight, but will force Sinclair to leave.  A
+	transcript
+	of the scene in question is available.
+
+   
    •  The Grey Council stopped the war because of a prophecy.  Valen (a
+	revered figure, see
+	jms speaks)
+	said that humans, or some among them, had a destiny with which the
+	Minbari could not be allowed to interfere.
+
+   
    •  Delenn is on Babylon 5 to study humanity, to determine whether the
+	prophecy is correct.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Will Babylon 4 appear again?  If so, when?
+   
    •  Was it really Sinclair in the suit?  If not, who or what was it?
+   
    •  What was Sinclair trying to prevent from happening?
+   
    •  Who was waiting for Delenn and Sinclair?
+   
    •  Will Delenn keep her position on the council?
+   
    •  What is the purpose of the triluminary?
+   
    •  What was happening in Sinclair's flashforward?  Who or what was
+	attacking the station?  Is it related to the destruction of the station
+	as foretold in
+	"Signs and Portents?"
+   
    •  What was the crazed man referring to when he shouted about "monsters"
+	and said, "I see you... you think I can't?"  (see
+	Analysis)
+   
    •  Is the Grey Council's cruiser the same place Sinclair was taken during
+	the Battle of the Line?  (cf.
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+   
    •  Why is Delenn so convinced she must remain on Babylon 5, even at the
+	risk of her standing in the Council?
+   
    •  What "change" does Delenn believe is coming?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  None of the races have demonstrated an ability to travel through
+	time.  Yet within Sinclair's lifetime, such technology will either
+	be developed, discovered, or introduced by people from the distant
+	past or future.  Does it exist already?  If so, who has it?  There
+	may be a subtle
+	clue
+	in
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars".
+	Zathras' people may be the ones to provide the technology.
+
+   
    •  The voice that speaks to Sinclair sounds like Delenn's, but her face is
+	intentionally not shown.  Presumably there is a reason for that;
+	Delenn may be due to change in some way that will alter her appearance.
+
+   
    •  After Babylon 4 completes its time jump, a voice (presumably a
+	computer) announces that the atmosphere was breathable.  Why wasn't
+	it breathable before?  Zathras clearly had no trouble breathing in
+	the past, so is something about the future Sinclair different that
+	prevents him from breathing a normal atmosphere?
+
+   
    •  In the past, when we've seen Grey Council members, they have had silver
+	triangles on their foreheads
+	("And the Sky Full of Stars"
+	and
+	"Signs and Portents"
+	during Morden's visit to Delenn.)  Yet no such triangles were visible
+	this time.  What do the triangles mean, and what causes them to
+	appear?  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  The attacking force
+	in Sinclair's vision of the future seemed to be invisible.
+	Witness the fact that Garibaldi's men were firing in seemingly random
+	directions, as if they didn't know where the enemy was.  It also seems
+	unlikely that they'd use a flamethrower if they could aim at their
+	opponents.  When the unknown force finally cut through the wall, it
+	was forced inward, but nothing could be seen forcing it.  This also
+	explains what the crazed man on B4 was talking about; he'd seen
+	visions of a battle against invisible foes too.
+	
      
+	The only instance of invisibility seen in the series up until this
+	episode was in
+	"The War Prayer",
+	and it was developed by the Earth Alliance military, suggesting
+	perhaps that the attackers might be humans.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi flashed back to an event two years earlier.  That may
+	suggest that Sinclair's flashforward (if indeed that's what it was)
+	was to two years in the future, which would put the scene somewhere
+	in the year 2260, season three of the series.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Babylon 4 is larger than Babylon 5.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
      
+   
    •  The one I'm most looking forward to writing just now, though, is
+	"Babylon Squared," in which we finally show what happened to Babylon
+	4, and in the process ask more questions than we answer (though at
+	least we DO answer the questions we asked about the fate of that
+	station in general...you'll know what happened to it, just not yet
+	what it means). The end of this episode will cause more speculation
+	and consternation and astonishment than anything you've seen on TV in
+	a long, long, very long time.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  What a weird day...filming "Babylon Squared," and one minute I'm 
+	standing in the anteroom/hallway of a Minbari cruiser that leads into
+	the Great Hall and the chambers of the Grey Council...a few minutes
+	later I'm standing in a section of Babylon 4, and the whole atmosphere
+	of the crew is *very* different, the whole sensibility is strange...
+	very strange.
+
+	
      
+	"Babylon Squared" has a *very* different look to it, and a very eerie
+	and foreboding feel about it, which I like a lot.  Jim Johnston, who
+	directed "Soul Hunter" and several others is doing it.  Very moody.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Yesterday, I got the final air-check versions of "Babylon Squared" 
+	and "Chrysalis" to QC before delivering them to PTEN.  Watched both
+	of them three times in the same day.  They're just stunning. 
+	Probably the two best episodes of the entire season.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Yes, you will see the Major Conflict that leads to the situation with
+	Babylon 4.  We're building toward a massive conflagration here.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Yes, you will definitely, at some point, see the flip side of the
+	B2 episode.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  No, actually, B2 was structured for maximum jarring effect, thus the
+	sudden cuts back and forth, the sickly green light in B4...makes the
+	person watching feel unexplainably anxious, which was a subliminal 
+	but definite intent.  So no, nothing much was cut.  And yes, 
+	eventually we will see the flip-side of the B4 story.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  In B-squared, we saw the present
+	events in the vanishment of B4; in a future episode, we'll actually see
+	our characters make the decision to go back in time and yank B4 forward,
+	what went wrong, and so on.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Nope; Zathras is one of his race, which aren't offspring of any
+	other two groups.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  When Zathras shows up in time, it'll definitely be recognizeable as
+	Zathras.
+
+
+   
      
+   
    •  B5 is smaller than B4 because they sunk most of
+	their budget into B4; on B5 they had to get outside
+	funding, and scrimped.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  B1-B4 were located in roughly the same sector, with B4 using some of
+	the materials from 1-3 leftover.  B5 was constructed about 3 hours
+	(traveling time in real-space) from the location of B4.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  No commander had yet been assigned to Babylon 4.  One Major Krantz
+	had been assigned to oversee the final stages of construction, and 
+	was on board -- along with about 1300 others in the construction 
+	crew -- when the station vanished.  The station had only been on-
+	line 24 hours, and the discussions of a commanding officer had just
+	begun when it disappeared.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Major Krantz wasn't so much in charge of B4 as he was (as noted in
+	dialogue) assigned to oversee the final stages of construction.  His 
+	job was to get the station finished, then turn it over to someone 
+	else to run.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Does the triluminary have anything to do with the sculpture in
+	Delenn's quarters?
      
+	Yes, the Triluminary does have a function in the
+	device she's been making.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Why no triangles on the Council's
+	heads?
+	
      
+	While the triangle is one element of the Grey Council
+	symbology, it is not present and visible at all times and
+	under all circumstances; it has a particular purpose or
+	meaning.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  The triangle only manifests itself for specific reasons, at specific
+	times, neither of which were appropriate to that moment.  And yes, 
+	the Triluminary is much cooler...and does something quite interesting.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Valen was the one who brought Minbari
+	civilization together, he is their Christ-figure.  And yes, the
+	heavyset Grey Council member is the same one as in "Sky."
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's closing lines in Sinclair's flashforward are
+	reminiscent of "Aliens."
      
+	When you're shooting a show, invariably you get to the stage and
+	find that you have, for instance, three lines, one per character in the
+	room...and you're trying to get them out the door, and it moves better
+	if you give one line to one character and the other two to the other
+	character.  That sometimes happens.  But rarely.  In the Garibaldi's
+	yell case, it was written as a quick shot, he yells and we're out.  The
+	director wanted to extend the shot a bit, visually.  I wasn't in the
+	studio at the time, so Jerry improvised a series of yells.
+	
      
+	This sort of thing is *extremely* rare on the show; the actors and
+	directors know they *cannot* change dialogue on the set without approval
+	from me or Larry.  On any given script, no more than about 3-6 lines get
+	modified for staging purposes once we get to the set.  And always with
+	approval required.  This is an absolute, hard and fast rule.  The only
+	reason the Garibaldi thing happened is that they figured it was just a
+	yell, so nothing could get messed up story-wise (which is the primary
+	reason this is so strict; change one word in a line and it could screw
+	up plot points three episodes down the road) by having him yell a few
+	specific lines.  If I'd been there for that scene, I would've written
+	him something a little less reminiscent of "Aliens."
+
+   
      
+   
    •  The script called for Garibaldi to take up the Big Massive Gun and
+	fire, with a primal YELL that went on forever.  Any dialogue at that
+	point which replaced the yell came from the actor.  The "you're 
+	already dead" was only relevant to the scene, not T2.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Re: Garibaldi in the flash-forward scene...no, it wasn't any kind of
+	"homage" to Aliens.  (And for the most part, I try and stay clear of
+	any kind of homage unless it's primarily a throwaway; I want my story
+	to be MY story, not a bunch of homages.)
+
+	
      
+	The single most moving kind of story for me is the "last man on the
+	bridge"...the last defender who has to hold the line while others get
+	away, knowing he will probably not survive it.  This has great power
+	for me, and for many others, which is why it shows up again and again
+	in films, literature, TV and other venues.  The Garibaldi scene has
+	NOTHING to do with Aliens, and everything to do with that figure.
+
+	
      
+	Re: *why* it is that humans are special...has nothing to do with
+	sacrifice, or dedication (well, that's not quite true, it has 
+	something to do with it), but that's not the totality of it.  There's
+	one more element you don't know about yet, that won't be revealed 
+	until season two, episode one, "Points of Departure."  Once you see
+	that episode, you'll fully understand that there is one very 
+	particular thing about humans that is very special indeed.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  I kinda *have* to play fair with the story; if you hear Delenn's
+	voice, then you can be sure it's Delenn.
+	
      
+	In one form or another.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  "So who IS the One?  Some of the evidence points to Sinclair, but
+	other bits seem to indicate Delenn.  Yet neither seems to fit all the
+	facts above."
+ 
+	
      
+	Exactly.
+ 
+	
      
+	What you have here in your message are two pieces of the puzzle.
+	You're confounded by the fact that somehow they don't quite seem to fit
+	into one another.  That's because there's one last piece missing in this
+	part of the picture, which fits in between them.  The intent is to put
+	this piece into clear view in year three, probably between episodes 8
+	and 11 approximately.  At that point, the question of the One will be
+	fully answered.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Re: Sinclair as the One...funny how all this time very few folks have
+	really commented much on how it was that Zathras could look right into
+	Sinclair's face and say, "NOT the One."
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's eyes glow for one frame in the flashforward scene.
+	
      
+	(sigh)  Our rotoscope EFX guy was waiting for a bunch of PPG EFX to
+	finish rendering in that battle scene, and was bored, and like many 
+	such EFX types, filled in the eyes of Garibaldi with weird stuff 
+	while waiting around.  When the other scene finished rendering, he 
+	got out, believing that he had not saved that one frame.  Unknowingly,
+	he had.
+
+	
      
+	Nobody caught it until after broadcast.
+
+	
      
+	We talked.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  "It has been divulged that Sinclair is coexisting in a parallel
+	dimension Babylon 4."
+
+	
      
+	Actually, this has *not* been divulged...what it is is a speculation
+	based on an offhand comment by Michael at a convention.  I jump in 
+	here only because, well, that ain't it.  B4 is not in an alternate 
+	dimension, neither is there an alternate Sinclair.  Just a course
+	correction to the discussion.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  With only one exception, you won't see time travel anywhere in the
+	five-year run of the B5 story.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Fasten, button.
+	
      
+	Levi's Jeans forever!
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Why wasn't Franklin delivering the autopsy report?
      
+	Garibaldi is head of security, and Franklin would likely give him the
+	report, which Garibaldi then relays.  In such things there is a chain
+	of command.  And as you say, it seemed pointless to bring in the actor
+	just for one half-page scene.
+
+   
      
+   
    •  Credits for two Gray Council members?
      
+	Mark Henrickson was the...rounder of the two Minbari.  The one with
+	the staff wanted to go uncredited.
+
+	
      
+	No real reason, he just felt it would be better for the character
+	to remain mysterious; and since it really wasn't a big part, it 
+	wouldn't make a real difference one way or another in his credits and
+	resume.  (I know that sounds weird, but as near as I can determine,
+	that's the reason.  He did a great job, and we're looking forward to
+	having him again.)
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Talia is involved in carrying out the sentence of a convicted murderer.
+Dr. Franklin investigates a possible medical scam in Downbelow.  Londo takes
+Lennier for a look at the less savory sections of the station.
+
+
+June Lockhart as Dr. Laura Rosen.
+Kate McNeil as Janice Rosen.
+Mark Rolston as Karl Mueller.
+Damian London as the Centauri Senator.
+Jim Norton as Ombuds Wellington.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "The Resurrectionist")
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense/drama
+P5 Rating: 7.29
+
+Production number:  117
+Original air date:  August 17, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Lorraine Senna Ferrara
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
    • 
+"Spacing" someone (tossing them out an airlock to die) is a punishment
+applicable only in cases of mutiny and treason.
+
    • 
+Evidence gained from a telepathic scan is inadmissible in court, as it
+violates the principles of due process.
+
    • 
+Very few members of Psi-Corps are trained to handle criminal cases, not
+for lack of demand, but because it's very a stressful field, with lots
+of burnouts.
+
    • 
+The station's indigent are denied medical treatment in Medlab if they
+can't afford it (cf.
+"Believers".)
+
    • 
+The station's prison is overcrowded already; there's no room for someone
+to serve a life sentence.
+
    • 
+Earth possesses the technology to brain-wipe people (cf.
+"Grail")
+and implant new memories;
+it's used as a punishment or rehabilitation measure in certain criminal
+cases.  A Psi-Corps member oversees the wipe, performing scans before and
+after to make sure it's complete.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+
    •  What will Dr. Franklin do with the machine?  Will it ever be seen again?
+
+
    •  Will Franklin and Janice Rosen continue to see each other in subsequent
+	episodes?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
    • 
+This is the second instance in the series of a mechanism for stealing life
+from one being and giving it to another (cf.
+"Deathwalker".)
+Perhaps the two are related somehow.
+
    • 
+Judging by her reactions during the scan, it seems Talia was not trained to
+deal with hardened criminals.  Why, then, was she also stuck with the job of
+scanning a murderer on the Mars colony, a place that, as a major human
+settlement, presumably has a Psi-Corps presence?  (cf.
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1",
+though admittedly the presence referred to there was not public knowledge.)
+
    • 
+The Centuari's claim that Earth was a lost colony (cf.
+"Midnight on the Firing Line")
+must have been a short-lived ruse, given the revelations about Centauri
+physiology in this episode.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    • 
+June Lockhart and Bill Mumy were in another science-fiction show together:
+"Lost in Space."
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
    • 
+Of all the scripts I've written, the only one that I'm less than
+absolutely 100% thrilled with is "The Quality of Mercy," because I wrote it
+while absolutely sick with the flu, and have NO memory even of writing it.  As
+it is, though, I'm about 90% happy with it, particularly the B-story with
+Londo and Lennier, which came out great.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In my original thoughts about the episode, there was more of a con
+man ressurectionist angle to the show, which later got dropped.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Psi Corps telepaths are ****NOT**** allowed to scan defendants in any
+official way connected to a criminal act.  It violates the right  to due
+process.  Even if requested, it's simply not allowed.  You do NOT want to even
+open the door a *crack* in letting a government-regulated agency begin making
+determinations about who is and isn't guilty of a crime.  That way lies
+dictatorship, Thought Police and Big Brother.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The scan is preparatory to the prisoner being mind-blanked.  It is, 
+as the Ombuds pointed out, the death of personality, the death of 
+one's mind. Hence the black band on the Psi symbol.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+How has your presence on the net affected the series?
      
+... I was
+initially going to gloss over some of the legal aspects of the Psi Corps
+in "The Quality of Mercy," but when so many people expressed interest in
+how that worked, and when I saw some measure of confusion about it, I
+took the time to indicate how the legal aspects work when it came time to
+complete that script, thus answering the questions.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The one major reason I decided to begin this interaction, despite
+CONSIDERABLE discourgement and disbelief from my peers, is that I 
+think it may be of some use, and because I think that one should be
+willing to stand publicly with what you create, and because though 
+many criticisms are issues of taste or subjective preference, 
+sometimes (fairly often, actually), I learn something from the
+discussion, or I'm corrected in something, and that realignment is
+eventually reflected in the show.  I'm giving some serious thought to
+either revamping n'grath or killing him off given the reaction (paired
+with my own).  I won't be dictated to, but in some cases, as with 
+n'grath, I may be uncertain, but willing to try and see if the
+experiment works.  Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and the
+general perception here seems close to my own.  In addition, I was
+initially going to gloss over some of the legal aspects of the Psi 
+Corps in "The Quality of Mercy," but when so many people expressed 
+interest in how that worked, and when I saw some measure of confusion
+about it, I took the time to indicate how the legal aspects work when
+it came time to complete that script, thus answering the questions.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+About June Lockhart
      
+No, no scenes with Bill Mumy, though some consideration was given to the
+notion.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We do tend to try and stay open to gender stuff; usuall there's a
+reason why someone is male or female, so it's cast that way.  But as
+an example...in "Quality of Mercy," the role as originally written 
+was for a father/daughter combination.  In the process of casting, we
+thought, why not mother/daughter?  So that's how it ended up.  In 
+"Points of Departure," we have one of your requests already taken 
+care of...a part of a war cruiser commander who could've been male or 
+female...cast female.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Q: What are Londo's appendages called?
      
+Tentisticularites?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Are Londo's appendages in addition to or instead of human-type
+"appendages"?
      
+That would be instead of, not in addition to.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Centauri males have six.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Centauri females, btw, have six narrow...ummm...slots on their backs,
+three on either side of the spine, right around the base of the spine.
+
      
+The awful thing is that the two women in props -- who were having FAR
+too much fun with this -- kept bringing me the tentacle to verify the
+shape, size, consistency, do we see veins or not....
+
      
+I tell you here and now: our staff meetings are something else.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"What kind of birth control do the Centauri use?"
+
      
+Conversation.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We used a bullwhip sound effect for the
+"retraction" in QoM; when we were in sound editing,
+I asked for the hardest whip-crack they had...and
+got it put in REAL loud.  Every time I hear it, I'm
+on the floor....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+While the TP themes in "Quality" go back through the history of SF,
+including the Demolished Man, among others, the basic storyline (re:
+Talia) came out of the pilot.  At the time, I was asked -- frequently
+-- "Why didn't Lyta scan Sinclair to determine if he had tried to kill
+Kosh?"  My answer then -- which is in some of the archives -- was that
+it would violate the right to due process, that a defendant cannot be
+scanned to determine guilt or innocence (in fact, I recall a rather
+heated debate about that here a while back).  I promised that this 
+would be elaborated upon down the road, and mentally logged in to do a
+show with that premise...and I'd already decided about the death 
+penalty, and the use of telepaths in it.  So "Quality" came out of 
+that, long before "Mephisto" was even written.  At one point, knowing
+that there were some common story areas, I called Harlan to tell him 
+the "Quality" story, so that if there were any problems, I could 
+revise it, but he said he saw no problem.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Isn't brainwiping as bad as killing?
      
+     There are actually many issues to get into in all of
+this.  Which is really the "person," the mind, the soul,
+or the body?  If a person has an accident, getting amnesia,
+which wipes out his entire personality, is that person as
+good as dead?  Is there no difference between amnesia and
+death? If not, why not just kill the amnesiac?  But
+obviously there *is* a difference.  So what is the person?
+What constitutes death?
+
      
+     We consider the actual death of the *brain* through the
+cessation of brain activity to be the test for death.  But
+what if you simply rearrange those patterns?
+
      
+     There is also the question of *justice*.  If the person
+is dead, then that person cannot do much to correct the ills
+he visited upon society.  It is simply a waste of material.
+So why not take someone who, in any decent society, would be
+executed or forced to live in a 6x9 cage the rest of his life,
+and give the soul, and the body, a new chance by giving the
+person a new personality and letting him, as the Ombuds says,
+"serve the community harmed by his actions"?
+
      
+     Finally, if the person is dead, he's dead; let's say 5
+years down the road somebody finds evidence that proves the
+person was innocent.  There is at least the *chance* to
+reconstruct some of the original memories and personality
+profile.
+
      
+     All of this, again, has to be considered in light of the
+fact that we are talking about a *space station* with limited
+space and resources.  You cannot warehouse every person who
+kill somebody in a station that small; you would run out of
+space almost immediately.  (If you also include basic felons
+and near-killings.)  So what *do* you do with them?  As was
+noted, Earth doesn't want them and won't pay to have them
+shipped back...what's left?
+
      
+     That's the dilemma I wanted to pose in the episode...what
+*can* you do?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+     "...the 'personality' remaining in the body will
+be punished for a crime that 'personality' did not
+commit."
+
      
+     1) But again, which is the person...the old
+        personality, the new one, or something else?
+
      
+     2) Part of the new personality would be the delight
+        in serving others.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You will see the healing machine from "Quality" once more.  Part of
+the reason for that story was to set up something within the B5 universe
+that will come in handy a long time later (but I'm *not* going to have it
+lying around indefinitely; it would cause lots of long-term complications).
+
      
+(Some TV shows foreshadow/set-up stuff an act or two ahead of time;
+we do setups a full *year* ahead....)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There are limits to what the healing device can do, for starters; 
+it can't repair physical damage to the body, mainly it works with 
+disease and basic low-energy stuff; also, bear in mind that it was a 
+device used for *capital punishment*...meaning that to save one person's 
+life, another must sacrifice his or her own, if it's that far along, 
+so it's not really something you can trot out everytime somebody gets 
+nailed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+They cannot carry out the original sentence because the body is
+now dead, which would tend to diminish its social acceptability.
+
      
+Dr. Franklin did not know that Mueller had yet found Rosen, or even
+knew of it.  There are no Babcom systems in DownBelow quarters.  To
+send a security team, when they're out searching, without cause, is
+neither realistic nor sensible.  He did the correct thing: to go and
+warn her, while at the same time making sure that security knew where
+he was going, and if they didn't hear anything, to send in a team.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Franklin should have had a search warrant.
      
+Allow me to disagree with you.
+
      
+Dr. Franklin did not require a search warrant to enter Rosen's 
+quarters.  The door was basically open, and he is NOT an officer of
+the law. Only officers of the law are required to have search warrants.  
+Neither was he there to arrest her.
+
      
+Defense counsel was sitting with the defendant at the table.  He had
+no lines, but he was there.  The trial had been ongoing; this was the
+part where the verdict is rendered after a decision has been reached.
+
      
+The pattern of the judge passing sentence is exactly the same as when
+circuit court judges used to work the frontier areas of the US.  Where
+would you find a jury on B5?  Most civilians are passing through, on
+stop-over for only a day or two...unable to follow a long hearing.  
+The only other ones are station personnel, which represents a conflict
+of interest.  Your only choice is a circuit court style judge whose 
+loyalty is owed to no one.
+
      
+The alien device was being used on humans without any kind of license,
+she is not a certified doctor, and it was used in the death of a 
+human. Under those circumstances, it is within the judge s right to 
+confiscate the device for the greater good.  (You can have a 
+unlicensed firearm in a state that requires licensing, and use it in a
+righteous self-defense shooting, but it will be confiscated afterward.
+No compensation is required because its use is/was unregulated, 
+unlicensed, and she was/is not a working doctor.)
+
      
+It *is* due process.  Even according to 20th century terms.  Only 
+problem is in understanding what due process actually *is*, as 
+opposed to what we think it *should* be.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, part of the reason for the QoM episode was to set up the notion
+of an implanted personality as achievable tech.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+David: "The Quality of Mercy" title is drawn from the same source as
+Compton's book, Shakespeare.  It has a lot to do with that episode.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, absolutely; in "The Quality of Mercy," you'll get a look at
+how the justice system has come to grips with the uestion of how to
+handle violent crimes in an environment like a space station, which
+has limited room for cells, limited resources, and other complications.
+We do plan to get into this area a bit, without getting too LA LAW 
+about it.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A lot of our episodes are constructed to work as mirrors; you see
+what you put into it.  "Believers" has been interpreted as pro-
+religion, anti- religion, and religion-neutral..."Quality" has been
+interpreted, as you note, as pro-capital punishment, and anti-capital
+punishment.  We do, as you say, much prefer to leave the decision on
+what things mean to the viewer to hash out.
+
      
+A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the
+occasional bar fight.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's the sense that A, B and sometimes C stories in TV should
+intersect.  My attitude: sometimes yes, sometimes no.  Depends on if
+you look at this as a real place or not, as opposed to a thematic
+exercise.  What I go through in the course of a day has nothing to 
+do with what happens to Larry DiTillio across town, except and unless
+it involves our mutual work.  Sometimes, as in "Quality," the stories
+feel like they resonate, and can be used to illustrate one another, 
+and so they're linked.  In others, what I'm striving for is a sense 
+of a "day in thed (the) life" of Babylon 5.  The one kind of story is
+neither better nor worse than the other, they're simply different.  
+One may like one more than the other, but to say they're "better" 
+plots is just silly.  There's NO padding in this show, no stories put
+in to fill out time; just stories that we want to tell, period.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Minbari use base 11, not base 10, so twelve would be eleventy-first
+year, and so on.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Minbari base eleven includes fingers and head, from which the 
+principle of mathematics comes.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+You're also looking at this from a strictly English-speaking 
+perspective; in German, for instance, 21 is "Ein und Zwanzig" (pardon
+any misspellings in there, it's been a while) which is exactly the 
+same structure, albeit reversed, used for Minbari counting (and, in 
+fact, is more or less what I based his "statement" on).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Eleventy-seven = Eighteen base ten.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven
+
      
+Eleventy-one, eleventy-two, eleventy-three, eleventy-four, eleventy-
+five, eleventy-six, eleventy-seven, eleventy-eight, eleventy-nine, 
+eleventy-ten, twelfy
+
      
+Twelfty-one, twelfty-two, twelfy-three, twelfty-four, twelfty-five,
+twelfty-six, twelfty-seven, twelfty-eight, twelfty-nine, twelfty-ten.
+
      
+And so on.
+
      
+Who here still has a problem with this?
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+First Season finale.  A dying man leads Garibaldi to a discovery that could
+cost him his life.  Londo receives help in a dispute with the Narns.
+Something begins to happen to Delenn.
+
+
+Macaulay Bruton as Garibaldi's aide.
+Edward Conery as Devereaux.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 9.38
+
+Production number:  112
+Original air date:  October 26, 1994 (*)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    Watch for:
    
+
      
+   
    • 	A convenient departure just before an important event.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    • 	Before the Centauri occupation, Narn was a peaceful, agrarian world.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    • 	What is happening to Delenn?
+   
    • 	What does it have to do with Kosh, or with the Vorlons?  Why did
+	seeing Kosh help Delenn make up her mind?
+   
    •  What was the question she had Lennier relay?
+   
    • 	What is the function of the triluminary in Delenn's device?
+   
    • 	What is the function of the device itself?
+   
    • 	Why did Delenn want to tell Sinclair what happened on the Line?
+   
    • 	Who's behind the plot to kill President Santiago?
+   
    • 	Why were the jammers and triangulation devices being shipped
+	through Babylon 5?
+   
    • 	Why did Garibaldi's aide kill Devereaux?
+   
    • 	What are G'Kar's suspicions about the attack on the military base?
+   
    • 	What do the Shadows want from Londo once he's in a position of power?
+   
    • 	What were the invisible creatures in the room with Morden?  If they
+	were Shadows, why did they come to Babylon 5 themselves, assuming
+	Morden was still on the station?  For that matter, how did
+	they get onto Babylon 5?  On someone else's ship, or is one of theirs
+	parked outside, invisible to everyone?
+   
    • 	How did Morden know that Londo's name was being spoken in the highest
+	circles of the Centauri government?
+   
    •  How did Kosh know that Sinclair had forgotten something?  Does he
+	know what Delenn was planning to tell Sinclair, and if so, does that
+	imply he was involved in what happened on the Line?
+   
    •  Was Garibaldi's friend Lianna Kemmer (cf.
+	"Survivors")
+	on Earth Force One when it exploded?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    • 	The fact that Delenn decided to go ahead with the change after Kosh
+	revealed himself to her implies that there may be a much closer
+	relationship between the Minbari and the Vorlons than has previously
+	been suggested.  It is even possible that Delenn is turning into a
+	Vorlon somehow, and that Kosh showed her he resembled a Minbari.  On
+	the other hand, that doesn't explain Kosh's interest in humans, who
+	he arguably doesn't consider another race (cf.
+	"The War Prayer.")
+   
    • 	Morden seems to be more than just a representative for the Shadows;
+	they seemed to be consulting with him.  If he were a mere spokesman,
+	why would he reassure his masters?
+   
    • 	The Vice-President is a prime suspect in the plot to kill President
+	Santiago.  He just happened to leave the President's ship shortly
+	before the assassination attempt.  He also presumably would be able to
+	arrange for an unregistered weapon for Devereaux -- or perhaps
+	Devereaux really was an agent working under the
+	Vice-President, in a capacity so secret Garibaldi couldn't find any
+	reference to him.
+   
    • 	Casting more suspicion on the Vice-President, and adding a darker,
+	more sinister note, is the newspaper headline from
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars" --
+	"Psi Corps in Election Tangle: Did Psi-Corps Violate its Charter
+	by Endorsing Vice-President?"
+   
    • 	It's still not entirely clear where Garibaldi's aide's loyalty lies.
+	The killing of Devereaux and his men suggests there may be more than
+	one level of deception at work.  Or perhaps he was simply under orders
+	to tie up loose ends and wanted to ensure Devereaux could never
+	blow his cover if apprehended.
+   
    • 	The Shadows may have been the force overrunning Garibaldi's position
+	in the flashforward from
+	"Babylon Squared."
+	They may also be what the crazed man in that episode was shouting
+	about when he referred to invisible monsters.
+   
    • 	Chrysalis is the third stage in insect development (egg, pupa,
+	chrysalis, and adult form.)  There may be some relation to the third
+	age of mankind referenced in the opening monologue.
+   
    • 	Delenn has obviously seen her change coming for quite some time;
+	she has been building the crystal device in her quarters almost from
+	day one.  Her compatriots on the Grey Council appear to largely be
+	in the dark about it, though perhaps not all of them, as one of them
+	did give her the triluminary (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+   
    • 	Delenn's ability to breathe the atmosphere in Kosh's quarters with
+	only a single whiff of air from a mask is further evidence of some
+	connection between Vorlons and Minbari.  Or it could just mean the
+	Minbari don't need much oxygen (or that both Kosh's air and the
+	normal station air contain whatever they do need.)
+   
    • 	She has been disobeying the Council's order about Sinclair, perhaps
+	ever since
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars."
+	That suggests she may have intentionally been hiding her upcoming
+	transformation from them, as well.  Otherwise it would presumably
+	have come up when they considered her for the leadership of the
+	Council (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+   
    • 	Londo's disgust about the deaths of the Narn suggest he may not be
+	the iron-fisted leader the Shadows appear to be looking for (cf.
+	"Signs and Portents,"
+	in which Morden appeared to be looking for someone ruthless and
+	ambitious.)  In the future he may be placed in the position of
+	deciding whether people live or die, and may have to act against
+	the Shadows' wishes.
+   
    • 	G'Kar may be returning home to try to warn his superiors that a
+	sixth race exists and is out to get them.  Whether he has deduced
+	that the intent is to cause war between the Narns and the Centauri
+	(if, indeed, that is what the Shadows are up to) is an
+	interesting question.  It is also not clear what the Narns could do
+	about the situation even if the leadership was convinced there was
+	another player in the game; the Shadows appear to have an overwhelming
+	technological advantage over most of the other races.
+   
    • 	On the other hand, the Shadows did dispatch four ships to take care
+	of the Narn outpost.  That suggests that one ship might not have been
+	enough, in turn implying limits to their power.
+   
    •  "And so it begins," says Kosh.  That's the same line spoken by Delenn
+	during the ceremony in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams,"
+	after Sinclair eats the fruit.  Perhaps Kosh was referring to Delenn's
+	change rather than the death of President Santiago, and perhaps it
+	has something to do with the possible marriage of Delenn and Sinclair
+	in the aforementioned episode.  (But see
+	jms speaks.)
+   
    •  When Kosh emerges from his encounter suit for Delenn (assuming that's
+	what he was doing,) there's a sound not unlike wings moving through
+	the air.
+   
    •  In
+	"TKO"
+	(which was originally going to air much later in the season,
+	either immediately before or one episode removed from "Chrysalis,")
+	Walker mentions that Garibaldi was never any good at watching his
+	back, foreshadowing the events in this episode.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Shot twelfth out of 22 episodes due to the extensive post-production
+	work required.
+
+   
    •  First broadcast in the UK
+	on October 3, 1994.  PTEN didn't want to show it during August,
+	traditionally a month of low viewership, in the US, so
+	it was held back until the week before the first season-two episodes,
+	becoming, to all appearances, the season-two premiere.  In
+	fact, PTEN even advertised it as such.  But, as stated, it was
+	produced halfway through the first year of shooting, so definitely
+	qualifies as a season-one episode.
+
+   
    •  The original satellite feed in the US was missing a special effect.
+	In the first shot of Londo walking in the hedge maze, the scene was
+	supposed to show the maze at the bottom of the frame and a view down
+	the center of the station above that.  The actual broadcast showed
+	the back wall of the soundstage behind the hedges, complete with
+	"Exit" sign.  Oddly, the correct scene was used in the UK broadcast,
+	which occurred much earlier.
+	Bad
+	and
+	good
+	pictures of the scene are available.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi's aide appeared in three previous episodes:
+	"Mind War,"
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars,"
+	and
+	"Eyes"
+	(where he's in Ivanova's dream.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Today, incidentally, I finished the outline for "Chrysalis," which
+will be the last episode of this season, though we'll be shooting it
+much earlier, about 2/3rds through the run.  It's a real corker in
+which we absolutely kick over the table and all hell breaks loose
+*bigtime*.  This one I'm *really* looking forward to writing.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'm in the strange position of writing the season end episode now,
+to shoot #12, since it's going to require a lot of post production
+work, and it definitely puts one in a very strange state of mind. 
+I have to be careful to refer to things that've happened in the past
+episodes, from the perspective of the last episode of the season, but
+which haven't yet been written or filmed in real-time.  So I'm 
+writing the second half of some stories before having written the
+first half (though I obviously know where they're all going)...which
+really bends your brain around after a while.  
+
      
+This episode is going to be highly classified; we're going to limit
+distribution of scripts, and parts of scripts, put canary traps in
+all of the scripts that *are* distributed, and otherwise keep this 
+one quiet.  All I can say is that we're going to kick over every
+table we've got.   In any season finale, there are maybe 4-5 things
+you know when you sit down to watch the show that they'll NEVER ever
+do.  So we're doing all of them.  If this one doesn't keep you glued
+to your seats, you've lost your chair.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+But I'd say that our two *best* so far are still "And the Sky Full of
+Stars" and "Chrysalis."  I just watched a cut of "Chrysalis" today 
+which finally had all the CGI in it, and had to scrape my brain off 
+the opposing wall, it's *that* good.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I have just seen the director's cut of "Chrysalis," which will be the
+last episode of this season...and I think it has just displaced "Sky"
+as the most heavy-weight episode of the season.  Even knowing what was
+coming, I just sat here, stunned, at the end of it.  Seeing dailies, 
+bits and pieces, doesn't really prepare you for the whole thing.
+
+What I like most about it are two things: one, by about halfway in, 
+you really begin to understand that anything can happen, to anyone, 
+and the rules that normally carry you through a television episode no
+longer apply.  It's a very dangerous, dislocating feeling.  Two: you 
+get the very real feeling that, after this episode, nothing is the 
+same anymore.  The show has taken a very profound and *irrevocable* 
+turn that will have lasting effects on all of our characters.  Of all
+the episodes so far, this one has the most feeling of being the 
+chapter end in a novel.
+
+The really hard part will not avoiding the temptation to show this to
+people...because it really can't be allowed to get out prior to 
+airing.  There are too many twists and turns and revelations that spin
+one off into another.
+
+One other thing's certain: after you've seen "Chrysalis," you're going
+to want to go back and check out three prior episodes...because 
+something that you will have read/interpreted one way, without question
+or hesitation accepting it as what it obviously appears to be, will 
+suddenly be turned on its head, and a brand new interpretation will 
+emerge.  And it's *real* creepy.... 
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Chrysalis" makes "Mind War" look like a still-life painting by
+comparison....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We finally delivered "Chrysalis" to Warner/PTEN, and heard back: our
+liaison over there was stunned, describes it as the best season-ending
+cliffhanger he's ever seen, unlike anything done before.  Suffice to
+say we're pleased.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We have a New Year's celebration in one episode later
+this season, and at some point will probably show other
+stuff next year.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What I like most about it are two things: one, by about halfway in, you
+really begin to understand that anything can happen, to anyone, and the rules
+that normally carry you through a television episode no longer apply. It's a
+very dangerous, dislocating feeling. Two, you get the very real feeling that,
+after this episode, nothing is the same anymore. The show has taken a very
+profound and *irrevocable* turn that will have lasting effects on all of our
+characters. Of all the episodes so far, this one has the most feeling of
+being the chapter end in a novel.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Someone complains about the characters not staying the same
+
      
+Losing the characters she's come to enjoy?  No.  But the characters 
+are changing.  That's the point, and that's been the intent from day
+one.   But what's the alternative?  I've heard ST fans complain loudly
+and bitterly that after 7 years of TNG being on the air, nobody's 
+really changed, nobody's been promoted into different ships or major
+changes in responsibilities...they've had Riker as XO for seven years,
+which in the real military would mean his career is *over*.
+
      
+Change is the only other option.
+
      
+The goal, from the start, was to create an overall story, but which
+would also require arcs for every single major character.  They're all
+going somewhere.  In many cases, that "somewhere" plays into the larger
+arc; in some cases, not.  If a woman is single, then gets married, then
+gives birth, and she's your friend, have you "lost her" just because 
+she's gone through these changes?  Of course not.  She has changed, in
+good or bad ways, but she's still the same person.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+         I just showed "Chrysalis" to a couple of people today, who
+    didn't know what was in it.  And there's one thing that they had
+    seen over and over in prior episodes of the series which they never
+    thought twice about, which they just sorta accepted...only to
+    suddenly have this understanding totally turned on its head.
+
      
+         The look on their faces was *priceless*.
+
      
+         This is probably the longest and most extensive setup/payoff
+    in SF television history.  And afterward, once you discover what
+    that is, if you go back suddenly there's a LOT of different meaning
+    in prior episodes.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Chrysalis," a cliffhanger of sorts, leads right into "Points
+of Departure," which picks up some of the tables kicked over by
+"Chrysalis," the balance of which are picked up in the second episode,
+"Revelations."  By the end of the second new episode, pretty much
+everything is now in place for the rest of the second season...though
+not everything is in quite the same position as it originally was.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Except, of course, that where everyone goes is important to the rest
+of the story, and that the purpose of the episode is to introduce 
+massive change into the story overall; when Sinclair says "Nothing's
+the same anymore," he's deadly serious, and so are we.  The changes
+won't just be transitory or for a season-end hook; these are permanent
+and substantial changes in the arc.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Now that you've seen this much, now you can begin putting together
+the other level of the metaphor that is B5...consider: a war that did not
+end satisfactorily for us, not winning or losing, a sort of peace with
+honor....the death of a president...the rise of intelligence agencies
+and military power...start to sound familiar?  Now what we begin to do
+is to start moving around the pieces, shifting the mirror of the story
+to reveal different aspects of ourselves, as well as tell the other
+separate story of B5 itself.  Again, the idea is for this story to
+function on *many* different levels: future-history, myth, adventure
+story, mystery and a metaphor.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: the staging of Morgan Clark taking the oath of office; I gave
+very particular instructions to re-create the staging of the photograph
+in which Lyndon Johnson takes over from JFK after the assassination.  The
+same layout, posture, background, and so on.  We even had a photo on set
+for reference.  The creepy thing is that the day we shot the scene was the
+anniversary of the day it actually took place; very weird atmosphere on
+set that day.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Actually, I was born in 54, so we're about the same age.  Oddly, I
+don't remember the day of the shooting; what I *do* remember is 
+watching JFK's funeral, and not entirely understanding the depth of
+the event, but fully grasping the emotions around me.  That will 
+linger forever.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+President Santiago is dead as a doorknob.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Re: being fooled into thinking the crystal construct in Delenn's
+quarters was nothing more than a meditation thing...in general, it helps
+to remember that I subscribe to Anton Chekov's First Rule of Playwriting:
+"If there's a gun on the wall in act one, scene one, you must fire the
+gun by act three, scene two.  If you fire a gun in act three, scene two,
+you must see the gun on the wall in act one, scene one."
+
      
+Waste nothing.
+
+
      
+
    • About the marriage ceremony in "Parliament"
+
      
+The marriage was a red-herring, a bit of misdirection.  The key for
+any magician is to get the audience to look at your hand so they don't see
+the elephant being wheeled onto the stage in full view.  The line in
+"Parliament" is, "It's a rebirth ceremony all right, and sometimes doubles
+for a marriage ceremony."  When I wrote that, I knew instantly that
+everyone would focus in on the second half (misdirection) and miss the
+first half.  (Note that Delenn's "And so it begins" is echoed by Kosh in
+the last episode.)  I put out something that I figured everybody would
+latch onto, ignoring the other meaning which is stated twice.
+
+
      
+
    • Why did they turn Garibaldi onto his back, where the wound was?
+
      
+I was told by our medical technology consultant that after you take
+care of the basic external wound, you always turn the body over and go
+after the internal damage from the *front*.  I was told why three times,
+but still can't retain it.  I think it involves easier access without
+cutting around the spine, and makes breathing less laborious.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The teaser of that episode [Chrysalis] is very
+much just the sort of thing we've seen before; designed to lull you into
+a sense of, "Yeah, yeah, we've seen this."  Right down to the tired look
+on Sinclair's face.  Been there, done that.  Then you yank the viewer's
+blanket.  And structurally, it was designed to somewhat mirror the events
+in the first episode; the balance is shifting, things are going in the
+reverse of what we saw before.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I don't like loose threads hanging around, so all this will get tied
+up.  In some cases, we'll see flashbacks to stuff that happened "around the
+corner," so to speak, and in others we'll have dialogue explanations.  We
+get the scoop on what question Delenn asked Kosh (via Lennier) before
+[season 2] is out.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If the Shadows are visible, how did they get onto the station?
+
      
+In "Chrysalis," they are distortions visible in the air when they
+wish to be...and not when they don't.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"There is good reason to believe the Minbari Triluminary device
+is an artifact not created by the Minbari."
+
      
+DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING*DING!
+
+
      
+
    • 
+About Walker's lines in "TKO"
+
      
+Re: "Watch your back," and "You never did know how to watch your 
+back," yep, that was a bit of deliberate foreshadowing for "Chrysalis."  When the episode aired,
+I mentioned at the time that there was something in that episode that
+would later be seen to be ironic or ominous, but didn't seem so at
+first.  One or two caught it, but most didn't.  This show is layered
+very, VERY carefully.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Correct; Garibaldi's aide has *always* been a plant.  I seeded him
+in from the beginning, specifically for that purpose.  It was the aide
+who got Sinclair out of his quarters in "Sky," was the liaison who got
+Benson on line (also in security, you'll remember), and helped dispose
+of the body. If you watch his reaction in "Sky," he's the one who 
+brings info to Garibaldi looking to clear Benson; and when Garibaldi
+sees through it, you can see his aide move off looking very worried.
+
      
+Originally, it was Laurel Takashima who would have betrayed those
+around her, as this character did.  When Laurel was transferred, I had
+a choice: keep that arc for her replacement (Ivanova), or give this 
+part of it to someone else.  Now, knowing how the folks here on the
+nets and elsewhere think, and knowing that they knew about the Laurel-
+possible-traitor thread, I figured that everyone would assume that
+Ivanova would get that part. (And, sure enough, a lot of people did.)
+This became a wonderfully convenient blind behind which to build the
+*real* plant.
+
      
+And thus far, *nobody's* seen it coming.  He was right there in clear
+view, we used him many times (also in "By Any Means Necessary," for
+instance), and nobody ever paid him the slightest attention.
+
      
+It is, in a way, the classic magician's trick of misdirection: you
+try to get everyone to look at your hand so they won't look at the 
+huge elephant being wheeled up onto the stage in plain sight.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, the shooting of Garibaldi was always a very strong
+part of the story for the  end of first season; that line goes
+all the way back to the pilot, and Laurel  Takashima.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, after the thread with Laurel was revealed, lots of
+people *assumed* that  that thread had been passed along to
+Ivanova.  It had never in fact been intended  for her, but
+when it was broached, I simply didn't reply, on the theory
+that if I said it  *wasn't* her, it'd narrow it down to who it
+*was*.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"I *liked* Laurel!"
+
+
      
+Well, yes, that's rather the point; tragedy is only
+tragedy if it happens to  someone you care about and like.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+All the characters are unique; there seems to be this
+bone-headed notion, that  I frequently run into, of "Well,
+Ivanova's just Takashima renamed," or "Sheridan's  story is
+just the same as Sinclair's, same guy just renamed."  They're
+*not* and  never have been.  The story of one does not devlove
+automatically upon the  other.  If you make a change, it's
+because you have something better in  mind...otherwise why
+make it?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Shadowmen stuff was all CGI, no models.  Spiffy stuff.  And yes, 
+we'll find out in time what Delenn asked Kosh.  
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"If the Shadows are active on Earth, we need to ask why Psi-Corps
+haven't picked them up."
+
      
+Yep.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The chrysalis is virtually all prop, with some roto work to enhance 
+the glow in "Chrysalis."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Was it credible that President and Vice-President would travel on
+the same flight?  Their twentieth-century American counterparts don't
+fly together on Air Force One.
+
      
+You're forgetting several elements.
+
      
+1) It would be in the VP's best interests to go along on the trip, 
+to help defuse any suspicion ("Boy, was I lucky.").
+
      
+2) Going a few hours out of the country is one thing; you're not 
+looking at the aspect that traveling in normal space takes a lot of
+time and expense...a ship as massive as EF1 is hideously expensive; 
+two would be a major waste of government money, and they'd both be
+traveling side by side, further wasting money.  Also, whereas Air 
+Force 1 travels nominally alone, EF1 has a full escort of fighters, 
+with a minimum of four in the "air" at any one time, plus another
+batch inside.
+
      
+Going between planets is a much different process than going between
+here and London; and if both parties are required at the other end, 
+the only sensible way is to have them go together.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Remember when I said there are things you learn midway into a series
+that you can learn no other way?  Yikes...
+
+
      
+As I've mentioned before, in our season ender, "Chrysalis," we tip 
+over every table we've got.  I'm talking here *major* stuff, that
+profoundly and permanently affects many of our primary characters.
+Well, you build that as a two parter, and even *try* to resolve all of
+that in the second part.  It doesn't work, because the repercussions 
+are so substantial.  (What it is, really, is something that'll be felt
+throughout the entire second season.)
+
+
      
+You can try to pack all the loose thread-tying into part two, but it's
+like trying to pack 10 pounds of potatos into a 5 pound bag.  One 
+other option is making it a six parter, but *that's* really silly.  So
+what I'm doing, I've decided, is to take the major elements and play
+them out over the first five or so episodes.  This will give me time
+to give each of the threads the necessary time to play out effectively,
+rather than rushing things.
+
+
      
+So Chrysalis stands alone as a season ender, and a prelude to the Big
+Stuff in season two.  Episode 1 of year two, therefore, won't be 
+"Chrysalis, Part Two," but have its own title, allowing me to spread 
+the stuff over the next few episodes.  (Probable title: "Points of 
+Departure.")
+
+
      
+I showed "Chrysalis" to some people the other day, and the reaction 
+was across the board astonishment.  Just stunned.  Which was pretty
+much the desired result.  It's an absolute left-turn for the series.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Since I mentioned it over on Internet (but not where it belongs), I
+give y'all a little gift...Kosh's very last line of the season, in 
+"Chrysalis."
+
+
      
+"You have...forgotten something."
+
+
      
+It's not nearly as straightforward as it looks, and that one line will
+carry with it *major* repercussions.  (And no, it doesn't refer to the
+24 hours.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Only two Shadowman vessels hit the Narn base at Quadrant 37, not
+three.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Sometimes it gets wonky.  We filmed "Chrysalis" twelfth in shooting
+order, to air twenty-second.  Part of the setup to "Chrysalis" is 
+"Signs and Portents," which shot 4 episodes later.  Meaning the 
+actors had to act familiar with elements they hadn't performed yet,
+and hadn't seen yet in script form.  So in that case, I had to sit 
+down and explain what the various aspects of "Chrysalis" meant, and
+where we were going, for it all to play.  Later, when "Signs" was 
+published in-house, they got to see in more detail how the setup fit
+in with the payoff.
+
      
+If asked, I would probably try to refrain from telling any of the
+actors the full story.  Let me rephrase: I simply wouldn't do it.  If
+they would ask where their individual character is going -- and some 
+have -- what I do is give them the general arc, but leave out a lot 
+of specifics.  For instance, Peter knows *in general* that his 
+character is going in a darker direction, but not how he's going to 
+get there or what it means to the overall story.  And that, I think,
+is as it should be.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Every so often, a screwup takes place that is so breathtakingly stupid
+that it defies all logic and reason.  I just learned of one this 
+evening, and I'm still reeling a bit from it.  Consequently, this is
+address to anyone who watched the satellite uplink of "Chrysalis" or 
+has seen it in the US in the last day or so.
+
      
+Once we deliver an episode, it goes to two places: Modern Video and CVC.
+CVC checks an episode of any series prior to uplink to make sure it's
+okay.  Though they've had it for four months, they only got around to
+checking it the day before uplink.  During this, they found a couple of
+small audio pops.  The kind of thing that could be fixed in about five
+minutes.  But since it was the evening, Modern Video decided to fix it
+for us...by *rebuilding the entire episode*.
+
      
+Without calling us, notifying us, or checking with us, when we could've
+easily had someone on-hand there to supervise at a moment's notice.
+
      
+Well, when they rebuilt the episode...they didn't use all the correct
+footage.  Some of what was used was RAW FOOTAGE.  Example: when Londo
+goes to meet someone in the Garden, there's supposed to be a great 
+composite shot there of the interior of the Garden area, and a hedge
+maze.  (The UK saw this version of it last month.)  But when the 
+episode was rebuilt, they used the raw footage segment showing Londo
+and a partial hedge IN THE SOUNDSTAGE, where you can see the stage 
+wall, and the pipes, and the EXIT sign.  No composite.  Nada.
+
      
+We don't yet know what else has been included incorrectly, because we
+won't see a copy until morning.  Suffice to say that this is being 
+taken care of *our* way overnight, and a correct version will be sent
+out via satellite in time for the Wednesday first airings in most 
+markets, and the reruns in those markets where it's already aired.
+
      
+At this moment, I am preternaturally calm about all this, having passed
+beyond anger earlier this evening into a kind of zen state of 
+consciousness, utterly unable to wrap my brain around the absolute 
+stupidity of something like this for more than two minutes at a time.
+
      
+By morning, this will have worn off.
+
      
+I'm looking forward to it immensely.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+As it turns out, we discovered that there were TWO comp shots missing 
+(including one in DownBelow), and that's how the "to be continued" got 
+added in at the end.  We rousted our people out of bed and had them at
+the Modern Video facility at 2:30 a.m. fixing other people's mistakes,
+rebuilding the entire episode so it could be birded out this afternoon.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If you saw TBC at the end of the episode, it was NOT the correct
+version.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Well, we tracked down more on the screw-up, and that's how the "To be
+continued" got in, and there's a second composite shot missing (from 
+the DownBelow area).  We rousted our post production people out of bed
+last night, and at 3:30 a.m. had them correcting the mistakes made by
+others, reassembling the entire episode.  The correct version is going
+out on the bird today, tomorrow, and tomorrow night.  It will also be
+hand-delivered to KCOP here in town to make sure they get it.
+
      
+I encourage anyone who saw "Chrysalis" over the last day or so to look
+at it again on the rerun; I think you'll find parts of it much better.
+
      
+This has been a complete and utter meltdown, and we're all out for 
+blood at the moment.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yeah, it can make you crazy.  Y'know that game, where you have a mallet
+and your job is to whack the gophers as they stick their head up out of
+the ground?  That's as good a description of my job as I've ever seen.
+And there are always new gophers....
+
+
      
+
    • 
+KCOP Channel 13 replaced the *good* version of Chrysalis with the 
+messed-up version
+
      
+I know...I know....
+
      
+Hand me my chainsaw, I'm going shopping for dinner.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The mistake wasn't made by us.  It was broadcast correctly overseas, 
+in the UK, perfectly.  This was done by the video house that supplied
+the satellite feed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Here is Londo's arc through the five year storyline:
+
      
+Funny and light; then funny and dark; then dark and tragic; then 
+tragic and light.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yeah, there's hope for Londo...but not in the way I think anybody 
+will expect, and not in the way Londo would like.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Londo is a fascinating character to write; there's layers upon 
+layers, and every time I sit down to write him, he surprises me with
+something else. And it's certainly more interesting to watch someone
+you like falling into something terrible than to set up a bad guy
+from day one; no complexity or sympathy there.  It's kind of like 
+watching an accident in slow motion.  But in the final analysis, all
+is not dark for Londo.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+No, alas, Tech #1, Marianne Robertson has decided that she would
+like to travel next year with her husband Dick Robertson, and has 
+some other personal plans in mind, and thus won't be back next season.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Just FYI...Marianne Robertson, Tech #1, was Swedish, not Russian.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"JMS has specifically told us that one MAIN character will die in 
+Chrysalis or Points of Departure (I don't remember which)."
+
      
+No I haven't.
+
      
+Never said it.
+
      
+Sometimes, what happens is that people guess about what's going to 
+happen in the story...and gradually that becomes the assumption on 
+the part of some people that this WILL happen...which in time
+metamorphoses into "JMS said this would happen."
+
      
+This is yet another of those.  Never said it.
+
      
+While I understand how this happens (and it happens a lot), the only
+real complication that I get from it is that suddenly I'm being held 
+to promises I never made...and if it doesn't happen as I supposedly
+said, then it's somehow my fault.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Douglas Adams "homage."  Nope.  Eric Sevareid once wrote that
+"working in television is like being nibbled to death by ducks."  I
+think it was in his book "Not So Wild A Dream," itself a line 
+borrowed from a poem by Norman Corwin.  It's also a fairly common
+phrase.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Scenes you should look at differently after "Chrysalis"...one that
+comes to mind offhand is "Sky," in the various Garibaldi scenes 
+(can't be more specific than that right now).
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Second season premiere.
+As a new commander assumes control of the station, a renegade Minbari
+warship arrives, threatening trouble.
+
+
+Robert Foxworth as General Hague.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "Chrysalis, Part II")
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.92
+
+Production number:  201
+Original air date:  November 2, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  During the Earth-Minbari War, Captain John Sheridan managed to score
+	Earth's only real victory, destroying the Minbari flagship Black Star
+	and several cruisers by mining the asteroid belt between Jupiter and
+	Mars with fusion bombs.  This earned him the name "Starkiller" among
+	the Minbari warrior caste, as well as their continuing hatred.
+
+   
    • 	The Minbari population has been slowly declining for two millenia.
+
+   
    • 	The Grey Council ordered the end of the war after capturing Sinclair.
+	He was the first human to have direct contact with the Council.
+	Their original intent was to interrogate him and find out about
+	Earth's defenses, but upon scanning him, they found that Minbari
+	souls were somehow being reborn in human bodies.  Since Minbari
+	religion teaches that all the souls of the Minbari form a greater
+	whole, continuing the war would mean, in effect, killing part of
+	themselves.  Realizing that the knowledge that this was happening
+	to Minbari souls would prove destabilizing to society -- presumably
+	some would blame humans for the shrinking population, not to mention
+	how the humans would react to the news -- they decided
+	to keep their discovery a secret, and protect it with lethal force
+	if necessary.
+
+   
    • 	After the suicide of the warleader Sineval (cf.
+	"Legacies")
+	at the end of the war, the crew of his ship, the Trigati, defied the
+	surrender order and vanished into exile for nearly twelve years.
+
+   
    • 	Before her service on Babylon 5, Ivanova served under Sheridan at the
+	transfer point on Io.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    • 	How did a scan reveal that Minbari souls were being reborn in humans?
+
+   
    • 	Will the crew of the Trigati be considered martyrs by the warrior
+	caste in spite of their death at Minbari hands?
+   
+   
    •  Why did President Clark already know why the war ended?  (see
+	jms speaks, and comic
+	"In Darkness Find Me")
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    • 	The presence of the unnamed Grey Council member on Babylon 5 implies
+	that the Council knew Delenn would disobey its order, and further,
+	that they know the purpose of the chrysalis.  In fact, there seems to
+	be more division within the Council than they want to admit (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+	since one of the Councilmembers gave Delenn the triluminary even
+	though the council had advised her to wait.
+
+   
    • 	Sinclair was the first human to have contact with the Grey Council,
+	but there's still ample evidence that that's not the only thing
+	unique about him.  Delenn has hinted that she believes he has a great
+	destiny (cf.
+	"Grail"
+	and
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2")
+	and even in this episode, Lennier says, "A change is coming.
+	Sinclair was the first.  There will be others," implying that something
+	has happened to him that hasn't yet happened to anyone else.
+
+   
    • 	In fact, the Council may have identified a specific Minbari soul in
+	Sinclair, perhaps the reincarnation of a great figure in their history;
+	that would explain why they're so interested in him in particular.
+
+   
    • 	It's possible that the information about Minbari souls isn't even known
+	to all of the Grey Council.  When Delenn visited the Council (in
+	"Babylon Squared")
+	she spoke of the prophecy as the reason for ending the war, and some
+	of the other Councilmembers weren't sure that humans were the ones
+	the prophecy referred to.  If they had seen whatever scan results
+	convinced Delenn that humans had Minbari souls, they presumably would
+	have argued with her about those results rather than a vague
+	interpretation of the prophecy.
+
+   
    • 	The only thing that looked remotely like a scan in Sinclair's
+	recollection of his capture on the Line was when one of the Minbari
+	held a triluminary up to him.  (cf.
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+	It's at least plausible that the triluminary was instrumental in
+	determining that Sinclair had a reincarnated Minbari soul.  If its
+	function is indeed on such a spiritual level, the fact that it was
+	part of Delenn's machine (cf.
+	"Chrysalis")
+	suggests that her transformation may be as much mental as physical.
+	This interpretation of the triluminary's function is supported by
+	the comic issue
+	"In Darkness Find Me."
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's comment that he was the late president's choice
+	to replace Sinclair is odd; why would Santiago want someone who would
+	be sure to anger the Minbari and increase tensions?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Agamemnon was also a ship in the British fleet, at one point
+	commanded by Lord Nelson (best known for the Battle of Trafalgar.)
+
+
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  As for Chrysalis, there's about 8 to 10 days in "story time" between
+	it and the events in "Points."  The next few shows track in real-time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why do the Minbari have a grudge against Sheridan?  It was wartime,
+	after all.
      
+	They don't much like the way he did it, which was rather sneaky.
+	My sense is that the Minbari have something of a superiority
+	complex; the idea of being beaten, even briefly, by a technically
+	inferior race is going to grate on them.  Also, bear in mind, that
+	the military caste has not been fully informed about WHY they were
+	ordered to surrender...so there's a great deal of animosity just
+	barely submerged there, which is pointed at the only real human
+	they know from the war...because he cost them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Heads definitely rolled (figuratively speaking) in the Minbari 
+	warrior caste after the Black Star incident.  They allowed themselves
+	to get cocky, and didn't do a proper job, which was more than an 
+	embarrassment to them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It kinda bothered their sense of superiority; also, their sense of 
+	honor lies more in the direction of one-to-one combat, rather than 
+	mining something as a trap.  Consider it the way British troops did 
+	toward American revolutionary fighters who hid behind trees and used 
+	guerilla tactics rather than fighting the way the British *wanted* 
+	them to fight, out in the open, in nice, easily shot-at rows....
+
+	
      
+   
    •  We will be changing the main title sequence after "Revelations"
+	airs to include the new version of Delenn.  Would be silly of us to
+	include the new version in episodes prior to her unveiling.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  The fact that Minbari believe in souls does not make it so.
+	
      
+	If a story is rigorously SF, but some of the people who inhabit the
+	story have belief systems, does that automatically invalidate it as SF?
+ 	
      
+	I don't think it's the position of this show to state whether or not
+	a belief system is true but rather to explore the actions of those who
+	THINK it's true; not to resolve arguments, but to start arguments.  (See
+	"Believers" for more on this one.)
+ 	
      
+	What the characters believe is subjective, and is their business.
+	Or, as Sheridan says in a later episode, "I'm not saying what I'm
+	saying.  I'm not saying what I'm thinking.  For that matter, I'm not
+	even THINKING what I'm thinking."
+
+	
      
+   
    •  This is correct.
+	Sheridan did NOT tell President Clark about the
+	Minbari soul situation.  Clark already knew about it.  Sheridan's line
+	is, "I spoke with the president.  He is the only other person who knows
+	why the Minbari surrendered."  Also, in the first issue of the comic,
+	this prior knowledge on Clark's part is clear as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW, and just for the heck of it...the line about paying off karma at
+	an accellerated rate is something Kathryn has been muttering for ages;
+	I popped it into the script for fun. 
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan asked what kind of scanners the fighters were using because 
+	he couldn't figure out why they were picking up the Minbari fighters. 
+	He wanted to be sure nobody had snuck by some kind of new tech.  Once
+	he knew they were the same tech as before, he knew something screwy 
+	was up.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct above; Sheridan says, quite specifically, in the conference 
+	room with Ivanova after the Grey Council guy is gone, "they used some
+	kind of stealth technology WE'VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO BREAK."  It's not
+	a matter of old or cheaper tech; we just haven't broken their 
+	technology yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yes, ships can sit in hyperspace (something also mentioned by 
+	Laurel Takashima in the pilot, "If I were the Vorlons, I'd have a 
+	warship standing by in hyperspace just waiting to attack."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, I decided to name the EA Lounge "Earhart's" because she
+	is an important figure in aviation history, and I wanted a 40s art 
+	deco style to the place, down to big band music, and it fit perfectly.
+	There have been more women aviators, civilian and elsewhere, than we 
+	know, particularly during WW II at home, and they deserve recognition.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Earthforce lounge (EA personnel only) is Earhart's, named after
+	the famed aviator.
+	
      
+	(Consequently, as tradition, only swing or big-band music is ever
+	played in Earhart's.)
+	
      
+	Yes, we brightened things up a notch, but only a notch, because we
+	discovered that a lot of the good work being done on the sets and the
+	costumes wasn't being seen because we were too dark.  So we went up
+	about one f-stop, but at the same time began using more shadows, 
+	textures and colors, so the show has a denser look to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As noted elsewhere...we have previously established that the Dome is
+	periodically on Standby Mode, when the system is performing autmoated
+	(automated) backups, routine maintenance, that sort of thing.  It was
+	in "Midnight," when Garibaldi informs Ivanova that that's where he
+	likes to go, when it's on standby, and is quiet.  It was in "Sky," 
+	when Ivanova asks Tech 1 if there are any more ships due in for a 
+	while, is told no, and she puts her feet up on the console, nobody 
+	else around.
+
+	
      
+	Also, B5 tends to run on human cycles of day and night, something we
+	try to reflect in the sets and effects, showing the Garden bright 
+	during day times, and dark during night stuff (as around dinner time
+	in the Fresh Air Restaurant).  Maintaining such cycles has been found
+	to be critical in these kinds of environments.
+
+	
      
+	The standby mode only happens every 36-48 hours, for about an hour.
+	Most departments also have their own control areas, using C&C mainly
+	when command personnel are required.  In addition, there are folks 
+	monitoring C&C, and if anything *should* happen, someone could be 
+	there within seconds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Hyperion was built before the EM war, and survived.
+
+	
      
+	The Agamemnon, a much superior ship, was built afterward.  Sheridan 
+	was not commanding the Aggy during the war.  It's one of the best 
+	ships we've got, almost the equivilent of an aircraft carrier or 
+	battleship, and it took a lot of seniority and work to get it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, you will see the Agamemnon again.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nothing has been dumbed down or simplified; in a first season episode
+	(in other words, the first episode of any given season), you get a lot
+	of sampling.  If the show is obscure, or there's too much prior
+	knowledge required to get into it...they go away fast.  So there was a
+	bit more straightforward exposition in this episode in order to avoid
+	scaring off new viewers.
+
+	
      
+	And I stated, some time ago, that this was a lighter episode because 
+	it's sandwiched between two very intense episodes, "Chrysalis" and 
+	"Revelations," and I think you need some relief there.
+
+	
      
+	And as Walker noted, there are times when the dome is on standby, as
+	noted in "Midnight."  The systems every 36 hours or so go through a 
+	period of self-repair and maintainance for an hour or two; if anything
+	comes out of the gate or into local space, someone's there within 
+	seconds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I wouldn't look for too much of Garibaldi in the first episode; he
+	was shot in the back...my feeling is that, TV logic to the contrary,
+	it takes TIME to recover from that.  Consequently, this will take a
+	few episodes to get even remotely back on track.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the quote definitely comes from Lincoln.  I hated the old 
+	Babcom logo, so we dumped it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: yankeecentrism...we always strive for balance.  Yes, he quoted
+	Lincoln, but he also noted that on his 21st birthday, he flew to see
+	the new Dalai Lama being sworn in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  If you think PoD was a "wham," then I can't wait to see
+	your reaction to "Revelations."
+
+	
      
+	Interestingly enough, I figured on giving Sheridan a tie to the
+	Civil War through his ancestor, General Philip Sheridan (sometimes
+	called "Little Phil" by Lincoln).  Afterward, I discovered that Bruce
+	is a big civil war buff, so the Lincoln stuff worked very well.
+
+	
      
+	One of my favorite sequences from this episode is the stuff aboard
+	the Minbari cruiser during the Battle of the Line; the shots 
+	surrounding Delenn and the other Minbari gives it a very god-like 
+	aspect.  Just wonderful.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the
+	Union Army.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan is a soldier.  A soldier is told, in wartime, THIS is your
+	enemy.  You kill the enemy or your enemy kills you.  Afterward, 
+	you're in the same position American soldiers were in after the end
+	of WW II when it came time to reconcile with the Germans and the
+	Japanese.  It can sometimes be very awkward...and sometimes 
+	reconciliation takes a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  For what it's worth, Sheridan is neither a "space cowboy" nor a
+	"gung ho type."  This description has nothing to do with the 
+	character, and I'm not quite sure where you got this.  Certainly I
+	never said or implied it.
+
+	
      
+	Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the
+	only real victory of the Earth/Minbari War.  (Which means the Minbari
+	don't generally like him a lot.)  He did what he did because that's 
+	his job.  He's a professional soldier.  For the last two years, he's
+	been commanding the Agamemmnon, a high-visibility Earthforce starship
+	on deep patrol.  As such, he has had to learn to work with a number
+	of different races and species.
+
+	
      
+	In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was
+	the case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often 
+	seemed to hang.  Sheridan is often very thoughtful and introspective;
+	at other times, he can be just a bit eccentric; he leads by 
+	respecting those who work under him, and givingthem room to grow; 
+	like any career officer, he HATES the bureaucracy with a passion, and
+	this is the one thing that can drive him nuts; he knows that 
+	commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but he also knows that his 
+	presence brings certain complications with it, and he's very 
+	ambivilant about that aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic envoy who
+	disappeared on his 21st birthday, running off to see (of all things)
+	the new Dali Lama being installed; he has a very easygoing manner, 
+	and a great sense of humor.  He quickly re-forms a friendship with
+	Ivanova, for whom he has great respect and professional admiration.
+	(For a time she served under him at Io.)
+
+	
      
+	He is, actually, a fascinating and intriguing character with a lot
+	of different shadings...none of which have *anything* to do with 
+	being a "space cowboy" or "gung-ho type."
+
+	
      
+	Anyway...point being...when it was announced that there was going to
+	be a new Lieutenant-Commander, a number of folks went ballistic and
+	said the show would now be ruined.  I said, in essence, look...I 
+	created Takashima; I can create an interesting character to replace 
+	her.  And I thunk up Ivanova, who according to the rec.arts.b5 poll 
+	is the most popular character on the show.  When it was announced 
+	that Sinclair would be STAYING with the show, after the pilot, a 
+	number of folks said this was bad, he was wooden, he stunk, get him
+	off...and ended up being very enamored of him.  My only reply now 
+	about Bruce...give him, and me, a chance.  I genuinely think you will
+	like what you see a *lot*.
+
+	
      
+	In the course of the first season, Ivanova, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Londo,
+	Delenn, others...they've exploded into strong characters.  You need
+	an equally strong character designed to hold his own, and be 
+	memorable, in that august company.  Sheridan was designed knowing we
+	had a much elevated playing field around the character.
+
+	
      
+	Obviously, clearly, and irrefutably, an actor brings a *lot* to any
+	role.  No question.  But it tends to begin with what is created.
+	I've seen it said here, repeatedly, that none of the characters are
+	uninteresting; they all have lives, and agendas, that make them
+	fascinating to watch:  Londo, Morden, G'Kar, Delenn, Garibaldi, 
+	Ivanova...what those characters are came out of my head, in terms of
+	who tey are, what they say, what they believe, where they came from 
+	and where they're going.  Why would I invent a new character that was
+	any less involving, or interesting, or multifaceted?  Particularly 
+	knowing that he's going to be a central character?
+
+	
      
+	Speaking as someone who's been in fandom a long, long time, I know
+	there is always a tendency for panic, to assume the apocalpse is
+	upon us, that something is never going to be the same again.  I heard
+	this after the Enterprise was destroyed in "The Search for Spock." 
+	I've heard this a lot over the years.  It's generally over-reaction 
+	and worry before anyone has even seen a frame of film.
+
+	
      
+	Bottom line being...wait and see, then judge.  I've tried very hard
+	not to let you down, and I think so far I haven't done so...I have no
+	intention of starting now.  Bruce is doing an absolutely *brilliant*
+	job as Captain Sheridan, bringing a thoughtfulness and intensity and
+	charm and intensity to the part that is a joy to behold.  Give him a
+	chance.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Alas, I wrote my note about Bruce around 1 or 2 in the morning, and
+	I meant to balance out *intensity* with *intelligence*, but my
+	brain saw the first letters i-n-t-e, and vapor-locked.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How important to the Arc is Sheridan?
      
+	How critical was Aragorn to the storyline of Lord of the Rings?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The way in which Sheridan comes into the storyline is *absolutely*
+	consistent with everything that has come before, and everything that
+	follows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan was never on the original list [to command B5] because at
+	that time when the EA needed Minbari financing for B5, they knew it'd
+	piss off the Minbari to have it there, so he was never considered for
+	the post at that time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Sounds like a formula to really PO the Minbari."
+	
      
+	Yup.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just to clarify: in Soul Hunter we set in place the question of what
+	these things are, and do not resolve that question.  Dr. Franklin 
+	offers that with the correct technology, it might be possible to
+	make (for lack of a better term) a clone of someone's neural patterns,
+	copy his personality and memories into a storage device...but also
+	dismisses the notion of soul stealing.
+
+	
      
+	I traffic in ambiguity.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In a sense, yes, "Believers" now enters the arc...but so does "Soul
+	Hunter," in a big way.  Replay Lennier's talk to Sheridan and Ivanova,
+	then play Delenn's conversation with Sinclair and the Soul Hunter in 
+	that episode, and suddenly a lot of elements begin to intersect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: you're noticing the line, "You talk like a Minbari" from Neroon
+	to Sinclair in "Legacies"....yup.  Sometimes this stuff is in broad
+	strokes, sometimes in teeny little things like that.  Also ties in 
+	even further with where Sinclair goes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Note that Lennier says he wishes he could have told them (us) the 
+	*rest* of the prophecy...and there's definitely more to Sinclair, as
+	will be seen later in the season.  Remember, the Grey Council never 
+	tells anyone the whole truth (note how Kalain asks that question
+	upon being told that Sinclair is just an ambassador).
+
+
      
+   
    •  There really wasn't/isn't time in PoD to get into the angst everyone 
+	has over Sinclair leaving (though some of that is given to Sheridan, 
+	oddly enough).  But it WILL get brought up in subsequent episodes, 
+	especially from Garibaldi.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair was the first human the Minbari (or at least the Grey
+	Council) had ever met, having come this far for the final victory.
+	The Earth Explorer vessel was part of a military fleet that 
+	encountered a Minbari convoy, there was a miscommunication, a 
+	misperceived threat, and our ships opened fire.  There was no
+	person-to-person contact.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sure, you could blind-fire at a Minbari cruiser, but it's pretty 
+	heavily armored.  And while you're shooting at it, you're not only 
+	being hit by cruiser blasts, but the several dozen Minbari fighters
+	coming in behind you. And shooting at a sublight traveling fighter by
+	eye would absolutely never work.  It *has* to be computer guided.
+
+	
      
+	(BTW, for the sharp of eye...if you go back and sill-step through 
+	some of the cockpit screen shots in "Sky," you'll note that on the tac
+	screen in Sinclair's cockpit it says something to the effect of 
+	"Unable to lock-onto target.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, you can go in and shoot at a Minbari *cruiser* visually...but
+	the reality is that any long-range weapon will be intercepted by 
+	targeting fire, and if you get up real close and personal...well,
+	actually, you *can't* get up real close and personal because, as 
+	Mitchell learned in "Sky," you get shot by the fighters.
+
+	
      
+	What the fighters tend to remain engaged with are the Minbari fighters,
+	which are *incredibly* fast...much too fast to target visually.
+
+	
      
+	And believe me, as Sheridan stated, Earth's been *trying* to break 
+	the stealth tech for a while, just hasn't been able to.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: [Robert] Foxworth...he was someone we spoke to in case Bruce turned out not
+	to be available, and we liked him instantly, and he liked the show.  
+	So for good luck, we had him come in for this role, which may appear
+	again.  He's a terrific actor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What were all those ribbons on General Hague's chest awarded
+	for?
      
+	I'll have to check, but probably most of those medals are for 
+	actions during the Earth/Minbari War, and during the Dilgar War.  
+	I'll have to check to get anything more specific than that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, my thought at the time, and I probably should've put this
+	into dialogue in retrospect, was that there's a window about every 36
+	hours when the entire C&C system goes through self-maintainance for
+	about half an hour, backing things up, doing self-repair, filing logs
+	with Earth Central, that sort of thing.  They normally pick a slow
+	period in docking, and any other routine stuff is handled through the
+	backup C&C on the other side of the station axis (you can see it
+	directly above the docking bay when the normal C&C is directly below 
+	it).
+
+	
      
+	At first I'd considered putting that in Ivanova's mouth when she says
+	"Of all the time he could've picked," but then the reveal of where
+	he was and what he was doing fell flat; it needed to be a surprise or
+	it lost its impact and the humor.  Ah, well....
+
+
      
+   
    •  It has been established, in prior episodes, that there are brief
+	periods when C&C is in "standby mode," during which time no ships are
+	due, the station is in "night" cycle, and the operational equipment
+	in C&C goes through routine backup and maintenance.  In "Midnight on 
+	the Firing Line," our first episode, Ivanova is told by Garibaldi
+	that Sinclair is in C&C when it's in standby mode because he likes 
+	the quiet during those brief periods (usually only about an hour or
+	so); in "Chrysalis," Ivanova asks Tech 1 if any more ships are due in
+	for a while, is told no, and she puts her feet up on the console,
+	watching the news, with the place pretty much deserted.
+
+	
      
+	This isn't the bridge of a starship; this is mainly a center of
+	operations for docking and other station activities requiring command
+	personnel.  Every separate department -- environmental, other 
+	resources -- has its own separate control center, with lots of
+	redundency.
+
+	
      
+	In addition, there's always somebody monitoring stuff as it comes    
+	through, so if there *were* any kind of problem, there'd be somebody 
+	on site in C&C in thirty seconds.  Basically, we're talking an hour
+	or so once every 36 to 48 hours.  I could've explained this in 
+	dialogue, but it would've taken the edge off the revelation and humor,
+	and I figured we'd done this before enough times that it wouldn't be
+	an issue.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just as an advisory...the woman who spoke up in PoD (the tech who
+	told Sheridan that Security wanted him) is not a Tech 1 replacement;
+	she was there just for that one episode.  We have a number of folks
+	floating through that area now, because logically you would have 
+	rotating crews.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A vibe shower would theoretically use sonic waves (in combination 
+	with other elements, like disinfecting lighting, as seen in "Signs")
+	to remove dirt and kill bacteria.
+
+	
      
+	That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn staying while Sinclair goes is part of WHY Sinclair goes and
+	Delenn stays.  It's absolutely part and parcel.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's always interesting, if you have one character upon whom everyone
+	else leans, even depends, to *remove* that character for a time.  
+	Because then those characters have to *react*...to either stand or 
+	fall on their own.  It shakes things up a little...and vastly 
+	intensifies the characters.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm going to test myself, and see how much I can say without saying 
+	too much.
+
+	
      
+	You have X-number of characters.  They're all in the same place.  
+	You're trying to tell a story that has a great deal of scale, and 
+	covers all kinds of worlds, changing politics, alliances, on and on. 
+	The question becomes, how do you *illustrate* that?  To use a line
+	from the original Trek, when a mob guy is brought aboard the
+	Enterprise, he says later, "All I saw was a room and five guys."
+
+	
      
+	So now you start saying, "Hmmm...what if I remove Character A from 
+	the chessboard, and move him over *here* for a while?  He wasn't going
+	to be doing much for the next little bit anyway.  And we won't just
+	"deal" with that change, it's part of the story...it broadens out the
+	story to include Place A *and* Place B.  It has repercussions down the
+	road.  It comes up again in the future.  Elements from Place B now
+	become known on Place A.  Character A may even make an occasional
+	reappearance to keep us even more closely connected with Place B, 
+	which is necessary because Place B is very, very important."
+
+	
      
+	What we have in mind here isn't quite comparable to anything that's
+	been done before.  The character will still be alive.  The character 
+	will continue to have an impact on the story.  The character will be
+	spotted from time to time.  The character will continue to show up in
+	the comic and the novels.  And through this move, you have the benefit
+	of substantially opening up the B5 universe, you help create the 
+	realignment of characters and loyalties that was anticipated for this
+	season, and it helps kick over the tables, as we did in Chrysalis.
+
+	
      
+	Just a slight refinement on the argument.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I can probably answer your question a little better after you've seen
+	the second episode of this season.  For now, let's just say this: in
+	working out the story for year two, Sinclair's main line of connection
+	was to the Minbari.  But the Minbari storyline was diminishing in ways
+	onnected to the war in year two; obviously we all know what is on the 
+	upswing in year two, certain dark forces.  I needed someone who has a 
+	connection to *that* side of the story to personalize it, and Sheridan
+	brings that connection to the mix, although he doesn't know it yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Battle of the Line and the hole in Sinclair's mind was always
+	intended as the entry point or trigger to the story.  It's like Frodo
+	being given the Ring in LoTR.  The story isn't about that, that's how
+	we get INTO it.  Frankly, there's no way you can sustain that one 
+	element for five years, nor did we ever intend to do so.
+	
      
+	The only difference in the resolution of that aspect is this: we had
+	originally intended to resolve the missing 24 hours, and the Battle 
+	of the Line, by episode four, season two.  We've simply moved it up 
+	3 eps to the first episode.  Because new players are coming onto the
+	field, in the form of the Shadowmen, and other forces, and we now 
+	have to begin turning our attention to new mysteries.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Changes are coming; Sinclair was the first, there will be others."
+	He was referring to more changes coming.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan, or more specifically the need for someone *like* Sheridan
+	began to get through clearly toward the latter part of last season, 
+	as I began planning out season two's progression, and kept looking at
+	elements of the story and trying to find ways to get Sinclair into 
+	the heart of them.  They felt contrived, for the most part; and the 
+	other characters, like Londo and G'Kar and Delenn, were *really* 
+	moving forward in a big way.  The role of Sinclair was becoming 
+	primarily that of a "problem solver," and when that happens, a sort
+	of glass bell falls down around the character, and you can't do much
+	with him.
+	
      
+	So what the writer has to do is break that bell in one way or 
+	another; do something totally unexpected to him, and bring in someone
+	who has a direct, personal connection with the storyline emerging in
+	season two, so it's not contrived or forced.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling, no
+	single primary question could be allowed to go more than about one 
+	season before answering it, otherwise you get into a frustrating Twin
+	Peaks situation where *nothing* is resolved.  Basically, the events
+	begun in "Chrysalis" bleed over into three episodes; the Battle of the
+	Line answers were initially only a couple of episodes further down in 
+	my outline, about episode #3.  Making the change, for one thing,
+	allowed me to move that storyline forward to episode #1, blow through
+	it and get the story moving in year two faster, rather than delaying 
+	further with loose threads from season one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The idea of a Chrysalis II went by the boards once I really got into
+	the script, and realized that C1 had tipped over too many tables to 
+	even HOPE to resolve them in one follow-up episode.  So the threads
+	yanked in C1 will be paid off over several episodes, hence no C2; the
+	first episode of year two is "Points of Departure."
+
+
      
+   
    •  What about Catherine Sakai?
+	
      
+	This is the one thread that I'm still trying to decide about.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We're dedicated to improving all of these elements on a regular basis;
+	CGI, sets, directing, lighting, name it.
+	
      
+	The music will change every year, to get in sync with where the season 
+	is going; the tone and tenor and mood will shift.
+	
      
+	Re: the narration...last year, Michael had the benefit of being able to
+	see the sequence prior to reading the narration, and reading with the 
+	images.  That was when we were shooting in July to air in January.  In
+	this case, shooting in August to air in November, Bruce had to wing it,
+	without any images for reference, just text.  Now that we've got the
+	opening completed (and we weren't satisfied with it or done tinkering
+	with it until a few days before delivery), we'll probably let him do 
+	it again with the visuals before him, so he knows what he's reading to,
+	since it'll have a *big* impact on how he delivers the stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a reason for this: due to time constraints, we have to get 
+	Bruce to do the narration *without* having the images in front of him;
+	he had no way of knowing where beats would go with the images, or what
+	would be under it (since we were still putting the new opening 
+	together), so we had to artifically build in pauses when we did the 
+	final transfer (as opposed to year one, where we had the images
+	assembled long before we had Michael do the narration).  What took 
+	forever was that 5 fade/dissolve/wipe, which just killed us time-wise,
+	but is spiffy to look at.
+	
      
+	Now that it's all together, we plan to have Bruce re-do the narration
+	with the images in front of him, so he can respond naturally and make
+	it flow, the way he would've been able to do had we had the material 
+	ready in time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the theme music...to me, one is neither worse nor better than the
+	other.  They're *different*, and meant to convey different moods and 
+	themes.  Each year it'll change.  This year was heavy on strings and 
+	brass; next year it'll be heavy on percussion.  The main theme will be
+	reinterpreted and interpolated in different ways.  In the B5 universe,
+	change is the only constant.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Promoting Ivanova to running the station would not be logical, since
+	from a military and diplomatic standpoint she has nowhere *near* the
+	level of experience required.  It wouldn't be done in real life.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar brings news of a terrible new enemy.  The arrival of
+Sheridan's sister opens up old wounds for the new commander.
+Dr. Franklin employs an unorthodox procedure to try to bring Garibaldi
+out of his coma.  Delenn's mysterious change is completed.
+
+
+Beverly Leetch as Elizabeth Sheridan.
+Macaulay Bruton as Garibaldi's aide.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 8.40
+
+Production number:  202
+Original air date:  November 9, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    • 	Sheridan's wife Anna was killed two years ago when her ship exploded on
+	its way to explore the recently discovered ruins of an ancient
+	civilization on the Rim.
+
+   
    •  The Book of G'Quan, the holy book of G'Kar's religion (cf.
+	"By Any Means Necessary") mentions an ancient
+	enemy that rose to power a thousand years in the past, a power so
+	great it nearly overwhelmed the stars themselves.  And the book
+	contains drawings suspiciously siimilar to the Shadows' ships.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Is Delenn's new appearance an outward transformation, a complete
+	physical rebirth, or something even more fundamental?
+
+   
    •  What exactly has she become?
+
+   
    •  Was the result what she thought it would be?  She didn't seem to know
+	what had happened to her when she first emerged from the chrysalis;
+	clearly she didn't go into the process with detailed knowledge of the
+	outcome.
+
+   
    •  How much does G'Kar suspect about Londo's involvement with the
+	Shadows?
+
+   
    •  Why did President Clark order Garibaldi's aide returned to Earth?  Was
+	he aware that the clandestine transfer would take place, or did 
+	someone else arrange that to stop the prisoner from being interrogated
+	by Clark's people?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  The Book of G'Quan, assuming G'Kar was describing the text itself
+	rather than his interpretation, says that the ancient enemy came from
+	the rim of known space, the planet Z'ha'dum.
+	That implies that the Narns, or some among them, were
+	technologically advanced at least a thousand years ago; otherwise they
+	would presumably have had no way of knowing the origin of the enemy,
+	certainly not well enough to locate its home planet.  Given that they
+	are not particularly advanced compared to the other major races, one
+	of three things must have happened:
+
+	
        
+	   
      1. 	Some event, possibly the last great war, reduced their
+		capabilities enough that they had to start nearly from scratch.
+	   
      2.  They advanced technologically at a very slow pace, or not at
+		all, over the past millenium.
+	   
      3.  Another race used the Narn (or their world) in the war,
+		departing when it was over and leaving the Narn with only
+		legends of the great enemy.
+	
      
+
+	If the second is true, it's possible that some of the other races
+	acquired their technology from the Narns, an interesting twist
+	on the established idea that the Narns are obsessed with obtaining
+	technology from others (cf. "The Gathering".)
+
+   
    •  When G'Kar's wingman crashed into the Shadow fighter, the Shadow
+	ship appeared to writhe in pain.  It appears that employing living
+	technology is a common trait of the very advanced civilizations
+	(cf. "Infection.")  The question naturally
+	arises: are the Shadow ships ships in the traditional sense,
+	with crews or pilots aboard, or are they autonomous entities?
+
+   
    •  The fact that a one-man Narn fighter was able to destroy a Shadow
+	ship implies that the Shadows can be overcome by force, assuming they
+	aren't so numerous as to overwhelm all their opponents.
+
+   
    • 	Delenn flat-out lied when she said her government approved her
+	transformation (cf. "Points of Departure".)
+	Yet they have made no move to replace her as ambassador.  Perhaps
+	they fear the consequences of working against the prophecy more
+	than they fear what she's doing.
+
+   
    •  Dr. Franklin hasn't tried the healing machine on anyone, not even
+	experimentally.  Perhaps he hasn't been studying it -- which seems
+	strange, given its potential to utterly revolutionize the practice
+	of medicine.  Now that he knows it works, he may be more inclined to
+	use it in the future, possibly in place of hazardous conventional
+	treatments.
+
+   
    •  Anna Sheridan's research vessel was destroyed in an apparent accident
+	on the Rim, on its way to explore an ancient civilization.  The
+	similarities to the destruction of the Narn ship sent by G'Kar are
+	too great to ignore.  She very possibly was killed by the Shadows,
+	something which won't endear them to Sheridan if he learns about it.
+	If that's true, the question of how the ruins of the civilization
+	were discovered in the first place remains unanswered.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  The poem G'Kar read to Na'Toth is from "The Second Coming" by W. B.
+	Yeats (quoted sections emphasized):
+
+	
      
+		Turning and turning in the widening gyre
      
+		The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
      
+		Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
      
+		Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
      
+		The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
      
+		The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
      
+		The best lack all conviction, while the worst
      
+		Are full of passionate intensity.
      
+		
      
+		Surely some revelation is at hand;
      
+		Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
      
+		The Second Coming!  Hardly are those words out
      
+		When a vast image out of "Spiritus Mundi"
      
+		Troubles my sight:  somewhere in the sands of the desert
      
+		A shape with lion body and the head of a man
      
+		A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
      
+		Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
      
+		Reel shadows of the indigant desert birds.
      
+		The darkness drops again; but now I know
      
+		That twenty centuries of stony sleep
      
+		Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
      
+		And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
      
+		Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
      
+	
      
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi's aide is named Jack, though it's easy to miss; Garibaldi
+	mentions the name once after Talia leaves medlab and he speaks to
+	Franklin and Ivanova.
+
+   
    •  The closed captioning spells G'Quan "Sh'Quon," but JMS has used the
+	shorter spelling on several occasions, so it's the one used here.
+
+   
    •  Continuity gaffe:
+	In the scene with Sheridan
+	and his sister in his quarters, he drains his drink, walks
+	toward the bar, and before he gets there, the glass refills
+	and he drains it again.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the ever-improving CGI...there's an action scene in the teaser
+	of the second episode, "Revelations," that is particularly amazing.  And
+	there is one shot of a Narn ship in extreme close-up toward the end of
+	the scene that looks absolutely *solid*, and every bit as real and
+	detailed as any model, and then some.  It cannot be distinguished from
+	a physical object.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One aspect of the Yeats quote, and the Lincoln quote, and the
+	Tennyson quote(s), and the many others, is that I think a lot of folks
+	at some point tuned out of, or aren't interested in, literature and
+	poetry because they've never really been exposed to it.  So just to be a
+	little subversive, I work some of it into the show.  I choose that which
+	has meaning to the show, and the characters, in the hopes that (as has
+	happened here), viewers will dig out the original material and be
+	exposed
+	to some *really* nifty writing.  Granted that television must entertain
+	at minimum; it should also elevate and ennoble and educate, and this is
+	too good an opportunity to waste, provided one does not become didactic
+	about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Speaking of looking into the abyss...which comes from "Revelations,"
+	it's a partial quote.  Neitzsche: "When you look into the abyss, the
+	abyss looks also into you."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: inconsistent writing and Narns...please bear in mind that there
+	are two ways to encounter shadowmen: going out there, and them coming in
+	to see YOU.  The Narns need not be (and were not) spacefaring when they
+	encountered the shadowmen.  Or, more accurately, were encountered BY
+	them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Copies of the evidence were made, but the question is what is the
+	available evidence to BE copied?  Frankly, there isn't much.  There are
+	no witnesses, very little physical evidence.  If you tried to make a
+	case with what they've got, you'd be laughed out of the courtroom.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, since you've sussed it...the plan was to turn Delenn from
+	male to female in "Chrysalis," in my original plans, as well as making
+	her half-human.  And yes, it would've had one hell of an impact...but my
+	concern when I made that decision not do do this back in the pilot was
+	based on the reality that we couldn't do it well.  The "male" voice,
+	altered by computer-enhancement, just sounded REAL bogus; we couldn't
+	get it right, and I had to decide between dropping it, and doing
+	something the people would rightly describe as lame all season, just
+	for one big payoff.  It was a tough call, but it had to be made.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why does Delenn's hair go under her bone ridge?
      
+	When Delenn's structure changed, the epidermal layer on the head
+	grew thinner; there is now a gap between the skin, and the bone which
+	has grown out.  Hair can be draped through it, or laid over it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct; the Narn bridge is CGI.  Re: the explosion...we shot a
+	lot of live pyrotechnics for Ron's use; but don't recall offhand which
+	was used here, live or CGI.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Anna chose to take Sheridan's last name.  Her decision.  You have the
+	option.  Some do, some don't.  If you start to pass rules that no woman
+	CAN take her husband's name or she's betraying something, then you're
+	being just as restrictive as those who insist a woman MUST take her 
+	husband's name.  Me, I'm pro-choice on every level.  She felt like it.
+
+	
      
+	(And I note that my own spousal overunit kept her own name.  But then,
+	who in her right mind WOULD take Straczynski...?)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another thing that can be now re-interpreted is the look on Jack's
+	face when Garibaldi didn't go for the whitewash of the security 
+	guard's financial records in "Sky," and how that body managed to get 
+	out of the station without security being aware of it....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Next week, in "Revelations," you get G'Kar, Londo, Delenn, Lennier,
+	Na'Toth, Kosh, Garibaldi, Talia and everybody else.  Because there 
+	was SO much happening in #1, that got slid back a bit; also, there's
+	a fair amount of time required for everything to do what they're 
+	supposed to be doing.  (Note that we're operating pretty much in
+	real-time; "Points" is around 8 days after the events of "Chrysalis,"
+	and "Revelations" is about another week after that.)
+
+	
      
+	One thing I noted here some time ago, as a large part of the reason
+	I dropped "to be continued" from "Chrysalis" is that this is more of 
+	a three-parter than a two, and some threads pulled in "Chrysalis" 
+	won't be fully resolved in some ways until the third and fourth 
+	episodes.  There is a LOT going on, and if we try to cram it all into
+	one episode (as I at first tried with "Chrysalis, Part Two") you 
+	don't give ANY of them the proper time to have any impact.
+
+	
      
+	Finally, we're getting new people sampling the first episode of the
+	season, as is true of most shows.  Thus, you have to put into 
+	dialogue a fair amount of stuff that otherwise you could just imply
+	or rely on past experience/prior knowledge.  So you kind of introduce
+	the newbies to the situation, and that requires a fair amount of
+	exposition.  This is pretty much localized to "Points," however; with
+	the next episode, we're up to full speed.  Episode 2 deals with as 
+	many issues/plotlines as "Chrysalis," with the main difference being
+	that here, they're *resolved* rather than left hanging.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, generally stories are self-contained, but in the case of season
+	endings like "Chrysalis," it takes time to get everything back up and
+	running again.  The bigger the explosion, the longer it takes to clean
+	up the mess.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Lennier, the Grey Council fellow said, "Tell them what we've told
+	YOU," not someone else.  Just to clarify.
+
+
      
+   
    •  [Talia's] not seeing the shooter from outside Garibaldi's POV.  That
+	shot in particular is *exactly* from Garibaldi's POV.  It's a lot 
+	like what is done in hypnosis, going back into somebody's memory and
+	dragging out details they might have seen but not noted; the eye sees
+	more than the brain recalls at any given moment.  When we shot that
+	scene, I was on-set, and the camera was put *exactly* where Garibaldi
+	was standing, so we'd be very careful that it WAS his point of view.
+	So though I hate to contradict you, it's not "a stupid plot hole from
+	hell."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Oh, I'm quite sure there was backup made of the data.  But step back 
+	for a moment and ask what that entails, and will any of it stand up 
+	in ANY court of law?  There's a difference between that which we knor
+	or (make that know or) believe, and that which we can prove.  Without
+	the one most important piece of all, Garibaldi's aide, the rest is 
+	speculative, inconclusive, circumstantial and conjectural.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, if Laurel had stayed with the station, either she would have
+	pulled the trigger on Garibaldi, or been directly involved in other
+	ways.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Morden is the mongoose."
+
+	
      
+	So what's needed now is a conveniently placed cobra....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The platform seen in the opening of "Revelations" is a hazardous
+	materials platform, which is still cleaning up the radioactive debris
+	and other stuff from the blown Minbari cruiser in the last ep.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Na'Toth's change of actresses
      
+	The actor wanted to pursue other avenues.  She'd primarily worked as
+	a romantic lead in films, then came in at the last minute to help 
+	with season one.  She then wanted to go back to that.  The character
+	stayed because we need the character to have some prior knowledge of
+	the situation, rather than bringing in somebody new.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Na'Toth...you have to remember this was not our decision, but 
+	rather Caitlin's, in order to pursue some romantic lead parts.  We 
+	made an offer equal to the other cast, but she opted out to pursue 
+	films.  We cast the best actor to come in the door to fill Na'Toth's
+	boots, and we need that character there because of the prior knowledge
+	she needs to have to fill her role in the story.  Mary Kay is, I think,
+	trying to reinterpret the character.  We're nudging in the other
+	direction.  One way or another, this will be made to work.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, no, it's not a rumor; I'd mentioned this some time ago, but
+	apparently some didn't see it....
+	
      
+	So to repeat: we'd had to replace Mary Woronov with virtually no
+	notice after we found that she really had a hard time with the narn
+	prosthetics (wouldn't wear the contacts, and other stuff).  In a 
+	panic, our casting director called in a favor from Caitlin Brown, who
+	is mainly a leading-lady type actor.  She came in and, in fact, for
+	the first episode (shooting almost immediately afterward) wore a 
+	variation of the Ko'Dath makeup, because there wasn't time to make
+	one specific to her.
+	
      
+	She came in without being under the 5-year option that generally
+	exists in these situations.  Did one year, about 9 episodes, as 
+	Na'Toth.  And had to turn down a couple of leading-female parts. 
+	During the hiatus, she did a romantic lead character in a film with 
+	Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep.  And had to ask the hard question: 
+	do I continue to grow as a romantic lead actor in feature films, or 
+	play Na'Toth?  She is a VERY gorgeous woman, and felt awkward hiding
+	behind the mask and cutting herself out of leading female parts in
+	feature films to do it.
+	
      
+	We went 'round and 'round about this for some time, it was a very
+	difficult decision for her because she likes the show and everyone
+	here, but finally opted out.  On one level it's a pain in the butt,
+	but we respect her decision.  And it *is* her call, not ours.
+	
      
+	(Quick aside...pfffttthhpplttt to those who, in their theory that
+	Sinclair/O'Hare quit, said that I'd naturally say it was mutual 
+	because I could never say it was the actors choice because somehow
+	I'd get in trouble.  No, I *would* say it if O'Hare had opted out on
+	his own.  And in this case, that's exactly what happened.)
+	
      
+	We didn't recast Sinclair because that character is going somewhere
+	from whence he may (and will) return, and because that serves the 
+	story; in this case, we are recasting Na'Toth.  By the end of season
+	one, Na'Toth knows stuff that I need that character, G'Kar's aide, 
+	to know.  (Though I was briefly tempted to do the Murphy Brown 
+	Secretary line, with G'Kar getting a new aide every so often due to
+	terrible airlock accidents...but I went to lay down for a while and
+	the notion passed.)
+	
      
+	So no, it's not a rumor, it's quite true.  In fact, we just finished
+	up a casting session and found someone who's very right for the part;
+	and though we weren't confined to this, is actually about the same
+	height, same build, same attitude as Caitlin, and whose voice is very
+	similar.  I don't think much difference will be noted in the long run,
+	really.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Narn aren't waiting.  Or, more accurately, G'Kar isn't.  The rest
+	of the Kha'Ri (Narn inner circle government) are still somewhat 
+	skeptical.
+
+	
      
+	The Minbari know the shape of what's coming, but they know full well
+	that if they go to us with this, we won't believe them; there's still
+	enough residual dislike over the war that they feel we have to find 
+	this out for ourselves (and we will).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Let's just say for now that about a thousand years ago, Narn was used
+	as a lay-over and supply spot for a Shadowman group that landed there
+	for a time, and used it briefly as a base of operations.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: "switching places"...this is *exactly* what I noted early on; 
+	the intent to set up in the very beginning a situation where those 
+	who've seen basic SF before on the tube will go, "Oh, okay, I got it
+	...this is the Bad Guy, this is the Good Guy, this is the Comic 
+	Relief, this is the Ally," and so on, because that's generally what's
+	been the case in TV SF; you set up the various sides from day one, and
+	virtually nobody moves.
+
+	
      
+	So you get them to rely on their conditioning, then you begin to move
+	the chairs around, so suddenly what you THOUGHT was the good guy is 
+	maybe something else; and what you THOUGHT was the comic relief is a
+	tragic and dark figure; and what you THOUGHT was the bad guy is maybe 
+	one of the real heroes of the story.  And you try and make the path
+	that results in those changes as interesting, moving, or scary as 
+	possible.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of course Londo realizes he's being...not exactly set up, but that 
+	he's getting into a very bad situation.  But on the other hand, he 
+	sees that perhaps this is his last chance to grab for something more
+	than what he is; he's not a young man anymore, and offers such as
+	this, even though he knows there will be a price someday (as he 
+	states to Morden), do not come along every day.
+
+	
      
+	Here is the key to characterization: who is your character, what does
+	he want, how far will he go to get it, and what is he prepared to 
+	lose in that process?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Morden is human.
+	
      
+	Morden dat I can't say.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, G'Kar's makeup wasn't changed this year; the actor put on a
+	few pounds over hiatus, which shows in the face, which changes how the
+	prosthetic looks.  This was dropped very quickly by Andreas, however,
+	and the makeup has adjusted itself.  (Hell, we all put on a few pounds
+	during hiatus.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Oddly, the new makeup takes *longer* for Mira than the old, which went
+	on in a couple of fairly straightforward pieces.  Now there's a lot
+	more detail work and more pieces.
+
+	
      
+	Also, the intent is that G'Kar looked at both Sheridan and Londo, not
+	sure which of them may have leaked the info, though I think the 
+	editing may have focused too much on Londo in that shot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The only time a name is associated with his aide is when Garibaldi 
+	refers to him later, at which time he just says Jack.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jack had had contact with the PsiCops in "Mind War"
      
+
+	No, Jack wasn't *seduced* at that time ...but he WAS there to meet
+	them, and escort them to see Sinclair.  Why him?  Perhaps a contact 
+	there...?
+
+
      
+   
    •  What would be different if there hadn't been cast changes after
+	"The Gathering?"
      
+	The only problem with answering how things would've been different
+	is that some information might get out by inference about how things
+	might still *be*.  However, to do what I can with the question (never
+	let it be said I don't try to accommodate....).
+	
      
+	If Lyta had stayed on B5, her arc would be pretty close to that of
+	Talia, except that she would have begun to form a strong link to Kosh,
+	first in the form of dreams, then something with implications that 
+	could be read as menacing or benign.
+	
      
+	If Dr. Kyle would have stayed around, he would have moved more into
+	the position of advisor/paternal figure for Sinclair.  He also would
+	have continued to be more scientist than doctor.
+	
      
+	Takashima would have been revealed as having been in on the Vorlon
+	assassination attempt by season's end, and would have betrayed 
+	Garibaldi in the events in "Chrysalis," either giving him over to 
+	those involved with the coup, or pulling the trigger herself.  While
+	we would know this, our characters would not, for as much as another
+	full season.
+	
      
+	Carolyn Sykes would've gotten into major trouble with one of the
+	major EarthCorps.
+	
      
+	Finally, if Sinclair had stayed with B5 at this juncture, the events
+	in "Points" (the reveal of the Minbari surrender) would've taken place
+	in episode 3 instead of 1.  Episode 1 would've consisted mainly of the
+	events in "Revelations," which was mainly as a bystander to the events
+	around him, since the sister aspect specific to Sheridan obviously 
+	wouldn't be there.  Basically, with all the events surrounding Delenn,
+	Londo, G'Kar and others, he didn't have one whole hell of a lot to *DO*
+	in the first six to eight episodes, since that segment was set aside
+	primarily to introduce the Shadowman war and get that cranking, and
+	Sinclair had no real direct connection to that.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Ivanova is promoted and given a diplomatic assignment.  Londo seeks affirmation
+from an unusual source.
+
+
+Michael Ansara as Elric.
+William Forward as Refa.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Comedy/intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.68
+
+Production number:  203
+Original air date:  November 16, 1994
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Every five years, the Drazi people divide by random selection into
+	two equal groups, green and purple, and fight for supremacy in a
+	contest that lasts a full year.  The group that wins is the dominant
+	one until the next battle.  Group membership isn't permanent and
+	has no deeper meaning than the color of cloth one happens to select
+	randomly from a container.
+
+   
    •  The only son of the Centauri Emperor recently died, leaving no clear
+	successor to the throne.  This has served to increase the scheming
+	among the Centauri nobility.  At least one group, disgusted with the
+	decay of the Republic, intends to grab for the throne when the Emperor
+	dies; Londo has all but pledged to support that group.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Where were the techno-mages going?
+   
    •  Will they return or otherwise make their influence felt?
+   
    •  How do they know about the upcoming conflict?
+   
    •  What do they know about it?  Are they aware of the Shadows,
+	for instance?
+   
    •  What part do Londo's new partners want him to play in their
+	machinations?
+   
    •  What repercussions will Ivanova's solution to the Drazi problem have?
+   
    •  Were the winged creatures on Londo's back significant, or just a
+	meaningless practical joke?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Londo seems to have made up his mind about following his ambition.
+	He appeared to be seeking the techno-mages' endorsement for his own
+	political gain, rather than for the good of the Republic.  It remains
+	to be seen whether he'll have the willpower to follow through with
+	his newfound assertiveness when lives are at stake, though Elric's
+	statement about the future indicates he will.
+
+   
    • 	Londo is willing to trust Vir with other people's secrets ("He can
+	be trusted!") but not with his own (e.g., his reluctance to discuss
+	Morden in
+	"Chrysalis".)  Vir is gradually becoming more
+	assertive, more willing to stand up to Londo.  Whether this will
+	cause Londo to respect or trust him more remains to be seen.
+
+   
    •  The two Drazi leaders were clearly only in charge of the groups on
+	Babylon 5, as evidenced by the fact that the decision to up the stakes
+	of the contest came from the Drazi homeworld.  What happens if one
+	group wins in one place and the other wins back home is open to
+	debate.
+
+   
    •  Londo's reference to the techno-mages' presence at the founding of the
+	Republic, and his recognition of the human mages, suggests that the
+	brotherhood of techno-mages is very old, and crosses species
+	boundaries.  Perhaps they have been around long enough to have
+	taken part in the great war recorded in the Book of G'Quan (cf.
+	"Revelations")
+	and can see signs of the same thing starting again.
+
+   
    •  The techno-mages seem to have found some technological way to emulate
+	the prophetic abilities of some of the Centauri, among others (cf.
+	"Signs and Portents".)
+	Such abilities are arguably related to time travel; perhaps it is
+	the techno-mages who supply the technology to bring Babylon 4 forward
+	in time (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared".)
+
+   
    •  When Garibaldi was playing with his weapon, it's plausible that he
+	was contemplating suicide.  He has hit rock bottom.  He has been
+	betrayed by a trusted member of his own staff and shot in the back.  The
+	only person he really trusted (Commander Sinclair) is gone.  And, he is
+	probably feeling that he was somehow responsible for the failure to
+	prevent the assassination of the EA President.  He is a recovering
+	alcoholic, and he has lost the woman he had fantasized about marrying.
+	If true, this lends a different meaning to Sheridan's comment, "The
+	universe doesn't give us points for doing the easy things."
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    • 	Ivanova's broken foot in this episode wasn't originally planned;
+	Claudia Christian broke her foot, and it had to be explained in the
+	context of the show somehow.
+
+   
    •  The end credits list Edward Conery as Devereaux (cf.
+	"Chrysalis")
+	but he doesn't seem to actually appear in the episode anywhere.
+	Please Send me mail if you spot him.
+	Since he did appear in the previous episode,
+	"Revelations,"
+	and wasn't listed in its credits, he may have been listed here to make
+	up for the omission.
+
+   
    •  Elric's warning to Vir is almost verbatim from Tolkien's Lord
+	Of the Rings, in which Gildor, an elf, tells Frodo (speaking
+	about Gandalf,) "But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of
+	wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
+
+   
    •  Elric's name is from Michael Moorcock's series of fantasy novels.
+
+   
    •  When Garibaldi turns up to rescue
+	Ivanova, there is a visual gaffe. The Drazi who starts to
+	get up to answer the door is the one in a red-accented suit
+	with epaulettes. When Garibaldi is admitted, it is by the
+	other Drazi, while the one who had started to get up is
+	guarding Ivanova.
+
+   
    •  Michael Ansara, who plays Elric, also played Kang, a Klingon, in the
+	original Star Trek episode "Day of the Dove" and the Deep Space Nine
+	episode "Blood Oath."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW, having now edited seven episodes, and seen several finished ones,
+	I think that of the first three, "The Geometry of Shadows" (#3) is my
+	personal favorite.  "Revelations" is certainly a biggie, a staggering
+	chunk of the arc...but "Geometry" is just an absolute hoot, something
+	of a breather from the intensity, and largely for fun with some 
+	undertones.   If you liked "The Parliament of Dreams," you'll probably
+	love "Geometry."
+
+
      
+   
    •  There were *substantial* differences made between the first draft
+	and the final, based on the fact that a lot of the physical stuff I'd
+	written for Claudia -- getting herself out of the problem she was in
+	with the Drazi -- had to be dumped because the actress had a broken
+	foot.  So that aspect has to be remembered.  We pushed her to the
+	limits, and I didn't want to push further.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You hit on the head *precisely*.  When Garibaldi was popping the
+	energy cap in and out of the PPG, he was on the floor, nominally in the
+	dark, thinking of killing himself.  I didn't want to play it up, didn't
+	want to make it what the story was about...just show him doing it, over
+	and
+	over.  And from Sheridan's face, seeing the last of this, it's clear he
+	got it...and I thought he handled the scene *perfectly*, by his whole
+	demeanor, but NOT talking about it except indirectly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If I told you what the 14 words were, they wouldn't mean anything
+	anymore.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't feel Sheridan was downplaying her promotion; he was sneaking
+	it up on her to surprise her, making it more of an unexpected delight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The idea behind the title "The Geometry of Shadows" was in a sense
+	a metaphor for the techno-mages; geometry bespeaking the use of math and
+	equations, the latter being generally something dark, or mysterious, or
+	mystical.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "The Geometry of Shadows" seemed to me a good metaphor for the
+	technomages; a mix of science with something dark and mysterious.
+	How do you work out the geometry of something that in one sense 
+	doesn't really exist, but is a projection of something else that 
+	DOES exist?  That seemed to me as good a notion of technomagic as
+	anything else.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Be assured, Vir's position continues to be important, and he moves a
+	bit closer to the limelight as he does so...remember, he's the one 
+	who has to watch Londo's actions like a man watching an accident in
+	slow motion, and try to do what he can to stop it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan wasn't talking to himself, but rather to the tech who just
+	seconds before asked if they should let the techno-mages go.  (I'd
+	trimmed the first part of his speech which made this a little clearer,
+	figuring it'd be evident who he was talking to.  What can I say...
+	sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Excuse me, but has *anyone* here considered that Sheridan just might
+	still be talking to the same tech he was speaking to not *five 
+	seconds earlier*?  He wasn't talking to himself, so much, or the
+	audience, though the push-in (the only shot we had) worked against
+	that.  He *was* talking to the tech.  Honest.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The technomages are from various races and worlds; there are some who
+	are Centauri, some who are human, even other races such as the Vree
+	and the pak'ma'ra, though these in particular happened to be from
+	Earth.   (If they were Centauri, why would Sheridan have been
+	interfering with their emigration?)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the Drazi...yeah, they all look different in that episode.  Our
+	prosthetics folks did a great job with that, as did the actors, and I
+	think this one should earn Optic Nerve another emmy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And yeah, Garibaldi's "joke" was supposed to be pretty lame; we even
+	edited it to widen the awkward pause, to make it more difficult.  He's
+	trying too hard, and his spirit isn't in it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, actually, the technomage symbol (all of them, actually, including
+	the ones on the wall) are all derivations, specifically altered, of old
+	runes and the like.  In some cases, we removed words and inserted
+	mathematical symbols.  The fiery symbol is all one piece, and is also an
+	old rune.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, Londo has two coats, a cloak, several different colored
+	vests (blue, black, others), often wears just his shirt, we've seen
+	him in his PJs...he's got a fairly large wardrobe.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Also, Londo looks for the blessings of the technomages the same way
+	the witches performed that role in "Macbeth."  There are other parallels
+	one might draw as well, though again they're still two different
+	stories.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How was it written before Claudia Christian injured her ankle?
+	
      
+	Mainly it was written with Ivanova solving her problem on her own,
+	without Garibaldi being there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re:  Squaring the account of Ivanova's promotion with Comic #1,
+	"In Darkness Find Me"
      
+	The president spoke truthfully; Sheridan could petition for a
+	promotion for her, but it's up to Earthforce to grant it, so the line
+	still tracks.  (Note also there's no pronoun there; "Giving her a 
+	field promotion."  The imperial We still stands, though.)  Also, 
+	Sheridan says he put through the paperwork the day after he got there;
+	which is fairly close to the time frame in the story in which the 
+	President says they'll be giving Ivanova a promotion.  There's no 
+	discontinuity here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, originally, the plan was for President Clark to indeed 
+	notify Ivanova in "Points of Departure," but introducing a new 
+	character in the General added some changes when we shot the scene.  
+	But by then it was too late to modify the comic [#1, "In Darkness
+	Find Me"].
+
+	
      
+	Also, in the comic, Clark doesn't *specify* who's giving Ivanova the
+	promotion, just that it's being done.  (And Sheridan comments that he
+	put through the paperwork the day after he arrived, which tracks with
+	this time-wise.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova did NOT take the kerchief off either of the Drazi leaders in
+	the council chambers; she walked PAST them, and signaled for two of
+	the regular Drazi to come down out of the cheap seats.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nope, that really was Claudia walking on her broken foot in the
+	council chambers.  She's a trooper....
+
+
      
+   
    •  "A race that speaks in macros" referred to the Drazi constantly
+	repeating their stance, Green must fight Purple, Purple must fight
+	Green, over and over...macros.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ann Bruice did a great job on the technomage costumes; I agree.  She
+	found ways to implement what was described in the script that were 
+	both creative and wore well, and fulfilled the function.  I wanted
+	black, with fine silver lines, and an almost circuitboard look to the
+	patterns in places, but not *obviously* that, stylized.  She took that
+	and came back with a true niftyness....
+
+
      
+   
    •  In order to create more involved alien makeups, and because many
+	actors have a hard time with prosthetics, we created what we call the
+	Babylon 5 Alien Rep Group; last year about five, and this year about 
+	12 actors who we have taken full head and (in some cases) body casts,
+	so we can use them in mid-level speaking roles as aliens and rotate
+	them in and out.  Since we had fewer last year, you saw Mark more than
+	you'll see him this year.  Green Drazi #1 in "Geometry" is one such 
+	rep group alien.
+
+	
      
+	We keep trying to find interesting solutions to interesting problems.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The techno-mages were not a homage to ShadowRun games, since I've
+	never seen the game, and have never heard of it prior to seeing this
+	message.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Ivanova's title in the opening credits *will* be changed to
+	Commander, to reflect her change in rank.  And we'll be adding a rank
+	for Lt. Keffer.  It's kind of funny; we keep treating the opening 
+	title this year as a work in progress, reflecting little changes here
+	and there...changes in faces, narration, little musical changes that
+	will come by about episode five or six.....
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Disaster strikes an old friend of Captain Sheridan.  Dr. Franklin offers
+nutritional advice to some reluctant patients.
+
+
+Russ Tamblyn as Capt. Maynard.
+Miguel A. Nunez, Jr. as Orwell.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Suspense
+P5 Rating: 7.34
+
+Production number:  204
+Original air date:  November 23, 1994
+
+Written by D.C. Fontana
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •  Captain Maynard's footwear.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan's first commander, on Earth-Mars patrol duty, was Jack
+	Maynard, who Sheridan admired greatly.  "I thought he knew
+	everything," Sheridan says.  "He did, too."
+
+   
    •  The Earth Alliance has a small fleet of huge Explorer-class ships that
+	travel out on the rim of known space, mapping new systems and 
+	installing new jump gates.  More specialized scout ships follow later 
+	to perform detailed or specific surveys of these newly opened
+	systems.
+
+   
    •  The Explorer ships, which are considered choice commands, can
+	also repair jumpgates.  
+
+   
    •  Navigation in hyperspace involves locking onto jumpgate signals.
+	There seem to be no natural reference points in hyperspace, so
+	a ship must keep its own internal navigation references or lock
+	onto the signals of nearby gates or it will become lost.  Until this 
+	episode, no ship lost in hyperspace had ever been rescued.
+
+   
    •  Minbari society is built upon a strict caste structure and obedience
+	to superiors within that caste structure.  Delenn has challanged
+	that organization, and the Minbari are beginning to react.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Is something living in hyperspace?  (This isn't a new
+	question; it was the subject of a front-page Universe Today story in
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars.")
+   
    •  Why does Delenn feel she is more "one of us" now than she's ever been?
+	Is it because she views humans and Minbari as joined, and she feels
+	she's a part of both halves?
+   
    •  How does hyperspace work in the B5 universe?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The appearance of his friend and mentor Jack Maynard suddenly throws
+	Sheridan's new duties aboard Babylon 5 into contrast with his training
+	and experience, kindling a strong sense of dissatisfaction with the job.
+	"I've been beached," he says.  This is sure to crop up again in the future.  
+	Despite his newfound energy at the end of the episode, what Captain 
+	Maynard said is still true; being a governor and a diplomat isn't what 
+	Sheridan trained or even wished for.  If he's itching for action when a 
+	crisis comes up, that might cause him to look less thoroughly for peaceful 
+	solutions than someone like Sinclair might.
+
+   
    •  Delenn's transformation is something that's clearly a mystery to the
+	general Minbari population, suggesting that it is either unprecedented
+	or so rare as to be unheard-of.  Yet she seemed to know what she was
+	doing, as did at least some of the Grey Council.  The Council is
+	likely harboring many secrets that aren't simple matters of
+	religion and spirituality; what other technologies do they possess
+	that the Minbari public knows nothing about?
+
+   
    •  Jumpgates act as locator beacons in hyperspace, providing a three
+	dimensional homing signal detectable for a thousand kilometers or so
+	there.  To be useful in the featureless and chaotic void of hyperspace
+	it would have to provide both a relative and an absolute reference much
+	like a VOR does for aircraft.  If the beacon can respond to ship data
+	requests, then range data and traffic information could also be transmitted
+	to the approaching (or departing) ship.  Just how	this works is not explained.
+
+   
    •  Hyperspace is a featureless place, yet it has currents and eddies that
+	corrospond to gravity in normal space.  Sheridan says, "We know
+	there is a drift in hyperspace that can pull a ship down the gravitational
+	incline."  Gravity works in hyperspace, though apparently not in quite
+	the same way that it works in real space.  Electromagnetic waves
+	also propogate in hyperspace, but become distorted rapidly over
+	distance in a random and variable way.  Jumpgate beacons are, therefore,
+	very short range -- more like lighthouses in hyperspace -- and communications
+	with ships in hyperspace is possible only when the vessel is near a jumpgate.
+
+   
    •  What looks like a great deal of hand-waving over the Cortez accident
+	can be explained upon close examination of the circumstances.  The
+	timeline of the accident seems to be:
+	
      
+
        
+
      1. 	Cortez enters the jumpgate.
+
      2. 	Cortez exits the jumppoint in hyperspace and attempts a restart of her
+	primary power system.  The fusion reactor restart fails, and the power
+	system spikes, producing a powerful electro-magnetic pulse (and presumably
+	a sizable radiation pulse) which takes out some systems aboard Cortez,
+	including main propulsion, navigation, and some computer systems.  Cortez
+	is now adrift.
+
      3. 	Many hours later Cortez gets some main power back and systems running.  
+	Captain Maynard, after getting a damage report that tells him that nav won't
+	be back up for 48 hours, puts up a distress call, which is received (barely) by B5.
+	At this point Cortez is under power, but without reference points the best they
+	can do is hold station against the pull of a nearby gravity well.
+
+
      4. 	B5 receives the distress signal, and Captain Sheridan decides to make a rescue
+	attempt.  Cortez is effectively just "offshore" in hyperspace, and despite Ivonova's
+	misgivings he feels they stand a chance of recovering her.  Five fighters are 
+	launched into hyperspace by B5, and they form up on a line facing down the local 
+	gravity well at 1000km intervals.
+
      5. 	The fighters set up the search pattern, with Cdr. Galus (fighter group commander) 
+	and Lt. Keffer together at the far end.  This puts them about 4000km away from B5.
+
      6. 	A shadow ship enters hyperspace almost on top of Galus, colliding with and 
+	destroying his fighter.  It also rams Keffer's Star Fury, but only knocks out some
+	systems (comms, nav, and propulsion).
+	Keffer begins firing (presumably on internal references) in the direction of Galus's
+	last position.  Cortez figures it out, and at about the same time Keffer's fighter
+	gets communications back online.  Rather than risk losing a good bearing back
+	to the jumpgate, Keffer tells Captain Maynard to take Cortez directly back to
+	the gate, leaving him behind in his unmaneuverable Star Fury.  He is unable
+	to keep station and will drift, eventually losing any reference back to B5.
+
      7. 	About 24 hours later (more or less -- it seems like the next night, end of shift
+	in C&C, about midnight) Keffer is running out of oxygen--but his Star Fury has
+	succeeded in getting his thruster systems back online.  Shortly after that he
+	spots another shadow ship, and using that as a reference point he navigates
+	back to the jumpgate and returns to B5.
+
      
+
+	
+   
    •  This may not have been as much of a crisis as it seemed to be.  Cortez, given its
+	stated function of running about on the rim, must carry its own jumppoint 
+	generator.  The problem was the lack of main power.  Since it has already been
+	stated that opening a jumppoint takes a great deal of energy, the size of the 
+	Cortez fusion plant would therefore be determined by the power requirements
+	for creating the jumppoint.  With only partial main power, she was unable to do so.
+	But given the size of the ship and its presumed independence, it is possible that
+	Cortez could have repaired her main power plant herself, and then opened a
+	jumpgate of her own.  This possibility explains why Captain Maynard didn't broadcast a
+	mayday immediately following the accident -- he assumed they could get Cortez
+	out of trouble themselves.  It was only after he received the damage report 
+	detailing the slow recovery of main power and the long repair time for navigation
+	that he decided to call for assistance.
+
+   
    •  This episode further delineates the technological capabilities of
+	the Shadows, though not explicitly.  They use the same hyperspace
+	the major races do.  (As opposed to, for example, the Sigma 957
+	aliens from
+	"Mind War,"
+	who appeared to use something different.)
+
+   
    •  Though the Shadows presumably noticed the Starfuries and the Cortez
+	and realized they could be seen as well, they took no action against
+	the human ships.  This is somewhat in contrast to their apparent
+	desire to remain undetected.  Several explanations are possible.
+	Perhaps the Shadow ship was in a hurry; perhaps its weapons aren't
+	functional in hyperspace; or, most intriguing, perhaps it realized
+	that the ships were from Earth and chose to leave them alone for
+	that reason.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  Captain Maynard has seen a shadow ship in the past, though he didn't
+	recognize it as such, and now Lt. Keffer has seen one as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's special dinner:
+
+	
      
+	Bagna Cauda (from Jeff Smith's -The Frugal Gourmet-)
+
+	
      
+	1/2 cup olive oil
      
+	1/4 lb. butter (1 stick) - not margarine!
      
+	5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
      
+	6 anchovy fillets, mashed
      
+	black pepper
+
+	
      
+	Heat oil and butter together in top of double boiler.  In a small
+	skillet cook the garlic in a bit of this oil until soft.  Add the
+	anchovies, and cook till the fish turns into a paste, about 5 min. Mix
+	this paste with the hot oil and butter. Transfer to a chafing dish or
+	fondue pot to keep warm on the table (it congeals as it cools.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Egyptian blessing: "God be between you and harm, in all the empty
+	places where you must walk."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's speech about "starstuff" is very similar to a section of
+	Carl Sagan's Cosmos, as well as a section of the play
+	The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (unverified) As the Cortez exits the jumpgate, its hull numbers
+	can be read, "14286."  Later, when Sheridan grants clearance for
+	it to leave, its number is stated as "C199."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  To be filed under the heading of, "What I does, I takes the rap for;
+	what I does not, I doesn't take the rap for," when we discussed the
+	hyperspace accident in our production meetings, Jim -- our director --
+	asked if he could so some fratzing and sparking, some fire...I said I
+	did not *want* huge gouts of flame, just a few small sparks, fine, a
+	bit of smoke from components burned out, fine...and that day I was
+	over in the other facility overseeing a mixdown of the audio...and
+	guess what he did in my absence?  Yup.
+
+
      
+   
    •  So many questions about hyperspace came up over the last year or so
+	that we figured they should be addressed; be assured, we're staying 
+	as clear of technobabble as ever, despite my Spousal Overunit's 
+	absolute and unshakeable conviction that *everything* is, at its 
+	root, a math problem.
+
+
      
+   
    •  To get in and out of hyperspace you have to know where you are and
+	where you're going, otherwise you'll come out even *more* lost, 
+	hundreds of light years from home; you jump in, and you're even 
+	further gone now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And the Cortez might've been able to locate some stars, but any fix
+	on its position would only have been within a few light-years, not 
+	nearly precise enough for their purposes.  They'd still be lost.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Should a ship have been named after Cortez, considering what
+	effect his arrival had on the native Americans?
      
+	If Cortez had NOT landed in northern Mexico, do you think it would
+	have remained undiscovered until now?
+
+	
      
+	Fact #1: somebody was bound to discover the Americas.
+
+	
      
+	Fact #2: any sufficiently advanced civilization or culture will
+	inevitably attempt to exploit any civilization or culture not 
+	sufficiently advanced to fight back on a level playing field.
+
+	
      
+	Blaming explorers for exploring has always seemed to me really kind
+	of silly; do people *really* think that if Columbus hadn't landed 
+	here, it'd be 1994 and we still wouldn't know the world was round and
+	that this continent was here?  It doesn't matter who discovered it,
+	the same result would've come.  Somebody had to discover it sooner 
+	or later.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (He coughs and speaks in his Executive Producer Voice:)  "I *LIKE* the
+	opening title sequence."
+	
      
+	Now...onto other matters.
+	
      
+	We re-mixed the narration and music today in the titles, and it's a LOT
+	better.  I slightly shifted the placement of some of the lines, and 
+	Bruce's rendition is very nice.  Really carries the weight.  Look for
+	it to appear starting in episode #4.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, we just redid the narration with Bruce yesterday, and it's 
+	MUCH better.  We'll be able to get it in starting in episode #4.
+	
      
+	While we were at it, btw, we took the opportunity to re-do the 
+	faceplate shot in the main title sequence.  It was fine, but it 
+	could've been better.  Now it is.  Expect it around the same time as 
+	the new VO.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+When a cryonic sleeper is awakened, a deadly, evil force is unleashed on
+the station.
+
+
+Anne-Marie Johnson as Mariah Cirrus.
+Dwight Schultz as Amis.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Horror
+P5 Rating: 7.64
+
+Production number:  205
+Original air date:  November 30, 1994
+
+Written by Scott Frost
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •   An out-of-place cut of Garibaldi searching for Amis
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Earth got jumpgate technology from the Centauri in the mid-22nd
+	century.  Before then, humans were mostly confined to their own
+	solar system.
+
+   
    •   Sometime between the 20th century and the arrival of the Centauri,
+	signals of possible extraterrestrial and intelligent origin were 
+	detected.
+
+   
    •  A small number of explorers volunteered for long-term interstellar
+	missions, so long-term that they had to be cryogenically frozen for
+	the duration.  These missions were launched until the Centauri made
+	contact with Earth, eliminating the need for sleeper ships.  At least
+	some of these ships were set to home in on any signals they might
+	encounter.
+
+   
    •  During the war, Garibaldi was a "gropo" ("ground pounder"), stationed
+	on an outpost or base rather than a ship.  He and some of his companions
+	barely escaped death in a surprise attack by the Minbari.
+
+   
    •  Another outpost was attacked by a vicious creature of some kind,
+	an insidious beast that affected the minds of the soldiers stationed
+	there, then killed them one by one, ripping their internal organs
+	completely out of their bodies.
+
+   
    •  The Markab, like the Narn, believe there was a great darkness in the
+	past, something that was defeated only after a painful struggle.
+	At least some among them suspect that the darkness is rising again.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was the creature?  Was it really one of the Shadows?
+
+   
    •  How did it detect and board the Copernicus, which was travelling at
+	a significant fraction of lightspeed?
+
+   
    •  What did it want with people's internal organs?
+
+   
    •   Is it really dead?  (We suspect so, but without a body....)
+
+   
    •  What was the substance hanging off Amis when he was suspended in
+	midair?  Garibaldi makes a face as he tears it off Amis.
+
+   
    •   What happened to Amis afterward?
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi says to Amis, "You were just about to accuse the Centauri
+	ambassador of being in league with the devil... which might not be
+	too far from the truth."  Just a meaningless offhand remark, or does
+	Garibaldi somehow know what Londo is up to?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The fact that the Copernicus was headed for Z'ha'dum indicates that
+	the Shadows have been gathering their forces for some time, at least
+	10 years, leading to the possibility that they've been meddling in the 
+	affairs of the major races before their recent involvement with Londo.
+
+   
    •  Contempt for the Lurkers seems to be pervasive, if not almost
+	universal.  Even Dr. Franklin, normally a level-headed person, was
+	ready to dismiss a claim made by a Lurker out of hand, and one of
+	the security officers said, "Damn lurkers, we should space 'em all."
+
+   
    •  No mention was made of any attempt to retrieve the sleeper ships after
+	first contact with the Centauri.  Presumably such a task would have
+	been easily accomplished.  One explanation might be that the first
+	contact threw Earth into such turmoil that retrieving frozen
+	astronauts became an insignificant priority.  Perhaps an attempt
+	was made but was unsuccessful; if the Copernicus had locked onto
+	any signals along the way and changed course, it might be nearly
+	impossible to track down in the vastness of space.
+
+   
    •   The Copernicus timeline seems to be:
+
+	
        
+	   
      1.   Before the Centauri contact :  Signals of extraterrestrial origin were detected.
+	   
      2.   100+ years ago:  Sleeper ships were launched on long voyages,
+		Copernicus among them.
+	   
      3.   12+ years ago:  Copernicus detects signals from the Minbari CP in
+		an obscure system and homes in on them.  (Presumably the signals stop,
+		and Copernicus doesn't revive the crew.)
+	   
      4.   About 12 years ago:  Amis has his encounter with the creature.  The
+		EarthForce listening post is essentially destroyed by it.  Amis is kept
+		alive.  For some reason the creature does not interfere when he is rescued.
+	   
      5.   Less than 12 years ago:  Copernicus passes through the system.  The
+		creature boards, changes course, and kills Mariah's husband before settling 
+		into the "life tube" with her.
+	   
      6.   4+ years ago:  Copernicus detects signals from the region of space where
+		the Babylon stations are under construction.  In keeping with its underlying
+		directive to seek out such signals, the vessel changes course.
+	   
      7.   A year or less ago:  Copernicus begins decelerating, and apparently uses
+		up all its remaining fuel to do so.  At some point it begins transmitting 
+		a greeting signal.
+	   
      8.   Now:  Copernicus arrives, unpowered and without even any thruster fuel
+		remaining (it's tumbling when first spotted).
+	
      
+
+   
    •   10% of the air supply aboard Copernicus was lost when the creature boarded,
+	presumably vented into space.  This implies that for some reason the creature 
+	came in through the door (there was no airlock) or penetrated the hull physically 
+	to gain entry.  This is only odd because Amis insists that it could pass through walls.
+
+   
    •   Why wasn't Copernicus detected earlier?  There could be a few reasons.  First,
+	the ship apparently used up all of its hydrogen fuel and all of its thruster fuel
+	on approach to B5.  This leaves unanswered the question of what it was doing
+	for power afterward, but apparently it had enough to keep transmitting its
+	greeting message and keep internal systems going.  But tumbling, it may have
+	been unable to keep a high gain antenna pointed in-system.  Add to this the
+	fact that nobody was listening for it (Ivonova says it's on an unusual frequency)
+	and it becomes fairly reasonable that it came all the way insystem without being
+	detected.
+
+   
    •   How fast and far did Copernicus travel?  This one is more difficult.  The minimum
+	answer is 25 LY and .25C.  The distance between the Sol System and B5 seems to
+	be about 25 light years, and this is the minimum distance Copernicus had to cover.
+	To cover 25 LY in 100+ years, Copernicus had to travel at 1/4 C (on average).  
+	Typical predictions for nuclear engines driving ships to low-reletivistic speeds say
+	that it takes between 10 and 40 tons of reaction mass/fuel per ton of dry weight 
+	to accelerate a ship to low-C (1/10C to 1/4C more or less) and decelerate it again.  
+	So either the ship we saw was the core of a much larger ship and all the empty tanks 
+	were ejected, or it's made of very lightweight materials, or both.
+
+   
    •  100 years seems like a reasonable time for a slower-than-light
+	interstellar journey, yet Mariah was surprised to learn that much
+	time had passed.  Her reaction could just be due to the disorientation
+	she was probably experiencing, or perhaps the mission was planned
+	to be less than 100 years long due to limitations of the cryogenic
+	units or some other shipboard system.
+
+   
    •  The name Amis seems to be a pun, as in something is
+	amiss with Amis. The name Amis is pronounces as "AMOS,"
+	the name of an Old Testament prophet. Prophets like
+	Amos spent lots of time warning folks about dire and
+	immediate events, much like what Amis did in the Zoccalo.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Writer Scott Frost was also on the writing staff of
+	Twin
+	Peaks,
+	a show whose atmosphere was often similar to that of this episode.
+
+   
    •  When Garibaldi is in the Zocalo, the Drazi sitting next to him is
+	not wearing a colored sash.  Since the ritual combat in
+	"The Geometry of Shadows"
+	was supposed to last 1.2 earth years, shouldn't he have been
+	wearing a purple sash, per Ivanova's solution to the problem?
+	A possible explanation is that once she did what she did, the
+	combat was over on Babylon 5 and sashes were no longer required.
+
+   
    •  A possible reference to Douglas Adams' "The Hitch Hiker's Guide to
+	the Galaxy" takes place as Amis leaves his cell.  With a towel around
+	his neck, he claims, "I've got everything a man needs."
+
+   
    •  Franklin administers a drug to a catatonic patient called
+	DeValera.  Eammon DeValera was an Irish politician and
+	poet, with a real gift for rabble-rousing.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  To follow up on your (Dianne's) other point...yes, from time to time,
+	as we push ourselves to the limit, we're going to crash and burn.
+	That's part of the risk if you really want to try and do something
+	different.  We push the envelope...and sometimes get a papercut.  I
+	had, for instance, MUCH more in mind for the EFX in the final
+	confrontation in "The Long Dark."  But we were, alas, about this
+	> < much ahead of the technology to pull off what I wanted.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The shadows have their servants, which are being
+	recalled to their places of power.  That was one of  their
+	lower-level types.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: Londo looking "more wicked," we're doing some very small, 
+	subtle things to his appearance, his wardrobe, pulling him into a
+	darker range of fabrics.  (Honest to god, you wouldn't believe how
+	careful and detailed we are in setting this stuff up.)  He'll even 
+	be getting a new, slightly darker coat, straighter lines, closer in
+	style to Refa's, before the season's out.  It's really interesting
+	when you know where you're going....
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the race of that ambassador?
      
+	I believe that was a Markab.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Tom: the quibble you raise is one of the points I'm trying to make.
+	You say someone from 1890 would go crazy.  I vehemently don't agree. 
+	Go back and read letters from the 1890s.  Heck, go read letters from 
+	1776; the language, the emotions, they're all very much the same.  The
+	chrome of technology has changed, some social styles and attitudes 
+	have changed, but people still go through school (usually), get married,
+	raise kids, hold jobs, and look to a better future one day.
+
+	
      
+	Mariah was also a scientist, sent forth expecting and prepared to see
+	new things; this isn't the same thing as an average person just plucked
+	out of time.
+
+	
      
+	I think people -- Americans in particular -- over-emphasize how much
+	things change with time, in large measure because in a country that's 
+	only 200+ years old, we *really* don't understand what time IS here. 
+	The Romans who left grafitti all over parts of England are only one 
+	step removed from the South Central taggers of today....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Ivanova and Sheridan going into the Cortez upon it being pulled 
+	into B5...this was an Earth vessel, remember, stating it's on a mission
+	of peace, with a cryogenic suspension chamber in use.  There was zero
+	perceived danger.  Also, if I were the captain of a naval vessel today,
+	and I came across an intact sailing vessel that went missing in the 
+	1890s, you'd have to hold a gun at my head to KEEP me out of that ship.
+	People are, by nature, curious...and this would be a fascinating puzzle
+	to solve.  (Editor's note: the Cortez was the ship in "A Distant
+	Star."  JMS meant the Copernicus.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  A couple of thoughts on Sheridan, btw...triggered by messages I've seen
+	or had alluded to in which he's gigged for smiling too much, unlike
+	Sinclair...just checked back in some of my archives, and for the first
+	four or five episodes, the number one complaint about Sinclair was that
+	he either smiled or smirked too much....
+	
      
+	Meanwhile, just a little something for the folks on-line to
+	contemplate...remember the first rule of Babylon 5: nobody is what they
+	appear.  Not entirely, anyway.  There's always something going on, 
+	something that somebody's not telling.  Some folks are making the error
+	of looking at Sheridan -- as they looked at Sinclair, or Londo, or Vir,
+	or G'Kar -- and thinking "this is all that he is."  Except, of course,
+	that they weren't and he's not.  I would not create a character that is
+	just what you're seeing.
+	
      
+	Aside from that, and this is a separate issue...there are really two 
+	ways to deepen a character and give him a dark side.  One is to do
+	something to him *before* you meet him, which he's still recovering
+	from (Sinclair).  The other is to meet him, and THEN drop him down a
+	well.  In a way, Londo is illustrative of the latter; you get to know
+	him, and he's funny, colorful...and then you start to move him.
+	
      
+	So suffice to say that Sheridan is going to end up getting more and 
+	more conflicts, and getting booted to the head, and as someone noted
+	above, caught in the conflict between being a good officer and being a
+	patriot...which can sometimes be the same, and sometimes VERY different
+	things.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Talia is caught in a treacherous web of intrigue after she witnesses a murder.
+
+
+Adrienne Barbeau as Amanda Carter.
+Michael Beck as Abel Horn.
+Jessica Walter as Senator Voudreau.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "A Trick of the Mind")
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Mystery
+P5 Rating: 8.04
+
+Production number:  206
+Original air date:  December 7, 1994
+
+Written by Lawrence G. DiTillio
+Directed by Kevin Cremins
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan's drink.
+   
    •  San Diego.
+   
    •  Shattering glass.
+   
    •  "Erronium."
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Talia's first assignment was on Mars Colony, where she scanned several
+	members of the radical group Free Mars (cf.
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+
+   
    •  Sheridan is a conspiracy buff; he collects information about all sorts
+	of black projects and secret organizations.
+
+   
    •  After the last rebellion, the Mars Conglomerate, a powerful group of
+	business interests, nearly pulled out of Mars.
+
+   
    •  In the 2230s, the Earth Alliance began experimenting with electronic
+	brain implants.  The experiments were unsuccessful because the
+	machines couldn't operate in conjunction with conscious thought.
+	Later, after the project was officially closed down, a group within
+	the Earth Alliance began trying a different approach.  They took people
+	who were nearly dead and, with telepathic deep scans by one or more
+	members of Psi Corps, fixated the subjects' minds on the moments of
+	their deaths, blocking out all other conscious thought.  That allowed
+	the implants to operate as long as the subjects remained fixated.
+
+   
    •  A secret group within the Earth government called Bureau 13 is
+	deeply involved in, if not responsible for, the continuation of the
+	experiments.  Bureau 13 has at least one officially deceased PsiCop
+	in its employ, possibly even its head.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who is the Bureau 13 "Control" Officer on B5?
+
+   
    •  If the cyber-experiments failed, what is Abbut, the "vicker" from
+	"Deathwalker?"
+
+   
    •  Is "Abbey", Talia's mentor from her first year in Psi Corps, the
+	Bureau 13 PsiCop?
+
+   
    •  The station's computer system has a secret override built in which
+	Bureau 13 has access to.  What, if any, other subversions are in place
+	on Babylon 5?
+
+   
    •  What role, if any, will the T'Kar play in the future, assuming they
+	decide to come to Babylon 5?  What's so special about them?
+
+   
    •  What did Sheridan learn when he was on the T'Kar ship?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Since Talia scanned Free Mars members, it's reasonable to assume that
+	Psi-Corps is still doing so.  Why, then, were they apparently caught
+	unawares by the rebellion in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness?"
+	In that episode, the Psi-Corps representative expressed surprise at
+	the size and well-equipped nature of Free Mars, something that
+	presumably would have been discovered during the course of scans.
+	Either some within Psi-Corps are actively hiding such information
+	from the rest of the Corps (and from Earth) or Free Mars is run very
+	tightly and almost no members know enough to compromise the
+	organization as a whole.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's interest in secret organizations and conspiracies may
+	explain why he was so ready to believe in an assassination plot
+	against the President (cf.
+	"Revelations.")
+	Most other people seem to believe the accident cover story (cf. comic
+	"In Darkness Find Me.")
+
+   
    •  What about Abbut, the "Vicker" or "VCR" from
+	"Deathwalker?"  He was quite clearly 
+	human, and also clearly carrying a brain implant.  (Indeed, his 
+	brain was exposed, surrounded and penetrated by what looked like
+	quite extensive implants.  The exact quote by Garibaldi was, "Most of
+	the cyber experiments were a bust."  Abbut could have been one of
+	those few that worked.  In principle implants recording and 
+	monitoring what Abbut experiences are fundimentally different from
+	an implanted AI that controls your actions.
+
+   
    •  In a related but more tenuous vein, what about the Technomages?
+	Some aspects of thier abilities (all based on technology, remember)
+	seem to imply non-vocal, non-manipulatory control over their gear.
+	The production of an orange blossom while walking, talking and
+	gesturing.  Sleight of hand is one explanation, (sidestepping the
+	issue of how the orange blossom was produced,) but an alternative one
+	is that they have some kind of control device implanted someplace --
+	not necessarily their brains.  This would also explain their
+	preternatural knowledge.  Elric always seemed to know more than anyone
+	else, and some of that could have come from a built in data system or
+	an implanted link to one.  Add to this Elrics ability to pull up
+	holograms literally in the palm of his hand, and the arguement seems
+	strong for such an implant.  But again, it could be nothing but an
+	IO path, not an AI, and so again different from the cyber experiments'
+	failures.
+
+   
    •  B5's computer system is compromised.  At the very least, communications
+	are insecure and under the control of the Bureau 13 AI, including both
+	local and interstellar channels.  This is supported by the way the
+	public computer console is quickly taken over by the AI, and the
+	quickness with which it handled the exchange between the Bureau 13
+	Psicop in San Diego and the control officer on site at B5.  The extent
+	of the problem isn't known, but the AI isn't omnipresent.  It doesn't
+	prevent Captain Sheridan from modifying the environmental sensors, for
+	instance.
+
+   
    •  Is Bureau 13 set up in a cell structure, like an organized underground
+	or revolutionary movement?  We know of two Bureau 13 members, and we
+	saw them interacting via the Bureau 13 computer.  They never saw each
+	other, and never refered to one another by name.  This hints that Bureau
+	13 is indeed set up this way, which points to an an explanation for
+	the episode title.  The cell structure of an underground, with its
+	singular links between cells, is indeed a web.  And at the center of
+	such a web would be a central directing authority -- A Spider in the
+	Web.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  The title shown onscreen is "Spider in the Web," but all previous
+	references to the episode by JMS and others have called it
+	"A Spider in the Web," so that's the title listed here.  The
+	longer title was also listed on the title page before the
+	original satellite uplink.
+
+   
    •  The name "Bureau 13" may be a role-playing game reference; it is the
+	name of the US paranormal investigations branch in the game
+	"Stalking the Night Fantastic."  (Of course, that could just be a
+	coincidence; another theory is that it refers to P13-level telepaths.)
+
+   
    •  The ship that fired on Abel Horn was the Earth Forces Cruiser
+	Pournelle, according to the computer readout on his history.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan orders a Jovian Sunspot; the only other time that drink has
+	been referenced is in
+	"Deathwalker,"
+	which also involved Talia and a cyborg of sorts.  Probably just
+	a coincidence.
+
+   
    •  According to Isogi, Ms. Carter's great-grandfather John
+	piloted the first colony ship to Mars.  "John Carter of
+	Mars" is a classic SF story by Edgar Rice Burroughs; the
+	character also appears in other Burroughs stories such as
+	
+	"Princess of Mars."
+	See the
+	Project Gutenberg
+	home page.
+
+   
    •  The animation of the destruction of Abel Horn's ship by an EarthForce
+	cruiser over Phobos is quite detailed.  When his ship is hit, the 
+	window Abel Horn was looking through shatters, and the air
+	rushes out carrying odd bits and debris with it.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Having lived in San Diego from 1974-81, it's just my way of giving
+	a wink to the old home town.  Though there are some important things
+	going on underground, in areas no one goes...the choice of SD is just
+	a bit of fun.
+
+   
    •  San Diego was nuked by terrorists some time earlier; but if you dig
+	deep enough, you could probably build something with enough money; and
+	who knows how bad it *really* is.
+
+   
    •  The San Diego wastelands was a physical model, yes.
+
+   
    •  Local in-house joke: Abby's last name...Normal.
+
+   
    •  If you're a telepath, Psi Corps IS your family.  (And no, that  wasn't
+	Abby, too young; also not a case of programming/rebuilding...the
+	DECEASED is a cover to get her out.)
+
+   
    •  Actually, the age on Abby is fairly straightforward...Talia came to the
+	Psi Corps as a young child; she was assigned to an adult Psi Corps
+	member to help her adjust.  So Abby would be anywhere from 15-20 years
+	older than Talia.  Or more.
+
+   
    •  No, the Bureau 13 rpg precedes our show; we weren't aware of it at
+	the time we did the episode.
+
+   
    •  The security guard didn't trigger the detonation; he picked up some
+	energy buildup on his scanner the moment Horn's heart stopped.
+
+   
    •  Basically, Garibaldi's third favorite thing...is whatever the member
+	of the opposite sex is having....
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Londo summons his three wives to Babylon 5.  A mysterious man from Talia's
+past reappears.
+
+
+Jane Carr as Timov.
+Lois Nettleton as Daggair.
+Blair Valk as Mariel.
+Keith Szarabajka as Matthew Stoner.
+
    
+
+(Originally titled "Pestilence, Famine and Death.")
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Comedy
+P5 Rating: 7.68
+
+Production number:  208
+Original air date:  December 14, 1994
+
+Written by Peter David
+Directed by John C. Flinn, III
+
    
+
+
    Watch For:
    
+
      
+   
    •  G'Kar tossing something to someone at a party.
+   
    •  Daffy Duck.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
    
+Centauri culture is built largely on family stature, and virtually all of an
+individual's position and influence derive from the relative standing of
+the family.  Links between families can be very important, and marriages
+are the primary way of forging these links.  Marriages are almost always
+arranged by the families for the benefit of the families, regardless of the
+wishes (if any) of the Centauri being married. Londo's marriages are 
+notoriously bad.  Indeed, he calls his three wives Pestilance, Famine and 
+Death, and it's been hinted that he took a post  to Babylon V, a post where 
+he knew he'd be forced to concede defeat after defeat to the hated Narn, 
+simply to escape the three of them.
+
    
+The control Psi-Corps maintains over its members is quite pervasive, 
+extending to all levels of their personal lives.  In one respect they are
+similar to the Centauri -- they arrange marriages between their members.
+This, coupled with the fact that all persons showing any psi talent at all
+are pressed into the Corps or nullified, makes them a budding closed
+society.  Most importantly, once in Psi-Corps you are theirs forever, and
+they can do anything with you they want.
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  Why do G'Kar and Mariel know each other?  What's been going on in
+	the past with the two of them?
+   
    •  Why did Psi-Corps dissolve the marriage between Stoner and Talia?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Stoner is a puzzle.  Did he really ever leave Psi-Corps?  He is a strong projective
+	empath.  He may be a receptive empath as well--but since he treats 
+	people rather poorly this doesn't seem very likely...at best it's unproven.  
+	Given his talent he could have manipulated the people around him from 
+	the very beginning, up to and including letting him leave.  His claim that he 
+	lost his talent altogether is disproven rather quickly by a group of amateurs.  
+	Psi-Corps scientists working on modifying psi talents would have been very 
+	difficult to fool. On the whole, it's most likely that Sheridan is right, and
+	Stoner was actively working for Psi-Corps all along.
+
+   
    •  At first glance, one might wonder why on Earth Stoner would be in
+	on a plot to kill Londo.  G'Kar notes to Mariel that Stoner just happened
+	to bring the artifact onboard on the eve of Londo's ascension
+	anniversary, which would be too staggering a coincidence, if
+	it had been booby-trapped from the start.  However:
+
+   
    •  G'Kar may have been behind the plot to kill Londo.  In the
+	scene where Mariel notices his boots, just before he walks off,
+	G'Kar tosses something small to her.  Perhaps it's just a grape,
+	since he was picking them from the table.  Or it could be a set of
+	poison darts to load into the statue.  If so, Stoner is even more
+	innocent than he claims to Sheridan and Garibaldi; the statue really
+	was completely harmless when he brought it aboard.  However:
+
+   
    •  G'Kar later says to Mariel, "Mysteries give me a pain."  And the only
+	way that he can ease the pain is to decipher the mystery.  He
+	then goes on to describe the situation with Mariel and Londo as
+	the mystery that he had to solve.  If so, then he was uninvolved
+	in the attempt on Londo -- which again raises the question:  What
+	did G'Kar toss to Mariel?
+
+   
    •  If G'Kar was involved, perhaps G'Kar knows what Londo is up to with
+	the Shadows and wants to assassinate him for that reason, or perhaps 
+	it's just the general enmity between the two.  Or maybe the whole thing 
+	was Mariel's idea and G'Kar merely gave her the means.  
+
+    
    •  Whatever the answer to "who knew what, and when?" the relationships 
+	remain.  G'Kar knows Mariel well enough to have a private and 
+	informal discussion with her, and he may have been involved in the
+	plot to kill Londo.  Stoner (and by extension Psi-Corps) may know
+	Mariel, and may also have been involved in the plot to kill Londo --
+	at least insofar as Stoner delivered the instrument of his (near) death.
+
+   
    •  Talia's relationship to Psi-Corps is called into question here on both
+	ends.  First, it's clear that she is completely disillusioned with the
+	corps.  She confesses to Garibaldi that Psi-Corps frightens her.  She
+	is presumably deeply conditioned, but her loyalties are wavering
+	despite this.  On the other side of the equation, if Stoner is still
+	Corps then his offer to her is also on the behest of Psi-Corps.  Did
+	her actions during 
+	"A Spider in the Web"
+	bring her to the attention of Bureau 13?  And if so, are they trying to
+	unofficially take her out of the picture?  
+
+   
    •  Though it at first glance might appear to be a comedic throwaway line,
+	Delenn's final complaint may actually be the most important revelation
+	of the entire episode.  It implies that her transformation has given
+	her a human reproductive system.  Possibly that was even the point
+	of the transformation; if indeed the change was made to bring humans
+	and Minbari closer together, a child born of a human father and a
+	Minbari mother might be considered a powerful link by some.
+
+   
    •  Which, of course, begs the question: who does she intend the father
+	to be, if this is what she has in mind?  Sinclair seems an obvious
+	choice, given the evidence that she believes him to be the
+	reincarnation of a great Minbari soul (cf.
+	"Soul Hunter,"
+	among others.)
+
+   
    •  Psi Corps seems to be big on assigning companions.  In addition to
+	Stoner, Talia was assigned a support officer, Abby, during her first
+	year at the Psi Corps center when she was a girl
+	("A Spider in the Web.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The name of Timov's father, "Alghul," means "The Demon" in Arabic.
+	It may also be connected to the comic book character Ras Al-Ghul
+	("Head of the Demon") from the Batman series, debatably the Batman's
+	most dangerous foe.  Ras' daughter, Talia, has been the Batman's
+	lover, and is the mother of his child.  In any case, Londo has
+	remained married to the daughter of "The Demon," appropriate
+	given his recent acquaintances.
+
+
    
+
+
    Peter David speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Y'know...for the past five years I've been writing Trek novels, and
+	fans kept asking, "When are you going to start doing Trek TV 
+	episodes?"
+	
      
+	So here comes B5, I do an episode...and what do the fans keep asking?
+	When am I going to do a B5 novel.
+	
      
+	NYAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHH!!!
+
+
      
+   
    •  [Re: Talia] My feeling was that it was something that had been 
+	building slowly within her ever since the Ironheart episode.  That
+	although she had been *saying* she was devoted, well...the difference
+	between the reality of a B5 and the frequent unreality of STTNG is 
+	that folks don't always say exactly what's on their mind (kind of like
+	the real world.)  As it turned out, my own thoughts on Talia
+	dovetailed with future plans for her.
+	
      
+	Daggair was Pestilence.  Timov was Famine.  Mariel was Death.
+	Originally I was going to have each of their names reflect their
+	respective "incarnations," but decided that was too cutesy.  The
+	only holdover from that idea is Timov's name which is, of course,
+	Vomit spelled backwards.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Daggair is Pestilence, Timov is Famine, and Mariel is Death.
+
+	
      
+	At first I was going to have all their names be reflections of the
+	titles "assigned" them by Londo, but I decided that would be too
+	cutesy.  The only holdover from that idea is Timov, whose name
+	backwards is, of course, Vomit.  (I'll never forget Jane Carr coming
+	over to me the fifth day of shooting and saying in that accented
+	voice of hers, "Peter...did you *know* that my character's name is
+	vomit spelled backwards?"  Uhhhh...well, yeah...)
+
+	
      
+	You all realize, of course, that Londo is--by process of elimination--
+	War.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  In response to someone who thought JMS wanted a line of
+	dialogue inserted
+	
      
+	This is a total misinterpretation of a statement I made, and yet another
+	example of how the information age can also be the misinformation age.
+	Incorrect "facts" can make the rounds at light speed and stay there.
+
+	
      
+	I did *not* say that Joe wanted one particular line put into the script.
+	What I *said* (in response to a question some time ago of "How much 
+	did JMS tell you to put into the script?  How much of the events were
+	dictated) was that all I was given was one line of *description* (much
+	like a log line you'd see in TV Guide).  The line was something to the
+	effect of, "Londo's wives show up on B5 and, in the way that Londo 
+	handles the difficulties that ensue, we learn something about the type
+	of man that he is."  I explained this in order to make clear how much
+	latitude JMS gives writers on the show, as opposed to the omnipresent
+	smothering hands-on attitude of other programs.
+
+	
      
+	And somehow this became mutated into "JMS has a line of dialogue that
+	he wanted inserted."
+
+
      
+   
    •  How funny.  Other people who stated flatly that they likewise knew
+	Londo loudly proclaimed (over on Usenet) that he would have chosen
+	Daggair.  Maybe he's a kind of tough guy to know.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Poster had no trouble guessing; the actress playing Timov "was the
+	most well-known actress of them all"
      
+	Oh, I don't know.  Lois Nettleton's career goes way further back than
+	Jane Carr's does.  Although Jane *is* from the Royal Shakespeare 
+	Company (and yes, she did work with Patrick Stewart.  She's so pleased
+	that now she too has portrayed a bald SF icon.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  *I* didn't get "bitch" past the censors.  I just put it in the
+	script.
+	
      
+	(What I loved was Daggair's expression on that line.  It's the only 
+	time she let her facade slip and she looked like she was ready to
+	slug Timov.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The second scene between Garibaldi and Stoner was intense
      
+	Tension really crackled between the two of them, didn't it?  In one 
+	of the takes, it was so intense that at the end, the director forgot
+	to yell "Cut."  Instead he shouted, "God, that was great!"
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks for showing us another side of Garibaldi
      
+	Oh, the side was already there, in my opinion.  I think back to
+	previous episodes where Garibaldi was all for spacing that serial 
+	killer.  When he encounters people he doesn't like, or have done dirt
+	to people who are Garibaldi's friends, he can be pretty ruthless.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As we've seen, Garibaldi doesn't exactly have the easiest time being
+	demonstrative in his feelings for women.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Originally, "Soul Mates" was intended to be broadcast after "A Race
+	Through Dark Places."  ARTDP required a rather substantial amount of
+	post production work and audio design; "Mates" did not.  Rather than
+	rush "Race," we decided it was okay to air those two in reverse order.
+	If they have aired with "Race" first in the UK, then yes, it's 
+	different than the US order, but it *is* the correct production and 
+	story order.
+
+
      
+   
    •  All things considered, the episode went through fairly cleanly, script-
+	wise, not much in the way of revision.  Peter has a good ear for
+	dialog (not surprising).  So for the most part it was little stuff; for
+	example...Peter came up with, "Either I'm in hell or in medlab," to 
+	which I appended, "...either way, the decor needs work."  Which is kind
+	of the fun in getting an outside script; you can hear the first part of
+	a line you'd never considered, and knowing the character, you can take
+	it just a little further.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Timov's "WHO IS THIS?!" in that high-pitched voice would also be a
+	great one for an answering machine.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What I love best about this is that given the time of year [of its
+	North American premiere], "Soul Mates" is basically our Christmas 
+	episode.
+
+	
      
+	I mean, are we perverse or what...?
+
+
      
+   
    •  . . . when you say "why wasn't Mariel arrested on the spot by 
+	Garibaldi and her quarters searched," you omit both legal procedure
+	and evidentiary law.
+
+	
      
+	You arrest someone AFTER you have reasonable cause and sufficent 
+	evidence to justify it.  You don't need enough evidence to convict, 
+	just to arrest or indict.  So the order is reversed for starters.
+
+	
      
+	Second, what evidence *was* there to be found if he HAD searched her
+	quarters?  She neither brought nor had ANYthing of an incriminating
+	nature. She bought the figurine in the bazaar...and that's all she 
+	had, and all she used.  There WAS no evidence in her quarters to find.
+
+	
      
+	(Believe me, I spent 2 years on MURDER, SHE WROTE, and we learned a 
+	lot about how this stuff works.  You can't just go around arresting 
+	people willy nilly, and the evidence must exist, and be sufficient, 
+	and locatable.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Peter's having the time of his life.  He loves where his character
+	is going, loves the range of emotions he gets to play...I saw him for
+	a bit on the set today, shooting "Soul Mates," and he's just tickled
+	(particularly since he's acting opposite Lois Nettleton, Jane Carr
+	and Blair Valk as his three wives).
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Compiled by Steven Grimm and Dave Zimmerman
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Bester asks Talia to investigate an "underground railroad" of unregistered
+telepaths.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.38
+
+Production number:  207
+Original air date:  January 25, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+A minor character from a previous episode, who turns out not to be so
+minor after all.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+Michael Garibaldi says, "The Corps got started because of our own fears."  The
+sudden appearance of real psi abilities in otherwise unremarkable people
+caused so much concern among the general population that those showing such
+talents were gathered together into a group that could be more easily
+controlled -- and Psi-Corps was born.  Its members are deeply conditioned to
+prevent any psi from using his or her talents to dominate normal people or
+disrupt society.  But this conditioning isn't absolute, and attitudes molded
+early in life can still evolve over a persons lifetime.
+
+
    
+Given that psis were forced into this essentially closed society, shunned by
+the rest of humanity, it isn't surprising that the loyalties of the telepaths
+turned to the Corps itself.  Soon Psi-Corps gained control of itself, and
+eventually the organization began pursuing its own goals.  The leadership
+began to exert ever greater control over the lives of the members, in an
+effort to enhance the abilities of their people.  
+
+
    
+The level of control exerted by the Corps over its members grew as they 
+began seeking to enhance the abilities of their people, extending even to
+marriage and reproduction.  Eventually the onus became too great and too
+pervasive for newly awakened psis to tolerate, and they began seeking ways
+to escape.  The Psi-Cops exist to counter this, to search for and either
+capture or eliminate psi talented people who escaped early detection or who
+fled Psi-Corps.
+
+
    
+Now the Corps has become a power in its own right.  Though the organization
+was intended to keep psis under control, it has itself come under the control
+of those very people.  As a group, they must feel
+seperate and different if not outright superior to the rest of society, and
+who have long been held in a position of subservience.  They are
+organized, ruthless, and determined to pursue their own agenda. 
+
+
    
+"We created our own monster." -- John Sheridan
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where have all the unregistered psis been going?
+   
    •  How long has this "underground railroad" been running?
+   
    •  We see Ivanova giving Sheridan his morning briefing, and in it she says
+	that B5 has been running in the red for a while because, "there's been
+	a lot of Earth Force military transports coming through."  Where were
+	they going?
+   
    •  Has Talia turned completely against the Corps?
+   
    •  Why, and by whom, was Bester told that Sheridan would be sympathetic
+	to the Psi-Corps?
+   
    •  How much did Talia tell Ivanova about the situation, and about
+	what's happened to her?
+   
    •  "What am I?"  "The future."  What does that mean?  The future of
+	telepaths?  Of humans in general?  Does it refer to Talia's new
+	powers, to the fact that she's now likely to work against Psi-Corps
+	from within, or something else?  Is there even more to Ironheart's
+	gift?
+   
    •  Will Bester notice that his gun was never actually fired?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    • The core of Psi-Corps indoctrination was summed up by Bester.
+	
      
+	You were raised by the Corps,
      
+	Clothed by the Corps.
      
+	We are your father,
      
+	And your mother.
      
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	What Psi-Corps has become was also demonstrated by Bester.  Standing
+	with another Psi-Cop, he looks down at a captured rogue telepath who
+	he has just forcibly mind-scanned.  "He's dead," the other Psi-Cop
+	says.  "It doesn't matter," Bester replies, apparently assuming she
+	was concerned he wouldn't be able to read the man any more.  Talia
+	doesn't see
+	this, since it happened on Mars Colony, but she does meet a stream of
+	rogues who are on B5, in transit through the "underground railroad".
+	From them she learns, first hand and with undeniable truth, that the
+	experience she has had with the Corps is far from unique.  Indeed,
+	her experiences were mild compared to the stories she hears.
+	Abductions.  Experiments.  Breeding programs that don't rely on
+	volunteers for subjects.  And as a telepath speaking to
+	telepaths, she can't avoid the full truth and force of the events
+	she hears.  
+
+
      
+   
    • How can a Psi-Corps operative turn against the Corps?  The impossibility
+	of it is clear:  The highest rated, strongest telepaths are "turned
+	into" Psi-Cops.  When the guardians are stronger than everyone else,
+	how do you turn against them?  Unless you are truly exceptional like
+	Matthew Stoner in "Soul Mates" you can only
+	flee, immediately, before someone else scans you and reads your
+	intention.  Matthew Stoner may or may not have eluded the clutches
+	of Psi-Corps for a time, but in the end he was firmly returned to
+	them.  Talia Winters' whole life experience tells her that she
+	cannot turn against the Corps, no matter what her
+	opinions may be about the integrity or intentions of the organization.
+
+	
      
+	But several events changed her mind about this -- and it was not the
+	tales of woe told by the folks in the underground railroad, though
+	they undoubtedly inclined her toward rebellion.  What allowed her to
+	rebel was the realization that her shields were much stronger than
+	she thought they were.  A year ago Jason Ironheart, a victim of
+	Psi-Corps experimentation, visited the station (cf.
+	"Mind War.")
+	He became something
+	vastly powerful, and departed.  But before he left, he gave his onetime
+	love Talia Winters a gift, the very thing that Psi-Corps was
+	trying to induce in him: telekinesis.  And the strength to keep
+	that gift secret.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Talia's telekinetic powers are at least somewhat stronger than
+	suggested at the end of
+	"Mind War."
+	She can not only move her penny with her thoughts -- she can cause
+	it to fly across the room with enough force to embed itself in the
+	wall.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Telepaths can combine their powers through physical contact.  What
+	are the limits to such unions?  Would a hundred linked telepaths
+	begin to approach some of Ironheart's power, or perhaps become
+	greater than just a collection of individuals?  Does this perhaps
+	have something to do with the Minbari prophecy suggesting that
+	humans are destined to walk among the stars? (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+
+	
      
+	Or it could simply be that by touching, the telepaths were able to
+	help each other focus their individual energies; that's supported by
+	the railroad leader's comment that what they did shouldn't have
+	worked.
+
+
      
+   
    • 	The "Underground Railroad".  The timeline of the underground railroad
+	stretches back to before B5.  There is a group of people that have
+	actively been working to keep people with psi ability out of
+	Psi-Corps.  Dr. Franklin implied that it was mostly doctors, and it
+	makes sense that their ability to alter or manipulate medical and
+	genetic records would make them logical and necessary members.  But
+	there is no reason to assume that the organization is comprised
+	solely of doctors.
+
+	
      
+	Dr. Franklin was a member before he came to Babylon 5.  When Jason
+	Ironheart came to B5 he brought with him another rogue, who disappeared
+	into downbelow while Jason went through his spectacular confrontation
+	with Bester and his subsequent transformation.  This unnamed telepath
+	(who we've met before, in 
+	"Chrysalis")
+	apparently contacted Dr. Franklin.  Between them, they extended the
+	underground railroad through B5 -- though where the rogues were going
+	after B5 is unclear.  Nor is it clear that Dr. Franklin will
+	actually put a stop to the railroad.  Dr. Franklin's answers to Captain
+	Sheridan's demand that he put a stop to it were quite evasive.  The
+	telepaths actually at the station agreed to leave, which they intended
+	to do anyway.  Dr. Franklin admitted that his part in it was over,
+	and that others would have to take over -- but he never actually said
+	it would stop.
+
+	
      
+	Ironically, the person Garibaldi first suspected was aiding the
+	railroad was Ivanova.  He was wrong.  She wasn't connected to it.
+	But neither was Talia at the time.  Now Talia is talking to Ivanova.
+	What did they discuss, alone and late at night in Ivanova's quarters?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Ironheart's unnamed friend have ulterior motives when he put
+	Garibaldi onto Devereaux' trail in
+	"Chrysalis?"
+	There's evidence the Corps was involved in Santiago's death (cf.
+	"Revelations")
+	so it's plausible the man knew something of the plot, and wanted to
+	foil it without revealing himself.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Along similar lines, Bester's request to Talia that she keep an eye
+	on Sheridan and the others for their reactions to President Santiago's
+	death implies that he knows something other than an accident occurs,
+	even that he (or people he's associated with) were involved.  His
+	offhand comment that he'd been told Sheridan would be sympathetic
+	to the Psi-Corps also implies that there may be more to Sheridan's
+	appointment as head of Babylon 5 than meets the eye.
+
+
      
+   
    • "Who'd have thought?" John Sheridan asks Ambassador Delenn.  He was
+	speaking at the time about the common trait of laughter, shared by
+	humans and Minbari, but he could equally have been speaking of the
+	whole scene.  A human ship captain, commanding a giant station
+	on the fringe of human controlled space, having a quiet dinner with
+	the Minbari ambassador -- who also happens to be a member of their
+	ruling body and who is also, to some degree "half-human."  Moreover,
+	she has apparently chosen him to teach her about humanity on a
+	personal level.  How personal this can get... who can say?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Finally, there is a telepath who can
+	operate on the side of the "good guys."  True, there are all the
+	telepaths who have passed through the "underground railroad", but
+	they are untrained or at best, trained but fleeing.  Talia is fully
+	trained and Psi-Corps doesn't know that she has turned--and she is
+	strong enough to maintain her independence.  It's likely she will be
+	a very important player now, and her personality may develop in new
+	directions now that she isn't under the heavy hand of Psi-Corps.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  This episode takes place in March, 2259, three months into
+	Sheridan's tour of duty with B5.
+
+   
    •  There is a subthread in this episode about lack of sleep.  Bester gets
+	Talia out of bed, Talia gets Ivanova out of bed, and Ivanova and
+	Sheridan spend a night sacked out in his office (he in his chair, she
+	on the couch).  Coincidence?  
+
+   
    •  "Knock Knock"  (who's there)  "Kosh"  (Kosh who?)  "Gesundheit!"
+	-- Sheridan
+
+   
    •  Production gaffe: In the scene outside Earhart's, when Delenn is asking
+	Sheridan to dinner, a boom microphone is visible for an instant at the
+	top of the screen.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Favorite line in the next new episode, from Sheridan: "I'm not saying
+	what I'm saying.  I'm not saying what I'm *thinking*.  For that matter,
+	I'm not even *thinking* what I'm thinking."
+
+   
    •  BTW, just to note a little something you might not notice in the
+	show...we've adopted the tradition of putting the symbol for a given
+	ship onto the bar in Earhart's, as many real contemporary officers'
+	clubs and airforce/naval base clubs put the logos or markings of big
+	planes or ships that come through there.  The Cortez symbol is the
+	most visible among the various emblems you can see in a shot of the
+	bar in "A Race Through Dark Places."  It comes at the moment we follow
+	*another* old military tradition.
+
+   
    •  Yes, originally, "Soul Mates" was to air after "Race."  At that
+	time, PTEN was initially going to show just 6 new episodes, and we would
+	have come in after the rerun break with "Race," then "Soul."  When the
+	ratings came in and looked good, they didn't want to interfere with
+	the growth, and indicated they wanted to show 7 new eps in the first
+	batch.  "Race," as you can see, was a very complex episode visually, and
+	the only way to get it ready to run #7 in the first batch would've been
+	to compromise the integrity of the show, and we simply won't do that for
+	ANY reason.  "Soul Mates," on the other hand, required very little in
+	the way of post production, so that was moved forward into the #7 slot.
+
+   
    •  Q: How many telepaths does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
      
+	A:
+
+   
    •  I always have to have a title before I begin writing, since the
+	title always influences the feel of the show.  I try to design one 
+	that is literary, or refers to a literary influence; it should have a 
+	certain rhythm, and avoid coming at the subject of the episode too 
+	dead-on.  For instance, one could call the recent Psi Cop episode with
+	Bester, "Capture" or "Chase."  But I wanted it to be evocative, to 
+	conjure up the image of people slipping through the shadows, pursued by
+	others, and to continue this season's trend toward titles that indicate
+	a coming night.  Hence, "A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+   
    •  No repeat of Bester's salute from "Mind War"
      
+	Also, bear in mind that Bester's parting shot in "Mind War" was
+	exactly that, in essence an "Up yours" but subtle.  There was no 
+	reason for that to be given to anyone in "Race."
+
+   
    •  Where did Ivanova's outfit in the last scene come from?
      
+	I think it came out of the Victoria's Secrets catalog....
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+When the Centauri emperor visits the station, Sheridan tries to keep G'Kar
+from going after him.  Londo and Refa plot to expand their power.
+A mysterious man seeks out Garibaldi.
+
+
+Turhan Bey as the Centauri Emperor.
+Malachi Throne as the Centauri Prime Minister.
+William Forward as Refa.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.59
+
+Production number: 209
+Original air date: February 1, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
+
+Nominated for a Hugo Award, 1996.
    
+
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares at least once.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Sheridan joined the Earth military a few years before the
+	Earth-Minbari War.  A planetary draft was established during the war.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri have sent many ships into Vorlon space; none have
+	returned, but strange stories about the Vorlons have found their
+	way back to the Centauri homeworld.
+
+   
    •  Sinclair's duties on the Minbari homeworld extend far beyond normal
+	ambassadorial functions.  He is taking part in the preparation for
+	the fight against the great darkness that many of the Minbari
+	believe is approaching.  To that end, he is in command of a small
+	army of "rangers" -- individuals, Minbari and human, who roam the
+	frontier, gathering information too sensitive to report back via
+	normal channels.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri Emperor employs four telepaths, linked since birth; 
+	when he leaves the royal court, two accompany him and two stay
+	behind, so he and his representatives at the court are constantly
+	aware of each other's circumstances.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  What is the meaning of Londo's dream?  (see
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Why is Sinclair in charge of the rangers?  Is he the only one in
+	control, or is he a piece of a much larger chain of command?
+
+   
    •  How did the rangers get started?  How are they expanding?  What
+	or who is drawing them to Minbar, and how?
+
+   
    •  Why does Sinclair think Garibaldi should stay close to the Vorlon?
+	How much does he know, and how long has he known it?  (Recall that in
+	"The Gathering"
+	Delenn gave Sinclair information about the Vorlons, though it's not
+	clear how complete or accurate it was.)
+
+   
    •  Will Londo become emperor some day?
+
+   
    •  What will the Narn's first move against the Centauri be?
+
+   
    •  What did the Emperor know about Vorlons that caused him to want to
+	ask Kosh his question?  What does the question mean?  (see
+	Analysis)
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  When the two telepaths on Centauri Prime entered the throne room,
+	a human and two Minbari were talking to the prime minister.  Most
+	likely they were there on unrelated business, but it's possible they
+	were rangers, there to gather information.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  As soon as Londo lied about what the Emperor told him, the two
+	veiled telepaths exchanged a look and left the room hastily.  It
+	may be that they knew he was lying; whether they'll tell anyone,
+	and if so what impact that will have, remains to be seen.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh seems to have a perception that extends into the future; or
+	perhaps he is simply basing his comment on the results of the last
+	great war against the Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo's dream, which has been foreshadowed from
+	day one
+	("Midnight on the Firing Line")
+	contains a lot of information, if it's to be taken literally.
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  The hand seems a clear reference to the "great hand, reaching
+		out across the stars" as seen by Elric in
+		"The Geometry of Shadows."
+		If so, the hand is Londo's.  Presumably it is a metaphor
+		for his expanding power and influence.
+
+	   
      •  Londo stands in the middle of fine sand, a desert (or
+		perhaps decimated ruins; witness the dead vegitation and
+		patterns in the sand) and watches several Shadow ships fly
+		overhead.  This appears to be on Centauri Prime.  He is
+		dressed in his ambassadorial uniform and appears to be
+		roughly the same age as in the present.  One implication is
+		that the Shadows will either attack Centauri Prime or (more
+		likely) come to its defense.  It should also be noted that
+		Londo has never seen a Shadow ship in the present.
+		One reader suggests that Londo's expression can be interpreted
+		as Londo looking on, helpless, as a great evil is done; for
+		the first time realizing who's really the pawn in his
+		relationship with the Shadows.
+
+	   
      •  When Londo receives the crown, he is again not much older
+		than in the present, possibly slightly older than when he's
+		observing the Shadow ships.  Perhaps he is crowned after
+		calling in the Shadows to help defend Centauri Prime.  (Of
+		course, the new Emperor would have to be dead first.)
+		The person crowning him appears to be fairly old.
+	
+	   
      •  Much later -- twenty years, give or take -- Londo, in white
+		Imperial attire, sits in the throne and looks around,
+		face filled with regret or resignation.  Nobody else is
+		visible, and the throne room seems bare compared to the
+		scene at the beginning of the episode.  It's as if everything
+		has been lost; he is Emperor, but Emperor of nothing, perhaps
+		of a dead world.
+	
+	   
      •  Then he sees G'Kar, also aged 20 years, face half-covered
+		by a strip of black cloth.  The two try to strangle each other.
+		Londo appears to go limp as the dream ends; presumably he is
+		dying.  The cloth across G'Kar's face appears to cover an
+		injury; he may be missing his left eye.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Londo's old age in the last scene suggests that it takes place around
+	the same time as the attempt to snatch Babylon 4 through time (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+	Sinclair seemed to have aged about the same amount, though of course
+	humans and Centauri may age at different rates, and something may have
+	caused Sinclair to age prematurely.  But barring those two factors, it
+	suggests that the war is still raging at the time of Londo's
+	strangulation, and that it will last at least twenty years.
+
+	
      
+	It's also worth noting that the dream contained only one spoken line,
+	from
+	"Chrysalis":
+	"Keep this up, G'Kar, and soon you won't have a planet to protect."
+	(It was spoken over a scene from
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo may well be serious when he tells Vir he has no wish to become
+	emperor; his premonition may have convinced him that it'd be bad
+	to seek the position.  But the vision remains; he may find himself
+	taking the throne in spite of himself down the road.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "It's a small price to pay for immortality," says Refa.  A reference
+	to everlasting fame?  The Centauri propensity for elevating emperors
+	to godhood?  (cf.
+	"Chrysalis")
+	Or might it have something to do with the apparent escape of
+	Deathwalker, (cf.
+	"Deathwalker")
+	who had a means to achieve literal immortality?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The emperor's question implies that he was
+	in on something that isn't general knowledge, possibly something about
+	the Vorlons.  One explanation may lie in dreams; perhaps the emperor's
+	death dream (according to Londo in
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line,"
+	such dreams are commonplace among the Centauri) told him that a war
+	would begin after his death.  Why he thought Kosh would know how the
+	war would end -- assuming the war is what the question referred to --
+	is still an open question, though.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Along similar lines, why did the emperor speak his dying words to
+	Londo, rather than Refa?  Did he know what Londo was really up to,
+	or was he simply guessing that Londo was likely the catalyst who
+	would bring his empire into war, based on Londo's handling of Quadrant
+	37 in
+	"Chrysalis"?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Narn government apparently approved of G'Kar's would-be
+	assassination attempt, even though he lied about it in his will;
+	presumably he wanted to protect his people from revenge attacks
+	by the Centauri.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+	
      
+   
    •  I love "The Coming of Shadows."  It's one of those episodes that just
+	knocks the breath out of you.  You know those moments when you're in the
+	passenger seat of a car, and the person driving is doing something
+	crazy, and your foot automatically keeps searching for a brake pedal
+	that isn't there because you know something awful's going to happen?
+	That's the feeling you get all through that script.  This episode,
+	like "Sky," "Signs," "Chrysalis" and "Revelations" again changes the
+	direction and ratchets everything one notch tighter.  It's also a
+	very visual script, and I like that, since I sometimes do rely too
+	much on dialogue from time to time, and it's good to go in a different
+	direction.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Kosh's brevity is one of the things I like best about him; in the
+	year two episode "The Coming of Shadows," he has just two words in the
+	whole episode...but they're guaranteed to give just about anyone the
+	willies.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  I generally don't let the actors know what's coming unless it's
+	important to the current performance.  Otherwise you risk having the
+	actor play the *result* instead of the *process*.  Had to make one
+	divergence from this recently, so that Peter could understand better
+	a sequence in "The Coming of Shadows," which you'll understand when
+	you see it.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  We're also taking advantage of some of the recent Hubble photographs
+	to scan them and use them as backgrounds in some far-space shots;
+	there's one in "The Coming of Shadows," for instance.  Real space is
+	*very* nice looking in places.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  I may not have been clear in my meaning when I said "accellerating
+	the arc."  This doesn't mean doing anything ahead of schedule; it just
+	means that now we begin cranking the story into a higher intensity
+	level.  We've been kind of floating toward our destination...now we
+	begin the process of accellerating.  If you recall Literary Structure
+	from English Lit 101, there's the Introduction, the Rising Action, the
+	Complication, the Climax, and the Denouement.  Year one up through
+	about the first eight episodes of year two are Introduction; we are now
+	in Rising Action stage.  Remember that this is structured like a novel,
+	and you'll generally have some idea of where you stand in the
+	progression.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  I ended up giving Peter info on "Signs" prior to shooting "Chrysalis"
+	last season; that was the biggie there.  For "CoS" in order for the
+	scene to match what's going to happen several years down the road in
+	the series, I had to kinda give him the context of the dream, and what
+	was really happening in that scene, and what caused it, and how he got
+	to that place with G'Kar's hands around his throat.
+
+	
      
+	He seemed quite...astonished.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Yeah, on several levels, writing "The Coming of Shadows" was hard;
+	there were times I felt as though I'd just jumped onto the back of a
+	runaway dynamite truck.  Halfway through that story you can feel the arc
+	kinda moving underneath you, like some huge, dark fish about to break
+	surface.
+
+	
      
+	The only way to make a viewer feel a character's pain is if you feel
+	it in the writing, and a lot of that came through.  I live with these
+	characters running around in my head 24 hours a day...and when I'd
+	finally finished "Shadows," it was as if they all sorta stopped and
+	looked at each other, and at me, and said, "Gee, thank you EVER so
+	fucking much, jeezus, why don't you just go pluck somebody's eye out
+	while you're at it?"
+
+	
      
+	To which the only reply is, "Now that you mention it...."
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Not all Centauri dreams come true; however, the ones in which they
+	see their deaths tend to be pretty accurate.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Turhan originally came in to audition for Elric in "Geometry;" we
+	wanted someone with more menace (Ansara), but we were all just blown
+	away by how wonderful and sweet and nice a person he was, and as he
+	left, I told John Copeland, "I'm gonna write a part just for him."
+
+	
      
+	So I did, and we cast him, and everyone on the set loved him...to
+	the point that, at the end of the shoot, they were saying, "You BASTARD,
+	how could you bring this WONDERFUL man in here and then KILL HIM OFF SO
+	WE CAN'T HAVE HIM BACK?!"
+
+	
      
+   
    •  For me, the concept of the Rangers isn't tied to Norris; that isn't
+	the reference I was talking about.  Being on that show, I kinda had to
+	look into the history of the Texas rangers in general, and being the
+	curious kind of guy I am, I widened out into the Army Rangers, and other
+	sorts.  I'd been looking for a kind of name to attach to this group, and
+	the more I thought about it, the more it fit.
+ 
+	
      
+	As far as the costume is concerned...it's not medeival based; if you
+	look at the ranger's outfit, than go look at a Minbari warrior outfit,
+	you will discover a LOT of points of comparison.  It was *designed* to
+	echo Minbari warrior caste clothes, to reflect the fact that these two
+	sides are working together.  Go fire up "Legacies" and look at his
+	uniform, then look at the ranger.  You'll see the similarities in
+	silhouette and line in various places.
+ 
+	
      
+	Of course I've read and enjoyed Tolkein.  But as I've said, I have
+	no interest in doing LoTR with the serial numbers filed off.  I've
+	dropped references to it in dialogue, but the structure of the story has
+	nothing whatsoever to do with LoTR.  Basically, a lot of people have
+	come up and said, "Oh, this is the same as Foundation," or "This is
+	the same as LoTR," or "This echoes a lot of Dune," or "This is
+	obviously a Homeric tale," or "There's a lot of Star Wars here."  It
+	uses the same tools as all mythic structure fiction uses.  Hence it
+	resonates.  But I didn't sit there and think, "Hmm...Gandalf left, so
+	I'll have Sinclair leave."  That's just plain silly.
+ 
+	
      
+	It's really a matter of what you bring to the table, that affects
+	what you see in the story.
+ 
+	
      
+	The roots of the symbolism and structure of B5 go back a hell of a
+	lot longer than this.  Here...I'll give you one free.
+ 
+	
      
+	G'Kar is in many ways my Cassandra figure, who in the Greek tales
+	was granted the gift of prophecy...all the disasterous things she
+	predicted would come true...but she was cursed by the gods that NO ONE
+	would ever believe her.  And later, when the war was at its height,
+	she ended up in the service of.....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo, in his vision, sees the shadow vessels, but he does not know
+	(in his present tense version) that that's what they are.  He's had this
+	particular dream for years now, long before meeting Morden.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It didn't show up in the script, and probably
+	won't, but the Emperor probably did have a vision of his death, and the
+	Vorlon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: your question...at this juncture, I think I'd have to choose "The
+	Coming of Shadows" as the one episode I'd use to represent the series.
+	That one episode came out so close to perfect, so close to what I saw in
+	my head when I wrote it, that the difference is no difference at all.
+	It has all the elements I'd feature in a B5 discussion...the CGI, the
+	characterization, the complexity, the politics, the language, the
+	performances.
+ 
+
      
+   
    •  The handclasp used in "Coming of Shadows" was a traditional clasp
+	used by Romans, usually in order to check if the other person was
+	carrying a knife.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One could certainly argue the position that those who become Rangers
+	are drawn to Minbar for that purpose, and speculate about what might be
+	propelling that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a difference between what I believe dreams mean, what the
+	Centauri believe dreams mean, and what dreams mean to the Centauri,
+	in that universe, and what they mean to me in our universe.
+
+	
      
+	I suspect the truth lay somewhere between Shroedinger and Jung.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  That scene [the attack on the Narn outpost] in "Coming of 
+	Shadows" is one of my favorites; it does, as you say, convey that 
+	sense of wonder which is one of my main goals with this show. 
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: parallel visuals between MotFL and CoS...yes, precisely.  In some
+	ways, they were set up as mirror-image parallels of one another, to 
+	show how the wheel turns, to quote G'Kar.  The opening council 
+	meeting, the attacks, the determination to kill the other, alternately
+	Garibaldi or Sheridan having to stop them by calling on the question 
+	of consequences if followed up on...it shows CoS as sort of the "dark
+	mirror" of the first episode.  Everything we saw when we first thought
+	we knew what the series was has now totally reversed and been turned 
+	on its head.
+
+	
      
+	They also focus on one of the main questions that B5 addreses itself
+	to: what is important to you? what are you willing to sacrifice? how
+	far are you willing to go to get what you want?  For me, a large 
+	measure of defining WHO we are is by WHAT we are willing to do, and 
+	what we want, and the means by which we pursue those goals.  The other
+	theme of course is sacrifice, which recurs throughout the show in one 
+	form or another.
+
+	
      
+	Sometimes, I think, people get so caught up in what's happening and
+	why that they miss what it's *about* on a more cellular level.  And 
+	that's the question of who we are.  Identity.  The importance of *one
+	single person* and the ability of that person to act as a fulcrum, 
+	intentionally or otherwise, upon which vast events can turn.  Choices.
+	What you value most.  Those, to me, are the issues most worth 
+	exploring.  We're told every day, beaten down with the notion that 
+	we're powerless, that we can't change things, you can't fight city 
+	hall...and of course it's not true.  You can fight.  And sometimes, 
+	you can even win.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair didn't send the same letter.  Same greeting, to keep the
+	recipient secret.
+
+	
      
+	Only the Ranger knew who got what.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The emperor falling scene, as with those around it, were shot as
+	written, down to the slow-motion notation, the close on his head 
+	hitting the floor, the women clutching one another...all in the 
+	script.  But it takes someone as skilled as Janet to take what 
+	somebody else might screw up and elevate it into something truly 
+	nifty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Slow-motion (or camera overcranked) is almost always indicated in
+	scripts.  I like slow-mo.  It can add a dreamlike quality to a shot, and
+	prolong a sense of imminent trouble.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You left out my favorite quote from the show, from the Emperor:  "The
+	past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us
+	...and our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, 
+	terrible in-between."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The centauri veiled telepaths are mainly wired into one another.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The emperor said exactly what, in the hallway, Londo said he said.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The emperor was referring to Londo and Refa.  And if the Centauri 
+	telepaths suspected or picked up anything, to tell anyone would almost 
+	certainly lead to a quick demise.  When you're that high up in the royal
+	court, you learn to keep your mouth shut.
+
+
      
+   
    •  [Emperor] Turhan's death was exactly as stated, natural causes.  If
+	it were anything else, we'd have at least nodded in that direction at
+	some point.  It's not fair to do so otherwise.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Didn't the Narn behind Londo and Refa hear them?
      
+	The Narn was just passing quickly through scene, in a hurry, and
+	couldn't have heard what Londo and Refa were quietly discussing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Because to some extent the roman civilization is one of the sources
+	for constructing the Centauri, I adapted their handshake (checking 
+	for knives) as their greeting; "I offer the hands of friendship."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Your feelings about the war starting are exactly what they should be,
+	and what I wanted to achieve with "Shadows."  In SF TV, very often, as
+	you state, it's "Yeah, let's get a war on!  Blow stuff up!"  But to 
+	hear of a *real* war...it's very, very sobering.  When we hear that 
+	Gulf troops were being sent into the Mideast, when we heard of soviet
+	troops sent into Prague...your heart stops for a moment.  When Kennedy
+	put American ships in a Cuban blockade and the world held its breath
+	...THAT is what it feels like to step into possible or real war.  All
+	you can think of is, "How the HELL did we get into this, and how the
+	hell do we get OUT of it?"  And that was at the emotional core of
+	"Shadows."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The broach worn by the Rangers was designed by me and Ann Bruice,
+	our costumer.  I sketched (dopily and badly) what I had in mind, which
+	was a stylized human and minbari on either side of a gemstone, both 
+	wokred (worked) into the same metal, and holding the gemstone.
+
+	
      
+	She then took this drawing that looked like it had been drawn by a
+	drunk five year old and translated it into a striking piece.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why not use the healing device from "Quality of Mercy?"
      
+	The alien healing device was specifically used in treatment of
+	illness; the Emperor suffered massive damage to his heart and othe
+	internal organs, which simply restoring some life energy wouldn't help.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Not a contradiction.  I don't believe in omniscient or all powerful
+	devices that function like literal deus ex machinas and heal everybody
+	all the time.  It was stated *plainly and clearly* that the device was
+	used in healing terminally ill patients.  They cannot undo physical 
+	damage from gunshots (the regen packs and other devices were used to 
+	heal Garibaldi's wound, and the alien device was used to raise his life
+	energy level enough to bring him out of the coma).  The emperor 
+	suffered a massive attack that destroyed parts of his heart.  Can't be
+	fixed by this device.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You may tell your friend that the city hit in "CoS" was CGI, not
+	a model.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Sanctuary is where Sheridan and the Emperor had their lengthy
+	conversation; it's *all* a virtual set except the floor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Sanctuary is entirely a virtual set.  It's all blue-screen, no 
+	walls, no windows, no stars, no nothing.  I made sure to ask 
+	Foundation and Mitch to blur the walls a bit in close up to give it 
+	the correct depth of field.  (Much of the CGI/background work is done
+	by Mitch, our effects guy, who works independent of Foundation, who
+	was also the main EFX guy on Predator, ET and others.)  Because that
+	was a LONG scene, the rendering time was just hideous.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Sanctuary set has ALWAYS been entirely virtual, except for a small
+	grating on the floor as a marker.  The walls, the windows, all of it.
+	Virtual.  We've actually done this a number of times.  I haven't said 
+	anything before because whenever I mention there's a virtual set, and
+	where it is, people look at it and say, "Oh, yeah, I could tell it was
+	virtual."  Because they knew ahead of time.  So I stopped mentioning it.
+
+	
      
+	We're sneaky that way.  You've seen, and will continue to see, sets 
+	that don't exist ANYwhere.  Hell, you know that bazaar shot in the
+	main title sequence?  The second floor?  Doesn't exist.  Digital 
+	compositing and virtual set melding.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The area where the reception was being held is the Rotunda.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the chance that the datacrystal might fall into the wrong hands, I
+	had Sinclair deliberately avoid using Garibaldi's last name, and 
+	avoid Delenn's altogether (since she has only the one).  The Ranger 
+	was told to deliver the crystals at the cost of his own life if 
+	necessary...but sometimes such orders don't end well for the messenger.
+	So both messages began the same way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Rangers actually owe more to the Lone Ranger and the Texas Rangers
+	in general.
+
+	
      
+	FYI, Sinclair called Delenn "old friend" as far back as the 2-hour 
+	pilot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm very happy at the reaction.  I was telling John Copeland a bit 
+	ago, when we finished the episode, "Maybe we ought to superimpose a 
+	crawl before the first frame of the teaser saying, "JUST IN CASE YOU 
+	THOUGHT WE WERE KIDDING.""
+
+	
      
+	An aside on the jms/kosh discussion, for whatever interest it may
+	have....when Ardwight comes in to do Kosh, they call me in to direct 
+	his performance so that it matches what the intent is now, and how it
+	will be interpreted later.  From where I sit in the control room, I 
+	can't see him, I can only hear his voice.  So it's kinda like talking
+	with Kosh there, and me saying, "Okay, can you try 'In Fire' hitting 
+	the second word harder, and with a sense of some anger behind it?"   
+	And between takes, he's still in Kosh-speak mode, muttering, "How will
+	this end, how do I know talk to my agent...go on, get out, buzz off
+	...."
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are some episodes coming that are about as intense as this, 
+	though not as much *happens*, in the sense of a bunch of events 
+	affecting lots of people in different places.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, intentional parallel structure to "Midnight," which is why I
+	included the shot from that episode in Londo's dream.  I like irony.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, "CoS" is a deliberate mirror-image of "Midnight," partly to
+	illustrate the notion that "the wheel turns," as G'Kar says...yes, it
+	does, and if you forget that it eventually turns on *you*, you'll be
+	ground beneath it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I will tell you a true and secret thing, re: Londo's dream, and looking
+	up into a blue sky to see the ships passing overhead.
+
+	
      
+	Ever since I was a kid, I've had that image in my dreams, of standing
+	out in the open and looking up as strange dark ships pass overhead. 
+	It's always been an unnerving image, and I really wanted to use it 
+	here to see if it would have the same effect on others.
+
+	
      
+	The other single most recurring image is to be standing at the bottom
+	of a long set of stairs, in a basement, and the door at the top of the
+	stairs is thrown open, and there's gunfire, and guards, and flares in 
+	the night beyond, and more ships firing down.
+
+	
      
+	Don't be surprised if this shows up as well, someday....
+
+
      
+   
    •  We nailed a piece with Michael before he left for New York; when we
+	shot "Points," he had long since returned to NY and was in the 
+	process of pursuing other things.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was with the human and Minbari in the
+	throne room?
      
+	They were discussing possible use of a world on the fringe of 
+	Centauri space for something of, they hoped, benign use.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin's father arrives, leading 25,000
+ground pounding soldiers on the station.  The troops' arrival elicits fear from
+both humans and non-humans that the troops may be going on a secret mission
+that will involve the station becoming an armed camp.
+
+
+Paul Winfield as Gen. Richard Franklin.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 7.49
+
+Production number:  210
+Original air date:  February 8, 1995
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Dr. Franklin's father is an Earth Alliance military hero, a veteran
+	of the Dilgar war and several internal conflicts on Earth.  He was
+	rarely around for his children when they were growing up; when he
+	was around, he tried to run the family like a boot camp.
+
+   
    •  With the advent of the Narn-Centauri war, the Earth Alliance is
+	trying to solidify its hold on several strategic sectors near both,
+	in anticipation of the day when Earth will have to choose sides.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan served a tour of duty on the planet Akdor, in a system
+	bordering on both Narn and Centauri space.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi's father, Alfredo, served under General Franklin in the
+	Dilgar war, and was a well-regarded soldier.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Babylon 5 is now heavily armed, ready to take on a warship.  Which
+	raises the question: why wasn't it before?  Mere
+	shortsightedness on the part of the designers -- a station like
+	Babylon 5 seems a natural target -- or something else?  Even if
+	there originally didn't seem any need to heavily arm the station,
+	the attacks on the station in
+	"Signs and Portents"
+	and
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2"
+	should have demonstrated that B5 will come under attack
+	from time to time.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, Franklin did say that the station was being
+	upgraded with the latest from Earth Force R&D, so maybe its previous
+	weapons were simply the best the previous generation of technology
+	had to offer.  Budget constraints may have also played a role.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  The tail end of the news broadcast mentions that more divisions
+	of Earth troops will join the 356th on Akdor.  That implies some
+	sort of permanent presence on the planet itself, as opposed to
+	just "in the system" as General Franklin mentioned.
+
+	
      
+   
    •  Delenn's transformation doesn't appear to be getting the widespread
+	publicity one might expect; the troops didn't seem to recognize her
+	at all.  Perhaps they simply don't follow the news.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  "GROPOS" stands for "ground pounders" and refers to the Earth
+	Alliance's equivalent of the U.S. Marines.  In fact, the term
+	"Earth Force Marine Corps" was contained in the Gropos' marching
+	song.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Everything in the battle sequence at the end of Gropos is CGI; no
+	models, despite the shadows.  Real fire was sampled for the flames,
+	though.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan is kidnapped and taken to an alien ship.  The Grey Council decides
+Delenn's fate.  General Hague makes an unofficial visit to the station.
+
+
+Robert Foxworth as General Hague.
+Marshall Teague as the Narn.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action/intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.33
+
+Production number:  211
+Original air date:  February 15, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A momentary change of clothes.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Minbari have installed a new leader.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's appointment to Babylon 5 was more than a coincidence.  He
+	was picked by Santiago, who knew that his record made him look like a
+	hard-nosed military man, just the sort Santiago suspected Clark would
+	want to replace Sinclair with.  But Santiago also knew that Sheridan
+	was a patriot who would stand against the forces seeking to undermine
+	the Earth government.  In his first months on the station, Sheridan's
+	real assignment was to evaluate the crew, find out who could be
+	trusted.
+
+   
    •  General Hague, and others, are working to expose the machinations
+	behind Santiago's death and other recent events.  They suspect the
+	Psi-Corps is behind the conspiracy, but so far have been unable to
+	prove anything.
+
+   
    •  Alit Neroon (head of the Star Riders clan, cf.
+	"Legacies")
+	has replaced Delenn on the Grey Council.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's dream is a big unanswered question, lent weight by Kosh's
+	comment after Sheridan's return.  See Analysis.
+
+   
    •  Why was Neroon appointed to the Council?
+
+   
    •  What does Delenn think is about to happen?  Why does she believe she
+	is about to descend into darkness and fire?
+
+   
    •  Is the foray by the Streibs related to what the Shadows are doing,
+	or is it just coincidental timing?
+
+   
    •  How did the Narn know so much about the Streibs and their ship?
+
+   
    •  What was done to Sheridan?  He was left with three scars on his
+	face, one of them on his forehead.  Might he be carrying an implant
+	of some sort now?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Neroon's appointment to the council is troublesome.  Presumably new
+	members are approved by majority vote.  The three warrior-caste
+	members probably voted for him; that means one or two of the remaining
+	five members must have voted for him as well, probably from the
+	worker caste.  Valen's wishes seem to be held in less than the highest
+	regard by some Minbari.
+
+   
    •  With four members, the warrior caste now effectively controls the
+	Grey Council.  On any issue they need only win over one other member
+	to have a majority.  It is unclear how far the Council's power
+	extends now that a new leader has been installed, and that leader
+	conceivably sides with the religious caste, but it looks like hard
+	times have arrived for Delenn's compatriots.
+
+   
    •  That being the case, how does this mesh with Sinclair's gathering of
+	rangers?  (cf.
+	"The Coming of Shadows")
+	Some of them, recall, are Minbari.  Are they primarily religious
+	caste?  Is there enough difference of opinion within the warrior
+	caste about humans that he's able to attract warriors?
+
+   
    •  We never actually hear Sheridan's answer to Hague, though it is
+	probably "yes."  If it isn't, Sheridan's meeting with the
+	rest of the command staff may be a ruse to draw Hague's people out
+	into the open -- on the assumption that Hague will try to work
+	via one of the others -- and expose the counterconspiracy.  Sheridan's
+	possible link with Psi-Corps (see below and
+	"A Race Through Dark Places")
+	makes this at least a plausible scenario, if an unlikely one.
+
+   
    •  There's more to the dream sequence
+	than is apparent at first glance,
+	and it's chock full of ambiguities.  A shot-by-shot rundown with
+	analysis (another, simpler, possible interpretation follows the
+	rundown):
+
+	
        
+
+	   
      1. Sheridan is in his quarters, in uniform.  The lights are out.
+		
+
+	   
      2. Ivanova is in the quarters with him, in uniform, hair draped
+		over her left shoulder.  The door is open.  She raises her
+		fingers to her lips and says, "Shh."
+		
        
+		Analysis: Someone or something has entered Sheridan's
+		mind to give him a message, and is warning him to watch and
+		listen, not try to participate.  The "something" might also
+		simply be part of Sheridan's own subconscious.  This probably
+		relates to Kosh's answer to Sheridan's first question.
+
+	   
      3. Sheridan looks confused.
+
+	   
      4. Ivanova, now with a raven perched on her right shoulder,
+		says, "Do you know who I am?"
+		
        
+		Analysis: The raven is typically symbolic of death;
+		Ivanova may represent destruction, perhaps eventually siding
+		with the forces of darkness.  In older literature, the raven
+		was often a thief, rather than a harbinger of death.
+
+	   
      5. Sheridan looks to his right, and finds himself in a Babylon 5
+		corridor.  He looks up.
+		
+
+	   
      6. On a catwalk, in harsh lighting, gripping the railing, is
+		another Sheridan.  He looks to his right.
+		
        
+		Analysis: It's unclear what kind
+		of uniform the Sheridan on the catwalk is wearing; possibly
+		a Psi-Cop uniform.  The angle of the shot is similar to
+		Sinclair's first view of Knight Two in
+		"And the Sky Full of Stars."  This
+		Sheridan perhaps represents another side of Sheridan's
+		personality (more on that below.)
+
+	   
      7. 
+		Garibaldi, also apparently on the catwalk, is in uniform and
+		has a dove(?) on his left shoulder.  "The man in between is
+		searching for you," he says.
+		
        
+		Analysis: "The man in between" may refer to the
+		Sheridan on the catwalk, a part of Sheridan that isn't sure
+		which side it should be on.
+		Of course, it could be a reference to someone else
+		entirely: someone between light and darkness, for instance.
+		(Sinclair?)
+		As for Garibaldi's dove, the dove is traditionally a symbol
+		of peace, perhaps implying that Garibaldi will work to stop
+		the Great War.
+		"Babylon Squared"
+		strongly suggests that Garibaldi will ally himself with the
+		side of light.
+
+	   
      8. Ivanova, in a veil and black dress, is standing behind
+		Sheridan, who is now wearing a turtleneck and a jacket.
+		
        
+		Analysis: This funereal garb lends some weight to
+		the idea that Ivanova represents death.  (It really is
+		Ivanova, though some readers have disagreed; see
+		jms speaks.)
+
+	   
      9. 
+		As he turns, we get a brief glimpse of a metal pin on the
+		left breast of his jacket: a Psi-Corps badge.  And in fact,
+		his jacket appears to be the uniform of a Psi-Cop, with the
+		leather strap down the right side in front.
+		
        
+		Analysis: Sheridan's change of clothes is perhaps the
+		most ominous part of the entire sequence.  Combined with
+		Bester's comment in
+		"A Race Through Dark Places"
+		that he was told to expect Sheridan to be sympathetic to
+		the Psi-Corps, it suggests some yet-to-be-revealed connection
+		between Sheridan and the Corps, something that may cause
+		a conflict of interest as he works with Hague's people.
+
+	   
      10. Ivanova, still veiled, says, "You are the hand."
+		
        
+		Analysis: Hands abound in Babylon 5,
+		from Kosh's hand in
+		"The Gathering"
+		to Londo's dream hand in
+		"The Coming of Shadows."
+		Presumably Ivanova isn't referring to Kosh's hand.  If she
+		is referring to the hand from Londo's dream, it suggests that
+		Sheridan will become a pawn in Londo's machinations; recall
+		Elric's comment in
+		"The Geometry of Shadows" --
+		the hand reaching out across the stars is Londo's.
+		Alternately, if Sheridan's Psi-Cop uniform is taken to mean
+		that he's symbolic of Psi-Corps as a whole, perhaps she means
+		that Psi-Corps, not Sheridan, is the hand.  Or, more sinister,
+		that Sheridan is unknowingly acting on behalf of the Psi-Corps,
+		perhaps as the result of some mental conditioning (which
+		would explain Bester's comment at the end of
+		"A Race Through Dark Places.")
+
+	   
      11. Kosh is standing behind Sheridan in the corridor; Sheridan is
+		back in his normal uniform.  Sheridan starts to turn toward
+		him.
+		
+
+	   
      12. In what seems like a simple switch of camera angles, Sheridan
+		now appears to be sitting down in front of a backlit wall
+		with an organic look not unlike that of the Streib ship's
+		interior.  "Why are you here?" he asks.
+		
        
+		Analysis: The change of scenery suggests that "here"
+		refers to a different place or time or context than the rest
+		of the sequence.  Perhaps the question means, "Why are the
+		Vorlons involving themselves with the other races?"  Of
+		course, it could mean what it looks like: "Why are you in
+		my dream?"
+
+	   
      13. "We were never away,"
+		Kosh answers from the corridor.  "For
+		the first time your mind is quiet enough to hear me."
+		
        
+		Analysis: Depending on the meaning of Sheridan's
+		question, the answer says different things.  If the former
+		refers to the Vorlons in general, the answer can be taken to
+		mean, "We've only just allowed you to notice us."  The second
+		part of the answer suggests that Sheridan's question refers
+		to the dream, though.  See below for a possible explanation
+		of this question and the rest of the dream.  Also note that
+		Kosh uses both "we" and "me" -- see
+		jms speaks.
+
+	   
      14. Sheridan is back in the corridor, standing.  "Why am I here?"
+		he asks, in a tone that makes the question sound unconnected
+		to the previous one.
+		
        
+		Analysis: Again, it's unclear what "here" means.
+		Babylon 5?  The dream?  His circumstances?
+
+	   
      15. "You have always been here," answers Kosh.
+		
        
+		Analysis: Kosh's repetition of this statement after
+		Sheridan's return may mean it is very important; or perhaps
+		Kosh was indirectly telling Sheridan that the dream wasn't
+		a simple construct of his subconscious.  (Of course, Kosh
+		might have read Sheridan's mind outside medlab and pulled the
+		line from Sheridan's memory of the dream.)  As for the meaning
+		of the line itself, only time will tell.  "You" might refer
+		to Sheridan himself, or to some group (e.g. the human race)
+		of which Sheridan is a part.
+	
      
+
+   
    •  Another way of looking at the dream sequence, more metaphysical,
+	is that Sheridan entered a psychic continuum, an astral plane, for
+	lack of a better term.  That makes many of the comments less ambiguous:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  "We were never away.  For the first time your mind is quiet
+		enough to hear me."  This is the first time Sheridan has
+		been in a mental state to consciously recognize the plane;
+		Kosh and everyone else have always been there to some degree.
+	   
      •  "You have always been here."  Sheridan has always had some
+		presence in this psychic world; he just hasn't been able to
+		consciously recognize it.
+	   
      •  "The man in between" refers to someone between the physical
+		and spiritual worlds.  Perhaps the Sheridan in the sequence
+		is Sheridan's spiritual side, and "the man in between" is
+		Sheridan, searching for his higher soul.
+	   
      •  Ivanova and Garibaldi, as shown in the sequence, are either
+		the projections into this other world of the real people,
+		or are abstractions for something else (darkness and
+		light?)
+	   
      •  Sheridan's Psi-Cop uniform may mean that the Corps plays
+		a part in bridging the physical and astral worlds.
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Streibs are probably a reference to Whitley Strieber, whose popular
+	book "Communion" dealt with alien abduction.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Marshall Teague, the Narn, also played Nelson Drake, the assistant
+	turned living weapon, in
+	"Infection."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ravens and doves, from the King James Bible:
+	
        
+	
        
+	   
      •  And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened
+		the window of the ark which he had made; and he sent forth a
+		raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried
+		up from off the earth. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to
+		see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
+		but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she
+		returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face
+		of the whole earth; and then he put forth his hand, and took her,
+		and pulled her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet
+		another seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the
+		ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and lo, in her
+		mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off; so Noah knew that the waters
+		were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet another seven
+		days, and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him
+		any more. --Genesis 8:6-12
+	
        
+	   
      •  And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead,
+		said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom
+		I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but
+		according to my word. And the word of the Lord came unto him,
+		saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide
+		thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it
+		shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have
+		commanded the ravens to feed thee there.
+		
        
+		So he went and did according to the word of the Lord; for
+		he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
+		And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and
+		bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
+		--1 Kings 17:1-6
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Some raven references in various other mythologies:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  Hugin and Munin: Odin's two ravens (thought and memory)
+
+	   
      •  Kurkil: Mongol creator god who flew to create the Earth and
+		mankind
+
+	   
      •  Mictla or Mictlantecuhtli: Aztec god who rules the underworld
+
+	   
      •  Moragga: Celtic.  The incarnation of the Goddess as war.
+
+	   
      •  Raven: Amerindian creator and trickster god. Created all living
+		creatures out of wood and clay. Similar to Coyote.
+
+	   
      •  Yangwu: Chinese. The sun-crow.
+
+	   
      •  Yetl: Amerindian. The thunder-raven who dragged the flooded
+		earth above the water.
+
+	   
      •  In Japanese culture, the dove symbolizes war because doves
+		were used as messengers during battles.
+
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  One episode will look very much unconnected to the arc until the
+	last five minutes, at which point there's a revelation that will likely
+	astonish some and confirm suspcions for some other viewers.
+
+   
    •  Streibs, actually.  Similar to, but not quite the same as the
+	Grail
+	bunch.
+
+   
    •  Delenn's flyer is called Zhalen.
+
+   
    •  Re: we/I...
+	yes, it's interesting, isn't it?  You'd almost think it
+	was contradictory or something.
+
+   
    •  And of course there's the story of the man who dreamed he was a
+	butterfly, and when he awoke, wondered if he was actually a human
+	who dreamed he had been a butterfly, or a butterfly who was dreaming he
+	was a human....
+
+   
    •  Who was the woman in the veil?
      
+	It's Ivanova.
+
+   
    •  In a way, there are several Sheridans in that dream, signifying
+	changes currently in the works, changes yet to come, messages
+	forthcoming or unrecognized.  It's a very reflective dream, which will
+	grow clearer the deeper one gets into the show.
+ 
+   
    •  Certainly there are some archetypes that always creep into a work
+	of this sort; for all we all not Jung at heart...?
+
+   
    •  You'll see at least one piece of Sheridan's vision decoded before
+	season's end.
+
+   
    •  Remember, Kosh was the one who sent those images into Sheridan's
+	brain, not anybody else; he was communicating useful information that
+	may come up down the road, but in rather symbological form.
+
+   
    •  Yes, Sheridan was speaking in the Drazi's native language, trying
+	(without success) to get through; they're a cranky species to start
+	with, and this didn't help.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan learned a smattering of various languages while on patrol on
+	the Agamemnon.
+
+   
    •  The aliens from Grail are similar to, and distant relatives of, the
+	streibs, but not the same, no.  A closer shot would've revealed red
+	slitted eyes instead of the black eyes of the one in Grail.
+
+   
    •  Pledging oneself to someone's side is not common, and carries great
+	significance.  From that point onward, you are bound to that person
+	until your death, and you must defend that person at the cost of your
+	own life.
+
+   
    •  Some tie-ins...remember Sheridan in "A Distant Star" saying that he
+	was feeling beached, abandoned?  His unsureness in taking on this post,
+	what if it was a mistake?  A number of his actions come into a clearer
+	light once you know he was in essence checking them all out, and putting
+	on a hard "I'm a nice guy" attitude.
+
+   
    •  Wasn't attacking the Streibs an act of war?
      
+	The Streib saw an alliance between Earth and Minbar at that moment,
+	which is the LAST thing they wanted to go up against.  Also, you don't
+	go to war at the drop of a hat just because somebody sinks or shoots
+	down one of your ships.  This is one of the cliches in storytelling.
+	And what the Streibs were doing was totally unjustifiable in any event.
+	Do you gear up for the massive hassle of total war -- supply lines,
+	fleets, all the rest -- because of this incident?  Remember, the purpose
+	of the ship was to find races weak enough for them to attack with
+	impunity; they don't want to go up against a force that can strike
+	back.
+
+   
    •  I doubt we'll be seeing these guys again for a long time, if ever. 
+	So I don't consider them on the level of certain shadows or stuff. 
+	They came, they grabbed, we whomped.
+
+   
    •  By the way, in addition to the re-appearance of Neroon, you may have
+	noticed that the first Grey Council member Delenn addresses is the
+	same one we saw in "Points of Departure."
+
+   
    •  Membership in the Grey Council is usually for life; a person
+	can choose to leave but only under truly extraordinary circumstances
+	(kind of like being appointed to the Supreme Court).  In Delenn's case,
+	though, remember that she didn't quit, she was booted out.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan and the other fighters flew at a slight angle right past
+	the window in C&C.  I don't see where the problem is in this.  The 
+	window wasn't used as a monitor, it was used as a window.  The 
+	starfuries came out of the cobra bays as the station rotated them 
+	planet-side, they banked, and headed toward the gate, passing C&C.
+
+   
    •  Ejecting would not have purchased Ramirez's life because when the
+	system came back on line with its analysis, it announced that the
+	radiation was "already at terminal levels."  From the instant he 
+	heard that, he was a dead man waiting to stop moving.  He could've 
+	sent the ship back, risking a faulty autopilot...and might've died 
+	for nothing if it encountered the *slightest* glitch en route.
+
+   
    •  One of the themes in this show is how you face life...and how you
+	face death.  Ramirez faced his honorably.  In the end, honor and 
+	dignity are all we have left. 
+
+   
    •  If you trust Sheridan, there's no need for a lengthy report; plus,
+	a written report, no matter how well encrypted, can be broken or fall
+	into the wrong hands.  The best record of a secret meeting that could
+	get you fired or killed is no record at ALL.
+
+   
    •  Re: Kosh's voice carrying some emotion...starting at about "All Alone
+	in the Night," or maybe one before (memory fades), I took on the job 
+	of directing the voice sessions for Kosh.  He was moving from a neutral
+	delivery to things that had to carry specific emotions and implications
+	for the future, and nobody else knows what all this stuff means, so it
+	fell to me.
+
+   
    •  Also, I noted somewhere in a preview for upcoming episodes, among the
+	things coming, "conspiracies of light as well as dark."  Perhaps that
+	is now clearer.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar asks Sheridan to intervene militarily on behalf of the Narns; Ivanova
+tries to institute an ambassadorship with a visiting alien.
+
+
+Paul Williams as Taq.
+Ian Abercrombie as Correlilmerzon.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 7.97
+
+Production number:  212
+Original air date:  February 22, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Narn pushed the Centauri off their world through a war of
+	attrition, so it was no longer worth the Centauri's effort to
+	stay -- open, direct warfare is new to them.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was that gift?
+
+   
    •  Will the Lumati's alliance with Earth be significant?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The situation between the Narn and the Centauri on Babylon 5 seems
+	destined to explode sooner or later, even if things were quelled
+	the first time.  If one side begins to lose badly, revenge will
+	be a natural reaction.  Perhaps it will be just such an incident
+	that pushes Earth into taking sides, assuming that's going to happen.
+
+   
    •  It also seems like only a matter of time before the Minbari smuggling
+	operation is discovered; eventually it's plausible that the Centauri
+	will get sick of the Minbari nosing around in the middle of war zones,
+	though they may decide they don't want to risk fighting them.
+	How much trouble Sheridan will be in if his plan is discovered
+	remains to be seen.
+
+   
    •  Given the Lumati's feelings about natural selection, it's unclear how
+	desirable they'll be as allies.  If Earth needs help, they might
+	well decide that that means humans are inferior, and withhold their aid.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In keeping with his newfound importance, Londo's outfit has changed
+	slightly; it is crisper, darker, with a slightly more military look.
+
+   
    •  On a more editorial note, this episode is arguably the first to drive
+	home how different the situation is now than it's been in the past.
+	The dark undercurrents that have always been present in the series
+	begin to surface here, in the form of G'Kar's desperation, Londo's
+	casual lack of concern over the killing and his calm assurance that
+	the Centauri will defeat the Narn, Sheridan's loss of composure with
+	G'Kar, and the general sense of hostility around the station.
+
+   
    •  The Lumati's arrogant attitude toward other species bears some
+	resemblance to Star Trek's Prime Directive.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  On an unrelated note...just finished another script tonight, "Acts of
+	Sacrifice," which despite its rather ominous title is more a slice of
+	life episode...and contains probably the funkiest, weirdest sequence
+	that I have ever written.  Full tilt whacko.
+
+
      
+   
    •  [Londo is] a fascinating character to explore, and the most careful
+	balancing act of the bunch; part of the character's appeal is that on
+	a very fundamental level, you *like* him, and you don't want to see 
+	him on this terrible slide downward.  So every so often, you have to
+	pull him back, go in a different direction, remind us of his basic 
+	humanity and potential for heroism.  He is, really, any of us caught
+	in a web of events spinning more and more out of control every day.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As it happens, I made it a point to be on-set the day we shot what we
+	ended up calling "the Ivanova dance."  Wanted to make sure it was done
+	correctly.  We only had to shoot it about three times, only in the
+	master, no coverage.  The crew was absolutely breathless after the
+	first take, from keeping from laughing.  It was very funny.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, not to split hairs, the idea of sex sealing deals goes
+	back a heck of a lot longer than Larry Niven.  It's been part of treaty
+	signing and stuff going back to ancient Egypt, other parts of the middle
+	east, even parts of medeival europe.
+
+
      
+   
    •  To the question raised: yes, if Sheridan had shown the Lumati around,
+	the request would have been made to him, as it was to Ivanova.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Zathras (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared")
+	a Lumati?
      
+	Zathras is not part of the Lumati species.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What's the deal with all the fans behind Sheridan's superior?
+	
      
+	I will only say that I was as surprised by those fans as anyone
+	else (I was in editing all day when that was shot).
+	 
+	
      
+	Well, we're always saying around here, the more fans the better....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was G'Kar laughing or crying?
+	
      
+	It's both; laughing at the absurdity, and crying...about as close as
+	we've seen to a nervous breakdown.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think one need look no further than the latest communiques from 
+	Dole and Newt to get some idea on the progenitors of the Lumati.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Katsulas actually fighting, or was it a stuntman?
      
+	It was a little of both, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Given that the Narns were agrarian prior to the arrival of the 
+	Centauri, and were under their heel, and got most of their tech FROM
+	the Centauri leftovers, no, they're not more advanced.  It's a lot 
+	like the Russian situation, seemingly this tremendous power, but once
+	you look deep, not as well off as they'd like you to think.
+
+	
      
+	Claudia loved the scene when I first described it to her, prior to
+	finishing the script.  She was dying to do it, and kept sort of 
+	"doing" it around people for some time prior to filming.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Narn were not out in space prior to the Centauri arriving.
+
+	
      
+	While Paul Williams was on set for this ep, I had him sign my two 
+	CDs of the "Phantom of the Paradise" soundtrack.  Ah, power....
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A fugitive with sensitive information about the Earth government flees
+to Babylon 5.
+
+
+Tony Steedman as Dr. Everett Jacobs.
+Bernie Casey as Derek Cranston.
+Richard Moll as Max.
+Wanda De Jesus as Sarah.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.20
+
+Production number:  213
+Original air date:  March 1, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Menachem Binetski
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  After the victory over the Dilgar, the Earth Alliance experienced a
+	period of rapid expansion bolstered by a general sense of optimism,
+	a sense that the future was bright.  Somewhere along the way, that
+	was lost -- Dr. Franklin says the future was like waiting for that special 
+	toy for Christmas, and when you get it you find that the reality doesn't 
+	measure up to your expectations.
+
+   
    •  Dr. Franklin studied medicine at Harvard.  One of his teachers, Dr.
+	Everett Jacobs, went on to become then-Vice President Clark's personal
+	physician.  Dr Franklin says, "A lot of us looked up to him as a role model.
+	He's the best there is."
+
+
+   
    •  Dr. Jacobs examined Clark before and after the "accident" on Earth
+	Force One that killed President Santiago -- and found no evidence of
+	the viral infection Clark used as an excuse to leave the ship
+	shortly before it was destroyed.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How and when will Dr. Jacobs' data be used?
+
+   
    •  What did Kosh and his ship say to each other after Sheridan and the
+	others left the docking bay?
+
+   
    •  What did Kosh teach Sheridan?
+
+   
    •  How did Sheridan convince Kosh to allow his ship to be used to save
+	Dr. Jacobs?
+
+   
    •  What did the ship "sing" to Dr. Jacobs?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why was the fact that Kosh's ship is alive such a surprising thing
+	to have confirmed, when a simple "scan for life forms" was able to
+	detect it?  In all their surface probes while the ship sat in the
+	docking bay, it seems odd that nobody
+	thought to scan for life, especially since it was already known or at
+	least suspected that Vorlons use organic technology (cf.
+	"Infection.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan mentions to Kosh that there's a council meeting to discuss
+	the Narn refugee problem.  That might be related to the smuggling
+	operation started in
+	"Acts of Sacrifice"
+	-- has it been revealed already?  (Not necessarily, of course; there
+	are probably thousands, if not millions, of refugees who have nothing
+	to do with that operation.)
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Kosh speaks to his ship, and it displays some text in an unknown
+	script, presumably the Vorlon written language.  That implies that
+	Kosh and his ship are not in telepathic contact, or at least not
+	when he's not on board -- somewhat remarkable, considering that Kosh
+	and the ship have both demonstrated telepathy or something like it
+	(Kosh in
+	"All Alone in the Night"
+	and the ship in this episode, both with Dr. Jacobs and, more
+	importantly, the maintenance workers referred to by Ivanova.)
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  There may be a Ranger (cf.
+	"The Coming of Shadows")
+	in this episode, though it's very subtle.  As Sheridan and Garibaldi
+	reach the bottom of the stairs, just before Sheridan sees the red
+	ribbon, a man walks by the two of them, wearing the same outfit as
+	the Ranger from the aforementioned episode.  Which might be
+	coincidence, except that Garibaldi notices the man, even turns and
+	watches him climb the stairs, before looking back at Sheridan, who
+	is meanwhile occupied with the ribbon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A couple viewers have commented that Sheridan looks a bit too
+        smug as he gives the data crystal to his co-conspirator at the end,
+        almost as if that isn't the real crystal.  Is it?  Does he trust
+        her?  Is he up to something other than what the General thinks he is?
+        (Recall that we never heard his answer in
+        "All Alone in the Night.")
+        Also, he doesn't give her Dr. Jacobs' code to unlock the data, though
+        of course he could simply be giving her an unencrypted copy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On a related note, did Sheridan keep a copy of the crystal for himself?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan confronts Kosh twice.  The first time a bit tentatively, the second time 
+	directly.  Amazingly, he engages Kosh's interest and actually begins what may 
+	develop into a dialog (or at least a monologue) with Kosh.
+
+
      
+	Also of note, the first time Sheridan confronts Kosh he says that Kosh "called to 
+	him."  This is a reference to the dream sequence in "All Alone in the Night".
+	Kosh replies, "I sought understanding.  I listened to the song.  Your 
+	thoughts became the song."  Sheridan asks, "Has this ever happenned before?" 
+	and Kosh says, "Once."  When was that?  One possibility is
+	Talia Winters (cf.
+	"Deathwalker")
+	-- Kosh told her to "listen to the music, not the song."
+
+
      
+   
    • 	Kosh's second conversation with Sheridan, of course, bears close analysis,
+	especially given its relation to Sheridan's dream in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+
+	
        
+
+	   
      1. Sheridan: "You wanted to see me?"
+	   
      2. Kosh: "You wanted to see me."
+	   
      3. "Well, I guess everybody does.  See what you really are,
+		inside that encounter suit."
+	   
      4. "They are not ready.  They would not understand."
        
+		Analysis: It's not obvious exactly who he means by
+		"they."  At least one person was ready to
+		see Kosh, namely Delenn (cf.
+		"Chrysalis.")
+		Of course, it begs the question once again:
+		what is Kosh, that one might not "understand" when
+		one saw him?  (And why does he care whether people understand?)
+	   
      5. "Am I ready?"
+	   
      6. "No.  You do not even understand yourself."
        
+		Analysis: Is Kosh speaking in a general sense here --
+		"You aren't self-actualized" -- or is there something specific
+		about Sheridan that Kosh knows and Sheridan doesn't?
+	   
      7. "Could you help me to understand you?"
+	   
      8. "Can you help me to understand you?"
+	   
      9. "Well, I can try.  Is that what you want?  An exchange of
+		information?  I tell you something about me, you tell me
+		something about you?"
+	   
      10. "No.  You do not understand.  Go."  Kosh turns away.
+	   
      11. "Dammit, what do you want?  What do you want from me?  You
+		know, ever since I got here I've had the feeling that... that
+		you've been watching me.  The records show you hardly ever
+		went to council meetings until I showed up.  When I was
+		captured... it was you who reached out and touched my mind.
+		Now you call me here... why?  Just to throw me out?  Are we
+		just toys to you?  Huh?  What do you want?"
+	   
      12. Kosh spins around to face Sheridan again.  "Never ask that
+		question."
        
+		Analysis: Almost undoubtedly a reference to Morden's
+		question in
+		"Signs and Portents"
+		-- but it raises another question of its own, namely, why does
+		that question mean anything special to Kosh?  How does Kosh
+		know what Morden asked of the various ambassadors?  Perhaps
+		it's what the Shadows always ask, since Kosh seems to know
+		about them.  Perhaps the Vorlons were, themselves, asked that
+		question a thousand years ago.
+	   
      13. "At least I got a response out of you.  So what'll it be,
+		Ambassador?"
+	   
      14. "I will teach you."
+	   
      15. "About yourself?"
+	   
      16. "About you.  Until you are ready."
+	   
      17. "For what?"
+	   
      18. "To fight legends."
        
+		Analysis: Two interpretations are immediately
+		apparent: "to fight the Shadows" (who are legendary to the
+		Narn and probably others) or "to dispel myths."  The first
+		seems too obvious, given Kosh's tendency to be
+		cryptic.  The second interpretation suggests that the Vorlons
+		aren't revealing themselves because they feel they'll be
+		associated with something from mythology.  Once Sheridan
+		learns to combat those preconceptions, he will be ready.
+                (See Notes.)  Alternately, it could
+		refer to Sheridan himself; he's a legend of sorts to the
+		Minbari, possibly an obstacle to the joining of humans and
+		Minbari as envisioned by Delenn (cf.
+		"All Alone in the Night.")
+	
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Do we now have a clue to the telepathic abilities of the Vorlons?
+	This reference to "the song" and Sheridan's thoughts "becoming" the
+	song during his dream sequence hint rather strongly that telepathy
+	is the Vorlon's primary means of communication.  If so, then this
+	confirms that Sheridan's dream wasn't altogether a dream, and that
+	he may have some latent/budding psi skills himself.
+
+
      
+	Further note:  The constant jabber that occurs when Kosh speaks.  It sounds like 
+	there are...many "voices" in it.  If telepathy is common to 
+	Vorlons, then they may have some equivalent to a "hive mind", or at least constant 
+	and unbounded access to each other.  If so, then why does Kosh periodically return 
+	to the Vorlon homeworld?  Further, does the same physical "Kosh" return?  Still 
+	further, if each Vorlon is to a greater or lesser extent all Vorlons, does it 
+	matter which physical Vorlon is present?  Taken to the extreme, the tag "Kosh" is 
+	simply a convenient referent supplied by the Vorlon hive-mind to the folks at B5.
+	(Of course, it may well be the ship that needs to return
+	home, not Kosh at all.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  In this episode we see that the ship is an independent entity, in essence a 
+	living creature.  It shows up as a non-human life form, even though we are shown 
+	that Kosh himself was not on board.  Further, Doctor Jacobs says that the ship 
+	"sang to him" while he was unconcious and aboard.  This hints strongly that the 
+	ship shares, "the song", which means that it's part of the Vorlon community mind.
+
+
      
+	If the ship is part of the Vorlon super-entity, and if the ship is itself, "organic 
+	technology" then this implies that the Vorlons can create any kind of physical 
+	creature they want, with that creature sharing the community mind.  That means 
+	that the ship is nearly as much or as much a Vorlon as Kosh.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A number of readers have speculated that the ship is actually Kosh,
+	and the encounter suit just a remote probe or a servant.  That seems
+	unlikely, though, given the events of
+	"The Gathering,"
+	in which the Vorlons were ready to start shooting over an attack on
+	what was in the encounter suit.  But it's worthy of mention.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A Biblical reference that might be relevant, or might just be a
+	coincidence:  During Sheridan's secret meeting,
+	Sarah tells him "Whatever you do, I suggest that you do it quickly."
+	This is the same thing Jesus Christ said to Judas Iscariot
+	immediately before Judas went out to betray Jesus to the Sanhedron.
+	If this isn't a simple coincidence, the implication is that Sheridan
+	will eventually betray someone.  The victim isn't clear, though.
+	His cadre on B5 are obvious
+	candidates, as is the cabal he and Hague are members of. But for that
+	matter, it might be the Psi-Corps (though his betrayal could be
+	for
+	the Psi-Corps (cf.
+	"All Alone in the Night"
+	and Bester's comment at the end of
+	"A Race Through Dark Places.")
+
+	
      
+	A more whimsical connection is that the actress speaking the line
+	is named Wanda de Jesus.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  A relevant reference might be "Childhood's
+        End" by Arthur C. Clarke (though the shape of the Vorlon encounter
+        suit suggests the opposite association from the one in the book.)
+
+   
    •  When Franklin and Garibaldi stop to eat, it appears they're actually
+        munching on Kellogg's NutriGrain Breakfast Bars (though the scene
+        doesn't provide a close enough look at the bars to tell for sure,
+        so it probably doesn't count as product placement.)
+
+   
    •  During Sheridan's meeting with Sarah, they are in what looks like an
+	equipment room.  She sets up two devices, presumably to defeat any
+	bugs or scans. The problem is that she leaves them there when she
+	leaves.  During their next meeting they are not in evidence at all,
+	and again she isn't shown retrieving them before she leaves.  Of
+	course, Sheridan could have taken them.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+
+   
    •  In addition to its ants (cf.
+	"Mind War")
+	B5 has roaches.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan has what he considers very good shielding on his office.  He 
+	talks to Ivanova quite openly there immediately after Agent Cranston leaves.
+
+   
    •  Kosh's comments to Sheridan bear some resemblance to the Dalai
+	Lama's observation (cf.
+	"Points of Departure,")
+	namely, "It will be even better when you begin to understand what
+	you do not understand."
+
+
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  There was no intended reference to Anne McCaffrey's story; Kosh tends
+	to speak naturally through a series of musical/tonal/atonal chords,
+	and I figured his ship would communicate in the same way, which to
+	another would sound a little like singing.
+
+   
    •  What did Sarah leave behind at the
+	meeting?
      
+	It's a flashlight, and he's also holding one.  You caught 
+	a very small glitch.  Originally, he came out, flashed twice with 
+	his flashlight, giving the code; then she did the same, and 
+	THEN stepped out of the shadows, putting her flashlight down on 
+	the ledge beside her.  It took too long, though, interminably, 
+	so when we edited it, we cut out that sequence...and 
+	hoped nobody'd notice the flashlight sitting there.
+
+   
    •  From "Infection," the visiting Doctor points out that, regarding
+	organic technology, "some even say the Vorlons have got it."  All 
+	this stuff gets set up somewhere.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Compiled by Dave Zimmerman
+and Steven Grimm.
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in hot water when he kills a Minbari warrior in self-defense.
+
+
+Caitlin Brown as Guinevere Corey.
+Sean Gregory Sullivan as Ashan.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Mystery
+P5 Rating: 7.75
+
+Production number: 215
+Original air date: April 26, 1995
+
+Written by Peter David
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Minbari clans are like close-knit families.  One surrenders some of
+	one's identity to the clan, and in return the clan is expected to
+	shoulder the responsibility for one's actions.  Despite this, clan
+	leaders sometimes engage in secret plots without the knowledge of
+	the clan members at large.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's tactics in the Earth-Minbari War (cf.
+	"Points of Departure")
+	are considered completely without honor by many Minbari; he used a
+	fake distress signal to lure the Black Star into a minefield.
+
+   
    •  Vir was considered a failure by his family.  He was sent to Babylon 5
+	at their behest, mostly to get him out of their hair.  There was little
+	competition for the post, which was thought to be something of a joke.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was Sheridan supposed to learn from Kosh's lesson?  (see
+	Analysis)
+   
    •  How did Kosh know what Sheridan would find in the chamber?
+   
    •  Who were the people living there?
+   
    •  Will Vir's family take him up on Londo's offer?
+   
    •  What fate awaits the teddy bear?
+   
    •  Who was the human who stole Sheridan's link?  Did he have an ulterior
+	motive for helping with the setup, or was he simply doing it for
+	money?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Considering her dramatic entrance, Sheridan's lawyer didn't actually
+	do much of anything.  Who sent her, and what was she supposed to
+	be doing for Sheridan?
+
+
      
+   
    •  One interpretation of Kosh's lesson
+	is that he was teaching Sheridan to give humanity the benefit of the
+	doubt.  Even in what Sheridan considered the most dangerous, nasty
+	place on the station, one can find beauty.  If Kosh's pledge in
+	"Hunter, Prey"
+	to teach Sheridan "about you" is taken broadly to mean
+	"about your kind," this is at least a plausible scenario.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another possible interpretation:
+	Going to the darkest, dingiest, "worst part" of B5 was an analogy to
+	Sheridan's current very "bad" situation.  This is partly confirmed by
+	Kosh's statement that having a "bad day" was perfectly appropriate for
+	the lesson he had planned.  What Sheridan saw there was "beauty... in
+	the dark", which was exactly what he needed.  He was obviously relaxed
+	and feeling much better after the experience, and he thanked Kosh for
+	helping him.
+
+	
      
+	The lesson?  When things are at their absolute worst, don't simply
+	satisfy your basic needs (eating, sleeping), take time out to enjoy
+	something that will make you feel better despite the conditions.  It
+	will help you deal with adversity.  Alternatively, the lesson is that
+	even in some of the worst places/situations, there can still be beauty
+	if you allow yourself to look for it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why the monastic chant?  Sheridan said in
+	"Points of Departure"
+	that he had met the Dalai Lama in Tibet.  The chant wasn't Tibetan --
+	it is a Gregorian chant, part of the Christmas Mass.
+	The entire incident may have been projected into Sheridan's mind
+	by Kosh or by someone else.  The fact that Sheridan could see it
+	might also be related to his dream in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+
+	
      
+	The Latin lyrics:
+
+	
      
+	Puer natus est nobis et filius datus est nobis;
      
+	cujus imperium super humerum ejus;
      
+	et vocabitur nomen ejus,
      
+	consilii Angelus.
      
+	
      
+	Cantate Domino canticum novum;
      
+	quia mirabilia fecit.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	One English translation of which is:
+
+	
      
+	Unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given;
      
+	on whose shoulders the world's dominion rests;
      
+	whose name is;
      
+	He who was sent to us from the great Heavenly Wonder-Counselor.
      
+	
      
+	Sing unto the Lord a new song.  He has made wonders.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	There are two quotes here, one from Isaiah 9:6, the other from Psalm
+	98:1:
+
+	
      
+	For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government
+	shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful,
+	Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	
      
+	O sing unto the Lord a new song; for he hath done marvellous things:
+	his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Whether this particular chant has any bearing on the story, or was
+	just selected because it sounds good, is an interesting question, but
+	a couple rather tenuous connections can be made:
+
+	
      
+	The second verse mentions a "hand" being
+	victorious; recall that Sheridan was told, "You are the hand," in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+
+	
      
+	The fourth issue of the
+	comic series,
+	dealing with Sinclair's appointment to the Minbari homeworld, is titled
+	"The Price of Peace," one letter removed from the description of Jesus
+	above.  (That one is probably just a coincidence.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's also worth comparing Kosh's lessons to his encounter with Talia in
+	"Deathwalker."
+	When she asked what his negotiations meant, he advised her to "listen
+	to the music, not the words" -- advice that might apply to Sheridan's
+	lesson as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The plight of the teddy bear mirrors the story Sheridan told to
+	Delenn; if the bear is really supposed to represent Sheridan, is its
+	fate perhaps a foreshadowing of Sheridan's?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo's mention of "a certain Minbari" lying is probably a reference
+	to Lennier's lie in
+	"The Quality of Mercy."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Centauri expect their dolls to be anatomically correct.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Honour and shame from no condition rise;
      
+	Act well your part, there all the honour lies."
      
+	- Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man" Epistle IV, 1733-34
+
+
      
+   
    •  Possible Ranger sighting: When Vir and Londo are talking in the
+	Zocalo, a man in what looks like a Ranger uniform walks by twice.
+	Once as Vir says, "Centauri Prime is sending a replacement," and
+	again as he says, "It's my problem, not yours."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The bear is from the
+	Vermont Teddy-Bear Company.
+	It's a "twenty inch" with "JS" embroidered on the front and
+	"Bear-ba-lon 5" on the back.  Peter David says:
+
+	
      
+	Specifically, on page 13 of their 1994 Winter Collection Catalogue,
+	they have the Custom Embroidered Bears. Ordered with a baseball shirt
+	and hat (NOT jacket), he's 20 inches high and his
+	fur color is 'Pockets (thick milk chocolate)'...
+
+	
      
+	I should point out that ordering the bear for Joe was my wife's idea.
+	She's a big bear fan. At present she's hard at work on a
+	Minbeari...
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  So after I'd read Peter's script, and decided to go with it, he
+	asked about Ivanova's line, "This isn't some kind of Deep Space
+	franchise, this place is ABOUT something."
+	
      
+	"Are you really going to use that?" he asked.
+	
      
+	"Absolutely," I said.  "It's fall-down funny."
+	
      
+	Long pause.  "You people really ARE dangerous over there, aren't you?"
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the scene in the dark with the robed figures was not enhanced
+	with CGI or any other device.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Everything featured in the Babylon Emporium was just made up by us.
+	Insofar as I know, none of it is real merchandise.  (Everyone, 
+	including the crew, are so starved for B5 stuff that when we finished 
+	filming the ep, we sold off the stuff, at cost, to those in the crew
+	who wanted them.  Two guesses who wound up with the Londo and G'Kar 
+	dolls....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The B5 model in the gift shop in "Honor" is now in Sheridan's office, 
+	bronzed, as is his right as captain.
+	
      
+	Once the show is finally off the air, be assured that the model will 
+	end up in THIS captain's office.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Here's the story of the bear.
+
+	
      
+	I hate cute.  Everybody knows me, knows that.  So after buying Peter
+	David's script #2, Peter sends me a gift.  A bear.  A teddy bear.  With
+	my initials JS in front, and Bear-ba-lon 5 in the back.  I call Peter
+	back.  I say that I must now get him for this.  He asks what I had in
+	mind.  I said wait and see.
+
+	
      
+	So I wrote the entire bear thing at the end of the show, and inserted
+	it into his script.
+
+	
      
+	Never send me something cute.
+
+	
      
+	Best part was during filming, we shot the bear against blue-screen
+	to be composited into the CGI.  And there's our EFX supervisor, standing
+	there on film, against blue-screen, with this long rod up the teddy
+	bear's ass, spinning it round and round and round....
+
+	
      
+	Whilst doing that, I also wrote and inserted the Kosh/Perfect Beauty
+	scenes, since I was already in it at that point anyway, and I figured
+	it'd be cool.
+
+	
      
+	It also keeps the Sheridan Learning Stuff thread going, and works in
+	a nice balance to the rest of the episode.  Here he's going nuts, being
+	harrassed, and his command is on the line...so he has to learn to bend
+	his knee, accept silence, give up his command symbolically by giving up
+	the stat bar, and finding one perfect moment of peace.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Kosh asking Sheridan "what is this place?" was more for
+	his benefit than Kosh's, to underline where they were, and what he was
+	about to experience even in such a place.  Also, in psychotheraputic
+	terms, specifically dream analysis, when you travel to your cellar in
+	your dream, it's in part to confront something in your subconscious, to
+	learn something that may not be expressable in words.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, he did send a fake distress call, and took out the Black Star
+	when it came in to (they thought) wipe out a disabled ship.  He's never
+	denied this to anybody.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan sent an EA distress
+	signal; the Minbari were in genocidal mode, so it didn't matter to them
+	the condition of their enemy.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Narn and Centauri;
+an ISN reporter covers the story and tours the station.
+
+
+Kim Zimmer as Cynthia Torqueman.
+Christopher Curry as Senator Quantrell.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Introduction/Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.43
+
+Production number: 214
+Original air date: May 3, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mario DiLeo
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Narn homeworld was invaded by the Centauri around 2110.  The
+	occupation lasted for approximately 100 years.
+
+   
    •  G'Kar joined the resistance after his father was executed by the
+	Centauri.
+
+   
    •  41% of Earth Alliance citizens feel that Babylon 5 isn't worth the
+	time and expense.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri have been using the space around the station as a
+	transfer point for weapons for the war effort.
+
+   
    •  Over 250,000 humans died during the Earth-Minbari War.
+
+   
    •  Back on Earth, the Clark government has formed the Office of Public
+	Information and the Ministry for Public Morale -- both very Orwellian
+	names.  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  Senator Hidoshi, Sinclair's main Senate contact in season one, is no
+	longer in office.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan received the EarthForce Silver Star for valor
+	during the Earth-Minbari war.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  How long have the Centauri been using Babylon 5's space to move
+	weapons?
+
+   
    •  Will the news report affect the public's perception of Babylon 5,
+	and if so, will the station become more popular or less?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Delenn's emotions seem to come to the surface much more readily now
+	than they did before her change.  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Earth-Minbari War wasn't very devestating at all in terms of
+	loss of life.  250,000 dead is tiny compared to, for example, the
+	tens of millions killed in World War II.  Since most of the war
+	was probably fought in space, in ships with relatively small crews,
+	that's understandable -- in fact, that many dead probably means
+	that Earth's combat fleets were nearly eliminated in their
+	entirety -- but the war seems to have had an impact on
+	Earth far greater than warranted by human losses.  Human pride may
+	ultimately have been the bigger casualty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The fact that the Narn cruiser destroyed a similarly-sized Centauri
+	ship in a one-on-one battle suggests that the two are fairly evenly
+	matched technologically.  If the Centauri are indeed crushing the
+	Narn military, as denied by G'Kar, they must have far superior
+	numbers, or frequent help from the Shadows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One reason for keeping Babylon 5 around was conspicuously absent
+	from Senator Quantrell's list: the planet below the station is one
+	of the most strategically valuable places in the known galaxy,
+	considering what lies beneath its surface (cf.
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+	Given that the planet's contents were entrusted to the Babylon 5
+	Advisory Council, it's in everyone's best interest to keep the
+	station up and running.
+
+	
      
+	Earth would probably prefer to keep the planet a secret to keep people
+	from trying to take it (and Babylon 5), so it makes
+	some sense that Quantrell didn't mention it; but given the battle
+	that took place over control of the planet, it must be a poorly-kept
+	secret at best.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  "Subliminal" text during the Psi Corps ad: "The
+	Psi Corps is your friend.  Trust the Corps."
+
+
      
+   
    •  When present-day fighter pilots kill targets with weapons, they say
+	"Fox one" over their tactical radio frequency when they
+	use radar-guided missiles, "Fox two" when they
+	use heat-seeking missiles,
+	"Fox three" for smart missiles, and "Fox four" (or
+	"Guns, guns, guns") for a kill with guns.
+
+	
      
+	Someone during the battle said "Fox five," suggesting
+	a kill with some other sort of weapon.  ("Fox five" is also used
+	for lighthearted remarks about midair collisions during dogfights!)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Interplanetary Expeditions, which has a brief ad at the beginning of
+	the episode, is the same firm that financed Dr. Hendricks' dig on
+	Ikara 7 in
+	"Infection"
+	-- in which it was discovered to be a front for a bio-weapons supplier.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Note the pine-tree air freshener on the bridge
+	of the Heyerdahl during the teaser.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Heyerdahl is probably named for Thor Heyerdahl, whose Kon-Tiki
+	expedition attempted to prove that South American natives could have
+	populated some South Pacific islands.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "And Now for a Word," will, I
+	think, be very popular, and to my knowledge does something that has
+	never been done in SF television before.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Speaking of which...on Monday I turned in a script called "And Now For a
+	Word."  It's probably the most unusual episode to date...so much so
+	that I was very concerned about Warners approving it, and indicated in
+	my letter (which explained why it was done, and why it should be
+	produced) that I wouldn't be putting in for a script payment until I
+	knew they would accept it and let us make it.  Finally heard back
+	today that they've approved it.  This will be shot as episode 214, and
+	what you've just read is ALL I intend to say about this script between
+	now and shortly before it airs in May.  (Though when we cast the guest
+	star, which we're in the process of selecting now, that I'll be able to
+	announce.)  It's not controversial per se, but does take our entire
+	show and put it on its head for the entire hour.  (I also had to make
+	sure we *could* physically produce the darned thing prior to turning
+	in the script.) No speculation, please; just let it be what it is, and
+	see it cold.
+
+
      
+   
    •  For those who've been nudging other folks to try out B5, you may want
+	to tell them that this coming batch of eps is probably the best time to
+	dive in.  In particular, our second new show (airing the first week of
+	May) is designed in part to help new viewers coming to the show to catch
+	up on background.  (No, not a clip show, or anything like that...I think
+	you'll like it.)  I also *strongly* recommend that you videotape this
+	episode, entitled "And Now For a Word."  There's something in there just
+	(or primarily) for the videotapers.  Consider this a heads-up from the
+	inside.  You'll know what it is when you sorta see it.  (See
+	Notes)
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a thing you do in theater training where you're told to talk
+	about a subject, never use the word "I" ...but in the end wind up
+	telling us more about *you* than the subject you're speaking about.  So
+	I began to wonder if I could apply this exercise, in a limited way, to
+	an episode of the show.  I can't say more than that without spoiling
+	things, but suffice to say you learn a lot about all kinds of people,
+	and the way you learn it says a lot about those involved.  It's a
+	*very* subversive and tricky episode, and I *very* much suggest taping
+	it, so you can go back and check something out later.  You'll know
+	what.  If you don't, you'll kick yourself later.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: the FCC...what we did in the commercial was totally legit.  We
+	researched and found that the FCC considers a subliminal to be 2 frames
+	per second (out of the standard 24).  So we made the blip 4 frames
+	total.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The device of using a reporter's appearance
+	to go to another POV is
+	not new to either B5 or MASH (though B5 is first to use it in SF).
+	Where I would draw the distinction is in the sense that "Word" is
+	actually very subtly subervsive.  It's ostensibly about B5 (the
+	broadcast itself) but you learn a LOT about Earth in the process...how
+	the government wants the Mars situation interpreted ("an Earth-loyal
+	population held hostage by a violent minority"), the government
+	changing back home (suddenly we have an Office of Public Information
+	and a Ministry for Public Morale), how they see the end of the Minbari
+	war, and so on.  It's designed to show more than just who's being
+	interviewed; you reflect home as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The battle shouldn't have been audible in the station, right?
+	
      
+	Except, of course, that you have a space batttle going on right
+	outside B5, and explosions barely feet from the hull, plus debris
+	hitting the shell of the station and making it ring, so you're going to
+	hear stuff.  When the oxygen tank outside the main living area in
+	Apollo 13 blew, it sounded like a bomb going off.  It happens.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jeffrey Smith: your analysis of Delenn is dead-on...I don't quite
+	think she really understood what was required of her, and what would
+	happen; I think she believed it would go somewhat other than it has,
+	which has given her pause, she's rattled, alone and realizing the
+	magnitude of what is before her, and her choice to undergo the
+	chrysalis.  And that is EXACTLY the core of a huge Delenn episode in
+	the last part of this season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did the battleships keep missing each other?
+	
      
+	Actually, all sides in battle use ECM (Electronic Counter Measures)
+	to throw off the targeting systems on the "enemy" vessels.  But usually
+	it only takes a couple of quick firings to compensate (which is what
+	we've done).
+
+
      
+   
    •  New Vegas is on Mars.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The reporter didn't talk to Talia because the story wasn't about
+	what it's like to be a telepath.  That's a different story.  This was
+	about B5 and those who run it.  Talia doesn't directly work for B5,
+	she's employed by the Psi Corps.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Torque- part of her name came from Torquemada, that's correct. 
+	Just seemed appropriate since we were shortly doing an episode with an
+	inquisitor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  After we made initial contact with aliens, first being the Centauri,
+	there were a lot of disruptions to the social and religious and
+	political paradigms, many of which are whole stories unto themselves.
+	There was also a lot of paranoia running around.  Earthdome was
+	constructed in Geneva to be more or less impervious to an initial
+	assault from other races, should any come.  (It was really something
+	of a fiction, the way the star wars defense program might not have
+	been really effective, but the theory was to protect the seat of
+	Earth government.)  So it dates back about a hundred years.  (And
+	it's NOT in the middle of a blasted heath; that was done in the comic
+	by the inker, who should've colored it a nice green.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Whoever thought up the idea of *security cams* for FX shots...."
+	
      
+	That's how it was scripted.
+
+
      
+   
    •  G'Khamazad.
+    
+	
      
+	And G'Quon's primary follower/co-prophet was G'Lan.
+     
+	
      
+	Remember that name.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's also worth noting that this was likely Delenn's first real
+	encounter with Earth media/reporters on this level.  She's never been
+	put into such a situation before, being challenged on-screen, which
+	would be the height of disrespect back home.  (We refer to her desire,
+	after this, to learn more about the press in a later episode this
+	season.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Very few have noted the play on the title.  The usual complete phrase
+	is, "And now for a word from our sponsor."  So what was the only
+	sponsored commercial shown (in the 2259 version)...?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Interplanetary Expeditions was the bogus company from
+	"Infection."  Is it more than just a throwaway here?
      
+	Yeah, I'd say it's fair to say that you haven't heard the last of
+	Interplanetary Expeditions.  Remember the rule: before you use the gun,
+	you show it on the mantle.  You play fair.  And create the context in
+	which the payoff later works.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How can "Word" be a commentary on current allegations of bias (which
+	I think are out of all proportion) since the media is now supposedly
+	anti-government (nonsense), and the newscast in "Word" was more than
+	just a bit spoon-fed government propaganda?
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Z'ha'dum" has only been seen by a few people at this early stage, but
+	folks like it.  The big one, though, is really "And Now for a Word,"
+	which has gotten more responses from crew, cast and others than any 
+	other script to date.  From top to bottom, everyone is absolutely 
+	excited about it.  It's going to be a very challenging shoot, but the
+	result, I think,will be worth it.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan discovers a connection between Morden and the death of his wife.
+The station is inundated by Narn refugees.  A new Earth Alliance agency
+tries to recruit station personnel.
+
+
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 9.30
+
+Production number: 217
+Original air date: May 10, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Delenn and Kosh tell Sheridan about the Shadows and the Vorlons:
      
+
+	
      
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either of
+	our races.  Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants.
+	Vast, timeless... they taught the younger races, explored beyond the
+	Rim, created great empires.  But to all things, there is an end.
+	Slowly, over a million years, the First Ones went away.  Some passed
+	beyond the stars, never to return.  Some simply disappeared.
+
+	
      S:
+	
      
+	I'm sure this is all very interesting, but what does any of this
+	have to do with Morden?
+
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	Not all of the First Ones have gone away.  A few stayed behind.  Hidden
+	or asleep, waiting for the day when they may be needed.  When the
+	Shadows come again.
+
+	
      S:
+	
      
+	Shadows?
+
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	We have no other name for them.  The Shadows were old when even the
+	ancients were young.  They battled one another over and over across a
+	million years.  The last Great War against the Shadows was ten thousand
+	years ago.  It was the last time the ancients walked openly among us.
+	The Shadows were only defeated, not destroyed.  A thousand years ago,
+	the Shadows returned to their places of power, rebuilt them, and began
+	to stretch forth their hand.  Before they could strike, they were
+	defeated by an alliance of worlds, including the Minbari and the few
+	remaining First Ones who had not yet passed beyond the veil.  When
+	they had finished, the First Ones went away.  All but one.
+
+	
      S:
+	
      
+	There's still one of them left.  Where?
+
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	(indicates Kosh, to Sheridan's great surprise) That is why Kosh cannot
+	leave his encounter suit.  He would be recognized.
+
+	
      S:
+	
      
+	Recognized?  By who?
+
+	
      K:
+	
      
+	Everyone.
+
+	
      D:
+	
      
+	For centuries the Vorlons stood alone, the last remaining guardians.
+	Watching and waiting.
+
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's question to Kosh (cf.
+	"Chrysalis")
+	was, "Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?"
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Icarus, an Earth exploration vessel carrying Anna Sheridan, arrived
+	at Z'ha'dum in late 2256 (see
+	Analysis.)
+	A landing party, exploring a cave, inadvertently
+	discovered the Shadows, awakening them.  The Shadows destroyed the
+	Icarus so its crew could not return to warn others, and killed the
+	crewmembers who wouldn't cooperate.  Morden was one of the crew.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn and Kosh knew about the reawakening of the Shadows immediately --
+	maybe even witnessed it somehow as it was happening.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Earth government has formed a new agency, the Ministry of Peace
+	(nicknamed "Minipax" by its employees,) with the alleged goal of
+	helping reduce internal tensions among the EA's populace.  Its first
+	visible action was to establish a program called the Night Watch,
+	paying people 50 credits a week to wear black armbands and report
+	suspicious people to the authorities so that troublemakers can be
+	reformed before they disrupt the peace.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Is Sheridan's wife still alive?
+
+   
    •  What is the Ministry of Peace really up to?
+
+   
    •  Will Talia join?
+
+   
    •  Similarly, what significance is there in the fact that Delenn narrated
+	Sheridan's vision?  Was she sharing it with him, or had she seen it
+	before?
+
+   
    •  What kind of information did Morden bring for Londo?
+
+   
    •  What, if anything, happened to the ship that originally discovered
+	the ruins on Z'ha'dum?  Someone must have discovered them before the
+	Icarus' arrival, since the crew of the Icarus knew they were going
+	to explore an ancient civilization.
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Delenn's opening remarks about the First Ones bear a striking similarity
+	to G'Kar's comments about the beings at Sigma 957 (cf.
+	"Mind War.")
+	Could those beings also be First Ones?  If so, are the Vorlons aware
+	that they are still around in some form?
+
+   
    •  Her remarks also echo her comments about humans in
+	"Babylon Squared"
+	-- suggesting that she believes humanity has the capacity to eventually
+	rival the First Ones.
+
+   
    •  Delenn stated that all but one of the First Ones have gone away, and
+	that the last one is Kosh.  But does she mean that only one race
+	remains, or only one individual?  Or is there a difference where
+	Vorlons are concerned?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  If Kosh would be recognized by "everyone" because (as implied by Delenn)
+	his race had once walked openly among lesser ones, it's plausible that
+	Kosh may resemble something from legends thousands of years old -- an
+	angel, perhaps, since the Shadows bear some resemblance to demons and
+	Kosh's suit seems to have room for wings.  This would tie in with
+	Kosh's statement in
+	"Hunter, Prey"
+	that Sheridan must be ready "to fight legends" before Kosh will reveal
+	himself -- otherwise he'd be mistaken by some as a divine being rather
+	than an alien.  Of course, angels and demons are far from the only
+	figures in the human pantheon, let alone alien mythology, and Kosh
+	may be something else entirely.
+
+   
    •  Or the encounter suit may allow Kosh to control who gets visions like
+	Sheridan's; if he took it off, everyone who tried to look at him would
+	see something different, something personal.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+	This brings up a potential connection to the flashes in
+	"Babylon Squared";
+	perhaps the Vorlons were involved in Babylon 4's time travel, and
+	the flashes were a side effect of that.
+
+   
    •  Why did Delenn demand to see Kosh in
+	"Chrysalis"
+	before she was willing to undergo her change?  She seems to know enough
+	about Vorlons that she would have had some idea what he looked like.
+	Did she simply want to verify that Kosh was one of the First Ones
+	mentioned in the Minbari history books?  Or does his appearance have
+	something more directly to do with her wanting to become partially
+	human?  That's assuming he was showing himself to her at all, rather
+	than sending her a dream sequence.
+
+   
    •  How did Kosh know what happened on Z'ha'dum?  Or was he just inventing
+	the scene he showed Sheridan based on what he figured must have
+	happened?  Perhaps he gleaned it from his meeting with Morden in
+	"Signs and Portents,"
+	though Delenn claims she and Kosh have known about it for the past
+	three years.
+
+   
    •  The Icarus expedition
+	seems to have set forth in late 2256.  In
+	"Revelations,"
+	which is set in early 2259, Sheridan's sister says that it's been
+	two years since Anna's death.  In this episode, Delenn implies that
+	the Shadows were awakened three years earlier.  Late 2256 makes sense
+	if both of them were rounding.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows on Z'ha'dum may have been awakened in 2256,
+	but they weren't the first.  The creature in
+	"The Long Dark"
+	awoke during the Earth-Minbari War and was headed for Z'ha'dum.
+	What caused it to wake up before its masters did, assuming its
+	masters are the beings the Icarus discovered?
+
+   
    •  Delenn's question was, "Have the Shadows returned to
+	Z'ha'dum?"  That implies they were elsewhere; if so, where?  Perhaps
+	the same thing that drew the abovementioned creature to Z'ha'dum
+	also drew the Shadows there.  In that case, they may have already
+	been awake before the Icarus arrived.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan let Morden go so he wouldn't suspect that his true nature
+	is known.  But the damage may already be done; Morden and his
+	associates are likely to be suspicious of his sudden release.
+	The reason given to Morden -- "it was all a mistake" -- is going to
+	seem especially suspicious; "the Centauri asked for your release"
+	or "you're right; we can't hold you without charges" seem like they
+	would have been better excuses.  Of course, the latter may be what
+	Zack told Morden.
+
+   
    •  The Night Watch armbands seem more a tool of terror than of peace,
+	reminiscent of the armbands worn by Nazis and other tyrannical
+	regimes, a constant reminder to everyone that they're under
+	observation.  The program seems designed to cause people to turn in
+	their neighbors, and it's probably naive to believe that people
+	accused of suspicious behavior (or worse, suspicious "attitudes")
+	will simply be put into therapy and
+	released shortly thereafter.  Combined with the Ministry of Public
+	Morale (cf.
+	"And Now For a Word")
+	it suggests the Clark government is more interested in keeping the
+	citizenry under its thumb than anything noble.
+
+   
    •  If it's true that the Night Watch considers thoughts dangerous, they
+	may well be involved with Psi Corps somehow; certainly it would make
+	sense for them to try to involve telepaths in rooting out undesirables.
+	Or, perhaps more likely, they're simply another of Psi Corps'
+	machinations.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows aren't the only ones inhabiting places of power.  Londo
+	observed that the technomages (cf.
+	"The Geometry of Shadows")
+	were usually cloistered in their places of power.  And now the
+	technomages are headed for the Rim, or beyond it, because of a great
+	darkness approaching; what do they hope to achieve?
+
+   
    •  Unless the holding cell cameras are very advanced, the Shadows'
+	invisibility is not all that good.  Presumably there are aliens on the
+	station who can see well into the infrared or ultraviolet; the Shadows
+	would be easily detected by such beings in any public area.  Perhaps
+	that's how Kosh knew who Morden was in
+	"Signs and Portents."
+	On the other hand, it may simply be that some aliens have
+	seen the Shadows with Morden, but didn't think them remarkable enough
+	to be worth mentioning; they're probably far from the weirdest-looking
+	creatures walking around the station.
+
+   
    •  Talia was able to detect the Shadows without even trying.  That suggests
+	that telepaths will be a valuable weapon against the Shadows -- which
+	leads to the suspicion that the Shadows are working to co-opt Psi-Corps
+	behind the scenes so human telepaths will be less likely to work
+	against them.  It's not clear whether her ability to sense the Shadows
+	was typical for a P5 telepath, or a result of her enhanced abilities
+	(cf. "Mind War.")
+
+   
    •  It's also worth noting that Talia saw Morden darken the same way Delenn
+	did in
+	"Signs and Portents"
+	-- does this mean Delenn has some telepathic ability?
+
+   
    •  In
+	"Infection,"
+	Franklin says the Ikarans built their war machines to fend off
+	invasions, the last of which was 1000 years ago.  Could they have been
+	participants in the last conflict with the Shadows?  Will the
+	technology obtained by Earth in that episode be used in the upcoming
+	war?
+
+   
    •  Morden's triangular hand placement while he was in his cell is
+	reminiscent of Lennier's meditation posture.  Perhaps there's no
+	connection, or perhaps there is.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  The name "Ministry of Peace" and its abbreviation Minipax are from
+	George Orwell's "1984."
+
+   
    •  The convention mentioned by Talia is probably not the one described
+	in the novel
+	"Voices"
+	because the novel takes place before
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+   
    •  Delenn's narrative bears some resemblance to Gandalf's description of
+	the coming of Sauron near the beginning of the first book of "The Lord
+	of the Rings."  In particular, this passage:
+
+	
      
+	"The rumours that you have heard are true: he has indeed arisen again
+	and left his hold in Mirkwood and returned to his ancient fastness in
+	the Dark Tower of Mordor.  That name even you hobbits have heard of,
+	like a shadow on the borders of old stories.  Always after a defeat
+	and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again."
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" is an
+	episode that is as emotionally raw as
+	"Chrysalis"
+	with some major
+	revelations that force Sheridan to make the most important decision
+	of his life.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct; Delenn and Kosh have said nothing about G'Kar's claims
+	because they're trying to keep a low profile.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The shadows know that Kosh knows, because the Vorlons *always* know;
+	they also know (or think) that they're in a superior position because
+	if Kosh should tell the others, either a) most wouldn't believe him, 
+	or b) the shadows would move aggressively now, costing untold lives.
+	They're more worried about an alliance between lots of races than the
+	Vorlons alone.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I would not create a race as potentially unstoppable as the 
+	shadows without making sure they had one -- but only one -- Achilles'
+	heel.  Though it may take our characters a long time to figure out what
+	that is...almost *too* long....
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, "all but one" refers to the race,
+	not an individual.  The First
+	Ones are various species/races.  One of these species/races is still
+	around at this time.  The Vorlons.  Of which Kosh is one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The rim, and the "veil" beyond which the bulk of the First Ones
+	passed, is the Galactic rim.  As for why the shadows are doing what
+	they're doing...that's kind of the key to the whole thing, which we
+	haven't turned yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Are the First Ones as old as the universe itself?
      
+	Well, to some degree you're limited by the amount of time it
+	takes to evolve life per se, then into intelligent life, then into
+	spacefaring life. You need time after the Big Bang for planets to be
+	formed, cool, develop environments capable of supporting life...then
+	the long haul begins.
+
+	
      
+	So yes, on the one hand, you've got races that are millions of
+	years older than humans, who were prowling around while we were still
+	furred, fanged, and slamming bones together.  But they're not as old as
+	the universe, because they can't be.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Exploration and archeological/scientific vessels like this usually
+	piggy-back on Explorer or other jump-capable ships, with an arrangement
+	that they'll be there for X-number of days or weeks, then another ship
+	will come that way and again piggy-back them out.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  I like Vir a lot.  Many folks were willing to write him off
+	in the beginning, not understanding that there was more beneath the
+	surface (a problem Vir has also had in his "life").  But you gotta be
+	careful; characters have a way of surprising you.  And I like that, and
+	intended that, Vir be the first one to stand up to Morden.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Again, look at the Kosh/Morden scene in
+	"Signs."
+	A light is suddenly blown out off to one side.  Morden didn't move.
+	So who did it...but his constant companions?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh's command to Morden in "Signs"
      
+	His comment would have been addressed to the shadows and their current
+	emissary.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The difference is just in accent.  ZA HA DOOM is the way I pronounce
+	it, but ZA cHA DOOM is also acceptable (from someone who's learned to
+	more or less accept the 47 different ways in which one may pronounce
+	straczynski).
+
+
      
+   
    •  And, as you note, one of things that I like to play with is the 
+	layering of ambiguity.  Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that 
+	we set up two sides: Shadowmen vs. Vorlons, which looks like evil vs. 
+	good.  Fundamentally, I would find that boring.  What you would then 
+	have to do is get into WHY they're doing what they do, and HOW they're 
+	doing what they do.
+
+	
      
+	There is, for instance, the "good" that says, "We know what's best 
+	for you, we'll protect you, nurture you, but you'll do it our way, and 
+	we'll keep you away from ideas and beliefs you shouldn't be exposed
+	to." Okay, maybe that fits one definition of good...but is it?
+
+	
      
+	On the flip side, for instance, there's the "bad" that says "There 
+	must be conflict and death, because it's only through conflict and
+	death that we grow stronger, that we can eventually create an ordered
+	universe.  The gene pool must be kept strong.  To do that, there must
+	be war and strife and death."  Okay, maybe that fits the definition
+	of evil, but is it?
+
+	
      
+	The key, again and always, is that nothing is what it seems on 
+	Babylon 5.  And even if it looks like it IS what it is, you have to 
+	look at WHY it is what it is...and maybe at that point it isn't.
+
+	
      
+	One of the things about this show is that you see as much as 
+	you're willing to see.  You can gloss over it, say, "Okay, these are 
+	the good guys, these are the bad guys."  But the closer you look, the 
+	more you see the shades.  I imagine when the Shadowmen are more fully 
+	revealed, some folks'll think we're going for a basic good/evil 
+	conflict...but believe me, there's a hell of a lot more involved in 
+	it than that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (From a 1993 GEnie message -- presumably we can
+	replace "Sinclair" with "Sheridan" now.)
+
+	
      
+	I've just sat here for five minutes trying to decide how to phrase this
+	and not give something vital away...and it's damn near impossible.
+
+	
      
+	(another five minutes passes)
+
+	
      
+	Okay, look...do this.  Get a piece of paper.  Write down the following:
+	"Sinclair sees the hand, but Sinclair does not see the hand.   And
+	five other people standing in the room would not see the hand that
+	Sinclair sees, or see the hand that they see."
+
+	
      
+	I know it looks like gibberish.  But trust me on this.  Put the piece of
+	paper in your wallet (next to the condom) and hold onto it for about two
+	years.  Assuming we're still around that long, at some point that
+	message will make absolute and perfect sense.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no less and
+	no more.  At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* like what he
+	appears to be.
+
+	
      
+	These are not contradictory statements.
+
+	
      
+	And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the subject,
+	believe it or not.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think it would be just about impossible to put Kosh on the outside
+	of a mug.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Exactly.  You will note that Macabee says, of the Ministry, "...or
+	Minipax, as we like to call it around the office."  It's an in-house
+	joke, not the real name of the thing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the two speeches by G'Kar and Delenn...yes, they were constructed
+	specifically to echo one another, because the walkers at Sigma 957 are
+	one of the older races that flit through but don't really pay any
+	attention to us anymore.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh is a Vorlon.  The Vorlons fought the Shadows.  There are many 
+	Vorlons, back home.  (The Writer committed an error in that he used 
+	too many pronouns in that segment of dialogue.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Kosh's line about Sheridan going to Z'ha'dum a warning or a
+	threat?
      
+	Yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How do you get a shot of Morden's head on a pike past the censors?
+	
      
+	Easy.
+	
      
+	You frame the shot so the head is draped...in shadows.
+	
      
+	If I were to be planning such a thing, of course....
+
+
      
+   
    •  MPs (Military Police) also wear armbands.  So do the Red Cross and some
+	United Nations forces.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  How many times did you shoot the scene with Talia slapping
+	Sheridan?
      
+	Only twice.  Mainly 'cause she tended to whack him real hard.
+	[...]
+	The take you see is the first one printed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  He said stop because Zack had found the right wavelength (at least
+	briefly) and didn't want him to go further and lose it again.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will Vir, even metaphorically, get to wave at Morden?
      
+	That would be telling.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the Great Machine inside Epsilon 3 built by a member race of the
+	First Ones?
      
+	Could be.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, Varn was not one of the First Ones.
+
+
    
+
+
    Bruce Boxleitner speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Bruce: what has the most challenging episode been for you so
+	far, and why?
      
+	The episode we just finished filming today.
+	It's called In the Shadow of Za'Ha'Dum and my character deals with
+	some very personal issues.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An old acquaintance requests Londo's help.  Sheridan is plagued by visions
+nobody else can see.
+
+
+Carmen Argenziano as Urza Jaddo.
+William Forward as Refa.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama/Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 7.21
+
+Production number: 216
+Original air date: May 17, 1995
+
+Written by Larry DiTillio
+Directed by Stephen Posey
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In his youth, Londo was a swordfighter of no small repute, and House
+	Mollari was one of the most well-respected in the Republic.
+
+   
    •  Earth Force has confiscated all the files on the Babylon 4 incident (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared,")
+	but Garibaldi had the foresight to make a copy first.
+
+   
    •  Refa and his associates on Centauri Prime are consolidating their
+	power by having their political opponents declared traitors.  Some
+	of those opponents are well aware of his involvement in the
+	assassination of the Prime Minister (cf.
+	"The Coming of Shadows.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was the creature?  Was it involved somehow in Babylon 4's
+	movement through time, or did it just happen by Sector 14 after the
+	fact?
+
+   
    •  Will Londo's support of Urza have an effect on Refa's plans?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The fact that there's still a spacetime rift of some sort in Sector
+	14 suggests that it may be possible to travel freely back and forth
+	between 2259 and whenever the creature came from.  Unless, of course,
+	the creature was involved in Babylon 4's time travel; in that case,
+	its presence may have caused the rift to reopen.
+
+   
    •  Londo believes he has a destiny to fulfill.  What exactly does he
+	think it is?  Is it based in part on his dream? (cf.
+	"The Coming of Shadows")
+	Or is it a more general notion of bringing the Centauri back to power
+	with the help of Morden, without any specific role for himself?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The names of the last Centauri Emperor and Prime Minister, Turhan and
+	Malachi, respectively, just happen to be the first names of the
+	actors who played those roles in
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi and Sheridan were getting a large number of foul balls on
+	the baseball diamond.  Since the station is spinning,
+	the Coriolis effect would make playing baseball an interesting
+	proposition, to say the least, especially near the center of
+	rotation -- a high enough ball would pass beyond the axis and
+	land on some other section of the interior, perhaps even the
+	"ceiling!"
+
+   
    •  Visual gaffe: When Londo was knocked down and he dropped his
+	sword, the sword fell and skidded on Londo's left, but when
+	he reached for the sword to deliver the fatal blow, it 
+	appeared that he reached to his right.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri method of dealing with traitors -- execution followed by
+	confiscation of property -- is similar to what the Romans used to do,
+	and it apparently has the same effect.  Romans who knew they were about
+	to be convicted of treason often committed suicide to prevent their
+	families' inheritances from being seized.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Actually,
+	Sheridan WAS hitting fair and home run balls in the front
+	of the show; later, though, when he was more rattled, they were all
+	foul.
+
+   
    •  Actually, the chronological order was *supposed* to be "Knives," THEN
+	"Z'ha'dum."  In "Knives" you get the reminder about Anna, then in
+	"Z'ha'dum" you get the payoff.  That was originally how they were
+	intended to be aired, but there was *so much* CGI work and rotoscope
+	work and creature animation involved in "Knives" that it got flopped
+	to second in that order.  So while it works *best* the way it was
+	intended, it still works okay in this order.
+
+   
    •  Correct, the critter in "Knives" was most *definitely* not a
+	Vorlon.
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The outbreak of a fatal disease among the Markab population prompts a panic on
+the station; Dr. Franklin races against time to find a cure.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Drama
+P5 Rating: 7.85
+
+Production number: 218
+Original air date: May 24, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Minbari expect Valen, the holy figure who founded the Grey Council
+	a thousand years ago (perhaps during the last conflict with the
+	Shadows) to return some day -- or at least, they have a religious
+	ceremony suggesting so.
+
+   
    •  A deadly virus appeared on an isolated island on the Markab homeworld
+	several hundred years ago, wiping the entire population out.  The
+	inhabitants of the island were known for what was widely considered
+	sinful behavior, and the virus came to be viewed as divine retribution
+	by the Markab.
+
+   
    •  Dr. Franklin visited the Markab homeworld once while he was hitchhiking
+	on starships in his youth.
+
+   
    •  Keffer has been taking trips into hyperspace in his spare time, looking
+	for the mysterious ship (a Shadow ship) he saw in
+	"A Distant Star."
+
+   
    •  When Delenn was a small child, she was separated from her parents in
+	an unfamiliar Minbari city.  Eventually she found refuge in an old,
+	apparently unused, temple, where she waited for hours.  Then, just
+	before her parents found her, she saw a vision of a figure, bathed
+	in light, who told her, "I will not allow my little ones to come to
+	harm in this place."
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Was the virus created artificially?  If so, who did it and why?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  How many Markab are still alive?
+
+   
    •  What's going on between Delenn and Sheridan?
+
+   
    •  Will someone lay claim to the dead Markab worlds?  Who?
+
+   
    •  Was Delenn's story about the temple true, or just a story to comfort
+	the lost Markab child?  If true, who or what appeared before her? (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  Will the disease spread among the Pak'ma'ra as well, or will Franklin's
+	treatment stop it from wiping them out?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  This episode's plague theme meshes with the story and ritual
+	practice of Passover. The Minbari dinnner ceremony Sheridan, Delenn, and
+	Lennier participate in is a ritualized meal, like Passover: foods must
+	be eaten in a particular order, and a table setting is left for a
+	revered historical figure (Elijah, Valen) who is supposed to return
+	some day. As the Markabs enter the de facto "quarantine" chamber, the
+	Markab ambassador suggests that if they pray and are pure, the plague
+	will "pass over" them -- a parallel with the original passover story,
+	where a certain sign on the house door made a plague attacking the
+	Egyptians pass over the Jews.  Franklin's discussion of the Black Death
+	also mentions how Jews were unjustly accused of spreading the infection.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin appears to have forgotten about the alien healing device he
+	acquired in
+	"The Quality of Mercy"
+	and used on Garibaldi in
+	"Revelations,"
+	which he could have used to help his friend and thus increase
+	the chance of finding a real cure.
+	Or perhaps he knows enough about it now to know that it wouldn't have
+	worked on plague victims for some reason.  (Obviously it wouldn't
+	have been of much use to the Markab population in general, since it
+	only works on one person at a time and only with a donor.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Babylon 5's crew may have inadvertently helped the disease spread
+	when they gathered all the Markab for blood tests; presumably some
+	of the subjects would have remained in their quarters if they
+	hadn't been dragged out and tested in a room full of possible
+	carriers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan presumably ordered Keffer to stop his expeditions because he
+	suspects Keffer's mystery ship is a Shadow vessel.  Will he let
+	Keffer in on that information, or will he continue to keep it to
+	himself and simply let the order stand?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin's frequent use of stims to stay awake while a medical crisis
+	is going on (cf.
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	may spell big trouble for him if he keeps it up.  Doctors on stims
+	are more likely to make mistakes (cf. Dr. Rosen in
+	"The Quality of Mercy")
+	and it appears the Earth medical community doesn't look kindly on the
+	practice of doctors drugging themselves to stay awake -- Dr. Rosen
+	lost her medical license as a result.
+	
+	
      
+	Whatever his good intentions,
+	his obsession with solving everything on his own may lead him into
+	a regrettable situation down the road.  There isn't yet enough evidence
+	to show that he's actually addicted to the stims, though.
+	(See jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's been argued that the Markab did die for their sins --
+	specifically, the sin of pride, by believing that they could keep the
+	disease to themselves and not involve any outsiders.  Had Franklin
+	learned of the disease when it first hit the station, he (or another
+	non-Markab doctor) might well have been able to save a billion lives.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn seems to be coming apart at the seams in many ways, probably as
+	a result of being made a pariah among her people.  If she's telling the
+	truth, or at least part of the truth, about undergoing her change to
+	help draw humans and Minbari closer together (cf.
+	"Revelations")
+	it must be frustrating in the extreme to be reviled by her own kind,
+	and resented by many humans (cf.
+	"And Now For a Word.")
+	Especially if she believes that she's special somehow, a unique player
+	in an immense drama (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+	This, in combination with the influence of her new biology, may explain
+	why she's reaching out to Sheridan now; he at least seems to respect
+	her and relate to her as an equal, and she probably trusts him a lot
+	more now that she sees he can be trusted with one of her biggest
+	secrets (cf.
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.")
+
+	
      
+	Or, of course, she could be planning something.  She's been trying to
+	get closer to Sheridan for quite some time (cf.
+	"A Race Through Dark Places")
+	and this could simply be the next step.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On a similar note, being locked in a room and helplessly watching
+	thousands of people die all around can't be good for Delenn's emotional
+	stability.  It remains to be seen if this will have an impact on her
+	personality; for many people it would be a profound shock.
+
+
      
+   
    •  But Sheridan's statement that Delenn wouldn't be able to come back
+	out if she entered the contaminated area doesn't make sense, given
+	that the plague was known to be airborne; she'd be exposed to it
+	either way, given that the station's air is recycled (as stated in
+	the episode.)  Presumably he was just trying to keep her from going in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The timing of the plague's reappearance, with
+	all the other events going on, is suspicious.  Of course, it might be a
+	simple coincidence, as
+	Franklin suspects, just a dormant disease whose time has come.  But
+	another interpretation is that the outbreak on the Markab island
+	centuries earlier was an early biological warfare test on an isolated
+	population, and the events in this episode were the real attack.  If
+	that's true, who is responsible, and do they have any connection with
+	the approaching Great War?
+
+	
      
+	Note that the Markab did have some contact with the Shadows last time
+	they rose up, as evidenced by the Markab ambassador's speech in
+	"The Long Dark"
+	-- perhaps someone (not necessarily the Shadows; maybe the man at the
+	bar was right) didn't want the Markab around to participate this time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin's cure protects possible victims against attack, rather than
+	eliminating the disease.  B5, with its recycled air supply, now
+	permanently carries the disease, which is dangerous to species with
+	yellow and green blood-cells (or cells that perform a similar function,
+	namely the manufacture of certain neurotransmitters) and might well
+	mutate to endanger
+	others.  This could affect the willingness of alien groups to use the
+	station in the future.  Even species not vulnerable to the disease
+	might keep away just to be safe.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  This episode features a previously unseen alien (or at least, a
+	humanoid who's presumably alien) wearing a suit with an elaborate
+	helmet.  The helmet bears a striking resemblance to the mask of
+	Morpheus, the King of Dreams, from Neil Gaiman's
+	"Sandman"
+	comic book.  As "Sandman" is one of JMS's favorite comics, this may be
+	an intentional homage.
+
+   
    •  "Markab" is Arabic for "boat."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "Confessions" isn't per se a wham episode, for instance, but it does
+	have some very sharp turns, and it's an extremely intense episode on a
+	par with "Believers."  It makes no compromises and takes no prisoners,
+	and I imagine it'll stir up about as much debate as did "Believers," if
+	not more.  When we did playback after doing the audio mix a few days
+	ago, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I would also point out that, upon returning from the Moon, Apollo
+	astronauts were quarantined routinely in case any virus might have been
+	encountered; also, Mars probes today are carefully sterilized prior to
+	launch to prevent any virus from our ecosystem interacting with anything
+	that might be there.  Further, there have been numerous hearings within
+	NASA, and in at least one case in the Senate Science Subcommittee, in
+	which biologists and scientists have expressed concern about the
+	possibility of viral contamination from new species.  So anyone who says
+	this isn't possible simply isn't reading the literature.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Tom, we *do* have a medical/biological advisor, whose primary
+	comment on the notion that a virus couldn't pass between one species
+	and another..."We have yet to contact one other alien life form to make
+	an analysis.  We do not know for a fact that their biology will be
+	radically different than our own.  Until we actually make contact, it's
+	as likely as not."  A biologist works from what's known; unless you've
+	got a specimen of alien life somewhere and aren't showing it to anyone,
+	or you're simply making a guess, which is neither more nor less correct
+	until we have something testable in our hands.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I will not defend the notion that
+	the episode stated that all Americans felt that AIDS was a penalty from
+	god because it never said that.  Ever.  In any way, manner, shape or
+	form.  The problem is that some people are so caught up in the current
+	situation that they lose all sense of perspective.  Fact is, most
+	people DID think that the Black Death was a punishment from God, or the
+	work of the devil, as Franklin says.  The Markabs had a similar belief.
+	Nowhere was that applied in dialogue to humans or the AIDS situation.
+
+	
      
+	The whole point of the episode is NOT political; it says that if you
+	make a disease political on either side, you're gonna die.  You have to
+	set aside all that crap and just Deal With The Problem.  The only "side"
+	this episode took was in advocating compassion for those afflicted.
+
+	
      
+	I have enough just dealing with what's actually *in* my series; don't
+	compound the problem by adding things that you saw only in your own
+	head, and which exist nowhere in dialogue or in the story.  You are
+	adding the template of your own beliefs as an overlay, and seeing this
+	story through it.  That ain't my problem.  If you see this disease as
+	political, that's your lookout.  This show says that ANY attempt to
+	politicize a disease is species-dangerous thinking.  Period.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On one level, this does indicate that we really *are* crazy over here at
+	B5.  Here we developed this race for nearly two years.  Developed their
+	culture.  Mentioned them prominently just last episode.  Had them speak
+	before the full Council (in "Long Dark").  Spent substantial amounts of
+	money making them the biggest single alien group we've got (some of the
+	group shots had 40-50 or more Markabs, all in full prosthetics and full
+	costume)...and now, never to be seen again.
+
+	
      
+	It couldn't be a race we've never seen before, not if it was to have the
+	impact I wanted.  It had to be a group that's been with us from the
+	start.
+
+	
      
+	In Council scenes for the balance of the season, the Markab seat remains
+	empty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "No disease in human history is 100% fatal."
+
+	
      
+	Not correct.  The Black Death was fatal to everyone infected by it.  It
+	was not, as Drafa, 100% contagious, but it *was* about 90% contagious.
+	The Black Death wiped out *three-quarters of the entire European
+	population*.  (Editor's note: not quite true; three-quarters of
+	the population in some areas was wiped out, but the total toll was
+	closer to one quarter -- still pretty devastating.  The mortality
+	rate was high, but some people survived and were immune thereafter.
+	It also hit Africa and Asia.)
+
+	
      
+	Roll that around for a while.  Three-quarters.
+
+	
      
+	The only thing that saved areas of Europe was that there wasn't as much
+	travel then as today between countries; it was reserved for those with
+	enough money to afford it, which were very few.  There were also fewer
+	means of entry; a river and a bridge closed to refugees was often enough
+	to keep people out.  There is now MUCH freer travel.  Had there been
+	freer travel in the 14th century, it's entirely possible that the
+	entire European population might have been completely eradicated, with
+	those few who might've been immune dying from associated diseases,
+	hunger and other problems caused by the presence of the disease.
+
+	
      
+	One person I spoke with at the CDC (Center for Disease Control) said
+	that, hypothetically speaking, the sudden eruption of a disease like
+	this is possible.  How likely depends on various circumstances.  There
+	are, for instance, regions in the Amazon and South America where certain
+	kinds of plant and animal life can only be found; and those specific
+	lifeforms can transfer diseases to humans...diseases that literally
+	melt the flesh off your body, or in another case, cause worm-like
+	infestations to burst through the skin covering the entire body.  (Let
+	me tell you, researching this was just a whole lotta laughs.) They are
+	*highly* contagious.  The only thing that has (so far) prevented a
+	massive outbreak is the fact that by the time you can generally get
+	OUT of these remote areas...you're dead.
+
+	
      
+	A particularly aggressive disease could perform very much like what is
+	described in the episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What Colin misses, obviously, is that not *all* of the markabs are
+	"mindless religious fanatics," in that Dr. Lazarenn was not one, but
+	that was mainly because he had long been exposed to human/outsider
+	ideas, which most of his reclusive people are not.
+
+	
      
+	Second, y'know, I get asked a lot, "Give us ALIEN aliens."  So I do. And
+	then I get gigged because they don't act like we'd expect humans to act.
+	Sometimes I just throw up my hands....
+
+
      
+   
    •  You have to listen a little closer.  The dormancy period is several days
+	to several weeks, as Franklin says; once the disease *comes out of
+	dormancy*, then it kills within about a day.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't think his behavior was boorish at all.  After a very long day,
+	in which (he stated) he hadn't eaten a thing, he sits down in a cross
+	legged position for (if you track the time in the story) 3-5 *hours*,
+	alternately eating and meditating in a small, quiet room...who
+	*wouldn't* fall asleep?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The fighters aren't *inexpensive*, but not hideously costly either.  
+	Also, the pilots like to spend as much time out on patrol as possible,
+	to garner more flight pay.  Keffer's squad was already out earlier (as
+	noted by Sheridan); Keffer chose to stay out a little longer doing a bit
+	of reconnaisance.  Most of the hassle is in prepping the ship for
+	launch, maintainance and so on; once it's out, it's just a matter of a
+	bit more fuel. If he left *strictly* for this purpose, then yeah,
+	they'd nail his butt to the flight deck.  But since he was out anyway,
+	it's not as big an issue.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (Delenn's childhood experience)
      
+	Well, it's about TIME somebody noticed that
+	little exchange in "Confessions and Lamentations."  Sometimes I stick
+	stuff so obviously in the foreground that I'm afraid it's going to be
+	too blatant, and then nobody seems to notice it, looking instead at
+	the tiny stuff in the background.
+
+	
      
+	Unfortunately, all I can say for now is that it is significant to
+	Delenn's character and growth, and her sense of being special, and
+	called into the religious caste.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We joked a few times about having a mass burial for the Markab
+	prosthetics and costumes behind the stage....
+
+
      
+   
    •  A man is shot by a gun.  Now, you can either do a story about the guy 
+	and his life up to the moment he was shot and killed, or you can do a 
+	story about the people who are affected by his death.  The former 
+	story ends kinda fast.  But both are perfectly valid.  The main thrust
+	is how this story AFFECTS our main characters.  Would they have been 
+	more affected if it were the Drazi rather than the Markabs?  No.  It 
+	would've been just the same.  My job is not to sit here and say, "Hmm
+	... do I think audience members like the Drazi or the Markabs more?" 
+	and thus base my decision based on that.  I write my stories based on
+	what's right for the story, period.  In this case, I knew it had to
+	be one of the League races, and in particular, those prosthetics 
+	capable of expressing broad ranges of emotion, potentially sympathetic
+	characters.  The instantly cut out the pak'ma'ra as primary characters.
+	I considered the Drazi, but my sense was that the prosthetics couldn't
+	convey the depth of emotion I needed.   Finally, that led me to the 
+	Markabs.
+
+	
      
+	Enough terrible things happened, and continue to happen, to our major
+	races; best to give them a break and see how they react when it's 
+	someone else.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn and Lennier's exchange after Sheridan leaves
      
+	Isn't it more fun to leave the piece untranslated?  Shouldn't some
+	things be left to the imagination?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Plague stories are trendy these days.
      
+	Next time I will try and locate every other producer in town and
+	see what they plan to produce, so I can plan accordingly.  When I 
+	wrote the episode, Outbreak hadn't been promoted yet or known about,
+	Voyager hadn't aired, ER hadn't told me what they were going to do
+	...if I'd known there would be such a glut...well, I probably 
+	would've done so anyway, because this isn't so much about the plague
+	and saying its' dangerous, but about our attitudes when we are 
+	confronted by this, which really hasn't been dealt with that much in
+	SF.  (And I'm sorry, but don't even *try* to bring the Voyager story
+	into this; the ship is threatened by a cheese contamination?  I almost
+	fell off my chair.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  What you also have to do is step back for a moment and remember that
+	the dinner began prior to Keffer and the rest leaving B5; and was 
+	ending about the time they got back.  Add up the time indicated, and
+	you've got a ritual that has gone on for at LEAST 3-4 hours now, 
+	probably closer to 5-6; seated in a small room, legs crossed, after
+	what was almost certainly a busy day.  Show me somebody who WOULDN'T
+	doze off after a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The alien with a breathing apparatus a "Sandman" reference?
      
+	It's mainly an extrapolation on an alien breather based on WW II
+	style gas masks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Franklin's use of stims here and in
+	"Z'ha'dum;" their disastrous consequences for Dr. Rosen in QoM
+	
      
+	Ah, about time; I was wondering when someone would get around to
+	remembering "Quality of Mercy" in this....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The use of markabs was definitely NOT a reference to Scientology in
+	any way, manner, shape or form.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Lyta Alexander, the station's first telepath,
+returns with a warning that one of Babylon 5's officers is
+an operative for a top-secret government organization. A long-held
+secret of another Babylon 5 officer is revealed.
+
+
+Patricia
+Tallman as Lyta Alexander.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Mystery/Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 8.50
+
+Production number: 220
+Original air date: July 25, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 11, 1995 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Lyta Alexander is part of a secret movement against Psi Corps. She's
+	evidently been a dissident since she probed Kosh (cf.
+	"The Gathering").
+	When Lyta probed Kosh, she felt something she then hid from the years of
+	subsequent interrogations from Psi-Corps.
+	She has been feeling drawn to Vorlon space and has desperately tried to
+	get there. She knows a lot more than she has ever told anyone, including
+	what Kosh is under his suit.
+
+   
    •  Talia Winters was programmed with a 'sleeper' personality by the Psi
+	Corps.  She is probably "Control" (cf.
+	"A Spider in the Web").
+
+   
    •  Ivanova is a latent telepath. She is able to block some scans, knows
+	instantly if someone scans her,
+	can pick up on some feelings, but has never been able to scan anyone
+	except her mother.
+	She claims, though, that her psi rating is
+	"not even a P1." 
+
+   
    •  "Universe Today" has a section called 'Eye on Minbari'
+	which Delenn uses to find out things
+	about her homeworld she might not neccessarily have been told yet,
+	in addition to learning human perceptions of Minbari.
+
+   
    •  Lyta spent some time with Psi Cops as part of her training, but left
+	because she didn't like it and became a commercial telepath instead.
+
+
            
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Exactly how much does Talia's new persona know?  And what will
+	this do to B5 in the future? 
+
+   
    •  Is there really no chance of the old Talia recovering?  If not, what
+	good is the recording Kosh made?
+
+   
    •  How safe is Lyta's escape?  Will Psi-corps get her in the end?  The fact
+	that Kosh let her off the station suggests he's prepared to risk
+	Psi-Corps getting their grubby hands on whatever it is she knows from
+	the scan.
+
+   
    •  What did Lyta see when she asked Kosh to reveal himself?  Something
+	with a halo of light, but what?
+
+   
    •  Dr. Kyle also saw Kosh. Has Psi-Corps learned anything from
+	him that they didn't learn from Lyta?
+
+   
    •  How involved are Sinclair's rangers with the Mars resistance?
+
+   
    •  Was it Talia who attempted to kill Lyta?
+
+   
    •  How did (presumably) Talia get the lights in the security section to
+	go out, being replaced with red backups? And how did she know that she
+	had a chance to hit Lyta? She was being taken from one cell to another
+	on orders passed from Garibaldi to Zack to two ordinary security
+	people. Is Zack implicated in some way, perhaps by way of his
+	involvement in Nightwatch?  It seems conincidental that in
+	the few minutes available an attempt was made on Lyta's life.
+
+   
    •  What about Ironheart (cf.
+	"Mind War")?
+	If he saw "everything," would he not have known about the implanted
+	personality, however deep it was?
+
+   
    •  What will Psi Corps do with Talia now that the Artificial Personality
+	has taken control?
+
+   
    •  Was the 'Control' mentioned by Lyta the same one installed by Bureau 13?
+
+   
    •  Was Garibaldi really faking the transition to an artificial
+	personality?  And does he know more that he's letting on? (see
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  How will Sheridan and Delenn handle the growing feelings in their
+	friendship?
+
+   
    •  Why is Babylon 5 seen to be so important to several unknown
+	individuals/groups, and who are those people?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  Whatever Ironheart did to Talia seems to have enhanced her powers
+	enormously, and she seems to be growing more powerful. Psi Corps, at a
+	minimum, now have the psychic assassin they were trying to create, and
+	potentially much more.  Assuming, of course, that Ironheart's gift
+	wasn't erased when Talia's original personality was destroyed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another possibility is that Talia wasn't destroyed, that
+	Ironheart's gift allowed her to prevent Control from taking over,
+	but she's playing along as a means of continuing her own investigation
+	into what's going on with Psi-Corps (cf.
+	"Spider in the Web.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's choice of articles in Universe Today is a
+	revealing one. This highlights the lack of information she is receiving
+	now that she is no longer a member of the Grey Council.  However, she
+	is learning to gather information from other sources and to "read
+	between the lines" more carefully.  It appears that she is regaining
+	confidence in her abilities.
+
+
      
+   
    •  During the attempted murder of Lyta while she is being transfered
+	between holding cells, we see the hand holding the assailants PPG.  It
+	is wearing a black glove, very similar to those worn by Talia.  However,
+	the lead time between Garibaldi ordering Lyta to be moved, and the
+	attempted assassination appears to be very short.  So how did Talia
+	know when to leave Ivanova's quarters in order to intercept Lyta?  And
+	does Talia know how to kill the main lights in a section?  Three
+	possibilities present themselves:
+
+	
      
+	
        
+	   
      1.  Coincidence.  Talia, under the control of the artificial
+		personality (AP), goes to hunt down
+		and kill Lyta while Ivanova is out getting some air.  The fact
+		that Lyta was being transferred made the attempt much easier.
+		Killing the main lights is knowledge that Talia has but we
+		aren't shown.  However, in
+		"A Spider in the Web,"
+		we are shown that Bureau 13 has cracked the station
+		computer's security, which presumably would allow Talia to
+		discover both Lyta's location and the time of the transfer.
+	
+	
        
+	   
      2.  There is an additional agent provocateur on Babylon 5.  Someone
+		who does have the knowledge of Lyta's movements, and would know
+		how to kill the main lights in a section.  This strongly
+		suggests Garibaldi, but might be Zack or another member of the
+		security staff.  A trigger message is sent to Talia, who then
+		attempts to kill Lyta.
+	
+	
        
+	   
      3.  As above, there is an additional mole on Babylon 5, but it is
+		this individual who knows about Lyta's movements, knows how to
+		short circuit the main lights, and attempts to kill Lyta.  In
+		this case, Talia is innocently caught up in the actions of
+		another individual attempting to protect themselves.  There is
+		additional evidence that might be seen to support this
+		(see below).
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  How does Talia know that Lyta Alexander is aboard Babylon 5?  She may
+	have guessed indirectly from a conversation with Ivanova and done some
+	digging of her own, but Ivanova only asks if Talia knew Lyta - not
+	telling her that she was aboard.  Alternatively, she learnt of this
+	through her PsiCorps contacts.  Or Talia arranged (at the suggestion of
+	the submerged AP) for her quarters to be out of use so that she could
+	be closer to Ivanova.  Once close enough, she could scan Ivanova and
+	learn about the cell group, also learning about Lyta at the same time.
+	When Talia wakes up (finding Ivanova gone) she has no gloves on.
+	Physical contact may be used to intensify mental contact, and Talia
+	might have done this while Ivanova was sleeping.  Talia's new
+	personality indicates that there was an ulterior motive for
+	getting close to Ivanova.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's flashbacks refer to
+	"Deathwalker,"
+	where Kosh uses a ViCaR (or VCR, an individual with an enhanced
+	photographic memory) to conduct a strange negotiation, with Talia
+	monitoring.  A data crystal was also passed to Kosh from the ViCaR, and
+	Talia doesn't know what it contained.  Kosh's comments seem to indicate
+	his awareness of Talia's AP and what will happen when it is activated.
+	So, has Kosh recorded a copy of Talia's personality onto a data
+	crystal? We have already seen that the Earth Alliance has the technology
+	to wipe a personality and build a new one
+	("The Quality of Mercy".)
+	Will this be a way for Sheridan to wipe out the AP and any knowledge
+	that PsiCorps might pick up from Talia? It may not be so easy (see
+	JMS Speaks).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi believed Lyta and her story.  Considering how strongly this
+	goes against his previous behaviour, does he have an ulterior motive? 
+	This may tie in with some of the speculation about Lyta's attempted
+	murder.  See also the following two points.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When Taro Isogi is killed by the modified Free Mars leader
+	("A Spider in the Web"),
+	Control identifies Talia Winters (who witnessed the murder) as
+	someone who should also be eliminated.  Given that Lyta Alexander
+	referred to the (then unknown) sleeper agent as 'Control', can we draw
+	the conclusion that Talia was part of a Bureau 13 operation?  Or are
+	there different sections of PsiCorps treading on each other's toes?
+	It seems unlikely that Talia ordered her own execution, especially if
+	Lyta is right about Control being programmed for self-preservation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi's "faked" personality transition was taken by all the
+	others as being a joke in bad taste. But consider an alternative
+	explanation:  Lyta stated that the AP would say or do anything to
+	protect itself, and Garibaldi was behaving out of character.  He also
+	immediately turned everyone's attention to Ivanova.  Talia was
+	caught unprepared for the sending of the password, but Garibaldi knew
+	that the password would be sent.  Garibaldi knew, or could easily
+	have found out, when Lyta was slated to be moved, so could have pulled
+	the trigger.  And he was ready to bring Talia into the conspiracy,
+	perhaps in order to expose it indirectly.
+	
+	
      
+	However, it is unlikely that
+	two different sleepers would respond to the same password, and the
+	events in the "flashforward" scene in
+	"Babylon Squared"
+	would suggest that Garibaldi's loyalty is not in question.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova was also awake at the time, and unaccounted-for, making her
+	a suspect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How high up the chain of Psi-Corps command does this implanting go?
+	There is every indication the it's above Bester. Twice in the series
+	Bester has suspected and even accused Talia of conspiring against the
+	Corps. Why would he suspect or accuse her of this if he knew he had
+	an ally inside her brain?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Delenn/Sheridan relationship is growing stronger.  Neither Delenn or
+	Sheridan are making a strong attempt to hide their growing trust and
+	respect for each other.  After the events in
+	"Confessions and
+	Lamentations", Delenn has drawn emotional support from Sheridan.
+	Her growing affection for him is something that she clearly shows in
+	her face and actions while they are in the garden talking.  Sheridan
+	also appears to be happy that he has someone who he can turn to who
+	will help him when all around is madness, and is wondering just where
+	all this is leading.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The relationship between Talia and Ivanova is one that will attract
+	much debate.
+	
+	
      
+	At the start of the episode, it seems clear that they are just friends.
+	Talia would not hesitate to impose on Ivanova's sleeping quarters if
+	there were anything stronger.
+
+	
      
+	During the episode, as Ivanova becomes more and more worried about
+	revealing her (limited) telepathic ability, she relies on Talia during
+	the expression of her feelings and doubts.  There is an apparent
+	emotional tension between them that might be interpreted as a "should I
+	make the first move," or as Talia's giving support but hesitating to
+	probe further, and Ivanova's "should I trust her, even though she's a
+	telepath?"
+
+	
      
+	When Talia wakes up in Ivanova's bed, finding her missing, it is
+	tempting to jump to the "obvious" conclusion.  However we know that
+	Ivanova's quarters only has one cot (indicated in
+	"The Long Dark"
+	by Dr.  Franklin.) Of course, Ivanova probably has a sofa/couch that
+	might have been used.
+
+	
      
+	When Ivanova has her final conversation with the dominated Talia, she
+	indicates that it gave Talia the words that would get her close to all
+	Ivanova knew.  Just how much Talia knows about Ivanova is unclear, and
+	we have no indication of just how close in addition to the emotional
+	bond.
+
+	
      
+	Had Ivanova and Talia had a physical relationship then Ivanova might
+	have revealed her latent telepathy ("Do you know what its like when
+	telepaths make love?" in
+	"Mind War".)
+	Since the alternate Talia didn't goad Ivanova about this, then either
+	Ivanova maintained a block, or they didn't have a physical
+	relationship.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova's relationship with her mother is opened up further by her
+	revelation of being a latent telepath, although this is not explored
+	directly.  Since Ivanova could initiate contact with her mother, she
+	could obtain a clear mental as well as physical picture of her mothers
+	deterioration under the PsiCorps telepathic suppression drugs.  The
+	drugs would of course prevent any attempt at contact initiated by her
+	mother, and also of any blocking.
+
+	
      
+	We now have a clearer understanding of how Ivanova developed her strong
+	feelings against PsiCorps, and what she must have overcome in order to
+	establish her friendship with Talia.  This change in Talia (and the AP
+	claiming to have directed the growth of their friendship) may have far
+	reaching effects in her ability to trust again.
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan has now seen a part of his Kosh-induced dream
+	("All Alone in the
+	Night") come true.  In the dream he saw Ivanova with a black raven
+	on her shoulder, and heard her say: "Do you know who I am?"  At
+	what point will other parts of the dream come true? (If they
+	haven't already.)
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did Sheridan let Talia go so easily?  He could have held her on
+	charges of shooting two security guards, if nothing else.  Perhaps he
+	felt that doing so would draw too much attention to his covert
+	activities.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Since a Ranger was involved in smuggling the data crystal to Lyta,
+	Garibaldi may have been warned of her arrival.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn appeared to be turning down closer relations with the Lumati (cf.
+	"Acts of Sacrifice")
+	when Lyta called.  Why?  (Maybe their method of closing treaties is
+	a bit closer than she'd prefer the relations to get.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  JMS says (see
+	jms speaks)
+	that originally, Takashima (cf.
+	"The Gathering"
+	was going to be the plant, and that that
+	part of the storyline was transferred over to Talia with the cast
+	changes between pilot and series.  The other events in "The Gathering,"
+	combined with some revelations from the comic series (cf. comic 8,
+	"Silent Enemies")
+	suggest some disturbing connections.
+
+	
      
+	Psi Corps was working with Minbari dissidents to kill a Vorlon.  The
+	comic has also established a connection between Psi Corps and the
+	Shadows, although this has not yet been seen on screen.  If the comic
+	is to be believed, there is a link through Psi Corps between the
+	Shadows and elements of the Minbari warrior caste.  The effects
+	of that link on the coming war may be quite unfortunate for one side
+	or the other.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Zack is still wearing his "Nightwatch" armband
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	and Garibaldi is a little bemused by it. Clearly he doesn't quite
+	approve of the idea.
+
+   
    •  The Pak'ma'ra have separate toilet facilities.  Oddly, the warning
+	sign next to the door is written, among other languages, in Vorlon!
+	Or at least, in a script identical to that displayed by Kosh's ship in
+	"Hunter, Prey."
+
+   
    •  At least one of the fugitives in the sewers on Mars was clearly a 
+	ranger. The other may not neccessarily have been. Lyta arrived
+	in a shot-up ship and knows that two men died for the information.
+	Obviously she has links with the rangers. 
+
+   
    •  Delenn lies yet again, and is caught immediately.
+
+   
    •  When Delenn is dictating her response to the Lumati, the computer
+	screen shows the text appearing (whether this is Lumati writing or
+	Minbari isn't clear.)  One odd thing about it is that it alternately
+	flows in both directions, up and down, across the width of the
+	screen from left to right.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  "Divided Loyalties" will
+	produce a stunning revelation about one of our major characters.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Pat is nothing less than terrific.  If there was any sense of hesitation
+	in her appearance in "Divided Loyalties," it can be attributed to the
+	fact that she had just given birth to her son something like 4-6 weeks
+	prior, if that much, and this was pretty much her first day back in
+	the saddle.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does the comic series contain spoilers for the series?
      
+	There's only one case of this conflict, so if you want to avoid any
+	spoilers, here's my recommendation: when the last issue of this current
+	story arc comes out, resolving the Mars/Sinclair/Garibaldi thread, pick
+	up that last issue and stick it in a bag until after the first new ep
+	airs in October.  THEN read it.  You'll know it when you find it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The impact of Talia's situation should be the same whether you saw
+	the comic or not.  (And, remember, the idea was that the comic would
+	come out AFTER the remaining year 2 episodes, as a nice little 
+	frisson, not as required data.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: things you don't expect to happen...that's kind of one 
+	aspect I was after here.  By way of comparison....
+	
+	
      
+	There's one great thing about The Shining, despite some other 
+	flaws in the film: they set up Scatman Cruthers (sp?) as the one guy 
+	who understands what's going on...he gets the Shining, he's a
+	potentially heroic character, and when all hell breaks loose, he's the
+	one to get into the snow plow, cross terrible weather, we're all sure
+	he's going to get there and fight the menace... he overcomes weather and
+	nonsense to get there... he blows through the front door, ready for
+	action...  and gets an axe in the middle of his chest and dies.
+	
+	
      
+	I *loved* that, and always kinda wanted to something of that nature, 
+	where you set someone up to be that kind of character, the future, 
+	whatever, then you yank it back and let the audience say, Oh, hell, 
+	NOW what?
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: Talia...look, you've kinda got to look at this the way I do.
+	Stuff happens.  Yes, Talia was hoped for to be a key to the solution
+	of the problem.  (Not the key, but a key.)  But if you do that, every
+	single  time, you become predictable.  It means you, the audience,
+	can relax.   "Well, we know now that Talia will always get through
+	this because she's the one they're hoping for." Suspense: gone.
+	Story: suddenly predictable.  There's no rule that every person who
+	is hoped to help solve the problem in real life is gonna make it to
+	the end or BE that solution.  So if you delete that person, now it's
+	"Oh, hell, NOW what're they gonna do?" which is more intrinsically
+	interesting to me than the other option.
+
+	
      
+	Generally speaking, about once a year, toward the end of the year, I
+	kinda look around at the characters with a loaded gun in my hand, and
+	say, "Hmmm...if I take out *that* person, what happens?  Is there
+	anyone here I can afford to lose?  Would it be more dramatically
+	interesting to have this person alive, or dead?  What is the absolute
+	bare minimum of characters I need to get to the end of the story and
+	achieve what I have to achieve?"
+
+	
      
+	It helps to really remember that this is a *novel*, and uses the
+	structure of a novel.  That means you have to have some real suprises
+	as you go.  Anyone is fair game.  To the question "Why did you get
+	rid of Sinclair?  Why'd you get rid of Keffer?  Why'd you get rid of
+	Talia?   Why'd you get rid of....oh, er, that hasn't happened
+	yet...." there is only one answer: 'cause I felt like it, and 'cause
+	I thought it'd make the story a lot more interesting.
+
+	
      
+	The stories I like best are the ones that ratchet up the tension and
+	the uncertainty inch by inch until you're screaming.  This could
+	apply to any of Stephen King's novels (and recall that a lot of my
+	background is in horror writing).  Mother Abigail in THE STAND was
+	supposed to be their hope for the future.  So in short order she's
+	vulture-food, JUST when she's most needed.  *Because that's
+	interesting*.  It makes you say, "Oh, hell, NOW what?" (Stephen
+	actually does that a lot in his books, and it's a technique I've
+	learned as well.)  Boromir in LoTR was a capable, skilled fighter,
+	deemed absolutely essential to the Company of the Ring...oops, there
+	he is by the tree, full of Orc arrows.
+
+	
      
+	Stuff happens.
+
+	
      
+	Same here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One other thought on Talia...one of the motifes we've played 
+	with from the start was always showing Talia in mirrors...in Race, 
+	in Z'ha'dum and others...always showing the reflection, her opposite, 
+	just to set stuff up on an emotional/symbological level.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In the B5 universe, as a general rule of thumb, people don't just 
+	come back after something like this.  "Talia" has been destroyed 
+	permanently; that's what it said in the episode, and that's the way 
+	it'll stay.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the password?  I'm hideously tempted to say, "Z'ha'dum."
+
+
      
+   
    •  One thing you have to remember is that while Talia is in the opening
+	credits, to Psi Corps she's just one more of many programmed
+	individuals in various places.  The character in "Spider" was a highly
+	valued infiltration unit, with very expensive "parts."  Of the two,
+	Talia would've been far more expendable.
+
+	
      
+	And I don't recall that Control actually issued any death order; it was
+	the Psi Corps/B13 in any event.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Absolutely *nothing* from prior seasons/episodes has been discarded.
+	So if that's your concern...don't worry about it.
+
+	
      
+	In very tense situations, some people feel compelled to somehow break
+	the tension.  Hence, that sequence.  [Garibaldi's "gotcha"]
+
+
      
+   
    •  The problem in trying to keep something mysterious and
+	vague is that sometimes you can outsmart yourself, and get
+	confusing.  The *theory* is that there was the Bureau as Control
+	overall back on Earth; and a minor Control figure on B5.  And
+	Controls are always referred to as "he"regardless of the facts
+	to avoid giving any means of identification to anoutsider based
+	on gender.
+
+	
      
+	So it would be
+
+
                                  BUREAU CONTROL
+            ----------------------|---------------------
+            |                     |                    |
+      Earthdome Control      B5 Control         Minipax Control
      
+
+	
      
+	(That's a breakdown using artificial and not necessarily
+	correct elements, just for illustration.)
+
+	
      
+	It is, however, a confusing bit of terminology, so it's been
+	amended subsequently.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If Talia was Control in "Spider in the Web," why would she order
+	herself eliminated?
      
+	My sense was that the Control part, which sometimes moved
+	at night,  reported that the mission could be jeapordized. 
+	Then B13 gave the order to  eliminate.  Nowhere does it say
+	that Control said the second half of the  sentence.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the hand that fired the PPG a left or a right hand?
      
+	I don't remember offhand; I'll have to check the tape.  (I have a
+	vague memory that it was a right hand originally, flopped to shoot in
+	the other direction.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Not that it just looked better per se, but the gunshots came from 
+	right to left; the gun hand as originally shot fired from left to right.
+	It looked very funky when edited together, like it was going in a
+	different direction than the one it was fired in.  Flopping the shot
+	corrected that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, I wouldn't waste much time on the gun-hand, frankly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About "The Quality of Mercy"
      
+	Yes, part of the reason for the episode was to 
+	set up the notion of an implanted personality as acheivable tech.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Couldn't Ironheart have removed Control?  Was Talia the original
+	personality?
      
+	Control was the construct.  The alternate personality was dormant at
+	the time Ironheart was there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Remember that Ironheart was not seeing Talia under the best of
+	conditions...he was fighting hard NOT to use his abilities, for any
+	reason, because it created mindquakes...he was pulling everything IN.
+	And later he was shot, also not a good position.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does Psi Corps have Talia's gift now?  Isn't that a problem?
+	
      
+	Logically, yes, that would eventually pose a problem.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the new personality formed by modifying Talia's, or was it
+	created from scratch?
      
+	I'd rather let this aspect slide for the moment.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Remember, the *conscious* Talia did none of those things; she would
+	never dream of scanning without permission.  (And in Ivanova's case,
+	remember that she said she knows *instantly* if she's being scanned.
+	Note her strong reaction in "Eyes" when it happens.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Talia v 1.0 would not have violated Ivanova's privacy during any kind
+	of intimacy, as that would violate her profoundly; you can hold back,
+	and Talia would have, and Ivanova would've sensed if she had tried it.
+	The theory on telepaths making love is that they both willingly drop
+	the blocks they normally keep in place.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The real Talia was becoming more and more disenchanted with PC, and
+	this was in time going to pull her into resistance activities, which
+	Talia v2.0 would only be *thrilled* about.  The self-protection
+	mechanism only kicks in when the personality's existence is threatened.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did they kick Talia off the station?
      
+	Because the longer she was there, the more she'd discover (was about to
+	enter into Sheridan's cell group in fact), and the more damage she'd
+	be able to do.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Oh, to be sure, they'd have preferred to have Talia accidentally fall
+	out an airlock rather than turn her over to the Corps...but that's cold
+	blooded murder, and if they go that route, then there's no difference
+	between them and their opposite number.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Lyta sense Ivanova's talent?
      
+	A non-telepath can learn certain tricks to make it harder to break
+	through, albeit briefly, so the reaction was sufficiently ambiguous and
+	the event sufficiently brief that it wouldn't raise too many concerns.
+	Which is why Sheridan dived in when he did; if she'd continue to block
+	much longer, just instinctively, it would've revealed her latent
+	potential.  It was his distracting Ivanova that in a sense helped Lyta
+	break through.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Could Ivanova sense when someone else was being scanned?
      
+	No, that she wouldn't really be capable of doing at her present level.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of *course* the telepath issue will have to be dealt with; this is a
+	logical progression of the story, no?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the plant
+	originally going to be Laurel Takashima (cf.
+	"The Gathering")?
      
+	Mike: your assessment is pretty much correct.  Laurel was to be the
+	traitor initially; as I noted long, long time ago, and you quoted, she
+	was not, in fact, acting entirely under her own volition.  There would
+	indeed have been an implanted personality there, acting without even
+	her knowing about it.  And it would've been this implanted personality
+	that would've shot Garibaldi.
+
+	
      
+	When I took Laurel off the board, elements of this were transferred
+	to other characters.  This is the kind of thing I mean when I say that
+	even with changes here and there, the story continues to go where I
+	want it to go.  We don't necessarily remember *which* general put the
+	briefcase with a bomb next to Hitler's chair in the bunker, only that
+	it got done.  Some chairs are moveable, some are not, as anyone who's
+	ever written a novel from an outline can tell you...you start moving
+	the chairs around, but you always keep going where you're going.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, originally it was the Kosh-scan that would've gotten Lyta in
+	trouble; the TK aspect was originally going to come in from another
+	angle, but I was able to collapse the two in Talia, and then bring Lyta
+	in from a different direction, as you'll see in one of the first batch
+	of new year 3 eps.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was a kiss between Ivanova and Talia edited out?
      
+	Nope, no such scene was cut.  It's just a slightly awkward 
+	match in the edited shots.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, nothing was cut; we had a matching problem at one point in the edit,
+	where Andrea reached with her left hand in one angle, and didn't reach
+	out with the other, and we had to come around for the shot on Ivanova,
+	so it looked a tick off.  But nothing was cut.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We will see Lyta again.
+
+	
      
+	RE: alternate lifestyles...I said when stuff happened, we wouldn't make
+	a big deal out of it, it'd just be there...and I said we'd address it in
+	our own way, in our own time.  We've done a bit here, we'll do a bit
+	more down the road.  I won't give you or anyone a timetable; I'll do
+	stuff as the integrity of the story permits, not sooner, not later.  I
+	will not allow this to become a political football.  If you do nothing,
+	folks yell at you for ignoring it; if you do a little, they yell for
+	not doing more; if you do more, they yell for not doing it sooner.
+	Screw it.  I do what the story calls for, as the story calls for it.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  See, here's where I start to have a problem.  For starters, I don't do
+	any thing to be politically correct, or politically incorrect, I do
+	what I do in any story because that's what the story points me
+	toward.  Anybody who says "It's not necessary" isn't entitled to that
+	judgement, frankly; you don't know what's necessary to the story.  And
+	by framing it in the  "is this NECESSARY?" way is designed to make you
+	defend your position when such defense isn't the point; is it
+	NECESSARY to have humor? to have a romance? to have correct science?
+	No, *nothing* is NECESSARY.  It's what the writer feels is right for
+	that scene, that story, that character.
+
+	
      
+	"Oh, well, I saw it, but was all that violence NECESSARY?"  This is,
+	frankly, a BS observation usually offered by someone with an agenda,
+	who wishes to invalidate the notion of an artistic view and impose
+	some kind of quota, or objective criterion to what is and isn't
+	necessary for a movie or film.  As far as I'm concerned, the first
+	person to throw this into a discussion has, frankly, just lost the
+	argument.
+
+	
      
+	Point the second: one of the most consistent comments I get, in email
+	and regular mail, is the spirituality conveyed in the show, that we
+	have shown, and will continue to show, tolerance toward religion, even
+	created sympathetic religious characters.  "Thank you for your
+	tolerance," they say...until we show somebody or some action THEY
+	don't like...and at that point suddenly it's a lot of tsk-tsking and
+	chest thumping and disapproval; so okay, how about I just stop all
+	positive religious aspects of the show?
+
+	
      
+	It seems to me, that if I do *all that* with religion, and with thje
+	(the) simple act of showing maybe ONE PERSON in all the long history
+	of TV science fiction across 40 years has a different view of life,
+	that the show is somehow degraded, or downgraded, or dropped in
+	opinion...this simply reinforces the notion, held by many, that a lot
+	of folks in the religious right wish to make sure no other perspective
+	or lifestyle is ever shown on television, at any time, unless in a
+	negative fashion.
+
+	
      
+	The thing of it is, while on the one hand I'm getting praise from
+	religious folks for addressing spirituality in my series (speaking
+	here as an atheist), I've gotten flack from others who think it has no
+	place in a SCIENCE fiction series, and why the hell am I putting
+	something in that goes right against my own beliefs?  "Because," I
+	tell them, "this show is not about reflecting my beliefs, or yours, or
+	somebody else's, it's about telling this story, about these people,
+	with as much honesty and integrity as I can summon up.  That means
+	conceding the fact that religious people are going to be around 260
+	years from now."  Well, fact is, all kinds of people are going to be
+	around 260 years from now.  And what did the anti-religion folks say
+	specifically about including spirituality in my series?  "It's not
+	*necessary*," they said.
+
+	
      
+	Translation: they didn't like it.  Well, tough.  It was right for this
+	story, and this show.  And it seems to me rather hypocritical for some
+	folks, who applaud the show for tolerance, for my standing up to
+	those who want to exclude religion from TV, to then turn around and
+	say the show is diminished because it showed that same tolerance...to
+	another group or perspective.  I guess tolerance is only okay as long
+	as it's pointed one way.
+
+	
      
+	You say that as a christian, you think any sex except that between a
+	husband and a wife to be wrong.  Well, as I recall, the bible also
+	speaks against murder.  We've depicted deaths by the hundreds of
+	thousands.  (And we're talking here about the *depicting* of the act,
+	simply showing it, not the value judgements made after the fact.)  Why
+	does the one (which is so barely hinted at as to be almost invisible)
+	cause the show to be diminished where the other does not?
+
+	
      
+	My job is not to reinforce your personal political, social or
+	religious beliefs.  My job is not to reinforce MY personal political,
+	social or religious beliefs.  Then it isn't art or storytelling
+	anymore, it's simply propaganda.  My job is to tell this story, about
+	these people, AS people, as mixed and varied as they are today.  And
+	there is no outside objective criteria as to what is, or isn't
+	*necessary* in a story; that is the sole province of the author.  You
+	may or may not like it.  You may or may not choose to watch it.  Just
+	as people who don't like to see religion and god discussed on TV may
+	dislike it or choose not to watch it.
+
+	
      
+	But you'll excuse me if I see complaints about this one little thing
+	from the religious side, after all I've done to present religious
+	characters and the religious life in a positive fashion, to be
+	hypocritical and frankly somewhat ungrateful.  It's as though all this
+	means nothing because of one thing, one outside-imposed litmus test
+	that disregards anything and everything else that has been done.
+
+	
      
+	So straight up...if I should stop tolerating or showing viewpoints
+	that are not my own (spoken as someone who is absolutely straight),
+	then should I now stop showing religion as well?  Because that's what
+	this comes down to.  Is that what you want?  Because religion is
+	included at my discretion as well as anything else on this show.  You
+	want me to be less tolerant?  Just say the word.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ken: yes, showing does not mean endorsing, showing just means saying
+	"this is here," not to make an issue of it.  If I'm going to start
+	endorsing ANYbody's POV around here, it's going to be mine, and I think
+	we all know how dreadful THAT would be.
+
+	
      
+	As for "including controversy rather than skirting it," this is
+	more or less the point.  The goal here is to not have our characters
+	or our show make *value judgments* about what our characters do,
+	because then you're hitting the audience over the head with the
+	MESSAGE.  "Believers" is a good example of that; some came away using
+	parts of that to argue pro and anti interference in medical
+	situations; ditto for "Confessions" which hit squarely on BOTH sides
+	of the issue (no, you can't blame morality for disease...but then, we
+	had our characters openly requiring blood testing, which annoys many
+	on the other side of the issue)....my sense is that our audience is
+	smart enough to take the elements we present them with, and discuss
+	them, and come to their own conclusions and draw their own meanings
+	from them.  It's the part of objecting to even *presenting* the
+	situation that seems to me a marginal position at best.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I didn't show a kiss because, in my experience, it's easier on all
+	around if one steps into the shallow end of the pool first, and walks
+	into the deep end rather than diving in and splashing everybody in the
+	process.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As for Ivanova...remember that the core of good drama is conflict.  So
+	here we have a situation where a possible romantic involvement is
+	shaping up for her in year three.  It shouldn't be made too easy.  So
+	you create a situation that really hurts her deeply; she made a
+	difficult step, got over her distance, opened herself up, became
+	vulnerable...and got hurt very badly as a result.  The same thing that
+	happened in first season, when her old flame was discovered to be a
+	big guy with Home Guard.
+
+	
      
+	You now have someone who's freshly hurt, who is going to be unwilling
+	or slow to open up again, who's now experienced every kind of
+	relationship and NONE of them have worked...in short, she's one
+	exposed nerve ending, perfect for someone now to come in who may be
+	right, but for whom she has little time, and is disposed not to get
+	involved.
+
+	
      
+	Sounds a lot like my own dating history...keep them razor blades and
+	salt sprays a'comin.....
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the Ivanova revelation in "Loyalties" has nothing to do with
+	replacing Talia; that is a moot point in many ways, since Lyta is back,
+	and since other things happen which take that issue off the table in
+	any event.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Didn't say Talia WAS a psi-cop, Talia said she *interned with* the
+	PsiCops.  Bear in mind that you're going to need support staff, lower
+	level liaisons, and a bunch of other positions as well as the actual
+	cops.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Bester try to befriend Talia because she was Control? (cf.
+	"A Race Through Dark Places">)
      
+	You're assuming Bester knows everything.  Also, Bester's interest
+	may have been more...carnal than PsiCorp oriented.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If Laurel Takashima had stayed with the crew and shot Garibaldi
+	in "Chrysalis," would she have been Control?
      
+	Yes, Laurel would've been Control.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If Laurel *had* stayed with the show, by the middle of
+	year two the fact that she  was Control would've been revealed
+	via the password incident. At that point, one  particular
+	possibility was that her second in command under her -- a
+	rather dour  Russian lieutenant named Ivanova -- would've been
+	promoted to take her place,  while Laurel was moved off the
+	chessboard. (This was planned because we  knew going in that
+	Tamlyn Tomita had a growing film career, and we probably 
+	could've only kept her for a couple of years in the best of
+	circumstances.  So why  not turn that to your advantage?)
+
+	
      
+	The position now being occupied by Corwin, Ivanova's
+	second, is the position  that Ivanova would've held (though
+	more prominently) if Laurel had stayed on.   (And no, Corwin
+	doesn't now have that arc lurking in the background.)
+
+	
      
+	See, it's easy to stick to an outline and never diverge
+	if you're writing  characters in a novel; in a TV show, with
+	live actors, you have to be flexible, plan  ahead, come up
+	with contingency plans, and have threads that weave and 
+	interlock in ways to leave you maximum flexibility while still
+	proceeding toward  your destination.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Takashima would have been the one to be Control.  A Psi
+	Corps plant.  (Her background on Mars would've been the perfect time
+	for it to have happened.)  When Laurel went away, I took that one
+	thread and passed it along to Talia, setting it up as early as the very
+	first episode, when Talia and Ivanova first meet, and later reluctantly
+	have a drink.
+
+	
      
+	At one point, Ivanova says to Talia, referencing Ivanova's
+	mother, "You're as much of a victim as she was."  To which Talia
+	replies, "I don't feel like a victim."  And, of course, that's exactly
+	what she was, though she didn't know it yet.  Ivanova's analysis was
+	100% correct.
+
+
    
+
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Narn-Centauri War reaches a turning point. Sheridan is contacted by a
+powerful ally, who offers assistance.
+
+John Schuck.
+W. Morgan
+Sheppard as Warmaster G'Sten.
+William
+Forward as Refa.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Action/Intrigue
+P5 Rating: 9.49
+
+Production number: 219
+Original air date: August 1, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 18, 1995 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn
+
    
+
+
    
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares at least once.
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
      
+   
    •  A change in the number of
+	candles
+	in G'Kar's quarters.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The new Centauri emperor, Cartargia, is acting mostly as a
+	figurehead, a front for Refa and his compatriots.
+
+   
    •  A treaty among all the aligned worlds outlawed the use of
+	mass drivers as a weapon of war, similar to the Earth
+	treaties outlawing the use of chemical and biological weapons.
+
+   
    •  Draal says he has found other beings on Epsilon 3, ones
+	who take care of the great Machine Draal is at the heart of.
+	One of them is a fellow named Zathras (cf.
+	"Babylon Squared".)
+
+   
    •  Delenn has been in charge of all the Rangers on Babylon 5.
+	She now shares that command with Sheridan.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan does not know that Sinclair is behind the Rangers.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri seem to have gravity control technology.
+	Londo watches as the Centauri bombard the Narn homeworld,
+	standing -- seemingly in gravity -- aboard a motionless ship.
+	(Either that, or they have magnetic shoes.)
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  What's Zathras doing on Epsilon 3, and how did he get there?  If the
+	planet has been undisturbed for at least the past 500 years
+	("A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2,")
+	is he that old?
+
+   
    •  Where was Zathras such that Draal, with sight that extends across
+	light-years, couldn't find him?  Perhaps he wasn't in another place,
+	but another time (see
+	"Babylon Squared.")
+
+   
    •  Will the great machine be involved in pulling Babylon 4 through time?
+
+   
    •  Now that Londo has stated he no longer wishes to associate with the
+	Shadows, his usefulness to Lord Refa is at an end.  How will Refa handle
+	this?
+
+   
    •  What exactly was G'Kar told to do in the Kha'Ri's last message?
+	Ask for sanctuary, obviously, but anything else?
+
+   
    •  What other technology do the Shadows have that we haven't seen yet?
+
+   
    •  Have the Narn unwittingly discovered a weakness of the Shadows? (see
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Now that G'Kar has been stripped of his homeworld and position on
+	Babylon 5, what can he contribute to the battle against the Shadows?
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo is now convinced that his associates are far too powerful for
+	their motives to be solely for his benefit.  He realises that he has
+	become a pawn in their larger game, and that his personal quest for
+	more power has lead to the death of esteemed friends and many innocents.
+	While convinced of this, and that he has allowed himself to be
+	maneuvered at every turn by the will of others, he still carries
+	through with his role as a paper tiger politician/ambassador.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Shadows show some new weaponry.  It appears that each ship can "give
+	birth" to a cluster of forty or so of the smaller fighters G'Kar
+	encountered at Z'ha'dum in
+	"Revelations."
+	We are not shown that these fighters are re-assimilated at the end of
+	the confrontation, and it is also unknown how many times each Shadow
+	can do this.
+
+	
      
+	The second weapon has the ability to disrupt a jump point so that it is
+	fatal for any ship to attempt to use it.  Once an attack against the
+	Shadows begins it appears you can leave only when they so allow it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Shadow "wounded" during the battle is thrown off course by the loss
+	of one of its spines.  After the battle is finished, a second Shadow
+	joins with it as if to assist it.  The broken
+	spine is clearly visible on the ship that does not move during the
+	docking procedure.  It suggests that the damaged Shadow was unable to
+	function as effectively, perhaps because it was in pain.
+
+
      
+   
    •  With Draal offering the resources of the highly advanced technology at
+	his command, it appears that Babylon 5 is one of the few places that may
+	withstand a Shadow assault.  That it can become the base of operations
+	for the Army of Light is now clear.
+
+	
      
+	Perhaps more importantly, Babylon 5 can probably also withstand a
+	frontal assault by Earthforce, though they might prefer to destroy it
+	from within.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Centauri use of mass drivers flauts all previously signed
+	conventions, and it appears (cf.
+	"And Now for a Word,"
+	where the Centauri are discovered using Babylon 5 to transport mass
+	drivers and energy weapons) that they have been planning this kind of
+	assault on the Narn homeworld for some time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A mass driver uses a heavy object (such as a small asteroid) launched
+	from orbit toward a planet's surface at low speed.  As it falls
+	through the planet's gravity well it gains considerable momentum.  On
+	impact the immediate area becomes a crater, and huge quantities of dust
+	are thrown up into the atmosphere, blocking out sunlight and causing
+	something like a nuclear winter.  E. E. "Doc" Smith's
+	Lensman series is the first literary SF work to use mass
+	drivers as weapons for planetary bombardment as shown in this episode.
+	(If you know of an earlier one, send me mail!)
+
+
      
+   
    •  All of the major governments (with the exception of the Vorlons) are
+	now under serious internal stress.  They are either introspective
+	(Earth,) skeptical of present danger (Minbari,) overextended (Centauri,)
+	or occupied (Narn).  It appears that the Shadows have achieved, either
+	directly or indirectly, effective destabilization of every major power
+	that might stand up to their forces.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ambassador Kosh openly lets the Rangers know of his involvement.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It appears that Garibaldi's friendship with Londo has strained to the
+	breaking point.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan now has access to the Rangers.  This appears to be fulfilling
+	the dream induced by Kosh (cf.
+	"All Alone in the Night")
+	where he is described as being "The Hand."  Presumably this reference
+	is to his role as someone who will help lead the forces of light as
+	the right hand man of "The One."
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  A fully prepared numerically superior Narn task force is easily
+	destroyed by the Shadows.  Unless more effective combat techniques are
+	discovered, the battle with darkness will have to involve more subtle
+	tactics.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo hasn't forgiven Refa for the death of his friend Urza Jaddo
+	("Knives.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo's cough in the council chamber scene sounds suspiciously like
+	the one in his dream in
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+	Could he be coming down with something?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  JMS premiered this episode at the Chicago Comicon on July 1, 1995.
+
+   
    •  W. Morgan Sheppard also appeared in the first season episode
+	"Soul Hunter"
+	as the title character.
+
+   
    •  The episode's initial airing, in the UK, was 50 years, almost to the
+	day, after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima during World War
+	II.  Considering the obvious parallels between the Centauri use of
+	mass drivers and the American use of the atomic bomb, that's a
+	serindipitous, if unintentional, bit of timing.
+
+   
    •  "Now the trumpet summons us again:
+	not as a call to bear arms, though
+	arms we need; not as a call to battle, though in battle we are; but as
+	a call to bear the burdens of a long, twilight struggle--year in and 
+	year out, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation--a struggle against
+	the common enemies of man--tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself."
+	--John Fitzgerald Kennedy.  An
+	audio
+	version of his speech is available.
+
+
+   
    • 	In the first Londo-Refa scene, just before Refa sits, what looks like
+	a wooden duck with its wings outstretched is visible on a shelf
+	beside the throne.  Perhaps it's a Centauri cat (cf.
+	"Chrysalis.")
+
+   
    •  Candles are used subtly to represent hope,
+	here and in previous episodes (see
+	jms speaks.)
+	At the beginning of G'Kar's prayer scene, the shelf behind him
+	is filled with burning candles -- but by the end, as his people's last
+	hope is destroyed by the Shadows, they've all gone out.
+
+   
    •  Likewise, when Londo and Refa are talking, they're both cloaked in
+	shadow -- until Londo expresses misgivings about his associates and
+	emerges into the light.
+
+   
    •  The battle sequence was directed by Mojo of Foundation Imaging; the
+	mass-driver sequence was directed by John Teska.  The episode has more
+	effects footage than any previous one, nearly five minutes' worth.
+	The effects took almost a month to produce.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "The Long, Twilight Struggle" is probably the
+	biggest episode of the entire two years to date, story and EFX and
+	character wise, and will have a profound effect on the series that
+	I'd compare to a cross between "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis".
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't want to say anything about "The Long Twilight Struggle" at
+	this time, to avoid hyping people.  Suffice to say it's a very strong
+	episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Hell, in some ways, when compared with "Struggle," "The Coming of
+	Shadows" is a light comedy in which nothing much happens.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Without spoiling anything...yes, in this regard, I've always noted
+	that there are some echoes of WW II in the overall storyline, and some
+	applies here.  Also, again, the purpose of a large measure of the show
+	is to elicit discussion of such issues as this...where are the mora,
+	(moral) responsibilities in such a situation?  What are the ethics of
+	mass warfare?  Where does expediency begin and compassion end?  *Should*
+	compassion have to end for the greater good?
+	
+	
      
+	If we can start some bar fights, I'll have done my job.
+	
+	
      
+	Fact is, I don't have one single damned good answer.  But I've got a
+	whole LOTTA questions...
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Yes, there's a WW II parallel, not in terms of
+	justifying one or the other -- one can make compelling 
+	arguments for and against the use of atomic weapons to close 
+	the war, but I leave it to those who were there to have 
+	made the right decision, because they had to live with it -- 
+	but in terms of strategy and wartime logic.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thank you.  I'm quite frankly thrilled beyond words at the preliminary
+	reactions from the UK to this episode; we worked *really* hard on it,
+	and I can't tell you what the reactions mean to us.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  It's definitely one of my favorite episodes.
+	The intensity is terrific.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, "They're being bombed back to the stone age" is a Vietnam era
+	quote.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: what you could see of the planet's surface...one of the side
+	effects of the technology used is that, realistically, it would throw up
+	a *hideous* amount of smoke, dust and debris, and you wouldn't see much
+	of anything.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why isn't Londo floating weightless?
      
+	Some races, like the Centauri and the Minbari, use drive systems built
+	to varying degrees on magnetic and gravitational forces;
+	some of them don't so much go to a planet as create a situation where
+	they are drawn toward it.
+	One of the side effects of this is a field allowing for artificial
+	gravity.  Earth doesn't have this level of technology, however.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: your note about 500 Narns for every 1 Centauri...you may want to
+	check our own history.  During the occupation of some parts of Europe
+	during WW II, similar tactics were used.
+	In some cases the threat rose as high as 100-200 Jews or Russians
+	executed for every Nazi killed; much the same has been done in earlier
+	history.  Five hundred to one is a figure relatively consistent with
+	what humans have done from time to time when we wish to instill terror.
+	So I find this a curious quibble.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, Londo *specifies* that the 500 will include "the
+	perpetrator's own family."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Draal's voice dubbed?
      
+	No, his voice wasn't dubbed, or changed, by anyone; might've been a
+	glitch in local audio or something.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Draal's played by John Shuck, who did a great job.  
+	And yes, we'll definitely be seeing him again.  (We first met him in 
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  I loved the part with Draal calling out for Zathras
      
+	Yeah, that was a rather Draal bit of humor, wasn't it?
+
+
      
+   
    •  In part it's John's take on the character, but what I indicated to him
+	was that Draal's gone through some considerable changes by entering the
+	heart of the machine; it's given him greater understanding, and the
+	freeing aspects of greater humor.  It's almost like -- and I hate to
+	even use the reference because somebody'll say "Oh, that's what he's
+	doing," and I ain't, it's just a point of comparison -- Tom Bombadil in
+	LoTR...quite funny, but also someone not to be trifled with.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It wasn't intended that Delenn should touch Draal; it sorta happened
+	on the set, and no one really noticed, and it wasn't worth going 
+	back and reshooting the whole thing.  My sense is that if it's
+	like a virtual reality situation, she would "feel" it even though
+	it's not there, if the image was impinging correctly on the brain.
+
+	
      
+	But in either event, the image is not and should not e considered
+	to be solid.
+
+	
      
+	As for Londo's shot...the director called "cut" I think a bit too
+	soon, we used every frame we had to extend that shot (and, in fact, 
+	we even went so far as to freeze the final frame and extend the shot
+	by a smidge, if you look at it carefully).  Nonetheless, I think it 
+	works pretty spiffily.
+
+	
      
+	As for the mass drivers, the amount of energy required to move
+	something that big would generate huge amounts of heat, possibly 
+	making them even white-hot hence the glow.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, what Delenn said was, "...the Rangers *in this area* are
+	under my direct command."  So Sinclair's post as Ranger One remains
+	back on Minbar.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, Sinclair has apparently been described as the One...but you
+	must ask...the one *what*?
+
+	
      
+	Expect final answers to this one late this coming season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On each season's music for the opening credits reflecting the 
+	mood of the season
      
+	What do I have in mind for season three?  What I indicated to Chris
+	Franke was to look at a piece of music he did in "The Long, Twilight
+	Struggle" and interpolate some elements of that into the main theme, 
+	with a very hard sound.  The piece in question is about the middle of
+	the first really...um...busy scene after the act break.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Until "The Long Twilight Struggle," nothing else has come close to
+	that scene [the attack on the Narn outpost in "Coming of Shadows"] 
+	for me.  But there's some stuff in there that finally manages to
+	to surpass it.  Just gorgeous and scary and awe-inspiring.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the Narn/Shadow battle
      
+	Thanks.  Yeah, that scene is one of my favorites; a lot of work
+	went into it, and I think it shows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Secret of Narn success in injuring a Shadow ship?
      
+	Not much to the secret...they coordinated their firepower on one of
+	the ships, in hopes of doing damage.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  One of the things I wanted to try was to find a way to stage 
+	long-range combat. One of the things everyone says is that even though
+	real aerial combat tends to be at great distance -- and space combat
+	would be conducted over thousands of kilometers, you probably wouldn't
+	be able to even SEE your opponent at that range, just pick up the enemy
+	ships on your scanners -- you can't do that for TV because you need to
+	have both in frame, hammering each other short-range, to make it work
+	for viewers.
+
+	
      
+	But I've always liked a challenge, so I thought I'd see if I could make 
+	it work.  The two sides are, as noted, thousands of kilometers apart,
+	and take most of that sequences just to catch up with each other.  And
+	frankly, I think it's probably one of the most dynamic battle sequences
+	we've ever done, so you can expect more in the future, now that I've
+	kind of got the hang of how to do this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Agreed.  The use of different tactics and weapons at different distances
+	gives a sense that there is a *strategy* behind what's going on, that
+	it's not just two ships coming with city blocks of one another and
+	clobbering each other.  Strategy implies intelligence, and to see
+	intelligence in the shadow vessels is scary indeed.....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The reason for the placement of the jump points is *very* straight
+	forward.
+
+	
      
+	By virtue of their size and the tremendous forces unleashed by
+	punching a hole into hyperspace, you want to form it a little distance
+	away or risk being severely damaged.
+	If they formed the points between them and the enemy, which was quite
+	capable of avoiding them, it would be entirely possible for the shadows
+	to get in front of the point and cut off their sole means of escape.
+	Usually, better to form them behind you, so the enemy can't block your
+	way out, and take a possible hit or two to your aft sections than be
+	totally cut off.
+	They didn't anticipate the extra weapons the shadows had.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Were those Narn cruisers especially big?
      
+	The cruiser is the same size as that sent to look into Z'ha'dum; it's
+	just a matter of perspective and how close the camera gets.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did the shadow ships phase out to avoid the energy mines?
      
+	No, they didn't phase out so much as absorb the energy, 
+	at cost of great pain.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, they're organic technology, so they can feel, but only 
+	after a fashion.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Why didn't the fighters do anything?"
+	
+	
      
+	They did.  Look more closely.  They engaged the Narn fighters in
+	dogfights all over the place.  They're hardly more than specks against
+	the huge ships, but they're definitely there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One Shadow ship in "Signs and Portents," two in "Chrysalis,"
+	three in "The Coming of Shadows," four here?
      
+	Give Tim Lynch a ceegar.  Yes, more ships are starting to appear,
+	as more ships become available.
+
+
      
+   
    •  They only have four ships?
      
+	Never said you're seeing their entire fleet, you're seeing what they
+	can afford to send out at any given moment on relatively low-priority
+	jobs.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Dave: yup.  Londo's never coughed before, and
+	this was very deliberately placed.  He's on the path, like it or not.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Vorlons lodged an official protest!  Is this the first time
+	they've taken an action like that?
      
+	Yeah, that's pretty much the first time since the pilot where the
+	Vorlons got involved with the Sinclair situation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bingo.  As I mentioned before, the "long twilight struggle" title
+	is a quote; you correctly identified the source in the
+	JFK quote.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Sheridan's closing speech
      
+	Certainly, Sheridan is slowly growing more into a leader who must
+	be able to step to the front in this kind of way, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What does "the balloon is going up" mean?
      
+	There have been many explanations for where this phrase comes
+	from.  Most of them are obviously spook etymology, but the first one I
+	heard -- and who knows if this is right -- comes from WW I, where just
+	before one side would go into battle, they'd send one man up in a hot
+	air balloon to scout the enemy's location.  If you saw the balloon
+	going up, you knew combat wasn't far behind.
+
+	
      
+	Wherever it comes from, though, that's the general meaning of
+	the phrase.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Candles are, I think, wonderfully emblematic
+	of life, and of being
+	a single ray of light, or hope, in a dark place.  The Grey Council
+	stands between the candle and the star; watch G'Kar's action re: a
+	candle in his quarters...and in that scene (for those who've seen TLTS)
+	note how many candles are in the room in the beginning, and at the end.
+
+	
      
+	We are the candle that burns brightly, stubbornly, effectively...but
+	briefly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The candles in G'Kar's quarters
      
+	Sherry...thank you.  The level of attention to detail is the *only*
+	way that this story will be told properly.  It means you sit down with
+	the director, and others, and you make totally clear -- there, and in
+	the script -- what you saw in your head when you wrote it.  As well as
+	repeatd verbal themes, cues, phraseologies, it's important (since this
+	is a visual medium) to incorporate visual cues that add to the thematic
+	thrust of the piece, that create a mood, or convey an emotion or a
+	thought on an almost cellular level.  The hardest part is being careful
+	not to OVER use them, because then they lose all meaning and impact.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar tries to rally the Narn on Babylon 5.
+Kosh tests Delenn's allegiance by summoning an ancient
+inquisitor.
+
+
+Wayne
+Alexander as Sebastian.
+Jack Kehler
+as Mr. Chase.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.47
+
+Production number: 221
+Original air date: August 8, 1995 (UK)
+                   October 25, 1995 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Laurence Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Vorlons have visited Earth in the past, as recently as the
+	nineteenth century, and have even taken humans to their homeworld.
+
+   
    •  Garibaldi maintains friendships with people he knows are dealing in
+	illegal smuggling operations.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How did the Rangers get the message from Narn in 24 hours? (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Exactly how long have the Vorlons been visiting Earth, and for what
+	purpose?
+
+   
    •  How did they discover Sebastian, and what made them choose him as their
+	inquisitor?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+All of the key players on the side of light have now had their commitment and
+loyalty to their cause tested.  Sheridan, Garibaldi, Ivanova,
+and Franklin in their battle against the current Earth Alliance
+administration (cf.
+"Divided Loyalties.")
+And now Delenn and Sheridan as the
+"spirit" and "warrior," respectively, of the Army of Light.
+The pieces seem to be falling into place on the side of light.
+
+
    • 
+G'Kar preaching about what the Centauri will do next is somewhat chilling.
+Most people just don't want to believe it.  Yet in
+"The Long, Twilight Struggle"
+we heard that the Centauri have already annexed several non-Narn
+worlds.  JMS has said that G'Kar is his Cassandra character, gifted with
+the power of prophesy yet heeded by none.  The fact that it was a human
+who argued against G'Kar may be an indication of things to come.
+
+
    • 
+Based on Sebastian's comments, Sheridan determines that he is most likely
+Jack the Ripper.  Sebastian's final comment also appears to confirm this.
+The murderer killed five prostitutes between August 7th and November 10th
+of 1888 in the East End of London (Sheridan stated the West End, but got
+the date correct), and was never caught.  He stalked the streets at night,
+slitting his victims' throats and then mutilating their bodies.  The
+nickname "Jack the Ripper" reportedly came from several letters sent to
+the police, but their authenticity has been questioned.
+
+
    • 
+The Vorlons have been to Earth on many occasions, and all over the galaxy
+in general.  This is quite likely part of the reason why Kosh will be
+recognised by everyone if he(?) steps out of the encounter suit.
+
+
    • 
+This marks the second time a major, secretive power has sent a human
+representative to Babylon 5 to ask a question: the Shadows with Morden and
+"What do you want?" and the Vorlons with Sebastian and "Who are you?"
+Why do the Vorlons, in particular, feel the need to act through a third
+party?  Delenn obviously knows about Kosh already, so why couldn't Kosh
+have conducted the interrogation?  Perhaps he simply chooses to remain
+aloof and let others do his dirty work, or perhaps for some reason he felt
+he wouldn't have been as effective as Sebastian was.
+
+
    • 
+Sheridan and Garibaldi have given the Rangers their first trial in a
+combat zone, on behalf of G'Kar.  They succeeded in the allotted 24 hours
+but we are given no information on how.  Perhaps they are able to penetrate
+the Centauri communications network.  Or perhaps it involved two "hit
+and run" jumps into the Narn homeworld system.  The first to deliver the
+message to search for this family (there must already be Rangers on Narn,)
+and the second to pick up the required transmission.  This runs the risk
+of being detected and caught by Centauri forces patrolling the system (a
+jump point presumably has a very bright characteristic energy signature on
+scanners).  While the search might have been initiated via telepathic
+contact (cf.
+"The Coming of Shadows,"
+specifically the Centuari Emperor's
+telepaths, who can communicate over interstellar distances)
+this is unlikely, and telepathy almost certainly cannot transmit
+the contents of a data crystal.  Another possible explanation is that there
+are Centauri Rangers.
+
+
    • 
+Vir's encounter with G'Kar indicates the depth of the hatred that the Narn
+feel for their oppressors.  An apology is no longer possible in G'Kar's
+eyes, only the release of his people from their occupation and the
+destruction of the Centauri along the way.  Something inside Vir might
+well give soon; he has already stood up to Morden
+("In The Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+and tried to tell Londo of the consequences of his actions - what next?
+
+
    • 
+Vir's dismissal of the Centuari businessman, "I have already told you the
+Ambassador can do nothing for you."  Is that a polite way of telling the
+businessman to go away, or has Londo's sphere of influence been reduced by
+his refusal to involve the Shadows again?
+
+
    • 
+There's an interesting parallel between the main storyline and Garibaldi's
+talk with G'Kar.  Both Garibaldi and Sebastian go into their respective
+conversations expecting a certain outcome, but allowing room for the other
+person to act otherwise.  The difference is that Garibaldi is an optimist --
+he expected G'Kar to do the right thing -- while Sebastian expected to be
+disappointed as he so often had been in the past.
+
+
    • 
+This isn't the first reference to Jack the Ripper on the show.  In
+"Mind War,"
+Ivanova accuses Psi Corps of having "all the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper."
+Whether that's just a coincidence remains to be seen.
+
+
    • 
+Given the fact that Delenn was a member of the Grey Council, the
+choice of Grey section (by Sheridan) as the place for the inquisition
+was rather interesting.  In addition, some elements of the lighting inside
+Grey 19 (the circles of light on the floor, arranged in a circular
+pattern, with Delenn in a center circle) were reminiscent of the Grey Council,
+especially the last time she was in their presence.
+
+
    • 
+On a more speculative numerological note, the number nineteen (the inquisition
+occurred in Grey 19) is composed of the digits "1" and "9".  Taking the
+analysis to an extreme, perhaps the "9" represents the Grey Council and the
+"1" represents the chosen one.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  One of the Narn in the meeting with G'Kar is played by Dennis
+	Michael, a CNN reporter who was doing a story on B5's makeup group,
+	Optic Nerve, and was made up as a Narn as part of his news story.
+
+   
    •  Was someone named Sebastian an actual suspect in the murders?
+
+   
    •  In the original UK broadcast, the scene between G'Kar and Vir was
+	edited to not show G'Kar cutting his hand.  The edit is obvious once
+	you know it's there.
+
+   
    •  One of Sebastian's closing remarks resembled a Biblical quote, John
+	15:13: "There is no greater love than this: to lay down one's life for
+	one's friends."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  "CtI is the only episode in the last four that we know nothing about."
+
+        
      
+        And if I figure out how I happened to achieve that (short of just
+        keeping my big yap shut), I'll do it some more.  There should be some
+        surprises, yes?
+
+        
      
+        And it's an arc story, yes, but in a very odd way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (Referring to Delenn's actions in
+	"Confessions and Lamentations")
      
+	Re:  why Delenn would do such a thing . . . hold out for "Comes
+	the Inquisitor" . . . it gets into her rationales on such things.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "I can't wait to see how you torture us next week!"
+
+	
      
+	Funny line, that, which you'll understand in a few days.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Inquisitor was a great episode to write, and Wayne did a killer
+	job with it (so to speak).  That one episode has received more mail than
+	most others, particularly from those in the religious community, as well
+	as at universities, crisis centers, you name it.  Something there seemed
+	to strike a chord.
+
+	
      
+	It's easy in an SF show to cut to the EFX and let it rock; to me, the
+	challenge is what's shown in those scenes: two people, locked in a room,
+	no (or few) EFX, no car chases, not even much of a set...with explosions
+	of dialogue and character.  Ah loves it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As for locale, it was similar to, but not exactly the same as the one
+	in which the Marcabs died [in "Confessions and Lamentations"], though
+	I did want to somewhat evoke the memory of that when I indicated the 
+	set I had in mind.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sebastian was played by Wayne Alexander, a British actor of great 
+	skill who hasn't been seen much on TV before this, but should now, 
+	with this performance as a calling card.  It was a stunning 
+	performance.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't think Wayne has done that much TV work before, he's primarily
+	a stage actor, but in any event, he's certainly brilliant as Sebastian.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why bring up Sebastian's past?  Because it's integral to who he is
+	now, and what he's doing, and why he's doing it.  Also, there's 
+	something very important here about greying up the Vorlons a little;
+	of all the people they could've chosen for this job, why THIS kind 
+	of person?  It makes them a trifle more morally ambiguous, which is
+	necessary.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "It doesn't fit in with the way the Vorlons have been portrayed.  It 
+	bothered me."
+
+	
      
+	Good.  That was the intended result.
+
+	
      
+	Part of the reason for the story was to grey up the Vorlons a little; 
+	one shouldn't fall too easily for what other people *say* they are.
+
+	
      
+	(One might also say much the same of the old testament god who would 
+	have Job so severely tested, btw.)
+
+	
      
+	One should always be cautious of taking *anyone* at face value on B5.
+
+	
      
+	"...you could consider them a force for good."
+
+	
      
+	Ah, but what *is* good?  And whose *version* of good are we 
+	discussing?
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'd say there's a very good chance that the Vorlons have more than
+	one Inquisitor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Sebastian based on Star Trek's "Q"?
      
+	No, had nothing to do with Q, it's deciding what kind of person our 
+	Mr. Sebastian might've been, and working from  there.  When you have 
+	a character with as vivid and powerful as his, you don't need 
+	to look to ST for any ideas on character.  
+	And unlike Q, Sebastian has no powers of his own, just the force of his 
+	personality.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the last word in Sebastian's "What about" litany?
      
+	Actually, the last one, since it was going to be drowned out, was an
+	adlib, "eternity."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Also, check Sebastian's reaction when he asks Delenn what if she's 
+	wrong, "have you ever considered that?  HAVE YOU?"
+
+	
      
+	She responds, softly, "....yes."
+
+	
      
+	Look at his face when she says this.  It rattles him.  It's not the
+	answer he expected, but more important, it's not the answer he wanted,
+	needed to hear.
+
+	
      
+	He needed to hear her say that she had never had the slightest 
+	*scintilla* of doubt, that as he had been, she was a True Believer, a 
+	fanatic, incapable of doubt of mistake...and thus doomed to failure.
+	He can't even meet her gaze; he turns, looks away, and suggests an 
+	"intermission" that is more for his benefit than hers.
+
+	
      
+	There's an awful lot going on in this show, a great deal of it sub 
+	rosa, under the surface, implied in gestures or hesitations or looks, 
+	some implied, some stated outright.  He *hates* the memory of Jack; 
+	it's not his name, the one thing that is his...remember, he is caught 
+	up with "who ARE you?" and his answer to that is lost in the persona 
+	created by history...his true name, is what's totally forgotten to
+	history.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sebastian learns quite a bit in the 
+	course of that encounter about himself...especially when she rubs it
+	in his face as she does.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of course, bear in mind that there *is* no correct answer to
+	Sebastian's question...because no matter what answer you give, the
+	question will be repeated.  It's a process, not a goal, designed to
+	tear down the artifices we construct around ourselves until we're left
+	facing ourselves, not our roles.  At some point the "answer," such as it
+	is, must transcend language.
+
+	
      
+	Since the episode aired, I've received many notes from philosophy
+	teachers and religious instructors and those who ran the Synanon game
+	noting that they've used that technique as well, or intend to do so from
+	now on.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The episode underlines that there are two fundamental questions in 
+	B5: who are you, and what do you want?  
+	The order in which you answer those two questions can either make you 
+	great...or destroy you.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think that, in the long run, the vorlons and the shadows will answer 
+	the questions Who are you and What do you want...in that that's kind of 
+	what they *are*, if that makes any sense.
+
+	
      
+	Well, it will.  Eventually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's not that there's a *correct* answer, but that there's an
+	*informed* answer.  If you decide what you want, before you know
+	who you are, you're likely to get something that will destroy you;
+	if you know who you are, you can then ask for something that will be
+	of greater use to you.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The pain is necessary because it's easy to consider laying down one's 
+	life intellectually; when the pain and the 
+	agony bring it home, it's no longer as easy.
+
+	
      
+	And there *is* no correct answer to "Who are you?"  The only real 
+	answer is no answer, because as soon as you apply someone's term for it,
+	you have limited yourself, defined yourself in someone else's terms.
+
+	
      
+	Doing things in a refined, gentle, intellectual manner is the sort of 
+	thing Delenn's used to, she can handle that easily...the goal of
+	Sebastian was to try and *break* her.  
+	That's not intended to be done gently.  You don't break someone over a
+	cup of tea discussing philosophical concepts and the nature of personal 
+	identity.  
+	It's also not terribly dramatic to watch.
+
+	
      
+	Because of her position, rank and authority, she expected to be 
+	treated a certain way...which was why it was important to treat her just
+	the opposite.  
+	It's easy to put oneself into a grand prophecy, to assume one has a 
+	destiny...to pay the price for that is something else again.  
+	Anyone can do the former; very few can ever do the latter.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sacrificing oneself happens frequently...but for just one other 
+	person, AND in a situation where no one else would ever know about it.  
+	Bear in mind that he wasn't testing people randomly; only those who felt
+	that they were chosen of god, fulfillers of prophecy...people who
+	assumed that they were part of some grand scheme, and thus to whom an
+	anonymous death is an intolerable thought.
+
+	
      
+	Also, most probably never *got* that far, unable to stand the real 
+	pain of being placed in this position.  Everybody can talk the talk;
+	very few can walk the walk.  Most probably just yanked off the bracelets
+	and split, on the theory that they weren't being sufficiently coddled or
+	glorified...or because being a potential prophet isn't as much fun as
+	they'd thought.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There have been a great number of films and TV programs with one sort
+	of interrogation scene or other; I'd commend "Closetland" for something
+	else on this order.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Mentioning just the first name may not have been necessary for
+	UK viewers, but it was necessary for the rest of the planet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of course, his real name was never Jack Sebastian; "Jack" is his 
+	working name, Sebastian could be a first or last name.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I tied him [Sebastian] to a specific person because
+	in writing, you *always* try to go for specifics, because generalities
+	don't really work.  It's the difference, in prose, between, "The room
+	smelled good," and "The room smelled of cinnamon and fresh coffee."  
+	Also, the specific connotations to who and what Jack was were essential
+	and integral to the storyline.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Jack" was the media appellation; whether Sebastian is a first or
+	last name is left open.
+
+	
      
+	I looked at who this historical figure could be, but no one else fit
+	into the area I wanted.  It was a decision born of necessity, not 
+	whim.  I needed someone far enough removed not to have any current 
+	victims' families still alive; someone known to a worldwide population
+	(anonymous wouldn't have worked because why would Sheridan have known 
+	about him, why should we care, why should it resonate, and we'd spend 
+	time explaining what he did that would have meant cutting out other 
+	material in the episode); the other serial killers tend to have clear
+	fates, whereas Jack vanished and is thus "available" to us; visually 
+	that period makes for a striking contrast to 2259.
+
+	
      
+	And, again, you have to look at who he *was*...a fanatic, trying to
+	clean up Spittlefields (good cause) by hatred (wrong reason) and 
+	murder (wrong means), the EXACT thing Delenn warns against at the 
+	very start of the show.  (Did you know there's a letter in the London
+	Times for that period that tries to explain the Ripper's motives as a
+	cry ofr (for) understanding about conditions in that part of London?)
+	He felt he was a divine messenger, learned he was not, and in 
+	bitterness has become the single best inquisitor you could've had in 
+	that job.
+
+	
      
+	Every single thing about Jack made him *perfect* for that role, as
+	mirror, menace and warning sign.  So I used him.  And I'd do it again.
+	You have to find what works best for the story, and do it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jack the Ripper has been used too much in SF.
      
+	So, in other words, if a historical, real character has been used in 
+	some other venue, if the use of that same character in another, 
+	wholly different world/series/show/universe is absolutely, totally and 
+	completely the right thing for that story, 
+	one should instead do what's *wrong* for the story and leave it out?
+
+	
      
+	Sorry.  Don't buy it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the "Jack sucks" threads, phrased various ways...doesn't really 
+	bother me. I knew going in that some folks would react well to that, and
+	some wouldn't, for an assortment of reasons, some valid, some less so.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I guess also that the key to avoid something becoming cliche is to
+	turn it on its head.  Which was the case with Sebastian.  One thing
+	I neglected to mention was the need to have an absolute
+	mirror-counterpoint to Morden.  Here you've got the smiling,
+	pleasant, utterly charming and good looking fellow who is our
+	"mirror" if you will in which we see the Shadows reflected.  So now
+	you need something dark and ominous and terrible as the mirror
+	through which we briefly glimpse the Vorlons, which has to be done
+	all in one episode, you can't develop it gradually as with Morden.
+	So everything about Sebastian was the opposite of Morden...and each
+	is the opposite of what they represent.  As it appears to us now,
+	anyway.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "it just didn't pay off in the long run."  For you.  For others it 
+	did. Let's not start getting grandiose.  You feel this way, that's fine,
+	but it's not the ultimate truth.  Otherwise you're totally dismissing
+	the opinions of others who liked it a lot.
+
+	
      
+	"Jack...has become a real cliche."  So because others have used that 
+	figure in their work, well or poorly, no one should ever use this 
+	historical figure ever again in the next thousand years of human
+	history.  One should not do what one thinks is right for a story because
+	of what someone else did in a different story.
+
+	
      
+	Sorry.  I don't work that way.  By your logic, I should not be using 
+	starships or hyperspace or aliens, either, because they've been used a
+	LOT more than Jack.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, I think I saw more *annoyance* at Jack being used from the 
+	UK folks than the US folks, that's the main difference, I think.  
+	Probably because it's a peaceful, wonderful country which is *still*
+	paying off, in the public eye, one particularly nasty creature in their
+	recent history. They're probably tired of hearing about him, and to
+	some extent, correctly so.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will: thanks, and you're quite right; it does say something about the
+	Vorlons that they'd use Jack for this purpose.  Now we just have to
+	further define what that is.
+
+	
      
+	BTW, just to append it here, not strictly appropos of your message...
+	I've noted a number of people say, in essence, "Boy, was I disappointed
+	that he said Jack at the end, what does he think we are, morons?"  And
+	I've seen plenty of comments from people who didn't know it was Jack
+	until that very last moment, for whom it was a revelation.
+
+	
      
+	It's pretty clear, to lots of folks, that the test was in some ways
+	(most, actually) more for Delenn's benefit than Kosh's...lots of folks
+	got this...and then others have said, "Well, if that's what he meant,
+	why didn't he just have one of them come out and SAY this, say what
+	was learned or that this was for THEIR benefit?"
+
+	
      
+	So frankly, whether one comes out and says something, or does not come
+	out and say something, someone on one side or the other is going to give
+	you a hard time about it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Jack's murders took place in the East End of London, not the
+	West End
+
+	
      
+	What happened is...basically...Joe is a moron.
+
+	
      
+	I did my research. I called up the info on the encyclopedia, got 
+	all the dates right, and my eyes saw East End and for whatever 
+	stupid, idiotic reason, my fingers typed West instead of East, and
+	nobody, NObody, caught it until now.  I'd loop it, but alas the line
+	is on his face, and it'd look real stupid, and the delivery is *so* 
+	perfect as it is; if we looped it, we'd destroy it.
+
+	
      
+	So I content myself with the notion that it's west...of B5.
+
+	
      
+	Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go shoot myself.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, yes, I do have a pet theory about who the Ripper was, but
+	I'm so embarrassed over the west end/east end typo in one of our
+	episodes that I don't know if I'll ever have enough courage to broach it
+	to anyone.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Okay, here's one clue for any would-be Ripperologists out there.
+	
+	
      
+	In all the long story of Jack, when he was out doing his nightly work, 
+	only one person, a woman, wrote an actual letter, published in the
+	London Times, offering an *explanation* for the Ripper's work, 
+	arguing that he was trying to send a message, that maybe people should 
+	listen to that message. It was as close as anyone's ever come to an 
+	actual *defense* of what he was doing.
+
+	
      
+	Note the woman's name, and who her husband was...a man who was twice 
+	interviewed by Scotland Yard, and interviewed by many Church officials,
+	the transcripts of which have been *sealed* by the Church ever since, 
+	at the request of the family...a person who was the last man to see at 
+	least one of the victims alive...and who was a direct blood relative of
+	the man who was living with the final victim (who was killed indoors, 
+	leading to the speculation that she knew her assailant)...who suffered a 
+	breakdown just before the murders began, was obsessed with cleaning up 
+	the Whitechapel area, and after whose sudden, hasty transfer, the
+	murders stopped...and whose profession is tied *directly* to the only
+	thing the Ripper was overheard to say to one of his victims.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Maybe the West End fell into the ocean and the East End is now
+	West.
+
+	
      
+	No, no, it's hopeless...I'll have to turn in my writer's card.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Unfortunately (yes, we discussed this), he says the line *on camera*,
+	and the shape of the mouth for West is very different than for East;
+	also the performance wouldn't be nearly as good.  So there it is....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Though I knew about the gaff a LONG time before it was to
+	air here in the US, I let the east/west thing go through as shot for
+	the very first broadcast because I was afraid that the loop might
+	hurt the scene, and it was *so* perfectly done.  That over, I decided
+	it was worth taking a shot at it.  If your friend didn't notice, then
+	we did it right.   So now those who taped the first broadcast have
+	something that'll never be seen again (if I have anything to say
+	about it).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, it's always the dopey, small stuff that slips past, and nobody
+	notices until it jumps out at you when it's too late.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sebastian's final words were part of the same sentence he began
+	while speaking directly to Sheridan's face...insofar as I have ever
+	considered the scene, he IS talking to Sheridan.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How did Lennier know where Delenn was?
      
+	Well, given Delenn's position, I think she'd have let Lennier know 
+	where she was, or that he'd heard Sheridan tell Delenn in the scene we 
+	played the voice-over.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, there *was* a scene where Lennier, concerned, tracks down Kosh
+	to inquire after Delenn's situation, which report alarms him and sends
+	him after Sheridan.  It was filmed...but cut for time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Censorship by C4 in Great Britain
+
+	
      
+	They SNIPPED the shot of G'Kar slicing his hand?  You're kidding!  I
+	find that quite astonishing; it was done discreetly.  I'm dumbfounded.
+	No wonder there was confusion about that scene.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You're right, btw; I was informed in another message here that they 
+	did snip that piece of G'Kar's action.  Suffice to say I had *no* 
+	idea, and now that I *do* have an idea...I'm simply wog-boggled.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Can G'Kar grow to forgive?  I don't think so...and yet in a way he must
+	come to something more than rage, and other than forgiveness.  There is
+	an important step in his development yet to come.  And he will have to
+	go there by a very hard road.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the Centauri war escalates, a Narn warcruiser seeks help from Babylon 5.
+Earth takes a position in the war.  Keffer makes a terrifying discovery.
+Kosh takes a drastic step to save a life.
+
+
+Roy Dotrice as Frederick Lantze.
+John Vickery as Mr. Welles.
+Rick Hamilton as Mitch.
+Robin Sachs as Na'Kal.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.40
+
+Production number: 222
+Original air date: August 15, 1995 (UK)
+                   November 1, 1995 (US)
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Janet Greek
    
+
+
    
+Think twice before reading what's below if you haven't seen the
+episode -- major spoilers follow!
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The Ministry of Peace has been recruiting other high-level B5 staff members
+for its Nightwatch program.
+
+
    • 
+Vorlons appear as angelic, winged beings of light, whose appearance is
+different to each observer.  They can fly.  (But see
+jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Is Keffer mercifully dead, or might he reappear as "worse than dead" -- a
+tool of the Shadows a la Morden?
+
+
    • 
+What will be the ramifications of Zack's turning the shopkeeper in to the
+Nightwatch?
+
+
    • 
+How far will the Centauri expansion push?
+
+
    • 
+Why did Londo see nothing when he looked at Kosh? (see
+Analysis)
+
+
    • 
+Who was behind the bombing of Sheridan's tram? Who were the young Centauri
+taking orders from, if anyone?
+
+
    • 
+What ramifications will there be to Kosh's appearance, since it was such a
+closely kept secret before?
+
+
    • 
+What will happen to the Narn cruiser?
+
+
    • 
+What other forces do the Narn have that were not caught by the Centauri?
+
+
    • 
+Where did the cruiser go?
+
+
    • 
+Have the Centauri made any arrangements with the Minbari, or are they
+relying on their non-interference in the affairs of other races?
+
+
    • 
+Will Sheridan's planned apology be enough to satisfy his superiors at
+Earthdome, or is he in danger of losing his position?
+
+
    • 
+What effect will the open transmission by ISN of Keffers recorder log have
+on the Shadows' plans?  Will it force them to show their hand?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Night has indeed fallen. As the Centauri government
+continues to expand by attacking other races like the Drazi and the
+Pak'Ma'Ra, the Earth government has entered into an appeasement pact with
+them. Meanwhile, the inward-turning Earth government is using their
+"Nightwatch" as a means to silence dissent. However, Keffer's last flight
+has made the presence of the Shadows in hyperspace known to all of Earth,
+relayed to them via ISN.
+
+
      
+
    • It's interesting that Kosh risks revealing himself to save one life - the
+same criterion for saintliness/being the Chosen that the Inquisitor established
+(cf. "Comes the Inquisitor").
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Vir and Lennier are both feeling the pressures of knowing a great deal
+about what is going on but not being involved in the planning and
+decision making stages.  That they have found each other to talk to is
+somewhat ironic, since each is working for masters who have taken
+opposing sides - Light and Dark - in the coming battle.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"We will, at last, know peace in our time."  This phrase, given by Lantze
+when he announces the Earth-Centauri non-aggression pact, is very similar
+to a phrase used by Neville Chamberlain after signing an appeasement
+agreement with Hitler in 1938 just prior to the invasion of Czechoslovakia, an
+agreement that failed to stop Hitler's expansionist policy.  The choice of
+words is probably intended to highlight the futility of such a pact with
+an aggressive party and a foreshadow of future events.  There are other
+parallels with Nazi actions (divided between the actions of both
+signatories),  but the motivations of the Earth government are not race
+related nor moving towards the domination/submission of other groups.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+NightWatch openly tries to recruit highly placed individuals, not
+appearing too concerned if they refuse.  This suggests that they feel
+confident about circumnavigating these people with a strong sense of
+loyalty at a later date, replacing them with a more easily manipulated
+individual.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Had Sheridan refused to apologize publicly and been replaced, it would
+have been with Ivanova had she accepted Welles offer to work with the
+NightWatch.  Otherwise they would have brought in an easily manipulated
+person to command Babylon 5, as Welles indicated.
      
+
+
    • 
+This episode shows the new defense grid (cf.
+"GROPOS")
+in action for the
+first time.  As promised it is an even match for a heavy battle
+cruiser.  The battle doctrine for the B5 universe is one of fighters
+engage fighters, heavy ships engage heavy ships.  During this combat
+sequence we see what happens when a heavy ship ignores the fighters and
+fails (for whatever reason) to deploy its own fighters.  While not capable
+of inducing complete destruction of a heavy vessel in the short term, the
+fighters can strip a heavy vessel of its offensive/defensive armament
+since such weaponry is small compared to the ship and necessarily exposed
+in order to be effective.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Lantze is a dreamer and idealist, taking any steps to ensure peace for
+Earth.  He is someone who feels that the ends justify the means so long as
+it does not involve Earth.  This is a direct expression of the anti-alien
+feelings present at the moment on Earth.  That Lantze is not directly
+involved in the NightWatch suggests that, while he understands the aims of
+the NightWatch, his concience is not capable of handling the individual
+betrayals involved.  Perhaps the ideal politician.
+
+
      
+Welles, on the other hand, is very much caught up in the management of the
+NightWatch.  He has no conscience pangs about the betrayal of individals.
+While he is a co-director of The Ministry of Peace, he probably has more
+real power than Lantze because of what he is managing.  He is also gifted
+with the art of manipulating people as shown with both Zack and Sheridan
+(although the latter is more aware of the manipulation and capable of
+defending against it.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Narn cruiser will probably use other races threatened by the Centauri
+for assistance, perhaps acting as a mercenary.  Or it may find
+somewhere quiet to lie low until it can be called into the service of
+homeworld.  The Minbari cruiser Trigati managed to avoid capture for over
+ten years (cf.
+"Points of Departure").
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Shadows did not destroy the recorder marker dropped by Keffer.  Either
+they failed to detect it (they aren't omnipotent), or they chose to ignore
+it (they are confident it would make no difference, or were unaware of the
+contents).
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Keffer's recording log has been transmitted by ISN.  This is exactly what
+Delenn and Sheridan wanted to avoid.  Will it force the Shadows' hand now
+that they have been seen?  Or will it push the forces of Light into even
+greater efforts?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The commentary by ISN at the end of the episode suggests that the events
+on Earth are not being manipulated by the Shadows.  Of course this could
+just be a politically expedient newscast.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Kosh's rescue of Sheridan is like a blessing from the heavens.  This will
+no doubt be taken as a sign of Sheridan's worthiness to lead the forces of
+Light, as it has already been taken to indicate that Babylon 5 is blessed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+When Kosh left his encounter suit only Delenn was present.  She has
+already seen Kosh.  The other ambassadors only saw a being of light
+rise up and rescue
+Sheridan.  Kosh also landed in an empty part of the Zen garden before
+returning to his encounter suit.  The conversation in the Zocalo between
+the Narn and the Drazi suggests they are not aware it is Kosh.  What would
+the reaction be if these races were to find out that the Vorlons had been
+interfering (apparently benevolently) in the development of their race?
+Would religions collapse under the revelation that their supernatural
+beings were simply ancient aliens?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Does each Vorlon appear as a particular entity to each type of observer,
+an entity that remains the same over time?  If so, could Kosh be the original
+G'Lan, and thus be at least a thousand years old?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Londo failed to see Kosh when he revealed himself.  Does this extend to
+all Centauri, or is it peculiar to Londo?  If it is the former then it
+suggests that either the Vorlons have not openly visited the Centauri
+(why?) or that their worship of their deceased Emperors as gods has
+diminished the effect of exposure to Vorlons.  If it is the latter then it
+must be because of Londo's association with the Shadows.  If this is the
+case then what would be the response of other Centauri on seeing a Vorlon? (see
+jms speaks)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Carrying the above a step further, are Vorlons invisible to Centauri and/or
+to anyone of a race they haven't dealt with before?  That suggests the
+possibility that the Shadows might be the same way, visible to some people
+and not to others.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Delenn seemed somewhat taken aback by Sheridan's unflattering appraisal of
+the Vorlons' motives; she seems willing to regard them as, if not completely
+good, at least altruistic, and is clearly awed by them.  It's plausible she
+has perceived Kosh as a Minbari religious figure from the start, which has
+colored her perceptions of him in exactly the way Sheridan describes.
+
+
      
+Might Sheridan's less starry-eyed view of the Vorlons be due in part to the
+training he's been getting from Kosh, the point of which (for a while,
+anyway) was to help Sheridan and Kosh understand each other?  Put another
+way, has Sheridan learned to fight the legends he believes Kosh's appearance
+is intended to evoke?
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why do the Vorlons appear as the particular religious figures they do?  Each
+of the figures we saw was an idealized version of the race in question.
+Perhaps this is to make themselves seem less alien, more familiar and therefore
+less threatening.  The fact that they feel the need to do this suggests that
+their true appearance may be very alien indeed.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+When Sheridan mentioned to Delenn that everyone saw something different in
+Kosh, Delenn replied that each person saw something "according to his or
+her type."  That choice of words can be interpreted in a disturbing way, to
+suggest that the Vorlons have organized other sentients into categories.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Might the Shadows' appearance also be subjective?  What do they look like
+to Morden, for instance?  It may be that the Shadows feel no need to deceive
+others about their appearance, as it might not advance their goals (whatever
+those goals might be.)  Clearly the Shadows prefer not to be seen, to work
+through others, but that might be the result of small numbers or caution as
+much as anything else.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Kosh's true form is probably smaller than what everyone saw; for one thing,
+his encounter suit is shorter than he appeared to be.  When he was behind
+the screen in
+"Midnight on the Firing Line"
+he appeared to be much smaller as well.  But he probably does have a physical
+form of some kind, since he was able to touch Sheridan (if it were just
+telekinesis, presumably he wouldn't have needed to leave his suit.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Zack is having second thoughts about the NightWatch.  Up until now he has
+been happily accepting their money in return for just wearing the armband
+and giving in few reports.  He misunderstood their intentions and now
+realizes that should he try to leave he will be branded in the same way as
+the shopkeeper in the Zocalo.  The fear of being taken out of society
+and branded as a traitor is greater than the urge to stand up for what he
+believes to be right.  Zack's dissatisfaction with the
+NightWatch might be useful at a later date.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The signal for the Centauri weapons lock on to Babylon 5 sounded like that
+of a submarine sonar.  It represents an active weapons lock (ship sending
+out signals to locate its target) rather than a passive lock (ship
+detecting emmissions from its target.)  It brings a tension to the
+situation inherited from the submarine warfare genre of films.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+How compatible is an Earth Alliance career and raising children?
+Ivanova's conversation with Lantze suggests that women do bear children
+while actively continuing with their careers.  Another hint from JMS that
+the military at least are an equal oppourtunities employer.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The celebration of Winter Solstice described by Lantze is a pagan
+festival.  The celebration of Christ's birth, though important in
+Christian teaching, was not begun until the 4th century.  The time of year
+was chosen to counter the celebration of the Winter Solstice.  Presumably
+the reference to the public celebration of the solstice indicate a more
+open tolerance of religion on Earth in the 22nd century, and that there
+are other religious groups that celebrate the same period for different
+reasons.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+It's Keffer's obsession with the shadow ship he saw in hyperspace in
+"A Distant Star"
+that leads to his demise.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Kosh has now offered his hand to Babylon 5's commander twice, both times
+with potentially disastrous results.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The exchange between Lennier and Vir might have been more than mere comic
+relief.  Perhaps they were actually passing information back and forth
+using a code of some kind -- Vir now appears strongly motivated to do
+something like that.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+
+Ivanova's lighting of candles at the end of the episode had a deeper meaning
+
+than may initially be obvious.  In Orthodox Jewish tradition, Chanukah
+(the Festival of Lights)
+celebrates both the victory over the conquerors of Jerusalem and the victory
+of those who wanted to uphold traditional values over those who wanted to
+assimilate with the enemy, an internal struggle which is also arguably the
+main theme of the episode.  (See jms speaks,
+here and in "The Long, Twilight Struggle")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The character "Corwin" is no doubt named after Norman Corwin,
+JMS' friend and mentor.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ivanova's comment about Sheridan being weightless depends on one's point
+of view.  In a strict, pedantic sense, everyone on Babylon 5 is close to
+weightless, since weight is defined as the force with which a mass is
+gravitationally attracted to another mass, and B5 achieves the illusion
+of weight by rotation, not by gravity.  (Leaving aside, of course, the
+gravity of the planet below the station.)
+
+
      
+Sheridan's movement away from the station's axis is due to three factors.
+First, the tram wasn't exactly at the axis, so it was revolving
+at some speed.  Just as a rock flies in a straight line if you swing it
+on a piece of string then let go, Sheridan would have moved toward the ground
+even if he'd just stepped gingerly out the door.
+
+
      
+Of course, he didn't; he leapt.  Depending on whether the door was facing
+into or against the station's spin, this might have either
+accelerated his descent or slowed it.  The fact that he appeared to not
+leap very hard suggests that the door was facing spinward and he wanted to
+stay in the air as long as possible.
+
+
      
+The final factor is the atmosphere, which rotates in the Garden along with
+the ground and everything else.  As Sheridan fell, he would be pushed along
+by air revolving at speeds closer and closer to the speed of the ground; this
+would tend to accelerate his fall, since it would cause him to revolve more
+quickly.  So the longer he fell, the faster he would be going.  That effect
+would probably be fairly weak for most of the fall, so it might
+not have accelerated him to high enough speed to cause serious harm when he
+hit the ground.
+
+
      
+Unfortunately, his inertia would keep him from achieving ground speed even
+with the push of the wind, so as Ivanova said, he would have hit the ground
+as if he'd fallen out of a car on the freeway, even if his rate of descent
+alone wouldn't have been enough to hurt him seriously.
+
+
      
+In any case, Sheridan is probably quite glad Kosh chose that moment to make an
+appearance.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Janet [Greek] was not available to us for most of this season due to
+	illness (flu turning into pneumonia), but she's better now, and will be
+	directing our season-ender, "[The Fall of Night]."  We hope to have her
+	do five or six next year, and will of course try to get her for our
+	first and last as with this year and the last of year one; she's kind
+	of our good luck charm.
+
+
      
+   
    •  On Monday we begin our last week of filming.  We're going for an
+	eight-day shoot this one time, rather than our usual seven-day shoot,
+	because of the extraordinary EFX requirements to pull off the finale.
+	It should be a doozy.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How does the finale compare?  Hmmm...depends on what you're looking
+	for.  "Inquisitor" is primarily a character piece, virtually no EFX,
+	but very intense.  The story is kind of straightforward, with a few 
+	kickers along the way.  "Twilight" is a heavy story episode, that 
+	zips all over the B5 landscape, between the Narns, the Centauri, and 
+	elsewhere (he said vaguely).  The finale, "The Fall of Night," is 
+	actually kind of deceptive; it starts out fairly calmly and tightens 
+	fairly fast.  The story is not as back-and-forth or layered as Twilight
+	or Coming, it's really about one thing.  Visually, it's the most 
+	ambitious thing we've done to date, and probably the most ambitious 
+	EFX stuff done for a TV series *ever*.  I don't think you'll feel left
+	wanting after the episode is done.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the last ep of this season wasn't per se a cliffhanger, though it
+	does tip over a few things, so it flows from 222 to 301 fairly smoothly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, this is the other structure that's kind of a favorite of mine.  
+	I used it also in "Coming of Shadows."  It starts out kind of slow, it
+	lulls you into a sense that this is going to be a fairly ordinary story,
+	nothing major...allowing me to sneak up behind you in the story and just
+	*whack* you real hard when you're not expecting it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In a few days we will begin shooting the final episode of
+	season two: "The Fall of Night."  In terms of action, this is the
+	biggest thing we've ever attempted.  Where normally our scripts have
+	50-80 scenes/shots (as noted in numerical sluglines), this one has 134;
+	of which 64 are EFX shots, some in combinations.  To understand the
+	weight of that, there were 60 EFX shots in the entire two-hour pilot.
+	In addition, this has more and more *complex* CGI than the first 13
+	episodes of our first season put TOGETHER.  Nothing on quite this scale
+	has ever been attempted in series TV before, and the irony is that the
+	major part of this covers only a few minutes in the fourth act.
+
+	
      
+	This stuff is going to involve every one of our EFX divisions,
+	compositing, makeup, prosthetics, costuming, practical effects, mattes,
+	CGI; the visual EFX meeting was the biggest we've ever had, and
+	everyone's both sober and excited.  Because there are only two options
+	when you go for something this substantial: either you're going to do
+	something truly amazing, or you're going to massively fall on your
+	face.  For our EFX people, this is kinda like boarding the wildest ride
+	at Magic Mountain and leaving off your seatbelt on a dare...it's one
+	hell of a ride, but boy is it dangerous.
+
+	
      
+	But as Ron Thornton pointed out: no guts, no glory.
+
+	
      
+	This is also going to be a Janet Greek-directed episode, who for
+	various reasons was only available to do our first episode prior to
+	this, but she's kind of our good luck charm, and we wanted someone
+	who's  done as much for us as she has to come in here and helm
+	this...because it could probably break a less experienced (on B5)
+	director.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  That last sequence is the single biggest effects sequence
+	done for TV, insofar as I know.  There are 34 composite shots in a
+	matter of just a few minutes.  Our guys nearly went blind doing it,
+	but it's cool.  The whole feel, I think, is quite nice.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Definite agreement on the shuttle sequence, works nicely.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A wire harness was used; and the effect you ask about 
+	[Kosh] was a mix of CGI, live action, and rotoscope.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think the Kosh stuff is *very* cool...but I don't want to over-sell
+	it; best to see it cold.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh's wings looked like those of the aliens in "The Abyss."
+	
      
+	There was no deliberate homage, but the individual who helped design
+	that, working with me, was Steve Burg, who has worked on Abyss and T2.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How long did the Kosh scene take to get right?
      
+	It took, literally, months of trial and error, design and
+	redesign, which is why  we did it as the last episode of that
+	season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Since "The Fall of Night"
+	has now aired in the UK, and word is getting
+	out, herewith a post I left on GEnie about Kosh's now-revealed 
+	identity.  I thought it came out fairly well, so I'm repeating it here.
+
+	
      
+	*****
+
+	
      
+	Okay.  Here it is.  I'm gonna do it.  I'm gonna reveal Kosh.
+
+	
      
+	I'm not kidding.  Bail now if you're looking in and don't want to know.
+
+	
      
+	No backsies.
+
+	
      
+	I mean it.
+
+	
      
+	Last chance.
+
+	
      
+	Okay, this is it.
+
+	
      
+	"If he leaves his encounter suit, he will be recognized."
      
+	"By who?"
      
+	"Everyone."
+
+	
      
+	"The First Ones taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim,
+	built civilizations...."
+
+	
      
+	Kosh is what you're pointing at when you say "That's Kosh."
+
+	
      
+	"Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth, the Vorlons have been everywhere.
+	The Vorlons *are*."
+
+	
      
+	They *are*.
+
+	
      
+	"For centuries, the Vorlons have helped the younger races, guiding us,
+	and --"   "And manipulating us?"  "It is, as you say, a matter...
+	of perspective."
+
+	
      
+	They *are*...a matter of perspective.
+
+	
      
+	Each race who sees them, sees something out of their own past, their
+	own legends, religions, faiths.  A being of light, if you will, but a
+	Drazi sees the Drazi version of that, Droshalla; the Minbari see the 
+	Minbari version of that, Valeria; humans see a human version of that.
+
+	
      
+	It is the mirror in which we see our beliefs reflected, but is it the
+	progenitor of those beliefs...or an implanted image that overlays that
+	vision on top of the true form of the Vorlon?  Is it revelation, or is
+	it manipulation?
+
+	
      
+	The Vorlons are a cypher.  The Vorlons are a matter of perspective.
+	The Vorlons are guides...or users, emissaries or puppeteers, who wish
+	to be seen a certain way, so that we will react properly.
+
+	
      
+	Is this good, or is this bad?
+
+	
      
+	And the truth is, even though you have seen a Vorlon, have you seen
+	THE Vorlon, the one behind the image that dances somewhere between your
+	optic nerve and your brain?
+
+	
      
+	Or to quote a message I left long ago, paraphrased from memory, "The 
+	hand Sinclair sees is not the hand Sinclair sees, and the hand Sinclair
+	sees is not the same hand someone else in the room sees, and is not 
+	even the hand that that person sees."
+
+	
      
+	The Vorlons Are.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh is weak. He allowed himself to be poisoned by a Minbari and
+	attacked by Morden.  He needed a Vicar to probe Talia and needed
+	Sebastian to test Delenn.  He rarely does anything directly, preferring
+	to use others.  I find Kosh slightly righteous.
      
+
+	Thanks.  And finding Kosh slightly righteous is pretty much the desired
+	intent.  So you're clicking on all the right cylinders.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh is an angel!  But which one?
      
+
+	
      
+	Actually, no, not really; Kosh is what you see when you look at him.
+	And if a Drazi looks at him, the Drazi sees something different
+	than a Minbari; yes, a being of light, BUT....
+
+	
      
+	Is that what they actually ARE, or how they have programmed us to
+	react when we see them?  As Sheridan said, have we been *manipulated*
+	to seeing them a certain way, seeing a certain image?  We may not be
+	seeing what they ARE, but what they WANT us to see.
+
+	
      
+	It goes a heck of a lot deeper than what it seems.
+
+
      
+   
    •  That's the irony, in a sense...what's inside Kosh's biomechanical 
+	encounter suit...is a *perceptual* encounter suit....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would a Hindu, or a Buddhist, see Kosh differently?
      
+	Yes, there would be some amount of variation among humans, though not
+	in terms of beliefs that may have come along post-Vorlon influence.  
+	This sort of thing has been implanted almost at a genetic level, and 
+	they do have a hand, or a mind, in activating it when seen.  The more 
+	people who see them in different ways, the longer they must maintain 
+	that, the greater the strain on them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The more people who have to *see* Kosh as one of their own, the
+	greater the strain on Kosh, as you'll note in the first ep of year
+	three.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Vorlons aren't prepared to fight?  They'll refuse?
      
+	As for the Vorlons line..."prepared" 
+	should be taken in the same sense as "ready"...so they may not yet be 
+	ready.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the Shadows know that the Vorlons are still around, and that Kosh 
+	is there.  That's never been any kind of secret.  They're just hoping
+	that the Vorlons and anyone who might believe them won't find out that
+	they're out and about again until too [late.]
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Vorlons aren't yet ready; they can't take on the shadows by
+	themselves, and must bring together other forces.
+
+	
      
+	And in each case, re: Kosh, what they saw was not the *head* of 
+	their belief, but in essence a supporting being of light; it wasn't 
+	G'Quon, but G'Lan that G'Kar saw, which was a being that story tells us 
+	served G'Quon. So you wouldn't see the head of the religion, 
+	since there can only be one of those, and lots of Vorlons, but each
+	tends to have a supporting cast, for lack of a better term.  Those are
+	what we perceive the vorlons to be.
+
+	
      
+	And remember, we didn't see any other human's POV of Kosh but 
+	Sheridan's.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, she wouldn't.  Again, you don't see the *top* of the echelon of any
+	belief, because there can be only one of those; it's the servants of
+	light you see (and even the Old Testament makes reference to such
+	things).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, those are pretty much the two interpretations...
+	that the Vorlons *created*  the myth of angels, or that they
+	came in and *exploited* it for their own purposes.  In my
+	view, the latter seems more logical in some ways.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When one Vorlon looks at another, he sees a proper Vorlon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will WE see a proper Vorlon?
      
+	We will see them.  Eventually.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What, I should begin catering to prurient interests?  
+	Broadcasting picture postcards (likely French) of Vorlons 
+	in provocative poses, in lingerie?  A terrible thing, that 
+	a nice young man such as yourself should be asking about.  
+	Does your mother know you're out here doing this?  Good heavens.
+
+	
      
+	And who said they reproduce anymore?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did Kosh go afterwards?
      
+	First he returned to his encounter suit, then he went to his ship,
+	and stayed there for quite a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, he had the momentum from his jump, plus that of the
+	core shuttle itself  (which is considerable), plus the wind
+	currents toward the center of the station  area/garden, which
+	area also considerable.  Together that would be enough to 
+	keep him moving toward the outer edge of the garden area.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Nnnnnnoo, not really;
+	the Centauri don't actually have an equivalent to G'Quan or Valen.
+
+	
      
+	Believe it or not, this one answer may add another layer to a scene
+	in one of the last episodes of this season.  You can infer it backwards
+	once you see it, but now you'll have it going in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  They [Centauri]
+	believe in a variety of afterlives; the god you worship, of the
+	centauri pantheon, holds dominion over a given "heaven" or afterworld.
+	If you appease the god sufficiently during life, it will accept you 
+	into that afterworld, in preparation for the day when all heavens are
+	united; if not, you will have to be reborn and choose another until 
+	one accepts you.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo saw what he said he saw.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, all that was indicated in the script was that he for a beat
+	isn't sure what's up...then lets it go.  I generally don't drop specific
+	points explaining foreshadowing in the scripts, in case they leak out.
+	If a line like that isn't sufficiently clear for the actor's intent,
+	they then come to me and I explain it verbally.  This was done in
+	particular when we had to shoot "Chrysalis" before "Signs and Portents,"
+	even though the latter aired before the former.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "It doesn't matter.  This place has been blessed."  Nobody was
+	trying to claim it was only THEIR deity.
      
+	Thanks.  I think that, with so many races around, you couldn't go into 
+	holy wars or jihads at every occasion.  In a 
+	way, what was seen was a validation for many...a moment they all came 
+	together, instead of coming apart.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Clark reprimand Sheridan personally?
      
+	From a strictly logical standpoint, a president would not lower 
+	himself to deal with this personally.  When MacArthur and Patton earned
+	the disfavor of the president, it was intermediaries who pulled them
+	aside and registered this.  Also, gradually more authority is being
+	vested in Nightwatch and the Ministry of Peace, as that's his arm, and
+	so he'd be inclined to use that since he's in most direct control.
+	(Just to explain why what was done was done.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Zack trusting the Nightwatch
      
+	And bear in mind that it's never just a common sense "oh, these guys
+	are  lying to me from Nightwatch, they're the bad guys."  It's always
+	couched in such a  way that it sounds like it *might* be a real concern.
+	That was how McCarthy and  others terrorized this country during the
+	1950s.  There were plenty of people who  really *believed* that the Reds
+	had infiltrated every aspect of society, as well as  those who might've
+	had doubts, but figured that maybe where there's smoke  there IS fire.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's also a certain amount of McCarthyism inherent in the 
+	Nightwatch, the emphasis on revealing spies in our midst, enemies of the
+	people.
+
+	
      
+	The problem with pointing to the Nazis or the Gestapo exclusively is 
+	that it allows us the safety of saying, "Well, it happened just there,
+	and only once, *we* could never fall for that."
+
+	
      
+	Wrong.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bear in mind that Sheridan specifically states that the treaty had 
+	*not* been finalized yet between Earth and the Centauri, so the attack
+	was not a violation of a treaty that hadn't been signed yet.  (And very
+	likely the Centauri captain was unaware of it *anyway*, just as Sheridan
+	was taken by surprise by it all.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  I hope Sheridan verified those orders.
      
+	And the really great thing is...you're quite right about verifying 
+	orders from one arm of the government with another...as we'll see in the
+	first third of the coming season.  Good call.
+
+
      
+   
    •  After the Centauri tried to kill him, the need for an apology was
+	somewhat obviated.  Had he still been forced to do so, the one he
+	rehearsed was the one he intended to give.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The "peace in our time" reference
      
+	Yes, it was a definite nod to Chamberlain, and a bit of foreshadowing
+	for ominous things to come.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are a number of metaphors in the show that operate on many
+	different levels; it can't be a one-to-one corrolary to WW II, 
+	because that limits and makes predictable your story.
+
+	
      
+	In musical terms, it's almost a tonal piece, taking elements to
+	which we respond, almost subconsciously, and then rearranging them 
+	into something that is, one hopes, a new construct.  You can find 
+	here echoes of Vietnam, of Kennedy, of Chamberlain, of WW II, of 
+	Korea, of the Mideast; in a way, it's a thematic piece that touches 
+	how we have come to think of war, and conflict, across the 
+	development of the 20th century, and the role of the individual in 
+	that regard.
+
+	
      
+	We have learned to think of war as something now on a huge scale,
+	an entity in itself.  Once upon a time, before the gatling gun and 
+	the automatic rifle, combat was something individual, even in larger
+	wars, one person against the enemy...and that person was honored, one 
+	person could turn the tide against the enemy.  In a world in which 
+	weapons of mass destruction exist, where then is the individual?  
+	Where then the bravery, the struggle, the triumph...and the failure?  
+	Where, fundamentally, is the responsibility?
+
+	
      
+	All of that is intertwined with the storyline, and to communicate that
+	I'm not averse to taking elements of history that resonate with that 
+	theme and reworking them, knowing that on a cellular level, we 
+	*recognize* that aspect, we've seen it...but now in a new context, we 
+	can see it differently, discuss its implications, *learn* from it.
+
+	
      
+	This is one of the things I rarely talk about, because it's the kind 
+	of thing that is best left simply implied, or implicit, in the work, 
+	and because if you have to draw attention to something in the work, 
+	somehow I think it lessens it, because it works best unspoken.  And 
+	because I guess it sounds kinda presumptuous, and high-falutin' and 
+	self-indulgent.  But it's one the things that matters to me in the
+	context of the story.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Symbolism in Ivanova's
+	candle-lighting
      
+	Moshe: an excellent analysis of the theme behind that scene, which
+	as you state ties directly into the theme of the whole episode, and
+	moreover, somewhat sets up the theme for the coming season...who will
+	determine your identity, the rules you follow, who will lead you, and
+	who you are...the question of, as you say, those who wish to accommodate
+	and give in to pressures from within and from without.
+
+	
      
+	Didn't want to be heavy-handed about it, so I figured those who got
+	it, got it; those who didn't, would see a nice candle scene which sets
+	the mood, even if they don't get the full thematic/symbolic aspects that
+	others would get.
+
+	
      
+	(not a Talmudic scholar, but I play one on TeeVee....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The narrative [at the end] was a tonal setup for next season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Imagery in Season Two episode titles?
      
+	Yes; work it out as you have, but take it further...we start with a
+	point of departure...then after some revelations, examine the geometry
+	of shadows, then begin to more forward, a race through dark places.  We
+	come toward the long dark, our past a distant star.  We carry the motif
+	of a world getting dark.  The coming of shadows that darkens into the 
+	long twilight struggle, the last period between day and night...and we 
+	end the season on...the fall of night.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, the "snitch" was the C&C tech, NOT the pilot, they just
+	have a somewhat similar appearance.
+
+	
      
+	We've established that klaxons go off elsewhere in the station
+	during an attack to warn civilians, but they aren't going off in C&C
+	because they make it impossible to concentrate, as per military 
+	tradition (see
+	"And Now For a Word" to confirm this).
+
+	
      
+	There wasn't time to call Draal, and they can't begin relying on him
+	for every problem; they have to be able to hold their own.  You would
+	only bring in Draal on something really major.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Keffer dead?
      
+	He is an Ex-Keffer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does that mean he's dead?
      
+	Dead as the proverbial doorknob.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Keffer jettisoned his recording as soon as the Shadow ship started
+	scanning him. But the ISN broadcast showed the Shadow ship turning and
+	firing.
      
+	Yeah, I kinda figured that recorders like this would be outfitted with
+	a receiver for the ship's gun camera.  This would be vital to locate 
+	ships that got lost, and track as long as possible what happened after
+	the log was ejected, and before the recorder moved out of range.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the camera was still mounted on the Starfury, but cameras even
+	today are constantly transmitting to other locations; TV cameras don't
+	just transmit on a cable to the box they're attached to, they are 
+	uplinked to other places.  Similarly, the recording device continued 
+	to receive transmission from the Starfury until such time as it either
+	went out of range or, in this case, the transmitter was destroyed.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the part of the station that was shot off?
      
+	It's an area for helping secure ships while being offloaded 
+	into the zero-G cargo bay right behind it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What does "time on target" mean?
      
+	It's an actual military term for launching a lot of stuff, so that
+	even though it's launched at different times, it all arrives at once.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The interceptors line refers to the fact that there are so many 
+	incoming bursts that the interceptors are only knocking down 90% of them
+	at this point, meaning that some of them (the incoming bursts) are
+	getting through.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Visually, yeah, I'd have to say TFoN is one of our biggest from year
+	two, and I'm quite fond of it; the only reason that it isn't in my
+	top three is because while the last half is very intense, it takes a
+	little bit to get there; I like 'em intense from the first frame on.
+
+	
      
+	For the growing use of montage/intercutting...it's really just a
+	process of continuing to learn my craft.  So I try out and experiment
+	with different techniques.  While I love dialogue, and lots of it, I'm
+	also coming more and more to appreciate moments where you *only* play
+	the visuals, and the music, and get out of the way of the Moment.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's fair to say that you will be seeing that Narn cruiser again; it's
+	still out there.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Originally compiled by Jason Snell.
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+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+While an Earth official investigates the mystery ship encountered by Lt.
+Keffer in hyperspace, Londo attempts to sever his ties with Morden.
+Sheridan receives a new tool in the fight against the Shadows.
+
+
+Tucker Smallwood as David Endawi.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.60
+
+Production number: 301
+Original air week: November 6, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A little over a thousand years ago, long before the Narn achieved
+	spaceflight, the Shadows set up a base on one of the Narn homeworld's
+	southern continents.
+
+   
    •  Morden is involved with the Psi Corps and some part of the Earth
+	government.  The Corps knows about the Shadows.  Morden has also been
+	in contact with Lord Refa without Londo's knowledge.
+
+   
    •  If Delenn is correct about Morden always having Shadow companions,
+	then the Psi Corps, at least, presumably knows about the Shadows.
+	Talia, in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	was able -- or even forced -- to sense the Shadows when she passed
+	Morden in the hall; presumably a Psi Cop would easily be able to
+	do the same.  (Unless, of course, Talia's perception was a result of
+	Ironheart's gift from
+	"Mind War.")
+
+   
    •  The Shadows aren't particularly interested in the section of the
+	galaxy containing the Centauri Republic; what they're after (or rather,
+	what they claim to be after) is on the other side.
+
+   
    •  What they are interested in, though, is the Rangers --
+	interested enough to have Morden go over Londo's head and get Refa to
+	give them a world known to house a Ranger training camp.
+
+   
    •  The Markab homeworld has been looted by scavengers since the race
+	became extinct
+	("Confessions and Lamentations.")
+
+   
    •  The Minbari religious caste, without the knowledge of some members of
+	the Grey Council, have built a new ship using Minbari and Vorlon
+	technology.  Called the White Star, it has been granted to Sheridan
+	for use against the Shadows.
+
+   
    •  The fleet of Shadow ships in Londo's dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows")
+	are flying over Centauri Prime, as far as Londo can tell.
+
+   
    •  Being seen by many people is a strain on Kosh.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What other details of Londo's dream weren't shown in
+	"The Coming of Shadows?"
+
+   
    •  What in particular are the Shadows after, that they don't care what
+	the Centauri do with a good 30% of the galaxy?  What's in the
+	remaining section?  (For example, where are the major races in
+	relation to the boundary Morden drew?)
+
+   
    •  How did Marcus leave Medlab?  Is he able to put himself into a
+	trance deep enough to pass unnoticed in an admittedly cursory
+	medical examination?
+
+   
    •  What do the Shadows know about the Rangers?
+
+   
    •  How did Ivanova find out about the Rangers?
+
+   
    •  What is the "program" referred to by the Psi Cop?
+
+   
    •  Why are some on Earth working with the Shadows?  What do they hope to
+	gain from the association, and how does that tie in with whatever the
+	Shadows want?
+
+   
    •  Will Endawi's report ever make it to real strategic analysts?  Did
+	G'Kar tell him about Z'ha'dum?
+
+   
    •  What else can the White Star do?
+
+   
    •  Was the Shadow vessel actually destroyed, or did it manage to escape?
+	If it was destroyed, did it have a chance to relay information about
+	the White Star first?  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Lennier says, "Not all of my people are comfortable with the idea of
+	the Rangers."  That implies that the Rangers aren't as secret an
+	organization on the Minbari homeworld as they are elsewhere.
+
+   
    •  Likewise, the fact that Marcus' brother was able to sign up for the
+	Rangers, and that Marcus apparently knew about them too at the time,
+	suggests that they're operating at least somewhat in the open.  That
+	might also explain how Ivanova and the Shadows found out about them.
+	The fact that the Drazi government apparently knew about the Ranger
+	training base is further evidence.
+
+   
    •  Londo severing his ties with Morden may have little
+	impact on the Shadows' association with the Centauri; Morden may
+	continue to meet with Refa, rendering Londo's newly prominent
+	position among the Centauri obsolete.
+
+   
    •  Shadow ships are actually entering and leaving hyperspace when they
+	shimmer in and out of sight; they aren't just becoming invisible.
+	Obviously they know a good deal more about hyperspace than most of
+	the other races (also evidenced by the jump-point weapon they used
+	in "The Long, Twilight Struggle.")  It's
+	interesting to note that another ancient race, the walkers at Sigma
+	957 ("Mind War") also had an atypical way of
+	entering hyperspace -- assuming that's what they were doing in that
+	episode.
+
+   
    •  Perhaps the fact that Kosh feels he must maintain his illusory
+	appearance when out of his encounter suit, and the fact that doing
+	so is a strain on him, is another reason he wears the suit in the
+	first place.  If it weren't a strain to be seen by many people,
+	perhaps he would be willing to walk around the station in full view.
+	(Probably not, though; otherwise he'd most likely have been more
+	willing to show himself in the confines of his quarters.)
+
+   
    •  Was the White Star constructed with Sheridan in mind?  Giving it that
+	name seems certain to stir up resentment among the warrior caste when
+	they find out about it, especially if it turns out that the man they
+	call Starkiller was the intended commander from the start.  (Sheridan
+	destroyed the Minbari cruiser Black Star in the Earth-Minbari War.)
+
+   
    •  The White Star has some obvious Minbari characteristics, not the least
+	of which are the distinctive spade-shaped fins at the rear (also visible
+	on Minbari flyers and battle cruisers.)  If the Shadows are at all
+	familiar with Minbari ships, they probably won't be fooled by the
+	White Star for long.
+
+   
    •  Either the Minbari and Vorlons have mastered the art of intuitive
+	user interfaces, or Ivanova is an extremely quick study; she was
+	operating the White Star's weapons systems, presumably not a trivial
+	task, with at most a few hours of training.  Perhaps the controls
+	are partially telepathic in nature.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows are aware of the fact that some Narn (if only G'Kar) know
+	about them; they don't seem to consider it significant, especially
+	now that the Narn have been beaten into submission.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows are even willing to be heard in public; they're plainly
+	audible telling Morden to set up a second meeting with Londo (assuming
+	that's what they're saying.)
+
+   
    •  Was the Shadow base on Narn a unique thing, or did they have bases on
+	other races' worlds as well?  In
+	"The Long Dark,"
+	the Markab ambassador claimed to have heard the same stories of an
+	ancient enemy that G'Kar was recounting.  Perhaps the Shadows had a
+	base on the Markab homeworld as well -- and if so, perhaps they 
+	unleashed the plague
+	("Confessions and Lamentations")
+	in order to reacquire that base without anyone noticing.  If that's
+	the case, Sheridan may have inadvertently helped the Shadows out by
+	destroying the Markab jumpgate; that'll make it harder for someone
+	to stumble on the base by accident.
+
+   
    •  Is the former Shadow presence on Narn related to the fact that there
+	are no Narn telepaths?
+	("The Gathering")
+	Given how unpleasant -- even painful -- being near the Shadows was
+	for Talia
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	perhaps prolonged exposure to the Shadows caused so much trouble for
+	Narn telepaths that they didn't survive to breed new generations of
+	telepaths.
+
+   
    •  Morden has had contact with the Centauri and with Earth.  Has he also
+	been talking to other races?  The Minbari warrior caste, for instance?
+
+   
    •  When Londo asks for assurances that the Shadows won't bother the
+	Centauri, Morden says dismissively,
+	"You and I both know what treaties are worth."
+	This could be a reference to the Centauri's disregard for the treaties
+	against mass drivers
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle")
+	-- but there's another, more recent, treaty that could also be the
+	one in question, namely the pact with Earth.
+
+   
    •  A small inconsistency, perhaps: Lennier doesn't recognize Marcus in
+	the bar, yet the two of them presumably met, since Lennier gave
+	Marcus' broach to Delenn.  It's possible that Marcus either left it
+	where Lennier would find it, or that he had Franklin deliver it (the
+	scene wasn't entirely clear, but it appeared Franklin removed the
+	broach in medlab.)
+
+   
    •  Sheridan has now destroyed two indestructible enemy vessels in his
+	career.
+
+   
    •  Marcus claims his brother was killed in a Shadow attack on a mining
+	colony.  Which colony was that?  Was Marcus working on a Narn mining
+	colony, or have the Shadows been attacking other targets as well?
+
+   
    •  Marcus' reason for joining the Rangers is similar to Ivanova's reason
+	for joining Earthforce
+	("And Now For a Word.")
+	Both of them joined after losing a brother in a war.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan orders the White Star's aft jump engines online.  If this
+	can be taken to mean that it has two (or more) sets of jump engines,
+	it may be that the White Star can duplicate the Shadow-killing
+	explosion without the aid of a jump gate by using both its jump
+	engines at the same time.  On the other hand, it may be that there's
+	only enough power to run one set of engines at a time, or that
+	there's something about jumpgates, rather than jump points, that
+	causes the effect.  (The closed caption quotes him as saying "Half
+	jump engines.")
+
+   
    •  The Centauri automated defense systems appear to be able to track
+	the White Star, evidence that Centauri weapons technology is more
+	advanced than Earth's
+	("Points of Departure.")
+
+   
    •  Endawi says that Earth pulled the Shadow footage off ISN shortly
+	after it first aired.  In what sense?   Did they just record it from
+	ISN, or did they force ISN to stop airing the report?
+
+   
    •  In the conference room, after Endawi leaves, Delenn tells Sheridan
+	that she has never seen such a ship, that only descriptions of the
+	ships have been passed down from the last war.  Presumably, if the
+	Minbari were involved in the last war against the shadows, they were
+	capable of spaceflight (recall: the Narn, who were not capable of
+	spaceflight, were ignored in the last war).  That they should have no
+	recorded images of the shadow ships from that conflict seems odd, since
+	recording technology would clearly have been within their grasp.
+	Possibilities:
+
+	
        
+	   
      1.  Someone, or something, quietly eradicated whatever images did
+		exist at some point in the past.  We have certainly seen the
+		Shadows act through their agents to suppress information
+		regarding their past activities (i.e. the Narn being beaten
+		down).  No one said all the "information suppression" had to
+		be as spectacular as a planetary conquest.  This of course
+		begs the question 'Who are the agents?' - Minbari, or outsiders.
+	
+	   
      2.  The last shadow war was so devastating that all recorded images
+		were lost.
+	
+	   
      3.  Delenn was lying.  (There doesn't seem to be a good reason
+		for her to do so, though.)
+
+	
      
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A small effects glitch is visible in the opening shot.  As the camera
+	pans down from the repair crew, look at the stationary ring around
+	the front of the station.  At about the eight o'clock position,
+	there's a small shaded area, the bottom half of which flickers on
+	and off.
+
+   
    •  When Endawi leaves the conference room after meeting with Sheridan,
+	Delenn, and Ivanova, he forgets to take his data crystal with him.
+	It is left in the viewer.  He does in fact remove it when visiting
+	Londo.  Presumably, since it was pulled just after airing on ISN,
+	he would not want to leave copies lying around.
+
+   
    •  This episode has Delenn's first action scene of the series.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  July 23, 1995:
+	Finally, one week from tomorrow, we start filming on year three, with
+	episode #301, "Matters of Honor," which also introduces a new recurring
+	character named Marcus.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, the lead guest character in the first episode of year three,
+	one Mr. Endawi, is a Nigerian, and our new recurring character, Marcus
+	Cole (a Ranger) is British, and played by Jason Carter.  So you have two
+	non-American accents occupying major parts of the first ep next year.
+
+
      
+   
    •  New sets: yes, and we're creating situations in which we can see more of
+	Earth, Mars, our other local planets, plus Narn, Centauri, Minbari and
+	one other major world.  As the Shadow War cranks into gear, you're
+	going to need a place to meet in security and plan for it, so we're
+	also building that.  We'll see more of Draal's place on Epsilon 3.
+	And there's one other major set that we'll see in the first episode,
+	and quite a bit thereafter.
+ 
+	
      
+	New characters: well, there's Marcus Cole, a Ranger assigned permanently
+	to Babylon 5, played by British actor Jason Carter; we'll see Lyta
+	Alexander more this year; and Theo...what can I say about Theo...well,
+	perhaps better to let you see for yourself.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the title sequence
      
+	"Why are starfuries firing on starfuries?"
+
+	
      
+	Noticed that, eh?
+
+	
      
+	Wait and see.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will the station still be damaged?
      
+	Repairs will be visible being done in the first episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When the fighting staff expanded, it was CGI; physical otherwise.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was that noise after Morden and Londo spoke?
      
+	No, you heard something, all right...just a little bit of shadow whisper
+	for those who got it; those who don't, won't notice.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Are Morden and his "associates" equal partners?
      
+	Well, he may sometimes *think* of his associates as equals...and my cat
+	thinks he actually owns this house....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn lied!  A continuity glitch?
      
+	Re: Minbari lying...it has been established, repeatedly, that the
+	Minbari do lie *when it means saving someone else's honor*.  That was
+	even stated, openly, in the very same episode about Sheridan's frame
+	job, "There All The Honor Lies."  Londo says, right there, that the
+	Minbari will lie for a greater cause, another's honor.  The same was
+	done in "The Quality of Mercy."  Delenn fibbed about the ship in
+	"Matters" because in so doing, she saved Sheridan's honor.
+
+	
      
+	This is not a plot hole, it's been established clearly in the series
+	on multiple occasions.  We have never, ever, at any time said
+	conclusively that Minbari never, ever lie.  This is another example of
+	certain persons simply not paying attention, and then blaming the show
+	for their own lack of continuity in attention.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Endawi is more or less a good guy, in that he's totally
+	uninvolved with Morden or anyone on that side.  He was doing what he
+	said he'd been assigned to do.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the Shadow ship destroyed?
      
+	Be of good cheer; the jumpgate blast destroyed the pursuing vessel.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's two separate mechanisms; no one has been able to open a
+	jump point in a jump point because of the hideous amount of energy
+	needed by the ship in question.  They used the White Star to open a
+	jump point within a standing *jump gate* that was already there, and
+	had a secondary source of power.  The competing energies were
+	impossible to control, and blew the whole thing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where Delenn gets all those wardrobe changes is one of those
+	questions that, in a real world, doesn't warrant close scrutiny.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, her costumes tend to be emblematic of where the character
+	is, and who she is.  Consequently, there will be some year three 
+	additions to underscore her more assertive nature; there's a green
+	costume in particular that shows up in the first episode that's just 
+	*killer*.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Delenn's bone crest changed?
      
+	Yeah, we made some small modifications to the headpiece (good call,
+	Corun).  It merges more seamlessly behind, it's raised slightly at the
+	crest, and the ends blend more smoothly into the skin in front, to make
+	the whole thing more natural.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the plant pictured in G'Kar's book?
      
+	The leaf shown is the G'Quon-eth, the plant featured in "By Any Means
+	Necessary."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Had a Minbari been running that sensor, he would've nailed it instantly;
+	but Ivanova had never actually encountered that ship before, and was
+	running off the initial scan reports.  (Also it was just phasing in at
+	that point.)
+
+	
      
+	The White Star uses local drive engines based on magnetic and
+	gravitational principles; in a sense, it doesn't so much push itself
+	toward other worlds as *pull* itself or *repel* itself.  One side effect
+	of creating a powerful gravitational system is the ability to create
+	artificial gravity.
+
+	
      
+	That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the Drazi was not a Ranger, only a supporter/collaborator (if I can
+	use, or misuse that term.)
+
+	
      
+	At this stage, the Rangers are exclusively either human or minbari.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+A series of bombings threatens the station, and Ivanova calls on some
+unusual investigators to help solve the mystery.
+
+
+Patrick Kilpatrick as Robert Carlson.
+Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.75
+
+Production number: 302
+Original air week: November 13, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  All explosives manufactured in the Earth Alliance are laced with
+	special chemical codes to allow them to be traced to a particular
+	buyer.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What was Londo doing on a transport arriving from the Minbari
+	homeworld?  (Assuming he was; he may have been on the Centauri
+	transport mentioned to G'Kar by Garibaldi.)
+
+   
    •  How will the influx of missionaries affect the station?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Lennier has saved Londo twice now, once here and once (in a less
+	extreme way) in
+	"The Quality of Mercy."
+	And now he's likely to be decorated by the Centaurum.  How will
+	that affect his position in the battle between light and dark,
+	and his apparent new friendship with Vir
+	("The Fall of Night?")
+
+   
    •  Londo apparently doesn't place absolute faith in the dream of his
+	death twenty years in the future
+	("Midnight on the Firing Line,"
+	"The Coming of Shadows.")
+	Otherwise he wouldn't have been afraid he was going to die in the
+	elevator.  (Which isn't to say he wouldn't have still tried to call
+	for help, of course.)
+
+   
    •  Lennier's own convictions, namely his prohibition against lying except
+	to save face for another, seem to have weakened since his arrival,
+	despite his pledge to do penance later.  On the other hand, perhaps
+	he justified it in his mind by figuring he was saving face for
+	the obnoxious man by getting him to stop making a fool of himself.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  G'Kar's song in the elevator is based on the ditty he sang at the
+	beginning of
+	"The Parliament of Dreams."
+
+   
    •  We may have seen Carlson before, if briefly.  In
+	"The Fall Of Night,"
+	as the Earth officials arrive, there's a man in the arrival area.
+	He's slapped by a woman and walks after her when she leaves.  The
+	man bears some resemblance to Carlson without the beard.  Perhaps
+	the woman was his wife.
+
+   
    •  Lennier's fake disease, Netter's Syndrome, is no doubt named for
+	executive producer Doug Netter.
+
+   
    •  The name Theo (short for Theodore) comes from the Greek word
+	theodoros which means "gift of God."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What's great is that this [the second] season, we haven't had one
+	single episode on
+	the level of War Prayer or Infection or Grail, some of our weaker first
+	season eps.  The worst we've done is pretty darned good.  What we're now
+	working for in year three is that they're all better than that at their
+	baseline rating.  And so far, they're killer...our second episode for
+	year three, "Convictions," has a very different feel from anything
+	we've done on the show to date, a very dark, scary and gritty feel, and
+	probably one of the best character sequences in the series to date.
+	We're also doing some major EFX blow-outs of a type other than "they go
+	into space and shoot stuff."  Very interesting, creative, offbeat stuff.
+
+
      
+   
    •  September 7, 1995:
+	I am thus far *very* happy with season three; we've got three shows
+	in the can (edited, not yet scored or mixed), and shooting number four
+	as I type this.  I think we're already a notch above our general
+	episodes
+	from year two, and "Convictions" is extremely intense, with a very
+	different look and feel from anything we've done before.  Has kind of an
+	NYPD Blue feel to it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  BTW, on the question of effects...here's one that's kinda
+	interesting, in that I've seen a few comments here and there about
+	how we must've mapped the CGI fireball into the hallway in
+	"Convictions" where Londo jumps into the transport tube.  Some even
+	offered you could tell the fire was CGI.
+
+	
      
+	Nooooooop.
+
+	
      
+	Here's how that shot was done: we built a miniature hallway
+	(actually, "miniature" ain't the right word; it was something like 30
+	feet long or more).  Painted it so that it looked exactly like the
+	regular B5 hallways.  On film you absolutely can't tell the
+	difference.  Then we mounted the hallway *vertically* alongside the
+	outside of the main building here.  Set the camer at the top,
+	pointing down into the hall.   We built a firebomb and set it at the
+	far end of the hall (on the bottom, in other words).  We then set off
+	the firebomb (with all the proper authorities present), so that it
+	shot up the length of the vertical hall.   We overcranked the camera
+	so it'd start in slow- motion, then pulled the plug so that the
+	camera slowed down to normal speed...giving the sense of the fire
+	swelling, then suddenly rushing forward with a huge fireball.   So
+	when it looks like the "hallway" is on fire...it is.  Real fire.
+
+	
      
+	Next we shot Londo (Peter) against a bluescreen, reacting to this,
+	then diving to his left.  We then comp'd the bluescreen into the
+	hallway, and used CGI to build a transport tube door to Londo's left,
+	which then closed just as the fire reached it.
+
+	
      
+	It was an utterly immense amount of work for, basically, a five
+	second shot...but it looks 'way cool.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Effects shots like this one were/are supervised via our EFX supervisor,
+	Ted Rae, working closely with the director and folks from Foundation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sue: as you're looking at the fireball approaching toward camera, he
+	jumps to our left.  Trust me on this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another scene with Londo and Lennier,
+	btw, contains a small nod to the online fans of the show; we can't and
+	won't use story ideas, but there's been so much humor, reams and reams
+	of it, every imaginable kind of joke, that I dropped one of these jokes
+	into an episode...one that's come up at a lot of conventions and on the
+	nets endlessly.  Just to acknowledge the fans in the only way I can.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't actually know for certain the origin of the joke; it was all
+	over the nets, and the BBSs, uploaded places with several gazillion other
+	lightbulb jokes (after I'd made the original version of this in the show),
+	which is why I figured I'd drop it into the episode, since it was so common
+	and associated with the nets.  While in the UK, I met a young man who said
+	that he had been the first with that variation, and I have no reason not
+	to believe him.  (A couple other people sent me email saying that they
+	had also come up with that one; it's kind of obvious I guess, but again,
+	I have no way of knowing what's true because it was just all over the
+	place, never with attribution.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo and G'Kar no longer really have much to discuss; they're past that
+	point, I figure.  They hate each other.
+
+	
      
+	Londo wasn't on Minbar; he was seeing someone off on a ship going to
+	Centauri Prime.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct.  Louis was not available to use for "Twilight" for health
+	reasons, but we like Louis a lot, and vowed to use him in another, even
+	better role, at the first opportunity.  We seized it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Finding character names is sometimes easy, sometimes hard; it really
+	does vary.
+
+	
      
+	And Theo was named for Vincent's brother.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It was a mild Spring day, warm, clear, sunny, when Vincent Van
+	Gogh picked up his easel, and some paints, and walked a mile and a half
+	to an open field where he often painted landscapes.  He set up his
+	easel, sat under a tree for a while, ate part of an apple, composed a
+	brief note to his brother Theo.  Then he pulled out a derringer and
+	shot himself in the chest.
+
+	
      
+	After an hour, realizing that he was not going to die for a
+	while yet, he picked himself up and staggered the mile and half back to
+	Theo's house, where a few hours later that evening he passed away in
+	Theo's arms.
+
+	
      
+	Some say his sad ending came about because he felt he was a
+	burden to his brother Theo, and the guilt did him in; others because he
+	sold only one painting during his life, for 48 francs, and he felt he
+	would never become a painter of any worth.
+
+	
      
+	On reflection, perhaps it was the thought of people bidding for
+	his ear that did it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I've always liked the name Theo, from Vincent's brother, so there
+	was the sound of it; also the sense of it, in that Theo was a guide, a
+	counselor, a confidante, which Theo might come to be in this; and,
+	finally, Theodore means (I just lapsed on the actual definition) but
+	either chosen (favored) of god or messenger of god (have to check my
+	dictionary of names again), which is appropos.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We'll see Theo here and there as we go along this season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Any relation to the technomages?
      
+	No, I wouldn't think of them in technomage terms; if you look at the
+	history of many of these orders, they've generally pulled together
+	people of varying skills.  Ain't really that new an idea....
+   
+
      
+   
    •  Any connection between Theo's mission and the short story "The
+	Nine Billion Names of God?"
      
+	No, there's no connection whatsoever.  The Tibetan monks in the
+	story were specifically coming up with all the names of god in order to
+	bring about the end of the world; Theo et al have come as an exercise in
+	comparative religion, to learn what the other races call god, and how it
+	compares.  As others have done before, right here on good old earth.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: "The Nine Billion Names of God," the
+	whole purpose of that story had nothing to do with alien contact; it had
+	to do with gettting all the earthbound names of God into a computer, so
+	they could create the end of the world.  The monks are on B5 in an
+	attempt at studying the different religions out there for the purpose of
+	better understanding...or more succinctly, comparative religious
+	studies, which long predate Clarke by, oh, about 500 years.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What were the floating discs at the crime scene?
      
+	It's a floating (air-compression) vidrecorder.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "B5 has gravity defying video cameras"
+
+	
      
+	Only if you consider a plane or any other reasonable technology
+	of flight to be gravity defying.
+
+	
      
+	The video recorders are made of an extremely ultralight
+	material, new alloys that in total weighs less than an ounce; it has a
+	visible (and audible) air propulsion system, a high speed fan with a
+	stabalizer/gyroscope that keeps it steady, and move it forward.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did the "bomb squad" have to go out into
+	space in order to gain access to the fusion reactor?
      
+	Going in the vacuum door was the fastest way to get a bunch of people in
+	there, and presumably get a big object out again.  Instead of riding
+	transport tubes to the core shuttle, then the core shuttle to the far
+	end, then tubes to the bottom...you jump out, get picked up and dumped
+	at the far end.  Takes 2 minutes rather than 10 or 15.  Remember, this
+	place is five miles long.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Doug's reaction to Netter's Syndrome was...amused, chagrined,
+	and the promise of swift and terrible revenge.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova try to deal with an association of cargo pilots.  An
+alien probe makes first contact with the station.  G'Kar's position among the
+Narn is threatened by the arrival of a Centauri-appointed liaison.
+
+
+Stephen Macht as Na'Far.
+Marshall Teague as Ta'Lon.
+Anne Betancourt as Dr. Gonzalez.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.85
+
+Production number: 303
+Original air week: November 20, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Centauri diplomatic mission on Minbar has been closed for
+	several years.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Who sent the probe?
+
+   
    •  Will Franklin's continuing use of stims have greater repercussions,
+	especially now that he's willing to lie about it?
+
+   
    •  What will become of Na'Far?  And of Ta'Lon, for that matter -- will
+	he remain on the station, and will he look after Sheridan?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Vir is leaving Londo just when Londo seems to need him most; Londo
+	is becoming darker and darker, as his conversation with Na'Far
+	demonstrates.  Now he'll have nobody to slow his descent (though
+	it's not clear how much he listened to Vir in the first place.)
+
+   
    •  The favor Delenn owed Londo was most likely the one he earned by
+	transporting her and Draal to Epsilon 3 in
+	"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2."
+
+   
    •  Franklin's stim use is nothing new; it was touched on as recently as
+	"Confessions and Lamentations."
+	He may feel he has no choice and no problem, but he seems to be
+	ignoring the example of Dr. Rosen in
+	"The Quality of Mercy,"
+	who lost her medical license over her stim use.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A picture of the probe is
+	available.
+
+   
    •  Vir's departure has, in part, a real-world cause: actor Stephen Furst
+	is starring in a sitcom on the Fox network.  He will still appear on
+	Babylon 5 from time to time.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's reference to the probe as a "berserker" is probably a
+	nod to Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" novels, which feature huge
+	automated war machines that seek out and destroy sentients.
+
+   
    •  A small gaffe: At the end of the episode, when the probe is headed away
+	from the station, Sheridan asks the tech if there are any security bots
+	in the area.  The tech replies that there is just one, at 5000km.
+	The next shot is of the bot in question, except that there are clearly
+	2 bots in the shot, and they look identical.  
+
+   
    •  A related goof: Sheridan orders a securebot sent to look at the probe,
+	but the display on the screen reads "Maintbot 12."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "A Day in the Strife," a fair number of threads, a day in the
+	life episode with everything that can go wrong going wrong, some
+	elements of humor but mainly a straight-ahead kind of episode...
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Marshall Teague playing the same character he did in
+	"All Alone in the Night?"
      
+	Yes, it's the same character, and his name is Ta'Lon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "A narn resistance is going to be pretty hard to organize."
+
+	
      
+	*Exactly* the issue we'll explore in "A Day in the Strife."  (Well,
+	one of many issues.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  How many Narn dead are there?
      
+	Actually, yes, there are millions of dead; I think that either Vir
+	or Na'Far gets it right in "Strife," and the other misstates the figure
+	in the same episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just went back and checked the script; Ta'Lon refers to millions in
+	his  meeting with Sheridan.  (Knew I wasn't nuts....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo's comment, "It's nothing personal, Vir," was the same one
+	the bomber echoed in "Convictions."
      
+	Yeah, "it's nothing personal" does echo the other theme; those
+	who inflict great harm tend to shrug it off that way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You will see Vir many times again in the course of the third season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't they ask Delenn or Kosh for help with the
+	questions?
      
+	Because Delenn doesn't know that information offhand, any more than you
+	or I would have casual access to detailed scientific information from
+	our own world just off the top of our heads; she'd still have to go to
+	her own homeworld for the info, as our characters did.  And it's not
+	that we didn't have it, it was just collating it all.  And given how
+	Kosh answers questions, would you really want to use his responses in
+	this thing?
+
+
      
+   
    •  My sense is that Delenn is not a godlike font of information; I don't
+	think anyone, alien or human, at the station would just happen to know
+	all the information required.  How much would Delenn know about
+	molecular biology, for instance?  (And if you asked Kosh a question
+	about the subject, he'd probably come back with "The heart does not
+	sing with its parts."  Not exactly useful.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyone there would have to go back to their own world for experts in
+	the various fields...so you're back where you started.  Earth *has*
+	the info, it's just getting it, and getting it fast.  If you add the
+	overlay of going through another government, you're going to run out
+	of time that much faster.
+
+	
      
+	Logically, a probe like this would be sent off looking for information
+	on the very cusp of technology that could pose a threat.  That's why
+	it *didn't* go off when the probe presumed them to be a less developed
+	civilization; it was looking for civilizations that *are* sufficiently
+	advanced to pose a possible threat; Sheridan says exactly that as he
+	walks across C&C.
+
+	
      
+	Interesting aside on this, btw, in the "where do you get your ideas?"
+	department.  The US House Science Sub-Committee held a series of
+	hearings into the question of extraterrestrial contact during the
+	1970s, to determine what we should do in the event of contact.  The
+	most likely scenario, the scientists agreed, was a probe coming into
+	our solar system.  So what do we do in response to a message asking if
+	anybody's home?
+
+	
      
+	Believe it or not, it was the consensus of the Subcommittee that we
+	should not respond...in case it was a berserker, just as shown in the
+	episode.  That is our government's official policy on the subject.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I just went through my stuff trying to find it...there was a formal
+	report published by the Government Printing Agency in around 1978 or
+	so.  I think it was entitled something like "Prospects for Contact by
+	Extra- Terrestrial Intelligence," and went into the whole CETI issue
+	at great length.  (Back then, it was CETI, for Contact With
+	Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, changed shortly after the House
+	hearing on the subject to SETI, Search For Extra-Terrestrial
+	Intelligence.)  Any GPA office should have the report on file.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would the explosion have taken out a planet?
      
+	No, it probably couldn't take out a planet, though it'd sure disrupt all
+	communications in and out for a long time, maybe throw up a dust
+	curtain to bring down the temperature quite a bit.  Certainly it'd
+	debilitate the planet long enough for additional probes to be sent in.
+	If one can do the job, one does the job; if more are required, more
+	are sent.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What kind of alien was sick in medlab?
      
+	I'll have to go back and check, but from memory I'm pretty sure he's a
+	Llort.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happened to Na'Fon?
      
+	When he failed to convince the other Narns to accept him as
+	their new leader -- which was the whole point to his being sent to B5
+	in the first place -- he had no choice but to go home.
+
+
    
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+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Lyta Alexander returns to the station at Kosh's behest.
+One of Theo's brothers discovers that he may have a hidden past.
+
+
+Brad Dourif as Brother Edward.
+Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
+Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.38
+
+Production number: 305
+Original air week: November 27, 1995
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Adam Nimoy
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Mindwipes were instituted after Earth decided that they were more
+	humane than the death penalty.  They are apparently not very
+	complete; the old memories remain in some form or another, but are
+	inaccessible without the intervention of a telepath.  (See also
+	"The Quality of Mercy.")
+
+   
    •  Minbari religion is based on the notion that souls are part of a
+	larger whole, of the universe itself, which is in the process of
+	trying to discover itself.  Souls can only be perceived via the
+	physical bodies they inhabit, but the real soul is something only
+	dimly related to the body.
+
+   
    •  Valen, the great Minbari spiritual leader and founder of the Grey
+	Council, appeared a thousand years ago.  He is believed to be a
+	Minbari not born of other Minbari, according to Lennier.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What happened to Lyta?  Was Kosh inhabiting her body?  Was the
+	body not even Lyta's to start with?  She has gills on her neck that
+	allow her to breathe in Kosh's quarters, and several health problems
+	have been completely repaired.  What else did the Vorlons do to her,
+	and why?
+
+   
    •  Given how easily she pulled the information from the Centauri, have
+	her telepathic powers increased?  Or could any P5 do the same?
+
+   
    •  What did she see on the Vorlon homeworld?
+
+   
    •  Why is Londo so anxious to find out what she saw that he'd resort to
+	threatening her?
+
+   
    •  What was Lyta's mission for Kosh?  Why does he want an aide all of a
+	sudden, when he hasn't had one before?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  If Garibaldi and Sheridan are any indication, mindwipes are widely
+	considered to be insufficient punishment for serious crimes.  How
+	widespread that perception is isn't known.
+
+   
    •  Could the techniques used to put a mindwipe in place be related
+	to the method used by Bureau 13 to implant hidden personalities 
+	("Divided Loyalties"
+	and, more ominous, comic #8,
+	"Silent Enemies?")
+	Both seem to involve submerging one personality and causing another
+	to become dominant, though in the case of Control, it's not clear
+	which was the original.
+
+   
    •  Edward's execution was not only a sort of crucifixion (notice how
+	he's suspended from the metal frame) but also resembles Sheridan's
+	suspension from what looks like the same kind of frame in
+	"Comes the Inquisitor."
+
+   
    •  Might Valen have been a Vorlon, or a Minbari under Vorlon influence?
+	If, as Lennier says, he was truly not born of Minbari parents, that
+	strongly suggests he wasn't Minbari at all, and Vorlons certainly
+	have the power to appear as Minbari.
+
+   
    •  If Minbari consider the universe to be a manifestation of a single
+	soul, how did they ever find it conscienable to fight the
+	Earth-Minbari War?  (see
+	jms speaks)
+
+   
    •  The Vorlons didn't hear, or didn't respond, to Lyta's signals, and
+	took five days to respond to her telepathic broadcast.  What's
+	interesting is that they apparently didn't come until she was nearly
+	unconscious.  Could that be related to what happened to Sheridan in
+	"All Alone In the Night?"
+	Maybe she was only able to make contact when, as Kosh said of Sheridan,
+	her mind was quiet enough to hear the Vorlons.  Or, of course, it
+	could simply have taken them several days to locate and reach her, in
+	which case they could even have been responding to the non-telepathic
+	signals.
+
+   
    •  Why didn't Franklin notice Lyta's gills?
+	Perhaps he did and didn't feel they were worth mentioning (gill 
+	implants aren't completely alien concepts; G'Kar has them, as
+	noted by the assassin in
+	"The Gathering.")
+	It's also possible she didn't get them until her errand in the
+	middle of the episode.
+	Franklin did note that she had elevated oxygen levels in her
+	bloodstream, though, which would tend to indicate both that she had
+	the gills before he examined her and that he didn't notice them.
+	Given the powers of illusion Vorlons have demonstrated, covering
+	up gills would probably have been a small matter with Kosh's help.
+
+   
    •  Whatever left Lyta to enter Kosh's suit looked a lot like the creature
+	inhabiting Sheridan in
+	"Knives."
+	Could Sheridan have inadvertently been inhabited by a Vorlon?
+	Certainly it would be consistent with him being made to see things
+	that weren't there; Kosh clearly has that power.
+
+   
    •  Psi Corps may have strict rules against unauthorized scans, but
+	Sheridan and Garibaldi don't hold those rules in particularly
+	high esteem.  Now that they have a non-Corps telepath at their disposal,
+	someone whose loyalty is presumably above reproach thanks to her
+	association with Kosh, will they begin calling her in on a regular
+	basis?
+
+   
    •  The Centauri telepath, likewise, seemed to show contempt for the Corps'
+	regulations.  What regulations, if any, are Centauri telepaths
+	obligated to follow?  Clearly they're not simply allowed to roam
+	freely, since Londo had this particular telepath's name on a list.
+
+   
    •  If Lyta can implant nightmares, other psis can presumably do the same.
+	We've seen one nightmare: Londo's prophetic dream.  Is it possible
+	that someone or something implanted it in him?  (He says, in
+	"Midnight on the Firing Line,"
+	that Centauri have such dreams as a matter of course, but that
+	doesn't rule out an external influence.)
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The title, as noted in the episode,
+	is a Biblical reference.  In the New Testament,
+	Matthew 26:30-50,
+	Jesus goes to Gethsemane with Peter and two others to pray and
+	contemplate his imminent betrayal.  They fail to keep watch over
+	him, and Judas is able to lead the Romans to Jesus.  Gethsemane
+	is also referred to, not always by name, in
+	Mark 14:32-52,
+	Luke 23:39-51,
+	and
+	John 18:1-13.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's opinion of Garibaldi's eye-for-an-eye attitude echoes that
+	of Gandhi, who said, "An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Malcolm, Edward, and Charles are all names of rulers of Scotland.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The names Edward and Charlie may also be a reference to two H.P.
+	Lovecraft stories.  In "The Thing On the Doorstep," a character
+	named Edward falls in love with a woman whose grandfather has
+	shifted his soul into her body, replacing hers.  In "The Strange
+	Case of Charles Dexter Ward," the title character becomes obsessed
+	with the memory of an ancient ancestor.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Shooting began on September 11, 1995.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  I'd rather not say anything at all about "Gethsemane," because a
+        large part of the plot turns on something you need to discover
+        mid-viewing, and anything I might say would only detract from it.
+        It's a lovely, sad, very moving story; it's kind of my Twilight Zone
+        story in the B5 universe, with some very strong emotional twists as
+        we go along.  It's not the kind of story I get to do within the B5
+        structure very often, and I'm extremely pleased with this one (and
+        Adam Nimoy did a *bang-up* job directing it; he thinks it may be his
+        best work ever).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Adam did a great job interpreting the script on
+	that one, and it's  definitely one of our most successful
+	episodes...though today I took a look at  another, more
+	completed version of episode 8, "Messages," and *man* is this 
+	amazing...just a knockout...trouble is we keep raising our own
+	bar and won't  accept anything less...so the pressure becomes
+	quite astonishing after a while.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Adam was great in that he's a *very* serious director
+	who sits down and  really thinks through the subtext of the
+	episode, the thematic aspects, the  underlying symbology, and
+	then sits with the actor and *really* works with them  so that
+	they fully understand the nuances of the scene.  A lot of TV
+	direction can  be rushed...you're always under the gun...so
+	it's rare to find someone who really  takes his time and
+	prepares the cast.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Gethsemane" isn't a horror-type story at all, though it does have a
+	very TZish [Twilight Zone] feeling, so it doesn't owe to any of
+	those.  Best to just let you see it when it airs.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Brad read the script, fell in love with the part, and dived for it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Two things on the upcoming episode ("Gethsemane")....
+
+	
      
+	1) This is episode #5 in shooting order; I'd originally planned to end
+	the first batch of new episodes with #4, "Voices of Authority," which
+	is a major -- and I mean major -- wham episode.  But the EFX
+	requirements were pretty hideous (though not as bad as "Messages"), so
+	I moved "Gethsemane" into that slot, which is a very strong episode,
+	though not an arc'er.
+
+	
      
+	2) On the story question...yes, this was the story that someone else
+	(don't want to use names, no sense in blaming anyone) had accidentally
+	suggested while I was working on it early in season two.  So I had to
+	scuttle the script for nearly a year.  Finally, very chagrined over
+	what happened, the individual gave me a notarized form explaining the
+	situation. At that point, I was able to reactivate the story.  So no,
+	it's not any kind of "it's okay to do this" notion about story ideas;
+	as it is, the story was tied up for about a year, and might never have
+	seen the light of day had not the other person made great efforts to
+	set the situation straight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was there any nod to the person who suggested the idea, and what
+	was the story originally like?
      
+	No, no nod to the person who suggested it, since this isn't a
+	competition, and the suggestion cost me a year where I couldn't do the
+	story.  (So I wasn't in the cutest frame of mind about this for a long
+	time, even though it wasn't really his fault.)
+
+	
      
+	Basically, it would've been a one-shot, with two monks arriving to
+	scope out B5 for the arrival of the rest later on.  (You'll notice
+	that none of the other monks get into the story here; that's a
+	hold-over from the original outline, which I saw no need to change at
+	this point.)  So this would've been folded into an introduction to the
+	order as they come to check out B5's facilities.
+
+
      
+   
    •  They would've gotten the info in a different way, without resorting to a
+	telepath.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Carol: *exactly* the right point.  In his earlier talk about
+	Gethsemane, Edward  mentioned that old JC had to go through all that to
+	atone for the sins of others;  when he sees Theo later, through the
+	grate, he uses the same notion of  atonement for the acts of another,
+	in this case, *his* other.  The logical parallel  parses pretty closely.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Not sure he *wanted* to die, as much as he felt it was *necessary* in
+	order to atone for the sins of another...his own "other," in this case.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where was Malcolm's mind wiped?
      
+	We established in "The Quality of Mercy" that the equipment to handle
+	mindwipes is there on-station, locked away until mandated by a court.  A
+	court assigned telepath is usually brought in to do a preliminary scan
+	before it happens and to verify the wipe immediately afterward.  In that
+	same episode, Talia was used only because a court teep wasn't available.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, B5 has a court system, authorized by the Earth Alliance
+	Judicial System,  to conduct trials of this sort (which we've seen
+	before).  And in this case, again,  there wasn't a trial per se as
+	Ivanova noted; he pleaded guilty from the start, quite  proud of what
+	he'd done. So all that remained was the sentencing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'd say there were extenuating circumstances here that made it more than
+	just a simple murder (and not all murders get wiped, esp. in cases like
+	second-degree or manslaughter).  He'd stalked Edward for years; arranged
+	to break the mindwipe; and engaged in slow, deliberate, methodical
+	torture unto death.  The degree of premeditation is staggering.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, the other brothers aren't mind-wiped.
+	
+	
      
+	You're mis-remembering "The Quality of Mercy."  Telepaths do NOT
+	perform mindwipes.  A court appointed teep makes a scan before and after
+	for purposes of comparison, but the wipe is done by a device held under
+	lock and key until ordered out by a court.  The only reason Talia did it
+	in QoM was because they couldn't get a court teep there in the required
+	time (which was also stated in the episode).  So here the court
+	appointed telepath would have come and gone by now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Mindwiping was presented too positively.
      
+	I'm not sure I presented it positively; I just presented it, didn't make
+	a moral judgement about it.  Some of those in the show did, but then we
+	had Edward saying it *isn't* moral, that it's a monstrous thing to do.
+	Like any form of punishment it can seem fair to those not facing it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are templates used, with some variations.  In a government
+	monitored  situation (which this wasn't, they thought he was dead),
+	mindwipes are kept in servile positions, not allowed to achieve, as that
+	would be a kind of reward.   Those guys you see along the roadsides
+	picking up trash and putting them in  bright orange bags?  Mindwipes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: mindwipes no longer considered people...this really is not that
+	much  different from prison inmates, who are given numbers, have no real
+	civil rights,  and are treated like cattle.  (And many of them deserve
+	it; a few deserve worse; a  few deserve better.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the moral ambiguity
      
+	Thanks.  That's really the intent; to get people to talk about the
+	issues raised, and to examine the issues.  We won't tell you what to
+	think about an issue, because I don't have an answer myself...but if it
+	made you stop and consider this stuff, and decide for yourself where
+	you fall in the discussion, then it's done its job.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If the Centauri teep had had more time to react he probably would have
+	gone after Garibaldi...but Lyta came in too fast, and she took his
+	attention quickly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the Centauri...note that Edward wasn't killed where
+	they found him. He  was taken and killed elsewhere, in a area
+	they'd more or less secured for that  purpose.  That was the
+	area he knew about.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: the use of Lyta to extract the info...this is the main reason why
+	there's a Psi Corps, and there are exacting rules, otherwise it can
+	easily become deus ex machina.  We won't ever do this sort of thing
+	trivially, and here it was definitely meant to be a little
+	disturbing...it was a sheer matter of life or death, the guy was a
+	creep, and somewhere Edward was bleeding to death.  Even after so many
+	viewings, and even having written the thing, I find that one scene
+	vaguely scary.
+
+	
      
+	It's the best of the first four, I think.  But better is coming....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did it take so long for a med team to get to Edward?
+	They were in a pretty distant part of DownBelow, and in B5 you don't
+	have trains or cars; there's just the transport tubes, and the central
+	core shuttle.  Even if they gave a damn about what happens to lurkers in
+	DownBelow (and they generally don't), it would still take at least 5-10
+	minutes to get a trauma team down there, and he was dead within about 3.
+	(I was once mugged half a mile from a police station and a mile from a
+	hospital; took 'em 30 minutes to get there.)
+
+	
      
+	Sheridan and Theo didn't *discover* that Edward was using the
+	computer; Theo was concerned that he was looking into it in general.
+	And if they had blocked the computer in his quarters, he would have been
+	able to access one somewhere else.  They didn't know he'd actually done
+	it until after the fact.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The absolution scene, based on what used to be called the rites of
+	extreme unction, or last rights, is now called the "celebration" of
+	passing, and I went to the Catholic church's information office, and
+	got the actual text.  I made a few adjustments here, condensing it a
+	bit (on the logic that Edward didn't have a lot of time), and
+	modifying a few small points here and there, on the second logical
+	point that in 250 years, such might have taken place (as the current
+	ritual has been adjusted a bit here and there over the years).  So if
+	it felt right, it was.
+
+
      
+   
    •  One caveat here overall...it's been complimented and commented upon
+	that I would expose a belief system in my show which I do not personally
+	agree with (presenting the face of religion even though I'm an atheist).
+	That I could be this  tolerant is apparently praiseworthy.
+
+	
      
+	I would just suggest that at some point, when and if I should offer
+	a point of  view from another perspective, which one watching might not
+	personally agree  with, the same tolerance is given, since the virtue of
+	tolerating divergent attitudes  has been deemed praiseworthy...and is
+	something ever to strive for....
+
+
      
+   
    •  "The themes of faith and forgiveness were worthy of a theologian. Are
+	you sure  there isn't something you'd like to tell us?"
+
+	
      
+	Never shoot pool at a place called Pop's.  Never eat food at a place
+	called  Mom's.  The difference between horses and humans is that
+	they're too smart to be on what *we'll* do.
+
+	
      
+	And I have lost people.  Too many people.  Lost them to chance,
+	violence,  brutality beyond belief; I've seen all the senseless,
+	ignoble acts of "god's noblest  creature."  And I am incapable of
+	forgiving.  My feelings are with G'Kar, hand  sliced open, saying of
+	the drops of blood flowing from that open wound, "How do  you
+	apologize to them?"  "I can't." "Then I cannot forgive."
+
+	
      
+	As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious,
+	because it's only  here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark,
+	and then it's gone forever.  No  afterlives, no second chances, no
+	backsies.  So there can be nothing crueler  than the abuse,
+	destruction or wanton taking of a life. It is a crime no less than
+	burning the Mona Lisa, for there is always just one of each.
+
+	
      
+	So I cannot forgive.  Which makes the notion of writing a character
+	who CAN  forgive momentarily attractive...because it allows me to
+	explore in great detail  something of which I am utterly incapable.
+	I cannot fly, so I would write of birds  and starships and kites; I
+	cannot play an instrument, so I would write of  composers and
+	dancers; and I cannot forgive, so I would write of priests and  monks
+	and minbari....
+
+
      
+   
    •  If there were just one pure and unchanged
+	universal soul running through  everything, there wouldn't be any point
+	in breaking itself into pieces and investing  itself in different
+	species/people...it would just keep running into identical  versions
+	of itself.
+
+	
      
+	So the soul form in Minbari is different from the soul form in
+	humans; also, in  their view, having been civilized longer than us,
+	their soul form is more elevated,  more evolved...and thus the pieces
+	are more precious, to them, and to the Soul  Hunters.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, there's really just the one Minbari religion, and the warrior
+	caste tends to  follow it, but not lead it.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Draal helps the crew attempt to contact more of the First Ones.  Sheridan
+works to hide his conspiracy from the Nightwatch.
+
+
+Shari Shattuck as Julie Musante.
+John Schuck as Draal.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.20
+
+Production number: 304
+Original air week: January 29, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Menachem Binitsky
+
    
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+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Morden was directly involved in the assassination of President Santiago,
+	and was in contact with then-Vice President Clark at the time.
+
+   
    •  There is bad blood of some kind between the Vorlons and at least some
+	of the First Ones.
+
+   
    •  G'Kar's operatives have told him something of the Rangers, though
+	they don't know the whole story.  He suspects Delenn is involved
+	somehow.
+
+   
    •  The Ministry of Peace is planning to purge a number of high-level
+	officials from the Earth government on charges of sedition, immoral
+	conduct, and espionage.  It has gained even wider powers recently,
+	including the ability to investigate people based on past associations.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Why were the First Ones upset at the Vorlons?  Could it be related
+	to the reason the Vorlons stayed behind when the other First Ones
+	left?  What did they say to Ivanova?
+
+   
    •  What does G'Kar want Garibaldi to find out from the Book of G'Quan?
+	The book mentions the Shadows; how detailed is its information?
+
+   
    •  How did the Machine record the conversation between Clark and Morden?
+	Is it monitoring all communications in a vast region of space, or does
+	it concentrate on Shadow-related conversations?
+
+   
    •  What impact will the recording have?
+
+   
    •  Will Musante return to the station?  What did she make of Zack's
+	question?  Will she link it to the release of the recording?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The First Ones at Sigma 957 were annoyed at the mention of the Vorlons,
+	suggesting that the two races had a disagreement at some point in the
+	past.  Perhaps the Vorlons prevented, intentionally or otherwise, the
+	final defeat of the Shadows in the previous war.  It could also have
+	something to do with the Vorlons' manipulation of younger races
+	("The Fall of Night.")
+	Perhaps the Vorlons didn't depart with the other First Ones because
+	they weren't allowed to do so.
+
+   
    •  "When it is time, come to this place.  Call our name.  We will be
+	here."  But what is their name?  Does Draal know?  Did the
+	recognition code the White Star sent call them by name, or is this
+	an additional hurdle to obtaining help from the Sigma 957 aliens?
+
+   
    •  Ivanova was able to extract more information from the Great Machine
+	than any normal human could have, according to Draal, and she managed
+	to find a pretty specific recording in what must have been huge
+	mountains of data (literally!)  Is that due to her latent psi ability?
+	What would happen if a full telepath like Lyta were to step into the
+	machine?  (See
+	below.)
+
+   
    •  The Shadows (if that's what they were) sensed Ivanova's "presence"
+	at Sigma 957.  That implies that the Machine was actually projecting
+	something there rather than passively scanning, and that the projection
+	was tangible enough to provoke Ivanova to comment that the enemy
+	"knows my name," an odd remark in itself.
+
+   
    •  There may be something significant in Draal's use of the term "the
+	enemy" to describe Ivanova's visitors; he didn't say "Shadows."  On
+	the other hand, given that she heard the typical Shadow chitter and
+	that the floating lights were in the same pattern as the glowing
+	Shadow eyes seen by Sheridan in Kosh's vision
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	and in the season three title sequence) it's probably safe to assume
+	that she was in fact being observed by the Shadows.
+
+   
    •  Just how much contact there was between Ivanova and the Shadows wasn't
+	clear.  Did they find out enough about her to know about the conspiracy
+	of light?  Did they have a hand in her discovery of the Clark recording?
+	Given their apparent affinity for chaos in the ranks of potential
+	enemies, the release of the recording and the subsequent upheaval on
+	Earth might be exactly what they want.
+
+   
    •  The fact that Ivanova was able to escape the Shadows by returning to
+	the "path" that connects all living things is perhaps more significant;
+	what does it imply about the Shadows that they're somehow excluded
+	from that path?  Does that have anything to do with their motive in
+	participating in war after war across the millenia?
+
+   
    •  Presumably the machine was projecting Ivanova's consciousness out among
+	the stars; her greater-than-expected control over the machine, as
+	mentioned above, suggests that the experience was telepathic in nature.
+	That implies that to sense her, the Shadows must have some telepathic
+	abilities as well; or perhaps they have a machine like Draal's that
+	can provide the equivalent.
+
+   
    •  The path might be related
+	to the way telepathy works in the first place;
+	if all life is connected on some level, then perhaps telepaths are
+	simply beings who can make use of those connections.  The Shadows'
+	involvement with Psi Corps
+	("Matters of Honor,"
+	among others) suggests that they consider telepaths important; that may
+	relate to their apparent exclusion from the path as noted above.  There
+	may also be a reason they chose to use the Narn homeworld as a base
+	in the last war
+	("Matters of Honor")
+	--
+	the Narn have no telepaths of their own
+	("The Gathering.")
+	A more sinister possibility is that the Shadow occupation is the
+	reason there are no Narn telepaths; perhaps the Shadows
+	eliminated them, leaving the Narn without the genetic code for psi
+	ability.  If that's true, they may be cultivating contacts with the
+	Psi Corps so they have an easy way to do the same to humans when the
+	time comes.
+
+   
    •  The assignment of a "political officer"  to military units
+	is reminiscent of the way in which the Soviet Union
+	maintained control over military units.  Each unit had
+	its own political officer whose job it was to maintain
+	ideological purity.  These officers were tolerated at best,
+	and were generally despised and feared.
+
+   
    •  Another link to Soviet history was Musante's allusion to
+	purging a number of high officials in a very public and
+	permanent way.  This brings to mind the purges experienced
+	by the Soviet Union in the 30's -- the great show trials
+	of prominent individuals, the mass purges of the army
+	(which wrought such havoc over the military that, by the
+	time that the Soviets were actively engaged in World War II, most
+	of the experienced officers had been removed, thus
+	weakening the Soviet army to the point where the Germans
+	felt they could easily defeat the Soviets.)
+
+   
    •  Why would Musante have to be recalled to Earth?  Is she the low-level
+	operative she appears to be, or someone more important?  Perhaps the
+	Nightwatch is simply short-staffed enough that they need all the
+	manpower they can get to deal with such a potentially damaging
+	situation.
+
+   
    •  Delenn's denial of knowledge about the Rangers was an out-and-out lie,
+	not a deception or a mistruth or a careful omission.  Whose honor was
+	she protecting, or does that rule no longer apply to her?
+	("There All the Honor Lies")
+
+   
    •  Zack's uniform troubles may be a metaphor for his situation; he doesn't
+	know where he fits in the scheme of things, and is uncomfortable no
+	matter what he does.
+
+   
    •  Now that Ivanova has made contact with the First Ones at Sigma 957,
+	might the forces of light be able to use the quantium-40 (if there
+	actually is any on the planet) that Catherine Sakai was sent to
+	investigate in
+	"Mind War?"
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The First Ones at Sigma 957 were first seen in the first-season episode
+	"Mind War."
+	Although the existence of the First Ones hadn't been revealed at that
+	point, G'Kar's description of this race coincided almost exactly with
+	Delenn's description of the First Ones, an early piece of foreshadowing.
+
+   
    •  Julie Musante is named after two fans, Julie Helmer and Mark Musante.
+
+   
    •  Musante's Earth-bound ship is the Loki, named for the Norse god of fire
+	and mischief.
+
+   
    •  The silhouetted figure on the Nightwatch poster on the wall during
+	Musante's presentation bears a striking resemblance to the figure of
+	Lenin used in Soviet propaganda posters between World Wars I and II.
+
+   
    •  The same figure also appears to have a raven on its shoulder,
+	reminiscent of Ivanova's appearance in Sheridan's dream in
+	"All Alone in the Night."
+
+   
    •  The skeletal spines sticking out of the Sigma 957 aliens' ship are
+	made of a computer model of a human footbone replicated and arranged
+	in rows; that earned the ship the nickname "the footbone ship" at
+	Foundation Imaging.  There are also some triceratops parts used in
+	the model.
+
+   
    •  Ardwight Chamberlain, who does Kosh's voice (or rather, the English
+	translation thereof) was also the voice of the First One in this
+	episode.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  I do plan to do more with Ivanova this season, yes, and get her out
+	of C&C a bit more often.  (Especially in "Voices of Authority," coming
+	up.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where's this big war we've been hearing about?
      
+	What we're doing in the meantime is plenty.  Originally, the fourth and
+	final episode in this first batch of four was going to be "Voices of
+	Authority," which deals with just this question of preparing for the war
+	in a big way, has major developments, gets into the White Star...but the
+	CGI requirements of that episode were hideous, so we had to move it to
+	#5 in the lineup, moving up "Gethsemane."  Once we come back with new
+	episodes, we'll hit the ground running hard on all this stuff.
+
+	
      
+	Also bear in mind that wars aren't instant; in the real world, you have
+	to line up support, get into alliances, move all your pieces around
+	before you can get into it.  We're taking a similar path here.  Also,
+	the term "shadow war" refers to more than just the shadows as a race;
+	they refer to what's going on back on earth as well, as metaphor as
+	well as plot point, and that's a huge part of the next batch of eps.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, I'd intended to end with "Voices of Authority," which is a HUGE
+	arc episode this week, but the EFX weren't ready yet (huge
+	requirements), so we put "Passing" in its place.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  It takes us no longer to make the episodes or the EFX really
+	than it did before.  But PTEN will not air shows out of sweeps periods,
+	for the most part. The episodes on hand now were finished weeks, and in
+	a couple of cases over a month ago.  They sit on the shelf until PTEN
+	decides to air them.  The only thing we did was swap "VoA" with
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane" to give that one a little bit more time. 
+	That's it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Voices of Authority" - Earth begins tightening the screws on the folks
+	at B5 to try and exert more control there.  Steps are taken to
+	help prepare for the shadow conflict.  (Here, again, the
+	"shadow war" means both the obvious, and the more subtle
+	conflict brewing at home; it's description and metaphor.)  The
+	White Star voyages to some territory not seen since the first
+	episode, Ivanova helms the ship, a major dramatic turning point
+	is reached, and there is the single funniest scene in probably
+	the series to date.  A strong arc story.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If you want some fun with your wham, and there's a lot of
+	fun to be had in this  one, go for the first one up, "Voices
+	of Authority."  If you want serious, serious  wham, go for
+	"Messages From Earth."
+
+
      
+   
    •  As y'all know, next week the latest batch of new episodes
+	begins to air.  The first one up, "Voices of Authority," is an absolute
+	hoot; if you've been looking to bring in other viewers, that's a good
+	one to start them with, because it sets up a lot of what's going to
+	happen in this episode, it has a lot of background, and it's a lot of
+	fun.
+
+	
      
+	The next two are somewhat more straightforward, stand-alones
+	(to some extent; there's some arc stuff there, however, which becomes
+	more important later).  Then the last two in this batch represent some
+	of the best work we've ever done, "Messages From Earth" and "Point of
+	No Return."  They follow directly on the footsteps of "Voices," so
+	those three together would be great for new viewers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If you're talking about the conference room scene...Draal wasn't
+	put into the scene digitally.  You do a split screen, with the camera
+	locked off.  In one Delenn walks over to a point just short of the
+	line; in another you get a shot just of the wall; then Draal walks up. 
+	You then use a dissolve technique to fade him into the room on his side
+	of the split screen.  But he's not being put *into* the room, he's
+	already there, so he's neither bigger nor smaller than he is in real
+	life, since he IS in real life there, not added in.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And what about the machine room scene on the planet?
      
+	We shot two plates, first with him in the machine, then him out,
+	never moving the camera, so it matched exactly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The First Ones sure have fragile egos.
      
+	The other part, I think, is that they were kind of amused to see
+	this dinky little ship getting in their face, when they *knew* the
+	First Ones could blast 'em to bits....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ivanova wanted to get in the face of the First Ones, to say,
+	"Look, you can blow me away, but damn it, listen to me."  If she'd said
+	that "more reverently," as your friend noted, it would've worked
+	against the logic of the scene and the resolution.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would it be fair to say the First Ones weren't pleased to hear
+	the Vorlons mentioned?
+	Fair, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, this isn't a *literal* translation, because some words don't
+	translate, but the *sense* of the sentence would be "the vorlons can
+	kiss my ____."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't they recognize Morden's voice?
      
+	Who said they didn't recognize it?
+
+
      
+   
    •  What's fun, for me, about the Minipax lady, is that she *clearly*
+	knows that this is a game on one level, her comment about just
+	rewriting the dictionary...she knows the problems aren't *really* gone,
+	they just defined them away.  But when she's in front of a crowd of
+	folks predisposed to her message, she goes full-tilt.  Showmanship.....
+
+
      
+   
    •  A lot of the Nightwatch members looked pretty disturbed by
+	what Musante was saying.
      
+	Now the weeding out process starts.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What do civilians think of Nightwatch?
      
+	Some are scared of Nightwatch, others feel it's a good thing, and
+	darn it, it's about time....
+
+
      
+   
    •  On the other hand, Zack *didn't* rat out the code 7-R stuff to
+	her in any detail.  He's absolutely caught between the two sides, and
+	not sure which way to jump.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Parallels between Nightwatch and the Gestapo?
      
+	While yes, there are some intentional WW II parallels here, do
+	bear in mind that you don't have to go all the way back to the Gestapo
+	to find this kind of mentality...Sen. McCarthy would've been quite at
+	home in Nightwatch.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The political officer: improbable dialogue?  Most of it was
+	taken direct from political statements, public ones, made by Goebbels,
+	Hitler, Joseph McCarthy, Stalin, and other fanatics.  The kind of Big
+	Lie dialogue people continue to fall for today.  Go to a Pat Buchanan
+	rally sometime and tell me it's unlikely dialogue.
+
+
      
+   
    •  DLyulkin...exactly.  You don't just take something and transplant it
+	wholecloth...you change and modify it.  Nightwatch was never meant to be
+	on a one-to-one corrolation to the SS, or Stasi, or McCarthy...the whole
+	POINT is that this kind of mentality crops up in new forms from time to
+	time, in different names, different approaches, but at its heartmeat
+	core the same thing.  By saying it's "That over there," we can relax,
+	since that specific incident can't recur...making us vulnerable to the
+	next version.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, those were shadow eyes; and it was probably a raven on the
+	poster.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Can the machine see everywhere, or can it be blocked?
      
+	No, Varn's people aren't first ones...and the machine can be
+	blocked.
+
+
      
+   
    •  My sense was that basically Ivanova jumped onto the wrong path as she
+	fled...the shadows were in proximity, and she ended up briefly on
+	their path, which took her to the interception of the transmission.
+
+	
      
+	The one comment that I find most interesting, repeated here a few
+	times, is that they didn't buy the Nightwitch (as some have dubbed
+	her) because in her address to the Nightwatch, she was not exactly
+	what you might call subtle, and thus nobody'd believe her, and see
+	her for what she was.
+
+	
      
+	I find it interesting because we always think we're smarter than
+	that, when history proves *exactly* the opposite.  The Big Lie,
+	spoken not just openly, but loudly, firmly and with conviction, has
+	been one of the most successful tactics in history.  When Hitler and
+	Goebbels stood before a crowd and blamed jews for destroying society,
+	circulated pamphlets with ugly cariacatures, indicated that they
+	weren't *really* human (this in actual newsreels provided to the
+	medical profession members charged with eliminating "mental
+	defectives and jews")...when Joseph McCarthy stood up in front of the
+	nation waving a list of names of commies in the state department, the
+	military, congress, showbiz, and the sciences...the public didn't
+	suddenly wake up, hear the voice of the fanatic, and say, "Hey, this
+	guy's nuts!"
+
+	
      
+	They bought it.  Because they were primed to believe it.  Because
+	they wanted to believe it.  Because they were afraid *not* to believe
+	it.   No, she wasn't subtle.  Because there's a time for subtlety,
+	and there's a time to perform grandly for your hand-picked audience
+	and go for the Big Lie.  If she were addressing a larger audience,
+	she might softpedal her message.  To the Nightwatch, she's got to
+	hammer them, just as the Hitler Youth were hammered, as the
+	Anti-Communist Youth meetings were hammered about the Red Peril, as
+	Croatian or Serbian soldiers were hammered about the need to rape
+	women of the other "race" to make the resultant babies more
+	ethnically pure...which happened.
+
+	
      
+	Most of her dialogue was paraphrased from actual speeches given over
+	the decades, or longer, by fanatical leaders to their followers.
+	There's bits of Hitler, of Goerring, of Goebbels...bits of McCarthy,
+	bits of Stalin, bits of Pat Buchanan and Rep. Dornan.
+
+	
      
+	Because people fell for it.  It did work.
+
+	
      
+	It does work.
+
+	
      
+	And it will *continue* to work...for as long as people think that
+	THEY would NEVER fall for such a thing....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Never said they're all convinced of it.  Just as all Germans weren't
+	convined of the views advanced by Hitler.
+
+	
      
+	You don't need all of them.  You just need *enough* of them.
+
+	
      
+	Preferably, enough of them with guns.
+
+	
      
+	Remember, too, that we just came out of the Earth/Minbari War about ten
+	years ago, when we stood at the edge of extinction.  The threat of a new
+	alien race makes a good device.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How much does Nightwatch pay members?
      
+	Basically, it's a weekly bonus added onto their weekly salary; 50 creds
+	is a pretty enticing bump, equal to about 50 pounds British.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Didn't the security people already know about the
+	assassination?
      
+	You have to remember that all Garibaldi's people knew was that a
+	few guys came through the station that may have been involved in the
+	assassination. That is NOT the same thing as showing that Clark is
+	involved.  There was no apparent connection.  We the audience suspect
+	it, from what happens, but until now there has been no evidence of it. 
+	So yes, they know that Santiago is dead; that there's some indication
+	that he may have been assassinated...but that's a long way from
+	pointing to Clark.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was that Ed Wasser's voice?  (He plays Morden.)
      
+	It was definitely Ed Wasser.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Musante seduce Zack?
      
+	No, that wasn't the relationship between her and Zack, much as he
+	might've wished for it.  As for the walkers at sigma 957...the
+	recognition signal is their name, which is 15,000 letters long (we had
+	to cut this line for time).  So I can't really repeat it here.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did she think seducing Sheridan would work?
      
+	Her feeling was likely that it has always worked with her in the
+	past. He's widowed, probably hasn't had any in a long time, he's
+	vulnerable, a perfect target.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, like many manipulative people, she projects whatever
+	she thinks will work best with her audience.  Appealing to Zack's
+	patriotism, trying to find Sheridan's affections by flattering him
+	mercilessly (on many levels), playing the straight-chinned leader in an
+	address to security forces...she puts on whatever face she thinks will
+	work.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Sheridan just get rid of her?
      
+	This is the difference between TV logic and Real logic.  In TV
+	logic, yeah, she should've tossed her outta there...but we try to be
+	rigorously real about the B5 universe.  She was sent by the Senate
+	Oversight Committee, as is their province, with the backing of several
+	governmental offices, in an area over which Sheridan doesn't have
+	jusrisdiction: the political arena back home. In the real world, you
+	can't just toss somebody out the door because you don't like them...not
+	if you're a career military officer who answers to a civilian authority
+	or government.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did I imagine Marcus's line about the French?
      
+	You didn't imagine it....
+
+	
      
+	Part of what appeals to me is the idea that the English/French
+	animosity you often see (though clearly not in all cases) would
+	continue not only into the future, but outside Earth.  Realistically,
+	if you go into Europe, you find people holding grudges 500 years old,
+	or more.  Seemed appropriate to carry this small one forward as well.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What does Marcus know about Vorlon theology?
      
+	Marcus was making that part up.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Weren't me.  It was Marcus.  Blame him.
+
+
      
+   
    •  So the actor ad-libbed that line?
      
+	Actor?  What actor?  I'm talking about Marcus here.  I just
+	write down what he says.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The First Ones had Kosh's voice.
      
+	I figured that some elements of the First Ones should be consistent
+	with one another; others should have specific differences.  Using
+	Ardwight subliminally reinforced some of the consistencies.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+An addictive drug with telepathic effects is found on the station,
+prompting a visit by Bester.  G'Kar reaches a turning point.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.62
+
+Production number: 306
+Original air week: February 5, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo's original assignment to Babylon 5 was at the direct request of
+	Emperor Turhan, who chose him after everyone else turned the position
+	down.
+
+   
    •  Dust, an addictive drug, allows non-telepaths of several races to
+	probe the minds of others, experiencing all the victim's memories and
+	thoughts in the space of a few minutes.  Unfortunately, this leaves the
+	victims unconscious, and telepathic victims never recover.  The more
+	often Dust is taken, the more is required to achieve the effect the
+	next time.  Dust was originally developed, and is apparently still
+	being produced, by Psi Corps in an attempt to induce permanent
+	telepathy in normal humans; the experiment has been a failure so far.
+
+   
    •  The Narn used to have telepaths, long ago, but they and their families
+	were exterminated.  The genes for telepathy were too weak in the
+	survivors to allow the Narn to breed natural telepaths, but their
+	abilities can still be unlocked, briefly, by Dust.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How much does G'Kar know about Londo's association with the Shadows?
+	Did Kosh stop him before he was able to discover everything?
+
+   
    •  Why did Kosh stop G'Kar?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Was Bester telling the truth about the Psi Corps combatting secret
+	threats to the human race, things ordinary people never hear about?
+	If so, what are those threats?
+
+   
    •  What happened to the Narn telepaths?  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Will the Dust have a permanent effect on G'Kar, such as giving him
+	some measure of telepathic ability?
+
+   
    •  What did the Corps learn from Talia?  Was she actually dissected, or
+	was Bester just baiting Garibaldi?  Did they find out about Ironheart's
+	gift
+	("Mind War")?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What is the rest of the Psi Corps' business on Babylon 5?  Perhaps
+	it involves Lyta Alexander; her presence is probably common knowledge
+	by now.
+
+   
    •  The extermination of Narn telepaths
+	may be connected to the Shadow
+	occupation of the Narn homeworld in the last war.  See
+	"Voices of Authority."
+	Or perhaps the Centauri were responsible, during their previous
+	occupation.  It's also possible, though perhaps less likely, that
+	the Narn killed all their own telepaths.
+
+   
    •  G'Kar asks Londo if being helpless helps him understand the plight of
+	the Narn.  But the reverse effect may have taken place as well; G'Kar
+	has experienced at least some of the past several years from Londo's
+	point of view now, and thus presumably understands why Londo did what
+	he did.  Whether that understanding can lead to forgiveness, though,
+	is another question.
+
+   
    •  Kosh's intrusion into G'Kar's probe of Londo can certainly be viewed
+	as manipulation, especially given the use of the image of G'Lan.  What
+	Kosh is trying to achieve by appearing to G'Kar, and why he's willing
+	to interfere with the Narn and Centauri now when he expressed no
+	interest in them before
+	("Midnight On the Firing Line")
+	isn't clear.
+
+   
    •  In addition to the mention of the Narn and Centauri being alone and
+	dying, reminiscent of
+	"Midnight On the Firing Line,"
+	Kosh also tells G'Kar, "I have always been here."  This echoes Kosh's
+	statement in Sheridan's dream in
+	"All Alone In the Night."
+	It's still not entirely clear what he means, however.
+	Could it have something to do with the "path" revealed to Ivanova in
+	"Voices of Authority?"
+
+   
    •  Kosh may have stopped G'Kar
+	to prevent him from learning too much about the Shadows, on the
+	assumption that G'Kar would likely speak out about them in public.
+	Since the forces of light are still gathering, that'd be something
+	Kosh would want to prevent.  It's also likely that Kosh was maneuvering
+	G'Kar to be of greater use in the future, perhaps testing his ability
+	to influence G'Kar's behavior through the use of religious visions.
+
+   
    •  Probably just a coincidence: Kosh ends G'Kar's quest for Shadow
+	information in Londo's mind by saying, "It is enough."  That's exactly
+	what Londo said to Endawi
+	(Matters of Honor")
+	after recalling his dream of the Shadow ships flying overhead on
+	Centauri Prime.
+
+   
    •  Did G'Kar overdose on Dust?  It is possible that he was about to die,
+	given the intensity of all the images he was seeing - the drug hasn't
+	been tested on Narn.  And that would be consistant with Kosh's previous
+	appearances, when Sheridan was in danger of dying
+	("All Alone in the Night"
+	and
+	"The Fall of Night.")
+	Is Kosh's direct manipulation restricted only to near-death
+	appearances?
+
+   
    •  Who are the characters in G'Kar's vision?  The man on the tree is
+	his father (which G'Kar mentions, and which fits with his recounting in
+	"And Now For a Word.")
+	It's not clear who the second person is, the old man.  G'Quon, perhaps?
+	The third person, we know as G'Lan, from Kosh's exclamation in
+	"The Fall of Night."
+
+   
    •  Kosh's statement about sacrifice can be interpreted to cover the entire
+	Narn race; he may be saying that the Narn (and perhaps the Centauri,
+	given his earlier statement about the two races) must die so that the
+	rest can live.  If that interpretation is correct, Kosh is preparing
+	G'Kar to accept the death of his people as inevitable.  Will G'Kar
+	continue to fight for the Narn?
+
+   
    •  Vir's position on Minbar was a joke to Londo (strictly a means of
+	getting him out of his hair) just as Londo's position was originally
+	viewed.  Could Vir parallel Londo's ascension to power, potentially
+	rising to great importance in the coming war?  Given his newfound
+	affinity for the Minbari, and his distaste for Londo's politics (and
+	especially Morden,) he could be a great ally of the Army of Light.
+
+   
    •  Franklin continues to be on edge; could this be a consequence of his
+	stim habit?
+	("A Day in the Strife")
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Dust has been mentioned before; for example, in
+	"Hunter, Prey,"
+	Max, the kidnapper, asks Dr. Jacobs if he's a dust smuggler.
+
+   
    •  A possible inconsistency: Bester says the Corps has been working on
+	Dust for five years.  But in
+	"Survivors,"
+	Garibaldi recalls a Dust problem on Mars 17 years ago.  Perhaps the
+	Corps took over production of an existing drug.
+
+   
    •  The Dust vendor's two aliases, Lindstrom and Morgenstern, are the
+	surnames of two characters from the comedy series "The Mary Tyler
+	Moore Show."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Walter [Koenig]'s first appearance this season will be in "Dust to
+	Dust," #306.
+
+
      
+   
    •  An interesting thought...as for Bester's personality, keep an eye out
+	for "Dust to Dust," episode #6, where you see Bester from a different
+	and very interesting angle.  Some of what you say here, he says.  (Not
+	about the corps, but about doing what's right as he sees it.)
+
+	
      
+	'Course, whether or not one should *believe* anything he says is another
+	question altogether.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Kosh...we'll see him again outside his suit in "Dust to Dust," but
+	in a somewhat unconventional fashion....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The end credit music changed!
      
+	Yes, we did change that.  Because we -- I -- forgot to have
+	Christopher re-score it when we were re-doing the main title.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Dust To Dust" - Looks like a non-arc episode initially, but by the end
+	it has a strong effect on the overall storyline, and makes some
+	permanent changes in one of our characters.  Combines Bester, the
+	telepathic-assault drug Dust, weapons dealers, and brings to a head a
+	major part of the G'Kar/Londo thread.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Dust to Dust" is what I call one of my "pretty box" episodes. 
+	I set down the pretty box in front of you, and you think you know what
+	it is. Then something else entirely jumps out of it at your face. 
+	There's more coming here and there.  I like pretty boxes....
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's about time we had some heavy arc episodes!
      
+	I get this at the start of every season.  Let me repeat
+	what I've said, oh, about two dozen times already before.
+
+	
      
+	At the start of every season, we have new people sampling the
+	show. Do you want the show to continue?  If you do, then you have to
+	continue to add new viewers.  If viewers tune in and they're lost in
+	the overall arc, they're going to tune out again.  So you give them
+	some stand-alone episodes in the beginning, shows that are a little
+	more accessible, but introduce them to the characters, the situations
+	and the universe so that when the arc begins to move again, they know
+	enough to get into what's going on.
+
+	
      
+	Sure, I could've just kept going right with the strong arc
+	episodes. Which the new viewers, 90% of whom sample shows in the first
+	few weeks of a new season and not thereafter, wouldn't have been able
+	to follow well.  And they would've tuned out.  And it would've been a
+	very big nail in the cancellation coffin.  You can bring in new
+	viewers, or you can get canceled and never tell the whole story.  Pick
+	one.
+
+	
      
+	Second, you cannot -- CANNOT -- sustain the kind of intensity
+	you have in the final four over the course of a season.  You need to
+	have some lighter moments as contrast or people are going to start
+	sticking their heads in ovens all across the country.  So at the start
+	of a season, I try to do some lighter stuff, to bring people back up a
+	little, bracing for the next drop in the roller coaster.  You need
+	peaks and valleys to develop any kind of rhythm, or to appreciate the
+	other side of it.
+
+	
      
+	I got the same thing in season one, and season two..."Why these
+	light episodes?  What's happened to this arc?"  Then by season's end,
+	the chorus usually turns to "That was a GREAT season!"  So my response
+	is, Unless you think I've suddenly turned stupid, or I've decided to
+	betray the series I've now worked 10 years of my life to produce...will
+	you for chrissakes *trust* me once in a while?  Show a little patience.
+	When I introduced Vir, everybody on the planet jumped funky all over
+	me.  "He's just a comic character!  It's Flounder!  He's dumbing down
+	the show!  Space him!  He stinks!  Joe's losing it!"  And now, of
+	course, we see what Vir is, and in many surveys he's now one of the
+	most popular characters.
+
+	
      
+	You know what the #1 comment from the pilot was, on the nets
+	and elsewhere?  "LOSE the guy with the funny hair!  He's just
+	ridiculous." Londo. Every time I've done something a little different
+	in the show, I've usually been jumped on, because they're not willing
+	to trust that I know what I'm doing...until they've seen it for a
+	while, then they Get It, and it's "Oh, now I see it."  Great, thanks,
+	now that you've been beating on my head for six months.  Next time show
+	a little patience.  (And btw, ALL of the comments related above are
+	real ones, many of them right here on Compuserve, from people still
+	around here.)
+
+	
      
+	Every story can't be an arc story at this point; you've got to
+	see the characters outside the arc, in the way they live their lives,
+	in other things that happen to them, or else you won't CARE what
+	happens to them in the arc. No, the Purple/Green Drazi story didn't
+	move the arc ahead, but it showed you a lot about Ivanova, didn't it? 
+	So now if and when something should happen to her in the arc, you care
+	about her.  It's the difference between just being chess pieces, and
+	being *people*.
+
+	
      
+	Okay, here's the breakdown.  Season 3.  You had arc episodes
+	only a bit in the first batch.  "Honor," "Voices" and now a little in
+	"Dust." You've got one more stand-alone next week, "Exogenesis." 
+	That's the last one for a LONG time.  Episodes 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15,
+	16, 17, 20, 21 and 22 are ALL arc stories, most of them heavy, none
+	less than moderate.
+
+	
      
+	I said, from the start, that each season would have
+	stand-alones and arc stories.  About 20% in year one, 35% in year two,
+	50% in year three, 70% in year four, and 100% in year five.  And the
+	stand-alones tend to get pushed toward the beginning of a season for
+	the reasons stated.  Is nobody paying attention when I say these
+	things?  Because if so, then why do I get gigged each season at the
+	start by people saying "HEY!  HOW COME THESE AREN'T ARC EPISODES?" 
+	(And as it looks now, year 3 has closer to 13-14 arc episodes, so we're
+	ahead a bit.)
+
+	
      
+	Before people start making sweeping generalizations about the
+	season, it might behoove you to see the season first.  If anything, my
+	concern in looking at what's been done for year 3 is that we're too
+	GRIM for the larger portion of it, and maybe a bit complex...so I'm
+	working to clarify a few things here and there as I do these last few.
+
+
      
+   
    •  RE: Bester...thanks.  I'd decided a while ago that the next time
+	we saw him, he either had to win, or he had to be right.  If he lost
+	again, it'd cut his credibility out.  This gave me a chance to do some
+	interesting things with him.  He's a fascinating guy...a creep, and I
+	wouldn't trust him for a second, but fascinating nonetheless....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Wouldn't the telepaths have tipped Bester off that something was
+	going on between Sheridan and the Minbari?
      
+	Simple fact is, the rules of the
+	Psi Corps would forbid them from engaging ANY human telepath for this
+	purpose. So the only other recourse is non-humans.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Bester read Franklin when he was injected?
      
+	I think you're misremembering; Bester nudged up his right sleeve with
+	his left hand and held it out; Franklin stuck the needle in.  I don't
+	believe he held his hand (which was gloved in any event).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo knows G'Kar knows, yes.  He couldn't not know.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the music during G'Kar's rush of images from Londo new?
      
+	With some thematic exceptions, most of the music Chris composes
+	for us each week is unique, and tailored for that episode.  So yes,
+	it's all mainly new.
+
+	
      
+	Re: the coat of welcoming...here's a little tidbit...we had to
+	make up an entire alphabet for most of our major races (and I've been
+	gradually building up a dictionary here and there for languages).  So
+	they came and asked if they could embroider something in Minbari on the
+	shirt Vir's wearing when he comes back.  I said sure.  Did I have
+	anything in mind?  No, not really.
+
+	
      
+	So I'm on the set that day, and I see the embroidered shirt, and
+	I ask what these five letters spell, since I don't offhand read Minbari
+	yet.  He looked up at me and smiled.  "It spells out ALOHA."
+
+	
      
+	We have a very demented crew.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh would rather sacrifice all the Narn through manipulation
+	than take direct action?
      
+	Exactly.  I mean, in three years, what the heck have the Vorlons
+	actually *done* to help "our side?"  Let the others do it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, I tend to agree with that assessment.  They've guided
+	and instructed and pointed, yes...and manipulated...but they still
+	haven't had to step up to the plate in other areas.
+
+	
      
+	And I don't think the Narns have sacrificed nearly enough yet. 
+	You can always sacrifice more.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A person can be sincere and still manipulative, in Kosh's case. 
+	If he believes he's right, perhaps he's willing to manipulate anyone
+	toward that goal, if it's worth it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why not sooner?
      
+	Because G'Kar needed to hit bottom, real bottom, before he
+	would be receptive to the message...because time doesn't mean to the
+	vorlons what it means to us...and because he was finally mentally
+	receptive due to the dust.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, G'Kar doubtless *thinks* he saw a spirit, possibly the
+	spirit of his father, possibly something else...revealed later as
+	G'Lan, of course, taking that image in order to give him a revelation.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Correct.  They see reality, and time, and space somewhat
+	differently than we do.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, I wouldn't say that the shadows and vorlons see space, time
+	and reality in the same ways.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What did G'Kar shout out?
      
+	And what G'Kar said was, "Dear G'Quon, no more...."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did G'Kar recognize Morden?
      
+	G'Kar probably has not yet put that together; remember, he only
+	met Morden once, for about 4 minutes, a couple of years previous to
+	this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does Kosh find it easier to appear to people when they're in
+	altered mental states?
      
+	Yes, it helps if the person's mind is in a different state --
+	asleep, exhausted, in a heightened state of awareness -- for the
+	Vorlons to make contact, which is why their presence is often
+	associated with dream imagery.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The sign behind Kosh says, "WARNING!"
      
+	Yes, the sign does indeed say warning.  Look for another sign
+	right behind somebody at the end of "Severed Dreams."
+
+
      
+   
    •  G'Kar really beat Londo up.
      
+	Implying more than one sees is something that you kinda have to
+	learn over time.  It can be very effective, as here.
+
+	
      
+	You just have to kinda put yourself out on a limb, as a writer
+	or as an actor.
+
+	
      
+	This scene *should* be very affecting.  It goes to Joe's Theory
+	of Violence on TV.  To wit...that we need more of it, but it has to be
+	realistic violence.  It has to show consequences.  You glorify or
+	desensitize violence when you shoot somebody, and they just go down, no
+	yelling in pain, no sobbing as their guts fall out onto the street. 
+	It's just gunfire, loud noises, excitement and fun.  If you're going to
+	show violence, then show it for what it *is*, and show it the way
+	people would react to it.  Make the audience understand that this is a
+	*person*, not one in a series of body counts.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, just to clarify the legalese, the judge sentenced him
+	to *no less* than 60 days; that's the minimum, it could be more.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The female Psi Cop here *was* the same as in ARTDP, played by
+	Judy Levitt, who is also Walter's wife.
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, everyone turned in great performances in this one, very
+	intense and layered.  And as a result of G'Kar's attack, the next
+	several episodes will find him still in prison.  In the B5 universe,
+	you don't just go in for a long time at the end of an ep and next thing
+	you're out again.  He has to serve his time, and now we'll see him in a
+	cell for a while.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, you'll learn more about what happened to the Narn
+	telepaths in coming months.
+
+
      
+   
    •  With Ivanova, I've tried to construct a small emotional arc, in
+	that when she arrived, she was the new kid, she was a bit uncomfortable
+	with the job, and responded by being very formal, very businesslike, a
+	bit on the snide side.  As she's gotten more comfortable with the job,
+	and the people around her, she's relaxed a bit around her
+	co-workers...but if somebody crosses her, as Bester tends to do, she
+	lets fly with some pretty sharp lines.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Marcus and Dr. Franklin combat an invasion by parasitic aliens that attach
+themselves to humans.  Ivanova investigates the possibility of bringing a
+new member into the conspiracy.
+
+
+Joshua Cox as Corwin.
+Aubrey Morris as Duncan.
+James Warwick as Matthew Duffin.
+
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.34
+
+Production number: 307
+Original air week: February 12, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
      
+   
    •  Signs on the wall in the Brown Sector marketplace.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  A race of symbiotes, the Vindrizi, has existed for half a million
+	years.  They were created as
+	recorders, observing events all over the galaxy so that others
+	can learn about the past when all the books and records have been
+	swallowed by the next dark age.  They survive by passing from host
+	to host, always seeking volunteers who have nothing left to live for
+	and want to live out their lives participating in a grand endeavor.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows have been building up forces in sector 800, near the border
+	of Centauri space.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What is the "package" from Mars that Marcus is waiting for?
+
+   
    •  Why are the Shadows building up their forces in sector 800?
+
+   
    •  Will Corwin prove problematic for the conspiracy of light?
+
+   
    •  Who created the Vindrizi half a million years ago, and what made
+	them think such living histories would become necessary?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  It's never made clear how much time has passed before the Vindrizi's
+	departure, but it's odd that Sheridan and company didn't jump at the
+	chance to get all the information they could about the Shadows and
+	the previous wars while the Vindrizi were still aboard.  Of course,
+	it's possible such discussions took place, but they're never mentioned.
+
+   
    •  Now that Sheridan and his people know about the Vindrizi, perhaps
+	they'll call upon them in the future.
+
+   
    •  What came in on the ship at the beginning of the episode?  The two
+	people waiting for the ship were quite happy to see it arrive.  Were
+	they not yet joined with the Vindrizi, or did the ship simply carry
+	more of their kind?
+
+   
    •  Marcus seems a good deal less concerned with
+	secrecy than his
+	coconspirators; he was talking to Garibaldi openly, and loudly, about
+	his network of contacts in a public place.  By contrast, Ivanova and
+	Sheridan didn't even want to be seen with him at the
+	Earhart's party for fear of raising questions.
+
+   
    •  Why is Ivanova so hostile toward Marcus?  Have her last few romantic
+	experiences made her want to discourage any new developments in that
+	area?  (For example,
+	"The War Prayer"
+	and
+	"Divided Loyalties.")
+
+   
    •  During the medical staff meeting, Franklin mentions that there's a
+	need for Drazi blood.  Is the station being flooded with Drazi refugees,
+	much like it was with Narn refugees while the Narn-Centauri War was at
+	its peak?  If so, is Babylon 5 becoming a sort of haven for refugees
+	of all stripes?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Duncan's line, "I don't like being poked by doctors," is also spoken
+	by the main character Alex in Stanley Kubrick's
+	"A Clockwork Orange."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The ship carrying the Vindrizi is called the Dyson, most likely named
+	for physicist Freeman Dyson.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Marcus quotes from Dickens'
+	"A Christmas Carol" to Garibaldi, and from
+	Shakespeare's "Macbeth" when he wakes Duncan up.  Note that Marcus
+	refers to Macbeth as "the Scottish play," and replaces "Macbeth" with
+	"Marcus" in his quote -- there is a superstition
+	among actors that referring to Macbeth by name is bad luck.  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+	
      
+	The particular Macbeth quotes are from Act II, scene 2:
+
+	
      
+	Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more!
      
+	Macbeth does murder sleep" -- the innocent sleep,
      
+	Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
      
+	The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
      
+	Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
      
+	Chief nourisher in life's feast.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Then, a moment later:
+
+	
      
+	Still it cried "Sleep no more!" to all the house.
      
+	"Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
      
+	Shall sleep no more.  Macbeth shall sleep no more."
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Glamis and Cawdor are two earl titles that Macbeth holds.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Marcus refers to his fighting staff as a "Copeland J5000" while trying
+	to convince the Vindrizi it's a medical instrument.  That's most likely
+	a reference to producer John Copeland.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Vindrizi's musing about what they've experienced is reminiscent of
+	Batty's dying words at the end of the movie
+	"Blade Runner."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  "Exogenesis," which we just started filming this week, is probably our
+	most "ordinary" story of the batch, though it puts a new spin on
+	several traditional story elements.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Exogenesis" - The last non-arc episode for some time.  Puts Dr.
+	Franklin and Marcus together investigating some odd happenings in
+	DownBelow that may indicate some kind of alien influence.  Does,
+	however, introduce a thread that will play out over time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Another "oh, yeah, I nearly forgot"...for those out there who have
+	young kids, or if you're a bit on the squeamish side yourself...there's
+	one EFX shot at the end of the teaser for "Exogenesis" that you may want
+	to avoid. When it was finished, John Copeland brought it into my office,
+	fired it up on my TV, and looked away, saying, "You look, it creeps me
+	out too much to look at it again."  It's...pretty strong. So you'll miss
+	the minimum possible, here's the sequence: first there's the Screaming
+	Man (a), then a cutaway to two people (b), then back at the Man for the
+	first part of the shot (c), the two people again (d), the man (e), and
+	finally the two people.  What you want to avoid, if there are real young
+	kids in the room, are shots c and e.  That's it for the whole episode.
+	For non-netted folks, it'll go by pretty fast, but I figured it'd be
+	worth mentioning as an added piece of info for the netted amongst us.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Yeah, Exo is the last non-arc episode for a long time,
+	and the last chance to catch one's breath before the big fall.
+
+	
      
+	My personal evaluation of the episode is that it's okay.  The
+	second half, I think, isn't as strong as the first half.  Halfway
+	through writing the episode, we had a problem come up in production
+	that unexpectedly took me away from the script for about a week. 
+	(Nothing major, but it had to be dealt with and it took time.) 
+	Usually, I write copious notes on a script before I begin writing it. 
+	In this case, the story was so crystalline clear in my head that I just
+	dived in, and was blasting away terrific when the hit came midway 
+	through.  By the time I got back, I'd lost some of the fingerprints of
+	the story, and had to kind of re-find them again.  Mainly, I think the
+	expository sequence at the end could've been done better.
+
+	
      
+	Needless to say, that's the last time I trusted myself without
+	notes, no matter how well I "see" the episode in my head.  It'd be a
+	great script for second or first season, but we have to keep raising
+	the bar, every aspect has to be better than the last thing we did, so
+	for my money it's not quite up to that standard.  Happily, it's the
+	*only* episode this season that I feel that way about...the rest are
+	all just nifty.
+
+	
      
+	That said, I think it has some great moments for Marcus, Franklin
+	and others...and yes, there's a lot more planned with Franklin coming
+	up this season, particularly toward the latter third of the season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks (I think).  Yeah, I've said from the git-go that in my
+	view the second half of Exo isn't up to the first half.  It is, in my
+	view, the weakest of this season's 22.  On the flip side, that means
+	the other 21 are pretty nifty.
+
+	
      
+	Agree with you on Marcus.  I'm finding I have the same problem
+	with him I have with Londo...getting him to shut up once I wire him up
+	and let him go. He's a lot of fun to write, in that he can do the
+	physical action stuff very well, he can do comedy, more dramatic
+	emotional stuff...the whole range.  I can take him places and do things
+	with him that I can't in some ways for the other characters, in that he
+	has only one responsibility, whereas the others have larger
+	responsibilities to more people.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the avoidance of the name "Macbeth"
+	
      
+	Just figured I'd use that description of it
+	rather than Macbeth, to make it a bit more obscure, but also some
+	actors do have a problem saying the name Macbeth or being around it
+	when it's said (note: Jason isn't one of them). so it was also a
+	courtesy.  (Later on, while shooting "A Late Delivery From Avalon,"
+	one of the hair dressers made the error of referring to Macbeth out
+	loud in front of Michael York, and had to go through the whole
+	undo-the-curse routine, walking around the stages three times, etc.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  I like Marcus quoting literature, Shakespeare included.  So
+	it's something I've peppered through his character, though trying to
+	avoid too much of it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Marcus and Ivanova should get along
+	well...assuming one doesn't kill the other first....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was that Sean Connery's voice at the beginning?
      
+	It was a voice in the walla group that basically came out
+	sounding that way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did Franklin's stim abuse problem go?
      
+	It hasn't come to a head yet.  Any abuser of substances has moments
+	when he's up, and moments when he's down, moments when he seems fine,
+	moments when he's not.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the Senate continues to investigate President Clark,
+an archaeologist brings news of a development back home that forces Sheridan
+to act against the Earth government.  The Nightwatch tightens its grip on the
+civilian population.
+
+
+Nancy Stafford as Dr. Kirkish.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.06
+
+Production number: 308
+Original air week: February 19, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Seven years ago, an archaeological team working for Interplanetary
+	Expeditions (see
+	"Infection")
+	discovered a disabled Shadow ship buried 300 feet under the Martian
+	surface, underground for at least a thousand years.  Another Shadow
+	ship, apparently with the cooperation of Earth, finished excavating
+	the first, and both flew away.  Garibaldi was witness, and recovered
+	a Psi Corps badge from the site.  See comic issue 8,
+	"Silent Enemies."
+	Most of the archaeologists have died or disappeared since.
+
+   
    •  More recently, a second Shadow ship was discovered under the ice on
+	Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
+
+   
    •  A Shadow ship requires a living being at its core; the two merge,
+	becoming one entity.  If the pilot isn't properly prepared, the
+	result is a confused, insane ship.
+
+   
    •  Translating the Book of G'Quan is considered sacrilege by the Narn.
+	"It must be read in the mother tongue, or not at all," says G'Kar.
+
+   
    •  Shadow forces have continued to build up on the edge of Centauri space.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  What were Shadow ships doing on Mars and Ganymede a millenium ago?
+	Was Earth involved in the last war?
+
+   
    •  How does Delenn know that Shadow ships have sentient beings at their
+	core?  What else does she know about them that she hasn't told
+	Sheridan?
+
+   
    •  What kind of preparation is needed to properly merge with a Shadow ship?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's unwillingness to fire on the Agamemnon may be a sign of
+	trouble to come; he's not ready to think of Earth's military as an
+	enemy.  How long that loyalty will last is unclear, but at some point,
+	if conditions on Earth continue to escalate and Sheridan continues to
+	act covertly against the government, he'll be forced to choose
+	between firing on his own people and death or capture.
+
+   
    •  The White Star is a Minbari vessel, yet Sheridan believed the Agamemnon
+	would be able to track it.  (See
+	"Points of Departure.")
+	Perhaps that was simply because the White
+	Star was in Jupiter's atmosphere; it was thus unable to outrun the
+	Agamemnon, and could be tracked via atmospheric disturbances.
+
+   
    •  The White Star is a formidable vessel, in any case; it has as much
+	firepower as several Narn heavy cruisers, judging by its attack on
+	the Shadow vessel (see
+	"The Long, Twilight Struggle,") although
+	this Shadow ship might have been smaller than those faced by the
+	Narn.  The Agamemnon was able to damage the White Star, but only
+	after it had been grazed by a Shadow weapon and subjected to
+	atmospheric conditions far outside its safety limits.
+
+   
    •  G'Kar's book should make for interesting reading now that he knows
+	what's going on from Londo's point of view as well as his own
+	("Dust to Dust.")
+	Given his visitation by what he believes to be G'Lan in that episode,
+	will he consider his writings to be on the same level as the Book of
+	G'Quan?  More importantly, will other Narn feel the same way, and
+	become followers of the Book of G'Kar?
+
+   
    •  Dr. Kirkish says of Earth, regarding the Shadows, "They want us to
+	become more like them."  What does she mean by that?  How can humans
+	become more like Shadows, and what would that entail?
+
+   
    •  Someone on Earth wanted to go behind the Shadows' backs; if the
+	Shadows discover that (assuming they don't already know,) the
+	consequences for Earth could be disastrous.  Assuming, of course, that
+	the Shadows didn't tell Earth about the second ship for their own
+	reasons.
+
+   
    •  The events on Mars make it clear that the Shadows were awake to some
+	degree before the Icarus visited Z'ha'dum
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.")
+	The Icarus visited Z'ha'dum in 2256, but Kirkish saw a functioning
+	Shadow vessel seven years ago, in 2253.  The Psi-Corps connection
+	also implies that the Shadows were aware of humanity at the time.
+
+   
    •  Given Marcus' apparent disregard for secrecy
+	("Exogenesis")
+	Ivanova would be well-advised to make sure his chart is destroyed
+	or hidden lest a Nightwatch sympathizer stumble across it.
+
+   
    •  Perhaps the Shadows bury their ships underground intentionally.  Since
+	the ships are at least partially alive, it's even concievable that
+	the Shadows bury an egg or something similar, then dig up the fully
+	grown ship later on.  In that case, where else are such ships buried?
+	Do the Shadows know, or did they lose track of their ships in the
+	last war?
+
+   
    •  Now that the Agamemnon has observed the White Star at close proximity,
+	Earth Force will presumably treat it as hostile on sight in the future.
+	That will probably severely limit Sheridan's ability to finesse his
+	way out of another fight.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows are far from alone in requiring living beings to merge with
+	their machinery.  In fact, it seems to be a staple of advanced
+	technologies in the B5 universe:
+
+	
        
+	   
      •  The Ikarran weapon in
+		"Infection."
+	   
      •  The anti-agathic drug in
+		"Deathwalker,"
+		which required an extract from another living being.
+	   
      •  The Great Machine in Epsilon 3, which goes berserk without a
+		core
+		("A Voice in the Wilderness.")
+	   
      •  Shadow ships, as shown here.
+	
      
+
+	
      
+	Are Vorlon ships similarly powered?  They show up as living beings
+	in scans, though that isn't conclusive one way or the other.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Narn is written from right to left.
+
+   
    •  "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom" is a variation on a quote
+	from Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States
+	(1801-1809.)  The original meaning was that people should closely watch
+	their governments to avoid excessive encroachment on personal liberty;
+	its use by a Nightwatch member is especially ironic.
+
+   
    •  The events on Mars were first revealed in the comic series, issues
+	"Survival the Hard Way"
+	and
+	"Silent Enemies,"
+	six months before this episode's first airing.  Garibaldi also made
+	a reference to the story contained therein in the first-season
+	episode
+	"Infection."
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  In the middle
+	of the White Star's jump to hyperspace, there's a single
+	frame of note.  The frame takes place as the White
+	Star emerges into hyperspace, as it heads toward the camera.  The
+	hyperspace background changes to what looks like an alien cityscape.
+	Apparently it's a shot from
+	Hypernauts,
+	a children's sci-fi show whose special effects are being done by
+	B5's effects company.  (See
+	jms speaks.)
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
+ 
+	
      
+	For a couple months now, I've been looking down the road at episode #7, 
+	because I couldn't quite see the shape of it...I knew what I had to do
+	in it, but I couldn't break the spine of the story...until ten minutes
+	ago, and it hit me with all the force of a meat axe right smack between
+	the eyeballs.
+ 
+	
      
+	Hot damn...if I can pull this script off, it may well be the best one
+	of the series to date.  Granted it'll probably give Ron a cardiac
+	infarction, but what the heck, he's had it too easy lately.
+ 
+	
      
+	Oh, man, is this gonna be cool, assuming I can pull it off.
+ 
+	
      
+	Working title: "Messages from Earth."
+
+
      
+   
    •  A bit of a bland title?
      
+	Whether it's "bland" or not depends on what the messsages might be,
+	yes?  The only thing I'll say for the episode is that it may be one of
+	the biggest whams of the first half of year three, and one of our most
+	ambitious episodes of the series.  Generally, my feeling is that titles
+	should augment the episode, or add something, or collapse something into
+	a thematic whole.  When you see what convictions are at hand, the
+	episode "Convictions" as a title works better; ditto for "Messages."
+
+	
      
+	Besides, a nice, quiet, inoffensive little title gives me a better
+	chance to sneak up behind you and whack the heck out of you....
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Messages," for my money, is so far the best we've ever done, though
+	I'll be more able to lock that down once I've seen the final CGI.  It
+	and "Dreams" are real CGI blowouts; in the latter, there are literally
+	100 shots -- CGI, live action, and compositing -- in *four pages* of
+	action.  This is an all time record for us (and that doesn't count the
+	stuff earlier in the episode).
+
+	
      
+	I don't usually go this far, but folks, let me give you my personal
+	guarantee: you're in for one hell of a ride come mid-season, with these
+	three episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Not only did "Messages From Earth" come out as well as I'd hoped or
+	thought it would, it came out *better*.  It is, potentially, either
+	one of the best or the best thing we've ever done in the whole series
+	to date. There are some episodes that come close this season, like
+	"Point of No Return," "A Late Delivery From Avalon," "Sic Transit
+	Vir" (for absolutely different reasons), and parts of "Dust to Dust,"
+	but so far -- at least until the CGI for "Severed Dreams" is
+	finished, which has at least a shot at knocking "Messages" out of the
+	box -- "Messages" is as close to perfect as we've ever come.
+
+	
      
+	Like "The Coming of Shadows" there's a real sense of a *story* being
+	told, and major events happening at breakneck speed.  It's just a joy
+	to watch.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'd suggest, btw, that if there are any folks you've been waiting to
+	bring into the fold on B5, you may want to consider 8 and 9 in the new
+	cycle, the last of that bunch in February.  Eight is potentially one of
+	the best, possibly the best episode we've produced to date.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Here's something that occured to me today.  Any time you have
+	someone you're trying to convince about the quality of a show, and you
+	say, "Here, just watch it next week," that's always the one that comes
+	a-cropper.
+
+	
      
+	"Messages From Earth" airing this coming week is possibly the
+	best thing we've done to that point.  It's guaranteed to grab anybody
+	who watches it.  So this would be a good one to use.
+
+	
      
+	Pick ten friends who you know haven't yet tried B5, or are
+	diffident about it, and give them a call.  Tell them to give THIS one a
+	look.  Then all you have to do is sit back, and wait for the jaws to
+	drop.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Messages From Earth" - This begins the three-episode mini-arc within
+	the larger arc that, by its conclusion, totally changes the
+	structure of the B5 universe.  A mega-wham episode.  Because so
+	much comes to a head so quickly, little can be said about it
+	without spoiling stuff.  Our characters begin making the final
+	and irrevocable steps that will put them on a collision course
+	with everything they have believed in until now.  There are
+	four or five episodes this season that push the limits of our
+	effects and CGI to the absolute wall; this is one of the
+	biggest.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: an "edge" to the show....I suspect you're going to get all the edge
+	you could possibly want with episodes 8, 9 and especially 10.
+
+	
      
+	Be *very* careful what you wish for.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Randy, I honestly don't think, after episodes 8-10 have aired,
+	that you're going to have any problems with how fast the main story is
+	progressing. And do bear in mind that the "main story" isn't just the
+	war; if you wanted to do that, you'd just do Space A&B.  It's operating
+	on a whole lot of other levels.  Nonetheless...this entire season is
+	much faster overall in developing than the two before.  The first two
+	seasons we were mainly putting the guns into position.  Now we're
+	pulling all the triggers.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  Bruce did an excellet job in this episode, I agree. 
+	As did everyone else.  This is, in my opinion, about as flawless an
+	episode as we have ever made.  It's one of those cases where the sum is
+	even greater than the sum of its parts...and the sum of its parts ain't
+	bad.
+
+	
      
+	From here on through the next batch, the intensity level
+	continues to crank up.
+
+	
      
+	We definitely pushed the envelope in terms of EFX this time
+	out; mixing and matching, and in sheer amounts of shots, and their
+	complexity. But the result, I think, is eminently worth the effort.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I entirely agree; I think she did a dynamite job as Kirkish.  Totally
+	convincing.  When she walked into the audition, and did the part, there
+	was no question...it was her.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the alien city
      
+	The executive producer thinks, "He's mistaken, has to be; it must be 
+	a series of patterns in the image that look like a city." Being a
+	thorough person, however, the executive producer fires up his copy of
+	the tape, and fast forwards to the shot in question. Pauses, then
+	advances, frame by frame. 
+
+	
      
+	Then stops.  The executive producer stares at the screen for a very, 
+	very long time.  Eventually, words form.  The executive producer knows 
+	that if he posts those words here, not only will they throw him off the 
+	system, they will come to his house, burn it down, and sow the ground
+	with salt. 
+
+	
      
+	The executive producer knows what that single frame is, knows that it 
+	has nothing to do with his show, knows that it's a frame from Hypernauts
+	that somehow crossed into the EFX shot in double-exposure via a computer
+	glitch while rendering.  No one saw it.  No one noticed it.  Until now.
+
+	
      
+	Tomorrow morning, the executive producer is going to make phone 
+	calls, and say all the words he can't say here.  When he is finished, 
+	twenty seven miles of telephone coaxial cable are going to hang melted 
+	from the telephone poles.  Shortly thereafter, the executive producer is
+	going to put a gun to his head and blow his brains out, in the sure 
+	knowledge that if he does not do so, he will most assuredly do it to 
+	someone else.
+
+	
      
+	The executive producer thanks you for bringing this to his attention, 
+	and would write further, but is currently modeming from a laptop
+	computer on top of his roof, from which he is considering jumping, and
+	the wind up here is causing line noise.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where's the press during all this Nightwatch buildup?
      
+	You'll find more on this in the next three episodes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  You need a clear and present danger, and with a
+	population that nearly got wiped out by the Minbari, who are skittish
+	to begin with, you drag out the possibility of someone else doing the
+	same thing and it makes it a lot easier to do what you want to do.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, it's the cost involved in transporting something as
+	basically trivial as eggs.  Yes, it can be done, but the cost per egg
+	would be quite substantial, given limited space in ships.  Space flight
+	is still very expensive.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, a shadow vessel has one "core" sentient, and once in,
+	it's very difficult for that person to ever get out again.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the blue goop?
      
+	Actually, I think it was blueberry yogurt.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Any relation to the moment of perfect beauty in
+	"There All the Honor Lies?"
      
+	Yes, the way Sheridan removes his EA pin here is an
+	echo, or a shadow, so to speak, of his moment in "Honor."  The latter
+	is meant to sort of indicate what might be ahead for him, what he may
+	have to do at some point along the line.  He has to give up things that
+	mean something to him. (We'll get more of this philosophy in a few more
+	eps, I don't want to get too specific here.)  Visual foreshadowing.
+
+	
      
+	From here on in, things get very interesting....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, what he's writing will, in time, become the Book of G'Kar.
+
+	
      
+	And correct, I went for a different feel in this episode, on
+	the theory that a little change is a good thing, if used to a purpose. 
+	It's built like a series of waves, with quite moments in between.
+
+	
      
+	This is the second so far to strongly tie into the comic, yes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does G'Kar consider his book on par with G'Quon's?
      
+	No, he hasn't thought of it that far yet...but it will find
+	that role.
+
+
      
+   
    •  IXP has been in business, in one form or another, for between 50-80
+	years.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who was the human in the Shadow ship?
      
+	It doesn't really matter in the long run; some poor shlub who
+	got conned into it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Would a human be sane after piloting a Shadow ship?
      
+	Almost certainly not.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Could someone on Sheridan's side "pilot" a Shadow ship, or are
+	the ships intrinsically evil?
      
+	It's certainly a *very* good question.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, I wouldn't say there's a corrolation to life force and the shadow
+	ships; they need a living organism as the central processing unit
+	because an organic unit can think faster than most computer systems, and
+	react faster in terms of formulating strategy and the like.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is a Shadow ship itself a kind of Shadow?
      
+	It's not a kind of shadow, no.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is there an official name for the Shadow ships?
      
+	I just call them shadow vessels.  For now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Sheridan use the jumpgate trick again?
      
+	Because there wasn't a jumpgate he had access to, only a jump
+	point created by the White Star.  In the prior situation, he blew up a
+	standing jump gate.  The only one in the vicinity would be at the
+	transfer point near Io, which if destroyed would seriously harm Earth
+	interests.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How could the Agamemnon detect the White Star?
      
+	It can be for a number of reasons.  The White Star was moving
+	through a highly charged atmosphere, which would leave detectable
+	trails; it was being fired at by the shadow vessel, which would've
+	attracted considerable attention from the flares; diving at that speed
+	and coming back up there would be considerble heat on the surface of
+	the ship (not normally a problem in space); and it was pretty much
+	shaken up/partially damaged during the fight.  Also, at that range,
+	once you're near enough, you can pick it up visually as it gets close;
+	it's not a cloaking system, only a stealth system.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Neither situation relied on introducing new technology, only on
+	taking advantage of what's known currently.  It's a simple equation:
+	ship A is more powerful than ship B.  In a head-to-head situation, ship
+	A (shadow) will destroy ship B (white star).  If you can't directly
+	confront a stronger enemy, you have to find some way to work around it,
+	outsmart it.  (And fortunately, this one was flawed, "insane," as
+	Delenn put it.)
+
+	
      
+	And the minbari know more than they're saying.  But then that's
+	generally true of them.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, the shadow ship arrived with a new "core" for the
+	buried ship.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How does Delenn know so much about Shadow ships?
      
+	The info came from the Vorlons, and from the last war the Minbari fought
+	against them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The ship was hidden there to avoid it being destroyed during the war.
+	May or may not see General Franklin again anytime soon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are no shadow vessels buried on Narn, no.  The shadow influence
+	on the Psi Corps has been growing for about 7 years now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How is Sheridan going to defeat a Shadow ship head-to-head?
      
+	Exactly.  The goal would seem to be impossible.  So how do we
+	do it? Is there a vulnerability that's been laid out but not picked up
+	yet?  Is there an advantage we don't necessarily see yet?
+
+	
      
+	We have to be smarter.  Humans are at our best when against the
+	wall. And we have to do it ourselves, in the final analysis, nobody
+	else can do it for us.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the spine that the White Star shot off the Shadow vessel
+	recovered?
      
+	Nope.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Given that we're looking at a high-energy weapon capable of
+	burning through a four-mile wide Narn orbital base as though it were
+	made of butter, it's putting out enough energy, I figured, to lead to a
+	reaction with the hydrogen, whether it's a fusion reaction of some
+	other.
+
+	
      
+	We're talking a concentrated level of energy equal to a
+	thermonuclear reaction on a controlled level, or a fusion weapons
+	system with an energy output well beyond contemporary science to
+	calculate (particularly since this system is capable of delivering the
+	energy, undiluted, to targets tens or dozens of miles distant).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, perhaps a better word than ignite could've been used. 
+	But hey, the guy was being shot at...I'd be sitting in a corner going
+	bibble-bibble...
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the massing Shadow forces
      
+	The forces will continue to build over the course of this
+	season. The White Star would be detected because it was inside the
+	atmosphere, where it could be picked up by its emissions, the
+	disruption caused in the air by the engines, and frankly by plain
+	sight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What's the symbol at the front of the White Star bridge?
      
+	The symbol on the WS isn't on the floor, it's the top of a
+	console that can be used for holographic tactical displays.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The shot of G'Kar writing was flipped!
      
+	Not a gaffe; we flopped the shot because the writing was done
+	left to right, instead of right to left, which is Narnish script.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  We've featured Minbari script going straight up and
+	down like Japanese, right to left with Narns, and other variations. 
+	Because they would naturally occur.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Also, bear in mind that Sheridan went into Earth-space knowing
+	the risks.  For him to fire on the Aggy would be selfish, and wrong; he
+	knew full well that this could be a one-way ride.
+
+	
      
+	If you're going to have a situation where Sheridan fires on EA
+	ships, it has to be the ONLY way of dealing with the situation, and it
+	has to be SUPREMELY motivated, so that it's not just him or one of our
+	guys who's at stake.  It has to be a big situation to merit taking the
+	lives of fellow officers, in the same service.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think they know the White Star (aka the unidentified ship)
+	got away, but they put the best face on it back home.  Which is one
+	more reason why Clark's declared martial law.  Things are spinning out
+	of control, he's in increasingly hot water back home, and he has to
+	seize control.  Whoever was in that alien ship knows too much about his
+	operations...if that were to come out, he's finished.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Are we near the end of the Nightwatch plot thread?
      
+	The thread will diminish for a while, then return down the road
+	in later seasons, after the story takes its third major turn.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why does anyone on Earth believe Clark?
      
+	It all depends on how you frame the issue...i.e., the attacks
+	are groundless, baseless, and part of a campaign to destroy the
+	government, he's the attacked innocent....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan's conspiracy should be falling apart about now.
      
+	Of course it can't hold.  And they're going to go through
+	plenty of fire.  Remember, this is the first of three that accomplish
+	that.  Each escalates upon what went before.  Don't worry...you'll get
+	your wish.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the current mini-arc (8-10) is the second major turn in
+	the storyline.  The third starts with the last episode of this season,
+	going into the fourth year.  Then you've got one more big turn about
+	the last quarter or one-third of year four, and then a bit of a flip at
+	the end.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We already knew everything this episode revealed.
      
+	If I can, let me address one aspect of this, for your
+	consideration.
+
+	
      
+	Back when I was working on MURDER, SHE WROTE, we'd sometimes
+	get letters saying, "This wasn't a good episode because I figured out
+	the ending. It wasn't a surprise."  (Which is, to some extent, your
+	point here.)
+
+	
      
+	The problem we had with that particular letter was this: of
+	COURSE you figured it out.  Because you were paying attention to all
+	the clues we had put out there in the episode.
+
+	
      
+	There seems to be this notion that nobody should be able to
+	jump ahead, or else something's wrong or bad about the episode. 
+	Absolutely not true.  If you're going to play fair with the audience,
+	whether it's B5 or M,SW, you've got to put enough bits of information
+	out on the table so that the person who's really following it can
+	figure it out...so that at the end, those who *didn't* figure it out
+	can back up the tape, watch for the clues or leads, and see where it
+	all came from.  That's playing fair.
+
+	
      
+	If NObody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+
+	
      
+	If EVERYbody gets it, you haven't done your job right.
+
+	
      
+	The best case scenario is a bell-shaped curve.  Some don't have
+	a clue what's coming, some manage to figure it out, and the majority
+	have a kind of vague sense where it's going, but there are still
+	surprises along the way.  If the bell-curve shifts one direction or the
+	other, then you're in trouble.
+
+	
      
+	So far, B5 seems to be hewing right to the bell-curve.  For
+	every person who says "okay, this was expected," there's been another
+	saying, "I had no *idea* this was going to happen here, or so fast." 
+	(Many of these have been right on this forum, in fact.)
+
+	
      
+	Finally, do bear in mind that you have an advantage here that
+	99% of all the viewers don't: the discussion here on CIS, and direct
+	comments from me.  For instance, I just noted elsewhere that we've got
+	major turns at the end of this season, and one 2/3rds into year 4. 
+	Now, if at those points, somebody says, "Well, I knew this was coming,
+	that's bad," I intend to whap them, because the reason they likely knew
+	it was coming was because I *said so* right here.
+
+	
      
+	But that same 99% doesn't have this advantage.
+
+	
      
+	This is the main difference I've noted in the mail that's come
+	in: the net-folks are constantly trying to figure out what's coming up
+	next, treating it like a mystery story (which, really, it's not, any
+	more than ANY novel is a mystery in that you don't necessarily know its
+	turns and twists as you're reading it), whereas the non-netted folks
+	tend to just take it as it comes.
+
+	
      
+	See, that's the other part of this.  People on the nets tend to
+	treat it as though it's a mystery novel, and when it doesn't hit that
+	aspect, say it's flawed as a result...when it was never INTENDED to
+	function as a mystery novel.  It's a novel period.  A mystery novel
+	depends absolutely on the riddle at the center of it.  This is a saga,
+	which uses a different structure.  It isn't a mystery any more than
+	Lord of the Rings is a mystery, even though when I first read it I was
+	wondering what was going to happen next.
+
+	
      
+	Also, a mystery novel is done when the mystery is finally
+	unraveled. Not so the B5 story.  By the end of this season, most of the
+	mysteries will be unraveled, and the pieces laid on the table for all
+	to see.  It then becomes a matter of what the characters *do* about it
+	thereafter.
+
+	
      
+	If I'm doing my job right, and setting up things to come
+	properly, and giving all the clues to it, then by definition a certain
+	number of people HAVE to figure out what's coming.  As long as it's the
+	smaller portion, that's as it *should* be.  So you'll understand why I
+	tend to get in here for a moment when that's held up as something bad
+	or poorly done. (And, again, even you note that the only reason you
+	knew about the shadows on Mars was via reading it here, or others read
+	it via the comics.  Again, that's a very small portion of the audience;
+	most I've heard from had NO idea about that aspect of it.  If you
+	hadn't read it here, you likely would have been surprised by it.)
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, just something to consider in all of this....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Garibaldi mention he was with Sinclair?
      
+	There was an outsider, Kirkish, in the room.  Yes, she's helped him, but
+	he's still going to hold back some info because he doesn't know what
+	impact it might have on Sinclair.  He's protective of him.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, Kosh should've been there.  Kosh wasn't.  Kosh hasn't been carrying
+	his weight, if you ask me.  I hope this doesn't cause a problem
+	somewhere....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Don't have the shadow dimensions offhand; and yes, you'd think Sheridan
+	might begin to wonder about Kosh's level of involvement.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Weren't the cameras at Ganymede recording?
      
+	Of course.  But who controls those cameras?  Answer: the very
+	folks who wouldn't want it to get out what they had there.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As the Earth Alliance plunges toward civil war, internal strife threatens to
+shatter the command structure of B5.  Zack's loyalties are put to the test
+when the Nightwatch is ordered to take over station security.  Londo receives
+another glimpse of his destiny.
+
+
+Majel Barrett as Lady Morella.
+Marshall Teague as Ta'Lon.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.31
+
+Production number: 309
+Original air week: February 26, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jim Johnston
+
    
+
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  After the death of a Centauri emperor, custom states that his spirit
+	lives on in the body of his consort, who speaks both for herself and
+	her late husband.
+
+   
    •  Londo is destined to become emperor.  That part of his future cannot
+	be avoided, according to Lady Morella.  Vir is also destined to
+	become emperor.  One will become emperor after the other dies, but
+	it's not clear which.
+
+   
    •  Londo has already passed up two chances to avoid the destiny he fears
+	awaits him.  There will be three more.  He must save the eye that does
+	not see.  He must not kill the one who is already dead.  And failing
+	those, at the last, he must surrender himself to his greatest fear,
+	knowing that it will destroy him.
+
+   
    •  One result of G'Kar's Kosh-inspired revelation in
+	"Dust to Dust"
+	is the belief that humans are the key to the salvation of the Narn
+	race.  He also believes, as Kosh suggested, that the Narn must give
+	up their pride and their vengeance or risk being completely destroyed,
+	and that his people must sacrifice themselves by the hundreds or
+	even the millions if all are to benefit in the end.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Is General Hague on his way to the station?
+
+   
    •  What impact will Sheridan's new security forces have?  Will they
+	immediately turn Earth against him?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  One of Londo's two squandered chances was undoubtedly his action in
+	"The Coming of Shadows,"
+	which sparked the Narn-Centauri War.  The other is less clear.
+	Perhaps it was his initial meeting with Morden, or the attack on the
+	outpost in
+	"Chrysalis."
+	It may also have been his decision to ask the Shadows to defend Gorash 7
+	("The Long, Twilight Struggle,")
+	without which the Centauri wouldn't have been able to crush the Narn
+	as thoroughly as they did.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "The eye that does not see" might refer to the Eye, the
+	symbol of Centauri nobility that marked the start of Londo's association
+	with Morden
+	("Signs and Portents.")
+	It may also refer to G'Kar's eye, which appears to be injured or missing
+	in Londo's dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  The one who is already dead might be Morden, or perhaps G'Kar,
+	whose old life is certainly gone.  It's also possible that it refers
+	to the memory of someone who is to die; Londo may be presented with
+	an opportunity to discredit someone who would otherwise serve as a
+	martyr.  Along similar lines, it may refer to the wishes of someone
+	already dead; for instance, destroying the chance for peace that
+	Emperor Turhan sought before his death, something that would have
+	been the Emperor's legacy.
+	
+	
      
+	Another possibility is a connection to the transfer of
+	Minbari souls to humans; the owner of a particular previously-deceased
+	Minbari soul (perhaps Sinclair) may prove troublesome to Londo in the
+	future.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo's greatest fear might be the downfall of the Republic,
+	or perhaps his own death.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's likely Londo will squander at least the first two of his remaining
+	chances, given the fact that there will be a third -- assuming Morella
+	is correct.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What did Sheridan and the others say to convince Zack to go along with
+	their ruse?  It may have been as simple as convincing him that the
+	order from the Political Office was illegal, just like Sheridan told
+	the trapped Nightwatch members.  Using that to convince him would
+	have been the safest course of action, since as a loyal officer
+	he'd be inclined to go along with the plan even if his sympathies had
+	shifted toward Nightwatch.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What were all the non-security Nightwatch members doing during the
+	crisis?  Were they unaffected by the takeover order in the first place,
+	and thus largely unconcerned with what was going on?
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+An official
+press release
+about Majel Barrett's appearance is available.
+
+
    • 
+Many of the Nightwatch members in this episode are production staff
+members, including the production secretary and an assistant director.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Posted to the CompuServe Star Trek forum
      
+Before you hit the *kill* button...a thought or two in your general
+direction.  First, if you're eager for the actual news part of this message
+-- and it is kinda important -- it appears at the end of this message.  If
+you've got a second, stick around.
+
+
      
+In every interview he's given on the subject, Walter Koenig has spoken
+glowingly of BABYLON 5, as a show he feels is fighting for genuine quality
+SF in television, with serious, mature stories for fans who grew up on STAR
+TREK and are looking for more of that quality...none other than Majel
+Barrett Roddenberry has gone on record at conventions, including Toronto
+Trek and the recent Wolf 359 convention, as saying that BABYLON 5 was "the
+only other intelligent science fiction series out there" besides the ST
+shows, and urged ST fans to support it.
+
+
      
+If you've tried the show, and it wasn't to your tastes...fair enough.
+No one should be expected to like everything.  If you'd like to give it
+another shot, that's fine, but there is no need to defend your opinion; we
+respect it.  Not every show works for every viewer.
+
+
      
+If you *haven't* tried the show...if you liked the original ST and the
+work of Majel and Walter and Harlan and others involved in it...if you like
+the work of Peter David, who has written for B5 and supports it...you may
+want to give it a shot in October/November.
+
+
      
+The final four episodes from year two will be broadcast starting the
+week of October 11th, with the new year three episodes beginning the second
+week of November.  These nine episodes in a row contain some of the best
+work we have ever done.  Acting, writing, directing, effects...we stand
+behind all of them.  (The year two Final Four were held back from earlier
+broadcast to lead into the debut, so these are new to the US, although they
+have already aired to substantial praise in the UK.)
+
+
      
+If perhaps you have been turned off by some of the more vigorous
+messages from B5 viewers, I'd only ask that you consider those comments in
+light of the fact that Paramount (NOT the people doing ST, but the studio
+itself) has done everything possible to hinder the progress of B5, which
+engenders certain reactions from everyone; and that to a man or woman,
+virtually all of the more vigorous posts have come from those who have long
+considered themselves fans of STAR TREK, voicing many of the concerns which
+are stated right here in this forum by current viewers...which they had long
+before there was a B5...  as well as some of the praises found here.
+
+
      
+The ironic thing is that there is no problem between those who make B5,
+and those who make ST..Jeri Taylor is a friend, Majel supports the show,
+when ST does an episode with great EFX we call them, when we do a good one
+they call us...it's almost entirely a matter of perception.
+
+
      
+So for what it's worth, direct from those of us who make BABYLON 5, if
+you haven't checked out the show before, or if you're curious to see where
+we stand now...I would like to personally invite you to check out the new
+batch of episodes starting around October 11th.  If you want to give us all
+nine episodes, that's great; if less, that's fine too.  If not at all,
+that's also fine.
+
+
      
+Over a late dinner with Majel, I observed that after the original STAR
+TREK, which for the first time presented truly *human* characters, with all
+their flaws and frailties and bravery and nobility, in a science fiction
+series, the ball was dropped, and no one picked it up again for years.  She
+agreed with this...and it is my hope that you will find this coming season
+of BABYLON 5 to be that show.
+
+
      
+Because it isn't an either/or, sum/zero game...one can watch, and
+enjoy, BABYLON 5 and STAR TREK equally, for different reasons, since their
+approaches are very different.  And this is the perfect time to come into
+B5, since these episodes encapsulize a lot of background, and will take you
+quickly into the background, the universe and the characters.
+
+
      
+Which is why, I'm pleased to announce, Majel Barrett will be appearing
+as a guest star on BABYLON 5 this coming season...a gesture of support from
+her, and a gesture of respect from all of us at B5.  The deal has been
+signed, it's a done deal...she'll be appearing in episode #9, "Point of No
+Return," as Emperor Turhan's third wife, Lady Morella.  We're very much
+looking forward to her appearance in the B5 universe.
+
+
      
+For all these and other reasons, I hope you'll give BABYLON 5 a try.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+She'll be playing a Centauri female, the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's
+third wife; also a prophetess and seer.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+When we first announced casting Walter Koenig on B5, lots of people
+moaned, "Oh, no, not Chekov on B5."  What you got was Bester, who has
+become one of our most noted and discussed characters.  It's unfortunate,
+but some people confuse the role with the person.  "...the worst character
+ever in the entire ST universe" has nothing to do with the person, or the
+role she will be portraying: the Lady Morella, Emperor Turhan's third
+wife, a prophetess and seer.  It's a *very* serious, significant role,
+absolutely unlike anything she's done before.
+
+
      
+This, btw, is called "typecasting," which is one of the primary
+reasons why so many talented actors who helped to create Star Trek and
+other series couldn't get work for so many years...they did so good a
+job that they forever *became* that character.  Let's not be guilty of
+that crime here.  Majel's character will no more be Troi than Bester is
+Chekov.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ellen: thanks.  As for the episode in question, it's entitled "Point of
+No Return," and the role of Lady Morella was written specifically for Majel.
+I hustled to get it finished prior to the Wolf 359 convention, where I gave
+her a copy of the script.  She read it overnight, and fell in love with the
+story, the character, and what it was going to do with and to the BABYLON 5
+universe (to wit: start turning it upside down).  Next morning, she said
+"I'm in." And she is.
+
+
      
+Yes, it's a jms script, and is one of the most pivotal of this season,
+episode #9, which with the one before it, "Messages from Earth," builds to a
+major turning point in #10, so it should be a very popular, intense and
+memorable episode in every respect.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'd just like to say that Majel did a great job for us
+on B5, and we are hoping  we can come up with other opportunities
+for the character to return.  I know that  Majel is
+interested in pursuing other acting gigs outside ST, and I
+wish her all the  best.  I think other shows would do well to
+utilize her abilities; everyone had a  great time working with
+her, and she should be recognized for work other than  ST.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Was Morella's speech about greatness intended as a tribute to
+Gene Roddenberry?
      
+There's probably a fair amount there that could apply to Gene, yes...
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+If a word comes out of a character's mouth, it's usually mine. 
+The bit about greatness was one of them; had a number of different
+subtexts going on behind it.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Of course, there are many who don't see such people in a Good
+Light; even Washington had people out smearing his name every day
+(which, among more altruistic reasons, was why he didn't want to stay
+in charge forever). We are never so greatly appreciated as when we're
+safely and conveniently deceased.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Btw, on the topic of titles...it's important for the season title to
+accurately reflect the events of the season.  And as I've watched more and
+more of season 3 being filmed, it becomes increasingly clear that "I am become
+Death, the destroyer of worlds" isn't as apt, emotionally, for what's going
+on.  (I've actually felt this for a while, which is why I've been hesitating
+on locking down the title publicly.)  The single most emblematic title, and
+single episode, for the whole season, really, is "Point of No Return," because
+on every level, that's what happens this season.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Thanks...it ratchets things up a bit more, certainly.  The big
+stuff's just around the corner.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Most of the Omega class of destroyers are given Greek names,
+such as Achilles, Alexander, Agamemnon and others.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Correct, the Alexander would've come off the assembly line a
+bit after the Aggy.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We could've easily played the EFX full-screen, as WB used them in the promos,
+after all.  But it's a slow tease, a reveal.  You do it big in Messages, hold
+it back just a bit, at arm's length, in PoNR, then bring it all REAL close
+again in the next episode.  By putting it at some remove in PoNR, it makes
+the viewer almost like one of those in the Zocalo, fighting for a better
+look, stranded out far away, trying to figure out what's going on.  
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Which side is Dr. Franklin's father on?
      
+Stephen's father is a by-the-book guy; he doesn't think his job
+is to set policy, only to implement policy.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I think Zack was mainly nervous in that last bit,
+which may account for his twitchiness.  And yes, Morella often
+prophesied for Turhan.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Aren't those Nightwatch posters a bit too much?  Wouldn't people
+object?
      
+It's not always as simple as that.  You also take a uniquely
+Western perspective.  Look around at Russia, Cuba, 1930s Germany and
+the beer hall putsch, Iraq, Iran...a leader can survive all kinds of
+opposition if he has sufficient control of the armed forces.  After the
+Gulf War, it was generally assumed that Saddam would be gone within a
+few months; now his position is stronger than ever.
+
+
      
+Also, Clark didn't (ostensibly) declare martial law to protect
+himself, he did it because of an imminent alien threat which was
+detected long before these allegations came out, we just had Ganymede
+attacked and that's spitting distance from the primary Earth jump gate
+at Io...there is indication of collaboration and conspiracy among some
+in the Joint Chiefs (and in fact that's correct, from his point of
+view, given Hague's activities)...there's enough ammo there to justify
+martial law.  Dissolve the Senate?  Just happened a couple years ago in
+Russia, when we had tanks firing on the Senate building. Some might say
+that Yeltsin was in the same position as Clark in that his motives
+might be saving himself.
+
+
      
+(The majority of our posters, btw, are taken from genuine WW II
+propaganda and war-support posters that were actually in use.  We make
+some slight modifications, but the gist is there.  Yes, we do fall for
+these things, we do go for these things.  We always have.)
+
+
      
+As for the USA-western perspective...during WW II we saw
+Japanese civilians interned in camps along the West Coast...afterward
+we saw people prosecuted for being Reds, saw careers and lives
+destroyed by even the hint of "commie" influence.  If you look at
+newsreels and documentary footage from the time, you see a populace,
+fresh out of a war, who survived by focusing on the Enemy, given a new
+enemy.  Might they have gone along with some kind fo martial law if
+they thought that if they *didn't* cooperate, the nation might be
+vulnerable to Russian nukes or invasion?  I think the climate was
+perfect for it.
+
+
      
+Could it happen right here, right now?  No, because the
+surrounding climate isn't right.  Could it happen if the conditions
+*were* right?  Of course it could.  We're not genetically or
+evolutionarily different from the Germans or the Russians or the Cubans
+or the Iraquis.  If we think we'd never fall for that, we place
+ourselves in *exactly* the position of guaranteeing that we *will* fall
+for it.  Because we won't recognize it when it happens. We can justify
+and rationalize it as something else.
+
+
      
+Yeah, people back on Earth still have guns.  What of it?  Right
+now, with martial law, the streets are quiet, the news is more positive
+than usual for a change, the quarrelsome jerks in the senate have been
+given a good kick in the butt, the president's getting things *done*,
+we've all still got our jobs, the muggers are hiding out, life goes on
+except for the lawbreakers. You gonna go out on your own and start
+shooting at Earthforce troops armed to the teeth with *vastly* more
+advanced weaponry?  On whose behalf?  The aliens? The troublemakers? 
+What're we rallying for?  Or against?  This'll blow over soon, it
+always does.  It never lasts.  Right now, just ride it out, wait and 
+see what happens.  Who knows...maybe Clark's right?  Who wants to be
+perceived as a traitor?
+
+
      
+Those are the thoughts of any populace in this situation.  Just
+as when Yeltsin declared martial law in Moscow, as when Mayor Daly sent
+in the shock troops in Chicago, on and on.
+
+
      
+Here's the number one rule: a population will always stay
+passive for as long as they perceive that they stand to lose more by
+opposing the government than by staying quiet.  It's when they have
+little or nothing left to lose that they rise up; the politicos first,
+then, more reluctantly, the general population.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Here's something to consider in this.
+
+
      
+It's easy -- safe and reassuring -- to dismiss Nightwatch and the whole
+political climate on Earth at this time as referring to Nazi germany...SS,
+Stormtroopers, informers...but if we know our history, it shows that this is
+not so isolated as we might think.  If we say it was just the Nazis, then
+it's a non-repeatable phenomenon, we needn't worry about it again.
+
+
      
+But, of course, it does happen again...it did, and it will, to varying
+degrees.  Go back to the Inquisition, and forward to Joe McCarthy and the
+House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) which destroyed lives and
+reputations based on association, past history, social contacts and party
+affiliations (the items specified by Musante to the EA folks in Nightwatch).
+Stalin and to a lesser extent Lenin would have been right at home in
+Nightwatch.  Several of the leaders speaking for parties in the ruins of what
+was once Yugoslavia would also fit.  
+
+
      
+It's easy, and safe, for us to say, "Oh, we would never do that, only THEY
+did that."  But the "they" in this ARE the we on the other side...and "we"
+have done it, are doing it now, and will continue to do it.  Only when we
+*know* the history of such things, when we recognize the rhetoric of control,
+when we oppose blacklisting and scapegoating and dead-catting do we help to
+assure that they *won't* arise again.  Remember the quote: "Those who do not
+remember history are condemned to repeat it."
+
+
      
+There's a great deal of generalized historical and political metaphor in the
+show, never one-to-one because that's too easy, but disguised in one form or
+another, transumted.  The Centauri Republic isn't a real republic by any
+stretch of the imagination...any more than the Roman Republic from which it
+draws some of its political structure, particularly the Centarum, the ruling
+body.  There's a great deal of Japanese political and social structure to the
+Minbari, in their culture and art and some of their philosophy.  You can find
+parallels to the story in World War II, and the bible, among a few dozen
+others.
+
+
      
+Too little of TV these days is *about* anything...it's all context, no
+subtext.  This show is about a lot of things...but never in the mode of
+telling you what to think.  We'll ask *that* you think, that you consider the
+world around you, and your place in it...but defining that is your business,
+not ours.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"I don't believe a conservative nightwatch would be tolerated
+either."
+
+
      
+Senator Joseph McCarthy.  The House Un-American Activities
+Committee. You can look it up.
+
+
      
+Also, there was a PBS documentary this past week on the
+blacklist; I suggest that ANYone who thinks we would never fall for
+something like the Nightwatch should take a look at it.  It makes the
+Nightwatch look pale by comparison.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  The House Un-American Activities Committee wasn't that powerful.
+
      
+I disagree.  When even Truman was loathe to take on HUAC and
+McCarthy, you've got a real problem.  You make the impact sound
+minimal; but people committed suicide when their careers were ruined by
+HUAC and Tailgunner Joe. I personally know writers who were at the top
+of their form and their careers who never worked again because they
+were blacklisted or greylisted.
+
+
      
+It was also the climate created by HUAC that threatened much
+more widely than the actions of the committee itself.  Take Red
+Channels, a sleazy little rag published by the owner of a *SUPERMARKET
+CHAIN* in which he listed those he considered -- based on whim or
+divine revelation -- reds or sympathetic to reds.  Even a publication
+like that had tremendous destructive power.  I know one of the writers
+listed in Red Channels; the networks grey-listed him instantly.  It was
+*years* before he could work again.
+
+
      
+The whole red-baiting hysteria of the 50s came as close to
+destroying the American dream as any threatened invasion.  If it had
+been led by someone a little less self-destructive than McCarthy, I
+hate to think what would've happened.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Even in the USSR the military would not support an attempt of
+martial law."
+
+
      
+You mean like when Yeltsin called up the military, dissolved
+the Senate, and had tanks open fire on the Senate building to keep from
+being ousted in a coup...you mean like that?
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Yes, right to assemble, free speech rights, they're all open to abridgement.
+Travel can also be restricted.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Thanks.  No, I understand the point, I'm just getting into the
+details a bit.  One last point I forgot to mention was that even for
+the US, there has never yet been a situation where we as an entire
+*species* stood on the brink of extinction by an alien race.  That'll
+definitely affect your mindset a bit....
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"Zack is the key figure here.  He's the one questioning if he's on the right
+side and just what his allies are up to.  I've heard some good analogies to
+present days situations kicked around on these boards, but It seems mostly
+Republicans want to accuse democrats and vice versa.  What we need is more
+Republicans willing to criticise fellow republicans and democrats willing to
+criticise fellow democrats."
+
+
      
+A very good point.  Zack is, to all intents and purposes, the Everyman
+character in this; he wants, desperately, to do what's right.  But he doesn't
+exactly *know* what's right, because he's getting conflicting
+information...or rather, a lack of *real* information and a plethora of
+agendas.  Who is he to believe?  Which way does he jump when he's not sure
+which pit holds the lion?
+
+
      
+When a culture become factionalized, when it becomes us vs. them, everyone
+starts setting up consistently smaller camps...first it's democrats vs.
+republicans...then it's mainstream republicans vs. conservative
+republicans...then it's conservative republicans vs. religious right
+republicans (with the democrats having equal problems on their side).  As
+soon as we forget that we're *all* US, it begins to fall apart.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Corwin's question is really one that hits a lot; you see things
+starting to fly apart, but you keep thinking it's gonna work out..then it all
+goes to hell, and you're standing there trying to figure out how it all
+slipped away.  It's a very innocent, yet universal question.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+"...I wanted Sheridan &Co. to cut themselves free of Earthgov,
+and they didn't."
+
+
      
+'Course, if you were to do anything that monumental, you'd
+spike right smack in the middle of your three-part story.
+
+
      
+One of the things about these three episodes that's again worth
+stressing is that they're really one story, linked carefully.  Each of
+the three begins *one frame* after the other.  After they've aired, if
+you sit down with a VCR and edit them together, you'll find that they
+flow absolutely SEAMLESSLY from one to the other.  So PoNR is at the
+dead center of the piece that propels you toward the last third, like
+the second act in a three-act play (which was my structure for this).
+
+
      
+That may help.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We knew that at some juncture they'd be split, so numbering
+them as parts 1, 2 and 3 would be awkward.  And distribution hates
+having to market multi-parters, for reasons of their own.  So...three
+episodes.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Glad you enjoyed "Point."  It sets everything up, so we can
+knock it all down in "Severed Dreams."  Now everyhing I need is right
+where I need it to be....
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Certainly G'Kar has had...a revelation, I suppose is the best way of putting
+it, and that tends to transform you.  What form emerges from this remains to
+be seen.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Ta'Lon's line about answers and replies
      
+No, I don't think that's a quote from anywhere but the show, at
+least insofar as I know.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Was bringing Ta'Lon back something you wanted to do from the
+start?
      
+I liked Ta'Lon, and definitely wanted to bring him back.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+We've already established in the episode that the bodyguard is the same as in
+"All Alone."  We did that when the two had a drink in the zocalo.  It was in
+dialogue.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  I liked Londo's line about politics.
      
+Thanks, and I agree with those scenes.  (For me, the Vir/Londo
+scene in the tag is just hysterical.)  Re: "politics has nothing to do
+with intelligence," yeah, I kinda liked that one.  I have fun....
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Centauri are always suspicious, and if you knew you might be
+emperor after the other is dead, you might be encourage to...help that
+process along, however you might like someone.  It's just good
+business.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+When we come back, the very next episode has a very funny scene
+re: Londo and Narn security.  And yes, that was the Schwartzkopf.
+
+
+
      
+
    •  Is the fact that Hague was on the Alexander a reference to Alexander
+Haig?
      
+Y'know, I think this was one of those subconscious things the
+brain does sometimes...I hadn't put it together when I put him on that
+ship.  It's a sad thing when you can't even trust your own brain
+anymore.
+
+
      
+
    •  "Ok, at the end of this ep. Susan explains that 4 of the 5 cruisers with
+Gen. Hague where distroyed. So did Earthforce get them or did Clark have the 
+shadows do it?"
+
+
      
+It was an ambush by Earthforce ships.  (Actually, only 3 were destroyed,
+the other two took off separately, trying to throw off a united pursuit. 
+But you know how ISN's been lately....)
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Delenn was taking care of some business on Minbar.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There's not a lower house in the EA, in the sense that each
+nation/state has its own various houses, and its own leader, but that
+leader is also part of the EA senate.  One per nation/state.  Each
+nation/state has its own constitution, but must not contravene the
+larger principles of the EA constitution.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+When President Clark tries to seize control of Babylon 5 by force, Sheridan
+is faced with the prospect of severing the station's ties with Earth.  Delenn
+receives disturbing news from a Ranger.
+
+
+Bruce McGill as Major Ryan.
+Kim Miyori as Captain Hiroshi.
+James Parks as Drakhen.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 9.81
+
+Production number: 310
+Original air week: April 1, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The former Minbari leader, Dukhat, died in Delenn's arms.  Before he
+	died, he named her as his chosen successor.
+
+   
    •  Clark has been filling command positions with his people since taking
+	office, thus enabling him to retain control of most of Earth Force;
+	many officers who oppose his policies feel forced to go along, since
+	their superiors will accuse them of treason otherwise.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows have formed alliances with many of the non-aligned worlds,
+	allegedly to protect them from Centauri aggression; later, they've
+	prompted those races to attack their neighbors with the belief that
+	association with the Shadows is a guarantee of victory.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Was Londo finally able to leave the station?  Where was he going?
+	(Or, if he was coming aboard, where was he coming from?)
+
+   
    •  Is there more to the prophecy of the return of the Shadows, or has
+	it now played itself out, leaving the future uncertain?
+
+   
    •  What does Sheridan's mother do with her time?
+
+   
    •  What has ISN known for a year but been unable to talk about?  Did
+	they find out about Santiago's death, or perhaps about Earth's
+	involvement with the Shadows?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Sheridan said he wanted to keep Draal a secret, and thus didn't ask for
+	help defending the station.  But anyone with two eyes now knows he has
+	some interesting non-human technology at his disposal; he used the Great
+	Machine to broadcast his holographic image all over the station.  While
+	Earth has free-floating holography (such as the Knights' image of
+	Sinclair at the beginning of
+	"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+	it's a far cry from what Sheridan did.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Five hooded Councilors followed Delenn from the council chamber;
+	presumably the remaining four were all warrior caste, as established in
+	"All Alone in the Night."  (Only three are
+	visible onscreen, but the whole Council wasn't visible at the start
+	of the scene, either.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did the religious and worker castes get three Minbari warships
+	and the crews to pilot them?  Are there more on Delenn's side, or just
+	those?  In
+	"Matters of Honor,"
+	Lennier implied that the religious-caste crew of the White Star was
+	rare, if not unheard-of.  Did some of the warrior caste side with
+	Delenn?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn's confrontation with the Grey Council is counter to her own
+	stated goal of laying low so the Shadows aren't forced to attack
+	immediately.  She accused them of standing by and doing nothing in
+	the face of Shadow encroachment -- but doing nothing was exactly what
+	she insisted on in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	among other places.  If the warrior caste had moved to prevent some
+	of the non-aligned worlds from warring, as she seemed to be suggesting,
+	it surely would have alerted the Shadows to the fact that their return
+	has been discovered.
+
+	
      
+	On the other hand, it may be that she was accusing them of not even
+	preparing for eventual open conflict with the Shadows; perhaps she
+	believed their current indifference would continue even after the
+	army of light was fully assembled.
+
+	
      
+	Finally, she may have wanted them to simply take a stand in the local
+	conflicts without addressing the Shadows' presence directly.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sheridan's secession from the Earth Alliance plays directly into Clark's
+	hands in some respects.  Clark can use the secession, and the Minbari
+	involvement, to paint a picture of an alien-supported military coup
+	against an elected civilian government, further proof of the need for
+	martial law, the Nightwatch, and other draconian measures.  No doubt
+	he'll be able to make that version of the story believable to a large
+	number of people back home, thus solidifying his power base.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did only four destroyers jump into Babylon 5 space for the
+	initial attack?  Perhaps the fleet commander didn't want to
+	increase the chance of casualties from friendly fire, but that
+	seems dubious at best; or perhaps he didn't know there were more
+	ships on the way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Which side of the war does the Agamemnon and its crew support?  Will
+	Sheridan be forced into conflict with his old ship, something he
+	definitely doesn't want?
+	("Messages From Earth")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Given the reason for the Minbari surrender during the war
+	("Points of Departure")
+	would Delenn have made good on her threat to fire on the Earth ships?
+	Minbari religious beliefs would forbid her from doing so, though she
+	might well consider it a necessary evil.
+
+
      
+   
    •  During the initial attack on the Alexander, Major Ryan claims that
+	they can't jump to hyperspace without losing their fighters.  But
+	fighters have been shown jumping alongside a larger ship before --
+	some emerged with the destroyers to attack Babylon 5 later in the
+	same episode -- so what would have kept the fighters from jumping
+	with the Alexander?  (See
+	jms speaks)
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Shadows are apparently perfectly willing to double-cross the
+	Centauri, at least in words.  By offering to protect the League
+	worlds from Centauri aggression, when the Centauri are using the
+	Shadows to act out that aggression, they've effectively taken
+	control of both sides of any potential Centauri border conflicts.
+	What they'll do with that control, and why they want it, remains to
+	be seen.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The new Starfury in this episode is called a "Thunderbolt."
+
+   
    •  Many of the Nightwatch members in this episode are production staff
+	members, including the production secretary and an assistant director.
+
+   
    •  Minor effects mismatch: A group of Starfuries attacks a friendly
+	destroyer.  Its name is clearly visible as the Churchill.  But the
+	scene immediately cuts to Major Ryan reacting to the hit -- even though
+	he's on the Alexander, not the Churchill.
+
+   
    •  Four ships emerge from the jumpgate at the end of act three, two
+	Omega-class destroyers and two older Hyperion-style heavy cruisers
+	("A Voice In the Wilderness, part 2.")
+	But we only see and hear about two, the Agrippa and the Roanoke.  One
+	possible explanation is that the destroyer rammed by the Churchill
+	isn't supposed to be the Roanoke; since Sheridan offers assistance to
+	the Roanoke at the end of the battle, that's plausible.  However, the
+	rammed ship's name is (barely) visible as "Roanoke" during the
+	collision.
+
+   
    •  One of the two destroyers in the second wave was called the Nimrod;
+	the second was either the Olympia or the Olympic.
+
+   
    •  The Roanoke is named after an early English colony in Virginia.
+	After a hard winter, a ship came to check on the colony and
+	found it totally deserted, no sign of the inhabitants or of a
+	struggle, just the word CROATAN carved into a tree.  The fate of
+	the colonists was never discovered.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The number of scenes varies depending on the amount of action
+	required.  On balance, the average TV script has about 60-75 scenes or
+	shots in it.  From time to time, in B5, we've gone as high as 130 shots
+	in episodes like "Twilight" or "Fall."  I think we just blew out our
+	record here with "Severed Dreams," which has close to 140.
+
+	
      
+	Number of scenes shot on any day depends on how long the scene; you
+	can do 4 really long shots or 8 fairly short scenes.  The amount of
+	rehearsal varies depending on the scene, how many extras or what kind of
+	action/stunts are required.  The more action, the more you rehearse, to
+	ensure nobody gets hurt.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Much as I'd
+	have wished PTEN would've aired 10, the final part of the 3-episode arc
+	that changes direction on the show, a week after 9, even though it'd be
+	out of sweeps period...it's probably for the best.  When producer George
+	Johnson saw the scrpt for #10, "Severed Dreams," he laughed, walked over
+	to me and said, "Boy, this is the best episode we're never gonna
+	deliver.  ARE YOU NUTS?!"
+
+	
      
+	As an example of "ARE YOU NUTS?!" in "The Fall of Night," in the
+	sequence between the first Garden shot and the end of Sheridan's rescue,
+	about 6-7 pages of script, there were, I think, about 60 or 65 EFX and
+	practical shots.  In just the span of 4 pages in 310 there are roughly
+	100 EFX and practical shots.  In EFX terms, it's probably one of the
+	biggest shows we've done, so it's better to give Foundation a little
+	extra time to get it right rather than rush them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  All I'll say here is that there were *so* many EFX here that we
+	mixed the episode a few days before delivery, and got it down there 2
+	hours before the process for uplinking the episode to stations.  It was
+	the hardest thing we've ever done...but it was worth it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why are these three episodes not marked as a three-parter?
      
+	For the most part, it's a matter of how the episodes feel to
+	me, what length they feel as if they require.  When I did the big three
+	this year -- Messages, Point and Dreams -- I hadn't really figured
+	they'd be as tightly connected as they ended up being.  I knew they'd
+	relate strongly to one another, but in a sense, they're reallly a three
+	parter.  The War Without End story I knew was WAY too big for one
+	episode, but due to the structure of the story wouldn't take being
+	extended for one more episode; at that point you'd just be dragging it
+	out.
+
+	
      
+	It's all instinct, I wish I had a more concrete answer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why the title?
      
+	If B5 was a dream given form, and the EA had the potential to be
+	something more than it has become, and the two part ways, then you have
+	severed dreams.  (I had a much more elegant and interesting reply, but
+	obviously it entered Vorlon space and hasn't been allowed out again.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Messages," for my money, is so far the best we've ever done, though
+	I'll be more able to lock that down once I've seen the final CGI.  It
+	and "Dreams" are real CGI blowouts; in the latter, there are literally
+	100 shots -- CGI, live action, and compositing -- in *four pages* of
+	action.  This is an all time record for us (and that doesn't count the
+	stuff earlier in the episode).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Have begun shooting episode 11, "Messages From Earth," a hideously
+	complex episode, outmatched only by #10, "Severed Dreams," which is the
+	single most visually ambitious episode we've done in the three years of
+	the show.  It's just totally outrageous, and it'll probably kill us in
+	sheer man-hours to produce...but the result should drop jaws all over
+	the place.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Foundation "adding a new flame effect"...sort of.  One
+	night, we just went out into the parking lot, set up a camera pointing
+	up behind a plexiglass screen, and set off a bunch of explosions above
+	it.  Went great until one of the blasts was so big it melted through
+	the plex *and* the camera lens....
+
+	
      
+	Looked good though, didn't it?
+
+
      
+   
    •  The PPG blasts looked different.
      
+	That was because there were so MANY of them; our PPG bursts
+	usually take a great deal of work.  If we'd given all of them in this
+	scene that amount of work, we'd still be doing them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How did you do the lighting as Ivanova's ship tumbled?
      
+	We fixed a light atop a gimble, and pre-determined the
+	rotation of the starfury, then moved the lighting to match.  Gives it a
+	much more realistic feel.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Funny thing is, how much as you note the show corresponds to some of
+	the things Mira's been through...some of it intentional, knowing that
+	if I dig into this area, it'll come out of her with the ring of
+	truth...some of it quite unintentional.  When I finished writing
+	"Severed Dreams," and the actors got it, Mira's first words to me were,
+	"So...how long DID you live in Yugoslavia?"  The parallel wasn't
+	intentional...but it fit.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Toni: thanks.  All of the characters shine in this one, Mira in
+	particular as Delenn.  It's a nice contrast; her speech to the Grey
+	Council is an intense piece of work that goes on for a while; her
+	declaration to the EA ships is short, to the point, and absolutely
+	deadly.  The right tool for the right job.
+
+	
      
+	I'm utterly pleased and proud of the job we did here.  Partly
+	because it's just so nifty on its own terms, and partly because it
+	gives us a new level to try and beat.  Up until now, I've been looking
+	to top "Coming of Shadows;" now the goal is to top this one...and I
+	think it's possible there may be one or two even this season that'll do
+	that, but tonally I think they're different enough that it might end up
+	as a tie.
+
+	
      
+	I definitely wanted the close-in, hand-to-hand fighting to
+	personalize what's going on.  It's also very logical strategically. 
+	You send in your forces to disable or overwhelm C&C, distract them,
+	slip in a cadre of troops to a station that (you hope) didn't know you
+	were coming...then they race to C&C and seize control from inside,
+	shooting anyone they have to en route.  If Sheridan et al hadn't known
+	the ships were coming in, this could've gone very differently.  But
+	once they were in, they were in close quarters, and you want to get in
+	closer if you're on the defensive side so that they can't use their 
+	weapons without cutting down their own people.  After that you have to
+	hope you can overwhelm the intruders with sheer force of numbers.  It's
+	an ugly, awful way to win a fight, because it *guarantees*
+	casualties...but what war doesn't?
+
+	
      
+	Something to bear in mind when rewatching, btw...it was during
+	this scene that Jerry fell and broke his right arm and right wrist. 
+	And they still had one last scene to film.  He stuck it out and they
+	rolled film, to get the shot of him and Zack at the end of the fight. 
+	Next time you watch it, keep an eye on the right arm as he releases the
+	helmet...it bends in directions never intended by evolution.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I agree, but Jerry was determined to do it, and more time
+	would've been lost arguing about it than it took to do the takes.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We shot that last scene with Garibaldi *after* we'd shot the sequence
+	showing his injured leg.  We don't shoot in sequence.  So we had to
+	cover it in the next episode.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We shot the last scene with the cane *before* we shot the scene
+	in which Jerry broke his arm.  It costs way too much to go back and
+	reshoot.  At the time we shot the later scene, he hadn't yet broken his
+	arm.
+
+	
      
+	And G'Kar isn't all the way in yet; he wants to be, but so far
+	he's still being held at arm's length a bit...he may make an issue of
+	this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, though, because he *did* have his hand in his pocket,
+	it let me handle the break in the next episode without stretching
+	credulity too far. It was...well...I guess you'd call that part of it a
+	lucky break.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is General Hague shown?
      
+	Foxworth was slated for "Severed Dreams" when he bailed on us.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We had booked Foxworth
+	long in advance.  Later, out of the blue, a rep for the actor said that
+	by accident he'd been double-booked on B5 and DS9 for the same
+	period...and even though we had prior claim, because the other was a
+	two-parter, more money, they went for that.  One can only wonder when
+	the other offer *really* came in....
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Foxworth bail resulted in a change of about three lines,
+	that's about it.  You'll know which lines when you hear them.
+
+
      
+   
    •  We'd booked the actor long, long in advance.  At the last
+	minute, he bailed to do a DS9 episode playing, essentially, the same
+	character, despite our having first dibs.
+
+	
      
+	So I killed off the character.  Didn't change the story by the
+	smallest measure.  May actually have helped, since it raised the stakes
+	in the story right from the start.
+
+	
      
+	Rule #1: Never honk off the writer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Regarding Hague...it's much harder to hold an actor on a once-in-a-while
+	basis.  Every show is hostage to that.  It's a reality of life.  We
+	don't have contracts with folks who play one or two parts a year.
+	Screen Actors Guild doesn't allow that; you make deals as they come up.
+	You can't stop an actor if he wants to jump ship under those conditions;
+	and if you try, you have an unhappy actor on your set who'll just walk
+	through it because he or she doesn't want to be there.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Re: Foxworth...it was really the only thing to do.  I'd created
+	the character *specifically* to have him available for this episode,
+	after which he'd basically fade away while others took up his standard.
+	It was all leading up to this.  Without being in this episode, there
+	was nothing more to do with Hague, hence I felt quite comfortable with
+	his fate, it changed nothing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Major Ryan was overstepping his rank.
      
+	Except, of course, you now have an extraordinary situation in
+	which the Major, through the death of his CO, was now the commanding
+	officer of the Alexander.  In ordinary circumstances, this would mean
+	he'd be given a field promotion.
+
+	
      
+	Second, I don't recall any situation where the Major was "giving
+	orders to a commander."  The aide on the deck of the Alexander was a
+	Lieutenant, as I recall.  Also, if Hague indicated that he was to be
+	given command as he died, that would likely be honored.  Finally, yes,
+	the Major was involved in the discussions of strategy, but in *every
+	case* he presented Sheridan and Hiroshi with options, and because it
+	was Sheridan's neck of the woods, it was left to Sheridan to give
+	orders.  He coordinated the defense, and was the only one speaking
+	directly with the Agrippa.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I think Sheridan was kinda up to his ears in matters graver than
+	the Major's field promotion, though you're right, he had one coming (as
+	I noted in an earlier message).  Given that they'd just broken away
+	from Earthforce, and walked away from the rank structure to some
+	extent, it would seem a rather indulgent exercise, since Earth
+	certainly wouldn't recognize the field promotion of a renegade officer.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "...hit between the eyes."   Yeah, that's the correct reaction,
+	I'd say.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, it's easy to fire on the enemy when it's a faceless
+	entity; not as easy when it's someone you know.  Kinda brings it home,
+	makes it personal.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Exactly.  If you're going to do something as monumental as what
+	Sheridan does here re: B5's status and Earth, it can't be done lightly
+	or frivolously or without sufficient cause.  It has to be an absolutely
+	last resort.  If we'd done it any sooner, it would've been less
+	effective, and more of a cheat.
+
+	
      
+	And yes, after two breather stories, "Ship of Tears" starts the
+	arc moving again, and with very few exceptions doesn't let up for the
+	rest of the season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the warning sign in
+	"Dust to Dust"
      
+	Yes, the sign does indeed say warning.  Look for another sign
+	right behind somebody at the end of "Severed Dreams."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, yes, I tend to ask for musical counterpoint in the
+	show from time to time.  For instance, when Sheridan et al were going
+	to the area where the crowd was waiting, I told Chris to fool us...give
+	us an ominous sounding sting going into what's going to be a very "up"
+	scene.  In the battle earlier on, when you'd normally do something fast
+	and exciting, I asked him to give me something more somber, to pull out
+	the Requiem theme in a few places. Sometimes, in other shows, I ask for
+	music that works against a scene to control the emotional core of it;
+	if it's a bit too silly, perhaps, then I go for a more serious musical
+	cue to balance it out.  Where a scene would seem to ask for major keys,
+	I go for minor chords.
+
+	
      
+	It's all just part of the tapestry.
+
+	
      
+	(BTW, a little secret...just for fun, I wrote a couple of songs
+	that you'll be hearing in an upcoming episode.  I used to write songs
+	here and there, even did a couple for an ABC prime-time special, and
+	figured I'd try it again.  I wrote the lyrics, discussed the music with
+	Chris, and he took care of the score, and it's about what I first
+	conceived.  Came out pretty well, actually.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where was Kosh during all this?
      
+	Yeah...Kosh seems to have retreated a bit so far...worrying,
+	that.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Sheridan ask for help from Draal or Delenn?
      
+	The other thing to bear in mind about all this is the question of a
+	"clean fight."  If Sheridan were to bring in alien forces at his order
+	to kill humans, it would pretty much destroy his credibility.  Delenn
+	came in at the end but only after he'd made his stand on his own.
+
+	
      
+	One of the things that kicked off the French Revolution was the
+	allegation that the King had brought in or was bringing in
+	Prussian troops to help put down dissenters.  As long as it was
+	all more or less in the family, that was one thing...but to
+	bring in outsiders was an absolute affront to them.  (One of
+	the singular incidents that started the fighting itself was a
+	group of Prussian soldiers sighted sitting in a cafe having
+	lunch, which caused this rumor about outsiders coming in to
+	spread like wildfire, and led to the some of the first major
+	incidents of rioting.)
+
+	
      
+	Two brothers may fight one another, but let a third unrelated person
+	come in and shove one of the brothers around, and they'll *both* turn
+	on him.
+
+	
      
+	During the worst days of the civil war, even Lincoln was offered
+	assistance in troops from at least one other country; he declined,
+	because it was an internal matter, and had to be resolved by those
+	involved, not outsiders.
+
+	
      
+	Sheridan's logic was exactly the same.  It had to be a clean fight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, the push in on Delenn revealed her in the White Star, and
+	yes, a fair number of the new 'furies B5 inherited are Thunderbolt
+	class.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Aren't Starfuries space-only craft?
      
+	Yes, the Thunderbolt furies were seen both on Mars and
+	attacking B5.
+
+	
      
+	A normal Starfury can't function in an atmosphere environment. 
+	The new Thunderbolt models have airfoils/wings that are folded back
+	over the body of the ship for non-atmospheric maneuvering, and then
+	extend out to full sized wings when entering an atmosphere.  (You'll
+	get to see in detail how this works back and forth in "Ship of Tears.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  If you're opening a jump point,
+	usually you make it a habit to have all
+	your fighters on board or else risk leaving them behind.  A jump gate
+	can be more easily used and held open for fighters.  When you arrive at
+	your destination, you can launch your fighters as you emerge.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Why was it impossible to jump into hyperspace (in the beginning of the
+	show) and not take the Starfuries with the ship?  We've seen it done
+	before."
+
+	
      
+	No, I don't believe so.  You've seen a jump GATE used, but that's
+	different from a jump POINT which basically closes right behind the ship
+	like a rabbit pulling its hole in after it.  If the ships stayed behind
+	to protect its rear, they'd be left behind.  Ships coming out of a jump
+	point into normal space sometimes will let their fighters zip out AS
+	they're coming out, alongside the main ship.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't they shut down the jumpgate?  Why did the EA ships
+	use it?
      
+	The answer to both your questions is about the same.  It takes
+	about a day to power down, or power up a jump gate.  It operates more
+	like a fusion reactor than a light bulb.  So not only wasn't there
+	enough time, even if they *had* had enough time, you'd want to leave
+	the gate up and running in case you needed to evacuate for any reason;
+	otherwise you'd cut off your main escape route.
+
+	
      
+	For the incoming fleet, knowing the gate was active was the way
+	to go, since it would let them launch their fighters prior to coming
+	in; if you use a jump point, you kinda have to launch while you're
+	coming out to avoid anyone being stuck behind.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What good are small fighters if it's the big ships that decide
+	the battle?
      
+	A lot more ships came in with the Roanoke and the Agrippa, support
+	ships and others.  Probably more breaching pods.  They took out those.
+	They're also used to keep the enemy starfuries from disabling the
+	defense grid on the station, leaving B5 free to use its weapons on the
+	larger target/worse threat.  They're often used to soften up the enemy,
+	harrass them like a pack of hounds falling on a prey.  In "Fall of
+	Night," we saw a Centauri vessel in large measure taken out by the
+	Starfuries with some B5 support.  So they definitely play a part.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Starfuries serve a *lot* of functions which we've shown before
+	on the series.
+
+	
      
+	They can take out a ship's defensive screens and
+	countermeasures, allowing access by the big ships' armaments.  In a
+	group, they can take out a good sized ship on their own (a la the
+	Centauri cruiser in "Fall of Night"). They also serve to protect the
+	station's defense grid from aggressor starfuries.
+
+	
      
+	Also, a number of small support ships, including a Hyperion
+	class ship came through as part of the "carrier group" that went after
+	the station.  It was up to the starfuries to take care of those ships
+	while B5 and the other destroyers took out the biggest threats.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What about all the debris from the battle?
      
+	We've shown clean-up crews before outside, including a hazmat
+	station that goes out to clear away fuel cores or other toxic material.
+	They would've been dispatched for this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Fighters re-enter via the main docking bay and are recharged
+	and lowered into the fighter bays.
+
+	
      
+	No question, spare parts would be a problem, and they'll have
+	to cannibalize a lot (plus whatever they scrounged up from the fighters
+	blown apart outside).
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bear in mind that if we had gone over to the other captains and
+	what was going on in the other ships, to make room for those scenes we
+	would've had to cut anywhere from 3-5 minutes of the other stuff.  You
+	can't just add to the show's time; if that goes in, something else has
+	to come out.  So you'd probably have to cut the scene between Sheridan
+	and his father since that was the only stand-alone set piece.
+
+	
      
+	Any time you write something, you must decide "who is it
+	about?" This episode was about *our characters*, the ones we've come to
+	care about, and how they deal with this.  To take away from that and
+	spend time with people we've never seen before, and won't see again,
+	would be to cheat our characters of the time on screen needed to pay
+	off all the things we've set up over the years.
+
+	
      
+	Would it have been an interesting aside to show the other
+	captains? Sure.  In a movie, with an open-ended running time, I
+	probably would have. But there's nothing I would want to cut out of the
+	episode as it now stands to make room for it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Garibaldi wanted to hold up, cut off the boarding party at a bottleneck,
+	but the Narns, *being* Narns, raced right into the battle.  At that
+	point Garibaldi had to follow them in or let them get wiped out for no
+	good reason.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the Narn sacrifice
      
+	What you also have to bear in mind sometimes is that *this* is
+	the only way to get things done.  When the Allies stormed Normandy
+	Beach, they knew that German bunkers and machine nests and fortified
+	positions were right there on the beach waiting for them.  But they
+	stormed out, onto the beach, and the first lines were cut down, one
+	after another after another, hundreds, literally thousands of soldiers.
+	But those behind were able to get through, take up position as best
+	they could.  Some of them clung to the edges of cliffs as Germans above
+	laughed and threw down grenades into their midst.
+
+	
      
+	Sometimes there's no other way.  But you do it because those who
+	command you have the moral authority to say "You probably will not come
+	back, but the cause is just, and fair, and necessary."
+
+	
      
+	Thus do we go off to die.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Themes of personal sacrifice
      
+	"It's all this stuff that I think really makes the show. The mystery
+	certainly helps, but the puzzles are no longer my main reason for
+	watching."
+
+	
      
+	Aaron: exactly.  This was something I said a lot around the
+	first part of the second season, that this really *isn't* a
+	mystery novel, in any conventional sense, no more so than any
+	novel whose ending is yet to be revealed.
+
+	
      
+	You picked up on exactly the themes that are present in the
+	show, with some more to come shortly.  Personal sacrifice for a
+	cause -- perhaps a good cause, perhaps not, depending on how
+	wisely we make our decisions -- is probably the dominant theme
+	at this point in the story.
+
+	
      
+	It's worth mentioning that this story was initially
+	conceived in the midst of the Me Generation, the decade of
+	"I've got mine, jack, screw you all." Since then the culture
+	has gotten increasingly factionalized, groups of Me's pulling
+	and tugging at the fabric not only of the country, bvut of the
+	planet itself.  The idea of personal sacrifice, of personal
+	service to a cause, seems to have become...passe.  Old
+	fashioned.  Silly.
+
+	
      
+	We have an obligation to one another, responsibilities and
+	trusts.  That does not mean we must be pigeons, that we must be
+	exploited.  But it does mean that we should look out for one
+	another when and as much as we can; and that we have a personal
+	responsibility for our behavior; and that our behavior has
+	consequences of a very real and profound nature.  We are not
+	powerless.  We have tremendous potential for good or ill.  How
+	we choose to use that power is up to us; but first we must
+	choose to use it.  We're told every day, "You can't change the
+	world."
+
+	
      
+	But the world is changing every day.  Only question
+	is...who's doing it?  You or somebody else?  Will you choose to
+	lead, or be led by others?
+
+	
      
+	(Y'know, there are moments I look at the preceding
+	paragraphs, and I realize that it wa said more succinctly, and
+	better, and more movingly in "Lost Horizon," with this simple
+	sentence: "Be *kind* to one another.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  The easy thing to do, the TeeVee thing to do, would've
+	been to go from Sheridan's line "All ships return to base," to the
+	exterior with the big ships, and fade out.  But I try to keep this show
+	from doing the easy thing.  Yes, you had a victory.  Yes, it was
+	necessary.  But what's the cost? We shouldn't glamorize these things. 
+	Even at the end, as you notice, even at the end of the reception...we
+	go out on an ominous note.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did the Earth ships recognize the White Star as the ship from
+	the incident on Ganymede?
      
+	Probably not.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, President Clark would know it [the White Star], from the Aggy
+	records, but the general population wouldn't know it yet, since those
+	records weren't released. But it does give him a card to play at some
+	point in the future.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Any relation between Captain Hiroshi and the Hiroshi on Garibaldi's
+	staff from
+	"Convictions?"
      
+	No intentional relation, no.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why wasn't the boarding party coming up through the floor?
      
+	I figured that they'd come in through the outer hull, secure the inner
+	hull area, then go up in and through a side wall, which would be faster
+	for purposes of a mass entrance.  If you blow a hole in the floor,
+	everybody has to crawl out one at a time; you blow a hole in the wall,
+	bunches can come through at once.  There was a fair amount of distance
+	between where they came in, and the hull.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes and no.  They came through the "floor" which would be the
+	outer hull.  Like any good ship, the station has two hulls for
+	protection, an inner hull and an outer hull.  Once breaching the outer
+	hull, they moved into the inner hull, then angled up for a wall they
+	could blow out.
+
+	
      
+	I figured this would make more tactical sense because if they
+	just blew through the floor, they'd have to *crawl* out one or two at a
+	time, whereas if they angled in safely and then came in through a wall,
+	they could pour in more quickly, en masse, and be less vulnerable.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was there not much blood in the on-station fight because the guns
+	were firing plasma?
      
+	Correct, PPG bursts, being superheated helium, tend to
+	cauterize the wounds as they go through.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, it's a different scene than the flash-forward in Babylon
+	Squared.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks.  That's exactly the impression I wanted...you do the
+	dolly/zoom move, isolating Sheridan visually...you don't cut back to
+	the others as they speak, just let the camera stay on him, put the
+	other voices down under the music and off to the side, just *HOLD*
+	there...works great.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm always getting this confused in my own mind, but basically it's
+	using two contradictory moves with the camera.  You dolly in (push the
+	camera toward the object) and push out with the lens (or vice versa...
+	that's the part I'm forever getting confused about...like remembering
+	battery connections, is it positive to positive or positive to
+	negative...?).  In either event, you're basically going in and out/away
+	at the same moment.  It's a nifty effect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "There is a certain sweetness between Sheridan and his father.
+	Sheridan's father is certainly the one that I wish I had.  Is he yours,
+	JMS?"
+
+	
      
+	Not by the farthest stretch of the imagination, which is all I'll say on
+	this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was that Ashan (from
+	"There All the Honor Lies")
+	blocking Delenn?
      
+	That wasn't Ashan, no.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why isn't the Council on Minbar?
      
+	We've hinted at it...the Grey Council always stays on its ship, being
+	part of the universe, giving it an exotic, distant feel for its
+	people...as though among the gods.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Grey Council could've taken a lot more action to be
+	supportive behind the scenes, getting the warrior caste more involved
+	with the rangers, giving aid to the non-aligned worlds...there was a
+	LOT they could have been doing all this time that wouldn't have
+	required tipping their hand. Instead they sat and did nothing.  And
+	now, with B5 on the edge of falling, to say it's not their problem was
+	too much.  Now is the time they have to start coming forward.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Basically, the warrior caste doesn't think it's their war;
+	there's also a certain amount of resentment in it, I think...they *led*
+	the last war, they *did* their job, and got yanked back and forced to
+	surrender.  That was a terrible blow to their pride, caused in part by
+	an alien race, so their attitude now tends to be more or less, "Screw
+	'em."
+
+
      
+   
    •  How did Delenn know B5 needed help?
      
+	Real simple.  Lennier was still on-station.  All she had to do
+	was check in with him en route and find out.  Also, she went to the
+	council for the purpose of getting military support because she knew
+	heavy stuff was coming down, in one form or another.  Knowing that "the
+	humans are fighting one another" as she said to the council, it's
+	evident that if they didn't come to B5 that day, they'd come shortly
+	thereafter.
+
+
      
+   
    •  At this point, with the Council broken, Delenn isn't currently
+	running Minbar...there's a vacuum of power.  The system can carry on
+	for a while, the balance between the castes is pretty efficient, but
+	this is going to have to be resolved, and some in the warrior caste may
+	suspect Delenn of doing this so she *can* rise to power.
+
+	
      
+	
+	As part of Valen's covenant, to prevent one caste from taking
+	
+	over the other, each caste has access to its own warships.  This was
+	done to create trust a thousand years ago, and since then, since there
+	hasn't been any conflict between Minbari, the three castes own their
+	own warships still, but in general are assigned to Warrior caste as a
+	courtesy, which can be revoked. As Delenn noted, the worker and
+	religious castes control 2/3rds of their forces.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Each caste populates the ships in their jurisdiction with their
+	own people.  Which is why those on the Minbari warships that came in,
+	which we'll see shortly, are religious caste, no warriors among
+	them...but even the religious caste is well trained in combat, as part
+	of their education in temple.  We've seen some of this already in
+	Lennier's abilities in a fight.
+
+
      
+   
    •  No, 5 left the council with her.  And one can wonder, Did she
+	turn down the position of leader of the Grey Council, which would be a
+	balance for that role, in order to eliminate the council and become
+	primary ruler? (That is what some of the warrior caste are bound to
+	begin wondering after a while.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the brief pause as one of the council members left a sign
+	of a single caste breaking apart?
      
+	No, just a member of the warrior caste making sure one he
+	considered a friend *really* wanted to do this....
+
+
      
+   
    •  I was living in Delenn's head when she uttered those lines for the first
+	time.
+
+	
      
+	She wasn't bluffing.
+
+	
      
+	Delenn *never* bluffs.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Thanks, and yes, there's definitely fire and steel in Delenn,
+	which she calls upon when she needs it.  And nobody crosses her when
+	that happens.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Now that she's gone through her own personal fire,
+	she's a much stronger character, and very interesting to write. 
+	There's steel, and there's humanity and compassion, and she feels no
+	need to defend or justify any of those traits.  What she is, she is.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Sinclair survived a battle with Minbari warships.
      
+	Her exact line was, "No human captain has ever survived battle with a
+	Minbari fleet."  Sinclair wasn't a captain.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Dukhat was killed at the start of the Minbari war (that
+	*caused* the Minbari war), and the Council did without a leader for a
+	long time.  She was taught and sponsored by Dukhat.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Does Delenn feel responsible for Dukhat's death?
      
+	No, she doesn't feel responsible; it's an artifact of the way
+	they approach certain things.  "His word is on my lips, his spirit is
+	in my eyes." It's almost a way of saying he's speaking through me, back
+	off.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Sheridan asking the Roanoke to surrender
      
+	Yeah...the reference was kafuffled.  There was so much going on,
+	so many EFX shots, so much rearranging of shots to make everything work
+	(we literally delivered this 2 hours before the process for uplinking
+	started) that this slipped past.  I'll assume that Sheridan got excited
+	and said the wrong name. It'd happen to anyone.  Right?  Right?
+
+
      
+   
    •  Roanoke is a place rich with history.  Some of it a little
+	odd, given the colony's disappearance, but rich nonetheless.  (Clark
+	has edged away from giving Omega class destroyers and others names from
+	Greek mythology and history, toward more conventional names like the
+	Clarkstown and the Roanoke.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  President Clark got away from the tradition of using Greek
+	names.  And the Roanoke was a Virginia colony that disappeared in the
+	1600s.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What about the disappearing destroyer?
      
+	That would've been killed off-camera.  We tried to fit in every
+	ship getting nailed, but finally realized it would've required another
+	half an act.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What did ISN know?
      
+	I'm sorry, but we cannot answer your question at this time.  We
+	are experiencing temporary transmission problems with ISN, but hope to
+	have the situation remedied very soon.  Meanwhile, you can direct any
+	inquiries for information to the Ministry of Peace, and the Ministry
+	for Public Information, which has been aiding all public information
+	broadcasts for almost two years now.
+
+	
      
+	At the tone, please leave your name and identicard number. 
+	Don't worry about calling back.  We'll find you.
+
+	
      
+	<beep>
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+The Nightwatch orders its members on Babylon 5 to target Delenn in an
+attempt to undermine Minbari actions during the recent crisis.  Londo
+presents Refa with an ultimatum.
+
+
+William Forward as Refa.
+Paul Perri as The Sniper.
+Don Stroud as Boggs.
+Kim Strauss as Lenann.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.30
+
+Production number: 311
+Original air week: April 8, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
    
+
+
    Watch For
    
+
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In the old days of the Centauri Republic, poison was a common political
+	tool.
+
+   
    •  Some humans learned the Minbari language from POWs during the war.
+
+   
    •  The rebirth ceremony in
+	"The Parliament of Dreams"
+	was just a small part of a much larger renewal ceremony, traditionally
+	performed in response to, or in anticipation of, a great change.
+	Lennier believes B5's inhabitants are currently between two such
+	changes.
+
+   
    •  The Minbari prophecy foretells fire and darkness after the two halves
+	of the Minbari soul unite to combat the ancient enemy.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How many more Nightwatch members are still on the station?
+
+   
    •  Did Garibaldi's people get rid of the artificial intelligence?
+
+   
    •  What else is buried in B5's computer system?  (At least one unfriendly
+	thing, as shown in
+	"A Spider In the Web.")
+
+   
    •  Who does Lennier believe Delenn is fated for?  Sheridan?  If so, is
+	that due to his observation of the growing relationship between
+	Delenn and Sheridan, or due to something in the prophecy?
+
+   
    •  What was Delenn planning to give up and to tell someone at the ceremony?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo is playing a dangerous game with Refa; Refa will no doubt not
+	take kindly to having his life threatened, and may retaliate against
+	Londo either overtly or behind the scenes.  Refa seems to have
+	much of the royal court in his pocket while Londo's influence has
+	waned since he broke off his association with Morden.  Londo may find
+	that he's bitten off more than he can chew.
+
+   
    •  However, the extent of the risk he's taking is a good indication that
+	his realization of the dark nature of his former pact with Morden is
+	complete; after this it will be very hard to turn back.  It's
+	interesting to note, though, that his basic goal hasn't changed,
+	only his methods; note that he tries to dissuade Refa by talking
+	about how dangerous the current Centauri policies are to their people.
+	Londo is still first and foremost a patriot, not unlike G'Kar (at
+	least until Kosh's revelation in
+	"Dust to Dust.")
+
+   
    •  Londo and Sinclair have something in common; Londo's poisoning of
+	Refa bears a passing resemblance to Sinclair planting a transmitter
+	in G'Kar's intestinal tract.  Or rather, claiming to -- which raises
+	the question, did Londo really poison Refa, or just say so?
+	Like Sinclair, Londo might figure that the poison that doesn't exist
+	can't be flushed out by doctors.
+
+   
    •  How did the Nightwatch get so much information about the Minbari,
+	especially the details of Delenn's means of getting the war cruisers
+	to Babylon 5?  It may be as simple as Earth's normal intelligence
+	channels, which, under Clark, presumably make at least some of their
+	findings available to the Nightwatch.
+
+   
    •  Boggs' claim that the Minbari "think [Delenn]'s the second coming!"
+	indicates that many among the Minbari agree with Delenn's assessment
+	of herself as the chosen one, the vehicle of prophecy (see also
+	"Comes the Inquisitor.")  Marcus also hints
+	at this when he tells Delenn that his brother believed in the Rangers
+	and in her; apparently her involvement with them is richer in
+	symbolism than has previously been hinted at.  How, and whether, that
+	relates to the nature of Sinclair's involvement remains to be seen.
+
+   
    •  This isn't the first time Delenn has been referred to as "the second
+	coming," at least indirectly.  G'Kar quoted a passage from the Yeats
+	poem of the same name in
+	"Revelations,"
+	a passage visually accompanied by Delenn's first look at her new
+	appearance.  Ominously, that Second Coming refers to the
+	Antichrist.
+
+   
    •  The Army of Light is now dressed in black uniforms.  Whether that's
+	an intentional contrast on Delenn's part, or simply her fashion sense,
+	only time will tell.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The voice of Sparky the Computer, the artificial intelligence,
+	is Harlan Ellison.  Sparky's name is visible both in the ending
+	credits and, very briefly, as the last line item in the computer's
+	status messages when it reboots.
+
+   
    •  The recording Londo shows Refa is slightly wrong; Morden was sitting
+	when he mentioned Refa's name
+	("Matters of Honor.")
+
+   
    •  The station logo on the wall in C&C has changed.  It used to be
+	a 5 with a pair of olive branches overlaid, presumably signifying
+	peace; now it's a 5 over a sword.  The new logo can also be seen on
+	the top of the conference room table in the scene with Delenn and
+	the officers from the Minbari ships.
+
+   
    •  "Dem Bones" was also sung in the final episode of "The Prisoner."
+
+   
    •  The formation in which one of the Starfuries peels away
+	as the squadron performs a fly-by of the caskets is called
+	the Missing Man formation.  It is used today whenever a flyby
+	is part of military honors at a funeral.
+
+   
    •  As Delenn and Marcus wait for Lenann,
+	a "Wet Floor" sign can be seen in a corridor in the background.
+
+   
    •  Sheridan's closing line, "Babylon 5 is open for business," echoes
+	Laurel Takashima's in 
+	"The Gathering."
+	In both cases it marked a new beginning for the station.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+   
    •  As it happens, episodes 8, 9 and 10 ("Messages," "Point of No Return,"
+	and "Severed Dreams") are kind of a triptych, linked at the hip and
+	designed to pull together/blow out several major hanging plot threads
+	once and for all, and send the show spinning off in an entirely
+	different direction.  The hardest one to write was 10, because it's a
+	very emotional episode for the characters, and for me.
+ 
+	
      
+	And next is #11, which I begin to write this weekend...and #11, year
+	three, is the *exact* midpoint of the 5 year story.  This is the hump,
+	the dead center of the journey.  It took so long to get here, and
+	suddenly we're halfway finished.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The episode is in the halfway mark, and that IS its significance,
+	because it signals a major change.
+
+	
      
+	When we were midway through that episode, the halfway mark of the whole
+	series, John, Doug and I were given these spiffy leather script books
+	with silver inlaid initials by the crew, to commemmorate the event.  It
+	was really nifty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Delenn and Lennier
      
+	As for Lennier...it's an unusual relationship, which you'll learn a
+	LOT more about in "Ceremonies of Light and
+	Dark."  Which is all I can say for now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I was kind of afraid that after the big Stuff Blowing
+	Up Episode, anything afterward would be a let down because it couldn't
+	have the same level of huge action (without killing everyone making the
+	show).  So the way to deal with that is to go in an entirely different
+	direction; I was hoping that'd work, and glad that so far it has.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Earthgov sees B5 in much the way China now sees Taiwan.  (Though on
+	reflection that may not be the best metaphor....)
+
+
      
+   
    •  You only send an ambassador if you recognize something as legitimate,
+	and EA will never recognize an independent B5.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't G'Kar join in the ceremony?
      
+	Because he saw the actual co-running of security, and their
+	duties, more important...that is physical, and concrete, and he feels
+	is his surest way to win a seat in the new council.  Actions, not
+	ceremonies.  He's very direct that way.  (Which is pretty much what he
+	said at the time.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was this one of Londo's chances for redemption?
      
+	No, this wasn't an opportunity for redemption.  It would be
+	flagged as much more important than this.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't think Londo feels he needs to be redeemed; his reasons
+	as stated were quite sincere.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Delenn being "destined for another" part of the prophecy?
+	
      
+	It is now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is Lennier really satisfied with Delenn's destiny lying
+	elsewhere?
      
+	Well, there was certainly that little catch in his voice, that
+	hesitation, before he added "...in my heart."
+
+
      
+   
    •  "...note on Lennier: "a pure, higher love"? Pshaw, I've heard that
+	before and seen the results in my own life. Are Minbari so different?"
+
+	
      
+	One would certainly hope so.
+
+	
      
+	And there are such different kinds of feelings even among
+	humans; yes, you're right, often it doesn't work out that way...and
+	sometimes it does.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I didn't see or intend any element of Lennier being racist;
+	but there are definitely differences in culture and physiology between
+	Minbari and humans.  Minbari are very careful about personal space, and
+	they don't like to be talked to a certain way.  Marcus momentarily
+	forgot himself, and acted inappropriately.  Lennier corrected him.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Delenn, Lenann, Lennier.  What does "len" mean?
      
+	Basically, I went through and came up with common suffixes and prefixes
+	for Minbari names, the way Russian names have combinations of certain
+	letters (-ovna, -ova, -vich), and associated various backgrounds and
+	castes and houses (fanes) to them.  So you have Delenn, Rathenn, and
+	others of similar name.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the slow buildup of the Delenn/Sheridan relationship
      
+	What you say about relationships is quite true.  The
+	slow process of getting to know somebody, the courtship, the parries
+	and feints and false starts are 85% of the fun.  It's the process of
+	getting into somebody's mind, discovering who they are.  And that's
+	what these two are doing.  It's an awful lot of fun.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The "romance angles" aren't "late additions," but you don't
+	just leap into a romance right off.  You couldn't have had the
+	Delenn/Sheridan thing right in the beginning of year two, it had to be
+	built, and grow gradually.  Things are introduced as it is time for
+	them to be introduced. The shadows weren't even named until season two,
+	and didn't make their first appearance until late in season one.  Is
+	that a late addition?
+
+
      
+   
    •  I'm doing a lot to deepen up Marcus and Lennier, to let
+	people see parts of them we might not have seen before.  Everyone grows
+	on the show; even at this point, compare Lennier to the wide-eyed
+	innocent who first arrived at the station and couldn't even bring
+	himself to look Delenn in the eyes.
+
+	
      
+	The computer voice, Sparky, wasn't really a nod of
+	any kind to Hitchhiker's.  (And 2001's HAL beat them to the punch a
+	long time before that in any event.)  No, I just figured, if the
+	computer system had a glitch, what would it sound like? 
+	Answer...Harlan.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, we had 3 more quickie scenes with the computer voice,
+	but the ep ran long over time, and we were locked into some
+	walk-and-talks where we couldn't make other trims.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Is the name Sparky a reference to anything?
      
+	No, just figured it'd be a great name.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I also like the look between Marcus and Delenn as they stand in
+	the customs area...he looks like he desperately wants to say more, and
+	she like she desperately wants to hear it...but he turns and walks
+	away, the moment lost.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Nightwatch members looked a lot more sinister than in the past.
+	
      
+	I went just a little here for a kind of metaphorical
+	approach; prior to this, Nightwatch folks have always been presented as
+	starched, scrubbed, visually appealing...the face they wanted others to
+	see.  Now we see their true face, the scarred, dark, empty eyes, no
+	longer pretending to hide. So we kinda cast in that direction.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Boggs' scar wouldn't have moved like it did.
      
+	The physical dynamics of the scar *would* have worked as seen,
+	actually, mainly because that wasn't a piece of makeup, that's a real
+	scar, and it does work that way.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The scar is real.  He had some rough times a few years
+	ago. (Actually, he also appeared with the scar as it's seen here in
+	"TKO," as Garibaldi's corner man, though there it was hidden a bit.) 
+	He's still doing a lot of work though.
+
+	
      
+	(The funny thing was seeing the occasional comment on the nets
+	saying how fake they thought the makeup looked, and why couldn't we
+	manage to do something a bit more realistic looking?)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, no, the song in "Ceremonies" was not intended as a
+	Prisoner riff or homage of any kind.  If the song originated with The
+	Prisoner, that'd be one thing, but the song goes back a long, LONG ways
+	before The Prisoner was even thought of.
+
+	
      
+	What happened, actually, was this...I'm a big fan of the Red
+	Clay Ramblers, a terrific group that does sort of bluegrass but very
+	offbeat.  I was writing that episode, and I was playing with the
+	torture aspect, and had one of their albums on.  At just the moment I
+	got to that scene, up came their rendition of "Ezekiel in the Valley of
+	the Dry Bones."  The notion was perfect, so I went back to the original
+	version of the song, which is public domain (rather than their
+	variation on it), and used it.  Synchronicity.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the uniforms
      
+	I wanted it to have a crossed look, certain
+	Minbari elements and textures, lines that are reminiscent of the
+	Rangers, but also of Earthforce.  Hence, the result.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In general, it's my understanding that the cast really like the new
+	uniforms.  They're lighter, easier to move around in, cooler under the
+	lights, and they like the styling, the rogue element to it, and the
+	Minbari aspect.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Couldn't Refa just have all his food and drink tested?
      
+	Of course the flip side of this is that you'd have to check
+	every single thing you ate or drank every day, every week, for the rest
+	of your natural life.  Not the kind of life *I'd* like to live.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Londo introduces Vir to a surprising new acquaintance.  A heavy influx of
+Narns to the station raises suspicions.
+
+
+Carmen Thomas as Lyndisty.
+
    
+
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.53
+
+Production number: 313
+Original air week: April 15, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Ivanova has been in the military for 13 years.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri are attempting to pacify the Narn homeworld's population.
+	Among other techniques, they send troops to Narn villages to root out
+	aggressive citizens and "put them to sleep."  Sometimes entire villages
+	are found to be aggressive and are burned to the ground.
+
+   
    •  Vir, using his power as head of the diplomatic office on Minbar, has
+	been running a Schindleresque underground railroad for Narns.  He
+	created a fake persona in the Centauri government, "Abrahamo Linconi,"
+	and faked death certificates for over two thousand Narn after "Linconi"
+	ordered them transferred to work camps on Centauri Prime.
+
+   
    •  The Centauri consider marriage for the sake of love rather than politics
+	a radical act.
+
+   
    •  Vir's uncle doesn't think highly of him, claiming that Vir is capable
+	of "a well-deserved humility."
+
+   
    •  Vir has an interest in human history.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How was Ivanova able to flesh out Vir's fake official, whose records
+	were presumably in the Centauri Republic's private databases?
+
+   
    •  What did Vir and Lyndisty do with the bound Narn?  Obviously Vir didn't
+	kill him, but what did he tell Lyndisty?
+
+   
    •  Will Lyndisty's family cancel the
+	arrangements now that Vir has been demoted?
+
+   
    •  Does G'Kar know of Vir's efforts?  Will he be able to forgive Vir
+	in spite of himself
+	("Comes the Inquisitor?")
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  If Ivanova and Allen could follow the paper trail to discover that
+	Vir apparently sent thousands of Narn to their deaths, others might
+	be able to as well.  Vir may find himself a target if any
+	Narn who aren't in on his secret manage to access the records in
+	question.  Certainly Lyndisty is still in danger; lots of other Narn
+	would undoubtedly like to get their hands on someone with her history.
+
+   
    •  Vir can still help the Narn if he chooses, though it'll be riskier.
+	He presumably has retained his post as Londo's attache, which should
+	have some authority in itself.  And by tempering Londo, however
+	slightly, he may do more good than he did on Minbar.
+
+   
    •  Vir isn't alone in wanting to help the Narn; he referred to others
+	working with him.  Will those others be able to continue, especially
+	with Ivanova's assistance?  The presence of other Centauri might
+	explain how she was able to access the Centauri government's files.
+
+   
    •  Given Londo's feelings about bugs, what will his reaction be when he
+	sees an arachnoid Shadow warship for the first time?  Perhaps his
+	fear of insects (and spiders) stems in part from his dream
+	("Matters of Honor.")
+
+   
    •  There may also be a parallel between Londo's insect hunt and the
+	typical Centauri attitude toward the Narn, who they regard as little
+	more than bugs on two feet.  If that parallel is intentional, Londo's
+	line about the insects "evolving before my eyes" might have some
+	relation to the Narns' changing position in the universe -- with
+	G'Kar's help (and some prodding from Kosh) they're becoming something
+	quite different than they were mere months earlier.
+
+   
    •  Evidence of the pressures of independence are starting to appear:
+	B5's officers now drink an unidentified liquid instead of morning
+	coffee and the ambassador of a major race -- albeit an ally of the
+	government the station opposes -- can't get a maintenance crew to
+	his quarters.  The loss of Earth funding and support is likely to
+	grow worse over time.
+
+   
    •  Vir's smuggled Narn are considered dead by the Centauri -- perhaps
+	making one of them the subject of Lady Morella's prophecy to Londo,
+	that he "must not kill the one who is already dead"
+	("Point of No Return.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The title is something of a pun; it's Latin for "thus passes the man"
+	(roughly speaking.)  It's probably a reference to the saying "sic
+	transit gloria mundi" ("thus passes the glory of the world.")
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Why were this episode and
+	"A Late Delivery From Avalon"
+	swapped?
      
+	We flipped them around because after "Ceremonies" we NEED something
+	lighter, and because York's episode in the new slot now coincides with
+	the first week of sweeps.  They were written to play in either order.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Can you tell us more about Vir's family?
      
+	I can, but I'd rather show it; you'll find out a lot more about Vir and
+	family relations in "Sic Transit Vir" in mid-april.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yes, it's sort of a double pun in that respect...thus passes
+	the man, which can have many meanings, also entering manhood, or dying,
+	or going away, or the more Vir transitioning, or going...lots of
+	variations.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Just an advisory...I finally saw the trailer for "Sic Transit Vir," and
+	I'd suggest anyone who wants to enjoy the show *not* watch the trailer,
+	as it gives away stuff that shouldn't be given away.
+
+	
      
+	I.e., if the trailer for The Maltese Falcon said, "...and see the
+	surprise when the black bird is discovered to be an imitation."
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Vir
      
+	He's a much stronger character than anyone
+	might think.  He's sort of the "God's Fool" character, to get literary
+	for a second, who somehow manages to make it through it all.
+
+
      
+   
    •  At this point, with the rethinking going on back home, he's
+	bethrothed and promised, the marriage arranged, but not yet fully,
+	*formally* married. There's still ritual to go through.  The other
+	family could still choose to withdraw the arrangement.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Even the babble is pretty tightly scripted.  The hesitations and
+	occasional stumble-restatements are the actor's delivery.  There's
+	occasionally a very tiny bit of improv in that kind of scene, but very
+	little.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo is a very sharp, cunning character.  He does what he
+	does for sheer patriotism, to serve his people.  *Whatever* that may
+	entail.  And Vir gets whipsawed a lot...he's a great character, with a
+	wide range of characteristics I can play with, from comic to tragic.
+
+
      
+   
    •  When Londo goes to Delenn earlier this season to ask about having Vir
+	appointed to the Centauri diplomatic mission, he mentions then that the
+	mission has been closed for some time, "some trouble I believe with our
+	previous liaison."  This just paid that off; those Minbari are just a
+	darned bad influence, I guess.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happened to the Narn?  And what were the Narns doing in Vir's
+	room?
      
+	I could've *sworn* there was a line there about the Narn
+	recovering; I'm going to have to check this.  I hope I didn't
+	accidentally cut it for time while doing something else.  (It was a
+	LONG editing session.)
+
+	
      
+	I figured the Narns were there to discuss the fates of their
+	families back home, but yeah, to a certain degree it was there as a
+	great end for the teaser.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who said the line that was cut?
      
+	It was in the observation dome scene with Ivanova; I realized
+	that we'd cut a small piece for time that was expendable, but in the
+	back and forth went one line too far without realizing it.  Sigh....
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the line?
      
+	The only line was that "the Narn is recovering in Medlab,"
+	something to that effect.  Sigh....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did the Centauri politician know Vir's secret?
      
+	No, he didn't know, and would've been horrified if he had.
+
+
      
+   
    •  What was the saucer-shaped ship outside the station?
      
+	It's a Vree ship, which we've seen before.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the patches on the sleeves of the new uniforms
      
+	One of the patches is a Ranger patch; the other is the new B5
+	sword and shield logo.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's been established that Minbari can and do lie when it's done to save
+	the honor of another.  Here, Delenn saved face for Sheridan at dinner.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Londo and the bugs had nothing to do with any notions about the Shadows.
+
+	
      
+	Sheridan is a war historian, with his main interests in the civil war,
+	where one of his ancestors fought.  He's very big on Lincoln.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As Sheridan and Ivanova try to gain recognition of the station's new status
+among the alien governments, a traveler arrives with an unbelievable story out
+of distant legend.
+
+
+Michael York.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 7.79
+
+Production number: 312
+Original air week: April 22, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  G'Kar has been using a human courier to get messages back and forth
+	between the station's Narn and the homeworld.
+
+   
    •  The first Earth vessel to encounter a Minbari warship was the
+	Prometheus.
+	As the Minbari ship approached with gun ports open, a sign of respect
+	("Legacies")
+	the Prometheus' captain ordered its crew to open fire.  The resulting
+	battle destroyed two Minbari warships and killed the leader of the
+	Grey Council, Dukhat.
+
+   
    •  20,000 people were sent to defend Earth in the Battle of the Line.
+	Only 200 survived.  (Presumably the bulk of the 20,000 were aboard
+	large ships, not individual fighters.)
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Given how badly outmatched humans were during the war, how did the
+	Prometheus manage to inflict so much damage?  Simply a matter of the
+	element of surprise?
+
+   
    •  How much truth is there in Marcus' joking speculation about the
+	Vorlons?  Or in his drawing of parallels between the B5 crew and
+	Arthurian legend?  (If there's a lot of truth there, then who
+	is the Morgana Le Fay figure?)
+
+   
    •  What is the "dawn of a new age" Marcus referred to when he told
+	Franklin about the Ranger pin?  Any relation to the Third Age of
+	Mankind as mentioned in the opening monologues of seasons one and
+	two?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Relying on a large number of races for the station's defense may turn
+	out to be a logistical nightmare.  Ivanova will have to deal with
+	questions like the structure of the chain of command (does she have
+	the authority to order a Vree ship to fire?) and what to do about
+	races who've agreed to participate but whose enemies haven't, which
+	could lead to a situation like the one in
+	"The Fall of Night."
+	Still, as a simple show of force and a deterrent, the arrangement may
+	well end up being sufficient.
+
+   
    •  How did Marcus know about the events in
+	"Comes the Inquisitor?"
+	He arrived on the station after that was all over.  Perhaps Sheridan
+	or Delenn told him.  Is the fact that the Vorlons have visited Earth
+	in the past now common knowledge?
+
+   
    •  The Prometheus didn't destroy all the Minbari ships, since Delenn
+	held Dukhat in her arms as he died
+	("Severed Dreams.")
+
+   
    •  At what point did the Soul Hunter
+	("Soul Hunter")
+	show up during the battle between the Prometheus and the Minbari ships?
+	From Arthur's description, it sounded like the battle didn't last
+	long; the Soul Hunter would almost have had to be onboard Dukhat's
+	ship before the fighting began.
+
+   
    •  The Drazi ambassador now speaks for the League of Non-Aligned Worlds,
+	whose membership seems to have gotten much smaller than a year ago.
+	Perhaps many of the races have been taken over by their neighbors
+	already, with Shadow help
+	("Severed Dreams.")
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  For more information about Arthurian legend, see
+	
+	Avalon: Arthurian Heaven.
+
+   
    •  The Minbari name for the Ranger pin is Isil'zha.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Michael York is currently shooting with us in "A Late Delivery From
+	Avalon," and doing an amazing job.  This may turn into one of our best
+	episodes, from a performance and emotion perspective.  I had a few
+	doubts about the script -- it has a kind of writing style I don't use
+	very often, and very stylized in appearance -- but it's coming out
+	great.
+
+
      
+   
    •  York finished with us quite some time ago.  Great episode, and a nice
+	man.  Very friendly, very polite, nothing of the "I'm a STAR"
+	attitude one often gets with...well, *stars*.  He was even very nice
+	when I gleepily asked him to sign my laserdisk of CABARET.
+
+
      
+   
    •  York's a major film actor who's starred in many films,
+	including one of my personal favorites, "Cabaret."  Also in the
+	"Logan's Run" movie.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I *really* like this episode a lot.  The performance,
+	the music, everything works; I tried to get a little artsy, try out
+	some different kinds of stuff, stretch some muscles I haven't used
+	enough, and it came out very nicely.  It's just nifty.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I like this one a lot.  Not really an arc episode,
+	except in going into some backstory elements, but just nicely done. 
+	I'm quite proud of this one.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Delenn/Arthur moment played out very well; no
+	lines, not a word, just the images, and the emotions under the surface.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About the title
      
+	I often labor a long time on these
+	things, to try and give them many layers, or turn the title in on
+	itself, or do a play on words.  I can't start work on a script until I
+	have a title, because the title sets the mood.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Arthurian legends influence the heroic-epic style of B5's
+	storyline?
      
+	Well, if you're going to look at heroic epic, sure, the
+	Arthurian story is a classic...but the earliest and best of these
+	remain the Illiad and the Odyssey.  Homer was definitely hitting all
+	cylinders with that.
+
+	
      
+	If there's an aspect that informed B5's development, it's the
+	arc of that heroic epic, which if you look at it dispassionately, is as
+	much about the people *around* the hero as the hero himself.  And all
+	too often, the hero achieves the goal, but falls or falters or is
+	changed by the end of it. Much of what passes for contemporary "heroic
+	epic" assumes that it means the Good Guys Win.  Heroic here as a term
+	goes back to its much earlier origins, a "heroic effort" is something
+	that takes everything you have, against terrible or impossible odds.
+
+	
      
+	Yes, you achieve the goal...but you fall in battle in the
+	fields of Troy.  Yes, you create Camelot, but in the end you are
+	destroyed and Camelot falls.  There's tragedy and mistakes side by side
+	with the glory and the gains.  The accounts of Arthur's meeting with
+	Mordred at Camlan field, and how the final battle began is classic
+	ironic drama, a tragedy of great proportions...and an aspect of that
+	fed directly into the development of the B5 backstory, as you'll learn
+	later this season.
+
+	
      
+	Histories are written about the soldiers who won their battles;
+	but songs are sung about the soldiers who fell in battle struggling for
+	a greater cause.  What inspires us is the unfinished work, the dream of
+	picking up the fallen standard and taking it ten more feet up the hill,
+	knowing that even if you fall, the next man in line will take it
+	another ten feet, until finally the hill is taken.  Humans are
+	constantly throwing their lives away on causes logic tells us are
+	hopeless...but which in time become real for that reason.
+
+	
      
+	It's a dangerous romance with myth, heroism, and death.  On the
+	one hand, it inspires an Arthur...on another, it inspires a car bomber
+	to blow himself and 27 bystanders to bits en route to an appointment
+	with Allah.
+
+	
      
+	What makes the heroic epic work is that it taps into all the
+	myths and archetypes that have been with us for all of recorded
+	history, and much of its oral history.  Where B5 gets into this area is
+	in trying to look at the kinds of myths and epics that have gone
+	before, and finding not the specifics, but the themes which are
+	universal, the *sense* and the feel of it, which are intangible, and
+	which is what makes doing an epic so hard. Either you feel the 
+	structure, or you don't; if you try to hammer it down into a formula,
+	a step-by-step process, it turns to quicksilver in your hands and slips
+	away. You have to take it all in, then listen to the inner voice and
+	write accordingly.
+
+	
      
+	I remember a stanza from a poem I read a long time ago; "Love
+	will die if held too tightly; love will fly if held too lightly;
+	lightly, tightly, how do I know, whether I'm holding or letting love
+	go?"  This kind of fiction operates on the same basis.  Substitute the
+	word epic or story for love, and the logic holds.
+
+	
      
+	So the epic hero or story can't be a *model*, to use your
+	phrase; it can only be an inspiration for what has gone before...an
+	echo in the back of your mind that whispers and guides you through all
+	the dark places.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did the 515 date for the Battle of Camlan come from?
      
+	I dug through a number of recent Arthurian texts, and that date come out
+	the most often; I've heard the other date, which was about 20 years
+	later, but the one most often used is the 515 date, at least in what
+	I researched.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the Excalibur in the episode a real sword?
      
+	Yes, it's a real sword...I'm trying to remember where we got it,
+	it may have been a vendor in these things, one of many that frequent
+	catalogs and Ren faires.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was some of the music by Clannad?
      
+	No, we can't use any outside music; it all has to be done via our
+	composer (unless we purchase the rights, obviously).  Here, though, it's
+	all Chris.  We had a long conversation about the kind of music I wanted,
+	I encouraged him to think in terms of Celtic music, natural
+	instruments primarily instead of synth or electronic instruments, that
+	sort of thing.  But no, no Claanad was used.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How is the station supporting itself now that it's seceded?
      
+	We'll establish in coming episodes that they have to become more
+	self sufficient; the Minbari will help some, others will also have a
+	reason to help support the station for the advantages it gives them,
+	the services it provides, and eventually docking fees will have to rise
+	if they can make a go of it.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Marcus and Franklin make a good team, it's a
+	nice balance.  And Marcus did fit in well with the whole Arthur
+	storyline (it's kind of an obvious but well-fitting match).
+
+	
      
+	As for Marcus' line...sometimes offhand remarks are only offhand
+	remarks...and sometimes they aint....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Because we've played back and forth with this
+	stuff before, a la the Inquisitor, it *could've* been him, which made
+	it all the more interesting.  Certainly Marcus *wanted* it to be
+	him....
+
+
      
+   
    •  You basically had two large convoys meeting one another.  Two Minbari
+	ships were hit and destroyed, a third damaged badly; this was the one
+	carrying Dukhat and the Grey Council, including Delenn.  
+
+	
      
+	Just for the record, what happened after that...the Minbari ships opened
+	fire, and a number of the Earth ships were fragged.  The rest fled as
+	the Minbari ships hesitated, waiting to see what happened to Dukhat. 
+	When it
+	was learned that he was killed, they took off and pursued the ships back
+	to an Earth base.  Initially, one of the Earth captains explained that
+	they had encountered hostiles (trying to cover his ass), and when the
+	Minbari ships appeared, all hell broke loose.
+
+	
      
+	It was shortly after this "cowardly attack" on their ships, and the
+	assassination of their leader, that the Minbari declared what is in
+	essence a jihad, a holy war, against Earth.  The worker class went along
+	with it, even though the religious caste was unsure...but divided, they
+	couldn't raise sufficient objections to the war to stop it initially.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The contact was made late in the year, and while that was the
+	first blow, it takes a while for any war to really get going; you
+	aren't at war instantly.  The Minbari had to pull their forces
+	together, make the open declaration of war, establish supply lines and
+	all the other elements needed for warfare.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's a small clue about the third age in the discussion
+	between Marcus and Franklin about the ranger pin.  I mean, it's really
+	pretty blatant.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The name of the Ranger pin is spelled Isil'zha.
+	
+	
      
+	The Minbari term for Ranger One, btw, is Entil'zha.
+
+	
      
+	Z'ha'dum is where the shadows live.  Odd, that reversal....
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Bester finds himself at odds with others within the Psi Corps and seeks
+Sheridan's help, offering information about the Shadows in return.
+G'Kar presses for admission to the conspiracy of light.
+
+
+Walter Koenig as Bester.
+Joan McMurtrey as Carolyn.
+
    
+
+
    P5 Rating: 8.70
+
+Production number: 314
+Original air week: April 29, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Telepaths who refuse to take sleeper drugs to suppress their
+	abilities, or to join the Psi Corps, are sent to reeducation camps,
+	one of which is on Mars.   The Corps refers to them informally as
+	"blips."
+
+   
    •  The Shadows killed most of the Narn telepaths a thousand years ago.
+	They were driven off by G'Quan and the remaining telepaths.
+
+   
    •  Telepaths can disrupt the link between Shadow ships and their
+	non-telepathic pilots.  The Shadows have thus been infiltrating
+	Psi Corps, taking control of it from inside to prevent it from
+	being used as a weapon against them.  They are also capturing
+	rogue human telepaths and altering them with cybernetic implants,
+	possibly with the intent of using them as telepath-proof pilots.
+
+   
    •  Telepaths can locate ships by focusing on the occupants' thought
+	patterns.  Their range is greatly expanded in hyperspace.  Psi Corps
+	kept that a secret to prevent the Earth military from putting its
+	members on the front lines.
+
+   
    •  Psi Cops are trained to pilot all the latest Earth Alliance vessels.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Were Franklin and Bester able to save Carolyn?
+
+   
    •  Are the rest of the telepaths still in cryonic suspension and on B5?
+	Where were they taken, if not?
+
+   
    •  How much more does Bester know about the Shadows and their involvement
+	with the Corps?
+
+   
    •  Who were the aliens in Carolyn's flashback and on the bridge of the
+	cargo ship?
+
+   
    •  Was Carolyn telekinetic, or did her modifications give her that
+	ability?  If the latter, are the Shadows telekinetic too?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Delenn still isn't being completely open with G'Kar -- she neglected
+	to tell him about Kosh's involvement, for instance.  Perhaps she knows
+	of Kosh's manipulation of G'Kar
+	("Dust to Dust")
+	and doesn't want the illusion shattered.
+
+   
    •  Even someone as highly ranked as Bester isn't immune from the Corps'
+	rules about arranged marriages.  On the other hand, given his obvious
+	sense of genetic superiority, he may feel it's his duty to the future
+	of the human race to help breed a better telepath.
+
+   
    •  The mere presence of Bester stopped the Shadow warship from attacking
+	the White Star (assuming it didn't stop to avoid risking damage to
+	the "weapons components.")  Was that because it couldn't get close
+	enough to attack without Bester interfering with its pilot's bond?
+	In any case, the effect is consistent with Talia's experience in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+	in which she was able to sense, even see, the Shadows without
+	consciously probing for them.
+
+   
    •  A telepath who consciously chooses to disrupt a Shadow ship might be
+	even more dangerous to them, though that isn't clear.
+
+   
    •  Is there a reason the Shadows are choosing human telepaths in
+	particular?  Sheridan speculated that "they're using humans to pilot
+	their ships."  Is that universally true, or are humans simply one
+	of a large number of races being used for that purpose?  Would, for
+	instance, a Centauri telepath be any good against a Shadow ship with
+	a human pilot?  The events on Narn suggest that telepathy's effect on
+	the Shadows isn't race-specific.
+
+   
    •  If telepathy is a weapon against the Shadows, Sheridan may want to
+	stock up on Dust
+	("Dust to Dust.")
+	And given that the Psi Corps produces the stuff, Bester may be able
+	to arrange that.
+
+   
    •  The Shadows may also be looking for telepaths for use as hyperspace
+	trackers; presumably they know about the scanning abilities revealed
+	by Bester.
+
+   
    •  Is detecting other ships in hyperspace something peculiar to human
+	telepaths?  If not, do other races use telepaths for that purpose?
+	It seems odd that the ability would remain a secret for so long if all
+	races with telepaths can use them to scout in hyperspace.  On the
+	other hand, each race who's discovered the effect might consider it
+	a military advantage and thus keep it under wraps.
+
+   
    •  Did Bester find out about Ivanova when she slapped him?  Physical
+	contact intensifies psi ability (established as early as
+	"The Gathering")
+	but the slap was probably too brief to be of any use.  However, he did
+	take care to make her angry, which, as she herself has observed
+	("Dust to Dust")
+	makes scans much easier.
+
+   
    •  Does Ivanova's latent telepathy provide any protection against attack
+	by a Shadow ship?  Ivanova has only encountered a Shadow ship once, in
+	"Matters of Honor,"
+	and it fired at the White Star -- but it didn't hit the
+	White Star.  Perhaps Sheridan was wrong about why the Shadows missed.
+	On the other hand, given the behavior of the Shadow ship in this
+	episode, it's unlikely the ship in the previous encounter would have
+	pursued the White Star like it did.
+
+   
    •  As the only major race without telepaths, the Narn may be in for even
+	more bloodshed and loss; they will be unable to protect themselves
+	from the Shadows as they were (barely) able to before.
+
+   
    •  The cybernetic implants were perhaps put in place at the Mars facility
+	destroyed by Garibaldi and Sinclair in comic #8,
+	"Silent Enemies."
+	If so, it implies that the Corps, or some component of it, was abetting
+	the Shadows in their quest to make human telepaths useless as weapons.
+	However, the presence of the unidentified aliens, both on the cargo
+	ship and in Carolyn's flashback, strongly suggests that the operation
+	was performed elsewhere, or without the Corps' assistance.
+
+   
    •  Carolyn's entanglement is slightly reminiscent of Draal's attachment
+	to the Great Machine in Epsilon 3
+	("Voices of Authority.")
+	When she said that telepaths prevent her from "hearing the machine,"
+	was she talking about Shadow ships, or something similar to Epsilon 3?
+	The Machine does seem to be affected by telepathy; witness Ivanova's
+	ability to pull extra information out of it when she was there.
+
+   
    •  What effect will Carolyn's modifications have on her unborn child,
+	assuming the Shadows' agents allowed it to live?
+
+   
    •  The White Star can no longer be considered even remotely secret now
+	that Bester has been allowed to wander around the bridge.  Even if
+	he truly opposes the Shadows, his primary motives might prompt him to
+	tell others about the ship.
+
+   
    •  Bester is presumably still safely in his position at the Psi Corps;
+	even if he's unable to get any Corps telepaths to help combat the
+	Shadows, he'll likely be able to arrange for Franklin's
+	underground railroad to continue its work unmolested, providing the
+	army of light with a supply of telepaths with which to man its ships.
+
+   
    •  His discovery of the Shadows and their involvement with the Corps,
+	though, indicates that he's not above unauthorized scans of his own
+	people if it suits his purposes.  Presumably he's very careful to
+	only scan people he's confident won't be able to sense him; or he
+	scans them on some other pretense and they're unable to tell that
+	he's pulling Shadow information from their heads too.
+
+   
    •  Bester claimed he last saw Carolyn four weeks earlier, but never
+	elaborated on what happened to her after that.  Was she spirited off
+	on official pretenses, or did the Shadows or their agents kidnap her
+	out of the middle of a Psi Corps installation on Mars?
+
+   
    • @@@831919911 Bester's entrance into the army of light bears similarity to Marcus'
+	and Sheridan's.  All three vowed to fight on the side of light after a
+	loved one was killed or taken by the Shadows.  And now Londo has had
+	the same experience -- will it cause him to turn to the side of light
+	as well?
+
+   
    •  Now that G'Kar is a full member of the war council, perhaps he'll
+	save Garibaldi the trouble of poring slowly through the Book of G'Quan
+	for clues and will tell the others everything his people know about
+	the Shadows and how to defeat them.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The title may be a reference to the Trail of Tears, the forced march
+	of thousands of American Indians away from their ancestral lands
+	onto government-apportioned reservations half a continent away.
+
+   
    •  Vorlons also dislike telepaths, according to Garibaldi in
+	"Deathwalker."
+
+   
    •  Bester quotes from Edgar Allan Poe's
+	"The Cask of Amontillado."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  How does Bester fit into the Shadows/Psi Corps connection?
      
+	This question will be dealt with in "Ship of Tears," around mid-season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Christmas hiatus ends after the 1st, so we're back at work on
+	the 2nd shooting "Ship of Tears," with Walter Koenig returning as
+	Bester.  Expect some major revelations about Bester's background, and
+	where his character is going.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did the prop for the book come from?
      
+	The book was made by Mark Walters of our prop department; and
+	when all is said and done...it'll likely end up in my office....
+
+	
      
+	Creation hath its perks.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Where did you put the war room set?
      
+	Since we're not using the casino much this season -- not a lot
+	of room for frivolity -- we yanked it out and put up the war room on
+	stage C.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How were the reflections on Sheridan's faceplate done?
      
+	The reflections you cite were all done real-time with an LCD projector.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was Bester's first name a reference to Alfred Bester, the writer?
+	
      
+	Yes, it's certainly a tribute to Alfie, a giant in the field.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Who's behind the shadows?  Nobody.  The shadows are the shadows (though
+	that's not the name by which they call themselves), a race of their own.
+	Question is, why are they doing what they're doing?
+
+	
      
+	You'll find out by season's end.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why did Garibaldi need a computer to read the Book of G'Quan?
+	
      
+	To follow the book, there still has to be a knowledge of the language.
+	You need to have a dictionary around, which is what was used.
+
+	
      
+	The comparison, I suppose, would be those who say that Jorge Luis
+	Borges' work can only be most truly appreciated in the original
+	Spanish.  There's a *translated* version, which someone has gone through
+	and made the translation for you, written it all out in English...or
+	you can learn the language, and then read the original manuscript.
+
+	
      
+	Garibaldi doesn't know Narn, so how other than with a dictionary could
+	he read the original material, except by sleeping with it under his
+	pillow and praying for divine intervention.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How could G'Quan and the Narn telepaths fight the Shadows if the
+	Narn telepaths were all killed?
      
+	Those were the last remaining ones, the older telepaths, their
+	children all killed, too old now to produce any further children, and
+	the technology of cloning or genetics was still way beyond them.
+
+	
      
+	The story of the last crusade of G'Quan is actually quite
+	interesting; I hope to get it into the show at some point.  Right now
+	it's mainly background, even though I've worked it out fully.
+
+
      
+   
    •  How about an episode showing G'Quan's crusade?
      
+	No, because that would mean doing a story without our main
+	characters, since G'Quan's story took place about a thousand years ago,
+	and I don't think I could sell that.  (Unless I did another time travel
+	number, and I only intend to go to that well once, with the B4
+	storyline.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  That's one of the things about the show that makes it
+	very appealing to write; you can go from fall down funny, broad comedy
+	in "Vir" to something more emotional, almost lyrical but serious in
+	"Avalon," then right into something vaguely horrific in "Ship."  You
+	get to use all your muscles, not just the same ones over and over.  I
+	like to stretch, try something I haven't tried before.  Which means
+	from time to time I fall on my face, but that's okay; it's the only way
+	to learn.  I have absolutely no qualms about making an ass of myself
+	and failing if it means that the next time, I can do it right.
+
+	
      
+	I didn't give Mira or Andreas any instructions on that scene
+	except what was in the script, which was minimal.  When you have two
+	performers that solid in the room, just give them the lines and run
+	like hell.
+
+	
      
+	Speaking of going back and rewatching episodes...part of this
+	goes right back to the *pilot*, where, you'll recall, G'Kar tried to
+	seduce Lyta, mentioning that there are no Narn telepaths, and they feel
+	very strongly it's important to their survival that they start breeding
+	them at the first opportunity.
+
+	
      
+	Ding....!
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did the lack of Narn telepaths give the Shadows an extra advantage
+	during recent encounters?
      
+	Certainly, that there were no teeps on Narn made them easy
+	targets, as were their ships.  They would also have a vested interest
+	in subduing them because of the knowledge they have, revealed here.  If
+	you'll remember, in "Matters of Honor," they mention to Morden that
+	they've only been able to track down some Narn legends.  Morden's
+	reply: "Well, we've taken care of that problem."  Had G'Kar not been
+	out and about, they might have succeeded.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Minbari telepaths can also have an effect, as we'll see
+	soon.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Everybody's agendas remain the same...but for the
+	moment, they are on the same alignment.  As soon as it's over, as
+	Ivanova says, he'll turn on them, no mistake.  Enlightened
+	self-interest, nothing more.
+
+	
      
+	The new command center was cobbled from what's on the station,
+	with some additional Minbari funding.  And yes, by now, pretty much the
+	whole crew knows what's at stake with the shadows.  And now that
+	they're not hiding anymore, the whole *thing* is out in the open.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was the cargo ship's pilot the same species as the surgeons?
+	
      
+	Yep.  Same species.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's no relation between the aliens working for the shadows
+	and the Streib.  The ones you saw in the flash were "doctors" of a sort
+	doing the work; there was no abduction required except of course the
+	covert kidnapping from the Psi Corps Re-education Center.  As for
+	Bester's look behind, he was just looking to the guards behind him, and
+	the ones in front of him.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The implants are part of the preparation process Delenn
+	referred to in "Messages."
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did Bester read Ivanova when she slapped him?
      
+	I think the contact would've been too fleeting, and too much a shock
+	(and it likely hurt like the dickens) that by the time he knew it was
+	there, it was too late, and she would've sensed it in either event.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Bester stay with Carolyn?
      
+	Logically, he can't just go away indefinitely, and it's going to
+	take a long time before they can get Carolyn in shape.  A very long
+	time.  If he stays, he'd be noticed and hunted down by the Corps, which
+	ends his usefulness.  His staying served no purpose.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It'll be a long time before Bester's ladyfriend comes anywhere
+	near being whole again.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will Bester covertly help B5?
      
+	Yes, that'll be something Bester will do now.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Was this change of heart planned from the start?
      
+	Yes, this was definitely intended from the start with Bester.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "If the theme of the relationship is "All Bester needed was to love
+	and be loved, or he wouldn't have been the slimeball he is today", I
+	will be a bit disappointed."
+
+	
      
+	Then you won't be.
+
+	
      
+	"It's just a little too simplistic."
+
+	
      
+	Absolutely.
+
+	
      
+	One mongoose can love another; that won't change its attitude toward
+	pythons.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bester's connection to Carolyn was too much of a coincidence.
+	It would have worked better if they'd brought him a list of names and
+	he'd seen her there.
      
+	Yeah, they could've brought him a list...and he'd have seen the
+	name instantly, and wouldn't have been hit with his own "blip" careless
+	attitude right in his face...also, she needed to be already being
+	defrosted at that point, and you can't defrost all of them at once.
+
+	
      
+	Yeah, it was a coincidence.  Synchronicity.  It happens.  It
+	doesn't happen much on this show, hardly ever.  I figured she'd be one
+	of the last in, and thus the first out.  Synchronicity and coincidences
+	*do* happen.  How many times have you reached for the phone to call
+	someone to find the phone ringing, and it's them on the other end? 
+	What're the odds of Oedipus killing his father and marrying his mother
+	out of all the possible kingdoms in the area?  It happens.  As long as
+	it doesn't happen to excess, it's not something I'm worried about.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There are a number of medlabs, which are broken into various
+	areas; each has a larger wing attached to it, which we've seen on
+	occasion, such as when the young girl in "Legacies" is in the infirmary
+	in bed, same with Shon in "Believers."  They each have a pretty fair
+	capacity for patients.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why aren't other TV networks available?  What happened to the two
+	reporters at the ISN desk when it was shut down?
      
+	ISN is one of the only interstellar networks bounced via the
+	tachyon relay systems from Earth to the outer colonies and beyond. 
+	There are lots of other channels back home, but to get this far out you
+	need the support of the government.
+
+	
      
+	The other two reporters are, to say the least, in deep guano.
+
+
      
+   
    •  That's Brakiri space they attacked; more on that in the next
+	episode. (They're a League world.)
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan tries to rally support for his cause as direct confrontations with
+the Shadows begin in earnest.  Friction increases between Londo and Morden.
+
+
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+Jonathan Chapman as Brakiri.
+Jennifer Balgobin as Dr. Hobbs.
+
    
+
+
    Production number: 315
+Original air week: May 6, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Jesus Trevino
+
    
+
+Note: this episode is more momentous than most.  Think twice before
+proceeding to the spoilers; it's worth seeing unawares.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  During the last war with the Shadows, a thousand years ago, they did
+	roughly what they're doing this time, seemingly attacking at random
+	in the form of quick strikes.  The intent may be simply to keep the
+	major powers off guard, so they never know when the next attack will
+	occur.
+
+   
    •  Vorlon ships are linked closely to their individual owners.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Who will replace Franklin as head of medlab?
+
+   
    •  Why did the Shadows wait until the Vorlon attack to move against Kosh?
+	They could presumably have done it at any time.  (See
+	Analysis)
+
+   
    •  Do the Shadows know that the Vorlon attack was just a one-time thing,
+	or do they now believe that the Vorlons are on the march?  How will
+	that affect their strategy, if at all?
+
+   
    •  How did Delenn know there wouldn't be a body?
+
+   
    •  What was the flash of energy that coursed through the station after
+	the fight was over?
+
+   
    •  Does Lyta know about Kosh?  How will she react when she finds out?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Londo's new pact with Morden may foreshadow the loss of his second
+	chance for redemption
+	("Point of No Return.")
+	With Londo's poison coursing through his veins, Refa certainly qualifies
+	as "the one who is already dead," and now Londo has vowed to kill him.
+	Along similar lines, Kosh qualifies now too; Londo may attempt to kill
+	Kosh's replacement, not realizing it's another Vorlon entirely.
+
+   
    •  Londo played right into Morden's hands.  Morden was obviously
+	responsible for Adira's death (he paid off one of the ship's crew,
+	and he found out about her arrival from the Zocalo vendor) and it's
+	unlikely Refa even knew about her, much less participated in her
+	poisoning.  But any such protest on Refa's part will likely fall
+	on deaf ears if Londo speaks to him.
+
+   
    •  On the other hand, it's also possible that Londo is attempting to
+	fool Morden.  Certainly Londo knows that Morden is up to no good --
+	their conversation in the hallway, and Londo's glare when he talks
+	about people who deserve to die -- are evidence of that.  Maybe he's
+	playing along with Morden in an attempt to trip up the Shadows' plans.
+	The same hallway conversation offers evidence to the contrary, though;
+	even then, Londo felt he had already been through worse than Morden's
+	associates could dish out, and with Adira's death, that's probably
+	only intensified.
+
+   
    •  "The galaxy can burn.  I no longer care," says Londo.  This echoes the
+	conversation between Emperor Turhan and Kosh in
+	"The Coming of Shadows:"
+	"How will this end?"  "In fire."
+
+   
    •  Londo promised to pluck the Shadows' eye out if it turned toward the
+	Centauri homeworld.  Foreshadowing, perhaps, for whatever happens
+	to G'Kar's eye in Londo's dream
+	("The Coming of Shadows.")
+
+   
    •  What do the Shadows want?  Delenn seems to know more than
+	she's telling.  Morden's keen interest in the Centauri's continued
+	aggression may provide a clue, but it's ambiguous at best.  If they
+	simply want a constant state of chaos in the galaxy, their current
+	strategy will eventually backfire; there won't be anyone
+	left to carry on fighting.
+
+   
    •  The fact that the Shadows attacked Kosh
+	immediately after the Vorlon victory over the Shadow fleet smacks of
+	the notion that there was a deal of some sort between the two races:
+	the Vorlons stay out of the fighting, and the Shadows leave them
+	alone.  If that's true, one sobering interpretation is that both
+	races consider the war something of a game.
+
+   
    •  Along similar lines, Kosh told Sheridan that the Vorlons didn't want
+	to attack because "it is not our time."  What did he mean by that?
+	What constitutes the Vorlons' time?  Kosh also mentioned that the
+	Vorlons were few in number, and were still preparing.  Are their
+	preparations simply a matter of boosting their manpower?
+
+   
    •  The Vorlons still use conventional jump points rather than the faster
+	hyperspace entry and exit technique employed by the Shadows.  Is that
+	a conscious decision on their part, or does it imply that the Shadows
+	are more technologically advanced in at least some respects?
+
+   
    •  Even in his last moments, Kosh still chose to hide behind disguises and
+	symbolism, appearing as Sheridan's father rather than himself.  Or
+	maybe it's not by choice after all; maybe all he can do is communicate
+	with people in terms they already understand, though his recreation of
+	the Icarus expedition in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+	suggests otherwise.
+
+   
    •  How long has Kosh known what was going to happen to him?  He implies
+	here that Sheridan will die on Z'ha'dum because he won't have Kosh's
+	help ("You said that if I went to Z'ha'dum I would die."  "Yes, now.")
+	Did he know why that would be when he first warned Sheridan in
+	"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum?"
+	Were his lessons for Sheridan, teaching the latter to fight legends,
+	meant to provide Sheridan with the confidence to disobey Kosh's wishes
+	when the time was right?
+
+   
    •  There is something of a thematic link between Kosh's expectation of
+	death and the story of Jesus played out by Brother Edward in
+	"Passing Through Gethsemane."
+	Kosh knew what was coming, perhaps knew he could avoid it for
+	a little while, but also believed it would be the wrong thing to do.
+	So he waited in his quarters to face his executioners.  Of course,
+	Edward didn't try to fight his killers off, so the parallel isn't
+	exact.
+
+   
    •  Kosh's death was instantly known to the Vorlons, which suggests that
+	all the Vorlons are linked together in some fundamental way.  Perhaps
+	the killing of Kosh, then, was less a blow against him personally than
+	a slap in the face of the Vorlons as a whole.
+
+   
    •  If Kosh knew what was going to happen, why did he remain in his
+	quarters, easily found?  Perhaps he believed that the Shadows would
+	go after Delenn or Sheridan in that case, and he considers them more
+	valuable than himself.
+
+   
    •  Why can't Kosh's replacement continue Sheridan's education and assist
+	him at Z'ha'dum as Kosh would have?  Presumably there was nothing
+	special about Kosh from the Vorlons' point of view.  Or maybe the
+	Vorlons are so few in number that Kosh was the only one among them
+	who's able to provide whatever assistance he had in mind.
+
+   
    •  This episode was full of power surges and drains: the one noted by
+	the C&C tech when Kosh and Sheridan were arguing, the lights
+	dimming when Morden confronted Londo, the battle between Kosh and
+	the Shadows, and whatever happened when Kosh died.  Perhaps someone
+	will put two and two together and have security promptly investigate
+	any odd power level changes.
+
+   
    •  What is Earth's official reaction now that open hostilities with the
+	Shadows have broken out?  Has Sheridan usurped Earth's official
+	relationships with all the alien governments he's recruited into his
+	alliance?  The Shadows certainly have their fingers in at least some
+	aspects of the Earth Alliance, but they don't have total control yet;
+	there must be some people in the Earth government advocating taking
+	up arms against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Script 15 is entitled "Interludes and Examinations," and has a plot
+	turn I hadn't seen coming, but which fits perfectly into the arc; I
+	think you're going to be stunned.  (I was.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Just wondering if we would see the First Ones from Sigma 957 this
+	season, since there are supposed to be some direct confrontations
+	between the Army of Light and the Shadows?"
+
+	
      
+	No.  It isn't their time yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Let me answer this way...whenever I'm going to unveil something
+	on the show, I begin to point to it in upcoming episodes.  I've begun
+	pointing to the question of what the shadows want, and why they're
+	doing it.  So, logically, I'm now going to have to follow up on
+	that....
+
+
      
+   
    •  In general, you always know when I'm going to
+	start answering a question, because I begin to point at it in episodes;
+	I'm now beginning to point to the shadows and ask, "What do THEY want?"
+
+	
      
+	The answer is coming.
+
+
      
+   
    •  It wasn't my idea.  It was Kosh's idea.  It was his pulling me that way
+	that led to it.  "Trust me," he said.  I followed.
+
+	
      
+	And yeah, it does hurt.  Pat Tallman was devastated at the screening. 
+	Even my own crew wouldn't talk to me for a day or so after the script
+	came out.
+
+	
      
+	Which is when I knew it was the right thing to do.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Yeah, that's [Kosh's death]
+	the story turn that surprised even me.  (And, of course,
+	I can't wait for the folks who'll say it was over a contract dispute
+	with the actor....)
+
+
      
+   
    • @@@831919210 The mentor always dies in heroic sagas.
      
+	I think Kosh sort of "hit the wall" when he saw that Sheridan wasn't
+	going to go away; I think finally he was ashamed, and recognized his
+	fear, and in a sense the air went out of him, and he reconciled himself
+	to what had to be.
+
+	
      
+	You're right about the mentor; sooner or later, the mentor has to
+	step aside (or fall by the wayside) for the others to grow into the
+	hero's journey.  Originally this was slated to happen a bit later...I
+	think, on some level, I was reluctant to do it, because to write this
+	kind of stuff you have to *feel* it yourself, and I think I was
+	avoiding that as much as Kosh was avoiding his fate.  I didn't want
+	to go through writing that.  So I kept putting it off.  I knew it
+	*had* to be done...but not yet....
+
+	
      
+	And that's when, for lack of a better explanation, Kosh stepped up
+	and began to pull me in that direction in the script.  It was time.
+	His passing shouldn't be frittered away or minimized; it should
+	happen at the right moment, and this was that moment.  It's almost
+	impossible to describe this to a non-writer, but the character, this
+	fictional construct, was simply determined to have his way, and that
+	was the end of it.  I kept trying to dance away in the script, to go
+	back into safer waters...but each time was pulled back in this
+	direction, until finally I had to admit that yes, this was the right
+	time, and the right way, to do this.
+
+	
      
+	And Kosh fell.
+
+	
      
+	But what finally convinced me was the realization that this was not
+	only right for now, but right for *later*...though you won't know
+	what that means for a while yet.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Kosh stuff, his scene with Sheridan, and his
+	passing, is very moving.  I showed it at Marcon this weekend in Ohio,
+	and many folks, including Patricia Talman -- who hadn't seen it yet --
+	were in tears at that. That, to me, is the moment when you know you've
+	done something, when you can make people *feel* something.  Not just a
+	plot exercise, but you hit down deep where it hurts, or can make
+	someone laugh.  It's all about touching emotion...or what's the point?
+
+
      
+   
    •  "JMS, why did you edit out the scene where the Ranger follows Morden and
+	ends up being killed by the Shadows?  Don't you think fans of the show
+	would rather see that than the scene in the bar where Garibaldi asks for
+	info on Franklin's blood from the other doctor?  When you edit the show
+	please keep in mind what the fans would what to see.  Rangers and
+	Shadows fighting is much more exciting than a unimportant scene that
+	could have been left out easily."
+
+	
      
+	Because it was important to set up what Garibaldi wanted, where it was,
+	and how he was going to gain access.  It had to show his concern for
+	Franklin, the moral ambiguity in asking for this, the betrayal we see on
+	Franklin's face, the difficulty in Dr. Hobbs dealing with his request. 
+	The ranger scene was a brief piece that was really unconnected to the
+	rest of the story, had no setup elsewhere or payoff, was only a brief
+	piece of action.  I needed the time to establish the character and plot
+	information in the Garibaldi scene.
+
+	
      
+	And when you cite what "the fans" want to see, bear in mind that there
+	ain't no such critter.  There's what *you* like, but *you're* not the
+	entirety of the fans.  Some fans thought "Avalon" was one of the best of
+	the series to date; others thought it was just a character piece and
+	wanted more action and arc and called it a "waste."  Some people when
+	they read a novel read for the action, then when they come to a few
+	pages that establish the look of the forest, or some character
+	background, jump ahead a few pages to where the action starts up
+	again.  Some do just the opposite.
+
+	
      
+	My obligation, first and foremost, is to the story, and to tell that
+	story as best I can.  If I start trying to second guess what *The Fans*
+	want, when there is no ready concensus, when there ain't no such
+	thing, when different fans want different things, it'll just get
+	watered down and wander around lost.  
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why don't they keep Morden off the station?
      
+	They would do so, but since the fall from Earth, as Susan
+	mentioned, they've had to hire guards who may not be above bribes, as
+	we saw in the teaser.  And Morden is good at covering his footsteps.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The "crystals" were diamonds, he was bribing various people to
+	let him in and otherwise do things for him.  And yes, Delenn's holding
+	back some information still, and Kosh was outnumbered.
+
+
      
+   
    •  About Sheridan's confrontation with Kosh
      
+	I don't think Sinclair would've handled that
+	scene in the same way; it needed someone who'd go toe to toe with
+	something very old and dark and dangerous in his way.  He had to get
+	under Kosh's "skin," as it were. Needle and outrage and upset him until
+	he got through...whatever the cost.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Bruce did a great job in that scene; there's a touch of
+	madness in it, which is quite understandable.  As for the Rangers, they
+	get a new, added role later this season.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why didn't Kosh leave?
      
+	Because I think, on some level, Kosh knew it was inevitable; a
+	price had to be paid.  In a way, Lincoln had the same feelings...why
+	was he to live when so many had died?  In a way, he knew he wouldn't
+	live much longer. Also, it would mean running...and the Vorlons don't
+	run.  If he fled, another would pay the price...and that also wouldn't
+	be right.
+
+
      
+   
    •  He knew a price had to be paid, and if it wasn't him,
+	it'd be someone else.  Because he knew there was no getting around it. 
+	He's too prideful to run.
+
+	
      
+	Remember Gethsemane....
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kosh fought and fought hard.  And he did not go down easily...and one
+	might say that yes, he did not go down alone...but not entirely in the
+	way you're thinking.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why is Londo still on the station?  Why do they let him stay?
+	
      
+	B5 is still a place of considerable commerce, access to lots and
+	lots of other races and diplomats...it serves Londo's purposes for now,
+	and there are probably lots of Centauri back home who would prefer he
+	stay here.  As for the rest...better the devil you know than the devil
+	you don't.  At least on B5 they can keep somewhat of an eye on him.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Ambassador Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time
+("Babylon Squared.")  Part 1 of 2.
+
+
+Michael O'Hare as Ambassador Sinclair.
+Tim Choate as Zathras.
+Kent Broadhurst as Major Krantz.
+
    
+
+
    Production number: 316
+Original air week: May 13, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Note: Please don't send me any spoiler information for this episode while
+this note is present -- I know there's detailed information out there and I'd
+rather watch it cold.  Thanks.
+For spoilers, try the
+B5 Spoilers Page.
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  November 30, 1995 -
+	As I write this, I've just started
+	writing "War Without End, Part One," #316, the first part of the two
+	episodes that bring Sinclair to Babylon 5, which we'll shoot sometime
+	after the first of the year.  It's been touch and go, but we've finally
+	been able to schedule all of the guest cast members from "Babylon
+	Squared" for this one, which is the flip side of that episode.  It's
+	probably going to be the most expensive show we've done yet, due to
+	the hideous production requirements for this one.  It's also the one
+	I'm most nervous about writing, even more than "Fall of Night,"
+	because an awful lot happens here, and it has to be done just right.
+	It's going to be probably the toughest writing job of the series to
+	date.
+
+	
      
+	I'll be putting Sinclair and Sheridan together a lot, which is
+	shaping up to be an interesting combination.  We're also going to see
+	Minbar for the first time.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Actually, Mike Vejar is directing the two-parter, and I'm
+	absolutely thrilled about  it; Mike's been our mainstay for
+	some time, and he's just terrific.  (He directed  "Convictions,"
+	and "Inquisitor.")
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, reactions have been coming in on the two parter, and so far
+	everyone's wog-boggled.  Peter Jurasik called to say he didn't know
+	what I'm smoking these days, but to please send ten pounds of it to
+	his house at *once*.  Mumy went nuts over it, everyone's very
+	excited...including and especially Michael O'Hare, who got his copy
+	of the script today, read it straight through, and is *extremely*
+	excited by the story, and what happens with his character, and is
+	VERY much looking forward to the shoot.
+
+
      
+   
    •  (Oh, and lest I forget, yes, Zathras does return in "War," as does
+	Sinclair, who has a lot of great scenes with Marcus, Sheridan, Delenn,
+	Zathras and others.  It also has some real surprises in store, including
+	some flash-forwards from WAY down the line.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  January 22, 1996
      
+	Today was a very interesting day; today Michael O'Hare returned to the
+	Babylon 5 stages in preparation for shooting the two-parter, which
+	begins tomorrow.  Today he came by for his wardrobe fitting and to get
+	his hair trimmed, say hi to folks, and hang out...lunch was me, John
+	Copeland, Michael and Bruce Boxleitner eating together at one of the
+	tables in the lunch area behind the stage, lots of laughing and kidding,
+	and the two get on great. (Turns out they'd worked on other projects
+	before, including the short-lived A Rumor of War series by Sterling
+	Siliphant.)  
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, it's a great atmosphere, and everybody's psyched for the
+	two-parter.  It's like he never went away.
+
+
      
+   
    •  January 23, 1996
      
+	[...] today is Michael O'Hare's first day of shooting here on
+	the B5 stages for the two-parter, featuring his return to the station
+	from Minbar, and propels him into the center of attention for most of
+	the two parts. Everyone's having a great time so far, he and Bruce have
+	been hanging out a lot, and the episode should be a real toad-strangler
+	when it's finished.
+
+
      
+   
    •  A toad-strangler, a barn-burner, a doozy...it's a good thing.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Won't Sheridan and Sinclair both be standing around giving orders?
+	
      
+	The similarity is only if
+	you choose to define them by their narrow roles.  Their personalities
+	are vastly different.  Also, Sinclair's been through a lot in the
+	intervening couple of years, he's grown, he and Marcus would definitely
+	have something of a relationship since he would've been there while
+	Marcus was being trained, and so on.  And their roles in the story are
+	very different.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Will the relationship between Delenn and Sheridan cause problems
+	with Sinclair?
      
+	Well, remember that we never defined what those feelings were between
+	Sinclair and Delenn; she had a great deal of respect and admiration
+	for him, yes.  And she had a fair measure of faith in him as well.
+	Question is, what's the root of that?  We'll learn some of that in
+	the two-parter.  As for Sinclair, he was mainly involved with Sakai.
+
+
      
+   
    •  My guess is that "War Without End" may well pass by
+	"CoS"
+	as all time favorite...until the next one comes along.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Did you reuse footage from
+	"Babylon Squared?"
      
+	We did both; we reshot some scenes from B2, and used some footage
+	directly from that episode.  Some pretty elegant matches, too, I think.
+
+
      
+   
    •  As Sinclair notes when he arrives at B5, his status as ambassador is
+	pretty much gone after the coup.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Ambassador Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time
+("Babylon Squared.")  Part 2 of 2.
+
+
+Michael O'Hare as Ambassador Sinclair.
+Tim Choate as Zathras.
+Kent Broadhurst as Major Krantz.
+
    
+
+
    Production number: 317
+Original air week: May 20, 1996
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Mike Vejar
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Note: Please don't send me any spoiler information for this episode while
+this note is present -- I know there's detailed information out there and I'd
+rather watch it cold.  Thanks.
+For spoilers, try the
+B5 Spoilers Page.
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  YAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH.....
+
+	
      
+	Well, I *finally* finished writing the two-parter, "War Without End,"
+	which is probably the toughest thing I've written for the series to
+	date.  Given everything that has to fit in here, and the fact that
+	it's the other half of the B4 storyline (this ain't a spoiler,
+	that'll be common knowledge in ads and the like), it became a pretty
+	difficult job, moreso than when I'd originally thunk it up.  It's
+	kinda like cramming 20 pounds of potatoes in a 10 pound bag...but I
+	*think* I got it all in, even though the initial drafts came out at
+	about 7 pages too long.  As I commented to one person, "I'm
+	definitely dancing on the edge of my ability here."  But I'm pretty
+	sure I pulled it all off...and I think folks are going to be quite
+	pleased.
+
+	
      
+	But *man* that was tough....
+
+	
      
+	Now, having written 16 and 17, only 5 scripts remain to be written
+	for this season.  And there's still an awful lot to fit in before the
+	big season ender, which I suspect will raise quite a few eyebrows.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In my last general posting to rastb5, I mentioned that from time to
+	time, I'd try to post the occasional "letter to home" just to keep folks
+	up to date on matters Babylonian.  Now that I can catch a breather, I
+	figured I'd take this opportunity to do so (though since it's 3:15 a.m.,
+	this'll likely be short).
+
+	
      
+	"catching a breather" refers to the script situation.  I've just
+	finished writing 316 and 317, the two parter, "War Without End,"
+	which was a very difficult task, given the amount of story and
+	logistics that had to be put into it.  While writing "Babylon
+	Squared," to which this is the flip-side, I figured, "Oh, sure, yeah,
+	I can get this all in on the other side, no problem," but when it
+	came time to do it, it got awful tight, but finally I fit it *all*
+	in.  (Well, all except one teeny, tiny sentence, about where Zathras
+	was first seen, and how, 'cause to do what I'd first had in mind
+	would've taken another 3 pages, and I didn't have that, so that one
+	element I'll have to just deal with later somehow.  But that's it.)
+	Hopefully, one need never have seen B2 in order to watch and follow
+	WWE.  (Which was one of the hard parts, since B2 may or may not be
+	aired prior to this, all the background information *had* to be in
+	the episodes, so that's a lot of background to include.)
+
+	
      
+	This now leaves 5 episodes to be written for this season.  At this
+	point, Lyta should factor strongly in one or two of these, there will be
+	some direct confrontations between our side and the shadows, then a
+	really nasty final episode for year three.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+As Lyta prepares to test the limits of the Shadows' newly-discovered weakness,
+Dr. Franklin goes on a journey to discover his place in life.
+
+
+Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander.
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 318
+Original air week: ???
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kevin Cremin
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  In Australian aboriginal cultures, a "walkabout" is a ritual in which
+	a young man goes on a solitary journey through the wilderness in an
+	attempt to learn more about his own character and strength.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  As it happens, as soon as I finish the two-parter, this
+	week, the next script will  get a lot more into Lyta and the
+	Vorlons and all that jazz.
+
+
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi investigates the mysterious disappearance of a section of the
+station.
+
+
+Robert Englund.
+
    
+
+
    Production number: 319
+Original air week: ???
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by John Flinn III
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+No plot information is available.
+
+
+Louis Turenne as Brother Theo.
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 320
+Original air week: ???
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by David Eagle
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The
+	song
+	from which the title is derived, "No Hiding Place," refers to the
+	Book of Revelation, in which man attempts to hide from the wrath
+	of God in mountains and rocks.
+	Revelation 6:15-17.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
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+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+No plot information is available.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 321
+Original air week: ???
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Kim Friedman
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
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+
+
+JMS is keeping the title of this episode a secret for the moment.
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Third season finale.  No plot information is available.
+
+
+Melissa Gilbert.
+Ed Wasser as Morden.
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: 322
+Original air week: ???
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by Adam Nimoy
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  One rumor, unconfirmed (and unlikely to be confirmed; see below) is
+	that the title of this episode is "Z'ha'dum."
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  I'm going to hold the title of 22 confidential as long as
+	possible.
+
+
      
+   
    •  By the last few episodes, pretty much all of my cards are on
+	the table. But by the last episode of this season, we find that the
+	game we've assumed we've been playing ain't necessarily the game at
+	all.  The show takes a fairly subversive direction, and of all the
+	seasons so far, the one that follows, year four, represents the
+	greatest writing challenge to make this actually work.
+
+	
      
+	Which is another reason why it's important to get the B4
+	storyline and several other threads out in the open, and clear the
+	decks, because this is gonna take every bit of whatever talent I've got
+	to pull off.
+
+	
      
+	Year four is the point in the novel when you're just past the
+	halfway mark; you know the reader thinks he or she has got the story
+	sussed out. The reader knows all your tricks by now, or thinks he/she
+	does.  You've been pulling doves out of your hat for 243 pages.
+
+	
      
+	Now you'd damned well better be able to pull out an alligator.
+
+
      
+   
    •  February 27, 1996
      
+	Well, it's done.  I have today turned in the first draft of
+	script #22 for year three, which I suppose could be called a
+	cliffhanger episode. This marks the first time in the 50+ year history
+	of American television that one person has singlehandedly written an
+	entire season of a series. (The closest record is Terry Nation, who
+	wrote the 13-episode first season of Blake's 7.)
+
+	
      
+	(I have no plans to do this next season, btw; this was
+	necessary because of the substantive changes in the B5 universe this
+	season.  Next season is a very different story...literally as well as
+	figuratively.)
+
+	
      
+	So far the film based on those 1,000+ pages represents some of
+	our best work on Babylon 5.  There's some nifty stuff coming.
+
+	
      
+	We are currently filming episode #18.  Four more after this,
+	and we'll be finished shooting year three, as of April 9th.  Not long
+	after, we should get the word on year four, probably by late
+	April/early May.  But the writing is finished...and for the first time
+	in 8 months, I will be able to go out, see a movie, play Wing
+	Commander, find something that vaguely resembles a life.  This is where
+	I now also become a director's worst nightmare: a writer-producer who's
+	finished writing and finally has time to hang out on the set and give
+	lots and lots of helpful advice.
+
+	
      
+	It was a hideous task; two-thirds through I began to understand
+	that there was a *reason* nobody's ever done this before...you'd have
+	to be outta your ever-loving mind to even try.  But as with everything
+	else on B5, if we don't know it's impossible, we just go ahead and do
+	it.
+
+	
      
+	The title, as stated elsewhere, is classified, though you may
+	get a sense of what's coming in the two eps that precede it. 
+	Regardless, the writing on year three is now complete.  Overall, I'm
+	quite pleased, and I think by the time you hit this episode, you'll
+	feel the same.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Well, there's what one would *prefer*, and there's that which is
+	*sensible*.  And the sensible answer is that no, once the last S3
+	episode airs in the UK, there's no way on earth you're gonna keep that
+	out of the public eye, and there ain't much sense to protecting it or
+	hitting it with spoiler regs.  I'd let it go at that point.  
+
+	
      
+	(And, frankly, it'll probably slip out some time before that; when it
+	hits, it hits, I've decided to let it go at that point...you just ain't
+	gonna hear it from ME, that's all.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Or is it a matter of the title being a spoiler for an episode between
+	now and then?"
+
+	
      
+	Yes, that's my concern.
+
+	
      
+	While I'm on the subject, an advisory: I gave a short interview to
+	Entertainment Weekly the other day for their story about cliffhanger
+	endings for various shows.  Now, the piece is going to run in May since
+	that's when most shows (most *sensible* shows) will be doing their
+	cliffhangers.  Ours won't run until July or October, depending on who
+	you talk to.  
+
+	
      
+	There's a point where you have to decide between publicity (good for
+	show) and secrecy (good for viewers), in the process of keeping the show
+	on the air (also good for viewers).  So I let a few things out of the
+	bag.  If you don't want to be spoiled, then you may want to avoid
+	picking up and reading that story.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Why a cliffhanger, if WB is likely to delay the final episode
+	until the start of season four?
      
+	Because the story calls for it.  Whether they show the cliffhanger three
+	months or two weeks before the fourth season (assuming renewal), this is
+	where the story goes.  It was constructed like a series of novels, a
+	multi-volume saga, and like any good series of novels, you end on
+	something big.
+
+	
      
+	And this year, season three ends on something really honking big.
+
+
    
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+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+No plot information is available.  Don't hold your breath.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Grand finale
+
+Production number: 522?
+Original air date: Sometime in 1998
+
+Written by J. Michael Straczynski
+Directed by ???
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    
+@@@821918918 None, we can but hope.
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  On GEnie, 11 April 1992:
      
+	A few days ago, I sat down with our line producer, John Copeland, and
+	production designer John Iacovelli, and we were talking about the need 
+	to move quickly on some stuff, and how painful the process is to have
+	the whole story in your head, already told, really, and then have to
+	make it all over again so we can put it on film.  "You think you've got
+	it bad," I noted, "I've already worked out the last scene in the last
+	episode of the last season (#5)...and I've still got to make Movie #1."
+	They called me on it and asked what that scene was.  Just to see their
+	reaction, I told them.  They looked at me as if I'd suddenly sprouted
+	three heads and feathers.  It was worth it.  (Happily, they're sworn to
+	secrecy.)  It was also good because I think that, even without filling
+	in the beats in between, it gave them a good sense of where the series
+	was going to go.
+
+
      
+   
    •  My titles are often in a state of flux; "Signs and Portents" was
+	originally titled "Raiding Party" in my notes, as the B5 FAQ notes
+	somewhere.  So it may change, but for the time being, in my notes for
+	the series, the last episode of year five has this note: Title? --
+	"Farewell" or "Sleeping in Light."
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Babylon 5 story ends at the final episode of year five.
+
+
      
+   
    •  And there will never be a Babylon 6.
+
+
      
+   
    •  If I didn't have a good, solid, consistent ending, I wouldn't have
+	started the story.  I always have the ending before I begin writing
+	the beginning.
+
+
      
+   
    •  There's always been a side-story that could spin off from B5, but the
+	main core story is over at the five-year mark.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I've always said that there's a side story that could follow the 5
+	year B5 storyline, which takes place in the B5 universe, and follows
+	on the heels of the events in B5...but who knows if that would happen?
+	
      
+	The one thing I would hate is for B5 to become any kind of so-called
+	"franchise."  Because as soon as that happens, you're prevented from
+	making any changes, from doing anything that might startle people,
+	cutting into the piggy-bank.  Once that happens, you're dead.
+	
      
+	I've also made no secret of my sense that, should B5 run its full
+	five year course (and assuming the side-story doesn't go, which I 
+	would not exactly count on)...I plan to get out of TV.  By that 
+	point, I would have said pretty much everything I want to say in TV,
+	and it's time to get out, buy a small house somewhere outside London,
+	and spend the rest of my years writing novels, which is kinda where
+	this all began.  (I've had 2 novels, 1 anthology, and a bunch of 
+	short stories published, as well as 500 or so articles.)
+	
      
+	I never got into this to make a ***FRANCHISE***, and never really
+	intended to become an executive producer.  I just don't like being
+	rewritten...so I climbed higher, until finally there was nobody over
+	me messing with my scripts.  Outside of the B5 reality, if someone 
+	came to e and offered me *staff writer* on a show -- the lowest
+	position in the TV totem pole -- but with the guarantee that I
+	wouldn't be rewritten, they wouldn't change the words...I'd take it
+	in a hot second.  I'm here, now, strictly out of self-defense.
+	
      
+	Two valuable social skills are knowing when to enter a room, and when
+	to leave a room.  At some point, you have to get out or become 
+	something you don't want to become.  I've never really been part of 
+	the Hollywood SYSTEM, and have no desire to do so.
+	
      
+	In "The Velvet Alley," Rod Serling wrote of a young advertising writer
+	who becomes a success at writing television.  At one point, the 
+	character says (paraphrased from memory): "Here's the trap...in TV 
+	they pay you lots of money for what you do...then, slowly, your 
+	standard of living rises until you *need* that constant flow to stay 
+	at that level.  Then...they threaten to take it away from you if you
+	don't behave.  And THAT'S when they've got you."
+
+
      
+   
    •  What happens at the end of the five year arc?  The "Babylon 5" series
+	ends...if I have anything to say about it (and I do).  If something 
+	else follows, we'll see what that is, but it won't be the same series,
+	or the same title, or really the same characters.
+	
      
+	Barring that very distant possibility, at the end of the five year 
+	arc, I take a very, very, VERY long nap....
+
+
      
+   
    •  I've mentioned before that there's a side-story that could go off,
+	within the B5 universe, with a few of our characters, once the
+	Babylon 5 story itself comes to an end in its fifth year, but that's
+	a long ways off, and I don't know if that's realistic.
+	
      
+	You have to understand...I never came in wanting to be a producer.
+	I'm a *writer*, and I only got here because it was the only way to
+	protect the words...create and run the damned show so nobody can mess
+	with it.  Once I've finished the Babylon story, assuming it runs its
+	full length, (5 years alone, more if there is that doubtful spinoff),
+	the story is over.  Every story has a beginning, middle and end, and
+	the story's over when it's over.
+	
      
+	I've also made no bones about the fact that, should the Babylon story
+	run its full term, I will have said just about everything I want to 
+	say in television, and plan to get out, go back to writing novels.
+	
      
+	My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say
+	it, and get the hell out.  (Second philosophy behind that one: when 
+	in doubt, roll in a grenade and come in firing.)
+
+
    
diff --git a/guide/bak/245 b/guide/bak/245
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9aaa215
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/bak/245
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+Dodgers undertakes a perilous journey to Planet X, where a powerful alien
+force awaits.
+
+
+Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers.
+
    
+
+
    +Sub-genre: Intrigue
+G5 rating: Second-favorite thing in the universe
+
+Original air year: 1953
+
+   Story by Michael Maltese
+Directed by Chuck Jones
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Backplot
    
+
      
+   
    •  Shaving cream is made using Alludium Phosdex.
+
+   
    •  Earth has used up valuable natural resources and must look elsewhere
+	in the universe for certain mineral needs.
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+   
    •  How are people able to breathe at an altitude of approximately 32 miles
+	(17,000 stories)?
+
+   
    •  How did Marvin Martian manage to land on Planet X immediately after
+	Dodgers did?  Has Mars run out of Alludium Phosdex as well?
+
+   
    •  What biological function is responsible for the glow emanated by Dodgers
+	when he shouts out his name?
+
+   
    •  Are Duck Dodgers and the infamous Sinclair's Duck one and the same?
+
+   
    •  Was the actual matter of Planet X destroyed, or was its mineral content
+	dispersed throughout the galaxy, where it might be found at some future
+	date?
+
+   
    •  How do Duck Dodgers, Porky, and Marvin, ever leave the remains of the
+	planet?
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+   
    •  When Dodgers falls several stories during the first act, he suffers only
+	minor injuries.  Perhaps Dodgers, by being DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24-1/2TH
+	CENTURY, has powers greater than the average mortal.  Further evidence
+	corroborates this when it is considered that Dodgers survives several
+	lethal blasts, including one that decimates an entire planet.
+
+   
    •  Marvin Martian's ship, the "Martian Maggot" looks suspiciously like a
+	Vorlon cruiser.  And yet, Ambassador Kosh is suspected to actually be
+	Duck Dodgers.  So perhaps The Martian Maggot was actually stolen
+	Vorlon technology.
+
+   
    •  Duck Dodgers, representing the Earth Alliance, and Marvin Martian,
+	representing Mars, do seem to share a great deal of technology. (Both
+	sides use machines with brand names such as "A-1" and "Acme" and have
+	similarly designed secret weapons.)  It is thus logical that this
+	storyline takes place after "A Voice in the Wilderness," in which the
+	Mars colony secedes from Earth.  However, this conflicts with the
+	timeline in "Midnight on the Firing Line" in which Garibaldi and
+	Delenn view this episode, several episodes before the
+	revolution on Mars.  Perhaps they just weren't paying attention to
+	the signs and portents of an upcoming Mars revolution.
+
+   
    •  JMS has stated that there is no Trek-like "transporter" technology in
+	the B5 universe; however, Dodgers uses the Evaporator to transport
+	himself to the airport.  This may be an inconsistency in the B5 setting.
+
+   
    •  It is reasonable to assume that the "unknown" area displayed by Dr. I.Q.
+	Hi is equivalent to "the rim" (of known space) that the Icarus had been
+	exploring when Sheridan's wife dissapeared  (c.f. "In the Shadow of
+	Z'ha'dum").  Could Planet X be near Z'ha'dum, or perhaps be controlled
+	by the Shadows?  Its markings indicate a long-dead civilization, perhaps
+	one of the oldest civilizations in the Galaxy.
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+   
    •  This is the only Babylon 5 episode to be entirely animated, and using
+	absolutely no CGI for special effects.  Considering how well
+	the episode turned out, Ron Thornton may have to start working on his
+	resume.
+
+   
    •  This episode features no regular B5 cast members.  (Except, perhaps,
+	Kosh.)
+
+   
    •  Though the character's name is common knowledge, the name Marvin Martian
+	is not actually uttered on-screen.
+
+   
    •  Strangely, this episode was broadcast before the birth of
+	JMS.  How this happened is not clear, but it's probably just one of
+	those things.
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  I *love* "Duck Dodgers." I have virtually all of the WB cartoons on
+	tape or disk, and from where I sit, that's wonderful stuff that'll
+	be around for a long, long time. No omens, just something I thought
+	would be fun. (Again, connecting past/present/future, sort of our B5
+	theme.) 
+
+
      
+   
    •  I don't understand...what does Sinclair's duck have to do with
+	anything?  We weren't even planning on introducing the duck until late
+	in season two.  I suspect a leak.  Nothing worse than a leaky duck.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "How did Sinclair's duck thing get started?"
+	
      
+	Probably by watching an attractive woman walk across the room.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Me, I'm just waiting for somebody to refer to "The Long Dark" as "The
+	Long Duck"....
+
+
      
+   
    •  It's a duck.  Yes, why, of course it's a ducky.  Why would I think
+	anything else?  What a silly question.
+	
      
+	It's a duck.
+	A texture mapped metallic duck coming
+	out of a jumpgate.
+ 	
      
+	A duck.  Of course.  A duck.
+ 	
      
+	AAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
+ 	
      
+	(I wanna see it...and I wanna see it now.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Of the options you listed, only D poses a real problem; A-C are
+	more or less okay.  The problem comes not so much from speculating on
+	elements already introduced, as introducing *new* plot elements that
+	have not been seen in the show to back up speculation or conjecture,
+	which may or may not approximate what we're doing.  "The Minbari
+	surrendered because in some episode we'll see someday the Earth had
+	developed a giant killer space duck hidden on the dark side of the
+	moon that would nibble the Minbari homeworld to destruction."  That is
+	kind of the dividing line between what's safe and not-safe.
+
+
    
diff --git a/guide/contributors.html b/guide/contributors.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ab2b4eeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/contributors.html
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+
+
+Lurker's Guide contributors
+
+
+
    Contributors
    
+
       
+
    •  Shawn Bayern (bayern@isis.cshl.org) 
+
    •  Keith Bennett (dkeith@hooked.net)
+
    •  Ron Chambers
+
    •  Constantine C. Dokolas (doc@ACM.ORG)
+
    •  Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com) 
+
    •  Glenn Henley (HENLEY@ntcclu.ntc.nokia.com)
+
    •  Shelley Diane Lewallen (sdl5241@tam2000.tamu.edu)
+
    •  Paul McCabe (year4-10@nova.ucd.ie)
+
    •  Peter McQuillan (pmcquil@nova.ucd.ie)
+
    •  Andrew MacRae (macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca)
+
    •  Steven Orso (snorso@facstaff.wisc.edu)
+
    •  Jen Ottesen (otte@midway.uchicago.edu)
+
    •  Kurt Reisler (klr@umbc.edu)
+
    •  Matthew Ryan (matt@uhs.uchicago.edu)
+
    •  Jason Snell (jsnell@etext.org)
+
    •  Anthony Taylor (FNATT@elmer.alaska.edu)
+
    
+
diff --git a/guide/current.html b/guide/current.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/guide/footer.py b/guide/footer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c59330e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/footer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/python
+
+import sys,string
+sys.path.append('../internal')
+import otros
+
+curep = string.atoi(sys.argv[1][:3])
+
+output = """
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] """
+
+output = output + otros.navbuttons(curep) + """
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
+"""
+
+print output
diff --git a/guide/gen.py b/guide/gen.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..f9891f82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/gen.py
@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import sys,string,time,os
+sys.path.append('../internal')
+import otros
+
+months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
+		'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
+
+do_jpeg = 1
+args = sys.argv
+
+for epnum in args[1:]:
+	curep = string.atoi(epnum[:3])
+
+	pix = open('../internal/epnames', 'r')
+	for i in range(0, curep + 1):
+		epname = pix.readline()[:-1]
+	pix.close()
+	if epname == '':
+		epname = 'XXX'
+
+	cureplong = '%03d' % curep
+
+	if len(epnum) == 3:
+		which = 'guide'
+	else:
+		which = 'extra'
+
+	input = open(epnum, 'r')
+	mtime = time.localtime(os.stat(epnum)[8]);
+	mtime_str = '%s %d, %d' % (months[mtime[1]], mtime[2], mtime[0])
+
+	try:
+		os.unlink('#' + epnum + '.html')
+	except:
+		pass
+	try:
+		os.rename(epnum + '.html', '#' + epnum + '.html')
+	except:
+		pass
+
+	output = open(epnum + '.html', 'w')
+
+	output.write("""
+
+Guide page: """ + '"' + epname + '"')
+	if which == 'extra':
+		output.write(' (scene in detail)')
+	
+	output.write("""
+
+
+
+
+
+
+""" + otros.pageheader(curep, which, do_jpeg))
+
+	if which == 'guide':
+		output.write("""
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Overview -
+Backplot -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+JMS
+ 
+
    
+
    
+
+""")
+	else:
+		output.write("""
+
    +
+
    
+
+""")
+
+	wholefile = input.read()
+	input.close()
+
+	rewrite = open('@' + epnum, 'w')
+	needsupdate = 0
+
+	pieces = string.splitfields(wholefile, '@@@')
+	final = pieces[0]
+	rewrite.write(pieces[0])
+
+	for piece in pieces[1:]:
+		try:
+			timestamp =string.atoi(piece[:string.index(piece, ' ')])
+		except:
+			timestamp = 0
+
+		if timestamp == 0:
+			needsupdate = 1
+			timestamp = int(time.time())
+			rewrite.write('@@@' + `timestamp`)
+			rewrite.write(piece[string.index(piece, ' '):])
+		else:
+			rewrite.write('@@@' + piece)
+
+		if timestamp >= time.time() - 14 * 60 * 60 * 24:
+			timeval = time.localtime(timestamp)
+			final = final + ('[[%d/%d]]' %
+					(timeval[1], timeval[2]));
+
+		final = final + piece[string.index(piece, ' '):]
+
+	rewrite.close()
+	if needsupdate:
+		try:
+			os.unlink('#' + epnum)
+		except:
+			pass
+		os.rename(epnum, '#' + epnum)
+		os.rename('@' + epnum, epnum)
+	else:
+		os.unlink('@' + epnum)
+
+	if do_jpeg:
+		final = otros.mungeimages(final, do_jpeg)
+	output.write(final)
+	output.write('
    \n\n
    \n' + otros.pagefooter(curep) + """
+
+
    
+Last update:
+""" + mtime_str + """
+
+
    
+
+
+""")
+
+	output.close()
+
+	if do_jpeg:
+		print epnum, 'jpeg'
+	else:
+		print epnum
+
diff --git a/guide/gen.py.nojpg b/guide/gen.py.nojpg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..107c7c1e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/gen.py.nojpg
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/python
+
+import sys,string,time,os
+sys.path.append('../internal')
+import otros
+
+months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
+		'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
+
+for epnum in sys.argv[1:]:
+	curep = string.atoi(epnum[:3])
+
+	pix = open('../internal/epnames', 'r')
+	for i in range(0, curep + 1):
+		epname = pix.readline()[:-1]
+	pix.close()
+	if epname == '':
+		epname = 'XXX'
+
+	cureplong = '%03d' % curep
+
+	if len(epnum) == 3:
+		which = 'guide'
+	else:
+		which = 'extra'
+
+	input = open(epnum, 'r')
+	mtime = time.localtime(os.stat(epnum)[8]);
+	mtime_str = '%s %d, %d' % (months[mtime[1]], mtime[2], mtime[0])
+
+	try:
+		os.unlink('#' + epnum + '.html')
+	except:
+		pass
+	try:
+		os.rename(epnum + '.html', '#' + epnum + '.html')
+	except:
+		pass
+
+	output = open(epnum + '.html', 'w')
+
+	output.write("""
+
+Guide page: """ + '"' + epname + '"')
+	if which == 'extra':
+		output.write(' (scene in detail)')
+	
+	output.write("""
+
+
+
+
+
+
+""" + otros.pageheader(curep, which))
+
+	if which == 'guide':
+		output.write("""
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Overview -
+Backplot -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+JMS
+ 
+
    
+
    
+
+""")
+	else:
+		output.write("""
+
    +
+
    
+
+""")
+
+	wholefile = input.read()
+	input.close()
+
+	rewrite = open('@' + epnum, 'w')
+	needsupdate = 0
+
+	pieces = string.splitfields(wholefile, '@@@')
+	output.write(pieces[0])
+	rewrite.write(pieces[0])
+
+	for piece in pieces[1:]:
+		try:
+			timestamp =string.atoi(piece[:string.index(piece, ' ')])
+		except:
+			timestamp = 0
+
+		if timestamp == 0:
+			needsupdate = 1
+			timestamp = int(time.time())
+			rewrite.write('@@@' + `timestamp`)
+			rewrite.write(piece[string.index(piece, ' '):])
+		else:
+			rewrite.write('@@@' + piece)
+
+		if timestamp >= time.time() - 14 * 60 * 60 * 24:
+			timeval = time.localtime(timestamp)
+			output.write('[[%d/%d]]' %
+					(timeval[1], timeval[2]));
+
+		output.write(piece[string.index(piece, ' '):])
+
+	rewrite.close()
+	if needsupdate:
+		try:
+			os.unlink('#' + epnum)
+		except:
+			pass
+		os.rename(epnum, '#' + epnum)
+		os.rename('@' + epnum, epnum)
+	else:
+		os.unlink('@' + epnum)
+
+	output.write('
    \n\n
    \n' + otros.pagefooter(curep) + """
+
+
    
+Last update:
+""" + mtime_str + """
+
+
    
+
+
+""")
+
+	output.close()
+
+	print epnum
diff --git a/guide/genall.csh b/guide/genall.csh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..71d68781
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/genall.csh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/csh
+gen.py `/bin/ls [012]* | fgrep -v .html`
diff --git a/guide/header b/guide/header
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6679f9b7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/header
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+
    [Home] [Find] [Index] [Help]
+
+
    
+
+
     ### GUIDE ### [Background] [Synopsis] [Credits] [Episode List] [Previous] [Next] 
+    
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Overview -
+Backplot -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+JMS
+
+
    
+
    
+
diff --git a/guide/header.py b/guide/header.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b16b43f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/header.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/python
+
+import sys,string
+sys.path.append('../internal')
+import otros
+
+curep = string.atoi(sys.argv[1])
+
+if len(sys.argv) == 3:
+	output = otros.pageheader(curep, 'other')
+else:
+	output = otros.pageheader(curep, 'guide')
+
+if len(sys.argv) != 3:
+	output = output + """
+
    
+Contents:
+Overview -
+Backplot -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+JMS
+
+
    
+
    
+"""
+
+print output
diff --git a/guide/index.html b/guide/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5cca66f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+
+Lurker's Guide last-updated list
+
+
+
+
    The last-updated list has moved.
    
+
+
+
diff --git a/guide/proto b/guide/proto
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d478cfd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/proto
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+No plot information is available.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +Production number: XXXP
+Original air date: XXXA
+
+Written by XXXw
+Directed by XXXd
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
diff --git a/guide/strip.sh b/guide/strip.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..77511f32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/strip.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+for i in [012]*.html; do
+	(
+		echo '
    Overview
    '
+		sed -e '1,/
    /d' -e '/nowrap>$/,$d' < $i
+	) > `basename $i .html`
+
+	echo $i
+done
diff --git a/guide/submissions.html b/guide/submissions.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..07f92267
--- /dev/null
+++ b/guide/submissions.html
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+
+
+Lurker's Guide: Credit and Submissions
+
+
+
+
    Credit and Submissions
    
+
    
+The ideas and observations in the above lists are collected from the
+near-limitless resource of insight and enthusiasm that is the Internet.
+Intellectual credit for the content goes to all of the contributors.
+
    
+If you have any material to add, to this episode or any other, please
+send it in, to
+b5-lists@uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu.  Include the episode and list
+names in your subject line for organizational sanity.  Lists for old
+episodes will be updated in light of information revealed in subsequent
+ones.
+
    
+Please note the following:
+
      
+
    •  Your submitted material might not be included.  Your submissions may
+be edited for grammatical or spatial considerations or may be
+combined with other submissions.
+
+
    •  Credit will only be given on the
+contributors page, not on any of the lists themselves.  Let your
+insight fly free to the skies of a hundred thousand minds. 
      
+
    
+If you send me something I'll assume you're in harmony with this. 
    
+
+(Remember, please include the episode and list names in the subject line.)
+
    
+Matthew Ryan matt@uhs.uchicago.edu 
    
+Submissions: b5-lists@uhs.bsd.uchicago.edu
+
diff --git a/help.html b/help.html
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..debf4858
--- /dev/null
+++ b/help.html
@@ -0,0 +1,804 @@
+
+
+Lurker's Guide Help and FAQs
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+    
+
+
+
    Lurker's Guide Help and FAQs
    
+
+
    
+See Also:
+[Babylon 5 FAQ] -
+[Table of Contents]
+
+
    
+This document answers the most common questions I see in my capacity as
+maintainer of the Lurker's Guide.  Before you send me mail, have a look
+at this list and see if your question is answered -- it'll save you the
+delay of waiting for my response (and if I'm busy, I might not reply to
+questions that're answered here.)
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    About the Guide
    
+
+
    General information
    
+
+
    
+The Lurker's Guide is a volunteer effort encompassing documents maintained
+by many Babylon 5 fans, as well as a lot of original material
+not found elsewhere.  It's not associated in any kind of official way with
+the show (but thanks for thinking so!)
+
+
    
+It started off before the airing of the
+pilot movie
+as a simple HTMLized version of the
+Babylon 5 Frequently
+Asked Questions List,
+and in fact a lot of the FAQ List's text can still be found here.
+Once the series began airing, maintaining a huge monolithic document became
+impractical, and the Lurker's Guide was born.
+
+
    
+The main thing you'll find in the Guide that didn't originate elsewhere
+is the extensive
+episode list
+with several pages for each episode.  Each episode has a "guide page,"
+with some generic, non-spoiler information (guest stars, airdate, brief
+description) at the top and spoilers below a dividing line.  From the
+guide page you can jump to a synopsis, the credits, and so forth.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    About the authors
    
+
+
    
+Steven Grimm
+is more or less the editor-in-chief of the Guide, pulling together all the
+pieces and doing some of the writing himself.  But most of the credit goes
+to the Guide's many contributors, who include: (not a complete list)
+
+
    
+
      
+   
    •  Shawn Bayern - first-season
+	synopses
+   
    •  Katrina Glerum - background
+	summaries
+   
    •  David Henderson
+	- onscreen-credits transcriptions
+   
    •  Jack Holt
+	- onscreen-credits transcriptions, seasons 1 and 2
+   
    •  Arturo Magidin
+	- onscreen-credits transcriptions, seasons 4 and 5
+   
    •  Christian Mogensen
+	- the Find function
+   
    •  Matthew Murray
+	- second- and third-season synopses
+   
    •  E. L. Oliver
+	- novel synopses and guide pages
+   
    •  Steven Orso - JMS Speaks entries
+   
    •  Matt Ryan
+	- first-season guide pages
+   
    •  Jason Snell - late second-season guide pages
+   
    •  Dirk Steines - onscreen-credits transcriptions
+   
    •  Dan Wood - Graphic design and layout; illustrations; the FAQ List,
+	from which information is regularly culled; and general helpfulness
+	and assistance.
+   
    •  Dave Zimmerman - second-season guide pages
+
    
+
+
    
+On the episode guide pages, the guest stars' names are generally linked
+to their entries in the
+Internet Movie Database.
+Thanks to the IMDb for providing such a useful service.
+
+
    
+Of course, the biggest credit of all goes to J. Michael Straczynski,
+without whom we'd all have a lot more free time! :)
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Who's JMS talking to?
    
+
+The "JMS Speaks" sections of the episode guide pages are culled from
+executive producer J. Michael Straczynski's messages on various online
+services and the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 newsgroup.  When he writes
+about an episode, he's often replying to a question from another user.
+This is frequently reflected in the wording of his replies, which can
+be a little disconcerting if you're not expecting it.
+
+
    
+Where required, I've tried to include some context to clarify what JMS
+is talking about.  I don't, and don't plan to, include the original
+messages verbatim, both for space reasons (questions are frequently
+longer than JMS' responses) and because while JMS has given permission
+for his messages to be archived, not everyone else has.
+
+
    
+When I judge that one of JMS' remarks can stand on its own, I generally
+include it in its entirety, even if it begins with text like, "You're
+right, Mary."  If you feel one of his comments is incomprehensible
+because of lack of context, feel free to point it out to me.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Why isn't the guide page/synopsis/credits page filled
+in yet?
    
+
+
    
+First see the answer to the previous question.
+
+
    
+All the information in the Guide, aside from the JMS quotes, is written or
+assembled by fans on a volunteer basis.  Warner Bros. doesn't run this site,
+and we don't get official episode descriptions or press releases except
+indirectly via the net.  So the simple answer is, if the episode hasn't aired
+yet, the page isn't filled in because we haven't seen the show.
+
+
    
+Some of the volunteers see the episodes from the satellite uplink.
+Some see them the following weekend and don't have time to write their pages
+until the subsequent week.  In general, all the pages tend to be filled in
+by two weeks after the initial satellite uplink to the US market.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Awards and accolades
    
+
+(This section is mostly to satisfy my voracious ego.  You should probably
+skip it.)
+
+
    
+The Lurker's Guide, like the show, has attracted some positive attention from
+the world at large.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Linking to the Guide
    
+
+
    
+You're welcome to put links to the Guide in your Web pages if you like; no
+need to ask permission.  In fact, you can even use the
+Lurker's Guide icon
+from the
+Midwinter home page
+as your hotlink (remember the ALT text!)
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Why aren't there links to the episodes that
+answer the unanswered questions on the guide pages?
    
+
+
    
+That's a task I've set aside for myself for after the series is over.  Until
+then it's simply too much work to have to go through all the old pages when
+a new episode shows up -- and I can never be entirely sure that the question
+has actually been answered as fully as it will be, since there are often
+nuances that don't emerge until further down the line.
+
+
    
+Please don't take that to mean that I want people to tell me where to put the
+forward references -- this is really something I'd rather not undertake at all
+until the show is finished, at which point it'll be possible to do a much nicer
+job of it.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Why are there dates next to some of the
+entries on the guide pages?
    
+
+
    
+The dates appear next to entries that have been added in the last two weeks.
+They disappear automatically when an entry gets more than two weeks old.  You
+can use the dates, in conjunction with the
+Modification Times page,
+to quickly see what's changed on a particular guide page.  The dates are
+emphasized and enclosed in double brackets, so should stand out on any kind
+of browser.
+
+
    
+I only mark an item as changed if there's been some change to the substance
+of the comment; spelling corrections and the like don't get datestamped.
+(But they'll still cause the page's modification time to be updated.)
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Why aren't there recent dates next to entries on a guide
+page that changed recently?
    
+
+
    
+See the previous question.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    I want to mirror the Guide.  How do I do it?
    
+
+
    
+I appreciate your interest.  At this point I have all the mirrors I want.
+Each additional mirror is a little extra work for me, and I'd rather spend my
+Guide time on the Guide itself.
+
+
    
+If you want to make a local copy for your personal use, I don't have a problem
+with that -- and in fact, it effectively happens all the time, since you're
+making a local copy when you use a caching proxy HTTP server.  That's probably
+the easiest way to go about it.  (No, I can't help you set one up; ask your
+local webmaster or get one of the many books on Web site administration.)
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Will the Lurker's Guide cover "Crusade?"
    
+
+
    
+Read all about it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Why are there links to Amazon.com all over?
    
+
+
    
+Linking to Amazon.com from the novel pages and elsewhere in the Guide
+serves a few purposes.  First, it provides people with an easy way to
+get the books.  Not everyone is in an area with bookstores that carry
+Babylon 5 novels and behind-the-scenes books.  I've been ordering books
+from Amazon.com for some time now and have found them to be responsible
+and prompt.
+
+
    
+Second, it gives readers a place to post comments about the books, and to
+read others' comments.  Maintaining that sort of forum isn't something I
+have time to do within the Guide itself.
+
+
    
+And third, yes, it puts a little money in my pocket.  Once I decided it'd
+serve the Guide's readers to link to Amazon.com (and that consideration did
+come first) it seemed reasonable to join their associates program and link
+to them that way; it doesn't hurt the user experience at all, the writers
+and Warner Bros. are paid the same amount in royalties -- everyone wins.
+
+
    
+I'm not in this for the money: I've turned down more offers from
+Web ad sales people than I can count, mostly because I think ad banners
+splattered all over the place would worsen the Guide (and, to a lesser
+extent, because it would present copyright and licensing issues I'm not
+interested in dealing with.)  The links to Amazon.com,
+on the other hand, add something of value that wasn't here before, and can
+be justified purely as a benefit to the readers.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Can you tell me...
    
+
+
    Where to find episodes on video
    
+
+Babylon 5 is available on videotape in Europe and the US.  See the Guide's
+Products
+page for a complete rundown.
+
+
    
+I can't direct you to someone who'll copy the episodes for you.
+For one thing, it's illegal, and for another, I simply don't have lists of
+people who want to copy videotapes.  If you must, ask for help in this
+regard on the alt.tv.babylon5 newsgroup.  Requests of this nature will be
+silently deleted if you mail them to me.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    When old episodes will be rerun
    
+
+Naturally, this varies by country.  In the US, rerun rights to Babylon 5
+have been bought by the
+TNT
+cable network.  They'll begin airing season 1 reruns in January 1998,
+concurrent with season 5.  See the
+US/Canada episode list
+page for the latest information.
+
+
    
+For information about other countries, check the schedule page for the
+country in question.  All the information I have about reruns is on the
+schedule pages; if you don't see it there, I don't know about it.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    When new episodes will be shown in my country
    
+
+All the information I have about upcoming schedules appears on the various
+country-specific schedule pages.
+As soon as I have additional information about broadcasts in a particular
+country, I update the page in question.  If you don't see anything about new
+episodes on your country's page, it means I haven't been told about future
+broadcast plans.
+
+
    
+If you're desperate for information, call the TV station
+or network that was showing the most recent batch of episodes and ask them
+if there's any news.  (If there is, tell me so I can update the Guide!)
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    When the next episode / novel / comic / toy / etc. will be
+out
    
+
+All the information I have about release dates is in the appropriate
+places in the Guide; I don't know anything about release dates that's not
+listed here.  Check the
+episode list
+(or, if you're outside the US and Canada, the list for your
+country)
+for episode schedules, the
+novel index
+for information about the novels, the
+comic index
+for information about the comics... you get the idea.  The
+table of contents
+is a useful page to know about.
+
+
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    What will happen to B5 after the story is done
    
+
+
    
+There is a followup series,
+"Crusade."
+It takes place after the events of the original series (not counting
+"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"
+and
+"Sleeping in Light,"
+which are both set long after the rest of the story).
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Where to get the font B5 uses
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 uses the "Serpentine Medium" font for its onscreen credits and
+titles.  The Lurker's Guide uses this font for many of its labels as well.
+Serpentine Medium is available from
+Adobe Systems.
+It is on their Type On Call CD-ROM and their Font Folio CD set, possibly
+others.
+
+
    
+I cannot give you a copy of the font -- you have to buy it from Adobe if
+you want it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Where and when B5 is on in my area
    
+
+The most current information I have is on your country's
+schedule page.
+Check there first.  If the information there is wrong for your area, your best
+bet is to check your local TV listings or, if B5 was previously on a particular
+station, to call that station and ask where it was moved.  Then let me know
+what you find out so I can update the list.
+
+
    
+TV stations don't
+notify me when they make schedule changes, so it'll do you no good to ask me
+about your local station's air time.  As soon as I'm told about a schedule
+change, I change the station list to reflect it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Why don't you have...
    
+
+
    More Pictures
    
+
+Understand that
+I'm in no way associated with the B5 production team.  I don't have any
+access to production materials that the general public doesn't.  In other
+words, you can get new high-quality pictures as easily as I can.  If you
+do manage to scare up some official ones ("official" means anything released
+by Warner Bros.' publicity department, which generally includes anything
+in magazines) I'll happily accept them.
+
+
    
+I do occasionally digitize some small stills from episodes to put in the
+guide pages and synopses.  My rule of thumb there is that those pictures
+should be small enough that someone who wanted to get an official license
+to make a CD-ROM full of B5 images wouldn't lose business due to what
+I've done.  I do not take requests -- getting set up to do the
+digitizing is something of a hassle, I only do it once every couple
+months, and I'd spend a solid week on my pause button if I grabbed all
+the frames people have requested.
+
+
    
+Note that the people who write the synopses for the episodes are not
+the ones who grab the pictures -- the pictures are added after the fact as
+I find time to do it.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    More Sounds
    
+
+Early on, when
+I decided to keep my synopsis and guide page images small, I also decided
+I wasn't going to have any sounds here.  The primary concern is the same
+as the pictures: I don't want to reduce anyone's ability to sell a disk
+of licensed B5 sound clips, either before or after the fact.  Unfortunately,
+there's not really an equivalent middle ground along the lines of keeping
+pictures small; you can't have a clip of just half a funny line, for
+instance, without it being useless.
+
+
    
+However, I have no qualms about listing other people's B5 pages in the
+guide, and if they happen to contain sounds, there's nothing I can (or
+should) do about it.  You'll therefore find links to a couple sites with
+B5 sounds in the
+Other Resources
+section.
+
+
    
+There are some audio and video clips in the
+/pub/Babylon-5/Clips
+directory
+on the FTP server; these were provided as promotional items by Warner Bros.,
+and thus the above doesn't apply to them.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Video clips
    
+
+See the "sounds" explanation.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Bios on the characters, more background info, etc.
    
+
+These are a matter of time.  It takes time and effort to write them up,
+and when I do have time to work on things for the guide, I generally have
+other items higher on my list.  I'll happily accept donations, of course,
+if you have free time and can write well.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Complete guide pages for some older episodes
    
+
+Some first-season episodes have pretty skimpy guide pages.  Another matter
+of time.  If you'd like to offer some contents for the pages, please do;
+otherwise they'll get filled in eventually.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Downloadable versions of guide pages, synopses, etc.
    
+
+You'll find text-only versions of those on the ftp server, ftp.midwinter.com.
+They're automatically updated once a day from the master (hypertext) versions.
+
+
    
+I'm unlikely to provide an archive file (zipfile, tarfile, whatever)
+of the entire Guide for offline
+viewing for a few reasons.  First, it's not what the folks who contribute
+to the Guide signed up for, and I want to respect their intellectual
+property rights.  Second, such an archive would probably tend to spread
+around pretty widely; as the master copy was updated there'd be old versions
+floating around, and I'd get mail about things I'd fixed or added months
+earlier.  The guide changes a lot.
+Third, the time spent keeping it updated is time I wouldn't get to spend on
+the online version of the Guide.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    A page that lists the modification times of all the
+guide pages
    
+
+Actually, I do.  Follow the "Modification Times" link at the top of the
+What's New page or the US episode list page and you'll see it.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    How do I...
    
+
+
    Add "This Week's Episode" to my hotlist?
    
+
+When you select the "This Week's Episode" link from the home page, you're
+automatically sent to the guide page for the episode currently airing in
+the US and Canada.  (For other countries, see the
+country list.)
+Unfortunately, if you select your browser's "Add to Hotlist" function, you'll
+add that particular episode's page.
+
+
    
+If your browser allows you to edit your hotlist (most do), you can fix that
+very easily.  Add any episode's guide page to your hotlist, then edit the
+page's URL.  Replace everything after the last slash (a number followed by
+".html", e.g.  "038.html") with "current.html" (no quotes.)
+Then save your changes if your browser requires it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Send mail to JMS?
    
+
+Before you send him mail, make sure you check the archives of his messages
+(you can search them using the Lurker's Guide's
+Find
+page.)  Your question may have already been answered.
+
+
    
+JMS can be reached at jmsatb5@aol.com.  Note that he
+gets a lot of mail, so don't take it personally if you don't get
+a reply -- there simply aren't enough hours in the day to answer all the
+questions people ask.  Here's his request regarding private E-mail:
+
+
    
+Every so often I have to go out with a policy note, so this is it.  If you've
+seen this before, ignore it.  If not....
+
+
    
+Understand that my private email is reserved for matters that cannot be
+discussed pubicly, and extremely personal matters.  It is not to be used for
+questions about plot, or character, or theme.  Otherwise I end up answering the
+same question individually 50 times instead of answering it once publicly so 50
+people can get the same information.  
+
+
    
+Do NOT send me jokes, humorous forwarded notes, chain letters, spam or other
+stuff.  You may think, "Well, it's just me sending along one little joke," but
+bear in mind there are roughly 10.5 million "just me's" out there.  My email is
+getting to be impossible to deal with.  Unless there is an overwhelmingly good
+reason why a note should be sent via email instead of in a public forum...keep
+it public.
+
+
    
+Particularly difficult is if someone sends me multiple notes after I reply once
+or twice, and if I don't respond to subsequent notes, gets annoyed at me.  I
+reply if there is a reason to reply; if not, not.
+
+
    
+Please understand that my private email is a privilege, and not to be flooded
+with casual story requests or jokes.
+
    
+
+
    
+JMS reads the
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+newsgroup (try
+DejaNews
+if that link doesn't work.)  Your questions are more likely to be answered
+if you ask there than if you try sending him mail directly; he prefers to answer
+questions in public so everyone can benefit, and so he doesn't get the same
+question over and over again.
+
+
    
+He also frequents the B5 discussion areas on GEnie, CompuServe, and America
+Online; if you don't have Usenet access, you can try one of those places.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    I can't get to the fan club site.  Help!
    
+
+
    
+I don't run the fan club or its Web site; I just link to them as a service
+to the fans.  If you're having trouble with the fan club site, send mail to
+webmaster@thestation.com
+for assistance.
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+August 9, 1998
+
+
    
+
+
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+comic 0 (woo hoo)
+In Darkness Find Me
+Treason
+In Harm's Way
+The Price of Peace
+With Friends Like These...
+Against the Odds
+Survival the Hard Way
+Silent Enemies
+Duet for Human and Narn in C Sharp
+Coda for Human and Narn in B Flat
+The Psi Corps and You!
+In Valen's Name
+In Valen's Name, Part 2
+In Valen's Name, Part 3
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+
+
+Can't find an episode list.
+
+
+
+
    Can't find an episode list.
    
+
+Something has gone wrong and the Lurker's Guide can't find an episode list
+to show you.  Please
+send mail
+to the guide's maintainer.  If you know your machine's domain name, please
+include it in your message.
+
+
    
+To the Lurker's Guide home page
+
+
+
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+The Gathering
+Midnight on the Firing Line
+Soul Hunter
+Born to the Purple
+Infection
+The Parliament of Dreams
+Mind War
+The War Prayer
+And the Sky Full of Stars
+Deathwalker
+Believers
+Survivors
+By Any Means Necessary
+Signs and Portents
+TKO
+Grail
+Eyes
+Legacies
+A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1
+A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2
+Babylon Squared
+The Quality of Mercy
+Chrysalis
+Points of Departure
+Revelations
+The Geometry of Shadows
+A Distant Star
+The Long Dark
+A Spider in the Web
+Soul Mates
+A Race Through Dark Places
+The Coming of Shadows
+GROPOS
+All Alone in the Night
+Acts of Sacrifice
+Hunter, Prey
+There All the Honor Lies
+And Now For a Word
+In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
+Knives
+Confessions and Lamentations
+Divided Loyalties
+The Long, Twilight Struggle
+Comes the Inquisitor
+The Fall of Night
+Matters of Honor
+Convictions
+A Day in the Strife
+Passing Through Gethsemane
+Voices of Authority
+Dust to Dust
+Exogenesis
+Messages from Earth
+Point of No Return
+Severed Dreams
+Ceremonies of Light and Dark
+Sic Transit Vir
+A Late Delivery From Avalon
+Ship of Tears
+Interludes and Examinations
+War Without End, Part One
+War Without End, Part Two
+Walkabout
+Grey 17 Is Missing
+And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
+Shadow Dancing
+Z'ha'dum
+The Hour of the Wolf
+Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
+The Summoning
+Falling Toward Apotheosis
+The Long Night
+Into the Fire
+Epiphanies
+The Illusion of Truth
+Atonement
+Racing Mars
+Lines of Communication
+Conflicts of Interest
+Rumors, Bargains and Lies
+Moments of Transition
+No Surrender, No Retreat
+The Exercise of Vital Powers
+The Face of the Enemy
+Intersections in Real Time
+Between the Darkness and the Light
+Endgame
+Rising Star
+The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
+No Compromises
+The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
+The Paragon of Animals
+A View from the Gallery
+Learning Curve
+Strange Relations
+Secrets of the Soul
+Day of the Dead
+In the Kingdom of the Blind
+A Tragedy of Telepaths
+Phoenix Rising
+The Ragged Edge
+The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
+Meditations on the Abyss
+Darkness Ascending
+And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
+Movements of Fire and Shadow
+The Fall of Centauri Prime
+The Wheel of Fire
+Objects in Motion
+Objects at Rest
+Sleeping in Light
+In the Beginning
+Thirdspace
+The Babylon Project: Crusade
+The River of Souls
+A Call to Arms
+The Memory of Shadows
+The Legend of the Rangers
+Voices in the Dark
+XXX119
+XXX120
+XXX121
+XXX122
+XXX123
+XXX124
+XXX125
+XXX126
+XXX127
+XXX128
+XXX129
+XXX130
+XXX131
+XXX132
+XXX133
+XXX134
+XXX135
+XXX136
+XXX137
+XXX138
+XXX139
+XXX140
+XXX141
+XXX142
+XXX143
+XXX144
+XXX145
+XXX146
+XXX147
+XXX148
+XXX149
+XXX150
+XXX151
+XXX152
+XXX153
+XXX154
+XXX155
+XXX156
+XXX157
+XXX158
+XXX159
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+The Long Road
+The Well of Forever
+The Path of Sorrows
+Patterns of the Soul
+Ruling from the Tomb
+The Rules of the Game
+Appearances and Other Deceits
+Racing the Night
+The Memory of War
+The Needs of Earth
+Visitors from Down the Street
+Each Night I Dream of Home
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/index.html
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+
+
+
    
+Nope.
+
+
diff --git a/internal/lu-footer b/internal/lu-footer
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index 00000000..22967853
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/lu-footer
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
diff --git a/internal/lu-footer-epnum b/internal/lu-footer-epnum
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..463435df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/lu-footer-epnum
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+
diff --git a/internal/lu-header b/internal/lu-header
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index 00000000..9bc5c19c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/lu-header
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+
+
+Lurker's Guide: Modification times
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+    
+
+
    Modification Times
    
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Guide Pages -
+Synopses
+
+
    
+This page lists the guide pages and synopses and tells you when they were
+changed last.  The number at the start of each line is the episode number.
+On the guide pages, you can see which individual items were added recently
+by looking for dates next to the items' bullets.  If no bullet items are
+recently dated, the change was most likely a spelling fix or a change to
+the episode description or cast list.
+This list is updated once an hour, most recently at
diff --git a/internal/lu-header-date b/internal/lu-header-date
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index 00000000..54895f34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/lu-header-date
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+
+
    
diff --git a/internal/lu-header-epnum b/internal/lu-header-epnum
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..04bbedbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/lu-header-epnum
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
    
+
+
    
+By episode number:
+
+
    
diff --git a/internal/lu-header-guide b/internal/lu-header-guide
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..88bc1a91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/lu-header-guide
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+
+
    Guide Pages
    
+
diff --git a/internal/lu-header-synops b/internal/lu-header-synops
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c69aadca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/lu-header-synops
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+
+
    Synopses
    
+
diff --git a/internal/novelnames b/internal/novelnames
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index 00000000..e9c227f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/novelnames
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+novel 0
+Voices
+Accusations
+Blood Oath
+Clark's Law
+The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name
+Betrayals
+The Shadow Within
+Personal Agendas
+To Dream in the City of Sorrows
+Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps
+Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant
+Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester
diff --git a/internal/otros.py b/internal/otros.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b78d939a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/otros.py
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+# Figure out which other elements of an episode page are available.
+import os, string, regex, regsub
+
+# Check for the existence of a file.
+def exists(filename):
+	try:
+		os.stat(filename)
+		return 1
+	except:
+		return 0
+
+#
+# Input: integer episode number
+# Output: (guide, background, synopsis, credits, prev, next)
+#
+def getneighbors(which, page = 'guide'):
+	whichstr = '%03d' % which
+	prev = '%03d' % (which - 1)
+	next = '%03d' % (which + 1)
+
+	hasg = exists('../guide/' + whichstr + '.html')
+	hasb = exists('../background/' + whichstr + '.shtml')
+	hass = exists('../synops/' + whichstr + '.html')
+	hasc = exists('../credits/' + whichstr + '.html')
+	if exists(prev + '.html') or exists(prev + '.shtml'):
+		hasp = 1
+	else:
+		hasp = 0
+	if exists(next + '.html') or exists(next + '.shtml'):
+		hasn = 1
+	else:
+		hasn = 0
+
+	if page == 'comic' or page == 'novels':
+		hasb = 0
+		hass = 0
+		hasc = 0
+
+	return (hasg, hasb, hass, hasc, hasp, hasn)
+
+
+#
+# Generate a trio of navigational buttons for headers and footers.
+#
+def navbuttons(num, align = 'middle', which = 'guide'):
+	(hasg, hasb, hass, hasc, hasp, hasn) = getneighbors(num, which)
+
+	if which == 'background':
+		extension = '.shtml'
+	else:
+		extension = '.html'
+
+	curep = num
+	cureplong = '%03d' % (curep)
+	prevep = '%03d' % (curep - 1)
+	nextep = '%03d' % (curep + 1)
+
+	if which == 'comic' or which == 'novels':
+		output = """[Index] """
+
+	else:
+		output = """[Episode List] """
+
+
+	if hasp:
+		output=output+ """[Previous] """
+
+	else:
+		output = output + """"""
+
+
+
+	if hasn:
+		output=output+ """[Next] """
+
+	else:
+		output = output + """"""
+	
+	return output
+
+
+#
+# Devise a page header based on the current episode number and which page
+# we're making.
+#
+def pageheader(num, page, do_jpeg = 0):
+	(hasg, hasb, hass, hasc, hasp, hasn) = getneighbors(num, page)
+
+	curep = num
+	cureplong = '%03d' % (curep)
+	prevep = '%03d' % (curep - 1)
+	nextep = '%03d' % (curep + 1)
+
+	if page == 'comic':
+		titleprefix = 'c'
+		titlewidth = 422
+		picname = 'comic/' + cureplong
+	elif page == 'novels':
+		titleprefix = 'n'
+		titlewidth = 427
+		picname = 'novels/' + cureplong
+	else:
+		titleprefix = 'e'
+		titlewidth = 340
+
+		pix = open('../internal/picnames', 'r')
+		for i in range(0, curep + 1):
+			picname = pix.readline()[:-1]
+		pix.close()
+		if picname == '':
+			picname = 'XXX'
+		if picname == 'none':
+			picname = 'tv-blank'
+		else:
+			picname = cureplong + '/' + picname
+
+	curep = `curep`
+	picwidth = 500 - titlewidth
+
+	output = """
+
    [Home]
+
+
    """
+
+	if page == 'comic' or page == 'novels':
+		output = output + ''
+
+	if do_jpeg and picname != 'tv-blank':
+		extension = '.jpeg'
+	else:
+		extension = '.gif'
+
+	output = output + """'
+
+	if page == 'comic' or page == 'novels':
+		output = output + ''
+
+	output = output + """
+
+
    """
+
+	if page == 'guide' or page == 'novels' or page == 'comic':
+		output = output + """ ### GUIDE ### """
+
+	else:
+		if hasg:
+			output = output + """[Guide] """
+
+		else:
+			output = output + """"""
+
+
+
+	if page == 'background':
+		output = output + """ ### BACKGROUND ### """
+
+	else:
+		if hasb:
+			output=output+ """[Background] """
+
+		else:
+			output = output + """"""
+
+
+
+	if page == 'synopsis':
+		output = output + """ ### SYNOPSIS ### """
+
+	else:
+		if hass:
+			output=output + """[Synopsis] """
+
+		else:
+			output = output + """"""
+
+
+
+	if page == 'credits':
+		output = output + """ ### CREDITS ### """
+
+	else:
+		if hasc:
+			output=output+ """[Credits] """
+
+		else:
+			output = output + """"""
+
+
+	output = output + navbuttons(num, 'middle', page) + "\n    \n"
+
+	return output
+
+
+def pagefooter(num, page = 'guide'):
+	output = """
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] """
+
+	output = output + navbuttons(num, 'bottom', page) + '\n\n'
+
+	return output
+
+
+#
+# Given an image path, generate the full path to the corresponding file.
+#
+def normalize_path(path):
+	if path[0:4] == '/b5/':
+		path = '/home/woodstock/ftp/pub/Babylon-5' + path[3:]
+	elif path[0] == '/':
+		path = '/home/apache/html' + path
+	return path
+
+
+#
+# Check all the images in a document and substitute JPEGs for GIFs where
+# JPEGs exist.
+#
+def mungeimages(text, do_jpeg):
+	#
+	# GIF is what's in the source, so do nothing if that's the output
+	#
+	if do_jpeg == 0:
+		return text
+
+	result = ''
+
+	for chunk in string.splitfields(text, '.gif'):
+		filepos = string.rfind(chunk, '"')
+		if filepos < 0:
+			result = result + chunk
+			break
+		
+		path = normalize_path(chunk[filepos + 1:])
+		if exists(path + '.jpeg'):
+			extension = '.jpeg'
+		elif exists(path + '.gif'):
+			extension = '.gif'
+		else:
+			extension = ''
+
+		result = result + chunk + extension
+	
+	return result
+
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+protect
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+centauri-kids
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+parents
+londo-help
+sinclair-connoly
+delenn
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+ceremony
+lifesupport
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+bye
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+bodies
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+043-05
+044-1
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+visit
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+sins
+draal-laugh
+throw
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+uniform
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+koshglow
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+vir-gkar
+shershad
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+b5_402
+crowd
+head
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+marcus-gun
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+From: jarrell@solaris.cc.vt.edu (Ron Jarrell)
+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+Subject: Ok, a status report on what's going on
+Date: 6 Dec 1995 18:12:28 -0500
+Message-ID: <4a580s$fde@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
+
+
+Many people have been wondering what's going on, is anyone doing
+anything, who can we kill, and why is there no discussion of Voyage to
+the Bottom of the Sea here anymore, anyway?
+
+Ok, so maybe not that last one, but that's about the ONLY thing I
+haven't seen asked in either email or on the group.
+
+First off, I'd like to convey from Joe Cochran thanks for all the
+messages that were sent to him offering suggestions, support, etc.  He
+got FAR FAR too many to individually acknowledge.
+
+I'm sorry this took so long to get up, but we wanted to actually HAVE a
+solution, and even hopefully get it *implemented* (which we did) before
+geting peoples hopes up.
+
+Now, for the important news.  No, Joe Straczynski hasn't completely
+left the group.  It took a while before we could announce this because
+I had to have extensive talks with him, followed by quickly whipping up
+and putting into production new software for the Rangers to use to
+manage an all new style of feed for him.
+
+Joe's participation in the group will be, however, significantly
+different than it was before.  He will no longer be reading
+everything.  Instead, he'll be getting the messages specifically
+directed at him, and only if those messages are questions or comments
+about the show, and not flames or personal attacks.
+
+Now, that's not to say you can't write a negative message about an
+episode; if you think it didn't work, that's fine.  But he's not going
+to see messages of the "So, Joe, are you still beating your wife?"
+style.
+
+He may, as we do this, ask to see other types of messages, he may not.
+It'll also be entirely up to him whether he elects to ANSWER.  Not that
+this is a change; Joe often ignored questions that he couldn't answer
+without giving away something he wanted to keep secret.
+
+But if he DOES answer the question, the answer will be posted back here
+to the newsgroup, like they used to be.  As a major bonus, however,
+since there's a much smaller target now, I've been able to do some
+"value added" processing.  The correct subject will be matched up in
+the reply, *and* a References:  header will be put in pointing at the
+original question.  For those who aren't into the technical details,
+suffice it to say that your newsreader, if it was capable of keeping
+messages grouped together (called "threading") for messages that Joe
+didn't post, it'll not be able to also do it for Joe's message.  No
+more of that "Damn, what question is he answering??" head scratching.
+
+For those that aren't interested in reading this newsgroup just to get
+those answers, we'll also be regularly bundling them up into Q&A
+digests, and sending them on to the info group moderators.. (We'll see
+how many of them there are before we decide what frequency is required,
+daily, bi-daily, weekly, semi-monthly, every 125,000 micro-fortnights,
+etc.)
+
+Now, what are the long term possibilities of wider participation in the
+newsgroup?  Well, pretty much no chance, with the existing setup.  You
+see, we've gotten to a point where there's just too many flamewars for
+it to be worth it, from his point of view, to read the group to extract
+the messages that are worth it.  On GEnie, Compuserve, AOL, and other
+places he hangs out the forums are smaller, and more managed, and
+personal attacks and high tempers are handled.
+
+The only equivelant on usenet that's remotely equivalent is a moderated
+newsgroup.  Whether people WANT a moderated newsgroup is something that
+the members have to decide.  And if so, whether we want to moderate
+THIS group, or create a new moderated group, and leave this one for
+people that want a more "anything goes" discussion.
+
+Let me stress that the info group is NOT the appropriate place.
+
+The key thing here is to NOT rush into this; we've already heard from
+more than one group that was about to just willy-nilly throw an RFD in
+for one or more groups, without bothering to talk to anyone, and with a
+snowballs chance on za'ha'dum of succeding.  If people want to do this
+it has to be done RIGHT the first time; remember, if it gets voted down
+(and a badly written one will be shot down in flames) it'll be months
+before another can be attempted.  If it gets passed, but is so screwed
+up in design as to be unusuable, we're, again, stuck with it for
+months.
+
+The charter needs to be very carefully worded to explain exactly what
+the newsgroup is for, based on the CONTENT you want in the group, not
+the personalities.
+
+And really, there's no rush, because there is already the conduit back
+in place for getting the questions to JMS, and getting the answers
+back.
+
+So where do we go from here?
+
+Well, if you want Joe to see your question, we're really appreciate if
+you'd use the old standard of putting "ATTN JMS" in the subject.  We'll
+see those.  If you forget, but ask Joe a question in a message, we
+MIGHT catch it, and forward it on, we might not.  If you do, then we'll
+see it, and if it fits the criteria that Joe agreed to, we'll
+cheerfully pass it on; what happens to it after that is in the hands of
+the Great Maker, as the saying goes.
+
+Next, people need to decide if they want to persue a moderated group.
+And if so, what kind.  The Rangers are willing to help coordinate the
+disparate efforts currently under way to get everyone playing on the
+same station!
+
+Remember, though, that creation of a moderated group doesn't guarantee
+that Joe will come back to it, it'd have to be the right KIND of
+moderated group!
+
+-Ron
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+118. 07/04/23: Voices in the Dark
    
+057. 06/02/06: A Late Delivery From Avalon
    
+116. 05/03/03: The Memory of Shadows
    
+055. 05/02/13: Ceremonies of Light and Dark
    
+014. 05/02/13: TKO
    
+503. 05/02/13: The Well of Forever
    
+002. 05/02/13: Soul Hunter
    
+012. 05/02/13: By Any Means Necessary
    
+112. 05/02/12: Thirdspace
    
+070. 05/02/10: Falling Toward Apotheosis
    
+513. 05/02/02: Each Night I Dream of Home
    
+512. 05/02/02: Visitors from Down the Street
    
+511. 05/02/02: The Needs of Earth
    
+510. 05/02/02: The Memory of War
    
+509. 05/02/02: Racing the Night
    
+508. 05/02/02: Appearances and Other Deceits
    
+507. 05/02/02: The Rules of the Game
    
+506. 05/02/02: Ruling from the Tomb
    
+505. 05/02/02: Patterns of the Soul
    
+504. 05/02/02: The Path of Sorrows
    
+502. 05/02/02: The Long Road
    
+501. 05/02/02: War Zone
    
+113. 05/02/02: The Babylon Project: Crusade
    
+110. 04/07/13: Sleeping in Light
    
+109. 04/07/13: Objects at Rest
    
+108. 04/07/13: Objects in Motion
    
+107. 04/07/13: The Wheel of Fire
    
+106. 04/07/13: The Fall of Centauri Prime
    
+105. 04/07/13: Movements of Fire and Shadow
    
+104. 04/07/13: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
    
+103. 04/07/13: Darkness Ascending
    
+102. 04/07/13: Meditations on the Abyss
    
+101. 04/07/13: The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
    
+100. 04/07/13: The Ragged Edge
    
+099. 04/07/13: Phoenix Rising
    
+098. 04/07/13: A Tragedy of Telepaths
    
+097. 04/07/13: In the Kingdom of the Blind
    
+096. 04/07/13: Day of the Dead
    
+095. 04/07/13: Secrets of the Soul
    
+094. 04/07/13: Strange Relations
    
+093. 04/07/13: Learning Curve
    
+092. 04/07/13: A View from the Gallery
    
+091. 04/07/13: The Paragon of Animals
    
+090. 04/07/13: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
    
+089. 04/07/13: No Compromises
    
+088. 04/07/13: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
    
+087. 04/07/13: Rising Star
    
+086. 04/07/13: Endgame
    
+085. 04/07/13: Between the Darkness and the Light
    
+084. 04/07/13: Intersections in Real Time
    
+083. 04/07/13: The Face of the Enemy
    
+082. 04/07/13: The Exercise of Vital Powers
    
+081. 04/07/13: No Surrender, No Retreat
    
+080. 04/07/13: Moments of Transition
    
+079. 04/07/13: Rumors, Bargains and Lies
    
+078. 04/07/13: Conflicts of Interest
    
+077. 04/07/13: Lines of Communication
    
+076. 04/07/13: Racing Mars
    
+075. 04/07/13: Atonement
    
+074. 04/07/13: The Illusion of Truth
    
+073. 04/07/13: Epiphanies
    
+072. 04/07/13: Into the Fire
    
+071. 04/07/13: The Long Night
    
+069. 04/07/13: The Summoning
    
+068. 04/07/13: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
    
+067. 04/07/13: The Hour of the Wolf
    
+066. 04/07/13: Z'ha'dum
    
+065. 04/07/13: Shadow Dancing
    
+064. 04/07/13: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
    
+063. 04/07/13: Grey 17 Is Missing
    
+062. 04/07/13: Walkabout
    
+061. 04/07/13: War Without End, Part Two
    
+060. 04/07/13: War Without End, Part One
    
+059. 04/07/13: Interludes and Examinations
    
+058. 04/07/13: Ship of Tears
    
+056. 04/07/13: Sic Transit Vir
    
+054. 04/07/13: Severed Dreams
    
+053. 04/07/13: Point of No Return
    
+052. 04/07/13: Messages from Earth
    
+051. 04/07/13: Exogenesis
    
+050. 04/07/13: Dust to Dust
    
+049. 04/07/13: Voices of Authority
    
+048. 04/07/13: Passing Through Gethsemane
    
+047. 04/07/13: A Day in the Strife
    
+046. 04/07/13: Convictions
    
+045. 04/07/13: Matters of Honor
    
+044. 04/07/13: The Fall of Night
    
+043. 04/07/13: Comes the Inquisitor
    
+042. 04/07/13: The Long, Twilight Struggle
    
+041. 04/07/13: Divided Loyalties
    
+040. 04/07/13: Confessions and Lamentations
    
+039. 04/07/13: Knives
    
+038. 04/07/13: In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
    
+037. 04/07/13: And Now For a Word
    
+036. 04/07/13: There All the Honor Lies
    
+031. 04/07/13: The Coming of Shadows
    
+020. 04/07/13: Babylon Squared
    
+035. 04/07/13: Hunter, Prey
    
+034. 04/07/13: Acts of Sacrifice
    
+033. 04/07/13: All Alone in the Night
    
+032. 04/07/13: GROPOS
    
+030. 04/07/13: A Race Through Dark Places
    
+029. 04/07/13: Soul Mates
    
+028. 04/07/13: A Spider in the Web
    
+027. 04/07/13: The Long Dark
    
+026. 04/07/13: A Distant Star
    
+025. 04/07/13: The Geometry of Shadows
    
+024. 04/07/13: Revelations
    
+023. 04/07/13: Points of Departure
    
+006. 04/07/13: Mind War
    
+004. 04/07/13: Infection
    
+003. 04/07/13: Born to the Purple
    
+000. 04/07/13: The Gathering
    
+005. 04/07/13: The Parliament of Dreams
    
+022. 04/07/13: Chrysalis
    
+021. 04/07/13: The Quality of Mercy
    
+019. 04/07/13: A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2
    
+018. 04/07/13: A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1
    
+017. 04/07/13: Legacies
    
+016. 04/07/13: Eyes
    
+015. 04/07/13: Grail
    
+013. 04/07/13: Signs and Portents
    
+011. 04/07/13: Survivors
    
+010. 04/07/13: Believers
    
+009. 04/07/13: Deathwalker
    
+008. 04/07/13: And the Sky Full of Stars
    
+007. 04/07/13: The War Prayer
    
+001. 04/07/13: Midnight on the Firing Line
    
+115. 04/07/13: A Call to Arms
    
+114. 04/07/13: The River of Souls
    
+111. 04/07/13: In the Beginning
    
+117. 02/01/23: The Legend of the Rangers
    
+006. 98/01/08: Mind War (scene in detail)
    
+004. 98/01/08: Infection (scene in detail)
    
+020. 97/11/04: Babylon Squared (scene in detail)
    
+008. 97/06/09: And the Sky Full of Stars (scene in detail)
    
+008. 97/06/09: And the Sky Full of Stars (scene in detail)
    
+005. 95/10/09: The Parliament of Dreams (scene in detail)
    
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+117. 05/02/13: The Legend of the Rangers
    
+000. 00/10/26: The Gathering
    
+066. 99/11/20: Z'ha'dum
    
+115. 99/01/07: A Call to Arms
    
+105. 99/01/03: Movements of Fire and Shadow
    
+103. 98/12/09: Darkness Ascending
    
+109. 98/11/30: Objects at Rest
    
+110. 98/11/29: Sleeping in Light
    
+101. 98/11/29: The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
    
+114. 98/11/25: The River of Souls
    
+112. 98/11/25: Thirdspace
    
+108. 98/11/25: Objects in Motion
    
+107. 98/11/25: The Wheel of Fire
    
+106. 98/11/01: The Fall of Centauri Prime
    
+075. 98/08/22: Atonement
    
+102. 98/08/09: Meditations on the Abyss
    
+100. 98/08/09: The Ragged Edge
    
+099. 98/08/09: Phoenix Rising
    
+098. 98/06/21: A Tragedy of Telepaths
    
+104. 98/06/10: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
    
+097. 98/05/28: In the Kingdom of the Blind
    
+095. 98/05/28: Secrets of the Soul
    
+045. 98/05/16: Matters of Honor
    
+111. 98/05/06: In the Beginning
    
+096. 98/05/06: Day of the Dead
    
+094. 98/05/06: Strange Relations
    
+093. 98/05/06: Learning Curve
    
+092. 98/05/06: A View from the Gallery
    
+091. 98/05/06: The Paragon of Animals
    
+090. 98/05/06: The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
    
+089. 98/05/06: No Compromises
    
+088. 98/05/06: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
    
+087. 98/05/06: Rising Star
    
+085. 98/05/06: Between the Darkness and the Light
    
+083. 98/05/06: The Face of the Enemy
    
+082. 98/05/06: The Exercise of Vital Powers
    
+080. 98/05/06: Moments of Transition
    
+078. 98/05/06: Conflicts of Interest
    
+077. 98/05/06: Lines of Communication
    
+076. 98/05/06: Racing Mars
    
+070. 98/05/06: Falling Toward Apotheosis
    
+069. 98/05/06: The Summoning
    
+068. 98/05/06: Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
    
+067. 98/05/06: The Hour of the Wolf
    
+061. 98/05/06: War Without End, Part Two
    
+060. 98/05/06: War Without End, Part One
    
+059. 98/05/06: Interludes and Examinations
    
+058. 98/05/06: Ship of Tears
    
+057. 98/05/06: A Late Delivery From Avalon
    
+056. 98/05/06: Sic Transit Vir
    
+055. 98/05/06: Ceremonies of Light and Dark
    
+054. 98/05/06: Severed Dreams
    
+052. 98/05/06: Messages from Earth
    
+050. 98/05/06: Dust to Dust
    
+047. 98/05/06: A Day in the Strife
    
+021. 98/01/29: The Quality of Mercy
    
+086. 97/12/24: Endgame
    
+071. 97/11/29: The Long Night
    
+081. 97/11/08: No Surrender, No Retreat
    
+079. 97/11/08: Rumors, Bargains and Lies
    
+073. 97/11/08: Epiphanies
    
+064. 97/11/08: And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
    
+062. 97/11/08: Walkabout
    
+053. 97/11/08: Point of No Return
    
+048. 97/11/08: Passing Through Gethsemane
    
+046. 97/11/08: Convictions
    
+043. 97/09/29: Comes the Inquisitor
    
+004. 97/09/15: Infection
    
+084. 97/07/20: Intersections in Real Time
    
+074. 97/06/05: The Illusion of Truth
    
+016. 97/06/05: Eyes
    
+072. 97/04/19: Into the Fire
    
+019. 97/03/18: A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2
    
+018. 97/03/18: A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1
    
+017. 97/03/18: Legacies
    
+015. 97/03/18: Grail
    
+014. 97/03/18: TKO
    
+013. 97/03/18: Signs and Portents
    
+063. 97/01/23: Grey 17 Is Missing
    
+065. 96/12/20: Shadow Dancing
    
+001. 96/12/18: Midnight on the Firing Line
    
+003. 96/12/15: Born to the Purple
    
+044. 96/03/16: The Fall of Night
    
+036. 96/02/23: There All the Honor Lies
    
+023. 96/02/23: Points of Departure
    
+051. 96/02/22: Exogenesis
    
+049. 96/02/16: Voices of Authority
    
+011. 96/01/16: Survivors
    
+037. 95/11/27: And Now For a Word
    
+042. 95/11/15: The Long, Twilight Struggle
    
+041. 95/11/13: Divided Loyalties
    
+008. 95/10/13: And the Sky Full of Stars
    
+005. 95/10/13: The Parliament of Dreams
    
+040. 95/10/09: Confessions and Lamentations
    
+039. 95/10/09: Knives
    
+038. 95/10/09: In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
    
+035. 95/10/09: Hunter, Prey
    
+034. 95/10/09: Acts of Sacrifice
    
+033. 95/10/09: All Alone in the Night
    
+032. 95/10/09: GROPOS
    
+031. 95/10/09: The Coming of Shadows
    
+030. 95/10/09: A Race Through Dark Places
    
+029. 95/10/09: Soul Mates
    
+028. 95/10/09: A Spider in the Web
    
+027. 95/10/09: The Long Dark
    
+026. 95/10/09: A Distant Star
    
+025. 95/10/09: The Geometry of Shadows
    
+024. 95/10/09: Revelations
    
+022. 95/10/09: Chrysalis
    
+020. 95/10/09: Babylon Squared
    
+012. 95/10/09: By Any Means Necessary
    
+010. 95/10/09: Believers
    
+009. 95/10/09: Deathwalker
    
+007. 95/10/09: The War Prayer
    
+006. 95/10/09: Mind War
    
+002. 95/10/09: Soul Hunter
    
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+Contents:
+   A B C
+   D E F
+   G H I
+   J K L
+   M N O
+   P R S
+   T U V
+   W Y Z
+   - Notes
+
    
+See Also:
+ B5 Actors' Other Roles
+
+
    
+Compiled by: David Henderson
    
+Last updated: 7/27/99
    
+Send corrections to: davidh@psiphi.org
    
+This edition covers, in order:
+
      
+
    • Prequel movie "In the Beginning"
+
    • Pilot episode "The Gathering"
+
    • The complete first through fifth seasons
+
    • Made-for-TV movies "Thirdspace", "The River of Souls", and "A Call to Arms"
+
    • Crusade episodes "War Zone" through "The Rules of the Game"
+
    • Final episode "Sleeping in Light" (not included in fifth season)
+
    
+
+
    +ACTOR NAME                    CHARACTER NAME (EPISODES)
+==================================================================
+
    
+
    A
    
+
    +Tony Abatemarco               Verchan (The Paragon of Animals)
+Ian Abercrombie               Correlilmurzon (Acts of Sacrifice)
+Diane Adair                   Mila Shar (The War Prayer)
+Diane Adair                   Markab Mother (Confessions and Lamentations)
+Diane Adair                   Narn Mother (Comes the Inquisitor)
+Mary Kay Adams                Na'Toth (Second Season[23c])
+Scott Adams                   Mr. Adams (Moments of Transition)
+Paul Ainsley                  Centauri #1 (Acts of Sacrifice)
+Aki Aleong                    Senator Hidoshi (Deathwalker, By Any Means
+                              Necessary, A Voice in the Wilderness Part Two)
+Wayne Alexander               Sebastian (Comes the Inquisitor)
+Wayne Alexander               G'Dan (And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place)
+Wayne Alexander               Lorien (The Hour of the Wolf, Whatever Happened
+                              to Mr. Garibaldi?, The Summoning, Falling Toward
+                              Apotheosis, Into the Fire, Sleeping in Light)
+Wayne Alexander               Drazi (Intersections in Real Time)
+Wayne Alexander               Drakh (Movements of Fire and Shadow, The Fall of
+                              Centauri Prime, A Call to Arms)
+Wayne Alexander               Soul One (The River of Souls)
+Eddie Allen                   Man (A Race Through Dark Places)
+Bob Amaral                    Customer (The River of Souls)
+Caroline Ambrose              Lara (A Tragedy of Telepaths)
+Granville Ames                Psi Cop (And Now For a Word)
+Lynn Anderson                 Rose (The Quality of Mercy)
+Nathan Anderson               Rastenn (Learning Curve)
+Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter       Merchant (Thirdspace)
+Freddy Andreiuci              Worker (A Tragedy of Telepaths)
+Jennifer Anglin               Deeron (Points of Departure)
+Jennifer Anglin               Alien #1 (The Long Dark)
+Jennifer Anglin               Narn Second (Acts of Sacrifice)
+Sharon Annett                 Mary [Garibaldi] (Sleeping in Light)
+Michael Ansara                Elric (The Geometry of Shadows)
+Apesanahkwat                  Telepath #1 (A Race Through Dark Places)
+Carmen Argenziano             Urza Jaddo (Knives)
+Vaughn Armstrong              Security Guard #1 (Messages From Earth, Point of
+                              No Return)
+Lewis Arquette                General Smits (Point of No Return)
+Toni Attell                   Med Tech #1 (Soul Hunter)
+Jeff Austin                   Centauri #1 (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+Erick Avari                   Rabbi Leo Meyers (And the Rock Cried Out No
+                              Hiding Place)
+Jason Azikiwe                 Captain Sterns (In the Beginning)
+
    
+
    B
    
+
    +Sharrise Baker                IPX Official (Patterns of the Soul)
+Jennifer Balgobin             Dr. Lilian Hobbs (Interludes and Examinations,
+                              Walkabout)
+Jennifer Balgobin             Dr. Hobbes [sic] (Objects at Rest)
+Joe Banks                     Guard (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+Adrienne Barbeau              Amanda Carter (A Spider in the Web)
+Beece Barkett                 Woman (The River of Souls)
+Carolyn Barkin                ISN Reporter (Lines of Communication)
+Julian Barnes                 Durano (Into the Fire)
+Craig Barnett                 Security Guard (A Voice in the Wilderness Part
+                              One)
+Steven R. Barnett             Eric (The Gathering)
+Blaire Baron                  Carolyn Sykes (The Gathering)
+Majel Barrett                 Lady Morella (Point of No Return)
+Dana Barron                   Lauren Ashley (The Corps is Mother The Corps is
+                              Father)
+Tim Barron                    Humanoid (The Long Night)
+Thom Barry                    Maintenance Worker (Grey 17 is Missing)
+Yasemin Baytok                Centauri Woman (In the Beginning)
+Michael Beck                  Abel Horn (A Spider in the Web)
+Michael Beck                  Mr. Jones (The Well of Forever)
+Daniel Beer                   Patrick (A Distant Star)
+Shari Belafonte               Dr. Elizabeth Trent (Thirdspace)
+Douglas Bennett               First Man (Divided Loyalties)
+Langdon Bensing               Derek Mobotabwe (A Voice in the Wilderness Part
+                              One)
+Jim Bentley                   Man (Soul Hunter)
+Philippe Bergeron             Lurker (The Quality of Mercy)
+Carlos Bernard                Communications (A Call to Arms)
+Anne Betancourt               Dr. Gonzales (A Day in the Strife)
+Turhan Bey                    Centauri Emperor (The Coming of Shadows)
+Turhan Bey                    Turval (Learning Curve)
+Richard Biggs                 Dr. Stephen Franklin (In the Beginning, First
+                              Season to Fifth Season, Thirdspace, The River of
+                              Souls)
+Richard Biggs                 Stephen Franklin (Sleeping in Light)
+Theodore Bikel                Rabbi Koslov (TKO)
+Theodore Bikel                Lenonn (In the Beginning)
+Vincent Bilanco               Maintenance Man (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+Tom Billet                    Guard (Falling Toward Apotheosis)
+Tom Billet                    Centauri Guard (A Tragedy of Telepaths)
+Simon Billig                  Ranger (The Fall of Centauri Prime, Objects at
+                              Rest)
+Kristin Birch                 Woman 1 (In the Beginning)
+Raye Birk                     William (Intersections in Real Time)
+James Black                   Security Guard #1 (Voices of Authority)
+Lynn Blades                   News Anchor #2 (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+Mark Blankfield               Jenson (The Path of Sorrows)
+Tom Booker                    Jinxo (Grail)
+J.J. Boone                    Med Tech (Rising Star)
+Bruce Boxleitner              Lt. Commander John Sheridan (In the Beginning)
+Bruce Boxleitner              Captain John Sheridan (Second Season to Fourth
+                              Seasons, Thirdspace)
+Bruce Boxleitner              President John Sheridan (Fifth Season, A Call to
+                              Arms)
+Bruce Boxleitner              John Sheridan (Sleeping in Light)
+Katy Boyer                    Neeoma Connally (By Any Means Necessary)
+Anita Brabec                  Dome Tech #3 (Signs and Portents)
+Neil Bradley                  Purple Drazi (The Geometry of Shadows)
+Neil Bradley                  Alien #2 (The Long Dark)
+Neil Bradley                  Kha'Mak (The Coming of Shadows)
+Neil Bradley                  Minbari #3 (There All the Honor Lies)
+Neil Bradley                  Narn #2 (The Long Twilight Struggle)
+Neil Bradley                  Narn #1 (A Day in the Strife)
+Neil Bradley                  Philby (No Surrender No Retreat)
+Neil Bradley                  Dr. Liberano Varda (Movements of Fire and Shadow)
+Neil Bradley                  Tra'nil (Objects in Motion)
+Mark Bramhall                 Centauri #2 (The Long Night)
+Kent Broadhurst               Major Krantz (Babylon Squared, War Without End
+                              Part Two)
+Ungela Brockman               Earthforce NCO (Endgame)
+Roy Brocksmith                Brother Alwyn Macomber (The Deconstruction of
+                              Falling Stars)
+David Allen Brooks            Max Eilerson (Crusade First Season)
+Joel Brooks                   Jacob Mayhew (The River of Souls)
+Caitlin Brown                 Na'Toth (First Season[3a][23c])
+Donovan Brown                 Pak'Ma'Ra Ambassador (The Fall of Night)
+Julie Caitlin Brown           Guinevere Corey (There All the Honor Lies[36a])
+Julie Caitlin Brown           Na'Toth (A Tragedy of Telepaths[98a])
+Peter Brown                   Minister (Intersections in Real Time)
+Mongo Brownlee                Enforcer (Learning Curve)
+Natalie Brunt                 Business Person (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+Macaulay Bruton               Garibaldi's Aide (Mind War, Chrysalis,
+                              Revelations)
+Macauley Bruton               Aide (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+Macauley Bruton               Tragedy (Eyes)
+Burt Bulos                    Navigation (A Call to Arms)
+Liz Burnette                  Lurker #1 (Chrysalis)
+Chuck Butto                   Security Officer #1 (The War Prayer)
+
    
+
    C
    
+
    +Terry Cain                    Young Woman (Falling Toward Apotheosis)
+Ron Campbell                  Messenger (Z'Ha'Dum)
+Ron Campbell                  Ambassador #1 (The Summoning)
+Ron Campbell                  Drazi Ambassador (The Long Night, Rumors
+                              Bargains and Lies, Meditations on the Abyss)
+Ron Canada                    Captain Ellis Pierce (A Voice in the Wilderness
+                              Part Two)
+Ron Campbell                  Drazi (A Call to Arms)
+Scott Carollo                 Colonist (Patterns of the Soul)
+Brian Carpenter               Callenn (Atonement)
+Jane Carr                     Timov (Soul Mates)
+Justin Carroll                Comm Officer (In the Beginning)
+Jason Carter                  Marcus Cole (Third Season to Fourth Season,
+                              Sleeping in Light[110b])
+Daniel Bryan Cartmell         Merkat (The Paragon of Animals)
+Bernie Casey                  Derek Cranston (Hunter Prey)
+Martin Cast                   Findell (Meditations on the Abyss)
+John Castellanos              Tafiq Azir (The Ragged Edge)
+Jeffrey James Castillo        Guard (Objects in Motion)
+Gary Cervantes                Strongarm #1 (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+Ardwight Chamberlain          Kosh (In the Beginning, Midnight on the Firing
+                              Line, The War Prayer, Deathwalker, Believers,
+                              Signs and Portents, Grail, Chrysalis[uncr], The
+                              Coming of Shadows, All Alone in the Night, Hunter
+                              Prey, There All the Honor Lies, In the Shadow of
+                              Z'Ha'Dum, Divided Loyalties, Comes the
+                              Inquisitor, The Fall of Night[uncr], Matters of
+                              Honor, Passing Through Gethsemane, Dust to Dust,
+                              Interludes and Examinations, Walkabout, Z'Ha'Dum,
+                              The Hour of the Wolf, Whatever Happened to Mr.
+                              Garibaldi?, The Summoning, Falling Toward
+                              Apotheosis, Into the Fire[uncr])
+Marie Chambers                Sofie Ivanova (Eyes[16a])
+Michael Paul Chan             Roberts (The War Prayer)
+Jonathan Chapman              Ambassador #1 (Points of Departure)
+Jonathan Chapman              Green Drazi #2 (The Geometry of Shadows)
+Jonathan Chapman              Narn Pilot #2 (The Coming of Shadows)
+Jonathan Chapman              Minbari #2 (There All the Honor Lies)
+Jonathan Chapman              Narn Second (The Long Twilight Struggle)
+Jonathan Chapman              Drazi Pilot (Matters of Honor)
+Jonathan Chapman              Passing Minbari (Point of No Return)
+Jonathan Chapman              Religious Minbari (Severed Dreams)
+Jonathan Chapman              Brakiri (Interludes and Examinations, Shadow
+                              Dancing)
+Jonathan Chapman              Ambassador Lethke (The Summoning)
+Jonathan Chapman              Brakiri Ambassador (Rumors Bargains and Lies,
+                              Day of the Dead, A Tragedy of Telepaths, And All
+                              My Dreams Torn Asunder, The Rules of the Game)
+Nancy Linehan Charles         Villager (Patterns of the Soul)
+Jacob Chase                   Luc (In the Beginning)
+Richard Chaves                Alvares (The War Prayer)
+Jim Chiros                    Centauri #1 (Comes the Inquisitor)
+Tim Choate                    Zathras (Babylon Squared, War Without End Part
+                              One and Two)
+Tim Choate                    Zathras (Conflicts of Interest)
+Tim Choate                    Polix (The Rules of the Game)
+Claudia Christian             Susan Ivanova (In the Beginning[M1a])
+Claudia Christian             Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova (First Season)
+Claudia Christian             Commander Susan Ivanova (Second Season[23a] to
+                              Fourth Season[88a], Thirdspace)
+Claudia Christian             Susan Ivanova (Sleeping in Light)
+Art Chudabala                 Pvt. Yang (GROPOS)
+Michael Max Charles Ciano     Roommate (The Corps is Mother The Corps is Father)
+Carl Ciarfalio                Drazi Vendor (Meditations on the Abyss)
+Maggie Ciglar                 Tech (Interludes and Examinations)
+Lenny Citrano                 Isaac (Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?)
+Josh Clark                    Kulomani (Movements of Fire and Shadow)
+Alex Cobo                     Max (Rising Star)
+David Coburn                  Minbari Ranger [Lennok] (A Call to Arms)
+Tim Colceri                   Captain Jankowski (In the Beginning)
+Gary Cole                     Captain Matthew Gideon (Crusade First Season)
+Clarke Coleman                Telepath (Strange Relations)
+Jeffrey Combs                 Harriman Gray (Eyes)
+Dawn Comer                    Security Guard (Learning Curve)
+Chris Come's                  Aide (War Zone)
+Jeff Conaway                  Zack Allan (A Spider in the Web, The Coming of
+                              Shadows, Acts of Sacrifice, Hunter Prey, There
+                              All the Honor Lies, In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum,
+                              Divided Loyalties, The Fall of Night, Third
+                              Season)
+Jeff Conaway                  Security Chief Zack Allan (Fourth Season[67b] to
+                              Fifth Season, Thirdspace, The River of Souls, A
+                              Call to Arms)
+Jeff Conaway                  Zack Allan (Sleeping in Light)
+Edward Conery                 Devereaux (Chrysalis, The Geometry of Shadows)
+Mark Conley                   Tech #1 (Soul Hunter)
+David Austin Cook             Special Agent #1 (Survivors)
+Jeff Corey                    Justin (Z'Ha'Dum)
+Nick Corri                    Lt. Ramirez (All Alone in the Night)
+Kenneth Cortland              Patient (The Exercise of Vital Powers)
+Kenneth Cortland              Telepath (Endgame)
+Cosie Costa                   Abbut (Deathwalker)
+Frank Costa                   B4 Guard (Babylon Squared)
+James Jude Courtney           Gyor (TKO)
+James Jude Courtney           Narn #1 (Sic Transit Vir)
+Brian Cousins                 Rick (A Race Through Dark Places)
+Doug Cox                      Husband (Shadow Dancing)
+Joshua Cox                    Dome Tech #2 (Signs and Portents)
+Joshua Cox                    Tech #2 (Legacies, A Voice in the Wilderness
+                              Part Two)
+Joshua Cox                    Tech #1 (Points of Departure, The Geometry of
+                              Shadows, A Spider in the Web, GROPOS, All Alone
+                              in the Night, Acts of Sacrifice, Hunter Prey,
+                              And Now For a Word, Knives, Divided Loyalties,
+                              The Long Twilight Struggle, Comes the
+                              Inquisitor, The Fall of Night)
+Joshua Cox                    Tech (A Distant Star)
+Joshua Cox                    Corwin (A Day in the Strife, Voices of
+                              Authority, Exogenesis)
+Joshua Cox                    Lt. Corwin (Point of No Return, Severed Dreams,
+                              Ceremonies of Light and Dark, War Without End
+                              Part One, Shadow Dancing, Z'Ha'Dum, Thirdspace,
+                              No Surrender No Retreat, No Compromises, A View
+                              From the Gallery, Strange Relations, Day of the
+                              Dead, Movements of Fire and Shadow, Objects at
+                              Rest, The River of Souls)
+Joshua Cox                    Lt. Corwin (Objects at Rest)
+Kelly Coyle                   Earthforce Liaison (A Voice in the Wilderness
+                              Part One)
+Andrew Craig                  Human (Confessions and Lamentations)
+Andrew Craig                  Client (The Illusion of Truth)
+Rick Cramer                   Earthforce Officer (Endgame)
+Bryan Cranston                Ericsson (The Long Night)
+Kat Cressida                  Kat (Exogenesis[51a])
+Kathryn Cressida              Bartender (A Voice in the Wilderness Part One,
+                              A Race Through Dark Places, Acts of Sacrifice)
+Anthony Crivello              John (No Compromises)
+David Crowley                 Lou Welch (Survivors)
+David Crowley                 Second Guard (The Quality of Mercy)
+David L. Crowley              Lou Welch (Eyes, Revelations, The Geometry of
+                              Shadows, Soul Mates, GROPOS)
+Christopher Curry             Ronald Quantrell (And Now For a Word)
+Robin Curtis                  Ambassador Kalika (Deathwalker)
+Ryan Cutrona                  Sgt. Major Plug (GROPOS)
+
    
+
    D
    
+
    +Christopher Darga             Narn #1 (Acts of Sacrifice)
+David Darling                 Drazi (In the Kingdom of the Blind[97a])
+David D. Darling              Guard #1 (Soul Hunter)
+Henry Darrow                  Dr. Indiri (The Illusion of Truth)
+Lane Davies                   Callier (In the Beginning[uncr])
+Lane Davies                   Grey Council #1 (Babylon Squared[uncr])
+Timothy Davis-Reed            Man 1 (In the Beginning)
+Vincent Deadrick, Jr.         Tough Guy (Meditations on the Abyss)
+Vincent Deadrick, Jr.         Brakiri (And All My Dreams Torn Asunder)
+Peter Deanda                  General Thompson (Patterns of the Soul)
+Wanda De Jesus                Sarah (Hunter Prey)
+Danny De La Paz               Running Man (Divided Loyalties)
+Anthona DeLongis              Harry (Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?)
+Kim Delgado                   Dome Tech #3 (Points of Departure)
+Kim Delgado                   Comm Tech (A Distant Star)
+Pancho Demmings               Alpha 7 (In the Beginning)
+Joey Dente                    Luko (Rising Star)
+Diane Dilascio                Telepath #2 (A Race Through Dark Places)
+Robert Ditillio               Norg (Born To the Purple)
+Robert Ditillio               Ambassador #1 (Deathwalker)
+Carrie Dobro                  Dr. Harrison (Exogenesis)
+Carrie Dobro                  Brakiri (Racing Mars)
+Carrie Dobro                  Dureena Nafeel (A Call to Arms, Crusade First
+                              Season)
+Juli Doland                   Pilot #1 (The Fall of Night)
+Tom Donaldson                 Cutter (Survivors)
+Roy Dotrice                   Frederick Lantze (The Fall of Night)
+Jeff Doucette                 2nd Man (The River of Souls)
+Sarah Douglas                 Jha'dur (Deathwalker)
+Brad Dourif                   Brother Edward (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+Don Dowe                      Earth Fighter (Mind War)
+Robin Atkin Downes            Morann (In the Beginning)
+Robin Atkin Downes            Grey Council #1 (Atonement)
+Robin Atkin Downes            Byron Gordon (No Compromises, The Paragon of
+                              Animals, A View From the Gallery, Strange
+                              Relations, Secrets of the Soul, In the Kingdom
+                              of the Blind, A Tragedy of Telepaths, Phoenix
+                              Rising)
+Jerry Doyle                   Michael Garibaldi (The Gathering)
+Jerry Doyle                   Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (First Season
+                              to Third Season)
+Jerry Doyle                   Michael Garibaldi (Fourth Season[67a] to Fifth
+                              Season, The River of Souls, A Call to Arms,
+                              Sleeping in Light)
+Alastair Duncan               Latimere (The Deconstruction of Falling Stars)
+Merrin Dungey                 Security Guard #2 (Messages From Earth)
+Vincent Duvall                Centauri Envoy (There All the Honor Lies)
+Fiona Dwyer                   Kirrin (Secrets of the Soul)
+
    
+
    E
    
+
    +Rodney Eastman                Kiron Maray (The War Prayer)
+Monique Edwards               Officer (The Wheel of Fire)
+Maggie Egan                   Newsperson (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+Maggie Egan                   INS [sic] Reporter (Survivors)
+Maggie Egan                   ISN Reporter (GROPOS, Confessions and
+                              Lamentations, Objects at Rest)
+Maggie Egan                   News Anchor (Chrysalis)
+Maggie Egan                   ISN Reporter #1 (Point of No Return, Severed
+                              Dreams)
+Maggie Egan                   Anchor (Endgame, Rising Star)
+Maggie Egan                   ISN Anchor (War Zone)
+Rob Elk                       Henry Ellis (The Deconstruction of Falling
+                              Stars)
+Harlan Ellison                Sparky the Computer (Ceremonies of Light and
+                              Dark)
+Harlan Ellison                Psi Cop (The Face of the Enemy)
+Harlan Ellison                Voice of Zooty (Day of the Dead)
+Robert Englund                Jeremiah (Grey 17 is Missing)
+Fred Estrada                  Cultist #1 (Ruling From the Tomb)
+Timothy Eyster                Simon (No Compromises)
+
    
+
    F
    
+
    +Frank Farmer                  General Miller (Eyes)
+Sav Farrow                    Tech #1 (Infection)
+Sav Farrow                    Tech #2 (Deathwalker)
+Rus Fega                      Merchant #1 (Points of Departure)
+Karen Fineman                 Kelley (Endgame)
+Don Fischer                   Captain Henson (War Zone)
+Bridget Flanery               Zoe (Day of the Dead)
+John Fleck                    Del Varner (The Gathering)
+John Flinn                    Mr. Flinn (Grail)
+John Flinn                    Obnoxious Man (Convictions)
+Mark Folger                   Centauri (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+Brendan Ford                  Tannier (Learning Curve)
+Brendan Ford                  Gordon (The Corps is Mother The Corps is Father)
+Steven Ford                   First Officer (In the Beginning)
+Ken Foree                     P.F.C. Large (GROPOS)
+William Forward               Refa (The Geometry of Shadows, The Coming of
+                              Shadows)
+William Forward               Lord Refa (Knives, The Long Twilight Struggle,
+                              Ceremonies of Light and Dark, And the Rock Cried
+                              Out No Hiding Place)
+Robert Foxworth               General William Hague (Points of Departure, All
+                              Alone in the Night)
+Kevin Fry                     Centauri Guard (War Without End Part One and Two)
+Mira Furlan                   Delenn (In the Beginning, The Gathering, First
+                              Season to Fifth Season, Thirdspace, Sleeping in
+                              Light)
+Stephen Furst                 Vir (First Season to Third Season)
+Stephen Furst                 Vir Cotto (Fourth Season to Fifth Season,
+                              Thirdspace, Sleeping in Light)
+
    
+
    G
    
+
    +Elisa Pensler Gabrielli       Guest Liaison (Mind War)
+Silvana Gallardo              Maya Hernandez (Believers)
+Matt Gallini                  Rolf (A Call to Arms)
+Richard Gant                  Captain Edward MacDougan (No Surrender No
+                              Retreat, The Face of the Enemy)
+Albert Garcia                 Ramirez (The Illusion of Truth)
+Elisa Beth Garver             Tech #2 (GROPOS, Knives, The Long Twilight
+                              Struggle, The Fall of Night)
+Marcia Mitzman Gaven          Commander Sandra Levitt (No Surrender No
+                              Retreat)
+Christina Gavin               Telepath (A Tragedy of Telepaths)
+Mike Genovese                 Drake (The Corps is Mother The Corps is Father)
+Denise Gentile                Lise Hampton (A Voice in the Wilderness Part
+                              Two, Babylon Squared, Conflicts of Interest, The
+                              Exercise of Vital Powers, The Face of the Enemy)
+Denise Gentile                Lise Hampton Edgars (Rising Star)
+Denise Gentile                Lise Hampton-Edgars (Darkness Ascending, The
+                              Wheel of Fire, Objects in Motion)
+Valeria Ghiran                ISN Reporter (A Call to Arms)
+Jimm Giannini                 Ock (Born To the Purple)
+G. Adam Gifford               Guard (Thirdspace)
+Melissa Gilbert               Anna (Shadow Dancing[65a], Z'Ha'Dum)
+Erica Gimpel                  Cailyn (Walkabout)
+Francois Giroday              Virini (And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place)
+Trevor Goddard                Trace (Learning Curve)
+Steven Golzalez               News Anchor #1 (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+Marc Gomes                    Eisensen (Between the Darkness and the Light)
+Matt Gottlieb                 ISN Reporter #2 (Severed Dreams)
+Ross Gottstein                Vendor (Exogenesis)
+John Christian Graas          Johnny (And Now For a Word)
+Gary Graham                   Bruder (The Path of Sorrows)
+Gerrit Graham                 Lord Kiro (Signs and Portents)
+Nancy Lee Grahn               Shaal Mayan (The War Prayer)
+John Grantham                 Thug #2 (Shadow Dancing)
+Bruce Gray                    Interrogator (Intersections in Real Time,
+                              Between the Darkness and the Light)
+Jeff Griggs                   Randall (The Illusion of Truth)
+Jeff Griggs                   Dan Randall (Racing Mars)
+Annie Grindlay                Thirteen/Psi Cop (A Spider in the Web)
+Sandey Grinn                  Teronn (A Distant Star)
+Sandey Grinn                  Narn Captain (Acts of Sacrifice)
+Sandy Grinn                   Patient #2 (The Exercise of Vital Powers[82a])
+Richard Grove                 Kalain (Points of Departure)
+Bennet Guillory               Merchant #2 (Points of Departure)
+Bennet Guillory               Leif Tanner (The Deconstruction of Falling Stars)
+Mike Gunther                  Alien #1 (The War Prayer)
+Daniel Guzman                 XO (The Path of Sorrows)
+
    
+
    H
    
+
    +Catherine Hader               Young Woman (Points of Departure)
+Doug Hale                     Derek Mitchell (The Deconstruction of Falling
+                              Stars)
+Rick Hamilton                 Mitch (The Fall of Night)
+Paul Hampton                  The Senator (The Gathering, Midnight on the
+                              Firing Line)
+Roger Hampton                 Merchant (A Late Delivery From Avalon)
+Jack Hannibal                 Peter (Secrets of the Soul, Phoenix Rising)
+Joy Hardin                    Narn #1 (The Parliament of Dreams)
+Dona Hardy                    Old Woman (A Late Delivery From Avalon)
+Eliott Harold                 Human Customer (There All the Honor Lies)
+Cheryl Francis Harrington     Senator (Chrysalis)
+Michael Harris                Bishop (A Call to Arms)
+William Hayes                 Traveler (The Gathering)
+Chard Haywood                 Religious #2 (Rumors Bargains and Lies)
+Patricia Healy                Mary Ann Cramer (Infection, By Any Means
+                              Necessary)
+Chip Heller                   Rowdy #1 (A Voice in the Wilderness Part Two)
+Mark Hendrickson              Narn Captain (Midnight on the Firing Line,
+                              Revelations)
+Mark Hendrickson              Du'Rog (The Parliament of Dreams)
+Mark Hendrickson              Thegras (The War Prayer)
+Mark Hendrickson              Grey Council #1 (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+Mark Hendrickson              Ashok (Deathwalker)
+Mark Hendrickson              Alien #1 (Survivors)
+Mark Hendrickson              Grey Council #2 (Babylon Squared)
+Mark Hendrickson              Narn Pilot (Chrysalis)
+Mark Hendrickson              Ambassador #2 (Points of Departure)
+Mark Hendrickson              Human/Alien Customer (There All the Honor Lies)
+Mark Hendrickson              Narn #1 (Comes the Inquisitor, The Fall of
+                              Night)
+Mark Hendrickson              Narn #2 (A Day in the Strife)
+Mark Hendrickson              Drazi Ambassador (Shadow Dancing, The Hour of
+                              the Wolf)
+Mark Hendrickson              Narn Acolyte (The Ragged Edge, Meditations on
+                              the Abyss)
+Mark Hendrickson              Drakh Captain (War Zone)
+Ted W. Henning                Guard #2 (Soul Hunter)
+Richard Henry                 Security Man (Legacies)
+Roger Hewlett                 Thug (Secrets of the Soul)
+Marva Hicks                   Singer (And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place)
+T.J. Hoban                    Male Hologram (The River of Souls)
+Linda Hoffman                 Tech #2 (The Gathering)
+Marjean Holden                Navigation (A Call to Arms)
+Marjean Holden                Doctor Sarah Chambers (Crusade First Season)
+James Hornbeck                Casey (Objects in Motion)
+Richard S. Horvitz            Mark (Conflicts of Interest)
+Kevyn Major Howard            Officer (The Path of Sorrows)
+Rance Howard                  David Sheridan (Severed Dreams, Interludes and
+                              Examinations, Rising Star)
+J.P. Hubbel                   Evan (Between the Darkness and the Light)
+Whip Hubley                   Raider #1 (Signs and Portents)
+Endre Hules                   Gen. Yuri Mikhailovich Denisov (A Call to Arms)
+Neil Hunt                     Minister Vitari (In the Kingdom of the Blind)
+William Dennis Hunt           Centauri Noble (Knives)
+Morgan Hunter                 Pvt. Kleist (GROPOS)
+Harry Hutchinson              Security Guard #1 (Dust to Dust)
+Daniel Hutchison              Security Guard (Infection)
+Rif Hutton                    ISN Reporter (The Long Twilight Struggle)
+Alex Hyde-White               Pierce Macabee (In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum)
+
    
+
    I
    
+
    +Jim Ishida                    Dr. Tasaki (A Voice in the Wilderness Part One)
+Kris Iyer                     Dome Tech (The Summoning)
+
    
+
    J
    
+
    +Clynell Jackson III           Security Guard (Strange Relations)
+Robert Jason Jackson          Tech #3 (The Gathering)
+Mio R. Jakula                 Ganya Ivanov (In the Beginning)
+Milton James                  Centauri Official (Point of No Return)
+Nick Jameson                  Minbari Pilot (In the Beginning)
+Ken Jenkins                   Captain Trevor Hall (No Surrender No Retreat)
+Juanita Jennings              Lieutenant Carr (Ruling From the Tomb)
+Gunther Jensen                Nightwatch Guard (Point of No Return)
+Anne-Marie Johnson            Mariah Cirrus (The Long Dark)
+Bart Johnson                  Ranger (The Paragon of Animals)
+Rick Johnson                  Security Guard #1 (Convictions)
+John-Frederick Jones          Centauri Diplomat (Dust to Dust)
+S. Marc Jordan                Shop Owner (Dust to Dust)
+Calvin Jung                   Guard (The Parliament of Dreams)
+Peter Jurasik                 Londo Mollari (In the Beginning, The Gathering)
+Peter Jurasik                 Londo (First Season to Third Season)
+Peter Jurasik                 Londo Mollari (Fourth Season to Fifth Season,
+                              Sleeping in Light)
+
    
+
    K
    
+
    +Michael Kagan                 Emmett Farquaha (A Late Delivery From Avalon)
+Ismael Kanater                Brakiri Salesman (Day of the Dead)
+Jonathon Charles Kaplan       Shon (Believers)
+Lenore Kasdorf                ISN Reporter (TKO, A Voice in the Wilderness
+                              Part One and Part Two)
+Andreas Katsulas              G'Kar (In the Beginning, The Gathering, First
+                              Season to Fifth Season, Sleeping in Light)
+Jack Kehler                   Mr. Chase (Comes the Inquisitor)
+Paul Keith                    Drigo (And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place)
+Robert Keith                  Malcolm (Passing Through Gethsemane)
+Sylva Kelegian                Tech #2 (Infection)
+Michael Francis Kelly         Guard (Comes the Inquisitor)
+Michael Francis Kelly         Security Guard #1 (A Late Delivery From Avalon)
+Mike Kennedy                  General Fontaine (In the Beginning)
+Jerry Kernion                 Builder (Thirdspace)
+Ross Kettle                   Ruell (The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari)
+Patrick Kilpatrick            Robert Carlson (Convictions)
+Daniel Dae Kim                Lieutenant John Matheson (Crusade First Season)
+David A. Kimball              Parks (The Illusion of Truth)
+Art Kimbro                    Ray Galus (A Distant Star)
+Kip King                      Leo (Thirdspace)
+Randall Kirby                 Businessman #1 (The Parliament of Dreams)
+James Kiriyama-Lem            Med Tech (Chrysalis, Revelations, A Late
+                              Delivery From Avalon)
+James Kiriyama-Lem            Medlab Tech (The Long Dark)
+Garry Kluger                  Man (Signs and Portents)
+Walter Koenig                 Alfred Bester (Mind War, A Race Through Dark
+                              Places, Dust to Dust, Ship of Tears, Epiphanies,
+                              Moments of Transition, The Face of the Enemy,
+                              Rising Star, Strange Relations, A Tragedy of
+                              Telepaths, Phoenix Rising, The Corps is Mother
+                              The Corps is Father)
+Thomas Kopache                Tu'Pari (The Parliament of Dreams)
+Wortham Krimmer               Emperor Cartagia (The Hour of the Wolf, Whatever
+                              Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?, The Summoning,
+                              Falling Toward Apotheosis, The Long Night)
+Clyde Kusatsu                 Bill Morishi (Thirdspace)
+
    
+
    L
    
+
    +James Laing                   First Guard (Between the Darkness and the Light)
+Steven Hal Lambert            Bloodhound Teep #2 (Strange Relations)
+Clayton Landey                Number Two (Racing Mars)
+Timothy Landfield             Lorkan #3 (The Rules of the Game)
+Sal Landi                     Rolf Mueller (The Rules of the Game)
+Jason Larimore                Lurker (Convictions)
+Lawrence LeJohn               Bo (A View From the Gallery)
+Reggie Lee                    Chen Hikaru (The Corps is Mother The Corps is
+                              Father)
+Stephen Lee                   Tharg (Believers)
+Beverly Leech                 Elizabeth Sheridan (Revelations)
+Fredric Lehne                 Ranger (The Coming of Shadows)
+Wesley Leong                  Paramedic (Chrysalis)
+Drew Letchworth               Comedy (Eyes)
+Floyd Levine                  Alex (Thirdspace)
+Judy Levitt                   Psi Cop (A Race Through Dark Places, Dust to
+                              Dust[50a])
+James Lew                     Bloodhound Teep #1 (Strange Relations)
+Kathleen Lloyd                Elizabeth Metarie (The Deconstruction of Falling
+                              Stars)
+June Lockhart                 Dr. Laura Rosen (The Quality of Mercy)
+Linda Lodge                   Mirriam Runningdear (Grail)
+Gianin Loffler                Lurker #2 (Chrysalis)
+Gianin Loffler                Lurker (A Race Through Dark Places)
+Kristopher Logan              Ambassador #3 (Points of Departure)
+Alison Lohman                 Claire (The Long Road)
+Damian London                 Centauri Senator (The Quality of Mercy)
+Damian London                 Centauri Official (Sic Transit Vir)
+Damian London                 Minister (The Hour of the Wolf, Whatever
+                              Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?, Into the Fire,
+                              Epiphanies)
+Damian London                 Regent (In the Kingdom of the Blind, Movements
+                              of Fire and Shadow, The Fall of Centauri Prime)
+Victor Love                   Telepath (In the Kingdom of the Blind, Phoenix
+                              Rising)
+Tom Lowe                      Gunman #1 (Born To the Purple)
+Curt Lowens                   Varn (A Voice in the Wilderness Part One and
+                              Part Two)
+Curt Lowens                   Old One (Patterns of the Soul)
+Victor Ludlin                 Psi Corps Official (Epiphanies)
+
    
+
    M
    
+
    +Scott MacDonald               First Officer (A Call to Arms)
+Thomas MacGreevy              Minister (Darkness Ascending, And All My Dreams
+                              Torn Asunder, Movements of Fire and Shadow)
+Stephen Macht                 Na'Far (A Day in the Strife)
+Tony Maggio                   Samuel Drake (A Call to Arms)
+Ossie Mair                    Store Owner (There All the Honor Lies)
+Elijha Majar                  Crew #1 (War Zone)
+Mary Major                    ISN Reporter (Day of the Dead[96a])
+Rosie Malek-Yonan             Doctor (Confessions and Lamentations)
+Vimi Mani                     ISN Anchor (Voices of Authority, Messages From
+                              Earth)
+Mike Manzoni                  Guard (Confessions and Lamentations)
+Mike Manzoni                  Employee (Objects at Rest)
+Rebecca Markham               Sam (War Zone)
+David Anthony Marshall        Stephen Petrov (Chrysalis)
+Marie Marshall                P.F.C. Dodger (GROPOS)
+Marie Marshall                Dodger (Day of the Dead)
+Glenn Martin                  Ranger (Interludes and Examinations)
+Gregory Martin                Colonel Ari Ben Zayn (Eyes)
+Jean-Luc Martin               Emissary (Lines of Communication)
+Ricardo Martinez              Worker #2 (By Any Means Necessary)
+Wesley Mask                   Maitre D' (Darkness Ascending)
+Lee Mathis                    Fighter #1 (Signs and Portents)
+Khin-Kyaw Maung               Worker (Falling Toward Apotheosis)
+Kevin McBride                 Guard (The Quality of Mercy)
+David McCallum                Dr. Vance Hendricks (Infection)
+Bart McCarthy                 Shakiri (Moments of Transition)
+Bart McCarthy                 Daro (Movements of Fire and Shadow)
+Francis X. McCarthy           Minister Vole (In the Kingdom of the Blind)
+Leigh J. McCloskey            Thomas (A Tragedy of Telepaths, Phoenix Rising)
+J. Patrick McCormack          General Lefcourt (In the Beginning, Endgame)
+Doug McCoy                    Guard (Ceremonies of Light and Dark[55a])
+Doug E. McCoy                 Alpha Seven (Babylon Squared)
+Douglas E. McCoy              Delta 7 (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+Douglas E. McCoy              Fighter #2 (Signs and Portents)
+Brian McDermott               Durhan (Learning Curve)
+Gwen McGee                    Med Tech (Convictions, Dust to Dust)
+Bruce McGill                  Major Ryan (Severed Dreams)
+Brian Michael McGuire         Man (Soul Mates)
+Bryan Michael McGuire         Customs Guard #1 (The Coming of Shadows)
+Bryan Michael McGuire         Guard #2 (Hunter Prey)
+Gary McGurk                   Morgan Clark (Chrysalis)
+Gary McGurk                   President Clark (Revelations, Endgame)
+Gary McGurk                   Vice President Clark (Voices of Authority)
+Danica McKellar               Aria Tensus (The War Prayer)
+Michael McKenzie              Pilgrim (The Parliament of Dreams)
+Michael McKenzie              Narn Captain (Mind War, By Any Means Necessary)
+Michael McKenzie              Migo (TKO)
+Michael McKenzie              Vastor (Points of Departure)
+Michael McKenzie              Narn Navigator (Revelations)
+Michael McKenzie              Alien Customer (There All the Honor Lies)
+Michael McKenzie              Markab Victim (Confessions and Lamentations)
+Michael McKenzie              Man (Exogenesis)
+Michael McKenzie              Minbari Captain (Walkabout)
+Mike McKenzie                 Drazi #1 (Convictions[46a])
+Greg McKinney                 Walker Smith (TKO)
+Stuart McLean                 Carl (Secrets of the Soul)
+Don McMillan                  Bartender (The Corps is Mother The Corps is
+                              Father)
+Joan McMurtrey                Carolyn (Ship of Tears)
+Kate McNeil                   Janice Rosen (The Quality of Mercy)
+Ian McShane                   Dr. Robert Bryson (The River of Souls)
+Geoff Meed                    Smuggler #1 (Racing Mars)
+Alex Mendoza                  Trace Miller (War Zone, Ruling From the Tomb)
+Mauricio Mendoza              Ranger (No Compromises)
+Erica Mer                     Lyssa (In the Beginning)
+Hector Mercado                Pilot (Signs and Portents)
+Christopher Michael           Shooter (A Race Through Dark Places)
+Judson Mills                  Delta 7 (Thirdspace)
+Katherine Mills               Dancer (Born To the Purple)
+Kent Minault                  Captain of the Guard (Sleeping in Light)
+Kim Miyori                    Captain Sandra Hiroshi (Severed Dreams)
+Katherine Moffat              Supervisor (Grey 17 is Missing)
+Richard Moll                  Max (Hunter Prey)
+Marjorie Monaghan             Number One (Racing Mars, Lines of Communication,
+                              The Face of the Enemy, Between the Darkness and
+                              the Light, Endgame, Objects in Motion, Objects at
+                              Rest)
+Philip Moon                   Ashi (Dust to Dust)
+Diana Morgan                  Alison (Ship of Tears)
+Diana Morgan                  Alison Higgins (The Illusion of Truth, The Face
+                              of the Enemy)
+Akiko Ann Morison             Med Tech (The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari)
+Aubrey Morris                 Duncan (Exogenesis)
+Phil Morris                   Bill Trainor (Severed Dreams)
+Bruce Morrow                  B4 First Officer (War Without End Part Two)
+Glenn Morshower               Franke (Acts of Sacrifice)
+Eddie Mui                     B4 Tech (War Without End Part Two)
+Bill Mumy                     Lennier (First Season to Fifth Season, Sleeping
+                              in Light)
+William John Murphy           Man #1 (Conflicts of Interest)
+
    
+
    N
    
+
    +Christopher Neame             Knight Two (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+Julian Neil                   Lindstrom (Dust to Dust)
+Lois Nettleson                Daggair (Soul Mates)
+Jani Neuman                   Med Tech (Divided Loyalties)
+Julia Nickson                 Catherine Sakai (The Parliament of Dreams, Mind
+                              War, Chrysalis)
+J. Gordon Noice               Man (Shadow Dancing)
+Christy Noonan                Businesswoman (Moments of Transition)
+Mike Norris                   Butz (Born To the Purple)
+Jim Norton                    Ombuds Wellington (Grail, The Quality of Mercy)
+Jim Norton                    Dr. Lazarenn (Confessions and Lamentations)
+Jim Norton                    Narn Image (Dust to Dust)
+John Novak                    Doctor Alain Lebecque (Ruling From the Tomb)
+Miguel A. Nunez, Jr.          Orwell (A Distant Star)
+
    
+
    O
    
+
    +Patrick O'Brien               Cart Owner (Legacies)
+Michael O'Connell             Worker #2 (The Long Road)
+Raymond O'Connor              Mack (A View From the Gallery)
+Jerry O'Donnell               Security Guard #2 (A Late Delivery From Avalon)
+Ian Ogilvy                    Lord Jano (In the Kingdom of the Blind)
+Soon-Teck Oh                  The Muta-Do (TKO)
+Michael O'Hare                Lt. Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair (In the Beginning)
+Michael O'Hare                Jeffrey Sinclair (The Gathering)
+Michael O'Hare                Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (First Season)
+Michael O'Hare                Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair (The Coming of
+                              Shadows, War Without End Part One and Two)
+Tim O'Hare                    First Mage (A Call to Arms)
+Nicholas Ross Oleson          Thug #1 (Shadow Dancing)
+Fredi Olster                  Lady Ladira (Signs and Portents)
+Tricia O'Neil                 President (In the Beginning)
+Tricia O'Neil                 M'ola (Believers)
+Walter Oneil                  Crazed Man (Dust to Dust)
+Erica Ortega                  Teegarden (Learning Curve)
+Matt O'Toole                  First Man (The Path of Sorrows)
+Julie Ow                      Med Tech (Rising Star)
+
    
+
    P
    
+
    +Scott Paetty                  Lieutenant Meyers (The Long Road)
+Kevin Page                    Businessman (Mind War)
+Stuart Pankin                 James Riley (The River of Souls)
+Brook Parker                  Lieutenant Ross (War Zone)
+F. William Parker             Business Man #1 (The Gathering)
+James Parks                   Drakhen (Severed Dreams)
+Robert Patteri                EA Pilot (Epiphanies)
+Joshua Patton                 Human/Minbari Kosh (The Fall of Night)
+Penn & Teller                 Rebo & Zooty (Day of the Dead)
+Paul Perri                    Sniper (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+Rod Perry                     General Netter (Survivors)
+Laura Peterson                Gera Akshi (Born To the Purple)
+Carl J. Pfeifer               Guard (Moments of Transition)
+Robert Phalen                 Andrei Ivanov (Born To the Purple[3b], TKO)
+Wiley Pickett                 Man #2 (Conflicts of Interest)
+Eric Pierpoint                Daniel (The Deconstruction of Falling Stars)
+Greg Poland                   Guard (Between the Darkness and the Light)
+Mark S. Porro                 Security Guard (Mind War)
+Michael Potter                General Foote (Rising Star)
+Beata Pozniak                 President Susanna Luchenko (Rising Star)
+Leslie Pratt                  Woman (Exogenesis)
+Shirley Prestia               Barbara (Shadow Dancing)
+Ray Proscia                   Klaus (The River of Souls)
+Mowava Pryor                  Tonia Wallace (GROPOS)
+David Purdham                 Captain James (The Face of the Enemy, Between
+                              the Darkness and the Light, Endgame)
+
    
+
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+
    +Jan Rabson                    Vendor (Interludes and Examinations)
+Tom Ramirez                   Second Mage (A Call to Arms)
+Tony Rayner                   Man (Point of No Return)
+Valerie Red-Hors              Technician (Thirdspace)
+Carl Reggiardo                Centauri #1 (The Long Night)
+Carl Reggiardo                Drazi Vendor (The Rules of the Game)
+Damon C. Reiser               Lurker (Hunter Prey)
+Clive Revill                  Trakis (Born To the Purple)
+Jose Rey                      Eduardo Delvientos (By Any Means Necessary)
+Jose Rey                      Dock Worker (And Now For a Word)
+Vince Ricotta                 Bryce (The Corps is Mother The Corps is Father)
+John Riojas                   Guard (Chrysalis)
+Tony Rizzoli                  Guard (Infection)
+Jana Robbins                  Ambassador Tal (Secrets of the Soul)
+Mario Roberts                 Passerby (Ruling From the Tomb)
+Neil Roberts                  Brother Michael (The Deconstruction of Falling
+                              Stars)
+Marianne Robertson            Hostage (The Gathering)
+Marianne Robertson            Tech #1 (Midnight on the Firing Line, Born To
+                              the Purple, And the Sky Full of Stars,
+                              Deathwalker, Survivors, By Any Means Necessary,
+                              TKO, Grail, Eyes, Legacies, A Voice in the
+                              Wilderness Part One and Part Two, Babylon
+                              Squared)
+Marianne Robertson            Tech #2 (Soul Hunter)
+Marianne Robertson            Tech #3 (Infection)
+Marianne Robertson            Dome Tech (The Parliament of Dreams, The War
+                              Prayer)
+Marianne Robertson            Dome Tech #1 (Mind War, Signs and Portents)
+Marianne Robertson            Tech (Chrysalis)
+Shelley Robertson             Ms. Constance (The Exercise of Vital Powers)
+Glenn Robinson                Head Waiter (The Parliament of Dreams)
+Eamonn Roche                  First Man (Grey 17 is Missing)
+Jason Rodriguez               Rivera (Ruling From the Tomb)
+Tristan Rogers                Malcolm Biggs (The War Prayer)
+Mark Rolston                  Karl Mueller (The Quality of Mercy)
+Roger Rook                    Lurker (Exogenesis)
+Tommy Rosales                 Panicked Man (Babylon Squared)
+Jose Rosario                  Nolan (Survivors)
+Jamie Rose                    Cynthia Allen (The Rules of the Game)
+Romy Rosemont                 Publicist (Sleeping in Light)
+Ricco Ross                    Captain Frank (The Face of the Enemy)
+Robert Rusler                 Lt. Warren Keffer (Second Season[23b])
+Rick Ryan                     Brakiri Ambassador (The Hour of the Wolf)
+Rex Ryon                      First Man (The Long Road)
+
    
+
    S
    
+
    +Dan Sachoff                   Aide (Sleeping in Light)
+Robin Sachs                   Coplann (In the Beginning)
+Robin Sachs                   Hedronn (Points of Departure, All Alone in the
+                              Night)
+Robin Sachs                   Na'Kal (The Fall of Night, Walkabout)
+Robin Sachs                   Na'Tok (Movements of Fire and Shadow, The Fall
+                              of Centauri Prime)
+David Sage                    Business Man #2 (The Gathering[0a])
+David Sage                    Centauri Merchant (Acts of Sacrifice)
+Patrick St. Esprit            Captain Ross (The Path of Sorrows)
+Jean St. James                Sheila (The River of Souls)
+John St. Ryan                 Troublemaker (A Day in the Strife)
+Lauren Sanchez                News Anchor (Epiphanies)
+John Sanderford               Mr. Ames (War Zone)
+Dex Elliott Sanders           Jonathan Harris (The Corps is Mother The Corps
+                              is Father)
+William Sanderson             Deuce (Grail, Thirdspace)
+Sophia Santi                  Worker #1 (The Long Road)
+David A. Saunders             Navigation (The Well of Forever)
+Rick Scarry                   Centauri (Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?)
+Will Schaub                   Jenson (War Zone)
+Nikki Schieler Ziering        Female Hologram (The River of Souls)
+Mark Schneider                Wade (Racing Mars, Conflicts of Interest, The
+                              Exercise of Vital Powers, The Face of the Enemy)
+Reiner Schone                 Dukhat (In the Beginning, Atonement)
+Robert Schuch                 Lurker (A Late Delivery From Avalon)
+John Schuck                   Draal (The Long Twilight Struggle[42a], Voices
+                              of Authority)
+Dwight Schultz                Amis (The Long Dark)
+Tracy Scoggins                Captain Elizabeth Lochley (Fifth Season[110a])
+Tracy Scoggins                Elizabeth Lochley (The River of Souls, A Call to
+                              Arms)
+Tracy Scoggins                Captain Elizabeth Lochley (Crusade First Season)
+Anneliza Scott                Assistant (Between the Darkness and the Light)
+Donovan Scott                 Captain Jack (Racing Mars)
+Judson Scott                  Knight One (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+Mik Scriba                    Barkeep (The Long Road)
+William Scudder               Ambassador #2 (The Summoning)
+William Scudder               Jester (The Long Night)
+William Scudder               Drazi Captain (Secrets of the Soul)
+Bluejean Ashley Secrist       Markab Girl (Confessions and Lamentations)
+Paolo Seganti                 Phillipe (Lines of Communication)
+Johnny Sekka                  Dr. Benjamin Kyle (The Gathering)
+Carolyn Seymour               Senator Crosby (Endgame)
+Edmund Shaff                  Business Man (Darkness Ascending)
+David Shark                   Man (Dust to Dust)
+Debra Sharkey                 Tech #2 (Points of Departure)
+Debra Sharkey                 Med Tech (Ship of Tears)
+Shari Shattuck                Julie Musante (Voices of Authority)
+Martin Sheen                  The Soul Hunter (The River of Souls)
+Larita Shelby                 Med Tech (A Day in the Strife)
+LaRita Shelby-Mullen          Lynne Anderson (A Call to Arms)
+W. Morgan Sheppard            The Soul Hunter (Soul Hunter)
+W. Morgan Sheppard            Warmaster G'Sten (The Long Twilight Struggle)
+Lorraine Shields              Cook (Messages From Earth)
+James Shigeta                 Taro Isogi (A Spider in the Web)
+Fumi Shishino                 Security Guard (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+Fumi Shishino                 Screaming Woman (Chrysalis)
+Debby Shiveley                Aide (Hunter Prey)
+Robert Silver                 Reno (Signs and Portents)
+Robert Silver                 Merchant (Hunter Prey)
+Jeff Silverman                Man [Mr. Clute] (The River of Souls)
+Tom Simmons                   Security Guard #2 (Convictions)
+George Simms                  Security Guard (Divided Loyalties)
+Guy Siner                     Religious #1 (Rumors Bargains and Lies)
+Michelan Sisti                Takarn (A Voice in the Wilderness Part Two)
+Wylie Small                   Jacque Lee (Exogenesis)
+Tucker Smallwood              David Endawi (Matters of Honor)
+David Anthony Smith           Man (The Deconstruction of Falling Stars)
+Michael Bailey Smith          G'Dok (A Day in the Strife)
+John Snyder                   Soul Hunter #2 (Soul Hunter)
+John Snyder                   Orin Zento (By Any Means Necessary)
+Ebony Monique Solomon         Young Woman (Conflicts of Interest)
+Kayla Spell                   Sarah Anderson (A Call to Arms)
+Nancy Stafford                Dr. Mary Kirkish (Messages From Earth)
+Michael Jeffrie Stanton       Dealer (The Corps is Mother The Corps is Father)
+Brian Starcher                Other Pilot (Points of Departure)
+Timothy Starks                Guard (Racing Mars)
+Tony Steedman                 Dr. Everett Jacobs (Hunter Prey)
+Eric Steinberg                Samuel (Exogenesis)
+Skip Stellrecht               Guard (No Surrender No Retreat)
+Skip Stellrecht               Security Guard (Secrets of the Soul)
+Skip Stellrecht               Customs Officer (Day of the Dead)
+Dawn Stern                    Alison (The Path of Sorrows)
+G. W. Stevens                 Forell (Lines of Communication)
+Nils Allen Stewart            Large Man (Matters of Honor)
+Julian Stone                  Captain Mitchell (Endgame)
+Kim Strauss                   Ensign (Points of Departure)
+Kim Strauss                   Green Drazi (The Geometry of Shadows)
+Kim Strauss                   Markab Ambassador (The Long Dark, Confessions
+                              and Lamentations)
+Kim Strauss                   Narn Pilot #1 (The Coming of Shadows)
+Kim Strauss                   Drazi Ambassador (The Fall of Night, The Paragon
+                              of Animals, A Tragedy of Telepaths, And All My
+                              Dreams Torn Asunder)
+Kim Strauss                   Narn #2 (Comes the Inquisitor)
+Kim Strauss                   Vizak (Dust to Dust)
+Kim Strauss                   Narn (Severed Dreams)
+Kim Strauss                   Lennan (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+Kim Strauss                   G'Lorn (The Long Night)
+Don Stroud                    Caliban (TKO)
+Don Stroud                    Boggs (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+Carel Struycken               Trader (Soul Mates)
+James Patrick Stuart          Presidential Aide (In the Beginning)
+Otto Stu:rcke                 Ensign (War Zone)
+Sean Gregory Sullivan         Ashan (There All the Honor Lies)
+Joel Swetow                   Ris (The Rules of the Game)
+Kitty Swink                   Senator (Matters of Honor)
+Keith Szarabajka              Matthew Stoner (Soul Mates)
+
    
+
    T
    
+
    +Warren Tabata                 Guard (Revelations, The Geometry of Shadows, The
+                              Long Dark)
+Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa          Morishi (Convictions)
+Brian Tahash                  Smuggler #2 (Racing Mars)
+Joane Takahashi               Dr. Tashaki (The Deconstruction of Falling
+                              Stars)
+Patricia Tallman              Lyta Alexander (The Gathering, Divided
+                              Loyalties, Passing Through Gethsemane,
+                              Walkabout[62a], Fourth Season to Fifth Season,
+                              Thirdspace, Sleeping in Light)
+David Wells                   Commander Nils (Sleeping in Light)
+Russ Tamblyn                  Captain Jack Maynard (A Distant Star)
+Ken Taylor                    Jim Bitterbane (The Deconstruction of Falling
+                              Stars)
+Marshall Teague               Nelson Drake (Infection)
+Marshall Teague               Narn (All Alone in the Night)
+Marshall Teague               Ta'Lon (A Day in the Strife, Point of No Return,
+                              The Ragged Edge, Objects at Rest)
+Marshall Teague               Captain Daniels (The Long Road)
+Teller, Penn &                [see Penn & Teller]
+Carmen Thomas                 Lyndisty (Sic Transit Vir)
+Craig Thomas                  Human (Comes the Inquisitor)
+Elaine Thomas                 Lianna Kemmer (Survivors)
+Jeremy Thomas                 Man (The Corps is Mother The Corps is Father)
+Tim Thomerson                 Senator McQuate (War Zone)
+Andrea Thompson               Talia Winters (First Season to Second Season)
+Brian Thompson                Robert Black (Patterns of the Soul)
+Dani Thompson                 Ombuds (Dust to Dust)
+Malachi Throne                Centauri Prime Minister (The Coming of Shadows)
+Tony Todd                     Captain Leonard Anderson (A Call to Arms)
+Tamlyn Tomita                 Laurel Takashima (The Gathering)
+Doug Tompos                   Med Tech (Interludes and Examinations)
+Lair Torrant                  Ranger (Sleeping in Light)
+Nick Toth                     Exeter (The Deconstruction of Falling Stars)
+Beth Toussaint                Anna Sheridan (Revelations[65a])
+Patty Toy                     PSI Corps Rep (A Voice in the Wilderness Part
+                              One)
+Patty Toy                     Ogilvie (A Distant Star)
+Peter Trencher                Carn Mollari (Midnight on the Firing Line)
+Ed Trotta                     Lt. General O'Reilly (Point of No Return)
+Mark Rafael Truitt            Minbari Warrior (In the Beginning)
+Louis Turenne                 Draal (A Voice in the Wilderness Part One and
+                              Part Two[42a])
+Louis Turenne                 Brother Theo (Convictions, Passing Through
+                              Gethsemane, And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding
+                              Place)
+
    
+
    U
    
+
    +Fabiana Udenio                Adira Tyree (Born To the Purple, Day of the
+                              Dead)
+Grace Una                     Alisa Beldon (Legacies)
+
    
+
    V
    
+
    +Thomas Valinote               Security Guard #2 (Points of Departure)
+Blair Valk                    Mariel (Soul Mates)
+Musetta Vander                Felicia (Between the Darkness and the Light)
+Floyd Vaughn                  Worker #1 (By Any Means Necessary)
+John Vickery                  Neroon (Legacies, All Alone in the Night, Grey
+                              17 is Missing, Rumors Bargains and Lies, Moments
+                              of Transition)
+John Vickery                  Mr. Welles (The Fall of Night)
+Erich Martin Von Hicks        Businessman #2 (The Parliament of Dreams)
+
    
+
    W
    
+
    +Robin Wake                    Young Lianna (Survivors)
+Andrew Walker                 Psi Cop (Matters of Honor)
+Charles Walker                Ben (Conflicts of Interest)
+Jessica Walter                Senator Elise Voudreau (A Spider in the Web)
+Joe Wandell                   Communications Officer (The Well of Forever)
+Sophie Ward                   Isabelle (The Path of Sorrows)
+Eric Ware                     Tim (Patterns of the Soul)
+David Warner                  Aldous Gajic (Grail)
+James Warwick                 Matthew Duffin (Exogenesis)
+Ed Wasser                     Guerra (The Gathering)
+Ed Wasser                     Morden (Signs and Portents, Chrysalis,
+                              Revelations, In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum, Matters
+                              of Honor, Ceremonies of Light and Dark,
+                              Interludes and Examinations, Z'Ha'Dum, The Hour
+                              of the Wolf, Falling Toward Apotheosis, Into the
+                              Fire, Day of the Dead)
+Felicity Waterman             Kelsey (Mind War)
+Kathe Weeks                   Diane (The Rules of the Game)
+Jerry Weil                    Technician (A Voice in the Wilderness Part One)
+Bergen Williams               Security Guard (Chrysalis)
+Jim Cody Williams             Thug #1 (Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
+Justin Williams               Mitchell (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+Lynn Red Williams             Customs Guard (Signs and Portents)
+Paul Williams                 Taq (Acts of Sacrifice)
+Walter Williamson             Paretti (Objects in Motion)
+Donald Willis                 Trader (Exogenesis)
+Mirron E. Willis              Brannagan (The Ragged Edge)
+Paul Winfield                 General Richard Franklin (GROPOS)
+Leslie Wing                   Mother (And Now For a Word)
+Mel Winkler                   Reverend Will Dexter (And the Rock Cried Out No
+                              Hiding Place)
+Time Winters                  Rathenn (War Without End Part One, Grey 17 is
+                              Missing)
+Edward Woodward               Alwyn (The Long Road)
+Peter Woodward                Galen (A Call to Arms, Crusade First Season)
+Dan Woren                     Bartender (Confessions and Lamentations)
+Mary Woronov                  Ko D'Ath (Born to the Purple[3a])
+Greg Wrangler                 Security Guard #1 (Points of Departure)
+
    
+
    Y
    
+
    +Momo Yashima                  Dr. Goyokin (Born To the Purple)
+Paul Yeuell                   Customs Guard (Infection)
+Richard Yniguez               Montoya (Meditations on the Abyss, Darkness
+                              Ascending)
+Michael York                  Arthur (A Late Delivery From Avalon)
+William Allen Young           Jason Ironheart (Mind War, A Race Through Dark
+                              Places)
+Jim Youngs                    Benson (And the Sky Full of Stars)
+
    
+
    Z
    
+
    +Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.          William Edgars (The Exercise of Vital Powers,
+                              The Face of the Enemy)
+Constance Zimmer              Young Woman Patient (The Quality of Mercy)
+Kim Zimmer                    Cynthia Torqueman (And Now For a Word)
+Eric Zivot                    Spragg (War Without End Part One)
+Eric Zivot                    Verano (The Summoning)
+Harley Zumbrum                Bruiser (Ruling From the Tomb)
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    
+
    0a
+
    David Sage was credited as "Dave Sage" in the original pilot, but as
+    "David Sage" in the special edition.
+
+
    3a
+
    Caitlin Brown (as Na'Toth) was credited in all first season episodes
+    except "Born To the Purple", which had Mary Woronov (as Ko D'Ath).
+
+
    3b
+
    Robert Phalen's character was credited as "Andrei Ivanova" rather than
+    "Andrei Ivanov" in "Born to the Purple".
+
+
    16a
+
    Marie Chambers' character was credited as "Sofie Ivanov" rather than
+    "Sofie Ivanova" in "Eyes".
+
+
    23a
+
    Claudia Christian's character was credited as "Lt. Commander Susan
+    Ivanova" for the first three episodes of the second season.
+
+
    23b
+
    Robert Rusler's character was credited as "Warren Keffer" for the first
+    five episodes of the second season.
+
+
    23c
+
    The character of Na'Toth was played by Caitlin Brown during the first
+    season, and was replaced by Mary Kay Adams in the second[98a].
+
+
    36a
+
    Caitlin Brown and Julie Caitlin Brown are the same person.
+
+
    42a
+
    The character of Draal was played by Louis Turenne in "A Voice in the
+    Wilderness", and was replaced by John Schuck in "The Long Twilight
+    Struggle".  John Schuck played Draal in later episodes.
+
+
    46a
+
    Mike McKenzie is probably the same person as Michael McKenzie.
+
+
    50a
+
    Judy Levitt's character was credited as "PSI Cop" in "Dust to Dust", but
+    as "Psi Cop" elsewhere.
+
+
    51a
+
    Kat Cressida and Kathryn Cressida are the same person, playing the same
+    character.
+
+
    55a
+
    It's likely that Doug McCoy, Doug E. McCoy, and Douglas E. McCoy are
+    the same person.
+
+
    62a
+
    Patricia Tallman was credited as "Patrica Tallman" in the credits.
+    This was not corrected in the repeat.
+
+
    65a
+
    The character of Anna Sheridan was played by Beth Toussaint in
+    "Revelations", and was replaced by Melissa Gilbert in "Shadow Dancing"
+    and "Z'Ha'Dum".  Photos of Melissa Gilbert were used in later episodes.
+
+
    67a
+
    Jerry Doyle's character was credited as "Security Chief Michael
+    Garibaldi" for the first seven episodes of the fourth season.
+
+
    67b
+
    Jeff Conaway's character was credited as "Zack Allan" for the first
+    seven episodes of the fourth season.
+
+
    82a
+
    Sandy Grinn is probably the same person as Sandey Grinn.
+
+
    88a
+
    Claudia Christian is not credited for "The Deconstruction of Falling
+    Stars", produced in the fifth season but shown in the fourth.
+
+
    96a
+
    Mary Major was credited as "ISN Reporter" in "Day of the Dead", but
+    her credit was not included in the home video version of the episode.
+
+
    97a
+
    David Darling and David D. Darling are probably the same person.
+
+
    98a
+
    Julie Caitlin Brown reprised the role of Na'Toth in the fifth season.
+    Mary Kay Adams was Na'Toth in the second season, and Julie Caitlin
+    Brown, credited as Caitlin Brown, was Na'Toth in the first season.
+
+
    110a
+
    Tracy Scoggins was not credited for "Sleeping in Light", produced in
+    the fourth season but shown in the fifth, which gives her a total of
+    21 episodes in the fourth and fifth seasons.
+
+
    110b
+
    Jason Carter was credited in both "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"
+    and "Sleeping in Light", which gives him a total of 23 episodes in the
+    fourth and fifth seasons.
+
+
    M1a
+
    Claudia Christian was not credited for her role as Susan Ivanova in the
+    TV movie "In the Beginning"
+
    
+
+
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+compilation, written or electronic, without the written permission of
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+July 27, 1999
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+Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: Awards
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+
     #### AWARDS #### [Production] [Literary]
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+
+See Also:
+[Emmy Award home page]
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+Babylon 5 Actors
+
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     [Creators] #### CAST #### [Philosophy] [Effects] [History]
+
+
     [Awards] [Production] [Literary]
+    
+
+
    
+See Also:
+Complete Actors' List
+
+
    
+This page contains listings of other roles for actors
+in Babylon 5.  Some info is pulled from the Actors and Actress lists
+maintained by Col Needham and available via ftp from
+refugee.colorado.edu in the /pub/tv+movies/lists directory.  Other
+information is pulled from the Internet Movie Database at http://www.imdb.com/.
+Other actors not listed here can often be found there.
+
+
    
+Dates listed after TV series entries indicate when the actor appeared in the
+show, if known.  Otherwise the year the series started is listed.
+
+
    
+Contents:
+
    
+
+
      
+
    1. Series Main Cast
      
+    Richard Biggs,
+	Bruce Boxleitner,
+	Jason Carter,
+	Ardwight Chamberlain,
+	Claudia Christian,
+	Jeff Conaway,
+	Jerry Doyle,
+	Mira Furlan,
+	Peter Jurasik,
+	Andreas Katsulas,
+	Michael O'Hare,
+	Tracy Scoggins,
+	Patricia Tallman,
+	Andrea Thompson
+	

      
+
+
    2. Series Supporting and Recurring Cast
      
+    Mary Kay Adams,
+	Aki Aleong,
+	Wayne Alexander,
+	Caitlin Brown,
+	Macaulay Bruton,
+	Tim Choate,
+	Joshua Cox,
+	David L. Crowley,
+	Robin Atkin Downes,
+	Maggie Egan,
+	William Forward,
+	Stephen Furst,
+	Denise Gentile,
+	Walter Koenig,
+	Wortham Krimmer,
+	Damian London,
+	Gary McGurk,
+	Marjorie Monaghan,
+	Bill Mumy,
+	Julia Nickson,
+	Robert Rusler,
+	Mark Schneider,
+	Louis Turenne,
+	John Vickery,
+	Ed Wasser,
+	Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
+	

      
+
+
    3. Pilot Cast
      
+    Blaire Baron,
+	Johnny Sekka,
+	Tamlyn Tomita
+	

      
+
+
    4. Cameos
+
    
+
+
    
+A complete list of guest stars can be found on the
+Cast List
+page in the Reference section.
+
+
+
    Series Main Cast
    
+
+
+
    
+Richard Biggs
+(Dr. Stephen Franklin)
    
+
+
    
+Richard Biggs was born in 1961 in Columbus, Ohio (USA) and graduated from
+University of Southern California School of Theatre. He passed away on
+May 22, 2004.
+A college
+fund for his children
+has been established.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Bruce Boxleitner
+(John Sheridan)
    
+
+
    
+Bruce Boxleitner was born on May 12, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois (USA) and is
+married to
+Melissa Gilbert.
+In May 1998 he was appointed to the National Space Society Board of Governors.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+A TV Guide interview with Bruce Boxleitner (97/07/01)

    
+
+
    
+Jason Carter
+(Marcus Cole)
    
+
+
    
+Jason Carter was born on September 23, 1960.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
+
    Ardwight Chamberlain (Kosh [voice])
    
+
+
+
    
+Ardwight Chamberlain's birthday is February 16. Although he has been "the
+voice" of Kosh, the man underneath the encounter suit has been
+Jeffrey Willerth.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Claudia Christian
+(Susan Ivanova)
    
+
+
    
+Claudia Ann Christian was born on August 10, 1965 in Glendale, California
+(USA). She also starred as "Major Kelt" in a video game for the Sega Saturn and
+Sony Playstation named "Solar Eclipse" (a.k.a. "Titan" a.k.a. "Titan Wars")
+which was released in fall 1995. Furthermore, she has written for and starred
+in the cooking show "Claudia and Claudio ... Italian Cooking With A Bite", has
+written children's books and works as songwriter and singer. She also
+participated in recording a music album with some of her Babylon 5 co-stars.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan)
    
+
+
    
+Jeff Conaway was born on October 5, 1950 in New York City, New York (USA).
+Apart from being an actor, he has also worked as producer, story writer and
+director. For his role as "Bobby Wheeler" in the TV series "Taxi" he was
+nominated for the Golden Globe as best TV actor in a supporting role in 1979
+and 1980.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Jerry Doyle
+(Michael Garibaldi)
    
+
+
    
+Jerry Doyle was born on July 16, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
+(USA). He worked as a jet pilot and after that as stockbroker on Wall Street
+when he gave it up to move to Hollywood and pursue acting.  Told he needed a
+resume, he made one up; he included credits such as The Dance Theatre of
+Harlem.  Since then, he has acquired some actual roles, most lately on Babylon
+5.  He was married to Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters.)
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Mira Furlan
+(Delenn)
    
+
+
    
+Mira Furlan was born on September 7 in Zagreb (Croatia) and was one of
+former Yugoslavia's leading actresses before she came to the United States.
+She was awarded two "Golden Arenas" (Yugoslavian Oscars) for Best Actress. She
+has also worked as song writer and performer and did one CD together with some
+of her Babylon 5 co-stars. Her husband,
+Goran Gajic,
+has worked as director on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Peter Jurasik
+(Londo Mollari)
    
+
+
    
+Peter Jurasik was born in New York and is member of the Village Idiots comedy
+group and participated in recording a music album together with some of his
+Babylon 5 co-stars. He also co-authored the science fiction novel "Diplomatic
+Act".
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
+
    • Godspell
+
    • Jules
+
    • Other People's Money
+
    • Werewolf
+
    • Wings
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar)
    
+
+
    
+Andreas Katsulas was born on May 18, 1946 in St. Louis, Missouri (USA).
+In addition to his acting work, he participated in recording a music album
+together with some of his Babylon 5 co-stars. He passed away at age 59
+on February 13, 2006, a victim of lung cancer.
+
+
    
+Theater: a 15-year run with Peter Brooks' International Company, appearing in
+productions such as
+
      
+
    • The Conference of the Birds
+
    • The Mahabharata
+
    • Measure for Measure
+
    • La Tragedie de Carmen
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Michael O'Hare (Jeffrey Sinclair)
    
+
+
    
+Michael O'Hare was born on May 6, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). He is the
+first white actor who has been nominated by the black theater community of
+New York for the AUDELCO award as Best Actor for his role in the play "Shades
+of Brown".
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • A Few Good Men ("Lt. Col. Nathan Roy Jessup")
+
    • Galileo
+
    • Man and Superman ("Hector")
+
    • Players ("Geoff")
+
    • Shades of Brown
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Tracy Scoggins
+(Elizabeth Lochley)
    
+
+
    
+Tracy Scoggins was born on November 13, 1959 in Dickinson, Texas (USA). She
+studied physical education and speech communications at Southwest Texas State
+University and worked for the Elite Modeling Agency in New York. Her modeling
+brought her to Germany, Italy and France where she joined an all-girl rock
+band. After she had returned from Europe, she studied acting at the renowned
+Herbert Berghoff and Winn Hannman studios. She also co-hosted the video "Rape
+is Not An Option" and starred in and produced workout videos.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Patricia Tallman
+(Lyta Alexander)
    
+
+
    
+Patricia Tallman was born on September 4, 1957 and graduated from Carnegie
+Mellon University in 1979 in Theater Arts where she also earned an award for
+Outstanding Achievement in Acting. She makes her living with stunt work during
+which she already doubled a lot of stars in big blockbusters. She is certified
+by the British Society of Fight Directors and member of the Stunt Women's
+Association of America. Furthermore, she is founding member of The All Original
+Playwright Company, a Los Angeles based theater group dedicated to develop
+original theater material. She is engaged to
+Jeffrey Willerth,
+Babylon 5's assistant producer and the man underneath the Kosh suit.
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • Action Cabaret (various roles)
+
    • As You Like It ("Rosalind")
+
    • Big, Bad Burlesque (lead role)
+
    • Cricket on the Hearth ("Bertha")
+
    • A Gentleman and a Scoundrel ("Jenny")
+
    • Megabeth ("Queen Margurite")
+
    • Misalliance ("Lina")
+
    • Nebraska ("Lt. Kim Newman")
+
    • New and Used ("Avalon")
+
    • Pinko (The Artist in Spite of Himself) ("Alph Romeo")
+
    • The Wives ("Barb Donaher")
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+An interview with Patricia Tallman.

    
+
+
+
+
    
+Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters)
    
+
+
    
+Andrea Thompson was born in 1962 in Dayton, Ohio (USA) but spent most of her
+childhood in Australia. She studied acting in New York and was formerly married
+to Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi). As part of the cast of "NYPD Blue", she was
+nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an
+Ensemble in a Drama Series in 1998 and 1999.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    Series Supporting and Recurring Cast
    
+
+
+
    
+Mary Kay Adams (Na'Toth)
    
+
+
    
+Mary Kay Adams was born on September 12 in Middletown, New Jersey (USA).
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Aki Aleong (Senator Hidoshi)
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Wayne Alexander
+(Lorien and others)
    
+
+
    
+Wayne Alexander has played a lot of aliens on Babylon 5, including a Narn,
+a Drazi, a Drakh and of course Lorien. But he also played "Sebastian" in the
+second season episode
+"Comes the Inquisitor".
+
+
    
+Broadway:
+
      
+
    • The Common Pursuit
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Caitlin Brown
+(Na'Toth)
    
+
+
    
+Julie Caitlin Brown was born on January 27, 1961 in San Francisco,
+California (USA).
+Before she got her role as Na'Toth, she also auditioned for the roles of
+Delenn and Ivanova.
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
+
    • Grand Hotel
+
    • Jesus Christ Superstar ("Mary Magdalene")
+
    • A Late Snow at Theater Rhinocerous
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
+
    Macaulay Bruton (Garibaldi's Aide)
    
+
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Tim Choate
+(Zathras)
    
+
+
    
+Tim Choate was born on October 11, 1954 in Dallas, Texas (USA). He died in
+a motorcycle accident on September 24, 2004. An educational trust for his
+son, who was four at the time, has been established; donations may be
+sent to The Tim Choate Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 861355, Los Angeles, CA 90086.
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • Crimes of the Heart
+
    • DA
+
    • The Iceman Cometh
+
    • Idiot's Delight
+
    • The Philanthropist (title role)
+
    • The Show Off (title role)
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Joshua Cox
+(David Corwin)
    
+
+
    
+Joshua Cox has also worked as propmaker and is an amateur bass guitar player.
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • American Buffalo
+
    • Hamlet (Laertes)
+
    • North of Providence
+
    • Prarie Avenue
+
    • The Resistable Rise of Auturo Ui
+
    • Us and Them
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
+
    David L. Crowley (Lou Welch)
    
+
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Robin Atkin Downes
+(Byron)
    
+
+
    
+Apart from Byron, he also played a Minbari named "Morann" in
+"In the Beginning"
+and in the season four episode
+"Atonement"
+(the character is just called "Grey Council #1" in that episode).
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • Assassins
+
    • Road
+
    • Sign of the Lizard
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Maggie Egan
+(ISN Reporter)
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+William Forward (Lord Refa)
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Stephen Furst
+(Vir Cotto)
    
+
+
    
+Stephen Furst was born on May 8, 1955 in Norfolk, Virginia (USA). As well as
+playing Vir on B5, Furst acts in two other shows concurrent to filming Babylon
+5: "The Howie Mandel Sunny Skies Show" and "Misery Loves Company". Furthemore,
+he has already written and directed some movies and also worked as director for
+several Babylon 5 and Crusade episodes. In 1999 he has won the Directors Gold
+Award at the Santa Clarita International Film Festival for "Baby Huey's Great
+Easter Adventure". Furst is a spokesman of the American Diabetes Foundation
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Denise Gentile (Lise Hampton)
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Walter Koenig
+(Alfred Bester)
    
+
+
    
+Walter Koenig was born on September 14, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois (USA) and is
+of Lithuanian descent. He is of course best known for his role as "Pavel
+Chekov" in "Star Trek" which he also played in several "Star Trek" video games.
+Furthermore, he played "Drexler" in the video game "Maximum Surge" and wrote
+episodes for several TV series and wrote and directed numerous theater plays.
+He's the author of non-fictional and fictional novels and some comic books and
+has taught acting and directing at the UCLA and other colleges/schools. In the
+Babylon 5 episode
+"A Race Through Dark Places"
+Koenig appeared together with his wife,
+Judy Levitt.
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • Actors ("Dave")
+
    • America Hurrah! (director)
+
    • Beckett (director)
+
    • Blood Wedding
+
    • The Boys in Autumn
+
    • Box and Cox ("Box")
+
    • The Collection
+
    • The Deputy ("Jacobson")
+
    • Hotel Paradiso (director)
+
    • Make A Million ("Johnny")
+
    • Matrix (director)
+
    • A Midsummer Night's Dream ("Quince")
+
    • Night Must Fall ("Danny")
+
    • Other People's Money ("Larry the Liquidator")
+
    • La Ronde ("Gentleman")
+
    • Six Characters in Search of an Author ("Oldest Son")
+
    • Steambath ("God")
+
    • Three by Ten (director)
+
    • Twelve Angry Men (director)
+
    • The Typist and the Tiger ("Paul")
+
    • The White House Murder Case ("Capt. Weems")
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia)
    
+
+
    
+Robert Wortham-Krimmer was born on November 24 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). He
+got the name "Wortham" from his wife's maiden name.
+
+
    
+Theater:
+
      
+
    • The Cherry Orchard
+
    • Man and Superman
+
    • Men's Singles
+
    • Our Town
+
    • Richard III
+
    • Tamera
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Damian London (Centauri Official)
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Gary McGurk (Morgan Clark)
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Marjorie Monaghan (Number One)
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
+
    
+Bill Mumy
+(Lennier)
    
+
+
    
+Charles William Mumy Jr. [pronounced like "Moomy" not "Mummy"] was born
+on February 1, 1954 in San Gabriel, California (USA). Best known as Will
+Robinson from Lost in Space, he's part of the Barnes and Barnes music group
+best known for the song "Fish Heads" and is currently writing for the "Lost in
+Space" comic series and hosting the "Inside Space" magazine show on the Sci-Fi
+Channel. He is the creator of the "Space Cases" TV series. He has also recorded
+a music album together with some of his Babylon 5 co-stars.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Julia Nickson [formerly Julie Nickson-Soul] (Catherine Sakai)
    
+
+
    
+Julia Nickson was born in 1959 in Singapore.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Robert Rusler (Warren Keffer)
    
+
+
    
+Robert Rusler was born on September 20, 1965. He also played "Seether" in the
+video game "Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom".
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+Mark Schneider (Wade)
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
+
    Louis Turenne (Brother Theodore)
    
+
+
+
    
+Louis Turenne was born on November 26, 1933 in Montreal, Quebec (Canada).
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
    
+John Vickery
+(Alyt Neroon)
    
+
+
    
+John Vickery also played Mr. Welles in
+"The Fall of Night."
+
+
    
+Broadway:
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Ed Wasser
+(Morden)
    
+
+
    
+Ed Wasser was born on March 26, 1964 in Roslyn Heights, New York (USA). He also
+appeared in Babylon 5's
+pilot
+as the technician "Guerra".
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
+
    
+Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
+(William Edgars)
    
+
+
    
+Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born on November 30, 1923 in New York City, New York
+(USA). In 1959 he has won the Golden Globe Award as Most Promising Newcomer,
+in 1968 he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award as Best Supporting
+Actor for his role in "Wait Until Dark" and in 1969 he was nominated in the
+category Best TV Star for his role on "The F.B.I.". He also played "Wolfgang"
+in the video game "Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers".
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
+
    Pilot Cast
    
+
+
+
    
+Blaire Baron
+(Carolyn Sykes)
    
+
+
    
+Blaire Baron has worked as private investigator in New York at the same time
+while she was playing "Kate Lang" on "The Guiding Light".
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Johnny Sekka (Dr. Benjamin Kyle)
    
+
+Johnny Sekka was born in 1939 in Dakar (Senegal).
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
    
+Tamlyn Tomita
+(Laurel Takashima)
    
+
+
    
+Tamlyn Tomita was born on January 27, 1966 in Okinawa (Japan) and was chosen
+by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1991.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+IMDB Filmography

    
+
+
+
+
    Cameos
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Doug Netter (B5 Executive Producer) and Anne Bruice (B5 costumer)
+as EA Officials displayed on a computer screen in a series episode.
+Netter is the face of EA President Luis Santiago.
+
    • 
+Kiki Stockhammer (Video Toaster Spokesperson)
+reading "Universe Today" in
+"The Gathering."
+
    • 
+Ron Thornton (B5 Visual Effects) as a "lurker" in
+"The Gathering."
+Also, one of the aliens was modeled after him.
+
    • 
+Jim Johnston (director) in
+"By Any Means Necessary"
+yelling "I say Strike!"; much of the production crew appeared in that episode.
+
    • 
+John Flinn (Director of Cinematography) as Mr. Flinn in
+"Grail."
+
    • 
+Harlan Ellison as the voice of Sparky, the computer in
+"Ceremonies of Light and Dark."
+
    • 
+Cartoonist Scott Adams as Mr. Adams in
+"Moments of Transition."
+
    • 
+Harlan Ellison as a Psi Cop in
+"The Face of the Enemy."
+
    • 
+Penn and Teller as Rebo and Zooty in
+"Day of the Dead"
+
    • 
+Joe Michael Straczynski, the Great Maker and creator of the show himself, in
+"Sleeping in Light"
+as a technician with an important job.
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+Based on:
+
+
    +The Babylon 5 Actors other Roles List compiled by Lee Whiteside,
+Send updates, corrections or additions to:
+        L.WHITESIDE on GEnie
+        76044,502 on Compuserve
+        P14942@email.mot.com  \___ Internet mail addresses
+        leew@goodnet.com     /
+
+The Magrathea BBS  (602) 833-9216
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Updated and reworked by
+Dirk Kocherscheidt.
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+February 14, 2006
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: The Creators
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     #### CREATORS #### [Cast] [Philosophy] [Effects] [History]
+
+
     [Awards] [Production] [Literary]
+
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+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+
+The show was created by J. Michael Straczynski (JMS), who is
+executive producer along with Doug Netter.  It has been in
+development since 1987.
+
+
    
+JMS has been involved with genre television for many
+years, as story editor and writer for the Twilight Zone TV series (syndicated
+version),
+Captain Power,
+and the animated The Real Ghostbusters.  He has also
+written for Jake and the Fatman and Murder,  She Wrote.  JMS has also had
+many published short stories, an anthology, and  two fantasy/horror novels.
+Until recently, he was co-host of Hour 25, a Los Angeles area science fiction
+radio talk show.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+What does an executive producer do?
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+What is JMS up to nowadays?
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Doug Netter is an equal partner in Babylon 5 and has been in the business
+for a long time.  He was Executive Vice President and Chief  Operating Officer 
+at MGM Studios from 1970-1975, where his nickname was Rattlesnake, thus 
+Rattlesnake Productions, the production company he founded in 1978. Doug mainly 
+handles the business side and leaves the creative work to Straczynski, which is 
+how they first worked together on Captain Power.  Recent executive producer  
+credits include "Captain Power" and "The Wild West" 10-hour miniseries 
+documentary.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+John Copeland is Babylon 5's producer.  Copeland has been working with
+Netter since 1977 and together they have produced "The Wild West" and the "Wild 
+Times" miniseries, "Roughnecks," "The Sacketts," and the pilot for "Captain
+Power," among others.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+John Iacovelli is the production designer, in charge of coming up with
+new sets and other visual elements.  In the past, he has worked on
+"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" among other films.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Christopher Franke,
+formerly of
+Tangerine Dream,
+composes the show's
+soundtrack
+and wrote the main title themes.  His film credits
+include
+McBain,
+Universal Soldier,
+and the miniseries
+The Tommyknockers.
+(Franke has released a soundtrack album of
+music from the first and second seasons of the show.)
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Harlan Ellison
+is the conceptual consultant for the series.  He has
+written a "manifesto" for the show that explains to other writers how to
+write science fiction for television and Babylon 5 in particular.  On a
+day-to-day basis, he has no preassigned duties (though he plans to write a
+script or two) but is something of a generalist, helping refine many aspects
+of the production, from writing to sets.  JMS refers to Ellison's position as
+"a free-roaming agent of chaos."
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Ron Thornton of Foundation Imaging was in charge of the
+special effects
+through season three.  The effects won an Emmy for the pilot movie.  Thornton
+has worked on Terminator 2, the Addams Family, Captain Power, Blake's 7, Doctor
+Who, and other projects.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+An interview with Thornton.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Everett Burrell and John Vulich head the make-up team at Optic 
+Nerve studios, and won an Emmy for their work in the first season of B5.  They
+have worked on productions such as Batman Returns, Aliens, Tales From The Crypt,
+Night of The Living Dead, and The Lost Boys.
+
+
    
+Well-known science fiction writers, including Ellison, David Gerrold, Peter
+David, and D.C. Fontana, are contributing scripts to the show.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+A list of the show's writers and directors.
+
+
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+
    
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
    
+Last update:
+December 21, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: The Effects
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Creators] [Cast] [Philosophy] #### EFFECTS #### [History]
+
+
     [Awards] [Production] [Literary]
+    
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Overview -
+Notes
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Overview
    
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+All special effects for Babylon 5 are computer generated.  Foundation Imaging,
+headed by Ron Thornton, produced the special effects for the pilot movie and
+seasons one through three.  Starting in season four, the special effects
+were moved in-house to Netter Digital Imaging, another subsidiary of the
+parent of B5's production company.
+
+
    
+The B5 effects teams, both at Foundation and at NDI, use
+Lightwave 3D
+by NewTek and specialized software to design and render the visual effects.
+For the pilot, the effects were rendered on a network of Amiga computers;
+later, Foundation used 12 Pentium PCs and 5 DEC Alpha workstations for 3D
+rendering and design, and 3 Macintoshes for piecing together on-set computer
+displays.  The NDI team uses a similar array of equipment; see George
+Johnsen's comments below.
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+CGI space scenes are clearer and have more realistic movement than model shots.
+Some interior shots such as docking bays are "virtual sets" combining live
+action with computer imagery.  Computer-generated aliens make regular
+appearances on the show as well.
+
+
    
+
    
+Babylon 5's makeup is put together by Optic Nerve Studios, which 
+has done makeup work on such projects as
+Batman Returns and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The
+Movie, among others.  On B5, they've made an attempt to break away
+from the minimalist approach often seen on weekly series, preferring full-head
+(and, in some cases, full-body) prosthetics rather than simple changes to
+the nose or forehead.  Their work has paid off in the form of an
+Emmy award.
+
+
    
+The Babylon 5 FTP archive's
+Pictures
+directory
+contains numerous examples of the show's special effects and makeup.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+An interview with Ron Thornton.
+
    
+[More Info]
+An interview with Mojo (supervising animator.)
+
    
+[More Info]
+BlackPool Studios home page
+
    
+
+
    Assorted production notes
    
+
+
    From Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, Foundation Imaging animator
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The general composition of our FX shots, including camera moves, are
+dictated by the feeling of a scene.  If JMS writes a big action scene,
+we'll move around a lot to convey that mood - if the scene has a
+somber tone, the moves will be slower to reflect this.  Everything is
+dictated by story - a swooping camera move just for the sake of it can
+very easily draw your attention to the effect and away from the story
+- something we have no desire to do.
+
+
      
+Interestingly enough, big swooping camera moves aren't something we
+can do very often for a good reason: you have no points of reference
+in space.  Next time you're driving around, look at the clouds.  using
+only them as reference, it seems as if you're standing still - even at
+120 MPH!  Now let's move into space, where your only reference are
+stars and planets - it doesn't matter how fast you move the camera,
+it's going to look as if you're standing still.  In addition, without
+the background moving, if you move a camera past a ship it tends to
+look as if the ship is moving, which is why you will almost never see
+a shot of the camera moving past Babylon 5. 
+
+
      
+All this is why we tend to bank the camera a lot (twist it from side
+to side) - it's a way of adding camera motion to the scene without
+bothersome perspective problems!
+
+
    
+
+
    From coproducer George Johnsen
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Are Macintoshes used in the production?
+
+
      
+Even though the Joe uses "another" platform, the show actually uses
+many!  Macs have been essential to the creation of the show from the
+beginning.  Even farther back, the Amiga and the Newtek Toaster were
+employed.  
+
+
      
+Currently we use Pentiums and Alphas for animation, Macs for Editing,
+Matte paintings and Compositing, and SGI's for Compositing and titling. 
+If that isn't platform independent, I don't know what is!
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The arsenal looks like the following- 
+
+
      
+Alphas for design stations serving 5 animators and one animation
+assistant (housekeeping and slate specialist).  Most of these stations
+run Lightwave and a couple add Softimage.  VERY plug-in hungry.  PVR's
+on every station, with calibrated component NTSC (darn it, I hates ntsc)
+right beside.
+
+
      
+P6's in quad enclosures for part of the renderstack, and Alphas for the
+rest, backed up 2x per day to an optical jukebox.
+
+
      
+Completed shots output to a DDR post rendering and get integrated into
+the show.
+
+
      
+Shots to composite go to the Macs running After Effects, or the SGI
+running Flint, depending on the type of comp being done, and then to the
+DDR (8 minutes capacity on the SGI).
+
+
      
+Boy it sure sounds easy!  The only problem is, we have a killer schedule
+and very picky producers, and ESPECIALLY picky viewers! :-)
+
+
      
+It is, however, a bunch of fun!
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What does the process of coming up with a new ship look like?
      
+The script will dictate a direction to look.  Joe has some amazing
+pictures in his head, and sometimes they actually pop out and leak onto
+paper!  Other times it takes more help.  There is a discussion around a
+table not unlike the one that you describe, where the general
+characteristics of the race and their mode of conveyance are discussed
+in detail.  The ideas that result are communicated to a designer
+(creature specialist, futurist, technical illustrator, theortical
+scientist, or animator- depends on the type of design required) for a
+concept sketch.  Once that is adjusted and approved, a modeler builds
+the object in the appropriate animation software, and the surfacing
+begins!
+
+
      
+At completion of that point, a move test is done, approved or rejected
+by myself, John Copeland, and JMS, and the object is added to the
+animator's arsenal.
+
+
      
+Yes, it is collaborative, and fairly time consuming, but it does result
+in some cool ships that no single vision could produce!
+
+
    
+
+
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+
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+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
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+
    
+Last update:
+August 12, 1997
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+
+What's an executive producer?
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
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+
    
+
+
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+
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+
+    
+
+
    What's an "Executive Producer?"
    
+
+
    By J. Michael Straczynski
    
+
+
    
+     Every couple of days, as today, I get one or another message saying,
+"In this episode, did you have anything to do with, or were you involved
+with...." and it's the script, or an actor, or whatever.  All legitimate
+questions.  In thinking about this, it occured to me that maybe it might
+be a good idea to go over what an executive producer actually *does*.
+
+
    
+     So file this under "How I Spend My Days," by J. Michael Straczynski,
+Age 12
+
+
    
+     1) I write scripts.  12 the first year, 15 the second.  When you see
+my name on a script, every action and dialogue was written that way.  My
+scripts are very detailed.  There is very, *very* little improv allowed
+on the show, not necessarily because I think each word is golden but
+because a changed word can mess up an important sentence that foreshadows
+something 4-6 episodes down the road.  If an actor is having a problem
+with a line, which happens occasionally but rarely, and wants to substitute
+one word with another, somebody comes from the stage to my office, 15 feet
+away, and checks to make sure it's okay.
+
+
    
+     2) I work with the prosthetics/makeup people in conceptualizing
+and approving makeups.  I partly sculpted the original version of Delenn's
+headpiece in the pilot.  Prosthetics folks read the script, come up with
+several designs, run them past me, and I approve one or the other.
+
+
    
+     3) I work with the costume designers, again with final approval on
+all elements.  Sometimes if I have something specific in mind, I'll try
+and sketch it out.  (I can't draw for squat, and our costume designer finds
+my pathetic scribblings very amusing, and...."cute."  I once drew a kitty
+on the same page as a costume note, just to show her i was improving my
+range.  She stuck it on her wall.  Argh.)  Usually she comes up with
+designs, runs them past me, I make some notes or suggestions of varying
+coherence, and she runs with it.
+
+
    
+     4) I approve all set designs, and again, once in a while, will get
+into the act with a rough sketch of one sort or another.  Any artwork,
+posters, signage, set dressing, props...all go through my office for
+personal approval.
+
+
    
+     5) Along with the director and a few others, I sit in on all casting
+and have final right of decision, along with Doug, and we rarely
+disagree.
+
+
    
+     6) I approve all directors and writers for the show, and work with
+both.  In the case of directors, we speak about the episode many times,
+and have "tone meetings" just before shooting in which we go over every
+page to discuss the visualization and make sure we're on the same track.
+I try to slip out onto the set when possible to make sure we're still on
+the right track.  If I see something that may not be what I had in mind,
+I'll either defer if it works, or if I'm concerned, I'll pull the
+director aside for a quiet discussion, and let the director relay my
+notes to the actors.  (On the set, there can only be one voice, and that
+is the director, in terms of relaying instructions to crew and cast.)
+
+
    
+     7) I work with the composer, determining in- and out-cues for music,
+and where I have something in mind, expressing it to Christopher.
+
+
    
+     8) Working with the CGI folks on exactly what given sequences should
+look like, and how long they should be.
+
+
    
+     9) After the director makes his/her cut, John Copeland and I go in to
+make the producer's cut.  We sometimes re-edit every frame, or do a light
+dusting.  Generally I work more with the character stuff, and he's good at
+action stuff (hence my nickname for John, Captain Action).  We sometimes
+spend as much as two days going over every single frame, to tighten and
+make it stronger.
+
+
    
+     When you have a crew and cast as talented as we do, a lot of the
+preceding stages amount to basically saying "yup" a lot, and in all of
+this, John Copeland is my good right arm; I rely on his judgment
+implicitly.
+
+
    
+     (John is also our resident military expert, and he does a lot to
+keep us in line with tradition.  I think when the B5 history is eventually
+written, his importance to the show will really come through.)
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+     What's it like for me?  Race to the studio in the morning, run from
+one meeting to another, with directors, art department, costume department,
+prosthetics, grab an hour with the door closed to write my brains out,
+maybe get onto the stage for 5 minutes to watch a particular delicate
+scene being shot, race back to more meetings, race off to editing, grab
+another couple hours writing, race home, grab a sandwich, write a few
+hours, and do BBSing.
+
+
    
+     Sometimes, in all that, it's very possible to actually forget what it
+is you're doing, to forget to *enjoy* it, because you're too much in it
+("the world is too much with us").  That happens, alas, all too often.
+
+
    
+     But every once in a while, one realizes just what one *is* doing,
+from some comments on the BBS (holy smoke, the episode WORKED!), to
+days like today, when there's one scene in particular in dailies with
+G'Kar and Londo, that is *so* perfect, *so* brilliant a performance
+that you realize suddenly what you're doing, and what you've touched,
+and then, for a moment, it's fun.
+
+
    
+      Then there's another meeting....
+
+
    
+      Well, I figure I'll probably most enjoy all this long after it's
+finished.
+
+
    
+
    
+Unfortunately, in my case, I'm all over the map, depending on when
+meetings are held...sometimes very early, sometimes later in the morning.
+I'm usually up until at least 3 a.m. every night of the week, sometimes
+as late as 4-4:30 a.m., so how much actual sleep I get is a very flexible
+notion.
+
+
    
+As for the crew...crew call is 7 a.m. M-F, as a rule.  If an alien
+is in the first scene, prosthetics crew can sometimes show up as early as
+6:00 a.m.  Actors and crew actually hit the stage at 9 a.m.  (7-9 is spent
+basically waking up, rigging lights, setting up cameras, other stuff.)
+
+
    
+We shoot until about 7 p.m., rarely any later.
+
+
    
+
    
+"You're the writer and executive producer, and also big and tall. My
+question are, within the limitations of the budget you get, who controls
+the money?  Who has the final say over who to hire or fire, and what to
+spend money on or not?  Do you control all of that, or do you
+havemini-budgets for individual groups and let managers below you handle
+the smaller details within?  Can you briefly list the parts of the
+management hierarchy above and below you for, say, 1-2 levels?  Who's your
+boss and your boss' boss?  To whom are you the immediate boss and who
+reports to them?  Or maybe it's all a very flat hierarchy?"
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+Doug and I own Babylonian Productions.  Once the budget is allocated by
+WB, we have full, final and complete discretionary control over it all. 
+Now, if we're going to do something major -- fire or hire a recurring
+actor or director -- we have to contact our liaison at WB and explain why,
+and what impact it has on standing contracts.  Once they are brought into
+the loop, they generally stamp "okay" on it and we move on.  They only get
+into the major issues, not the smaller, day to day things.  
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+Guest stars: Doug and I have final authority, no need to check with WB;
+costume designs, sets, CGI, prosthetics...I generally deal with all of
+that, with John Copeland.  John handles a fair amount of this stuff as
+well, but if there's any kind of decision that needs to be made, to
+finalize stuff, it comes to me.  
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+And that's really the whole chain of command: me and Doug, then John; and
+at the approval process for major changes, WB.
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+Foundation Imaging is no longer doing the special effects for Babylon 5,
+as of season 4.  According to executive producer J. Michael Straczynski
+and others, Foundation was asking for more money than B5's budget would
+allow, and was going to assign junior animators to B5's effects.  Warner
+Bros. and Babylonian Productions decided to instead do the work in-house,
+so have contracted with Netter Digital Entertainment, Inc. (parent
+company of Babylonion Productions) to produce the effects for season 4.
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+Following are JMS's messages on the subject.  More details will be added
+to this page as they become available.
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+There's a lot I can't say on this publicly at this point, though I hope to
+be able to do so soon.  Business stuff that has to get ironed out first.
+
+
      
+What I will say about the CGI for season 4 is just this...that the
+equipment being used is equal to, or better than the equipment at
+Foundation; the animators are largely those who have worked on B5 in the
+past, who were let go some time ago when Foundation downsized, with a few
+outside additions, just as Foundation would add to its ranks from outside;
+and there should be *zero* difference onscreen to what has been the case
+on B5, except that it will continue to improve over what we've done in the
+past.
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+
      
+As usual every season, we start out with lighter CGI episodes, and build
+to big stuff as we go.  That will be the same this season as last.  Our
+first really big CGI episode last season was "Messages," which was around
+episode #8, then "Severed," episode #10.  This season we'll hit with big
+stuff around episode #6, which will likely be as big as "Severed."  Rather
+than push stuff back, we've been able to move CGI stuff forward and expand
+on scenes.
+
+
      
+Basically, the bottom line is that whatever we've done on the show has
+been with one and only one goal: we thought we could make it better by
+doing X.  Invariably, when people hear what's up, the inititial reaction
+is to panic...until they actually SEE what we're doing...and then it
+becomes clear.  This is no different.
+
+
      
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+"Who exactly owns the 3D models, the textures, all the stuff that
+Foundation made for the EFX in the episodes?  I assume you or Warner Bro.
+does."
+
+
      
+WB owns it all.  WB owns the copyright on B5 (as does every studio
+producing a series, as Paramount owns ST), and anything produced in the
+process of making that show.  
+
+
      
+"Part of the reason I ask is, I swear I saw some models or parts of models
+in Hypernauts.""
+
+
      
+Very likely.  I think the rule is that if you change it more than 50%, you
+can use it for secondary purposes.
+
+
      
+"Are the new guys (NDE) still using Lightwave 3D/Video Toasters etc.?  It
+would be a major pain to try and convert all the 3D models over into a new
+format.  Also, I'm a Lightwave fan . . ."
+
+
      
+I'm reasonably sure it's all been ported over to a PC platform, but it's
+still Lightwave.  These are the latest machines off the line, and they're
+extremely fast and powerful.
+
+
      
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+"With the change in CGI houses, can we expect a "new approach" or
+substantial change in the *design* of new ships, cities, creatures, etc?"
+
+
      
+Nope.  The CGI is created by using set geometries, textures and other
+elements that are stored as data.  We have virtually all that data at
+hand; as a result, it is made of the same identical elements, and will be
+indistinguishable from anything done before.  So no, what's been
+established won't be changed at all.  What we will do is increase the
+level of detail and texturing in some of the models, so that we can bring
+them closer to camera, something I've been wanting to do for a while now. 
+(The closer we get to camera, the bigger and more massive the object
+appears.)  
+
+
      
+I saw some of the first renderings today, and as this was the first stuff
+off the line, I was in hyper-critical mode, looking for something to
+quibble with.  I couldn't see any difference between this and what we've
+had in the past.  (One was a nifty little sunrise shot, the lights going
+off as a group of starfuries fly past.)
+
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+There are also about six or seven new major ships we'll be seeing in the
+first batch of year 4 episodes that are being built now, and the first
+renderings on them looked very cool.  
+
+
      
+"Or - are the show's principle designers still on board?"
+
+
      
+Yes and no.  Steve Burg was a principal designer of the Agamemnon, the
+Starfury design, the Minbari cruisers, B5 itself, and other ships.  He's
+hip-deep right now working on "Contact," and not available for a while
+yet.  We've always had to sandwich in Steve's stuff between his major film
+gigs.  (He did major design work on The Abyss, Waterworld, T2, others.) 
+As soon as he's free, we'll send some stuff his way.  Eric Chauvin, who
+has done our digital matte paintings (Centauri Prime exteriors, palace,
+others) and other stuff, like the ship-lift used by the Lumati, is still
+with B5, doing the same stuff.
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+At a recent convention appearance, you said that Babylon 5
+now had access to technology that could render creatures as well Jurassic
+Park.  Is that no longer true?
+
+
      
+Actually, no, the equipment now in hand is equal to or better than the
+previous stuff, so that's still a very viable option.  I just gotta find the
+story to go with it.
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    +1986                First notes and drafts on the Babylon 5 story
+1987 Spring/Summer  Babylon 5 treatment and writer's bible created by JMS.
+1988 May            Artist Peter Ledger hired to design a Babylon 5 logo, and
+                    to do a series of paintings based on the treatment and
+                    bible, which were then used for various presentations.
+1988 Summer/Fall    Babylon 5 pitched to CBS, HBO, ABC, and others.
+1989 March          Babylon 5 pitched to Chris-Craft Television, a consortium
+                    of stations.  CCT pledges support of B5, and attempts are
+                    made throughout 1988 and 1989 to create co-production
+                    deals with foreign investors.
+1989 June/July      Babylon 5 submitted/pitched to Paramount.
+1989 December       Babylon 5 receives additional pledge of support from
+                    Warner Bros., which begins working with CCT to form fifth
+                    network at same time.
+1991 November       Babylon 5 announced as one of three flagship projects for
+                    Warners' Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). The
+                    trades carry the story extensively.
+1992 June/July      Casting for the pilot movie.
+1992 August 10      Filming on the pilot movie begins.
+1992 Sept. 4        Filming ends on the pilot movie.
+1992 Nov.  7        First showing of pilot movie to a convention audience
+                    at Wishcon II in Springfield, Mass.
+1992 Nov. 28        First announced showing of pilot movie to a convention
+                    audience at Loscon 19 in Los Angeles, CA.
+1993 Jan. 14        Final edit of pilot movie completed.
+1993 Feb. 19/20     Satellite feed of pilot movie to local stations.
+1993 Feb. 22 week   TV debut of the pilot movie.  It achieved a 10.3 GAA
+                    national rating, which was better than the two hour
+                    premieres of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (10.2),
+                    The Untouchables (10.2) and Time Trax (8.3).
+1993 April          Series Pre-production starts.
+1993 May 28         Formal announcement by Warner Bros. of a series order.
+1993 Mid-July       Filming starts on the series.
+1993 Late Summer    Parts of the first three episodes are previewed at San
+                    Diego Comic Con, WorldCon and CopperCon 13.
+1993 Mid-Sept.      Foundation Imaging awarded Visual Effects Emmy for the
+                    Babylon 5 pilot movie at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
+1993 Mid-Oct.       First fully completed episode delivered to Warner Bros.
+1993 Oct./Nov.      PTEN rebroadcast of Babylon 5 pilot movie.
+1993 Nov. 26        "Midnight on the Firing Line" screened at LosCon 20.
+1994 Mid-Jan.       "Making of Babylon 5" airs (hosted by Walter Koenig).
+1994 Jan. 20        Satellite feed of first episode.
+1994 Jan. 26        Start of weekly series on PTEN.
+1994 Mar. 23        Filming ends for first season.
+1994 May 20         JMS announces Michael O'Hare's departure.
+1994 August 10      Filming begins for second season.
+1994 September 10   "The Parliament of Dreams" wins Emmy for makeup design
+1994 Nov. 2         Second season premieres in the US.
+1994 Nov. 25        Limited-release B5 soundtrack debuted at Loscon 21
+1995 Feb. 28        Viewers for Quality Television select B5 as the #1
+		    syndicated drama, and the #16 show overall.
+1995 April 20       Filming ends for second season.
+1995 April 25       Release of B5 soundtrack.
+1995 June 8         Show is officially renewed for a third season.
+1995 June 12        Season three preproduction begins.
+1995 July 20        Babylon 5 is nominated for three Emmy awards.
+1995 July 31        Production begins on season three.
+1995 October        Last four episodes of season two shown.
+1995 November       Season three premiere.
+1996 July 18        "Comes the Inquisitor" is nominated for an Emmy.
+1996 August 26      Filming begins on season four.
+1996 August 27      "The Coming of Shadows" wins the Hugo Award.
+1996 November       Season four premiere.
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+Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: Literary and Historical References
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+Contents:
+Historical -
+Classical -
+Modern -
+JMS
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+Scattered throughout the series are references, both explicit and subtle,
+to historical events and literature.  The following are some of them (this
+list is incomplete;
+send me mail
+if you've seen others.)
+
+
    Historical references
    
+
+
      
+
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+The most obvious reference is historical; the very name of the series
+implies a link to
+Babylonian history.
+JMS has hinted that the long-term storyline bears much resemblance
+to the history of ancient Babylon.  Babylon, of course, is frequently
+mentioned in the Bible; some of those mentions have been
+collected
+for easy reference.  Also available are introductions to the
+Assyrian/Babylonian
+and
+Sumerian
+mythologies.
+
+
      
+
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+There are also several parallels to World War II, especially in the show's
+second and third seasons.  Sometimes this is acknowledged explicitly; witness
+Sheridan's talk about Churchill in
+"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+or Lantz's line about "peace in our time" in
+"The Fall of Night,"
+which echoes a speech by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain after
+Britain signed a treaty with Nazi Germany.
+
+
      
+
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+Garibaldi is named for Giuseppe Garibaldi, a figure from Italian history.
+According to "The Columbia History of the World":
+
      
+
+The time was ripe for the whole Italian structure to topple. While
+north central Italy was in ferment, clamoring for annexation to
+Sardinia, Giuseppe Garibaldi, the romantic knight of liberty,
+launched from Genoa the picturesque adventure of his Thousand
+Red Shirts; he landed in Sicily in May, 1860. His filibustering
+expedition may fairly be described as a joyous war. Sicily
+overrun, Garibaldi crossed the straits to the mainland; he
+entered Naples in September. Garibaldi was a colorful, romantic
+enthusiast, an appropriate symbol of Italian nationalist feeling,
+but he was no diplomat.
+
      
+
+
      
+The additional reference here is to the original Star Trek; Trek fandom
+uses the term "red shirts" to refer to the (often disposable) security
+personnel on the Enterprise, who wear red uniforms.  Naming a security
+chief after the head of the real Thousand Red Shirts is thus simultaneously
+a historical reference and an inside joke for SF fans.
+
+
      
+
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+The transport Marie Celeste, mentioned in the background
+dialogue in several episodes, is a reference to a sailing ship
+found adrift on the sea in 1872 by the crew of the ship Dei
+Gratia.  The Celeste's crew was missing, as was her
+single lifeboat, but there were half-eaten
+meals in the mess hall and other evidence the crew had left suddenly.
+Investigators found that Captain Morehouse of the Dei Gratia had
+dined with Captain Briggs of the Celeste the night before
+departure, and Morehouse and his crew were tried for murder.  There was no
+hard evidence, and they were acquitted.  The missing crewmen were never found.
+
+
      
+
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+Sheridan's Starfury is emblazoned with the logo of the Flying Tigers (used
+with the permission of the real-life group, in fact.)
+
+
      
+
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+The liner Asimov is, of course, named after Isaac Asimov.
+
+
      
+
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+The Rush Act in
+"By Any Means Necessary"
+was named after conservative political commentator and talk-show host
+Rush Limbaugh.
+
+
      
+
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+Bill Mitchell, Sinclair's wingman in
+"And the Sky Full of Stars",
+was named after U.S. General Billy Mitchell, who predicted the
+rise of air power.  A vocal critic of the military hierarchy,
+he was court-martialed for insubordination in 1925.
+
+
      
+
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+Walker Smith (cf.
+"TKO")
+was the real name of boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
+
+
      
+
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+The swearing-in ceremony in
+"Chrysalis"
+was modeled after the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson after the assassination
+of President Kennedy in 1963.
+
+
      
+
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+The end of Sheridan's speech in
+"Points of Departure"
+was from Abraham Lincoln's 1862 address to the US Congress.  (The
+bracketed part wasn't quoted.)
+
+
      
+The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us 
+down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
+[We know how to save the Union. In giving freedom 
+to the slave, we assure freedom to the free -
+honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.] 
+We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best, 
+hope of earth.
+
      
+
+
      
+
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+Anna Sheridan's ill-fated ship, the Icarus
+("Revelations")
+is named after a figure from Greek mythology.  Icarus was the son of Daedalus,
+who built a pair of wings from wax and feathers so Icarus could escape the
+island on which they were both imprisoned.  Despite Daedalus' warnings, Icarus
+flew too close to the sun; his wings melted and he fell to his death.
+
+
      
+
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+The transport Heyerdahl, on which the ISN reporter arrived in
+"And Now For a Word,"
+is named for Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian anthropologist and explorer.
+Heyerdahl is most famous for his 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he
+attempted to prove that South American natives could have crossed the Pacific
+by boat and populated the islands of Polynesia.
+
+
      
+
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+The assignment of political officers to military units (as in
+"Voices of Authority")
+was common practice in the Soviet Union, as were the purges of high-ranking
+officials alluded to in that episode.
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+
    
+
+
    Classical literary references
    
+
+
    
+See Also:
+Poets' Corner
+
+
    
+
    
+
+[More Info]
+A list of literary references in B5's ship names.
+
+
    Modern literary references
    
+
+
      
+
+
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+The cult TV series
+"The
+Prisoner",
+another favorite work of JMS, is often referenced, such as in
+"Mind War"
+and
+"Signs and Portents".
+The bulk of
+"And the Sky Full of Stars"
+also bears much resemblance to several "Prisoner" episodes.
+
+
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+There are possible parallels between some of B5's storyline and the works of
+H. P. Lovecraft.
+(That file contains spoilers up to
+"Voices of Authority.")
+
+
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+The antagonist in
+"Mind War"
+was named after Alfred Bester, author of "The Demolished Man," a classic
+SF work about telepathy.  The novel also featured a telepaths' guild similar
+in many ways to B5's Psi Corps.  Bester's partner Kelsey was named
+after a character in an Ursula K. LeGuin story.
+
+
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+The interior of the machine in
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1"
+looks like a visual reference to the 1956 film Forbidden Planet,
+but according to JMS, it's a coincidence.
+
+
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+In
+"Babylon Squared,"
+Major Krantz says, "We've become unstuck in time," a phrase used by Kurt
+Vonnegut Jr. in "Slaughterhouse Five."  The episode itself might also be
+considered a reference to that story, to some degree.
+
+
    • 
+Elric, the Technomage in
+"The Geometry of Shadows,"
+is a reference to the hero of the Michael Moorcock series of the same name.
+
+
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+In
+"A Spider in the Web,"
+it's stated that Amanda Carter's great-grandfather John piloted the first
+colony ship to Mars.  "John Carter of Mars" is a classic SF story by Edgar
+Rice Burroughs; the character also appears in other Burroughs stories such as
+
+"Princess of Mars."
+See the
+Project Gutenberg home page.
+
+
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+In
+"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum,"
+among other episodes, the Ministry of Peace, or Minipax, is a reference
+to "1984" by George Orwell.
+
+
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+Marcus quotes from Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" in
+"Exogenesis."
+In the same episode, he also quotes from "Macbeth."
+
+
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+The title of the Crusade episode
+"Ruling from the Tomb"
+is a reference to a quote from T.S. Eliot, "Saint and Martyr rule from
+the tomb."
+
+
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+References to Tolkien's The Lord Of the Rings abound.  For more,
+see an article (not part of the Lurker's Guide) titled
+"The Mythic Well."
+
+
        
+   
      •  The Lord Of the Rings takes place at the close of the
+	Third Age of Middle-Earth.
+
+   
      •  The gathering evil is an ancient enemy, once repulsed by the White
+	Council, one shade removed from grey.
+
+   
      •  G'Kar's parting words to Na'toth in
+	"Chrysalis,"
+	"Expect me... when you see me," are Gandalf's parting words to Frodo in
+	The Fellowship of the Ring.
+
+   
      •  When Elric warns Vir away in
+	"The Geometry of Shadows"
+	he uses a line from The Fellowship of the Ring as well.
+	In the book, Gildor, an elf heading to the Uttermost West, says this to
+	Frodo (in reference to Gandalf): 
+
+	
        
+	     "... But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for 
+		 they are subtle and quick to anger."  
+	
        
+
+   
      •  The Rangers in
+	"The Coming of Shadows"
+	and other episodes may be a reference as well.  In the books,
+	the Rangers keep an eye on the growing darkness and report back
+	to the elves.
+
+   
      •  The planet Z'ha'dum, on which explorers discovered an ancient evil
+	that had been buried for centuries
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum")
+	bears similarity in name and in nature to Khazad Dum, the main kingdom
+	of the Dwarves.  (Try switching the first two syllables.)  In Tolkien's
+	story, the Dwarves uncovered an ancient beast, the Balrog, which had
+	been buried since the First Age.  They fled Khazad Dum; many were
+	killed, and the place became a gathering point for other creatures
+	of darkness.  See the guide page for
+	"Z'ha'dum"
+	for another possible parallel (a spoiler for the episode.)
+
+   
      •  The White Star is perhaps a double reference, both to the Black Star
+	(mentioned in
+	"Points of Departure")
+	and to the following passage from Tolkien:
+
+	
        
+	"There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor
+	high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle
+	for a while.  The beauty of it smote his heart, as he 
+	looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned 
+	to him.  For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought
+	pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small
+	and passing thing:  there was light and high beauty for
+	ever beyond its reach."
+	
        
+
      
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    Babylon 5 References in other JMS works
    
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+
    
+In the Captain Power episode "Final Stand," Tank mentions that he's from the
+Babylon 5 Genetic Engineering Colony.
+
+
    
+In the Captain Power episode "A Summoning of Thunder Part 2," when Hawk 
+activates the first power suit, Mentor says, "And so it begins."  This has 
+been confirmed by JMS as a "Koshism" he threw in.
+
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+In the JMS novel "Othersyde," Babylon 5 is mentioned as one of the characters'
+favorite TV series.
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    An Interview with Mojo
    
+
+Conducted by Chuck Becker
+<Necromancer@pol.org.>
+
+
    
+This interview was originally published in The Zocalo, a free, weekly
+electronic newsletter devoted to Babylon 5.  To subscribe, send your
+first name, e-mail address and state/country of residence to
+katana@indirect.com.
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+ Well boys and girls it's time for another trip into Mister CGI's
+neighborhood. Today our special guest is.... (Can you say guest? I knew ya
+could!) It's the man, the myth, the legend.... (drum roll please) Mojo from
+Foundation Imaging. This week I had a great opportunity to bend Mojo's ear and
+ask him all the questions you "the readers of The Zocalo" have posed to me. I
+will give you
+the answers as they were given to me. See if you notice a similarity between
+the way Mojo answers questions and the way JMS answers questions. Sorta Kosh
+like!! I'm thinkin they have been hangin out a litttttle too long together.
+
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+ The questions asked were ones I had and ones you the readers of The Zocalo
+sent to us. This
+interview was conducted by e-mail and I want to thank Mojo for taking the time
+to answer the questions. Thanks also to Amy Berry for chasing him down at the
+Con.
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+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Are you still using the modeler on the Amiga or have you switched to P.C.?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+We were running Video Toasters on Amigas, but we switched over the PC's last
+summer when LightWave became available for the intel machines.  They're much
+faster and we need all the speed we can get!
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Who is Mitch the effects guy?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+Mitch Suskin was the on-set FX supervisor last year.  This year it's Ted
+Rae.
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Who is responsible for what?  Does each artist have his own area of speciality
+or do they work on one shot from beginning to end and do everything for
+that shot?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+We have a lot of artistic freedom.  Ron Thornton has final say (until it
+goes to JMS), but we (the animators) pretty much interpret the script in our
+own way.  We usually do a shot from start to finish... sometimes when I'm
+directing, I'll rough out the shots in wireframe and then hand them over to
+someone else.  John Teska (the other supervising animator) gravitates
+towards creature stuff and character animation and I like space battles.
+However, we all do a bit of everything!
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Who created the Nakaleen feeder? How was it designed?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+The Feeder was designed by Ron and the boys at Optic Nerve. (Optic Nerve
+are the guy's responsible for the B-5 make-up for one of many things) It was
+created entirely in the computer, except for the close-up shots of the 'tongue'
+attaching itself to the actor's face.  Some of the texture maps that made up
+it's body started out as a scan of butcher meat, and I think a few medical
+reference books were used as well.
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Kosh in FON: How much is makeup, and how much is CGI?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+There was an actor against a blue screen,(See my article in Newsletter #
+31 for an explanation for blue screen) but we added the wings & the glow.
+
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Who designs and creates ship cgi?
+
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+Most of the ships are designed by Ron, although we are all welcome to
+design and build new ships as they appear in scripts.  John Teska was
+responsible for the Narn Transport and the Centauri Liner, while I handled the
+smaller Centauri Warbird.
+
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+How long does it take to design and create a regular shot (like Shadow
+ship shots, Narn crusiers etc). What is the approximate cost for one of these
+shots?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+It takes anywhere from a half day (simple B5 establishing shot) to 2 or 3
+days (major explosion) per shot. (Here comes Kosh,Whirr, whistle, beeeeep) They
+all cost exactly X amount of dollars
+per shot. :-)
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Why did MOJO disappear and where did he go?  (Enquiring minds...)
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+He didn't pay his Netcom bill and got too busy to reinstate his account.
+
+Look for him soon on America's Most Wanted.
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Using amigas and macs??  How many?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+We're now using Amigas & Toasters for live screen displays on
+'Hypernauts.' B5 is done with PC's and DEC Alphas, while several Macs are used
+for compositing and 2D effects (PPG blasts and such).
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+What new and exciting cgi stuff is looming on the horizon in the near
+future???
+
+
    
+Cue Kosh again (Rattle ,burp, sound of breaking glass)
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+Keep watching...
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Who has final approval of cgi?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+Ron at Foundation, Joe for B5, but, in the end, the VIEWERS decide!
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+What are cgi deadlines like?  How far in advance do they work?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+We get around 2 weeks per show, but if an episode is very FX heavy, JMS
+will
+try and follow it up with less FX intesive stories to give us more time on
+the hard shows.
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+What has been the most challenging cgi effect to create?  Why?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+The toughest yet is probably episode 8 from season 3, "Messages from
+Earth." You'll have to see it to understand why... other wise, The Feeder was
+a
+nice challenge, since it was our first creature... "Voice in the Wilderness"
+had our first atmospheric and semi-planetary shots, so that took some
+experimentation... the battle from "Coming of Shadows" was a personal
+struggle, since it was the first sequence I directed and it took a lot of
+work to make it so hard-hitting... the Kosh sequence was tough not because
+of Kosh, but we had to build the entire garden!  People are so caught up
+with seeing Kosh they seem to have missed that the entire inside of the
+station has been built in 3D!
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+Any nifty/funny/annoying cgi stories regarding the shop, the crew, etc?
+
+
+
    
+Cue Kosh Again!(Gregorian chant,fingernails on a blackboard,chirp)
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+Yes.
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+How are cgi artists trained?  Good schools/how to learn & break into the
+ business?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+School is not neccessary, but can help.  I learned the basics of 3D
+animation at home on my Amiga.  No one at Foundation has a degree in
+anything to do with computers (although I did go to film school).  Cal Arts
+in Valenica, CA (where we are located) has a good computer animation
+department, as does the School of Visual Arts in NYC.  I also think it's
+important to not just learn the technical side of 3D, but the creative side,
+which is more or less filmmaking.  A lot of new animators are very adept at
+working the software, but have little knowledge of how to make a movie,
+which is exactly what the 3D animator does - make little movies inside the
+computer.  Learning the basics of lighting, composition, editing and film
+theory are things I personaly consider more important than all the computer
+classes in the world.  It will certainly help you get ahead!  If you want to
+go to school for this sort of thing, see if you can major in CGI and minor
+in film/video.  That would be a winning combo.
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+How do the people get along?  Is it a team effort or do folks 'do their
+own thang'?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+We all hate each other, but are forced to get along for the good of the
+show! Don't you know by now that computers are making everyone anti-social?!
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+What is more important: physics or looks?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+We do the real physics as best we can, but in the end the shots have to
+LOOK
+right, not BE right.  Artistic integrity always wins out.
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+How picky is JMS?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+Very.
+
+
    
+C.B.
+
    
+How picky is Ron?
+
+
    
+Mojo
+
    
+Depends how many beers he's had.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Sounds like my kinda guy. Well there ya have it. Okay so I'm no Barbara
+Walters but it was a fun interview. It weally weally was!
+Remember if you've got questions you can E-mail me at Necromancer@pol.org or
+send your questions to the newsletter for me. To subscribe to The Zocalo, send
+your first name, e-mail address and state/country of residence to
+katana@indirect.com. If you have ideas send them on in. Thanks again to Mojo
+and to Amy. Be seeing ya!
+
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+Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: The Philosophy
+
+
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+
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+
+
    The Philosophy
    
+
+JMS'
+main criteria for a good science fiction television series include that it
+must be good science fiction and good television;
+it must be geared towards adults, not kids (one slogan
+on the set is, "No Cute
+Kids, No Cute Robots.  Ever!") doing for science fiction what Hill Street
+Blues did for police shows.  It must be done on a reasonable
+budget and it should look like nothing ever seen on TV.  And to make it a
+series, it should not be just individual stories (alien attack/ possession/
+misunderstanding of the week) -- the stories should be part of an overall
+larger story, but still watchable each week as a separate chapter.
+
+
    
+In keeping with those ideals, a
+five year storyline
+(the "arc") has been planned
+as if the show were a five year miniseries.  Events have been planned for each
+season, which will tell a larger story over time.  There is plenty of room for
+individual stories within each season and each episode can stand alone,
+though certain episodes (which JMS calls "WHAM" episodes) are pivotal to the
+big picture -- for example,
+"Signs and Portents"
+from season one.
+
+
    
+One common complaint about science-fiction shows (and TV in general) is that
+fan input falls on deaf ears.  Not so Babylon 5.  JMS participates in online
+discussions in several places, such as
+CompuServe,
+GEnie,
+and
+Usenet,
+actively soliciting discussions and thoughtful criticism about the episodes
+and the show in general.  Some of this online discussion even goes onto a
+"Best of the Nets" bulletin board on a wall in the production offices, where
+it's read by many of the staff.
+
+
    
+In fact, since the airing of the pilot, fan input has had
+visible effects
+on the show.
+
+
    
+All freelance scripts have the original writer as the sole credit.  Contrary
+to prevailing practice in Hollywood, any
+rewrites or additions (such as a "B" plot or additional scenes) by Babylon 5
+staff do not add to the writing credit.  This allows freelancers to
+get full royalties for the episodes they write.
+
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+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
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+Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: The Production
+
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+
     [Awards] #### PRODUCTION #### [Literary]
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+
+
    
+Contents:
+General -
+Scripts -
+Editing -
+Order
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    General production notes
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is filmed in widescreen (16:9) format, so that when HDTV arrives,
+the show can be remastered for full-screen video release.  The extra picture
+space is just a bonus; directors compose scenes to fit entirely in the
+normal 4:3 aspect ratio of today's television, at the same time making sure
+that the edges of the picture can be included later on.
+
+
    
+You can see the widescreen film in action during the title sequence, which is
+shown letterboxed.
+
+
    
+Audio is produced in full surround sound.  Background dialogue (known as
+"walla") was written by Larry DiTillio during seasons one and two.
+
+
    
+Alien makeup and such for the series is done by Optic Nerve Studios
+(Everett Burrell and John Vulich.)
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is produced on a per-episode budget of roughly $800,000, quite low
+for a science-fiction series; "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," by comparison,
+has a budget of roughly $1.6 million per episode, and Fox's "Space: Above and
+Beyond" is rumored to cost $2 million.
+
+
+
    The lifecycle of a script
    
+
+from series creator J. Michael Straczynski, 22 September 1995
+
+
    
+     We don't generally do a lot of revisions.  Once in a great while
+you'll get something that goes through 4 colors (drafts are color coded),
+but they're rare.  And invariably *all* such drafts after the first are
+mainly revised to handle set changes or production requirements, not
+story, dialogue or other creative stuff.  This season [2], in all but one
+case, I write the first draft, clean it up a bit for the second/final
+draft, it goes into production, we adjust for sets ("Can we make this
+the conference room instead of Sheridan's office so we can do it on the
+same stage and avoid a camera move to stage in the middle of the day?"),
+and it's filmed as written.
+
+
    
+     There's often a perception [...] that
+lots and lots of people have input into the writing of the script.  Not
+so.  I write it alone.  Nobody sees nothin' until the first draft is
+finished.  I then show it only to WB (which hasn't given me a single
+script note since episode 4, year 2), producer John Copeland (who looks
+at it for any possible production headaches, too many extras or sets,
+other physical elements), my partner Doug Netter (who doesn't generally
+give creative notes, as per our tradition), and if necessary, Ron at
+Foundation, Optic Nerve, and the director.  A couple of cast members
+like to look at first drafts, just out of curiosity to know what's
+coming next, but don't give notes or suggestions.
+
+
    
+     Once I have in hand any production hiccups, I clean up the draft a
+bit, adjust the production, EFX or prosthetics elements, make my last
+minute personal revisions on the script (dialogue, structure, whatever),
+then it's published as a Final Draft which goes to everyone in the cast
+and crew.  The various departments then begin work on realizing what's
+in the script.  We have meetings to discuss it to make sure everyone's
+on the same page.  I meet with the director to make the same assurances.
+Last minute production-oriented changes are made ("Do we have a Ranger in
+among the extras here?  Do we need 12 Narns or will 8 do?").
+
+
    
+     And then the script hits the stage, and we shoot it.  As written.  If
+an actor has a problem with a particular word, it can be changed after
+checking with me to make sure that word isn't there for a very special
+reason (a clue, foreshadowing, whatever).
+
+
    
+     The scripts are extremely detailed, with inserts, camera angles,
+slow-mo indications if necessary, lighting notes, you name it.
+
+
    
+     Some scripts I tinker with a lot before issuing that first draft;
+others blow right out of the printer as though pre-written.  Sometimes
+the most important ones are the ones that need or get the least revision,
+because I see them the most clearly; and often it's the more trivial
+episodes that seem to require lots of finessing.
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+     The script never technically leaves my hands.  Once the final draft
+is written, it's given to every department, which breaks it down in terms
+of set, extra, day-player, EFX, music, sound and other requirements.  We
+have visual effects, art department and other meetings to go over what's
+in the script and make sure we all understand what's required.  Any new
+designs for prosthetics, costumes, EFX, ships, or other episode-specific
+elements are drafted, and shown to me for approval.
+
+
    
+     The script department breaks down the script in terms of shooting
+schedule, timing of scenes, and arranges a production board indicating
+which scenes will be shot on which days  (Based on which sets are being
+used; you don't shoot in sequence...you do all the C&C scenes done on day
+1, then move into the Zocalo for all those scenes, and so on.)
+
+
    
+     The director and I have a tone meeting to go over the script page by
+page.  At this time, the director sometimes suggests changes in locales
+for production purposes, though this often happens earlier in the process.
+ I make sure we both understand what each scene is about, context and
+subtext.  Then there's a production meeting of all departments, where we
+all go through one last time and break down each scene of the script by
+what's required.
+
+
    
+     The director then takes the script to the stage, and shoots what's
+written.  Dailies arrive each day thereafter, and go to post production,
+where an editor does a preliminary assembly of the episode.  If the
+episode appears to be coming in long, we have the option of trimming a
+scene here or there in shooting...or expanding if it's coming in short.
+
+
    
+     After 7 days of shooting, the raw film is complete, and the editor
+gives the director his assembly.  The director then comes in and takes
+about 3-4 days making his or her cut.  The director's cut then goes to
+me, and John Copeland and I go in to make the producer's cut, often
+re-editing every single frame, though sometimes less, depending on many
+different factors.  This is done on computers, the Avid.
+
+
    
+     This final edit is then used to assemble the actual film (we take the
+Avid computer disk and turn it over to a supercomputer which assembles the
+film overnight).  Using this online copy, I now sit down with the composer,
+and sound people, and watch it again, going through it and noting where
+sound effects and music are required, and what kind I have in mind.  "In
+at 03:13:18 (three minutes, 13 seconds, 18 frames), out at 04:14:22.  I'd
+like something soft, strings mainly, underscoring that doesn't get in the
+way...with a tone change at 04:05:13, into the action, and since we've got
+a lot of combat going on there, we need you to clear out the low-end for
+the battle stuff."
+
+
    
+     Composer and sound EFX people then do their thing, and a couple weeks
+later, we do the audio mix.  (During this time, Ron and company have
+delivered the last of their CGI.)  At the audio mix, all of the final
+elements are inserted/layered in, including any last-minute looping or
+dubbing.  This done, the episode is delivered to PTEN about 5 days later.
+
+
    
+     Total time to complete an episode (after the last day of filming per
+se): 52 days.
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+What I do is this: I get a pad of legal-sized paper, and divide it
+into six quadrants, all on the same page, standing for teaser, four acts
+and tag.  I drop the beats of the story into the relevant places where I
+think they'd logically fall (the big moments always go at act breaks).
+This way I can see the entire flow of the story at one glance, which is
+important for getting a feel for the episode.  If one act gets over
+burdened, I just draw a line moving one beat to another act.
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+The shooting script for
+"The Coming of Shadows"
+as published in your scriptwriting book is different from what aired.
+Do you often rewrite lines and/or scenes while the episode is filming?
+
+
    
+No, never.  For starters, it's *vastly* unfair to the actors.  They have to
+memorizes pages and pages of dialogue, and to hit them with new stuff on the
+stage, when they haven't had a chance to digest the material and dig out the
+subtext and themes, means the performance will not be as good regardless of the
+material.
+
+
    
+There is *no* improvising allowed on the set, either.  If an actor wants to
+change even a word, the first AD has to come find me and get approval first.
+
+
    
+Where you make the revisions are in the stages prior to when the actors get to
+the stage.  A first draft is published, which goes to all the department heads.
+Between the first and the final drafts (we only do about 2 drafts here), you
+have about a week to make any revisions you choose to make.  Bearing in mind
+that I don't publish the first draft until I'm absolutely satisfied with it,
+there ain't much that gets changed, usually bits of dialogue and production
+related stuff.
+
+
+The cuts you see were done in post-production, as the show is edited for time. 
+We slice lines and bits to fit in the available time.
+
+
+
+
+
    The editing process
    
+
+from series creator J. Michael Straczynski, 22 October 1995
+
+
    
+     Film is shot on the stage, then transferred to video, which is then
+digitized onto the Avid computer editing system, which holds every take of
+every scene.  A scene is shot many times from various angles: wide master
+shot, three-shots (3 people), two-shots, singles, raking twos, close
+ups, medium shots, extreme closeups and sometimes downshots (as well as
+CGI and composite shots).
+
+
    
+     John Copeland and I then go in and work on the version of the episode
+edited by the director to do the producer's cut.  We sit down with the
+editor, and go scene by scene.  The usual construction is as follows: you
+get a wide master shot so we know the geography, where we are, and where
+everyone is in relation to that.  Gradually you go closer, into threes or
+twos, then singles or closeups for dramatic emphasis, coming out into the
+master from time to time when someone has to move, or to break the sense
+of claustrophobia.
+
+
    
+     When you get in close, you have over-the-shoulder shots, meaning
+you're shooting past one character's shoulder to the other.  Then you do
+the same thing in reverse, so you see both sides of the conversation.
+You do these one at a time, for lighting purposes; you light one side of
+the room for the scenes looking left-right, then move the camera and the
+lighting around for the scenes when you're on the right side looking
+left (or, phrased differently, you light for Susan looking at Talia,
+then Talia looking at Susan).  The actors then do the scene again, with
+the camera on the other side.
+
+
    
+     The actor has to be very careful to always repeat each movement
+exactly; if he picks up a teacup on the word "quibble," he has to make
+absolutely sure he picks up the cup on exactly that same word, every
+time, in every take, in the same way, in the correct hand.  If the
+actor slips (and this sometimes happens), when you go to show the other
+side of the scene, you suddenly find you have a matching problem; in
+the shot over Talia's shoulder to Susan, the actor raised a hand; in
+the shot over Susan's shoulder to Talia, the actor (generic term that
+includes women) *didn't* raise a hand.  So when you edit the two, you
+have a matching problem.  You can sometimes avoid this by just staying
+on one side of the shot, but then you can't get the other character's
+on-face reaction to what's being said.  And in that scene in particular,
+we *needed* to see both sides.
+
+
    Production Order vs. Airing Order
    
+
+
    
+The production of episodes started far enough in advance that the airing
+order of the episodes could be arranged as the producers and network decided,
+allowing for additional post-production time and cost reduction.  For
+example, the first-season finale was filmed 12th but aired 22nd.
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is able to do this more readily than many other shows
+because of its preplanned nature; JMS knows going into the season that, for
+instance, episodes 5 and 15 will require a certain set; those two can be
+scheduled one after the other and the set torn down to save space and time.
+
+
    
+The approach isn't without its hazards: several foreign networks have ignored
+the episode order provided by Warner Bros. and aired the episodes in production
+order, probably confusing thousands of viewers with a scrambled storyline!
+
+
    
+Such odd scheduling is much less prevalent after the first season for a few
+reasons.
+The first season started later in the year, giving the production more of a
+head-start than it had in subsequent seasons.  Many standing sets had already
+been built during the first season, making the lead time less necessary.
+And there was a desire to avoid repeating the confusion in foreign airings.
+
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+Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: Literary and Historical References: Ships
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    Ships' Names from the Classical World
    
+
+
    
+Many Earth Force ships bear names from Classical mythology and history. Most of these originate in Ancient Greece, but some are also taken from indigenous Roman myth. This note is intended to give a short outline of the stories behind the names. 
+
+
    
+The predominance of Greek names is easily explained, as Classical mythology heavily relies on its Greek legacy. The Romans later adopted many of the Greek stories and complemented them with figures from the lost culture of pre-Roman Italy. Very often this meant that the protagonists remained the same, but were given other names. 
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+Greek mythology is based on a complex creation story which brought forth a number of different orders of natural and supernatural beings. The following is only an outline of the central pedigree: In the beginning, Gaia, and Ouranos (Earth and Heaven) begot the Titans. These in turn were overthrown by their rebellious children, the Gods. The families of the immortal Gods eventually faded into mortal humanity. Gods and Humans could interbreed, producing powerful demi-Gods. Besides there was a range of minor spirits, monsters, nymphs and the like.
+
+
    
+Some of the ships' names are also taken from real Greek and Roman history.
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+Acheron
+
    
+In Greek mythology, one of the rivers of the Underworld. It may mean something like `River of moaning'. If the Dead are buried properly, they are ferried across the Acheron by Charon. Only Heracles and Orpheus ever crossed the Acheron alive and returned to the world of the living. Acheron is also often used as a name for the Underworld itself. It seems a strange choice of name for the ship that carries Lochley to Babylon 5. (No Compromises)
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+
    
+
    
+Achilles
+
    
+In Greek mythology, a prminent figure in the defence of Troy. He was the son of a mortal men and Thetis, the Goddess of the Mediterranean. In the Trojan War, he was the champion of the Greek army. When he had some differences with Agamemnon, the God's favoured Troy, until Achilles managed to slay Hector, the son of the Trojan king. Achilles was invulnerable on most of  body except his heel, and he was eventually killed by an arrow which struck him there. Reputedly, the arrow was directed by the God Apollo. The meaning of the name is unknown, it may well be older than Greek.
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+The Achilles is a freighter who gets attacked by raiders in an attempt do divert attention from a coup for a Centauri faction on Babylon 5 (Signs and Portents). The name is mentioned by jms as belonging to the same group of Omega Class destroyers as the other ships with Classical names
+("Point of No Return").
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+
    
+Agamemnon
+
    
+In Greek mythology, the name of the king who led the Greek army against Troy. He was the brother  of Menelaos, whose wife Helena had been abducted by the Trojan prince Paris. Before leaving Greece for Troy (in modern Turkey), he was made to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis in order to get a favourable wind. Iphigenia was saved by the godess and transferred to a temple out of reach of her father. On his return from Troy ten years later, Agamemnon was betrayed by his wife Klytaimnestra and subsequently slain by her lover. The Character probably goes back to an older deity of the Earth.
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+The Agamemnon was was built shortly after the Earth-Minbari War; she was Sheridan's ship before he came to Babylon 5 and again when he moved to win back Earth. He also encountered her a few  times while he was captain of Babylon 5 and was on board when he was betrayed to Earth. (Points of Departure; All Alone in the Night; Messages from Earth; Between the Darkness and the Light; Face of the Enemy; Endgame). Jms confirms that the choice name for Sheridan's ship is no accident.
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+
    
+Agrippa
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+In Roman history,  a common by-name borne by many powerful people, including consuls, Romanised Hebrew kings and memebers of the first imperial dynasty.
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+
    
+The Agrippa is one of the Earth ships that attack Babylon 5 after it has declared independence. She gets destroyed in the battle. (Severed Dreams)
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+
    
+Alexander
+
    
+In Greek history, a conqueror of the late 4th century BC, known as Alexander the Great. As king of Macedonia, he set out to fight off the threat to his small kingdom from Persia. In the process, he conquered the huge Persian Empire and walked his troops as far as the borders of India. He died at the age of 33. His name means `a defender of men'. Alexander was also the by-name of Paris in the Story of the Trojan War. It was a common name in ancient Greek, but it seems likely that the ship was named for Alexander the Great. The Alexander was General Hague's ship, with which he defected from President Clark's forces at an early date. Together with the Churchill, the Alexander defended Babyon 5 gainst Earth Force after Babylon 5 had declared independence. (Severed Dreams). She appears again later patrolling space at the re-taken colony Proxima 3 (No Surrender, No Retreat)
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+
    
+Apollo
+
    
+In Greek mythology, a God of light, son of Zeus and brother of the hunter goddess Artemis. He was adopted by the Romans, who knew his sister as Diana. His name, Greek Apollon, means `proclaimer'. The destroyer Apollo took the lead in Earth's Defence against Sheridan in the civil war. (Endgame)
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+
    
+Delphi
+
    
+A place in Greece, where Apollo provided guidance to men through the medium of a prophetess, the Pythia. This `oracle' of Delphi was used by legendary heroes as well as historical characters.
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+
    
+Heracles
+
    
+In Greek mythology, a demi-God, son of Zeus and the mortal woman Alkmeme. He was designated to be king of Mycene by his father. However, Hera, wife of Zeus, prevented this and Heracles ended up being a servant of the king of Mycene, Eurystheus. Heracles was renowned for both his supernatual strenght and his intelligence. With the help of these qualities and his nephew and devoted friend Iolaos he managed to solve 12 dangerous tasks set by Eurystheus, who hoped that Heracles would not survive them. Heracles is now better known by his Latin name Hercules. His name means `famous for strength'. He was venerated, especially by the common people, as a helper in need. The Heracles led a number of Earth Force ships against Sheridan in defence of Proxima 3. The others defected or were destroyed.(No Surrender, No Retreat)
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+
    
+Hydra
+
    
+In Greek mythology, a serpent of the sea. As one of his tasks, Heracles had to kill the Hydra. In later versions of the story she had nine heads, one of them immortal. Her name means `the watery one'.
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+Hyperion
+
    
+In Greek mythology, name of a Titan and epithet of the Sun-God Helios, his son; hyper-ion meaning `one who walks above'. The ship was named for the original Web host to the `Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5' (A Voice in the Wilderness). There is also a Hyperion class of ships, which contrasts with the more modern Omega Class, to which most of the other ships named here belong. The Hyperion has fought in the Earth-Minbari War and can be seen with the Prometheus in Atonement.
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+
    
+Juno
+
    
+In Roman mythology, Goddess of women, marriage and birth; equalled with the Greek Hera as wife of Jupiter (Greek Zeus), the king of the Gods. Her name may possibly linked with words for `young woman', it has nothing to do with her husband's name, despite the apparent similarity.
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+The Juno remained non-hostile at Proxima 3 and defected to join Sheridan. (No Surrender, No Retreat)
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+
    
+Nemesis
+
    
+In Greek mythology, the personification of just revenge. She is said to bethe daughter of the Titans Nyx (Night) ans Okeanos (Ocean) and in some versions of the story the mother of Helena, the beauty who became the cause of the Trojan War.
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+The Nemesis fought at Proxima 3 and defected to Sheridan's Party.(No Surrender, No Retreat)
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+
    
+Pollux
+
    
+In Greek mythology, two brothers by the same mother, Pollux, son of Jupiter, was immortal, his brother Castor was mortal. When his brother died, Pollux grieved so much that Jupiter had pity and put them both into the night sky, where they became the constellation Gemini (Latin for `twins'). Pollux is the Latin form of the Greek name Polydeukes (`one who cares much'). The brothers were venerated as protectors of those in danger or in need.
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+The Pollux was destroyed in the battle for Proxima 3 (No Surrender, No Retreat).
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+
    
+Prometheus
+
    
+In Greek mythology, a Titan who gave humanity the secret of fire, which he had stolen from the Gods. Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock, where an eagle slowly devoured his liver. He was eventually freed by Heracles. His name means `one who thinks ahead'. 
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+The Prometheus had fired the first shot in the Earth-Minbari-War.(A Late Delivery from Avalon; Atonement; In the Beginning)
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+Vesta
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+In Roman mythology, a Goddess of fire as a life-giving element, associated with the hearth and the altar. The eternal fire in her temple was guarded by holy virgins. The cult goes back to pre-Roman times in Italy.
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+In the Battle for Proxima 3, the Vesta was commanded by an old friend of Sheridan's, who refused to engage Sheridan's White Star (No Surrender, No Retreat). Her hull sports an emblem of torches.
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+Zeus
+
    
+In Greek mythology, the highest of the Gods. He had led the rebellion of the Gods against their parents the Titans. He is also a notorious womaniser who consequently became the father of a great number of Gods and demi-Gods. Among the most famous of his offspring is Europa, the personification of Europe. The Roman equivalent of Zeus is Jupiter. Both names come from an ancient word meaning something like `daylight' or `divine'. (The -piter part of Jupiter means `father'.) The Zeus appears briefly in the battle for Earth. (Endgame).
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+The odd one out here is the Icarus, a civlian ship with a classical name. It is however rather significant, as its history closely resembles the Classical story. The story is of Greek origin, although the spelling Icarus is Latin. Ikaros was the son of Daidalos. Both were held in prison in Crete, from where they fled with wings made of feathers and wax. Despite his father's warning, Icarus became over-confident and flew too high, too close to the sun. The wax melted, Ikaros fell into the sea and died. Similarly, Interplanetary Expedition's Icarus embarked on a mission rather beyond their capabilities. By landing on Z'ha'dum, they ventured too far and perished. (novel: The Shadow Within; references in Knives; Revelations; In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum; Z'ha'dum)
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+This document was prepared with the help of 
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+Gerhard Fink, Who's who der antiken Mythologie, München 1993 (in German, sorry) 
+
    
+    This is a kind of dictionary of mythological figures, and an equivalent in English is 
+    certainly available. 
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+Der Kleine Pauly, Lexikon der Antike , 5 vols.
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+Short version of one of the most  comprehensive Encyclopedias of the Classical World.
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+Frisk, Griechisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch, 2 vols.
+
    
+A dictionary of Ancient Greek etymology.
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+David Bassom, The A to Z of Babylon 5, London 1996
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+The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 (Guide and Archives of jms-Postings)
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+If you are interested in the details, the most fundamental Greek sources are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Hesiod's Theogony. The former relate events leading up to the Fall of Troy (also called Ilion) and the subsequent troubled voyage home of Ulysses (Odysseus). These epic poems, which were probably written down around the 8th century BC, provide copious background information in addition to the stories. Hesiod's Theogony (`origin of the Gods') is a treatise on the prehistory of the world, written around the same time. All three texts are available in translation.
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+Incidentally, Ulysses is also the subject of Tennyson's poem, which Sinclair likes to quote (e.g. The Parliament of Dreams).
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    An Interview with Ron Thornton
    
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+by Eric Reinholt
+<eric.reinholt@gmail.com>.
+Originally published in Babylon 5 - Online!. Reprinted
+in the Lurker's Guide by permission of the author.
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+Week after week, Visual Effects Artist Ron Thornton and his staff at
+Foundation Imaging create the eye popping, Emmy Award winning, CGI
+(Computer Generated Images) special effects for J. Michael Straczynski's
+television universe of Babylon 5.
+
    
+Dissatisfied with working in an airport in England, Ron and a friend went
+to see the movie "Alien" where it occurred to him that someone got paid for
+making all those models out of plastic.
+
    
+Thornton then left his airport job, took most of his remaining money and
+purchased plastics and other materials and began building and photographing
+models.  He took the photographs and used them to get a job with BBC
+television.
+
    
+Ron has since worked on the Peter Davidson Doctor Who series, then designed
+and built spaceships for final season of Blake's 7 (Ron built the Scorpio
+in his living room, in actuality he built about seven different versions of
+the Scorpio; different sized models, partial models etc.) and Tripods, all
+British television series.  Thornton then moved to Los Angles where he
+worked on props and miniatures for Real Genius, Class of 1999, Robot-Jox,
+T2 (in which he created the battle rifles), The Addams Family, Highlander
+2, Critters and Spaceballs.  Prior to working on Babylon 5, Thornton worked
+on Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future television show where he
+first saw computer generated images for television special effects.
+
    
+Television and computer screens are arrays of small dots or "pixels."  Each
+pixel is assigned a color, contrast and intensity and when thousands of
+these pixels are combined, an image results.  Computer paint programs allow
+artists to arrange pixels to form pictures.  3-D image programs allow
+artists to manipulate those pixels to simulate images of objects as if they
+actually existed in three dimensional space.
+
    
+The pilot "The Gathering"
+was rendered by eight interconnected Amiga 2000
+computers with Video Toaster boards which were connected to an IBM computer
+that stored the images in five gigabytes of memory.  Foundation Imaging's
+computational power has increased tremendously with each work station now
+being equivalent to the original eight Amigas and Ron's being the
+equivalent to sixteen Amigas.
+
    
+The computer generated effects industry is still in its infancy and with
+only one exception, all the effects for Babylon 5 have been created by
+Thornton and his team.  The one exception was Jason Ironheart's god-like
+torso effect at the end of "Mind War"
+from Babylon 5's first season.
+
    
+
    
+Eric:      "Fans from the first season of Babylon 5 (like myself) have
+	   wanted to know if LightWave has a pre-packaged torso in it,
+	   because of the Jason Ironheart god-like creature in "Mind War."
+
    
+Thornton:  "No, That is an off-the-shelf-bought database that we
+	   modified."
+
    
+Eric:      "Have you had anything else that you've been able to use
+	   right off the shelf?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "I wish!  Nobody's really got anything, we've got to build the
+	   stuff from scratch.  This show's got a look and it's got to stay
+	   in line with that look."
+
    
+
    
+Models are created in Lightwave's 3-D modeling program in an elaborate
+connect-the-dots fashion that places the dots in three dimensional space.
+The dots are used as references for surfaces (polygons) which form the
+actual exterior of the computer models.
+
    
+To help create and improve that look, Thornton and his team have built
+physical models which were photographed and scanned into their computers.
+
    
+
    
+Thornton:  "We've built models and scanned them.  Basically it's just a
+	   flat object, it's just a flat piece of plastic that we've scored
+	   and painted and panel lined."
+
    
+	   "You can get more organic patterns.  Anybody who paints with
+	   paint will tell you that it's totally different to paint on a
+	   computer.  There are certain things that paint does; like for
+	   instance you can get very, very thin paint, brush it over
+	   something and then wipe it off and it will go into the grooves,
+	   there's no way you can synthesize that on the computer, that
+	   sort of 'capillary bleed' effect that only happens with thin
+	   washes of paint.  And so you can get some really gorgeous
+	   organic textures which you can't get any other way and there's
+	   been a couple of times we've done it.
+
    
+
    
+According to Thornton, this is done just for that special organic effect
+which is then "bit mapped" onto the surface of the electronically
+constructed ship.
+
    
+Jason Ironheart's ship (Mind War)
+was the first ship Ron built via computer
+(and was also seen in the pilot "The Gathering")
+in tribute to some of his
+"teachers" and is reminiscent of the Zep One from the British television
+show Captain Zep.
+
+
    
+Ron designed Babylon 5 (including the Cobra Bays) mostly by himself and
+"built it" in two weeks on the computer where a conventional model may have
+required six weeks or more and a larger team!
+
    
+Some of the ships that are seen on the Babylon 5 series have actual
+physical counterparts.  The blocky transport ships were among the models
+that Thornton created and photographed to land a job in Special Effects.
+
    
+Steve Berg and Ron split the designing of the ships of Babylon 5 about
+50/50.
+
    
+
    
+Eric:      "Ron, how did you get the idea of using computers for creating
+	   Special Effects?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "It just sort of happened.  I ended up getting one of these
+	   machines, the Video Toaster, and I started playing with it and it
+	   was like 'give it a year or so and this could work.'
+
    
+	   "This was way after Captain Power.  Captain Power had turned me
+	   off it (Computer Generated Special Effects), 'cause the stuff
+	   didn't look very good and there was no texture mapping per se.
+	   It was all very blocky looking, the animation wasn't that hot
+	   and they had real problems delivering the stuff; it was just
+	   taking them forever to do it."
+
    
+	   "I had an Amiga for a while and it had a number of 3D packages
+	   which I sort of toyed with, but the Toaster was the first decent
+	   one."
+
    
+Eric:      "How long did it take from realizing that the Toaster could be
+	   used for effects work until Foundation Imaging was up and
+	   running?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "It was probably about a year and a half, during which
+time I was
+	   working with Todd Rundgren in Northern California on one of his
+	   shows.
+
    
+	   "But a lot of it was the wait.  Once I convinced Joe
+	   [Straczynski] and John Copeland that this could be done this way
+	   it suddenly opened up a whole new venue and I did a bunch of
+	   tests; then we went in and pitched it once more to Peter
+	   [Ledger].  At least this time they could see that we could do
+	   it, that we could create some of this imagery."
+
    
+Eric:      "What is the cost of producing special effects with
+computers as
+	   opposed to those done with conventional means?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "I'd say that we're between a third and two thirds the cost."
+
    
+Eric:      "What are the basic steps in creating a CGI scene?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "Well, you build your model.  You pull it into the
+layout.  You
+	   light it.  You shoot it.  It's very similar to having a motion
+	   control stage except you've got no limitations."
+
    
+
    
+The Starfury design is unique in science fiction and Thornton says that it
+is in no way based on that of the Star Wars X-Wing Fighters and are more of
+a tribute to Ron Cobbs' designs in "The Last Starfighter."
+
    
+The Starfury is able to move more realistically in flight, can move in
+one vector, spin on it's axis to track and fight other ships and not engage
+in "Battle of Britain" style dog fights (that are favored in other films).
+
    
+
    
+Thornton:  "If you actually think about it, the Starfury is a totally
+	   impossible model to motion control.  Unless you did it on wires,
+	   because of the way the engine deflector plates are at the back,
+	   you couldn't put a mounting rod up the middle of it because the
+	   mounting rod would eclipse the plates that were rolling behind
+	   it.  The only way you could mount it is from the front.  It's
+	   just one of those 'impossible models.'"
+
    
+
    
+Foundation Imaging started out with five people and has grown to fifteen
+for the Babylon 5 series.  Thornton, along with his partner Paul
+Beigle-Bryant (who created the software network that enables rendering and
+who also performs computer hardware repairs), senior animators, Mojo (from
+New York) and John Teska supervise other computer animators.  Computer
+animator Mark Swain, Effects Coordinator Shannon Casey and Cherry Hitch
+(who does 2-D rotoscope work on the virtual sets and overlays such
+effects as laser fire) are the core of talented people who make the
+computer generated effects of Babylon 5 a reality.
+
    
+Effects are designed on an accelerated Amiga 2000 with a Video Toaster
+board in it, using LightWave 3-D and Modeler 3-D.
+
    
+
    
+Eric:      "How is building computer models different from building
+	   physical models?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "You still have to build the models, only you use polygons and
+	   pixels instead of plastic and paintbrushes."
+
    
+
    
+Another unique organic look to Babylon 5 is the shape of the Vorlon vessels
+such as Ambassador Kosh's ship.  The inspiration for the squid-like vessel
+is as original as it is surprising:
+
    
+
    
+
+Eric:      "One of the really unique looking vessels right from the start
+	   was the Vorlon Cruiser.  It's rather squid-like in look.  Was
+	   that the inspiration for the ship?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "It's a clove of garlic, actually.  I got the idea driving
+	   through the town of Gilroy which is kind of like the garlic
+	   capital of the world and has this absolutely delicious smell."
+
    
+
    
+The clove of garlic grew into an organic ship which Thornton used to sell
+the idea of Organic Technology to Straczynski to be used by some of the
+alien races.
+
    
+
    
+Thornton:  "If you have space traveling ability and genetic manipulation,
+	   why can't you grow a ship suited to the environment of space?  I
+	   had this idea of walking into a spaceship like stepping into the
+	   mouth of a whale and going for a ride."
+
    
+Eric:      "The Vorlon ship exterior is sort of mottled and is fractal
+	   generated.  I know about that and Kosh's environment suit has a
+	   similar look.  Was that intentional?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "They sort of evolved together."
+
    
+
    
+Using computers for special effects also allows for some rather intricate
+and spectacular effects which might be impossible to create realistically
+using conventional means, such as the Starfury launches.  J. Michael
+Straczynski had envisioned ships on platforms that would flip the ships
+over and out into space or to launch ships from the front of the rotating
+station but Thornton had other suggestions, including pointing out that the
+only way to launch ships from the front of the station would be through the
+central spinning bay because of the rotation of the station.  As for the
+Starfury platform launch:
+
    
+
    
+Thornton:  "The easiest way to launch the ship and save energy is to
+	   literally just drop the ship out, you've dropped it out . . .
+	   it's already got momentum . . . and depending on where in the
+	   rotational cycle you drop the ship it decides what sort of
+	   direction it's going to go away from the station"
+
    
+Eric:      "You just have to be careful not to hit the non-rotating arm!"
+
    
+Thornton:  "Uh, yeah!  [laughs]  I think that would be kind of like
+one of
+	   those World War One cannons that fired through the propellers.
+	   The whole thing [launch cycle] would be disabled when that
+	   [non-rotating arm] came around."
+
    
+Eric:      "What was your most technically complex shot so far?  I
+	   remember a shot from "The Gathering"
+	   of two hundred Vorlon
+	   vessels exiting Babylon 5's Jump Gate (which beat the record
+	   number of On Screen ships in "The Return of the Jedi")."
+
    
+Thornton:  "That was actually a piece of cake.  It's just making up
+a bunch
+	   of them and layering them and layering them.  It's just one of
+	   those things that's really easy to do on the computer but is
+	   really incredibly difficult to do anywhere else.
+
    
+	   "I think actually, in terms of tweaking . . .  I think one of
+	   (the technically) hardest shots that's paid off very well was
+	   John Teska'a shot of these little demons all clustered over
+	   Londo's back [The Geometry of Shadows]
+	   which was very
+	   interesting because we had to motion-match the demons and move
+	   them along with Londo.  And we had to do it manually; there was
+	   no automatic tracking like there is in some of the more
+	   expensive packages so it was all done manually, by eye and it
+	   was very, very tasty.  I was extremely pleased with that.
+
    
+	   "Unfortunately it's a shame because John Flinn [Director of
+	   Photography John C. Flinn, III A.S.C.] lit the scene really dark
+	   and so you can't really see what's going on.  They [the demons]
+	   were scrapping on his back and were hitting one another, it was
+	   kind of like having the Three Stooges strapped to his back and
+	   was incredibly funny!"
+
    
+
    
+One major similarity between computer generating effects and that of
+conventional motion control effects for an ongoing series is a lack of
+production time.  The time between being handed a completed script and
+generating the thirty or so effect shots needed for a complete episode is
+only a matter of weeks.  Each computer generated frame for
+"The Gathering"
+took almost one hour to render but that time has been substantially reduced
+to approximately twenty minutes.  Considering that there are about
+thirty frames generated per second, time is one of Foundation Imaging's
+most important factors.
+
    
+
    
+Thornton:  "There's an icon that you click [at each of the computer
+	   stations] before you leave your station and automatically that
+	   station becomes a slave and starts rendering images.  By the
+	   time we leave at night, the whole system is rendering.  We try
+	   not to waste a single minute!"
+
    
+
    
+
+Much like enthusiastic Babylon 5 fans, Thornton wishes that he could know
+what will happen later down the closely guarded Straczynski story line but
+for reasons differing from fans.  This would enable Thornton to plan more
+exciting visuals.  Thornton believes that such incredible scenes such as
+the battle of "The Line"
+["And the Sky Full of Stars"] could have been made
+even better with more time for planning.
+
    
+
    
+Eric:      "What shots from the series do you think could have been
+better,
+	   if you'd had more time?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "Oh, the battle of "The Line" is one I wish we'd had more time
+	   to prepare for.  It was supposed to be really emotive but it
+	   wound up kind of ordinary."
+
    
+	   "I'll tell you what I'd really like to do.  I'd like to do a
+	   really decent scene with the Minbari Cruisers.  I think the
+	   Minbari Cruisers are really cool looking and I'd really like to
+	   do a decent battle scene with them."
+
    
+
    
+With Foundation Imaging's increased ability to create dynamic images in a
+short period of time, there are approximately thirty ship effects scenes in
+each episode but instead of visualizing more and more such shots in later
+episodes as computational speed increases, Thornton has asked that number
+of shots to remain a constant, giving him the ability to concentrate on
+quality instead of quantity.
+
    
+However Foundation Imaging does more than just space ship scenes and these
+special effects sometimes are mixed with the live action plates shot for
+the series.  This requires a supervisor on set to aid the director with the
+special needs for shooting background plates (for Virtual sets and "Blue
+Screen" shots) which are later given to Foundation Imaging.
+
    
+
    
+Eric:      "What's required for Virtual sets?  Do you have to help
+	   directors with what's needed for Blue Screens and so on?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "Virtual sets are basically matte paintings; there's a
+	   supervisor that's on set who basically watches over all the 'On
+	   Set' stuff and that's Ted Rae this year.  Virtual sets are a
+	   technique that's been around, as I said, for a long time."
+
    
+
    
+Back at Foundation Imaging, Cherry Hitch is then responsible for 2-D
+rotoscoping, virtual sets and overlays such as laser fire and so on.  She
+must take the background plates and introduce the computer generated
+effects onto them.
+
    
+"Blue Screen" shots are live action plates that have a specific area which
+is color-coded that is capable of being digitally "removed" so that special
+effects can be "placed" into the shot.
+
    
+Virtual sets are sets which do not exist in the real world.  Actors perform
+(again) before a color-coded area, then later an entire set is painted in
+Foundation Imaging's computers and inserted around the actors.  Examples of
+this sort of imaging include the Narn War Cruiser bridge set and the
+Babylon 5 Observation Deck where the Centauri Emperor met with Captain
+Sheridan (The Coming of Shadows).
+
    
+Another, similar effect is Matte Painting which also can be done on
+Foundation Imaging's computers.  The bi-level Zocalo visualized in the
+opening title sequence of each of Season Two's episodes are examples where
+one plate of the Zocalo was shot, then a second plate with actors walking
+along specifically defined areas was computer inserted over the first.
+
    
+
    
+Eric:      "I know you're busy right now creating effects for the third
+	   season of Babylon 5, but has Foundation Imaging produced effects
+	   for other shows or movies as well?"
+
    
+Thornton:  "Oh yeah.  Right now we're working on a show of mine called
+	   "Hypernauts" a sort of kid's show."
+
    
+	   "We did a show last year called 'Journey to Mars' which is . . .
+	   not great.  And I don't know if they're ever going to show it on
+	   TV, it's that 'not great.'  When you're asked to do rubbish, you
+	   have to do it.  I mean the shots were good but they were very,
+	   very long, I mean we had shots flying over the Mars landscape
+	   that were like a minute and a half long so it's like 'go to
+	   sleep, go out and get yourself a cup of coffee and a sandwich'
+	   and come back and the shot's still running.
+
    
+	   "There was this kind of strange director that they had that was
+	   coming up with all this stuff."
+
    
+
    
+But with the talents of Ron Thornton and his team at Foundation Imaging,
+imaginative producer J. Michael Straczynski and the gifted directors of
+Babylon 5, computers are sure to keep producing attention-riveting special
+effects.
+
+
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+
    
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+Last update:
+October 16, 1995
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+"Ulysses"
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+
    "Ulysses"
    
+
    by Alfred Lord Tennyson
    
+
    
+It little profits that an idle king,
    
+By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
    
+Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole
    
+Unequal laws unto a savage race,
    
+That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
    
+I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
    
+Life to the lees.  All times I have enjoy'd
    
+Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those
    
+That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
    
+Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
    
+
+Vext the dim sea.  I am become a name;
    
+    
+For always roaming with a hungry heart
    
+Much have I seen and known,-- cities of men
    
+And manners, climates, councils, governments,
    
+Myself not least, but honor'd of them all,--
    
+And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
    
+Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
    
+I am a part of all that I have met;
    
+Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
    
+Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
    
+For ever and for ever when I move.
    
+How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
    
+To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
    
+As tho' to breathe were life!  Life piled on life
    
+Were all too little, and of one to me
    
+Little remains; but every hour is saved
    
+From that eternal silence, something more,
    
+A bringer of new things; and vile it were
    
+For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
    
+
+And this gray spirit yearning in desire
    
+    
+To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
    
+Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
+
    
+        This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
    
+to whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,--
    
+Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill
    
+This labor, by slow prudence to make mild
    
+A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees
    
+Subdue them to the useful and the good.
    
+Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere
    
+Of common duties, decent not to fail
    
+In offices of tenderness, and pay
    
+Meet adoration to my household gods,
    
+When I am gone.  He works his work, I mine.
+
    
+        There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail;
    
+There gloom the dark, broad seas.  My mariners,
    
+Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me,--
    
+That ever with a frolic welcome took
    
+The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
    
+Free hearts, free foreheads,-- you and I are old;
    
+Old age hath yet his honor and his toil.
    
+Death closes all; but something ere the end,
    
+Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
    
+Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
    
+The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
    
+The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
    
+Moans round with many voices.  Come, my friends.
    
+'T is not too late to seek a newer world.
    
+Push off, and sitting well in order smite
    
+The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
    
+To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
    
+Of all the western stars, until I die.
    
+It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;
    
+It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
    
+And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.
    
+Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
    
+We are not now that strength which in old days
    
+Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,--
    
+One equal temper of heroic hearts,
    
+Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
    
+To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
+
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+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
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+"The War Prayer"
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+
    The War Prayer
    
+
    by Mark Twain
    
+
+
    
+     It was a time of great and exalting excitement.  The
+country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned
+the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands
+playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing
+and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and
+fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of
+flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched
+down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the
+proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering
+them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by;
+nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot
+oratory which stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and
+which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of
+applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the
+churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and
+invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause
+in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener. 
+It was indeed a glad and gracious time, and the half dozen rash
+spirits that ventured to disapprove of the war and cast a doubt
+upon its righteousness straightway got such a stern and angry
+warning that for their personal safety's sake they quickly shrank
+out of sight and offended no more in that way.
+
+
    
+     Sunday morning came -- next day the battalions would
+leave for the front; the church was filled; the volunteers were
+there, their young faces alight with martial dreams -- visions of the
+stern advance, the gathering momentum, the rushing charge, the
+flashing sabers, the flight of the foe, the tumult, the enveloping
+smoke, the fierce pursuit, the surrender!  Then home from the
+war, bronzed heroes, welcomed, adored, submerged in golden
+seas of glory!  With the volunteers sat their dear ones, proud,
+happy, and envied by the neighbors and friends who had no sons
+and brothers to send forth to the field of honor, there to win for
+the flag, or, failing, die the noblest of noble deaths.  The
+service proceeded; a war chapter from the Old Testament was
+read; the first prayer was said; it was followed by an organ burst
+that shook the building, and with one impulse the house rose,
+with glowing eyes and beating hearts, and poured out that
+tremendous invocation
+
+
    
+
    
+     *God the all-terrible!  Thou who ordainest!
+     Thunder thy clarion and lightning thy sword!*
+
    
+
+
    
+Then came the "long" prayer.  None could remember the like of
+it for passionate pleading and moving and beautiful language. 
+The burden of its supplication was, that an ever-merciful and
+benignant Father of us all would watch over our noble young
+soldiers, and aid, comfort, and encourage them in their patriotic
+work; bless them, shield them in the day of battle and the hour
+of peril, bear them in His mighty hand, make them strong and
+confident, invincible in the bloody onset; help them to crush the
+foe, grant to them and to their flag and country imperishable
+honor and glory --
+
+
    
+     An aged stranger entered and moved with slow and
+noiseless step up the main aisle, his eyes fixed upon the minister,
+his long body clothed in a robe that reached to his feet, his head
+bare, his white hair descending in a frothy cataract to his
+shoulders, his seamy face unnaturally pale, pale even to
+ghastliness.  With all eyes following him and wondering, he
+made his silent way; without pausing, he ascended to the
+preacher's side and stood there waiting.  With shut lids the
+preacher, unconscious of his presence, continued with his
+moving prayer, and at last finished it with the words, uttered in
+fervent appeal, "Bless our arms, grant us the victory, O Lord
+our God, Father and Protector of our land and flag!"
+
+
    
+     The stranger touched his arm, motioned him to step
+aside -- which the startled minister did -- and took his place. 
+During some moments he surveyed the spellbound audience with
+solemn eyes, in which burned an uncanny light; then in a deep
+voice he said:
+
+
    
+     "I come from the Throne -- bearing a message from
+Almighty God!"  The words smote the house with a shock; if the
+stranger perceived it he gave no attention.  "He has heard the
+prayer of His servant your shepherd, and will grant it if such
+shall be your desire after I, His messenger, shall have explained
+to you its import -- that is to say, its full import.  For it is like
+unto many of the prayers of men, in that it asks for more than
+he who utters it is aware of -- except he pause and think.
+
+
    
+     "God's servant and yours has prayed his prayer.  Has he
+paused and taken thought?  Is it one prayer?  No, it is two -- one
+uttered, the other not.  Both have reached the ear of Him Who
+heareth all supplications, the spoken and the unspoken.  Ponder
+this -- keep it in mind.  If you would beseech a blessing upon
+yourself, beware!  lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a
+neighbor at the same time.  If you pray for the blessing of rain
+upon your crop which needs it, by that act you are possibly
+praying for a curse upon some neighbor's crop which may not
+need rain and can be injured by it.
+
+
    
+     "You have heard your servant's prayer -- the uttered part
+of it.  I am commissioned of God to put into words the other
+part of it -- that part which the pastor -- and also you in your hearts --
+fervently prayed silently.  And ignorantly and unthinkingly? 
+God grant that it was so!  You heard these words:  'Grant us the
+victory, O Lord our God!'  That is sufficient.  the *whole* of
+the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. 
+Elaborations were not necessary.  When you have prayed for
+victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which
+follow victory--*must* follow it, cannot help but follow it. 
+Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of
+the prayer.  He commandeth me to put it into words.  Listen!
+
+
    
+     "O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our
+hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them!  With them -- in
+spirit -- we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved
+firesides to smite the foe.  O Lord our God, help us to tear their
+soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their
+smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us
+to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their
+wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble
+homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of
+their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn
+them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the
+wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst,
+sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter,
+broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge
+of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord,
+blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter
+pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their
+tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! 
+We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of
+Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that
+are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. 
+Amen.
+
+
    
+     (*After a pause.*)  "Ye have prayed it; if ye still desire
+it, speak!  The messenger of the Most High waits!"
+
+
    
+     It was believed afterward that the man was a lunatic,
+because there was no sense in what he said.
+
+
    
+
    
+Twain apparently dictated it around 1904-05; it was rejected by his
+publisher, and
+was found after his death among his unpublished manuscripts.  It was
+first published in 1923 in Albert Bigelow Paine's anthology,
+Europe and Elsewhere.
+
+
    
+The story is in response to a particular war, namely the Philippine-American
+War of 1899-1902, which Twain opposed.  See Jim Zwick's page
+"Mark Twain
+on the Philippines"
+for more of Twain's writings on the subject.
+
+
    
+Transcribed by Steven Orso (snorso@facstaff.wisc.edu)
+
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+Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes: Writers and Directors
+
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    Writers/Directors List
    
+
+
    Contents:
+ Writers -
+ Directors
    
+
+
    Writers
    
+
+
+
    Writer Index:
+   Neil Barrett, Jr. -
+   Jeanne Cavelos -
+   Peter David -
+   Tim DeHaas -
+   Lawrence G. DiTillio -
+   Kathryn M. Drennan -
+   Harlan Ellison -
+   D.C. Fontana -
+   Scott Frost -
+   Neil Gaiman -
+   David Gerrold -
+   J. Gregory Keyes -
+   Christy Marx -
+   Mark Moretti -
+   Jim Mortimore -
+   Yvonne Navarro -
+   Al Sarrantonio -
+   Robert Sheckley -
+   S.M. Stirling -
+   J. Michael Straczynski -
+   Lois Tilton -
+   John Vornholt -
+   Marc Scott Zicree
+
    
+
+
    Complete through the end of the fifth season, the four TV movies,
+and all comics and novels through January 1999.
    
+
+
    
+
+
    Neil Barrett, Jr.
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name" (5)
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    Jeanne Cavelos
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "The Shadow Within" (7)
+
    
+
+
    Peter David
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "Soul Mates" (29)
+
    2. "There All the Honor Lies" (36)
+
    
+
      
+Comics
+
    1. "In Valen's Name, Part 2" (13)
+
    2. "In Valen's Name, Part 3" (14)
+
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "In the Beginning" (TVM1) [Novelization]
+
    2. "Thirdspace" (TVM2) [Novelization]
+
    
+
+
    Tim DeHaas
    
+
      
+Comics
+
    1. "With Friends Like These..." (5)
+
    2. "Against the Odds" (6)
+
    3. "Survival the Hard Way" (7)
+
    4. "Silent Enemies" (8)
+
    5. "The Psi Corps and You" (11)
+
    
+
+
    Lawrence G. DiTillio
    
+
    Story Editor, First Season
    
+Executive Story Editor, Second Season
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "Born to the Purple" (3)
+
    2. "Deathwalker" (9)
+
    3. "TKO" (14)
+
    4. "Eyes" (16)
+
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "A Spider in the Web" (28)
+
    2. "GROPOS" (32)
+
    3. "Knives" (39)
+
    
+
+
    Kathryn M. Drennan
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "By Any Means Necessary" (12)
+
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "To Dream in the City of Sorrows" (9)
+
    
+
+
    Harlan Ellison
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "A View From the Gallery" (92) [Story]
+
    2. "Objects in Motion" (108) [Story]
+
    
+
+
    D.C. Fontana
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "The War Prayer" (7)
+
    2. "Legacies" (17)
+
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "A Distant Star" (26)
+
    
+
+
    Scott Frost
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "The Long Dark" (27)
+
    
+
+
    Neil Gaiman
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "Day of the Dead" (96)
+
    
+
+
    David Gerrold
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "Believers" (10)
+
    
+
      
+Comics
+
    1. "Duet for Human and Narn in C Sharp" (9)
+
    2. "Coda for Human and Narn in B Flat" (10)
+
    
+
+
    J. Gregory Keyes
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"
+
    2. "Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant"
+
    3. "Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester"
+
    
+
+
    Christy Marx
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "Grail" (15)
+
    
+
      
+Software
+
    1. The B5 Space Combat Simulation
+
    
+
+
    Mark Moretti
    
+
      
+Comics
+
    1. "Treason" (2)
+
    2. "In Harm's Way" (3)
+
    3. "The Price of Peace" (4)
+
    
+
+
    Jim Mortimore
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "Clarke's Law" (4)
+
    
+
+
    Yvonne Navarro
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "The River of Souls" (TVM3) [Novelization]
+
    
+
+
    Al Sarrantonio
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "Personal Agendas" (8)
+
    
+
+
    Robert Sheckley
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "A Call to Arms" (TVM4) [Novelization]
+
    
+
+
    S.M. Stirling
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "Betrayals" (6)
+
    
+
+
    J. Michael Straczynski
    
+
    Executive Producer, Creator, Great Maker
    
+Director, "Sleeping in Light"
    
+jmsatb5@aol.com
    
+
      
+TV Movies
+
    1. "The Gathering" (Pilot)
+
    2. "In the Beginning" (TVM1)
+
    3. "Thirdspace" (TVM2)
+
    4. "The River of Souls" (TVM3)
+
    5. "A Call to Arms" (TVM4)
+
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "Midnight on the Firing Line" (1)
+
    2. "Soul Hunter" (2)
+
    3. "Infection" (4)
+
    4. "Parliament of Dreams" (5)
+
    5. "Mind War" (6)
+
    6. "And the Sky Full of Stars" (8)
+
    7. "Signs and Portents" (13)
+
    8. "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1" (18)
+
    9. "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2" (19)
+
    10. "Babylon Squared" (20)
+
    11. "The Quality of Mercy" (21)
+
    12. "Chrysalis" (22)
+
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "Points of Departure" (23)
+
    2. "Revelations" (24)
+
    3. "The Geometry of Shadows" (25)
+
    4. "A Race Through Dark Places" (30)
+
    5. "The Coming of Shadows" (31)
+
    6. "All Alone in the Night" (33)
+
    7. "Acts of Sacrifice" (34)
+
    8. "Hunter, Prey" (35)
+
    9. "And Now For a Word" (37)
+
    10. "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (38)
+
    11. "Confessions and Lamentations" (40)
+
    12. "Divided Loyalties" (41)
+
    13. "The Long, Twilight Struggle" (42)
+
    14. "Comes the Inquisitor" (43)
+
    15. "The Fall of Night" (44)
+
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "Matters of Honor" (45)
+
    2. "Convictions" (46)
+
    3. "A Day in the Strife" (47)
+
    4. "Passing Through Gethsemane" (48)
+
    5. "Voices of Authority" (49)
+
    6. "Dust to Dust" (50)
+
    7. "Exogenesis" (51)
+
    8. "Messages from Earth" (52)
+
    9. "Point of No Return" (53)
+
    10. "Severed Dreams" (54)
+
    11. "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" (55)
+
    12. "Sic Transit Vir" (56)
+
    13. "A Late Delivery From Avalon" (57)
+
    14. "Ship of Tears" (58)
+
    15. "Interludes and Examinations" (59)
+
    16. "War Without End, Part One" (60)
+
    17. "War Without End, Part Two" (61)
+
    18. "Walkabout" (62)
+
    19. "Grey 17 is Missing" (63)
+
    20. "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" (64)
+
    21. "Shadow Dancing" (65)
+
    22. "Z'Ha'Dum" (66)
+
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "The Hour of the Wolf" (67)
+
    2. "What Ever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" (68)
+
    3. "The Summoning" (69)
+
    4. "Falling Toward Apotheosis" (70)
+
    5. "The Long Night" (71)
+
    6. "Into the Fire" (72)
+
    7. "Epiphanies" (73)
+
    8. "The Illusion of Truth" (74)
+
    9. "Atonement" (75)
+
    10. "Racing Mars" (76)
+
    11. "Lines of Communication" (77)
+
    12. "Conflicts of Interest" (78)
+
    13. "Rumors, Bargains, and Lies" (79)
+
    14. "Moments of Transition" (80)
+
    15. "No Surrenter, No Retreat" (81)
+
    16. "The Exercise of Vital Powers" (82)
+
    17. "The Face of the Enemy" (83)
+
    18. "Intersections in Real Time" (84)
+
    19. "Between the Darkness and the Light" (85)
+
    20. "Endgame" (86)
+
    21. "Rising Star" (87)
+
    22. "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" (88)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "No Compromises" (89)
+
    2. "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" (90)
+
    3. "The Paragon of Animals" (91)
+
    4. "A View From the Gallery" (92) [Story and Teleplay]
+
    5. "Learning Curve" (93)
+
    6. "Strange Relations" (94)
+
    7. "Secrets of the Soul" (95)
+
    8. "In the Kingdom of the Blind" (97)
+
    9. "A Tragedy of Telepaths" (98)
+
    10. "Phoenix Rising" (99)
+
    11. "The Ragged Edge" (100)
+
    12. "The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father" (101)
+
    13. "Meditations on the Abyss" (102)
+
    14. "Darkness Ascending" (103)
+
    15. "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" (104)
+
    16. "Movements of Fire and Shadow" (105)
+
    17. "The Fall of Centauri Prime" (106)
+
    18. "The Wheel of Fire" (107)
+
    19. "Objects in Motion" (108) [Story and Teleplay]
+
    20. "Objects at Rest" (109)
+
    21. "Sleeping in Light" (110) [Also Director]
+
    
+
      
+Comics
+
    1. "In Darkness Find Me" (1)
+
    2. "In Valen's Name" (12)
+
    
+
+
    Lois Tilton
    
+
    l.tilton@genie.com
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "Accusations" (2)
+
    
+
+
    John Vornholt
    
+
    vornholt@indirect.com
    
+jbv@azstarnet.com
    
+
      
+Novels
+
    1. "Voices" (1)
+
    2. "Blood Oath" (3)
+
    
+
+
    Marc Scott Zicree
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "Survivors" (11)
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
    Directors
    
+
+
+
    Director Index:
+   Menachem Binetski -
+   Richard Compton -
+   John Copeland -
+   Kevin G. Cremin -
+   Kevin James Dobson -
+   Tony Dow -
+   Mario Di Leo -
+   David J. Eagle -
+   Lorraine Senna Ferrara -
+   Stephen Furst -
+   John C. Flinn, III -
+   Kim Friedman -
+   Janet Greek -
+   Bruce Seth Green -
+   Jim Johnston -
+   John LaFia -
+   Doug Lefler -
+   John McPherson -
+   Adam Nimoy -
+   Stephen L. Posey -
+   J. Michael Straczynski -
+   Jesús Treviño -
+   Mike Laurence Vejar -
+   Douglas E. Wise
+
    
+
+
    Complete through the end of the fifth season, and the four TV movies.
    
+
+
    
+
+
    Menachem Binetski
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "Hunter, Prey" (35)
+
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "Voices of Authority" (49)
+
    
+
+
    Richard Compton
    
+
    Co-Producer, First Season
    
+
      
+TV Movies
+
    1. "The Gathering" (Pilot)
+
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "Midnight on the Firing Line" (1)
+
    2. "Infection" (4)
+
    3. "The War Prayer" (7)
+
    4. "Believers" (10)
+
    5. "Grail" (15)
+
    
+
+
    John Copeland
    
+
    Producer
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "Endgame" (86)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "The Ragged Edge" (100)
+
    2. "Objects at Rest" (109)
+
    
+
+
    Kevin G. Cremin
    
+
    Unit Production Manager, First and Second Seasons
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "A Spider in the Web" (28)
+
    2. "Confessions and Lamentations" (40)
+
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "Matters of Honor" (45)
+
    2. "Exogenesis" (51)
+
    3. "Walkabout" (62)
+
    
+
+
    Mario Di Leo
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "The Long Dark" (27)
+
    2. "All Alone in the Night" (33)
+
    3. "And Now For a Word" (37)
+
    
+
+
    Kevin James Dobson
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "What Ever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" (68)
+
    2. "Into the Fire" (72)
+
    
+
+
    Tony Dow
    
+
    Visual Effects Supervisor, "The Hour of the Wolf" to "Falling Toward Apotheosis"
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "Atonement" (75)
+
    2. "Moments of Transition" (80)
+
    3. "Rising Star" (87)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "Secrets of the Soul" (95)
+
    2. "A Tragedy of Telepaths" (98)
+
    
+
+
    David J. Eagle
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (38)
+
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "A Day in the Strife" (47)
+
    2. "Dust to Dust" (50)
+
    3. "Severed Dreams" (54)
+
    4. "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" (64)
+
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "The Hour of the Wolf" (67)
+
    2. "Falling Toward Apotheosis" (70)
+
    3. "Conflicts of Interest" (78)
+
    4. "Between the Darkness and the Light" (85)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" (90)
+
    2. "Learning Curve" (93)
+
    3. "In the Kingdom of the Blind" (97)
+
    4. "Phoenix Rising" (99)
+
    
+
+
    Lorraine Senna Ferrana
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "The Quality of Mercy" (21)
+
    
+
+
    John C. Flinn, III
    
+
    Director of Photography
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "TKO" (14)
+
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "Soul Mates" (29)
+
    2. "The Long, Twilight Struggle" (42)
+
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" (55)
+
    2. "Grey 17 is Missing" (63)
+
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "Epiphanies" (73)
+
    2. "Lines of Communication" (77)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "Strange Relations" (94)
+
    2. "Movements of Fire and Shadow" (105)
+
    
+
+
    Kim Friedman
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "Shadow Dancing" (65)
+
    
+
+
    Stephen Furst
    
+
    Vir Cotto, Centauri Diplomatic Attaché
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "The Illusion of Truth" (74)
+
    2. "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" (88)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father" (101)
+
    
+
+
    Goran Gajic
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" (104)
+
    
+
+
    Janet Greek
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "And the Sky Full of Stars" (8)
+
    2. "Signs and Portents" (13)
+
    3. "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1" (18)
+
    4. "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2" (19)
+
    5. "Chrysalis" (22)
+
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "Points of Departure" (23)
+
    2. "The Coming of Shadows" (31)
+
    3. "The Fall of Night" (44)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "No Compromises" (89)
+
    2. "A View From the Gallery" (92)
+
    3. "Darkness Ascending" (103)
+
    4. "The Wheel of Fire" (107)
+
    
+
      
+TV Movies
+
    1. "The River of Souls" (TVM3)
+
    
+
+
    Bruce Seth Green
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "Born to the Purple" (3)
+
    2. "Mind War" (6)
+
    3. "Deathwalker" (9)
+
    4. "Legacies" (17)
+
    
+
+
    Jim Johnston
    
+
      
+Season 1
+
    1. "Soul Hunter" (2)
+
    2. "Parliament of Dreams" (5)
+
    3. "Survivors" (11)
+
    4. "By Any Means Necessary" (12)
+
    5. "Eyes" (16)
+
    6. "Babylon Squared" (20)
+
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "Revelations" (24)
+
    2. "A Distant Star" (26)
+
    3. "A Race Through Dark Places" (30)
+
    4. "GROPOS" (32)
+
    5. "Acts of Sacrifice" (34)
+
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "Point of No Return" (53)
+
    
+
+
    John LaFia
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "The Long Night" (71)
+
    2. "The Exercise of Vital Powers" (82)
+
    3. "Intersections in Real Time" (84)
+
    
+
+
    Doug Lefler
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "Day of the Dead" (96)
+
    
+
+
    John McPherson
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "The Summoning" (69)
+
    
+
+
    Adam Nimoy
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "Passing Through Gethsemane" (48)
+
    2. "Z'Ha'Dum" (66)
+
    
+
+
    Stephen L. Posey
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "Knives" (39)
+
    
+
+
    J. Michael Straczynski
    
+
    Executive Producer, Creator, Writer, Great Maker
    
+jmsatb5@aol.com
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "Sleeping in Light" (110) [Also Writer]
+
    
+
+
    Jesús Treviño
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "Divided Loyalties" (41)
+
    
+
      
+Season 3
+
    1. "Sic Transit Vir" (56)
+
    2. "Interludes and Examinations" (59)
+
    
+
      
+Season 4
+
    1. "Racing Mars" (76)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5 [as Jesús Salvador Treviño]
+
    1. "Objects in Motion" (108)
+
    
+
      
+TV Movies [as Jesús Salvador Treviño]
+
    1. "Thirdspace" (TVM2)
+
    
+
+
    Michael Laurence Vejar
    
+
      
+Season 2
+
    1. "The Geometry of Shadows" (25)
+
    2. "There All the Honor Lies" (36)
+
    3. "Comes the Inquisitor" (43) [as Michael Vejar]
+
    
+
      
+Season 3 [as Michael Vejar]
+
    1. "Convictions" (46)
+
    2. "Messages from Earth" (52)
+
    3. "A Late Delivery From Avalon" (57)
+
    4. "Ship of Tears" (58)
+
    5. "War Without End, Part One" (60)
+
    6. "War Without End, Part Two" (61)
+
    
+
      
+Season 4 [as Mike Vejar]
+
    1. "Rumors, Bargains, and Lies" (79)
+
    2. "No Surrenter, No Retreat" (81)
+
    3. "The Face of the Enemy" (83)
+
    
+
      
+Season 5 [as Mike Vejar]
+
    1. "The Paragon of Animals" (91)
+
    2. "Meditations on the Abyss" (102)
+
    
+
      
+TV Movies [as Mike Vejar]
+
    1. "In the Beginning" (TVM1)
+
    2. "A Call to Arms" (TVM4)
+
    
+
+
    Douglas E. Wise
    
+
    First Assistant Director, Fourth and Fifth Seasons
    
+
      
+Season 5
+
    1. "The Fall of Centauri Prime" (106)
+
    
+
+
    This list is maintained by David Henderson and was last updated January 10,
+1999.  Please send E-mail to davidh@psiphi.org if you have and corrections or
+suggestions.
    
+
+
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+"Babylon 5" Creator J. Michael Straczynski Establishes New Precedent for
+Scripting 50 One-Hour Episodes in a Row
+
+ (Burbank, CA - May 1997) -- J. Michael Stracyznski, creator, writer and
+executive producer of the Emmy Award winning television series "Babylon 5,"
+has boldly taken his vision where no man dared go before. Straczynski has set
+a new precedent for American Television by becoming the first person in the
+history of the medium to singularly script 50 one-hour episodes in a row
+--representing over two full seasons of the series.  Additionally, he is
+writing and co-producing two feature length movies for TNT, a prequel and
+sequel to "Babylon 5's" current storyline, due out in early 1998, and has
+made his directorial debut with the final episode of season four.  
+
+ Only Straczynski knows the entire multi-year story arc of his pioneering
+epic which chronicles the adventures of an ecclectic group of humans and
+aliens aboard a five-mile long, self contained space station.  "To tell a
+coherent, cohesive, and consistent story this large, with so much written by
+one person, has never before been attempted in American television," comments
+Straczynski.  "And there's a reason for that.  You have to be out of your
+mind to even try it!
+
+  "It was nothing I ever wanted to do and wanted to avoid at all costs, but
+the difficulty of incorporating freelance stories into what is, essentially a
+novel for television, began to make that impossible, as much as we tried to
+make it work," adds Straczynski.  "A number of critics point out that film or
+television cannot allow for writers to be auteurs, but I think we have
+disproved that notion.  Television can be treated with the same literary
+approach and creative control as books or short stories.   Babylon 5 has
+shown that it is possible to tell a single story, to create a true novel for
+television, that spans not just weeks, but multiple years--setting threads
+and clues that play out over the course of years, trusting to the patience
+and intelligence of the audience."  In fact,  "Babylon 5" has been endorsed
+by Viewers for Quality Televsion for the past three years. 
+
+ "I've been given this remarkable opportunity by Warner Bros. to just go and
+tell my story," continues Straczynski.  "They have given us unrestrained
+freedom to address issues of controversy--from the death penalty to
+spirituality, gay issues, the role of religion vs. science, politics, even
+examining the media itself."  
+ 
+ All this has come at something of a steep price to Straczynski. For the past
+four years, he has literally done nothing other than thinking about and
+writing the "Babylon 5" epic and adhering to a rigorous daily regiment that
+concludes each morning between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., 362 mornings per year.
+ (This includes three to four hours a day interacting with fans on the
+internet.) 
+
+  "It's a hideous strain," he confesses. "If I'd known what I was getting
+into, I might not have done it.  But once I was on the horse, I had to hold
+on, no matter what!  And I know in my heart, this opportunity will never come
+again." 
+ 
+ "Babylon 5" stars Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle and Mira
+Furlan. Richard Biggs, Bill Mumy, Jason Carter, Stephen Furst, Jeff Conaway
+and Patricia Tallman also star, with Peter Juraski as "Londo" and Andreas
+Katsulas as "G-Kar."
+ 
+ "Babylon 5" is produced by Babylonian Productions, Inc. and distributed by
+Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. J. Michael Straczynski is the
+series creator and Douglas Netter and Straczynski are the executive
+producers. John Copeland serves as producer and George Johnsen is
+co-producer. Eminent science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison is creative
+consultant.
+
+ Online fans can visit the Official Warner Bros. "Babylon 5" website at:
+http://www.babylon5.com and the Official Fan Club site at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+###
+
+FOR MORE INFORMATION, please contact:
+
+ Sandi Serling, Serling & Associates
+ xxx/xxx-xxxx
+ sandis955@aol.com
+
+
+
+
+[[[ Note: The following contains SPOILERS for much of the remainder of
+    season four! ]]]
+
+
+
+
+Babylon 5 Highlights through May and June
+
+
+ This May and June, "Babylon 5" viewers will be led down a roller coaster
+ride of plot twists. Civil war on Earth, mysterious deaths and political
+intrigue onboard the station, threatens to tear apart what the combined
+forces of The Vorlons, and The Shadows could not, as the fourth year of the
+syndicated space epic, Babylon 5 comes to a heart stopping climax.
+
+x Security chief Michael Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle), leaves "Babylon 5," never
+to return.
+ 
+x Captain Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner), labeled a traitor by his own
+government must deal with the ramifications of his split with Earthforce, and
+the cost to him and his crew, promises to be high.
+ 
+x After finally beating back the elemental Lords of Chaos and Order, The
+Shadows and The Vorlons, a full scale civil war finally breaks out back home
+on Earth with consequences threatening the station itself.  
+ 
+x Viewers are certain to be transfixed as two lead characters will die before
+the end of the season.
+ 
+x Captain Sheridan will find himself face to face and alone against an agent
+of Earthdome, when he is captured and must suffer through his inquisitor's
+questions in a special one-hour episode, filmed in real time; an acting and
+writing 'tour de force' that will grip Babylon 5 viewers by the throat.
+
+
+
+
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+          "DILBERT" CREATOR SCOTT ADAMS
+              APPEARS ON "BABYLON 5"
+
+       Cartoonist drops in on what he calls
+       "the best television show ever made"
+
+     (Burbank, CA -- April , 1997) - Cartoonist Scott Adams, who satirizes
+the American workplace each day in over 1550 newspapers around the world
+with his comic strip, "Dilbert," makes an appearance on his favorite
+program, "Babylon 5," airing (day and time on channel).
+
+      Earlier this year, Adams character "Dilbert" listed his favorite
+shows for TV Guide and picked "Babylon 5" as his top choice stating it is
+--"the best show ever made." Producers later contacted him to discuss
+appearing in an episode, and despite pressing deadlines for his latest
+book, the cartoonist jumped at the chance.
+
+     ""Babylon 5" is the only show I schedule my time around," he says.
+"No matter how busy I am, I won't book anything when "Babylon 5" is on.
+So when they asked me if I was interested in being on, I said 'of course.'
+I mean, how often do you get to be on a TV show, let alone your favorite
+show?"
+
+     Producers originally talked with Adams about playing an alien
+character, "but as it turns out, I play a human -- a slightly deranged
+human, but a human nonetheless." In the "Babylon 5" episode titled
+"Moments of Transition," he portrays a mystery man named, appropriately
+enough, "Mr.  Adams", who solicits the services of former station security
+chief and private investigator, "Michael Garibaldi" (Jerry Doyle),
+supposedly to locate a lost dog.  "Garibaldi" decides the assignment is
+not for him when the strange man cryptically warns him of a mysterious
+plot to take over the galaxy.
+
+     Attending to Adams' needs in the episode is his silent Minbari aide,
+played by Adams' real-life girlfriend, Pam Okasaki. "I'm glad Pam had to
+be the alien and not me," admits Adams.  "With all that makeup, I didn't
+want to get all that sticky stuff in my hair."
+
+     Adams called filming the episode at "Babylon 5's" Southern California
+set "a blast," but says he won't give up his "Dilbert" gig any time soon,
+even though he was required to apply for a Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) card
+in order to participate in the "Babylon 5" episode.  While on the set, he
+managed to achieve another objective -- to gather information for his new
+book, "The Dilbert Future" (to be released in mid-May by HarperBusiness).
+
+     Of course, "Moments of Transition" also features some more serious
+business: Minbari Ambassador "Delenn," played by Mira Furlan, will make
+the ultimate sacrifice for her people, telepath 'Lyta Alexander' (Patricia
+Tallman) will accept a desperate proposition that could lead her back to
+the hated Psi Corps and "Captain Sheridan" (Bruce Boxleitner) faces the
+possibility of going to war with Earth.  "Moments of Transition" was
+written by show creator J.  Michael Straczynski and directed by Tony Dow.
+
+     "Babylon 5" stars Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle,
+and Mira Furian.  Richard Biggs, Bill Mumy, Jason Carter, Stephen Furst,
+Jeff Conaway and Patricia Tallman also star, with Peter Jurasik as "Londo"
+and Andreas Katsulas as "G-Kar."
+
+      Currently in its fourth season, "Babylon 5" is produced by
+Babylonian Productions, Inc. and distributed by Warner Bros.  Domestic
+Television Distribution.  J. Michael Straczynski is the series creator and
+Douglas Netter and Straczynski are the executive producers. John Copeland
+serves as producer and George Johnsen is co-producer.  Eminent
+science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison is creative consultant.
+
+      Online fans can visit the Official Warner Bros. "Babylon 5" web site
+at: http://www.babylon5.com and the Official Fan Club site at:
+http://www.thestation.com
+
+
+
+
+        Contact:            Sandi Serling
+                            Serling & Associates
+                            xxx/xxx-xxxx
+                            sandis955@aol.com
+
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+Two kinds of air dates are listed.  For seasons one and two, the date
+is PTEN's preferred airdate, Wednesday of each week.
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+However, by the end of season two, with the emergence of the Paramount and
+Warner Bros. networks, the majority of stations were showing
+B5 on other nights; so the dates for season three and beyond are "week
+of" dates, the first date (a Monday) on which stations are allowed to
+broadcast the episode in question.
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+Many stations broadcast each episode twice, once during the week and again
+on the weekend.
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+Consult your local listings to find out which night B5 is on in your
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+I received the following from the person in charge of babylon5scripts.com, who
+as you'll see asked me to pass it along to the Lurker's Guide's audience.
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+Joe is traveling outside the country right now and asked that I write
+you to enroll your help.
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+As you know the site launched last Saturday, October 29th.  At that
+time, and as promised, we sent an email to all subscribers on the
+mailing list.   Shortly thereafter we discovered that most people did
+NOT get the mailing, including Joe and myself.  (That's how we knew
+for sure that we had a problem).
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+Also, based on feedback sent in after mailing, many people who wanted
+the alert not only did not get it, there were automatically
+unsubscribed off the list because their ISP bounced it before they
+even got it.
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+To solve this we have to moved the list to a service who has vowed to
+get it right for us.  So tomorrow night, Thursday, we are going to
+officially re-launch our email alert list with a new service.
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+The only snag is that some people who unsubscribed off the previous
+mailing may get this one and will have to re-unsubscribe again.  We
+feel awful about this.   Even though this is a small, small percentage
+of the list we want to apologize ahead of time and assure them that
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+Alert from the Babylon 5 Scripts Team: Babylon5scripts.com has
+adjusted the proof-of-purchase requirement to earn volume 15.  The
+only information buyers will be asked to submit is their order number
+for each volume.  In other words, no one is required to state the
+unique identifier found on the backs of volumes 1 and 2, (but NOT on
+volume 3) as formerly indicated on the website. 
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+As a side note, order numbers can be found in the confirmation emails
+from Cafe Press, as well as the receipt included with each book
+shipment.  If you have misplaced either, Cafe Press will happily give
+you this information by phone.  You can reach them during business
+hours at 877-809-1659.  International customers can reach them via
+email using the feedback form on their site.
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+If you have any other questions, please contact the head of the
+Babylon 5 Scripts Team at jaclyn@babylon5scripts.com.
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+Complete details about the proof of purchase can be found here:
+http://www.babylon5scripts.com/ProofOfPurchase.htm
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+"The First Lady of Star Trek"
+Makes A Royal Visit to "BABYLON 5"
+The Week of February 26, 1996
+
+(Syndicated:  check local listings)
+
+ For years, Majel Barrett had appeared among the esteemed celebrities at cult
+science fiction conventions -- both as "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's
+widow and for her recurring roles in all three "Star Trek" television series
+and two of the six motion pictures.
+
+ And each time she mentioned what many consider "Star Trek's" key rival --
+the Emmy Award-winning TV series, "Babylon 5" -- the response, Barrett
+remembers appreciatively, were shouts of "Bravo!" and "Hooray!," followed by
+applause.
+
+ Then finally, last fall Barrett's intergalactic path fatefully converged at a 
+sci-fi convention in England with that of JMS -- as "Babylon 5's" revered
+creator, J. Michael Straczynski, is known by his legions of on-line internet
+fans.
+
+ It seems that word had reached Straczynski that "The First Lady of Star
+Trek" would welcome an invitation to appear in his compelling space saga, in
+which the competing interests of five diverse races (four of them alien)
+threaten to escalate into an interstellar holocaust.
+
+ So upon meeting Barrett, Straczynski extended an invitation for her to
+appear in a pivotal guest role.  She graciously accepted.  The script was
+delivered to her hotel the next morning.  "And six weeks later we shot the
+show.  It was just that simple.  Just that easy," she delightfully recounts.
+
+ "It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen. This is a big, important
+drama which is playing out over a period of five years, and Joe (Straczynski)
+knows exactly where this story is going to go and how it's going to get
+there," Barrett says of the  show's unique continuing storyline.
+
+ Adds Straczynski:  "We're very pleased to have Majel appearing on 'Babylon
+5.'  Because as the wife of 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry, her
+appearance on our show will help dispel the notion -- held by some -- that
+one cannot be a fan of both series.  
+
+ "Majel and I discussed this between us, and we both view this rivalry as
+unproductive.  We are both extending our hands across our respective fictional 
+universes in a show of solidarity.  So we're very happy that she has chosen
+to endorse 'Babylon 5' in this way, and hope that science fiction viewers of
+all stripes will check out the series."
+
+ For "Babylon 5," Barrett guest stars as Lady Morella, a seer and widow of
+the recently-slain Emperor of the Centaurian Republic, who provides a
+devastating vision of the future for the ever-scheming Centauri Ambassador,
+Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik), and his aide, Vir (Stephen Furst).  The
+episode, entitled "Point of No Return," will air during the week of February
+26, 1996 (check local listings for date, station, and time).
+
+ Besides her recurring role as Lwuxana Troi in "Star Trek:  Deep Space Nine"
+(and previously in "Star Trek:  The Next Generation"), Barrett starred as
+Christine Chapel in the original series and the films, "Star Trek:  The
+Motion Picture" and "Star Trek IV:  The Voyage Home."  She is also the
+familiar voice of the computer on all three "Star Trek" series and the
+animated television show of the 1970s.
+
+ Currently in its third season, "Babylon 5" has been the recipient of two
+Emmy Awards (for visual effects and make-up) and three Emmy nominations; The
+National Foundation Award for Best Vision of the Future; and a Hugo
+nomination from the World Science Fiction Association; among other honors.
+
+ "Babylon 5" stars Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira
+Furlan, Richard Biggs, Bill Mumy, Jason Carter, Stephen Furst, Jeff Conaway,
+Andreas Katsulas and Peter Jurasik.  Douglas Netter and J. Michael
+Straczynski are the executive producers, and John Copeland is the producer.
+ Eminent science fiction author Harlan Ellison serves as a creative
+consultant.
+
+ Produced by Babylonian Productions, Inc., the series is syndicated through
+Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.
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+The following are comments from JMS and Claudia Christian about her departure.
+As new comments become available, they'll be added to the bottom of this page.
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+Note: Please don't send comments on her departure to the Lurker's
+Guide.
+We don't work for the show and have no influence whatsoever over the situation.
+See JMS' July 20 messages before you contemplate writing letters to
+try to reverse the decision.
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+Comments from JMS, July 19 1997
+
    
+There have been some questions raised as to what has happened regarding
+Claudia Christian and Season 4.  In simplest possible terms, which can be
+verified through every cast member, and in the press, what happened was this:
+
+
    
+In early June, WB asked for, and received, one-month exensions on their
+contract options from all cast members except Claudia, for the purposes of
+allowing WB time to work out the co-financing deal with TNT for year 5 of B5.
+ There was a great deal of red tape left over from the PTEN deal to finish
+unraveling, and other business aspects, to work out in going from syndication
+to cable, and it was taking longer than expected.
+
+
    
+Claudia said, repeatedly, that she was on board for the fifth season, but
+that she didn't want to give the extension for business reasons of her own.
+ We took her at her word and allowed her to not give the extension.
+ Assurances were made to us, and to her fellow cast members.
+
+
    
+While we were all together (cast, some crew, and I) in Blackpool for Wolf
+359, word reached us of the articles in Variety and Reuters reporting that
+Claudia would not be returning to B5, and was looking for other work.  This
+was the very first indication we had that she would not be in season 5.  TNT
+was upset by this, WB was upset by this, and we were called on the carpet
+asking why we had trusted her about the fifth year.  When spoken to in
+Blackpool, she was still, at that point, saying that she was going to be in
+season 5...but did nothing to address the situation with WB.  She was told
+that WB had to know, for sure, if she was in or out by last Friday.  All she
+had to do to be in season 5 was to pick up the phone, or have her agent do
+so, and call WB and say, "I'm in."
+
+
    
+This did not happen.  Friday came, and went.  It was clear that she had no
+intention of being in season 5, and wanted instead to pursue movies.  She is
+more well known now after B5, after all.
+
+
    
+Cast members prevailed upon her to change her mind over the weekend.  Bruce,
+Jeff Conaway, others took it upon themselves to try and talk her back onto
+the show, tried to get her to call on Monday in case she might be able to
+repair the bridges burned the prior week.  On Monday, she left the convention
+early, and never called WB, never called Doug, never called anyone.  
+
+
    
+Bottom line is...she passed on season 5.  She chose not to be there.  I know
+that she has now told some people that WB doesn't want her...but if that is
+the case, why the articles planted in Variety and Reuters saying that the B5
+producers were "bummed" that she wasn't available, that she had chosen not to
+return to the show?  (Again, at the time the articles appeared, this intent
+had not even been conveyed to us or to WB; we had to learn about it by
+reading it in the trades, in articles no one had even discussed with us.)
+ Why did she not give the extension, as was also reported?  Why was it
+announced in the press (in articles reprinted right here on the nets) that
+she wasn't coming back and was looking for other work long before we even
+knew anything about it?
+
+
    
+The offer was on the table.  We extended it to the very limit.  All the other
+actors signed on, and urged her to do the same.  She chose not to.  It was
+never a matter of anyone not wanting her.  I personally urged her Thursday
+night to call her agent and talk this out and make her intentions clear if
+she wanted to come back to the show.  She declined.  Every cast member who
+was there in Blackpool saw what went down, and can verify this.
+
+
    
+And that, as they say, is the long and the short of it.  While I will not
+recast the role, on the theory that she may come around someday and decide
+she wants to be in one of the TNT features or one of the movies, we will be
+bringing in a new character to fill that position in the B5 command
+structure.  Fortunately, 421, already filmed, is structured to allow us to
+adjust for this without missing a beat, and the story will continue as
+planned with only a minor variation in the first two episodes to introduce
+the new character.
+
+
    
+
    
+Response from Claudia Christian, July 20 1997
+
+
    
+Dear Folks,
+
+
         Here's my side of the story and I should know 
+because I was there.
+
+
         On June 20th, I was called into the B-5 office 
+to find out the fate of the 5th season.  With three 
+other cast members present we were told that we could 
+make the fifth season (yeah!).  We were then asked to 
+give up the residuals for that season (those are the 
+things that pay the rent since syndication isn't 
+exactly lucrative).  Well, nonetheless I said okay-I 
+even volunteered to talk the rest of the cast into 
+it.  I had expressed my hesitation in extending my 
+contract renewal because I wanted to get their 
+assurance that in the 5th season I could get at least 
+4 episodes off to do a film.  That was the only thing 
+I was asking for.  No raise--accepting a paycut--
+simply less episodes, period.  Ask yourself this: why 
+would I have done the TNT promos for the 5th season 
+if I did not want to be involved?
+
+
         While I was in Europe (I was there for almost a 
+month), I heard about the gossip column in Variety.  
+It is a gossip column, nothing more.  I have no idea 
+who planted the gossip and frankly, I didn't think 
+much of it since Hollywood is based on gossip.  
+Because the producers and Joe were in Europe, I 
+assumed negotiations for the 5th season would 
+continue when we all returned.  I was told quite 
+curtly that my request for time off had been denied 
+and that Ken Parks from Warner Bros.  had told my 
+agent to tell me to "Find another job, we'll replace 
+her."  After four years of working for a substantial 
+paycut because I loved the show and the people 
+involved, and felt that I was portraying a character 
+that people really cared about, this hurt me 
+immensely.  At that point, I was in shock but I still 
+went to Blackpool thinking that they would come 
+around and give me the time I needed off.  I knew 
+Ivanova was in the first episodes.  I figured we 
+could sit down with my agent and come to a deal.  In 
+Blackpool, I was told by JMS that he would give me 
+the episodes off but I could not get anything in 
+writing.  I trust him, however I know that he was not 
+writing all of the episodes for the fifth season so I 
+really felt that I had to have something in writing.  
+I turns out my fears were justified because when my 
+agent spoke to John Copeland (producer) and mentioned 
+Joe's offer to write me out of a few episodes, Mr. 
+Copeland responded by saying "That's not possible.  
+If TNT wants her in every episode then she has to do 
+all 22.  That's the deal, take it or leave it."
+
+
         At this point, I was told that I had until 
+Monday to call Warner Bros. to tell them I was on 
+board.  Well Folks, an actor does not call a studio.  
+Our union has rules.  The producers of B-5 never 
+called my manager or agent to tell them of this 
+deadline.   Instead, I was told by Jeff Conaway.  I 
+called my agent and left word.  We missed each other.  
+On Monday, I found out that on the previous Friday my 
+agent had received a fax stating that the offer for 
+me to be in B-5 was withdrawn.  In essence, I was 
+fired.  This fax was received on Friday, so what kind 
+of game was being played by giving me false hopes 
+throughout the weekend in England?  And by the way, 
+on Tuesday of that week, I was in London promoting 
+the show and doing magazine interviews and TV talk 
+shows for them on my own time.  Why would I do that 
+if I did not believe something could be worked out.
+
+
         If they really wanted me back, they would have 
+accepted my plea through my agent to sit down and 
+have a meeting.  He was told by John Copeland that he 
+was "a dollar short and a day late."  They simply 
+did not even want to sit down with me!
+
+
         Once again, I would do season 5...if I had less 
+episodes.  I am hurt and disappointed that I have not 
+even received the opportunity to discuss my needs.  I 
+was dismissed coldly and simply.  I want you to know 
+that I have given my heart to the show and I love 
+Ivanova as much as any of you.  I did not "leave" 
+the show.  I did not ask for more money.  I did not 
+create this mess.  Perhaps this is a great lack of 
+communication.  I would like to think that.  Thank 
+you all for your love and support.  I would never 
+abandon you.
+
+
    
+Claudia Christian
+
+
    
+
    
+Response from JMS, July 20 1997
+
    
+You must understand that Claudia is one of 10 or so actors on
+the show. The other actors understood and understand that we cannot
+renegotiate contracts in mid-stream, and they are *supportive of the
+show*, and gave us extensions on their contracts so that WB could have
+time to make the TNT deal work.  They are all, to a man and woman, on
+board otherwise.
+
+
    
+      Claudia opted to not give the extension, where the other cast
+did, and now wants (or says she wants to) renegotiate, now that all the
+other cast members are locked down.  To do so in her case, when she did
+not give us the extension, and deliberately embarrassed WB by having an
+article appear in the trades saying she was out and looking for other
+work, would be an insult to all the other cast members who have worked
+with us to date.
+
+
    
+      Further, yes, she's right, in that the contract could not be
+changed so that she could go out and do movies at a moment's notice. 
+By contract, we must have first call on an actor's services.  That is a
+requirement of ANY TV contract with an actor who is a series regular. 
+That cannot be changed for ANY actor, ANYwhere.
+
+
    
+      That said...I already *told* Claudia that, even though we
+couldn't put it in the contract, I would be happy to work with her
+*informally* on this, and that if she said she needed to be gone from
+X-date to Y-date, I would write her out of those episodes so that she
+could do the movies.  SHE ALREADY GOT FROM ME THAT PROMISE.  I've
+already done similar things for her and other cast members on the show,
+which is how many of them have appeared in other projects.  So this is,
+for me, a non-issue.
+
+
    
+      No, from my standpoint, she wanted off the show, and I have no
+idea why she is running up the fans like this unless she wants to avoid
+responsibility for this.
+
+
    
+      Again, this isn't a case of my word against hers.  EVERY SINGLE
+CAST MEMBER was there when this went down, and MANY of them tried to
+talk her out of walking off the show.  If you don't want to take my
+word for it, ask any one of them who was there, especially Bruce or
+Jeff.
+
+
    
+      I would suggest the fans *not* get into this, because a) you're
+not getting solid or reliable information from Claudia, and b) it is
+simply too late.  She opted to pass on season 5, whether she wants to
+admit this or not, whether she's running from responsibility from that,
+I don't know...but it was her choice.  I sat with her on Thursday night
+at Midnight and told her, flat out, that I would accommodate her
+request on a personal basis, and that she *had* to either contact WB
+herself or have her agent do so the next day, or she was off the show,
+because we HAD to get the show going.  The train was leaving, and she
+could be on it or not as she chose.  She chose not to get on board.
+
+
    
+      What you also don't understand is that we start shooting season
+5 in less than one month.  We're in the process of writing scripts
+*right now*, and have been since we got the production order right
+about the time we went to Blackpool.  You can't whipsaw the writing
+back and forth -- is she in, isn't she in, maybe she is, maybe she
+isn't -- and hope to have anything in shape to shoot.  That was why we
+had to know at that date.  Normally we have a longer lead time; this
+time we didn't, and this has already put the scripts back a bit.  The
+script with the new character is written and in; if I take it out now I
+have to replace it, and there isn't *time*.
+
+
    
+      Claudia knew this.  WB knew this.  We were up against it.  She
+had to choose to be in, or out.  She chose out.  It's no longer our
+responsibility, and it's flatly too late to bring her back.  The door
+is closed on season 5.
+
+
    
+
    
+More from JMS, July 20 1997 (in response to discussions on CompuServe)
+
    
+1) This confirms what I said in my note to Brian, that I
+personally assured Claudia of the chance for time off (so Kevin, bugger
+off).
+
+
    
+      2) Neither I nor anyone else in B5 told her that she had until
+Monday. I sat with her Midnight Thursday and said she had to talk to
+her agent and get this to WB *the very next day*, Friday, or that was
+it.  Jeff took it upon himself to try and talk Claudia into trying to
+work it out on Monday, out of his concern and a hope that this could be
+saved.
+
+
    
+      3) Her agent was notified several days prior to the deadline
+that it was in place by WB business affairs.
+
+
    
+      4) As noted in my other message, there wasn't time to sit down
+leisurely after Blackpool and discuss this.  The first script had to be
+in on July 6th. The second on July 12th.  The third one on July 18th. 
+Those are the hard and fast deadlines in order to meet production
+requirements for season 5.  It is not July 20th.  By the time anyone
+could "sit down" we'd be deep into episode 5 or 6, and then what do we
+do?  Rewrite all 5 or 6 at the last minute?
+
+
    
+      It's an unfortunate situation.  Nobody's denying that.  But what
+happened, happened.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+"I do have a question though.  Why did you opt for a new character,
+instead of simply promoting Corwin?  Was this simply to save changing
+Corwin's role in S5 or is there another reason?"
+
+
    
+      It involves some things that happen later this season that
+require a certain grade officer in place in S5, and would require
+Corwin to jump several ranks.  He's too young and inexperienced for
+that job.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+The information on residuals is not correct.  NO ONE was asked to
+give up residuals on season 5 forever.  That simply never took place.
+
+
    
+      To explain:
+
+
    
+      There are different residuals formulas for the various forms of
+TV. The best one is for network, where the fee paid per rerun is quite
+high; then you have syndication, which starts at a much lower level;
+then there is the basic cable residual, which is lowest of all.  In
+year 5, B5 is going from syndication to basic cable.  That means it
+must now use the basic cable residuals formula.  But the cast had to be
+informed of this, and agree to it, otherwise there could not BE a fifth
+season.
+
+
    
+      The basic cable deal is spelled out very clearly in the Screen
+Actors Guild (SAG) agreement, which is standard for all parts of the
+Industry.  The rule is that the amount paid to an actor over
+double-scale is *credited against* residuals.  Once that amount is
+earned out, the residuals come again. That is standard for basic cable.
+(The closest parallel would be a print author, who is paid an advance
+against royalties; once that advance is earned out, the royalties come
+to the author.)
+
+
    
+      So to make it clearer: let's say for the sake of argument that
+scale is $5,000 per episode.  (It isn't that exact figure, but I don't
+have the SAG book in front of me; still, that's close.)  Double scale
+would be $10,000 per episode.  So if an actor is paid, let's say,
+$12,000 per episode, then $2,000 over double scale per episode is
+credited against residuals, for a total of $44,000.  That amount would
+get burned through pretty fast, and then the actor would again start
+getting residuals.
+
+
    
+      That was the situation explained to *all* the actors.  NO ONE
+was asked to permanently give up S5 residuals.  That simply never
+happened, and *could not* happen under SAG rules.  And the rule as
+specified above can be verified in the SAG agreement.
+
+
    
+      BTW...it was stated to Claudia's people that WB *could* drop her
+down to 18 episodes if she wanted to be paid for only those 18
+episodes, but her reps demanded that she should be paid for all 22
+regardless, and didn't take that deal.
+
+
    
+      You must understand that this sort of thing is common.  For
+instance, when Stephen Furst wanted to do fewer episodes so that he
+could appear as a regular in the sitcom "Misery Loves Company," he
+said, "Look, I really want to do this, so if you could cut me down to,
+say, 8 episodes, and just pay me for those 8 instead of the contracted
+13, that'd be great."  And that deal was made, and made quickly.  If an
+actor wants to be reduced in the number of episodes, but still be paid
+for the full number, that makes things difficult for a studio to go
+along with.
+
+
    
+      And as of now, it's a moot point.  The boat has left the pier. 
+This is no longer an issue that can be altered.  She opted out, for her
+own reasons. Heck, that was announced in the trades long before we knew
+what was going on. We have had no choice but to move on.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+Let me put this to you straight-out, because I've now gotten about 75 more
+emails tonight, not a few of them threatening.  Some people have told me
+that I had better look over my shoulder the next time I come to a
+convention.  I have been called every name in the book.  Right now I am
+about 2 inches away from yanking the modem out of the wall and leaving it
+out.
+
+
    
+Let's get this straight, shall we?
+
+
    
+1) We asked Claudia back.  We wanted Claudia back.
+
+
    
+2) Claudia passed.
+
+
    
+3) The time during which she could have come back has expired.  The
+deadline was not put on arbitrarily.  We roll film on August 18, just a
+few weeks from now.  We *had* to know by the date given whether or not she
+would be in so that scripts could be written.  There was no longer any
+time.
+
+
    
+4) The boat, as they say, has left the pier.  You can't whipsaw scripts
+back and forth and do it all at the last minute.
+
+
    
+5) It is *too late* for anything to change this for season 5.  Whether 1
+letter or 1 million letters come in, it's too late.  It's *done*.  She
+passed, and we've had no choice but to move on.  The only thing that will
+be accomplished by more emails -- threatening or otherwise -- is to piss
+off me and WB, not necessarily in that order.  Harrassment usually pushes
+people in the opposite direction than that intended, and this will be no
+exception.
+
+
    
+This was not a miscommunication.  This was not a mistake.  There is no
+time, and no opportunity, for further negotiations.  There is no middle
+ground, there are not three sides or four or seven.  Anybody who doesn't
+want to take my word for this scenario can ask any of the actors.  Ask
+Bruce.  Ask Jeff.  Ask anyone who was there.  (Except Jerry, who came in
+Monday and missed the fireworks.)
+
+
    
+She passed.  Not us.  The problem is not at this end of the modem line,
+and the accusastions, threats, abuse and intimidations are unmerited and
+undeserved.
+
+
    
+I have been straight with the net community now for going on five years.
+At San Diego Comic Con, I asked Shane Shellenbarger, a fan and sometimes
+journalist who has taped my every convention appearance for the last 5
+years if he had *ever* caught me in a lie or a contradiction or a
+misrepresentation.  He coulnd't find even one.  I've told you the truth in
+this.  If five years of telling the truth isn't good enough, then nothing
+I've done has meant a damn, and I shouldn't be here.
+
+
    
+I have to write this show and get it off the ground.  I can do that, or I
+can deal with harrassing email.  I can't do both.  Especially when I did
+nothing to deserve it except do everything in my power to keep Claudia
+from passing on the show.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+"In the back of my mind, I wonder why Claudia, her agent, Joe, and the
+WB/TNT folks couldn't sit down together (or conference call, or
+whatever) and talk with each other on that final day."
+
+
    
+      I did.  That Thursday night, I sat with her for half an hour,
+urging her to call her agent, and have her agent call WB.  Didn't
+happen.  We never even heard anything from her or her people until
+literally 1 week after the deadline for scripts to start coming in.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+Will Captain MacDougal be replacing Ivanova?
    
+I'd prefer to put a female in that position, to keep the cast
+relatively balanced.  I've actually come up with some very interesting
+ideas on this, which are kinda fun...a way to put a lot more conflict
+into the inner circle, if you will.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+Actually, this would be much simpler if it *were* a
+communication breakdown.  But it ain't.
+
+
    
+      Onward.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+Yeah...ask any cast member, and they'll tell you that
+when I make a promise, it's kept, no matter what it takes.
+
+
    
+      On the reaction...it goes with the territory.  What's been
+difficult have been the emails that have come in suggesting that I
+"watch my back" at the next few conventions I attend.  Disagreement or
+discussion is one thing; threats are another.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+There was no pay cut for the fifth season for the cast.  And the
+residulas formula is standard for basic cable.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 22 1997
+
    
+"Joe could write sa character out of an episode or 4, yet the suits
+could insist that the actor be present on the set anyway (or be in
+breach of contract)!"
+
+
    
+      Nope.  Wouldn't happen.  Has never happened.  Would never
+happen.  WB has not even given us a creative *note* in almost 2 years.
+
+
    
+      This one's a non-starter.  That would simply not happen.  If
+you're not in the script, there's no need for you to be there.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+"If that's the case, then why wouldn't/couldn't he put it into
+writing? So far as I can tell, that's because although he can do
+everything in his power to keep Ivanova out of four episodes, there are
+higher powers within WB/TNT who could say otherwise.  They're the ones
+who hold CCs contract, not JMS."
+
+
    
+Every studio holds the contract on its actors; that's the same
+for every show.
+
+
    
+Nothing could be put into writing in the form of a renegotiation
+because all of the actors are on a favored nation basis...if one
+renegotiates in his/her favor, they all get to renegotiate.  Any of our
+cast can take fewer episodes if they agree to be paid for fewer
+episodes since that favors WB.  Or they can come to me and we'll do it
+unofficially, as has been done with every single cast member for 4+
+years now.  Peter wanted to do "The Late Shift," I wrote him out for a
+couple of episodes to accommodate that; Andreas wants to do a movie, he
+asks, and I write him out.  This has never, ever been a problem.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+"Again, I'm not saying that JMS did anything wrong, but if the studio
+can supercede Joe (i.e. Joe can verbally say 'I'll do it', but the
+studio still has the right to say 'no'), then I can't blame CC for
+wanting something in writing <shrug>"
+
+
    
+      Any studio can supercede the authority of an executive producer.
+
+
    
+      The question, though, is one of logic.
+
+
    
+      If Character X is not in an episode, is not written in an
+episode, there is no grounds on earth for a studio to force the actor
+to hang around the studio for that episode.  Never been done to my
+knowledge on ANY show, anywhere, at any time.  Nor would there be any
+reason to do so here.
+
+
    
+      And WB doesn't write the scripts.  I do.  And they don't bother
+us on that one.  We haven't had a creative note since year 2, episode
+2, and that was mainly on a scene they wanted clarified.
+
+
    
+      In the past, with every actor on the show, I have said, "Come to
+me, and we'll work out unofficially time for you to get away."  There
+are some occasions when I say, "Look, I *need* your character for this
+episode, I can't do "Severed Dreams" without Sheridan," but that
+doesn't happen too often.  We have never had a problem with WB over
+this.  And never once have I given my word to an actor about being
+available, and not had it work out.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+"In her message, CC has quoted Copeland as saying that if TNT/WB want
+her to do the 22 episodes, there's nothing that can be done about it."
+
+
    
+      What John said was that if she wanted to be paid the full amount
+(the 22 episode fee) she had to be in all 22.
+
+
    
+"However, there still seems to be a question as to whether or not she
+was informed of the correct deadlines or if WB/TNT withdrew whatever
+offer was on the table before that deadline arose."
+
+
    
+      She was.  They didn't.
+
+
    
+      On the Thursday before the final Friday deadline, I sat in the
+bar of the DeVere Hotel in Blackpool with Claudia and said, "Claudia,
+the press has announced your departure from the show.  WB takes it
+seriously, and I have to start writing *yesterday*.  We have to know if
+you're in or out, and we have to know by mid-day (noon) tomorrow.  If
+we don't get an indication from your agent that you're in, the offer
+will be withdrawn."
+
+
    
+      The offer was withdrawn at mid-day Friday, as indicated. 
+Because to wait any longer would damage the show, and our chances of
+getting going without missing airdates.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+"CC trusts that JMS will do what he can, but feels that things might
+be out of his hands and puts the question to Copeland who tells her
+(via her agent) that what JMS offered is "Not possible."
+
+
    
+      It is not possible only if one wishes to be paid for all 22.
+
+
    
+"5.  A deadline is set for CC to get in touch with WB to confirm S5.
+According to CC, she was told this by Conaway and not informed via
+normal channels (i.e. via agent, manager, WB).  She tries to contact
+her agent regarding this but they miss each other over the weekend."
+
+
    
+      Ken Parks of WB Business Affairs informed her agent.  I
+personally informed her as well.
+
+
    
+"JMS says she had a Friday deadline.  CC says she was told Monday by
+Conaway and that neither her agent or manager were informed of this
+deadline."
+
+
    
+      After the Friday deadline passed, Jeff took it upon himself to
+try and convince her to go back to the show.  He went to her and said
+that if she or her agent contacted WB on Monday, there might be a
+chance to patch things up. That was the full extent of it.  Jeff does
+not represent the show, and was not asked to convey this to Claudia,
+and was acting on his own good will to try and help her out.  It had
+nothing to do with deadlines.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+Nothing was said about any of this online until Claudia began
+talking about it at a convention Toronto and indicating that she had
+been fired, which was not the case.
+
+
    
+      She passed.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+We'll probably start casting in the next 7 days.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+"With the exception of 501 (airing in the 422 slot), you should have
+about 2 extra months to get the episodes in the can.  They won't, after
+all, air until January, when they previously aired in November.  Why
+then, was the deadline for Claudia to make up her mind left so short?"
+
+
    
+      Because you can't just come in and shoot one episode, then tell
+everyone, "Okay, we're taking a break for two months."  The moment you
+begin shooting, the clock is ticking.  SAG regulates the span of time
+you have the actors, equipment is rented...on and on.  We had to come
+back in time to shoot 501/422, and it's going to be close as it is.  It
+takes 52 days of post to finish an episode once it's filmed, so with
+501/422 shooting August 18th, just do the math to see how close this is
+going to be.
+
+
    
+      And once we pull the trigger on 501, we have to go immediately
+into 502. And on and on.
+
+
    
+      Even if this were not an issue with the 422 business, we would
+*still* have to start shooting in August because of the schedule of
+holidays, and TNT's desire to run S5 *straight through* without reruns
+or breaks.  That means you have to start early and be finished with a
+lot of shows, and vault them, to be able to then run through them all
+sequentially in 22 weeks.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+"Even if Claudia had no doubt that Joe could steer her around any
+trouble with the suits, the verbal agreement wouldn't carry any weight
+in the outside world."
+
+
    
+      <thud>
+
+
    
+      Y'know, up until this very moment, the whole 4-eps-in-writing
+thing hadn't made sense to me, I couldn't get my brain around it.
+
+
    
+      I don't know if that's it, but it's a helluvan interesting
+thought.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 24 1997
+
    
+Regarding the new character
    
+It'll be an interesting addition to the mix, given what
+happens in the latter part of the season.
+
+
    
+      And no, she won't be "dead and gone forever."  There's the third
+TNT movie, and a possible feature film, and if she wants to approach us
+about those projects, we'll be more than happy to have the discussion. 
+That's precisely why I'm not recasting the role.
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 25 1997
+
    
+Claudia's statement that the actors were asked to give up their
+residuals now makes sense ... to me, anyway, and I'm writing to ask 
+where or if I'm wrong in this deduction ... in that the actors *were*
+asked to give up residuals that might be able to cover their rent for
+a month in exchange for residuals that might be able to cover lunch.
+Her statement about "giving up residuals" could be taken as a bit 
+of exaggeration, as, by the previous scale, the basic cable residuals
+*are* pretty much nonexistent on a making-a-living basis."
+
+
    
+Prior to getting the S5 renewal, we called in as many actors as were
+present and explained that shows made for basic cable are, according to
+the Screen Actors Guild Basic Agreement, different in many ways from
+syndication, as syndication is different than network, in terms of
+residuals.
+
+
    
+In network, the fees generally start higher, and the residuals start at a
+higher percentage of that fee as well .  In syndication, the fees are
+smaller, and the residuals start at a lower percentage.  (For writers, for
+instance, I think the going fee for a network script is about $26-30,000
+and the first rerun gets a high percentage of that back to the writer; in
+syndication, the script fee is about $15-16,000 and the first rerun starts
+at an even lower percentage of that fee.)
+
+
    
+For basic cable, things get more complicated.  The fees paid stay the same
+as syndication, so across the board actors' fees, directors and writers
+don't get touched.  But the various Guilds gave basic cable a break in
+terms of encouraging original production, and in rerunning
+network/syndication fare.  For instance, there's one formula for something
+made for network/syndication and later run on cable, and another for
+something made *specifically* for basic cable.
+
+
    
+And it's the latter that we had to explain to the actors, because under
+SAG regs, again as part of the various guilds' decision to give cable a
+break to get it up and viable (so that it can later be brought up to par
+with syndication), the formula is that the amount paid to an actor above
+double-scale is credited against residuals.  Once that is burned through,
+residuals accrue to the actor again.
+
+
    
+That was the ONLY item mentioned in terms of residuals.  Bear in mind in
+ALL this that we *cannot* make ANY deal that contravenes what is
+established by the various guilds, so asking any actor to give up
+residuals forever, as some have suggested, cannot be done by us or ANYone
+because we are Guild signatories.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+From JMS, July 28 1997
+
    
+      No...let me stress this again: there was never any meeting here.
+
+
    
+      The meeting you *might* be thinking of was the one where we
+brought in the actors to explain to them the differences in syndication
+vs. cable residuals formula.  That took place some weeks before.
+
+
    
+      If it helps, let me break down the dates for you a bit:
+
+
    
+      July 9th: the Variety and Reuters pieces appear saying Claudia's
+has left the show.  WB wants to know where Claudia stands, and we need
+to know because at this point I've finished writing the new 422, and am
+about to start on 502 (actually the first S5 episode).  I hear about
+this when Claudia, I and the rest of the cast are in the UK at
+Blackpool.  The WB need for urgent clarification is conveyed to
+Claudia's agent.
+
+
    
+      July 10th: I reinforce to Claudia, at the pub in the DeVere
+hotel, that unless she confirms through her agent by noon Friday, the
+11th, that she wants to be on the show, the offer will be withdrawn,
+that she will have, to all intents and purposes, passed on the offer.
+
+
    
+      July 11th: there was no "final comment," no meeting...again, we
+are still in the UK.  For there to be a final comment, she or her agent
+would have had to actually *speak* to someone.  But no call came from
+either Claudia or her agent.  There was NO response at all.  Thus, the
+offer was finally and reluctantly withdrawn because we were simply out
+of time, and having been told that silence = a pass on the offer, there
+was no longer any reason to maintain the offer.  She passed.
+
+
    
+      July 12th: Jeff goes to Claudia and on his own, tries to
+convince her to try and work this out on Monday, that if her agent
+makes contact first thing, maybe this can be worked out.  This is not a
+position that I told him to advance to her, he did this entirely on his
+own, hoping that she could still come back from her decision.  Bruce
+and other cast members also try to talk to her about this, concerned
+about her decision.
+
+
    
+      July 14th (Monday): Claudia leaves the convention mid-day,
+announcing that she is going to go to a photo shoot.
+
+
    
+      The weekend of July 19th-20th: I'm at ComicCon in San Diego,
+where I learn that Claudia, at another convention, has announced that
+she was fired from B5.  And that, to paraphrase, is where the blitz hit
+the fans.
+
+
    
+      I know you keep trying to find some way that maybe I wasn't
+there, perhaps to save me from the situation...but I was there for
+every bit of it; having the room 4 doors down from Claudia at the time,
+I couldn't be *more* in the thick of it unless I slept on the floor of
+her room.
+
+
    
+
    From Claudia Christian, August 13, 1997
+
    
+Dear Sweet Wonderful Guys and Gals, Ladies, Gentlemen - poets 
+all of you:
+
+
    
+I am sitting in my trailer on the film set of  "Guardian" (not 
+the film that conflicted with B-5, I have been lucky enough to 
+star in 2 films - "Guardian" and "Thick and Thin" with 
+Robert Townsend, in the last month).  Anyway - I'm in here 
+perusing the copious , kind, funny and downright incredible e-
+mails I have received from you.  I actually started to cry a few 
+minutes ago as I read a particularly touching message from a 
+woman in Toronto. You are eloquent and I am so happy to have 
+been able to entertain you in whatever way I have.  Out of the 
+hundreds of e-mails I have received from all over the world I 
+have only had one negative one and that was from a fellow who 
+hated my CD!  I am amazed at your loyalty and your generosity of 
+spirit.  As I was depressed after being disinvited to the annual 
+B-5 party - yes I am no longer welcome anywhere near B-5. I was 
+then heartened by yet another slew of love from you via the e-
+mail. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!  
+
+
    
+Now then to answer some of your questions:
+
+
    
+1.      I would love to be in  the B-5 TNT movies or the feature, 
+however I get the feeling they do not want me in anything at 
+all.
+
+
    
+2.      I was never offered 18 episodes at a different price, I 
+was told "If TNT wants you for all 22 - you have to do all 22" 
+period.
+
+
    
+3.      I will still do conventions (If I am invited!)  I love to 
+be with the fans and always have a great time at them.
+
+
    
+4.      I apologize to anyone who missed me in Boston after I 
+could only make an appearance on Sunday.  I took the Red-Eye 
+after finishing work on the movie I'm doing and missed my talk 
+on Saturday.  I hope that everyone who stayed for Sunday a 
+decent show.
+
+
    
+5.      To Andrew P.    I don't know Paul Lynch...at least I don't 
+recognize the name.
+
+
    
+6.      To Mark K.      Your welcome for the B-day card!
+
+
    
+7.      The deal breaker was never about money! It was about time!
+
+
    
+8.      Yes, it is ironic that they are replacing me with an 
+actress that will be in only 8 episodes out of 22
+
+
    
+9.      Joseph B        My game is called "Solar Eclipse" it's on Sony 
+Playstation
+
+
    
+10.     Karen in NY     The agent you are referring to was my 
+convention agent, there was no foul play or stupid moves on 
+the part of my theatrical agent. As I've said before they 
+received a fax saying I was released on Friday after that they 
+assumed the fight was over.  I no longer work with the woman you 
+heard about at Wolf.
+
+
    
+11.     If you read the Variety article, it simply said that I had 
+not signed my contract yet, it did not state that I was leaving 
+the show, period!  It was gossip, I do not know who planted it.
+
+
    
+12.     I auditioned for the Borg on Voyager during season 4 when 
+we were told that it did not look good for season 5.  If I had 
+gotten the job I could not have done it once B-5 was picked up.  
+It had nothing to do with anything.  All of the actors were 
+auditioning for lots of  things since we thought the series was 
+over.  Remember season 5 was a miracle, we even shot the last 
+episode thinking it was over.
+
+
    
+13.     Yes Vince is my brother, a great guy, but I think he needs 
+to get back to work in his lab so no more e-mails to him okay:-)
+
+
    
+14.     Kevin S         6-D loves you and 6-D bless you, you are  
+great, remember that! Thank you for your kind words.
+
+
    
+15.     John D          I didn't think you were short...
+
+
    
+16.     Damon does exist, he is my best friend and has set up this 
+access to you for me.
+
+
    
+17.     Susan B         I think Diana does an excellent job with 
+my web site, she receives a lot of mail for me.  I don't 
+understand your comment "Be careful when you write people" I 
+have only written twice. The original rebuttal and this letter 
+now.  Beware of impostors they say!  Also Susan, I write from 
+the heart not to impress a teacher, so sorry for the "poor 
+phrasing".
+
+
    
+18.     Stephen Christian       Thank you!!!! You're the BEST!
+
+
+
    
+Now for the summary....
+
+
    
+In case you didn't notice, during season 4  I mostly read off of 
+a TelePrompTer for "The Voice of The Resistance" or said "Aye 
+Captain" into my link.  I was creatively frustrated but 
+continued to float along thinking I would get my chance to 
+stretch my acting muscles.  It wasn't until episode 421 that Joe 
+wrote a scene for Richard Biggs and I that I am very proud of 
+and was thrilled to be able to do.  Add to that the fact that I 
+had a car accident that ended up costing me my savings account, 
+I was drained.  Along comes a producer who wants me to star in a 
+film that will help get me on my feet again...barely...and  
+satisfy my acting needs in a challenging role.  I really wanted 
+to do it.  I asked for the time off  and I was told I would get 
+it.  I explained I needed it in writing.  There was no way they 
+would hire me without this permission note.  I had to get one 
+for the one day I worked on the Steven Bocheo pilot "Total 
+Security" for crying out loud!  I was refused.  Nothing in 
+writing meant I couldn't do the film.  I thought it could be 
+worked out.  I was wrong.
+
+
    
+In conclusion:
+
+
    
+I have never said I did not want to be a part of season 5.  I 
+would be happy to don Ivanova's uniform for episodes in season 
+5, the TNT movies of the week or the potential feature.  My 
+pride prohibits me from calling them.  They know my number if 
+they want me they can ask me.  The ball has never been in my 
+court people, I am just a pawn in this great chess game. 
+
+
    
+Thank you again for your love and support.  I cherish each and 
+every letter that has come to me.
+
+
    
+Lots of Love
+
+
    
+Claudia Christian
+
+
    
+
    From JMS, August 14 1997
+
    
+How can the story continue without one of the main characters?
    
+One of the first things I had to do, in plotting out the
+storyline, was to set aside trap doors for *every single character*,
+because you never know when or how the real world is going to impinge
+upon you.  An actor can quit, or get hit by a car, or slammed by a
+meteor...there's no way to control the characters the way you do in a
+novel.  That's a given.  But you can't bring X-million viewers along to
+a certain point, then say, "Well, all the stuff we were going to do we
+can't because X isn't here."
+
+
    
+So in a way, the structure of the story is kind of like a
+computer game tree...pull out a piece along the way, and it goes down a
+different path, but ends up at exactly the same point at the end.  It's
+the difference between different *results* and different ways of
+*getting* there.
+
+
    
+You can do a story about a platoon in WW II, for instance, and
+some of the platoon may live, die, be injured, whatever...but the story
+of WWII is the story of WWII.
+
+
    
+Beyond that, a challenge is just that: a call to see just how
+good you *really* are, kid.  If you've ever seen GLORY, there's the
+scene in which one of the Massachusetts 54th is being taught to shoot. 
+He does just fine, hits the target, reloads fine...when nobody's
+shooting at him.  At which point the colonel starts firing a revolver
+right next to his head, teling him to try and do it NOW, and do it
+FAST, with ten thousand guns firing at him.
+
+
    
+That's when the art comes in, that's when the skill comes
+in...in dealing with what you *don't* expect.
+
+
    
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+August 15, 1997
+
+
    
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+B5 DVD news
+
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+
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+
+
    
+
+
    B5 DVD update
    
+
+
    
+Season one is out on DVD now.  Check
+DVD Price Search
+for the best prices.  Here are the product details from
+Amazon.com:
+
+
    
+
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
+
    
+JMS posted the following to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated on June 9, 2002:
+
+
    
+
    
+From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
    
+Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
    
+Subject: Re: Need early B5 scripts for Captioning    
+
    
+> The jollies I'm getting right now is that it looks like DVD is for real....
+
    
+Yeah, it's real...I was holding off saying anything until WB or someone else
+could announce it, but since it's come up here via the captioning
+institute...yeah, as noted, it's real.
+
    
+Season One will be out in a boxed set this Fall, and they're going to be
+including at minimum two commentaries from me, probably on Signs and Portents
+and Chrysalis (it's a matter of how much time and energy I can give to it given
+that there's no fees involved and I'm in the midst of Jeremiah), and if
+possible, Babylon Squared, maybe Sky Full of Stars. They'd also like to film
+an on-camera intro by me (but I guess folks will buy it anyway, even with that
+particular horror included).
+
    
+They're pulling together a lot of stuff on this release so that there are
+plenty of extras this time around, now that the value of the DVDs has been
+shown by the first release.
+
    
+jms
+
    
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
    
+(all message content (c) 2002 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
    
+permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
    
+and don't send me story ideas)
+
+
    
+From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
    
+Subject: Re: Need early B5 scripts for Captioning    
+
    
+> Have they decided on aspect ratio?
+> 
+
    
+Widescreen.
+
    
+jms
+
    
+
+
    
+JMS posted the following to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated on June 25, 2002:
+
+
    
+On the DVDs, last I heard they'll be out around mid-November, with the whole
+first season at about a hundred bucks.  I did the commentaries on Signs and
+Portents and Chrysalis, and an on-camera intro and interview.  They've also
+done new interviews with Rick Biggs, Claudia, John Iacovelli, John Copeland,
+Stephen Furst, Jerry Doyle and others.  So it should be a pretty big deal
+overall, much better than the movie dvd.
+
    
+
+
    
+And shortly thereafter:
+
+
    
+One error.  Apparently Claudia had agreed to do the interview, then canceled at
+the last minute.
+
    
+jms
+
    
+
+
    
+Why no Michael O'Hare in the DVD extras? (July 5, 2002)
+
+
    
+
+WB was frantic to find Michael.  They had no direct contact information for
+him.  They went through SAG which said they didn't have a current listing for
+either Michael or his agent.  They asked me for help, and I gave them a number
+which I had a while ago but didn't work.  So next we tried Sandy Bruckner, who
+had another number for him, which I gave to WB, and they said they left
+messages at that number but never heard a reply.  This was all at very short
+notice, and there was only a week to try and track him down.  B5-DVD maven
+Scott Devine at WB can directly confirm that they were looking for him
+everywhere, but the clock finally ran out.
+
    
+
+
    
+More from JMS on August 13, 2002:
+
+
    
+The disk has an on-camera introduction by me (despite my warnings that
+this would undoubtedly drive down sales), a letter of introduction each
+by me and Doug Netter, and the half-hour piece features new interviews
+with Rick Biggs, Stephen Furst, me, Doug, efx maven Mitch Suskin, makeup
+whiz John Vulich, and others.
+
    
+They're tentatively targeting next April for season 2, and the following
+November for season 3.
+
    
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+
    
+Last update:
+May 26, 2003
+
+
    
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+JMS's current projects
+
+
+
+
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+
+
    
+
+
    What JMS is up to now
    
+
+
    
+Note: This page is out of date. The best place for the current scoop on
+JMS's projects is the
+Straczynski Project Watch
+page at the
+Worlds of JMS
+site.
+
+
    
+The following are JMS's notes about his current projects.  The projects
+include:
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Writing for Marvel's
+"Spider-Man"
+comic.  JMS's issues should start appearing around March or April 2001.
+
+
    •  His own comic series,
+"Rising Stars" and "Midnight Nation," both on sale now.
+
+
    •  A feature film based on "Rising Stars."
+
+
    •  A possible TV series, "The World on Fire," developed with Chris Carter
+(creator of "The X-Files").
+
+
    •  A new series for Showtime, based on the European comic "Jeremiah."
+JMS and director
+Joe Dante
+producing.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    September 30, 2000
+
    
+Boy, has this been a week....
+
+
    
+As most folks know by now, the news about Marvel entrusting me with their
+flagship title The Amazing Spiderman broke on the nets Monday/Tuesday.  As a
+longtime Spidey fan, this is something I'm looking forward to enormously.  You
+can expect to see the first jms-written issue of TMS probably around March or
+April of next year.
+
+
    
+On Wednesday Rising Stars 10 came out (and Midnight Nation 2 is due out in 2
+weeks).
+
+
    
+Also this week...after writing my first pass on the outline for the Rising
+Stars feature film (tentatively entitled "Born in Fire"), MGM read the outline,
+loved it, had a couple of very smart suggestions...and as of Wednesday, I've
+been put to script.  
+
+
    
+On Thursday, some friendly folks at Warner Bros. asked if they could take up
+the banner of my project The World On Fire (formally with Chris Carter) and
+take it out in the Spring to sell it as a series.  
+
+
    
+I also turned in the outline for the pilot TV movie this week, and today,
+Friday, was put to script on THAT project as well.  With that hurdle passed, I
+can now talk a little about it.  The network is indeed Showtime, as some have
+speculated, with Paramount Television the studio attached, and it's for an
+hour-series (debuting with a two-hour pilot movie) slated for their Sci-Fi
+Fridays slot.  The project is based on an outside source, though I can't yet
+comment on that.  I'm on as executive producer/show runner.  In addition,
+feature film director Joe Dante is aboard also as executive producer, and he
+will be invaluable in setting the visual and directorial tone of the series. 
+It's been an absolute pleasure working with Joe, and if we get past the next
+few hurdles -- every series has to go through the stages of pilot outline,
+pilot script, decision to produce the script and then the go-order on a series,
+same as with B5 and every other program -- I'm *really* looking forward to
+working with him on the series.
+
+
    
+The Rising Stars movie screenplay will probably be turned in sometime middle or
+late November; the Showtime TV movie screenplay will probably be turned in
+around November 1 for production reasons.
+
+
    
+It has been just an *astonishing* week....
+
+
    
+jms
+
+
    
+(jmsatb5@aol.com)
    
+(all message content (c) 2000 by
+synthetic worlds, ltd., permission
+to reprint specifically denied to
+SFX Magazine)
+
+
    
+
    October 1, 2000
+
    
+You've mentioned a project with [Joe Dante] before, but gave the
+indication that you'd passed on it... Something make you change your mind?
+
+
    
+Yeah, three words: Total Creative Freedom.
+
+
    
+
    October 1, 2000
+
    
+Yeah, the projected per-episode budget is quite a bit higher than on Crusade or
+B5, and the salary is just a bit over double.  I'd been in syndie/basic cable
+so long -- ever since Murder, She Wrote -- that I'd kinda forgotten what *real*
+networks pay.
+
+
    
+It's also going to be nice, in the pilot, to really take things to the wall in
+terms of content, something I could never do in syndie or basic cable.  
+
+
    
+
    October 2, 2000
+
    
+How will the new show make it to foreign markets?
+
+
    
+Those decisions are all way down the road; first gotta get the pilot written.
+
+
    
+
    October 3, 2000
+
    
+Reports indicate
+that the new series is based on the European SF comic "Jeremiah."
+
+
    
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+
    
+Last update:
+October 3, 2000
+
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+JMS on the season 5 renewal drop-dead date
+
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+See Also:
+JMS's comments on how
+the story will work regardless of renewal
+
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+
+
    
+It appears that Warner Bros. may not make an announcement concerning
+B5's renewal status until July.  The cast's contracts obligate Warner Bros.
+to tell the actors whether or not they'll be working for another year by a
+certain date.  Originally, the date was June 15.  However, JMS recently had
+this to say:
+
+
    +      The info was wrong.  The new date is July 15th.  WB asked for and
+got an extension from the cast.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+A followup asked if this was an unusual thing to do:
+ 
+ 
+
    +       Well, it's the first time they've done it.
+
    
+
+
    
+Another asked why they did it:
+
+
    +      Because Warners is working on several options to keep the show on
+the air in the absence of PTEN, and a crowded syndication market,
+they've asked for, and received, a 30 day extension on the drop dead day
+from the cast.  So now they have until July 15th to make it work.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Is there any hope for renewal?
+
+
    +      If there were not hope, WB wouldn't have asked for the
+extension.
+
    
+
+
    
+Stations have already begun filling their fall schedules with the assumption
+of no fifth season.  Won't that prevent B5 from showing up on enough stations
+to make it economically viable?
+
+
    +      No, it isn't really a problem...the worst that could happen is
+that the show might have to go on in January rather than November, but
+that's only a small gap.  The stations haven't locked down their
+January schedules yet, and there's always fallout from what goes out in
+November, so there are still many possibilities.
+
    
+
+
    
+What will they do with the extra month?
+
+
    +      It's a means of making time for them to work out the limitations
+of the PTEN contract, and the new syndicated market, which has been
+going through massive changes in the last year or two; basically the
+market has collapsed or been driven out (depending on the market you're
+in) by all the new networks and program glut.  Virtually every
+syndicated show has dropped from last year to this year; the only ones
+that have improved over last year are B5 (7%) and Xena (18%).  Just
+about everything else has dropped bigtime.
+
    
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+It's worth noting that July 15 is only a deadline and the announcement could
+come at any time before then.  Presumably
+Warner Bros. would have asked for more time than they thought
+they were likely to need, just to be on the safe side.  Of course, that's
+just speculation and isn't based on any inside knowledge.
+
+
    
+When there are more details, you'll see them on the Lurker's Guide home page.
+
+
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+Last update:
+June 10, 1997
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+Lost Scenes from Babylon 5
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+
+    
+
+
    Lost Scenes from Babylon 5
    
+
    As written by J. Michael Straczynski
    
+
    
+ Here's another scene, which was filmed for the pilot movie, but
+ cut when the pilot ran long.  It takes place at the top of the
+ movie, in the teaser.
+
    + INT. OBSERVATION DOME
+
+ One of the consoles BREEPS and Laurel goes to it.  With a push
+ of a button, the slender glass panel in front of her fills with
+ the image of SECURITY CHIEF MICHAEL GARIBALDI, early forties,
+ dark haired, hard-edged.
+
+                              LAUREL
+                Garibaldi, what's up?
+
+                              GARIBALDI
+                Looking for the Commander.  We've got
+                someone down in Bay 12 needs his
+                personal clearance to come aboard.
+
+                              LAUREL
+                He just linked in a few minutes ago,
+                said he was on his way.  Had to take
+                care of a "tourist problem" first.
+                And no, I don't know what he meant,
+                so don't ask.  I just hope it works
+                out better than the last one.
+
+ And with that, we go to
+
+ INT. CASINO
+
+ where we PAN the surroundings, revealing a mix of alien and
+ human life forms.  There's smoke, music, dancers, and a colorful
+ blend of costumes and strange drinks on the bar.  We FIND COMMANDER
+ JEFFREY SINCLAIR moving slowly through the crowd, keeping a close
+ eye on
+
+ A COUPLE
+
+ male and female from the look of it.  He's human, she's alien,
+ and there's something vaguely chitinous about her skin, something
+ both exotic and forbidding.  He's clearly coming on to her.  He
+ surreptitiously hand her a credit chit.  She smiles and moves away
+ from the bar, taking his hand as suddenly Sinclair is behind her.
+ He takes the chit from her and hands it back to the human.
+
+                              SINCLAIR
+                I wouldn't.
+                      (to the alien woman)
+                You know the rules about crossing
+                species.  Stick with the list.
+
+                              HUMAN "JOHN"
+                What're you, a bigot or something?
+
+                              SINCLAIR
+                No.  But obviously you've never me
+                an Arnassian before.  After they
+                finish, they eat their mate.
+
+ With that, Sinclair heads away.  The human looks back at the
+ woman with a very new perspective.  And this time it's her turn
+ to smile...and now she holds up a hand, offering *him* money.  On
+ his wary look, we CUT.
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
+ The following scene is excerpted from the script for "The
+ Gathering."  It was filmed, but was eliminated from the
+ final cut due to time restraints.
+
+ Earlier in the story, Dr. Benjamin Kyle has had...an
+ encounter with what is inside the Vorlon's encounter suit.
+
    + INT. MEDLAB
+
+ where Laurel and Kyle look through the glass at Kosh.
+
+                              LAUREL
+                So, Doctor...just what *did* you see
+                when you looked inside that suit?
+
+                              KYLE
+                      (a long beat, then:)
+                There are moments in your life when
+                everything crystallizes.  When the
+                whole world reshapes itself, right
+                down to its component molecules, and
+                everything changes.
+                      (beat)
+                I've looked upon the face of a
+                Vorlon, Laurel...and nothing's the
+                same anymore.
+
+ And, his thoughts distant, Kyle moves off, leaving Laurel
+ to peer through the mist at the shrouded figure within the
+ isolab, and wonder....
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+ Here's a little something I came across in my computer
+
+ this evening.  I had always sensed that the Londo introduction/narration
+ at the top of the pilot was the way to go.  But it never hurts to try
+ other avenues...you discover the darndest ideas that way.  Anyway, I came
+ up with an alternate introduction, just to see if it worked or not.  I
+ rather liked it...and still do, to some degree...but finally opted to go
+ with the Londo intro instead, which is what we'll stick with.
+
    
+But since it's not going to be used, I figured...why not let y'all
+ take a look at what would've been an alternate opening for the pilot?
+
    +                             BABYLON 5
+                          Insert/Prologue
+
+ FADE IN:
+
+ ON STATIC.  Then: a BLACK SCREEN, OVER which we HEAR the FEMALE
+ voice of a news broadcast in progress:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                _ continue to bring you updates on
+                the Interplanetary News Network.
+
+ And now, gradually, a PICTURE begins to emerge from the darkness
+ _ grainy, slightly washed out, a VIDEO IMAGE of Babylon 5.
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                In other news, the Earth Alliance
+                space station Babylon 5 celebrates
+                its first year in operation with the
+                imminent arrival of an ambassador
+                from the Vorlon Empire.
+
+ And now: a MONTAGE of shots from within B5, and some EFX shots
+ from outside...the casino, the customs area, the bazaar and other
+ areas.  During this, the IMAGE BEGINS TO SHRINK, to recede into
+ the distance, and gradually the stars begin to come out on all
+ sides of the picture, framing it.  This UNDER:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Located in neutral territory, Babylon
+                5 has exceeded all expectations in
+                dealing with the many life forms that
+                pass through the five mile long
+                station.  As a result, Earth Central
+                has approved an appropriations bill
+                to keep the orbiting freeport open to
+                travelers, businessmen and diplomats
+                for another five years.
+
+ And now the image shifts, and the picture continues to recede
+ into the distance, now only a few inches across...a grainy black
+ and white image:
+
+                              FEMALE VOICE (vo)
+                Meanwhile, a new binary star
+                discovered by Mars colony scientists
+                has been named Kennedy Proxima, after
+                20th century president John F.
+                Kennedy, born 340 years ago this
+                week.
+
+ And now, in the small picture framed by stars, receding more
+ rapidly from view, we SEE footage of JFK speaking before the
+ Democratic convention the eve of his presidential nomination:
+
+                              KENNEDY
+                I believe that the times require
+                imagination, and courage, and
+                perseverance.  I'm asking each one of
+                you to be pioneers toward that New
+                Frontier.  My call is to the young at
+                heart, regardless of age; to the
+                stout of spirit, regardless of party;
+                to all those who respond to the
+                scriptural call, "Be strong and of
+                good courage.  Be not afraid, neither
+                be dismayed."  For courage, not
+                complacency, is our need today.
+
+ UNDER this, Kennedy's image recedes further into the distance,
+ growing smaller and smaller until he is now one of the many
+ surrounding stars splashed across the blackness of space.  A
+ moment, and the MUSIC RISES, brave and martial, as we
+
+ TILT and PAN ACROSS to reveal Babylon 5 itself, up close and
+ personal in all its huge splendor.  PUSH IN on the station as
+ a ship approaches, and we HEAR:
+
+                              LAUREL (vo)
+                Confirmed, Delta Gamma Niner, you
+                are clear for docking.
    
+
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+June 26, 1996
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+The Very Long Night of Midwinter.com
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+
+
    What the heck happened to Midwinter?
    
+
+
    
+How can a site vanish for such a long time?  Read on for a brief summary
+of what happened.
+
+
    
+The Midwinter Web server used to be colocated at
+Exodus Communications
+along with a bunch of equipment owned by NBCi, who allowed us to use
+some of their bandwidth thanks to a business arrangement whose details
+aren't relevant.  It was a good deal for us; they handled everything
+from swapping backup tapes to monitoring the health of the network.
+
+
    
+That is, it was a good deal until NBCi closed its doors.  Without warning,
+our machines disappeared from the net.  Since NBCi had been good in the past
+about staying on top of network problems without any prodding from us, we
+didn't try bugging them about it until a couple days had gone by.  Imagine
+our surprise when we discovered that all of our contacts had been laid off,
+and nobody remaining had heard of us!
+
+
    
+After much fruitless flailing, we managed to contact someone who had some
+idea what was going on.  It turned out that all of the equipment in NBCi's
+cage had been sold to a liquidator.  All of it, including the backup
+tapes and our server, which wasn't NBCi property (and was marked accordingly).
+
+
    
+We attempted to find out where the equipment had ended up, but weren't able
+to find anyone who knew.  We eventually decided it was a lost cause.  We
+could undoubtedly sue someone somewhere over what happened, but that won't
+bring back the old site.
+
+
    
+Some of what was on the old machine is lost forever; it was backed up, but
+the backups vanished along with everything else and some of our content
+wasn't well-enough linked from elsewhere on the Web to show up on the
+Wayback Machine or other Web archives.
+The Lurker's Guide was mirrored on several other sites, though, from which
+we've recovered all the content (though some of it still needs a bit of
+reassembly, and other parts have fallen out of date in the intervening months).
+
+
    
+So that's what happened.  Our new setup should be less prone to another
+fiasco like that; we have physical access to the server and we're dealing
+directly with the colocation provider.  We don't have as big a pipe as we
+used to, but it's our pipe.  Needless to say, we'll be keeping
+our own offsite backups from now on!
+
+
    
+Thanks to everyone who wrote wondering where we went.  Enjoy...
+
+
    
+Steven Grimm
    
+Larry Hastings
    
+Michael Wolf
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+Last update:
+December 25, 2001
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+JMS on his "Rising Stars" comic
+
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+
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+
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+JMS announced on October 26, 1998 that he was writing a new series of comic
+books.  Here're the announcements as sent to various online services, as
+well as some followup messages.
+
+
    
+
+
    October 26, 1998
+
    
+Just thought I'd get this thread moving, though it's still a bit
+early, since news has started to break in other places.  Basically: I've
+always loved comics (no secret there), and have always wanted to do a
+title of my own, try to make it something special, as B5 was/is special.
+
+
    
+I created the premise, went to Top Cow (my first and only choice on
+this one), we met, we agreed...and now RISING STARS is set to debut next
+April.  I've already turned in the first script (for the preview issue),
+and will be getting down to writing issues 0 and 1 shortly.
+
+
    
+The story follows the events after the small town of Pederson,
+Illinois, is struck by a mass of energy from an unknown, but non-terrestrial
+source.  Everyone who was in utero at the time of the flash
+is affected, resulting in 113 individuals who develop abilities of a most
+unusual and highly individual form.  (The power is to some degree shaped
+by who they are, just as they are shaped to some degree by the power.)
+
+
    
+It is set in a realistic universe, timed to real-world events (it
+covers a span of about 60 years, starting in about 1969), where there
+have never been super-powered individuals before.  It looks at how the
+world reacts to them, and how they react to the world.  We follow these
+characters through their early years, into adulthood and to the ends of
+their lives, mapping all the changes they go through, and how they change
+the world.
+
+
    
+It's an extremely ambitious 24 issue miniseries (with the potential
+to go back and further develop any of the stories presented earlier along
+the way).
+
+
    
+
    October 27, 1998
+
    
+I'd actually heard a lot of good things about Top Cow, and my understanding
+going into this was that I would have total creative freedom, and it would be a
+writer-driven book.  The artist they've talked to is someone whose work I've
+admired, and this book is going to have a very different look from the rest of
+their titles.  The folks over there seem to really have their act together. 
+They only launch about 2 new titles a year, and that means they have to be
+special...and they want this to be that kind of project.
+
+
    
+
    October 27, 1998
+
    
+How closely do you plan 
+on collaborating with your penciller--will he have much leeway in 
+layouts/"camera" angles/etc. or do you script a page pretty tightly?
+
+
    
+I script pretty damn tight...as much as a half-page to describe a panel, in
+great detail.  I'm doing those pages the same as I do my B5 and Crusade
+scripts: hideous amounts of detail.
+
+
    
+And yeah, we want to go for a much more realistic look to this book, because
+it's essential to making the story work.
+
+if you seriously plan on bucking the System and 
+producing a book that operates on the assumption that dialogue and 
+characters are *not* interchangeable, I can guarantee you at least one 
+regular reader.
+
+
    
+Done and done.
+
+
    
+
    October 27, 1998
+
    
+I'm not "tearing it down" as you put it.  I am simply
+pointing out the fact that the idea is not original.
+In fact, it sounds like a direct copy from the films,
+although I'm sure JMS will make a LOT more
+interesting story of it than the films.
+
+
    
+Sorry.  Ain't the case.  Damned was about a colonization effort by aliens,
+achieved by getting human female pregnant, and the kids were strictly
+telekinetic, and died at about age 7.
+
+
    
+There is no alien colonization thing going on in the story, it only affects the
+women who are already pregnant, and it follows their whole lives.  You may as
+well say that the Three Mile Island story is a Damned story because it charts
+the effect of outside forces on pregnant women and their offspring.
+
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+Last update:
+October 29, 1998
+
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+JMS Explains O'Hare's Departure
+
+
+
    About Michael O'Hare's Departure
    
+As written by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie, May 20, 1994
+
    
+I have some news that must be imparted.  I think that the best way
+ to convey that news is to start at the end of the story, make my
+ way to the middle, and end at the beginning. 
+ So: the end of the story. 
+
    
+ Everything is okay.  Nothing major really changes.  All is well. 
+
    
+Now the middle of the story. 
+
    
+ I've been asked, several times, what happens if something happens
+ to me, or one of the cast members, during the five year arc, since
+ this is a fully-worked-out novel.  Generally, I blow off the question
+ with humor.  But the truth is, obviously, I've taken every possible
+ step to make sure that no one is disappointed.  In my case, I've
+ made sure the story is available somewhere. 
+
    
+ The trouble, of course, is that unlike writing a novel, where the
+ characters exist only on a sheet of paper, actors and writers are
+ some discussion on the best of days).  They can get sick, they can
+ get into contract disputes, they can be hit by meteors, they can
+ decide to buy a house in Cambridge and raise hedgehogs under an
+ assumed name.  There are, in short, always unpredictables in any
+ such endeavor. 
+
    
+Consequently, in drafting the story for Babylon 5, I made sure to
+ compensate for any possible changes.  For lack of a better term,
+ there is a "trap door" built into the storyline for every character. 
+ Obviously, you don't want to lose anyone, but in every case any
+ such change momentarily shifts the story about ten degrees to one
+ side for a little bit, and then you're back on track again. 
+
    
+ Case in point: Dr. Benjamin Kyle and Lyta Alexander.  Here are the
+ only two humans who have seen or scanned a Vorlon.  This is Very
+ Important to the storyline.  Alas, as later events unfolded, things
+ did not work out, and the characters were dropped...but their story
+ remained important, in that it was established that they were soon
+ afterward recalled to Earth under mysterious circumstances (as noted
+ in "War Prayer"), which actually helps the storyline in many ways. 
+ This is not meant to sound callous.  As a writer, and as a producer,
+ it's my job to tell the story, to be responsible, and to make sure
+ every possible contingency is covered.  To do anything less would be
+ simply irresponsible. 
+
    
+ Now to the beginning of the story. 
+
    
+ Over the last few weeks, we've been re-activating our cast, making
+ the deals for the coming season.  One aspect of this has been a
+ series of conversations with Michael O'Hare.  Having produced one
+ full season, and having learned a lot, and having fine-tuned the
+ "saga" along the way, it was our goal to expand the show, bring in
+ some new characters, and take the show in some new directions, which
+ will prove quite interesting, I think.  (One sidelight to all this: 
+ now that we've established the series, we'll be able to spend a bit
+ more time on personal stories, to let our audience learn more about
+ the characters, particularly the humans, who kinda got short shrift
+ this season.)
+
    
+ There is also the question, from an actor's point of view, about
+ other opportunities, any possible concern about typecasting, the
+ limitations of a continuing role (and the role of the commander
+ does have some definite "walls," giving more freedom in many ways
+ to other characters).  Now is the point where one needs to take
+ a breath and assess one's future, because the deeper we get into
+ the story, the more problematic it is to change things (though,
+ again, it's do-able, as noted above). 
+
    
+ As a result of these discussions, it has been agreed that we will
+ have a separation, in the role of the commander.  Let me emphasize
+ this very clearly, so there is no chance of miscommunication: this
+ is a mutual, amicable, and friendly separation.  This isn't a Tasha
+ Yar situation.  Moreover, we will be handling this in such a way
+ that, down the road, Sinclair could potentially return to the story. 
+ The character of Sinclair will achieve an important destiny, and the
+ mystery of the Battle of the Line will be explained, both in the
+ first episode of the new season.  His story will still track.  And
+ the series will still track precisely as planned.  I take pains to
+ mention this because both Michael and I want it clear that we both
+ believe in the show, and want this in no way to interfere with the
+ series.  He has asked me to convey for him his encouragement, his
+ best wishes, and to emphasize that this is, again, an amicable and
+ friendly separation. 
+
    
+ He has said that he is happy to continue to do the conventions, to
+ promote the show, because he believes in it, and because he is an
+ important part of this season's success.  We can think of no
+ finer ambassador for Babylon 5 at conventions than Michael O'Hare. 
+ He is a dynamite speaker, he cares about the fans of the show, and
+ his compassion shows.  We think he's a nifty guy. 
+
    
+ On our part, we wish Michael only the very best.  We know that
+ he is very much in demand, and look forward to seeing him in other
+ projects over the next year.  This will also allow us to pursue some
+ new directions avenues for the show that will help to expedite the
+ overall story.  Sinclair disappearing for an indeterminate period
+ after the events of "Chrysalis" will allow us to tighten the screws
+ of the story, and heighten the tension of things going on in the
+ storyline. 
+
    
+ If I can speak personally for a moment...those of you reading
+ this on-line know that I've always talked straight with you.  If
+ I thought this in any way would interfere with the story, you'd
+ hear about it from me loud and clear.  When problems have arisen in
+ the past, I've always spoken about them quite bluntly here (much
+ to the chagrin of some people).  This is okay.  We're all still
+ very much friends.  I speak frequently to Michael, and consider
+ him a friend, just as he considers me a friend.  This was a hard
+ decision, but we both knew that it was the right decision, for
+ very different reasons.  We both kinda came to the same place
+ at the same time from different directions.  We've got to do
+ what's right for the show, and for each other, and in many ways,
+ this does just that. 
+
    
+ So both we on the show, and Michael are served by this mutual and
+ amicable separation.  We will go our separate ways for now, with
+ the possibility of meeting Sinclair again down the road a piece,
+ as Gandalf disappeared for a time into Mordor, only to return when
+ needed most.  (We will also be keeping the character of Sinclair
+ alive in the comic, and some of the planned novels, to keep that
+ option available to us.)
+
    
+ Once again, let me emphasize that the story continues on the path
+ that has been set for it, everything you learn this season sill
+ obtains, the show remains solid, with all of the other cast members
+ coming back for a new season, and that the saga of Babylon 5 will
+ continue to reveal itself exactly as planned.  And I hope you will
+ continue to stay with us for that journey. 
+
    +                                    Sincerely,
+                                    Joe Straczynski
+                                    Creator/Executive Producer
+                                    BABYLON 5
+
    
+
    
+
    Replies to the Usenet discussion about the above
    
+
    
+Please do not stick this on O'Hare.  Whatever decisions get made, it
+is up to the producers -- me and Doug -- to implement those decisions, so
+ultimate responsibility rests with me.  If you're going to be angry at
+anyone, be angry at me.  Your anger is misplaced.
+
    
+Again, this was mutual.  We looked at the story, the way a
+novelist looks at a novel he's one-fifth through writing, and you learn
+things writing the novel that you can learn NO other way, however much
+you plan and outline.  And at some point, you say, "If we leave things
+JUST as they are, no changes, we can do X and Y, which are both very
+cool.  But if we take a chance, and make some shifts in direction, we can
+do X, and Y...and Z...and Z is very
+interesting indeed.  It opens up
+whole new areas for us to explore.  So we talked about it with Michael,
+who had some thoughts of his own...and now here we are.
+
    
+Granted, it's taking a chance.  But we all swore a blood oath to
+make the show consistently better.  Any time a possible decision comes
+up -- like, Should we do "Believers," knowing that it'll get us in
+ENDLESS trouble -- we ask, "Will this benefit the show?"  If the answer
+is yes, we do it, regardless.
+
    
+Once again, this is mutual.  So blame me.  And be assured, this
+isn't now going to be a band-aid covering...it will let us get deeper and
+faster into the meat of the storyline, and intensify the characterizations
+and relationships.  Sinclair's purpose in the large part of the first
+section of the story was really to get everyone together...to start the
+pieces moving.  And now we've got all the players in position.  The whole
+24 hours/Line thread was always going to be resolved at the top of year
+two, because you can't sustain that for more than 1.5 seasons at MOST.
+The audience, rightly, won't stand for it.  At that point, that mystery
+dispensed with (which would lead to other questions), Sinclair kinda
+faded a bit from the story, because now we have to bring the other
+players into the foreground.  So if he's going to fade anyway, why have
+him meandering around?  Why not "absent" him for a time...and up the
+stakes for everyone else, and help focus on other aspects?
+
    
+The story will go where it was always going to go.  This much is
+certain.
+
    
+jms
+
    
+---
+
    
+The Battle of the Line and the hole in Sinclair's mind was always
+intended as the entry point or trigger to the story.  It's like Frodo
+being given the Ring in LoTR.  The story isn't about that, that's how we
+get INTO it.  Frankly, there's no way you can sustain that one element for
+five years, nor did we ever intend to do so.
+
    
+The only difference in the resolution of that aspect is this: we had
+originally intended to resolve the missing 24 hours, and the Battle of
+the Line, by episode four, season two.  We've simply moved it up 3 eps to
+the first episode.  Because new players are coming onto the field, in the
+form of the Shadowmen, and other forces, and we now have to begin turning
+our attention to new mysteries.
+
    
+jms
+
    
+
    
+
    
+Additional note:
+The new commander of Babylon 5, Captain John Sheridan,
+will be played by Bruce Boxleitner, star of "Tron" and other
+films.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    Maintained by
+Steven Grimm
+<koreth@midwinter.com>.
    
+Send mail
+if you have comments or suggestions.
    
+
+
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+Letter from TNT programming department about B5
+
+
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+
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+
+
    
+    
+
+
    The Word from TNT
    
+
+
    
+See Also:
+TNT's B5 Web site -
+Canadian letter-writing campaign
+
+
    
+The following are letters from TNT's programming department about what they're
+up to with B5.  They address lots of different questions people have asked
+since the season-5 renewal announcement was made.
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+The following summary is current as of October 31, 1997.
+
+
    
+Hi, guys.  Here's an update on the situation with B5 appearing on TNT.  A lot of
+this material that follows may or may not be stuff you've read before, but a lot
+is quite different, too.  Here we go: 
+
+
    
+As you probably know, BABYLON 5 is headed for Turner Network Television (at
+least in the United States) in January 1998; it will be seen in the US
+exclusively on TNT, and will be dropped from your local syndicated outlet's
+roster.  Already, the 1:00 and shorter promos are showing often on TNT.  The
+promos will be available on the website eventually, once our more extensive B5
+site launches in January.  The preliminary B5 on TNT website launched on
+November 5, though, and includes a FAQ list and a chat room.  Check it out at
+tnt.turner.com/babylon5.  The other promotional materials-- posters, bus sides
+and so forth (not available to fans, except through eventual website contests)--
+are currently in production and should be hitting the streets some time in late
+November/early December.  Anyway, here's a timeline of B5 events on TNT: 
+
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+DECEMBER 26: 
+
    
+    THE GUIDE TO BABYLON 5, a 30-min behind-the-scenes special to initiate the  
+    uninitiated, will premiere at approximately 11 pm ET (following basketball, 
+    which will inevitably run long).  
+
+
    
+
    
+DECEMBER 28: 
+
    
+    **2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (pan-and-scan, hosted by Bruce Boxleitner and Jerry 
+            Doyle) @ 8 pm ET
    
+    **THE GUIDE TO BABYLON 5 @ 11 pm ET
    
+    **2010 (unhosted) @ 11:30 pm ET
    
+    **THE GUIDE TO BABYLON 5 @ 2 am ET
    
+    **2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (LETTERBOXED, hosted by Bruce Boxleitner and Jerry  
+            Doyle) @ 2:30 am ET
+
+
    
+
    
+JANUARY 2: 
+
    
+    **2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (pan-and-scan, hosted by Bruce Boxleitner and Jerry 
+            Doyle) @ 4:15 am ET
+
+
    
+
    
+JANUARY 3: 
+
    
+    **THE GUIDE TO BABYLON 5 @ 11 am ET
    
+    **THE GUIDE TO BABYLON 5 @ 5:30 pm ET
+
+
    
+
    
+JANUARY 4: 
+
    
+    **The premiere of the B5 prequel movie IN THE BEGINNING @ 8 pm ET
    
+    **The RE-EDITED, RE-SCORED B5 pilot movie THE GATHERING @ 10 pm ET
    
+    **THE GUIDE TO BABYLON 5 @ 12 mid ET
    
+    **IN THE BEGINNING @ 12:30 am ET
    
+    **THE GUIDE TO BABYLON 5 @ 2:30 am ET
    
+    **CASABLANCA (grin) @ 3 am ET
    
+    **THE GUIDE TO BABYLON 5 @ 5:30 am ET
+
+
    
+
    
+JANUARY 5:
+
    
+ BABYLON 5 strip begins; seasons 1-4 (and eventually 5) will be 
+    played in sequential order, in their original length, in stereo but not 
+    letterboxed, Monday through Friday, starting today at 7 pm ET.
+
+
    
+
    
+JANUARY 10:
+
    
+IN THE BEGINNING @ 8 pm ET
+
+
    
+
    
+JANUARY 14:
+
    
+IN THE BEGINNING @ 10 pm ET 
+
+
    
+
    
+JANUARY 21:
+
    
+5th season episodes begin appearing, starting on this WEDNESDAY at  
+    10 pm ET, with a replay of that week's episode on the following Saturday at 
+    7 pm ET.
+
+
    
+
    
+SPRING 1998: Premiere of "Third Space," the second of our B5 movies. 
+
+
    
+
+
    
+And that's the end of the B5 timeline, for right now. We're working on collating
+all the series info and graphics we need for the TNT website, but we don't want
+people to think it's a fall addition to TNT, so, as I've said, we're waiting
+until November or so to launch, to avoid confusion.  You'll hear about the site
+through here at Lurker's or on The Zocalo, though, so don't worry--you'll know
+about it when it happens. 
+  
+
+
    
+Now, to some ancillary issues: 
+
+
    
+THE FINAL FOUR OF SEASON FOUR: Of course, some fans are writing, lamenting the
+fact that their local station has dropped the final four B5 eps of the fourth
+season.  We're a little afraid that showing the final four before the bow of the
+fifth season will be confusing to any non-fan viewers, and it's not as if the
+situation is not confusing enough, what with three separate premiere dates for
+varying facets of the series. We know the votes of B5 fans worldwide would favor
+the airings, but we have to think of all 70 million of our subscribers when we
+program something.  The fact is, that 90% of the country is getting the final
+four aired somewhere on their TV schedule, so it means we'd be running them for
+only the 10% who weren't getting the series.  That's too small a number for us. 
+So, sorry, but it doesn't look as the airing of the final four before the
+premiere of the 5th season episodes is going to happen.  
+
+
    
+AIR TIMES: B5 fans from the West Coast have been calling and writing in, asking
+for a second showing of the daily episode at a later time (like, say 10 or 11 pm
+ET), so that they can see the series in prime time.  Unfortunately, though,
+we really have to concentrate on our movie library and sporting events after the
+8 pm ET hour, so I don't see episodes of B5 being programmed after that time
+period (if we programmed B5 at, say 8, 9 or 10 pm ET, it'd be pre-empted at
+least three times a week, for basketball and wrestling, both to which we have an
+equally strong committment).  Sorry--B5 will appear weekdays on the West coast
+at either 3 or 4 pm PT...at least for a little while.  BUT HERE'S THE GOOD NEWS:
+TNT is adding a West Coast feed to their operations sometime in mid- to late
+1998.  This means that, what airs at 7 pm Eastern will also air at 7 pm Pacific. 
+So, eventually, during the B5's time on TNT, the show will be seen in a more
+accessible time slot on the West Coast.  
+
+
    
+THEATRICAL SCREENINGS:  Bad news--we can't have theatrical screenings of the
+show, for complex legal/contractual reasons.  So don't be expecting this come
+January 1998...
+
+
    
+EPISODE ORDERING: We will be getting an episode ordering from JMS that will
+reflect the PROPER order for the series' episodes, which we will slavishly
+follow.  
+
+
    
+CLOSE CAPTIONING: I've been assured that all B5 episodes and movies will be
+close-captioned.  Everything will go smoothly in this regard...
+
+
    
+LETTERBOXING: No chance of B5 being aired on a regular basis in letterbox, but
+we have discussed the possibilities of having a letterboxed week or a letterbox
+marathon of shows, and they were open to that.  No dates or anything for that,
+though.  It probably won't happen for a while...
+
+
    
+STEREO: I know B5 is mixed for Surround Sound stereo, and is greatly enhanced by
+such.  FYI, TNT does broadcast in Surround Sound stereo, when it's available on
+the materials we're broadcasting.  For instance, while some of our older movies
+and TV shows were originally recorded in mono, our sports, TNT Originals,
+specials, and some newer movies and TV series (including B5, of course) are all
+broadcast and will be broadcast in stereo.  I cannot, however, say if your cable
+company RECEIVES us in stereo, but the bottom line is: we DO broadcast as such,
+when we can.  If you are not currently recieveing stereo on your TNT reception,
+call your cable company and make sure they don't recieve us in stereo; there is
+nothing we can personally do to MAKE them broadcast us in stereo, though, as we
+have no control over cable affiliates' operations.  And my only suggestion
+towards your efforts to make them recieve us in stereo: badger, badger, badger
+(or get a satellite dish). 
+
+
    
+BUGS (LOGOS): It now seems as if the SMALL, TRANSPARANT TNT logo is up
+permanently on our network's programming.  We know this won't be a popular
+decision with B5 fans, but this is something that we HAVE TO start doing to
+foster recognizability of TNT, not just during B5, but during movies and LOIS
+AND CLARK and everything on TNT.  Why?  Well, there are 70 channels out there
+for the average cable subscriber to choose from (let's don't even get INTO
+satellite).  In the age of remote controls, people don't pay attention to
+channels or numbers or anything like that anymore, unless it's drilled into
+their head (also we con't rely on our promos to do to this, because for all we
+know, people are changling the channels during the commercials).  The days of
+"ABC's on 2, NBC's on 11 and CBS is on 5" are over.  Networks must do something
+to make themselves and their locations on your "dial" much more noticable (Sci-
+Fi Channel keeps their bug up 24-7...).  Therefore, the logos (bugs) will be a
+regular fixture on B5.  But, again, it is a transparant logo, and very small. 
+   
+
    
+VOICE-OVERS/SQUEEZE CREDITS DURING CLOSING CREDIT: In order to let them know
+what's coming up next on our network (or any network) voice-overs and,
+sometimes, squeeze credits are necessary to keep people with shorter attention
+spans/low tolerance for credits tuned into the network.  Squeeze credits will
+probably rarely be used.  But voice-overs are guaranteed to be a daily staple on
+the B5 credits.   However, we will relax our policy for the following episodes:
+"Chrysalis," "And Now For A Word," "The Fall of Night," "Walkabout," "And The
+Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place," "Z'Ha'Dum," and "Atonement."  These episodes
+have been flagged with a NO V.O. notice, in order to provide fans/viewers with
+one episode a season where they can hear the theme music running over the
+credits, as well as to avoid stepping on special audio material played during
+the closing credits of various episodes. 
+
+
    
+VIDEO RELEASE OF B5:  I've just heard that Columbia House Home Video will be
+releasing B5 to tape starting in November 1997.  Two episodes per tape.  I don't
+have pricing info, but I do have their website address: www.columbiahouse.com.  
+
+
    
+DISTRIBUTION FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD:  TNT's job is not to internationally
+distribute TV series, B5 or otherwise, but is instead to program a DOMESTIC
+cable network available in the United States.  When it comes to all of this
+other stuff--international distribution, videotape possibilities, DVD--Warner
+Brothers is the answer-giver!  We didn't BUY "Babylon 5" lock, stock and barrel
+from WB--we just "rented" it; they retain ownership--it's just that no one
+else domestically can show the series, at least, for as long as our contracts
+go.  So, since TNT bought, from Warner Brothers, the rights ONLY to show
+"Babylon 5" in the United States, there are no plans on our end to make it
+available for Canada, Australia, TNT Europe, TNT Asia, or TNT Latin America (all
+of which, despite having TNT as part of their names, are separte channels with
+completely separate operations and budgets and programming agendas).  I know
+this is easy for me to say, but don't worry too much--Warner Brothers knows of
+the desire of fans worldwide to see any new Babylon 5 episodes or movies, and
+I'm sure they'll make accomodations for you to see them, either by selling the
+movies/episodes to TNT Asia, TNT Europe, and/or TNT Latin America, or to foreign
+syndication, or at the very least to a videotape distributor (I know that, in
+BRITAIN, for instance, they'll still continue to put 5th season episodes and the
+new movies on videotape).  I don't work for Warner Brothers Distribution or Home
+Video, though, so I can't tell you what their plans are; all I can tell you is
+what's going on in my sphere of knowledge, and that sphere pretty much begins
+and ends with TNT Domestic (or, at the very most, the Turner side of Time/
+Warner).  Sorry I can't help more...
+
+
    
+Well, hopefully, all this info answers any questions you may have about our
+plans for B5.  Again, as fans ourselves, we're thrilled to be carrying the
+series.  It's intelligently written, beautifully performed, inpeccably crafted,
+and always incredibly exciting and ambitious--what more could we want from a
+show? You all have our deepest gratitude for taking the time to send us your
+congratulations and thanks!   We're very much looking forward to having you guys
+as regular viewers in 1998!  Take care. 
+
+
    
+Dean Treadway @ TNT Programming
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+    NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Netter Digital Entertainment,
+Inc. (Nasdaq: NETT) today announced that, pursuant to a news release issued by
+Turner Network Television (TNT) and Bradley J. Siegel, president of TNT and
+Turner Classic Movies, TNT has ordered the production of two all-new original
+Babylon 5 made-for-television movies.
+    It was announced by TNT that the entire 88 one-hour episodes of the multi-
+year story of the award winning science fiction series Babylon 5 kicks off in
+January 1998 with a two-hour, original film "prequel."  "Babylon 5: In The
+Beginning," featuring the cast of Babylon 5 will film early this summer for
+premiere at the January 1998 launch of Babylon 5, with a second two-hour
+original film scheduled for production later this summer.  TNT acquired the
+exclusive cable rights to the series from Warner Bros. Domestic Pay-TV, Cable
+& Network Features.  The Babylon 5 films are being produced for TNT by series
+creator, J. Michael Straczynski, in conjunction with Netter Digital's Douglas
+Netter and John Copeland.
+    In the release by TNT, Mr. Siegel said "TNT's acquisition of Babylon 5
+offers its millions of fans a unique opportunity to see the show's original
+dramatic arc through to its conclusion.  Babylon 5 represents the type of
+contemporary high quality programming we are now producing and acquiring at
+TNT."  He went on to say, "The series' young, loyal viewers will now have a
+national home where they can watch their favorite series as a community,
+rather than the fragmented viewing that syndication provides.  We think this
+helps make TNT very valuable to an important audience for us."  TNT is the
+number one-rated cable network in primetime and currently seen in more than 70
+million homes.
+    A statement was included in TNT's release from Eric Frankel, Executive
+Vice-President, Marketing, Warner Bros. Domestic Pay-TV, Cable & Network
+Features, as follows:  "Babylon 5 is a unique series with an incredible
+following.  Its current popularity and critical acclaim, along with these
+world-premiere movies, will provide TNT with a great opportunity to launch the
+series on its network."
+    Douglas Netter, Chairman, President and CEO of Netter Digital, said, "We
+are very pleased with Babylon 5's new home at TNT and look forward to our on-
+going relationship with TNT.  This order for two Babylon 5 television movies
+validates the Company's strategy to build programming franchises with its
+production properties."  He went on to say, "The response from Babylon 5 fans
+around the world is expected to be very favorable."
+    Babylon 5, the two-time Emmy award winner earned its place in science-
+fiction history last year when it beat out Apollo 13, Toy Story, 12 Monkeys
+and Deep Space Nine for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the
+most prestigious honor in the science fiction field.  Babylon 5's victory
+marked the first time in the 43-year history of the Hugo Award that a
+television series other than Star Trek and Twilight Zone was honored.
+    Netter Digital Entertainment, Inc. is a digital entertainment and
+production company which utilizes high technology in creating television
+series, movies, documentaries and multimedia productions.  The Company
+specializes in creating science fiction programming which combines live action
+with computer graphics and is presently expanding its capabilities from being
+primarily a production company into a broader-based, technology-driven
+entertainment company.  The Company currently produces the Hugo Award-winning
+science fiction television series "Babylon 5" with creator and executive
+producer, J. Michael Straczynski.
+
+SOURCE  Netter Digital Entertainment, Inc.
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+TV Guide buy-up campaign
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+See Also:
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+The
+July 5, 1997
+issue of
+TV Guide
+features B5 on its cover.  (The article contains major spoilers for
+future episodes; tread with caution.)
+
+
    
+This is an ideal opportunity for fans to show their support.  Like any other
+for-profit publication, TV Guide's coverage is based in part on
+what they think will sell more magazines.  If they put "Baywatch" on the cover
+and sell twice as many copies as usual, they'll tend to do more "Baywatch"
+stories thereafter.
+
+
    
+We can use that simple bit of economics to increase B5's coverage in the future.
+As TV Guide is the most popular entertainment magazine in the US, any
+increase in B5 coverage will likely prompt more people to try the show out,
+and that boost in ratings will improve the chances
+of additional TNT movie orders, of the proposed
+spinoff series,
+and maybe even a B5 theatrical movie.
+Encouraging more TV Guide coverage is probably the best-leveraged thing fans
+can do right now to help keep the show going.
+
+
    
+To that end, I'd like to propose that every B5 fan go out and buy two copies
+of the magazine when it's released.  Spread the word; if you have friends
+who watch the show but aren't on the net, ask them to do the same.  If
+nothing else, a B5 cover story in a major national publication is a good
+collector's item, given how spotty B5's press coverage has historically been.
+
+
    
+Every science-fiction show in danger in the last five years has spawned a big
+letter-writing campaign.  By now, it seems to me, the networks and studios
+must be pretty used to it: produce an SF show, get a bunch of fan letters,
+like clockwork.  But to my knowledge, no fan campaign has yet had the
+audacity to put its money where its mouth is.  A TV Guide-buying campaign,
+if it's successful, might even get some press coverage in its own right.
+
+
    
+Let's give it a try and see what kind of waves we can make!
+
+
    
+Update: The preview in the June 28 issue confirms that there'll be B5
+coverage.  It says, "There's big news about the sci-fi series Babylon 5, and TV
+Guide goes on the set of TNT's upcoming B5 movie to get info straight
+from the show's stars and producers."
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+What's next for the Lurker's Guide?
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    What's next for the Lurker's Guide?
    
+
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+As the series has drawn to a close, I've received a lot of E-mail wondering
+what the future holds for the Lurker's Guide.  Here are some answers.
+
+
    
+Will the Lurker's Guide disappear?
+
+
    
+Nope!  I have no plans to ever take the site down.  Of course, twenty years
+from now it won't be updated too often, but the existing material will, barring
+disaster, be available for you to download to your 
+contact-lens Web browser and read while your car drives you to work.
+
+
    
+Any plans to publish the site in book form or on CD-ROM?
+
+
    
+I'm willing to entertain offers to that effect, but I'm not actively seeking
+anything at this time.  For one thing, the site is still an unfinished work,
+as you'll see below.
+
+
    
+If the Guide is published in some form, most or all of the proceeds will go
+to charity, since so much of the material here is the product of other folks
+on the net.  It wouldn't be fair to the Guide's countless contributors for me
+to make a profit from the sale of their work.
+
+
    
+The ideal format in my mind, by the way, would be a DVD-ROM (so the hypertext
+links still work) with the script for each episode included alongside the
+synopsis, and with video clips of various scenes.  Obviously that only flies
+if the authors of the episodes want it to.
+
+
    
+Will it ever be updated again?
+
+
    
+First of all, I've accumulated a substantial backlog of suggestions for guide
+pages over the years.  It'll take quite some time to go through them all and
+add them to the Guide as needed.
+
+
    
+Leaving aside the backlog and any upcoming movie(s), there're
+two significant things left to add: background pages for season five and, more
+importantly, a new section on each guide page to discuss foreshadowing and the
+eventual answers to the episode's unanswered questions (e.g. the guide page for
+"Point of No Return"
+will discuss when and how Lady Morella's prophecies came true.)
+I intentionally avoided doing that kind of thing while the series was still
+in progress.
+
+
    
+I have a stack of E-mail along those lines to go through as a first cut; then
+at some point I'll actively solicit suggestions.
+
+
    
+And of course all that material will be split off into its own section at the
+bottom of each page, or maybe even placed on entirely separate pages, so as
+not to spoil upcoming episodes for viewers who're watching the series for the
+first time.
+
+
    
+Finally, the Guide is chock full of text I'm not entirely happy with.  If a
+book or DVD/CD publishing deal should happen, I'll want to go back and touch
+up a lot of old material.
+
+
    
+The big one... will the Guide cover Crusade?
+
+
    
+If I can find the time to write the software to handle it, yes.
+
+
    
+The original Guide is almost exclusively a hand-edited affair.  I have a little
+bit of automation to handle the page headers/footers and the datestamping of
+material on the episode pages, but the actual text of the Guide is all raw
+HTML I maintain using a text editor.  I read the suggestions in my mailbox and
+write the material on the guide pages based on them.  I edit the synopses as
+they come in, add links to the Poll 5 results, add new entries to the What's
+New page, and so forth.
+
+
    
+In short, it takes a heck of a lot of time and energy.  And now, knowing full
+well what I'm in for (I didn't at first) I'm pretty sure I won't be able to
+keep doing this for another five years.
+
+
    
+So the two options are to decide the Guide won't cover Crusade, or to build
+something new, and hopefully better, that takes less effort to maintain.
+
+
    
+Version 2 of the Lurker's Guide, if it happens, will look something like this.
+
+
    
+The episode guide pages will be similar in appearance to the current ones.  But
+instead of flat Web pages, they'll all be discussion areas, to which anyone
+can add new material at will.  My role will be to go through the new
+submissions as they come in and decide which ones I would have included in the
+Guide if I were still maintaining it by hand.  I'll mark those messages as
+moderator-approved and delete the inevitable flames, trolls, duplicates, and
+"testing, 1 2 3" entries.  I may also appoint other moderators to help out.
+
+
    
+When you enter the Guide, at first you'll only see the moderator-approved
+entries for each episode, a view similar to what you get today.  But with the
+click of a button you'll be able to expand the guide page to include all the
+discussion, approved and otherwise, and you'll be able to add your own
+thoughts.
+
+
    
+In addition, synopsis writers and other such contributors will be able to
+upload their work directly to the site without going through my mailbox.
+
+
    
+How is this better than the existing site?  In a few ways.
+
+
      
+
+
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+Credit where credit is due.  Right now the people who send in submissions
+for the guide pages typically don't get credit for them.  The new setup will
+list the author of each tidbit (though probably only in the non-moderated
+view).
+
+
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+Instant feedback.  The pages will get updated even if I'm busy at work and
+don't have time to go through my mail.
+
+
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+Greater diversity of opinions and speculation.  One consequence of everything
+going through me is that I throw out a lot of material I don't think is
+relevant, including speculations I don't think are likely to pan out.  While
+on balance I think that helps the Guide more than it hurts, there are no
+doubt lots of readers who would prefer to see all the speculation, no matter
+how outlandish.  By switching between the moderated view and the discussion
+view, you'll get the best of both worlds.
+
+
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+Uniqueness.  The Guide has spawned a lot of imitators (which is just fine by
+me, I should add -- the more the merrier).
+If it's successful, this will raise the bar a bit and put B5
+out ahead of the pack in terms of fan sites.  I haven't seen any TV-show
+sites quite like what I have in mind.
+
+
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+I'll be able to get something resembling a healthy amount of sleep.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+What I've described isn't a trivial undertaking.  It's a fairly complex
+Web-based database application, in fact.  Luckily that's more or less what I
+do for a living, so given the time it's all quite doable.
+
+
    
+Crusade's delay until June is a blessing for me in some ways, since it means
+there's some chance of getting all this stuff up and running, should I decide
+to do it after all.
+
+
    
+I'll keep the What's New page updated as things progress, so you can follow
+the development there.
+
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+
    
+Last update:
+November 30, 1998
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+JMS on Sci-Fi's widescreen broadcasts
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+JMS had the following to say about problems with the widescreen broadcasts
+on the Sci-Fi Channel:
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+
    
+Today I went to a meeting at Warner Bros. technical support, where we went
+over the problems detected in the SFC widescreen airings.
+
+
    
+I now have some answers and some information on this.
+
+
    
+I have to say up front that the WB folks have been nothing but helpful and
+determined to fix the problems.  In "Midnight on the Firing Line," wherein a
+teapot is shown instead of a starship when the audio indicates the
+latter...the editor explained that it resulted from a pause/freeze frame
+during assembly, and when he restarted the equipment, it jumped shots.
+
+
    
+This will be fixed.  In "Convictions," wherein a comp shot of several
+monitors doesn't show the surveillance footage, but rather shows just the
+original babcom logo...they had missed this on their list of comp shots, and
+will go back and insert the proper footage now that they know the problem is
+there.
+
+
    
+(They QC everything, but often with the audio down, so they had no way of
+knowing that they were talking about camera footage, and figured that it was
+okay since there was something -- the babcom logo -- in the monitors rather
+than totally blank screens.)  In "Inquisitor," wherein the west end/east end
+audio correction wasn't made...they were going off the original PAL audio
+transfers, which in this case didn't work because we made that audio
+correction *after* broadcast and replaced the audio for that shot afterward.
+
+
    
+They're going to go back to the revised 24 track audio and insert the proper
+audio.  Here's what's going to happen beyond this.  1) WB is going to go
+back to using *only* the original 24 track audio stems for the dubs.  2)
+Seasons 4 and 5 as it turns out are already in proper wide versions, as is
+season 1, so the only ones that need to be addressed are seasons 2 and 3.
+3) WB is going to run cassettes of the whole series in the new version and
+I'm going to personally go over every damn episode personally looking for
+any potential problem areas (such as comps that may not have been recognized
+as such by the WB editors).
+
+
    
+It's possible that I may miss something here and there, because 110 hours is
+a LOT of TV to watch...but it'll certainly help.  They were *extremely*
+helpful and apologetic at WB, and are determined to do everything they can
+to fix the situation as fast as possible.  As for the audio...the audio
+transfers are being done directly off the original clones (either the
+original PAL, digibeta or 24 track stems), and QC'd.
+
+
    
+So what they suspect *may* be the problem is if the SFC is running the
+digital tracks through a Dolby decoder. If you try to decode Dolby that
+isn't there, on a digital track (which doesn't need Dolby because it's
+digital) it can make the audio crunchy or lead to drop-outs, pops and other
+problems.
+
+
    
+I've sent word to SFC to have them check that at their end of things.  So
+the situation is well in hand.
+
+
    
+jms  (jmsatb5@aol.com)
+
    
+
+
    
+Some fans have suggested that if JMS is going to rewatch the entire series
+anyway, there wouldn't be any harm in having a microphone handy to record
+commentary for an eventual DVD release.  That may or may not be practical
+(a good in-depth commentary track may require more up-front preparation than
+JMS has time for right now) but it sure sounds like a
+good idea from here.
+
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+Last update:
+December 15, 2000
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+#!/bin/csh
+
+@ x=0
+@ y=0
+@ r=0
+@ h=32
+@ pal=80
+@ wid=999
+@ maxwid=5
+
+while ($y < 272)
+	@ x = 0
+
+	convert +dither -crop ${wid}x${h}+0+${y} -colors $pal $1 r${r}.miff
+
+	while ($x < ${maxwid})
+		convert -crop 100x999+${x}00+0 r${r}.miff r${r}c${x}.gif
+		echo $x $r
+		@ x++
+	end
+
+	@ y += $h
+	@ h = 24
+	@ pal = 20
+	@ r++
+	if ($r == 15) then
+		@ wid = 400
+		@ maxwid = 4
+	endif
+end
+
+#
+# Two-row-high set of buttons; use the same palette on both rows.
+#
+
+convert -colors ${pal} +dither -crop 500x48+0+${y} $1 r11-12.miff
+
+@ x = 0
+@ r2 = $r + 1
+while ($x < ${maxwid})
+	convert -crop 100x${h}+${x}00+0 r11-12.miff r${r}c${x}.gif
+	convert -crop 100x${h}+${x}00+${h} r11-12.miff r${r2}c${x}.gif
+	echo $x $r - $r2
+	@ x++
+end
+
+@ r += 2
+@ y += $h + $h
+
+while ($y < 392)
+	@ x = 0
+
+	convert +dither -crop ${wid}x${h}+0+${y} -colors $pal $1 r${r}.miff
+
+	while ($x < ${maxwid})
+		convert -crop 100x999+${x}00+0 r${r}.miff r${r}c${x}.gif
+		echo $x $r
+		@ x++
+	end
+
+	@ y += $h
+	@ h = 24
+	@ pal = 20
+	@ r++
+	if ($r == 15) then
+		@ wid = 400
+		@ maxwid = 4
+	endif
+end
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+#!/bin/csh
+
+@ x=0
+@ y=0
+@ r=0
+@ h=24
+@ pal=32
+@ wid=999
+@ maxwid=5
+
+while ($y < 408)
+	@ x = 0
+
+	convert +dither -crop ${wid}x${h}+0+${y} -colors $pal $1 r${r}.miff
+
+	while ($x < ${maxwid})
+		convert -crop 100x999+${x}00+0 r${r}.miff r${r}c${x}.gif
+		echo $x $r
+		@ x++
+	end
+
+	@ y += $h
+	@ r++
+end
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+Written by John Vornholt
    
+Released: February 13, 1995
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22057-2 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0644-3 (UK)
    
+Setting: Early 2259, between
+"Points of Departure"
+and
+"A Race Through Dark Places"
+
+
    
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+Talia is caught up in a deadly conspiracy to assassinate hundreds of
+top
+Psi Corps officers.
+
    
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+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
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+Telepaths to the left of them.  Telepaths to the right of them.  And
+danger is all around Commander Susan Ivanova and Security Chief
+Michael
+Garibaldi when a Psi Corps convention is held on Babylon 5.  Someone
+will turn this meeting of mind readers into a real blast ... as a bomb
+makes Babylon 5 a death trap.
+
+
    
+The prime suspect is resident telepath Talia Winters.  With Talia's
+old
+foes, thought-cops Bester and Gray, calling for her head, Ivanova and
+Garibaldi can't openly help her.  Now she's running for her life
+through
+a perilous universe, and her psychic talent is her only weapon when
+her
+path is blocked by staggering intergalactic horrors: psi cops closing
+in ... and a killer waiting.
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    
+Harriman Gray ("Eyes")
+arrives on Mars for a meeting with Mr.  Bester
+("Mind War,"
+Eyes,"
+"A Race Through Dark Places")
+to help choose a location
+for a telepaths' conference.  Bester suggests that he is strongly
+considering Gray as his new aide (recall Kelsey's ignominious end in
+"Mind War")
+and that this is a test of sorts for him, even though Gray is not a
+Psi Cop.
+
+
    
+As Gray arrives on Mars and hands his identicard to the Earthforce
+personnel, he feels his mind being scanned and sees Bester step out of
+the
+shadows.  Gray is staggered by the sudden scan, but he knows Bester
+has special latitude to conduct operations, including scanning people
+without
+their permission.  (Also mentioned in
+"A Race Through Dark Places.")
+
+
    
+As the two ride a monorail to the hotel chosen for the conference,
+an explosion rips the building to shreds. Bester rescues the shuttle 
+from the explosion's intense heat by activating a manual mode; he
+later
+tells Gray he felt 26 people die in the blast. Getting back to
+business,  
+Gray suggests Babylon 5 as an alternate site for the
+conference -- mainly due to his desire to see Commander Susan Ivanova
+again.  Bester agrees, saying he will make sure Sheridan can't refuse.
+
+
    
+Senator Hidoshi convinces Sheridan to allow the conference to be
+held on Babylon 5; the Captain ignores the opinions of Garibaldi and
+Ivanova,
+who think the conference is bad news.  He orders Ivanova to remain in 
+her quarters except when on duty to prevent incidents.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Kosh is up to his old game of hiring Talia Winters for
+bizarre
+assignments (cf.
+"Deathwalker.")
+She clearly is frustrated by the assignments,
+but also has started to come to understand some of his terminology
+such as
+"Hour of Scampering."  This time Kosh asks her to scan an empty chair
+next to him for "Invisible Isabel," as he calls her.  To her surprise,
+Talia
+hears a voice there momentarily.  Kosh also understands French,
+based on a brief exchange of pleasantries after the scan is concluded.
+
+
    
+Gray contacts Ivanova as soon as possible upon landing; when
+Bester tries to scan Gray, Ivanova stands up to Bester.  They talk
+more
+and at least agree to be on a first name basis -- in private.  Nothing
+more
+comes of a personal relationship between them in this book; however,
+Ivanova's opinion of him is clearly softened.
+
+
    
+Talia and Garibaldi make preparations for the conference and as the
+delegates arrive, things get interesting.  Talia meets Arthur Malten,
+head of the Mix, the association of commercial telepaths.   Malten's
+assistant Emily Crane is peculiar for her shyness.   Talia convinces
+Garibaldi to give the three of them a tour of various parts of the
+station,
+including Down Below.  Garibaldi has arranged with Na'Toth, aide
+to Ambassador G'Kar, to give the group a little scare which he hopes
+will
+help keep the other delegates to the conference out of Down Below. 
+(Their
+telepathic attacks don't work on non-humans.)
+
+
    
+Malten begins taking a serious interest in Talia, and eventually
+convinces her to attend the conference on behalf of the Mix.  Crane
+seems jealous but provides a data crystal with information
+about budgets inside Psi Corps and the split of money between Psi
+Cops, the
+military telepaths and the Mix.  She also later takes back the
+crystal,
+claiming she needs to put more information on it.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Deuce,
+(cf.
+"Grail")
+arrives back on Babylon 5 with a special item in
+hand.  During the first day of the conference, Talia and Malten are to
+attend 
+the budget meeting, which includes Bester.  Crane returns the data
+crystal 
+to Talia after carrying it through a security search. Talia proceeds
+to the 
+meeting and sits next to Bester.
+
+
    
+During the meeting, Talia develops a headache and walks out. As she
+leaves, 
+a bomb detonates in the conference room; it takes a serious chunk out
+of
+Bester, but doesn't kill him.  Talia is immediately detained and
+awakens in
+her quarters with Ivanova alongside.  After a short exchange, she
+decides she
+would rather be tried on Babylon 5 than on Earth, and asks Ivanova to
+be her
+lawyer. Ivanova agrees -- at least until someone better can be found. 
+Talia 
+is taken to the brig, and Garibaldi starts to search for clues and
+information to clear her name.
+
+
    
+Ambassador Kosh pays Talia a visit in the brig, and they have a
+bizarre
+conversation which she thinks means he will break her out of the
+cell in about 20 minutes.  Using the telekinetic powers she received
+in
+"Mind War,"
+she opens the lock to the internal door and then
+finds Kosh has returned and knocked out the guards with a gas.
+
+
    
+Talia dons a Minbari robe and proceeds with Kosh to the docking bays,
+where he tells her to enter a cargo container.  When she tries to open
+the box
+after launch, she realizes that she is not alone in the container and
+that
+her traveling companion is Deuce, also escaping the station.  Against
+his
+better judgment and with many threats to kill her, Deuce decides to
+help
+Talia. When they arrive on Earth, he helps her get a false
+identicard from a tribe of hi-tech would-be Indians who live in the
+desert.
+
+
    
+Gray and Garibaldi are assigned to search for Talia and quickly
+board the first Earth-bound shuttle in search of Crane, whom they have
+come to believe has vital information on the bombing.  (The Mix's
+headquarters is on Earth.) Bester has Talia declared a rogue
+telepath, and her image begins to be plastered on television sets
+around
+Earth. Gray and Garibaldi also learn that the
+Military telepaths expected something bad to happen to Bester.
+
+
    
+Deuce's desert hideout becomes unsafe as shuttles begin
+to scour overhead looking for Talia.  At his friends' strong request, 
+he and Talia depart.  The two play possum to get a Psi Cop shuttle to
+land, 
+and capture the two Psi Cops.  Talia convinces Deuce not to kill the
+Psi 
+Cops, and they steal the craft.
+
+
    
+Deuce agrees to give Talia a one-carat diamond and drop her off out of
+the
+way so he can proceed on his own way.  They part ways in Phoenix. 
+ Talia sells the diamond, using the money to get to
+Boston and eventually to Mars.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Gray and Garibaldi have been busy in Boston, paying a visit
+to
+Crane at Mix Headquarters.  Although she is extremely unhelpful
+during the meeting, Garibaldi notices a confidential Senate memo on a
+self-destructing transparency on her desk.  Through an old friend of
+Gray's they track down the contents of the memo. They discover that
+Psi 
+Corps blackmails and bribes government officials, making lots of
+enemies.  
+The bill would completely privatize the corps, taking it out of the
+military,
+which no longer controls it anyway.  The Mix would take over control
+of 
+Psi Corps.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tries to make another attempt to talk to Crane and ends up
+captured.  Gray and Bester come to the rescue but are forced to kill
+ Crane and some telepathic accomplices on the street.  Bester tries to
+wind
+ the whole thing up
+but refuses to acknowledge Talia's innocence.  Gray finally finds a
+voice
+and stands up to him, resulting in Bester agreeing to leave them in
+Miami.
+Bester also warns them off Mars, where he believes Malten is located
+presently.
+
+
    
+All paths begin to converge here as Garibaldi, Gray and Talia end up
+on
+the same shuttle to Mars by coincidence.  Garibaldi recognizes her
+from
+her buttocks, causing Gray to vow that he will pay more
+attention to women's posteriors in the future.  They decide to wait
+until
+after landing to make contact.
+
+
    
+After landing, Talia's Uncle Ted contacts her through a telepath (it
+may have
+been Ted himself) and assures her that all is safe as an explosion
+rips the
+terminal building (actually it is just a smoke bomb to cause a
+distraction.)  Garibaldi and Uncle Ted eventually recognize each
+other and he and Gray agree to follow Talia and Uncle Ted.  The two of
+them convince Talia and Uncle Ted that discrediting Malten is of prime
+importance to clear Talia's name and discredit the false Mars
+terrorist group Malten has created.
+
+
    
+Bester arrives after Gray contacts him. He meets Garibaldi and Gray
+with
+a shuttle, and explains that his true fear is that people will think
+ Psi Corps can't protect itself from attacks from within.  He still
+refuses to budge on the issue of Talia Winters.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi offers to visit the bunker where they have located
+Malten; after receiving assurances from Bester that he won't be
+abandoned, he goes down to investigate.  Bester enters as well once
+they
+position with the hatch. Inside, Malten is strapped to a chair
+wired with bombs and a note saying, "Compliments of the real
+revolutionaries."  They have to abandon him after receiving a message 
+that they have only 30 seconds to get out.
+
+
    
+After the explosion and a narrow escape, Bester informs Garibaldi that
+he
+is still going after Talia and Uncle Ted.  Garibaldi pulls a file that
+Ambassador Mollari made of Psi Cops gambling with him.  When Bester
+tries to scan Garibaldi, Gray inserts himself and promises to protect
+Garibaldi from the scan.  Bester relents and radios in a report
+clearing
+Talia Winters and restoring her to her position within the Corps.
+
+
    
+Gray asks Garibaldi to tell Susan that he did
+something brave and worthwhile, and the two go their separate ways.
+ The story ends with Talia visiting her family
+for a while before returning "home" to Babylon 5.
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  How powerful is Bester?  He was the only Psi Cop representative
+to 
+survive the budget meeting, and was feared by both the military and
+commercial telepaths.  Clearly he calls a lot of shots in the movement
+of Psi
+Corps, but is there anyone behind him/against him?
+
+
    •  How does Kosh know so much about Talia's powers?
+
+
    •  Did Kosh leave Talia in Deuce's care for money, or was Deuce's
+appearance coincidental?
+
+
    •  Where does Talia stand after all this?  Especially in light of
+the events of "A Race Through Dark
+Places"?
+  In all of these incidents she
+has narrowly avoided Bester's wrath, but for how long can she avoid
+it,
+especially if she makes any moves against the Corps?
+
+
    •  Why weren't the two Psi Cops that Deuce and Talia attacked able
+to
+use their powers to take out Talia and/or Deuce?
+
+
    •  Does Bester control the new head of the commercial telepaths?
+
+
    •  Did Uncle Ted or his group kill Malten?
+
+
    •  Where does Gray's career stand?  It seems unlikely
+that Bester would take him as an aide now; on the other hand, Bester
+can be
+almost as hard as Kosh to figure out.
+
+
    •  Have Talia's feelings about Garibaldi changed at all?
+
+
    •  Where do the military telepaths stand after this incident?  They
+clearly
+are not fans of Bester, but they seem less willing to oppose him.  In
+light
+of Malten's demise, will they make a move for power?
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
      
+
+
    •  Talia's gift (cf.
+"Mind War")
+is clearly much more than it seemed at the
+end of that episode.   Her telekinetic prowess is high, and she
+is no longer transparently readable by Bester and other
+telepaths.  This is supported further by
+"A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+
    •  Kosh is much more aware of the events taking place both on
+Babylon 5 and elsewhere based on this episode and others.  It almost
+seems
+as if some of his assignments for Talia are attempts to improve her
+telepathic and telekinetic prowess.
+
+
    •  Bester's power among Psi Corps and Psi Cops is nearly absolute
+and
+certainly has been consolidated by the deaths and removals of some of
+the
+more powerful enemies.  The blackmail and bribery of government
+officials
+means Bester may be running a sort of shadow government.
+
+
    •  Talia clearly trusts Ivanova very strongly, based on her
+decision to have her as a lawyer in this novel and their
+conversation at the end of
+"A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+
    •  In light of the events in this novel as well as
+"A Race Through Dark Places,"
+why wasn't Talia included with the senior B5 officers in the
+secret meeting that ended
+"All Alone in the Night."
+Does this suggest that Sheridan's feels Talia is not trustworthy
+enough yet? 
+Or was he specifically told not to include her?
+
+
    
+
+
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+
      
+
+   
    •  Since the novel features Garibaldi on the job, it takes place after
+        "The Geometry of Shadows." The front
+        cover blurb is therefore wrong, since the story takes place in 2259,
+        not 2258.
+
+
    
+
+
    The Author Speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Chris, I did mention that I apparently substituted Kelvin temperature
+        for Celsius.  It could get a bit hot on Mars during the day, but that
+        would be from thin atmosphere.  It'd be damn cold there at night.
+        This isn't something has any bearing on the story.
+
+        
      
+   
    •  Tony, the way this works is -- I work for Dell Books.  They have a deal
+        with whoever to have the license to publish B5 novels.  Dell Books hired
+        me, and Lois Tilton, who wrote the next novel.  JMS is doing approvals
+        for the time being, although I'm sure there's somebody at Warner Bros.
+        who could do it if he didn't want to.
+
+        
      
+        I had lots of free rein with VOICES but no information about the big
+        arc.
+
+        
      
+   
    •  Thanks for bringing up the fact that I wrote this book last July.  I am
+        extremely happy that it fits into the second season as well as it does.
+        This is the first book, our editor quit halfway through it, and we had
+        some other bumps -- but I think we did all right.
+
+        
      
+   
    •  You can't write books set in other people's universes (that are so well
+        known) unless you have a thick skin.  I don't mind being called on the
+        carpet for a factual mistake, but I worked pretty hard to get the
+        characters right.  Nevertheless, they are my interpretation of the
+        characters, not someone else's.  We had some bumps in the road on this
+        first one, but I think things will get smoother as we go.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Written by Erik Oliver <oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>.
+Edited by Julie Prince (jprince@peak.org) and Steven Grimm
+(koreth@midwinter.com)
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+Novel: "Voices"
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+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
+ 
+
    
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+Written by John Vornholt
    
+Released: February 13, 1995
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22057-2 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0644-3 (UK)
    
+Setting: Early 2259, between
+"Points of Departure"
+and
+"A Race Through Dark Places"
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Talia is caught up in a deadly conspiracy to assassinate hundreds of
+top
+Psi Corps officers.
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
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    Back Cover
    
+
+
    
+Telepaths to the left of them.  Telepaths to the right of them.  And
+danger is all around Commander Susan Ivanova and Security Chief
+Michael
+Garibaldi when a Psi Corps convention is held on Babylon 5.  Someone
+will turn this meeting of mind readers into a real blast ... as a bomb
+makes Babylon 5 a death trap.
+
+
    
+The prime suspect is resident telepath Talia Winters.  With Talia's
+old
+foes, thought-cops Bester and Gray, calling for her head, Ivanova and
+Garibaldi can't openly help her.  Now she's running for her life
+through
+a perilous universe, and her psychic talent is her only weapon when
+her
+path is blocked by staggering intergalactic horrors: psi cops closing
+in ... and a killer waiting.
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    
+Harriman Gray ("Eyes")
+arrives on Mars for a meeting with Mr.  Bester
+("Mind War,"
+Eyes,"
+"A Race Through Dark Places")
+to help choose a location
+for a telepaths' conference.  Bester suggests that he is strongly
+considering Gray as his new aide (recall Kelsey's ignominious end in
+"Mind War")
+and that this is a test of sorts for him, even though Gray is not a
+Psi Cop.
+
+
    
+As Gray arrives on Mars and hands his identicard to the Earthforce
+personnel, he feels his mind being scanned and sees Bester step out of
+the
+shadows.  Gray is staggered by the sudden scan, but he knows Bester
+has special latitude to conduct operations, including scanning people
+without
+their permission.  (Also mentioned in
+"A Race Through Dark Places.")
+
+
    
+As the two ride a monorail to the hotel chosen for the conference,
+an explosion rips the building to shreds. Bester rescues the shuttle 
+from the explosion's intense heat by activating a manual mode; he
+later
+tells Gray he felt 26 people die in the blast. Getting back to
+business,  
+Gray suggests Babylon 5 as an alternate site for the
+conference -- mainly due to his desire to see Commander Susan Ivanova
+again.  Bester agrees, saying he will make sure Sheridan can't refuse.
+
+
    
+Senator Hidoshi convinces Sheridan to allow the conference to be
+held on Babylon 5; the Captain ignores the opinions of Garibaldi and
+Ivanova,
+who think the conference is bad news.  He orders Ivanova to remain in 
+her quarters except when on duty to prevent incidents.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Kosh is up to his old game of hiring Talia Winters for
+bizarre
+assignments (cf.
+"Deathwalker.")
+She clearly is frustrated by the assignments,
+but also has started to come to understand some of his terminology
+such as
+"Hour of Scampering."  This time Kosh asks her to scan an empty chair
+next to him for "Invisible Isabel," as he calls her.  To her surprise,
+Talia
+hears a voice there momentarily.  Kosh also understands French,
+based on a brief exchange of pleasantries after the scan is concluded.
+
+
    
+Gray contacts Ivanova as soon as possible upon landing; when
+Bester tries to scan Gray, Ivanova stands up to Bester.  They talk
+more
+and at least agree to be on a first name basis -- in private.  Nothing
+more
+comes of a personal relationship between them in this book; however,
+Ivanova's opinion of him is clearly softened.
+
+
    
+Talia and Garibaldi make preparations for the conference and as the
+delegates arrive, things get interesting.  Talia meets Arthur Malten,
+head of the Mix, the association of commercial telepaths.   Malten's
+assistant Emily Crane is peculiar for her shyness.   Talia convinces
+Garibaldi to give the three of them a tour of various parts of the
+station,
+including Down Below.  Garibaldi has arranged with Na'Toth, aide
+to Ambassador G'Kar, to give the group a little scare which he hopes
+will
+help keep the other delegates to the conference out of Down Below. 
+(Their
+telepathic attacks don't work on non-humans.)
+
+
    
+Malten begins taking a serious interest in Talia, and eventually
+convinces her to attend the conference on behalf of the Mix.  Crane
+seems jealous but provides a data crystal with information
+about budgets inside Psi Corps and the split of money between Psi
+Cops, the
+military telepaths and the Mix.  She also later takes back the
+crystal,
+claiming she needs to put more information on it.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Deuce,
+(cf.
+"Grail")
+arrives back on Babylon 5 with a special item in
+hand.  During the first day of the conference, Talia and Malten are to
+attend 
+the budget meeting, which includes Bester.  Crane returns the data
+crystal 
+to Talia after carrying it through a security search. Talia proceeds
+to the 
+meeting and sits next to Bester.
+
+
    
+During the meeting, Talia develops a headache and walks out. As she
+leaves, 
+a bomb detonates in the conference room; it takes a serious chunk out
+of
+Bester, but doesn't kill him.  Talia is immediately detained and
+awakens in
+her quarters with Ivanova alongside.  After a short exchange, she
+decides she
+would rather be tried on Babylon 5 than on Earth, and asks Ivanova to
+be her
+lawyer. Ivanova agrees -- at least until someone better can be found. 
+Talia 
+is taken to the brig, and Garibaldi starts to search for clues and
+information to clear her name.
+
+
    
+Ambassador Kosh pays Talia a visit in the brig, and they have a
+bizarre
+conversation which she thinks means he will break her out of the
+cell in about 20 minutes.  Using the telekinetic powers she received
+in
+"Mind War,"
+she opens the lock to the internal door and then
+finds Kosh has returned and knocked out the guards with a gas.
+
+
    
+Talia dons a Minbari robe and proceeds with Kosh to the docking bays,
+where he tells her to enter a cargo container.  When she tries to open
+the box
+after launch, she realizes that she is not alone in the container and
+that
+her traveling companion is Deuce, also escaping the station.  Against
+his
+better judgment and with many threats to kill her, Deuce decides to
+help
+Talia. When they arrive on Earth, he helps her get a false
+identicard from a tribe of hi-tech would-be Indians who live in the
+desert.
+
+
    
+Gray and Garibaldi are assigned to search for Talia and quickly
+board the first Earth-bound shuttle in search of Crane, whom they have
+come to believe has vital information on the bombing.  (The Mix's
+headquarters is on Earth.) Bester has Talia declared a rogue
+telepath, and her image begins to be plastered on television sets
+around
+Earth. Gray and Garibaldi also learn that the
+Military telepaths expected something bad to happen to Bester.
+
+
    
+Deuce's desert hideout becomes unsafe as shuttles begin
+to scour overhead looking for Talia.  At his friends' strong request, 
+he and Talia depart.  The two play possum to get a Psi Cop shuttle to
+land, 
+and capture the two Psi Cops.  Talia convinces Deuce not to kill the
+Psi 
+Cops, and they steal the craft.
+
+
    
+Deuce agrees to give Talia a one-carat diamond and drop her off out of
+the
+way so he can proceed on his own way.  They part ways in Phoenix. 
+ Talia sells the diamond, using the money to get to
+Boston and eventually to Mars.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Gray and Garibaldi have been busy in Boston, paying a visit
+to
+Crane at Mix Headquarters.  Although she is extremely unhelpful
+during the meeting, Garibaldi notices a confidential Senate memo on a
+self-destructing transparency on her desk.  Through an old friend of
+Gray's they track down the contents of the memo. They discover that
+Psi 
+Corps blackmails and bribes government officials, making lots of
+enemies.  
+The bill would completely privatize the corps, taking it out of the
+military,
+which no longer controls it anyway.  The Mix would take over control
+of 
+Psi Corps.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tries to make another attempt to talk to Crane and ends up
+captured.  Gray and Bester come to the rescue but are forced to kill
+ Crane and some telepathic accomplices on the street.  Bester tries to
+wind
+ the whole thing up
+but refuses to acknowledge Talia's innocence.  Gray finally finds a
+voice
+and stands up to him, resulting in Bester agreeing to leave them in
+Miami.
+Bester also warns them off Mars, where he believes Malten is located
+presently.
+
+
    
+All paths begin to converge here as Garibaldi, Gray and Talia end up
+on
+the same shuttle to Mars by coincidence.  Garibaldi recognizes her
+from
+her buttocks, causing Gray to vow that he will pay more
+attention to women's posteriors in the future.  They decide to wait
+until
+after landing to make contact.
+
+
    
+After landing, Talia's Uncle Ted contacts her through a telepath (it
+may have
+been Ted himself) and assures her that all is safe as an explosion
+rips the
+terminal building (actually it is just a smoke bomb to cause a
+distraction.)  Garibaldi and Uncle Ted eventually recognize each
+other and he and Gray agree to follow Talia and Uncle Ted.  The two of
+them convince Talia and Uncle Ted that discrediting Malten is of prime
+importance to clear Talia's name and discredit the false Mars
+terrorist group Malten has created.
+
+
    
+Bester arrives after Gray contacts him. He meets Garibaldi and Gray
+with
+a shuttle, and explains that his true fear is that people will think
+ Psi Corps can't protect itself from attacks from within.  He still
+refuses to budge on the issue of Talia Winters.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi offers to visit the bunker where they have located
+Malten; after receiving assurances from Bester that he won't be
+abandoned, he goes down to investigate.  Bester enters as well once
+they
+position with the hatch. Inside, Malten is strapped to a chair
+wired with bombs and a note saying, "Compliments of the real
+revolutionaries."  They have to abandon him after receiving a message 
+that they have only 30 seconds to get out.
+
+
    
+After the explosion and a narrow escape, Bester informs Garibaldi that
+he
+is still going after Talia and Uncle Ted.  Garibaldi pulls a file that
+Ambassador Mollari made of Psi Cops gambling with him.  When Bester
+tries to scan Garibaldi, Gray inserts himself and promises to protect
+Garibaldi from the scan.  Bester relents and radios in a report
+clearing
+Talia Winters and restoring her to her position within the Corps.
+
+
    
+Gray asks Garibaldi to tell Susan that he did
+something brave and worthwhile, and the two go their separate ways.
+ The story ends with Talia visiting her family
+for a while before returning "home" to Babylon 5.
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  How powerful is Bester?  He was the only Psi Cop representative
+to 
+survive the budget meeting, and was feared by both the military and
+commercial telepaths.  Clearly he calls a lot of shots in the movement
+of Psi
+Corps, but is there anyone behind him/against him?
+
+
    •  How does Kosh know so much about Talia's powers?
+
+
    •  Did Kosh leave Talia in Deuce's care for money, or was Deuce's
+appearance coincidental?
+
+
    •  Where does Talia stand after all this?  Especially in light of
+the events of "A Race Through Dark
+Places"?
+  In all of these incidents she
+has narrowly avoided Bester's wrath, but for how long can she avoid
+it,
+especially if she makes any moves against the Corps?
+
+
    •  Why weren't the two Psi Cops that Deuce and Talia attacked able
+to
+use their powers to take out Talia and/or Deuce?
+
+
    •  Does Bester control the new head of the commercial telepaths?
+
+
    •  Did Uncle Ted or his group kill Malten?
+
+
    •  Where does Gray's career stand?  It seems unlikely
+that Bester would take him as an aide now; on the other hand, Bester
+can be
+almost as hard as Kosh to figure out.
+
+
    •  Have Talia's feelings about Garibaldi changed at all?
+
+
    •  Where do the military telepaths stand after this incident?  They
+clearly
+are not fans of Bester, but they seem less willing to oppose him.  In
+light
+of Malten's demise, will they make a move for power?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+
    •  Talia's gift (cf.
+"Mind War")
+is clearly much more than it seemed at the
+end of that episode.   Her telekinetic prowess is high, and she
+is no longer transparently readable by Bester and other
+telepaths.  This is supported further by
+"A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+
    •  Kosh is much more aware of the events taking place both on
+Babylon 5 and elsewhere based on this episode and others.  It almost
+seems
+as if some of his assignments for Talia are attempts to improve her
+telepathic and telekinetic prowess.
+
+
    •  Bester's power among Psi Corps and Psi Cops is nearly absolute
+and
+certainly has been consolidated by the deaths and removals of some of
+the
+more powerful enemies.  The blackmail and bribery of government
+officials
+means Bester may be running a sort of shadow government.
+
+
    •  Talia clearly trusts Ivanova very strongly, based on her
+decision to have her as a lawyer in this novel and their
+conversation at the end of
+"A Race Through Dark Places."
+
+
    •  In light of the events in this novel as well as
+"A Race Through Dark Places,"
+why wasn't Talia included with the senior B5 officers in the
+secret meeting that ended
+"All Alone in the Night."
+Does this suggest that Sheridan's feels Talia is not trustworthy
+enough yet? 
+Or was he specifically told not to include her?
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Since the novel features Garibaldi on the job, it takes place after
+        "The Geometry of Shadows." The front
+        cover blurb is therefore wrong, since the story takes place in 2259,
+        not 2258.
+
+
    
+
+
    The Author Speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Chris, I did mention that I apparently substituted Kelvin temperature
+        for Celsius.  It could get a bit hot on Mars during the day, but that
+        would be from thin atmosphere.  It'd be damn cold there at night.
+        This isn't something has any bearing on the story.
+
+        
      
+   
    •  Tony, the way this works is -- I work for Dell Books.  They have a deal
+        with whoever to have the license to publish B5 novels.  Dell Books hired
+        me, and Lois Tilton, who wrote the next novel.  JMS is doing approvals
+        for the time being, although I'm sure there's somebody at Warner Bros.
+        who could do it if he didn't want to.
+
+        
      
+        I had lots of free rein with VOICES but no information about the big
+        arc.
+
+        
      
+   
    •  Thanks for bringing up the fact that I wrote this book last July.  I am
+        extremely happy that it fits into the second season as well as it does.
+        This is the first book, our editor quit halfway through it, and we had
+        some other bumps -- but I think we did all right.
+
+        
      
+   
    •  You can't write books set in other people's universes (that are so well
+        known) unless you have a thick skin.  I don't mind being called on the
+        carpet for a factual mistake, but I worked pretty hard to get the
+        characters right.  Nevertheless, they are my interpretation of the
+        characters, not someone else's.  We had some bumps in the road on this
+        first one, but I think things will get smoother as we go.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Written by Erik Oliver <oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>.
+Edited by Julie Prince (jprince@peak.org) and Steven Grimm
+(koreth@midwinter.com)
+
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+
    Written by Lois Tilton
    
+Released: April 10, 1995
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22058-0 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0649-4 (UK)
    
+Setting: Mid-2259, between
+"The Coming of Shadows"
+and
+"All Alone in the Night."
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    Ivanova is implicated in a murderous plot to steal supplies of a
+strategically important raw material.
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Friends Like These
    
+
+
    He came to Babylon 5 from out of Commander Susan Ivanova's past.
+His cryptic, urgent message asked for an immediate meeting, but when
+Ivanova arrived to meet her old friend, Ortega was dead -- murdered --
+and the word from Mars Colony was that the man had been a terrorist.
+
+
    Accusations
    
+
+
    Dealing with an outbreak of hijacked shipments of morbidium ingots,
+Ivanova is caught by surprise when EA investigators accuse her of
+being in league with Ortega, then strip her of her command and
+threaten Security Chief Garibaldi as well.  Now the once and future
+Babylon 5 loyalists must unravel a mystery of corruption and murder.
+Fail, and the price will be their careers, or their lives....
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    The scene opens on a busy day at C&C as Commander Susan Ivanova
+is monitoring the station's traffic lanes.  The screens highlight a
+single crippled cargo vessel with failed stabilizers.  She orders the
+Centauri transport to cut its engines and not to attempt to land under
+its own power.  Ivanova orders some shuttles to tow the vessel into
+the docking bay and consequently must divert traffic to nearby lanes
+to leave plenty of room for the shuttles to grapple the freighter.  As
+the shuttles grapple on, Communications reports that an "urgent and
+personal" message has arrived for her.  Because it is tagged personal
+she chooses not to view it immediately.
+
+
    Aside from a tense moment when Narn fighter leaves its assigned
+lane to cut off the Centauri ship's path, the procedure is both
+uneventful and tedious.  Once the situation is fully resolved, Ivanova
+returns control to the technicians and queries the computer about the
+message.  The sender is reported simply as "J.D."  She figures out
+that it is from J.D. Ortega, her former flight instructor who had
+chosen to leave Earthforce and go back to Mars to work in the mines.
+Finally she views the message:
+
+
    
+
    "Susan, I am in trouble.  They say you're Number Two here on
+this station.  I don't know anyone else who might be able to help.
+There's something I have to tell you.  Please, meet me in the Alpha
+Wing ready room at 20:00 hours."
+
    
+
+
    After nearly two hours of waiting, she finally asks the computer
+about J.D.'s arrival on the station.  The computer responds that
+although there have been eight Ortegas arriving on the station since
+it first came on line, none of them have had the initials J.D.  After
+doing some more queries about the origin of the message she asks for a
+search of all files containing the name "J.D. Ortega", to which the
+computer responds that it has found a restricted file.
+
+
    The computer responds to her executive officer password and the
+screen is replaced by an image of his face, along with a fugitive
+alert listing him as a suspected terrorist.  Ivanova contacts
+Garibaldi and, upon mention of the name, he asks her to meet him in
+Security Central.  After explaining that she and J.D. hadn't seen each
+other or corresponded save holiday greetings since her first posting
+on Io, she insists that she still can't imagine him having been
+involved in any sort of terrorism or conspiracy.
+
+
    A distress signal is received on Babylon 5 and Sheridan orders
+Ivanova to scramble Alpha Wing to protect the transport.
+Unfortunately, the transport is unarmed and the ETA to the transport's
+last position is nearly 3 hours.  The fighter wing arrives, and
+long-range scans detect several raiders along with a larger ship.
+Ivanova splits her squadron in an attempt to cut the raiders off at
+the jump gate while also sending some fighters in towards the raiders
+and the transport ship.  Combat ensues, and in the end two raiders
+collide, taking the jump gate off-line until repairs can be made.  The
+transport's crew is dead and its hull is ripped open.
+
+
    Back on the station, J.D. Ortega's body is found in the flight
+lockers belonging to Alpha Squadron.  Dr. Franklin is called in to do
+the autopsy.  He uses a compound to relieve rigor mortis, and with
+some new techniques, he is able to determine that Ortega was murdered
+around 20:00 hours and that the cause of death was a particularly
+unusual and hard to detect poison, chloro-quasi-dianimidine.  The
+poison had been directly injected into the blood stream.
+
+
    Garibaldi had previously asked Talia Winters to scan the workers
+who had found the body.  The workers agreed and she performed the
+scans, to discover that they had told the truth and knew nothing about
+the origin of the body.  Garibaldi insists on having Ivanova give a
+positive identification of the body, which she provides.  He also
+shows her a message that was found on the floor of the briefing room,
+presumably from Ortega to Ivanova.  It reads:
+
+
    
+
    S I -- hardwired
+
    
+
+
    They agree that "SI" probably stands for Susan Ivanova, but for the
+life of her Ivanova can not make sense of the word "hardwired".
+Sheridan offers to take Ivanova to breakfast, and she accepts.  It
+turns out that the attacked transport was carrying a strategic metal
+called "Morbidium" which is vital for the production of phased plasma
+weapons.  It is a material that has its price and trade strictly
+controlled by Earth Alliance, and consequently has a high black market
+value.
+
+
    Ivanova notices that since they were cut off severely last year,
+raids seem to be on the rise.  She decides to hunt for a pattern to
+the raids and receives Sheridan's approval.  Because of the broken
+jumpgate, C & C is hectic and Ivanova does not find time to
+investigate while on duty.
+
+
    Later that evening Ivanova begins sifting through the data.  After
+several blind paths she finally tracks down a correlation: the
+increase in raids has occurred on transports out of Marsport, and
+further, all of them were carrying strategic metals.  Worst of all,
+they were successful raids.  The next morning Ivanova explains her
+findings to Garibaldi and he warns her to be careful of stepping on
+toes.
+
+
    Their breakfast is interrupted by a call from Sheridan to Garibaldi
+asking him to come to his office.  Sheridan orders Garibaldi to
+terminate his investigation into Ortega's death and prepare to turn
+over all files related to the matter to a special investigator from
+Earth Central.
+
+
    Garibaldi watches the arrival of the transport and the disembarking
+of the special investigators.  The investigators promptly arrive in
+Security and demand that he turn over his files, records and
+passwords.  The investigators are led by Commander Wallace and his two
+assistants, Lieutenants Miyoshi and Khatib.
+
+
    Garibaldi leaves them to their work, which includes taking some of
+his guards under their control and establishing their own lock-up
+facility and interrogation rooms.  He goes Downbelow where he searches
+for leads from sources such as Mort the Ear and an old friend, Nick
+Patinos, who is from Mars.  Neither is able to offer him any useful
+information.
+
+
    Commander Ivanova is interviewed by Lieutenant Miyoshi who causes
+her to lose her temper after he insinuates that she destroyed the
+cards and letters of holiday greetings from Ortega to conceal her
+involvement with a terrorist.  Miyoshi then makes a point of the fact
+that Ivanova waited so long after the arranged meeting time to contact
+anyone, and that she was unaware of the security notice about Ortega.
+He also points out that nobody but Ivanova saw the person leaving the
+area as she entered the ready room.  Miyoshi also makes a point of
+wanting her to figure out the meaning of the note, and finally
+dismisses her.
+
+
    Garibaldi discovers that Wallace has locked out files on some
+people, including Patinos, and goes to Sheridan to complain.  Sheridan
+orders Wallace to release all files not directly related to the Ortega
+case and orders Garibaldi to steer clear of the Ortega case.  Wallace
+then insists that Ivanova be put on restricted duties or arrested.
+Sheridan eventually relents, placing her on restricted duties.
+
+
    Prior to this point, Ivanova had had an unblemished career record.
+Sheridan was aware that this flag in her file might ruin her chances
+of ever having a command of her own, but he also felt that it was
+better than having Wallace go over his head and perhaps having Ivanova
+arrested or even shipped back to Earth.
+
+
    Garibaldi then goes back Downbelow only to discover that Mort has
+disappeared from the station.  A comm link message informs him that
+part of a second body, a foot, was discovered in the in the recycling
+facilities.  They are able to identify the DNA pattern as belonging to
+Fengshi Yang, who had allegedly already departed -- less one foot?
+Garibaldi carefully informs his next in command, Lieutenant Torres,
+that she is to investigate this matter and that there is no connection
+to the Ortega case, if she knows what he means.
+
+
    Garibaldi returns to pump Nick for information, but his friend is
+even more tightly clammed up.  Garibaldi does learn that people are
+being deported off the station -- presumably by Wallace and his
+assistants.  Further, he finds out that a telepath is being used to
+scan the people being questioned.
+
+
    Garibaldi makes a point of sitting down with Winters and prying
+information out of her about whether Wallace is using her services.
+She eventually acknowledges that he is, and Garibaldi points out that
+the people she is scanning probably haven't really consented.  Later,
+Winters visits Sheridan and explains that the people aren't actually
+consenting.  He informs her that he will talk to Wallace, but
+ultimately it is a matter between her and Psi Corps.  Sheridan
+contacts Wallace and a heated discussion takes place in which Wallace
+refuses to budge, and Sheridan informs him that he will contact Earth
+Central about Wallace's conduct.
+
+
    When Winters arrives at the interrogation room, Miyoshi is waiting
+and complains about her lateness.  Miyoshi then informs her that she
+will confine herself exclusively to their needs.  Miyoshi then pulls
+out a viewer card and hands it to Winters.  In her hand, a glowing Psi
+takes holographic form (cf. "Mind War"), and she feels a message
+force itself into her mind:
+
+
    
+
    Obey.  No questions.  Obey.
+
    
+
+
    Meanwhile, Ivanova reports for duty, and Sheridan puts her in
+charge of escorting transports in an attempt to reduce raider attacks,
+and to give her something useful to do.
+
+
    Garibaldi has kept all of the information about Yang's death out of
+the computer to avoid prying by Wallace, and promises Ivanova he will
+continue looking into things.  Sheridan calls Garibaldi to view a high
+priority message direct from Admiral Wilson of the Office of the Joint
+Chiefs, informing Sheridan that he is to give Wallace every degree of
+cooperation with regard to the investigation.
+
+
    Garibaldi finds himself called to the Casino to break up a fight
+between patrons that is breaking down along human-alien lines,
+concerning cheating.  An alien has accused a human of cheating, and
+the human has accused the alien of being a telepath.  Telepaths are,
+of course, banned from gambling (cf. "Voices").  Garibaldi ascertains that
+the human was cheating, and with Winters' help discerns that the alien
+is a telepath as well.  With the fight broken up he turns his
+attention to the human who confesses without too much effort.  The
+gambler also recognizes Yang's picture and explains that he was an
+enforcer for AreTech Mining.  Garibaldi convinces the man to leave the
+station quietly.
+
+
    Another day, and Ivanova finds herself back on escort duty once
+again.  This time the ship Kobold is helped by them.  They
+escort the ship all the way from the jump gate back to the station.
+Ivanova notices that the pilot seemed to be expecting a raid and the
+pilot agrees to discuss the matter further once back at the station.
+Raiders do attempt to get her to pull her squadron off escort, but she
+doesn't fall for it and the Kobold has a smooth escort all the
+way to Babylon 5.
+
+
    Garibaldi goes back Downbelow to meet with someone, a meeting
+arranged by Patinos.  The man does not recognize the picture of Yang,
+and Garibaldi wanders off realizing he has hit a dead end.  He doesn't
+notice the man come up from behind, who then whacks him with shock
+sticks.  When he awakes he is trapped in a locker, and he fights
+frantically to attract attention.
+
+
    Lieutenant Torres decides to contact Sheridan when she realizes
+that Garibaldi is missing, and she explains the investigation that is
+going on.  After Garibaldi is found and brought to Medlab, Wallace
+enters, rather aggressively, against the wishes of Franklin and a
+tech.  Garibaldi mentions Yang's name to Wallace and realizes that,
+when he claims not to recognize the name, he is probably lying, but
+having said he didn't know the person, Wallace is forced by Sheridan
+to leave.  Sheridan insists that this time things are going to be done
+his way, and that he will bring in Garibaldi's contact.
+
+
    The Kobold's pilot, Mr. Pal, insists upon buying dinner for
+Ivanova as a thank-you gesture.  He explains that they were expecting
+an attack, and that he thought that her ships might have been raiders
+until they identified themselves.  Pal is on the union's central
+committee and he explains that when he left Marsport, their demands
+for better protection were still being studied.  Ivanova explains,
+mindful of the trouble she is already in, some of her findings from
+her earlier computer analysis.  Pal explains that they have started to
+think that Earth Central has a reason to be looking the other way.
+Pal also explains that they have started to wonder what they are
+really carrying morbidium, or perhaps just "slag", worthless mass.
+
+
    The union thinks the plan would be to ship the rigidly
+price-controlled item and have it raided, then resell the product on
+the black market while also taking the insurance money.  Or perhaps
+for each cargo there might be two ships: one for which they collect
+the insured value, and the other, which goes to the black market.  In
+other words, pay raiders to attack ships carrying slag.  Pal offers to
+have the insurance agent tell Ivanova the results of opening the
+crates at the final destination.
+
+
    Later, Ivanova turns in response to her name being shouted across
+the Zocalo by a young businesswoman approaching.  Luz Espada of the
+Universal Underwriters Corporation introduces herself and offers to
+buy Ivanova coffee.  The two sit down to talk.  Ivanova once again
+explains the results of her computer analysis of the raids, and Espada
+explains that her company has begun to reach a similar conclusion.
+She explains that ships and cargoes are generally separately insured,
+by different companies, and so it could take some time before losses
+would be noticed.  Espada is able to provide some of the information
+about insurance companies that the computer couldn't provide Ivanova
+earlier.  It turns out that shipments from AreTech Consolidated Mining
+Corporation of Mars -- headquartered on Earth -- have been the targets
+of a high proportion of raider attacks.
+
+
    Their discussion is interrupted when Ivanova receives a request
+from Security to arrive at Docking Bay 18, where the Kobold is
+docked, to help with an incident.  Torres explains the situation to
+Ivanova: Khatib has orders from Wallace to search the Kobold's
+cargo and the crew is refusing, claiming that someone arrested their
+pilot.  Torres explains that Security does not have the pilot and that
+Khatib has ordered the security squads under his control to use force,
+but they won't without confirmation from Babylon command.  The captain
+is unavailable, making Torres the highest-ranking officer.
+
+
    Ivanova talks with the members of the crew and convinces them to
+just leave unless Pal is returned, and only to agree to a search if it
+can be observed.  They resist initially, but after convincing them
+that she will do everything to get him free and that the station will
+not stop the launch, they agree to the bluff.  Ivanova explains the
+deal to Khatib, who rebuffs it but eventually realizes he will need to
+relent when C & C refuses to take his order to stop the launch of
+the ship.
+
+
    Pal is returned, drugged, and the cargo is searched.  The cargo is
+in fact real morbidium ingots.  Ivanova also realizes that the reason
+for interrogating Pal is that they wanted to see if she had passed
+information to him, information from Ortega.
+
+
    Garibaldi finds out that Patinos is being held, on Sheridan's
+orders, and goes to him.  Patinos explains that he had Garibaldi
+attacked.  Garibaldi gets the name of the attacker and tries to track
+the man down, but his quarters are empty.  Meanwhile he tries to track
+down information about Yang on Mars, and discovers that the records
+are now classified -- as of just hours after he told Wallace that he
+was investigating Yang's death.  Garibaldi is certain that he has
+Wallace caught in a lie now.  Garibaldi finds out from Patinos that
+the name of the attacker was really Josef Nagy, and he sets out to
+find the man before Wallace can.
+
+
    Ivanova is again on escort duty and this time they receive a
+distress call from the transport Duster.  They intercept the
+raiders before they have a chance to destroy the transport and even
+manage to capture one of the raiders alive.  In the process, one of
+Ivanova's squad members is killed.  Ivanova allows another pilot to
+fly her Starfury; the Duster takes the damaged Starfury on
+board along with Ivanova, so she is able to question the raider.
+
+
    Meanwhile, back on the station, Garibaldi stops the launch of a
+ship and manages to search, finding Nagy aboard.  Garibaldi questions
+Nagy about Free Mars, Yang, and Ortega.  The questioning is
+interrupted by the discovery of Khatib's body.
+
+
    Upon questioning her prisoner, Ivanova discovers that AreTech has
+been selling out information about its shipments to the raiders
+directly from their office on Mars.
+
+
    Wallace attempts to interfere in the investigation of the murder of
+Khatib but Garibaldi gets microfilms off the body and away from
+Wallace.  Franklin locks the films inside the biohazard area.  This
+results in the rather funny situation of Wallace being knocked out by
+the biohazard security system when he later tries to go back and get
+access to the films.
+
+
    Meanwhile, a near riot has erupted on the station as people were
+complaining of lock-ups of hundreds of people by Wallace and Miyoshi.
+Sheridan orders the guards back under his command and has the
+prisoners released.
+
+
    Wallace and Miyoshi are arrested for complicity in Yang's murder,
+and Ivanova returns, with the connection to AreTech Mining becoming
+clearer and clearer.  (Ortega had worked for AreTech.)
+
+
    Sheridan has contact with the Joint Chiefs again.  Admiral Wilson
+reveals that the problem involving AreTech was quite real and that
+Wallace was a special investigator for them.  He also explains that
+there will be no reprimand for Sheridan or his staff, but stops short
+of reinstating Ivanova, saying her case will be reviewed, eventually.
+
+
    As if realizing the depths of her plight, Ivanova finally decides
+to turn to Talia Winters for assistance.  The two return to Winters's
+quarters, and a deep scan is performed on Ivanova.  The scan reveals
+that Ortega had a view that a pilot and their Starfury should be
+"hardwired together", so to speak, and Ivanova realizes that this
+means that the information is on her Starfury.
+
+
    Ivanova boards her Starfury and queries for a file by keyword
+"J.D."  A file is produced and she downloads it onto a data crystal.
+As she leaves the ship, she is knocked to the floor.  Miyoshi has
+attacked her and has taken the data crystal from her.  The two become
+engaged in combat, with Miyoshi clearly trying to kill Ivanova.
+
+
    Winters gets onto the communicator with Garibaldi and warns him
+that she thinks Ivanova is in danger; Garibaldi reacts.  The security
+officer that comes upon Miyoshi attacking Ivanova is forced to kill
+Miyoshi.  The data crystal is removed from Miyoshi's pocket and the
+scene shifts to Sick Bay where Ivanova is recovering, and Sheridan,
+Garibaldi and Franklin are examining the data crystal.  Ivanova comes
+to, and insists on seeing the contents of the crystal, too..
+
+
    Computer analysis reveals that it is a description of a new atom,
+number 156, supermorbidium.  Its chemical properties are such that it
+will be a potent portion of a weapon system.  Sheridan and Ivanova
+contact the Joint Chiefs in private with information about recovery of
+the plans.
+
+
    The novel ends with Ivanova back at her station and things
+returning back to normal.
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+  
    • Why is G'Kar's picture on the cover when he plays no role in the
+      novel?  (See
+      Notes)
+
+  
    • Why is none of the information about the somewhat warmer
+      relationship between Ivanova and Talia included in this book?
+      Specifically, why do they both still seem to be acting like they
+      did in
+      "Midnight on the Firing
+      Line"?
+
+  
    • Was Ortega a traitor or a hero of sorts in trying to hide the
+      information about supermorbidium?
+
+  
    • How do the events of this novel fit into the conspiracy
+      discussed by General Hague in
+      "All Alone in the Night"?
+
+  
    • Is Ivanova's record spotless again?
+
+  
    • Was Miyoshi a telepath in disguise?  If not, how did the card
+      send a message to Winters?  Either way, what is the level of Psi
+      Corps's involvement in this whole conspiracy -- just the
+      military telepaths, or are the Psi Cops involved in some way as
+      well?  How did Miyoshi manage to remain or get back onto the
+      station after presumably being forced to leave with Wallace?
+
+  
    • Are the Joint Chiefs involved in the conspiracy or are they
+      really trying to investigate the extent of corruption?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+  
    • This book is a lot like a cross between
+      "Eyes" and
+      "Hunter, Prey".  You have the
+      interrogation of senior officers aspect à la "Eyes" and
+      the conspiracy aspects à la "Hunter, Prey". If we are to
+      understand the events of this novel as describing a facet of the
+      conspiracy General Hague was concerned about, then we are left
+      with two possible interpretations about the Joint Chiefs.  One
+      is that the Joint Chiefs are working with General Hague to
+      uncover corruption and the high placed leak is somewhere else in
+      Earth Central, perhaps in President Clark's office.
+      Alternately, we can see this as showing that the corruption goes
+      to the highest ranks of Earthforce, and that Sheridan and
+      company (cf.
+      "All Alone in the Night")
+      certainly will have their hands full in trying to put a stop to
+      the conspiracy.
+
+  
    • Now that Ivanova has been scanned -- deep scanned, in fact -- it
+      would seem to put rest to the notion that she might be a
+      telepath trying to avoid detection from Psi Corps.  On the other
+      hand, if we take into account some of what we have learned about
+      Winters in
+      "Voices" and
+      "A Race Through Dark Places",
+      it is possible that she and Ivanova have developed a close bond
+      of shared secrets; consequently, even if Winters discovered that
+      Ivanova was a telepath, it might not get reported to Psi Corps.
+
+  
    • Things between Earth and Mars seem to be getting steadily worse.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    • According to Lois Tilton on GEnie, the
+       cover art was a sample submitted by the artist when Dell was
+       looking for someone to draw the novel covers; they decided not
+       to waste money having four covers drawn up and just use it on
+       an actual book.  Accusations got stuck with it.
+
+
    
+
+
    The Author Speaks
    
+
+
    
+
+
    Written by Erik Oliver <oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>.
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+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
+ 
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+
    Written by Lois Tilton
    
+Released: April 10, 1995
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22058-0 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0649-4 (UK)
    
+Setting: Mid-2259, between
+"The Coming of Shadows"
+and
+"All Alone in the Night."
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    Ivanova is implicated in a murderous plot to steal supplies of a
+strategically important raw material.
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
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+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Friends Like These
    
+
+
    He came to Babylon 5 from out of Commander Susan Ivanova's past.
+His cryptic, urgent message asked for an immediate meeting, but when
+Ivanova arrived to meet her old friend, Ortega was dead -- murdered --
+and the word from Mars Colony was that the man had been a terrorist.
+
+
    Accusations
    
+
+
    Dealing with an outbreak of hijacked shipments of morbidium ingots,
+Ivanova is caught by surprise when EA investigators accuse her of
+being in league with Ortega, then strip her of her command and
+threaten Security Chief Garibaldi as well.  Now the once and future
+Babylon 5 loyalists must unravel a mystery of corruption and murder.
+Fail, and the price will be their careers, or their lives....
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    The scene opens on a busy day at C&C as Commander Susan Ivanova
+is monitoring the station's traffic lanes.  The screens highlight a
+single crippled cargo vessel with failed stabilizers.  She orders the
+Centauri transport to cut its engines and not to attempt to land under
+its own power.  Ivanova orders some shuttles to tow the vessel into
+the docking bay and consequently must divert traffic to nearby lanes
+to leave plenty of room for the shuttles to grapple the freighter.  As
+the shuttles grapple on, Communications reports that an "urgent and
+personal" message has arrived for her.  Because it is tagged personal
+she chooses not to view it immediately.
+
+
    Aside from a tense moment when Narn fighter leaves its assigned
+lane to cut off the Centauri ship's path, the procedure is both
+uneventful and tedious.  Once the situation is fully resolved, Ivanova
+returns control to the technicians and queries the computer about the
+message.  The sender is reported simply as "J.D."  She figures out
+that it is from J.D. Ortega, her former flight instructor who had
+chosen to leave Earthforce and go back to Mars to work in the mines.
+Finally she views the message:
+
+
    
+
    "Susan, I am in trouble.  They say you're Number Two here on
+this station.  I don't know anyone else who might be able to help.
+There's something I have to tell you.  Please, meet me in the Alpha
+Wing ready room at 20:00 hours."
+
    
+
+
    After nearly two hours of waiting, she finally asks the computer
+about J.D.'s arrival on the station.  The computer responds that
+although there have been eight Ortegas arriving on the station since
+it first came on line, none of them have had the initials J.D.  After
+doing some more queries about the origin of the message she asks for a
+search of all files containing the name "J.D. Ortega", to which the
+computer responds that it has found a restricted file.
+
+
    The computer responds to her executive officer password and the
+screen is replaced by an image of his face, along with a fugitive
+alert listing him as a suspected terrorist.  Ivanova contacts
+Garibaldi and, upon mention of the name, he asks her to meet him in
+Security Central.  After explaining that she and J.D. hadn't seen each
+other or corresponded save holiday greetings since her first posting
+on Io, she insists that she still can't imagine him having been
+involved in any sort of terrorism or conspiracy.
+
+
    A distress signal is received on Babylon 5 and Sheridan orders
+Ivanova to scramble Alpha Wing to protect the transport.
+Unfortunately, the transport is unarmed and the ETA to the transport's
+last position is nearly 3 hours.  The fighter wing arrives, and
+long-range scans detect several raiders along with a larger ship.
+Ivanova splits her squadron in an attempt to cut the raiders off at
+the jump gate while also sending some fighters in towards the raiders
+and the transport ship.  Combat ensues, and in the end two raiders
+collide, taking the jump gate off-line until repairs can be made.  The
+transport's crew is dead and its hull is ripped open.
+
+
    Back on the station, J.D. Ortega's body is found in the flight
+lockers belonging to Alpha Squadron.  Dr. Franklin is called in to do
+the autopsy.  He uses a compound to relieve rigor mortis, and with
+some new techniques, he is able to determine that Ortega was murdered
+around 20:00 hours and that the cause of death was a particularly
+unusual and hard to detect poison, chloro-quasi-dianimidine.  The
+poison had been directly injected into the blood stream.
+
+
    Garibaldi had previously asked Talia Winters to scan the workers
+who had found the body.  The workers agreed and she performed the
+scans, to discover that they had told the truth and knew nothing about
+the origin of the body.  Garibaldi insists on having Ivanova give a
+positive identification of the body, which she provides.  He also
+shows her a message that was found on the floor of the briefing room,
+presumably from Ortega to Ivanova.  It reads:
+
+
    
+
    S I -- hardwired
+
    
+
+
    They agree that "SI" probably stands for Susan Ivanova, but for the
+life of her Ivanova can not make sense of the word "hardwired".
+Sheridan offers to take Ivanova to breakfast, and she accepts.  It
+turns out that the attacked transport was carrying a strategic metal
+called "Morbidium" which is vital for the production of phased plasma
+weapons.  It is a material that has its price and trade strictly
+controlled by Earth Alliance, and consequently has a high black market
+value.
+
+
    Ivanova notices that since they were cut off severely last year,
+raids seem to be on the rise.  She decides to hunt for a pattern to
+the raids and receives Sheridan's approval.  Because of the broken
+jumpgate, C & C is hectic and Ivanova does not find time to
+investigate while on duty.
+
+
    Later that evening Ivanova begins sifting through the data.  After
+several blind paths she finally tracks down a correlation: the
+increase in raids has occurred on transports out of Marsport, and
+further, all of them were carrying strategic metals.  Worst of all,
+they were successful raids.  The next morning Ivanova explains her
+findings to Garibaldi and he warns her to be careful of stepping on
+toes.
+
+
    Their breakfast is interrupted by a call from Sheridan to Garibaldi
+asking him to come to his office.  Sheridan orders Garibaldi to
+terminate his investigation into Ortega's death and prepare to turn
+over all files related to the matter to a special investigator from
+Earth Central.
+
+
    Garibaldi watches the arrival of the transport and the disembarking
+of the special investigators.  The investigators promptly arrive in
+Security and demand that he turn over his files, records and
+passwords.  The investigators are led by Commander Wallace and his two
+assistants, Lieutenants Miyoshi and Khatib.
+
+
    Garibaldi leaves them to their work, which includes taking some of
+his guards under their control and establishing their own lock-up
+facility and interrogation rooms.  He goes Downbelow where he searches
+for leads from sources such as Mort the Ear and an old friend, Nick
+Patinos, who is from Mars.  Neither is able to offer him any useful
+information.
+
+
    Commander Ivanova is interviewed by Lieutenant Miyoshi who causes
+her to lose her temper after he insinuates that she destroyed the
+cards and letters of holiday greetings from Ortega to conceal her
+involvement with a terrorist.  Miyoshi then makes a point of the fact
+that Ivanova waited so long after the arranged meeting time to contact
+anyone, and that she was unaware of the security notice about Ortega.
+He also points out that nobody but Ivanova saw the person leaving the
+area as she entered the ready room.  Miyoshi also makes a point of
+wanting her to figure out the meaning of the note, and finally
+dismisses her.
+
+
    Garibaldi discovers that Wallace has locked out files on some
+people, including Patinos, and goes to Sheridan to complain.  Sheridan
+orders Wallace to release all files not directly related to the Ortega
+case and orders Garibaldi to steer clear of the Ortega case.  Wallace
+then insists that Ivanova be put on restricted duties or arrested.
+Sheridan eventually relents, placing her on restricted duties.
+
+
    Prior to this point, Ivanova had had an unblemished career record.
+Sheridan was aware that this flag in her file might ruin her chances
+of ever having a command of her own, but he also felt that it was
+better than having Wallace go over his head and perhaps having Ivanova
+arrested or even shipped back to Earth.
+
+
    Garibaldi then goes back Downbelow only to discover that Mort has
+disappeared from the station.  A comm link message informs him that
+part of a second body, a foot, was discovered in the in the recycling
+facilities.  They are able to identify the DNA pattern as belonging to
+Fengshi Yang, who had allegedly already departed -- less one foot?
+Garibaldi carefully informs his next in command, Lieutenant Torres,
+that she is to investigate this matter and that there is no connection
+to the Ortega case, if she knows what he means.
+
+
    Garibaldi returns to pump Nick for information, but his friend is
+even more tightly clammed up.  Garibaldi does learn that people are
+being deported off the station -- presumably by Wallace and his
+assistants.  Further, he finds out that a telepath is being used to
+scan the people being questioned.
+
+
    Garibaldi makes a point of sitting down with Winters and prying
+information out of her about whether Wallace is using her services.
+She eventually acknowledges that he is, and Garibaldi points out that
+the people she is scanning probably haven't really consented.  Later,
+Winters visits Sheridan and explains that the people aren't actually
+consenting.  He informs her that he will talk to Wallace, but
+ultimately it is a matter between her and Psi Corps.  Sheridan
+contacts Wallace and a heated discussion takes place in which Wallace
+refuses to budge, and Sheridan informs him that he will contact Earth
+Central about Wallace's conduct.
+
+
    When Winters arrives at the interrogation room, Miyoshi is waiting
+and complains about her lateness.  Miyoshi then informs her that she
+will confine herself exclusively to their needs.  Miyoshi then pulls
+out a viewer card and hands it to Winters.  In her hand, a glowing Psi
+takes holographic form (cf. "Mind War"), and she feels a message
+force itself into her mind:
+
+
    
+
    Obey.  No questions.  Obey.
+
    
+
+
    Meanwhile, Ivanova reports for duty, and Sheridan puts her in
+charge of escorting transports in an attempt to reduce raider attacks,
+and to give her something useful to do.
+
+
    Garibaldi has kept all of the information about Yang's death out of
+the computer to avoid prying by Wallace, and promises Ivanova he will
+continue looking into things.  Sheridan calls Garibaldi to view a high
+priority message direct from Admiral Wilson of the Office of the Joint
+Chiefs, informing Sheridan that he is to give Wallace every degree of
+cooperation with regard to the investigation.
+
+
    Garibaldi finds himself called to the Casino to break up a fight
+between patrons that is breaking down along human-alien lines,
+concerning cheating.  An alien has accused a human of cheating, and
+the human has accused the alien of being a telepath.  Telepaths are,
+of course, banned from gambling (cf. "Voices").  Garibaldi ascertains that
+the human was cheating, and with Winters' help discerns that the alien
+is a telepath as well.  With the fight broken up he turns his
+attention to the human who confesses without too much effort.  The
+gambler also recognizes Yang's picture and explains that he was an
+enforcer for AreTech Mining.  Garibaldi convinces the man to leave the
+station quietly.
+
+
    Another day, and Ivanova finds herself back on escort duty once
+again.  This time the ship Kobold is helped by them.  They
+escort the ship all the way from the jump gate back to the station.
+Ivanova notices that the pilot seemed to be expecting a raid and the
+pilot agrees to discuss the matter further once back at the station.
+Raiders do attempt to get her to pull her squadron off escort, but she
+doesn't fall for it and the Kobold has a smooth escort all the
+way to Babylon 5.
+
+
    Garibaldi goes back Downbelow to meet with someone, a meeting
+arranged by Patinos.  The man does not recognize the picture of Yang,
+and Garibaldi wanders off realizing he has hit a dead end.  He doesn't
+notice the man come up from behind, who then whacks him with shock
+sticks.  When he awakes he is trapped in a locker, and he fights
+frantically to attract attention.
+
+
    Lieutenant Torres decides to contact Sheridan when she realizes
+that Garibaldi is missing, and she explains the investigation that is
+going on.  After Garibaldi is found and brought to Medlab, Wallace
+enters, rather aggressively, against the wishes of Franklin and a
+tech.  Garibaldi mentions Yang's name to Wallace and realizes that,
+when he claims not to recognize the name, he is probably lying, but
+having said he didn't know the person, Wallace is forced by Sheridan
+to leave.  Sheridan insists that this time things are going to be done
+his way, and that he will bring in Garibaldi's contact.
+
+
    The Kobold's pilot, Mr. Pal, insists upon buying dinner for
+Ivanova as a thank-you gesture.  He explains that they were expecting
+an attack, and that he thought that her ships might have been raiders
+until they identified themselves.  Pal is on the union's central
+committee and he explains that when he left Marsport, their demands
+for better protection were still being studied.  Ivanova explains,
+mindful of the trouble she is already in, some of her findings from
+her earlier computer analysis.  Pal explains that they have started to
+think that Earth Central has a reason to be looking the other way.
+Pal also explains that they have started to wonder what they are
+really carrying morbidium, or perhaps just "slag", worthless mass.
+
+
    The union thinks the plan would be to ship the rigidly
+price-controlled item and have it raided, then resell the product on
+the black market while also taking the insurance money.  Or perhaps
+for each cargo there might be two ships: one for which they collect
+the insured value, and the other, which goes to the black market.  In
+other words, pay raiders to attack ships carrying slag.  Pal offers to
+have the insurance agent tell Ivanova the results of opening the
+crates at the final destination.
+
+
    Later, Ivanova turns in response to her name being shouted across
+the Zocalo by a young businesswoman approaching.  Luz Espada of the
+Universal Underwriters Corporation introduces herself and offers to
+buy Ivanova coffee.  The two sit down to talk.  Ivanova once again
+explains the results of her computer analysis of the raids, and Espada
+explains that her company has begun to reach a similar conclusion.
+She explains that ships and cargoes are generally separately insured,
+by different companies, and so it could take some time before losses
+would be noticed.  Espada is able to provide some of the information
+about insurance companies that the computer couldn't provide Ivanova
+earlier.  It turns out that shipments from AreTech Consolidated Mining
+Corporation of Mars -- headquartered on Earth -- have been the targets
+of a high proportion of raider attacks.
+
+
    Their discussion is interrupted when Ivanova receives a request
+from Security to arrive at Docking Bay 18, where the Kobold is
+docked, to help with an incident.  Torres explains the situation to
+Ivanova: Khatib has orders from Wallace to search the Kobold's
+cargo and the crew is refusing, claiming that someone arrested their
+pilot.  Torres explains that Security does not have the pilot and that
+Khatib has ordered the security squads under his control to use force,
+but they won't without confirmation from Babylon command.  The captain
+is unavailable, making Torres the highest-ranking officer.
+
+
    Ivanova talks with the members of the crew and convinces them to
+just leave unless Pal is returned, and only to agree to a search if it
+can be observed.  They resist initially, but after convincing them
+that she will do everything to get him free and that the station will
+not stop the launch, they agree to the bluff.  Ivanova explains the
+deal to Khatib, who rebuffs it but eventually realizes he will need to
+relent when C & C refuses to take his order to stop the launch of
+the ship.
+
+
    Pal is returned, drugged, and the cargo is searched.  The cargo is
+in fact real morbidium ingots.  Ivanova also realizes that the reason
+for interrogating Pal is that they wanted to see if she had passed
+information to him, information from Ortega.
+
+
    Garibaldi finds out that Patinos is being held, on Sheridan's
+orders, and goes to him.  Patinos explains that he had Garibaldi
+attacked.  Garibaldi gets the name of the attacker and tries to track
+the man down, but his quarters are empty.  Meanwhile he tries to track
+down information about Yang on Mars, and discovers that the records
+are now classified -- as of just hours after he told Wallace that he
+was investigating Yang's death.  Garibaldi is certain that he has
+Wallace caught in a lie now.  Garibaldi finds out from Patinos that
+the name of the attacker was really Josef Nagy, and he sets out to
+find the man before Wallace can.
+
+
    Ivanova is again on escort duty and this time they receive a
+distress call from the transport Duster.  They intercept the
+raiders before they have a chance to destroy the transport and even
+manage to capture one of the raiders alive.  In the process, one of
+Ivanova's squad members is killed.  Ivanova allows another pilot to
+fly her Starfury; the Duster takes the damaged Starfury on
+board along with Ivanova, so she is able to question the raider.
+
+
    Meanwhile, back on the station, Garibaldi stops the launch of a
+ship and manages to search, finding Nagy aboard.  Garibaldi questions
+Nagy about Free Mars, Yang, and Ortega.  The questioning is
+interrupted by the discovery of Khatib's body.
+
+
    Upon questioning her prisoner, Ivanova discovers that AreTech has
+been selling out information about its shipments to the raiders
+directly from their office on Mars.
+
+
    Wallace attempts to interfere in the investigation of the murder of
+Khatib but Garibaldi gets microfilms off the body and away from
+Wallace.  Franklin locks the films inside the biohazard area.  This
+results in the rather funny situation of Wallace being knocked out by
+the biohazard security system when he later tries to go back and get
+access to the films.
+
+
    Meanwhile, a near riot has erupted on the station as people were
+complaining of lock-ups of hundreds of people by Wallace and Miyoshi.
+Sheridan orders the guards back under his command and has the
+prisoners released.
+
+
    Wallace and Miyoshi are arrested for complicity in Yang's murder,
+and Ivanova returns, with the connection to AreTech Mining becoming
+clearer and clearer.  (Ortega had worked for AreTech.)
+
+
    Sheridan has contact with the Joint Chiefs again.  Admiral Wilson
+reveals that the problem involving AreTech was quite real and that
+Wallace was a special investigator for them.  He also explains that
+there will be no reprimand for Sheridan or his staff, but stops short
+of reinstating Ivanova, saying her case will be reviewed, eventually.
+
+
    As if realizing the depths of her plight, Ivanova finally decides
+to turn to Talia Winters for assistance.  The two return to Winters's
+quarters, and a deep scan is performed on Ivanova.  The scan reveals
+that Ortega had a view that a pilot and their Starfury should be
+"hardwired together", so to speak, and Ivanova realizes that this
+means that the information is on her Starfury.
+
+
    Ivanova boards her Starfury and queries for a file by keyword
+"J.D."  A file is produced and she downloads it onto a data crystal.
+As she leaves the ship, she is knocked to the floor.  Miyoshi has
+attacked her and has taken the data crystal from her.  The two become
+engaged in combat, with Miyoshi clearly trying to kill Ivanova.
+
+
    Winters gets onto the communicator with Garibaldi and warns him
+that she thinks Ivanova is in danger; Garibaldi reacts.  The security
+officer that comes upon Miyoshi attacking Ivanova is forced to kill
+Miyoshi.  The data crystal is removed from Miyoshi's pocket and the
+scene shifts to Sick Bay where Ivanova is recovering, and Sheridan,
+Garibaldi and Franklin are examining the data crystal.  Ivanova comes
+to, and insists on seeing the contents of the crystal, too..
+
+
    Computer analysis reveals that it is a description of a new atom,
+number 156, supermorbidium.  Its chemical properties are such that it
+will be a potent portion of a weapon system.  Sheridan and Ivanova
+contact the Joint Chiefs in private with information about recovery of
+the plans.
+
+
    The novel ends with Ivanova back at her station and things
+returning back to normal.
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+  
    • Why is G'Kar's picture on the cover when he plays no role in the
+      novel?  (See
+      Notes)
+
+  
    • Why is none of the information about the somewhat warmer
+      relationship between Ivanova and Talia included in this book?
+      Specifically, why do they both still seem to be acting like they
+      did in
+      "Midnight on the Firing
+      Line"?
+
+  
    • Was Ortega a traitor or a hero of sorts in trying to hide the
+      information about supermorbidium?
+
+  
    • How do the events of this novel fit into the conspiracy
+      discussed by General Hague in
+      "All Alone in the Night"?
+
+  
    • Is Ivanova's record spotless again?
+
+  
    • Was Miyoshi a telepath in disguise?  If not, how did the card
+      send a message to Winters?  Either way, what is the level of Psi
+      Corps's involvement in this whole conspiracy -- just the
+      military telepaths, or are the Psi Cops involved in some way as
+      well?  How did Miyoshi manage to remain or get back onto the
+      station after presumably being forced to leave with Wallace?
+
+  
    • Are the Joint Chiefs involved in the conspiracy or are they
+      really trying to investigate the extent of corruption?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
+  
    • This book is a lot like a cross between
+      "Eyes" and
+      "Hunter, Prey".  You have the
+      interrogation of senior officers aspect à la "Eyes" and
+      the conspiracy aspects à la "Hunter, Prey". If we are to
+      understand the events of this novel as describing a facet of the
+      conspiracy General Hague was concerned about, then we are left
+      with two possible interpretations about the Joint Chiefs.  One
+      is that the Joint Chiefs are working with General Hague to
+      uncover corruption and the high placed leak is somewhere else in
+      Earth Central, perhaps in President Clark's office.
+      Alternately, we can see this as showing that the corruption goes
+      to the highest ranks of Earthforce, and that Sheridan and
+      company (cf.
+      "All Alone in the Night")
+      certainly will have their hands full in trying to put a stop to
+      the conspiracy.
+
+  
    • Now that Ivanova has been scanned -- deep scanned, in fact -- it
+      would seem to put rest to the notion that she might be a
+      telepath trying to avoid detection from Psi Corps.  On the other
+      hand, if we take into account some of what we have learned about
+      Winters in
+      "Voices" and
+      "A Race Through Dark Places",
+      it is possible that she and Ivanova have developed a close bond
+      of shared secrets; consequently, even if Winters discovered that
+      Ivanova was a telepath, it might not get reported to Psi Corps.
+
+  
    • Things between Earth and Mars seem to be getting steadily worse.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    • According to Lois Tilton on GEnie, the
+       cover art was a sample submitted by the artist when Dell was
+       looking for someone to draw the novel covers; they decided not
+       to waste money having four covers drawn up and just use it on
+       an actual book.  Accusations got stuck with it.
+
+
    
+
+
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+
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+
    
+Written by John Vornholt
    
+Released: September 13, 1995
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22059-9 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0654-0 (UK)
    
+Setting: Early 2259, before
+"The Coming of Shadows"
+
+
+
    
+
+
    
+The past catches up with the powerful Narn Ambassador and Garibaldi and Ivanova
+are sent to track down a killer.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Running from Death
    
+Having narrowly escaped assassination, proud, ruthless Ambassador G'Kar
+knows he is marked for death.  A rival family from his Narn homeland has
+taken the Shon'Kar, or Blood Oath, to kill him.  And when a fiery
+explosion destroys his transport ship, it looks as if they have succeeded...
+
+
    Blood Oath
    
+Security Chief Garibaldi and Commander Susan Ivanova join an enraged
+Na'Toth, G'Kar's aide, in a search for the culprits.  Journeying to the
+Narn Homeworld, they find themselves enveloped by a chilling alien
+environment.  And in this place of deadly traps and cruel disguises, the
+Narn Blood Oath is turned against them all.  Now as strangers on the
+strange Narn planet, the best and brightest members of Babylon 5 are
+hunted by an enemy only a daring deception can stop!
+
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+The book opens in Ambassador G'Kar's quarters where he holds in his hand 
+an untraceable data crystal -- its identity patterns had been removed.
+Upon slipping it into the viewer, an attractive female Narn appears and 
+begins talking:
+
    
+Hello G'Kar.
+Do you recognize me? I am Mi'Ra, daughter of Du'Rog.  I speak for my 
+mother, Ka'Het, and my brother, T'Kog.  We are all that is left of the 
+family you destroyed.  Yes, G'Kar, we are beaten, and our titles and 
+lands are gone.  Our father is dead, his name disgraced, and his attempt 
+to kill from the grave was a failure
+(The Parliament of Dreams.) To our shame, 
+every assassin has failed.
+
    
+You think you are safe within the Third Circle and the Earth space 
+station. You are wrong!  The widow, the son, and the daughter of Du'Rog 
+have sworn the Shon'Kar against you! No more will you face inept 
+assassins -- but the very family you destroyed!  The Prophets willing, by 
+my own hands you will die.  From this day forward, the purpose of our 
+V'Tar is to kill you.  Let this mark show my will.
+
    
+
+Mi'Ra marks her forehead by cutting it with a knife and the 
+viewscreen fades to black. G'Kar realizes how serious undertaking the 
+Blood Oath is and that the Narn Government will be of no assistance to him
+and that further the aliens would not be either.  He decides to leave the 
+station for homeworld and deal with Mi'Ra himself.
+
+
     G'Kar's aide, Na'Toth, points out that the cruiser K'sha Na'vas is 
+arriving tomorrow and could get him home in half the time of his personal 
+transport.  Nonetheless he insists on leaving immediately without 
+explaining why.  Ivanova and Sheridan notice the hasty 
+departure but ultimately let him leave after a brief conversation.  
+Shortly before the ship enters the jump point, a reactor breach begins 
+and the ship explodes.
+A Starfury sent to find remains or G'Kar finds absolutely no 
+remains.  G'Kar is pronounced dead.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth is surprised 
+by the appearance of Earth Alliance officers informing her of G'Kar's 
+sudden demise.  Na'Toth assumes that it was Londo Mollari, 
+and pledges to swear a Blood Oath against the killer.  
+Garibaldi confiscates the files and data crystals from G'Kar's desk as 
+evidence.  Departures from the station are stopped and Garibaldi is 
+assigned to track down the killer since the debris pattern is deemed to 
+have been consistent with a bomb.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth proceeds to attack Londo at knifepoint and is 
+interrupted by Garibaldi who convinces her, at least for the moment, to back 
+down.  Londo contacts Vir and gives him some orders.  Garibaldi warns Na'Toth
+off Londo and asks her about the unlabeled data crystal.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth is not entirely surprised by the contents, though Sheridan and 
+Garibaldi are.  They decide to search the station 
+for the killer.  They do however concede that they can not stop Na'Toth from 
+leaving the station because of diplomatic immunity.
+
+
    
+Sheridan decides to send Garibaldi and Ivanova as the Earth Alliance 
+delegates to the memorial service on the Narn homeworld.  Ivanova points 
+out that both winter coats and bathing suits will be in order on the Narn 
+world because of the drastic temperature extremes on the surface.
+
+
    
+G'Kar dreams about the past.  He is in
+the Homeworld city of Ka'Pul when assassins make a first attempt on his life
+(the second was on Babylon 5, in
+"The Parliament of Dreams.")
+Both attempts were brought on by the manner in which he disgraced 
+the Du'Rog family to enter the Third Circle.
+When he awakes G'Kar is being asked to pipe down by Pa'Nar, G'Kar's 
+operative down below.
+
+
    
+Security, meanwhile is searching Down Below and comes to Pa'Nar's 
+quarters.  Pa'Nar initially tries to claim that G'Kar is his cousin Ha'Mok,
+but is forced to knock the security guard out and let 
+G'Kar escape in a disguise consisting of contact lenses and a mask which 
+changes his spots.  G'Kar escapes to the Narn ship K'sha Na'vas, whose
+captain is an old friend.  The K'sha 
+Na'vas is also the ship that will be taking the delegation from Babylon 5 
+to the Narn homeworld.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi contacts Talia Winters, the station's resident telepath, 
+upon hearing the news of the downed security guard.  He requests that she 
+scan the officer, Leffler, when he regains consciousness.
+
+
    
+The captain of the K'sha Na'vas, Vin'Tok, reviews the materials 
+concerning G'Kar's death and tries to explain to Sheridan that it
+should be considered "justifiable homicide."  Sheridan 
+disagrees, but realizes that nothing will be done to the Du'Rog family 
+back on the Homeworld.  The Narn delegation leaves to attend the memorial
+service.
+Sheridan explains to Ivanova and Garibaldi that they are forbidden to 
+take weapons with them, but that they will have diplomatic immunity.
+
+
    
+Sheridan speaks first at the memorial.  Londo follows, expressing his
+regrets in a very Centauri fashion: "They 
+will send another, but he will not be G'Kar... ...will not yell or
+sputter as zestfully as G'Kar."  Delenn takes the stage and expresses
+the outrage and pain the people at the service feel about the 
+sudden loss of a good man.  She speaks of the unity and growth of 
+community that has come to be on Babylon 5. Finally, a Minbari 
+candlelight procession commences.
+
+
    
+As Ivanova is about to depart, Londo turns and asks her if
+she is familiar with the Early American author Mark Twain, making the 
+point that if she was she would be able to "[e]njoy this more."
+Garibaldi meanwhile encounters Al Vernon, a human who was married to a 
+Narn and more recently has been trading with the Centauri.  Al manages to 
+insinuate himself into the diplomatic party and Sheridan agrees to his
+presence.
+
+
    
+Back on the Homeworld, Mi'Ra, living with her family in pitiful conditions,
+has an encounter with a member of 
+the Thenta Ma'Kur, which she has been "slandering" liberally for their two 
+failures.  They take credit for the death of G'Kar and warn of the 
+Earthforce delegations, suggesting that she keep an eye on them.
+
+
    
+When Garibaldi arrives with Al Vernon, Al quickly introduces himself to 
+Ivanova and the other Narns.  Vin'Tok recognizes Al's name and mentions 
+that he was presumed dead.  Vernon replies, "Well, as the great 
+Mark Twain said, the reports of my death were greatly exaggerated!"
+Ivanova notes the repeated mention of Twain, while Garibaldi ponders the 
+need for three warships to escort them to the homeworld.
+
+
    
+When Leffler comes to, a scan by Talia reveals the name Pa'Nar.  
+Pa'Nar is quickly arrested and questioned about the mysterious Ha'Mok.
+They escort Ms. Winters in to scan him directly and she begins 
+the scan asking Sheridan and Welch, Garibaldi's assistant, to direct the 
+questioning.  The questioning leads Sheridan to realize that G'Kar is 
+probably still alive.
+
+
    
+On their trip to the homeworld, Garibaldi and Ivanova soon become aware 
+of a guarded door.  Na'Toth takes 
+the direct approach for them and G'Kar is discovered.  He explains the 
+situation and that he plans to kill Mi'Ra to end the matter once and for 
+all. He explains his plan to use a disguise and go down on the planet 
+when they arrive at the homeworld.
+
+
    
+The rest of the trip is uneventful with no more interactions with 
+G'Kar.  A shuttle transports them to Hekba City, G'Kar's home,
+and Na'Toth explains that when ready to 
+depart she will summon another shuttle.  The heat immediately affects the 
+humans in the party -- except Al, who seems to find the temperature pleasant.
+At the memorial Garibaldi spots Mi'Ra and tries to warn her off visiting 
+Babylon 5 since the Shon'Kar would not be recognized there.
+
+
    
+Afterwards, G'Kar decides to visit his wife, Da'Kal.  He asks the humans to 
+introduce themselves and broach the subject of G'Kar being alive with 
+her.  After she dismisses a lover and a servant, Ivanova and Garibaldi introduce
+themselves.   Da'Kal mentions that G'Kar spoke well of them; she seems
+genuinely pleased by their arrival to honor him.  The news of G'Kar being 
+alive pleases her and G'Kar is invited in.  The rest of the party goes to 
+a tavern to wait for his return.
+
+
    
+G'Kar and Da'Kal make love.  Afterwards, Da'Kal sends money to the Du'Rog 
+family in an attempt to make amends.
+
+
    
+Some time later, in the Du'Rog house, Mi'Ra finds her brother and mother
+rejoicing over their newfound wealth.  Mi'Ra is disgusted and wishes that she 
+had been able to kill G'Kar herself.  She resolves to ask the
+Earthers some questions when they arrive.  She contemplates going 
+somewhere off the Narn homeworld, perhaps to Babylon 5, where their past 
+wouldn't be known and the money might go further.
+
+
    
+After starting to freeze from the cold, Al finds Ivanova and Garibaldi
+somewhere to spend the night.  First, the three visit Ra'Pak, a member of the
+Second Circle of the Kha'Ri.  Na'Toth returns to
+find G'Kar, just in time to prevent him from getting in trouble with the
+guards for being out late at night.  (His disguise 
+suggested that he was someone of a lower class who should not be in the 
+main city after hours -- the workers return to the slums at night.)
+They both also discover that the ship has left without them on a most 
+urgent mission.
+
+
    
+Back at the inn Garibaldi uses the netlink to contact Babylon 5.  
+During the conversation -- which is listened in upon -- the suggestion 
+that G'Kar isn't dead comes up.  Ra'Pak betrays G'Kar to Mi'Ra, perhaps 
+out of jealousy but perhaps also for something he did to her and her 
+family.  Mi'Ra begins to use the money to hire a force to take out the 
+humans and G'Kar when they arrive the next day.
+
+
    
+When the humans arrive at the Du'Rog place the next day, they admit that 
+G'Kar is alive and explain what will happen if Mi'Ra
+attempts to show up on the station to kill him.  Na'Toth and Mi'Ra's mother 
+begin negotiating about monetary settlement to end the Shon'Kar.  When the
+visitors
+try to leave, Mi'Ra sets her hired guns upon them.  A desperate escape into 
+the catacombs under the slums saves them -- just barely.  A small child 
+who initially seemed to help them ends up poisoning their water and leaves 
+doing back flips saying, "Compliments of the Thenta Ma'Kur."  The poison 
+doesn't affect the humans as badly, and they manage to find an antidote 
+and get it to G'Kar and Na'Toth in time.
+
+
    
+Mi'Ra shows up again, alone.  Al Vernon volunteers a data crystal 
+revealing the truth about the Du'Rog family in return for letting G'Kar 
+live and disavowing the Shon'Kar.  Mi'Ra agrees and that resolves the 
+matter.  During the course of the discussion it becomes apparent that 
+Londo Mollari, the Centauri Ambassador, had sent Al and saved his life.
+
+
    
+Upon returning back to the station and things settling down, G'Kar goes and 
+thanks the Centauri, although he can't quite understand why.
+Londo explains that it is a famous Centauri literary device and that he 
+admired G'Kar's cunning, calling it "as devious as a Centauri..."
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
    
+This book does not leave very many unanswered questions although it does 
+suggest new dimensions to the relationship between Londo Mollari and G'Kar.
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
    
+This book brings the events of two episodes, Parliament of Dreams and 
+Deathwalker, together nicely.  It explains the assassination attempt in light
+of the Shon'Kar ritual along with the tensions in Narn society between 
+more "modern" practices and ancient traditions.
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    •  The data crystals used by the computers of many races are grown on 
+Minbar.  This makes some sense in light of the number of crystal and 
+crystalline devices we have seen the Minbari use.
+
+
    •  Confiscating the materials from G'Kar's desk seems to be a breach of 
+diplomatic immunity, although perhaps we are to understand that these were 
+personal effects and not official ones.
+
+
    •  Do Earth Alliance personnel sometimes have to submit to telepathic 
+scans?  This is not made clear here and has not really been definitively 
+resolved in the show either.
+
+
    •  I have left out some of G'Kar's emotional self-examination from 
+this summary since it is not central to the plot.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Narn ship had artificial gravity.
      
+	Urk...that must've slipped past me (which reminds me,
+	I'd better get back to  finishing proofing the next novel).
+	And yes, we'll see more of the Narn  homeworld as we go along.
+
+   
    •  How accurate is the Narn terminology?
      
+	It's accurate in some places, not in others; details slip
+	sometimes.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Written by Erik Oliver
+<oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>.
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+Novel: "Blood Oath"
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+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
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+Notes -
+Author
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+Written by John Vornholt
    
+Released: September 13, 1995
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22059-9 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0654-0 (UK)
    
+Setting: Early 2259, before
+"The Coming of Shadows"
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+The past catches up with the powerful Narn Ambassador and Garibaldi and Ivanova
+are sent to track down a killer.
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+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
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    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Running from Death
    
+Having narrowly escaped assassination, proud, ruthless Ambassador G'Kar
+knows he is marked for death.  A rival family from his Narn homeland has
+taken the Shon'Kar, or Blood Oath, to kill him.  And when a fiery
+explosion destroys his transport ship, it looks as if they have succeeded...
+
+
    Blood Oath
    
+Security Chief Garibaldi and Commander Susan Ivanova join an enraged
+Na'Toth, G'Kar's aide, in a search for the culprits.  Journeying to the
+Narn Homeworld, they find themselves enveloped by a chilling alien
+environment.  And in this place of deadly traps and cruel disguises, the
+Narn Blood Oath is turned against them all.  Now as strangers on the
+strange Narn planet, the best and brightest members of Babylon 5 are
+hunted by an enemy only a daring deception can stop!
+
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+The book opens in Ambassador G'Kar's quarters where he holds in his hand 
+an untraceable data crystal -- its identity patterns had been removed.
+Upon slipping it into the viewer, an attractive female Narn appears and 
+begins talking:
+
    
+Hello G'Kar.
+Do you recognize me? I am Mi'Ra, daughter of Du'Rog.  I speak for my 
+mother, Ka'Het, and my brother, T'Kog.  We are all that is left of the 
+family you destroyed.  Yes, G'Kar, we are beaten, and our titles and 
+lands are gone.  Our father is dead, his name disgraced, and his attempt 
+to kill from the grave was a failure
+(The Parliament of Dreams.) To our shame, 
+every assassin has failed.
+
    
+You think you are safe within the Third Circle and the Earth space 
+station. You are wrong!  The widow, the son, and the daughter of Du'Rog 
+have sworn the Shon'Kar against you! No more will you face inept 
+assassins -- but the very family you destroyed!  The Prophets willing, by 
+my own hands you will die.  From this day forward, the purpose of our 
+V'Tar is to kill you.  Let this mark show my will.
+
    
+
+Mi'Ra marks her forehead by cutting it with a knife and the 
+viewscreen fades to black. G'Kar realizes how serious undertaking the 
+Blood Oath is and that the Narn Government will be of no assistance to him
+and that further the aliens would not be either.  He decides to leave the 
+station for homeworld and deal with Mi'Ra himself.
+
+
     G'Kar's aide, Na'Toth, points out that the cruiser K'sha Na'vas is 
+arriving tomorrow and could get him home in half the time of his personal 
+transport.  Nonetheless he insists on leaving immediately without 
+explaining why.  Ivanova and Sheridan notice the hasty 
+departure but ultimately let him leave after a brief conversation.  
+Shortly before the ship enters the jump point, a reactor breach begins 
+and the ship explodes.
+A Starfury sent to find remains or G'Kar finds absolutely no 
+remains.  G'Kar is pronounced dead.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth is surprised 
+by the appearance of Earth Alliance officers informing her of G'Kar's 
+sudden demise.  Na'Toth assumes that it was Londo Mollari, 
+and pledges to swear a Blood Oath against the killer.  
+Garibaldi confiscates the files and data crystals from G'Kar's desk as 
+evidence.  Departures from the station are stopped and Garibaldi is 
+assigned to track down the killer since the debris pattern is deemed to 
+have been consistent with a bomb.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth proceeds to attack Londo at knifepoint and is 
+interrupted by Garibaldi who convinces her, at least for the moment, to back 
+down.  Londo contacts Vir and gives him some orders.  Garibaldi warns Na'Toth
+off Londo and asks her about the unlabeled data crystal.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth is not entirely surprised by the contents, though Sheridan and 
+Garibaldi are.  They decide to search the station 
+for the killer.  They do however concede that they can not stop Na'Toth from 
+leaving the station because of diplomatic immunity.
+
+
    
+Sheridan decides to send Garibaldi and Ivanova as the Earth Alliance 
+delegates to the memorial service on the Narn homeworld.  Ivanova points 
+out that both winter coats and bathing suits will be in order on the Narn 
+world because of the drastic temperature extremes on the surface.
+
+
    
+G'Kar dreams about the past.  He is in
+the Homeworld city of Ka'Pul when assassins make a first attempt on his life
+(the second was on Babylon 5, in
+"The Parliament of Dreams.")
+Both attempts were brought on by the manner in which he disgraced 
+the Du'Rog family to enter the Third Circle.
+When he awakes G'Kar is being asked to pipe down by Pa'Nar, G'Kar's 
+operative down below.
+
+
    
+Security, meanwhile is searching Down Below and comes to Pa'Nar's 
+quarters.  Pa'Nar initially tries to claim that G'Kar is his cousin Ha'Mok,
+but is forced to knock the security guard out and let 
+G'Kar escape in a disguise consisting of contact lenses and a mask which 
+changes his spots.  G'Kar escapes to the Narn ship K'sha Na'vas, whose
+captain is an old friend.  The K'sha 
+Na'vas is also the ship that will be taking the delegation from Babylon 5 
+to the Narn homeworld.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi contacts Talia Winters, the station's resident telepath, 
+upon hearing the news of the downed security guard.  He requests that she 
+scan the officer, Leffler, when he regains consciousness.
+
+
    
+The captain of the K'sha Na'vas, Vin'Tok, reviews the materials 
+concerning G'Kar's death and tries to explain to Sheridan that it
+should be considered "justifiable homicide."  Sheridan 
+disagrees, but realizes that nothing will be done to the Du'Rog family 
+back on the Homeworld.  The Narn delegation leaves to attend the memorial
+service.
+Sheridan explains to Ivanova and Garibaldi that they are forbidden to 
+take weapons with them, but that they will have diplomatic immunity.
+
+
    
+Sheridan speaks first at the memorial.  Londo follows, expressing his
+regrets in a very Centauri fashion: "They 
+will send another, but he will not be G'Kar... ...will not yell or
+sputter as zestfully as G'Kar."  Delenn takes the stage and expresses
+the outrage and pain the people at the service feel about the 
+sudden loss of a good man.  She speaks of the unity and growth of 
+community that has come to be on Babylon 5. Finally, a Minbari 
+candlelight procession commences.
+
+
    
+As Ivanova is about to depart, Londo turns and asks her if
+she is familiar with the Early American author Mark Twain, making the 
+point that if she was she would be able to "[e]njoy this more."
+Garibaldi meanwhile encounters Al Vernon, a human who was married to a 
+Narn and more recently has been trading with the Centauri.  Al manages to 
+insinuate himself into the diplomatic party and Sheridan agrees to his
+presence.
+
+
    
+Back on the Homeworld, Mi'Ra, living with her family in pitiful conditions,
+has an encounter with a member of 
+the Thenta Ma'Kur, which she has been "slandering" liberally for their two 
+failures.  They take credit for the death of G'Kar and warn of the 
+Earthforce delegations, suggesting that she keep an eye on them.
+
+
    
+When Garibaldi arrives with Al Vernon, Al quickly introduces himself to 
+Ivanova and the other Narns.  Vin'Tok recognizes Al's name and mentions 
+that he was presumed dead.  Vernon replies, "Well, as the great 
+Mark Twain said, the reports of my death were greatly exaggerated!"
+Ivanova notes the repeated mention of Twain, while Garibaldi ponders the 
+need for three warships to escort them to the homeworld.
+
+
    
+When Leffler comes to, a scan by Talia reveals the name Pa'Nar.  
+Pa'Nar is quickly arrested and questioned about the mysterious Ha'Mok.
+They escort Ms. Winters in to scan him directly and she begins 
+the scan asking Sheridan and Welch, Garibaldi's assistant, to direct the 
+questioning.  The questioning leads Sheridan to realize that G'Kar is 
+probably still alive.
+
+
    
+On their trip to the homeworld, Garibaldi and Ivanova soon become aware 
+of a guarded door.  Na'Toth takes 
+the direct approach for them and G'Kar is discovered.  He explains the 
+situation and that he plans to kill Mi'Ra to end the matter once and for 
+all. He explains his plan to use a disguise and go down on the planet 
+when they arrive at the homeworld.
+
+
    
+The rest of the trip is uneventful with no more interactions with 
+G'Kar.  A shuttle transports them to Hekba City, G'Kar's home,
+and Na'Toth explains that when ready to 
+depart she will summon another shuttle.  The heat immediately affects the 
+humans in the party -- except Al, who seems to find the temperature pleasant.
+At the memorial Garibaldi spots Mi'Ra and tries to warn her off visiting 
+Babylon 5 since the Shon'Kar would not be recognized there.
+
+
    
+Afterwards, G'Kar decides to visit his wife, Da'Kal.  He asks the humans to 
+introduce themselves and broach the subject of G'Kar being alive with 
+her.  After she dismisses a lover and a servant, Ivanova and Garibaldi introduce
+themselves.   Da'Kal mentions that G'Kar spoke well of them; she seems
+genuinely pleased by their arrival to honor him.  The news of G'Kar being 
+alive pleases her and G'Kar is invited in.  The rest of the party goes to 
+a tavern to wait for his return.
+
+
    
+G'Kar and Da'Kal make love.  Afterwards, Da'Kal sends money to the Du'Rog 
+family in an attempt to make amends.
+
+
    
+Some time later, in the Du'Rog house, Mi'Ra finds her brother and mother
+rejoicing over their newfound wealth.  Mi'Ra is disgusted and wishes that she 
+had been able to kill G'Kar herself.  She resolves to ask the
+Earthers some questions when they arrive.  She contemplates going 
+somewhere off the Narn homeworld, perhaps to Babylon 5, where their past 
+wouldn't be known and the money might go further.
+
+
    
+After starting to freeze from the cold, Al finds Ivanova and Garibaldi
+somewhere to spend the night.  First, the three visit Ra'Pak, a member of the
+Second Circle of the Kha'Ri.  Na'Toth returns to
+find G'Kar, just in time to prevent him from getting in trouble with the
+guards for being out late at night.  (His disguise 
+suggested that he was someone of a lower class who should not be in the 
+main city after hours -- the workers return to the slums at night.)
+They both also discover that the ship has left without them on a most 
+urgent mission.
+
+
    
+Back at the inn Garibaldi uses the netlink to contact Babylon 5.  
+During the conversation -- which is listened in upon -- the suggestion 
+that G'Kar isn't dead comes up.  Ra'Pak betrays G'Kar to Mi'Ra, perhaps 
+out of jealousy but perhaps also for something he did to her and her 
+family.  Mi'Ra begins to use the money to hire a force to take out the 
+humans and G'Kar when they arrive the next day.
+
+
    
+When the humans arrive at the Du'Rog place the next day, they admit that 
+G'Kar is alive and explain what will happen if Mi'Ra
+attempts to show up on the station to kill him.  Na'Toth and Mi'Ra's mother 
+begin negotiating about monetary settlement to end the Shon'Kar.  When the
+visitors
+try to leave, Mi'Ra sets her hired guns upon them.  A desperate escape into 
+the catacombs under the slums saves them -- just barely.  A small child 
+who initially seemed to help them ends up poisoning their water and leaves 
+doing back flips saying, "Compliments of the Thenta Ma'Kur."  The poison 
+doesn't affect the humans as badly, and they manage to find an antidote 
+and get it to G'Kar and Na'Toth in time.
+
+
    
+Mi'Ra shows up again, alone.  Al Vernon volunteers a data crystal 
+revealing the truth about the Du'Rog family in return for letting G'Kar 
+live and disavowing the Shon'Kar.  Mi'Ra agrees and that resolves the 
+matter.  During the course of the discussion it becomes apparent that 
+Londo Mollari, the Centauri Ambassador, had sent Al and saved his life.
+
+
    
+Upon returning back to the station and things settling down, G'Kar goes and 
+thanks the Centauri, although he can't quite understand why.
+Londo explains that it is a famous Centauri literary device and that he 
+admired G'Kar's cunning, calling it "as devious as a Centauri..."
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
    
+This book does not leave very many unanswered questions although it does 
+suggest new dimensions to the relationship between Londo Mollari and G'Kar.
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
    
+This book brings the events of two episodes, Parliament of Dreams and 
+Deathwalker, together nicely.  It explains the assassination attempt in light
+of the Shon'Kar ritual along with the tensions in Narn society between 
+more "modern" practices and ancient traditions.
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
    •  The data crystals used by the computers of many races are grown on 
+Minbar.  This makes some sense in light of the number of crystal and 
+crystalline devices we have seen the Minbari use.
+
+
    •  Confiscating the materials from G'Kar's desk seems to be a breach of 
+diplomatic immunity, although perhaps we are to understand that these were 
+personal effects and not official ones.
+
+
    •  Do Earth Alliance personnel sometimes have to submit to telepathic 
+scans?  This is not made clear here and has not really been definitively 
+resolved in the show either.
+
+
    •  I have left out some of G'Kar's emotional self-examination from 
+this summary since it is not central to the plot.
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Narn ship had artificial gravity.
      
+	Urk...that must've slipped past me (which reminds me,
+	I'd better get back to  finishing proofing the next novel).
+	And yes, we'll see more of the Narn  homeworld as we go along.
+
+   
    •  How accurate is the Narn terminology?
      
+	It's accurate in some places, not in others; details slip
+	sometimes.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Written by Erik Oliver
+<oliver@dolphin.upenn.edu>.
+
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+Written by Jim Mortimore
    
+Release date: January 10, 1996
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22229-X
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0153-0
    
+Setting: Late 2259, between
+"Comes the Inquisitor"
+and
+"The Fall of Night"
+
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan is torn between duty and defiance when he's ordered to execute
+an innocent alien.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
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+
    
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+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Death Before Dishonor
    
+
+The Tuchanq, a newly discovered humanoid species, can be an
+important ally for the Earth Alliance commanded by President
+Clark.  So Captain John Sheridan welcomes their ambassadors
+to Babylon 5, not knowing that among them is D'Arc - a mass
+murderer on the run hoping to escape into the unsuspecting
+worlds of the galaxy....
+
+
    Clark's Law
    
+
+But the unforgiving rules of space have a different fate in store
+for D'Arc.  A terrifying accident wipes away D'Arc's identity and
+his evil... leaving behind a loving, innocent being with a child's
+mind - a being that must die because President Clark, a leader
+with his own secret agenda, orders his immediate execution.
+Now, as Babylon 5 physician Dr. Stephen Franklin begs Sheridan
+to defy Clark's law, the captain faces the greatest test of his
+command - and a far greater test of his manhood, which may
+end his career in shame or become a shining reminder of what
+being human truly means....
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Prologue: Lies
    
+
    
+"Earth: First Lie": Opening in November of 2242, we see the Captain of 
+the 
+Earth vessel which fired on the Minbari lie to the president and then 
+Vice 
+President Santiago about who 
+fired first.  Captain Ferdinand claims it is the Minbari who fired first.
+
    
+
+
    
+"Earth: Second Lie": The scene opens on now President Clark in October of 
+2258 (See Notes.)  Clark has been plotting to reinstate 
+the death penalty to regain popularity among humans by maintaining 
+control 
+and re-initiating capital punishment.  Clark's internal thoughts also 
+turn to 
+the problems with Earth's colonies without which Earth could not survive.
+The senate is tied on the vote about re-instating capital punishment.  
+Clark lies when the speaker of the senate asks if it will be equally 
+applied to both humans and aliens.  Answering yes, the speaker of the 
+senate agrees to pass the law.
+
    
+
+
    
+"Tuchanq: First Lie": The scene is inside a Narn battle cruiser as G'Kar 
+drops Centauri plasma generators on Tuchanq.  After a few days G'Kar 
+lands 
+the Narn cruiser offering the Tuchanq assistance in recovering from the 
+devastation caused by the "Centauri."
+
    
+
+
    
+"Tuchanq: Second Lie": October 2259, we see D'Arc of the Tuchanq killing 
+the last of the Narn on Tuchanq and then boarding a Narn cruiser to head 
+for Babylon 5 in search of assistance.  Tuchanq has suffered tremendous 
+environmental damage from years of Narn enslavement.
+
    
+
+
    Part One: Among Shadows (December 12, 2259, Day)
    
+
    
+The story opens on Sheridan eating breakfast and trying to cope with the 
+mounds of paperwork that he needs to deal with as well as his own 
+discomfort in his role as commander of Babylon 5.  His mind turns the 
+phrase "If you go to Z'ha'dum you will die" over and over 
+again 
+as he contemplates life.  (See In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+
    
+
+
    
+Ivanova interrupts his inner turmoil in order to be briefed on the arrival 
+of the Tuchanq delegation.  She remarks on the unusual fact that they are 
+quadrupeds and after some jokes about the paper horizon and stations 
+vanishing, he leaves her in charge of the matter.  The problem for the 
+Tuchanq is that their world's ecosystem has been destroyed by the Narn 
+occupation. 
+
    
+
+
    
+"The Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps" Ivanova is still 
+plagued with thoughts about her friendship with Talia and hears her 
+whispered words, more than just the touch of bodies, the touch of minds.
+After shaking herself awake from her nap, she struggles to gain inner 
+peace 
+as the core shuttle heads towards arrivals.  The inner struggle relates 
+to 
+her continued denial of her telepathic abilities and the need to hide it 
+to avoid the Psi Cops.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Arriving in the customs area, things were already turning ugly.  The 
+Tuchanq were engaged in a bizarre ritual involving leaving blood on the 
+floor of the arrival area.  G'Kar had helped program a translator for 
+Ivanova, but she turned out not to need it because they spoke System 
+English.  The ritual then involved cutting their throats and bleeding 
+because their customs require returning something to the land.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Anti-alien sentiments begin to break out and Ivanova realizes the 
+situation 
+is quickly escalating out of control.
+Then a Narn spots a Narn skull attached to one of the Tuchanq and 
+fighting 
+begins in earnest.  Ivanova is finally forced to stun the delegation with 
+her PPG to prevent further violence.  Unfortunately the Tuchanq do not 
+sleep, at least not as humans understand the concept, and by making them 
+stop singing their songs of being and journey through the stunner, they 
+are 
+now all dead (insane.)
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The scene shifts back to Sheridan's office where G'Kar is imploring 
+Sheridan to get the Tuchanq off the station and to make amends for the 
+sole death from the incident -- a Narn.  Sheridan refuses his request and 
+G'Kar leaves in disgust.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+D'Arc awakens surround by Medlab personnel and quickly realizes that her 
+Song of Being is 
+broken.  She attacks one of the Medlab people with a knife which she 
+withdraws from some sort of body pouch and flees with her Song of Journey 
+running strong.  In order to be whole again, she would need to steal a 
+new 
+Song of Being from someone else.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Londo Mollari meanwhile begins trying to jockey for a chance to meet with 
+the Tuchanq.  His conscience is still wracked with images of the 
+bombardment of the Narn homeworld and their destruction of their 
+civilization.
+Mollari meets up with Garibaldi who explains that the Tuchanq are 
+"killing" each other to cure the insanity.  Once the remaining sane 
+Tuchanq 
+break the Song of Journey they will be pronounced dead and be reborn with 
+new Songs of Being and Journey.  nu'Viel (their leader/mother) explains 
+to 
+Ivanova the urgency of catching D'Arc to which Ivanova points out the 
+size 
+of the station and their limited resources.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Brian Grond would become D'Arc's target.  He would not realize this yet, 
+but his taste for perverse (See Notes)
+sexual activities with aliens along 
+with his need to record them would be his downfall.  Grond was hoping to 
+have an especially interesting encounter with Belladona with whom he had 
+already had several encounters.  Down Below he went to where he expected 
+to 
+find Belladona but she was not there.  Then his eyes met those of D'Arc.  
+He makes an offer to give her cash if she will take him to Belladona.
+D'Arc expresses her desire to murder him with a confusing discussion of 
+the 
+need to take his Song of Being, Grond merely replies yes and he heads off 
+towards his death.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The PPG he is carrying does not save him when in the middle of a cargo 
+hold 
+D'Arc pulls the knife from her pouch and kills him taking his Song of 
+Being.  In the process, a cargo loader impacts a crane in the cargo area 
+leading to the possibility of the crane impacting the station's structure 
+and causing a rupture.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Franklin and other Medlab personnel head out to rescue the trapped crane 
+operator.  He goes out suited up because the area has become 
+depressurized.  Further he will have to amputate the crane operator's leg 
+inside the suit.  The timing is close to the wire and the crane does in 
+fact impact the station but Franklin and the crane operator survive, 
+barely.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Lyta Alexander appears briefly as we see her thoughts turning to the need 
+to stay out of site and her desire to be able to visit the Vorlon 
+homeworld.  Garibaldi interrupts her reverie and asks for a telepathic 
+favor 
+involving Tuchanq.  In a moment that recalls Lyta's first role in the 
+pilot, she enters the Isolab to scan Tuchanq. Lyta explains that D'Arc is 
+like a newborn child with no memory at any level of the events 
+that resulted in Grond's death.
+As Lyta leaves Medlab she starts to hear the song, Kosh's song and 
+realizes 
+that nothing separates her from the Vorlons except some empty space -- 
+and 
+she does know how to deal with that.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+This section of the book ends with a Gold Channel transmission from Earth 
+ordering 
+Sheridan to hold D'Arc for the death penalty.
+
    
+
+
    Part Two: Hunting Shadows (December 12, 2259, Night)
    
+
+
+
    
+This section opens on Jacintha Grond's arrival at Babylon 5 customs. (See 
+Notes).  She is surprised to be greeted by the ubiquitous 
+press, specifically Debora Devereau of Channel 57 News. (See Notes).  Grond is bombarded with a barrage of questions 
+about how she feels on a variety of issues -- "What will you do if they 
+won't release his body?".  A security officer finally takes her hand and 
+leads her away from the media frenzy.
+
    
+
+
    
+Mollari meanwhile is scheming to provide assistance to the Tuchanq.  With 
+the help of Vir he manages to arrange a meeting with nu'Viel and her 
+chorus.  Exploiting their hatred of the Narn, Mollari is able to extend a 
+credible offer of assistance.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan gets a chance to meet with Jacintha Grond who is rather confused 
+and upset at this point.  He explains to her that he can not release the 
+body because it is needed for evidence and that she will have to 
+basically 
+deal with the situation.  She explains that she intends to be on a return 
+shuttle in 16 hours.  Grond also takes her anger out on Sheridan 
+explaining that she holds him personally responsible for the situation.  
+Sheridan's inner frustration and turmoil is evident but he merely invites 
+her to remain on the station and explains he will do the best he can.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Franklin's overuse of stims is starting to have a noticeable effect.  His 
+first chance of sleep is interrupted by the arrival of the executioner.  
+The 
+executioner wants to use the life giver machine,
+Quality of Mercy to perform the 
+execution and demands it from Franklin.  Franklin resists and the 
+executioner summons Garibaldi who seems to have been waiting for this 
+eventuality.  Garibaldi recommends that Franklin comply by providing some 
+bits and pieces to fool the executioner in the meanwhile.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan approaches Delenn in search of assistance and guidance.  He is 
+disappointed to realize that Delenn has already been approached by Earth 
+Gov and has reluctantly agreed not to interfere.  The reason she explains 
+has to do with her post-chrysalis state and the likelihood that the Grey 
+Council would overrule her. 
+
    
+
+
+
    
+On a core shuttle, G'Kar is attacked by Tuchanqs.  G'Kar survives with 
+only minor injuries and a closer examination reveals that someone has 
+equipped humans with changeling nets to make them look like Tuchanqs.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi was already plenty busy, he had found the executioner bludgeoned 
+to death in the Mosque where he had gone to pray while Franklin produced 
+the life-giver machine.  A decision is made to pay n'Grath a visit to 
+find 
+out where the changeling nets came from.
+
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi has his teams scan red sector so that he can learn where n'Grath 
+is to meet him.  He stops in on Ivanova and they end up fighting about 
+the 
+upcoming execution.  Ivanova fairly clearly against and Garibaldi somewhat 
+indifferent to pro-execution.  Their attempts to communicate are 
+interrupted 
+by Garibaldi's comm indicating that n'Grath has been located.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar and Vir encounter each other again and Vir is clearly still trying 
+to 
+figure out how to help G'Kar and the Narns.  There last meeting had been 
+several months back and had not gone well.  G'Kar asks Vir whether or not 
+Mollari had him attacked and G'Kar 
+nonetheless hounds him further and leaves Vir feeling very uncomfortable. 
+ 
+Vir of course is aware that Mollari did in fact plot the attack. (See Notes.)
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Vir goes and tells Londo about his meeting with G'Kar and accuses Londo 
+directly.  Mollari refuses to answer the question, and provides no useful 
+information about whether or not he had G'Kar attacked.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi arrives in Red Sector too late to for n'Grath.  The creature is 
+bleeding and he calls for an emergency team to assist the alien.  n'Grath 
+refuses to divulge information providing only a name "Askari" and an 
+admission that he did sell the nets.  Garibaldi turns and catches the 
+motion of a gun; instead he gets a blast in his face of a PPG.  The 
+faceplate of his suit ruptured.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar decides that he will handle Askari, a Centauri himself.  
+Approaching 
+Askari he grabs him and demands to know who hired him.  Askari admits it 
+was Mollari.  G'Kar then leaves him for dead from the dagger wound.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Violence begins to erupt on the station as protesters for and primarily 
+against the execution begin to start filling common areas.  Grond is 
+starting to have a crisis about what to do and resolves to go see D'Arc.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar comes in and attacks Mollari with his dagger.  He leaves Mollari 
+for dead with the dagger in his back.  Vir arrives and removes the dagger 
+and conceals it before summoning Medlab.  G'Kar leaves with the intention 
+of committing suicide.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+In Medlab, Garibaldi comes around and then Kosh shows up and 
+enigmatically 
+mentions that "Obligation is a hangman's noose.".  Meanwhile Ivanova 
+brings nu'Viel to Sheridan to help lodge a protest against the death 
+penalty being applied to D'Arc.  As they are talking a gold channel 
+transmission puts Sheridan in charge of everything -- trial and 
+execution.  After the transmission, nu'Viel decides that perhaps the 
+Centauri a better choice to pursue aid from.
+
    
+
+
    Part Three: Becoming Shadows (December 13, 2259, Day)
    
+
+
+
    
+Jacintha Grond heads to security to visit D'Arc.  She sees that D'Arc is 
+clearly suffering from brain damage based on the erratic behavior D'Arc 
+is 
+demonstrating in the holding cell.  Jacintha then decided to rent a room 
+for the night and stay for a bit.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Vir continues to hide the dagger from security as Londo suffers in 
+Medlab.  Franklin has to put Mollari in cryo-stasis since without 
+assistance of donor organs it will be impossible to save him.  The idea 
+of using 
+the life-giver device comes up and Vir promises to try and seek 
+volunteers.  He discovers that none will assist Londo, they are all 
+afraid 
+of him.  And Centauri Prime already has a replacement ambassador on the 
+way.
+Vir also attempts to enlist the help of the Minbari who will not assist 
+because of religious beliefs concerning diminishment of the soul.  (Cf. 
+Soul Hunter.) Vir also thinks of 
+asking 
+Kosh after he bumps into him, but decides against it after getting a 
+sense 
+of someone walking over his grave when talking.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan will not agree to Franklin's request to order people to donate 
+life energy but agrees to assist in broadcasting a request for assistance 
+on the station network.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar was still alive because without his dagger he could not perform 
+suicide.  Sheridan visits G'Kar and G'Kar shows him a different dagger 
+thus "tricking" Sheridan into thinking he didn't do it.  Vir returns the 
+dagger to G'Kar later saying, "I said I was sorry."
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi starts getting the sense of the violence that is going to break 
+out on the station on his way through the station that day.  Protesters 
+are all around with signs pleading to save the alien.  Garibaldi true to 
+form uses his fists to break up a fight and is caught in the act on 
+camera 
+by Devereau from Channel 57.  Morden happens to be on hand and gets 
+interviewed as the guy on the street.  He says, "I suppose that all life 
+is important in some way." Then as if nodding to himself, he continues, 
+"Yes.  That's what I believe.  Life is important.  If you know what to do 
+with it."  
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Morden then continues to talk with Garibaldi and asks him about assisting 
+in saving Mollari.  Garibaldi rebuffs the suggestion pointing out he 
+would 
+die.  Morden remains silent.  Morden then shrugs and says "Then I'll 
+consider the debt yet to be repaid." Smiling, he says, "Join me on the 
+monorail?" Garibaldi is interrupted by Sheridan on the comm link and takes 
+his leave of Morden.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+The court chamber.  Grond is looking on as the trial commences. Sheridan 
+takes his place as judge; there will be no jury.  nu'Viel is used as a 
+witness for the prosecution to explain that D'Arc had murdered before.  
+Sheridan responded to prosecution demands that nu'Viel restrict her 
+answers 
+to the questions, cutting her off regularly. (See Notes.)  On cross-examination, the defense tries to bring 
+out the issues about D'Arc's psychosis, which seems to fall on deaf ears.  
+The defense calls Dr. Franklin to the stand for direct who explains about 
+the brain damage and her child like state. (See Notes.)
+Sheridan recesses and on return finds D'Arc guilty on murder.  As if on 
+cue,
+chaos breaks out in the courtroom.  Grond even agrees saying on TV that 
+she feels justice is not served. 
+
    
+
+
+
    
+In Medlab, Sheridan tries to get Franklin to agree to sedate D'Arc.  He 
+balks and Sheridan begins to administer the hypo and Franklin agrees to 
+do 
+it only to prevent Sheridan from killing her by giving the hypo.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi notices Morden leaving Medlab and that he has used the 
+life-giver without the assistance of any others to save Londo.  Garibaldi 
+also realizes that the Shadows had a hand since otherwise Morden would be 
+dead.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar can't bring himself to go through with the suicide because of his 
+fear of what the future holds.  He leaves his quarters to go out and 
+shape 
+the future.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Jacintha Grond goes to find her husband and sees he is missing.  The 
+station is descending into further chaos as the preparations for the 
+execution procession commence.  The execution will be in an airlock.  
+Devereau grills Sheridan why such barbarism is being used to execute 
+D'Arc 
+and why there are crowds, etc.  Then G'Kar 
+arrived to beg forgiveness from nu'Viel.  She grants him forgiveness.  
+Then, 
+all hell breaks loose.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Even Devereau had never seen violence like this.  She managed to don a 
+gas 
+mask to aid herself.  After enough of the violent protesters were downed 
+with gas, the procession proceeded towards an airlock.  Franklin makes one 
+last attempt to block the airlock with his body.  Delenn offers a very 
+insightful comment stating:
+
+
+
    
+This event has left in my mind an 
+extraordinary feeling of terror and shame.  It seems to me I have been 
+witness to -- and indeed, party to -- an act of ... of shameful violence 
+perpetrated by intelligent beings [glance to Sheridan] against one of 
+their 
+fellows.  No matter what anyone might say, violence will never prevent 
+violence.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+After the death, a gold channel message comes in while they are all near 
+the airlock.  Sheridan allows it to be played there.  No clemency from 
+the 
+Senate, either way it was too late.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+257 Wounded. 53 Deaths, including a miscarried pregnancy.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Clark calls Sheridan to thank him.  Sheridan is feeling sick on the 
+inside.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova helps the Tuchanq delegation head off the station.  The Tuchanq 
+have accepted the Centauri offer.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Franklin and Garibaldi arrive together.  Franklin is stating he wants to 
+lodge a complaint.  Sheridan deters him by explaining that Garibaldi and 
+he had swapped the bodies, D'Arc is safe and actually Brian Grond who was 
+already dead -- wearing a changeling net -- was executed.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The book ends with some words from Kosh.  Kosh looks at him quietly.  
+Like 
+a mirror.  Fear is a mirror.  Sheridan speaks, "I understand now.  
+Because 
+I was scared I became devious.  I took advantage of people and events to 
+accomplish my own ends... ...my fear has enabled me to understand myself 
+more clearly."  Finally, Kosh said, "You are the light, yet the hope of 
+all 
+darkness."  Pause.  "You are touched by Shadows."  Then Kosh leaves.  The 
+book ends with Sheridan realizing in a moment of truth 
+that his life would end as it had begun with awe and wonder, pain and 
+terror.  And Shadows, always with Shadows.
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    Epilogue: Truth
    
+
+
    "Earth: The First Truth": We see Clark contemplating the future in the 
+Senate Chamber in late December 2259.  He realizes that the actions he 
+takes today will cause him not only to be remembered by the future but to 
+define it.  A quote next to the page explains how EarthGov has subpoenaed 
+the footage from the execution to avoid scandal.  Devereau (the anchor) 
+also 
+mentions that the death penalty has now been repealed to avoid scandal.
+
    
+
+
    "Tuchanq: The Second Truth": nu'Viel stands surveying the planet now 
+that Tuchanq is being "aided" by the Centauri.  She realizes that in 
+reality the Tuchanq song now belongs to the Shadows.
+
    
+
+
    "The Rim: The Final Truth":  Captain Varese finds his ship under 
+assault by screaming ships.  As he dies, he has a peculiar sense of deja 
+vu 
+about his final words, "They fired first." 
+
    
+
+The book ends: 
+2259:
+
    
+It was Christmas Eve, 2259: the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind.  
+The Shadows were coming.
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+What's the deal with singing and songs?  The issue has been brought
+up several times in relation to the Vorlons and now with the Tuchanq.
+What relation is there if any to the way the machine on Epsilon 3 
+functions especially given some of the descriptions in this book about 
+how 
+the songs serve as a connection to the land (place)?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Is Kosh's comment to the recovering Garibaldi prophetic in terms of 
+predicting the run in with Morden or meant to be prophetic in the longer 
+term?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Are we to assume that Morden was prompted by the shadows when giving his 
+speech to Devereau?  And if so, how are we to take it in terms of what 
+the 
+future would hold should the Shadows gain ground?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+What is Kosh up to with Sheridan?  As the ending dialog suggests, 
+whatever 
+is going on is a lot more complicated than simply teaching Sheridan.  
+Perhaps there is a special role for Sheridan much like Sinclair had a 
+special role for the Minbari and Humans.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
    •  The parallels between what the Narn did to the Tuchanq and what the 
+Centauri did to the Narn are extremely striking.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+This particular novel fits with the overall storyline much tighter than 
+others.  The insights we gain on the fragile hold of Clark on power as 
+well 
+as his willingness to use deception and trickery to gain popularity are 
+telling about other story arc elements such as the Night Watch.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Things are moving quickly.  This corresponds with the increased pace of 
+the 
+show, Earth, Babylon 5, and the universe are getting ready for a big 
+explosion.
+
      • 
+
+
+
    
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
    •  The second lie portion of the prologue should probably be dated 
+October of 2259 not 2258.  This is an editing error in all likelihood.  
+The reason it is an error is that Clark did not become president until 
+the 
+very end of Season 1, which took all of 2258 and further a death penalty 
+law would not go a full year without a test.  Also the Tuchanq second lie 
+is, we presume, supposed to occur shortly after the re-enactment of the 
+death penalty.
+
      • 
+
+
    •  This book has extremely detailed albeit sometimes apparently 
+inaccurate descriptions of the station -- Ivanova's quarters -- but it 
+does give a nice sense of the station.
+
      • 
+
+
    •  Another editing error seems to involve the captain's name in the 
+prologue and the epilogue both should presumably be the same since 
+presumably the deja vu has do with previously having said "They fired 
+first."
+
      • 
+
+
    •  It is surprising that G'Kar and perhaps Narns in general have such 
+difficulty grasping human subtlety.  Contrast this with the generally 
+broader understanding demonstrated by the Minbari and Vorlons at reading 
+between the lines, etc.  This may have more to do with experience and 
+knowledge due to general species age than anything else.  Alternatively 
+it 
+can be indicative of why the Narn (and Centauri) are dying species.
+
      • 
+
+
+
    • 
+It is interesting to note that there seem to be taboos against 
+miscegenation 
+with alien races much like we had enforced by law in the United States 
+and 
+still now by prejudice in some areas. [See: bans on interracial marriages
+unconstitutional, Loving v Virginia (U.S. Supreme Court 
+1967) and 
+compare with the 1984 custody case involving Mrs. Palmore's daughter 
+which 
+reached the Supreme Court because of Mrs. Palmore's subsequent
+interracial marriage. Palmore v. Sidoti, (U.S. Supreme Court 
+1984)].
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Lyta's appearance is extremely well done and helps tie together her 
+appearance in relation to Talia and then her later appearance back on the 
+station after visiting the Vorlons.
+
      • 
+
+
+
    • 
+Timing of the sections seems to be slightly problematic since it seems a 
+bit unlikely that Jacintha Grond could get from Mars to Babylon 5 
+so 
+quickly, less than a day.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+I believe Devereau has been seen before, except she had worked for ISN, 
+perhaps this is a change of jobs or just an editing error.
+
      • 
+
+
    • I take the references on p 141, par 3-4, to indicate Mollari ordered 
+the attack on 
+G'Kar and that Vir strongly suspected that it was true, this may be an 
+incorrect inference.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+From the trial scene it is interesting to note that little has changed in 
+the basic procedure of the Common Law system of trial and justice.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+In the United States today, the death penalty has and continues to be 
+carried out on the mentally retarded, even upon people with IQ's as low 
+as 
+60.  (McCollum v. No. Carolina, US SC 1994: Blackmun's dissent from the 
+denial of review mentions that the person to be executed has a 9 yr old 
+mental age and can barely read at a second grade level.  He was "under 
+stress and easily influenced by others." Continuing, Blackmun explains 
+how 
+the lower court found:
+
+
      
+that he committed the felony murder under the influence of 
+mental or emotional disturbance, that he had cooperated with the police, 
+that he had no significant history of prior criminal activity, and that 
+he 
+had adapted well to prison.  In addition, the trial judge concluded that 
+"[a]ll of the evidence tends to show that [McCollum's] capacity ...  to 
+appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform to the 
+requirements 
+of law was impaired." McCollum was 19 at the time of the crime.  
+
      
+
+Blackmun's dissent concludes on a note that is similar to the rationale
+that the senate used in turning down the death penalty:
+"Our system of capital punishment simply does not
+accurately and consistently determine which defendants most "deserve" to 
+die."
+The sole standard that the Supreme Court has established is that at 
+the time of death the person must be able to comprehend what is going to 
+happen to them thus leading to ironies like lawyers trying to have their 
+clients taken off anti-psychotic drugs to prevent executions.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Will D'Arc appear in the show?
      
+	Probably not, but one never knows.
+
+   
    •  Lyta is deaf?
      
+	I don't know how that would've gotten past me...I don't recall
+	seeing that in the draft...either I was tired when reading, or it was
+	added later.
+
+   
    •  No, the novelist didn't blow it, Joe blew it, because in proofreading
+	the manuscript, Joe missed that line somehow, and didn't catch it.  It's
+	my job to catch these things.  (Just spent a whole week going over the
+	A-Z of Babylon 5 coming out from Boxtree Books in the UK to keep it as
+	accuate as possible.)
+
+   
    •  Why did the captain lie?
      
+	The Minbari approached with their gun ports opened...but they
+	also hadn't locked on.  They were a potential menace, but had not gone
+	into the territory of definite menace...and when they fired, it was
+	clear from the moment or two it took to respond that the Minbari ships
+	weren't ready to attack.  So he chose to cover his butt rather than
+	take responsibility for screwing up a first contact situation and
+	plunging Earth into a war.
+
+
    
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+Novel: "Clark's Law"
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+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
+ 
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+
    
+Written by Jim Mortimore
    
+Release date: January 10, 1996
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22229-X
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0153-0
    
+Setting: Late 2259, between
+"Comes the Inquisitor"
+and
+"The Fall of Night"
+
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan is torn between duty and defiance when he's ordered to execute
+an innocent alien.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
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+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Death Before Dishonor
    
+
+The Tuchanq, a newly discovered humanoid species, can be an
+important ally for the Earth Alliance commanded by President
+Clark.  So Captain John Sheridan welcomes their ambassadors
+to Babylon 5, not knowing that among them is D'Arc - a mass
+murderer on the run hoping to escape into the unsuspecting
+worlds of the galaxy....
+
+
    Clark's Law
    
+
+But the unforgiving rules of space have a different fate in store
+for D'Arc.  A terrifying accident wipes away D'Arc's identity and
+his evil... leaving behind a loving, innocent being with a child's
+mind - a being that must die because President Clark, a leader
+with his own secret agenda, orders his immediate execution.
+Now, as Babylon 5 physician Dr. Stephen Franklin begs Sheridan
+to defy Clark's law, the captain faces the greatest test of his
+command - and a far greater test of his manhood, which may
+end his career in shame or become a shining reminder of what
+being human truly means....
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Prologue: Lies
    
+
    
+"Earth: First Lie": Opening in November of 2242, we see the Captain of 
+the 
+Earth vessel which fired on the Minbari lie to the president and then 
+Vice 
+President Santiago about who 
+fired first.  Captain Ferdinand claims it is the Minbari who fired first.
+
    
+
+
    
+"Earth: Second Lie": The scene opens on now President Clark in October of 
+2258 (See Notes.)  Clark has been plotting to reinstate 
+the death penalty to regain popularity among humans by maintaining 
+control 
+and re-initiating capital punishment.  Clark's internal thoughts also 
+turn to 
+the problems with Earth's colonies without which Earth could not survive.
+The senate is tied on the vote about re-instating capital punishment.  
+Clark lies when the speaker of the senate asks if it will be equally 
+applied to both humans and aliens.  Answering yes, the speaker of the 
+senate agrees to pass the law.
+
    
+
+
    
+"Tuchanq: First Lie": The scene is inside a Narn battle cruiser as G'Kar 
+drops Centauri plasma generators on Tuchanq.  After a few days G'Kar 
+lands 
+the Narn cruiser offering the Tuchanq assistance in recovering from the 
+devastation caused by the "Centauri."
+
    
+
+
    
+"Tuchanq: Second Lie": October 2259, we see D'Arc of the Tuchanq killing 
+the last of the Narn on Tuchanq and then boarding a Narn cruiser to head 
+for Babylon 5 in search of assistance.  Tuchanq has suffered tremendous 
+environmental damage from years of Narn enslavement.
+
    
+
+
    Part One: Among Shadows (December 12, 2259, Day)
    
+
    
+The story opens on Sheridan eating breakfast and trying to cope with the 
+mounds of paperwork that he needs to deal with as well as his own 
+discomfort in his role as commander of Babylon 5.  His mind turns the 
+phrase "If you go to Z'ha'dum you will die" over and over 
+again 
+as he contemplates life.  (See In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum)
+
    
+
+
    
+Ivanova interrupts his inner turmoil in order to be briefed on the arrival 
+of the Tuchanq delegation.  She remarks on the unusual fact that they are 
+quadrupeds and after some jokes about the paper horizon and stations 
+vanishing, he leaves her in charge of the matter.  The problem for the 
+Tuchanq is that their world's ecosystem has been destroyed by the Narn 
+occupation. 
+
    
+
+
    
+"The Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps" Ivanova is still 
+plagued with thoughts about her friendship with Talia and hears her 
+whispered words, more than just the touch of bodies, the touch of minds.
+After shaking herself awake from her nap, she struggles to gain inner 
+peace 
+as the core shuttle heads towards arrivals.  The inner struggle relates 
+to 
+her continued denial of her telepathic abilities and the need to hide it 
+to avoid the Psi Cops.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Arriving in the customs area, things were already turning ugly.  The 
+Tuchanq were engaged in a bizarre ritual involving leaving blood on the 
+floor of the arrival area.  G'Kar had helped program a translator for 
+Ivanova, but she turned out not to need it because they spoke System 
+English.  The ritual then involved cutting their throats and bleeding 
+because their customs require returning something to the land.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Anti-alien sentiments begin to break out and Ivanova realizes the 
+situation 
+is quickly escalating out of control.
+Then a Narn spots a Narn skull attached to one of the Tuchanq and 
+fighting 
+begins in earnest.  Ivanova is finally forced to stun the delegation with 
+her PPG to prevent further violence.  Unfortunately the Tuchanq do not 
+sleep, at least not as humans understand the concept, and by making them 
+stop singing their songs of being and journey through the stunner, they 
+are 
+now all dead (insane.)
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The scene shifts back to Sheridan's office where G'Kar is imploring 
+Sheridan to get the Tuchanq off the station and to make amends for the 
+sole death from the incident -- a Narn.  Sheridan refuses his request and 
+G'Kar leaves in disgust.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+D'Arc awakens surround by Medlab personnel and quickly realizes that her 
+Song of Being is 
+broken.  She attacks one of the Medlab people with a knife which she 
+withdraws from some sort of body pouch and flees with her Song of Journey 
+running strong.  In order to be whole again, she would need to steal a 
+new 
+Song of Being from someone else.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Londo Mollari meanwhile begins trying to jockey for a chance to meet with 
+the Tuchanq.  His conscience is still wracked with images of the 
+bombardment of the Narn homeworld and their destruction of their 
+civilization.
+Mollari meets up with Garibaldi who explains that the Tuchanq are 
+"killing" each other to cure the insanity.  Once the remaining sane 
+Tuchanq 
+break the Song of Journey they will be pronounced dead and be reborn with 
+new Songs of Being and Journey.  nu'Viel (their leader/mother) explains 
+to 
+Ivanova the urgency of catching D'Arc to which Ivanova points out the 
+size 
+of the station and their limited resources.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Brian Grond would become D'Arc's target.  He would not realize this yet, 
+but his taste for perverse (See Notes)
+sexual activities with aliens along 
+with his need to record them would be his downfall.  Grond was hoping to 
+have an especially interesting encounter with Belladona with whom he had 
+already had several encounters.  Down Below he went to where he expected 
+to 
+find Belladona but she was not there.  Then his eyes met those of D'Arc.  
+He makes an offer to give her cash if she will take him to Belladona.
+D'Arc expresses her desire to murder him with a confusing discussion of 
+the 
+need to take his Song of Being, Grond merely replies yes and he heads off 
+towards his death.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The PPG he is carrying does not save him when in the middle of a cargo 
+hold 
+D'Arc pulls the knife from her pouch and kills him taking his Song of 
+Being.  In the process, a cargo loader impacts a crane in the cargo area 
+leading to the possibility of the crane impacting the station's structure 
+and causing a rupture.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Franklin and other Medlab personnel head out to rescue the trapped crane 
+operator.  He goes out suited up because the area has become 
+depressurized.  Further he will have to amputate the crane operator's leg 
+inside the suit.  The timing is close to the wire and the crane does in 
+fact impact the station but Franklin and the crane operator survive, 
+barely.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Lyta Alexander appears briefly as we see her thoughts turning to the need 
+to stay out of site and her desire to be able to visit the Vorlon 
+homeworld.  Garibaldi interrupts her reverie and asks for a telepathic 
+favor 
+involving Tuchanq.  In a moment that recalls Lyta's first role in the 
+pilot, she enters the Isolab to scan Tuchanq. Lyta explains that D'Arc is 
+like a newborn child with no memory at any level of the events 
+that resulted in Grond's death.
+As Lyta leaves Medlab she starts to hear the song, Kosh's song and 
+realizes 
+that nothing separates her from the Vorlons except some empty space -- 
+and 
+she does know how to deal with that.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+This section of the book ends with a Gold Channel transmission from Earth 
+ordering 
+Sheridan to hold D'Arc for the death penalty.
+
    
+
+
    Part Two: Hunting Shadows (December 12, 2259, Night)
    
+
+
+
    
+This section opens on Jacintha Grond's arrival at Babylon 5 customs. (See 
+Notes).  She is surprised to be greeted by the ubiquitous 
+press, specifically Debora Devereau of Channel 57 News. (See Notes).  Grond is bombarded with a barrage of questions 
+about how she feels on a variety of issues -- "What will you do if they 
+won't release his body?".  A security officer finally takes her hand and 
+leads her away from the media frenzy.
+
    
+
+
    
+Mollari meanwhile is scheming to provide assistance to the Tuchanq.  With 
+the help of Vir he manages to arrange a meeting with nu'Viel and her 
+chorus.  Exploiting their hatred of the Narn, Mollari is able to extend a 
+credible offer of assistance.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan gets a chance to meet with Jacintha Grond who is rather confused 
+and upset at this point.  He explains to her that he can not release the 
+body because it is needed for evidence and that she will have to 
+basically 
+deal with the situation.  She explains that she intends to be on a return 
+shuttle in 16 hours.  Grond also takes her anger out on Sheridan 
+explaining that she holds him personally responsible for the situation.  
+Sheridan's inner frustration and turmoil is evident but he merely invites 
+her to remain on the station and explains he will do the best he can.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Franklin's overuse of stims is starting to have a noticeable effect.  His 
+first chance of sleep is interrupted by the arrival of the executioner.  
+The 
+executioner wants to use the life giver machine,
+Quality of Mercy to perform the 
+execution and demands it from Franklin.  Franklin resists and the 
+executioner summons Garibaldi who seems to have been waiting for this 
+eventuality.  Garibaldi recommends that Franklin comply by providing some 
+bits and pieces to fool the executioner in the meanwhile.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan approaches Delenn in search of assistance and guidance.  He is 
+disappointed to realize that Delenn has already been approached by Earth 
+Gov and has reluctantly agreed not to interfere.  The reason she explains 
+has to do with her post-chrysalis state and the likelihood that the Grey 
+Council would overrule her. 
+
    
+
+
+
    
+On a core shuttle, G'Kar is attacked by Tuchanqs.  G'Kar survives with 
+only minor injuries and a closer examination reveals that someone has 
+equipped humans with changeling nets to make them look like Tuchanqs.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi was already plenty busy, he had found the executioner bludgeoned 
+to death in the Mosque where he had gone to pray while Franklin produced 
+the life-giver machine.  A decision is made to pay n'Grath a visit to 
+find 
+out where the changeling nets came from.
+
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi has his teams scan red sector so that he can learn where n'Grath 
+is to meet him.  He stops in on Ivanova and they end up fighting about 
+the 
+upcoming execution.  Ivanova fairly clearly against and Garibaldi somewhat 
+indifferent to pro-execution.  Their attempts to communicate are 
+interrupted 
+by Garibaldi's comm indicating that n'Grath has been located.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar and Vir encounter each other again and Vir is clearly still trying 
+to 
+figure out how to help G'Kar and the Narns.  There last meeting had been 
+several months back and had not gone well.  G'Kar asks Vir whether or not 
+Mollari had him attacked and G'Kar 
+nonetheless hounds him further and leaves Vir feeling very uncomfortable. 
+ 
+Vir of course is aware that Mollari did in fact plot the attack. (See Notes.)
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Vir goes and tells Londo about his meeting with G'Kar and accuses Londo 
+directly.  Mollari refuses to answer the question, and provides no useful 
+information about whether or not he had G'Kar attacked.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi arrives in Red Sector too late to for n'Grath.  The creature is 
+bleeding and he calls for an emergency team to assist the alien.  n'Grath 
+refuses to divulge information providing only a name "Askari" and an 
+admission that he did sell the nets.  Garibaldi turns and catches the 
+motion of a gun; instead he gets a blast in his face of a PPG.  The 
+faceplate of his suit ruptured.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar decides that he will handle Askari, a Centauri himself.  
+Approaching 
+Askari he grabs him and demands to know who hired him.  Askari admits it 
+was Mollari.  G'Kar then leaves him for dead from the dagger wound.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Violence begins to erupt on the station as protesters for and primarily 
+against the execution begin to start filling common areas.  Grond is 
+starting to have a crisis about what to do and resolves to go see D'Arc.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar comes in and attacks Mollari with his dagger.  He leaves Mollari 
+for dead with the dagger in his back.  Vir arrives and removes the dagger 
+and conceals it before summoning Medlab.  G'Kar leaves with the intention 
+of committing suicide.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+In Medlab, Garibaldi comes around and then Kosh shows up and 
+enigmatically 
+mentions that "Obligation is a hangman's noose.".  Meanwhile Ivanova 
+brings nu'Viel to Sheridan to help lodge a protest against the death 
+penalty being applied to D'Arc.  As they are talking a gold channel 
+transmission puts Sheridan in charge of everything -- trial and 
+execution.  After the transmission, nu'Viel decides that perhaps the 
+Centauri a better choice to pursue aid from.
+
    
+
+
    Part Three: Becoming Shadows (December 13, 2259, Day)
    
+
+
+
    
+Jacintha Grond heads to security to visit D'Arc.  She sees that D'Arc is 
+clearly suffering from brain damage based on the erratic behavior D'Arc 
+is 
+demonstrating in the holding cell.  Jacintha then decided to rent a room 
+for the night and stay for a bit.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Vir continues to hide the dagger from security as Londo suffers in 
+Medlab.  Franklin has to put Mollari in cryo-stasis since without 
+assistance of donor organs it will be impossible to save him.  The idea 
+of using 
+the life-giver device comes up and Vir promises to try and seek 
+volunteers.  He discovers that none will assist Londo, they are all 
+afraid 
+of him.  And Centauri Prime already has a replacement ambassador on the 
+way.
+Vir also attempts to enlist the help of the Minbari who will not assist 
+because of religious beliefs concerning diminishment of the soul.  (Cf. 
+Soul Hunter.) Vir also thinks of 
+asking 
+Kosh after he bumps into him, but decides against it after getting a 
+sense 
+of someone walking over his grave when talking.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan will not agree to Franklin's request to order people to donate 
+life energy but agrees to assist in broadcasting a request for assistance 
+on the station network.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar was still alive because without his dagger he could not perform 
+suicide.  Sheridan visits G'Kar and G'Kar shows him a different dagger 
+thus "tricking" Sheridan into thinking he didn't do it.  Vir returns the 
+dagger to G'Kar later saying, "I said I was sorry."
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi starts getting the sense of the violence that is going to break 
+out on the station on his way through the station that day.  Protesters 
+are all around with signs pleading to save the alien.  Garibaldi true to 
+form uses his fists to break up a fight and is caught in the act on 
+camera 
+by Devereau from Channel 57.  Morden happens to be on hand and gets 
+interviewed as the guy on the street.  He says, "I suppose that all life 
+is important in some way." Then as if nodding to himself, he continues, 
+"Yes.  That's what I believe.  Life is important.  If you know what to do 
+with it."  
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Morden then continues to talk with Garibaldi and asks him about assisting 
+in saving Mollari.  Garibaldi rebuffs the suggestion pointing out he 
+would 
+die.  Morden remains silent.  Morden then shrugs and says "Then I'll 
+consider the debt yet to be repaid." Smiling, he says, "Join me on the 
+monorail?" Garibaldi is interrupted by Sheridan on the comm link and takes 
+his leave of Morden.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+The court chamber.  Grond is looking on as the trial commences. Sheridan 
+takes his place as judge; there will be no jury.  nu'Viel is used as a 
+witness for the prosecution to explain that D'Arc had murdered before.  
+Sheridan responded to prosecution demands that nu'Viel restrict her 
+answers 
+to the questions, cutting her off regularly. (See Notes.)  On cross-examination, the defense tries to bring 
+out the issues about D'Arc's psychosis, which seems to fall on deaf ears.  
+The defense calls Dr. Franklin to the stand for direct who explains about 
+the brain damage and her child like state. (See Notes.)
+Sheridan recesses and on return finds D'Arc guilty on murder.  As if on 
+cue,
+chaos breaks out in the courtroom.  Grond even agrees saying on TV that 
+she feels justice is not served. 
+
    
+
+
+
    
+In Medlab, Sheridan tries to get Franklin to agree to sedate D'Arc.  He 
+balks and Sheridan begins to administer the hypo and Franklin agrees to 
+do 
+it only to prevent Sheridan from killing her by giving the hypo.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi notices Morden leaving Medlab and that he has used the 
+life-giver without the assistance of any others to save Londo.  Garibaldi 
+also realizes that the Shadows had a hand since otherwise Morden would be 
+dead.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+G'Kar can't bring himself to go through with the suicide because of his 
+fear of what the future holds.  He leaves his quarters to go out and 
+shape 
+the future.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Jacintha Grond goes to find her husband and sees he is missing.  The 
+station is descending into further chaos as the preparations for the 
+execution procession commence.  The execution will be in an airlock.  
+Devereau grills Sheridan why such barbarism is being used to execute 
+D'Arc 
+and why there are crowds, etc.  Then G'Kar 
+arrived to beg forgiveness from nu'Viel.  She grants him forgiveness.  
+Then, 
+all hell breaks loose.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Even Devereau had never seen violence like this.  She managed to don a 
+gas 
+mask to aid herself.  After enough of the violent protesters were downed 
+with gas, the procession proceeded towards an airlock.  Franklin makes one 
+last attempt to block the airlock with his body.  Delenn offers a very 
+insightful comment stating:
+
+
+
    
+This event has left in my mind an 
+extraordinary feeling of terror and shame.  It seems to me I have been 
+witness to -- and indeed, party to -- an act of ... of shameful violence 
+perpetrated by intelligent beings [glance to Sheridan] against one of 
+their 
+fellows.  No matter what anyone might say, violence will never prevent 
+violence.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+After the death, a gold channel message comes in while they are all near 
+the airlock.  Sheridan allows it to be played there.  No clemency from 
+the 
+Senate, either way it was too late.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+257 Wounded. 53 Deaths, including a miscarried pregnancy.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Clark calls Sheridan to thank him.  Sheridan is feeling sick on the 
+inside.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova helps the Tuchanq delegation head off the station.  The Tuchanq 
+have accepted the Centauri offer.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Franklin and Garibaldi arrive together.  Franklin is stating he wants to 
+lodge a complaint.  Sheridan deters him by explaining that Garibaldi and 
+he had swapped the bodies, D'Arc is safe and actually Brian Grond who was 
+already dead -- wearing a changeling net -- was executed.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The book ends with some words from Kosh.  Kosh looks at him quietly.  
+Like 
+a mirror.  Fear is a mirror.  Sheridan speaks, "I understand now.  
+Because 
+I was scared I became devious.  I took advantage of people and events to 
+accomplish my own ends... ...my fear has enabled me to understand myself 
+more clearly."  Finally, Kosh said, "You are the light, yet the hope of 
+all 
+darkness."  Pause.  "You are touched by Shadows."  Then Kosh leaves.  The 
+book ends with Sheridan realizing in a moment of truth 
+that his life would end as it had begun with awe and wonder, pain and 
+terror.  And Shadows, always with Shadows.
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    Epilogue: Truth
    
+
+
    "Earth: The First Truth": We see Clark contemplating the future in the 
+Senate Chamber in late December 2259.  He realizes that the actions he 
+takes today will cause him not only to be remembered by the future but to 
+define it.  A quote next to the page explains how EarthGov has subpoenaed 
+the footage from the execution to avoid scandal.  Devereau (the anchor) 
+also 
+mentions that the death penalty has now been repealed to avoid scandal.
+
    
+
+
    "Tuchanq: The Second Truth": nu'Viel stands surveying the planet now 
+that Tuchanq is being "aided" by the Centauri.  She realizes that in 
+reality the Tuchanq song now belongs to the Shadows.
+
    
+
+
    "The Rim: The Final Truth":  Captain Varese finds his ship under 
+assault by screaming ships.  As he dies, he has a peculiar sense of deja 
+vu 
+about his final words, "They fired first." 
+
    
+
+The book ends: 
+2259:
+
    
+It was Christmas Eve, 2259: the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind.  
+The Shadows were coming.
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+What's the deal with singing and songs?  The issue has been brought
+up several times in relation to the Vorlons and now with the Tuchanq.
+What relation is there if any to the way the machine on Epsilon 3 
+functions especially given some of the descriptions in this book about 
+how 
+the songs serve as a connection to the land (place)?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Is Kosh's comment to the recovering Garibaldi prophetic in terms of 
+predicting the run in with Morden or meant to be prophetic in the longer 
+term?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Are we to assume that Morden was prompted by the shadows when giving his 
+speech to Devereau?  And if so, how are we to take it in terms of what 
+the 
+future would hold should the Shadows gain ground?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+What is Kosh up to with Sheridan?  As the ending dialog suggests, 
+whatever 
+is going on is a lot more complicated than simply teaching Sheridan.  
+Perhaps there is a special role for Sheridan much like Sinclair had a 
+special role for the Minbari and Humans.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
      
+
    •  The parallels between what the Narn did to the Tuchanq and what the 
+Centauri did to the Narn are extremely striking.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+This particular novel fits with the overall storyline much tighter than 
+others.  The insights we gain on the fragile hold of Clark on power as 
+well 
+as his willingness to use deception and trickery to gain popularity are 
+telling about other story arc elements such as the Night Watch.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Things are moving quickly.  This corresponds with the increased pace of 
+the 
+show, Earth, Babylon 5, and the universe are getting ready for a big 
+explosion.
+
      • 
+
+
+
    
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
    •  The second lie portion of the prologue should probably be dated 
+October of 2259 not 2258.  This is an editing error in all likelihood.  
+The reason it is an error is that Clark did not become president until 
+the 
+very end of Season 1, which took all of 2258 and further a death penalty 
+law would not go a full year without a test.  Also the Tuchanq second lie 
+is, we presume, supposed to occur shortly after the re-enactment of the 
+death penalty.
+
      • 
+
+
    •  This book has extremely detailed albeit sometimes apparently 
+inaccurate descriptions of the station -- Ivanova's quarters -- but it 
+does give a nice sense of the station.
+
      • 
+
+
    •  Another editing error seems to involve the captain's name in the 
+prologue and the epilogue both should presumably be the same since 
+presumably the deja vu has do with previously having said "They fired 
+first."
+
      • 
+
+
    •  It is surprising that G'Kar and perhaps Narns in general have such 
+difficulty grasping human subtlety.  Contrast this with the generally 
+broader understanding demonstrated by the Minbari and Vorlons at reading 
+between the lines, etc.  This may have more to do with experience and 
+knowledge due to general species age than anything else.  Alternatively 
+it 
+can be indicative of why the Narn (and Centauri) are dying species.
+
      • 
+
+
+
    • 
+It is interesting to note that there seem to be taboos against 
+miscegenation 
+with alien races much like we had enforced by law in the United States 
+and 
+still now by prejudice in some areas. [See: bans on interracial marriages
+unconstitutional, Loving v Virginia (U.S. Supreme Court 
+1967) and 
+compare with the 1984 custody case involving Mrs. Palmore's daughter 
+which 
+reached the Supreme Court because of Mrs. Palmore's subsequent
+interracial marriage. Palmore v. Sidoti, (U.S. Supreme Court 
+1984)].
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Lyta's appearance is extremely well done and helps tie together her 
+appearance in relation to Talia and then her later appearance back on the 
+station after visiting the Vorlons.
+
      • 
+
+
+
    • 
+Timing of the sections seems to be slightly problematic since it seems a 
+bit unlikely that Jacintha Grond could get from Mars to Babylon 5 
+so 
+quickly, less than a day.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+I believe Devereau has been seen before, except she had worked for ISN, 
+perhaps this is a change of jobs or just an editing error.
+
      • 
+
+
    • I take the references on p 141, par 3-4, to indicate Mollari ordered 
+the attack on 
+G'Kar and that Vir strongly suspected that it was true, this may be an 
+incorrect inference.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+From the trial scene it is interesting to note that little has changed in 
+the basic procedure of the Common Law system of trial and justice.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+In the United States today, the death penalty has and continues to be 
+carried out on the mentally retarded, even upon people with IQ's as low 
+as 
+60.  (McCollum v. No. Carolina, US SC 1994: Blackmun's dissent from the 
+denial of review mentions that the person to be executed has a 9 yr old 
+mental age and can barely read at a second grade level.  He was "under 
+stress and easily influenced by others." Continuing, Blackmun explains 
+how 
+the lower court found:
+
+
      
+that he committed the felony murder under the influence of 
+mental or emotional disturbance, that he had cooperated with the police, 
+that he had no significant history of prior criminal activity, and that 
+he 
+had adapted well to prison.  In addition, the trial judge concluded that 
+"[a]ll of the evidence tends to show that [McCollum's] capacity ...  to 
+appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform to the 
+requirements 
+of law was impaired." McCollum was 19 at the time of the crime.  
+
      
+
+Blackmun's dissent concludes on a note that is similar to the rationale
+that the senate used in turning down the death penalty:
+"Our system of capital punishment simply does not
+accurately and consistently determine which defendants most "deserve" to 
+die."
+The sole standard that the Supreme Court has established is that at 
+the time of death the person must be able to comprehend what is going to 
+happen to them thus leading to ironies like lawyers trying to have their 
+clients taken off anti-psychotic drugs to prevent executions.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
    jms speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Will D'Arc appear in the show?
      
+	Probably not, but one never knows.
+
+   
    •  Lyta is deaf?
      
+	I don't know how that would've gotten past me...I don't recall
+	seeing that in the draft...either I was tired when reading, or it was
+	added later.
+
+   
    •  No, the novelist didn't blow it, Joe blew it, because in proofreading
+	the manuscript, Joe missed that line somehow, and didn't catch it.  It's
+	my job to catch these things.  (Just spent a whole week going over the
+	A-Z of Babylon 5 coming out from Boxtree Books in the UK to keep it as
+	accuate as possible.)
+
+   
    •  Why did the captain lie?
      
+	The Minbari approached with their gun ports opened...but they
+	also hadn't locked on.  They were a potential menace, but had not gone
+	into the territory of definite menace...and when they fired, it was
+	clear from the moment or two it took to respond that the Minbari ships
+	weren't ready to attack.  So he chose to cover his butt rather than
+	take responsibility for screwing up a first contact situation and
+	plunging Earth into a war.
+
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+
+
    
+Written by Neil Barrett, Jr.
    
+Release date: March 1996
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22230-3 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0158-1 (UK)
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Sheridan battle a deadly rash of
+violence threatening the station . . . and confront a mysterious force
+spreading terror on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    The Enemy Within
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5, designed to be a place of peace in a troubled universe, has 
+erupted with riots as visiting cultures clash and passions explode.  
+Security chief Garibaldi must use all his skills to quell the violence 
+between races.  But the troubles escalate as terrifying nightmares 
+plague 
+everyone on board from Captain Sheridan to Vorlon Ambassador Kosh.  It 
+seems as if some "force" is touching them all...
+
    
+
+
    The Touch of Your Shadow, The Whisper of Your Name
    
+
+
    
+Then an alien presence appears.  A long, twisting band of green light 
+nine million miles long stretches out against the darkness of 
+space on a collision course with Babylon 5.  Since it remains invisible 
+to 
+computer sensors, some are calling it an illusion, others are calling it 
+an 
+evil life force.  Still others are calling it God.  Now it is up to 
+Captain Sheridan and Garibaldi to find out, risking there lives, and 
+perhaps their souls, to venture forth among the stars to meet the 
+unknown...
+
    
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
+
    
+The novel opens with Garibaldi sitting on a transport near the Euphrates 
+sector jump gate.  A friend who owes him from a World Series bet
+is taking him back home on a rickety transport.  Almost as soon as they 
+arrive, the friend offers to buy a drink.  After Garibaldi refuses, his 
+link beeps, ending any thoughts of peace and quiet.  Garibaldi reports to 
+Brown deck as request.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Consortium of Live Eaters had gotten down to Brown deck and started 
+rioting.  Meanwhile a fight was breaking out at the Trinocular Film 
+Festival and the Life in Transition group was starting a fight in the 
+Main 
+Hall.  The LITs as they were called had created quite a stir, their 
+belief that life was just a "mistake," led to a large counter protest 
+outside the hall.  Garibaldi convinces them to return to their conference 
+room and posts several guards to keep them there.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi finally gets a chance to meet with Sheridan who apologizes for 
+bringing the Security Chief's leave to such an abrupt end.  Ivanova 
+arrives 
+and Sheridan explains to them how the entire station has been erupting 
+in 
+violence.  Also, a  number of people have been having particularly 
+violent 
+nightmares.  Dr. Franklin arrives late and explains that he hasn't been 
+able to find a source for the disturbances.  Garibaldi reiterates the 
+request to lock the conferees up, but Sheridan explains that a number of 
+the ambassadors have complained. (See Notes.)  After 
+ending the meeting, Garibaldi stays and asks the Captain if he has been 
+having the nightmares too.  Sheridan admits to having them without saying 
+more.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Psi Corps member Martina Coles attempts to sleep and she feels 
+something and yet nothing reaching out to her.  Kosh stands in 
+contemplation as something shakes "Kosh to the core of [its] alien 
+being."  (See Notes.)  Ambassador Delenn, dreaming, 
+finds a curved 
+scimitar in her hand.  A voice cries out to her, warning her to defend 
+herself or die.  The voice belongs to Sheridan, who kills her all the 
+while talking about the end of a time for talking.  (See Notes.)
+G'Kar dreams about destroying the Centauri ships as a hero in war.  But 
+the Centauri, specifically Londo use a new kind of weapon to disable the 
+Narn and prevent victory.  Garibaldi  finds himself in a shuttle with 
+Ivanova.  The two argue about the controls with him finally attempting 
+the 
+landing.  As they were about to make it, he realizes a battle is underway 
+and he wakes screaming 'No!' and covered in sweat.  His link beeps, 
+trouble 
+in Security Central among other locations.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+After breaking up a fight between two of his officers by throwing them in 
+the Brig, Garibaldi goes to handle the Fermi's Angels.  The Angels are 
+motorcyclists in space.  Meanwhile, Sheridan plans a meeting along with 
+Ambassadors 
+for the next day about the incidents on the station.  The invitation also 
+includes Coles who Sheridan feels may have information.  Then Ivanova 
+calls from the observation dome asking him to come see something.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Worm is 9 million miles long and half a million miles wide but aside 
+from a green luminescence, it does not show up on anything but through 
+direct observation.  Sheridan orders a science team to investigate and 
+they begin planning.  He also contacts Earth Dome and the president's 
+aide 
+already knows about the vent.  Sheridan is surprised that they are 
+willing 
+to admit that they have a mole on the inside.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Two things touched Martina Coles' mind.  One was that strange thing 
+that had brushed across the other day.  The other was an alien.  A 
+Vorlon, 
+Kosh.  After shaking off the shivers and cold sweat that the feeling had 
+brought on she goes to the ambassador's quarters.  She asks him to stay 
+out of her mind and he responds "You are . . . not ready to hear me."  
+They "argue" a bit about whether there will be a time when she is ready 
+to 
+hear, but Martina flees the quarters in afraid that continuing will not 
+get 
+her anywhere and that she might loose her cool.  She finally makes it 
+back 
+to her quarters in a state of terror.
+Garibaldi manages to handle the Angels by convincing them that he is 
+'hip'. 
+And they give him a jacket and offer to give him a ride.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+At the briefing the next day, the table was crowded.  Ivanova had already 
+positioned herself next to the door so that after Londo and G'Kar 
+entered 
+they would not leave and would stay at the table.  The science team that 
+Ivanova was organizing had not yet left.  And Sheridan tried to get any 
+information about the incidents.  Kosh was of course absent from the 
+meeting. Martina Coles balks at reading aliens for Sheridan in an attempt 
+to figure anything out.  She explains that her temporary contract has a 
+clause excusing her from such requests.  Garibaldi makes a reference to 
+the 
+alleged bomb planted in Londo by saying 'Boo!' and that calms Londo down 
+again.  After the meeting adjourns, Delenn talks to Sheridan and warns him 
+that the station may be in worse danger based on her dreams.  She warns 
+that the races may all turn on each other and explains her dream in which 
+he tries to kill her.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+In the Observation Dome, Ivanova is surprised that the Worm is moving 
+towards the station at a rapid click.  The Worm would arrive within 
+forty-eight hours.  Lennier meanwhile was beginning to be affected by the 
+Worm.  When Coles accidentally brushed against him in the hall, he began to 
+simmer angrily.  Returning to his quarters he smashed a mirror and began 
+to 
+recall his dreams of roaming the halls with a spear and a loincloth.  His 
+goal, targeting the non-Minbari.  The blood from his knuckles brought 
+unconsciousness and sleep.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Franklin was under a tremendous amount of stress from the influx of minor 
+injuries as well as the concern about the unknown plague that was 
+afflicting the station.  Garibaldi meanwhile also had his hands full with 
+chaos throughout the station.  He attempts to break into Coles' quarters, 
+but she arrives before he enters.  They argue briefly and she passes out. 
+ 
+Garibaldi offers some aid and seems convinced that Coles is at the least 
+not working against them.  
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Garibaldi discuss Coles and Garibaldi thinks she knows 
+something but is too frightened to discuss it.  Sheridan also explains 
+that 
+Earth Central is afraid of the Worm but unwilling to assist with sending 
+troops. Back in Command and Control, Ivanova monitors the large science 
+probe they sent to the Worm.  Nothing.  Not even video. They agree to 
+prepare another probe, this one with a weapon to give off a little shock.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan sleeps fitfully.  He dreams of the Minbari Grey Council.  They 
+ask what he fears.  Delenn enters the circle from behind and asks if 
+Sheridan fears her.  The council disappeared and in darkness he found 
+himself staring into a lit mirror, his face Minbari.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Again the Worm invades Martina Coles' mind and she screams in terror.  And 
+then a dream, actually a memory comes.  Psi Corps had let a Narn come to 
+her 
+when she was sixteen to breed.  Psi Corps hoped that it would be more 
+powerful than anything they had ever produced.  Martina ran away and 
+nothing was ever said of it again.  When she awakens, Martina reaches out 
+to Kosh and asks to speak to him.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sleep deprivation is hitting the command staff badly.  Franklin has 
+created a vile looking sleep pill that will enable a few hours of sleep 
+without interruption by dreams.  Delenn informs Sheridan that her world is 
+now on full alert since they are afraid the Worm is a prelude to war.  
+Sheridan gives Delenn one of the pills to assist her in sleep.  As she 
+falls asleep in his office she says she could never kill him, and 
+Sheridan 
+responds with the same.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Three hours of truly restful sleep was a great aid to Garibaldi who 
+quickly 
+prepared to go underground in search of the transmitter that was giving 
+Earth Dome the inside track on station events.  But, his investigation 
+does not turn up anything immediately except that black marketers from 
+Down Below
+have already begun to leave the station out of fear.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Reverend Bobby James Galazy of the Universal Church of Solar 
+Illumination has found the ideal opportunity to stir up further debate.  
+He calls the Worm a chance to drive the heathen from Babylon 5.  He 
+claims 
+that only humans are made in God's image and the others must be destroyed.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, a Centauri ship is heading towards the Worm.  With Londo's 
+help 
+they manage to get the ship to return to the station with only minimal 
+difficulty.  The command staff agrees that everyone should be involved 
+and 
+share in the results when the station sends out its shuttle later.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Kosh tells Coles she is ready and to come to him.  But Coles is already 
+having second thoughts, but finally relents and heads towards Kosh.  Kosh 
+then opens a portion of his mind to her, revealing what he has determined 
+about the Worm.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova is called upon to meet with the Consortium of Live Eaters and 
+procure the return of a Centauri who had been abducted.  They are a race 
+that live in an acidic atmosphere and were not visited by members of the 
+staff.  After donning a special environmental suit she enters their 
+chambers.  They explain that they are preparing for termination of their 
+community during the "Feast and Dissolution Ceremony" and the Centauri 
+entered "willingly."  They agree to return the Centauri and proceed with 
+their ceremony without the Centauri.  Ivanova watches them consume 
+themselves in just a few brief moments.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Hilton Dowd, Clark's aide, explains to Sheridan how displeased the 
+President is with Sheridan's responses thus far.  Dowd mentions that 
+military action is being considered.  When Sheridan explains that 
+anything 
+like that should wait till after the manned shuttled expedition, Dowd 
+explains he already knows of that and is expecting the results.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova and her scientific team including several techs and a Dr. Creighton 
+Laramie of Barker Industries on Earth approach the Worm.
+As the shuttle draws closer, 
+sensors turned up nothing.  As Dr. Laramie described it, there is just the 
+illusion of brightness.  Ivanova contacts Sheridan before they agree that 
+the shuttle will go through the Worm.  As Sheridan agrees, one of the 
+techs comes out like a loony with a spanner in hand.   Another tech 
+explains that a third tech is already badly injured and they need to 
+return 
+to the station to save his life.  Laramie puts up a small fight about the 
+need to return to the station, but relents.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+When they get back to the station things have gotten out of control.  
+Ivanova is sent to try and handle the bikers while Garibaldi tries to 
+handle a situation between the Narn and Centauri in the Zocalo.  After 
+locating G'Kar, Garibaldi heads to the Zocalo.  Mollari is already dead 
+drunk and next to one of Garibaldi's guards in the Zocalo.  
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova has little success with the bikers till Garibaldi checks in via 
+link and he convinces them to cut her some slack.  They take off to come 
+help Garibaldi in the Zocalo.  Meanwhile, Garibaldi is pinned down with 
+G'Kar but he notices that Mollari had been kidnapped by the Narn.  G'Kar 
+attempts to help them but given the general chaos little seems likely.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Once again Ambassador Delenn's dreams are intruded upon by the image of a 
+fight 
+with Sheridan.  This time the setting is a joust in which Sheridan 
+finally 
+kills her as she pleads for him not to take her life.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Coles awakens to Garibaldi who has brought her back from Kosh's quarters. 
+ 
+He gives her one of the sleeping pills.  When Coles awakens, Sheridan and 
+Garibaldi question her about what she learned from Kosh.  She says she 
+learned nothing, just that it felt like a ghost of something.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan resolves to speak to Kosh and goes to visit him.  Kosh explains 
+that Coles saw a fragment and that he is studying the worm, but can tell 
+Sheridan nothing.  As Sheridan pushes Kosh, he senses that the Worm is 
+affecting Kosh also and Kosh finally withdraws asking Sheridan to leave 
+firmly.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+In one of the docking bays, Ivanova is trying to keep people from leaving 
+the station.  The crowd's mob mentality overwhelmed Ivanova and they 
+stormed towards the freighter.   The freighter attempts to take off, but 
+the only thing that it succeeds in doing is rupturing itself, the hull and 
+taking a number of lives with it.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Reverend Bobby James Galaxy continues to dream up his Final Plan.  Dreams 
+of destroying the aliens.  Mass destruction, which he truly believed in.  
+Franklin found that even with the pills, dreams came, terrible dreams.  
+Him 
+in Medlab being the subject of study.  Franklin contacts Sheridan and 
+explains that the pills can not be used repeatedly or that perhaps the
+ever-increasing proximity of the Worm is reducing their effectiveness.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi was having no luck locating Londo, but he did discover that 
+Laramie was the spy.  Sheridan has Laramie put in the brig but before 
+long 
+Earth Central is on the comm with a pardon for Laramie.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Lennier begins acting out his dreams and puts on a loincloth and enters 
+the 
+halls of the station and begins attacking people.  In Command and 
+Control, 
+Earthforce fighters have entered the sector through the jump gate and are 
+heading directly towards the Worm.  Sheridan contacts Earth and demands 
+an 
+explanation and asks that the ships be called back.  Sheridan heads off 
+with the station's Starfuries to intercept the Earthforce fighters and 
+deter them from attacking the Worm.  Through bullying, Sheridan is able 
+to 
+get them to head back to the station with him.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Then a jump point opens and a Centauri battle cruiser emerges near the 
+Worm.  To make matters worse, renegade Narn fighters led by G'Kar arrive 
+and begin a space battle.  (See Notes.)  The three 
+underground fighters continue the attack on the Centauri despite 
+Sheridan's request that the come back to the station.  G'Kar is captured 
+by the Centauri creating a dual hostage standoff.  But, the Centauri 
+battle cruiser is also crippled from the battle.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan has Garibaldi bug Laramie's lab before allowing Laramie to be 
+released.  Garibaldi also discovers that as yet Laramie has discovered 
+nothing of value.  The two hostage holding parties each make demands for 
+release of their respective hostages and then set simultaneous execution 
+times.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+As the Worm drew closer, Coles lay in a fetal position trying to ignore 
+the memories inside her mind.  Lennier sat making weapons like a madman.  
+Delenn locked herself in her quarters and fell into nightmares in which 
+she and Sheridan battled over and over.  Sheridan saw himself transformed 
+into a Minbari.  Everywhere, chaos.  Reverend Galaxy awakens with a plan.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova explains that a mad man, Galaxy, together with the Fermi Angels,
+was planning to blow up Babylon 5 
+as the Worm passes over.  Garibaldi goes to Laramie and after some 
+arguing, Laramie admits him.  Laramie agrees to help.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Lennier and Garibaldi end up in a tussle that results in Garibaldi being 
+stabbed.  Delenn summons Sheridan to the garden where she attempts to 
+kill 
+him, first offering a weapon to the Captain.  Sheridan is possessed with 
+anger and begins to slash at her and then the power went out.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Worm passed through the station.  The power surge met Laramie's 
+counter 
+surge and all power went out.  After the worm passed, the Centauri agree 
+to release G'Kar for Mollari and vice versa.  The station and the people 
+on it begin to return to their senses, somewhat embarrassed about what 
+they 
+had done.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+As some things begin to return to normalcy, there are apologies for bad 
+judgments.  And a final meeting about the Worm.  Little was learned;
+Laramie, Coles, and Kosh each offer nothing of substance.  Garibaldi is 
+given free reign to deal with all of the resulting conflicts and claims 
+and basically locks all the various parties in a conference room until 
+they can settle the difficulties.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The book ends inside Kosh's mind.  The alien had sensed a presence, "What 
+are you...?", Kosh had asked.  And a reply came as the Worm receded, 
+"What 
+are you?"
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What was the Worm?  Anything that a Vorlon can't even comprehend has to 
+send some shivers down ones spine.
      • 
+
+
    • 
+What does Psi Corps hope to gain through breeding Narns and Humans?  Could 
+it have happened given the Narn's continued desire for telepaths as seen 
+in many episodes?
+
      • 
+
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • The very suggestion that there are phenomenon in the universe that 
+the 
+Vorlons can not even comprehend is a nice touch.  All too often, powerful 
+races seem to be able to comprehend everything.  This portrayal of the 
+Vorlons suggests that they are creatures just like the humans, only more 
+advanced.
      • 
+
+
    • The willingness of Clark to show his hand in this book fits 
+remarkably 
+well with where the Third Season has gone.  This foreshadows the level to 
+which Clark has ruthlessly maintained a grip on power through plants of 
+loyal followers.
      • 
+
+
    • One does have to wonder if Clark is at all involved in any of the 
+groups that we have seen in early episodes such as the Home Guard.
      • 
+
+
+
    • 
+The dream where Sheridan sees himself as a Minbari is rather interesting 
+in light of the suggestion that some or many Humans carry Minbari souls.  
+This may suggest that Sheridan, like Sinclair, has one.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+The suggestion that Kosh is a powerful telepath is unsurprising, but the 
+ambassador's ability to communicate at such a distance seems rather 
+remarkable given what we know about telepathy among the other races and 
+the need for some physical proximity.  Although, Ironheart, Mind War, had reached a level where 
+contact and proximity were no longer necessary.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The book refers to G'Kar as an ambassador, given the alleged time setting 
+of the book this is inaccurate.  However, if you just assume that 
+ambassador is being used as shorthand for head of the Narns, the book 
+works.  The setting is supposed to be early 2260, before A Day in the Strife, which is the episode 
+where G'Kar's position as leader of the Narn is challenged.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+The book refers to Delenn as being a member of the Grey Council still.  
+This was not true during the time setting of the book, but it perhaps 
+should be interpreted to mean that someone of high birth or position in 
+Minbari society does not typically wield weapons.  But that notion is 
+also 
+contradicted by Delenn's fighting scene with Marcus in
+"Matters of Honor."
+
      • 
+
+
+
    • 
+The arrival of Narn fighters seems implausible given the time setting and 
+the probable use of any remaining fighters to attack the Centauri back 
+home.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Gerald, the reality is that as humans, we're all flawed. 
+	Errors and inconsistencies in something as big as a novel, written by
+	someone who doesn't work on the show, isn't involved in it day to day,
+	are gong to slip through. That is inevitable.  I try to keep track of
+	it all, read as much as I can, to keep it in line, but the *only* way
+	to keep it 100% canon is to invest all the time I currently spend doing
+	that on the series, which is a 24 hour a day job.
+
+	
      
+	A writer comes in, has a notion for a book, or gets one
+	assigned to him; the writer then goes away and around that notion
+	writes 100,000 words or so.  I don't see it again until the finished
+	manuscript comes in, almost always at the last minute.  The *only* way
+	to make sure that every word of that is canon is to work hand in glove
+	with the writer through every page. The reason the B5 series is as
+	consistent as it is, is because that's what I do, day in and day out.
+
+	
      
+	So the broad strokes are always going to be pretty much
+	consistent with the series; of the next batch, we'll probably do some
+	backstory in the B5 universe taken from my notes.  But some of the
+	details will always be off a bit, because you're turning the work over
+	to the hands of others.  There is simply no other way to do it short of
+	my adding Editor and Publisher to my list of hats.
+
+   
    •  It's either their ignorance or they don't care...but you're
+	correct, in the B5 universe you can't have two races interbreeding just
+	like that. (In fact, I seem to recall pointing this out in my notes on
+	the manuscript; odd that it hasn't been attended to, from what you're
+	saying.  I can only assume that it slipped between the cracks.)
+
+   
    •  Initially Dell kept going for one-word titles, and I generally don't
+	like that, so I told them to have the writers come up with more
+	interesting titles.
+
+
    
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+Novel: "The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name"
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+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
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+Written by Neil Barrett, Jr.
    
+Release date: March 1996
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22230-3 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0158-1 (UK)
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+
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Sheridan battle a deadly rash of
+violence threatening the station . . . and confront a mysterious force
+spreading terror on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
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+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
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+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    The Enemy Within
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5, designed to be a place of peace in a troubled universe, has 
+erupted with riots as visiting cultures clash and passions explode.  
+Security chief Garibaldi must use all his skills to quell the violence 
+between races.  But the troubles escalate as terrifying nightmares 
+plague 
+everyone on board from Captain Sheridan to Vorlon Ambassador Kosh.  It 
+seems as if some "force" is touching them all...
+
    
+
+
    The Touch of Your Shadow, The Whisper of Your Name
    
+
+
    
+Then an alien presence appears.  A long, twisting band of green light 
+nine million miles long stretches out against the darkness of 
+space on a collision course with Babylon 5.  Since it remains invisible 
+to 
+computer sensors, some are calling it an illusion, others are calling it 
+an 
+evil life force.  Still others are calling it God.  Now it is up to 
+Captain Sheridan and Garibaldi to find out, risking there lives, and 
+perhaps their souls, to venture forth among the stars to meet the 
+unknown...
+
    
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
+
    
+The novel opens with Garibaldi sitting on a transport near the Euphrates 
+sector jump gate.  A friend who owes him from a World Series bet
+is taking him back home on a rickety transport.  Almost as soon as they 
+arrive, the friend offers to buy a drink.  After Garibaldi refuses, his 
+link beeps, ending any thoughts of peace and quiet.  Garibaldi reports to 
+Brown deck as request.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Consortium of Live Eaters had gotten down to Brown deck and started 
+rioting.  Meanwhile a fight was breaking out at the Trinocular Film 
+Festival and the Life in Transition group was starting a fight in the 
+Main 
+Hall.  The LITs as they were called had created quite a stir, their 
+belief that life was just a "mistake," led to a large counter protest 
+outside the hall.  Garibaldi convinces them to return to their conference 
+room and posts several guards to keep them there.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi finally gets a chance to meet with Sheridan who apologizes for 
+bringing the Security Chief's leave to such an abrupt end.  Ivanova 
+arrives 
+and Sheridan explains to them how the entire station has been erupting 
+in 
+violence.  Also, a  number of people have been having particularly 
+violent 
+nightmares.  Dr. Franklin arrives late and explains that he hasn't been 
+able to find a source for the disturbances.  Garibaldi reiterates the 
+request to lock the conferees up, but Sheridan explains that a number of 
+the ambassadors have complained. (See Notes.)  After 
+ending the meeting, Garibaldi stays and asks the Captain if he has been 
+having the nightmares too.  Sheridan admits to having them without saying 
+more.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Psi Corps member Martina Coles attempts to sleep and she feels 
+something and yet nothing reaching out to her.  Kosh stands in 
+contemplation as something shakes "Kosh to the core of [its] alien 
+being."  (See Notes.)  Ambassador Delenn, dreaming, 
+finds a curved 
+scimitar in her hand.  A voice cries out to her, warning her to defend 
+herself or die.  The voice belongs to Sheridan, who kills her all the 
+while talking about the end of a time for talking.  (See Notes.)
+G'Kar dreams about destroying the Centauri ships as a hero in war.  But 
+the Centauri, specifically Londo use a new kind of weapon to disable the 
+Narn and prevent victory.  Garibaldi  finds himself in a shuttle with 
+Ivanova.  The two argue about the controls with him finally attempting 
+the 
+landing.  As they were about to make it, he realizes a battle is underway 
+and he wakes screaming 'No!' and covered in sweat.  His link beeps, 
+trouble 
+in Security Central among other locations.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+After breaking up a fight between two of his officers by throwing them in 
+the Brig, Garibaldi goes to handle the Fermi's Angels.  The Angels are 
+motorcyclists in space.  Meanwhile, Sheridan plans a meeting along with 
+Ambassadors 
+for the next day about the incidents on the station.  The invitation also 
+includes Coles who Sheridan feels may have information.  Then Ivanova 
+calls from the observation dome asking him to come see something.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Worm is 9 million miles long and half a million miles wide but aside 
+from a green luminescence, it does not show up on anything but through 
+direct observation.  Sheridan orders a science team to investigate and 
+they begin planning.  He also contacts Earth Dome and the president's 
+aide 
+already knows about the vent.  Sheridan is surprised that they are 
+willing 
+to admit that they have a mole on the inside.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Two things touched Martina Coles' mind.  One was that strange thing 
+that had brushed across the other day.  The other was an alien.  A 
+Vorlon, 
+Kosh.  After shaking off the shivers and cold sweat that the feeling had 
+brought on she goes to the ambassador's quarters.  She asks him to stay 
+out of her mind and he responds "You are . . . not ready to hear me."  
+They "argue" a bit about whether there will be a time when she is ready 
+to 
+hear, but Martina flees the quarters in afraid that continuing will not 
+get 
+her anywhere and that she might loose her cool.  She finally makes it 
+back 
+to her quarters in a state of terror.
+Garibaldi manages to handle the Angels by convincing them that he is 
+'hip'. 
+And they give him a jacket and offer to give him a ride.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+At the briefing the next day, the table was crowded.  Ivanova had already 
+positioned herself next to the door so that after Londo and G'Kar 
+entered 
+they would not leave and would stay at the table.  The science team that 
+Ivanova was organizing had not yet left.  And Sheridan tried to get any 
+information about the incidents.  Kosh was of course absent from the 
+meeting. Martina Coles balks at reading aliens for Sheridan in an attempt 
+to figure anything out.  She explains that her temporary contract has a 
+clause excusing her from such requests.  Garibaldi makes a reference to 
+the 
+alleged bomb planted in Londo by saying 'Boo!' and that calms Londo down 
+again.  After the meeting adjourns, Delenn talks to Sheridan and warns him 
+that the station may be in worse danger based on her dreams.  She warns 
+that the races may all turn on each other and explains her dream in which 
+he tries to kill her.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+In the Observation Dome, Ivanova is surprised that the Worm is moving 
+towards the station at a rapid click.  The Worm would arrive within 
+forty-eight hours.  Lennier meanwhile was beginning to be affected by the 
+Worm.  When Coles accidentally brushed against him in the hall, he began to 
+simmer angrily.  Returning to his quarters he smashed a mirror and began 
+to 
+recall his dreams of roaming the halls with a spear and a loincloth.  His 
+goal, targeting the non-Minbari.  The blood from his knuckles brought 
+unconsciousness and sleep.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Franklin was under a tremendous amount of stress from the influx of minor 
+injuries as well as the concern about the unknown plague that was 
+afflicting the station.  Garibaldi meanwhile also had his hands full with 
+chaos throughout the station.  He attempts to break into Coles' quarters, 
+but she arrives before he enters.  They argue briefly and she passes out. 
+ 
+Garibaldi offers some aid and seems convinced that Coles is at the least 
+not working against them.  
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Garibaldi discuss Coles and Garibaldi thinks she knows 
+something but is too frightened to discuss it.  Sheridan also explains 
+that 
+Earth Central is afraid of the Worm but unwilling to assist with sending 
+troops. Back in Command and Control, Ivanova monitors the large science 
+probe they sent to the Worm.  Nothing.  Not even video. They agree to 
+prepare another probe, this one with a weapon to give off a little shock.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan sleeps fitfully.  He dreams of the Minbari Grey Council.  They 
+ask what he fears.  Delenn enters the circle from behind and asks if 
+Sheridan fears her.  The council disappeared and in darkness he found 
+himself staring into a lit mirror, his face Minbari.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Again the Worm invades Martina Coles' mind and she screams in terror.  And 
+then a dream, actually a memory comes.  Psi Corps had let a Narn come to 
+her 
+when she was sixteen to breed.  Psi Corps hoped that it would be more 
+powerful than anything they had ever produced.  Martina ran away and 
+nothing was ever said of it again.  When she awakens, Martina reaches out 
+to Kosh and asks to speak to him.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sleep deprivation is hitting the command staff badly.  Franklin has 
+created a vile looking sleep pill that will enable a few hours of sleep 
+without interruption by dreams.  Delenn informs Sheridan that her world is 
+now on full alert since they are afraid the Worm is a prelude to war.  
+Sheridan gives Delenn one of the pills to assist her in sleep.  As she 
+falls asleep in his office she says she could never kill him, and 
+Sheridan 
+responds with the same.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Three hours of truly restful sleep was a great aid to Garibaldi who 
+quickly 
+prepared to go underground in search of the transmitter that was giving 
+Earth Dome the inside track on station events.  But, his investigation 
+does not turn up anything immediately except that black marketers from 
+Down Below
+have already begun to leave the station out of fear.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Reverend Bobby James Galazy of the Universal Church of Solar 
+Illumination has found the ideal opportunity to stir up further debate.  
+He calls the Worm a chance to drive the heathen from Babylon 5.  He 
+claims 
+that only humans are made in God's image and the others must be destroyed.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, a Centauri ship is heading towards the Worm.  With Londo's 
+help 
+they manage to get the ship to return to the station with only minimal 
+difficulty.  The command staff agrees that everyone should be involved 
+and 
+share in the results when the station sends out its shuttle later.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Kosh tells Coles she is ready and to come to him.  But Coles is already 
+having second thoughts, but finally relents and heads towards Kosh.  Kosh 
+then opens a portion of his mind to her, revealing what he has determined 
+about the Worm.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova is called upon to meet with the Consortium of Live Eaters and 
+procure the return of a Centauri who had been abducted.  They are a race 
+that live in an acidic atmosphere and were not visited by members of the 
+staff.  After donning a special environmental suit she enters their 
+chambers.  They explain that they are preparing for termination of their 
+community during the "Feast and Dissolution Ceremony" and the Centauri 
+entered "willingly."  They agree to return the Centauri and proceed with 
+their ceremony without the Centauri.  Ivanova watches them consume 
+themselves in just a few brief moments.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Hilton Dowd, Clark's aide, explains to Sheridan how displeased the 
+President is with Sheridan's responses thus far.  Dowd mentions that 
+military action is being considered.  When Sheridan explains that 
+anything 
+like that should wait till after the manned shuttled expedition, Dowd 
+explains he already knows of that and is expecting the results.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova and her scientific team including several techs and a Dr. Creighton 
+Laramie of Barker Industries on Earth approach the Worm.
+As the shuttle draws closer, 
+sensors turned up nothing.  As Dr. Laramie described it, there is just the 
+illusion of brightness.  Ivanova contacts Sheridan before they agree that 
+the shuttle will go through the Worm.  As Sheridan agrees, one of the 
+techs comes out like a loony with a spanner in hand.   Another tech 
+explains that a third tech is already badly injured and they need to 
+return 
+to the station to save his life.  Laramie puts up a small fight about the 
+need to return to the station, but relents.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+When they get back to the station things have gotten out of control.  
+Ivanova is sent to try and handle the bikers while Garibaldi tries to 
+handle a situation between the Narn and Centauri in the Zocalo.  After 
+locating G'Kar, Garibaldi heads to the Zocalo.  Mollari is already dead 
+drunk and next to one of Garibaldi's guards in the Zocalo.  
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova has little success with the bikers till Garibaldi checks in via 
+link and he convinces them to cut her some slack.  They take off to come 
+help Garibaldi in the Zocalo.  Meanwhile, Garibaldi is pinned down with 
+G'Kar but he notices that Mollari had been kidnapped by the Narn.  G'Kar 
+attempts to help them but given the general chaos little seems likely.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Once again Ambassador Delenn's dreams are intruded upon by the image of a 
+fight 
+with Sheridan.  This time the setting is a joust in which Sheridan 
+finally 
+kills her as she pleads for him not to take her life.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Coles awakens to Garibaldi who has brought her back from Kosh's quarters. 
+ 
+He gives her one of the sleeping pills.  When Coles awakens, Sheridan and 
+Garibaldi question her about what she learned from Kosh.  She says she 
+learned nothing, just that it felt like a ghost of something.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan resolves to speak to Kosh and goes to visit him.  Kosh explains 
+that Coles saw a fragment and that he is studying the worm, but can tell 
+Sheridan nothing.  As Sheridan pushes Kosh, he senses that the Worm is 
+affecting Kosh also and Kosh finally withdraws asking Sheridan to leave 
+firmly.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+In one of the docking bays, Ivanova is trying to keep people from leaving 
+the station.  The crowd's mob mentality overwhelmed Ivanova and they 
+stormed towards the freighter.   The freighter attempts to take off, but 
+the only thing that it succeeds in doing is rupturing itself, the hull and 
+taking a number of lives with it.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Reverend Bobby James Galaxy continues to dream up his Final Plan.  Dreams 
+of destroying the aliens.  Mass destruction, which he truly believed in.  
+Franklin found that even with the pills, dreams came, terrible dreams.  
+Him 
+in Medlab being the subject of study.  Franklin contacts Sheridan and 
+explains that the pills can not be used repeatedly or that perhaps the
+ever-increasing proximity of the Worm is reducing their effectiveness.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi was having no luck locating Londo, but he did discover that 
+Laramie was the spy.  Sheridan has Laramie put in the brig but before 
+long 
+Earth Central is on the comm with a pardon for Laramie.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Lennier begins acting out his dreams and puts on a loincloth and enters 
+the 
+halls of the station and begins attacking people.  In Command and 
+Control, 
+Earthforce fighters have entered the sector through the jump gate and are 
+heading directly towards the Worm.  Sheridan contacts Earth and demands 
+an 
+explanation and asks that the ships be called back.  Sheridan heads off 
+with the station's Starfuries to intercept the Earthforce fighters and 
+deter them from attacking the Worm.  Through bullying, Sheridan is able 
+to 
+get them to head back to the station with him.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Then a jump point opens and a Centauri battle cruiser emerges near the 
+Worm.  To make matters worse, renegade Narn fighters led by G'Kar arrive 
+and begin a space battle.  (See Notes.)  The three 
+underground fighters continue the attack on the Centauri despite 
+Sheridan's request that the come back to the station.  G'Kar is captured 
+by the Centauri creating a dual hostage standoff.  But, the Centauri 
+battle cruiser is also crippled from the battle.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan has Garibaldi bug Laramie's lab before allowing Laramie to be 
+released.  Garibaldi also discovers that as yet Laramie has discovered 
+nothing of value.  The two hostage holding parties each make demands for 
+release of their respective hostages and then set simultaneous execution 
+times.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+As the Worm drew closer, Coles lay in a fetal position trying to ignore 
+the memories inside her mind.  Lennier sat making weapons like a madman.  
+Delenn locked herself in her quarters and fell into nightmares in which 
+she and Sheridan battled over and over.  Sheridan saw himself transformed 
+into a Minbari.  Everywhere, chaos.  Reverend Galaxy awakens with a plan.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova explains that a mad man, Galaxy, together with the Fermi Angels,
+was planning to blow up Babylon 5 
+as the Worm passes over.  Garibaldi goes to Laramie and after some 
+arguing, Laramie admits him.  Laramie agrees to help.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Lennier and Garibaldi end up in a tussle that results in Garibaldi being 
+stabbed.  Delenn summons Sheridan to the garden where she attempts to 
+kill 
+him, first offering a weapon to the Captain.  Sheridan is possessed with 
+anger and begins to slash at her and then the power went out.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Worm passed through the station.  The power surge met Laramie's 
+counter 
+surge and all power went out.  After the worm passed, the Centauri agree 
+to release G'Kar for Mollari and vice versa.  The station and the people 
+on it begin to return to their senses, somewhat embarrassed about what 
+they 
+had done.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+As some things begin to return to normalcy, there are apologies for bad 
+judgments.  And a final meeting about the Worm.  Little was learned;
+Laramie, Coles, and Kosh each offer nothing of substance.  Garibaldi is 
+given free reign to deal with all of the resulting conflicts and claims 
+and basically locks all the various parties in a conference room until 
+they can settle the difficulties.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The book ends inside Kosh's mind.  The alien had sensed a presence, "What 
+are you...?", Kosh had asked.  And a reply came as the Worm receded, 
+"What 
+are you?"
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+What was the Worm?  Anything that a Vorlon can't even comprehend has to 
+send some shivers down ones spine.
      • 
+
+
    • 
+What does Psi Corps hope to gain through breeding Narns and Humans?  Could 
+it have happened given the Narn's continued desire for telepaths as seen 
+in many episodes?
+
      • 
+
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • The very suggestion that there are phenomenon in the universe that 
+the 
+Vorlons can not even comprehend is a nice touch.  All too often, powerful 
+races seem to be able to comprehend everything.  This portrayal of the 
+Vorlons suggests that they are creatures just like the humans, only more 
+advanced.
      • 
+
+
    • The willingness of Clark to show his hand in this book fits 
+remarkably 
+well with where the Third Season has gone.  This foreshadows the level to 
+which Clark has ruthlessly maintained a grip on power through plants of 
+loyal followers.
      • 
+
+
    • One does have to wonder if Clark is at all involved in any of the 
+groups that we have seen in early episodes such as the Home Guard.
      • 
+
+
+
    • 
+The dream where Sheridan sees himself as a Minbari is rather interesting 
+in light of the suggestion that some or many Humans carry Minbari souls.  
+This may suggest that Sheridan, like Sinclair, has one.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+The suggestion that Kosh is a powerful telepath is unsurprising, but the 
+ambassador's ability to communicate at such a distance seems rather 
+remarkable given what we know about telepathy among the other races and 
+the need for some physical proximity.  Although, Ironheart, Mind War, had reached a level where 
+contact and proximity were no longer necessary.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The book refers to G'Kar as an ambassador, given the alleged time setting 
+of the book this is inaccurate.  However, if you just assume that 
+ambassador is being used as shorthand for head of the Narns, the book 
+works.  The setting is supposed to be early 2260, before A Day in the Strife, which is the episode 
+where G'Kar's position as leader of the Narn is challenged.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+The book refers to Delenn as being a member of the Grey Council still.  
+This was not true during the time setting of the book, but it perhaps 
+should be interpreted to mean that someone of high birth or position in 
+Minbari society does not typically wield weapons.  But that notion is 
+also 
+contradicted by Delenn's fighting scene with Marcus in
+"Matters of Honor."
+
      • 
+
+
+
    • 
+The arrival of Narn fighters seems implausible given the time setting and 
+the probable use of any remaining fighters to attack the Centauri back 
+home.
+
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+
+
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Gerald, the reality is that as humans, we're all flawed. 
+	Errors and inconsistencies in something as big as a novel, written by
+	someone who doesn't work on the show, isn't involved in it day to day,
+	are gong to slip through. That is inevitable.  I try to keep track of
+	it all, read as much as I can, to keep it in line, but the *only* way
+	to keep it 100% canon is to invest all the time I currently spend doing
+	that on the series, which is a 24 hour a day job.
+
+	
      
+	A writer comes in, has a notion for a book, or gets one
+	assigned to him; the writer then goes away and around that notion
+	writes 100,000 words or so.  I don't see it again until the finished
+	manuscript comes in, almost always at the last minute.  The *only* way
+	to make sure that every word of that is canon is to work hand in glove
+	with the writer through every page. The reason the B5 series is as
+	consistent as it is, is because that's what I do, day in and day out.
+
+	
      
+	So the broad strokes are always going to be pretty much
+	consistent with the series; of the next batch, we'll probably do some
+	backstory in the B5 universe taken from my notes.  But some of the
+	details will always be off a bit, because you're turning the work over
+	to the hands of others.  There is simply no other way to do it short of
+	my adding Editor and Publisher to my list of hats.
+
+   
    •  It's either their ignorance or they don't care...but you're
+	correct, in the B5 universe you can't have two races interbreeding just
+	like that. (In fact, I seem to recall pointing this out in my notes on
+	the manuscript; odd that it hasn't been attended to, from what you're
+	saying.  I can only assume that it slipped between the cracks.)
+
+   
    •  Initially Dell kept going for one-word titles, and I generally don't
+	like that, so I told them to have the writers come up with more
+	interesting titles.
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+Written by S. M. Stirling
    
+Release date: May 1996
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22234-6 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0163-8 (UK)
+
+
    
+
+
    
+When Babylon 5 becomes the site of a peace summit between the
+universe's two warring super powers, Captain Sheridan and the
+EarthForce personnel have a security nightmare on their hands.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
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+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    By Any Means Necessary...
    
+
+
    
+When diplomats from the universe's two warring superpowers come to
+Babylon 5 for a peace summit, Captain Sheridan and the
+Earthforce Personnel know that security is paramount. But
+a brilliant con woman is making plans of her own - plans
+for the ambassadors of both Centauri and Narn - and in the belly
+of B5 the seeds of rebellion are being sewn....
+
+
    Betrayals
    
+
+
    
+A twin brother and sister, equally committed to their cause but
+divided by strategy, seek liberation for the planet, T'll. Then a
+T'llin exile is murdered, and violence erupts on Babylon 5, its
+internal communications hopelessly scrambled. With rebels
+threatening to bathe the peace conference in blood, and hostile
+warships approaching, Garibaldi must plot a rescue of Sheridan
+and the diplomats. But it may be too late. The T'llin
+have learned the art of destruction from masters, and for them 
+freedom is worth any price: even self-annihilation.
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
+
    
+The book opens in Sheridan's office with Garibaldi, Ivanova and Franklin 
+in 
+attendance.  Plans are arduously being reviewed for the upcoming peace 
+conference between the Narn and the Centauri.  Sheridan expresses to 
+Garibaldi some of the concerns that added security drills have had to the 
+population of the station.  The discussion is interrupted by Both G'Kar 
+and 
+Londo who separately are checking that both delegations have been given 
+equally sized quarters among other important concerns.  Privately, G'Kar 
+expresses to Na'Toth a desire for peace, since he had always hoped that 
+the battle could be fought at a time of the Narn's choosing.  Both the 
+Centauri and the Narn begin elaborate preparations of their respective 
+delegations quarters.
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Down Below, the T'llin where in hiding, but preparing for the visit of 
+the 
+Primes, a brother and sister who were the rulers of the T'll.  T'llin 
+homeworld had been decimated and dominated by the Narns using the 
+techniques they had learned from the Centauri.  The T'llin already 
+onboard 
+the station prepare to rent more suitable quarters for the arrival of 
+their leader.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is training his new arrivals in hostage situations; Sergeant 
+Kobayashi is one of the hostages.  The recruits fail miserably, and the 
+'dead' Sergeant offers the advice that they should have used gas to knock 
+everyone out before coming in.  Back at Command and Control (C&C), the 
+situation is tense as usual, Ivanova is finding that the new officer, 
+Larkin who is serving C&C just can't hack the work.  Larkin is somewhat 
+mentally unstable from the internal monologue given and resents being 
+talked down to and resolves to put Ivanova in her place.  Sheridan 
+continues to be besieged by diplomatic requests of various sorts.  The 
+Narn 
+and the Centauri are discussing every issue from who should debark first 
+to who should land first.  While shopping for goods for their leaders, 
+the 
+T'llin encounter Na'Toth.  Na'Toth attacks and ends up injured.  G'Kar 
+charges Na'Toth with investigating the situation since the Narn do not 
+want their treatment of the T'llin publicized.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is preparing the new recruits for their first shift at the 
+customs area.  Each new recruit will be paired with an experienced 
+security officer.  After depositing his charges, he meets Semana 
+MacBride, 
+she is wearing a Minbari like dress and her attractive appearance is 
+calculated to draw the interest of men.  She is arguing with the security 
+officers about entering the station with the sculpture that is to be 
+donated to the station.  Garibaldi assists her in getting through customs 
+and also finds himself concerned about her.  After she departs, he puts 
+in 
+a priority one request for her records from Earth Central.  MacBride is 
+similarly 
+concerned, and grateful, that she was able to encounter Garibaldi so 
+early 
+on to warn her of the dangers.  Ivanova is simultaneously relieved and 
+more 
+concerned by Larkin's clean bill of health.  She had required him to get 
+a 
+physical, but not a psych evaluation because she did not want to subject 
+him to a telepathic scan.  Larkin returns to his quarters and sits down 
+at 
+his personal computer and resolves that it is time to put Ivanova in her 
+place.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Na'Toth argue about why she did not report the incident 
+with 
+T'llin immediately and explains that none are recorded as residents.  The 
+computer record does not indicate that any T'llin have come 
+aboard 
+the station, but this contradicts Garibaldi and other's own experiences 
+of 
+seeing families of T'llin around.  In Semana's quarters, she feeds a 
+bizarre plant-like creature named Tiko.  Tiko seems to have ability to 
+disguise itself as a variety of objects successfully.
+Na'Toth uses informers to try and get information about the T'llin 
+downbelow, but in the process ends up their prisoner.
+The furnishing Londo ended up ordering for himself rather than the 
+delegates arrives and he seems very satisfied since the accountants seem 
+hell bent on preventing him from enjoying his new stature.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The next morning, Ivanova finds a data crystal outside her door.  She 
+immediately summons Garibaldi and they view it together.  The crystal 
+suggests that her brother was a traitor on Io and shows "him" meeting 
+with 
+a spy on Io during the Earth-Minbari war.  The T'llin decide to release 
+Na'Toth rather than kill her after some debate.  And, from Earth, 
+Sheridan 
+receives a communique that the president's niece will be visiting as a 
+reporter.  At C&C, Ivanova arrives late, but composed, which upsets 
+Larkin 
+greatly.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan is selected to unveil Semana MacBride's statue.  Garibaldi 
+returns 
+to security to find G'Kar on the screen demanding the Garibaldi come to 
+his quarters immediately.  G'Kar explains the assault on Na'Toth and 
+demands that Garibaldi handle it immediately.  After some discussion, 
+Garibaldi resolves to look into this by going down below alone and in 
+disguise.  The T'llin manage to rent an office suite using a human agent 
+to 
+sign the deal.  
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi gets attacked down below and is rescued.  Franklin manages to 
+patch him up a bit.  Garibaldi explains it could not have been the T'llin 
+who have all completely disappeared.  Sheridan arrives in Medlab and says 
+we have to talk.  Ivanova sets up a private interview with Larkin to try 
+and assess what might be the problem.  Ivanova has no success in trying 
+to 
+get Larkin to talk in any significant way and ends up leaving him in 
+tears.  Larkin resolves that he must really get her for talking to him 
+like that.  Garibaldi brings the somewhat aggravated Captain up to speed 
+on the situation with the T'llin.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Semana was all ready for the unveiling.  Semana applies her charms 
+vigorously to the Narn ambassador, much to Na'Toth's chagrin.  Semana 
+also 
+dotes on Londo, also to Vir's chagrin.  Na'Toth and Vir 
+exchange knowing glances sharing for a brief moment the same thought.  
+Garibaldi takes a moment to approach MacBride and inquire about her 
+previous misunderstanding with the law over an earlier art deal.  After 
+being revealed, the statue has two T'llin sculpted on the side.  This 
+causes G'Kar to loose his temper and Semana promises that they will be 
+removed.  Sergeant Midori Kobayashi finally approaches Delenn and invites 
+her to a tea ceremony.  Delenn asks Lennier to make inquiries about the 
+sergeant.
+
    
+
+
    
+After the party, Semana returns to the site and loosens the T'llin from 
+the 
+statue, the Primes step free and Semana provides Minbari disguises for 
+them and some credits.  Lennier manages to get a hold of Garibaldi.  In 
+discussing the statue he notes that the disappearance of the T'llin 
+figures 
+was due to the fact that they probably walked away.  Lennier advises 
+Garibaldi to inquire with the lady, Semana, to find out more.  Lennier 
+then proceeds to ask about the sergeant and the tea ceremony.  Garibaldi 
+heartily endorses the sergeant, describing her as absolutely trustworthy. 
+ 
+Semana takes a private moment with G'Kar to offer the Centauri Eye, see 
+Signs and Portents.  Semana shows G'Kar 
+the Eye, actually 
+it is her pet disguising itself as the eye.  G'Kar returns to his quarters 
+excited and Na'Toth is appropriately skeptical that it could be the 
+actual 
+eye.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The next morning, Susan found yet another data crystal outside the door.  
+This one she did not view, but gave directly to Garibaldi.  This one had 
+a 
+surprising ring of truth because it concerned actions of Vanya Ivanov 
+during the war, and the ship shown was one destroyed in battle by the 
+Minbari, but it could have been destroyed by sabotage perhaps.  
+Londo is busy decorating his quarters with just two weeks left to the 
+conference.  At Vir's expression of concern, Londo explains the Centauri 
+have no intention of negotiating peace.  G'Kar meanwhile has obtained a 
+diplomatic pouch with crystals showing Centauri attacks on Narn 
+civilians.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Phina and Olorasin Primes, the brother and sister leaders of the T'llin, 
+begin making their rounds of the diplomats aboard Babylon 5.  Phina, the 
+brother, would like to do something to show the Narns he meant business.  
+At his sister's request, they are visiting the ambassadors.  Delenn 
+agrees 
+to meet with them, but is unable to offer any help.  When they leave, she 
+expresses her regrets to Lennier.  Lennier offers that he knows that if there 
+is anything Delenn can do for them she will.  They visit Captain Sheridan 
+who can only offer to relay their request to Earth Dome, and then head 
+towards the Centauri ambassador's quarters.  G'Kar makes a call to a loan 
+shark for money to purchase the Eye from Semana.  The phone's privacy 
+screen is out of order and Londo is able to overhear the conversation.  
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Back in C&C, Ivanova manages to piss Larkin off even further by thanking 
+him for a job particularly well done.  His internal psychopathy 
+transforms 
+this into a deeper insult steeling his resolve to send another crystal.  
+Londo approaches Semana in a burst of energy, wanting to talk with her.  
+She agrees to have cocktails with Londo just prior to her dinner with 
+G'Kar.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Londo arrives on time, but Semana was already there.  When Londo 
+expresses 
+his interest in the Eye obliquely, she is surprised since she can not 
+understand how he would have found out about it.  Londo still is not 
+certain what Semana has for sale but, given the importance of the Eye and 
+the asking price, the thought comes to him.  A later call to Centauri 
+Prime 
+seems to confirm his suspicions that it is the Eye and that it was in 
+fact 
+perhaps missing from the Palace.  Semana puts the squeeze on G'Kar for 
+the 
+money sooner than G'Kar seems to be able to obtain it.  Prima Phina 
+meanwhile was secretly trying to meet with the Centauri ambassador.  
+While 
+in the hall outside he removes his mask and Na'Toth comes upon him and 
+kills him.  Even Garibaldi feels he must concede that this situation does 
+not seem to have been provoked by Na'Toth, e.g. Phina could have been 
+reaching for a weapon.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The next morning, Ivanova finds a third data crystal in her office.  
+Garibaldi arrives and expresses some surprise that she even uses her 
+office.
+Garibaldi explains that they haven't yet proved the others forgeries, but 
+something still feels wrong, scripted, about them.  She insists on seeing 
+this crystal, it suggests that her father together with the Psi Corps 
+doctor conspired to kill her mother.  Their discussion is interrupted by 
+Sheridan who is upset that Garibaldi did not involve him in the T'llin 
+death the previous evening.  Upon finding out about her brother's death, 
+Olorasin breaks down.  The two were very closely linked twins, perhaps 
+somewhat 
+telepathically, and she collapses.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Londo and Semana finally meet so he can see the object, she shows him the 
+Eye, cautioning against touching, allegedly for his own safety against 
+being traced, but mostly to prevent the truth from coming out about her 
+creature if it were to bite the Ambassador.  The creature shows up 
+properly even under a scan as the Eye.  Londo immediately goes to 
+Garibaldi and the two return to Semana's quarters with a search warrant.  
+She shows papers for a miniature she had bought elsewhere and gets a good 
+one over on Londo after she has managed to get Garibaldi convinced that 
+at 
+most she was trying to overcharge.  Meanwhile the T'llin are discovered 
+in 
+the rented office and will have to return to Down Below.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Japanese tea ceremony prepared by Kobayashi was no small feat.  It 
+turns out it is from a respect she gained for the Minbari when they 
+spared 
+her colony during the war.  Kobayashi also explains that she probably 
+would not 
+have been able to approach Delenn had she not undergone the 
+transformation 
+to the human-like form.  Delenn and Lennier leave feeling significantly 
+lighter, younger and more refreshed.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova had spent hours going over personnel records looking at people 
+who 
+would have access to get at her office.  She intentionally saved Larkin's 
+record for last.  She decides to check on whether any of the commanders 
+who Larkin had previously responded to her message, she discovers that 
+the 
+messages were never sent.  Further research indicates that two have had 
+serious psychological problems and the third gives less than a ringing 
+endorsement.  The researchalso reveals that his hobby as a 
+teenager 
+was the creation of ultra-realistic vids, and that both of his 
+parents 
+were telepaths, but he wasn't.  Both realize that being an untalented kid at 
+a 
+Corps school would be especially cruel.  They decide that they must 
+confront Larkin and Ivanova asks him to be present.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Cray who had previously helped the T'llin set up and was acting as 
+G'Kar's 
+loan shark, informed on the T'llin to G'Kar who immediately calls 
+Garibaldi to round them up.  Olorasin awakens as the other T'llin begin 
+to try 
+and move her somewhere safer.  At that moment she resolves to carry out 
+her brother's plan because she realizes that if they are to be turned 
+over 
+to the Narn eventually, the choice is to die now, or die later.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Wrapped in his own fantasies, Larkin reports to Ivanova's office.  She 
+confronts him with the changed recommendation from a previous officer as 
+well as the various incidents.  After he breaks up some about discussions 
+of his parents, Ivanova orders him for a psych-evaluation and takes him 
+off 
+duty.  Garibaldi tells Larkin that he will be watching and Larkin is sent 
+on his way.  Garibaldi explains that the suggestion of vid equipment was 
+a 
+security trick that Larkin fell for, and that there was no video 
+equipment 
+on the manifests.  Larkin begins losing it further because he thinks 
+Garibaldi actually looked at his quarters.  Sheridan greets the 
+president's niece, Chancy Clark.  Chancy immediately buttonholes Lennier 
+for a tour of the station relieving Sheridan of the rather unpleasant 
+duty.  While trying to deal with the T'llin, a call comes in of an 
+officer 
+down from PPG fire.  A guy in an EA uniform fired upon the security guard.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+From the description, Garibaldi recognizes it is Larkin and puts out an 
+APB.  Larkin is trying to get into the escape pods.  Ivanova immediately 
+heads towards the pods on a hunch that it would be the best way for a 
+civilian unfamiliar with the Starfuries to exit the station.  Ivanova 
+and 
+a technician arrive as Larkin gets himself into the airlock.  She and Hal 
+try to explain the lock has malfunctioned and no pod is present.  No 
+luck, 
+Larkin eats the vacuum of space in just seconds.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+After realizing that the various members of the press couldn't reach any 
+sort of agreement on broadcast arrangements, Sheridan decides that it 
+will 
+be shown over video to the press from a remote camera.  Sheridan 
+encounters 
+Lennier waiting outside the press room and Lennier explains that he finds 
+Chancy Clark's behavior confusing and intriguing.  Clark's niece 
+ingratiates herself with Lennier and also observes to Sheridan that she 
+will be attending in the arrival in person.  Sheridan discusses the 
+Larkin 
+situation with Ivanova and Garibaldi; he is upset that he was not 
+involved 
+with the situation.  Garibaldi explains the T'llin situation to G'Kar and 
+says that they feel like they have gotten all of the T'llin rounded up 
+into the brig.  G'Kar insists on seeing Semana in spite of Na'Toth's 
+attempt to cancel the lunch meeting they had.  Up in C&C the arrival of a 
+freighter with a friend brings an urgent message to Ivanova.  The friend 
+tells Ivanova of a Centauri "fleet" of sorts near the jumpgate the Narns 
+will be using.  Londo says he did not know of the "welcoming committee" 
+and 
+Sheridan has Ivanova take Alpha Wing to the gate to get the Centauri away 
+from there.  The remaining T'llin capture Cray and recruit him for their 
+plan demanding maps and security codes for the station.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Alpha Wing arrives at the Centauri yacht fleet and attempts to contact 
+them.  They seem like a bunch of bozo Centauri looking for trouble or a 
+good time.  Londo's cousin Sodev is on board one of the yachts and Londo 
+himself consents to having them blown out of the sky.  G'Kar meets with 
+Semana and explains that he has obtained most of the asking price, she 
+rebuffs the offer because she does not want to be traced and wants to be 
+off the station as soon as possible.  Before they can negotiate further, 
+Na'Toth drags the ambassador away.  Mollari arrive immediately and Semana 
+seems ready to sell to him.   The Primes' plan is to conceal themselves 
+in 
+the docking bay in hibernation till the delegates arrive.  Ivanova's 
+group 
+uses some trickery to get the Centauri to leave without a fight.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi realizes that Olorasin is missing and sets off to find out her 
+whereabouts as the reception is getting ready to start.  Semana dupes 
+Londo with a cake in a Chinese-style puzzle box and exits the station 
+quickly on the last 
+transport out.  All of the ambassadors except Kosh are present for the 
+reception and security is continuing to look around for any problems in 
+the docking area.  The two delegations enter the docking area 
+simultaneously and head down to the platform to be greeted.  In moments, 
+the hull breach warnings sounded and air began escaping.  The delegates 
+and guests crowded into the hull breach area to wait out the problems.  
+Additionally, breach doors came down sealing the docking area from the 
+rest 
+of the station.  After keeping the camera out, they closed the breach 
+area.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The T'llin had come out of hibernation in their fake Earthforce uniforms 
+with PPGs in hand.  Olorasin announces that they are her prisoners and 
+Sheridan spots one with a bomb rigged to a dead man's switch.  Garibaldi 
+determines that the communications to the docking area have been disabled 
+and readies his team for action.  In the docking bay, the Centauri are 
+confused as to why the T'llin do not consider them friends, but Olorasin 
+explains that it is because they taught the Narns to be the way they are. 
+ 
+Olorasin explains that they too have learned, but perhaps more quickly 
+than the Narn and are willing to kill everyone to make their point.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks Olorasin what she wants, she explains they want the Narn to 
+leave their world.  Delenn attempts to intervene, with little apparent 
+effect.  Seeing that arguing was going nowhere, the delegations at 
+Olorasin's insistence begin discussing peace as they sit waiting.  
+Olorasin rather effectively cuts through the posturing between the 
+parties 
+as Garibaldi's team comes through the outer hull into the docking bay.  
+Na'Toth makes a foolish attempt to change the situation which results in 
+her being shot by a PPG.  As Olorasin hovers over Na'Toth ready to kill 
+perhaps because of the murder of her brother, Garibaldi's team becomes 
+ready to operate and their charges go off on the breach door.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+At that moment, Olorasin decides to surrender and orders her troops to 
+give up
+their weapons.  The T'llin with the dead man's switch lets it go and Midori 
+throws herself against the T'llin, sparing the others' lives at the cost of 
+her own.  Sheridan expresses some thoughts to the Narn about the T'llin 
+and getting out of their world.  He also explains that the remaining 
+Prime 
+will be granted asylum and Delenn explains that the Centauri have agreed 
+to 
+be the second sponsor.  Delenn and Sheridan leave hand in hand to discuss 
+the T'llin situation suggesting that Delenn may be able to offer some aid.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+As the officers make a toast to Midori, Garibaldi explains that Delenn 
+had 
+offered to write her family, calling it an obligation.
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Who attacked Garibaldi down below?
+
      • 
+
    • 
+How did Larkin manage to gain so much access to the systems and create 
+such 
+sophisticated forgeries?  The book suggests a high level of experience on 
+his part, but also hints that there may be more back doors in Earth 
+Alliance 
+systems than are readily apparent.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+How did Lennier know the figurines of the T'llin had walked away?  Do the 
+Minbari have more knowledge of T'llin physiology and their ability to 
+hibernate, or is it just a suspicion?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Having G'Kar make the call to the loan shark from a public phone seems to 
+be a bit too convenient.  Why would G'Kar use a public phone to make the 
+call?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Was the Eye actually stolen from Centauri Prime or is Londo being played 
+for a complete fool?  The Centauri already have lost this valuable object 
+once before, to loose it again does not seem that unthinkable.
+
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+
+
    
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Narn may not have had significant space capabilities prior to 
+encountering the Centauri.  Why though when the Centauri met the humans 
+much more recently, did they not enslave the planet?  This suggests that 
+the Centauri have been in decline for quite some time.
+
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+
+
    
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+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+This novel is set in 2259, the second season, prior to the destruction 
+of the Narn Homeworld
+
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+
    • 
+This book portrays Garibaldi and Sheridan as not entirely getting along, 
+it 
+is unclear what this is based upon, but is not entirely out of character 
+either, at the least Sheridan and Garibaldi do not have the relationship 
+that Sinclair and Garibaldi did.
+
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    The Author Speaks
    
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+Contents:
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+Notes -
+Author
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+Written by S. M. Stirling
    
+Release date: May 1996
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22234-6 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-0163-8 (UK)
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+When Babylon 5 becomes the site of a peace summit between the
+universe's two warring super powers, Captain Sheridan and the
+EarthForce personnel have a security nightmare on their hands.
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    Back Cover
    
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    By Any Means Necessary...
    
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+When diplomats from the universe's two warring superpowers come to
+Babylon 5 for a peace summit, Captain Sheridan and the
+Earthforce Personnel know that security is paramount. But
+a brilliant con woman is making plans of her own - plans
+for the ambassadors of both Centauri and Narn - and in the belly
+of B5 the seeds of rebellion are being sewn....
+
+
    Betrayals
    
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+A twin brother and sister, equally committed to their cause but
+divided by strategy, seek liberation for the planet, T'll. Then a
+T'llin exile is murdered, and violence erupts on Babylon 5, its
+internal communications hopelessly scrambled. With rebels
+threatening to bathe the peace conference in blood, and hostile
+warships approaching, Garibaldi must plot a rescue of Sheridan
+and the diplomats. But it may be too late. The T'llin
+have learned the art of destruction from masters, and for them 
+freedom is worth any price: even self-annihilation.
+
+
    Synopsis
    
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+
    
+The book opens in Sheridan's office with Garibaldi, Ivanova and Franklin 
+in 
+attendance.  Plans are arduously being reviewed for the upcoming peace 
+conference between the Narn and the Centauri.  Sheridan expresses to 
+Garibaldi some of the concerns that added security drills have had to the 
+population of the station.  The discussion is interrupted by Both G'Kar 
+and 
+Londo who separately are checking that both delegations have been given 
+equally sized quarters among other important concerns.  Privately, G'Kar 
+expresses to Na'Toth a desire for peace, since he had always hoped that 
+the battle could be fought at a time of the Narn's choosing.  Both the 
+Centauri and the Narn begin elaborate preparations of their respective 
+delegations quarters.
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+
+
+
+
    
+Down Below, the T'llin where in hiding, but preparing for the visit of 
+the 
+Primes, a brother and sister who were the rulers of the T'll.  T'llin 
+homeworld had been decimated and dominated by the Narns using the 
+techniques they had learned from the Centauri.  The T'llin already 
+onboard 
+the station prepare to rent more suitable quarters for the arrival of 
+their leader.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is training his new arrivals in hostage situations; Sergeant 
+Kobayashi is one of the hostages.  The recruits fail miserably, and the 
+'dead' Sergeant offers the advice that they should have used gas to knock 
+everyone out before coming in.  Back at Command and Control (C&C), the 
+situation is tense as usual, Ivanova is finding that the new officer, 
+Larkin who is serving C&C just can't hack the work.  Larkin is somewhat 
+mentally unstable from the internal monologue given and resents being 
+talked down to and resolves to put Ivanova in her place.  Sheridan 
+continues to be besieged by diplomatic requests of various sorts.  The 
+Narn 
+and the Centauri are discussing every issue from who should debark first 
+to who should land first.  While shopping for goods for their leaders, 
+the 
+T'llin encounter Na'Toth.  Na'Toth attacks and ends up injured.  G'Kar 
+charges Na'Toth with investigating the situation since the Narn do not 
+want their treatment of the T'llin publicized.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is preparing the new recruits for their first shift at the 
+customs area.  Each new recruit will be paired with an experienced 
+security officer.  After depositing his charges, he meets Semana 
+MacBride, 
+she is wearing a Minbari like dress and her attractive appearance is 
+calculated to draw the interest of men.  She is arguing with the security 
+officers about entering the station with the sculpture that is to be 
+donated to the station.  Garibaldi assists her in getting through customs 
+and also finds himself concerned about her.  After she departs, he puts 
+in 
+a priority one request for her records from Earth Central.  MacBride is 
+similarly 
+concerned, and grateful, that she was able to encounter Garibaldi so 
+early 
+on to warn her of the dangers.  Ivanova is simultaneously relieved and 
+more 
+concerned by Larkin's clean bill of health.  She had required him to get 
+a 
+physical, but not a psych evaluation because she did not want to subject 
+him to a telepathic scan.  Larkin returns to his quarters and sits down 
+at 
+his personal computer and resolves that it is time to put Ivanova in her 
+place.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Na'Toth argue about why she did not report the incident 
+with 
+T'llin immediately and explains that none are recorded as residents.  The 
+computer record does not indicate that any T'llin have come 
+aboard 
+the station, but this contradicts Garibaldi and other's own experiences 
+of 
+seeing families of T'llin around.  In Semana's quarters, she feeds a 
+bizarre plant-like creature named Tiko.  Tiko seems to have ability to 
+disguise itself as a variety of objects successfully.
+Na'Toth uses informers to try and get information about the T'llin 
+downbelow, but in the process ends up their prisoner.
+The furnishing Londo ended up ordering for himself rather than the 
+delegates arrives and he seems very satisfied since the accountants seem 
+hell bent on preventing him from enjoying his new stature.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The next morning, Ivanova finds a data crystal outside her door.  She 
+immediately summons Garibaldi and they view it together.  The crystal 
+suggests that her brother was a traitor on Io and shows "him" meeting 
+with 
+a spy on Io during the Earth-Minbari war.  The T'llin decide to release 
+Na'Toth rather than kill her after some debate.  And, from Earth, 
+Sheridan 
+receives a communique that the president's niece will be visiting as a 
+reporter.  At C&C, Ivanova arrives late, but composed, which upsets 
+Larkin 
+greatly.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan is selected to unveil Semana MacBride's statue.  Garibaldi 
+returns 
+to security to find G'Kar on the screen demanding the Garibaldi come to 
+his quarters immediately.  G'Kar explains the assault on Na'Toth and 
+demands that Garibaldi handle it immediately.  After some discussion, 
+Garibaldi resolves to look into this by going down below alone and in 
+disguise.  The T'llin manage to rent an office suite using a human agent 
+to 
+sign the deal.  
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi gets attacked down below and is rescued.  Franklin manages to 
+patch him up a bit.  Garibaldi explains it could not have been the T'llin 
+who have all completely disappeared.  Sheridan arrives in Medlab and says 
+we have to talk.  Ivanova sets up a private interview with Larkin to try 
+and assess what might be the problem.  Ivanova has no success in trying 
+to 
+get Larkin to talk in any significant way and ends up leaving him in 
+tears.  Larkin resolves that he must really get her for talking to him 
+like that.  Garibaldi brings the somewhat aggravated Captain up to speed 
+on the situation with the T'llin.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Semana was all ready for the unveiling.  Semana applies her charms 
+vigorously to the Narn ambassador, much to Na'Toth's chagrin.  Semana 
+also 
+dotes on Londo, also to Vir's chagrin.  Na'Toth and Vir 
+exchange knowing glances sharing for a brief moment the same thought.  
+Garibaldi takes a moment to approach MacBride and inquire about her 
+previous misunderstanding with the law over an earlier art deal.  After 
+being revealed, the statue has two T'llin sculpted on the side.  This 
+causes G'Kar to loose his temper and Semana promises that they will be 
+removed.  Sergeant Midori Kobayashi finally approaches Delenn and invites 
+her to a tea ceremony.  Delenn asks Lennier to make inquiries about the 
+sergeant.
+
    
+
+
    
+After the party, Semana returns to the site and loosens the T'llin from 
+the 
+statue, the Primes step free and Semana provides Minbari disguises for 
+them and some credits.  Lennier manages to get a hold of Garibaldi.  In 
+discussing the statue he notes that the disappearance of the T'llin 
+figures 
+was due to the fact that they probably walked away.  Lennier advises 
+Garibaldi to inquire with the lady, Semana, to find out more.  Lennier 
+then proceeds to ask about the sergeant and the tea ceremony.  Garibaldi 
+heartily endorses the sergeant, describing her as absolutely trustworthy. 
+ 
+Semana takes a private moment with G'Kar to offer the Centauri Eye, see 
+Signs and Portents.  Semana shows G'Kar 
+the Eye, actually 
+it is her pet disguising itself as the eye.  G'Kar returns to his quarters 
+excited and Na'Toth is appropriately skeptical that it could be the 
+actual 
+eye.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The next morning, Susan found yet another data crystal outside the door.  
+This one she did not view, but gave directly to Garibaldi.  This one had 
+a 
+surprising ring of truth because it concerned actions of Vanya Ivanov 
+during the war, and the ship shown was one destroyed in battle by the 
+Minbari, but it could have been destroyed by sabotage perhaps.  
+Londo is busy decorating his quarters with just two weeks left to the 
+conference.  At Vir's expression of concern, Londo explains the Centauri 
+have no intention of negotiating peace.  G'Kar meanwhile has obtained a 
+diplomatic pouch with crystals showing Centauri attacks on Narn 
+civilians.
+
    
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+
+
    
+Phina and Olorasin Primes, the brother and sister leaders of the T'llin, 
+begin making their rounds of the diplomats aboard Babylon 5.  Phina, the 
+brother, would like to do something to show the Narns he meant business.  
+At his sister's request, they are visiting the ambassadors.  Delenn 
+agrees 
+to meet with them, but is unable to offer any help.  When they leave, she 
+expresses her regrets to Lennier.  Lennier offers that he knows that if there 
+is anything Delenn can do for them she will.  They visit Captain Sheridan 
+who can only offer to relay their request to Earth Dome, and then head 
+towards the Centauri ambassador's quarters.  G'Kar makes a call to a loan 
+shark for money to purchase the Eye from Semana.  The phone's privacy 
+screen is out of order and Londo is able to overhear the conversation.  
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Back in C&C, Ivanova manages to piss Larkin off even further by thanking 
+him for a job particularly well done.  His internal psychopathy 
+transforms 
+this into a deeper insult steeling his resolve to send another crystal.  
+Londo approaches Semana in a burst of energy, wanting to talk with her.  
+She agrees to have cocktails with Londo just prior to her dinner with 
+G'Kar.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Londo arrives on time, but Semana was already there.  When Londo 
+expresses 
+his interest in the Eye obliquely, she is surprised since she can not 
+understand how he would have found out about it.  Londo still is not 
+certain what Semana has for sale but, given the importance of the Eye and 
+the asking price, the thought comes to him.  A later call to Centauri 
+Prime 
+seems to confirm his suspicions that it is the Eye and that it was in 
+fact 
+perhaps missing from the Palace.  Semana puts the squeeze on G'Kar for 
+the 
+money sooner than G'Kar seems to be able to obtain it.  Prima Phina 
+meanwhile was secretly trying to meet with the Centauri ambassador.  
+While 
+in the hall outside he removes his mask and Na'Toth comes upon him and 
+kills him.  Even Garibaldi feels he must concede that this situation does 
+not seem to have been provoked by Na'Toth, e.g. Phina could have been 
+reaching for a weapon.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The next morning, Ivanova finds a third data crystal in her office.  
+Garibaldi arrives and expresses some surprise that she even uses her 
+office.
+Garibaldi explains that they haven't yet proved the others forgeries, but 
+something still feels wrong, scripted, about them.  She insists on seeing 
+this crystal, it suggests that her father together with the Psi Corps 
+doctor conspired to kill her mother.  Their discussion is interrupted by 
+Sheridan who is upset that Garibaldi did not involve him in the T'llin 
+death the previous evening.  Upon finding out about her brother's death, 
+Olorasin breaks down.  The two were very closely linked twins, perhaps 
+somewhat 
+telepathically, and she collapses.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Londo and Semana finally meet so he can see the object, she shows him the 
+Eye, cautioning against touching, allegedly for his own safety against 
+being traced, but mostly to prevent the truth from coming out about her 
+creature if it were to bite the Ambassador.  The creature shows up 
+properly even under a scan as the Eye.  Londo immediately goes to 
+Garibaldi and the two return to Semana's quarters with a search warrant.  
+She shows papers for a miniature she had bought elsewhere and gets a good 
+one over on Londo after she has managed to get Garibaldi convinced that 
+at 
+most she was trying to overcharge.  Meanwhile the T'llin are discovered 
+in 
+the rented office and will have to return to Down Below.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The Japanese tea ceremony prepared by Kobayashi was no small feat.  It 
+turns out it is from a respect she gained for the Minbari when they 
+spared 
+her colony during the war.  Kobayashi also explains that she probably 
+would not 
+have been able to approach Delenn had she not undergone the 
+transformation 
+to the human-like form.  Delenn and Lennier leave feeling significantly 
+lighter, younger and more refreshed.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Ivanova had spent hours going over personnel records looking at people 
+who 
+would have access to get at her office.  She intentionally saved Larkin's 
+record for last.  She decides to check on whether any of the commanders 
+who Larkin had previously responded to her message, she discovers that 
+the 
+messages were never sent.  Further research indicates that two have had 
+serious psychological problems and the third gives less than a ringing 
+endorsement.  The researchalso reveals that his hobby as a 
+teenager 
+was the creation of ultra-realistic vids, and that both of his 
+parents 
+were telepaths, but he wasn't.  Both realize that being an untalented kid at 
+a 
+Corps school would be especially cruel.  They decide that they must 
+confront Larkin and Ivanova asks him to be present.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Cray who had previously helped the T'llin set up and was acting as 
+G'Kar's 
+loan shark, informed on the T'llin to G'Kar who immediately calls 
+Garibaldi to round them up.  Olorasin awakens as the other T'llin begin 
+to try 
+and move her somewhere safer.  At that moment she resolves to carry out 
+her brother's plan because she realizes that if they are to be turned 
+over 
+to the Narn eventually, the choice is to die now, or die later.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Wrapped in his own fantasies, Larkin reports to Ivanova's office.  She 
+confronts him with the changed recommendation from a previous officer as 
+well as the various incidents.  After he breaks up some about discussions 
+of his parents, Ivanova orders him for a psych-evaluation and takes him 
+off 
+duty.  Garibaldi tells Larkin that he will be watching and Larkin is sent 
+on his way.  Garibaldi explains that the suggestion of vid equipment was 
+a 
+security trick that Larkin fell for, and that there was no video 
+equipment 
+on the manifests.  Larkin begins losing it further because he thinks 
+Garibaldi actually looked at his quarters.  Sheridan greets the 
+president's niece, Chancy Clark.  Chancy immediately buttonholes Lennier 
+for a tour of the station relieving Sheridan of the rather unpleasant 
+duty.  While trying to deal with the T'llin, a call comes in of an 
+officer 
+down from PPG fire.  A guy in an EA uniform fired upon the security guard.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+From the description, Garibaldi recognizes it is Larkin and puts out an 
+APB.  Larkin is trying to get into the escape pods.  Ivanova immediately 
+heads towards the pods on a hunch that it would be the best way for a 
+civilian unfamiliar with the Starfuries to exit the station.  Ivanova 
+and 
+a technician arrive as Larkin gets himself into the airlock.  She and Hal 
+try to explain the lock has malfunctioned and no pod is present.  No 
+luck, 
+Larkin eats the vacuum of space in just seconds.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+After realizing that the various members of the press couldn't reach any 
+sort of agreement on broadcast arrangements, Sheridan decides that it 
+will 
+be shown over video to the press from a remote camera.  Sheridan 
+encounters 
+Lennier waiting outside the press room and Lennier explains that he finds 
+Chancy Clark's behavior confusing and intriguing.  Clark's niece 
+ingratiates herself with Lennier and also observes to Sheridan that she 
+will be attending in the arrival in person.  Sheridan discusses the 
+Larkin 
+situation with Ivanova and Garibaldi; he is upset that he was not 
+involved 
+with the situation.  Garibaldi explains the T'llin situation to G'Kar and 
+says that they feel like they have gotten all of the T'llin rounded up 
+into the brig.  G'Kar insists on seeing Semana in spite of Na'Toth's 
+attempt to cancel the lunch meeting they had.  Up in C&C the arrival of a 
+freighter with a friend brings an urgent message to Ivanova.  The friend 
+tells Ivanova of a Centauri "fleet" of sorts near the jumpgate the Narns 
+will be using.  Londo says he did not know of the "welcoming committee" 
+and 
+Sheridan has Ivanova take Alpha Wing to the gate to get the Centauri away 
+from there.  The remaining T'llin capture Cray and recruit him for their 
+plan demanding maps and security codes for the station.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Alpha Wing arrives at the Centauri yacht fleet and attempts to contact 
+them.  They seem like a bunch of bozo Centauri looking for trouble or a 
+good time.  Londo's cousin Sodev is on board one of the yachts and Londo 
+himself consents to having them blown out of the sky.  G'Kar meets with 
+Semana and explains that he has obtained most of the asking price, she 
+rebuffs the offer because she does not want to be traced and wants to be 
+off the station as soon as possible.  Before they can negotiate further, 
+Na'Toth drags the ambassador away.  Mollari arrive immediately and Semana 
+seems ready to sell to him.   The Primes' plan is to conceal themselves 
+in 
+the docking bay in hibernation till the delegates arrive.  Ivanova's 
+group 
+uses some trickery to get the Centauri to leave without a fight.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Garibaldi realizes that Olorasin is missing and sets off to find out her 
+whereabouts as the reception is getting ready to start.  Semana dupes 
+Londo with a cake in a Chinese-style puzzle box and exits the station 
+quickly on the last 
+transport out.  All of the ambassadors except Kosh are present for the 
+reception and security is continuing to look around for any problems in 
+the docking area.  The two delegations enter the docking area 
+simultaneously and head down to the platform to be greeted.  In moments, 
+the hull breach warnings sounded and air began escaping.  The delegates 
+and guests crowded into the hull breach area to wait out the problems.  
+Additionally, breach doors came down sealing the docking area from the 
+rest 
+of the station.  After keeping the camera out, they closed the breach 
+area.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+The T'llin had come out of hibernation in their fake Earthforce uniforms 
+with PPGs in hand.  Olorasin announces that they are her prisoners and 
+Sheridan spots one with a bomb rigged to a dead man's switch.  Garibaldi 
+determines that the communications to the docking area have been disabled 
+and readies his team for action.  In the docking bay, the Centauri are 
+confused as to why the T'llin do not consider them friends, but Olorasin 
+explains that it is because they taught the Narns to be the way they are. 
+ 
+Olorasin explains that they too have learned, but perhaps more quickly 
+than the Narn and are willing to kill everyone to make their point.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks Olorasin what she wants, she explains they want the Narn to 
+leave their world.  Delenn attempts to intervene, with little apparent 
+effect.  Seeing that arguing was going nowhere, the delegations at 
+Olorasin's insistence begin discussing peace as they sit waiting.  
+Olorasin rather effectively cuts through the posturing between the 
+parties 
+as Garibaldi's team comes through the outer hull into the docking bay.  
+Na'Toth makes a foolish attempt to change the situation which results in 
+her being shot by a PPG.  As Olorasin hovers over Na'Toth ready to kill 
+perhaps because of the murder of her brother, Garibaldi's team becomes 
+ready to operate and their charges go off on the breach door.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+At that moment, Olorasin decides to surrender and orders her troops to 
+give up
+their weapons.  The T'llin with the dead man's switch lets it go and Midori 
+throws herself against the T'llin, sparing the others' lives at the cost of 
+her own.  Sheridan expresses some thoughts to the Narn about the T'llin 
+and getting out of their world.  He also explains that the remaining 
+Prime 
+will be granted asylum and Delenn explains that the Centauri have agreed 
+to 
+be the second sponsor.  Delenn and Sheridan leave hand in hand to discuss 
+the T'llin situation suggesting that Delenn may be able to offer some aid.
+
    
+
+
+
    
+As the officers make a toast to Midori, Garibaldi explains that Delenn 
+had 
+offered to write her family, calling it an obligation.
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Who attacked Garibaldi down below?
+
      • 
+
    • 
+How did Larkin manage to gain so much access to the systems and create 
+such 
+sophisticated forgeries?  The book suggests a high level of experience on 
+his part, but also hints that there may be more back doors in Earth 
+Alliance 
+systems than are readily apparent.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+How did Lennier know the figurines of the T'llin had walked away?  Do the 
+Minbari have more knowledge of T'llin physiology and their ability to 
+hibernate, or is it just a suspicion?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Having G'Kar make the call to the loan shark from a public phone seems to 
+be a bit too convenient.  Why would G'Kar use a public phone to make the 
+call?
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+Was the Eye actually stolen from Centauri Prime or is Londo being played 
+for a complete fool?  The Centauri already have lost this valuable object 
+once before, to loose it again does not seem that unthinkable.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Narn may not have had significant space capabilities prior to 
+encountering the Centauri.  Why though when the Centauri met the humans 
+much more recently, did they not enslave the planet?  This suggests that 
+the Centauri have been in decline for quite some time.
+
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+
+
    
+
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+This novel is set in 2259, the second season, prior to the destruction 
+of the Narn Homeworld
+
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+
    • 
+This book portrays Garibaldi and Sheridan as not entirely getting along, 
+it 
+is unclear what this is based upon, but is not entirely out of character 
+either, at the least Sheridan and Garibaldi do not have the relationship 
+that Sinclair and Garibaldi did.
+
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+
    
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+Written by Jeanne Cavelos
    
+Release date: April 1997
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22348-2 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-2339-9 (UK)
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Anna Sheridan receives an assignment to study the ruins on Z'ha'dum.  John
+Sheridan takes command of the Agamemnon.  Babylon 5 goes online and sees
+the arrival of its first residents.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
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+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    The Darkening Light
    
+
+
    
+Anna Sheridan has two passions-- her husband, John, and the mystery
+surrounding some intriguing artifacts found during a mission on a
+distant planet called Z'Ha'dum. Now she gets orders to become the
+science officer on the follow-up mission scheduled for the spaceship
+Icarus. Happy, young, beloved, and brilliant, never has a woman had
+so much to live for. Or so much to lose.
+
+
    The Shadow Within
    
+
+
    
+While John, recently promoted to the rank of captain, struggles with
+his new command on the Agamemnon, Anna begins to assemble her science
+crew... and makes her first mistake. She signs on Dr. Morden, a highly
+credentialed translator whose heart hides a weakness that can cost
+Anna her life... or her soul. Her second mistake is to underestimate
+the danger on Z'ha'dum. What is awaiting the Icarus near the rim of
+known space is an unimaginable horror. What is awaiting Anna Sheridan
+is an explosive destiny... and a dark future that can crush her husband's
+dreams and a terror that can come back to haunt us all.
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    
+The book begins with Anna Sheridan studying an artifact found on an
+Interplanetary Expeditions (IPX) dig at Theta Omega 2, a planet once
+inhabited by the J/Lai, an offshoot of the Brakiri. It appears to be
+a biomechanical device, halfway between machine and living organism. As
+she studies it, she briefly makes contact with a quasi-consciousness in
+the artifact. She tells Dr. Chang, the head the expedition, but is unable
+to duplicate the effect for him.
+
+
    
+They hire Terence Hilliard, a commercial telepath, to make contact with the
+artifact. As soon as he tries, the artifact activates, overheats and
+explodes. Hilliard is seriously injured, and falls into a trance-like state,
+repeating over and over again, "I am the machine." Anna and Churlstein,
+another IPX scientist, take Hilliard to Geneva City Hospital. As he is being
+tended to, they are approached by Donne, a Psi Corps representative looking
+into the incident. Donne insists on speaking to Anna privately; Anna tells
+Churlstein to go back to the lab and make sure nothing is touched before
+she returns.
+
+
    
+Donne takes Anna to Hilliard's bedside. His physical injuries are
+superficial, but his brain is locked into a rigid, cyclical pattern. Donne
+says that Hilliard will be moved to a Psi Corps facility and dismisses the
+doctor, then questions Anna about the incident. Donne indicates that nothing
+can be done for Hilliard.
+
+
    
+Back at the lab, the remains of the explosion have been cleaned up and all
+of Anna's reports and test results are gone. Dr. Chang tells her he has been
+ordered to take over the testing of the remains of the J/Lai "mouse" and
+related artifacts. He allows her to take her computer, with her notes in it
+intact, and a fragment of the mouse. Anna has dinner with Liz Sheridan, her
+sister-in-law, before leaving for Station Prime, where she and her husband
+are planning to celebrate their anniversary.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, John Sheridan has been in command of the Agamemnon for one
+month, and is struggling with a badly disciplined crew. He chews out Lt.
+Spano, a weapons officer, for not following regulations. Corchoran, the
+first officer, tells him they will be inspected when they arrive at Station
+Prime. Later, Corchoran suggests that the crew is envious of Sheridan's war
+record; the previous commander of the Agamemnon, Capt. Best, humiliated
+them by retreating at the Battle of the Line.
+
+
    
+At Station Prime, orbiting Centauri Prime, Anna checks into the honeymoon
+suite of the Imperial Hotel. John calls her there to tell her he'll be
+delayed by the inspection. Then Chang calls, saying that an IPX probe
+has discovered the remains of a new, unknown civilization on Alpha Omega
+3. An RNA scan of microorganisms there indicates they are related to the
+"mouse" from Theta Omega 2. Chang asks her to be on an expedition there,
+which begins in 10 days. Anna is surprised by the short preparation time
+but agrees to go.
+
+
    
+General Lochschmanan's inspection of the Agamemnon goes well until the
+weapons bay, where the optical system has been left on line, creating a
+danger that the ship's laser cannons could fire if there were an explosion
+or fire on board. The Agamemnon fails the inspection, and Lochschmanan
+orders Sheridan to get the crew into shape as soon as possible. Sheridan
+cancels leave and institutes a heavy schedule of drills. The ship is also
+being outfitted with a new stealth technology.
+
+
    
+John calls Anna and tells her that he won't be able to make it; Anna does
+not tell him about the new expedition. She checks the roster for the
+expedition and sees two non-IPX personnel listed on the archaeological
+team: Donne, and a Dr. Morden, an Earthforce linguist who six months
+previously took leave of his job and moved to Station Prime. Anna becomes
+suspicious of Morden's credentials and visits him. He works for an Earthforce
+division called New Technologies, and claims to have been called up by his
+superiors and added to the mission out of the blue. She notices an Anfran
+love stone in his collection of artifacts, and learns that it was given
+to him by his wife. He moved to Station Prime after his wife and daughter
+were killed in a terrorist attack on the Io jumpgate. Anna resolves to try
+and help Morden get on with his life.
+
+
    
+Spano arrives late for a drill and Sheridan confines him to quarters. After
+the drill, Sheridan speaks angrily with Ross, the weapons chief, who is
+about to punch him when Lochschmanan arrives. Corchoran routes in a call
+from Anna. John speaks to her hurriedly, learning about the expedition, and
+returns to speak to Lochschmanan.
+
+
    
+At the IPX mission briefing, Chang introduces the members of the
+archaeological team, then shows them pictures of the planet, including a
+series of inscribed pillars and an egg-shaped biomechanical structure which
+has biological similarities to the "mouse". Afterward, Anna learns that
+Donne and Morden have a deep distrust of each others' organizations.
+On the Agamemnon, John Sheridan gives Ross, Spano, and Watley, another
+weapons officer, a choice between transferring off the ship or being
+court-martialed if they continue to perform poorly.
+
+
    
+As the Icarus leaves Station Prime, Donne asks Anna to try to make contact
+with a fragment of the mouse. She does so, experiencing an impression that
+it is still partly alive. Morden shares some preliminary translations with
+Chang and Anna: the pillars appear to say, "every light casts a shadow," and
+the largest inscription on the egg is "what is desired" or "all that is
+desired."
+
+
    
+John Sheridan is woken up by a message from Lochschmanan. Homeguard, the
+group responsible for the Io jumpgate attack, is planning to blow up
+Babylon 5 during its dedication ceremonies with nuclear devices obtained
+from the Narn. The Agamemnon is ordered to intercept the Homeguard ship
+carrying the bombs.
+
+
    
+Twenty days from Alpha Omega 3, Anna uses the IPX probe's remote control
+to explore a cave near the planned landing site, and finds two artifacts
+similar to the "mouse". Meanwhile, the Agamemnon stages a mock battle
+against the Hyperion. The Hyperion takes out the Agamemnon's targeting
+system. When Sheridan orders the weapons officers to fire manually, Ross
+does not fire, and the Hyperion goes on to "destroy" the Agamemnon.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders Ross arrested. He goes to Ross's quarters to see him
+detained, and finds him drunk and threatening to shoot himself. Ross tells
+Sheridan about his experience at the Battle of the Line. The Athena, Capt.
+Best's previous command, where Ross was serving, had its automatic targeting
+system knocked out. He fired at a fighter that appeared to be trying to ram
+them, and realized a moment too late that it was one of their Starfuries,
+trying to make an emergency landing. The resulting explosion disabled the
+Athena and killed 35 crewmembers. Sheridan takes the PPG away from Ross and
+gives him another chance.
+
+
    
+The next day, Anna discovers that the IPX orbiter at Alpha Omega 3 has lost
+contact with the surface probe. The orbiter's log indicates that Chang was
+controlling the probe at the time. The probe logs have been erased back to
+when he used the probe the previous day. Anna tells Chang about this, and
+he orders her to give no indication that malfunction could have been anything
+but an accident. He also gives her a PPG, telling her he has another for
+his own defense.
+
+
    
+Anna attempts to send a message to John on New Year's Eve, but the
+communications system is unable to send it. Hidalgo, the captain of the
+Icarus, tells her that the comm system just malfunctioned. Anna attempts to
+remove her message from the outgoing queue, and discovers Chang has also just
+tried to send a message, to Galovich, the mission's supervisor on Earth. She
+copies the message and views it. Chang is reporting that Donne and Hidalgo
+are planning to smuggle artifacts to Earth for Psi Corps to study. He also
+refers to the Shadow ship found on Mars, and a hypothesis of Morden's, that
+it returned on automatic.
+
+
    
+Anna returns to the ship's New Year's party and tells Morden she has a
+present for him. They leave the party and she gives him the Anfran love
+stone, which she had taken from his quarters the day before and had put on
+a necklace. Morden is shocked that he went an entire day without noticing
+it was gone, and puts the necklace on to assure that he will never forget
+it. Anna asks him what he knows about Mars. He tells her about the Shadow
+ship discovered by IPX. When the ship was excavated and first exposed to
+sunlight, it transmitted a message. Morden was on a team from Earthforce
+New Technologies sent to study the ship at IPX's request. Anna tells him
+what she knows about the probe problems, and the smuggling arrangement
+between Donne and Hidalgo.
+
+
    
+As B5's dedication ceremony approaches, the Agamemnon passes an inspection
+and is dispatched to intercept the Homeguard ship. Kosh Naranek contacts
+Delenn and tells her that a human expedition is going to Z'ha'dum, and it
+must be stopped. He directs his own ship toward Z'ha'dum, expecting to
+arrive just before the Icarus.
+
+
    
+After planetfall on Alpha Omega 3, half the archaeological team, including
+Chang and Donne, go to investigate the egg, while Anna, Morden, and the
+others head for the cave where she found the mice. Morden has refined the
+translation of the pillar inscriptions to "Every light carries a shadow."
+Arriving at the cave, they find that the mice are gone and the hole they
+were removed from has been partially filled in. Anna, Morden, and Dr.
+Favorito explore deeper in the cave, and find a corpse that appears to be
+a biological creature inside a biomechanical one. As far back in the cave
+as they can go, they find a black sphere blocking a passageway. Anna tries
+to take a sample of it, but find her hand passing inside it, and then feels
+something waking up inside it. She jumps back and runs away, pulling the
+others along with her.
+
+
    
+Delenn, on authorization from the Grey Council, contacts Sinclair at Babylon
+5 and tells him the expedition is in danger and must be recalled.
+
+
    
+Anna, Morden, and Favorito emerge from the cave into a sudden storm. They
+and their support crew head for the egg to rejoin Chang's group, but the egg
+and the entire group have vanished. A scan shows one link nearby; heading
+for it, they find Chang, who has been shot. Anna gives Chang's PPG to Morden.
+The two of them find a crevasse underneath where the egg had been, but it
+is too small for the egg to have gone through it.
+
+
    
+At Babylon 5, Sinclair has contacted Senator Hidoshi about the expedition
+and been referred to President Santiago's science adviser, Dr. LeBlanc.
+LeBlanc is unaware of any expedition near the rim, but promises to check
+on it. The Agamemnon observes the transfer of explosives from the Narns to
+the Homeguard ship. Just before it comes out of hiding, Ross reports that the
+weapons system is nonfunctional. A component has been removed from the
+optics system.
+
+
    
+On the Icarus, Hidalgo announces that communications have been restored.
+Anna has taken charge of the archaeological team, and splits them up for a
+search of landing area. She gives her PPG to Dr. Razor, who is on the
+team that includes Hidalgo, and tells him about Hidalgo's plans for
+smuggling artifacts. She sends a message to Gulovich, and then searches
+Donne's quarters. Inside a roll of lingerie, she finds a collection of
+small body parts and a Psi Corps badge with a black square in the center.
+She recalls that a patch of Chang's hair was missing, and concludes that
+Donne killed Chang and took the hair for her collection.
+
+
    
+When Anna returns to her quarters, she finds Morden waiting for her. He
+already believes that Donne killed Chang. When she wonders why Psi Corps
+is going to such lengths, Morden tells her that not only was Hilliard
+affected by the mouse, but every telepath at or below his P-rating within
+a three-mile radius was left in the same state. Psi Corps covered it up,
+but Earthforce-- or at least Morden's division-- quickly figured out what
+had happened.
+
+
    
+Dr. LeBlanc calls Sinclair back and tells him the expedition will not be
+recalled. She suspects that it may discover something powerful that can
+be used against the Minbari. Sinclair tells Delenn the news, and she
+informs him that sending any further ships to Alpha Omega 3 will be
+considered an act of war against the Minbari.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders Corchoran to interrogate the weapons officers about the
+sabotage, but Spano is missing from the mess, where they had been ordered
+to wait. Spano is tracked down in the gym. He complains that he was bored.
+Ross reports that the primary mirror in the optics system has been
+destroyed. Spano repeatedly denies sabotaging the system, but finally
+admits that he left his post during his watch to get a snack. Sheridan
+charges him with insubordination, desertion of post, and dereliction of
+duty, and has him confined to the brig.
+
+
    
+Anna decides to make contact with the creature inside the sphere. She and
+Morden return to where it was, but it has vanished. In the passageway
+beyond, they find a generator that could have come from the IPX probe. As
+they talk, Morden suddenly reaches for his PPG. Anna knocks him down as
+he fires, and the blast triggers a cave-in. Donne appears and tells Anna
+that Morden destroyed the probe.
+
+
    
+Ross tells Sheridan that the optics damage is worse than he thought, and
+he can't repair it on his own before the Homeguard ship reaches Babylon 5.
+Sheridan grits his teeth and assigns Watley and Spano to help him. Spano,
+feeling chastened, suggests that Sheridan consider people who had previously
+served as weapons officers. He specifically mentions Corchoran. Sheridan
+asks Corchoran for information on officers who had been weapons officers,
+but Corchoran does not send it. Sheridan orders security to detain Corchoran.
+
+
    
+Anna realizes that Morden had been aiming at Donne. Donne says that Morden
+hid the mice; Morden says that Psi Corps wouldn't have left anything for
+Earthforce to study. The three of them search for another way out of the
+caves, going through a section that appears to have been artificially
+enlarged. Donne believes that the egg was sending out a telepathic
+attraction, which she was able to block once she became aware of it. She 
+says that when Chang's group reached the egg, some of them climbed into
+openings in it, and the openings vanished. When everyone except Chang and
+Donne had gone into the egg, it reached for Chang. Donne shot him, and it
+lost interest. It didn't appear to notice her, possibly because of her
+blocking. It then changed shape and oozed away down the crevasse.
+
+
    
+With twenty minutes left before the Homeguard ship reaches the B5 jumpgate,
+Ross reports that the optics are repaired. Sheridan orders Ross to engage
+manual targeting; the automatic system won't let them fire on an Earth
+ship. Sheridan transmits a warning to the Homeguard ship, which simply
+accelerates and does not acknowledge the message. Sheridan orders Ross to
+fire, but nothing happens and Ross does not respond. Then he hears Corchoran
+on the link, taunting him.
+
+
    
+Donne leads Anna and Morden to a chamber below the crevasse, where they
+see what appear to be cryogenic chambers, one for each person on the Icarus,
+and the egg. As they watch, the egg lets out Razor, who is taken away,
+struggling, by three pale humanoid aliens. They hear a drill, and screams
+from Razor. Anna sees some kind of wiring attached to the face of the
+person in the nearest chamber and realizes the aliens are preparing the
+humans to become part of the biomachines. Churlstein, apparently unharmed,
+comes upon them and tries to take the PPGs away. Donne is immobilized by a
+telepathic attack.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders all blast doors closed and the outer parts of the Agamemnon
+evacuated. There is a struggle in the weapons bay, but Ross is able to
+fire on the Homeguard ship's engines. The explosives are touched off, and
+the Homeguard ship is destroyed. The Agamemnon suffers some damage, but no
+casualties. As a reward for a job well done, Lochschmanan assigns the
+Agamemnon to be part of the honor guard at the dedication of Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+Churlstein says that he is now an emissary from the resident aliens, who
+are willing to share all their technology if their existence is kept secret.
+Anyone who serves them willingly will be rewarded with their greatest
+desires; anyone else will be forced to serve unwillingly. New, spidery
+aliens begin to materialize all around. Donne shoots Churlstein, then the
+roof of the passage, creating a rockfall that buries Anna and Morden up to
+their shoulders and kills Donne and the humanoids. The spidery aliens
+continue to surround them. Anna and Morden try to set off one of the mice
+to destroy them. As the mouse awakes, through a telepathic link, they
+see an image of Morden's wife and daughter caught in a hyperspace vortex,
+still alive and in pain. Morden breaks contact and tells the aliens he
+will help them, if they can end his family's suffering. Anna is left to
+become a part of the machine.
+
+
    
+Above the planet, Kosh sees the Icarus take off, empty. It broadcasts a
+distress signal and then explodes. At Babylon 5, the dedication ceremony
+goes smoothly, except for Kosh not being able to be present. At the end
+of the ceremony, Sheridan gets a call from Lochschmanan, telling him
+about the loss of the Icarus. Anna has been installed in a Shadow ship.
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Homeguard must have massive resources to be able to destroy a jumpgate,
+purchase enough explosives from the Narn to destroy a 5-mile-long space
+station, and get a ship big enough to hold those explosives. Where is
+that support coming from?
+
+
    • 
+Was the mouse found on Theta Omega 2 meant to be used against J/Lai
+telepaths?
+
+
    • 
+Is the egg's attractive signal related to the Eye?
+
+
    • 
+Morden mentioned having worked with IPX twice before. One time was when the
+Shadow ship was found on Mars; what was the other?
+
+
    • 
+How was Morden able to erase the probe's logs?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The crew of the Icarus seen in the underground chamber was undergoing the
+same procedure used on the telepaths in
+"Ship of Tears."
+
+
    • 
+The image of the Icarus's crew entering the cave that Kosh shows Sheridan in
+"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+may be genuine, since Kosh had presumably arrived at Z'ha'dum by then.
+
+
    • 
+Kosh could also have sent the destruct signal that Lyta later sent in
+"Epiphanies,"
+but as Sheridan pointed out in
+"Into the Fire,"
+if the Shadows were simply destroyed, they would never know that the Vorlons
+were right.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Sheridan's previous command was the Galatea, a heavy cruiser.
+
+
    • 
+The snow globe Delenn dropped at the end of
+"Shadow Dancing"
+was a souvenir
+from John and Anna's honeymoon.
+
+
    • 
+John and Anna Sheridan were married on December 3, 2249.
+
+
    • 
+The Battle of the Line involved over 20,000 Terran ships; 200 survived.
+
+
    • 
+The Vorlons discovered that the Shadows were awakening in late 2253 or
+early 2254.
+
+
    • 
+Both the egg on Z'ha'dum and Kosh's ship sing to their inhabitants.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    The Author Speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+So, Allen Wilkins asked about my scheduled bookstore appearances, where 
+I'll be reading from the book and answering questions.  Here's my schedule:
+
+
      
+March 15, 3-5pm, Pandemonium Books & Games, Cambridge, MA
      
+March 29, 3-5pm, Space-Crime Continuum, Northampton, MA
      
+April 5, 1-3pm, Books & More, Marlborough, NH
      
+April 12, 2-4pm, Enchantments, Lexington, MA
      
+April 20, 2-4pm, Mystery Trek, Brattleboro, VT
      
+April 24, 7:30-8:30pm, Water Street Bookstore, Exeter, NH
+
+
      
+If you plan on going to the Pandemonium appearance, or if you plan to run 
+to your bookstore on March 11 to buy the book, BEWARE:  Dell has just 
+informed me that all Bantam Doubleday Dell books for April (release date 
+3/11) may be a week or more late in reaching the stores.  They have 
+switched to a new production procedure, and this has thrown everything 
+off.  I don't think this has ever happened in the history of BDD--release 
+dates on books are very important.  So you may want to wait until the end 
+of March or call your bookstore first.
+
+
      
+Jay Denebeim and Bob P. both asked how messages could be addressed to 
+me.  Since my name is often misspelled, I think it would be easiest to 
+put in the subject line, "ATTN:  JC."  I will look for messages with that 
+designation.
+
+
      
+Eschel Hamel asked several questions about the book:
      
+WHAT WAS THE APPROVAL PROCESS LIKE TO GET YOUR NOVEL OUT?
      
+WHAT KIND OF RESEARCH DID YOU DO BEFORE AND WHILE WRITING IT?
      
+WHAT DIRT CAN YOU GIVE US ON JOE?
+
+
      
+Here's what happened, as well as I can remember without digging through 
+my records.  I wrote a synopsis of THE SHADOW WITHIN (actually called THE 
+SHADOW AWAKES back then) around 11/95.  It was about 15-20 double-spaced 
+pages.  I submitted it to Jacquie Miller, the in-house editor of the 
+books at Dell.  She read it, liked it, and sent it on to JMS.  She 
+reported back to me that JMS also liked it, but that he had 
+already decided on authors for the current three B5 books under 
+contract.  She also relayed several comments he'd made about my synopsis, 
+areas where I had diverged from his view of the story of the ICARUS.  (I 
+had just made the whole thing up, based on the little information we had 
+from the series at that point.  So it was actually pretty amazing that 
+only a few points troubled him.)  So my outline was held over to be 
+considered when the next three books were being developed.
+
+
      
+In 8/96 Jacquie contacted me and said JMS had approved my synopsis for 
+the next batch of books.  Dell wanted a complete manuscript in 5 weeks.  
+I was actually homeless when this occurred.  My husband and I had moved 
+out of our rental home and our new house, which was still being built, 
+wasn't going to be ready for three more weeks.  We were living at Motel 
+6.  The idea of writing a novel in 5 weeks was terrifying enough; but the 
+idea of writing it when my computer and my notes were all in boxes and I 
+hadn't even thought about the synopsis in 9 months sounded like too much 
+even to dream of.  I negotiated up to 8 weeks, and we made a deal.  
+Jacquie returned my original synopsis to me with some comments on it from 
+JMS.  He'd made maybe about ten notes on it, all fairly minor, a number 
+of them filling in blanks I'd left (e.g., Sinclair calls Senator _____), 
+others giving me a little information or pointing out something.  (I'll 
+try to dig this up so I can tell you some of his notes.)  He also changed 
+the title to THE SHADOW WITHIN, for reasons that became obvious to me as 
+I did my B5 research into Shadow references. 
+
+
      
+At that point I started trying to recreate what the HECK I had been 
+thinking when I'd written this nine months ago.  I decided the only way I 
+could be sure to have a finished manuscript in time was to write a 
+detailed scene-by-scene outline that would tell me everything that had to 
+happen in every scene, so there would be no surprises and no omissions.  
+As I worked on that, I realized I still had a lot of questions about the 
+arc and various aspects of the show that I needed answered to write a 
+book consistent with these things.  I also heard a rumor around this time 
+that an upcoming episode was going to feature Anna Sheridan, and that she 
+was going to be played by Melissa Gilbert!  I pretty much flipped out at 
+that point, since no one had told me, and here I was working on a novel 
+with time ticking away.  I asked Jacquie at Dell to get a copy of this 
+script for me.  She asked Warner Brothers.  There were delays.  I finally 
+sent a panicked fax to JMS, swearing myself to secrecy if only he would 
+send the script.  It came by overnight mail.  That helped a lot.  But I 
+still had a number of unanswered questions.  I asked Jacquie if I could 
+talk to JMS.  She asked, and he agreed.  (I believe I'm the first author 
+to be able to ask JMS questions directly.  I think one other author may 
+have asked a few questions through e-mail.)  We had a conference call 
+that lasted maybe an hour, basically where I asked questions and he 
+answered.  Most of my questions were of the variety of "Is it okay if I 
+do this?"  And most of the time he said yes.  A few times he gave me a 
+little information, explaining why something is or isn't true, but JMS 
+plays these things pretty close to the vest.  I felt very lucky, though, 
+that I had this opportunity, because it allowed me to get the doubt out 
+of my mind that something or other was wrong and proceed.  It also 
+corrected a few things that wouldn't have been consistent with the arc.  
+(I'll see if I can dig out my notes on this phone conversation too, if 
+you're interested.)  My biggest problem coming out of this phone call was 
+with Morden.  I had asked JMS, "What is Morden's first name?  Or can I 
+just make one up?"  JMS replied that he'd never given Morden a first 
+name.  He'd always thought of the character simply as Morden, and wasn't 
+really comfortable with the idea of giving him a first name.  This was 
+tough for me, since Morden plays a large part in the book and he becomes 
+fairly good friends with Anna.  So I had to find a way around it, which 
+you'll see in the book.
+
+
      
+After that, I did a lot more research.  Lots of B5 research--watching 
+videotapes repeatedly (many key episodes provided by Phil Farrand, the 
+author of THE NITPICKER'S GUIDES to Star Trek, of which I edited the 
+first two), referring to THE A-Z OF BABYLON 5 (I got a British edition 
+from Dell), the Lurker's Guide (and the Lurker himself, Steven Grimm, who 
+would answer my questions at any time of day), and calling other B5 
+experts, like Michael A. Burstein and Nomi Burstein.  I'd have lists of 
+questions, such as how many guns does the Agamemnon have, where, and what 
+kind are they?  (John Sheridan is in command of the Agamemnon during the 
+book.)  
+
+
      
+I also did as much research as time would allow on other topics.  I read 
+sections of about eight archaeology books, spoke to a UNH professor of 
+archaeology, the New Hampshire State Geologist told me all about caves 
+(important in this book), and an old friend from the Cornell astronomy 
+program served as an expert on lasers.  I also had numerous people read 
+the book and offer feedback on it.  Two were members of the military who 
+read for accurate military procedures and conduct. 
+
+
      
+I don't really have any "dirt" on Joe (and that is what people call him, 
+though I've stuck to the conventional JMS here).  I've told you some of 
+my experiences with him above, and perhaps can come up with some more if 
+asked.  I think the way he worked with me on the book was just right, in 
+that he guided me so that my book would fit into the B5 universe as a 
+whole, but he gave me a lot of freedom to create the vision I had and 
+write the story I wanted.  For example, when we were talking on the phone 
+he mentioned that he'd always imagined Morden to be a low-level 
+technician on the Icarus, who was jealous of Anna's education and success 
+(or something to that effect).  This is significantly different than what 
+I had in my synopsis.  But he never asked me to change Morden from the 
+way I'd envisioned him.  
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Rodent asked if I have watched B5 in its entirety.
+
+
      
+As the freelance editor of the novels, it's kind of neat that watching 
+B5 is something I must do for my job.  If only all jobs had such fun 
+requirements.  That said, I can't swear I haven't missed any episodes.  
+It took me a while to get used to the new episode/repeat schedule, which 
+I deeply dislike.  A few times I've missed episodes.  I don't have any 
+special access to a bank of videotapes or anything.  I try to catch the 
+episodes I miss when they are rerun.  But I think a few may have 
+slipped through the cracks.  I'm still waiting for one of the season 
+4 episodes to be rerun that I missed earlier.  I'm not sure of the 
+name of it, but we learned something major about the Vorlons in it.  
+I have to admit that I'm not a trivia expert.  I love the show for 
+its wonderful stories and characters, for its overall feel and 
+themes, for its complex concepts.  I'm not one to memorize the name 
+of every ship that appears on every episode.  That said, if I need 
+to know a piece of trivia (and I needed to know a lot of it to write 
+THE SHADOW WITHIN, hitting stores next week), I know who to call to 
+find out (and I don't mean JMS, since he is too busy to deal with 
+this stuff.  I have a network of B5 fans I call on to find the 
+answers to continuity questions regarding the novels, and they 
+usually know--or can find out--the answers).  I tape the episodes, but I 
+do miss some, and I'm very bad about labelling things, so again, when I 
+need to see an episode (several episodes were key to the writing of my 
+novel), if I couldn't find it in my collection I called people to send me 
+copies.  They were very nice about it.
+
+
      
+Rodent's next question was whether I had any quick comments on the 5-year 
+story arc.  
+
+
      
+Really, my only comment is my personal reaction.  When I first heard 
+about the arc, around the time the pilot aired, I became extremely 
+excited.  It seemed as if this was an incredible development in sf 
+television, one that allowed a series to be more like a great epic 
+novel.  This is part of what fueled my love for the show and part of what 
+motivated me to start the line of B5 novels at Dell Publishing.  As I 
+watch B5, each year it seems to get better and better.  As the arc 
+progresses and our understanding of events deepens (as it only could with 
+an arc), the show seems to become more meaningful and enjoyable.  I was a 
+bit disappointed with the quick end to the Shadow War, but other than 
+that I felt the arc has more than lived up to its promise.
+
+
      
+Rodent's third question was whether I had worked with JMS before.
+
+
      
+My relationship with JMS began around the time the pilot aired.  I was 
+then a senior editor at Dell Publishing.  I saw the pilot and felt 
+something exciting was starting.  I called Warner Brothers, asked for 
+JMS, and told him Dell was interested in doing a line of B5 novels.  
+We've had a number of phone conversations and discussions since then, and 
+I perhaps can tell you a little about those, but I can't claim to be a 
+close friend or anything like that.  When I left Dell in 1994 to escape 
+NYC and become a freelance editor/teacher/writer, Dell asked me to 
+continue editing the B5 novels as a freelancer, so my relationship with 
+JMS continued, though we had little direct contact.  Working on this 
+novel, asking him questions about what I could do, was my most extended 
+contact with him.
+
+
      
+Rodent asked, "How much did JMS 'get in the way' of your writing THE 
+SHADOW WITHIN?"
+
+
      
+As discussed earlier, JMS didn't really "get in the way" at all.  He 
+mainly okayed ideas I had for the book and pointed out minor areas where 
+I wasn't consistent with the show.  Really only two significant points 
+were changed from the outline due to his feedback.  First, I wanted to 
+work the nuking of San Diego into the book, having it occur around 2255.  
+JMS said no, this occurred 40 years ago.  Interesting.  It slightly 
+inconvenienced me, but it was easy enough to think of another 
+catastrophe.  The other point was that I wanted Dr. Chang to arrive at 
+Z'ha'dum in one ship, and then have Anna Sheridan come in another, 
+follow-up ship.  JMS said they all came in one ship.  This again was only 
+a minor inconvenience, and I agreed that he was right to make me stick to 
+one ship.  
+
+
      
+Really the thing that gave me the most trouble was when I asked JMS what 
+Morden's first name was.  JMS said that he'd never given Morden a first 
+name and that he wasn't really comfortable with the idea of giving one.  
+He'd always thought of Morden as just Morden.  This ticked me off for a 
+while, since I figured Morden had to have a first name, and how was I 
+going to present him in informal, social scenes without his first name?  
+I finally thought of a solution to the problem, as you'll see in the book.
+
+
      
+JMS did also change the title of the book.  I had called it THE SHADOW 
+AWAKES.  He changed it to THE SHADOW WITHIN.  After I got heavily into 
+research with my trivia experts, I realized why he had done this.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'm responding to the debate over how to check for scientific accuracy in 
+an sf novel.  The best way to check most of these things is to speak to 
+an expert.  Asking people on the net or sf readers is not a reliable 
+method.  Someone will always think they know the answer when they don't.  
+In writing THE SHADOW WITHIN, I consulted archaeology, geology, and laser 
+experts, among others.  Hopefully this has prevented any glaring 
+scientific errors from getting into the book.
+
+
      
+I'm sure I'll get flamed again for this, but I have to say that when I 
+edit a B5 novel (through the rushed process I described in another post), 
+spotting scientific inaccuracies is very far down my list of concerns.  
+In my opinion, B5 is not a scientifically accurate show.  And I don't 
+think that being scientifically accurate is one of the show's main 
+concerns.  It is a story about people (and aliens), about how we get 
+along with each other and what it all means.  I'm much more concerned 
+with the issues that are most important to B5.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+As I've said before, I wish I had had 
+more time to do a better job with all the B5 novels.  I did the best I 
+could, and contrary to popular belief, I am good at my job, according to 
+publishers, editors, agents, authors, and readers of sf and other 
+genres.  And according to the people who gave me the World Fantasy 
+Award.  And according to JMS.  
+
+
      
+I certainly wish that all errors, inconsistencies, weak spots, etc. had 
+been fixed and the books made perfect before they were published, but 
+there simply wasn't time.  Doing a job that takes a minimum of 4 months 
+with regular books in 3 days just doesn't allow for much.
+
+
      
+The truth is some scientific errors didn't get removed from books I 
+edited.  I'm human.  Amazing!  I think we could have more constructive 
+discussion here.
+
+
      
+On the topic of educating sf writers in science, I had an interesting 
+experience with my Odyssey class.  I run Odyssey, a six-week summer 
+writing workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.  
+The first week I had Hal Clement come in to talk about creating a 
+scientifically realistic setting.  He talked about the various concerns 
+when creating a planet for a story, and how the setting could actually 
+inspire the story and control the plot.  He knows his stuff backwards and 
+forwards, and the session was fascinating.  But after he left, many of my 
+students came up to me and said, "I loved Hal Clement.  He really knows 
+his stuff.  But I had no idea what he was talking about after the first 
+half hour."  
+
+
      
+Many people interested in writing sf don't have a very strong knowledge 
+of science, and this is a problem.  But there are books on how to create 
+realistic sf settings as well as many other resources, as Neil points 
+out.  This is the gruntwork (or the fun work, as your mindset goes) that 
+sf writers (and ALL writers, for that matter) have to do.
+
+
      
+ON THE TOPIC OF THE NOVEL...
+
+
      
+I found my notes from my phone conversation with JMS, which I thought 
+might interest you.  This conversation occurred while I was fleshing out 
+the synopsis JMS had approved into a detailed, scene-by-scene outline.  
+Mainly JMS okayed various things I wanted to have in the book, but he 
+also gave out a little information.  He told me that IPX headquarters 
+were in Geneva, that Anna was a freelancer for IPX, and that he didn't 
+want Morden to have a first name.  
+
+
      
+I think I may have caught JMS on one point:
+I asked him why, in the footage of the scientists from the Icarus finding 
+the Shadows on Z'ha'dum, the scientists were wearing EVA suits.  While in 
+the episode Z'ha'dum, Sheridan and Anna only needed to wear breathers 
+(this episode had not yet aired, but JMS had sent me the script and it 
+specified breathers).  There was a long pause at the other end of the 
+line.  Finally, in a halting way, JMS said something like this:  
+"Well...when the Icarus went there...they didn't know a lot about the 
+planet...they weren't sure...if there were hazards....  You can say...it 
+was standard procedure...for a new planet.  That's it.  Call it standard 
+first contact protocol."  His voice gradually picked up speed as he went, 
+figuring his way out of the problem.  That was kind of fun.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why were the B5 regulars included in the story?
      
+I chose to include those other characters, for several reasons.  First, JMS 
+had said at one point in history that a B5 novel should not be about a minor 
+character (this was a general comment, not about my book).  I agreed with 
+that idea.  It would limit the number of readers who could enjoy the 
+book, and lose the flavor of the series.  Second, it seemed I had to 
+bring John in to some extent, and it seemed like a copout to say he was 
+busy and not explain why.  Third, I wanted a sense of history in the 
+making, of Anna's fate being tied to larger events in the universe, and 
+of the impact of the past on the future.   Bringing in John, Sinclair, 
+Delenn, and Kosh did that, I thought.
+
+
      
+Were the two storylines written at the same time?
      
+I wrote them one at a time.
+
+
      
+In "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," Delenn said she asked Kosh whether
+the Shadows had returned to Z'ha'dum, and he said yes.  Why are the Shadows
+there already?
      
+This confused me also, which is why I had originally titled the book THE 
+SHADOW AWAKES.  When JMS changed the title, at the synopsis stage, I 
+started looking into the issues you raise.  They led me to believe that 
+the Shadows were awake before Anna arrived (there's their attempted 
+destruction of B4 also).  It seems as if some of them have been there a 
+while when Anna arrives.  More could definitely have come from 
+*somewhere* at some point.  When Delenn asks that question, they could 
+already have been occupying Z'ha'dum for a while.  I don't believe they 
+were in hibernation.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why did Morden speculate that the Shadow vessel that excavated the
+buried ship on Mars might have been on automatic?
      
+It was because they were guessing that Alpha Omega 3 was uninhabited, 
+from data sent by the probe.  I don't know if the ship was on automatic 
+or not. . . 
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Do Shadows fly their own ships?
      
+I don't know.  I kind of thought that at least one Shadow was aboard 
+every Shadow vessel.  I didn't think of the telepaths as pilots, but as 
+part of the ship.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'd like to respond to just a few points.  Gharlane mentioned that the 
+plot of my novel could not be praised since it was "prescribed in a 
+provided outline."  This is inaccurate.  I had no outline.  Nothing was 
+provided.  All I knew was how Anna's story had to end.  I don't believe 
+that's an outline.
+
+
      
+The RNA thing came from a biology professor.  I wondered why he didn't 
+mention DNA, but I figured he had his reasons.
+
+
      
+The question of why I used first names for three characters and last 
+names for others is simply answered.  Point of view.  I used first names 
+for the point of view characters (Anna Sheridan, John Sheridan, and 
+Jeffrey Sinclair) to help the reader feel closer to them, and last names 
+for everyone else.  Another reason for this was to differentiate between 
+Anna Sheridan and John Sheridan.  If I'd called them both Sheridan, that 
+would have been a bit confusing.  One person who read an early draft 
+didn't understand why I didn't called John Sheridan "Sheridan" and Anna 
+Sheridan "Anna."  To him, this seemed the obvious way this issue should 
+be handled.  This, unfortunately, has been the standard for a long time.  
+The man is known by his last name while the woman is known by her first.  
+I found this totally inappropriate.  Anna and John are equals, and should 
+be dealt with on an equal level.  This left me with first names, which I 
+felt gave a nice feeling of intimacy to the story and made both Anna and 
+John seem more like real people.  
+
+
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The first book is by Jeanne Cavellos, following Anna Sheridan and the
+	Icarus to Z'ha'dum; the second follows Vir and Londo to Centauri Prime
+	at the time of the events in these first six [season-four] episodes; and
+	the third follows Sinclair to Minbar after leaving B5 and setting up the
+	rangers.  This time out, I decided to assign out the stories, to make
+	sure they were accurate and in continuity.  The first one up may be the
+	best to date, I'm 2/3rds through it and haven't made a note yet.
+
+   
    •  The other books...in broad strokes, I accept they happened, but
+	in the details, and how they're treated, and some incidentals...they
+	haven't hit all the right cylinders.  This time, with this batch, I got
+	more directly involved and I think they're definitely improved...though
+	the Cavelos novel had the least need for input, since she *really* knew
+	the show.
+
+   
    •  The story of the Icarus as presented in this book is considered
+	canon.
+
+
    
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+Contents:
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+Written by Jeanne Cavelos
    
+Release date: April 1997
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22348-2 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-2339-9 (UK)
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+Anna Sheridan receives an assignment to study the ruins on Z'ha'dum.  John
+Sheridan takes command of the Agamemnon.  Babylon 5 goes online and sees
+the arrival of its first residents.
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+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
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    Back Cover
    
+
+
    The Darkening Light
    
+
+
    
+Anna Sheridan has two passions-- her husband, John, and the mystery
+surrounding some intriguing artifacts found during a mission on a
+distant planet called Z'Ha'dum. Now she gets orders to become the
+science officer on the follow-up mission scheduled for the spaceship
+Icarus. Happy, young, beloved, and brilliant, never has a woman had
+so much to live for. Or so much to lose.
+
+
    The Shadow Within
    
+
+
    
+While John, recently promoted to the rank of captain, struggles with
+his new command on the Agamemnon, Anna begins to assemble her science
+crew... and makes her first mistake. She signs on Dr. Morden, a highly
+credentialed translator whose heart hides a weakness that can cost
+Anna her life... or her soul. Her second mistake is to underestimate
+the danger on Z'ha'dum. What is awaiting the Icarus near the rim of
+known space is an unimaginable horror. What is awaiting Anna Sheridan
+is an explosive destiny... and a dark future that can crush her husband's
+dreams and a terror that can come back to haunt us all.
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    
+The book begins with Anna Sheridan studying an artifact found on an
+Interplanetary Expeditions (IPX) dig at Theta Omega 2, a planet once
+inhabited by the J/Lai, an offshoot of the Brakiri. It appears to be
+a biomechanical device, halfway between machine and living organism. As
+she studies it, she briefly makes contact with a quasi-consciousness in
+the artifact. She tells Dr. Chang, the head the expedition, but is unable
+to duplicate the effect for him.
+
+
    
+They hire Terence Hilliard, a commercial telepath, to make contact with the
+artifact. As soon as he tries, the artifact activates, overheats and
+explodes. Hilliard is seriously injured, and falls into a trance-like state,
+repeating over and over again, "I am the machine." Anna and Churlstein,
+another IPX scientist, take Hilliard to Geneva City Hospital. As he is being
+tended to, they are approached by Donne, a Psi Corps representative looking
+into the incident. Donne insists on speaking to Anna privately; Anna tells
+Churlstein to go back to the lab and make sure nothing is touched before
+she returns.
+
+
    
+Donne takes Anna to Hilliard's bedside. His physical injuries are
+superficial, but his brain is locked into a rigid, cyclical pattern. Donne
+says that Hilliard will be moved to a Psi Corps facility and dismisses the
+doctor, then questions Anna about the incident. Donne indicates that nothing
+can be done for Hilliard.
+
+
    
+Back at the lab, the remains of the explosion have been cleaned up and all
+of Anna's reports and test results are gone. Dr. Chang tells her he has been
+ordered to take over the testing of the remains of the J/Lai "mouse" and
+related artifacts. He allows her to take her computer, with her notes in it
+intact, and a fragment of the mouse. Anna has dinner with Liz Sheridan, her
+sister-in-law, before leaving for Station Prime, where she and her husband
+are planning to celebrate their anniversary.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, John Sheridan has been in command of the Agamemnon for one
+month, and is struggling with a badly disciplined crew. He chews out Lt.
+Spano, a weapons officer, for not following regulations. Corchoran, the
+first officer, tells him they will be inspected when they arrive at Station
+Prime. Later, Corchoran suggests that the crew is envious of Sheridan's war
+record; the previous commander of the Agamemnon, Capt. Best, humiliated
+them by retreating at the Battle of the Line.
+
+
    
+At Station Prime, orbiting Centauri Prime, Anna checks into the honeymoon
+suite of the Imperial Hotel. John calls her there to tell her he'll be
+delayed by the inspection. Then Chang calls, saying that an IPX probe
+has discovered the remains of a new, unknown civilization on Alpha Omega
+3. An RNA scan of microorganisms there indicates they are related to the
+"mouse" from Theta Omega 2. Chang asks her to be on an expedition there,
+which begins in 10 days. Anna is surprised by the short preparation time
+but agrees to go.
+
+
    
+General Lochschmanan's inspection of the Agamemnon goes well until the
+weapons bay, where the optical system has been left on line, creating a
+danger that the ship's laser cannons could fire if there were an explosion
+or fire on board. The Agamemnon fails the inspection, and Lochschmanan
+orders Sheridan to get the crew into shape as soon as possible. Sheridan
+cancels leave and institutes a heavy schedule of drills. The ship is also
+being outfitted with a new stealth technology.
+
+
    
+John calls Anna and tells her that he won't be able to make it; Anna does
+not tell him about the new expedition. She checks the roster for the
+expedition and sees two non-IPX personnel listed on the archaeological
+team: Donne, and a Dr. Morden, an Earthforce linguist who six months
+previously took leave of his job and moved to Station Prime. Anna becomes
+suspicious of Morden's credentials and visits him. He works for an Earthforce
+division called New Technologies, and claims to have been called up by his
+superiors and added to the mission out of the blue. She notices an Anfran
+love stone in his collection of artifacts, and learns that it was given
+to him by his wife. He moved to Station Prime after his wife and daughter
+were killed in a terrorist attack on the Io jumpgate. Anna resolves to try
+and help Morden get on with his life.
+
+
    
+Spano arrives late for a drill and Sheridan confines him to quarters. After
+the drill, Sheridan speaks angrily with Ross, the weapons chief, who is
+about to punch him when Lochschmanan arrives. Corchoran routes in a call
+from Anna. John speaks to her hurriedly, learning about the expedition, and
+returns to speak to Lochschmanan.
+
+
    
+At the IPX mission briefing, Chang introduces the members of the
+archaeological team, then shows them pictures of the planet, including a
+series of inscribed pillars and an egg-shaped biomechanical structure which
+has biological similarities to the "mouse". Afterward, Anna learns that
+Donne and Morden have a deep distrust of each others' organizations.
+On the Agamemnon, John Sheridan gives Ross, Spano, and Watley, another
+weapons officer, a choice between transferring off the ship or being
+court-martialed if they continue to perform poorly.
+
+
    
+As the Icarus leaves Station Prime, Donne asks Anna to try to make contact
+with a fragment of the mouse. She does so, experiencing an impression that
+it is still partly alive. Morden shares some preliminary translations with
+Chang and Anna: the pillars appear to say, "every light casts a shadow," and
+the largest inscription on the egg is "what is desired" or "all that is
+desired."
+
+
    
+John Sheridan is woken up by a message from Lochschmanan. Homeguard, the
+group responsible for the Io jumpgate attack, is planning to blow up
+Babylon 5 during its dedication ceremonies with nuclear devices obtained
+from the Narn. The Agamemnon is ordered to intercept the Homeguard ship
+carrying the bombs.
+
+
    
+Twenty days from Alpha Omega 3, Anna uses the IPX probe's remote control
+to explore a cave near the planned landing site, and finds two artifacts
+similar to the "mouse". Meanwhile, the Agamemnon stages a mock battle
+against the Hyperion. The Hyperion takes out the Agamemnon's targeting
+system. When Sheridan orders the weapons officers to fire manually, Ross
+does not fire, and the Hyperion goes on to "destroy" the Agamemnon.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders Ross arrested. He goes to Ross's quarters to see him
+detained, and finds him drunk and threatening to shoot himself. Ross tells
+Sheridan about his experience at the Battle of the Line. The Athena, Capt.
+Best's previous command, where Ross was serving, had its automatic targeting
+system knocked out. He fired at a fighter that appeared to be trying to ram
+them, and realized a moment too late that it was one of their Starfuries,
+trying to make an emergency landing. The resulting explosion disabled the
+Athena and killed 35 crewmembers. Sheridan takes the PPG away from Ross and
+gives him another chance.
+
+
    
+The next day, Anna discovers that the IPX orbiter at Alpha Omega 3 has lost
+contact with the surface probe. The orbiter's log indicates that Chang was
+controlling the probe at the time. The probe logs have been erased back to
+when he used the probe the previous day. Anna tells Chang about this, and
+he orders her to give no indication that malfunction could have been anything
+but an accident. He also gives her a PPG, telling her he has another for
+his own defense.
+
+
    
+Anna attempts to send a message to John on New Year's Eve, but the
+communications system is unable to send it. Hidalgo, the captain of the
+Icarus, tells her that the comm system just malfunctioned. Anna attempts to
+remove her message from the outgoing queue, and discovers Chang has also just
+tried to send a message, to Galovich, the mission's supervisor on Earth. She
+copies the message and views it. Chang is reporting that Donne and Hidalgo
+are planning to smuggle artifacts to Earth for Psi Corps to study. He also
+refers to the Shadow ship found on Mars, and a hypothesis of Morden's, that
+it returned on automatic.
+
+
    
+Anna returns to the ship's New Year's party and tells Morden she has a
+present for him. They leave the party and she gives him the Anfran love
+stone, which she had taken from his quarters the day before and had put on
+a necklace. Morden is shocked that he went an entire day without noticing
+it was gone, and puts the necklace on to assure that he will never forget
+it. Anna asks him what he knows about Mars. He tells her about the Shadow
+ship discovered by IPX. When the ship was excavated and first exposed to
+sunlight, it transmitted a message. Morden was on a team from Earthforce
+New Technologies sent to study the ship at IPX's request. Anna tells him
+what she knows about the probe problems, and the smuggling arrangement
+between Donne and Hidalgo.
+
+
    
+As B5's dedication ceremony approaches, the Agamemnon passes an inspection
+and is dispatched to intercept the Homeguard ship. Kosh Naranek contacts
+Delenn and tells her that a human expedition is going to Z'ha'dum, and it
+must be stopped. He directs his own ship toward Z'ha'dum, expecting to
+arrive just before the Icarus.
+
+
    
+After planetfall on Alpha Omega 3, half the archaeological team, including
+Chang and Donne, go to investigate the egg, while Anna, Morden, and the
+others head for the cave where she found the mice. Morden has refined the
+translation of the pillar inscriptions to "Every light carries a shadow."
+Arriving at the cave, they find that the mice are gone and the hole they
+were removed from has been partially filled in. Anna, Morden, and Dr.
+Favorito explore deeper in the cave, and find a corpse that appears to be
+a biological creature inside a biomechanical one. As far back in the cave
+as they can go, they find a black sphere blocking a passageway. Anna tries
+to take a sample of it, but find her hand passing inside it, and then feels
+something waking up inside it. She jumps back and runs away, pulling the
+others along with her.
+
+
    
+Delenn, on authorization from the Grey Council, contacts Sinclair at Babylon
+5 and tells him the expedition is in danger and must be recalled.
+
+
    
+Anna, Morden, and Favorito emerge from the cave into a sudden storm. They
+and their support crew head for the egg to rejoin Chang's group, but the egg
+and the entire group have vanished. A scan shows one link nearby; heading
+for it, they find Chang, who has been shot. Anna gives Chang's PPG to Morden.
+The two of them find a crevasse underneath where the egg had been, but it
+is too small for the egg to have gone through it.
+
+
    
+At Babylon 5, Sinclair has contacted Senator Hidoshi about the expedition
+and been referred to President Santiago's science adviser, Dr. LeBlanc.
+LeBlanc is unaware of any expedition near the rim, but promises to check
+on it. The Agamemnon observes the transfer of explosives from the Narns to
+the Homeguard ship. Just before it comes out of hiding, Ross reports that the
+weapons system is nonfunctional. A component has been removed from the
+optics system.
+
+
    
+On the Icarus, Hidalgo announces that communications have been restored.
+Anna has taken charge of the archaeological team, and splits them up for a
+search of landing area. She gives her PPG to Dr. Razor, who is on the
+team that includes Hidalgo, and tells him about Hidalgo's plans for
+smuggling artifacts. She sends a message to Gulovich, and then searches
+Donne's quarters. Inside a roll of lingerie, she finds a collection of
+small body parts and a Psi Corps badge with a black square in the center.
+She recalls that a patch of Chang's hair was missing, and concludes that
+Donne killed Chang and took the hair for her collection.
+
+
    
+When Anna returns to her quarters, she finds Morden waiting for her. He
+already believes that Donne killed Chang. When she wonders why Psi Corps
+is going to such lengths, Morden tells her that not only was Hilliard
+affected by the mouse, but every telepath at or below his P-rating within
+a three-mile radius was left in the same state. Psi Corps covered it up,
+but Earthforce-- or at least Morden's division-- quickly figured out what
+had happened.
+
+
    
+Dr. LeBlanc calls Sinclair back and tells him the expedition will not be
+recalled. She suspects that it may discover something powerful that can
+be used against the Minbari. Sinclair tells Delenn the news, and she
+informs him that sending any further ships to Alpha Omega 3 will be
+considered an act of war against the Minbari.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders Corchoran to interrogate the weapons officers about the
+sabotage, but Spano is missing from the mess, where they had been ordered
+to wait. Spano is tracked down in the gym. He complains that he was bored.
+Ross reports that the primary mirror in the optics system has been
+destroyed. Spano repeatedly denies sabotaging the system, but finally
+admits that he left his post during his watch to get a snack. Sheridan
+charges him with insubordination, desertion of post, and dereliction of
+duty, and has him confined to the brig.
+
+
    
+Anna decides to make contact with the creature inside the sphere. She and
+Morden return to where it was, but it has vanished. In the passageway
+beyond, they find a generator that could have come from the IPX probe. As
+they talk, Morden suddenly reaches for his PPG. Anna knocks him down as
+he fires, and the blast triggers a cave-in. Donne appears and tells Anna
+that Morden destroyed the probe.
+
+
    
+Ross tells Sheridan that the optics damage is worse than he thought, and
+he can't repair it on his own before the Homeguard ship reaches Babylon 5.
+Sheridan grits his teeth and assigns Watley and Spano to help him. Spano,
+feeling chastened, suggests that Sheridan consider people who had previously
+served as weapons officers. He specifically mentions Corchoran. Sheridan
+asks Corchoran for information on officers who had been weapons officers,
+but Corchoran does not send it. Sheridan orders security to detain Corchoran.
+
+
    
+Anna realizes that Morden had been aiming at Donne. Donne says that Morden
+hid the mice; Morden says that Psi Corps wouldn't have left anything for
+Earthforce to study. The three of them search for another way out of the
+caves, going through a section that appears to have been artificially
+enlarged. Donne believes that the egg was sending out a telepathic
+attraction, which she was able to block once she became aware of it. She 
+says that when Chang's group reached the egg, some of them climbed into
+openings in it, and the openings vanished. When everyone except Chang and
+Donne had gone into the egg, it reached for Chang. Donne shot him, and it
+lost interest. It didn't appear to notice her, possibly because of her
+blocking. It then changed shape and oozed away down the crevasse.
+
+
    
+With twenty minutes left before the Homeguard ship reaches the B5 jumpgate,
+Ross reports that the optics are repaired. Sheridan orders Ross to engage
+manual targeting; the automatic system won't let them fire on an Earth
+ship. Sheridan transmits a warning to the Homeguard ship, which simply
+accelerates and does not acknowledge the message. Sheridan orders Ross to
+fire, but nothing happens and Ross does not respond. Then he hears Corchoran
+on the link, taunting him.
+
+
    
+Donne leads Anna and Morden to a chamber below the crevasse, where they
+see what appear to be cryogenic chambers, one for each person on the Icarus,
+and the egg. As they watch, the egg lets out Razor, who is taken away,
+struggling, by three pale humanoid aliens. They hear a drill, and screams
+from Razor. Anna sees some kind of wiring attached to the face of the
+person in the nearest chamber and realizes the aliens are preparing the
+humans to become part of the biomachines. Churlstein, apparently unharmed,
+comes upon them and tries to take the PPGs away. Donne is immobilized by a
+telepathic attack.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders all blast doors closed and the outer parts of the Agamemnon
+evacuated. There is a struggle in the weapons bay, but Ross is able to
+fire on the Homeguard ship's engines. The explosives are touched off, and
+the Homeguard ship is destroyed. The Agamemnon suffers some damage, but no
+casualties. As a reward for a job well done, Lochschmanan assigns the
+Agamemnon to be part of the honor guard at the dedication of Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+Churlstein says that he is now an emissary from the resident aliens, who
+are willing to share all their technology if their existence is kept secret.
+Anyone who serves them willingly will be rewarded with their greatest
+desires; anyone else will be forced to serve unwillingly. New, spidery
+aliens begin to materialize all around. Donne shoots Churlstein, then the
+roof of the passage, creating a rockfall that buries Anna and Morden up to
+their shoulders and kills Donne and the humanoids. The spidery aliens
+continue to surround them. Anna and Morden try to set off one of the mice
+to destroy them. As the mouse awakes, through a telepathic link, they
+see an image of Morden's wife and daughter caught in a hyperspace vortex,
+still alive and in pain. Morden breaks contact and tells the aliens he
+will help them, if they can end his family's suffering. Anna is left to
+become a part of the machine.
+
+
    
+Above the planet, Kosh sees the Icarus take off, empty. It broadcasts a
+distress signal and then explodes. At Babylon 5, the dedication ceremony
+goes smoothly, except for Kosh not being able to be present. At the end
+of the ceremony, Sheridan gets a call from Lochschmanan, telling him
+about the loss of the Icarus. Anna has been installed in a Shadow ship.
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Homeguard must have massive resources to be able to destroy a jumpgate,
+purchase enough explosives from the Narn to destroy a 5-mile-long space
+station, and get a ship big enough to hold those explosives. Where is
+that support coming from?
+
+
    • 
+Was the mouse found on Theta Omega 2 meant to be used against J/Lai
+telepaths?
+
+
    • 
+Is the egg's attractive signal related to the Eye?
+
+
    • 
+Morden mentioned having worked with IPX twice before. One time was when the
+Shadow ship was found on Mars; what was the other?
+
+
    • 
+How was Morden able to erase the probe's logs?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The crew of the Icarus seen in the underground chamber was undergoing the
+same procedure used on the telepaths in
+"Ship of Tears."
+
+
    • 
+The image of the Icarus's crew entering the cave that Kosh shows Sheridan in
+"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+may be genuine, since Kosh had presumably arrived at Z'ha'dum by then.
+
+
    • 
+Kosh could also have sent the destruct signal that Lyta later sent in
+"Epiphanies,"
+but as Sheridan pointed out in
+"Into the Fire,"
+if the Shadows were simply destroyed, they would never know that the Vorlons
+were right.
+
+
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Sheridan's previous command was the Galatea, a heavy cruiser.
+
+
    • 
+The snow globe Delenn dropped at the end of
+"Shadow Dancing"
+was a souvenir
+from John and Anna's honeymoon.
+
+
    • 
+John and Anna Sheridan were married on December 3, 2249.
+
+
    • 
+The Battle of the Line involved over 20,000 Terran ships; 200 survived.
+
+
    • 
+The Vorlons discovered that the Shadows were awakening in late 2253 or
+early 2254.
+
+
    • 
+Both the egg on Z'ha'dum and Kosh's ship sing to their inhabitants.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    The Author Speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+So, Allen Wilkins asked about my scheduled bookstore appearances, where 
+I'll be reading from the book and answering questions.  Here's my schedule:
+
+
      
+March 15, 3-5pm, Pandemonium Books & Games, Cambridge, MA
      
+March 29, 3-5pm, Space-Crime Continuum, Northampton, MA
      
+April 5, 1-3pm, Books & More, Marlborough, NH
      
+April 12, 2-4pm, Enchantments, Lexington, MA
      
+April 20, 2-4pm, Mystery Trek, Brattleboro, VT
      
+April 24, 7:30-8:30pm, Water Street Bookstore, Exeter, NH
+
+
      
+If you plan on going to the Pandemonium appearance, or if you plan to run 
+to your bookstore on March 11 to buy the book, BEWARE:  Dell has just 
+informed me that all Bantam Doubleday Dell books for April (release date 
+3/11) may be a week or more late in reaching the stores.  They have 
+switched to a new production procedure, and this has thrown everything 
+off.  I don't think this has ever happened in the history of BDD--release 
+dates on books are very important.  So you may want to wait until the end 
+of March or call your bookstore first.
+
+
      
+Jay Denebeim and Bob P. both asked how messages could be addressed to 
+me.  Since my name is often misspelled, I think it would be easiest to 
+put in the subject line, "ATTN:  JC."  I will look for messages with that 
+designation.
+
+
      
+Eschel Hamel asked several questions about the book:
      
+WHAT WAS THE APPROVAL PROCESS LIKE TO GET YOUR NOVEL OUT?
      
+WHAT KIND OF RESEARCH DID YOU DO BEFORE AND WHILE WRITING IT?
      
+WHAT DIRT CAN YOU GIVE US ON JOE?
+
+
      
+Here's what happened, as well as I can remember without digging through 
+my records.  I wrote a synopsis of THE SHADOW WITHIN (actually called THE 
+SHADOW AWAKES back then) around 11/95.  It was about 15-20 double-spaced 
+pages.  I submitted it to Jacquie Miller, the in-house editor of the 
+books at Dell.  She read it, liked it, and sent it on to JMS.  She 
+reported back to me that JMS also liked it, but that he had 
+already decided on authors for the current three B5 books under 
+contract.  She also relayed several comments he'd made about my synopsis, 
+areas where I had diverged from his view of the story of the ICARUS.  (I 
+had just made the whole thing up, based on the little information we had 
+from the series at that point.  So it was actually pretty amazing that 
+only a few points troubled him.)  So my outline was held over to be 
+considered when the next three books were being developed.
+
+
      
+In 8/96 Jacquie contacted me and said JMS had approved my synopsis for 
+the next batch of books.  Dell wanted a complete manuscript in 5 weeks.  
+I was actually homeless when this occurred.  My husband and I had moved 
+out of our rental home and our new house, which was still being built, 
+wasn't going to be ready for three more weeks.  We were living at Motel 
+6.  The idea of writing a novel in 5 weeks was terrifying enough; but the 
+idea of writing it when my computer and my notes were all in boxes and I 
+hadn't even thought about the synopsis in 9 months sounded like too much 
+even to dream of.  I negotiated up to 8 weeks, and we made a deal.  
+Jacquie returned my original synopsis to me with some comments on it from 
+JMS.  He'd made maybe about ten notes on it, all fairly minor, a number 
+of them filling in blanks I'd left (e.g., Sinclair calls Senator _____), 
+others giving me a little information or pointing out something.  (I'll 
+try to dig this up so I can tell you some of his notes.)  He also changed 
+the title to THE SHADOW WITHIN, for reasons that became obvious to me as 
+I did my B5 research into Shadow references. 
+
+
      
+At that point I started trying to recreate what the HECK I had been 
+thinking when I'd written this nine months ago.  I decided the only way I 
+could be sure to have a finished manuscript in time was to write a 
+detailed scene-by-scene outline that would tell me everything that had to 
+happen in every scene, so there would be no surprises and no omissions.  
+As I worked on that, I realized I still had a lot of questions about the 
+arc and various aspects of the show that I needed answered to write a 
+book consistent with these things.  I also heard a rumor around this time 
+that an upcoming episode was going to feature Anna Sheridan, and that she 
+was going to be played by Melissa Gilbert!  I pretty much flipped out at 
+that point, since no one had told me, and here I was working on a novel 
+with time ticking away.  I asked Jacquie at Dell to get a copy of this 
+script for me.  She asked Warner Brothers.  There were delays.  I finally 
+sent a panicked fax to JMS, swearing myself to secrecy if only he would 
+send the script.  It came by overnight mail.  That helped a lot.  But I 
+still had a number of unanswered questions.  I asked Jacquie if I could 
+talk to JMS.  She asked, and he agreed.  (I believe I'm the first author 
+to be able to ask JMS questions directly.  I think one other author may 
+have asked a few questions through e-mail.)  We had a conference call 
+that lasted maybe an hour, basically where I asked questions and he 
+answered.  Most of my questions were of the variety of "Is it okay if I 
+do this?"  And most of the time he said yes.  A few times he gave me a 
+little information, explaining why something is or isn't true, but JMS 
+plays these things pretty close to the vest.  I felt very lucky, though, 
+that I had this opportunity, because it allowed me to get the doubt out 
+of my mind that something or other was wrong and proceed.  It also 
+corrected a few things that wouldn't have been consistent with the arc.  
+(I'll see if I can dig out my notes on this phone conversation too, if 
+you're interested.)  My biggest problem coming out of this phone call was 
+with Morden.  I had asked JMS, "What is Morden's first name?  Or can I 
+just make one up?"  JMS replied that he'd never given Morden a first 
+name.  He'd always thought of the character simply as Morden, and wasn't 
+really comfortable with the idea of giving him a first name.  This was 
+tough for me, since Morden plays a large part in the book and he becomes 
+fairly good friends with Anna.  So I had to find a way around it, which 
+you'll see in the book.
+
+
      
+After that, I did a lot more research.  Lots of B5 research--watching 
+videotapes repeatedly (many key episodes provided by Phil Farrand, the 
+author of THE NITPICKER'S GUIDES to Star Trek, of which I edited the 
+first two), referring to THE A-Z OF BABYLON 5 (I got a British edition 
+from Dell), the Lurker's Guide (and the Lurker himself, Steven Grimm, who 
+would answer my questions at any time of day), and calling other B5 
+experts, like Michael A. Burstein and Nomi Burstein.  I'd have lists of 
+questions, such as how many guns does the Agamemnon have, where, and what 
+kind are they?  (John Sheridan is in command of the Agamemnon during the 
+book.)  
+
+
      
+I also did as much research as time would allow on other topics.  I read 
+sections of about eight archaeology books, spoke to a UNH professor of 
+archaeology, the New Hampshire State Geologist told me all about caves 
+(important in this book), and an old friend from the Cornell astronomy 
+program served as an expert on lasers.  I also had numerous people read 
+the book and offer feedback on it.  Two were members of the military who 
+read for accurate military procedures and conduct. 
+
+
      
+I don't really have any "dirt" on Joe (and that is what people call him, 
+though I've stuck to the conventional JMS here).  I've told you some of 
+my experiences with him above, and perhaps can come up with some more if 
+asked.  I think the way he worked with me on the book was just right, in 
+that he guided me so that my book would fit into the B5 universe as a 
+whole, but he gave me a lot of freedom to create the vision I had and 
+write the story I wanted.  For example, when we were talking on the phone 
+he mentioned that he'd always imagined Morden to be a low-level 
+technician on the Icarus, who was jealous of Anna's education and success 
+(or something to that effect).  This is significantly different than what 
+I had in my synopsis.  But he never asked me to change Morden from the 
+way I'd envisioned him.  
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Rodent asked if I have watched B5 in its entirety.
+
+
      
+As the freelance editor of the novels, it's kind of neat that watching 
+B5 is something I must do for my job.  If only all jobs had such fun 
+requirements.  That said, I can't swear I haven't missed any episodes.  
+It took me a while to get used to the new episode/repeat schedule, which 
+I deeply dislike.  A few times I've missed episodes.  I don't have any 
+special access to a bank of videotapes or anything.  I try to catch the 
+episodes I miss when they are rerun.  But I think a few may have 
+slipped through the cracks.  I'm still waiting for one of the season 
+4 episodes to be rerun that I missed earlier.  I'm not sure of the 
+name of it, but we learned something major about the Vorlons in it.  
+I have to admit that I'm not a trivia expert.  I love the show for 
+its wonderful stories and characters, for its overall feel and 
+themes, for its complex concepts.  I'm not one to memorize the name 
+of every ship that appears on every episode.  That said, if I need 
+to know a piece of trivia (and I needed to know a lot of it to write 
+THE SHADOW WITHIN, hitting stores next week), I know who to call to 
+find out (and I don't mean JMS, since he is too busy to deal with 
+this stuff.  I have a network of B5 fans I call on to find the 
+answers to continuity questions regarding the novels, and they 
+usually know--or can find out--the answers).  I tape the episodes, but I 
+do miss some, and I'm very bad about labelling things, so again, when I 
+need to see an episode (several episodes were key to the writing of my 
+novel), if I couldn't find it in my collection I called people to send me 
+copies.  They were very nice about it.
+
+
      
+Rodent's next question was whether I had any quick comments on the 5-year 
+story arc.  
+
+
      
+Really, my only comment is my personal reaction.  When I first heard 
+about the arc, around the time the pilot aired, I became extremely 
+excited.  It seemed as if this was an incredible development in sf 
+television, one that allowed a series to be more like a great epic 
+novel.  This is part of what fueled my love for the show and part of what 
+motivated me to start the line of B5 novels at Dell Publishing.  As I 
+watch B5, each year it seems to get better and better.  As the arc 
+progresses and our understanding of events deepens (as it only could with 
+an arc), the show seems to become more meaningful and enjoyable.  I was a 
+bit disappointed with the quick end to the Shadow War, but other than 
+that I felt the arc has more than lived up to its promise.
+
+
      
+Rodent's third question was whether I had worked with JMS before.
+
+
      
+My relationship with JMS began around the time the pilot aired.  I was 
+then a senior editor at Dell Publishing.  I saw the pilot and felt 
+something exciting was starting.  I called Warner Brothers, asked for 
+JMS, and told him Dell was interested in doing a line of B5 novels.  
+We've had a number of phone conversations and discussions since then, and 
+I perhaps can tell you a little about those, but I can't claim to be a 
+close friend or anything like that.  When I left Dell in 1994 to escape 
+NYC and become a freelance editor/teacher/writer, Dell asked me to 
+continue editing the B5 novels as a freelancer, so my relationship with 
+JMS continued, though we had little direct contact.  Working on this 
+novel, asking him questions about what I could do, was my most extended 
+contact with him.
+
+
      
+Rodent asked, "How much did JMS 'get in the way' of your writing THE 
+SHADOW WITHIN?"
+
+
      
+As discussed earlier, JMS didn't really "get in the way" at all.  He 
+mainly okayed ideas I had for the book and pointed out minor areas where 
+I wasn't consistent with the show.  Really only two significant points 
+were changed from the outline due to his feedback.  First, I wanted to 
+work the nuking of San Diego into the book, having it occur around 2255.  
+JMS said no, this occurred 40 years ago.  Interesting.  It slightly 
+inconvenienced me, but it was easy enough to think of another 
+catastrophe.  The other point was that I wanted Dr. Chang to arrive at 
+Z'ha'dum in one ship, and then have Anna Sheridan come in another, 
+follow-up ship.  JMS said they all came in one ship.  This again was only 
+a minor inconvenience, and I agreed that he was right to make me stick to 
+one ship.  
+
+
      
+Really the thing that gave me the most trouble was when I asked JMS what 
+Morden's first name was.  JMS said that he'd never given Morden a first 
+name and that he wasn't really comfortable with the idea of giving one.  
+He'd always thought of Morden as just Morden.  This ticked me off for a 
+while, since I figured Morden had to have a first name, and how was I 
+going to present him in informal, social scenes without his first name?  
+I finally thought of a solution to the problem, as you'll see in the book.
+
+
      
+JMS did also change the title of the book.  I had called it THE SHADOW 
+AWAKES.  He changed it to THE SHADOW WITHIN.  After I got heavily into 
+research with my trivia experts, I realized why he had done this.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'm responding to the debate over how to check for scientific accuracy in 
+an sf novel.  The best way to check most of these things is to speak to 
+an expert.  Asking people on the net or sf readers is not a reliable 
+method.  Someone will always think they know the answer when they don't.  
+In writing THE SHADOW WITHIN, I consulted archaeology, geology, and laser 
+experts, among others.  Hopefully this has prevented any glaring 
+scientific errors from getting into the book.
+
+
      
+I'm sure I'll get flamed again for this, but I have to say that when I 
+edit a B5 novel (through the rushed process I described in another post), 
+spotting scientific inaccuracies is very far down my list of concerns.  
+In my opinion, B5 is not a scientifically accurate show.  And I don't 
+think that being scientifically accurate is one of the show's main 
+concerns.  It is a story about people (and aliens), about how we get 
+along with each other and what it all means.  I'm much more concerned 
+with the issues that are most important to B5.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+As I've said before, I wish I had had 
+more time to do a better job with all the B5 novels.  I did the best I 
+could, and contrary to popular belief, I am good at my job, according to 
+publishers, editors, agents, authors, and readers of sf and other 
+genres.  And according to the people who gave me the World Fantasy 
+Award.  And according to JMS.  
+
+
      
+I certainly wish that all errors, inconsistencies, weak spots, etc. had 
+been fixed and the books made perfect before they were published, but 
+there simply wasn't time.  Doing a job that takes a minimum of 4 months 
+with regular books in 3 days just doesn't allow for much.
+
+
      
+The truth is some scientific errors didn't get removed from books I 
+edited.  I'm human.  Amazing!  I think we could have more constructive 
+discussion here.
+
+
      
+On the topic of educating sf writers in science, I had an interesting 
+experience with my Odyssey class.  I run Odyssey, a six-week summer 
+writing workshop for writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.  
+The first week I had Hal Clement come in to talk about creating a 
+scientifically realistic setting.  He talked about the various concerns 
+when creating a planet for a story, and how the setting could actually 
+inspire the story and control the plot.  He knows his stuff backwards and 
+forwards, and the session was fascinating.  But after he left, many of my 
+students came up to me and said, "I loved Hal Clement.  He really knows 
+his stuff.  But I had no idea what he was talking about after the first 
+half hour."  
+
+
      
+Many people interested in writing sf don't have a very strong knowledge 
+of science, and this is a problem.  But there are books on how to create 
+realistic sf settings as well as many other resources, as Neil points 
+out.  This is the gruntwork (or the fun work, as your mindset goes) that 
+sf writers (and ALL writers, for that matter) have to do.
+
+
      
+ON THE TOPIC OF THE NOVEL...
+
+
      
+I found my notes from my phone conversation with JMS, which I thought 
+might interest you.  This conversation occurred while I was fleshing out 
+the synopsis JMS had approved into a detailed, scene-by-scene outline.  
+Mainly JMS okayed various things I wanted to have in the book, but he 
+also gave out a little information.  He told me that IPX headquarters 
+were in Geneva, that Anna was a freelancer for IPX, and that he didn't 
+want Morden to have a first name.  
+
+
      
+I think I may have caught JMS on one point:
+I asked him why, in the footage of the scientists from the Icarus finding 
+the Shadows on Z'ha'dum, the scientists were wearing EVA suits.  While in 
+the episode Z'ha'dum, Sheridan and Anna only needed to wear breathers 
+(this episode had not yet aired, but JMS had sent me the script and it 
+specified breathers).  There was a long pause at the other end of the 
+line.  Finally, in a halting way, JMS said something like this:  
+"Well...when the Icarus went there...they didn't know a lot about the 
+planet...they weren't sure...if there were hazards....  You can say...it 
+was standard procedure...for a new planet.  That's it.  Call it standard 
+first contact protocol."  His voice gradually picked up speed as he went, 
+figuring his way out of the problem.  That was kind of fun.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why were the B5 regulars included in the story?
      
+I chose to include those other characters, for several reasons.  First, JMS 
+had said at one point in history that a B5 novel should not be about a minor 
+character (this was a general comment, not about my book).  I agreed with 
+that idea.  It would limit the number of readers who could enjoy the 
+book, and lose the flavor of the series.  Second, it seemed I had to 
+bring John in to some extent, and it seemed like a copout to say he was 
+busy and not explain why.  Third, I wanted a sense of history in the 
+making, of Anna's fate being tied to larger events in the universe, and 
+of the impact of the past on the future.   Bringing in John, Sinclair, 
+Delenn, and Kosh did that, I thought.
+
+
      
+Were the two storylines written at the same time?
      
+I wrote them one at a time.
+
+
      
+In "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," Delenn said she asked Kosh whether
+the Shadows had returned to Z'ha'dum, and he said yes.  Why are the Shadows
+there already?
      
+This confused me also, which is why I had originally titled the book THE 
+SHADOW AWAKES.  When JMS changed the title, at the synopsis stage, I 
+started looking into the issues you raise.  They led me to believe that 
+the Shadows were awake before Anna arrived (there's their attempted 
+destruction of B4 also).  It seems as if some of them have been there a 
+while when Anna arrives.  More could definitely have come from 
+*somewhere* at some point.  When Delenn asks that question, they could 
+already have been occupying Z'ha'dum for a while.  I don't believe they 
+were in hibernation.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why did Morden speculate that the Shadow vessel that excavated the
+buried ship on Mars might have been on automatic?
      
+It was because they were guessing that Alpha Omega 3 was uninhabited, 
+from data sent by the probe.  I don't know if the ship was on automatic 
+or not. . . 
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Do Shadows fly their own ships?
      
+I don't know.  I kind of thought that at least one Shadow was aboard 
+every Shadow vessel.  I didn't think of the telepaths as pilots, but as 
+part of the ship.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I'd like to respond to just a few points.  Gharlane mentioned that the 
+plot of my novel could not be praised since it was "prescribed in a 
+provided outline."  This is inaccurate.  I had no outline.  Nothing was 
+provided.  All I knew was how Anna's story had to end.  I don't believe 
+that's an outline.
+
+
      
+The RNA thing came from a biology professor.  I wondered why he didn't 
+mention DNA, but I figured he had his reasons.
+
+
      
+The question of why I used first names for three characters and last 
+names for others is simply answered.  Point of view.  I used first names 
+for the point of view characters (Anna Sheridan, John Sheridan, and 
+Jeffrey Sinclair) to help the reader feel closer to them, and last names 
+for everyone else.  Another reason for this was to differentiate between 
+Anna Sheridan and John Sheridan.  If I'd called them both Sheridan, that 
+would have been a bit confusing.  One person who read an early draft 
+didn't understand why I didn't called John Sheridan "Sheridan" and Anna 
+Sheridan "Anna."  To him, this seemed the obvious way this issue should 
+be handled.  This, unfortunately, has been the standard for a long time.  
+The man is known by his last name while the woman is known by her first.  
+I found this totally inappropriate.  Anna and John are equals, and should 
+be dealt with on an equal level.  This left me with first names, which I 
+felt gave a nice feeling of intimacy to the story and made both Anna and 
+John seem more like real people.  
+
+
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The first book is by Jeanne Cavellos, following Anna Sheridan and the
+	Icarus to Z'ha'dum; the second follows Vir and Londo to Centauri Prime
+	at the time of the events in these first six [season-four] episodes; and
+	the third follows Sinclair to Minbar after leaving B5 and setting up the
+	rangers.  This time out, I decided to assign out the stories, to make
+	sure they were accurate and in continuity.  The first one up may be the
+	best to date, I'm 2/3rds through it and haven't made a note yet.
+
+   
    •  The other books...in broad strokes, I accept they happened, but
+	in the details, and how they're treated, and some incidentals...they
+	haven't hit all the right cylinders.  This time, with this batch, I got
+	more directly involved and I think they're definitely improved...though
+	the Cavelos novel had the least need for input, since she *really* knew
+	the show.
+
+   
    •  The story of the Icarus as presented in this book is considered
+	canon.
+
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+Written by Al Sarrantonio
    
+Release date: April 21, 1997
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22351-2 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-2344-5 (UK)
+
+
    
+
+
    
+A band of Narns take Londo hostage, determined to exchange him for
+G'Kar who is imprisoned in Centauri Prime.
+
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+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
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+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Links in the Chain
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar, once the Narn ambassador to Babylon 5, is a warrior's
+warrior. Now, with his homeworld enslaved by the Centauri, he is a
+prisoner on his enemy's planet. Despite the chains that bind him, he
+keeps the one freedom that fate allows - to choose to live, or die,
+with courage. But a secret alliance with his nemesis, the Centauri
+Londo, will test his strength to the limit.
+
+
    Personal Agendas
    
+
+
    
+The agreement is simple: G'Kar will help kill the mad emperor
+Cartagia. In exchange, Londo will end the Centauri rule of the Narn
+world. No one foresees a deadly complication - a band of fierce Narns,
+determined to rescue G'Kar, takes Londo hostage. Suddenly, Londo's
+life and the liberation of the Narn homeworld rest on a razor's
+edge. It will take a hero to convince the Narns that G'Kar must stay
+in prison... to rescue Londo... to help the Narns escape. It will
+take... Vir? With all their hopes pinned on Londo's meek,
+nervous assistant, Londo a G'Kar have something else in common... a
+snowball's chance in hell.
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    
+The book opens with G'Kar doing conversions from human light-years to
+Narn light-years. He is being tortured in front of Cartagia, and is
+using this distraction to keep himself from screaming. The
+spectacle soon bores the Emperor, and he orders G'Kar taken back his cell.
+
    
+
+
    
+Elsewhere in Centauri Prime, five newly arrived Narn miner-slaves
+escape from the rest of the group and go into hiding. Led by L'Kan,
+they are a band of Narn soldiers sworn to the task of freeing
+G'Kar. They go quickly into hiding in the tunnels below the capital to
+make their plans.
+
    
+
+
    
+Vir tells Londo that G'Kar needs to speak to him. After arranging for
+some privacy, Londo enters the cell. G'Kar has learned of the attempt
+to rescue him, and tells Londo that it must fail for the good of
+Narn. Londo is slightly surprised to see that G'Kar is willing to
+sacrifice his people, but G'Kar interrupts to put a condition: the
+five Narn must not be harmed. If they are, he will renege on their
+deal to kill Cartagia and free Narn. While G'Kar is willing to
+sacrifice himself for his people, he will not sacrifice others for his
+sake.
+
    
+
+
    
+Meanwhile in Babylon 5, Sheridan has a meeting with Ivanova and
+Garibaldi. He knows about G'Kar's imprisonment, and is trying to
+figure out if there
+is something they can do to help. They have tried to get Londo back on
+the station for a face-to-face but he has refused. Even Garibaldi
+seems out of ideas. Later, Garibaldi tells the Captain that he has
+learned of the mission to free G'Kar, but that there is nothing he can
+do to help: the five soldiers are very good, but they are on their own
+while they are on Centauri Prime.
+
    
+
+
    
+Vir receives a surprise visit that night in his quarters from his bride-to-be,
+Lyndisty (see Sic Transit Vir). 
+She agrees it isn't proper, but neither is Vir's silence or
+failure to contact her at his arrival to Centauri Prime. She isn't
+there to do anything improper, but rather to inform him that her
+parents are throwing a party in Vir's honor. Vir is trying to find a
+way to say no when she kisses him.  Confused and not thinking clearly,
+he accepts the invitation. He is still torn between the physical
+attraction he feels for Lyndisty and his horror at her past actions
+and attitudes towards Narns. Also, it is very likely that Lyndisty's
+family will use the party to officially announce the engagement and
+the wedding date.
+
    
+
+
     
+Sheridan is having a nightmare. He is standing alone in the
+blasted streets of the Narn homeworld. Suddenly behind him G'Kar
+appears and tells him "Yes, Captain, I have been standing behind you
+all along-" He awakes with a start, knowing what to do. G'Kar has
+always stood behind him, helping him even when they broke away from
+Earth. He calls Delenn and the command staff to his office and lets
+them know he has decided to help G'Kar directly. They cannot do an
+assault on Centauri Prime - that would be a declaration of war, and
+they have enough enemies with the Vorlons and the Shadows
+already. Instead, they will try a covert operation. The Narn may fail,
+or they may be able to use their help in freeing G'Kar. Sheridan and
+Delenn must stay on the station because of rumors that the Shadows and
+Vorlons are stirring up again. Franklin, Garibaldi and Ivanova
+volunteer to go. They disguise themselves as Centauri, and posing as
+jewelers, they travel to Centauri Prime. Ivanova and Sheridan decide
+not to try contacting Vir, since it will put him in too much danger.
+
    
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, L'Kan and his four soldiers sneak into the Imperial
+Palace. They scouted it in the morning (nobody pays attention to a
+bunch of Narns, provided they are carrying buckets and mops), and
+located the cell where G'Kar is being held. The Centauri are
+over-confident, and both the grounds and the cell are only lightly
+guarded. The only thing that is being carefully guarded in Centauri
+Prime is the person of Emperor Cartagia. But when they arrive at the
+cell it is empty. Londo arranged to have G'Kar moved to foil the
+rescue attempt. They escape back to their hiding place in the
+tunnels, but three guards loyal to Londo are waiting for them. Since
+they have strict orders not to harm the Narn, the latter make short
+work of them. Their hiding place discovered, the Narn must change
+their plan. They locate a different section of the tunnels to use as a
+base.
+
    
+
+
    
+Back in G'Kar's cell, Londo tells him that the Narn tried to rescue
+him, and have killed Centauri. He can no longer guarantee their
+safety. If he tries to protect them, the Emperor will know something
+is amiss. G'Kar must break his word, and allow them to take the fall
+for these murders. Otherwise, all will be lost in any case. G'Kar
+agrees reluctantly.
+
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi, Franklin and Ivanova have, in the meantime, 
+been selling precious stones
+confiscated at Babylon 5; they were due to be shipped back to Earth
+before the station seceded from the Earth Alliance. They are
+selling them very cheap, which soon catches the attention of a
+minister from the Royal Court who arranges for an audience with the
+Emperor. They use the audience to scout the grounds, and they promise
+to come back the day after with more and better stones. Cartagia,
+however, is suspicious. These traders are too good to be true, so he
+orders his minister to look into their backgrounds.
+
    
+
+
    
+In the station, Sheridan is restless. Things are back under control,
+and he is sorry he didn't get to go on the mission to rescue G'Kar. He
+decides to take a break, or as close to one as he can get. He and
+Delenn will pretend to be secret agents inside the station. There is a
+toy-smuggling operation running in Babylon 5, shipping alien toys to
+Mars. It is no big deal, so Security hasn't looked into it. Sheridan
+decides to go undercover and try to find the smugglers, and so
+participate in his own brand of cloak-and-dagger. Delenn finds the
+idea mildly amusing and agrees to go with him. 
+
    
+
+
     
+And back in Centauri Prime, L'Kan puts his plan in motion. They
+kidnap Londo from his quarters and take him to their new hiding
+place. They contact Vir with their demands: a simple exchange, Londo
+for G'Kar. To further complicate matters, the date they give for the
+exchange coincides with the date of the party Lyndisty's parents are
+giving in Vir's honor. Both Londo and Vir try to explain to the Narns
+that G'Kar cannot be freed, and that G'Kar's imprisonment is the only
+hope they have of a free Narn. Of course, L'Kan does not believe
+either of them. Vir realizes that it is up to him to free Londo and
+make the Narns see reason. At least, he muses, if he fails and dies, he
+won't have to go to Lyndisty's party, and he won't have to get married.
+
    
+
+
    
+The minister has looked into the personas adopted by Garibaldi,
+Ivanova and Franklin. He discovered they didn't have any of the
+necessary permits or papers to sell gemstones in Centauri Prime. He
+approaches them with this information, and hints that a bribe of some
+of the better stones might make him forget it. They pay him off and
+enter the Royal Palace once again. They find G'Kar, and manage to free
+him and get him out of the Palace, despite G'Kar's protests.
+
    
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, back in Babylon 5, Sheridan and Delenn are playing at being
+spies. They find the trail of the toy-smugglers, and while Sheridan
+follows a little boy to find out how they are getting the toys off the
+station, Delenn discovers that the toys are being used to hide 
+weapon components
+and explosives. Sheridan is spotted by one of the smugglers, who
+knocks him out. Delenn discovers this, but as she is about to go
+inform security of Sheridan's location, she too is captured. The
+captors do not believe her when she says she is Ambassador Delenn, and
+the man is Captain Sheridan.  The smugglers decide the spies have to
+be killed.
+
    
+
+
    
+L'Kan and the Narns have heard that G'Kar has escaped. They don't know who is
+holding him, or for what purpose. But if they can get him without
+exchanging him for Londo, then they will gladly kill Londo. Meanwhile,
+Garibaldi, Ivanova and Franklin are astounded to hear G'Kar tell them
+that they must return him to his cell. Franklin examines him carefully
+to make sure he hasn't been drugged or altered, which he has
+not. G'Kar tells them that Vir informed him of the kidnapping of
+Londo. G'Kar also tells them that he must be returned to his cell, and
+that Londo must be freed. If they can help with that, and if they can
+help the Narn soldiers get off the planet, that will be all the help he
+needs. Garibaldi still doesn't understand what is going on, but
+agrees. They go to the Royal Palace, and leave G'Kar in the care of
+the guards at the Gate, before running away in search of Mollari.
+
    
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Vir has hired someone to locate the Narns. He decides to go
+tell Lyndisty he will not be at the party, and to say goodbye to
+her. At the door, out of earshot of her father and the guests, he
+decides that since he is going to die anyway, he will tell her that it
+would have been very difficult to marry her in any case. He is still
+very disturbed by her and her family's actions in Narn, and he doesn't
+know if will ever be able to get past it. Lyndisty is heartbroken, and
+Vir leaves to go to the Narn's hideout.
+
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi, Ivanova and Franklin beat him to the Narn
+hideout. Unfortunately, the Narns only know them as the Centauri who
+freed G'Kar, only to deliver him again to the hands of the mad
+emperor. Although L'Kan is intrigued that they would use the same lies
+that Londo and Vir tried on them, he is nonetheless in no mood for
+them. After G'Kar is freed, he will execute Londo and the three
+accomplices. 
+
    
+
+
    
+Back in Babylon 5, Sheridan and Delenn have been placed inside a cargo
+container full of the smuggled toys. The container is airtight and
+about to be loaded to a freighter destined for Mars. As the container
+is being loaded, the air begins to run out. Among the toys are some
+crystal balls, which Sheridan begins to break, releasing the air and
+oxygen trapped inside. While he does this, Delenn finally tells him about
+the smuggled weapons inside the toys. Finding some components in the
+balls, and looking through the rest of the cargo, he finds enough
+components to build a crude bomb. He sets it off, and blows the
+container open. When the smugglers come from the front of the
+freighter to investigate, they are overpowered by Delenn and Sheridan,
+who then call back to an anxious Zach to tell him where they are. The
+freighter is towed back to the station, and the smugglers are
+arrested. Sheridan arranges for a ship to land on Centauri Prime to
+pick up Garibaldi and company, with a cover story of a diplomatic
+mission from Babylon 5 in case they are questioned.
+
    
+
+
     
+Vir follows the map he got from his detective and finds the hideout of
+the Narn, who have meanwhile gone to the arranged meeting place. Vir
+is surprised to find Garibaldi and company there. After being told
+what they are doing there, he mentions that Franklin missed some
+details when he made the disguises. Before he can continue, Londo
+suggests they leave the hideout. Vir cannot find the map at first, and
+after running around for a bit they end up back in the hideout, just
+as the five Narn led by L'Kan are returning from their unsuccessful
+rendezvous. Vir attempts once again to explain the situation to them,
+but L'Kan will have none of it. They failed to get G'Kar out, but at
+least they will get to kill two Centauri and three meddling
+humans. L'Kan still doesn't understand what Garibaldi and company are
+doing there, or why they sold G'Kar back, or why they are telling him
+these stories about G'Kar wanting to stay in prison. But it does not
+matter. He will grant them quick deaths, all except Londo.
+
    
+
+
    
+In a final attempt to save Londo and G'Kar's plans, Vir offers his
+life in exchange for the other four's. Londo must live, if the Narn
+homeworld is to be saved. L'Kan is puzzled, and after a moment's
+thought he takes out his ka'toc and asks Vir if he has any
+regrets. Londo yells to Vir not to do it, but Vir turns to L'Kan and
+tells him L'Kan must do what he must. The blade comes down...
+
    
+
+
    
+... and stops just short of the neck. He nicks Vir's chin, drawing a
+tiny drop of blood, and then sheaths the sword. Vir asks why is he
+still alive. L'Kan tells him it is because of his honor, and because
+what he said must be true. No other Centauri would sacrifice himself
+for another. Until Vir was truly willing to die, L'Kan could not
+believe him. But the inescapable truth is that the cause Vir spoke of
+must truly be greater than his own life. He regrets being unable to
+cut Mollari's throat, but he understands and believes now that Londo
+must be freed, and G'Kar must remain in prison. 
+Garibaldi offers to take the Narns with them. They can pretend they
+are his slaves while they get to their own rendezvous point. Londo
+offers them free passage off Centauri Prime. L'Kan tells Londo that if
+they ever meet again, he will kill him. Just as they are leaving,
+L'Kan puts his arm around Vir and asks him if he is sure he is not
+part Narn.
+
    
+
+
    
+Once back in the station, Sheridan has a meeting with Garibaldi,
+Ivanova, Franklin and Delenn. He reminds them that their recent
+escapades, for obvious reasons, must be kept a secret. The mission
+never happened, and in fact this last meeting never happened.
+
    
+
+
    
+Back in Centauri Prime, Cartagia is once again torturing G'Kar. G'Kar
+concentrates on one thought: the Narn homeworld, to deaden the
+pain. Cartagia expresses his amazement that even a Narn could take so
+much pain. And in his room, Vir is dreaming about
+Lyndisty. She just heard what he did, how he saved Londo's life. She
+says both her and her parents were confused by Vir's actions the night
+of the gala, but it is all clear now. Vir is a hero, and Lyndisty's
+parents have now a higher regard for him than ever before. And that's
+why they've rescheduled the gala.
+
    
+
+
     Just as he awakes with a shout, covered in cold sweat, the
+curtains rustle, and a dark form steppes out from behind
+them... Lyndisty.
+
    
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+
    Unanswered Questions
    
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+
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+How did G'Kar find out about the attempt to rescue him?
+
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+What details did Franklin miss, and why weren't they spotted by the
+guards or the minister?
+
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+
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+What will happen to L'Kan and his soldiers? They were sworn to the
+task of freeing G'Kar, and they failed.
+
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+
    Analysis
    
+
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    Notes
    
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+
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+This novel is set in 2261, the fourth season, before the episode Falling Toward Apotheosis.
+
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+The book makes entering and leaving the Royal Palace in Centauri Prime
+seem too easy. It is unlikely that the grounds would be so badly
+guarded, even if Cartagia has no concern for anything but himself. 
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+
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+I've said that while this one is okay, the characterization
+is off, and it tries 'way too hard to be funny, ignoring the notion
+that if everything is funny then *nothing* is funny.
+Unfortunately, I didn't get the actual manuscript until it was too
+late to do anything short of commissioning a full rewrite, which they
+wouldn't do.
+
      
+Anyway...as I said, it's okay.  But for my money, the Anna
+Sheridan and Jeffrey Sinclair books are the two real gems of
+this batch.
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+Written by Arturo Magidin
+<magidin@math.berkeley.edu>.
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+Written by Al Sarrantonio
    
+Release date: April 21, 1997
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22351-2 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-2344-5 (UK)
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+A band of Narns take Londo hostage, determined to exchange him for
+G'Kar who is imprisoned in Centauri Prime.
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    Links in the Chain
    
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+G'Kar, once the Narn ambassador to Babylon 5, is a warrior's
+warrior. Now, with his homeworld enslaved by the Centauri, he is a
+prisoner on his enemy's planet. Despite the chains that bind him, he
+keeps the one freedom that fate allows - to choose to live, or die,
+with courage. But a secret alliance with his nemesis, the Centauri
+Londo, will test his strength to the limit.
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    Personal Agendas
    
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+The agreement is simple: G'Kar will help kill the mad emperor
+Cartagia. In exchange, Londo will end the Centauri rule of the Narn
+world. No one foresees a deadly complication - a band of fierce Narns,
+determined to rescue G'Kar, takes Londo hostage. Suddenly, Londo's
+life and the liberation of the Narn homeworld rest on a razor's
+edge. It will take a hero to convince the Narns that G'Kar must stay
+in prison... to rescue Londo... to help the Narns escape. It will
+take... Vir? With all their hopes pinned on Londo's meek,
+nervous assistant, Londo a G'Kar have something else in common... a
+snowball's chance in hell.
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    Synopsis
    
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+The book opens with G'Kar doing conversions from human light-years to
+Narn light-years. He is being tortured in front of Cartagia, and is
+using this distraction to keep himself from screaming. The
+spectacle soon bores the Emperor, and he orders G'Kar taken back his cell.
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+Elsewhere in Centauri Prime, five newly arrived Narn miner-slaves
+escape from the rest of the group and go into hiding. Led by L'Kan,
+they are a band of Narn soldiers sworn to the task of freeing
+G'Kar. They go quickly into hiding in the tunnels below the capital to
+make their plans.
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+
+
    
+Vir tells Londo that G'Kar needs to speak to him. After arranging for
+some privacy, Londo enters the cell. G'Kar has learned of the attempt
+to rescue him, and tells Londo that it must fail for the good of
+Narn. Londo is slightly surprised to see that G'Kar is willing to
+sacrifice his people, but G'Kar interrupts to put a condition: the
+five Narn must not be harmed. If they are, he will renege on their
+deal to kill Cartagia and free Narn. While G'Kar is willing to
+sacrifice himself for his people, he will not sacrifice others for his
+sake.
+
    
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+
    
+Meanwhile in Babylon 5, Sheridan has a meeting with Ivanova and
+Garibaldi. He knows about G'Kar's imprisonment, and is trying to
+figure out if there
+is something they can do to help. They have tried to get Londo back on
+the station for a face-to-face but he has refused. Even Garibaldi
+seems out of ideas. Later, Garibaldi tells the Captain that he has
+learned of the mission to free G'Kar, but that there is nothing he can
+do to help: the five soldiers are very good, but they are on their own
+while they are on Centauri Prime.
+
    
+
+
    
+Vir receives a surprise visit that night in his quarters from his bride-to-be,
+Lyndisty (see Sic Transit Vir). 
+She agrees it isn't proper, but neither is Vir's silence or
+failure to contact her at his arrival to Centauri Prime. She isn't
+there to do anything improper, but rather to inform him that her
+parents are throwing a party in Vir's honor. Vir is trying to find a
+way to say no when she kisses him.  Confused and not thinking clearly,
+he accepts the invitation. He is still torn between the physical
+attraction he feels for Lyndisty and his horror at her past actions
+and attitudes towards Narns. Also, it is very likely that Lyndisty's
+family will use the party to officially announce the engagement and
+the wedding date.
+
    
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+
     
+Sheridan is having a nightmare. He is standing alone in the
+blasted streets of the Narn homeworld. Suddenly behind him G'Kar
+appears and tells him "Yes, Captain, I have been standing behind you
+all along-" He awakes with a start, knowing what to do. G'Kar has
+always stood behind him, helping him even when they broke away from
+Earth. He calls Delenn and the command staff to his office and lets
+them know he has decided to help G'Kar directly. They cannot do an
+assault on Centauri Prime - that would be a declaration of war, and
+they have enough enemies with the Vorlons and the Shadows
+already. Instead, they will try a covert operation. The Narn may fail,
+or they may be able to use their help in freeing G'Kar. Sheridan and
+Delenn must stay on the station because of rumors that the Shadows and
+Vorlons are stirring up again. Franklin, Garibaldi and Ivanova
+volunteer to go. They disguise themselves as Centauri, and posing as
+jewelers, they travel to Centauri Prime. Ivanova and Sheridan decide
+not to try contacting Vir, since it will put him in too much danger.
+
    
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, L'Kan and his four soldiers sneak into the Imperial
+Palace. They scouted it in the morning (nobody pays attention to a
+bunch of Narns, provided they are carrying buckets and mops), and
+located the cell where G'Kar is being held. The Centauri are
+over-confident, and both the grounds and the cell are only lightly
+guarded. The only thing that is being carefully guarded in Centauri
+Prime is the person of Emperor Cartagia. But when they arrive at the
+cell it is empty. Londo arranged to have G'Kar moved to foil the
+rescue attempt. They escape back to their hiding place in the
+tunnels, but three guards loyal to Londo are waiting for them. Since
+they have strict orders not to harm the Narn, the latter make short
+work of them. Their hiding place discovered, the Narn must change
+their plan. They locate a different section of the tunnels to use as a
+base.
+
    
+
+
    
+Back in G'Kar's cell, Londo tells him that the Narn tried to rescue
+him, and have killed Centauri. He can no longer guarantee their
+safety. If he tries to protect them, the Emperor will know something
+is amiss. G'Kar must break his word, and allow them to take the fall
+for these murders. Otherwise, all will be lost in any case. G'Kar
+agrees reluctantly.
+
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi, Franklin and Ivanova have, in the meantime, 
+been selling precious stones
+confiscated at Babylon 5; they were due to be shipped back to Earth
+before the station seceded from the Earth Alliance. They are
+selling them very cheap, which soon catches the attention of a
+minister from the Royal Court who arranges for an audience with the
+Emperor. They use the audience to scout the grounds, and they promise
+to come back the day after with more and better stones. Cartagia,
+however, is suspicious. These traders are too good to be true, so he
+orders his minister to look into their backgrounds.
+
    
+
+
    
+In the station, Sheridan is restless. Things are back under control,
+and he is sorry he didn't get to go on the mission to rescue G'Kar. He
+decides to take a break, or as close to one as he can get. He and
+Delenn will pretend to be secret agents inside the station. There is a
+toy-smuggling operation running in Babylon 5, shipping alien toys to
+Mars. It is no big deal, so Security hasn't looked into it. Sheridan
+decides to go undercover and try to find the smugglers, and so
+participate in his own brand of cloak-and-dagger. Delenn finds the
+idea mildly amusing and agrees to go with him. 
+
    
+
+
     
+And back in Centauri Prime, L'Kan puts his plan in motion. They
+kidnap Londo from his quarters and take him to their new hiding
+place. They contact Vir with their demands: a simple exchange, Londo
+for G'Kar. To further complicate matters, the date they give for the
+exchange coincides with the date of the party Lyndisty's parents are
+giving in Vir's honor. Both Londo and Vir try to explain to the Narns
+that G'Kar cannot be freed, and that G'Kar's imprisonment is the only
+hope they have of a free Narn. Of course, L'Kan does not believe
+either of them. Vir realizes that it is up to him to free Londo and
+make the Narns see reason. At least, he muses, if he fails and dies, he
+won't have to go to Lyndisty's party, and he won't have to get married.
+
    
+
+
    
+The minister has looked into the personas adopted by Garibaldi,
+Ivanova and Franklin. He discovered they didn't have any of the
+necessary permits or papers to sell gemstones in Centauri Prime. He
+approaches them with this information, and hints that a bribe of some
+of the better stones might make him forget it. They pay him off and
+enter the Royal Palace once again. They find G'Kar, and manage to free
+him and get him out of the Palace, despite G'Kar's protests.
+
    
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, back in Babylon 5, Sheridan and Delenn are playing at being
+spies. They find the trail of the toy-smugglers, and while Sheridan
+follows a little boy to find out how they are getting the toys off the
+station, Delenn discovers that the toys are being used to hide 
+weapon components
+and explosives. Sheridan is spotted by one of the smugglers, who
+knocks him out. Delenn discovers this, but as she is about to go
+inform security of Sheridan's location, she too is captured. The
+captors do not believe her when she says she is Ambassador Delenn, and
+the man is Captain Sheridan.  The smugglers decide the spies have to
+be killed.
+
    
+
+
    
+L'Kan and the Narns have heard that G'Kar has escaped. They don't know who is
+holding him, or for what purpose. But if they can get him without
+exchanging him for Londo, then they will gladly kill Londo. Meanwhile,
+Garibaldi, Ivanova and Franklin are astounded to hear G'Kar tell them
+that they must return him to his cell. Franklin examines him carefully
+to make sure he hasn't been drugged or altered, which he has
+not. G'Kar tells them that Vir informed him of the kidnapping of
+Londo. G'Kar also tells them that he must be returned to his cell, and
+that Londo must be freed. If they can help with that, and if they can
+help the Narn soldiers get off the planet, that will be all the help he
+needs. Garibaldi still doesn't understand what is going on, but
+agrees. They go to the Royal Palace, and leave G'Kar in the care of
+the guards at the Gate, before running away in search of Mollari.
+
    
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Vir has hired someone to locate the Narns. He decides to go
+tell Lyndisty he will not be at the party, and to say goodbye to
+her. At the door, out of earshot of her father and the guests, he
+decides that since he is going to die anyway, he will tell her that it
+would have been very difficult to marry her in any case. He is still
+very disturbed by her and her family's actions in Narn, and he doesn't
+know if will ever be able to get past it. Lyndisty is heartbroken, and
+Vir leaves to go to the Narn's hideout.
+
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi, Ivanova and Franklin beat him to the Narn
+hideout. Unfortunately, the Narns only know them as the Centauri who
+freed G'Kar, only to deliver him again to the hands of the mad
+emperor. Although L'Kan is intrigued that they would use the same lies
+that Londo and Vir tried on them, he is nonetheless in no mood for
+them. After G'Kar is freed, he will execute Londo and the three
+accomplices. 
+
    
+
+
    
+Back in Babylon 5, Sheridan and Delenn have been placed inside a cargo
+container full of the smuggled toys. The container is airtight and
+about to be loaded to a freighter destined for Mars. As the container
+is being loaded, the air begins to run out. Among the toys are some
+crystal balls, which Sheridan begins to break, releasing the air and
+oxygen trapped inside. While he does this, Delenn finally tells him about
+the smuggled weapons inside the toys. Finding some components in the
+balls, and looking through the rest of the cargo, he finds enough
+components to build a crude bomb. He sets it off, and blows the
+container open. When the smugglers come from the front of the
+freighter to investigate, they are overpowered by Delenn and Sheridan,
+who then call back to an anxious Zach to tell him where they are. The
+freighter is towed back to the station, and the smugglers are
+arrested. Sheridan arranges for a ship to land on Centauri Prime to
+pick up Garibaldi and company, with a cover story of a diplomatic
+mission from Babylon 5 in case they are questioned.
+
    
+
+
     
+Vir follows the map he got from his detective and finds the hideout of
+the Narn, who have meanwhile gone to the arranged meeting place. Vir
+is surprised to find Garibaldi and company there. After being told
+what they are doing there, he mentions that Franklin missed some
+details when he made the disguises. Before he can continue, Londo
+suggests they leave the hideout. Vir cannot find the map at first, and
+after running around for a bit they end up back in the hideout, just
+as the five Narn led by L'Kan are returning from their unsuccessful
+rendezvous. Vir attempts once again to explain the situation to them,
+but L'Kan will have none of it. They failed to get G'Kar out, but at
+least they will get to kill two Centauri and three meddling
+humans. L'Kan still doesn't understand what Garibaldi and company are
+doing there, or why they sold G'Kar back, or why they are telling him
+these stories about G'Kar wanting to stay in prison. But it does not
+matter. He will grant them quick deaths, all except Londo.
+
    
+
+
    
+In a final attempt to save Londo and G'Kar's plans, Vir offers his
+life in exchange for the other four's. Londo must live, if the Narn
+homeworld is to be saved. L'Kan is puzzled, and after a moment's
+thought he takes out his ka'toc and asks Vir if he has any
+regrets. Londo yells to Vir not to do it, but Vir turns to L'Kan and
+tells him L'Kan must do what he must. The blade comes down...
+
    
+
+
    
+... and stops just short of the neck. He nicks Vir's chin, drawing a
+tiny drop of blood, and then sheaths the sword. Vir asks why is he
+still alive. L'Kan tells him it is because of his honor, and because
+what he said must be true. No other Centauri would sacrifice himself
+for another. Until Vir was truly willing to die, L'Kan could not
+believe him. But the inescapable truth is that the cause Vir spoke of
+must truly be greater than his own life. He regrets being unable to
+cut Mollari's throat, but he understands and believes now that Londo
+must be freed, and G'Kar must remain in prison. 
+Garibaldi offers to take the Narns with them. They can pretend they
+are his slaves while they get to their own rendezvous point. Londo
+offers them free passage off Centauri Prime. L'Kan tells Londo that if
+they ever meet again, he will kill him. Just as they are leaving,
+L'Kan puts his arm around Vir and asks him if he is sure he is not
+part Narn.
+
    
+
+
    
+Once back in the station, Sheridan has a meeting with Garibaldi,
+Ivanova, Franklin and Delenn. He reminds them that their recent
+escapades, for obvious reasons, must be kept a secret. The mission
+never happened, and in fact this last meeting never happened.
+
    
+
+
    
+Back in Centauri Prime, Cartagia is once again torturing G'Kar. G'Kar
+concentrates on one thought: the Narn homeworld, to deaden the
+pain. Cartagia expresses his amazement that even a Narn could take so
+much pain. And in his room, Vir is dreaming about
+Lyndisty. She just heard what he did, how he saved Londo's life. She
+says both her and her parents were confused by Vir's actions the night
+of the gala, but it is all clear now. Vir is a hero, and Lyndisty's
+parents have now a higher regard for him than ever before. And that's
+why they've rescheduled the gala.
+
    
+
+
     Just as he awakes with a shout, covered in cold sweat, the
+curtains rustle, and a dark form steppes out from behind
+them... Lyndisty.
+
    
+
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+How did G'Kar find out about the attempt to rescue him?
+
      • 
+
    • 
+What details did Franklin miss, and why weren't they spotted by the
+guards or the minister?
+
      • 
+
    • 
+What will happen to L'Kan and his soldiers? They were sworn to the
+task of freeing G'Kar, and they failed.
+
      • 
+
+
    
+
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+This novel is set in 2261, the fourth season, before the episode Falling Toward Apotheosis.
+
      • 
+
+
    • 
+The book makes entering and leaving the Royal Palace in Centauri Prime
+seem too easy. It is unlikely that the grounds would be so badly
+guarded, even if Cartagia has no concern for anything but himself. 
+
      • 
+
+
+
+
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+
    •  
+I've said that while this one is okay, the characterization
+is off, and it tries 'way too hard to be funny, ignoring the notion
+that if everything is funny then *nothing* is funny.
+Unfortunately, I didn't get the actual manuscript until it was too
+late to do anything short of commissioning a full rewrite, which they
+wouldn't do.
+
      
+Anyway...as I said, it's okay.  But for my money, the Anna
+Sheridan and Jeffrey Sinclair books are the two real gems of
+this batch.
+
+
    
+
+
    +
+
    
+
    
+
    
+Written by Arturo Magidin
+<magidin@math.berkeley.edu>.
+
+
+
    +
+
    
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] [Episode List] [Previous] [Next] 
+
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 20, 1998
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+
    
+Written by Kathryn Drennan
    
+Release date: June 1997
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22354-7 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-2354-2 (UK)
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Sinclair travels to Minbar and takes command of the Rangers.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    They called them the first line of defense.  They called
+them Rangers.
    
+
+
    
+Ambassador to the alien world of Minbar, former Babylon 5
+commander, Jeffrey Sinclair, is one of the first to learn
+the truth about the Shadows, the ancient race pursuing the
+destruction of the galaxy.  Sinclair also discovers a
+startling secret: he is the linchpin in the legendary
+Minbari warrior group, the Rangers.  But it may cost him
+his one chance to love... and his life.
+
+
    To Dream in the City of Sorrows
    
+
+
    
+Catherine Sakai, commercial pilot and planetary surveyor,
+has lost her heart to Jeffrey Sinclair.  Not even an
+attack by the Shadows can stop her from getting to Minbar
+to join him... and the Rangers.  As she trains with other
+pilots, including the mysterious Marcus Cole, the time is
+coming when their skills will be tested on their first
+mission.  Led by Sinclair, they will venture into deepest
+space, into a battle of stealth and might, and toward a
+fate none but the bravest can face... and none but the
+luckiest will survive...
+
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Minbari and Centauri gained hyperspace travel when they discovered
+	a network of functioning jump gates.  The oldest gates are 7000 years
+	old, and nobody knows anything about the race that built them, other
+	than that they flourished for 3 to 4 millennia, then vanished, leaving
+	only the gates behind.
+
+   
    •  Ranger Headquarters is in the city of Tuzanor, also known as the City
+	of Sorrows after a battle before the days of Valen, in which a million
+	Minbari died in a single day.  The Minbari have a saying, "To dream
+	in the City of Sorrows is to dream of a better future."
+
+   
    •  The Minbari were fighting the Shadows alone, and losing, until the
+	Vorlons arrived with Babylon 4 and Valen.
+
+   
    •  Valen elevated the worker caste to equality with the other two castes
+	and united the warrior clans.
+
+   
    •  Valen has no tomb and left no known remains.
+
+   
    •  Valen established the Rangers (Anla'Shok) and became the first Ranger
+	One (Anla'Shok Na.)  He was also given the title Entil'Zha, a word whose
+	meaning has been lost but which may have been supplied by the Vorlons.
+	After Valen, none of the Ranger heads assumed that title until Sinclair,
+	and he only did so thanks to the dying wish of the Grey Council's
+	leader Jenimer.
+
+   
    •  The Rangers were formerly made up of warrior caste members only, though
+	Valen never specifically prohibited other castes.  Sinclair actively
+	opened their ranks to the other castes and to humanity.
+
+   
    •  Since Dukhat's death, the Grey Council has become used to operating
+	without a leader.  His replacement, Jenimer, was a figurehead.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Did Catherine survive, and if so, where and when did she go?
+
+   
    •  What does it mean that Valen "traveled beyond?"  The First Ones
+	"passed beyond the veil"
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.")
+	Is there a connection?
+
+   
    •  Assuming Marcus' note was genuine, does Valen's "we" refer to he
+	and Catherine?  Why did he think he'd see Marcus again?
+
+   
    •  Was Ulkesh the Vorlon on Minbar in
+	"War Without End, Part 1?"
+
+   
    •  Who built the original jumpgates?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  According to the Vorlons, the Shadows would never attack the
+	Great Machine.
+
+   
    •  The Minbari superstition about not sleeping horizontally
+	("Messages from Earth")
+	stemmed from a physiological problem that is no longer a significant
+	danger.
+
+   
    •  All Minbari understand the languages of all three castes, but it
+	is considered a social disgrace for a warrior or religious caste
+	member to speak the worker caste language.
+
+   
    •  The novel says that Sinclair couldn't remember 48 hours at
+	the Battle of the Line.  But the show has stated his missing time
+	as 24 hours
+	("The Gathering.")
+
+
    
+
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  While she has written prose for Twilight Zone magazine, and
+	other national publications, and is a Clarion graduate, this will mark
+	her first novel.  It's quite good (having read most of it now),
+	tracking Sinclair's journey from B5 to Minbar, taking up the role of
+	Ambassador, then transitioning to head of the Rangers.
+
+	
      
+	This book stands to be the first one (closely followed by
+	Jeanne Cavelos' forthcoming B5 book) that's 100% canon...to be
+	considered a true chapter in the B5 storyline.
+
+	
      
+	What's fun about it is that it ties all the books and comics
+	together with the show, and puts it all in chronological order, and
+	weaves in and out of events in the second season.  I think this is
+	going to be a fan favorite. The Cavelos book follows Anna Sheridan as
+	she comes to join the crew of the Icarus, and the details of their fate
+	at Z'ha'dum.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In the past, we've taken pitches, but overall I've felt that the books
+	strayed too far from canon by doing it that way; the latest batch were
+	more directly influenced.  One is taken right out of B5 canon, the
+	Anna/Icarus story, and it's one of the best to date; the second one up
+	is based on a premise I wrote up and was assigned to the writer (it's
+	the weakest of the three, set on Centauri Prime while G'Kar was still
+	held prisoner, but still okay); the third is also based on a premise,
+	and follows Sinclair after leaving B5 to form the Rangers...I worked
+	very closely with the writer here to ensure that virtually *every
+	line* is canon.  Frankly, if anyone asks from now on, "What happened
+	to Sinclair after leaving B5?" I can point to this book and say,
+	honestly, "It's all in there."
+
+	
      
+	I think we'll continue to work this way more in future.
+
+	
      
+	Dell only works with published authors with agents and credits.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Is this book consistant with what happened to Sinclair in the first few
+	issues of the DC comic? Or is the DC comic now non-canon?"
+
+	
      
+	It's *absolutely* consistent with the comic, the events of which are
+	mentioned at some length in the novel.  I'm telling you...it ties in the
+	comics, the first year, the following year, the development of the
+	Rangers, what happened to Marcus and his brother, what happened to
+	Catherine Sakai, we learn a lot more about Valen...it's going to be
+	pretty cool.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kathryn, for obvious reasons [she's married to JMS],
+	is the only person on the planet whose knowledge of the B5 universe is
+	second only to my own.  Especially the backstory, the history of the
+	characters and worlds, and so on.  She's seen virtually every frame of
+	film.  So when I got the idea of having one of the books follow
+	Sinclair's story after leaving B5, through a year of story time that
+	weaves in and out of the books, the comic, and the show...she was the
+	logical candidate.  The only one that made sense.  She was hesitant to
+	do so at first, for various reasons, but she's always been very fond
+	of the Sinclair storyline, and Michael O'Hare, and wanted to tell that
+	story.  So she agreed to write it.
+
+	
      
+	And of all the novels, this one is 100% canon...it's also the most
+	exhaustive attempt to tie in all the storylines done to date.  Anybody
+	wants to know what happened to Sinclair, it's in the book.  That's a
+	genuine chapter of the story arc.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Drennan book, just hitting the stands now, is 100% canon;
+	the Cavelos book, out for a bit now, is about 90% canon.  (Those are
+	books 7 and 9.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Catherine Sakai is one of the major characters in the third of
+	the current batch of new B5 novels.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ulkesh was named Naranek, just like the original Kosh.  Did Kosh2
+	have a distinct name that he was hiding from Sheridan
+	("Walkabout?")
      
+	Yes, he had another name or designation (Naranek is actually a
+	title, not a name, hence why they both had it) and was primarily being
+	a pain in the butt.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I gave Kathryn a bare-bones stucture on the Marcus thing -- the
+	death of his brother, his trip first to B5 and then to Minbar -- but
+	she took on the rest on her own.  The process was pretty much as I
+	describe it in the intro, asking what X meant, how A related to B, and
+	then her pulling all the threads together in a story that filled in all
+	the blanks.  The credit is entirely hers on this.  I consulted and
+	read, but she did all the creative work on this.
+
+
    
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+
+Novel: "To Dream in the City of Sorrows"
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     ### GUIDE ### [Index] [Previous] [Next] 
+    
+
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
+ 
+
    
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    
+Written by Kathryn Drennan
    
+Release date: June 1997
    
+ISBN: 0-440-22354-7 (US)
    
+ISBN: 0-7522-2354-2 (UK)
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Sinclair travels to Minbar and takes command of the Rangers.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    They called them the first line of defense.  They called
+them Rangers.
    
+
+
    
+Ambassador to the alien world of Minbar, former Babylon 5
+commander, Jeffrey Sinclair, is one of the first to learn
+the truth about the Shadows, the ancient race pursuing the
+destruction of the galaxy.  Sinclair also discovers a
+startling secret: he is the linchpin in the legendary
+Minbari warrior group, the Rangers.  But it may cost him
+his one chance to love... and his life.
+
+
    To Dream in the City of Sorrows
    
+
+
    
+Catherine Sakai, commercial pilot and planetary surveyor,
+has lost her heart to Jeffrey Sinclair.  Not even an
+attack by the Shadows can stop her from getting to Minbar
+to join him... and the Rangers.  As she trains with other
+pilots, including the mysterious Marcus Cole, the time is
+coming when their skills will be tested on their first
+mission.  Led by Sinclair, they will venture into deepest
+space, into a battle of stealth and might, and toward a
+fate none but the bravest can face... and none but the
+luckiest will survive...
+
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Plot Points
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Minbari and Centauri gained hyperspace travel when they discovered
+	a network of functioning jump gates.  The oldest gates are 7000 years
+	old, and nobody knows anything about the race that built them, other
+	than that they flourished for 3 to 4 millennia, then vanished, leaving
+	only the gates behind.
+
+   
    •  Ranger Headquarters is in the city of Tuzanor, also known as the City
+	of Sorrows after a battle before the days of Valen, in which a million
+	Minbari died in a single day.  The Minbari have a saying, "To dream
+	in the City of Sorrows is to dream of a better future."
+
+   
    •  The Minbari were fighting the Shadows alone, and losing, until the
+	Vorlons arrived with Babylon 4 and Valen.
+
+   
    •  Valen elevated the worker caste to equality with the other two castes
+	and united the warrior clans.
+
+   
    •  Valen has no tomb and left no known remains.
+
+   
    •  Valen established the Rangers (Anla'Shok) and became the first Ranger
+	One (Anla'Shok Na.)  He was also given the title Entil'Zha, a word whose
+	meaning has been lost but which may have been supplied by the Vorlons.
+	After Valen, none of the Ranger heads assumed that title until Sinclair,
+	and he only did so thanks to the dying wish of the Grey Council's
+	leader Jenimer.
+
+   
    •  The Rangers were formerly made up of warrior caste members only, though
+	Valen never specifically prohibited other castes.  Sinclair actively
+	opened their ranks to the other castes and to humanity.
+
+   
    •  Since Dukhat's death, the Grey Council has become used to operating
+	without a leader.  His replacement, Jenimer, was a figurehead.
+
+
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Did Catherine survive, and if so, where and when did she go?
+
+   
    •  What does it mean that Valen "traveled beyond?"  The First Ones
+	"passed beyond the veil"
+	("In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum.")
+	Is there a connection?
+
+   
    •  Assuming Marcus' note was genuine, does Valen's "we" refer to he
+	and Catherine?  Why did he think he'd see Marcus again?
+
+   
    •  Was Ulkesh the Vorlon on Minbar in
+	"War Without End, Part 1?"
+
+   
    •  Who built the original jumpgates?
+
+
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  According to the Vorlons, the Shadows would never attack the
+	Great Machine.
+
+   
    •  The Minbari superstition about not sleeping horizontally
+	("Messages from Earth")
+	stemmed from a physiological problem that is no longer a significant
+	danger.
+
+   
    •  All Minbari understand the languages of all three castes, but it
+	is considered a social disgrace for a warrior or religious caste
+	member to speak the worker caste language.
+
+   
    •  The novel says that Sinclair couldn't remember 48 hours at
+	the Battle of the Line.  But the show has stated his missing time
+	as 24 hours
+	("The Gathering.")
+
+
    
+
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  While she has written prose for Twilight Zone magazine, and
+	other national publications, and is a Clarion graduate, this will mark
+	her first novel.  It's quite good (having read most of it now),
+	tracking Sinclair's journey from B5 to Minbar, taking up the role of
+	Ambassador, then transitioning to head of the Rangers.
+
+	
      
+	This book stands to be the first one (closely followed by
+	Jeanne Cavelos' forthcoming B5 book) that's 100% canon...to be
+	considered a true chapter in the B5 storyline.
+
+	
      
+	What's fun about it is that it ties all the books and comics
+	together with the show, and puts it all in chronological order, and
+	weaves in and out of events in the second season.  I think this is
+	going to be a fan favorite. The Cavelos book follows Anna Sheridan as
+	she comes to join the crew of the Icarus, and the details of their fate
+	at Z'ha'dum.
+
+
      
+   
    •  In the past, we've taken pitches, but overall I've felt that the books
+	strayed too far from canon by doing it that way; the latest batch were
+	more directly influenced.  One is taken right out of B5 canon, the
+	Anna/Icarus story, and it's one of the best to date; the second one up
+	is based on a premise I wrote up and was assigned to the writer (it's
+	the weakest of the three, set on Centauri Prime while G'Kar was still
+	held prisoner, but still okay); the third is also based on a premise,
+	and follows Sinclair after leaving B5 to form the Rangers...I worked
+	very closely with the writer here to ensure that virtually *every
+	line* is canon.  Frankly, if anyone asks from now on, "What happened
+	to Sinclair after leaving B5?" I can point to this book and say,
+	honestly, "It's all in there."
+
+	
      
+	I think we'll continue to work this way more in future.
+
+	
      
+	Dell only works with published authors with agents and credits.
+
+
      
+   
    •  "Is this book consistant with what happened to Sinclair in the first few
+	issues of the DC comic? Or is the DC comic now non-canon?"
+
+	
      
+	It's *absolutely* consistent with the comic, the events of which are
+	mentioned at some length in the novel.  I'm telling you...it ties in the
+	comics, the first year, the following year, the development of the
+	Rangers, what happened to Marcus and his brother, what happened to
+	Catherine Sakai, we learn a lot more about Valen...it's going to be
+	pretty cool.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Kathryn, for obvious reasons [she's married to JMS],
+	is the only person on the planet whose knowledge of the B5 universe is
+	second only to my own.  Especially the backstory, the history of the
+	characters and worlds, and so on.  She's seen virtually every frame of
+	film.  So when I got the idea of having one of the books follow
+	Sinclair's story after leaving B5, through a year of story time that
+	weaves in and out of the books, the comic, and the show...she was the
+	logical candidate.  The only one that made sense.  She was hesitant to
+	do so at first, for various reasons, but she's always been very fond
+	of the Sinclair storyline, and Michael O'Hare, and wanted to tell that
+	story.  So she agreed to write it.
+
+	
      
+	And of all the novels, this one is 100% canon...it's also the most
+	exhaustive attempt to tie in all the storylines done to date.  Anybody
+	wants to know what happened to Sinclair, it's in the book.  That's a
+	genuine chapter of the story arc.
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Drennan book, just hitting the stands now, is 100% canon;
+	the Cavelos book, out for a bit now, is about 90% canon.  (Those are
+	books 7 and 9.)
+
+
      
+   
    •  Catherine Sakai is one of the major characters in the third of
+	the current batch of new B5 novels.
+
+
      
+   
    •  Ulkesh was named Naranek, just like the original Kosh.  Did Kosh2
+	have a distinct name that he was hiding from Sheridan
+	("Walkabout?")
      
+	Yes, he had another name or designation (Naranek is actually a
+	title, not a name, hence why they both had it) and was primarily being
+	a pain in the butt.
+
+
      
+   
    •  I gave Kathryn a bare-bones stucture on the Marcus thing -- the
+	death of his brother, his trip first to B5 and then to Minbar -- but
+	she took on the rest on her own.  The process was pretty much as I
+	describe it in the intro, asking what X meant, how A related to B, and
+	then her pulling all the threads together in a story that filled in all
+	the blanks.  The credit is entirely hers on this.  I consulted and
+	read, but she did all the creative work on this.
+
+
    
+
    +
+
    
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] [Episode List] [Previous] [Next] 
+
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 20, 1998
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+
    
+Written by J. Gregory Keyes
    
+Release date: September 4, 1998
    
+ISBN: 0345427157
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Book 1 of the Psi Corps trilogy, detailing how the Corps started.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Long before the Babylon 5 space station brought Humans face-to-face with
+alien races, they discovered an extraordinary breed among their very own...
    
+
+
    
+The year is 2115.  Shock waves follow in the wake of astonishing news:
+science has proven the existence of telepaths.  Amid media frenzy, panic,
+and bloodshed, Earth's government steps in to restore order -- and establish
+tight control over the newfound special population...by any means necessary.
+
+
    
+Ambitious senator Lee Crawford spearheads the effort, overseeing the
+creation of the Psi Corps -- an elite unit charged with tagging and
+monitoring all telepaths "for their own protection."  But the real agenda
+behind the crackdown is one of government control.  Many question the
+telepaths' origins, while others view them as a coveted weapon.  As the
+Corps tightens its iron grip, the stage is set for a cataclysmic
+confrontation -- one in which the future of Earth will be decided.
+
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Bester was born in early 2189 or late 2188, which would make him about
+	70 years old during the TV series.  By today's standards he looks
+	younger than that, but the average human lifespan in the B5 era is
+	almost 100 years
+	("Soul Hunter")
+	as opposed to 70-80 today, so his appearance is probably normal for a
+	man of 70 in 2260.
+
+
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Just for those who haven't heard yet, the newest B5
+	novel -- first in a trilogy of books about the origins of the Psi Corps
+	through and beyond the events of the fifth season -- is out.  "Dark
+	Genesis," by J. Gregory Keyes, from a jms outline.  For my money, this
+	is probably one of the best B5 novels ever done, and it takes quite a
+	risk, because even though you see ancestors of some of our
+	characters (the books cover about 80 years), there are none of the
+	regulars in it.  It's our first attempt to really flesh out the B5
+	universe and future history.  
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, it's a hell of a read, and I commend it to you without
+	reservation.
+
+   
    •  I think my outlines for each of the Psi Corps novels was about ten pages
+	each. It spelled out the broad strokes of what happened in each one of
+	them, and left Gregory to fill in the gaps and work out the details in
+	conjunction with myself and our reference editor, so that all the
+	timelines jived and everything made canonical sense.
+
+
    
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+
+
+Novel: "Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps"
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     ### GUIDE ### [Index] [Previous] [Next] 
+    
+
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
+ 
+
    
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    
+Written by J. Gregory Keyes
    
+Release date: September 4, 1998
    
+ISBN: 0345427157
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Book 1 of the Psi Corps trilogy, detailing how the Corps started.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Long before the Babylon 5 space station brought Humans face-to-face with
+alien races, they discovered an extraordinary breed among their very own...
    
+
+
    
+The year is 2115.  Shock waves follow in the wake of astonishing news:
+science has proven the existence of telepaths.  Amid media frenzy, panic,
+and bloodshed, Earth's government steps in to restore order -- and establish
+tight control over the newfound special population...by any means necessary.
+
+
    
+Ambitious senator Lee Crawford spearheads the effort, overseeing the
+creation of the Psi Corps -- an elite unit charged with tagging and
+monitoring all telepaths "for their own protection."  But the real agenda
+behind the crackdown is one of government control.  Many question the
+telepaths' origins, while others view them as a coveted weapon.  As the
+Corps tightens its iron grip, the stage is set for a cataclysmic
+confrontation -- one in which the future of Earth will be decided.
+
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Bester was born in early 2189 or late 2188, which would make him about
+	70 years old during the TV series.  By today's standards he looks
+	younger than that, but the average human lifespan in the B5 era is
+	almost 100 years
+	("Soul Hunter")
+	as opposed to 70-80 today, so his appearance is probably normal for a
+	man of 70 in 2260.
+
+
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+   
    •  Just for those who haven't heard yet, the newest B5
+	novel -- first in a trilogy of books about the origins of the Psi Corps
+	through and beyond the events of the fifth season -- is out.  "Dark
+	Genesis," by J. Gregory Keyes, from a jms outline.  For my money, this
+	is probably one of the best B5 novels ever done, and it takes quite a
+	risk, because even though you see ancestors of some of our
+	characters (the books cover about 80 years), there are none of the
+	regulars in it.  It's our first attempt to really flesh out the B5
+	universe and future history.  
+
+	
      
+	Anyway, it's a hell of a read, and I commend it to you without
+	reservation.
+
+   
    •  I think my outlines for each of the Psi Corps novels was about ten pages
+	each. It spelled out the broad strokes of what happened in each one of
+	them, and left Gregory to fill in the gaps and work out the details in
+	conjunction with myself and our reference editor, so that all the
+	timelines jived and everything made canonical sense.
+
+
    
+
    +
+
    
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] [Episode List] [Previous] [Next] 
+
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+November 2, 1998
+
+
    
+
+
diff --git a/novels/011 b/novels/011
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+
+
+
    
+Written by J. Gregory Keyes
    
+Release date: February 1999
    
+ISBN: 0345427165
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Bester rises through the ranks of the Psi Corps.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I think book 2 is terrific as well, maybe in some ways better than 1 because
+though it's not as epic, it really makes the Psi Corps come alive in some
+nifty
+ways.
+
+
      
+I haven't seen 3 yet, but it should be a real kick.
+
+
      
+The technomage trilogy, at this point, may work out to be my favorite, given
+how much of the B5 storyline it interweaves.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why should we buy a book to learn about things that should have been
+covered in the series?
+
+
      
+1) The B5 series was never about the Psi Corps, it was about the station and
+the people who live there.
+
+
      
+2) Should the show have told everything there was about IPX, the Psi Corps,
+EarthDome, and all of the various institutions involved?  Show me any series
+ever created that can do that.
+
+
      
+3) The Psi Corps books cover over a hundred years of history, and Bester's
+final fate comes years after the events of the B5 storyline.  There is NO WAY
+to include all of that in any one series.  You are asking the impossible, and
+complaining because we cannot do what simply cannot be done by any series,
+ever, anywhere, ever created.
+
+
    
diff --git a/novels/011.html b/novels/011.html
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+
+
+Novel: "Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant"
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     ### GUIDE ### [Index] [Previous] [Next] 
+    
+
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
+ 
+
    
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Written by J. Gregory Keyes
    
+Release date: February 1999
    
+ISBN: 0345427165
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Bester rises through the ranks of the Psi Corps.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+I think book 2 is terrific as well, maybe in some ways better than 1 because
+though it's not as epic, it really makes the Psi Corps come alive in some
+nifty
+ways.
+
+
      
+I haven't seen 3 yet, but it should be a real kick.
+
+
      
+The technomage trilogy, at this point, may work out to be my favorite, given
+how much of the B5 storyline it interweaves.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Why should we buy a book to learn about things that should have been
+covered in the series?
+
+
      
+1) The B5 series was never about the Psi Corps, it was about the station and
+the people who live there.
+
+
      
+2) Should the show have told everything there was about IPX, the Psi Corps,
+EarthDome, and all of the various institutions involved?  Show me any series
+ever created that can do that.
+
+
      
+3) The Psi Corps books cover over a hundred years of history, and Bester's
+final fate comes years after the events of the B5 storyline.  There is NO WAY
+to include all of that in any one series.  You are asking the impossible, and
+complaining because we cannot do what simply cannot be done by any series,
+ever, anywhere, ever created.
+
+
    
+
    +
+
    
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] [Episode List] [Previous] [Next] 
+
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 5, 1999
+
+
    
+
+
diff --git a/novels/012 b/novels/012
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+
+
+
    
+Written by J. Gregory Keyes
    
+Release date: October 4, 1999
    
+ISBN: 0345427173
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Bester's fate is revealed as the Telepath War comes to an end.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
diff --git a/novels/012.html b/novels/012.html
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+
+
+Novel: "Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester"
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     ### GUIDE ### [Index] [Previous] 
+    
+
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
+ 
+
    
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+Written by J. Gregory Keyes
    
+Release date: October 4, 1999
    
+ISBN: 0345427173
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Bester's fate is revealed as the Telepath War comes to an end.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    JMS Speaks
    
+
    +
+
    
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] [Episode List] [Previous] 
+
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 5, 1999
+
+
    
+
+
diff --git a/novels/Makefile b/novels/Makefile
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index 00000000..f2f63cce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/novels/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+FTP=/home/woodstock/ftp/pub/Babylon-5/Guide/Novels
+WWW=/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/novels
+all: \
+	$(FTP)/001.Voices \
+	$(FTP)/002.Accusations \
+	$(FTP)/003.Blood-Oath \
+	$(FTP)/004.Clarks-Law \
+	/dev/null
+
+$(FTP)/001.Voices: $(WWW)/001.html
+	echo "Voices" > $@
+	/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/001.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
+
+$(FTP)/002.Accusations: $(WWW)/002.html
+	echo "Accusations" > $@
+	/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/002.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
+
+$(FTP)/003.Blood-Oath: $(WWW)/003.html
+	echo "Blood Oath" > $@
+	/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/003.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
+
+$(FTP)/004.Clarks-Law: $(WWW)/004.html
+	echo "Clarks Law" > $@
+	/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/004.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
+
diff --git a/novels/amazon b/novels/amazon
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+++ b/novels/amazon
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+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
diff --git a/novels/gen.py b/novels/gen.py
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/novels/gen.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import sys,string,time,os
+sys.path.append('../internal')
+import otros
+
+months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
+		'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
+
+for epnum in sys.argv[1:]:
+	curep = string.atoi(epnum[:3])
+
+	pix = open('../internal/novelnames', 'r')
+	for i in range(0, curep + 1):
+		epname = pix.readline()[:-1]
+	pix.close()
+	if epname == '':
+		epname = 'XXX'
+
+	cureplong = '%03d' % curep
+
+	which = 'novels'
+
+	input = open(epnum, 'r')
+	mtime = time.localtime(os.stat(epnum)[8]);
+	mtime_str = '%s %d, %d' % (months[mtime[1]], mtime[2], mtime[0])
+
+	output = open(epnum + '.html', 'w')
+
+	output.write("""
+
+Novel: """ + '"' + epname + '"')
+	if which == 'extra':
+		output.write(' (scene in detail)')
+	
+	output.write("""
+
+
+
+
+
+
+""" + otros.pageheader(curep, which))
+
+	output.write("""
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Back Cover -
+Synopsis -
+Questions -
+Analysis -
+Notes -
+Author
+ 
+
    
+
    
+
+""")
+
+	output.write(input.read())
+
+	output.write('
    \n\n
    \n' + otros.pagefooter(curep) + """
+
+
    
+Last update:
+""" + mtime_str + """
+
+
    
+
+
+""")
+
+	input.close()
+	output.close()
+
+	print epnum
diff --git a/novels/genall.csh b/novels/genall.csh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..71d68781
--- /dev/null
+++ b/novels/genall.csh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/csh
+gen.py `/bin/ls [012]* | fgrep -v .html`
diff --git a/novels/index.html b/novels/index.html
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Books and Novels
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [US/Canada] [Elsewhere] [Master List] ### NOVELS ### [Comics]
+    
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
    Contents:
+Novels -
+Novelizations -
+Scripts -
+Nonfiction
    
+
    See Also:
+Products page
+
    
+
+
    
+This is a guide to Babylon 5 in print, including
+the series of Babylon 5 novels published
+by Dell and Del Rey.
+
+
    
+
    Original Novels
    
+
+
    
+Note!
+Since the novel series contains stories that run concurrently with the TV
+series, some of these pages contain spoilers for the show.  Each novel's
+guide page will indicate (if known) when it takes place in the show's
+timeline; a novel can be expected to spoil earlier episodes.  Proceed with
+caution.
+
+
    
+Novels 1-9 are published by Dell in the US.  Novels after that are published
+by Del Rey.
+
+
    +Release
+Date (US)  Author             Title
+95/02/13   John Vornholt      Voices
+95/04/10   Lois Tilton        Accusations
+95/09/13   John Vornholt      Blood Oath
+96/01/10   Jim Mortimore      Clark's Law
+96/02/10   Neil Barrett, Jr.  The Touch of Your Shadow,
+                               the Whisper of Your Name
+96/05/10   S. M. Stirling     Betrayals
+97/03/14   Jeanne Cavelos     The Shadow Within
+97/04/14   Al Sarrantonio     Personal Agendas
+97/06/15   Kathryn Drennan    To Dream in the City of Sorrows
+
+98/09/04   J. Gregory Keyes   Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi Corps
+99/02/10   J. Gregory Keyes   Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant
+99/10/04   J. Gregory Keyes   Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester
+99/12/01   Peter David        Legions of Fire: The Long Night of Centauri Prime
+00/05/02   Peter David        Legions of Fire: Armies of Light and Dark
+00/10/31   Peter David        Legions of Fire: Out of Darkness
+01/02/??   Jeanne Cavelos     The Passing of the Techno-Mages: Casting Shadows
+01/??/??   Jeanne Cavelos     The Passing of the Techno-Mages book 2
+01/??/??   Jeanne Cavelos     The Passing of the Techno-Mages book 3
+
    
+
+
    
+The authors of novels 1-9 can be written care of:
+
+
    Dell Publishing
    
+1540 Broadway
    
+New York, NY 10036
    
+USA
    
+
+
    
+In addition, some of the authors have E-mail access and/or Web sites:
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    Novelizations of Episodes
    
+
+
    
+Links lead to the guide pages for the episodes, which contain notes about
+the novelizations as appropriate.
+
+
    +97/11/26   Peter David        In the Beginning
+98/07/03   Peter David        Thirdspace
+99/01/??   Robert Sheckley    A Call to Arms
    
+
+
    
+
    Episode Scripts
    
+
+
    
+
    
+The Coming of Shadows
+
    
+Included in JMS'
+The Complete Book of Scriptwriting.
+
+
    
+Day of the Dead
+
    
+With annotations by Neil Gaiman and a foreword by JMS.
+Available from
+Amazon.com.
+
    • 
+
+
+
+
    
+
    Nonfiction
    
+
+
    
+Most links lead to books' pages on
+Amazon.com
+or
+Internet BookShop
+which contain ISBN, publisher name, and other details, as well as online
+ordering.
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  The Complete Book of Scriptwriting
+	by J. Michael Straczynski, B5's creator, is a guide to the world of
+	writing for television, theater, and movies.  The sample script in the
+	appendix is the unabridged shooting script for the Hugo-award-winning
+	episode
+	"The Coming of Shadows."
+
+   
    •  Babylon 5 Security Manual
+	by Jim Mortimore.  A handbook for rookie members of B5's security
+	team, including station maps, lifeform listings, and technical
+	information.
+
+   
    •  The Babylon File
+	and
+	The Babylon File: Volume 2
+	by Andy Lane.  An unauthorized guide to the show, including an episode
+	listing, behind-the-scenes information, and background on the B5
+	universe.
+
+   
    •  Creating Babylon 5
+	by David Bassom.  Originally titled "Babylon 5 Behind the Scenes."
+	All about the production of Babylon 5, from set design to CGI to
+	writing.
+
+   
    •  The A-Z Guide to Babylon 5
+	by David Bassom.  An alphabetical B5 encyclopedia with information on
+	alien races, historical incidents, and characters, all cross-referenced
+	with attributions to episodes.
+
+   
    •  Babylon 5 Season by Season by Jane Killick.  One book per season,
+	this series details the episodes and the overall story arc, and includes
+	comments from cast and crew members.
+
+	
        
+
+	   
      •  Signs and Portents
+		covers season one and includes a foreword by Michael O'Hare
+		and information on the making of the pilot movie.
+
+	   
      •  The Coming of Shadows
+		covers season two and includes a section titled "By Any Means
+		Necessary: Making Babylon 5 on a Budget" which details the
+		show's innovative money-saving techniques.
+
+	   
      •  Point of No Return
+		covers season three and includes a chapter on B5's special
+		effects.
+
+	   
      •  No Surrender, No Retreat
+		covers season four and includes a chapter titled "Script to
+		Screen" covering the lifecycle of an episode.
+
+	   
      •  Wheel of Fire
+		Covers season five.  Supplementary material unknown.
+	
+	
      
+
+   
    •  A couple of supplements to the
+	B5 roleplaying game
+	by Chameleon Eclectic:
+
+	
+
+   
    •  Dining on Babylon 5
+	by Steve Smith.  A B5 cookbook with recipes for
+	Minbari flarn, Centauri hot jala, Jovian Sunspots, and other foods
+	mentioned on the show.  Not yet published in the US, but can be
+	shipped from the UK.
+
+   
    •  The Parliament
+	of Dreams: Conferring on Babylon 5
+	is a collection of academic essays from a conference sponsored by
+	The Science Fiction
+	Foundation
+	in 1998.
+
+
    
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+November 6, 2000
+
+
    
+
+
diff --git a/novels/skel b/novels/skel
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@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+
+
+
    
+Written by XXX
    
+Release date: XXX
    
+ISBN: xxx
+
+
    
+
+
    
+XXX
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Reader reviews, and online ordering, can be found at
+Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Back Cover
    
+
+
    Synopsis
    
+
+
    Unanswered Questions
    
+
+
    Analysis
    
+
+
    Notes
    
+
+
    The Author Speaks
    
diff --git a/p5/000 b/p5/000
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+++ b/p5/000
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+Results - "The Gathering"
+=========================
+Poll 5          Gathering
+-------------------------
+Average             6
+Std. Dev.           1.95
+# of Voters        20
+-------------------------
+Shawn Bayern        2
+Ted McCoy           2.5
+Bill Sherman        3.5
+Dan Wood            5
+Leick Robinson      5
+Mark Stackpole      5
+Michael Zecca       5
+Rick Blewitt        5
+Jose Gonzalez       6
+Kyle Haight         6
+Craig Bryant        6.5
+Dirk Loeding        6.5
+Don Varvel          6.5
+John Sotomayor      7
+Chris Aylott        7.5
+Gordon Mulcaster    7.5
+Mike Hopkins        7.5
+Brian Sullivan      8
+Jonathan Roy        8
+Kevin Wald         10
diff --git a/p5/001 b/p5/001
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+++ b/p5/001
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+  Results - "Midnight on the Firing Line"
+============================================
+                            # of
+ Poll 5           History   votes   Midnight
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.27          6.99
+ Std. Dev.            1.6           1.87
+ # of voters         34            21
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Bill Sherman         3.25   2      3
+ Mike Case            4      1      4
+ Shawn Bayern         3      2      4
+ Steve Fenster        5      1      5
+ Tom Januliwicz       5      1      5
+ Greg Laughland       6      1      6
+ Frank Hummel         6.5    1      6.5
+ James R. Caplan      7      1      7
+ Mark Stackpole       6      2      7
+ Phil Fraering        7      1      7
+ Nick Fitzpatrick     6.25   2      7.5
+ Wesley Jordan        5.75   2      7.5
+ Mike Hopkins         7.6    2      7.7
+ Michael Zecca        6.5    2      8
+ TJ Goldstein         8      1      8
+ Chris Aylott         8      2      8.5
+ Joe Linstrom         8.5    1      8.5
+ Tim Lynch            7.25   2      8.5
+ Dan Wood             7      2      9
+ Kyle Haight          7.5    2      9
+ Rick Blewitt         7.5    2     10
diff --git a/p5/002 b/p5/002
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index 00000000..4896bb1a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/002
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+       Results - "Soul Hunter"
+=============================================
+                              # of    Soul
+ Poll 5               History Votes  Hunter
+ --------------------------------------------
+ Average                6.54          7.05
+ Std. Dev.              0.65          2.02
+ # of voters           84            45
+ --------------------------------------------
+ Adian Palmer           4       2     2
+ Bill Sherman           3.17    3     3
+ Mary Lee               4       2     3
+ Tom Januliwicz         4       2     3
+ Robert E. Maas         5.25    2     3.5
+ Andy Johnson           5       2     4
+ Michael P. Hartley     4       1     4
+ Steve Fenster          4.5     2     4
+ Tony J. McKimm         4       1     4
+ Allen Jenoff           6.33    3     6
+ Michael Heckler        6.5     1     6.5
+ Andrew Flint           5       4     7
+ Donald Simmons         7.5     2     7
+ Greg Laughland         6.5     2     7
+ Michael May            5.67    3     7
+ Mike Heffner           7.75    2     7
+ David S. Strauss       7.75    2     7.5
+ Frank Hummel           7       2     7.5
+ Kathy Sullivan         7.5     3     7.5
+ Mark Dever             7.5     2     7.5
+ Mark Stackpole         6.5     3     7.5
+ Perrianne Lurie        7.33    3     7.5	
+ Roger Earl             6.57    3     7.5	
+ Joe Reiss              7.9     1     7.9
+ Greg Franks            7       4     8
+ Colin Jitlal           8.5     2     8
+ James Short            7.17    3     8
+ Jeff Rupley            7.5     2     8 
+ John Abbot             7       2     8
+ Kevin Lauderdale       8.25    2     8
+ Mark A. Willard        8       1     8
+ Michael Green          7       2     8
+ Mike Facello           8.4     2     8.3
+ Chris Aylott           8.17    3     8.5
+ Jeff Giddings          8.5     1     8.5
+ Jeff Hildebrand        7.75    2     8.5
+ Joe Lindstrom          8.5     2     8.5 
+ Morris Jones           7.75    2     8.5
+ James Tee              7.7     3     8.6 
+ Dave E. Martin         7.67    3     9
+ Terry Chambers         8.75    2     9
+ Wesley Jordan          6.92    3     9.25
+ Michael J. Loux        9.3     1     9.3
+ Ian Smith              8.83    3     9.5
+ Mike Hopkins           8.23    3     9.5
diff --git a/p5/003 b/p5/003
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..99be5d7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/003
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+       Results - "Born to the Purple"
+==========================================
+                             # of
+ Poll 5            History   votes   Purple
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Average              6.46           6.79
+ Std. Dev.            0.88           1.49
+ # of voters         97             43
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Andrew Flint         5        4     3
+ Tom Januliwicz       3.67     3     3
+ Craig Bryant         6.13     4     3.5
+ Andy Brathwaite      5.5      4     4
+ Allen Jenoff         6.33     3     5
+ Michael Heckler      6        2     5.5
+ Andy Johnson         5.33     3     6
+ Bill Sherman         3.88     4     6
+ David Bogartz        6        1     6
+ Jeff Giddings        7.25     2     6
+ Mark A. Willard      7        2     6
+ Mark Stackpole       6.38     4     6
+ Michael Green        6.67     3     6
+ Michael May          5.75     4     6
+ Michael P. Hartley   5        2     6
+ Dan Johnson          6.38     4     6.5
+ John Abbot           6.83     3     6.5
+ Paul Heroy           6.75     4     6.5
+ Frank Hummel         6.92     3     6.75
+ Jack Holt            7.75     4     7
+ Jeff Rupley          7.33     3     7
+ Ken Kousen           8.33     3     7
+ Michael Zecca        6.88     4     7
+ Mike Heffner         7.5      3     7
+ Donald Simmons       7.5      3     7.5
+ Ian W.O. Smith       8.5      4     7.5  
+ John Shortess        7.38     4     7.5
+ Kevin Brennan        6.38     4     7.5
+ Mike Loux            7.5      1     7.5
+ Tim Lynch            7.63     4     7.5
+ Chris Aylott         8.13     4     8
+ David Strauss        7.83     3     8
+ Eric Neuman          8        1     8
+ Greg Franks          7        4     8  
+ Jeff Hildebrand      7.83     3     8
+ Mike Hopkins         8.18     4     8
+ Morris Jones         7.83     3     8
+ Nick Fitzpatrick     6.2      5     8
+ Wesley Jordan        7.25     4     8.25
+ Kathy Sullivan       7.75     4     8.5
+ Peter Taylor         7.83     3     8.5
+ Douglas Triggs       7.5      4     9
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.63     4     9.5
diff --git a/p5/004 b/p5/004
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..a127df08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/004
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+       Results - "Infection"
+==============================================
+ Poll 5            History   #votes  Infection
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Average             6.85               6.33
+ Std. Dev.           0.64               1.65
+ # of voters       102                 33
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Mary Lee            4.38      4        3
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    6.2       5        3
+ Steven Grimm        3         1        3
+ Bill Sherman        3.8       5        3.5
+ Steve Fenster       4.33      3        4
+ Andy Brathwaite     5.4       5        5
+ Andy Johnson        5.25      4        5
+ Jeff Hildebrand     7.13      4        5
+ Tom Janulewicz      4.13      4        5.5
+ John Abbot          6.6       5        6
+ David Bogartz       6         2        6
+ Jeff Rupley         7         4        6
+ Rick Nelson (1)     7.25      4        6
+ Rob Henderson       7.83      4        6
+ Michael May         5.86      5        6.3
+ Jack Holt           7.5       5        6.5
+ Mark Stackpole      6.4       5        6.5
+ Mike Hopkins        7.9       5        6.8
+ Michael Rawdon      6.52      5        6.96
+ Peter Taylor        7.7       5        7
+ Michael Green       6.75      4        7
+ Casey Miller        7.6       5        7
+ Chris Aylott        8         5        7.5
+ Dave E. Martin      8         5        7.5
+ Jeff Giddings       7.33      3        7.5
+ Wesley Jordan       7.35      5        7.75
+ Greg Laughland      7.15      4        7.9
+ J. Garth Wilcox     7.67      6        8
+ Andrew Flint        5.6       5        8
+ Douglas Triggs      7.6       5        8
+ Kathy Sullivan      7.9       5        8.5
+ Mike Heffner        7.75      4        8.5
+ Brian Dickson       9.15      4        8.6
+
+ Note: (1) Formerly Rick Blewitt
diff --git a/p5/005 b/p5/005
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..2ba8745c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/005
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+       Results - "The Parliament of Dreams"
+===================================================
+                                     The Parliament
+ Poll 5            History   #votes    of Dreams
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average            7.22                 7.88
+ Std. Dev.          1.13                 1.34
+ # of voters      108                   48
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Mary Lee           4.6          5       5.5
+ Tom Janulewicz     4.4          5       5.5
+ Chris Spell        7.5          2       6
+ Andrew Flint       5.67         6       6 
+ Andy Brathwaite    5.5          6       6
+ Andy Johnson       5.33         6       6
+ Jered Floyd        6.38         4       6
+ Mark A. Willard    6.67         3       6
+ Steven Grimm       4.5          2       6
+ Bill Sherman       4.25         6       6.5
+ John Abbot         6.6          5       6.5
+ Michael May        5.97         6       6.5
+ Allen Jenoff       6.5          4       7
+ James Tee          7.53         4       7
+ Jeremy Sammons     6.67         6       7
+ Michael Heckler    6.33         3       7
+ Greg Laughland     7.18         5       7.3
+ Mark Dever         6.7          5       7.5
+ Nick Fitzpatrick   6.42         6       7.5
+ Dean Iverson       6.79         6       7.75
+ Craig Dorrell      8.5          2       8
+ Kevin Brennan      7.08         6       8
+ Peter Taylor       7.95         6       8
+ Frank Hummel       6.75         5       8
+ Jeff Rupley        7.2          5       8 
+ Mark DeSilets      6.33         6       8
+ Steve Fenster      5.25         4       8
+ Brian Dickson      8.96         5       8.2
+ Craig Bryant       6.17         6       8.5
+ Mark Stackpole     6.75         6       8.5
+ Mike Heffner       7.9          5       8.5
+ Paul Heroy         6.75         6       8.5
+ Rick Nelson        7.5          5       8.5
+ David Strauss      7.6          5       9
+ Ian W.O. Smith     8.5          6       9
+ J. Garth Wilcox    7.67         6       9
+ Jeff Hildebrand    7.5          5       9
+ Miriam Anixter     7            6       9
+ Chris Aylott       8.2          6       9.2
+ Rob Henderson      8.12         5       9.3
+ Donald Simmons     7.6          5       9.5
+ Jack Holt          7.83         6       9.5
+ Wesley Jordan      7.71         6       9.5
+ Dave E. Martin     8.51         7       9.6
+ Mike Hopkins       8.18         6       9.6
+ Casey Miller       7.95         6       9.7
+ Kathy Sullivan     8.25         6      10
+ Phil Fraering      7.33         3      10
diff --git a/p5/006 b/p5/006
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..d209ed7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/006
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+       Results - "Mind War"
+=========================================
+
+                  History #votes Mind War
+ ----------------------------------------
+ Average             7.05          8.44
+ Std. Dev.           0.99          1.45
+ # of voters       124            58
+ ----------------------------------------
+ Tom Janulewicz      3.83   6      1.00
+ Mary Lee            4.75   6      5.50
+ Sam Paik            3.71   7      6.00
+ David R. Sanderson  5.86   7      6.00
+ Greg Laughland      6.98   6      6.00
+ Steve Fenster       5.50   5      6.50
+ Andy Johnson        5.57   7      7.00
+ Bill Sherman        4.71   7      7.50
+ Chris Spencer       5.07   7      7.50
+ Rick Nelson         7.50   6      7.50
+ Donald Simmons      7.58   6      7.50
+ Jason Snell         5.33   6      8.00
+ Andy Brathwaite     5.86   7      8.00
+ Jim Mills           6.21   7      8.00
+ J. Garth Wilcox     7.71   7      8.00
+ Kyle Marcroft       6.29   7      8.20
+ Frank Hummel        7.00   6      8.25
+ Michael May         6.33   7      8.50
+ Dan Johnson         6.57   7      8.50
+ Mark Peters         6.64   7      8.50
+ David Bogartz       6.83   3      8.50
+ Michael Heckler     6.88   4      8.50
+ John Abbott         6.92   6      8.50
+ Jeff Giddings       7.30   5      8.50
+ James R. Caplan     7.75   2      8.50
+ Casey Miller        8.03   7      8.50
+ Mike Hopkins        8.23   7      8.50
+ Wesley Jordan       7.84   7      8.60
+ Rob Henderson       8.20   6      8.60
+ Craig Dorrell       6.94   8      9.00
+ Steven Grimm        6.25   4      9.00
+ Chris Spell         7.83   3      9.00
+ Lynn Nielson        6.43   7      9.00
+ Darrell Drake       6.71   7      9.00
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    6.79   7      9.00
+ Allen Jenoff        7.00   5      9.00
+ Mark Stackpole      7.07   7      9.00
+ Paul Heroy          7.07   7      9.00
+ Kevin Brennan       7.08   6      9.00
+ Mark A. Willard     7.25   4      9.00
+ Greg Franks         7.40   5      9.00
+ Chris Aylott        8.31   7      9.00
+ George Fergus       9.00   1      9.00
+ Peter Taylor        7.95   6      9.20
+ Eric Neuman         8.63   2      9.25
+ Brian Dickson       9.02   6      9.30
+ Mark DeSilets       6.79   7      9.50
+ Jered Floyd         7.00   5      9.50
+ Dean Iverson        7.18   7      9.50
+ Kathy Sullivan      8.43   7      9.50
+ Eric Wincentsen     9.25   2      9.50
+ Galen Hazelwood     9.50   1      9.50
+ Jack Holt           8.13   7      9.90
+ Dave E. Martin      8.58   8     10.00
+ Per Abrahamsen      6.43   7     10.00
+ Phil Fraering       8.00   4     10.00
+ Michael A. Burstein 8.20   5     10.00
+ Mark Sulkowski      9.06   4     10.00
diff --git a/p5/007 b/p5/007
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index 00000000..2b8c4faf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/007
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+       Results - "The War Prayer"
+==========================================
+                            # of   The War
+ Poll 5            History  votes  Prayer
+ -----------------------------------------
+ Average              7.21          6.82
+ Std. Dev.            1.13          1.47
+ # of voters        133            58
+ -----------------------------------------
+ Chris Aylott         7.53    8     2.00
+ Andy Johnson         5.25    8     3.00
+ Andy Brathwaite      5.50    8     3.00
+ James R. Caplan      6.67    3     4.50
+ Mark Dever           6.57    7     5.00
+ Paul Heroy           6.81    8     5.00
+ Bill Sherman         4.81    8     5.50
+ Mary Lee             4.86    7     5.50
+ Steve Fenster        5.50    6     5.50
+ David R. Sanderson   5.81    8     5.50
+ Michael May          6.23    8     5.50
+ Kevin Lauderdale     7.33    3     5.50
+ Eric Neuman          7.67    3     5.75
+ Brian Almquist       6.50    2     6.00
+ David Bogartz        6.63    4     6.00
+ Jeff Giddings        7.08    6     6.00
+ Phil Fraering        7.60    5     6.00
+ Brian Dickson        8.59    7     6.00
+ Rob Henderson        7.94    7     6.40
+ Craig Dorrell        6.89    9     6.50
+ Mark DeSilets        6.75    8     6.50
+ Mark Stackpole       7.00    8     6.50
+ Rick Nelson          7.36    7     6.50
+ Frank Hummel         6.96    7     6.75
+ Steven Grimm         6.90    5     7.00
+ J. Garth Wilcox      7.89    9     7.00
+ Andrew Flint         6.13    8     7.00
+ Kyle Marcroft        6.38    8     7.00
+ Darrell Drake        6.75    8     7.00
+ John Abbott          6.93    7     7.00
+ Greg Franks          7.33    6     7.00
+ Adam C. Stacey       7.86    7     7.00
+ Wesley Jordan        7.76    8     7.25
+ Mike Hopkins         8.11    8     7.30
+ Jason Snell          5.64    7     7.50
+ Mark Peters          6.75    8     7.50
+ Donald Simmons       7.57    7     7.50
+ Ian W.O. Smith       8.50    8     7.50
+ Jim Mills            6.41    8     7.80
+ Kevin Brennan        7.38    8     8.00
+ Nick Fitzpatrick     7.18    9     8.00
+ Chris Spencer        5.44    8     8.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.57    7     8.00
+ James Tee            7.93    6     8.00
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith  8.00    1     8.00
+ Bill Rothe           8.00    1     8.00
+ Scott Advani         8.00    1     8.00
+ Galen Hazelwood      8.75    2     8.00
+ Eric Wincentsen      8.83    3     8.00
+ Jack Holt            8.13    8     8.10
+ Casey Miller         8.05    8     8.20
+ Greg Laughland       7.17    7     8.30
+ Allen Jenoff         7.50    7     8.50
+ Chris Spell          8.25    4     8.50
+ Michael A. Burstein  8.25    6     8.50
+ Kathy Sullivan       8.44    8     8.50
+ Dave E. Martin       8.69    9     9.00
+ Mike Heffner         8.14    7     9.00
diff --git a/p5/008 b/p5/008
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index 00000000..6b0c0c24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/008
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+ Results - "And the Sky Full of Stars"
+=================================================
+                             # of   And the Sky
+ Poll 5             History  votes  Full of Stars
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average               7.20         8.90
+ Stand. Dev.           1.10         1.43
+ # of voters         143           66
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Tom Janulewicz        3.29    7    0.00 <-- Note: Average would
+ Craig Dorrell         6.89    9    6.50     have been 9.04 with
+ Bill Sherman          5.06    9    7.00     out this vote.
+ Mary Lee              5.13    8    7.00
+ Andy Johnson          5.44    9    7.00
+ David R. Sanderson    5.94    9    7.00
+ Kyle Marcroft         6.52    9    7.70
+ Steve Fenster         5.86    7    8.00
+ Jason Snell           5.94    8    8.00
+ Matt Dahlquist        6.00    3    8.00
+ Jim Mills             6.59    9    8.00
+ Brian Almquist        7.00    3    8.00
+ Kevin Lauderdale      7.50    4    8.00
+ Andrew Chiang         7.83    3    8.00
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti    6.33    9    8.50
+ Andrew Flint          6.39    9    8.50
+ Jeff Giddings         7.29    7    8.50
+ Dean Iverson          7.31    9    8.50
+ Kevin Brennan         7.38    8    8.50
+ Ken Papai             8.18    4    8.50
+ James R. Caplan       7.18    4    8.70
+ Greg Laughland        7.36    8    8.70
+ Frank Hummel          7.19    8    8.75
+ Dan Johnson           6.80    9    8.90
+ Chris Spencer         5.83    9    9.00
+ David Bogartz         7.10    5    9.00
+ John Abbott           7.19    8    9.00
+ Allen Jenoff          7.50    7    9.00
+ Peter Taylor          8.09    8    9.00
+ Bill Rothe            8.50    2    9.00
+ Nick Fitzpatrick      7.18    9    9.10
+ Tom Stoodley          7.96    8    9.20
+ Casey Miller          8.18    9    9.20
+ Charles Jackson       7.93    9    9.30
+ Steven Grimm          6.90    5    9.50
+ Jered Floyd           7.42    6    9.50
+ Adam C. Stacey        8.06    8    9.50
+ Chris Spell           8.25    4    9.50
+ Mike Heffner          8.31    8    9.50
+ Scott Advani          8.75    2    9.50
+ Michael J. Loux       9.40    2    9.50
+ Jay Morris            9.50    1    9.50
+ Chris Aylott          7.76    9    9.60
+ Mark Stackpole        7.29    9    9.60
+ Mark MacKinnon        8.46    9    9.60
+ Dave E. Martin        8.69    9    9.60
+ Rob Henderson         8.16    8    9.70
+ Mike Hopkins          8.29    9    9.70
+ Mark DeSilets         7.08    9    9.75
+ David Strauss         7.91    8    9.75
+ Jack Holt             8.31    9    9.75
+ John Haager           9.00    3    9.75
+ Eric Neuman           8.20    4    9.80
+ Brian Dickson         8.74    8    9.80
+ Darrell Drake         7.11    9   10.00
+ Mark Peters           7.11    9   10.00
+ Donald Simmons        7.88    8   10.00
+ Jeff Rupley           7.88    8   10.00
+ J. Garth Wilcox       7.89    9   10.00
+ Douglas Triggs        8.11    9   10.00
+ Michael A. Burstein   8.50    7   10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan        8.61    9   10.00
+ Mark Sulkowski        8.88    6   10.00
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith   9.00    2   10.00
+ Galen Hazelwood       9.17    3   10.00
+ Brian Badger         10.00    1   10.00
diff --git a/p5/009 b/p5/009
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index 00000000..387f8358
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/009
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+       Results - "Deathwalker"
+==========================================
+                            # of    Death-
+ Poll 5           History   votes   walker
+ -----------------------------------------
+ Average             7.32           8.21
+ Std. Dev.           1.04           1.00
+ # of voters       133             67
+ -----------------------------------------
+ Jim Royal           5.80    10     5.00     
+ Mary Lee            5.22     9     6.00     
+ Andy Johnson        5.50    10     6.00     
+ Kevin Brennan       7.22     9     6.00     
+ J. Michael Tisdel   7.00     1     7.00     
+ Michael Green       7.17     6     7.00     
+ Jered Floyd         7.19     8     7.00     
+ Scott Norton        7.20    10     7.00     
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.55    10     7.00     
+ Steven Grimm        6.57     7     7.50
+ Steve Fenster       6.06     8     7.50     
+ Mark DeSilets       7.13    10     7.50     
+ David Bogartz       7.17     6     7.50     
+ Fred Bent           7.50     1     7.50     
+ Michael Wagner      8.00     2     7.50     
+ Chris Spell         8.10     5     7.50     
+ Dan Johnson         6.88    10     7.60     
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti  6.48    10     7.80     
+ Greg Franks         7.11     9     8.00
+ Craig Dorrell       6.95    11     8.00
+ John Abbott         7.28     9     8.00     
+ John Shortess       7.50     5     8.00     
+ Jeff Hildebrand     7.58     6     8.00    
+ Jeff Rupley         7.89     9     8.00     
+ David Strauss       7.92     9     8.00     
+ Wesley Jordan       7.97    10     8.00     
+ Joe Studholme       8.00     1     8.00     
+ Paul D'Ambrosio     8.00     1     8.00     
+ Philippe Lewis      8.00     1     8.00     
+ Shelley Lewallen    8.00     1     8.00     
+ Tim Johnson         8.00     1     8.00     
+ Martin Coghlan      8.13     6     8.00     
+ Sandra Bruckner     8.25     4     8.00     
+ Dave E. Martin      8.62    10     8.00     
+ Eric Neuman         8.18     5     8.11     
+ Frank Hummel        7.31     9     8.30     
+ Casey Miller        8.20    10     8.40     
+ Michael A. Burstein 8.49     8     8.40    
+ Allan Jenoff        7.55    11     8.50
+ Paul Heroy          7.20    10     8.50     
+ Kevin Lauderdale    7.70     5     8.50     
+ Rick Nelson         7.72     9     8.50     
+ Donald Simmons      7.94     9     8.50     
+ Bill Rothe          8.50     3     8.50     
+ Jeff Bassuener      8.50     1     8.50     
+ Chris Aylott        7.85    10     8.70     
+ Brett G. Sherris    8.75     1     8.75     
+ Rob Henderson       8.23     9     8.80     
+ Mark Sulkowski      9.02     8     8.90
+ Greg Laughland      7.53     9     8.90     
+ Bill Bottke         7.44     8     9.00     
+ Mark Stackpole      7.46    10     9.00     
+ Malik Paul Coates   7.89     9     9.00     
+ Mike Hopkins        8.36    10     9.00     
+ Kathryn Daugherty   9.00     1     9.00     
+ Jay Morris          9.25     2     9.00     
+ Mark MacKinnon      8.56    11     9.10
+ John Benn           8.06    10     9.20     
+ Galen Hazelwood     8.44     8     9.20     
+ Michael May         6.81    10     9.50     
+ Mark A. Willard     7.70     5     9.50     
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith 9.17     3     9.50     
+ Jack Holt           8.43    10     9.60     
+ Eiji Hirai          7.11     9    10.00     
+ Peter Taylor        8.30     9    10.00     
+ Kathy Sullivan      8.75    10    10.00     
+ John Merryman      10.00     1    10.00     
diff --git a/p5/010 b/p5/010
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3c820fbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/010
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+       Results - "Believers"
+=================================================
+                                 # of 
+ Poll 5                 History  Votes  Believers
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average                   7.40            7.74
+ Std. Dev.                 1.02            1.52
+ # of voters             182              56
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Steven Grimm              6.63    8       4.00
+ Mary Lee                  5.15   10       4.50    
+ Kathryn & James Daugherty 6.75    2       4.50    
+ Greg Franks               7.20   10       5.00
+ Philippe Lewis            6.50    2       5.00    
+ Bill Sherman              5.45   11       6.00    
+ Andy Brathwaite           5.73   11       6.00    
+ Michael Green             7.00    7       6.00    
+ Kevin Brennan             7.10   10       6.00    
+ Craig Dorrell             7.00   12       6.50
+ Fred Bent                 7.00    2       6.50    
+ John Abbott               7.20   10       6.50    
+ Mark Stackpole            7.37   11       6.50    
+ Paul D'Ambrosio           7.40    2       6.80    
+ Greg Laughland            7.46   10       6.80    
+ Steve Fenster             6.17    9       7.00    
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti        6.53   11       7.00    
+ Jeff Rupley               7.80   10       7.00   
+ Donald Simmons            7.85   10       7.00    
+ Martin Coghlan            7.97    7       7.00    
+ Peter Taylor              8.17   10       7.00    
+ Dave E. Martin            8.60   12       7.50
+ Mark Dever                6.94    9       7.50    
+ Bill Rothe                8.25    4       7.50    
+ Casey Miller              8.15   11       7.60    
+ Rob Henderson             8.18   10       7.70    
+ Wesley Jordan             7.95   11       7.75    
+ Sandra Bruckner           8.15    5       7.75    
+ Scott Townsend            7.75   11       7.80    
+ Michael P. Hartley        6.63    8       8.00    
+ Janel Klaiber             8.00    1       8.00    
+ Mike Hopkins              8.35   11       8.20    
+ Craig Bryant              6.50    7       8.50    
+ Jered Floyd               7.40   10       8.50    
+ Nick Fitzpatrick          7.45   11       8.50    
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith       9.00    4       8.50    
+ Chris Aylott              7.92   11       8.60    
+ John Benn                 8.11   11       8.60    
+ Bob & Grail Peck          8.10   11       8.70    
+ Drew Losos                8.50    6       8.75
+ Galen Hazelwood           8.49    9       8.90    
+ Jim Royal                 6.09   11       9.00    
+ Pam Korda                 7.90   10       9.00    
+ Robert A. Hayden          8.00    2       9.00    
+ Chris Spell               8.25    6       9.00    
+ Mark MacKinnon            8.56   11       9.00    
+ Charles Jackson           7.79   11       9.10    
+ Frank Perricone           9.30    1       9.30    
+ Allan Jenoff              7.42   12       9.50
+ Dean Iverson              7.61   11       9.50    
+ Kevin Lauderdale          8.00    6       9.50    
+ Jack Holt                 8.57   11       9.90    
+ Mark Sulkowski            8.96    9      10.00
+ Douglas Triggs            8.18   11      10.00    
+ Kathy Sullivan            8.86   11      10.00    
+ Brett G. Sherris          9.38    2      10.00    
diff --git a/p5/011 b/p5/011
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/011
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+       Results - "Survivors"
+==========================================
+                            # of          
+ Poll 5           History  Votes Survivors
+ -----------------------------------------
+ Average             7.43            7.65
+ Std. Dev.           0.98            1.44
+ # of Voters       184              41   
+ ----------------------------------------
+ Mary Lee            5.05     11     4.00
+ Bill Sherman        5.33     12     4.00
+ Todd Horowitz       6.33     12     5.00
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti  6.47     12     5.80
+ Allan Jenoff        7.46     13     6.00
+ Andy Johnson        5.58     12     6.00
+ Mark Stackpole      7.26     12     6.00
+ Kevin Lauderdale    7.71      7     6.00
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.54     12     6.50
+ Steven Grimm        6.89      9     7.00
+ Jason Snell         6.10     10     7.00
+ Michael Green       7.00      8     7.00
+ Jeff Rupley         7.73     11     7.00
+ Dan Johnson         6.97     12     7.20
+ Charles Jackson     7.74     12     7.20
+ Greg Laughland      7.45     11     7.40
+ Michael May         6.87     11     7.50
+ Craig Dorrell       7.00     12     7.50
+ David R. Sanderson  6.30     11     7.80
+ Mike Hopkins        8.31     12     7.90
+ John Abbott         7.33     12     8.00
+ Steve Fenster       6.35     10     8.00
+ Greg Franks         7.20     10     8.00
+ Jered Floyd         7.45     11     8.00
+ Wesley Jordan       7.95     12     8.00
+ Chris Aylott        7.93     12     8.10
+ Mark Sulkowski      8.89     10     8.50
+ Mark MacKinnon      8.57     12     8.60
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith 8.98      5     8.90
+ Frank Perricone     9.10      2     8.90
+ Jeff Giddings       7.50      8     9.00
+ Douglas Triggs      8.08     12     9.00
+ Martin Coghlan      8.10      8     9.00
+ Casey Miller        8.22     12     9.00
+ Galen Hazelwood     8.35     12     9.00
+ Michael A. Burstein 8.35     11     9.00
+ Bill Rothe          8.40      5     9.00
+ Chris Farrar        9.00      1     9.00
+ Drew Losos          8.50      6     9.25
+ Dave E. Martin      8.55     13     9.50
+ Kathy Sullivan      8.96     12    10.00
diff --git a/p5/012 b/p5/012
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index 00000000..fef16fdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/012
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+       Results - "By Any Means Necessary"
+================================================
+                            # of    By Any Means
+ Poll 5           History   votes   Necessary
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.52            7.84
+ Std. Dev.           0.99            1.44
+ # of voters       187              48
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson        5.46     13     4.00
+ Tim Johnson         6.00      2     4.00
+ Bill Sherman        5.27     13     4.50
+ Tom Gobich          7.74     11     4.50
+ Darrell Drake       7.23     13     5.00
+ Mark Dever          7.00     11     6.00
+ Kathryn Daugherty   6.67      3     6.50
+ Casey Miller        8.12     13     7.00
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.50     13     7.00
+ Michael Green       7.00      9     7.00
+ Steve Fenster       6.41     11     7.00
+ Greg Laughland      7.44     12     7.30
+ David R. Sanderson  6.39     12     7.40
+ Mary Lee            5.25     12     7.50
+ Frank Perricone     8.95      4     7.80
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti  6.57     13     7.80
+ John Abbott         7.27     13     8.00
+ Allan Jenoff        7.50     14     8.00
+ Dave E. Martin      8.51     14     8.00
+ Fred Bent           7.65      5     8.00
+ Drew Losos          8.32      7     8.00
+ Jason Snell         6.27     11     8.00
+ Mike Heffner        8.19     13     8.00
+ Charles Jackson     7.77     13     8.10
+ Kyle Marcroft       7.09     13     8.20
+ Mark Sulkowski      8.95     11     8.25
+ Chris Spencer       6.60     13     8.25
+ Sandra Bruckner     8.17      6     8.25
+ Chris Aylott        7.96     13     8.30
+ Jay Morris          8.75      4     8.50
+ John Shortess       7.86      7     8.50
+ Mark Peters         7.71     13     8.50
+ Martin Coghlan      8.14      9     8.50
+ Todd Horowitz       6.50     13     8.50
+ Scott Townsend      7.88     13     8.65
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    7.74     14     8.90
+ Steven Grimm        7.10     10     9.00
+ Jen Ottensen        7.50     12     9.00
+ Jered Floyd         7.58     12     9.00
+ Mark Stackpole      7.39     13     9.00
+ Michele L. Worley   9.50      4     9.00
+ Mike Hopkins        8.36     13     9.00
+ Shelley Lewallen    8.50      2     9.00
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith 9.02      6     9.20
+ Galen Hazelwood     8.42     13     9.20
+ Andrew Eigel        8.74     11     9.50
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.03     13     9.90
+ Jack Holt           8.56     13     9.95
diff --git a/p5/013 b/p5/013
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index 00000000..4a81d66b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/013
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+       Results - "Signs and Portents"
+
+==============================================
+                             # of    Signs and
+ Poll 5           History    votes   Portents
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.46            9.01
+ Std. Dev.           1.03            0.76
+ # of Voters       197              55
+ ----------------------------------------
+ John Abbott         7.27     13     6.50
+ J. Michael Tisdel   7.00      3     7.00
+ Mary Lee            5.44     13     7.70
+ Allan Jenoff        7.43     15     8.00
+ Dave E. Martin      8.45     15     8.00
+ Andy Johnson        5.64     14     8.00
+ Andy Brathwaite     6.14     14     8.00
+ Jim Royal           6.15     13     8.00
+ Michael Green       7.10     10     8.00
+ Eric Neuman         8.17      6     8.10
+ Mike Heffner        8.21     14     8.50
+ Bryan Byun          8.50      1     8.50
+ Jeff Jones          8.50      1     8.50
+ Brian Dickson       8.71      9     8.50
+ Mike Hopkins        8.40     14     8.90
+ Steven Grimm        7.05     11     9.00
+ Jason Snell         6.50     12     9.00
+ Steve Fenster       6.63     12     9.00
+ Sunny Yum           7.00      2     9.00
+ Kathryn Daugherty   7.25      4     9.00
+ Greg Franks         7.36     11     9.00
+ David Bogartz       7.43      7     9.00
+ Jeff Rupley         7.83     12     9.00
+ John Shortess       8.00      8     9.00
+ Peter Taylor        8.27     12     9.00
+ Michael A. Burstein 8.53     13     9.00
+ Michael J. Loux     8.61      7     9.00
+ Scott Advani        8.63      4     9.00
+ Dominic Esposito    9.00      1     9.00
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti  6.75     14     9.10
+ Andrew Apold        9.10      1     9.10
+ Fred Bent           7.65      5     9.25
+ Jeff Giddings       7.69      9     9.25
+ Greg Laughland      7.58     13     9.30
+ Jered Floyd         7.72     13     9.40
+ Paul Heroy          7.36     14     9.50
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    7.74     14     9.50
+ David Strauss       8.09     11     9.50
+ Casey Miller        8.22     14     9.50
+ Larry W. Virden     8.25      2     9.50
+ Greg Henderson      8.63      6     9.50
+ Jay Morris          8.90      5     9.50
+ Mark Sulkowski      8.95     11     9.50
+ Chris Duke          9.50      1     9.50
+ Martin Coghlan      8.29     10     9.60
+ Rob Henderson       8.38     13     9.70
+ Frank Perricone     8.16      5     9.80
+ Galen Hazelwood     8.51     14     9.80
+ Bill Rothe          8.63      6     9.80
+ Shelley Lewallen    7.94     11     9.90
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.09     14     9.90
+ Mark Stackpole      7.58     14    10.00
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.68     14    10.00
+ Lou Wainwright      7.70     14    10.00
+ Jack Holt           8.66     14    10.00
diff --git a/p5/014 b/p5/014
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index 00000000..2b0a0001
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/014
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+ Results - "TKO"
+================================================
+                           # of
+ Poll 5          History   votes    TKO
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Average            7.47            6.41
+ Std. Dev.          1.03            1.74
+ # of Voters      202              42
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Mathieu Farrugia   2.00      1     2.00
+ Kamil Bukalo       3.00      1     3.00
+ Bill Sherman       5.16     14     3.75
+ Andy Johnson       5.53     15     4.00
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti 6.57     15     4.00
+ George Zavaliagkos 7.43     15     4.00
+ Dominic Esposito   6.75      2     4.50
+ Andy Brathwaite    6.07     15     5.00
+ Mike Heffner       8.00     15     5.00
+ Frank Perricone    8.25      6     5.00
+ Galen Hazelwood    8.29     15     5.20
+ Mark Stackpole     7.44     15     5.50
+ Marc A. Criley     7.50      2     5.50
+ Eric Neuman        7.79      7     5.50
+ Ken Wigle          6.00      1     6.00
+ Steve Fenster      6.58     13     6.00
+ Fred Bent          7.38      6     6.00
+ Jeff Rupley        7.69     13     6.00
+ Sunny Yum          6.83      3     6.50
+ Steven Grimm       7.05     11     6.50
+ Allan Jenoff       7.43     15     6.50
+ Casey Miller       8.11     15     6.50
+ David R. Sanderson 6.53     14     6.70
+ Michael May        7.01     13     7.00
+ Michael Green      7.09     11     7.00
+ Martin Coghlan     8.17     11     7.00
+ Chris Spell        8.25      8     7.00
+ Jay Morris         8.58      6     7.00
+ John Abbott        7.29     14     7.50
+ John Jurcevic      8.21     14     7.50
+ Dave E. Martin     8.45     15     7.50
+ Mark Sulkowski     8.83     12     7.50
+ Scott Advani       8.50      5     8.00
+ Chris Duke         8.75      2     8.00
+ Mike Hopkins       8.38     15     8.10
+ Wesley Jordan      8.05     15     8.25
+ J. Michael Tisdel  7.38      4     8.50
+ Chris Aylott       8.13     15     8.60
+ Jack Holt          8.66     15     8.65
+ James R. Caplan    7.75      8     9.00
+ Mark MacKinnon     8.67     15     9.10
+ Kathy Sullivan     9.11     15     9.40
diff --git a/p5/015 b/p5/015
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index 00000000..544d8f9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/015
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+       Results - "Grail"
+============================================
+                              # of
+ Poll 5             History  Voters    Grail
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Average               7.46            7.43
+ Std. Dev.             0.98            1.28
+ # of voters         224              40
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson          5.44     16     4.00
+ Jim Royal             6.00     14     4.00
+ Steven Grimm          6.96     13     5.00
+ Dylan Northrupt       6.62     13     6.00
+ Casey Miller          7.98     16     6.00
+ Marc A. Criley        7.17      3     6.50
+ Fred Bent             7.25      7     6.50
+ George Zavaliagkos    7.61     16     6.70
+ Michael May           6.99     14     6.80
+ Douglas D. Dickinson  6.90      1     6.90
+ Steve Fenster         6.61     14     7.00
+ Michael Fischer       7.00      4     7.00
+ Stew Barns            7.00      1     7.00
+ Dan Kimmel            7.06     16     7.00
+ Dave Hill             7.08     13     7.00
+ Michael Green         7.08     12     7.00
+ Mark Stackpole        7.41     16     7.00
+ Wesley Jordan         7.98     16     7.00
+ Mike Hopkins          8.29     16     7.00
+ Matthew Murray        8.63      4     7.00
+ David R. Sanderson    6.58     15     7.30
+ Mike Heffner          7.97     16     7.50
+ Allan Jenoff          7.41     17     8.00
+ Sandra Bruckner       7.38     10     8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.52     12     8.00
+ Jeff Rupley           7.71     14     8.00
+ Martin Coghlan        8.03     15     8.00
+ Chris Aylott          8.12     16     8.00
+ John Abbott           7.37     15     8.50
+ Dave E. Martin        8.45     16     8.50
+ Michael J. Loux       8.61      8     8.60
+ Michael Lee           7.76     16     8.70
+ John Jurcevic         8.30     16     8.75
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.75      1     8.75
+ Mark MacKinnon        8.68     16     8.80
+ Mark Sulkowski        8.91     14     8.90
+ Jack Holt             8.68     16     9.00
+ John Haager           9.00      4     9.00
+ Michele L. Worley     9.50     10     9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.13     16     9.40
diff --git a/p5/016 b/p5/016
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index 00000000..b9df68da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/016
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+       Results - "Eyes"
+============================================
+                             # of
+ Poll 5            History  voters    Eyes
+ -----------------------------------------
+ Average              7.47            8.16
+ Std. Dev.            0.95            0.96
+ # of Voters        228              34
+ -----------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson         5.47     17     6.00
+ Allan Jenoff         7.39     18     6.50
+ David R. Sanderson   6.59     16     6.70
+ Bill Sherman         5.28     15     7.00
+ John Abbott          7.34     16     7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.48     13     7.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.67     15     7.00
+ Mike Heffner         7.91     17     7.00
+ Steve Fenster        6.67     15     7.50
+ Dylan Northrup       6.68     14     7.50
+ Steven Grimm         7.04     14     8.00
+ Dan Kimmel           7.12     17     8.00
+ Michael Green        7.15     13     8.00
+ Marc A. Criley       7.38      4     8.00
+ Greg Franks          7.50     14     8.00
+ Michael R. McAleese  8.00      1     8.00
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.66     17     8.40
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti   6.71     17     8.50
+ Michael Lee          7.81     17     8.50
+ John McKell          8.25      2     8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.63      2     8.50
+ Chris Aylott         8.15     17     8.60
+ Michael J. Loux      8.61      9     8.60
+ Matt Landau          7.35     17     8.80
+ Mike Hopkins         8.32     17     8.80
+ Michael May          7.13     15     9.00
+ Sandra Bruckner      7.53     11     9.00
+ Casey Miller         8.04     17     9.00
+ Martin Coghlan       8.09     16     9.00
+ John Jurcevic        8.34     17     9.00
+ Michele L. Worley    9.45     11     9.00
+ Dave E. Martin       8.51     17     9.50
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.15     17     9.50
+ Mark Sulkowski       8.91     14    10.00
+
+============================================
diff --git a/p5/017 b/p5/017
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index 00000000..93a247ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/017
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+       Results - "Legacies"
+===========================================
+                            # of
+ Poll 5          History    votes  Legacies
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.52            7.87
+ Std. Dev.           0.94            0.90
+ # of Voters       234              45
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson        5.50     18     6.00
+ Michael Fischer     6.80      5     6.00
+ Dave Hill           7.07     15     6.00
+ David A. Golden     7.33      3     6.00
+ Allan Jenoff        7.47     19     7.00
+ David R. Sanderson  6.61     17     7.00
+ Dylan Northrup      6.70     15     7.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth   7.00     17     7.00
+ Michael May         7.12     16     7.00
+ Marc A. Criley      7.30      5     7.00
+ Jeff Giddings       7.73     12     7.00
+ Scott Advani        8.06      8     7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis   7.55     15     7.50
+ Bill Sherman        5.42     16     7.50
+ Sandra Bruckner     7.53     12     7.50
+ Steve Fenster       6.74     16     7.80
+ Michael Lee         7.81     18     7.80
+ Chris Aylott        8.13     18     7.90
+ Mike Hopkins        8.30     18     7.90
+ John Abbott         7.36     18     8.00
+ Steven Grimm        7.12     15     8.00
+ Jim Royal           6.13     15     8.00
+ Dan Kimmel          7.17     18     8.00
+ Michael Green       7.21     14     8.00
+ Jeff Rupley         7.69     16     8.00
+ Shelley Lewallen    7.93     15     8.00
+ Jack Holt           8.68     18     8.00
+ Matt Landau         7.40     18     8.30
+ Martin Coghlan      8.10     17     8.30
+ Michael J. Loux     8.58     10     8.30
+ Mark MacKinnon      8.64     18     8.30
+ Dominic Esposito    7.30      5     8.50
+ Craig Miller        7.67      3     8.50
+ Adam C. Stacey      7.82     17     8.50
+ Wesley Jordan       8.02     18     8.50
+ Philip M. Lincoln   8.50      1     8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward     8.58      3     8.50
+ Sunny Yum           6.97      6     8.60
+ Mark Stackpole      7.55     18     8.60
+ Jason Wong          8.60      3     8.60
+ Scott Townsend      8.11     18     8.90
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.69     17     9.00
+ John Jurcevic       8.38     18     9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.17     18     9.40
+ Mark Sulkowski      8.99     15    10.00
+ 
+===========================================
diff --git a/p5/018 b/p5/018
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index 00000000..128022cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/018
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+Results - "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I"
+===============================================
+                           # of   A Voice in...
+  Poll 5         History  Voters    Part I
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average            7.56             8.50
+ Std. Dev.          0.93             1.05
+ # of Voters      239               42
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson       5.47  19         5.00
+ Mary Paterno       6.00   1         6.00
+ Jim Royal          6.19  16         7.00
+ John Abbott        7.36  18         7.00
+ Matt Landau        7.38  19         7.00
+ Andrew Garrett     6.75   2         7.50
+ Marc A. Criley     7.33   6         7.50
+ Dave Hill          7.10  17         7.75
+ Sunny Yum          7.09   7         7.80
+ Thomas Aylesworth  7.06  18         8.00
+ Dominic Esposito   7.42   6         8.00
+ Craig Miller       7.75   4         8.00
+ Robert Iwamiya     8.00   1         8.00
+ Scott Advani       8.06   9         8.00
+ Steve Fenster      6.82  17         8.20
+ Steven Grimm       7.14  16         8.25
+ Terrance L. Lewis  7.55  15         8.50
+ Michael Lee        7.84  19         8.50
+ Martin Coghlan     8.13  18         8.60
+ Sasha Yurgionas    8.88   2         8.75
+ Scott Townsend     8.15  19         8.90
+ Mark MacKinnon     8.66  19         8.90
+ Allan Jenoff       7.53  20         9.00
+ Michael May        7.23  17         9.00
+ Dan Kimmel         7.26  19         9.00
+ Greg Franks        7.60  15         9.00
+ Sandra Bruckner    7.64  13         9.00
+ David A. Golden    7.75   4         9.00
+ George Zavaliagkos 7.76  18         9.00
+ Jeff Rupley        7.76  17         9.00
+ Chris Spell        8.33   9         9.00
+ Galen Hazelwood    8.38  18         9.00
+ John Jurcevic      8.41  19         9.00
+ Michael J. Loux    8.65  11         9.40
+ Jack Holt          8.72  19         9.40
+ Dave E. Martin     8.54  20         9.50
+ Casey Miller       8.16  19         9.50
+ Jay Morris         8.56   8         9.50
+ Orion Bawdon       9.50   1         9.50
+ Dylan Northrup     6.91  16        10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan     9.21  19        10.00
+ Michele L. Worley  9.54  13        10.00
+===============================================
diff --git a/p5/019 b/p5/019
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index 00000000..772e4b81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/019
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+       Results - "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II"
+=====================================================
+                         # of    A Voice in the Wild-
+ Poll 5          History Votes   erness, Part II
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ Average            7.60             8.49
+ Std. Dev.          0.93             0.83
+ # of Voters      242               46
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson       5.50  20         6.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis  7.50  17         7.00
+ Jim Royal          6.24  17         7.00
+ Steven Grimm       7.16  17         7.50
+ Mary Paterno       6.75   2         7.50
+ Mark Stackpole     7.62  20         7.50
+ George Zavaliagkos 7.75  19         7.50
+ Mike Hopkins       8.25  20         7.50
+ Steve Fenster      6.88  18         7.80
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti 6.77  20         7.90
+ Thomas Aylesworth  7.11  19         8.00
+ John Abbott        7.39  19         8.00
+ Jeff Rupley        7.78  18         8.00
+ Robert Iwamiya     8.00   2         8.00
+ Dave E. Martin     8.54  20         8.00
+ Wesley Jordan      8.02  20         8.25
+ Mark MacKinnon     8.64  20         8.30
+ Allan Jenoff       7.50  21         8.50
+ Sunny Yum          7.26   8         8.50
+ Dan Kimmel         7.33  20         8.50
+ Marc A. Criley     7.50   7         8.50
+ Dominic Esposito   7.57   7         8.50
+ Christopher Bergen 7.75   2         8.50
+ Mike Heffner       7.93  20         8.50
+ Greg Laughland     7.53  19         8.60
+ Michael Lee        7.88  20         8.60
+ Sandra Bruckner    7.72  14         8.75
+ Martin Coghlan     8.16  19         8.80
+ Galen Hazelwood    8.41  19         8.90
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward    8.68   5         8.90
+ Greg Franks        7.71  17         9.00
+ Dylan Northrup     7.03  17         9.00
+ Michael May        7.33  18         9.00
+ Matt Landau        7.46  20         9.00
+ Jeff Giddings      7.88  14         9.00
+ Chris Aylott       8.23  20         9.00
+ Nick Fitzpatrick   7.98  17         9.10
+ Scott Townsend     8.20  20         9.10
+ John Jurcevic      8.45  20         9.25
+ Michael J. Loux    8.71  12         9.30
+ David A. Golden    8.10   5         9.50
+ Casey Miller       8.23  20         9.50
+ Jack Holt          8.76  20         9.50
+ Tippi Chai         8.20   5         9.70
+ Kathy Sullivan     9.25  20        10.00
+ Michele L. Worley  9.57  14        10.00
diff --git a/p5/020 b/p5/020
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/020
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+       Results - "Babylon Squared"
+=========================================
+                          # of    Babylon
+ Poll 5          History  Votes   Squared
+ ----------------------------------------
+ Average            7.61           8.57
+ Std. Dev.          0.92           1.53
+ # of Voters      247             45
+ ----------------------------------------
+ Sandy Proteta      2.00    1      2.00
+ Antonio Freixas    4.00    1      4.00
+ Dave Hill          7.09   20      7.00
+ Allan Jenoff       7.55   22      7.00
+ Jeff Rupley        7.74   19      7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis  7.51   18      7.25
+ Steven Grimm       7.21   18      7.50
+ George Zavaliagkos 7.73   20      7.50
+ John Evans         7.61   16      7.80
+ Tippi Chai         8.20    5      7.80
+ David R. Sanderson 6.81   21      8.00
+ Brian Rauchfuss    8.25    2      8.00
+ Andy Johnson       5.62   21      8.00
+ Michael Green      7.35   17      8.00
+ Greg Franks        7.71   17      8.00
+ Christopher Bergen 7.92    3      8.25
+ Mary Paterno       7.33    3      8.50
+ Greg Laughland     7.60   20      8.80
+ Sunny Yum          7.44    9      8.90
+ Mike Heffner       7.98   21      9.00
+ Wesley Jordan      8.07   21      9.00
+ Craig Miller       8.25    6      9.00
+ Mike Hopkins       8.29   21      9.10
+ Martin Coghlan     8.21   20      9.15
+ Steve Fenster      7.00   19      9.20
+ Scott Townsend     8.25   21      9.20
+ Shelley Lewallen   8.05   17      9.25
+ Michael May        7.43   19      9.30
+ Matt Landau        7.55   21      9.30
+ Mark MacKinnon     8.67   21      9.30
+ Jack Holt          8.79   21      9.35
+ Nick Fitzpatrick   7.98   17      9.40
+ Dave E. Martin     8.51   22      9.50
+ Dominic Esposito   7.81    8      9.50
+ Sandra Bruckner    7.84   15      9.50
+ Robert Iwamiya     8.50    3      9.50
+ Natasha Neogi      9.50    1      9.50
+ Casey Miller       8.30   21      9.80
+ Chris Aylott       8.30   21      9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan     9.28   21      9.80
+ Michael J. Loux    8.80   13      9.90
+ Dylan Northrup     7.19   18     10.00
+ Mark Stackpole     7.72   21     10.00
+ Marc A. Criley     7.81    8     10.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward    8.90    6     10.00
diff --git a/p5/021 b/p5/021
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index 00000000..194e0449
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/021
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+ Results - "The Quality of Mercy"
+===================================================
+                          # of     The Quality
+ Poll 5          History  Votes    of Mercy
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average            7.59              7.29
+ Std. Dev.          0.91              1.19
+ # of Voters      251                39
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Mark Stackpole     7.58   22         4.50
+ Andy Johnson       5.59   22         5.00
+ Sandra Bruckner    7.66   16         5.00
+ Rich Magahiz       6.00    1         6.00
+ Dave Hill          7.09   20         6.00
+ Greg Franks        7.61   18         6.00
+ Martin Coghlan     8.11   21         6.00
+ Doug Hanke         6.50    1         6.50
+ Dominic Esposito   7.67    9         6.50
+ Kevin Chang        7.67    3         6.50
+ Brent Barrett      7.75    2         6.50
+ Greg Laughland     7.55   21         6.70
+ Casey Miller       8.24   22         6.80
+ Michael Green      7.33   18         7.00
+ Dan Kimmel         7.39   22         7.00
+ Jeff Rupley        7.70   20         7.00
+ Mike Heffner       7.93   22         7.00
+ Dave E. Martin     8.51   22         7.00
+ George Zavaliagkos 7.71   21         7.20
+ John Evans         7.60   17         7.40
+ John Abbott        7.31   21         7.50
+ Michael May        7.44   20         7.50
+ Marc A. Criley     7.78    9         7.50
+ Chris Aylott       8.27   22         7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis  7.51   18         7.75
+ Mike Hopkins       8.26   22         7.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward    8.74    7         7.80
+ Steven Grimm       7.21   18         8.00
+ John Haager        8.80    5         8.00
+ Mark MacKinnon     8.65   22         8.10
+ David R. Sanderson 6.81   21         8.30
+ Michael J. Loux    8.76   14         8.30
+ Allan Jenoff       7.55   22         8.50
+ Mary Paterno       7.63    4         8.50
+ Brian Rauchfuss    8.25    2         8.50
+ Scott Townsend     8.27   22         8.80
+ Michael Lee        7.91   22         9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan     9.28   22         9.30
+ Michele L. Worley  9.59   17        10.00
diff --git a/p5/022 b/p5/022
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index 00000000..5e6ed08e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/022
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+       Results - "Chrysalis"
+=============================================
+                            # of             
+ Poll 5           History   Votes   Chrysalis
+ --------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.62             9.38   
+ Std. Dev.           0.97             0.63   
+ # of Voters       276               65      
+ --------------------------------------------
+ Mary Lee            5.59    14       7.50
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    8.02    20       7.60
+ Andy Johnson        5.70    23       8.00
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti  6.82    23       8.00
+ Steven Grimm        7.21    20       8.50
+ John Abbott         7.33    23       8.50
+ Dan Kimmel          7.43    23       8.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis   7.66    19       8.75
+ John Shortess       8.08     9       8.75
+ Steve Fenster       7.13    21       8.80
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.61    23       8.80
+ Mark Dever          7.16    12       8.90
+ John Evans          7.67    20       8.90
+ Allan Jenoff        7.63    24       9.00
+ Eddie Clarke        5.61    23       9.00
+ Jim Royal           6.45    22       9.00
+ Dylan Northrup      7.25    20       9.00
+ Michael Fischer     7.33     9       9.00
+ Michael Green       7.42    19       9.00
+ Mark Stackpole      7.64    23       9.00
+ Jeff Rupley         7.76    21       9.00
+ Marc A. Criley      7.90    10       9.00
+ Terry King          7.98    23       9.00
+ Brent Barrett       8.17     3       9.00
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.  9.10     1       9.10
+ Casey Miller        8.28    23       9.30
+ David R. Sanderson  6.93    22       9.40
+ Dave Hill           7.20    21       9.50
+ Greg Franks         7.66    22       9.50
+ Michael Lee         7.98    23       9.50
+ Wesley Jordan       8.13    23       9.50
+ Benjamin Schultz    9.50     1       9.50
+ Dave Limbaugh       9.50     1       9.50
+ John Huey           9.50     1       9.50
+ Timothy Burke       9.50     1       9.50
+ Martin Coghlan      8.19    22       9.70
+ Jack Holt           8.77    23       9.70
+ Martin Sados        9.70     1       9.70
+ Jeff Giddings       8.00    15       9.75
+ Jason Snell         6.75    13       9.80
+ Michael May         7.55    21       9.80
+ Mike Hopkins        8.33    23       9.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward     8.88     8       9.80
+ Stanley Friesen     9.80     1       9.80
+ Matt Landau         7.68    23       9.90
+ F. Sullivan Segal   8.20    16       9.90
+ John Jurcevic       8.56    23       9.90
+ Dirk Loeding        8.68     8       9.90
+ Chris Spell         8.41    11      10.00
+ Dave Smith          7.17     6      10.00
+ David Strauss       7.26    23      10.00
+ Ricky Meikle        7.95    21      10.00
+ Mike Heffner        8.02    23      10.00
+ Nick Barlow         8.13    15      10.00
+ David A. Golden     8.42     6      10.00
+ Dave E. Martin      8.57    23      10.00
+ Jarno Kokko         8.59    23      10.00
+ Michael J. Loux     8.85    15      10.00
+ John Haager         9.00     6      10.00
+ Michele L. Worley   9.53    19      10.00
+ Amish S. Dave      10.00     1      10.00
+ David Van Meter    10.00     1      10.00
+ Elizabeth Bartmess-
+    LeVasseur       10.00     1      10.00
+ Peter Wong         10.00     1      10.00
+ Steve Miale        10.00     2      10.00
diff --git a/p5/023 b/p5/023
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index 00000000..a3831f94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/023
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+       Results - "Points of Departure"
+=============================================
+                            # of   Points of
+ Poll 5            History  Votes  Departure
+ --------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.66           7.92
+ Std. Dev.            0.95           1.19
+ # of Voters        292             65
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover       5.08   24      5.00
+ Lousis Amari         5.50    1      5.50
+ Steven Grimm         7.20   21      6.00
+ Andy Johnson         5.71   24      6.00
+ Jim Mills            7.09   13      6.00
+ Sandra Bruckner      7.67   18      6.00
+ Russell Fletcher     7.75    2      6.00
+ Jeff Giddings        7.88   16      6.00
+ Malik Paul Coates    7.88   24      6.00
+ John Abbott          7.33   24      6.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.71   21      6.75
+ David R. Sanderson   6.93   23      6.80
+ Anca Mosiu           7.00    1      7.00
+ Joel E. Natt         7.00    1      7.00
+ Michael Green        7.40   20      7.00
+ Michael May          7.52   22      7.00
+ John Huey            8.25    2      7.00
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.20    2      7.30
+ Chris Spell          8.48   12      7.50
+ Steve Fenster        7.15   22      7.50
+ Brandon Browning     7.75    2      7.50
+ Chris Schoaff        8.25    2      7.50
+ Jack Holt            8.72   24      7.50
+ F. Sullivan Segal    8.16   17      7.60
+ Mike Hopkins         8.31   24      7.80
+ Dave E. Martin       8.51   25      8.00
+ Allan Jenoff         7.66   25      8.00
+ Dave Hill            7.24   22      8.00
+ Dylan Northrup       7.29   21      8.00
+ Dan Kimmel           7.46   24      8.00
+ Sunny Yum            7.58   12      8.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.77   22      8.00
+ Hans Hornstein       8.00    1      8.00
+ Mark Kubo            8.00    1      8.00
+ Brent Barrett        8.13    4      8.00
+ John McKell          8.60    4      8.00
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.66   24      8.00
+ David Van Meter      9.00    2      8.00
+ Peter Wong           9.00    2      8.00
+ J. Michael Tisdel    7.78    6      8.20
+ Robert Surratt       9.00    2      8.25
+ John Evans           7.71   21      8.40
+ Nick Fitzpatrick     8.10   22      8.50
+ Paul Hess            7.90   24      8.50
+ Terry King           8.00   24      8.50
+ Casey Miller         8.29   24      8.50
+ John Haager          8.93    7      8.50
+ Lee Vibber           9.00    2      8.50
+ John Jurcevic        8.57   24      8.75
+ Mike Heffner         8.05   24      8.80
+ Greg Laughland       7.67   23      9.00
+ Michael Lee          8.03   24      9.00
+ Douglas Triggs       8.19   24      9.00
+ Ian W.O. Smith       8.81   12      9.00
+ George Zavaliagkos   7.68   24      9.20
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.92    9      9.25
+ Mark Stackpole       7.71   24      9.30
+ Rob Henderson        8.21   23      9.40
+ Greg Franks          7.77   24      9.50
+ Scott Advani         8.14   14      9.50
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith  9.09    7      9.50
+ Scott Townsend       8.38   24      9.70
+ Dominic Esposito     7.95   11     10.00
+ Michael J. Loux      8.92   16     10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.34   24     10.00
diff --git a/p5/024 b/p5/024
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index 00000000..69150b41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/024
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+       Results - "Revelations"
+==============================================
+                           # of
+ Poll 5           History  Votes   Revelations
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.68             8.40
+ Std. Dev.           0.93             1.17
+ # of Voters       297               55
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Russell Fletcher    6.83    3        5.00
+ Andy Johnson        5.72   25        6.00
+ John Huey           7.50    3        6.00
+ Sandra Bruckner     7.58   19        6.00
+ Brandon Browning    7.33    3        6.50
+ Michael May         7.49   23        6.80
+ Steven Grimm        7.22   22        7.00
+ Mark D. Grover      5.16   25        7.00
+ Mary Lee            5.68   15        7.00
+ Jim Royal           6.48   23        7.00
+ David R. Sanderson  6.95   24        7.50
+ John Abbott         7.33   24        7.50
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.67   25        7.50
+ Joshua L. Smith     8.33    3        7.50
+ Dave E. Martin      8.51   25        7.50
+ Greg Franks         7.77   24        8.00
+ Jeff Rupley         7.78   23        8.00
+ John Evans          7.73   22        8.10
+ Steve Fenster       7.20   23        8.20
+ Joel E. Natt        7.60    2        8.20
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.  8.20    3        8.20
+ Allan Jenoff        7.62   26        8.50
+ Dominic Esposito    8.00   12        8.50
+ Wesley Jordan       8.15   25        8.50
+ Mike Hopkins        8.32   25        8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward     8.88   10        8.50
+ Dan Kimmel          7.51   25        8.75
+ Mike Heffner        8.08   25        8.80
+ Rob Henderson       8.21   24        8.80
+ Scott Townsend      8.40   25        8.90
+ Brent Barrett       8.38    6        9.00
+ Dylan Northrup      7.36   22        9.00
+ Paul Hess           7.94   25        9.00
+ Michael Lee         8.06   25        9.00
+ Martin Coghlan      8.24   24        9.00
+ James Dusek         8.33    9        9.00
+ John Jurcevic       8.59   25        9.00
+ Matthew Murray      8.69    8        9.00
+ Peter Wong          9.00    3        9.00
+ Ross A. Knepper     9.00    1        9.00
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    8.10   22        9.20
+ Chris Spell         8.48   12        9.25
+ Matt Landau         7.75   25        9.40
+ Mark Stackpole      7.77   25        9.40
+ Keith Corban        7.89   25        9.40
+ Dave Hill           7.34   23        9.50
+ Susan Neylan        7.69   24        9.50
+ Chris Aylott        8.42   25        9.50
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.34   25        9.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis   7.76   22        9.75
+ Casey Miller        8.35   25        9.80
+ Brian Dickson       8.50   12        9.80
+ Michael J. Loux     8.97   17        9.80
+ Malik Paul Coates   7.96   25       10.00
+ Michele L. Worley   9.57   21       10.00
diff --git a/p5/025 b/p5/025
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..4bbc7f84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/025
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+       Results - "The Geometry of Shadows"
+===============================================
+                           # of    The Geometry
+ Poll 5           History  Votes    of Shadows
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.67              7.68
+ Std. Dev.           0.91              1.20
+ # of Voters       301                47
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ John Evans          7.60   23         4.90
+ Mark D. Grover      5.19   26         6.00
+ Andy Johnson        5.73   26         6.00
+ Jeff Rupley         7.71   24         6.00
+ Dominic Esposito    7.85   13         6.00
+ Malik Paul Coates   7.88   26         6.00
+ Mike Heffner        8.02   26         6.30
+ Joel E. Natt        7.20    3         6.40
+ Allan Jenoff        7.59   27         6.50
+ Dave Hill           7.30   24         6.50
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.62   26         6.50
+ Joshua L. Smith     7.88    4         6.50
+ Casey Miller        8.28   26         6.50
+ Aaron Zellman       7.00    1         7.00
+ Brandon Browning    7.25    4         7.00
+ Dan Kimmel          7.49   26         7.00
+ Peter Wong          8.50    4         7.00
+ Steve Fenster       7.20   24         7.20
+ Steven Grimm        7.12   23         7.50
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    8.10   24         7.50
+ John Huey           7.50    4         7.50
+ Benjamin Schultz    8.25    4         7.50
+ Jason Wong          8.63    7         7.80
+ David R. Sanderson  6.99   25         7.90
+ Scott McAllister    6.50    2         8.00
+ Michael Green       7.45   22         8.00
+ Michael Lee         8.06   26         8.00
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.  8.15    4         8.00
+ Mike Hopkins        8.30   26         8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward     8.82   11         8.25
+ Keith Corban        7.95   27         8.40
+ John Abbott         7.42   26         8.50
+ Sunny Yum           7.68   14         8.50
+ Terry King          8.06   26         8.50
+ John Jurcevic       8.58   26         8.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis   7.76   22         8.75
+ Paul Hess           7.97   26         8.75
+ Brent Barrett       8.38    6         8.75
+ Dylan Northrup      7.43   23         8.80
+ Susan Neylan        7.74   25         8.80
+ Mark Stackpole      7.82   26         9.00
+ Mark MacKinnon      8.72   26         9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.33   26         9.00
+ Michael J. Loux     8.98   18         9.20
+ Jack Holt           8.75   25         9.40
+ Michele L. Worley   9.59   22        10.00
+ Steve Mendel       10.00    1        10.00
diff --git a/p5/026 b/p5/026
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index 00000000..6bc52a13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/026
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+       Results - "A Distant Star"
+=============================================
+                            # of    A Distant
+ Poll 5           History   Votes     Star
+ --------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.68             7.34
+ Std. Dev.           0.90             1.34
+ # of Voters       307               43
+ --------------------------------------------
+ Russell Fletcher    6.30     5       3.00
+ Rich Swartz         4.00     1       4.00
+ Steven Grimm        7.16    24       5.00
+ Jeff Rupley         7.60    25       5.00
+ Dave Hill           7.23    25       5.50
+ Mark D. Grover      5.22    27       6.00
+ Marcelle Gibson     6.00     1       6.00
+ John Evans          7.56    24       6.50
+ Matthew Murray      8.40    10       6.75
+ David R. Sanderson  6.98    26       6.80
+ Andy Johnson        5.78    27       7.00
+ Jim Royal           6.44    25       7.00
+ Michael Green       7.43    23       7.00
+ Allan Jenoff        7.59    27       7.00
+ Mark Stackpole      7.79    27       7.00
+ Terry King          8.02    27       7.00
+ Susan Neylan        7.72    26       7.20
+ Terrance L. Lewis   7.73    24       7.25
+ Dan Kimmel          7.49    27       7.50
+ Sunny Yum           7.67    15       7.50
+ Joshua L. Smith     7.80     5       7.50
+ Mike Heffner        8.00    27       7.50
+ Peter Wong          8.30     5       7.50
+ John McAllister     9.00     5       7.50
+ Casey Miller        8.26    27       7.60
+ Mike Hopkins        8.28    27       7.70
+ Mark MacKinnon      8.68    27       7.80
+ Steve Fenster       7.23    25       8.00
+ Malik Paul Coates   7.89    27       8.00
+ Brent Barrett       8.32     7       8.00
+ Scott McAllister    8.33     6       8.00
+ Connie Fawcett      7.94    26       8.30
+ John Abbott         7.42    26       8.50
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.66    27       8.50
+ Chris Aylott        8.46    27       8.50
+ Martin Coghlan      8.23    26       8.70
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.  8.26     5       8.70
+ Wesley Jordan       8.18    27       8.75
+ John Jurcevic       8.59    27       8.75
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    8.10    24       8.90
+ Keith Corban        7.98    28       9.00
+ Michael J. Loux     8.98    19       9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.32    27       9.00
diff --git a/p5/027 b/p5/027
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index 00000000..99843b7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/027
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+       Results - "The Long Dark"
+============================================
+                            # of    The Long
+ Poll 5            History  Votes     Dark
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.67            7.64
+ Std. Dev.            0.88            1.62
+ # of Voters        311              45
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Charles Henrich      2.50    1       2.50
+ Mark Stackpole       7.64   28       3.50
+ Andy Johnson         5.71   28       4.00
+ Jason Snell          6.56   14       4.00
+ Mark D. Grover       5.21   28       5.00
+ Russell Fletcher     6.25    6       6.00
+ John Evans           7.50   25       6.20
+ David R. Sanderson   6.96   27       6.50
+ Allan Jenoff         7.55   28       6.50
+ Peter Wong           8.08    6       7.00
+ Martin Coghlan       8.18   27       7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.74   25       7.50
+ Mike Heffner         7.98   28       7.50
+ Douglas Triggs       8.05   28       7.50
+ Scott McAllister     8.21    7       7.50
+ Matthew Murray       8.34   11       7.75
+ Steven Grimm         7.13   25       8.00
+ Steve Fenster        7.24   26       8.00
+ John Abbott          7.44   27       8.00
+ Dylan Northrup       7.45   25       8.00
+ Michael May          7.53   26       8.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.62   26       8.00
+ George Zavaliagkos   7.67   28       8.00
+ Chris Stanley        7.73    3       8.00
+ Casey Miller         8.25   28       8.20
+ Paul Hess            7.93   28       8.25
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.28    6       8.40
+ Brandon Browning     7.08    6       8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson      7.30    5       8.50
+ Sunny Yum            7.72   16       8.50
+ Berry Thrailkill     7.75    2       8.50
+ Terry King           8.04   28       8.50
+ Michael J. Loux      8.96   20       8.50
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith  9.01    9       8.50
+ Susan Neylan         7.75   27       8.60
+ Dan Kimmel           7.54   28       8.75
+ Keith Corban         8.02   29       8.80
+ Mike Hopkins         8.30   28       8.80
+ Joshua L. Smith      7.98    6       8.90
+ Greg Franks          7.82   25       9.00
+ Malik Paul Coates    7.93   28       9.00
+ Robert Finley        8.10    5       9.20
+ John Jurcevic        8.61   28       9.25
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.32   28       9.30
+ Michael Lee          8.12   28       9.80
diff --git a/p5/028 b/p5/028
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/028
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+       Results - "Spider in the Web"
+==============================================
+                             # of    Spider in
+ Poll 5            History   Votes    the Web
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.65             8.04
+ Std. Dev.            0.88             1.08
+ # of Voters        314               54
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson         5.66    29       4.00
+ Mary Lee             5.70    16       6.00
+ George Zavaliagkos   7.61    29       6.00
+ Steven Grimm         7.01    26       6.50
+ Paul Hess            7.88    29       6.50
+ David R. Sanderson   6.95    28       6.70
+ Mark D. Grover       5.28    29       7.00
+ Michael Green        7.44    25       7.00
+ Allan Jenoff         7.53    29       7.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.59    27       7.00
+ Terry King           8.00    29       7.00
+ Mark Stackpole       7.62    29       7.25
+ Steve Fenster        7.25    27       7.50
+ Sunny Yum            7.71    17       7.50
+ Mike Heffner         7.96    29       7.50
+ Brent Barrett        8.14     9       7.50
+ Dan Kimmel           7.54    29       7.75
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.21     7       7.80
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.75    26       8.00
+ Tom Treloar          7.33     3       8.00
+ Malik Paul Coates    7.93    29       8.00
+ Evan J. Williams     8.00     1       8.00
+ Peter Wong           8.07     7       8.00
+ Casey Miller         8.24    29       8.00
+ Mike Hopkins         8.29    29       8.00
+ Matthew Murray       8.31    12       8.00
+ Ken Papai            8.42    10       8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.70    14       8.00
+ Scott Townsend       8.40    28       8.20
+ Michael May          7.56    27       8.30
+ Rob Henderson        8.18    26       8.30
+ Benjamin Schultz     8.23     7       8.30
+ John Evans           7.54    26       8.40
+ Marcelle Gibson      7.50     6       8.50
+ Chris Stanley        7.93     4       8.50
+ Martin Coghlan       8.19    28       8.50
+ David A. Golden      8.43     7       8.50
+ Michael J. Loux      8.94    21       8.50
+ Wesley Jordan        8.21    29       8.75
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith  9.00    10       8.90
+ Jason Snell          6.72    15       9.00
+ Brandon Browning     7.36     7       9.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi        7.81    16       9.00
+ Larry Rosenblum      8.13     6       9.00
+ Brian Dickson        8.54    13       9.00
+ John Jurcevic        8.63    29       9.00
+ David Tessler        9.00     1       9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.31    29       9.00
+ Keith Corban         8.02    30       9.10
+ Shelley Lewallen     8.18    22       9.20
+ Ross A. Knepper      9.15     2       9.30
+ Michael Lee          8.17    29       9.50
+ Jack Holt            8.79    26       9.90
+ Chris Spell          8.55    14      10.00
diff --git a/p5/029 b/p5/029
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/029
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+ Results - "Soul Mates"
+=================================================
+                            # of
+ Poll 5            History  Votes   Soul Mates
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.68             7.68
+ Std. Dev.            0.87             1.25
+ # of Voters        321               51
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Steven Grimm         7.01   26        4.00
+ George Zavaliagkos   7.52   30        4.90
+ Mark D. Grover       5.27   30        5.00
+ Allan Jenoff         7.45   30        5.00
+ Andy Johnson         5.67   30        6.00
+ Philbert Fabien      7.75    8        6.00
+ Jack Holt            8.69   27        6.00
+ Mary Lee             5.78   17        7.00
+ Russell Fletcher     6.56    8        7.00
+ Jason I. Gonding     7.00    1        7.00
+ Randall K. Petersen  7.00    1        7.00
+ Evan J. Williams     7.50    2        7.00
+ Albert F. Ross       7.50    2        7.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.57   28        7.00
+ Chris Stanley        7.74    5        7.00
+ John Evans           7.52   27        7.10
+ John Abbott          7.45   28        7.50
+ Greg Franks          7.81   27        7.50
+ Mike Heffner         7.95   30        7.50
+ Matthew Murray       8.09   24        7.50
+ Michael Lee          8.15   30        7.50
+ Martin Coghlan       8.17   29        7.50
+ John Huey            7.42    6        7.70
+ Dan Kimmel           7.55   30        7.75
+ David R. Sanderson   6.98   29        7.80
+ Mark Dever           7.22   13        7.90
+ Dylan Northrup       7.47   27        8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.75   26        8.00
+ Dominic Esposito     7.78   16        8.00
+ Terry King           8.00   30        8.00
+ Keith Corban         8.02   30        8.00
+ Marcelle Gibson      8.23   30        8.00
+ Chris Spell          8.55   14        8.00
+ Steve Fenster        7.28   28        8.10
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.23    8        8.30
+ Ken Papai            8.41   11        8.30
+ John Jurcevic        8.62   30        8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.69   15        8.60
+ Benjamin Schultz     8.28    8        8.66
+ Joel E. Natt         7.76    5        8.70
+ Daniel Singhal       8.70    1        8.70
+ Gabe Covert          8.75    1        8.75
+ Ross A. Knepper      9.03    3        8.80
+ Michael J. Loux      8.94   22        8.90
+ Jason Langlois       7.39   23        9.00
+ Wesley Jordan        8.24   30        9.00
+ Mike Hopkins         8.31   30        9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.30   30        9.00
+ Brad Jones           8.75    2        9.50
+ Casey Miller         8.30   30        9.80
+ Michele L. Worley    9.63   24       10.00
diff --git a/p5/030 b/p5/030
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/030
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+      Results - "A Race Through Dark Places"
+==================================================
+                            # of    A Race Through
+ Poll 5           History   Votes    Dark Places
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.77                8.38
+ Std. Dev.           0.91                0.71
+ # of Voters       334                  60
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover      5.29    31          6.00
+ Andy Johnson        5.71    31          7.00
+ Greg Franks         7.79    28          7.00
+ David R. Sanderson  7.00    30          7.40
+ Aaron Zollman       7.25     2          7.50
+ Evan J. Williams    7.50     3          7.50
+ Mike Heffner        7.93    31          7.50
+ Brent Barrett       8.21    12          7.75
+ Terrance L. Lewis   7.79    28          8.00
+ Steven Grimm        7.15    28          8.00
+ Mary Lee            5.90    18          8.00
+ Steve Fenster       7.30    29          8.00
+ Michael Gemmell     7.33     3          8.00
+ Michael Green       7.36    28          8.00
+ John Abbott         7.47    29          8.00
+ Dylan Northrup      7.49    28          8.00
+ John Huey           7.50     7          8.00
+ Michael May         7.57    29          8.00
+ Jeff Rupley         7.59    29          8.00
+ Mark Stackpole      7.66    31          8.00
+ Kyle M. Smith       8.00     1          8.00
+ Scott Advani        8.13    15          8.00
+ Wesley Jordan       8.23    31          8.00
+ Mike Hopkins        8.30    31          8.00
+ Michael J. King     8.20     1          8.20
+ Craig Miller        8.30    14          8.25
+ George Zavaliagkos  7.55    31          8.30
+ Michael Lee         8.15    31          8.30
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.  8.23     9          8.30
+ Susan Neylan        7.73    30          8.40
+ Jason Snell         6.83    16          8.50
+ Allan Jenoff        7.48    31          8.50
+ Randall K. Petersen 7.75     2          8.50
+ Chris Stanley       7.87     6          8.50
+ Louis Amari         7.88     8          8.50
+ Paul Hess           7.90    31          8.50
+ Matthew Murray      8.11    25          8.50
+ Nick Fitzpatrick    8.14    28          8.50
+ Shelley Lewallen    8.32    28          8.50
+ Scott Townsend      8.40    29          8.50
+ Jay Waller          8.50     1          8.50
+ Ted Marshall        8.50     1          8.50
+ Dan Kimmel          7.59    31          8.75
+ Keith Corban        8.10    32          9.00
+ John Evans          7.57    28          9.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi       7.88    17          9.00
+ Peter Wong          8.19     8          9.00
+ Benjamin Schultz    8.36     9          9.00
+ Chris Aylott        8.48    28          9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward     8.71    16          9.00
+ Brad Jones          9.00     1          9.00
+ David Damico        9.00     1          9.00
+ Roger M. Wilcox     9.00     1          9.00
+ Casey Miller        8.33    31          9.20
+ John Jurcevic       8.64    31          9.25
+ Dan Siemens         8.21    31          9.50
+ Chris Spell         8.62    15          9.50
+ Jason I. Gonding    8.30     2          9.60
+ Michael J. Loux     8.97    23          9.75
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.32    31         10.00
diff --git a/p5/031 b/p5/031
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/031
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+       Results - "The Coming of Shadows"
+===============================================
+                             # of    The Coming
+ Poll 5            History   Votes    Shadows
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.74             9.59
+ Std. Dev.            0.91             0.51
+ # of Voters        365              113
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover       5.38    32       8.00
+ Russell Fletcher     6.75    10       8.00
+ Ken Wilcox           7.00     2       8.00
+ Trever Miller        8.00     1       8.00
+ Chaz Pearson         8.25     2       8.00
+ Randall K. Petersen  8.00     3       8.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.76    29       8.75
+ John Huey            7.66     8       8.75
+ Steve Fenster        7.35    30       8.80
+ John Evans           7.62    29       8.80
+ Andy Johnson         5.81    32       9.00
+ Andy Brathwaite      6.50    30       9.00
+ Jason Snell          6.96    17       9.00
+ Sandra Bruckner      7.62    22       9.00
+ Kevin Chang          8.00     4       9.00
+ Terry King           8.00    32       9.00
+ Chris Stanley        8.03     7       9.00
+ David Kutchinsky     8.50     2       9.00
+ James Price          9.00     1       9.00
+ John Cosby           8.17     3       9.20
+ Dan Kimmel           7.64    32       9.25
+ Kyle M. Smith        8.63     2       9.25
+ Jay Mohney           9.25     1       9.25
+ Aaron Ekholm         9.25     1       9.25
+ Joel E. Natt         7.82     8       9.28
+ Brent Barrett        8.08    13       9.50
+ John Abbott          7.53    31       9.50
+ Jim Royal            6.62    29       9.50
+ John Pennock         6.96    14       9.50
+ Sunny Yum            7.79    19       9.50
+ Jeffrey P. Newman    7.82    32       9.50
+ Michael Gemmell      7.88     4       9.50
+ Dominic Esposito     7.89    18       9.50
+ Albert F. Ross       7.92     6       9.50
+ Bruce Walsh          7.94     8       9.50
+ Wesley Jordan        8.27    32       9.50
+ Craig Miller         8.38    15       9.50
+ Christian Magensen   8.50     8       9.50
+ John Jurcevic        8.67    32       9.50
+ Jim Parshall         8.75     2       9.50
+ Doug Connolly        9.00     2       9.50
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith  9.05    11       9.50
+ Ross A. Knepper      9.15     4       9.50
+ Ben Escoto           9.50     1       9.50
+ Jeff Parsons         9.50     1       9.50
+ David R. Sanderson   7.08    31       9.60
+ Susan Neylan         7.79    31       9.60
+ Keith Corban         8.10    32       9.60
+ Jon Suggs            9.05     2       9.60
+ Kurt Reisler         9.27     2       9.65
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.38    10       9.70
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.72    31       9.70
+ Dave Hill            7.33    26       9.75
+ Shirley Hunt         9.75     1       9.75
+ Michael May          7.62    32       9.80
+ Stephen Saroff       8.05     4       9.80
+ Nick Fitzpatrick     8.19    29       9.80
+ Mike Hopkins         8.35    32       9.80
+ Robert Iwamiya       8.83     4       9.80
+ Michael J. King      9.00     2       9.80
+ Susanne Huettemeist  9.35     3       9.80
+ John Kish            9.80     1       9.80
+ Mike Dunn            8.27    20       9.90
+ Mark Dever           7.41    14       9.90
+ Rob Henderson        8.20    28       9.90
+ Michael Lee          8.21    32       9.90
+ Martin Coghlan       8.22    31       9.90
+ Joshua L. Smith      8.26     7       9.90
+ Marcelle Gibson      8.29    32       9.90
+ Ken Papai            8.56    13       9.90
+ Jason I. Gonding     8.83     3       9.90
+ Scott Powell         9.35     2       9.90
+ Roger M. Wilcox      9.45     2       9.90
+ Pete Hines           9.90     1       9.90
+ Don Semmens          8.98     2       9.95
+ Steven Grimm         7.08    29      10.00
+ David Strauss        7.42    32      10.00
+ Michael Zecca        7.42     6      10.00
+ Michael Green        7.45    29      10.00
+ Allan Jenoff         7.56    32      10.00
+ Dylan Northrup       7.58    29      10.00
+ George Zavaliagkos   7.62    32      10.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.67    30      10.00
+ Mark Stackpole       7.74    32      10.00
+ Greg Franks          7.86    29      10.00
+ Paul Hess            7.96    32      10.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi        8.00    18      10.00
+ Mike Heffner         8.00    32      10.00
+ Malik Paul Coates    8.08    32      10.00
+ Louis Amari          8.11     9      10.00
+ Evan J. Williams     8.13     4      10.00
+ Aaron Zollman        8.17     3      10.00
+ Matthew Murray       8.18    26      10.00
+ Dan Siemens          8.27    32      10.00
+ Casey Miller         8.38    32      10.00
+ Peter Wong           8.39     9      10.00
+ Benjamin Schultz     8.53    10      10.00
+ Chris Aylott         8.53    29      10.00
+ Chris Spell          8.70    16      10.00
+ Jack Holt            8.74    28      10.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.79    17      10.00
+ Michael J. Loux      9.01    24      10.00
+ Joe Reiss            9.10     3      10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.34    32      10.00
+ Ben Whitney          9.52     2      10.00
+ Michele L. Worley    9.62    26      10.00
+ Andrew Luyt         10.00     1      10.00
+ Elizabeth Bartmess-
+    LeVasseur        10.00     2      10.00
+ J. Scott Farrow     10.00     1      10.00
+ Joel Gill           10.00     1      10.00
+ Joey Ferreira       10.00     1      10.00
+ Lon Franson         10.00     1      10.00
+ Rob Ditto           10.00     1      10.00
diff --git a/p5/032 b/p5/032
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--- /dev/null
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+       Results - "GROPOS"
+============================================
+                              # of
+ Poll 5             History   Votes   GROPOS
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Average               7.76            7.49
+ Std. Dev.             0.88            1.32
+ # of Voters         393              93
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Aaron Romanowski      3.00     1      3.00
+ Nic Lyons             3.00     1      3.00
+ Jim Royal             6.53    30      4.00
+ George Zavaliagkos    7.53    33      4.50
+ Steven Grimm          7.08    30      5.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.36    33      5.00
+ Andy Johnson          5.79    33      5.00
+ Dave Hill             7.28    27      6.00
+ Jim Lewis             8.05    10      6.00
+ John Evans            7.57    30      6.20
+ David R. Sanderson    7.06    32      6.40
+ Brent Barrett         8.18    14      6.50
+ Michael Crawford      6.50     1      6.50
+ Craig Bryant          6.68    19      6.50
+ Ken Wilcox            6.83     3      6.50
+ Brandon Browning      7.63    10      6.50
+ Randall K. Petersen   7.63     4      6.50
+ Jeff Parsons          8.00     2      6.50
+ Andrew Luyt           8.25     2      6.50
+ Paul Kugelmass        6.60     1      6.60
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.74    30      6.75
+ Michael Gemmell       7.65     5      6.75
+ Dan Siemens           8.22    33      6.75
+ Travis Walter         8.45     2      6.90
+ Ken Ng                7.38     4      7.00
+ Michael Green         7.43    30      7.00
+ Allan Jenoff          7.53    33      7.00
+ Albert F. Ross        7.79     7      7.00
+ Chaz Pearson          7.83     3      7.00
+ Peter Wong            8.25    10      7.00
+ Seth Blumberg         7.20     1      7.20
+ Mark Stackpole        7.72    33      7.25
+ Kyle M. Smith         8.17     3      7.25
+ Steve Fenster         7.35    31      7.30
+ Jason I. Gonding      8.45     4      7.30
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.    8.29    11      7.40
+ William Gareau        7.50     1      7.50
+ John Abbott           7.53    31      7.50
+ Michael May           7.61    33      7.50
+ Paul Heroy            7.65    30      7.50
+ Dale Brouwer          7.85    32      7.50
+ Terry King            7.98    33      7.50
+ Michael Andrade       8.25     2      7.50
+ Wesley Jordan         8.25    33      7.50
+ Casey Miller          8.35    33      7.50
+ Eric King             8.63     2      7.50
+ Shirley Hunt          8.63     2      7.50
+ Rob Ditto             8.75     2      7.50
+ Ross A. Knepper       8.82     5      7.50
+ Mary Lee              5.99    19      7.70
+ Ryan Kirk Patrick     7.70     1      7.70
+ Susanne Huettemeister 8.96     4      7.80
+ Jeff Jonsson          8.95     2      7.90
+ Scott Powell          9.10     4      7.90
+ Keith Corban          8.07    34      8.00
+ Jeff Rupley           7.68    31      8.00
+ John Huey             7.69     9      8.00
+ Greg Franks           7.87    30      8.00
+ Dominic Esposito      7.89    19      8.00
+ Bruce Walsh           7.94     9      8.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi         8.00    19      8.00
+ Mike Hopkins          8.34    33      8.00
+ Jay Mohney            8.63     2      8.00
+ Jay Waller            8.75     3      8.00
+ Roger M. Wilcox       8.97     3      8.00
+ Ron Peterson          9.00     2      8.00
+ John Cosby            7.96     5      8.20
+ Matthew Murray        7.95    33      8.25
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.76    18      8.25
+ Nick Fitzpatrick      8.20    30      8.30
+ Ken Papai             8.54    14      8.30
+ Don Semmens           8.86     4      8.50
+ Brian Tozzo           6.85     2      8.50
+ Dan Kimmel            7.67    33      8.50
+ Jeffrey P. Newman     7.84    33      8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson       8.27    33      8.50
+ Shelley Lewallen      8.38    30      8.50
+ Dale Forrey           8.50     1      8.50
+ Michael Lee           8.22    33      8.60
+ Mike Dunn             8.27    20      8.60
+ Benjamin Schultz      8.53    11      8.60
+ Susan Neylan          7.82    32      8.70
+ John Jurcevic         8.68    33      9.00
+ Bryan Sims            9.00     1      9.00
+ Michael J. Loux       9.01    25      9.00
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith   9.04    12      9.00
+ Lon Franson           9.50     2      9.00
+ Joel E. Natt          8.00     9      9.40
+ Russell Fletcher      7.00    11      9.50
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.35    33      9.60
+ David Kutchinsky      9.00     3     10.00
+ George Augustin      10.00     2     10.00
+ Walter Dowis         10.00     1     10.00
diff --git a/p5/033 b/p5/033
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+       Results - "All Alone in the Night"
+==================================================
+                              # of     All Alone
+ Poll 5             History   Votes   in the Night
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average               7.76              8.33
+ Std. Dev.             0.88              0.93
+ # of Voters         409                94
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson          5.79    34        6.00
+ Allan Jenoff          7.49    34        6.00
+ David R. Sanderson    7.04    33        6.50
+ John Huey             7.58    10        6.50
+ Jason I. Gonding      8.10     5        6.70
+ Walter Dowis          8.38     2        6.75
+ Steven Grimm          7.09    31        7.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.41    34        7.00
+ Ken Wilcox            6.88     4        7.00
+ Doug Nadle            7.00     1        7.00
+ Paul Heroy            7.54    34        7.00
+ Jeff Jonsson          8.30     3        7.00
+ Keith Corban          8.03    35        7.20
+ Joel E. Natt          7.90    10        7.20
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.73    31        7.25
+ John Evans            7.56    31        7.30
+ Susanne Huettemeister 8.63     5        7.30
+ Dave Hill             7.29    28        7.50
+ Dan Friedman          7.50     1        7.50
+ John Abbott           7.53    32        7.50
+ Chris Marchand        7.58    11        7.50
+ Chaz Pearson          7.75     4        7.50
+ Jeff Parsons          7.83     3        7.50
+ Dan Siemens           8.20    34        7.50
+ Edward Tennant        8.42     3        7.50
+ Paul Kugelmass        7.15     2        7.70
+ Matthew Murray        7.95    34        7.75
+ Andy Brathwaite       6.56    32        8.00
+ Michael Green         7.45    31        8.00
+ Dan Kimmel            7.68    34        8.00
+ Randall K. Petersen   7.70     5        8.00
+ Michael Gemmell       7.71     6        8.00
+ Evan J. Williams      8.08     6        8.00
+ Jim Parshall          8.13     4        8.00
+ Peter Wong            8.23    11        8.00
+ James Prince          8.50     2        8.00
+ Angela Wilkinson      8.90     2        8.00
+ George Augustin       9.33     3        8.00
+ Mike Hopkins          8.34    34        8.20
+ Louis Amari           8.03    11        8.30
+ Albert F. Ross        7.88     8        8.50
+ Vance Pitman          7.89    11        8.50
+ John Kaprielian       8.00     2        8.50
+ Ryan Kirk Patrick     8.10     2        8.50
+ Michael Andrade       8.33     3        8.50
+ Jennifer Stenberg     8.50     1        8.50
+ Sonja Mendoza         8.50     1        8.50
+ Eric King             8.58     3        8.50
+ Rob Ditto             8.67     3        8.50
+ Ross A. Knepper       8.77     6        8.50
+ Travis Walter         8.48     3        8.53
+ Nick Fitzpatrick      8.21    31        8.60
+ Steve Fenster         7.39    32        8.70
+ Shelley Lewallen      8.39    31        8.70
+ Chris Aylott          8.52    31        8.70
+ Chris Stanley         7.99     9        8.75
+ Trudy A. Goold        8.18     3        8.75
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.    8.33    12        8.75
+ Shirley Hunt          8.67     3        8.75
+ William Gareau        8.73     3        8.75
+ Jay Waller            8.75     4        8.75
+ Brandon Browning      7.74    11        8.90
+ Susan Neylan          7.85    33        8.90
+ Scott Townsend        8.46    32        8.90
+ Don Semmens           8.89     5        9.00
+ George Zavaliagkos    7.57    34        9.00
+ Dylan Northrup        7.63    30        9.00
+ Jeff Rupley           7.72    32        9.00
+ Michael Crawford      7.75     2        9.00
+ Greg Franks           7.90    31        9.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi         8.05    20        9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson       8.29    34        9.00
+ James Dusek           8.31    13        9.00
+ Andrew Luyt           8.50     3        9.00
+ Chris Spell           8.72    17        9.00
+ Ron Peterson          9.00     3        9.00
+ Scott Powell          9.08     5        9.00
+ Ken Papai             8.58    15        9.10
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith   9.05    13        9.20
+ Wesley Jordan         8.28    34        9.25
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.78    19        9.25
+ Bob Finley            7.52    12        9.30
+ Joe Laszlo            9.30     1        9.30
+ Jeffrey P. Newman     7.89    34        9.40
+ David Kutchinski      9.11     4        9.45
+ Brent Barrett         8.13    15        9.50
+ Gregg Kellogg         7.70    11        9.50
+ John Jurcevic         8.70    34        9.50
+ Lee Vibber            9.10     5        9.50
+ Michael Lee           8.26    34        9.60
+ Casey Miller          8.39    34        9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.36    34        9.90
+ Joe Reiss             9.33     4       10.00
+ Michele L. Worley     9.46    28       10.00
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+       Results - "Acts of Sacrifice"
+===============================================
+                              # of     Acts of
+ Poll 5             History   Votes   Sacrifice
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average               7.78             7.97
+ Std. Dev.             0.87             1.07
+ # of Voters         420               91
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Walter Dowis          6.92     3       4.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.40    35       5.00
+ Andy Johnson          5.77    35       5.00
+ Ken Wilcox            6.70     5       6.00
+ Brandon Browning      7.60    12       6.00
+ James Dusek           8.14    14       6.00
+ Roger M. Wilcox       8.23     4       6.00
+ Dale Forrey           7.40     3       6.50
+ Eric King             8.13     4       6.75
+ Keith Corban          8.04    36       6.80
+ Jason Snell           6.96    18       7.00
+ David R. Sanderson    7.04    34       7.00
+ J.C. Williamson       7.50     2       7.00
+ Sandra Bruckner       7.50    25       7.00
+ Jeff Rupley           7.70    33       7.00
+ Rob Ditto             8.25     4       7.00
+ Casey Miller          8.35    35       7.00
+ Albert F. Ross        7.80     9       7.20
+ Shirley Hunt          8.31     4       7.25
+ John Evans            7.56    32       7.40
+ Dale Brouwer          7.86    34       7.40
+ John Cosby            7.87     6       7.40
+ Steven Grimm          7.12    32       7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.74    32       7.50
+ Allan Jenoff          7.49    35       7.50
+ George Zavaliagkos    7.57    35       7.50
+ Patrick B. Hall       7.80     5       7.50
+ Bruce Walsh           7.90    10       7.50
+ Evan J. Williams      8.00     7       7.50
+ Jeff Jonsson          8.10     4       7.50
+ Brent Barrett         8.13    15       7.50
+ James Prince          8.17     3       7.50
+ Andrew Luyt           8.25     4       7.50
+ Martin Coghlan        8.22    34       7.70
+ Matthew Murray        7.94    35       7.75
+ Russell Fletcher      6.90    12       7.80
+ John Huey             7.61    11       8.00
+ Gregg Kellogg         7.73    12       8.00
+ Michael Crawford      7.83     3       8.00
+ Peter Wong            8.21    12       8.00
+ Ross A. Knepper       8.66     7       8.00
+ John Jurcevic         8.68    35       8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.74    20       8.00
+ David Kutchinski      8.89     5       8.00
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith   8.98    14       8.00
+ Joey Ferreira         9.00     2       8.00
+ Lon Franson           9.00     4       8.00
+ Susanne Huettemeister 8.54     6       8.10
+ Michael Gemmell       7.79     7       8.25
+ Chris Stanley         8.02    10       8.25
+ Wesley Jordan         8.28    35       8.25
+ William Gareau        8.61     4       8.25
+ Michael May           7.66    35       8.30
+ Kevin Chang           8.06     5       8.30
+ Mark MacKinnon        8.70    33       8.30
+ Ron Peterson          8.83     4       8.30
+ Mike Hopkins          8.34    35       8.40
+ Mark Dever            7.48    15       8.50
+ Jason Langlois        7.59    28       8.50
+ Doug Nadle            7.75     2       8.50
+ Jeff Parsons          8.00     4       8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson       8.30    35       8.50
+ Robert De La Cruz     8.60     5       8.50
+ Lee Vibber            9.00     6       8.50
+ Michael Lee           8.27    35       8.70
+ Paul Hess             7.97    34       8.75
+ Doug Connolly         8.88     4       8.75
+ Susan Neylan          7.91    35       8.80
+ Shelley Lewallen      8.40    32       8.80
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.35    35       8.90
+ Don Semmens           8.74     6       9.00
+ Dan Kimmel            7.71    35       9.00
+ Greg Franks           7.94    32       9.00
+ Dominic Esposito      8.00    21       9.00
+ Ryan Kirkpatrick      8.40     3       9.00
+ Ken Papai             8.61    16       9.00
+ Trevor Bradley        8.91    14       9.00
+ Mike Whitney          9.00     1       9.00
+ Rick DiBlasi          9.00     1       9.00
+ Scott Powell          9.07     6       9.00
+ Mark Stackpole        7.78    35       9.10
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.    8.39    13       9.15
+ Dan Siemens           8.23    35       9.25
+ Craig Miller          8.47    18       9.25
+ Benjamin Schultz      8.66    13       9.25
+ Joel E. Natt          8.03    11       9.35
+ Joe Reiss             9.34     5       9.40
+ Jeffrey P. Newman     7.93    35       9.50
+ Randall K. Petersen   8.00     6       9.50
+ Jim Parshall          8.40     5       9.50
+ Michael J. Loux       9.04    27       9.50
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+I would like to remind everyone that I do NOT run any mailing
+lists, WWW sites, etc.
+
+ Results - "Hunter, Prey"
+===================================================
+ Poll 5           History   Votes   Hunter, Prey
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average             7.77               8.20
+ Std. Dev.           0.87               1.00
+ # of Voters       428                 83
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover      5.33    36         3.00
+ Andy Brathwaite     6.56    34         6.00
+ Ken Wilcox          6.58     6         6.00
+ Rob Ditto           7.80     5         6.00
+ John Abbott         7.52    33         7.00
+ Patrick B. Hall     7.67     6         7.00
+ Evan J. Williams    7.88     8         7.00
+ Paul Hess           7.94    35         7.00
+ Jim Parshall        8.17     6         7.00
+ Lon Franson         8.60     5         7.00
+ David R. Sanderson  7.05    35         7.30
+ Robert A. Decker    5.75     2         7.50
+ Allan Jenoff        7.49    36         7.50
+ John Huey           7.60    12         7.50
+ Mike Heffner        7.91    36         7.50
+ Jeff Jonsson        7.98     5         7.50
+ Peter Thompsen      7.60     1         7.60
+ Dan Kimmel          7.72    36         7.75
+ Norah Murphy        8.15     2         7.80
+ John Evans          7.57    33         7.90
+ Rick DiBlasi        8.45     2         7.90
+ Andy Johnson        5.83    36         8.00
+ Steven Grimm        7.12    32         8.00
+ Michael Green       7.48    33         8.00
+ Michael May         7.67    36         8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis   7.74    32         8.00
+ Gregg Kellogg       7.75    13         8.00
+ Albert F. Ross      7.82    10         8.00
+ Greg Franks         7.94    33         8.00
+ Jeff Parsons        8.00     5         8.00
+ Jennifer Stenberg   8.25     2         8.00
+ Mike Hopkins        8.33    36         8.00
+ Casey Miller        8.34    36         8.00
+ Joe Studholme       8.43     7         8.00
+ Don Semmens         8.74     6         8.00
+ George Augustin     8.80     5         8.00
+ Lee Vibber          8.86     7         8.00
+ Keith Corban        8.04    36         8.20
+ Scott Townsend      8.45    34         8.20
+ Ken Papai           8.58    17         8.20
+ Dave Hill           7.36    30         8.25
+ Shirley Hunt        8.30     5         8.25
+ Michael Gemmell     7.86     8         8.35
+ Steve Fenster       7.42    33         8.40
+ Lou Wainwright      8.51    13         8.40
+ Michael Crawford    8.00     4         8.50
+ Brent Barrett       8.16    16         8.50
+ Peter Wong          8.23    13         8.50
+ James Prince        8.25     4         8.50
+ Ross A. Knepper     8.64     8         8.50
+ David Kutchinski    8.83     6         8.50
+ Joey Ferreira       8.83     3         8.50
+ Scott Powell        8.99     7         8.50
+ Louis Amari         8.11    13         8.60
+ Jay Waller          8.58     6         8.60
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward     8.74    21         8.60
+ Jason I. Gonding    8.20     6         8.70
+ Vance Pitman        7.98    13         8.75
+ Jay Mohney          8.31     4         8.75
+ Travis Walter       8.70     5         8.78
+ Dale Brouwer        7.89    35         8.80
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.  8.42    14         8.80
+ Bob Finley          7.74    14         8.90
+ Randall K. Petersen 8.13     7         8.90
+ Rob Henderson       8.22    29         8.90
+ Dawoud Al-Haddad    6.46    36         9.00
+ Dylan Northrup      7.67    31         9.00
+ Mark Stackpole      7.81    36         9.00
+ Susan Neylan        7.91    35         9.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi       8.05    22         9.00
+ Martin Coghlan      8.24    35         9.00
+ Martha L. Fager     8.30     5         9.00
+ Roger M. Wilcox     8.38     5         9.00
+ Shelley Lewallen    8.42    33         9.00
+ William Gareau      8.69     5         9.00
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith 9.00    15         9.30
+ Gary Lehman         9.30     1         9.30
+ Kevin Chang         8.36     7         9.50
+ John Jurcevic       8.71    36         9.50
+ Jeffrey P. Newman   7.98    36         9.55
+ Michael J. Loux     9.07    28         9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.37    36         9.90
+ Kurt Reisler        9.51     3         9.99
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+       Results - "There All the Honor Lies"
+==================================================
+                             # of    There All the
+ Poll 5            History   Votes    Honor Lies
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.76               7.75
+ Std. Dev.            0.86               1.02
+ # of Voters        456                 72
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Andrew Chiang        6.42    18         3.00
+ Andy Johnson         5.81    37         5.00
+ Russell Fletcher     6.75    13         5.00
+ Brian Tozzo          5.70     4         6.00
+ Michael May          7.62    37         6.00
+ Dale Brouwer         7.86    36         6.90
+ Allan Jenoff         7.49    38         7.00
+ Mark D. Grover       5.38    37         7.00
+ Bill Schindler       7.00     1         7.00
+ Paul Akers           7.00     1         7.00
+ Rodney M. Jones      7.00     1         7.00
+ Dylan Northrup       7.65    32         7.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.68    34         7.00
+ Jeff Parsons         7.83     6         7.00
+ Dave Bakker          7.25     1         7.25
+ Phil Adams           7.85    17         7.25
+ John Evans           7.56    34         7.30
+ Jacquelyn J. Smith   7.38     2         7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.76    34         7.50
+ Steven Grimm         7.13    33         7.50
+ Kent Jones           7.50     1         7.50
+ Sandra Bruckner      7.50    26         7.50
+ George Zavaliagkos   7.57    36         7.50
+ Gregg Kellogg        7.73    14         7.50
+ Mike Heffner         7.90    37         7.50
+ Jennifer Steneberg   8.00     3         7.50
+ Chris Stanley        8.02    12         7.50
+ Martha L. Fager      8.17     6         7.50
+ Chris Spell          8.65    18         7.50
+ David R. Sanderson   7.07    36         7.70
+ R'ykandar Korra'ti   6.91    26         7.75
+ Matthew Murray       7.94    37         7.75
+ Shirley Hunt         8.21     6         7.75
+ Jay Waller           8.46     7         7.75
+ Brandon Browning     7.63    14         7.80
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky  7.80     1         7.80
+ Brent Barrett        8.14    18         8.00
+ Rob Ditto            7.83     6         8.00
+ Susan Neylan         7.91    36         8.00
+ Laurie M. Jacobs     8.00     1         8.00
+ Lee Somerman         8.00     1         8.00
+ Melanie A. Jeanes    8.00     1         8.00
+ Randall K. Petersen  8.11     8         8.00
+ Peter Wong           8.21    14         8.00
+ Martin Coghlan       8.23    36         8.00
+ Lon Franson          8.50     6         8.00
+ Travis Walter        8.59     6         8.00
+ Ron Peterson         8.66     5         8.00
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.40    15         8.10
+ Keith Corban         8.03    38         8.20
+ Mike Hopkins         8.33    37         8.30
+ Ken Papai            8.57    18         8.30
+ Steve Fenster        7.49    35         8.50
+ Doug Nadle           8.00     3         8.50
+ Paul Ree             8.25     2         8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson      8.30    37         8.50
+ Scott Catton         8.50     7         8.50
+ Benjamin Schultz     8.61    15         8.50
+ William Gareau       8.66     6         8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.73    22         8.50
+ Michael Lee          8.28    36         8.60
+ Mark Stackpole       7.83    37         8.70
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.72    36         8.70
+ Dan Kimmel           7.74    37         8.75
+ Louis Amari          8.16    14         8.90
+ Casey Miller         8.36    37         9.00
+ Shelley Lewallen     8.44    34         9.00
+ John Jurcevic        8.71    37         9.00
+ David Damico         9.00     2         9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.36    37         9.00
+ Wesley Jordan        8.32    37         9.10
+ Don Semmens          8.69    14         9.25           10.00
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+       Results - "And Now For a Word"
+===============================================
+                              # of    And Now
+ Poll 5            History   Votes   For a Word
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.80              8.43
+ Std. Dev.            0.89              1.18
+ # of Voters        466                80
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.48    23        3.00
+ Travis Walter        7.96     7        4.20
+ Andy Johnson         5.82    38        6.00
+ Dylan Northrup       7.62    33        6.50
+ James Eagan          8.40     2        6.80
+ Sandra Bruckner      7.48    27        7.00
+ John Abbott          7.53    36        7.00
+ Michael Crawford     7.80     5        7.00
+ William Gareau       8.42     7        7.00
+ Jacquelyn J. Smith   8.08     3        7.25
+ Steven Grimm         7.20    35        7.50
+ William Harris       7.50     1        7.50
+ Dan Kimmel           7.74    38        7.50
+ Keith Corban         8.05    39        7.60
+ David R. Sanderson   7.09    37        7.90
+ Allan Jenoff         7.54    39        8.00
+ Mark D. Grover       5.45    38        8.00
+ Mary Lee             6.10    20        8.00
+ Russell Fletcher     6.84    14        8.00
+ Michael Green        7.50    34        8.00
+ Rocky Persaud        7.88     2        8.00
+ James Prince         8.00     6        8.00
+ Melanie A. Jeanes    8.00     2        8.00
+ Brent Barrett        8.14    18        8.00
+ Jason Larke          8.44     9        8.00
+ Ron Peterson         8.55     6        8.00
+ Bill Schindler       7.55     2        8.10
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.38    16        8.10
+ Shirley Hunt         8.21     7        8.25
+ John Cosby           8.02    11        8.40
+ Randall K. Petersen  8.14     9        8.40
+ Ken Papai            8.56    19        8.40
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.80    35        8.50
+ Paul Akers           7.75     2        8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg        7.78    15        8.50
+ Dave Bakker          7.88     2        8.50
+ Rob Ditto            7.93     7        8.50
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky  8.15     2        8.50
+ Laurie M. Jacobs     8.25     2        8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson      8.30    38        8.50
+ David Wright         8.50     1        8.50
+ David Kutchinski     8.56     8        8.50
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.71    37        8.50
+ Steve Fenster        7.52    36        8.60
+ Dan Siemens          8.22    38        8.75
+ Martin Coghlan       8.25    37        8.75
+ John Evans           7.61    35        8.80
+ Susan Neylan         7.94    37        8.80
+ Brandon Browning     7.71    15        8.90
+ Jeff Rupley          7.71    35        9.00
+ Sunny Yum            7.76    21        9.00
+ Mark Stackpole       7.86    38        9.00
+ Michael Gemmell      7.92    11        9.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi        8.08    24        9.00
+ Louis Amari          8.22    15        9.00
+ Kent Jones           8.25     2        9.00
+ Mike Hopkins         8.34    38        9.00
+ Christian Mogensen   8.38    12        9.00
+ Ross A. Knepper      8.68     9        9.00
+ John Jurcevic        8.72    38        9.00
+ Doug Connolly        8.83     6        9.00
+ Benjamin Hugh Smith  9.00    16        9.00
+ James O'Sullivan     9.00     1        9.00
+ Matthew Hunter       9.00     1        9.00
+ Casey Miller         8.39    38        9.40
+ Joel E. Natt         8.15    12        9.45
+ Matthew Murray       7.98    38        9.50
+ Michael Lee          8.31    37        9.50
+ Don Feltham          9.50     1        9.50
+ Shelley Lewallen     8.47    35        9.60
+ Scott Catton         8.65     8        9.70
+ Brian Tozzo          6.51     5        9.75
+ Michael J. Loux      9.08    30        9.75
+ Mike Heffner         7.95    38       10.00
+ Malik Paul Coates    8.09    37       10.00
+ Peter Wong           8.33    15       10.00
+ Jason I. Gonding     8.46     7       10.00
+ Benjamin Schultz     8.69    16       10.00
+ Don Semmens          8.69    14       10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.37    38       10.00
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+Results - "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"
+==================================================
+                             # of    In the Shadow
+ Poll 5            History   Votes    of Z'ha'dum 
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Averager             7.78               9.30
+ Std. Dev.            0.89               0.52
+ # of Voters        483                 93
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Sandra Bruckner      7.49    28         7.75
+ Andy Johnson         5.87    39         8.00
+ Ken Wilcox           6.50     9         8.00
+ Brian Tozzo          6.76     6         8.00
+ Patrick B. Hall      7.67     9         8.25
+ David R. Sanderson   7.13    38         8.50
+ Chaz Pearson         7.63     8         8.50
+ Dan Kimmel           7.76    39         8.50
+ Navid Badie          8.00     2         8.50
+ Dave Frelinger       8.50     1         8.50
+ Randall K. Petersen  8.19    10         8.60
+ David Wright         8.08     3         8.75
+ Jeff Jonsson         8.12     6         8.80
+ Keith Corban         8.05    40         8.90
+ John Huey            7.70    13         8.90
+ Bill Schindler       8.00     3         8.90
+ Mark Tenney          8.08     7         8.95
+ Michael Green        7.54    35         9.00
+ Steve Fenster        7.56    37         9.00
+ Gregg Kellogg        7.86    16         9.00
+ Dale Brouwer         7.89    38         9.00
+ Greg Franks          7.97    36         9.00
+ Rodney M. Jones      8.00     3         9.00
+ Rob Ditto            8.06     8         9.00
+ Paul Akers           8.17     3         9.00
+ Martha L. Fager      8.29     7         9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson      8.32    39         9.00
+ Wesley Jordan        8.36    39         9.00
+ Doug Nadle           8.40     5         9.00
+ Chris Spell          8.64    20         9.00
+ Joellyn Crowley      8.75     2         9.00
+ David G. Moring      9.00     1         9.00
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.42    17         9.10
+ Mike Hopkins         8.37    39         9.20
+ Chris McCoy          9.20     1         9.20
+ Joseph Ferreira      9.20     1         9.20
+ Steven Grimm         7.17    36         9.25
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.78    36         9.25
+ Chris Stanley        8.14    14         9.25
+ Dave Bakker          8.33     3         9.25
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.51    24         9.25
+ Dominic Esposito     8.10    24         9.30
+ John Cosby           8.13    12         9.30
+ John Evans           7.66    36         9.40
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky  8.57     3         9.40
+ Albert F. Ross       7.71    13         9.50
+ Jacquelyn J. Smith   7.75     4         9.50
+ Allan Jenoff         7.53    40         9.50
+ Don Semmens          8.70    16         9.50
+ Russell Fletcher     7.02    15         9.50
+ John Abbott          7.58    37         9.50
+ Mike Whitney         7.88     4         9.50
+ Vance Pitman         8.10    15         9.50
+ Brent Barrett        8.21    19         9.50
+ Dan Siemens          8.26    39         9.50
+ Michael Lee          8.34    38         9.50
+ James Prince         8.36     7         9.50
+ Shirley Hunt         8.38     8         9.50
+ William Gareau       8.56     8         9.50
+ Paul Ree             8.63     4         9.50
+ Laurie M. Jacobs     8.67     3         9.50
+ Ron Peterson         8.69     7         9.50
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.73    38         9.50
+ John Jurcevic        8.74    39         9.50
+ Ross A. Knepper      8.76    10         9.50
+ Robert Adelberg      9.50     1         9.50
+ Victor Murrell       9.50     1         9.50
+ Susan Neylan         7.98    38         9.60
+ Jeffrey P. Newman    8.04    39         9.60
+ Martin Coghlan       8.28    38         9.60
+ Rob Henderson        8.29    32         9.60
+ Ron Siewert          9.65     1         9.65
+ Jennifer Steneberg   8.44     4         9.75
+ Jay Waller           8.63     8         9.75
+ Thomas Catsburg      8.88     2         9.75
+ Jason Snell          7.22    21         9.80
+ Jeff Parsons         8.11     7         9.80
+ Louis Amari          8.32    16         9.80
+ Kent Jones           8.77     3         9.80
+ Travis Walter        8.21     8         9.93
+ Clint Ragsdale       6.83    39        10.00
+ Nathan Strange       7.00     2        10.00
+ Boyd Meiser          7.93    15        10.00
+ Mike Heffner         8.01    39        10.00
+ Shelley Lewallen     8.44    39        10.00
+ Gary Lehman          8.60     4        10.00
+ Ken Papai            8.63    20        10.00
+ David Kutchinski     8.72     9        10.00
+ Benjamin Schultz     8.74    17        10.00
+ Michael J. Loux      9.11    31        10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.39    39        10.00
+ Matthew Hunter       9.50     2        10.00
+ David W. Brown      10.00     1        10.00
diff --git a/p5/039 b/p5/039
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+       Results - "Knives"
+===========================================
+                             # of
+ Poll 5            History   Votes   Knives
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.78            7.21
+ Std. Dev.            0.88            1.08
+ # of Voters        496              66
+ ------------------------------------------
+ Allan Collier        7.33     3      3.00
+ Mark D. Grover       5.44    39      5.00
+ Luke Young           7.35     2      5.00
+ Matthew Murray       7.94    41      5.25
+ Steven Grimm         7.16    37      6.00
+ Michael Hoffman      6.00     1      6.00
+ Andy Brathwaite      6.58    36      6.00
+ Lee Somerman         7.00     3      6.00
+ Jeff Rupley          7.68    37      6.00
+ Albert F. Ross       7.71    13      6.00
+ Roger M. Wilcox      7.98     6      6.00
+ John Evans           7.62    37      6.10
+ Mike Heffner         7.96    40      6.30
+ Brian Tozzo          6.71     7      6.40
+ Russell Fletcher     6.99    16      6.50
+ Dominic Esposito     8.03    25      6.50
+ Jacquelyn J. Smith   7.50     5      6.75
+ Patrick B. Hall      7.58    10      6.75
+ Allan Jenoff         7.49    41      7.00
+ John Abbott          7.53    39      7.00
+ Andy Johnson         5.90    40      7.00
+ Robert P. Galloway   7.64    11      7.00
+ Michael May          7.68    40      7.00
+ Dave Frelinger       7.75     2      7.00
+ Michael Gemmell      7.93    13      7.00
+ Mark Barrucci        7.97    39      7.00
+ David Wright         8.08     3      7.00
+ James Prince         8.22     9      7.00
+ Paul Ree             8.30     5      7.00
+ Kent Jones           8.33     4      7.00
+ Casey Miller         8.39    40      7.20
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.82    37      7.25
+ Mike Hopkins         8.34    40      7.30
+ Daniel Azuma         8.40     2      7.50
+ Sandra Bruckner      7.49    29      7.50
+ David F. Malewski    7.50     1      7.50
+ Jeff Giacomi         7.50     1      7.50
+ Stewart Chao         7.50     1      7.50
+ Chris Stanley        8.10    15      7.50
+ Doug Nadle           8.25     6      7.50
+ Shelley Lewallen     8.41    40      7.50
+ Thomas Catsburg      8.42     3      7.50
+ David W. Brown       8.75     2      7.50
+ Shirley Hunt         8.29     9      7.65
+ Steve Fenster        7.56    38      7.80
+ Dan Kimmel           7.76    40      7.80
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.71    39      7.80
+ Ken Papai            8.60    21      7.90
+ Rich Wajda           8.00     1      8.00
+ Rob Ditto            8.06     9      8.00
+ Paul Akers           8.13     4      8.00
+ Michael Lee          8.34    39      8.00
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.40    18      8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.49    25      8.00
+ Don Semmens          8.70    16      8.00
+ David R. Sanderson   7.15    39      8.10
+ Keith Corban         8.05    40      8.10
+ Gary Lehman          8.54     5      8.30
+ Randall K. Petersen  8.22    11      8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson      8.33    40      8.50
+ Antonio Collin       8.50     1      8.50
+ John Jurcevic        8.73    40      8.50
+ Travis Walter        8.27     9      8.78
+ Martin Coghlan       8.30    39      8.90
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.38    40      9.00
+ Wesley Jordan        8.38    40      9.30
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+ Results - "Confessions and Lamentations"
+======================================================
+                           # of    Confessions and
+ Poll 5          History   Votes    Lamentations
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Average            7.78                7.85
+ Std. Dev.          0.88                1.20
+ # of Voters      506                  76
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover     5.43    40          5.00
+ Andy Johnson       5.88    41          5.00
+ Lee Somerman       6.50     4          5.00
+ Stewart Chao       6.50     2          5.50
+ Roger M. Wilcox    7.63     7          5.50
+ Nicholas Welch     6.00     1          6.00
+ Allan Jenoff       7.49    41          6.00
+ John Abbott        7.53    39          6.00
+ Jeff Rupley        7.63    38          6.00
+ Mike Heffner       7.92    41          6.30
+ Sandra Bruckner    7.46    30          6.50
+ Jacquelyn J. Smith 7.50     5          6.50
+ James Prince       8.08    10          6.75
+ Steven Grimm       7.16    37          7.00
+ David E. Bath      7.38    40          7.00
+ Rob Ditto          7.95    10          7.00
+ Laurie M. Jacobs   8.00     5          7.00
+ Malik Paul Coates  8.03    39          7.00
+ Kent Jones         8.06     5          7.00
+ Doug Nadle         8.07     7          7.00
+ Victor Murrell     8.17     3          7.00
+ Susan Neylan       7.95    40          7.20
+ Clint Ragsdale     6.84    41          7.25
+ Brent Barrett      8.11    21          7.25
+ Paul Akers         8.00     5          7.50
+ Thomas Catsburg    8.19     4          7.50
+ Matthew Hunter     8.25     4          7.50
+ Ross A. Knepper    8.65    11          7.50
+ David R. Sanderson 7.16    40          7.60
+ Michael May        7.68    41          7.70
+ Ken Papai          8.55    22          7.70
+ Navid Badie        7.65     4          7.80
+ Louis Amari        8.29    17          7.80
+ Patrick B. Hall    7.61    11          8.00
+ Matthew Murray     7.94    41          8.00
+ Mark Barrucci      7.98    40          8.00
+ Martha L. Fager    8.25     8          8.00
+ Martin Coghlan     8.29    40          8.00
+ Shelley Lewallen   8.40    41          8.00
+ Jay Waller         8.56     9          8.00
+ Scott Catton       8.58     9          8.00
+ Dave Bakker        8.15     5          8.25
+ Steve Fenster      7.58    39          8.30
+ Ron Peterson       8.46     9          8.30
+ Gregg Kellogg      7.84    18          8.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr. 7.93    38          8.50
+ Chris Stanley      8.12    16          8.50
+ Lon Franson        8.31     8          8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson    8.33    41          8.50
+ Paul Ree           8.33     6          8.50
+ Michael Lee        8.34    40          8.50
+ Casey Miller       8.39    41          8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward    8.49    26          8.50
+ Harvey A. Mitchell 8.50     1          8.50
+ Mark P Suozzi      8.50     1          8.50
+ Meredith Russell   8.50     1          8.50
+ David W. Brown     8.67     3          8.50
+ Paul Kugelmass     6.75     4          8.70
+ David Wright       8.25     4          8.75
+ Wesley Jordan      8.39    41          8.80
+ Albert F. Ross     7.79    14          8.90
+ Terrance L. Lewis  7.82    37          9.00
+ Mike Hopkins       8.36    41          9.00
+ Gary Lehman        8.62     6          9.00
+ John Jurcevic      8.74    41          9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan     9.37    41          9.00
+ Travis Walter      8.34    10          9.01
+ Mark MacKinnon     8.72    40          9.20
+ Ron Siewert        9.05     3          9.25
+ Daniel Azuma       8.40     2          9.30
+ Don Semmens        8.74    17          9.30
+ Chaz Pearson       7.77    11          9.50
+ Michael J. Loux    9.09    33          9.50
+ Mark Stackpole     7.95    40          9.60
+ James Eagan        8.93     3         10.00
+ Robert De Propris 10.00     1         10.00
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+       Results - "Divided Loyalties"
+===============================================
+                              # of     Divided 
+ Poll 5             History   Votes   Loyalties
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average               7.87             8.50   
+ Std. Dev.             0.91             0.83   
+ # of Voters         574              102      
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson          5.86    42       5.00   
+ George Zavaliagkos    7.55    39       6.00
+ Brian Tozzo           6.71     8       6.70
+ Mike Williams         7.88     4       7.00   
+ Mark D. Grover        5.46    41       7.00
+ Guillaume Lessard     7.00     1       7.00
+ Malik Paul Coates     7.96    41       7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.83    39       7.50   
+ Andy Wadsworth        8.38     4       7.50   
+ Daniel C. Fox         7.50     1       7.50
+ John Abbott           7.53    40       7.50
+ Steve Fenster         7.58    40       7.50
+ Mike Heffner          7.91    42       7.50
+ David Kutchinski      8.59    10       7.50
+ Martin Coghlan        8.28    41       7.80
+ Casey Miller          8.38    42       7.80
+ Dave Hill             7.43    37       8.00   
+ Jeremy Morley         8.05     5       8.00   
+ Steven Grimm          7.27    41       8.00   
+ Gregg Kellogg         8.05    22       8.00   
+ William A. McNirlan   8.88     4       8.00   
+ Dylan Northrup        7.76    38       8.00   
+ Christian Mogensen    8.56    16       8.00   
+ Lee Somerman          6.80     5       8.00
+ Clint Ragsdale        6.86    42       8.00
+ Jeff Rupley           7.64    39       8.00
+ Greg Franks           7.95    38       8.00
+ Rob Ditto             7.95    11       8.00
+ Michael W. Moser      8.00     1       8.00
+ Nick Schrook          8.00     1       8.00
+ David Wright          8.20     5       8.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky   8.42     4       8.00
+ Brian Kutner          8.15     1       8.15
+ Shelley Lewallen      8.45    45       8.40   
+ Mike Hopkins          8.42    45       8.40   
+ Wesley Jordan         8.40    45       8.50   
+ Pat McMurray          8.75     2       8.50   
+ Michael Gemmell       7.65    31       8.50   
+ Adam J. Purcell       8.69     4       8.50   
+ John Robinson         8.52     4       8.50   
+ Don Semmens           8.71    20       8.50   
+ Rob Henderson         8.33    36       8.50   
+ Roderick Edgar        7.95    45       8.50   
+ Louis Amari           8.39    19       8.50   
+ Dan Kimmel            7.80    42       8.50
+ Mark Stackpole        7.97    41       8.50
+ Thomas Catsburg       8.25     5       8.50
+ Michael Lee           8.34    41       8.50
+ Peter Wong            8.34    16       8.50
+ Chris Neeland         8.50     1       8.50
+ Darin Stephenson      8.50     1       8.50
+ David Kennedy         8.50     1       8.50
+ Jim Zimmerman         8.50     1       8.50
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta   8.50     1       8.50
+ David Patrick         9.00     2       8.60   
+ Susanne Huettemeister 8.66    12       8.70   
+ Daniel Azuma          8.97     6       8.70   
+ Jason I. Gonding      8.49     8       8.70
+ Matthew Murray        8.02    45       8.75   
+ Brent Barrett         8.33    25       8.75   
+ James Prince          8.08    13       8.75
+ Paul Ree              8.39     7       8.75
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.50    27       8.75
+ Ken Papai             8.56    23       8.75
+ Ken Miller            8.75     1       8.75
+ Randall K. Petersen   8.36    16       8.80   
+ Susan Neylan          7.97    41       8.80
+ Martin                8.20    31       8.80
+    de la Sablonniere
+ Robin Bornoff         8.88     4       8.90   
+ Ron Peterson          8.50    10       8.90
+ Joyce Ostertag        8.98     2       8.95   
+ Ian Vincent           7.75     7       9.00   
+ Michael May           7.79    45       9.00   
+ Nollaig O'hAirtneada  7.82    45       9.00   
+ Lee Vibber            9.18    11       9.00   
+ Mark Barrucci         8.00    41       9.00
+ Laurie M. Jacobs      8.17     6       9.00
+ Gary Lehman           8.67     7       9.00
+ Howard Roberts        9.00     1       9.00
+ Kris Whelan           9.00     1       9.00
+ Lana Klier            9.00     1       9.00
+ Philippa Ryan         9.00     3       9.00
+ Lloyd Tapper          9.53    15       9.00
+ Dale Brouwer          7.92    41       9.10
+ Ron Siewert           9.25     5       9.25   
+ Jacquelyn J. Smith    7.79     6       9.25
+ Dan Siemens           8.26    42       9.25
+ John Jurcevic         8.75    42       9.25
+ John Evans            7.69    41       9.30   
+ Benjamin Schultz      8.73    19       9.33
+ John Haager           9.04     9       9.40   
+ Teresa Hehir          9.31     4       9.50   
+ Phil Boswell          9.45     4       9.50   
+ Michael J. Loux       9.10    34       9.50
+ Dennis Steinert       9.50     1       9.50
+ Jarno Kokko           8.76    35       9.60   
+ Christopher Tate      9.80     1       9.80
+ Travis Walter         8.48    11       9.88
+ Ricky Meikle          8.55    22      10.00   
+ Chiin-Zhe Tan        10.00     7      10.00   
+ Allan Jenoff          7.55    42      10.00
+ Mark Moeran          10.00     1      10.00
+ Roger Moore           9.00     1              
+ Darren Cookson        9.30     1              
+ Adam Moore            9.80     1              
+ Phil Adams            8.08    24              
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+       Results - "The Long, Twilight Struggle"
+====================================================
+                              # of    The Long, Twi-
+ Poll 5             History   Votes   light Struggle
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Average               7.88                9.49     
+ Std. Dev.             0.91                0.48     
+ # of Voters         609                 120        
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover        5.52    42          8.00     
+ Andy Johnson          5.91    43          8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.48    28          8.00
+ Wesley Jordan         8.40    45          8.25     
+ Brian Tozzo           6.88     9          8.25
+ Steve Fenster         7.60    41          8.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.83    39          8.50
+ Patrick B. Hall       7.77    13          8.75
+ Jason I. Gonding      8.53     9          8.90
+ Jeremy Morley         8.05     5          9.00     
+ John Abbott           7.58    42          9.00     
+ Teresa Hehir          9.31     4          9.00     
+ Phil Boswell          9.45     4          9.00     
+ Clint Ragsdale        6.91    43          9.00
+ Dave Hill             7.43    37          9.00
+ Nicholas Welch        7.50     2          9.00
+ Dan Kimmel            7.83    43          9.00
+ Greg Franks           7.97    39          9.00
+ Laurie M. Jacobs      8.29     7          9.00
+ Victor Murrell        8.30     5          9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson       8.36    43          9.00
+ Ron Peterson          8.55    11          9.00
+ Pat McMurray          8.75     2          9.00
+ Christopher Tate      8.80     2          9.00
+ Joyce Ostertag        8.98     2          9.00
+ Chris Durie           9.00     1          9.00
+ Roger Moore           9.00     1          9.00
+ George Copsey         9.11     3          9.00
+ John Evans            7.69    41          9.20     
+ Shelley Lewallen      8.45    45          9.20     
+ Steven Grimm          7.27    41          9.25     
+ Michael Gemmell       7.65    31          9.25     
+ Adam J. Purcell       8.69     4          9.25     
+ Matthew Murray        8.02    45          9.25     
+ John Robinson         8.52     4          9.30     
+ Robin Bornoff         8.88     4          9.30     
+ Randall K. Petersen   8.36    16          9.30     
+ James F. McNabb       8.95     2          9.30
+ Darren Cookson        9.30     1          9.30
+ Ken Papai             8.60    24          9.40
+ David Patrick         9.00     2          9.40
+ Ian Vincent           7.75     7          9.50     
+ Michael May           7.79    45          9.50     
+ William A. McNirlan   8.88     4          9.50     
+ Gregg Kellogg         8.05    22          9.50     
+ Brent Barrett         8.33    25          9.50     
+ David R. Sanderson    7.23    42          9.50
+ Allan Jenoff          7.59    43          9.50
+ Jacquelyn J. Smith    8.04     7          9.50
+ Rob Ditto             8.08    12          9.50
+ Michael Lee           8.37    42          9.50
+ Paul Ree              8.53     8          9.50
+ David Griffiths       8.75     2          9.50
+ Mike Weldon           8.75     2          9.50
+ John Jurcevic         8.77    43          9.50
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta   9.00     2          9.50
+ John Haager           9.04     9          9.50
+ Daniel Roy            9.50     1          9.50
+ Donovan Chase         9.50     1          9.50
+ John McKell           9.50     1          9.50
+ Mike Basinger         9.50     1          9.50
+ Robert Adelberg       9.50     2          9.50
+ Frank Perricone       7.94    17          9.60
+ James Prince          8.19    14          9.60
+ Richard Mauren        8.30     2          9.60
+ Joseph Atkinson       9.25     2          9.60
+ Joe Sislow            9.60     1          9.60
+ Chris Neeland         8.33     4          9.65
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.    8.46    20          9.65
+ Susanne Huettemeister 8.66    12          9.70
+ Dennis Steinert       9.60     2          9.70
+ John Mulcahy          9.70     1          9.70
+ Lars Ericson          9.70     1          9.70
+ Don Semmens           8.71    20          9.75
+ Steve Van Haren       9.75     1          9.75
+ Vic Forsman           9.75     1          9.75
+ Rob Henderson         8.33    36          9.80     
+ Mike Hopkins          8.42    45          9.80     
+ Daniel Azuma          8.97     6          9.80     
+ Mark Stackpole        8.01    42          9.80
+ Casey Miller          8.41    43          9.80
+ Shirley Hunt          8.45    10          9.80
+ Mark MacKinnon        8.74    42          9.80
+ Adam Moore            9.80     1          9.80
+ Lars Joreteg          9.80     1          9.80
+ Robert Abramovitz     9.80     1          9.80
+ Ron Siewert           9.25     5          9.85
+ Boyd Meiser           8.12    17          9.90
+ Martin Coghlan        8.32    42          9.90
+ Eric Harmon           8.95     2          9.90
+ Michael Dearden       9.10     5          9.95     
+ Mike Williams         7.88     4         10.00     
+ Andy Wadsworth        8.38     4         10.00     
+ Nollaig O'hAirtneada  7.82    45         10.00     
+ David Strauss         7.59    45         10.00     
+ Christian Mogensen    8.56    16         10.00     
+ Jarno Kokko           8.76    35         10.00     
+ Roderick Edgar        7.95    45         10.00     
+ Ricky Meikle          8.26    43         10.00     
+ Lee Vibber            9.18    11         10.00     
+ Chiin-Zhe Tan        10.00     7         10.00     
+ Jeff Rupley           7.70    40         10.00
+ Dylan Northrup        7.76    38         10.00
+ Brandon Browning      7.82    17         10.00
+ Mike Heffner          7.96    43         10.00
+ Phil Adams            8.10    25         10.00
+ Martin de la          8.25    32         10.00
+    Sablonniere
+ Louis Amari           8.39    19         10.00
+ Guillaume Lessard     8.50     2         10.00
+ Travis Walter         8.61    12         10.00
+ David Kutchinski      8.72    11         10.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky   8.74     5         10.00
+ Gary Lehman           8.84     8         10.00
+ Mark Hullinger        9.00     2         10.00
+ Nick Schrook          9.00     2         10.00
+ Aaron J.Redd          9.25    18         10.00
+ Joe Reiss             9.36     7         10.00
+ Blaise Faint         10.00     1         10.00
+ Rich Vanderbilt      10.00     1         10.00
+ Sean Erwin           10.00     1         10.00
+ Mark Bassett          0.00     1                   
+ Dave Kuhn             5.00     1                   
+ Justine Stock         7.00     2                   
+ Julian P. Graham      8.70     1                   
+ Greg Francis          9.05     2                   
+ Adrian Wissner       10.00     1                   
+ Alfred Liura         10.00     1                   
+ Steven Kabora        10.00     1                   
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+       Results - "Comes the Inquisitor"
+===============================================
+                             # of    Comes the 
+ Poll 5            History   Votes   Inquisitor
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average              7.88              8.47   
+ Std. Dev.            0.91              1.44   
+ # of Voters        637               138      
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Mark Bassett         0.00     1        0.00
+ Ian Vincent          7.75     7        3.00
+ Mark D. Grover       5.52    44        4.00
+ Justine Stock        7.00     2        5.00   
+ Dave Kuhn            7.50     2        5.00   
+ Richard Mauren       7.90     8        5.00
+ John Evans           7.69    41        5.80   
+ Mike Williams        7.88     4        6.00   
+ Andy Johnson         5.91    44        6.00
+ Allan Jenoff         7.56    44        6.00
+ Mark Stackpole       7.98    43        6.50
+ John Robinson        8.52     4        6.80   
+ Andy Wadsworth       8.38     4        7.00   
+ Rob Henderson        8.33    36        7.00   
+ Warren Kenyon        7.25    44        7.00
+ Nicholas Welch       7.33     3        7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.81    40        7.25
+ Lee Somerman         7.20     7        7.40
+ Steven Grimm         7.27    41        7.50   
+ Michael Gemmell      7.65    31        7.50   
+ Jeremy Morley        8.05     5        7.50   
+ Robin Bornoff        8.88     4        7.50   
+ David Wright         8.36     7        7.50
+ Maureen Parker       7.75     1        7.75
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta  8.58     3        7.75
+ Jason I. Gonding     8.46    10        7.80
+ David R. Sanderson   7.25    43        7.90
+ Dylan Northrup       7.77    39        8.00   
+ Adam J. Purcell      8.69     4        8.00   
+ Mark Moerman         9.25     4        8.00   
+ Wesley Jordan        8.40    45        8.00   
+ Nollaig O'hAirtneada 7.82    45        8.00   
+ Patrick B. Hall      7.79    14        8.00
+ Malik Paul Coates    8.01    43        8.00
+ Peter Wong           8.42    18        8.00
+ Mike Weldon          8.50     3        8.00
+ Donovan Chase        8.75     2        8.00
+ Blaise Faint         9.00     2        8.00
+ Ron Peterson         8.51    12        8.10
+ Mark P Suozzi        8.52    14        8.10
+ Jacquelyn J. Smith   8.05     8        8.15
+ James Prince         8.19    15        8.20
+ Doug Nadle           8.24    10        8.20
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky  8.65     6        8.20
+ Matthew Murray       8.02    45        8.25   
+ William Gareau       8.75    11        8.25   
+ Rorke Haining        7.40    22        8.25   
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward      8.47    29        8.25
+ Michael May          7.79    45        8.30   
+ Randall K. Petersen  8.36    16        8.30   
+ Kevin R. Holloway    8.77     3        8.30
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.   8.46    21        8.40
+ Mark MacKinnon       8.73    43        8.40
+ William A. McNirlan  8.88     4        8.50   
+ Matt Landau          8.03    31        8.50   
+ John Abbott          7.58    42        8.50
+ Louis Amari          8.40    20        8.50
+ Alex Siegel          8.50     1        8.50
+ Andrew Johnston      8.50     1        8.50
+ Paul Ree             8.53     9        8.50
+ Jay Mohney           8.64     7        8.50
+ Jay Waller           8.65    11        8.50
+ David Kutchinski     8.70    12        8.50
+ Chris Durie          8.75     2        8.50
+ Aaron J.Redd         9.21    19        8.50
+ Joe Reiss            9.25     8        8.50
+ Todd Stewart         9.02     2        8.60
+ Shelley Lewallen     8.45    45        8.70   
+ Dale Brouwer         7.94    42        8.70
+ Julian P. Graham     8.70     1        8.70
+ Dan Kimmel           7.85    44        8.75
+ Mike Heffner         7.98    44        8.80
+ Dennis Steinert      9.37     3        8.90
+ David Strauss        7.59    45        9.00   
+ Mike Hopkins         8.42    45        9.00   
+ Gregg Kellogg        8.05    22        9.00   
+ Christian Mogensen   8.56    16        9.00   
+ Don Semmens          8.76    22        9.00   
+ Teresa Hehir         9.31     4        9.00   
+ Shawn Bayern         7.25     6        9.00   
+ Robert Kohl          7.50     2        9.00
+ Bob Finley           7.82    15        9.00
+ Rob Ditto            8.15    13        9.00
+ Daniel C. Fox        8.67     3        9.00
+ Michael W. Moser     8.75     3        9.00
+ Gary Lehman          8.86     9        9.00
+ John Lemons          9.00     1        9.00
+ Tim Crawford         9.00     1        9.00
+ Timothy S. Bruening  9.00     3        9.00
+ Daniel Azuma         8.97     6        9.10   
+ Greg Francis         9.05     2        9.10
+ Marcelle Gibson      8.40    45        9.20   
+ Chris Aylott         8.60    35        9.20   
+ Jarno Kokko          8.76    35        9.20   
+ Ken Papai            8.62    25        9.20
+ Jim Zimmerman        9.17     3        9.25
+ Alex Elsberg         9.25     1        9.25
+ Ron Siewert          9.25     6        9.25
+ Mark Poli            9.50     3        9.25
+ Vic Forsman          9.50     2        9.25
+ Rich Vanderbilt      9.63     2        9.25
+ Frank Perricone      8.02    18        9.30
+ Christopher Tate     8.97     3        9.30
+ Phil Boswell         9.45     4        9.40   
+ Shirley Hunt         8.53    11        9.40
+ Diana Wallace        9.60     2        9.40
+ Michael Dearden      9.10     5        9.50   
+ Michael Heckler      7.57     7        9.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.   8.00    41        9.50
+ Greg Franks          8.01    40        9.50
+ Martin Coghlan       8.35    43        9.50
+ Laurie M. Jacobs     8.44     8        9.50
+ Darin Stephenson     9.33     3        9.50
+ Scott Parmenter      8.63     6        9.50
+ Dan Sias             9.67     3        9.50
+ Lars Joreteg         8.47     3        9.60
+ Chad Underkoffler    9.27     3        9.70
+ David F. Malewski    8.71     8        9.80
+ Ed Hopkins           8.83     3        9.80
+ Brent Barrett        8.33    25        9.85   
+ Casey Miller         8.44    44        9.90
+ Travis Walter        8.71    13        9.90
+ Roderick Edgar       7.95    45       10.00   
+ Ricky Meikle         8.26    43       10.00   
+ Lee Vibber           9.18    11       10.00   
+ Chiin-Zhe Tan       10.00     7       10.00   
+ Jeff Rupley          7.76    41       10.00
+ Boyd Meier           8.23    18       10.00
+ Michael Lee          8.41    43       10.00
+ Guillaume Lessard    9.00     3       10.00
+ Michael J. Loux      9.15    36       10.00
+ Lisa Coulter         9.17     9       10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan       9.41    44       10.00
+ Lana Klier           9.67     3       10.00
+ Adrian Wissner      10.00     1       10.00
+ Alfred Liura        10.00     1       10.00
+ Michael Llaneza     10.00     1       10.00
+ Steven Kabora       10.00     1       10.00
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+       Results - "The Fall of Night"
+================================================
+                                # of    The Fall
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   of Night
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                 7.90             9.40  
+ Std. Dev.               0.91             0.62  
+ # of Voters           664              155     
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ John Abbott             7.60    44       7.50  
+ Lee Somerman            7.24     8       7.50
+ Dave Black              8.00     2       7.50
+ Guillaume Lessard       8.63     4       7.50
+ Mark D. Grover          5.58    45       8.00
+ Michael Heckler         7.63     8       8.00
+ Patrick B. Hall         7.80    15       8.00
+ Scott Stewart           8.00     1       8.00
+ Rob Ditto               8.14    14       8.00
+ David R. Sanderson      7.27    44       8.20
+ Bob Finley              7.80    16       8.30
+ Steven Grimm            7.27    42       8.50  
+ David Strauss           7.59    45       8.50
+ Mike Williams           7.88     4       8.50
+ Robin P. Reagan         8.00     2       8.50
+ Lisa Lyons              8.50     1       8.50
+ Daniel C. Fox           8.63     4       8.50
+ James Prince            8.21    16       8.60
+ Greg Francis            8.90     3       8.60
+ Michael Dearden         9.10     5       8.60
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.22     6       8.80
+ Travis Walter           8.72    14       8.83
+ Kevin Sullivan          8.47     3       8.90
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.89    42       9.00  
+ Andy Johnson            5.98    45       9.00
+ Justine Stock           7.00     2       9.00
+ Michael Gemmell         7.65    31       9.00
+ John Evans              7.69    41       9.00
+ Steve Fenster           7.69    43       9.00
+ Dylan Northrup          7.77    39       9.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.79    42       9.00
+ Dan Kimmel              7.88    45       9.00
+ Robert Kohl             8.00     3       9.00
+ Matthew Murray          8.02    45       9.00
+ Mark Barrucci           8.07    43       9.00
+ Andy Wadsworth          8.38     4       9.00
+ Louis Amari             8.42    21       9.00
+ Ron Peterson            8.55    13       9.00
+ Adam J. Purcell         8.69     4       9.00
+ David Griffiths         8.75     4       9.00
+ Gary Lehman             8.87    10       9.00
+ Joel Gill               8.88     4       9.00
+ Aaron J.Redd            9.20    20       9.00
+ Marc Britten            9.25     2       9.00
+ Mark Moerman            9.25     4       9.00
+ Anson Chuang            9.50     2       9.00
+ Chris Durie             8.87     3       9.10
+ Don Feltham             9.02     3       9.10
+ Richard Mauren          8.16    10       9.15  
+ Michael May             7.79    45       9.20
+ Chris Stanley           8.24    20       9.20
+ Marcelle Gibson         8.40    45       9.20
+ Roderick Edgar          7.95    45       9.25
+ Jeremy Morley           8.05     5       9.25
+ Wesley Jordan           8.40    45       9.25
+ Mike Ingbritson         9.13     2       9.25
+ Malik Paul Coates       8.04    44       9.30
+ Rob Henderson           8.33    36       9.30
+ Mike Hopkins            8.42    45       9.30
+ Kevin R. Holloway       8.90     4       9.30
+ Michael Lee             8.43    44       9.40
+ Daniel Azuma            8.97     6       9.40
+ Robert A. Decker        7.58     6       9.50
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.05    22       9.50
+ Alex Elsberg            8.30    19       9.50
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.36    16       9.50
+ Casey Miller            8.47    45       9.50
+ Peter Wong              8.47    19       9.50
+ David Wright            8.50     8       9.50
+ Victor Murrell          8.50     6       9.50
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.      8.51    22       9.50
+ John Robinson           8.52     4       9.50
+ Christian Mogensen      8.56    16       9.50
+ Ken Papai               8.66    26       9.50
+ Shirley Hunt            8.67    12       9.50
+ Ryan Kirkpatrick        8.68     4       9.50
+ Jay Mohney              8.75     8       9.50
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.75    44       9.50
+ William Gareau          8.75    11       9.50
+ Don Semmens             8.76    22       9.50
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky     8.77     7       9.50
+ William A. McNirlan     8.88     4       9.50
+ Ed Hopkins              9.00     4       9.50
+ Joellyn Crowley         9.00     3       9.50
+ Philippa Ryan           9.00     3       9.50
+ Christopher Tate        9.10     4       9.50
+ John Lemons             9.25     2       9.50
+ Damon Gallaty           9.50     1       9.50
+ Doug Nadle              8.36    11       9.60
+ Shelley Lewallen        8.45    45       9.60
+ Chad Underkoffler       9.35     4       9.60
+ Lou Wainwright          8.29    31       9.70
+ Chris Aylott            8.60    35       9.70
+ Paul Ree                8.65    10       9.75
+ Sonja Mendoza           9.08     3       9.75
+ Todd Stewart            9.27     3       9.75
+ George Copsey           9.31     5       9.75
+ Teresa Hehir            9.31     4       9.75
+ Brandon Browning        7.98    19       9.80
+ Jay Waller              8.74    12       9.80
+ Jarno Kokko             8.76    35       9.80
+ Lars Joreteg            8.80     4       9.80
+ Robin Bornoff           8.88     4       9.80
+ Joe Sislow              9.70     2       9.80
+ Matt Landau             8.03    31       9.85
+ Brent Barrett           8.33    25       9.85
+ Rorke Haining           7.40    22       9.90
+ Jim Zimmerman           9.35     4       9.90
+ Phil Boswell            9.45     4       9.90
+ Mark Poli               9.60     4       9.90
+ Donovan Chase           9.15     3       9.95
+ Ron Siewert             9.35     7       9.95
+ Brian Tozzo             7.19    10       9.99
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.03    45      10.00
+ Shawn Bayern            7.25     6      10.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.31    45      10.00
+ Dave Kuhn               7.50     2      10.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.61    45      10.00
+ Michael Green           7.63    40      10.00
+ George Zavaliagkos      7.66    44      10.00
+ Nollaig O'hAirtneada    7.82    45      10.00
+ Mike Heffner            8.02    45      10.00
+ Greg Franks             8.06    41      10.00
+ Phil Adams              8.10    25      10.00
+ Suzanne Lanoue          8.13     4      10.00
+ Ricky Meikle            8.26    43      10.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere8.32    34      10.00
+ Martin Coghlan          8.38    44      10.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.52    30      10.00
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta     8.53     8      10.00
+ Thomas Catsburg         8.68     7      10.00
+ David Kutchinski        8.80    13      10.00
+ Nick Schrook            9.00     4      10.00
+ Michael W. Moser        9.06     4      10.00
+ Eric Harmon             9.08     4      10.00
+ Lee Vibber              9.18    11      10.00
+ John Haager             9.22    11      10.00
+ Keven Soulsby           9.25     2      10.00
+ Lisa Coulter            9.25    10      10.00
+ Timothy S. Bruening     9.25     4      10.00
+ Joe Reiss               9.33     9      10.00
+ John Mulcahy            9.33     3      10.00
+ Lloyd Tapper            9.33    18      10.00
+ Robert L. Collingworth  9.38     4      10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.42    45      10.00
+ Darin Stephenson        9.50     4      10.00
+ Michele L. Worley       9.50    32      10.00
+ Dan Sias                9.75     4      10.00
+ Lana Klier              9.75     4      10.00
+ Chiin-Zhe Tan          10.00     7      10.00
+ David Gosha            10.00     1      10.00
+ Gene Forfar            10.00     1      10.00
+ Jeff Schultz           10.00     1      10.00
+ Philip Weiner          10.00     2      10.00
+ Rick Gillyon           10.00     1      10.00
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+                                # of    Matters
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   of Honor
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                 7.89             8.60  
+ Std. Dev.               0.90             0.93  
+ # of Voters           679              117     
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Phredd Groves           6.00     1       6.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.59    46       6.50  
+ Malik Paul Coates       8.01    45       6.50  
+ Lee Somerman            7.20     9       6.90  
+ Steven Grimm            7.25    43       7.00  
+ Mark D. Grover          5.59    46       7.00  
+ Ed Schaller             7.00     1       7.00  
+ Steve Crow              7.00     3       7.00  
+ Chris Swanson           7.75     4       7.00  
+ Jeff Rupley             7.77    43       7.00  
+ Mark Stackpole          8.00    45       7.00  
+ Jeff Jonsson            8.13     9       7.00  
+ Brent Barrett           8.28    26       7.00  
+ Mark Moerman            8.80     5       7.00  
+ John Evans              7.68    42       7.40  
+ Michael Heckler         7.61     9       7.50  
+ Phil Adams              8.05    27       7.50  
+ Mike Weldon             8.60     5       7.50  
+ Ed Hopkins              8.70     5       7.50  
+ Rob Henderson           8.31    37       7.70  
+ Michael W. Moser        8.80     5       7.75  
+ Chris Stanley           8.22    21       7.80  
+ Eric Harmon             8.82     5       7.80  
+ Mike Hopkins            8.41    46       7.90  
+ Adam Sanford            8.90     3       7.90  
+ Andy Johnson            6.02    46       8.00  
+ Warren Kenyon           7.33    46       8.00  
+ Michael Green           7.63    41       8.00  
+ Michael Lee             8.42    45       8.00  
+ Peter Wong              8.45    20       8.00  
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky     8.67     8       8.00  
+ John Lemons             8.83     3       8.00  
+ Aaron J.Redd            9.14    21       8.00  
+ Son Goku-ten            8.20     1       8.20  
+ Jason I. Gonding        8.44    11       8.20  
+ James O'Sullivan        8.55     6       8.20  
+ Alex Elsberg            8.30    20       8.25  
+ David Wright            8.47     9       8.25  
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta     8.50     9       8.25  
+ David R. Sanderson      7.29    45       8.30  
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.06    46       8.50  
+ Sandra Bruckner         7.49    31       8.50  
+ John Abbott             7.60    44       8.50  
+ Evan J. Williams        8.00    10       8.50  
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.      8.01    42       8.50  
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.07    23       8.50  
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.26     7       8.50  
+ Martha L. Fager         8.30    10       8.50  
+ Louis Amari             8.43    22       8.50  
+ Antonio Collins         8.50     2       8.50  
+ Bob Grant               8.50     1       8.50  
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.      8.51    23       8.50  
+ Guillaume Lessard       8.60     5       8.50  
+ Jim Zimmerman           9.18     5       8.50  
+ Robert L. Collingworth  9.20     5       8.50  
+ Lars Joreteg            8.76     5       8.60  
+ Marc Britten            9.03     3       8.60  
+ Don Feltham             8.93     4       8.65  
+ Dale Brouwer            7.98    44       8.70  
+ Andrew Chiang           6.80    22       8.75  
+ Dan Kimmel              7.90    46       8.75  
+ Nick Schrock            8.95     5       8.75  
+ Jeff Schultz            9.38     2       8.75  
+ Mike Heffner            8.04    46       8.80  
+ Matthew Hunter          8.57     6       8.80  
+ David Gosha             9.40     2       8.80  
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.54    31       8.90  
+ Michael May             7.82    46       9.00  
+ Matthew Murray          8.04    46       9.00  
+ Mark Barrucci           8.09    44       9.00  
+ Martin Coghlan          8.40    45       9.00  
+ Mark Kubo               8.50     2       9.00  
+ Rich Wajda              8.58     3       9.00  
+ Paul Ree                8.68    11       9.00  
+ William Gareau          8.77    12       9.00  
+ Benjamin Schultz        8.82    23       9.00  
+ Jeffrey Lanter          9.00     1       9.00  
+ Christopher Tate        9.08     5       9.00  
+ Lisa Coulter            9.23    11       9.00  
+ Joe Reiss               9.30    10       9.00  
+ Brian D. Green          9.50     2       9.00  
+ Dennis Steinert         9.28     5       9.10  
+ Chad Underkoffler       9.30     5       9.10  
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.41    17       9.20  
+ Richard Mauren          8.16    10       9.25  
+ John Jurcevic           8.78    45       9.25  
+ Jay Mohney              8.81     9       9.25  
+ George Copsey           9.30     6       9.25  
+ Marcelle Gibson         8.42    46       9.30  
+ Shirley Hunt            8.72    13       9.30  
+ Gary Lehman             8.91    11       9.30  
+ Ron Peterson            8.61    14       9.40  
+ Kevin R. Holloway       9.00     5       9.40  
+ Don Semmens             8.76    24       9.50  
+ Jim Dawson              8.83     6       9.50  
+ Steve Fenster           7.73    44       9.50  
+ Suzanne Lanoue          8.40     5       9.50  
+ Thomas Catsburg         8.78     8       9.50  
+ Chris Durie             9.02     4       9.50  
+ Philip Weiner           9.83     3       9.50  
+ Boyd Meier              8.39    20       9.60  
+ Ken Papai               8.70    27       9.60  
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.89    43       9.75  
+ Vic Forsman             9.63     4       9.75  
+ Michael J. Loux         9.19    38       9.80  
+ Michael Gemmell         7.72    32       9.85  
+ James Prince            8.31    17       9.90  
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.43    46       9.90  
+ Greg Franks             8.11    42      10.00  
+ Rob Ditto               8.27    15      10.00  
+ Martin de la Sablonniere8.37    35      10.00  
+ Travis Walter           8.80    15      10.00  
+ Jay Waller              8.84    13      10.00  
+ Lana Klier              9.80     5      10.00  
+ Rich Vanderbilt         9.81     4      10.00  
+ Mike Walters           10.00     1      10.00  
+ Shawn Cagle            10.00     1      10.00  
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+       Results - "Convictions"
+==================================================
+                                # of              
+ Poll 5              History   Votes   Convictions
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average                7.89              7.75    
+ Std. Dev.              0.89              0.93    
+ # of Voters          697               123       
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Jeff Rupley            7.70    44        5.00
+ William Gareau         8.53    13        5.75
+ Mark D. Grover         5.60    47        6.00
+ Wes Makin              7.00     2        6.00
+ Warren Kenyon          7.30    47        6.00
+ Allan Jenoff           7.55    47        6.00
+ Matt Elock             8.08    26        6.00
+ Mike Weldon            8.08     6        6.00
+ David Gosha            8.27     3        6.00
+ Mike Heffner           8.00    47        6.30
+ Steven Grimm           7.26    44        6.50    
+ Ed Schaller            7.17     3        6.50    
+ Rich Brown             6.50     1        6.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk    8.04     8        6.50
+ Michael W. Moser       8.46     6        6.75
+ David Strauss          7.60    48        7.00    
+ Steve Dickson          5.83     6        7.00
+ Steve Crow             7.00     4        7.00
+ Clint Ragsdale         7.06    47        7.00
+ Lee Somerman           7.18    10        7.00
+ Shawn Bayern           7.21     7        7.00
+ John Abbott            7.59    45        7.00
+ Michael Gemmell        7.61    33        7.00
+ Michael Green          7.62    42        7.00
+ Dylan Northrup         7.77    41        7.00
+ Antonio Collins        8.00     3        7.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi          8.04    28        7.00
+ Mark Barrucci          8.07    45        7.00
+ Greg Franks            8.08    43        7.00
+ Guillaume Lessard      8.33     6        7.00
+ Eric Harmon            8.52     6        7.00
+ Jay Waller             8.71    14        7.00
+ Andrew McKeen          8.75     4        7.00
+ Mike Evans             7.20     1        7.20
+ Dennis Steinert        8.93     6        7.20
+ Greg Barry             7.25     1        7.25
+ James Prince           8.25    18        7.25
+ David Wright           8.35    10        7.25
+ Marc Britten           8.59     4        7.25
+ Albert F. Ross         7.70    17        7.50    
+ Brent Barrett          8.23    28        7.50    
+ Mark Hullinger         8.50     5        7.50    
+ Len Rafuse             7.50     1        7.50
+ Sandeep Kumar          7.50     1        7.50
+ Dirk Christiansen      7.74    46        7.50
+ Gregg Kellogg          8.05    24        7.50
+ Chris Stanley          8.19    22        7.50
+ Doug Nadle             8.23    13        7.50
+ Rich Wajda             8.31     4        7.50
+ Randall K. Petersen    8.36    18        7.50
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta    8.40    10        7.50
+ Peter Wong             8.40    21        7.50
+ Damon Gallaty          8.50     2        7.50
+ John Lemons            8.50     4        7.50
+ Randy Lander           8.60     2        7.50
+ Time Souther           8.73    11        7.50
+ Donovan Chase          8.74     4        7.50
+ Lisa Coulter           9.08    12        7.50
+ Patrick B. Hall        7.78    17        7.75
+ Richard Mauren         8.09    12        7.80
+ Louis Amari            8.40    23        7.80
+ Mike Hopkins           8.40    47        7.80
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky    8.58     9        7.80
+ Mark MacKinnon         8.71    47        7.80
+ Brandon Browning       7.96    21        7.95
+ Jim Dawson             8.64     7        8.00    
+ Terrance L. Lewis      7.89    44        8.00    
+ Don Semmens            8.76    25        8.00    
+ Steve Fenster          7.73    45        8.00
+ Edward T. Tonai        8.00     1        8.00
+ Henry J. Cobb          8.00     1        8.00
+ Bob Grant              8.25     2        8.00
+ Rob Ditto              8.25    16        8.00
+ Wesley Jordan          8.40    47        8.00
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.     8.49    24        8.00
+ Lars Joreteg           8.63     6        8.00
+ Paul Ree               8.63    12        8.00
+ Mark Moerman           8.67     6        8.00
+ Thomas Catsburg        8.69     9        8.00
+ Chris Durie            8.82     5        8.00
+ Kerry Kilgour          8.95     2        8.00
+ Robert L. Collingworth 9.00     6        8.00
+ Philip Weiner          9.38     4        8.00
+ Travis Walter          8.76    16        8.10
+ Mike Ingbritson        8.88     4        8.15
+ Casey Miller           8.47    47        8.20
+ Shirley Hunt           8.69    14        8.30
+ David Kutchinski       8.85    15        8.30
+ Brian Tozzo            7.53    13        8.50
+ Robert P. Galloway     7.65    13        8.50
+ Dan Kimmel             7.91    47        8.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.     8.02    43        8.50
+ Phil Adams             8.06    28        8.50
+ Jason Larke            8.41    11        8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson        8.42    47        8.50
+ David McKalip          8.50     1        8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward        8.53    32        8.50
+ Ed Hopkins             8.67     6        8.50
+ Lars Ericson           8.96     5        8.50
+ Rich Vanderbilt        9.55     5        8.50
+ Lana Klier             9.58     6        8.50
+ Michael May            7.84    47        8.60
+ Rob Henderson          8.32    38        8.60
+ Jim Zimmerman          9.08     6        8.60
+ George Copsey          9.20     7        8.60
+ Kevin R. Holloway      8.95     6        8.70
+ Alex Elsberg           8.32    21        8.75
+ Kevin Sullivan         8.55     4        8.80
+ Ken Papai              8.71    28        8.90
+ John Mulcahy           9.16     5        8.90
+ Vic Forsman            9.48     5        8.90
+ Aaron J.Redd           9.14    22        9.00
+ Lloyd Tapper           9.32    19        9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan         9.42    47        9.00
+ Mike Walters           9.55     2        9.10
+ Ron Siewert            9.33     9        9.15
+ Christopher Tate       9.12     6        9.30
+ Chad Underkoffler      9.30     6        9.30
+ Dan Sias               9.60     6        9.40
+ Michael J. Loux        9.20    39        9.50
+ Mark Poli              9.53     6        9.50
+ Nick Schrock           9.08     6        9.75
+ Blaise Faint           9.38     4        9.75
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+       Results - "A Day in the Strife"
+===================================================
+                                 # of     A Day in 
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   the Strife
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  7.89              7.85   
+ Std. Dev.                0.88              0.85   
+ # of Voters            707               103      
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Aram Mirzadeh            5.00     1        5.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.50    48        5.00 
+ Mark D. Grover           5.60    48        6.00 
+ Wes Makin                6.67     3        6.00 
+ Mark Moerman             8.29     7        6.00 
+ Albert F. Ross           7.69    18        6.50   
+ Holger Klawitter         7.33     3        6.50 
+ Guillaume Lessard        8.07     7        6.50 
+ Chris Stanley            8.12    23        6.50 
+ Rob Ditto                8.15    17        6.50 
+ Rich Brown               6.75     2        7.00 
+ Dave Cook                7.00     1        7.00 
+ Michael Heckler          7.41    11        7.00 
+ Michael Green            7.60    43        7.00 
+ Jeff Rupley              7.69    45        7.00 
+ Dylan Northrup           7.75    42        7.00 
+ Mike Weldon              7.93     7        7.00 
+ Greg Franks              8.06    44        7.00 
+ Peter Wong               8.34    22        7.00 
+ Charles Bryant           7.38     2        7.25 
+ Michael Gemmell          7.60    34        7.25 
+ Patrick B. Hall          7.75    18        7.25 
+ James Prince             8.21    19        7.40 
+ Steven Grimm             7.26    45        7.50   
+ John Abbott              7.60    47        7.50   
+ Steve Fenster            7.73    46        7.50 
+ Lou Wainwright           8.32    34        7.50 
+ Marc Britten             8.37     5        7.50 
+ Casey Miller             8.45    48        7.50 
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.47    10        7.50 
+ Ed Hopkins               8.50     7        7.50 
+ Jim Dawson               8.64     7        7.50 
+ David R. Sanderson       7.30    46        7.60 
+ Dennis Steinert          8.74     7        7.60 
+ Antonio Collins          7.93     4        7.70 
+ Serge De La Sablonniere  7.60     2        7.75 
+ Kendall Lloyd            7.75     1        7.75 
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.89    44        7.75 
+ Mike Heffner             8.00    48        7.75 
+ Brent Barrett            8.23    28        7.75 
+ Alex Elsberg             8.30    22        7.75 
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.32    37        7.75 
+ Michael W. Moser         8.36     7        7.75 
+ Victor Murrell           8.39     7        7.75 
+ Mike Walters             8.95     3        7.75 
+ Penny Olivier            8.30     3        7.80 
+ Michael Lee              8.41    46        7.80 
+ Travis Walter            8.70    17        7.80 
+ Jason I. Gonding         8.39    12        7.90 
+ Mark Hullinger           8.54     6        8.00   
+ Ed Schaller              7.17     3        8.00 
+ Warren Kenyon            7.31    48        8.00 
+ Brandon Browning         7.96    22        8.00 
+ Bill Crouch              8.00     1        8.00 
+ Donald Carlson           8.00     1        8.00 
+ Chuck Lavazzi            8.03    29        8.00 
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.03     9        8.00 
+ Doug Nadle               8.21    14        8.00 
+ David McKalip            8.25     2        8.00 
+ Dan Siemens              8.30    47        8.00 
+ Martin Coghlan           8.36    47        8.00 
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.63    10        8.00 
+ Shirley Hunt             8.64    15        8.00 
+ Kevin R. Holloway        8.81     7        8.00 
+ Lisa Coulter             9.00    13        8.00 
+ Rich Vanderbilt          9.29     6        8.00 
+ Dale Brouwer             7.99    46        8.20 
+ Rob Henderson            8.32    39        8.20 
+ Mike Hopkins             8.40    48        8.20 
+ Joe Reiss                9.08    12        8.20 
+ David Wright             8.34    11        8.25 
+ Louis Amari              8.40    24        8.30 
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.36    19        8.40 
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.       8.48    25        8.40 
+ Ken Papai                8.70    29        8.40 
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.71    48        8.40 
+ Darin Stephenson         9.11     7        8.40 
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.79     4        8.50   
+ Matthew Murray           8.04    48        8.50 
+ Edward T. Tonai          8.25     2        8.50 
+ Christian G. Schrock     8.50     1        8.50 
+ Kevin Sullivan           8.54     5        8.50 
+ Chris Aylott             8.62    38        8.50 
+ Paul Ree                 8.62    13        8.50 
+ Jay Waller               8.69    15        8.50 
+ George Copsey            9.12     8        8.50 
+ Aaron J.Redd             9.13    23        8.50 
+ Michael J. Loux          9.18    40        8.50 
+ Don Semmens              8.76    25        8.75 
+ Lee Somerman             7.33    11        8.80 
+ Dan Kimmel               7.93    48        8.80 
+ Jim Zimmerman            9.04     7        8.80 
+ Ron Siewert              9.29    10        8.85 
+ David Strauss            7.60    48        9.00 
+ Wesley Jordan            8.41    48        9.00 
+ John Lemons              8.60     5        9.00 
+ Chris Durie              8.85     6        9.00 
+ Philip Weiner            9.30     5        9.00 
+ Mark Poli                9.45     7        9.00 
+ Lana Klier               9.50     7        9.00 
+ Christopher Tate         9.14     7        9.30 
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.06    44        9.50 
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.36     7        9.70 
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+    Results - "Passing Through Gethsemane"
+==========================================================
+                                # of    Passing Through
+ Poll 5               History   Votes     Gethsemane
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 7.90                8.38
+ Std. Dev.               0.88                0.99
+ # of Voters           723                 122
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ Rob Tullah              4.00     1          4.00
+ Iain Bertram            7.57     7          4.00
+ Mark D. Grover          5.59    49          5.00
+ Andree Fontenot         6.00     1          6.00
+ George Copsey           8.87     9          6.90
+ Len Rafuse              7.00     3          7.00
+ Tom Spindler            7.00     1          7.00
+ Doug Nadle              8.13    15          7.00
+ William Gareau          8.36    15          7.00
+ Philip Weiner           8.92     6          7.00
+ Martin Coghlan          8.34    48          7.20
+ Travis Walter           8.62    18          7.20
+ Michael Gemmell         7.59    35          7.25
+ Rich Brown              6.93     3          7.30
+ Wes Makin               6.85     4          7.40
+ Lee Somerman            7.34    12          7.50
+ Allan Jenoff            7.50    49          7.50
+ Albert F. Ross          7.69    18          7.50
+ Mike Heffner            7.99    49          7.50
+ Jason Larke             8.31    13          7.50
+ Brian Tozzo             7.55    14          7.70
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta     8.23    12          7.75
+ Patrick B. Hall         7.75    19          7.80
+ Karl Griffin            7.40     5          8.00
+ Scott Ichniowski        7.57    48          8.00
+ John Abbott             7.60    47          8.00
+ Michael Green           7.61    44          8.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.70    46          8.00
+ Kendall Lloyd           7.88     2          8.00
+ Dale Brouwer            7.99    47          8.00
+ Matthew Murray          8.04    49          8.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.      8.09    46          8.00
+ Brent Barrett           8.22    29          8.00
+ Tom Hudson              8.30     3          8.00
+ Marc Britten            8.31     6          8.00
+ Jim Dawson              8.56     8          8.00
+ Jay Mohney              8.73    10          8.00
+ Jim Zimmerman           8.91     8          8.00
+ Sandeep Kumar           7.87     3          8.10
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.89    45          8.10
+ Guillaume Lessard       8.08     8          8.10
+ Elio M. Garcia Jr.      8.47    26          8.10
+ Serge De La Sablonniere 7.80     3          8.20
+ Steven Grimm            7.28    45          8.25
+ Phil Adams              8.06    30          8.25
+ David McKalip           8.25     3          8.25
+ David Wright            8.33    12          8.25
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.52    34          8.25
+ James Prince            8.21    20          8.30
+ Adam Sanford            8.77     4          8.40
+ Jason Christofilos      6.95     3          8.50
+ Steve Fenster           7.74    47          8.50
+ Dirk Christiansen       7.76    48          8.50
+ Dan Kimmel              7.94    49          8.50
+ Evan J. Williams        8.05    11          8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.07    26          8.50
+ Mark Barrucci           8.07    47          8.50
+ Chris Stanley           8.13    24          8.50
+ Donald Carlson          8.25     2          8.50
+ Edward T. Tonai         8.33     3          8.50
+ Peter Wong              8.35    23          8.50
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.37    20          8.50
+ Angela Schmuecker       8.50     1          8.50
+ Brian De Young          8.50     1          8.50
+ Claudia Stephens        8.50     1          8.50
+ John Lemons             8.58     6          8.50
+ John Jurcevic           8.74    49          8.50
+ Lars Ericson            8.76     7          8.50
+ Louis Amari             8.40    25          8.60
+ Jason I. Gonding        8.41    13          8.60
+ Shirley Hunt            8.64    16          8.60
+ Ken Papai               8.70    30          8.60
+ Kevin R. Holloway       8.80     8          8.70
+ Mark Hullinger          8.54     6          8.75
+ Paul Ree                8.63    14          8.75
+ Kerry Kilgour           8.79     4          8.75
+ Mike Walters            8.90     4          8.75
+ Ed Hopkins              8.54     8          8.80
+ Ron Siewert             9.24    11          8.80
+ Lana Klier              9.41     8          8.80
+ Brandon Browning        8.00    23          8.85
+ Marc Roussel            8.85     1          8.85
+ Don Feltham             8.41     7          8.90
+ Mike Ingbritson         8.73     6          8.95
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.09    49          9.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.35    49          9.00
+ David Strauss           7.63    49          9.00
+ Richard Mauren          8.11    14          9.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais      8.13     4          9.00
+ Rob Ditto               8.19    18          9.00
+ Mark Moerman            8.38     8          9.00
+ Chris Neeland           8.39     8          9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson         8.42    49          9.00
+ Wesley Jordan           8.42    49          9.00
+ Michael W. Moser        8.44     8          9.00
+ Lars Joreteg            8.68     8          9.00
+ Jay Waller              8.71    16          9.00
+ Bertha Adamson          9.00     1          9.00
+ Aaron J.Redd            9.13    24          9.00
+ Blaise Faint            9.30     5          9.00
+ John Mulcahy            9.14     7          9.04
+ Ron Peterson            8.64    15          9.10
+ David Gosha             8.44     5          9.20
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky     8.54    11          9.20
+ Chris Durie             8.90     7          9.20
+ Rich Wajda              8.50     5          9.25
+ Rob Henderson           8.34    40          9.30
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.17    10          9.40
+ Holger Klawitter        7.88     4          9.50
+ Dean Parton             8.23    49          9.50
+ Larry Rosenblum         8.25    10          9.50
+ Alex Elsberg            8.35    23          9.50
+ Mike Hopkins            8.42    49          9.50
+ Don Semmens             8.79    26          9.50
+ Dan Sias                9.61     8          9.50
+ Joe Reiss               9.13    13          9.70
+ Mark Stackpole          7.97    48          9.75
+ Rich Vanderbilt         9.36     7          9.75
+ Mark Poli               9.49     8          9.75
+ Matthew Hunter          8.74     7          9.80
+ Chad Underkoffler       9.41     8          9.80
+ Kirk Fraggstad         10.00     1         10.00
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+       Results - "Voices of Authority"
+=================================================
+                                # of    Voices of
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   Authority
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 7.90             8.20
+ Std. Dev.               0.88             0.97
+ # of Voters           767               96
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Alan Thiesen            5.00     1       5.00
+ Aaron Fuegi             7.50     5       5.00
+ Rob Milroy              6.00     1       6.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.47    50       6.00
+ Lee Somerman            7.28    13       6.50
+ James Prince            8.14    21       6.75
+ Brad Vereen             7.00     1       7.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.34    50       7.00
+ Michael Green           7.60    45       7.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.68    47       7.00
+ Michael May             7.82    50       7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.87    46       7.00
+ Greg Franks             8.03    45       7.00
+ Mark Hullinger          8.32     7       7.00
+ Dan Siemens             8.27    49       7.40
+ Rich Brown              7.08     4       7.50
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.10    50       7.50
+ Steven Grimm            7.28    46       7.50
+ John Abbott             7.59    48       7.50
+ Dave Frelinger          7.67     3       7.50
+ Patrick B. Hall         7.74    20       7.50
+ Jason Larke             8.25    14       7.50
+ Matthew Hunter          8.59     8       7.50
+ Ken Papai               8.66    31       7.70
+ C J Silverio            7.75     1       7.75
+ John Jurcevic           8.72    50       7.75
+ Bruce Oates             7.80     1       7.80
+ Manish Harpalani        7.80     1       7.80
+ Michael Gemmell         7.60    36       8.00
+ Steve Fenster           7.75    48       8.00
+ Chris Swanson           7.80     5       8.00
+ Mike Weldon             7.89     9       8.00
+ Steve Hastings          8.00     1       8.00
+ Matthew Murray          8.04    50       8.00
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.06    27       8.00
+ Mark Barrucci           8.07    48       8.00
+ Keith Gill              8.08     5       8.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais      8.10     5       8.00
+ Brent Barrett           8.22    30       8.00
+ Lou Wainwright          8.25    36       8.00
+ Marcelle Gibson         8.41    50       8.00
+ Thomas Catsburg         8.57    11       8.00
+ Joe Reiss               9.06    14       8.10
+ Dennis Steinert         8.61     9       8.20
+ Lana Klier              9.28     9       8.20
+ Brandon Browning        8.01    24       8.25
+ Alex Elsberg            8.34    24       8.25
+ Rich Wajda              8.46     6       8.25
+ Mike McDonald           8.50     2       8.25
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.51    35       8.25
+ Shirley Hunt            8.62    17       8.30
+ Doug Nadle              8.15    16       8.40
+ Ray Quellette           8.40     1       8.40
+ Tom McLean              8.40     1       8.40
+ Jim Zimmerman           8.86     9       8.40
+ Malik Paul Coates       8.02    46       8.50
+ Sandeep Kumar           8.02     4       8.50
+ Bob Grant               8.15     5       8.50
+ Mike Hopkins            8.42    50       8.50
+ Christine Prince        8.50     1       8.50
+ John Mordosky           8.50     1       8.50
+ Ron Peterson            8.63    16       8.50
+ Lars Joreteg            8.66     9       8.50
+ Jay Waller              8.70    17       8.50
+ Don Semmens             8.78    27       8.50
+ Nick Schrock            8.94     8       8.50
+ Jeff Schultz            9.08     3       8.50
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.38    21       8.60
+ Vic Forsman             9.18     7       8.60
+ Joel E. Natt            8.21    15       8.90
+ Louis Amari             8.42    26       8.90
+ Andree Fontenot         7.50     2       9.00
+ Mark Moerman            8.44     9       9.00
+ Mike Walters            8.92     5       9.00
+ Mark Hamburg            9.00     1       9.00
+ Michael J. Loux         9.19    42       9.00
+ Travis Walter           8.64    19       9.02
+ Serge De La Sablonniere 8.13     4       9.10
+ Kerry Kilgour           8.89     6       9.20
+ Rob Henderson           8.36    41       9.20
+ Chad Underkoffler       9.39     9       9.20
+ Mike Ingbritson         8.81     7       9.25
+ Mike Kozicki            9.25     1       9.25
+ Jay Mohney              8.78    11       9.33
+ Ron Siewert             9.26    12       9.45
+ Jonathan Frain          7.76    50       9.50
+ Wesley Jordan           8.44    50       9.50
+ Robert Armstrong        8.75     2       9.50
+ Chris Durie             8.98     8       9.50
+ David Kennedy           9.00     2       9.50
+ Blaise Faint            9.33     6       9.50
+ Isaac Weiner            9.50     1       9.50
+ David Gosha             8.63     6       9.55
+ Dan Sias                9.62     9       9.65
+ Terry Quake             9.70     1       9.70
+ Mark Poli               9.52     9       9.75
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+       Results - "Dust to Dust"
+================================================
+                                 # of     Dust
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   to Dust
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                  7.88            8.62  
+ Std. Dev.                0.87            0.83  
+ # of Voters            795             125     
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Peter Wong               8.21    25      5.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.61    51      6.00
+ Bruce Oates              7.68     3      6.50
+ Mark Hullinger           7.93     9      7.00  
+ Gary P. Fontenot         7.00     1      7.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.67    48      7.00
+ Bob Grant                8.00     6      7.25
+ John Evans               7.68    47      7.40
+ Beverly Harvey           7.50     1      7.50
+ David Matchett           7.50     1      7.50
+ Mike Heffner             7.97    51      7.50
+ Greg Franks              8.02    46      7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.87    47      7.75
+ Steve Fenster            7.75    49      7.80
+ Joel E. Natt             8.18    16      7.80
+ Mike McDonald            8.27     3      7.80
+ Casey Miller             8.39    51      7.80
+ Patrick B. Hall          7.75    21      7.85
+ Serge De La Sablonniere  8.07     5      7.85
+ Rob Milroy               6.95     2      7.90
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.36    22      7.90
+ Brian Tozzo              7.57    15      7.97
+ Lee Somerman             7.33    14      8.00
+ Mark Baker               7.50     2      8.00
+ Andree Fontenot          7.67     3      8.00
+ Iain Bertram             7.75    12      8.00
+ Alan Thiesen             8.00     1      8.00
+ Mike Hill                8.00     1      8.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.28    12      8.00
+ William Gareau           8.39    17      8.00
+ Jay Waller               8.66    18      8.00
+ Dave Hill                7.47    40      8.10
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.30    40      8.10
+ Travis Walter            8.62    20      8.15
+ Neal Klein               7.92     6      8.25
+ Matthew Murray           8.04    51      8.25
+ Jay Mohney               8.74    12      8.25
+ Antonio Collins          8.16     8      8.30
+ Michael Gemmell          7.62    37      8.40
+ Steven Grimm             7.30    48      8.50  
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.12    51      8.50
+ Allan Jenoff             7.49    51      8.50
+ Albert F. Ross           7.73    20      8.50
+ Chris Swanson            7.92     6      8.50
+ Mike Weldon              7.95    10      8.50
+ Holger Klawitter         8.00     5      8.50
+ Len Rafuse               8.04    10      8.50
+ Doug Nadle               8.17    17      8.50
+ Scott Dailey             8.20     6      8.50
+ David Wright             8.30    14      8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson          8.42    51      8.50
+ Kevin Borchers           8.50     1      8.50
+ Peter Houghton           8.50     1      8.50
+ John Lemons              8.57     7      8.50
+ Paul Ree                 8.63    16      8.50
+ Ken Papai                8.66    32      8.50
+ Philip Weiner            8.86     7      8.50
+ Isaac Weiner             9.00     2      8.50
+ Vic Forsman              9.09     8      8.50
+ Chris Stanley            8.15    26      8.60
+ James Prince             8.16    22      8.60
+ Dale Whitehouse          8.44    32      8.65
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.16     5      8.70
+ Louis Amari              8.43    27      8.70
+ Terry Quake              9.20     2      8.70
+ Justin Garten            7.63     2      8.75
+ Jonathan Frain           7.78    51      8.75
+ Brent Barrett            8.23    31      8.75
+ Rich Wajda               8.50     7      8.75
+ Nick Schrock             8.92     9      8.75
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.71    51      8.80
+ Tad Rogers               8.75     2      8.80
+ Chris Durie              8.96     9      8.80
+ Jeff Schultz             9.01     4      8.80
+ Dan Kimmel               7.98    51      8.90
+ Brandon Browning         8.05    25      8.95
+ John Abbott              7.62    50      9.00  
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.69     7      9.00  
+ Renee DeYoung            8.50     2      9.00  
+ Robert P. Galloway       7.53    17      9.00
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.10    28      9.00
+ Dean Paron               8.25    51      9.00
+ Christian Mogensen       8.26    22      9.00
+ Jason Larke              8.30    15      9.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.37    25      9.00
+ C J Silverio             8.38     2      9.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.43    51      9.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.53    13      9.00
+ John Jurcevic            8.73    51      9.00
+ Lana Klier               9.25    10      9.00
+ Michael May              7.84    51      9.20
+ Martin Coghlan           8.38    50      9.20
+ Rob Henderson            8.38    42      9.20
+ Jason I. Gonding         8.49    15      9.20
+ Ron Peterson             8.66    17      9.20
+ Rich Brown               7.51     5      9.25
+ Don Feltham              8.40     9      9.25
+ Ron Siewert              9.26    13      9.30
+ Wes Makin                7.68     5      9.40
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.53    36      9.40
+ Sheldon Smith            9.40     1      9.40
+ Mark Poli                9.51    10      9.40
+ Dan Sias                 9.60    10      9.40
+ Greg Francis             8.87     6      9.50  
+ Mark Barrucci            8.10    49      9.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.11    49      9.50
+ Guillaume Lessard        8.23     9      9.50
+ Lou Wainwright           8.29    37      9.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.33     6      9.50
+ Eric Harmon              8.53    10      9.50
+ Mark Moerman             8.55    10      9.50
+ Don Semmens              8.80    28      9.50
+ Mike Walters             9.02     6      9.50
+ Joe Reiss                9.09    15      9.50
+ Michael J. Loux          9.20    43      9.50
+ Stephen Vale             9.77     3      9.50
+ Wesley Jordan            8.47    51      9.75
+ Ed Hopkins               8.51    10      9.80
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.43    10      9.85
+ Lars Joreteg             8.78    10      9.90
+ Warren Kenyon            7.39    51     10.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.15    20     10.00
+ Jarno Kokko              8.79    41     10.00
+ David Gosha              8.82     7     10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.44    49     10.00
diff --git a/p5/051 b/p5/051
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+       Results - "Exogenesis"
+==================================================
+                                # of              
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   Exogenesis
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 7.91              7.34   
+ Std. Dev.               0.88              1.01   
+ # of Voters           803               102      
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Peter Houghton          6.25     2        4.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.42    52        4.00
+ Spencer Coker           5.00     1        5.00
+ Paula Berinstein        6.50     2        5.00
+ Guy Ravad               6.00     1        6.00
+ Bruce Oates             7.26     4        6.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.63    49        6.00
+ Mike Weldon             7.77    11        6.00
+ Scott Dailey            7.89     7        6.00
+ Mike Hopkins            8.38    52        6.00
+ Mark Hullinger          8.04    10        6.10   
+ Neal Klein              7.68     7        6.25
+ Taneli Hirshimaki       6.50     1        6.50
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.11    52        6.50
+ C J Silverio            7.75     3        6.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.84    48        6.50
+ William Gareau          8.29    18        6.50
+ Jeff Schultz            8.51     5        6.50
+ Rob Ditto               8.08    21        6.67
+ Michael Gemmell         7.60    38        6.75
+ Dennis Steinert         8.44    10        6.90
+ Steven Grimm            7.34    49        7.00   
+ Albert F. Ross          7.76    22        7.00   
+ Jim Dawson              8.59    11        7.00   
+ Alan Thiesen            6.67     3        7.00
+ Steve Luminati          6.82    34        7.00
+ Michael Green           7.57    47        7.00
+ Steve Fenster           7.74    50        7.00
+ Jonathan Frain          7.76    52        7.00
+ Chris Swanson           7.79     7        7.00
+ Serge De La Sablonniere 7.89     6        7.00
+ Greg Franks             8.00    47        7.00
+ Matthew Murray          8.02    52        7.00
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.06    29        7.00
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta     8.18    15        7.00
+ Jason Larke             8.22    16        7.00
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.30    23        7.00
+ Rich Wajda              8.31     8        7.00
+ Isaac Weiner            8.33     3        7.00
+ John Lemons             8.38     8        7.00
+ Mark Moerman            8.41    11        7.00
+ David Gosha             8.59     8        7.00
+ Jay Mohney              8.60    13        7.00
+ Philip Weiner           8.63     8        7.00
+ Aaron J. Hedding        8.69     4        7.00
+ John Jurcevic           8.70    52        7.00
+ Nick Schrock            8.73    10        7.00
+ Travis Walter           8.54    21        7.04
+ Lee Somerman            7.32    15        7.20
+ Mike Hill               7.60     2        7.20
+ Brandon Browning        8.02    26        7.20
+ Mike Walters            8.76     7        7.20
+ Dave Hill               7.46    41        7.25
+ Kendall Lloyd           7.67     3        7.25
+ Dave Bourne             7.40     1        7.40
+ John Abbott             7.62    50        7.50
+ Iain Bertram            7.73    13        7.50
+ Patrick B. Hall         7.73    22        7.50
+ Glenn E. Burnett        7.75     2        7.50
+ Andree Fontenot         8.07    52        7.50
+ Peter Wong              8.18    26        7.50
+ David Wright            8.25    15        7.50
+ Thomas Catsburg         8.52    13        7.50
+ David Kennedy           8.63     4        7.50
+ Kerry Kilgour           8.69     7        7.50
+ Chad Underkoffler       9.28    11        7.70
+ Alex Elsberg            8.35    26        7.75
+ John Mulcahy            9.14    10        7.78
+ Wes Makin               7.84     7        7.80
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.25    13        7.80
+ Keith Gill              8.11     7        7.85
+ Shirley Hunt            8.55    19        7.90
+ Renee DeYoung           8.92     3        8.00   
+ Warren Kenyon           7.40    52        8.00
+ Brent Barrett           8.23    32        8.00
+ Kevin Borchers          8.25     2        8.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais      8.29     7        8.00
+ Rob Henderson           8.37    43        8.00
+ Kevin Riant             8.50     2        8.00
+ Paul Ree                8.59    17        8.00
+ Ron Peterson            8.63    18        8.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky     8.50    14        8.10
+ Joe Reiss               9.03    16        8.20
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.53    37        8.25
+ Mike Ingbritson         8.76     9        8.25
+ Mark P Suozzi           8.55    22        8.30
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.70    52        8.30
+ Lars Joreteg            8.75    11        8.40
+ Holger Klawitter        8.08     6        8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson         8.42    52        8.50
+ Wesley Jordan           8.47    52        8.50
+ Aaron J. Redd           8.50    48        8.50
+ Ed Hopkins              8.51    11        8.50
+ Don Semmens             8.83    30        8.75   
+ Ron Siewert             9.22    14        8.75
+ Greg Francis            8.87     6        8.80
+ Chris Durie             8.94    10        8.80
+ Michael J. Loux         9.19    44        8.80
+ Blaise Faint            9.31     8        9.00
+ Jim Zimmerman           8.93    11        9.10
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.44    50        9.70
+ Matthew Hunter          8.74     9       10.00
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+       Results - "Messages From Earth"
+==================================================
+                                # of     Messages 
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   From Earth
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 7.92              9.06   
+ Std. Dev.               0.89              0.75   
+ # of Voters           826               137      
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Mike Whitney            6.79    12        6.00
+ Mark D. Grover          5.62    53        7.00
+ Alan Thiesen            6.75     4        7.00
+ Beth Bryant             7.00     1        7.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.62    50        7.00
+ Patrick Polleyfeys      7.33     3        7.50
+ George Zavaliagkos      7.64    48        7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.83    49        7.50
+ Phil Adams              7.97    34        7.50
+ Guillaume Lessard       8.16    10        7.50
+ Patrick B. Hall         7.74    23        7.85
+ Steve Luminati          6.86    35        8.00
+ Paula Berinstein        7.00     3        8.00
+ Chris Bryant            7.00     2        8.00
+ David Matchett          7.17     3        8.00
+ Michael Gemmell         7.61    39        8.00
+ Len Rafuse              8.00    12        8.20
+ Ryan Dean               7.59     6        8.50
+ Chris Swanson           7.88     8        8.50
+ Dave Frelinger          7.88     4        8.50
+ Scott Dailey            7.96     8        8.50
+ Dan Kimmel              8.00    53        8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.07    30        8.50
+ Eric Harmon             8.33    12        8.50
+ Marcelle Gibson         8.42    53        8.50
+ Philip Weiner           8.61     9        8.50
+ John Jurcevic           8.69    53        8.50
+ Taneli Hirshimaki       7.60     2        8.70
+ Sandeep Kumar           8.46     7        8.70
+ Dave Hill               7.49    42        8.75
+ Bruce Oates             7.56     5        8.75
+ Brandon Browning        8.04    27        8.75
+ Jeff Barnes             8.18     7        8.75
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta     8.22    16        8.75
+ Gary Litchfield         8.75     1        8.75
+ Michael Bartz           8.75     1        8.75
+ Wes Makin               7.96     8        8.80
+ Serge De La Sablonniere 8.02     7        8.80
+ Casey Miller            8.37    53        8.80
+ Louis Amari             8.45    29        8.90
+ Mike Turton             8.90     1        8.90
+ Brian Tozzo             7.48    17        8.95
+ Brent Barrett           8.25    33        8.95
+ John Abbott             7.65    52        9.00   
+ Greg Franks             8.03    49        9.00   
+ Steven Grimm            7.38    50        9.00   
+ Albert F. Ross          7.83    23        9.00   
+ Mark Hullinger          8.21    11        9.00   
+ Spencer Coker           7.00     2        9.00
+ Lee Somerman            7.43    16        9.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.43    53        9.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.45    53        9.00
+ John Evans              7.73    49        9.00
+ Steve Fenster           7.76    51        9.00
+ Iain Bertram            7.82    14        9.00
+ Mike Weldon             7.88    12        9.00
+ Rob Milroy              7.98     4        9.00
+ Holger Klawitter        8.21     7        9.00
+ Peter Wong              8.21    27        9.00
+ Kevin Borchers          8.50     3        9.00
+ Matthew Hunter          8.77    10        9.00
+ Mitchell Kaplan         8.93     3        9.00
+ Bill Hayes              9.00     1        9.00
+ David Charlap           9.00     1        9.00
+ Yi-Mei Chng             9.00     1        9.00
+ Kerry Kilgour           8.83     9        9.10   
+ James Prince            8.16    24        9.10
+ Jeff Schultz            8.61     6        9.10
+ George Copsey           8.88    13        9.10
+ Peter Houghton          7.23     3        9.20
+ Chris Stanley           8.17    28        9.20
+ Keith Gill              8.25     8        9.20
+ Lou Wainwright          8.29    39        9.20
+ Ed Hopkins              8.57    12        9.20
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.71    53        9.20
+ Blaise Faint            9.30     9        9.20
+ Matthew Murray          8.04    53        9.25
+ Mike Kozicki            8.25     4        9.25
+ Alex Elsberg            8.39    27        9.25
+ Greg Francis            8.92     7        9.25
+ Vic Forsman             9.11     9        9.25
+ Travis Walter           8.57    22        9.29
+ Allan Sheltra           8.87    11        9.30
+ Ron Peterson            8.67    19        9.40
+ Joel E. Natt            8.29    18        9.45
+ John Mulcahy            9.17    11        9.45
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.16    53        9.50
+ Beverly Harvey          7.33     3        9.50
+ Neal Klein              7.91     8        9.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.      8.10    51        9.50
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.35    24        9.50
+ Mike Hopkins            8.41    53        9.50
+ Mark Moerman            8.50    12        9.50
+ Paul Ree                8.64    18        9.50
+ Nick Schrock            8.80    11        9.50
+ Mike Walters            8.85     8        9.50
+ Chris Durie             8.99    11        9.50
+ Dan Sias                9.59    11        9.50
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky     8.57    15        9.60
+ Shirley Hunt            8.61    20        9.60
+ Terry Quake             9.13     4        9.60
+ Wesley Jordan           8.49    53        9.65
+ Jason Larke             8.31    17        9.70
+ Lars Joreteg            8.83    12        9.70
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.45    51        9.70
+ Gene Forfar             9.85     2        9.70
+ Jim Dawson              8.67    12        9.75   
+ Renee DeYoung           9.06     4        9.75   
+ Don Semmens             8.86    31        9.75   
+ Rob Ditto               8.16    22        9.75
+ Dean Paron              8.27    53        9.75
+ Pierre Bourbonnais      8.47     8        9.75
+ Rich Wajda              8.47     9        9.75
+ Tim Skirvin             8.47     8        9.75
+ Thomas Catsburg         8.61    14        9.75
+ Jay Mohney              8.68    14        9.75
+ Isaac Weiner            8.69     4        9.75
+ Laurie M. Jacobs        8.70    14        9.75
+ David Gosha             8.72     9        9.75
+ Stanley Glavoc          9.75     1        9.75
+ Tony Kimmet             9.75     1        9.75
+ Rob Henderson           8.41    44        9.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.56    38        9.80
+ Chad Underkoffler       9.32    12        9.80
+ Colin O'Connell         9.80     1        9.80
+ Justin Hart             9.80     1        9.80
+ Ron Siewert             9.27    15        9.85
+ Jim Zimmerman           9.01    12        9.90
+ Martin Coghlan          8.35    52        9.95
+ Jonathan Frain          7.81    53       10.00
+ Mark Barrucci           8.12    51       10.00
+ David Kennedy           8.18    14       10.00
+ Jarno Kokko             8.81    43       10.00
+ Michael J. Loux         9.21    45       10.00
+ Lana Klier              9.32    11       10.00
+ Colin Glassey          10.00     1       10.00
+ John Kallen            10.00     1       10.00
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+ Results - "Point of No Return"
+==================================================
+                              # of    Point of
+ Poll 5             History   Votes   No Return
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average               7.92             9.31
+ Std. Dev.             0.89             0.63
+ # of Voters         854              149
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Kyle Sutkaitis        6.78     8       6.75
+ Mark D. Grover        5.65    54       7.00
+ Fred Owens            7.00     2       7.50
+ Doug Powers           6.17    54       8.00
+ David Matchett        7.38     4       8.00
+ Patrick Polleyfeys    7.50     4       8.00
+ Michael Green         7.58    48       8.00
+ Jeff Rupley           7.63    51       8.00
+ John Abbott           7.65    52       8.00
+ Dave Bourne           7.93     3       8.00
+ Patrick B. Hall       7.75    24       8.10
+ Martin Coghlan        8.34    53       8.20
+ Paula Berinstein      7.33     4       8.30
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.85    50       8.50
+ John Aegard           7.87    44       8.50
+ Rob Ditto             8.17    23       8.50
+ David Wright          8.34    17       8.50
+ Mike Hopkins          8.41    54       8.50
+ Greg Francis          8.87     8       8.50
+ Brian Tozzo           7.54    18       8.65
+ Len Rafuse            8.05    13       8.70
+ Colin O'Connell       9.25     2       8.70
+ Yi-Mei Chng           8.88     2       8.75
+ Justin Hart           9.28     2       8.76
+ Scott Dailey          8.06     9       8.80
+ Larry W. Virden       7.65     8       8.90
+ Clint Ragsdale        7.19    54       9.00
+ Allan Jenoff          7.48    54       9.00
+ Sandra Bruckner       7.58    33       9.00
+ Michael Gemmell       7.65    40       9.00
+ Ryan Dean             7.79     7       9.00
+ Jeff Jonsson          8.02    14       9.00
+ Bob Grant             8.06     9       9.00
+ Rob Milroy            8.18     5       9.00
+ Joel Gill             8.19     8       9.00
+ Christian Mogensen    8.32    24       9.00
+ Jason Larke           8.34    18       9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson       8.43    54       9.00
+ Arturo Magidin        8.50     2       9.00
+ Sandeep Kumar         8.53     8       9.00
+ Philip Weiner         8.65    10       9.00
+ Jeff Schultz          8.66     7       9.00
+ Ron Peterson          8.68    20       9.00
+ Patrick Flanagan      9.00     1       9.00
+ Keven S. Barrow       9.38     2       9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.44    52       9.00
+ Marc Roussel          8.90     3       9.05
+ Keith Gill            8.34     9       9.10
+ Ken Papai             8.64    35       9.10
+ Bruce Oates           7.82     6       9.15
+ Taneli Hirshimaki     8.13     3       9.20
+ Brian Bresnahan       8.40     3       9.20
+ Ed Hopkins            8.62    13       9.20
+ Jarno Kokko           8.82    44       9.20
+ George Copsey         8.90    14       9.20
+ Jonathan Frain        7.83    54       9.25
+ Beth Bryant           8.13     2       9.25
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta   8.28    17       9.25
+ Louis Amari           8.48    30       9.25
+ Rich Wajda            8.55    10       9.25
+ John Jurcevic         8.70    54       9.25
+ Lee Somerman          7.54    17       9.30
+ Randall K. Petersen   8.39    25       9.30
+ Eric Harmon           8.40    13       9.30
+ Jay Waller            8.70    21       9.30
+ Gary Litchfield       9.02     2       9.30
+ Gary Maxwell          9.30     1       9.30
+ Don Feltham           8.53    11       9.35
+ Chris Stanley         8.22    29       9.40
+ Steven Grimm          7.38    50       9.50
+ Albert F. Ross        7.83    23       9.50
+ Greg Franks           8.05    49       9.50
+ Gregg Kellogg         8.12    31       9.50
+ Mike Hill             8.23     4       9.50
+ Brent Barrett         8.28    34       9.50
+ Holger Klawitter      8.38     8       9.50
+ Casey Miller          8.39    54       9.50
+ Alex Elsberg          8.41    28       9.50
+ Dan Lannom            8.51    13       9.50
+ Wesley Jordan         8.51    54       9.50
+ Jim Dawson            8.67    12       9.50
+ Annemarie Taylor      8.74     4       9.50
+ Kerry Kilgour         8.83     9       9.50
+ Matthew Hunter        8.84    11       9.50
+ Christine Prince      9.00     2       9.50
+ Deborah Heuser        9.00     2       9.50
+ Chris Durie           9.03    12       9.50
+ Mark Asdoorian        9.04     5       9.50
+ Renee DeYoung         9.06     4       9.50
+ Mitchell Kaplan       9.08     4       9.50
+ Ron Siewert           9.28    16       9.50
+ David Brown           9.50     1       9.50
+ John M. Novak         9.50     1       9.50
+ Mark MacKinnon        8.73    54       9.60
+ Edward Lee            8.80     2       9.60
+ Blaise Faint          9.33    10       9.60
+ Ben Breech            9.60     1       9.60
+ Tony Kimmet           9.68     2       9.60
+ Mike McDonald         8.72     5       9.66
+ Shirley Hunt          8.66    21       9.70
+ Chad Underkoffler     9.35    13       9.70
+ Beverly Harvey        7.94     4       9.75
+ Matthew Murray        8.07    54       9.75
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.    8.13    52       9.75
+ Wes Makin             8.16     9       9.75
+ James Prince          8.23    25       9.75
+ Michael W. Moser      8.58    13       9.75
+ Paul Ree              8.70    19       9.75
+ Nick Schrock          8.77    12       9.75
+ Don Semmens           8.86    31       9.75
+ Michael Bartz         9.25     2       9.75
+ Steve Fenster         7.80    52       9.80
+ Lars Joreteg          8.90    13       9.80
+ Jim Zimmerman         9.05    13       9.80
+ Joe Reiss             9.10    18       9.80
+ Tom Woodfin           9.80     1       9.80
+ Mike Walters          8.96     9       9.85
+ Travis Walter         8.63    23       9.89
+ Dean Paron            8.30    54       9.90
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.59    39       9.90
+ Mike Ingbritson       8.90    11       9.90
+ Tad Rogers            9.30     4       9.90
+ William Gareau        8.42    20       9.95
+ Tim Skirvin           8.63     9       9.95
+ Terry Quake           9.29     5       9.95
+ Steve Luminati        7.03    37      10.00
+ Warren Kenyon         7.48    54      10.00
+ Peter Houghton        7.93     4      10.00
+ Chris Bryant          8.00     3      10.00
+ Spencer Coker         8.00     3      10.00
+ Josh Bluestein        8.09    54      10.00
+ Brandon Browning      8.11    28      10.00
+ Neal Klein            8.14     9      10.00
+ Mark Barrucci         8.15    52      10.00
+ Mark Hullinger        8.21    11      10.00
+ John Stanton          8.22     9      10.00
+ Peter Wong            8.28    28      10.00
+ Guillaume Lessard     8.33    11      10.00
+ Mark Moerman          8.62    13      10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais    8.64     9      10.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky   8.66    16      10.00
+ Jay Mohney            8.77    15      10.00
+ David Gosha           8.85    10      10.00
+ Kevin Borchers        8.88     4      10.00
+ Isaac Weiner          8.95     5      10.00
+ Eric A. Meyer         9.00     2      10.00
+ Michael J. Loux       9.22    46      10.00
+ Lana Klier            9.38    12      10.00
+ Nate Frenczak         9.50     4      10.00
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+       Results - "Severed Dreams"
+=================================================
+                                  # of    Severed
+ Poll 5                History    Votes   Dreams 
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  7.97             9.81  
+ Std. Dev.                0.92             0.34  
+ # of Voters            958              247     
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover           5.69    55       8.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.49    55       8.00
+ Jaime Marschalk          8.00     1       8.00
+ John C. Bonnin           8.70     1       8.70
+ Kyle Sutkaitis           7.02     9       9.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.65    52       9.00
+ Paula Berinstein         7.66     5       9.00
+ John Evans               7.74    51       9.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.87    51       9.00
+ C J Silverio             8.05     5       9.00
+ Dan Kimmel               8.05    55       9.00
+ Martha L. Fager          8.33    12       9.00
+ David Wright             8.38    18       9.00
+ Colin Glassey            8.67     3       9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson          8.44    55       9.10
+ Theo Thourson            9.10     1       9.10
+ Mike Hopkins             8.42    55       9.20
+ Dominique Chateau        9.25     1       9.25
+ Wesley Kaplow            9.30     1       9.30
+ Lee Somerman             7.64    18       9.40
+ Dale Whitehouse          8.38    43       9.40
+ Ken Papai                8.66    36       9.40
+ Bruce Oates              8.08     8       9.45
+ Andrew Chiang            7.06    27       9.50
+ Patrick B. Hall          7.82    25       9.50
+ Matthew Murray           8.10    55       9.50
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.17    30       9.50
+ John Shortess            8.33    12       9.50
+ Guillaume Lessard        8.43    12       9.50
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.64     9       9.50
+ Ed Hopkins               8.68    14       9.50
+ Damon Gallaty            8.83     3       9.50
+ George Copsey            8.94    15       9.50
+ Andrew Walker            9.50     1       9.50
+ Bennett Levitan          9.50     1       9.50
+ Brittany Wilkins         9.50     1       9.50
+ David Broitman           9.50     1       9.50
+ David Gaspar             9.50     1       9.50
+ Doug Arnoult             9.50     1       9.50
+ Doug Piligian            9.50     1       9.50
+ Greg Parnell             9.50     1       9.50
+ Jim Sauer                9.50     1       9.50
+ Keith Bellomo            9.50     1       9.50
+ Linda Naughton           9.50     1       9.50
+ Pete Poworoznek          9.50     1       9.50
+ Robert Adelberg          9.50     3       9.50
+ Todd Stewart             8.71     9       9.60
+ Chris Durie              9.08    13       9.60
+ Telly Arvanitis          9.55     2       9.60
+ John Benn                8.05    55       9.70
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.92    10       9.70
+ Cody Nave                9.15     3       9.70
+ Bill Hayes               9.35     2       9.70
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.45    53       9.70
+ John D. Hurrell          9.70     1       9.70
+ Michael Gemmell          7.70    41       9.75
+ Ryan Dean                8.03     9       9.75
+ Phil Adams               8.06    36       9.75
+ Keith Gill               8.48    10       9.75
+ Chris Neeland            8.67    11       9.75
+ Albert Dvornik           9.17     3       9.75
+ Arie Breslauer           9.22     7       9.75
+ John Abbott              7.72    54       9.80  
+ Brent Barrett            8.33    35       9.80
+ Jason Larke              8.42    19       9.80
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.44    26       9.80
+ Tom Hudson               8.68     4       9.80
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.72    55       9.80
+ Matthew Hunter           8.92    12       9.80
+ Stephen Vale             9.57     6       9.80
+ Bill O'Neil              9.80     1       9.80
+ Erik A. Heter            9.80     1       9.80
+ Scott Dolim              9.80     1       9.80
+ Steve Hsu                9.80     1       9.80
+ Gene Forfar              9.83     3       9.80
+ Mike Evans               8.51     2       9.81
+ Albert F. Ross           7.97    25       9.85  
+ Wesley Jordan            8.53    55       9.85
+ Shirley Hunt             8.71    22       9.85
+ Ron Peterson             8.74    21       9.85
+ Vic Forsman              9.18    10       9.85
+ Tad Rogers               9.41     5       9.85
+ Michael May              7.88    54       9.90
+ Chris Swanson            8.10     9       9.90
+ Andree Fontenot          8.15    55       9.90
+ Bob Grant                8.24    10       9.90
+ Scott Dailey             8.24    10       9.90
+ James Prince             8.29    26       9.90
+ Rich Wajda               8.67    11       9.90
+ Lars Joreteg             8.97    14       9.90
+ Christopher Tate         9.07    10       9.90
+ Jim Zimmerman            9.11    14       9.90
+ Edward Lee               9.17     3       9.90
+ Lloyd Tapper             9.34    20       9.90
+ Darrin Earl              9.90     1       9.90
+ Frank Webster            9.90     1       9.90
+ Paul R. Smith            9.90     1       9.90
+ Tom Bridge               9.90     1       9.90
+ Steve Miale              9.97     3       9.90
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.29    16       9.91
+ Dean Paron               8.33    55       9.95
+ Don Semmens              8.90    32       9.95
+ Mike Ingbritson          8.99    12       9.95
+ Robert Parker            9.35     2       9.95
+ Terry Quake              9.40     6       9.95
+ Justin Hart              9.64     4       9.98
+ Chris Stanley            8.27    30       9.99
+ Travis Walter            8.69    24       9.99
+ Mark Hullinger           8.16    15      10.00  
+ Dylan Northrup           7.87    50      10.00  
+ Renee DeYoung            9.29     6      10.00  
+ Andy Johnson             6.13    55      10.00
+ Steve Luminati           7.11    38      10.00
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.24    55      10.00
+ Steven Grimm             7.43    51      10.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.53    55      10.00
+ David Strauss            7.65    55      10.00
+ Brian Tozzo              7.67    19      10.00
+ George Zavaliagkos       7.74    50      10.00
+ Julie Prince             7.81    54      10.00
+ Steve Fenster            7.84    53      10.00
+ Jonathan Frain           7.89    55      10.00
+ Guy Ravad                8.00     2      10.00
+ Tim Skirvin              8.00    54      10.00
+ Iain Bertram             8.03    16      10.00
+ Greg Franks              8.09    50      10.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi            8.10    30      10.00
+ Mike Weldon              8.14    14      10.00
+ Jeff Jonsson             8.15    15      10.00
+ Charles S. Kerr          8.17     6      10.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.17    53      10.00
+ Brandon Browning         8.18    29      10.00
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.18    32      10.00
+ Mark Barrucci            8.19    53      10.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.25    24      10.00
+ David Kennedy            8.27    35      10.00
+ Justin Garten            8.29     6      10.00
+ Lou Wainwright           8.33    40      10.00
+ Peter Houghton           8.34     5      10.00
+ Peter Wong               8.34    29      10.00
+ Wes Makin                8.34    10      10.00
+ Beverly Harvey           8.35     5      10.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.35    44      10.00
+ Serge De La Sablonniere  8.35     9      10.00
+ Martin Coghlan           8.38    54      10.00
+ Joel Gill                8.39     9      10.00
+ Casey Miller             8.42    55      10.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.47    29      10.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.48    16      10.00
+ David B. Wheeler         8.50     2      10.00
+ William Gareau           8.50    21      10.00
+ Louis Amari              8.52    31      10.00
+ Dennis Steinert          8.58    11      10.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.63    40      10.00
+ Aaron Sherman            8.67     3      10.00
+ Andrew McKeen            8.67     6      10.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.71    14      10.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.71    12      10.00
+ Scott Catton             8.72    10      10.00
+ Holger Klawitter         8.73    11      10.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.74    17      10.00
+ Edward T. Tonai          8.75     4      10.00
+ William Harris           8.75     2      10.00
+ Jay Waller               8.76    22      10.00
+ Paul Ree                 8.76    20      10.00
+ Dirk Loeding             8.77    19      10.00
+ Jim Dawson               8.77    13      10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.77    10      10.00
+ Taneli Hirsimaki         8.78     5      10.00
+ Jeff Schultz             8.83     8      10.00
+ Jarno Kokko              8.85    45      10.00
+ Nick Schrock             8.87    13      10.00
+ L.J. Sparvero            8.90     5      10.00
+ David Gosha              8.95    11      10.00
+ Annemarie Taylor         8.99     5      10.00
+ Gene Dahilig             9.00     2      10.00
+ Isaac Weiner             9.00     7      10.00
+ Jonathan Stanley         9.00     4      10.00
+ Mike Walters             9.07    10      10.00
+ Kevin Borchers           9.10     5      10.00
+ Joe Reiss                9.15    19      10.00
+ Sheldon Smith            9.17     7      10.00
+ Mark Asdoorian           9.20     6      10.00
+ Darin Stephenson         9.22     8      10.00
+ John Mulcahy             9.23    12      10.00
+ Michael J. Loux          9.24    47      10.00
+ Chng Yi-Mei              9.25     3      10.00
+ John Mordosky            9.25     2      10.00
+ John Haager              9.28    12      10.00
+ Ron Siewert              9.32    17      10.00
+ Brian De Young           9.33     3      10.00
+ Blaise Faint             9.39    11      10.00
+ Joe Laszlo               9.40     4      10.00
+ Lana Klier               9.42    13      10.00
+ Michael Bartz            9.44     5      10.00
+ Rich Vanderbilt          9.44     8      10.00
+ Colin O'Connell          9.50     3      10.00
+ Patrick Flanagan         9.50     2      10.00
+ Roger Halstead           9.50     2      10.00
+ Mark Poli                9.56    14      10.00
+ Nate Frenczak            9.60     5      10.00
+ Dan Sias                 9.65    13      10.00
+ Gary Maxwell             9.65     2      10.00
+ K. Michael Bellomo       9.67     3      10.00
+ David Brown              9.75     2      10.00
+ John M. Novak            9.75     2      10.00
+ Tony Kimmet              9.78     3      10.00
+ Merryl Gross            10.00     1      10.00
+ Aaron Gaalswyk          10.00     1      10.00
+ Alan Hecht              10.00     1      10.00
+ Alex Rosenwald          10.00     1      10.00
+ Andre Lafrance          10.00     1      10.00
+ Anton Smirnov           10.00     1      10.00
+ Ben Carterette          10.00     1      10.00
+ Bob Patrick             10.00     1      10.00
+ Brian Badger            10.00     2      10.00
+ Brian Gibbons           10.00     1      10.00
+ Brian Gunn              10.00     1      10.00
+ Brian Jessup            10.00     1      10.00
+ Darryl Farr             10.00     1      10.00
+ David Ito               10.00     1      10.00
+ Dean Blakeley           10.00     1      10.00
+ Erez Zadok              10.00     1      10.00
+ George Dean             10.00     1      10.00
+ Gloria Swanson          10.00     1      10.00
+ James Klinge            10.00     1      10.00
+ Jason Hough             10.00     1      10.00
+ Jay Ramsperger          10.00     1      10.00
+ Jeff Young              10.00     1      10.00
+ Joel Patterson          10.00     1      10.00
+ Kev Thieke              10.00     1      10.00
+ Kurt Warren Lancaster   10.00     1      10.00
+ Marie Cote              10.00     1      10.00
+ Matthew Dean            10.00     1      10.00
+ Michael Benedetto       10.00     1      10.00
+ Onome Okuma             10.00     1      10.00
+ Rob Prokopy             10.00     1      10.00
+ Robert Zimmermann       10.00     1      10.00
+ Robin C. Kwong          10.00     1      10.00
+ Scott Cartier           10.00     1      10.00
+ Shawn Cagle             10.00     2      10.00
+ Steven Lu               10.00     1      10.00
+ Thomas Kazmark          10.00     1      10.00
+ Tim Hall                10.00     1      10.00
+ Tony C. Wang            10.00     1      10.00
+ Tony Perkins            10.00     1      10.00
+ Vicky Slaymaker         10.00     1      10.00
diff --git a/p5/055 b/p5/055
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+       Results - "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
+=======================================================
+                                 # of    Ceremonies of
+ Poll 5                History   Voters  Light and Dark
+ ------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  7.94                8.30 
+ Std. Dev.                0.91                0.92 
+ # of Voters           1022                 175    
+ ------------------------------------------------------
+ Andy Johnson             6.11    56          5.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.43    36          5.50
+ Steve Fenster            7.81    54          6.00
+ Steve Jacobs             8.00     2          6.00
+ Ian Klein                8.00     2          6.50
+ Jon Karty                8.25     2          6.50
+ Edward Lee               8.50     8          6.50
+ Joel Patterson           8.38     2          6.75
+ Doug Piligian            8.18     2          6.85
+ Mark D. Grover           5.71    56          7.00
+ Feroz Jokhio             7.00     1          7.00
+ Kyle Sutkaitis           7.02    10          7.00
+ Steve Luminati           7.10    39          7.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.48    56          7.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.52    56          7.00
+ Dave Hill                7.55    45          7.00
+ Michael Green            7.61    51          7.00
+ Eric Myerson             8.00     2          7.00
+ Chuck Lavazzi            8.06    31          7.00
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.39    27          7.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.40    17          7.00
+ Bahadir Erimli           8.45     2          7.00
+ Chris Corcoran           8.45     2          7.00
+ Dean Blakeley            8.50     2          7.00
+ Jeff Schultz             8.63     9          7.00
+ Michael Gemmell          7.68    42          7.10
+ Mike Evans               8.04     3          7.12
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.33    45          7.20
+ Wes Makin                8.25    11          7.25
+ Patrick B. Hall          7.81    26          7.50
+ Greg Franks              8.08    51          7.50
+ Mike Weldon              8.10    15          7.50
+ Brandon Browning         8.16    30          7.50
+ Jason Larke              8.38    20          7.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.43    30          7.50
+ Brandon Ohrns            8.60     5          7.50
+ Paul Ree                 8.70    21          7.50
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.54    10          7.60
+ James Prince             8.27    27          7.75
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.33    19          7.75
+ Dan Lannom               8.54    15          7.75
+ Patrick Flanagan         8.92     3          7.75
+ Dave Bourne              8.18     5          7.80
+ David Broitman           8.65     2          7.80
+ Travis Walter            8.66    25          7.87
+ Lee Somerman             7.65    19          7.90
+ Mark Hullinger           7.90    16          8.00 
+ Steven Grimm             7.44    53          8.00 
+ Bill Osterndorf          8.00     1          8.00
+ Iain Bertram             8.03    17          8.00
+ C J Silverio             8.04     6          8.00
+ Bob Grant                8.22    11          8.00
+ Chris Stanley            8.27    31          8.00
+ John C. Bonnin           8.35     2          8.00
+ Taneli Hirsimaki         8.65     6          8.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.70    18          8.00
+ Pete Poworoznek          8.75     2          8.00
+ Nick Schrock             8.80    14          8.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.88     8          8.00
+ Lars Joreteg             8.91    15          8.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.92     6          8.00
+ Erez Zadok               9.00     2          8.00
+ Kathy Lawson             9.00     2          8.00
+ Marie Cote               9.00     2          8.00
+ David Brown              9.17     3          8.00
+ Lou Wainwright           8.33    41          8.10
+ Martin Coghlan           8.37    55          8.10
+ Greg Francis             8.82    11          8.20 
+ John Evans               7.75    52          8.20
+ Dirk Loeding             8.74    20          8.20
+ Kendall Lloyd            8.05     5          8.25
+ Holger Klawitter         8.69    12          8.25
+ Andre Lafrance           9.13     2          8.25
+ Michael May              7.89    55          8.30
+ Joel Gill                8.38    10          8.30
+ Brian De Young           9.08     4          8.30
+ Dean Paron               8.33    56          8.40
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.72    56          8.40
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.26    56          8.50
+ Dylan Northrup           7.87    50          8.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.88    52          8.50
+ Tim Skirvin              8.01    55          8.50
+ Phil Adams               8.07    37          8.50
+ Matthew Murray           8.12    56          8.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.17    54          8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.19    33          8.50
+ Dave Frelinger           8.21     7          8.50
+ Rob Ditto                8.26    25          8.50
+ Peter Wong               8.34    30          8.50
+ David Wright             8.38    19          8.50
+ Eric Harmon              8.52    15          8.50
+ John Jurcevic            8.72    56          8.50
+ Ron Peterson             8.73    22          8.50
+ Damon Gallaty            8.75     4          8.50
+ Jim Dawson               8.75    14          8.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.75    11          8.50
+ Mike Ingbritson          8.95    13          8.50
+ Greg Parnell             9.00     2          8.50
+ Wendell Hertzell         9.00     2          8.50
+ Mike Walters             9.01    11          8.50
+ Ben Breech               9.05     2          8.50
+ Sharon Neiland           9.24     4          8.50
+ Michael Benedetto        9.25     2          8.50
+ Blaise Faint             9.32    12          8.50
+ K. Michael Bellomo       9.38     4          8.50
+ Dale D. Ingold           9.50     4          8.50
+ Paul R. Smith            5.25     2          8.60
+ Dale Brouwer             8.10    54          8.60
+ Antonio Collins          8.33    12          8.60
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.63    41          8.60
+ Chris Neeland            8.66    12          8.60
+ Jay Waller               8.76    23          8.60
+ Theo Thourson            8.85     2          8.60
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.89    11          8.60
+ David Gaspar             9.05     2          8.60
+ Julien Cyr               8.98     2          8.65
+ Larry W. Virden          7.92    10          8.70
+ Kev Thieke               9.35     2          8.70
+ Keith Gill               8.51    11          8.75
+ Jay Mohney               8.84    17          8.75
+ Alan Hecht               9.38     2          8.75
+ Ron Reed                 8.34    16          8.80
+ Serge De La Sablonniere  8.39    10          8.80
+ Mike Hopkins             8.43    56          8.80
+ Ed Hopkins               8.69    15          8.80
+ Matthew Hunter           8.91    13          8.80
+ Joe Reiss                9.13    20          8.80
+ J. Matthew Lafleur       9.35     2          8.80
+ Dan Kimmel               8.06    56          8.90
+ Andree Fontenot          8.16    56          8.90
+ Shirley Hunt             8.72    23          8.90
+ Onome Okuma              9.45     2          8.90
+ Ron Siewert              9.30    18          8.95
+ John Abbott              7.72    54          9.00
+ Noam Izenberg            8.13    48          9.00
+ Larry J. Lennhoff        8.19     9          9.00
+ Scott Dailey             8.31    11          9.00
+ Peter Houghton           8.45     6          9.00
+ Louis Amari              8.54    32          9.00
+ Wesley Jordan            8.54    56          9.00
+ Don Semmens              8.90    33          9.00
+ Holly Ramsey             9.00     1          9.00
+ Peter Thompsen           9.02     5          9.00
+ Chris Durie              9.07    14          9.00
+ Stephen Vale             9.49     7          9.00
+ Mark Poli                9.52    15          9.00
+ Tony Kimmet              9.59     4          9.00
+ Brian Badger             9.67     3          9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson          8.45    56          9.10
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.28    17          9.15
+ Gene Forfar              9.66     4          9.15
+ Michael J. Loux          9.24    48          9.20
+ Jonathan Frain           7.91    56          9.25
+ Albert F. Ross           7.97    25          9.25
+ John Mulcahy             9.24    13          9.25
+ Chng Yi-Mei              8.61     5          9.30
+ Annemarie Taylor         9.04     6          9.30
+ Sheldon Smith            9.20     8          9.40
+ Vic Forsman              9.21    11          9.45 
+ Renee DeYoung            9.19     7          9.50
+ Brent Barrett            8.36    36          9.50
+ Mark Moerman             8.77    15          9.50
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.45    54          9.50
+ Spyros A. Svoronos       9.88     4          9.50
+ Bruce Oates              8.26     9          9.65
+ David Gosha              9.03    12          9.85
+ Dan Sias                 9.67    14          9.90
+ David Ito                9.98     2          9.95
+ Paula Berinstein         8.05     6         10.00
+ Frank Huber              9.00     4         10.00
+ Lisa Coulter             9.22    17         10.00
+ Lana Klier               9.46    14         10.00
+ Terry Quake              9.49     7         10.00
+ Lenora McCoy             9.97     3         10.00
+ Teresa M. Dowd          10.00     2         10.00
+
+=======================================================
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+       Results - "Sic Transit Vir"
+====================================================
+                                 # of    Sic Transit
+ Poll 5                History   Voters      Vir   
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  7.95              7.53   
+ Std. Dev.                0.89              1.35   
+ # of Voters           1058               183      
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Ashley Miller            5.42    12        1.00
+ Andy Johnson             6.04    57        2.00
+ Andrew Chiang            6.88    28        2.00
+ Luc Tardif               2.10     1        2.10
+ Tom Talbott              3.00     1        3.00
+ Mark Hullinger           7.68    17        4.00   
+ Ryan Hughes              4.00     1        4.00
+ Nick Schrock             8.55    15        5.00
+ Tim Craig                5.50     1        5.50
+ Andree Fontenot          8.11    57        5.60
+ Albert F. Ross           7.92    27        6.00   
+ Mark D. Grover           5.72    57        6.00
+ Patrick Conley           6.00     1        6.00
+ Steve Luminati           7.08    40        6.00
+ Dave Hill                7.52    46        6.00
+ Michael May              7.86    56        6.00
+ Greg Franks              8.04    52        6.00
+ Aaron J. Redd            8.51    53        6.00
+ Ed Hopkins               8.52    16        6.00
+ David Hoffman            6.40     1        6.40
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.25    57        6.50
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.38    47        6.50
+ Eric Myerson             7.50     3        6.50
+ Mike Weldon              8.00    16        6.50
+ Serge De La Sablonniere  8.22    11        6.50
+ Guillaume Lessard        8.28    13        6.50
+ Jason Larke              8.29    21        6.50
+ Casey Miller             8.38    57        6.50
+ James Prince             8.21    28        6.55
+ Colin O'Connell          9.04     5        6.70
+ Michael Gemmell          7.66    43        6.75
+ Gary Litchfield          8.28     3        6.80
+ A. J. McTavish           7.00     1        7.00
+ Monique A. Doucet        7.00     1        7.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.47    57        7.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.51    57        7.00
+ Michael Green            7.60    52        7.00
+ David Strauss            7.64    57        7.00
+ Steve Fenster            7.79    55        7.00
+ C J Silverio             7.89     7        7.00
+ Jonathan Frain           7.89    57        7.00
+ Doug Piligian            7.92     3        7.00
+ Joel Patterson           7.92     3        7.00
+ Louis B. Moore           8.00    41        7.00
+ Tim Skirvin              8.00    56        7.00
+ Neal Klein               8.02    10        7.00
+ Scott Dailey             8.20    12        7.00
+ Peter Houghton           8.24     7        7.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.33     3        7.00
+ Marie Cote               8.33     3        7.00
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.33     3        7.00
+ Keith Gill               8.38    12        7.00
+ Taneli Hirsimaki         8.41     7        7.00
+ Andre Lafrance           8.42     3        7.00
+ Eric Harmon              8.42    16        7.00
+ Michael R. Nash          8.48     3        7.00
+ L.J. Sparvero            8.57     7        7.00
+ Jason Charette           8.60     5        7.00
+ Joe Laszlo               8.97     6        7.00
+ David Gaspar             8.40     3        7.10
+ Dennis Steinert          8.41    13        7.10
+ Ian Klein                7.75     3        7.25
+ Matthew Murray           8.10    57        7.25
+ Mike Walters             8.87    12        7.25
+ J. Matthew Lafleur       8.67     3        7.30
+ Wes Makin                8.18    12        7.40
+ Jeff Schultz             8.51    10        7.40
+ Steven Grimm             7.43    54        7.50   
+ John Abbott              7.72    56        7.50   
+ Jim Dawson               8.69    16        7.50   
+ Damon Gallaty            7.50     1        7.50
+ JoAnna Abes              7.50     1        7.50
+ Brian Tozzo              7.66    20        7.50
+ John Shortess            8.25    14        7.50
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.29    20        7.50
+ Joel Gill                8.30    11        7.50
+ Lou Wainwright           8.31    42        7.50
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.31    46        7.50
+ Martin Coghlan           8.35    56        7.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.65    12        7.50
+ Laurie M. Jacobs         8.66    17        7.50
+ Dirk Loeding             8.68    21        7.50
+ K. Michael Bellomo       9.00     5        7.50
+ Edward Lee               8.40     9        7.60
+ Bill Osterndorf          7.88     2        7.75
+ David Wright             8.35    20        7.75
+ Patrick Flanagan         8.63     4        7.75
+ Lee Somerman             7.66    20        7.80
+ Dave Bourne              8.12     6        7.80
+ Chris Swanson            8.14    11        7.80
+ Brent Barrett            8.34    37        7.80
+ Chris Neeland            8.60    13        7.80
+ Mike Hopkins             8.42    57        7.90
+ Joe Reiss                9.07    21        7.90
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.82    13        8.00   
+ Iain Bertram             8.03    18        8.00
+ Noam Izenberg            8.12    49        8.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.17    55        8.00
+ Jon Karty                8.17     3        8.00
+ Mark Barrucci            8.20    55        8.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.25    26        8.00
+ Mark Tenney              8.31    11        8.00
+ Joel Hoff                8.36    11        8.00
+ Valentino Villevieille   8.37    37        8.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.42    31        8.00
+ Spyros A. Svoronos       8.42     6        8.00
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.49    11        8.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.65    13        8.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.66    19        8.00
+ Paul Ree                 8.67    22        8.00
+ Rachel Emily Melenaar    8.67     3        8.00
+ Steven Lu                8.67     3        8.00
+ Shirley Hunt             8.69    24        8.00
+ Jay Waller               8.73    24        8.00
+ Jim Sauer                8.75     2        8.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.78     9        8.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.79     7        8.00
+ Greg Francis             8.82    11        8.00
+ Dominique Chbteau-Annaud 8.83     3        8.00
+ Matthew Hunter           8.84    14        8.00
+ David Gosha              8.95    13        8.00
+ Onome Okuma              8.97     3        8.00
+ Ben Carterette           9.00     2        8.00
+ Brian Badger             9.25     4        8.00
+ Tony Kimmet              9.27     5        8.00
+ Travis Walter            8.63    26        8.01
+ Daniel Schroeder         8.10     1        8.10
+ Brian De Young           8.88     5        8.10
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.22    18        8.10
+ Casey Law                7.98     9        8.20
+ John Benn                8.05    56        8.20
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.39    18        8.20
+ Darrin Earl              9.05     2        8.20
+ Chris Stanley            8.27    32        8.25
+ Lana Klier               9.38    15        8.25
+ Dan Kimmel               8.08    58        8.30   
+ Dean Paron               8.33    57        8.30
+ Wesley Kaplow            8.80     2        8.30
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.71    57        8.40
+ Cody Nave                8.95     5        8.40
+ Dylan Northrup           7.88    51        8.50
+ Paula Berinstein         8.11     7        8.50
+ Brandon Browning         8.17    31        8.50
+ Bob Grant                8.24    12        8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.50     3        8.50
+ Wesley Jordan            8.54    57        8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.63    42        8.50
+ John Jurcevic            8.71    57        8.50
+ Jay Mohney               8.82    18        8.50
+ Michael Bartz            9.21     7        8.50
+ Ron Siewert              9.26    19        8.50
+ Steve Shimeall           9.32     3        8.50
+ Renee DeYoung            9.08     8        8.55   
+ Ron Peterson             8.72    23        8.60
+ Julien Cyr               8.88     3        8.70
+ Chris Durie              9.05    15        8.70
+ Don Semmens              8.91    35        8.75   
+ Bruce Oates              8.30    10        8.75
+ Peter Wong               8.35    31        8.75
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.40    28        8.80
+ David Broitman           8.70     3        8.80
+ John Mulcahy             9.21    14        8.80
+ Stephen Vale             9.40     8        8.80
+ Don Feltham              8.67    14        8.85
+ Jeff Young               9.43     2        8.85
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.90    53        9.00
+ Beverly Harvey           8.61     7        9.00
+ Gail Abbott              9.00     1        9.00
+ Mel Walker               9.00     1        9.00
+ Jim Zimmerman            9.14    16        9.00
+ Philip Jurado            9.14     7        9.00
+ Vic Forsman              9.19    12        9.00
+ Alan Hecht               9.25     3        9.00
+ David Ito                9.65     3        9.00
+ Jarno Kokko              8.86    47        9.10
+ Sheldon Smith            9.20     9        9.20
+ Mark Poli                9.51    16        9.25
+ Brian Gibbons            9.63     2        9.25
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.44    55        9.30
+ Michael J. Loux          9.24    49        9.40
+ Nate Frenczak            9.07     7        9.50
+ Dan Sias                 9.68    15        9.80
+ Jeff Barcalow            9.80     1        9.80
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+       Results - "A Late Delivery From Avalon"
+========================================================
+                                 # of    A Late Delivery
+ Poll 5                History   Votes     From Avalon 
+ -------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  7.96                 7.79    
+ Std. Dev.                0.89                 1.39    
+ # of Votes            1073                  180       
+ -------------------------------------------------------
+ Andrew Apold             6.05     2           3.00
+ Joe Spiegel              6.67     3           3.00
+ Rich Brown               7.25    11           3.20
+ Andy Johnson             6.00    58           4.00
+ Paula Berinstein         7.60     8           4.00
+ James O'Sullivan         7.99    18           4.00
+ Mark Hullinger           7.68    17           4.25
+ Mark D. Grover           5.71    58           5.00
+ C. Benjamin Boyle        7.25     8           5.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.47    58           5.00
+ Tom Lucas                7.50     4           5.00
+ Peter Wong               8.25    32           5.00
+ Philip Jurado            8.63     8           5.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.44    58           5.50
+ Wes Makin                8.00    13           5.90
+ Doug Piligian            7.43     4           5.95
+ Steven Grimm             7.43    55           6.00    
+ Priscilla H. Ballou      6.00     1           6.00
+ Robert Zimmermann        7.00     4           6.00
+ Steve Luminati           7.05    41           6.00
+ Lee Somerman             7.58    21           6.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.59    54           6.00
+ C J Silverio             7.66     8           6.00
+ Jason Larke              8.18    22           6.00
+ William Gareau           8.31    24           6.00
+ Brian Smith              6.80     2           6.10
+ Colin O'Connell          8.58     6           6.30
+ Bill Osterndorf          7.42     3           6.50
+ Aaron Zollman            7.70     5           6.50
+ Matthew Murray           8.07    58           6.50
+ Noam Izenberg            8.09    50           6.50
+ Brian Tozzo              7.61    21           6.55
+ David Wright             8.27    21           6.75
+ Michael Gemmell          7.64    44           6.90
+ Brandon Browning         8.13    32           6.90
+ Patrick Conley           6.50     2           7.00
+ Bill Downs               7.00     1           7.00
+ Mike Weldon              7.94    17           7.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.13     4           7.00
+ Kelly Meroney            8.17     6           7.00
+ Steve Hsu                8.27     3           7.00
+ Martin Coghlan           8.33    57           7.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.39    58           7.00
+ Nick Schrock             8.45    16           7.00
+ Paul Ree                 8.60    23           7.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.73    19           7.00
+ Dave Hill                7.51    47           7.25
+ John Mulcahy             9.08    15           7.30
+ Travis Walter            8.59    27           7.40
+ Feroz Jokhio             7.25     2           7.50
+ Bree Duffy               7.50     1           7.50
+ JoAnna Abes              7.50     2           7.50
+ Ken Snider               7.75     2           7.50
+ Steve Fenster            7.79    56           7.50
+ Dylan Northrup           7.88    52           7.50
+ Nancy Brandt             7.88     4           7.50
+ Rob Ditto                8.22    27           7.50
+ Casey Miller             8.36    58           7.50
+ Jeff Schultz             8.41    11           7.50
+ Onome Okuma              8.60     4           7.50
+ Kevin Borchers           8.63     8           7.50
+ Mike Walters             8.76    13           7.50
+ James M. Lafleur         7.80     1           7.80
+ Casey Law                7.96    10           7.80
+ Peter Houghton           8.19     8           7.80
+ Jim Sauer                8.43     3           7.80
+ Len Rafuse               8.11    17           7.90
+ John C. Bonnin           8.13     4           7.90
+ Guillaume Lessard        8.25    14           7.90
+ Ben Breech               8.67     3           7.90
+ Keith Gill               8.42    13           7.95
+ John Abbott              7.74    57           8.00    
+ Shirley Hunt             8.70    26           8.00    
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.41    56           8.00
+ Monique A. Doucet        7.50     2           8.00
+ Jonathan Frain           7.90    58           8.00
+ Neal Klein               8.02    11           8.00
+ Greg Franks              8.04    53           8.00
+ Dave Bourne              8.10     7           8.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.17    56           8.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.25     4           8.00
+ Lou Wainwright           8.30    43           8.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.34    38           8.00
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.39    29           8.00
+ Damon Gallaty            8.42     6           8.00
+ Steven Lu                8.50     4           8.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.61    14           8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.61    43           8.00
+ Michael Benedetto        8.63     4           8.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.74    17           8.00
+ David Gosha              8.88    14           8.00
+ Alan Hecht               8.94     4           8.00
+ Blaise Faint             9.13    14           8.00
+ Valentino Villevieille   8.26    54           8.20
+ David Gaspar             8.35     4           8.20
+ Ron Peterson             8.70    24           8.20
+ Greg Francis             8.77    12           8.20
+ Joe Sislow               9.20     3           8.20
+ Daniel Schroeder         8.18     2           8.25
+ Joel Gill                8.30    12           8.25
+ Andre Lafrance           8.38     4           8.25
+ George Moore             8.38     2           8.25
+ L.J. Sparvero            8.53     8           8.25
+ Wesley Jordan            8.54    58           8.25
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.31    47           8.30
+ Renee DeYoung            8.88     9           8.35    
+ Darrin Earl              8.83     3           8.40
+ Dale Brouwer             8.13    56           8.45
+ Albert F. Ross           7.92    27           8.50
+ Ian Klein                7.94     4           8.50
+ Tim Skirvin              8.00    57           8.50
+ Joel Patterson           8.06     4           8.50
+ Phil Adams               8.08    38           8.50
+ Chris Swanson            8.17    12           8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.18    35           8.50
+ Mark Barrucci            8.21    56           8.50
+ Chris Stanley            8.27    33           8.50
+ Marie Cote               8.38     4           8.50
+ Edward Lee               8.41    10           8.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.42    32           8.50
+ Chng Yi-Mei              8.44     7           8.50
+ W.G. Shuster             8.50     1           8.50
+ Aaron J. Redd            8.51    54           8.50
+ Louis Amari              8.51    34           8.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.63    13           8.50
+ John Jurcevic            8.71    58           8.50
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.71    58           8.50
+ Isaac Weiner             8.75    10           8.50
+ Matthew Hunter           8.82    15           8.50
+ Steve Shimeall           9.11     4           8.50
+ Casey J. Peter           9.25     2           8.50
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.40     4           8.60
+ Bruce Oates              8.34    11           8.65
+ Dan Kimmel               8.08    58           8.70
+ John Shortess            8.28    15           8.75
+ Kevin Sullivan           8.69     9           8.75
+ George Copsey            8.92    17           8.75
+ Michael Bartz            9.15     8           8.75
+ Brian Gibbons            9.33     3           8.75
+ Lana Klier               9.34    16           8.75
+ Ron Siewert              9.23    21           8.80    
+ Michael May              7.87    57           8.80
+ Jim Stoneking            8.43     3           8.80
+ Julien Cyr               8.86     4           8.80
+ Brian Badger             9.16     5           8.80
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.16    32           8.90
+ David Broitman           8.75     4           8.90
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.82    13           8.90
+ Lars Joreteg             8.91    16           8.90
+ Mike Ingbritson          8.97    15           8.90
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.92    54           9.00
+ Louis B. Moore           8.02    42           9.00
+ Andree Fontenot          8.13    58           9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson          8.47    58           9.00
+ Jim Dawson               8.69    16           9.00
+ Rich Wajda               8.70    12           9.00
+ Chris Durie              9.04    16           9.00
+ Joe Reiss                9.07    22           9.00
+ Tony Kimmet              9.22     6           9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.44    56           9.00
+ David Ito                9.49     4           9.00
+ Dan Sias                 9.64    16           9.10
+ James Prince             8.25    29           9.25
+ Holger Klawitter         8.73    13           9.25
+ Bryan Sundlund           9.30     1           9.30
+ Jeff Young               9.40     3           9.35
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.23    19           9.40
+ David Kennedy            8.31    37           9.50
+ Rob Henderson            8.40    46           9.50
+ Spyros A. Svoronos       8.57     7           9.50
+ Don Semmens              8.91    35           9.50
+ Gail Abbott              9.25     2           9.50
+ Mark Poli                9.51    17           9.50
+ Ed Hopkins               8.58    17           9.60
+ Paul R. Smith            9.37     3           9.60
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.71    20           9.70
+ Michael J. Loux          9.25    50           9.70
+ Annemarie Taylor         9.15     7           9.80
+ Rachel Peirce            8.33     3          10.00
+ Ron Talbot               8.63     4          10.00
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+       Results - "Ship of Tears"
+===================================================
+                                 # of      Ship    
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   of Tears  
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  7.98             8.70    
+ Std. Dev.                0.90             0.72    
+ # of Voters           1098              187       
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover           5.71    59       6.00
+ Colin O'Connell          8.31     7       6.70
+ Alan Thiesen             6.83     6       7.00
+ Donna Maria Waltz        7.00     1       7.00
+ Eric Myerson             7.30     5       7.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.43    59       7.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.46    59       7.00
+ Dave Hill                7.50    48       7.00
+ Rachel Emily Melenaar    7.80     5       7.00
+ Mel Walker               8.33     3       7.00
+ Aaron J. Redd            8.51    55       7.00
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.25    59       7.50
+ Robert Killingsworth     7.50     1       7.50
+ Dylan Northrup           7.87    53       7.50
+ Brandon Ohrns            8.13     8       7.50
+ Eric Harmon              8.26    18       7.50
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.36    30       7.50
+ Michael Bartz            8.97     9       7.50
+ Brian Tozzo              7.61    22       7.65
+ Brittany Wilkins         8.60     2       7.70
+ Patrick Conley           6.92     3       7.75
+ Mark Hullinger           7.73    19       8.00    
+ Steven Grimm             7.46    56       8.00    
+ Andy Johnson             6.03    59       8.00
+ Steve Luminati           7.07    42       8.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.60    55       8.00
+ Julie Prince             7.81    57       8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.92    55       8.00
+ James O'Sullivan         7.99    19       8.00
+ Jasmine Sailing          8.00     1       8.00
+ Michael J. Brown         8.00     1       8.00
+ Jason Larke              8.17    23       8.00
+ Rachel Peirce            8.25     4       8.00
+ Martin Coghlan           8.33    58       8.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.39    59       8.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.69    20       8.00
+ Travis Walter            8.56    28       8.02
+ Scott Dailey             8.18    14       8.10
+ Daniel Schroeder         8.20     1       8.20
+ Jeff Young               9.10     4       8.20
+ Michael Gemmell          7.66    45       8.25
+ Wes Makin                8.02    14       8.25
+ Philip Weiner            8.58    15       8.25
+ James Prince             8.25    30       8.35
+ John C. Bonnin           8.18     5       8.40
+ David Gaspar             8.37     5       8.45
+ Andrew Chiang            6.93    29       8.50
+ David Strauss            7.66    59       8.50
+ Feroz Jokhio             7.67     3       8.50
+ Mike Weldon              7.97    18       8.50
+ Noam Izenberg            8.10    51       8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.19    36       8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.20     5       8.50
+ Jeff Barcalow            8.27     3       8.50
+ Joel Gill                8.31    13       8.50
+ Casey Miller             8.36    59       8.50
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.42     5       8.50
+ Damon Gallaty            8.43     7       8.50
+ Nick Schrock             8.46    17       8.50
+ Carl Merchant            8.50     1       8.50
+ Steven Lu                8.50     5       8.50
+ Atul A. Karve            8.52     4       8.50
+ Wesley Jordan            8.54    59       8.50
+ Onome Okuma              8.58     5       8.50
+ Holger Klawitter         8.63    15       8.50
+ Jim Dawson               8.68    17       8.50
+ Holly Ramsey             8.75     2       8.50
+ Michael J. McNaughton    7.85    59       8.60
+ Susan Neylan             8.16    58       8.60
+ Jeff Schultz             8.43    12       8.60
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.47    13       8.60
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.18    33       8.70
+ Doug Nadle               8.21    21       8.70
+ Lou Wainwright           8.31    44       8.70
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.31    48       8.70
+ Rob Henderson            8.41    47       8.70
+ Joshua Lewis             8.70     1       8.70
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.71    21       8.70
+ Sheldon Smith            9.15    10       8.70
+ Renee DeYoung            9.09    10       8.75    
+ Albert F. Ross           8.02    29       8.75    
+ Doug Piligian            7.69     5       8.75
+ David Wright             8.30    22       8.75
+ Marie Cote               8.45     5       8.75
+ Brian Dickson            8.55    14       8.75
+ Chris Neeland            8.61    14       8.75
+ John Jurcevic            8.71    59       8.75
+ Jay Waller               8.73    25       8.75
+ Alan Hecht               8.90     5       8.75
+ Casey Law                8.04    11       8.80
+ Dan Kimmel               8.09    59       8.80
+ Len Rafuse               8.15    18       8.80
+ Keith Gill               8.44    14       8.80
+ David Broitman           8.76     5       8.80
+ Lars Joreteg             8.90    17       8.80
+ Joe Sislow               9.10     4       8.80
+ Justin Hart              9.27     6       8.80
+ Joel E. Natt             8.32    19       8.82
+ Danny Sommer             9.00     2       8.90
+ George Moore             8.57     3       8.95
+ John Abbott              7.75    58       9.00    
+ Ron Siewert              9.25    22       9.00    
+ Joe Spiegel              7.25     4       9.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.44    57       9.00
+ C J Silverio             7.71    57       9.00
+ Patrick Polleyfeys       7.80     5       9.00
+ Louis B. Moore           8.05    43       9.00
+ Greg Franks              8.06    54       9.00
+ Matthew Murray           8.09    59       9.00
+ Iain Bertram             8.15    20       9.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.18    57       9.00
+ Dave Bourne              8.21     8       9.00
+ Peter Wong               8.27    33       9.00
+ Kelly Meroney            8.29     7       9.00
+ Mark Tenney              8.30    13       9.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.35    39       9.00
+ Joel Hoff                8.38    13       9.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.40     5       9.00
+ Arie Breslauer           8.44    30       9.00
+ Brian Bresnahan          8.44     8       9.00
+ Steve Hsu                8.45     4       9.00
+ Marcelle Gibson          8.48    59       9.00
+ Andre Lafrance           8.50     5       9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.62    44       9.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.67     9       9.00
+ Michael Benedetto        8.70     5       9.00
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.71    59       9.00
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.71    19       9.00
+ Kevin Sullivan           8.73    10       9.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.75    18       9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.77    11       9.00
+ Rose Sloane              9.00     2       9.00
+ Steven G. Johnson        9.00     1       9.00
+ Blaise Faint             9.12    15       9.00
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.22    20       9.00
+ Robert Adelberg          9.38     4       9.00
+ David Ito                9.39     5       9.00
+ Ian Klein                8.17     5       9.10
+ Chris Swanson            8.24    13       9.10
+ Peter Houghton           8.29     9       9.10
+ Dennis Steinert          8.39    15       9.10
+ Jim Stoneking            8.60     4       9.10
+ Dirk Loeding             8.67    23       9.10
+ Bruce Oates              8.40    12       9.15
+ Mike Ingbritson          8.98    16       9.15
+ Ron Peterson             8.72    25       9.20
+ Chris Durie              9.05    17       9.20
+ Tim Skirvin              8.03    58       9.25
+ Andree Fontenot          8.15    59       9.25
+ Rob Ditto                8.26    28       9.25
+ Don Feltham              8.57    16       9.25
+ L.J. Sparvero            8.61     9       9.25
+ Randy Crist              9.08     3       9.25
+ Julien Cyr               8.94     5       9.26
+ Valentino Villevieille   8.28    55       9.30
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.43    57       9.30
+ James M. Lafleur         8.60     2       9.40
+ Stephen Vale             9.31    10       9.40
+ Paul R. Smith            9.38     4       9.40
+ Mark Poli                9.50    18       9.40
+ Susanne Huettemeister    8.80    14       9.45
+ Don Semmens              8.95    37       9.50    
+ Ryan Hughes              7.17     3       9.50
+ Colin Glassey            7.69    59       9.50
+ Paula Berinstein         7.81     9       9.50
+ Jonathan Frain           7.92    59       9.50
+ Brandon Browning         8.17    33       9.50
+ Ed Hopkins               8.63    18       9.50
+ Paul Ree                 8.64    24       9.50
+ Mike Walters             8.81    14       9.50
+ Matthew Hunter           8.86    16       9.50
+ Dan Sias                 9.63    17       9.50
+ Shirley Hunt             8.70    26       9.60
+ Jim Sauer                8.73     4       9.60
+ Jarno Kokko              8.86    49       9.60
+ Tony Kimmet              9.28     7       9.60
+ John Mulcahy             9.11    16       9.65
+ Annemarie Taylor         9.25     9       9.70
+ Brent McCrackin          8.82     7       9.75
+ Michael J. Loux          9.26    51       9.75
+ Michael May              7.89    59       9.80
+ David Gosha              8.94    15       9.80
+ Tad Rogers               9.24     7       9.85
+ Frank Huber              8.64     7      10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.73    14      10.00
+ Lana Klier               9.38    17      10.00
+ Terry Quake              9.52    10      10.00
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.85    14               
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+       Results - "Interludes and Examinations"
+======================================================
+                               # of      Interludes
+ Poll 5                History Votes  and Examinations
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  7.99              9.31   
+ Std. Dev.                0.91              0.63   
+ # of Voters           1117               147      
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Steven Standley          6.00     1        6.00
+ Jim Zimmerman            9.01    19        7.40
+ Andrew Chiang            6.95    30        7.50
+ Tom Lucas                7.83     6        7.50
+ John Abbott              7.78    59        8.00   
+ Andy Johnson             6.07    60        8.00
+ Rich Brown               7.44    13        8.00
+ Greg Franks              8.05    55        8.00
+ Mel Walker               8.25     4        8.00
+ Mark Hullinger           7.81    20        8.25   
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.93    56        8.25
+ Ed Isenberg              8.16    17        8.25
+ Joe Laszlo               8.70     9        8.25
+ Laurent Castellucci      8.05     2        8.40
+ Dylan Northrup           7.88    54        8.50
+ Dan Kimmel               8.10    60        8.50
+ Iain Bertram             8.17    21        8.50
+ Dean Blakeley            8.50     3        8.50
+ Wesley Jordan            8.54    60        8.50
+ Holly Ramsey             8.67     3        8.50
+ Rob Henderson            8.41    48        8.60
+ James Prince             8.27    31        8.75
+ Patrick Flanagan         8.65     5        8.75
+ Doug Piligian            7.89     6        8.90
+ Tim Craig                7.33     3        9.00
+ Lee Somerman             7.69    23        9.00
+ James Kiley              7.92    12        9.00
+ Paula Berinstein         7.93    10        9.00
+ Scott Dailey             8.23    15        9.00
+ Robert Killingsworth     8.25     2        9.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.33     6        9.00
+ Casey Miller             8.38    60        9.00
+ J. William Berger        8.47    15        9.00
+ Louis Amari              8.53    36        9.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.61    16        9.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.73    22        9.00
+ Mark Campitello          9.00     1        9.00
+ Mark Smith               9.00     1        9.00
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.52     6        9.05
+ Jeff Young               9.09     5        9.05
+ Dennis Stott             9.10     1        9.10
+ Brian Gibbons            9.27     4        9.10
+ Ian Klein                8.34     6        9.20
+ Yi-Mei Chng              8.47     9        9.20
+ David Strauss            7.68    60        9.25
+ C J Silverio             7.74    58        9.25
+ Louis B. Moore           8.07    44        9.25
+ Rob Ditto                8.29    29        9.25
+ John Shortess            8.35    17        9.25
+ William Gareau           8.36    26        9.25
+ Damon Gallaty            8.53     8        9.25
+ Marie Cote               8.58     6        9.25
+ Onome Okuma              8.69     6        9.25
+ Aaron Gaalswyk           9.63     2        9.25
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.90    16        9.30   
+ Susan Neylan             8.18    59        9.30
+ Dale Whitehouse          8.44    48        9.30
+ Ken Papai                8.63    40        9.30
+ Danny Sommer             9.10     3        9.30
+ Serge De La Sablonniere  8.35    13        9.40
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.72    60        9.40
+ Ron Peterson             8.75    26        9.40
+ Kevin R. Holloway        8.87     9        9.40
+ Bruce Oates              8.48    13        9.45
+ George Moore             8.79     4        9.45
+ Steven Grimm             7.47    57        9.50   
+ Renee DeYoung            9.10    11        9.50   
+ Alan Thiesen             7.21     7        9.50
+ Allan Jenoff             7.47    60        9.50
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.47    58        9.50
+ Patrick Conley           7.56     4        9.50
+ Katrina Glerum           7.58     6        9.50
+ Michael May              7.90    60        9.50
+ Larry W. Virden          8.06    11        9.50
+ Patrick Polleyfeys       8.08     6        9.50
+ Jeff Schultz             8.10    60        9.50
+ Matthew Murray           8.11    60        9.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.22    37        9.50
+ Jason Larke              8.23    24        9.50
+ Brandon Ohrns            8.28     9        9.50
+ Lou Wainwright           8.34    45        9.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.44    34        9.50
+ Kelly Meroney            8.44     8        9.50
+ Nick Schrock             8.51    18        9.50
+ Brian Bresnahan          8.56     9        9.50
+ Andre Lafrance           8.67     6        9.50
+ Kevin Borchers           8.75    10        9.50
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.75    20        9.50
+ Mark Moerman             8.79    19        9.50
+ Greg Francis             8.80    14        9.50
+ Isaac Weiner             8.83    12        9.50
+ Michael Benedetto        8.83     6        9.50
+ Joe Sislow               9.18     5        9.50
+ Alex von Hochtritt       9.50     1        9.50
+ Michael Woods            9.50     1        9.50
+ Paul Geotze              9.50     1        9.50
+ Sumit Kundu              9.50     2        9.50
+ Brian Tozzo              7.70    23        9.55
+ Dirk Loeding             8.71    24        9.60
+ George Copsey            8.96    18        9.60
+ Chris Durie              9.08    18        9.60
+ Arie Breslauer           8.47    31        9.65
+ Colin O'Connell          8.48     8        9.65
+ Julien Cyr               9.06     6        9.67
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.40    31        9.70
+ Andree Fontenot          8.17    60        9.75
+ Joel Patterson           8.29     6        9.75
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.34    49        9.75
+ Holger Klawitter         8.70    16        9.75
+ Jim Dawson               8.74    18        9.75
+ Sharron Albert           9.25     2        9.75
+ Tony Kimmet              9.34     8        9.75
+ Jonathan Frain           7.96    60        9.80
+ Brent Barrett            8.39    40        9.80
+ Mike Hopkins             8.41    60        9.80
+ Daniel Schroeder         8.59     4        9.80
+ Laurie M. Jacobs         8.62    20        9.80
+ Ed Hopkins               8.69    19        9.80
+ Ben Breech               8.95     4        9.80
+ Lars Joreteg             8.95    18        9.80
+ Brian Badger             9.27     6        9.80
+ Don Semmens              8.95    37        9.85
+ John Mulcahy             9.16    17        9.85
+ Vic Forsman              9.22    14        9.85
+ Ron Siewert              9.25    22        9.85
+ Gene Forfar              9.70     5        9.85
+ Albert F. Ross           8.02    29        9.90
+ Neal Klein               8.18    12        9.90
+ Tom Hudson               8.92     5        9.90
+ Steve Miale              9.76     5        9.90
+ Ryan Hughes              7.88     4       10.00
+ Rachel Emily Melenaar    8.17     6       10.00
+ Brandon Browning         8.22    34       10.00
+ Bill Osterndorf          8.35     5       10.00
+ Peter Houghton           8.46    10       10.00
+ Anca Mosiu               8.50     2       10.00
+ Richard Honey            8.60     5       10.00
+ Steven Lu                8.75     6       10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.82    15       10.00
+ Matthew Hunter           8.93    17       10.00
+ K. Michael Bellomo       9.14     7       10.00
+ Blaise Faint             9.17    16       10.00
+ Ben Carterette           9.33     3       10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.44    58       10.00
+ Robin C. Kwong           9.50     6       10.00
+ Frank Alejano           10.00     2       10.00
+ Jeff Kwan               10.00     1       10.00
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+       Results - "War Without End, Part 1"
+==================================================
+                                # of   War w/o End
+ Poll 5               History   Votes    Part 1
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 8.02            9.28     
+ Std. Dev.               0.92            0.71     
+ # of Voters          1150             166        
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Steve Luminati          7.09    44      6.00
+ Toni Figl               6.58     4      7.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.47    61      7.50
+ Brandon Browning        8.20    35      7.50
+ Joe Reiss               9.09    25      7.80
+ William Johnson         8.08     2      7.85
+ Steven Grimm            7.49    58      8.00     
+ Robert P. Galloway      7.80    25      8.00     
+ Mark D. Grover          5.79    61      8.00
+ Andy Johnson            6.10    61      8.00
+ Steve Dickson           6.42    19      8.00
+ Kyle Sutkaitis          7.25    13      8.00
+ Tim Craig               7.50     4      8.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.63    57      8.00
+ George Zavaliagkos      7.77    56      8.00
+ Brittany Wilkins        8.55     4      8.00
+ Doug Nadle              8.28    23      8.10
+ Arie Breslauer          8.46    32      8.20
+ Wesley Jordan           8.53    61      8.25
+ Chris Stanley           8.32    36      8.40
+ Sandra Bruckner         7.65    35      8.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.94    57      8.50
+ Patrick Pollefeys       8.14     7      8.50
+ Robert Killingsworth    8.33     3      8.50
+ Mike Hopkins            8.41    61      8.50
+ Nick Schrock            8.51    19      8.50
+ Don Feltham             8.64    18      8.50
+ K. Michael Bellomo      9.06     8      8.50
+ Wes Makin               8.08    16      8.60
+ George Copsey           8.94    19      8.60
+ Dylan Northrup          7.92    56      8.70     
+ Daniel Singhal          8.70     2      8.70
+ Louis B. Moore          8.09    45      8.75
+ Bill Osterndorf         8.42     6      8.75
+ Chris Neeland           8.66    16      8.75
+ Chris Swanson           8.29    14      8.90
+ Ed Hopkins              8.71    20      8.90
+ Tad Rogers              9.19     9      8.90
+ Gary Litchfield         8.46     4      8.98
+ Andrew Chiang           7.02    31      9.00
+ Robert Zimmermann       7.67     6      9.00
+ Patrick Conley          7.85     5      9.00
+ Greg Franks             8.07    56      9.00
+ James O'Sullivan        8.09    21      9.00
+ Dan Kimmel              8.11    61      9.00
+ Casey Law               8.22    13      9.00
+ Phillippe Chose         8.33     9      9.00
+ John C. Bonnin          8.39     7      9.00
+ Serge De La Sablonniere 8.40    14      9.00
+ Arturo Magidin          8.43     7      9.00
+ Philip Weiner           8.63    17      9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.66    46      9.00
+ Jay Mohney              8.72    22      9.00
+ John Jurcevic           8.72    61      9.00
+ Kevin Borchers          8.77    11      9.00
+ Steven Lu               8.79     7      9.00
+ Ramakrishuan Srikant    8.86     7      9.00
+ Jimmy Simpson           9.00     1      9.00
+ Doug Piligian           8.06     7      9.10
+ Paul Geotze             9.30     2      9.10
+ Daniel Schroeder        8.75     6      9.15
+ Renee DeYoung           9.10    12      9.25     
+ Jason Larke             8.27    25      9.25
+ Bob Grant               8.29    16      9.25
+ John Shortess           8.40    18      9.25
+ Morton Chalom           9.25     1      9.25
+ Mike Basinger           9.42     3      9.25
+ Mark Hullinger          7.91    21      9.30    1
+ Matthew MacKenzie       8.23    35      9.30
+ Joel E. Natt            8.32    21      9.30
+ Dennis Steinert         8.49    17      9.30
+ Louis Amari             8.56    37      9.30
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.73    61      9.30
+ Chris Shabsin           8.81    12      9.30
+ Lee Somerman            7.76    24      9.40
+ Jeff Schultz            8.12    61      9.40
+ James Prince            8.30    32      9.40
+ Kerry Kilgour           8.90    16      9.40
+ Bruce Oates             8.55    14      9.45
+ Mike Ingbritson         9.04    18      9.45
+ Burt Clothier           7.08    61      9.50
+ Michael Gemmell         7.70    46      9.50
+ Michael May             7.93    61      9.50
+ Tim Skirvin             8.06    60      9.50
+ Tom Lucas               8.07     7      9.50
+ Matthew Murray          8.14    61      9.50
+ Iain Bertram            8.23    22      9.50
+ Tom Spindler            8.25     2      9.50
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.26    38      9.50
+ Joel Patterson          8.46     7      9.50
+ Wendell Hertzell        8.66     7      9.50
+ Paul Ree                8.70    26      9.50
+ Ron Peterson            8.78    27      9.50
+ Erez Zadok              8.79     7      9.50
+ Isaac Weiner            8.88    13      9.50
+ Edward T. Tonai         8.90     5      9.50
+ Dom Quagliato           9.45     2      9.50
+ Terry Wofford           9.50     1      9.50
+ Patrick B. Hall         7.93    29      9.60
+ Albert F. Ross          8.07    30      9.60
+ Kevin R. Holloway       8.94    10      9.60
+ James M. Lafleur        8.95     4      9.60
+ Stephen Langasek        9.50     2      9.60
+ Dustin M. Ramsey        9.80     2      9.60
+ Julie Addison           9.80     2      9.60
+ Anca Mosiu              9.18     4      9.70    1
+ Andree Fontenot         8.20    61      9.70
+ Ian Klein               8.54     7      9.70
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.34    61      9.75
+ David Strauss           7.72    61      9.75
+ Marie Cote              8.75     7      9.75
+ Andre Lafrance          8.82     7      9.75
+ Onome Okuma             8.84     7      9.75
+ Brian Gibbons           9.37     5      9.75
+ John J. La Press        9.77     2      9.75
+ Susan Neylan            8.20    60      9.80
+ Martin Coghlan          8.36    60      9.80
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.45    32      9.80
+ Steve Hsu               8.90     6      9.80
+ David Broitman          9.01     7      9.80
+ Julien Cyr              9.17     7      9.80
+ Ron Siewert             9.30    24      9.85     
+ George Moore            9.00     5      9.85
+ Vic Forsman             9.27    15      9.88
+ Brent Barrett           8.43    41      9.90
+ Yi-Mei Chng             8.62    10      9.90
+ Ken Papai               8.66    41      9.90
+ Paul R. Smith           9.48     5      9.90
+ Mark Poli               9.54    20      9.90
+ Steven Templeton        9.90     1      9.90
+ Don Semmens             9.01    39      9.95    1
+ Stephen Vale            9.40    12      9.95
+ Brian Tozzo             7.79    24      9.96
+ Thomas Aylesworth       7.52    59     10.00
+ C J Silverio            7.78    59     10.00
+ John Abbott             7.78    59     10.00
+ Jonathan Frain          7.99    61     10.00
+ Paula Berinstein        8.12    11     10.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.      8.23    59     10.00
+ Mark Barrucci           8.26    59     10.00
+ Ryan Hughes             8.30     5     10.00
+ Rob Ditto               8.35    30     10.00
+ David Kennedy           8.41    40     10.00
+ Joel Gill               8.49    15     10.00
+ Marcelle Gibson         8.52    61     10.00
+ J. William Berger       8.56    16     10.00
+ Colin O'Connell         8.65     9     10.00
+ Beverly Harvey          8.78     8     10.00
+ Jay Waller              8.78    27     10.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky     8.78    23     10.00
+ Mark Moerman            8.85    20     10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais      8.89    16     10.00
+ Jarno Kokko             8.90    51     10.00
+ Mark Sulkowski          9.05    16     10.00
+ David Gosha             9.07    17     10.00
+ Lisa Coulter            9.16    21     10.00
+ Blaise Faint            9.22    17     10.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart       9.23     3     10.00
+ Jeff Young              9.24     6     10.00
+ Michael J. Loux         9.29    53     10.00
+ Tony Kimmet             9.41     9     10.00
+ Lana Klier              9.45    19     10.00
+ Rich Vanderbilt         9.50     9     10.00
+ Dan Sias                9.67    19     10.00
+ Brian Stanley          10.00     1     10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera         10.00     1     10.00
diff --git a/p5/061 b/p5/061
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+ Results - "War Without End, Part 2"
+=======================================================
+                                 # of    War Without
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   End, Part 2
+ ------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.02             9.40
+ Std. Dev.                0.92             0.79
+ # of Voters           1186              164  
+ ------------------------------------------------------
+ Frederick Techlin        7.20     5       4.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.44    62       6.00
+ Damien R. Sullivan       8.20    10       7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.94    58       7.75
+ Patrick Pollefeys        8.09     8       7.75
+ Andy Johnson             6.13    62       8.00
+ Kyle Sutkaitis           7.30    14       8.00
+ Leonard Lin              7.83     6       8.00
+ Andrew Johnston          8.25     2       8.00
+ Brittany Wilkins         8.44     5       8.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.60    18       8.00
+ Steve Fenster            7.86    60       8.20
+ Laurent Castellucci      8.13     4       8.30
+ Joel E. Natt             8.32    22       8.30
+ Steven Grimm             7.49    58       8.50
+ C J Silverio             7.78    60       8.50
+ Robert P. Galloway       7.80    25       8.50
+ Robert Killingsworth     8.38     4       8.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.44    36       8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.44     8       8.50
+ Mathew Lukacs            8.50     1       8.50
+ Mike Hopkins             8.42    62       8.60
+ Ryan Dean                7.91    16       8.75
+ Wes Makin                8.12    17       8.75
+ Doug Nadle               8.31    24       8.80
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.35    51       8.80
+ Burt Clothier            7.11    62       9.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.66    58       9.00
+ David Strauss            7.74    62       9.00
+ Tim Craig                7.80     5       9.00
+ Greg Franks              8.09    57       9.00
+ James O'Sullivan         8.13    22       9.00
+ Nick Schrock             8.54    20       9.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.79    12       9.00
+ Daniel Singhal           8.80     3       9.00
+ Chris Shabsin            8.82    13       9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.89    14       9.00
+ Benny Bronz              9.00     1       9.00
+ Renee DeYoung            9.10    12       9.00
+ Jeff T. Barrie           9.50     2       9.00
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.25    36       9.10
+ Dennis Steinert          8.53    18       9.10
+ Doug Piligian            7.72    62       9.20
+ Casey Law                8.29    14       9.20
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.67    47       9.20
+ Lars Joreteg             8.98    20       9.20
+ Patrick Conley           8.08     6       9.25
+ Wesley Jordan            8.54    62       9.25
+ Andre Lafrance           8.88     8       9.25
+ George Copsey            8.95    20       9.25
+ K. Michael Bellomo       9.08     9       9.25
+ Dan Kimmel               8.13    62       9.30
+ Lou Wainwright           8.38    47       9.30
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.74    62       9.30
+ Daniel Schroeder         8.83     7       9.30
+ Joe Reiss                9.10    26       9.30
+ Rob Henderson            8.45    50       9.40
+ Ken Papai                8.68    42       9.40
+ Brad Kukuk               9.40     1       9.40
+ Evelyn Pypes             9.40     1       9.40
+ Mike Basinger            9.41     4       9.40
+ Andrew Chiang            7.09    32       9.50
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.55    60       9.50
+ John Evans               7.78    58       9.50
+ John Abbott              7.81    60       9.50
+ Dylan Northrup           7.92    56       9.50
+ Tim Skirvin              8.09    61       9.50
+ Louis B. Moore           8.12    46       9.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.29    39       9.50
+ Martha L. Fager          8.42    13       9.50
+ Ryan Hughes              8.50     6       9.50
+ Louis Amari              8.58    38       9.50
+ Jack Hudler              8.75     2       9.50
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.80    22       9.50
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.81    24       9.50
+ Marie Cote               8.84     8       9.50
+ Richard Losey            9.50     2       9.50
+ Bruce Oates              8.62    15       9.55
+ Ron Peterson             8.80    28       9.58
+ Michael Gemmell          7.74    47       9.60
+ Patrick B. Hall          7.97    32       9.60
+ Jeff Schultz             8.15    62       9.60
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.94    17       9.60
+ David Gaspar             8.78     8       9.65
+ Brian Bresnahan          8.67    10       9.70
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.79     8       9.70
+ Chris Durie              9.15    20       9.70
+ Bill Hayes               9.29     7       9.70
+ John Shortess            8.47    19       9.75
+ Joel Patterson           8.63     8       9.75
+ Paul Ree                 8.74    27       9.75
+ Jim Dawson               8.81    20       9.75
+ Holger Klawitter         8.82    18       9.75
+ Ravi Nanavati            8.87    17       9.75
+ Ron Siewert              9.30    24       9.75
+ Paul Geotze              9.45     3       9.75
+ Meredith L. Pierson      9.67     3       9.75
+ Byron C. Go              9.73     2       9.75
+ Lee Somerman             7.84    25       9.80
+ Scott Dailey             8.40    17       9.80
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.49    33       9.80
+ Eric Breslauer           8.50    33       9.80
+ Steve Hsu                9.03     7       9.80
+ Brian Badger             9.34     7       9.80
+ Onome Okuma              8.97     8       9.85
+ Cody Nave                9.10     6       9.85
+ Jeff Young               9.33     7       9.85
+ Andree Fontenot          8.23    62       9.89
+ Julien Cyr               9.26     8       9.89
+ James Prince             8.34    33       9.90
+ Marcelle Gibson          8.54    62       9.90
+ Joe Laszlo               8.84    11       9.90
+ Ben Breech               9.14     5       9.90
+ James M. Lafleur         9.18     5       9.90
+ Casey J. Peter           9.50     4       9.90
+ Ali Zecco                9.90     2       9.90
+ George Moore             9.16     6       9.95
+ Brian Gibbons            9.47     6       9.95
+ Paul R. Smith            9.56     6       9.95
+ Brian Tozzo              7.88    25       9.96
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.38    62      10.00
+ Jerry Bookter            7.50     2      10.00
+ Mark Hullinger           7.91    21      10.00
+ Jonathan Frain           8.02    62      10.00
+ Paula Berinstein         8.28    12      10.00
+ Iain Bertram             8.33    23      10.00
+ Jason Larke              8.34    26      10.00
+ Valentino Villevieille   8.37    58      10.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.40    31      10.00
+ Casey Miller             8.42    62      10.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.46    42      10.00
+ Joel Gill                8.58    16      10.00
+ Monique A. Doucet        8.63     4      10.00
+ J. William Berger        8.65    17      10.00
+ Colin O'Connell          8.79    10      10.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.90    21      10.00
+ Jarno Kokko              8.92    52      10.00
+ L.J. Sparvero            8.94    12      10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.96    17      10.00
+ Darrin Earl              9.00     5      10.00
+ Ramakrishuan Srikant     9.00     8      10.00
+ Spyros A. Svoronos       9.00    11      10.00
+ Don Semmens              9.01    39      10.00
+ Mark Sulkowski           9.11    17      10.00
+ David Gosha              9.12    18      10.00
+ Anca Mosiu               9.18     4      10.00
+ Lisa Coulter             9.20    22      10.00
+ Mark E. Porterfield      9.21     9      10.00
+ John Mulcahy             9.23    19      10.00
+ Blaise Faint             9.27    18      10.00
+ Michael J. Loux          9.30    54      10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.45    60      10.00
+ Ed Sices                 9.50     2      10.00
+ Paul Kates               9.50     2      10.00
+ Terry Quake              9.55    13      10.00
+ Dan Sias                 9.69    20      10.00
+ L.E. McClintock          9.75     2      10.00
+ Pete Cervasio            9.75     2      10.00
+ Anne Livingston          9.80     2      10.00
+ Kevin Berkheiser        10.00     1      10.00
+ Kirk Kamberg            10.00     1      10.00
+ Matt Doogan             10.00     2      10.00
+ Matthew Turk            10.00     2      10.00
+ Robert A. Ward          10.00     1      10.00
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+       Results - "Walkabout"
+=================================================
+                                # of          
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   Walkabout
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 8.03             7.89
+ Std. Dev.               0.96             1.06
+ # of Voters          1341              215
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams              2.00     1       2.00
+ Mick Dundon             3.50     2       4.00
+ Daniel Efron            4.00     1       4.00
+ David Van Domelen       6.83     3       4.50
+ Martin Hackworth        5.00     1       5.00
+ Kyle Sutkaitis          7.15    15       5.00
+ Colin O'Connell         8.46    11       5.20
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain    7.90     5       6.00
+ Chris Hayes             8.13    15       6.00
+ Henrik Herranen         7.76    67       6.00
+ Dan Casey               8.41    34       6.00
+ Chris Keroach           7.10     2       6.00
+ Kevyn Jacobs            6.00     1       6.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.42    63       6.00
+ Justin Garten           8.03     9       6.50
+ Chris Shabsin           8.62    18       6.50
+ Mark D. Grover          5.80    63       6.50
+ Benoit Langevin         6.50     1       6.50
+ Arturo Magidin          8.22     9       6.50
+ Edward Lee              8.53    15       6.50
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen      6.75     1       6.75
+ Michael Gemmell         7.72    48       6.80
+ Ryan Hughes             8.26     7       6.80
+ Jeff Caddick            8.82     5       6.80
+ Peter Robert Smith      7.80     5       7.00
+ Stephen Bray            6.00     2       7.00
+ Andrew Wright           6.83     3       7.00
+ Mark Hullinger          7.18    53       7.00
+ Matthew Murray          8.15    67       7.00
+ Michael May             7.91    64       7.00
+ Adrian Seale            8.15     5       7.00
+ Dave Kuhn               7.98     8       7.00
+ Andy Johnson            6.14    63       7.00
+ Andy McClinsey          7.00     1       7.00
+ Peter Macini            7.00     1       7.00
+ Tim Ousley              7.00     1       7.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.51    63       7.00
+ Lee Somerman            7.81    26       7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.92    59       7.00
+ Paula Berinstein        8.18    13       7.00
+ Doug Nadle              8.25    25       7.00
+ Steve VanHaren          8.75     3       7.00
+ Dave Lyndon             8.30     5       7.25
+ James Prince            8.31    34       7.25
+ David J. Miller         7.30     1       7.30
+ Michael Dearden         8.86    10       7.40
+ Larry J. Lennhoff       8.15    15       7.50
+ Robin C. Kwong          8.90    13       7.50
+ David Strauss           7.71    65       7.50
+ Melanie Dymond Harper   8.73    21       7.50
+ Patrick B. Hall         7.94    35       7.50
+ John Abbott             7.81    62       7.50
+ Ali Hopkins             8.86     5       7.50
+ Burt Clothier           7.12    63       7.50
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.38    63       7.50
+ Frank E. Leff           7.50     1       7.50
+ Mike Kerr               7.50     1       7.50
+ Terry Rubenstein        7.50     1       7.50
+ Steve Jacobs            7.83     3       7.50
+ Mike Heffner            8.06    63       7.50
+ Wes Makin               8.08    18       7.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.      8.25    61       7.50
+ David Wright            8.33    26       7.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.55    23       7.50
+ Michael Bellomo         8.93    10       7.50
+ David Lee               8.94     4       7.50
+ Jay Waller              8.78    29       7.60
+ Evelyn Pypes            8.55     2       7.70
+ Steven Grimm            7.50    63       7.75
+ Paul McKeown            8.47     5       7.75
+ Brian McLaughlin        7.75     1       7.75
+ Scott Elmer             7.75     1       7.75
+ Bob Grant               8.24    18       7.75
+ Lon Franson             8.25     9       7.75
+ Julien Cyr              9.09     9       7.75
+ Christopher Novosad     8.52    15       7.80
+ Ken Hunnicutt           7.80     1       7.80
+ Michael Emond           7.80     1       7.80
+ Dale Brouwer            8.19    62       7.80
+ Lou Wainwright          8.36    48       7.80
+ Chris Durie             9.08    21       7.80
+ Mike Bell               7.87     1       7.87
+ Martin de la Sablonniere8.35    52       7.90
+ Janne Salmijarvi        7.76    67       8.00
+ Pasi Ojala              7.64    67       8.00
+ Mark Barltrop           8.60     5       8.00
+ John Evans              7.80    63       8.00
+ Jeremy Morley           8.25    10       8.00
+ Jon Green               8.35     4       8.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.67    61       8.00
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.25    41       8.00
+ Mark Moerman            8.81    26       8.00
+ Alister Bulman          7.63     2       8.00
+ Robert P. Galloway      8.02    30       8.00
+ Elizabeth Pringle       6.85    66       8.00
+ Lee Vibber              9.25    18       8.00
+ Stephen J.F. Beckwith   7.84    67       8.00
+ Dave Smith              6.75     8       8.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth       7.56    61       8.00
+ George Zavaliagkos      7.86    58       8.00
+ Barbara Lee             8.00     1       8.00
+ Cindy Parker            8.00     1       8.00
+ Diane Lynn Cooper       8.00     1       8.00
+ Jay Fubler Harvey       8.00     1       8.00
+ Jim Bradley             8.00     1       8.00
+ Matthew R. Klempner     8.00     1       8.00
+ Preston Allen Cooper    8.00     1       8.00
+ Rob Scahubacher         8.00     1       8.00
+ Tony Towers             8.00     1       8.00
+ Greg Franks             8.05    61       8.00
+ Patrick Pollefeys       8.08     9       8.00
+ Tim Skirvin             8.08    62       8.00
+ Iain Bertram            8.30    49       8.00
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta     8.31    24       8.00
+ Rob Ditto               8.39    32       8.00
+ Mike Hopkins            8.41    63       8.00
+ Casey Miller            8.42    63       8.00
+ Keith Gill              8.54    18       8.00
+ Rich Wajda              8.65    13       8.00
+ Pete Cervasio           9.17     3       8.00
+ Doug Piligian           7.73    63       8.10
+ Richard Young           8.10     1       8.10
+ Steve Lawson            8.45     3       8.10
+ Sandeep Kumar           8.53    16       8.10
+ David Gaspar            8.70     9       8.10
+ Lars Joreteg            8.93    21       8.10
+ Chad Underkoffler       9.18    24       8.10
+ Brent Barrett           8.53    47       8.15
+ Victor Murrell          8.36     8       8.15
+ Jason Larke             8.33    27       8.20
+ Wendell Hertzell        8.73     9       8.20
+ Ron Siewert             9.26    25       8.20
+ Jason Strautman         8.78     5       8.25
+ Paul Ree                8.72    28       8.25
+ John R. Keller          8.88     2       8.25
+ Onome Okuma             8.89     9       8.25
+ Paul Geotze             9.15     4       8.25
+ Abhay Khosla            8.42    16       8.30
+ Matthew Hunter          8.89    18       8.30
+ Mark J. Musante         8.20     5       8.50
+ Erez Zadok              8.91    13       8.50
+ Inge Carlen             8.48    67       8.50
+ Ravi Nanavati           8.89    22       8.50
+ James O'Sullivan        8.14    23       8.50
+ Mark Barrucci           8.30    61       8.50
+ Rachel Peirce           8.30     5       8.50
+ Casey Law               8.31    15       8.50
+ John Lemons             8.39     9       8.50
+ Jason Wong              8.43    12       8.50
+ Alex Elsberg            8.45    37       8.50
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.49    34       8.50
+ Bruno Martin            8.50     1       8.50
+ Lynn Parks              8.50     1       8.50
+ Rob Freilich            8.50     1       8.50
+ Scott Davis             8.50     1       8.50
+ Steve Turner            8.50     1       8.50
+ W.J. O'Neil             8.50     1       8.50
+ Dennis Steinert         8.53    19       8.50
+ Kevin Borchers          8.53    17       8.50
+ Philip Weiner           8.64    20       8.50
+ Angela Wilkinson        8.67     7       8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.67    48       8.50
+ Brian De Young          8.82     6       8.50
+ Kevin Sullivan          8.90    14       8.50
+ George Copsey           8.93    21       8.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais      8.93    18       8.50
+ George Moore            9.06     7       8.50
+ David Gosha             9.09    19       8.50
+ Jim Zimmerman           9.16    22       8.50
+ Ken Moore               9.25     2       8.50
+ Isaac Weiner            8.91    16       8.55
+ Adam Bruce              9.00     7       8.60
+ Michael J. McNaughton   7.93    63       8.60
+ Ken Papai               8.68    43       8.60
+ Alison Hodges           8.63     4       8.70
+ Brett Burridge          8.98     5       8.70
+ Dan Kimmel              8.14    63       8.70
+ Andrew Daye             8.70     1       8.70
+ Jonathan Frain          8.03    63       8.75
+ Joel Gill               8.59    17       8.75
+ Bruce Oates             8.63    16       8.75
+ Jim Marino              8.75     1       8.75
+ Jarno Kokko             8.94    57       8.80
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.74    63       8.80
+ Dirk Loeding            8.76    29       8.90
+ Michael Molisani        8.90     1       8.90
+ Jon Cogan               8.08     3       9.00
+ David Newton            8.50     2       9.00
+ Don Semmens             8.98    41       9.00
+ Daniel Kuhn             8.55     7       9.00
+ John Jurcevic           8.73    63       9.00
+ Kelly Meroney           8.77    11       9.00
+ Babak Marefat           9.00     1       9.00
+ David J. Olinger        9.00     1       9.00
+ Doug Knudsen            9.00     1       9.00
+ Gary Henderson          9.00     1       9.00
+ Liav Koren              9.00     1       9.00
+ Pedro Ferreira          9.00     1       9.00
+ Johnathan Darkly        9.10     2       9.00
+ John Mulcahy            9.22    20       9.00
+ Michael J. Loux         9.30    55       9.00
+ Jeff Young              9.31     8       9.15
+ Joe Reiss               9.10    27       9.20
+ Nathalie Paquet         9.20     1       9.20
+ Gregg Guerty            9.25     1       9.25
+ Ron Peterson            8.82    29       9.30
+ Eric Hethering          9.30     1       9.30
+ Rich Vanderbilt         9.48    10       9.30
+ Lana Klier              9.45    20       9.40
+ Brian Tozzo             7.94    26       9.50
+ Chris Corcoran          8.80     3       9.50
+ Mark Poli               9.56    22       9.50
+ David Rodriguera        9.60     6       9.70
+ Dan Sias                9.69    21       9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.46    61      10.00
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+       Results - "Grey 17 is Missing"
+==================================================
+                                               
+                                # of     Grey 17
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   is Missing
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 8.02              6.93
+ Std. Dev.               0.96              1.29
+ # of Voters          1404               252   
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Toni Taia               6.03    20        0.50
+ Joe Spiegel             7.48    11        3.00
+ Daniel Efron            3.50     2        3.00
+ Mick Dundon             3.50     2        3.00
+ Rob Tulloh              3.50     2        3.00
+ Mark D. Grover          5.76    64        3.00
+ Peter Robert Smith      7.80     5        4.00
+ Bryan Ash               8.00     4        4.00
+ David M. Longanbach     4.00     1        4.00
+ Andy Johnson            6.11    64        4.00
+ Blaise Faint            8.89    20        4.00
+ Rob Ditto               8.27    33        4.50
+ Steven Grimm            7.50    63        5.00
+ Monica Cellio           7.72    45        5.00
+ Janne Salmijarvi        7.76    67        5.00
+ Larry J. Lennhoff       8.15    15        5.00
+ Fred Adams              3.50     2        5.00
+ Johnny Worthen          5.00     1        5.00
+ Scott James             5.00     1        5.00
+ Theodore Miller         5.00     1        5.00
+ Stephen Bray            6.00     2        5.00
+ Steve Fenster           7.79    62        5.00
+ John Lemons             8.05    10        5.00
+ David Wright            8.20    27        5.00
+ Kyle Ferrio             8.72    64        5.00
+ Pat Coleman             8.37     5        5.80
+ Jonathan A. Karty       5.80     1        5.80
+ Brittany Wilkins        7.99     7        5.80
+ Jim Bradley             6.95     2        5.90
+ Andrew Wright           8.03     5        6.00
+ Pasi Ojala              7.64    67        6.00
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain    7.90     5        6.00
+ Mark J. Musante         8.20     5        6.00
+ Matthew Murray          8.15    67        6.00
+ Christopher Novosad     8.52    15        6.00
+ Tim Skirvin             8.13    66        6.00
+ Laurence Clark          6.76    67        6.00
+ Mark Barltrop           8.60     5        6.00
+ James Nash              8.63     4        6.00
+ Chris Cropper           6.00     1        6.00
+ Dale Draper             6.00     1        6.00
+ George H. Bowers        6.00     1        6.00
+ Hugh Johnson            6.00     1        6.00
+ Jon Torrens             6.00     1        6.00
+ Kevin Grierson          6.00     1        6.00
+ Rob Zimmermann          6.00     1        6.00
+ Mike Kerr               6.75     2        6.00
+ Mark Hullinger          7.18    53        6.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.40    64        6.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.48    64        6.00
+ Julie Prince            7.81    61        6.00
+ Steve Lawson            7.84     4        6.00
+ Ryan Hughes             7.98     8        6.00
+ Greg Franks             8.02    62        6.00
+ Justin Garten           8.03     9        6.00
+ Ken Moore               8.17     3        6.00
+ Kevin Borchers          8.39    18        6.00
+ Don Feltham             8.49    21        6.00
+ Ramakrishuan Srikant    8.50    10        6.00
+ Alison Hodges           8.63     4        6.00
+ John Jurcevic           8.69    64        6.00
+ Paul R. Smith           8.86     8        6.00
+ Doug Piligian           7.70    64        6.10
+ Lon Franson             8.05    10        6.20
+ Chris Hayes             8.13    15        6.25
+ Michael May             7.99    67        6.30
+ Robin C. Kwong          8.90    13        6.30
+ David J. Miller         6.80     2        6.30
+ Kent Kosher             6.40     1        6.40
+ Stephen Moore           6.45     1        6.45
+ John Evans              7.80    63        6.50
+ David Strauss           7.71    65        6.50
+ Tippi Chai              8.13     8        6.50
+ Adrian Seale            8.15     5        6.50
+ Mark Duell              8.62     6        6.50
+ Jeremy Morley           8.25    10        6.50
+ Dave Lyndon             8.30     5        6.50
+ Jon Green               8.35     4        6.50
+ Adam Bruce              9.00     7        6.50
+ Robert J. Granvin       8.80     5        6.50
+ Jim Dawson              8.82    25        6.50
+ David Van Domelen       6.83     3        6.50
+ Sally Urquhart          6.75     2        6.50
+ David Rigsby            7.00     2        6.50
+ Richard Young           7.30     2        6.50
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.37    64        6.50
+ Thomas Aylesworth       7.54    62        6.50
+ Dylan Northrup          7.90    58        6.50
+ James O'Sullivan        8.08    24        6.50
+ Arturo Magidin          8.20    10        6.50
+ Jonathan Danieley       8.25     2        6.50
+ Iain Bertram            8.26    50        6.50
+ Alex Elsberg            8.39    38        6.50
+ Brian Bresnahan         8.42    12        6.50
+ Darrin Earl             8.43     7        6.50
+ Brent McCrackin         8.47     9        6.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.47    24        6.50
+ Paul Ree                8.65    29        6.50
+ Ed Hopkins              8.66    22        6.50
+ David Broitman          9.02    15        6.50
+ David Gosha             8.33    42        6.65
+ Brian Tozzo             7.90    27        6.80
+ Liav Koren              7.90     2        6.80
+ Evelyn Pypes            7.97     3        6.80
+ David Gaspar            8.51    10        6.80
+ Michael Gemmell         7.75    51        6.85
+ Chris Shabsin           8.62    18        7.00
+ Henrik Herranen         7.76    67        7.00
+ Jon Cogan               8.08     3        7.00
+ Paul McKeown            8.47     5        7.00
+ James Stern             8.75     4        7.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.73    63        7.00
+ Mark Moerman            8.81    26        7.00
+ Melanie Dymond Harper   8.73    21        7.00
+ Dirk Loeding            8.76    29        7.00
+ Dave Holman             7.00     1        7.00
+ George Hall             7.00     1        7.00
+ P.L. Beuerlien          7.00     1        7.00
+ Tom Woodfin             7.00     1        7.00
+ Brian McLaughlin        7.38     2        7.00
+ Jay Fubler Harvey       7.50     2        7.00
+ Patrick Pollefeys       7.98    10        7.00
+ Rob Milroy              7.99     7        7.00
+ Doug Knudsen            8.00     2        7.00
+ Steve Bittrolff         8.13     4        7.00
+ Casey Law               8.23    16        7.00
+ Antonio Collins         8.24    20        7.00
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.25    41        7.00
+ Steve VanHaren          8.31     4        7.00
+ Yi-Mei Chng             8.53    13        7.00
+ Chris Neeland           8.54    18        7.00
+ Philip Weiner           8.56    21        7.00
+ Randy Crist             8.56     4        7.00
+ Michael Benedetto       8.65    10        7.00
+ Thomas Catsburg         8.72    23        7.00
+ Isaac Weiner            8.80    17        7.00
+ Bob Ford                8.90     5        7.00
+ Michael Emond           8.64     5        7.10
+ Jim Kreuziger           7.10     1        7.10
+ Bruno Martin            7.85     2        7.20
+ Ken Papai               8.64    44        7.20
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen      7.00     2        7.25
+ Alister Bulman          7.63     2        7.25
+ Aldo Lafrate            7.88     2        7.25
+ Scott Davis             7.88     2        7.25
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.91    60        7.25
+ Martin Coghlan          8.34    62        7.30
+ Keith Gill              8.47    19        7.30
+ Jeff Caddick            8.57     6        7.30
+ Joe Reiss               9.04    28        7.30
+ Erez Zadok              8.91    13        7.50
+ Dan Casey               8.41    34        7.50
+ Larry Brown             6.75     2        7.50
+ Dennis Waltman          7.00     2        7.50
+ Burt Clothier           7.13    64        7.50
+ Andy McClinsey          7.25     2        7.50
+ David Wright (2)        7.50     1        7.50
+ Dennis Collins          7.50     1        7.50
+ Victor Gonzalez         7.50     1        7.50
+ Mike Bell               7.69     2        7.50
+ Rob Scahubacher         7.75     2        7.50
+ Wayne Wallace           7.94     8        7.50
+ Mike Heffner            8.06    64        7.50
+ Brandon Ohrns           8.37    13        7.50
+ Michael Lee             8.38    48        7.50
+ Daniel Kuhn             8.42     8        7.50
+ Dennis Steinert         8.48    20        7.50
+ Tony Kimmet             9.17    12        7.50
+ Patrick B. Hall         8.00    37        7.60
+ Ben Lomax               8.04     8        7.60
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky     8.73    26        7.60
+ Alexandre Frappier      8.85     3        7.60
+ Victor Murrell          8.28     9        7.65
+ Jason Strautman         8.78     5        7.70
+ Skye Michael            7.70     1        7.70
+ Dale Brouwer            8.18    63        7.70
+ Susan Neylan            8.20    63        7.70
+ Dave Kuhn               7.98     8        7.75
+ Robert P. Galloway      8.02    30        7.75
+ Diane Flemming          7.63     2        7.75
+ Chris Christopher       7.75     1        7.75
+ Jonathan Frain          8.03    64        7.75
+ Rob Freilich            8.13     2        7.75
+ John R. Keller          8.50     3        7.75
+ Jennifer Eisenbart      9.09    15        7.80
+ Dan Kimmel              8.13    64        7.80
+ Mike Hopkins            8.40    64        7.80
+ Chad Underkoffler       9.12    25        7.80
+ W.J. O'Neil             8.18     2        7.85
+ Jarno Kokko             8.94    57        7.90
+ Andree Fontenot         8.22    64        7.95
+ Ryan Gavigan            8.75     5        8.00
+ Elizabeth Pringle       6.85    66        8.00
+ Ali Hopkins             8.86     5        8.00
+ Ravi Nanavati           8.85    22        8.00
+ Inge Carlen             8.48    67        8.00
+ Lee Vibber              9.25    18        8.00
+ Terry Rubenstein        7.75     2        8.00
+ John Abbott             7.81    62        8.00
+ Michael J. McNaughton   7.93    64        8.00
+ Joseph Varga            8.00     1        8.00
+ Judy Bell               8.00     1        8.00
+ Robert A. Zimmermann    8.00     8        8.00
+ Rachel Peirce           8.25     6        8.00
+ Mark Barrucci           8.29    62        8.00
+ Eric Duranti            8.38     2        8.00
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.47    35        8.00
+ David Newton            8.50     2        8.00
+ Aaron J. Redd           8.51    60        8.00
+ Jonathan Stanley        8.63     8        8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.65    49        8.00
+ Jay Mohney              8.69    25        8.00
+ L.J. Sparvero           8.80    14        8.00
+ Matthew Hunter          8.85    19        8.00
+ Paul Geotze             8.92     5        8.00
+ George Moore            8.93     8        8.00
+ Don Semmens             8.98    41        8.00
+ Chris Durie             9.03    22        8.00
+ Ron Siewert             9.21    26        8.00
+ Eugenio Rivera          9.22    15        8.00
+ Mike Ingbritson         8.95    21        8.05
+ Michael Dearden         8.86    10        8.20
+ Chris Keroach           7.10     2        8.20
+ Len Rafuse              8.18    22        8.20
+ Casey Miller            8.41    64        8.20
+ Tim Thoenes             8.05    11        8.30
+ Mark Tenney             8.49    17        8.30
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.74    64        8.30
+ George Copsey           8.90    22        8.35
+ Dan Dassow              7.25    64        8.46
+ Brent Barrett           8.53    47        8.50
+ Stephen J.F. Beckwith   7.84    67        8.50
+ Dave Hill               7.61    53        8.50
+ Jeff Schultz            8.15    64        8.50
+ Ron Peterson            8.81    30        8.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais      8.91    19        8.50
+ Dan Sias                9.64    22        8.50
+ Brett Burridge          8.98     5        8.70
+ Lee Somerman            7.84    27        8.70
+ Michael J. Loux         9.29    56        8.70
+ Lars Joreteg            8.93    22        8.80
+ Sheldon Smith           9.14    16        8.90
+ Jeff Young              9.27     9        8.95
+ David Rodriguera        9.60     6        9.00
+ Paula Berinstein        8.24    14        9.00
+ Tim Guidry              9.00     1        9.00
+ Spyros A. Svoronos      9.08    13        9.00
+ Mark Poli               9.54    23        9.00
+ Brad Bourgeois          9.35     2        9.20
+ Vic Forsman             9.25    17        9.25
+ Nate Frenczak           8.78     9        9.50
+ Rich Vanderbilt         9.50    11        9.70
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+ Results - "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place"
+=======================================================
+                                         And the Rock
+                                 # of    Cried Out, No
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   Hiding Place
+ ------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.02               8.71
+ Std. Dev.                0.95               0.77
+ # of Voters           1438                248
+ ------------------------------------------------------
+ Benoit Langevin          7.67    12         5.00
+ Minchul Cha              5.67     3         5.50
+ Mark D. Grover           5.76    65         6.00
+ Doug Knudsen             7.50     3         6.50
+ Paula Berinstein         8.12    15         6.50
+ Andy Johnson             6.12    65         7.00
+ Jonathan A. Karty        6.40     2         7.00
+ Chris Cropper            6.50     2         7.00
+ Andrew Chiang            7.12    34         7.00
+ Michael J. Brown         7.17     3         7.00
+ Matthew Gedny            8.57     7         7.00
+ John Evans               7.80    63         7.30
+ Chris Shabsin            8.62    18         7.50
+ Andrew Wright            8.03     5         7.50
+ Hugh Johnson             6.75     2         7.50
+ Allan Jenoff             7.40    65         7.50
+ Ben Moore                7.50     3         7.50
+ Scott James              7.50     3         7.50
+ David Strauss            7.71    65         7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.03    65         7.50
+ Joel Gill                8.46    18         7.50
+ David J. Miller          7.05     3         7.55
+ Patrick B. Hall          8.00    37         7.70
+ Doug Piligian            7.70    65         7.70
+ Steve Fenster            7.79    63         7.80
+ James Prince             8.24    36         7.90
+ Mark Hullinger           7.21    55         8.00
+ Steven Grimm             7.50    63         8.00
+ Henrik Herranen          7.76    67         8.00
+ Mark J. Musante          8.20     5         8.00
+ Keven Soulsby            9.00     8         8.00
+ David Burgin             9.08     3         8.00
+ Tippi Chai               8.13     8         8.00
+ Pasi Ojala               7.64    67         8.00
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.90     5         8.00
+ David M. Longanbach      6.00     2         8.00
+ Andy Brathwaite          6.95    57         8.00
+ George H. Bowers         7.00     2         8.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.14    65         8.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.49    65         8.00
+ Steve Jacobs             7.88     4         8.00
+ Dylan Northrup           7.90    59         8.00
+ James Hart               8.00     1         8.00
+ Jamison Wieser           8.00     1         8.00
+ Greg Franks              8.02    63         8.00
+ Martha L. Fager          8.23    15         8.00
+ Chris Swanson            8.27    15         8.00
+ David Lee                8.38     6         8.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.85    21         8.00
+ Vic Forsman              9.18    18         8.15
+ Jim Sorenson             8.34    32         8.20
+ George Zavaliagkos       7.87    59         8.20
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.02     4         8.20
+ Judy Bell                8.10     2         8.20
+ William Hrabusicky       8.20     1         8.20
+ Philip Weiner            8.54    22         8.20
+ Joe Spiegel              7.48    11         8.25
+ Patrick Pollefeys        8.00    11         8.25
+ Jon Cogan                8.08     3         8.25
+ George Copsey            8.87    23         8.25
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.27    57         8.30
+ Lee Somerman             7.86    28         8.40
+ Dan Kimmel               8.14    65         8.40
+ Doug Nadle               8.24    27         8.40
+ Jeff Caddick             8.54     7         8.40
+ Ken Papai                8.64    45         8.40
+ Joe Sislow               9.06     6         8.45
+ Matthew Murray           8.15    67         8.50
+ Paul McKeown             8.47     5         8.50
+ Monica Cellio            7.72    45         8.50
+ James Stern              8.75     4         8.50
+ Adrian Seale             8.15     5         8.50
+ Erez Zadok               8.91    13         8.50
+ Jonathan Rynd            7.25     2         8.50
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.38    65         8.50
+ David Rigsby             7.50     3         8.50
+ Andy McClinsey           7.67     3         8.50
+ Mike Bell                7.96     3         8.50
+ Steve Lawson             7.97     5         8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.23    11         8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.25    42         8.50
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.26    38         8.50
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.27    26         8.50
+ Aaron J. Redd            8.51    61         8.50
+ Michael Bellomo          8.69    12         8.50
+ Kelly Meroney            8.75    12         8.50
+ Lloyd Tapper             9.13    23         8.50
+ L.E. McClintock          8.02     4         8.60
+ Lon Franson              8.10    11         8.60
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.48    36         8.60
+ Chris Neeland            8.54    19         8.60
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.65    50         8.60
+ Alexandre Frappier       8.79     4         8.60
+ Ron Siewert              9.19    27         8.60
+ Pat Coleman              8.20    53         8.65
+ Brett Burridge           8.98     5         8.70
+ Mark Duell               8.62     6         8.70
+ John Abbott              7.83    63         8.70
+ Michael J. McNaughton    7.94    65         8.70
+ Ben Lomax                8.11     9         8.70
+ Len Rafuse               8.20    23         8.70
+ Louis Amari              8.57    40         8.70
+ Jay Waller               8.71    31         8.70
+ William Gareau           8.44    30         8.75
+ Jeremy Morley            8.25    10         8.75
+ Ryan Gavigan             8.75     5         8.75
+ Larry Brown              7.42     3         8.75
+ Dave Hill                7.63    54         8.75
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.92    61         8.75
+ Matthew R. Klempner      8.33     3         8.75
+ Bruce Oates              8.56    18         8.75
+ Paul Ree                 8.65    30         8.75
+ Brian McLaughlin         7.85     3         8.80
+ Scott Davis              8.18     3         8.80
+ Dale Brouwer             8.19    64         8.80
+ Ed Hopkins               8.67    23         8.80
+ Christopher Novosad      8.52    15         8.90
+ Michael Toone            9.39     8         8.90
+ Brian Tozzo              7.93    28         8.90
+ Philip Stephens          7.97     3         8.90
+ Ryan Hughes              8.08     9         8.90
+ Mike Lord                8.30     3         8.90
+ Martin Coghlan           8.35    63         8.90
+ Mike Hopkins             8.41    65         8.90
+ Needa Mulla              8.42    16         8.90
+ Dennis Steinert          8.50    21         8.90
+ Jason Wong               8.54    31         8.90
+ David Gaspar             8.55    11         8.90
+ Onome Okuma              8.89    10         8.90
+ Fred Adams               5.60     5         9.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.81    26         9.00
+ Dan Casey                8.41    34         9.00
+ Dave Lyndon              8.30     5         9.00
+ Elizabeth Pringle        6.85    66         9.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.73    63         9.00
+ Bryan Ash                8.00     4         9.00
+ Chris Hayes              8.13    15         9.00
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.09    15         9.00
+ Chris Keroack            9.25     2         9.00
+ Adam Bruce               9.00     7         9.00
+ Ali Hopkins              8.86     5         9.00
+ Janne Salmijarvi         7.76    67         9.00
+ Peter Robert Smith       7.80     5         9.00
+ Paul Scott               9.67     3         9.00
+ Johnny Worthen           7.00     2         9.00
+ Robert Dowers            7.38     2         9.00
+ Rich Brown               7.55    14         9.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.56    63         9.00
+ Matt Bovee               7.75     2         9.00
+ Jay Fubler Harvey        8.00     3         9.00
+ Tim Thoenes              8.13    12         9.00
+ Iain Bertram             8.27    51         9.00
+ Liav Koren               8.27     3         9.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.29    34         9.00
+ Mark Barrucci            8.30    63         9.00
+ Jon Green                8.35     4         9.00
+ Jim Marino               8.37     3         9.00
+ John Shortess            8.38    22         9.00
+ Ken Moore                8.38     4         9.00
+ Michael Lee              8.39    49         9.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.41    39         9.00
+ Rob Freilich             8.42     3         9.00
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.48     9         9.00
+ Alfred Hom               8.50     2         9.00
+ Rich Wajda               8.67    14         9.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.71    26         9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.81    18         9.00
+ L.J. Sparvero            8.82    15         9.00
+ Adam Leroy               8.83     6         9.00
+ Lars Joreteg             8.93    23         9.00
+ Mike Ingbritson          8.96    22         9.00
+ Linda E. Gustavson       9.00     1         9.00
+ Ron Strong               9.00     1         9.00
+ Vince Beltz              9.00     1         9.00
+ Jussi Valkiainen         8.60    63         9.10
+ Kenneth E. Buzzard       8.76     5         9.10
+ Brent Barrett            8.45    67         9.10
+ Kevin Sullivan           8.90    14         9.10
+ David Broitman           9.03    16         9.10
+ Tim Guidry               9.05     2         9.10
+ Dan Owsley               9.10     1         9.10
+ Michael May              7.99    67         9.20
+ Robert J. Granvin        8.80     5         9.20
+ Jim Dawson               8.82    25         9.20
+ David Rodriguera         9.60     6         9.20
+ Jarno Kokko              8.94    57         9.20
+ Colin O'Connell          8.38    13         9.20
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.74    65         9.20
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.75    27         9.20
+ Chris Durie              9.04    23         9.20
+ Joe Reiss                9.04    29         9.20
+ Julien Cyr               8.91    11         9.23
+ Dave Kuhn                7.98     8         9.25
+ Ravi Nanavati            8.85    22         9.25
+ Jen Roth                 7.58     3         9.25
+ Jonathan Frain           8.05    65         9.25
+ Aldo Lafrate             8.33     3         9.25
+ John R. Keller           8.69     4         9.25
+ John Jurcevic            8.70    65         9.25
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.93    20         9.25
+ Michael Dearden          8.86    10         9.30
+ Melanie Dymond Harper    8.73    21         9.30
+ Stephen Anderson         9.33     3         9.30
+ Jeff Schultz             8.17    65         9.30
+ Randy Crist              8.71     5         9.30
+ Gregg Gugerty            8.92     3         9.30
+ Jim Zimmerman            9.12    24         9.30
+ Jason Strautman          8.78     5         9.35
+ Jeff Young               9.27    10         9.35
+ Casey Miller             8.43    65         9.40
+ Ron Peterson             8.83    31         9.40
+ James V. Di Toro III     8.48     3         9.45
+ James O'Sullivan         8.21    27         9.50
+ Michael Emond            8.64     5         9.50
+ Matthew Hunter           8.93    22         9.50
+ Larry J. Lennhoff        8.15    15         9.50
+ Don Semmens              9.01    43         9.50
+ Tim Skirvin              8.13    66         9.50
+ Greg Boug                8.80    23         9.50
+ Robin C. Kwong           8.90    13         9.50
+ Toni Taia                6.03    20         9.50
+ David Van Domelen        6.83     3         9.50
+ Jon Torrens              7.75     2         9.50
+ James Kiley              8.00    14         9.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.25    63         9.50
+ George Moore             8.99     9         9.50
+ Nathalie Paquet          9.23     3         9.50
+ Michael J. Loux          9.29    57         9.50
+ Andy Svendsen            9.50     1         9.50
+ Brent Neal               9.50     1         9.50
+ Sheldon Smith            9.16    17         9.60
+ Mark Poli                9.52    24         9.60
+ Dan Dassow               7.28    65         9.66
+ Dirk Loeding             8.76    29         9.70
+ Rachel Peirce            8.47     7         9.80
+ Barry P. Jones           9.80     1         9.80
+ Stephen J.F. Beckwith    7.84    67         9.90
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.74    65         9.90
+ Laurence Clark           6.76    67        10.00
+ Mark Barltrop            8.60     5        10.00
+ James Nash               8.63     4        10.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.25    18        10.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.02    30        10.00
+ Inge Carlen              8.48    67        10.00
+ Kyle Sutkaitis           7.33    16        10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.27    16        10.00
+ Alan Hill               10.00     1        10.00
+ Tom Zych                10.00     1        10.00
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+       Results - "Shadow Dancing"
+================================================
+                                # of    Shadow
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   Dancing
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                 8.02            9.25  
+ Std. Dev.               0.95            0.63  
+ # of Voters          1468             269     
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Minchul Cha             5.75     4      6.00
+ Fred Adams              5.60     5      7.00  
+ Mark D. Grover          5.78    66      7.00
+ Andy Johnson            6.14    66      7.00
+ Andy Svendsen           8.25     2      7.00
+ Colin O'Connell         8.31    14      7.45
+ Andrew Chiang           7.13    35      7.50
+ Allan Jenoff            7.40    66      7.50
+ Chris Swanson           8.22    16      7.50
+ Harry Benkiel           7.40    67      7.60  
+ Mark Hullinger          7.33    67      8.00  
+ Steven Grimm            7.50    63      8.00  
+ Mark Moerman            8.81    26      8.00  
+ Bret Rudnick            6.67     3      8.00
+ Shlomi Harif            6.98     5      8.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.50    66      8.00
+ Robert A. Zimmermann    7.82    11      8.00
+ Bill Svitavsky          9.00     2      8.00
+ Greg Francis            8.72    16      8.25
+ Dan Casey               8.41    34      8.50  
+ Doug Knudsen            7.75     4      8.50
+ Dave Kuhn               7.98     8      8.50
+ Rob Scahubacher         8.00     4      8.50
+ David Wright            8.21    28      8.50
+ David Lawson            8.50     1      8.50
+ Degan Outridge          8.50     1      8.50
+ Aaron J. Redd           8.51    62      8.50
+ Doug Nadle              8.26    28      8.60
+ Dylan Northrup          7.92    60      8.70
+ Alexandre Frappier      8.77     5      8.70
+ Dave Lyndon             8.30     5      8.73  
+ James O'Sullivan        8.21    27      8.75  
+ Toni Figl               6.94     8      8.75
+ Thomas Aylesworth       7.58    64      8.75
+ Blake Sorenson          7.74     7      8.75
+ Ben Moore               7.81     4      8.75
+ Patrick Pollefeys       8.06    12      8.75
+ James Prince            8.25    37      8.75
+ Rob Ditto               8.30    35      8.75
+ Brandon Ohrns           8.39    14      8.75
+ Philip Weiner           8.55    23      8.75
+ Mike Heffner            8.04    66      8.80
+ Liav Koren              8.40     4      8.80
+ Mike Ingbritson         8.95    23      8.80
+ Matthew Murray          8.15    67      8.90  
+ Wes Makin               8.14    20      8.90
+ Dan Kimmel              8.15    66      8.90
+ Mike Hopkins            8.42    66      8.90
+ Joe Reiss               9.04    30      8.90
+ Andree Fontenot         8.25    66      8.99
+ Jim Sorenson            8.34    32      9.00  
+ Patrick B. Hall         8.00    37      9.00  
+ John Evans              7.80    63      9.00  
+ Mark J. Musante         8.20     5      9.00  
+ James Nash              8.63     4      9.00  
+ Keven Soulsby           9.00     8      9.00  
+ Michael Emond           8.64     5      9.00  
+ Andrei Mendis           8.93     3      9.00  
+ Matthew Hunter          8.93    22      9.00  
+ Laurence Clark          6.76    67      9.00  
+ Elizabeth Pringle       6.85    66      9.00  
+ Jeff Rupley             7.73    63      9.00  
+ Henrik Herranen         7.76    67      9.00  
+ John Abbott             7.88    65      9.00  
+ David Van Domelen       7.90     5      9.00  
+ Bryan Ash               8.00     4      9.00  
+ Gregg Kellogg           8.31    44      9.00  
+ William Gareau          8.44    30      9.00  
+ Mark Barltrop           8.60     5      9.00  
+ Chris Cropper           7.33     3      9.00
+ Victor Gonzalez         7.40     5      9.00
+ Kyle Sutkaitis          7.42    17      9.00
+ Hugh Johnson            7.50     3      9.00
+ George H. Bowers        7.67     3      9.00
+ Doug Piligian           7.72    66      9.00
+ Lee Somerman            7.90    29      9.00
+ Ryan Dean               7.93    20      9.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.94    62      9.00
+ Andy McClinsey          8.00     4      9.00
+ Diane Lynn Cooper       8.00     4      9.00
+ Greg Franks             8.03    64      9.00
+ Damien R. Sullivan      8.11    46      9.00
+ Lon Franson             8.17    12      9.00
+ Ben Lomax               8.20    10      9.00
+ Preston Allen Cooper    8.25     4      9.00
+ Terry Rubenstein        8.25     4      9.00
+ Arturo Magidin          8.29    12      9.00
+ Martin Coghlan          8.36    64      9.00
+ Alex Elsberg            8.43    40      9.00
+ Joyce Ostertag          8.43     5      9.00
+ David Lee               8.46     7      9.00
+ Rachel Peirce           8.54     8      9.00
+ Ramakrishuan Srikant    8.58    12      9.00
+ Alfred Hom              8.67     3      9.00
+ Brian De Young          8.84     7      9.00
+ Alida Saxon             9.00     1      9.00
+ Gary Waugh              9.00     1      9.00
+ Michael Bolie           9.00     1      9.00
+ Brad Kukuk              9.20     2      9.00
+ Janice McMahon          9.50     2      9.00
+ Scott W. Powers         9.50     2      9.00
+ Louis Amari             8.58    41      9.10
+ David Gaspar            8.59    12      9.10
+ Jim Bradley             7.80     4      9.15
+ Victor Murrell          8.37    10      9.15
+ Jeff Young              9.26    11      9.15
+ Jeremy Morley           8.25    10      9.20  
+ David J. Miller         7.59     4      9.20
+ Dale Brouwer            8.20    65      9.20
+ Len Rafuse              8.25    24      9.20
+ Matthew MacKenzie       8.28    39      9.20
+ Lou Wainwright          8.39    50      9.20
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.50    37      9.20
+ Jeff Caddick            8.62     8      9.20
+ Ken Papai               8.65    46      9.20
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.66    51      9.20
+ L.J. Sparvero           8.84    16      9.20
+ Paul Geotze             8.90     7      9.20
+ Adam Waltman            9.20     1      9.20
+ Michael Gemmell         7.77    52      9.25  
+ David Burgin            9.08     3      9.25  
+ Larry Brown             7.88     4      9.25
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen      7.94     4      9.25
+ Matthew R. Klempner     8.56     4      9.25
+ Chris Neeland           8.58    20      9.25
+ Jim Marino              8.59     4      9.25
+ Bruce Oates             8.60    19      9.25
+ Rob Freilich            8.63     4      9.25
+ Thomas Catsburg         8.73    25      9.25
+ Ron Siewert             9.19    28      9.25
+ Paul McKeown            8.47     5      9.30  
+ Ryan Hughes             8.20    10      9.30
+ Jay Fubler Harvey       8.33     4      9.30
+ Casey Law               8.34    18      9.30
+ Edward Lee              8.50    18      9.30
+ Dennis Steinert         8.53    22      9.30
+ Daniel Kuhn             8.57    10      9.30
+ Ed Hopkins              8.70    24      9.30
+ Brett Burridge          8.98     5      9.40  
+ Jussi Valkiainen        8.60    63      9.40
+ Paul R. Smith           8.92     9      9.40
+ Mike Lord               8.59     4      9.45
+ George Copsey           8.90    24      9.45
+ Jason Strautman         8.78     5      9.50  
+ Ravi Nanavati           8.85    22      9.50  
+ Henry Lebovic           8.64    22      9.50  
+ Larry J. Lennhoff       8.15    15      9.50  
+ Joe Spiegel             7.48    11      9.50  
+ Monica Cellio           7.73    45      9.50  
+ Michael May             7.99    67      9.50  
+ Kevin Borchers          8.50    21      9.50  
+ Chris Shabsin           8.62    18      9.50  
+ Mark Duell              8.62     6      9.50  
+ James Stern             8.75     4      9.50  
+ Jennifer Eisenbart      9.09    15      9.50  
+ Lee Vibber              9.25    18      9.50  
+ Mark McGehee            6.32    41      9.50
+ Burt Clothier           7.17    66      9.50
+ David M. Longanbach     7.17     3      9.50
+ David E. Bath           7.46    42      9.50
+ Michael Christianson    7.88     4      9.50
+ Rob Milroy              8.04     9      9.50
+ Chris Hayes             8.13    15      9.50
+ Tippi Chai              8.13     8      9.50
+ Jeff Schultz            8.19    66      9.50
+ Tim Thoenes             8.24    13      9.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.      8.27    64      9.50
+ JoAnna Abes             8.29     6      9.50
+ Richard Young           8.30     4      9.50
+ Scott Davis             8.51     4      9.50
+ Judy Bell               8.57     3      9.50
+ Paul Ree                8.68    31      9.50
+ Jay Waller              8.73    32      9.50
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.75    66      9.50
+ Michael Bellomo         8.75    13      9.50
+ Jonathan Danieley       8.81     4      9.50
+ Ron Peterson            8.85    32      9.50
+ Onome Okuma             8.95    11      9.50
+ David Broitman          9.05    17      9.50
+ Chris Durie             9.06    24      9.50
+ Tony Kimmet             9.20    13      9.50
+ John Mulcahy            9.23    21      9.50
+ Chris Keroack           9.25     2      9.50
+ Susan Liew              9.50     1      9.50
+ Adam Bruce              9.00     7      9.60  
+ Casey Miller            8.45    66      9.60
+ Michael Dearden         8.86    10      9.60
+ John R. Keller          8.87     5      9.60
+ Pat Coleman             8.20    53      9.65  
+ Randall L. Moyers       9.55     3      9.65
+ Stephen Anderson        8.83     4      9.70  
+ Annemarie Taylor        9.46    14      9.70  
+ Melanie Dymond Harper   8.73    21      9.70  
+ Kenneth E. Buzzard      8.76     5      9.70  
+ Jonathan A. Karty       7.50     3      9.70
+ Christopher Novosad     8.52    15      9.70
+ George Hall             8.63     3      9.70
+ Dan Dassow              7.32    66      9.71
+ Adrian Seale            8.15     5      9.75  
+ Don Semmens             9.03    44      9.75  
+ Brent Barrett           8.45    67      9.75  
+ Ryan Gavigan            8.75     5      9.75  
+ Brian Tozzo             8.00    29      9.75
+ David Rigsby            8.06     4      9.75
+ Robert Dowers           8.17     3      9.75
+ David Gosha             8.41    66      9.75
+ Aldo Lafrate            8.69     4      9.75
+ Jay Mohney              8.74    27      9.75
+ Andre Lafrance          8.77    12      9.75
+ Isaac Weiner            8.86    19      9.75
+ George Moore            9.07    10      9.75
+ David J. Olinger        9.38     2      9.75
+ Justin D. O'Brien       9.75     1      9.75
+ Andrew Wright           8.03     5      9.80  
+ Dirk Loeding            8.83    31      9.80  
+ Ali Hopkins             8.86     5      9.80  
+ Kevin Sullivan          8.90    14      9.80  
+ Andrew Murray           9.90     2      9.80  
+ Sally Urquhart          8.08     4      9.80
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.57    26      9.80
+ Steve VanHaren          8.61     5      9.80
+ Laura Leslie            8.76     4      9.80
+ Shirley Hunt            8.76    33      9.80
+ Lars Joreteg            8.97    24      9.80
+ Michael J. Loux         9.30    58      9.80
+ Dave Holman             8.42     2      9.84
+ Ken Moore               8.67     5      9.85
+ Chris Lawrence          9.42     9      9.85
+ Jacab Lazarus           9.85     1      9.85
+ Alison Hodges           8.63     4      9.90  
+ Robert J. Granvin       8.80     5      9.90  
+ Jim Dawson              8.82    25      9.90  
+ David Rodriguera        9.60     6      9.90  
+ Richard H. Freeman      9.84     5      9.90  
+ Erich Weiger            9.70     2      9.90
+ Jon Green               8.67     5      9.95  
+ Eugenio Rivera          9.31    17      9.95
+ Mike Bell               8.47     4      9.99
+ Pasi Ojala              7.64    67     10.00  
+ Peter Robert Smith      7.80     5     10.00  
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain    7.90     5     10.00  
+ Janne Salmijarvi        7.76    67     10.00  
+ Stephen J.F. Beckwith   7.84    67     10.00  
+ Robert P. Galloway      8.02    30     10.00  
+ Tim Skirvin             8.13    66     10.00  
+ Inge Carlen             8.48    67     10.00  
+ Greg Boug               8.80    23     10.00  
+ Erez Zadok              8.91    13     10.00  
+ Jarno Kokko             8.94    57     10.00  
+ Michael Toone           9.39     8     10.00  
+ Paul Scott              9.67     3     10.00  
+ Susan David            10.00     2     10.00  
+ Benoit Langevin         7.85    13     10.00
+ Paula Berinstein        8.24    16     10.00
+ Iain Bertram            8.31    52     10.00
+ Tim Craig               8.33     9     10.00
+ L.E. McClintock         8.42     5     10.00
+ James Smith             8.68    14     10.00
+ Kyle Ferrio             8.76    66     10.00
+ Kelly Meroney           8.85    13     10.00
+ Robin C. Kwong          8.90    13     10.00
+ Eric Duranti            8.92     3     10.00
+ Randy Crist             8.93     6     10.00
+ Michael Molisani        9.10     4     10.00
+ Gregg Gugerty           9.19     4     10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.48    64     10.00
+ Dan Sias                9.64    24     10.00
+ Roger A. Sneed          9.65    10     10.00
+ Vijay Pande            10.00     1     10.00
diff --git a/p5/066 b/p5/066
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+       Results - "Z'ha'dum"
+==================================================
+                                 # of             
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   Z'ha'dum 
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.03             9.73   
+ Std. Dev.                0.95             0.56   
+ # of Voters           1527              356      
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ David Gosha              8.34    67       4.00
+ Toni Taia                6.05    22       5.50
+ Rose Frame               7.00     1       7.00
+ Mark Hullinger           7.34    68       8.00   
+ Fred Adams               5.60     5       8.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.41    67       8.00
+ Andrew Johnston          8.17     3       8.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.77    23       8.00
+ Harry Benkiel            7.40    67       8.30
+ Joel E. Natt             8.29    26       8.40
+ Terry Rubenstein         8.58     6       8.50   
+ Minchul Cha              6.30     5       8.50
+ Chris Swanson            8.24    17       8.50
+ Jim Sorenson             8.34    32       8.50
+ Jim Hanlon               8.50     1       8.50
+ Colin O'Connell          8.34    15       8.70
+ Michael Gemmell          7.77    52       8.90
+ Steven Grimm             7.50    64       9.00   
+ Mark D. Grover           5.83    67       9.00
+ Bret Rudnick             7.25     4       9.00
+ Kyle Sutkaitis           7.51    18       9.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.52    67       9.00
+ Pasi Ojala               7.64    67       9.00
+ Peter Robert Smith       7.80     5       9.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.96    63       9.00
+ Adrian Seale             8.15     5       9.00
+ Alex Feinman             8.40     5       9.00
+ Aaron J. Redd            8.52    63       9.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.59    27       9.00
+ Doug Piligian            7.74    67       9.10
+ Jason Strautman          8.78     5       9.10
+ Jeff T. Barrie           8.79     7       9.10
+ Brittany Wilkins         8.18    10       9.20
+ Ravi Nanavati            8.85    22       9.20
+ Heather Grove            9.55     2       9.20
+ Patrick B. Hall          8.00    37       9.25
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen       8.20     5       9.25
+ David Wright             8.25    29       9.25
+ Mark McGehee             6.42    42       9.30
+ Mike Hopkins             8.43    67       9.30
+ Mike Smart               9.40     2       9.30
+ Benoit Langevin          7.96    14       9.40
+ Wes Makin                8.20    21       9.40
+ Liav Koren               8.60     5       9.40
+ Brett Burridge           8.98     5       9.40
+ John Shortess            8.43    24       9.50   
+ Toni Figl                7.23     9       9.50
+ John Evans               7.80    63       9.50
+ Steve Fenster            7.85    65       9.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.90     5       9.50
+ Brian Jacobson           7.96    23       9.50
+ Doug Knudsen             8.10     5       9.50
+ Dave Thomer              8.16    26       9.50
+ Dan Kimmel               8.17    67       9.50
+ Patrick Pollefeys        8.17    13       9.50
+ Mark J. Musante          8.20     5       9.50
+ James O'Sullivan         8.21    27       9.50
+ Uwe Halfter              8.26    44       9.50
+ Andy McClinsey           8.30     5       9.50
+ Rob Scahubacher          8.30     5       9.50
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.31    40       9.50
+ Ben Lomax                8.32    11       9.50
+ Philip Stephens          8.35     4       9.50
+ Casey Law                8.40    19       9.50
+ Lou Wainwright           8.42    51       9.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.45    41       9.50
+ Lynn Parks               8.50     5       9.50
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.53    20       9.50
+ Philip Weiner            8.59    24       9.50
+ James Nash               8.63     4       9.50
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.65    11       9.50
+ Sonja Mendoza            8.77     8       9.50
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.80    10       9.50
+ Keven Soulsby            9.00     8       9.50
+ Tony Damiani             9.06     9       9.50
+ George Moore             9.11    11       9.50
+ David M. Carpenter       9.50     2       9.50
+ Gary Weinfurther         9.50     1       9.50
+ Henry C. Schmitt         9.50     1       9.50
+ Mary Draganis            9.50     1       9.50
+ Ed Hopkins               8.73    25       9.60
+ Laura Leslie             8.93     5       9.60
+ Katherine Schmitt        9.60     1       9.60
+ Joe Rouvier              9.63     1       9.63
+ David J. Miller          8.00     5       9.65
+ Keith Gill               8.57    22       9.65
+ James Prince             8.29    38       9.70
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.50     6       9.70
+ David Lee                8.62     8       9.70
+ Jim Veneskey             8.85     2       9.70
+ Dave Thomas              9.60     2       9.70
+ Dan Dassow               7.36    67       9.72
+ Greg Francis             8.79    18       9.75   
+ Mark Smith               8.04     6       9.75
+ Hugh Johnson             8.06     4       9.75
+ Jen Roth                 8.20     5       9.75
+ Jeremy Morley            8.25    10       9.75
+ Brandon Ohrns            8.48    15       9.75
+ Preston Allen Cooper     8.55     5       9.75
+ Bruce Oates              8.66    20       9.75
+ Paul Ree                 8.71    32       9.75
+ Rich Wajda               8.74    15       9.75
+ Isaac Weiner             8.90    20       9.75
+ Ben Trumbull             8.98    11       9.75
+ Onome Okuma              9.01    12       9.75
+ Ron Siewert              9.22    30       9.80   
+ David Levine             7.93    67       9.80
+ Michael J. McNaughton    7.99    67       9.80
+ Jeff Schultz             8.21    67       9.80
+ Susan Neylan             8.26    66       9.80
+ Andree Fontenot          8.27    67       9.80
+ Jason Larke              8.32    30       9.80
+ Michael Lee              8.44    51       9.80
+ Robert Dowers            8.46     5       9.80
+ Casey Miller             8.47    67       9.80
+ Paul McKeown             8.47     5       9.80
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.53    38       9.80
+ Henry Lebovic            8.64    22       9.80
+ Michael Emond            8.64     5       9.80
+ Ken Papai                8.67    47       9.80
+ Chng Yi-Mei              8.68    16       9.80
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.77    67       9.80
+ Shirley Hunt             8.79    34       9.80
+ Judy Bell                8.88     4       9.80
+ Andrei Mendis            8.93     3       9.80
+ Matthew Hunter           8.93    22       9.80
+ Julien Cyr               9.00    13       9.80
+ Chris Durie              9.09    25       9.80
+ Jackie Catterall         9.15     2       9.80
+ Tony Kimmet              9.24    14       9.80
+ John D. Hurrell          9.75     2       9.80
+ Astha A. Svoronos        9.80     1       9.80
+ Ben Ingram               9.80     1       9.80
+ Tracey Martin            9.80     1       9.80
+ Don Semmens              9.04    45       9.85   
+ Andrew Wright            8.03     5       9.85
+ Ed Isenberg              8.07    20       9.85
+ Jim Bradley              8.21     5       9.85
+ Victor Murrell           8.50    11       9.85
+ JoAnna Abes              8.51     7       9.85
+ David Gaspar             8.69    13       9.85
+ Jeff Caddick             8.76     9       9.85
+ Matthew R. Klempner      8.82     5       9.85
+ Jeff Young               9.31    12       9.85
+ Doug Minnis              9.85     1       9.85
+ Lee Somerman             7.97    30       9.90
+ Chris Schoaff            8.10     4       9.90
+ Scott James              8.10     4       9.90
+ Dale Brouwer             8.23    66       9.90
+ Lon Franson              8.30    13       9.90
+ Tim Thoenes              8.36    14       9.90
+ David Rigsby             8.43     5       9.90
+ Brian McLaughlin         8.55     5       9.90
+ Richard Young            8.62     5       9.90
+ Alison Hodges            8.63     4       9.90
+ Chris Neeland            8.64    21       9.90
+ Jon Green                8.67     5       9.90
+ Robert J. Granvin        8.80     5       9.90
+ George Hall              8.95     4       9.90
+ Lars Joreteg             9.00    25       9.90
+ Paul R. Smith            9.02    10       9.90
+ John R. Keller           9.04     6       9.90
+ Stephen Anderson         9.05     4       9.90
+ Jim Zimmerman            9.18    26       9.90
+ Michael Bolie            9.45     2       9.90
+ Randy Xu                 9.90     1       9.90
+ Roger J. Maxwell         9.90     1       9.90
+ Mike Ingbritson          8.99    24       9.91
+ Burt Clothier            7.32    67       9.95
+ Theodore Miller          7.86     4       9.95
+ Dan Egbert               8.11     5       9.95
+ Larry J. Lennhoff        8.15    15       9.95
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.30    65       9.95
+ Dirk Loeding             8.83    31       9.95
+ Steve VanHaren           8.83     6       9.95
+ Aldo Lafrate             8.94     5       9.95
+ Mark Poli                9.54    26       9.95
+ Claude Pepin             9.80     2       9.95
+ Jon Anthony              9.95     1       9.95
+ Brent Barrett            8.45    67       9.98
+ Adam Bruce               9.00     7       9.98
+ Chris Christopher        9.07     4       9.98
+ Annemarie Taylor         9.46    14       9.98
+ Dave Holman              8.94     3       9.99
+ Nathalie Paquet          9.46     5       9.99
+ David J. Olinger         9.58     3       9.99
+ Laurence Clark           6.76    67      10.00
+ Elizabeth Pringle        6.85    66      10.00
+ Andrew Chiang            7.21    36      10.00
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.46    67      10.00
+ Joe Spiegel              7.48    11      10.00
+ David E. Bath            7.52    43      10.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.62    65      10.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.73    63      10.00
+ Monica Cellio            7.73    45      10.00
+ Henrik Herranen          7.76    67      10.00
+ Janne Salmijarvi         7.76    67      10.00
+ C J Silverio             7.81    65      10.00
+ Stephen J.F. Beckwith    7.84    67      10.00
+ John Abbott              7.88    65      10.00
+ David Van Domelen        7.90     5      10.00
+ George Zavaliagkos       7.90    60      10.00
+ Michael May              7.99    67      10.00
+ Bryan Ash                8.00     4      10.00
+ Chris Cropper            8.00     4      10.00
+ Johnny Worthen           8.00     3      10.00
+ Kevin Grierson           8.00     2      10.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.02    30      10.00
+ Justin Garten            8.03     9      10.00
+ Brian Tozzo              8.06    30      10.00
+ Greg Franks              8.06    65      10.00
+ Mike Heffner             8.07    67      10.00
+ Jonathan Frain           8.11    67      10.00
+ Jonathan A. Karty        8.13     4      10.00
+ Tim Skirvin              8.13    66      10.00
+ Damien R. Sullivan       8.15    47      10.00
+ Matthew Murray           8.15    67      10.00
+ Dale Forrey              8.18    11      10.00
+ Pat Coleman              8.20    53      10.00
+ John Lemons              8.23    11      10.00
+ Ben Moore                8.25     5      10.00
+ George H. Bowers         8.25     4      10.00
+ Dave Lyndon              8.30     5      10.00
+ Larry Brown              8.30     5      10.00
+ Michael Christianson     8.30     5      10.00
+ Steve Jacobs             8.30     5      10.00
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.31    44      10.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.31    59      10.00
+ Doug Nadle               8.32    29      10.00
+ Iain Bertram             8.34    53      10.00
+ Martha L. Fager          8.34    16      10.00
+ Paula Berinstein         8.34    17      10.00
+ Mark Barrucci            8.35    65      10.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.35    36      10.00
+ Martin Coghlan           8.38    65      10.00
+ Dan Casey                8.41    34      10.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.42    13      10.00
+ Dan Siemens              8.44    66      10.00
+ William Gareau           8.44    30      10.00
+ Sally Urquhart           8.46     5      10.00
+ Inge Carlen              8.48    67      10.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.50    21      10.00
+ Matt Bovee               8.50     3      10.00
+ Tim Craig                8.50    10      10.00
+ Tom Lucas                8.50     9      10.00
+ Neda Mulla               8.51    17      10.00
+ Edward Lee               8.58    19      10.00
+ Joel Gill                8.58    20      10.00
+ Dennis Steinert          8.60    23      10.00
+ Mark Barltrop            8.60     5      10.00
+ Rachel Emily Molenaar    8.60    10      10.00
+ Chris Shabsin            8.62    18      10.00
+ Jason Wong               8.62    33      10.00
+ Mark Duell               8.62     6      10.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.68     6      10.00
+ Ramakrishuan Srikant     8.69    13      10.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.69    52      10.00
+ Joe Laszlo               8.70    16      10.00
+ Rachel Peirce            8.70     9      10.00
+ Melanie Dymond Harper    8.73    21      10.00
+ Brent Neal               8.74     9      10.00
+ James Stern              8.75     4      10.00
+ Ryan Gavigan             8.75     5      10.00
+ Kenneth E. Buzzard       8.76     5      10.00
+ Jay Waller               8.77    33      10.00
+ Mike Bell                8.77     5      10.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.78    67      10.00
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.78    26      10.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.79    28      10.00
+ Greg Boug                8.80    23      10.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.81    26      10.00
+ Jim Dawson               8.82    25      10.00
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.82    29      10.00
+ Andy Svendsen            8.83     3      10.00
+ Michael Bellomo          8.84    14      10.00
+ Ali Hopkins              8.86     5      10.00
+ Andre Lafrance           8.87    13      10.00
+ Jim Marino               8.87     5      10.00
+ Ken Moore                8.89     6      10.00
+ Ron Peterson             8.89    33      10.00
+ Kevin Sullivan           8.90    14      10.00
+ Rob Freilich             8.90     5      10.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.91    13      10.00
+ Kelly Meroney            8.93    14      10.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart        8.93     9      10.00
+ George Copsey            8.94    25      10.00
+ Jarno Kokko              8.94    57      10.00
+ Alexandre Frappier       8.98     6      10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       8.98    21      10.00
+ Robin C. Kwong           8.98    14      10.00
+ Alfred Hom               9.00     4      10.00
+ Mike Walters             9.04    20      10.00
+ Joe Reiss                9.07    31      10.00
+ David Burgin             9.08     3      10.00
+ Randy Crist              9.08     7      10.00
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.09    15      10.00
+ David Broitman           9.11    18      10.00
+ Spyros A. Svoronos       9.14    14      10.00
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.16    28      10.00
+ Bob Ford                 9.25     8      10.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.25    18      10.00
+ John Mulcahy             9.27    22      10.00
+ Michael Molisani         9.28     5      10.00
+ Michael J. Loux          9.31    59      10.00
+ Linda E. Gustavson       9.33     3      10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.34    18      10.00
+ Gregg Gugerty            9.35     5      10.00
+ Michael Toone            9.39     8      10.00
+ Frank Chiu               9.47     4      10.00
+ Rob Wald                 9.47     3      10.00
+ Chris Lawrence           9.48    10      10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.49    65      10.00
+ Brad Ackerman            9.50     5      10.00
+ Laura Barns              9.50     2      10.00
+ David Rodriguera         9.60     6      10.00
+ Matt Thomas              9.60     2      10.00
+ Dan Sias                 9.65    25      10.00
+ Carol Ohlers             9.67     3      10.00
+ Paul Scott               9.67     3      10.00
+ Scott W. Powers          9.67     3      10.00
+ Roger A. Sneed           9.68    11      10.00
+ James Bell               9.70     3      10.00
+ Dave Fenwick             9.75     2      10.00
+ Richard H. Freeman       9.84     5      10.00
+ Andrew Murray            9.90     2      10.00
+ Mike Sackton             9.93     2      10.00
+ Scott Baker              9.95     2      10.00
+ Andy Frame              10.00     1      10.00
+ Andy Klapper            10.00     1      10.00
+ Brandon Wolgast         10.00     1      10.00
+ Chris Coleman           10.00     1      10.00
+ Chris Munie             10.00     1      10.00
+ Chris Plater            10.00     1      10.00
+ Christiane Grzonka      10.00     1      10.00
+ Christopher Bockner     10.00     1      10.00
+ Daniel Terhark          10.00     1      10.00
+ Dave Cousins            10.00     1      10.00
+ David Gaxiola           10.00     1      10.00
+ Ed Gibson               10.00     1      10.00
+ Henry S. Munoz          10.00     1      10.00
+ Jon Earle               10.00     1      10.00
+ Joseph C. Pistritto     10.00     1      10.00
+ Jules Morley            10.00     1      10.00
+ Julie Atkins            10.00     1      10.00
+ Matt Lewis              10.00     1      10.00
+ Norma Goldsmith         10.00     1      10.00
+ Paul Mills              10.00     1      10.00
+ Robert Tallon           10.00     1      10.00
+ Rodger Burns            10.00     1      10.00
+ Ron Hunter              10.00     1      10.00
+ Sameer Gandhi           10.00     1      10.00
+ Steve Anger             10.00     1      10.00
+ Steve Wilkinson         10.00     1      10.00
+ Susan David             10.00     2      10.00
+ Terry Johnson           10.00     1      10.00
+ Vin Crespi              10.00     1      10.00
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+       Results - "The Hour of the Wolf"
+=====================================================
+                                                     
+                                 # of     The Hour   
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   of the Wolf 
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.04             8.89      
+ Std. Dev.                0.94             0.79      
+ # of Voters           1557              194         
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover           5.83    68       6.00
+ Ramakrishuan Srikant     8.50    14       6.00
+ Fred Adams               5.83     6       7.00
+ Minchul Cha              6.42     6       7.00
+ Andy Brathwaite          6.98    60       7.00
+ Andrew Johnston          7.88     4       7.00
+ Tim Craig                8.36    11       7.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.53    28       7.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.70    24       7.00
+ Andrew Chiang            7.22    37       7.50
+ Toni Figl                7.26    10       7.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.83     6       7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.06    68       7.50
+ Scott W. Powers          9.13     4       7.50
+ Mark Hullinger           7.35    69       7.75      
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.31    60       7.90
+ Steven Grimm             7.52    65       8.00      
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.46    68       8.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.53    68       8.00
+ Kyle Sutkaitis           7.54    19       8.00
+ David Strauss            7.76    68       8.00
+ Mike Bruton              7.92     6       8.00
+ Chris Cropper            8.00     5       8.00
+ Hugh Johnson             8.05     5       8.00
+ Matthew Murray           8.15    68       8.00
+ Patrick Pollefeys        8.16    14       8.00
+ George H. Bowers         8.20     5       8.00
+ Andy McClinsey           8.25     6       8.00
+ Edward Lee               8.55    20       8.00
+ Ed Hopkins               8.70    26       8.00
+ Judy Bell                8.70     5       8.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.76    29       8.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.77    68       8.00
+ Michael Kleder           9.00     2       8.00
+ Susan Liew               9.13     3       8.00
+ Steve Lawson             8.14     7       8.10
+ John Abbott              7.89    67       8.20      
+ Carl Marker              8.79     6       8.20
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.62    12       8.25
+ Onome Okuma              8.95    13       8.25
+ Doug Nadle               8.32    30       8.40
+ George Copsey            8.92    26       8.45
+ Michael Gemmell          7.78    53       8.50
+ C J Silverio             7.82    66       8.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.97    64       8.50
+ Brian Tozzo              8.08    31       8.50
+ Rob Milroy               8.17    11       8.50
+ John Lemons              8.25    12       8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.32    45       8.50
+ Rob Scahubacher          8.33     6       8.50
+ Iain Bertram             8.34    54       8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.43    14       8.50
+ John Shortess            8.43    24       8.50
+ Mike Hopkins             8.43    68       8.50
+ Daniel R. Williamson     8.50     1       8.50
+ John Fuehring            8.50     1       8.50
+ Philip Weiner            8.59    25       8.50
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.77    68       8.50
+ Kelly Meroney            8.90    15       8.50
+ Larry Greenfield         9.25     2       8.50
+ David J. Miller          8.09     6       8.55
+ Jeff Caddick             8.74    10       8.60
+ Brent Bobben             9.20     2       8.60
+ David Levine             7.94    68       8.70
+ Steve Jacobs             8.37     6       8.70
+ Neda Mulla               8.52    18       8.70
+ Brent McCrackin          8.64    12       8.70
+ David Wright             8.27    30       8.75
+ Rob Ditto                8.36    37       8.75
+ Paul Ree                 8.71    33       8.75
+ Mike Bell                8.77     6       8.75
+ Ron Peterson             8.88    34       8.75
+ L.E. McClintock          8.70     7       8.80
+ Steve VanHaren           8.83     7       8.80
+ David Rodriguera         9.49     7       8.80
+ Lee Somerman             8.00    31       8.90
+ Jim Bradley              8.33     6       8.90
+ Ben Lomax                8.48    17       8.90
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.54    39       8.90
+ David Gaspar             8.70    14       8.90
+ Ken Moore                8.89     7       8.90
+ David Broitman           9.09    19       8.90
+ Mark McGehee             6.48    43       9.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.34    68       9.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.43    68       9.00
+ David E. Bath            7.56    44       9.00
+ Bret Rudnick             7.60     5       9.00
+ Joe Spiegel              7.60    12       9.00
+ David H. Gorski          7.75     6       9.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.75    64       9.00
+ Doug Piligian            7.76    68       9.00
+ Steve Fenster            7.86    66       9.00
+ Dylan Northrup           7.96    62       9.00
+ Robert A. Zimmermann     8.00    13       9.00
+ Benoit Langevin          8.03    15       9.00
+ Larry J. Lennhoff        8.14    16       9.00
+ Dan Kimmel               8.18    68       9.00
+ Andree Fontenot          8.28    68       9.00
+ Scott James              8.28     5       9.00
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.37    29       9.00
+ Tim Thoenes              8.40    15       9.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.45    42       9.00
+ Philip Stephens          8.48     5       9.00
+ Erik Agee                8.50    12       9.00
+ Brandon Ohrns            8.52    16       9.00
+ Chris Neeland            8.66    22       9.00
+ Mark Duell               8.67     7       9.00
+ Jay Waller               8.78    34       9.00
+ Greg Francis             8.79    18       9.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.81    27       9.00
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.82    11       9.00
+ Dirk Loeding             8.84    32       9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.91    21       9.00
+ Rob Freilich             8.92     6       9.00
+ Joe Reiss                9.07    32       9.00
+ Jeff Katin               9.25     2       9.00
+ Edward L. Leiken         9.33     2       9.00
+ Doug Minnis              9.43     2       9.00
+ Louis Amari              8.61    43       9.10
+ Ravi Nanavati            8.86    23       9.15
+ Jason Larke              8.35    31       9.20
+ Mark J. Musante          8.37     6       9.20
+ Casey Miller             8.48    68       9.20
+ Ken Papai                8.69    48       9.20
+ Keith Gill               8.60    23       9.25
+ Jason Strautman          8.86     6       9.25
+ Mike Basinger            9.48     6       9.25
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.99    21       9.30      
+ Susan Neylan             8.27    67       9.30
+ Joel E. Natt             8.32    27       9.30
+ Michael Emond            8.75     6       9.30
+ Michael J. Loux          9.31    60       9.30
+ Jim Marino               8.96     6       9.40
+ Chris Durie              9.10    26       9.40
+ Pete Cervasio            9.32     6       9.40
+ James Prince             8.32    39       9.45
+ Brent Barrett            8.47    68       9.45
+ Don Semmens              9.05    46       9.50      
+ Dan Dassow               7.39    68       9.50
+ Greg Franks              8.08    66       9.50
+ Jonathan Frain           8.13    68       9.50
+ Tim Skirvin              8.15    67       9.50
+ Theodore Miller          8.19     5       9.50
+ Lon Franson              8.39    14       9.50
+ Jonathan A. Karty        8.40     5       9.50
+ Lou Wainwright           8.44    52       9.50
+ Kevin Grierson           8.50     3       9.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.70    53       9.50
+ Scott Davis              8.71     5       9.50
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.85    30       9.50
+ Andre Lafrance           8.88    14       9.50
+ Shelly M. Niehart        8.99    10       9.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.00    22       9.50
+ Mike Ingbritson          9.01    25       9.50
+ Mike Smart               9.43     3       9.50
+ Dave Silver              9.50     1       9.50
+ David Gotthold           9.50     1       9.50
+ Kevin Berkheiser         9.83     3       9.50
+ Paula Berinstein         8.41    18       9.60
+ Robert Dowers            8.61     6       9.60
+ Mike Levien              9.60     1       9.60
+ Dan Sias                 9.65    26       9.60
+ David Gosha              8.36    68       9.65
+ Ron Siewert              9.22    30       9.65
+ Wes Makin                8.27    22       9.70
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.67     7       9.70
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.08    31       9.75
+ Chris Shabsin            8.68    19       9.75
+ James V. Di Toro III     9.13     6       9.75
+ Brian Wang               8.14    68       9.80
+ Dennis Steinert          8.65    24       9.80
+ Liav Koren               8.80     6       9.80
+ Bruce Oates              8.71    21       9.85
+ Jon Earle                9.93     2       9.85
+ Jeff Young               9.36    13       9.89
+ Ryan Hughes              8.49    12       9.90
+ Rachel Peirce            8.82    10       9.90
+ George Hall              9.14     5       9.90
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.49    66       9.90
+ Heather Grove            8.54    13       9.95
+ George Moore             9.18    12       9.95
+ Chris Lawrence           9.52    11       9.95
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.66    66      10.00
+ Colin O'Connell          8.44    16      10.00
+ Larry Brown              8.58     6      10.00
+ Terry Rubenstein         8.58     6      10.00
+ Joe Laszlo               8.78    17      10.00
+ Brian McLaughlin         8.79     6      10.00
+ Matthew Hunter           8.97    23      10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.38    19      10.00
+ David Mitchell          10.00     1      10.00
+ Hal Reed                10.00     1      10.00
+ Paul Mills              10.00     2      10.00
+ Robert Halupka          10.00     1      10.00
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+       Results - "Whatever Happened to Mister Garibaldi?"
+===========================================================
+                                             Whatever
+                                 # of      Happened to     
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   Mister Garibaldi? 
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.05                 8.98        
+ Std. Dev.                0.95                 0.81        
+ # of Voters           1601                  228           
+ ----------------------------------------------------------
+ Patrick Joseph           5.00     1           5.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.83    69           6.00
+ Fred Adams               5.86     7           6.00
+ Andy Johnson             6.19    69           7.00
+ Minchul Cha              6.50     7           7.00
+ Andy Brathwaite          6.98    61           7.00
+ Andrew Chiang            7.21    38           7.00
+ Brian Tozzo              8.06    32           7.43
+ Elizabeth Pringle        6.90    68           7.50
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.46    69           7.50
+ Dan Furst                7.50     1           7.50
+ Bret Rudnick             7.58     6           7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.05    69           7.50
+ David Lee                8.41    10           7.50
+ John Evans               7.80    65           7.90
+ George Zavaliagkos       7.91    62           7.90
+ Chris Cropper            8.14     7           8.00        
+ Toni Figl                7.32    11           8.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.54    69           8.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.75    65           8.00
+ Henrik Herranen          7.78    69           8.00
+ Dennis Waltman           7.80     5           8.00
+ Mike Bruton              7.93     7           8.00
+ Benoit Langevin          8.02    16           8.00
+ George H. Bowers         8.17     6           8.00
+ David Wright             8.26    31           8.00
+ Rob Scahubacher          8.29     7           8.00
+ James Prince             8.31    40           8.00
+ Steve Jacobs             8.31     7           8.00
+ Paula Berinstein         8.39    19           8.00
+ James L. Hartley         8.40     5           8.00
+ Jason Kropp              8.50     2           8.00
+ Jason Bartlet            8.67     9           8.00
+ Colin O'Connell          8.42    17           8.10
+ Theodore Miller          8.19     6           8.20
+ Doug Nadle               8.31    31           8.20
+ David Gosha              8.36    69           8.20
+ L.E. McClintock          8.64     8           8.20
+ Mark Hullinger           7.35    69           8.25
+ Michael Gemmell          7.79    54           8.25
+ Doug Knudsen             8.18     7           8.25
+ David Rigsby             8.49     7           8.25
+ Rob Ditto                8.36    38           8.35
+ Steve Lawson             8.17     8           8.40
+ Steven Grimm             7.53    66           8.50        
+ Mark McGehee             6.52    44           8.50
+ Burt Clothier            7.36    69           8.50
+ Kyle Sutkaitis           7.59    20           8.50
+ Steve Fenster            7.80    69           8.50
+ Mark Smith               7.84     8           8.50
+ John Abbott              7.89    67           8.50
+ Michael May              8.00    69           8.50
+ Lee Somerman             8.01    32           8.50
+ Paul Byers               8.08     6           8.50
+ Patrick Pollefeys        8.18    15           8.50
+ Jon Karty                8.25     4           8.50
+ Iain Bertram             8.35    55           8.50
+ Mark Borowski            8.35     2           8.50
+ Mark J. Musante          8.39     7           8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.43    15           8.50
+ Aaron J. Redd            8.50    65           8.50
+ Jim Rooney               8.50     1           8.50
+ John Fuehring            8.50     2           8.50
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.54    40           8.50
+ Philip Weiner            8.58    26           8.50
+ Judy Bell                8.67     6           8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.70    54           8.50
+ Jay Mohney               8.75    30           8.50
+ Linda E. Gustavson       9.00     5           8.50
+ Scott W. Powers          9.00     5           8.50
+ Tim Thoenes              8.41    16           8.60
+ Dhabih Eng               8.70     1           8.70
+ Tim Skirvin              8.16    68           8.75
+ John Lemons              8.29    13           8.75
+ Steve VanHaren           8.82     8           8.75
+ John R. Keller           8.97     8           8.75
+ Larry J. Lennhoff        8.18    17           8.80
+ David Gaspar             8.71    15           8.80
+ Darrin Earl              8.82    12           8.80
+ Rob Freilich             8.90     7           8.80
+ Jarno Kokko              8.94    59           8.80
+ Ken Papai                8.69    49           8.90
+ Carl Marker              8.81     7           8.90
+ Bill Martin              8.90     1           8.90
+ Dave Holman              8.95     4           8.98
+ Justin Hart              9.26     9           8.99
+ Craig Jackson            7.43    70           9.00        
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.34    47           9.00        
+ Tommi Salomaa            7.05    11           9.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.46    69           9.00
+ Mike Kerr                7.50     5           9.00
+ Pasi Ojala               7.68    69           9.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.68    67           9.00
+ Janne Salmijarvi         7.79    69           9.00
+ Dylan Northrup           7.97    63           9.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.98    65           9.00
+ Matthew Murray           8.16    69           9.00
+ Dave Thomer              8.19    28           9.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.32    61           9.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.47    43           9.00
+ Josh Romond              8.50     2           9.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.50    23           9.00
+ Ryan Hughes              8.53    13           9.00
+ Sally Urquhart           8.55     6           9.00
+ Joel Gill                8.60    22           9.00
+ Ramakrishuan Srikant     8.60    15           9.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.77    69           9.00
+ Mike Bell                8.80     7           9.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.82    28           9.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.85    15           9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.91    22           9.00
+ Onome Okuma              8.96    14           9.00
+ Andy Wenzel              9.00     1           9.00
+ Cathy Gerritsen          9.00     1           9.00
+ Kathleen King            9.00     1           9.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.00    23           9.00
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.01    47           9.00
+ Lloyd Tapper             9.16    27           9.00
+ George Moore             9.17    13           9.00
+ Michael Christy          9.17     3           9.00
+ Brian Epley              9.28     9           9.00
+ David Levine             7.96    69           9.10
+ Susan Neylan             8.28    68           9.10
+ John Shortess            8.45    25           9.10
+ Ken Moore                8.92     8           9.10
+ George Copsey            8.93    27           9.10
+ Louis Amari              8.63    44           9.20
+ Michael Emond            8.81     7           9.20
+ Jim Marino               8.99     7           9.20
+ George Hall              9.15     6           9.20
+ Jeffrey L. Watson        9.18     5           9.20
+ Scott Neess              9.20     1           9.20
+ Max Strini               6.72    26           9.25
+ John Jurcevic            8.73    69           9.25
+ Ben Trumbull             9.04    13           9.25
+ Dale Brouwer             8.26    68           9.30
+ Andree Fontenot          8.30    69           9.30
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.35    42           9.30
+ Lou Wainwright           8.45    53           9.30
+ Michael Christianson     8.47     7           9.30
+ Kerry Kilgour            8.99    21           9.30
+ Michael J. Loux          9.31    61           9.30
+ Bruce Oates              8.74    22           9.35
+ Ben Lomax                8.49    19           9.40
+ Tom Lucas                8.59    10           9.40
+ Robert Dowers            8.64     7           9.40
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    69           9.40
+ Sheldon Smith            9.22    21           9.40
+ Doug Minnis              9.42     3           9.40
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen       8.35     7           9.45
+ Chad Underkoffler        9.17    30           9.45
+ Ron Peterson             8.90    35           9.47
+ Don Semmens              9.06    47           9.50        
+ Doug Piligian            7.79    69           9.50
+ C J Silverio             7.84    67           9.50
+ Michael J. McNaughton    8.01    69           9.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     8.07     7           9.50
+ Greg Franks              8.10    67           9.50
+ Lon Franson              8.46    15           9.50
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.77     8           9.50
+ Joe Laszlo               8.82    18           9.50
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.87    31           9.50
+ Kelly Meroney            8.94    16           9.50
+ Michael Keene            9.00     2           9.50
+ Lars Joreteg             9.01    27           9.50
+ Chris Durie              9.11    27           9.50
+ Michael Molisani         9.27     7           9.50
+ Elan Ruskin              9.50     1           9.50
+ Gina DelFavero           9.50     1           9.50
+ Randall L. Moyers        9.54     4           9.50
+ Keith Gill               8.64    24           9.55
+ Mike Hopkins             8.45    69           9.60
+ Casey Miller             8.49    69           9.60
+ Scott Davis              8.86     6           9.60
+ Jason Strautman          8.96     7           9.60
+ Stephen Anderson         9.05     6           9.60
+ David Broitman           9.12    20           9.60
+ Ravi Nanavati            8.90    24           9.65
+ Jim Zimmerman            9.21    28           9.70
+ Dan Sias                 9.65    27           9.70
+ Dan Dassow               7.42    69           9.75
+ James Kiley              8.20    16           9.75
+ Dave Fulmer              8.60     5           9.75
+ Larry Brown              8.75     7           9.75
+ Jeff Caddick             8.84    11           9.75
+ Sonja Mendoza            8.89    10           9.75
+ Mike Walters             9.07    21           9.75
+ Ron Siewert              9.24    31           9.75
+ Eric Jensen              9.75     1           9.75
+ Jonathan Frain           8.15    69           9.80
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.32    67           9.80
+ Wes Makin                8.33    23           9.80
+ Nate Frenczak            8.57    12           9.80
+ Ed Hopkins               8.74    27           9.80
+ Mark Duell               8.81     8           9.80
+ Mary Katz                8.86    24           9.80
+ Tony Kimmet              9.23    16           9.80
+ David Rodriguera         9.53     8           9.80
+ Mark Poli                9.56    28           9.80
+ Jeff Young               9.39    14           9.85
+ Jeff Schultz             8.24    69           9.90
+ Dennis Steinert          8.70    25           9.90
+ Bob Patrick              9.08    11           9.90
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.50    67           9.90
+ Mike Ingbritson          9.05    26           9.92
+ Richard Young            8.88     7           9.95
+ James V. Di Toro III     9.25     7           9.95
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.46    22           9.95
+ Brent Barrett            8.49    69           9.98
+ Peter Houghton           8.72    12          10.00        
+ David E. Bath            7.55    46          10.00
+ Robert A. Zimmermann     8.14    14          10.00
+ Rob Milroy               8.33    12          10.00
+ Heather Grove            8.65    14          10.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.75    25          10.00
+ Chris Shabsin            8.75    20          10.00
+ Michael Bellomo          8.95    16          10.00
+ Brian McLaughlin         8.96     7          10.00
+ Kevin Sullivan           8.98    15          10.00
+ John Mercogliano III     9.00     3          10.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart        9.08    11          10.00
+ Joe Reiss                9.09    33          10.00
+ Randy Crist              9.19     8          10.00
+ Chris Keroack            9.43     3          10.00
+ Mike Smart               9.58     4          10.00
+ Shawn Aki                9.69     7          10.00
+ Carol Ohlers             9.70     5          10.00
+ Nathan Everett          10.00     1          10.00
diff --git a/p5/069 b/p5/069
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+       Results - "The Summoning"
+===================================================
+                                 # of       The    
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   Summoning 
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.06             8.66    
+ Std. Dev.                0.94             0.96    
+ # of Voters           1621              190       
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams               5.50     8       3.00 
+ Colin O'Connell          8.21    18       4.50
+ Mark D. Grover           5.84    70       6.00
+ Damon Milhem             6.00     1       6.00
+ Rob Milroy               8.18    13       6.50
+ Wes Makin                8.27    24       6.90
+ Andrew Chiang            7.21    39       7.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.53    70       7.00
+ Dennis Waltman           7.67     6       7.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.74    66       7.00
+ Michael Gemmell          7.78    55       7.00
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.94     8       7.00
+ Rob Schanbacher          8.13     8       7.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.68    26       7.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.75    70       7.00
+ James Prince             8.29    41       7.20
+ Steve Lawson             8.08     9       7.35
+ Toni Figl                7.34    12       7.50
+ Craig Jackson            7.43    70       7.50
+ Kyle Sutkaitis           7.58    21       7.50
+ John Abbott              7.89    68       7.50
+ Jon Karty                8.10     5       7.50
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.08    33       7.75
+ Patrick Pollefeys        8.16    16       7.75
+ Ed Hopkins               8.71    28       7.80
+ Burt Clothier            7.37    70       8.00
+ Bret Rudnick             7.64     7       8.00
+ Dave Hill                7.67    56       8.00
+ David Strauss            7.78    70       8.00
+ C J Silverio             7.85    68       8.00
+ Mike Bruton              7.94     8       8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.98    66       8.00
+ Ben Thomas               8.00     1       8.00
+ Dinko Trotter            8.00     1       8.00
+ Greg Franks              8.10    68       8.00
+ Dave Thomer              8.18    29       8.00
+ Mark Christian James     8.33    40       8.00
+ Paula Berinstein         8.37    20       8.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.56    27       8.00
+ David Gaspar             8.67    16       8.00
+ Michael Khusid           8.75     4       8.00
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.77    13       8.00
+ David Broitman           9.07    21       8.00
+ Bryan Mau                9.10     5       8.00
+ Jim Bradley              8.27     8       8.05
+ George Copsey            8.90    28       8.05
+ Tim Thoenes              8.39    17       8.10
+ Mark J. Musante          8.36     8       8.20
+ Dennis Steinert          8.68    26       8.20
+ Mark Hullinger           7.38    71       8.25    
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.59    13       8.25
+ Sonja Mendoza            8.84    11       8.30
+ John Lemons              8.30    14       8.40
+ Jason Larke              8.36    33       8.40
+ Jeff Caddick             8.80    12       8.40
+ Steven Grimm             7.54    67       8.50    
+ Allan Jenoff             7.47    70       8.50
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.69    68       8.50
+ Doug Piligian            7.80    70       8.50
+ Hugh Johnson             7.96     7       8.50
+ James Tee                8.01     7       8.50
+ Larry J. Lennhoff        8.20    18       8.50
+ David Wright             8.27    32       8.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.32    68       8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.44    16       8.50
+ Atul A. Karve            8.45    11       8.50
+ David Johnson            8.50     1       8.50
+ Kevin Borchers           8.50    24       8.50
+ Monica F. Aceves         8.50     1       8.50
+ Terry Rubenstein         8.63     8       8.50
+ Bill Martin              8.70     2       8.50
+ Michael Emond            8.77     8       8.50
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.79    28       8.50
+ Mark Moerman             8.81    29       8.50
+ Yevgeny Glazamitsky      8.86    32       8.50
+ Kelly Meroney            8.91    17       8.50
+ Jeff Katin               9.00     3       8.50
+ Lars Joreteg             9.00    28       8.50
+ Ben Tarver               9.13     5       8.50
+ Doug Nadle               8.32    32       8.60
+ Mike Hopkins             8.45    70       8.60
+ Mark McGehee             6.57    45       8.70
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.36    43       8.70
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.54    41       8.70
+ Louis Amari              8.63    45       8.70
+ Joe Spiegel              7.75    14       8.75
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.40    31       8.75
+ Lon Franson              8.48    16       8.75
+ David Rigsby             8.52     8       8.75
+ Keith Gill               8.64    25       8.75
+ Carl Marker              8.80     8       8.75
+ Isaac Weiner             8.90    23       8.75
+ Jason Strautman          8.94     8       8.80
+ Dan Dassow               7.44    70       8.86
+ David Levine             7.97    70       8.90
+ Onome Okuma              8.95    15       8.90
+ Doug Minnis              9.30     4       8.95
+ Jason Bartlett           7.40    25       9.00
+ David E. Bath            7.59    47       9.00
+ Chris Cropper            8.14     7       9.00
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.34    47       9.00
+ Lou Wainwright           8.46    54       9.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.48    44       9.00
+ Edward Lee               8.58    22       9.00
+ Ramakrishuan Srikant     8.63    16       9.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.68     9       9.00
+ Hank Studdard            8.69     8       9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.71    55       9.00
+ Preston Allen Cooper     8.72     8       9.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.76    31       9.00
+ Jay Waller               8.78    35       9.00
+ Larry Brown              8.78     8       9.00
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    70       9.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.86    16       9.00
+ Rob Freilich             8.91     8       9.00
+ Alexandre Frappier       8.94     8       9.00
+ Robert J. Granvin        8.99     8       9.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart        9.08    12       9.00
+ Chris Durie              9.11    28       9.00
+ George Moore             9.15    14       9.00
+ Sheldon Smith            9.21    22       9.00
+ Tony Kimmet              9.21    17       9.00
+ Brian Epley              9.25    10       9.00
+ Michael J. Loux          9.31    62       9.00
+ Jeff Grimm               9.38     4       9.00
+ Doug Knudsen             8.29     8       9.10
+ Max F. Exter             9.10     1       9.10
+ Randy Crist              9.18     9       9.10
+ Ben Lomax                8.56    24       9.20
+ Ken Papai                8.70    50       9.20
+ Mark Duell               8.86     9       9.20
+ Mark Fitzpatrick         9.20     1       9.20
+ John Mulcahy             9.30    24       9.20
+ Matthew Murray           8.18    70       9.25
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.33    62       9.25
+ Brent Barrett            8.50    70       9.25
+ Paul Ree                 8.74    35       9.25
+ Ken Moore                8.96     9       9.25
+ Matthew R. Klempner      9.15     8       9.25
+ Jeff Young               9.38    15       9.25
+ Eric Jensen              9.50     2       9.25
+ Don Semmens              9.07    48       9.30    
+ Dylan Northrup           7.99    64       9.30
+ Michael May              8.01    70       9.30
+ David Gosha              8.37    70       9.30
+ Ron Peterson             8.91    36       9.30
+ Susan Liew               9.10     5       9.30
+ Ron Siewert              9.24    32       9.35
+ Dale Brouwer             8.27    69       9.40
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.84     9       9.40
+ Bruce Oates              8.77    23       9.45
+ Scott Davis              8.94     7       9.45
+ Mark Smith               8.03     9       9.50
+ Tim Skirvin              8.18    69       9.50
+ Andree Fontenot          8.32    70       9.50
+ Rob Ditto                8.39    39       9.50
+ Casey Miller             8.51    70       9.50
+ Michael Christianson     8.60     8       9.50
+ Ryan Hughes              8.60    14       9.50
+ Dirk Loeding             8.87    34       9.50
+ Steve VanHaren           8.89     9       9.50
+ Andy Svendsen            9.00     4       9.50
+ Kevin Sullivan           9.01    16       9.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.02    24       9.50
+ Brian McLaughlin         9.03     8       9.50
+ Mike Ingbritson          9.06    27       9.50
+ Stephen Anderson         9.11     7       9.50
+ George Hall              9.20     7       9.50
+ Christopher Delgado      9.50     1       9.50
+ David Rodriguera         9.52     9       9.50
+ Mike Smart               9.56     5       9.50
+ Roger A. Sneed           9.67    12       9.50
+ Brian Tozzo              8.10    33       9.65
+ Carol Ohlers             9.71     6       9.75
+ Karen Braman             9.75     1       9.75
+ Theodore Miller          8.42     7       9.80
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.03    48       9.80
+ Dan Sias                 9.66    28       9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.51    68       9.90
+ Alex Perel               9.90     1       9.90
+ Jon Earle                9.92     3       9.90
+ Robert Dowers            8.80     8       9.95
+ Lee Somerman             8.07    33       9.97
+ Jonathan Frain           8.18    70      10.00
+ Iain Bertram             8.38    56      10.00
+ Peter Houghton           8.72    12      10.00
+ Chris Shabsin            8.81    21      10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.48    23      10.00
+ Chris Lawrence           9.58    13      10.00
+ Shawn Aki                9.73     8      10.00
diff --git a/p5/070 b/p5/070
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+ Results - "Falling Toward Apotheosis"
+==========================================================
+                                 # of   Falling Toward
+ Poll 5                History   Votes    Apotheosis
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.06               8.78
+ Std. Dev.                0.94               0.73
+ # of Voters           1630                138
+ ---------------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover           5.85    71         6.50
+ Allan Jenoff             7.46    71         7.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.73    67         7.00
+ Jon Karty                7.92     6         7.00
+ Steve Lawson             8.01    10         7.40
+ Steve Fenster            7.81    71         7.50
+ Hugh Johnson             7.91     8         7.50
+ David Johnson            8.00     2         7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.06    71         7.50
+ Brian Tozzo              8.08    34         7.50
+ Greg Franks              8.09    69         7.50
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.34    64         7.70
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.92     9         7.75
+ Fred Adams               5.78     9         8.00
+ Steven Grimm             7.54    67         8.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.54    71         8.00
+ Bret Rudnick             7.69     8         8.00
+ David Strauss            7.78    71         8.00
+ Forest Silverman         8.00     1         8.00
+ Rob Milroy               8.17    14         8.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.41    17         8.00
+ Casey Law                8.44    23         8.00
+ Casey Miller             8.50    71         8.00
+ Edward Lee               8.55    23         8.00
+ Louis Amari              8.61    46         8.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.66    27         8.00
+ Michael Kleder           8.67     3         8.00
+ Jeff Katin               8.75     4         8.00
+ Brian Epley              9.14    11         8.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.42    24         8.00
+ Matthew MacKenzie        8.35    44         8.20
+ Michael Emond            8.71     9         8.20
+ Jeff Caddick             8.72    13         8.20
+ Alexandre Frappier       8.86     9         8.20
+ Keith Gill               8.63    26         8.25
+ Lon Franson              8.47    17         8.30
+ Michael J. McNaughton    8.02    71         8.40
+ JoAnna Abes              8.51     8         8.45
+ David Gaspar             8.65    17         8.45
+ Dylan Northrup           8.00    65         8.50
+ Patrick B. Hall          8.03    39         8.50
+ Patrick Pollefeys        8.18    17         8.50
+ David L. Wright          8.27    33         8.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.33    69         8.50
+ Theodore Miller          8.43     8         8.50
+ Rob Henderson            8.44    52         8.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.48    45         8.50
+ John R. Kromer II        8.50     1         8.50
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.58    14         8.50
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.75    14         8.50
+ Linda E. Gustavson       8.79     7         8.50
+ Scott W. Powers          8.89     7         8.50
+ David Levine             7.98    71         8.60
+ Erez Zadok               8.85    17         8.60
+ Mark Hullinger           7.38    71         8.75
+ James Prince             8.31    42         8.75
+ Mark McGehee             6.62    46         8.80
+ Michael Gemmell          7.79    56         8.80
+ Antonio Collins          8.34    27         8.80
+ Mike Hopkins             8.45    71         8.80
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    71         8.80
+ David Rodriguera         9.45    10         8.80
+ Onome Okuma              8.95    16         8.85
+ Mark J. Musante          8.42     9         8.90
+ Ben Lomax                8.60    27         8.90
+ Ken Moore                8.95    10         8.90
+ Steve VanHaren           8.90    10         8.99
+ Andrew Chiang            7.25    40         9.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.39    71         9.00
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.49    71         9.00
+ Doug Piligian            7.81    71         9.00
+ C J Silverio             7.86    69         9.00
+ John Abbott              7.90    69         9.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        8.00    67         9.00
+ Tim Skirvin              8.18    71         9.00
+ Dave Thomer              8.21    30         9.00
+ Dan Kimmel               8.22    71         9.00
+ Rob Schanbacher          8.22     9         9.00
+ James L. Hartley         8.29     7         9.00
+ Iain Bertram             8.39    57         9.00
+ Ben Thomas               8.50     2         9.00
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.55    42         9.00
+ John Jurcevic            8.73    71         9.00
+ Jason Kropp              8.75     4         9.00
+ Monica F. Aceves         8.75     2         9.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.77    32         9.00
+ Dean C. Pilato           8.81     4         9.00
+ Jim Marino               9.02     9         9.00
+ David Broitman           9.06    22         9.00
+ Joe Reiss                9.07    35         9.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart        9.07    13         9.00
+ Chris Durie              9.11    29         9.00
+ Ron Siewert              9.24    33         9.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.72    10         9.10
+ Michael Bolie            9.00     4         9.10
+ Dale Brouwer             8.29    70         9.20
+ Neda Mulla               8.56    19         9.20
+ Mark Duell               8.89    10         9.20
+ Ron Peterson             8.92    37         9.20
+ Dave Holman              8.97     6         9.25
+ Stephen Anderson         9.13     8         9.25
+ George Moore             9.16    15         9.25
+ Tony Kimmet              9.22    18         9.25
+ Greg Destro              9.25     1         9.25
+ Jonathan Frain           8.19    71         9.30
+ Susan Neylan             8.31    70         9.40
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.03    49         9.40
+ Jennifer Liss            9.40     1         9.40
+ David Gosha              8.39    71         9.45
+ Doug Minnis              9.33     5         9.45
+ Lee Somerman             8.11    34         9.50
+ James Tee                8.20     8         9.50
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.76    71         9.50
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.81    29         9.50
+ Josh Romond              8.83     3         9.50
+ Jarno Kokko              8.95    61         9.50
+ Kevin Sullivan           9.04    17         9.50
+ Kathleen King            9.25     2         9.50
+ Michael J. Loux          9.31    63         9.50
+ Adam Waltman             9.34     5         9.50
+ Mark Fitzpatrick         9.35     2         9.50
+ Eric Jensen              9.50     3         9.50
+ Joe Thomas               9.50     1         9.50
+ Jussi Valkiainen         8.66    70         9.60
+ Carl Marker              8.89     9         9.60
+ Don Semmens              9.07    48         9.70
+ Jason Strautman          9.03     9         9.75
+ Carol Ohlers             9.72     7         9.80
+ Mark Poli                9.58    30         9.85
+ Blake Sorenson           8.01     8         9.90
+ Shirley Hunt             8.80    38         9.90
+ George Copsey            8.93    29         9.90
+ Brent Barrett            8.52    71         9.95
+ Jason Bartlett           7.50    26        10.00
+ David E. Bath            7.64    48        10.00
+ George H. Bowers         8.50     8        10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.06    25        10.00
+ Chris Lawrence           9.61    14        10.00
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+       Results - "The Long Night"
+==================================================
+                                 # of    The Long 
+ Poll 5                History   Votes    Night   
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.07             8.82   
+ Std. Dev.                0.94             0.78   
+ # of Voters           1678              169      
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Graham Pilato            7.00    19       6.00
+ Andrew Chiang            7.22    41       6.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.86    72       7.00
+ Fred Adams               5.90    10       7.00
+ Andy Johnson             6.24    72       7.00
+ Samuel Scrutchins        7.00     1       7.00
+ James Raia               8.50     2       7.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.32    65       7.30
+ Mark McGehee             6.64    47       7.50
+ Ben Thomas               8.17     3       7.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.35    49       7.50
+ J. William Berger        8.44    25       7.50
+ Aaron J. Redd            8.49    68       7.50
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.74    72       7.50
+ Penny Rothkopf           6.90     2       7.80
+ Jeff Schultz             8.25    72       7.80
+ Ryan Hughes              8.55    15       7.80
+ Mark Hullinger           7.39    73       8.00   
+ Toni Figl                7.40    14       8.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.54    72       8.00
+ David E. Bath            7.64    49       8.00
+ Monica Cellio            7.74    50       8.00
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.93    10       8.00
+ Forest Silverman         8.00     2       8.00
+ Julia Steinberg          8.00     1       8.00
+ Royce Hays               8.00     1       8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        8.00    68       8.00
+ Greg Franks              8.09    70       8.00
+ Atul A. Karve            8.42    13       8.00
+ Lon Franson              8.44    18       8.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.47    46       8.00
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.54    43       8.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.64    28       8.00
+ Ed Hopkins               8.67    30       8.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.74    33       8.00
+ Beth Nachison            9.00     5       8.00
+ Michael Gemmell          7.80    57       8.10
+ Steve VanHaren           8.84    11       8.20
+ Joe Reiss                9.05    36       8.30
+ David Gosha              8.39    72       8.33
+ James Tee                8.22     9       8.40
+ Casey Miller             8.50    72       8.40
+ Ken Papai                8.71    52       8.40
+ Steven Grimm             7.56    69       8.50   
+ David Johnson            8.17     3       8.50
+ Bob Grant                8.26    19       8.50
+ David L. Wright          8.29    35       8.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.33    70       8.50
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen       8.40    10       8.50
+ Rob Henderson            8.44    53       8.50
+ J.R. Grohs               8.50     1       8.50
+ Dave Bakker              8.53     8       8.50
+ Greg Francis             8.69    22       8.50
+ Mark Moerman             8.82    31       8.50
+ Kathleen King            9.00     3       8.50
+ Lee Somerman             8.13    35       8.59
+ Jim Bradley              8.29    10       8.60
+ Ernie Dragt              8.60     1       8.60
+ Neda Mulla               8.57    20       8.70
+ Matthew Murray           8.20    72       8.75
+ Dave Thomer              8.23    31       8.75
+ David J. Miller          8.37    10       8.75
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.59    15       8.75
+ Graham Clark             8.75     1       8.75
+ Ken Hamilton             8.75     1       8.75
+ Linda E. Gustavson       8.78     8       8.75
+ Brian Tozzo              8.10    35       8.77
+ Jason Bartlett           7.74    42       8.80
+ Mike Heffner             8.07    72       8.80
+ Mark J. Musante          8.46    10       8.80
+ Michael Emond            8.72    10       8.80
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.03    50       8.80
+ Susan Liew               9.04     7       8.80
+ Jason Larke              8.39    35       8.90
+ Dennis Steinert          8.67    28       8.90
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.85    10       8.90
+ Robert Smith             7.56    71       9.00
+ Bret Rudnick             7.83     9       9.00
+ Tim Skirvin              8.02    72       9.00
+ Michael J. McNaughton    8.04    72       9.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.08    35       9.00
+ Mike Bruton              8.15    10       9.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.44    18       9.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.53    72       9.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.56    29       9.00
+ David Rigsby             8.57     9       9.00
+ Keith Gill               8.64    27       9.00
+ David Gaspar             8.67    18       9.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.75    11       9.00
+ Jason Kropp              8.80     5       9.00
+ Jay Waller               8.80    37       9.00
+ Jeff Katin               8.80     5       9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.90    25       9.00
+ Mark Duell               8.90    11       9.00
+ Alan Hecht               8.92     6       9.00
+ Kelly Meroney            8.92    18       9.00
+ Onome Okuma              8.95    17       9.00
+ Billie Adams             9.00     1       9.00
+ Janet Oster              9.00     1       9.00
+ Linda Johnson            9.00     1       9.00
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.07    19       9.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.07    27       9.00
+ Marie Johnson            9.13     3       9.00
+ Ron Siewert              9.23    34       9.00
+ Martin Coghlan           8.42    70       9.10
+ Ken Moore                8.96    11       9.10
+ David Levine             8.00    72       9.20
+ Susan Neylan             8.32    71       9.20
+ Rob Ditto                8.42    41       9.20
+ Edward Lee               8.58    24       9.20
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    72       9.20
+ Rob Freilich             9.00    10       9.20
+ Jon Schild               9.20     1       9.20
+ Michael J. Loux          9.31    64       9.20
+ John Jurcevic            8.74    72       9.25
+ Paul Ree                 8.75    37       9.25
+ Scott Davis              8.98     8       9.25
+ Cleo Armistead           9.25     1       9.25
+ Sarah Caffee             9.25     1       9.25
+ George Copsey            8.95    30       9.40
+ Lars Joreteg             9.01    30       9.40
+ Jim Marino               9.06    10       9.40
+ Joel E. Natt             8.40    29       9.45
+ Bruce Oates              8.82    25       9.45
+ John Abbott              7.95    71       9.50   
+ Don Semmens              9.10    50       9.50   
+ Allan Jenoff             7.49    72       9.50
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.52    72       9.50
+ Dennis Waltman           7.69     8       9.50
+ Benoit Langevin          7.97    20       9.50
+ Dan Kimmel               8.23    72       9.50
+ John Lemons              8.40    16       9.50
+ Mike Hopkins             8.47    72       9.50
+ Michael Bellomo          8.88    18       9.50
+ Brian De Young           8.93     8       9.50
+ Ron Peterson             8.93    38       9.50
+ Carl Marker              8.95    10       9.50
+ Paul Goetze              9.07    13       9.50
+ Mike Ingbritson          9.09    29       9.50
+ Chris Durie              9.12    30       9.50
+ Mike Walters             9.15    24       9.50
+ Brian Epley              9.17    12       9.50
+ George Moore             9.18    16       9.50
+ Tony Kimmet              9.23    19       9.50
+ Carol Ohlers             9.69     8       9.50
+ Wes Makin                8.38    26       9.60
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.60    32       9.60
+ Jeffrey L. Watson        9.26     6       9.65
+ Chris Lawrence           9.60    16       9.65
+ Steve Fenster            7.83    72       9.70
+ James Prince             8.36    43       9.70
+ Jonathan Frain           8.21    72       9.75
+ Doug Minnis              9.40     6       9.75
+ Randy Crist              9.25    10       9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.52    70       9.80
+ Eric Jensen              9.58     4       9.80
+ Dave Holman              9.09     7       9.82
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.73    57       9.90
+ Dirk Loeding             8.91    36       9.90
+ David Broitman           9.10    23       9.90
+ Jon Earle                9.91     4       9.90
+ Andree Fontenot          8.36    72       9.95
+ Jeff Young               9.41    17       9.95
+ Dan Sias                 9.67    29       9.95
+ Iain Bertram             8.41    58      10.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart        9.14    14      10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.45    25      10.00
+ Ron Wilensky            10.00     1      10.00
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+       Results - "Into the Fire"
+===================================================
+                                 # of    Into the
+ Poll 5                History   Votes     Fire    
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.07             9.30    
+ Std. Dev.                0.94             1.06    
+ # of Voters           1725              214       
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams               5.64    11       3.00
+ Matthew Saroff           3.50     1       3.50
+ Blaise Faint             8.48    29       4.00
+ Douglas B. O'Morain      5.00     1       5.00
+ Julia Steinberg          7.25     2       6.50
+ Mark Hullinger           7.38    74       7.00    
+ Micah Scott Shaffer      7.00     1       7.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.49    73       7.00
+ Monica Cellio            7.73    51       7.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.51    30       7.00
+ James Raia               8.17     3       7.50
+ Steven Grimm             7.56    70       8.00    
+ Mark D. Grover           5.89    73       8.00
+ Andy Johnson             6.26    73       8.00
+ Graham Pilato            7.05    20       8.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.55    73       8.00
+ Brian Bankler            8.00     1       8.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.08    36       8.00
+ Andree Fontenot          8.35    73       8.00
+ George H. Bowers         8.40    10       8.00
+ J. William Berger        8.42    26       8.00
+ Lynn Parks               8.50     9       8.00
+ John Jurcevic            8.73    73       8.00
+ Joe Laszlo               8.82    22       8.00
+ John Evans               7.80    68       8.20
+ Royce Hays               8.10     2       8.20
+ Mike Hopkins             8.46    73       8.20
+ Steve Jacobs             8.33     8       8.40
+ Dennis Waltman           7.78     9       8.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.98    11       8.50
+ Patrick B. Hall          8.05    41       8.50
+ Greg Franks              8.10    71       8.50
+ Mike Bruton              8.18    11       8.50
+ Colin O'Connell          8.22    19       8.50
+ David J. Miller          8.38    11       8.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.47    47       8.50
+ Beth Nachison            8.92     6       8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.73    58       8.60
+ Dave Thomer              8.23    32       8.75
+ David L. Wright          8.30    36       8.75
+ David Gaspar             8.68    19       8.75
+ Astha A. Svoronos        9.43     3       8.75
+ Mike Heffner             8.08    73       8.80
+ Ed Hopkins               8.67    31       8.80
+ Neda Mulla               8.58    21       8.90
+ Ken Lidster              9.10     2       8.90
+ Jeff Rupley              7.74    69       9.00
+ Rob Milroy               8.24    16       9.00
+ Dale Forrey              8.30    15       9.00
+ Bob Grant                8.30    20       9.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.34    71       9.00
+ Ben Thomas               8.38     4       9.00
+ Lon Franson              8.47    19       9.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.47    19       9.00
+ Monica F. Aceves         8.83     3       9.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.84    19       9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.91    26       9.00
+ Onome Okuma              8.95    18       9.00
+ Elliott Logelin          9.00     1       9.00
+ Joe Armata               9.00     1       9.00
+ David Eiche              9.05     6       9.00
+ Dave Holman              9.08     8       9.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart        9.13    15       9.00
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.63    16       9.10
+ Kenny Kronz              9.15     1       9.15
+ Doug Nadle               8.35    34       9.20
+ Dennis Steinert          8.69    29       9.20
+ Jay Waller               8.81    38       9.20
+ Joe Reiss                9.06    37       9.20
+ Michael Gemmell          7.83    58       9.25
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.34    66       9.25
+ Jim Bradley              8.38    11       9.25
+ Theodore Miller          8.52     9       9.25
+ Linda E. Gustavson       8.83     9       9.25
+ Kathleen King            9.06     4       9.25
+ Vic Forsman              9.21    20       9.25
+ Len Rafuse               8.29    30       9.30
+ Craig Jackson            7.49    73       9.40
+ Mark Duell               8.94    12       9.40
+ Keith Gill               8.67    28       9.45
+ Andrew Chiang            7.27    42       9.50
+ Steve Fenster            7.86    73       9.50
+ Peter Taylor             8.48    15       9.50
+ David Johnson            8.50     4       9.50
+ David Rigsby             8.67    10       9.50
+ George Copsey            8.97    31       9.50
+ Alan Hecht               9.00     7       9.50
+ Steve Church             9.25     2       9.50
+ Dave Annarino            9.50     2       9.50
+ Matt Brooks              9.50     2       9.50
+ Karl Hiller              9.50     1       9.50
+ David Levine             8.02    73       9.60
+ Jim Sauer                8.36     9       9.60
+ Lou Wainwright           8.51    57       9.60
+ Mark J. Musante          8.56    11       9.60
+ Jason Kropp              8.93     6       9.60
+ Sebastien Legault        9.00     5       9.60
+ Ernie Dragt              9.10     2       9.60
+ Marc Wester              9.60     1       9.60
+ Jan Smith                9.60     1       9.60
+ David Gosha              8.41    73       9.65
+ Bruce Oates              8.85    26       9.65
+ Ron Peterson             8.95    39       9.65
+ Dan Dassow               7.53    73       9.66
+ Mark McGehee             6.70    48       9.70
+ Michael J. McNaughton    8.06    73       9.70
+ Dan Kimmel               8.25    73       9.70
+ Martin Coghlan           8.44    71       9.70
+ Casey Miller             8.52    73       9.70
+ Chris Durie              9.14    31       9.70
+ Benoit Langevin          7.99    24       9.75
+ Hugh Johnson             8.00    10       9.75
+ Matthew Murray           8.22    73       9.75
+ James Prince             8.39    44       9.75
+ John Lemons              8.48    17       9.75
+ Dave Bakker              8.67     9       9.75
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.85    31       9.75
+ Brent Neal               8.85    15       9.75
+ Tony Kimmet              9.26    20       9.75
+ David Hedden             9.75     1       9.75
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.38    50       9.80
+ Ryan Hughes              8.63    16       9.80
+ Dirk Loeding             8.94    37       9.80
+ Lars Joreteg             9.03    31       9.80
+ Steve White              9.80     1       9.80
+ Albert F. Ross           8.15    34       9.85
+ Shirley Hunt             8.86    40       9.85
+ Brian McLaughlin         9.07    11       9.85
+ Ron Siewert              9.25    35       9.85
+ Chris Lawrence           9.61    17       9.85
+ Dave Smith               7.10     9       9.90
+ Michael May              8.05    73       9.90
+ Lee Somerman             8.18    36       9.90
+ Brandon Browning         8.27    38       9.90
+ James Tee                8.39    10       9.90
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.57    44       9.90
+ Chris Aylott             8.65    41       9.90
+ Paul Ree                 8.78    38       9.90
+ Jeff Katin               8.98     6       9.90
+ Jim Marino               9.14    11       9.90
+ Eric Jensen              9.64     5       9.90
+ Matthew Burke            9.90     1       9.90
+ Ryan Stephenson          9.90     1       9.90
+ Brent Barrett            8.55    73       9.95
+ Mike Ingbritson          9.12    30       9.95
+ Mike Walters             9.18    25       9.95
+ John Francis             9.95     1       9.95
+ Steve VanHaren           8.93    12       9.96
+ Bob Kalogerakos          9.99     1       9.99
+ John Abbott              7.93    72      10.00    
+ Don Semmens              9.10    51      10.00    
+ Charles Sumner           6.95    73      10.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.44    73      10.00
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.55    73      10.00
+ David E. Bath            7.69    50      10.00
+ Jason Bartlett           7.79    43      10.00
+ Doug Piligian            7.86    73      10.00
+ Penny Rothkopf           7.93     3      10.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        8.03    69      10.00
+ Bret Rudnick             8.05    10      10.00
+ Jonathan Frain           8.24    73      10.00
+ Jeff Schultz             8.28    73      10.00
+ Jerry Bookter            8.33     3      10.00
+ Chris Cropper            8.38     8      10.00
+ Jason Larke              8.43    36      10.00
+ Wes Makin                8.44    27      10.00
+ Paul Byers               8.45    10      10.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.46    42      10.00
+ Edward Lee               8.63    25      10.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.64    33      10.00
+ Ken Papai                8.73    53      10.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.76    73      10.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.78    34      10.00
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.80    73      10.00
+ Mike Westover            8.80    11      10.00
+ Peter Houghton           8.82    13      10.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.82    13      10.00
+ Judy Bell                8.86     7      10.00
+ Mike Levien              8.90     4      10.00
+ Michael Bellomo          8.93    19      10.00
+ Mike Bell                8.95     8      10.00
+ Carl Marker              9.05    11      10.00
+ Scott Davis              9.09     9      10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.11    28      10.00
+ Josh Romond              9.13     4      10.00
+ David Broitman           9.14    24      10.00
+ Susan Liew               9.16     8      10.00
+ Mark Sulkowski           9.16    18      10.00
+ Bob Patrick              9.22    13      10.00
+ Brian Epley              9.23    13      10.00
+ George Moore             9.23    17      10.00
+ Spyros A. Svoronos       9.25    16      10.00
+ Stephen Anderson         9.26    10      10.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.28    24      10.00
+ Randy Crist              9.31    11      10.00
+ Michael J. Loux          9.32    65      10.00
+ Jeff Young               9.45    18      10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.52    71      10.00
+ Mike Basinger            9.56     7      10.00
+ Richard Losey            9.67     3      10.00
+ Dan Sias                 9.68    30      10.00
+ Carol Ohlers             9.73     9      10.00
+ Christopher M. Palmer    9.75     2      10.00
+ Jordan Pinsker           9.95     2      10.00
+ Ryan Button             10.00     1      10.00
+ Noel D'Souza            10.00     1      10.00
+ Mark Holbrook           10.00     1      10.00
+ John Hardin             10.00     1      10.00
+ Jason Polland           10.00     2      10.00
+ Jeff Bowlin             10.00     1      10.00
+ Tim Clark               10.00     1      10.00
+ Michael Alex            10.00     1      10.00
+ Adam Queler             10.00     1      10.00
+ Sean Elicker            10.00     1      10.00
diff --git a/p5/073 b/p5/073
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+       Results - "Epiphanies"
+===================================================
+                                 # of              
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   Epiphanies
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.07              8.43   
+ Std. Dev.                0.94              0.90   
+ # of Voters           1743               139      
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Allan Jenoff             7.46    74        5.50
+ John Abbott              7.93    72        6.00
+ Wes Makin                8.37    28        6.30
+ Mark D. Grover           5.90    74        6.50
+ Toni Figl                7.47    16        6.50
+ Mark Hullinger           7.34    75        7.00   
+ Fred Adams               5.75    12        7.00
+ Jeff Penny               7.00     1        7.00
+ Andy Brathwaite          7.03    67        7.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.43    74        7.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.54    74        7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        8.01    70        7.00
+ Greg Franks              8.08    72        7.00
+ Bob Grant                8.23    21        7.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.42    43        7.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.43    30        7.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.71    14        7.20
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.60    34        7.30
+ Steven Grimm             7.56    70        7.50
+ Dennis Waltman           7.75    10        7.50
+ J. William Berger        8.28    29        7.50
+ James Tee                8.31    11        7.50
+ Ryan Hughes              8.56    17        7.50
+ Ernie Dragt              8.57     3        7.50
+ Ed Hopkins               8.64    32        7.50
+ Mike Bell                8.79     9        7.50
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.81    32        7.50
+ Lee Somerman             8.16    37        7.59
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.96    12        7.75
+ Kova Dauser              8.88     2        7.77
+ Michael Gemmell          7.82    59        7.80
+ David J. Miller          8.33    12        7.80
+ Elliott Logelin          8.37     3        7.95   
+ Graham Pilato            7.10    21        8.00
+ Joe Spiegel              7.59    17        8.00
+ James R. Kapesis         8.00     1        8.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.07    37        8.00
+ Mike Bruton              8.17    12        8.00
+ David L. Wright          8.29    37        8.00
+ Doug Nadle               8.34    35        8.00
+ Jason Larke              8.42    37        8.00
+ Casey Miller             8.51    74        8.00
+ Mike Garrison            8.75     2        8.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.76    35        8.00
+ Brent Neal               8.79    16        8.00
+ Jason Kropp              8.80     7        8.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.80    20        8.00
+ Joe Reiss                9.03    38        8.10
+ James Prince             8.38    45        8.20
+ Judy Bell                8.77     8        8.20
+ Onome Okuma              8.91    19        8.20
+ Jim Marino               9.06    12        8.20
+ Mark Tenney              8.59    22        8.22
+ Scott Wilkins            9.10     3        8.30
+ David Gaspar             8.66    20        8.35
+ Mark McGehee             6.74    49        8.40
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.61    17        8.40
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.80    74        8.40
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.57    74        8.50
+ Jeff Barry               8.02    16        8.50
+ Tim Skirvin              8.05    74        8.50
+ Brian Tozzo              8.15    37        8.50
+ Dan Kimmel               8.26    74        8.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.34    72        8.50
+ David Gosha              8.41    74        8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.48    20        8.50
+ Justin Mohareb           8.50     1        8.50
+ Philip Weiner            8.51    31        8.50
+ Dave Bakker              8.65    10        8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.72    59        8.50
+ Mark Moerman             8.83    33        8.50
+ Susan Liew               9.09     9        8.50
+ Adam Queler              9.25     2        8.50
+ Lee Vibber               9.25    25        8.50
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.43    27        8.50
+ Matthew Burke            9.25     2        8.60
+ Ryan Stephenson          9.25     2        8.60
+ Ron Siewert              9.23    36        8.65
+ Keith Gill               8.67    29        8.70
+ Larry J. Lennhoff        8.25    21        8.75
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.46    35        8.75
+ Jay Waller               8.81    39        8.75
+ Isaac Weiner             8.90    27        8.75
+ Kathleen King            9.00     5        8.75
+ Tony Kimmet              9.23    21        8.75
+ Jeff Schultz             8.28    74        8.80
+ Don Feltham              8.61    30        8.80
+ Joe Kauffman             9.17     7        8.80
+ Mark Duell               8.94    13        8.90
+ Dan Dassow               7.55    74        8.92
+ Andrew Chiang            7.31    43        9.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.76    70        9.00
+ Bret Rudnick             8.14    11        9.00
+ Matthew Murray           8.23    74        9.00
+ Jonathan Frain           8.25    74        9.00
+ Andree Fontenot          8.36    74        9.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.47    74        9.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.55    74        9.00
+ Forest Silverman         8.63     4        9.00
+ John Jurcevic            8.74    74        9.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.76    74        9.00
+ Chris Shabsin            8.81    24        9.00
+ Chris Durie              9.13    32        9.00
+ Brian Epley              9.21    14        9.00
+ Carol Ohlers             9.66    10        9.00
+ Jason Bartlett           7.82    44        9.10
+ Dennis Steinert          8.70    30        9.10
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.87    11        9.10
+ Linda Johnson            9.05     2        9.10
+ Jeff Young               9.43    19        9.10
+ Doug Piligian            7.88    74        9.20
+ Ken Moore                9.07    13        9.20
+ Bruce Oates              8.86    27        9.25
+ Paul Goetze              9.13    15        9.25
+ Don Semmens              9.12    52        9.30   
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.34    67        9.30
+ Neda Mulla               8.62    22        9.30
+ David Rodriguera         9.47    13        9.30
+ Scott Davis              9.13    10        9.40
+ Doug Minnis              9.41     8        9.40
+ Eric Jensen              9.60     6        9.40
+ Steve Fenster            7.88    74        9.50
+ Cera Kruger              8.10     5        9.50
+ Lou Wainwright           8.52    58        9.50
+ David Rigsby             8.74    11        9.50
+ Linda E. Gustavson       8.90    10        9.50
+ Preston Allen Cooper     9.02    12        9.50
+ Mike Levien              9.02     5        9.50
+ Michael J. Loux          9.32    66        9.50
+ Joel E. Natt             8.50    31        9.58
+ Lon Franson              8.53    20        9.60
+ Steve VanHaren           9.00    13        9.75
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.12    21        9.80
+ Kenneth Lu               9.33     6        9.80
+ Mark J. Musante          8.68    12        9.90
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.53    72        9.90
+ Theodore Miller          8.66    10        9.95
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.14    29        10.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart        9.18    16        10.00
diff --git a/p5/074 b/p5/074
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+       Results - "The Illusion of Truth"
+======================================================
+                                 # of    The Illusion
+ Poll 5                History   Votes     of Truth   
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.08               7.56     
+ Std. Dev.                0.93               1.84     
+ # of Voters           1758                170        
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Jordan Pinsker           6.63     3         0.00
+ Eric Michon              1.00     1         1.00
+ Aaron Dietrich           1.00     1         1.00
+ Michael Greenbaum        1.00     1         1.00
+ Mark McGehee             6.64    50         2.00
+ Mike Bell                8.11    10         2.00
+ Steven Oyler             3.00     1         3.00
+ Mark Hullinger           7.34    76         4.00     
+ Toni Figl                7.27    17         4.00
+ Judy Bell                8.26     9         4.10
+ Fred Adams               5.69    13         5.00
+ Graham Pilato            7.00    22         5.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.43    75         5.00
+ Mike Bruton              7.92    13         5.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       7.99    38         5.00
+ Rob Milroy               8.05    18         5.00
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen       8.12    13         5.00
+ Michael Bellomo          8.74    20         5.00
+ Mike Smart               8.80     6         5.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.89    75         5.50
+ Jeff Schultz             8.25    75         5.50
+ Gregory Manhart          7.00     2         6.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.70    73         6.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.73    71         6.00
+ John Abbott              7.90    73         6.00
+ Ernie Dragt              7.93     4         6.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.98    71         6.00
+ Greg Franks              8.05    73         6.00
+ J. William Berger        8.20    30         6.00
+ David Broitman           8.99    26         6.00
+ Doug Piligian            7.86    75         6.50
+ Aaron J. Redd            8.44    71         6.50
+ Jay Mohney               8.70    36         6.50
+ Michael Gemmell          7.81    60         6.70
+ Mark R. Graves           6.80     1         6.80
+ David J. Miller          8.22    13         6.80
+ Martin Coghlan           8.40    74         6.80
+ Jeff Caddick             8.74    17         6.80
+ Chris Shabsin            8.73    26         7.00     
+ Steven Grimm             7.57    72         7.00     
+ Andy Johnson             6.27    75         7.00
+ Andy Brathwaite          7.03    68         7.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.43    75         7.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.53    75         7.00
+ Hugh Johnson             7.88    12         7.00
+ Cera Kruger              7.92     6         7.00
+ Ben Thomas               8.00     6         7.00
+ Royce Hays               8.02     4         7.00
+ Brandon Browning         8.24    39         7.00
+ George H. Bowers         8.27    11         7.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.45    75         7.00
+ Ryan Hughes              8.47    18         7.00
+ David Gaspar             8.58    21         7.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.71    21         7.00
+ Linda E. Gustavson       8.73    11         7.00
+ Brent Schmidt            8.75     4         7.00
+ Dennis Steinert          8.65    31         7.20
+ Jonathan Frain           8.24    75         7.25
+ Dave Bakker              8.52    11         7.25
+ L.E. McClintock          8.61    15         7.30
+ Brent Barrett            8.56    76         7.50     
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.57    75         7.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.92    13         7.50
+ David L. Wright          8.27    38         7.50
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.55    28         7.50
+ Jason Kropp              8.64     8         7.50
+ Randy Crist              9.16    12         7.50
+ Richard Thompson         7.70     1         7.70
+ Julia Steinberg          7.43     3         7.80
+ Jason Bartlett           7.82    45         7.80
+ Lee Somerman             8.15    38         7.80
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.33    68         7.80
+ Casey Miller             8.50    75         7.80
+ Mark J. Musante          8.61    13         7.80
+ Joel E. Natt             8.48    32         7.85
+ Wes Makin                8.35    29         7.90
+ Justin Mohareb           7.67     3         8.00     
+ Andrew Chiang            7.33    44         8.00
+ Steve Lawson             8.00    14         8.00
+ Michael May              8.03    75         8.00
+ Bret Rudnick             8.13    12         8.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.34    73         8.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.41    31         8.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.60    29         8.00
+ Keith Gill               8.65    30         8.00
+ Mike Westover            8.73    13         8.00
+ Jeff Katin               8.74     8         8.00
+ Brent Neal               8.75    17         8.00
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.79    75         8.00
+ Kathleen King            8.83     6         8.00
+ Stephen Anderson         9.14    12         8.00
+ Brian Epley              9.13    15         8.02
+ Elliott Logelin          8.35     4         8.15     
+ Louis Amari              8.64    50         8.20
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.71    60         8.20
+ Ken Moore                9.01    14         8.20
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.59    18         8.25
+ Ron Siewert              9.20    37         8.25
+ Bill Martin              8.30     6         8.30
+ James Tee                8.31    12         8.30
+ Onome Okuma              8.88    20         8.30
+ Matthew Burke            8.93     3         8.30
+ Chris Durie              9.11    33         8.40
+ Linda Johnson            8.84     3         8.43
+ David Levine             8.03    75         8.50
+ Bob Grant                8.25    22         8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.37    52         8.50
+ Steve Schultheis         8.41    75         8.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.45    49         8.50
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.47    36         8.50
+ Neda Mulla               8.61    23         8.50
+ Mike Garrison            8.67     3         8.50
+ Monica F. Aceves         8.75     4         8.50
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.76    75         8.50
+ Paul Ree                 8.77    40         8.50
+ Ryan Stephenson          9.00     3         8.50
+ Paul Goetze              9.09    16         8.50
+ Moira Russell            9.12     5         8.50
+ Mike Walters             9.14    27         8.50
+ Tony Kimmet              9.20    22         8.50
+ David Rodriguera         9.40    14         8.50
+ Dan Kimmel               8.26    75         8.70
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.57    46         8.70
+ Mark Tenney              8.60    23         8.70
+ Ron Peterson             8.95    40         8.70
+ David Gosha              8.41    75         8.75
+ David Rigsby             8.74    12         8.75
+ Sue Ellen Petty          8.88     2         8.75
+ Chris Lawrence           9.56    19         8.75
+ Mike Heffner             8.08    75         8.80
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.61    35         8.80
+ Dan Sias                 9.64    32         8.80
+ Brian Tozzo              8.17    38         8.89
+ Dave Holman              9.01    10         8.97
+ Tim Skirvin              8.06    75         9.00
+ Steve Jacobs             8.40     9         9.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.50    21         9.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.52    32         9.00
+ Beth Nachison            8.88     8         9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.90    28         9.00
+ James Kingsburry         9.00     1         9.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.24    26         9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.52    73         9.00
+ Carol Ohlers             9.60    11         9.00
+ Dan Dassow               7.57    75         9.04
+ George Copsey            8.97    33         9.10
+ Joe Reiss                9.03    39         9.10
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.06    53         9.10
+ Mark Duell               8.73    75         9.20
+ Steve VanHaren           9.01    14         9.20
+ Scott W. Powers          9.07    11         9.20
+ Michael J. Loux          9.32    67         9.20
+ Andree Fontenot          8.37    75         9.25
+ James Prince             8.40    46         9.25
+ Jeff Young               9.43    20         9.45
+ Marie Johnson            8.85     6         9.50
+ Alan Hecht               9.00     9         9.50
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.13    22         9.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.15    30         9.50
+ Eric Jensen              9.59     7         9.50
+ David Ito                9.60    11         9.50
+ Mike Ingbritson          9.15    32         9.53
+ Ed Hopkins               8.67    33         9.60
+ Scott Hall               9.70     1         9.70
+ Astha A. Svoronos        9.52     4         9.80
+ Rich Brown               7.71    15         9.90
+ Mark Poli                9.59    34         9.90
+ Don Semmens              9.13    53        10.00     
+ Shelly M. Niehart        9.23    17        10.00
+ Spyros A. Svoronos       9.29    17        10.00
diff --git a/p5/075 b/p5/075
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+ Results - "Atonement"
+========================================================
+                                 # of
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   Atonement
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.08             8.55
+ Std. Dev.                0.93             1.00
+ # of Voters           1770              159
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams               5.64    14       5.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.88    76       5.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.50    76       5.00
+ Bob Grant                8.15    23       6.00
+ Steven Oyler             4.75     2       6.50
+ Justin Mohareb           7.67     3       6.50
+ J. William Berger        8.15    31       6.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.55    36       6.50
+ Joseph Flynn             6.50     2       7.00
+ Minchul Cha              7.04    14       7.00
+ Joe Spiegel              7.56    18       7.00
+ Dennis Waltman           7.58    12       7.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.72    72       7.00
+ Henrik Herranen          7.84    76       7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.97    72       7.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.37    32       7.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.73    76       7.00
+ Alan Hecht               8.80    10       7.00
+ Andrew Chiang            7.33    45       7.50
+ Ernie Dragt              7.84     5       7.50
+ Mike Bruton              7.89    14       7.50
+ Greg Franks              8.05    74       7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.07    76       7.50
+ David L. Wright          8.25    39       7.50
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.32    69       7.50
+ Michael Gemmell          7.80    61       7.75
+ Patrick B. Hall          8.05    44       7.80
+ Erez Zadok               8.67    22       7.80
+ Joe Reiss                9.00    40       7.80
+ Brian Tozzo              8.16    39       7.86
+ Martin Coghlan           8.40    75       7.90
+ Thomas Weaver            7.17     3       8.00
+ Mark Hullinger           7.27    76       8.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.43    76       8.00
+ Tommi Salomaa            7.47    18       8.00
+ Hugh Johnson             7.88    13       8.00
+ John Abbott              7.90    74       8.00
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.93    14       8.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       7.99    39       8.00
+ Ben Thomas               8.00     7       8.00
+ John Webb                8.00     1       8.00
+ Bret Rudnick             8.12    13       8.00
+ Lee Somerman             8.15    39       8.00
+ Judy Bell                8.23    10       8.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.48    22       8.00
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.56    47       8.00
+ Jason Kropp              8.57     9       8.00
+ Jeff Katin               8.66     9       8.00
+ Joe Woelfling            8.67     3       8.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.68    37       8.00
+ Scott Davis              9.02    11       8.00
+ Wes Makin                8.34    30       8.10
+ David Lawson             8.35     2       8.20
+ Jim Marino               8.91    14       8.20
+ Mike Bell                8.12    11       8.25
+ Larry J. Lennhoff        8.24    23       8.25
+ Elliott Logelin          8.35     4       8.30
+ David Gaspar             8.57    22       8.30
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.58    19       8.30
+ Jay Waller               8.78    41       8.30
+ Dan Dassow               7.58    76       8.47
+ Gregory Manhart          7.50     3       8.50
+ Janne Salmijarvi         7.88    76       8.50
+ Michael May              8.04    76       8.50
+ Brandon Browning         8.24    40       8.50
+ Dan Kimmel               8.27    76       8.50
+ Gregg Kellogg            8.37    53       8.50
+ Mario Bruhwiler          8.50     1       8.50
+ John Jurcevic            8.72    76       8.50
+ David Rigsby             8.72    13       8.50
+ Chris Shabsin            8.73    26       8.50
+ Isaac Weiner             8.89    29       8.50
+ Scott W. Powers          9.02    12       8.50
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.13    31       8.50
+ Mark J. Musante          8.61    14       8.60
+ Onome Okuma              8.87    21       8.70
+ Matthew Burke            8.88     4       8.70
+ Alex Elsberg             8.46    50       8.75
+ Mike Westover            8.74    14       8.75
+ George Cravens           9.27     2       8.89
+ Ken Moore                9.00    15       8.90
+ Jeff Young               9.40    21       8.90
+ Andree Fontenot          8.38    76       8.95
+ David Gosha              8.42    76       8.95
+ Burt Clothier            7.45    76       9.00
+ Steven Grimm             7.57    72       9.00
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.59    76       9.00
+ Pasi Ojala               7.81    76       9.00
+ Jason Bartlett           7.84    46       9.00
+ Rob Milroy               8.10    19       9.00
+ Steve Schultheis         8.42    76       9.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.44    44       9.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.46    76       9.00
+ Tal Lancaster            8.50     6       9.00
+ Forest Silverman         8.50     6       9.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.54    33       9.00
+ Linda E. Gustavson       8.75    12       9.00
+ Brent Schmidt            8.80     5       9.00
+ Ben Lomax                8.81    50       9.00
+ David Broitman           8.99    27       9.00
+ Janeen S. DeBoard        9.00     1       9.00
+ Kevin Sullivan           9.04    18       9.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart        9.22    18       9.00
+ Eric Jensen              9.33     8       9.00
+ Chris Lawrence           9.53    20       9.05
+ Mark McGehee             6.69    51       9.10
+ Doug Piligian            7.88    76       9.10
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.79    76       9.10
+ Marie Johnson            8.89     7       9.10
+ Jarno Kokko              8.90    76       9.10
+ Ryan Stephenson          9.02     4       9.10
+ George Copsey            8.98    34       9.15
+ Neda Mulla               8.64    24       9.20
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.72    61       9.20
+ Sonja Mendoza            8.75    17       9.20
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.93    13       9.20
+ Paul Ree                 8.78    41       9.25
+ Rob Freilich             9.02    11       9.25
+ Joe Kauffman             9.06     9       9.25
+ Brian Epley              9.14    16       9.25
+ Tony Kimmet              9.20    23       9.25
+ Jim Sauer                7.82    12       9.30
+ L.E. McClintock          8.66    16       9.30
+ Keith Gill               8.67    31       9.30
+ Dave Annarino            8.70     5       9.30
+ Mark Duell               8.74    76       9.30
+ David Rodriguera         9.39    15       9.30
+ Teresa M. Dowd           9.77     3       9.30
+ Ron Siewert              9.21    38       9.35
+ Jonathan Frain           8.25    76       9.40
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.79    19       9.40
+ Chris Durie              9.12    34       9.40
+ Penny Rothkopf           8.33     4       9.50
+ Jussi Valkiainen         8.71    76       9.50
+ Brent Neal               8.79    18       9.50
+ Mark Moerman             8.83    35       9.50
+ Ron Peterson             8.96    41       9.50
+ Randy Crist              9.19    13       9.50
+ Carol Ohlers             9.59    12       9.50
+ David Hedden             9.63     2       9.50
+ Bruce Oates              8.89    28       9.55
+ Steve VanHaren           9.05    15       9.56
+ Dennis Steinert          8.68    32       9.60
+ Casey Miller             8.52    76       9.70
+ Don Semmens              9.13    53       9.70
+ Tim Skirvin              8.09    76       9.75
+ David Ito                9.61    12       9.75
+ Francois Natel           8.37     9       9.80
+ Jeff Caddick             8.80    18       9.80
+ Michael J. Loux          9.33    68       9.80
+ Dan Sias                 9.65    33       9.80
+ Sue Ellen Petty          9.20     3       9.85
+ Joel E. Natt             8.52    33       9.95
+ George Moore             9.23    19       9.95
+ Jeff Schultz             8.27    76      10.00
+ Lyle Bontrager           8.50     2      10.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.56    76      10.00
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.08    54      10.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.27    27      10.00
diff --git a/p5/076 b/p5/076
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+      Results - "Racing Mars"
+=================================================
+                                 # of     Racing 
+ Poll 5                History   Voters    Mars  
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.08             7.73  
+ Std. Dev.                0.92             1.24  
+ # of Voters           1800              147     
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Mark McGehee             6.58    52       1.00
+ Bob L. Dunlap II         5.60    10       2.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.87    77       5.00
+ Steven Oyler             6.89     7       5.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.27    33       5.00
+ J. William Berger        8.38    44       5.00
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen       7.93    14       5.50
+ Craig Jackson            7.47    74       5.90
+ Mark Hullinger           7.25    78       6.00  
+ Allan Jenoff             7.42    78       6.00  
+ Toni Figl                7.20    18       6.00
+ Jeff Schultz             8.24    77       6.00
+ David J. Miller          8.11    15       6.20
+ Mike Bruton              7.80    15       6.50
+ Greg Franks              8.03    75       6.50
+ Jay Catherwood           8.73    49       6.50
+ Michael May              8.02    77       6.80
+ James Tee                8.26    14       6.90  
+ Wes Makin                8.30    31       6.90
+ Steven Grimm             7.55    74       7.00  
+ Justin Mohareb           7.50     5       7.00  
+ John Abbott              7.88    76       7.00  
+ Andy Johnson             6.29    77       7.00
+ Graham Pilato            6.88    24       7.00
+ Ellie Bozzelman          7.00     1       7.00
+ Chuck Thompson           7.00     1       7.00
+ Lee Doty                 7.00     1       7.00
+ Andy Brathwaite          7.04    70       7.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.49    77       7.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.71    75       7.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.71    73       7.00
+ Jason Bartlett           7.83    47       7.00
+ Mike Bell                8.03    12       7.00
+ Tim Skirvin              8.07    77       7.00
+ Bob Grant                8.10    24       7.00
+ Lee Somerman             8.12    40       7.00
+ Atul A. Karve            8.29    17       7.00
+ Forrest Silverman        8.29     7       7.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.30    70       7.00
+ Louis Amari              8.61    51       7.00
+ Ed Hopkins               8.62    35       7.00
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.68    34       7.00
+ John Jurcevic            8.70    77       7.00
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.79    14       7.00
+ Kova Dauser              8.46     4       7.07
+ Jim Bradley              8.25    13       7.25
+ Martin Coghlan           8.38    76       7.30
+ James Prince             8.37    48       7.40
+ Burt Clothier            7.45    77       7.50
+ Doug Piligian            7.87    77       7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.96    73       7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.06    77       7.50
+ Mike Hopkins             8.45    77       7.50
+ Dave Annarino            8.50     6       7.50
+ Alan Hecht               8.68    11       7.50
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.73    20       7.50
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.51    30       7.60
+ Michael Emond            8.52    13       7.70
+ Isaac Weiner             8.85    30       7.75
+ Jonathan Rynd            7.43     3       7.80
+ Erez Zadok               8.63    23       7.80
+ Judy Bell                8.19    11       7.82
+ Steve VanHaren           8.97    16       7.82
+ George Cravens           8.82     3       7.92
+ Victor Murrell           8.46    12       7.98
+ Joe Spiegel              7.58    19       8.00
+ David E. Bath            7.75    53       8.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       7.99    40       8.00
+ Rebecca Hornbrook        8.00     1       8.00
+ Shelley Leutholtz        8.00     1       8.00
+ Bret Rudnick             8.11    14       8.00
+ Dan Kimmel               8.26    77       8.00
+ Doug Nadle               8.27    37       8.00
+ Susan Neylan             8.34    75       8.00
+ Dan Doulas               8.40     2       8.00
+ David Gosha              8.41    77       8.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.45    51       8.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.46    23       8.00
+ Casey Miller             8.51    77       8.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.52    34       8.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.56    31       8.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.62    17       8.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.66    38       8.00
+ Brent Schmidt            8.67     6       8.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.81    36       8.00
+ Kelly Meroney            8.85    22       8.00
+ Susan Liew               8.89    11       8.00
+ David Broitman           8.96    28       8.00
+ Jonathan Stanley         9.02    20       8.00
+ Brian Epley              9.08    17       8.00
+ Chris Durie              9.09    35       8.00
+ George Moore             9.17    20       8.00
+ Keith Gill               8.65    32       8.10
+ Matthew Burke            8.72     5       8.10
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.54    37       8.20
+ Mark J. Musante          8.58    15       8.20
+ Dirk Loeding             8.87    41       8.20
+ Dan Dassow               7.59    77       8.25
+ Dave Thomer              8.02    39       8.25
+ Rob Ditto                8.43    45       8.25
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.56    20       8.25
+ Paul Ree                 8.77    42       8.25
+ Ron Siewert              9.18    39       8.25
+ Dylan Northrup           8.00    70       8.30  
+ Lars Joreteg             9.00    33       8.30  
+ Jarno Kokko              8.89    77       8.40
+ Jonathan Frain           8.25    77       8.50
+ Elizabeth N. Hane        8.29    77       8.50
+ Steve Schultheis         8.42    77       8.50
+ John Lemons              8.48    18       8.50
+ Kevin Cummo              8.50     1       8.50
+ Chris Aylott             8.64    42       8.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.72    62       8.50
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.79    77       8.50
+ Scott W. Powers          8.90    77       8.50
+ George Copsey            8.96    35       8.50
+ Eric Jensen              9.23     9       8.50
+ Lee Vibber               9.24    28       8.50
+ David Rodriguera         9.34    16       8.50
+ Carol Ohlers             9.50    13       8.50
+ David Gaspar             8.58    24       8.60  
+ Ken Moore                8.97    16       8.60
+ Mark Tenney              8.60    24       8.75
+ David Rigsby             8.73    14       8.75
+ Mark Duell               8.74    77       8.75
+ Mike Westover            8.74    15       8.75
+ Edward Lee               8.65    27       8.80
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.08    55       8.90
+ Andree Fontenot          8.39    77       9.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.74    77       9.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.13    32       9.00
+ Doug Minnis              9.35    11       9.00
+ Marie Johnson            8.91     8       9.10
+ Rob Freilich             9.03    12       9.10
+ Mike Ingbritson          9.15    33       9.10
+ Ron Peterson             8.96    42       9.20
+ Don Semmens              9.13    54       9.20
+ Chris Lawrence           9.52    21       9.25
+ Mark Poli                9.57    36       9.30
+ Bruce Oates              8.90    29       9.35
+ Jim Marino               8.94    15       9.45
+ Michael J. Loux          9.33    69       9.50
+ Jeff Young               9.41    22       9.50
+ Diane Denesowicz         8.93    12       9.60
+ Brent Barrett            8.59    78       9.75  
+ Elizabeth Lapka          9.80     1       9.80
+ Dan Sias                 9.66    34       9.90
diff --git a/p5/077 b/p5/077
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+       Results - "Lines of Communication"
+======================================================
+                                 # of      Lines of
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   Communication
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.09               8.30  
+ Std. Dev.                0.91               0.92  
+ # of Voters           1813                148     
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams               5.63    16         5.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.87    78         6.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.47    78         6.00
+ Dave Thomer              7.97    40         6.00
+ Jim Sauer                7.71    14         6.40
+ Steven Grimm             7.55    75         6.50  
+ Bob L. Dunlap II         5.68    11         6.50
+ Toni Figl                7.16    19         6.50
+ C J Silverio             7.85    74         6.50
+ Mark Hullinger           7.24    79         7.00  
+ Andrew Chiang            7.33    46         7.00
+ Forrest Silverman        8.13     8         7.00
+ Jeff Schultz             8.22    78         7.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.31    76         7.00
+ J. William Berger        8.33    46         7.00
+ Kathleen King            8.44     8         7.00
+ Casey Miller             8.49    78         7.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.29    71         7.20
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.68    15         7.20
+ Lon Franson              8.43    22         7.25
+ Dylan Northrup           8.00    70         7.30
+ Edward L. Leiken         8.01     4         7.40
+ John Abbott              7.87    77         7.50  
+ Allan Jenoff             7.44    79         7.50  
+ Justin Mohareb           7.50     5         7.50
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.71    76         7.50
+ Mike Bruton              7.78    16         7.50
+ Robert P. Galloway       7.98    41         7.50
+ Michael May              8.02    78         7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.06    78         7.50
+ Paul Byers               8.38    13         7.50
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.64    36         7.50
+ David J. Miller          8.08    16         7.60
+ Dale Forrey              8.19    19         7.60
+ Wes Makin                8.28    32         7.70
+ Rob Ditto                8.42    46         7.75
+ Michael Gemmell          7.79    63         7.80
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.96    74         7.80
+ Francois Natel           8.21    11         7.80
+ Lee Somerman             8.11    41         7.90
+ Jason Larke              8.37    41         7.90
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.49    31         7.90
+ Matthew Burke            8.58     6         7.90
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.69    21         7.90
+ Victor Murrell           8.42    13         7.99
+ Andy Johnson             6.31    78         8.00
+ Graham Pilato            6.92    25         8.00
+ Dennis Waltman           7.57    14         8.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.72    74         8.00
+ Chuck Thompson           8.00     4         8.00
+ Kevin D. Stanciel        8.00     1         8.00
+ David H. Gorski          8.06     9         8.00
+ Bob Grant                8.10    25         8.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.44    52         8.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.44    78         8.00
+ John Lemons              8.46    19         8.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.51    35         8.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.52    38         8.00
+ Mark J. Musante          8.54    16         8.00
+ Brent Schmidt            8.57     7         8.00
+ Erez Zadok               8.60    24         8.00
+ Mike Westover            8.69    16         8.00
+ Christopher Carrera      8.25     2         8.10
+ Martin Coghlan           8.38    77         8.10
+ Len Strafehl             8.37     3         8.15
+ Alan Hecht               8.64    12         8.20
+ David Gosha              8.41    78         8.25
+ Jay Mohney               8.65    39         8.25
+ Dan Kimmel               8.26    78         8.30
+ Chris Durie              9.07    36         8.30
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    79         8.50  
+ David E. Bath            7.76    54         8.50
+ Tom Woodfin              7.90     7         8.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.94    16         8.50
+ Bret Rudnick             8.13    15         8.50
+ Jonathan Frain           8.26    78         8.50
+ Doug Nadle               8.28    38         8.50
+ James Prince             8.37    49         8.50
+ Eran Eyal                8.44    72         8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.46    24         8.50
+ Barbara Key              8.50     1         8.50
+ Onome Okuma              8.86    22         8.50
+ Dirk Loeding             8.87    42         8.50
+ Keith Gill               8.65    33         8.55
+ Susan Neylan             8.34    76         8.60
+ Steve Fenster            7.93    78         8.70
+ Rosemary Clark           8.70     1         8.70
+ Chris Lawrence           9.48    22         8.70
+ David Gaspar             8.56    25         8.75  
+ Mark McGehee             6.62    53         8.75
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.47    39         8.75
+ Matt Bovee               8.50     5         8.75
+ Josh Balloch             8.75     1         8.75
+ George Moore             9.15    21         8.75
+ Dan Dassow               7.61    78         8.78
+ Lars Joreteg             9.01    34         8.80  
+ Michael J. McNaughton    8.09    77         8.80
+ Dennis Steinert          8.68    33         8.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.72    63         8.80
+ Jay Catherwood           8.73    50         8.80
+ Marie Johnson            8.90     9         8.80
+ Joe Kauffman             9.04    10         8.85
+ Doug Piligian            7.88    78         8.90
+ Andree Fontenot          8.40    78         8.90
+ Dan Doulas               8.57     3         8.90
+ Chris Aylott             8.65    43         8.90
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.12    25         8.90
+ Brian Tozzo              8.18    40         8.97
+ Steve van Haren          8.97    17         8.99
+ Don Semmens              9.14    56         9.00  
+ Burt Clothier            7.47    78         9.00
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.60    78         9.00
+ Tim Skirvin              8.08    78         9.00
+ James Tee                8.26    14         9.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.29    34         9.00
+ Steve Schultheis         8.43    78         9.00
+ Kova Dauser              8.57     5         9.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.74    78         9.00
+ Isaac Weiner             8.86    31         9.00
+ Danielle Chan            9.00     1         9.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.12    33         9.00
+ Tony Kimmet              9.19    24         9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.51    75         9.00
+ Mark Poli                9.56    37         9.00
+ Ken Moore                8.98    17         9.10
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.57    48         9.15
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.08    56         9.20
+ Michael J. Loux          9.33    70         9.20
+ Mark Duell               8.75    78         9.25
+ Alan Scobbie             8.88     2         9.25
+ Brian Epley              9.08    18         9.25
+ Mike Ingbritson          9.15    34         9.25
+ Ron Siewert              9.18    40         9.25
+ Bruce Oates              8.92    30         9.40
+ Paul Goetze              9.07    19         9.40
+ Doug Minnis              9.35    12         9.40
+ Dave Holman              8.99    12         9.50
+ Eric Jensen              9.26    10         9.50
+ David Broitman           8.98    29         9.60
+ David Rodriguera         9.35    17         9.60
+ George Cravens           9.03     4         9.65
+ L.E. McClintock          8.68    18         9.70
+ Diane Denesowicz         8.98    13         9.70
+ Brent Barrett            8.59    79         9.85  
+ Jeff Young               9.43    23         9.90
+ Dan Sias                 9.66    35         9.90
+ Jon Krivitzky            9.00     2         10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.39    31         10.00
diff --git a/p5/078 b/p5/078
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+       Results - "Conflicts of Interest"
+=====================================================
+                                 # of     Conflicts
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   of Interest
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.07              8.04   
+ Std. Dev.                0.91              1.21   
+ # of Voters           1818               129      
+ ----------------------------------------------------
+ Bob L. Dunlap II         5.38    12        2.00
+ J. William Berger        8.14    47        2.50
+ Blaise Faint             8.17    35        4.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.86    79        5.00
+ Andy Johnson             6.29    79        6.00
+ Graham Pilato            6.92    26        6.00
+ Jason Bartlett           7.81    49        6.20
+ Mark Hullinger           7.25    80        6.50   
+ Mike Bruton              7.71    17        6.50
+ C J Silverio             7.83    75        6.50
+ John Abbott              7.87    77        6.50
+ Lee Somerman             8.07    42        6.50
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.30    32        6.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.48    39        6.75
+ Martin Coghlan           8.36    78        6.80
+ Francois Nantel          8.10    12        6.90
+ Andrew Chiang            7.32    47        7.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.46    79        7.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.71    75        7.00
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.61    22        7.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.59    19        7.10
+ Mark McGehee             6.63    54        7.20
+ Ed Hopkins               8.57    37        7.20
+ Richard L. Russ          7.38     2        7.25
+ Michael Gemmell          7.79    64        7.40
+ Steven Grimm             7.53    76        7.50   
+ Greg Franks              8.01    77        7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.05    79        7.50
+ Doug Nadle               8.26    39        7.50
+ Mike Hopkins             8.43    79        7.50
+ Erez Zadok               8.56    25        7.50
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.57    50        7.50
+ Jay Mohney               8.62    40        7.50
+ Kelly Meroney            8.80    24        7.50
+ Jim Sauer                7.71    15        7.70
+ Dave Thomer              7.72    67        7.75
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.93    17        7.75
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.96    75        7.75
+ James Prince             8.36    50        7.75
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.28    72        7.80
+ Victor Murrell           8.38    14        7.80
+ Edward Lee               8.62    29        7.80
+ George Cravens           8.79     5        7.83
+ Dan Kimmel               8.26    79        7.90
+ Casey Miller             8.48    79        7.90
+ Dennis Steinert          8.66    34        7.90
+ Diane Denesowicz         8.91    14        7.95
+ Philip Stephens          8.05     8        8.00
+ David J. Miller          8.07    17        8.00
+ Forrest Silverman        8.22     9        8.00
+ Wes Makin                8.27    33        8.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.31    77        8.00
+ Lon Franson              8.41    23        8.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.44    25        8.00
+ Kevin Borchers           8.53    33        8.00
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.62    37        8.00
+ John Jurcevic            8.68    79        8.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              8.73    79        8.00
+ Susan Liew               8.81    13        8.00
+ Brian Epley              9.03    19        8.00
+ Doug Piligian            7.89    79        8.10
+ Joe Kauffman             8.95    11        8.10
+ David Gaspar             8.56    25        8.20
+ Tim Skirvin              8.09    79        8.25
+ Bob Grant                8.10    26        8.25
+ Josh Balloch             8.50     2        8.25
+ Jim Bradley              8.24    15        8.30
+ Sandeep Kumar            8.48    32        8.30
+ Sonja Mendoza            8.63    20        8.30
+ Dan Dassow               7.62    79        8.41
+ Steve Fenster            7.93    79        8.50
+ Penny Rothkopf           8.21     8        8.50
+ Alex Elsberg             8.44    53        8.50
+ Joe Alvarnas             8.50     1        8.50
+ Neda Mulla               8.59    27        8.50
+ Paul Ree                 8.76    43        8.50
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    79        8.50
+ Mark Moerman             8.79    38        8.50
+ Onome Okuma              8.84    23        8.50
+ Tony Kimmet              9.17    25        8.50
+ Ron Siewert              9.17    41        8.50
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.49    76        8.50
+ Alan Hecht               8.64    13        8.60
+ Chris Durie              9.05    37        8.60
+ George Copsey            8.95    37        8.65
+ Mark J. Musante          8.55    17        8.70
+ Dan Doulas               8.60     4        8.70
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.11    26        8.70
+ Tom Luongo               8.12    79        8.75
+ David Rigsby             8.71    16        8.75
+ George Moore             9.13    22        8.75
+ Jeff Schultz             8.23    79        8.80
+ Jarno Kokko              8.88    79        8.80
+ Ken Moore                8.97    18        8.80
+ Susan Neylan             8.35    77        8.90
+ Mike Westover            8.70    17        8.90
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.72    64        8.90
+ Andree Fontenot          8.40    79        8.95
+ Ron Peterson             8.97    44        8.96
+ Allan Jenoff             7.44    79        9.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.01    42        9.00
+ Dale Forrey              8.23    20        9.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.59    79        9.00
+ Brent Schmidt            8.63     8        9.00
+ Chris Aylott             8.66    44        9.00
+ Linda Johnson            8.88     5        9.00
+ Marie Johnson            8.91    10        9.00
+ Steve Church             9.00     4        9.00
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.08    57        9.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.12    34        9.00
+ Mike Walters             9.13    28        9.00
+ Eric Jensen              9.24    11        9.00
+ Jay Catherwood           8.74    51        9.10
+ Scott W. Powers          8.91    79        9.10
+ Joe Reiss                9.00    41        9.10
+ Lars Joreteg             9.01    34        9.10
+ Dan Sias                 9.65    36        9.10
+ Kova Dauser              8.66     6        9.11
+ Dirk Loeding             8.87    43        9.20
+ David Gosha              8.42    79        9.25
+ Alan DeHaan              9.25     1        9.25
+ Carol Ohlers             9.52    15        9.25
+ David Broitman           8.99    30        9.30
+ Michael J. Loux          9.33    71        9.30
+ Jonathan Frain           8.27    79        9.50
+ Steve Schultheis         8.44    79        9.50
+ Doug Minnis              9.36    13        9.50
+ Jeff Young               9.43    24        9.50
+ Don Semmens              9.14    56        9.80
diff --git a/p5/079 b/p5/079
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/079
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+                               # of    Rumors, Bargains
+ Poll 5              History   Votes       and Lies
+ ------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.09                 8.33 
+ Std. Dev.              0.90                 1.10 
+ # of Voters         1822                  108    
+ ------------------------------------------------------
+ J. William Berger      8.04    50           3.50
+ Bob L. Dunlap II       5.27    13           4.00
+ Mark D. Grover         5.85    80           5.00
+ Fred Adams             5.72    18           6.00
+ Warren Kenyon          7.45    80           6.00
+ Steven Grimm           7.53    76           6.00
+ Doug Piligian          7.88    80           6.90
+ Francois Nantel        8.01    13           6.90
+ Justin Mohareb         7.21     7           7.00
+ C J Silverio           7.82    76           7.00
+ Dylan Northrup         7.98    72           7.00
+ Erez Zadok             8.50    26           7.00
+ David Gaspar           8.51    26           7.15
+ John Abbott            7.87    79           7.50 
+ Mike Bruton            7.69    18           7.50
+ Casey Miller           8.47    80           7.50
+ Randall K. Petersen    8.55    51           7.50
+ Wendell Hertzell       8.56    23           7.50
+ Kyle Ferrio            8.71    80           7.50
+ Jay Waller             8.75    42           7.50
+ Andrew Chiang          7.33    48           7.60
+ Martin Coghlan         8.35    79           7.70
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain   7.91    18           7.75
+ James Prince           8.35    51           7.85
+ Victor Murrell         8.35    15           7.95
+ Mark Hullinger         7.25    81           8.00 
+ Andy Johnson           6.31    80           8.00
+ Craig Jackson          7.46    77           8.00
+ Jeff Rupley            7.71    76           8.00
+ Tim Skirvin            8.08    80           8.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.     8.30    78           8.00
+ Alex Elsberg           8.42    54           8.00
+ Matthew Burke          8.43     8           8.00
+ Philip Weiner          8.49    37           8.00
+ Jay Catherwood         8.73    52           8.00
+ Jeff Schultz           8.23    80           8.10
+ Jonathan Frain         8.27    80           8.10
+ George Cravens         8.68     6           8.12
+ Barbara Haddad         8.20     1           8.20
+ Evelyn Pypes           8.65    16           8.20
+ Mark McGehee           6.66    55           8.25
+ Barbara Key            7.70    75           8.25
+ Paul Ree               8.75    44           8.25
+ Linda Johnson          8.77     6           8.25
+ Onome Okuma            8.82    24           8.25
+ Louis Amari            8.60    53           8.30
+ Alan Hecht             8.62    14           8.40
+ Burt Clothier          7.47    80           8.50
+ Richard L. Russ        7.75     3           8.50
+ Robert P. Galloway     8.02    43           8.50
+ Lee Somerman           8.08    43           8.50
+ Chuck Thompson         8.17     6           8.50
+ James Tee              8.27    15           8.50
+ Mike Hopkins           8.43    80           8.50
+ Joe Alvarnas           8.50     2           8.50
+ Remo Ottone            8.50     1           8.50
+ Thomas Catsburg        8.62    38           8.50
+ Isaac Weiner           8.84    33           8.50
+ Chris Durie            9.04    38           8.50
+ Kathy Sullivan         9.48    77           8.50
+ L.E. McClintock        8.60    20           8.60
+ David J. Miller        8.11    18           8.65
+ Mike Westover          8.70    18           8.65
+ Mark Miller            9.09     2           8.68
+ Andree Fontenot        8.41    80           8.70
+ Mark J. Musante        8.56    18           8.70
+ Mark MacKinnon         8.78    80           8.70
+ Ken Moore              8.96    19           8.70
+ Mike Heffner           8.06    80           8.80
+ Dan Doulas             8.64     5           8.80
+ Alan DeHaan            9.05     2           8.85
+ Jay Mohney             8.63    41           8.88
+ Dennis Steinert        8.67    35           8.90
+ Marie Johnson          8.91    11           8.90
+ Lars Joreteg           9.00    35           8.90
+ Allan Jenoff           7.46    80           9.00
+ Dennis Waltman         7.64    16           9.00
+ David E. Bath          7.78    55           9.00
+ Jim Sauer              7.79    16           9.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.19    36           9.00
+ Brenda Marr            8.25     2           9.00
+ Penny Rothkopf         8.30     9           9.00
+ Arturo Magidin         8.46    26           9.00
+ Kevin Borchers         8.54    34           9.00
+ Josh Balloch           8.67     3           9.00
+ Brent Schmidt          8.67     9           9.00
+ Susan Liew             8.82    14           9.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk    8.50    40           9.20
+ Ron Peterson           8.97    45           9.20
+ Don Semmens            9.15    58           9.30 
+ Dan Kimmel             8.27    80           9.30
+ Mark Tenney            8.63    26           9.30
+ Kova Dauser            8.75     7           9.30
+ Diane Denesowicz       8.94    15           9.30
+ Joe Kauffman           8.99    12           9.35
+ Dan Sias               9.64    37           9.40
+ Rob Ditto              8.43    48           9.50
+ Dirk Loeding           8.89    44           9.50
+ Elan Ruskin            9.50     2           9.50
+ Carol Ohlers           9.52    16           9.50
+ Doug Minnis            9.38    14           9.65
+ David Broitman         9.01    31           9.70
+ Lee Vibber             9.26    31           9.75
+ Brent Barrett          8.61    80           9.80
+ Jeff Young             9.45    25           9.80
+ Eugenio Rivera         9.32    33           9.95
+ David Gosha            8.44    80          10.00
+ George Moore           9.17    23          10.00
diff --git a/p5/080 b/p5/080
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/080
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+ Results - "Moments of Transition"
+=========================================================
+                                 # of    Moments of
+ Poll 5                History   Votes   Transition
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.10              8.73
+ Std. Dev.                0.91              1.01
+ # of Voters           1835               107
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Toni Figl                6.95    21        4.00
+ J. William Berger        8.04    56        5.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.85    81        6.00
+ Bob L. Dunlap II         7.30    81        6.50
+ Kyle Ferrio              7.47    81        6.50
+ Allan Jenoff             7.45    81        7.00
+ Mike Bruton              7.66    19        7.00
+ Justin Mohareb           7.23     8        7.30
+ Andrew Chiang            7.33    49        7.40
+ Mark Hullinger           7.28    82        7.50
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.01    44        7.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.90    19        7.75
+ Barbara Haddad           8.00     2        7.80
+ Francois Nantel          8.00    14        7.85
+ Andy Johnson             6.33    81        8.00
+ Andy Brathwaite          7.08    74        8.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.46    81        8.00
+ Steven Grimm             7.54    77        8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.96    77        8.00
+ Dave Annarino            8.38     8        8.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.44    27        8.00
+ Victor Murrell           8.33    16        8.05
+ Doug Piligian            7.88    81        8.10
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.27    74        8.10
+ Dan Doulas               8.55     6        8.10
+ C J Silverio             7.83    77        8.25
+ Erez Zadok               8.49    27        8.30
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.63    17        8.30
+ Casey Miller             8.47    81        8.40
+ Mark McGehee             6.70    56        8.50
+ John Abbott              7.89    80        8.50
+ Dave Frelinger           8.00     9        8.50
+ Greg Franks              8.01    78        8.50
+ Lee Somerman             8.09    44        8.50
+ Rob Milroy               8.11    22        8.50
+ Kathleen King            8.44     9        8.50
+ Andrew Lias              8.50     1        8.50
+ Clayton R. Woods         8.50     1        8.50
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.55    52        8.50
+ Louis Amari              8.60    54        8.50
+ Brent Schmidt            8.65    10        8.50
+ John Jurcevic            8.67    81        8.50
+ Alan DeHaan              8.87     3        8.50
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.57    24        8.70
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    81        8.70
+ Joe Spiegel              7.72    22        8.75
+ Josh Balloch             8.69     4        8.75
+ Steve van Haren          8.96    18        8.75
+ David Gaspar             8.52    27        8.80
+ Remo Ottone              8.65     2        8.80
+ Joe Reiss                9.01    43        8.80
+ Craig Jackson            7.48    81        9.00
+ David E. Bath            7.80    56        9.00
+ Richard L. Russ          8.06     4        9.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.21    37        9.00
+ Dan Kimmel               8.28    81        9.00
+ James Tee                8.32    16        9.00
+ Onome Okuma              8.82    25        9.00
+ Dave Holman              8.98    14        9.00
+ Hashem Bajwa             9.00     2        9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.48    78        9.00
+ Mark J. Musante          8.59    19        9.10
+ Ken Moore                8.97    20        9.10
+ Steve Mandel             9.13     2        9.10
+ Susan Neylan             8.36    79        9.20
+ Lars Joreteg             9.01    36        9.20
+ George Cravens           8.75     7        9.21
+ Brian Tozzo              8.18    42        9.25
+ Matthew Murray           8.25    81        9.25
+ David Rodriguera         9.33    19        9.25
+ Edward L. Leiken         7.99     7        9.30
+ Alan Hecht               8.67    15        9.30
+ David Gosha              8.45    81        9.35
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.12    27        9.35
+ Jussi Valkiainen         8.72    81        9.40
+ Mark Duell               8.76    81        9.40
+ Ron Peterson             8.98    46        9.40
+ Joe Kauffman             9.02    13        9.40
+ Michael J. Loux          9.33    73        9.40
+ Bruce Oates              8.95    32        9.45
+ Dennis Waltman           7.75    17        9.50
+ James Prince             8.37    52        9.50
+ Neda Mulla               8.65    29        9.50
+ Chris Aylott             8.66    46        9.50
+ Linda Johnson            8.88     7        9.50
+ Jarno Kokko              8.89    81        9.50
+ George Copsey            8.97    39        9.50
+ Don Semmens              9.16    59        9.50
+ Tony Kimmet              9.18    27        9.50
+ Jan Horton               9.50     1        9.50
+ David Ito                9.60    13        9.50
+ David Rigsby             8.76    17        9.60
+ Rob Ditto                8.45    49        9.65
+ L.E. McClintock          8.65    21        9.70
+ Diane Denesowicz         8.95    16        9.70
+ Georgia C. Chamaine      9.70     1        9.70
+ Tim Skirvin              8.10    81        9.75
+ Eric Jensen              9.28    12        9.75
+ Kova Dauser              8.88     8        9.80
+ Doug Minnis              9.41    15        9.80
+ Dan Sias                 9.65    38        9.90
+ Burt Clothier            7.51    81       10.00
+ Barbara Key              7.73    76       10.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.63    81       10.00
+ Pierre Bourbonnais       9.11    36       10.00
+ Carol Ohlers             9.56    18       10.00
+ Cary Emerson Curphy     10.00     1       10.00
diff --git a/p5/081 b/p5/081
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+ Results - "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+============================================================
+                                 # of    No Surrender,
+ Poll 5                History   Votes    No Retreat
+ --------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.10               9.16
+ Std. Dev.                0.90               0.80
+ # of Voters           1845                127
+ --------------------------------------------------------
+ J. William Berger        8.11    63         6.00
+ Wes Makin                8.19    36         6.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.87    82         7.00
+ Andy Johnson             6.34    82         7.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.71    78         7.00
+ David J. Miller          8.06    19         7.25
+ Toni Figl                6.98    22         7.50
+ Fred Adams               5.90    20         8.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              7.48    82         8.00
+ Steven Grimm             7.56    79         8.00
+ Leila Wood               8.00     1         8.00
+ James Prince             8.37    53         8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.96    78         8.25
+ Clayton R. Woods         8.38     2         8.25
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.70    80         8.30
+ Dennis Steinert          8.67    37         8.30
+ Justin Mohareb           7.48    10         8.50
+ Mike Bruton              7.70    20         8.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.93    20         8.50
+ Mike Hill                8.28     5         8.50
+ Kathleen King            8.45    10         8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.45    28         8.50
+ William Squier           8.50     1         8.50
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.57    25         8.50
+ Paul Ree                 8.75    46         8.75
+ Onome Okuma              8.82    26         8.75
+ Bob L. Dunlap II         7.32    82         8.80
+ Mike Heffner             8.06    82         8.80
+ Doug Nadle               8.27    40         8.80
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.28    75         8.80
+ Mike Hopkins             8.44    82         8.80
+ Casey Miller             8.47    82         8.80
+ Keith Gill               8.66    37         8.90
+ Allan Jenoff             7.49    83         9.00
+ Greg Franks              8.03    79         9.00
+ Mike Bell                8.10    13         9.00
+ Lee Somerman             8.11    45         9.00
+ Edward L. Leiken         8.12     8         9.00
+ Judy Bell                8.26    12         9.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.31    80         9.00
+ Martin Coghlan           8.35    81         9.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.42    56         9.00
+ Matthew Burke            8.49     9         9.00
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.56    53         9.00
+ Brent Barrett            8.63    82         9.00
+ Linda E. Gustavson       8.67    18         9.00
+ Steve Davis              9.00     1         9.00
+ David Broitman           9.04    33         9.00
+ Ron Siewert              9.15    44         9.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.33    35         9.00
+ Jeff Schultz             8.24    82         9.10
+ Louis Amari              8.61    55         9.10
+ Jason Bartlett           7.87    52         9.20
+ Doug Piligian            7.89    82         9.20
+ Grant H. Miller II       8.27    13         9.25
+ Brian Epley              9.04    20         9.25
+ Jeremy Morrow            9.25     1         9.25
+ Dylan Northrup           8.14    76         9.30
+ Chuck Thompson           8.38     8         9.30
+ Ryan Hughes              8.51    20         9.30
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.67    18         9.30
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    82         9.30
+ Susan Liew               8.85    15         9.30
+ Steve Mandel             9.18     3         9.30
+ Rick Garner              9.30     1         9.30
+ Dan Kimmel               8.29    82         9.40
+ David Gaspar             8.55    28         9.40
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.47    79         9.40
+ Alan Hecht               8.72    16         9.45
+ Ron Peterson             8.99    47         9.45
+ Dave Holman              9.01    15         9.45
+ Burt Clothier            7.53    82         9.50
+ Dave Thomer              7.81    72         9.50
+ John Abbott              7.87    81         9.50
+ Jim Sauer                7.97    18         9.50
+ James Tee                8.39    17         9.50
+ Kevin Borchers           8.58    36         9.50
+ Ed Hopkins               8.59    40         9.50
+ Mark J. Musante          8.63    20         9.50
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.64    39         9.50
+ Dan Doulas               8.69     7         9.50
+ Brent Schmidt            8.73    11         9.50
+ Michael Bellomo          8.74    22         9.50
+ Josh Balloch             8.85     5         9.50
+ George Copsey            8.98    40         9.50
+ Chris Durie              9.05    40         9.50
+ Cynthia Hillier          9.09    60         9.50
+ Ian Muttoo               9.50     1         9.50
+ David O'Neil             9.50     1         9.50
+ Tony Kimmet              9.20    28         9.60
+ Lars Joreteg             9.02    38         9.70
+ Mark Hullinger           7.28    83         9.75
+ George Moore             9.20    25         9.75
+ Jonathan Frain           8.29    81         9.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.74    67         9.80
+ Dirk Loeding             8.91    46         9.80
+ Michael J. Loux          9.33    74         9.80
+ David Rodriguera         9.37    20         9.80
+ Chris Lawrence           9.46    26         9.80
+ Carol Ohlers             9.56    18         9.80
+ George Cravens           8.89     8         9.82
+ L.E. McClintock          8.70    22         9.90
+ Scott W. Powers          8.92    82         9.90
+ Don Semmens              9.17    60         9.90
+ Randy Crist              9.27    15         9.90
+ Doug Minnis              9.44    16         9.90
+ Mark Poli                9.55    41         9.90
+ Jeff Young               9.46    27         9.93
+ Mark McGehee             6.77    57        10.00
+ Andrew Chiang            7.38    50        10.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.49    82        10.00
+ Barbara Key              7.76    77        10.00
+ Joe Spiegel              7.82    23        10.00
+ Rob Milroy               8.19    23        10.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.26    38        10.00
+ David Gosha              8.47    82        10.00
+ Steve Schultheis         8.50    82        10.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.67    43        10.00
+ Neda Mulla               8.70    30        10.00
+ Meredith Russell         8.83     3        10.00
+ Diane Denesowicz         9.01    17        10.00
+ Jim Marino               9.04    20        10.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.28    32        10.00
+ Spyros A. Svoronos       9.31    24        10.00
+ Eric Jensen              9.33    13        10.00
+ Dan Sias                 9.66    39        10.00
+ Benjamin Shelburne      10.00     1        10.00
diff --git a/p5/082 b/p5/082
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+       Results - "The Exercise of Vital Powers"
+========================================================
+                                 # of    The Exercise of
+ Poll 5                History   Votes    Vital Powers
+ -------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.11                8.62
+ Std. Dev.                0.89                1.12
+ # of Voters           1852                 132   
+ -------------------------------------------------------
+ Mark McGehee             6.70    58          2.50
+ J. William Berger        8.07    66          4.00
+ John Abbott              7.87    82          6.00
+ Fred Adams               5.90    21          6.00
+ Bob L. Dunlap II         7.31    83          6.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.87    83          6.50
+ Toni Figl                6.96    23          6.50
+ Jay Mohney               8.62    44          6.75
+ Jim Bradley              8.23    19          6.85
+ Mark Hullinger           7.29    84          7.00
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.62    83          7.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.70    79          7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.95    79          7.00
+ Jason Bartlett           7.86    53          7.30
+ Kyle Ferrio              7.48    83          7.50
+ Mike Bruton              7.69    21          7.50
+ Jeremy Morrow            8.38     2          7.50
+ Casey Miller             8.46    83          7.50
+ Martin Coghlan           8.35    82          7.70
+ Erez Zadok               8.48    29          7.80
+ Lon Franson              8.39    24          7.90
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.71    81          8.00
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain     7.95    21          8.00
+ Greg Franks              8.03    80          8.00
+ Rob Milroy               8.18    24          8.00
+ Grant H. Miller II       8.25    14          8.00
+ Michael Emond            8.43    19          8.00
+ Johnathan Cornacchia     9.00     2          8.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.24    33          8.00
+ Mark Tenney              8.66    28          8.10
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.28    76          8.15
+ James Prince             8.36    54          8.15
+ Matthew Burke            8.46    10          8.20
+ Louis Amari              8.60    56          8.20
+ Jim Marino               9.00    21          8.25
+ Tony Kimmet              9.16    29          8.25
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.56    26          8.30
+ Michael May              8.03    83          8.40
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk      8.53    43          8.40
+ Justin Mohareb           7.48    10          8.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.31    81          8.50
+ Paul Gerlt               8.50     1          8.50
+ Jeffrey LaCombe          8.50     1          8.50
+ Brent Schmidt            8.71    12          8.50
+ Lee Somerman             8.13    46          8.60
+ Jeff Schultz             8.24    83          8.60
+ Randall K. Petersen      8.56    54          8.60
+ Jay Catherwood           8.73    55          8.60
+ Ron Peterson             8.98    48          8.60
+ Steve Mandel             9.04     4          8.60
+ Ben Thomas               8.09    14          8.70
+ Wes Makin                8.20    37          8.70
+ Dan Kimmel               8.30    83          8.70
+ Neda Mulla               8.70    31          8.70
+ Mary Lynne Nielsen       7.98    15          8.75
+ Paul Ree                 8.75    47          8.75
+ Onome Okuma              8.82    27          8.75
+ Ron Siewert              9.14    45          8.75
+ Mike Heffner             8.07    83          8.80
+ David J. Miller          8.14    21          8.80
+ Alan Hecht               8.72    17          8.80
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.78    83          8.80
+ Richard L. Russ          8.23     5          8.90
+ Lars Joreteg             9.02    38          8.90
+ David Broitman           9.03    34          8.90
+ Diane Denesowicz         8.95    23          8.95
+ Steven Grimm             7.57    80          9.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.49    83          9.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.55    83          9.00
+ Joe Spiegel              7.86    24          9.00
+ Doug Piligian            7.91    83          9.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.28    39          9.00
+ Doug Nadle               8.29    41          9.00
+ Susan Neylan             8.38    81          9.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.45    83          9.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.47    29          9.00
+ Eric Dahmen              8.50     2          9.00
+ David Gaspar             8.57    29          9.00
+ Matt Bovee               8.69     8          9.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.72    23          9.00
+ Dan Doulas               8.73     8          9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.74    68          9.00
+ Mark Moerman             8.75    42          9.00
+ Mark Duell               8.77    83          9.00
+ David Rigsby             8.81    20          9.00
+ Dirk Loeding             8.91    47          9.00
+ George Moore             9.20    26          9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.47    80          9.00
+ Carol Ohlers             9.53    19          9.00
+ George Cravens           8.90     9          9.02
+ Brian Tozzo              8.20    43          9.05
+ Jonathan Frain           8.30    82          9.10
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.69    19          9.10
+ Cary Emerson Curphy      9.27     3          9.10
+ Jeff Young               9.45    28          9.10
+ Steve Fenster            7.99    83          9.20
+ Mark J. Musante          8.66    21          9.20
+ Keith Gill               8.68    38          9.20
+ Jarno Kokko              8.90    83          9.20
+ David Rodriguera         9.36    21          9.20
+ David Gosha              8.48    83          9.25
+ Mike Walters             9.16    30          9.25
+ Linda Johnson            8.93     8          9.28
+ Dylan Northrup           8.17    83          9.30
+ Paul Goetze              9.01    24          9.35
+ Doug Minnis              9.44    17          9.45
+ Don Semmens              9.18    61          9.50
+ Jim Sauer                8.05    19          9.50
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.06    46          9.50
+ Brent Barrett            8.65    83          9.50
+ Chris Durie              9.07    41          9.50
+ Michael J. Loux          9.34    75          9.50
+ Eric Jensen              9.35    14          9.50
+ Rob Ditto                8.51    51          9.60
+ Kova Dauser              9.04    10          9.60
+ Dennis Steinert          8.70    38          9.70
+ Dan Sias                 9.66    40          9.70
+ Dan Dassow               7.70    83          9.75
+ Mark Poli                9.55    42          9.75
+ Kevin Darnell Edwards    8.40     2          9.80
+ Lou Wainwright           8.55    62          9.80
+ Matt Griener             9.40     2          9.80
+ Josh Balloch             9.02     6          9.85
+ Jennifer Eisenbart       9.14    28          9.85
+ Tom Lucas                8.75    12          9.90
+ Steve Schultheis         8.52    83         10.00
+ Chris Aylott             8.72    48         10.00
+ Mark Sulkowski           9.20    19         10.00
+ Cameron Turner           9.22    81         10.00
+ Randy Crist              9.32    16         10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.35    36         10.00
+ Chris Lawrence           9.48    27         10.00
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+       Results - "The Face of the Enemy"
+====================================================
+                                 # of    The Face of
+ Poll 5                History   Votes    the Enemy
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.11              9.26   
+ Std. Dev.                0.91              0.94   
+ # of Voters           1868               151      
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ J. William Berger        8.04    69        2.00
+ Mark McGehee             6.67    59        5.10
+ Mark D. Grover           5.89    84        7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.94    80        7.25
+ Brian Tozzo              8.19    44        7.89
+ Steven Grimm             7.58    81        8.00   
+ Andy Johnson             6.36    83        8.00
+ Toni Figl                7.00    24        8.00
+ Allan Jenoff             7.49    84        8.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.49    84        8.00
+ Mike Bruton              7.70    22        8.00
+ Jeff Rupley              7.70    80        8.00
+ John Abbott              7.87    82        8.00
+ Joe Studholme            8.21    14        8.00
+ Mike Hopkins             8.44    84        8.10
+ Chuck Thompson           8.36    10        8.25
+ Wendell Hertzell         8.55    27        8.30
+ Eric Slocum              9.05     2        8.40
+ Mark Hullinger           7.22    85        8.50   
+ Tim Skirvin              8.13    83        8.50
+ Arturo Magidin           8.47    30        8.50
+ Daniel Bader             9.25     2        8.50
+ Jason Bartlett           7.87    54        8.60
+ Andrew Chiang            7.40    52        8.75
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.64    41        8.75
+ Paul Ree                 8.75    48        8.75
+ Mike Walters             9.15    31        8.75
+ Dan Kimmel               8.31    84        8.90
+ Martin Coghlan           8.35    83        8.90
+ David Gaspar             8.58    30        8.90
+ Mark MacKinnon           8.77    85        9.00   
+ Bob L. Dunlap II         7.33    84        9.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              7.50    84        9.00
+ Justin Mohareb           7.62    11        9.00
+ Ben Thomas               8.15    15        9.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere 8.29    77        9.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.30    40        9.00
+ Grant H. Miller II       8.30    15        9.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.43    58        9.00
+ Alan A. Bedard           8.50     2        9.00
+ Kevin D. Stanciel        8.50     2        9.00
+ Matthew Burke            8.51    11        9.00
+ Philip Weiner            8.51    38        9.00
+ Daniel Kuhn              8.58    21        9.00
+ Jeremy Morrow            8.58     3        9.00
+ Edward Lee               8.65    32        9.00
+ Eric Lawson              9.00     1        9.00
+ Brian Epley              9.06    22        9.00
+ Tony Kimmet              9.16    30        9.00
+ Michael J. McNaughton    8.13    84        9.10
+ David J. Miller          8.18    22        9.10
+ Victor Murrell           8.39    18        9.10
+ Jeff Young               9.44    29        9.10
+ Jeffrey LaCombe          8.85     2        9.20
+ Ken Moore                8.99    23        9.20
+ Peter Kappesser          9.20     1        9.20
+ Kathleen King            8.52    11        9.25
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta      8.52    45        9.25
+ Onome Okuma              8.83    28        9.25
+ Dustin M. Ramsey         9.22     7        9.25
+ Jeff Schultz             8.25    84        9.30
+ Erez Zadok               8.50    30        9.30
+ Ron Peterson             8.99    49        9.30
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.47    81        9.30
+ Ryan Hughes              8.55    21        9.40
+ Evelyn Pypes             8.73    20        9.40
+ Lars Joreteg             9.03    39        9.40
+ David Broitman           9.04    35        9.40
+ Margaret Johnson         9.33     3        9.40
+ Burt Clothier            7.57    84        9.50
+ Clint Ragsdale           7.64    84        9.50
+ Thomas Aylesworth        7.73    82        9.50
+ David Strauss            7.78    84        9.50
+ Dennis Waltman           7.85    18        9.50
+ Francois Nantel          8.18    16        9.50
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.32    82        9.50
+ Louis Amari              8.61    57        9.50
+ Keith Gill               8.70    39        9.50
+ Isaac Weiner             8.86    34        9.50
+ George Copsey            9.01    42        9.50
+ Jim Marino               9.02    22        9.50
+ Paul Goetze              9.03    25        9.50
+ Ron Siewert              9.14    46        9.50
+ Mike Morris              9.50     1        9.50
+ Sean Casey               9.50     1        9.50
+ Duncan McFarlane         9.50     1        9.50
+ Jim Sauer                8.12    20        9.60
+ Casey Miller             8.48    84        9.60
+ Alan Hecht               8.77    18        9.60
+ Dan Doulas               8.82     9        9.60
+ Michael E. McClellan     9.65     1        9.65
+ James Prince             8.39    55        9.67
+ Dylan Northrup           8.18    84        9.70
+ Mark J. Musante          8.71    22        9.70
+ David Rigsby             8.85    21        9.70
+ John Burroway            9.70     1        9.70
+ Dan Dassow               7.72    84        9.75
+ Andree Fontenot          8.47    84        9.75
+ John Francis             9.18     4        9.75
+ Eric Jensen              9.37    15        9.75
+ Chris Lawrence           9.49    28        9.75
+ Ray Martinez             9.75     1        9.75
+ George Cravens           8.99    10        9.78
+ Don Semmens              9.19    62        9.80   
+ Doug Piligian            7.93    84        9.80
+ Michael May              8.05    84        9.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.76    69        9.80
+ Michael Bellomo          8.78    23        9.80
+ Clayton R. Woods         9.06     4        9.80
+ Chris Durie              9.08    42        9.80
+ Michael J. Loux          9.34    76        9.80
+Joe Niles                 9.80     1        9.80
+ Casey Law                8.50    24        9.90
+ Mark Duell               8.79    84        9.90
+ Diane Denesowicz         8.99    24        9.90
+ Dave Holman              9.06    16        9.90
+ Steve Mandel             9.21     5        9.90
+ Mark Poli                9.56    43        9.90
+ Elizabeth Lapka          9.85     2        9.90
+ Justin Kerr              9.90     1        9.90
+ Liz Tanaka               9.90     1        9.90
+ Brent Barrett            8.66    84        9.95
+ Lee Somerman             8.16    47        9.96
+ Barbara Key              7.79    78       10.00
+ David E. Bath            7.84    57       10.00
+ Joe Spiegel              7.95    25       10.00
+ Mike Heffner             8.09    84       10.00
+ Robert P. Galloway       8.10    47       10.00
+ Jonathan Frain           8.32    83       10.00
+ David Gosha              8.50    84       10.00
+ Rob Ditto                8.53    52       10.00
+ Steve Schultheis         8.53    84       10.00
+ Dave Annarino            8.56     9       10.00
+ Dennis Steinert          8.73    39       10.00
+ Chris Aylott             8.74    49       10.00
+ L.E. McClintock          8.77    24       10.00
+ Andrew Apold             8.81    23       10.00
+ Brent Schmidt            8.81    13       10.00
+ Tom Lucas                8.85    13       10.00
+ Jonathan Stanley         8.98    27       10.00
+ Alan DeHaan              9.15     4       10.00
+ Joe Kauffman             9.15    16       10.00
+ Josh Balloch             9.16     7       10.00
+ George Moore             9.23    27       10.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.26    34       10.00
+ Johnathan Cornacchia     9.33     3       10.00
+ Randy Crist              9.36    17       10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera           9.37    37       10.00
+ Ed Kim                   9.50     2       10.00
+ Carol Ohlers             9.56    20       10.00
+ Eric van Bezooijen      10.00     1       10.00
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+"Intersections in Real Time" judging from the voting from
+this poll could easily be described as the most controversial.
+It is the ultimate in love it/hate it voting.
+
+Many voters well above or below their voting histories.
+Since the mean of 8.08 really does not tell enough of
+the story of how the voting went, I will provide the
+info usually found only at the web site (see voting
+instructions below for URL).  The standard deviation
+(a measure of how spread out the votes are) for
+this episode is by far the largest of any episode.
+The median is a 9.00.  This shows that a large number
+of voters did in fact like the episode and the the
+low voters took a toll on the final average.  The
+episode probably has more very low scores than any 
+episodes since the first season.  There were 11 tens,
+73% voted 8.00 or above and 59% of voters who have
+voted at least five times voted above their personal
+voting history.  
+
+ Results - "Intersections in Real Time"
+===========================================================
+                                # of    Intersections
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   in Real Time
+ -------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 8.12               8.08
+ Std. Dev.               0.90               2.24
+ # of Voters          1889                143
+ -------------------------------------------------------
+ Steve Hagenhoff         0.00     1         0.00
+ Mark McGehee            6.60    61         0.00
+ Mark Hullinger          7.22    85         1.00
+ Jason Saving            8.47    15         1.00
+ Mark Reynolds           2.00     1         2.00
+ Bob L. Dunlap II        7.26    85         2.00
+ Mike Bell               7.67    14         2.00
+ Tom Jackson             3.00     1         3.00
+ Bret Rudnick            7.88    17         3.00
+ Edward L. Leiken        7.97    11         3.00
+ Kate Jenks              4.00     1         4.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.44    45         4.00
+ Sam Schwarz             5.00     1         5.00
+ Dennis Waltman          7.70    19         5.00
+ John Abbott             7.83    83         5.00
+ Judy Bell               8.01    13         5.00
+ Toni Figl               6.94    25         5.50
+ J. William Berger       8.00    70         5.50
+ Jason Bartlett          7.83    55         5.90
+ Mark D. Grover          5.89    85         6.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.47    85         6.00
+ Mike Bruton             7.63    23         6.00
+ Blaise Faint            8.24    41         6.00
+ Dean C. Pilato          8.33     6         6.00
+ Erez Zadok              8.42    31         6.00
+ Thomas Catsburg         8.58    42         6.00
+ Jeff Schultz            8.23    85         6.50
+ Jeff Rupley             7.69    81         7.00
+ Martin Coghlan          8.34    84         7.00
+ Rob Ditto               8.51    53         7.00
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.53    55         7.00
+ Jim Sauer               8.08    21         7.20
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.93    81         7.25
+ Aaron Mandel            7.50     1         7.50
+ Daniel Bader            8.50    16         7.50
+ David Gosha             8.49    85         7.65
+ Mark J. Musante         8.67    23         7.70
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.77    85         7.70
+ Jay Mohney              8.60    45         7.75
+ Ron DesGroseillier, Jr. 8.00     1         8.00
+ Francois Nantel         8.17    17         8.00
+ Jeremy Morrow           8.44     4         8.00
+ Ryan Hughes             8.52    22         8.00
+ Eric Slocum             8.70     3         8.00
+ Susan Liew              8.80    16         8.00
+ David Rodriguera        9.30    22         8.00
+ Andrew Chiang           7.42    53         8.25
+ Josh Balloch            9.04     8         8.25
+ Burt Clothier           7.58    85         8.50
+ Steven Grimm            7.58    81         8.50
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain    8.02    23         8.50
+ Greg Franks             8.03    81         8.50
+ Kathleen King           8.52    12         8.50
+ Eric Lawson             8.75     2         8.50
+ Paul Ree                8.75    49         8.50
+ Jim Marino              9.00    23         8.50
+ Wendell Hertzell        8.55    28         8.55
+ Onome Okuma             8.83    29         8.75
+ Mike Heffner            8.10    85         8.80
+ Brian Tozzo             8.20    45         8.80
+ Victor Murrell          8.41    19         8.80
+ David Gaspar            8.58    31         8.80
+ Jeff Young              9.42    30         8.85
+ Justin Mohareb          7.73    12         8.90
+ Casey Miller            8.48    85         8.90
+ Jay Catherwood          8.74    57         8.90
+ Mark Duell              8.79    85         8.90
+ George Copsey           9.00    43         8.90
+ Kyle Ferrio             7.51    85         9.00
+ David Strauss           7.80    85         9.00
+ Barbara Key             7.81    79         9.00
+ Michael May             8.07    85         9.00
+ Robert P. Galloway      8.12    48         9.00
+ Grant H. Miller II      8.25    22         9.00
+ Dan Kimmel              8.31    85         9.00
+ Jonathan Frain          8.33    84         9.00
+ Arturo Magidin          8.48    31         9.00
+ Brent Barrett           8.67    85         9.00
+ Neda Mulla              8.72    33         9.00
+ Chris Aylott            8.75    50         9.00
+ Brent Schmidt           8.82    14         9.00
+ David Rigsby            8.86    22         9.00
+ Pascal Drouilla         9.00     1         9.00
+ Brian Epley             9.06    23         9.00
+ Chris Durie             9.08    43         9.00
+ Tony Kimmet             9.15    31         9.00
+ Johnathan Cornacchia    9.25     4         9.00
+ Joe Niles               9.40     2         9.00
+ Doug Minnis             9.42    19         9.00
+ Carol Ohlers            9.53    21         9.00
+ Doug Piligian           7.94    85         9.10
+ David J. Miller         8.23    23         9.20
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.76    70         9.20
+ Kristin McDonald        8.85     2         9.20
+ Jarno Kokko             8.92    85         9.20
+ David Broitman          9.05    36         9.20
+ Susan Neylan            8.41    83         9.30
+ Steve Church            9.10     7         9.30
+ Ron Siewert             9.15    47         9.35
+ Evelyn Pypes            8.76    21         9.40
+ Marie Johnson           8.95    12         9.40
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.47    82         9.40
+ Steve Fenster           8.02    85         9.50
+ Tim Skirvin             8.15    85         9.50
+ Alex Elsberg            8.44    59         9.50
+ Mike Hopkins            8.46    85         9.50
+ Penny Rothkopf          8.50    11         9.50
+ Mark V. Pietrasanta     8.54    46         9.50
+ Keith Gill              8.72    40         9.50
+ Ron Peterson            9.00    50         9.50
+ Lee Vibber              9.27    35         9.50
+ Chris Schumacher        9.50     1         9.50
+ Paul Casey              9.50     1         9.50
+ Joe Kauffman            9.18    17         9.55
+ Alan Hecht              8.82    19         9.65
+ Dennis Steinert         8.75    40         9.70
+ Michael J. Loux         9.35    77         9.70
+ Joe Mattila             9.70     1         9.70
+ Monica F. Aceves        8.95     5         9.75
+ Cameron Turner          9.23    83         9.75
+ Richard L. Russ         8.49     7         9.80
+ Dave Annarino           8.68    10         9.80
+ L.E. McClintock         8.81    25         9.80
+ Diane Denesowicz        9.02    25         9.80
+ Mark Poli               9.57    44         9.80
+ Colin Jaffe             9.80     1         9.80
+ George Cravens          9.06    11         9.82
+ Clayton R. Woods        9.22     5         9.85
+ Wes Makin               8.28    39         9.90
+ The Kaergard Family     9.90     1         9.90
+ Dan Sias                9.67    42         9.95
+ Sean Sutherland         9.65     2         9.99
+ Allan Jenoff            7.52    85        10.00
+ David E. Bath           7.87    58        10.00
+ Steve Schultheis        8.55    85        10.00
+ Kevin Borchers          8.65    39        10.00
+ Ken Moore               9.03    24        10.00
+ Don Semmens             9.19    62        10.00
+ Kenneth Lu              9.27    11        10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera          9.38    38        10.00
+ Chris Lawrence          9.51    29        10.00
+ Ian Sammis             10.00     1        10.00
+ Eric Solstein          10.00     1        10.00
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+ Results - "Between the Darkness and the Light"
+===================================================
+                                      Between the
+                              # of    Darkness and
+ Poll 5             History   Votes    the Light   
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.14               8.84     
+ Std. Dev.             0.89               1.02     
+ # of Voters        1933                112        
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Brian Tozzo           8.11    47         4.50
+ Fred Adams            5.92    24         6.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.90    86         6.50
+ Bob L. Dunlap II      7.26    86         7.00
+ Warren Kenyon         7.47    86         7.00
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.51    86         7.00
+ Allan Jenoff          7.52    86         7.00
+ Larry J. Lennhoff     8.19    24         7.00
+ Blaise Faint          8.21    42         7.00
+ Mark Hullinger        7.25    87         7.50     
+ Toni Figl             6.96    26         7.50
+ Ed Hopkins            8.55    44         7.50
+ Eric Solstein         8.75     2         7.50
+ Mark Moerman          8.77    45         7.50
+ Jeff Schultz          8.23    86         7.70
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.93    82         7.80
+ Wes Makin             8.27    40         7.80
+ Bill Martin           8.39     8         7.80
+ Steven Grimm          7.59    83         8.00     
+ Tereza Snyder         7.42    25         8.00
+ Jeff Rupley           7.70    82         8.00
+ Michael Gemmell       7.78    71         8.00
+ Ed Hurtley            8.00     1         8.00
+ Peter Mancini         8.00     1         8.00
+ Michael Emond         8.35    22         8.00
+ Brian Epley           9.01    24         8.00
+ Jeff Young            9.37    31         8.05
+ Mike Hopkins          8.45    86         8.20
+ Dennis Steinert       8.74    41         8.20
+ George Copsey         8.98    44         8.20
+ Lee Somerman          8.16    49         8.30
+ Mark MacKinnon        8.77    86         8.30
+ John Abbott           7.86    85         8.50     
+ Arturo Magidin        8.48    32         8.50
+ Philip Weiner         8.51    39         8.50
+ Steve Schultheis      8.55    86         8.50
+ Mark J. Musante       8.66    24         8.50
+ Brent Schmidt         8.80    15         8.50
+ Michael May           8.07    86         8.60
+ Alan Hecht            8.81    20         8.60
+ Joe Kauffman          9.15    19         8.60
+ Dylan Northrup        8.19    85         8.70
+ Lon Franson           8.37    26         8.75
+ Penny Rothkopf        8.52    12         8.75
+ Mike Heffner          8.11    86         8.80
+ Dan Kimmel            8.32    86         8.80
+ Matthew Burke         8.57    13         8.90
+ Keith Gill            8.72    41         8.90
+ Ron Peterson          9.00    51         8.90
+ Kova Dauser           9.01    13         8.90
+ George Cravens        9.05    12         8.92
+ Clint Ragsdale        7.65    86         9.00
+ Alex Elsberg          8.45    60         9.00
+ Casey Miller          8.49    86         9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.77    71         9.00
+ Onome Okuma           8.84    30         9.00
+ Isaac Weiner          8.87    35         9.00
+ Julianne Joyce        9.00     1         9.00
+ David Waitzman        9.25     2         9.00
+ Liz Tanaka            9.45     2         9.00
+ James Prince          8.42    57         9.15
+ Susan Neylan          8.42    84         9.20
+ Eric Lawson           8.90     3         9.20
+ Rick Kingslan         9.20     1         9.20
+ Jeremy Morrow         8.60     5         9.25
+ Ron Siewert           9.15    48         9.25
+ Ryan Hughes           8.56    23         9.30
+ Chris Durie           9.09    44         9.30
+ Kelly Meroney         8.80    26         9.40
+ Mike Bruton           7.71    24         9.50
+ David E. Bath         7.94    61         9.50
+ Doug Piligian         7.96    86         9.50
+ Steve Fenster         8.04    86         9.50
+ Tim Skirvin           8.17    86         9.50
+ Erez Zadok            8.46    32         9.50
+ Thomas Catsburg       8.60    43         9.50
+ Louis Amari           8.62    59         9.50
+ David Rigsby          8.89    23         9.50
+ Ken Moore             9.05    25         9.50
+ Don Semmens           9.20    63         9.50
+ George Moore          9.24    28         9.50
+ J. Scot McDonald      9.50     1         9.50
+ Dan Nguyen            9.50     1         9.50
+ Debi Clark            9.50     1         9.50
+ Carol Ohlers          9.53    22         9.50
+ Mark Poli             9.57    45         9.50
+ Jonathan Frain        8.36    86         9.60
+ Eric Boone            8.53     3         9.70
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.71    32         9.70
+ Andrew Chiang         7.46    54         9.75
+ Brent Barrett         8.68    86         9.75
+ Mark Duell            8.80    86         9.75
+ David Rodriguera      9.32    23         9.80
+ Jeff Caddick          8.86    19         9.87
+ Joe Niles             9.57     3         9.90
+ Eric Slocum           9.02     4         9.98
+ Mark McGehee          6.72    62        10.00
+ Paul Byers            8.43    15        10.00
+ David Gosha           8.51    86        10.00
+ Neda Mulla            8.75    34        10.00
+ L.E. McClintock       8.86    26        10.00
+ Chris Keroack         8.88     8        10.00
+ Kevin D. Stanciel     9.00     3        10.00
+ Shelly M. Niehart     9.26    19        10.00
+ Lee Vibber            9.29    36        10.00
+ Josh Romond           9.30     5        10.00
+ Randy Crist           9.39    18        10.00
+ Johnathan Cornacchia  9.40     5        10.00
+ Doug Minnis           9.45    20        10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.47    83        10.00
+ Dan Sias              9.68    43        10.00
+ Elizabeth Lapka       9.90     3        10.00
diff --git a/p5/086 b/p5/086
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+       Results - "Endgame"
+=================================================
+                                # of              
+ Poll 5               History   Votes   Endgame   
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 8.15            9.27     
+ Std. Dev.               0.89            0.85     
+ # of Voters          1954             128        
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Asha DeVelder           5.00     1      5.00
+ Bob L. Dunlap II        7.24    87      5.00
+ Fred Adams              5.96    25      7.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.69    83      7.00
+ Wes Makin               8.24    41      7.20
+ Mark D. Grover          5.91    87      7.50
+ Steven Grimm            7.59    84      8.00     
+ Graham Pilato           7.27    33      8.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.47    87      8.00
+ Burt Clothier           7.60    87      8.00
+ Larry J. Lennhoff       8.18    25      8.00
+ Blaise Faint            8.20    43      8.00
+ David Gaspar            8.58    33      8.10
+ Jeff Schultz            8.23    87      8.50
+ Alex Elsberg            8.45    61      8.50
+ Matthew Burke           8.56    14      8.50
+ Dave Thomas             8.84     5      8.50
+ Eric Slocum             8.92     5      8.50
+ John Jurcevic           8.67    87      8.75
+ Jim Sauer               8.19    23      8.80
+ Wendell Hertzell        8.56    30      8.90
+ Andree Fontenot         8.48    86      8.95
+ Richard L. Russ         8.56     9      8.95
+ Toni Figl               7.04    27      9.00
+ Andy Brathwaite         7.10    77      9.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.53    87      9.00
+ Mike Bruton             7.76    25      9.00
+ John Abbott             7.86    85      9.00
+ David E. Bath           7.96    62      9.00
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain    8.08    25      9.00
+ James Prince            8.43    58      9.00
+ Erez Zadok              8.47    33      9.00
+ Arturo Magidin          8.50    33      9.00
+ Philip Weiner           8.52    40      9.00
+ Ed Hopkins              8.56    45      9.00
+ Kathleen King           8.57    14      9.00
+ Chris Aylott            8.76    52      9.00
+ Jim Marino              9.00    25      9.00
+ William Jones           9.00     1      9.00
+ Dave Holman             9.06    17      9.00
+ Ryan Hughes             8.58    24      9.10
+ Susan Neylan            8.43    85      9.20
+ Jeremy Morrow           8.70     6      9.20
+ Dennis Steinert         8.75    42      9.20
+ George Copsey           8.99    45      9.20
+ Nick Stamatelos         9.10     2      9.20
+ George Cravens          9.07    13      9.22
+ Andrew Chiang           7.50    55      9.25
+ Dave Thomer             7.91    87      9.25
+ Onome Okuma             8.85    31      9.25
+ Kova Dauser             9.02    14      9.25
+ Mike Hopkins            8.46    87      9.30
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.55    57      9.30
+ James Good              9.30     1      9.30
+ Dan Doulas              8.84    12      9.35
+ Linda Johnson           8.85    10      9.35
+ Matthew MacKenzie       8.38    45      9.40
+ Joe Niles               9.53     4      9.40
+ Ray Martinez            8.85     3      9.41
+ Mark Hullinger          7.24    88      9.50     
+ Ron Siewert             9.17    50      9.50     
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.67    87      9.50
+ Michael Gemmell         7.81    72      9.50
+ David Strauss           7.82    87      9.50
+ Barbara Key             7.86    81      9.50
+ Doug Piligian           7.98    87      9.50
+ Dan Kimmel              8.33    87      9.50
+ Dale Forrey             8.39    25      9.50
+ Casey Miller            8.50    87      9.50
+ Louis Amari             8.64    60      9.50
+ David Rigsby            8.91    24      9.50
+ Ron Peterson            9.01    52      9.50
+ Brian Epley             9.03    25      9.50
+ Eric Lawson             9.05     4      9.50
+ David Broitman          9.06    37      9.50
+ Cynthia Hillier         9.10    65      9.50
+ Chris Schumacher        9.50     2      9.50
+ Gary Washington         9.50     1      9.50
+ Adam C. Brockus         9.50     1      9.50
+ Tome Shubick            9.50     1      9.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.48    47      9.60
+ Ken Moore               9.07    26      9.65
+ Dylan Northrup          8.20    86      9.70
+ Chris Durie             9.10    45      9.70
+ Carol Ohlers            9.53    23      9.70
+ Tim Skirvin             8.19    87      9.75
+ Isaac Weiner            8.89    36      9.75
+ Jeff Young              9.38    32      9.75
+ Dan Nguyen              9.63     2      9.75
+ Don Semmens             9.22    65      9.80     
+ Mark McGehee            6.77    63      9.80
+ Jason Bartlett          7.89    57      9.80
+ Joe Kauffman            9.21    20      9.85
+ Brent Barrett           8.71    88      9.90     
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.78    72      9.90
+ David Rodriguera        9.35    24      9.90
+ Doug Minnis             9.47    21      9.90
+ Mark Poli               9.57    46      9.90
+ Edward Lee              8.71    34      9.95
+ Mark Duell              8.81    87      9.95
+ Margaret Johnson        9.39     5      9.95
+ Dan Sias                9.69    44      9.95
+ Kyle Ferrio             7.54    87     10.00
+ Mike Bell               7.82    15     10.00
+ Mike Heffner            8.13    87     10.00
+ Judy Bell               8.15    14     10.00
+ Jonathan Frain          8.38    87     10.00
+ David Gosha             8.52    87     10.00
+ Bill Martin             8.57     9     10.00
+ Steve Schultheis        8.57    87     10.00
+ Paul Byers              8.62    17     10.00
+ Diane Denesowicz        8.72    34     10.00
+ Mark Moerman            8.79    46     10.00
+ Alan Hecht              8.86    21     10.00
+ Brent Schmidt           8.88    16     10.00
+ Eric Boone              8.90     4     10.00
+ L.E. McClintock         8.90    27     10.00
+ Rob Freilich            9.10    13     10.00
+ George Moore            9.26    29     10.00
+ Jon Krivitzky           9.27     7     10.00
+ Lee Vibber              9.31    37     10.00
+ Michael J. Loux         9.36    79     10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera          9.41    40     10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.48    84     10.00
+ Johnathan Cornacchia    9.50     6     10.00
+ David Hedden            9.75     3     10.00
+ J. Scot McDonald        9.75     2     10.00
+ Jim Barrett            10.00     1     10.00
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+ Results - "Rising Star"
+===============================================
+                                               
+                                # of    Rising 
+ Poll 5               History   Votes    Star  
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average                 8.15            8.90  
+ Std. Dev.               0.89            1.11  
+ # of Voters          1971             123     
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams              5.92    26      5.00
+ Bob L. Dunlap II        7.21    88      5.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.44    88      5.00
+ Kyle Ferrio             7.51    88      5.00
+ Mark D. Grover          5.91    88      6.00
+ John Abbott             7.82    87      6.50  
+ Andrew Chiang           7.48    56      6.75
+ Mark Hullinger          7.25    89      7.00  
+ Andy Brathwaite         7.10    78      7.00
+ C J Silverio            7.80    83      7.00
+ Jim Sauer               8.14    24      7.00
+ Edward Lee              8.66    35      7.70
+ Steven Grimm            7.58    85      8.00  
+ Allan Jenoff            7.54    88      8.00
+ C. M. Chan              8.00     1      8.00
+ Grant H. Miller II      8.18    25      8.00
+ Blaise Faint            8.20    44      8.00
+ Atul A. Karve           8.21    21      8.00
+ David J. Miller         8.22    25      8.00
+ Philip Weiner           8.50    41      8.00
+ Randall K. Petersen     8.54    58      8.00
+ Andrew Cody             8.69    21      8.00
+ Chris Keroack           8.78     9      8.00
+ Ben Thomas              8.12    19      8.20
+ Erez Zadok              8.46    34      8.20
+ Michael Gemmell         7.81    73      8.25
+ Matthew Burke           8.55    15      8.40
+ Dennis Waltman          7.82    21      8.50
+ Barbara Key             7.86    82      8.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.94    83      8.50
+ Tim Skirvin             8.20    88      8.50
+ Wes Makin               8.25    42      8.50
+ Ray Swell               8.50     1      8.50
+ John Jurcevic           8.67    88      8.50
+ Dan Kimmel              8.34    88      8.60
+ Michael May             8.10    88      8.70
+ Matthew Murray          8.24    88      8.75
+ Elliott Logelin         8.57     6      8.75
+ Mark Duell              8.81    88      8.75
+ Eric Lawson             8.99     5      8.75
+ Joe Kauffman            9.19    21      8.75
+ Doug Minnis             9.44    22      8.75
+ Mike Heffner            8.14    88      8.80
+ Susan Neylan            8.43    86      8.80
+ Ray Martinez            8.84     4      8.82
+ Andree Fontenot         8.49    87      8.90
+ Adam C. Brockus         9.20     2      8.90
+ Jon Krivitzky           9.23     8      8.90
+ George Cravens          9.06    14      8.92
+ Mark McGehee            6.81    64      9.00
+ Graham Pilato           7.32    34      9.00
+ Jeff Rupley             7.70    84      9.00
+ Robert P. Galloway      8.05    51      9.00
+ Jeff Schultz            8.24    88      9.00
+ Doug Nadle              8.37    44      9.00
+ James Prince            8.44    59      9.00
+ Alex Elsberg            8.46    62      9.00
+ Mark J. Musante         8.69    26      9.00
+ Keith Gill              8.73    43      9.00
+ Isaac Weiner            8.89    37      9.00
+ Russel R. Madere, Jr.   9.00     1      9.00
+ Tony Kimmet             9.18    34      9.00
+ Brad Ackerman           9.25     8      9.00
+ Ryan Hughes             8.60    25      9.10
+ Jeff Young              9.38    33      9.15
+ David Levine            8.12    88      9.20
+ Mike Hopkins            8.47    88      9.20
+ Evelyn Pypes            8.79    24      9.20
+ Shaun Shimek            9.20     1      9.20
+ Jeremy Horn             9.20     1      9.20
+ Ben Moore               8.42     6      9.25
+ Penny Rothkopf          8.57    13      9.25
+ Nick Stamatelos         9.15     3      9.25
+ Jonathan Frain          8.39    88      9.40
+ Diane Denesowicz        8.71    36      9.40
+ Onome Okuma             8.87    32      9.40
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.48    85      9.40
+ Toni Figl               7.13    28      9.50
+ Casey Miller            8.51    88      9.50
+ Arturo Magidin          8.53    34      9.50
+ David Gaspar            8.60    34      9.50
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.79    73      9.50
+ William Jones           9.25     2      9.50
+ Eugenio Rivera          9.42    41      9.50
+ Grant David Meadors     9.50     1      9.50
+ Mark Poli               9.57    47      9.50
+ Dennis Steinert         8.77    43      9.60
+ Tom Shubick             9.55     2      9.60
+ Ron Siewert             9.16    51      9.65  
+ Greg Jordan             9.18     3      9.65
+ Dylan Northrup          8.22    87      9.70
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.78    87      9.70
+ Chris Kaergard          9.52     4      9.70
+ Mike Bruton             7.84    26      9.80
+ George Copsey           9.01    46      9.80
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.51    48      9.85
+ L.E. McClintock         8.94    28      9.90
+ Chris Durie             9.12    46      9.90
+ Kevin Borchers          8.69    43     10.00  
+ Brent Barrett           8.72    89     10.00  
+ Don Semmens             9.23    66     10.00  
+ Mike Bell               7.96    16     10.00
+ Judy Bell               8.27    15     10.00
+ David Gosha             8.54    88     10.00
+ Steve Schultheis        8.58    88     10.00
+ Kathleen King           8.67    15     10.00
+ Paul Byers              8.69    18     10.00
+ Alan Hecht              8.91    22     10.00
+ Tom Lucas               8.93    14     10.00
+ Brent Schmidt           8.94    17     10.00
+ Jennifer Tifft          8.95    26     10.00
+ Ron Peterson            9.03    53     10.00
+ Brian Epley             9.07    26     10.00
+ George Moore            9.29    30     10.00
+ Lee Vibber              9.33    38     10.00
+ Michael J. Loux         9.37    80     10.00
+ David Rodriguera        9.37    25     10.00
+ Margaret Johnson        9.49     6     10.00
+ Carol Ohlers            9.55    24     10.00
+ Joe Niles               9.62     5     10.00
+ Chris Schumacher        9.67     3     10.00
+ Dan Sias                9.69    45     10.00
+ Carmen Spray           10.00     1     10.00
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+ Results - "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"
+============================================================
+                                # of    The Deconstruction
+ Poll 5               History   Votes    of Falling Stars
+ -----------------------------------------------------------
+ Average                 8.15                 8.50
+ Std. Dev.               0.89                 1.73
+ # of Voters          1987                   98
+ -----------------------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams              5.70    27           0.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward         8.69    74           1.00
+ Russ Taylor             4.50     1           4.50
+ Mark D. Grover          5.90    89           5.00
+ Andy Johnson            6.41    88           5.00
+ Allan Jenoff            7.52    89           6.00
+ Clint Ragsdale          7.67    89           6.00
+ John Abbott             7.82    87           6.00
+ Bob L. Dunlap II        7.20    89           6.50
+ Andrew Chiang           7.46    57           6.50
+ Steven Grimm            7.58    85           6.50
+ Jeremy Morrow           8.34     8           6.50
+ Wes Makin               8.21    43           6.70
+ Graham Pilato           7.31    35           7.00
+ Burt Clothier           7.59    89           7.00
+ Arturo Magidin          8.49    35           7.00
+ Steve Schultheis        8.57    89           7.00
+ Mark Hullinger          7.25    89           7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis       7.93    84           7.50
+ Shaun Shimek            8.35     2           7.50
+ George Moore            9.23    31           7.50
+ Mark McGehee            6.83    65           8.00
+ Warren Kenyon           7.45    89           8.00
+ Mike Bruton             7.84    27           8.00
+ Jonathan Frain          8.39    89           8.00
+ Andrew Cody             8.65    22           8.00
+ Kevin Borchers          8.69    43           8.00
+ Alan Hecht              8.87    23           8.00
+  Ron Siemborski         9.00     2           8.00
+ Carol Ohlers            9.49    25           8.00
+ Alex Elsberg            8.46    63           8.50
+ Matthew Burke           8.55    16           8.50
+ Keith Gill              8.73    44           8.50
+ Mark Moerman            8.79    48           8.50
+ Sandeep Kumar           8.53    42           8.60
+ John Jurcevic           8.67    89           8.75
+ Kathleen King           8.67    16           8.75
+ Georgia C. Chamaine     9.05     4           8.75
+ Ron Siewert             9.16    51           8.75
+ Tom Shubick             9.28     3           8.75
+ Dylan Northrup          8.23    88           8.80
+ Mark MacKinnon          8.78    88           8.80
+ Kimberly Wright         8.80     1           8.80
+ George Cravens          9.04    15           8.82
+ Andrew Apold            8.85    27           8.90
+ Eric Lawson             8.98     6           8.90
+ Nick Stamatelos         9.09     4           8.90
+ Dave Holman             9.02    19           8.95
+ Mike Bell               8.02    17           9.00
+ Tim Skirvin             8.21    89           9.00
+ David Gosha             8.55    89           9.00
+ Onome Okuma             8.87    33           9.00
+ Phil Wilson             9.00     1           9.00
+ Ron Peterson            9.03    54           9.00
+ Mike  Perkins           9.10     3           9.00
+ Jeff Young              9.37    34           9.00
+ Dan Kimmel              8.35    89           9.20
+ Jon Krivitzky           9.22     9           9.20
+ O. Campbell Alexander   8.85    22           9.25
+ David Rigsby            8.95    26           9.25
+ Lee Somerman            8.20    51           9.30
+ Susan Neylan            8.44    87           9.30
+ Kathy Sullivan          9.48    86           9.30
+ Casey Miller            8.52    89           9.40
+ Joe Kauffman            9.20    22           9.40
+ Mike Hopkins            8.48    89           9.50
+ Brent Schmidt           8.97    18           9.50
+ Kevin Sullivan          9.10    21           9.50
+ Michael J. Loux         9.37    81           9.50
+ Jeremy Horn             9.50     1           9.50
+ David Hedden            9.69     4           9.50
+ Cynthia Hillier         9.12    67           9.60
+ John Francis            9.26     5           9.60
+ James Prince            8.46    60           9.65
+ Shawn Aki               9.74    14           9.65
+ Mark J. Musante         8.73    27           9.70
+ Mike Beltzner           9.70     1           9.70
+ Brent Barrett           8.72    89           9.75
+ Dan Nguyen              9.65     4           9.75
+ Ryan Hughes             8.65    26           9.80
+ Eric Slocum             9.01     7           9.80
+ Mark Poli               9.58    48           9.80
+ Dennis Waltman          7.92    22           9.90
+ Kyle Ferrio             7.53    89          10.00
+ Doug Piligian           8.01    89          10.00
+ Blaise Faint            8.24    45          10.00
+ Matthew Murray          8.26    89          10.00
+ Jeff Schultz            8.26    89          10.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk     8.54    49          10.00
+ Chris Aylott            8.78    53          10.00
+ Brent Capps             8.90     2          10.00
+ L.E. McClintock         8.97    29          10.00
+ Brian Epley             9.08    27          10.00
+ Chris Durie             9.14    47          10.00
+ Don Semmens             9.23    66          10.00
+ Kenneth Lu              9.33    12          10.00
+ Johnathan Cornacchia    9.57     7          10.00
+ Sean Bronzell          10.00     1          10.00
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+ Results - "No Compromises"
+=================================================
+                             Std. # of
+ Poll 5             History  Dev. Votes NC
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.14            7.45
+ Median                                7.80
+ Std. Dev.             0.89            1.57
+ # of Voters        2046              97
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Nate Frenczak         7.95  2.56  15  1.00
+ Tom Orion             4.00         1  4.00
+ Gabrielle Taylor      4.00         1  4.00
+ Peggy Wargelin        4.00         1  4.00
+ Fred Adams            5.33  1.93  42  4.00
+ Carol Park            5.67  2.42   6  4.00
+ Warren Kenyon         7.41  1.50  91  4.00
+ Colin O'Connell       7.16  1.93  37  4.30
+ Dan Edwards           5.00         1  5.00
+ Graham Pilato         6.80  2.17  44  5.00
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.53  1.77  91  5.00
+ Francis A. Uy         7.71  1.71  84  6.00
+ Michael May           8.09  1.22  91  6.00
+ David Waitzman        8.17  1.89   3  6.00
+ Alex Elsberg          8.38  1.02  66  6.00
+ Lee Somerman          8.16  1.16  52  6.10
+ Mark D. Grover        5.95  1.34  91  6.50
+ Wesley Schmidt        6.50         1  6.50
+ Clint Ragsdale        7.66  1.95  91  6.50
+ John Abbott           7.83  1.14  89  6.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk   8.51  1.30  51  6.50
+ Jay Mohney            8.59  1.04  52  6.50
+ Edward Lee            8.63  0.98  38  6.50
+ Mark J. Musante       8.66  0.88  28  6.80
+ Dan Riley             7.00         1  7.00
+ Andrew Chiang         7.45  1.89  59  7.00
+ Steven Grimm          7.55  1.31  88  7.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth     7.73  1.31  88  7.00
+ Andrew Lias           7.75  1.06   2  7.00
+ Michael Christy       8.26  1.45  18  7.00
+ Mike Hopkins          8.47  0.80  91  7.00
+ David Gosha           8.54  1.31  91  7.00
+ Thomas Catsburg       8.58  1.05  45  7.00
+ Andrew J. Hudak       8.62  1.89  13  7.00
+ Stephen Doe           7.09         1  7.09
+ Jeff Schultz          8.25  1.19  91  7.10
+ Bill Martin           7.95  1.20  20  7.30
+ Gustav Fleischmann    7.50         1  7.50
+ Jim Sauer             7.79  2.07  28  7.50
+ Dave Thomer           7.94  1.25  91  7.50
+ Ben Thomas            8.06  0.63  21  7.50
+ Arturo Magidin        8.47  0.70  37  7.50
+ Casey Miller          8.51  1.06  91  7.50
+ John Jurcevic         8.66  0.72  91  7.50
+ Wesley Jordan         8.67  0.80  91  7.50
+ Ron Siewert           9.12  0.57  53  7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.93  0.86  85  7.75
+ Jason L. Brainard     7.33  1.87   4  7.80
+ Dylan Northrup        8.23  1.11  90  7.80
+ L.E. McClintock       8.97  1.28  32  7.90
+ James Rao             6.72  2.47  18  8.00
+ Burt Clothier         7.64  1.49  91  8.00
+ Sarah Koplik          8.00         1  8.00
+ Erez Zadok            8.45  0.96  37  8.00
+ Sandeep Kumar         8.53  0.58  44  8.00
+ Rob Ditto             8.58  1.26  59  8.00
+ Brent Barrett         8.73  0.99  91  8.00
+ Dan Doulas            8.80  0.57  15  8.00
+ Kelly Meroney         8.82  0.96  29  8.00
+ Steve Fenster         8.09  1.32  91  8.20
+ Dennis Steinert       8.77  0.88  45  8.20
+ James Prince          8.37  1.01  69  8.25
+ George Cravens        8.99  0.67  16  8.32
+ Dan Kimmel            8.38  0.97  91  8.40
+ Mark McGehee          6.89  2.86  67  8.45
+ Paul Byers            8.13  1.69  24  8.50
+ Tim Skirvin           8.23  1.39  91  8.50
+ Geoff Kulik           8.50         1  8.50
+ Sarah Hodges          9.00  0.71   2  8.50
+ Kova Dauser           9.06  0.75  17  8.50
+ George Moore          9.09  0.73  39  8.50
+ Don Semmens           9.22  0.68  67  8.50
+ Jonathan Frain        8.40  1.37  91  8.70
+ Ron Peterson          9.03  0.60  57  8.70
+ Jacob Thompson        9.35  0.92   2  8.70
+ Dan Sias              9.68  0.38  47  8.70
+ Dan Siemens           8.58  0.97  90  8.75
+ Joe Kauffman          8.85  0.85  40  8.75
+ Jennifer Tifft        9.08  0.87  89  8.75
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.48  1.13  56  8.80
+ Nick Stamatelos       9.04  0.17   6  8.80
+ Brian Bresnahan       8.52  1.11  14  8.90
+ George Copsey         8.98  0.63  50  8.90
+ Steve Schultheis      8.59  1.39  91  9.00
+ David Rigsby          8.68  0.83  41  9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.69  1.28  76  9.00
+ Roger Plymale         9.00         1  9.00
+ Lee Vibber            9.30  0.74  42  9.00
+ David Rodriguera      9.36  0.53  26  9.00
+ Michael J. Loux       9.37  0.57  83  9.00
+ Mark Poli             9.57  0.35  49  9.00
+ Doug Piligian         8.02  1.18  90  9.10
+ Dustin M. Ramsey      8.20  1.10  24  9.20
+ Jeff Young            9.35  0.48  36  9.25
+ Chris Durie           9.14  0.54  49  9.30
+ Tal Kedem             9.50         1  9.50
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.52  0.53  88  9.80
diff --git a/p5/090 b/p5/090
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+ Results - "The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari"
+==================================================
+                             Std. # of
+ Poll 5             History  Dev. Votes TVLNoLM
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.14             8.52
+ Median                                 8.82
+ Std. Dev.             0.90             1.34
+ # of Votes         2080              119
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams            5.16  1.94  49   1.00
+ Andrew J. Hudak       8.24  2.01  17   4.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.94  1.34  92   5.00
+ Steven Grimm          7.53  1.33  89   5.00
+ Mike Heffner          8.11  1.16  92   6.30
+ Andrew Chiang         7.43  1.88  60   6.50
+ Thomas Catsburg       8.54  1.08  46   6.50
+ Dan Edwards           6.60  1.08   5   7.00
+ Ray Sewell            7.00         1   7.00
+ Gustav Fleischmann    7.25  0.35   2   7.00
+ Warren Kenyon         7.40  1.50  92   7.00
+ Sarah Koplik          7.50  0.71   2   7.00
+ Burt Clothier         7.63  1.49  92   7.00
+ Daniel Anzulovic      7.75  1.06   2   7.00
+ Tim Skirvin           8.21  1.39  92   7.00
+ Erez Zadok            8.41  0.97  38   7.00
+ Doug Piligian         8.02  1.17  91   7.20
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.92  0.85  86   7.25
+ Alan Raphael          7.50         1   7.50
+ Joy Zeh               7.50         1   7.50
+ Agate Tray            8.00  0.71   2   7.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk   8.49  1.30  52   7.50
+ David J. Miller       8.12  0.92  28   7.60
+ Randall K. Petersen   8.52  0.83  60   7.70
+ Tad Rogers            8.90  0.92  11   7.70
+ Mark Hullinger        7.22  1.98  92   7.75
+ Mark J. Musante       8.63  0.88  29   7.75
+ Casey Miller          8.50  1.05  92   7.80
+ Scott Rogers          7.85         1   7.85
+ Rob Ditto             8.57  1.25  60   7.95
+ Graham Pilato         6.86  1.98  49   8.00
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.54  1.76  92   8.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth     7.74  1.30  89   8.00
+ Tim Eichman           8.00         1   8.00
+ Dion Labadie          8.00         1   8.00
+ Michael Christy       8.24  1.41  19   8.00
+ Doug Nadle            8.31  0.87  47   8.00
+ Arturo Magidin        8.46  0.69  38   8.00
+ Kelly Meroney         8.79  0.95  30   8.00
+ Andrew Apold          8.84  1.46  30   8.20
+ Tom Shubick           8.86  0.67   5   8.20
+ Marc Weimann          8.25         1   8.25
+ Adam C. Brockus       8.79  0.91   5   8.30
+ Stephen Doe           7.79  0.99   2   8.49
+ Brandon Barnes        6.75  2.47   2   8.50
+ Michael L. Gaskin     7.50  1.41   2   8.50
+ Tim Craig             8.38  1.42  12   8.50
+ Alex Elsberg          8.38  1.01  67   8.50
+ Mike Hopkins          8.47  0.79  92   8.50
+ Kristina Livingston   8.50         1   8.50
+ Lisa Wilson           8.50         1   8.50
+ Dennis Steinert       8.77  0.87  46   8.50
+ Nick Stamatelos       8.96  0.26   7   8.50
+ Edward Lee            8.63  0.96  39   8.60
+ Dan Doulas            8.72  0.59  17   8.63
+ Penny Rothkopf        8.66  1.02  15   8.75
+ Colin O'Connell       7.23  1.89  43   8.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.69  1.27  77   8.80
+ Chris Durie           9.13  0.53  50   8.80
+ George Cravens        8.98  0.65  17   8.82
+ Wesley Jordan         8.67  0.79  92   8.85
+ Dan Kimmel            8.38  0.97  92   8.90
+ Robert E. Juliano     8.90         1   8.90
+ Rebekah Reese         8.90         1   8.90
+ Geoffrey E. Quelch    8.00  1.41   2   9.00
+ Paul Byers            8.16  1.66  25   9.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.    8.32  1.07  87   9.00
+ John Jurcevic         8.66  0.71  92   9.00
+ Brent Schmidt         8.84  0.84  22   9.00
+ Onome Okuma           8.88  0.55  34   9.00
+ Michelle Gaskin       9.00         1   9.00
+ Brian Phelan          9.00         1   9.00
+ Roger Plymale         9.00  0.00   2   9.00
+ Duane Swab            9.00         1   9.00
+ P. Chewning Toulmin   9.00         1   9.00
+ Kova Dauser           9.06  0.73  18   9.00
+ Ron Siewert           9.12  0.56  54   9.00
+ David Rigsby          8.68  0.81  45   9.10
+ Cynthia Hillier       9.12  0.50  69   9.10
+ Edward Carter, III    9.20         1   9.20
+ J. Mark Meldrim       9.20         1   9.20
+ Wesley Schmidt        7.90  1.98   2   9.30
+ Jeff Allen            9.13  0.63   5   9.35
+ Jeff Schultz          8.27  1.19  92   9.40
+ George Copsey         8.99  0.63  51   9.40
+ Tom Orion             6.75  3.89   2   9.50
+ Dave Thomer           7.96  1.26  92   9.50
+ Steve Fenster         8.11  1.32  92   9.50
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.38  1.19  62   9.50
+ Andrew Cody           8.59  1.10  25   9.50
+ Ken Hunnicutt         8.65  1.20   2   9.50
+ Ron Peterson          9.04  0.59  58   9.50
+ Lee Vibber            9.31  0.73  43   9.50
+ Jacob Thompson        9.40  0.66   3   9.50
+ Stephen Vale          9.45  0.54  14   9.50
+ Denise Young          9.50         1   9.50
+ Mark Poli             9.56  0.35  50   9.50
+ Dylan Northrup        8.25  1.11  91   9.70
+ Mark Duell            8.83  0.81  92   9.75
+ Chris Lawrence        8.99  1.08  51   9.75
+ George Moore          9.10  0.71  43   9.75
+ Jennifer Tifft        9.07  0.87  91   9.80
+ Don Semmens           9.23  0.67  68   9.80
+ David Rodriguera      9.37  0.53  27   9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.52  0.53  89   9.80
+ Brent Barrett         8.74  0.99  92   9.90
+ Eric Hepner           9.90         1   9.90
+ Peter Kazmir          9.90         1   9.90
+ Steve Schultheis      8.60  1.39  92  10.00
+ Andrew Smith          8.64  1.77  90  10.00
+ Joe Kauffman          8.85  0.84  46  10.00
+ John Cockburn         8.90  1.60   5  10.00
+ L.E. McClintock       9.00  1.27  33  10.00
+ Dan Sias              9.69  0.38  48  10.00
+ David Hedden          9.75  0.25   5  10.00
+ J. Buck Caldwell     10.00         1  10.00
+ Alan Coopersmith     10.00         1  10.00
+ Scott Lilly          10.00         1  10.00
+ Albert Solis         10.00         1  10.00
diff --git a/p5/091 b/p5/091
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+ Results - "The Paragon of Animals"
+====================================================
+                              Std. # of
+                     History  Dev. Votes TPoA
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.13             8.16
+ Median                                  8.50
+ Std. Dev.              0.89             1.24
+ # of Voters         2105              107
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Shaun Lyon             7.73  1.46  92   4.00
+ Bryan Beaugez          4.70         1   4.70
+ Fred Adams             5.28  1.95  54   5.00
+ Tim Craig              8.12  1.65  13   5.00
+ L.E. McClintock        8.90  1.37  34   5.70
+ Mark J. Schumacher     6.00         1   6.00
+ Warren Kenyon          7.39  1.49  93   6.00
+ Kyle Ferrio            7.52  1.76  93   6.00
+ John Cockburn          8.14  1.70  11   6.00
+ Alex Elsberg           8.34  1.05  68   6.00
+ Mark D. Grover         5.94  1.33  93   6.50
+ Burt Clothier          7.63  1.47  93   6.50
+ Daniel Anzulovic       7.42  0.95   3   6.75
+ Wes Makin              7.93  1.23  55   6.75
+ Robert Ben Madison     7.11  1.83  27   7.00
+ Thomas Aylesworth      7.73  1.30  90   7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis      7.91  0.85  87   7.00
+ Tad Rogers             8.76  1.01  12   7.20
+ Colin O'Connell        7.26  1.90  49   7.25
+ Andrew Chiang          7.43  1.87  61   7.25
+ Steve Fenster          8.10  1.31  93   7.50
+ Mike Heffner           8.10  1.15  93   7.50
+ Robert E. Juliano      8.20  0.99   2   7.50
+ Andrew Lias            8.20  1.24   4   7.50
+ Tim Skirvin            8.21  1.38  93   7.50
+ Scott Johnson          8.30  1.44   5   7.50
+ Doug Nadle             8.30  0.87  48   7.50
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk    8.47  1.29  53   7.50
+ Andrew Cody            8.55  1.10  26   7.50
+ Matthew Burke          8.56  0.62  18   7.50
+ Kelly Meroney          8.75  0.97  31   7.50
+ Julian Hill            7.54         1   7.54
+ Sarah Koplik           7.53  0.50   3   7.60
+ Jennie Dailey-O'Cain   8.02  0.94  31   7.60
+ Gustav Fleischmann     7.42  0.38   3   7.75
+ David Gosha            8.53  1.30  93   7.75
+ Dustin M. Ramsey       8.21  0.97  32   7.80
+ Edward Lee             8.61  0.96  40   7.80
+ Priscilla H. Ballou    7.00  1.41   2   8.00
+ Mark Hullinger         7.23  1.97  93   8.00
+ Ray Sewell             7.50  0.71   2   8.00
+ Steven Grimm           7.53  1.33  90   8.00
+ Stephen Doe            7.86  0.71   3   8.00
+ Dave Thomer            7.96  1.25  93   8.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.31  1.61  49   8.00
+ Thomas Catsburg        8.53  1.07  47   8.00
+ John Jurcevic          8.65  0.71  93   8.00
+ Jim Dawson             8.70  1.22  32   8.00
+ Onome Okuma            8.85  0.56  35   8.00
+ P. Chewning Toulmin    8.53  0.41   3   8.25
+ Jeff Allen             8.98  0.67   6   8.25
+ Diane Denesowicz       8.38  1.13  69   8.40
+ Scott Lilly            9.20  1.13   2   8.40
+ Ben Thomas             8.10  0.61  23   8.50
+ Geoffrey E. Quelch     8.17  1.04   3   8.50
+ Arturo Magidin         8.46  0.68  39   8.50
+ Michael Fitzsimmons    8.50         1   8.50
+ A. L. Maitland         8.50         1   8.50
+ Brian Epley            8.64  1.08  37   8.50
+ Tony Kimmet            9.15  0.60  37   8.50
+ Jeff Young             9.32  0.49  38   8.50
+ George Cravens         8.96  0.64  18   8.52
+ Mike Hinds             6.74  1.87  74   8.70
+ Ron Peterson           9.03  0.61  81   8.70
+ David Rigsby           8.69  0.77  50   8.75
+ Chris Lawrence         8.91  1.05  59   8.75
+ Mike Hopkins           8.48  0.79  93   8.80
+ Mark J. Musante        8.63  0.87  30   8.80
+ Dan Doulas             8.73  0.57  18   8.80
+ Dennis Steinert        8.77  0.86  47   8.80
+ Nathan W. Burnett      8.87         1   8.87
+ Erez Zadok             8.43  0.96  39   8.90
+ Matthew Falce          8.90         1   8.90
+ Ken Moore              9.02  0.78  33   8.90
+ Joe Kauffman           8.85  0.80  52   8.95
+ Zak Bostwick           9.45  0.71   2   8.95
+ James Rao              7.23  2.11  30   9.00
+ Dion Labadie           8.50  0.71   2   9.00
+ Wesley Jordan          8.67  0.79  93   9.00
+ Kristina Livingston    8.75  0.35   2   9.00
+ Brent Schmidt          8.85  0.82  23   9.00
+ Nick Stamatelos        8.98  0.30  11   9.00
+ Lee Vibber             9.30  0.73  44   9.00
+ Michael Christy        8.29  1.39  20   9.10
+ Rob Ditto              8.57  1.24  61   9.10
+ Dan Kimmel             8.39  0.97  93   9.20
+ Mark Poli              9.56  0.35  51   9.20
+ Don Semmens            9.23  0.67  69   9.30
+ Kenneth Lu             9.31  0.72  14   9.30
+ Mark Duell             8.84  0.80  93   9.35
+ Chris Durie            9.14  0.53  51   9.40
+ Kova Dauser            9.08  0.71  19   9.50
+ Roger Plymale          9.17  0.29   3   9.50
+ Oded Levitte           9.50         1   9.50
+ Dan Nguyen             9.61  0.27   7   9.50
+ Matthew Chan           9.75  0.35   2   9.50
+ James C. Tang          9.60         1   9.60
+ David Rodriguera       9.39  0.52  28   9.70
+ Denise Young           9.60  0.14   2   9.70
+ Doug Piligian          8.05  1.18  93   9.75
+ Andrew Smith           8.65  1.76  91   9.80
+ Allen Bryan            9.50  0.42   2   9.80
+ Jacob Thompson         9.50  0.57   4   9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan         9.53  0.53  90   9.80
+ Scott Rogers           8.86  1.43   2   9.87
+ Steve Schultheis       8.62  1.39  93  10.00
+ Jon Earle              9.93  0.07   5  10.00
diff --git a/p5/092 b/p5/092
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+ Results - "A View From the Gallery"
+===================================================
+                             Std. # of
+ Poll 5             History  Dev. Votes AVFtG
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.13             7.87
+ Median                                 8.50
+ Std. Dev.             0.89             2.04
+ # of Voters        2141              145
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Colin O'Connell       6.95  2.22  55   0.00
+ John Milligan         1.00         1   1.00
+ Fred Adams            5.20  2.01  55   1.00
+ John Butch            2.00         1   2.00
+ Scott Krats           2.00         1   2.00
+ Mark Hullinger        7.17  2.03  94   2.00
+ Alan Spaeth           3.00         1   3.00
+ Peggy Wargelin        3.75  0.35   2   3.50
+ Russell Davoli        4.00         1   4.00
+ Steven Grimm          7.49  1.37  91   4.00
+ Reed Snellenberger    7.80  2.62   4   4.00
+ Dave Moellenhoff      5.00         1   5.00
+ Alan Raphael          6.13  1.31   4   5.00
+ Beverly Harvey        8.36  2.05   9   5.00
+ Eric Lawson           8.33  1.30   8   5.60
+ Mark D. Grover        5.94  1.33  94   6.00
+ Kayla Folkins         6.00         1   6.00
+ Mike McFadden         6.00         1   6.00
+ Graham Pilato         6.83  1.88  58   6.00
+ Kent Atkins           7.00  1.41   2   6.00
+ Robert Ben Madison    7.07  1.80  28   6.00
+ Warren Kenyon         7.37  1.49  94   6.00
+ Michael May           8.05  1.22  94   6.00
+ John Cockburn         8.11  1.69  14   6.00
+ Thomas Catsburg       8.47  1.12  48   6.00
+ Michael Bartz         8.80  1.11  13   6.00
+ Nick Airdo            6.30         1   6.30
+ Mike Broderick        6.50         1   6.50
+ Wesley Schmidt        7.40  1.32   4   6.50
+ Alex Elsberg          8.32  1.06  69   6.50
+ Jonathan Frain        8.37  1.36  94   6.50
+ Oliver Kosut          7.00         1   7.00
+ Del Merritt           7.00         1   7.00
+ Gustav Fleischmann    7.31  0.38   4   7.00
+ Tim Craig             8.04  1.61  14   7.00
+ Arturo Magidin        8.43  0.71  40   7.00
+ Steve Schultheis      8.60  1.39  94   7.00
+ Eric Boone            8.62  0.93   9   7.00
+ Wes Barris            7.10         1   7.10
+ Dustin M. Ramsey      8.10  0.98  40   7.20
+ Michael Christy       8.24  1.37  21   7.20
+ David J. Miller       8.09  0.90  30   7.30
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.52  1.75  94   7.50
+ Thomas Aylesworth     7.73  1.29  91   7.50
+ Roger Plymale         8.75  0.87   4   7.50
+ Marc Weimann          8.03  0.32   2   7.80
+ Matthew Falce         8.40  0.71   2   7.90
+ Ted Schlinkert        6.75  1.26   4   8.00
+ Mark McGehee          6.93  2.83  69   8.00
+ Dan Edwards           7.50  1.18  11   8.00
+ Burt Clothier         7.63  1.46  94   8.00
+ John Bucsek           8.00         1   8.00
+ Tim Eichman           8.00  0.00   2   8.00
+ Doug Nadle            8.29  0.86  49   8.00
+ Blaise Faint          8.31  1.59  50   8.00
+ Erez Zadok            8.41  0.95  40   8.00
+ David Gosha           8.53  1.29  94   8.00
+ Ryan Hughes           8.62  1.42  27   8.00
+ Brian Epley           8.63  1.07  38   8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.69  1.26  78   8.00
+ Jeremy Horn           8.90  0.79   3   8.00
+ Chris Durie           9.11  0.55  52   8.00
+ Lee Vibber            9.27  0.74  45   8.00
+ Ben Thomas            8.10  0.60  24   8.20
+ Andrew Lias           8.20  1.07   5   8.20
+ A. L. Maitland        8.35  0.21   2   8.20
+ Casey Miller          8.50  1.05  93   8.20
+ Eric DeFonso          8.18  0.99  33   8.25
+ Penny Rothkopf        8.61  0.97  17   8.25
+ Andrew Chiang         7.45  1.86  62   8.50
+ Wes Makin             7.94  1.22  56   8.50
+ Dave Korey            8.32  0.85  25   8.50
+ Archie Harris         8.50         1   8.50
+ Rob Ditto             8.57  1.23  62   8.50
+ Jim Dawson            8.70  1.20  33   8.50
+ Kelly Meroney         8.74  0.95  32   8.50
+ Brent Schmidt         8.83  0.80  24   8.50
+ Onome Okuma           8.84  0.56  36   8.50
+ Kova Dauser           9.05  0.71  20   8.50
+ Joe Kauffman          8.82  0.79  57   8.55
+ Betsy Cyson           8.75         1   8.75
+ Ron Siewert           9.10  0.57  56   8.75
+ Mike Heffner          8.11  1.15  94   8.80
+ Michael Fitzsimmons   8.65  0.21   2   8.80
+ Chris Lawrence        8.86  1.03  65   8.80
+ Dylan Northrup        8.25  1.11  93   8.90
+ Jeff Schultz          8.26  1.18  94   8.90
+ Mike Hopkins          8.48  0.79  94   8.90
+ Clint Ragsdale        7.69  1.93  94   9.00
+ John Abbott           7.81  1.16  92   9.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.93  0.86  88   9.00
+ Steve Fenster         8.11  1.31  94   9.00
+ Tim Skirvin           8.22  1.38  94   9.00
+ Rick Coons            8.50  0.71   2   9.00
+ Kristina Livingston   8.83  0.29   3   9.00
+ Mark Duell            8.84  0.80  94   9.00
+ Kevin Chu             9.00         1   9.00
+ John Johnston         9.00         1   9.00
+ Nick Low              9.00         1   9.00
+ Judy Moffitt          9.00         1   9.00
+ Greg Weston           9.00         1   9.00
+ Ken Moore             9.02  0.77  34   9.00
+ Lisa Coulter          9.13  0.95  29   9.00
+ Stephen Doe           8.15  0.82   4   9.03
+ Doug Piligian         8.06  1.18  94   9.10
+ Scott Lilly           9.17  0.80   3   9.10
+ Teresa M. Dowd        9.60  0.47   4   9.10
+ Wesley Jordan         8.68  0.79  94   9.20
+ Jeff Allen            9.01  0.62   7   9.20
+ Keith Ellerbe         9.20         1   9.20
+ Dan Sias              9.68  0.38  50   9.20
+ Geoffrey E. Quelch    8.44  1.01   4   9.25
+ Nick Stamatelos       8.69  0.55  18   9.25
+ Mark Moerman          8.79  0.96  53   9.25
+ Jennifer Tifft        9.06  0.87  94   9.25
+ Mark J. Musante       8.66  0.86  31   9.30
+ Dan Doulas            8.76  0.58  19   9.38
+ Don Semmens           9.23  0.67  70   9.40
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk   8.49  1.29  54   9.50
+ Adam C. Brockus       8.91  0.79   7   9.50
+ William Squier        9.00  0.71   2   9.50
+ Ron Peterson          9.04  0.61  82   9.50
+ Rob Freilich          9.13  0.57  14   9.50
+ Ray Sewell            8.20  1.31   3   9.60
+ Edward Lee            8.64  0.96  41   9.70
+ Eric Slocum           9.10  0.77   8   9.70
+ Brent Barrett         8.75  0.99  94   9.75
+ Dennis Steinert       8.79  0.86  48   9.80
+ Mike Basinger         9.49  0.40   9   9.80
+ Debi Clark            9.65  0.21   2   9.80
+ David Rodriguera      9.40  0.52  29   9.90
+ Jeff Young            9.34  0.50  39   9.95
+ Paul C. Bernhardt     8.00  1.67   6  10.00
+ Daniel Anzulovic      8.06  1.51   4  10.00
+ L.E. McClintock       8.93  1.37  35  10.00
+ Scott Rogers          9.24  1.21   3  10.00
+ Zak Bostwick          9.63  0.59   3  10.00
+ Chris Schumacher      9.75  0.29   4  10.00
+ Mike Adams           10.00         1  10.00
+ Jonathan Bowers      10.00         1  10.00
+ Chip Clark           10.00         1  10.00
+ Charles Koplik       10.00         1  10.00
+ Steven Perez         10.00         1  10.00
+ Nathan Rehniqst      10.00         1  10.00
+ Jeffrey L. Wray      10.00         1  10.00
diff --git a/p5/093 b/p5/093
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+ Results - "Learning Curve"
+==================================================
+                             Std. # of
+ Poll 5             History  Dev. Votes  LC
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.12             7.65
+ Median                                 8.00
+ Std. Dev.             0.88             1.63
+ # of Voters        2167               92
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Bitt Faulk            1.00         1   1.00
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.46  1.83  95   2.00
+ Fred Adams            5.20  1.93  61   4.00
+ Blaise Faint          8.22  1.69  51   4.00
+ Jeff Schultz          8.22  1.25  95   4.00
+ Patrick Koehn         5.00         1   5.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.93  1.32  95   5.00
+ Michael Knight        7.14  2.27  94   5.00
+ Jeremy Horn           7.93  2.05   4   5.00
+ Alan Raphael          6.10  1.14   5   6.00
+ Warren Kenyon         7.36  1.49  95   6.00
+ Andrew Chiang         7.42  1.85  63   6.00
+ John Cockburn         8.40  1.66  21   6.00
+ Colin O'Connell       6.96  2.16  60   6.25
+ Stuart H. Gayler      6.50         1   6.50
+ Steven Grimm          7.48  1.37  92   6.50
+ Tim Craig             7.93  1.60  15   6.50
+ Shawn Hill            8.67  1.21   6   6.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.91  0.86  89   6.75
+ Eric Boone            8.43  1.06  10   6.75
+ Burt Clothier         7.64  1.46  95   7.00
+ Jon Trudel            8.12  0.72  17   7.00
+ Thomas Catsburg       8.44  1.13  49   7.00
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.36  1.08  78   7.10
+ Michael Christy       8.19  1.36  22   7.20
+ Mark Hullinger        7.17  2.02  95   7.25
+ Craig Jackson         7.57  1.27  95   7.30
+ Dustin M. Ramsey      8.10  0.98  46   7.30
+ Joyce Simonich        5.25  3.18   2   7.50
+ Wes Barris            7.30  0.28   2   7.50
+ Dan Edwards           7.67  1.10  15   7.50
+ Michael Fitzsimmons   8.27  0.68   3   7.50
+ Penny Rothkopf        8.55  0.97  18   7.50
+ Brian Epley           8.60  1.07  39   7.50
+ Mark J. Musante       8.62  0.87  32   7.50
+ Kelly Meroney         8.71  0.96  33   7.50
+ Ray Sewell            8.05  1.11   4   7.60
+ Ben Thomas            8.09  0.59  25   7.70
+ Brent Barrett         8.74  0.99  95   7.75
+ Steve Fenster         8.11  1.30  95   7.80
+ Lee Somerman          8.17  1.14  56   7.80
+ Dan Kimmel            8.39  0.96  95   7.90
+ Scott Rogers          8.92  1.18   4   7.95
+ Mark Horvath          7.20  0.84   5   8.00
+ Mike Bruton           7.81  1.10  33   8.00
+ Jon Goler             8.00         1   8.00
+ Michael J.M. Holmes   8.00  1.41   4   8.00
+ Alex Elsberg          8.31  1.06  70   8.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk   8.48  1.28  55   8.00
+ Roger Plymale         8.60  0.82   5   8.00
+ Kristina Livingston   8.63  0.48   4   8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.68  1.26  79   8.00
+ Brent Schmidt         8.80  0.80  25   8.00
+ Chris Lawrence        8.82  1.01  69   8.00
+ Jeff Young            9.31  0.53  40   8.00
+ Doug Nadle            8.29  0.85  50   8.20
+ Casey Miller          8.49  1.04  94   8.20
+ Tony Kimmet           9.12  0.60  39   8.25
+ Stephen Doe           8.19  0.72   5   8.33
+ Mark Amidon           8.40         1   8.40
+ Chris Aylott          8.73  1.16  58   8.40
+ Wesley Schmidt        7.62  1.25   5   8.50
+ Tim Skirvin           8.22  1.37  95   8.50
+ Rob Ditto             8.57  1.22  63   8.50
+ Nick Stamatelos       8.65  0.54  20   8.50
+ Daniel Anzulovic      8.18  1.33   5   8.65
+ Larry Rosenblum       8.32  0.94  13   8.70
+ Joe Kauffman          8.83  0.77  63   8.75
+ Jennifer Tifft        9.06  0.87  95   8.75
+ Michael May           8.05  1.22  95   8.80
+ Rob Freilich          9.11  0.56  15   8.80
+ Doug Piligian         8.07  1.18  95   8.90
+ Guangyoug Xu          8.90         1   8.90
+ Adam C. Brockus       8.91  0.73   8   8.90
+ George Copsey         8.98  0.62  52   8.90
+ Dan Sias              9.66  0.39  51   8.90
+ Arturo Magidin        8.44  0.71  41   9.00
+ Mike Hopkins          8.49  0.78  95   9.00
+ Rick Coons            8.81  0.71   5   9.00
+ L.E. McClintock       8.94  1.35  36   9.00
+ Chris Durie           9.11  0.54  53   9.00
+ Dan Doulas            8.78  0.56  20   9.05
+ Kova Dauser           9.06  0.69  21   9.20
+ Wesley Jordan         8.69  0.79  95   9.30
+ Don Semmens           9.23  0.66  71   9.50
+ David Rodriguera      9.41  0.51  30   9.50
+ Dennis Steinert       8.81  0.86  49   9.70
+ Zak Bostwick          9.67  0.49   4   9.79
+ Lee Vibber            9.28  0.74  46   9.80
+ Mark Duell            8.85  0.80  95   9.95
+ Sean Strout           7.92  1.61  24  10.00
+ Steve Schultheis      8.61  1.39  95  10.00
diff --git a/p5/094 b/p5/094
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+ Results - "Strange Relations"
+===================================================
+                              Std. # of
+ Poll 5              History  Dev. Votes  SR
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.11             7.84
+ Median                                  8.20
+ Std. Dev.              0.88             1.70
+ # of Voters         2180              123
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Alix Ott               5.50  4.95   2   2.00
+ Morton Chalom          5.63  5.13   2   2.00
+ Jerry Bookter          5.83  3.37   6   2.00
+ Warren Kenyon          7.30  1.58  96   2.00
+ Jason Saving           7.67  2.49  21   3.00
+ Mike Heffner           8.05  1.23  96   3.80
+ Kayla Folkins          5.00  1.41   2   4.00
+ Robert Oliver          5.00         1   5.00
+ James Rao              7.28  1.86  47   5.00
+ Colin O'Connell        6.95  2.09  66   5.35
+ Lee Somerman           8.13  1.17  57   5.80
+ Alan Raphael           6.08  1.02   6   6.00
+ Oliver Kosut           6.50  0.50   3   6.00
+ Jim Sorenson           7.69  1.74  60   6.00
+ John Cockburn          8.47  1.55  29   6.00
+ Lee Vibber             9.18  0.89  47   6.00
+ Mark D. Grover         5.94  1.32  96   6.50
+ Mark Amidon            7.45  1.34   2   6.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis      7.90  0.87  90   6.75
+ Michael Fitzsimmons    7.90  0.92   4   6.80
+ Jonathan Kiang         6.76  1.56  25   7.00
+ Graham Pilato          6.76  1.96  70   7.00
+ John Tedesco           7.00         1   7.00
+ Mark Hullinger         7.17  2.01  96   7.00
+ Mike Bruton            7.79  1.09  34   7.00
+ Paul Byers             8.11  1.61  28   7.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.20  1.68  52   7.00
+ Alex Elsberg           8.30  1.06  71   7.00
+ Arturo Magidin         8.40  0.73  42   7.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk    8.45  1.28  56   7.00
+ Guangyoug Xu           8.05  1.20   2   7.20
+ Russell Davoli         5.92  1.70   3   7.25
+ Joyce Simonich         6.00  2.60   3   7.50
+ Burt Clothier          7.64  1.45  96   7.50
+ John Abbott            7.79  1.15  94   7.50
+ Tim Craig              7.91  1.55  16   7.50
+ Dave Thomer            7.96  1.24  95   7.50
+ Michael Christy        8.16  1.33  23   7.50
+ Scott Johnson          8.17  1.33   6   7.50
+ Dylan Northrup         8.24  1.10  95   7.50
+ Erez Zadok             8.36  0.97  42   7.50
+ Thomas Catsburg        8.43  1.13  50   7.50
+ Jeff Young             9.26  0.60  41   7.50
+ Wes Makin              7.91  1.20  58   7.60
+ Jeff Schultz           8.21  1.25  96   7.60
+ Gustav Fleischmann     7.50  0.42   6   7.75
+ Dustin M. Ramsey       8.10  0.95  52   7.75
+ Ken Moore              8.99  0.78  35   7.80
+ Dan Sias               9.62  0.47  52   7.80
+ Wes Barris             7.50  0.40   3   7.90
+ Michael J.M. Holmes    7.98  1.23   5   7.90
+ Albert F. Ross         8.11  1.16  36   7.90
+ Andrew Chiang          7.43  1.84  64   8.00
+ Tim Skirvin            8.22  1.36  96   8.00
+ Eric DeFonso           8.30  0.93  44   8.00
+ David Rigsby           8.58  0.74  65   8.00
+ Brent Barrett          8.73  0.98  96   8.00
+ Kathy Sullivan         9.51  0.55  92   8.00
+ Ben Thomas             8.09  0.58  26   8.10
+ Diane Denesowicz       8.34  1.07  84   8.10
+ Rick Coons             8.70  0.69   6   8.15
+ Ray Sewell             8.08  0.97   5   8.20
+ James Prince           8.35  0.96  77   8.20
+ Sandeep Kumar          8.47  0.60  49   8.20
+ George Cravens         8.92  0.64  21   8.22
+ Penny Rothkopf         8.53  0.95  19   8.25
+ Mike Hopkins           8.48  0.78  96   8.30
+ Jeff Allen             8.83  0.66   9   8.45
+ Kyle Ferrio            7.47  1.82  96   8.50
+ Clint Ragsdale         7.70  1.91  96   8.50
+ Joseph Flynn           7.71  0.95   7   8.50
+ Doug Piligian          8.07  1.17  96   8.50
+ Steve Fenster          8.11  1.30  96   8.50
+ Daniel Anzulovic       8.23  1.20   6   8.50
+ Casey Miller           8.49  1.04  95   8.50
+ Roger Plymale          8.58  0.74   6   8.50
+ Kristina Livingston    8.60  0.42   5   8.50
+ Kelly Meroney          8.70  0.95  34   8.50
+ Onome Okuma            8.83  0.55  37   8.50
+ Shaun Aki              9.40  0.66  22   8.50
+ Geoffrey E. Quelch     8.50  0.88   5   8.75
+ Dan Doulas             8.78  0.55  21   8.78
+ Christopher M. Bobay   8.29  1.02  95   8.80
+ Dan Kimmel             8.40  0.96  96   8.80
+ Nick Stamatelos        8.62  0.55  27   8.80
+ Rob Freilich           9.09  0.55  16   8.80
+ Rob Ditto              8.58  1.21  64   8.90
+ George Copsey          8.94  0.68  54   8.92
+ Michael May            8.06  1.22  96   9.00
+ Chris Aylott           8.74  1.15  59   9.00
+ Andrew Apold           8.84  1.39  33   9.00
+ Mark Kobel             9.00         1   9.00
+ William K. McQuinn     9.00  0.00   2   9.00
+ Duane Swab             9.00  0.00   2   9.00
+ Jennifer Tifft         9.06  0.86  96   9.00
+ Kevin Sullivan         9.11  0.66  23   9.00
+ Tony Kimmet            9.12  0.59  40   9.00
+ Eric Jensen            9.39  0.55  17   9.00
+ Steve Mandel           8.82  1.07  10   9.10
+ Mark Duell             8.86  0.80  96   9.10
+ Jonathan Frain         8.39  1.35  96   9.20
+ Chris Lawrence         8.82  0.99  73   9.20
+ Scott Lilly            9.18  0.66   4   9.20
+ Mark J. Musante        8.64  0.87  33   9.30
+ Chris Durie            9.11  0.54  54   9.30
+ Don Semmens            9.24  0.66  72   9.30
+ Wesley Jordan          8.69  0.79  96   9.40
+ Stephen Doe            8.39  0.82   6   9.42
+ Joe Kauffman           8.82  0.77  69   9.45
+ Ron Peterson           9.08  0.59  92   9.45
+ Dennis Steinert        8.82  0.86  50   9.50
+ Jacob Thompson         9.32  0.63   6   9.50
+ David Rodriguera       9.41  0.50  31   9.50
+ Joseph Carter          9.50         1   9.50
+ David Gosha            8.54  1.28  96   9.60
+ Kova Dauser            9.09  0.69  22   9.70
+ Sarah Koplik           8.23  1.35   6   9.80
+ Andrew Smith           8.66  1.75  92   9.80
+ L.E. McClintock        8.96  1.34  37   9.87
+ Steve Schultheis       8.63  1.39  96  10.00
+ Matthew Falce          8.82  0.88   4  10.00
+ David Hutchins         9.15  0.83  26  10.00
+ Zak Bostwick           9.74  0.45   5  10.00
diff --git a/p5/095 b/p5/095
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+ Results - "Secrets of the Soul"
+===================================================
+                              Std. # of
+ Poll 5              History  Dev. Votes SotS
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.11             7.62
+ Median                                  8.00
+ Std. Dev.              0.88             1.79
+ # of Voters         2190               95
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Greg Sirmon            2.00         1   2.00
+ Jennifer McGee         3.00         1   3.00
+ Michael Swafford       3.00         1   3.00
+ Warren Kenyon          7.26  1.63  97   3.00
+ James Rao              7.40  1.96  53   3.00
+ John Graham            4.00         1   4.00
+ Fred Adams             5.29  1.91  75   4.00
+ Doug Nadle             8.20  1.03  51   4.00
+ Mick Andrus            5.00         1   5.00
+ Brent Barrett          8.69  1.05  97   5.00
+ Jeff Young             9.16  0.88  42   5.00
+ Mark D. Grover         5.94  1.31  97   5.50
+ Matthew Falce          8.24  1.52   5   5.90
+ Graham Pilato          6.87  1.92  75   6.00
+ Jonathan Kiang         6.94  1.50  32   6.00
+ Steven Grimm           7.47  1.36  94   6.00
+ John Cockburn          8.49  1.54  34   6.00
+ Colin O'Connell        7.03  2.06  72   6.25
+ Daniel Anzulovic       7.95  1.32   7   6.25
+ Diane Denesowicz       8.37  1.08  90   6.30
+ Michael Fitzsimmons    7.62  1.01   5   6.50
+ Marie Johnson          8.35  1.13  19   6.80
+ Burt Clothier          7.63  1.45  97   7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis      7.89  0.87  91   7.00
+ Ray Sewell             7.90  0.97   6   7.00
+ Dustin M. Ramsey       8.11  0.97  59   7.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.18  1.67  53   7.00
+ Tim Skirvin            8.20  1.36  97   7.00
+ Jay Mohney             8.52  1.04  58   7.00
+ Dennis Steinert        8.79  0.88  51   7.20
+ James Prince           8.34  0.96  78   7.25
+ Russell Davoli         6.31  1.60   4   7.50
+ Michael Christy        8.13  1.31  24   7.50
+ Dave Thomas            8.28  1.25   8   7.50
+ Mark Amidon            7.50  0.95   3   7.60
+ Ben Thomas             8.07  0.58  27   7.70
+ Steve Fenster          8.11  1.29  97   7.70
+ Dan Kimmel             8.39  0.96  97   7.70
+ David Rigsby           8.58  0.74  69   7.75
+ Dylan Northrup         8.23  1.09  96   7.80
+ Brian Bresnahan        8.33  1.10  17   7.80
+ Wes Barris             7.60  0.38   4   7.90
+ Eric Lawson            8.28  1.22   9   7.90
+ Tad Rogers             8.56  0.95  16   7.90
+ Kyle Ferrio            7.48  1.81  97   8.00
+ Mike Bruton            7.79  1.07  35   8.00
+ John Abbott            7.80  1.15  95   8.00
+ Michael May            8.06  1.21  97   8.00
+ Alex Elsberg           8.29  1.06  72   8.00
+ Casey Miller           8.49  1.03  96   8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward        8.66  1.25  81   8.00
+ Stephen Doe            8.35  0.76   7   8.06
+ Erez Zadok             8.35  0.95  43   8.10
+ Richard L. Russ        8.54  0.81  16   8.20
+ Andrew Chiang          7.45  1.82  65   8.25
+ George Harrington      8.25         1   8.25
+ Sarah Koplik           8.26  1.23   7   8.40
+ Arturo Magidin         8.41  0.73  43   8.50
+ Mike Hopkins           8.48  0.78  97   8.50
+ John Steiner           8.86  0.82  11   8.50
+ Ron Siewert            9.08  0.56  59   8.50
+ Mark Duell             8.85  0.79  97   8.60
+ Kathy Sullivan         9.50  0.55  93   8.60
+ Andrew Apold           8.83  1.37  34   8.70
+ Richard R. Dickson     8.75         1   8.75
+ Christopher M. Bobay   8.29  1.02  96   8.80
+ Jeff Allen             8.82  0.63  10   8.80
+ Doug Piligian          8.08  1.17  97   8.90
+ Rick Coons             8.74  0.64   7   8.95
+ Mark E. Siefert        7.07  3.02  14   9.00
+ David Gosha            8.55  1.28  97   9.00
+ Roger Plymale          8.64  0.69   7   9.00
+ Mark J. Musante        8.65  0.85  34   9.00
+ Wesley Jordan          8.70  0.78  97   9.00
+ Kelly Meroney          8.71  0.94  35   9.00
+ Lisa Coulter           8.99  0.97  40   9.00
+ Don Semmens            9.23  0.65  73   9.00
+ Ray Martinez           8.89  0.90   5   9.07
+ Rob Ditto              8.59  1.21  65   9.10
+ Scott Lilly            9.16  0.57   5   9.10
+ Zak Bostwick           9.64  0.47   6   9.12
+ Chris Lawrence         8.85  0.97  77   9.25
+ Jennifer Tifft         9.06  0.86  97   9.25
+ Ron Peterson           9.08  0.58  94   9.30
+ Chris Durie            9.12  0.54  55   9.40
+ Lee Somerman           8.16  1.17  58   9.50
+ Mark Moerman           8.80  0.94  56   9.50
+ Lee Vibber             9.18  0.88  48   9.50
+ David Rodriguera       9.42  0.50  32   9.60
+ Joe Kauffman           8.87  0.78  73   9.70
+ L.E. McClintock        8.98  1.32  38   9.70
+ Andrew Smith           8.70  1.74  93   9.80
+ Dan Sias               9.63  0.46  53   9.80
+ Steve Schultheis       8.64  1.39  97  10.00
+ Rob Freilich           9.14  0.57  17  10.00
diff --git a/p5/096 b/p5/096
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+ Results - "Day of the Dead"
+=====================================================
+                             Std. # of
+                    History  Dev. Votes DotD
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.11             8.44
+ Median                                 8.50
+ Std. Dev.             0.87             1.43
+ # of Voters        2207              110
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Michael Christy       7.89  1.78  25   2.00
+ Jeff Rynott           5.50  3.54   2   3.00
+ Ben Tarver            8.11  2.56   6   3.00
+ John Cockburn         8.50  1.63  41   4.00
+ Fred Adams            5.30  1.90  76   6.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.94  1.30  98   6.00
+ Jay Mohney            8.48  1.09  59   6.00
+ Mick Andrus           5.75  1.06   2   6.50
+ Andrew Chiang         7.43  1.81  66   6.50
+ Mike Bruton           7.76  1.08  36   6.50
+ Angie Penrose         7.50  0.71   2   7.00
+ Robert Oliver         6.83  1.68   3   7.20
+ Lee Somerman          8.14  1.17  59   7.20
+ Galen Smith           8.10  0.99   2   7.40
+ Mark Hullinger        7.16  2.00  98   7.50
+ Mike Heffner          8.02  1.23  98   7.50
+ Kelly Meroney         8.67  0.94  36   7.50
+ Jeff Allen            8.70  0.72  11   7.50
+ Eric Lawson           8.22  1.17  10   7.60
+ Michael Fitzsimmons   7.65  0.91   6   7.80
+ Edward Lee            8.57  1.00  43   7.80
+ Chris Durie           9.10  0.56  56   7.80
+ Alex Albizures        8.00         1   8.00
+ Guangyoug Xu          8.05  0.70   4   8.00
+ Doug Piligian         8.08  1.16  98   8.00
+ Doug Nadle            8.20  1.02  52   8.00
+ Sarah Koplik          8.23  1.14   8   8.00
+ Dan Kimmel            8.38  0.95  98   8.00
+ Mark Kobel            8.50  0.71   2   8.00
+ Steve Schultheis      8.64  1.39  98   8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.65  1.24  82   8.00
+ Brent Schmidt         8.71  0.81  28   8.00
+ Lee Thompson          8.76  0.46   5   8.00
+ Richard L. Russ       8.51  0.79  17   8.10
+ Alan Raphael          6.53  1.20   8   8.20
+ Ben Thomas            8.08  0.57  28   8.20
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.89  0.86  92   8.25
+ Erez Zadok            8.35  0.94  44   8.30
+ Scott Lilly           9.02  0.62   6   8.30
+ Joe Kauffman          8.87  0.77  75   8.35
+ Jennifer McGee        5.90  1.96   8   8.40
+ Mark McGehee          6.95  2.81  70   8.40
+ Nick Stamatelos       8.36  0.71  57   8.40
+ Stewart M. Wiener     6.75  2.02   6   8.50
+ Mark Horvath          7.43  0.84   7   8.50
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.49  1.81  98   8.50
+ Burt Clothier         7.64  1.44  98   8.50
+ Shaun Lyon            7.66  1.49  97   8.50
+ Dan Edwards           7.70  0.95  25   8.50
+ John Tedesco          7.75  1.06   2   8.50
+ Michael May           8.07  1.20  98   8.50
+ Albert F. Ross        8.12  1.14  37   8.50
+ Paul D. Shocklee      8.50         1   8.50
+ Gunnear Swanson       8.50         1   8.50
+ Jay Waller            8.74  0.83  46   8.50
+ Tony Kimmet           9.10  0.59  41   8.50
+ Adam C. Brockus       8.85  0.66  10   8.70
+ Ken Moore             8.98  0.77  36   8.75
+ Colin O'Connell       6.99  2.06  78   8.90
+ Casey Miller          8.49  1.03  97   8.90
+ Warren Kenyon         7.28  1.63  98   9.00
+ Tim Craig             7.97  1.53  17   9.00
+ Mike Bell             8.02  2.35  19   9.00
+ Paul Byers            8.14  1.59  29   9.00
+ Blaise Faint          8.19  1.66  54   9.00
+ Larry Rosenblum       8.37  0.92  14   9.00
+ Arturo Magidin        8.42  0.72  44   9.00
+ David Gosha           8.55  1.27  98   9.00
+ Penny Rothkopf        8.56  0.93  20   9.00
+ Rob Ditto             8.59  1.20  66   9.00
+ John Jurcevic         8.63  0.71  98   9.00
+ Roger Plymale         8.69  0.65   8   9.00
+ Mark Moerman          8.80  0.94  57   9.00
+ David Moisan          9.00         1   9.00
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.38  1.08  91   9.10
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk   8.46  1.26  58   9.10
+ Mike Hopkins          8.49  0.77  98   9.10
+ Brent Barrett         8.70  1.05  98   9.10
+ Christopher Janz      9.20         1   9.20
+ David Rodriguera      9.41  0.49  33   9.20
+ Tim Skirvin           8.21  1.36  98   9.25
+ Rick Coons            8.80  0.62   8   9.25
+ Lisa Coulter          8.99  0.95  41   9.25
+ Stephen Doe           8.47  0.78   8   9.31
+ Greg McElhatton       7.69  0.88   8   9.50
+ Gustav Fleischmann    7.88  0.82   8   9.50
+ Alex Elsberg          8.31  1.06  73   9.50
+ Wesley Jordan         8.70  0.78  98   9.50
+ George Copsey         8.94  0.68  56   9.50
+ Dan Sias              9.63  0.46  54   9.60
+ George Cravens        8.96  0.63  23   9.62
+ Steve Fenster         8.12  1.29  98   9.70
+ Kevin Canavan         9.75         1   9.75
+ Ray Sewell            8.17  1.14   7   9.80
+ Mark J. Musante       8.68  0.86  35   9.80
+ Lee Vibber            9.19  0.87  49   9.80
+ Don Semmens           9.24  0.65  74   9.80
+ Jeff Young            9.18  0.88  43   9.85
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.    8.33  1.07  91   9.90
+ Dennis Steinert       8.81  0.89  52   9.90
+ John Smoogen          8.27  1.18  85   9.99
+ Matthew Falce         8.53  1.53   6  10.00
+ Andrew Smith          8.72  1.73  94  10.00
+ Mark Duell            8.87  0.80  98  10.00
+ L.E. McClintock       9.01  1.32  39  10.00
+ Richard F. Dickson    9.38  0.88   2  10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.51  0.55  94  10.00
+ Zak Bostwick          9.69  0.45   7  10.00
+ Tommy Fuhs           10.00         1  10.00
+ Aaron Oei            10.00         1  10.00
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+ Results - "In the Kingdom of the Blind"
+=======================================================
+                                Std. # of
+ Poll 5                History  Dev. Votes ItKotB
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.11             8.54
+ Median                                    8.75
+ Std. Dev.                0.87             0.98
+ # of Voters           2215               92
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Andreanecian M. Morris   5.00         1   5.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.93  1.30  99   5.00
+ Jeff Schultz             8.18  1.26  99   5.80
+ Fred Adams               5.33  1.85  83   6.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.27  1.63  99   7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.88  0.86  93   7.00
+ F. Paul Adams, Jr.       8.31  1.07  92   7.00
+ Ben Thomas               8.04  0.58  29   7.10
+ Michael Christy          7.86  1.74  26   7.30
+ Colin O'Connell          7.00  2.05  81   7.35
+ Mark Hullinger           7.17  1.99  99   7.50
+ Teresa M. Dowd           9.24  0.90   5   7.80
+ Dan Kimmel               8.38  0.95  99   7.90
+ Alan Raphael             6.69  1.23   9   8.00
+ Jonathan Kiang           7.08  1.55  38   8.00
+ Steven Grimm             7.47  1.36  95   8.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              7.49  1.80  99   8.00
+ Jeff Rynott              7.66  1.28  30   8.00
+ Mike Bruton              7.76  1.07  37   8.00
+ Dan Edwards              7.84  0.99  31   8.00
+ Dustin M. Ramsey         8.12  0.96  71   8.00
+ Paul D. Shocklee         8.25  0.35   2   8.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.30  1.05  74   8.00
+ Marie Johnson            8.33  1.10  20   8.00
+ Mark Kobel               8.33  0.58   3   8.00
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.40  1.11  52   8.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.41  0.72  45   8.00
+ Dennis Steinert          8.80  0.88  53   8.10
+ Michael Fitzsimmons      7.73  0.86   7   8.20
+ Erez Zadok               8.35  0.93  45   8.20
+ Andrew Chiang            7.45  1.80  67   8.50
+ Mark Horvath             7.56  0.86   8   8.50
+ Burt Clothier            7.65  1.44  99   8.50
+ Greg McElhatton          7.78  0.87   9   8.50
+ John Tedesco             8.00  0.87   3   8.50
+ Doug Piligian            8.09  1.16  99   8.50
+ Diane Denesowicz         8.39  1.07  96   8.50
+ Mark J. Musante          8.68  0.85  36   8.50
+ Brent Schmidt            8.71  0.80  29   8.50
+ Robert Oliver            7.28  1.63   4   8.60
+ Casey Miller             8.49  1.02  98   8.60
+ Eric Lawson              8.26  1.12  11   8.70
+ John Smoogen             8.27  1.17  86   8.70
+ Kelly Meroney            8.68  0.93  37   8.70
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.50  0.56  95   8.70
+ Denis Girard             6.83  1.73   6   8.75
+ Dan Siemens              8.52  0.98  98   8.75
+ Mike Heffner             8.03  1.23  99   8.80
+ Steve Fenster            8.13  1.29  99   8.80
+ Jonathan Frain           8.40  1.33  99   8.80
+ Nick Stamatelos          8.41  0.73  63   8.80
+ Mike Hopkins             8.49  0.77  99   8.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.65  1.23  83   8.80
+ Joe Kauffman             8.91  0.81  87   8.80
+ Kova Dauser              9.09  0.66  24   8.80
+ Dan Doulas               8.78  0.51  24   8.88
+ Mark Amidon              8.12  1.09   5   8.90
+ Brent Barrett            8.70  1.04  99   8.90
+ Adam C. Brockus          8.85  0.63  11   8.90
+ Dave Konkel              6.50  3.54   2   9.00
+ Mark McGehee             6.98  2.80  71   9.00
+ Tim Craig                8.03  1.50  18   9.00
+ Tim Skirvin              8.22  1.36  99   9.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.48  1.08  60   9.00
+ Stephen Doe              8.53  0.75   9   9.00
+ Lisa Coulter             8.91  0.95  46   9.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.19  0.87  50   9.00
+ James Prince             8.36  0.96  80   9.05
+ Jeff Allen               8.73  0.69  12   9.05
+ Richard L. Russ          8.55  0.78  18   9.15
+ Roger Plymale            8.74  0.63   9   9.20
+ Rick Coons               8.84  0.59   9   9.20
+ Ron Peterson             9.09  0.58  97   9.20
+ Joe Spiegel              7.97  1.71  32   9.25
+ Wesley Jordan            8.71  0.78  99   9.25
+ Michael May              8.08  1.20  99   9.30
+ Sarah Koplik             8.34  1.13   9   9.30
+ John Haddad              9.10  0.35   2   9.35
+ Jennifer Tifft           9.07  0.85  99   9.40
+ Rob Ditto                8.60  1.19  67   9.45
+ Scott Lilly              9.09  0.59   7   9.50
+ Chris Durie              9.10  0.56  57   9.50
+ Don Semmens              9.24  0.65  75   9.60
+ Dan Sias                 9.63  0.45  55   9.70
+ Chris Lawrence           8.85  0.97  80   9.75
+ Kristina Livingston      8.69  0.69   7   9.90
+ L.E. McClintock          9.03  1.31  40   9.90
+ David Rodriguera         9.42  0.49  34   9.90
+ David Gosha              8.57  1.27  99   9.95
+ John Cockburn            8.54  1.59  45  10.00
+ Steve Schultheis         8.65  1.38  99  10.00
+ Andrew Smith             8.73  1.73  95  10.00
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+ Results - "A Tragedy of Telepaths"
+=====================================================
+                                Std. # of
+ Poll 5                History  Dev. Votes AToT
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Average                  8.11             8.18
+ Median                                    8.30
+ Std. Dev.                0.87             1.17
+ # of Voters           2225               98
+ -------------------------------------------------
+ Andreanecian M. Morris   6.25  2.75   4   3.00
+ Mark D. Grover           5.92  1.30 100   5.00
+ Colin O'Connell          6.98  2.04  82   5.40
+ Fred Adams               5.41  1.88  92   6.00
+ Kyle Ferrio              7.48  1.80 100   6.00
+ Daniel Anzulovic         7.71  1.41   8   6.00
+ John Abbott              7.79  1.14  97   6.50
+ Jeff Schultz             8.17  1.26 100   6.80
+ Graham Pilato            7.02  1.85  88   7.00
+ Jonathan Kiang           7.18  1.45  51   7.00
+ Robert Oliver            7.22  1.42   5   7.00
+ Warren Kenyon            7.27  1.62 100   7.00
+ Ben Thomas               8.01  0.60  30   7.00
+ Ray Sewell               8.03  1.13   8   7.00
+ Sarah Koplik             8.21  1.15  10   7.00
+ Alex Elsberg             8.29  1.06  75   7.00
+ Arturo Magidin           8.38  0.74  46   7.00
+ John Cockburn            8.65  1.54  53   7.00
+ Mark J. Musante          8.64  0.88  37   7.10
+ Mark McGehee             6.98  2.78  72   7.20
+ Rob Ditto                8.58  1.20  68   7.25
+ Evan Sosez               7.30         1   7.30
+ Mike Bruton              7.76  1.05  38   7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis        7.88  0.86  94   7.50
+ Mike Heffner             8.03  1.22 100   7.50
+ Paul Byers               8.12  1.56  30   7.50
+ Andrew Chiang            7.45  1.79  68   7.75
+ George Cravens           8.90  0.65  25   7.92
+ Richard L. Russ          8.52  0.77  19   7.95
+ Mark Hullinger           7.17  1.98 100   8.00
+ Burt Clothier            7.65  1.43 100   8.00
+ Scott Dailey             7.96  1.28  27   8.00
+ Gustav Fleischmann       7.98  0.78  10   8.00
+ Mark D. McKean           8.09  1.25  10   8.00
+ Thomas Catsburg          8.39  1.10  53   8.00
+ Jay Mohney               8.48  1.07  61   8.00
+ Casey Miller             8.49  1.02  99   8.00
+ Penny Rothkopf           8.53  0.91  21   8.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward          8.65  1.23  84   8.00
+ Kelly Meroney            8.66  0.92  38   8.00
+ Jay Waller               8.72  0.83  47   8.00
+ Onome Okuma              8.81  0.56  38   8.00
+ Dustin M. Ramsey         8.12  0.94  76   8.10
+ Dan Kimmel               8.38  0.94 100   8.10
+ Diane Denesowicz         8.39  1.06  97   8.10
+ Michael Fitzgerald       6.73  1.62   3   8.20
+ Doug Piligian            8.09  1.15 100   8.20
+ Tim Skirvin              8.22  1.35 100   8.25
+ Mike Hopkins             8.49  0.77 100   8.30
+ Dan Doulas               8.77  0.51  25   8.30
+ Mark Duell               8.87  0.80 100   8.45
+ James Rao                7.48  1.78  70   8.50
+ Michael Christy          7.89  1.71  27   8.50
+ Paul D. Shocklee         8.33  0.29   3   8.50
+ Erez Zadok               8.35  0.92  46   8.50
+ Gleb Gudkov              8.50         1   8.50
+ David Rigsby             8.57  0.72  82   8.50
+ Brent Schmidt            8.70  0.78  30   8.50
+ Eric Jensen              9.34  0.57  18   8.50
+ Kathy Sullivan           9.49  0.56  96   8.50
+ Jennifer McGee           6.33  1.97  10   8.60
+ James Prince             8.36  0.96  81   8.75
+ Ron Siewert              9.06  0.56  61   8.75
+ Mike McFadden            7.95  1.32   4   8.80
+ Nick Stamatelos          8.42  0.71  69   8.80
+ Jeff Allen               8.74  0.66  13   8.80
+ Joe Kauffman             8.93  0.79  92   8.80
+ Steve Fenster            8.14  1.28 100   8.90
+ John Smoogen             8.28  1.17  87   8.90
+ Kristina Livingston      8.71  0.64   8   8.90
+ Dan Sias                 9.62  0.46  56   8.90
+ Dave Thomer              7.98  1.23  98   9.00
+ Blaise Faint             8.21  1.65  55   9.00
+ John Tedesco             8.25  0.87   4   9.00
+ Mark Kobel               8.50  0.58   4   9.00
+ Wesley Jordan            8.71  0.78 100   9.00
+ Lisa Coulter             8.91  0.94  47   9.00
+ William J. O'Connor      9.00         1   9.00
+ Chris Durie              9.10  0.55  58   9.00
+ Lee Vibber               9.19  0.86  51   9.00
+ Jacob Thompson           9.27  0.52   9   9.00
+ Jeff Young               9.17  0.87  44   9.10
+ George Moore             9.05  0.69  52   9.25
+ Roger Plymale            8.80  0.62  10   9.30
+ Dennis Steinert          8.81  0.88  54   9.40
+ Tony Kimmet              9.11  0.59  42   9.40
+ Stephen Doe              8.62  0.77  10   9.50
+ Rick Coons               8.91  0.60  10   9.50
+ Don Semmens              9.25  0.64  76   9.50
+ David Rodriguera         9.43  0.48  35   9.50
+ Ron Peterson             9.09  0.57  99   9.60
+ David Gosha              8.58  1.27 100   9.65
+ Zak Bostwick             9.70  0.39   9   9.75
+ Tim Craig                8.13  1.53  19  10.00
+ Steve Schultheis         8.66  1.38 100  10.00
+ Andrew Smith             8.74  1.72  96  10.00
+ L.E. McClintock          9.05  1.30  41  10.00
+ Ray Martinez             9.07  0.93   6  10.00
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+ Results - "Phoenix Rising"
+==================================================
+                            Std. # of
+ Poll 5             History  Dev. Votes  PR
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.11             8.25
+ Median                                 8.50
+ Std. Dev.             0.86             1.56
+ # of Voters        2238              106
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Jason Snell           6.33  2.35  32   0.00
+ Scott Christensen     3.00         1   3.00
+ Fred Adams            5.45  1.89  96   4.00
+ Warren Kenyon         7.24  1.64 101   4.00
+ Steven Grimm          7.45  1.37  97   5.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.92  1.29 101   6.00
+ James Rao             7.50  1.83  76   6.00
+ John Abbott           7.77  1.15  98   6.00
+ Mark Horvath          7.35  0.88  10   6.50
+ Edward Lee            8.52  1.04  44   6.50
+ Anthony Jantz         7.00         1   7.00
+ Albero Reyes          7.00         1   7.00
+ Graham Pilato         7.01  1.83  90   7.00
+ Robert Oliver         7.18  1.27   6   7.00
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.48  1.79 101   7.00
+ Jim Sauer             7.59  2.13  38   7.00
+ Blaise Faint          8.18  1.64  56   7.00
+ Dylan Northrup        8.21  1.09  98   7.00
+ Alex Elsberg          8.27  1.06  76   7.00
+ Jeff Young            9.13  0.92  45   7.00
+ Mark Hullinger        7.17  1.97 101   7.25
+ David Gosha           8.56  1.27 101   7.40
+ Burt Clothier         7.65  1.42 101   7.50
+ Mike Heffner          8.02  1.22 101   7.50
+ Casey Miller          8.48  1.02 100   7.50
+ Tad Rogers            8.39  0.91  20   7.70
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.88  0.85  95   7.75
+ Jeff Rynott           7.67  1.26  31   7.80
+ Bruce Steinberg       7.80         1   7.80
+ Lee Somerman          8.13  1.16  60   7.80
+ Ryan Hughes           8.59  1.40  28   7.80
+ James Prince          8.36  0.95  82   7.95
+ Claudia Marie         6.88  2.25  33   8.00
+ Jonathan Kiang        7.19  1.44  52   8.00
+ Dan Edwards           7.74  0.96  37   8.00
+ Mike Bruton           7.76  1.04  39   8.00
+ Daniel Kirk           8.00         1   8.00
+ Ben Thomas            8.01  0.59  31   8.00
+ Ray Sewell            8.02  1.06   9   8.00
+ Arturo Magidin        8.37  0.73  47   8.00
+ Jay Mohney            8.47  1.06  62   8.00
+ Rob Ditto             8.58  1.19  69   8.00
+ Wes Barris            7.85  0.39   8   8.20
+ Andrew Chiang         7.46  1.78  69   8.25
+ Dustin M. Ramsey      8.12  0.92  78   8.25
+ Tim Craig             8.14  1.49  20   8.25
+ David Rigsby          8.58  0.72  85   8.25
+ Jeff Schultz          8.17  1.25 101   8.30
+ Wes Makin             7.90  1.18  62   8.40
+ Richard L. Russ       8.51  0.75  20   8.45
+ Michael Fitzsimmons   7.82  0.84   8   8.50
+ Tim Skirvin           8.23  1.34 101   8.50
+ Mike Hopkins          8.49  0.76 101   8.50
+ Eren Roubal           8.50         1   8.50
+ Brent Schmidt         8.69  0.77  31   8.50
+ Mark McGehee          7.00  2.77  73   8.60
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.39  1.05  99   8.60
+ Dan Kimmel            8.38  0.94 101   8.70
+ Nick Stamatelos       8.46  0.73  79   8.80
+ Mark J. Musante       8.64  0.87  38   8.80
+ Colin O'Connell       7.00  2.04  83   8.85
+ Todd Thompson         8.40  0.97  51   8.90
+ Mark D. McKean        7.81  1.53  74   9.00
+ Doug Piligian         8.10  1.15 101   9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.65  1.22  85   9.00
+ Kelly Meroney         8.67  0.91  39   9.00
+ Steve Schultheis      8.67  1.38 101   9.00
+ Brent Barrett         8.70  1.03 101   9.00
+ Jeff Allen            8.76  0.64  14   9.00
+ Roger Plymale         8.82  0.59  11   9.00
+ Alyn Jante            9.00         1   9.00
+ Christina Siniawski   9.00         1   9.00
+ Jennifer Tifft        9.06  0.85 101   9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.48  0.56  97   9.00
+ Dan Doulas            8.78  0.50  26   9.07
+ Craig Jackson         7.55  1.26 101   9.10
+ Garrick Mercer        8.08  0.94   3   9.10
+ Chris Durie           9.10  0.55  59   9.10
+ Wesley Jordan         8.72  0.77 101   9.20
+ David Rodriguera      9.42  0.48  36   9.20
+ John Smoogen          8.29  1.17  88   9.30
+ Rick Coons            8.95  0.58  11   9.40
+ Joe Kauffman          8.94  0.79  98   9.45
+ Steve Fenster         8.15  1.28 101   9.50
+ Dennis Steinert       8.82  0.87  55   9.50
+ Chris Lawrence        8.86  0.96  82   9.50
+ Lisa Coulter          8.87  0.96  50   9.50
+ Ken Moore             9.00  0.77  37   9.50
+ Tony Kimmet           9.12  0.58  43   9.50
+ Gleb Gudkov           9.05  0.78   2   9.60
+ Kova Dauser           9.11  0.64  26   9.60
+ Don Semmens           9.25  0.64  77   9.60
+ Rob Wilson            9.60         1   9.60
+ Ron Peterson          9.10  0.57 100   9.63
+ Adam Kuhn             8.70  0.87  78   9.70
+ Rob Freilich          9.21  0.58  19   9.75
+ George Cravens        8.93  0.66  26   9.82
+ Michael Christy       7.96  1.73  28  10.00
+ Sarah Koplik          8.37  1.21  11  10.00
+ John Cockburn         8.68  1.50  58  10.00
+ Stephen Doe           8.75  0.84  11  10.00
+ Andrew Smith          8.76  1.72  97  10.00
+ L.E. McClintock       9.08  1.29  42  10.00
+ Lee Vibber            9.20  0.86  52  10.00
+ Dan Sias              9.62  0.46  57  10.00
+ Zak Bostwick          9.73  0.38  10  10.00
diff --git a/p5/100 b/p5/100
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/100
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+ Results - "The Ragged Edge"
+===================================================
+                             Std. # of
+ Poll 5             History  Dev. Votes TRE
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.11             8.57
+ Median                                 8.77
+ Std. Dev.             0.86             0.97
+ # of Voters        2243               74
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Walter J. Hayes Jr.   5.00         1   5.00
+ Fred Adams            5.45  1.88  97   6.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.92  1.29 102   6.50
+ John Tedesco          8.00  1.00   6   6.50
+ James Prince          8.34  0.95  83   7.15
+ Wesley Schmidt        8.37  1.20  75   7.20
+ Mark McGehee          7.01  2.75  74   7.40
+ Dustin M. Ramsey      8.15  0.93  83   7.45
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.87  0.85  96   7.50
+ Mike Heffner          8.02  1.21 102   7.50
+ Erez Zadok            8.33  0.92  47   7.50
+ Mark Hullinger        7.18  1.96 102   7.75
+ Oliver Kosut          7.44  0.84   9   7.75
+ Warren Kenyon         7.25  1.64 102   8.00
+ Jonathan Kiang        7.25  1.37  60   8.00
+ Robert Oliver         7.30  1.20   7   8.00
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.48  1.78 102   8.00
+ Mike Bruton           7.77  1.03  40   8.00
+ Tim Skirvin           8.22  1.34 102   8.00
+ Alex Elsberg          8.27  1.05  77   8.00
+ Paul D. Shocklee      8.35  0.34   5   8.00
+ Mark J. Musante       8.62  0.86  39   8.00
+ Kelly Meroney         8.65  0.91  40   8.00
+ Dan Kimmel            8.38  0.93 102   8.20
+ Christopher Janz      8.71  1.31  15   8.20
+ George Cravens        8.90  0.66  27   8.22
+ David Gosha           8.56  1.26 102   8.35
+ Ray Sewell            8.07  1.01  10   8.50
+ Tim Craig             8.15  1.45  21   8.50
+ Jonathon Steinberg    8.37  0.32   3   8.50
+ Roy Dan Cooper        8.50         1   8.50
+ Eric DeFonso          8.50  0.87  76   8.50
+ Andrew Cody           8.55  1.03  31   8.50
+ Justin Stout          9.45  0.60   6   8.50
+ Mark Amidon           8.24  0.91   7   8.60
+ Casey Miller          8.48  1.02 101   8.60
+ Daniel Anzulovic      7.82  1.36   9   8.75
+ John Smoogen          8.30  1.16  89   8.80
+ Mike Hopkins          8.50  0.76 102   8.80
+ Ken Moore             8.99  0.76  38   8.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.65  1.21  86   8.90
+ Dan Doulas            8.78  0.50  27   8.93
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.39  1.05 100   8.95
+ Graham Pilato         7.08  1.74 102   9.00
+ Steven Grimm          7.47  1.37  98   9.00
+ James Rao             7.64  1.83  82   9.00
+ Burt Clothier         7.66  1.42 102   9.00
+ Arturo Magidin        8.39  0.73  48   9.00
+ Nick Stamatelos       8.52  0.74  86   9.00
+ Wesley Jordan         8.72  0.77 102   9.00
+ Onome Okuma           8.81  0.56  39   9.00
+ L.E. McClintock       9.07  1.28  43   9.00
+ Tony Kimmet           9.12  0.57  44   9.00
+ Doug Piligian         8.11  1.15 102   9.10
+ Richard L. Russ       8.55  0.75  21   9.25
+ Roger Plymale         8.85  0.58  12   9.25
+ Joe Kauffman          8.96  0.79 100   9.25
+ Michael Fitzsimmons   7.99  0.93   9   9.30
+ Jennifer Tifft        9.07  0.84 102   9.30
+ Rob Ditto             8.59  1.19  70   9.40
+ Jeff Rynott           7.73  1.28  32   9.50
+ Michael Christy       8.02  1.72  29   9.50
+ Lee Vibber            9.21  0.85  53   9.50
+ Jeff Allen            8.81  0.65  15   9.60
+ Colin O'Connell       7.03  2.05  84   9.65
+ Chris Durie           9.11  0.55  60   9.70
+ Don Semmens           9.26  0.64  78   9.70
+ Dan Sias              9.62  0.45  58   9.70
+ Zak Bostwick          9.73  0.36  11   9.72
+ Andrew Smith          8.73  1.32 101   9.80
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.49  0.56  98   9.90
+ Steve Schultheis      8.68  1.38 102  10.00
+ Stephen Doe           8.85  0.88  12  10.00
+ Lisa Coulter          8.96  0.96  55  10.00
diff --git a/p5/101 b/p5/101
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+ Results - "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father"
+========================================================
+                             Std. # of
+ Trust the Corps    History  Dev. Votes TCisM,tCiF
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.12             8.42
+ Median                                 8.60
+ Std. Dev.             0.85             1.29
+ # of Voters        2248               80
+ --------------------------------------------------
+ Graham Pilato         7.04  1.80 103   2.00
+ Fred Adams            5.45  1.87  98   5.00
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.46  1.79 103   5.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.92  1.28 103   6.00
+ Colin O'Connell       7.03  2.04  88   6.05
+ Tad Rogers            8.31  0.95  22   6.60
+ Mark Hullinger        7.18  1.95 103   6.75
+ Jennifer McGee        6.65  1.87  13   7.00
+ Burt Clothier         7.66  1.42 103   7.00
+ Dustin M. Ramsey      8.19  0.94  88   7.35
+ James Prince          8.33  0.95  84   7.35
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.87  0.85  97   7.50
+ L.E. McClintock       9.04  1.28  44   7.70
+ Andrew Chiang         7.48  1.76  71   7.75
+ David Rigsby          8.56  0.71  88   7.75
+ Mark McGehee          7.02  2.73  75   7.80
+ Claudia Mastroanni    6.69  2.24  58   8.00
+ Jonathan Kiang        7.32  1.43  72   8.00
+ Steven Grimm          7.47  1.36  99   8.00
+ Mark Horvath          7.50  0.84  13   8.00
+ Oliver Kosut          7.50  0.81  10   8.00
+ Mike Bruton           7.78  1.01  41   8.00
+ Ben Thomas            8.01  0.58  33   8.00
+ Ray Sewell            8.06  0.96  11   8.00
+ Blaise Faint          8.18  1.63  57   8.00
+ Alex Elsberg          8.25  1.07  78   8.00
+ David Gosha           8.56  1.26 103   8.00
+ Brent Schmidt         8.67  0.77  32   8.00
+ Sara Kahn Troster     8.10         1   8.10
+ Mark Duell            8.86  0.79 102   8.20
+ Paul D. Shocklee      8.33  0.30   6   8.25
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.39  1.04 101   8.35
+ Jeff Rynott           8.09  1.17  54   8.50
+ Bruce Steinberg       8.15  0.49   2   8.50
+ Casey Miller          8.48  1.01 102   8.50
+ John Jurcevic         8.63  0.70 102   8.50
+ Kelly Meroney         8.65  0.90  41   8.50
+ Brent Barrett         8.70  1.02 103   8.50
+ Nick Stamatelos       8.54  0.72  92   8.55
+ Rob Ditto             8.59  1.18  71   8.60
+ Liz Tanaka            9.09  0.57   7   8.60
+ Richard L. Russ       8.55  0.73  22   8.65
+ Eren Roubal           8.75  0.25   3   8.75
+ Rick Coons            8.97  0.55  13   8.75
+ Steve Fenster         8.17  1.28 103   8.80
+ Jeff Schultz          8.18  1.24 103   8.80
+ Rob Siemborski        8.51  1.11   5   8.80
+ Joe Kauffman          8.97  0.78 103   8.90
+ Michael Christy       8.05  1.70  30   9.00
+ John Tedesco          8.14  0.99   7   9.00
+ Dane Anthony Schutz   8.22  1.99  96   9.00
+ Tim Skirvin           8.23  1.33 103   9.00
+ Dan Kimmel            8.38  0.93 103   9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.66  1.21  87   9.00
+ Roy Dan Cooper        8.75  0.35   2   9.00
+ Dennis Steinert       8.81  0.86  57   9.00
+ Lisa Coulter          9.03  0.95  60   9.00
+ Adam C. Brockus       8.87  0.60  12   9.10
+ Jeff Young            9.13  0.91  46   9.10
+ Doug Piligian         8.12  1.15 103   9.20
+ Ron Peterson          9.10  0.56 103   9.20
+ Dan Doulas            8.80  0.50  28   9.27
+ Mark J. Musante       8.64  0.86  40   9.30
+ Shaun Aki             9.39  0.65  23   9.30
+ David Rodriguera      9.42  0.47  37   9.35
+ Roger Plymale         8.90  0.57  13   9.40
+ John Abbott           7.80  1.16 100   9.50
+ Mike Hopkins          8.50  0.76 103   9.50
+ Wesley Jordan         8.73  0.77 103   9.50
+ Chris Durie           9.12  0.55  61   9.50
+ Don Semmens           9.26  0.64  79   9.60
+ Jacob Thompson        9.39  0.52  12   9.90
+ Tim Craig             8.24  1.47  22  10.00
+ Steve Schultheis      8.69  1.38 103  10.00
+ Andrew Smith          8.75  1.32 102  10.00
+ John Cockburn         8.82  1.42  71  10.00
+ Stephen Doe           8.94  0.90  13  10.00
+ Jennifer Tifft        9.08  0.85 103  10.00
+ Dan Sias              9.63  0.45  59  10.00
+ Van Varnell          10.00         1  10.00
diff --git a/p5/102 b/p5/102
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+ Results - "Meditations on the Abyss"
+=================================================
+                            Std. # of
+ Poll 5            History  Dev. Votes MotA
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Average              8.11             8.21
+ Median                                8.50
+ Std. Dev.            0.86             1.39
+ # of Voters       2260               66
+ ---------------------------------------------
+ Jason Saving         6.91  2.89   28  2.00
+ Robert Ben Madison   7.65  1.66  104  4.00
+ Mark D. Grover       5.92  1.27  104  5.50
+ Steven Grimm         7.46  1.36  100  6.00
+ John Cockburn        8.85  1.39   86  6.00
+ James Prince         8.31  0.96   85  6.75
+ Graham Pilato        6.99  1.85  104  7.00
+ Katherine LeBlanc    7.00          1  7.00
+ Warren Kenyon        7.24  1.62  104  7.00
+ Burt Clothier        7.65  1.41  104  7.00
+ Paul D. Shocklee     8.14  0.57    7  7.00
+ Tim Craig            8.18  1.46   23  7.00
+ Lewis Judd           7.50          1  7.50
+ Mike Bruton          7.77  1.00   42  7.50
+ Mike Heffner         8.01  1.21  103  7.50
+ Bruce Steinberg      8.32  0.89    4  7.50
+ Thomas Catsburg      8.36  1.08   56  7.50
+ Mark J. Musante      8.61  0.87   41  7.50
+ Tad Rogers           8.28  0.93   23  7.70
+ Terrance L. Lewis    7.87  0.84   98  7.75
+ Jim Valeri           8.45  1.35   45  7.80
+ Jay Mohney           8.46  1.06   63  8.00
+ Kelly Meroney        8.63  0.89   42  8.00
+ Brent Schmidt        8.65  0.77   33  8.00
+ Lisa Coulter         8.96  1.04   71  8.00
+ Chris Durie          9.10  0.56   62  8.00
+ Jeff Rynott          8.09  1.16   55  8.25
+ Dustin M. Ramsey     8.19  0.93   90  8.40
+ Erez Zadok           8.34  0.91   48  8.40
+ Tim Skirvin          8.23  1.32  104  8.50
+ Alex Elsberg         8.25  1.06   79  8.50
+ Arturo Magidin       8.36  0.74   50  8.50
+ Dan Kimmel           8.39  0.93  104  8.50
+ Penny Rothkopf       8.53  0.89   22  8.50
+ Roger Plymale        8.87  0.56   14  8.50
+ David Rodriguera     9.39  0.49   38  8.50
+ David Hedden         9.54  0.56    6  8.50
+ Sara Kahn Troster    8.35  0.35    2  8.60
+ Dion Labadie         8.60  0.53    3  8.80
+ Diane Denesowicz     8.14  1.11  102  8.90
+ Dennis Steinert      8.82  0.85   58  8.90
+ Nick Stamatelos      8.58  0.70  104  8.95
+ Jonathan Kiang       7.37  1.44   78  9.00
+ Steve Fenster        8.18  1.28  104  9.00
+ Mike Hopkins         8.51  0.76  104  9.00
+ Roy Dan Cooper       8.83  0.29    3  9.00
+ L.E. McClintock      9.04  1.26   45  9.00
+ Doug Piligian        8.13  1.15  104  9.10
+ Lee Thompson         8.77  0.41    7  9.10
+ Joe Kauffman         8.97  0.78  104  9.10
+ Rick Coons           8.98  0.53   14  9.10
+ Richard L. Russ      8.58  0.72   23  9.15
+ Casey Miller         8.49  1.01  103  9.20
+ Rob Ditto            8.60  1.17   72  9.20
+ Jennifer Tifft       9.08  0.84  104  9.20
+ David Gosha          8.56  1.26  104  9.35
+ Ron Peterson         9.10  0.56  104  9.40
+ John Abbott          7.81  1.17  101  9.50
+ Steve Schultheis     8.70  1.37  104  9.50
+ Don Semmens          9.27  0.63   80  9.50
+ Wesley Jordan        8.74  0.77  104  9.70
+ Mark Duell           8.87  0.79  103  9.75
+ Dan Sias             9.63  0.45   60  9.80
+ George Cravens       8.93  0.66   29  9.82
+ Andrew Smith         8.78  1.33  103 10.00
+ Stephen Doe          9.02  0.91   14 10.00
diff --git a/p5/103 b/p5/103
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+ Results - "Darkness Ascending"
+==================================================
+                              Std. # of 
+                     History  Dev. Votes DA
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Average               8.12             8.74
+ Median                                 9.00
+ Std. Dev.             0.85             1.20
+ # of Voters        2263               74
+ ----------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams            5.42  1.87   100 3.00
+ Jason Saving          6.81  2.89    29 4.00
+ Mark D. Grover        5.92  1.27   105 6.00
+ John Cockburn         8.82  1.42    87 6.00
+ Mike Heffner          7.99  1.21   105 7.50
+ Terrance L. Lewis     7.87  0.84    99 7.75
+ Jim Valeri            8.43  1.28    47 7.90
+ Mark Hullinger        7.19  1.93   105 8.00
+ Warren Kenyon         7.25  1.61   105 8.00
+ Jonathan Kiang        7.38  1.43    79 8.00
+ Steven Grimm          7.46  1.36   101 8.00
+ Burt Clothier         7.65  1.40   105 8.00
+ John Abbott           7.82  1.16   102 8.00
+ Oliver Kosut          8.14  1.75    54 8.00
+ Dylan Northrup        8.21  1.08   100 8.00
+ Alex Elsberg          8.24  1.05    80 8.00
+ Casey Miller          8.48  1.00   104 8.00
+ Wesley Schmidt        8.37  1.18    78 8.20
+ Ben Thomas            8.02  0.57    34 8.40
+ Mark J. Musante       8.61  0.86    42 8.40
+ Mike Bruton           7.79  1.00    43 8.50
+ Paul D. Shocklee      8.19  0.55     8 8.50
+ Mark Kobel            8.43  0.45     7 8.50
+ Kelly Meroney         8.63  0.88    43 8.50
+ Brent Schmidt         8.65  0.75    34 8.50
+ George Moore          9.04  0.69    55 8.50
+ Bruce Steinberg       8.36  0.82     8 8.55
+ Sara Kahn Troster     8.47  0.32     3 8.70
+ David Rigsby          8.55  0.71    90 8.75
+ Ray Sewell            8.13  0.95    12 8.90
+ Jay Mohney            8.47  1.05    64 8.90
+ Kyle Ferrio           7.48  1.78   105 9.00
+ Mark Horvath          7.61  0.90    14 9.00
+ Robert Ben Madison    7.67  1.66   105 9.00
+ Diane Denesowicz      8.15  1.11   103 9.00
+ Blaise Faint          8.19  1.62    58 9.00
+ Tim Skirvin           8.24  1.32   105 9.00
+ Mike Hopkins          8.51  0.76   105 9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward       8.65  1.20    89 9.00
+ Wesley Jordan         8.74  0.77   105 9.00
+ Mark Moerman          8.75  0.92    64 9.00
+ Mark Duell            8.87  0.79   104 9.00
+ Kathy Sullivan        9.48  0.56   101 9.00
+ Nick Stamatelos       8.59  0.70   105 9.05
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk   8.47  1.25    60 9.10
+ Doug Piligian         8.14  1.15   105 9.20
+ Dennis Steinert       8.82  0.85    59 9.20
+ Rick Coons            8.99  0.51    15 9.20
+ Stephen Doe           9.03  0.88    15 9.22
+ Rob Ditto             8.61  1.17    73 9.25
+ Lee Thompson          8.83  0.42     8 9.25
+ Joe Kauffman          8.97  0.78   105 9.25
+ Dan Doulas            8.80  0.49    30 9.27
+ John Smoogen          8.38  1.12   105 9.30
+ Michael Christy       8.12  1.67    32 9.50
+ Roy Dan Cooper        8.50  1.46     5 9.50
+ Roger Plymale         8.91  0.57    15 9.50
+ George Copsey         8.95  0.68    57 9.50
+ Shaun Aki             9.31  0.75    25 9.50
+ David Hedden          9.54  0.51     7 9.50
+ Jeff Young            9.13  0.89    48 9.60
+ Ron Peterson          9.11  0.56   105 9.65
+ David Rodriguera      9.40  0.48    39 9.70
+ George Cravens        8.95  0.67    30 9.72
+ David Gosha           8.58  1.26   105 9.85
+ Steve Schultheis      8.71  1.37   105 10.0
+ Andrew Smith          8.79  1.33   104 10.0
+ L.E. McClintock       9.06  1.26    46 10.0
+ Jennifer Tifft        9.09  0.84   105 10.0
+ Gleb Gudkov           9.38  0.63     4 10.0
+ Jacob Thompson        9.39  0.53    14 10.0
+ Eugenio Rivera        9.45  0.94    48 10.0
+ Eric Collins          9.50  0.71     2 10.0
+ Dan Sias              9.64  0.45    61 10.0
diff --git a/p5/104 b/p5/104
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+ Results - "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder"
+===================================================
+                           Std. # of  
+ Poll 5           History  Dev. Votes AAMD,TA
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average             8.13             9.21
+ Median                               9.50
+ Std. Dev.           0.86             0.79
+ # of Voters      2273               86
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover      5.93  1.26   106 6.50
+ Wayne Kern          2.67  3.79     3 7.00
+ John Abbott         7.81  1.16   103 7.00
+ Mike Heffner        7.99  1.21   106 7.50
+ Ben Thomas          8.01  0.56    36 7.70
+ Erez Zadok          8.33  0.90    49 7.90
+ Graham Pilato       6.99  1.84   106 8.00
+ Warren Kenyon       7.25  1.61   106 8.00
+ Lewis Judd          7.75  0.35     2 8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis   7.87  0.83   100 8.00
+ John Cockburn       8.81  1.41    88 8.00
+ Tad Rogers          8.28  0.91    24 8.20
+ Casey Miller        8.48  1.00   105 8.20
+ Mike Hopkins        8.51  0.76   106 8.30
+ Dylan Northrup      8.21  1.07   101 8.40
+ Steven Grimm        7.47  1.35   102 8.50
+ Burt Clothier       7.66  1.40   106 8.50
+ Mike Bruton         7.80  0.99    44 8.50
+ Louis Amari         8.64  0.84    61 8.80
+ Mark McGehee        7.06  2.71    77 8.90
+ Dan Kimmel          8.39  0.92   107 8.90
+ Kyle Ferrio         7.49  1.78   106 9.00
+ Mark Horvath        7.70  0.94    15 9.00
+ Blaise Faint        8.21  1.61    59 9.00
+ Alex Elsberg        8.25  1.05    81 9.00
+ Paul D. Shocklee    8.28  0.58     9 9.00
+ Arturo Magidin      8.38  0.74    52 9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward     8.66  1.19    90 9.00
+ Stephen Abbott      8.67  0.58     3 9.00
+ Brian D. Schenck    9.00           1 9.00
+ George Moore        9.04  0.68    56 9.00
+ Kelly Meroney       8.64  0.88    44 9.20
+ Tal Kedem           9.35  0.21     2 9.20
+ Nick Stamatelos     8.59  0.70   106 9.25
+ Sara Kahn Troster   8.66  0.47     4 9.25
+ Wesley Jordan       8.74  0.77   106 9.25
+ Kathy Sullivan      9.48  0.55   102 9.30
+ Rick Coons          9.02  0.50    16 9.40
+ Bruce Steinberg     8.44  0.87    12 9.45
+ Dan Doulas          8.82  0.50    31 9.48
+ Andrew Chiang       7.50  1.76    72 9.50
+ Barry Wallace       7.72  0.87    18 9.50
+ Jeff Weaver         7.76  0.78    16 9.50
+ Doug Piligian       8.15  1.15   106 9.50
+ Diane Denesowicz    8.16  1.11   104 9.50
+ Tim Skirvin         8.25  1.32   106 9.50
+ Jeff Rynott         8.45  1.15    79 9.50
+ Eric DeFonso        8.56  0.89    87 9.50
+ Mark Moerman        8.76  0.92    65 9.50
+ Joe Kauffman        8.98  0.77   106 9.50
+ Chris Durie         9.10  0.55    64 9.50
+ Jeff Young          9.14  0.89    49 9.55
+ Michael Christy     8.17  1.67    33 9.60
+ Dennis Steinert     8.84  0.85    60 9.60
+ Arthur Henrick      9.30  0.26     3 9.60
+ Jasen Fortesque     9.43  0.21     3 9.60
+ Patrick Koehn       7.80  2.08     4 9.70
+ Mark J. Musante     8.63  0.86    43 9.70
+ Roger Plymale       8.96  0.58    16 9.70
+ Neal Klein          8.30  1.19    13 9.75
+ Ron Peterson        9.11  0.56   106 9.75
+ Steve Fenster       8.21  1.28   106 9.80
+ Jim Valeri          8.34  1.33    51 9.80
+ David Gosha         8.59  1.26   106 9.80
+ Mark Duell          8.88  0.79   105 9.80
+ Ken Moore           9.01  0.76    39 9.80
+ Shaun Aki           9.33  0.74    26 9.80
+ David Rodriguera    9.41  0.48    40 9.80
+ Gleb Gudkov         9.46  0.58     5 9.80
+ George Cravens      8.98  0.68    31 9.92
+ Brent Barrett       8.72  1.02   106 9.98
+ John Smoogen        8.40  1.12   106 10.0
+ Ann Marie DeCicco   8.50  2.12     2 10.0
+ Sarah Koplik        8.51  1.25    12 10.0
+ Rob Ditto           8.62  1.17    74 10.0
+ Brent Schmidt       8.69  0.78    35 10.0
+ Steve Schultheis    8.73  1.37   106 10.0
+ Adam Kuhn           8.75  0.87    83 10.0
+ Andrew Smith        8.80  1.33   105 10.0
+ L.E. McClintock     9.08  1.25    47 10.0
+ Stephen Doe         9.09  0.88    16 10.0
+ Jennifer Tifft      9.09  0.84   106 10.0
+ Lee Vibber          9.23  0.83    57 10.0
+ Jacob Thompson      9.43  0.54    15 10.0
+ Dan Sias            9.65  0.45    62 10.0
+ Jimmy Shakespeare  10.00           1 10.0
diff --git a/p5/105 b/p5/105
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--- /dev/null
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+ Results - "Movements of Fire and Shadow"
+====================================================
+                              Std. # of  
+ Poll 5              History  Dev. Votes MoFaS
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.14             9.43
+ Median                                  9.60
+ Std. Dev.              0.86             0.66
+ # of Voters         2288               89
+ ------------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover         5.93  1.26   107 6.50
+ Lewis Judd             7.50  0.50     3 7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis      7.87  0.83   101 7.75
+ Steven Grimm           7.48  1.35   103 8.00
+ Dylan Northrup         8.21  1.07   102 8.30
+ Jim Valeri             8.26  1.31    57 8.30
+ Alex Elsberg           8.26  1.05    82 8.50
+ Jay Mohney             8.50  1.05    66 8.75
+ Steve Fine             8.75           1 8.75
+ Dan Kimmel             8.40  0.91   108 8.90
+ Casey Miller           8.48  1.00   106 8.90
+ Warren Kenyon          7.27  1.61   107 9.00
+ Kyle Ferrio            7.50  1.77   107 9.00
+ Andrew Chiang          7.52  1.76    73 9.00
+ Burt Clothier          7.67  1.40   107 9.00
+ Mike Bruton            7.83  1.00    45 9.00
+ Jeff Weaver            7.83  0.82    17 9.00
+ Albero Reyes           8.00  1.41     2 9.00
+ Patrick Koehn          8.04  1.88     5 9.00
+ Oliver Kosut           8.15  1.72    56 9.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.22  1.60    60 9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward        8.66  1.18    91 9.00
+ Jim Veneskey           8.90  0.85     3 9.00
+ Ira A. Hall      	8.60  0.70   107 9.35
+ Diane Denesowicz       8.17  1.11   105 9.40
+ James Prince           8.32  0.96    88 9.40
+ Tad Rogers             8.32  0.92    25 9.40
+ Dennis Steinert        8.84  0.84    61 9.40
+ Joe Kauffman           8.98  0.77   107 9.45
+ Arturo Magidin         8.41  0.75    53 9.50
+ Wesley Jordan          8.75  0.77   107 9.50
+ Jennifer Tifft         9.10  0.84   107 9.50
+ Jeff Young             9.15  0.88    50 9.59
+ Graham Pilato          7.05  1.87   107 9.60
+ Doug Piligian          8.16  1.15   107 9.60
+ Dustin M. Ramsey       8.27  0.90   105 9.60
+ Mike Hopkins           8.52  0.76   107 9.60
+ Kelly Meroney          8.66  0.88    45 9.60
+ Ron Peterson           9.12  0.56   107 9.60
+ Tim Skirvin            8.27  1.32   107 9.75
+ David Rigsby           8.57  0.71    92 9.75
+ Erez Zadok             8.36  0.92    50 9.80
+ Robert E. Juliano      8.73  1.16     3 9.80
+ Dan Riley              8.62  1.46     3 9.85
+ Roger Plymale          9.01  0.60    17 9.85
+ Michael Christy        8.22  1.67    34 9.90
+ Mark Duell             8.89  0.79   107 9.90
+ Lisa Coulter           8.96  1.03    76 9.90
+ L.E. McClintock        9.10  1.24    48 9.90
+ George Cravens         9.01  0.69    32 9.92
+ Lee Thompson           9.03  0.56    10 9.95
+ Don Semmens            9.28  0.63    83 9.95
+ Wayne Kern             4.50  4.80     4 10.0
+ Jonathan Kiang         7.47  1.43    87 10.0
+ John Abbott            7.83  1.17   104 10.0
+ Mike Heffner           8.02  1.22   107 10.0
+ Daniel Anzulovic       8.04  1.46    10 10.0
+ Jeff Rynott            8.60  1.11   101 10.0
+ Rob Ditto              8.64  1.17    75 10.0
+ Louis Amari            8.66  0.85    62 10.0
+ Brent Schmidt    	9.56  0.59    17 10.0
+ Dan Sias               9.65  0.45    63 10.0
+ Jimmy Shakespeare      9.71  0.37     7 10.0
+ Gene Forfar            9.75  0.32     6 10.0
+ Jeffrey Machott       10.00           1 10.0
+ Eugene H. Pharr, Jr.  10.00           1 10.0
+ Louisa Reeds          10.00           1 10.0
diff --git a/p5/106 b/p5/106
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/106
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+ Results - "The Fall of Centauri Prime"
+=====================================================
+                              Std. # of
+ Poll 5              History  Dev. Votes TFoCP
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.15             9.22
+ Median                                  9.50
+ Std. Dev.              0.85             0.78
+ # of Voters         2344               77
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Mark D. Grover         5.94  1.25  109  6.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.20  1.58   62  7.00
+ Mike Heffner           8.01  1.21  109  7.50
+ Brent Barrett          8.71  1.02  109  7.80
+ Warren Kenyon          7.26  1.61  109  8.00
+ John Abbott            7.81  1.17  106  8.00
+ Brain McQueary         8.00  0.00    2  8.00
+ Michael Christy        8.21  1.64   35  8.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis      7.87  0.83  102  8.25
+ Erez Zadok             8.37  0.91   52  8.40
+ Casey Miller           8.48  0.99  108  8.40
+ Mike Bruton            7.84  0.99   46  8.50
+ Mike Hopkins           8.52  0.75  109  8.60
+ Ben Thomas             8.03  0.56   38  8.70
+ Dan Kimmel             8.40  0.91  110  8.70
+ Seth Sprague           8.70          1  8.70
+ John Jurcevic          8.64  0.68  107  8.75
+ Mark J. Musante        8.61  0.90   46  8.90
+ Rebekah Reese          8.90  0.00    2  8.90
+ George Copsey          8.96  0.67   59  8.90
+ Mark McGehee           7.21  2.67   81  9.00
+ Jonathan Kiang         7.48  1.42   89  9.00
+ Kyle Ferrio            7.50  1.78  109  9.00
+ Andrew Chiang          7.55  1.74   75  9.00
+ Burt Clothier          7.70  1.40  109  9.00
+ Tim Skirvin            8.27  1.31  109  9.00
+ Edward Lee             8.56  1.01   47  9.00
+ Jeff Rynott            8.59  1.11  104  9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward        8.68  1.18   93  9.00
+ Andrew Apold           8.89  1.33   37  9.00
+ John Cahill            9.00          1  9.00
+ Rafael Rosa            9.00          1  9.00
+ Stephen Doe            9.08  0.87   19  9.00
+ Stephen John Smoogen   8.42  1.12  109  9.10
+ Steve Mandel           8.88  0.98   12  9.25
+ Shaun Aki              9.46  0.69   35  9.45
+ Mark Hullinger         7.26  1.93  109  9.50
+ Nick Stamatelos        8.61  0.70  109  9.50
+ Bruce Steinberg        8.70  0.94   15  9.50
+ Roy Dan Cooper         8.91  1.24    8  9.50
+ Chris Durie            9.10  0.59   67  9.50
+ David Rodriguera       9.43  0.48   42  9.50
+ Mike Bundesmann        9.50          1  9.50
+ Rick Carter            9.50          1  9.50
+ Jason McKesson         9.50          1  9.50
+ Diane Denesowicz       8.16  1.11  109  9.55
+ Scott Seltzer          9.55          1  9.55
+ Katherine LeBlanc      8.40  1.35    3  9.70
+ Joe Kauffman           8.98  0.77  109  9.70
+ Joe Caruso             9.70          1  9.70
+ Jerry Bookter          6.39  3.42    7  9.75
+ Sarah Koplik           8.61  1.25   13  9.80
+ Rob Ditto              8.64  1.18   77  9.80
+ Steve Schultheis       8.75  1.36  109  9.80
+ Wesley Jordan          8.77  0.77  109  9.80
+ Ken Moore              9.03  0.75   42  9.80
+ Ron Peterson           9.13  0.56  109  9.80
+ Artem Y. Lyubimov      9.80          1  9.80
+ Cvetan Pavloski        9.80          1  9.80
+ George Cravens         9.04  0.69   33  9.82
+ Mark Duell             8.90  0.79  109  9.85
+ Jonathan Frain         8.46  1.31  109  9.90
+ L.E. McClintock        9.13  1.23   50  9.90
+ Scott Morath           9.90          1  9.90
+ John Steiner           8.82  0.80   27  9.95
+ John Scott             7.17  2.51   91 10.00
+ Kelly Meroney          8.70  0.88   47 10.00
+ Andrew Smith           8.83  1.32  108 10.00
+ Roger Plymale          8.93  0.85   19 10.00
+ David Hedden           9.40  0.80   10 10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera         9.46  0.96   84 10.00
+ Gunther Meyer          9.50  0.71    2 10.00
+ Jacob Thompson         9.50  0.54   17 10.00
+ Dan Sias               9.66  0.44   64 10.00
+ Gerard Coletta        10.00          1 10.00
+ Roy D. Wiprud         10.00          1 10.00
+ Randy Woodland        10.00          1 10.00
diff --git a/p5/107 b/p5/107
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/107
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+ Results - "The Wheel of Fire"
+========================================================
+                                  Std. # of
+ Poll 5                  History  Dev. Votes TWoF
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Average                    8.15             8.58
+ Median                                      9.00
+ Std. Dev.                  0.85             1.20
+ # of Voters             2387               75
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Alan Thiesen               6.81  1.69    8  4.00
+ Wayne Kern                 4.86  3.44    7  5.00
+ Thomas Catsburg            8.31  1.13   59  5.50
+ Warren Kenyon              7.25  1.61  110  6.00
+ Jonathan Kiang             7.47  1.42   90  6.00
+ Mark D. Grover             5.94  1.24  110  6.50
+ Stephen Doe                8.97  0.97   20  7.00
+ Michael Gemmell            7.81  0.98   89  7.10
+ Terrance L. Lewis          7.87  0.82  103  7.50
+ Mike Heffner               8.00  1.20  110  7.50
+ Michael Christy            8.19  1.62   36  7.50
+ Arturo Magidin             8.37  0.76   56  7.50
+ Doug Nadle                 8.20  1.01   55  7.70
+ Dan Kimmel                 8.39  0.91  111  7.90
+ Burt Clothier              7.70  1.40  110  8.00
+ Jim Zawisza                8.00          1  8.00
+ Blaise Faint               8.20  1.56   63  8.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere   8.22  0.88  104  8.00
+ Alex Elsberg               8.26  1.03   84  8.00
+ Jay Mohney                 8.48  1.04   69  8.00
+ Sergey Bukhman             8.75  1.06    2  8.00
+ Roy Dan Cooper             8.81  1.20    9  8.00
+ Kathy Sullivan             9.46  0.56  105  8.00
+ Tina C. Amlin              8.20          1  8.20
+ Jennifer McGee             6.96  1.92   15  8.40
+ Mike Hopkins               8.52  0.75  110  8.40
+ Bruce Steinberg            8.68  0.91   16  8.50
+ Mark Moerman               8.74  1.02   69  8.50
+ John Cahill                8.75  0.35    2  8.50
+ Stephen John Smoogen       8.42  1.11  110  8.60
+ Joe Kauffman               8.98  0.77  110  8.60
+ L.E. McClintock            9.12  1.22   51  8.70
+ Mark McGehee               7.23  2.66   82  8.75
+ Joe Caruso                 9.25  0.64    2  8.80
+ Jonathan Frain             8.46  1.30  110  8.90
+ Edward Lee                 8.56  1.01   48  8.90
+ Dennis Steinert            8.86  0.84   63  8.90
+ Lewis Judd                 7.94  0.75    5  9.00
+ George Copsey              8.96  0.66   60  9.00
+ John R. Henson             9.00          1  9.00
+ George Moore               9.06  0.68   59  9.00
+ Jeff Young                 9.10  0.89   53  9.00
+ Lance Kim                  9.25  0.25    3  9.00
+ Jesse Jackson              9.50  0.71    2  9.00
+ Dom Quagliato              9.39  0.17    5  9.10
+ Andrew Rubin               9.67  0.49    3  9.10
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward            8.68  1.17   94  9.20
+ Mike Bundesmann            9.35  0.21    2  9.20
+ David Rodriguera           9.42  0.47   43  9.20
+ Tim Skirvin                8.28  1.31  110  9.25
+ Nick Stamatelos            8.62  0.70  110  9.25
+ Mark Duell                 8.90  0.78  110  9.25
+ Erez Zadok                 8.39  0.91   53  9.30
+ Gleb Gudkov                9.43  0.52    6  9.30
+ Rob Ditto                  8.65  1.17   78  9.40
+ Rick Coons                 9.07  0.47   19  9.40
+ Kyle Ferrio                7.51  1.78  110  9.50
+ Daniel Anzulovic           8.17  1.45   11  9.50
+ Oliver Kosut               8.21  1.69   59  9.50
+ Dustin M. Ramsey           8.30  0.91  108  9.50
+ Casey Miller               8.49  0.99  109  9.50
+ Mark J. Musante            8.62  0.90   47  9.50
+ Kelly Meroney              8.71  0.88   48  9.50
+ Chris Durie                9.11  0.59   68  9.50
+ Artem Y. Lyubimov          9.65  0.21    2  9.50
+ George Cravens             9.05  0.69   34  9.52
+ Jennifer Tifft             9.11  0.83  110  9.60
+ Scott Seltzer              9.24  0.56   21  9.60
+ Roger Plymale              8.98  0.85   20  9.85
+ Dan Sias                   9.66  0.44   65  9.95
+ Steve Schultheis           8.76  1.36  110 10.00
+ Andrew Smith               8.84  1.32  109 10.00
+ John Cockburn              8.86  1.40   92 10.00
+ Jacob Thompson             9.53  0.53   18 10.00
+ Gerard Coletta            10.00  0.00    2 10.00
diff --git a/p5/108 b/p5/108
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/108
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+ Results - "Objects in Motion"
+=======================================================
+                                  Std. # of  
+ Poll 5                  History  Dev. Votes OiM
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Average                    8.15             8.62
+ Median                                      9.00
+ Std. Dev.                  0.85             1.38
+ # of Voters             2367               77
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Mark Kinder                2.00          1  2.00
+ Wayne Kern                 5.00  3.08    9  4.00
+ Blaise Faint               8.10  1.64   65  5.00
+ Jerry Bookter              6.34  3.16    8  6.00
+ Michael Gemmell            7.79  0.98   90  6.50
+ Diane Denesowicz           8.16  1.11  111  6.80
+ Kyle Ferrio                7.51  1.77  112  7.00
+ Roy Dan Cooper             8.53  1.25   11  7.00
+ Mark McGehee               7.25  2.63   84  7.45
+ Mike Heffner               8.01  1.20  111  7.50
+ James Prince               8.30  0.97   93  7.60
+ Bryan Suchenski            8.80  1.20    3  7.60
+ Terrance L. Lewis          7.87  0.82  104  7.75
+ Jonathan Kiang             7.48  1.41   92  8.00
+ Burt Clothier              7.69  1.39  112  8.00
+ Mike Bruton                7.84  0.97   48  8.00
+ Michael Christy            8.12  1.64   38  8.00
+ Erez Zadok                 8.37  0.90   55  8.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk        8.45  1.22   64  8.00
+ Jeff Rynott                8.59  1.10  106  8.00
+ John Jurcevic              8.61  0.69  110  8.00
+ Gunther Meyer              8.95  0.72    5  8.00
+ Dennis Steinert            8.85  0.83   64  8.20
+ John Scott                 7.13  2.54   93  8.25
+ Stephen Kramer             8.30          1  8.30
+ Jennifer McGee             7.14  1.87   17  8.50
+ Lewis Judd                 8.03  0.71    6  8.50
+ Martin de la Sablonniere   8.22  0.87  105  8.50
+ Arturo Magidin             8.37  0.75   57  8.50
+ Jay Mohney                 8.49  1.03   70  8.50
+ David Misener              8.50          1  8.50
+ Benjamin Schultz           8.69  0.75   32  8.50
+ Steve Schultheis           8.77  1.35  112  8.50
+ Dave Thomer                7.94  1.23  110  8.75
+ David Rigsby               8.58  0.71   96  8.85
+ Warren Kenyon              7.26  1.61  111  9.00
+ Jay Duff                   8.13  1.24    2  9.00
+ Tim Skirvin                8.29  1.30  112  9.00
+ Casey Miller               8.49  0.98  111  9.00
+ Mike Hopkins               8.52  0.75  112  9.00
+ Joe Caruso                 8.63  1.15    4  9.00
+ Brent Schmidt              8.68  0.77   41  9.00
+ Lee Vibber                 9.26  0.81   63  9.00
+ Jonathan Frain             8.47  1.29  112  9.10
+ Rob Ditto                  8.65  1.16   80  9.10
+ Nick Stamatelos            8.62  0.70  111  9.20
+ Kelly Meroney              8.73  0.87   50  9.20
+ Chris Durie                9.11  0.58   70  9.20
+ Roger Plymale              8.99  0.83   21  9.25
+ Rick Coons                 9.08  0.47   20  9.35
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward            8.69  1.16   96  9.40
+ Joe Kauffman               8.98  0.76  112  9.40
+ Taj Sabin                  9.40          1  9.40
+ Steve Mandel               8.78  1.01   15  9.45
+ Scott Seltzer              9.22  0.52   28  9.50
+ John R. Henson             9.25  0.35    2  9.50
+ Gleb Gudkov                9.44  0.48    7  9.50
+ Jesse Jackson              9.50  0.50    3  9.50
+ Julia Scott                9.50          1  9.50
+ Stephen John Smoogen       8.44  1.11  112  9.60
+ Mark J. Musante            8.64  0.89   49  9.60
+ Bruce Steinberg            8.74  0.91   17  9.65
+ Mark Duell                 8.91  0.78  112  9.80
+ Ron Peterson               9.14  0.56  112  9.80
+ L.E. McClintock            9.15  1.20   53  9.80
+ David Rodriguera           9.43  0.47   44  9.80
+ George Cravens             9.05  0.70   36  9.82
+ Wesley Jordan              8.79  0.77  112  9.85
+ John Cahill                9.12  0.68    3  9.85
+ Andrew Rubin               9.62  0.43    5  9.90
+ Andrew Smith               8.86  1.31  111 10.00
+ Stephen Doe                8.98  0.97   22 10.00
+ Jennifer Tifft             9.11  0.83  112 10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan             9.46  0.57  107 10.00
+ Jacob Thompson             9.55  0.53   19 10.00
+ Dan Sias                   9.66  0.44   67 10.00
+ Gerard Coletta             9.75  0.50    4 10.00
diff --git a/p5/109 b/p5/109
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index 00000000..3efbb54c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/p5/109
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+ Results - "Objects at Rest"
+===================================================
+                              Std. # of 
+ Poll 5              History  Dev. Votes OaR
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.16             8.91
+ Median                                  9.10
+ Std. Dev.              0.85             1.23
+ # of Voters         2373               80
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Mark Kinder            2.50  0.71    2  3.00
+ Wayne Kern             5.10  2.92   10  6.00
+ Allan Jenoff           7.56  1.41  109  6.00
+ Matthew Burke          8.40  0.82   20  6.00
+ Warren Kenyon          7.26  1.60  112  7.00
+ Burt Clothier          7.68  1.39  113  7.00
+ Arturo Magidin         8.32  0.78   59  7.00
+ Terrance L. Lewis      7.86  0.82  105  7.25
+ Mark D. Grover         5.95  1.24  113  7.50
+ Jennifer McGee         7.25  1.80   19  7.70
+ John Scott             7.13  2.53   94  7.75
+ Dennis Steinert        8.83  0.84   65  7.80
+ Jonathan Kiang         7.48  1.40   93  8.00
+ Kyle Ferrio            7.52  1.76  113  8.00
+ Dave Thomer            7.94  1.22  112  8.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.10  1.62   66  8.00
+ Jeff Schultz           8.17  1.23  104  8.00
+ Roy Dan Cooper         8.48  1.20   12  8.00
+ George Cravens         9.02  0.70   37  8.12
+ Casey Miller           8.49  0.98  112  8.40
+ Steven Grimm           7.48  1.34  106  8.50
+ Oliver Kosut           8.21  1.66   61  8.50
+ David Rigsby           8.58  0.70   97  8.50
+ Lewis Judd             8.13  0.70    7  8.70
+ Richard Pearl          8.70          1  8.70
+ Joe Caruso             8.66  1.00    5  8.80
+ Jeff Young             9.10  0.87   55  8.80
+ Jim Valeri             8.27  1.25  112  8.90
+ Stephen John Smoogen   8.45  1.11  113  8.90
+ James Prince           8.31  0.97   94  8.95
+ Mike Bruton            7.86  0.97   49  9.00
+ Joe Spiegel            8.13  1.66   40  9.00
+ Doug Nadle             8.21  0.99   58  9.00
+ Erez Zadok             8.38  0.90   56  9.00
+ Dan Kimmel             8.41  0.91  114  9.00
+ Mike Hopkins           8.52  0.75  113  9.00
+ Nick Stamatelos        8.63  0.69  113  9.00
+ Stephen Doe            8.98  0.95   23  9.00
+ William Steinberg      9.00          1  9.00
+ David Rodriguera       9.42  0.47   45  9.00
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward        8.70  1.16   97  9.20
+ Michael Christy        8.15  1.63   39  9.25
+ Dylan Northrup         8.22  1.06  106  9.30
+ Tina C. Amlin          8.75  0.78    2  9.30
+ Scott Seltzer          9.20  0.49   33  9.45
+ Tim Skirvin            8.30  1.30  113  9.50
+ Jeff Rynott            8.60  1.10  107  9.50
+ Rick Coons             9.10  0.46   21  9.50
+ Chris Durie            9.11  0.57   71  9.50
+ Gleb Gudkov            9.45  0.44    8  9.50
+ Jesse Jackson          9.50  0.41    4  9.50
+ Joe Kauffman           8.98  0.76  113  9.60
+ Jonathan Frain         8.48  1.29  113  9.70
+ Brent Barrett          8.72  1.01  113  9.75
+ Andy Hock              8.01  1.02   25  9.80
+ Mark J. Musante        8.66  0.89   50  9.80
+ Lee Vibber             9.26  0.81   64  9.80
+ Diane Denesowicz       8.17  1.12  112  9.85
+ Jerry Bookter          6.72  3.01   10  9.90
+ Kelly Meroney          8.76  0.87   51  9.90
+ Wesley Jordan          8.80  0.78  113  9.90
+ Ron Peterson           9.15  0.56  113  9.90
+ L.E. McClintock        9.16  1.19   54  9.90
+ John Cahill            9.31  0.68    4  9.90
+ Glenda Evans           9.90          1  9.90
+ David Gosha            8.60  1.29  113  9.95
+ George Moore           9.08  0.68   62  9.95
+ Mike Heffner           8.03  1.21  113 10.00
+ Rob Ditto              8.66  1.16   81 10.00
+ Brent Schmidt          8.71  0.79   42 10.00
+ Steve Schultheis       8.78  1.35  113 10.00
+ Steve Mandel           8.86  1.02   16 10.00
+ Andrew Smith           8.87  1.31  112 10.00
+ Jennifer Tifft         9.11  0.83  113 10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan         9.46  0.57  108 10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera         9.51  0.92   98 10.00
+ Jacob Thompson         9.56  0.52   21 10.00
+ Dan Sias               9.67  0.44   68 10.00
+ Andrew Rubin           9.68  0.42    6 10.00
+ Gerard Coletta         9.80  0.45    5 10.00
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+ Results - "Sleeping in Light"
+=======================================================
+                                  Std. # of 
+ Poll 5                  History  Dev. Votes SiL
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ Average                    8.17             9.34
+ Median                                     10.00
+ Std. Dev.                  0.85             1.77
+ # of Voters             2403              113
+ ---------------------------------------------------
+ John Orr                   1.67  1.53    3  0.00
+ Mark Kinder                2.00  1.00    3  1.00
+ Brian Bresnahan            7.84  2.00   21  1.10
+ Joe Spiegel                8.00  1.83   41  3.00
+ Blaise Faint               8.05  1.66   67  5.00
+ Dan Fisher                 6.00          1  6.00
+ Doug Nadle                 8.18  1.00   59  6.50
+ James B. Higgins           7.00          1  7.00
+ Martin de la Sablonniere   8.21  0.87  106  7.50
+ Mark Hullinger             7.23  1.92  114  8.00
+ Aaron Drucker              8.00          1  8.00
+ Andrew Chiang              7.56  1.73   76  8.25
+ Terrance L. Lewis          7.87  0.82  106  8.50
+ Steve Mandel               8.86  0.99   17  8.85
+ Warren Kenyon              7.27  1.60  113  9.00
+ Michael Gemmell            7.82  0.98   92  9.00
+ Dave Thomer                7.93  1.23  114  9.00
+ David Waitzman             8.00  1.58    6  9.00
+ Arturo Magidin             8.33  0.78   60  9.00
+ James Prince               8.32  0.97   95  9.25
+ Michael Christy            8.18  1.62   40  9.40
+ Allan Jenoff               7.57  1.41  110  9.50
+ Oliver Kosut               8.23  1.66   62  9.50
+ Alex Elsberg               8.27  1.04   85  9.50
+ Casey Miller               8.50  0.98  113  9.50
+ Roy Dan Cooper             8.56  1.19   13  9.50
+ Rick Kingslan              9.11  0.49    8  9.50
+ Philip D. Bointrager       9.50          1  9.50
+ Bill Davis                 9.50          1  9.50
+ Marian Floyd               9.50          1  9.50
+ Mary Humphries             9.50          1  9.50
+ George Copsey              8.97  0.65   63  9.60
+ Rick Coons                 9.12  0.47   22  9.60
+ Igor Natanzon              9.60          1  9.60
+ Joe Caruso                 8.85  1.01    6  9.80
+ Scott Seltzer              9.21  0.49   34  9.80
+ Stephen John Smoogen       8.46  1.11  114  9.90
+ Sean Blackbrun             9.90          1  9.90
+ Mike Willmoth              9.90          1  9.90
+ Nick Stamatelos            8.64  0.70  114  9.95
+ Mike Hopkins               8.53  0.76  114  9.99
+ Jeff Young                 9.12  0.87   56  9.99
+ Richard Suchenski          9.99          1  9.99
+ Jerry Bookter              7.01  3.02   11 10.00
+ John Scott                 7.16  2.53   95 10.00
+ Kyle Ferrio                7.54  1.77  114 10.00
+ Burt Clothier              7.70  1.40  114 10.00
+ Mike Bruton                7.91  1.01   50 10.00
+ Mike Heffner               8.05  1.21  114 10.00
+ David J. Miller            8.10  0.93   34 10.00
+ Diane Denesowicz           8.19  1.13  113 10.00
+ Doug Piligian              8.24  1.16  114 10.00
+ Katherine Jones            8.27  1.77  113 10.00
+ Tim Skirvin                8.31  1.31  114 10.00
+ Jeremy Horn                8.34  2.01    5 10.00
+ Dan Kimmel                 8.41  0.91  114 10.00
+ Erez Zadok                 8.41  0.91   57 10.00
+ Keith Henderson            8.43  1.15   66 10.00
+ Jonathan Frain             8.49  1.29  114 10.00
+ David Gosha                8.61  1.29  114 10.00
+ Rob Ditto                  8.68  1.17   82 10.00
+ Brent Barrett              8.73  1.01  114 10.00
+ Kelly Meroney              8.78  0.88   52 10.00
+ Steve Schultheis           8.79  1.35  114 10.00
+ Lisa Coulter               8.80  0.99  111 10.00
+ Wesley Jordan              8.81  0.78  114 10.00
+ Bruce Steinberg            8.86  0.94   19 10.00
+ John Cockburn              8.87  1.42   96 10.00
+ Andrew Smith               8.88  1.31  113 10.00
+ Mark Duell                 8.93  0.78  114 10.00
+ Dan Riley                  8.96  1.38    4 10.00
+ Joe Kauffman               8.99  0.76  114 10.00
+ James Ponoroff             9.00  1.41    2 10.00
+ Stephen Doe                9.02  0.95   24 10.00
+ Ken Moore                  9.06  0.76   43 10.00
+ Chris Durie                9.12  0.58   72 10.00
+ Jennifer Tifft             9.12  0.83  114 10.00
+ Ron Peterson               9.16  0.57  114 10.00
+ L.E. McClintock            9.18  1.19   55 10.00
+ David Misener              9.23  0.75    3 10.00
+ Mark Sulkowski             9.24  0.96   20 10.00
+ Bryan Mau                  9.25  0.88    6 10.00
+ Lee Vibber                 9.28  0.81   65 10.00
+ Damon Muma                 9.32  1.08   11 10.00
+ Randy Crist                9.43  0.92   19 10.00
+ David Rodriguera           9.43  0.47   49 10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan             9.47  0.57  109 10.00
+ Eugenio Rivera             9.50  0.91  106 10.00
+ Gleb Gudkov                9.51  0.45    9 10.00
+ Margaret Johnson           9.56  0.38    8 10.00
+ Carol Ohlers               9.57  0.47   32 10.00
+ Jacob Thompson             9.58  0.51   22 10.00
+ Andrew Rubin               9.73  0.40    7 10.00
+ Eric Fell                  9.75  0.35    2 10.00
+ Turner Arrington           9.78  0.32    2 10.00
+ Gerard Coletta             9.83  0.41    6 10.00
+ Ricci Adams               10.00          1 10.00
+ Daniel Bielawa            10.00          1 10.00
+ Andrew Crabtree           10.00          1 10.00
+ Matthew DeCamp            10.00          1 10.00
+ Rich Harkins              10.00          1 10.00
+ Matthew Hasbrouck         10.00          1 10.00
+ Pol Jackson               10.00          1 10.00
+ Mark A. Maher             10.00  0.00    2 10.00
+ Patrick McCurdy           10.00          1 10.00
+ Michael Nobel             10.00          1 10.00
+ Marisa Sanderson          10.00          1 10.00
+ Rick Sharer               10.00          1 10.00
+ Henry Shi                 10.00          1 10.00
+ Keven Stillman            10.00          1 10.00
+ Rebecca Strait            10.00          1 10.00
+ Ian Tolle                 10.00          1 10.00
+ Ben Weisberg              10.00          1 10.00
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+ Results - "In the Beginning"
+================================================
+                          Std. # of
+ Poll 5          History  Dev. Votes ItB
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Average            8.15             8.94
+ Median                              9.18
+ Std. Dev.          0.90             1.17
+ # of Voters     2007               52
+ -------------------------------------------
+ Fred Adams         5.62  2.09  29   4.00
+ Lee Vibber         9.25  0.90  41   6.00
+ Warren Kenyon      7.44  1.47  90   7.00
+ Andrew Chiang      7.46  1.91  58   7.00
+ Steven Grimm       7.56  1.32  87   7.00
+ Andree Fontenot    8.42  1.22  89   7.00
+ Adam C. Brockus    8.91  1.01   4   7.50
+ Dave Thomer        7.94  1.26  90   8.00
+ Bill Taylor        8.00         1   8.00
+ Wes Makin          8.21  1.14  44   8.20
+ Clint Ragsdale     7.67  1.95  90   8.50
+ Rob Siemborski     8.92  1.01   3   8.75
+ Colin O'Connell    7.72  1.81  26   8.80
+ Mike Heffner       8.14  1.15  90   8.80
+ Erez Zadok         8.46  0.97  36   8.90
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward    8.69  1.28  75   8.90
+ Jeff Schultz       8.27  1.19  90   9.00
+ Michael Christy    8.33  1.46  17   9.00
+ Dan Kimmel         8.38  0.98  90   9.00
+ Alex Elsberg       8.41  0.99  65   9.00
+ Mike Hopkins       8.49  0.79  90   9.00
+ Arturo Magidin     8.50  0.69  36   9.00
+ Wesley Jordan      8.68  0.79  90   9.00
+ Chris Durie        9.13  0.54  48   9.00
+ Jeff Young         9.36  0.49  35   9.10
+ Jeff Allen         9.38  0.45   3   9.10
+ Mark D. Grover     5.94  1.35  90   9.25
+ George Copsey      8.98  0.64  49   9.25
+ Dustin M. Ramsey   8.32  1.25  14   9.30
+ Burt Clothier      7.63  1.50  90   9.50
+ Tim Skirvin        8.23  1.40  90   9.50
+ Jonathan Frain     8.40  1.37  90   9.50
+ Thomas Catsburg    8.62  1.03  44   9.50
+ Kelly Meroney      8.85  0.96  28   9.50
+ Ron Peterson       9.03  0.60  56   9.50
+ Kova Dauser        9.10  0.76  16   9.50
+ George Moore       9.20  0.72  33   9.50
+ Amy Carlson        9.50         1   9.50
+ Matthew Burke      8.62  0.58  17   9.70
+ Joe Kauffman       8.98  0.80  27   9.75
+ Diane Denesowicz   8.59  1.13  45   9.80
+ Ken Moore          9.06  0.80  30   9.80
+ Jay Mohney         8.63  1.00  51   9.95
+ Brent Barrett      8.74  0.99  90   9.98
+ John Abbott        7.84  1.13  88  10.00
+ Blaise Faint       8.30  1.64  47  10.00
+ Steve Schultheis   8.58  1.40  90  10.00
+ Andrew Apold       8.89  1.50  28  10.00
+ L.E. McClintock    9.00  1.29  31  10.00
+ Jennifer Tifft     9.08  0.88  87  10.00
+ Kathy Sullivan     9.52  0.54  87  10.00
+ Sham Gardner      10.00         1  10.00
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+ Results - "Thirdspace"
+=========================================================
+                             Std. # of  
+ Poll 5              History  Dev. Votes Thirdspace
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.14              8.05
+ Median                                   8.38
+ Std. Dev.              0.85              1.59
+ # of Voters         2301                62
+ -----------------------------------------------------
+ Lee Thompson           8.55  1.68    11  3.75
+ Gary Litchfield        7.57  2.22     5  4.00
+ Mark D. McKean         7.89  1.57   108  4.00
+ Wayne Kern             4.60  4.16     5  5.00
+ Kyle Ferrio            7.48  1.78   108  5.00
+ Wes Makin              7.87  1.20    63  5.80
+ Randy Dean             6.00           1  6.00
+ Mark D. Grover         5.94  1.25   108  6.50
+ Steven Grimm           7.47  1.35   104  6.50
+ Tad Rogers             8.25  0.97    26  6.50
+ Jeff Rynott            8.59  1.12   103  6.50
+ Mark J. Musante        8.60  0.90    45  6.50
+ Roger Plymale          8.87  0.83    18  6.50
+ John Scott             7.18  2.58    76  6.75
+ Geraldine Foudy        7.00           1  7.00
+ Rob Ditto              8.62  1.18    76  7.00
+ Barry Nix              7.50           1  7.50
+ Mike Heffner           8.01  1.21   108  7.50
+ Tim Skirvin            8.26  1.32   108  7.50
+ Jeff Young             9.12  0.90    51  7.50
+ David Hedden           9.33  0.82     9  7.50
+ Jay Mohney             8.48  1.05    67  7.75
+ Andrew Chiang          7.53  1.75    74  8.00
+ Brain McQueary         8.00           1  8.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.22  1.58    61  8.00
+ Mike Hopkins           8.52  0.76   108  8.00
+ Matthew Burke          8.53  0.61    19  8.00
+ Brent Schmidt          8.70  0.79    37  8.00
+ Stephen Doe            9.08  0.90    18  8.00
+ Joe Kauffman           8.97  0.77   108  8.20
+ David Rigsby           8.57  0.71    93  8.25
+ Jim Valeri             8.20  1.28    67  8.50
+ Jonathan Frain         8.44  1.31   108  8.50
+ Ken Moore              9.02  0.75    41  8.50
+ Dustin M. Ramsey       8.27  0.90   106  8.65
+ Jennifer Tifft         9.09  0.84   108  8.75
+ Dan Doulas             8.83  0.48    33  8.83
+ Dan Kimmel             8.40  0.91   108  8.90
+ Adam C. Brockus        8.87  0.58    13  8.90
+ Ray Sewell             8.20  0.94    13  9.00
+ Kelly Meroney          8.67  0.87    46  9.00
+ Steve Schultheis       8.74  1.36   108  9.00
+ Nick Stamatelos        8.60  0.70   108  9.10
+ Kova Dauser            9.12  0.62    28  9.10
+ Erez Zadok             8.37  0.92    51  9.20
+ Doug Piligian          8.17  1.15   108  9.25
+ Matt Pillsbury         9.30           1  9.30
+ Kathy Sullivan         9.47  0.55   104  9.30
+ Stephen John Smoogen   8.42  1.12   108  9.40
+ Mark Hullinger         7.21  1.94   106  9.50
+ Burt Clothier          7.69  1.40   108  9.50
+ Wesley Jordan          8.76  0.77   108  9.50
+ Shaun Aki              9.44  0.70    33  9.50
+ Ron Peterson           9.12  0.56   108  9.60
+ Lee Vibber             9.25  0.83    59  9.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward        8.67  1.18    92  9.90
+ L.E. McClintock        9.12  1.24    49  9.90
+ Lisa Coulter           8.91  1.02    81  9.92
+ Eugenio Rivera         9.45  0.88    67  9.95
+ David Gosha            8.61  1.26   108 10.00
+ John Cockburn          8.84  1.41    90 10.00
+ Chris Durie            9.13  0.57    66 10.00
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+ Results - "The River of Souls"
+===================================================
+                              Std. # of  
+ Poll 5              History  Dev. Votes RoS
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Average                8.15             7.77
+ Median                                  8.30
+ Std. Dev.              0.85             1.86
+ # of Voters         2367               63
+ -----------------------------------------------
+ Frances Wehman         1.00          1  1.00
+ John Scott             7.13  2.54   93  2.00
+ Jason Bartlett         7.83  1.96   59  3.20
+ Steve Luminati         7.15  1.84   52  4.00
+ Dan Edwards            7.69  1.12   40  4.00
+ Blaise Faint           8.10  1.64   65  5.00
+ David Gosha            8.58  1.29  111  5.00
+ Mark D. Grover         5.94  1.24  111  5.50
+ Michael Christy        8.12  1.64   38  5.50
+ John Cockburn          8.83  1.42   93  6.00
+ Burt Clothier          7.69  1.39  112  6.50
+ Wayne Kern             5.00  3.08    9  7.00
+ Joe Caruso             8.63  1.15    4  7.00
+ Steve Mandel           8.78  1.01   15  7.00
+ Dustin M. Ramsey       8.29  0.91  109  7.20
+ Jay Duff               8.13  1.24    2  7.25
+ Steven Grimm           7.47  1.34  105  7.50
+ Erez Zadok             8.37  0.90   55  7.50
+ Roy Dan Cooper         8.53  1.25   11  7.50
+ Dan Kimmel             8.39  0.91  111  7.70
+ Mike Hopkins           8.52  0.75  112  7.80
+ Andy Hock              7.44  1.13    9  8.00
+ Jonathan Kiang         7.48  1.41   92  8.00
+ Kyle Ferrio            7.51  1.77  112  8.00
+ Oliver Kosut           8.20  1.68   60  8.00
+ Brent Schmidt          8.68  0.77   41  8.00
+ Stephen Doe            8.98  0.97   22  8.02
+ George Cravens         9.05  0.70   36  8.12
+ Doug Nadle             8.20  1.00   56  8.20
+ Jennifer Tifft         9.11  0.83  112  8.20
+ Diane Denesowicz       8.16  1.11  111  8.25
+ Rob Ditto              8.65  1.16   80  8.30
+ Jennifer McGee         7.14  1.87   17  8.40
+ Casey Miller           8.49  0.98  111  8.40
+ Mark J. Musante        8.64  0.89   49  8.40
+ John Jurcevic          8.61  0.69  110  8.50
+ George Moore           9.05  0.67   60  8.50
+ Lee Vibber             9.26  0.81   63  8.50
+ Jonathan Frain         8.47  1.29  112  8.60
+ Wesley Jordan          8.79  0.77  112  8.70
+ Kathy Sullivan         9.46  0.57  107  8.70
+ Doug Piligian          8.20  1.15  111  8.80
+ Tizby Hunt-Ward        8.69  1.16   96  8.80
+ Bryan Suchenski        8.80  1.20    3  8.80
+ Joe Kauffman           8.98  0.76  112  8.80
+ Tim Skirvin            8.29  1.30  112  9.00
+ Kevin Block-Schwenk    8.45  1.22   64  9.00
+ Mark Duell             8.91  0.78  112  9.00
+ Gunther Meyer          8.95  0.72    5  9.00
+ Chris Durie            9.11  0.58   70  9.00
+ Gerard Coletta         9.75  0.50    4  9.00
+ Scott Seltzer          9.22  0.52   28  9.05
+ Mark McGehee           7.25  2.63   84  9.10
+ Benjamin Schultz       8.69  0.75   32  9.20
+ Kelly Meroney          8.73  0.87   50  9.20
+ Andrew Rubin           9.62  0.43    5  9.20
+ James Prince           8.30  0.97   93  9.35
+ Stephen John Smoogen   8.44  1.11  112  9.40
+ Ron Peterson           9.14  0.56  112  9.40
+ Dan Sias               9.66  0.44   67  9.50
+ L.E. McClintock        9.15  1.20   53  9.80
+ Andrew Smith           8.86  1.31  111  9.90
+ Steve Schultheis       8.77  1.35  112 10.00
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+
+
+To the episode list
+
+
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+Poll 5 - introduction
+   
     
          
    Poll 5 - introduction
     
     Poll 5 is an informal, unscientific survey of Babylon 5 viewers.
+Anyone with an E-mail address is free to participate. A summary of results is available.
+
+
    How to vote:
    
+
       
    1. Watch an episode of Babylon 5. 
    2. Send your vote on a 10 point numeric scale to
+
+ mike100000@delphi.com. 
    3. Tell me your real name.
+(It can be in the .sig or header.) 
    4. Do not include any spoilers. 
    5. Please tell me what episode you are voting for. 
    6. If you send your vote too late to make a post, don't worry it still
+
+counts for any future averages. I will allow vote changes but
+
+please tell me you're changing your vote.
+
+Your comments, suggestions, and corrections are always welcome. 
     
    
+Mike Hopkins <mike100000@delphi.com>
    
+
    JMS's comments on the poll:
     (August 31, 1995)
+
     In *general*, the P5 ratings poll tends to reflect my own opinions of the show, which is generally a good thing, I suppose.
+The ones I think are knockouts tend to do well.
+From time to time, I'm a bit surprised -- I still think that Parliament of Dreams is rated lower than I'd rate it, ditto for Soul Hunter and one or two others -- but what I've found is that generally the real serious episodes get rated higher, while the 
+lighter ones (like Geometry of Shadows, which is still something of a favorite) get rated lower.
+
     What's great is that this season [2], we haven't had one single episode on the level of War Prayer or Infection or Grail, some of our weaker first season eps.
+The worst we've done is pretty darned good.
+What we're now working for in year three is that they're all better than that at their baseline rating.
+
    +
    
+
       
     (Note: Don't use the "comments" link to send in a vote -- it sends mail to the Lurker's Guide maintainer, not to the P5 votetaker.)
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+Reruns of Babylon 5 air weekdays on cable/satellite network SCI-FI.
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+Contents:
+Pilot -
+Season 1 -
+Season 2 -
+Season 3 -
+Season 4 -
+Season 5
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+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+"WHAM" episodes (those that advance the overall storyline more than usual) are
+emphasized.
+
+
    
+Pilot Movie
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+
    
+
    
+The Gathering - 02/22/93
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Richard Compton
    
+The Vorlon ambassador is nearly killed by an assassin shortly after arriving
+at the station, and Commander Sinclair is the prime suspect.
+
    
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+
    
+Season
+One
+("Signs and Portents")
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+Midnight on the Firing Line - 01/26/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Richard Compton
    
+When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to
+blows.  Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
+
+
    
+Soul Hunter - 02/02/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+Delenn is in danger when a soul hunter, an alien who captures the souls of
+the dying, arrives at the station.
+
+
    
+Born to the Purple - 02/09/94
+
    
+W: Larry DiTillio
    
+D: Bruce Seth Green
    
+Londo's career is in jeopardy when a beautiful slave seduces him and steals
+a sensitive computer file.  Garibaldi investigates an unauthorized use of
+a restricted communications channel.
+
+
    
+Infection - 02/16/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Richard Compton
    
+An archaeologist smuggles ancient artifacts onto the station, unleashing
+a living weapon.
+
+
    
+The Parliament of Dreams - 02/23/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a weeklong festival
+when humans and aliens demonstrate their religious beliefs.  An old enemy
+sends an assassin to kill G'Kar.
+
+
    
+Mind War - 03/02/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Bruce Seth Green
    
+Talia's old Psi Corps instructor, the victim of a secret experiment, is the
+target of a manhunt involving the Psi-Cops.  Catherine wants to survey a
+promising planet for possible mining, but G'Kar warns her to stay away.
+
+
    
+The War Prayer - 03/09/94
+
    
+W: D. C. Fontana
    
+D: Richard Compton
    
+A violent attack on a Minbari poet rocks B5 and leaves
+Sinclair scrambling to flush out a vicious pro-Earth group.  Two star-crossed
+young Centauri lovers seek Londo's protection.  Ivanova is shaken
+when a man from her past arrives at the outpost.
+
+
    
+And The Sky Full Of Stars - 03/16/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by members of a pro-Earth group,
+determined to find out what transpired when the commander was briefly
+missing in action during the final battle of the Earth/Minbari
+war -- something Sinclair has never been able to remember.
+
+
    
+Deathwalker - 04/20/94
+
    
+W: Larry DiTillio
    
+D: Bruce Seth Green
    
+The station becomes a hotbed of galactic controversy when
+Sinclair is forced to protect a notorious war criminal -- a
+scientist who's invented an immortality serum.  Ambassador Kosh hires
+telepath Talia Winters to oversee a very unusual negotiation.
+
+
    
+Believers - 04/27/94
+
    
+W: David Gerrold
    
+D: Richard Compton
    
+Dr. Franklin asks Sinclair to intermediate with an alien family who, because of
+their religious beliefs, refuses to allow surgery that would
+save their dying child.
+
+
    
+Survivors - 05/04/94
+
    
+W: Mark Scott Zicree
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+Garibaldi's past catches up to him, with some fairly disastrous consequences
+that will linger long after the episode is finished.
+He's blamed by some for an accident
+aboard B5, which leads to hitting the bottle again after a
+prolonged abstinence.
+
+
    
+By Any Means Necessary - 05/11/94
+
    
+W: Kathryn Drennan
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+An accident in the docking area kills a worker, threatening to spark an
+illegal strike.  Londo interferes in an
+important Narn religious observation which leads to a
+confrontation between him and G'Kar.
+
+
    
+Signs and Portents - 05/18/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+A sharp increase in raider activity has the station on the defensive.
+Londo obtains a priceless Centauri artifact.  A mysterious stranger visits
+the station's alien ambassadors.
+
+
    
+TKO - 05/25/94
+
    
+W: Larry DiTillio
    
+D: John Flynn
    
+An old friend of Garibaldi's arrives and tries to take part in a dangerous
+alien combat sport.
+A rabbi helps Ivanova come to terms with her father's death.
+
+
    
+Grail - 07/06/94
+
    
+W: Christy Marx
    
+D: Richard Compton
    
+A traveller comes to B5, seeking the Holy Grail.  A series of unexplained
+attacks on several Lurkers may be linked to Ambassador Kosh.
+
+
    
+Eyes - 07/13/94
+
    
+W: Larry DiTillio
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+An internal affairs investigation to find out
+what's been going on at B5 leads to Sinclair having a
+problem with the military when he has to answer for his
+actions in settling the labor strike as well as other
+decisions made during the course of the season.
+Ivanova confronts a member of Psi-Corps, as well as her own fears, when
+she is told to submit to a scan.
+
+
    
+Legacies - 07/20/94
+
    
+W: D. C. Fontana
    
+D: Bruce Seth Green
    
+A girl entering puberty exhibits telepathic abilities, and the crew
+must decide whether to turn her over to the Psi Corps.  The corpse of the
+Minbari military leader who oversaw the Battle of the Line is the focus
+of a diplomatic incident.
+
+
    
+A Voice in the Wilderness part 1 - 07/27/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+Seismic activity on the planet near the station uncovers what may be
+signs of an extinct alien civilization.  An old mentor pays a visit to
+Ambassador Delenn.  The unrest on the Mars Colony intensifies.
+
+
    
+A Voice in the Wilderness part 2 - 08/03/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+Sinclair fights two turf battles at once as alien invaders claim the planet
+below the station, and an Earthforce captain disagrees with him about how
+to deal with the situation.
+
+
    
+Babylon Squared - 08/10/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+Babylon 4 returns as abruptly as it vanished, but its reappearance may bode
+ill for the future.  Delenn receives a momentous offer.
+
+
    
+The Quality of Mercy - 08/17/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Lorraine Senna Ferrara
    
+Talia is involved in carrying out the sentence of a convicted murderer.
+Dr. Franklin investigates a possible medical scam in Downbelow.  Londo takes
+Lennier for a look at the less savory sections of the station.
+
+
    
+Chrysalis - 10/26/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+First Season finale.  A dying man leads Garibaldi to a discovery that could
+cost him his life.  Londo receives help in a dispute with the Narns.
+Something begins to happen to Delenn.
+
    
+
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+
+
    
+
+
    
+Season
+Two
+("The Coming Of Shadows")
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+Points of Departure - 11/02/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+As a new commander assumes control of the station, a renegade Minbari
+warship arrives, threatening trouble.
+
+
    
+Revelations - 11/09/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+G'Kar brings news of a terrible new enemy.  The arrival of
+Sheridan's sister opens up old wounds for the new commander.
+Dr. Franklin employs an unorthodox procedure to try to bring Garibaldi
+out of his coma.  Delenn's mysterious change is completed.
+
+
    
+The Geometry of Shadows - 11/16/94
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Ivanova is promoted and given a diplomatic assignment.  Londo seeks affirmation
+from an unusual source.
+
+
    
+A Distant Star - 11/23/94
+
    
+W: D. C. Fontana
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+Disaster strikes an old friend of Captain Sheridan.  Dr. Franklin offers
+nutritional advice to some reluctant patients.
+
+
    
+The Long Dark - 11/30/94
+
    
+W: Scott Frost
    
+D: Mario DiLeo
    
+When a cryonic sleeper is awakened, a deadly, evil force is unleashed on
+the station.
+
+
    
+A Spider in the Web - 12/07/94
+
    
+W: Larry DiTillio
    
+D: Kevin Cremins
    
+Talia is caught in a treacherous web of intrigue after she witnesses a murder.
+
+
    
+Soul Mates - 12/14/94
+
    
+W: Peter David
    
+D: John C. Flinn, III
    
+Londo summons his three wives to Babylon 5.  A mysterious man from Talia's
+past reappears.
+
+
    
+A Race Through Dark Places - 01/25/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+Bester asks Talia to investigate an "underground railroad" of unregistered
+telepaths.
+
+
    
+The Coming of Shadows - 02/01/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+When the Centauri emperor visits the station, Sheridan tries to keep G'Kar
+from going after him.  Londo and Refa plot to increase their power.
+A mysterious man seeks out Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+GROPOS - 02/08/95
+
    
+W: Larry DiTillio
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+Dr. Franklin's father arrives, leading 25,000
+ground pounding soldiers on the station.  The troops' arrival elicits fear from
+both humans and non-humans that the troops may be going on a secret mission
+that will involve the station becoming an armed camp.
+
+
    
+All Alone in the Night - 02/15/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mario DiLeo
    
+Sheridan is kidnapped and taken to an alien ship.  The Grey Council decides
+Delenn's fate.  General Hague makes an unofficial visit to the station.
+
+
    
+Acts of Sacrifice - 02/22/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+G'Kar asks Sheridan to intervene militarily on behalf of the Narns; Ivanova
+tries to institute an ambassadorship with a visiting alien.
+
+
    
+Hunter, Prey - 03/01/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Menachem Binetski
    
+A fugitive with sensitive information about the Earth government flees
+to Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+There All the Honor Lies - 04/26/95
+
    
+W: Peter David
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Sheridan is in hot water when he kills a Minbari warrior in self-defense.
+
+
    
+And Now For a Word - 05/03/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mario DiLeo
    
+Babylon 5 is embroiled in a deadly conflict between the Narn and Centauri;
+an ISN reporter covers the story and tours the station.
+
+
    
+In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum - 05/10/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+Sheridan discovers a connection between Morden and the death of his wife.
+The station is inundated by Narn refugees.  A new Earth Alliance agency
+tries to recruit station personnel.
+
+
    
+Knives - 05/17/95
+
    
+W: Larry DiTillio
    
+D: Stephen Posey
    
+An old acquaintance requests Londo's help.  Sheridan is plagued by visions
+nobody else can see.
+
+
    
+Confessions and Lamentations - 05/24/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Kevin Cremin
    
+The outbreak of a disease among the Markab population prompts a panic on the
+station; Dr. Franklin races against time to find a cure.
+
+
    
+Divided Loyalties - 10/11/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jesus Trevino
    
+Lyta Alexander, the station's first telepath (cf.
+"The Gathering")
+returns with a warning that one of Babylon 5's officers may be
+an operative for a top-secret government organization.
+
+
    
+The Long, Twilight Struggle - 10/18/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John Flinn
    
+The Narn-Centauri War reaches a turning point.  Sheridan is contacted by a
+powerful friend, who offers assistance.
+
+
    
+Comes the Inquisitor - 10/25/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Kosh summons an ancient inquisitor to test Delenn.  G'Kar tries to rally
+the Narn on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+The Fall of Night - 11/01/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+As the war escalates, a Narn cruiser seeks help from Babylon 5.
+Earth takes a position in the war. Keffer makes a terrifying discovery. Kosh
+takes a drastic step to save a life.
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+Season
+Three
+("Point of No Return")
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Matters of Honor - 11/06/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Kevin Cremin
    
+While an Earth official investigates the mystery ship encountered by Lt. Keffer
+in hyperspace, Londo learns more about the Shadows' plans for the Centauri, and
+the consequences of his bargains. Sheridan receives a new tool in the fight
+against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+Convictions - 11/13/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+A series of bombings threatens the station, and Ivanova calls on some unusual
+investigators to help solve the mystery.
+
+
    
+A Day in the Strife - 11/20/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+An alien probe makes first contact with the station. G'Kar tries to solidify his
+position among the Narn.
+
+
    
+Passing Through Gethsemane - 11/27/95
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Adam Nimoy
    
+Lyta Alexander returns to the station at Kosh's behest. One of Theo's brothers
+discovers that he may have a hidden past.
+
+
    
+Voices of Authority - 01/29/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Menachem Binetski
    
+Draal helps the crew attempt to contact more of the First Ones.  Sheridan
+works to hide his conspiracy from the Nightwatch.
+
+
+
    
+Dust to Dust - 02/05/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+An addictive drug with telepathic effects is found on the station,
+prompting a visit by Bester.  G'Kar reaches a turning point.
+
+
    
+Exogenesis - 02/12/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Kevin Cremin
    
+Marcus and Dr. Franklin combat an invasion by parasitic aliens that attach
+themselves to humans.
+
+
    
+Messages from Earth - 02/19/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+As the Senate continues to investigate President Clark,
+an archaeologist brings news of a development back home that forces Sheridan
+to act against the Earth government.  The Nightwatch tightens its grip on the
+civilian population.
+
+
    
+Point of No Return - 02/26/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jim Johnston
    
+As the Earth Alliance plunges toward civil war, internal strife threatens to
+shatter the command structure of B5.  Zack's loyalties are put to the test
+when the Nightwatch is ordered to take over station security.  Londo receives
+another glimpse of his destiny.
+
+
    
+Severed Dreams - 04/01/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+When President Clark tries to seize control of Babylon 5 by force, Sheridan
+is faced with the prospect of severing the station's ties with Earth. 
+Delenn receives disturbing news from a Ranger.
+
+
    
+Ceremonies of Light and Dark - 04/08/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John Flinn
    
+The Nightwatch orders its members on Babylon 5 to target Delenn in an attempt
+to undermine Minbari actions during the recent crisis. Londo presents Refa with
+an ultimatum.
+
+
    
+Sic Transit Vir - 04/15/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jesus Trevino
    
+Londo introduces Vir to a surprising new acquaintance. A heavy influx of Narns
+to the station raises suspicions.
+
+
    
+A Late Delivery From Avalon - 04/22/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+As Sheridan and Ivanova try to gain recognition of the station's new status
+among the alien governments, a traveler arrives with an unbelievable story out
+of distant legend.
+
+
    
+Ship of Tears - 04/29/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Bester finds himself at odds with others within the Psi Corps and seeks
+Sheridan's help.  G'Kar presses for admission to the conspiracy of light.
+
+
    
+Interludes and Examinations - 05/06/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jesus Travino
    
+Direct confrontations with the Shadows begin in earnest.
+
+
    
+War Without End, Part One - 05/13/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time.
+
+
    
+War Without End, Part Two - 05/20/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Sinclair returns to pull Babylon 4 through time.
+
+
    
+Walkabout - 09/30/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Kevin Cremin
    
+As Lyta prepares to test the limits of the Shadows' newly-discovered weakness,
+Dr. Franklin goes on a journey to discover his place in life.
+
+
    
+Grey 17 Is Missing - 10/07/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John Flinn III
    
+Delenn agrees to lead the Rangers, but Marcus must protect her from a deadly
+threat.  Garibaldi investigates a secret level of the station.
+
+
    
+And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place - 10/14/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+Londo uses G'Kar and Vir to gain power in the Centauri Royal Court. Sheridan is
+consumed by his analysis of the Shadows' strategies.
+
+
    
+Shadow Dancing - 10/21/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Kim Friedman
    
+Sheridan launches a preemptive strike against the Shadows. Franklin jeopardizes
+his life while trying to do a good deed.
+
+
    
+Z'ha'dum - 10/28/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Adam Nimoy
    
+A face from Sheridan's past takes him on a dangerous mission to meet his Shadow
+counterpart. Londo receives important news about his political future.
+The Shadows mass a fleet against Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
    
+
+
    
+Season
+Four
+("No Surrender, No Retreat")
+
+
    
+
+
    
+The Hour of the Wolf - 11/04/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+Sheridan's disappearance begins to unravel the alliance. Londo discovers that
+Emperor Cartagia has struck a disturbing deal. G'Kar decides to search for
+Garibaldi. Ivanova, Delenn, and Lyta head toward Z'ha'dum to search for
+Sheridan.
+
+
    
+Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? - 11/11/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Kevin Dobson
    
+G'Kar tries to avoid capture by the Centauri while continuing his search.
+Delenn urges the Rangers to strike against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+The Summoning - 11/18/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John McPherson
    
+Zack makes a discovery in the search for Garibaldi. Delenn continues to rally
+support for her plan to attack the Shadows. Babylon 5 welcomes the return
+of a familiar resident.
+
+
    
+Falling Toward Apotheosis - 11/25/96
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+The Vorlons step up their battle against the Shadows. Londo uncovers a new
+wrinkle in his plan to unseat Emperor Cartagia. Garibaldi is asked to remove
+Kosh from the station.  Delenn gets a surprise.
+
+
    
+The Long Night - 01/27/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John LaFia
    
+As the Army of Light prepares to strike against the Shadows, Londo and Vir
+continue to plot Cartagia's downfall.  Ivanova and Lorien look for more
+First Ones.
+
+
    
+Into the Fire - 02/03/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Kevin Dobson
    
+The Army of Light moves against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+Epiphanies - 02/10/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John Flinn III
    
+Bester returns to Babylon 5 and asks to be taken to Z'ha'dum to recover
+Shadow technology.  Clark sets a new operation to discredit Babylon 5 in
+motion.  Garibaldi delivers some unexpected news to Sheridan.
+
+
    
+The Illusion of Truth - 02/17/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Stephen Furst
    
+ISN sends a team to do a second story about Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+Atonement - 02/24/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Tony Dow
    
+Delenn is recalled to Minbar to resolve a problem concerning her relationship
+with Sheridan, and must finally face up to her role in the Earth-Minbari War.
+Sheridan sends Marcus and Franklin to Mars on a secret mission.
+
+
    
+Racing Mars - 04/21/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jesus Trevino
    
+Franklin and Marcus arrive on Mars to begin their undercover mission.
+Sheridan confronts Garibaldi about his behavior.
+
+
    
+Lines of Communication - 04/28/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John Flinn III
    
+Franklin and Marcus try to convince the leaders of the resistance to go along
+with Sheridan's plan to unseat Clark.  Delenn investigates a series of attacks
+on Minbari allies.  Minbar begins to slide toward civil war.
+
+
    
+Conflicts of Interest - 05/05/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+Garibaldi takes on a new job.  The resistance's counter-propaganda
+broadcasts begin.  Sheridan proposes a plan to protect the Non-Aligned Worlds
+from raiders.
+
+
    
+Rumors, Bargains and Lies - 05/12/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Sheridan tricks the League of Non-Aligned Worlds into accepting his proposed
+defense pact.  Delenn tries to work with an old rival to defuse a brewing
+Minbari civil war.
+
+
    
+Moments of Transition - 05/19/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Tony Dow
    
+The warrior caste demands Delenn's surrender.  Bester makes an offer to an
+increasingly desperate Lyta.  Sheridan is compelled to act after receiving
+horrible news from Ivanova.
+
+
    
+No Surrender, No Retreat - 05/26/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Sheridan's forces attempt to liberate Proxima 3. Londo tries to enlist G'Kar's
+aid in backing Sheridan against Earth.
+
+
    
+The Exercise of Vital Powers - 06/02/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John LaFia
    
+Garibaldi arrives on Mars and meets William Edgars.  Lyta helps Franklin
+in an attempt to make contact with the frozen telepaths.
+
+
    
+The Face of the Enemy - 06/09/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Sheridan's search for his father leads him into danger on Mars.  Lyta warns
+Franklin of an impending clash between telepaths and mundanes.  Garibaldi
+learns of a new threat.
+
+
    
+Intersections in Real Time - 06/16/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John LaFia
    
+Sheridan faces an inquisitor from Earthdome.
+
+
    
+Between the Darkness and the Light - 10/06/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+Garibaldi is captured by the Mars Resistance.  Ivanova's fleet clashes
+with Clark's forces.  A plan to free Sheridan is launched.
+
+
    
+Endgame - 10/13/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John Copeland
    
+Sheridan's forces make their final strike. Marcus weighs a vital decision.
+
+
    
+Rising Star - 10/20/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Tony Dow
    
+Earthgov decides Sheridan's fate. Delenn makes a remarkable proposition to
+the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.  Garibaldi continues his search.
+
+
    
+The Deconstruction of Falling Stars - 10/27/97
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Stephen Furst
    
+A being from the distant future looks back at the repercussions of the B5
+crew's actions 100, 500, 1000, and 1000000 years in the future.
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
    
+
+
    
+Season Five
+("Wheel of Fire")
+
+
    
+
+
    
+No Compromises - 01/21/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+As the station adjusts to the arrival of a new command officer who fought
+on the other side of the civil war, a group of telepaths arrives looking
+for sanctuary.
+
+
    
+The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari - 01/28/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+Londo suffers a serious heart attack and must face his greatest fear to
+survive.  Lennier decides to start training as a Ranger.
+
+
    
+The Paragon of Animals - 02/04/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Sheridan clashes with the League ambassadors over G'Kar's declaration of
+principles.  Garibaldi attempts to enlist the aid of the refugee telepaths.
+
+
    
+A View from the Gallery - 02/11/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+As the station defends itself against an alien attack, two ordinary crewmen,
+Mack and Bo, try to carry on and keep the station running.
+
+
    
+Learning Curve - 02/18/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+Two Rangers-in-training accompany their teacher to the station.
+
+
    
+Strange Relations - 02/25/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John C. Flinn III
    
+Bester arrives to try to retrieve the refugee telepaths.  Garibaldi confronts
+Lochley.  Delenn chooses a bodyguard for Londo.
+
+
    
+Secrets of the Soul - 03/04/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Tony Dow
    
+Franklin discovers one race's centuries-old secret.  Byron and Lyta reach
+an understanding.
+
+
    
+Day of the Dead - 03/11/98
+
    
+W: Neil Gaiman
    
+D: Doug Lefler
    
+Some of the crew are caught with the Brakiri as they celebrate their "Day of
+the Dead," a remembrance of the recently deceased.  A pair of famous
+entertainers visits the station.
+
+
    
+In the Kingdom of the Blind - 03/18/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+Byron's telepaths present the Interstellar Alliance with an ultimatum.
+Londo and G'Kar visit Centauri Prime.
+
+
    
+A Tragedy of Telepaths - 03/25/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Tony Dow
    
+The telepath situation continues to deteriorate.  The attacks on Alliance
+ships continue.  Londo and G'Kar find an old friend in a nearly forgotten place.
+
+
    
+Phoenix Rising - 04/01/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: David Eagle
    
+The telepath situation becomes critical and Bester arrives to take control
+over Garibaldi's objections.
+
+
    
+The Ragged Edge - 04/08/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John Copeland
    
+Garibaldi draws closer to the source of the mysterious attacks on Alliance
+ships.
+
+
    
+The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father - 04/15/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Stephen Furst
    
+Bester pursues a dangerous telepath.
+An examination of the Psi Corps, including their training methods and how
+they deal with washouts.
+
+
    
+Meditations on the Abyss - 05/27/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+Without Sheridan's knowledge, Delenn sends Lennier on a mission to try to
+figure out the source of the raids.
+
+
    
+Darkness Ascending - 06/03/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+Lennier uncovers hard evidence about the source of the cargo ship attacks.
+Lise arrives to see Garibaldi.  Lyta attempts to strike a deal on behalf of
+the rogue telepaths.
+
+
    
+And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder - 06/10/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Goran Gajic
    
+The evidence of a Centauri connection to the cargo ship attacks is revealed
+to the Alliance.
+
+
    
+Movements of Fire and Shadow - 06/17/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John C. Flinn III
    
+Lyta and Franklin visit the Drazi homeworld.
+
+
    
+The Fall of Centauri Prime - 10/28/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Douglas Wise
    
+As Sheridan races to stop the Alliance ships from attacking Centauri Prime,
+Londo's fate, and that of his people, is decided.
+
+
    
+The Wheel of Fire - 11/04/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+Lochley and Garibaldi discover they have some shared history.  A confrontation
+with Lyta leads to a startling revelation.
+
+
    
+Objects in Motion - 11/11/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jesus Treviño
    
+As some longtime residents prepare to leave the station, the crew races
+to stop an assassin.
+
+
    
+Objects at Rest - 11/18/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: John Copeland
    
+The Interstellar Alliance headquarters moves to Minbar.  Lennier faces the
+consequences of a terrible mistake.
+
+
    
+Sleeping in Light - 11/25/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+In Sheridan's final days, old friends gather to celebrate.
+Takes place twenty years after the end of the rest of the series.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Movies
+
+
    
+
+
    
+In the Beginning - 01/04/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+The events leading up to the Earth-Minbari War, and the war itself, are
+recounted by Londo.
+
+
    
+Thirdspace - 07/19/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Jesus Treviño
    
+The crew discovers a mysterious, ancient artifact in hyperspace.
+
+
    
+The River of Souls - 11/23/98
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+A group of Soul Hunters come to the station demanding the return of something
+that was stolen from them.
+
+
    
+A Call to Arms - 01/06/99
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Janet Greek
    
+Allies of the Shadows seek revenge against humanity.  This movie sets up the
+sequel series,
+"Crusade."
+
+
    
+The Legend of the Rangers - ??/??/01
+
    
+W: J. Michael Straczynski
    
+D: Mike Vejar
    
+The Rangers attempt to restore order to a galaxy devastated by the
+Shadow War.
+
+
    
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+April 20, 2001
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+
+Babylon 5 Reference: XXX
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Encyclopedia] [Episodes] [Cast Lists] [TV Stations]
+    
+
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+September 21, 1995
+
    
+
+Maintained by
+Steven Grimm
+<koreth@midwinter.com>.
    
+Send mail
+if you have comments or suggestions.
    
+
+
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    Babylon 5 Stations: US/Canada
    
+
+
    
+Maintained by Steven Grimm (koreth@midwinter.com)
+
+
    
+For other countries, see the Lurker's Guide country list at
+http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/.
+
+
    
+If you see something here that's wrong, please send me mail with the correct
+information!
+
+
    United States
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is not currently airing in the United States.  It will return in
+January 1998 on cable network TNT.  See the US episode list page of the
+Lurker's Guide at
+http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html
+for schedule details.
+
+
+
    Canada
    
+
+
    
+CITY-TV is allegedly working on buying rights to season five.
+
+
    
+The "Space"
+cable channel is also in negotiations to show B5; they ask that viewers please
+not contact them about it.  It's being worked on already and they have
+limited staff to answer the hundreds of E-mail messages they get on the
+subject -- they're already quite exasperated by the flow of "Is there news
+yet?" mail.  If and when there's news from them you'll see it here.
+
+
    Reruns of Old Episodes
    
+
+
    
+
+
    Toronto
+
    
+CFMT airs seasons 1-4 Monday-Friday at 7PM.
+
+
    
+
+
    Station Notes
    
+
+
    
+If a station airs B5 at midnight,
+it is listed for the actual day it airs, thus 'Sun 12:00am' is late night
+Saturday.
+
+
    
+*   Stations with an '*' have been known to move B5 around a lot for sports,
+    so double check your listings to make sure when things are in season.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    1.
+
    
+A mailing list exists to discuss Vancouver-area B5 airings; send mail to
+nw-b5-request@babcom.com
+with "subscribe" in the message body to join.
+
+
    2.
+
    
+A mailing list exists to discuss B5 airings in the Southern Ontario area,
+including the Toronto and Barrie regions; send mail to
+southontario-b5request@babcom.com
+with "subscribe" in the message body to
+join.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Station list originally compiled by Lee Whiteside (leew@indirect.com).
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+Help Ensure B5's Renewal
+
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+See Also:
+Station address list
+
+
    Help ensure B5's renewal!
    
+
+
    
+The following is from J. Michael Straczynski, executive producer of
+Babylon 5:
+
+
    
+February is a critical month for B5 in terms of pickups by the local
+stations.  PTEN is slowly moving into ordinary syndication structure, and
+it's all decided now station-by-station.  This week (22-24th) all of the
+local TV stations have reps at NATPE, which is the national gathering of
+producers and television distributors, at which time, and over the next few
+weeks, decisions are made on what shows are picked up by stations.  So
+this would be a good time for anyone who's a constant viewer of the show,
+who wants to see it continue, to drop a line or make a call to their local
+station urging them to continue carrying the show.  If your market doesn't
+have it, now is a good time to suggest that someone in your area pick it
+up.  Even a few phone calls or letters per station can make a big
+difference.  Don't assume you have no power in this; you do.
+
+
    
+                                            jms
+
+
    
+(anybody wants to repost this to other nets is free to do so)
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+Babylon 5 Resources: Conventions
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     [Online] ### CONS ### [Publications] [Products] [Fans]
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+
    
+
+
    
+Con information is often posted on Usenet groups such as
+alt.fandom.cons, rec.arts.sf.announce, rec.arts.sf.fandom.  There is also
+a convention listing newsletter called Con-Temporal that has a fairly
+comprehensive list of US and Canadian cons.  For details send E-mail to
+Scott Merritt,
+contemp@pegasuspublishing.com.
+
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+February 10, 2005
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+Babylon 5 Resources: Fans
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     [Online] [Cons] [Publications] [Products] ### FANS ###
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+Contents:
+Where to Write -
+Scripts -
+Effects of Fan Input -
+Fan Clubs
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Where to write to show support for Babylon 5
    
+
+Since syndicated shows are purchased by individual stations, the most
+important place to write to show your support for B5 is your
+local TV station.
+See also the
+B5 Support Page
+for information about any ongoing letter-writing campaigns.
+
+
    
+To reach Warner Bros., which distributes the show, write to either or both of:
+
+
    
+Dick Robertson
    
+President
    
+Domestic Television Distribution
    
+Warner Bros. Television
    
+4000 Warner Boulevard
    
+Burbank, CA 91522
    
+USA
+
+
    
+Robert Daly, Chairman
    
+Warner Brothers, Inc.
    
+4000 Warner Boulevard
    
+Burbank, CA 91522
    
+
+
    
+But remember, Warner Bros. already wants B5 to succeed.  It's the local
+stations that determine whether the show will be made -- if enough of them sign
+up to buy it, it'll continue to be produced, and if they don't, it won't, no
+matter how many letters Warner Bros. gets from fans.  So please write your
+local station first if you want to support B5.
+
+
    
+To reach JMS or other members of the cast and crew, write to:
+
+
    
+J. Michael Straczynski
    
+C/O BABYLON 5
    
+14431 Ventura Blvd., Suite 260
    
+Sherman Oaks, CA 91423-2606
    
+USA
    
+
+
    
+The "c/o Babylon 5" is very important -- your letter may be discarded in
+the mailroom if that's not there.
+
+
    
+JMS is also reachable online at straczynski@genie.geis.com.
+Please check the Guide before asking about a particular episode; your
+question may already be answered.
+JMS gets a lot of mail, so don't expect a personal reply.  Also, if you have
+a question of general interest, please post it to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+instead of mailing it to JMS; that way everyone can benefit from the answer.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    How do I submit a script?
    
+
+
    
+All current stories are developed by JMS, because only he knows where the
+overall story is going.  JMS is looking at spec scripts, selecting writers
+based on their talent and understanding of the Babylon 5 universe, then giving
+out assigned stories.  Babylon 5 is not accepting outside stories.  Scripts not
+submitted through an agent will be returned unopened, as is standard practice.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    What effect have fans had?
    
+
+The location of Babylon 5 is at Grid Epsilon 470,18,22 which corresponds
+to the original location of the Babylon 5 topic on GEnie (Page 470,
+CAT 18, Topic 22).  The first mention of a planet's coordinates in
+"Mind War" were Grid Epsilon 471,18,25 which corresponds to a topic in
+the Babylon 5 Category on GEnie.
+
+
    
+Partially due to fan response from those who saw the pilot movie or
+clips, some things in the pilot movie were changed before broadcast,
+and the series has been affected as well:
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The voice of Delenn is Mira Furlan's voice without any processing and
+Delenn is female to begin with.  Original plans were to electronically
+process her voice and have Delenn change sex during the series.
+
+
    • 
+Some additional voice-over was done by Patricia Tallman to clarify one
+scene in the show with Kosh in the Medlab.
+
+
    • 
+The use of ISN to provide exposition about events outside the station was
+suggested by Colin Stobbe on GEnie.
+
+
    • 
+The branding of a Minbari that had similarities to a DS9 episode was kept
+after feedback from fans about it.  It had been considered removing the
+branding scene and electronically wiping the brand from the rest of the
+episode. (This occurs in "The War Prayer").
+
+
    • 
+When names submitted for a mega corporation and a mineral were rejected for
+legal reasons, JMS went to the GEnie B5 Category and asked for suggestions.
+The resulting names used are Quantium-40 for the mineral and Universal
+Terraform for the company.  Q-40 is mentioned in
+"The Parliament of Dreams" and
+"Mind War".
+The waiter mentioned in "Parliament" is named for David Strauss,
+who submitted Q-40.
+
+
    • 
+Likewise, the name of the prospecting company in
+"Mind War,"
+Universal Terraform, was suggested by a sysop on GEnie.
+
+
    • 
+The denizens of "Downbelow" are called "lurkers," a term for users of
+computer bulletin-board systems who read messages but never post.  The
+idea was originally suggested, in an indirect way, by Rob Furr on GEnie.
+
+
    • 
+JMS is considering revamping or killing off n'grath based partly on the
+reaction by viewers.
+
+
    • 
+Based on interest in the legal aspects of the Psi
+Corps, JMS indicated how some of this works in
+"The Quality of Mercy."
+
+
    • 
+In recognition of the Internet Babylon 5 archive, the
+first-season episode
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2"
+features an Earth Alliance ship called the Hyperion.  (The Lurker's Guide
+was originally located on www.hyperion.com; the name had to change to
+www.midwinter.com in March 1997 after a legal dispute over the Hyperion
+name.)
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Fan Clubs
    
+
+If you know of any clubs not listed here, please
+send mail
+to b5-submit@midwinter.com.
+
+
    
+This list is organized according to where the fan club is based.  Many
+fan clubs accept international memberships.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    USA
+
+
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+The Official B5 Fan Club, no longer in operation,
+was run by the folks who make the show. The following is for historical
+interest only:
+
+
      
+Note that the fan club's Web site is currently only accessible using Netscape
+2.0 or higher.  The fan club Web site is not maintained by the same people as
+the Lurker's Guide, so please direct your comments about it to the fan club.
+
+
      
+Membership:  $17.95 US, $19.95 Canadian, $24.95 foreign memberships.
+For information on the Club, you can send e-mail to
+membership@thestation.com.
+
+
      
+The Fan Club web site, www.thestation.com, has a wide 
+range of merchandise available -- posters, trading cards, soundtracks, 
+clothing and other collectibles.  
+
+
      
+[More Info]
+Membership form and other information.
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Earthforce is a fan-operated club.  For more information, E-mail
+erisian@netcom.com
+or send postal mail to Earthforce, 2607 Welsh Rd., Apt. E-303, Philadelphia,
+PA 19114.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Richard Biggs Fan Club, c/o Shirley Didemoico, 1133 Uptegraf Street,
+Pittsburgh, PA 15218
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Bruce Boxleitner's Official Fan Club, P.O. Box 57593, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
+Bruce Boxleitner Fan Club, c/o Darla Vasilas, 230 Denfield Dr., Alexandria,
+VA 22309
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Julie Caitlin Brown Fan Club, e-mail Dkountz@aol.com for information.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+International
+Robin Atkin Downes
+Fan Club.  For more information contact club president Jennie Spencer
+(radfanclub@bigfoot.com),
+or write PO Box 780975, Orlando, FL, 32878-0975.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Garibaldi & Company, 12865 NE 85th St., Suite 267, Kirkland, WA  98033
+e-mail: Flashdanze@aol.com.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Unofficial
+Garibaldi Appreciation Society
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Mira Furlan Fan Club,
+PO Box 523093, Springfield, Va., 22152-9998.
+Contact eqris@aol.com for more information.  Membership is $10/year US,
+$15/year overseas.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Circle of Friends,
+a fan club sanctioned by Michael O'Hare (Commander Sinclair,) is a charity
+organization which raises money to support his chosen charities.
+For more information,
+contact Sandy Bruckner at sgbruckner@aol.com or 5022 Geronimo Street, College
+Park, MD  20740.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Pat Tallman Fan Club,
+c/o Barb Powell, 1661 South Bend Dr. #5, Rocky River, OH 44116.
+Proceeds benefit the Penny Lane Home for abused children.  For more information
+visit the Web page or contact Barb Powell at
+PTFanClub@aol.com.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Ed Wasser Fan Club.
+Bi-monthly electronic newsletter.  E-mail subscribe@wasser.com to join.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+B5MD
+is a fan group with members from suburban Maryland.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The
+District of
+Columbia Babylon 5 Fan Club
+is open to viewers in the Washington DC area.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+pdx-b5
+is a group of B5 fans in the Portland, Oregon area.  The group meets monthly.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Valen's Rangers is based in Nashville, Tennessee.  For details E-mail Michael
+Harper at mpvorkosigan@hotmail.com
+or write him at 308 S. 11th #1, Nashville, TN 37206.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    Australia
+
+
    
+The Babylon 5 OZ Fan Club,
+PO Box 161, Adamstown NSW 2289. AUD$20/year, AUD$35/2 years.
+(Sanctioned by Network 7.)  Contact Aaron Brockbank
+<shadow@scorch.hna.com.au> for information.
+
+
    
+Also, there's The Australian
+Babylon 5 Fan Club, PO Box 41, West Brunswick, Vic 3055.  $10/single, $12/
+family per year.
+
+
    
+
    Germany
+
    
+Crossroads / Journey to Babylon.  Contact Steffen Maier, Friedenstrasse 11,
+D-66978
+Donsieders, Germany, or E-mail
+StefMaier1@aol.com.
+The membership fee is 30 DM/year, more for foreign.  Include 2 international
+reply coupons when writing.
+
+
    
+German Babylon 5 Fanclub.  Contact Daniela Ricci, Mindenerstr.7, 40227
+Düsseldorf, Germany, or E-mail
+wizart@NetCologne.de.
+The membership fee is 50 DM a year and includes 4 issues of the club's
+magazine.
+
+
    
+Projekt Babylon, c/o Karsten Ehlers, Zum Erlengrund 6, 13587 Berlin, 
+Germany. E-mail:
+LadyMorel@aol.com
+or
+dbayerl@ukrv.de.
+
+
    
+
    Italy
+
    
+Babylon 5 Italian Fan Club.
+Contact Massimo Martini,
+mmartini@italway.it.
+Membership is L. 20000 domestic, L. 25000 for European members, and L. 30000
+for the rest of the world and includes a quarterly fanzine and membership
+card.
+
+
    
+
    Netherlands
+The Babylon Project
+is a Dutch B5 fan club.
+
+
    
+
    Norway
+
+
    
+The B5 Alliance,
+c/o Inge Carlen, Vogts gate 10, 0474 Oslo, Norway.  Contact
+ingec@powertech.no
+or call 22 71 64 25 for more information.  The club has a monthly newsletter.
+
+
+
    
+
    UK
+
    
+B5 UK Fan Club, unofficial, though sanctioned by JMS.  #12.50 per year UK;
+#22/2 years UK; add 50% overseas, payable to "Questing Beast Ltd."  Babylon
+Five UK Fan Club, PO Box 1147, London W3 7ZT.
+
+
    
+The Edinburgh Alliance
+is a fan club for Scottish viewers.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi's Security Squad, approved by Jerry Doyle.  Three newsletters a
+year.  £8/year for UK/Europe, £20/year for other countries.
+Write to Garibaldi's Security Squad, c/o Caroline Griffin, 54 Wimpole Street,
+London W1M 7DF, England.
+
+
    
+Koenig Kontinuum, official UK fan club for Walter Koenig.  Four newsletters
+a year.  £8/year for UK members, £12/year foreign.  E-mail
+CAROLEHESLOP@compuserve.com
+for details.
+
+
    
+
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+March 19, 2006
+
+
    
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+Babylon 5 Resources: Online
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     ### ONLINE ### [Cons] [Publications] [Products] [Fans]
+    
+
+
    
+Internet:
+Usenet -
+World Wide Web -
+Mailing Lists -
+FTP -
+MUSH / Games -
+Chat
    
+
+Commercial:
+GEnie -
+America Online -
+CompuServe -
+Other
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
     Usenet
+
    
+NOTE: The newsgroup name links will not work from some sites; if you get
+an error, ask your
+system administrator to point you to some news-reading software.
+
+
    
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
+is a moderated newsgroup for general B5
+discussion.  It was created April 2, 1996.
+Any show-related topic is allowed, and criticism is
+accepted as readily as praise, but flames,
+story ideas,
+commercial postings,
+and off-topic messages will be blocked.  For complete details see the group's
+official
+Web page.
+Series creator J. Michael Straczynski (JMS) participates in this group.  You
+can post a message to the group even if you don't have Usenet access by
+sending your message to 
+b5mod@deepthot.ml.org.
+
+
    
+An
+archive
+of most of JMS' Usenet articles from both of the above groups is available.
+
+
    
+A mailing list exists for people who're only interested
+in reading JMS's messages to the group.  It also gets compilations of his
+messages from CompuServe and other services.
+
+
    
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+is an unmoderated board for Babylon 5 discussion.
+This group was created the week of March 28, 1994.
+JMS doesn't read this group, but some other B5 staff members do, so
+please do not post
+story ideas.
+There's a
+mailing list
+for them.
+
+
+
    
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info
+is a moderated newsgroup for informational messages about Babylon 5, including
+compilations of JMS messages from other online services, notes about schedule
+changes at local stations, and so on.
+
+
    
+An
+archive
+of messages from the group is available.
+
+
    
+alt.tv.babylon-5
+is the old Babylon 5 newsgroup.
+This group was created the week of Feb. 15, 1993.
+You can post to the group, if you don't have access, by
+emailing to alt-tv-babylon-5@vtserf.cc.vt.edu.
+
+
    
+uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5
+is for discussions about the UK broadcast of Babylon 5.  Avoid posting any
+spoilers about episodes that have aired in the US but not the UK.  There is a
+FAQ
+for readers of the group.
+
+
    
+uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5.social
+is a meeting place for arranging social events of interest to B5 fans.
+
+
    
+aus.sf.babylon5
+is for discussions about the Australian broadcast of Babylon 5.  Avoid posting
+any spoilers about episodes that have aired in the US but not Australia.
+There is a
+Web page
+devoted to the newsgroup.
+
+
    
+rec.video.satellite.tvro
+may contain satellite feed discussion.
+
+
    
+
     World Wide Web
+
    
+
+The following categories aren't ironclad; they're just an attempt
+to better organize the list of other sites.
+
+
    
+Information: General -
+Information: Regional -
+Cast and Crew -
+"Crusade" Sites -
+Images and Sounds -
+Interactive -
+Humor -
+Pointers to Other Resources -
+Miscellaneous
+
+
    
+Information: General
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Information: Regional
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Cast and Crew
+
+
    
+
+
    
+"Crusade" Sites
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Images and Sounds
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Interactive
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Humor
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Pointers to Other Resources
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Miscellaneous
+
+
    
+
+
    
+There are lots of other science-fiction resources on the Web; see the
+SF TV
+and
+Babylon 5
+sections of
+Yahoo
+for a nice list.  Expatriate Trekkies will probably get a kick out of
+The Particles of
+Star Trek.
+
+
    
+
     Mailing Lists
+
    
+
+Some mailing lists are of regional interest; I've divided them accordingly.
+It's usually the case that all lists will welcome anyone, though.
+
+
    
+Global Lists
+
+
    
+
      
+
+
    • 
+An official B5 mailing list from Warner Bros. is available.  To subscribe,
+send E-mail to
+listserv@lists.warnerbros.com
+with the following message body.
+Substitute your first and last name for "firstname" and "lastname", of course.
+
      
+subscribe babylon5 firstname lastname
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Babylon 5 Reviews Electronic Forum:
+An e-mail review forum, moderated by Jeffrey Anbinder.  To subscribe, send
+e-mail to the automated list server,
+listproc@cornell.edu.
+Put a single line into the BODY of the message, reading:
+
      
+	SUBSCRIBE B5-REVIEW-L Firstname Lastname
+
      
+This is processed by machine, so do not include a signature.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The B5JMS List:
+An echo of JMS's messages on the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 newsgroup, filtered
+through an automated script that also sends the messages he's replying to,
+if any.  To subscribe, send mail to
+majordomo@majordomo.c
+s.columbia.edu
+with a single line in the message body:
+
      
+	subscribe b5jms
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The JMS Posts list:
+Another list with compilations of JMS messages.  To subscribe, send mail to
+majordomo@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu
+with a single line in the message body:
+
      
+	subscribe jms-posts
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Babylon 5 Creative:
+A mailing list to which you can safely send original fiction in the Babylon 5
+universe. This mailing list was created in response to JMS (Babylon 5
+Creator/Executive Producer) request to not post original fiction in the
+Babylon 5 Universe on the newsgroups on Internet. So please do not crosspost
+any messages from b5-creative to the newsgroups.
+
+
      
+To subscribe, send mail to
+b5-creative-request@lists.best.com
+with the following body:
+
+
      
+SUBSCRIBE
+
      
+
+There is also an
+archive
+of the stories sent over the list.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Babylon 5 Speculation:
+A mailing list for speculation about the future direction of the show,
+where ideas that can't be sent to the newsgroup should be discussed.
+To subscribe, send mail to
+b5-speculation-request@lists.best.com
+with the following body:
+
+
      
+SUBSCRIBE
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Zocalo Today
+is an online Babylon 5/Crusade
+newsletter containing news and information about the shows. To subscribe, send
+a message to
+thezocalo-subscribe@eGroups.com.
+In the body of the message, put 
+
+
      
+SUBSCRIBE ZOCALO firstname lastname
+
      
+
+
      
+Leave the body of the message blank. 
+
+
      
+The Zocalo Today is primarily on-line, updated daily with whatever news
+comes in relating to the cast and crew, new merchandise offered by the B5
+Fan Club or elsewhere, convention reports -- including photos.  And there's
+always a discussion topic, the interactive portion of the newsletter -- a
+place where you can share your views on the weekly issue.  There is also a
+Trading Post!  The mailing list is a highlights report and early warning
+system for new products or major events.  If you have problems subscribing
+to the mailing list, drop a note to
+sgbruckner@aol.com.
+You can read all previous messages sent out
+via The Zocalo Today by going to
+http://www.egroups.com/list/thezocalo. 
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Babylon 5 Teenage
+Mailing List
+is a list for teenage viewers.  To subscribe, send a message containing
+the word "subscribe" to
+b5teens-request@Babcom.com.
+
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Marcus Cole
+Estrogen Brigade
+mailing list is devoted to Marcus and those who pine for him.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The John and Delenn Forum
+carries discussions about Captain Sheridan and Ambassador Delenn.
+To subscribe, send a message to
+jdforum@speedlink.com
+with a subject of "subscribe".
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Church of Joe
+mailing list is for worshippers of JMS or the other deities of the Church.
+To subscribe, send mail to
+majordomo@pacifier.com
+with the following message body:
+
+
      
+subscribe coj-list
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The
+philosophiesme
+list discusses B5 and other SF shows.  Its owner is John Leister,
+johndk@academy.net.au.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Regional lists (by country)
+
+
    
+See Also:
+StellarCom (a list of
+regional lists; not part of the Lurker's Guide)
+
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • Alberta, Canada:
+Send help
+as the subject line to
+alberta-b5-request@sentai.com
+for more information.
+
+
      
+
    • Vancouver, BC, Canada (plus northern Washington):
+Send mail to
+nw-b5-info-request@babcom.com
+with "subscribe" in the message body.  For more information,
+without subscribing, send the word "info" to the same address.
+
+
      
+
    • Israel
+The ib5 mailing list discusses episodes as they air in Israel.  It also
+features schedule information.
+
+
      
+
    • Washington, DC, USA:
+Send mail to
+b5dc-request@mail.dsmo.com
+with "SUBSCRIBE" in the message body.
+
+
      
+
    • Atlanta, GA, USA:
+Send mail to
+majordomo@housing1.stucen.gatech.edu
+with "subscribe b5-atlanta" in the message body.
+
+
      
+
    • Chicago, IL, USA:
+Send mail to
+listserv@listserv.aol.com
+with "SUBSCRIBE CHICAGO-B5 your name" in the message body.
+Substitute your name (not your E-mail address) in your message, of course.
+
+
      
+
    • Boston, MA, USA:
+
+	There are two mailing lists.  boston-b5@interweb.uml.edu is
+	a moderated mailing list for announcements on broadcasts schedules
+	in Boston and other areas served by WSBK-UPN38.
+	boston-b5-chat@interweb.uml.edu is an unmoderated
+	discussion group for any aspect of Babylon 5 as it pertains to
+	Boston or WSBK-UPN38. To subscribe to either, send e-mail to
+	majordomo@interweb.uml.edu
+	with a single line in the body of message:
+
+
      
+	subscribe boston-b5
+	
      
+	or
+	
      
+	subscribe boston-b5-chat
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • Portland, OR, USA:
+	The
+	pdx-b5 list
+	is for fans of Babylon 5 in, around, or otherwise
+	reasonably near Portland, Oregon.  If you're interested in subscribing,
+	send a message to
+	majordomo@q7.com
+	with the following in the body of the message:
+
+
      
+	
+	subscribe pdx-b5-l
      
+	end      
+
      
+
+
    
+
+
    
+There is also a mailing list for regional-list maintainers.  Send mail to
+majordomo@babcom.com
+with "subscribe b5-listowners" in the body if you run a regional list.
+
+
    
+
     FTP site
+
    
+ftp.midwinter.com
+is the Lurker's Guide's companion file area.
+The episode
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2"
+features a cruiser named the Hyperion in honor of the original location of
+this FTP site; the hostname name was ftp.hyperion.com until a legal dispute
+over the name Hyperion forced a name change.
+
    
+Much of the information on the FTP site is contained in this Guide.
+
+
    
+Mirror sites include:
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
     MUSH / Games
+
    
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Deimos: Fire and Ice is a play-by-email
+	role-playing game.
+
+   
    •  Babylon 5 MUSH at b5mush.mushpark.com:4205
+
+   
    •  Babylon 5: Rising Star at bb3.betterbox.net:2260
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
     Chat Rooms / IRC
+
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A weekly chat in IRC space, on channel #babylon5, every Saturday at
+7 PM Eastern (23:00 GMT), discusses the latest B5 episode.
+A FAQ
+about IRC is available.
+
+
      
+A
+B5 trivia game
+is hosted every Thursday night on IRC.
+
+
      
+Channel #babcom on irc.gamma.net (formerly on irc.warnerbros.com) features
+frequent gatherings of B5 fans.
+
+
      
+Another channel, #gray17, features weekly B5 discussions Saturdays at 2 PM
+Eastern time.
+
+
      
+There is also a channel for discussion of B5 as aired in Norway, Sweden, and
+Denmark; go to #b5_nordic.
+
+
      
+Channel #babylon5 on irc-server.shadow.net features frequent B5
+discussions.
+
+
      
+The #babylon5 channel on irc.another.org has a
+home page.
+
+
      
+The
+Undergrid #Babylon5
+channel
+carries conversations about B5 as well as sound file swapping and general chat.
+
+
      
+The
+Undernet
+#Babylon5 channel
+has regular B5 chat sessions.
+
+
      
+Another Undernet channel,
+#Babylon_5,
+also meets regularly to chat.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The NRS K'sha Na'vas
+is an IRC-based sim of a Narn cruiser.  It meets Tuesdays at 11PM Eastern time
+on irc.another.net, channel #K'shaNa'vas.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The Babylon 5 Chatter's
+Group
+is a Web-based chat room for B5 discussions.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In Dutch:
+The Rim
+is a gathering place to chat about the latest B5 episodes on Dutch TV.
+Meets Saturdays 19:00 to 22:00 Netherlands time.  Use the Web IRC client or
+go to server wny.us.zuh.net, channel #b5nl.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
    GEnie
    
+
+
    
+Because JMS has been on GEnie talking about Babylon 5 since late 1991, GEnie
+is a choice place to be for a Babylon 5 fan.  On the GEnie Science Fiction
+RoundTable, there are two Babylon 5 categories where JMS talks with the fans
+about the show, both production and story info. Most of the information in
+this FAQ came from this category. They are located at Page 471, Category 18
+and 19.  Archives of past messages are available in the GEnie SFRT files
+areas, along with graphics files and the interactive demos are also available
+in the file area.  In honor of the fans who are involved with this group, the
+specific location of Babylon 5 corresponds to the original location of the
+GEnie topic (Grid Epsilon 470,18,22). A split of the GEnie SFRT in November,
+1992 created the Babylon 5 category, moving the original topic into the new
+category.
+
+
    
+ftp.midwinter.com contains an
+archive
+of most of JMS' GEnie messages about Babylon 5.
+
+
    America Online
    
+
+
    
+America Online is the home of an official, Warner Bros.-sponsored
+Babylon 5 area (keyword: Babylon5).  JMS and others participate in the
+Babylon 5 message boards.  AOL is the most common venue for real-time
+chats with the cast and crew of Babylon 5.  There are generally new pictures and
+other files on the AOL site every Monday.
+
+
    
+Interviews sometimes occur in the OMNI & DC-Online areas; the TV newsmagazine
+EXTRA has also had some B5 events and has a number of B5 files available.
+America Online users can also access the rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 newsgroup by
+selecting EXPERT ADD NEWSGROUP from the Newsgroup screen and typing the
+following: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+
+
    
+ftp.midwinter.com contains an
+archive
+of recent JMS messages about Babylon 5, as well as transcripts of some
+of the real-time chat sessions.
+
+
+
    CompuServe
    
+
+
    
+JMS is a regular participant on CompuServe's Babylon 5 Forum (keyword BABYLON5)
+as well as the older SF & Fantasy Media 1 Forum.  There are also file
+libraries and weekly B5 conferences.
+Much of JMS' message traffic from the B5 Forum is reposted in the Lurker's 
+Guide and in weekly updates on Usenet.
+
+
    
+An
+archive
+of some of JMS' CompuServe messages is available.
+
+
    Other
    
+
+
    
+JMS also frequents BIX, and lurks on other systems; there are Babylon 5
+sections on other networks and BBSs around the world.   These and other
+networks and BBSs contain Babylon graphic files, text files, and forwarded
+JMS postings.
+
+
+
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+Babylon 5 Resources: Products
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Online] [Cons] [Publications] ### PRODUCTS ### [Fans]
+    
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Books -
+Clothing -
+Audio -
+Software -
+Toys/Games -
+Video -
+Misc
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Licensing Company of America, a
+subsidiary of Warner Bros. handles the licensing of Babylon 5
+products.
+
+
    
+Many of these items are carried by online stores:
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+Books/Magazines
+
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+For a list of books, see the
+Books/novels
+page.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A
+comic-book adaptation
+from DC Comics with all-new stories is available.  The original series
+started in December 1994 and ended after 11 issues.
+A new series, started in January 1998, is in production.
+Softbound collections of the first and second series are available
+from Titan Books in the UK, ISBNs 1852866462 and 1852867353.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Babylon 5 Magazine, an official UK magazine published by Titan Magazines, goes
+on sale in the UK and Ireland on July 17, 1997.  It features interviews with
+the cast and crew and exclusive photos from the set.  For subscription
+information, call 01536 763631.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A 1999 Babylon 5 calendar
+is available.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Chris Aylott produces a fan-run magazine called
+The Babylon Project.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Clothing
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Fashion Victim has released 5
+B5 shirts,
+with 2 more on the way.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Some fan-produced
+jumpgate pins
+(with the "<*>" symbol you may have seen in people's Usenet signatures,
+representing a jumpgate) are available.  The price has been sharply cut
+for the remainder of 1997.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A leather/wool jacket with the B5 logo on the front and a station picture
+on the back is available, though only in limited quantities.  The list
+price is $300.  See the Uncomyn Gifts page listed above for more details.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There are some
+B5 character
+masks.
+Currently Delenn and G'Kar are being
+produced; their list prices are $15.00 and $23.00 respectively.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+ALL-U Activewear has
+5 shirt
+designs
+available, as well as 1 cap design and
+some other items.  10 Vatrano Rd, Albany NY 12205; phone 800-424-2558 or
+518-488-7291.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Two T-shirt designs are now available from
+800-TREKKER:
+the logo, and the station/season 1 cast (as seen in the TV Guide ad).
+$13.95 each.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Creation Entertainment has T-shirts.  They can be reached at (818) 409-0960.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Babylon 5 T-shirts should be available soon at Warner Bros.
+company stores.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Audio
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Two soundtrack albums by Christopher Franke are available via mail order and
+in stores.  The first, titled simply "Babylon 5," is about 55 minutes in
+length.  Sonic Images, the publisher, has a
+Web server
+with some excerpts from the CD.  There is also a fan-produced
+detailed breakdown
+of which episodes the various sections of the CD come from.
+
+
      
+The second soundtrack album is called "Babylon 5: Messages from Earth," and
+was released January 29, 1997.  See the Sonic Images
+Web page
+about the soundtrack for details and audio clips.  There is a fan-produced
+index
+of this CD as well.
+
+
      
+A series of unabridged
+episode soundtracks
+is available from Sonic Images, containing the music from various
+episodes exactly as heard on the show.  Each CD runs approximately 30
+minutes.  Episodes currently available include
+"Severed Dreams,"
+"A Late Delivery from Avalon,"
+"Walkabout,"
+"Shadow Dancing,"
+and
+"Z'ha'dum."
+
+
      
+Sonic Images also publishes a
+"Crusade" soundtrack
+featuring music by Evan H. Chen.
+
+
      
+All of these CDs can be ordered direct from Sonic Images; details can be found
+on their Web site.
+
+
      
+Some of the CDs are available for online listening at
+broadcast.com.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Bill Mumy (Lennier) is part of
+Barnes & Barnes,
+an offbeat rock band.  (In
+"Eyes,"
+Lennier can be heard chanting a nonsense word from one of his albums.)
+His latest album is called "Dying To Be Heard."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+There is also a set of recordings by B5's conceptual consultant Harlan
+Ellison, who performs his works in a radio-drama-style context.  The first
+CD release is a reading of his Hugo-award-winning story, "Paladin of the Lost
+Hour."  The CD costs $16.50 plus $2 shipping/handling; for more information
+or to order, contact the Harlan Ellison Record Collection,
+P. O. Box 55548, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.  (Checks or money
+orders only, no plastic.)
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A series of recordings of radio shows written by
+Norman Corwin
+is available.  Norman Corwin is JMS's favorite writer;
+here's what Joe has to say about him.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Software
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Sierra Online
+was working on a B5 computer game
+featuring first-person space combat, but it was
+cancelled
+on September 21, 1999.
+
+
      
+Some articles about the game are available on various sites:
+
+
        
+   
      •  A September 1998
+	preview
+	of the game
+
+   
      •  A September 1998
+	interview
+	with designers Marc Hudgins and Randy Littlejohn
+
+
      
+
+
      
+The game was first shown publicly on May 29, 1998 at the E3 conference in
+Atlanta, GA.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Several fan-produced B5 games are available. Among them:
+
+
        
+	
        
+	
      • 
+	I've Found Her,
+	a space combat simulation written from scratch.
+
+	
        
+	
      • 
+	The Babylon Project
+	is another space combat simulation based on the Freespace 2
+	engine (though that game is not required to play.)
+
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Sierra produces a B5 CD-ROM encyclopedia, "The Official Guide to J.
+Michael Straczynski's 'Babylon 5,'" created in cooperation with Babylonian
+Productions.  It was released November 17, 1997, and can be ordered online from
+Sierra's Web site.
+More details:
+
+
        
+
+	
        
+	
      • 
+        Sierra On-Line (Oakhurst, CA), in
+        conjunction with Babylonian Productions and Sonic Images, is releasing
+        the ultimate Babylon 5 reference product.  It will be hitting stores the
+        first week of November and contains 2 CDs.  Both CDs are hybrid PC and
+        MAC.
+
+	
        
+        The first CD (created by Babylonian Productions) is the reference guide.
+        This has gobs of specs and information on ships, weapons, governments,
+        people, and places to go on the ship.  One of the most impressive
+        things, is the incredible amount of video clips and still images taken
+        from the show.  This is a very special CD due to its unique design and
+        depth of information.
+
+	
        
+        The second CD (created by Sonic Images and Sierra) is "The Best of
+        Babylon 5".  This is an enhanced music CD that has 15 tracks taken from
+        Christopher Franke's 7 existing Babylon 5 CDs (Vol.1, Vol.2, and the 5
+        Episodic CDs), plus 2 tracks created for Sierra's upcoming game.  Play
+        the music just like any music CD, or put it in a PC or MAC and choose to
+        see any of the 8 interviews, a Bio, or a trailer for Sierra's upcoming
+        game.
+
+	
        
+        As an added bonus, there will be an exclusive trading card.
+
+
      
+
+
      
+Comments from JMS:
+
+
        
+
+	
        
+	
      • 
+	The first thing out the gate is going to be the B5 guide CDrom,
+	which will be out next month or so.  It was done in-house by us, and
+	Sierra is distributing it.  It's the authoritative guide to the races,
+	weapons, ships, and the world of B5 itself, the locations, other
+	stuff...with a LOT of video from the show, and your choice of three
+	different guides.
+
+	
        
+	
      • 
+	The other game is still being developed, and it's too early to
+	get into the details yet.  Christy Marx is involved, though.
+
+	
        
+	RE: the guides...in the informational CD rom, you arrive by
+	shuttle at the station, and at customs you can choose from three
+	different guides: the official station tour guide (rather stuffy,
+	formal, only encourages you to go to the nice places), a rather shady
+	character who knows all the best (worst) places, and a Gaim.  The
+	commentaries on the places you go vary from guide to guide.
+
+	
        
+	
      • 
+	Yes, the fan club will also carry a limited number of the
+	CDroms.
+
+	
        
+	
      • 
+	Will the CD contain information about future events?
        
+	No, this was something we couldn't work into this
+	version...though there is one little extra hidden in the disk
+	somewhere...sort of an easter egg, something that won't come around for
+	almost a year in the show.
+
+	
        
+	
      • 
+	About the name
        
+	I was very iffy on that...I am getting this vague sense that I'm
+	becoming a brand name, and I'm suspicious of that sort of thing.  At
+	first they wanted it in a proprietary sense, "J. Michael Straczynski's
+	Guide to the Babylon 5 Universe," but I vetoed that because Jason
+	Brezhinski did 90% of the actual work on the thing, researching every
+	smallest detail shown in the series, and if anyone should get that
+	credit, it's him.  The final title only came about through a lot of
+	haggling.
+
+
      
+
+
      
+PC Magazine has a
+review
+of the CD.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Babylon 5:
+Shadow War
+is the second B5 screensaver package from Sound Source Interactive.  It contains
+images from seasons three and four as well as a B5 videogame.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The first B5 screen saver by Sound Source Interactive is currently
+out of print.  A note from JMS about installation:
+
+
      
+Oh...speaking of eye-popping, I've gotten a copy of the B5 Screen
+Saver/Limited Edition Entertainment CD Rom, and it's nifty.  I suggest it
+to everyone, with a caveat: if you're not a computer neep-neep kind of
+person, have someone help you install the thing.  It took me several
+passes to figure everything out.  And once you DO install it, even though
+it says "do you want all the images?" and you say yes, it doesn't put them
+all on.  Once you've finished -- and I'm putting this here because as far
+as I can tell this isn't documented *anywhere* -- go to the setup menu,
+and hit install.  Make sure your CDrom is in the drive.  Go to the
+Images subdirectory on the CDrom, and you'll suddenly see 150 or so
+images that were *not* installed.  Highlight all of them, copy them over
+to the pdesk/images subdirectory on your hard disk, then add them, and
+select them.  Most neeps out there could probably figure this out, but I
+couldn't, so I pass this along for those who are as computerchip
+challenged as I am.  Once it's all *there*, and actually even before that,
+it's gorgeous...the images are crisp and brilliant, the full-motion video
+stuff is terrific, there's music and sounds and other stuff...I can't
+commend it highly enough.
+
      
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Toys/Games
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Mongoose Publishing has a very detailed
+B5
+roleplaying game that includes material from Crusade.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A B5 game is available from
+Component Game Systems.
+It's a strategy game played with cards.  Starter kits are US$12.95 each.  A
+core set with the complete set of cards is US$29.95.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Precedence Publishing produced a B5 collectible card game
+which was released in November 1997.
+
+
      
+Three action figures (Lennier, Marcus, and Vir) are available from
+Diamond
+Comics.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Agents of Gaming
+produces a B5 space combat wargame called
+Babylon 5 Wars.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Chameleon Eclectic Entertainment produces a B5 roleplaying game.
+It's set in the years between the end of the
+Earth-Minbari War and the start of the series.  The game will apparently not
+be available in the UK until a publisher can be found there.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Revell/Monogram produces licensed models of Babylon 5 and the
+Starfury fighter.  Here's what
+JMS had to say on December 17, 1997, referring to the Starfury model:
+
+
      
+The finished model just came in this week, with full shrink wrap, box, pieces,
+everything...very nice.  There were some delays that came from our side, as we
+worked to make it more authentic and more in keeping with how they look on
+screen.  Revell was happy to cooperate, even if it delayed things a bit...with
+the result that it's a better product.  (Among the things we asked for: to
+reposition the forward guns, alter the tilt of the engines, texture under the
+wings as well as on top, that sort of thing.)
+
+
      
+Basically, I'd rather have it *right* than have it Tuesday.
+
      
+
+
      
+The Starfury model comes with decals to make it look like Ivanova's Starfury,
+the Black Omega squadron, a Presidential escort, or the "Sea Witch."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Micro Games of America makes a couple handheld electronic B5 games with
+LCD displays.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Galoob's Babylon 5
+Micro-Machines
+are available at toy stores like Toys R Us, as well as stores like Wal-Mart,
+K-Mart, and Target.  There are six sets of three ships, each set costing
+about five to six dollars.
+
+
      
+Sets 5 and 6 are packaged as part of the Space Collection, which includes
+24 3-vehicle packs per box: 22 Star Wars and Star Trek packs, and both B5
+packs.  Galoob apparently no longer has the license
+to make additional B5 sets, but the initial six should still be out there.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Bubble bottle necklaces.  Each bottle is a futuristic
+container with one of the ships on top (the handle of the bubble
+blower).
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Video
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Warner Home Video has released the B5 pilot movies
+"The Gathering"
+and
+"In the Beginning"
+on DVD.  A boxed-set release is expected in fall 2002, with commentaries
+by JMS.
+The latest information. 
+
+
      
+
    • 
+VHS videotapes of season-one B5 episodes are available in the US from
+Columbia House.
+The first videotape is $4.95 with a subscription; subsequent tapes (2
+episodes each) are $19.95 each and arrive every four to six weeks.
+Columbia House can be reached at (800) 457-0866.
+
+
      
+Videotapes of season two and beyond (and possibly season one as well) will
+be released in 1998 by Warner Home Video.  Here's the announcement from
+JMS:
+
+
      
+      Victories come in all sizes; in some ways, this is a small one,
+in other ways this is a big one.
+
+
      
+      For four years, we bugged Warner Bros. Home Video about
+releasing B5 on videocassette in retail outlets.  But WB has never
+released a series before on tape, it's not something they *do*, not
+sufficiently prestige when compared with their big movies.  Eventually
+they were persuaded to let Columbia House try it for mail-order, for
+the first season.
+
+
      
+      And CH was *swamped* with orders.  Phones rang off the hook, and
+tapes were back-ordered to try and fill the demand.
+
+
      
+      And Warner Bros...noticed.
+
+
      
+      And this month, they made a big announcement about the coming
+release of Babylon 5 on video through retail outlets all over the
+country.  I've seen the cover designs for the first batch, and they're
+extremely good looking montages, each specifically designed for that
+tape.  They're putting a lot of thought and effort and time into this,
+and a big campaign.  I believe the first batch hits the stands in July
+or August, somewhere in there.
+
+
      
+      This is a big victory for us.  On a grand scale, it may seem
+minor, but it's the most direct statement of "you were right" we've
+ever had from WB, and they were sufficiently mensches to say so, and
+act on it.
+
+
      
+      If these go well, they're also talking laserdisks and DVDs down
+the road, and should THAT happen, I'm going to push like hell to have
+them release the widescreen versions.
+
+
      
+      But that's the next campaign.  For now, this is a big victory
+for us, and we're mighty pleased.
+
      
+
+
      
+JMS warns of pirate videos and asks for help tracking down the source:
+
+
      
+A number of folks have been spammed by a series of notes from a group called
+ VulcanEntr@aol.com offering tapes of B5 bloopers and rarities.  Under any
+ circumstances, NO ONE has been licensed or authorized to sell ANY B5 bloopers,
+ extracts, excerpts or interviews, anywhere on the planet.  (And this goes for
+ the B5 electronic press kit, which is specifically denoted as freeware and
+ it's illegal to sell them.)  If you see these tapes for sale ANYwhere, be
+ advised that you are dealing with stolen goods.
+
+
      
+Back to VulcanEntr...it was brought to their attention by a fan that they did
+ not have the rights to sell these tapes...they replied to the fan that they
+ DID have the rights, and had verified this with the B5 production office; even
+ had a convention organizer send a similar note, both threatening the fan
+ slander suits for such statements (that they were bootleggers).  The
+ convention organizer, Jon Bernam, of JD Productions, said that he had received
+ a copy of a letter from B5 to Vulcan Entr. giving them the rights to sell this
+ material.
+
+
      
+All this was forwarded on to me...and I then contacted them and in very short
+ order, VulcanEntr said that they never, ever at any time had any B5 tapes,
+ that a couple of part-time employees had misused their account to put out
+ these notes offering these items for sale...although Bernam stated that these
+ tapes had been on a table at his convention....
+
+
      
+VulcanEntr said they never had any knowledge of any of this, so how then did
+ Bernam get a copy of a letter supposedly authorizing this?
+
+
      
+I think the operative phrase here is, "duck and cover."  You'd think they would
+ at least get their stories straight.
+
+
      
+So consider this a fact-finding and weasel-hunting expedition.  If you ordered
+ a tape from VulcanEntr, and that check has been cashed, then if Vulcan Entr.
+ is correct and these tapes never existed...that's mail fraud.  If you DID get
+ a copy of these tapes, it's piracy and in the purview of the FBI.
+
+
      
+Obviously, I would prefer to continue going straight to the source for my
+ answers here, but overnight BOTH parties canceled their AOL accounts and have
+ vanished from sight.
+
+
      
+Suffice to say that any information on this situation will be very much
+ appreciated.  So that we can arrive at all the facts.  Meanwhile, the moral is
+ to stay clear of video pirates and bootleggers.
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Image Entertaniment
+is releasing B5
+episodes
+and TV-movies
+on laserdisc.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In Europe, Australia, Japan, and other markets, the Babylon 5 pilot movie has
+been released on home video (and on laserdisc in Japan), as has
+"A Voice in the Wilderness"
+(both parts, spliced together into a movie.)  In Australia and New Zealand,
+the tape of
+"The Gathering"
+is instead titled "Universe on the Brink of Destruction."
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A UK video release of the series started in May 1995.  The tapes are
+distributed by Beyond Vision Serial Sci-Fi and cost £10.99 each.
+Some have two episodes per tape, some three.  They're also available as
+boxed sets, with each season priced at £65.
+
+
      
+The
+Internet
+Music Shop
+in the UK has the videos available for purchase over the net.  (The UK
+videos are in PAL format, which won't play back on most US video equipment;
+keep that in mind if you decide to order.)
+
+
      
+For more information on the European videos:
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+All of the first- and second-season episodes are available on tape in Australia.
+The tapes are marketed by Warner Bros. and cost $19.95 each.
+Season three tapes began appearing in February 1998 at the same price, and
+will likely appear in batches of three every three months.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+In Singapore, B5 is available on Video CD (two episodes per CD) from Warner
+Home Video.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Ron Thornton (B5 special effects coordinator) has a series of
+instructional
+videos
+about creating spacecraft with 3-D computer graphics.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Miscellaneous
+
      
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Hugh Fleming Illustration
+produces a limited-edition B5 poster in the style of a movie poster.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Mania
+has a limited-edition
+G'Kar sculpture
+designed by the artist who did the original makeup work.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Creation has licensed several products in addition to the shirts mentioned
+above, including mugs and photos.  They can be reached at (818) 409-0960.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Fleer
+has a set of 120 trading cards, including some holograms.  The
+Uncomyn Gifts
+trading-card page has more information about the available cards.
+Front
+and
+back
+views of a promotional card are available.
+
+
      
+
+Warning!
+Be sure not to accept a box of cards that has had the shrinkwrap removed.
+That may be a sign that someone (perhaps the dealer or a distributor) has
+gone through the box looking for the valuable "chaser" cards.  It is
+possible for someone to tell which packs contain such cards without actually
+opening the packs up.
+
+
+
      
+A
+second set of cards
+was released in October 1996.  Some
+samples
+from the set are available.
+
+
      
+Some packs of the second set of cards contain posters; for some reason, the
+posters aren't listed in the card checklist.  They are:
+
+
        
+   
      1.  Together Against the Shadows (To Stand Against the Dark or Perish)
+   
      2.  Recycle:  Keep Babylon 5 Clean
+   
      3.  Babylon 5 Earth's Best Hope
+   
      4.  Narn poster #1 (3 mirrored images)
+   
      5.  Earth's Last Best Hope Babylon 5
+   
      6.  Alien poster (2 mirrored images)
+   
      7.  Narn poster #2 (2 mirrored images)
+   
      8.  Night Watch
+   
      9.  Narn poster #3 (G'Kar and ship)
+   
      10.  Ministry of Peace
+
      
+
+
      
+A special-edition card series was released on June 25, 1997.  Fleer
+had the following to say about it.
+
+
      
+FLEER/SKYBOX will release a new line of BABYLON 5 Special
+Edition trading cards this June. The common cards in the set
+include a 72-card retrospective of the show's pilot episode, 
+as well as cards themed after Ships of the Earth Alliance,
+Ships of the Shadow War, and BABYLON 5 Perspectives. The
+boxes will also feature numerous rare cards in certain
+packs, including 36 B5 trivia cards (1 in every 1 pack), 18
+costume cards (1:2), 8 Worlds of B5 (1:6), 4 faces of
+Delenn (1:12), 1 Hugo Award card (1:36), one B5 sculpted
+hologram card (1:180), and one Mira Furlann (Delenn)
+autographed card (1:720). The B5 cards come in packs of 8,
+for a suggested $1.49.
+
      
+
+
      
+In January 1998, Fleer will release a third regular set, covering season four,
+with the following cards:
+
+
        
+   
      •  81 standard cards covering season 4, character bios, and an
+	in-depth look at Sheridan.
+   
      •  81 alien language parallel cards (1 per pack.)
+   
      •  12 season one retrospective cards (1 per 4 packs.)
+   
      •  9 Starfury art cards (1 per 8 packs.)
+   
      •  6 Fleet of the First Ones cards (1 per 6 packs.)
+   
      •  3 "In the Beginning" cards
+	(1 per 36 packs.)
+   
      •  6 SkyMotion Space Action cards (1 per 90 packs.)
+   
      •  Autographed cards from Richard Biggs, Jeff Conaway, Stephen Furst,
+	Peter Jurasik, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Mumy, and Patricia Tallman
+	(1 per 180 packs.)
+
      
+
+
      
+JMS had the following to say about the season-four cards on January 25, 1998:
+
+
      
+Just a general FYI...the Fleer S4 card set has just come in, and
+should be appearing soon at stores.  They're gorgeous cards, with not
+only the pictures on one side, but also on the same side, a line of
+dialogue associated with that character that can only be seen if you
+tilt the card; plus some nice (but not excessive in number) chase
+cards...real nice.
+
      
+
+
      
+Jay Morris runs a
+trading post
+for people who want to trade cards.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Antioch Publishing
+makes a variety of licensed B5 products, including bookplates and bookmarks,
+wallet ID cards, journals, magnets, and a Kosh doorknob hanger.  They will
+also be producing the 1998 B5 calendar.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+A stamper set, consisting of two rubber stamps with a ship outline, a
+stamp pad, and a B5 notepad.  There are 4 different sets.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Keychains made using the Galoob MicroMachine ship figures.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Photographer RL Dietz is selling prints of several of his pictures used as
+set dressings in crewmembers' quarters on B5.  More details can be found on his
+Web site.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+See the
+Fans
+page for a list of
+fan clubs.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+December 5, 2005
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Resources: Publications
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Online] [Cons] ### PUBLICATIONS ### [Products] [Fans]
+    
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Mass media
+
+
    
+See Also:
+Products: Books
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Mass media
    
+
+
    
+Information about B5 has been found in the press and other
+media.  Retrieve "b5.media" for more info.
+A partial list follows.
+
+
    
+
    US
+
    
+
+
    
+The
+official B5 magazine
+from the UK, while not available at US retail
+outlets, can be ordered through the
+B5 Fan Club.
+
+
    
+An upcoming issue of
+Cinefantastique
+will be a B5 issue, with at least
+five B5 articles, an episode guide, and more.  This was slated to appear
+in April 1997 but has been pushed back; no new date is available yet.
+
+
    
+The January 1998 issue of
+Cinefantastique
+features several B5 articles, many of which are available
+online.
+
+
    
+The November 1997 issue of
+Sci-Fi Entertainment
+has an interview with JMS.
+
+
    
+The fall 1997 issue of Sci-Fi Invasion features a profile of Bester and an
+article about B5's second Hugo award.
+
+
    
+The September 19, 1997 issue of the
+LA Times
+has an
+interview
+with producer John Copeland.
+
+
    
+The September 1997 issue of Science Fiction Age has a B5 cover story and
+other B5-related articles.
+
+
    
+The
+July 5, 1997
+issue
+of
+TV Guide
+features a B5 cover story.  Warning: Contains spoilers for season 5 and the
+end of season 4.
+
+
    
+The July 3, 1997 edition of
+MSNBC's
+"The Site"
+featured a
+story
+about B5, including interviews with JMS, George Johnsen,
+Bruce Boxleitner, and Lurker's Guide editor Steven Grimm.
+
+
    
+The June 9, 1997 issue of Newsweek has an article about JMS and his work on B5.
+
+
    
+The June 5, 1997 issue of
+The Christian Science Monitor
+has an
+article
+about B5's exploration of mythic themes.
+
+
    
+The April 1997 issue of Sci Fi Universe has a detailed behind-the-scenes
+article on B5.  JMS has the following to say about it:
+
+
    
+Also, the new issue of Sci-Fi Universe has two articles by 
+Stephen Smith, one of which, a week following the production 
+of B5, is probably the best and most comprehensive article 
+ever written on the subject.  I commend it wholeheartedly.
+
    
+
+
    
+The February 1997 issue of SciFi Entertainment (the monthly magazine of the Sci
+Fi Channel) has a behind-the-scenes B5 article.  One of the people accompanying
+the author to the set has a series of
+Web pages
+about the experience.
+
+
    
+The February 1997 issue of Inquest has an interview with Bill Mumy.
+
+
    
+The January 11, 1997 issue of
+TV Guide
+had an
+article
+by cartoonist Scott Adams, in which his character Dilbert
+proclaimed B5 "the best television show ever made."
+
+
    
+The November 4, 1996 issue of Newsweek has a short article about B5 becoming
+the TV show of choice at NASA.
+
+
    
+TV Guide's
+October 19, 1996 issue has a brief
+article
+about Melissa Gilbert's guest appearance in
+"Shadow Dancing"
+and
+"Z'ha'dum."
+The article contains spoilers for the episodes.
+
+
    
+TV Guide
+has an
+article
+with spoilers for the end of season three, and some of
+season four, in its September 21, 1996 issue.
+
+
    
+TV Guide's
+July 27, 1996 issue has a
+B5 feature.
+
+
    
+Millimeter Magazine (a TV/film industry magazine) will have a cover story on
+B5 in an upcoming issue.
+
+
    
+Sci Fi Universe, #14: Annual B5 blowout issue. Available at newsstands
+and comic book specialty stores on February 13, 1996.
+
+
    
+The Feb. 96 issue of Keyboard Magazine has an article on Christopher Franke
+and the music of Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+The October 1995 issue of Starlog contains an interview with
+Stephen Furst, discussing his role as Vir Cotto (among other things).
+
+
    
+The August 20, 1995 issue of the Washington Times has an article likening
+Southeast Asian politics to the storyline of Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+The July 24, 1995 issue of TV Guide has an article about B5, including a
+preview of the last four season-two episodes.
+
+
    
+The April 1995 Starlog with B5 on the cover has an interview with
+Bruce Boxleitner.
+
+
    
+The March 1995 issue of Sci Fi Universe has a major cover story
+on B5.
+
+
    
+The November-December
+1994 issue of InterText,
+the on-line fiction magazine, includes a non-fiction
+article about creators and their fans interacting on-line which
+features JMS.
+
+
    
+The November 1994 issue of Cinescape has two articles on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+The July 1994 issue of the Canadian magazine
+The Computer Paper
+has an article about B5's presence on the net.
+
+
    
+The April 1994 issue of
+Cinefantastique
+has a major feature
+article on
+Babylon 5.  Half of the issues have a Babylon 5 cover, while half have
+"The Stand" on the cover.
+
+
    
+Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, who works with Ron Thornton on the visual effects,
+had an article in Toaster User in the spring of '94.  Call AVID
+publications at 800-322-2843 from the USA.
+
+
    
+The
+February 1993
+issue of
+Cinefantastique
+has a B5 article including
+a behind-the-scenes look at the
+makeup department.
+
+
    
+
    UK
+
    
+
+
    
+Issue numbers are listed where available.
+
+
      
+
+   
    •  Babylon 5 Magazine,
+	the official B5 magazine in the UK, published by
+	Titan Magazines.  Subscriptions are £39 (Eire, £43) for
+	13 issues.  For subscription information or back issues call 01536
+	763631 or write to Babylon 5 Subscriptions, PO Box 54, Desborough,
+	Northants, NN14 2UH.  Subscriptions are available to residents of the
+	UK, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Eire, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
+	Iceland, Italy, Lichenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Norway, Portugal, San
+	Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Vatican State. 
+	For viewers in other countries, the magazine's editor, John Freeman
+	(101447.2455@compuserve.com)
+	suggests finding someone in the UK willing to forward copies.
+
+	
      
+	All issues contain news, merchandise updates and reviews, reprints of
+	B5 comics as well as original comic stories, a column by
+	JMS, and other behind-the-scenes information.  Specific issues include:
+
+	
        
+	   
      1.  Interview with entire cast (except Claudia Christian) and JMS,
+		part one.  Comic: The Psi Corps and You, Part One (DC Comics
+		#11.)
+	   
      2.  Interview with the main cast, part two.  Interview with Bruce
+		Boxleitner.  Comic: The Psi Corps and You, Part Two.
+	   
      3.  Andreas Katsulas interview; Narn articles.  Comic: In Valen's
+		Name, Part One, by JMS (original.)
+	   
      4.  Claudia Christian interview; Tracy Scoggins; special-effects
+		articles.  Comic: In Valen's Name, Part Two (original.)
+	   
      5.  Peter Jurasik interview; Centauri articles.  Original comic
+		story.
+	   
      6.  Psi Corps issue, including Walter Koenig interview.  Original
+		comic story.  Exclusive card from the B5 collectable card game.
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Cult TV
+	featured interviews with the cast members during the filming of
+	"Sleeping in Light."
+	Full transcripts of the interviews are on Cult TV's Web site.
+
+
      
+   
    •  DreamWatch
+	
        
+	   
      •  June 1997, July 1997: Two-part JMS interview
+	   
      •  13: Beginner's guide to B5
+	   
      •  13: Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi)
+	   
      •  5: Mira Furlan (Delenn)
+	   
      •  9: Walter Koenig (Bester)
+	   
      •  14: Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters)
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  DWB (no longer exists, replaced by Dreamwatch magazine)
+	
        
+	   
      •  112: Babylon 5 initial review
+	   
      •  123: Ron Thornton, special effects designer
+	   
      •  123: Review of missing 20 minutes from pilot
+	   
      •  125: B5 focus
+	   
      •  126: B5 overview
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  The Economist
+        
        
+           
      •  Sept. 2 1995, p. 82: Babylon 5 is touched on briefly in an
+                article about science fiction.
+        
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  FHM
+	
        
+	   
      •  October 1997: Claudia Christian
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Foundation
+	
        
+	   
      •  Issue 64 (summer 1995).  "The Profession of Science Fiction, 
+		48: Approaching Babylon"
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  SFX
+	
        
+	   
      •  3: JMS, Claudia Christian (Ivanova), Mira Furlan, Ron Thornton,
+		special feature on Starfury
+	   
      •  October 1996: Jerry Doyle; information on the Hugo Award
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Starburst
+	
        
+	   
      •  203: Richard Biggs (Franklin)
+	   
      •  194: Bruce Boxleitner (Sheridan)
+	   
      •  205: Jeff Conaway (Zack Allen)
+	   
      •  187: Jerry Doyle
+	   
      •  199: John Flinn, director of photography
+	   
      •  190: Foundation Computer Graphics
+	   
      •  188: Mira Furlan
+	   
      •  205: Janet Greek, director
+	   
      •  200: John Iacovelli, production designer
+	   
      •  185: Peter Jurasik (Londo)
+	   
      •  196: Bill Mumy (Lennier)
+	   
      •  206: Doug Netter, executive producer
+	   
      •  193: W. Morgan Sheppard (Soul Hunter, G'Sten)
+	   
      •  227: JMS
+	   
      •  193: Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander)
+	   
      •  201: Andrea Thompson
+	   
      •  204: Joint interview with Stephen Furst (Vir) and Peter Jurasik
+	   
      •  198, 199: Marc Scott Zicree
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  Starburst Special
+	
        
+	   
      •  24: Claudia Christian
+	   
      •  21: Robin Curtis (Ambassador Kalika in "Deathwalker")
+	   
      •  25: Jerry Doyle
+	   
      •  15, 19: Optic Nerve Studios
+	   
      •  20: Michael O'Hare (Sinclair)
+	   
      •  16, 22: JMS
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  TV Zone
+	
        
+	   
      •  48: Catherine Adair
+	   
      •  69: Bruce Boxleitner
+	   
      •  42: Richard Compton, director
+	   
      •  62, 63: Larry DiTillio, story editor
+	   
      •  59: Stephen Furst
+	   
      •  59: Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar)
+	   
      •  65: Julia Nickson (Catherine Sakai)
+	   
      •  55: JMS
+	   
      •  70: Ed Wasser (Morden)
+	
      
+
+
      
+   
    •  TV Zone Special
+	
        
+	   
      •  16: David Gerrold
+	   
      •  18: Walter Koenig
+	   
      •  18: Patricia Tallman
+	
      
+
    
+
+
    
+
    Finland
+
    
+
+
    
+An upcoming issue of Sci-Fi Probe will have a B5 feature article.  E-mail
+probe@sci.fi
+for details.
+
+
+
    
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+September 17, 1997
+
+
    
+
+
diff --git a/resources/skel b/resources/skel
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Resources: XXX
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Online] [Cons] [Publications] [Products]
+    
+
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+September 21, 1995
+
    
+
+Maintained by
+Steven Grimm
+<koreth@midwinter.com>.
    
+Send mail
+if you have comments or suggestions.
    
+
+
diff --git a/resources/story-ideas.html b/resources/story-ideas.html
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+
+
+What does "story idea" mean?
+
+
+
+
    More about story ideas
    
+
+One of the conditions of JMS' presence on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 is that
+people can't post story ideas, since that would put him on shaky legal ground
+if any of them happened to coincide with things he had planned.  Naturally,
+the question arises, what's the difference between a story idea and simple
+speculation about what's going to happen next?  The following is an attempt
+to clarify the issue.
+
+
    
+What's the difference between a story idea and a speculation...eek. The
+problem with this whole discussion -- perhaps the main problem -- is the
+fuzziness, because it *hasn't been defined yet*.  We are now in the OF
+defining it via this exchange.  It's what a person might choose to sue over.
+And there's no way to quantify or predict that.
+
+
    
+     I do think there's *some* difference between the two.  I think that
+primary way this discussion can get into trouble is in the level of detail.
+It's pretty much impossible to sue for a brief *idea*; but the more elaborate
+a suggestion or speculation gets, the more points of potential comparison
+emerge, and the greater the liability.  "See, your honor?  My speculation on
+what happened contained 57 specific plot points, and what Straczynski later
+produced had 54 of those points.  I submit that he saw what I wrote, decided
+it was better, stole my idea, and took it for his own!"
+
+
    
+[...]
+
+
    
+     But since it has come up...again, I'd say that the main point of
+differentiation is in the level of complexity.  The longer and more detailed
+the speculation, new histories for characters, new behind the scenes stuff,
+plot complications, motivations, on and on -- the more something is built that
+one could sue over.
+
+
    
+     This is a very difficult area, and there are all kinds of ways that it
+can bite you.  Over on CIS, for instance, Paramount came down on a series of
+messages with speculative plot info on ST 7 with lawyers and in injunction and
+major-leage threats against the people involved, CIS itself and anyone else
+they could think of.  We're trying to find a more personable way of handling
+this situation. And for the most part, I think we're doing fine.  But every so
+often this little issue raises its ugly head, and has to be dealt with.
+
+
    
+                                                          jms
+
    
+
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
diff --git a/src/gen-guide.sh b/src/gen-guide.sh
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+#
+# Run once a night to regenerate guide pages so that the timestamps
+# on new items go away after a couple weeks.
+#
+
+cd /home/woodstock/koreth/Lurk/guide
+
+./gen.py [0-9]?? | egrep -v '^[0-9][0-9][0-9]$' | egrep -v '^[0-9][0-9][0-9] jpeg$'
+
+for i in [0-9]??; do
+	if [ -f \#$i ]; then
+		if cmp -s $i \#$i; then
+			mv \#$i $i
+		else
+			echo $i source differed:
+			diff \#$i $i
+			echo ''
+			rm \#$i
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	if [ -f \#$i.html ]; then
+		if cmp -s $i.html \#$i.html; then
+			mv \#$i.html $i.html
+		else
+			echo $i HTML differed
+			rm \#$i.html
+		fi
+	fi
+done
+
diff --git a/src/lastupdate.py b/src/lastupdate.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import os,sys,string,time
+
+def dumpfile(out, path):
+	try:
+		f = open(path, 'r')
+		out.write(f.read())
+		f.close()
+	except:
+		pass
+
+def cmptimes(i1, i2):
+	if i1[1] < i2[1]:
+		return -1
+	if i1[1] > i2[1]:
+		return 1
+	return 0
+
+
+dirs = [ 'guide', 'synops' ]
+
+months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
+		'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
+
+outfile = open('lastmod-new.html', 'w')
+
+fp = open('internal/epnames', 'r')
+epnames = fp.readlines()
+fp.close()
+
+#
+# Spit out the page header.
+#
+dumpfile(outfile, 'internal/lu-header')
+
+mdate = time.localtime(time.time())
+outfile.write('%02d:%02d Pacific (US) time on %s %d, %d.\n' %
+	(mdate[3], mdate[4], months[mdate[1]], mdate[2], mdate[0]))
+outfile.write("If that date isn't recent, you probably need to hit your reload button.\n")
+
+for dir in dirs:
+	files = []
+
+	dumpfile(outfile, 'internal/lu-header-' + dir)
+
+	for file in os.listdir(dir):
+		if file[0] != '0' and file[0] != '1' and file[0] != '5' or file[-4:] == 'html':
+			continue
+		
+		path = dir + '/' + file
+
+		#
+		# Has the HTML been generated?
+		#
+		try:
+			os.stat(path + '.html')
+		except:
+			continue
+
+		#
+		# Figure out when the file was touched last.
+		#
+		mtime = os.stat(path)[8]
+		mdate = time.localtime(mtime)
+		lastmod = '%02d/%02d/%02d' % (mdate[0] % 100, mdate[1],mdate[2])
+
+		#
+		# Figure out the file's episode name.
+		#
+		epnum = string.atoi(file[:3])
+		epname = epnames[epnum][:-1]
+		if len(file) != 3:
+			epname = epname + ' (scene in detail)'
+
+		#
+		# Generate a list entry.
+		#
+		text = '%03d. %s: %s
    \n' % (
+			epnum, lastmod, path + '.html', epname)
+
+		files.append((epnum, mtime, text))
+
+	#
+	# Print a list sorted by date.
+	#
+	dumpfile(outfile, 'internal/lu-header-date')
+	files.sort(cmptimes)
+	files.reverse()
+
+	for (epnum, mtime, text) in files:
+		outfile.write(text)
+	
+#	dumpfile(outfile, 'internal/lu-header-epnum')
+
+	#
+	# Print a list sorted by episode number.
+	#
+#	files.sort()
+
+#	for (epnum, mtime, text) in files:
+#		outfile.write(text)
+	
+	dumpfile(outfile, 'internal/lu-footer-epnum')
+
+dumpfile(outfile, 'internal/lu-footer')
+outfile.close()
+
+os.unlink('lastmod.html')
+os.rename('lastmod-new.html', 'lastmod.html')
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+++ b/src/lgmail
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Print a feedback form that remembers who called it.
+#
+
+back_str='Go back'
+if [ "x$WWW_where" = "x" ]; then
+	WWW_where="$HTTP_REFERER"
+	if [ "x$WWW_where" = "x" ]; then
+		WWW_where="/lurk/lurker.html"
+		back_str="To the Lurker's Guide home page"
+	fi
+fi
+
+cat << EOF
+Content-type: text/html
+
+
+
+Lurker's Guide feedback
+
+
+
    [Home]
+ 
+
    
+    
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+
+Please check the Lurker's Guide Help page
+first!  It contains the answers to the most common questions I'm
+asked (video availability, schedule information, and more.)
+If your question is answered there, you will not get a reply.
+Also, the people who maintain the guide aren't the people who make the TV
+show.  Comments and questions about the show should be posted to the
+rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 newsgroup, which is read by the folks in charge of
+Babylon 5.  (But please don't post story ideas; there's a
+mailing list
+for those.)
+
+
    
+If you aren't asking a question, or you've checked the Help page,
+please proceed.  (Sorry for this extra step; I've been
+getting tons of questions that are answered on the Help page, presumably
+from people who saw the form and ignored the text above.)
+
+
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
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+
+
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+
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Enter your real name and E-mail address in the following two
+fields.  If your browser supports "mailto" links, you can
+send feedback
+that way.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+
+Name:  E-Mail: 
+
    
+Type your comments below.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+$back_str
+
+
+EOF
diff --git a/src/lgsend b/src/lgsend
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ef0ec162
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lgsend
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Send mail from a feedback form.
+#
+
+backstr="Go back"
+if [ "x$WWW_where" = "x/lurk/lurker.html" ]; then
+	backstr="To the Lurker's Guide home page"
+fi
+
+if [ "x$WWW_mailaddr" = "x" ]; then
+	WWW_mailaddr=nobody
+fi
+
+if [ "x$WWW_feedback" != "x" ]; then
+	/usr/local/bin/dos2unix << EOF | /usr/lib/sendmail koreth
+From: $WWW_mailaddr ($WWW_username)
+To: koreth
+Subject: Lurker's Guide
+
+[Remote host $REMOTE_HOST - $REMOTE_ADDR]
+[$WWW_where]
+[$HTTP_USER_AGENT]
+
+$WWW_feedback
+EOF
+fi
+
+cat << EOF
+Content-type: text/html
+
+
+
+Feedback sent.
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+    
+
+
    Thank you for your comments.
    
+
    
+Your comments have been mailed.
+
    
+$backstr
+
+
+EOF
diff --git a/src/lurkfind b/src/lurkfind
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..71ed15a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lurkfind
@@ -0,0 +1,366 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+#
+# Babylon 5 lurker's guide searching script.
+#
+# Config params
+#
+# Full path to the index search program
+$SWISHBIN   = "/usr/local/bin/swish";
+
+# Full path to where the index files are stored (no trailing slash)
+$swishdbdir = "/home/koreth/lurk/find/indexes";
+
+# URL to the print-hit-bold script used to bold search results.
+# Note that a bunch of stuff is tacked onto this string, so no
+# trailing spaces or slashes, ok?
+$PRINTURL="http://www.midwinter.com/cgi-bin/print-hit-bold";
+
+# These are for frobbing result urls on mirror sites - allows the mirror
+# to rip out bits of search result URLs and replace them with something else
+# (NB: these are Perl regexps, so mind your escaping of metachars like :
+
+# $PREFIX="http\://some.other.site/mirror/lurk/";
+# $REMOVE="http\://www.midwinter.com/lurk/";
+$REMOVE= "thiswillnevermatchanythign";
+
+# The directory where your swish binaries are residing
+# Full path name should be used.
+
+
+# Pulls in banner for search.
+$BANNER= `cat /home/koreth/lurk/find/prep-files/sbanner`;
+
+
+#
+# Maximum number of documents output
+#
+$maxout = 100;
+
+#
+# End Config Params
+#
+
+
+#
+# Get our parameters
+#
+$searchkey = $ENV{"QUERY_STRING"};
+$swishdb = $ENV{"PATH_INFO"};
+$server = $ENV{"SERVER_NAME"};
+$serverport = $ENV{"SERVER_PORT"};
+if ($serverport ne "80") {
+  $server .= ":" . $serverport;
+}
+$scriptname = $ENV{"SCRIPT_NAME"};
+$INFO{'GO'}="Internal error - no \"key\" field!";
+
+if ( $searchkey ) {
+	&form_at($searchkey, *INFO);
+    $searchkey= $INFO{'KEY'};
+
+    $printkey = $searchkey;
+    $printkey =~ s'<'<';
+    $printkey =~ s'>'>';
+}
+
+$INFO{"JMSANSWERS"} =1 if  $swishdb=~ /answers/;
+$INFO{'GUIDE'}      =1 if  $swishdb=~ /guide/;
+$INFO{'SYNOPS'}	    =1 if  $swishdb=~ /synops/;
+$INFO{'CREDITS'}    =1 if  $swishdb=~ /credits/;
+$INFO{'USENET'}     =1 if  $swishdb=~ /usenet/;
+$INFO{'GENIE'}      =1 if  $swishdb=~ /genie/;
+$INFO{'COMPUSERVE'} =1 if  $swishdb=~ /cs/;
+$INFO{'AOL'}        =1 if  $swishdb=~ /aol/;
+
+if ($INFO{'ALLJMS'}) {
+	$INFO{'JMSANSWERS'} =1;
+	$INFO{'USENET'} =1;
+	$INFO{'AOL'} =1;
+	$INFO{'GENIE'} =1;
+	$INFO{'COMPUSERVE'} =1;
+}
+$swishdb = "";
+$swishdb.= "/answers"  	 if $INFO{"JMSANSWERS"};
+$swishdb.= "/guide"      if $INFO{"GUIDE"};
+$swishdb.= "/synops"     if $INFO{"SYNOPS"};
+$swishdb.= "/credits"    if $INFO{"CREDITS"};
+$swishdb.= "/usenet"     if $INFO{"USENET"};
+$swishdb.= "/aol"        if $INFO{"AOL"};
+$swishdb.= "/genie"      if $INFO{"GENIE"};
+$swishdb.= "/cs" if $INFO{"COMPUSERVE"};
+
+
+$myurl = "http://$server$scriptname$swishdb";
+
+#
+# Process request
+#
+if ( ! $searchkey ) {
+    &frontpage();
+} else {
+    &dosearch();
+}
+
+exit;
+
+sub form_at {
+	local($form, *data) = @_;
+	local($key);
+	$form =~ s/\r\n$//;
+	$form =~ s/\r$//;
+	$form =~ s/\n$//;
+	foreach(split(/&/, $form)) {
+		($key, $_) = split(/=/, $_, 2);
+		$_    =~ s/\+/ /g;				 # + -> space
+		$key  =~ s/\+/ /g;
+		$_    =~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2})/pack(C,hex($1))/eig;  # undo %nn
+		$key  =~ s/%([0-9A-Fa-f]{1,2})/pack(C,hex($1))/eig;  # escapes
+		$key  =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;				 # key in UPPER
+		$data{$key} = $_;
+	}
+}
+
+
+
+#
+# Return standard search form
+#
+sub frontpage {
+    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
+	
+    $ALLJMSCHECKED	= "CHECKED" if ! $searchkey;
+    $JMSCHECKED 	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /answer/;
+    $GUIDECHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /guide/ || ! $searchkey;
+    $SYNOPSCHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /synops/ || ! $searchkey;
+    $USENETCHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /usenet/;
+    $AOLCHECKED		= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /aol/;
+    $GENIECHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /genie/;
+    $COMPUCHECKED	= "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /cs/;
+    $CREDITSCHECKED     = "CHECKED" if $swishdb=~ /credits/;
+
+    print <
+Search the Lurker\'s Guide to Babylon 5
+
+
+
+$BANNER
+
    Search the Lurker's Guide
    
+
    
+
    
+Enter words to search for: 
+
+
    
+Select areas to search:
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
    All of the jms posting archives - or select individual archives below:
+
+
    
+
    
+
    The jms answers file - collected highlights from jms postings put together by Dan Wood.
+
    
+
    The Usenet postings archive
+
    
+
    The GEnie messages archive
+
    
+
    The CompuServe messages archive (5/95 - present)
+
    
+
    The America Online messages archive (12/95 - present)
+
    
+
    
+
    The Episode Guide pages - fan written analysis of each episode
+
    
+ 
+
    The Episode Synopses - detailed fan written summaries of each episode
+
    
+
+
    The Onscreen Credits - cast and crew listings
+
    
+
    
+
+
    Search only titles and headlines?
+ Yes
+ No
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
    Hints on searching
    
+
    
+You may combine search words with OR, AND and NOT.
+AND-expressions are evaluated before OR-expressions.  Words are
+ANDed togeth by default.  Hence sinclair duck is equivalent 
+to sinclair and duck.
+
    
+For instance the search expression londo AND g'kar OR delenn will
+find all documents containing both Londo and G'Kar, plus all
+documents containing Delenn.
+You may also write this as ( Londo AND g'kar ) OR Delenn.
+
    
+The search expression Londo OR Sheridan AND NOT G'Kar will find all\n";
+documents containing Sheridan and that do not contain G'Kar, plus all
+documents containing Londo.
+You may also write this as Londo OR ( Sheridan AND (NOT G'Kar) ).
+
    
+You can search for partial words by truncating them with *, for
+instance Vorl* will match all words beginning with Vorl.
+Note that this is also useful for getting plurals and possessives of
+words, so sinclair will not find sinclair's duck nor
+will it uncover the sinclairs have always been pilots. But 
+sinclair* will find both.
+
+
+EOM
+}
+
+#
+# Search and make a html doc of the results
+#
+sub dosearch {
+    # Remove the leading slash from pathinfo
+    $swishdb= substr($swishdb, 1);
+
+    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
+    print <
+Search for "$printkey" in the Lurker\'s Guide
+
+
+
+$BANNER
+
    Search
    
+in  $swishdb
+
    
+You may search the selected databases with a new search expression.
+
    
+
    Search for:
+ 
+
+
    
+Search only titles and headlines?
+ Yes
+ No
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
    Search Results for \"$printkey\"
    
+EOM
+
+    if (! $swishdb) {
+	print "Sorry - you must select at least one database to search";
+	return;
+    }
+
+
+    push(@dblist, "-f");
+    foreach $db ( split(/\//, $swishdb ) ) {
+	push(@dblist, "$swishdbdir/$db.swish");
+    }
+
+    # Search only in title, headers and emphasized text.
+    push(@dblist, "-t", "the") if $INFO{'THE'};
+
+    push(@dblist, "-m");
+    push(@dblist, $maxout);
+
+    # The search itself
+    # opening the pipe this way prevents the args from being evaluated
+    # by the shell - the args can't be hacked as easily.
+    open(SWISHSEARCH, "-|") || 
+	exec($SWISHBIN, @dblist, "-w", $searchkey);
+    @docs = ;
+    close SWISHSEARCH;
+
+    # No docs found
+    if ( $#docs <= 0 ) {
+	print "
    No documents found. Try repeat the search with a\n";
+	print "different search expression.
    \n";
+    	print "\n\n";
+	return;
+    }
+
+    # Print results
+    print "
      \n";
+    foreach (@docs) {
+	/# Name: (.*)/ && ( $NAME= $1 );
+	/# Description: (.*)/ && ( print "
    \n
    $NAME
    $1\n
      \n");
+	/^([0-9]+) (.+) \"([^\"]*)\" ([0-9]+)/ && (&print_url($1, $2, $3, $4));
+ 	/^err\:(.*)/ && ( print "
    •  $1
      \n");
+    }
+
+    print "
    \n";
+}
+
+sub print_url {
+  local($SCORE, $URL, $NAME, $SIZE) = @_;
+  # URLify the searchkey
+  $searchkey=~s/\*//g;
+  $searchkey=~s/ /+/g;
+  if (($INFO{'BOLD'}) && (($URL =~ /$REMOVE/))) {
+	$URL=~s!$REMOVE!$PREFIX!;
+	print "
  •  $NAME
    \n";
+  } else {
+  	print "
  •  $NAME
    \n";
+  }
+  print "Score: $SCORE  Size: $SIZE\n";
+}
+
+
+#
+# Split a line with fieldnames and values into an associative array
+#
+sub get_fields {
+    local ( $inl, *outarr ) = @_;
+
+    @fields = split(/\|/, $inl);
+
+    foreach $f ( @fields ) {
+	$eq = index($f, "=");
+	$fname = substr($f, 0, $eq);
+	$fvalue = substr($f, $eq+1);
+	$fvalue =~ s/\/BAR_CODE\//\|/g;
+
+	$outarr{$fname} = $fvalue;
+    }
+}
+
+#
+# Unescape an URL
+#
+sub unescape {
+    local ($in) = @_;
+
+    # Any +'es -> space
+    $in =~ s/\+/ /g;
+
+    # Hex values
+    for ($start = 0; $start>=0;) {
+	$start = index($in, "%", $start);
+	if ( $start >= 0 ) {
+	    $ch = hex(substr($in, $start+1, 2));
+	    substr($in, $start, 3) = sprintf("%c", $ch);
+    	    $start++;
+	}
+    }
+
+    return $in;
+}	
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
diff --git a/src/print-weeks.py b/src/print-weeks.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..11cba0c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/print-weeks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# Print a bunch of dates, one week apart, replacing dates at the beginning
+# of standard input.
+#
+
+import string, sys
+from time import gmtime,mktime
+
+ndays = [ 0, 31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31 ]
+step = 7
+skipdays = [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]
+countdays = [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 ]
+europe = 0
+
+while sys.argv[1][0] == '-':
+	if sys.argv[1] == '-step':
+		step = string.atoi(sys.argv[2])
+		sys.argv = sys.argv[2:]
+
+	if sys.argv[1] == '-e':
+		europe = 1
+		sys.argv = sys.argv[1:]
+
+	if sys.argv[1] == '-daily':
+		step = 1
+		# Skip Saturday and Sunday
+		skipdays[5] = 1
+		skipdays[6] = 1
+		sys.argv = sys.argv[1:]
+
+	if sys.argv[1] == '-on':
+		step = 1
+		skipdays = [ 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 ]
+		for num in string.splitfields(sys.argv[2], ','):
+			skipdays[string.atoi(num)] = 0
+		sys.argv = sys.argv[2:]
+
+	if sys.argv[1] == '-repeat':
+		for num in string.splitfields(sys.argv[2], ','):
+			n = string.atoi(num)
+			countdays[n] = countdays[n] + 1
+		sys.argv = sys.argv[2:]
+
+	if sys.argv[1] == '-skip':
+		step = 1
+		skipdays = [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ]
+		for num in string.splitfields(sys.argv[2], ','):
+			skipdays[string.atoi(num)] = 1
+		sys.argv = sys.argv[2:]
+
+year = string.atoi(sys.argv[1])
+month = string.atoi(sys.argv[2])
+day = string.atoi(sys.argv[3])
+if year < 93:
+	year = year + 100
+
+(x,x,x,x,x,x,weekday,x,x) = gmtime(mktime(year + 1900, month,
+					day, 10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
+thisdaycount = 0
+
+if len(sys.argv) > 4:
+	step = string.atoi(sys.argv[4])
+
+if (year & 3) == 0:
+	ndays[2] = 29
+
+line = sys.stdin.readline()
+while line != '':
+	if line[0:5] == '
    ':
+		head = '
    '
+		line = line[5:]
+	else:
+		head = ''
+
+	if not (line[0] in ['0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','?']):
+		sys.stdout.write(head + line)
+		line = sys.stdin.readline()
+		continue
+	else:
+		if europe == 1:
+			sys.stdout.write('%s%02d/%02d/%02d%s' % (head,
+					day, month, year % 100, line[8:]))
+		else:
+			sys.stdout.write('%s%02d/%02d/%02d%s' % (head,
+					year % 100, month, day, line[8:]))
+
+	line = sys.stdin.readline()
+
+	thisdaycount = thisdaycount + 1
+	if thisdaycount < countdays[weekday]:
+		continue
+
+	day = day + step
+	(x,x,x,x,x,x,weekday,x,x) = gmtime(mktime(year + 1900, month,
+						day, 10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0))
+	thisdaycount = 0
+
+	while skipdays[weekday]:
+		day = day + 1
+		weekday = (weekday + 1) % 7
+
+	if day > ndays[month]:
+		day = day - ndays[month]
+		month = month + 1
+
+		if month > 12:
+			month = 1
+
+			year = year + 1
+
+			if (year & 3) == 0:
+				ndays[2] = 29
+			else:
+				ndays[2] = 28
diff --git a/src/printcurrent.c b/src/printcurrent.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1f714270
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/printcurrent.c
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#include 
+#include 
+
+char *getenv();
+
+/*
+ * Point the user to the current Lurker's Guide episode page.
+ */
+main()
+{
+	char	filename[100];
+
+	readlink("/home/woodstock/www/docs/lurk/guide/current.html",
+		filename, sizeof(filename));
+
+	printf("Location: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/%s\n"
+		"Content-Type: text/html\n"
+		"\n"
+		"Try here."
+		"\n", filename, filename);
+	fflush(stdout);
+	close(1);
+
+/*
+	{
+		int	fd;
+		char	*c, *val;
+
+		val = getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
+		for (c = val; *c; c++)
+			if (*c == '/')
+				*c = '#';
+		
+		chdir("/home/woodstock/koreth/browsers");
+		fd = open(val, O_RDWR | O_APPEND | O_CREAT, 0644);
+		write(fd, val, 1);
+		close(fd);
+	}
+*/
+
+	exit(0);
+}
diff --git a/src/select-eplist.c b/src/select-eplist.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eb8a10f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/select-eplist.c
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+ * Select an episode list to show based on a control file.
+ */
+
+#define LISTFILE "/home/koreth/lurk/internal/domainlist"
+char * BASEDIR = "/home/koreth/lurk/";
+#define ERRORFILE "/home/koreth/lurk/internal/dom-error.html"
+
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+
+char *getenv();
+
+main()
+{
+	FILE		*fp;
+	char		domain[100], filename[500], bestname[500];
+	char		*hisdomain, *mapbuf;
+	int		matchlen = 0, hislen, thislen, i, c, fd;
+	struct stat	st;
+
+	chdir(BASEDIR);
+
+	printf("Content-type: text/html\n");
+
+	/*
+	 * Get the remote domain name and make it lower case.
+	 */
+	hisdomain = getenv("REMOTE_HOST");
+	if (hisdomain == NULL)
+		hisdomain = strdup("com");
+	hislen = strlen(hisdomain);
+	for (i = 0; i < hislen; i++)
+		hisdomain[i] = tolower(hisdomain[i]);
+
+	/*
+	 * Now read list entries and find the filename with the longest
+	 * matching domain name.
+	 */
+	fp = fopen(LISTFILE, "r");
+	if (fp)
+	{
+		/* First entry is the default filename. */
+		fscanf(fp, "%s %s", domain, bestname);
+
+		while (fscanf(fp, "%s %s", domain, filename) > -1)
+		{
+			thislen = strlen(domain);
+			if (thislen > matchlen && thislen <= hislen)
+			{
+				if (! strcmp(domain, hisdomain+hislen-thislen))
+				{
+					strcpy(bestname, filename);
+					matchlen = thislen;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		fclose(fp);
+	}
+	else
+		strcpy(bestname, ERRORFILE);
+
+	printf("Location: http://%s/lurk/%s\n\n", getenv("SERVER_NAME"),
+		bestname);
+}
diff --git a/src/select-eplist.c.dump b/src/select-eplist.c.dump
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c7a5d253
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/select-eplist.c.dump
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+/*
+ * Select an episode list to show based on a control file.
+ */
+
+#define LISTFILE "/home/koreth/lurk/internal/domainlist"
+char * BASEDIR = "/home/koreth/lurk/";
+#define ERRORFILE "/home/koreth/lurk/internal/dom-error.html"
+
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+#include 
+
+char *getenv();
+
+main()
+{
+	FILE		*fp;
+	char		domain[100], filename[500], bestname[500];
+	char		*hisdomain, *mapbuf;
+	int		matchlen = 0, hislen, thislen, i, c, fd;
+	struct stat	st;
+
+	chdir(BASEDIR);
+
+	printf("Content-type: text/html\n");
+
+	/*
+	 * Get the remote domain name and make it lower case.
+	 */
+	hisdomain = getenv("REMOTE_HOST");
+	if (hisdomain == NULL)
+		hisdomain = strdup("com");
+	hislen = strlen(hisdomain);
+	for (i = 0; i < hislen; i++)
+		hisdomain[i] = tolower(hisdomain[i]);
+
+	/*
+	 * Now read list entries and find the filename with the longest
+	 * matching domain name.
+	 */
+	fp = fopen(LISTFILE, "r");
+	if (fp)
+	{
+		/* First entry is the default filename. */
+		fscanf(fp, "%s %s", domain, bestname);
+
+		while (fscanf(fp, "%s %s", domain, filename) > -1)
+		{
+			thislen = strlen(domain);
+			if (thislen > matchlen && thislen <= hislen)
+			{
+				if (! strcmp(domain, hisdomain+hislen-thislen))
+				{
+					strcpy(bestname, filename);
+					matchlen = thislen;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		fclose(fp);
+	}
+	else
+		strcpy(bestname, ERRORFILE);
+
+	/*
+	 * Output the file in question.
+	 */
+	fd = open(bestname, 0);
+	if (fd < 0)
+		fd = open(ERRORFILE, 0);
+	if (fd < 0)
+	{
+err:
+		printf("\n
    Fatal error!
    \n");
+		printf("Can't find an episode list.\n");
+		exit(0);
+	}
+
+	if (fstat(fd, &st))
+		goto err;
+
+#if defined(MAP_FAILED) && defined(MAP_SHARED) /* { */
+	mapbuf = mmap(NULL, (size_t) st.st_size, PROT_READ,
+			MAP_SHARED, fd, (off_t) 0);
+	if (mapbuf == MAP_FAILED)
+	{
+		perror("eplist: mmap");
+		goto err;
+	}
+
+	close(fd);
+
+	printf("Content-length: %lu\n\n", (unsigned long)st.st_size);
+	fflush(stdout);
+
+	write(1, mapbuf, (unsigned long)st.st_size);
+
+#else /* }{ */
+	printf("Content-length: %lu\n\n", (unsigned long)st.st_size);
+
+	fp = fdopen(fd, "r");
+	while ((c = getc(fp)) != EOF)
+		putchar(c);
+	fclose(fp);
+	fflush(stdout);
+#endif /* } */
+
+	close(1);
+
+	{
+		char	*c, *val;
+
+		val = getenv("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
+		for (c = val; *c; c++)
+			if (*c == '/')
+				*c = '#';
+		
+		chdir("/home/woodstock/koreth/browsers");
+		fd = open(val, O_RDWR | O_APPEND | O_CREAT, 0644);
+		write(fd, val, 1);
+		close(fd);
+	}
+
+	exit(0);
+}
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+cd /home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk
+
+thisweek=`date "+%y/%m/%d"`
+export thisweek
+
+filename="`egrep '^'$thisweek eplist.html | head -1 | sed 's/.*\\([0-9][0-9][0-9].html\\).*/\\1/'`"
+
+cd guide
+rm current.html
+ln -s $filename current.html
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Support Page
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+See Also: 
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+Please send updates/comments directly to danwood@pobox.com
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+If viewers wish to keep seeing B5 locally, now is the time to campaign the stations to get
+them to change their mind.  Several stations have changed their minds due to fan lobbying!
+
    
+
+Some useful things to do.  Volunteer coordinators are needed for many of these efforts!
+
      
+
    •  Write a polite letter to your local station, asking them to change their minds
+	and renew the show.  (Use your own words!)  Point out that ratings and demographics have been very good at
+	many stations, especially when the show is given a decent time slot.  Many stations are moving B5 to a better
+	time slot for season 4, which indicates their confidence in the show.
+
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+	pick up B5 for next Fall.
+
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+
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+	
+
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+
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+	on the Internet are only a fraction of total viewers in your area, and they probably don't
+	know that the show has been dropped.
+	Possible techniques include:
+	
        
+	
      •  Make several dozen inexpensive flyers or bookmarks and distribute them to comic shops, SF/Fantasy/
+		Roleplaying shops, bookstores.  This sample flyer can be printed out at
+		150 DPI, laid out 4 to a page, and photocopied.  Or, design your own.
+	
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+		letters to the editor, phone calls, etc. could be effective.
+	
      •  Get the word out at any local conventions, SF-related events, SF/B5 fan clubs, or any organizations
+		where there may be lots of B5 viewers.
+	
      
+
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+You'll get fame and glory, and if you can organize with people to help, you may just manage to get the show
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+
    
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Support Page
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
    
+
    
+See Also: 
+Station Address List - 
+Air Times - 
+Official Babylon 5 web site's Support page - 
+How to help bring back B5
+
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+
+
+Lurker's Guide reader survey
+
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+
+Londo's voice over (note differences with series, cf MotFL). 
    
+
    
+I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind.  It began in
+the Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon
+stations, located deep in neutral space.  It was a port of call
+for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats, and travelers
+from a hundred worlds.  Could be a dangerous place.  But we
+accepted the risk, because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope
+for peace.  Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon
+5 was a dream given form: a dream of a galaxy without war, when
+species from different worlds could live side by side in mutual
+respect.  A dream that was in danger as never before, by the
+arrival of one man on a mission of destruction.  Babylon 5 was
+the last of the Babylon stations.  This is its story.
+
    
+
    
+
    
+We join LtCdr Takashima at Ops, guiding a transport ship in to dock.
+Station security chief Garibaldi calls in (most contacts within the
+station are both audio and video).  He's looking for Cdr Sinclair, who
+needs to meet one of its passengers personally.  Takashima reports he's
+on his way already. 
    
+
+Del Varner (one man on a mission of destruction), is in the docking bay
+passing through security.  Sinclair arrives to meet Lyta Alexander, the
+telepath newly assigned to B5.  While Varner is watching, Sinclair
+welcomes her aboard and explains the rules of the station.  As they head
+off to her quarters, Lyta looks back; she and Varner appear to have
+exchanged glances. 
    
+
+Ambassador G'Kar storms into Ops, shouting objections to the requirement
+that his supply ship from Narn submit to a weapons search.  Takashima
+deflects him coolly and there is no resolution.  "As far as I'm
+concerned, they can sit out there for the next solar year.  If it makes
+you feel any better, I could send them a fruit basket..." 
    
+
+Sinclair and Lyta cut through the alien sector on the way to her
+quarters.  Sinclair uses the otherworldliness of it to underscore his
+point about B5's purpose - it's a hub for exchange of all kinds between
+people of all kinds, and must be able to cater to any of them.  "Sooner
+or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5."  At Lyta's question, Sinclair
+explains what happened to the other four stations: three were sabotaged,
+one more simply disappeared 24 hours after coming on-line.  She does not
+take this to be a good sign. 
    
+
+Later, the senior officers are gathered in Sinclair's office.  Kosh, the
+last of four foreign ambassadors to B5, will be arriving in 48 hours.
+From the input of the officers it is clear that the Vorlons are very
+secretive.  Takashima has been in contact with Kosh but with audio only
+- the Vorlon claimed his monitors were malfunctioning.  Garibaldi says
+the Earth Alliance knows almost nothing about them - no-one's even seen
+a Vorlon.  Dr. Kyle (medical chief) says they've only given him enough
+info to generate the right atmosphere - "Pretty thick stuff." 
    
+
+Outside, a tiny clawed ship deploys from an undocked transport, zips
+down to the station, grabs onto it, and carves a hole in the hull under
+its belly. 
    
+
+Minbari Ambassador Delenn invites Sinclair to meet in the Garden, an
+open air environment in the center of the station (the view down the
+great cylinder is breathtaking).  He is starting to ask why he sees her
+there almost every other day, but she interrupts him. 
    
+
    +  D: Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable,
+     unchanging.  But drop in a single stone, and see how the
+     pattern changes.  Everything around it is altered.  
+     [turning to Sinclair] This is from your world?
+  S: It's a Japanese stone garden.  Setting it aside was tough.
+     [...]
+  D: I am glad it is here.  On my world there are books -
+     thousands of pages - about the power of one mind to change
+     the universe.  But none say it as clearly as this.
+     [Delenn changes the topic to the Vorlons, and gives Sinclair
+     a copy of all the information she has about them]
+  D: If anyone asks, say it fell from the sky.
+  S: Why?  I mean the war between us has been over for almost ten
+     years but there are still a lot of people on either side
+     who'd hang both of us for this kind of...
+  D: [standing] Commander - you know everything about your stone
+     garden, but clearly you have not spent enough time looking
+     at it.  Good day.  
+
    
+The Garden's artificial night descends on Sinclair as he stares off down
+the station's axis. 
    
+
+At Ops, a ship is reported to be coming through the jump point.
+Takashima is distressed - "Damn, that's a Vorlon ship all right.
+Ambassador Kosh two days early.  I was afraid he'd pull something like
+this." 
    
+
+In a dark corridor, a poorly glimpsed figure scans its hand at a door,
+which opens to reveal Varner inside.  As the figure enters, Varner says,
+"About time."  But, when the door swings shut, there is a bright flash
+of light and the thud of a falling body from within. 
    
+
+Sinclair, Garibaldi, and Takashima are strapped into a rail-car moving
+down the axis to the other end of the station.  Kosh will be arriving in
+only two hours.  Sinclair sends Garibaldi to ensure that Ambassador
+Londo will be at the early reception, "We don't want a repeat of what
+happened when G'Kar arrived."  A private message then comes in for
+Sinclair, which he says he'll take in his quarters. 
    
+
+The message is from Sinclair's SO, Carolyn Sykes, who is returning a
+week early from a trading expedition (ETA 1 hour, 40 minutes).  "Just in
+time for the reception," says Sinclair, already starting to look haggard
+as he changes outfits. 
    
+
+G'Kar stops Takashima in an upward-curving corridor to happily announce
+that he's ordered his transport to submit to the weapons search. 
    
+
    +  G: Since you doubtless have your hands full, our captain will
+     wait until after the Ambassador's ship has docked.  Is that
+     satisfactory?
+  T: Yes, yes it is.  Are you feeling all right Ambassador?
+  G: Couldn't be better!  See you at the reception then...  
+     [he walks off, humming and bouncing]
+
    
+Londo is gambling at the station's casino.  Garibaldi arrives, for whose
+monetary support Londo soon appeals.  Del Varner is listening in from a
+table very near by as Londo touts his own gambling system.  When he
+suddenly starts reminiscing about the days of Centauri wartime
+greatness, Garibaldi interrupts him - "Be a good Ambassador and promise
+you'll be at Docking Bay 9 in two hours."  "I'll be there," Londo
+agrees, "what else have I got to do - I'm broke!"  However, when
+Garibaldi leaves, Varner approaches Londo, "This system of yours - it's
+a sure thing...?" 
    
+
+Lyta Alexander is telepathically overseeing a business deal, to the
+marked (but honest) advantage of the fellow employing her.  When that
+concludes, G'Kar invites her to talk, invoking "privacy" (a feature of
+the room that can shield transactions at any table).  G'Kar proceeds to
+offer her money for sex, the major purpose (but clearly not the only
+one) being to acquire telepathy for the Narn Regime through her genetic
+resources.  Lyta is not interested.  "I've heard about the Narn
+obsession with buying new technology, but you can't just buy someone's
+genetic makeup.  It's... immoral."  G'Kar persists, even to the point of
+bringing up details of the coupling.  We can only assume, from her
+expression, that she doesn't take him up on it. 
    
+
+Varner steps into a corridor where a security guard is shining a
+flashlight in peoples' faces.  Varner passes this scrutiny and smiles
+confidently. 
    
+
+The Vorlon ship is closing up its scintillating fins and entering the
+station under Takashima's control.  She routes it to docking bay 9 and
+directs Sinclair there. 
    
+
+Sinclair steps onto a turbolift and takes it down, but it stops almost
+immediately.  The computer reports a momentary power loss - there will
+be a 2.3 minute delay for secondary power to become available. 
    
+
+The Vorlon ship opens and Kosh emerges, wearing a great big encounter
+suit with a cape hanging from the back.  He glides slowly down the ramp
+into the bay. 
    
+
+Sinclair jogs up to the closed docking bay, arriving at the same time as
+Garibaldi and Takashima.  Garibaldi begins to complain about Londo's
+absence, but an alarm suddenly goes off.  Sinclair sends Takashima off
+to notify security and opens the bay door, finding Kosh on the floor.
+They can't open his suit because the atmosphere would kill him, so
+Sinclair sends Garibaldi off to have Kyle ready the medlab immediately. 
    
+
+Later, Sinclair is in the medlab, where Kyle is mixing up the atmosphere
+for Kosh.  Takashima comes in and reports that the Vorlon government has
+forbidden them to open the encounter suit at all.  "We haven't come this
+far to watch it all fall apart," Sinclair growls.  "Jeff, I'm warning
+you," she objects, "they're deadly serious about security."  "Then we'll
+give them security," - he orders all monitors and data logging to be
+turned off, reminds Kyle of his oath of confidentiality, and sends him
+in to do what he can.  He acquiesces, and as he prepares for the
+unknown, Takashima says, "Good luck, and I hope you're wrong..." 
    
+
+Looking through the glass into the environment room, Takashima tells
+Sinclair what she and Kyle had been talking about earlier - legend has
+it that the only human being ever to have seen a Vorlon had been turned
+to stone.  Soon ready, Kyle touches the outside of the suit in a couple
+places, and it opens, light streaming out.  He looks in... and sees what
+he sees. 
    
+
+Later, in his office, Sinclair is reporting to Earth that Kosh could
+well die.  The Senator warns that the Vorlon government is very
+suspicious of what happened - if there is any sign of foul play there
+could be serious repercussions.  On hearing that Garibaldi is in charge
+of the investigation, he's skeptical.  "Is that wise?  I was opposed to
+you bringing him on in the first place.  He's been bounced from one
+station to another for years, I don't know if he's up to an
+investigation on this scale."  (Garibaldi has come in meanwhile and has
+been listening out of sight.)  Sinclair proclaims complete confidence in
+his security chief, and they sign off.  "Old news," Garibaldi says.
+Sinclair charges him with finding out where everyone was during the five
+minutes between Kosh's arrival and the alarm, and grants him "full
+diplomatic access." 
    
+
+Stumbling into his quarters, Sinclair finds Carolyn in his bed.  "You
+really should change your access code more often," she says.  He kisses
+her and collapses in exhaustion. 
    
+
+We find Dr. Kyle in the outer room of the medlab, staring blankly off
+into space.  The computer analysis completes; an unidentified foreign
+compound is present in Kosh's body.  His condition is very poor, the
+prognosis terminal. 
    
+
+Kyle, un-rattled as usual, wakes up Sinclair to report that Kosh was
+poisoned, and he needs know what kind of poison it was in order to
+counteract it.  If he knew where it got in through the environment suit,
+he could probably find enough of it there for an identification.
+Failing that, Kosh will die in 24 hours.  Sinclair immediately calls
+security and seals off the station: no ships may come or go until
+further notice. 
    
+
+Meanwhile, G'Kar and Delenn are in her quarters talking about the
+situation. 
    
+
+
    +  G: Why won't you accept the facts?  Who was the only one of us
+     missing from the welcome party when Kosh arrived?  Londo
+     Mollari!
+  D: And why would the Centauri Republic want to kill Ambassador
+     Kosh?
+  G: What better way to prop up a fading empire than to start a
+     war? They've been trying to join forces with the Earth
+     Alliance for years!  A mutual enemy would serve that purpose
+     very well.
+  D: And if your assumption is correct and he is the assassin,
+     what would you suggest?
+  G: An alliance between our governments.  Yours is the oldest of
+     the five federations, ours is the youngest.
+     Technologically, you're centuries ahead of everyone else.
+     We have unlimited manpower and the will to use it!  Can
+     you imagine what we could achieve together?
+  D: I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen.
+     Your perceptions are colored by your history with the
+     Centauri.  As former slaves of their government, you would
+     seize any opportunity to raise a force against them.
+  G: We were never slaves!  Our world was invaded, our people...
+  D: The word - was ill chosen.  My apologies.  But my decision
+     stands. Thank you for coming, Ambassador.
+  G: HAH!  I should have known better than to waste my time.
+     You're even worse than the Centauri; they're beyond the
+     dream of conquest.  But you, you had the Earth Alliance on
+     its knees - one more stroke and you would have defeated
+     them!  Yet you surrendered - why?
+  D: We had our reasons.
+     [While G'Kar talks into space, Delenn opens a hidden
+     compartment and puts on one of 20 or so simple rings
+     ceremoniously displayed there]
+  G: On Narn we heard that the decision to surrender came from
+     your holy men.  A secret group called the "Grey Council" -
+     weak frightened old fools with no vision or the will to
+     fight.  But we -
+
    
+
+Delenn interrupts him with the palm of her now-ring-bearing hand; G'Kar
+is suddenly transfixed by artificial gravity.  Delenn doesn't release
+G'Kar from the worsening force until she extracts from him the promise
+that he never mention the Grey Council in her presence again.  (While
+completely over-matched, G'Kar does remain standing.)  Once released, he
+pants, "Oh Delenn, I gave you a chance for greatness and you threw it
+away.  Whatever happens now, let it be on your own head." 
    
+
+Garibaldi finds Londo at the bar by the casino.  "It's a pity," Londo
+says, "I suppose there'll be war now, mm?  All that running around
+shooting at one another?  I would have thought sooner or later it would
+go out of fashion."  When Garibaldi begins questioning him, Londo blows
+him off, but then acquiesces to "full diplomatic access."  He was still
+gambling at the time, he claims - Varner had promised to back his bets
+but then pulled out after Londo suffered heavy losses. 
    
+
+
    +  L: He's here, if you want to talk to him.
+     [he points out Varner across the room, but Garibaldi
+     continues to question]
+  G: Can anyone confirm your story?
+  L: Yes - the new telepath, Lyta Alexander.  I saw her talking
+     to Varner shortly after you left.
+  G: Who would want to kill the ambassador?
+  L: Mr. Garibaldi - it's a big universe!  If I knew who did it I
+     would tell you.  I'm not here to make trouble.  You know why
+     I am here?  I'm here to grovel before your wonderful Earth
+     Alliance, in hopes of attaching ourselves to your destiny,
+     like... what are those fish called on your planet that
+     attach themselves to sharks?
+  G: Ramoras.
+  L: Yes.  You make very good sharks Mr. Garibaldi.  We were
+     pretty good sharks ourselves, once - but somehow, along the
+     way, we forgot how to bite.  There was a time, when this
+     whole quadrant belonged to us!  What are we now?  Twelve
+     worlds and a thousand monuments to past glories, living off
+     memories, stories, selling trinkets.  My god man, we've
+     become a tourist attraction!  "See the great Centauri
+     Republic, open 9 to 5, Earth time."  [he sighs] Anything
+     else?
+  G: No. Thank-you, Ambassador.
+
    
+
+Finally walking over to question Varner, Garibaldi discovers the man is
+nowhere to be found. 
    
+
+Takashima and Kyle are in private quarters, discussing the Kosh dilemma.
+At the Vorlons' request, all the monitors had been off in the docking
+bay, so no-one but Kosh himself knows how he was poisoned.  Kyle
+suggests that they enlist the telepath's aid to find out, and Takashima
+agrees it's the best thing to do (but only after a quite contrary story
+from her own life about the importance of sticking by the rules).  The
+Vorlons would never allow it, of course, so they plan to proceed behind
+Sinclair's back. 
    
+
+When they confront Lyta with the idea in the medlab, she objects - quite
+rightly - that she could be thrown out of the Psi Corps for the crime of
+unauthorized mind scanning.  Takashima urges the gravity of the
+situation, "Lyta, if the ambassador dies, the Vorlons will retaliate.
+This station is the first logical target.  If I were in their position,
+I'd have a cruiser standing by in hyperspace right now just waiting to
+attack us.  Thousands would die, and after us who knows how many
+more..." 
    
+
+Meanwhile, air is leaking out from one of the holes caused by the
+grabber ship still attached to the hull.  The techs begin to notice
+the pressure loss and send a maintenance pod to investigate. 
    
+
+Vast forces weighing upon her shoulders, Lyta agrees to scan Kosh.
+Preparing herself, she explains, "When I get inside, it's subjective -
+I'll feel what he felt, but I'll see my body, not his.  This could get
+rough."  Initially she can't make mental contact with him, but succeeds
+when she takes off one of her gloves and puts her hand inside the
+encounter suit. 
    
+
+With Lyta, we see Sinclair walking forward through a warped image of the
+docking bay.  "Welcome to Babylon 5," he says, smiling.  A glance at his
+left hand shows it is slightly cupped away from sight.  Sinclair offers
+his right, and we see a woman's arm reach forward to shake it (PoV,
+remember).  He quickly grabs the proffered hand and slaps a big red
+circle onto the back of it.  Soon the image of the bay distorts and
+tumbles, leaving us looking up from the floor at a grim Sinclair, then
+blackness. 
    
+
+In the medlab, Lyta is screaming blindly.  Once the staff extricate her
+from the environment room, Kyle and Takashima talk her back to reality.
+She reports where the poison hit, and Sinclair jogs in just in time for
+Lyta to viciously accuse him of the deed. 
    
+
+Later, we momentarily see Varner in the marketplace pointing a little
+gadget at Lyta, who apparently doesn't see him. 
    
+
+The maintenance pod comes upon the grabber ship, which produces a cannon
+and demolishes it. 
    
+
+Varner follows a yellow-suited man into a turbolift and gets recognized
+by Eric, a yellow-suited tech.  There is a flash of light as the door
+closes, and Eric emerges grimly - and alone. 
    
+
+In another senior staff meeting, Takashima reports that word has gotten
+out that a witness has identified Sinclair as the assassin.  The senator
+calls and, given conflict of interest, orders Sinclair to temporarily
+surrender command of the station to Takashima, who will also represent
+the EA at the upcoming emergency council.  "Jeff, once the council gets
+into this, there's nothing we can do without compromising the neutrality
+of Babylon 5 - we can't let that happen."  After the senator signs
+off, the officers voice strong objections, but Sinclair demands that
+they do this one by the book. 
    
+
+The Babylon 5 advisory council is in session.  G'Kar is making the case
+against Sinclair: he was suspiciously missing when Kosh debarked, and
+there is no record of the lift malfunction Sinclair claims delayed him.
+G'Kar opens the floor to questions, and Delenn asks Dr. Kyle who it was
+that identified Sinclair.  Kyle replies that the witness has requested
+anonymity, which would of course change if this went to trial.  When
+asked about the poison, Kyle reports that it was Florizine, a rare
+poison found only in the Damocles sector [a chilling name].  G'Kar
+immediately announces that "Sinclair's woman" had arrived from the that
+very sector less than an hour before the assassination attempt! 
    
+
+During a recess, Londo is at the bar again, staring at his drink.  G'Kar
+walks merrily up to him and says, "Ambassador Mollari, I would like to
+discuss your vote with you." 
    
+
+Garibaldi is updating Sinclair on his investigation as they walk through
+the corridors.  Garibaldi doesn't trust what Lyta has to say - "I've
+seen her a lot with Del Varner, the guy who kept Londo from attending
+the reception."  Turns out Varner has many EA indictments for smuggling
+illegal technology.  Garibaldi can't fathom that man's actions; why
+would he put himself at risk stepping into EA jurisdiction?  Why would
+he deliberately anger Londo by offering monetary support and then
+backing out, when many of his own underworld clients are Centauri?
+Furthermore, Varner was too much in debt to cover Londo's bets anyway.
+Sinclair sends Garibaldi off to talk to have a chat with Mr. Varner. 
    
+
+Council resumes - Sinclair is now on the stand.  G'Kar opens with a
+motion to extradite Sinclair to the Vorlon home-world for trial and
+quickly opens the vote with a yes.  Takashima votes no for EA.  Delenn,
+with unknown difficulty, abstains.  Londo, with deep regret, votes yes.
+The council is deadlocked: two for, two against or abstaining.  G'Kar
+then announces that he'd suggested his idea to the Vorlon government
+just recently: they requested that he vote yes on their behalf.  The
+motion passes, deportation to take place in 12 hours. 
    
+
+Garibaldi arrives at Varner's quarters to find the access system out of
+commission.  Gaining entry with a gadget, he puzzles at a small puddle
+of orangish liquid on the floor.  Then he puzzles at Del Varner's body
+in a big fish tank. 
    
+
+In the medlab, Kyle confirms that the body is indeed Varner's, dead for
+at least X hours.  Also, he will be able to counteract the poison in 6-7
+hours, which is not much less than the time Kosh has got left. 
    
+
+Garibaldi has lost the only lead he'd found.  "Dammit, maybe they were
+right - maybe you got the wrong man for this job after all," he says to
+Sinclair in the corridors.  "Michael, I picked you because you're right
+for the job.  You're not politick, you're not subtle, and sometimes
+you're a pain in the ass - and I wouldn't have it any other way." 
    
+
+At Ops, a tech reports to Takashima that the maintenance pod was lost.
+She sends a repair crew to check out what's going on. 
    
+
+G'Kar and Lyta meet in the alien sector.  She notes his lack of a
+breathing mask, and he points out his gill implants.  "Come," he says,
+"there's been a complication." 
    
+
+In the casino, Londo apologizes to Garibaldi for his vote - G'Kar had
+blackmailed him with scandalous information about Londo's father.  Of
+such secrets is Centauri power made and broken.  Londo didn't know his
+vote would matter, but he admits, at Garibaldi's questioning, that
+knowing wouldn't have changed anything.  "This is my weakness, my
+failure.  I am sorry, truly sorry." 
    
+
+In Sinclair's quarters, Carolyn is looking in awe at a medal of honor. 
    
+
+
    +  C: Jeff, this medal, you were on the Line, and you never told
+     me?
+  S: I didn't want to talk about it. 
+  C: Why?
+     [Sinclair broods over a star globe, looking old]
+  S: I was a squad team leader when the call came in.  We all
+     knew it was a suicide mission, the Minbari had broken
+     through, closing in.  Every ship we had left was ordered to
+     circle Earth.  We had to stop them, no matter what it cost.
+     They came at us out of nowhere, we never had a chance.  The
+     sky was full of stars, every star an exploding ship.  One of
+     ours.  My team was blown out of the sky in less than a
+     minute.  Twelve ships.  I managed to take out a fighter
+     before they hit my stabilizers.  I was losing power, I'd
+     lost my team, and I figured if I was going to die I'd take
+     someone out with me, so I targeted one of their heavy
+     cruisers, hit my afterburners.  I was going to ram them head
+     on.  The last thing I remember is hurtling toward that
+     cruiser, filling my screen.  Big... my god so big.  Then,
+     something passed in front of my eyes - I guess I blacked out
+     from the acceleration.  When I came to 24 hours later, the
+     cruiser was gone.  I checked in.  They told me the war was
+     over.  The Minbari had surrendered.
+  C: [appealing] Because of the Line.
+  S: No.  We were beaten.  We didn't stop them, they stopped
+     themselves, and I wish to hell I knew why.
+
    
+
+Meanwhile, Lyta enters the medlab and engages Kyle in conversation about
+Kosh's condition.  While Kyle walks around examining readings, Lyta
+surreptitiously shuts down medical equipment behind him.  Kyle starts to
+ask her how it is that she was seen talking to a man who'd already been
+dead, but is interrupted by alarms going off.  He tries to stop Lyta,
+and they exchange blows.  Kyle is painfully tossed around, but stumbles
+into a floor-mounted laser, with which he manages to shoot her in the
+arm.  She stumbles through the exit, drawing a weapon.  In the hallway
+outside, she encounters the real Lyta Alexander running to
+investigate.  The fake points her gun at Lyta for a full heartbeat,
+screeching but not shooting, then whirls and fires at Sinclair instead
+as he comes in from the other direction.  Sinclair dives aside and she
+escapes.  Inside the medlab, Kyle has been doing damage-control, and
+reports that Kosh will still pull through. 
    
+
+The false Lyta is careening down the corridor, cradling her arm.
+Falling against a wall, her whole face is malformed momentarily by a
+scream of pain.  She stumbles on. 
    
+
+In a cargo bay, Garibaldi shows the now-disabled grabber ship to
+Sinclair, reporting how it was found.  Only one individual could have
+come aboard in it.  "Short range," Sinclair muses - some other ship must
+have brought it here.  Garibaldi also reports that the body of Eric the
+tech has turned up dead, yet friends have reported seeing him recently.
+Just then Takashima links in to call them all over to Varner's quarters
+- she has something to show them. 
    
+
+Takashima has cracked open Varner's files and discovered that Varner was
+on the station to sell a changeling net: illegal technology that can
+make a person's appearance and voice that of someone else, at the risk
+of death from prolonged exposure.  "So that's what Kosh saw in the
+docking bay," Takashima realizes.  The net puts out a huge amount of
+energy, enough to detect with the station's sensors.  Sinclair orders
+Takashima to reconfigure them to scan inwards, and then heads off to
+security. 
    
+
+Sinclair and Garibaldi arrive at Ops in body armor, carrying big guns.
+Filtering out known sources, Takashima finds the expected energy spike.
+Sinclair orders that area sealed off and heads for the door.  Takashima
+suggests they take a hovering recorder along, "The way things are going,
+you may need a witness."  Indeed, moments after they've left, a tech
+reports that something is coming through the jump gate.  "It must be the
+transport ship - damn!" she says.  The tech looks up in fear - "That's
+not a transport!"  "Looks like the commander's ride is here," she
+replies.  But it's not just a ride - no less than three Vorlon
+cruisers emerge from the gate amid a swarm of fighters. 
    
+
+In the corridors, Sinclair has Garibaldi set his weapon to a non-killing
+level so that they can take the assassin alive.  The move in with
+Takashima's assistance from Ops, pinpointing the energy source.  There
+is a brief exchange of fire, and Garibaldi is thrown backward by a hit
+in the chest.  He tears off his super-heated jacket, which took most of
+the blast.  Sinclair forges ahead alone. 
    
+
+At Ops, the Vorlons have demanded the immediate transport of Sinclair.
+Takashima orders a tech to link the Vorlons in to the recorder following
+him.  While the tech gets to work on that, the Vorlons threaten attack
+in 5 minutes. 
    
+
+Sinclair exchanges fire with the assassin, but neither is hit.  He
+stalks slowly forward to where the figure disappeared, looking back
+once.  When he turns his attention forward again the assassin (disguised
+now as Eric) tackles him from behind.  Both apparently having lost their
+guns now, they start fist-fighting.  Sinclair is quickly in severe
+trouble.  However, the chameleon net starts changing images as they
+grapple - first Varner appears, then Lyta, and finally Sinclair himself
+in body armor!  The assassin is forced to pause each time, and at the
+last change Sinclair throws him against a high-voltage barrier in a room
+across the corridor.  Gouts of electricity pour through the figure, and
+the disguise finally gives out, revealing him to be...  Minbari! 
    
+
+The Vorlon fighters are powering up their already awesome-looking
+weapons as they close on the station.  The tech finally gets the signal
+from the recorder finally connected to the outgoing link. 
    
+
+There is an explosion (possibly the chameleon net), and the assassin is
+thrown back into the corridor.  "Why," Sinclair asks in wonder, "Why did
+you do it?"  Looking up at him, the Minbari has only this to say: "There
+is a hole in your mind."  With that, he reaches up and breaks his own
+wrist, activating some kind of device in his arm.  Through the link,
+Takashima shouts, "Oh my god, he's wired!"  Sinclair orders the area
+sealed off and sprints down the corridor.  He's quickly blown through a
+closing bulkhead by a great explosion behind him. 
    
+
+B5 is thrown off kilter by the blast, and Vorlon fighters veer off to
+avoid colliding with it.  It takes quite some effort on Takashima's part
+to pull it back into position without ripping apart the spinning
+station. 
    
+
+Garibaldi and Delenn find Sinclair returning from the destroyed section.
+
+"This little breach of security isn't gonna affect my Christmas bonus,
+is it?" Garibaldi quips.  Delenn asks him, "Do you need anything?"
+"Coffee," Sinclair chuckles, "two sugars, cream - and aspirin." 
    
+
+
+A shower and change later, Sinclair sees Carolyn off the station -
+
+trading has called her away again.  On a whim, she invites him to quit
+Babylon 5 and go off with her.  "I'll think about it," he says.  "Well
+don't take too long," she replies, "I'll wait, but not forever." 
    
+
+Later, the officers gather in the medlab.  The station will be fully
+operational again in a few days, and Kosh is recovering and out of
+critical.  Then Delenn enters and invites Sinclair aside, "I regret that
+a Minbari was responsible for all this sadness," she says.  Sinclair is
+forgiving - "You can't be responsible for the actions of every member of
+your race, Delenn."  "No.  But there is something I can do." So saying,
+she gives him a file of information about the assassin, whose clan she
+recognized when she watched the recording broadcast to the Vorlons.  "I
+think you'll find it...  most interesting." 
    
+
+Still later, Sinclair is in his quarters, proposing a toast with G'Kar
+"To a fully operational Babylon 5!"  "To the future!", G'Kar returns,
+and they drink.  G'Kar expresses his pleasure at how it all turned out,
+and reaffirms their mutual goal of peace.  However, Sinclair has his own
+agenda. 
    
+
+
    +  S: I'm surprised you didn't ask about Del Varner.
+  G: I assumed he was simply another innocent victim.
+  S: Not quite.  His last entry spoke of a big payoff for
+     bringing a changeling net across the border.  He was
+     supposed to meet with his buyer in the Tigris sector but was
+     running behind - didn't your supply ship also pass through
+     the Tigris sector on its way here?
+  G: If you have a point to make, Commander, pleeease make it.
+  S: I believe the assassin was brought here on your supply ship.
+     [G'Kar is carefully examining Sinclair's bric-a-brac]
+     That's why they needed the changeling net before they
+     arrived - a Minbari warrior walking off a Narn ship would
+     draw a lot of attention.  With the net, he could appear to
+     be one of your crew and infiltrate the station.  When Varner
+     missed connecting with your ship he came here, so you had to
+     find another way to get the assassin on board.  They used
+     the transport we found on the station's hull to get him
+     inside, he then killed Del Varner and grabbed the changeling
+     net.
+  G: Sheer speculation, Commander.  With the death of Del Varner,
+     and of the assassin, you have no proof.
+
    
+
+G'Kar goes to leave, but Sinclair has one last thing to tell him.  It
+
+seems with his drink G'Kar has swallowed some nanotechnology, which has
+by now made itself at home in his intestines.  It is shielded from
+outside detection, and it can be used to pinpoint G'Kar's location at
+any time.  Sinclair points something at him by way of demonstration, and
+G'Kar jumps when it beeps.  "This is an outrage!" he cries.  "This is
+insurance," Sinclair replies, "What you do here is your own business.
+You can scheme and plan and play all the games you want.  But get this
+straight - if you ever endanger this station again, my people will find
+you, and the results will be most unpleasant." 
    
+
+Storming out of Sinclair's quarters, G'Kar is blocked for a moment by
+Garibaldi and Londo coming out of a lift.  Garibaldi mimes a gadget at
+G'Kar with a "beep-beep" as he walks by.  "Beep Beep?" Londo asks, 
+"It must be Earth humor.  Who can figure a species like that - Beep 
+Beep."  G'Kar is quite beside himself. 
    
+
+Londo walks on to the reception, but Garibaldi and Sinclair stop and
+talk in the corridor.   
    
+
+
    +  G: Do you think they'll find that transmitter you slipped him?
+  S: No.  Because there isn't one.
+  G: There isn't?  Wait...
+  S: I lied.  I figured if there was a transmitter sooner or
+     later they'd find it and remove it.  But if I just told him
+     there was, they'd keep looking, indefinitely.
+  G: Commander, do you have any idea of the tests they'll put him
+     through, the things they'll do to him, tryin' to find a
+     transmitter that's not there?
+  S: Yes.  Come on...
+
    
+
+All are present at Kosh's long-delayed reception except G'Kar (possibly
+off having his stomach pumped).  Sinclair welcomes Kosh to the station,
+there is applause, and Kosh bows.  Delenn steps forward and nods in
+respect, and Londo raises his glass to him. 
    
+
+Later, Delenn finds Sinclair alone in the night-darkened Garden. 
    
+
+
    +  S: Delenn, just before he died, the Minbari assassin looked at
+     me and said, "There is a hole in your mind."
+  D: An old Minbari insult, nothing you need worry about.
+  S: Maybe... it's just - there's a 24-hour period in my life
+     that I can't account for.  It happened during the war with
+     your people.  You wouldn't be holding anything out on me
+     would you, old friend?
+  D: Commander, I would never tell you anything that was not in
+     your best interest.
+  S: Well, we'll talk about this again, one of these days.  Come
+     on, we should get back to the reception.
+  D: By the way, there's something I've been wondering - why
+     "Babylon 5?"  After prior four stations were lost, or
+     destroyed, why build another?
+  S: Plain old human stubbornness, I guess.  When something we
+     value is destroyed, we rebuild it.  If it's destroyed again
+     we rebuild it again.  And again, and again, and... [looking
+     down the vast Garden] again.  Until it stays.  That, as our
+     poet Tennyson once said, is the goal: "To strive, to seek,
+     to find, and not to yield."  
+
    
+
+Lastly, from a beautiful point of view outside the station, we see
+Takashima at Ops.  "This is Lieutenant Commander Takashima.  Our docking
+bays stand ready to receive you.  Babylon 5 is open for business." 
    
+
+Matthew Ryan mattryan@pobox.com
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Matthew Ryan.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as
+long as the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5
+is a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that copyright
+is intended by writing these synopses.
    
+
+Anthony Taylor (FNATT@elmer.alaska.edu) wrote a preliminary version of
+the files on the pilot, and I am grateful to him for many of the points
+listed on the above page (included with his permission). 
    
+
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+
       Midnight on the Firing Line, as well as the Babylon 5
+series, starts out at the Ragesh 3 colony, a Centauri agricultural
+colony.  The colony finds itself suddenly under attack.  As the
+station in orbit around the colony is about to contact its home
+world, Centauri Prime, the station is destroyed.
+
    
+ The attack
+on Ragesh 3.
+
       Meanwhile, on the Babylon 5 station.  Lt. Commander Susan
+Ivanova, the new officer who is second in command of the station,
+interrupts the only quiet, restful part of Commander Jeffrey
+Sinclair's day--a time when he shuts off his comm-link and
+"escapes" from the rigor of his life.  "There's a problem," she
+tells him.
+
       Elsewhere on the station, Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari is
+having a pleasant conversation with Security Chief Michael
+Garibaldi when Londo receives word that the Ragesh 3 colony has
+been attacked.  He's informed, however, that nobody knows who the
+attackers are.
+
       Londo and Sinclair meet concerning the incident.  Sinclair
+tells Londo that Earth doesn't know anything more about the
+incident--the identity of the attackers is still a great mystery. 
+Ambassadors Delenn (of the Minbari) and G'Kar (of the Narn), offer
+their condolences and also claim to know very little about the
+attack.  Sinclair suggests that an emergency meeting of the Council
+be called to discuss the matter and lend aid to the Centauri
+colony.
+
       Shortly after, on the bridge, Ivanova informs Garibaldi that
+they've received a distress signal from a trading ship near the
+station.  She says that at first, she thought the incident might
+have had something to do with the Ragesh 3 incident, but that,
+instead, the ship claims to have been attacked by "raiders."
+Garibaldi takes a fighter out to try to come to the aid of the ship
+that was attacked.  Right after Garibaldi leaves the bridge, Talia
+Winters--the commercial telepath on the station--enters the bridge
+and wants to speak with Ivanova.  She says that because of Psi
+Corps regulations, she must report with the second in command, but
+that she hasn't been able to find Ivanova for quite a while. 
+Ivanova rudely dismisses Talia, saying that she's rather busy right
+now.
+
       Meanwhile, Sinclair is in his office, watching on "television"
+the latest news about the upcoming presidential election.  Ivanova
+enters, and Sinclair informs her that there is not yet any further
+information on the Ragesh 3 incident.  Ivanova notices the telecast
+and finds out from Sinclair that the presidential race is very
+close at the moment.
+
       Londo is in his room when Vir, his gawky assistant, rushes in
+and tells him that a coded broadcast has just been received.  As
+Vir shows the broadcast to Londo, Londo sees the incident that we
+saw at the beginning of the episode.  He freezes the image of the
+broadcast and enhances the image of one of the attacking ships.  He
+immediately recognizes it as a Narn warship, and heads out to
+confront his enemy G'Kar with this newly-found evidence.
+
       Meanwhile, Garibaldi has found the ship that was attacked by
+the raiders.  He finds it very badly damaged--and realizes that the
+weapons that were used to attack this ship must have been much
+stronger than the weapons the raiders have previously had.
+
       Londo finds G'Kar and accuses him of deceit--since G'Kar said
+he previously knew nothing of the attack.  G'Kar, somewhat
+surprisingly, tells Londo that he has just found out about the
+attack--but he confirms that it was indeed Narn forces that
+attacked Ragesh 3.  "I'm sure there's some reasonable explanation,"
+he adds.  Londo asks what reasonable explanation there could be for
+attacking a defenseless, agricultural colony.  G'Kar refers Londo
+to a similar attack that the Centauri made years ago against Narn
+holdings--and expresses his indignity at the former Centauri
+subjugation of the Narn.  One insult leads to the next, and a fight
+breaks out between the two ambassadors.  The fight is eventually
+broken up by security personnel, but not before G'Kar threatens
+Londo that the Narn will eventually rise and destroy the Centauri. 
+
    
+"The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?"
+
      After the fight, Londo meets with Sinclair.  He apologizes for
+his actions and says that he won't repeat the incident--but that he
+will eventually kill G'Kar.  He explains that Centauri have
+strange premonitions of how, and even when, they will die--and that
+Londo has had a dream in which he will eventually die 20 years from
+now, with his hands wrapped around G'Kar's throat and vice-versa. 
+Londo also explains that he had a nephew on Ragesh--a nephew for
+whom he deeply cares and is deeply concerned about.  He vows that
+if his nephew has been harmed, there will be war--at any cost.  He
+dismisses Sinclair's "galactic peace" arguments as nothing but
+silly paperwork and "games."  "Only one thing matters: blood," says
+Londo.
+
       Ivanova and Garibaldi are discussing the raiders' methods. 
+Garibaldi says that trade routes are normally kept secret--to
+prevent the kind of attacks that recently happened--and Ivanova and
+Garibaldi come to the conclusion that there must be some leak of
+information from the trading companies.
+
       Meanwhile, Sinclair goes to meet with Ambassador Kosh, the
+mysterious Vorlon representative who must wear an environmental
+suit at all times because of extreme differences between the
+Vorlons and the other races.  Sinclair wants to know Kosh's
+position on the Ragesh incident, and asks Kosh if he will support
+sanctions against the Narn.  "They are alone.  They are a dying
+people; we should let them pass," enigmatically responds Kosh. 
+"Who?" asks Sinclair.  "The Narn or the Centauri?"  Kosh's simple
+and almost humorous answer is merely "Yes."
+
    
+Sinclair visits Kosh
+
+
       Garibaldi is meanwhile sitting at Ivanova's station on the
+bridge, researching the flight paths of the trading vessels.  All
+incoming ships are tracked through Ivanova's console.
+
+
    
+Londo is lying down in his quarters, rather drunk.  He is rather
+depressed, and tells Vir, his assistant, that he has received word
+from the Centauri government saying that they will do "nothing"
+about the attack on Ragesh.  Londo is enraged--he feels that the
+Centauri government is made up of cowards, and he nostalgically
+pictures the former grandeur of his people--a grandeur that has all
+but evaporated.  He suddenly gets the idea to ignore his government's
+message, and he forces Vir to comply with this.  He tells
+Vir not to mention that the message was ever received--that if they
+can get the other powers to force sanctions against Narn, they can
+force their own government into cooperation.  He says that he will
+go ahead with the emergency session of the Council--a session that
+will be used to decide on the actions to be taken against the Narn
+regime.
+
       Talia Winters, in the meantime, finds herself in the elevator
+with Garibaldi.  She tells him that she's upset that Ivanova is
+basically ignoring her, and she wants to know what she's done
+wrong.  Garibaldi says that Ivanova takes a while to get to know
+people--especially while at work--and advises Talia to catch
+Ivanova in the casino after hours.
+
       G'Kar and Sinclair meet in the station's arboretum.  They have
+a sharp conversation where G'Kar tries to gain support for his
+people by telling Sinclair that the Narn race and humans are very
+much alike--and that, in fact, the Narn were one of the only people
+that were willing to supply weapons to the Earth in the Earth-Minbari
+war.  Sinclair dismisses G'Kar's claim by saying that the
+Narn will simply supply weapons to anyone who can afford them--not
+out of any sense of brotherhood or similarity between cultures. 
+Sinclair further criticizes the Narn cowardice because of their
+"sneak attack" on Ragesh.  G'Kar is enraged.
+
       Garibaldi presently finds that one trading company--which sold
+access to the "jump gates" that provide interstellar travel--seems
+to have had its information concerning the trade routes stolen from
+it.  He informs Sinclair about these findings, and tells him that
+there's one ship which had bought routes from the company that was
+broken into and which still hasn't been attacked.  Garibaldi says
+that they have only a few hours to come to the rescue of this ship. 
+
      Sinclair is meanwhile speaking with a representative of the
+government of the Earth Alliance--a superior of his.  The representative
+is advising Sinclair to either delay the emergency session
+of the Council or to abstain from the vote; Earth cannot get
+involved in any type of war so soon before an election.  Sinclair
+protests that this will hurt the Centauri case--that if Earth
+doesn't lend aid, others might not either.  The representative
+doesn't seem to care, and closes the communications channel.     
+During the conversation between Sinclair and the Earth official,
+Ivanova has arrived at Sinclair's room and has been standing
+outside of the door, waiting for Sinclair to finish.  She has come
+to inform him that Garibaldi is going to leave on his mission to
+rescue the ship that was supposedly about to be attacked by the
+raiders.  Suddenly, Sinclair seems to realize something about the
+allegedly-powerful raider weapons.  He says that he will be
+replacing Garibaldi on the mission to rescue the ship.  He orders
+Ivanova to continue the meeting; further, he tells her that she
+"never" heard the conversation that he had with the Earth official--and
+that as far as she last heard, Earth was voting for the
+sanctions, rather than abstaining.
+
       As Sinclair leaves, the session of the Council is begun. 
+G'Kar stands up and announces that the Narn regime has a valid
+claim to Ragesh 3 because the planet was originally Narn territory
+before it was invaded by the Centauri.  Delenn succinctly rebuts
+this argument, saying that if the Narn hold a grudge for so long,
+peace will never come, and an endless cycle of wars will result. 
+G'Kar claims that he doesn't want a war--he's only exercising a
+valid claim to the planet.  Further, he claims that the Ragesh
+colony invited the Narn there--that the Narn never invaded the
+colony.  To support this claim, he opens up a live link with
+Ragesh.  Carn Mollari, Londo's nephew, appears on the screen and
+recites a message--clearly forced--saying that the Ragesh colony
+did indeed invite the Narn regime in to restore order in the
+colony.  After the message is completed, Londo says that the
+message was clearly forced at gunpoint and is of no validity. 
+However, G'Kar silences Londo by revealing that he knows that the
+Centauri government has taken the position that they will not
+intervene--he asks Londo why he is using the Council to enact a
+personal vendetta.  G'Kar proceeds to call a vote to dismiss all
+charges against the Narn regime.
+
       Sinclair is meanwhile pursuing the raiders.  After successfully
+saving the trading ship, he outwits the raiders and finds their
+command base.
+
    
+The battle at the trading ship
+
       If Londo was desperate before, he's certainly desperate now. 
+He is entirely outraged at the preceding events in Council, and has
+decided to take matters into his own hands.  He assembles a gun
+from parts that he's hidden around his quarters and proceeds to
+attempt to kill G'Kar.  As he's walking toward G'Kar's quarters,
+however, he bumps into Talia, who, despite her training, accidentally
+senses Londo's intense, emotional thoughts.  She quickly
+informs Garibaldi, who intervenes and stops Londo from committing
+the murder of G'Kar.
+
       Sinclair has returned to Babylon 5 and carries evidence with
+which he immediately confronts G'Kar.  Sinclair has found a Narn
+agent on the raiders' base; it seems that the Narn were supplying
+weapons to these raiders, and when Narn supply weapons, they always
+include a Narn agent to instruct their customers on how to use the
+weapons and to make sure that the weapons are not resold to a third
+party.  Further, this Narn agent had been found with logs of the
+communication between the attacking force on Ragesh 3 and the Narn
+homeworld.  The logs of this communication confirm that the attack
+was, indeed, uninvited and unprovoked.  Faced with this evidence,
+G'Kar is forced to tell Narn to withdraw the forces from Ragesh.  
+
     Talia meanwhile has found Ivanova in the casino, just as
+Garibaldi advised.  Talia asks Ivanova if she had done anything to
+offend her.  Ivanova apologizes to Talia and admits that the acted
+rude.
+
+Ivanova explains that her mother was a telepath--however,
+she had kept this as a secret to herself and had never joined the
+Psi Corps.  On her mother's 35th birthday, the Psi Corps caught up
+with her and gave her three alternatives: to either join the Corps,
+go to prison, or take telepathy-inhibiting drugs.  She chose the
+latter; however, as Ivanova explains, the drugs were very strong
+and destroyed her mother's will and personality.  After 10 years,
+after her family thought her mother could no longer survive, her
+mother took her own life.
+
+Ivanova explains that she doesn't blame
+Talia as an individual for what happened to her mother, but says
+how these types of events are part of every member of the Psi
+Corps.  However, Ivanova explains to Talia that Talia is just as
+much of a victim as Ivanova's mother was.  When Talia responds that
+she does not feel like a victim, Ivanova rejoins that she hasn't
+yet figured out if that feeling is good or bad.  When Talia
+suggests that they might start off on better terms the next day,
+Ivanova says that she very much doubts it.
+
       In the meantime, Garibaldi is sitting in his quarters, showing
+Delenn his "second favorite thing in the universe"--old "Duck
+Dodgers in the 23rd-and-a-half century" cartoons.
+
       Sinclair is resting in his quarters, watching with what
+appears to be disappointment that Santiago, the incumbent president,
+has been declared the victor of the election.  As he is about
+to retire for the night, he receives a call from Ivanova: 
+"Commander, there's a problem."  It seems that a commander's job is
+never done ... in fact, it has just started.
+
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@minerva@cis.yale.edu
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
      Sinclair is waiting at a docking bay for the arrival of Dr.
+Stephen Franklin, the new medical chief of staff--and evidently an
+old friend of Sinclair.  Right after the new doctor arrives,
+Sinclair gets a message from the bridge that there's a disturbance
+at the jump gate.
+
      On the bridge, Sinclair finds out that a very damaged ship has
+come spinning out of the jump gate.  The ship is out of control and
+is on a collision course with the station.  The ship cannot be
+identified--its configuration doesn't match anything they've seen
+before.  Sinclair decides to go outside the station and try to
+grapple the unknown ship with a ship of his own in order to prevent
+the ship from crashing into Babylon 5.  He gives the order to
+destroy the unknown ship only if he fails to stop it.  After a
+number of failed attempts, he is successful in grappling the ship
+and preventing it from hitting the station.
+
    
+Matching rotation
+with the alien ship.
+
      As Sinclair is on his way to the Medical Lab to check with the
+injured pilot of the unknown ship, Delenn meets up with him and
+offers her help in identifying the unknown pilot.  When they
+arrive, they find that Dr. Franklin is unsure of the condition of
+the alien pilot, simply because he knows too little about the
+unknown alien's physiology.  Upon seeing the patient, however,
+Delenn immediately recognizes him and has a surprising reaction:
+she attempts to kill him.  Sinclair stops this attempt only with
+difficulty.  Delenn warns Sinclair to kill the patient immediately,
+because the patient is a "Soul Hunter" who steals people's souls. 
+She warns Sinclair to get rid of the patient, "before someone
+dies!"
+
      Later, Delenn apologizes to Sinclair for her actions in the
+Medical Lab.  Sinclair comments on her unusual behavior; he has
+never before seen such a violent reaction from Delenn.  "You don't
+know these things as I do," replies Delenn, who explains that all
+Minbari are taught to be afraid of the soul hunters.  Soul hunters,
+she explains, are immortal beings who are drawn toward death and
+who steal people's souls at the moment of death.  They don't steal
+every soul, only ones which they deem to be worthy enough.  Delenn
+also explains that the soul hunters have previously shown an
+interest in "certain classes of Minbari."  She again warns Sinclair
+to send the soul hunter away.
+
      Meanwhile, in the alien sector of Babylon 5, a gambler is
+running a seemingly-innocuous, familiar game where he hides a ball
+under one of three cups and has a player choose which cup they
+think the ball is under.  In the Med Lab, the voice of this gambler
+is echoed and heard in the mind of the soul hunter, who awakes
+suddenly.
+
      Garibaldi, in the meantime, warns Sinclair that many people in
+the alien sector seem to be "hiding"--that the alien sector is
+basically deserted.  Ships which were not scheduled to leave for
+months are suddenly requesting departure.  It seems that the aliens 
+are afraid of the soul hunter.
+
      The voice of the gambler continues to echo in the mind of the
+soul hunter.  The gambler meanwhile has won a game, but is
+violently confronted by the loser, who proves that the gambler was
+cheating.  The loser starts to chase the gambler, while the gambler
+runs away.
+
    
+Fleeing the scene.
+
      When Dr. Franklin next walks into the Med Lab, he is surprised
+to find that his patient is awake and standing.  "I have been to
+your world," says the newly-awoken soul hunter.  "Can you feel it?"
+he asks, but Dr. Franklin just gives him a perplexed look. 
+Meanwhile, the gamble is still running away from his pursuer.  "It
+comes," says the soul hunter.  Meanwhile, in the alien sector, the
+gambler's pursuer finally catches up with him and stabs him.  "It
+comes!" repeats the soul hunter.
+
      The gambler is brought to the Med Lab, where it becomes nearly
+certain that the soul hunter realizes that the gambler's dying.  As
+the gambler finally dies, the soul hunter says, in a contemplative
+voice, "Quick flash.  The deep blue of pain.  Dull, muffled. 
+Slower, now.  Closer, now.  Gone, now!  Gone!  If you could only
+see."
+
      Sinclair comes to visit the soul hunter in the Med Lab, where
+the soul hunter is chanting to himself and is refusing to speak
+with Sinclair, who wants to know how the soul hunter knew that the
+gambler was dying.  Trying to get his attention, Sinclair confronts
+him:  "Did you come here for his soul?  Oh, we've heard, if you're
+wondering."  Sinclair expresses his disbelief that the idea of
+"soul hunting," and, further trying to pique the soul hunter's
+attention, accuses him of being a thief--a stealer of souls.
+
      "We are not thieves," replies the soul hunter.  "We are
+preservers.  We act only for the greater good."
+
      "The Minbari don't seem to think so," contests Sinclair.
+
      "The Minbari:  pale; bloodless; look into their eyes and see
+nothing but mirrors; infinities of reflection.  Will not let us
+help them."  The soul hunter then explains that his kind are drawn
+toward death--toward the moment of death--in order to save and
+preserve certain souls.  Not every soul; only outstanding ones--
+those of "leaders, thinkers, poets, dreamers, blessed lunatics." 
+Sinclair asks what the soul hunters actually =do= with the souls
+once they have them.  The soul hunter replies that they talk,
+listen, and learn from them.  Dr. Franklin, who has been standing
+by Sinclair, comments to Sinclair that what the soul hunter is
+saying is truly impossible--that, with enough technology, a
+person's thoughts could be saved, but that the idea of taking
+someone's "soul" is not possible.
+
      Sinclair, meanwhile, still wants to know what is precisely
+going on between the soul hunter and the Minbari.  The soul hunter
+explains that years ago, when one of the great Minbari leaders was
+dying, the Minbari made a "wall of bodies" to stop him--they
+defended their leader's soul at all costs.  The leader, according
+to the soul hunter, therefore died a wasted death--a death due to
+which his thoughts and dreams were forever lost.  Sinclair, ending
+the discussion, responds that he still doesn't believe that the
+soul hunter can do what he says he can do.  However, because the
+aliens on the station seem to fear the soul hunter (and because
+Sinclair says that he has no reason to doubt the judgment of the
+aliens), Sinclair orders the soul hunter off the station as soon as
+the soul hunter has recuperated from his injuries.
+
      On the bridge, Ivanova is meanwhile conducting the gambler's
+funeral from the bridge.  The body is launched out to space while
+Ivanova says, "From the stars we came, and to the stars we return
+..."  Dr. Franklin contemplates the shortness of life--that, as
+soon as humans have nearly figured out life, they die.  Ivanova
+dryly comments that, even if humans lived 200 years, they would
+still make the same human mistakes.  "I'm a Russian; we know these
+things," she adds.
+
      Delenn is meanwhile visiting with the soul hunter in the Med
+Lab.  She confronts him, saying that soul hunters never travel
+without their collection of souls and asking him where his is.  "My
+children are safe," he replies.  Delenn vows that, before the soul
+hunter leaves the station, she will find and release the souls in
+his collection--to free them once are for all.  The soul hunter
+dismisses this vow, commenting that by "freeing" the souls, she is
+actually killing them.  Delenn expresses her belief that, if the
+souls of the Minbari leaders and thinkers are "stolen" from them,
+the Minbari are diminished with each generation because the stolen
+souls cannot rejoin the Minbari and be reborn.  The soul hunter
+dismisses this as superstitious nonsense, saying that the soul dies
+at death (unless, of course, a soul hunter saves them).  "We will
+help you, in spite of yourselves," he promises.  Suddenly, he
+recognizes Delenn:  she was among the group of Minbari that stopped
+him from "rescuing" the soul of the great Minbari leader that he
+discussed with Sinclair before.  "That was where it began to go
+wrong," he says, mostly to himself.  The lost souls. ... one after
+another.  I failed because you stopped me!  A pattern began." 
+Suddenly, changing the tone of his voice, he adds, "They called you
+Satai Delenn of the Grey Council.  Curious, curious."  He goes on
+to ask her why a great leader of the Minbari would be "playing
+ambassador" here.  Somewhat taken aback, Delenn leaves the room
+quickly.
+
      Right after Delenn leaves, the soul hunter feigns injury and
+falls to the floor.  The guard who was stationed outside the Med
+Lab rushes in, only to be knocked unconscious by the soul hunter. 
+The soul hunter escapes, gun in hand.  He arrives at his ship,
+where he begins to talk with his collection of souls.  He tells
+them that he finally knows why he was drawn to Babylon 5.
+
      Shortly after, Garibaldi tells Sinclair that he scanned the
+soul hunter's ship.  The soul hunter is no longer aboard; further,
+Garibaldi says that there's a cabinet of some sort on the ship--but
+it's empty, meaning that whatever was in there, the soul hunter now
+has with him.  However, Garibaldi can't understand what the soul
+hunter could possibly be up to, because Garibaldi has guards all
+around and because the soul hunter couldn't possibly get back to
+his ship or (even if he did) pilot the ship away from the station. 
+Ivanova suggests that if the soul hunters are drawn to death, the
+way to catch this soul hunter would be simply to figure out who's
+about to die.
+
      The soul hunter has meanwhile entered the alien sector and has
+bought a map of the that section of B5--a map that includes all of
+the secret corridors, hiding places, entrances, and exits.
+
    
+Negotiating
+with a shady character.
+
      Meanwhile, the bridge crew is made aware of another unsched-
+uled arrival through the jump gate.  Another ship arrives, carrying
+another soul hunter.  "Someone's about to die," he warns, and goes
+on to warn that more will die if he's not allowed to come aboard
+and speak with Sinclair.
+
      The soul hunter on the station has meanwhile entered the
+ambassadorial wing and knocked out another of the guards.
+
      As Sinclair is heading to a reception room to speak with the
+arriving soul hunter, Garibaldi warns him against meeting with him-
+-he mentions that the soul hunter's warning sounded very much like
+a threat.  Sinclair thinks about this for a moment, and then
+decides that the tone of the arriving soul hunter was not aggres-
+sive, but nervous.  Sinclair meets with the soul hunter, who
+describes how the soul hunter who has been on board the station is
+a deeply disturbed person and because of this, the station is in
+great danger--someone is about to die, but at the soul hunter's own
+hands.
+
      Delenn is in her quarters, negotiating a trade route with some
+alien race through her communication screen, when her "doorbell"
+rings.  "Come," she says; she doesn't even look around until she
+realizes that it's the soul hunter, who tells her that he has come
+to save her soul.
+
      Meanwhile, the soul hunter who just arrived tells Sinclair why
+his "brother" is deeply disturbed:  When he was ordered to save the
+soul of the Minbari leader (and others), he either arrived too late
+to save the souls or was prevented by others from his mission.  His
+order was disgraced.  Because of this, he had found the ultimate
+solution:  to stop waiting for death--to take the lives himself. 
+"Our order does not support this," claims the newly-arrived soul
+hunter.  The soul hunter explained how he chased his "brother" and
+how it was they who had damaged his ship before it had come through
+the jump gate.  They had almost caught him at his last stop, but he
+escaped.  This time, however, there will be no escape--after he
+kills whomever he's about to kill (for they feel it's too late to
+stop him), they are determined to apprehend him.  Sinclair doesn't
+accept this--he vows that there will be no death this time.
+
      Meanwhile, the soul hunter explains to Delenn that her death
+will avenge his previous failures.  "I give you a great gift--to
+life forever."  He starts the process of killing her slowly and
+warns her not to resist, because it will trouble her soul if she
+does.
+
      Sinclair, searching for Delenn, confronts the newly-arrived
+brother of the murderous soul hunter:  "You're drawn to death," he
+says, indicating a map.  "Show me!"  The soul hunter complies.
+
      The slow process of killing Delenn is continuing; her blood is
+being drained slowly.  The soul hunter feels that the time is
+getting closer--close enough for a glimpse into her soul.  He takes
+that glimpse, and after seeing what he sees, he shows great
+surprise.  "You would plan such a thing?  You would do such a
+thing?  Incredible!"
+
      Sinclair runs up to the ambassadorial wing, whence he goes to
+Delenn's quarters.  As he's running up, the soul hunter tries to
+stop him.  "Why do you fight for her," he asks Sinclair.  He goes
+on to explain:  "She's Satai.  I have seen her soul.  They are
+using you!"  After a brief fight with the soul hunter, Sinclair
+runs over to Delenn.  Right next to Delenn, there is a bag of some
+sort containing the soul hunter's "collection."  Sinclair opens the
+bag and allows the souls to swarm about the soul hunter, presumably
+confronting him about what he's about to do to Delenn.  Suddenly,
+the soul hunter's "soul-draining" machine begins to activate.  He
+swirls it around on its platform and aims it at the soul hunter
+himself.  The soul hunter's soul is captured into one of the little
+soul vessels like those the other souls occupied, amid cries of
+"No!" from the soul hunter.  Sinclair kneels down next to   
+Delenn.
+
    
+Sinclair watches
+a soul globe.
+
      Later, in the Med Lab, Sinclair finds that Delenn will be all
+right; Dr. Franklin explains that she has a remarkable constitution
+(and extrapolates that this was the reason that they did so well in
+the Earth-Minbari war--because they kept going despite severe
+injuries).  "So, I hear you saw something," says Dr. Franklin to
+Sinclair.
+
      "I'm not sure--I don't know if I'll ever be sure," replies
+Sinclair.
+
      Dr. Franklin replies that that type of talk could get Sinclair
+sent on a "very long vacation."  The doctor further goes on to say
+that he still doesn't believe that the soul hunter can do what he
+says he can do.
+
      Meanwhile, Delenn, who has just awoken, sees Sinclair and
+smiles.  "I knew you would come," she says.  "We were right about
+you ..."
+
      "Who was right?" asks Sinclair, but Delenn has already fallen
+back to sleep.  Sinclair jokes with Dr. Franklin that he's almost
+completely sure that Delenn won't finish the sentence once she
+wakes up.
+
      Later, in his quarters, Sinclair asks the computer to do a
+key-word search.  He struggles to remember the word that the soul
+hunter used to refer to Delenn, and finally successfully remembers
+it.  The computer tells him that the title "Satai" is used as an
+honorific applied to the members of the grey council.  Sinclair
+expresses basically the same question that the soul hunter had
+asked:  why a member of the ruling body was assigned to diplomatic
+service.   The computer asks Sinclair if he wishes to make another
+enquiry.  "No, it can wait.  There's always time," he says.
+
      Sinclair finds out that Delenn will certainly live.  Mean-
+while, as Sinclair is escorting the soul hunters off the station,
+he warns them that they will no longer be allowed on Babylon 5. 
+The soul hunter seems already to expect this--he admits that his
+kind are usually not welcome wherever they go.  The soul hunter
+asks Sinclair what happened to his "brother"'s collection of souls. 
+Sinclair harshly brushes this question off:  "Life's full of
+mysteries.  Consider this one of them!"
+
      Delenn, in her quarters, is crushing the vessels that
+contained the souls in the soul hunter's collection, thereby
+freeing them.  She studies each of them for a moment, listens
+intently to them, and finally destroys their containers, allowing
+them to fly about the room freely, eventually to fade into
+nothingness.
+
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@minerva.cis.yale.edu
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
      Ambassador Mollari is sitting in a night club, intensely
+enjoying the show.  His pleasure is interrupted by Sinclair and
+G'Kar, who have come, quite angrily, to tell him that he can't
+evade his responsibilities any longer--that tomorrow morning, Londo
+will be present to negotiate with the Narn over the Euphrates
+Sector, a point of contention between the two regimes.  Londo
+suddenly interrupts them and tells them to sit down--for the moment
+in the shows that Londo has been waiting for has arrived: an erotic
+Centauri dancer.  "Of all things in life," Londo comments, "are
+females not the finest?"
+
    
+ Adira, the Centauri dancer.
+
      "On that, Mollari, we can at least agree," replies G'Kar.  As
+G'Kar, Sinclair, and Londo are sitting there, Ko D'ath, the new
+head of G'Kar's diplomatic staff, arrives.  G'Kar, to put it
+mildly, doesn't look very happy.  Meanwhile, a man makes a pass at
+Ko D'ath, who rather violently throws him across the room.
+
      After the show, Londo returns to his quarters only to find the
+erotic Centauri dancer, whose name is Adira Tyree, lying on his
+bed.  Needless to say, he is overjoyed and goes to bed ...
+
      The next morning, Garibaldi finds an anomaly in the computer
+system--it seems that there has been some unauthorized use of the
+highly-official Gold Channels.  Sinclair tells Garibaldi to
+continue investigating.
+
      After finishing his talk with Garibaldi, Sinclair, who is at
+the negotiation table with G'Kar, becomes rather upset that Londo
+still hasn't arrived.  Talia Winters, who will be telepathically
+auditing the negotiations, excuses herself from the table for a
+moment.  Sinclair follows her.
+
      Talia tells Sinclair that she just had to get out of the room
+for a while--so much intense emotion in such close proximity can be
+difficult to block out.  Sinclair explains to her how important a
+peaceful settlement to these negotiations is; he wants to prove
+that Babylon 5 is doing the job it's supposed to be doing. 
+Further, he knows that every side truly wants a peaceful settle-
+ment, and explains to Talia that her job is to get rid of all the
+lies, until the inescapable truth of a peaceful settlement is the
+only thing left.
+
      Londo, in his room, is talking with Adira.  "What is it that
+you're getting [from me]?" Londo asks.  "A washed-up, old republi-
+can, dreaming of better days."
+
      "These are my better days, Londo," Adira responds, "thanks
+to you."  Londo finally hears that Vir is paging him, so he finally
+gets up and goes to the negotiations.
+
      On the bridge, Ivanova, who has been informed about the
+communication anomaly, tells Garibaldi that he's overreacting.  She
+explains that it could easily be a computer error or some energy
+fluctuation.  Garibaldi protests that he has already checked for
+all of these possibilities--and he says that if someone has gained
+unauthorized access to the Gold Channels, there might be a very
+serious security breach.  Gold Channels, he explains, are priority
+channels--most people don't even know that they exist, and even if
+people did know, they couldn't be used without the express
+permission of Sinclair.  Ivanova, however, brusquely brushes him off-
+-she'll get to the problem later, she says, when she has time.    
+ Londo finally arrives at the negotiation table, claiming to have
+been detained by an "important matter of state."  The
+negotiations begin.
+
      Adira enters her quarters, and is surprised to find a certain
+man, Trakis, there.  We quickly find out that Adira is a slave, and
+Trakis is her master.  He asks her if things are going well with
+Londo.  She evades the question, but he warns her that a slave
+should never lie to her master--and he uses some telepathic device
+to determine her thoughts.  He then orders her to hurry up and get
+the "Purple Files" from Londo.  "Do you know why a drunken fool
+like Mollari has ... power?" says Trakis.  "Because his family has
+been collecting dirt on other families for years, like all the
+noble houses of the Centauri Republic."  The Purple Files, he
+explains, can bring down any house in the republic--the Narn would
+pay well for that data, he says, and he wants it.  He orders the
+reluctant Adira to use a mind probe to get the data from Londo.   
+
    
+Adira evades
+Trakis' question.
+
      Later, Adira is in her quarters when Londo stops by.  He brings
+her some exotic flowers ("Star Laces"?) and also gives her an
+heirloom which has been in his family for centuries--it was
+originally warn by a wise and powerful matriarch of his family. 
+She refuses to take it, but he forces it on her, telling her, "You
+know how stubborn I am!"  She finally accepts it.  Londo then
+mentions that he's made reservations at the finest restaurant on
+Babylon 5.  Adira expresses concern and asks what would happen if
+people saw them together.  He explains that, although the Centauri
+are a class-driven society, "When I look beneath the mask I've been
+forced to wear, I see only emptiness.  Then I think of you, and I
+say, 'To hell with appearances.'"
+
      Garibaldi is reading Universe Today in his office when his
+computer alerts him of another communication anomaly.  He attempts
+to track it, and comes quite close to succeeding, only to be
+stopped at the last moment.
+
      Sinclair has invited Talia to dinner, ostensibly in reward for
+her services at the negotiations, at the same restaurant that Londo
+and Adira have gone to.  As Sinclair and Talia are talking, she
+explains how Londo's thoughts at the negotiations were intensely
+"erotic."  Sinclair comments that he's not surprised.
+
      Garibaldi is at Ivanova's console, trying to track down the
+last anomaly.  His efforts are not accomplishing very much; he has
+traced the message to somewhere in the Russian Consortium.
+
      Londo and Adira are back in Londo's quarters.  She tells him
+to sit down while she prepares the drinks.  She sticks some type of
+sedative in one of them, however.  When Londo drinks it, he falls
+back, unconscious.  She sets up the mind probe and gets Londo's
+access codes to the Purple Files (which are, appropriately, "wine,"
+"women," and "song.").  She uses the codes at a computer console in
+Londo's room to gain access the Purple Files and transfer the
+information that they contain into a data crystal.  She returns his
+heirloom, sadly mumbling that she's sorry; then, she leaves.
+
      In the morning, Londo is quite upset at Vir for waking him up. 
+Further, he complains of a terrible headache.  Suddenly, he notices
+that Adira has left his ancient heirloom on his desk.
+
      Adira is staring at the data crystal in her quarters when
+Trakis calls her and orders her to meet him in exactly 10 minutes. 
+Reluctantly, she starts on her way.
+
      Londo, who is extremely preoccupied by now, suddenly has what
+he thinks is a brilliant idea--to gives Vir full diplomatic status
+and tell Vir to represent to the Centauri at the negotiations.   He
+tells Vir that he is now the "voice of the mighty Centauri
+Republic."  Vir, changing from an expression of surprise and
+reluctance to one of pride, finally accepts his position at the
+negotiation, and virtually runs off, excitedly.  "Don't give away
+the homeworld," orders Londo, as Vir leaves.
+
      Adira, as she sees Trakis at the prearranged meeting place,
+finally realizes that she doesn't like what she's been forced to
+do.  As she sees Trakis, she runs away from him.  Trakis, in quick
+pursuit, violently pushes a few bystanders out of the way, but is
+unable to catch up with her.
+
      Trakis finds Londo knocking at Adira's quarters.  "She's not
+there," Trakis tells Londo.  Trakis goes on to explain that he and
+Londo are very much alike--how Adira has betrayed them both.     
+Adira is meanwhile speaking with a friend of hers, frantically
+arranging safe transport away from Babylon 5.  Until the flight,
+her friend promises her a safe hiding place--in the friend's
+quarters.
+
      Trakis tells Londo that Adira is a Narn agent.  When Londo
+expresses disbelief, Trakis merely warns him of a danger with which
+Londo is quite familiar--that if the Purple Files get out, the
+whole Centauri Republic (not to mention Londo's career) will be
+finished.  Trakis continues to explain that Adira is Trakis's
+slave--and that the only reason that he cares about this whole
+thing is that, by the same Centauri laws which allow him to own
+Adira as a slave, Trakis is responsible for any crimes which Adira
+commits.  Trakis secretly places a audio bug on Londo.  Londo, in
+a mixture of sadness and rage, tells Trakis to leave the quarters. 
+
      At the negotiation table, Vir walks in and proudly proclaims
+that he is the ambassador for the Centauri Republic.  G'Kar is
+enraged, and, as a countermeasure, makes Ko D'ath the Narn ambassa-
+dor (warning her not to give away the homeworld).  Sinclair, trying
+to maintain some semblance of order, leaves the negotiation
+chambers to search for Londo. 
+
    
+Sinclair tries to
+restore calm.
+
      Londo, who has realized that Adira stole his Purple Files, is
+in no mood to return to the negotiations.  He explains the
+seriousness of the situation to Sinclair and also asks Sinclair for
+help.  The situation must not be made public, he says, and Sinclair
+is the only one to help him.  Sinclair says that he'll only help
+Londo if Londo agrees to Sinclair's compromise concerning the
+Euphrates Sector.  Londo agrees.
+
      Undercover, Londo and Sinclair enter the club for which Adira
+was dancing previously.  Sinclair outwits the owner of the club
+into letting him see the dancers for a while.  Once they see the
+dancers, they ask for information about Adira--where she might be
+hiding.  One of the dancers tells them the name of a good friend of
+Adira--the quarters of whom are the mostly likely place for Adira
+to be hiding.
+
      At the same time, Trakis, in the alien sector, is monitoring
+Sinclair's and Londo's conversation through the auditory bug which
+he attached to Londo previously.  He is speaking with one of the
+aliens, arranging to pay for men to delay (and kill, if necessary)
+Sinclair and Londo in order to give Trakis to the time to capture
+Adira (and the data crystal).
+
      Sinclair and Londo go heading off to find Adira but are
+intercepted by these hired men.  Londo realizes that it must have
+been Trakis who sent them.  Londo and Sinclair run off to hide; in
+the middle of the hired men's pursuit of Londo and Sinclair,
+however, they are ordered to call off their operations--Adira and
+the crystal have been captured.  Londo and Sinclair overhear this
+unfortunate bit of information.
+
    
+ Sinclair and Londo
+undercover.
+
      Ivanova, on the bridge, informs Garibaldi that there has been
+an incident of heavy shooting down in a certain section of Babylon
+5.  She tells Garibaldi to go down to investigate it; she says that
+she'll monitor the communications for any similar anomalies. 
+Garibaldi, however, sends some other security offices to the area
+of the shooting and remains in his office to monitor communications
+himself.  
+
      According to station logs, says Sinclair, no ship has left
+Babylon 5 for the past two hours.  Therefore, Adira and the crystal
+must still be on board.  Sinclair offers to arrest Trakis--there's
+enough evidence, he says; Londo, however, declines, saying that any
+arrest will hinge on his own testimony, and he cannot give it, for
+fear of making this incident official.  "Besides, he might harm
+Adira," adds Londo.  Sinclair is surprised and asks why Londo would
+like to protect her--after all, she's the one who got him into this
+situation.  "I know," replies Londo, "but there must be some other
+way."  Sinclair says that he has another idea ...
+
+
      Garibaldi, sure enough, has found another anomaly.  This time,
+he successfully traces it.  He catches Ivanova communicating with
+a Russian hospital--and with her dying father.  Ivanova's father
+sadly apologizes for his perceived lack of love toward his
+daughter--he explains how, after her mother's death and her
+brother's death in the war, he was too wrapped up in his own needs
+to (from his point of view) successfully cater to her needs.  He
+apologizes profusely, though his daughter finds all of it unnecessary.
+With touching words between them, he dies.  Garibaldi, who
+has been looking on sadly, sees and hears the whole conversation. 
+
+
      Sinclair, meanwhile, is speaking with G'Kar, offering him a
+"business opportunity."  He offers to arrange a meeting for G'Kar
+concerning some "merchandise" that will give G'Kar an advantage
+over Mollari.  When G'Kar asks Sinclair why he's offering this
+meeting, Sinclair says that Earth wants some concessions in the
+Euphrates Sector and knows that Narn gratitude is quite worth the
+price.  Further, Sinclair, to ensure that the merchandise is
+genuine, offers to have Talia Winters sit in on the meeting.  G'Kar
+accepts, telling Sinclair, "I never knew you could be so devious,
+commander."
+
      "Coming from you, ambassador, that's a real compliment."
+rejoins Sinclair.  G'Kar at first smiles, but suddenly realizes
+Sinclair's implication, and gives a perplexed, somewhat-annoyed
+frown.
+
      Talia, however, when asked by Sinclair and Londo, refuses to
+use her telepathic skills for any purpose that involves personal
+matters--it's against Psi Corps regulations.  However, when
+confronted with the possibility that Adira will die if she doesn't
+interfere, she agrees to scan Trakis's mind at the meeting that
+Sinclair arranged--however, she can only scan "surface thoughts,"
+though there are tricks ...
+
      The meeting between Trakis and G'Kar proceeds as Sinclair
+planned.  Trakis mentions that he doesn't like telepaths.  Talia
+refutes this, saying that she's only there to verify the merchan-
+dise ... he mustn't think of anything else--such as "where Adira
+Tyree might be."
+
    
+ Tricking Trakis.
+
     Trakis is surprised and fooled--enough so that
+Talia can read his "surface thoughts" pertaining to Adira's
+location.  She tells this information to Sinclair, who sends a
+security team to try to find her.  Trakis, seeing that he has been
+fooled, attempts to run away--but is stopped by Londo's fist. 
+"That was for Adira," says Londo, "and this"--he kicks Trakis
+rather hard--"is for me!"  Londo searches Trakis's unconscious body
+and finds the data crystal without difficulty.  Londo thanks G'Kar
+for helping to save not only Londo's career, but the entire
+Centauri Republic.
+
      Ivanova, meanwhile, enters Garibaldi's quarters and notices
+that he didn't go down to check out the previous shootings as she
+had asked him to.  Garibaldi comments on how there was another
+communication anomaly and how he has finally traced the problem: 
+it was, he tells Ivanova, what she originally thought it was--a
+computer error.  He says that he trusts it won't happen again; she
+agrees.  Garibaldi, leaving the room, invites
+Ivanova for a drink,
+but she again brusquely brushes him off, saying that she's on duty. 
+However, on second thought, she turns around and tells him, "Maybe
+another time."
+
      Londo meets with Adira right before she leaves on her ship. 
+He explains to her that Sinclair has "convinced" Trakis to give
+Adira her freedom--"He [Sinclair] can be a frightening man, that
+one!" Londo comments.  Further, Londo again gives his old heirloom
+to Adira, telling her to wear it proudly--as a free woman.  He
+offers her, once again, to stay, but she refuses, telling him that
+her wounds are too fresh.  She apologizes, saying that she never
+meant to hurt him.  They wave goodbye, and she boards her ship,
+leaving Londo only with memories.
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
      A reporter from Interstellar Network News has arrived on
+Babylon 5, to cover the second anniversary of the opening of
+Babylon 5 (an event which was extremely unlikely, considering the
+fate of the previous Babylon stations, according to the reporter). 
+Unfortunately for her, Sinclair is on a mission to check out a
+damaged transport and is therefore unavailable for an interview.
+
      At the medical lab, Dr. Franklin is greeted by an old
+professor of his, Dr. Vance Hendricks.  Hendricks offers Franklin
+an "adventure, very possibly the biggest adventure you've ever
+had."  Hendricks, however, does not explain anything to Franklin
+yet--he explains that Franklin will find out in due time.
+
      At the customs center on B5, material entering the station is
+checked for security reasons--any organic matter or other, possibly
+dangerous substances must be quarantined.  At this particular time,
+a seemingly uneventful search is being carried out.  However, the
+attendant carrying out the search notices a possible security
+violation in the cargo of a certain individual, Nelson Drake--it
+appears that one of his suitcases is arranged so as to hide
+something.  "If I didn't know any better, I might think you were
+trying to smuggle something in," comments the attendant on duty. 
+Nelson waits for the appropriate moment, then kills the attendant--
+and brings his contraband material aboard the station.
+
    
+ Inspecting the cargo.
+
      Dr. Franklin is called to examine the attendant that was
+killed.  He finds that the attendant was almost certainly died of
+natural causes--a heart attack.  However, at the insistence of
+Garibaldi and Sinclair (who has arrived back at the station),
+Franklin agrees to perform a thorough autopsy.
+
      Franklin returns to the medical lab in order to meet with Dr.
+Hendricks to find out what this "adventure" was that Hendricks
+spoke about.  Hendricks explains that he needs Franklin's help to
+study some artifacts found at a recent dig on an alien planet. 
+First, he introduces Franklin to his assistant--none other than
+Nelson Drake.  Nelson opens the container that holds the artifacts--
+
      --and a sudden energy spike is detected on the bridge.
+
      Meanwhile, at the medical lab, Hendricks explains that he was
+on a dig at Ikarra VII, sponsored by
+a corporation known as "Interplanetary Expeditions."  He found some
+thousand-year-old Ikarran artifacts sealed deeply in a vault.  He
+asks Franklin to run these artifacts through his medical scanners. 
+Franklin complies and (as Hendricks apparently expected) finds that
+the artifacts are composed of living tissue--they are an example of
+organic technology--"the one trick that Earth hasn't been able to
+crack," according to Hendricks.  Franklin is amazed, but suddenly
+asks Hendricks why he wasn't informed of these artifacts as soon as
+Hendricks arrived on the station--since organic material must be
+quarantined before it is allowed on the station.  Hendricks simply
+replies that the quarantine was undergone at their previous
+location.  When Franklin comments that there are surely better
+facilities back on Earth, Hendricks only insists that he needs
+someone he can trust.  Hendricks entices Franklin, saying that
+Franklin will achieve his dream of "going down in the history
+books" if he goes along with Hendricks.  Franklin, at length,
+agrees.
+
      Later, Nelson is in his quarters when one of the artifacts
+seems to come alive.  It releases a powerful energy surge toward
+Nelson, which propels him across the room.  This energy surge
+apparently has had some physiological effect on Nelson, who notices
+(a short time after) that his skin is undergoing some type of
+metamorphosis.
+
      On the bridge, Sinclair is questioning Garibaldi about the
+dead customs attendant--he wonders if the autopsy has shown
+anything yet.  The death, according to Garibaldi, still seems to
+have been a natural one--nothing abnormal has been found yet,
+although the autopsy is not yet complete.  Ivanova reports that
+some unusual energy readings have been detected--she is presently
+investigating them.  Further, she reminds Sinclair of his interview
+with the ISN reporter.  Sinclair acknowledges this, but it is clear
+the is not looking forward to it.  Garibaldi asks him why he is so
+adverse to this interview; Sinclair replies that the last time he
+was called for an interview (in which he was instructed to "relax
+and say what I really felt"), he was shortly transferred to a far-away
+outpost as a result.
+
      Franklin and Hendricks have meanwhile, for the last fifteen
+hours, been studying the organic artifacts.  Franklin suddenly asks
+Hendricks what will happen when and if they finally figure out how
+the organic technology works.  Hendricks replies that they will
+sell it to an Earth corporation, but Franklin expresses a certain
+resentment at this--Franklin says how he always thought Hendricks
+was the kind of man who made his own discoveries, rather than stole
+them from old alien civilizations.  "Granted, this may be important,"
+says Franklin, "but ... it's a shortcut.... Feels a little
+like grave-robbing."  Hendricks replies that the only way to really
+explore the galaxy is through corporation grants--he explains the
+wondrous things he's seen on corporation-financed missions. 
+Franklin then confronts Hendricks with the fact that he cannot find
+any information on the corporation that supposedly financed the
+expedition on which these artifacts were discovered.  Hendricks
+avoids the question and promises to explain everything the
+following day.
+
      Garibaldi is meeting with the reporter, trying to explain to
+her about his background with Sinclair and B5.  She interrupts him,
+and confronts him with that background:  "I've come across several
+rumors surrounding your record prior to Babylon 5," she says. 
+"That you were fired five times for unspecified personal problems
+and that this is your last chance to make good."  Garibaldi
+vehemently denies comment.
+
      The organic artifacts, in Nelson's quarters, are strengthening
+their hold over Nelson.  He is falling more and more under their
+control.
+
      When Dr. Franklin next enters the medical lab, he is surprised
+to find Nelson standing there.  Nelson has undergone some strange
+metamorphosis; he shoots Franklin, saying only one word:  "Protect."
+
      Later, Garibaldi is informing Sinclair about the incident that
+just happened to Franklin.  They both go to visit Franklin in the
+infirmary.  Franklin explains to them that the weapon Nelson used
+to shoot him had a similar design to the organic artifacts. 
+Garibaldi is surprised to hear that the artifacts are organic; he
+asks Franklin if they were checked at customs.  Franklin can only
+reply that Hendricks told him that they were checked--he can't
+offer any guarantee.
+
      Nelson is meanwhile walking around some obscure level of B5. 
+He has undergone an extreme metamorphosis; he is no longer
+recognizable as Nelson.
+
      Sinclair goes to confront Dr. Hendricks.  Sinclair tells him
+that, according to Franklin, the armor that Nelson was wearing was
+very similar to the organic artifacts that Hendricks brought
+aboard.  Garibaldi adds that the artifacts were brought on to the
+station illegally--somehow, they were not put through the required
+quarantine, either on B5 or at Hendricks's previous location. 
+Hendricks says that he knows as little as Sinclair and Garibaldi
+know--he says that Nelson told him that they were, indeed,
+quarantined.  However, Sinclair explains that, whether or not
+Nelson was under Hendricks's orders, Hendricks will be held
+personally responsible for the incident.  Hendricks, when asked,
+says that the organic artifacts have limited energy and might
+attach themselves to another organism to achieve mobility; he
+cannot, however, explain why they may have attached themselves to
+Nelson but to no one else who has been exposed to them.  He guesses
+that the artifacts are now controlling Nelson; he cannot, however,
+explain =why= the artifacts might take him over.  He says that he
+will need to study the artifacts further in order to figure out
+their purpose and methods.  Sinclair allows him to assist Franklin
+in further research.
+
      Nelson, under the control of the artifacts, shoots and kills
+a group of people who walk by him (on the obscure level where he
+was walking before).  Again, he says, "Protect!"
+
    
+ "Protect!"
+
      Simultaneously, on the bridge, another energy surge is
+detected.  They pinpoint the location of the surge and determine
+that it is 20% more powerful than the previous surge.
+
      Garibaldi reports that there are two deaths on the level known
+as "Grey-13."  Garibaldi leads a security team to that area. 
+Sinclair calls a "Level 2 Alert."  Just then, the reporter from ISN
+enters the bridge, claiming to be interested in whatever problem is
+occurring--"the people have a right to know";
+Sinclair orders her to leave.
+
      Garibaldi's security team has found Nelson.  The team fires at
+Nelson, but Nelson is unharmed.  Nelson continues toward the place
+that he was originally heading.
+
      Franklin, while studying the artifacts with Hendricks,
+discovers a certain device in Nelson's belongings.  He hides the
+device from Hendricks's view.  Meanwhile, the study of the
+artifacts continues.
+
      Sinclair, meanwhile, guesses that Nelson is heading toward the
+Central Corridor, the area with the greatest population and,
+consequently, the area where Nelson can do the most damage. 
+Ivanova reports that, although Nelson must rest after every time he
+attacks, his periods of rest are becoming shorter--and his power is
+increasing each time.  Sinclair realizes that their next chance to
+stop Nelson may be their last chance.
+
      Franklin has finally accesses the memory banks of the
+artifacts; he reports to Sinclair what he has found:  In the course
+of Ikarran history, the Ikarrans were invaded many times.  Because of
+these repeated attacks, they created organic weapons to use against
+their enemies.  Because it would take too long to create an
+artificially-intelligent weapon, they incorporated the personality
+matrix and brain patterns of one of their researchers, known as
+Tumar.  Because of the possibility,
+however, that their enemies might "fool" the weapons (for the
+weapons have personalities), the Ikarrans programmed their weapons
+not to accept commands from anyone but "pure Ikarrans."  However, as
+Franklin points out (with a bit of disgust), there is no clear way
+to define a "pure" Ikarran--"no one is pure," he says.  Franklin
+continues to explain that a coalition of religious fanatics and
+military extremists defined what it meant to be a "pure" Ikarran--
+their standards were based on ideology rather than science. 
+(Sinclair points out the similarities to Hitler's "perfect Aryan"
+idea in WWII).  Unfortunately for everyone involved, after the
+weapons killed the enemies of the Ikarrans, they turned on the
+Ikarrans themselves, killing anyone who didn't =perfectly= match the
+standards of what a "pure Ikarran" was.  They kept killing everyone
+until the last Ikarran was dead.  Then, through centuries of disuse
+and neglect, the weapons failed.  However, the artifacts that
+Hendricks discovered contained one of these weapons--and it has
+activated itself by attaching itself onto Nelson.  Sinclair has an
+idea how to stop it:  if the weapon has a personality, he will try
+to contact that personality and reason with it, thereby attempting
+to bypass the programming.
+
      First, however, Garibaldi and Sinclair set up an extremely
+powerful attack against Nelson.  The attack fails completely; it
+doesn't even slow Nelson down.
+
    
+ Nelson under attack.
+
    
+Sinclair, therefore, feels he has
+no other choice but to try to speak with the personality--with
+Tumar.  "I'm going to try to make it mad," says Sinclair; he
+explains that, by speaking with the personality of the weapon, he
+will try to lure Nelson to the docking area, which they can detach
+and eject--"armored or not, nothing can live in a vacuum." 
+Garibaldi objects, but Sinclair goes anyway.
+
      Sinclair speaks to the weapon.  He attempts to anger it by
+saying (truthfully) that the Ikarran race is dead.  Sinclair's plan
+works--Nelson follows him to the airlock.  Sinclair explains the
+whole situation to Nelson--how the weapons failed in their mission,
+and how Ikarra was destroyed by their own hand.  "Your own people--
+how pure were they?  They didn't feed you facts; they fed you
+propaganda.  They programmed you with standards of genetic purity
+no one could match--not even your own people."  Then, at the last
+minute, Sinclair tells the weapon to search Nelson's memory (for
+Nelson has seen the dead Ikarra).  The weapon does this, and
+realizes that what Sinclair has said is true.  He is suddenly
+overwhelmed with guilt; he drops to his knees, asking his long dead
+race to forgive him.  Then, he destroys the organic artifact that
+has taken over Nelson--Nelson's metamorphosis is thereby undone,
+and Nelson falls to the grounds, rid of the artifact.
+
      Later, after the whole incident has passed, Franklin confronts
+Hendricks.  He explains that he found a cardiac stimulator in
+Nelson's belongings--the device, if used on a healthy person, can
+precipitate a heart attack.  Further, Franklin explains that he has
+found two small marks in the skin of the dead customs attendant--
+marks which were so small that they were overlooked; the marks
+perfectly match the cardiac stimulator's prongs.  Franklin tells
+Hendricks that he has spoken with Nelson, and that Nelson confirms
+Franklin's suspicions:  Nelson was acting under Hendricks's orders
+the whole time.  Hendricks admits that this is true; he explains
+that "Interplanetary Expeditions," the corporation that financed
+the Ikarran dig, is a front for a bio-weapons supplier.  Hendricks
+says that he suspected that the artifacts were organic weapons, so,
+instead of turning in the artifacts right away for standard
+commission, he came to Franklin in order to study them.  If the
+artifacts were indeed bio-weapons, he felt, they would be worth
+millions--or more.
+
      "You deliberately endangered a quarter of a million humans and
+aliens just to raise your profit margin?" asks Franklin.
+
      Hendricks explains that he was sure he could control the
+artifacts--he never expected any harmful incident.  He also says
+that he didn't know the customs guard was murdered--Nelson said
+that he would handle it, so Hendricks didn't question him. 
+Franklin realizes that this was why the weapon attached itself to
+Nelson, not to anyone else--the program needed someone willing to
+kill.  Hendricks makes one final appeal to Franklin--he asks
+Franklin not to turn him in.  If Franklin doesn't turn him in, says
+Hendricks, then they will share the profits of the sale of the
+artifacts.  However, just at that moment, two security guards
+arrive.  "It's too late," says Franklin, almost sadly.
+
      Meanwhile, Garibaldi confronts Sinclair on another matter.  To
+do justice to this scene, I feel I must include Garibaldi's
+dialogue verbatim:  "The whole stations talking about how you were
+willing to risk your life to stop that thing.... This is the third
+time in the last year you've put yourself on the line like this....
+Jeff, you're my friend.  You've been my friend a lot longer than
+you've been my commanding officer so I think I'm entitled to say
+this.  We were both in Earth Force during the war; I wasn't on the
+line but I did my share.  I know a lot of guys who came out of the
+war--changed.  Some came out better; some came out worse.  A lot of
+them have this problem:  the war gave them definition, direction,
+purpose.  Without it, they don't know how to fit in anymore, so
+they keep looking for ways to go in a blaze of glory.  Some people
+call that being a hero--maybe so.  I don't know; I've never been
+one.  Me?  I think they're looking for something worth dying for
+because it's easier than finding something worth living for."
+
      Sinclair sadly, thoughtfully admits that he doesn't have an
+answer to this--although he also admits that he should.
+
      Franklin and Ivanova are speaking in the war.  He expresses
+his disgust at fundamental ideals of "purity" and "perfection"--he
+wonders if what just happened is a preview of what's to come,
+mentioning that there are many hate groups on Earth targeted
+against aliens.  Ivanova replies that she doesn't think that
+humanity would be so foolish--that, hopefully, they could learn
+from the past.  Just at the moment, however, two officials walk up
+to Franklin, demanding that he turn over the artifacts to them, on
+authority of Earth Force Defense, Bio-Weapons Division, in order
+that they can study them for purposes of planetary security.
+
      The reporter has finally caught up with Sinclair, and the
+interview has been carried out.  The reporter asks Sinclair if,
+after what he's been through, he feels that it's worth it for
+humanity to continue their presence in space.  "We have to stay
+here," he replies. "Eventually our sun will grow
+cold, and go out."  When this happens, he explains, the entire
+culture of Earth will be destroyed--a culture and history that he
+feels are worth preserving.  Therefore, humanity must go to the
+stars.
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
       Earth Central has planned a cultural exchange where all alien
+societies on B5 will have the opportunity to demonstrate their
+dominant religious beliefs.  Needless to say, this idea has caused
+nightmares for the security officers; at the moment, Garibaldi is
+trying to stop an alien from bringing a ceremonial knife aboard the
+station.  Suddenly, he sees Sinclair's old girlfriend, Catherine
+Sakai, arrive on the station.  He immediately leaves to warn
+Sinclair.
+
       G'Kar is in his quarters, trying to have a quiet dinner when
+he is interrupted by a Narn courier, Tu'Pari, who is carrying a
+message that he claims to be important.  After Tu'Pari leaves
+G'Kar's quarters, G'Kar plays the message.  The message turns out
+to be from an old enemy of G'Kar, named D'Rog [spelling correction
+pending].  "I bring what you doubtless will consider good news: I
+am dying."  G'Kar smiles in appreciation.  The message continues,
+"In fact, by the time you get this recording, I will already be
+dead.  Ah, but then, very shortly, so will you."
+
       D'Rog explains that G'Kar should not be surprised--vengeance
+was inevitable after G'Kar humiliated D'Rog before the Narn Council
+and ruined D'Rog's family's name.  "You will be dead within 48
+hours of receiving this message.  Already, my agent is close to
+you.  You will not know who, or how, or where, until it is too
+late."  Just then, Na'Toth--G'Kar's new diplomatic attache--arrives
+and reports for duty.  G'Kar can do nothing but stare at her,
+suspiciously.
+
      Sinclair, in his quarters, is getting ready for the Centauri
+religious demonstration when Garibaldi arrives.  Garibaldi warns
+Sinclair that Catherine is on the station.  Sinclair thanks him,
+saying that he's happy to know that she's on board, so he can avoid
+her.  Then, suddenly, he asks if she came to the station alone or
+with another man.  Garibaldi replies that she was alone.
+
       The Centauri religious demonstration has begun.  It is quite
+a festival, with dancing, drinks, and pretty much everything else
+you'd expect at a Centauri party.  "It's a celebration of life,"
+says Vir.  Londo is immensely enjoying himself--drinking, crawling
+up on the table, explaining Centauri household "gods," telling
+Delenn that she's "very cute for a Minbari" and that Garibaldi is
+"cute, too, in an annoying sort of way."
+
    
+ "You're cute, too, in an
+annoying sort of way."
+
     Finally, Londo falls to
+the table, unconscious.  Vir stands up and says, triumphantly,
+"Ahh!  He has become one with his inner self!"
+
       "He's passed out," comments Garibaldi, smugly.
+
       "That too," responds Vir.
+
       Meanwhile, Commander Sinclair--having had enough of the
+Centauri demonstration and having left quietly in the middle--has
+decided, after all, to see Catherine.  After he finds her, they
+speak for a while.  She says that she hadn't known that Sinclair
+was in command of the station--otherwise she wouldn't have come. 
+"I keep my promises.... I'll leave now if you want me to." 
+Sinclair won't hear of it, though.  Instead, he invites her for
+dinner.  At length, she accepts:  "This is how we get into trouble
+every three years.... All right, just dinner."
+
       Later, G'Kar and Na'Toth are speaking in their quarters. 
+G'Kar is suspiciously pondering recent events--he mentions, his
+assistant's, Ko D'ath's, recent death in an unlikely airlock
+accident.  He asks Na'Toth who sponsored her to be his attache;
+when she answers, he notices that her sponsor's sponsor was none
+other than D'Rog.  He explains to her that D'Rog has hired someone
+to kill him, and evidently this assassin is someone close to G'Kar. 
+Na'Toth only replies, "With all due respect, if it were me, you
+wouldn't be here for us to have this conversation."  G'Kar is
+unsatisfied--according to D'Rog's message, G'Kar would be kept in
+fear for a while before actually being killed--"the last thing he
+wants is a quick death."  He can still not discount Na'Toth as a
+suspect.
+
       Na'Toth tries to reason with him:  "How can you be sure there
+is as assassin on board?  What if he only told you this to
+frighten you?"  G'Kar replies that this is very unlikely.
+
       She thinks again, then explains that if D'Rog wanted to make
+sure the assassination were carried through, he would have gone to
+the "Assassins' Guild" to get a killer.  She explains that killers
+from the Assassins' Guide traditionally leave a black flower--a
+"death blossom"--as a warning to their victims so that the victims
+can tie up their affairs.  She asks G'Kar if he's received one of
+these flowers; he replies that he hasn't.  "Then I wouldn't worry,"
+she concludes, and adds, "I'm sure the question will resolve itself
+soon enough."
+
       Later, G'Kar is sleeping in his bed when he is awoken by a
+strange smell.  He calls Na'Toth to his quarters to show her what
+was left in his bed: a black flower.  "You have no idea how
+that got into my bed?" he asks.
+
    
+ G'Kar, about to
+have a rude awakening.
+
       "Ambassador," comments Na'Toth, "it is not my place to
+speculate on how anything gets into your bed.  Your reputed
+fascination with Earth women, for instance..."  She goes on to
+suggest that G'Kar see Commander Sinclair if he's worried.  G'Kar
+declines, saying that he prefers to fight his own battles--further,
+his going to Sinclair might raise questions that he'd rather not
+answer--questions concerning his years on the Council.  "Personally,"
+he says, "I don't care if the information comes out--my only
+concern is that it might compromise our standing in the negotiations.
+So we have to handle this quietly, for the sake of planetary
+security."  Na'Toth asks G'Kar why he is telling her all of this,
+considering that she's currently under his suspicion.  "Earthers
+have a phrase:  'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.' 
+I think they stole it from us."  He adds that he also would like to
+strengthen the relationship between them.  He then tells Na'Toth to
+find Tu'Pari, the courier who originally brought the message--G'Kar
+wants to find out who gave the message to Tu'Pari.  Tu'Pari must
+still be on the station, according to G'Kar, because no Narn ships
+have left B5 since the day before.  "Finding him will be your first
+test," he commands.
+
       Elsewhere on the station, Lennier--Delenn's new assistant--has
+arrived on the station.  He greets her as "Satai Delenn," addressing
+her as a member of the Grey Council deserves to be addressed. 
+He further refuses to look straight at her; he only looks down; "It
+is forbidden!" he says.
+
       "You can look up...." says Delenn, "I cannot have an aid who
+will not look up.  You will be forever walking into things."  At
+length, Lennier agrees.
+
+
       Lennier comments that he feels that he's in an awkward
+position.  He has been, he feels, greatly and suddenly promoted;
+after all, he's now an assistant to a member of the Grey Council. 
+Delenn only comments that he received a high recommendation from
+his teachers and that he will soon adjust.  "You can begin by
+promising not to mention the Grey Council again during your stay. 
+No one here knows of my connection; no one must find out."
+
       "But, to deny the Council--!" blurts Lennier.
+
       "I'm denying nothing.  But it would lead to certain questions
+that I don't want to answer just now.  You will not use my title,
+'Satai.'  You will address me only as 'Delenn.'  Do you understand?"
+
+
       He says that he does not--but that it doesn't matter: 
+"Understanding is not required--only obedience."
+
       G'Kar, in the meantime, has gone to N'Grath (the insect-like
+vendor in the alien sector) to seek a bodyguard.  In a few hours,
+he will attend the Minbari religious ceremony, and he doesn't want
+to be unprotected in public.
+
       Sinclair and Catherine Sakai are having dinner.  They talk
+about how they meet every few years, talk briefly, end up in bed
+together, then go their separate ways.  They both agree that their
+relationship should not go on like this--it isn't worth it.
+
       The Minbari religious ceremony has begun.  It is, needless to
+say, quite the opposite of the Centauri celebration:  It is orderly
+and ceremonial.  Delenn starts out by reading a story that deals
+with death and renewal.  Orderly music is played at certain points
+in the story.  Red pieces of fruit are then handed out; Delenn
+tells everyone to eat them.  She shows a slight interest in
+Sinclair's eating the fruit, then moves on with the ceremony.  "So,
+it begins!" she says.
+
    
+ "Taste of it."
+
       G'Kar, during the whole ceremony, has been extremely agitated,
+because his bodyguard did not arrive.  He storms into his quarters,
+screaming and complaining; but Na'Toth only directs him into an
+adjoining room.  In that room, he sees the bodyguard sitting down,
+quietly.  He yells at him for a moment, then hits him in annoyance. 
+The bodyguard falls over stiffly, and it is evident that he has
+been killed.  Further, a black flower--the warning sign--is hanging
+from the bodyguard's clothing.
+
       G'Kar has called Garibaldi into his quarters.  Garibaldi
+investigates the murder:  "You just came in and found this guy dead
+in your bedroom?"  G'Kar explains that he has never seen the person
+before and has no idea who he is or why he was in G'Kar's bedroom. 
+G'Kar claims, as an alibi, that he was at the Minbari ceremony when
+this person was killed.  Garibaldi agrees, but comments that G'Kar
+seemed rather nervous and preoccupied at the ceremony.  Garibaldi
+continues his search of G'Kar's quarters, only to find a hot-pink
+piece of woman's underwear behind the bed.  G'Kar is, needless to
+say, annoyed--he also doesn't like that Garibaldi continues to
+question =him=.  He orders Garibaldi out of his quarters, invoking
+diplomatic immunity.  "I brought you here as a courtesy," says
+G'Kar.  He tells Garibaldi that he should be spending more time
+trying to find out who the murderer was, rather than questioning
+G'Kar.
+
       Garibaldi humbly apologizes, but doesn't leave before
+commenting, "And just let me say, ambassador, from the bottom of my
+heart, hot pink is definitely your color."
+
    
+ "Hot pink is definitely
+your color."
+
       Na'Toth, after considerable searching, finally finds Tu'Pari
+and brings him back--under slight protest--to G'Kar.
+
       Catherine is meanwhile in the middle of a business negotiation.
+She is giving information to her associates about a
+planetoid which she has located and which she believes would be a
+good candidate for mining.  Her associates are satisfied, and also
+offer her their congratulations--a valuable mineral was discovered
+on a previous planet which she scouted, and, under the contract,
+she is entitled to a percentage of the profits.  When they show her
+the amount of credits to which she is entitled, she is almost
+speechless and quite surprised at her good fortune.
+
       Na'Toth has brought back Courier Tu'Pari to G'Kar's quarters. 
+He thanks her and sends her out, saying that he wants to speak with
+Tu'Pari alone.  She leaves.  He grabs Tu'Pari by the neck and asks
+who gave Tu'Pari the message to deliver.  When Tu'Pari replies that
+the message in from D'Rog, G'Kar merely tightens his grip and says
+that D'Rog is dead.  Tu'Pari then admits that the message is from
+Councillor Sha'Toth, Na'Toth's father.  "The danger is much closer
+to you thank you think, ambassador," says Tu'Pari.
+
       Sinclair is in his quarters listening to Tennyson's
+Ulysses
+when Catherine enters.  She brings some expensive wine and comments
+that she has terrific news and is "tired of not having anyone to
+share it with."  She comments on his liking of old poetry:  "What's
+it take to drive you into the 23rd century?"  She quotes some of it
+to him; he is surprised to find that she has memorized it.  She
+responds, "I lived with you for a year--I didn't have much choice." 
+Sinclair comments that what she's doing right now may not be such
+a good idea; however, she pleads with him not to send her out. 
+Although they have superficially agreed that their relationship is
+over and that they have no feelings for each other any longer, she
+says that "you don't just turn it off like a switch."  She admits
+that, even though they have been separated for a while, and even
+though she has tried relationships with other men, she never
+stopped thinking about him.  After a bit of tension, they agree to
+spend the night with one another.
+
       G'Kar is in his quarters, communicating with the Narn
+homeworld.  He is requesting that Na'Toth be reassigned immediately.
+They confirm his request; further, they apologize for the
+delays in communication.  "What delays?" asks G'Kar.
+
       G'Kar's correspondent explains that the appointed courier met
+with an unfortunate accident right before he was going to leave for
+Babylon 5.  They have not yet been able to find a replacement.
+
       "What are you talking about?" G'Kar asks.  "The courier is
+right here.  I--"  Suddenly, he realizes, and turns around to find
+Tu'Pari staring at him, pointing a gun at him, and smiling evilly.
+
       The next morning, Catherine, in bed with Sinclair, is talking
+with him.  They reflect on their relationship, its longevity, and
+its resilience--how it started at the academy, lasted through the
+war, and somehow showed itself every three years since then.  They
+also speak of how things might be different this time ...
+
       Meanwhile, the assassin Tu'Pari has been waiting for Ambassador
+G'Kar to awake.  When G'Kar does awake, Tu'Pari gloats a bit
+about how G'Kar's being awake will "make this far more interesting."
+G'Kar, needless to say, is anger and runs toward Tu'Pari in
+order to attack him.  However, the devices (known as "pain-givers")
+around G'Kar's neck and arms propel him back--in pain--before he
+gets close enough to Tu'Pari to be threatening.  "My orders are
+quite specific," says Tu'Pari.  "You are to know pain.  You are to
+know fear.  And then, you are to die."  However, he admits that it
+will be a pleasure when the assignment is finished--"Allaying the
+target's suspicions can be so time-consuming.  Do you have any idea
+how long I sat in the customs area waiting for Na'Toth to 'find'
+me?"
+
    
+ "You are to know
+pain..."
+
       G'Kar tries to reason with Tu'Pari; he offers to double the
+assassin's current payment if he will abort his mission.
+
       Tu'Pari notes how, though G'Kar could probably make him very
+wealthy, to betray a commission would be a violation of the rules
+and the spirit of the Assassins' Guild.  Indeed, if Tu'Pari were to
+violate those rules, the Assassins' Guild would then have to kill
+=him=.  To accentuate his point, he increases the intensity of the
+pain-givers.
+
       Na'Toth enters G'Kar's quarters and, when she cannot find
+G'Kar, orders the computer to replay the last transmission in which
+G'Kar participated.  The computer shows her ...
+
       Tu'Pari is continuing to use the pain-givers against G'Kar. 
+"The pain must be overwhelming.  Why hold it in?  Cry out, ambassador!"
+
       "I would die," retorts G'Kar, "before giving you that
+satisfaction."  However, it is evident that he is, indeed, in great
+pain.  However, just to be sure, Tu'Pari continues to raise the
+intensity of the pain-givers.  G'Kar does, eventually, indeed, cry
+out.
+
       At that moment, Na'Toth finally enters.  She explains how she
+found Tu'Pari and G'Kar--she knew that Tu'Pari would want "complete
+privacy," so she searched for and found which transport tube had
+"suddenly broken down," as Na'Toth comments.  Tu'Pari orders her
+away, but Na'Toth refuses to leave.  She claims to be Tu'Pari's
+backup:  "I have to finish the job in case you fail."
+
       Tu'Pari skeptically replies that he was not informed about any
+backup.
+
       "No, the primary never is--standard practice in the Assassins'
+Guild, as you well know," says Na'Toth.
+
       Still, Tu'Pari refuses to believe her.  Na'Toth ignores him--
+she comments on the "crude, unimaginative" pain-givers that are
+being used on G'Kar, saying that they are much too quick--that
+their orders were to prolong G'Kar's pain and discomfort as much as
+possible until "the deadline."
+
       "And what would you recommend?" asks Tu'Pari, still skeptical.
+
       She answers with action:  she brutally kicks him a few times,
+picks him up, and repeatedly hits him, sending him falling out of
+the room.
+
       But Tu'Pari is still unmoved.  "And this is the part," he
+says, "where I'm supposed to decide I trust you, drop my guard, and
+let you shoot me in the back?  Sorry, but I can't take the chance
+that you're lying."  However, just by saying this, his guard was
+lowered enough.  G'Kar, whose pain-givers are no longer activated,
+quickly rushes up to Tu'Pari and knocks him unconscious.
+
       "That hurt!" he says to Na'Toth, in a friendly way.
+
       "Ambassador," she answers, "it was the only way to disable the
+pain-givers.  I had to hit them as hard as possible, as often as
+possible, and still make it appear as though I were beating you
+into another incarnation."
+
       "And you didn't enjoy it in the least?" he asks.
+
       "I didn't say that!" she jokingly responds.  She asks what
+G'Kar will do with Tu'Pari....
+
       Three days later, when Tu'Pari awakes, he is annoyed to find
+that he has been unconscious for so long.  G'Kar explains that to
+make up for any inconvenience, he has deposited a large sum of
+money in Tu'Pari's personal account at home.  Tu'Pari realizes what
+this means--the Assassins' Guild will think he betrayed his
+commission, and it will not take kindly to what it believes to be
+a violation of its rules.
+
       G'Kar smiles and is glad to realize that he has nothing to
+fear from the Guild any longer--the commission was Tu'Pari's alone,
+and because the Assassins' Guild will be so embarrassed by this
+incident, they'd prefer to forget it all never happened--except for
+killing Tu'Pari if they find him.  Happily, G'Kar and Na'Toth send
+Tu'Pari on his way, both saying, "You will know pain, and you will
+know fear, and then you will die.  Have a pleasant flight."
+
    
+ "Have a pleasant flight."
+
       Sinclair and Catherine are saying goodbye to one another. 
+However, they both agree that this time will be different--"I'm not
+leaving, this time," says Sinclair.
+
       "This should be interesting," responds Catherine.  She then
+asks him what he's planning for Earth's religious demonstration. 
+He replies that he has no idea--and that he also has no idea how
+he'll top the Minbari demonstration, with all its "Bells, drums,
+robes, and little pieces of fruit."
+
       "Red fruit?" she asks, her interested piqued.  "And was there
+a serious exchange of looks?"  He says that there were--it's part
+of the rebirth ceremony, he says.  She laughs and says that that
+type of ceremony can also double as a marriage ceremony--"depending
+on how seriously anyone took it, somebody got married the other
+day."
+
       "Maybe that's why G'Kar's smiling.  Funny, I didn't think
+Londo was his type," Sinclair jokes.
+
       Catherine leaves, but says she'll return soon.  They both
+wonder if they'll "get it right this time."
+
       Sinclair has finally arranged Earth's religious demonstration. 
+He brings the alien ambassadors into a room which contains hundreds
+of people, all of different religions.  Sinclair moves along a line
+formed by them, introducing them one-by-one to the aliens.  There
+were, as the aliens commented, no drums, no bells, no chants--only
+a showcase of Earth's proud diversity.
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
      Jason Ironheart, Psi-Corps Level 10, has stolen a transport
+vessel but is being pursued.  His pursuers order him to stop, but
+he ignores them.  Suddenly, there is a strong explosion, and only
+one ship emerges:  Ironheart's ship, headed toward Babylon 5.
+
    
+ Pursuing Ironheart.
+
      On Babylon 5, Sinclair and Catherine Sakai, his girlfriend,
+have just woken up.  Catherine explains that she's working on
+finalizing a contract with Universal Terraform, an important
+corporation from Earth.
+
      Meanwhile, Ironheart has arrived on Babylon 5.
+
      Talia Winters is having a conversation with a businessman from
+Universal Terraform who wants to use her services in an upcoming
+negotiation.  They enter an elevator (turbolift?) which Garibaldi
+is also currently using.  The businessman asks what it's like to be
+a telepath; Winters responds that it's often difficult to block out
+the thoughts around her--while casual thoughts are simple to
+ignore, strong emotions can somehow break through whatever mental
+barriers she can set up.  Suddenly, she turns around at Garibaldi
+(who has been experiencing his own "strong emotions" while staring
+at Winters) and elbows him in the stomach.
+
      Elsewhere on the station, Bester and Kelsey, two Level-12
+"Psi-Cops," have just come aboard Babylon 5.  They telepathically
+"ask" a minor official to bring them to Sinclair.
+
      Catherine Sakai is meeting with the businessman from Universal
+Terraform--the businessman who has brought Winters along.  The
+businessman is concerned with the confidentiality of the planet
+which Catherine wishes to survey (because the planet, known as
+Sigma-957, may have some deposits of Quantium-40, a material
+important to the construction of jumpgates)--and so, following
+orders from his superiors, he asks Sakai to promise not to mention
+the planet to anyone--not even Sinclair.  He has brought Winters
+along to verify that Sakai is telling the truth when she says she
+will not tell anyone about the planet--and, indeed, Winters does
+confirm this.  The businessman also notes that, since the planet in
+question is in a contested region of space, they need the consent
+of one other major party--in this case, G'Kar, representing the
+Narn, will give that consent and will collaborate concerning Sigma-957.
+
      Bester and Kelsey arrive at Sinclair's office, and begin to
+have a telepathic conversation with him.  Sinclair gets quite
+annoyed, telling them that he doesn't like people "rummaging around
+in my head."  He questions them, asking about the rules governing
+such use of telepathic abilities.  They tell him that they are
+psi-cops, and because of their important responsibilities, they are
+given a wider latitude than other telepaths.  They tell Sinclair
+that they are on a mission to track down a rogue telepath--one who
+may be putting the Earth Alliance's military structure at tremendous risk.  Sinclair is hesitant to offer assistance, but they insist
+that he hold a meeting with the station's resident telepath
+(Winters), as well as security and command personnel.
+
    
+ Bester and Kelsey consult
+Sinclair.
+
      Ironheart is standing in his newly-rented quarters when he
+suddenly appears to get a terrible headache.  He clutches his head,
+but is apparently unable to make the pain go away.  Suddenly, the
+entire room starts shaking, almost as if to reflect his pain.
+
      The meeting that Bester and Kelsey requested has begun. 
+Winters, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Sinclair are present.  Bester asks
+Winters if she knows (or ever knew) Ironheart; she replies that
+Ironheart was her instructor in the Psi-Corps Training Academy. 
+Kelsey explains that one year before, Ironheart had been reassigned
+to work on a covert operation with Earth Force Military Intelligence.
+Bester and Kelsey refuse, however, to explain the nature of
+his covert operation.  They only say that what is in Ironheart's
+brain would compromise Earth Force's position and possibly lead to
+the deaths of covert operatives on other worlds; they believe that
+Ironheart wishes to sell this information to alien governments. 
+They refuse to give any other information (particularly, they
+refuse to tell Sinclair what type of danger Ironheart poses to the
+station); they only Sinclair to find and bring back Ironheart
+("Alive if possible; dead if necessary")--"We'll do the rest."  The
+Psi-Cops asks Winters if she has had any contact with Ironheart;
+she replies that, since she left the academy, they have 
+corresponded only through letters.  The Psi-Cops, however, do not believe
+her--they order her to submit to a mental scan so that they can be
+sure of what she's saying.  She cringes at the possibility, for
+mental scans can be quite painful--nonetheless, she is forced to
+comply.  The scan is performed, and the Psi-Cops are surprised to
+find that Winters has been speaking the truth.  "Surprising," says
+Kelsey, "given their prior involvement."  The Psi-Cops then leave,
+ordering everyone (but especially Winters) not to speak with or
+approach Ironheart if he is found on the station.
+
      A short time after Winters has left the meeting, Ironheart
+approaches her in dark corridor.  She attempts to leave quickly,
+explaining that she was ordered not to see him.  He says that he is
+aware of the Psi-Cops (and also that he was aware of their scan of
+her mind--which is why he waited until after the scan to contact
+her), and promises to simply explain the whole situation to Winters
+if she'll give him the chance.
+
      Sakai, meanwhile, is quite annoyed at G'Kar's involvement with
+the mission at Sigma-957.  He explains that he has involved himself
+only in order to protect Sakai--"Sigma-957 is not a healthy place. 
+Strange things happen there."  Sakai, however, doesn't believe him,
+and explains that she thinks he and the Narn just want Sigma-957
+for themselves.  He denies her suspicions, telling her that she
+shouldn't believe everything she's heard about G'Kar--"No one here
+is exactly what he appears," says G'Kar.  "Not Mollari, Delenn, not
+Sinclair, and not me.  My warning is sincere; ignore it at your own
+peril."  She still, however, doesn't believe him, saying that she
+will, if necessary, "go over his head" and communicate with her own
+contacts in the Narn regime.
+
      Ironheart, in Winters's quarters, explains that one year
+before, he volunteered for an ambitious Psi-Corps experiment--an
+experiment that, if successful, would greatly increase the powers
+of telepaths.  He volunteered because he was told that the
+experiment was necessary for Earth Force Defense--each race wants
+to make sure that its telepaths are powerful enough.  After months
+of the experiment, his telepathic abilities expanded beyond his
+belief--he could "cut through any block without even trying--all I
+had to do was to look at them."  However, such development was a
+mixed blessing, because he finally realized the true purpose of the
+experiment:  to develop "stable" telekinesis.  Winters recalls the
+telekinesis tests she took at the academy--"I tried for days to
+make [a penny] move with my thoughts; I couldn't do it."  He
+explains that only one in every thousand humans is telepathic; and
+only one out of every ten-thousand telepaths is telekinetic--but
+that half of these telekinetics are clinically insane.  But the
+experiment was successful, says Ironheart, "It worked beyond
+anyone's wildest dreams."
+
    
+ Ironheart and
+Winters.
+
      Garibaldi tells Sinclair that he has found something which
+might help him track down Ironheart:  one of the ships which
+recently arrived at Babylon 5 was a stolen transport that came from
+Ironheart's previous location.  Garibaldi says that he is checking
+the guest quarters on the station.  He comments that he's working
+as quickly as possible--he doesn't like the idea of rogue telepaths
+or Psi-Cops on the station.  "There's just something creepy about
+[Psi-Cops]," explains Garibaldi, "The way they look at you like
+you're some kind of bug."  Just then, Bester arrives on the bridge,
+and Garibaldi leaves relatively quickly.  Bester stares at
+Garibaldi as he's walking away and "replies," somewhat annoyed,
+"Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're welcome to try,
+any time, anywhere."
+
      Meanwhile, Sakai is on her way to Sigma-957.
+
      G'Kar is in his quarters, speaking on a secure channel with
+Narn Military Headquarters.  He says he requires a well-armed heavy
+fighter for a mission to Sigma-957.
+
      Ironheart, still in Winters's quarters, explains to Winters
+that at first, he thought that the Psi-Corps wanted telekinesis for
+"big jobs"--heavy construction in 0-G, telekinetic shields on
+ships.  He explains that the Psi-Corps, however, wanted increased
+control of smaller objects--the smaller the better.  If precise
+control over small objects were perfected, telekinetics could
+become the ideal assassins:  "Murder without a trace.  No fingerprints,
+no poisons."  Suddenly, as he speaks, the room begins to
+shake again.  He tells Winters to run--to leave the room quickly --
+for he cannot control this side-effect of his new telekinetic
+powers.  This time, however, it's not just his room that starts to
+shake--it's an entire section of Babylon 5.
+
      Sinclair is walking with Bester and Kelsey when the vibrations
+reach him.  The Psi-Cops immediately recognize the situation as a
+"mind-quake."  When Sinclair finds Garibaldi, Garibaldi comments
+that he has pinpointed the source of the disturbance, but that the
+entire level of the station where the disturbance is coming from is
+blocked by some type of energy shield.  Sinclair angrily mentions
+that, when he asked Bester what type of danger Ironheart represented,
+Bester replied that Sinclair didn't need to know.  He calls a
+meeting with Bester and Kelsey.
+
      Sinclair accuses the Psi-Cops of placing the station in danger
+by withholding information from Sinclair.  They merely reply that
+they were following orders, but Sinclair dismisses that excuse.  He
+confronts the Psi-Cops, ordering them to explain the precise danger
+that Ironheart poses.  Bester only replies that Ironheart is no
+longer entirely "human"--other than that, the Psi-Corps doesn't
+know exactly what he is.
+
      Ironheart is meanwhile sitting in the middle of the rubble
+caused by his telekinesis.  He is trying, with some success, to
+calm his thoughts down and stop the accidental destruction.
+
      At the meeting between Sinclair, Ivanova, Bester, and Kelsey,
+Bester explains the basics of Ironheart's experiment to Sinclair. 
+Bester says that, toward the end of the experiment, Ironheart began
+to show signs of paranoia, stress, and psychosis.  One night,
+Ironheart left his room, killed the head researcher of the
+experiment, and escaped.  Kelsey comments that Ironheart's
+telekinetic abilities grew stronger and more violent as time
+progressed.  Bester tells Sinclair that Ironheart, in his present
+state, is a valuable commodity--and the Psi-Corps cannot allow him
+to fall into the hands of any alien government.  He adds that the
+Psi-Corps wanted to keep the whole incident quiet in order that
+alien governments not find out about Ironheart's abilities--this
+reason is why they withheld the information about Ironheart's
+condition.  "It was a calculated risk," comments Bester.  (Ivanova
+expresses her disgust with the way the Psi-Corps have no ethical
+problem with taking inhumane, calculated risks).  Sinclair asks how
+the Psi-Cops plan to stop Ironheart if he is so powerful.  They
+explain that, during the experiment, Ironheart was programmed with
+a "fail-safe code," which, when sent into his brain by a powerful
+telepath, has the ability to shut down Ironheart--to "put him to
+sleep"--but not kill him.  Bester and Kelsey believe that, between
+the two of them, they will be able to overcome any defenses that
+Ironheart has set up--but they can only send the fail-safe code if
+Ironheart is in their line of sight.
+
      Winters walks up to one of the shields that Ironheart has set
+up around the level of B5 which was shaken by his thoughts.  She
+tries to speak with him--to shout to him through the shields.  When
+he hears (or senses) her, he drops the shields for a moment so that
+she can pass through.  When she finally arrives to where Jason is
+standing, he is glad to see her.  He explains that he came to
+Babylon 5 in order to see her--that he felt that being with her
+would be enough to calm his thoughts, "shut out the voices," and
+rest "for a little while ... before the end."  He admits that he
+shouldn't have come to the station--he has inadvertently put people
+at risk, though he didn't want to hurt anyone.  He tells Winters
+what he has learned of the Psi-Corps--that, although people believe
+that the government controls the Corps, the reverse is coming to be
+true.  "[The Psi-Corps is] more powerful than you can begin to
+imagine.  Telepaths make the ultimate blackmailers, Talia.  I've
+seen it all."  He tells Winters that he is currently undergoing a
+tremendous change--and that he is no longer Jason Ironheart.
+
      Sakai has finally arrived at Sigma-957.  She enters into an
+orbit above the planet and beings to conduct environmental
+research.  She laughs to herself about G'Kar's warnings concerning
+Sigma-957.
+
    
+ The Skydancer
+launches a probe.
+
      Winters, after leaving Ironheart, finds Sinclair and tells him
+that she has seen Ironheart.  She requests to speak with Sinclair
+privately; he agrees.  When they are in private, she explains the
+situation to Sinclair.  She tells Sinclair that Ironheart wants to
+see him.  Sinclair asks what exactly was between Ironheart and
+her--why he came to this station.  She explains that they had been
+lovers--and that Ironheart came to B5 to see Winters.  "He was
+everything to me--the perfect model of what it meant to be in the
+Corps.  Do you know what it's like when telepaths make love,
+commander?  You drop every defense, and it's all mirrors.... It's
+a feeling so profound it makes you hurt.  It's the only moment in
+a telepath's life when you no longer hear the voices.  He came to
+say goodbye, commander."
+
      Meanwhile, Sakai, at Sigma-957, suddenly sees something near
+Sigma-957.  Neither she nor her computer can identify it, but her
+computer's power level is reduced drastically.  Her orbit is
+decaying, and she will crash into the planet in less than two
+hours.  She tries to open an emergency channel with Babylon 5, but
+there is not enough power to establish a link.
+
      Sinclair and Winters arrive to where Ironheart is sitting.  He
+greets Sinclair politely, but gets rights into the purpose of his
+discussion.  "The Psi-Corps is dedicated to one thing, commander:
+control."  He explains to Sinclair what he had previously explained
+to Winters.  "But there is something even more powerful--something
+they didn't even know existed until I crossed the line.  Not mind
+over matter, mind over energy.... I look at you, commander, and I
+see not a man, but a galaxy of subatomic particles which I can ...
+rearrange with a casual thought."  Ironheart explains that he feels
+humans aren't ready for these types of powers; but if the Psi-Corps
+find him and bring him back, they will study him to try to figure
+out the combination of drugs which caused this phenomenon.
+
      Sinclair, however, asks why he should trust Ironheart over the
+Psi-Cops.  Ironheart explains that if he meant any harm, he could
+vaporize Sinclair instantly.  When Sinclair mentions that Ironheart
+has already caused harm and destruction on the station, Ironheart
+explains that the "mind-quake" was an accident.  Ironheart claims
+he never wanted to hurt anyone; however, as his telekinetic powers
+expand, it takes him a while to learn how to control them. 
+Sinclair mentions the head researcher that Bester said Ironheart
+killed; Ironheart claims that he didn't want to kill the researcher--but
+since that researcher was the only one who could duplicate
+the experiment, he had no choice.  "There must never be any more
+like me," he says earnestly.  Ironheart explains that he only wants
+Sinclair's trust--and a little bit of help.  He says that he needs
+to leave the station so that he can be free to become whatever it
+is that he's becoming.  At length, Sinclair agrees, and arranges
+with Ivanova and Garibaldi to escort Ironheart off the station to
+the stolen transport which is docked outside.
+
      Meanwhile, very soon before Sakai's ship would have burned up
+in the atmosphere of Sigma-957, Sakai's computer detects the
+arrival of two ships.  The ships open a communication channel with
+her--they explain to her they are Narn vessels dispatched on the
+order of G'Kar to rescue her in the event that anything strange
+should happen in Sigma-957.  They grapple Sakai's ship and escort
+it back to Babylon 5.
+
      Bester and Kelsey have meanwhile discovered that Sinclair is
+attempting to escort Ironheart off of the station.  They meet up
+with Ironheart as he is trying to escape; they attempt to send the
+fail-safe code, but Ironheart's defenses are too powerful. 
+Ironheart is, however, forced to kill Kelsey in the struggle.  He
+successfully escapes from Bester, then enters his ship and leaves
+the station.
+
    
+ Bester takes a shot
+at Ironheart.
+
      Sinclair and Winters, along with Garibaldi and Ivanova, watch
+Ironheart's ship leave Babylon 5.  Shortly after, the station's
+sensors detect a strong energy surge; suddenly, Ironheart's ship is
+no longer there, and in its place is a strange configuration of
+floating energy.  The energy entity--the new Jason Ironheart--
+speaks with Winters on the bridge.  As a parting gesture, he gives
+her "the only gift I have to give"--suddenly, a bright flow of
+energy enters Winters's head, knocking her unconscious.  
+
      "Goodbye, commander," says Ironheart, "I will see you again in
+a million years."
+
      Afterwards, Sinclair is speaking with a somewhat-depressed
+Bester, who complains that his superiors will believe none of what
+just happened.  Sinclair agrees, "Especially since in about an
+hour, we'll have a small accident in data storage that'll erase the
+file you just saw."  Garibaldi suggests an alternative report: 
+"That Ironheart's ship escaped Babylon 5 but exploded before it
+could enter the jumpgate."  If Bester refuses to use this suggestion
+in his report, Sinclair threatens that he will make it known
+how Bester withheld information, put the station in danger, and,
+through his interference, cause the death of his fellow Psi-Cop.
+Sinclair also makes Bester promise to have his report indicate that
+Winters was under Ironheart's control during the incident--and that
+she was not responsible for her actions during the incident. 
+Bester agrees reluctantly and leaves quietly.
+
      After Bester leaves, Garibaldi asks Sinclair if Sinclair will
+report to "the senator" (probably the senator with whom Sinclair
+communicates periodically) what Ironheart accused the Psi-Corps of. 
+Sinclair says that he doesn't think it will do any good--Ironheart
+was feverish and paranoid, so what he said might not be true.  Even
+if it is true, without Ironheart available to testify, it would
+just be his word versus that of the Corps.  However, they agree to
+keep their eyes open for anything threatening.  Garibaldi then
+wonders out loud what Ironheart's gift to Winters was.  Sinclair
+comments that he doesn't think she would tell Garibaldi even if he
+were to ask.
+
      Meanwhile, Winters is in her quarters.  She has placed a penny
+on the table, and when she focuses on it, she finds that he can
+make it move using only her thoughts....
+
      Catherine Sakai has arrived safely with the help of the Narn
+ships.  She finds G'Kar and thanks him for his help.  She asks him,
+however, why he went to the trouble of rescuing her.  "Why not?" he
+replies.  When she comments that that isn't an answer, G'Kar
+replies, "Oh, yes it is.  It's simply not an answer you like or the
+answer your expected.  There's a difference.  Narns, humans,
+Centauri--we all do what we do for the same reason:  because it
+seemed like a good idea at the time.  There was no profit--no
+advantage--in letting you fall to an untimely and most uncomfortable
+death.  It would distress the commander to no good end."  She
+seems to accept this reason, then asks if G'Kar knew what it was
+that she saw near Sigma-957.  He explains that it is a phenomenon
+which they cannot explain:  "There are things in the universe
+billions of years older than either of our races.  They are vast,
+timeless ... They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and
+reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe--
+that we have not yet explained everything.  Whatever they are, Ms.
+Sakai, they walk near Sigma-957.  They must walk there alone." 
+Catherine only stares in wonder.
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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       Shaal Mayan, a famed Minbari poet and an old friend of Delenn,
+has arrived on Babylon 5 to give a public performance of her
+poetry.  She and Delenn are sitting in Delenn's quarters, discussing
+poetry--and life in general.  Mayan, however, must wake up
+early the following morning (for she must prepare for her upcoming
+journey to Earth), so, at length, she says farewell to Delenn and
+heads toward her own quarters.  On her way, she is brutally stabbed
+and branded on the forehead by a assailant who yells at her, "Stay
+away from Earth, freak!"
+
    
+ Mayan is branded.
+
       Mayan, fortunately, will survive; she was found and treated in
+time.  However, Delenn angrily confronts Sinclair and Garibaldi,
+upset at them for allowing such an attack to happen on Babylon 5--a
+ruthless attack against a peaceful poet whom nobody would have any
+reason to injure.
+
       Later, Garibaldi is discussing Mayan's attack with Sinclair. 
+As it turns out, the assault on Mayan was the sixth recent attack
+on a prominent alien on B5.  Evidently, an organization known as
+the Home Guard, a militant "Pro-Earth" (anti-alien) group, is
+responsible for the incidents (the symbol with which Mayan was
+branded was identified as the Home Guard's logo).  Further,
+explains Garibaldi, the attacks have not only occurred on B5--there
+have been a wave of similar incidents on both Earth and Mars. 
+Apparently, the Home Guard--and similar groups--have been growing
+in popular support recently.  "The problem is, there [are many] who
+agree with them and even more who just don't give a damn," comments
+Garibaldi.
+
       Just as Garibaldi walks away, G'Kar approaches Sinclair and
+expresses his disgust with the recent incident.  "I have no special
+love for the Minbari or their poets, but ... if any *Narn* is
+harmed in this manner, there will be bloody retribution," G'Kar
+threatens.
+
       Sinclair threatens G'Kar in return, warning him not to cause
+any disturbances on Babylon 5.
+
       Garibaldi is questioning the injured Mayan in the Medical Lab. 
+She cannot, however, identify her attacker or give Garibaldi any
+clue as to who might wish to injure her.  Dr. Franklin approaches
+her shortly thereafter and offers to remove the brand on her
+forehead, but she declines his offer:  "It is a lesson--one that
+should not be forgotten."
+
       Meanwhile, the authorities on an approaching Centauri vessel
+are informing Ivanova that they wish to deliver some apparently-harmless
+detainees to any B5 official of command rank.  Though
+neither Garibaldi nor Ivanova wishes to waste time greeting these
+detainees and taking them into custody, Garibaldi eventually wins
+out, and Ivanova heads on her way ...
+
       She finds two young Centauri detainees--one male, one female,
+both complaining of having been taking into custody.  They demand
+to see "Ambassador [Vir] Cotto."  Ivanova tells the officers
+escorting the detainees to inform the Centauri representatives on
+the station.  Just then, as she turns around, she sees Malcolm
+Biggs, her old lover whom she hasn't seen for eight years,
+approaching her.  She doesn't appear to be very happy to see him,
+and virtually pretends to ignore him--she is on duty, she says, and
+she has no time to talk.
+
       Meanwhile, the detainees have been brought to see Sinclair,
+Londo, and Vir.  Vir introduces the male detainee as Kiron Maray --
+Vir's cousin -- and the female detainee as Aria Tensus -- Kiron's
+lover.  Kiron questions Vir, mentioning that Vir said in his
+letters that he was the Centauri ambassador on B5; Vir refuses to
+answer, telling Kiron that it is too difficult to explain. 
+Meanwhile, Sinclair explains to Garibaldi that the two young
+Centauri had stolen credit chits and were taken into custody upon
+arrival at B5; however, Sinclair is willing to turn over the matter
+to Londo because the offenders are Centauri.  (Of course, Londo
+neither wants to deal with the youths nor has any idea what to do
+with them--but he is given little choice).
+
    
+ Kiron and Aria.
+
       Ivanova's shift has just ended, and, while she is getting a
+drink, Malcolm meets up with her.  They speak for a while; Malcolm
+clearly wishes to start their relationship again, but Ivanova is
+hesitant.  She takes her leave of him again--but politely, this
+time.
+
       Vir, Londo, and the two lovers are in Londo's quarters.  Vir
+is explaining the situation to Londo:  when the lovers' families
+arranged marriages for them (to *other* people), Kiron and Aria
+fled to Babylon 5.  They do not want to marry anyone else but each
+other.  Londo, however, is slow to understand--he does not see what
+love has to do with marriage, nor does he respect the lovers for
+running away from their families.  He lectures them on Centauri
+traditions, telling them how, for a thousand years, marriages have
+been arranged for Centauri children.  These marriages help to merge
+noble families and "keep the fabric of the Republic strong." 
+"Sometimes," says Londo, "these marriages call for sacrifice [he
+looks at the pictures of his own wives on his desk].  Great
+sacrifice.
+But we make this sacrifice because this is what it means to
+be Centauri! If you deny this tradition, you lose the very thing
+which makes you what you are."  The lovers listen to him, but are
+not moved--they claim that these traditions are simply unfair.
+
       Meanwhile, Garibaldi has arrested a human who has been found
+with a knife in his possession.  The arrested man, Roberts, is
+defiant--he maintains that he has a right to defend himself against
+"the *things* that walk around this place."  Garibaldi gets to the
+point:  there are fresh traces of blood on Roberts's knife, and
+Garibaldi suspects him of committing the assault on Mayan the
+previous night.  Roberts claims that the blood on his knife is his
+own blood--he cut himself opening a crate.  Though he unreservedly
+admits that he agrees with the Home Guard--"if you ask me, they got
+the right idea.... Damn aliens are ruining everything for us"--he
+insists that he was not Mayan's attacker.  Garibaldi, without any
+further evidence at the moment, writes up Roberts on the charge of
+carrying an illegal weapon. Garibaldi also orders his officers to
+check the blood on the knife.  "If the blood ... matches Mayan's,
+I'll give you over to the Minbari and let them play dice with your
+eyeballs," he says to Roberts.
+
       "I don't know what's worse--damn aliens or the traitors that
+suck up to them over their own kind," retaliates Roberts.
+
       In view of the worsening situation on Babylon 5, Sinclair goes
+to see Ambassador Kosh in order to inform him of the recent
+incidents.  Kosh, however, doesn't seem to care; when Sinclair asks
+him if he will speak with the other ambassadors about the matter,
+Kosh replies, "We take no interest in the affairs of others." 
+Sinclair then notices the television-like display which Kosh has
+been watching since Sinclair entered the room--the display is
+showing historic pictures of Earth.  When Sinclair asks Kosh what
+he's doing with the viewer, Kosh tells him that he is "studying." 
+When Sinclair asks Kosh *what* he's studying, however, Kosh ends
+the discussion quickly and abruptly.  Sinclair politely leaves,
+realizing that any further questioning will be futile.
+
    
+ Sinclair visits Kosh.
+
       After his discussion with Kosh, Sinclair returns to the
+bridge.  There, he finds Ivanova and begins talking with her.  He
+asks her if she was familiar with the incident that occurred right
+after Kosh arrived on Babylon 5.  She replied that she received
+only a cursory briefing.
+
+He explains what happened:  specifically,
+he explains that the assassination attempt against Kosh was
+attempted with poison, administered through the hand.  He tells her
+that he finally figured something out that had been bothering him
+for a while:  "Kosh wears an encounter suit to protect him from our
+atmosphere," he says, "so how did the poison get into his system? 
+His hand should have been completely covered."
+
+
       Ivanova explains that the Vorlons are very secretive, and
+that, perhaps, the encounter suit may be more useful as a camouflage
+than as a necessary protection from the environment.
+
       Sinclair understands, but expresses his curiosity at the
+reassignment of the only human who has seen a Vorlon--Dr. Benjamin
+Kyle.  Kyle was brought back to Earth shortly after the incident in
+order to work directly with the president.  (Sinclair tells Ivanova
+that Kyle, who was bound by the standard doctor's oath of confidentiality,
+never told Sinclair what he saw).  Further, explains
+Sinclair, the only member of the Psi Corps to have scanned a
+Vorlon--Lyta Alexander--was also reassigned.  [See also "The
+Gathering."]
+
       Londo is quite annoyed with Vir for getting him involved with
+the case of the lovers.  Kiron and Aria's families have sent
+several messages to Sinclair--"[they] are outraged, and it's *my*
+head they're after."  Londo explains that he has only one choice --
+to send Kiron and Aria back home.  Vir objects, however, saying
+that they love one another and ought not to be forced into
+marriages that they won't enjoy.
+
       "Love, pah!  Overrated!" Londo cries out.  "[He points to the
+pictures of his wives.]  These are my three wives--pestilence,
+famine, and death.  Do you think I married them for their personalities?
+Their personalities could shatter worlds!  Arranged
+marriages, every one.  But they worked out; they inspired me. 
+Knowing that they were waiting at home for me is what keeps me
+here, 75 light-years away."  Londo is therefore firm in his
+decision to send the lovers back to Centauri Prime.
+
       Sinclair, who has heard that Garibaldi found a suspect for
+Mayan's attack, calls Garibaldi into his office.  However,
+Garibaldi brings bad news for the investigation:  the blood on
+Roberts's knife was indeed Roberts's own blood.  Garibaldi explains
+that he has set Roberts free, but has placed him under "red level
+surveillance."
+
       "I think he'll be more useful to us running loose," says
+Garibaldi.  "He's a logical recruit for the Home Guard."  Garibaldi
+tells Sinclair that the general unrest that has resulted from these
+incidents on the station is continuously becoming worse.  Fights
+are breaking out everywhere; the alien population of the station is
+growing angrier.  Sinclair comments that this is probably the Home
+Guard's intended result--if they can provoke enough tension between
+humans and aliens, they might grow in power and eventually cause
+Earth to withdraw from galactic affairs (or so they would hope). 
+One thing is clear to Sinclair:  if the Home Guard isn't stopped
+soon, everything that B5 stands for will be destroyed. 
+
       Ivanova has agreed to have dinner with Malcolm, and she seems
+to actually be enjoying it.  They reminisce about old times, when
+they were together happily.  Malcolm longs for these times; in
+fact, he tells Ivanova that he is planning to set up a business for
+himself on B5--this way, they can be together without interfering
+with their respective careers.  Needless to say, Ivanova is quite
+surprised.
+
       Kiron and Aria are sitting in the garden, enjoying the view
+and enjoying one another's company, when they are suddenly attacked
+by the Home Guard.  A few human individuals viciously attack the
+Centauri youths--they shoot Kiron at close range with a PPG and
+stun Aria with a shock stick; after the brief attack, they leave as
+suddenly and as quickly as they came.
+
       Luckily, Vir finds them shortly after they were attacked. 
+Aria will be fine (but does not remember anything about her
+attackers), but Kiron has been injured seriously.  Garibaldi, who
+is with Dr. Franklin, is suddenly called away because of some
+"major disturbance."
+
       The disturbance is being caused by G'Kar, who is attempting to
+incite a riot.  "We can no longer stand idly by," G'Kar says, "as
+our peoples are slaughtered by these cowardly humans.  We must
+fight back with every means at our disposal."  Garibaldi, who has
+brought Sinclair, approach G'Kar--but G'Kar relentlessly accuses
+Sinclair of unfair treatment of the attackers ("You have yet to
+make a single arrest.... You know very well why these crimes remain
+unsolved.  It is because the perpetrators are human," says G'Kar).
+Garibaldi convinces Sinclair to leave the scene of the riot; he
+then threatens to arrest G'Kar if G'Kar refuses to stop inciting
+the riot.  At length, G'Kar leaves.
+
    
+ G'Kar is convinced
+to stop speaking.
+
       Meanwhile, Roberts himself has become the victim of an
+attack--at the hands of aliens.  He is seriously injured.
+
       Ivanova and Malcolm have had an enjoyable evening, and they
+have returned to her quarters.  Just as they are beginning to kiss,
+Ivanova is called by Sinclair and ordered to report to the briefing
+room as a result of G'Kar's riot.  Malcolm (who showed an interest
+in the fact that there had been a riot) leaves, unhappily.
+
       Garibaldi is briefing Sinclair--the riots have "cooled down"
+according to Garibaldi, but there have been a few related incidents.
+He mentions that Roberts, who is still under red surveillance, has
+been attacked and injured.
+
       In the Med Lab, Londo and Vir are trying to console Aria, but
+she remains dismayed that Dr. Franklin won't let Aria get too close
+to Kiron.  Londo explains that this is standard medical procedure,
+but Aria insists that her if she were allowed near him, he would
+sense it and begin to recover.  Aria appeals to Londo, asking him
+if he can't get Franklin to allow her to get closer to Kiron, but
+Londo tells her to go back to her quarters--"there's nothing you
+can do here," he says.  Aria leaves.
+
       However, Shaal Mayan, who has overheard this conversation,
+disagrees with what Londo has said.  She asks him to listen to
+Aria:  "We should listen to the girl.  We Minbari consider love a
+most potent force for healing.  She cares deeply for him.  Such
+feelings can turn the tide when all else fails."
+
       "Oh, I see," responds Londo.  "And if he dies, despite this
+great power of love ..."
+
       "If he dies, she will suffer enormous grief.  But every moment
+together will make her grief a little less," Mayan answers.
+
       "I would expect such logic from a poet," he says scornfully. 
+"What can a Minbari know about Centauri feeling?"
+
       "Ambassador," she replies, "I have travelled far and seen
+much.  And what I have seen tells me that all sentient beings are
+best defined by their capacity and their need for love."
+
       "And she will learn to live without it," he says, forcefully.
+
       "As you did," says Mayan, with a note of pity in her voice.
+
       Meanwhile, Garibaldi is showing Sinclair something that he
+found via the surveillance of Roberts.  Roberts, who was injured
+and who was lying in a bed at the Medical Lab, was visited by none
+other than a man whom Sinclair recognizes as Malcolm Biggs
+(Sinclair was able to identify Malcolm because he had seen her in
+Ivanova's quarters when he summoned Ivanova to the briefing room
+earlier).  Malcolm had a brief talk with Roberts--a talk about the
+Home Guard and about how Malcolm felt that the they could benefit
+from Roberts's membership.  Malcolm says that he--and the Home
+Guard to which he belongs--need to gain the support of people like
+Roberts--people who have been attacked or otherwise harmed by
+aliens.  Garibaldi and Sinclair show the recording to Ivanova, who
+is entirely astonished at her former lover's involvement.  Sinclair
+asks Ivanova to introduce him to Malcolm--he tells Ivanova that he
+wants to infiltrate the organization.  "Groups like this always
+like to recruit friends in high places," he says.  "If they accept
+me, it could give me a chance to nail them all before they do any
+more damage."  Ivanova agrees, but on one condition:  she wants to
+be there herself when he takes the organization down.  He agrees,
+and they plan to get started at the diplomatic reception which will
+be held that night.
+
       Vir is talking with Londo; he frankly tells Londo that Londo
+is wrong in his decision to send Aria and Kiron home.  "My cousin
+and Aria wanted to be together because they love each other....
+Would that have destroyed the 'great Centauri Republic'?"  Londo
+replies that they cannot turn their back on tradition, but Vir
+disagrees and says he feels that the wealth and power should not be
+placed before love.
+
       "'My shoes are too tight,'" says Londo, sadly, in response. 
+"Something my father said.  He was old, very old at the time.  I
+went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the dark, crying. 
+So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, 'My shoes are too
+tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to
+dance.'  I never understood what that meant until now.  *My* shoes
+are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance."  Vir admits that
+he doesn't understand Londo, but Londo says that Vir shouldn't--at
+least, not yet.
+
       At the diplomatic reception that evening, Delenn introduces
+the head of an agricultural delegation from Ava IV [spelling
+correction pending] who is at B5 to study the hydroponics in the
+garden.  Sinclair greets the delegate more bruskly than usual,
+praising Earth technicians for their construction of the hydroponic
+garden and abruptly dismissing the delegate's concerns about the
+security of the station (in view of the recent attacks).
+
       Sinclair then moves over to meet Ivanova and Malcolm.  He
+speaks briefly with Malcolm, elaborating on his background in the
+Earth-Minbari war and on his "belief" that "the only good alien is
+a dead alien."  He tells Malcolm that, though his job requires him
+to play the role of diplomat, "[I don't] have to like it."
+
       Sinclair, Ivanova, and Malcolm leave the reception.  Sinclair
+continues his explanation of his "hatred" of aliens:  though he
+fought and his best friends died in the Earth-Minbari war, he is
+upset because "the Minbari let us win.  You know what that victory
+tasted like?  Ashes."  Malcolm explains that he has heard this
+sentiment many times from Earth-Minbari war veterans.  He continues,
+explaining that he is part of a movement on Earth that is
+attempting to get rid of Earth's involvement with aliens.  Malcolm
+reveals that he has some friends he'd like Sinclair to meet--but
+first, to prove Sinclair's loyalty, he requires Sinclair to do him
+a favor ...
+
    
+ Sinclair, Ivanova, and
+Malcolm meet.
+
       At the Council, Sinclair explains to all of the alien
+governments that there is no longer any danger from pro-Earth
+groups on the station.  Garibaldi explains that they have good
+reason to believe that the attackers have fled back to Earth. 
+However, Sinclair refuses to give the aliens any further information,
+saying that the information is classified.  This classification
+greatly angers the alien governments, but Sinclair gives the
+appearance of not caring.
+
       Meanwhile, in the Medical Lab, Kiron has awoken from his coma,
+to Aria's intense joy.
+
       On the bridge, Ivanova informs Sinclair that Malcolm has set
+the next meeting--she says that he won't reveal the precise
+location, but that they will meet Malcolm on the Zocalo in thirty
+minutes.  Sinclair and Ivanova are required to arrive unarmed; they
+will, however, maintain a link with Garibaldi.
+
       In the Medical Lab, Londo is speaking with Kiron and Aria.  He
+says that they must fulfill their duties and return to Centauri
+Prime.  When they arrive there, however, they will be greeted by
+Londo's second cousin, who will escort them to his family estate. 
+There, they will serve a period of fosterage whereby they will be
+instructed in--among other things--proper decorum and tradition of
+Centauri.  At the end of the fosterage period--when they are
+adults--they will be free to make their own decisions regarding
+marriage.  Londo feels that their parents will be happy with this
+course of action because the practice of fosterage is a time-honored
+tradition, which, although not practiced too often any
+more, was fairly common in the old days of the public.  "To object
+would be to defy all tradition!" says Londo.  Kiron, though happy,
+asks Londo why he went out of his way to arrange the fosterage. 
+"Because you are still children, and children should be allowed to
+dance," says Londo, happily.
+
       Meanwhile, the arranged meeting is taking place between
+Sinclair, Ivanova, and Malcolm.  As they're standing there, many
+other members of the Home Guard seem to appear from nowhere --
+Malcolm explains that they were using prototypes for a "black light
+camouflage" device.  Malcolm orders one of his men to set up a
+communications-jamming field, which prevents Garibaldi from
+continuing the communication link.  Garibaldi mobilizes his men;
+they start running toward Sinclair's position.  Meanwhile, Malcolm
+explains that in two days, there will be a mass assassination of
+the ambassadors on B5--in one fell swoop, the leading alien figures
+will all be killed.  Malcolm needs Sinclair to help the Home Guard
+gain access to the diplomatic wing (and, after the attack, to gain
+safe transport back to Earth).  Sinclair says that it's no problem. 
+As another test of Sinclair's loyalty, however, an alien is brought
+before Sinclair--the same agricultural delegate from Ava IV--and
+Sinclair is ordered to kill her.  He, of course, hesitates--and
+during the resulting delay, Garibaldi and his forces break into the
+room.  Malcolm is captured with the aid of Ivanova.
+
       Malcolm and the other members of the Home Guard are being
+escorted off of the station.  As Malcolm is leaving, he sees
+Ivanova, and angrily yells at her, "I can't believe you did this to
+me, Susan.  What kind of a human are you, to side with *them*?"
+
       "I find many of these people," answers Ivanova, "to be more
+human that you and your kind."  She stares at her old lover, in
+silence.  They both realize that they never truly knew each other.
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
        A solemn-looking man, known to us only as "Knight Two," has
+arrived on Babylon 5.  Shortly after his arrival, he sees another
+man ("Knight One") in the waiting area and moves over to him
+quietly.
+
        Meanwhile, right outside the waiting area, a security officer
+named Benson is getting beaten up by two gamblers to whom he owes
+a significant sum of money.  The gamblers threaten him with death
+if he does not pay them within 24 hours.
+
        Knight Two has moved into his quarters.  Knight One arrives,
+bringing a three-dimensional image projector with him.  He
+activates it, and it shows a lifelike picture of Commander
+Sinclair.  "I've identified the target," he says.
+
        Sinclair and Garibaldi have summoned security officer Benson
+in order to question him about possible debts he's been accumulating.
+They inform Benson that B5 security officers are strictly
+limited in their gambling--if an officer becomes indebted to the
+"wrong people," he would become vulnerable to blackmail, resulting
+in a security risk to the station.  Garibaldi claims to have
+information that Benson has been exceeding the gambling limits, but
+Benson insists that he's done nothing wrong.  Sinclair, however,
+not wanting to take any chances, removes Benson from the active
+duty roster pending an investigation in the matter.  After Benson
+leaves, Garibaldi comments that he believes Benson is lying.     
+
        "Everyone lies, Michael," replies Sinclair.  "The innocent lie
+because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do,
+and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice."     
+Knight Two and Knight One are building a complex gadget in Knight
+Two's quarters.  They have everything they need except for a power
+source; Knight One claims that it is impossible to smuggle an
+energy source onto the station because it would be picked up by the
+scanners.  "So I improvised.  It'll be here."
+
        Benson, in the meantime, has stealthily made his way to a
+storage room ...
+
        In the medical lab, Dr. Franklin is examining Delenn.  He
+expresses his thanks to Delenn for allowing him to examine her; he
+says that he rarely gets the chance to examine Minbari--unless
+there's something wrong with one of them; he says that to have data
+on a healthy Minbari will give him a basis from which to operate. 
+After the examination, Delenn rises and asks Franklin about a rumor
+she heard from one of the other doctors--that Franklin used to
+hitchhike aboard spaceships.  Franklin confirms this rumor; he had
+"wanted to see it all," so he traded his services as a doctor in
+exchange for free passage on various ships.  He explains how he did
+this until the Earth-Minbari war started, but then pauses.  Delenn
+asks him if he was involved in the war.  He replies that toward the
+end of the war, all xenobiologists were asked by Earth Force to
+turn over their notes on Minbari physiology so that effective
+genetic and biological weapons could be created.  Delenn asks him
+if he did, indeed, hand over his notes.
+
        "I took an oath that all life is sacred.  I destroyed my
+notes rather than have them used for killing," he answers.
+
        Delenn smiles and thanks him.  When Franklin asks her,
+however, what her involvement in the war was, she only answers that
+the matter is "a topic for another time."
+
        Benson, after securing an energy pod from the storage area,
+delivers it to Knight Two's quarters.  The Knights promise to pay
+him promptly.  After Benson leaves, the Knights connect the energy
+supply to the device they've been building.  "I think we're ready
+to proceed," they agree.
+
        Sinclair, asleep in his quarters, is having a traumatic dream
+about the Battle of the Line, the final battle of the Earth-Minbari
+war.  Sinclair's squadron is fighting a Minbari cruiser.  One of
+Sinclair's friends, Mitchell, ignores one of Sinclair's suggestions
+and breaks from formation, feeling that he can get a clear shot at
+the Minbari ship.  Sinclair has a feeling, however, that Mitchell
+is entering a trap.  Just as he realizes that his friend is about
+to die ... he wakes up and rises to get himself a drink.  As he
+looks around his room, he notices that his computer is not working. 
+He calls a maintenance team, but there is no response.  Worried, he
+calls security; again, there is no response.  He gets dressed
+quickly and leaves his quarters, running to the bridge.
+
    
+Sinclair on his
+way to the bridge.
+
    When he
+gets to the bridge, however, it is empty, and the computer is not
+activated.  He tries communicating with Earth Central, but does not
+receive a response.  Finally, he attempts to activate the computer;
+at length, the computer responds.  Sinclair, slightly relieved,
+asks the computer if an evacuation of B5 has been ordered; the
+computer replies that there was no evacuation.  Sinclair then asks
+the computer to scan for other life forms on B5; sure enough, the
+computer finds one other life form and notifies Sinclair of the
+life form's position.  Sinclair runs to the location, but finds
+nothing at first.  "What the hell is going on around here," he asks
+himself.
+
        Suddenly, the lights in the corridor start flashing off, one
+by one, and a mysterious voice answers him.  "Maybe you're asleep. 
+Maybe you're insane.  Maybe you're dead.  Maybe you're in Hell. 
+Not that it matters much, Commander Sinclair, because wherever you
+are, wherever you go, you're mine!"  Sinclair turns around to find
+Knight Two staring at him.
+
    
+"You're mine."
+
        Delenn has arrived at Garibaldi's quarters.  She appears
+concerned and tells Garibaldi that she was supposed to meet with
+Sinclair an hour before.  Garibaldi calls Sinclair and receives no
+response; sharing now in Delenn's concern, he begins to search for
+Sinclair personally.
+
        Sinclair angrily asks Knight Two what he's done to Babylon 5;
+Knight Two replies that he hasn't done anything.  He explains to
+Sinclair that they are both inside a "cerebral matrix" (a "virtual-reality
+cybernet").  "It's shadow-play," explains Knight Two,
+"without form or substance.  But I'm real, commander, and you're
+real.  And the pain--the pain for you is also real."  Knight Two
+steps back, and a "cerebral discharge" surrounds Sinclair, putting
+him through agonizing pain.
+
        Garibaldi has rushed to Sinclair's quarters.  When he enters
+the quarters, however, he finds them empty.  Alarmed, he contacts
+Ivanova and explains the situation to her.
+
        Knight Two, outside the matrix, orders Knight One to cut the
+cerebral discharge.  Inside the matrix, he begins to speak with
+Sinclair again.  He notices how important the station is to
+Sinclair--how his thoughts seem to be rooted in Babylon 5.  He
+explains to Sinclair that they will "walk together across the
+bridge of synapses and neurons into the very heart of your
+memories" in order to find the truth about what happened to
+Sinclair at the Battle of the Line.  Knight Two tells Sinclair that
+he doesn't believe the testimony that Sinclair gave to Earth Force
+Defense after the war:  that, during the twenty-four hour period
+where he was out of contact with Earth Force Defense, he merely
+blacked out.  "We're finally going to get to the truth," Knight Two
+says, "even if it kills you."
+
        Garibaldi, Ivanova, and Dr. Franklin are discussing strategies
+to find Sinclair.  Garibaldi has organized a search party, drawn
+from all nonessential B5 personnel, but that the search still might
+take a few days.  Franklin warns that "a few days" might be too
+long if Sinclair were injured.  Ivanova has contacted a nearby
+station and asked them to track any ships that have left B5 in the
+last eight hours.  Garibaldi suggests that they also send a few
+maintenance "bots" to patrol the hull of B5--"If someone shoved
+[Sinclair's body] outside, the station's gravity won't let it get 
+far.  Just in case."
+
        "Mr. Garibaldi," Ivanova replies, "there are days I'm very
+glad I don't have to think the way you do."
+
        Meanwhile, inside Sinclair's mind, Knight Two is continuing
+his probing into Sinclair's mind.  "Your name is Jeffrey David
+Sinclair.  Rank: commander.  Age: 39.  Born on Mars Colony, May 3,
+2218, 9:15 A.M., Earth Standard Time.  Enlisted in Earth Force
+Defense, 2237; promoted to fighter pilot, 2240; promoted again to
+squad leader less than a year later.... Smart money said you'd make
+admiral one day.  So what happened, commander?  Why'd you
+fall off the merry-go-round?"
+
    
+Sinclair listens to his
+dossier.
+
        Sinclair merely tells him to "go to hell."  He refuses to tell
+Knight Two anything.  "I'm betting you don't have a lot of time. 
+Security's probably tearing this place upside down, looking for
+me."
+
        "Assuming you're still on Babylon 5," replies Knight Two. 
+Proceeding with his search for information, Knight Two tries to get
+Sinclair to reveal "the truth" by conjuring up an image of
+Mitchell, Sinclair's old friend and fellow officer who died in the
+Battle of the Line.  Knight Two's plan appears to be working,
+because as soon as Sinclair sees Mitchell, his old memories of the
+Battle of the Line spring to the forefront of his mind.  Sinclair
+relives the battle--he sees again what he saw in his dream, except
+that this time, he actually sees Mitchell's ship exploding.  After
+that part of the battle plays itself out, Mitchell begins to speak
+with Sinclair again.  At first, Sinclair refuses to speak with
+Mitchell; he tells himself that Mitchell's image is just an
+illusion.  When Mitchell, however, accuses Sinclair of being a
+traitor ("We fought for you.  We fought beside you on the Line.  We
+swore we would all go down together, but you're alive, and we're
+dead, because of you!" says Mitchell), Sinclair feels that he has
+to respond.  He replies, "I tried!  I tried!"
+
        "Tried to do what, commander?" asks Knight Two.
+
        Sinclair answers by reliving the part of the Battle of the
+Line where he tries to ram the Minbari cruiser.  Knight Two urges
+Sinclair to continue because, as Sinclair himself said, all of the
+incidents which Knight Two has seen so far were in Sinclair's
+original report of the battle ten years ago.  Sinclair, however,
+claims that he cannot continue--"I don't remember.  I blacked out. 
+I've never been able to remember!"
+
        Knight Two moves closer to Sinclair.  "You don't want to
+remember!  You don't want to remember the twenty-four hours in
+which you betrayed your own race.  The day you became a traitor. 
+The day you sold out--"
+
        "That's enough!" screams Sinclair.  As he says this, he
+suddenly hits Knight Two in the stomach.  Knight Two, taken by
+surprise, vanishes from the matrix without a trace.  "Well, well. 
+Looks like the pain is real for both of us," comments Sinclair.   
+
     Delenn is talking with Ivanova; Delenn explains how concerned she
+is and offers her assistance in finding Sinclair, but Ivanova says
+that they're already doing everything they can to find Sinclair. 
+Delenn suggests the use of the station's telepath, Talia Winters,
+but Ivanova explains that Winters is only a P-5 and, consequently,
+needs to be in close proximity with people in order to scan them. 
+Winter's isn't trained, according to Ivanova, for a search-and-recover
+mission.
+
        Knight One, meanwhile, is concerned about Knight Two, who
+snapped out of the cybernet suddenly.  Knight Two, however, claims
+that he's all right.  He says that he needs to be put back into the
+cybernet quickly, for Sinclair was right--they don't have much
+time.  Knight One estimates that the search parties on the station
+will find them on B5 in about four hours.  "He's tough.  Breaking
+him isn't going to be easy," says Knight Two.  Knight Two orders
+Knight One to increase both the power of the cybernet and the
+dosage of psychotropic drugs with which Sinclair is being injected. 
+"We're close.... The more I walk through his mind, the more I'm
+convinced he's hiding something," explains Knight Two.
+
        One of the security officers is giving a report to Garibaldi. 
+He explains how, although the search teams have covered a lot of
+territory, there still is no sign of Sinclair.  Garibaldi orders
+the officer to split the search teams into even smaller units--he
+also orders the officer to bring in every possible available
+officer.  The officer explains how he's already brought in
+everyone--"even Benson."  Garibaldi is annoyed that Benson was
+brought back to duty, but the security officer explains that he
+checked Benson's record, and Benson isn't in any debts.  In fact,
+he says, there's even a surplus in Benson's account.  Garibaldi,
+however, is suspicious, for the other day, the account was empty. 
+He checks the account again and finds that one very large deposit
+was made, followed by numerous withdrawals.  Garibaldi assumes that
+these withdrawals were used to pay off debts--and notes that the
+large deposit was made only four hours before Sinclair was known to
+be missing.  Garibaldi orders the security officer to find and
+bring back Benson for questioning.
+
        Knight Two has reentered the cybernet.  Again, he asks
+Sinclair for the truth about the Battle of the Line.  Sinclair
+suddenly finds himself surrounded by a circle of people wearing
+grey cloaks.  "What are you doing here?" he asks.  "What do you
+want?"  Before he receives an answer, however, one of the grey
+figures shoots him.
+
        Meanwhile, Benson has arrived at Knight Two's quarters.  When
+Knight One answers the door, Benson frantically asks for protection.
+"You've got to help me.  The whole station's looking for me. 
+They think I had something to do with the commander's disapp--" 
+Suddenly, Benson hears a scream from the back of the room.  He
+curiously enters the quarters and is surprised to find Commander
+Sinclair attached to the cybernet device.  He's not given the
+chance to think about it for too long, however, for Knight One
+shoots Benson almost immediately.
+
        Back in the cybernet, Knight Two confronts Sinclair about the
+grey figures.  He asks Sinclair to reveal what he's hiding, but
+Sinclair insists that he's not hiding anything.
+
        "We all hide things, commander.  That's why we bounced back
+[to the station] again, isn't it?  This is where you hide, behind
+duty and responsibility and obligation," says Knight Two.
+
        "Things you'd never understand!" replies Sinclair.
+
        Knight Two disagrees, however.  "We're both patriots in our
+own way.  If I fail, more will come after me until the job is
+finished."  He presses Sinclair again, telling him that they're
+going to find out what Sinclair is hiding.
+
        Some security officers have found a body floating outside the
+hull of Babylon 5.  The body turns out to be Benson's.
+
        Meanwhile, in the cybernet, Knight Two is again expressing his
+disbelief at Sinclair's rendition of the events at the Line. 
+Knight Two asserts that Sinclair could not have simply blacked out,
+for his ship "disappeared" from the sensing screens.  Sinclair,
+however, counters that the postwar hearings proved that the screens
+malfunctioned.  Knight Two explains what he believes to be the
+sequence of events that occurred at the Line:  The Minbari (Knight
+Two says) realized the extent and power of Earth Force defense and
+realized how difficult it would be to invade Earth.  Therefore,
+they surrendered and decided to work through more covert means.  At
+the Battle of the Line, Sinclair surrendered to the Minbari rather
+than give up his life.  The Minbari took him aboard and asked him
+to work for them--to be a covert operative.  "You agreed [to work
+for them].  You and God-knows-how-many-other people."  
+
        "You're insane.  I never betrayed Earth," insists Sinclair,
+but Knight Two questions him--if Sinclair doesn't remember what
+happened, how can he be sure he wasn't a traitor?
+
        Sinclair, however, becomes annoyed with Knight Two:  "That's
+enough!  You talk about the war.  You talk about Mitchell and the
+rest, but you didn't know them.  They were my friends.  I watched
+them die, one by one.  For years afterwards, whenever I saw a
+Minbari, I had to fight the urge to strangle them with my bare
+hands.... We never had a chance.... When I looked at those ships,
+I didn't just see my death.  I saw the death of the whole damn
+human race."
+
        "Then why did they surrender?" asks Knight Two.
+
        "I don't know.  Maybe the universe blinked.  Maybe God changed
+his mind.  All I know is that we got a second chance."
+
    
+
+Knight Two is still skeptical.  He asks Sinclair if anything
+has ever made him doubt his story--that he simply "blacked out." 
+Sinclair replies that nothing ever made him question it--except for
+what the Minbari who tried to kill Ambassador Kosh said to
+him:  "There is a hole in your mind."
+
+(cf: "The Gathering")
+At Knight Two's further prompting--and after Knight Two convinces
+Sinclair that Sinclair, himself, wants to know what happened--
+Sinclair allows his memories to overcome him again.  He again
+experiences the Battle of the Line.  He sees what he has seen
+before; except, this time, the take him further.  The Minbari
+cruiser stops his attempt to ram into it.  The cruiser uses some
+type of energy field to pull Sinclair's ship in.  Sinclair is taken
+aboard the cruiser and transported to a room where a bunch of grey
+figures stand.  At first, he is hanging in the air, arms bound to
+the bottom of a triangular metal frame.  One of the figures holds
+up a small metal device (cf.
+"Babylon Squared") that shimmers
+with some kind of energy.
+
    
+Later, the grey figures form a circle around Sinclair, who has been
+freed.
+Suddenly, he moves over to one of the grey figures and pulls back
+the veil that covers the figure's face.  "I know you.  I know who
+you are.  I know you," says Sinclair.  Before he can say any
+more, however, another grey figure shoots him and knocks him out. 
+
        Outside the cybernet, however, Sinclair gathers up enough
+strength to break the shackles that bind him to the cybernet
+device.  As he disconnects from the machine, the feedback knocks
+out Knight Two.  Knight One storms into the room, but Sinclair
+punches him, knocking him out.  He picks up a gun and escapes from
+the room.  He is delusional, however; he mumbles to himself about
+how the Minbari have broken through and how he must get back to his
+ship.
+
        Sinclair begins running through B5's corridors.  One officer,
+a member of the search party, sees Sinclair and beckons to him. 
+Sinclair, however, in his delusional state, believes she is a
+Minbari and shoots at her.  Fortunately, he does not kill her, and
+she links in with Ivanova.  She begins to explain that she has seen
+the commander; however, before she can finish, Knight One shoots
+her in the back.
+
        Knight One follows Sinclair; they shoot at each other
+unsuccessfully.  Garibaldi finally finds Sinclair, but is utterly
+surprised when he is shot at by his commander.  Dr. Franklin, a few
+seconds later, links in and informs Garibaldi that he has found the
+room where he believes Sinclair was held.  Franklin believes that
+Sinclair may have been given large dosages of psychotropic drugs
+and may consequently be delusional or even dangerous.
+
    
+
+    As Garibaldi is hiding under a table, Delenn enters the room
+and approaches Sinclair slowly.  She ignores Garibaldi's warnings
+and continues her approach.  When she gets close enough to
+Sinclair, she tells him that he's safe now and that nobody will
+harm him.  He doesn't listen to her, however; he can only picture
+the unveiling of the grey figure ten years ago--the grey figure who
+he now knows to be Delenn, though she looked younger then and had
+a silver triangle on her forehead.  "I know you!" he tells her.  
+
+
        "I'm your friend, commander.  Ambassador Delenn.  Your
+friend," she replies.
+
        "No!" he says, as he raises his gun.  For a moment, it appears
+as if he's going to shoot her.  Instead, however, he points his gun
+in a slightly different direction and shoots Knight One, who had
+just arisen and was about to shoot at Sinclair.  Knight One drops
+to the floor, dead.
+
        "Welcome home," says Delenn.
+
        One day later, Sinclair awakes in the medical lab.  Dr.
+Franklin has finally flushed the psychotropic drugs from Sinclair's
+system.  Sinclair asks to see Knight Two, who has been taken;
+Garibaldi replies, however, that Knight Two is about to leave the
+station.  Earth Central has decided to exercise jurisdiction in
+this case because they believe Knight Two to be a member of an
+organization which wishes to implicate members of the government as
+being traitors to the Minbari (in fact, there are even rumors that
+the organization is a covert operation run from within the
+government itself).  Franklin explains that he doesn't think the
+trial will reveal much, because when Sinclair disconnected himself
+from the cybernet device, the feedback "fried most of [Knight
+Two's] memory."  Sinclair still, however, wishes to see his former
+captor.  As expected, Knight Two reveals little information--in
+fact, he even claims that he cannot remember his own name. 
+However, just as he's walking away from Sinclair, he turns around
+and says, "Commander Sinclair, there's something in my head.  It
+says, 'Maybe you're still inside.  Maybe we're both still inside.'" 
+
    
+
+Sinclair goes to visit Delenn in her quarters.  He thanks her
+for her help in rescuing him--he notes that it's strange that
+seeing her was the only thing that could help him.  As he is about
+to leave her quarters, she asks him if he remembers anything
+concerning the Battle of the Line?  He pictures in his mind the
+unveiling of the mysterious grey figure; aloud, however, he says
+that he cannot, unfortunately, remember anything.
+It is not clear whether Delenn knows he's lying or not.
+
+
+After Sinclair
+leaves, a Minbari man, silver triangle on his head, arrives from
+another room in Delenn's quarters.
+"He must never know what happened.  If he should find
+out, he must be killed.  Do you understand, Delenn?" says this man.
+
+Delenn replies that she does, indeed, understand.
+
        Sinclair, alone finally in his quarters, is making an entry in
+his personal log:  "I remember.  I was taken inside a Minbari
+cruiser, interrogated, tortured.  Was that the Grey Council? 
+Maybe.  Maybe.  Before they surrendered, they must have blanked my
+memory and let me go.  And Delenn--what was she doing there?  What
+is it they don't want me to remember?  I have to find out.  I have
+to!"
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
      Talia Winters runs into Ambassador Kosh, who wants to use her
+telepathic services in an important, upcoming negotiation.  She
+seems reluctant at first, but Kosh assures her that all
+arrangements--including legal clearances and payment--have already been
+arranged.  He instructs her to meet him in Red 3 at the "Hour of
+Scampering."
+
      Na'Toth, who is waiting at the docking bay for a
+ship to arrive, suddenly notices a certain woman come on board B5. 
+Na'Toth is suddenly seized with rage and runs across the room,
+shouting, "Deathwalker."  She attacks the woman who has just come
+aboard, hitting her viciously until the security guards can stop
+her.
+
    
+
+Na'Toth attacks.
+
      After Na'Toth is successfully detained, Sinclair is informed
+of the situation.  He asks Garibaldi who the victim is; Garibaldi
+explains that the woman came from Minbari space in a Minbari ship,
+in Minbari clothes, and with Minbari identification--but that she
+certainly isn't a Minbari.  When Garibaldi mentions that Na'Toth
+was yelling, "Deathwalker," during the attack, Sinclair's curiosity
+is piqued--both Sinclair and Garibaldi indicate that they are
+familiar with that name.
+
      Sinclair and Garibaldi go to question Na'Toth.  She explains
+that her family has taken a blood oath against the "Deathwalker." 
+She took the blood oath after the Dilgar, Deathwalker's race,
+invaded a planet on which Na'Toth's grandfather lived.  Deathwalker,
+explains Na'Toth, used her grandfather and the other people on
+the planet in her experiments.  Everyone died, except Na'Toth's
+grandfather, who escaped--but only after having a machine--which
+slowly killed him--implanted in his brain.  Sinclair, however, does
+not believe that the woman who just came on board was Deathwalker,
+simply because the Dilgar invasion that Na'Toth mentioned occurred
+thirty years ago, and Deathwalker would be an old woman by now. 
+Na'Toth explains that her senses would never fail her when it comes
+to identifying someone against whom she's taken a blood oath. 
+Sinclair, still skeptical, orders Garibaldi to examine the contents
+of the injured woman's ship.
+
      When G'Kar arrives, he apologizes for the attack upon the
+victim and offers personally to make reparations to her.  Angrily
+staring at Na'Toth, he requests that his attache be released into
+his custody.  Though Sinclair refuses to release custody of
+Na'Toth, he does agree place her under house arrest, and allows her
+to be taken to G'Kar's quarters.  G'Kar thanks Sinclair and leaves.
+
      Winters, meanwhile, meets with Kosh again and agrees to work
+for him at the negotiations that he mentioned before--she comments
+that the clearances were indeed arranged and that the pay was very
+generous.  However, she explains that there is still something she
+doesn't understand.  Kosh interrupts her and merely says, "Understanding
+is a three-edged sword."  Soon, a man named Abbut arrives;
+he greets Kosh cordially and comments, "Oh, Kosh, you old dog!  You
+didn't tell me you were bringing a date!"  Talia explains that she
+is only a commercial telepath, who will be sitting in on the
+negotiations.  Kosh orders Talia to scan Abbut and to report on his
+thoughts.  She scans the man, but comments that he has no
+thoughts--his mind seems completely empty.  Kosh is pleased, and
+says that they can now proceed.  Kosh and Abbut begin to utter
+cryptic phrases to one another.
+
    
+
+Abbut, Winters, and Kosh meet.
+
      In the Med Lab, one of the doctors tells Franklin that the
+vital signs of the victim have stabilized but that the victim's
+species is still unknown.  Sinclair arrives, and Franklin explains
+to him that the victim is in surprisingly good shape, considering
+her injuries.  Her body is healing itself quite quickly, and
+Franklin wishes he knew what species she was.  Sinclair explains
+that the victim is a Dilgar, but Franklin doesn't believe him--Franklin
+notes that the Dilgar is a dead race, that after the
+invasion, the few Dilgar who were left were killed when the Dilgar
+sun went nova.  Sinclair calls up a reference file on "Deathwalker"--the
+computer informs them that "Deathwalker" is a name
+used to refer to Warmaster Jha'dur, "the most infamous leader of
+the Dilgar invasion of the non-aligned sectors in 2230....
+Specialist in biochemical, biogenetic, and cyber-organic weaponry." 
+The picture that the computer displays looks like the present
+victim, though Franklin comments that the victim is too young to be
+that same Jha'dur and too old to be her daughter.  He even searches
+for signs of cryonic freezing, but the computer scan does not turn
+up any relevant evidence.  Franklin notes that he will have the Med
+Corps send him all information they have on the Dilgar.  Garibaldi
+suddenly enters, holding a Dilgar uniform which, according to the
+inscription, belongs to Jha'dur.  He also brings an unusual drug,
+which he gives to Franklin.  Meanwhile, Ivanova informs Sinclair
+that he has a Gold Channel transmission from Senator Hidoshi. 
+Sinclair, his curiosity piqued, leaves, but orders Garibaldi to
+keep quiet the situation with the victim--Sinclair says that he
+doesn't want any rumors concerning Jha'dur floating around the
+station.
+
      In G'Kar's quarters, Na'Toth apologizes for shaming and
+angering G'Kar, but G'Kar tells her that no apology is necessary. 
+He explains that he understands her need to fulfill her blood oath
+(and comments that he has many blood oaths himself), but tells
+Na'Toth that hers, in this instance, complicates matters.  He
+explains that Jha'dur has made an important discovery that could be
+potentially very useful to the Narns.  He tells her that, in this
+case, service to the Narn government is more important than her
+blood oath--therefore, she must not kill Deathwalker, because the
+Narn government has ordered them to send Deathwalker to Narn
+alive.  Na'Toth reluctantly agrees--she will delay her vengeance,
+but not abandon it.  G'Kar says that he's proud of
+Na'Toth--and promises to help her fulfill her blood oath after
+Jha'dur's discovery is secured.
+
      Senator Hidoshi's message has come through to B5.  The senator
+asks if the recently-attacked victim is still alive.  When Sinclair
+tells him that she is, the senator orders Sinclair to send the
+victim to Earth immediately when she is fit to travel.  Sinclair,
+however, protests, saying that there is evidence that the victim is
+Jha'dur, the infamous Deathwalker.  Hidoshi, however, dismisses
+Sinclair's protests; he says that Deathwalker has been dead for
+many years.  He refuses to give Sinclair any further information,
+and abruptly ends the conversation.
+
      In the Med Lab, as Franklin is studying the victim's drug, the
+victim suddenly awakes and moves over to him angrily.  "How dare
+you pry into my life's work?" she says to him.  She asks to see
+Commander Sinclair immediately.
+
    
+
+Jha'dur fends Franklin off.
+
      Sinclair, on his way to the Med Lab, is stopped by Ambassador
+Mollari, who asks if the rumors he's heard about Deathwalker are
+true.  Sinclair only tells him that he should know better than to
+listen to rumors.
+
      When Sinclair arrives at the Med Lab, he dismisses Franklin
+from the room.  She looks at him, slightly admiring him.  "You know
+the way of command," she says, "Yes, the Wind Swords are right to
+fear you.... [The Wind Swords] have sheltered me for many years, in
+return for certain services.  They speak of you often, Sinclair. 
+They say you have a hole in your mind."  She tells him that she is
+indeed Warmaster Jha'dur, and explains the reason for not aging: 
+she has discovered a disease-preventing drug that also retards the
+aging process of all known humanoid species.  "It's still unstable
+and difficult to produce in sufficient quantity, but it works, as
+you can see," she says.  Sinclair immediately realizes the
+implications of such a drug:  virtual immortality.  She tells him
+that, with the help of Earth, she will bring it to "all the worlds
+of this galaxy" before the end of the year.
+
      "Then the willows must scuttle carefully," says Ambassador
+Kosh at the negotiations with Abbut--and, after Abbut asks, "Does
+Saturn have rings?" Kosh ends the negotiations for the day.  Talia,
+however, is still curious (for she's been scanning Abbut all day
+and his mind is still blank--not to mention the fact that she
+doesn't understand anything either Abbut or Kosh are saying), and
+asks Kosh to explain the negotiations.  Kosh only replies, "You
+seek meaning? ... Then listen to the music, not the song."  After
+Kosh leaves, Talia asks Abbut to explain the negotiations, but he
+refuses, replying that it's "not too good to reflect too much."  At
+that moment, Talia suddenly sees herself in her own mind, reflected
+numerous times, as if she were looking into a mirror.  She leaves,
+even more confused.
+
+
      Sinclair has meanwhile sought out Lennier to ask him about
+Jha'dur's involvement with the Wind Swords, a branch of Minbari
+warriors (Delenn has temporarily left the station, so Lennier was
+the next logical person to ask).  Sinclair explains that the woman
+whom Na'Toth attacked is indeed Jha'dur, and that Jha'dur claimed
+that the Wind Swords sheltered her.  Lennier does not think that
+the Wind Swords--though they are the most militant of the Minbari
+warrior castes--would shelter such a villain as Jha'dur, but he
+says that he will look into the matter.  Since he cannot speak
+directly to his rulers without permission, he says that he will
+contact Delenn.  Sinclair asks that Lennier keep the information
+regarding Jha'dur's presence on the station confidential for now,
+and Lennier agrees.
+
    
+
+Sinclair speaks with Lennier.
+
      G'Kar, meanwhile, apologizes to Jha'dur on behalf of the Narn
+empire.  He says that the Narns are willing to make reparations for
+Na'Toth's attack--and he, on behalf of the Narns, makes a generous
+offer for Jha'dur's recently discovered drug.  "You're very well
+informed, G'Kar," she replies, "Our reports always said you were a
+clever one--and a good resistance leader, too.  If Earth Alliance
+hadn't taken a hand in our invasion, we might have helped your kind
+wipe the Centauri out completely."
+
    
+
+G'Kar speaks with Jha'dur.
+
      G'Kar comments that Jha'dur is
+also very well informed (and adds that the Narns aren't through
+with the Centauri yet)--and offers to triple whatever price Earth
+has offered her for her discovery.  She agrees to consider his
+offer, if he brings her Na'Toth's head within the hour.  G'Kar
+leaves the room, bruskly and considerably annoyed.  After he
+leaves, she laughs a loud, evil laugh.
+
      Sinclair, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Franklin discuss the current
+situation.  Franklin claims that, according to the data that he
+received from Earth, the woman is indeed Jha'dur--her very
+appearance, he adds, seems to prove her claim about her drug
+(assuming there isn't another reason that explains why she hasn't
+aged).  Garibaldi is skeptical, though Franklin's analysis of the
+serum suggests that the drug can do what Jha'dur says it can do. 
+Sinclair says that Earth agrees with the potential of Jha'dur's
+drug and has ordered Sinclair to send Jha'dur to Earth immediately. 
+Garibaldi is angered that Sinclair seems to be willing to release
+Jha'dur to Earth so easily:  "She wiped out entire races, destroyed
+whole planets, experimented on living beings.  Now she wants to
+make everybody immortal?" says Garibaldi.  He suggests that they
+should let the League of Non-Aligned Worlds deal with her--he
+suggests that Earth should just take her serum and develop it
+themselves, but Franklin says that the serum is too complex to
+realistically develop without her assistance.  Ivanova suggests
+that Earth--though she considers its moral stance dubious--is
+better equipped to handle an issue like this than is the B5 staff. 
+Sinclair agrees, and prepares to send Jha'dur to Earth.  After the
+staff leaves, Garibaldi questions Sinclair's judgment, but Sinclair
+replies that if the immortality serum can be developed, a galaxy
+without sickness or death would result.  "She can save more lives
+than she took, and she can make the deaths she caused have
+meaning," says Sinclair. 
+
      "Better pray to that God of yours you're right, Jeff,"
+responds Garibaldi, "because if any of the League ambassadors find
+out about this 'deal,' they'll tear Babylon 5 to pieces."
+
      G'Kar, in his quarters, anxiously tells Na'Toth that one of
+his agents has just informed him that Sinclair intends to smuggle
+Jha'dur off B5.  He quickly contacts Ambassador Kalika, a leader of
+the League of Non-Aligned Worlds and tells her of the situation.
+
      Sinclair, meanwhile, is preparing to escort Jha'dur off the
+station.  Before she leaves, however, he asks her why she wants to
+bring immortality to the races of the galaxy.  She responds that,
+if she brings immortality to the people of the galaxy, it will
+ensure that the Dilgar are remembered honorably--it will stand as
+a monument to her and her race.  "Delicious irony ..." she says,
+"that those who cursed us will have to thank us for the rest of
+time."
+
      However, on the way to her ship, Jha'dur and her escort party
+is stopped by a group of ambassadors from the League.  The
+ambassadors demand that a full assembly of the Council be called
+immediately to discuss Jha'dur's trial--they will not allow Jha'dur
+to pass them ("You will have to kill us all, first," says Ambassador
+Kalika, who leads the group of ambassadors).  Sinclair has no
+choice but to agree.
+
    
+
+The League confronts Sinclair.
+
      Talia, the day after the last session of negotiations between
+Kosh and Abbut, tells Kosh that she doesn't believe she can
+continue to monitor the negotiation.  "Your belief does not enter
+into it," replies Kosh, "We have a contract."  Soon, Abbut arrives
+and greets Talia again.  As he kisses her hand, she suddenly sees
+herself in her mind--it appears as if she's in some sort of
+computerized matrix.
+
    
+
+Talia among the lights.
+
      The session of the Council is about to begin.  Sinclair
+mentions to Garibaldi that he's sort of relieved that the matter
+has been made public--Jha'dur will get the justice she deserves
+(Sinclair figures that, though the Narns and Centauri both had once
+collaborated with the Dilgar and would therefore probably not want
+a trial, the Minbari--being an honorable race--will vote for a
+trial.  With Earth's vote--and with Kosh's usual abstention--the
+Council will be tied, and the League will cast the deciding vote). 
+Garibaldi apologizes to Sinclair for saying some hot-headed things
+to him regarding Sinclair's decision to comply with Earth's orders,
+but Sinclair tells him not to worry about it--he tells Garibaldi
+that he had thought the same things himself.  When Lennier arrives,
+he tells Sinclair that he has spoken with Delenn--and has been
+given instructions. 
+
      When the meeting opens, Kalika presents a motion to hold a
+war-crimes trial for Jha'dur on Babylon 5.  Londo is the first to
+vote on this motion--he expresses his sympathy for the League, but
+says that he must vote "no" because Deathwalker never committed any
+crimes against the Centauri.  G'Kar votes "yes" on condition that
+the trial be held on Narn--however, when Kalika does not accept
+this condition, G'Kar votes "no."  Sinclair votes "yes," and
+explains that Kosh has declined to take part in this session of the
+Council.  Lennier explains that, since the Minbari were not a part
+of the conflict between the Dilgar, Earth, and the League, the
+Minbari have no right to judge her.  He therefore votes "no." 
+Kalika, angered at the Council and disappointed with B5's ability
+to treat the League fairly, storms out of the Council chambers but
+threatens that this will not be the last time that the Council
+hears from the League.
+
    
+
+Ambassador Kalika makes her case.
+
      After everyone leaves, Lennier apologizes to Sinclair for his
+vote.  He explains that the Wind Swords did, indeed, shelter
+Jha'dur.  The Minbari government did not know about the involvement
+of the Wind Swords at first--but when the Earth-Minbari war broke
+out, the Wind Swords came to the Council with devastating weapons
+that they obtained from Deathwalker.  The Minbari government,
+needless to say, is embarrassed about the Minbari involvement and,
+just as they could not admit their when they originally found out,
+so they cannot let that information be made public in a trial now.
+
      Meanwhile, a ship has come through the jumpgate.  It belongs
+to one of the members of the League, and it threatens to attack B5
+if Jha'dur is not extradited to its government.  As the ship draws
+closer, Ivanova readies B5's weaponry and threatens to defend B5
+against the ship.  The League ship aborts its attack but stays near
+B5.  However, more League ships continue to come through the
+vortex.  One by one, they begin to surround B5.  Sinclair, whom
+Ivanova has contacted, orders Ivanova to stall these ships.
+
      Meanwhile, Sinclair attempts to negotiate with Kalika.  He
+tries to draw on Earth's traditional friendship with the League,
+but Kalika refuses to listen.  Sinclair, all his other options
+having run out, finally decides to inform Kalika of the full
+situation with Jha'dur.
+
      Ivanova informs Sinclair that she has successfully stalled the
+League ships--she has gotten them to debate over which of them has
+the most valid claim to try Jha'dur.  Sinclair is pleased, but
+hopes that her maneuver will buy B5 enough time.  Suddenly, the
+League ships begin to move out of firing range of B5.  Ivanova is
+surprised, and asks what Sinclair did.  He tells her that he
+"played a wildcard."  He tells Ivanova that the situation isn't
+completed yet--Sinclair will be in closed session with the League. 
+Once again, he praises Ivanova for her ingenuity.
+
      "A herring is just a herring, but a good cigar is a Cuban,"
+comments Abbut, at the negotiations with Kosh.  "A stroke of the
+brush does not guarantee art from the bristles," replies Kosh.  "Do
+you understand, Ms. Winters?"  Again, Talia finds herself seeing
+strange visions in her head--she is walking and is suddenly
+attacked by a mysterious man.  She screams out in pain.  "Our
+business is completed," says Kosh.  Abbut takes off his hat,
+removes a data crystal from his partly cybernetic head, and gives
+it to Kosh.
+
    
+
+Abbut's unusual head.
+
      "What was on that data crystal he gave you," asks Talia.
+
      "Reflection, surprise, terror.  For the future," responds
+Kosh.
+
      Kalika tells Sinclair that scientists from the League have
+checked Dr. Franklin's data--and they agree with it.  And while
+Kalika agrees that the discovery is "astounding," she still feels
+that Deathwalker must be punished.  Sinclair agrees, and proposes
+a compromise:  Jha'dur will be delivered to Earth, where she will
+work with Earth scientists--in addition to a group of scientists
+that the League can send.  After the drug is developed, the League
+will be given custody of Jha'dur.  Kalika likes the idea, but wants
+to make sure that it can trust Earth to honor it later.  Sinclair
+says that once this agreement is made public, Earth will have no
+choice.  Another of the ambassadors from the League wants to know
+how the Council will react to this decision, but Sinclair says that
+this agreement is a private matter between Earth and the League--just as it was thirty years ago, when Earth helped the League
+defeat the Dilgar, as Sinclair points out.  Kalika agrees:  "It is
+fair ... and wise."
+
      Before Jha'dur leaves, Sinclair speaks with her.  She feels
+that Sinclair is naive to believe that Earth will turn her over to
+the League once the drug was developed.  Sinclair says that he'll
+see to it personally, but Jha'dur feels this will cost him his
+command.  Jha'dur explains to Sinclair the true purpose behind her
+giving the serum to Earth:  "You and the rest of your kind take
+blind confidence in the belief that we are monsters--that you could
+never do what we did.  The key ingredient in the [serum] cannot be
+synthesized; it must be taken from living beings.  For one to live
+forever, another one must die.  You will fall upon one another like
+wolves.  It'll make what we did pale by comparison.  The billions
+who live forever will be a testimony to my work, and the billions
+who were murdered to buy that immortality will be the continuance
+of my work.  Not like us?  You will become us.  That's my monument,
+Commander."
+
    
+
+"You will become us."
+
      The group of ambassadors have all assembled to watch the
+departure of Jha'dur.  Surprisingly, Kosh joins them.  Suddenly,
+there is a report from the bridge--there's another disturbance at
+the jumpgate.  A Vorlon ship flies through and, to the elation of
+many of the ambassadors, quickly targets and destroys Jha'dur's
+vessel.  "Why?" asks Sinclair.
+
      "You are not ready for immortality," responds Kosh.
+
    
+
+The Vorlon ship attacks.
+
      Later, Sinclair and Garibaldi discuss the situation.  "Hell of
+an irony, don't you think?" asks Garibaldi,  "We find a reason to
+keep Jha'dur alive, and the Vorlons smoke her for the same reason." 
+Sinclair wonders things will always work out similarly:  little
+powers at the mercy of big powers; politics before morality. 
+Garibaldi responds that this seems to work for everyone--except
+Sinclair.  As they speak, Talia arrives and explains that she is
+confused by recent negotiations she attended.  She tells them that
+nothing about the negotiations made sense; the two parties spoke in
+riddles, and she kept seeing images in her mind--images which she
+feels were deliberately provoked.  She explains that, four years
+ago, she was assigned to scan the mind of a suspect in a murder
+case.  The suspect was a serial killer--she had never been inside
+a mind like his, and it frightened her so much that she still has
+nightmares about it.  However, at the negotiation table recently,
+she feels those thoughts were deliberately provoked.  When Sinclair
+asks Talia whom Kosh was dealing with, she tells them.  Garibaldi
+knows who Abbut is.  He explains that Abbut is a "Vicar"--a slang
+term, derived from "VCR," referring to a type of alien that is part
+machine, part sentient--they act as living recorders that can
+record just about everything, including brain-wave patters. 
+Garibaldi suggests that Kosh set her up--and Sinclair guesses that
+Kosh did this because Vorlons are usually suspicious of telepaths,
+and if Kosh knows what her deepest fears are, he can use them
+against her later on.
+
      Garibaldi and Sinclair wonder what Kosh could be up to--the
+many things he's been doing recently have piqued their curiosity.
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
      Shon, a young alien boy, has developed a "congested blockage
+in his upper air passages."  When Dr. Franklin explains to Shon's
+parents that Shon's condition can be cured by a fairly routine
+surgical procedure, the parents seem bewildered.  "You will cut him
+open?" they ask, and explain that the "Chosen of God" cannot be
+"punctured" -- for their souls will escape.
+
    
+
+"Food animals are punctured."
+
      B5 has received a distress signal from the starliner Asimov,
+which has been immobilized because of a fire in its command and
+control center--unfortunately, the ship is now adrift in Raider
+territory.  Ivanova (who pleas with Sinclair to send her instead of
+Garibaldi) is sent to lead a fighter wing to rescue the Asimov.
+
      Dr. Maya Hernandez, one of the B5 doctors, tries to convince
+Shon's parents to allow the procedure, but they are quite determined
+not to allow it.  Just as it becomes evident that the parents
+will not change their mind, Franklin suggests an alternate
+procedure.  He admits that this procedure won't work as well, but
+it's better than nothing.  After the parents leave to consider this
+new method, Dr. Franklin explains to Hernandez that, though this
+procedure will obviously not save Shon, it will at least give
+Franklin time to try to convince the parents to change their mind.
+Both doctors realize that there are only two options--surgery or
+death--but Franklin explains that it is sometimes necessary to
+"heal the family before you can heal the patient."  Shon's parents
+return and say that they are willing to try Franklin's new
+procedure.
+
    
+
+Franklin comforts Shon.
+
      Franklin, who is speaking with Sinclair, explains his dilemma. 
+Franklin requests that Sinclair order him to perform the surgery,
+but Sinclair declines, commenting that it's a dangerous precedent
+to set.  Franklin explains that that precedent has already been
+set--by Sinclair's ordering Dr. Kyle to save Ambassador Kosh
+(cf. "The Gathering")--and
+when Franklin brings up the idea of making
+this issue official by petitioning Sinclair with a formal request
+to operate, Sinclair asks him to try to find another solution.
+
      Meanwhile, Franklin's "procedure" is obviously not working. 
+When the parents become angered, Franklin pleads with them again,
+but they still refuse to allow surgery.  Finally, Franklin
+threatens to suspend their parental authority if they will not
+allow him to operate--and he makes a formal request for Commander
+Sinclair to decide this issue.
+
      Shon's parents go to Sinclair and request that he decide in
+their favor.  Sinclair explains his dilemma--he must consider
+Franklin's request, but he must also act as the parents' advocate
+because the parents' race has no ambassador on the station.  The
+parents express their objection--they don't like the situation and
+believe that Sinclair will rule against them because "Earth people
+always stick together."
+
      The parents visit Ambassador G'Kar and ask for the Narn to
+intervene on their behalf, but G'Kar claims that the parents' world
+doesn't have much to offer to Narn--and claims the Narns don't
+casually enter into other people's affairs.  The parents then visit
+Ambassador Mollari, who says that he sympathizes with them but
+explains that it would be too expensive to intervene--if the
+Council was called on this matter, there would be a whole array of
+costs that would have to be justified.  Ambassador Kosh proves just
+as unhelpful to the parents:  concerning the issue of a patient's
+safety versus the concerns of the patient's world, he simply says,
+"The avalanche has already started.  It is too late for the pebbles
+to vote."
+
    
+
+Shon's parents plead with Kosh.
+
      When the parents plea with Delenn, she says that she
+sympathizes entirely, but she also says that the Minbari are
+reluctant to get involved with the religious affairs of other
+people--especially because they've seen what happens when other
+races interfere with Minbari religious affairs.  Delenn explains
+that both Dr. Franklin and the parents believe they are doing
+what's "right" -- yet how can either of them prove it?
+
      Meanwhile, Ivanova's team has found the Asimov--but they have
+also picked up the signal of an approaching Raider vessel.
+
      Sinclair explains to Garibaldi how distraught he is--the buck
+keeps being passed back to him.  Earth Central refuses to advise,
+and the other ambassadors refuse to take action.  Later, when
+Sinclair visits Shon, Shon explains that, though he doesn't want to
+die, he doesn't want the surgery either.
+
      When Sinclair finishes speaking with Shon, Dr. Franklin asks
+him what his decision on the request will be.  Sinclair explains
+that it's a difficult decisions:  both sides, according to their
+own beliefs, are morally "right."  "Who should I believe?" asks
+Sinclair.  "You [Dr. Franklin], because we share the same beliefs? 
+Or do we? ... What makes a religion false?  If any religion is
+right, then maybe they all have to be right.  Maybe God doesn't
+care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them ...
+What we hold sacred gives our lives meaning.  What are we taking
+away from this child? ... I have to refuse to sign the order.  I
+can't allow you to perform the operation."
+
      When Franklin angrily confronts Sinclair, Sinclair explains
+that he really had no choice in the matter.  According to his
+personal beliefs, he would sign the order right away--but as
+commander of B5, he wants to ensure the neutrality of the station. 
+He explains that he can't just set other races' beliefs aside
+whenever it's convenient or whenever they violate human beliefs. 
+He also says that, though he is violating the precedent set when he
+ordered Dr. Kyle to operate on Kosh, that particular precedent must
+be stopped somewhere.
+
      Meanwhile, Shon's condition is worsening.  Franklin calls
+Shon's parents, who say how grateful they are for Sinclair's
+wisdom, and who tell Shon how proud they are of him that he is
+dying honorably.  When Shon's parents leave, however, Franklin
+decides to operate on Shon anyway--he can't allow a simple legal
+order to get in the way of what's "right," according to him.  Dr.
+Hernandez decides to help him.
+
    
+
+Preparing to operate.
+
      The Raider ship that is approaching Ivanova is meanwhile
+getting closer.  Ivanova, in defiance of general orders to the
+contrary, breaks formation and pursues this Raider ship--as the
+rest of the squadron escorts the Asimov back to B5.  Ivanova
+successfully destroys this ship, but notes a large squadron of
+Raider ships approaching after her.  She reverses her thrusters,
+trying to escape.
+
      Franklin's operation was successful, and Shon--who is now
+physically fine--comments that he doesn't feel spiritually any
+different than he did before.  When his parents arrive, however,
+they angrily shun Shon--they treat him as if he were some sort of
+evil demon and try to exorcise him.
+
    
+
+Shon, abandoned by his parents.
+
      Sinclair, when he hears, angrily confronts Franklin.  However,
+they are both interrupted by Hernandez, who summons them to the Med
+Lab.  At Med Lab, the parents have again arrived--and this time
+they appear a little more complacent.  They say that if it were in
+their power to forgive Franklin, they would--because he meant no
+harm, and because he did what he did out of compassion.  They
+leave, after wrapping Shon in a "travelling robe."
+
      A little later, when Franklin and Hernandez are researching
+the customs of Shon's race, Franklin comes across a description of
+a "travelling robe."  Suddenly, he rushes out of the Med Lab, runs
+through the corridors, and arrives at Shon's room--only to realize
+that he is too late, that the parents have already killed Shon. 
+The parents, however, don't see why Franklin is so upset--they
+comment, "This was not our son.  This was only a shell.  There was
+nothing to do but end the pain of the shell."
+
    
+
+"Do not grieve, Dr. Franklin."
+
      Later, Sinclair tells Franklin that he won't ask for his
+resignation--this time.  However, he comments that Franklin
+shouldn't have made the request--then, he wouldn't have had to
+violate it.  Franklin is quite upset with himself, however, for not
+knowing that the parents would kill Shon.  Franklin wonders if
+things might not be better or easier if nobody cared about life or
+religion.  
+
      "What makes us human is that we care--and because we care, we
+never stop trying," replies Sinclair.
+
      Meanwhile, Ivanova and her squadron have returned safely. 
+When Garibaldi asks her about the orders she violated, Ivanova
+explains that sometimes things work out when one takes an educated
+risk.  Garibaldi replies that at other times, they don't--and he
+explains the events of the preceding days to Ivanova.
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
      President Santiago has decided to visit Babylon 5, ostensibly
+in order to present a new fighter wing to the station (though some
+people believe his real purpose is to drum up popular support for
+his new alien trade and immigration policies, which have met with
+opposition in the Senate).
+
    
+
+The Presidential cruiser.
+
      Ivanova and Garibaldi are en route to the president's arrival
+site on B5, and they are discussing the president's arrival. 
+Ivanova tells Garibaldi that the president and his staff have not
+informed B5 command of their travel plans because the president
+feels it's safe if nobody is aware of these plans till the last
+minute (though Garibaldi jokes that, if B5 is unaware of the
+president's plans, the president's staff can blame B5 if anything
+goes wrong).  Garibaldi feels that the president's visit is simply
+a waste of time and money; Ivanova responds that at least they're
+getting a new fighter wing out of the visit.  Garibaldi is not
+grateful--he explains that B5 should have had those fighters a long
+time ago.  Ivanova shares in the cynicism--now, B5 will have to
+renovate bays that haven't been maintained for years, using
+untrained crews rushed for time--and all of this at B5's expense. 
+When Garibaldi claims he's no longer surprised by anything the
+government does (he's come to expect it), Ivanova compliments him
+on his very "Russian" outlook.
+
      Suddenly, there is an explosion in the bay.  Garibaldi and
+Ivanova are almost injured, and Sinclair, from the observation
+dome, sees a body in a spacesuit fly away from the station.
+
      Down in the Med Lab, Franklin has diagnosed the person who
+flew out of the station--he flew out of the bay before the
+pressurization doors were activated.  When Sinclair asks if the
+patient can say anything, Franklin replies that any procedure that
+could be used to rouse the patient would kill him.  Garibaldi,
+meanwhile, has finished his evaluation of the damage ("You can put
+what's left of [the bay] in a shot glass," he tells Sinclair). 
+Garibaldi still doesn't know what the cause of the explosion was,
+but he feels it was probably caused by negligence or fatigue on the
+part of the overworked crew.  Sinclair asks about the possibility
+of sabotage, and though Garibaldi claims he never rules that
+possibility out, he feels that the inexperience and possible
+exhaustion of the crew was "inviting an accident."
+
      Ivanova reports that Major Lianna Kemmer, an official on the
+president's security staff, has arrived.  Kemmer requests an
+immediate briefing on the explosion.  Garibaldi, when he hears
+Lianna's name, becomes lost in thought--he explains to Sinclair
+that he knew Lianna seventeen years ago (her father was his
+friend).  "She's a real sweet kid," comments Garibaldi.
+
    
+
+Lianna Kemmer.
+
      The meeting between Garibaldi and Lianna is somewhat cold,
+however.  Lianna largely ignores Garibaldi and introduces herself
+to Sinclair.  Sinclair comments that Garibaldi will brief her on
+the situation, but she requests that her own team handle the
+investigation.  Sinclair is reluctant, but because Lianna, as chief
+of presidential security, has the legal authority to take over the
+investigation ("with or without your permission," she comments.  "I
+would much rather my report reflected full cooperation on your
+part).  Sinclair hesitantly agrees (after Garibaldi bitterly tells
+him to let Lianna take over the investigation), and Garibaldi moves
+away bruskly, commenting that he has "better things to do."
+
      Sinclair follows Garibaldi out and asks what the problem is
+between Garibaldi and Lianna.  Garibaldi is hesitant to answer, but
+Sinclair feels that if their relationship affects B5, Sinclair has
+a right to know.  Abruptly, Ambassador G'Kar interrupts them--he
+has a problem with the seating arrangements for the president's
+banquet ("The entire Narn delegation has been seated next to the
+Vree," says G'Kar.  "An intolerable situation!  Have you ever seen
+them eat?  That's horror for you....  This is a deliberate slap in
+the face to the entire Narn Regime.")
+
      Meanwhile, Garibaldi, who had walked away slightly after G'Kar
+interrupted his conversation with Sinclair, has caught a thief
+trying to steal something.  He begins angrily yelling at the thief
+(whom he has caught several times before in the past month), and
+when he treats the thief somewhat violently, a fight erupts between
+the two.  Sinclair interrupts G'Kar in order to break up the fight.
+
    
+
+Garibaldi accosts the thief.
+
      Later, Sinclair and Garibaldi are eating together, and
+Sinclair asks Garibaldi what is wrong.  Garibaldi finally comments
+that seventeen years ago, he was working as a security officer on
+Europa ("a real cesspool," he claims).  "Ever try and uphold the
+law when nobody cares?  After a few weeks, I started drinking hard
+just to get through the night."  Eventually, Garibaldi met Frank
+Kemmer, Lianna's father.  Kemmer was a shuttle pilot--"a real
+decent guy."  Garibaldi explains that when his job got tough, he
+spent some time with Kemmer and his family--this is when he first
+met Lianna, who used to call him "Uncle Mike."  "With all the
+madness, [staying with Kemmer] kept me sane and sober for a while,"
+Garibaldi explains.  However, as Garibaldi was beginning to have a
+certain amount of success upholding the law, he ended up making a
+few enemies.  Garibaldi knew that some people were trying to kill
+him, but he also felt that he could handle it.  Unfortunately, his
+enemies worked indirectly:  they exploded one of Kemmer's shuttles,
+thereby killing Kemmer.  They blamed the explosion on Garibaldi's
+negligence.  Since the government didn't want a scandal, they kept
+the situation quiet and "blackballed" Garibaldi throughout the
+system.  "But none of that was as bad as telling Frank's family
+what had happened.  Lianna didn't even cry; she just died inside...
+I crawled back into the bottle, and didn't come out again
+for a long, long time."  Suddenly, Dr. Franklin calls Sinclair into
+the Med Lab.
+
      At the Med Lab, Lianna and her staff have violated Franklin's
+wishes and are trying to rouse the explosion victim in order to try
+to get information from him.  When Sinclair arrives, the victim has
+already been roused, and he claims that the explosion was no
+accident--it was caused by a bomb.  Sinclair orders Kemmer to leave
+the patient alone--for Franklin feels that any procedure to rouse
+the patient will kill him--but Lianna refuses.  Just as the victim
+dies, he names the person who planted the bomb:  "It was Garibaldi."
+
      Major Kemmer has called a hearing in response to the allegation
+against Garibaldi.  Garibaldi, however, cannot believe that
+Kemmer and the rest of the president's staff are placing so much
+importance in the accusations of a dying man.  Garibaldi claims
+that the victim "had it in for me" -- that is, he resented
+Garibaldi because Garibaldi had arrested him a few months ago for
+"trashing an alien shop."  Further, Garibaldi argues that the
+initial damage reports showed no trace of a bomb, but Kemmer
+contends that the explosion may have destroyed any traces of it. 
+Lieutenant Cutter, a member of Kemmer's staff, adds that perhaps no
+bomb was found because Garibaldi didn't *want* to find one.  This
+accusation angers Garibaldi, but Kemmer doesn't seem to care--she
+asks Sinclair to suspend Garibaldi from duty because of Garibaldi's
+possible criminal involvement.  Though Sinclair doesn't want to
+suspend Garibaldi, Kemmer -- as head of presidential security --
+effectively *orders* Sinclair to carry out the suspension. 
+Sinclair, who has little choice but to submit to Kemmer's legal
+authority, is forced to remove Garibaldi from active duty.  Major
+Kemmer, now that Garibaldi has been removed from duty, temporarily
+assumes the position of B5 security chief.
+
      Garibaldi, upon returning to his quarters, is confronted by a
+security officer who refuses to allow Garibaldi entry.  Major
+Kemmer and Lieutenant Cutter arrive, and Garibaldi pleads with
+Kemmer to allow him to speak with her.  When he moves to grab
+Kemmer in order to speak with her, however, the security guard
+roughly forces him to withdraw his grasp.  Kemmer orders Cutter to
+leave and see what the scanning team has discovered concerning the
+explosion in the bay; she then dismisses the other security guard
+so that she and Garibaldi can be alone.
+
      Once they are alone, Garibaldi explains to Lianna that he
+"loved Frank like he was my own brother."  Lianna angrily tells him
+that Frank died because Garibaldi was concerned only with protecting
+himself, but Garibaldi denies this.  He admits that he "made a
+mistake," but he claims that he would never have let Frank die to
+save himself.  When he pleads with her and asks her to believe him,
+she replies that it's too late for Garibaldi to ask to be trusted: 
+"I might [believe you], if you had told me then, but you just got
+drunk and ran, like you always do," she says.  Cutter has meanwhile
+returned, and he informs Kemmer that the explosion was indeed
+caused by a bomb, for the burns of the victim (the one who
+originally implicated Garibaldi) showed traces of certain explosives.
+Cutter also informs Kemmer that schematics of the bay, as
+well as substantial amounts of Centauri currency, has been found in
+Garibaldi's quarters.  Garibaldi again tries to reason with Kemmer: 
+"Come on, Lianna, this is a frame.  If I were guilty, why would I
+leave the evidence in my own quarters?" he asks.
+
      "Maybe you just made another mistake, just like you did
+seventeen years ago," replies Kemmer, who orders Cutter to take
+Garibaldi into custody.  Garibaldi, however, who is angered by the
+whole situation, runs away and attempts to escape Cutter.  Kemmer
+orders her security officers after Garibaldi and posts a stationwide
+security alert for Garibaldi.
+
    
+
+Garibaldi makes his escape.
+
      On the observation dome, Ivanova and Sinclair are surprised to
+see an alert against Garibaldi.  Sinclair orders Ivanova to cancel
+the alert, but Kemmer--who has just arrived at the observation
+dome--tells Sinclair that he can't cancel the alert because there
+is now hard evidence that Garibaldi is a saboteur.  Sinclair
+responds angrily to Kemmer and tells her that "Garibaldi is many
+things but he's no saboteur"; further, Sinclair tells Kemmer that
+he is quite annoyed with her personal vendetta against Garibaldi. 
+Sinclair again orders Ivanova to cancel the alert, and Ivanova
+gladly complies with the order.  Kemmer responds that if Sinclair
+keeps "obstructing" her, she will have no choice but to invoke
+presidential authority; however, Sinclair tells Kemmer that he's
+tired of "presidential authority" excuse.  "This is my station, and
+it's time you realized that," says Sinclair.  Sinclair proceeds to
+order Ivanova to escort Kemmer off the observation dome.  Ivanova
+gladly complies with this order as well ("You are going to resist,
+I hope," she tells Kemmer).  After Kemmer leaves, Ivanova warns
+Sinclair that Kemmer will probably contact Earth Central; Sinclair
+says he's aware of that, but at least the delay will buy him enough
+time to find Garibaldi before Kemmer's staff does.  Ivanova
+suddenly has an idea: she smugly orders the B5 staff to begin a
+"Level 6 maintenance check" on all off-station communication
+channels--a move which will tie up the communication channels for
+hours.
+
      Garibaldi has discreetly moved down to the Zocalo, where he
+seeks out Londo.  He tells Londo that he is looking for information
+about the explosion in the bay.  He explains that someone tried to
+frame him by planting substantial amounts of currency in his
+quarters; he then explains that the currency was Centauri.  Londo
+picks up the implication, and stares with feigned disbelief at
+Garibaldi; "Oh, Mr. Garibaldi, do you really think that I would do
+such a thing to you, my good and dear friend?"
+
      "In a minute," responds Garibaldi.
+
      "You're right," answers Londo, "but I didn't, though I may
+have an idea who did...."
+
    
+
+"Don't turn around."
+
      Meanwhile, Kemmer angrily contacts Ivanova and asks why all
+communications channels are offline.  Ivanova replies that a
+communications check is being conducted, for they don't want the
+president to be "out of touch" when he arrives at B5.  Kemmer
+demands that Ivanova open a channel, but Ivanova brushes her off
+("I'm a lieutenant commander in Earth Force, major.  I do not take
+'demands.'  If you have a request, I'll consider it," Ivanova says. 
+When Kemmer 'requests' that Ivanova open a channel to Earthdome,
+Ivanova simply denies her request.).
+
      Kemmer comments to Cutter that Ivanova and Sinclair are "doing
+everything they can to protect Garibaldi," but Cutter isn't
+surprised--their files show that Ivanova and Sinclair are Garibaldi's
+only real friends, aside from Londo Mollari.  Kemmer sends Cutter
+to question Londo; she sends another officer to return to their
+ship and open a communication channel with Earth Force One
+(President Santiago's ship)--specifically, with General Netter on
+Earth Force One.  Kemmer explains that Earth Force One should be
+close enough to pick up the signal from Kemmer's ship, which is
+docked at B5.
+
      Londo, meanwhile, has explained to Garibaldi why he feels that
+G'Kar is the one who's trying to frame Garibaldi.  Londo says that
+during the Narn occupation of Ragesh 3, some important scientific
+material was "lost," but the Narns claimed they could find it
+again--for the right price.  Thus, G'Kar could possibly have had
+access to large amounts of Centauri currency, which he could have
+planted in Garibaldi's quarters.  Garibaldi says that he wants to
+visit G'Kar.  Without his usual security clearance, however,
+Garibaldi knows that he might have a hard time gaining access to
+the ambassadorial wing, where G'Kar's quarters are located.
+Garibaldi therefore asks Londo for a loan; Garibaldi claims that,
+with enough money, he can gain access to the ambassadorial wing. 
+Londo appreciates the irony in the situation--he has switched roles
+with Garibaldi for the time being--but he eventually extends a
+fairly generous loan to his "good, dear friend."  Londo explains
+that he sees certain parallels between himself and Garibaldi (Londo
+feels that, like Londo himself, Garibaldi is sometimes "the odd man
+out"); it therefore gives him a certain comfort to be able to help
+Garibaldi in a time of need (however, the more practical side of
+Londo claims that the Centauri goddess of luck, with whom Londo has
+had a "long and rather dubious relationship," has been smiling on
+him lately--he can therefore afford the loan).  "If they catch
+you," warns Londo, "I will deny ever seeing you.  Good luck!"
+
      Garibaldi successfully gains access to the ambassadorial wing;
+when he arrives at G'Kar's quarters, he's surprised to find that
+G'Kar has been expecting him ("... you've been talking to Mollari. 
+It was inevitable he would send you to me.... My people watch him;
+his people watch me; we all watch one another here, Mr. Garibaldi.")
+G'Kar also explains that the security monitors are "malfunctioning"
+at the moment, so Garibaldi need not worry about the
+security officers finding him here (especially since G'Kar took the
+liberty of telling a security guard that he had seen Garibaldi on
+the next level).  G'Kar says that he's sure Londo blamed Garibaldi's
+present situation on the Narns; however, he denies any part
+in the incident (though he admits he doesn't think it's a bad
+idea).  G'Kar offers Garibaldi a chance to escape B5; G'Kar says
+that Garibaldi's talents and services could be useful on Narn. 
+Once on Narn, if Garibaldi were to ever become "homesick," G'Kar
+says he's sure the Narns could arrange for Garibaldi to return--as
+a genetically altered spy.  Garibaldi immediately declines G'Kar's
+offer, however; he refuses to even think about betraying Earth. 
+G'Kar advises Garibaldi to stop seeing things in "such absolute
+terms" ("The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
+elements:  energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.  Unless
+you comprehend that fact--and soon--you will be cornered and
+caged," warns G'Kar), but Garibaldi still refuses G'Kar's offer. 
+G'Kar makes one last plea:  "Without your position, this station is
+not safe for you.  You have made many enemies."  
+
      "Call it a lifestyle," replies Garibaldi, as he leaves.
+
      From the observation dome, meanwhile, Ivanova is giving
+instructions to the new fighter wing, which has just arrived.
+
      Down in the alien sector, Garibaldi is trying to purchase a
+high-level security card from N'grath, but N'grath refuses because
+Garibaldi is "still police," even though he's a fugitive.  N'grath
+abruptly forces Garibaldi to leave, and when Garibaldi is thrown
+outside N'grath's doors, he is almost caught by some of Kemmer's
+guards.
+
    
+
+Garibaldi and n'grath.
+
      He narrowly escapes and eventually returns to the human
+sector of B5, only to be attacked by a group of angry aliens.  Just
+when it appears that Garibaldi has no hope left, Sinclair (who has
+been monitoring security reports concerning Garibaldi's whereabouts)
+suddenly finds him and helps to fight off the aliens. 
+Sinclair suggests that Garibaldi go to Med Lab, but Garibaldi
+refuses to go anywhere before he figures out who framed him. 
+Ivanova contacts Sinclair and tells him that he has a Gold Channel
+message from General Netter; meanwhile, when Sinclair turned his
+head to speak with Ivanova through his comm link, Garibaldi ran
+off.  By the time Sinclair turns around again, Garibaldi is gone.
+
      General Netter's message has come through, and Netter orders
+Sinclair and his staff to fully cooperate with Kemmar.  After
+Netter ends communication, Sinclair explains to Kemmer that he
+wants to find Garibaldi as much as she does--"the only difference
+is," says Sinclair, "I haven't already judged him....  But the fact
+is, Garibaldi is as loyal as you are, and if you weren't so twisted
+up inside about what happened to your father you'd realize that. 
+It's not justice you're after, major, it's blood."  Just then,
+Cutter contacts Kemmer and says that the guards have sighted
+Garibaldi and have discovered that Garibaldi has been paying for
+things with Centauri currency.  Kemmer believes that the currency
+found in Garibaldi's quarters was only part of the payoff; she
+orders the guards to move in on Garibaldi.  After Kemmer leaves,
+Sinclair contacts the security guard who had been stationed outside
+Garibaldi's quarters when Garibaldi first found that his quarters
+were being guarded.
+
      Garibaldi, meanwhile, has entered a club.  He sits down and
+suddenly notices that a security guard has moved into the same
+club.  He borrows an alien's hat and tries to avoid notice--and he
+succeeds, at least for the moment.  The guard leaves, and when
+Garibaldi gives the alien back his hat, the alien replies, "Don't
+want hat?  Take bottle.... I go casino."  As the alien gets up, he
+pushes a bottle of some alcoholic drink toward Garibaldi. 
+Garibaldi fights with himself for a long moment--will he give up
+the sobriety that he has worked toward for so long?  The past few
+hours have been excruciatingly difficult for Garibaldi--how
+appealing the drink must seem--how easy it is to simply forget
+about all of his problems.
+
    
+
+Temptation.
+
     At last, Garibaldi decides to drink --
+and he drinks heavily.  Quite soon, he's experiencing quite a
+hangover--despite his trouble standing up, he is sharing jokes with
+the aliens, and, in general, parading around the room making a fool
+of himself.  ("You got a real nice place here!  Great ambiance,
+terrific decor, friendly people.  Yeah, this place should be on all
+the chartered tours--'see and experience the real Babylon 5.' 
+Hell, in a couple month, I could see a few of you people topside,"
+he mumbles, as he stumbles out the door).
+
      Meanwhile, one of the people in the restaurant has notified
+the security guards of Garibaldi's whereabouts, and when Garibaldi
+wanders out of the restaurant, Kemmer, Cutter, and their guards are
+waiting for him.  "Drunk again, Uncle Mike?" asks Lianna.  The
+confused Garibaldi remembers how the young Lianna, seventeen years
+ago, often said the same thing.  Kemmer's guards take Garibaldi
+into custody; Cutter, meanwhile, comments that the new fighter wing
+are getting ready to be launched, and he feels he should check the
+bays one more time.
+
      Lianna is questioning Garibaldi; she's trying to get him to
+confess.  At one point, she confronts him and asks, "You never
+change, do you, Michael?"  He replies that he thought he had--until
+she showed up.
+
      Garibaldi tries to reason with her again.  He asks her if she
+really wants to destroy his life, just as she feels he destroyed
+hers years ago.  "If I could have gone in Frank's place, I would
+have," says Garibaldi.  "I didn't know, Lianna.  I didn't know."
+
      Just then, the security officer whom Sinclair contacted
+earlier arrives at the room where Garibaldi is being interrogated. 
+He explains that Sinclair ordered him to search the explosion
+victim's quarters--and when he carried out that search, he found a
+detonator and a few Homeguard pamphlets (the security officer also
+explains how there had been some trouble with the Homeguard a while
+ago, and he mentions that Garibaldi cleared it up).  Garibaldi says
+that security had suspected the victim of being a Homeguard member
+for a long time--but they never could prove it.  Garibaldi says
+that he feels that the victim was killed by a bomb that the victim
+planted in the bay--but the victim was unaware of the use of a
+plasma driver in the bay.  Such a plasma unit would have created
+enough vibration to trigger the bomb prematurely.  When Lianna asks
+about a possible motive, Garibaldi explains that the president was
+planning to announce new alien trade and immigration policies --
+policies that the Homeguard would strongly oppose.
+
      Cutter calls in and informs Kemmer that the president is about
+to arrive for the fighter wing presentation ceremony.  Kemmer
+orders Cutter to make sure the bays are secure.
+
      Kemmer admits that she'd like to believe Garibaldi, but she
+still sees no explanation for how the Centauri currency and the bay
+schematics got into Garibaldi's quarters.  She explains that nobody
+knew that the victim had named Garibaldi except her, Garibaldi,
+Franklin, and Sinclair.
+
      "And Cutter," remembers Garibaldi.  "He was there just when
+the evidence against me was found."  Lianna is skeptical, however;
+she claims that Cutter is one of their best agents.  Garibaldi just
+comments that perhaps the Homeguard was counting on that--though
+the first bomb didn't work, Cutter can finish the job, so to speak. 
+He advises Kemmer to check the bays herself--just to be sure.
+
      As Earth Force One approaches the B5 docking bay, Kemmer and
+Garibaldi walk down to the bay themselves.  Kemmer tells Cutter
+that she wants to scan the bay herself; however, as she moves to do
+so, Cutter knocks her out with the weapon he is carrying.  He
+points a gun at Garibaldi, but when he bends down to recover the
+weapon that he used against Kemmer, Garibaldi kicks the gun out of
+his hand.  A struggle ensues, but Garibaldi gains the upper hand
+long enough to grab hold of a comm link and warn Ivanova to abort
+the docking procedure.
+
      Later, in the Med Lab, Franklin tells Garibaldi that he'll be
+all right (though Garibaldi feels like he "just made love to a
+meteor shower")--and so will Lianna.  Sinclair tells Garibaldi that
+explosives were found on the bay doors--if the doors had opened,
+the new fighter wing, as well as half of the station, would have
+been lost.  Sinclair also ran a check on Cutter and found that
+someone on Earth deposited a large sum of money in Cutter's account
+an hour after the explosion victim named Garibaldi.  Cutter then
+withdrew it on B5 in Centauri currency, which he planted in
+Garibaldi's quarters.  Sinclair congratulates Garibaldi on his
+actions, and places Garibaldi back on active duty, but Garibaldi
+feels that he lost a personal battle:  "I blew it, Jeff ... just
+like I always do.  When things get too rough, I crawl right back
+into the damn bottle.  What really scares me is how much I enjoyed
+it."  Sinclair still feels that Garibaldi shouldn't be upset with
+himself--he crawled back out of the bottle and saved the station. 
+Garibaldi, however, feels that he just got lucky--this time; what
+will happen next time, he asks?  Sinclair says he hopes there won't
+be a "next time," but if there is, he wants Garibaldi to promise
+not to try to fight the battle alone.  "You're more trouble than a
+toilet full of snakes," says Sinclair, "but I couldn't run this
+station without you."
+
      President Santiago successfully completed his address and
+reception.  In his address, he called for alien governments to work
+more closely with earth--"a position certain to cause much
+controversy in the weeks to come," according to a news broadcast.
+
      Garibaldi finds Lianna just as she's about to leave.  Lianna
+thanks Garibaldi for his favorable report of the situation;
+Garibaldi replies, "I figured if you could nab me on my own turf,
+you might just have a career in this game."  Lianna admits that she
+messed up--she apologizes for what she put Garibaldi through (and
+she says that Sinclair was right--she was out for blood, not
+justice), but he tells her there's no need to apologize.  He
+explains that people are not machines, and when they're angry, they
+lash out.  "Seventeen years ago," he says, "we both died inside. 
+But somehow, we survived.  For better or worse, that's all we can
+do--survive.  And, maybe one day, forget how much it can hurt to be
+human."
+
      As she leaves, Lianna tells Garibaldi that President Santiago
+is "fond of Babylon 5."  Garibaldi half-humorously tells her to
+make sure to keep the president safe, for B5 needs all the allies
+it can get.  They hug, and Lianna leaves quietly.  Garibaldi stares
+after her, afraid that he really hasn't changed at all in seventeen
+years.  If it's so easy to crawl back into the bottle, how can he
+ever be sure that he won't do it again?
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
      Ivanova, on the Observation Dome, is faced with the
+less-than-pleasant job of scheduling half a dozen impatient ships for
+docking at B5.  To make her life more difficult, the captain of
+one of the waiting ships--a Narn transport--calls in and claims
+to be carrying a perishable cargo that he must deliver to
+Ambassador G'Kar.  The captain is unhappy at having to wait
+twenty-five minutes, and Ivanova tells him that she'll do her
+best to minimize the delay.
+
      Ivanova calls one of the maintenance crews in the docking
+bays and asks them if there's any way they can open up a bay and
+let the Narn transport in.  After telling Ivanova how difficult
+she's making things for the maintenance crew, the foreman of the
+crew tells Ivanova that she can send the Narn ship in.
+
    
+
+A busy day in the docking bay.
+
      Ivanova calls back the Narn transport and tells the captain
+that he may dock immediately; the captain only responds, "About
+time."  The Narn transport begins the docking procedure, but as
+the ship enters the docking bay, there is a sudden accident
+apparently caused by the bay computers.  Ivanova attempts to
+alter the Narn ship's docking course, and she warns the Narn
+captain not to try to pilot the ship himself.  The captain,
+however, panics and starts his engines--he crashes into the side
+of the docking bay, and his whole cargo load is lost.
+
      Meanwhile, two people from the maintenance crew have been
+trapped by the explosion caused when the Narn ship crashed into
+the docking bay.  The two trapped people are brought out, but one
+of them--the foreman's younger brother--has unfortunately been
+killed.
+
      In his quarters, meanwhile, G'Kar is observing the holy days
+of G'Quan--the particular Narn religious figure that G'Kar
+follows.  As he's solemnly chanting, Na'Toth interrupts him,
+bringing the news about the Narn transport.  She tells him about
+the accident and the destruction of the transport's entire cargo
+hold; she mentions that the "G'Quan Eth" (spelling correction
+pending) aboard the ship has been destroyed.  G'Kar seems
+extremely distraught.
+
    
+
+G'Kar chants a prayer.
+
      A meeting has been called concerning the accident in the
+bay.  Neeoma Connally, a labor leader on B5, and Ambassador G'Kar
+attend the meeting with the usual B5 command staff.  Connally is
+quite adamant in her belief that the laborers should not be
+blamed for the accident.  When Sinclair suggests that the
+computer malfunction in the bay could have been caused by human
+error, Connally disagrees--but she claims that even if the
+accident *were* caused by human error, nothing else could be
+expected from an overwork and understaffed crew.  Ivanova
+mentions that the accident can really be considered the fault of
+the Narn captain, who panicked and started his engines against
+Ivanova's direct orders, but G'Kar claims that the Narns are the
+victims of this unfortunate accident -- and consequently should not
+be blamed.  Connally, however, is angered by what G'Kar says --
+though the Narn ship was damaged, and though all of the cargo was
+destroyed, she feels the most serious catastrophe is that one of
+the laborers died because the accident.  G'Kar offers perfunctory
+condolences, but he maintains that the Narn captain cannot be
+blamed--the captain's ship was placed in jeopardy and he reacted. 
+After mentioning that he wants compensation for the damage, G'Kar
+abruptly leaves, claiming he must attend to a "pressing matter."
+
      As G'Kar leaves, Garibaldi arrives and reports to Sinclair
+that the accident was indeed caused by equipment failure--it
+appears that the contractors installed sub-standard parts
+throughout the computer system.  Garibaldi explains that it was
+probably by using these sub-standard microchips that the
+contractors could make such a low bid for the installation.  When
+Ivanova explains how they'll have to reroute traffic to the other
+docking bays until new microchips can be installed in the damaged
+bay, Connally notes, "The problems dockside run deeper than a few
+microchips, commander."  Sinclair tells Connally that he
+understands and that he's been trying to get the Senate to
+allocate a larger budget to B5.  The meeting ends, and after
+Connally leaves, Sinclair is notified that he has a Gold Channel
+transmission from Senator Hidoshi--about the new budget.
+
      Because all of the cargo on the Narn transport has been
+destroyed, G'Kar is desperately trying to find someone who can
+sell him a new "G'Quan Eth."  Unfortunately for him, nobody seems
+to have any.  Ambassador Mollari walks over to G'Kar and mentions
+that he's heard about the accident in the cargo bay.  "If there
+is anything I can do to be of assistance, you will let me know,
+yes?" asks Londo.
+
    
+
+Londo taunts G'Kar.
+
      "No," replies G'Kar--and Londo walks away, laughing.  As
+Londo leaves, Na'Toth walks up to G'Kar and tells him that her
+research shows that nobody will be able to deliver a G'Quan Eth
+in time for G'Kar's impending religious ceremony.  "However,"
+Na'Toth continues, "according to import records, there is one
+being on the station who has it.... Ambassador Mollari."  Londo,
+from the other side of the room, laughs a loud, shrill laugh at
+G'Kar and exits abruptly.
+
      "Why does the universe hate me?" asks G'Kar.
+
      Meanwhile, Sinclair is speaking with Senator Hidoshi. 
+Sinclair is disappointed that the budget was not increased--he
+claims that promises were made to him.  
+
      "Political realities sometimes take precedence over good
+intentions," replies Hidoshi.  "If President Santiago can turn
+things around--at that time, you may receive *some* of the money
+you requested."  When Sinclair responds that there are certain
+safety concerns that won't wait for the government to turn things
+around, Hidoshi responds, "Our experts have assured us that your
+new budget is more than sufficient for safe and efficient running
+of Babylon 5.  Commander, I have every confidence that you will
+make it work."
+
      After Hidoshi closes the channel, Garibaldi tells Sinclair
+that the news about the budget has already become common
+knowledge on B5--the station's business channels are broadcasting
+it.  Sinclair calls for a meeting with Connally; Garibaldi points
+out that Connally will be quite upset because the dock workers
+didn't get any pay raises, money for new workers, or funds for
+upgrading equipment.  Sinclair isn't surprised, however; he knows
+that since the workers' contracts prohibit them from quitting or
+going on strike, the Senate has no incentive to give the workers
+anything.
+
      Ivanova, from the other end of the Observation Dome, calls
+Sinclair and Garibaldi over.  She explains that the dock workers
+are all calling in sick; when Sinclair asks how serious the
+problem is, Ivanova replies, "Well, as far as we can determine,
+none of them are actually ill.  They're just calling in sick."
+
      "In other words, we have an illegal strike on our hands,"
+points out Sinclair.
+
      The dock workers have gathered near the docking bay and are
+airing their grievances--rather loudly and vociferously.  "How
+much more of this do they expect us to take?" asks one worker. 
+"I say strike," says another, and the whole crowd begins
+chanting, "Strike!  Strike!  Strike!"
+
      Connally interrupts them angrily:  "Stop it.... I don't want
+to hear the word 'strike' any more," she tells them.  She says
+that they'll listen to all of the complaints, but she tells the
+workers to "try to keep a cool head during the management
+negotiation."  Suddenly, Garibaldi arrives and walks over to
+Connally--he wants to escort her to Sinclair, who has already
+requested twice that she see him.  "I've been tied up.  I got a
+lot of sick workers here," Connally replies.
+
      When the workers start to pretend to cough, Garibaldi is
+annoyed.  "You think this is funny, huh?  Well, I don't."
+
      "We're as serious as a rip in a spacesuit," replies
+Connally, "and we want the Senate and Commander Sinclair to know
+it."
+
      "By staging an illegal strike?" asks Garibaldi.  "I thought
+you were smarter than that."
+
      "Sinclair and Ivanova are career military," replies
+Connally.  "I don't expect them to understand.  But I figure you
+for blue collar under all that Earthforce grey."
+
      Garibaldi explains that he understands their dilemma, but he
+feels that they're handling the problem incorrectly.  He explains
+to her that Sinclair wants to speak with her about other possible
+solutions, and she eventually allows herself to be escorted to
+Sinclair.  As they're leaving, Garibaldi tells Connally that
+Sinclair wants to help, but Connally is still skeptical.
+
      When Connally arrives, Sinclair urges her to send her people
+back to work--if she doesn't, Sinclair is afraid that the Senate
+might invoke the Rush Act, a law which might force Sinclair to
+use troops against the striking laborers.  Connally doesn't feel
+that the Senate has the "guts to do that" (because it would
+inflame public opinion), but Sinclair notes that "things are
+changing" on Earth and that Connally shouldn't discount the
+possibility of the Rush Act being invoked.  Sinclair tells
+Connally that by going this far, she's already made her point --
+and Earth Central will be made aware of the laborers' grievances. 
+She replies that she can't send her people back to work without
+guarantees from Sinclair, but Sinclair tells her that he can't
+give her any guarantees unless her people return to work. 
+Sinclair asks Connally to trust him, but Connally replies that
+the Senate controls the money--and she refuses to trust the
+Senate.  Garibaldi points out the possible uproar of violence
+that might result from a clash between the workers and the
+government--he mentions how angry the workers seemed when he was
+down near the bay, but Connally assures him that the workers
+won't be the first to use violence--they will only defend
+themselves.  When Sinclair tells her that he doesn't feel she
+fully understands the consequences of her actions, she only
+replies that she's quite aware of the consequences--her father
+was killed during a strike on Ganymede in 2237.  "I have spent my
+entire life defending workers' rights," she tells Sinclair, "and
+I'm not about to stop now."  She says that her people won't
+return to work until they are provided with better pay, higher
+wages, and more people.
+
    
+
+Sinclair appeals to Connoly.
+
      After Connally leaves, Ivanova calls Sinclair and tells him
+that there is another transmission for him from Senator Hidoshi.
+
      Meanwhile, as Londo is entering his quarters, he notices
+that G'Kar is already inside.  "You left your door unlocked,
+ambassador.  Careless of you.  I thought it best to sit here and
+guard your room until you returned," says G'Kar.  Londo taunts
+him, mentioning that the holy days of G'Quan will end very soon. 
+G'Kar isn't in the mood for games, however:  "You know why I'm
+here," he says.
+
    
+
+"You know why I'm here."
+
      "The G'Quan Eth plant, yes?" responds Londo.  "Difficult to
+grow, expensive to transport, very expensive to own, but so very
+important to you at this festive time."  G'Kar reluctantly tells
+Londo that he wants to buy the G'Quan Eth plant.  Londo replies
+that he's been saving the plant for a "special occasion"--he
+explains to G'Kar that when the G'Quan Eth's seeds are dropped
+into a mixture of alcohol, the results can be quite ...
+enjoyable.  G'Kar grimaces, but Londo continues, "It's a shame
+you Narns waste them, burning them as incense."  G'Kar angrily
+interrupts Londo and asks how much Londo is willing to sell the
+plant for; Londo replies, "You are asking for quite a sacrifice
+from me, but in the interstellar peace and friendship, ummm,
+fifty thousand commercial credits, in cash, in advance."  G'Kar
+is enraged, but when he tells Londo that that price is an
+outrage, Londo simply responds, "Of course it's an outrage.  The
+question is, how important is your religious ceremony to you?" 
+G'Kar leaves quite angrily amid Londo's loud laughing.
+
      On the Gold Channel transmission, Hidoshi tells Sinclair
+that Earth has been hearing reports of an illegal strike on
+Babylon 5.  Sinclair claims that those reports are exaggerated,
+though he does admit that there's a problem.  Hidoshi replies
+that such a strike would endanger B5 and would set a bad
+precedent for all of Earth's off-world interests.  Hidoshi tells
+Sinclair that the Senate has sent Orin Zento ("our best labor
+negotiator," according to Hidoshi, "[who] has stopped this kind
+of thing before on many of our stations") to B5--he will be there
+within twelve hours.  "I expect you to give him your full
+cooperation, and that includes providing troops if he decides the
+Rush Act is necessary."  Sinclair responds that it would be
+dangerous to invoke the Rush Act on a station with more than one
+thousand dock workers; Hidoshi replies that the presence of so
+many dock workers is another "reason to end this thing decisively
+before it spreads."
+
      When Zento arrives on B5, Sinclair schedules him for a
+meeting with Connally.  Zento tells Sinclair that he wants to
+speak with Garibaldi; Zento wants to be ready in case he must
+invoke the Rush Act.
+
      Meanwhile, G'Kar calls Londo and tells him that he has
+arranged payment for the G'Quan Eth.  Londo, however, tells G'Kar
+that he has changed his mind--the G'Quan Eth is no longer for
+sale.  "Consider this a small--a very tiny--portion of revenge
+for what you did to our colony on Ragesh 3, and to my nephew. 
+Did you think that I had forgotten that?"
+
      G'Kar, in his quarters, is enraged at Londo.  After Londo
+closes the communication channel, G'Kar yells, "I'll kill him
+with my bare hands.... Sinclair can only kick my off the station
+[because of diplomatic immunity].  He might even thank me!" 
+After he calms down, he begins talking with Na'Toth.  He knows
+she's not a follower of G'Quan; she explains that her father
+followed a different religious figure than G'Quan, and her mother
+"didn't believe in much of anything."  She explains that she only
+believes in herself.  Eventually, G'Kar explains that there's
+still one thing he can do to get the G'Quan Eth; though he says
+that he hates having to use this plan, it's the only option
+remaining.  He tells Na'Toth that there's something she can do to
+help him, however, in case his plan fails.  Na'Toth agrees to
+help.
+
      Orin Zento arrives at a gathering of the dock workers, who
+don't take particularly well to Zento's assurances that he
+"understands" their situation.  When Zento tells the workers that
+if they abide by their contracts and return to work, Earth
+Central will look into the workers' problems; Connally, however,
+replies that the workers' "problems" have already killed a man,
+and as the elected representative of the workers, she can't allow
+that to happen again.  Zento claims that despite the recent
+accident, the government experts assure him that there are enough
+dock workers on B5 for the next few years and that the workers
+already have adequate equipment.  The workers react badly to this
+line of argument, however--the foreman, whose brother was killed,
+replies, "... you can damn well get your 'experts' to run [the]
+docks."  Just as tempers begin to get hot, Sinclair suggests that
+a recess be called and that the negotiations continue the
+following day.  Both parties agree.
+
      Sinclair, back in his quarters, suddenly gets a message from
+Zento.  Zento tells him that he's heard rumors that the workers
+have abandoned their pretense of being "sick" and have officially
+declared a strike.  Sinclair tells Zento that he's sure the
+rumors are no more than mere rumors, but Zento brusquely
+responds, "Don't play games with me, Sinclair.  I know all about
+you.  You've let this situation escalate out of all proportion,
+and you can bet the Senate's going to get a full report."  Zento
+warns that if Connally and the workers continue to strike, Zento
+will invoke the Rush Act.  Further, Zento warns that Sinclair's
+troops "had better be ready" to enforce the Act.
+
      Just as Zento closes the channel, the communicator beeps
+again.  This time, G'Kar is on the channel--he says that he must
+meet with Sinclair to discuss a very important matter.  Sinclair
+agrees, but only after G'Kar notes that he "wouldn't want to
+burden" Sinclair further by raising this matter before an entire
+assembly of the council.
+
      Sinclair arrives at the council chambers to meet with G'Kar.
+"Are you telling me this is about a flower?" asks Sinclair after
+G'Kar explains the situation.
+
      "Not just a flower, commander.  The very symbol of my
+faith," replies G'Kar.  He explains that all followers of G'Quan
+must perform a ritual using the G'Quan Eth plant at a particular
+time in the year ("when our sun rises precisely behind the G'Quan
+Mountain," says G'Kar, who also explains that people who aren't
+on the Narn homeworld must observe this ritual at the same time
+as those who *are* on the homeworld).  Each year, the people who
+celebrate must acquire a new G'Quan Eth plant for the ritual--and
+now, the only person on B5 with a G'Quan Eth is Ambassador
+Mollari.  Because this ritual is the most important of G'Kar's
+beliefs, because G'Kar is the highest ranking member of his faith
+aboard B5 (and must therefore provide the G'Quan Eth to followers
+of G'Quan on B5), and because G'Kar feels that it is sacrilege
+for Londo to possess a G'Quan Eth (for the plant rightfully
+belongs to the Narn, according to G'Kar, and was stolen from the
+Narn homeworld during the Centauri occupation), he asks Sinclair
+to help him.  Sinclair agrees to attempt to help G'Kar.
+
      To try to get the G'Quan Eth plant for G'Kar, Sinclair
+visits Londo.  Londo, however, refuses to give the plant to
+G'Kar:  "You know I would do anything for you, my good friend,
+Commander Sinclair--but not this.... This isn't about ...
+spiritual beliefs.  G'Kar is only worried about losing face.  The
+Narns--they're a barbaric people.  They're all pagans, still
+worshipping their sun.  No, I would rather burn the plant than
+give it to him."  Sinclair leaves, and tells G'Kar--who has been
+waiting outside--that he's sorry, but that Londo would not
+listen.  Sinclair, at that moment, is called to the briefing room
+by Ivanova.  As the commander walks away, G'Kar calls Na'Toth and
+tells her, "Proceed!"
+
      At the briefing room, Zento and Connally are again arguing. 
+The talks are obviously getting nowhere; Zento says that he
+refuses to accommodate illegal strikers, and when he tells
+Connally that he strongly recommends that she send her people
+back to work, she simply replies, "Stuff it!"  Zento says that he
+refuses to "pander to these people anymore"--he says that after
+he receives confirmation from the Senate (which he claims he'll
+have within the hour), he will invoke the Rush Act.
+
    
+
+Zento and Connally argue.
+
      On the way to the docking bay, Sinclair urges Connally to
+try to end this matter peacefully by sending her people back to
+work.  She says she's sorry that this whole thing had to happen
+on B5, but she also maintains that it's too late for the workers
+to back down--they're tired of the abuses and they will finally
+stand up for their rights.
+
      On the Observation Dome, the reporter from ISN (cf:
+"Infection")
+is trying to get Sinclair to comment on the labor
+situation.  When Londo and G'Kar suddenly arrive, screaming at
+one another (Londo demands that Sinclair arrest G'Kar, for he
+claims G'Kar has stolen a statue of a Centauri deity; G'Kar
+responds that he has been in the presence of witnesses for the
+past few hours and has not stolen anything; Londo replies that
+G'Kar's "attack dog, Na'Toth," must have stolen it--but on
+G'Kar's orders), Sinclair gets rather annoyed at the
+disturbances.  He tells Londo, G'Kar, and the reporter to leave
+the observation dome immediately (and threatens that if they
+don't leave, he'll place them in the brig).  Londo claims that
+he's going to file an official protest, while G'Kar says that
+he's going to file *two* official protests.
+
      Just as everyone leaves, Garibaldi enters.  At that moment,
+Senator Hidoshi calls in.  Hidoshi tells Sinclair that--though
+Hidoshi would personally want Sinclair to handle the situation as
+Sinclair best sees fit--Zento has convinced a majority of the
+Senate to invoke the Rush Act.  When Sinclair replies that the
+only possible result of the Rush Act can be a violent
+confrontation, Hidoshi says that he knows that--and he fears that
+a violent confrontation is exactly what some people want. 
+Sinclair reluctantly tells Garibaldi to mobilize his troops, and
+asks Ivanova to bring him the full text of the Senate order.
+
      Down in the docking bay, when the workers find out that the
+Senate has invoked the Rush Act, they are angered but are
+prepared to defend themselves.  When Garibaldi arrives with a few 
+security officers, a fight breaks out.
+
    
+
+The workers riot.
+
     Amid the fight, Connally
+is arrested and dragged away by Garibaldi.  As Garibaldi leaves
+the docking bay, he meets Sinclair and tells him that the
+security forces are ready to flood the bay with a somniferous gas
+and arrest the dock workers while they're asleep.  Both Sinclair
+and Connally are angered by the fight, and both claim that they
+wanted to avoid this confrontation.  Garibaldi, however, points
+out that the fight was started by the foreman whose brother was
+killed; the foreman, according to Garibaldi, threw the first
+punch.  Sinclair tells Garibaldi to have his men to pull out of
+the docking bay.  When Sinclair enters the docking bay, the
+workers temporarily calm down and let Sinclair speak.
+
      "Under the Rush Act," begins Sinclair, "the Senate has
+empowered me to end this strike.  I'm authorized to use any means
+necessary."  After confirming this fact with Zento, and after
+Sinclair is assured that he has Zento's full support, Sinclair
+explains what "necessary means" he's going to use to stop the
+strike:  First, Sinclair will reallocate 1.3 million credits from
+B5's military budget in order to begin necessary upgrades of
+docking equipment and to start hiring more workers.  Second,
+Sinclair will declare a complete amnesty for dock workers who
+have struck but who have committed no other crime.  Zento angrily
+protests, but Sinclair comments that it was Zento who allowed
+Sinclair to use these means by convincing the Senate to invoke
+the Rush Act:  "You should never hand someone a gun unless you're
+sure where they'll point it," says Sinclair.  Sinclair adds that
+no charges will be pressed against the workers who were involved
+in the fight against the security officers; on this point,
+Garibaldi and the foreman shake hands.  Sinclair finishes by
+saying that all of these actions are dependent upon the workers'
+returning to work immediately; Connally agrees, and the workers
+begin work again.  As the workers get back to work, Zento angrily
+tells Sinclair, "You know damn well you twisted the intent of
+that order, and you won't get away with it."
+
      "I think Ms. Connally said it best the other day--'stuff
+it!'" replies Sinclair.  Connally thanks Sinclair and apologizes
+for underestimating him.
+
      After Connally leaves, Garibaldi politely tells Sinclair,
+"You look like week-old bread.  Why don't you get some sleep?" 
+
      Just then, however, Ivonova calls Sinclair and tells him
+that he'd better come quickly because--"G'Kar and Londo are
+approximately half an inch from killing each other," she says.
+
      When Sinclair arrives, he tells G'Kar to return Londo's
+statue.  G'Kar protests--he still claims he never stole the
+statue--but Sinclair isn't in the mood for games.  Next, he tells
+Londo that dangerous chemical composition of the G'Quan Eth plant
+makes it illegal to possess except for legitimate medical or
+religious purposes.  Londo laughs, saying that the plant is no
+more harmful than a bottle of Earth whiskey; Sinclair merely
+tells him to file an official protest if he wishes--but to turn
+over the plant anyway.  Sinclair mentions that Londo will be
+fully compensated for the plant, of course.  Londo, at length,
+agrees.  "I have already gotten my enjoyment from it anyway,"
+says Londo.  After Londo leaves, Sinclair tells G'Kar that once
+Londo's statue is returned, Sinclair will turn over the G'Quan
+Eth plant to G'Kar--of course, G'Kar will compensate Londo for
+it.
+
      "Why should I turn the statue over--assuming that I knew
+where it was--when it's already too late for the ceremony? 
+Mollari knows that--that's why he gave in so easily."
+
      Sinclair tells G'Kar that light travels through space. 
+Therefore, although the ritual must be performed in the sunlight
+that has touched the G'Quan mountain at a particular time, and
+although that particular time has already passed this year, the
+light that touched the G'Quan mountain ten years ago will reach
+the station in a few hours.  "[The light has] been on a long
+journey, but it's still the same sunlight.  Good enough for you
+to conduct your ceremony--wouldn't you agree?"
+
      "Yes, it might be.  Commander, you are a far more spiritual
+man than I gave you credit for," replies G'Kar.
+
    
+
+"You are a far more spiritual man..."
+
      "There are a couple of Jesuit teachers I know who might
+disagree with you," says Sinclair.  When Sinclair reminds G'Kar
+to return the Centauri statue, G'Kar replies that he's sure a
+careful search will turn it up.  As Sinclair leaves, smiling
+broadly, G'Kar thanks him.
+
      Sinclair returns to his quarters and instructs his computer
+to hold all transmissions; however, when the computer replies
+that there is one transmission holding, Sinclair tells the
+computer to send the message through.  The message is from
+Hidoshi, who tells Sinclair that he admires what Sinclair has
+done on B5 concerning the labor situation--however, the Senate
+doesn't.  In this instance, however, the Senate has allowed
+Sinclair's decision to stand without comment--because public
+opinion is on Sinclair's side.  Hidoshi tells Sinclair that he
+sympathizes with his decision--and is glad to see the discomfort
+it has caused some of his colleagues (for Hidoshi's grandfather
+was a dock worker himself).  He is calling just to warn Sinclair
+that Zento has powerful friends, and that by embarrassing Zento,
+Sinclair has made new enemies in the government.  "If I were you,
+commander, I would watch things very carefully.  You are not the
+most popular person in government circles right now."
+
      After Hidoshi closes the communication, Sinclair says to
+himself, "So, what else is new?" and finally goes to sleep.
+
      Meanwhile, G'Kar is successfully carrying out his religious
+ceremony.  "The gift of time, the gift of life, the gift of
+wisdom, the gift of light.  For these things, were are thankful. 
+For these things, we pray," says G'Kar, solemnly, and the
+ceremony continues, thanks to Commander Sinclair.
+
    
+Shawn Bayern
+bayern@cshl.org
+
    
+Copyright 1994, Shawn Bayern.  All rights reserved.  Permission is
+granted to distribute this synopsis noncommercially as long as
+the synopsis and this copyright notice remain intact.  Babylon 5 is
+a copyright of the PTN Consortium; no infringement of that
+copyright is intended by writing these synopses.
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+
    
+Ivanova, after awakening with difficulty from a sound sleep, reports to
+C&C just in time to find Sinclair listening to a distress call from a
+lone Starfury pilot who's being attacked by raiders not far from the
+station.  Sinclair launches a wing of fighters to aid the pilot, but it's
+too late; the raiders overwhelm and destroy the Starfury.
+
    
+A well-dressed man comes aboard the station on his own.  When the customs
+officer comments that his identicard hasn't been updated in a while, the
+man replies that he's been out of touch, out exploring on the Rim.  "Find
+anything interesting?" asks the officer.  "Yes," replies the man with an
+enigmatic smile.
+
    
+Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Sinclair meet.  Ivanova reports that by the time
+the station's fighters got there, there was nothing left of the Starfury
+they were supposed to rescue.  Garibaldi comments that the raiders have
+been hitting closer and closer to Babylon 5 lately, prompting Ivanova to
+wonder how they're getting in and out so quickly.  The raider ships are
+much too small to make their own jump points, and the nearest jumpgate
+in this latest incident was hours away.  Sinclair puts Delta Wing on
+alert and asks Garibaldi to go over the cargo manifests of ships due to
+arrive shortly in the hopes of identifying the raiders' next target.
+
    
+After Ivanova leaves, Sinclair tells Garibaldi what he's discovered about
+the events during his 24 hours out of action at the Battle of the Line
+(cf.
+"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+and asks Garibaldi to help him find out more.
+
    
+Londo, waiting at a bar table, is visited by a somewhat sleazy-looking
+man who hands him a black
+box.  The box contains the Eye, "the oldest symbol of Centauri nobility,
+property of the first Emperor, lost over a hundred years ago at the
+Battle of Nashok."  The Centauri government, says Londo, paid very
+generously for the Eye.  "But I would very much like to know how you got
+your hands on this," Londo says.  "No, you wouldn't," says the man,
+and leaves.  Londo walks off with the Eye, unaware that he's being watched
+by someone at the bar -- the newcomer who'd been out exploring.
+
    
+G'Kar and Londo find themselves waiting for the same transport tube.  Londo
+mentions a famine on the southern frontier of the Narn homeworld; the
+conversation quickly degenerates into a barrage of insults and threats,
+causing both of them to miss the lift.
+
    
+ "So now it is all our fault,
+eh?"
+
    
+Later, G'Kar is visited in his quarters by Morden, the man who arrived on
+the station earlier.  Morden claims his visit was authorized by the correct
+officials in the Narn government.  He has come to ask G'Kar a question:
+"What do you want?"  Morden persists, asking the question again and again,
+until G'Kar nearly kicks him out of his quarters.  Finally, as if sensing
+the intent of the question, G'Kar tells Morden that what he really wants is
+to decimate the Centauri -- "to completely, utterly erase them."  "And
+then what?" asks Morden.  G'Kar, taken aback, answers, "I don't know.  As
+long as my homeworld's safety is guaranteed, I don't know that it matters."
+Morden thanks G'Kar and leaves; it appears that wasn't quite the answer
+he was looking for.
+
    
+ "What do you want?"
+
    
+Meanwhile, Londo greets a Centauri noble, Lord Kiro, and Kiro's aunt,
+Lady Ladira, who is also the seer and prophetess of Kiro's house.  Ladira
+looks rather ill, initially ascribing it to the rigors of space travel.
+But it's soon clear that Babylon 5 itself is causing her distress; she
+pushes herself into a corner and begins ranting.  "Babylon will fall.
+This place will be destroyed!  Fire... death... pain..."  She faints.
+
    
+ Londo greets Kiro and Ladira.
+
    
+Later, Kiro and Londo are with Ladira in Kiro's quarters.  She's feeling
+better now, but the vision is still there: Babylon 5 will be destroyed.
+The ordeal has left her tired, and she excuses herself.  As she leaves,
+Londo questions her accuracy.  Kiro recalls with a derisive chuckle that
+when he was young, she predicted he would someday be killed by shadows.
+
    
+He asks Londo if he can see the Eye, which originally belonged to his
+family, before he plays lowly messenger and brings it back to the Emperor.
+Londo agrees.  As they leave Kiro's quarters, they're followed by a
+shady character, who reports into a small device: "Six to one.  Have
+located target.  Commencing surveillance."
+
    
+Morden visits Delenn in her quarters and asks her the same question he
+asked G'Kar.  With her back to Morden, she questions the purpose of his
+visit.  In midsentence, she stops as if she suddenly feels faint.  Her
+hand shoots to her forehead, covering it, and then away, to reveal a
+hollow silver triangle glowing in her skin.  (cf.
+"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+
    
+ Morden visits Delenn.
+
    
+She covers her forehead again and spins around to face Morden.  He becomes
+darker and darker until he appears nothing more than a silhouette -- a
+shadow.  Delenn demands that he leave immediately; he does so, apparently
+unaware that she sensed anything odd about him.  After he's gone, Delenn's
+triangle fades away as she looks on, shocked.  "They're here," she says,
+a hint of fear in her voice.
+
    
+ "They're here."
+
    
+Kiro and Londo look at the Eye in Londo's quarters.  Kiro paces and speaks
+of conditions back home.  The people grow unhappy, disillusioned with the
+government; the Emperor has not been seen in public for over a year.  Finally,
+he comes out with what's on his mind: why should he give the Eye back to
+the Emperor when his family is its rightful owner?  Londo calms him down,
+reminding him that he could try to use the Eye to usurp the Emperor's power,
+but he would quickly be dead.  "These are not the good old days," Londo
+says wistfully.  "Yes," answers Kiro, "more's the pity."  Kiro leaves the
+Eye in Londo's care, wondering out loud where everything went wrong for
+the Centauri.
+
    
+ Kiro examines the Eye.
+
    
+Ladira, asleep, dreams of her vision, or the sounds of it.  Voices shouting:
+"Evacuate!"  "They're heading for the docking
+bay!"  "Hit 'em with everything we've got!"  "Destruct!  Destruct!"  Then
+the sound of an explosion.  She awakens.
+
    
+In space, the freighter Achilles is enroute to a jumpgate when its scanners
+pick up raider ships approaching.  They call for help; Sinclair, in C&C,
+orders Delta Wing to launch.  Ivanova, the wing commander, heads for the
+station's jumpgate at top speed.
+
    
+Six, the man who watched Londo and Kiro earlier reports in again.  "They've
+taken the bait.  You keep them busy.  We'll take care of Babylon 5 from this
+end."
+
    
+Kosh returns to the station in his ship.  As he disembarks and walks down the
+hall, Morden ducks behind a corner to avoid being seen.
+
    
+Delta Wing arrives through the jumpgate nearest the Achilles.  Ivanova orders
+two ships to stay behind at the gate in case the raiders try to flee through
+it; the rest follow her at maximum burn toward the Achilles.
+
    
+Kiro calls Londo and says he's ready to leave with the Eye.  Londo assures
+him that the Centauri military will have ships to ready protect Kiro every
+step of the way once he enters Babylon 5's gate.  Londo gathers up the Eye
+and leaves his quarters.
+
    
+As he reaches the transport tube, he's intercepted by Morden, who asks his
+usual question and claims he's not allowed to leave until he gets an answer.
+Londo is irritated and says he just wants to be left alone.
+"Is that it, Ambassador?" asks Morden.  "Is that all you want?"
+
    
+Irritated, Londo answers that no, that's not all he wants.  He wants the
+Centauri Republic to stretch forth across the galaxy, to regain its days of
+glory.  "I want to stop running around like a man late for an appointment,
+afraid to look forward or look back ... I want it all back, the way that
+it was."  He calms down.  "Does that answer your question?"
+
    
+"Yes," Morden says to himself after Londo leaves.  "Yes, it does."
+
    
+ "Do you really want to
+know what I want?"
+
    
+Sinclair, troubled that the latest raider attack is taking place much farther
+from the station than other recent raids, asks for a cargo manifest for the
+Achilles.
+
    
+Six and an accomplice intercept Londo, Kiro, and Ladira as they head for Kiro's
+ship.  He has his accomplice take the Eye ahead, while he takes the three
+Centauri hostage and orders them to continue to the ship.
+
    
+ Taken hostage.
+
    
+Sinclair learns that the Achilles is carrying farming equipment, hardly
+valuable enough to be worth raiding.  Deducing that it may be a diversion,
+he orders Ivanova to return to base.  He checks the list of arriving and
+departing ships and notices that Kiro's personal liner is scheduled to
+leave shortly.  He heads for the docking bay.
+
    
+Sinclair arrives in the bay just as Six and his hostages do.  Kiro tries to
+fight Six off, but ends up with his arm twisted behind his back and a gun
+to his head.  Six warns Sinclair against trying to stop him from leaving,
+threatening to burn a hole through the station's hull.  Sinclair stands
+aside and says Six is free to go.
+
    
+Once Six and Kiro have left, Sinclair tells Garibaldi to stand by with Alpha
+Wing and disable the liner as soon as it leaves the station.  Londo escorts
+Ladira out of the docking bay.  She is preoccupied.  "The shadows are coming
+for him."
+
    
+As Garibaldi and the rest of Alpha Wing chase
+after the liner, a jump point forms near the station.
+A carrier flies through and releases a swarm of raider ships.  "So that's
+how they're doing it," says Sinclair.  "A ship that big would have to be
+capable of solo jumps."
+
    
+The raider ships occupy Garibaldi's attention as the situation develops
+into a full-blown firefight.  While he and his men (with the help of the
+station's defensive grid) fight the raiders, the Centauri liner enters a
+small docking bay in the raider mothership and is sealed inside.
+
    
+ The battle is joined.
+
    
+Meanwhile, amid sirens and a mob of people heading for
+safer parts of the station, Londo finds Ladira standing in the middle of
+a corridor.  He tries to get her to leave, but she is paying more attention
+to her vision.  "Fire.  Death and destruction.  The shadows have come for
+Lord Kiro.  The shadows have come for us all!"
+
    
+Elsewhere on the station, Morden hurries down an empty corridor as if late for
+an appointment.  Kosh emerges
+from a doorway, blocking Morden's path.  "Leave this place," Kosh says.
+"They are not for you.  Go.  Leave.  Now."  Morden doesn't appear ready to
+obey.
+
    
+ "Go.  Leave.  Now."
+
    
+The battle grows more intense.  Sinclair tells Garibaldi to drive the raiders
+toward the back of the station, and tells one of the C&C techs to recalibrate
+the defense grid accordingly.  As the raiders are driven back, Ivanova and
+her team emerge from the jumpgate.  "Surprise."
+
    
+ Chasing down the raiders.
+
    
+Between Ivanova, the station's guns, and Garibaldi at their tails, the
+raiders don't last long.  Unfortunately, the mothership creates a jump
+point while its fighters are keeping everyone busy.  Ivanova tries to follow
+it into hyperspace, but Sinclair orders her not to.  The raider mothership
+gets away.
+
    
+Garibaldi tells Sinclair that the station sustained minor damage, with a
+few injuries.  Ambassador Kosh has asked for tools to repair his encounter
+suit, but won't say what happened to it.  The station lost two ships in
+the battle; one pilot managed to eject in time.  Garibaldi speculates that
+they've hurt the raiders badly enough that they won't be back for a long
+time, if ever -- the mothership, after all, is just a big target without
+its fighters.
+
    
+Ladira and Londo come into Sinclair's office.  Sinclair demands to know what
+was on the ship that was so valuable, and why it wasn't on the manifest.
+Ladira has another vision, this time of the raider mothership emerging from
+a jump point elsewhere in space.
+
    
+ "My time is your time."
+
    
+Inside the ship, Six has his men grab Kiro from behind.  He laughs at Kiro's
+objection that the two of them had a deal; the raiders intend to ransom the
+Eye to the Centauri, and then ransom Kiro as well.
+
    
+Suddenly, from out of nowhere, a huge alien ship, black with spines and dark
+blue mottling, appears just next to the raider mothership.  Without warning
+or provocation, it slices into the mothership with an intense beam weapon,
+cutting the raider ship to ribbons within seconds.
+
    
+ The mystery ship.
+
    
+Later, Londo and Ladira say farewell.  Londo is despondent; he feels he will
+be held responsible for the loss of the Eye.  "It would seem my career is
+finished," he says.  When Ladira offers to help, he replies, "I'm afraid I'm
+beyond anything short of a miracle."  She leaves.
+
    
+Seconds after, Londo's door chimes.  It's Morden, and he's carrying a charred
+box.  "A gift," he says, "from friends you don't know you have."  Londo opens
+the box.  It's the Eye.  He turns to thank Morden, but the man seems to have
+vanished.  "Let me buy you a drink!" shouts Londo.  "Let me buy you a whole
+fleet of drinks!  How can I ever find you to thank you?"
+
    
+"We will find you, Ambassador," a disembodied voice answers.  "We will find
+you."
+
    
+ "A gift, from friends you
+don't know you have."
+
    
+In the lavatory, Garibaldi and Sinclair talk about the successful resolution
+of the situation.  On the way out, Garibaldi says he did some checking and
+found that Sinclair wasn't first on the list to run Babylon 5.  In fact, he
+was very far down the list.  The Minbari, it seems, made their support of
+the station contingent on being able to approve the commander, and rejected
+everyone right down the line until Sinclair.  "They wanted you, Jeff."
+
    
+Sinclair meets Ladira in a departure lounge.  When she tells him of her
+vision, he replies that it didn't happen; the station came through the
+attack just fine.  Ladira replies that the station is safe for now -- but
+the vision is still there.  She offers to let him see
+her vision, not an easy thing, but possible.  He agrees.  He sees Babylon 5
+from space.  A shuttle flies from the docking bay as the station erupts in
+explosions, the hull rupturing as Babylon 5 is eaten from the inside by
+a firestorm.  Finally it detonates, blown into thousands of fiery fragments.
+
    
+Sinclair is hoarse.  "This... is it a vision of what will be, or what might
+be?"
+
    
+"The future is always changing.  We create the future, with our words,
+with our deeds, and with our beliefs.  This is a possible future, Commander.
+And it is my hope that you may yet avoid it."
+
    
+Ladira bows and leaves Sinclair to ponder what he's just seen.
+
    
+
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+
    
+A rabbi and a young man, Walker Smith, arrive on the station.
+
    
+Nearby, one alien is selling stolen "slappers" from Medlab to another
+alien.  Garibaldi interrupts them, decking one when it tries to run.  As
+he arrests the other, the first one comes at him from behind with a knife.
+Before it can reach Garibaldi, Walker Smith knocks it out with one punch.
+"One of these days, Garibaldi," Smith says, "you're gonna learn to watch
+your back."
+
    
+ Smith saves Garibaldi's bacon.
+
    
+Garibaldi and Smith knew each other years before.  Smith, it seems, dropped
+out of circulation, earning enough money for a boxing license.  Later, he
+was involved in a scandal.  He promises to tell Garibaldi the real story later,
+after he settles in.
+
    
+They meet at a bar later that day and reminisce about the past.  Smith is
+surprised that Garibaldi has taken to drinking water instead of alcohol.
+
    
+Ivanova is reading when she receives a visit from the rabbi.  It is Rabbi
+Koslov, or "Uncle Yossel" as Ivanova used to call him.  He has come to
+deliver her father's legacy, entrusted to him shortly before Ivanova's
+father died (cf.
+"Born to the Purple".)
+He had intended to give it to her at the funeral, but she didn't show up.
+"The station was in a crisis at the time," she explains.  "I couldn't
+get away."
+
    
+Koslov says he understands -- as her father would have.  He asks Ivanova
+if she has sat shiva for her father.  She says no.  He offers to sit with
+her, but she refuses.  She has duties, and besides, it's been so long that
+there's hardly any point.
+
    
+Garibaldi and Smith talk about the scandal.  Smith was a rising star in the
+boxing world.  He was scheduled to fight the champ, and wouldn't agree to
+lose when pressed by some of the monied interests in the boxing federation.
+So they set him up, planting evidence that made him look like he was using
+drugs, creating a media circus that eliminated any chance of his career
+continuing.  Now he has come to Babylon 5 to regain his fame by fighting
+in the Mutai -- an alien blood match that has never been entered by a human.
+Garibaldi tries to dissuade him, citing the deaths and numerous injuries
+of aliens in the Mutai, but Smith is adamant.
+
    
+Rabbi Koslov visits Sinclair and tells him of Ivanova's father's death,
+seeking to get Sinclair to grant leave so she can sit shiva.
+Ivanova, apparently, had kept her father's death
+to herself.  That doesn't surprise Koslov,
+who says that after Ivanova's mother and brother died, Ivanova and her
+father had a falling-out.  Sinclair says Ivanova can have as much time as
+she needs.
+
    
+ Koslov visits
+Sinclair.
+
    
+That evening, Ivanova and Koslov dine in the Garden.  They reminisce about
+old times.  Ivanova says she had invited her father to visit Babylon 5, but
+he wouldn't come; he believed humans had no right to be in space until they
+learned to live in peace at home.  When Koslov mentions that he saw Sinclair,
+Ivanova is furious.  "My father always tried
+to control my life," she says, in tears.  "I don't need anyone to take his
+place now that he's gone."  She storms away.
+
    
+Smith and Garibaldi visit a training area where several aliens are practicing
+for the Mutai.  Smith announces that he's looking for the Muta-Do, who is
+in charge of the contest.  An alien tells Smith to leave, then knocks him
+flat on his back when he protests.  The alien, it turns out, was the Muta-Do
+himself, and he tells Smith that humans are not allowed to fight in the Mutai.
+
    
+Smith and Garibaldi chat about the Mutai.  "They may be snakeheads to you,"
+Garibaldi says, "but the Mutai means something to them."  Smith leaves,
+disgusted.
+
    
+In the corridor, an alien named Caliban tells Smith that there is another
+way to get into the Mutai.  "But it will require respect, and great courage."
+Smith is very interested.
+
    
+Sinclair calls Ivanova into his office and offers her leave.  She refuses,
+claiming that her emotions are her own to deal with as she sees fit.  As she
+returns to her post, Sinclair cautions her to make sure she knows what she's
+really feeling.
+
    
+Smith tells Garibaldi that he's giving up and going home, maybe even hanging
+up his gloves for good.  But before he leaves, he wants to see what he missed.
+He has two passes ("ducks") to the evening's match, featuring the Sho-Rin,
+the champion of the Mutai.
+
    
+They attend the fight.  The Sho-Rin, Gyor, makes short work of his challenger.
+When the fight is over, the Muta-Do faces the crowd.  "Who will challenge
+such a one?" he asks.  Smith steps forward and makes his challenge; Gyor
+accepts, and the fight is set for three cycles hence.  As Smith leaves the
+room, an alien warns him to stay out of the Mutai; humans have stuck their
+noses into enough alien business already.
+
    
+ The Mutai.
+
    
+Ivanova apologizes to Koslov.  He gives her her father's legacy: an antique
+samovar, owned by the Ivanov family since the time of the tsars.  Koslov
+tries once more to get Ivanova to sit shiva, but she refuses.  It's not
+that she's stopped being a Jew, she says, but that her father was never there
+for her, not even after her mother and brother died and she needed him the
+most.  And she can't forgive him for that.
+
    
+ Ivanova and her legacy.
+
    
+Smith trains with the help of Garibaldi and Caliban.
+
    
+Later, Koslov is on his way off the station when Ivanova comes to say goodbye.
+As he's about to board his ship, she remembers her father's last words and
+calls out to Koslov.  She has decided to sit shiva.
+
    
+In the training area, Smith continues to prepare for the fight.  "Has he
+got a chance?" Garibaldi asks Caliban.  Caliban considers for a moment.  "He
+will fight bravely."
+
    
+ Smith expresses his
+confidence.
+
    
+Later, Garibaldi and Smith eat dinner.  Garibaldi tells Smith there's still
+time to back out of it.  Smith says that Gyor's skill isn't a reason to back
+away: "To be the best, you have to fight the best."
+
    
+Ivanova asks Sinclair for leave, which he grants.  He offers to sit shiva
+with her as her friend.
+
    
+In front of a small gathering, Koslov speaks of Andrei Ivanov.  He was a
+scholar, and above all a man of peace.  Ivanova recalls a time when she
+was a child.  Kasharev, a neo-Communist author and a childhood idol of
+Ivanova's, was reading from one of his books in St. Petersburg.  She
+convinced her father to take her to the reading.  Afterward, she asked
+Kasharev a question she'd been formulating for weeks.  Kasharev dismissed it
+out of hand, prompting her father to give him a creative verbal lashing.
+Later, he told her it had been a good question.
+
    
+ Sitting shiva.
+
    
+The Mutai begins.  Smith and Gyor pummel each other.  At first it looks like
+Gyor will win easily, but Smith comes back with a vengeance.  When it seems
+he might have a chance, the alien who complained about Smith's participation
+earlier takes out a small blowgun and readies a dart.  Garibaldi grabs it
+just as the alien is about to shoot.
+
    
+Ivanova reads a Jewish prayer in English for Sinclair's benefit.  Tears flow
+as she releases her pent-up grief over her father's death.
+
    
+The Mutai continues.  Both Gyor and Smith are just about worn out, but they
+keep at each other until both collapse to the floor, exhausted.  The Muta-Do
+declares the match a draw.
+
    
+After saying farewell to Ivanova and Sinclair, Koslov leaves the station.
+Smith departs, but not before Gyor and the Muta-Do catch up
+with him in the departure lounge.  Humans, the Muta-Do says, are now free to
+fight in the Mutai.  With a parting compliment from Garibaldi, Smith boards
+his ship home.
+
    
+
    Synopsis by Steven Grimm
    
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+
    
+A transport ship docks with the station.
+
    
+Sinclair sits down to eat with Garibaldi.  Delenn and Lennier interrupt
+them; there is a distinguished guest coming aboard, Delenn says, and
+Sinclair should greet him.
+
    
+ Delenn and Lennier
+interrupt a meal.
+
    
+In Downbelow, a crime boss named Deuce asks another man, Jinxo, to provide
+him with the locations of secret passages in the station.  Jinxo replies
+that while he did help build Babylon 5, he was mostly involved in big
+structural construction and can't provide that information.  Deuce insists
+that he can -- or else.  He gestures to another part of the room, where a
+woman is tied down in a chair.  Her name, Deuce says, is Mirriam Runningdear,
+and she agreed to testify against him.  Now she'll pay the price.  He beckons
+to something in the shadows.  A Vorlon encounter suit comes forward.  The
+front panel opens and a tentacle extends out, attaching to Runningdear's
+forehead.  Deuce tells Jinxo to have the plans, or 50,000 credits, within
+300 cycles, before Ambassador Kosh gets hungry again.
+
    
+ Deuce warns Jinxo.
+
    
+In a courtroom somewhere on the station, an ombudsman listens to testimony
+from a man who's suing aliens for abducting his great-grandfather.
+
    
+Sinclair, Garibaldi, Delenn and Lennier greet a man named Aldous Gajic.  He
+says he didn't notify Sinclair of his arrival because his mission is not
+Earth-related.  He reveals that he's looking for the Holy Grail, and, as
+his order has looked everywhere on Earth, he has come to the station to
+talk to the alien ambassadors about its possible whereabouts.  Sinclair,
+incredulous, excuses himself.
+
    
+Delenn catches up with Sinclair and asks why he holds Gajic in such contempt.
+Sinclair explains that the Grail is just a legend, but Delenn counters that
+that doesn't matter; Gajic is a holy man, a "true seeker," devoting his life
+to a search for enlightenment and the bettering of his race.  "I wish him
+luck," Sinclair says.  "He's probably the only true seeker we have."
+
    
+"Then perhaps you do not know yourself as well as you believe," Delenn
+comments, and walks off.  Sinclair gets a call from Dr. Franklin; there's
+another brainwipe victim.
+
    
+Gajic is changing money when Jinxo walks by and picks his pocket.  Garibaldi
+is watching and grabs Jinxo before he's gone twenty feet.  Gajic wants to
+let Jinxo go, but Garibaldi says that Gajic is a witness and insists that he
+testify.
+
    
+In medlab, Franklin and Sinclair look at Mirriam Runningdear, who lies
+unconscious.  Franklin says her brain has been wiped clean, synapses fused,
+leaving it barely able to keep her autonomic functions going.  She'll live,
+but she'll have to start all over again, as her life experience is gone.
+Garibaldi is furious that his sole witness against Deuce has been "reduced
+to a rutabaga" and asks Sinclair for permission to sweep through Downbelow
+with his men.  Sinclair tells him to wait until there's proof that the
+brainwipe is in fact connected to Deuce.
+
    
+The ombudsman sentences Jinxo (whose real name is Thomas.)  He is barred from
+the station for five years.
+Jinxo objects strongly: "I can't leave the station, or it's the end of the
+station -- and every man, woman and alien on the station!"  Gajic speaks with
+the ombudsman and convinces him to remand Jinxo to his custody.  As Jinxo
+leaves, he's pulled aside by Deuce, who reminds him that he has only 240
+cycles left.
+
    
+ Bargaining with the
+ombudsman.
+
    
+Next, the ombudsman reads the charges against Deuce, who pleads innocence.
+Garibaldi tells the ombudsman about Runningdear's condition.  Unfortunately,
+without her testimony, there isn't enough evidence; the ombudsman dismisses
+the case against Deuce.
+
    
+Gajic takes Jinxo to his quarters and asks why he thinks he can't leave the
+station.  Jinxo answers that it's the "Babylon curse" -- if he leaves, the
+station will blow up or disappear or something else will happen.  When Gajic
+asks how he got the curse, Jinxo answers, "Don't you get it?  I don't
+have the curse.  I am the curse."
+
    
+Jinxo explains that he was too young to fight in the war, so when he had the
+opportunity to work on the original Babylon station, he jumped at the chance.
+Three months into it, he went on leave, and the station's infrastructure
+collapsed, the result of sabotage.  The same thing happened to Babylon 2.
+Babylon 3 blew up while he was away, and he got the nickname "Jinxo."  When
+Babylon 4 was
+being built, Jinxo stayed the entire time, until it was completely finished.
+He thought the curse was gone.  "But as I was leaving on the shuttle, I looked
+back, and the station just sort of wrinkled.  Twisted like putty.  And then
+it just... disappeared."
+
    
+Gajic suggests that Jinxo should have been nicknamed Lucky -- he managed
+to escape death four times.
+
    
+Franklin and Ivanova suggest a possible cause of the brainwipes: a creature
+from an off-limits world in Centauri space called a na'ka'leen feeder.
+
    
+ Describing the feeder.
+
    
+Sinclair asks Londo about the feeders; Londo says they're very dangerous
+creatures.  The Centauri lost an entire colony to them.  When Sinclair lets
+slip that there may be one on the station, Londo makes a beeline for his
+quarters, and suggests Sinclair does the same.
+
    
+Gajic and Jinxo visit Delenn, who says the Minbari don't have the Grail,
+nor had they heard of it before Gajic asked them.  Lennier says they searched
+their files very thoroughly.  Delenn tells Gajic that she will have word
+sent to all Minbari outposts, and if one of them hears about the Grail,
+they will find Gajic and tell him.  Jinxo is amazed; after the war, he
+figured, the Minbari wouldn't be eager to help a human.  Lennier explains
+that there are two castes of Minbari: the warrior caste and the religious
+caste.  "The warrior caste... would not understand," he says.
+
    
+"So we will not tell them, and spare them the confusion," Delenn says.
+
    
+"These two parts of your society.  Do they ever agree on anything?" asks
+Gajic.
+
    
+"Yes," says Delenn.  "And when they do, it is a terrible thing.  A terrible
+force, as recent events have shown.  Let us hope that it never happens again
+in our lifetime."
+
    
+ Gajic and Jinxo
+visit Delenn.
+
    
+In Downbelow, Kosh (or is it a feeder?) pleads with Deuce to bring him
+more food, older minds.  The voice is high and tinny, not the usual melodic
+rumble of a Vorlon voice.  Deuce orders a henchman to fetch Jinxo and the
+ombudsman.
+
    
+Dr. Franklin tells Sinclair that using the file provided by Londo,
+he can confirm that Runningdear was indeed attacked by a na'ka'leen feeder.
+Sinclair tells Ivanova to run a check on every ship entering the station
+in the last ninety days.  Garibaldi says he's going to track Jinxo down,
+as he saw Deuce and Jinxo talking at the trial.
+
    
+Londo speaks with a Centauri government representative, trying to get the
+government to reinstate the quarantine on the feeders' world.  Gajic and
+Jinxo are waiting to talk to him.  Gajic asks about the Grail.  Londo says
+he can search the Centauri-Earth trade files, but it will be very
+time-consuming and expensive.  Vir interrupts and says he's already done
+it, in the interest of efficiency, prompting Londo to scold him.  Gajic
+and Jinxo leave in a hurry.
+
    
+Gajic tells Jinxo that if he finds it, he will use the Grail to heal.
+"Perhaps it has enough power to heal the entire human race," he says.  Jinxo
+asks how he got started looking for the Grail.
+
    
+Gajic did the accounts for a large Earth corporation, he says.  He lived
+in a world of numbers, logical and clean.  He and his family took a vacation
+on the Mars colony.  An accident killed his family but left him alive.  He
+mourned for a long time, and when he returned to work he found that the
+numbers didn't make sense.  He began to wonder why he was spared.  And then
+he met a man, the last of his kind, who told him he was a man of infinite
+promise and goodness.  When the man died, he entrusted his legacy to Gajic.
+Now Gajic is the last of his kind.  "The numbers add up again, Thomas,"
+Gajic concludes.  "The numbers do add up."
+
    
+Deuce's men kidnap the ombudsman.
+
    
+Two thugs try to capture Jinxo, but Gajic fights them off.  Jinxo, panicing
+as he thinks of what Deuce will do now, asks if he can learn to fight like
+that.  "You can learn whatever you like," Gajic says, "because you are a
+man of infinite promise and goodness."  When Jinxo scoffs, Gajic points out
+that Jinxo is willing to stay on the station to protect its people, even
+at the risk of his own life.
+
    
+ Fighting off the thugs.
+
    
+The two of them go to visit Kosh.  When Jinxo sees Kosh, he runs away,
+terrified, warning Gajic to stay away or Kosh will eat his mind.
+
    
+Gajic catches up with Jinxo in Downbelow and convinces him to talk to Sinclair
+if he has information about the Vorlons.  Deuce's men attack; Gajic fends
+them off long enough for Jinxo to escape, but is captured himself.
+
    
+Ivanova reports to Sinclair that she hasn't had much luck figuring out
+which ship might have brought the feeder onboard.  Garibaldi links in and
+tells Sinclair the ombudsman has been kidnapped.  Sinclair leaves to see
+the scene of the crime for himself.
+
    
+The ombudsman, strapped to the same chair Runningdear was, watches in horror
+as the feeder approaches in the Vorlon encounter suit.  Deuce reassures him
+that if there's any pain, it won't last long.  Deuce's men bring Gajic in.
+
    
+Jinxo finds Sinclair in the hallway and tells him that Deuce is going to
+feed Gajic to the Vorlon.  Sinclair goes with him and tells Garibaldi to
+follow his signal.
+
    
+Gajic steps between the ombudsman and the feeder.  The feeder moves to
+attack Gajic, but stops short, then withdraws its tentacle.  Gajic speaks
+softly.  "There is nothing in the dark.  No fear, no pain.  Only the light.
+Show yourself."
+
    
+The feeder, resembling a cross between a squid and a jellyfish, steps out
+of the suit.
+
    
+Garibaldi's men blast the door in and a firefight ensues.  The feeder leaps
+up into the pipes crisscrossing the ceiling.  As the firefight continues, it
+drops behind one of Garibaldi's people and strikes, then, more confident,
+approaches the ombudsman.  Jinxo leaps out from his hiding place and unties
+the ombudsman's hands, but he doesn't notice Deuce taking aim at his back.
+Gajic does, and takes the shot.  The feeder is blown to pieces by Garibaldi,
+Sinclair, and the security team.
+
    
+ Sinclair consults
+Garibaldi.
+
    
+Before Gajic dies, Jinxo promises to continue the search.
+
    
+Sinclair visits Kosh and tells him Deuce was using an excellent replica of
+a Vorlon encounter suit so people would think he had the Vorlons on his side,
+making him appear more fearsome.  "Why?" asks Kosh.
+
    
+"No one knows exactly what you look like," Sinclair answers.  "And that makes
+some people a little nervous."
+
    
+"Good," Kosh replies.
+
    
+Sinclair and Delenn see Gajic's body off.  "It's hard," Sinclair says, "to
+spend your whole life looking for something and never find it."
+
    
+"Are you speaking of Aldous, or someone else?" asks Delenn.
+
    
+Sinclair looks at her for a moment.  "Aldous," he finally answers.
+
    
+"There you are wrong.  He found what he was looking for.  What we are
+all looking for.  A reason."
+
    
+"For what?"
+
    
+"Everything, Commander.  Everything."
+
    
+Jinxo arrives just as the coffin is about to be loaded aboard the ship.
+Delenn gives him a crystal.  "Put this on his grave, and crush it," she says.
+"It will glow every night for a hundred years.  It is our way with all true
+seekers," she continues, with a meaningful glance at Sinclair.
+
    
+ Delenn gives Jinxo a crystal.
+
    
+"Good luck, Jinxo," says Garibaldi.
+
    
+"Thomas," he answers.  "My name is Thomas."
+
    
+
+Sinclair, Ivanova, and Garibaldi are back in C&C, discussing the Babylon
+Curse, when Thomas' ship leaves the station.  It enters the jumpgate.  "No 
+boom?" asks Sinclair.  "No boom," answers Garibaldi.
+
    
+"No boom today," Ivanova corrects them.  "Boom tomorrow.  There's
+always a boom tomorrow."  Sinclair and Garibaldi shake their heads and leave.
+
    
+"What?" Ivanova asks.  "Look, someone's got to keep some damned perspective
+around here.  One of these days... boom!"
+
    
+
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+
    
+Garibaldi is trying to put together an old motorcycle when he's visited by
+Lennier.  Shaal Mayan (cf.
+"The War Prayer")
+is about to visit the station again, and, given what happened the last time
+she was there, Delenn wants to arrange extra security.  After delivering the
+message, Lennier takes an interest in Garibaldi's bike -- a 1992 Kawasaki
+Ninja in mint condition.  Garibaldi has been trying to assemble it for years.
+He has all the parts and a manual, but it's in Japanese.  Lennier offers
+to help, and Garibaldi gives him the manual.
+
    
+ Lennier accepts the manual.
+
    
+Two men, one with a scar by his right eye, are looking at a file about
+Ivanova.  "What do you think?" asks the scarred man.
+
    
+"Most of the personnel will be no trouble.  This one, however..."
+
    
+"Anything you can't handle?"
+
    
+"I don't have to handle it.  Her record's spotless.  There's no
+reason to include her."
+
    
+"That's not your decision.  And she will be included.  Records don't
+always tell the whole story.  That's one of the reasons you're here, Mr. Gray.
+Remember?"
+
    
+"As you wish.  When do we begin?"
+
    
+"As always, Mr. Gray, when the time is right."
+
    
+Sinclair meets with Garibaldi and Ivanova.  A recent attack on Station
+Phobos, on one of Mars' moons, has been tied to Martian separatist groups,
+perhaps Free Mars, or one of the even more radical groups.  Earthforce is
+concerned that Babylon 5 will be used as a transfer point to ship arms to
+the rebels.  Ivanova points out that it'll be hard to stop; the station's
+trade agreements with many of the aliens allow them to sell arms.  Sinclair
+tells the two of them to keep a close watch on incoming and outgoing ships,
+and notify Earthforce of any that are carrying weapons.
+
    
+The scarred man, meanwhile, is sitting next to a security officer, Welch,
+and begins
+to ask him about the station and about Sinclair.  He introduces himself as
+Aaron Franks, of Quartermaster Corporation, and says his company is interested
+in becoming one of Babylon 5's suppliers.  Welch brushes him
+off; Franks goes to another station crewman and starts talking to him.  Welch
+notifies the security station.
+
    
+ Welch tries to eat his
+lunch.
+
    
+Lennier watches a file on the history of motorcycles on Earth, and is
+fascinated by what they once represented.  "Sexual prowess and rebellion,"
+he muses.
+
    
+Garibaldi watches Franks talk to a bartender.  When Franks leaves, Garibaldi
+asks the bartender what he wanted.  He was asking about Sinclair -- how often
+he comes to the bar, who he drinks with, and so on.
+
    
+Garibaldi catches up with Sinclair and tells him that Franks, and an
+associate, Harriman Gray, both listed as representatives of Quartermaster,
+have been asking all sorts of questions.  Sinclair tells Garibaldi to look
+into it, as it might be a cover for arms shipments; Quartermaster is a
+major military supplier.  "Walk softly," Sinclair cautions.  "The last thing
+we need is a corporate lawsuit."
+
    
+Gray is in his quarters when Garibaldi comes to the door.  Gray slips on
+a pair of black gloves and, somewhat flustered, tries to convince Garibaldi
+that he and Franks are there to negotiate a deal to supply the station.
+Just then, Franks arrives.  He offers Garibaldi a drink, and is pleasantly
+surprised when Garibaldi turns him down.  He tells Garibaldi that his name
+isn't Franks at all.  He's Colonel Ari Ben Zayn, of Internal Investigations,
+and Gray is a military specialist from Psi-Corps.  They're on the station,
+Ben Zayn says, to conduct a special investigation of Babylon 5's command
+staff.
+
    
+Later, Ben Zayn talks to Sinclair, Ivanova, and Garibaldi.  With the recent
+events on Mars and elsewhere, Earthforce needs to know who's loyal and who
+isn't.  Sinclair vouches for his crew, and objects to Ben Zayn's tactic of
+questioning people without his knowledge.  Ben Zayn says he has ever right
+to do so; his authority comes directly from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  He
+says he's not here to persecute anyone; it's a routine investigation.
+
    
+ Ben Zayn briefs the command
+staff.
+
    
+Ivanova objects to the presence of Gray; regulations prohibit the use of
+telepaths in routine investigations.  Ben Zayn tells her there are new
+regulations; all staff must submit to scans.  Ivanova refuses, growing
+angry, but Sinclair stops her and says he'll check the regulations himself.
+Ben Zayn attaches Garibaldi to his staff over Sinclair's objections, and
+the two of them leave Sinclair and Ivanova alone in Sinclair's office.
+Ivanova reiterates her refusal to submit to a scan.
+
    
+Garibaldi tells Ben Zayn he thinks the whole investigation is a sham.  Ben
+Zayn orders Garibaldi to collect all the files -- including classified ones --
+on the station's staff, and report back with them later that night.
+
    
+Lennier intercepts Garibaldi in the hallway and says he's managed to
+translate the manual.  He offers to help with the bike; Garibaldi eventually
+agrees.
+
    
+In his office, Garibaldi instructs the computer to put together the files Ben
+Zayn requested.  While that's going on, he tells it to find out all it can
+about Ben Zayn and Gray.
+
    
+Gray pays a visit to C&C, where Ivanova is on duty.  As she tries, without
+a hint of subtlety, to brush him off, he tells her that as a child, he wanted
+nothing more than to be a pilot.  He worked for it, applied to the academy,
+was accepted -- and then his talents were discovered.  It is against the
+law for psis to serve in the regular military, but Psi Corps offered him
+a chance to work in its military branch.  It's not the same thing as Ivanova's
+brand of soldiering, he says, "but half a dream is better than none."
+
    
+Ivanova isn't moved at all.  And when Gray says he won't intrude on her
+privacy, just scan those thoughts pertaining to her duty, she lashes out,
+exclaiming that such a scan isn't only an assault on her, but on her honor.
+"If you enter my mind for any reason," she continues, seething, "I will
+twist your head off and use it for a chamberpot!"
+
    
+Later, Ben Zayn is grilling Garibaldi about Sinclair's actions -- specifically,
+the fact that he failed to so much as file a complaint about the Vorlons'
+destruction of Deathwalker's ship (cf.
+"Deathwalker".)
+Garibaldi points out that it'd be useless to complain to the Vorlons anyway,
+and suggests Ben Zayn ask Sinclair about such things directly.  Ben Zayn
+answers that he intends to, at 1200 hours, and tells Garibaldi to inform
+Sinclair, then get some sleep.
+
    
+Garibaldi goes to Sinclair, who has taken over for Ivanova in C&C.  He is
+concerned that maybe Sinclair does have something to hide:  "I know
+you're a by-the-book kind of guy, but let's face it, we've had to rewrite
+the book a few times to make B5 work."  Garibaldi warns Sinclair to watch
+out for Ben Zayn; he's dangerous, as is Gray.  Sinclair promises to take
+care of it all, and tells Garibaldi to get to bed.
+
    
+When Garibaldi returns to his quarters, he finds Lennier chanting over the
+motorcycle.  "I am about to embark upon the mysteries of the 'fuel injection
+system,'" Lennier says.  Garibaldi tells him to come back sometime after
+1200 the next day.  After Lennier leaves, Garibaldi inspects the bike.  "Not
+bad," he says.  "Not bad at all."
+
    
+Ivanova has a bizarre dream, in which her mother is injected with drugs by
+two dark men in masks.  Gray is there, warning Ivanova not to interfere.
+"Only one way out," says Ivanova's mother as she's injected.  Then it's
+Ivanova, not her mother at all, who's being held by the masked men.  "Only
+one way out," she says, dazed.  Ivanova bolts awake in bed, covered in sweat.
+
    
+ Ivanova's mother loses
+consciousness.
+
    
+Sinclair is in his quarters, studying regulations, when Ivanova comes in
+and offers her resignation, the only way to avoid the scan.  Sinclair assures
+her it's not necessary -- he's found a way around the scans.  He asks why
+she's so afraid of being scanned, anyway; didn't her mother make contact
+with her?
+
    
+"Yes, she did," answers Ivanova.  "You can't imagine what it's like.  To share
+your own mother's love for you.  To feel it in your thoughts.  No one's ever
+been that close to me, Commander.  And no one must ever intrude upon
+that memory.  Especially Psi Corps."
+
    
+Ben Zayn studies a file about Sinclair.  When Gray asks why, Ben Zayn says
+he wants to know everything he can about Sinclair, part of the reason Gray
+is there.  When Gray objects, claiming such things are against the rules,
+Ben Zayn tells him to stop being naive, and says that Bester (cf.
+"Mind War")
+will appreciate anything Gray can do.
+
    
+Sinclair arrives and says he'll be ready to begin as soon as Gray leaves
+the room.  He says he studied the regulations carefully, and found that a
+telepath can only be used to determine the truth of answers to specific
+charges, not for routine loyalty tests.  Gray sides with Sinclair: "Even
+Psi Corps doesn't consider it a carte blanche rule."
+
    
+"I don't remember asking for your opinion," Ben Zayn answers angrily, but
+he dismisses Gray.
+
    
+Gray visits Ivanova in a lounge.  She's surprised to see him, but he
+explains that Sinclair knows the regulations better than Ben Zayn.  "I will
+long savor the look on the Colonel's face," he says.  "Not many people are
+willing to stand up to him.  It was very refreshing."
+
    
+ Gray talks with Ivanova.
+
    
+Ivanova says Gray doesn't seem like other Psi Corps people; she finds his
+dislike of Ben Zayn unexpected.
+
    
+Gray answers that he has no love for Ben Zayn; he's efficient, but lacks
+compassion.  "As for Psi Corps, I doubt you really know any of our people
+very well.  Especially Miss Winters."
+
    
+"You're scanning me," Ivanova objects.
+
    
+"I'm sorry.  The thought of Miss Winters was very loud in your mind when I
+mentioned Psi Corps.  I couldn't help but pick it up.  Please, forgive me.
+I am surprised you were aware of it."  He pauses.  "Of course.
+She must have been in your mind numerous times before she was given the
+sleepers.  Your mother."
+
    
+Ivanova is furious, and demands that Gray not mention her mother again.
+Before she can say more, she's called to C&C.
+
    
+Sinclair is defending his handling of the dockworkers' strike (cf.
+"By Any Means Necessary")
+when Ivanova calls in from C&C with a matter demanding his attention.
+
    
+Ben Zayn tells her to handle it on her own.  That's too much for Sinclair,
+who says he won't tolerate Ben Zayn disrupting the operation of the station.
+He gets up to leave, but Ben Zayn blocks his path.  "I've seen plenty like
+you," he says.  "Hotshots promoted through the ranks without any real
+leadership ability."  He assumes control of Babylon 5, relieving Sinclair.
+Garibaldi barely stops Sinclair from slugging Ben Zayn.
+
    
+ Ben Zayn baits Sinclair.
+
    
+Sinclair, says Ben Zayn, quoting a regulation, is working against the best
+interests of Earthforce, and he can prove it with Mr. Gray's help.  Which,
+now that he is bringing up specific charges, he is within his rights to
+demand.  He tells Garibaldi to confine Sinclair to quarters.
+
    
+Walking to his quarters with Garibaldi, Sinclair says he'll go straight to
+the top and contact HQ.  He tells Garibaldi to get to C&C, where Ben Zayn
+is no doubt telling Ivanova he's in charge.
+
    
+And, in fact, that's exactly what's happening.  Ben Zayn orders Ivanova to
+report along with Sinclair and Garibaldi for a scan in the morning, then
+retires to his quarters.  Ivanova tells Garibaldi she won't submit.
+
    
+"You'll be charged with insubordination," Garibaldi says.
+
    
+"And I'll be replaced and dishonorably discharged.  It's a very Russian
+ending.  I should've expected it."  She flees C&C.  Garibaldi catches up to
+her.
+
    
+"You once offered me a drink," Ivanova says (cf.
+"Born to the Purple".)
+"If that offer's still good, I could sure use it."
+
    
+Garibaldi says he has something to take care of, but tells her he'll meet
+her in the casino in ten minutes.
+
    
+Sinclair speaks with an Earthforce general.  Though he has the power, the
+general won't intervene.  It seems there are some powerful people in favor
+of the investigation, people Sinclair has made angry over the years, and
+with a vote on the President's new immigration
+policy coming up in the Senate, the President can't risk upsetting them by
+agreeing to stop Ben Zayn.
+
    
+A drunk man bumps into Ivanova in the casino.  "Hey, look at the cute
+commander," he says, fondling her hair.
+
    
+"Cute?" Ivanova asks.
+
    
+ "Cute?"
+
    
+Garibaldi tells Sinclair that Ben Zayn was among the top ten candidates 
+for command of Babylon 5, while Sinclair was... somewhat lower.  Ben Zayn,
+Garibaldi has discovered, is also associated with Bester, the Psi Cop whose
+partner was killed on the station.  In fact, Bester assigned Gray to Ben
+Zayn.  Sinclair speculates that the investigation might be Bester's way of
+getting revenge, as he promised he would.  Further speculation is cut short
+as Garibaldi is called away; there's a big problem in the casino.
+
    
+Ivanova throws punches left and right, holding her own in a huge brawl that's
+quickly trashing the entire casino area.  Garibaldi arrives and manages to
+calm her down.  He leads her away and tells his men to clean the place up.
+
    
+Arriving a few minutes early to his interview, Sinclair finds Gray getting
+a feel for the room.  He tells Gray that Bester assigned him to Ben Zayn,
+and, in fact, that Bester and Ben Zayn are good friends.  "Maybe you're
+scanning the wrong people," he says, just before Ben Zayn walks in.
+
    
+Ben Zayn calls Garibaldi and Ivanova in.  Gray instructs Sinclair to remain
+calm; the scan won't hurt if he doesn't resist.  Sinclair asks if Gray will
+be scanning Ben Zayn too; the regulations, after all, say that all involved
+parties are subject to scan, and Ben Zayn is certainly involved.  Besides,
+Sinclair says to Ben Zayn, the intent of a question is often as important as
+the answer.  "For instance, if I were to ask you why you turned a routine
+investigation into a personal hunt for my scalp..."
+
    
+Sinclair baits Ben Zayn further, about Bester and the fact that he didn't
+get command of Babylon 5.  Ben Zayn says he deserved Babylon 5, but thanks
+to the Minbari, Sinclair got it.  He says he knows all about Sinclair and
+the Minbari, and soon Sinclair won't be their agent any more.
+
    
+ Ben Zayn loses his temper.
+
    
+Gray says he can feel the hatred in Ben Zayn's mind, vile and filthy.  Ben
+Zayn slaps Gray hard, sending him falling from his chair, then pulls a gun
+on Sinclair, Garibaldi, and Ivanova, daring them to try to take it away.
+
    
+From the floor, Gray transmits intense pain to Ben Zayn, who stumbles long
+enough for Sinclair to grab the gun and knock him down with a punch.  The
+investigation, such as it was, is over.
+
    
+Later, Garibaldi goes to his quarters, and is dismayed to find Lennier there,
+putting the finishing touches on the motorcycle.  "I've been working on
+it for years," he says.  "It was sort of my purpose in life.  But now it's...
+done."
+
    
+Lennier apologizes profusely, but Garibaldi forgives him.  The two of them
+inspect Lennier's handiwork.  "Too bad we can't ride it," Garibaldi muses.
+
    
+"It is quite ridable," says Lennier.  It seems he installed a clean, efficient
+Minbari power source in place of the combustion engine.
+
    
+Sinclair and Ivanova talk about the investigation as they walk down a
+corridor.  "I never thought I'd be grateful to a member of Psi Corps," says
+Ivanova.  "I hope things don't turn out too badly for Mr. Gray."
+
    
+The circumstances, Sinclair assures her, will vindicate Gray.  As for Bester,
+he'll stay in the shadows, but most likely the whole affair will have some
+repercussions on Bester, too.
+
    
+As Sinclair and Ivanova enter a transport tube, Garibaldi and Lennier zip
+by on the motorcycle.  "It's good to have things back to normal," quips
+Ivanova as the bike zooms up the curve of the corridor.
+
+
    
+
    Synopsis by Steven Grimm
    
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+
    
+Sinclair and Garibaldi await the arrival of a ship bearing the body of
+Branmer, the Minbari general who led the attack on the Line.  Branmer
+died on a diplomatic mission and his ship is enroute home, stopping along
+the way to let people pay their respects.  The ship -- a Minbari cruiser,
+the same kind that Sinclair fought on the Line -- arrives through the
+jumpgate.
+
    
+On the zocalo, Ivanova is taking a break.  Talia Winters arrives and
+sits across the bar from her.  Meanwhile, a girl in scruffy clothing steals
+a piece of jewelry from a vendor.  She's spotted, and runs away, then
+collapses on the floor, unconscious.  Talia and Ivanova rush to her side.
+"She's a telepath," Talia says.
+
    
+The Minbari ship approaches the station.  Scans indicate that it's flying
+with gun ports open -- armed for a fight.  The captain refuses to explain,
+but Delenn arrives at the command center in time to explain that it's
+simply a way of honoring a great military leader.
+
    
+In medlab, Dr. Franklin reports that the girl appears normal except for
+unusually high EEG readings.  Talia explains that she was a latent telepath
+whose powers suddenly activated -- probably due to the onset of puberty --
+and her mind was unable to cope with the sudden inrush of foreign thoughts.
+Talia offers to notify the Psi-Corps so they can send a representative,
+but Ivanova objects.
+
    
+ Franklin examines the girl.
+
    
+A procession bearing Branmer's casket comes aboard.  Neroon, Branmer's
+second in command, greets Sinclair and Delenn.  Ivanova and Garibaldi lead
+him away to the area they've prepared for the viewing of Branmer's body.
+Delenn comments to Sinclair that such a viewing is very unusual, but that
+the Star Riders, Branmer's clan, insisted on it.  She seems disturbed.
+
    
+ The funeral procession.
+
    
+Ivanova arrives in medlab just as the girl awakens.  As she gains
+consciousness, she's nearly overwhelmed by the thoughts of the other
+people nearby, but Talia teaches her how to block them out.  According to
+Talia, who couldn't help picking up the girl's thoughts, her name is
+Alisa Belden, and both of her parents are dead.  Ivanova and Talia argue
+about who has jurisdiction over Alisa; Ivanova vows that Alisa won't leave
+the station if she can help it.
+
    
+Neroon won't allow Garibaldi's men to guard Branmer's body until the
+viewing ceremony.  He insists on Minbari guards.  He baits Sinclair about
+the Line, but Delenn defuses the conversation.
+
    
+ Neroon makes his demand.
+
    
+The ceremony proceeds normally until the casket is opened.  Branmer's
+body is nowhere to be seen.
+
    
+Sinclair orders Garibaldi to begin an investigation.  Neroon threatens to
+go to war over the issue, claiming that the last incident involving a
+Minbari leader, the death of Dukhat (which Garibaldi counters was a
+tragic accident) was the cause of the last war.  He's
+rebuffed by Delenn, who says that no one clan has the right to dictate
+Minbari policy.
+
    
+After Neroon and Delenn leave, Ivanova tells Sinclair about Alisa.  Sinclair
+says he'll stand behind whatever decision Ivanova makes.
+
    
+Later, Sinclair visits Delenn in her quarters.  As she adds pieces to her
+crystal sculpture, Delenn tells Sinclair that
+Branmer was originally a high priest of the religious caste.  When the holy
+war against Earth began, Branmer felt an obligation to go to battle.  He
+felt the Minbari cause was just, but obeyed the surrender order when it came.
+Another warleader, Sineval, committed suicide rather than obey the order, and
+many among the military caste greatly resent the surrender.  Sinclair notes
+that Neroon is one of them; he seems to be spoiling for a rematch.
+
    
+ Discussing Neroon.
+
    
+In medlab, Alisa is trying on new clothes, courtesy of the Psi Corps,
+while Talia tells her that the Corps will take good care of her once she
+joins.  Ivanova arrives and counters with the story of the Corps' treatment
+of her mother.
+
    
+Neroon intercepts Garibaldi in a corridor.  The investigation is meeting with
+no success so far.  An aide rushes up, clutching a piece of Branmer's burial
+robe.  He says it was found outside the quarters of the pak'ma'ra -- carrion
+eaters.
+
    
+Garibaldi and Neroon interrogate one of the pak'ma'ra, who claims ignorance
+about the disappearance of Branmer's body.  Convinced that the alien is
+hiding something, Garibaldi orders all the pak'ma'ra to have their stomachs
+pumped.
+
    
+ The pak'ma'ra denies
+knowledge.
+
    
+Na'Toth offers a deal to Alisa: a pampered life on the Narn homeworld in
+exchange for periodic tissue samples.  Trying to get a glimpse of life on
+Narn, Alisa peers into Na'Toth's mind, and is repulsed; it's cold, alien.
+Franklin suggests that she take that into account while she considers
+the offer.
+
    
+ Na'Toth makes her offer.
+
    
+Dr. Franklin reports to Garibaldi that analysis of the pak'ma'ras' stomach
+contents was negative; they hadn't dined on Minbari lately.
+
    
+Neroon, furious that Garibaldi is wasting his time pumping alien stomachs,
+threatens to have his ship tear the station apart if Garibaldi can't solve
+the mystery.
+
    
+Tests reveal that Alisa is at least a P10, which she jokes will probably
+make her worth more to the Narn.  Ivanova warns Alisa against accepting
+the Narn offer, citing evidence that the Narn keep aliens as slaves and
+are likely to do so to Alisa once she's in their clutches.  Talia once
+again suggests the Psi-Corps, provoking a heated argument with Ivanova;
+Alisa breaks in and says she wants to know all her options.
+
    
+Ivanova takes Alisa to visit Delenn, who describes Minbari telepaths.  Psi
+ability among the Minbari is considered a rare gift, and those who have it
+lead lives of public service, helping people who need their talents.  In
+return, the Minbari people provide for all the psis' needs.  While Delenn
+speaks, Alisa peers into her mind, and to her shock sees a vision of
+white-robed Minbari stunning the guards in front of Branmer's coffin, then
+opening the lid.  Alisa flees Delenn's quarters; Delenn can clearly feel
+that she was being scanned.  Alisa tells Ivanova that Delenn knows what
+happened to the body.
+
    
+ Discussing Minbari
+telepaths.
+
    
+Sinclair enters his quarters to find them a shambles.  He's attacked from
+behind by Neroon.  The two of them scuffle; Neroon claims that he wanted
+to search the one place that would be strictly off-limits.  But Garibaldi,
+arriving with Alisa in tow, claims he searched Sinclair's quarters with
+Delenn observing, and ushers Neroon away.  Alisa tells Sinclair what she
+saw in Delenn's mind.
+
    
+Delenn and an aide are packing something into a cargo container when
+Sinclair bursts into the cargo area.  It's an urn, containing Branmer's
+ashes.
+
    
+Delenn claims that she's honoring Branmer's wishes; he asked for a simple
+ceremony, and wouldn't want his body paraded around as a symbol of war.
+She had planned to pass the disappearance off as a miracle, a transformation
+of Branmer's body so that he could take his place among the gods.  Now
+Sinclair and Garibaldi are in a difficult position, since they've promised
+to tell Neroon the results of their investigation.  Delenn offers a
+compromise: Neroon will be told the truth, but she will tell him.
+
    
+Neroon is furious when he learns what happened.  He vows to lead a protest
+personally.  Delenn stops him cold, claiming that if he contradicts her
+claim of transformation, the Star Riders will be destroyed, dishonored,
+by the Grey Council, whose opinion she claims to represent.  She orders him
+to obey her, "just as you obeyed the
+order to end the war," and further to apologize to Sinclair.
+
    
+Neroon does so, and is surprised when Sinclair offers to pay tribute to
+Branmer's courage and skill in a personal message to the Minbari people.
+"Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your people live," Neroon
+says.  "We like to think so," replies Sinclair.
+
    
+ Neroon and Sinclair
+reconcile.
+
    
+Sinclair and Delenn are talking in the stone garden when Alisa arrives and
+announces that she's going to live with the Minbari.  Delenn claims that
+Alisa will help increase the understanding and communication between
+humans and Minbari.  Sinclair agrees.
+
    
+Alisa bids Ivanova and Talia an emotional farewell.  Talia doesn't agree
+with her decision, but admits that Sinclair is right; Alisa's presence
+among the Minbari will benefit both peoples.
+
    
+Sinclair meets up with Alisa on her way aboard the Minbari ship, and asks
+her if she saw anything else in Delenn's mind.  Alisa responds that there
+was one other thing, a word, "chrysalis."  "She shut down real fast when
+I touched that," Alisa says.  She boards the cruiser, leaving Sinclair to
+ponder the significance of the word.
+
    
+
    Synopsis by Steven Grimm
    
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+
    
+An elderly Minbari male arrives on the station and asks to be shown to
+Ambassador Delenn.
+
    
+ Asking for directions.
+
    
+Epsilon 3, the planet B5 is orbiting, is experiencing large earthquakes.
+Ivanova and Sinclair clear Dr. Tasaki, a geologist, to take a shuttle
+closer to the planet and collect data.
+
    
+On his way to a negotiation session, Sinclair runs into Talia Winters
+waiting for the transport tube.  She comments that Garibaldi is always
+in the tube waiting for her, and sure enough, he's there when the door
+opens.  She opts to take the stairs.
+
    
+As Dr. Tasaki's shuttle nears the surface of the planet, a powerful
+energy beam suddenly fires into space from below ground, knocking the
+shuttle out of control.  Ivanova orders two Starfuries to tow the
+shuttle back to base.  When he returns, Tasaki is eager to go down again
+the next day
+with more equipment, to try to figure out what's causing the beam.
+
    
+Sinclair is presiding over a negotiation between Delenn and Londo about
+trade routes.  The negotiation proceeds smoothly, which Londo attributes
+to G'Kar's absence.  Delenn assures him that G'Kar's anger will fade
+with time, but Londo insists that the Narn hatred of the Centauri is
+intense enough to reduce Centauri Prime to ash if it could be made physical --
+and the Centauri react to that hatred by hating the Narn all the more.
+After Londo leaves, Delenn comments to Sinclair that if Londo is right,
+if future generations won't be born into a brighter world, "then life is
+pointless, and evolution vastly overrated."
+
    
+ Londo describes the
+Narns' hatred.
+
    
+Later, Ivanova tells Sinclair that the beam is a signal, perhaps a beacon,
+though nobody has been able to decipher it.  She remarks that the day's
+Earth Force status report didn't say anything about the Mars colony, very
+unusual as it's mentioned every day.
+
    
+Delenn is returning to her quarters when she's met by the Minbari male
+who boarded the station earlier.  His name is Draal, and he's an old
+teacher of hers.
+
    
+Sinclair is preparing for bed, watching the news on TV.  The anchor is
+interrupted by a special report from the Mars colony: an armed revolt has
+begun, and heavy fighting is reported.  The news show is able to broadcast
+a few moments of a field report before the reporter is cut off.  Sinclair
+shuts off the television, disturbed.
+
    
+Before he can contemplate further, a flickering image appears in midair
+across the room, an alien man who pleads for Sinclair's help before vanishing
+abruptly.
+
    
+ Pleading for help.
+
    
+The next morning, Sinclair and Ivanova talk about the situation on Mars
+over breakfast.  Sinclair, of course, was born there, and it's his home
+that's being blasted apart; but neither of them has friends or family
+there any more.  Garibaldi, according to Ivanova, is taking the news badly.
+
    
+Draal joins Delenn in her quarters.  After thanking her for arranging for
+his quarters, he says that he left Minbar because it's changing for the
+worse, the people growing dissatisfied, self-involved to the exclusion of
+others; they've lost their sense of purpose.  He says that he's "going to
+the sea" -- journeying out into the sea of stars in the hopes of finding
+a place where he's needed.  Delenn is shocked.
+
    
+Garibaldi tries to get a comm channel to Mars, but the government has imposed
+a communications blackout and he's not highly-placed enough to get through
+despite the blackout.
+
    
+Ivanova briefs Dr. Tasaki and his crew, reminding them that the Starfuries
+escorting them are only designed for spaceflight and won't be able to help
+if the shuttle goes into the planet's atmosphere.  Tasaki agrees not to do
+that, and the shuttle and escort are launched.
+
    
+ Ivanova briefs the shuttle
+crew.
+
    
+Garibaldi goes to Talia and explains that when he was working security on
+Mars, he met and got involved with a woman named Lise Hampton.  It was serious,
+but when he accepted Sinclair's offer to come to Babylon 5, he and Lise broke
+up angry with each other.  They haven't spoken since, but now he's worried
+sick about her.  He asks Talia to try to get him a comm channel via the
+secret Psi Corps training facility on Mars -- a facility, Talia notes with
+surprise, that he's not supposed to know about.
+
    
+ Garibaldi talks
+about Lise.
+
    
+Ignoring Ivanova's order, Tasaki takes the shuttle into the upper part of
+the atmosphere to get more detailed sensor readings.  Suddenly, a barrage
+of missiles is launched from the surface.  One of them strikes the shuttle,
+but after Ivanova has the Starfuries disorient the missiles from orbit,
+Tasaki and his crew manage to escape safely.
+
    
+Back on the station, Tasaki shows Sinclair and Ivanova a high-resolution
+image he captured just after the missiles were launched.  It shows them
+coming from deep inside a fissure in the surface, five kilometers below
+the surface.  Sinclair easily convinces Ivanova that the two of them
+should take a shuttle down to take a closer look, justifying his presence
+because it might be a first contact.
+
    
+ Tasaki describes the
+image.
+
    
+Garibaldi is in the zocalo, looking miserable.  Londo cheers him up by
+telling him a story.  Londo was sitting in a club one day, looking miserable,
+when one of the dancers kissed him and told him it couldn't be that bad.
+He married her, regretted it the next morning, and has regretted it ever since.
+
    
+On his way back to his quarters, Londo sees the same alien Sinclair saw
+earlier.  Once again, it asks for help, then vanishes.
+
    
+With orbiting Starfuries disorienting the missiles, Sinclair and Ivanova
+take a shuttle into the fissure, where they discover an artificial tunnel
+in the rock face.  They land on a platform inside and put on breathers to
+go have a look around.
+
    
+ Distracting the
+planetary defenses.
+
    
+Talia speaks with a member of the Psi-Corps, someone at the Mars facility.
+The woman refuses to let Garibaldi have a link -- doing so would confirm the
+existence of the facility, and he might be asking for a channel just to
+find out if the place really exists -- but she offers to look Lise Hampton's
+name up in the files and see if she's all right.  Fighting is occuring
+less than a quarter-mile away from the facility, it seems; the Free Mars
+movement was much better armed and organized than anyone suspected.
+
    
+Sinclair and Ivanova explore some smaller side tunnels on foot.  They
+pass a dead alien, then nearly stumble into a high-tech deathtrap, but
+Sinclair sees it in time and the two of them make it through uninjured.
+They find themselves on a bridge spanning what looks like the hollow core of
+a gargantuan machine, miles tall with huge parts moving up and down the
+walls.
+
    
+ Sinclair and Ivanova cross
+the bridge.
+
    
+Delenn and Draal visit Londo, who complains that he's unable to comprehend
+Earth people.  As an example, he quotes a song he's been studying for a week.
+"It doesn't mean anything," he complains.
+
    
+Talia visits Garibaldi in the command center and tells him Lise Hampton
+isn't on the survivor list.  Garibaldi refuses to believe that something
+has happened to her, but seems somewhat numb.
+
    
+An earthquake cuts off the tunnel behind Sinclair and Ivanova.  Continuing
+forward, they see another projection of the alien Sinclair saw on the station.
+This time, though, the real alien is just around the corner, strapped into
+the center of a huge machine on the wall.  "Help me," he says, "or your
+people, all your people, will die."
+
    
+They help him out of the machine and take him back to the shuttle.  With
+fighter cover, they head full-speed back toward the station.  Sinclair orders
+Garibaldi to have a medical team standing by.
+
    
+Garibaldi is relieved to hear that they're returning, but his relief is cut
+short when a tech announces that a ship, a big ship, is coming through
+the jump gate.  He looks down at his computer display.  "What the hell?"
+
    
+To be continued...
+
    
+
    Synopsis by Steven Grimm
    
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+
    
+(Continuing where
+Part 1
+left off)
+
    
+Garibaldi is relieved to hear that Sinclair and Ivanova are returning from
+the planet, but his relief is cut short when a tech announces that a ship,
+a big ship, is coming through the jump gate.  He looks down at his
+computer display.  "What the hell?"
+
    
+The ship is an Earth Alliance heavy cruiser, the Hyperion, Captain Ellis
+Pierce commanding.  He says he's been ordered to take control of the situation.
+
    
+ The Hyperion
+comes through the gate.
+
    
+In Medlab, Sinclair and Franklin watch over the alien from Epsilon 3.
+Franklin says he is still studying the alien's biology, but that he seems
+to be stabilizing.
+
    
+Pierce is waiting in Sinclair's office, looking at an onscreen introduction
+to Babylon 5's facilities, when Sinclair arrives.  Pierce says his crew will
+enjoy getting a little R&R on such a "cushy" station.  Sinclair wants to know
+who authorized Pierce to take over; Sinclair has jurisdiction over Babylon 5's
+sector.  Pierce says the Hyperion was in hyperspace when it received orders
+to divert to Babylon 5.  The potential of the technologies Sinclair has
+discovered are enormous, and Earth wants a show of force so other races
+don't try to get a piece of the action before Earth has had its pick; if
+the Hyperion weren't present, the situation could get very messy.  Sinclair
+angrily replies that the situation was fine until Pierce charged in with a
+heavy cruiser and shook things up.
+
    
+ Pierce tells Sinclair
+why he's there.
+
    
+Garibaldi is at a bar, drinking water and watching the news with some other
+patrons.  The top story, of course, is the revolt on the Mars colony.  Earth
+is sending in shock troops to quell the rebellion.  The other bar patrons
+are delighted, and start insulting the Mars colonists.  "We pay taxes so
+they can have the best atmosphere reprocessors, water reclamation... They
+ought to be damned grateful."
+One of them suggests, jokingly, that Earth should do "what my grandfather
+always said: nuke 'em till they glow and shoot 'em in the dark.  That'd take
+care of 'em, just like magic."  Infuriated, Garibaldi performs a magic trick
+of his own, assaulting the mouthy bar patron and stalking off.
+
    
+Sinclair confers with Senator Hidoshi, complaining that he'd been told 
+personally by President Santiago that he has jurisdiction over Babylon 5's
+sector.  He threatens to resign over the issue unless Hidoshi can get
+Santiago to reaffirm his authority in the matter.  Hidoshi says he'll see
+what he can do, but it might not be much as the President is preoccupied
+with the Mars colony revolt.
+
    
+In the command center, Ivanova tells Sinclair that the Hyperion has just
+launched an expedition to the planet's surface, and that the planet's
+defense systems, much more active than before, are preventing them from
+getting close.  Sinclair demands that Pierce call off the expedition,
+making up a story about needing a special jamming device to get through
+the defense systems.
+
    
+Ivanova then tells Sinclair that they've been monitoring greatly increased
+seismic activity from the planet, activity that seems to be artificially
+induced and that's increasing in severity.  If it continues to do so, the
+planet will rip itself apart, taking Babylon 5 with it.
+
    
+Later, Ivanova reports that they've discovered the planet is honeycombed
+with passages and fusion reactors, some of them miles in diameter.  The
+fusion reactors seem to be set to overload.  She estimates less than 48
+hours until the planet is destroyed.  Garibaldi says it would take at least
+three days to evacuate the station even if all the ships in the sector
+were called in.
+
    
+ Discussing the
+situation.
+
    
+Londo catches up with Ivanova in the corridor and demands to know what's
+going on.  He presses her on the issue, until she replies, "You want to
+know what's really going on down there right now?  Boom.  Boom boom boom.
+Boom boom.  Boom.  Have a nice day."
+
    
+Delenn and Draal are returning to Delenn's quarters when Draal hears the
+sick alien's voice calling out to him.  The two of them head for Medlab.
+
    
+Sinclair goes to talk to Garibaldi about the incident in the bar.  Garibaldi
+expresses his frustration at finding himself helpless; he can't help Lise,
+doesn't even know if she's alive or dead. "The planet we're parked next to is
+about to go up like a Roman candle.  What am I supposed to do, arrest it?"
+He says he just snapped.  He and Sinclair discuss his reluctance to call
+Lise over the years -- he was afraid she'd reject him, and even more afraid
+she wouldn't -- and Sinclair promises to try pulling a few strings to get
+Garibaldi a comm channel to Mars.  He asks Garibaldi to make sure Ivanova
+leaves the station if they end up needing to evacuate.
+
    
+Draal and Delenn arrive in Medlab.  Franklin tries to stop them from going
+in to see the alien, but the alien awakens and calls out to Draal.  He says
+everyone must stay away from the planet, that it will explode without a
+heart, "without another."
+
    
+ Draal and Delenn listen
+to the alien.
+
    
+After getting that confirmation that expeditions to the planet will only
+hasten its detonation, Sinclair arrives in the command center to find that
+Pierce is about to launch another group of ships to the planet.  He knows
+what the alien (whose name is Varn) said, but feels that Varn has every
+reason to lie to keep people away.  Sinclair threatens to shoot Pierce's
+ships out of the sky if they approach the planet, and orders the station's
+fighters to prepare for launch.  Convinced that Sinclair feels he has
+nothing to lose, Pierce backs down.
+
    
+Suddenly, an unknown alien ship enters through the jumpgate and scans the
+station's language and translation files.  Its captain, Takarn, who appears
+to be of the same race as Varn, claims that the planet belongs to his people,
+who have been searching for it for 500 years.  He gives Sinclair and Pierce
+ten hours to leave the area, or he'll take the planet by force.
+
    
+ The Hyperion and Babylon 5
+are scanned.
+
    
+Before Sinclair can respond, Pierce answers Takarn with his own ultimatum:
+withdraw within nine hours, or the Hyperion will attack.
+
    
+Varn tells Sinclair that the newcomers are outcasts, rejected by his people,
+who are all long dead now.  He has been guarding the planet, connected to
+the heart of the machine, for five hundred years.
+He monitored Babylon 5's construction, learned its languages from its
+transmissions, but the time wasn't right to reveal himself until his failing
+health forced the issue.  He warns Sinclair that the newcomers must not be
+allowed to take the planet.  It is for the future.
+
    
+Sinclair talks to Delenn and Draal, who claim that Varn didn't tell them
+anything more than what he told Sinclair.  Sinclair leaves, and as Delenn
+and Draal talk about what Varn meant by "another," Londo enters and says
+the three of them need to talk.
+
    
+Pierce tells Sinclair that he needs Babylon 5's forces to make an effective
+attack against the alien ship.  Sinclair assures Pierce that when the time
+comes, he'll commit his forces to the battle.
+
    
+Londo, Delenn, and Draal talk about Varn; Londo tells them of Varn's appearance
+in the hallway earlier.  He wants to help, to take a risk, as he did years
+before when he led the raid on Frallis 12.  He realizes that one of the group
+will have to stay behind permanently.
+
    
+ Londo volunteers his help.
+
    
+Ivanova clears a transport to leave the station: "The more we get out now,
+the fewer we'll have to evacuate later."  It flies off -- it's a shuttle
+with Centauri markings -- just as Garibaldi links in to report that someone
+has stolen Varn from Medlab.
+
    
+Takarn signals the station, furious that they're allowing a transport to
+try to go to the planet.  Ivanova checks, and sure enough, the Centauri
+shuttle is headed for the surface.  Takarn launches his attack, prompting
+Babylon 5 and the Hyperion to unleash their fighter wings.  The battle is
+joined.
+
    
+Londo, piloting the shuttle, seems delighted to be back in the thick of
+things.  "Who says the good old days are gone, eh?"  Draal and Delenn,
+tending after Varn, look a little nervous about Londo's daredevil piloting
+style.
+
    
+ Londo looks for the
+landing thruster controls.
+
    
+On the station, Sinclair and Ivanova note that the planet isn't
+attacking the Centauri shuttle for some reason.  Garibaldi goes after it
+in a shuttle of his own.
+
    
+Deep within the planet, with the battle raging furiously overhead, Garibaldi
+finds Delenn, Draal, Londo and Varn in the room where Sinclair and Ivanova
+discovered Varn initially.  Draal tells Garibaldi that he's staying behind;
+someone has to run the machine, and it will give him the purpose, the life
+in service of others, that he has long been missing among his own people.
+
    
+ The Hyperion fires
+its main gun.
+
    
+Back in space, the battle continues.  The station takes a direct hit,
+sustaining serious damage.  It's about to be fired on again when a strange
+force emanates from the planet, causing all the controls in the command
+center to go dark.  A translucent image of Draal appears, informing all
+three parties that the planet belongs to none of them.  "It belongs only
+to itself, and to the future."  As the planet's secrets would give a huge
+advantage to any race that had them to itself, he places the safekeeping of
+the planet in the hands of the Babylon 5 Advisory Council, whose enlightened
+self-interest he hopes will cause them to leave the place alone.  But if not,
+he warns that the defense systems are now fully operational, and any ship
+that attempts to land will be destroyed.
+
    
+ Emanation from Epsilon 3.
+
    
+The aliens, apparently not believing the threat, fly toward the planet.  As
+promised, a tremendously powerful weapon fires from the surface, vaporizing
+them instantly.
+
    
+Delenn says an emotional farewell to Draal.  Varn, staying behind to watch
+over Draal, assures her that the planet is wondrous, that Draal's life will
+be extended.  He will "see all the futures, hear all the songs, and touch
+the edge of the universe with his thoughts."
+
    
+As the Hyperion leaves, Pierce says he's received a message from Earth
+reaffirming Sinclair's authority.  He apologizes to Sinclair.  After the
+ship leaves, Ivanova tells Sinclair she has a channel to Mars for Garibaldi.
+
    
+Garibaldi is delighted to learn that Lise is alive, even more so to talk
+to her.  She was caught in the crossfire while getting food, but her wounds
+aren't serious and she's expected to recover.  She says the fighting has
+begun to die down; the Earth-supported provisional government seems to have
+the upper hand.  Garibaldi tells her he's sorry he ever left, and asks if
+he can meet up with her on his next leave.  She tells him she's married,
+and expecting a baby.  The news crushes him.
+
    
+Later, Garibaldi is in an observation area, staring out into the stars,
+when Delenn joins him.  He asks why she and Londo didn't come to Sinclair
+once they realized someone needed to be in the planet.  She says she
+didn't, "because I know in my heart that if I had, Commander Sinclair would
+be down there now.  He is searching for a purpose.  But his destiny lies
+elsewhere."  Garibaldi asks how she managed to get Londo to go.  She says
+she offered him a deal.  She now owes him a large favor, which she's sure
+he'll collect eventually, but she says he enjoyed the adventure, as it
+awakened something in him that had long been buried.
+
    
+ Delenn joins
+Garibaldi.
+
    
+"One thing I've discovered," Garibaldi says.  "Some things
+are better left buried."  He leaves.
+
    
+Delenn gazes out across the stars.  "Good night, old friend," she says.
+"Sleep well."
+
    
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    Synopsis by Steven Grimm
    
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      We join Sinclair and Garibaldi in the dining hall.  They are soon
+joined by a very tired Ivanova, who was awakened one hour early by C&C
+after mysterious tachyon emissions were discovered in sector 14, three hours away 
+from Babylon 5.  Though Ivanova believed the emissions were just routine, she 
+authorized Alpha VII, a Starfury, to investigate the problem.
+
      Alpha VII contacts Babylon 5 when it enters sector 14, and the pilot
+reports an increase in tachyon emissions.  Though he doesn't see anything when 
+he first arrives, the sensors register something, and he sees a large object
+materializing.  By the time he figures out what it is, it is too late.  "No!  
+That's not possible!  That can't be, it just can't be!"  His last words fade 
+into an agonizing scream as the Starfury is engulfed in blinding white light.
+
    
+ A startling apparition.
+
    
+Ivanova calls Commander Sinclair after the pilot's last message.  She is 
+unable to contact the pilot on any open frequencies, but is still receiving 
+the Starfury's homing beacon.  According to the beacon, the ship is returning
+to Babylon 5 and will be there in one hour and fifteen minutes.  Ivanova also 
+reports that more bursts of tachyon emissions are occurring, and that one 
+occurred when she lost contact with the fury's pilot.  Sinclair tells Ivanova 
+to make sure that Dr. Franklin is ready at MedLab in case there are any 
+injuries that need to be tended to.
+
      Meanwhile, Ambassador Delenn, in a 
+Minbari ship, departs from Babylon 5.  Though Babylon Control asks her if she 
+wants someone to pilot the ship for her, she declines.  "Some things one must 
+do alone," she explains just before she enters the jumpgate.
+
      Soon after, Alpha VII returns into scanner range.  Alpha VII approaches
+the station, but does not enter the docking bay.  A scan of the ship reveals
+that there is no structural damage and that hull integrity is okay, but there 
+are no life signs.  Soon after, Garibaldi returns to Sinclair and Ivanova with 
+Dr. Franklin's report.  "There was no damage to the body, no shock, no trauma.  
+Everything points to death by natural causes."  Though things seem ordinary at 
+this point, when Garibaldi explains that the pilot, who just turned thirty 
+years old, died of old age, Sinclair and Ivanova are understandably puzzled.  
+"His internal organs are like those of a man three times his age," Garibaldi 
+reports.  Ivanova recommends that they send a team to investigate, in case 
+there is a hazard to navigation, but Sinclair declines.  "Not yet," he says.  
+"Not until we have a better idea what we are facing.  Meanwhile, I want all 
+traffic routed clear of sector 14.  Michael, I want that ship examined with a 
+fine-tooth comb.  Something fatal happened out there.  I want to know what."
+
      As Delenn reaches her destination, Sinclair, Ivanova, and Garibaldi 
+discover another portion of the mystery.  Garibaldi, after a thorough search 
+of Alpha VII, finds the buckle off the pilot's safety harness.  Scratched into 
+the surface of the buckle is "B4."  Ivanova speculates that "B4" stands for
+Babylon 4, the previous Babylon station that disappeared in sector 14 four
+years previous.  Sinclair reports that the tachyon emissions from that
+sector were coming from the same place that Babylon 4 disappeared.  The
+discussion is interrupted by communication from C&C, declaring that
+the station is receiving a distress signal from sector 14.  "I thought I
+ordered all ships to stay clear of that area," says Sinclair.  The technician from C&C
+affirms his orders, but then identifies the signal as coming from
+Babylon 4.
+
    
+ Delenn waits.
+
      After the three arrive at C&C, Sinclair doesn't reply to the 
+signal but instead orders Ivanova to retrieve the secure code of Babylon 4 
+from the station archives.  "Ever since the war, every Earth Force command and 
+control center was configured to broadcast its ID code on a subchannel," 
+explains Sinclair.  Garibaldi adds that the reason for it was to prevent 
+counterfeit orders.  Ivanova brings up the signal and it matches perfectly to 
+the one being broadcast from sector 14.  Sinclair orders the transmission to 
+be patched through.  "Earth station Babylon 4 requesting help.  We need 
+assistance," says the man on the other end.  Sinclair responds, and the
+commander on the other end explains that they are caught in a flux with only 
+30% of their power and their escape ships damaged.  They request help from 
+Babylon 5 to evacuate their skeleton crew of 1200-1300.  The commander of 
+Babylon 4 looks nervous and begins muttering strangely.  "Oh God.  It's 
+starting again.  It's starting again," he says just as the communication is 
+cut off.  Ivanova notices that the date stamp on the message is four 
+years out of date.
+
      Though Garibaldi has a difficult time believing the station is Babylon 4, 
+Sinclair prepares a fighter escort with an evacuation
+fleet to sector 14, determined to find Babylon 4.  Sinclair makes a speech to 
+the pilots of the ships warning them of the dangers and the previous death of 
+the pilot of Alpha VII.  Though he offers them a chance to withdraw because of 
+the danger, no one does, and soon the fleet is sent off into space.  Sinclair 
+wants to learn the truth about Babylon 4, but also wants to take no chances.  
+"If you don't hear from us in eight hours, notify Earth Central, but do not 
+send additional ships," he tells Ivanova.
+
      Meanwhile, Delenn reaches her destination, a gigantic ship, not unlike 
+the one from Sinclair's memory of the Battle of the Line (cf.
+"And the Sky Full of Stars".)
+She boards the ship and is taken into a great chamber by a
+hooded Minbari.  When she enters, she addresses the eight hooded figures
+around her, each of which is standing in an individual pool of light.
+"Summoned, I come," she intones.  "In Valen's name, I take the place that has 
+been prepared for me.  I am Grey.  I stand between the candle and the star.
+We are Grey.  We stand between the darkness and the light."  She is
+welcomed back by the council, but wonders why she has been recalled.
+
      "It has been ten cycles," explains one member of the Grey Council, "since 
+Dukhat has left this world to take his place with Valen and the nine who were.  
+Ten cycles since our people have had a leader.  The time of mourning is 
+complete.  We must now choose another."  Another member of the council,
+the one who visited her on the station earlier, (cf.
+"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+explains that they have spent much time deciding who the next leader should 
+be, and that they have decided upon Delenn as the leader because she has seen 
+the most, and knows the most about the universe and other species.  Delenn
+doesn't want to accept the position because she believes that her work on 
+Babylon 5 has not been finished.  She worries about a prophecy, but is assured 
+by the council that it will take care of itself, and that an appropriate 
+replacement will be selected for her aboard Babylon 5, and that her work there 
+is concluded.
+
      The fleet from Babylon 5 arrives in sector 14 to the sight they didn't
+really expect to see:  Babylon 4.  Though tachyon emissions are still present,
+Sinclair orders the rest of the fleet to approach the station.  They encounter
+a distortion field near the station where tachyon emissions increase by 50%.  
+Sinclair orders the fleet to remain back while he and Garibaldi investigate.  
+
    
+ Approaching Babylon 4.
+
    
+After docking, they are assaulted and shot at in the otherwise empty docking 
+bay.  "Monsters!  I'll stop you!" shouts the assailant.  "I know where you 
+are!  I see you!  You think I can't?  I've gotta get off this station.  Come 
+on, show yourselves!"  While Sinclair diverts his fire, Garibaldi sneaks up on 
+the assailant from behind and captures him.  The commander of Babylon 4 then 
+arrives to take custody of the assailant, who keeps insisting that he must be 
+taken off of the station.  After the three officers indentify themselves, 
+Sinclair explains that they are from Babylon 5 and the year 2258.  "We have to 
+hurry.  We have to get everyone off the station," says Major Krantz, the 
+commander of Babylon 4.  He is interrupted, however, by a flash of light that 
+engulfs the station.
+
      Suddenly, Sinclair finds himself elsewhere in the midst of total chaos.
+"Commander, they burned through levels seven and eight.  Can't stop them.
+They're everywhere!" shouts Garibaldi, there with him, who is wielding an extremely
+large weapon, firing at a wall being cut through from the other side.  "I 
+rigged the fusion reactors for the time I'm done," Garibaldi says.  "Get 
+going, I'll hold them as long as I can.  Jeff, it's okay.  I finally 
+understand.  This is the moment I was born for!"  Garibaldi pushes Sinclair 
+into the crowd which carries him away, despite his protests, just as the wall 
+collapses.  Garibaldi and those under his command fire madly at the hole.
+
    
+ Garibaldi opens fire.
+
    
+Another white flash occurs, and Sinclair finds himself back in his own time, 
+aboard Babylon 4.  Sinclair, very confused, asks Krantz to what happened.  
+"It's different for everyone.  A flash.  Forward.  Backward.  All of us.  The 
+entire station.  We've become unstuck in time, Commander.  That's why we have 
+to get out of here.  Quickly!"
+
      Back on the Minbari ship, Delenn is afraid of accepting the position of
+leader.  "I cannot do it," she says.  "I cannot accept the calling."  She is
+told by another councilmember that no one has ever refused the position when
+offered it.  Though Delenn yearns to accept the leadership of the council, her 
+heart tells her that she must remain with Babylon 5 and that she has a part to 
+play in the change that is coming.  She wants to reconvene the Council to
+speak to them, something that has never been done.  The other councilmember warns 
+her that it might be a bad time, and that she must be aware of the 
+consequences.  She understands, and the council is reconvened.
+
      As the evacuation of Babylon 4 continues, Major Krantz explains the
+problems they're having with Babylon 4 and the tachyon emissions and
+time distortions.  "It started 24 hours after the station went operational.
+We began noticing discrepencies in the time track system.  We thought it was
+a computer glitch.  Then all hell broke loose."  Sinclair asks if anything
+else unusual has happened, and Krantz replies by introducing him to a strange 
+being called Zathras.  "We don't know how he got aboard, where he came from, 
+or what race he is.  I've never seen an alien like him before," Krantz 
+says, and describes how Zathras suddenly appeared with a flash in the conference room.  
+When Sinclair enters, Zathras stands and stares intently at Sinclair, then 
+shakes his head.  "Not The One.  Not The One..."
+
    
+ Zathras sees Sinclair.
+
    
+Zathras babbles that he does 
+as he is told.  "The One is hurt.  Must find.  Zathras must find.  Help."  
+When asked why he is there, Zathras responds by saying that he was told the 
+biggest of all the Babylon stations was needed.  Zathras is afraid to tell for 
+fear that he will not be able to finish his mission, but explains further
+after being threatened by Garibaldi:
+
      "Great war.  Terrible war.  Much killings.  Everyone fighting.  A great 
+darkness.  It is the end of everything.  Zathras warn, but no, no one listen 
+to poor Zathras, no.  Great war.  But, great hope of peace.  Need place.  
+Place to gather, to fight to organize...to help save galaxy on the side of 
+light.  So they tell me.  Must have.  Or it is the end of all.  The One leads 
+us.  The One tells us to go, we go.  We live for The One.  We would die for 
+The One.  We pull this place through time to save us all."
+
    
+When asked where
+he comes from, Zathras says he came from his year of 4993, but does not know
+what year that is in Earth time.  An officer appears and says, "Major, it's
+back."  Zathras, Sinclair, Garibaldi, and Krantz run out of the room to see a
+figure in a blue space suit.  The figure is having considerable trouble
+breathing, and is flickering, as if in and out of time.  Zathras is in awe.
+"It is The One," he says.
+
    
+ The One.
+
      The figure in the space suit is apparently in great pain, but Zathras
+explains that The One will sacrifice himself for others and that he stopped
+the taking of Babylon 4 to let its crew evacuate.  Sinclair approaches The
+One, who reaches out his hand to him.  When Sinclair touches the gloved hand,
+a great shock sends him flying backward.  While Krantz and Garibaldi tend
+to Sinclair, Zathras runs to The One and hands him a small device.  "Zathras
+fixed," says Zathras.  "Take!  Hurry!"  The One then vanishes completely, and
+Zathras tries to run away, but is captured before he can escape.  "You must
+leave now.  Finished we are," Zathras warns Sinclair.  "There is no more time.
+Leave or be trapped here forever!"  Sinclair orders Garibaldi to assist
+in evacuation.
+
      Aboard the Minbari ship, Delenn addresses the Grey Council.  "This 
+Council stopped the war against the humans because of prophecy, because Valen 
+said that humans, some among them, had a destiny, which we could not interfere 
+with.  It was my place to study them...to determine if the prophecy was 
+correct.  I have not yet finished that task."  Another councilmember tells her 
+that he believes that the prophecy refers to others, but Delenn does not 
+believe it.  The councilmember does not understand Delenn's attraction toward 
+humans, but Delenn explains that "they do not seek conformity.  They do not 
+surrender.  Out of their differences comes symmetry.  Their unique capacity 
+to fight against impossible odds.  Hurt them, they only come back stronger.  
+The passions we deplore have taken them to their place in the stars, and will 
+propel them to a great destiny.  Their only weakness is that they do not 
+recognize their own greatness.  They forget they have come to this place 
+through two million years of evolution, struggle, and blood.  They are better 
+than they think and nobler than they know.  They carry within them the 
+capacity to walk among the stars as giants.  They are the future.  We have 
+much to learn from them."  The council cannot understand why she should stay 
+with the humans, but Delenn believes it is the calling of her heart.  Delenn 
+is warned that if she leaves the council, she may lose her position within it 
+and may become outcast.  She is also warned that should she leave, the council 
+may become divided.  She understands, and says that she must do what she 
+believes is right.  The council votes on whether or not to honor Delenn's 
+request.  The vote ends in Delenn's favor, and the council withdraws its 
+decision and sends Delenn away so they may select another leader.
+
      While Garibaldi oversees the evacuation of Babylon 4, Major Krantz and
+Sinclair interrogate Zathras further.  They demand to know what Zathras gave
+to The One.  He explains to them that it was a "time stablilizer.  Help
+survive when make next time jump."  Sinclair then realizes that Alpha VII was
+caught in the time distortion and killed by it.  Zathras gave his only time
+stabilizer to The One.  He says that when the station jumps, he will die, but
+that he will probably be remembered for his sacrifice.  Krantz threatens to 
+remove him from the station, but Zathras also claims that if he leaves the 
+station, he will die as well, though he does not want to.
+
      The station shakes again, and Garibaldi reports that tachyon emissions 
+have increased greatly.  There is another flash, and this time Garibaldi finds 
+himself in the past, at the moment when Lise decided that she could not live 
+with him anymore.  He wants to try to change things, but is too disoriented by 
+the experience, and events happen much as they did before.  After she leaves, 
+Garibaldi finds himself back on Babylon 4.
+
    
+ Lise says goodbye.
+
    
+Sinclair contacts Garibaldi, who 
+says he wants to leave the station as soon as possible.  Major Krantz agrees 
+with Garibaldi, and insists that Zathras be taken with them when they leave 
+the station.  "For the next fifteen minutes," Krantz tells Sinclair, "this is 
+still my command.  I'm going to have to answer for this station, and I want 
+proof to go with it.  Alive or dead, he's the only proof I've got.  And he's 
+going with us."  Sinclair, Krantz, and Zathras, led by two security officers,
+attempt to leave the station, but it begins shaking again, and Zathras is 
+caught, trapped beneath fallen debris.  Krantz and the guards run away, afraid 
+for their lives, but Sinclair stays behind, trying to help Zathras.  "Leave 
+me," Zathras cries.  "You must listen to Zathras.  You have a destiny.  Go.  
+Please.  Go for Zathras."  Though he doesn't understand, Sinclair runs away 
+and meets up with Garibaldi, who escorts him off the station.
+
      The station continues to break apart, and as it does so, The One returns 
+to the station to retrieve Zathras.  Sinclair and Garibaldi escape in their 
+ship just as the distortion field goes off the scale and Babylon 4 begins to 
+disappear again.  The One walks out of a chamber into another room.  "Time
+distortion repaired," intones a computer voice.  "Present time atmosphere now
+breathable."  The One removes his helmet, revealing an older, and somewhat
+injured Sinclair.  "I tried," the older Sinclair says.  "I tried to warn them.
+But it all happened...just the way I remember it."  A hand in a red dress
+reaches up an touches him on the shoulder.  "I know," says a woman's exotic
+voice, a voice that sounds suspiciously like Delenn's.
+"It's time.  We have to go.  They're waiting for us."  Sinclair and
+the woman leave.
+
    
+ Comforting Sinclair.
+
      Sinclair and Garibaldi from the present return to Babylon 5 and speculate 
+along the way on what they had just experienced.  "Do you think that bit was 
+true," asks Garibaldi.  "About a great war and Babylon 4 being a great base 
+for somebody to try to bring peace to the galaxy?"  Commander Sinclair doesn't 
+know.  "But if it is true," he says, "I wish them luck.  The station was built 
+to create peace.  Maybe now it'll do so in a way nobody ever expected.  But 
+it's still on the same mission."  They fly off back toward Babylon 5.
+
      Not long after, Delenn prepares to leave the great Minbari ship.  On her 
+way, she meets up with a member of the Grey Council.  He hopes to see her
+again, but Delenn believes that she will never see the inside of the Council
+Chamber again.  The councilmember doesn't know, but before she leaves, he 
+presents her with a gift, wrapped in a cloth.  It is the Triluminary, a 
+transparent triangle with metal edges.  She doesn't want to accept it, but he 
+assures her it will not be missed for a time because there are two others.  
+"These are curious times," he tells her before she leaves.  "I feel a great 
+change in my bones.  A new beginning, an end, I cannot say.  We are surrounded 
+by signs and portents, and I feel a darkness pressing.  If ever you have need 
+of me, I am here."  She wraps the triluminary back in its cloth and 
+returns to Babylon 5.
+
    
+ Delenn receives the
+triluminary.
+
      On the station, Sinclair talks to Ivanova about what happened.  She
+expresses her regret about not being able to see Babylon 4, but Sinclair
+counters that they don't know where, or when, it was being taken.  It
+might pop up again some day.  He recalls Garibaldi's comparison of Babylon 4
+and the Flying Dutchman -- a sailing ship, he explains to Ivanova, that
+vanished, only to appear again and again over the ages.  "Did the Flying
+Dutchman ever make it home?" asks Ivanova.
+
      "No," answers Sinclair.
+
+
    Synopsis written by Matthew Murray <i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu>
    
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+
    
+Londo is talking to a Centauri senator on his screen.  The senator tells him
+that it's vital he promote good relations with the other species on Babylon 5,
+some of whom may be potential allies.  Londo protests that he's doing the best
+he can, but the senator tells him to try harder.
+
    
+ Londo states his case.
+
    
+Shortly thereafter, Londo encounters Lennier in the hallway.  When Lennier
+admits that most of his knowledge about the other races comes from reading,
+Londo offers to spend two days showing him "the Babylon 5 I know."
+
    
+Meanwhile, in one of the station courtrooms, Ombuds Wellington announces the
+verdict against a man named
+Karl Edward Mueller, who has been found guilty of murdering two station
+residents and one member of the security staff.  Sentence will be handed
+down tomorrow, Wellington says.
+
    
+In Downbelow, Ivanova finds Dr. Franklin running an unauthorized free clinic
+for people who can't afford the services of Medlab.  She upbraids him for
+not telling her -- she won't shut the clinic down, "but if I'm going to share
+in the blame, I'd at least like to share in some of the fun."
+
    
+Garibaldi, Wellington, Commander Sinclair, and Talia Winters discuss the
+fate of Mueller.  Garibaldi suggests spacing him.  "A couple hours of hard
+vacuum would do him and the gene pool a world of good."  He's upset not only
+because of the crime, but because he believes that Mueller has killed many
+times before.
+
    
+Wellington replies
+that there are only three legal punishments.  Mueller can be returned to
+Earth.  Sinclair counters that Earth doesn't want Mueller and won't pay
+to have him shipped back.  The second option is life imprisonment, but
+Garibaldi says there's not enough room in the brig for the prisoners who're
+already there, let alone to keep someone for life.  The third option involves
+Talia, who reluctantly agrees to help.  Garibaldi suggests that while she's
+in Mueller's mind, she can see if he's killed before; Wellington reminds
+Garibaldi that any such evidence would be inadmissable.
+
    
+Franklin searches Downbelow for a woman named Laura Rosen, who he's heard
+is running a bogus medical practice.  He enters her office to find that she
+and a man are both hooked up to an alien device of some kind.  The man says
+he feels much better now, and asks what he owes; Laura tells him that's up
+to him, and that he can leave his donation in the box outside the door.
+
    
+ Laura Rosen and patient.
+
    
+She and Franklin talk about the device.  She claims it cures anything from
+the common cold to Stafford's disease.  Franklin starts to confront her,
+calling her a con artist and a fraud, when Laura's daughter Janice arrives
+and tells him to leave.  He does, but promises to return.
+
    
+Ombuds Wellington sentences Mueller to personality death.  He'll be
+telepathically scanned and brainwiped, then programmed with new memories,
+to spend the rest of his natural life serving the community he harmed.
+Mueller is livid, and struggles against his guards, but they lead him away.
+
    
+Franklin tells Garibaldi he'll need to check over the brainwipe machine
+to make sure the procedure is painless, something Garibaldi isn't too
+concerned about.  Franklin asks Garibaldi to see what information he can
+find on Laura Rosen.
+
    
+Londo takes Lennier to Dark Star, a club with erotic dancers.  "Here, my
+friend," he says, ushering Lennier to a seat at the stage and ordering
+drinks.  "Here you
+will see the heart and soul of Babylon 5.  Also its spleen, its kidneys...
+a veritable parade of internal organs."  Claiming he left his credit chit
+in his quarters, Londo tells Lennier to pay for their drinks.  Lennier
+asks whether his drink contains alcohol -- even small amounts, he says,
+can cause Minbari to experience violent, homicidal rages.  Londo quickly
+grabs Lennier's drink and orders water for him.
+
    
+ Londo and Lennier
+arrive at the club.
+
    
+Franklin stops by the stall where Janice Rosen sells jewelry for a living.
+He talks to her about her mother.  Janice says that all her mother ever
+wanted was to be a doctor.  And she was, originally, but she could never
+do as much as she liked -- she started taking stimulants to stay awake
+longer, became addicted to them, and finally slipped up, causing the death
+of a patient.  After her license was revoked, she wandered the stars,
+thinking that if she could find some new alien healing technology, she
+could return to Earth, vindicated.
+
    
+"And now she thinks she's found it," says Franklin.  "What do you
+think?"
+
    
+"I think... I think that for the first time in years, I see my mother
+smiling.  For the first time, I see hope in her eyes."
+
    
+Franklin counters that it's a sham; the machine doesn't work.  Janice
+says he doesn't know that for sure.  If it works, asks Franklin, why
+are Janice and her mother still on Babylon 5?  They could return to Earth
+and show her mother's fantastic discovery to the world.  Janice starts to
+claim she can't afford it, but Franklin says she can; she just doesn't
+want her mother to know it.
+
    
+ "I see hope in her eyes."
+
    
+Janice leaves, warning Franklin not to try to take away what her mother has;
+if he does, she'll fight him, and win.
+
    
+Lennier relates the story of his education to a bored, bleary-eyed Londo.
+He studied the ninety-seven Minbari dialects and subtongues, then moved on
+to mathematics, specializing in probability.  That perks Londo up, and when
+Lennier says he achieved the rank of master adept, Londo drags him away from
+the stage to introduce him to something the Earthers call "poker."
+
    
+After preparing, Talia goes to Mueller's cell to scan him.  He's not very
+cooperative, and when she threatens him, he scoffs.  "It's not like I'm going
+to remember any of this.  That's the plan, isn't it?  Take away my thoughts,
+my memories, everything that makes me me, so they can put me to
+work for the rest of my life, mopping floors, scrubbing toilets..."  But he
+eventually sits down, allowing Talia to enter his mind.
+
    
+ Talia arrives to scan
+Mueller.
+
    
+She finds herself facing the security guard Mueller killed, watching him
+die from Mueller's point of view.  And it's not just the guard, Mueller
+says to her, as face after face drifts by, humans and aliens alike.  He is
+building a choir, and has to keep adding to it until there are enough
+voices to sing him into heaven.  "The overture is just beginning," he
+says.  Talia breaks contact with him, stumbling back, overwhelmed by what
+she's just seen and felt.
+
    
+Franklin's clinic assistant brings him a file full of followup reports on
+Laura Rosen's patients.  If he can show Janice that her mother isn't helping
+people, he says, maybe she'll listen... but apparently that's not what the
+reports show.  He rushes away.
+
    
+Londo and Lennier play poker in another part of Dark Star.  Lennier looks at
+his hand and announces cheerfully that the probability of this combination
+of cards is approximately five thousand to one against.  The other players
+fold, and as Lennier adds the chips to his already substantial mound,
+Londo tells him to stop doing that -- Lennier could be winning ten times
+more if he'd just keep quiet.
+
    
+Franklin enters Laura's office as she heals a woman.  While she and
+the woman are hooked up to the alien machine, Franklin pulls out a portable
+scanner and points it at Laura.  The alien treatment only lasts a moment,
+and the woman leaves, claiming she feels much better.
+
    
+After offering his apologies to Laura, Franklin notes that her lifesigns
+dropped 15 percent while she was hooked up to the machine.  She says she
+knows, that that's how the machine works -- it takes life energy from one
+person and transfers it to another.  It was designed as a form of capital
+punishment for criminals; they gave up their lives to heal terminally ill
+people.  But it can be used at partial strength so it doesn't immediately
+kill the donor.
+
    
+Franklin complains that it's still killing her, if only gradually.  Laura
+says it doesn't matter.  She has Lake's syndrome, and has maybe three years
+left to life.  Time enough to figure out how the machine works, possibly
+figure out how to modify it such that it doesn't hurt the donor.  Franklin
+deduces that Janice doesn't know how the device works, or even if
+it works.  Laura confirms that; if Janice knew the machine was killing her,
+she'd force her to stop.  She promises to give the machine to Franklin if
+something happens to her, but asks him for his word that he won't tell
+Janice about it.
+
    
+Janice arrives as Franklin leaves.  He offers to treat her to dinner if
+she wants to take a break sometime.
+
    
+Garibaldi finds Talia in the Garden.  She tells him she scanned Mueller
+well enough to do a comparison scan after the brainwipe.  She says Mueller's
+mind is inhuman, more so than any of the aliens she's had contact with.
+As Garibaldi leaves, she adds, "You once said you'd bet good money he'd
+killed before.  You would not have lost."
+
    
+ Talia in the Garden.
+
    
+Back at the gaming table, Londo clears his throat loudly and adjusts his
+clothing.  Something underneath the fabric begins to move.  As people
+examine their cards, a tentacle reaches up from beneath the table and
+snatches the top card from the deck.  Seconds later, Londo switches it
+for a card from his hand, and the tentacle puts that card on the deck.
+
    
+ Londo's helping
+tentacle.
+
    
+Garibaldi and a few guards lead Mueller away.  As they reach the transport
+tube, Mueller overpowers the security guard in the car, grabs a gun,
+and is inside before anyone
+can stop him.  Garibaldi manages to shoot him in the arm as the doors close,
+then orders C&C to stop the elevator car immediately.  Mueller pries the
+doors open and stumbles onto a different floor; nobody is around, and he
+runs off, clutching his injured arm.
+
    
+Londo tries to snatch another card, but one of the other players inadvertently
+puts a pitcher of icewater down on the tentacle as it lifts a card from the
+deck.  "Is it cold in here all of a sudden, or is it just me?" Londo asks.
+The tentacle struggles to pull itself out from under the pitcher as Londo
+looks increasingly uncomfortable.  One of the other players notices what's
+going on and lifts the water; the tentacle snaps under the table, hitting
+Londo.  Several of the other players stand up and accuse Londo of cheating.
+They knock over the table and advance.  Lennier lays two of them out cold
+with an expert punch and a flying kick, but by now the other people in the
+club are closing in.  "This... is not good," Lennier says, taking a
+defensive stance.
+
    
+In medlab, Franklin patches up the security guard who Mueller attacked.  He
+calls his clinic, warning them to be on the lookout for a man with a
+PPG wound, then heads to Laura's office to warn her.
+
    
+When he arrives, he finds that Mueller is already there, and has a gun to
+Janice's head.  Laura is in the middle of treating him.  Franklin tries
+to intervene, but Mueller shoots at him, warning him to stay back or the
+next shot won't miss.
+
    
+ Mueller holds Janice
+hostage.
+
    
+Convinced that he'll kill Janice anyway when the treatment is finished,
+Laura hits a control on the machine.  Suddenly, Mueller writhes in pain,
+drops the gun and collapses to the floor.  "That's Lake's syndrome," she
+tells him, describing its agonizing symptoms in detail.  "You'll never hurt
+anyone again."  Mueller stops moving, and Franklin, after a quick
+examination, says he's dead.
+
    
+Later, Laura is cleared of any wrongdoing by Ombuds Wellington; she acted
+in self-defense.  But she must turn the alien device over to station
+personnel for study.  As the courtroom clears out, Garibaldi tells Laura she
+did the right thing.  Janice agrees, but Laura is still haunted by the fact
+that she has taken a life, in violation of her oath as a doctor.  "I did
+the necessary thing," she tells Janice.  "That is not always the same as
+the right thing."
+
    
+Ivanova catches up with Garibaldi as he leaves the courtroom and tells him
+they've identified the two suspects who started the fight in Dark Star.
+
    
+Sinclair tries to get Londo and Lennier to tell him what happened at the
+club.  Lennier takes full responsibility, claiming that the argument started
+because he misunderstood the rules.  Sinclair doesn't believe a word of that,
+but can't press further thanks to diplomatic privilege.
+
    
+After Sinclair leaves, Londo thanks Lennier.  Lennier asks what the part of
+Londo that reached for the cards was.  Londo whispers the answer to him, and,
+when Lennier stares at him in disbelief, picks up a nearby statuette, a
+figurine with six long tentacles protruding from her midriff.  "It's true,"
+Londo says.  "Yes!  Here: Li, goddess of passion.  A synthesis of male and
+female Centauri.  Did you think these were just decorations?"
+Lennier leaves in a hurry.
+
    
+Laura and Janice drop the alien machine off in medlab.  Franklin says he'll
+study it.  Perhaps it can still be used to heal; volunteers could donate a
+little of their life energy the way people once donated blood.  Laura tells
+him she's leaving, going out to the stars to redeem herself, to try to find
+a way to make up for what she's done.
+
    
+"Is that dinner invitation still open?" Janice asks as she leaves.
+
    
+"Yeah.  Yeah!  It's still open," Franklin says, happily surprised.  "7, zocalo?"
+Janice nods and leaves Franklin with a smile on his face.
+
+
    Synopsis by Steven Grimm
    
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+
+
    
+It is December 30, 2258.  As the episode opens, Londo and G'Kar are arguing
+before the council about quadrant 37.  G'Kar accuses the Centauri government
+of sending armed ships into Narn space, but Londo is adamant in his belief
+that quadrant 37 is neutral territory, because of a treaty.  G'Kar declares
+that the Narn government no longer acknowledges the treaty because it was
+forced upon them.  Sinclair intervenes and points out that the Narns have
+operated a military base on the border of Centauri space, without incident,
+for five years, and wonders why the problems have only now begun.  G'Kar
+claims that outposts such as those are necessary for Narn planetary
+security.  Londo responds, "Keep this up, G'Kar, and soon you won't have a
+planet to protect." G'Kar storms out of the council chamber.
+
+
    
+ G'Kar makes his accusation.
+
+
    
+Elsewhere on the station, Garibaldi is talking to some people when a dying
+man stumbles over to him.  The man is badly injured and can barely talk, but
+manages to utter one message before he dies.  "You've got to stop them," he
+says.  "They're going to kill him...  they're going to kill him."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi explains to Sinclair and Ivanova that the man, named Stephen
+Petrov, was a lurker from Downbelow who he had picked up for petty theft and
+reformed.  He had been an informant of Garibaldi's for six months, though
+Garibaldi had not heard from him in nearly two weeks.  Garibaldi is upset
+that Petrov had died while wanting to turn his life around, but realizes
+that his death may not have been in vain, if what he said was true.  Though
+they don't know whose life may be in danger, Garibaldi is determined to find
+the answer.
+
+
    
+Later, Sinclair and Catherine Sakai watch the news in Sinclair's quarters.
+"After which, the president and his escort left the Mars colony on a
+goodwill tour of the outer planet colonies.  Sources close to the president
+have hinted that he'll give a major policy speech New Year's Day from the
+jump point on Io.  The speech is likely to concern human-alien relations
+over the remainder of his five-year term," says the anchorwoman.
+
+
    
+ Watching the news.
+
+
    
+Catherine
+asks Sinclair if he has plans for New Year's.  He says that he doesn't,
+unless the conflict between the Narn and Centauri is still continuing.
+Catherine has made plans, but wants to surprise Sinclair.  Sinclair has a
+surprise for her as well.  He talks to her about their relationship and the
+problems they have had in the past, and how much he loves her.  "Look," he
+asks her, "do you want to get married or don't you?"  "Yes," she replies.
+
+
    
+Londo and Vir are in Londo's quarters discussing the problems the Centauri
+are having with the Narn.  Londo is upset at having to tell the council that
+he must give quadrant 37 to the Narns, but knows that he must do it and that
+he has nearly no alternative.  Then, there is an incoming communication
+which Vir answers.  When the voice asks for Londo, Vir first answers that he
+is very busy, but Londo recognizes the voice and takes the call personally.
+He recognizes the man on the other end as Morden, who had rescued the Eye
+from the raiders.  Londo wants to talk, but Morden refuses, instead setting
+up a meeting at the park in one hour, to discuss a problem that Morden
+doesn't mention.  Londo agrees, and then sends Vir away, to prepare for the
+meeting.
+
+
    
+ "I think I'll stick my
+head in the station's fusion reactor."
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lennier are in Delenn's quarters.  Delenn is again working on the
+crystal structure that she has been constructing for a long time.  "Did you
+see Ambassador Kosh?" she asks Lennier, and he responds affirmatively.  "Did
+you relay my question precisely?  Word for word?"  Again, Lennier responds
+affirmatively, and when Delenn asks for his reaction, Lennier tells her.
+"Just one word.  He said: Yes."  Delenn stops working on the structure and
+leaves hastily, telling Lennier to wait for her.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi, now in Downbelow, searches for information on Petrov's death.  He
+is met with consternation from the various lurkers, but eventually finds one
+that has information for him.  The strange man says that it is common for
+lurkers to accept assignments from people on the station when they need more
+people to work.  "Last week, one of the guys hired us to load cargo for
+transport." Garibaldi asks what kind, but the man didn't ask.  He suspected
+that the man who had asked them to load the cargo was trouble.  Garibaldi
+asks for a name, and the man provides one: Devereaux, whom he claims hangs
+out in the casino.  The lurker also provides one last startling bit of
+information.  "The last time I saw Petrov was just before he went looking
+for you.  Whatever he saw, whatever he knew, scared him half to death."
+
+
    
+ Garibaldi gathers
+information.
+
+
    
+In the park, Londo searches for Morden and eventually finds him.  Londo
+tells Morden that he wanted to thank him for returning the Eye, but Morden
+waves it off.  "Unnecessary," Morden says.  "I'm here to be of service,
+Ambassador!  My associates believe that you are a person of great potential,
+trapped in a position where your skills are unseen and unappreciated.
+They'd like to change that."  Londo tells Morden that nothing can be
+changed, and that his life is as much as it will ever be, but Morden
+suggests trying anyway.
+
+
    
+Morden knows of the trouble in quadrant 37 and offers to solve the problem
+for the Centauri.  Londo doesn't believe it, but Morden persists, telling
+Londo to tell his superiors that he will take care of the situation.  Londo
+does not still completely understand.  "What is the price for this...help?"
+
+
    
+"No price, Ambassador," Morden answers simply.  "But at some point in the
+future, if we deliver on our promises, we may come to you and ask you for a
+favor.  That's all."  Morden leaves.
+
+
    
+ "We're simply here to help."
+
+
    
+Delenn enters Kosh's quarters.  She breathes from a gas mask once, then puts
+it away and speaks.  "I have come as I said I would.  Kosh, I have great
+doubts.  I must know if it's true.  I must see with my own eyes."
+
+
    
+Kosh says nothing in response.  Suddenly, a bright light comes from the
+encounter suit, and slowly, the top of the suit begins to move out of
+place.  Delenn looks at what she sees and smiles.  "Yes, thank you.  Now I
+will keep the promise.  Goodbye.  You will not see me again as I am now."
+She bows to Kosh and leaves.
+
+
    
+In the casino, Garibaldi finds Devereaux and introduces himself.  Devereaux
+refuses to cooperate, but relents after Garibaldi forces him to go to
+security to identify Petrov.  "Big mistake, hot shot," Devereaux says to
+Garibaldi.  "You shouldn't poke around in things you don't understand.  This
+is too big for you."  Garibaldi does not believe this, and escorts Devereaux
+out of the casino.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, in Londo's quarters, Vir enters and tells Londo that the Centauri
+government wants to know if he has relayed their message to the council.
+Londo tells Vir to reply that he will personally take care of the problem in
+quadrant 37.  Though Vir believes Londo is drunk, Londo assures him it is
+not so, and tells him to send the message.
+
+
    
+Sinclair goes to G'Kar's quarters, where Na'Toth tells him that G'Kar is too
+busy, but she changes her mind after several females emerge from his
+bedroom.  Sinclair wants the Narn to give Centauri room to maneuver, but
+G'Kar refuses; he considers it a dead issue.  Sinclair tries to get him
+reconsider.  The Narn, he says, are abusing their power by threatening the
+Centauri much as the Centauri had done to them.
+
+
    
+"We know what we're doing," G'Kar says.  "Is there anything else?"
+
+
    
+"Just that I've had this feeling lately that we're standing at a crossroads,
+and I don't like where we're going.  But there's still time to choose
+another path.  You can be part of that process, G'Kar.  Choose wisely.  Not
+just for the Centauri, but for the good of your own people as well."
+
+
    
+"We all do what we have to," G'Kar says, and asks Sinclair to leave.
+
+
    
+ "We're standing at a
+crossroads."
+
+
    
+Later, Sinclair, Catherine, Ivanova and Garibaldi are eating dinner
+together.  Garibaldi wants to know what the occasion is, and Sinclair tells
+him that he and Catherine are getting married, and they want want Garibaldi
+and Ivanova to be the best man and maid of honor, respectively.
+Congratulations are exchanged, and Garibaldi tells Sinclair that he is glad
+to be his friend and best man.  A beep comes from Garibaldi's communicator,
+and he receives a message that Devereaux, and the two men who were with him,
+is missing.  Garibaldi tells Sinclair that he found something interesting
+about Devereaux.  When he investigated Devereaux's PPG, he found no serial
+number stamped on the inner coil.  Only special agents in Earth Force
+security get unnumbered PPGs, a fact which suggests to Garibaldi that
+something serious is going on.
+
+
    
+In quadrant 37, a Narn perimeter guard is investigating the sector, and
+reports that he has found nothing.  He loses contact with the base.
+Suddenly, something materializes directly in front of him.  It is a large
+black ship that has many protusions resembling legs or tentacles.  It fires
+a beam at the ship, which is instantly destroyed.  A second mysterious ship
+appears nearby, then a third, then a fourth.  Several Narn ships, fighters
+and large capital ships alike,
+attempt to intercept and return fire on the spider-like vessels, but their
+attempts are fruitless.  All the Narn ships are destroyed, and soon the
+outpost on a nearby planet is destroyed as well.  The mystery ships vanish,
+fading to invisibility as they move away from the planet.
+
+
    
+ The Narn outpost.
+
+
    
+Ivanova, at C&C, taking an opportunity to relax since no more ships are due
+in for a while, watches the news.  "At which time the vice president
+disembarked Earth Force 1.  He is currently undergoing medical tests while
+the president continues en route to Jupiter.  Reports indicate that the vice
+president is suffering from a viral infection and hopes to catch up with the
+tour as it returns from Io."
+
+
    
+There is, however, no time for Garibaldi to relax.  One of the ships that
+Devereaux had hired Petrov to load cargo onto was delayed by engine trouble,
+and he is inspecting the cargo.  His aide arrives to help.  Though the cargo
+containers are supposed to contain medical supplies, Garibaldi finds
+transmitters which are set to broadcast static -- a "poor man's jamming
+device."  In another crate is a triangulation system, used to determine
+optimum placement for the transmitters.  The device is set for a location
+near the transport point on Io, and the jammers are set to jam the gold
+channel frequency for Earth Force 1.  Garibaldi links to Sinclair.  "We've
+got a problem.  Ultraviolet priority."  He doesn't go into more detail, but
+tells Sinclair to meet him in a briefing room in twenty minutes.  He rushes
+away.  After Garibaldi leaves, his aide makes a communication of his own.
+"This is blue alpha," he says.  "Stand by."
+
+
    
+While Garibaldi is on his way, he comes across Devereaux and his
+associates.  Garibaldi tries to apprehend them, but is shot in the back by
+his aide.
+
+
    
+ Devereaux confronts
+Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Sinclair, in his quarters, tells Ivanova that Garibaldi has still not
+reported in.  They both agree that Garibaldi would not call for an
+ultraviolet alert and then not go in to follow it up, so they surmise that
+something must be wrong.  Sinclair continues to try to contact Garibaldi,
+but is interrupted by the chime of his door.  He is thinks it's Garibaldi,
+but he's wrong.  It is Delenn.  "Hello Commander," she says.  "I believe you
+recognize this."  She holds up the triluminary given her by a member of the
+Grey Council.  "Yes," Sinclair answers, remembering a hooded member of the
+Council holding that up to his face when he was aboard the Minbari ship at
+the Battle of the Line.  Delenn presses further.  "You remember what
+happened at the Battle of the Line, don't you?  You remember being taken
+aboard our ship?"  Sinclair says he remembers a little of what happened, but
+doesn't know everything or what it means.  "I suspected as much," Delenn
+answers.  "We have a lot to discuss, Commander.  By coming to you, I am
+putting both of our lives at risk.  But there are things you should know."
+
+
    
+Sinclair says it's a bad time because Garibaldi is missing.
+
+
    
+"I understand," Delenn says.  "Come to my quarters, and I'll tell you as
+much as I can.  But don't wait too long, Commander.  Certain things have
+been set in motion, and I do not have much time."  She leaves.
+
+
    
+ "I believe you recognize
+this."
+
+
    
+While Garibaldi slowly and painfully makes his way to the elevator, Na'Toth
+delivers some disheartening news to G'Kar about quadrant 37.  She tells him
+that the outpost there is gone, and though G'Kar thinks they have just lost
+contact, she informs him that the homeworld sent a ship to investigate, and
+found everything gone, and all the records destroyed.  There were no
+survivors.  Na'Toth laments the 10,000 deaths, but G'Kar is preoccupied with
+even darker matters.  "It wasn't the humans.  The Centauri don't have the
+will.  The Vorlon's don't care.  The Minbari wouldn't do it.  The other
+worlds aren't powerful enough for a strike like this," he says.  "There's
+someone else out there, Na'Toth," he says grimly.
+
+
    
+Things are a bit lighter around the rest of the station, however.  It is now
+midnight, and the New Year's celebration has just concluded with the ringing
+in of the new year, 2259.  When a couple of guests at the celebration
+attempt to leave, they find Garibaldi in the elevator.  He has lost a great
+deal of blood and is unconscious.
+
+
    
+In Delenn's quarters, she is completing the building of her crystal
+construct.  "Are you sure there's no other way?" asks Lennier, who watches
+her sadly.
+
+
    
+"What must happen will happen," Delenn says.  "Valen said this day would
+come.  Who are we to stand in the way of prophecy?"  Lennier tries to
+convince her to stop what she is doing by asking her what will happen if she
+is wrong.  "Then speak well of me when I'm gone," she answers, smiling
+faintly.  She turns away from him and looks at the crystal structure for a
+moment.  She then silently picks up the triluminary from the table and
+inserts it into a slot at the top of the device.  It begins to glow with an
+eerie white light, and soon the entire device is glowing in a similar
+manner.  "If he comes, it must be soon," she intones gravely, watching the
+corner of the room as something fills it, apparently coming from the glowing
+structure.  "I have little time."
+
+
    
+ "What must happen will
+happen."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is rushed to MedLab, where Dr. Franklin shouts to an assistant to
+prepare for surgery.  He diagnoses Garibaldi as having massive internal
+damage, and he cannot operate until his condition stabilizes.
+
+
    
+Sinclair is worried about Garibaldi, but Garibaldi moves a little and is
+able to offer an important warning as Sinclair listens.  "They're going
+to...they're going to kill the president.  At the transfer point on Io.
+Warn him!  Warn him..."  Sinclair rushes out as Dr. Franklin goes to work.
+
+
    
+Sinclair quickly arrives at C&C and asks Ivanova if she has been able to get
+through to Earth Force 1.  She tells him that all conventional channels are
+being jammed.  They are even unable to get through on the gold channels.
+The C&C staff tries to reroute through civilian channels and to get Earth
+Central on-line as well, but they do not succeed either way.  They are,
+however, still getting the ISN news feed, which they display so they can
+monitor the situation.  The anchorwoman reports that, though the president
+was supposed to begin his New Years speech ten minutes earlier, he had not
+done so.  She gets an emergency signal.  Suddenly, Earth Force 1 bursts into
+flames.  "Station Io is dispatching hospital ships, but it doesn't seem
+possible that anyone could have survived that kind of..."  Sinclair tells a
+tech to shut the screen off.  The president is dead.
+
+
    
+ Earth Force 1.
+
+
    
+While watching Dr. Franklin and the others in MedLab work on Garibaldi,
+Sinclair says that he wants guards posted around MedLab around the clock and
+medical personnel available 24 hours a day so that what happened before
+cannot happen again.  He says that they only have one name to go on,
+Devereaux, and that they need any information available about him.  Sinclair
+leaves, and we see that he was talking to Garibaldi's aide, who just smiles
+and looks through the window into MedLab.
+
+
    
+In Delenn's quarters, Lennier cries silently as he watches and listens to
+Delenn.  Though she cries out several times, he does nothing but watch in
+anguish.
+
+
    
+G'Kar and Na'Toth solemnly board a core shuttle, in which Ivanova is
+already seated.  G'Kar asks about Commander Sinclair and Garibaldi, and
+Ivanova tells them that Sinclair is in MedLab with him, and that Garibaldi's
+situation is still very uncertain.  G'Kar wants to tell Sinclair that there
+is little point in further mediating the dispute over quadrant 37.  Ivanova
+has heard about what happened, and asks if they have information, but they
+have none.  G'Kar offers his condolences over the death of President
+Santiago and hopes that Earth finds whoever is responsible.  Na'Toth tells
+Ivanova that the Narn will find and punish those responsible for the
+destruction of everything in quadrant 37.
+
+
    
+Back in the park, Londo and Morden meet again.  Londo is amazed and outraged
+at what happened to quadrant 37 and the death of the 10,000 Narns there.  "I
+didn't know you cared," Morden replies.  "Ten thousand, a hundred thousand,
+a million, what's the difference?  They're Narns, Ambassador.  Your sworn
+enemy."  Londo, however, is still shocked.  He didn't think that Morden
+would take such drastic action.  "Ambassador, your name is being spoken at
+the highest levels of the Centauri government.  They don't know how you did
+it.  They don't care.  They credit you with saving them from another
+embarrassment without creating a war in the process.  They've noticed you,
+Ambassador, which was the point of the exercise.  I hear they have great
+plans for you."  Londo still cannot grasp the scope of what happened, but
+Morden continues.  "Ambassador, you're a hero.  Enjoy it!  I'll be around."
+He then leaves.
+
+
    
+Sinclair tries to convince an Earth senator that the president was
+assassinated, but she does not believe it.  She claims that their evidence
+has only pointed to problems with their fusion reactor, and that it was all
+nothing more than an accident.  The senator doesn't believe that Garibaldi
+could know that the president might be assassinated if Earth's best agents
+did not.  She tells him that she doesn't want a panic to be created by
+spreading "unsubstantiated rumors" and orders him to maintain silence on his
+feelings of the presidential assassination.  Sinclair storms away.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Garibaldi's aide calls to several other security agents who are
+nearby.  Devereaux and his men are lying on the floor dead.  Garibaldi's
+aide says that they tried to fire at him when they would not go in for
+questioning, and claims he killed them in self-defense.  One of the officers
+says Devereaux's PPG is cold, which it wouldn't be if Devereaux had fired
+it.  But he withdraws his comment, perhaps not wishing to contradict his
+superior.
+
+
    
+Dr.  Franklin begins to operate on Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Sinclair is at the bar, drinking.  He watches the news regarding the death
+of President Santiago and the inauguration of vice president Morgan Clark to
+the presidency.  "It is important that we move on to create the world that
+Louis Santiago would have wanted for his children, my children, and for
+posterity yet to come," President Clark says in an address.  "We will begin
+by focusing more on the needs of our own people, to sustain them through
+this difficult time, and to prepare them for the tasks ahead."
+
+
    
+Sinclair, sensing someone else entering the bar, turns around and sees
+Ambassador Kosh.  "And so it begins," intones Kosh.  "You have forgotten
+something," he continues.  Suddenly realizing what Kosh meant, Sinclair
+rushes out of the bar and goes to Delenn's quarters.
+
+
    
+ "And so it begins."
+
+
    
+He enters and finds Lennier still staring at the corner, and the still
+glowing crystal statue on the table.  Lennier seems to be oblivious to
+Sinclair at first "You're too late," he says at last.
+
+
    
+Sinclair follows Lennier's gaze over to the corner of the room, where he
+sees a large, white, faintly glowing mass.  He slowly walks over to it and
+examines it.  "What is it?"
+
+
    
+"A chrysalis," replies Lennier.  "She is changing."
+
+
    
+"Into what?"
+
+
    
+"I don't know," is the only reply that Lennier can give, as Sinclair looks
+at Delenn's eyes, just barely visible beneath the surface of the chrysalis.
+
+
    
+ Delenn's chrysalis.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth enters G'Kar's quarters, but cannot find him.  As she calls out his
+name, an automated message begins.  "Na'Toth, by the time you get this
+message, I will be gone.  I have certain suspicions about the attack on
+quadrant 37.  I am taking the first transport back to homeworld.  You will
+not be able to contact me.  I will contact you.  And, uh, one more thing.
+Tell the commander he was right.  We were at a crossroads, and there is no
+going back.  Expect me when you see me."
+
+
    
+Londo arrives in MedLab to find Ivanova waiting there.  She explains that
+she had relieved the commander and that he will be back on watch soon.  When
+Londo asks about Garibaldi's condition, she says they are still operating
+and they still don't know what the outcome will be.  Londo says that he
+would like to wait with her.  "He is an annoying man, but I would miss him
+if he..."  They then turn and continue to watch the operation, while
+Garibaldi's aide looks on silently.
+
+
    
+Morden sits in the middle of a room, surrounded by strangely shimmering,
+shadowlike forms.  They make a few sounds, apparently language, but not one
+that we can understand.  "Yes, I think he's ready," Morden says to them.  He
+continues to answer, speaking to them after they speak to him.  "Perfect for
+our needs.  No, no, he suspects nothing.  When the time is right, Ambassador
+Mollari will do exactly as we wish.  Destiny is on our side."
+
+
    
+Catherine, with a solemn look on her face, walks over to a sofa on which
+Sinclair is sitting, staring intently.  She puts her arms around him, but he
+only acknowledges her with words.  "Nothing's the same any more."
+
+
    
+Lennier maintains a candlelight vigil over Delenn as she rests, slowly
+changing in her chrysalis.
+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
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     It is January 8, 2259.  The Earth Alliance ship Agamemnon jumps
+into hyperspace.  Its commanding officer, Captain John Sheridan,
+receives a gold channel message from General Hague of the joint chiefs
+of staff.  General Hague tells Captain Sheridan that a Minbari warship
+has appeared several times in Earth-controlled space, only a short
+distance from Babylon 5.  Hague believes that the ship may have hostile
+intent.  Sheridan doesn't understand until Hague tells him that the
+ship is a renegade warship, which Sheridan correctly guesses is called
+the Trigati.  The Earth Alliance is awaiting the arrival
+of a ship sent by the Minbari government to assist should the warship
+decide to attack.  Sheridan is ordered to make personal contact with
+that ship to help with the search.  Sheridan questions the wisdom of
+that action, remembering his previous encounter with the Minbari, when
+he destroyed one of their warships.  Hague understands Sheridan's
+reservations, but tells Sheridan to proceed to Babylon 5 to perform one
+additional duty.
+
+
    
+ The Agamemnon.
+
+
     On Babylon 5, Ivanova, currently in command of the station, walks
+through the halls and is bothered by several aliens, whom she sets in
+their place during an elevator ride.  The action of the scene continues
+under her voice, a status report for the station: "It is now eight days
+since the death of Earth Alliance president Louis Santiago, and five
+days since Commander Sinclair was recalled to Earth without
+explanation--and the whole place has gone straight to Hell.  I can only
+conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate.
+Security Chief Michael Garibaldi remains in critical condition in
+Medlab.  Dr. Franklin's done all he can, but we still don't know if
+he'll recover.  As for Ambassador Delenn, well, something's going on in
+her quarters.  That's for sure."
+
+
     General Hague contacts Ivanova and tells her that Commander
+Sinclair will not be returning to Babylon 5 and that he has been
+permanently reassigned to the Minbari homeworld as the first human
+ambassador to the planet.  Hague informs her that Captain Sheridan is
+the new choice for the commander of Babylon 5, but Ivanova is unsure of
+the decision, claiming that it is "bound to be a controversial
+choice."  Hague understands, but tells her that the decision has
+already been made.  He ends the communication.
+
+
     In Delenn's quarters, Lennier continues to maintain a vigil over
+the chrysalis in which Delenn is changing.  Another Minbari, Hedronn,
+enters and addresses Lennier directly.  "So...she's done it, hasn't
+she?  She's in there.  We told her to wait.  `The prophecy will attend
+to itself,' we told her.  Now we are committed to the path.  I've
+spoken with the other members of the council.  The Trigati has been
+seen in this sector.  If it should appear, you must go to the humans
+and tell them what we told you.  It's time they knew the truth."
+
+
     An officer approaches Ivanova, and wants to talk to her about
+Sheridan's arrival.  She orders him to have a full honor guard in place
+when he arrives, but he tells her that Sheridan's transport has already
+docked; there was a miscommunication about the time.  She rushes off
+and meets Sheridan just as he comes aboard, and he officially takes
+command of the station.  While his luggage is delivered to his
+quarters, Ivanova takes him on a tour of the station.  He asks her what
+the status of the station is, and she recounts it for him.  After
+hearing about Garibaldi, G'Kar, Delenn, and the ever-mysterious Kosh,
+the only reply he can come up with is "Interesting place you have
+here..."
+
+
     Elsewhere on the station, there is another arrival -- a Minbari who
+asks the computer to show him the station, but walks away after hearing
+the description of the green sector -- the ambassadorial quarters.
+
+
     Ivanova and Sheridan complete their tour and arrive in the new
+commander's quarters.  She takes the opportunity to ask him about
+his appointment as head of the station.  He tells her that he was
+President Santiago's second choice to head the station, probably
+because he had worked with many races, including the Minbari.  This
+worries Ivanova, who reminds him that the Minbari still refer to him as
+"Starkiller," and guesses they won't be happy to learn he is in command
+of Babylon 5.  He hopes they have forgotten, but doesn't believe they
+have.  He asks her to help bring him up to speed.  They talk about the
+crew's reaction to the President's death.  Many of them are having a
+difficult time accepting the loss.  Ivanova and Sheridan are no
+exceptions.  Because of the recent turmoil around the station, Ivanova
+is especially glad to see Sheridan again; they had served together at the
+transport point near Io.  They make plans to go to C&C so that he
+can deliver a "good luck speech" to the crew.
+
+
    
+ Sheridan describes his
+speech.
+
+
    
+Elsewhere on the station, Hedronn notices someone he recognizes -- the
+Minbari who was on his way to the ambassadorial sector of Babylon 5 -- as
+Kalain.  Hedronn runs after Kalain, who grabs and threatens him,
+claiming that the Grey Council betrayed the Minbari.  Kalain explains
+that he has intercepted a message saying that Sheridan had been chosen
+to lead Babylon 5.  When Hedronn protests that the wishes of the Grey
+Council were ignored, Kalain asks if Delenn also ignored the
+Council.  Kalain says his people have supporters in the Grey
+Council, who have told them that Sinclair is on Minbar, though Kalain
+does not believe that Sinclair being an ambassador is the whole story.
+Kalain lets Hedronn go, warning him to leave while he still can.
+
+
    
+ "Minbari do not kill other
+Minbari!"
+
+
    
+After she goes to check on Garibaldi's condition, Ivanova finds
+Sheridan and tells him that the officers on C&C are ready for him.  He
+enters and begins his speech, talking about the visit he made when he
+was twenty-one to Tibet and the Dalai Lama.  After eating a very simple
+dinner, the Dalai Lama asked if he understood.  Sheridan didn't.  "Good
+beginning," the Dalai Lama said to him.  "It will be even better when
+you begin to understand what you do not understand."
+
+
    
+During Sheridan's
+speech, a call from security says that a Minbari is demanding
+to speak to Sheridan.  Sheridan and Ivanova leave.  While they are on
+their way, Kalain attempts to enter the green sector, but is stopped by
+a security officer, whom he attacks.  Kalain steals the officer's weapon and
+proceeds into the green sector.
+
+
    
+It turns out that the Minbari who wanted to speak with Sheridan was
+Hedronn, who has some important information regarding Kalain.  Hedronn
+tells Sheridan and Ivanova that Kalain was second in command of one of
+their flagships during the Earth-Minbari war and that he vanished when
+the war ended.  Ivanova asks why Hedronn believes Kalain is here to
+cause trouble, but Hedronn just answers that he has his reasons.
+
+
    
+Sheridan suspects the ship Kalain was second in command of was the
+Trigati.  Ivanova has never heard of the ship, but Hedronn explains
+that at the end of the war, Sineval, one of their warship commanders,
+committed suicide rather than obey the Grey Council's order to
+surrender.  When that happened, Kalain took command of the ship, and it
+vanished.  Sheridan says that, while the ship had been seen over the
+years, it had never attacked.  Hedronn suspects that its recent
+reappearance suggests it might be "out of retirement."
+
+
    
+Sheridan doesn't understand, however, why Hedronn, who claimed that he
+was from the Ministry of Culture, knew Kalain, a high-ranking member of
+the warrior caste after twelve years.  Hedronn doesn't respond, saying
+only that he would answer if he recognized Sheridan's authority, but he
+doesn't because the Minbari government was not consulted on Sheridan's
+appointment.  Sheridan tells Hedronn that the president decided on him
+because the Minbari had too much influence over an Earth outpost.
+
+
    
+"And
+the day that a man such as yourself is given a position of this
+importance is a dark day indeed," Hedronn says.  "We lost many of our
+best warriors because of you.  And we do not soon forget such things.
+If there is a doom on this station, it is because you brought it
+here."  Hedronn then leaves abruptly.
+
+
    
+Because of Hedronn's attitude, Sheridan believes that he is a member of
+the Grey Council, because no one else would know someone so high in the
+warrior caste so well.  Sheridan then admits that Ivanova was correct,
+that the Minbari don't want him in command of Babylon 5.  She
+points out that they are a prideful people, and that he did destroy
+their flagship, the Black Star.  She asks how he destroyed it.
+Sheridan explains that, because their weapons could not lock on to the
+ship, due to some sort of stealth technology, he mined the asteroid
+field between Jupiter and Mars with fusion bombs, which don't need
+direct targets.  It destroyed the Black Star and three other heavy
+cruisers.  "It was the only real victory we had in the whole damn war,
+and I am not about to apologize for it!"
+
+
    
+Sheridan
+suddenly remembers Hedronn's statement that Kalain felt betrayed by
+the Minbari homeworld, and deduces that, in such a situation, it would be
+natural to attack the representative of that world.  Realizing they
+might not have much time, Sheridan and Ivanova rush to Delenn's quarters to
+find Kalain
+pointing a gun at Lennier.  They are able to easily apprehend Kalain,
+but when Sheridan attempts to get a close look at the chrysalis, Lennier
+stops him.
+Ambassador Delenn is indisposed, he says, and Sheridan should come back
+later...much later.
+
+
    
+ Lennier defends Delenn.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova interrogate Kalain, asking him about the Trigati
+and why he has suddenly appeared on Babylon 5.  Sheridan can't believe that
+Kalain's goal was to murder Lennier and Delenn; he had ample time to kill
+both of them.
+
+
    
+"Everyone knows Minbari do not
+kill Minbari," Kalain says.  Sheridan doesn't accept that as an answer
+and again asks Kalain about his presence.  "Perhaps everyone is
+wrong."
+
+
    
+Sheridan concludes that Kalain never intended to kill
+them, but that something else was going on.  "Perhaps you are the
+problem," Kalain replies.
+
+
    
+Ivanova tries to intervene, claiming that
+they are getting nowhere, but Sheridan has one more question for
+Kalain.  "I'm told that after the death of your commanding officer, you
+took command of a Minbari war cruiser.  But if you're here, where's
+your ship?"
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova leave.  Lennier catches up to the two of them
+outside and apologizes for his earlier behavior.  He says that he
+needs to speak to both of them.  "It concerns," he explains, "the
+reason you were sent here, the relocation of commander Sinclair, and
+the reason we surrendered at the Battle of the Line."  When they
+reach Sheridan's office, Lennier begins his story:
+
+
    
+"After three years, the Holy War that began when our leader was killed
+by an Earth explorer division was almost over.  To avenge Dukhat's
+death, we had pursued your forces all the way back to your homeworld.
+The few surviving Earth ships that were ordered to defend your world at
+any cost... were not an obstacle.  The Grey Council had come to oversee
+the final victory of our forces."
+
+
    
+The scene shifts, back to the
+inside of the Grey Council ship, where the Grey Council is in session
+surrounded by a display showing the battle raging outside.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+"They fight bravely.  They cannot harm our ships, but they continue to try,"
+says Delenn.
+
+
    
+Hedronn dismisses her comment.
+"Whether they fight or not, they know they will die anyway.
+So really, is this bravery or simple desperation?"
+
+
    
+"Perhaps they are the same thing.  We should bring one of them
+aboard for questioning.  If our next step is the final
+assault on their world, we must know their defenses."
+
+
    
+"Very well, Delenn.  Choose, but quickly.  We are fast running out of
+candidates."
+
+
    
+Delenn sees a Starfury making a suicide run at their ship.
+"That one," she says.  A beam immobilizes the Starfury, and it is
+brought aboard.
+
+
    
+Lennier continues his story.  "This was the first time the Grey Council
+would have direct contact with a human, in this case Sinclair.  He was
+tortured, interrogated, scanned.  During the course of the scan, the
+Council discovered something terrible.  At first, they refused to
+believe it, so they took in other humans and had them scanned as well.
+But it was true."
+
+
    
+"What was true?" asks Ivanova.
+
+
    
+"It is our belief that every generation of Minbari is reborn in each
+following generation.  Remove those souls, and the whole suffers.  We
+are diminished.  Over the last two thousand years, there have been
+fewer Minbari born into each generation.  And those who are born do not
+seem equal to those who came before.  It almost as if our greater souls
+have been disappearing.  At the Battle of the Line, we discovered where
+our souls were going.  They were going to you.  Minbari souls are being
+reborn, in part or in full, in human bodies."
+
+
    
+"So you stopped the war to avoid harming your own souls?"
+
+
    
+Lennier confirms that, and continues.
+"But the Council knew that our people, and yours, were not ready for
+this information.  It could unravel our entire society.  So we could
+not tell our generals the reason for the surrender.  We had all memory
+of the examination erased from Sinclair's mind, and we let him go.  It
+has been our secret.  Now it is yours.  It must be kept."
+
+
    
+"I don't understand.  If this is such a secret, why tell us?"
+
+
    
+"Because
+changes are coming.  Commander Sinclair was the first.  There will be
+more."
+
+
    
+The meeting is interrupted by a call from C&C--a Minbari cruiser, on an
+attack vector, is coming through the jumpgate.  Warren Keffer, the
+leader of Zeta Squadron, watches with the other people in his
+squad, but can't believe what he is seeing.  Sheridan arrives at C&C
+and orders a red alert.  He activates the defense grid and puts all
+squadrons on standby.  While this happens, Kalain, in his detention
+cell, removes a tooth from his mouth.  He opens it, revealing a blue
+liquid.  He puts the tooth in his mouth and swallows.
+
+
    
+ Kalain practices poor
+dental hygeine.
+
+
    
+Captain Sheridan communicates with the warship, which the commander
+identifies as the Trigati.  She demands that Kalain be returned, since
+he did not kill or harm anyone aboard Babylon 5.  When Sheridan
+refuses, she launches her fighters.  Sheridan counters, launching the
+fighters aboard Babylon 5.  He informs her that an attack could be
+considered an act of war.
+
+
    
+"The war has already
+begun, Captain.  All that remains now is honor and death."
+
+
    
+This remark
+puzzles Sheridan, since no one has yet been killed.  He suddenly
+realizes what's going on: they are attempting to start a war, but since
+Kalain hasn't killed anyone and the Trigati hasn't attacked, they must
+be trying to frame Babylon 5.  This is confirmed when security reports
+that Kalain has killed himself.  Ivanova can't believe that Minbari
+would attack after learning they were sharing Minbari souls, but
+Sheridan reminds her that the Trigati was not informed of that.  The
+Minbari fighters close in on the station, and Sheridan orders his fighters to
+intercept and engage.
+
+
    
+While the Babylon 5 fighters move to intercept, Sheridan looks at a
+display of both groups of fighters; somehow Babylon 5 is able to track
+the Minbari fighters, even though it's using the same kind of tracking
+system Earthforce used during the war.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders his
+fighters not to attack.  He gives a message to Ivanova, telling her to
+transmit it through the jumpgate without the Trigati intercepting it.
+She does so, but doesn't think it will work if it is a distress signal,
+as no one could arrive in time.
+
+
    
+[Movie]
+A tight-beam transmission using the station laser.
+
+
    
+The Trigati's fighters continue to
+advance, but Sheridan orders his fighters to maintain position.  When
+the Trigati's fighters reach the Earth ships, they do not
+attack -- they fly past and return to the Trigati.  Another Minbari
+ship suddenly comes through the jumpgate.  Ivanova is afraid that the
+Trigati fighters were waiting for reinforcements, but Sheridan tells
+her that, since he knew another Minbari ship was looking for the
+Trigati, he figured they must be waiting in hyperspace.
+
+
    
+
+[Movie]
+The Minbari fighters fly past.
+
+
    
+The other cruiser orders the Trigati to surrender.  Sheridan continues
+to explain to Ivanova that, because they could track the Minbari
+fighters, that probably meant the Minbari wanted to be destroyed.  The Trigati
+was in exile for twelve years, and could not go home, fight without
+causing a war, or surrender without being dishonored.  If Babylon 5 was
+forced to attack, they would die at human hands, thereby becoming
+martyrs.
+
+
    
+The Trigati attempts to back off and open up a jump
+point, but the war cruiser cuts off their
+engines with a beam.  They order the Trigati to surrender and be
+boarded, but the Trigati refuses, and replies with only one word:
+"honor."  The Trigati self-destructs in a ball of flame, apparently
+from their fusion reactors.  A signal comes in from the war cruiser;
+Sheridan greets the Minbari commander.
+
+
    
+
+[Movie] The Trigati is attacked.
+
+
    
+"Perhaps to you," the Minbari on the other end says to Sheridan, "this
+was a tactical problem to be solved.  For us, this has been a great
+sorrow.  The crew of the Trigati were heroes to many of our people.
+Their death will be mourned, and your name will be remembered."  The
+Minbari war cruiser cuts off the communication and vanishes into
+the jump gate.
+
+
    
+Later, Sheridan is in his quarters, looking through his belongings, which
+have recently been delivered.  Ivanova arrives and asks Sheridan if something
+is wrong.  "When I got my orders," Sheridan explains, "I figured this
+place was a great opportunity.  And now I wonder if coming here was
+irresponsible.  This whole mess with the Trigati might not have
+happened if I hadn't been here.  I mean, my presence, my...actions in
+the war...I'm to blame for bringing all this trouble to Babylon 5.
+What was it our friend in the Grey Council said?  'If there is a doom
+on this station, it is because you brought it here.'  Well maybe he was
+right.  I spoke with the president.  He is the only other human who
+knows why the Minbari surrendered, and he doesn't believe this stuff
+about us sharing Minbari souls, and I can't say that I do either.  But
+they believe it.  That's why they chose Sinclair to run this place...
+that's why they've picked him to live on their world.  He was their
+first human contact.  Him they trust.  But me?  I don't know.  If
+Sinclair had been here instead, maybe they might not have attacked."
+
+
    
+Ivanova tells Sheridan to give himself the benefit of the doubt.
+Before she leaves, she tells him that he can talk to her any time, if
+he needs to.
+
+
    
+Lennier is busy preparing candles in Delenn's quarters, and setting
+them around her chrysalis.  "I told them, Delenn, as I was ordered.  I
+only wish I could have told them the rest -- about the great enemy that
+is returning and the prophecy that the two sides of our spirit must
+unite against the darkness or be destroyed.  They say it will take both
+of our races to stop the darkness.  I am told that the Earthers will
+discover all this, soon enough, on their own.  I hope they are right.
+Because if we are wrong, no one will survive our mistake."  He
+says good night, and leaves right before the chrysalis begins moving,
+and Delenn begins to emerge.
+
+
    
+ "I only wish I could
+have told them the rest."
+
+
    
+Ivanova, Dr. Franklin, and Keffer discuss the recent events in a
+nightclub on the station.  Keffer asks what they think of the new
+captain, and Dr. Franklin and Ivanova both believe that he will be
+okay.  He was supposed to meet them there for drinks, but Franklin says
+that when he last saw Sheridan, he was going to the C&C to deliver his
+good luck speech.
+
+
    
+"It was an early earth president, Abraham Lincoln, who best described
+our situation.  'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the
+stormy present.  The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we
+must rise to the occasion.  We cannot escape history.  We will be
+remembered in spite of ourselves.  The fiery trial through which we
+pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the last generation.
+We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, or last best hope of Earth.'"
+Though there is no one else on C&C, he has still delivered his speech
+in time.  He leaves C&C to begin the second day of his new
+command.
+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
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+During a meeting of the council, Londo complains about the absence of
+Ambassadors Delenn and G'kar.
+This upsets him greatly, and he moves that they reprimand both ambassadors
+and ask the Narn and Minbari governments to
+assign new representatives to the council.  When no
+one seconds the motion, Captain Sheridan adjourns the meeting and suggests
+they all meet the following morning.  As the ambassadors leave, Londo
+confronts Na'toth and asks her about G'kar.  She tells him only that he went
+to investigate the attack on the outpost in quadrant 37, and that he is able
+to take care of himself.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, G'kar is fleeing from several pursuing Shadow ships, smaller
+than the spiderlike vessels that destroyed the outpost in quadrant 37.  Though
+there are other one-man ships with him, they are losing the battle against
+the Shadows, and retreat to the jump gate.  Two of the ships are destroyed by
+the Shadows on the way, and the final remaining Narn pilot radios G'kar, "Tell
+the others.  Warn them.  In death we salute you.  Honor our names.
+Goodbye."  The ship makes a run directly into one of the Shadow vessels,
+which writhes in pain.  G'kar makes a pledge to remember the pilot who gave
+his life, as the Shadow ship explodes.  G'kar is able to
+get to the jumpgate, which he uses to travel to Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+ The Shadow fighters in
+pursuit.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin enters the officer's lounge, where he encounters Sheridan.
+Sheridan says he has some time before his sister arrives to visit.  Dr.
+Franklin tells Sheridan that Garibaldi's situation is very bad and that
+there is little chance of his coming out of a coma by conventional means.
+He mentions that there might be one solution: using the alien machine
+he obtained from Laura Rosen (cf.
+"The Quality of Mercy.")
+He tells Sheridan about it, and asks for his
+permission.  Sheridan is somewhat apprehensive, but gives Franklin his
+permission.  He asks who Franklin had intended to transfer the life energy
+from, and Franklin answers that he had planned to take it from himself.
+Franklin leaves.
+
+
    
+Later, Sheridan meets up with his sister, Elizabeth,
+when she arrives on her transport.  After some small talk, they go off to
+have dinner together.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Londo receives a visitor: Morden.  Morden asks Londo how he can
+be of service, and Londo wants to be reassured that the attack on the Narn
+base in quadrant 37 cannot be traced back to him.  "The Narns will never be
+able to prove it was done at your instigation," Morden tells him, "and,
+based on your promise to take care of it, your government accepts your
+responsibility without question or hesitation.  Perfect symmetry.  I believe
+that this little demonstration will bring you some very interesting
+propositions."  When Londo asks what should happen if he is asked to provide
+another demonstration, Morden tells him that they will provide it, if only
+he names the target.  "A colony?  An outpost?" Morden suggests.
+
+
    
+Londo laughs at that. "Why don't you eliminate the entire
+Narn homeworld while you're at it?"
+
+
    
+"One thing at a time, Ambassador.  One
+thing at a time."  Before he leaves, Morden asks Londo for
+another small favor.  "If you should hear about anything strange happening
+out on the rim, I'd appreciate being informed, even if it seems
+unimportant."
+
+
    
+ "One thing at a time."
+
+
    
+As Captain Sheridan and his sister eat dinner together, they talk about the
+two years they have been apart, though Elizabeth is a bit upset that Sheridan
+only wants to talk about work.  Sheridan explains that her being around only
+"brings it all back."  Elizabeth realizes that things have not been the same
+between them since his wife's death.  Sheridan says he needs more time -- that
+two years isn't enough.  He still has to remind himself that she is gone,
+and he has to force himself to remember that she is not alive.  Elizabeth
+understands, but wants Sheridan to honor her memory instead of burying
+himself in his work.  He says it isn't about work, but doesn't want to discuss
+the subject further.  They agree to put off the discussion until later.
+
+
    
+ Sheridan talks about
+running the station.
+
+
    
+Lennier still tends to Delenn's chrysalis while Sheridan finishes dinner and
+goes down to MedLab, where Dr. Franklin is about to begin using the healing
+machine to bring Garibaldi out of the coma.  Sheridan says that it is his
+responsibility to make sure that Garibaldi is safe, and he also doesn't want
+Franklin using the machine alone, in case a mishap takes his life as well.
+They agree that both of them will split the time on the healing machine: one
+will operate it while the other one is giving their life energy to
+Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Na'toth returns to G'kar's quarters, and begins studying some information
+she is carrying.  While she is doing so, a voice tells her to close the
+door.  She investigates the voice, finding it to be G'kar, sitting
+cross-legged on his bed.  "Weep for the future, Na'toth," he says to her.
+"Weep for us all."  She asks if he is all right, and he replies, "I have
+looked into the darkness, Na'toth.  You cannot do that and ever be quite the
+same again.  When you told me about the destruction of our base in quadrant
+37, I knew that only a major power could attempt an assault of that
+magnitude, but none of the governments here could have done it, which left
+only two possibilities: a new race, or an old race--a very old race.
+
+
    
+"G'Quan spoke of a great war long ago against an enemy so terrible, it
+nearly overwhelmed the stars themselves.  G'Quan said that before that
+enemy was thrown down, it dwelled in a system at the rim of known space.
+
+
    
+"I searched for days, going from one system to another.  Then, on dark
+deserted worlds, where there should be no life, where no living thing has
+walked in over a thousand years, something is moving, gathering its forces,
+quietly, quietly...hoping to go unnoticed.  We must warn the others,
+Na'toth.  After a thousand years, the darkness has come again."
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin is in MedLab, exhausted from the time spent on the healing
+machine, when Garibaldi wakes up.  He radios to C&C, telling Ivanova and
+Sheridan to get to MedLab.  Garibaldi's aide is listening in; he leaves his
+office in a hurry.
+
+
    
+When Sheridan and Ivanova arrive, Garibaldi asks is if they were
+able to save President Santiago's life.  Ivanova tells him that they were
+not.  Garibaldi asks to see Sinclair, but learns about his reassignment.
+Sheridan introduces himself.  Ivanova asks if Garibaldi remembers who shot
+him, and while his aide,
+who has entered MedLeb, keeps a firm grip on his weapon, Garibaldi confesses
+that he never saw his assailant because he was shot from behind.  At this
+news, Garibaldi's aide removes his hand from his weapon and walks away.
+
+
    
+Londo and G'kar meet up in the hallway.  Londo asks if G'kar has found
+anything interesting.  G'kar answers affirmatively, but tells Londo that he
+is going to tell the council about his findings.  He tells Londo that the
+only way to resolve the problems between the Narn and Centauri is with
+Centauri blood, but that what he has found may threaten all their races,
+except possibly the Vorlons, a race he doesn't believe could be threatened
+by anything.  G'kar is on his way to see Delenn, but Londo tells him that
+something happened to her right after he left.  When G'Kar asks if she is still
+alive, Londo says, "That is a very good question."
+
+
    
+That question is soon answered as Lennier reenters Delenn's quarters to find
+the chrysalis open.  Though he doesn't see her at first, a quick search of
+the room leads him to find her in a dark corner, wrapped in a dark cloak.
+She speaks, her voice frail and weak, and asks him to help her.  Lennier
+calls Dr. Franklin, asking him to come to her quarters.  Lennier warns him
+before he enters that anything he learns must be kept confidential.  Delenn
+tells Franklin that she isn't ill.  "What I have become, what I suffer,
+requires you," she tells him, giving him her hand, which is now dry and
+scaly.
+
+
    
+ The empty chrysalis.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Elizabeth discuss life aboard Babylon 5, and Sheridan continues
+to lament the loss of Anna, his wife.  Elizabeth notices that he seems to be
+acting more detached than ever, and asks him what is wrong.  He claims it
+was his fault that she died.  She tries to convince him that he had nothing
+to do with the explosion of the deep space vessel that killed her, but he
+tells her that he is responsible for her being there.  "We were gonna get
+together on our anniversary.  She'd arranged to meet me when we pulled into
+spacedock, off of Centauri Prime.  Well, we hadn't seen much of each other
+the year before--you know what the military life is like.  Well, I'd gotten
+real busy--I was up to my ears in inspections, drills...I had to call her
+and tell her I couldn't make it.  I was too busy--too damn busy.  Well,
+right after I cancelled, she took that science officer's job on the Icarus.
+Just a two week survey.  Said she'd back before I even noticed she was
+gone.  Well, she didn't come back, and I've been noticing she's is gone
+every minute of every day." Elizabeth tells Sheridan not to blame himself.
+He refuses to believe it isn't his fault, but he tells her the real
+reason he is so upset.  "When we used to talk to each other over long
+distance, we would say 'I love you' at the end.  The last time I talked to
+her...I don't know, I was rushed...I didn't say it.  I didn't even realize
+it.  And I figured I'd make it up to her later on.  I never even got to say
+good-bye to her.  Oh, Lizzy, I miss her.  I just didn't want her to go
+without telling her I loved her one last time."
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin makes a new discovery while treating Delenn--he pushes on part
+of her blue, scaly arm and it cracks away, revealing something underneath
+that is flesh-colored.  Neither he, Lennier, or Delenn know if that is
+something that should happen or not, so he quickly scans her with a medical
+device.  He lifts up her head to get a look at her face.  "What am I?" she
+asks weakly.  "What am I?"  As he looks into her face, which is covered with
+the blue substance, he has no answer to give her.
+
+
    
+ "What am I?"
+
+
    
+G'kar address the council about what he encountered at the rim.  "...which
+leads me to believe that the ancient race described in our holy books may
+have returned.  If true, this holds grave danger for all of us."  Sheridan
+suggests that the dead worlds where he found life may have been colonized by
+another race, but G'kar will not accept this, as he says that the ships that
+fired upon him looked very much like the drawings made by G'Quan.  But, because
+the rulers of the Narn homeworld have reservations about what he has found,
+no official confirmation of his findings
+have been given.  G'kar tells the council that
+he has convinced the rulers of his planet to send a ship "to the heart of
+the enemy's own domain, located at the rim of known space...a dark and
+terrible place known as Z'ha'dum.  It has been dead for a thousand years.
+No one goes there...no one.  Our ship will arrive in twelve hours, coming out
+of hyperspace as close to the enemy's homeworld as possible.  They will scan
+the planet for signs of life and return to hyperspace before anyone can
+attack."  Sheridan asks what will happen if someone is living there.
+G'kar replies, "Then all our races stand on the end of extinction."
+
+
    
+Londo meets with Morden yet again.  He tells Morden about the information
+he got from G'kar.  Though Morden says little about it, he does ask when the
+ship is scheduled to arrive.
+
+
    
+Talia Winters enters MedLab and begins talking to Garibaldi.  She understands
+what he wants her to do, but warns him that even if she does find anything,
+it is not admissible in court.  She tells him that the scan she performs
+will have to be a deep scan.  He understands, so she removes one of her
+gloves, takes his hand, and begins the scan.  She sees what happened when
+Garibaldi encountered Devereaux, and sees him raise his weapon...Right
+before Garibaldi is shot, however, she also sees the face of Garibaldi's
+aide, Jack, in a reflective surface at the very edge of his vision.
+
+
    
+ Talia agrees to help Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+A security officer enters the office of Garibaldi's aide, and tells him that
+Delenn is emerged from the cocoon, and has wings like a butterfly.  He urges
+Jack to go and see, which he reluctantly does.  As soon as he leaves the
+office, he is assaulted by a group of security officers and held at bay
+until Sheridan arrives and orders them to take him to the lockup and put him
+under maximum security, with checks on him every fifteen minutes.
+
+
    
+ Garibaldi's aide gets
+his just desserts.
+
+
    
+Despite Dr. Franklin's objections, Garibaldi convinces him to let him go
+talk to his aide and find out why he attacked him.
+
+
    
+"I trusted you," Garibaldi tells Jack during the ensuing interrogation.  "I
+taught you
+everything I know. I gave you every break.  I even treated you like my own
+brother."  He bangs his cane on the table and demands to know why Jack
+did it, to which his aide only responds that he had his instructions.
+Garibaldi asks him who gave the orders.
+
+
    
+"There's a new order coming back
+home, Garibaldi.  You can either be part of it, or you can be stepped on.  A
+winner or a loser.  I'm with the side that's gonna win."  Garibaldi asks if
+it is Homeguard, but Jack tells him that he is wrong; the Homeguard are a
+bunch of amateurs.  Garibaldi tells Jack
+that he is in big trouble.  Jack scoffs.  "You don't even know what
+trouble is... but
+you're gonna find out, real soon."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tells Jack that the shooting of a
+senior officer is treason and mutiny and that the penalty is spacing.  "They
+put you in an airlock, seal it, and then open the space door.  You spend the
+next five minutes chewing vaccuum until your lungs turn inside-out, your
+eyeballs freeze, and your heart explodes.  It's the worse kind of death you
+can imagine.  And when that day comes, I'll be there to push the button."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi begins to leave, but on the way out, Jack calls to him and
+performs a salute with his hand, the same that Bester once gave.  "Be seeing
+you," he says, smiling.
+
+
    
+ "Be seeing you."
+
+
    
+Sheridan is working in his office when Ivanova calls in, telling him that he
+has a call from President Clark.  The president tells him that he read the
+report on the arrest of Garibaldi's aide.  He asks if Sheridan actually
+believes the aide was in on the conspiracy to kill President Santiago.
+Sheridan has no evidence of that, but does say that he is guilty of shooting
+a senior officer.  Clark tells him that they need to investigate the matter
+fully and orders the prisoner transferred to Earth so that Clark can assist in
+the investigation.  "We can't risk this
+being mishandled, Captain," Clark tells Sheridan.  "During the time I served
+as vice-president under Santiago, I grew to admire and appreciate the man.
+I owe it to his memory to personally oversee any inquiry."  He orders that
+all other information regarding the matter be sent as well.  He
+compliments Sheridan on his good work.
+
+
    
+As the Narn warship exits hyperspace into the system of Z'ha'dum, a Shadow
+ship, that had apparently been waiting for it, appears and swiftly attacks,
+completely destroying it before it has the opportunity to
+reenter the jump point.
+
+
    
+ The Narn warship is
+destroyed.
+
+
    
+At the council meeting, Na'toth reports to G'kar and the council about the
+ship's destruction.  She says the Narn government believes it was an
+accident with the jump engines because it occurred right after they left
+hyperspace.  She also tells them that the government cannot afford to send
+another ship.  But G'kar doesn't believe it was an accident.  "When a
+warship jumps to normal space, it's briefly out of contact because of the
+energy drain.  It might have been attacked during that period.  But that
+couldn't happen unless...unless they knew the ship was coming and were
+waiting for it.  But no one knew, except..."  His voice falls dead as the
+meaning of his words hit him.  He looks quickly at both Londo and Sheridan,
+both of whom return his glance steadily.
+
+
    
+Lennier enters the council chamber and addresses the council, telling
+them that Ambassador Delenn has returned and would like to reclaim her seat
+on the council.  Sheridan tells Lennier that it is all right, and tells
+Lennier to let her come in.  She does so, dressed in a long white cloak with
+a hood that covers her head.  She slowly removes the hood, revealing what
+she has changed into.  Her skin no longer is pale like that of a Minbari--it
+is now flesh-colored, that of a human.  She has long, brown hair which
+spills down over her ears, which have the same size and position of human
+ears, and what looks like part of the Minbari headbone, though it is only
+about a third of the size it once was.  While the council observes her,
+awestruck, she explains her change.  "Ambassador Sinclair has been allowed
+to live on my world as an act of good faith, to create a greater
+understanding between Minbari and humans.  In return, I have undergone this
+change with the blessings of my government, so that I may become a bridge
+between our worlds, in the hope that we will never know war between us
+again."
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells his sister of Delenn's change.  She asks if it is
+just her outward appearance that has changed, or if it was her genetic
+structure as well.  Sheridan doesn't know, but tells her that Delenn wasn't
+eager to discuss it.  Elizabeth tells Sheridan that she has something
+he should watch, and that she decided after their talk to let him see it.
+It is a message that Anna sent her before she left on the Icarus.  Sheridan
+plays it and watches silently.
+
+
    
+"Oh well," Anna's image says happily, "maybe
+we'll have the chance to try again later.  I am really excited about serving
+signing on board the Icarus next week.  John and I were supposed to spend
+some time together, but Dr. Chang thinks he's found the ruins to an ancient
+civilization nobody's ever heard of before.  The chance to be there when the
+discovery is confirmed is just too good an opportunity to pass up.  I had
+already decided to put off our vacation and go when John called to tell me
+that he had to cancel, so it worked out just great.  Though the poor dear
+looked so upset about breaking the news, I wanted to tell him I was going
+away anyway, but I...we had so much else to cover, and there's never enough
+time...  I'll just have to fill him in when I get back.  You've got quite a
+brother there, Liz.  I can't tell you how...how lucky I feel sometimes, even
+when he's not here.  I just...  Someone said that love knows no borders, and
+ours certainly proves the point.  Well, I'll check in with you when I get
+back, though with any luck, you'll hear about it on the news first.  My love
+to Danny and the kids.  Bye."
+
+
    
+Sheridan says good-bye to her as well.
+"I love you, Anna," he tells the image on the screen.
+
+
    
+ Saying goodbye.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi thanks Talia for helping out, and she tells him that it wasn't a
+problem, but it still isn't admissable in court.  Garibaldi tells her that,
+thanks to her help, he can take it the rest of the way.  He asks her to
+leave, and speaks to Dr. Franklin and Ivanova.  "I trust her as much as
+I trust any telepath, but she's still PsiCorps." When Dr. Franklin asks what
+PsiCorps has to do with the attack, Garibaldi explains.  "I've been thinking
+about this little salute Jack gave me back in his cell -- same as that PsiCop
+Bester gave?  It's like he was rubbing my nose in something he knew I could
+never prove.  Remember the last election, there was a big scandal about the
+Corps endorsing Vice President Clark?"
+
+
    
+"Sure.  It was big news.  Made all
+the nets," Ivanova says.  "Their charter prohibits them recommending
+candidates to their members."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi continues.  "Exactly.  Now Jack
+didn't admit anything, but he did say that the Homeguard wasn't behind
+President Santiago's assassination.  But what if it was the PsiCorps?  What
+if they wanted someone in office who was sympathetic to the Corps?  Right
+before Earth Force 1 exploded, the Vice-President got off at Mars, saying he
+had the flu.  Pretty convenient, isn't it?"
+
+
    
+Sherdian and Elizabeth say good-bye to each other, but he promises to
+write to her, letting her know how he is.  He thanks her for coming, and
+thanks her for everything she did.  "You're my brother," she tells him.  She
+waves to him and leaves.  Right after she does, Sheridan receives a
+call from Ivanova, telling him to come to C&C.
+
+
    
+G'kar and Na'toth are in G'kar's quarters.  "Things have changed, Na'toth,
+and they will never be the same.  But we are Narns.  We have learned to cope
+with change--to triumph in the face of adversity.  We will overcome this as
+well.  We have no other choice."  Na'toth asks about something G'kar is
+holding, and he tells her that it is a human book.  He tells her that he has
+been studying their literature, and that he came across that book, and that
+he believes humans may be wiser than the Narns thought.  He reads from
+it, and while he is doing so, we see Lennier with Delenn in her quarters,
+as she puzzles over, and examines, her new form:
+
+
    
+Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
    
+Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
    
+The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere,
    
+The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
    
+And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    
+Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
+
    
+
+
    
+ G'Kar reads the poetry.
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives at C&C and asks Ivanova why she called him there.  "On a
+hunch," she explains, "I just checked on the ship taking the prisoner back
+to Earth.  He was transferred to another ship a half an hour ago.  It had
+EarthForce security markings, it knew all the right access and
+identification codes, had papers authorizing the transfer... But I just
+backtracked with Earth Central.  The ID codes don't match any ship registered
+to Earth Force."
+
+
    
+"Great," Sheridan says.  "So he's gone, and all the
+evidence with him."  Sheridan asks if she notified President Clark, but
+she tells him that he isn't taking any calls.  "It gets cold up here
+sometimes, doesn't it, Lieutenant Commander?"
+
+
    
+"Yes sir," she replies, as
+they both contemplate the situation.  "It does indeed."
+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
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+Garibaldi is in MedLab, having the wounds incurred from his former
+aide's attack on him examined.  Garibaldi tries lying to Franklin about
+his condition, claiming that he is suffering less pain than he actually
+is.  Franklin doesn't like this, but tells Garibaldi that he is
+improving and should be able to return to work soon.  Garibaldi isn't
+sure he wants to return to work, though, since he doesn't seem very
+sure about Sheridan's appointment and isn't sure Sheridan can be trusted.
+
+
    
+As Garibaldi
+leaves, Franklin offers to talk to him about his problems, but
+Garibaldi is less than eager.  "I got shot in the back by my own guy,
+my own second-in-command.  He was right there all the time, a snake in
+the garden, and I didn't even see it.  What the hell kind of a security
+chief am I supposed to be if I can't see something like that?"  He says
+that he should have known about Jack's deception, and that he may not
+be qualified to be in charge.  "I keep asking myself what qualifies me
+to take back my job, and I haven't got an answer.  I wish to hell I
+did."  He leaves.
+
+
    
+Londo and Vir are in Londo's quarters, talking to an acquaintance of
+Londo's, a noble named Refa.  Refa tells Londo that monitoring stations had
+been set up in quadrant 37 to watch the Narn buildup, and when they
+heard that Londo would take care of the problem, they thought he was
+crazy.  But they were very surprised when the stations reported that
+the outpost had been destroyed.  Refa asks how it happened, but Londo
+won't tell him.  Refa accepts this and says that Londo has saved
+the Centauri from another one of their emperor's mistakes.
+
+
    
+ Londo and Vir listen to Refa.
+
+
    
+Refa says
+that Londo was very clever in the way he took care of the outpost, and
+that the Centauri need more people like Londo.  Refa says that, with
+the recent death of the emperor's son, there is no clear line of
+succession, but that he and his associates plan to take over the job of
+ruling when the emperor dies.  Refa says that there will be resistance
+to this, and that force will be required.  He asks Londo if he will be
+willing to help when the time comes.  Londo has reservations, but
+eventually agrees to do so.
+
+
    
+Elsewhere on the station, two groups of Drazi, one wearing purple
+sashes, and the other wearing green sashes meet.  As they walk past
+each other, one Drazi "accidentally" bumps into another one wearing a
+different color, and a brawl between the two groups begins.
+
+
    
+As Refa prepares to leave Babylon 5, Londo says goodbye to him.  Refa
+thanks Londo for his help, and tells him that he will attempt to
+convince his associates and followers that Londo is the sign that his
+group of the Centauri may rise to great power again.  As Refa leaves,
+Londo notices someone else standing nearby, a tall human in a long black
+cloak.  "Great Maker!" Londo says to Vir.  "A
+Technomage!"  Vir doesn't know what a Technomage is, so Londo tells him
+that "they use science to achieve the affect of magic."  Londo says
+that he hasn't seen one in a long time, and it is unusual to see them
+outside of their places of power.  It is even more unusual, and a bad
+omen, to see more than one at a time.  The Technomage, followed by two
+others, walks by Londo and leaves the area.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova are in Sheridan's office, talking about the
+incident between the two groups of Drazi.  Sheridan asks about the
+conflict, so Ivanova explains what she knows to him.  "It's a cultural
+thing.  Once every five years, all the Drazi, here and at home, divide
+up into two camps, and fight it out."  But it isn't a fight to the
+death-- the battles are used to determine what the dominant group for
+the next five years will be.  Sheridan says that he believes this
+conflict came at a good time, because he thinks that Ivanova should
+learn more about diplomacy, so that she can settle the more minor
+conflicts, while Sheridan deals with the station's major problems.
+"Besides, added responsibility comes with any promotion.  Don't you
+agree... Commander?"
+
+
    
+ Ivanova is promoted.
+
+
    
+As they share a toast of
+orange juice, Sheridan tells her that he arranged her promotion after his first
+day on the station.  He tells her that her first responsibility is to
+solve the Drazi problem.  As he leaves, Commander Ivanova watches the
+Drazi over the monitor, in their detention cell, fighting, and sighs as
+she realizes the job before her will not be easy.
+
+
    
+Vir finds Londo drinking at a bar.  He informs Londo that the Abai
+delegation have an appointment and are waiting to see him.  Ignoring
+this, Londo asks Vir if he believes in fate, to which Vir responds that
+he sees fate as a series of currents, eddies and tides, that pull one
+in certain directions.
+Londo tells Vir that, before their first emperor took the throne,
+he met with three Technomages.  Londo says that this is a powerful
+image to those that follow the old ways.  Londo explains that, if he
+had the endorsement of the Technomages, it would have considerable
+influence on those back on the Centauri homeworld.  He tells Vir
+to arrange it with the Technomages, a task which Vir doesn't want to
+perform.  Vir tries some of Londo's drink, hoping it will prepare him
+for the task, but it only makes him faint.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is in his quarters, utterly dejected, playing with his PPG
+while staring at the floor.
+Sheridan enters, and asks why Garibaldi hadn't been around
+to talk to him.  He says that Dr. Franklin diagnosed him fit to return
+to work, and wants to know what Garibaldi thinks.  Garibaldi says it
+might be easier for everyone if he moved on.  Sheridan puts Garibaldi's
+weapon in its holster and replies, "The universe doesn't give
+you any points for doing things that are easy." Sheridan tries to
+convince Garibaldi to stay, saying that he is a valuable resource he
+would like to have at his disposal.  Sheridan wants Garibaldi in the
+position, but leaves the decision up to Garibaldi.  Sheridan leaves.
+
+
    
+Ivanova is in the council chamber, addressing the green and purple
+Drazi.  She tells them that, although most of the species on Babylon 5
+don't care about the conflict, they would prefer it were settled quietly.
+She wants to help them find a peaceful solution to their problem.  She
+asks them what the nature of the conflict is, and they respond by
+saying that it is the colors of the sashes they wear.  She doesn't
+understand, and they again respond by saying it is the colors of the
+sashes.  She still doesn't understand the situation, especially
+regarding the distribution of the sashes, so the leader of the green
+Drazi explains further.  "We put green and purple in great barrel,
+equal to numbers of Drazi.  Then we reach in, we take.  Where there was
+one Drazi people, now there are two.  The two fight until there are
+one."
+
+
    
+ The Drazi leaders.
+
+
    
+They further explain that leadership is determined by who takes
+the leader's cloth.  Ivanova finds it outrageous that so much fighting
+could come from something so arbitrary, so she removes the purple sash
+from one of the Drazi wanting to be certain it is only the color of the
+cloth, and nothing else, that determines alignment.  She places it on
+another Drazi, who is already wearing a green sash.  Upon doing this,
+the Drazi suddenly erupt into violent conflict, with Ivanova trapped in
+the middle.  During the battle, several Drazi fall on her, and she
+screams in pain.
+
+
    
+Vir arrives at the area on Babylon 5 where the Technomages are
+staying.  He introduces himself, but there is no response.  He says
+that he needs to speak with someone in charge.  As if in reply, a large
+beast with fiery eyes and long fangs appears before him, growling
+menacingly.  Vir stands his ground, though, and after a moment, a voice
+rings out, "Stop program," and the beast disappears.
+
+
    
+ The beast threatens Vir.
+
+
    
+A Technomage
+appears from the shadows and comments on how difficult it was to
+frighten him, but Vir says that's a requirement if you work with Londo.
+The Technomage asks why Vir is there, and Vir responds that Londo wants
+an audience.  The Technomage declines, saying that the Technomages
+don't do that sort of thing.  Vir tells the Technomage that Londo is
+willing to pay, but the Technomage is not swayed.  Vir tries to appeal
+to the Technomage by saying that if he returns without completing the
+task, his personal situation will become unfortunate, but the
+Technomage counters, saying that if he does not leave, Vir's situation
+will become even more unfortunate.  Not wishing to return empty-handed,
+Vir asks the Technomage his name.  "Elric," the Technomage answers, and
+warns Vir not to return.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin examines Ivanova, telling her that her foot is broken in
+three places.  He also tells her that, though he can help her, it will
+take three weeks to heal, if he speeds up the process, in addition to
+her having to wear a cast.  He offers her something for the pain, but
+she declines.  Sheridan enters and asks to speak with Ivanova
+privately.  He asks her what her next move is, but she isn't sure.  He
+offers to postpone the assignment, but she again refuses.  She says
+that this is particularly difficult because the Drazi have no differences
+that must be resolved.  She believes she needs to come at the problem
+from another angle, possibly finding a less-violent way to structure
+the conflicts.  Sheridan says he thinks that's a good idea, and
+leaves.  Ivanova calls security, telling the Drazi to meet in chambers, so
+they can try the resolution again.
+
+
    
+Vir reports to Londo the experience he had with the Technomage, but
+Londo finds the situation unacceptable, telling Vir he must return.
+Vir tells him that it won't work, and that the Technomages aren't
+interested in money or power.  Londo tells Vir that it is very
+important that he be seen with them, as it would act as a powerful
+symbol.  Londo surmises that if he, as an ambassador, has failed, he
+needs to find someone more powerful, someone to whom they will listen.
+Londo leaves abruptly.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is walking around outside the Zocalo when he meets up with Lou
+Welch, the security officer.  After some small talk,
+Lou asks how Garibaldi is.  Garibaldi says he's all right, and Lou asks
+when he will be returning to duty.  Garibaldi doesn't say anything, but
+Lou asks again.  Garibaldi still isn't sure, but does say that he will
+be returning soon.  Lou receives a call from security, saying that
+there are more difficulties with the Drazi.  He has to leave, but tells
+Garibaldi he will see him later.
+
+
    
+ Garibaldi and Lou Welch.
+
+
    
+Londo is talking to Sheridan about the Technomages.  Sheridan tells
+Londo that he was doubtful about their existence.  Londo says that the
+Centauri have had many experiences with them, and that they can be
+troublemakers unless one knows how to deal with them.  Londo says that
+he does know how to deal with them, and he offers his assistance to
+Sheridan with the Technomages.  Sheridan explains to Londo that the
+Technomages are emigrating, and that Earth wants information about
+their situation.  Sheridan asks for Londo's help, and Londo eagerly
+agrees.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Ivanova receives news from security that, on the Drazi
+homeworld, the violence has escalated from beating to killing.  She
+asks if the local Drazi know about it, and asks for a full
+tactical squad to back her up.  When she arrives at the council
+chambers, she finds the room littered with the bodies of purple Drazi.
+
+
    
+Elric is upset that Sheridan doesn't believe that the Technomages are
+there peacefully.  Sheridan tries to explain that, because of the great
+numbers of Technomages present -- over a hundred -- and the secrecy behind their
+activities, he needs some information to ensure the safety of the
+station.  Elric says the Technomages have the right to do whatever they
+want.  Sheridan says he just wants answers.  Londo enters,
+claiming he was detained.  He sets down the glass he was holding, and
+sets something else down behind it.  Elric is upset that Londo is
+involved, and tells Sheridan that Londo had been asking for an audience
+ever since he arrived.  Londo denies this, but Elric responds by
+showing Londo and Sheridan a recording he made of Vir, requesting an
+audience.  Londo comments that recording a conversation is a very low
+thing to do, but offers forgiveness to Elric.  Elric says he doesn't
+want Londo to misrepresent the gesture of friendship as some sort of
+endorsement.  When Londo answers negatively, Elric glances at the small
+recording device Londo had placed behind the glass; it explodes.
+Elric tells Londo he wants respect.  Sheridan threatens Londo with expulsion
+from the station for this action.  Londo apologizes, and leaves
+quickly.
+
+
    
+ Elric plays back Vir's
+message.
+
+
    
+Sheridan accompanies Elric back to his quarters, but says that there
+are still questions he needs answered.  Elric asks Sheridan if he
+believes in magic.  "When I was twelve, I used to sit in my dad's
+garden, the air full of the smell of orange blossoms, watching the sky,
+dreaming of far away places...  Back then, I think I believed in just
+about everything."  Sheridan says that he thinks there are some things
+people don't understand, and that things which
+people do not understand might be considered magic; for example, Babylon 5
+would be considered magic by humans of a thousand years earlier.
+
+
    
+Elric says that,
+in a way, it is magic.  "Magic of the human heart, focused
+and made manifest by technology.  Every day you here create greater
+miracles than the burning bush."
+
+
    
+"But God was there first," says Sheridan, "and He didn't need plasma
+coils or solar collectors."
+
+
    
+"Perhaps.  Perhaps not.  It is within that ambiguity that we exist.  We
+are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers.  We study the mysteries of
+laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and
+invocations of equations.  These are the tools we employ, and we know
+many things."  Sheridan asks what, and Elric answers that they know the
+important things -- the answers to some questions that people have asked
+since time began.  "Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with
+you forever, seven words to make them go without pain, how to say
+goodbye to a friend who is dying, how to be poor, how to be rich, how
+to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them from you.  That is
+why we are going away -- to preserve that knowledge."  Sheridan asks what
+the knowledge must be preserved from, and Elric answers.  "There is a
+storm coming, a black and terrible storm.  We would not have our
+knowledge lost, or used to ill purpose.  From this place, we will
+launch ourselves into the stars.  With luck, you will never see our
+kind again in your lifetime.  I know you have your orders, Captain.
+Detain us if you wish, but I cannot tell you where we're going.  I can
+only ask you to trust us."  Elric takes Sheridan's hand, and closes
+it.  He walks away, leaving Sheridan holding an orange blossom.
+
+
    
+Ivanova, on crutches, goes to the quarters of the green Drazi, asking
+to see their leader regarding the death of the purples.  At first, the
+Drazi outside is reluctant to let her in, but, after some further
+coaxing from Ivanova, he relents and lets her inside.  She goes to the
+leader, who asks for her help.  He tells her that he has a way to solve
+the problem without any fighting, but it will require her help.
+
+
    
+ Ivanova listens to the plan.
+
+
    
+He asks her to tell the purple Drazi
+to gather at brown 29, an isolated section of the station where they
+won't disturb anyone else.  Once the purple
+Drazi are all there, they will be ejected into space, thereby
+causing the greens to win.  Ivanova tries to get him to reconsider,
+claiming that they are still Drazi, but the green leader will not
+listen, saying only that they are purple, and therefore not important.
+She refuses to go along, but he tells her that they already sent a message, in
+her name, to the purples, to move the plan forward.  She tries to use her
+link to call for help, but she is prevented from this when it
+is taken from her.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is wandering through the corridors of Babylon 5, when he runs
+into Lou, who tells him that they received an uplink from Ivanova,
+saying that all the purple Drazi should meet in brown 29.  Garibaldi
+accepts this for a moment, but quickly
+changes his mind.  He asks Lou if it was really an uplink, and not a
+personal message.  Lou answers affirmatively, saying that the message
+said she would be offline for a while.  Garibaldi asks the source of
+the uplink, and runs off.
+
+
    
+Ivanova tries to get the greens to relent, but they are admant in their
+refusal to listen to her attempts at helping them.  There is a pounding
+outside, and the Drazi at the door opens it, admitting Garibaldi, who
+is holding a small black box.  Garibaldi claims he is a salesman, who
+wants to sell the Drazi an Acme Handy-Dandy Micro Helper.  He offers to
+demonstrate, but is met with resistance.  He says that it is just his
+way of helping, but the Drazi continue to refuse.  "If there's anybody
+in here who needs a little help," he announces to the room, "just say
+the word, and I'm here."  Ivanova elbows a nearby Drazi and shouts out,
+"Garibaldi!"  The two of them begin to fight the green Drazi.
+
+
    
+Londo is in his quarters, having considerable difficulty, when Vir
+enters.  Londo explains that a holodemon has possessed his data
+system.  It is eating up files, records, and buying stocks he would
+never purchase for himself, in addition to playing painful Narn
+opera continually.
+
+
    
+ Narn opera.
+
+
    
+Vir suggests that Londo apologize.  Londo refuses at first, but
+when his computer suddenly reports that he is the new owner of 500,000
+shares of Fireflies Incorporated, then blacks out the entire room,
+Londo agrees.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi meets up with a large delegation of green Drazi, who have
+been marching through the halls, going to brown 29.  Garibaldi says
+that the purple drazi accepted their story, and are waiting in there,
+but he refuses to let them go in.  Garibaldi says that he plans to
+leave the purples in there until the end of the Drazi week.  The green
+leader laughs, saying that the Drazi cycle, the length of the conflict,
+is not a week, but a year.  A Drazi year is equal to 1.2 Earth years.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and Garibaldi realize they can't keep them in there that long.
+She again tries to convince them that their conflict is absurd, as they
+are fighting over nothing more than pieces of cloth.  The green Drazi
+leader asks why it is different than fighting over a flag.  She says it
+is different because flags represent the country of origin, and stand
+for something important about the countries over which they fly.
+
+
    
+Ivanova
+rips the green sash from the leader of the green Drazi, who, with
+the rest of his troops, immediately stands at attention.  He says that
+whoever takes the cloth of the green leader becomes the green leader,
+and the greens must follow whoever that is.  She doesn't believe that
+could possibly to her, but the former green leader explains that the rules of
+battle go back long before contact with other races, and the proposed
+rule change was lost in bureaucracy.
+
+
    
+Using her new position, Ivanova
+orders the green Drazi to follow her to the quartermaster's office,
+where she will either lock them in the brig for assaulting her, or
+change the colors of their sashes from green to purple.
+
+
    
+Londo cautiously approaches the section of the station where the
+Technomages are residing.  He tries to avoid apologizing for as long as
+he can, but the strange lights and gutteral noises, as though coming
+from a large animal, prompt him to continue.  When the noise reaches
+its climax, he finally apologizes for any way in which he might have
+offended them.  He offers to help them, should they ever return.
+He walks steadily out of the area without noticing the three small
+gremlins hanging onto the back of his coat.
+
+
    
+At a party celebrating Garibaldi's return to duty, Ivanova asks what
+made Garibaldi return.  He explains that, as Sheridan pointed out, he
+does know the station and the people on it better than anyone else.  He
+explains that it was because of this he knew Ivanova was in danger--he
+knew she would never communicate via an uplink, but would always use
+her own link.  He also says that he is perfect for the job
+because he doesn't trust anyone, or anything.  Sheridan receives a
+message saying that the Technomages are leaving.  Before he leaves,
+however, he tells Garibaldi that he is glad he is remaining on the
+station.
+
+
    
+Londo approaches Elric, thanking him sarcastically for the gift, which
+caused considerable damage to his quarters.  Londo asks Elric if the
+torment ends after he leaves, or if he will have to pay for it for the
+rest of his life.  "I'm afraid you're going to have to spend the rest
+of your life paying for your mistakes.  Not this one, of course.  It's
+trivial -- I have withdrawn the spell.  But there will be others."
+
+
    
+ Londo catches up with Elric.
+
+
    
+Londo asks Elric to explain, which he does.  "You are touched by darkness,
+Ambassador.  I see it as a blemish that will grow with time.  I could
+warn you, of course, but you would not listen.  I could kill you, but
+someone would take your place.  So, I do the only thing I can.  I go.
+Oh, I believe it was an endorsement you wanted.  A word or two, a
+picture, to send to the folks back home, confirming that you have a
+destiny before you."  Elric provides this.  "Well, take this, for
+what little it will profit you.  As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari,
+I see a great hand reaching out of the stars.  The hand is your hand.
+And I hear sounds--the sounds of billions of people calling your
+name."
+
+
    
+"My followers?"
+
+
    
+"Your victims."  With that, Elric leaves.
+
+
    
+When told that the Technomage ship is ready to leave, Sheridan
+authorizes it to do so.  Looking at the orange blossom given him by
+Elric, he ponders its meaning, and the destinies of the Technomages who just
+left through the jumpgate to begin their journey.  "What was it he
+said?  'Dreamers, shapers, singers, makers...'  Part of me says we'll
+not see their like again.  But the part of me that still believes in
+magic says, 'Don't be so sure.'"
+
+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
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+At C&C, Ivanova delivers a message to Sheridan from Captain Maynard of
+the Cortez.  The Cortez is coming to Babylon 5 to pick up supplies.
+Ivanova notices that they are asking for a lot of supplies, and
+Sheridan explains that it is because they have been travelling for five
+years.  The Cortez is an Explorer ship, a rare sight for most people
+since such ships are nearly always out mapping the edges of known space.
+Sheridan is informed
+that the ship is coming through the jumpgate, and everyone is amazed by
+it; it's nearly as long as Babylon 5 itself.  Sheridan tells
+everyone at C&C to take a good look.
+
+
    
+ The Cortez.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Captain Jack Maynard of the Cortez spend some time getting
+reacquainted.  Maynard talks about some of the mapping he did on the
+rim, and says that he returned to fix one of the Euphrates jump gates
+and to resupply.
+
+
    
+Delenn approaches them, and Sheridan introduces the
+two.  Delenn makes a request to convene the council to discuss the
+problems in sector 19, and Sheridan agrees to do so.  Maynard is
+confused about Delenn's apperance, not understanding how a Minbari can
+look so unusual.
+
+
    
+"There's the story she told us," Sheridan explains, "but
+then the Minbari never tell you the whole truth."
+
+
    
+Maynard agrees.
+They talk about Babylon 5, and Sheridan talks about how busy the job is
+keeping him.  Maynard says that he never thought Sheridan would accept
+such an assignment.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is in MedLab, being examined by Dr. Franklin.  Garibaldi says
+that he appreciates Franklin's help, but eats whatever he wants
+whenever he wants, and as much as he chooses.  Dr. Franklin says that
+Garibaldi can no longer do that, as he is iron-deficient and has high
+blood pressure.  Dr. Franklin says that, to remedy the situation,
+Garibaldi needs to be put on a restricted diet.  Garibaldi objects,
+saying that it is almost time for him to make Bagna Cauda, an Italian
+fondue that contains olive oil, garlic, butter, anchovies, and other
+ingredients, but Franklin says he shouldn't have it, and that he should stay
+away from salt and bread especially.  Garibaldi says that, without
+those things, he can't make Bagna Cauda.  Dr. Franklin still won't
+allow Garibaldi to eat it, and gives him a list of other things he
+shouldn't eat.  Garibaldi looks at the list and is angered that most of
+his favorite foods are there.
+
+
    
+ Unpleasant diet plan.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin says that he is serious and that this gives him
+the opportunity to call in the ranking officers for a nutritional
+profile, as they probably all have poor eating habits.
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells Maynard about his first day on Babylon 5, regarding the
+Narns and Centauri, the Vorlons, the Minbari's feelings toward him, and
+Delenn's chrysalis.  Sheridan says he is handling things one day at a
+time.  Maynard says that he never imagined Sheridan would be on the
+station.  He wonders why the President would choose someone the Minbari
+didn't like.  He also wonders how Sheridan is doing, since this job was
+not what he was trained for.  Sheridan says that he can make a
+difference on Babylon 5, and that doing that is important.  Maynard doesn't
+understand how Sheridan could be satisfied with a desk job, but
+Sheridan says, "Well, it's a hell of a desk to be tied to."
+
+
    
+ Toasting Sheridan's desk job.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi reports to Sheridan about a recent wave of shoplifting cases.
+Sheridan is upset that Garibaldi
+would come to him with such a minor problem.  He says that he is sure
+Garibaldi can handle the problem, and expects a full report as soon as
+the guilty parties are apprehended.  Garibaldi thought that Sheridan
+wanted to know everything that happened on the station.  Sheridan says
+he wants to know everything important that happens, but wants Garibaldi
+to take care of the details.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, Ivanova, Warren Keffer, and the leader of Zeta Squadron are
+in the officer's lounge, listening to some of Captain Maynard's stories
+about the rim.  Maynard says he wants to hear their stories, but the
+others say that his stories are more interesting.  Keffer asks Maynard
+where he is headed next, and Maynard says that he is going back to the
+rim to build jump gates so the area can be explored.  Ivanova asks
+about Maynard's experiences in hyperspace, but Maynard is unsure what
+she means.  Keffer tells Maynard about the Universe Today article a few
+months earlier asking if something was living in hyperspace.  Maynard
+isn't sure about the answer to that, but does say that he has seen
+something out there, and that it is "stranger than any one of us can
+imagine."
+
+
    
+Sheridan escorts Maynard back to his quarters, and asks if his comments
+about hyperspace were true, or if he made it up.  Maynard says that
+they were true.  "Well," he continues, "it wasn't in hyperspace,
+though.  But you know, things can get kind of weird out on the rim,
+too.  It's funny.  You never know what you're going to find when you
+look over the edge of what's known and into what's not.  We were in
+sector 857.  I took my nav officer, Lietuenant Patrick, with me for a
+look around in one of our scout ships.  Well, I noticed that we'd
+gotten out of sight of the Cortez, and I was, I was just about ready to
+turn back when I saw something.  It was maybe a thousand kilometers
+away--black against space.  Now, the reason that I knew it was there is
+that it blotted out the stars behind it.  I don't know the exact shape
+of it, but...it was big.  I turned to Pat, to ask him if he could see
+it, and when I looked back, it had vanished."
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells Maynard
+that he is the second person in a month to tell him that something
+strange is happening out on the rim.  He asks if Lieutenant
+Patrick saw anything.  Maynard says he only saw a blink--a change in
+space.  "He doesn't know what it was any more than I do," Maynard
+continues.  "But it's there.  And it was real.  It still sends a shiver
+up my back when I think about it."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is talking with a young man named Orwell.  Orwell tells
+Garibaldi that it will be very difficult to obtain the items he wants.
+Garibaldi says he can pay for it, but Orwell thinks it will be
+difficult to obtain because Garibaldi won't accept substitutes, and it
+is extremely difficult to find the items.  Garibaldi offers a bonus and
+tells Orwell not to
+mention anything about it to Dr. Franklin.
+
+
    
+ "How much to tell nobody?"  "You
+couldn't afford it."
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Sheridan is in
+MedLab, talking to Dr. Franklin, who says that Sheridan should lose ten
+pounds, and should avoid meat, fat, and should eat lots of vegetables.
+
+
    
+"I'm not sure I understand the intent of this meeting, Teronn," Delenn
+tells the Minbari who is speaking with her.
+
+
    
+He explains that the other
+Minbari on the station are afraid that Delenn is no longer one of
+them.
+
+
    
+"I am more 'one of us' at this moment, than I have ever been.
+More than you will ever know," she tells him.  She says that she
+appreciates the concern, but says she can't tell him anything else.
+
+
    
+He tells her that they need to understand what has happened.
+
+
    
+"Understanding is not required.  Only obedience."
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+Teronn says that
+they would be obedient if they could be assured that she was still one
+of their own kind.  He says they have the right to know if she is.  "If
+you can not give us what we need," he continues. we will ask permission
+to send a representative to speak directly with the Grey
+Council...unless you object." She does not object.  Teronn leaves.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin tells Ivanova that she too needs to go on an increased
+diet in order to replenish deficiences in calcium, iron, and other
+minerals that are hampering the healing of her leg.  He hands her a
+food plan, and after looking at it, she protests that she will gain
+weight.  As she leaves angrily, she says, "Figures.  All my life, I've
+fought against imperialism.  Now, suddenly, I AM the expanding Russian
+frontier."  As she leaves, Dr. Franklin adds, "But with very nice
+borders."
+
+
    
+Sheridan escorts Maynard to the Cortez.  Sheridan tells Maynard that he
+wishes he were going along.  Maynard says he understands Sheridan's
+feelings, but does regard his job as just a job.  He says that
+interesting things don't happen very often, but Sheridan doesn't
+agree.  "The adventure is out there, Jack.  A man has to go meet it."
+
+
    
+Maynard says that sometimes, you don't need to find it, because it will
+find you.  Captain Maynard is then called to the Cortez.  He and
+Sheridan say their goodbyes and leave.  Sheridan goes to C&C, where he
+gives the final departure clearance to the Cortez.  He watches it enter
+the jumpgate and disappear.
+
+
    
+Later, Ivanova is in Sheridan's office, talking to him about problems
+she is having with two of the delegations on board.  He tells her that
+such problems should be her concern, but she informs him that they will
+not accept a solution from anyone but him.  Sheridan reluctantly agrees
+to help solve the delgations' problems, but Ivanova is not completely
+satisfied.  She tells him that she feels he has been acting strangely
+ever since the Cortez arrived.  She asks him if he wants to talk about
+it.
+
+
    
+"I command starships, Susan," he explains to her, "not cities in
+space.  These problems, the...the petty complaints, the endless
+bickering, the constant negotiations.  Jack Maynard said this isn't
+what I was trained for, and he's right.  I mean, I am constantly
+sandbagged, swamped, drowned, and snowed under by nothing but trivia.
+I mean, look at this desk.  I can't find a thing on it.  You know me.
+Is this me?  Huh?"
+
+
    
+She tries to tell him that command a starship and
+commanding Babylon 5 are two different challenges, but that one is not
+more difficult than the other.  She doesn't accept this as an answer
+because he never had difficulty with problems such as these on a
+starship.
+
+
    
+He says that Captain Maynard was right.  "They have turned
+me into a bureaucrat, a politician."
+
+
    
+Ivanova asks him if he believes
+President Clark was wrong in assigning him to the post.
+
+
    
+"I don't
+know," Sheridan answers.  "Maybe he was, and it's just taken this long
+to sink in."
+
+
    
+The Cortez is in hyperspace when an explosion rocks the ship.
+After they completed the jump, their fusion reactor spiked, dropping
+power to 30%, and causing the ship's tracking system to malfunction.
+This caused them to lose their lock to the jump point and rendered them
+incapable of leaving hyperspace.  Though they are flying blind, they
+continue to move through hyperspace, hoping to eventually locate a jump
+point through which they can exit.
+
+
    
+Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Sheridan are sitting at a table together,
+eating dinner.  They eye the plates before them with great distate, not
+seeing the types of food they would normally eat.  Garibaldi explains
+that he was able to solve the problems with the shoplifters.  Sheridan
+tries to eat some
+of his salad, but can't.  He points at Garibaldi and accuses him of
+being at fault for the food plan.  Garibaldi tries to absolve himself
+of blame, but the three find a better solution: Ivanova gives her food
+to Garibaldi, who gives his to Sheridan, and Sheridan gives his to
+Ivanova.  They are all about to eat the meals they would prefer when
+Dr. Franklin walks by and catches them.  They all quickly switch plates
+around again and begin eating their proper meals.
+
+
    
+ Almost enjoying a meal.
+
+
    
+The Cortez is still flying blind, and while power has returned, they do
+not have the time necessary to fix the navigational systems of the
+ship, as it would take them 48 hours, by which time they would no
+longer be able to locate the jump gate's signal.  Captain Maynard
+orders their communications officer to send a mayday.  Though the
+officer doesn't believe it could travel far enough in hyperspace to be
+of any use, they send it anyway.  Babylon 5 receives the mayday, and
+Sheridan responds to it, saying that help is on the way.  He orders all
+available pilots to their squadron bays.  Ivanova reminds Sheridan that
+no ship has ever escaped from hyperspace in such a situation.  Sheridan
+knows that, but rushes off to prepare anyway.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin is examining Delenn in MedLab.  She objects to being
+examined so much, but he says that, in addition to curiosity, he has a
+responsibility to make sure she is healthy after her change.  She says
+that she is, and has suffered only minor problems, such as dizziness and
+fatigue.  He asks if anything else is bothering her, and she says no.
+He also asks if the other Minbari are accepting the change without
+question.
+
+
    
+"Of course," Delenn says.  Changing the
+subject, she asks Dr. Franklin about a new delegation coming to the
+station.  Dr. Franklin doesn't understand, but Delenn explains that
+Garibaldi was waiting for them.  "I believe," she tells him, "they're
+called Bagna Cauda?"
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova are in the squadron bays, addressing the pilots
+who will go out to attempt to rescue the Cortez.  Sheridan says that
+they must try, even though no ship has been found when lost before.
+They don't know where the ship is, but they do know that, while the
+first mayday sent by the Cortez was strong, they are fading now.
+
+
    
+Galus, the leader of Zeta squadron, asks how they can find the ship if
+they do not even know how to begin looking.
+
+
    
+Sheridan says that he has
+an idea, although it is a risky one.  "The first fighter will stop just
+inside the gate, and lock onto the gate's signal," Sheridan explains.
+"The second fighter will proceed 1000 kilometers further in, and lock
+onto the signal of the first one.  The third fighter will lock onto the
+signal of the second one, and so on."  He also says that they could
+increase the range, if necessary, by moving subsequent fighters further
+out.  While it is a dangerous mission, all the pilots understand and
+prepare to leave, though both Sheridan and Ivanova wish they were
+going with them.
+
+
    
+Sheridan addresses all fighters as they prepare to leave on the
+mission.  "An old friend of mine once quoted me a ancient Egyptian
+blessing: `God be between you and harm, and all the empty places we
+must walk.'  Bring the Cortez home."  The fighters then leave the
+station and enter the jumpgate, to search for the Cortez.
+
+
    
+There is no longer a signal from the Cortez, but the fighters are
+positioned inside the jumpgate, relaying the message to each other, and
+broadcasting it in hopes that the Cortez will receive it, though there
+hasn't been a response yet.  Soon, the Cortez does receive the signal
+from Babylon 5, and responds, saying that their lock-on
+still isn't functioning.  Sheridan orders the Cortez to continue
+broadcasting their mayday so that a fighter can find them and
+lead them out of hyperspace.  The fighters chosen for this are Galus
+and Keffer.  They have difficulty locating the Cortez, because the radio
+locator "doesn't want to settle."  Eventually, the fighters move out so
+far that they lose contact with Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+ Starfuries to the rescue.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and Sheridan are both in C&C, anxiously awaiting any
+information about the Cortez, but they hear nothing.  Sheridan asks
+Ivanova to take a break, but she doesn't want to any more than he
+does.  Sheridan says that Maynard is too good a friend to leave his
+post.  "If this turns into a wake," he says to Ivanova, "I want to be
+here."  Sheridan explains that Maynard was his first commanding officer;
+Sheridan worshipped him.  Ivanova understands his feelings, and
+says that she will be there for him if the Cortez does not make it
+back, but asks him to remember the Egyptian blessing, given him by
+Maynard, in the meantime.
+
+
    
+Keffer locates the mayday from the Cortez, and radios Galus, telling
+him so.  Galus tells Keffer to go, saying that he will maintain
+position while Keffer finds the Cortez.  Keffer soon finds the Cortez,
+and approaches it.  Keffer loses contact with Galus when a Shadow ship
+appears in hyperspace and collides with Galus' ship, destroying it.
+On its way, the Shadow ship also collides with Keffer's ship, though
+luckily it only sends it spinning away, stabilizers offline.
+
+
    
+Maynard and the Cortez
+manage to locate Keffer's ship, but notice only that he repeatedly
+fires in the same direction as his ship spins.  Captain Maynard determines
+that this must
+mean Keffer wants him to go in the direction of the fire.  They begin
+to lay in the course when they regain contact with Keffer's Starfury.
+They offer to come and retrieve him, but Keffer says that both vessels
+will be lost if they waste time picking him up.
+Maynard understands, and orders the Cortez
+to be taken back to Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, Ivanova, and the others
+are relieved at the safe return of the Cortez and most of the
+Starfuries, though saddened that two fighters did not make it back.
+
+
    
+Orwell is waiting impatiently for Garibaldi, who soon arrives.  Orwell
+explains that he had difficult obtaining the items Garibaldi wanted,
+but did manage to do so, and opens a case for Garibaldi's inspection.
+Garibaldi begins examining the contents when he is interrupted by
+Dr. Franklin, who realized that Orwell had the ability to gather the
+ingredients for Bagna Cauda so far away from Earth.  Orwell leaves, and
+Garibaldi says that he wants Bagna Cauda for his birthday.  Dr.
+Franklin doesn't accept this as an excuse until Garibaldi
+explains further.  "My father always made Bagna Cauda for me on my
+birthday.  Pop was a great cook, and Bagna was his speciality.  When he
+used to cook it, I mean, the smell, oh man, the smell would fill the
+whole place.  It's funny, you know.  When I watched him cook, I knew he
+was doing it because he loved me.  He just could never say it, so he
+did that instead.  He's been gone a long time.  So, now, I make it
+myself once a year, honoring him, you know.  It's...it's the only part
+of him I got left."  Franklin believes the story, and tells Garibaldi
+to make enough for two people.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in the arboretum when Delenn comes in.  She expresses her
+sympathy over the loss of the two Starfuries.  Sheridan says that the
+hardest part of command is sending others out to die.  She tries to
+tell him that because he did so, they managed to save others; he was
+in the right place.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+He asks
+what makes her think that he belongs on Babylon 5, and she answers.
+"The universe puts us in places where we can learn.  They are never
+easy places.  They are right.  Wherever we are is the right place at
+the right time.  Pain sometimes comes.  It is part of the process of
+constantly being born."
+
+
    
+Sheridan says he thinks she's been doing thinking
+about this on her own.
+
+
    
+"Perhaps," she tells him.  "We are both, I
+suppose, going through transitions.  But the universe knows what it's
+doing."
+
+
    
+Sheridan says that he wishes he had the faith in the universe
+that she did.
+
+
    
+"Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain," Delenn
+says to him.  Perhaps the greatest of all time.  The molecules of your
+body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula
+outside, that burn inside the stars themselves.  We are starstuff, we
+are the universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out.  As we
+have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of
+perspective."
+
+
    
+Keffer is still lost in hyperspace, and running out of air, though he
+finally gets his thrusters back on-line.  He cannot, however, locate
+the jumpgate because his lock-on systems are not functioning.
+Suddenly, another Shadow ship appears, flies a brief distance, and
+vanishes.  Keffer tells the computer to analyze its flight path and
+tells it to correlate with the last sighting.
+
+
    
+ An unlikely savior.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is about to
+give up on Keffer's return when the jumpgate activates, and Keffer
+comes through it, requesting permission to dock.  Sheridan happily
+agrees.
+
+
    
+Keffer proposes a toast to Commander Galus.  Ivanova asks Keffer if he
+could determine anything about the object that hit him, and indirectly,
+saved him.  He says he couldn't tell anything about it, but that
+because he knew its position when it first appeared relative to his
+position, he was able to find his way out, using its origination point
+the second time as a reference.  But he didn't know what it was.  "There
+was just this feeling that something dark and dangerous had gone by,"
+he explains.
+
+
    
+Maynard agrees that the feeling is powerful.  Keffer
+wants to learn what the object was, but Ivanova says there are more
+important
+matters to attend to.  She promotes Keffer to the leader of Zeta
+Squadron.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin are in Garibaldi's quarters, preparing to
+eat the Bagna Cauda.  Though Franklin initially objects, once he tastes
+it, he admits that he likes it very much.  Garibaldi offers him
+dessert.  Franklin says he didn't authorize dessert, but Garibaldi
+doesn't care -- he simply chooses not to give any to Franklin, who then
+objects to that, but soon loses his cares in the Bagna Cauda.
+
+
    
+ Franklin digs in.
+
+
    
+Ivanova enters Sheridan's office where Sheridan is hard at work.
+Ivanova tells Sheridan that the others would like to see him in the
+officer's club.  Sheridan says that he has much work to do, but will
+try to catch up to them in an hour or so.  He asks Ivanova if she has ever
+had a long talk with Ambassador Delenn.
+
+
    
+"From time to time."
+
+
    
+"She and the universe seem to have a special relationship."
+
+
    
+"Don't we all?" says Ivanova as she leaves.
+
+
    
+Sheridan leans back in his chair to contemplate what Ivanova and Delenn
+have said.  "Starstuff," he says, smiling.
+
+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
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    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives at C&C after Ivanova's call.  Babylon 5 has picked up a
+weak signal which Ivanova doesn't recognize coming out of deep space,
+from something that didn't use a jump gate.  Sheridan asks if it is an alien
+craft, but it isn't.  Ivanova plays the message for Sheridan: "This is
+the Copernicus.  We come in peace."
+
+
    
+In Downbelow, a man named Amis jumps out of a dumpster screaming,
+"Through the walls!  It's coming through the wa..."  He says he needs
+some ozones, but he doesn't have any with him.  He is suddenly seized
+by pain.  "No!" he screams.  "I'm stuck!  Get out of my head!  Where
+are you?"  He looks at the floor.  "There you are!"  He pushes some garbage
+aside
+and looks out a porthole, seeing the approaching craft.  "There you
+are!  I see you..."  He begins to recite the Lord's Prayer, but
+can barely remember the words.  He runs away screaming as
+the vessel approaches the station.
+
+
    
+Amis goes to the plaza,
+where he stands atop a table, delivering a doomsday speech to all the
+people there, warning them that Judgement Day is coming.  He says that
+they are all in great danger.  He sees G'kar and tries to warn him, but
+G'kar does his best to ignore him, and walks away.  Garibaldi arrives
+and grabs Amis, taking him off to the brig.
+
+
    
+ "Judgement Day is coming!"
+
+
    
+Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi attempt to identify the ship and
+determine why it didn't use the jumpgate.  A maintenance craft, sent to
+examine the ship, approaches it and shines its light on the ship's
+name.  There are some letters, difficult to make out, before the ship's
+name, but Sheridan says he thinks they say U.S.S.  Ivanova doesn't
+recognize the ship's design.  Sheridan explains to her that ships
+like these were "used in early deep-range exploration, back before we
+got jumpgate technology from the Centauri."  None of them, however,
+know what happened to the ship in the more than 100 years since it was
+launched.  Ivanova detects a life form aboard the vessel, and Sheridan
+orders the ship to be brought aboard the station.  Sheridan calls down
+to Dr. Franklin to inform him that they may be bringing a patient
+aboard.
+
+
    
+ The Copernicus.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, Franklin, and several other officers
+enter the ship and examine the contents.  Inside, they find two
+cryogenic freezers.  The occupant of one of the freezers is dead, but
+the other contains
+a young woman, whose life signs are deteriorating quickly.
+Franklin says that they must get her to MedLab quickly.  They open up
+the freezer and take her to MedLab.  As they begin to treat her
+vanishing pulse enroute, the transport tube's lights go wild for a moment.
+She suffers a heart attack, but Franklin and his assistants are able to
+treat her for it.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi enters the brig, where Amis is resting.  He is asleep, but
+thrashing about and shouting loudly about incoming weapons.  "Damn lurkers,"
+the guard says.  "We oughtta space the whole bunch of 'em."
+
+
    
+"Were you in the war?" asks Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+"No, I missed it."
+
+
    
+"Yeah, well he didn't."
+
+
    
+"How can you tell?"
+
+
    
+"I've had that same dream."  Garibaldi leaves.
+
+
    
+Ivanova is aboard the Copernicus, attempting to restore full power.  As
+soon as she does so, strange noises seem to come from all around her.
+She looks around, but sees nothing, and goes back to work.
+
+
    
+ On the Copernicus' bridge.
+
+
    
+Amis wakes up, with Garibaldi at his side.  Amis says that he is in
+perfect health, but doesn't know what he said or what he did.
+Garibaldi tells him what happened, and that they had to sedate him to
+get him to sleep.  Garibaldi asks Amis if he had done this before, and
+Amis says that he has done everything before.  Garibaldi asks where
+Amis was stationed during the war, and Amis admits that he was a, "gropo,"
+a ground pounder.  Garibaldi says that he was one, too.  Garibaldi asks
+him about his dreams, but Amis says that he doesn't dream.  Garibaldi tells
+him about the things he said in his sleep, and decides to let him leave
+the brig, though he recommends the man see a counselor.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, in MedLab, the woman from the cryogenic capsule, Mariah
+Cirrus, has passed from her unconciousness into a dreaming state.  After a
+few moments, she awakens with a start, and looks at her surroundings,
+frightened.  Dr. Franklin assures her that she will be all right.
+
+
    
+ Mariah wakes up.
+
+
    
+In Sheridan's office, Ivanova tells Sheridan that the man from the
+other cryogenic freezer should be alive, because the freezer didn't
+malfunction.  "Something," she says, "or someone murdered him."
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin examines the corpse from the other cryogenic capsule in
+MedLab.  "At the time of death," he tells Sheridan and Garibaldi, "the
+victim's weight appears to have been about 90 pounds.  Given his height
+and bone structure, his normal weight should have been about 180.  But
+malnutrition wasn't what killed him.  He died as a result of organ
+failure."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi asks why, and Franklin says that the man's organs
+are missing, as if something had pulled them out from the inside.
+But a thorough scan of the ship revealed that the organs were not on
+board.  Garibaldi wants to interrogate the woman that was with him,
+though Franklin insists she couldn't be responsible, because she was in
+stasis the whole time.  Sheridan and Garibaldi can't accept this as an
+explanation.  Franklin then goes to check on her, though Sheridan tells
+him that he wants to talk to her when it is possible.
+
+
    
+Mariah thanks Dr. Franklin for helping her.
+Franklin introduces himself.  He asks her how she got on the
+ship.  She explains that she and her husband were part of a commerical
+research group, which needed volunteers for a long-term deep space
+mission.  They volunteered and were put on the Copernicus, which would
+awaken them from their cryogenic sleep when they came in contact with
+an intelligent signal.  She asks how long they were asleep.  Franklin tells
+her that she was in the ship for over a hundred years.  She asks
+to see her husband, and Dr. Franklin tells her that he died during the
+voyage, and that they didn't know the cause.  She says that it seems as
+though they just said good-night to each other, and when she tries to
+cry, she can't, which Dr. Franklin explains is due to long-term stasis
+drying her tear ducts.  "God, what have I done?" she asks herself.
+
+
    
+Amis runs through the station, as if searching for the presence he
+believes is putting the station in danger.  He goes to the cargo bay,
+where he finds the Copernicus.  "Holy mother!" he shouts, before he is
+chased away by a guard.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin and Mariah are visiting various parts of the station.
+They go to the plaza, where Dr. Franklin explains the things she missed
+while cryogenically frozen.  "A few years after your ship left Earth,"
+he tells her, "we finally made contact with another species -- the
+Centauri.  We opened up trade relations and they gave us jumpgate
+technology.  Before that, we'd been pretty much limited to our own
+solar system.  After that, we were out among the stars, first leasing
+time on alien jumpgates, and then building our own."
+
+
    
+Mariah laments at
+how she and her husband didn't wait, and how things might be different
+had they not gone on the Copernicus.  Dr. Franklin tries to tell her
+that what she did took courage, but she brushes it off, wondering about
+what else she missed.  He tells her about some of the general things
+that have happened, and about the Dilgar and Minbari wars.  She feels
+bad that the humans hadn't outgrown violence while she was in
+suspension.  "It's gonna take a lot more than a hundred years to evole
+a better human," Franklin tells her.
+
+
    
+Ambassador G'Kar appears by their
+table, and Dr. Franklin introduces him to Mariah.
+"Take my advice and go back to the time you came from," G'Kar tells
+her.  "The future isn't what it used to be."
+
+
    
+As she ponders his
+words, she remembers, subconciously, something that happened to her
+during the voyage.  She is in her cryogenic capsule aboard the
+Copernicus, asleep, when something appears in the capsule with her.
+She wakes up in the capsule and screams.
+
+
    
+She wakes up for real, with Dr. Franklin, who
+tells her that she passed out and was taken to his quarters.  She
+thanks him again.  He asks her what her dream was about, but she
+doesn't remember anything about it.  She asks Dr. Franklin why he is
+interested in her dreams, and Franklin explains to her that her husband
+didn't die of a hardware malfunction, but was instead murdered.  She
+assumes that he means that she killed him, and he tries to tell her
+that he knows she didn't but wants to find out who -- or what -- did.  She
+begins crying that she is alone, feeling lost and distraught.  He tries
+to convince her otherwise, but stops and almost kisses her.  After they
+pull apart, he says that it is inappropriate, something to which she
+agrees.  Dr. Franklin suggests that she try to rest, even though she is
+very scared, which she does.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is eating in the Zocalo when Amis enters, again telling the
+patrons that they are all going to die.  Garibaldi escorts Amis out,
+telling him that he doesn't want Amis causing trouble on the station.
+Amis insists that he isn't crazy, and that something is on the
+station.  Garibaldi asks him what is on the station.  "Death," Amis
+replies.  "It came off that ship from the past.  I found it."
+Garibaldi asks Amis if he is sure.  "Yes.  I saw it do the same thing
+during the war."  As the two leave the Zocalo, in another part of the
+station, an alien, in an otherwise empty room, becomes the creature's
+next victim, his final word a scream as it attacks.
+
+
    
+ Garibaldi escorts Amis away.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Sheridan are in MedLab, listening to Dr. Franklin's
+findings about the latest victim.  Dr. Franklin explains that the
+alien's internal organs disappeared, with no visible entry or exit
+points, just like Mariah's husband.  Garibaldi expresses doubt that
+Mariah may be who she claims.  "I arrested a lurker named Amis," he
+says, "who was stationed on a deep-space listening post during the
+war.  Forty-seven men landed on that moon -- all of them were
+slaughtered, except for one."
+
+
    
+Franklin tells Sheridan that whatever
+killed them couldn't have come aboard the Copernicus because the scan
+revealed nothing, but Garibaldi says that it could be something they
+had never before encountered.  "I traced the ship's path.  It passed
+within the gravitational pull of the same moon that Amis was stationed
+on.  This Mariah Cirrus may not be what she appears."
+
+
    
+Franklin tells
+them that, since Mariah was with him the previous evening, she couldn't
+be responsible for the alien's death.  Sheridan orders that a
+watch, someone other than Franklin, be put upon Mariah around the clock.  Dr.
+Franklin is upset, taking this to mean that he isn't doing his job.
+Sheridan says he wants to protect the station; Dr. Franklin says
+he can't believe that this is happening on the word of a lurker.
+But Garibaldi tells Franklin that Amis won many medals during the war,
+making him fairly trustworthy.  Sheridan says that the League of
+Non-Aligned Worlds has asked for a council meeting to discuss the problem,
+and orders Franklin to go over her medical scans again.  "For what
+it's worth," Garibaldi tells Franklin after Sheridan leaves, "I hope
+you're right.  But if you're not, be careful."
+
+
    
+At the council meeting, a delegate says that the League insists
+that Mariah be removed from the station.  "She has brought something
+evil from the past...a soldier of darkness," he says to the council.
+Though Londo finds the situation laughable, G'kar takes it quite
+seriously, telling the delegate to continue, which he does.  "The forces
+of darkness do not move openly.  They work through others.  Use
+others.  When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, hid
+themselves away in secret places, and waited.  Now, the dark hand is
+reaching out and recalling them from their sleep."  Sheridan can't
+believe that Mariah is responsible, but the alien says, "Evil
+sometimes wears a pleasant face."
+
+
    
+G'kar thinks they should consider
+the delegate's word, but Londo doesn't.  Sheridan says that they shouldn't
+ignore what is going on.  Londo laughs and this, and leaves, saying
+they should kill the presence, if they find it.  The alien delegate says that
+the League will take action if Sheridan doesn't.  This angers Sheridan,
+who warns the League that Mariah will be protected at all costs.  He
+adjourns the meeting.  He talks to Ivanova, also present at the
+meeting, about the situation, and she asks him what he would do if a
+"soldier of darkness" did board the station via the Copernicus.
+Sheridan scoffs at this, saying he will believe it when he sees it,
+though Ivanova hopes it will not come to that.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi springs up in bed, apparently due to a bad dream, and goes to
+talk to Amis.  Garibaldi confronts Amis about the creature, telling him
+to take him where he found it.  Amis has a difficult time believing
+Garibaldi really believes him.  They go to the
+place where Amis had seen the creature earlier, though there is nothing
+there now.  Garibaldi draws his weapon, and searches for the creature,
+but only finds a lurker in hiding.  He grabs Amis, but Amis breaks
+away, and then shouts into midair for the creature to finish what it
+started.  He collapses near the wall, sobbing.  Finally understanding,
+Garibaldi tells Amis why he believes him.  "During the war there was a
+guy in my unit.  Kept telling everybody our perimeter was weak.  We
+laughed 'cause we checked it over and over.  It was secure.  We all
+figured he was nuts.  Until then, we'd never seen any action.  And
+then, one night, we stopped laughing.  They came through that perimeter
+like it was paper.  He was the first to die.  Saved our butts.  He was
+a nut, but he was right.  I believe you."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi asks Amis to tell him about the listening post, and Amis
+explains what happened to him.  "We were an intelligence-gathering
+unit, not set up for heavy combat.  We'd heard the Minbari were setting
+up a command and control post, so we slipped onto a small moon before
+they finished the perimeter scans.  We set up camp in old ruins of some
+kind.  As far as we knew, it was a dead world.  It came in the night,
+during a storm.  We heard nothing, saw nothing...It came right through
+the walls, like a hot wind.  The first man died, just meters from
+me -- never even screamed.  We ran... we ran.  For a second, I thought I
+lost it, and then I saw it.  Standing in the middle of a ball of
+lightning.  It looked like it had come straight from hell."
+
+
    
+"How did you survive?"  Garibaldi asks.
+
+
    
+"I didn't!  It kept me alive.  As a snack.  It becomes part of you,
+feeding on you.  The lucky ones were the men who died on the moon.
+What it took from me I can never get back.  When the rescue party
+showed up, I weighed 85 pounds.  That's how I knew it was on this
+station.  A part of me's still inside that thing.  I can feel it.  But
+nobody ever believed me...until now."
+
+
    
+"This feeling...can it lead you to it?"
+
+
    
+"I think... I think maybe that's what it's been doing.  All this
+time... Calling me.  I think maybe we have some unfinished business
+between us."  Without warning, Amis runs off.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin enters the Copernicus and finds Mariah there.  He asks why
+she is there, and she says that it is all she has...other than him, if
+that's even true.  He tells her he doesn't want to move too fast, and
+she understands.  She misses her husband, and wants to find the
+creature responsible, but she also says that she had marital problems,
+and that all she and her husband had left when they began their journey were
+the stars
+and their dreams.  Franklin understands, saying that he has devoted
+most of his life to his work, and that he has had little time for
+anything else, and that Babylon 5 isn't an appropriate place to raise a
+family.  Mariah says that she believes her husband wouldn't have liked
+the world in which she woke up.  Franklin tells her that what killed
+her husband is on the station, and he wants to know anything she knows
+that might help.  She tells him that, in her dreams, she is not alone
+in the cryogenic tube, and that she believes it used her to stay alive
+until it could find more food, which Franklin believes it has found on
+Babylon 5.  "I've put everybody here in great danger," she says.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Garibaldi walks through the corridors of Babylon 5, looking
+for Amis or other clues when he hears a scream coming from nearby,
+which he quickly runs to investigate.
+
+
    
+Later, Sheridan tells Garibaldi and Ivanova that official accounts blame the
+attack on the listening post on the Minbari.  Garibaldi says that Amis
+is certain the Minbari didn't attack the post, and that the alien took
+a part of him when it left his body, and that he could feel it on the
+station.  "If the same thing happened to Mariah," he suggests, "she
+might be able to help us find it."  Ivanova says it is too risky, and
+since they don't know the nature of the creature, they don't know what
+to do about it, since it may have control over her, causing her to
+scout for it without her knowledge.  Sheridan tells Ivanova and
+Garibaldi that whatever happened to the listening post is happening
+again, and that they need to be ready for whatever it is.
+
+
    
+Mariah is in asleep in MedLab when Garibaldi wakes her.  He tells her
+that he needs her help to find Amis.  He asks her if she can feel where
+the alien is, and she says that she believes she can.  Dr. Franklin
+says he will allow it, but only if he can come along to make sure she
+is in no danger.
+
+
    
+Ivanova reports to Sheridan on C&C that they received reports of weapon
+fire and part of a signal from Garibaldi.  Sheridan orders that section
+of the station to be sealed off.  He tries to contact Dr. Franklin, but
+can't, which Ivanova assumes is because Dr. Franklin went to search for
+the creature.  Sheridan agrees, and then tells Ivanova to bring out the
+heavy artillery, with which to fight the creature.  Ivanova and
+Sheridan, and several other officers, all heavily armed, go down to
+the section and find Franklin and Mariah outside tending to two injured
+officers.  Franklin tells Sheridan that Garibaldi is still in there,
+trying to find Amis and the creature.  Sheridan and Ivanova enter.
+
+
    
+ Off to fight the creature.
+
+
    
+Weapons at the ready, they search the area, but can see nothing.  Soon,
+they come to an open area, where Garibaldi is searching for Amis, whom
+he soon finds, being held in midair by some invisible force.
+Amis shouts at Garibaldi to shoot the creature, which
+is apparently attacking him.  Garibaldi fires at the air behind Amis,
+who drops
+to the ground.
+
+
    
+ The creature drops Amis.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tries to get him up as Sheridan and Ivanova
+move closer.  They all fire blindly into the area where the creature was
+last seen, though they don't do much damage to it.  Amis says that he
+believes the creature is waiting for him.  Sheridan then orders Ivanova
+to triangulate their fire, so that they set up a "kill zone, point
+blank."  Amis claims it won't work, that the creature is too smart.
+"You've got to give it what it wants!"  He runs out into the open area,
+shouting at the creature to come and get him.  The creature complies, and
+begins attacking Amis.  But, it walks directly into the kill zone.
+Garibaldi, Ivanova, Sheridan, and all the others fire madly at the
+creature, which looks very tall, humanoid, with horn-shaped protrusions coming
+from its head.  The creature falls to the ground and evaporates,
+apparently dead.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin and Mariah are in MedLab, checking on Amis, who will be
+okay.  Franklin asks how Mariah will fare, and offers to let Mariah
+stay on the station.  She declines, saying that she wants to mourn for
+the loss of her husband, bury him, and visit Earth.  She says that she
+wants to come back, if he is still interested, which he claims he will
+be.  "Don't make promises life won't let you keep," she tells him.
+They kiss, and then she leaves MedLab.
+
+
    
+Ivanova reports to Sheridan, saying that they finished analyzing the
+database from the Copernicus.  She found that Mariah was telling the
+truth.  But, Ivanova has something else to report.  She says that the
+ship lost about one tenth of its oxygen when it passed by a moon in
+sector 18x70x59, which would have happened when the creature came aboard, but
+when the ship left that sector, it was set on a new course.  They were
+lucky that the creature didn't know the ship would make contact with
+any signal it came across, or it would have passed right by without
+anyone noticing.
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks what course the ship had been programmed
+on, and Ivanova tells him that the ship was heading to the rim, "toward
+the exact place where Ambassador G'kar told us an ancient enemy was
+gathering its forces."  She asks if it was a coincidence that it was
+going to Z'ha'dum, and Sheridan says he didn't believe it was.
+
+
    
+"Something's going on, Commander," Sheridan tells Ivanova.  Ivanova
+agrees, saying that the sitatuation worries her a great deal as well.
+As they ponder the meaning of recent events, G'kar is in his quarters,
+reading the book of G'Quan, in which he sees a drawing of a tall
+creature, which bears a distinct resemblence to the one killed by
+Garibaldi, Sheridan, and Ivanova.
+
+
    
+ The Book of G'Quan.
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+While Sheridan and Ivanova take care of minor station affairs, Talia
+waits for a friend who soon arrives, Taro Isogi.  They greet each
+other, and he asks her what she thinks of his new Mars proposal.  "It's
+like all your proposals," she says.  "Too progressive, too risky, and
+too costly in the short run.  But if you can make it happen..."  He
+says that he must make it happen so that FutureCorp can expand beyond
+Earth, with Mars as the next logical step.  Talia says that senate will
+be against it and that the Mars Conglomerate will bury him, but Isogi
+says he is prepared, if they can convince Mars to share the risk.  He
+says that, if his plan doesn't go through, many innocent people, and
+his dream, will die on the path toward Martian independence.
+
+
    
+Another woman enters.  She introduces herself as Amanda Carter, of the
+Mars colony business affairs committee.  Isogi introduces Talia
+to her.  Carter says that she read Isogi's proposal, and that he is either
+insane or very brave.  He says that people probably felt much the same way
+about her great grandfather John, when he piloted the colony first ship to
+Mars.  She sits down to discuss the proposal
+with Isogi and Talia.
+
+
    
+ The negotiations begin.
+
+
    
+In a small office deep in the midst of the San Diego wastelands, a
+woman sits at a desk, with many monitors and displays around her, one
+of which is showing a speech made by President Clark soon after
+President Santiago's death.  A component on the desk beeps, and she
+answers it by saying, "Thirteen?"
+
+
    
+A strange
+circular pattern of lights appears on a screen.  A computerized voice
+says to her, "All components have arrived safely on Babylon 5.  Control
+is prepared to go on-line."  She orders the operation to commence.  On
+Babylon 5, in a cargo bay, a large container marked CLASSIFIED CARGO
+opens, and a hand reaches out, as something or someone emerges.
+
+
    
+Sheridan receives a call from Earth, from Senator Elise Voudreau.
+She tells him that Isogi has arranged a meeting with Carter,
+who she describes as an "outspoken advocate of Mars independence,"
+and who she believes is conspiring with FutureCorp to finance another
+rebellion on Mars Colony.  Sheridan asks her for proof, and she tells
+him that if the current Mars Conglomerate could be removed, FutureCorp
+could get a foothold in space if they had an exclusive trade and
+services agreement with Mars.  She says that most of the members of the
+Mars Conglomerate wanted to leave after the last rebellion.  Sheridan
+apologizes, but says that he cannot interfere.  She tells him to
+investigate the matter, and report anything of interest to her.  He
+says that his duties don't include spying, to which she replies, "These
+are volatile times, Captain.  Practicality is more important than
+principles, if lives are to be saved.  I'll expect to hear from you
+soon."  She breaks off the communication.
+
+
    
+Isogi tells Carter that Mars has resources that could be used by alien
+worlds, which in turn would supply Mars with economic base enough to win Mars
+its independence in about ten years.  Carter says that it will be hard
+to convince the committee of this, and that they will need lots of
+assurance.  Talia points out that her words aren't entirely true--it is
+Carter that needs the assurance, since Carter believes the committee
+will accept her recommendation.  Carter says that Mars is in great turmoil
+now, and that she doesn't want to propose anything to the committee
+without knowing all that is expected of them.  Isogi explains that it
+is for that reason that he chose Babylon 5 for the negotiations, since
+the representatives of the alien worlds involved in the plan are located
+there.
+
+
    
+Carter says that she will speak with the business
+affairs committee, says that she might have an answer by the next day,
+and leaves.  After she is gone, Talia explains that Carter likes
+the idea, though she does have her doubts.  Isogi asks Talia what she
+thinks, and she says that there is a great financial risk, and that the
+legal maneuvering will be difficult.  They agree to go to dinner.
+
+
    
+While Sheridan and Ivanova discuss a new alien delegation that has come
+to the station, Talia and Isogi walk along a corridor, talking about
+the benefits of Isogi's plan.  He says that Mars can be the beginning
+of a new life for humans.   As they talk, a man approaches the two of them.
+"Free Mars," he says.  He clutches Isogi's neck, and throws
+Talia to the ground.  Electricity streams forth from the man's hand,
+electrocuting Isogi.  When Isogi drops to the ground, dead, the man
+comes after Talia, but as he approaches, she senses something.  In his
+mind, she sees a strange image which looks like a ship being blown
+apart as seen from the inside.  The man sees it in his own mind as well, and
+walks away, confused.  Talia goes over to Isogi's body, but can do
+nothing to help him.
+
+
    
+ "Free Mars!"
+
+
    
+In Sheridan's office, Sheridan asks Talia if she was sure she didn't
+understand the meaning of the images from the man's head.  She says
+that all she saw was a blur of light and sound, followed by blackness.
+She explains that, although all he said was "Free Mars," he was
+feeling no emotions, and had only those images in his head, much
+different from other Free Mars advocates she scanned when she worked on Mars.
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks her why someone from Free Mars would kill Isogi, and she
+says that there would be no reason, as his solution was peaceful.
+Sheridan tells her that Earth Central disagrees, and that they believe
+that he had planned to back another rebellion on Mars.  She tells him that
+Isogi wouldn't do such a thing, and that someone is lying to him.  He
+suggests that someone may be lying to her, even though she is a
+telepath, because Isogi was an old friend of hers.  Crying, she says to
+Sheridan, "Taro Isogi spent his life improving the lives of
+others.  He built a business based on that principle, and he never
+broke a rule or harmed another to do it.  Mars was his dream, Captain,
+now he's been murdered for it, and you're trying to cast the blame on
+him."  Sheridan apologizes, and Talia asks to go back to her quarters.
+Sheridan says he will arrange for an escort, and Garibaldi appears to
+perform the job.  On their way in the elevator, Garibaldi tries to
+cheer Talia up, and is partially successful.  He also promises to find
+the person responsible.
+
+
    
+The man who murdered Isogi approaches a communications terminal and
+enters a code.  The same circular light pattern that appeared on the
+console in the office in the San Diego wastelands comes onscreen.  The
+computerized voice asks for a report, and the man says that phase one
+has been completed.  The voice orders him to download all the data
+accrued during the mission, and then erase the source file.  The man
+removes the flesh-colored covering from his hand, revealing a black
+extension, lined with circuits.  He inserts a finger into the transfer
+port.  An image of Isogi being killed appears on the screen, followed
+by one of Talia on the ground.  The computerized voice analyzes
+the information, telling about Talia's position and telepath rating.
+The voice says, "Control states Miss Winters could jeopardize
+mission.  Eliminate her, then continue with phase two."  The
+communication ends, and the man asks the station's computer to locate
+Talia.
+
+
    
+ Consulting with Control.
+
+
    
+On C&C, Sheridan orders all outgoing traffic to be held, as he doesn't
+want the murderer leaving.  Ivanova asks if he knows who did it.  He
+says he doesn't, but that Talia was an eyewitness.  Ivanova asks if she
+is okay.  Sheridan says that she is, and that he believes the killer
+wanted a witness.  Sheridan asks Ivanova what she thinks of
+Talia.  Ivanova says that she is interesting.  Sheridan observes that
+Ivanova doesn't usually describe people as "interesting."  Ivanova says
+that she doesn't know Talia very well, though she has talked to her
+several times before.  She reminds him how she feels about
+telepaths.
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks her if Talia can be trusted, and Ivanova says
+that she believes so, but that Talia is very loyal to PsiCorps.  Sheridan asks
+her if she trusts PsiCorps, and Ivanova says that she doesn't and asks
+Sheridan if he does.
+
+
    
+"Telepaths are gifted and cursed
+in ways I can never hope to understand," Sheridan answers.  "But they're still
+human beings -- good, bad, or indifferent.  I trust in individuals, not
+organizations."
+
+
    
+"Then you may trust Miss Winters," Ivanova says.
+
+
    
+Amanda Carter is in her quarters when Sheridan enters.  He tells her he
+wants to ask her questions
+about Isogi.  She declines, saying that her affairs are none of Earth
+Force's business.  Sheridan tells her that in this case they are,
+because of Isogi's murder.  She asks who could have done it, and
+Sheridan tells her that the man who did it said, "Free Mars."  She says
+that Free Mars was not informed of the meeting, and that they would
+have had nothing to gain anyway.  She says that someone didn't like the
+idea of Mars gaining its independence.
+
+
    
+ Sheridan delivers the bad news.
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks who would go to such lengths, and she
+says that the senate and Mars Conglomerate would both be opposed to the deal,
+though she couldn't believe that either group would go as far as murder.
+Sheridan says good-bye to her, but says he might have to ask her
+some more questions.  As he leaves, she says that she wants to help in
+any way possible, as "whoever killed Taro Isogi killed Mars' best hope
+for the future."
+
+
    
+Sheridan enters Garibaldi's office, where Garibaldi is going over the
+medical report, and tells Sheridan that he died of electrocution.  They
+found finger marks on Isogi's neck, but no prints or striations.
+Sheridan asks if it may have been a slaver's glove, but Garibaldi said
+it couldn't have been.  He says that it must have been some sort of
+prosthetic weaponry, though he doesn't know why the power source didn't
+show up on scanners.  Sheridan says that he might need to enlist some
+"special help," though he doesn't want to elaborate further until they
+have more information.  Sheridan orders Garibaldi to watch over Talia,
+and continue the investigation, including Earth government and "Corp
+secure areas."  Garibaldi agrees, but wants to know what Sheridan has
+in mind.  Sheridan declines to answer what he is thinking, but does
+hope that he is wrong.  He then leaves.
+
+
    
+Talia is being escorted by a security guard when a voice behind them
+calls out, "Hey, Earthers!"  The man who killed Isogi runs up to the
+security guard and electrocutes him.  Talia tries to escape, but the
+man catches her and prepares to electrocute her, saying only "Free
+Mars."  Unable to break free, she sees more of the scene she saw in his
+head earlier; this time she sees another ship firing.
+While the man is stunned, she runs away,
+looking for help.  The man looks at his hand.  "What have they done to
+me?" he wonders.  He wanders off.
+
+
    
+Talia explains to Sheridan her recent experience.  "The images in his
+mind were the same as before, except this time I saw an Earth Alliance
+ship.  A big one, a cruiser I think.  It was firing at him.  And I know
+this sounds crazy, but it hit him and he died."  Sheridan has
+difficulty believing this.  "It was as if he were reliving the thought
+of his death over and over again, clinging to it as if it were the only
+thought he had."  Garibaldi comes into Sheridan's office, and tells
+them that Medlab was able to analyze the DNA of some of the assailant's
+hair.  He puts the analysis up on the screen, and Talia confirms the
+man as her attacker.  Garibaldi explains that the man is a leader of
+Free Mars, by the name of Abel Horn.  Sheridan recognizes him as the
+man who claimed responsibility for destroying Richie Station on Mars,
+and he wants him captured.  Garibaldi says that there is a
+problem -- according to Earth Force intelligence, Horn is dead, his ship
+destroyed during the rebellion.  Talia is able to interpret that as the
+image from his mind.  Sheridan doesn't explain anything to Garibaldi,
+but orders Talia put in protective custody, and a fugitive alert placed
+on Horn.  Garibaldi escorts Talia out of the office.
+
+
    
+Amanda Carter enters her quarters, and runs into someone who is already
+there -- Abel Horn.  She says that she thought he was dead, and he
+explains that he was attacked over Phobos, but that a friend of hers
+rescued him and helped him.  He says that he has been on the run and
+hiding until he heard that she was on Babylon 5.  She asks him why he
+killed Isogi.  He says that the murder charge is a lie, and that he
+only came to see her.  He says he needs to get back to Mars, and that
+she is the only one that can help him.  She says that she can't help
+him because she doesn't want anyone to know that she was once a member
+of Free Mars, and she doesn't want to jeopardize Mars' chance at
+independence.  Horn threatens to tell her secret if he doesn't help
+her, and she says that she can't believe blackmail is something he
+would stoop to.  He tries to tell her he's changed, and removes the covering
+on his hand, when he cripples over in pain.  She asks him what is
+wrong, and he says that he needs her to help.  He says that Talia can
+help him, and asks Carter to find her.
+
+
    
+ Horn begs for Carter's help.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is with Talia telling her that she is safe, and that she can
+get an escort if she needs to leave.  He is about to leave when she
+offers him some tea.  He agrees to stay, saying that it is his third
+favorite thing in the universe.
+
+
    
+Ivanova tries to deal with the problems cropping up from keeping the
+ships docked aboard Babylon 5, but Sheridan says that he doesn't think
+the murderer is trying to leave, though he does order her to check all
+ships before letting them go.  He says there is something else he wants
+to check, and leaves.
+
+
    
+While they drink their tea, Garibaldi tells Talia that his father
+taught him everything he knew about security, and that he misses him
+now that he is dead.  Talia says she never knew her parents, but had
+someone help her through her first year at the PsiCorps academy.
+Garibaldi receives a call from Sheridan, who tells him to come to his
+quarters.  As Garibaldi leaves, Talia thanks him for talking with her,
+and Garibaldi says it was his pleasure.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi goes to Sheridan's quarters, and Sheridan shows him some data
+regarding a project entitled Lazarus.  Sheridan explains it was part of
+Earth Force's experiments with cybernetics.  Garibaldi knew that they
+weren't able to make them work because humans couldn't function with
+machines put in their brains.  Sheridan tells Garibaldi that they
+then experimented with using people on the brink of death.  "The theory
+was to 'hard-wire' the subject's brain with a computer intelligence
+that kept the brain functional while the body was repaired.  Then,
+using telepathic deep scan, the subject was fixated on the moment of
+his death, shutting down all conscious thought.  The computer takes
+complete control, while the subject is dying over and over again in his
+subconscious."  Sheridan tells Garibaldi that Talia sensed that
+from Horn, and that it is possible that Horn is someone to whom that
+happened.  Garibaldi says that he thinks that Sheridan's information could be
+wrong, but Sheridan disagrees, saying that he had two opportunities to
+kill Talia, but didn't do so, which might mean that Talia made him
+realize who he was, which screwed up his programming.  Garibaldi and
+Sheridan both express uncertainty at this idea, but Sheridan says that,
+if he is correct, there might be some way to locate Horn.
+
+
    
+ Viewing the Lazarus files.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Horn lies, unconscious, on Carter's sofa.  Carter walks over
+to her communicator and tells the computer she wants to send a message
+to Talia.  At the mention of Talia's name, Horn's eyes open suddenly.
+When she contacts Talia, she asks Talia to meet her in her quarters in
+thirty minutes.  Horn tells Carter that he knew she'd help, but as she
+tries to explain, he hits her, knocking her unconcious.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Garibaldi believe that they have found a way to track
+Horn.  Though Sheridan's information on Project Lazarus is quite old,
+the power crystal of the cybernetic computer emits radiation.  It
+wouldn't show up on environmental scans, but if they reconfigure the
+sensors, it might be detectable.  Garibaldi receives a call from security,
+telling
+him that Talia has asked for a security escort to meet with Amanda Carter.
+Garibaldi assigns an officer, telling him that he will meet them
+outside, just in case.  Sheridan tries to reconfigure the scanning
+device, but has difficulty.  Garibaldi
+walks over and tells him to "let the wizard have a
+go."  Sheridan does, and Garibaldi attempts to reconfigure the
+scanners, but only succeeds in causing the door to the room to open and
+shut repeatedly.  Garibaldi admits that the task is difficult and
+leaves.  "Thanks, Mr. Wizard," Sheridan says as Garibaldi leaves.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi meets up with Talia on her way to Carter's quaters.
+Garibaldi asks why she is going there, and she says that Carter wants
+to push Isogi's plan through.  Talia isn't sure if she can convince
+FutureCorp to go along with it, but, if she can, it would be honoring
+Isogi's memory.  She enters Carter's quarters, and finds her on the
+floor.  As she examines the body, Horn grabs her, warning her that he
+will kill her if she screams.
+
+
    
+As Sheridan completes the reconfiguration of the sensors, Horn orders
+Talia to tell him what the images in his head means.  He lets go of
+her, and asks her to help him.  She scans him again.  She sees the same
+images as before, with the addition of several others.  After the
+destruction of Horn's ship, she sees the inside of a room where he is
+being operated on by several doctors, who supply him with a cybernetic
+prosthesis on his hand.  Also present in the room is a female PsiCop,
+who looks at him and smiles.  "Ours now.  All ours."  Talia loses
+the scan, and she tells Horn what happened to him.  She tells him that,
+while he was dying, he was scanned, operated on, and then rebuilt.  She
+asks him who the PsiCop is, but he doesn't respond.
+
+
    
+ "All ours."
+
+
    
+Sheridan's environmental scan finishes, and he learns that Horn is in
+Carter's quarters.  Sheridan calls Garibaldi, telling him what he just
+learned.  He orders Garibaldi to take Horn alive.  Garibaldi and the
+other security officers enter, but, as they do, Horn grabs Talia and
+threatens to kill her.  Garibaldi tells Horn to think about what he's
+doing, but Horn says he can't.  Horn orders Garibaldi and the others to
+drop their weapons, which they do.  Horn picks one of the guns up.
+Garibaldi says that he will see Horn dies painfully if he kills Talia,
+but Horn says that he is already dead.  Sheridan bursts in and
+says that Horn isn't really dead, but that he is being used to betray
+Mars.  Horn asks how Sheridan knows this, but Sheridan says that Horn
+knows as well.  Sheridan tells Horn that he wants to help him, but
+that he wants Talia to be freed as well.  Horn lets go of Talia, who
+runs to Garibaldi.  Sheridan tells Horn to put the weapon down.
+"It was the Earthers, wasn't it?" Horn asks.  "It wasn't...it wasn't
+enough just to kill me."  Sheridan says that he will help Horn learn
+who is responsible if he puts down the gun.  "Mars will never be free
+until the sands run red with Earther blood," Horn says to Carter, who
+just regained conciousness.  He fires at Sheridan, but misses.
+Sheridan draws his weapon quickly and hits Horn, who falls to the
+ground.  Before he dies, Horn thanks Sheridan for killing him.  A
+security guard scans Horn, and detects a dangerous energy surge.
+Realizing what is going on, Sheridan evacuates everyone from the room,
+right before Horn explodes, leaving no evidence.
+
+
    
+Carter apologizes to Talia; she only asked Talia
+to talk to her because she believed that Talia could help Horn.
+Garibaldi asks how Carter knew so much about Horn, and Carter explains
+that Horn wasn't always a terrorist.  She was once in love with Horn,
+and he convinced her to join Free Mars which, at that time, wasn't
+violent.  But, when it became more violent, she left it, and him.
+Garibaldi doesn't believe this.  But Carter insists that she is telling
+the truth, that she has just ended her career by telling it.
+Carter says that she still believes in Isogi's ideas, and
+Sheridan tells her that, if she will do her best to make Isogi's plan
+go through, they won't report the incident.  Talia even agrees to help
+talk to FutureCorp to convince them that the Mars government had
+nothing to do with the murder.  Carter thanks Sheridan for his help,
+and Talia, Sheridan, and Garibaldi leave.  Garibaldi asks Sheridan why
+he did what he did, but Talia explains
+that Horn didn't want to kill her -- only to be scanned by her.
+Sheridan asks her if she did, and she tells him that she did, and that
+she saw the image of the operation.  Sheridan asks her if she
+recognized anything, such as a face or a uniform.  Talia says that she
+didn't, and is escorted back to her quarters by Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi enters Sheridan's office, and asks him how he knew about the
+Lazarus Project.  Sheridan explains that, while some people collect art
+or coins, he collects secrets, such as black projects, secret
+organizations, and conspiracies.  Garibaldi asks if one of those secrets
+includes who was behind the recent incidents.  Sheridan tries to avoid
+answering, but Garibaldi says that he needs to know if there is a
+threat to the station.  Sheridan says that the threat goes far beyond
+the station, and Garibaldi agrees, saying that, if Horn was what
+Sheridan believed, the situation has nothing to do with Free Mars.
+Garibaldi knows that to do something like this would take a lot of
+power and money.  He suspects Sheridan knows who is behind it.
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells Garibaldi his suspicions, after making Garibaldi
+promise to not tell anyone else.  "For the past six years, there have
+been rumors about a...rogue agency operating deep inside Earth gov.  A
+dirty tricks squad dealing in black projects and Star Chamber justice.
+It took me over three years just to get the name:  Bureau 13.  And the
+man who gave me that name died soon after.  I am convinced that they
+exist and that they are behind this incident."
+
+
    
+"Why?" asks Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+"Isogi was a danger to Earth policy on Mars.  I think his death was a
+warning to the other corporations.  I also think Horn was meant to
+destroy Free Mars from the inside, and, possibly, ruin Amanda Carter as
+well.  Unfortunately, I can't prove any of it."
+
+
    
+"If this is true..."
+
+
    
+"Then everything we believe in is in jeopardy.  There is a spider in
+the web, Mr. Garibaldi, and I intend to find it... and kill it."
+
+
    
+ "There is a spider in the web..."
+
+
    
+Inside the office in the San Diego wastelands, the woman working there
+answers another communication.  "Thirteen." A screen with the familiar
+circular light pattern appears, and the same computerized voice says,
+"Report from Babylon 5 control mission only partly successful.  Isogi
+terminated but unit was destroyed before he could leave station for
+Mars."
+
+
    
+"Is the bureau at hazard?" asks the woman.
+
+
    
+"Control does not believe so."
+
+
    
+"Belief is not enough.  He is to follow up until he is certain.
+Thirteen out."  The woman turns around, and we see her face -- she
+is the PsiCop from the images Talia found in Horn's mind.
+
+
    
+Talia searches through her computer, looking for records of the PsiCop
+from Horn's mind.  As she recalls the information she found in Horn's
+mind, the computer completes its search.  Talia looks over the
+information.  On the computer screen is a picture of the woman -- the
+same one from Horn's memory.  Under her picture is but one
+flashing word: DECEASED.
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi finds Vir awaiting the arrival of Londo's three wives in
+the customs area.  A female Centauri approaches the two, and
+introduces herself to Vir as Timov, one of Londo's wives.  She tells
+him to take her to Londo, and they leave together.  As they leave, in
+another portion of the arrivals area, Garibaldi witnesses an interchange
+between two people, who seem to be on the brink of fighting.  At
+the height of the tension, one of them suddenly backs down and walks away.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi reports the incident to Sheridan, saying that the man who
+didn't back away from the fight was named Stoner, and that he was
+little more than a typical freelance navigator and part-time trader.
+Sheridan asks what the problem is, but Garibaldi can't explain it,
+saying that he had a negative "gut feeling" about Stoner when he first
+saw him.  Talia enters Sheridan's office, and remarks that Sheridan has
+settled nicely into his new position.  Sheridan asks her to confirm
+some rumors they picked up from the PsiCorps net.  Sheridan tells
+Garibaldi that they will talk about Stoner later, but Talia recognizes
+the name.  They ask whether she knows him.  "Only in the most unpleasant
+sense," she says.  "I was married to him."
+
+
    
+While Londo is in a bar celebrating with a large number of his friends,
+Vir tells Timov, waiting in Londo's quarters, that Londo will be there
+soon.  Timov asks Vir what Londo is hiding, and why she had been called
+there.  She asks Vir what Londo said about her to him when another of
+Londo's wives, Daggair, enters.  Vir apologizes to Daggair for
+missing her arrival.  Timov tells Vir that, if he knew Daggair as well
+as she did, he wouldn't miss her.  The two of them continue
+squabbling.
+
+
    
+ Waiting for Londo.
+
+
    
+Talia, at the Earth History Exhibition, examining some artifacts from
+Earth, is approached by Sheridan.  He asks her why she was in such a
+hurry; she didn't say much before she left his office.  She tells him
+that she wasn't in the mood to talk.
+Sheridan asks if she is now.  She tells him that, as the
+station commander, it isn't his concern.  He agrees with this, but says
+that he considers her a friend, or at least an ally, and will be there to
+talk if she so chooses.
+
+
    
+Ivanova rings the bell at Delenn's quarters, and the chime is answered
+by the frustrated voice of Delenn from inside.  She asks if Ivanova is
+alone, and admits her.  Ivanova is surprised to see Delenn there,
+having considerable trouble with her hair.  Delenn says that her
+transformation is supposed to be a bridging between the humans and the
+Minbari and that her transformation should be looked upon as a great
+honor, but comments that she cannot get her hair to do what she wants.
+Ivanova notices that Delenn's hair is brittle, and Delenn explains that
+she has been washing it with the same chemical compound all Minbari use
+to strip away the outermost layer of their skin once a day, to
+symbolize rebirth.  Ivanova says she should try bathing instead, but
+Delenn only asks Ivanova to help.  Ivanova protests, saying that she
+has duties to which she must attend, but eventually decides to assist
+Delenn.  She calls to C&C telling them that she will be preoccupied for
+a while.
+
+
    
+ Bad hair day.
+
+
    
+Talia tells Sheridan that, during a telepath's first year in the
+PsiCorps academy, they are assigned an advanced trainee to assist them,
+and that Matthew Stoner was hers.  She liked him, and he helped her
+learn the difficult tasks that telepaths must perform.  But, the
+PsiCorps learned that Talia and Stoner were genetically compatible and
+could produce children with equally good or better telepathic skills
+than their parents'.  They were soon married, though only for a short
+time -- the marriage was annulled by PsiCorps soon after Stoner left
+PsiCorps.  Sheridan asks how he managed to leave, but Talia doesn't know.
+"He had connections.  He had... something.  No one in authority wanted to
+talk about it."
+
+
    
+G'Kar and Sheridan are walking together, and G'Kar asks if Sheridan has
+settled into his duties.  Sheridan asks why everyone keeps asking him that,
+and G'Kar explains that, because strange things happened to
+Sinclair, Sheridan should be on his guard.  G'Kar tells Sheridan that
+bizarre happenings give him headaches, and that he has had them many
+times recently, due to the strange events of recent weeks on Babylon
+5.  Londo appears, and seems to be quite cheerful indeed.  He too asks
+Sheridan if he has settled in, and asks G'Kar how he is.  Londo
+says that the day is "glorious" and he leaves, after commenting on
+G'Kar's health.  G'Kar walks away, rubbing his head.
+
+
    
+ "I get these headaches."
+
+
    
+Timov and Daggair are still in Londo's quarters with Vir, quarreling
+over Londo and their relative positions in Londo's life.  Londo soon
+enters and greets the two wives.  Timov asks where he was, and why she
+has been summoned to Babylon 5.  Londo begins to explain, but stops when he
+doesn't see his third wife.  Timov asks again why they have been called
+to the station, and Londo tells her that the following day is the
+thirtieth anniversary of his ascension date.  Both wives had
+forgotten, but the Emperor hadn't, and, for the occasion, granted Londo
+any wish he desired.  Londo tells Timov and Daggair that he asked for a
+divorce, but that the Emperor wanted him to keep one wife, so that he
+would look good at affairs of state.  He tells them that, the next day, he
+will choose the one wife he wants to keep, leaving the others without
+the wealth and privileges that they had accrued during their marriage.
+The two wives begin to fight again when Londo's third wife, Mariel,
+arrives in the quarters.
+
+
    
+Stoner consults with a merchant about various objects in his
+possession.  The merchant claims that most of Stoner's objects have
+little value, but one in particular, a strange Centauri carving, is
+interesting to him.  Garibaldi appears and asks Stoner where he obtained
+that statuette.  Though Stoner provides ample documentation to support
+his claim that he found it on an archeological dig, Garibaldi escorts
+Stoner away, to talk in private.
+
+
    
+ Garibaldi harasses Stoner.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Lennier arrives in Delenn's quarters to find Delenn's hair
+in curlers, with Ivanova standing nearby.  The sight puzzles Lennier,
+but he tells Delenn that they were invited to the party celebrating
+Londo's anniversary.  Delenn tells him to accept.  As he leaves, he asks
+Delenn if the curlers hurt her, but she tells him they do not.
+Wondering about what she is doing, he leaves.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi confronts Stoner in his office, asking him about his recent
+activities, wondering if, perhaps, he is running from something or
+someone.  Stoner asks why Garibaldi is picking on him so much, and
+Garibaldi tells Stoner that he and Talia are friends.  Stoner pretends
+that he didn't know she was there, and asks Garibaldi if she told
+Garibaldi about him.  When Garibaldi says no, Stoner asks if Garibaldi
+wants to know any of Talia's most personal secrets.  He persists until
+Garibaldi finally grabs him and orders him to be quiet.  Stoner asks
+Garibaldi if he really wanted to talk to him, and after thinking for a
+moment, Garibaldi lets him go.  Garibaldi tells Stoner that, if he
+harrasses Talia to any extent, Garibaldi will find some way to get back
+at him, and that he plans to keep an eye on Stoner.  "Use both eyes,"
+Stoner says as he leaves.  "You'll need them."
+
+
    
+Mariel approaches Sheridan telling him that she got separated from
+Londo while touring the station.  She introduces herself, and is about
+to have him kiss her hand when Londo and his wives appear.  Londo takes
+Sheridan aside while the three wives continue to fight amongst
+themselves.  Londo warns Sheridan that Mariel is very much attracted to
+men of power, like a moth to a flame, but it is the men, and not her, that end
+up being burned.
+
+
    
+ Sheridan meets Londo's wives.
+
+
    
+Talia is in the Eclipse Cafe, trying to decide what she wants to eat,
+when Stoner sits down next to her.  She tries to move away, but he
+won't let her.  He asks her if she has nothing to say to him, and she
+asks him why he came there.  He tells her that he feels they had
+something together once, though she disagrees with that, saying that
+she doesn't want to be with him.  He reminds her that she doesn't want
+to be involved in PsiCorps, but that, once you are in, you are in for
+life.  She tells him that he is the one exception, and he explains to
+her that all anyone needs to do is lose their telepathic abilities.  He
+tells her that anyone can do it, including her.  He
+says he can arrange to have the same thing happen to her, and
+that, if she agrees, the two of them can be together.  After Talia
+leaves, Garibaldi catches up to her by the elevator.  He tries to
+explain to her that he talked to Stoner, but she doesn't want him to be
+involved.  He claims that her safety is an important priority of his,
+but she wants him to forget about it.
+
+
    
+Londo, in his quarters, answers his door when it chimes.  Mariel is
+there, and she tells him that she thinks that she is the wife he should
+keep, because she loves him so much.  Daggair appears and tells her
+that it is Londo's decision.  Londo says that he would like all his
+wives to be present, but when Timov appears, she tells him that she
+doesn't want to be part of his "sexual olympics." He tells her that
+Daggair and Mariel were merely expressing their feelings for him, and
+Timov does the same by slapping him across the face.  He tells her that
+she hasn't changed, and she says that he has -- he's devolved.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is in his quarters when Talia enters, to apologize for her
+behavior toward him earlier.  He accepts her apology, and she tells him
+that she is planning to leave Babylon 5 with Stoner.  Garibaldi asks
+why, and Talia explains that, while she and Matt were at the academy,
+the PsiCorps began performing experiments on telepaths to increase
+their abilities.  Matt volunteered, but instead of having his powers
+enhanced, they were taken away.  She tells her that he offered to do
+that for her, and she tells Garibaldi that she wants to have it done.
+Garibaldi tries to change her mind, but Talia is adamant.  "I'm tired
+of being part of an organization that scares the hell out of me."
+
+
    
+ Talia apologizes.
+
+
    
+As Mariel approaches the vendor Stoner was earlier negotiating
+with and purchases the strange Centauri statuette, Sheridan and Ivanova
+consult with each other about matters aboard the station.  Ivanova
+tells Sheridan that Londo's party, celebrating his anniversary, is that
+evening, and that all attendees must be barefoot.
+
+
    
+That evening, at a ceremony set in a large room with a large painting
+of Londo in the background, Londo goes over to G'Kar, whom Londo's
+wives notice is wearing a full uniform, including boots.  They ask if
+he knows what an insult that is, and G'Kar claims that he does.  Londo
+says he doesn't mind, and that "nothing is too good for my esteemed
+Narn colleague."  After subtly tossing something to Mariel,
+G'Kar walks away with another headache.
+
+
    
+ "Nothing's too good for my dear friend G'Kar."
+
+
    
+Elsewhere in the room, Delenn, now with her long hair straightened and
+curled, approaches Garibaldi.  He says that she looks nice, but she
+tells him that he looks distressed, or soul sick, as the Minbari would
+say.  "You know, it's funny.  I met this woman, and I took to her
+immediately.  Then, I met this guy who had hurt her, and instantly, I
+hated him."
+
+
    
+"We Minbari believe, as do some humans," Delenn tells him, "that souls
+travel together.  Some groups of souls are drawn onto the other in
+life to relive good relationships from the past, and, if possible, to
+make right the bad ones."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi's attention is drawn away by Londo's voice; he is now
+opening the presents that the guests have brought.  He graciously
+accepts Lennier's gift of a deck of cards, and opens another
+gift.  Mariel says it is from her, but Daggair says that, in a way, it
+is from all three of his wives.  He opens it, and finds the strange
+statuette inside.  He admires it for a few seconds, but two small darts
+fire from its eyes and hit Londo in the head.  He falls over in pain.
+Sheridan calls for an emergency medical team.
+
+
    
+While Londo is in MedLab, unconcious, Dr. Franklin tells Sheridan that,
+because they don't have any Centauri blood that matches Londo's blood
+type, and synthesizing Centauri's blood has never been successfully
+done, creating an antitoxin will be very difficult.  Mariel tries to
+tell the other wives, all of whom are at Londo's side, that she didn't
+know what the statue would do.  Daggair tells her to be quiet, and she
+leaves.  Daggair mentions to Timov that
+Londo has not made his divorce decree yet and, if he dies, they would
+be secure for life.  Timov has a difficult time believing Daggair's
+callousness, but she claims that she is only looking out for herself, as she
+has been taught through life.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi interrogates Stoner, who says that he handled the artifact
+many times without incident, and that it probably wouldn't do anything
+until it was held by a Centauri.  Sheridan enters, and tells Garibaldi
+and Stoner that Londo is near death.  He asks Stoner if he knows
+anything about the artifact, but all Stoner can tell him is that he
+found it on an abandoned Centauri planet.  Sheridan explains the colony
+had been abandoned because they were forced out by the Narns.
+Garibaldi also tells him that the Narns probably rigged up the
+statuette as a trap for the Centauri.  Garibaldi tells Stoner that he
+won't let him go until he speaks with G'Kar about the statue.  He also
+warns Stoner that he will find some way to convict him.  Garibaldi
+and Sheridan both leave.
+
+
    
+ Stoner in hot water.
+
+
    
+Londo is still unconcious when, much later, Timov enters MedLab and
+approaches Dr. Franklin.  She tells him that she and Londo have the
+same blood type, but that she didn't tell him before, because she
+wasn't sure what she wanted to do.  She tells him that, although she
+might like to see him die, she does have principles, and that she would
+prefer to win her battle against Londo in some other, more satisfying
+way.  She offers her blood to Franklin, on the condition that Londo
+never learn she gave it to him.  Franklin accepts this, and escorts her
+away.
+
+
    
+Lou Welch, a security officer, enters Garibaldi's office, with the
+information he could find on Stoner.  It all fits in with Stoner's
+story.  Garibaldi tells Welch he wants to talk to Stoner again, but
+Welch tells him that Stoner is eating.
+Garibaldi asks why he is eating so soon; dinner shouldn't be served for
+another hour.  "He just... asked," Welch says.  "I don't know.  There's
+something about this guy that just makes you want to like him."
+
+
    
+Londo finally awakes, again surrounded by his three wives and Dr.
+Franklin.  Daggair and Mariel tell Dr. Franklin that they are happy
+that Londo is back, but Timov says nothing but that she is feeling
+fatigued and wants to go to back to quarters.  Mariel and Daggair both
+follow her out.  Londo tells Franklin that he considers all his wives
+nightmares, and that Timov is the worst of them.  Dr. Franklin asks him
+if he can make a personal observation.  Londo agrees.  "Stick it," Dr.
+Franklin says, before walking away.
+
+
    
+Stoner tells Talia that he doesn't understand why she wouldn't want to
+leave PsiCorps.  She tells him that she is a telepath, and could never
+accept having that piece of her taken away.  He tries to convince
+her that he wanted them to be happy, and that he thought if he told her about
+the cure, she would go happily.  She tells him that her powers are a
+part of her, and she could never give them up.  Stoner claims he can
+understand, and tells Talia she's coming with him.  Her
+attitude suddenly changes, and she says that she will.  The two of them
+leave the room, but Stoner is assaulted by Garibaldi when they exit.
+"Thanks, Talia, for your help.  I love being right."
+
+
    
+G'Kar is in his quarters, talking to Mariel.  "You know," he says, "the
+problem with mysteries is that in order to get rid of the headaches, I
+have to figure them out.  Here, we're faced with a staggering set of
+coincidences.  A Centauri artifact, an ancient booby trap, it seems,
+happens to show up on Babylon 5 just in time to be purchased as a gift
+for Londo.  And rather hide or deny responsibility, the gift giver
+makes it a point of saying she gave it to him, which neatly avoids any
+accusation of malicious intent because, usually, when you're trying to
+kill someone, you hide the attack.  And there, you see, my head no
+longer throbs."
+
+
    
+Mariel asks him who he will tell his theory to.
+G'Kar says he won't reveal it, but that Londo will figure it out
+eventually.  As she leaves, he warns her to not be overconfident -- if
+he were married to Londo, he'd be concerned right now.  "G'Kar," Mariel
+says as she leaves, "if you were married to Londo, we'd all
+be concerned."
+
+
    
+ "Do I look like a rumormonger?"
+
+
    
+Sheridan confronts Stoner one last time, telling him that, although
+they thought that he and PsiCorps were no longer related, PsiCorps
+communicated with them, telling them to turn Stoner over as soon as
+possible.  Stoner tells Sheridan that he left under agreeable
+circumstances, but Sheridan tells him that he doesn't believe he left
+PsiCorps' employment at all and that, instead of his telepathic
+abilities being removed, they were changed, and that Stoner became an
+empath instead, a fact Sheridan believes is substantiated by recent
+events on the station.  Garibaldi suggests that he was released because
+PsiCorps knew that other telepaths would learn what happened to
+Stoner.  Stoner tries to deny the allegations, but Garibaldi says he
+believes that Stoner was sent there to convince his genetically perfect
+mate, Talia, to undergo the procedure, so other empaths could be
+created.  Stoner tries to use his abilities to force Garibaldi to let
+him go, but Garibaldi tells him that security guards are watching the
+room's proceedings outside and that, if Stoner tries to get away with
+anything, he will not succeed.  Stoner tries to tell Talia that he
+thought they were perfect together, and that he only wanted what was
+best for Talia, to make up for past mistakes.  He claims
+that he does know the cure, and asks her to look into his mind, but she
+refuses.  "See you in some other lifetime," Garibaldi tells Stoner as
+he leaves.
+
+
    
+As Londo's wives prepare to leave the station, Vir presents Timov with
+Londo's itinerary, so that she will know which ones she should attend,
+and to which she should accompany him.  Daggair and Mariel are upset at
+Londo's choice, but Londo tells him that they should be grateful,
+because he did provide them with a sum of money as a going-away
+present.  After they leave, Timov asks why Londo chose her as his
+remaining wife, because she does not, and will not, love him, and they
+will not get along.  "Because, with you, I will always know where I
+stand," he tells her.  He kisses her hand, and leaves as she
+departs.
+
+
    
+Delenn runs into Ivanova and thanks her for helping her with her hair
+trouble, and the other help she has provided.  Ivanova tells Delenn that,
+if she has any other questions or problems, she will be glad to help.
+As the two board an elevator, Delenn does ask something else.  "Do you
+have any idea why I suddenly started getting these... odd cramps?"
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Ivanova is in Sheridan's office, reporting to him about the budget
+problems Babylon 5 is facing, due in part to the increased number of
+EarthForce military transports passing through Babylon 5. That is
+forcing the station
+to reroute its commercial traffic, though EarthForce claims it is
+only temporary.  She tells Sheridan that EarthForce, in order to
+reduce the deficit forming on Babylon 5, wants the two of them to
+either move out of their quarters, or pay rent of thirty credits per
+week, as they are the largest quarters on the station.  Sheridan
+refuses to pay the rent, and tells Ivanova that, because of the work
+they do, they deserve the quarters they have.  He tells Ivanova to
+inform EarthForce that they have no intention of paying for the extra
+space.
+
+
    
+On the Mars colony, the PsiCop Bester is interrogating another
+telepath.  "This is unnecessary, you know.  If you'd just give us the
+information we need, we could stop this.  We don't blame you.  You fell
+under the influence of outsiders.  They used you and then abandoned
+you.  You mean nothing to them.  You were raised by the Corps.  Clothed
+by the Corps.  We are your father and mother.  Don't force us to do
+this."  When the man refuses to speak, Bester continues, "We know
+there's an underground railroad helping unregistered telepaths.  We
+know you gave them access to our files.  Who was your contact?  Who's
+running the operation?"  The man claims he doesn't know, and that they
+don't use names.  Bester asks where the central clearing house is for
+the railroad, but the man refuses to answer, instead, he recites "Mary
+had a little lamb."  Bester reaches out and holds his hand above the man's
+throat, scanning him; the man dies painfully.  "I caught it," Bester
+says.  "Just before he died.  Betrayed by his final thoughts.  Babylon 5."
+
+
    
+ "We don't blame you."
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in Earhart's, talking to Dr. Franklin about the problems
+he's having with EarthForce.  Dr. Franklin tries to convince him that
+he might be making a mistake, but Sheridan refuses to pay rent on his
+quarters.  Dr. Franklin jokingly offers to let Sheridan sleep on
+the spare cot he requisitioned for medical purposes.
+They meet up with Ambassador Delenn, who asks to speak with
+Sheridan privately.  She asks him to help her better understand what it
+is to be human.  "Though I now look more like you, I'm not like you.
+And if I am to be a bridge of understanding between humans and Minbari,
+it would help if I knew more about your people."  She explains that she
+wants to go out to dinner with him, to sit and talk with him, as long
+as it is not about business.  Sheridan agrees, and they make plans for
+that evening.
+
+
    
+ Delenn invites Sheridan to dinner.
+
+
    
+A ship carrying Bester arrives on the station, and Bester tells C&C
+that he wants to have a meeting with full command staff.  In the
+meeting, he explains, "For some time now, we've been aware of an
+underground railroad smuggling unregistered telepaths away from Earth
+to the outer colonies where the Corps can't reach them."  Ivanova tells
+him that she doesn't see a problem, but he claims that unregistered
+telepaths are a security risk.  He explains that he learned the
+railroad was centered on Babylon 5, and that he wants it closed down.
+Bester asks for their cooperation, but Sheridan asks to speak with the
+others before committing to a decision.  Bester leaves with
+Talia.  After he leaves, Sheridan asks Garibaldi whether or not Bester
+was right in his request.  Garibaldi explains that he was, because,
+whether they like it or not, they are obliged to uphold the laws of the
+Earth Alliance, and the law compels them to help the PsiCorps.
+
+
    
+"It's damn ironic, isn't it?" Garibaldi says.  "The Corps got started
+because we were afraid of telepaths, and now they're victims of our own
+fears.  We took away every right they had and shoved them into a big
+black box called PsiCorps.  Now, look at them.  Black uniforms, jack
+boots, giving orders...  Some days they scare the hell out of me."
+
+
    
+"Yeah," Sheridan tells him, "if you ask me, we created our own
+monster.  Maybe we deserve it." Sheridan tells Garibaldi to help him in
+any way he can, but still keep an eye on him.  As Garibaldi leaves,
+Ivanova reccommends to Sheridan that he check the files on Bester,
+because of the trouble he made before regarding Jason Ironheart.  (cf.
+"Mind War")
+
+
    
+Bester tells Talia on their walk that he is confident they will do what
+he asks.  Talia asks him if he scanned them.  Bester answers that
+it's against the law to scan normals.  She asks him if he's scanning
+her, and though he claims she'd feel it, she says she wouldn't know if
+it was a surface scan.  As he tries to convince her that he would only do
+such a thing if he believed she was doing something inappropriate, he
+hears the word "murderer" whispered over and over in his mind.  He asks
+Talia if she heard it, but she says she didn't.  He tells her to drop
+her defenses and listen again, but she still hears only the background
+noise of the area.  "They're here," he tells her.  "I was right."
+
+
    
+ Strolling through the bazaar.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, the underground railroad continues its operation.  One
+telepath reports to another, Rick, who is apparently in charge, that
+Bester is there.  Rick asks if Bester sensed him, but the telepath
+isn't sure.  He says that they need to warn the runner and get out of
+there.  He knows that Bester will attempt to stop them, and, in that
+event, their only option is to kill him.
+
+
    
+That evening, Delenn, clad in an attractive black dinner dress, enters
+a restaurant and meets Sheridan, who is astonished by her appearance.
+He is not the only one, as many others around his table notice her.  He
+asks her what she might like to order, and they look at the menu
+together.
+
+
    
+ Meeting for dinner.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Garibaldi enters Earhart's and finds Ivanova there.  He
+attempts to talk to her about official business, but at the mention,
+following military tradition, she forces him to buy the next round of
+drinks.  He explains that he really does need to talk to her privately,
+and they find a table by themselves.  He tells her that he needs a
+contact on the underground railroad.  She wishes him luck, but is not
+sure what that has to do with her.  She tells him that, even though she
+resents the PsiCorps, she is not responsible.  He explains to her that he
+knows someone high up on the station must be responsible for such a large
+operation, and that he suspected it was her.  She assures him that she
+is not responsible, and tells him that she wants to go back to her
+quarters and get some sleep.  "That's the other thing I wanted to talk
+to you about," he tells her.
+
+
    
+After dinner, Sheridan and Delenn are enjoying some pleasant
+conversation, discussing such topics as household pets and humor.
+Sheridan says he never thinks of Minbari laughing, but she tells him
+that the Minbari think no race can be truly intelligent without
+laughter, and that learning to appreciate humor is a large portion of
+their religious development.  Sheridan explains to her that such things
+are not uncommon on Earth.  "It would appear that we have much more in
+common than we imagined," Delenn tells him.  Smiling, Sheridan agrees.
+
+
    
+Talia is getting ready for bed when she is interrupted by a call from
+Bester.  Bester tells her that he regrets the way he has treated her,
+especially in regards to Jason Ironheart.  He tells her he wants to get
+to know her better, and invites her to join him for breakfast the next
+morning.  She tells him that she will be there, and he hangs up.  She
+walks over to a mirror and looks into it.  Seeing her face, she
+remembers the time, about a year earlier, when Jason Ironheart came
+onto the station.  She remembers his confiding in her, and Bester's
+attempt to kill him, his transcendence, and his mysterious gift to her.
+As she recalls those traumatic events, a
+penny on a nearby table slowly begins to move, flies from the table,
+and imbeds itself into a wall.  "He's been in my mind twice today," she
+says as she watches the penny.  "Why isn't he seeing this?  Or was that
+the other part of the gift?"
+
+
    
+An exhausted Sheridan approaches his quarters and attempts to use his
+card to open the door.  He tries twice, but the door refuses to open.
+Ivanova appears, noticing his trouble, and informs him that EarthForce
+sealed their rooms until they decide to move to smaller quarters or pay
+rent.  She tells him that she was on her way to rent a room, but he
+won't let her do that.
+
+
    
+The unregistetred telepaths are
+gathered together, apparently assembling weapons.  Rick insists that
+they do something again.  Another telepath says that they are safe as long as
+they are hidden from him, but Rick knows better... he knows the telepath
+Bester killed to obtain the information cracked, and that they must be
+stronger to keep him off the track.  Everyone agrees, and they all
+begin reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb," apparently using it to block out
+all other thoughts.
+
+
    
+ "Do it again."
+
+
    
+Ivanova is curled up on the couch in Sheridan's office, while he reclines
+in his desk chair.  He tells her that they need to be strong and cannot show
+weakness.  She agrees reluctantly.  To lighten the mood, he tells her a
+joke.  "How many Minbari does it take to screw in a light bulb?"  She
+doesn't know, so he explains.  "None.  They always surrender right
+before they finish the job, and they never tell you why.  Knock knock."
+"Who's there?"  "Kosh."  "Kosh who?"  "Gesundheit."  Ivanova is less
+than amused.
+
+
    
+The next morning, at breakfast, Talia and Bester are talking about the
+situation back home, especially regarding the death of the president.
+He asks her to keep an eye on the people on the station, wondering what
+they have to say about the president's death.  Seconds later, he hears
+something else in his head -- plans to attack.  He leaps away just in
+time, shouting at Talia to get down.  He fires at and kills his
+attackers, but as Talia attempts to escape, she is grabbed by several
+people, knocked out, and dragged off.
+
+
    
+Bester addresses the staff, telling them about the attack.  He admits,
+however, that he doesn't know what happened to Talia.  He tells them
+that he thinks she's fine, because they were after him.  When Garibaldi
+asks Bester if the thought had occurred to him that they may have
+kidnapped Talia to get to him, Bester simply says that she doesn't know
+anything that could endanger either him or the Corps.  This greatly
+upsets Garibaldi, who begins screaming at Bester that he should
+have notified security as soon as he knew she was gone.  Bester tells
+Garibaldi that, if he really wants to find her, he needs to double the
+efforts of security.  "You've got two bodies to start with.  Make the
+best of them."
+
+
    
+Talia begins waking up from her unconciousness, hearing voices in her
+head as she does so.  She awakens to find herself lying on the floor,
+surrounded by people.  She rises and attampts to walk around the room,
+and meets with no resistence.  She walks over to Rick, and he tells her
+that they don't want to hurt her, but they will if necessary.
+Realizing this is the leader of the underground railroad, she tells him
+that they are only hurting themselves, and that the Corps just wants to
+protect them.  He says he doesn't believe that and that she doesn't
+either.  He also tells her that she is "almost there."  She asks what
+he's talking about, and what he wants with her.  He tells her
+that he wants her to understand.
+
+
    
+ Talia and her captors.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin reports to Sheridan that he heard from the people running
+the underground railroad, who said that Talia isn't hurt.  He tells
+Sheridan that they want to arrange a meeting between Sheridan and the head
+of the operation, but if anyone besides Sheridan arrives, the
+meeting is off.  Dr. Franklin tells him that they want to find a
+solution to the situation without anyone else being hurt.  Sheridan
+asks Dr. Franklin if he can trust them, and Franklin says he can, but
+refuses to explain how he knows that.  Sheridan agrees to the meeting.
+
+
    
+Talia listens to the story of one of the telepaths, who explains to her
+how his brother took medication to suppress his telepathic powers, which
+didn't stop him from speaking out against the PsiCorps.  However, one
+day, when the PsiCorps came to inject him with the suppressing
+medicine, he never woke up.  Talia refuses to accept that the Corps
+would kill someone, but the man insists it's true.  Rick tells her that
+she's afraid of the truth.  She tries to explain to him what the Corps gave her,
+but he tells her they took even more away, forcing her to wear a badge
+and wear gloves, and taking away her freedom.  He tells her that the
+PsiCorps tries to keep telepaths seperate, but still
+dependent.  She can't believe what he's saying.  He tells her
+that he knows what happened to Jason Ironheart, that he was
+a rogue and ran away, just like all the others on the
+underground railroad.
+
+
    
+Bester enters Garibaldi's office, where Garibaldi is waiting.  He asks
+what Garibaldi wants, and Garibaldi tells Bester that he needs to see
+him, even though he doesn't want to.  Bester tells Garibaldi that they both
+have the same interests and want to protect Talia, but Garibaldi
+doesn't believe it.  Bester tries to convince Garibaldi that he has a
+wife and daughter, and is hardly the monster Garibaldi believes him to be, but
+Garibaldi cannot believe that story either.  He tosses Bester some
+information, and tells him that he has learned the would-be assassins were
+living in Downbelow.  Bester determines, as Garibaldi did, that the
+rest are probably down there as well.  Garibaldi tells Bester that he
+will meet with Bester in one hour to go down there together.  Bester
+agrees.
+
+
    
+Talia is still with the other telepaths, this time listening to the
+story of a P-11 telepath who was asked to marry a man, another P-11,
+so that they could increase the chances of creating a baby as powerful,
+or more so, than the parents.  When she refused, she was taken away
+during the night, only to discover a short time later that she was
+pregnant.  After she had the baby, it was taken away, and she never saw
+it again.  She escaped the hospital and never turned back.  Rick
+talks to Talia again, telling her that the original function of the
+Corps has been lost through time.  He wants to stop it, and he asks for
+her help.  She can't easily agree, because it has been her way of life
+since childhood.  She asks him why he wants her involved, and tells her
+that she's special.  "Your friend Ironheart was my friend, too.  They
+experimented on both of us.  They pushed me up here," Rick tells her,
+pointing to his head, "they made me a P-12, maybe even a P-13, but
+Ironheart...he went further than I did.  Further than anyone will ever
+go again.  When he escaped, I went with him.  Helped set all this up.
+I know he touched you.  I know he gave you something.  I know you can
+help us if you want to."
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives at the predetermined place to meet with the leader of
+the operation, when he inexplicably meets up with Dr. Franklin.
+Sheridan tells Franklin that he should leave, or else scare off the leader.
+But Franklin is the leader.  Sheridan tells Franklin that he'd
+better have a good explanation.  Talia appears.  "I think he
+does, Captain, and I think you should listen to him.  I think you
+should listen to all of them."
+
+
    
+ "I think you should listen to him."
+
+
    
+"Back on Earth," explains Dr. Franklin, "I heard things.  The kind of
+things you're not supposed to hear about.  Genetic manipulation,
+breeding telepaths against their will, so-called relocation camps for
+rogue telepaths that aren't much better than concentration camps.  It
+started when a few doctors began referring latent telepaths to each
+other, keeping them out of circulation -- losing reports, and changing
+medical history files.  We couldn't just keep moving them around like
+checkers -- we had to get them away from Earth.  They were filtered into
+Babylon 5 on business visas.  Last year, I set up a clinic downbelow so
+we could start processing runaways and changing records without anyone
+from MedLab knowing about it.  I trust my staff, but the PsiCorps has a
+knack for intimidation."  Sheridan tells Franklin that he agrees, in
+principle, with what Franklin is doing, but that he is bound to obey the law
+as a soldier.  Franklin is also bound, by an oath to protect lives.
+Sheridan doesn't want to turn Franklin in, because it
+would embarrass EarthForce, and give them another reason to shut down
+Babylon 5, but, if he doesn't turn him in, he becomes just as guilty.
+
+
    
+"No," Talia tells Sheridan.  "There's a third option."
+
+
    
+Bester appears, without Garibaldi.  He looks around for a while, turns
+a corner, and sees a group of telepaths there, with Rick in the front.
+Bester tells Rick that, if they return
+peacefully, they won't be harmed.  Talia appears from behind the
+other telepaths, all together in a tight group, and tells him that he
+is lying, and that they will only be destroyed as a lesson to the
+others.   "You want to keep us frightened and isolated.  Not just from
+normals, but from each other.  That's the real reason we wear gloves,
+isn't it?  To keep us apart.  But what happens when the gloves come
+off?"  She raises her gloveless hands, and the other telepaths do the
+same.
+
+
    
+The entire group joins hands together and begin fighting Bester
+collectively.  He tries to stop them, but is unable.  The telepaths,
+however, are making no progress.
+"It's not working," Rick says, straining against what he is doing.
+"Someone's fighting us."  He suddenly realizes who it is, and turns to
+Talia.  "You!"  She shouts out to Bester, and they both fire on the entire
+group, quickly killing them all.  He surveys the bodies,
+telling her that he would rather have taken them all alive, but that
+the leader is dead, and an example has been set.  He tells her that the
+body will die when the head is cut off, which he orders her to do.  He
+tells Talia he was convinced by her ruse.
+
+
    
+ Joining forces.
+
+
    
+"The Corps is mother, the corps is father," she tells him.  "I know
+where my loyalties lie."  He tells her that 
+security will be there soon.  He suggests that they leave
+seperately, and hopes that she will deny all knowledge of the incident;
+she agrees.  Bester leaves, and she walks off in the other direction.
+
+
    
+Sheridan suddenly appears in the room, where all of the telepaths,
+including Talia, are gathered together, holding hands.  They drop their
+hands as Sheridan explains that he only saw Bester appear in the
+corridor, then walk away.  But Talia explains that they projected
+an image into his mind telepathically, and that he believed what he saw
+completely.  Sheridan asks them how they did it, assuming that a PsiCop
+would be able to see through the trick.  Talia tells him that they
+could only do it together, and that a single telepath could never have
+done it.  Franklin tells Sheridan that, because Bester is convinced
+what he saw actually happened, he will not press the issue, not wanting
+to answer lots of questions about the dead telepaths.  Because Sheridan
+doesn't have the defenses to block a scan, Talia recommends that he not
+see Bester before he leaves.  Dr. Franklin also informs Sheridan that,
+because of the attention drawn to it, the underground railroad will no
+longer pass through Babylon 5, but that others will take over for him.
+Sheridan tells the telepaths that they are free to leave, but that
+he doesn't want them back.  The telepaths agree and file
+out.  Sheridan and Franklin leave back toward the elevator, Sheridan
+warning Franklin that he will turn him in if he does it again.
+Franklin tries to get Sheridan to admit that he agrees with Franklin's
+actions, but Sheridan won't.  When Franklin asks him what he's saying,
+Sheridan only replies, "I'm not saying what I'm saying.  I'm not saying
+what I'm thinking.  As a matter of fact, I'm not thinking what I'm
+thinking."  He tells Franklin that all he wants is a drink.  Franklin
+reminds him that he also needs a place to stay, something which
+Sheridan had forgotten about.
+
+
    
+As Talia returns, Rick emerges from the shadows and startles her.  He
+says that she can never return, but she tells him that she can't leave
+the Corps.  He points to his head.  "No, I mean in here.  You know too
+much.  If Bester scans you, you...Can you keep him out?"
+
+
    
+"I think so.  Jason's little gift."
+
+
    
+"He gave you more than you know.  What we did back there...shouldn't
+have worked.  Not with that PsiCop.  You tipped the balance.  I felt it
+when we were joined.  You're more than you think you are."
+
+
    
+"Then what am I?"
+
+
    
+"The future," Rick says as he vanishes again into the shadows.
+
+
    
+Ivanova appeals to Sheridan to the repeal the protest, since she
+believes that Earth Central will never concede.  She tells him,
+however, that she will continue with the protest if he will.  She also
+tells him that he snores, a fact he vehemently denies, but which she
+insists.  She asks to sleep on the couch, but he says that she can
+sleep in her own quarters instead.  She asked if he gave in, but he
+tells her, "I'm deducting sixty credits per week from the budget set
+aside to maintain combat readiness, and applying it against the rent."
+Ivanova asks on what grounds he's doing that, and he responds, "On the
+grounds that I'm not ready to fight anybody until I've had a decent
+night's sleep in my own damn bed."  She thinks it's a good solution,
+and leaves Sheridan's office to go to sleep.
+
+
    
+ Ivanova, ready for bed.
+
+
    
+Talia accompanies Bester to the docking bay.
+Bester tells her that he is very disappointed that Sheridan was not
+as supportive of the Corps as he had been told.  He tells her to keep an
+eye on Sheridan as well, and Talia says that won't be a problem.  He
+leaves, but as he is walking away, he stops suddenly, turns back toward
+her questioningly, then walks away.
+
+
    
+Ivanova is interrupted by the door chime just as she climbs into bed.
+She answers the door, and Talia enters carrying a bottle of wine and
+two glasses.  At first, Ivanova wants her to leave, but Talia soon
+changes her mind.  Removing her gloves, Talia tells her, "I just wanted
+to say that you were right and I was wrong about the Corps.  I can't go
+into details, but in light of recent events, I think we need to
+reevaluate our relationship.  Which is just a formal way of saying that
+I needs someone to talk to, and, strange as this sounds, you're the
+only one I can think of.  Unless my being here offends you."
+
+
    
+ "I come bearing gifts."
+
+
    
+Ivanova shakes her head.  "No, you don't offend me.  But that does."
+
+
    
+Talia looks down at her collar and sees the PsiCorps badge there.
+Without saying a word, she removes it and sets it on a nearby table.
+"Better," Ivanova tells her, and the two sit down and begin to talk.
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+On Centauri Prime, the Centauri emperor prepares for his voyage off the
+homeworld.  His prime minister plans to go with him -- citing the
+emperor's poor health -- but the emperor
+declines; the prime minister is next in line of authority and needs
+to remain behind in case of a crisis.
+"What I must do," the emperor explains, "cannot wait
+any longer."  Before the emperor leaves, he tells the prime minister
+how much he appreciates him, and that he seldom shows the gratitude he
+should.  Followed by four veiled Centauri women, the emperor leaves the
+throne room.
+
+
    
+Ambassador G'Kar attempts to convince Captain Sheridan that inviting
+the Centauri emperor to Babylon 5 is unacceptable to the Narns, because
+of what his family did to them.  Sheridan tries to tell G'Kar that
+this emperor has gone out of his way to be nice to the Narns, but G'kar
+dismisses it as a technicality.  Sheridan tells G'Kar that the
+resentment the Narn have against the Centauri is not his problem, and
+that everyone is welcome aboard the station, including the emperor.
+Sheridan tells G'Kar that he should use the opportunity to open a
+dialogue with the emperor, but G'Kar refuses to listen.  As he leaves,
+Sheridan tells him not to do something he will regret.  "It's too late
+for that, Captain.  Too late by far."
+
+
    
+A group of Centauri ships come through the jump gate as a frequent
+visitor to Babylon 5 over the last several months arrives on the
+station.  The guard asks him if there is anything he can do to assist,
+but as soon as the man sees Garibaldi, he replies that he's found what
+he's looking for, and leaves.
+
+
    
+Londo meets with Refa, who details what Londo is to do when he meets
+with the Centauri emperor.  Londo is to deliver a carefully planned
+speech, which discusses the decline of the Centauri government and the
+need for change, and contains several predictions about the economy and the
+military that Refa has already arranged to come to pass.  Refa's plan
+is to make the emperor look weak and short-sighted.  Though Londo
+realizes this will not endear him to the emperor and his court, Refa
+explains that the emperor's health is very poor, and he is not
+expected to live much longer.  Refa tells Londo that, if they don't
+take the opportunity that now presents itself, they may not be in
+the proper position when the time comes.  Refa leaves Londo to study
+the speech.  Vir, who had been watching the proceedings, is made
+uncomfortable by the situation, and tells Londo so when he asks.
+"Then, for once," says Londo, "we have something in common."
+
+
    
+The emperor's ship arrives and docks.  The command crew of Babylon 5, in
+full dress, is in the docking bay to meet him.  The emperor offers
+Sheridan the hands of friendship, which Sheridan accepts.  After
+introductions are complete, the emperor tells him that he is very
+impressed with their choice to risk great dangers in order to achieve
+peace.  Sheridan offers to begin the tour, but the emperor interrupts,
+asking Dr. Franklin about Ambassador Kosh, as he has never seen a
+Vorlon before.  He is curious because the Centauri have sent many
+expeditions into Vorlon space, but none have returned, and he wants to
+know more about the stories he has heard.
+
+
    
+ The Emperor arrives.
+
+
    
+G'Kar is communicating with Karmok, a Narn government official, who
+tells him that the Ka-Ri endorsed G'Kar's plans.  G'Kar asks when the
+best time would be to perform the act, and Karmok tells him that he
+should do it at the reception.  Karmok asks if G'Kar is sure he wants
+to do it, but G'Kar insists he is.  "It is a strange feeling, Karmok,
+to know suddenly that all the decisions in your life have brought you
+to this place.  There is no longer doubt or uncertainty.  The future
+now consists of only three probablities."  He opens a box sitting
+nearby, and removes a shiny dagger from within.  "In the moment that I
+strike, the emperor and I will both die.  Or, he will die and I will
+spend my life in prison.  Or, I will fail and be killed.  For the first
+time in my life, the path is clear."
+
+
    
+Sheridan joins the emperor in an observation dome.
+The emperor asks why Sheridan decided to join
+EarthForce.  Sheridan says that it was his choice, that he joined
+before war, when a draft was instated.  Sheridan says that he
+wanted to make a difference, and asks why the emperor is so
+interested.  The emperor responds by saying he never made a choice in
+his life because all of his actions had been predetermined, and that he
+never thought he had to choose otherwise.  He wonders what may
+have happened had he done so.
+
+
    
+Sheridan offers his perspective.  "That's why my father taught me to live
+each second as though it were the last moment of my life.  If you love,
+love without reservation.  If you fight, fight without fear.  He called
+it the way of the warrior."  Sheridan admits that he has only a few
+regrets, but the emperor says he has many more, and that he has lost
+and forgotten most of his life.  The emperor says, even though most of
+his life has slipped away, and most of his options are gone, there
+still is the opportunity to do something that can make a difference,
+and he will not let it slip by.  Meanwhile, the man who arrived aboard
+Babylon 5 earlier is standing in the corridor, watching and listening
+as Garibaldi makes security plans for the emperor's reception.
+
+
    
+As the reception for the emperor begins, G'Kar is in his quarters,
+preparing for the task which lies before him.  "I take this action," he
+dictates into a machine, "without the knowledge or permission of my
+government.  Neither should my aide, Na'Toth, be held accountable for
+my actions.  The responsibility is mine alone.  I ask that my remains
+and my personal property be sent back to Narn--to my family.  My copy
+of the Book of G'Quan I leave to Na'Toth, with the hope of her eventual
+enlightenment."
+
+
    
+ G'Kar makes out his will.
+
+
    
+At the reception, Sheridan asks Ivanova about the veiled Centauri women
+who follow the emperor around.  Ivanova explains that they are
+telepaths, always linked to the emperor.  Two go with him at all times,
+and two remain at home at all times.  Since all four can see and hear
+what the others see and hear, the emperor can be kept apprised of what
+is going on at home, while his court can learn what he is doing
+abroad.  Ivanova asks Sheridan if he knows what the emperor's important
+speech is about.  Sheridan tells her that he doesn't know, and that he
+hoped it would bring Ambassador Kosh to the reception, but Kosh is not
+present.  One visitor they did not expect to see, however, G'Kar,
+arrives and promises Sheridan that he will listen to the emperor.
+
+
    
+Nearby, the man following Garibaldi is finally captured.  Garibaldi
+demands to know why he has been following him.  He says he needs to talk
+to Garibaldi, but before he has a
+chance to explain, several other security guards arrive.  Though
+pressed to say something, the man remains silent and is taken away by
+the guards.
+
+
    
+ "I need to talk to you."
+
+
    
+The emperor and his train proceed to the reception, and G'Kar prepares
+the dagger he has brought along.  Delenn sees this, but G'Kar moves away
+as she walks toward him.  In a corridor, as the emperor walks, his face suddenly
+contorts and he clutches his chest as he falls.  The Centauri with him,
+including the telepaths, turn in alarm.  Dr. Franklin rushes out of
+the reception to help.  On the Centauri homeworld, the remaining two
+telepaths enter the throne room and approach the prime minister, who is
+talking with two Minbari, and another gentleman who appears to be
+human.  The prime minister rises in alarm, as if he knows what has happened
+aboard Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+In MedLab, Dr. Franklin is alone with the bedridden emperor, who gives him an
+important message to deliver, something that can't be entrusted to another
+Centauri.
+
+
    
+Londo and Vir meet with Refa again.  Refa tells Londo that their
+competitors are preparing to take power as soon as the emperor dies.
+But Refa wants to prevent that.  He tells Londo that they need to do
+something extraordinary, something to assure their side gains power.
+Londo remembers something Morden told him long ago.  "He said, 'Just
+pick a target...'"  Refa asks Londo what he means, and Londo explains.
+"I believe there is a Narn colony on the border of Centauri space,
+quadrant 14."  The very mention of this makes Vir uneasy, but Londo and
+Refa brush it off.  Refa tells Londo that the colony is a listening
+post the Narns have used for many years to spy on them, but that the
+planet should be ours.  "Well then," Londo says, "let us take it
+back!"  Refa claims it would require a major assault, costing many
+lives, but Londo says that he will take care of it, and tells Refa
+to send some Centauri military vessels to quadrant 14.  Refa doesn't
+see how that will help, but Londo says it will be enough.  Refa, though
+still unconvinced, tells Londo that he will see to it, and leaves.
+Londo turns to Vir.  "Find Mr. Morden.  Bring him here."  Vir begs
+Londo to reconsider his actions, and to just listen to him this once.
+He tries to tell Londo that once he does this, he cannot turn back.
+Londo claims that he has no choice, and then tells Vir that, if he does
+not find Morden, he will do so himself.
+
+
    
+ "Let us take it back!"
+
+
    
+"No.  No, I'll go," says Vir.  "I'll go, and I'll bring him back.  And some
+day I'm
+going to remind you of this conversation.  And maybe then...then you'll
+understand."
+
+
    
+"I understand... just fine," Londo says.  "By this time tomorrow, we
+will be at war with the Narns.  May the Great Maker forgive me."
+
+
    
+G'Kar is in his quarters, again speaking with Karmok, telling him how
+upset he is that he didn't get a chance to assassinate the emperor.
+His door chimes; it's Dr. Franklin.
+G'Kar tells Karmok that he may soon have another opportunity, and
+quickly cuts off the communication.  He lets Dr. Franklin in.
+Franklin tells
+him that he just saw the emperor.  G'Kar asks how the emperor is, and tells
+Franklin he was anxious to meet him.  Franklin tells him that the emperor had a
+message for him.  At first, G'Kar doesn't want to hear the message, but
+he changes his mind when Franklin says, "He wanted to say
+he's sorry."  Franklin continues.  "He came all the way out here, risked
+his health, and endangered his life, so that he could stand beside a
+Narn in neutral territory and apologize for all the things the Centauri
+have done to your people.  For all the things his family did.  He said,
+'We were wrong.  The hatred between our people can never end until
+someone is willing to say, I'm sorry, and try to find a way to make
+things right again, to atone for our actions.'  He said it was the only
+choice he ever made in his life, and now that seems to have been taken
+away from him."  This news strikes G'Kar deeply, and he says he had no
+idea that the emperor had come for that reason.  "No, I'm sure you
+didn't," answers Franklin.  "Maybe that's the biggest tragedy of the whole
+damn story."
+
+
    
+Londo is asleep.  As he is dreaming, he hears himself say, "Keep this
+up, G'Kar, and soon you won't have a planet to protect!"  He sees a
+contigent of Narn fighters destroying the space station at Ragesh 3.  Within
+seconds, that dissolves, and...
+
+
    
+...He sees a great, fiery star with a hand emerging from it, reaching
+toward something...
+
+
    
+...He sees Centauri Prime from orbit...
+
+
    
+...He finds himself standing on the dusty or sandy surface of a planet,
+shielding his eyes from the
+sun as a group of Shadow ships fly overhead...
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+...He stands, dressed in ceremonial clothing, his head bowed, as a
+crown is placed upon his head...
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+...He sits on a large throne, dressed in elaborate white clothes.  He
+is aged, decrepit, and ill.  Surveying
+his surroundings, he sees a Narn, his face aged and wrinkled,
+wrapped in a dark cloth.  It is G'Kar...
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+...Londo once again sees the great hand, stretching further and further
+from the star, grasping at something...
+
+
    
+...He is back in the throne room, in a struggle with G'Kar.  They are
+both trying to strangle
+   each other.  Londo begins losing the struggle, and he begins to fall
+   back, as...
+
+
    
+...he wakes up.  He is quite disoriented, and picks up a small clock
+nearby, to check the
+time.  "It has begun," he says.
+
+
    
+At the Narn colony in quadrant 14, all is quiet as several Narn ships
+patrol the area.  Without warning, three Shadow ships appear and begin
+firing at the Narn ships.  The Narns put up a valiant fight, but can
+seemingly not even scratch the defenses of the enemy.  The Shadow
+ships move toward the planet, destroying everything, and anything, in
+their way.  The smaller Narn ships are all destroyed attempting to
+protect the planet.  As the three Shadow ships arrive near the planet,
+a fourth appears and helps the others attack the colony on the planet,
+and the station orbiting it.  After all has been destroyed, the four
+ships leave the vicinity, vanishing as they do so.
+
+
    
+
+
+[Movie]
+
+
    
+Refa and Londo are walking through Babylon 5.  Londo tells Refa that
+the Narn will be learning of what happened soon enough, and that
+Centauri forces can move in at any time.  Refa says that he will have
+to move quickly as well, as he has something to take care of at home.
+He tells Londo it is an obstacle that must be removed, but he refuses
+to elaborate when Londo asks what it is.  Refa leaves as G'Kar appears
+and addresses Londo in a threatening tone.  Londo tries to explain, but
+before he has a chance to explain or escape, G'Kar drops the gruff
+facade and pulls Londo over to a nearby bar, where he buys him a
+drink.  "I've heard something that makes me think there is still hope
+for us after all," G'Kar tells him.  "I believed your people capable of
+only murder and pain.  But, apparently, there is still a spark of
+decency in your genetic code.  It's not much of a foundation, I'll
+grant you that, but it's a start!"  The drinks arrive and they toast.
+"I never thought I would be saying this Mollari, but, to the health of
+your emperor.  And, perhaps, to your health as well."  Londo painfully
+accepts the toast, and thanks G'Kar, visibly shaken.  They both drink.
+
+
    
+Several large Centauri warships create a jump point and emerge near
+the destroyed colony
+just as several smaller Narn ships arrive and see the damage
+that has been done.  They do not know what happened, but they quickly
+see the Centauri ships there.  The Narn communicate this to the
+homeworld and prepare to attack the Centauri warships.  The fighting
+begins, and several of the Narn ships are destroyed.
+
+
    
+ The battle is joined.
+
+
    
+The Centauri prime minister stands quietly near the throne on Centauri
+Prime, thinking.  He begins to walk away, but is stopped by four
+Centauri as he attempts to leave.  They say nothing.  The prime
+minister tries to call his guards, but before he can, one of the four
+thrusts a dagger deep into him, and he falls to the floor, dead.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is in his office, exhausted, when another security officer
+enters, telling him that the prisoner wants to speak with him.
+Garibaldi refuses at first, but the officer says the prisoner claims it's
+important.  The prisoner enters.  Garibaldi tells him that he has
+five minutes, and the man explains.  "I was sent to find you.  I have a
+message for you."  He puts a data crystal on Garibaldi's desk.  "I
+believe it will explain everything."  Garibaldi is reluctant at first,
+but he puts the crystal into his player and starts it.
+
+
    
+The screens light up, showing the face of Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair.
+"Hello, old friend," Sinclair says.  "It's been a while.  I'm trusting
+this message to an associate of mine who is sworn to bring it to you at
+any cost--including his own life.  My job on the Minbari homeworld is
+more than just representing Earth.  The President doesn't know about
+that part yet, and...I don't think it would be wise of you to tell
+him.  There's a great darkness coming, Michael.  Some of the Minbari
+have been waiting for it a long time."
+
+
    
+In C&C, Ivanova reports to Sheridan that they intercepted an open
+message sent from the Narn homeworld to G'Kar, reporting about the
+assault on the Narn colony in quadrant 14.  This upsets and angers
+Sheridan greatly.
+
+
    
+"The bearer of this message," Sinclair continues, "is one of my
+rangers.  Some are Minbari.  Most are humans.  They have been drawn
+here to learn to work together and prepare for the fight ahead."
+Garibaldi pauses the message, and the ranger explains that they have
+been on Babylon 5 for nearly two months.  He says they are an army, and
+that they are growing.  Garibaldi asks if this army's weapons are coming
+through the station, and the ranger says no, but that they do have
+friends, and that he can say no more.  Garibaldi continues the
+message.  "Their job, for now, is to patrol the frontier, to listen, to
+watch, and to return with reports too sensitive to trust to regular
+channels.  They are my eyes and ears.  Where you see them, you see me."
+
+
    
+ The ranger watches the message.
+
+
    
+Karmok reports to G'Kar that the Narn ships they sent saw the Centauri
+warships lead the assault.  G'Kar asks what happened to the inhabitants
+of the colony.  Karmok tells him that most died within the first few
+minutes of the attack, but that, if there are survivors, they are
+probably going to be enslaved by the Centauri forever, now that they
+are in control.  Karmok quickly breaks off the communication, wondering
+how the Centauri were able to so easily break through their defenses.
+G'Kar turns away slowly from the monitor, shaking his fist in rage.  "I
+reached out my hand, and he betrayed me.  He knew!  And he betrayed
+me!"  He flings his arm across a nearby table, throwing everything on
+the table onto the floor.  His rage growing, he wrenches the table from
+its legs and the throws it to the ground, where it breaks in two.
+
+
    
+"In the name of our friendship," Sinclair concludes, "I ask that you
+give them every courtesy and cooperation.  I wish I could tell you
+more...I wish I could warn you.  But the others don't think it's time
+yet.  Stay close to the Vorlon, and watch out for shadows.  They
+move when you're not looking."  The message ends, and as
+Garibaldi turns to the ranger, he receives a call on his commlink
+telling him that help is needed in the ambassadorial wing.  The
+communication suddenly breaks off.
+
+
    
+G'Kar bursts down the hall, his eyes burning.  He knocks to the ground
+everyone who gets in his way.  His voice filled with anger, he
+shouts, "Mollari!  Mollari!"  Sheridan and several security guards
+intercept him.  Sheridan tells him that, if he returns to his quarters,
+they will not press charges.  G'Kar pleads.  "They're doing it to us again.
+Step
+aside, Sheridan.  I won't let this happen.  Not again!"
+
+
    
+ "They're doing it to us again."
+
+
    
+Sheridan
+offers to help G'Kar, but warns him that, should he
+attempt to attack Londo, he will either be killed or sent off the
+station, and that he can't help the other Narns either way.  G'Kar
+shouts that the Centauri will kill everyone unless he does something.
+Sheridan tells him to decide what is more important: getting revenge
+against Londo, or saving the lives of many Narns.  Making his decision,
+G'Kar gathers up all his energy for one final strike.  The security
+guards prepare to fire if necessary, but G'Kar slams into a wall and
+falls down beside it.  Sheridan and the other security guards leave him
+alone, in pain, to think.
+
+
    
+ Defeat.
+
+
    
+In MedLab, the Centauri emperor tries to speak to Franklin, but
+Franklin tells him to take it easy and save his strength.  Franklin
+asks if there is anything he can do to help, and the emperor tells him
+that he very much wanted to see a Vorlon.  Dr. Franklin smiles and steps
+aside.  The emperor turns his head, but seconds later, his face is
+covered by a shadow.  He looks up to see Ambassador Kosh standing over
+his bed.  "How will this end?" the emperor asks.
+
+
    
+"In fire," Kosh intones.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tells Sheridan and Ivanova what he learned, but does not
+reveal the source.  Ivanova asks him why he believes he can trust
+whoever told him this, and Garibaldi says that the source comes
+"highly recommended."  Sheridan asks Garibaldi why he is holding
+something back, and Garibaldi tells him that he made a
+promise.  Sheridan has a hard time accepting the information Garibaldi
+presents, and threatens to order Garibaldi to talk, but Garibaldi
+refuses, knowing that, if he did so, Sheridan would not be able to
+trust him again, because someone higher in the chain of command than
+Sheridan could order him to talk as well.  Sheridan accepts this, and
+Garibaldi continues.  "Ever since New Years, we've been hearing about
+some other major race on the prowl.  My source tells me the rumors are
+true, and there may be some link to the Centauri government.  Now, who
+or what that link is, I don't know, but they're definitely getting
+support."
+
+
    
+"And you think this other race was behind the assault on quadrant 14?"
+asks Ivanova.
+
+
    
+"It's possible," replies Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells them that, if that is true, their enemy wouldn't want
+anyone else to know.  Ivanova tells him that all they have is
+supposition, but Sheridan says it is a good idea to make your opponent
+think you know more than you actually do.  "Now, if your source is
+right, we may be able to play a bluff," Sheridan tells Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+In MedLab, Refa, Londo, and the emperor's entourage stand around the
+emperor's bed.  Refa tells the emperor that they retook the Narn colony
+and that not one Centauri was hurt or killed in doing so.  Their
+homeworld is rejoicing, and the Centauri are powerful again, but he
+wants the emperor's blessing.  He leans in close, but the
+emperor tells him nothing.  The emperor points to Londo, who leans
+in.  The emperor whispers something to him, then
+dies.  Refa asks what the emperor said, and Londo tells him, "He said,
+'Continue.  Take my people back...to the stars.'"  The two Centauri
+telepaths, who had been watching, look at each other and then walk
+away.  Londo and Refa follow, but Refa stops Londo in the hall, asking
+him what the emperor really said.  "He said," Londo answers, with great
+difficulty, "that we are both damned."
+
+
    
+ The Emperor lies dying.
+
+
    
+"Well," Refa tells him, "it's a small enough price to pay for
+immortality."  Laughing, he walks away, leaving Londo alone in the
+hall.
+
+
    
+G'Kar is back in his quarters, facing the wall, when the door opens and
+Sheridan enters.  He tells G'Kar that he thinks he knows how Earth may
+be able to help, and that he has called a council meeting to discuss recent
+events.  As Sheridan leaves, G'Kar tells him that he will attend the
+meeting.  "Thank you...  for stopping me."
+
+
    
+ "Thank you..."
+
+
    
+At the council meeting, Sheridan addresses Londo, asking what will
+happen to the Narn civilians on the colony.  Londo says the Centauri can't allow
+them to return to the Narn homeworld, but says that he is sure his
+government will find them something productive to do.  Delenn tells him she
+thinks he means forced slavery, but Londo claims they have no desire to
+misuse anyone.  G'Kar enters, and takes his seat at the council table.
+Sheridan tells Londo that he has received permission from Earth to send
+observers to the colony to check on the civilians, to make sure they
+aren't mistreated.  Londo tells Sheridan the observers are not welcome, but
+Sheridan doesn't care.  He tells Londo he shouldn't try shooting down
+an EarthForce ship; though Earth isn't looking for another war,
+it will shoot back if fired upon.  Sheridan tells Londo that the observers
+will check on the survivors and put together a full report, including
+as much as they can learn about how the colony was so easily defeated.
+This disturbs Londo, who tells the council that he thinks he can convince the
+Centauri government to allow the civilians to return to the Narn
+homeworld, as long as no observers are sent to the colony.  Sheridan
+agrees, and tells him, "I'm sure your gesture of goodwill will be
+appreciated for what it is...Ambassador."  Delenn asks G'Kar to
+speak.
+
+
    
+"Before coming here," G'Kar says,  "I received a communique from my
+government.  For a hundred years, the Centauri occupied our
+world.  Devestated it.  We swore we would never let that happen again.
+This attack on our largest civilian colony has inflicted terrible
+damage and loss of life.  They've crossed a line we cannot allow them
+to cross.  As a result, two hours ago my government officially declared
+war against the Centauri Republic.  Our hope for peace is over.  We are
+now at war...we are now at war."
+
+
    
+Refa tells Londo and Vir that the death of the Centauri prime minister
+changed the balance of power on the Centauri homeworld, neutralizing
+the other powerful families, and leaving the emperor's nephew, who is
+on the side of Londo and Refa, the successor to the throne.  Refa
+tries to give his cup to Vir, who just glares at him.  Refa continues.
+"For the first time in a
+hundred years, Ambassador, our people are on the right track again, and
+we have you to thank for it.  You will find the emperor's
+gratitude...most rewarding."  Refa bids them farewell and leaves.
+
+
    
+ "Our people are on the right track again."
+
+
    
+"I'm surprised," Vir tells Londo after Refa leaves.  "You could have
+asked to be named to the royal court.  It would have put you in a
+position to become emperor yourself one day.  That's what you want,
+isn't it?"
+
+
    
+Londo thinks back, recalling his recent dream of being crowned and
+then, many years later, being strangled by G'Kar.  "No.  I have no
+desire to be emperor," he tells Vir.  "I prefer to work behind the
+scenes.  The reward is nearly as great, and the risk far, far less."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi thanks the ranger for his help in saving the lives of so
+many Narns.  When the ranger asks if Garibaldi will give the
+cooperation he needs, Garibaldi agrees, as long as the ranger keeps him
+informed of what the rangers learn, both here and abroad.  The ranger
+says he will, as long as their presence is kept a secret.  Garibaldi
+agrees to that, but asks one last question.  "Aside from me, does
+anybody else know you're here?"
+
+
    
+"Just one other," the ranger says as he walks away.
+
+
    
+Delenn, in her quarters, examines a message crystal in her hands
+closely.  She puts it into her player, and is greeted with a voice she,
+too, hasn't heard in a long time.  "Hello, old friend..."
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+It is a quiet evening on the station, and Commander Ivanova is enjoying the
+peace when she receives word that the jump gate is activating and six
+EarthForce ships are coming through.
+
+
    
+A shuttle from the main ship docks, and Sheridan is there to meet the
+commanding officer, who
+introduces himself as General Richard Franklin, of the 356th infantry
+division.  Sheridan apologizes for the delay, but since they didn't know
+he was coming, there was little they could do.  General Franklin tells
+him that the mission is classified, but that Sheridan will be briefed in
+the morning.  General Franklin also tells him that he needs lodging
+for all 25,000 of his troops.  Sheridan protests, saying that there isn't
+enough space, but General Franklin orders him to find it, because he
+doesn't want his troops aboard transports the whole time.  Sheridan
+asks the general if he is any relation to the station's head doctor, Dr.
+Stephen Franklin, and the general answers that he is Dr.
+Franklin's father.  Sheridan offers to tell Dr. Franklin, but General
+Franklin says he will do so himself as soon as his people are settled.
+
+
    
+The troops arrive on the station, are identified, and then herded into
+groups to be taken to their billets.  Commander Ivanova is trying to
+organize everyone together, but is having a difficult time of this.
+Garibaldi is also not too pleased with the sight of so many ground
+pounders on the station, but realizes there is little that can be done.
+She orders him to seal off the area and only allow military personnel
+inside the docking bay.
+
+
    
+ The troops come aboard.
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks Ivanova what the status of the station is, and she tells
+him that, even though they have put the ground pounders in quarters with
+several other people, they are still very short on places to put them.
+In addition, she is afraid their docking schedule will have to be done
+away with.  Garibaldi tells Sheridan that looking after the recreational
+areas might be a good idea as well, and Sheridan tells Garibaldi to seal
+off the more "colorful" areas of the station.  Garibaldi tells him he
+already did this, but is afraid it won't do much good.  The three arrive
+at the briefing.
+
+
    
+General Franklin explains to them that the planet Akdor, in the Shilassen
+Triumvirate, is currently engaged in a civil war, and the Shilassen
+government has asked for aid, which the Earth Alliance wants to provide.
+Sheridan is confused as, just a few days earlier, he was told to refuse
+the request, and the general tells him that, until the senate
+announces their decision to the public, Sheridan's orders are the official
+story.
+Ivanova asks what the objective is, and General Franklin says it is an
+attack against the rebel stronghold at Matok.  As soon as the senate
+announces their intention, General Franklin's troops will go in and take
+the fort.  Sheridan tells him that he knows, from previous
+experienece, that Matok is a death-trap, to which Franklin replies that
+Sheridan's knowledge was one reason Babylon 5 was chosen as a staging area.
+Garibaldi
+asks how they can keep the operation a secret, and Franklin tells him
+that the soldiers believe they are going to Io.  General Franklin also
+tells them that his people are going to leave new weapons for Babylon 5, so
+that they will have the capacity to take on a warship.  Franklin explains
+that, with the Narn and Centauri at war, the other aliens may become more
+aggressive, in which case Babylon 5 needs to be prepared.  Franklin
+orders them to return in the morning to discuss the battle plan, and for
+no one else to be told of the situation.  Sheridan, Ivanova, and
+Garibaldi leave, unhappy about the situation before them.
+
+
    
+Lieutenant Warren Keffer returns to his quarters to find two
+ground pounders, Yang and "Large" there.  Though they are cordial to him,
+Keffer is upset about having to share his quarters.  He tells them that they
+should leave, but when "Large," threatens him, Keffer stands up to him, which
+endears him to "Large" immediately.
+
+
    
+ Unexpected roommates.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin is in his quarters, meeting with his father, catching up on
+current events in their family.  While they are talking, General Franklin
+offers to have his son transferred to Bethesda Dome so that he can be of
+more use to Earth Force during the Narn-Centauri war.  This outrages
+Stephen, who says his job as a doctor is to heal people.  His father
+tells him that he should heal humans instead, but Stephen doesn't agree.
+"Life is life, whether it's wrapped in skin, scales, or feathers.  Now,
+if you respected these beings instead of constantly trying to murder
+them, you'd appreciate that!"  As soon as he says it, Stephen realizes it
+was a mistake, but the general leaves too quickly for him to say anything
+else.
+
+
    
+ "Life is life!"
+
+
    
+In MedLab, Dr. Franklin is unhappy to see Ivanova arrive with a large
+group of soldiers she wants to billet in the infirmary.  He initially
+objects, but after Ivanova quotes to him information from his medical
+log, saying that the patients in the infirmary can be moved, he
+reluctantly agrees.  She can tell he's upset about something, and he
+explains to her what he's feeling.  "He always brings out this anger in
+me I can't control.  Now matter how I try, I always seem to want to hurt
+him.  You know, the funny thing is, I do love him, I just can't...talk to
+him."  Ivanova explains that she had similar feelings toward her father.
+She receives a call from C&C saying that she has to leave, but she offers
+to meet him later to talk.  He agrees to do what he can about the
+infirmary space.
+
+
    
+At dinner, Dr. Franklin explains to Ivanova how difficult it was growing up
+with his father, who always ran things as if the family were in the military.
+He tells her that it was difficult living with not knowing whether or not his
+father would
+come home, and that it became difficult to bear the pain, so he left for
+the stars.  His father wasn't happy, but when Dr. Franklin joined Earth Force,
+the general
+turned around.  He says that they talk very little, and only end up
+fighting when they do talk.  He says he thinks he should give up
+altogether, but Ivanova doesn't agree.  "Talk to him, Stephen," she says.
+"Tell him what you feel no matter how hard it is.  I didn't and I lost
+the chance.  Don't make the same mistake."  He doesn't understand, and
+asks her if the troops are really bound for Io.  She doesn't answer him
+and leaves to go back on duty.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Delenn walk through a corridor talking about the
+Narn-Centauri war, Delenn expressing her wish that Babylon 5 remain
+devoted to peace during the difficult times ahead.  Garibaldi becomes
+distracted and leaves her for a moment to check on some ground pounders,
+when she meets up with several.  They ask her what she is.  Though she
+tells them she is a Minbari, they persist, taunting her, and advancing
+upon her forcefully.  She tells them she did nothing to them, but they
+say she needs to be taught a lesson because of what the Minbari did to
+them on the Line.  They are about to teach her that lesson when a woman
+ground pounder jumps in between them and stands up for Delenn, who rushes
+off while the woman fights her fellow soldiers.  Delenn finds Garibaldi and
+takes him to the conflict.  The fight is soon broken up by the
+Sergeant-Major in charge of the ground pounders, who is about to take all
+them to the brig.  Garibaldi intervenes, convincing him not to do
+so.  The woman calls after Garibaldi, and she introduces herself to him
+as Dodger.  He tells her that Ambassador Delenn wanted him to maintain
+peace as much as possible, and that he saved her because of that.  He has
+a call, and has to leave.  She tells him that she might see him around.
+
+
    
+ Delenn is threatened.
+
+
    
+General Franklin explains to Sheridan the tactics he plans to use on the
+attack.  He asks Sheridan about several options, but Sheridan tells him
+that there is no way to get through without heavy casualities.  Sheridan
+suggests that they call the whole thing off, but General Franklin
+disagrees, saying an important reason for the invasion is to install
+their presence in Shilassen space, which is very close to the Narn and
+Centauri.  Dr. Franklin comes into the room and tells his father he wants
+to talk, but his father wants no part of it.  Dr. Franklin says that he
+didn't mean the things he said, but this angers his father even more.  He
+tells him that he will talk to him later, but Dr. Franklin is not pleased
+with this, either.  General Franklin orders his son to leave, which he does.
+
+
    
+ Discussing strategies.
+
+
    
+After Dr. Franklin leaves, the general asks Sheridan if he feels like
+being a soldier is being a murderer.  Sheridan says that the only truth
+about war is that people die.  "Killing is part of a soldier's job.  We
+can't deny it--we can only live with it and hope the reasons for doing it
+are justified."  General Franklin says that he wishes his son could
+understand that, and Sheridan tells him that he feels Dr. Franklin is an
+excellent doctor, and that he will stand up for his principles if they
+are challenged.  General Franklin feels that is an admirable trait, and
+Sheridan agrees, saying that, even though he and his father had similar
+disagreements, and they never stopped arguing, they never stopped loving
+each other either.  General Franklin thanks Sheridan for the talk, and
+concludes the briefing.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Lou Welch keep an eye on all of the ground pounders when
+Dodger walks up and asks Garibaldi for a tour.  Welch offers to take over
+for Garibaldi while he is gone.  Garibaldi asks Dodger what she wants to
+see.  "A nice restaurant," she replies.  "And your quarters."
+
+
    
+Garibaldi takes Dodger to his quarters, where they are barely able to
+keep their hands off of each other.  They sit down on the bed, and
+prepare to continue, but before they go any further, Garibaldi explains
+the troubles he has had recently, with Lise and his near-death after
+being shot by his aide.  He tells her that, if she is the one for him, he
+doesn't want to ruin it by going too fast.  She gets up and explains her
+situation to him.  "You know, I didn't come here expecting to set up
+housekeeping.  I'm a ground pounder.  I'm cleaning latrines one day, the
+next I might be up to my hips in blood, hoping that I don't hear the round
+that takes me out.  You got it?  In between, I like to try to see what I
+can get, to remind myself that I'm alive.  Right, it's not romance, but
+it's all I got time for.  I'm so sorry it's not enough for you."  He
+tries to call after her as she leaves, but she won't speak to him.
+
+
    
+ The heat of the moment.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and Sheridan go back to C&C, finally back on-shcedule at the
+docking bays.  Sheridan tells her to try to arrange a paid vacation for
+the workers, to compensate for their recent troubles.  Sheridan asks
+about the new defense system they have, and Ivanova explains that their
+new arsenal really is enough to take on a warship, complete with pulse
+cannons, interceptors, mine launchers, and a much improved tracking
+system.  Sheridan tells her that he hopes they will never have to use it.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin is in his quarters when his father comes in.  The general
+apologizes for dismissing him the previous day, but
+also says that he had every right to be angry about the way his son
+acted.  He tells Stephen that he has no right to call him a murderer, and
+he can't believe that he would have so little respect.  Stephen
+says that it isn't about respect, but rather about the way they don't
+communicate very well.  Stephen explains to his father that it really
+hurts him to have such a relationship with him when he isn't sure that he
+will ever see him again.  General Franklin apologizes, saying that he
+never really meant to shut him out.  Stephen says it might just be their
+relationship, but he has always respected his father, and thanks him for
+the things he taught him.  He also says that he regrets the things he did
+say to his father over the years, and takes the opportunity to tell his
+father the one thing he never had a chance to -- that he loves him.  He
+says that he always has and that nothing could ever change that.  The two
+of them hug.
+
+
    
+ Reconciliation.
+
+
    
+In a bar, Large is telling Yang and Keffer a war story.  He leaves for a
+moment, and Keffer asks Yang if Large ever tells anything besides war
+stories.  Keffer asks if Yang has seen any fighting, and Yang tells him
+that he hasn't, but he says he's ready.  Yang asks Keffer if he has,
+and if he was scared.  Keffer says that no matter what happens, you're
+always scared.  Large returns, and the three toast together to their health.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi approaches the bar, where Dodger is sitting.  He starts to talk
+to her, but she apologizes for her behavior, and says that, sometimes,
+she wants things too much, and pushes unnecessarily for them.  She
+expresses her disbelief at the official talk that the ground pounders are
+going to Io, since she doesn't think that General Franklin would lead
+such a minor mission.  She offers to buy him a drink, and he selects
+water.
+
+
    
+Keffer tells Large and Yang a war story of his own, and accidentally
+nudges a soldier while gesturing.  It turns out to be Private Kleist,
+the ground pounder who earlier assaulted Delenn, and though Keffer
+attempts to apologize, Kleist won't listen.  Keffer
+suggests they settle it outside, but Kleist doesn't want to
+wait.  The two of them begin to fight, and the skirmish escalates into a
+full-scale barroom brawl, with nearly everyone in the bar getting in on
+the action.  After several minutes of fighting, the Sergeant-Major and
+General Franklin appear and tell them that they are moving out right
+away, so they all need to get their gear and leave immediately.
+
+
    
+ The bar brawl erupts.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Dodger, who cooperated in the fight, say their goodbyes,
+and Keffer, Large, and Yang do the same thing.  Keffer wishes them both
+luck, and comments that he hopes he'll see them again.  General Franklin,
+meanwhile, offers to punish the ground pounders involved in the fight and
+make reparations.  Sheridan accepts the reparations, and says that he
+would rather have the ground pounders with General Franklin.  "Besides,"
+he says, "I don't think we have the room."
+
+
    
+As the 25,000 ground pounders prepare to leave, Sheridan tells General
+Franklin that he hopes he was wrong about Matok's defenses.  General
+Franklin says his goodbyes to Garibaldi and Ivanova as well, and finally
+sees his son.  Before he leaves, General Franklin tells Stephen that he
+is very proud of him, and will talk to him more when he gets back.  They
+hug again, and General Franklin ships out.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi searches through the line of ground pounders for Dodger, whom
+he eventually finds.  He makes a date to see her when she returns, and,
+despite the Sergeant-Major's urging, the two share a long, passionate
+goodbye kiss.  "You'll never know what you missed," she tells him as she
+boards the ship, which soon departs and enters the jump gate.
+
+
    
+A large group of officers stands, watching a large monitor, which is
+displaying an ISN news broadcast about the assault on Matok at Akdor.
+The gruesome visuals show pictures of intense fighting and blasting from
+many different kinds of units.  A reporter talks to General Franklin,
+whom Dr. Franklin is overjoyed to see.  General Franklin explains
+the situation.  "Our troops have taken control of the
+fortress at Matok.  Most of the leaders of the rebellion have either been
+killed or captured, and we expect a complete surrender of all the rebel
+forces very shortly."  The group watching the broadcast cheers, but General
+Franklin is pulled away by another officer, for some other reason.  Lou
+Welch appears and hands Garibaldi the initial list of casualities.
+Garibaldi looks over it for a moment, and silently hands it to
+Keffer.  Keffer looks at the report and learns that Large, Yang,
+Dodger--and even the ground pounder who assaulted Delenn and began the
+bar fight all were killed.  He stands, alone, reflecting upon the
+situation, and the reality of war.
+
+
    
+
+
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Ambassador Delenn is in her quarters, examining a mobile hanging there. 
+Lennier comes in, asking why he was summoned.  She tells him that she
+received a message from the Grey Council, saying that, now that the new
+leader is in place, she should return so it can be decided whether she
+can remain part of the Council, or should be removed from it.  She tells
+him that she is leaving shortly, and is not certain if she will return,
+as they may remove her from Babylon 5 as well, because she made the
+decision to undergo her transformation.
+She tells him that she is leaving him as much
+information as possible about her work so that, in case she doesn't
+return, he will have everything he needs if someone else is assigned to
+the station.  She says to him that she feels very alone.  He takes her
+hand and tells her she will never be alone.
+
+
    
+ "Never alone, Delenn."
+
+
    
+"The last two ships that came through sector 92," Commander Ivanova
+explains to Captain Sheridan, "both reported unusual sightings."  He asks
+what details they provided, but she tells him that they discovered
+little more than a disturbance or flash of light, but that at least one
+transport just vanished in that area.  Sheridan knows that it can't be
+the raiders, as they are out of commission, but
+something is clearly going on.  He asks what squadrons are available to
+investigate, and she tells him that alpha and zeta squadrons are
+unavailable, and the leader of delta squadron is sick.  She offers to
+reassign the leader's second to command, but Sheridan decides to do
+it himself.  Ivanova insists he take a full escort with him,
+and he agrees, though she is still uneasy about his going on the mission.
+"I'll be in and out in an hour," he tells her.  "What could go wrong?"
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, a group of several Narn ships is attacked by a huge ship.  All
+of the Narn ships are destroyed,
+and the pilots killed, except for one Narn pilot, whom the ship brings
+into its depths with a blue beam.
+
+
    
+Lennier arrives in the docking bay, where Delenn is waiting, and he tells
+her that her flier is recharged, and can leave at any time.  He has borrowed
+a flier as well and intends to accompany her.  She tries to dissuade him, in
+case her disfavor with the Council becomes associated with him, but he insists.
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives in his quarters and receives a message from Ivanova,
+telling him that his escort is ready for him and that
+General Hague is arriving earlier than planned.  She
+complains that she should have been informed of the General's visit,
+but Sheridan tells her that
+it is a private matter, and nothing to worry about.  And since
+he will have returned from his trip by the time the general arrives,
+there is nothing to worry about.
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lennier arrive at the Grey Council's ship.  She tells him that
+he must wait outside while she enters the Council chamber.  He tells her
+that he will wait, and pray, for her.  "Until later, Satai," he says to
+her as she enters the chamber.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and his escort explore sector 92, but they find no debris or
+strange radiation there.  They prepare to return to the jumpgate and
+Babylon 5, when a jump point forms, and a large, strangely-configured
+ship emerges.  Sheridan orders his people to take evasive
+action.  The ship fires on him.  He manages to eject
+right before his ship explodes, but most of the other starfury pilots
+aren't so lucky--with the exception of one starfury, the rest are
+destroyed trying to rescue the captain.  The starfury that remains is
+disabled by a blast from the strange ship.  The pilot, Lt. Ramirez,
+is the only one to see Sheridan's ejection pod be taken aboard the ship.
+
+
    
+
+[Movie]
+[Movie]
+Sheridan in peril.
+
+
    
+Ramirez receives a message from his computer, telling him that
+the ship has been severely disabled and that a leak in the fusion reactor
+has caused radiation in the ship to reach terminal levels.  Since the
+communication system is not functioning, he redirects all the energy he
+can to the system controls, and re-enters the jumpgate he came through.
+
+
    
+Ivanova greets General Hague, who arrives in the docking bay.  He asks
+where Captain Sheridan is, and Ivanova tells him that he had to look into
+another problem.  Hague says it is unlike Sheridan to be late, but
+Ivanova tries to convince him that nothing is wrong, and takes Hague to C&C.
+
+
    
+Sheridan awakes to find himself in a strange, cavernous room on the alien
+ship, strapped to a table.  He calls out, to see if his abductors are
+there, but no one answers.  A panel opens in the ceiling and a strange
+device with surgical implements is lowered into the room above his head.
+Sheridan tries to shy away from the machine as it edges closer to his face.
+
+
    
+Delenn stands in her light at the Grey Council, surprised to find no
+other council members there.  She addresses the Council in the
+traditional fashion, but is greeted only by Hedronn appearing out of the
+shadows, telling her that the rest of the Council will not come.  She
+tells him that she was summoned, but Hedronn tells her that she was not
+called to serve on the Council, but rather receive judgement.  She says
+she is allowed a hearing and entitled to defend herself, but Hedronn
+disagrees.  "You were told to wait," he says to her, "before taking this
+action.  Before becoming alien to us.  You have been away from us for too
+long, Delenn.  Your contact with the humans has changed more than your
+appearance.  If you are no longer one of us, how can you be one of the Nine?"
+She tries to convince him that her heart has not changed, but he says
+that the Council no longer knows her heart.  He tells her that the
+Council voted to remove her from their number.
+
+
    
+ "You were told to wait."
+
+
    
+Before she leaves, she asks about her position as Ambassador to
+Babylon 5.  He says they haven't decided on that yet, but that she has
+the right to make a statement to the Council.  She thanks him and asks
+who her replacement to the Council was.  Hedronn doesn't answer,
+and only says that she will be called when the Council is ready.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and General Hague are unable to contact Sheridan, and are about
+to try something else when Ramirez's starfury comes through the jump
+gate.  Ivanova scans the ship, learning that it has been shot up pretty
+badly and there are minimal life signs.  She calls down to MedLab to
+inform Dr. Franklin.
+
+
    
+Sheridan lies on the table, three spots on his face bleeding profusely as
+the alien device retracts into the ceiling.  He calls out again, but
+there's no answer.  A long metal bar falls to the floor as his restraints
+come off of their own accord.  He sits up just in time to
+miss being hit by a Drazi wielding a similar metal bar.
+Sheridan tries to speak to the Drazi, but finds the only way he
+can communicate is by grabbing the metal rod and fighting.
+The alien doesn't respond to anything Sheridan says, but apparently
+is controlled by a device attached to its head.  Sheridan asks who his
+captors are and why they are doing this, but receives no response.  They
+continue fighting, and Sheridan eventually triumphs as the Drazi is
+accidentally impaled on his own weapon.
+
+
    
+Hoping the worst is over, Sheridan is surprised to see another alien appear,
+this time a Narn -- the same one captured by the aliens earlier -- swinging
+a sword at him furiously.  The Narn says nothing to
+Sheridan, but is also apparently controlled by a device attached to his head.
+Sheridan and attempts to fight off the Narn, and
+suffers little more than a cut to the leg, but when the Narn corners
+Sheridan and has the chance to kill him, the Narn says to him, "Kill
+me!"  Sheridan realizes that their alien abductors probably kidnapped
+them to do battle.  Sheridan defends himself, eventually knocking the Narn
+to the ground.  Sheridan checks the Narn and discovers that,
+luckily, he is still alive.
+
+
    
+ "Kill me!"
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin does everything he can to help Ramirez, but before he can
+even really begin to do anything, Ramirez dies.  Garibaldi tries to
+convince Dr. Franklin that he did everything he could, but Franklin just
+backs off.  Ivanova arrives and reports to Garibaldi that they learned
+from the starfury's data record that Sheridan has been taken aboard an
+alien vessel of unknown origin and design.
+
+
    
+The Grey Council has convened, and Delenn enters the Council chamber and
+stands in a blue light in the center of the other members.  She addresses
+them.  "For twenty cycles I have stood beside you as one of the Nine.  I
+called many of you friends.  Now you call me outcast.  You know me.  You
+know I believe in the task that is before us, the great war that is
+coming.  I have not turned my back on you.  In trying to help, I have
+sacrificed all that I was and all that I am.  We can no longer allow
+ourselves to be separated by names and borders.  Our two sides must unite
+or be destroyed.  Do not make my sacrifice a vain one.  Allow me to
+finish what I started.  In the name of our friendship, the future of our
+people -- let me remain on Babylon 5."
+
+
    
+"I am more than happy to have you remain with the humans," a voice from
+behind her says.  Delenn turns around, knowing that this is her
+successor.  She says she doesn't know him, but he says she does.  He
+removes his hood, and she recognizes him as Neroon of the Warrior Caste,
+from the Starrider's clan.  Delenn doesn't understand.
+Valen chose three Minbari from each caste -- the Worker, the
+Religious, and the Warrior -- to serve on the Grey Council.  Her
+replacement should have been from the Religious caste.  She cannot
+understand why the Warrior caste had been given such great power.  Neroon
+tells her that the Warrior caste is the caste that has suffered the most
+over the ages, dying as they defended the Minbari, and that, if a great
+war is coming, the Warrior caste should lead against it.  She doesn't
+think the Warrior caste should be allowed to make policy.  Neroon tells
+her that the Warrior caste was lied to and never told the reason for the
+Minbari surrender against the humans; if they'd known the truth, they never
+would have surrendered.  He says that Delenn is an affront
+to the Minbari race and that she doesn't belong with either the Minbari
+or the humans, which makes her the perfect emissary.  He tells her to go
+to Babylon 5 -- and stay there.  The lights around the other Council
+members blink out, leaving Delenn alone in the chamber.
+
+
    
+ All alone in the night.
+
+
    
+Sheridan sits beside the defeated Narn, who awakes to discover that
+Sheridan has removed the device on his head.  Sheridan tells the
+Narn that there is no food or water for them.  Sheridan says the Narn
+and the other alien were the only other living beings he's seen.  He asks
+the Narn why they've been captured, and the Narn says they were captured
+as specimens so that their captors can study and analyze other races,
+possibly in preparation for an invasion.  Sheridan tells the Narn that they
+are probably
+being tested to see how they react toward other species.  Sheridan tells
+the Narn he will get him to a doctor, but that they must escape first. 
+Sheridan asks the Narn why he wanted him to kill him.  The Narn says,
+"There is no escape.  Better to die," just as he falls unconcious.
+
+
    
+Delenn emerges from the Council chamber.  "Satai Delenn?" Lennier asks,
+but she says that she is only Delenn now.  She tells him that the Grey
+Council thinks she can best serve her people by staying on Babylon 5.
+Lennier says that the
+Council is very wise, so their decision must be correct.  Delenn tries
+to convince Lennier to leave her and go home to his family, but he says
+that he will stay by her side.  She remembers the first time they met;
+she wants them to be treated as equals now.  "Very soon now, I
+will be going into darkness and fire.  I do not know if I am fated to
+walk out again.  If it is your choice to come with me, then I could not
+wish for a better, or braver, companion."  They leave together.
+
+
    
+General Hague asks Ivanova about a recent sighting of the alien ship, and
+Ivanova tells him that they have attacked twice more, as if they are
+collecting specimens.  Hague says that that may be their weakness -- the
+longer they take collecting specimens, the more time Babylon 5 has to
+find them.  Luckily, Ivanova enlisted the help of the alien ambassadors,
+and Hague put in some messages of his own.  As he is telling Ivanova
+this, the Agamemnon, Captain Sheridan's previous command, enters through
+the jumpgate, ready to assist Babylon 5 as necessary.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is lying down in his alien prison, barely able to keep from
+falling asleep.  Soon, he succumbs, and has a dream...
+
+
    
+...He is in his own quarters, which are very dark.  He turns, looks
+across the room, and sees Ivanova standing there, her hair draped over
+her left shoulder.  She puts her finger over her mouth and says, "Shh." 
+A large black raven appears on her shoulder.  "Do you know who I am?" she
+asks him.  He turns around and looks behind...
+
+
    
+...and finds himself somewhere else, a corridor on Babylon 5.  He looks
+above him and sees himself
+standing on a platform, bathed in an eerie white light.  The Sheridan on
+the platform shifts his gaze.  He
+sees another figure on the platform -- Garibaldi, also bathed in the white
+light, and with a small white bird, a dove, sitting on his shoulder.  "The man
+in between is searching for you," Garibaldi tells Sheridan.  Sensing another
+figure behind him, Sheridan turns...
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+...and finds himself wearing a black Psi-Cop uniform, complete with
+badge.  He is facing a tall figure in a veil, again Ivanova.  "You are
+the hand," she tells him.  He finds himself wearing his normal uniform
+and turns around again...
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+...this time seeing Ambassador Kosh standing there.  "Why are you here?"
+Sheridan asks him.
+
+
    
+"We were never away," Kosh intones. "For the first time, your mind is quiet
+enough to hear me."
+
+
    
+"Why am I here?"
+
+
    
+"You have always been here," Kosh says...
+
+
    
+...and Sheridan awakes.  He looks at the wall beside him and notices that
+it is, in fact, movable.  He looks at the Narn's sword, sitting beside
+him, and begins developing a plan.
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lennier make contact with Babylon 5, telling them of their
+impending arrival.  Delenn asks if there is a problem, and C&C tells them
+that Sheridan is missing.  Delenn tells them to send her the
+information.  After looking at the information, Delenn informs Babylon 5
+that she knows something about the ship they are searching for.  "The
+ship which has taken Captain Sheridan is known to us.  They are called
+the Streibs.  Over the years, they have sent out ships to investigate
+defenses and acquire samples of any life forms they encountered.  Their
+last expedition was into Minbari space. We tracked them back to their
+homeworld and made sure they understood the depth of their mistake." 
+Delenn transmits the coordinates of the Streib homeworld.
+
+
    
+The Narn wakes as Sheridan attempts, with great difficulty, to open a
+door he has discovered.
+The Narn helps him as the ship is rocked -- Sheridan believes it is
+because they jumped back into normal space, either stopping to pick up
+more life forms, or because they've arrived at the alien homeworld.  The
+latter turns out to be true; the Agamemnon and several Starfuries emerge
+from a jump point near the Streib ship, guns blazing.
+
+
    
+
+[Movie]
+The Streibs under attack.
+
+
    
+Delenn contacts the Streibs and instructs them
+to release their prisoners.  Sheridan and the Narn, surmising that the
+ship is under attack, use the distraction to
+lift the walls and finally escape beyond the room.  The Narn wants
+Sheridan to leave him behind, but Sheridan will not do so.  After taking
+care of a passing Streib, a survival pod opens up nearby.  Sheridan
+grabs the Narn and drags him into one.
+
+
    
+At the same moment, the Streibs decide to eject all of their captives
+into space.  This incenses Ivanova, who orders the Streibs to be
+destroyed, which the Agamemnon is easily able to accomplish with a few
+blasts.  Ivanova determines that Captain Sheridan is sending her a
+signal, and Sheridan and the Narn are rescued.
+
+
    
+Back on Babylon 5, Sheridan asks Dr. Franklin how the Narn is, and he
+says that the Narn will live.  When Sheridan asks Dr. Franklin if Ramirez
+will live, Dr. Franklin says that the radiation did him in.  Sheridan
+feels sad that Ramirez had to die, and says he feels that such a young
+life being taken isn't fair.  "No, it's not," Dr. Franklin tells him. 
+"Death never is."  Sheridan, still pondering the situation, leaves
+MedLab.  In the hallway outside, he turns around and sees Ambassador Kosh.
+
+
    
+"You have always been here," Kosh tells him, and turns away.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in his quarters when General Hague arrives.
+Hague activates a small device, which he
+explains is to counteract any listening devices that may be in the room. 
+Sheridan expresses anger to the general that it has taken so long for
+someone to debrief him.  Hague explains that this is due to the death of
+President Santiago, and asks what Sheridan learned.  Sheridan tells him
+that Garibaldi, Ivanova, and the rest are all good, loyal officers, and
+that he doesn't like having
+to spy on them.  Hague tells Sheridan that Santiago knew that Babylon 5
+was important, and that, if he died, President Clark would appoint a
+"hard-nosed jarhead" to run it.  Sheridan's record made him appear that
+way, so he was a perfect choice.  Figuring that Sheridan was pliable,
+Clark would leave him alone, and he could perform
+certain actions without the President's knowledge.  Hague explains that
+not everyone on Earth beleves President Santiago died in an accident, and
+he also tells Sheridan that, though many military officers probably
+had a part in
+the assassination, they weren't in charge.  Sheridan guesses that the
+Psi Corps is to blame; Hague agrees.
+
+
    
+ Talking to the General.
+
+
    
+Hague tells Sheridan that it is up
+to them to learn what is going on, and stop it, and Sheridan can use the
+resources of Babylon 5 to help without Clark suspecting.  Sheridan asks
+how Hague can be so sure that he won't inform the government of Hague's
+plans, and Hague explains. "A soldier's record tells a lot about a
+person.  Not just what he's done, but how he's done it, and why.  You
+have an uncommon failing for someone in your position, Captain.  You're a
+patriot.  You believe as I do that when we put on this uniform, we took a
+solemn vow to protect Earth against threats from outside, and from
+within.  It's a difficult decision.  You risk losing your entire career
+if you say yes.  Worse still, now that you've had a chance to evaluate
+your staff, you have to decide if you can trust them enough to bring them
+in on this, knowing that you're putting them in equal jeopardy." 
+Sheridan says it isn't much of a reward, and Hague agrees.  Hague tells
+him that they must do something immediately and that, when he leaves, he
+will go back to Earth and begin the operation.  He says Sheridan's
+help is essential if they are to retake Earth's government, and asks
+Sheridan for his decision.
+
+
    
+Ivanova arrives outside Sheridan's quarters, and is let in, only to find
+Garibaldi and Franklin there with Sheridan.  Sheridan tells her to sit
+down, and activates a device similar to Hague's to render any listening
+devices useless.  "Ever since the death of president Santiago, something
+unpleasant's been going on back home.  You know it, and I know it.  We've
+stood by too long.  That's going to change.  Quietly, discreetly, an inch
+at a time--for now, strictly within the rules.  We have to do something,
+or risk losing everything we hold dear.  Now, we'll get some help from
+inside Earth Dome, but the bottom line: if anything goes wrong, we're on
+our own."  He offers each of them the chance to leave before they hear
+something they may have to report, but each of them declines.
+
+
    
+"We're with you Captain," Ivanova says.  "Wherever this goes, however it
+ends, we're with you."
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+The Narn and the Centauri are engaged in battle, while the Narn attempt
+to evacuate civilians from a planet.  Several ships are destroyed, and
+despite the efforts of one large Narn war cruiser, they are unable to
+completely stave off the Centauri attacks, though they do assist one
+stray transport in escaping before they too are destroyed by Centauri fire.
+
+
    
+
+[Movie]
+[Movie]
+Narns to the rescue.
+
+
    
+G'Kar shuts off the viewscreen, which Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and
+Franklin had all been watching.  G'Kar explains that the Centauri
+attacked without warning, killing over 5,000 Narns, expressly breaking a
+promise to not attack civilian targets.  Sheridan asks why Londo is not
+there to make a statement, but Ivanova tells him that the Centauri
+government believed the ships contained not civilians, but weapons.
+G'Kar dismisses this as a lie, but is calmed down when Sheridan offers to
+intervene on their behalf, promising to talk to his government.  This
+pleases G'Kar, who leaves.  As he leaves, Sheridan receives a message
+from C&C saying that the ship he has been waiting for just arrived.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova arrive on C&C, and Sheridan explains that the Earth
+government wants to persuade the Lumati to side with them in the case of
+the conflict, and that they have come here for negotiations, which
+Sheridan has decided Ivanova should take care of.  He tells her that she
+should do whatever is necessary, as long as they agree to ally with the
+Earth government or become a part of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+Ivanova accepts this task.
+
+
    
+As the Lumati ship arrives and docks, Delenn finishes watching the recording
+of the
+Centauri invasion, which she believes is inexcusable.  G'Kar asks her if
+her world will be willing to help the Narn, and tries to appeal to her
+sensibilities.  "The war is young, the Centauri are still in the process
+of committing their forces, some in their government are unsure about the
+entire affair.  They only need a reason not to fight." He tells her
+that
+her decision could save many lives.  She tells him that she doesn't know
+if the Minbari should help the Narns or not, as they may simply seek
+revenge on the Centauri afterwards, and the Centauri will come
+to her asking for help.  He tells her that he believes they had no other
+choice.  He asks her if he should beg, but she refuses.  She explains to
+him that she was there when the Earth-Minbari war began and that, by
+virtue of a mistake, an entire race was almost obliterated.  She says she
+doesn't believe the Minbari can help with good conscience, but that the
+Council may be able to use non-violent means to help the Narn.  This
+doesn't satisfy G'Kar, who thanks her for her "honesty" and leaves
+hastily.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar pleads for help.
+
+
    
+Several Narns stand at a bar sharing a drink, watching a group of
+Centauri at a table nearby insulting their race.  Their claim that
+destroying all the Narns would be a good thing angers the Narns, who
+throw a bottle at them.  This nearly starts a conflict, which is quickly
+averted by a passing security officer.
+
+
    
+Ivanova meets the Lumati delegation in the docking bay, and introduces
+herself to the two Lumati.  One speaks and identifies himself as Correlilmerzon.
+She asks the other his name, but the same one speaks again with
+the same response.  He explains that he speaks through his translator, as
+it would be inappropriate to speak with an inferior life form.  He says
+that he must investigate further before he can speak to her directly, and
+that, once he decides, he may honor them by meeting other Lumati.
+Ivanova isn't thrilled at hearing this, but takes the two off on a tour
+of the station.
+
+
    
+
+The Lumati arrive.
+
+
    
+Londo sits in a chair in his quarters, listening to a merchant
+complaining about his inability to deliver his products on time due to
+excessive paperwork.  He wants the process to be expedited, hopefully by
+a helpful word from the influential Londo.  The merchant says that, if
+Londo will help him, he will be glad to provide Londo with some of his
+illegal or hard-to-find merchandise.  Londo promises to see what he can
+do, and the merchant leaves.  Vir asks Londo if he should log this visit
+with the rest, and Londo tells him to do so, saying that, now that he has
+gained influence, everyone wants to be his friend.  He says that his
+desire for respect has backfired.  He tells Vir to leave and to send the
+others away.
+
+
    
+
+"I've become a wishing well with legs."
+
+
    
+A small skirmish between a group of Narns and Centauri is broken up by a
+security officer who attempts to keep one Narn and one Centauri away from
+each other.  The Narn picks up his weapon and, despite the officer's
+warning, charges on the Centauri.  The officer shoots the Narn,
+killing him.  The Centauri manages to sneak away.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in his office, yelling at G'Kar that the Narn was ordered to
+put down his weapon.  G'Kar says that the Narn had a right to defend
+himself, but Sheridan tells him that the Narns started the incident.
+Sheridan calms down a little and tells G'Kar that, while he is doing the
+best he can to get Earth to help the Narn,
+skirmishes like these are making things difficult, and he
+promises to tell Londo the same thing, since he doesn't want Babylon 5
+becoming a war zone.  Sheridan says if G'Kar cannot control his people,
+he will have them all thrown off the station and sent
+elsewhere.  Saying nothing, G'Kar leaves.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and the Lumati arrive in MedLab, where they meet Dr. Franklin,
+who is fascinated by the symbiotic relationship between the two.  Correlilmerzon
+asks (through the translator, as usual) why such a facility exists--the weak
+should die, and the
+strong should remain.  He says that saving the weak members of
+races pollutes the genetic pool, which doesn't serve evolution.  Though
+Ivanova tries to intervene, Dr. Franklin defends himself saying that he
+doesn't believe any life is inferior to any other.  They debate a little
+further,
+but before they leave, the translator tells Franklin that he thinks his
+"strange notions" will disappear with time.  Dr. Franklin is not pleased
+by that comment, either.
+
+
    
+After losing a game gambling, Londo meets up with Garibaldi, who asks
+only to speak with him briefly.  Garibaldi agrees to have a chemically
+inoffensive drink with
+him.  While they wait for the drink, Londo gives Garibaldi several
+ducats, saying it is the money he owed Garibaldi from helping him out of
+several gambling debts.  Londo tells Garibaldi that he wants the two of
+them to be friends and be happy for each other.  Londo asks why everyone
+is afraid of him, and Garibaldi says that, because of recent events, they
+aren't sure if they know him anymore.  Londo tells Garibaldi that he
+appreciates Garibaldi's kindness and hopes that he will not change just
+because Londo has, and he hopes Garibaldi will continue to be there for
+him.  Garibaldi says he will try to stop by for the drink later.
+
+
    
+
+"Don't worry, it's not a bribe."
+
+
    
+G'Kar meets with a large group of Narns on the station, telling them
+that, because of their disagreements with the Centauri, they are risking
+not receiving aid from Earth.  The other Narns disagree with needing
+allies, but G'Kar explains that, now that they are in direct war with the
+Centauri, they need to approach the situation differently.  He doesn't
+want anything getting in the way of their winning the war, and he
+realizes it is difficult to just stand by and watch what's going on, but
+G'Kar tells them they must do it.  One Narn tells him that his message
+was heard and understood, and G'Kar leaves.  "Now we send a message of
+our own," the other Narn says.  The Centauri who earlier started the
+fight where a Narn was killed is brought forth, bound and gagged.  The
+Narn stabs him.  "Leave him where they can find him, and tell the others
+we attack in six hours.  And when we finish, there must not be one
+Centauri left alive on this station!"
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin examines the murdered Centauri, while Sheridan and Garibaldi
+look on.  Sheridan asks if there is any conclusive proof that the Narns
+were responsible, and Franklin says there is some evidence, but no real
+proof.  Garibaldi suggests they inform Londo, but Sheridan recommends
+against it, not wanting to cause undue trouble, especially since they
+can't prove the Narns murdered the Centauri.  Sheridan tells Garibaldi
+that delaying telling Londo about the murder will give him some time to
+maneuver and maybe save many lives.  Meanwhile, Londo waits in the bar
+for Garibaldi, but leaves when it becomes apparent he is not coming.
+
+
    
+The next morning, the Lumati arrive at Ivanova's quarters, telling her
+that they believed she had not showed them all the areas of the station,
+but only a few, and they wanted to get a better idea of what humans are
+like.  She says that she would have appreciated being told of their coming
+ahead of schedule, and then tells them that, if they will wait outside
+until she is ready, she will take them anywhere on the station they want
+to go.  They agree to this and leave.
+
+
    
+The Narn who earlier opposed G'Kar talks to a weapon merchant, who shows
+him several long, curved blades.  The Narn asks the merchant if he has
+many of those, and the merchant assures him he does.  In a dark corner,
+Na'Toth watches and then quietly slips away.
+
+
    
+
+Shopping for Drazi knives.
+
+
    
+Sheridan receives a message from Earth which denies his request for
+intervention.  Sheridan tries to convince them otherwise, but the Earth
+government has decided that the Narns will have to fend for themselves.  This
+decision does not appeal to Sheridan, and he decides to try something
+else, and begins by calling Delenn.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth tells G'Kar what she saw, and G'Kar is quite upset by this.
+Na'Toth offers to inform Sheridan, but G'Kar tells her not to, saying
+that an attack will eventually occur unless he stops it at the source
+himself, and reclaims his authority.  The two of them leave together.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and the two Lumati are touring Downbelow, Ivanova explaining to
+them that, when people arrive on Babylon 5 but are unable to afford
+passage to leave, they usually end up down there.  She tells the Lumati
+that they shouldn't be seeing this, but Correlilmerzon disagrees, saying that
+they approve of the way humans seperate the stronger membersr of their species
+from the weaker members.  She tries to tell him that it's
+unintentional, but he is already convinced otherwise, and tells her
+that they will institute this in their own world as well.  As the
+translator begins to explain, Correlilmerzon takes over personally, and
+tells Ivanova that
+Downbelow has convinced them to ally with Earth.  Ivanova tries to
+protest, but realizes she has been successful and leaves with them.
+
+
    
+
+Ivanova, Correlilmerzon, and translator.
+
+
    
+The Narns are meeting to discuss their plans when G'Kar and Na'Toth
+arrives.  G'Kar tells the Narns that his authority can only be taken by
+force, since it was bestowed upon him by the Narn government.  A fight
+ensues between G'Kar and the head Narn, and though others try to
+intervene, Na'Toth holds them off.  The fight ends with G'Kar dropping
+the opposing Narn and then ordering the other Narns to go back to their
+quarters, telling them that if peace on Babylon 5 is the only way to win
+the war, that is what they shall have.  He doesn't see the dropped Narn
+come up behind him and slash him with a posioned Drazi blade.  G'Kar
+rounds on him, dropping him again.  Na'Toth helps the injured G'Kar out
+of the area.
+
+
    
+Sheridan talks to Delenn telling her his plans.  He explains that they
+can get medical aid to the Narns and help get some Narn civilians to
+safety.  He says that this help is unofficial, and therefore doesn't
+violate Earth's orders.  Sheridan tells her that, though there is a risk,
+it is up to them to make up for what the governments think is not in
+their best interests.  Sheridan also tells Delenn that he learned there
+is a considerable surplus of food on Babylon 5 that could be transferred
+to Minbari ships to be taken to Narn territory.  Those ships, when
+emptied, could be filled with Narn and taken to safety.  Delenn admits to
+Sheridan that her resources are not what they once were, but she will
+help in any way she can.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan explains his plan.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and the Lumati are in Sheridan's office, finalizing the deal.
+"Tradition is important to my culture," Correlilmerzon explains.  "Our important
+agreements are symbolic with coming together in perfect union."  Ivanova
+agrees to this, but is taken aback when Correlilmerzon tells her that the
+traditional manner of closing such agreements is by having sex.  Ivanova
+is taken aback by this idea and fakes a call from C&C to get out of it.
+She leaves hastily, leaving Correlilmerzon and the translator there, puzzled.
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives in Garibaldi's office, to see Na'Toth and the renegade
+Narn there.  Na'Toth explains that the Narn has "come to understand the
+concepts of honor and obedience."  The Narn reluctantly agrees, and he is
+led away.  Garibaldi tells Sheridan that he feels this will escalate
+problems even further, and Sheridan agrees, saying that the trial won't
+help any either.  "Could this situation possibly get any uglier," asks
+Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Ivanova is walking with Dr. Franklin, explaining to him the situation
+she's in.  He tells her that, because of their extremely limited contact
+with the Lumati, they didn't know that they treated sex like a
+handshake.  He tells her that she should talk to the Captain, but she
+refuses.  He also offers to inject her with something to make her sick.
+"After all, he doesn't know a thing about anybody's biology but his own.
+He'd probably fall for it."  Ivaova suddenly gets an idea and tells
+Franklin that she will give Correlilmerzon exactly what he wants, and hurries
+off.
+
+
    
+Na'Toth arrives back in G'Kar's quarters, telling him that Sheridan wants
+to see him and Delenn in his office.  Though G'Kar is still in pain, he
+has treated the poison and tells her that, no matter how much pain he is
+in, he will do anything to help the Narns.
+
+
    
+When he hears what Sheridan and Ivanova have to tell him, however, he is
+much saddened to learn how little help they can give him.  Delenn tells
+him that they can't enter the conflict between the Narns and the
+Centauri, but that they will help save as many Narn lives as possible.
+G'Kar also laments the fact he can't talk about it, or the aid will
+disappear.  Sheridan assures G'Kar that they will go through with the
+plan, but it has to be done quietly.  Despite how upset he is that he
+can't get more aid, G'Kar thanks them, and tells them he will honor their
+request.  He leaves, but is unable to contain his tears soon after
+he does so.
+
+
    
+Correlilmerzon and the translator arrive in Ivanova's quarters, where she is
+waiting for them.  She tells them that she set aside as much time as
+necessary to have sex the way the Lumati do it, claiming it would take
+too long to do it like humans.  Correlilmerzon asks if she means that Lumati
+sex is
+inferior.  She says no, but tells him that it would be too much to ask
+him to do it on such short notice.  He insists that they do it human
+style.  She asks him if he is sure, and if he knows what is involved, and
+he says he does, as ignorance would be a sign of inferiority.  She begins
+by taking a few deep breaths, and then dances around him several times,
+singing a rhyme and doing a little dance about human mating rituals,
+covering such topics as the initial pick-up, dinner, drinks, the kiss,
+and finally, the sexual act, which she highlights with a high-pitched
+orgasmic yell.  Out of breath, she tells him, "God, you're good!" Correlilmerzon
+asks what he does next.  "Old style, you roll over and go to bed.  New
+style, you go out for pizza and I never see you again."  Stunned, Correlilmerzon
+leaves, but the translator remains long enough to kiss her hand, before
+he leaves as well.
+
+
    
+
+Sex, human style.
+
+
    
+Londo is in Sheridan's office, being told of the murder of the Centauri.
+Sheridan suggests to Londo that he delay the trial as long as possible.
+Londo asks to see a picture, which is provided for him.  Londo tells
+Sheridan and Garibaldi that he knew the murdered Centauri. "He was
+trouble.  I always said things would not end well for him, and they would
+be his fault."  Londo says that because the Centauri had no family and no
+one to care for him, the Narn that killed him should be deported, with
+his personal property being auctioned off with the money going to the
+Centauri war fund.  Londo leaves.
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives at the bar to find Ivanova there.  He tells her that the
+Lumati told Earth they are anxious to work with Babylon 5, and that they
+said some very complimentary things about her.  Sheridan also gives her a
+gift that Correlilmerzon left for her.  She reads the card attached, which says,
+"Next time: my way."  She opens the gift to find a strange yellow device
+inside, with beads and jewels attached.
+
+
    
+"Commander," Sheridan asks her, "is there something you'd like to tell
+me?"
+
+
    
+Garibaldi arrives back at the Zocalo, where Londo is sitting.  Garibaldi
+thanks Londo for being so lenient.  "The Narns are falling before us.
+Soon, they will have all the trouble they could wish for.  What else does
+one need?  And, if it makes your life a little easier in this
+difficult time, it is a happy coincidence.  It is good to have friends,
+is it not, Mr. Garibaldi?  Even if, maybe, only for a little while?"
+
+
    
+Garibaldi shares this sentiment with Londo as they drink.  "Even if only for
+a little while."
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (i9717029@unicorn.it.wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi arrives at C&C, and asks an officer on duty where Captain
+Sheridan and Commander Ivanova are.  The officer tells him that they are
+in bay 13.  Garibaldi goes down there, more than a little puzzled by
+their reasons for being there.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova stand in awe of the sight before them in the bay:
+Ambassador Kosh's ship.  Sheridan finds its construction amazing and
+unbelievable and asks Ivanova about it.  She tells him that for the past
+two years, they haven't been able to determine much about it; their scans
+barely penetrate the ship's skin.  Sheridan
+reaches out to touch the ship when part of the ship pulls away and a
+strange-looking device fires a beam straight at Sheridan's chest.
+Ivanova tells him to back away slowly, which he does.  The device melts
+back into the ship.  After Ivanova tells Sheridan a story about a
+maintenance crew that was frightened away by the ship, Sheridan's
+interest is piqued.  Sheridan tells her that it is time they learned
+something about the Vorlons, and that he intends to begin doing just
+that.  Garibaldi arrives and tells them that he needs to talk to them,
+but would rather not do it in front of Kosh's ship.  The three of them
+leave.  Kosh steps out from behind a corner and "speaks" to his ship.  It
+replies with a few lines of strange symbols, to which Kosh nods, and then
+leaves.
+
+
    
+ Visiting Kosh's ship.
+
+
    
+When Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi arrive in Sheridan's office,
+Garibaldi explains that he just received a message from EarthForce that
+there is a fugitive alert out for Dr. Everett Jacobs, President Clark's
+former physician.  Garibaldi tells them that Jacobs has enough stolen
+information to bring down the entire Earth Alliance, unless he is
+stopped.  They think that he is already aboard Babylon 5, and want him
+taken dead or alive.  Sheridan asks what Jacobs knows that makes him such
+a threat.  Garibaldi wasn't told that, but says that, if Jacobs resists,
+they are ordered to shoot to kill.
+
+
    
+Later, Agent Derek Cranston, from Earth Special
+Intelligence, arrives on the station.
+Sheridan asks him why Dr. Jacobs is such a threat.  Cranston
+explains that Dr. Jacobs misused his security clearance to get
+information about covert missions and extremely important data, which
+could throw the government into chaos and ruin their alliance with many
+of the non-aligned worlds.  Cranston says that Jacobs is on Babylon 5 to
+either sell the information or to find travel out of Earth-controlled
+space.  Sheridan agrees to have security help, and orders Ivanova
+to carefully investigate all outgoing ships.  Cranston thanks Sheridan
+for his cooperation and leaves.  Garibaldi tells Sheridan that he doesn't
+think Cranston is telling them everything.  Sheridan agrees, but says that
+Cranston is worried about something, which makes him want to go along with
+the manhunt.  Garibaldi says he thinks he knows where to begin.
+
+
    
+ Sheridan agrees to help.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin resents the line of questioning altogether, saying that Dr.
+Jacobs was a professor of his at Harvard and helped him a lot while
+learning about xenobiogenics.  He tells Garibaldi that Jacobs was a
+humanitarian and could not be responsible, but Garibaldi reminds him of a
+time when he vouched for another doctor and the station was almost destroyed
+by a biological weapon.  Dr. Franklin insists that there has been a
+mistake and that Jacobs would never have sold out Earth.  "Maybe he's not the
+same Dr. Jacobs you knew any more," Garibaldi suggests.
+
+
    
+An old man wanders through a marketplace on Babylon 5, stopping at one
+kiosk.  The old man tells the merchant that he heard he could obtain
+"special" things from him.  The old man says he needs an
+identicard, but when he tells the merchant that price is not an issue,
+the merchant refuses to sell him one; the only reasons someone would be so
+desperate are that they're working
+for security, or are being chased by some very powerful people.  The merchant
+closes his shop, and the man wanders away, but he has already been
+noticed by a tall figure, watching from the shadows.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is walking through the corridor to an elevator, when he hears an
+unusual sound behind him.  He turns to see Ambassador Kosh walking away.
+He catches up to him, and reminds Kosh of a council meeting.  He also
+tells Kosh that he was in bay 13, and because of how much everyone still
+doesn't know about the Vorlons, he and Kosh should try to understand each other.
+
+
    
+Kosh looks at him.  "Why?"
+
+
    
+"You tell me.  You're the one who popped into my dream when I was in that
+alien ship a few weeks ago.  It felt like...I don't know, like you called
+to me."
+
+
    
+"I sought understanding.  I listened to the song.  Your thoughts became
+the song."
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+"Has this ever happened before?"
+
+
    
+"Once," Kosh intones, and walks away.
+
+
    
+Agent Cranston is briefing the security troops on how to best search for
+Dr. Jacobs.  Though his plan is efficient, because of the size of Babylon
+5, as Zack Allen points out, it could take a long time.  Dr. Cranston
+explains that, as an anti-kidnapping measure, all EarthDome personnel are
+injected with an identification crystal, which can be scanned for easily.
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks Garibaldi if he is having any problems with the security
+crew.  Garibaldi tells him that he isn't, and that, because of their
+efficiency, he would not like having to go up against them.  As they
+walk, Sheridan notices a red ribbon tied to a nearby wall.  Sheridan
+tells Garibaldi to continue to check up on them, and that he will check
+in with him later to check his progress.  Sheridan exits hastily.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, in a dark corridor, shines a strange patterns of lights into
+the area ahead.  He walks forward and meets with a woman.  "The general
+sent me," she tells him.  "I have a message.  You're in great danger,
+Captain.  We know what you've been told.  But Dr. Jacobs is not a
+traitor."  As she sets up a device to prevent their conversation
+being eavesdropped upon, Sheridan asks why there is such an intensive search
+out for him, and the woman explains that Earth Special Intelligence is directly
+under President Clark's control, and that Jacobs represents a threat Clark
+wants stopped at any cost.  Sheridan asks what the situation is, and the
+woman explains what happened at the beginning of the year.
+
+
    
+"Before President Santiago was killed aboard EarthForce One, Clark got off the
+ship, claiming he had some kind of virus.  Twenty-four hours later,
+EarthForce One is destroyed in an...accident, and Clark assumes the
+presidency.  As Clark's personal physician, Jacobs knew it wasn't true.
+If he would ever testify to that effect, it would help prove that Clark
+knew what was going to happen.  But, they couldn't allow that.  If they
+killed him right away, it would look suspicious, so they kept an eye on
+him until they figured it was safe for the good doctor to have an
+accident.  We heard about it, and we helped him escape."
+
+
    
+ The secret meeting.
+
+
    
+She tells him
+that their plans were changed because Jacobs wasn't able to meet with his
+contact elsewhere, so he came to Babylon 5.  Sheridan tells her that he
+can't pull his security officers off because it would mean revealing
+himself, destroying everything
+they've tried to build.  She says he needs to do whatever he can, because it
+must be done.  They need to accumulate as much evidence as possible, and
+Jacobs' testimony would be a good place to start.  She tells him to make sure
+he gets the statement and gets Jacobs off the station alive.  He tells her that
+he is angry things have gotten so far out of hand, and that he will
+have to circumvent his own security officers.  She advises him to
+work quickly, and leaves.  Sheridan calls Garibaldi, telling him to meet
+with him in ten minutes.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin is instructing a small group of physicians in MedLab when he
+gets a call from Garibaldi.  "Hi Doc.  Just wanted to say, 'Happy
+birthday,' that's all.  Catch you later."  Franklin tries to protest, and
+doesn't understand the message, since it isn't his birthday, but gets the
+point when he sees security officers scanning nearby.  Franklin orders
+the message to replayed frame by frame, looking for anything unusual.
+Several frames in, he sees two voice balloons sketched on top of the
+image which read, "Meet me at my place ASAP.  Come alone.  Wear something
+comfortable."
+
+
    
+ Garibaldi's message.
+
+
    
+Jacobs, the old man, now in a deserted area of Downbelow, prepares an injection
+which he gives to himself.  He speaks into a small recording device, and
+says, "I'm...uh, I'm nearly out of stims.  I have to keep moving.  If I
+fall asleep, they'll get me.  And, uh, if they get me, I uh...I don't
+know if this will get to you Mary, but I'm tired.  I'm just desperately
+tired.  I don't know who to turn to, who I can trust."  He is
+interrupted when several security officers appear nearby, searching some
+drunken lurkers.  Jacobs quickly fumbles at opening a nearby cargo elevator,
+and when he does, he steps inside closes the door.  The security
+offciers notice something on the scanners for just a minute, and then it
+vanishes.  They decide to report it anyway.
+
+
    
+ Jacobs makes his recording.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi prepares to search for Jacobs by taking two PPG weapons and
+dressing in extremely casual clothes.  He says that his
+security crew is good, but that he has one advantage: Dr. Franklin, who
+knows a lot about Dr. Jacobs, and is someone whom Dr. Jacobs knows as
+well.  Franklin is afraid Garibaldi will be recognized, but Garibaldi
+says that, because of his position, they rarely look at his face.  He
+also puts on his disguise, a hat, and the two of them leave to begin
+their mission.
+
+
    
+Jacobs steps out of the elevator, and is immediately met by the
+tall man who saw him talking to the merchant earlier.  He tries to move
+away, but is met by another gentleman.  The tall man tells him that he
+looks as if he doesn't belong in Downbelow, and asks him what he is
+buying or selling, or if he is running away.  Jacobs says he doesn't
+want any trouble and will pay whatever he wants.  "Yeah, you will," the
+tall man tells him.
+
+
    
+Jacobs is taken to another section of Downbelow, and has his
+belongings taken by the two lurkers.  They search through them, searching
+for something they might be able to sell.  Jacobs tries to convince
+them he has nothing of value, but they soon discover otherwise when they
+rip open his jacket to find a data crystal and an antique pocketwatch, which
+attracts the large lurker immediately.  Its inscription reads, "Office of
+the President of the Earth Alliance."  The large lurker leaves to examine
+the data crystal, leaving the other behind to guard Jacobs.
+
+
    
+ Taken hostage.
+
+
    
+Cranston explains to Sheridan and Ivanova that they have searched most of
+the station and have deduced that Jacobs must be hiding in Downbelow.
+Sheridan says that the sooner they get him off of Babylon 5, the better,
+and that Cranston is right about him being in Downbelow.  When Ivanova
+protests, Sheridan tells her that it is the only logical choice, unless
+she seriously believes he might also be Downtown.  Cranston asks
+where this place is, and Sheridan tells him it is the unofficial name for
+the area between the hull and the water reclamation system, one of the
+most unpleasant parts of the station, full of heavy machinery,
+pipes, and lead.  Cranston decides that Jacobs would use lead to defeat the
+scanners, and calls security to have them search Downtown instead.
+Cranston leaves, and Ivanova asks him what he was talking about, telling
+him that the entire area was sealed off after Babylon 5 was made
+operational.  Sheridan says that he hopes trying to burn through the
+walls and doors in that area will buy Garibaldi a few hours.  He then
+receives a call saying that one of the ambassadors wants to see him.  He
+begins to say no, but decides otherwise when he learns it is Ambassador
+Kosh.  He goes off to the meeting.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Franklin are questioning some of the people in a bazaar in
+Downbelow, but can't find any information.  They comment on how there are
+no guards down there, but Garibaldi decides it must be Captain Sheridan's
+doing.  They stop to rest and to have something to eat.  While they are
+chatting about Dr. Jacobs and the past, when they notice a merchant
+trying to sell Jacobs' pocketwatch, which Franklin recognizes.
+Garibaldi strongarms the merchant into revealing where he got the watch.
+
+
    
+ Garibaldi and Franklin downbelow.
+
+
    
+An officer goes to Cranston and tells him that they have someone on the
+line who has seen Jacobs.  Cranston answers the call and talks to the man
+on the other end, the same one who kidnapped Jacobs from
+Downbelow.  The man says he will turn over Jacobs for 10,000 credits, to
+which Cranston agrees.  The man says he will call again when he is ready
+to exchange.
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives in Ambassador Kosh's quarters, and asks the purpose of
+the meeting.  "You wanted to see me?" he asks Kosh.
+
+
    
+"You wanted to see me."
+
+
    
+"Well, I guess everybody does.  To see what you really are inside that
+encounter suit."
+
+
    
+"They are not ready.  They would not understand."
+
+
    
+"Am I ready?"
+
+
    
+"No.  You do not even understand yourself."
+
+
    
+"Could you help me to understand you?"
+
+
    
+"Can you help me to understand you?"
+
+
    
+"Well, I can try.  Is that what you want?  An exchange of information?  I
+tell you something about me, and you tell me something about you?"
+
+
    
+"No.  You do not understand.  Go."  Kosh turns away.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+"Damn it, what do you want?  What do you want from me?   You know, ever
+since I got here, I've had the feeling that...that you've been watching
+me.  The record shows you hardly ever went to council meetings until I
+showed up.  When I was captured, it was you who reached out and touched
+my mind.  And now you call me here?  Why?  Just to throw me out?  Are we
+just toys to you?  Huh?  What do you want?"
+
+
    
+Kosh spins around and intones angrily, "Never ask that question."
+
+
    
+"At least I got a response out of you.  So, what'll it be, Ambassador?"
+
+
    
+"I will teach you."
+
+
    
+"About yourself?"
+
+
    
+"About you.  Until you are ready."
+
+
    
+"For what?"
+
+
    
+"To fight legends."
+
+
    
+The lurker guarding Dr. Jacobs hears a pounding at the door which he
+thinks is his companion, Max, returning.  He opens the door, but finds
+Garibaldi instead.  Garibaldi knocks the lurker out, but not before he is
+stabbed in the arm.  Franklin tries to help Garibaldi up, and then unties
+Dr. Jacobs.  Though they try to usher him out of there, Dr. Jacobs
+insists that they have to have the data crystal, which Max took.  Garibaldi
+tells Franklin and Dr. Jacobs to wait for him nearby.
+
+
    
+Max arrives back in the room to find the other lurker tied up.  He
+removes the gag from his mouth, but before the other can warn Max, Garibaldi
+steps from the shadows, PPG drawn, and demands the data crystal.  He
+begins shooting at Max, missing deliberately, but coming closer and
+closer each time.  By the time Garibaldi shoots only an inch away from
+his head, Max agrees and hands over the data crystal.
+
+
    
+ "I'm in a bad mood."
+
+
    
+Cranston talks to Sheridan, reminding him that, in the past, internal
+scanners have been used to locate radiation sources inside Babylon 5.
+Sheridan tells him it required a lot of difficult rewiring, but Cranston
+only wants to know why he was not informed about it.  Ivanova comes in
+and tells Sheridan that Dr. Franklin needs to seem him immediately.
+Sheridan leaves, and Cranston turns to Ivanova.  He asks her about the
+internal scanners and how long it will take him to wire his scanners up
+to Babylon 5's.  She replies coldly, obviously resenting his attitude toward
+her.  She tells him that he didn't ask for the information and that there is no
+way to know if the systems are compatible or if it will work.
+
+
    
+Dr. Jacobs gives the data crystal to Sheridan and explains that it
+contains the information obtained from his scans of Clark which proved he
+did not suffer from a viral infection and that he has given Garibaldi
+the necessary codes to unlock the data.  Garibaldi, while being treated
+for his arm injury by Franklin, reminds them that they will need a
+statement as well.  Sheridan says that they have another problem now that
+Cranston knows they can patch their scanners into the station's internal
+sensors, which would make it very easy to find Dr. Jacobs.  Franklin asks
+if it is possible to get him off the station, but Garibaldi says it isn't
+likely, considering they have all the docking bays covered.  "Not
+entirely correct, Mr. Garibaldi," Sheridan says.
+
+
    
+The configuration between the sensors and the scanners is complete.
+Ambassador Kosh asks for permission to depart, but Sheridan won't allow
+him to leave until after they scan the station.  The station is scanned,
+but they don't find Dr. Jacobs.  Sheridan tells Cranston that he is angry
+his station has been torn apart for no reason.  Kosh asks permission to
+depart again, which Ivanova grants.  Cranston says he doesn't understand
+since someone (Max) told him Jacobs was on the station.  Sheridan tells
+Cransgon that he can't be too sure of any information he obtains aboard the
+station.  Ivanova begins to tell Kosh that he can open the jump gate, but
+Cranston protests, saying that he wants the ship scanned.  Sheridan tells
+him that it is an ambassadorial vessel, but Cranston isn't satisfied.
+Sheridan reluctantly agrees to scan the ship, and the scan find one life
+form, but it isn't human.  Sheridan offers sarcastically to return the
+ship to the station to search it thoroughly, but warns Cranston that, if
+they find nothing, it could cause a major diplomatic incident.  Cranston
+gives his permission for the ship to enter the jumpgate, which it does.
+Sheridan orders Ivanova to help Cranston find out where Dr. Jacobs really
+went, and help him in any way possible.  He also tells Cranston that, as
+soon as Ivanova is finished, he hopes Cranston will leave.  Cranston says
+nothing, but leaves C&C.
+
+
    
+ "Give him your full cooperation."
+
+
    
+Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Franklin arrive in bay 13, where the
+Vorlon ship has redocked.  Sheridan tells them that they are supposed to
+wait until the ship recognizes them, which it soon does.  Sheridan
+explains that it knows them because it is alive.  Kosh wasn't on the ship when
+they scanned it from C&C, and since the scan only registered one life form,
+it must be the ship.  The ship opens up, and tentacle-like protusions
+extract a large pod from it.  When the pod touches the ground, it opens
+to reveal Dr. Jacobs inside.  Dr. Franklin quickly revives him from an
+artificial coma, which Kosh insisted on as a condition for the use of the
+ship.  Dr. Jacobs revives.  "While I was asleep," he says, "the uh...the
+ship...It sang to me."
+
+
    
+ The ship gives Dr. Jacobs back.
+
+
    
+Sheridan returns to the woman sent by General Hague and hands her a data
+crystal, which he says contains all of Dr. Jacobs' information.  She
+accepts it willingly.  "Good.  It's not enough to go public with yet, but
+it's a start.  We'll get Jacobs onto one of our ships as soon as
+possible.  Thank you again for your help.  You've just scored a major
+victory for the good guys.  You should be proud.  Until next time, Captain."
+
+
    
+"There's always a next time, isn't there?" Captain Sheridan asks.
+
+
    
+"You'd better pray it stays that way, Captain.  Because as long as there
+is a next time, at least there's a chance we'll win."  She turns to
+leave, but offers him one final thought before she goes.  "Because in this
+war, Captain, we need all the chances we can get."
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Ivanova is furious at news Sheridan brings: in order
+to help Babylon 5 become more self-sufficient, Babylon 5 is going to be
+merchandised.  Sheridan explains that the Zocalo is opening a gift shop
+so that anyone who wants a present for someone, or themselves, can buy
+it and help out the station.  Ivanova is quite angry at this.  "This is
+demeaning.  I mean, we're not some...some deep space franchise!  This station
+is about something!"  Sheridan explains that her anger will make her the
+ideal person to oversee the efforts of the gift shop to make sure that no
+one on the station is demeaned.  Sheridan explains that he has to meet
+with Ambassador Kosh for another lesson in understanding.  He doesn't
+understand what he will be taught, but realizes that he probably won't
+after he has been taught either.  Before he goes, he requests Ivanova
+pick up a Babylon 5 baseball cap... for his sister.
+
+
    
+
+"Me?"
+
+
    
+On his way to the Zocalo, Sheridan runs into someone walking down the
+corridor.  Though everything seems fine at first, Sheridan soon realizes
+that his link has been stolen.  He sees the man running on a catwalk
+above him, and he gives chase.  While doing so, he is intercepted by a
+Minbari who attacks him and throws him to the ground, just near a PPG.
+He picks up the PPG and warns the Minbari to stay away.  "Death first!"
+is the Minbari's response as he reaches for something.  Sheridan fires.
+The force of the blast knocks the Minbari down some stairs.
+Sheridan gets to his feet and, as he surveys the situation, he sees
+another Minbari standing there, watching the proceedings.  The Minbari
+quickly leaves.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan is attacked.
+
+
    
+Sheridan explains to Ambassador Delenn and Garibaldi what happened,
+though they both find the situation strange, as no weapon was found on
+the body.  Garibaldi explains that it was only self-defense, but Delenn
+tells them that the Minbari, Levell, comes from a very esteemed family,
+and that her government wants answers.  Sheridan apologizes, but Delenn
+is not satisfied.  "These are perilous times.  We must do all we can to
+avoid another conflict between our people over a misunderstanding."
+Garibaldi tells Delenn that he has begun an investigation in order to
+discover what happened, but Delenn tells him that she has been ordered to
+begin an investigation of her own.  Garibaldi protests, but Delenn will
+not listen, claiming it is the only way to decide whether or not Sheridan
+should be charged with murder.  Sheridan orders Garibaldi to find the
+Minbari, which will prove to be a difficult task, given that Sheridan
+cannot give a detailed description.
+
+
    
+Vir receives a transmission from Centauri Prime on Londo's behalf.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is talking to one of the Minbari on the station, who says that
+he was not present at the attack, which Garibaldi believes, since, as the
+Minbari explains, Minbari do not lie.  Garibaldi asks if the Minbari knew
+who did it, and the Minbari accuses him of being threatening.  Before it can go
+any further, Lennier arrives and asks to speak to the Minbari privately,
+which Garibaldi reluctantly allows.
+
+
    
+
+"If you're finished, Mr. Garibaldi?"
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Sheridan walk down the hall, talking about the situation.
+Garibaldi explains that Lennier always seems to be a step ahead of his
+investigation, though they both hope that Lennier is not orchestrating a
+cover-up.  Sheridan asks about his link, but Garibaldi says that it
+hadn't been used, and had probably been destroyed.  Sheridan asks why
+someone would take his link, and Garibaldi explained that it was
+definitely something that Sheridan would want back, which would make
+sense if the man wanted to be chased.
+
+
    
+They go into MedLab, where Dr. Franklin explains the result of the autopsy.
+He says that it was indeed a PPG that killed the Minbari, but that there is
+nothing that proves Sheridan innocent of an unprovoked attack.  Garibaldi
+asks Sheridan where he found the PPG, and Sheridan tells him, though
+Garibaldi finds this suspicious as well.  Garibaldi suggests that the PPG
+was planted, because no member of the Minbari warrior caste would carry
+one, and that the whole plot was merely to set Sheridan up.
+
+
    
+Walking through the corridor near the newly established Babylon Emporium,
+Talia literally runs into Vir.  He is holding a drink and seems quite
+shaken up.  Talia asks him if he is okay, but Vir cannot come up with an
+answer.  He says that he can't stay, and seems to find a great deal of
+humor in that remark.  He vanishes into the crowd before she can say
+anything else.
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lennier are talking to the Minbari, Ashan, who witnessed
+Sheridan's killing of Levell.  Despite his being in the same clan as
+Lennier, he is being quite uncooperative, and will not answer any of
+Delenn's questions.  "I answer to other Minbari," he tells her.  "Not
+freaks."  Hurt by this, she quickly exits, leaving Lennier to deal with
+Ashan.  "You have insulted her," Lennier says.  "Her presence insulted me,"
+replies Ashan.  Despite his feelings, he does offer to answer any questions
+Lennier might have.
+
+
    
+
+"Not freaks."
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells Delenn and Lennier that, despite whatever the feelings of the
+Minbari government are, he wants to see Ashan immediately.  After
+they leave, Garibaldi suggests that, because of the Minbari's feelings,
+that might not be a good idea.  Sheridan tells Garibaldi that he has to try
+to reason with Ashan, so that he can figure out why Ashan is lying about the
+incident, and that he doesn't want to disrupt life on the station any
+more than necessary.
+
+
    
+Ivanova is looking around the Babylon 5 Emporium, inspecting the wide
+variety of T-shirts, dolls, models, and even teddy bears.  She is also
+surprised by a human wearing a mask which makes him look exactly like an
+alien.  She turns around, only to find an alien wearing a human mask.
+Somewhat startled and surprised, she makes a hasty exit.
+
+
    
+
+Ivanova inspects the merchandise.
+
+
    
+A well-dressed woman, with a brief case, enters the docking bay, and
+meets up with Zack Allan.  She tells him that she wants to meet with
+Captain Sheridan.  Allan asks her if she is expected.  "No," she says.
+"Dreaded."
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks Ashan why he would attack Levell, who merely answers
+Sheridan by calling him Starkiller.  Sheridan tries to explain to him
+that what happened should remain in the past, but Ashan does not agree.
+"Was it not an Earth man who said that those who do not listen to history
+will repeat it?  The Minbari listen.  Very carefully."  Delenn and
+Lennier ask Ashan if it is possible that he could be making a mistake in
+what he claims he say, but Ashan insists that he did not, and asks on
+what side their loyalties lie.  Lennier responds that they want only
+to reveal the truth.  Zack Allan and the woman enter, and the woman
+introduces herself as Guinevere Corey, Sheridan's lawyer.  When she
+asks what they are discussing, Sheridan responds that they are
+discussing the truth, which she calls "the favorite song of the
+legally ignorant."  Delenn asks if they are finished with their discussion,
+but Guinevere answers affirmatively for Sheridan.  Delenn, Lennier, and
+Ashan leave.
+
+
    
+As they leave the office, Lennier and Ashan bid each other goodbye, and
+Lennier comments that the situation does not look good for Captain
+Sheridan.  Delenn says that the situation should not exist at all, and
+that Sheridan's personality isn't consistent with Ashan's statement,
+which she labels "dubious."
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells Guinevere that he doesn't appreciate her calling him
+ignorant in front of other people, and she changes her choice of words to
+"naive."  He claims that he doesn't need a lawyer, but she tells him that
+she was rerouted here because EarthDome has decided to proceed with an
+indictment against him.  Sheridan is taken aback, and doesn't understand
+why they decided to do that.  She says that the only solution that is
+good for Earth is if they go to trial and take the judgment he is given,
+but that she doesn't believe they can convict beyond a reasonable doubt.
+Sheridan thinks she is hiding something, and she is.  She explains that,
+because of the trouble this will cause, Sheridan will have to step down
+as the Commander of Babylon 5 in any event.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan confronts Guinevere Corey.
+
+
    
+Sheridan returns to his quarters and expresses his frustration and his
+doubts to Ivanova, who offers her support and leaves him to rest.
+Sheridan is about to relax when the
+door chimes.  This time, it is Ambassador Kosh, who has come for
+the lesson.  Sheridan says that he isn't in the correct frame of mind for
+the lesson, which was interrupted earlier.  "Precisely the correct time,"
+Kosh tells him.  "Come."  Sheridan tries to protest, but ends up going
+with Ambassador Kosh to the lesson.
+
+
    
+Zack Allan enters Garibaldi's office, and Garibaldi gives Allan the file on
+Ashan, telling him to keep an eye on him, but not provoke him, just so
+they can find out what he is up to, and if he is hiding anything.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Kosh appear together, walking through one of the most
+inhospitable parts of Downbelow.  Sheridan tells Kosh that he doesn't
+understand why he is there.  "Good," responds Kosh.  After a brief walk,
+they reach their destination, an access panel in a dead end.  Kosh
+instructs Sheridan to go inside.  Sheridan asks why, and asks
+what is inside.  "One moment of perfect beauty," explains Kosh. Sheridan
+goes through the access panel.
+
+
    
+
+"You want me to go in there?"
+
+
    
+The area is very cluttered, and the ceiling low, but he eventually finds
+what Kosh sent him to look for: a strange, hunched-over figure wearing a
+robe.  Sheridan explains that he was sent to find this place, but the
+being only pushes forward a small dish.  Sheridan explains that he
+doesn't carry money, but cannot convince the figure.  He removes his stat
+bar, which shows his position in Earth Force, and places it in the dish,
+which the being quickly removes.  The area is then filled with many
+strange and beautiful patterns of orange light playing off the cloaks
+of other figures who Sheridan hadn't noticed.  The area comes
+alive with the sound of a Gregorian chant, which Sheridan drinks in.
+
+
    
+
+Beauty in the dark.
+
+
    
+Vir is sitting alone with a drink at the bar, when Londo comes up to
+him.  Though it is only Vir's second drink, it is obvious he is upset,
+and Londo asks why he is acting that way.  Vir doesn't understand how
+Londo can criticize, after all the things he has done.  Vir explains that
+he is having a difficult time doing his job, which consists mostly of
+keeping Londo's secrets.  Londo offers to send Vir home, but Vir knows
+he can't return to his family.  "Do you think that if they wanted me
+around that I'd even be here?  They just wanted be anywhere--anywhere
+away.  They had me sent here two years ago because, frankly, there wasn't
+much competition for the job.  This was a joke to them.  Before I left,
+my uncle said to me, 'You and I deserve each other.'"  Londo tells him
+that is no longer true, which Vir knows only too well.  He tells Londo
+that Centauri Prime is sending someone new for his position, which has
+become "too important," and that they are sending someone better prepared
+for the task.  Vir says that he doesn't know what to do, because he feels
+as if he isn't wanted anywhere, and that he has no way to escape from his
+problems.  He apologizes to Londo for getting him involved, and quickly
+stands up and walks away.  Londo begins after him, but is distracted by a
+group of women, mostly Centauri, at a table nearby, laughing at a doll of
+Londo.  Intrigued, he snatches it away.
+
+
    
+
+Londo comforts Vir.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Kosh are in the elevator, returning from the lesson.
+Sheridan thanks Kosh for the lesson, and Kosh exits the elevator.
+Ivanova enters, and Sheridan explains what he learned.  "Beauty...in
+the dark."  Ivanova comments that the lessons must be working, because he
+is beginning to talk just like a Vorlon.
+
+
    
+Delenn enters her chambers and finds Lennier there.  She tells him that
+she was arranging to have Levell's body prepared due to the customs of
+his clan, and that she thinks there is some information that Lennier
+needs to see.  She plays it on a monitor, and Lennier reads it.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Sheridan and Ivanova are walking down one of the station's
+corridors when an elevator door opens, and Londo steps out, angrily
+brandishing the doll in his likeness.  "Captain!  Commander!  Can we talk?"
+
+
    
+Ashan is running through some corridors on the station, as if looking for
+something.  He vanishes behind a corner, and Zack Allan, who had been
+following him, steps out.  He tries to find out which way Ashan went, but
+before he can give chase, two hands come down on him and knock him out.
+Lennier has been following Ashan as well.
+
+
    
+Lennier runs after Ashan, and comes across him, talking to the cloaked
+man who stole Sheridan's link.  Ashan and Lennier prepare to attack each
+other, and Lennier says that he wanted to prove Ashan's innocence, but
+now sees that, since he was talking to the man who stole Sheridan's link,
+his story was false after all, and that he would have been discovered by
+station security had Lennier not intervened.  Ashan doesn't understand
+why Lennier would believe the word of sation personnel over his word, and
+Lennier explains it is because Delenn believes it, and she is honorable,
+and he honors her words.  "What do you honor, Ashan?  The truth, or the
+obligations of our clan?"  Before he can say another word, Ashan escapes.
+
+
    
+
+Lennier and Ashan face off.
+
+
    
+Londo says that the Centauri Government will not allow insults such as
+the doll.  Ivanova says that it is just a doll, and that it wasn't even
+constructed by station personnel.  Londo calls the doll a mockery, since
+it doesn't have any...attributes.  It takes Ivanova and Sheridan a
+minute, but they finally realize.  "You feel like you're being
+symbolically cas...t in a bad light," Ivanova tells him.  Sheridan ordrs
+Ivanova to go and have all the dolls removed from the Imporium, which she
+does.
+
+
    
+"I do not lie when I say this could have been a major embarassment to all
+concerned," Londo says.
+
+
    
+"Oh, I'm sure, Ambassador," Sheridan says.  "You don't lie, the Minbari
+don't lie, no one around here..."
+
+
    
+"Who said the Minbari don't lie?"  Londo suddenly realizes his mistake,
+but it is too late, for Sheridan has noticed it as well and asks Londo
+what he knows.  Londo explains.  "A certain Minbari once lied to save a
+certain Centauri Ambassador from embarrassment.  Apparently, there is
+honor in helping another save face."  Sheridan then realizes that they
+would lie to protect someone's honor, but that he doesn't know who, or
+what, is being protected.  Londo leaves, and Sheridan receives a message
+from C&C, saying that a Minbari Embassy representative from Earth wants to
+speak to him.  Sheridan has them put it through.
+
+
    
+Delenn is sitting alone at the rock garden when Sheridan enters and sits
+with her.  He explains to her that her government wants Ashan taken from
+the station, and sent back to the Minbari homeworld.  With that important
+witness gone, there can be no trial, which will be a relief to Earth,
+though there will be much doubt left behind.  Sheridan's
+credibility will be destroyed, which he believes some may have wanted from
+the beginning.  Delenn moves away and doesn't face him.  He tells her
+that he knows how it feels to be all alone, but she tells him that she is
+truly alone, as she is completely isolated from her world and her
+government.  He asks her why she said the Minbari don't lie, if they will
+to save another's honor.  "You must understand, Captain, that there is no
+greater honor among my people than to serve.  They work for generations
+to create a legacy, a tradition.  In the service of their clan, they are
+ready to sacrifice everything.  Their individuality, their blood, their
+life."  Sheridan tells her that this is a common occurrence and that
+larger ideals can't be preserved if small ones are sacrificed.
+Delenn gets up and tells Sheridan to follow her.
+
+
    
+
+"Come with me."
+
+
    
+Ashan up with Lennier, who gives him parting instructions.  Lennier
+says that he will go to the Captain and explain
+his involvement with Levell's death.  Ashan says Lennier had nothing to do
+with it, but Lennier tells him that, as a member of Ashan's clan, he is
+equally responsible.  Ashan tells him that, if he does that, he will
+dishonor himself and their clan, but Lennier says that he will retain
+honor, by protecting Ashan, though their clan will dishonored.  Ashan
+explains that it was their clan's leaders who decided to go ahead with
+the plan without the blessing of the Minbari government, because they
+were angered at the appointment of Sheridan as commander of Babylon 5.
+He explains that Sheridan destroyed the Black Star by mining an asteriod
+field, sending a fake distress signal, thus luring the ships in there.
+He doesn't believe Sheridan has any honor.  Lennier explains that he lost
+family on the Black Star as well, but asks if there is any more honor in this
+betrayal.  Lennier asks why Ashan was talking to the human who stole
+Sheridan's link, and Ashan explains that Levell paid him to lure Sheridan
+away, and provided a weapon for Sheridan's use.  He says that Levell, as
+a member of their clan, must be protected.  Delenn, Sheridan, Garibaldi,
+and Guinevere Corey appear from behind a door and confront Ashan.
+
+
    
+
+Protecting the clan's honor.
+
+
    
+Sheridan explains that Delenn received Levell's burial instructions, and
+that saving the honor of their clan was the one thing that could cause
+Ashan to lie.  Lennier reveals a small recording device he used during
+the conversation.  The door to the room opens, and Zack Allan leds Ashan
+away.  Guinevere asks Delenn if the Minbari government will contest their
+action, but Delenn says that whomever is responsible will never take
+responsibility for what happened.  Sheridan asks if a public confession
+is really what they want; he tells
+Delenn that he is willing to turn over all the information as long as
+Ashan promises to make a statement about what he saw, with no attention
+at all paid to the clan loyalty, or any other background, and that they
+will leave Levell's motive as one more mystery.  "And around here, who'll
+notice one more?"
+
+
    
+Vir is in Londo's quarters, still drinking, and with a considerable
+hangover.  Londo asks Vir how quickly he can pack, since his replacement
+arrived a few hours earlier.  Vir begins to leave, but Londo stops him,
+saying that he should pack Londo's things first.  Vir asks why Londo wants him
+to pack his belongings, and Londo explains that he explained to the
+Centauri homeworld that if Vir goes, he goes as well.  Londo told them he
+considers Vir a good worker, and that he needed Vir to work with him,
+which astonished Vir's family.  Londo tells Vir that he hasn't treated
+him very well, but that he can change the way he acts.  He asks Vir to
+stay, and says that if Vir leaves, he will have to as well, and, should
+that happen, he will have to kill Vir.  "What are friends for?"  Londo
+leaves, but not before Vir thanks him.  Londo also explains to Vir that
+he invited Vir's entire family to stay with him for a once, knowing he
+wouldn't mind.  Vir tries to protest, but Londo is already gone.  Vir
+goes back to his drinking.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Ivanova meet together, and he asks her how the Babylon 5
+store is going; he now believes it's a good idea to help defray operating
+expenses.  She presents him with a teddy bear, dressed in a baseball
+jersey and cap, which he admires, including the motto on the back:
+Ba-bear-lon 5.  He notices the bear's monogram, which reads J. S., which
+Ivanova tells him stands for John Sheridan.  When this hits Sheridan, his
+cheery mood changes, and he orders Ivanova to have the store removed and
+everything gone by the next morning.  She leaves to follow his orders,
+but not before he takes the bear from her.
+
+
    
+Warren Keffer, in one of the Zeta Squadron starfuries, flies away from
+Babylon 5.  A communication comes in from the station.  "Have you traced
+that unidentified object?"  Keffer is in the midst of responding, when
+the starfury collides with a teddy bear.  "Have you encountered
+unidentified object?  Can you describe it?"
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+"Negative, Babylon Control.  I don't think so.  Not on a bet.  Heading
+back to the barn."  Keffer pilots the starfury back to the station, as
+the teddy bear floats, suspended in space.
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    Transcript by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Note: Due to the unusual format of this episode, a transcript is being
+used instead of a typical synopsis.  The idea of a transcript has JMS'
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+ISN Network
    
+"36 Hours"
    
+September 16, 2259
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Announcer
+
    
+We interrupt your evening schedule to bring you the following special program.
+September 16, 2259.  The Interstellar Network News presents "36 Hours on
+Babylon 5" with your host, Cynthia Torqueman, reporting live from the ISN News
+Center, in Geneva.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman (at anchor desk)
+
    
+
+Good evening, I'm Cynthia Torqueman.  In the hundred or so years since
+humanity went to the stars, we've established outposts and colonies on over
+two dozen worlds in fourteen solar systems.  Out of all those far-flung
+outposts, only the Mars Colony, plagued by scattered groups of separatists,
+who have used acts of terror to intimidate the Earth-loyal majority, has
+proven more controversial than the Earth Alliance station, Babylon 5.  Located
+in a sector of space near Epsilon Iridani, designated neutral territory,
+Babylon 5 has defied the odds and continued to operate as a free port, a
+center for diplomacy, and a showpiece for the Earth Alliance Resources and
+Technologies division.  From its highly publicized debut three years ago,
+recent polls indicate a growing dissatisfaction with the time, money, and
+effort consumed by this space-borne community.  So, tonight, we take you to
+the center of the controversy.  An ISN crew and I recently spent 36 hours
+aboard Babylon 5, asking hard questions and, on occasion, get in a little over
+our heads.  In the process of putting this report together, it didn't take us
+long to learn the most important rule of survival aboard Babylon 5: expect the
+unexpected.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (The bridge of a ship.  Babylon 5 is visible outside, with two much
+        smaller ships in front of it)
+
+	
    
+	
    
+	
    
+        Torqueman (voiceover)
+	
    
+	This footage was shot from our position on the bridge
+        of the Earth transport Heyerdahl, on the final approach to Babylon 5.
+        The voices you are hearing are those of the ship's captain and B5
+        Command and Control.
+
+        
    
+	Ivanova
+	
    
+	Confirmed Heyerdahl.  We...Narn transport N'ton, return to your
+        holding position at once.  I repeat, return to your...
+
+	
    
+	
+        Narn ship
+	
    
+	Shadraka.
+
+	
    
+        Ivanova
+	
    
+	Centauri vessel Malios, break off.
+
+	
    
+        Narn
+	
    
+	N'tok!  N'tok!
+
+	
    
+
+	
    
+        (The Narn ship fires on the Centauri ship several times, destroying
+        it.)
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman (at anchor desk)
+
    
+A terrible explosion, conspiracy involving several of these individuals
+[pictures of Sheridan, Londo, and G'kar appear over her shoulder],
+lies, deception, and the deaths of hundreds of people.  All this and more on "36
+Hours Aboard Babylon 5," here on the Interstellar Network News.  We'll be back
+with our story right after this break.
+
+
    
+
    
+Announcer
+
    
+"36 hours...," sponsored by Interplanetary Expeditions.  Exploring the past
+to create a better future.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Commercial break
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Torqueman (from a chaotic docking bay)
+
    
+Thirty minutes ago, a Narn vessel opened fire on a Centauri transport without
+warning or explanation.  The bodies of the dead and wounded are being brought
+to this central docking area for transfer to various MedLab facilities on
+Babylon 5, which are already working beyond maximum capacity.  Behind me is
+Dr. Stephen Franklin, Chief of Staff.  Doctor?  Doctor Franklin?
+
+
    
+
    
+Franklin (to medical assistants)
+
    
+...for immediate surgery and full CAT scan.  I need more regent packs over
+here, people.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Dr. Franklin, Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news.  What happened here?
+
+
    
+
    
+Franklin
+
    
+I don't know.  Somebody said something about an ambush.  (to assistants)
+All right, keep his head elevated thirty degrees minimum or he'll choke on his
+own blood.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Can you say what the reason was...
+
+
    
+
    
+Franklin
+
    
+I'm sorry...
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Captain Sheridan!  Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news.  Do you have any comment on
+what just happened here?
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+No, no comment at this time.  (to Franklin) Doctor...
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+What about the Narn vessel that attacked the transport.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+We dispatched a fighter wing to apprehend them.  We won't know anything more
+until they're in protective custody.  If you will excuse me please.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Ambassador Londo Mollari, Centauri Republic
+
    
+This is exactly the kind of behavior that endangers the very purpose of
+Babylon 5.  This place is dedicated to finding peaceful solutions to our
+problems.  For the Narn to carry their vendetta against our people into
+neutral territory like this is reckless and irresponsible.  And though we
+mourn our own losses, we have felt strongly about our friends from Earth, ever
+since we first encountered your world a hundred years ago.  To endanger your
+people for no reason...
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Then the attack on your transport was completely unprovoked?
+
+
    
+
    
+Ambassador Mollari
+
    
+Of course.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Ambassador G'kar, Narn Regime
+
    
+He's lying.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Then can you tell us why your ship opened fire on the Centauri transport?
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+I'll issue a statement after I have consulted with my government.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Are you saying your government sanctioned this attack?
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+No.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Do you think attacks of this nature put everybody aboard Babylon 5 in
+unnecessary jeopardy?
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+We are already in far greater jeopardy than you can possibly imagine.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+For all the apparent danger in this part of space, it seems to have had little
+effect on travel.  Nearly a quarter of a million humans and aliens are here at
+any given moment.  While most are in transit to distant worlds, many others
+actually live and work here.  What does it take to call a place like this
+home?
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Eduardo Delvientos. Dock Supervisor. Guild dockworkers on B5: 1500.
+
    
+Well, it's a...it's a job.  I've been in a lot worse places, let me tell you.
+It gets crazy around here sometimes, you got fifty, sixty ships a day coming
+through here, loading and unloading, and every last one of them is a priority
+job, at least that's what they tell us.  (to a worker)  Hey, watch those
+crates over there.  Get 'em over to the side.  No, no, the other side.  (to
+Torqueman)  We had a couple of problems here last year, try to hit us with
+some budget cuts.  You know, same old song.  But that's the past.  You gotta
+go along to get along, you know what I mean?
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Second Lieutenant David Corwin.  Earthforce personnel on B5: 6500.
+
    
+Overall, I've found this to be a good working environment, and a valuable
+experience.  I've learned a lot while I've been here.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+And you've never felt that your safety has been compromised?
+
+
    
+
    
+Corwin
+
    
+No ma'am.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+So this has been a positive experience for you?
+
+
    
+
    
+(Corwin smiles and nods)
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+
+You enjoy working with everyone?
+
+
    
+
    
+Corwin
+
    
+(Glancing at Ivanova over left shoulder)  Yes.  It's a calm, pleasant
+environment.  I don't think I've ever seen anyone get upset here.
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Captain John J. Sheridan.  Recipient, Earthforce Silver Star for Valor in
+        Minbari War.
+
    
+I guess it's the old joke, "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it
+helps."  I suppose there is a...certain attraction to being out here on the
+edge like this.  A new frontier...
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+New frontier is right.  When Babylon 5 went online in 2257, oddsmakers from
+New Vegas to Lloyds of London were predicting it wouldn't last six months.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Hmm.  Well, I've never been very much on gambling.  Never quite found the time
+for it.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+You were originally a starship captain, correct?
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Yeah.  The Agamemnon.  She was a real beauty.  One of the first Omega class
+destroyers to come off the assembly line after the war.  Our job was part
+military patrol, part diplomatic mission.  We went around to most of the Non-
+Aligned Worlds, put in an appearance, kept the peace, that sort of thing.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Babylon 5 has been through some dramatic changes in administration since it
+became operational.  Would you attribute these changes to...bad management,
+or, to quote former Senator Hidoshi, "Is this horse just to big for anybody to
+ride?"
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Changes are part of the military life.  Everybody goes into this knowing that
+tomorrow you could be someplace you hadn't even heard of 24 hours ago.  I've
+been stationed so many places over the years I can't even remember most of
+them.  But you're right.  Some days this is one hell of a big horse.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Dr. Stephen Franklin.  Chief of Staff.  Medlab facility.  Speciality:
+        Xenobiology
+
    
+
+
+You know what the folks back home don't understand, the ones who've never
+left Earth, is just how dangerous space can be.  Aside from incidents like
+this, just the everyday reality of living your days and nights in a big tin
+can surrounded by a vacuum.  I remember my first time on a transport, on the
+Moon-Mars run.  I was just a kid, maybe seventeen.  A buddy of mine was
+messing around, and zipping through the halls, and he hid in one of the
+airlocks.  I don't know, I guess he was gonna try to scare us or something, I
+don't know...But just as I got close, he must have hit the wrong button
+because the air doors slammed shut, the space doors opened, and he just flew
+out into space.  You know, the one thing they never tell you is that you don't
+die instantly in vacuum.  Just hung there, against the black, like a puppet
+with his strings all tangled up.  Or one of those old cartoons where you run
+off the edge of a cliff and your legs keep going.  You could see that he was
+trying to breathe, but there was nothing.  The one thing I remember, when they
+pulled in his body, his eyes were frozen.  A lot of people make jokes about
+spacing somebody, about shoving somebody out an airlock.  I don't think it's
+funny.  Never will.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Although the airlocks on Babylon 5 are considerably safer, the last three
+years have shown that the station itself is anything but secure.  In its
+first year of operation, there were half a dozen murders, three acts of
+sabotage including a bomb that blew out two levels, and a barely averted
+attack by the Vorlon Empire.  Since then, there have been fifty deaths by
+violence.  So the question remains, given its cost in lives and money, is
+Babylon 5 serving any useful purpose, or, as we're about to see, is the whole
+thing falling apart at the seams?
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+I've just been briefed by my government, and I'm prepared to issue the
+following statement.  The Centauri ship that was attacked by one of our
+vessels was not simply a commercial transport.  It was secretly transferring
+weapons of mass destruction to ships bound for the front lines where they were
+to be used in the war against our people.  They have turned Babylon 5 into a
+weapons supply post, and we cannot allow this to continue, even if it means
+shutting down Babylon 5 completely.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+commercial break
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Announcer
+
    
+"36 Hours on Babylon 5" continues with Cynthia Torqueman.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman (at anchor desk)
+
    
+According to figures released by the newly-formed office of public morale,
+President William Clark has risen to dramatic new levels of popularity,
+because of his administration's emphasis on addressing the needs of Earth.  As
+a result, recent hearings in Earthdome have openly questioned how much time
+and money should be invested in a project that seems perpetually bogged down
+in non-human conflict.  So, we took that question to Senator Ronald Quantrell.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Senator Ronald Quantrell.  Chairman: Babylon 5 Senate Oversight
+Committee. (in his office)
+
    
+Well, obviously, Babylon 5 is something President Santiago believed in very
+strongly and I think we owe it to his memory to try to make it work.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+That doesn't exactly sound like a ringing endorsement.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Quantrell
+
    
+Well, clearly we've taken a lot of heat, and the cost overruns have been
+appropriately astronomical.  But let's remember that the Babylon Project was
+conceived right after the Earth-Minbari war.  At that time, the idea of a
+diplomatic station designed to keep anything like that from happening again
+was very appealing.
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+And now?
+
+
    
+
    
+Quantrell
+
    
+Now?  Well...still too early to tell.  Certainly we've rebuilt our military
+forces to a point far in advance of where they were fourteen years ago.  If
+the Earth-Minbari war started today, I think things might have gone a little
+differently.  So, while I'm not sure how much...concrete benefit we really
+derive from Babylon 5 any longer, I suppose it still does keep us in a highly
+visible position with other races, and of course it's very important to
+interstellar commerce and trade.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Well, with all due respect to Senator Quantrell, speaking as someone who did
+his part in the front lines, I'd have to say we still haven't fully recovered
+from the Minbari war.  And we haven't anywhere near the level of technology
+we would need in the event of another major conflict.  And anybody who thinks
+that we could hold our own with the Minbari, the Centauri, and, God forbid, the
+Vorlons, is just plain kidding himself.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+You sound angry about it.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+No, I'm not.  It just...it just sounds to me like...like jingoism and
+self-deception and armchair quarterbacking.  Any time you lose a war, you
+just...you just wait a few years, and you'll hear from everyone who thought
+that we could have won if they'd have done the fighting.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Except, of course, Captain, we didn't lose the war.  The Minbari did
+surrender.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+(Pause, then smile)  Of course.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Who are the people who run Babylon 5, and what do they do here?  What are
+their hopes and dreams?  I'm standing in what's called the Observation Dome,
+or C&C, short for Command and Control.  When the Captain is otherwise engaged
+with diplomatic or business affairs, this place is under the watchful eye of
+its perky and energetic commander, Susan Ivanova.
+
+
    
+
    
+Commander Susan Ivanova (to a ship)
+
    
+All right, make one more sweep pulling in whatever you got, then head for the
+barn.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Commander Ivanova, would you mind telling us what it is you're doing here?
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova (showing her a control panel displaying the HAZMAT team)
+
    
+We're investigating Ambassador G'kar's allegations that the Centauri transport
+was carrying weapons, justifying his government's attack.  The HAZMAT team
+outside is checking the debris for any unusual levels of radiation or trace
+elements that could indicate the presence of unauthorized weapons.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+While we wait for the analysis, would you mind telling us a little about
+yourself, how you got here?
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Well, there's really not much to tell.  I was born in the Russian Consortium,
+but spent most of my life at school abroad.  Graduated from OTC ten years ago.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+How did you come to join Earthforce?
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+After my brother Ganya was killed in the war, I felt that I had to try and
+finish what he started.  Of course, as my luck runs, the war was over before I
+saw any action.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Now, Commander, I'm sure there's more to your story than that.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Yes.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+
    
+What do I hope for?  I hope to get through this interview without getting
+myself fired.  How's that for a start?  Hmm.  I don't know, it's one of those
+questions I don't think about in words.  Maybe because so many times it seems
+like, if I say what I want, it never comes.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+There must be something.
+
+
    
+
    
+Garibaldi
+
    
+Yeah.  There are...little hopes I guess.  Every day I get up and I hope nothing
+will happen.  I'd love to be just bored out of my skull for twenty-four hours.
+And, uh, I guess I keep hoping that someday, somewhere I'll make a difference.
+That at the end of the day, everything we've gone through for the past few
+years will, uh, mean something.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova (over communicator)
+
    
+Garibaldi, we just got back the HASMAT report.  We've got a problem.
+
+
    
+
    
+Garibaldi (getting up)
+
    
+See what I mean?  Always something.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+So far, we've spent most of our time here talking to the humans, but aliens
+make up nearly forty-two percent of Babylon 5's population.  Many of them live
+here in the so-called "Alien Sector," which provides alternate atmospheres for
+fourteen different species.  Ironically, the "Alien Sector" is how the aliens
+here refer to the human part of the station proving once again that beauty...
+and the beast...are in the eye of the beholder.  Probably the most elusive of
+all the aliens is Ambassador Kosh Naranek, a representative of the Vorlon
+Empire, sent here roughly two years ago.  Nothing is known of the Vorlons, in
+fact three expeditions sent into Vorlon space over the years have never
+returned.  The Vorlon government said they had met with accidents...and suggested
+no further expeditions.  Even their appearance is a mystery, compounded by the
+fact that Ambassador Kosh can only leave his quarters in an encounter suit,
+which contains his atmosphere and other life support equipment.  A few moments
+ago, while we were setting up this shot, we got our first glimpse of the
+Vorlon as he was leaving his quarters just behind me.  This is an ISN
+exclusive, presented here for the first time.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Cynthia Torqueman, wearing an oxygen mask, is speaking with someone
+        else also wearing a mask.)
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Man's Voice
+	
    
+	It's Ambassador Kosh, over here!
+
+        
    
+	Torqueman
+	
    
+	Maxie, quick, the camera!
+
+        
    
+	(The camera pans to reveal Ambassador Kosh.)
+
+	
    
+        Torqueman
+	
    
+	Ambassador Kosh!  Ambassador!  Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news.
+        Can we ask you a few questions?
+
+	
    
+	(The doors in front of Kosh close.)
+
+	
    
+        Torqueman
+	
    
+	Ambassador Kosh!  (to camera)  Did we get that?  Tell me we
+        got that.  Did we get it?
+
+	
    
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Second in elusiveness to the Vorlon is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari
+Federation.  After initially refusing several requests for an interview, she
+finally agreed to talk to us.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Since very few humans have ever been allowed on Minbar, perhaps you could
+start by telling us a little about your world.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ambassador Delenn.  Minbari Federation.
+
    
+We are the seventh planet from our sun
+[a graphic of Minbar appears over her
+shoulder].
+Almost one quarter of Minbar is covered by our north polar icecap.
+Because our world is rich with crystalline deposits, many of our cities are
+cut directly out of crystal formations.  During the spring, the patterns of
+color caused by the light are breathtaking.  Let's see, what else?  We have
+three basic languages, Len'au, Feek, and Audronado, which is the language of
+the Religious Caste.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Can you give us an example of Audronado?
+
+
    
+
    
+Delenn
+
    
+Neech sach schnek, slem-ba.  I am your friend, in peace.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Your appearance, though, isn't typical of your people, is it?
+
+
    
+
    
+Delenn
+
    
+No.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+According to station records, you looked quite different a year ago.  [An
+image of Delenn's old appearance appears over Delenn's shoulder.]
+
+
    
+
    
+Delenn
+
    
+I volunteered for this change, in the hope that it would lead to a better
+understanding between our peoples.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Over a quarter million humans were killed in the war with your people.  How
+do you think the families of those victims will feel about your...change?
+
+
    
+
    
+Delenn
+
    
+I, uh...I don't know.  I uh...I would hope...
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+I think they would feel hurt, betrayed.  That by assuming a human face, you're
+taking a part of us you're not entitled to.  What would you say to them?  To
+all the husbands and wives and children and brothers and sisters of the people
+who were killed in the war with your people, and now see a Minbari...with a
+human face?
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Delenn
+
    
+I'm uh...I'm sorry, I can't...can we...can we stop this?  Please?
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova (over communicator)
+
    
+Ambassador Delenn, you're needed in the council chambers.  Ambassador?
+Ambassador Delenn?
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+We've just been informed that there's been a new development in the Narn
+attack.  The Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds
+have been convened to hear this update.  We've been given permission to record
+these proceedings in the council chambers.
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+And now, thanks to Commander Ivanova's investigation, we have proof of what
+we've been saying all along.  An inspection of the destroyed Centauri has
+found conclusive proof that she was carrying fusion bombs and support
+equipment for ion cannons, mass drivers, and heavy-energy weapons!
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan (banging gavel)
+
    
+Now we have already filed a complaint with the Centauri government on the
+grounds that Babylon 5 is neutral territory, and is not to be used as a
+staging ground or a munitions depot.
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+If I may make an observation...
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+It is this kind of irresponsible activity, Ambassador, that endangers this
+station and everyone here.  It will not be tolerated!
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+Classified shipments and weapons are transferred outside the station, from ship
+to ship.  The risk to Babylon 5 is minimal.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Oh, we've already seen your minimal risk, Ambassador.
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+Caused by their attack on one of our vessels!  Our ships have the right to carry any
+cargo they choose.  We will not surrender our sovereign rights.
+
+
    
+
    
+Delenn
+
    
+The sovereign rights of any race end with the threat of innocents.
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+Enough!  They're doing what they always do--using details to distract us from
+doing what must be done!  There are seven more Centauri vessels berthed
+outside, and I have reason to believe that they also carry weapons of mass
+destruction to be used against our people.  My government demands that these
+ships be impounded and their weapons seized!
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+No, no, no!  We will not allow this!
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan (banging gavel)
+
    
+This is Babylon 5's space.  And here, we have sovereign rights.
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+Our ships will defend themselves against any who try to seize them.
+
+
    
+
    
+Delenn
+
    
+Perhaps, if the transports return to Centauri space...
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+We cannot allow those ships to leave here with their weapons.  They'll just
+turn right around and use them against us.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Then how do you intend to...[there is a loud sound, and the lights in the
+room dim suddenly]  What the hell?
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova (over monitor)
+
    
+Captain, we need you in C&C.  We've got a shooting war going on out here.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Securecam 15 shows several shots being exchanged before one ship is
+        destroyed.  The blast causes debris from the ship to strike the
+        camera, and the image fades to static.)
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+commercial break
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+The sounds you hear are heavy weapons on the Narn and Centauri vessels doing
+battle just outside Babylon 5.  The station is on a priority one alert, and
+people are being evacuated to shelters.  We're en route to C&C to try and
+cover the battle.  As we speak, our vidsystems are being plugged into the
+station's external cameras and communications systems, and we should be
+seeing...
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Securecam 02 shows an image of several ships firing at each other.)
+	
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Voice of starfury pilot
+	
    
+	Coming in.  Reading five, repeat five
+        incoming hostiles.  No reply.  Got the beacon targeting systems
+        online.
+
+	
    
+	
+	 (The image shifts to a camera inside a starfury cockpit.)
+
+	
    Voice of pilot
+	
    
+	Delta leader to hostile vessels.  You are ordered to
+        cease fire at once.  Do you copy?  You are ordered to surrender or we
+        will open fire.
+
+	
    
+	
+        (Securecam 08 shows a Centauri vessel destroyed by a Narn ship.  The
+        image shifts to Securecam 23, which captures more shooting before it
+        is disabled by fire from a Narn ship.)
+	
    
+
+	
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan (in C&C)
+
    
+Damage report?
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Levels brown ninety through ninety-two report damage.  Hull breach in blue
+seventy.  Dropping pressure doors.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Get a repair crew down there, stat.
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Aye, sir.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Any reply yet?
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Negative.  Hostile forces continue to fire at each other.  They've started
+targeting our ships.
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Delta squadron requesting permission to fire.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Ambassadors Londo and G'kar on the link.  They're saying that if we open fire
+on their vessels, they'll consider it an act of war.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Screw 'em.  We have a quarter million people here to defend.  If they won't
+stop this, we will.  (to ships)  All fighters, open fire.  Fire at will.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (In the cockpit of the delta leader.)
+
+	
    
+
+	
    
+        Pilot
+	
    
+	Roger, Babylon Control.  Delta squad, open fire.  Target
+        engines and navigation if possible, but if you have to take them out,
+        do it.  (to himself)  Come on.  Come on.  Heaters lit.  Come to papa.
+        Got it.  Bombs away.
+
+	
    
+	
+	(He fires on a small Narn ship as he passes by the observation dome.)
+
+	
    
+        Pilot
+	
    
+	This is seven.  Target splashed.
+
+	
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Two Narn vessels destroyed, two damaged and out of the fight.  Remaining
+Centauri vessels are offering to surrender.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+All right.  Pick 'em up, bring 'em in, and throw them in the brig.  And I want
+every one of those ships scanned for weapons.  And tell Ambassadors G'kar and
+Londo that I want to see them in chambers now.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+And what if they refuse?
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Then you can throw them in the...
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova (motioning toward camera)
+
    
+Ahem.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Then invite them again, as firmly and politely as you can.  This nonsense has
+gone far enough.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+The "nonsense" Captain Sheridan referred to is the Narn-Centauri war, which,
+over the past several months, has grown into a conflict which threatens to spill
+into other systems and lead to an escalation of hostilities.  Prior to the
+battle we just witnessed, ISN spoke with representatives from both sides, in
+order to better understand the history of this conflict.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+Roughly one hundred and fifty of your years ago, the Centauri came to our
+world.  Narn was a green and fertile place then.  We greeted them in peace,
+and spent the next hundred years in chains.  But we never gave up hope.  We
+formed a resistance, learned their secrets, turned their own machines against
+them, and finally drove them from our world.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+How did you become involved with the resistance?
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+My family lived in G'kamizad, one of the larger cities on Narn.  My father...
+served in a Centauri household during the last years of the rebellion.  I was
+barely a pouchling at the time.  My mother was ill, unable to escape through
+the underground, so we all stayed.  It was a difficult time--we were striking
+deep into Centauri resources.  Things were tense.  One day, my father spilled
+a cup of hot jala on the mistress of the house, and...and she had him killed.
+They took him out, tied his hands together, and hung him from a Jalwa tree for
+three days.  I came to him the last night against my mother's orders, and he
+looked down at me.  He said he was proud and to go and fight and...be all the
+things he never was.  Then he died.  The next morning I ran away and killed my
+first Centauri.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Why do you think they invaded back then?
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less-advanced one?
+Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that
+can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply because they can.
+You have experienced much the same on your own world.  There are humans for
+whom the words "never again" carry special meaning, as they do for us.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+How do you respond to reports that your military has lost six out of the last
+seven engagements with the Centauri forces, and now the war consists mainly of
+holding actions and forced retreats?
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+Centauri propaganda.  We will never fall back.  We will never surrender.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+When we first met the Narn they were, what, a primitive people.  We gave them
+technology centuries ahead of their own, took them with us to the stars,
+taught them laws, civilized them.  They repaid us with terror and death.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+So you're saying that the Centauri originally came to help the Narns?
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+Of course.  And at considerable expense, I might add.  Which is why we finally
+left.  We wished them well, but the cost, you've seen.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Then you weren't driven off the Narn homeworld?
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+Please.  The Narn have rewritten history enough, don't you think?  If they
+wanted us gone, we were hardly going to force the issue.  But ever since, they
+have grown more and more irrational, have gone out of their way to harm us,
+to seize Centauri territory.  Finally, we had to take a stand.  They were the
+ones who declared war.  Not us.  We want only peace.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+"We want only peace."  Both sides say the same thing.  But as we've just seen,
+the reality is anything but peaceful.  With the skirmish outside concluded,
+and the captured Centauri vessels about to undergo a complete search, things
+seem to have calmed down a bit.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+What is it?
+
+
    
+
    
+Officer
+
    
+Jump point forming in sector seven.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Are they crazy?  That's practically on top of us.
+
+
    
+
    
+Officer
+
    
+Reading one Centauri battle cruiser.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Maxie, do we still have a feed from the external monitors?  Are they on-li...
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Securecam 27 shows an enormous Centauri cruiser appear through a
+        jump point.)
+
+
    
+
    
+Officer
+
    
+We've got Ambassador Mollari on the link.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Put him through.  Ambassador Mollari, what the hell is going on here?
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+I'm sorry this has come as such of a surprise, Commander, but I warned you
+not to interfere.  You have no right to search or detain our ships.  If we
+don't act in our own defense, we invite the same from others.
+
+
    
+
    
+Officer
+
    
+Centauri cruiser is arming weapons, opening her gun ports.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo
+
    
+The cruiser will blockade Babylon 5 until our ships are returned to Centauri
+custody intact and unopened.  Any ship attempting to enter or leave Babylon 5
+will be fired upon, boarded, and sent back.  We will use the minimum possible
+level of force, but if provoked, we are prepared to use deadly force.  Even
+against Babylon 5 itself.
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Announcer
+
    
+ISN.  The galaxy's most important network.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Commercial
+
    
+	
    
+
+	
    
+	
+        (A young boy sits alone in a living room, dejected.  His mother comes
+        in.)
+	
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Mother
+	
    
+	John, why aren't you outside playing with the other kids?
+
+        
    
+	
    
+	John
+	
    
+	They hate me.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Mother
+	
    
+	Now, John...
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        John
+	
    
+	It's true.  I'm just...I'm different, Mom.  I can feel what they
+        think about me, and they know I can.  I called one of them a liar
+        because I knew he wasn't telling the truth somehow.  And he just kept
+        hitting me until I said I was the liar.  I just don't know what to do
+        anymore.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        (A Psi Cop appears in the far corner of the room.)
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Psi Cop
+	
    
+	Don't worry, Johnny.  We'll take care of it from here.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        John
+	
    
+	Mom!  Look! A Psi Cop!
+
+	
    
+	
    
+	
+        Psi Cop
+	
    
+	That's right, Johnny.  You know, there a lot of other kids
+        who feel just the same way you do.  They're confused and afraid, but
+        they don't have to be.  The problem isn't that other kids don't like
+        you, it's that they don't understand you.  But we do.  You're special.
+        You're a latent telepath about to come into full bloom.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Mother
+	
    
+	My Johnny?  A telepath?
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Psi Cop
+	
    
+	Probably.  But to be sure, take him down to the Psi Corps
+        Testing Center first thing tomorrow.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Mother
+	
    
+	How do I find one?
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Psi Cop
+	
    
+	We're everywhere...for your convenience.  We have offices
+        in schools and children's hospitals.  We even have mobile testing
+        centers that travel the country.  And if he qualifies, we'll give
+        him an education, a job, a purpose.  And, we'll pay all his bills
+        for life.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+	
+        Mother
+	
    
+	Oh my!
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        (A large Psi Corps symbol appears on the screen, with the words TWO
+        WEEKS LATER below it.)
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Mother
+	
    
+	Oh, John.  I can't believe it.  You've come so far.  Just look
+        at you.  We're all so proud.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        John
+	
    
+	
+	And I'm proud to be part of the Psi Corps.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Psi Cop (to camera)
+	
    
+	So remember.  If you know someone who might be a
+        telepath, or think you might be one yourself, help them get the help
+        they need.  Call the Corps!
    
+
+	
    
+	
    
+	
+        Announcer
+	
    
+	Call government information for more on a Psi Corps center
+        near you.  This message has been brought to you by the Ministry for
+        Public Information and your local Psi Corps recruitment office.
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        (While the announcer is speaking, the words "THE PSI CORPS IS YOUR
+        FRIEND.  TRUST THE CORPS." flash across the screen for an instant.)
+	
    
+
+	
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Other commercials
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+As we enter our thirtieth hour aboard Babylon 5, the Centauri-Narn crisis has
+not diminished.  The various parties to the dispute have gathered in council
+chambers behind me, in closed session, to discuss the crisis.  Meanwhile, all
+traffic, in or out of Babylon 5 has come to a halt, due to the Centauri
+blockade.  [Sheridan appears from the council chambers.]
+Captain, any progress in the negotiations?
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+All sides are still talking.  That's all I can say for now.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Well, is it true that some of the senate have suggested that you accomodate
+the Centauri by releasing their vessels without further searches?
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+As the commander of record on Babylon 5, I doubt that the senate would attempt
+to undermine my position in these negotiations by armchair quarterbacking.
+[He enters an elevator, and G'kar appears from the council chambers.]
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Ambassador G'kar, do you have anything to say?
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+Only that this should prove once and for all that the Centauri are a menace
+to more than just our world.  This kind of thing cannot be allowed, and we
+will take whatever steps are necessary to make that perfectly clear to them.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Well, what does that mean?  Ambassador G'kar!
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Senator Quantrell (in his office)
+
    
+Certainly the events on Babylon 5 which took place during your recent visit
+are emblematic of what many of us at Earthdome have been worried about for some
+time.  By placing an Earth installation between warring factions, we risk being
+drawn into a conflict which has nothing to do with us, or Earth interests.  If
+we had not been in that place at that time, the terrible loss of life might
+have been avoided.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+On the other hand, senator, they are at war with one another.  People die in
+war.
+
+
    
+
    
+Quantrell
+
    
+Yes, but it wouldn't have happened in our backyard.  What happened next came
+with the reluctant support of Earthdome, but hundreds of deaths...I don't see
+how we can support that sort of thing.  I'm only glad you made it out alive,
+Cynthia.  We need all the good reporters we can get.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Ten minutes ago, Captain Sheridan received a coded transmission from Earthdome
+on the current crisis.  After considerable negotiations, we've been allowed
+back into C&C...
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Captain John Sheridan, Babylon 5, to Centauri cruiser.  My government has
+rejected your demand that we release your ships.  We will not consider any
+demand made under terrorist threat.  We have activated our defense grid, and
+are prepared to defend all ships coming through here.  Any hostile action
+taken by you against ships entering or leaving this station will be considered
+an attack on Babylon 5 itself, and we will respond accordingly.  If they send
+back a reply, don't acknowledge it.
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Aye, captain.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+We'll let 'em sweat for a while.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+I hope this works.  I know that our defense grid can probably hold them off, but
+the repurcussions...
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Oh, they're bluffing.  I can't believe they'd take on the whole station.  That'd
+bring Earth in on the side of the Narns, and the last thing the Centauri want
+is a war on two fronts.
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Docking bay nine just linked in.  The transport's ready to go.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Bring her up.  Activate autopilot.  We'll run the transport from here, make
+sure no one gets hurt.  Just in case they're not bluffing.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Bring the maintenance bots around for a closer look.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+	
+        (Securecam 23 shows the transport leaving Babylon 5.)
+	
+
+	
    
+	
    
+        Voice
+	
    
+	Move Securecam 23 to high overhead and Maintbot 9 through 14 at
+        twelve-click intervals...
+	
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+You realize that if they do attack the transport, they'll turn right around
+and fire on us next, figuring we'll have to retaliate.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+I know.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Maintbot 12 shows the transport making its way toward the Centauri
+        cruiser.)
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+All tracking stations.  If you see their weapons targeting us, open fire.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Maintbot 17 shows the transport nearing the Centauri cruiser.)
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Any reply from the cruiser?
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Negative, sir.  No response.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Their weapon system is still armed.  I don't like this.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Maintbot 9 shows the transport begin to pass under the cruiser.  The
+        image shifts to inside the transport, where it continues under the
+        cruiser with no problems.  The image shifts back to Maintbot 9, where
+        the transport makes its way past the cruiser.)
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova (as the officers at C&C clap)
+
    
+Well, the transport's through.  We called their bluff.
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Getting a signal from the Centauri cruiser.  They want to talk.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Open a channel.  Let's be gracious about this.
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+Captain, any thoughts on the...
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Second jump point forming in sector ten.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Maintbot 06 shows a Narn cruiser arrive through a jump point.)
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Oh, hell.  Babylon Control to Narn cruiser.  We do not, repeat we do not require
+assistance.  Do not interfere.  We have the situation under control...
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Narn cruiser powering up weapon systems.
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+No!  Listen to me, we do not need...
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Maintbot 12 shows the Narn cruiser firing on the Centauri cruiser
+        several times, but hitting once.  The image shifts to Securecam 23
+        where the Narn ship continues to fire, but is hit several times in
+        return by the Centauri creature.  There are explosions on both ships.)
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+All civilians to the shelters.  Get me that cruiser, and I don't care how you
+do it.
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Aye, sir.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Maintbot 02 shows the Narn ship attacking the Centauri ship, which
+        causes a piece of debris to fly directly toward the observation dome.)
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Close blast doors, now!  [The doors close, and the Dome is rocked as the
+debris strikes it.]
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Maintbot 12 shows the two ships exchanging more fire before the
+        Centauri cruiser is blown apart.)
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+Narns have destroyed the Centauri cruiser.  They're trying to open a jump
+point.
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Can they make it?
+
+
    
+
    
+An Officer
+
    
+
+I don't think so.  They're hit bad.  Jump engines are malfunctioning.
+
+
    
+
    
+Video Footage
+
    
+        (Maintbot 02 shows the Narn cruiser trying to generate a jump point
+	and enter hyperspace, but the jump point looks malformed.
+        The ship begins to explode.  The view shifts to Securecam
+        15, which shows the remainder of the explosion of the ship.)
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman (at anchor desk)
+
    
+As journalists, we would be remiss in our responsibilities if we suggested
+that events such as those you've just witnessed were typical of the situation
+on Babylon 5.  Like anyone else, they have good days and bad days.  But there
+can be no question that it is a flash point that can only grow hotter as time
+passes.  And yet, growth only comes through pain and struggle, so perhaps we
+should allow Babylon 5 time to realize, or one day, even exceed the dreams we
+have invested in it.  We'll be back with some concluding thoughts right after
+this message.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+Commercial break
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+After the crisis was over, the debris cleared, and the bodies counted, we
+asked each of the people involved in this story one question: Given the
+danger, at the end of the day, as Mr. Garibaldi said, is it worth it?
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Garibaldi
+
    
+Absolutely.  Sure, when things get tense out here, we have to be careful.  Our
+search of the Centauri vessels we captured proved that they were bringing in
+weapons of mass destruction, offloading them outside the station, and sending
+'em on to the front lines.  Now that we know that, we can make sure it doesn't
+happen anymore.  We learn.  That's what humans do.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Londo
+
    
+Misunderstandings aside...yes, I definitely think it's worth it.  We must simply
+work harder to make sure we communicate with each other to prevent this sort
+of tragic situation from ever happening again.  A violent attack by Narn forces
+is an unacceptable response to a peaceful protest by my government.  And with
+the intervention of Earth, perhaps we can keep them from making a similar mistake
+in the future.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+G'kar
+
    
+I don't know anymore.  I used to think so, but now...
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Ivanova
+
    
+Yes.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Delenn
+
    
+Of course it is.  For the simple reason that no one else will ever build a
+place like this.  Humans share one unique quality: they build communities.  If
+the Narns or the Centauri or any other race built a station like this, it
+would be used only by their own people.  But everywhere humans go, they create
+communities out of diverse, and sometimes hostile, populations.  It is a great
+gift and a terrible responsibility--one that cannot be abandoned.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Quantrell
+
    
+Well...I guess we'll just have to see, won't we?
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Franklin (to medics)
+
    
+All right, med 2.  Go.  Go.  (to Torqueman)  Look, if we weren't here right
+now, half the people in this room would be dead.  That should be a good
+enough answer for anyone.
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Delvientos
+
    
+Sure.  What, are you kidding?  I have a retirement pension to make, you know?
+
+
    
+
    
+* * *
+
+
    
+
    
+Sheridan
+
    
+Yes, but not for any of the reasons that you've probably been told.  The job of
+Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace, it's to create the peace.  And this place
+was built on the assumption that we could work out our problems and build a
+better future.  And that, to me, is the key issue.  See, in the last few years,
+we've stumbled.  We've stumbled at the death of the president, the war, and
+on and on.  And when you stumble a lot, you...you start looking at your feet.
+You know, we have to make people lift their eyes back to the horizon and see
+the line of ancestors behind us saying, "Make my life have meaning."  And to
+our inheritors before us saying, "Create the world we will live in."  We're
+not just...holding jobs and having dinner.  We're in the process of building
+the future.  That's what Babylon 5 is all about.  Only by making people understand that
+can we hope to create a better world for ourselves, and our posterity.
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+Torqueman
+
    
+I'm Cynthia Torqueman, ISN news.  Good night.
+
+
    
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Zack Allen are supervising the recent influx of Narn
+refugees.  The station is running out of space and resources to treat the
+many injured refugees from the Narn-Centauri war before they are fit to
+return to the Narn homeworld.  Zack suggests trying to move them out
+sooner, but Garibaldi tells him that is against Captain Sheridan's
+orders.  Because Medlab is swamped, Zack asks Garibaldi to speak to
+Sheridan about the matter.
+
+
    
+Vir, outside the Zocalo, finds Morden sitting at a table.  Morden says
+that he was expecting Londo instead, but Vir explains that Londo was recalled
+to Centauri Prime for a consultation about the war effort.
+Morden tells Vir he doesn't understand why Vir doesn't like him,
+since he is doing so much to help out the Centauri.  Vir asks why
+Morden sent for him.
+
+
    
+"I sent for Ambassador Mollari," Morden tells him.  "But you're here,
+he's not, and it can wait.  If restoring the Centauri Republic means
+nothing to you, what does?  What do you want?"
+
+
    
+
+"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your
+head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations
+that some favors come with too high a price," Vir answers.  "I want to
+look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this.  Can you and your
+associates arrange that for me, Mr.  Morden?"
+
+
    
+Morden doesn't reply, but hands Vir a data crystal with information for
+Londo.  As Vir is leaving, he waves to Morden, as he hopes to do after
+Morden is dead.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi enters Sheridan's office and asks him for some discretionary
+power over the Narn refugees.  Sheridan tells him that he assumed the
+station could handle the problem, and that it is hard to turn any of them
+away.  He instructs Garibaldi to have Dr. Franklin sort through
+everyone, give them only as much treatment as they need, and then send
+them off as soon as possible.  Garibaldi agrees, saying that it will
+not make Earth Central happy.  Garibaldi notices a monitor on the wall,
+which contains a diagram of the Icarus, the ship Anna Sheridan was on
+when she died.  Sheridan explains that he is
+trying to sort through the rest of his wife's possession, and was going
+over the mission information she sent him.  Garibaldi expresses his
+regret, and asks to look at the information.  While filing through the
+crew manifest, he sees a face he recognizes.  Sheridan at first
+protests, saying that everyone on the ship died with Anna, but
+Garibaldi insists he knows better.  "Captain, I know what I'm talking
+about.  I've seen him before.  He's alive."  He shows the Captain the
+picture he recognizes.  It's Morden.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi insists that he knows Morden, which makes Sheridan extremely
+upset, since Morden should be dead.
+Sheridan asks why the security net didn't catch him,
+and Garibaldi explains that, since they don't get death certificates on
+everyone, Morden would not be found out unless he broke station rules, which he
+hasn't done.  Sheridan orders Garibaldi to find Morden.
+
+
    
+
+Talia is in her quarters when her door chimes.  A man enters and
+introduces himself as Pierce MacAfee.  She greets him and asks what she
+can do for him.  He explains
+that he is from the Ministry of Peace on Earth and would like her
+support for a series of new programs.
+He explains that the objective of the Ministry of
+Peace is to help humans find peace with themselves, so it will be
+easier to attain peace with other planets.  He tells her that he will be
+giving a series of presentations about the programs, and that, because
+she was recommended to him by her superiors, he would like her to attend.
+She agrees.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin is in his office listening to medical reports, and barely
+able to keep his eyes open when Ivanova enters and notes that he hasn't
+slept in 36 hours.  He tells her that he has to keep working, but she
+suggests he have someone else take over.  When he tries to protest, she
+orders him to get some sleep and then join her in the mess hall for
+breakfast afterwards.  Though he initially protests, he eventually agrees,
+and leaves to get some sleep.
+
+
    
+
+A line of people are having their identicards checked by Zack Allen.
+Morden gives his card to Zack, and is instructed to step out of line
+and wait for a moment.  Morden tries to avoid doing so, but when he
+tries to leave, he is surrounded by several security guards.
+
+
    
+Sheridan sits across a table from Morden, saying nothing.  Morden says
+that it is traditional to charge someone if they are being held.
+Sheridan says nothing, but produces a picture of his wife and gives it
+to Morden.  Morden asks what the picture is supposed to mean, and
+Sheridan's only reply is to show a news report on the Icarus.  Morden
+finally understands the matter, and he explains that he was on board
+the Icarus, but doesn't remember what happened.  He was in an EVA suit,
+unconscious, when a transport came to investigate the Icarus'
+disappearance.  The shock and trauma of whatever happened erased his memory.
+Sheridan asks why Morden didn't check in with
+Earth Central, and Morden says that it took him a long time to remember
+his name, let alone file a report.  He claims he sent a message, but
+that it must never have been recieved.  Sheridan calls him a liar, and
+Morden tries to leave, but Sheridan won't let him.
+
+
    
+
+"You're not going anywhere."
+
+
    
+Morden reminds Sheridan
+that he can't be held without charges.  Sheridan explains that,
+since Morden is officially "dead," he has no rights and no legal
+recourse.  "You're playing a very dangerous game, Captain," Morden
+tells him.  "It could cost you your command."  Sheridan insists that Morden
+won't be leaving until he tells the truth.
+
+
    
+
+Ivanova and Franklin sit together in the mess hall, finishing their
+breakfast.  Franklin mentions that he had bad dreams, dreams of the patients
+he's lost.  Ivanova agrees that it is difficult to
+think about all of the Narn refugees since, by the time they arrive, they
+are behind help.  Franklin asks her if she believes in God, and she
+tells him that most of the time, she does.  Franklin tells her that he
+is a foundationist, and believes that "God is too big to be defined by
+words" and that "the closer you get to defining God, the further away
+it gets."  She asks what this has to do with his dreams, and Franklin
+tells her that, just before patients die, he can see God reflected in
+their eyes.  "I've seen
+a lot of reflected Gods today, Susan, and I'm wondering how we can keep
+believing in them when they've stopped believing in us."
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan continues his interrogation of Morden, finding discrepancies
+in his story as they continue.  As it continues, Sheridan becomes more
+angry and more tyrannical.  Sheridan asks what happened to the Icarus,
+but Morden claims he doesn't know.  Sheridan tells Morden that, by the
+time he is through, Morden will wish he had died with the others.
    
+
+
    
+
+Pierce MacAfee addresses a group of people in a conference room,
+explaining about the Ministry of Peace.  He explains that its objective
+is to help people find peace with themselves.  Looking at Babylon 5 as
+a microcosm of Earth, MacAfee explains they have developed a system
+called the Night Watch, the purpose of which is to detect possible
+problems.  He says it is a volunteer organization, and that it pays
+fifty credits a week.  All they need to do is wear a black armband, so that
+people know the Night Watch is around.  The Ministry of Peace wants
+to raise public
+awareness and help people think about peace.  Zack Allen, sitting near
+Talia in the audience, asks what else is entailed by being in the Night
+Watch.  MacAfee says that those that work against peace simply don't
+know any better, and they need to be taught and rehabilitated; it's up
+to the Night Watch to spot such people and report them.  By
+doing this, they can protect society from harmful ideas and
+misinformation.  "We're less interested in actions than we are in
+attitudes," MacAfee tells them.  "We must help protect society
+against its own worst instincts." He says he is proud to be a part of
+the organization, and hopes that the others will join him.
+
+
    
+Sheridan goes to Garibaldi's office.  He tells Garibaldi that he's close
+to getting the truth out of Morden -- all he needs is to find one provable
+lie in Morden's story.  Garibaldi points out that Sheridan has had Morden
+locked up for ten hours without charges, which is blatantly illegal.
+He offers to have Morden followed, but Sheridan refuses.  The two argue
+about regulations.  Finally, Garibaldi says he can't be present as chief
+of security while something like this is going on, and threatens to resign
+if Sheridan persists.  Sheridan says nothing.  Garibaldi lays down his PPG,
+security card, and link, and leaves the room.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is still sitting in Garibaldi's office when Zack Allen
+enters.  Sheridan tells Zack that Garibaldi has taken a leave of
+absence, and that he wants him in charge of Morden until Garibaldi's
+return.  Zack agrees, and Sheridan receives a call from C&C saying that
+Vir Cotto wants to meet with him.  Sheridan says he will meet with Vir
+in ten minutes.  Before he leaves, Sheridan asks Zack to bring Talia
+to the office so that he may speak with her.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan meets with Vir.  Vir says he's come to ask that Morden be released;
+this stuns Sheridan, who asks how Vir knows Morden.  Vir is vague on the
+subject.  Sheridan asks why Vir thinks the station personnel have Morden.
+Vir replies that Morden didn't show up for a meeting, and since the records
+show he's still on the station, he deduced that Sheridan's people had Morden.
+Morden is a guest of the Centauri Republic, Vir continues, and is thus
+eligible for diplomatic immunity.
+This stuns Sheridan, and he asks why Morden is so
+important to the Centauri Republic.  Vir says that it is an internal
+matter, and once again asks for Morden's release, but Sheridan refuses,
+on the grounds that diplomatic immunity only applies once charges are
+filed.  Morden, Sheridan says, is in protective custody.  "Protecting him
+from what?" asks Vir.  "I haven't decided yet," Sheridan says, and leaves.
+
+
    
+As Sheridan walks down a corridor, Ivanova catches up with him.
+She tells him that she was briefed by Garibaldi, and
+is worried about Sheridan's behavior.  
+Sheridan tells her that he knows he may be acting
+inappropriately, but that Anna meant a lot to him, and that he can
+simply not let that part of his life vanish away so easily now that he
+has proof her death may have been something more than an accident --
+if she even is dead.  He
+says that he has to know, and that nothing else matters to him.
+
+
    
+Talia apologizes, but tells Sheridan that she can't help him.  She says
+that Psi Corps rules do not permit unauthorized scans in these
+circumstances.  Sheridan tries to get around the regulations by
+pointing out that Morden is "officially" dead, but Talia still doesn't
+agree to his wishes.  She says that she can do nothing unless he agrees
+to a scan.  Sheridan asks her to wait outside, then tells Zack Allen
+to move Morden to a holding cell and escort Talia back to her quarters
+through a section of the station that will cause the two of them to
+pass each other.
+
+
    
+
+Morden moves down the hall slowly, accompanied by a full security
+escort.  When he and Talia meet, their gazes lock, and she sees his
+face become hidden in shadows.  She holds her hands
+to her head and screams, and tries to avert her gaze, but not before
+she sees the vague outlines of two strangely-shaped beings next to Morden.
+She falls back into Zack's arms.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin examines Talia, who insists she's all right, but says
+that, when she looked at Morden, she felt as if she were falling into a
+bottomless well, and that she felt a great coldness.  She also says she
+thought she saw a shape with him.  Sheridan enters and begins to
+apologize, but cannot finish before she
+slaps him full across the face and storms out.  Sheridan tells Franklin
+he had it coming, and Franklin agrees.  Franklin gives Sheridan some advice.
+He knows very well how people act when someone they love dies, but it's
+not always possible to do anything about it, even if Sheridan sometimes
+thinks he can fix everything.  He says Sheridan has to face that fact,
+but he doesn't have to do it alone.  Sheridan smiles in understanding
+and leaves.
+
+
    
+He is barely outside of MedLab when Delenn and Kosh appear.  Delenn
+tells Sheridan that Morden must be released at once.
+Sheridan can't believe that they are interested in
+Morden as well, and wants to know why everyone is so interested in
+him.  Delenn says that Babylon 5 could be in terrible danger, and that
+Sheridan will have to trust them, but that isn't enough for Sheridan.  He
+demands answers.  Delenn and Kosh look at each other, and Kosh nods to
+her.  She agrees to give Sheridan the answers he wants, but warns him
+that, when he learns what they know, he will never be able to
+sleep well again.  "Come, Captain," she says.  "The greatest nightmare
+of our time is waiting for you."  She hurries off, followed by Kosh,
+and Sheridan is close behind.
+
+
    
+
+"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either
+of our races," Delenn begins.  "Once, long ago, they walked among the
+stars like giants...  vast and timeless.  They taught the younger races,
+explored beyond the rim, created great empires... But to all things
+there is an end.  Slowly, over a million years, the First Ones went
+away.  Some passed beyond the stars, never to return.  Some simply
+disappeared."
+
+
    
+Sheridan, impatient, interrupts.  "Delenn, I'm sure this is all
+very interesting, but what does any of this have to do with Morden?"
+
+
    
+"Not all of the First Ones have gone away.  A few stayed behind, hidden
+or asleep, waiting for the day when they may be needed...when the
+Shadows come again."
+
+
    
+"Shadows?"
+
+
    
+"We have no other name for them.  The Shadows were old when even the
+Ancients were young.  They battled one another over and over across a
+million years.  The last great war against the Shadows was ten thousand
+years ago.  It was the last time the Ancients walked openly among us.
+The Shadows were only defeated, not destroyed.  A thousand years ago,
+the Shadows returned to their places of power, rebuilt them, and began
+to stretch forth their hand.  Before they could strike, they were
+defeated by an alliance of worlds, including the Minbari... and the few
+remaining First Ones who had not yet passed beyond the Veil.  When they
+had finished, the First Ones went away... all but one."
+
+
    
+"There's still one of them left.  Where?"
+
+
    
+Delenn, saying nothing, slowly focuses her gaze upon Kosh.  "That is
+why Kosh cannot leave his encounter suit.  He would be recognized."
+
+
    
+"Recognized?  By who?"
+
+
    
+"Everyone," Kosh intones.
+
+
    
+"For centuries, the Vorlons stood alone, the last remaining Guardians,
+watching and waiting.  Then, last year, I sent Kosh a message."  Delenn
+tells Sheridan of the time, before she began her transformation,
+that she sent Lennier to Kosh with a question, to which Kosh answered
+yes.
+
+
    
+"If yes was the answer, what was the question?"  Sheridan asks.
+
+
    
+"'Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?'" She tells him.
+
+
    
+"Z'ha'dum?"  Sheridan says.  "That's the world G'kar's been warning us
+about all year."
+
+
    
+"Sheridan," intones Kosh, as the small circular opening in his
+headpiece opens.  "Learn."
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan looks into the hole, and his face is covered by a strange
+green light.  He sees a spaceship approaching a world.
+
+
    
+"The Icarus," Delenn says, "your wife's ship, sent to investigate the ruins
+of an ancient race no one has ever heard of before."
+
+
    
+"Z'ha'dum," Kosh says.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, still mesmerized by a strange light from the encounter suit,
+sees the crew of the Icarus, on the surface of Z'ha'dum, exploring the
+planet.  He sees inside a great crevice, where a strange and terrifying
+creature stirs, eventually opening its fiery eyes.
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    
+As the Shadow
+awakens, the opening in the headpiece of the encounter suit closes, and
+Sheridan returns his focus to Delenn.  "Anna...The Icarus," he says
+weakly, "They found something.  They woke something up."
+
+
    
+"Yes," Delenn says.  "Once awakened, the Shadows could not allow them
+to leave in case they would warn others.  Those who would not serve
+were killed."
+
+
    
+"But were they all killed?  Delenn, maybe... maybe some of them
+were kept alive as prisoners.  Anna might still be alive! Morden..."
+
+
    
+"...must be released!"
+
+
    
+"After what you just showed me, how can you ask me to let him go?"
+
+
    
+"Because right now, they do not know how much we know.  The last time,
+the Shadows lost because they moved too quickly.  Now, they are being
+careful, gathering their forces slowly.  If you push Morden, sooner or
+later, he will tell you what happened.  Then he will be killed.  And
+you will be killed.  The Shadows will move now, before we're ready for
+them."
+
+
    
+"How are they going to know?"
+
+
    
+"Because Morden is never alone!  Listen to me.  Aside from the Vorlons,
+we do not have the First Ones to help us this time.  We are on our
+own!  We will have only one chance to stop them, and if we fail,
+billions will die.  There comes a moment when each of us must pledge
+himself to something greater than himself.  You told G'kar he had to
+decide between revenge and the good of his own people.  Now you must
+make the same decision, Captain.  It will be the most important
+decision of your life."
+
+
    
+Zack tells Sheridan, who is watching Morden in his cell, that he should
+get some sleep.  Sheridan asks Zack how much he knows about World War
+II, but Zack admits he doesn't know much.  Sheridan tells him how the
+British government knew, throughout most of the war, the code that the
+Germans used for all their secret messages.  The British
+discovered that the Germans were planning to bomb Coventry, but
+if they evacuated, the Germans would change the code.  If the city
+weren't evacuated, hundreds would die.  The British decided not to evacuate, and
+the city was destroyed.  Sheridan says he saw an old newsreel of Churchill
+visiting Coventry, and is still haunted by the look in
+Churchill's eyes as he realized what he had done.  Zack says he's glad
+he doesn't have to make that decision, because he doesn't think he
+could handle it.  "How many lives is a secret worth?" he asks.  A
+strange sound comes from the monitor on which Sheridan is watching
+Morden.  Zack explains they had been picking up the sound for a while,
+but that they believe it is due to faulty microphones in the cell.
+Sheridan asks Zack to change the view on the monitor to scan for
+different wavelengths of light.  Zack does so, and while he's doing it,
+Sheridan sees three spider-like black creatures in the room for a brief
+moment.
+
+
    
+
+
+
    
+"What did you see?" asks Zack.
+
+
    
+"Nothing," Sheridan replies.  "Shadows."  He tells Zack to free
+Morden, and tell him it was all a mistake, and that he is free to leave
+if he chooses.  Zack leaves as Sheridan continues to study Morden's
+face.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is eating when Sheridan approaches and returns all his
+security equipment.  Sheridan explains that he freed Morden, and that
+Garibaldi was correct.  Garibaldi asks
+why Sheridan changed his mind, but Sheridan won't say.  Garibaldi says that
+makes him uncomfortable, but hopes that, the next time something similar
+happens, Sheridan will listen to him.  Sheridan assures him there won't be
+a next time.  Garibaldi asks if Sheridan is okay as he leaves, and
+Sheridan claims he is.  Zack Allen approaches Garibaldi and asks if
+Sheridan is all right.  Garibaldi says he doesn't know, and then asks
+Zack about the arm band he is wearing, which displays the colors of the
+Ministry of Peace.  Zack says that fifty credits more per week, for doing
+what he does anyway, is a good deal.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan, wearing an oxygen mask, enters Kosh's quarters.  "I let him
+go," he tells the Ambassador.  "But there is a price tag attached.
+You've been trying to help me so we can understand each other.  That's
+not what I want any more.  I want you to teach me how to fight them, how
+to beat them.  Because sooner or later, I'm going to Z'ha'dum, and I'm
+going to stop them."
+
+
    
+"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die," Kosh warns.
+
+
    
+"Then I die," Sheridan tells him.  "But I will not go down easily, and
+I will not go down alone.  You will teach me?"
+
+
    
+Kosh has but one answer for this question.  "Yes."
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan is on a baseball field, practicing his swing, when Garibaldi
+arrives.  Sheridan explains that, because of difficult negotiations
+between the Narn and
+the Centauri, he needed to take time to get away from it all.
+Garibaldi says that, despite his problems, Sheridan should be glad that he
+didn't have to spend his day in the Triangle.  Sheridan asks about it, and
+Garibaldi explains it is a section of Grey Sector nicknamed by maintenance
+where there are strange lights, sounds, and disappearances.  That piques
+Sheridan's interest, and despite Garibaldi's objection, he insists on
+going and taking a look.
    
+
+
    
+
+Londo and Vir step out of an elevator, discussing the authors and songs of
+some of the finest Centauri operas.  They lose themselves in the music, and
+continue reminiscing when a black robed figure appears, arms wrapped around
+Londo's neck.  "How fitting you should die with a song on your lips,
+Mollari," the figure tells him.  The figure calls him "passo liati," and
+Londo knows who it is -- an old friend of his, Urza Jaddo.  Londo
+asks Urza not play such a trick again, and introduces Vir and Urza to
+each other.  Londo suggests they return to his quarters, drink brevare and
+talk, but Urza has to decline, promising they will do so later.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan, flashlight in hand, walks down one of the corridors in the
+Triangle.  After searching around for a few moments, he sees a body lying
+on the floor.  He tries to wake the figure, but sees that the
+being, a Markab, is dead.  Sheridan tries to call Garibaldi, but
+interference makes maintaining a clear channel very difficult.  Sheridan
+looks at the body again, and its hand suddenly reaches up and grabs his
+face.  Sheridan is able to wrench the hand away, and the body falls down
+dead again.  Sheridan finally contacts Garibaldi and tells him to get to
+Gray 10 right away.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin examines Sheridan and tells him that there is nothing
+physically wrong with him, except for the common effects of a sudden
+fright.  He also explains that the body's movements were due to gas buildups
+inside the body.  Sheridan asks what killed the Markab, and Franklin
+hypothesizes head trauma, but will not know for certain without an autopsy.
+Garibaldi finds the Markab's identicard and identifies him.
+Sheridan tries to explain how they should proceed next, but his vision becomes
+very distorted.  Sheridan tells Garibaldi that he feels dizzy,
+and Garibaldi recommends that Sheridan rest and hear a report later.
+
+
    
+Londo begins preparing drinks, and Vir asks about Urza.  Londo explains that
+they had been friends since childhood, though their families had been allied
+almost since the beginning of the Republic.  Londo begins reminiscing about
+his youth, even though Vir doesn't understand why Londo's ties to the past
+are so strong.  Urza enters, and Londo greets him.  They drink together.
+
+
    
+
+In his quarters, Sheridan is awakened by some strange
+sounds.  He turns on the lights, looks around
+the room a little, and is confronted by a large flying creature, which flies
+at him.  He manages to duck and grab a PPG; he fires at the
+creature, but the shots go through it and destroy a statue behind
+it.  Garibaldi, alerted by the gunfire, enters with another security officer.
+Garibaldi asks what happened, and Sheridan explains that the
+creature was a grylor, from Janos VII, which once stalked him.  Garibaldi
+suggests that it may have been a nightmare, but Sheridan knows, or at
+least believes, it was real.  Sheridan asks what happened to the Markab, and
+Garibaldi says it looks like suicide, though they don't know why he would have
+killed himself.  Sheridan suggests it may have been a religious ritual, but
+Garibaldi disagrees.  Sheridan tells Garibaldi to keep searching for
+answers, and says he'll be in C&C if needed.
+
+
    
+
+Urza and Londo, still drinking, are getting reacquainted, talking about life
+and love.  When they stop to get another drink, Urza tells Londo that his
+name is much spoken of on Centauri Prime, and that they believe that both his
+star, and that of the Republic, is in ascension again.  This pleases Londo,
+though he is still quite angry at the Narns.  Urza says that the previous
+Emperor wanted peace, but Londo claims that the Emperor was wrong about the
+Narns.  Urza explains that the Narns were lured into the war by the same
+faction that murdered the previous Prime Minister, which Londo says he heard
+was an accident.  Urza tells him that was the "official story," but not
+really true.  Urza tells Londo that a resolution is about to be brought
+before the Centaurum, claiming that Urza's family is traitorous to the
+Republic.  Londo believes they couldn't prove it, but Urza says proof isn't
+necessary, only the accusation, and that he will be disgraced if the
+"villains" have their way.  Urza asks Londo to stand with him to save his
+family, and Londo says he will do what he can.  This pleases Urza, who
+leaves, promising a banquet to celebrate their reunion.
+
+
    
+Sheridan enters C&C as a jump gate comes online and a ship comes through.
+While looking at a control panel, Sheridan begins seeing strange patterns
+again.  He tries to clear his eyes, but when he looks out the viewport, he
+sees the Icarus, his wife's ship, appear and then explode.  Sheridan orders
+the area outside scanned, but no one else has seen anything.  Ivanova asks
+if anything is wrong, and Sheridan says that he has to see to something.
+
+
    
+Sheridan explains what just happened to Dr. Franklin, who tells
+him that there is nothing physically wrong with him, but that there may
+be a new virus that can't be detected.  He offers to put Sheridan in touch
+with a Markab doctor who may be able to help him, but suggests that his
+hallucinations are more likely stress-related.  Dr. Franklin puts Sheridan on
+medical leave, and, despite Sheridan's protests, Franklin orders him to
+relax and enjoy himself.
+
+
    
+Londo finally makes contact with Refa.  Londo asks Refa if what he heard
+about Urza was true, and Refa says it is.  Londo offers to vouch for Urza
+personally, but Refa won't go along, despite Londo's claims of being Urza's
+friend.  Refa says he cannot stop the resolution, because it has already
+gone through.  Refa says that Urza's house is already crumbling, and anyone
+that tries to help will go along with it.  Londo becomes outraged at Refa's
+impudence, claiming that Refa's plans would have been no use without his help.
+Refa says there is little he can do, but promises he will try.  Londo tells
+Vir to get him a drink, and then communicate with his contacts on Centauri
+Prime, as he will need more help.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is back on the baseball field practicing when Garibaldi enters.
+Sheridan asks if they found out anything else about the Markab, and
+Garibaldi tells him that the Markab passed through sector 14 on his voyage
+here.  Sheridan says he thought that sector was restricted, and Garibaldi
+explains it is, ever since the incident the previous year when Babylon 4
+returned.  Garibaldi explains that it was kept out of the station logs
+because EarthForce wanted to perform their own investigation.  Garibaldi
+explains what happened to Sheridan, saying that, even though the station is
+gone, an anonmaly is still believed to remain.  Garibaldi presents Sheridan
+with a copy of the information, made before it was turned over to
+EarthForce, and leaves Sheridan to his batting practice.
+
+
    
+Londo and Vir enter the exquisitely decorated and catered banquet, where
+they meet up with Urza.  The three of them sit down at a table, and Urza
+toasts to their friendship and to the Republic.  Londo comments on the
+calibre of the guests at the party, and Urza tells him that, with Londo's
+help, they will spread the word.  Londo tells him that this isn't necessary,
+since he helped, but Urza says that the resolution was already presented,
+and will almost certainly pass.  Londo begins saying that Refa promised to
+help, but this angers Urza, who says that Refa is responsible for the
+resolution in the first place, and
+wants him out of the way because of how much he knows.  Urza seems insulted
+that Londo would help Refa, but Londo says that he has a destiny to fulfill,
+and only if he does, will the Centauri return to their rightful place in the
+galaxy.  Urza says he doesn't want to return to that kind of glory, and
+Londo offers to help, but Urza tells him that the way they are proceeding
+will never do any good.
+
+
    
+
+Londo offers to leave, but Urza will not let him
+go.  He snaps his fingers, and a large case is brought to the table, from
+which Londo draws a finely-crafted sword.  Londo says he cannot accept the
+gift, but Urza takes the sword from him and embeds it in the table,
+challenging him to a duel to the death.  Londo asks why he would do this,
+and Urza tells him he would do it to save himself and his family from
+dishonor.  Londo accepts the challenge, and Urza tells him to return in two
+hours for the duel.  Londo and Vir leave.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan is watching some images of Babylon 4's return when he is suddenly
+gripped by a powerful headache.  He looks around the room in agony, his
+vision again blurred, and he sees his parents standing there.  He
+approaches them, but they are enveloped in a bright flash of light.
+Sheridan looks over at the frozen picture of Babylon 4 on the viewscreen,
+and believes he knows what to do.  He quickly leaves, leaving his commlink
+behind while Dr. Franklin tries to contact him.
+
+
    
+Vir tries to talk Londo out of the duel, but Londo will not hear of it,
+saying that to deny the challenge would be disgraceful.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi receives a communication from Dr. Franklin, who asks him where the
+captain is.  A device Franklin gave Sheridan to measure his
+stress monitored a strange neural surge just a few minutes earlier, which
+caused the link to go dead, and Sheridan would not answer communication
+requests.  Garibaldi calls his security officers, telling them to look out
+for the captain.
+
+
    
+At C&C, a Starfury is detected to be about ready to launch from the station,
+and the pilot is identified as Captain Sheridan.  He tells Ivanova not to worry,
+and that he will be back soon.  Sheridan overrides the Starfury's controls,
+opens the bay doors, and launches the ship.  Ivanova calls Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Urza's assistants prepare him for the duel when Londo and Vir enter.  Londo
+tries to convince Urza to not fight, but Urza refuses.  Urza tells Londo
+that he has often beaten him with such weapons, but Londo says that his life
+was never on the line before.  Londo begins removing his jacket.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi, in a Starfury of his own, contacts Sheridan asking him what he is
+doing.  Sheridan says he is giving someone a lift, and that he thinks the
+answer lies in sector 14.  Ivanova, who has been listening, realizes the
+significance, and Sheridan confirms her suspicions.  The two Starfuries
+continue their voyage.
+
+
    
+A referee tells Londo and Urza to begin the duel.
+They hold their swords before them, bow to each other, and begin the fight.
+During the course of the fight, they both manage to inflict some damage to
+each other.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan arrives in sector 14 and tells the computer to scan the area.  The
+computer replies, saying it cannot scan the area because of increased levels
+of tachyon particles.  A large glowing area appears immediately in front of
+Sheridan's Starfury.  Sheridan begins to scream, and a long stream of light
+shoots out from his mouth and into the glowing disturbance.  After a few
+moments, the stream of light completely vanishes into the disturbance, and
+it closes.  Garibaldi, right behind, grapples
+Sheridan's ship.  He tows Sheridan back to Babylon 5.
    
+
+
    
+
+The fight between Urza and Londo continues, both of them very tired, and
+somewhat injured.  After a few moments, Urza disarms Londo and sends him
+carreening to the ground, and prepares to deal the death blow, but Londo
+grabs his sword and thrusts upward.  Urza falls to the ground, but Londo
+catches him.  Londo asks Urza why he did this, and Urza tells him that he
+did it for his family, because he didn't want them to share in his
+disgrace.  This way, Urza dies alone, and Urza makes Londo promise to look
+after them, which Londo promises to do.  Urza tells Londo that he will miss
+him, and dies in Londo's arms.
+
+
    
+Sheridan explains to Franklin, Garibaldi, and Ivanova that the lifeform that
+inhabited him was sentient, but alien, adn was trying to survive and return to
+its home.  Sheridan explains that the alien entered the Markab's body and
+drove him mad.  He explains that he deduced what it wanted by the images it
+created in his mind, using his emotions for communication.  The
+prospect of such a new and different alien life form very much excites
+Franklin.
+
+
    
+Londo pours some more bravare when Vir enters, telling Londo that the
+arrangements he asked for regarding Urza's family were made.  Vir tries to
+tell Londo that he didn't have a choice and had to kill Urza, but Londo isn't
+sure -- he tells Vir that Urza was more skilled with the blade, and
+that, by the rules of the conflict, Urza's family must be taken in by him,
+which makes them immune to the effect of the resolution; that was the
+reason for the challenge in the first place.  Londo tells Vir that, for the
+first time, he questions the choices he has made.  Vir tries to convince
+Londo that he should make new
+choices, but Londo replies that he has started down the path and
+must continue on it until it ends.  He sends Vir away, saying that he
+wants to try to get some sleep, if he is able.
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+On C&C, Ivanova tells Sheridan about a Markab cruiser that is ten hours
+overdue that has resisted all attempts at communication.  She says she wants
+to send out Zeta squadron to find out what happened to the ship, and that
+she will do so as soon as Lieutenant Keffer returns, searching for what he
+once saw in hyperspace.  Sheridan tells Ivanova to order Keffer back to the
+station and curb further expeditions.
+
+
    
+
+Lazarenn, a Markab doctor, examines a dead Markab with Dr.  Franklin.  The
+death seems rather mysterious, and Lazarenn tells Franklin he would prefer
+to keep jurisdiction over his own species.  But, since this Markab is the
+fourth dead Markab in three days dead of natural causes, Franklin is
+suspicious.  He tells Lazarenn that he will continue to run further tests.
+
+
    
+Ivanova explains to Zeta squadron that their mission is to find the Markab
+ship and determine the problem, if there is one.  As she sends them out, she
+tells Keffer that Captain Sheridan has ordered him to curb his expeditions
+into hyperspace.  Though he initially protests, after he is threatened with
+a four-month suspension of flight priveleges, he changes his mind, and
+leaves to join the squadron.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan sits down for dinner with Delenn and Lennier.  Lennier has spent
+two days engrossed in an exhaustive cooking ritual, preparing food for
+Sheridan's dinner, so that he may better understand the Minbari.  Sheridan
+is anxious to begin eating, but is informed that he must also follow certain
+rituals in the eating of the dinner.  Delenn explains that, if they are not
+followed, Lennier will have to begin again.  Delenn and Sheridan exchange
+bowls, give part of their meal to Lennier in thanks, and Sheridan places one
+piece of food in the place set aside for Valen's return.  Sheridan is then
+able to take one bite before he must meditate.
+
+
    
+Zeta squadron arrives at the Markab vessel, and attempts to open
+communication, to no avail.  Keffer scans the vessel, but discovers no life
+signs, though there are over two hundred life forms on the vessel.  All the
+Markab on the ship are dead.  Meanwhile, Dr. Franklin, while examining the
+Markab on the station, asks to have access to the other dead Markab before
+they are sent back to their homeworld.
    
+
+
    
+
+Zeta squadron returns to the station with the Markab ship in tow.  Franklin
+tells Ivanova that they need a full medical team to investigate it, and that
+he thinks Sheridan should be there as well.  Sheridan, who fell asleep while
+observing the Minbari rituals of eating, is awakened by Ivanova telling him
+to go to the docking bay where the Markab ship has been brought.  Sheridan
+apologizes, though Delenn tells him that the meal was completed before he
+fell asleep.
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives in the docking bay to find Dr. Lazarenn there, not wanting
+Sheridan or any other non-Markab inside.  Dr. Franklin explains that they
+aren't wanted aboard the ship because all four dead Markab died from an
+infectious disease.  Dr. Franklin demands to know how terminal and
+contagious the disease is.  "It is one hundred percent terminal," Lazarenn
+imparts.  "And one hundred percent contagious."
    
+
+
    
+
+The plague continues to spread among the Markab population as Dr. Franklin
+confronts Lazarenn and demands to know why he wanted to keep the plague a
+secret.  Lazarenn explains that the plague is not something normally talked
+about -- it is considered a disease that only occurs to an immoral people,
+because the first documented case struck an immoral population isolated on
+the Markab homeworld, killing the entire populace.  They assumed that the
+plague had been wiped out, and therefore was no longer a threat.  Lazarenn
+explains that Drafa, the disease, had been used to frighten children into
+behaving, and was still believed to only inflict the immoral.  Though the
+first new case had been discovered nearly a year ago, the Markab were still
+scared to admit that the problem had resurfaced, and since none of them
+wanted to be considered immoral, it was kept secret, which made the disease
+spread even faster.  In an attempt to escape the disease, the Markab have
+fled to every Markab colony, including Babylon 5, spreading the plague
+throughout the Markab populace.  Dr. Franklin doesn't understand why he
+wasn't consulted, but Lazarenn tells him that he was forbidden by his
+government, which refuses to assist in any way.  Franklin's last question is
+whether or not the disease is infectious beyond the Markab species, but
+Lazarenn has no way of knowing.
+
+
    
+A young Markab girl wanders through the corridors of Babylon 5, looking for
+something.  She soon locates what she is looking for, her father, who is
+sitting against a wall.  She touches him, and he falls over.  She cries out
+and turns around, into the arms of Delenn.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin talks to the command staff and his medical officers.  The
+disease is invisible while in its incubation period of up to several weeks,
+but after it shows up, the patients live for about a day.  Garibaldi asks
+how far it has spread, and Franklin explains that they have to assume the
+entire Markab population has been exposed.  Sheridan asks if the plague is
+limited to the Markab, but Franklin doesn't know, and says that's what they
+need to find out.  If the disease is airborne, the recycled air aboard the
+station could put everyone at risk.  Sheridan asks Franklin what to do, and
+Franklin wants every Markab brought in for testing so they can discover how
+the disease works.  The disease, he explains, takes over the central nervous
+system, keeping it from working properly.  Sheridan orders Ivanova to put
+the station under quarantine, keeping all ships in the station, and
+preventing other ones from coming in.  One of the medical officers suggests
+segregating the Markab away from everyone else, but Franklin says that will
+only cause the disease to spread among the Markab faster and that, if the
+disease is airborne, it won't make any difference.  Garibaldi says that, if
+all the Markab are in one place, he can watch over them better when turmoil
+strikes the station.
    
+
+
    
+
+Turmoil does strike the station, causing a panic when no one is able to
+leave the quarantined station.  The Markab are continuously tested for the
+plague, as more continue to get sick and die.  The Markab ambassador is
+outraged by the way the Markab are being treated, blaming Sheridan for
+spreading fear among his people.  He tries to explain that his people are
+moral, and believes that Sheridan might be part of a conspiracy against the
+Markab, or that even the immorality of the humans had infected them.  The
+Markab ambassador begins to leave, and tells Sheridan that he and the rest
+of the Markab are going into isolation to protect themselves from the
+immorality of others.  Dr. Franklin calls Sheridan and tells him that the
+disease is indeed airborne, and that his people have found a dead Pak'ma'ra
+with no visible signs of death.  He believes the disease may be spreading
+into the general population.
+
+
    
+The Markab ambassador herds his people into their isolation area, reassuring
+them that they are pure and that they will be spared the plague if they are
+good.  The other races aboard the station are all too happy to see them go.
    
+
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin orders an autopsy performed on a dead Markab before it is too
+late, but none of the other medical officers want to risk exposure.
+Franklin offers to go in, but is interrupted by Lazarenn, who offers to go
+in instead, since he knows much more about the plague.  Since the isolation
+booth is sealed, no one else will be in danger should he contract the
+disease.  Lazarenn enters the booth and appraoches the dead Markab to begin
+the autopsy.
+
+
    
+Sheridan receives a call from Ivanova who tells him that the violence
+against the Markab is increasing aboard Babylon 5.  4,000 of the station's
+5,000 Markab have entered the isolation zone, but the rest may be in
+considerable danger if found by other races.  Sheridan wants the violence
+stopped as quickly as possible.  Ivanova suggests he get some sleep.
+Sheridan agrees, but as he is about to rest, Delenn enters and tells
+Sheridan that she wants to be allowed into the isolation zone to help the
+Markab.  Delenn says that she has been taught to help others when they are
+in need, and though Sheridan tries to convince her otherwise, he is unable
+to dissuade her.  She says that she understands the risk, and that she and
+Lennier should do all they can to help the Markab, since they may all be in
+need of similar help very soon.  She knows that she may have to remain in
+there if she contracts the disease, but she is willing to make the
+sacrifice.  Sheridan relents and decides to let her enter the zone.   "All
+life is transitory," she tells him.  "A dream.  We all come together in the
+same place at the end of time.  If I don't see you again here, I will see
+you in a little while, in the place where no shadows fall."  She starts to
+leave, but Sheridan stops her.
+
+
    
+"Delenn...?  When I do see you again, call me John?"  She smiles, nods, and
+leaves.
+
+
    
+A few humans attack a Markab, and kick him in the stomach while he is down
+on the ground.  Garibaldi arrives and stops the torture, but the Markab is
+near death.  He reaches a bloody hand out to Garibaldi.  Hesitating only
+fractionally, Garibaldi takes the Markab's hand.
    
+
+
    
+
+Delenn and Lennier approach the gate to the isolation zone and are admitted
+by the EarthForce officer attending it.  They enter quickly, and are
+immediately assaulted by the great pain and death they see all around them,
+though they are able to keep a somewhat pleasant attitude, knowing that they
+may be able to help.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin injects himself with stims in order to keep himself awake.
+Lazarenn, still inside the isolation area, tries to convince Dr. Franklin to
+sleep, but Franklin says that, if the plague has spread, that won't matter
+much.  They haven't found out anymore about the Pak'ma'ra, but more and more
+Markab continue to die, though the violence has been brought under control.
+Franklin explains that he doesn't understand why humans never learn from all
+the diseases they face, such as the Black Death, AIDS, and Chalmer's
+Syndrome.  Lazarenn asks about the Black Death, and Dr. Franklin explains
+how it hit Europe in the 14th century, and that it too was considered an
+immoral disease, possibly sent by the devil.  Cats, the familiars of the
+devils, were killed by the millions, but since they were the only way to
+control the rat population, the true way the disease was spread, the plague
+spread even faster.  Lazarenn finds the situation humorous, since often the
+strategy that makes the least sense is the one that's done the most.  He
+then collapses against the window of the isolation booth, and explains that
+his suspicions are confirmed:  he has contracted the plague.  He tells
+Franklin to run tests as quickly as possible, now that he has someone in the
+earliest stages of infection.
    
+
+
    
+
+Delenn and Lennier minister to the Markab in the isolation zone, trying to
+make them more comfortable, though it doesn't seem as if they are doing much
+good.  Delenn sees the young Markab girl she met earlier, who is now unable
+to find her mother.  Delenn calls to Lennier, telling him to find her
+mother.  When Lennier asks how he should find her, Delenn responds, "Faith
+manages."  Delenn asks the girl her mother's name, and the girl tells her
+that her name is Mama.  "Faith manages," repeats Lennier as he begins the
+search.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin examines some of the data from the tests, and continues to run
+more tests, though they only have a very short period of time.  Lazarenn
+explains how he feels, and Franklin orders still more tests.  While he is
+suffering, Lazarenn thinks back to how he and Franklin first met many years
+ago.  It was when Franklin was on layover on the Markab homeworld, and
+Franklin was hitchhiking on starships.  Franklin looked upon everything as a
+test in those days.  "Sometimes the test is not to find the answer, it is to
+see how you react when you realize there is no answer."  A medical officer
+comes up with the results of the Pak'ma'ra autopsy -- the plague is now
+affecting the Pak'ma'ra as well.  Franklin, exasperated and irritable,
+orders some officers to find out what happened to the Pak'ma'ra, before time
+runs out.
    
+
+
    
+
+The young Markab girl is still worried about her mother, and asks Delenn if
+she has been found yet.  Delenn says no, but says she knows what the young
+girl is going through.  She once became seperated from her parents on a
+visit to the city, and she became more and more lost until she found herself
+in an old temple, where she decided to wait until her parents arrived.
+Though her parents didn't come for hours, she felt safe there, and fell
+asleep.  A tall figure told the young Delenn that she would be fine as long
+as she believed her parents would come.  The figure told her that he would
+not allow harm to come to her.  At that moment, Delenn's parents arrived in
+the temple.   As she completes the story, Lennier too arrives with the young
+girl's mother.  The young girl runs to her mother and hugs her, and soon
+turns around to thank Delenn, but is barely able to keep her balance.  The
+smile vanishes from Delenn's face as she realizes what is happening.
    
+
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin continues tests on the Pak'ma'ra, but continues to find
+nothing.  He tries to cross-reference Markab yellow cells with Pak'ma'ra
+green cells.  Lazarenn speaks up, but is unable to say much beyond, "The
+yellow cells could be..."  He attempts to say more, but fails, and dies
+while speaking to Franklin.  Franklin, in his rage, overturns a cart of
+medical equipment, but his anger evaporates when the computer reports that a
+match has been found.
+
+
    
+Franklin explains to Sheridan that the plague works by neutralizing the
+chemicals in the synaptic gaps of a body, which prevent the chemicals from
+relating messages from the brain between neurons.  A few races use
+specialized cells to manufacture chemicals used in neural relays, but since
+humans don't work that way, they aren't in danger.  Franklin says the
+disease can't be destroyed, but he can stimulate production of yellow and
+green cells so that they will eventually be able to fight off the disease.
+He's prepared enough for five hundred doses of the cure, but hasn't had time
+to test it, and there is nearly no time left.
    
+
+
    
+
+Franklin, Sheridan, and Ivanova go to the isolation zone and enter, and are
+greeted by a grisly sight.  There is nearly complete silence as they look
+around the isolation zone and see that every Markab has died.  Delenn and
+Lennier appear.  Franklin asks if anyone is left alive, and Lennier tells
+him that they are all dead.
    
+
+
    
+
+Lennier departs, but Delenn, overcome by the
+situation, falls crying against Sheridan's shoulder.
+
+
    
+Delenn tells Sheridan that he should be congratulated for finding a way to
+stop the plague.  Sheridan tries to explain that it is because of Franklin
+that they were able to prevent further infection.  Sheridan asks what
+happens next time, and Delenn says that, if they honor the memory of those
+who died, and remember what happened, the other races will grow, and further
+problems of this sort will not occur.
+
+
    
+"Medical ships dispatched to the Markab homeworld have confirmed the death
+toll," an ISN reporter says.  "The entire planetary population has been
+wiped out by the plague.  Over two billion dead, in addition to another two
+or three million on other colonies and outposts.  Although it is expected
+that some Markabs may have survived on isolated colonies, for all intents
+and purposes, the Markab civilization has been destroyed."  Franklin,
+sitting at a bar beneath a video screen, listens painfully to the news
+report as other patrons of the bar joke about the deaths of the Markab and
+spread rumors about the dead Markab.  The bartender shuts off the television
+set, refusing to listen anymore.
+
+
    
+"Nothing changes," Franklin says to himself.  He gets up from the bar and
+walks away.
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Delenn and Sheridan meet each other at a Universe Today vending
+machine.  Sheridan expresses surprise that Delenn reads the paper; she
+explains that, after her previous encounter with Earth's reporters, she
+thought she should be better prepared and that, on Minbar, one is told
+only about what one needs to know, and no more.  Sheridan recycles the
+copy of the paper he has and orders a new one.  Delenn does the same,
+but is informed by the machine that "Eye on Minbari" cannot be inserted
+into her paper.  Slightly embarrassed, she explains that
+it is a good idea to keep track of what the humans are saying about the
+Minbari, and a good way to learn things about the Minbari that she
+isn't told about.
+
+
    
+A wounded man rushes through the sewers of the Mars Colony,
+where he meets up with a Ranger.
+Just before the man dies, he hands the Ranger a data
+crystal.  "Take it to Babylon 5.  Tell them... tell them it's not
+safe."  The Ranger takes the data crystal and escapes back into the
+sewers, just as the people pursuing them catch up.
+
+
    
+Captain Sheridan and Garibaldi meet in the bathroom and begin a
+conversation.  After making sure it is clear, Garibaldi activates a
+bug-jamming device and asks Sheridan if he gave any more
+thought to the idea of bringing Talia in on their conspiracy.
+Sheridan agrees to the idea, and they make plans to tell her in
+a few days.
+
+
    
+Talia and Ivanova are eating, musing over their new friendship.  Each
+blames the other for the difficulties in achieving the friendship, but
+their conversation is interrupted by a call from C&C for Ivanova
+telling her that a ship arrived through the jumpgate, and has done
+nothing since its arrival.  Ivanova goes to C&C to investigate.  As she
+leaves, Talia tells her that, due to a problem in her air recycling
+system, she needs to find a place to stay for a few days.  Ivanova
+offers her quarters.
+
+
    
+Ivanova determines that the ship was hit, and tries to contact the
+ship.  There's no response from the one lifeform on board.
+She orders the ship brought aboard the station.
    
+
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin arrives at the ship and meets with Garibaldi, who says the
+ship's serial number is faked, and that he doesn't want to report
+anything until he finds out what's onboard.  Dr. Franklin's aide
+tells him that they found one human female aboard, unconscious, but
+alive.  They wheel her out, but Garibaldi recognizes her.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tells Sheridan that the woman, Lyta Alexander, was Babylon
+5's first commercial telepath, though she lasted only a few weeks.  She
+scanned Kosh after the assassination attempt and discovered that Kosh
+saw Commander Sinclair as the murderer, which nearly ruined Sinclair's career,
+though he was later proved innocent.  Garibaldi explains that she and
+Dr. Benjamin Kyle, who operated on Kosh, were recalled back to Earth,
+and Lyta was never the same after the scan.
    
+
+
    
+
+In medlab, Lyta wakes up, and grabs a
+piece of medical equipment.  Holding Franklin at bay, she
+demands to see Captain Sheridan and the rest of the command staff, and
+to not be left alone with anyone.  Franklin asks why, and she explains
+that one of the people on Babylon 5 is a traitor, and says she can
+prove it.
    
+
+
    
+
+Lyta appears before Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and Franklin and
+tells them that Babylon 5 has a great importance to a lot of people,
+and that she has to come back to warn them.  She explains that the
+authorities on Earth didn't believe that she didn't see what Kosh
+looked like, and that their scans revealed nothing -- she retained only a
+feeling, an intense belief that she had to get to Vorlon space.  She
+recently escaped from the Psi Corps.  While
+she was on Mars, she got involved in the revolutionary movement and
+hired herself out as a telepath.  One of the underground's agents was murdered
+after he found out about a secret sleeper operation, which would
+implant a new personality, suited to Psi-Corps' needs, into one's
+subconscious.  When a special password is sent, via telepathy, to a
+person inhabited by a sleeper program, the implanted personality takes
+over completely.  Thus, it is possible for someone to carry the program
+and not know it.  Lyta learned that such "moles" were implanted in
+several government agencies, including Babylon 5, although she doesn't
+know who the one on the station is.  The codename of the mole is Control,
+and the underground suspects
+he or she is in the command staff.  Ivanova doubts this at first, but Lyta
+insists she has the password and can send it to activate the sleeper
+program.  Sheridan promises they will discuss it, but Lyta warns him to
+not wait too long because the personality would attempt to destroy
+anything it perceives as a threat.  She warns them to be on the
+lookout, and that she can't be alone, because she won't be safe.  She
+is taken to a security cell.
    
+
+
    
+
+Delenn and Sheridan meet, and she asks him to meet her tomorrow to talk
+about the food shipments to Narn.  He seems distracted, and she asks
+him what's wrong, but he initially doesn't want to talk about it.  He
+relents and explains that he feels bad because things had been going
+well, but have taken a turn for the worse.  They continue their
+conversation, and Delenn is slowly able to cheer Sheridan up.  She
+tells him that, when one is in a bad mood, one merely needs to wait.
+He finds her holding his hand when Garibaldi calls informing him
+that the background check has been completed.  Sheridan and Delenn part
+hastily.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tells Sheridan that, as far as he can tell, Lyta is correct
+in all that she said.  Sheridan warns Garibaldi not to trust her, but
+Garibaldi says it is a gut feeling of his that she is telling the
+truth.  Sheridan suggests that Garibaldi's aide may have been the mole, but
+there is no proof either way.  Sheridan says that he wants to think
+about it overnight before making a decision.  Garibaldi asks if Ivanova
+has come around, and Sheridan tells him that she hasn't.
+
+
    
+Ivanova is working out her anger slamming cupboards in her kitchen
+when Talia comes in.  Ivanova fixes some tea for them and asks Talia
+about Lyta.  Talia tells her that they spent part of their early
+careers in intern programs.  Ivanova asks if she feels that Lyta could
+be trusted, and Talia says that she thinks she can.  Ivanova also asks
+where Lyta interned, and Talia tells her that she interned with the
+Psi Cops before becoming a commercial telepath.  Ivanova tells Talia
+that she doesn't know who she can trust, and Talia agrees, saying that
+she feels that she can only really trust Ivanova.
+
+
    
+Zack Allen enters Garibaldi's office and Garibaldi tells him to move
+Lyta to a more comfortable holding area, since she may be there for a
+while.  As Zack leaves, Garibaldi asks about the Nightwatch armband Zack
+still wears.  Zack says he feels it's easy money.
+
+
    
+
+Talia wakes up and feels around in the bed next to her.  There is no
+one there, and she sits up with a start.  Meanwhile, two officers
+arrive in Lyta's cell and tell her that they were sent to transfer
+her.  They leave the cell, but on the way, they are assaulted by PPG
+fire, which takes down both of the security guards.  Lyta grabs a
+PPG and returns fire at the assailant before running off.  Though
+other guards search for her, they are unable to find her.
+
+
    
+Sheridan can't believe that she hasn't been located, or even that the
+attack happened, because he had almost believed she was wrong.
+Sheridan doesn't understand who could have done it, since very few
+people knew Lyta was there, but Garibaldi reminds him that the sleeper
+personality was probably responsible.  He orders Lyta put under
+protective custody, and tells Ivanova and Garibaldi that he wants to
+let her send the scan.  Ivanova is obstinate, but Sheridan says that,
+under the current circumstances, if they don't know who they can trust
+and who they can't, they won't be able to function properly.
+
+
    
+Delenn is in her quarters composing a letter regarding trade relations
+with the Lumati when she receives a call from Lyta.  Lyta asks Delenn
+to meet her in Brown 3 in an hour.
+
+
    
+Talia arrives at Ivanova's quarters to tell her that the air recycling
+system has been fixed, so she'll be returning to her own quarters.
+Talia asks her if everything is all right, and Ivanova says she doesn't
+want to talk about it.  Talia asks where she went the night before, and
+though Talia offers help yet again, Ivanova refusts it, saying that her
+secrets might soon come to the surface
+and haunt her.  "After you tell someone that you've been lying to them
+for years, maybe even putting them in jeopardy, how are you supposed to
+look them in the face again?"  Talia tells Ivanova that there are
+people around who care, though Ivanova still has doubts.  Talia reminds
+Ivanova that she is there for her.
+
+
    
+Delenn meets up with Sheridan in a corridor and tells him that she
+received a message from Lyta.  Sheridan asks where she is, but Delenn
+promised not to tell anyone.  Lyta will return, Delenn says,
+but only if everyone is present.  Sheridan tells
+Delenn to tell Lyta that he agrees to her conditions.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan returns to his quarters and finds Ivanova waiting for him.
+She is very troubled and tells Sheridan that she thought she was
+ready.  She tells him that she can't allow any telepath into her mind
+ever.  Sheridan tries to tell her that he understands, but she knows
+he doesn't.  "I've told you that my mother was a telepath, and that
+since I was born she could slip into my thoughts in a way that I could
+never even describe to you.  But what I didn't tell you was that I
+learned how to keep her out when I wanted to, and that once in a while,
+I was the one that touched her mind.  I'm a latent telepath."
+
+
    
+"Susan, why didn't you tell me this before?  I thought we could trust
+each other."
+
+
    
+"It's got nothing to do with trust.  I've spent my entire life hiding
+this, Captain.  It's not something you can just change overnight.  It's
+hard enough telling you this now."
+
+
    
+"You're right.  I'm sorry."
+
+
    
+"For as long as I can remember, my mother drilled three words into my
+head: 'Tell no one.' She taught me how to fool the tests given in
+school, transferred me from one school to another, always staying one
+step ahead of the Psi Corps.  I'm probably not even a P1--I've never
+been able to read anyone except my mother.  I can pick up on feelings
+sometimes, I can block a casual scan, and I know instantly if someone's
+doing it.  Nothing more.  But that's enough for the Psi Corps to come
+pull you in!"
+
+
    
+Sheridan tries to convince her that Lyta is not involved, though she is
+hardly convinced.  He says that he believes Garibaldi, especially since
+he so rarely trusts anyone.  Ivanova
+thanks Sheridan.  "It's all this nonsense lately... some days, I don't
+even know who I am any more," she tells him.  As she says that, Sheridan
+remembers the dream he had a few months earlier (cf.
+"All Alone in the Night.")
+As he starts to explain, he receives a message from C&C saying
+that Delenn has sent him a message: "Now."
+
+
    
+Delenn brings Lyta to Sheridan's office.
+Sheridan tells Lyta that he agrees to let her send the password into the
+command staff of Babylon 5.  She sends the password to Sheridan, but
+nothing happens.  She follows up with Franklin and Garibaldi.
+Garibaldi frightens everyone by pretending that the password was a
+success.  Though Garibaldi suggests they move on to Ivanova, Sheridan
+tells him that they will wait for now, as they have many other people
+to check.  One by one, they bring the command staff into Sheridan's
+office, where Lyta, quietly in the background, sends the password to
+each.  None of them possess the program.
+
+
    
+
+After they've scanned all the EarthForce officers aboard Babylon 5,
+Lyta is very discouraged that they haven't found anything and begins
+turning her frustration on the troubled Ivanova.  Franklin tries to
+convince her that Lyta isn't implying anything, but Lyta isn't so sure,
+and demands to know what Ivanova is hiding.  Sheridan breaks through the
+tension and tells them that this is what Psi Corps wants.  Seeing no other
+option, Ivanova agrees to have the password sent.  Lyta tries to send
+the password, but is unable to get through.  "She's blocking me," she
+announces.  Ivanova drops her defenses and the password is sent, but
+Ivanova isn't implanted with the program either.  Lyta tries to
+apologize to Ivanova.
+
+
    
+"Go to hell," Ivanova responds.
    
+
+
    
+
+Talia enters and says she's been looking for Captain Sheridan.
+As she comes in, Lyta stares at her intently and sends the password.
+Talia falls back and steals Garibaldi's PPG, firing at Sheridan, though
+he is able to move out of the way in time.  Garibaldi grabs the PPG
+away from her and drags her out of the room as Sheridan orders her
+under house arrest.  But she doesn't go away quietly.  "You blew my
+cover!  You're dead!  Do you hear me?  You're dead!  The Corps is
+mother, the Corps is father!  You're dead, Lyta Alexander!  We'll find
+you!  The Corps will find you!"
+
+
    
+Garibaldi can't believe that Talia could be the one.  Sheridan says
+that it isn't her fault, and that she's been carrying the sleeper program
+around for years without knowing it.  Their more immediate concern is
+how much Talia knows.  She knows about the underground railroad, but
+they aren't sure about how much more.  Franklin
+will be protected by the Psi Corps' desire to keep its squelching of the
+railroad a secret.  In addition, Franklin and the others know about the
+sleeper program, which Psi Corps definitely wants kept secret.
+Garibaldi realizes that Talia knew a lot,
+and if Lyta hadn't come aboard, they would have told Talia about their
+conspiracy.  Sheridan asks if there is anything they can use to
+defend themselves with, and Garibaldi thinks he might have an idea:
+When Talia mediated for Kosh and Abbut (cf.
+"Deathwalker,")
+Kosh was given a data
+crystal which he claimed contained "Terror.  Surprise.  Reflection.
+For the future."  Garibaldi says he will have to check on it a little
+more before he can be sure.
+
+
    
+Ivanova goes to "Talia" and says that she wanted to see her before she
+left.  She doesn't blame "Talia", but hopes that some part of her will
+hear her.  "Talia" says that the program was complete, and that the old
+Talia no longer exists.  "Talia" explains to Ivanova the role she
+played inside Talia's head, whispering instructions to her while she
+slept.  Ivanova believed everything, all the words that were meant to
+get Talia close to Ivanova and what she knew.
+
+
    
+"You're right," Ivanova tells her.  "The Talia I knew is dead."  She
+leaves.
+
+
    
+
+Lyta, wearing a gas mask, enters the alien sector and goes to see
+Kosh.  "I'm back," she says to him.  "I can't stay.  The Captain's made
+sure I can get away before the Psi Cops get here, but... I had to see
+you again, before my ship leaves.  I never told them.  I never told
+anyone.  I hid it all away in the smallest, tiniest corner of my mind.
+They could have killed me and they still wouldn't have found it.  Only
+at night, alone, would I open that small door in my mind where I kept
+the memory of you, and listen to your voice.  Listen to you sing me to
+sleep.  I hope I can come back again, but I don't know.  Until then,
+Kosh, I want to see you again, just one more time."  The head of Kosh's
+encounter suit opens, there's a sound like giant wings unfurling,
+and a brilliant light streams over Lyta as she gazes, one more time,
+upon the being within.
+
    
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+On Centauri Prime, Londo meets with Lord Refa in the Emperor's throne
+room.  Refa explains to Londo that the war with the Narn is about to
+end, much sooner than originally expected, and that Londo himself will
+be the "architect" of the victory.
    
+
+
    
+
+Aboard Babylon 5, Delenn meditates in her quarters.  While she is doing
+so, she senses a presence.  "Hello dear friend," she says, and a voice
+chuckles all around her.  C&C detects an energy surge coming from
+Epsilon 3, and informs Ivanova, who in turn informs Sheridan, just out
+of the shower.  Ivanova's message is interrupted by a voice coming from
+behind Sheridan.  He turns around and sees Draal standing there.  Draal
+tells Sheridan that he has been watching, and introduces himself.
+Sheridan tells Draal that he knows Draal took custody of Epsilon 3,
+although Draal corrects him saying that the planet took custody of him
+instead, returning to him his youth both in appearance and health.
+Draal wants to invite Sheridan, and one other, down to the
+surface for a visit at Sheridan's earliest convenience.
    
+
+
    
+
+G'Sten, G'Kar's uncle, tells G'Kar that the war with the Centauri is
+not going well, and that Narn defenses have been severely weakened,
+rolling back thirty years of territorial gains.  G'Sten explains
+that the Kha'Ri is trying to make the Narn believe that they are
+holding their own against the Centauri, though that is far from the
+truth.  G'Sten says that their one chance is to attack the Centauri
+supply depot at Gorash 7, which will require the entire Narn fleet.  G'Kar
+points out that, if the forces are taken away from the homeworld, it
+will make it vulnerable.  G'Sten realizes the risk, but insists that
+there will only be a very short
+period when the homeworld won't be defended.  G'Kar offers to go along,
+but G'Sten declines, saying that G'Kar's work on Babylon 5 may be even more
+important, and that, were G'Kar's father alive, he would be proud.
+
+
    
+Delenn steps off the elevator and meets Sheridan to tell him that Draal
+appeared to her as well.  The two continue on together.
    
+
+
    
+
+Refa tells Londo that he strongly believes that the Narn are planning an
+attack on Gorash 7.  Londo asks
+if Refa's forces will be waiting for the Narn there, and Refa
+tells him that he needs Londo's forces there instead, because the
+Centauri forces will be carrying out an all-out attack on the Narn
+homeworld.  This idea troubles Londo, who tries to convince Refa to
+pursue another course of action, but Refa says it isn't necessary -- they
+will be using mass drivers, powerful weapons outlawed by every species,
+which will decimate the cities, and allow nearly effortless takeover of
+the planet.  Londo tells Refa that he is troubled by his allies and
+their strength, but Refa doesn't understand his reluctance.  Londo
+tries to warn Refa that moving too quickly might cause things to spin
+out of control, but Refa won't listen, telling him that numerous
+Centauri battleships are waiting hyperspace for Londo's go-ahead, and
+that this action will save thousands of Centauri lives.  With
+only a little more convincing, Londo agrees to use his allies, as long
+as it is for the last time.  Refa assures Londo that this is the last
+time their assistance will be needed, as the Narn will be defeated, and
+this time, the Centauri will not allow the Narn to be free again.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi expresses great doubt about the message received from Draal,
+but Delenn insists that Draal is who he claims.  Even Sheridan is
+somewhat troubled by his altered appearance, though Delenn assures them
+that he looked that way when he was younger.  Garibaldi suggests it may
+be a trick, and that the message might be faked, but Delenn refuses to
+believe him.  Ivanova reports that tests run on the message determined
+it was sent from below the planet's surface, verifying that Draal did
+indeed send it.  Despite this, Garibaldi still wants to send a security
+team, but Sheridan says he is only allowed to bring one other, namely
+Delenn.
+
+
    
+Londo meets up with Refa again, and Refa tells him that it is time to
+leave for the Narn homeworld--they will be on the first ship so they
+can oversee the victory personally.  "Come Londo," Refa tells him.
+"Destiny awaits."  Meanwhile, Sheridan and Delenn board a shuttle and
+head down to Epsilon 3.
    
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar goes to MedLab, where Dr. Franklin is waiting for him.  Franklin
+tells him that one of the Narn refugees he treated was
+captured and interrogated by the Centauri, and that the questions
+involved the Narn homeworld's defense systems, and were particularly
+urgent.  The refugee transport got away easily because the Centauri
+warships guarding the planet pulled out with little explanation.  This
+puzzles G'Kar, as he knows the Centauri to be very thorough.
+Franklin explains to G'Kar that, during the
+Earth-Minbari War, the Minbari did something very similar just before
+they attacked Earth.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan and Delenn arrive on Epsilon 3 and begin searching the tunnels
+of the planet.  They arrive at a large walkway
+across a huge chasm, which strikes Sheridan speechless.
+
+
    
+G'Kar urgently tries to convince G'Sten that the Centauri are planning
+to attack the Narn homeworld, but G'Sten won't listen, saying the
+mission is too far along to stop it without proof.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Delenn arrive in Draal's chamber and see his body in the
+depression, running the planet.  An image of Draal appears and addreses
+them, commending Sheridan for his work aboard Babylon 5.  Draal
+explains that he has explored the many secrets of Epsilon 3 and has
+learned much about the galaxy, and Sheridan himself.  He also knows
+about Sheridan's conspiracy of light.
+Sheridan tries to deny it, but Draal knows better,
+and assures him the information is safe.  Draal explains that he said a
+year earlier that Epsilon 3 would remain dormant until such a time as
+it was needed, and that this is such a time -- he's prepared to place
+the planet at Sheridan's disposal, one of the first alliances
+of the coming war.  Draal tells Sheridan that he is not alone in the
+struggle, and that, should they succeed, there is a great possibility
+of hope.
    
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
+
    
+As G'Kar prays fervently,
+the Narn ships come out of hyperspace above Gorash 7 and prepare for
+the attack.  They don't detect any ships at first, but several
+Shadow ships soon appear and begin moving toward them, ready for the
+attack.  G'Sten tries to activate the jump engines, but they must
+recharge first.  G'Sten orders an attack against the ships, and though
+the Narn score several hits with their energy mines, the weapons of the
+Shadows are much more powerful, easily able to cut through the Narn
+ships.  The Narn warships are destroyed one by one.  Several warships
+combine their firepower and manage to sever a spine from one of the
+Shadow ships, but it's a futile victory.  Defeat imminent, G'Sten orders
+the remaining ships to
+open jump points and flee, but the Shadows fire something into the
+vortices, disrupting them and causing the remaining Narn cruisers
+to be destroyed mid-jump.  An undamaged Shadow ship connects to the
+injured one, revitalizing it; then all the Shadow ships vanish.
+G'Kar, sensing the outcome somehow, grimly ceases his prayer.
    
+
+
    
+
+Draal tells Sheridan that it probably isn't a good idea to tell the
+Earth government of the new alliance.  Delenn asks Draal if he is
+able to handle living alone on the planet.  Draal explains that he has
+the stars to keep him company, in addition to the others who live on
+the planet and help maintain the machine.  "There is one, in particular,
+who..."  He touches his head.  He tells Sheridan that he is hearing
+distress calls and that Sheridan needs to leave immediately.  Sheridan
+rushes on ahead, and Delenn tells Draal that she hopes to see him more
+often.  They exchange a quick goodbye and she leaves.  "So much to do,"
+he says, "so little time.  We must get to work.  Zathras!  Zathras!"
+he calls, but no one arrives.  "Never around when you need him."
+
+
    
+Ivanova tells Garibaldi about the Centauri attack on the Narn
+homeworld, and that she is worried what will happen when word about the
+attack hits the station.  He prepares for the coming riots, and says
+she should send out a general alert as soon as possible.
+
+
    
+"We interrupt this program with this late-breaking story," says an ISN
+reporter, as the patrons of the Zocalo watch.  "Officials in EarthDome
+confirm that the Centauri Republic has begun a devestating frontal
+assault on the Narn homeworld.  Reports continue to come in, alleging
+that the main Narn fleet has been neutralized and that Narn is
+completely encircled by its enemies.  Neither government has yet
+confirmed nor denied these reports, though some messages relayed from
+Narn seem to corroborate the stories of massive destruction and
+death...."  The tension becomes too much and a fight between the Narn
+and Centauri patrons of the Zocalo breaks out.
+
+
    
+The general alert is sent out as Sheridan and Delenn arrive back on the
+station.  Sheridan asks Ivanova what the situation is, and she tells
+him that Garibaldi is doing the best he can.  Sheridan has a security officer
+escort Delenn to her quarters.  Ivanova explains to Sheridan that she
+has heard little more than rumors, though she does know that the
+Centauri have used mass drivers in their assault.
+
+
    
+
+
+
+
    
+The war is not going well for Narn as the Centauri ships use mass
+drivers to pummel Narn's cities with asteroids.  As the destruction
+continues, Londo watches, helplessly, at a window in the lead ship of
+the fleet.
+
+
    
+"With the planetary bombardment in its fourth day," the ISN reporter
+reports as the C&C staff watches, "the Narn government continues in
+its refusal to surrender.
+Minbari, Vorlon, Earth, and other governments have filed official
+protests with the Centauri Republic for their use of mass drivers
+against the civilian population.  But, so far, the protests have had no
+effect.  Although communication with the Narn homeworld is difficult at
+best due to the continued attacks, word has reached ISN of cities
+utterly destroyed, hundreds of thousands of casualties, the total
+elimination of power and water over most of the Narn planetary
+surface.  Most of their major cities have fallen, food shipments have
+stopped, the planetary economy has collapsed, and medical treatment is
+virtually non-existent.  Government analysists predict that, unless the
+Narn government surrenders soon, their entire infrastructure will be
+totally destroyed.  To quote Senator Ronald Quantrell, 'They're being
+bombed back into the stone age.'"  Sheridan can take no more and orders
+the feed shut off.
+
+
    
+G'Kar is barely able to maintain contact with the homeworld.  The Narn
+on the other end says that the only way to survive is to surrender.
+G'Kar asks what will happen to the Narn on Babylon 5, but there is no
+way to know what the terms of the surrender will be.  G'Kar offers to
+return, but as the only member of the Kha'Ri not on the homeworld,
+his contact says, G'Kar should stay alive as long as possible.  The Narn
+delivers one
+last message to G'Kar from the Kha'Ri, which he says is the hardest
+thing he's ever had to ask of G'Kar.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar slowly enters Sheridan's office.  "Captain Sheridan, I... I've
+been instructed by government to come to you and ask for... sanctuary."
+
+
    
+Londo arrives at his quarters to find Garibaldi and a contingent of
+security guards, placed for his protection, there.  Londo tells
+Garibaldi to inform Sheridan that he wishes to convene a meeting of the
+advisory council
+and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+
+
    
+"A little over five standard hours ago," Londo tells the Council
+and the League, "the conflict which began with the Narn declaration of
+war came to an end.  The Narn Regime has offered complete and
+unconditional surrender.  The terms imposed by the Centauri Republic
+are as follows.  One, the ruling body, known as the Kha'Ri will be
+disbanded and its members subject to arrest and trial for the
+commission of war crimes against the Centauri."
+
+
    
+"Earth requests the right to send observers to these hearings,"
+Sheridan says.
+
+
    
+"That request is denied," Londo tells him.  "Two.  To prevent further
+acts of terror by the Narn against our people, from this day on, the
+penalty for the murder of any Centauri by any Narn will be the
+execution of five hundred Narns, beginning with the perpetrator's own
+family.  Three.  A provisional ruling council appointed by my
+government will take up the responsibility of rebuilding a more
+civilized Narn government as a colony of the greater Centauri
+Republic."
+
+
    
+"Is there anything else?" Sheridan asks.
+
+
    
+"Yes," Londo replies.  "Just one thing.  Because the Narn homeworld is
+now a protectorate of the Centauri Republic, we reserve the right to
+determine who can speak for Narn.  As a result, Ambassador G'Kar may no
+longer represent the Narn in any official capacity whatsoever.  His
+appointment as ambassador to Babylon 5 is hereby withdrawn.  As the
+only member of the Kha'Ri still at large, Citizen G'Kar will return to
+Narn for trial."
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan tells Londo that G'Kar has been granted
+sanctuary.  Londo tries to protest, saying that the agreement between
+the Narn and Centauri had important stipulations about the Kha'Ri, but
+Sheridan tells him that neither he nor Earth signed that agreement, so
+they are not bound by it.  Delenn stands up, informing Londo that the
+Minbari government also stands behind Sheridan's decision, and
+that G'Kar may remain for as long as he likes.  Londo gives in, but
+demands that G'Kar be removed
+from the Council chambers immediately.  G'Kar painfully
+complies, but he has a few final words for Londo.  "No dictator... no
+invader... can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
+There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
+Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
+The Centauri learned this lesson once.  We will teach it to them
+again.  Though it take a thousand years, we will be free."
+
+
    
+Londo watches ISN as the reporter tells of the post-surrender events.
+"And dancing in the streets as Centauri Emperor Cartargia declared a
+week-long public celebration to commemorate the recapture of the Narn
+homeworld.  In related news, the Centauri Republic today announced
+plans to annex several smaller worlds adjacent to Narn space, declaring
+them protectorates of the Republic.  While government spokesmen insist
+that the Centauri do not have any expansionist plans beyond retaking
+the Narn homeworld, others in Earthdome are less sure."
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells G'Kar that he will miss G'Kar's imposing presence in the
+Council chambers, and that he wants to help G'Kar in any way he can to
+win back his planet.  He offers his hand to G'Kar, who hesitates at
+first: "The last time I
+offered someone my hand, we were at war twenty-four hours later."
+As Sheridan leaves,
+he is contacted by Ivanova; Delenn wants to see
+him in the conference center.  He goes to meet her.
    
+
+
    
+
+When he arrives, he finds that she and Garibaldi, and a large number of
+other humans and Minbari, are in the room, waiting for him.  Delenn
+tells him that the people in the room have come to meet him and pledge
+themselves to him -- they are the Rangers, Garibaldi explains, who have
+been coming through the station to help fight the coming darkness.
+Sheridan asks why Garibaldi didn't tell him; Garibaldi says
+that he made a promise not to.  Delenn explains to Sheridan that
+Babylon 5 must be the fortress of Light to stand against the darkness,
+and the Rangers are to help with that.  The Rangers were under her
+direct command, but she gives equal authority to Sheridan.
+
+
    
+Sheridan addresses them all.  "I don't quite know what to say... For
+the last year, things haven't exactly been going our way.  I was
+starting to wonder if it would ever get better.  I think it just did.
+Tell the other Rangers, the ambassadors, everyone in this army of Light
+that Babylon 5 stands with you.  Tell them... tell them that from this
+place, we will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerers that a
+line has been drawn against the darkness, and we will hold that line,
+no matter the cost."
+
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+In the Zocalo, G'Kar tries to convince the patrons that the Narn were
+only the first victims at the hands of the Centauri, and that more will
+follow.  The patrons, however, become
+little more than annoyed, claiming that the Centauri are only the
+Narn's problem.  G'Kar tries to warn them otherwise, but they refuse to
+listen to him.  Eventually, another Narn convinces G'Kar to stop
+his speech.  Vir, standing on a walkway above, has heard it all.
+
+
    
+Delenn walks to the end of a darkened corridor where she sees Kosh
+partially hidden in the shadows.  "Lennier said you were calling for
+me," she says to him.
+
+
    
+"Yes," he replies.
+
+
    
+"Is there something wrong?"
+
+
    
+"You, perhaps.  We have sent for an inquisitor."
+
+
    
+"An inquisitor?  Why?"
+
+
    
+"To be sure about you.  You will submit to his authority."
+
+
    
+"How will I know who it is?"
+
+
    
+"You will know... if you survive."
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan tells Lennier and Delenn that he isn't sure he understands
+Delenn's request to help the inquisitor through custody since they
+aren't able to say anything about him.  Delenn explains that Kosh
+has doubts about whether she is fit to hold her position in the army
+of Light.  She explains that Kosh must be certain the choice is
+correct and that she is doing the right thing for the right reasons,
+and that that is the inquisitor's job.  Sheridan offers to help, but
+Delenn insists she must go through it alone.
+
+
    
+G'Kar meets up with a man named Chase in his quarters, and tells him
+that he needs weapons.  Chase says that he has the weapons G'Kar
+wants, light munitions that are easy to smuggle and use against the
+Centauri, and will sell them for the right price.  When G'Kar sees the
+price, however, he says it is too high, since the Narn sold similar
+weapons to Earth during the Earth-Minbari war.  Chase decides to take
+ten percent off the top of the price, which G'Kar agrees to pay.  G'Kar
+tells Chase before he leaves that this money is all the escaped Narns
+have left -- the results will be fatal if Chase defrauds them.
    
+
+
    
+
+C&C detects a Vorlon transport coming through the jumpgate.
+
+
    
+Sheridan enters the Vorlon vessel's docking bay, which is quite messy
+and quite dark.  A man, dressed in Victorian clothes and carrying a
+crystal-topped black walking stick, emerges from the shadows and
+approaches Sheridan.  "I believe I am expected," he says.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan and the inquisitor walk on the walkways above the Zocalo, the
+inquisitor looking at the establishment in disgust as they proceed.
+The inquisitor will not say why he was on the Vorlon ship, and asks to
+see Delenn.  Sheridan tells him that she will come when they are
+finished talking.  "Nothing changes," the inquisitor says.
+"Corruption.  Immorality.  Chaos."  Sheridan asks when the inquisitor
+was last on earth, and the inquisitor says it was long ago.  Sheridan
+asks about the Vorlon homeworld and tries to get him to describe the
+Vorlons, but the inquisitor refuses, and merely explains that his name
+is Sebastian, he came from London in 1888, and that he was taken by the
+Vorlons to be used as an inquisitor.  Sheridan expresses surprise that
+the Vorlons have had contact with Earth.  "The Vorlons have been everywhere,"
+Sebastian says.  "The Vorlons... are."  He demands to either be allowed
+to finish the work, or to be allowed to leave, but he plans to say
+nothing else.  Sheridan tells Sebastian to follow him.
    
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi meets up with G'Kar; he has learned that G'Kar is buying
+weapons for use back on Narn.  G'Kar, familiar with Garibaldi's
+methods, confesses to doing that, but Garibaldi tells him that he
+doesn't want the weapons coming through Babylon 5.  But, because he
+understands and appreciates the situation, and because G'Kar was honest
+about his intents, Garibaldi tells G'Kar that he has a friend who runs
+a transfer station in sector 90, all alone by a jumpgate, and that,
+since the man deals mostly in illegal goods, it might be good to send the
+weapons through there.  Garibaldi mentions it's already been arranged,
+thanks G'Kar for his honesty, and leaves.
    
+
+
    
+
+Delenn walks to gray 19, where she is to meet Sebastian.  She enters
+the area, which is very dark except for a few circles of light on the
+floor.  When she approaches the middle of the room, Sebastian's voice
+tells her to stop.  There are two manacles on the floor, which
+he instructs her to put on.  She can remove them at any time, although,
+should she do so, she'll be deemed unworthy.  Sebastian appears from
+the dark and says to her, "Who are you?"  She responds with her name,
+which he says in unacceptable.  She tries again, but he finds her next
+answer unnacceptable as well.  The mancles glow with energy that causes
+her pain.  This process continues for a while, but she will not give
+Sebastian any answer he will accept.  He ridicules her and her beliefs
+that she is on a holy mission and tells her that she will not know what
+to believe after he is done, and that she may die during the
+inquisition.  He tells her that, if she believes she is correct, she
+will hold fast in the belief that the universe will not let her die.
    
+
+
    
+
+A Centauri follows Vir, telling him that he has a message for Londo,
+but Vir insists that Londo will not speak with him.  He goes into an
+elevator where he finds G'Kar waiting.  G'Kar stares at Vir intently,
+and Vir says to him, "I'm sorry.  I wish... there was something that I
+could do.  I tried telling them, but they wouldn't listen.  They never
+listen...  I'm sorry."  The elevator door opens and G'Kar walks out.
+
+
    
+Before he vanishes, though, G'Kar turns to Vir.  He slices his hand,
+letting the blood drip on the floor.  "Dead... dead, dead,
+dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead... How do you apologize to
+them?"
+
+
    
+"I can't," Vir admits.
+
+
    
+"Then I cannot forgive," G'Kar tells him, and walks away.
+
+
    
+Sebastian's interrogation of Delenn continues, criticizing her belief
+in her destiny.  He tries to shake her beliefs, and tells her to call
+out to the universe so it can help save her.  When she refuses, a tap
+of his cane sends pain into her body from the manacles again.  She
+screams out in agony, but there is no apparent response from the
+universe.  Sebastian asks her why she is where she is -- why she was
+born.  She says she was meant to be there, and Sebastian demands to
+know why she believes that.  He asks her what she would think if the
+world believed otherwise, and she tells him she would believe the world
+to be wrong.  He asks how she can justify her being correct, yet
+everyone else being incorrect.  She admits that she has wondered the
+same thing -- an answer Sebastian doesn't expect.  He gives her ten
+minutes to rest.
+
+
    
+G'Kar reports to the other Narn on the station that they are developing
+an underground communications net, though weapons have proved to be
+almost beyond their means.  One of the Narn questions G'Kar's ability
+to deliver the weapons, and tells him that it may be a good idea to
+consider another Narn to lead them.  The Narn tells G'Kar that, because
+he can't communicate with the homeworld, they have no reason to believe
+the weapons will get through.  G'Kar says that the only way to win
+back control of their homeworld is if they stick together and don't
+fight internally.  He proposes that he will remain leader if he can
+communicate with the objector's family in twenty-four hours, and agrees
+that, if he cannot, he will abdicate his position.
+
+
    
+
+Sebastian tells Delenn that her problem is that, even though she's only
+part of the army of Light, she believes she must carry the entire
+army.  He tells her that her only destiny is to be the "nail that gets
+hammered down".  Afraid, she tries to get away from him, but he calls
+her a fool, which she says is better than what he is -- merely a
+tormenter who is not strong enough, worthy enough, or right enough to
+achieve his own dreams, so he must prove others are just as bad as he
+is.  The manacles send pain into Delenn again, and Sebastian asks her again
+who she is, but is again not satisfied with her response, and her
+belief that she has a destiny.  He tells her that it would be very easy
+to kill her, and that he can do it any time he likes.
+
+
    
+G'Kar tells Sheridan and Garibaldi that he needs to get word from the
+Narn on the station to the Narn on the homeworld.  Sheridan tells him
+that it is a difficult request to grant, but that he will do what he
+can.  G'Kar gives Sheridan a data crystal and leaves.  Sheridan asks
+Garibaldi if the Rangers are capable of taking the messages to the Narn
+on the homeworld.  Garibaldi says he doesn't think they're ready,
+but Sheridan insists that they be ready in case something more
+important comes along.  Garibaldi takes the data crystal.
    
+
+
    
+
+Lennier enters grey 19 and finds Delenn crumpled on the floor in pain.
+Though he begs her to leave, she tells him that she cannot and that he
+must leave without her.  When the sound of Sebastian's cane comes
+closer, she tells Lennier that he must leave immediately, and that the
+only way to save her is to let her do this by herself.  He rushes out
+just as Sebastian approaches, and finds Sheridan in a nearby corridor.
+He begs Sheridan to defy Kosh, since the inquisitor may be killing
+Delenn.
+
+
    
+Sebastian continues torturing Delenn with the cane and the manacles,
+which are now affecting her entire body.  He stands over her and tells
+her that her fate was dictated long ago, and that she has no control
+over what happens.  The door to grey 19 opens and Sheridan arrives,
+something Sebastian indicates he has been expecting.
+Sheridan demands Sebastian leave Delenn alone, and Sebastian asks
+why he should, and what she means to him.  Sheridan tells him that he
+doesn't have to answer any questions, to which Sebastian agrees, before
+he sends Sheridan flying against the wall.  "Your turn now," he says.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan, now held captive by Sebastian, begins undergoing his own
+questioning as well.  Sebastian
+asks Sheridan how far he is prepared to go in the fight,
+and how much he is willing to risk.  Sebastian tells him that he may
+have to sacrifice everything in order to survive, including his friends
+and comrades.  He continues the interrogation, hitting Sheridan with
+energy bursts from the staff repeatedly, as he forces him to realize
+what he may have to sacrifice.  Delenn cries out,
+demanding that he stop.  She tells him that he
+was sent to interrogate her, not Sheridan, and that she will give
+herself up to him in order to save Sheridan.  Sebastian asks her if she
+is willing to trade her life for his, to which she responds that, if
+she fails, other will take her place.  Sebastian asks about her cause,
+but Delenn insists that this is her cause -- saving lives.  Sebastian asks
+her if she is willing to die alone and forgotten, but she tells him
+that she isn't afraid.  Sebastian waves his staff and vanishes, along
+with Sheridan's bonds.
+
+
    
+The door to grey 19 opens, and Sebastian appears.  "You can go," he
+tells them.  "You've passed.  Both of you."
+
+
    
+"Passed what?" Delenn asks.
+
+
    
+"How do you know the chosen ones?  No greater love hath a man than he
+lay down his life for his friend.  Not for millions, not for glory, not
+for fame... for one person.  In the dark.  Where no one will ever know
+or see.  I've been in the service of the Vorlons for centuries,
+looking... Diogynes with his lamp looking for a man willing to die for
+all the wrong reasons.  At last, my job is finished.  Yours is just
+beginning.  When the darkness comes, know this: You are the right
+people, in the right place, at the right time."
+
+
    
+Sheridan sits at C&C when he is approached by Ivanova who tells him
+that the Vorlon ship is ready to leave.  He asks how extensive Earth's
+history files are on 19th century England, and Ivanova tells him she
+should be able to find whatever he needs.  He tells her he needs to
+verify a name and address.  "14... 14-B Harrisford Lane, London, around
+1888."  Ivanova asks for the name.  "Sebastian," Sheridan replies.
    
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar and the other Narn watch the message obtained by the Rangers.
+The Narn that previously questioned G'Kar's ability thanks G'Kar and
+tells him that they will follow his lead.
+
+
    
+At the docking bay, Sheridan tells Sebastian that everything is ready
+to go, but he won't let Sebastian leave just yet.  "Mr.... Sebastian, I
+did a little digging, based on what you told me.  The records confirm
+you lived on Earth in the year 1888.  The records also indicate that
+you vanished, suddenly, without a trace on November 11th, 1888.  That's
+a very interesting date, Mr.  Sebastian.  The morning after the last of
+a string of murders in the East End."
+
+
    
+Sebastian turns silently toward him.  "The city was drowning in decay.
+Choas.  Immorality.  A message needed to be sent, etched in blood for
+all the world to see.  A warning.  In the pursuit of my holy cause,
+I... did things, terrible things, unspeakable things.  The world
+condemned me, but it didn't matter because I believed I was right and
+the world was wrong.  I believed I was the divine messenger.  I
+believed I was..."
+
+
    
+"Chosen?"
+
+
    
+"I was... found by the Vorlons.  They showed me the terrible depth of
+my mistake, my crimes, my... presumption.  I have done four hundred
+years of penance and service, a job for which
+they said I was ideally suited.  Now, perhaps, they will finally let me
+die."
+
+
    
+"I think that might be wise."
+
+
    
+Sebastian puts on his hat and turns away, proceeding toward the ship,
+and does not look at Sheridan again as he walks.  "Good luck to you in
+your holy cause, Captain Sheridan.  May your choices have better
+results than mine.  Remembered not as a messenger, remembered not as a
+reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero... not even as Sebastian.
+Remembered only... as Jack."
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    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Captain Sheridan is out helping to train Zeta Squadron against the
+Centauri, should the need to fight them ever arise.  One of the other
+pilots is able
+to shoot Lt.  Keffer quite easily, and is about ready to start
+again when Sheridan receives a call from Ivanova saying there's an
+emergency on Babylon 5.  Sheridan orders Zeta Squadron to continue
+practicing the maneuvers and returns to the station.
+
+
    
+Lennier enters the Zocalo where he finds Vir sitting there, nursing a
+drink.  Lennier sits down next to him and says to Vir, "Sometimes I get
+so close, and yet it seems I'm shut out of the important things."
+
+
    
+
+"It's a useless feeling," Vir replies.  "The ambassador is definitely
+going through some changes.  He even looks different."
+
+
    
+"Indeed, and now with the military starting to stampede over everyone
+and everything..."
+
+
    
+"The coming and going and secret meetings..."
+
+
    
+"You never know what it's all about, until later, when it's too late."
+
+
    
+"They never listen to us."
+
+
    
+"It makes me nervous," they both say at once.
+
+
    
+"Same time tomorrow?" Vir asks.
+
+
    
+"Sure," Lennier replies as he leaves.
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan meets up with Ivanova who tells him that the Drazi and
+Pak'ma'ra ambassadors are waiting for him in his office with an urgent
+matter to discuss.  Sheridan orders that all the fighter squads be put
+through extensive training so they will be ready to fight if
+necessary.
+
+
    
+
+Ivanova asks the Pak'ma'ra ambassador if he is certain that he is
+correct, and he assures her that he is.  The Drazi ambasador explains
+that the Centauri have invaded both of their territories, taken command
+of listening posts, and are preparing to attack other races and other
+worlds.  "War is spreading," the Drazi says.  "Perhaps soon they even
+attack you."
+
+
    
+Sheridan paces back and forth in his office as Ivanova arrives with
+Londo.  The conversation is very tense as they discuss the movement of
+the Centauri forces.  Sheridan asks why what the Centauri did to the Narn
+wasn't enough, but Londo insists that they are merely trying to
+stabalize the region, using the conquered worlds as a buffer zone,
+though the Drazi and Pak'ma'ra don't agree.  Londo says his people merely
+want to establish a presence, and Sheridan demands to know where it
+will end.  He tries to convince Londo that the Centauri are at the center
+of the trouble, but Londo refuses to listen.  He warns Sheridan not to
+overstep his authority, which ends at Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tells Sheridan that Londo has been acting very differently,
+and that he can no longer be talked to or reasoned with.  Sheridan asks
+Garibaldi how to get through to Londo, but Garibaldi says it can't be
+done as long as Londo is afraid, and that he isn't able to keep up with
+the climactic changes occurring all around him.  Sheridan says that he
+made a full report to Earthdome, and with the new races involved, Earth
+can no longer ignore the problem.  Ivanova calls Sheridan and tells him
+that Frederick Lantz, from the Ministry of Peace, has just arrived on
+the station, and Sheridan leaves to see him.
+
+
    
+As Keffer and a fellow officer finish their training, they both admit
+that they are very tired and wish they knew what was going on with
+Sheridan.  The officer suggests it might be the "ghost"--something
+several other officers say in hyperspace while returning from sector
+14.  She explains that they said it looked like a cross between "a
+spider and your worst nightmare."
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan meets up with Lantz, who introduces him to Mr. Welles, the man
+in charge of the Nightwatch.  Sheridan introduces them to Ivanova, and
+Lantz tells Sheridan that he wants to interview Londo and the
+ambassadors of the worlds affected by the Centauri expansion.  Mr.
+Welles says that he wants to speak with the members of the Nightwatch
+aboard Babylon 5.  Ivanova tells them that she can't believe they came
+to Babylon 5 -- she never thought they would.  Lantz explains that
+Earth can't sit still forever, but it
+is good to know firsthand whether they're about to make the right choice.
+
+
    
+Keffer meets up with another pilot in the Zocalo and asks him about the
+ghost he saw.  The officer, Mitch, tries to avoid the subject, but
+Keffer is able to provide a flawless description of the ship, telling
+him that he saw it as well, but that he wasn't able to record it or get
+any other information about it.  Mitch tries to convince Keffer that he
+shouldn't try to search for it again.
    
+
+
    
+
+While discussing the situation with the Drazi and the Pak'ma'ra and
+other tidbits of information about Earth with Ivanova,
+Lantz explains that he wants
+to leave his grandchildren a good legacy, and that is what he hopes to
+accomplish by working for the Ministry of Peace.
+
+
    
+On C&C, a jump point is detected opening up on the other side of
+Epsilon 3, where it can only be detected by Babylon 5.  It turns out to
+be a Narn war cruiser, which hails them.  The captain tells Sheridan that,
+when the Centauri attacked the homeworld, his ship was on a deep-space
+assignment, but that he hopes that they can help liberate the
+homeworld again, and to do that, they need the help and sanctuary of
+Babylon 5.
    
+
+
    
+
+Ivanova is just about to eat when Mr. Welles enters and asks to speak
+with her.  He asks her if she is happy, and she tells him that she
+supposes she is.  He says he likes to know as much as possible about
+the people he works with, and that her record is exemplary, and asks
+what her plans for the future are.  She says she's happy on Babylon 5
+for now, but isn't sure what the future holds for her; she may
+like to captain a starship.  Welles tells her that, with the help of
+the Nightwatch, she can get her ship years earlier than she otherwise
+might, and he offers to pull
+some strings for her if she will help them discover disloyal people and
+potentially dangerous problems forming on Babylon 5.  She tells him
+that she has learned all about the Nightwatch, and was worried
+about what she learned, and that she has no intention of violating her
+personal beliefs to advance her career.
+
+
    
+Sheridan informs G'Kar about the Narn war ship, and says that it is
+safe for the time being.  G'Kar is happy about the news, and glad that
+Sheridan plans to give them sanctuary.  Sheridan tells G'Kar about
+Lantz's visit; G'Kar is delighted to hear that Earth is prepared to
+take sides, and rushes off to try to meet with Lantz.
    
+
+
    
+
+Mr. Welles addresses the Nightwatch members aboard Babylon 5 and is
+pleased with their progress, except that of Zack Allan, who hasn't been
+reporting much, such as a shopkeeper's vocal complaints about new import
+regulations.  Zack tries to defend himself saying that he didn't see
+anything wrong with such talk, but Welles disagrees, saying that this
+is precisely the kind of thing they should be informed of.  He tells Zack to be
+extremely careful about anything suspicious, no matter how innocent it
+may seem.  Zack is still very uncomfortable about the situation, but
+admits that the reports about the shopkeeper
+are true.  Welles is pleased by this, and tells Zack that he shows
+great promise.
+
+
    
+Mitch goes to Keffer and gives him a data crystal containing
+information about sensor readings of the Shadow ship that may help
+Keffer locate it.  Mitch warns him that he may be risking his own life
+by searching for the ship, and that he no longer wants any part of the
+mysterious vessel.
    
+
+
    
+
+Lantz finishes meeting with the last ambassador of the League of
+Non-Aligned worlds and prepares to meet with Londo when G'Kar arrives,
+asking for five minutes of his time.  Lantz refuses, though G'Kar does
+his best to convince him otherwise.
+
+
    
+The captain of the Narn ship tells Sheridan that the repairs are going
+slowly due to lack of power.
+Sheridan suggests shutting down the jump engines so they can use the
+extra energy to assist in repairs, and Sheridan assures the captain
+that Babylon 5 will protect them.  Lantz arrives at C&C and asks Sheridan
+about conducting fighter exercises against Centauri combat models.
+Sheridan tells him that it is true, and Lantz orders him to stop with
+the drills.  Lantz also informs them that he has been authorized by
+Earth to sign a non-aggression treaty with the Centauri, forming an
+Earth-Centauri alliance to keep Earth safe.  "We will, at
+last, know peace in our time," Lantz says.
+
+
    
+As Welles walks down the corridor, he is approached by a technician
+from C&C who was unable to attend the meeting.  She does, however, have
+other information for him.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan can't believe the idea of the non-aggression treaty, and
+Ivanova agrees; it protects Earth and leaves
+the Centauri free to attack other worlds.  Sheridan tells Ivanova that
+he no longer feels as proud to be in Earth Force as he once did, and
+Ivanova tells him that, as 2260 is nearly upon them, it may be a year
+to make the uniform mean something again.  She presents him with a
+small wrapped present, for Christmas or Hannukah.  He opens it up and
+finds a piece of metal inside that he doesn't recognize.  She tells him
+that she located a piece of the Black Star and wanted to give it to him
+as a reminder that sometimes it is possible to achieve something others
+believe can't be done.  Londo calls Sheridan and tells him that he
+has learned that Babylon 5 is hiding a Narn warship and orders the ship
+and crew turned over to the Centauri.  Sheridan ends the transmission
+and wants to know how Londo found out about it, and Ivanova suggests it
+was the Nightwatch that was responsible.  The two of them rush
+back to C&C.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders a channel opened up to the Narn ship and tells the
+captain that the Centauri know they are there.
+A jump point opens and a Centauri battle cruiser
+arrives, blocking the Narn ship from fleeing through Babylon 5's jump gate.
+Sheridan, who promised G'Kar he'd do whatever he could, sends out Zeta
+Squadron to escort the Narn ship.  Lantz arrives at C&C and asks
+Sheridan to explain his actions.  Sheridan tells him that he promised
+Sanctuary to the Narn ship and will do whatever he can to keep that promise.
+Lantz tries to protest Sheridan's actions, but Sheridan has him taken
+out of C&C as Zeta Squadron launches.  He opens up a line with Londo
+and tells him that the Narn ship will be granted free passage.
+Sheridan tells Londo that, if the
+Centauri opens fire on the Starfuries, Babylon 5 will respond with
+deadly force.  He sends a copy of the transmission to the Centauri
+cruiser and orders the defense grid activated.
    
+
+
    
+
+With the Starfuries in position, the Narn ship begins to move toward
+the jumpgate.  The Centauri cruiser changes its position, opens its gun
+ports, and targets the Narn ship, Zeta Squadron, and Babylon 5 itself.
+Sheridan targets the Centauri warship and tells Keffer to fire if fired
+upon.  The Centauri lock onto Babylon 5, but Sheridan refuses to fire
+until the Centauri do, which happens after only a few seconds.
+Sheridan fires interceptor shots and continues to defend Babylon 5
+and the Narn ship as it is escorted toward the jump point.  Babylon 5
+is hit a couple of times, and Sheridan orders all weapons fired
+on the Centauri ship.  The Narn ship
+makes it through the jump point; the Centauri ship, severely damaged
+by the station's attack, explodes.
+
+
    
+Lantz tells Sheridan that the Centauri are extremely upset over
+Sheridan's actions, and despite the fact that morally and legally
+Sheridan made the correct choice, Lantz refuses to accept Sheridan's
+actions.  Lantz tells Sheridan that the Centauri have accused them of
+moving out of neutrality and into a pro-Narn position.  Welles tells
+Lantz and Sheridan that the joint chiefs agreed with Sheridan's
+actions, which were in accordance with Earth Force regulations, though,
+had Sheridan informed them of the Narn warship earlier, things may have
+turned out differently.  Lantz tells
+Sheridan that the Centauri are willing to drop the entire thing if
+Sheridan apologizes.  Sheridan is outraged at this, though Welles tells
+him that he has been ordered by the president himself, and that, should
+Sheridan go against those orders, he would be removed from command of Babylon
+5.  Welles explains that a meeting among all the ambassadors has been
+set up in the Zen Garden.
+
+
    
+Zeta Squadron sticks with the Narn warship until Keffer's ship's
+computer informs him that there is an elevation in neutrino levels -- one
+of the signals from Mitch's data crystal.  Sending the rest of
+the squadron and the Narn ship on ahead, Keffer breaks off to
+investigate.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, in his dress uniform, practices his apology.  "I
+apologize.  I'm sorry.  I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an
+unwarranted attack.  I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire
+on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your
+own people.  And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them
+all straight to hell.  As with everything else," he muses, "it's the
+thought that counts."  He leaves to go make the speech.
+
+
    
+Keffer,
+following the computer signals, finally spies the Shadow ship and
+orders the computer to begin recording.
    
+
+
    
+
+All the ambassadors and their assistants have gathered in the Zen
+garden, waiting for Sheridan's speech as Sheridan makes his way there.
+As he approaches the transport tube, he is noticed by two young
+Centauri.  In the garden, Ivanova notices that G'Kar has arrived.  She
+tells him that he shouldn't be there, and he tells her that he has come
+to speak on Sheridan's behalf, and that the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds may listen to him.  Delenn and Kosh move off together to talk
+in private.
+
+
    
+Keffer is scanned by the Shadow ship.  He orders
+the computer to attach a homing beacon and eject the system record.
+The beacon has barely had time to leave the ship when the Shadow vessel
+turns toward Keffer, and he is enveloped, screaming, in a blinding
+white light.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan enters the transport tube and finds a place to sit down for
+the trip.  When the car arrives at the second transport station,
+everyone except Sheridan leaves the car.  When the car recommences its
+motion, Sheridan hears a strange noise and notices that an explosive
+device has been placed on a seat nearby and is nearly ready to
+explode.  Sheridan orders the computer to override and open the shuttle
+doors.  He springs out the door and the car explodes behind him.
+
+
    
+The explosion -- and the rapidly falling Sheridan -- capture the attention
+of those in the Garden below, but
+there is very little time.  "In Valen's name!" Delenn says.
+
+
    
+"Oh my God!"  Ivanova exclaims.  "Emergency alert.  We've got an
+explosion in the core shuttle.  We need rescue jetpacks and we need 'em
+now."
+
+
    
+"What are you trying to do?"  G'Kar asks.
+
+
    
+"He's more or less weightless," Ivanova explains.  "But the ground is
+rotating at sixty miles an hour.  If we can't catch him, he'll be
+killed by the impact."
+
+
    
+"You won't have time!" G'Kar offers.
+
+
    
+Delenn turns to Kosh, standing by her in a deserted section of the
+garden.  "Kosh, you know what's at stake.  If you are going to do
+anything, you must do it now!"  The headpiece of Kosh's encounter suit
+opens up, a brilliant blue light shining from within.
+
+
    
+Sheridan continues to fall as Ivanova receives another communication,
+saying that the rescue team can't get there for two minutes.  Ivanova
+tries to get them to hurry, since they have only thirty seconds.
    
+
+
    
+
+Delenn looks up at Kosh as he emerges from his encounter suit.  As Kosh
+soars into the air, she recognizes him as a tall, winged Minbari, the
+bone on his head carved into the shape of a crown.  He is glowing with
+white and yellow light as he flies toward Sheridan.
+
+
    
+Lennier also recognizes him instantly.  "Valeria!" he exclaims.
+
+
    
+The Drazi ambassador sees Kosh as well, but sees him differently.
+"Droshalla," he shouts out as he sees a light
+ensconced Drazi rise into the air on her wings.
    
+
+
    
+
+"G'Lan," G'Kar says breathlessly, referring to the Narn clad in pure
+white who is flying up to Sheridan to rescue him.
+
+
    
+Londo looks up as well, puzzled.
    
+
+
    
+
+As Sheridan falls, he too sees something different.  A human male, clad
+all in white, and outlined by a warm yellow glow against his wings,
+holds his hands out to Sheridan, who grasps them.  The figure,
+appearing as an angel to Sheridan, helps him to the ground, again in
+the secluded part of the garden.  When he arrives, Sheridan is
+astounded.  "Kosh?" he asks.  The figure nods.
+
+
    
+Delenn enters Sheridan's quarters.  She was worried about him, but
+Sheridan says he is fine.  "The whole station's talking about what
+happened.  Every race that was in the garden saw something different...
+yet the same.  A being of light."
+
+
    
+"Yes," Delenn affirms.  "Each according to his or her type."
+
+
    
+"But it was Kosh, wasn't it?" Sheridan asks Delenn, and she nods.
+"That's what he meant when he said that if he left his encounter suit,
+he'd be recognized by...  everybody," Sheridan concludes.
+
+
    
+"For millions of years, the Vorlons have visited other worlds, guided
+them and..."
+
+
    
+"Manipulated us?  Programmed us so that... when we saw them, we would
+react the right way?"
+
+
    
+"It is, as you say, a matter of perspective," Delenn tells Sheridan
+solemnly.  "What matters is that he has revealed himself to those who
+understand--you, me...  and those who have been watching.  The Shadows
+will know what Kosh has done.  They will worry, afraid that he would
+not reveal himself unless the Vorlons were prepared to stand against
+them."
+
+
    
+"Are they?"
+
+
    
+"I do not think so.  But as long as the Shadows believe the rest of us
+are unaware of their existence, we have time to prepare."
+
+
    
+"Well, let's just hope that nobody find out about them until..."
+Sheridan is interrupted by a call from Ivanova saying that Zeta
+Squadron has returned, but Keffer has not.
+
+
    
+In the Zocalo, a Narn and Drazi both describe what they saw in the
+garden.  The Narn leaves, but the Drazi asks Londo, sitting nearby,
+what he saw.  "Nothing," Londo replies.  "I saw...  nothing."  He turns
+and leaves.
+
+
    
+Londo shouts angrily in the council chamber as Ivanova, in voiceover,
+explains.
+"It was the end
+of the Earth year 2259, and the war was upon us.  As anticipated, a few
+days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced, the Centauri
+widened their war to include many of the Non-Aligned Worlds.  And there
+was another war brewing closer to home, a personal one whose cost would
+be higher than any of us could imagine."
+The shopkeeper Zack informed on is forced out of his shop, closed by
+the Ministry of Peace "pending
+allegations of sedition." Ivanova, in her quarters, silently and solemnly
+lights her menorah.  "We came to this place because
+Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace.  By the end of 2259, we
+knew that it had failed.  But in so doing, it became something
+greater.  As the war expanded, it became our last best hope... for
+victory.  Because sometimes, peace is another word for surrender.  And
+because secrets have a way of getting out."
+
+
    
+
+The image of the Shadow ship, seen from the beacon Keffer sent out
+appears as an announcer explains.  "When our ship
+encountered a distress beacon attached to an EarthForce recording
+device, these images, released exclusively to ISN, were found on that
+recording.  Strategic analysts in EarthDome have indicated they don't
+know who this new race might be... but promised to find out."  The
+Shadow vessel turns toward the camera and fires, reducing the image to
+static.
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+While the station is being repaired, both inside and out, Sheridan goes
+to the rock garden, where he meets Ambassador Kosh.  He tells Kosh
+that, ever since Kosh had saved his life the previous week, he hadn't
+thanked him
+properly, and that Kosh hadn't returned his calls.  Sheridan asks Kosh
+if everything is all right.
+
+
    
+"Being seen by so many at once was a great strain.  I returned to my
+ship to rest.  You have a question?" Kosh asks.
+
+
    
+"Nobody knows it was you.  Everyone saw something different, something
+from the legends of their own world.  But it was still a terrible
+risk.  After taking such...such care to hide what you really are, why
+take that chance?"
+
+
    
+"It was...necessary."
+
+
    
+"Well, as answers go:  Short to the point, utterly useless, and totally
+consistent. What I've come to expect from a Vorlon."
+
+
    
+"Good."
+
+
    
+"You know... I just had a thought.  You've been back and forth to your
+homeworld so many times since you got here, how do I know you're the
+same Vorlon?  Inside that encounter suit, you could be anyone."
+
+
    
+"I have always been here."
+
+
    
+"Oh yeah?  You said that about me too."
+
+
    
+"Yes."
+
+
    
+"I really hate it when you do that."
+
+
    
+"Good," Kosh tells Sheridan as he leaves him alone in the garden.
+
+
    
+
+A large ship, piloted by a Drazi, blasts off from a planet, under
+constant fire from two orbiting stations.  The ship flies toward the
+barrier around the planet, and manages to get through it, being
+slightly damaged in the process.  After the ship breaks through the
+barrier, the pilot launches a smaller ship from it, which flies away,
+escaping just as the larger ship is destroyed.  The smaller ship is fired upon
+and hit, but still able to make the jump to its pilot's destination:
+Babylon 5.  In order to speed up the trip, the pilot orders all
+non-necessary life support power to the engines.
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells Ivanova, who is with him in the docking bay, that he is
+tired of the unannounced visits of V.I.P's from Earth, since they are
+never given enough information.  The man they are waiting for arrives
+and introduces himself as David Endawi, who asks that they go somewhere
+private, and that Ambassador Delenn join them.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi brings the pilot of the small ship into the new Medlab
+facilities, and Franklin tells Garibaldi that he will have Dr. Sanchez do an
+examination, and inform him of the results.  Garibaldi leaves, and
+Franklin examines the man, dressed in the uniform of a Ranger.  He
+calls Sanchez to inform her he needs her help, but upon turning 
+around, the Ranger is gone.
+
+
    
+
+Londo is sitting at a bar drinking when Morden arrives, per Londo's
+request.  Londo tells Morden that he has been doing a great deal of
+thinking and now, that the Narn War is over, they should reconsider
+their relationship.  He feels that the Centauri no longer need the help
+of Morden's associates.  Morden asks Londo if he is being premature in
+his desire for them to disappear, since they might not know what lies
+ahead, but Londo tells him he is sure, and wants Morden and his
+associates to "go away."  Morden agrees, telling him that he will meet
+Londo in his quarters later, after meeting with his associates, to
+discuss the dissolving of their partnership.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, Ivanova, Delenn, and Endawi are in Sheridan's office when
+Endawi asks Delenn if, as a member of the older races, she has any
+information about the mysterious ship that Lt. Keffer recorded shortly
+before his death.  Endawi asks what Keffer knew about the ship, and
+Sheridan and Ivanova insist they didn't know what he knew about it.
+Endawi explains that the ship is obviously from a highly advanced
+civilization, and that they are worried about the threat the ship might
+represent, and it is his job to gather information about it.  Delenn
+apologizes to Endawi, but tells him she has never seen a ship
+of this type before.  Endawi asks her if she's sure, but she insists she is.
+Endawi asks if
+a ship like this had entered Babylon 5 space, and Sheridan says no.  Endawi
+asks for
+quarters to stay in until he has been able to talk to the
+other ambassadors, and Ivanova escorts him out.  After they leave,
+Sheridan asks if the ship belongs to the Shadows, who Delenn had told him
+about several months earlier.  Delenn acknowledges this, saying that it
+is important to convince the Shadows that they are unaware of the Shadow's but
+that she didn't lie:  she had never actually seen on of their  ships before.
+She says
+that Shadow ships are relentless and nigh invincible, but Sheridan
+doesn't believe it.  She tells him that he will only feel that way
+until he sees what they can do.  "Take a good look, John.  That is the
+face of our enemy."
+
+
    
+Lennier meets Delenn and tells her that someone is looking
+for her.  When she tries to brush him off, Lennier changes her mind by
+presenting the 
+badge of the man brought into Medlab, which Delenn recognizes immediately.
+
+
    
+
+Endawi meets with Londo, and asks him what he knows about the ship from
+Keffer's recording.  Londo tells Endawi that this is the ship he has seen in
+a dream
+where he is standing on Centauri Prime, with similar ships passing
+overhead, until their numbers grow so great, they blot out the sun.  But,
+Londo says that's all he knows about the ship, and apologizes that he
+couldn't be of more help.  Endawi thanks Londo, and leaves.
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lennier, in disguise, venture into Downbelow and enter a
+tavern, where they sit down.  The ranger comes up to them and gives
+them drinks, which they initially do not accept, but soon do in order
+to avoid drawing attention.  Lennier tastes the drink and discovers it has no
+alcohol in it.  The Ranger, who identifies himself as Marcus, says it
+proves he was waiting for them, since very few know of alcohol's
+effects on Minbari.  Marcus tells Delenn he needs her help, but would
+prefer to discuss it in private.  They leave the tavern, but are
+followed.  They soon run into a group of thugs, who insist they give
+over their possessions.  Marcus pulls out a Mimbari staff, and begins fighting
+the thugs.  Delenn and Lennier join in, and the thieves are soon
+defeated.  The three of them quickly run away.
+
+
    
+
+Ivanova enters Sheridan's office, where he, Garibaldi, Delenn, Lennier,
+and Marcus are already waiting for them.  Sheridan tries to explain the
+Rangers to her, but she has already known about them for a long time.
+Marcus tells all of them that the he came from Zagros VII, a Drazi
+world, where there is a Ranger training camp, created partly for
+safety, and partly because certain Minbari are uncomfortable with
+the Rangers.  Marcus explains that the planet was blockaded two weeks
+earlier by the Centauri and that he believes the Ranger camp is the target. 
+He pleads for Sheridan to help the Rangers
+evacuate.  Garibaldi says that they don't have the means for such an
+attack, since it would require a powerful warship and crew, but Marcus
+tells him they have the means, if Sheridan and the others have the will.
+Ivanova reminds Sheridan of Endawi, and Sheridan tells Garibaldi to take
+charge of him while the others prepare to go to Zagros VII.  They soon
+board a shuttle, file a fake destination in the station's log, and
+they, and an accompanying Minbari flyer, head out.
+
+
    
+Morden tells Londo that he wants to make sure that the Centauri are
+clear on the details of their separation.  He brings up a map of the
+galaxy and draws a line on it, showing the quarter of it which the Centauri may
+conquer at will.  As long as they don't trespass into the territory of
+Morden's associates, 
+there won't be any problems.  Londo asks how he can be sure that Morden's
+associates won't attack him, and Morden says he can't, but
+that they have what they want, and aren't concerned with the rest.
+Londo quickly agrees to Morden's conditions, but Morden tells him there is one
+more condition.  There is one world, on the edge of the Centauri
+boundaries, that his associates want custody of, and he has already
+convinced Lord Refa to secure it until his associates can arrive.  When
+Londo asks if he might be able to see the ships of Morden's associates one day,
+ Morden tells Londo ominously to ensure no Centauri remain near Zagros VII 
+when his associates get there.
+
+
    
+The shuttle and the flyer pull out of hyperspace and arrive near a
+beautiful, strange, magnificent ship.  "Her name," Marcus tells them, "is the
+White Star.  And she's yours, Captain."
+
+
    
+
+Endawi protests to Garibaldi that he was assured Sheridan and Ivanova
+were available, but with some quick double-talk, Garibaldi
+convinces Endawi that he isn't allowed to let himself know where they
+went.  He suggests that Endawi talk to G'Kar unofficially, since the 
+Centauri-Earth treaty prohibits official contact with the Narn.
    
+
+
    
+
+As they explore the ship, Delenn explains that the White Star is a new
+type of Minbari warship--smaller and faster than normal, an amalgam of
+Minbari and Vorlon technology.  It looks just different enough so that
+it cannot be identified.  She takes them to the bridge, where the crew,
+consisting of members of the religious caste, busily prepares the ship
+for its mission.  Sheridan tries to order them to Zagros VII, but
+Lennier says he must act as interpreter, since most of the crew isn't
+familiar with English.  The ship blasts off toward Zagros VII.
    
+
+
    
+
+Endawi asks G'Kar if he knows anything about the mysterious ship.
+With an exclamation of relief G'Kar turns an opened Book of G'Quan 
+toward Endawi, where there is a picture which bears a striking resemblance
+to the Shadow ship.  "They came to our world over a thousand of your years ago, 
+long before we went to the stars ourselves.  They set up a base on one of our 
+southern continents.  They took little interest in us.  G'Quan believed they
+were engaged in a war, far outside our own world."
+
+
    
+"G'Quan?"  Endawi asks.
+
+
    
+"One of our greatest spiritual leaders.  The Book of G'Quan is copied
+by hand from the original with every note and line precisely drawn.
+This ship and your ship are the same.  I tried to warn the others that
+the ancient enemy was returning.  But no one listened... Perhaps now
+they will."
+
+
    
+"But if this is correct, why would they just disappear for a thousand
+years?"
+
+
    
+"To all things, there is a time, Mr. Endawi.  Perhaps this is theirs."
+
+
    
+
+While on their way to Zagros VII, Ivanova asks how Marcus became a
+Ranger, and he explains it was because of his brother, who died trying
+to warn him about a Shadow attack on the mining colony where he was working.  
+Marcus promised his brother he would carry on the mission.  The White
+Star comes out of hyperspace, near Zagros VII, and approaches the
+planet.  They call the Rangers and tell them to be ready to escape.
+The White Star destroys the mines and stations around the planet, but
+too easily.  Sheridan can't believe there wouldn't be a
+Centauri warship guarding it, and asks Lennier if the scanners are
+working properly.  To prove they are, Lennier shows him, displaying
+more of the White Star's unique abilities.  Ivanova detects a
+disturbance, and they put it up on the screen.  It is the ship they all
+saw from Lt. Keffer's flight recorder: A Shadow ship.
+
+
    
+Sheridan declares that the Shadows must have come for the Rangers who he 
+promises not to abandon.  Delenn insists they aren't yet ready to fight, but
+they aren't given much of a choice when the Shadow ship attacks.  The White Star
+manage to maneuver out of the way of its attack, which shocks Delenn,
+since the Shadows never miss.  After they clear the last mine blockading
+the Rangers, they tell the Rangers to clear out.  Sheridan tells Lennier
+to proceed to the jumpgate since the Shadows won't suspect that the
+White Star can open a jump point because of its small size, and he wants to
+keep every advantage he can.  Delenn says the ship will follow them
+wherever they go, and Sheridan says he's counting on it.  The White
+Star enters the jumpgate, with the Shadow ship following close behind.
+
+
    
+
+Delenn pleads with Sheridan to call for help.  They don't have any
+chance of destroying the ship alone, since it is so much bigger than they
+are.  Alluding to the Black Star Sheridan tells her that he has heard that
+before.  
+As they continue through hyperspace, Sheridan asks Ivanova what would happen if
+they were to open a jump point while inside a jumpgate, and Ivanova
+explains that it would be suicide: the energy released would be too
+great to escape from.  Sheridan asks Lennier if the White Star is
+quick enough to escape, and Lennier says he doesn't know.  Sheridan says
+that they are probably near sector 45, and that they should use that
+gate to try the maneuver.  It is the jumpgate near the Markab
+homeworld, which other races have been using the strip the planet
+bare.  The White Star opens the jumpgate, while activating her jump engines.  
+Just as the point forms, the White Star escapes the jumpgate which explodes
+in a 
+fierce burst of energy, which damages the White Star, but destroys the
+tailing Shadow 
+ship.
+
+
    
+The original shuttle and Minbari flyer arrive back on Babylon 5 to be
+met by Mr. Endawi, who demands to know why they lied about where they
+were going and what they were doing.  Sheridan and Delenn say that they
+had to tow a Minbari diplomatic shuttle to a nearby jumpgate.  They
+apologize, but Endawi is on his way back to Earth.  He tells them he
+has all the information he needs, and that he will send a copy of the report.
+
+
    
+
+Back on Earth, Endawi presents his information to a senator in Earth
+Dome, telling her what he found, though he reached nothing conclusive.
+She tells him that she will inform him of what they find.  Soon after
+he leaves, two other men come into her office.  One of them is Morden,
+and the other is a Psi Cop.  She tells them that there is
+little information, and that the ship is a complete mystery to everyone
+on Babylon 5 except legends.  Morden suggests that the Earth government 
+dismiss it as an isolated incident, but the telepath disagrees, saying that a 
+threat to planetary security could be useful in speeding up the program at
+home.  Intrigued,  Morden asks him to explain.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, Franklin, Delenn, and Marcus sit around a
+large table while Sheridan outlines his plan for a War Council: Whatever anyone 
+learns they will share every two weeks, in hopes that together they can achieve
+more than they can working separately.  Sheridan tells them that they
+can say anything they like during these meetings.
+
+
    
+Franklin says, "Well, then, I have a question.  Granted, I am stuck in
+Medlab most of the time, and granted, I'm usually the last to know
+anything around here, and granted, we've all been pretty busy lately,
+but could someone please tell me what the hell these Shadows are?"
+
+
    
+Sheridan indicates to Delenn that she should explain, which she does.
+"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any of
+our races.  They walked among the stars like giants, vast and
+timeless.  They created great empires, taught the new races, explored
+beyond the Rim... The oldest of the Ancients are the Shadows.  We have
+no other name for them..."
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+Commander Ivanova finds Garibaldi and Zack busy mocking two Drazi
+missionaries seeking assistance in the docking bay; they claim to have been
+drawn to
+B5 by reports that Droshalla, a Drazi holy being has
+blessed the station.  (In typical unfathomable Drazi fashion, their
+attempts to share Zack's blessing are easily transferred to a nearby plant.)
+With relative unconcern Ivanova asks Garibaldi to investigate a set of
+anonymous messages to C&C declaring a countdown to chaos. The threats become
+reality moments later when a lurker is blown to bits by a booby trap in
+Downbelow.  
+
+
    
+Still in Docking, Zack's day improves further when the arrival of a chapter
+of monks interrupts his attempts to respond to the explosion.  In Downbelow,
+the heavy damage and confusion mystify the crew.  Although Garibaldi
+determines that it was a bomb, he can't find anything worth blowing up.  
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Meanwhile Ivanova is unable to dissuade Brother Theo from his flock's
+determination to establish a mission on the station.  When she points out
+that the aliens passing through B5 may not want to be preached at, that
+there is little space and that they will be in the way, he readily replies
+with both the words of the Bible and the fact that the monks themselves
+happen to be engineers and computer experts. 
    
+
+
    
+
+Lennier is afflicted with a garrulous human neighbor while waiting in
+reception for Delenn to disembark.  He rises to greet her at the gate just
+as there is an explosion in the corridor behind.  Lennier hauls her
+forward then steps past the gate to hustle Ambassador Mollari (who happens
+to be arriving as well) to safety just as the pressure doors close.  Delenn
+watches in horror through the transparent frame as Lennier is licked by
+flames and struck by falling objects.  
+
+
    
+A staff meeting clarifies that these blasts are aimed at people, not
+installations, and are being effective in their apparent purpose of
+spreading chaos and terror.  Sheridan orders martial law and the bomber
+watches its imposition with satisfaction.  While Lennier hovers in a coma,
+G'Kar rails at Garibaldi about the Centauri responsibility for the
+explosions and Londo insists to the captain and commander that the Narn are
+widening the range of their terror tactics.  But the truth is that there is
+no sense to the attacks, and no one is claiming responsibility.
+
+
    
+
+Londo manages to convince a doctor to let him stay with Lennier.  Though his
+bedside manner probably needs improvement, Londo seems to have been genuinely
+moved by the young Minbari saving his life.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile security determines from a molecular trace of the bomb materials
+that they were stolen from an ice mine on Beta 7, and that the bomber seems
+to have struck before on Proxima 3.  Garibaldi balks when Sheridan orders a
+full investigation of all traffic from there to B5 cross checked against
+possible gloaters filmed by security cameras after the blasts. Ivanova has
+the bright idea of putting the new engineering monks to use.
+
+
    
+Londo promises the unconscious Lennier to return, and departs on an errand.
+Upon finding the transport tube occupied by a smoldering G'Kar, at first he
+refuses to enter, but an instant later he leaps inside to escape a rush of flame
+from a bomb blast further down the corridor.  Two hours later he rouses to
+find himself trapped in the damaged tube under the pitiless eyes of the
+former Narn ambassador.  Londo proposes a plan of escape before the flames
+outside suffocate them, but with exquisite mirth G'Kar refuses.  Though he'd
+like to live he would be delighted to watch Mollari die.  
+
+
    
+
+The monks are successful, and Brother Theo points out to Garibaldi the most
+likely suspect.  As a tac team in full armor assembles  to go after the
+bomber, G'Kar croons and cackles to his nemesis, "Not many fishes left in the
+sea/Not many fishes, just Londo and me."
    
+
+
    
+
+The team gathers  near the bomber's quarters, but he's prepared for them and
+demands to speak to the captain alone.  Sheridan stuffs his link down his
+pants and agrees to go in to negotiate. Garibaldi orders C&C not to let anyone
+beep the captain under any
+circumstances.  The bomber wants free passage off the station, but lets slip
+that the deadman switch he carries will set off a bomb to make the station
+explode like the sun.  This twigs Garibaldi to the fusion reactor.  He
+sends a squad to check it out, and as they scramble into action the bomber
+attempts to terrorize the captain. All he manages is to get Sheridan thoroughly infuriated
+with his threats, and to send his own nerves haywire. Why is he bombing things? His only reason is that the times are chaotic.
+
+
    
+
+The squad finds the bomb in the reactor, just before Sheridan sits on his
+link.  When he hears the beep the bomber panics.  In the ensuing struggle
+the deadman switch drops, transmitting to the bomb just as it's propelled
+harmlessly away from the station.
+
+
    
+When the battered and damaged Lennier finally comes around, he explains that
+he saved Mollari's life at the risk of his own because "all life is sacred.
+But when the object of your actions does not share that belief... ahh,  I
+fear that I have served the present by sacrificing the future."  
+
+
    
+In the "last of the debris" from the last explosion on board, a rescue team
+comes upon the two nearly asphyxiated enemies in the transport tube.  They
+curse each other with familiarity.
+
+
    
+
+"Bastard."  Londo utters.
+
+
    
+"Monster."
+
+
    
+"Fanatic!"
+
+
    
+"Murderer!"
+
+
    
+"You are insane!"
+
+
    
+"That is why we'll win," G'Kar gasps.
+
+
    
+"Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5 they said.  It will be an easy position.
+I hate my life."
+
+
    
+"So do I."
+
+
    
+"Shut up!"
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan and Ivanova try to keep order as they meet with the transport
+association to work out the new ship
+screening policy on Babylon 5.  Ivanova tries to appease the crowd, but
+they will not listen to anything she has to say.  One man stands up and
+accuses them of hoarding the weapons so they can control everyone.  He
+challenges Sheridan, saying that, without his gun, Sheridan would be afraid
+to fight.  Sheridan steps down from the rostrum and hands his PPG to
+the man, taking his less-powerful weapon away and using it instead.
+When Sheridan asks the man to use the PPG, the man backs down.
+Sheridan retrieves his PPG, and tells Ivanova to adjourn the
+meeting until the next day, which she does.  The crowd files out, and
+Sheridan is upbraided by Ivanova for handing the man the PPG until Sheridan
+explains that he removed the PPG's energy source prior to giving it to
+the man.  Two Narns enter the room, and one introduces himself.
+"Captain Sheridan?  Counselor Na'Far.  I've just arrived and wanted to
+check in with you.  I'm here to replace citizen G'Kar."
+
+
    
+Na'Far explains to Sheridan and Ivanova that the Centauri believe G'Kar
+is creating an armed resistance on the Narn Homeworld, and they want it
+stopped.  Sheridan asks Na'Far why he doesn't want the occupation
+stopped; Na'Far says that he feels it is not yet the time for action,
+and that he has been instructed to take over on Babylon 5.  Sheridan
+denies his request, and insists that Na'Far work out his problems with
+G'Kar alone.  Na'Far politely, but reservedly, thanks him and leaves.
+
+
    
+In Earhart's, Garibaldi tells a very tired Dr. Franklin a story, but
+Franklin is in no mood.  Ivanova comes by and sits down with them.
+Franklin says that he has been worried about Sheridan, who has been
+under an extreme amount of pressure recently, but Ivanova insists that
+he has had to be, because he has had more to deal with.  Franklin
+receives a call from MedLab, asking him to take an extra shift.  He
+reluctantly agrees, and goes off to the bathroom.  While he's gone,
+Garibaldi tells Ivanova that he looked through Sheridan's file when he
+came aboard the station, and that he feels Sheridan is capable of
+handling any problems that arise.  Ivanova leaves, running into
+Franklin on the way out.  He is much more energetic now, and tells
+Garibaldi that he plans to ask a beautiful woman sitting nearby to
+dance, which he does.
+
+
    
+
+Na'Far talks to Londo, to whom he was instructed to report
+prior to contacting G'Kar.  Na'Far asks if he may speak with G'Kar, but
+Londo avoids the request, instead asking whether or not it would be
+safe to visit Narn, if the captured Narns are doing what they
+should, and if the executions are continuing.  Na'Far answers
+affirmatively to each.  Londo says that Na'Far may leave, which he
+does.  Vir, who witnessed this, asks Londo if it was really necessary
+to break the Narns' spirit as well, but Londo insists that the Narn must lose
+their pride, or they'll pose another problem later.
+
+
    
+Lt. Corwin tells Sheridan that they have been monitoring an alien probe
+that has entered Babylon 5 space, a probe of no known design.
+The probe, which appears to have no weapon systems,
+begins transmitting a code to Babylon 5, a series of repeating
+signals that will take the computer several hours to decode.
+
+
    
+
+Londo tells Delenn that he feels the rift that has grown between them
+is unfortunate, and that he misses her as a friend.  He tells her that
+he has done her favors in the past, and now wants her to repay him.  He
+says that he believes Vir would be an excellent choice for a new
+Centauri diplomatic mission to Minbar.  Delenn asks why he feels Vir
+should be sent to Minbar, and Londo attempts to lie to her, but she
+catches him.  "Over the last two years," he tells her, "to my
+considerable surprise, I have become very fond of Vir.  Sometimes in
+his eyes, I see a younger version of myself, before... He would be
+better off away from here.  Away from what must be.  He would only get
+in the way."  Delenn suggests that perhaps Londo needs Vir, but Londo
+insists this isn't true, and gives Delenn Vir's papers.  Delenn says
+that she will do what she can.  Londo leaves.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Franklin sit down for an Italian dinner in Garibaldi's
+quarters, and Garibaldi begins to talk to Franklin about his use of
+stims.  Garibaldi tells him that, for obsessive compulsives like
+themselves, it can be easy to form addictions.  Franklin insists that
+he doesn't have a problem, but Garibaldi, who noticed Franklin's stim use back
+at Earhart's, tells him that he checked the records and found that Franklin
+purposefully takes extra shifts, even though he is always overworked.
+Franklin is upset that Garibaldi did this, but promises Garibaldi he
+doesn't have a problem, and will cut back on his use of stims.
+
+
    
+
+While Sheridan sits at a bar, Na'Far's bodyguard, Ta'Lon, the same Narn
+Sheridan rescued the previous year from the Streib ship, appears and
+tells Sheridan that he wants to repay the debt he owes.  In his desire
+to help the Narn after the Narn-Centauri War began, he ended up
+Na'Far's bodyguard, but says that he is no longer sure if he is
+protecting Na'Far from outsiders or other Narns.  Ta'Lon tells Sheridan
+there is a debt he must repay as a matter of honor, and though Sheridan
+is initially resistent, he accepts Ta'Lon's offer.
+
+
    
+Lt. Corwin reports to Ivanova that the computer has finished analyzing
+the probe's language codes.  It
+was sent to initiate contact with other life forms, and promises
+that, if a list of just over 600 questions in many complex scientific
+and mathematical fields are answered within 24 hours, they will be
+rewarded with cures for disease and highly-advanced technology, but
+should they fail, they will be vaporized in a 500,000 megaton explosion
+when the probe self-destructs.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and Sheridan try to work through solutions to the problem, but
+are unable to come up with any acceptable alternatives other than
+answering the probe's question.  Ivanova tells him that most of the
+questions are very technical and some nearly theoretical, and that she
+had to send some of them back to Earth to be answered.
+
+
    
+
+Na'Far tells G'Kar that many Narns are starving, and that the
+resistance is keeping the Narns on the homeworld from getting the food
+sent by the Centauri.  G'Kar tells him that they don't want the help of
+the Centauri, but Na'Far says that Centauri food may be their only
+chance for survival.  G'Kar explodes, telling Na'Far that he isn't
+responsible for the Narn invasion, and that he doesn't want to be
+blamed for those problems.  G'Kar insists that the resistance is
+working to secure their own food and resources, but Na'Far despairs that
+they will ever be able to bring in enough.  G'Kar says that the
+Centauri are simply trying to control them, a fact to which Na'Far
+concedes, but insists that the time for action is not yet at hand.
+Na'Far begs G'Kar to postpone his battle against the Centauri and
+return home, while Na'Far looks after things on Babylon 5.
+G'Kar says the other Narn on Babylon 5
+will not accept Na'Far, and therefore he must stay, but
+Na'Far tells him that the Centauri will persecute and imprison their
+families if he remains.
+
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin tries to treat an alien patient, but is unable to
+communicate with him, and there is no translator available.  Ivanova
+calls and asks Franklin if he has received answers to the questions
+he relayed to Earth.
+Franklin, under a great deal of pressure,
+orders the patient away and looks in his desk to see stims inside, but
+quickly closes the desk without using them.
+
+
    
+Vir insists that he doesn't want to go to Minbar, but Londo assures him
+that he will have a good time, and that it is a good career move, and
+that he will still return to the station now and then.  He assures Vir
+that he is simply trying to protect him, and is capable of taking care
+of things himself.  Londo is confident that Vir will adjust to his life
+on Minbar.
+
+
    
+"Londo, if I leave, you'll be alone!" Vir objects.
+
+
    
+"Ah," Londo replies, "I have always been alone."
+
+
    
+Na'Far and Ta'Lon leave G'Kar's quarters and are accosted by some of
+the members of G'Kar's resistance, who insist that he is merely a
+puppet of the Centauri designed to carry out their will on Babylon 5.
+One of the Narns insists that Na'Far's sole purpose there is to break
+their souls, and wants him to go back to Narn.  A battle ensues, but is
+interrupted by G'Kar who stops them and tells them that they cannot
+succeed if they fight amongst themselves.  If the only way to solve
+these problems is to return to Narn, he agrees to do so.
+
+
    
+With only six hours left, Babylon 5 has all but 75 questions answered,
+and they continue to process more all the time.  Sheridan asks if they
+might be able to power up the weapons slowly so the probe wouldn't be
+able to detect it, but this crisis is interrupted by another: Corwin
+tells him that the transport association is demanding another meeting,
+which Sheridan reschedules seven hours later.
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi visits G'Kar, who is in the process of packing to return to
+Narn.  He explains his reasons, but Garibaldi tries to explain that the
+Centauri will kill him should he return, a fact which G'Kar is only too
+aware of, but believes is only the solution.  Garibaldi tries to
+convince him to stay, but G'Kar will not.  G'Kar thanks him for his
+concern, and Garibaldi leaves.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin, talking to a doctor on Earth, is outraged to hear that
+they do not have answers to all the questions he asked.  He blows up at
+her, telling her to find the other answers, or else he will do what he
+can before he dies to discredit her.  He shuts off the link, and
+opens his desk again.  This time, he succumbs and injects
+himself with stims.
+
+
    
+Na'Far tries to rally the Narns aboard the station to his way of
+thinking, and tells them that one great victory is better than numerous
+small victories.  He does a good job of persuading them of this, but
+there is one thing that this plan omits that they all want to have.
+
+
    
+
+With three minutes remaining, C&C rushes to get the answers
+transmitted, but Sheridan stops Ivanova, saying that he thinks there is
+something unusual about the situation, namely why a more advanced
+race would wish to give less-advanced races technology beyond their
+own.  He says that wishing to eliminate lesser races, in that
+case, doesn't make any sense.  He proposes that the entire thing is a
+ruse, designed not to destroy races who haven't reached a certain level
+of technological awareness, but rather to destroy races who HAVE, and
+present a threat to the probe's creators.  With only 15 seconds
+remaining, Sheridan orders the information to not be sent.  The probe
+leaves.  Sheridan
+orders all of the answers relayed through a securebot a large distance away
+from the station.  The probe self-destructs, destroying
+both itself and the securebot, but leaving the station intact.  While
+Ivanova tries to get the debris back to the station for study, Sheridan
+laments that he now has to face the Transport Association again.
+
+
    
+As G'Kar leaves the station, he is stopped by the many Narns of the
+resistance, who insist that G'Kar is valued and needed on the station.
+They refuse to let him leave, and though he tries to insist he is
+leaving in order to help them, they will not let him leave.  He reminds
+them that their families may be in jeopardy, but they all realize this
+and are ready to accept what happens if it means the freedom of all
+Narns.  Even Ta'Lon has been convinced to stay and join the Narn
+resistance, and tells G'Kar that only with his help can they eventually
+succeed.  G'Kar agrees to stay aboard the station.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Franklin sit in Earhart's discussing recent events, and
+though Garibaldi apologizes for what he said about the stims, Franklin
+tells him that he does have his use of them under control, since he
+managed to get through the previous days' trials without using them at
+all.  He asks where Ivanova and Sheridan are, and Garibaldi tells him
+not to ask...
+
+
    
+...Because they're embroiled in a Transport Association meeting, this
+one even louder and more disorganized than before.
+
+
    
+Londo and Vir walk together in the docking bay, not saying a word.  As
+Vir boards a ship, he looks back to Londo, who does nothing but nod.
+Vir enters the ship, and Londo turns and walks away.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+As Ivanova and Brother Edward banter over the outcome, Brother Theo and
+Captain Sheridan are engaged in a match of wits over chess and faith.  Just
+as Brother Theo wins at both, Ivanova is called away to meet Ambassador
+Kosh's arriving ship. She has been invited to witness his ship deliver Lyta
+Alexander, the mysterious telepath who had helped the B5 crew find the Psi
+Corps plant in their midst
+("Divided Loyalties").
    
+
+Later, in Sheridan's office, Lyta explains how she had felt drawn to Kosh
+since she touched his mind years before
+("The Gathering").  In a final
+desperate attempt to find the Vorlons, she had herself abandoned in a life
+pod at the edge of Vorlon space.  Although she agrees to submit to a medical
+exam by Franklin, she refuses to tell anything about her experiences after
+the Vorlons rescued her. As Garibaldi sums up for them all,  "Nobody's ever
+been to the Vorlon homeworld, and back again; and yet she goes and comes
+back like she just took a trip to the corner store.  And now she's working
+for Kosh.  Is anyone else as creeped out about this as I am?"
    
+
+In wrapping up business negotiations, Brother Edward explains that the data
+transfer service his order provides is like the manuscript illumination
+of the Middle Ages, namely a means to earn the money they need to continue
+their work of  "learning all the names of God from our non-human brothers."
+As she is about to depart, the woman asks about the black rose that falls
+from the monk's bag, but he is more bewildered by it than she.
    
+
+
+Garibaldi and Delenn watch an ISN anchor report the sentence of  Death of
+Personality for a serial killer.  The Chief explains that this type of
+mindwipe is considered more humane than the death penalty, and that after a
+criminal's memory has been erased, they are programmed to serve the
+community they harmed.
    
+
+In MedLab, Dr. Franklin is intrigued to find that not only is Lyta in
+excellent health, but all her prior chronic and congenital ailments are also
+inexplicably gone.  She manages to get away just as the gleam of fanatic
+inquisitiveness appears in his eyes.
    
+
+Returning to his quarters, Brother Edward is terrified to see "DEATH WALKS
+AMONG YOU" scrawled in blood across the bulkhead.  When he returns with a
+dubious Garibaldi moments later, all signs have vanished. 
    
+
+Londo catches Lyta exiting a transport tube.  He is extremely curious to
+hear what she has seen among the Vorlons.  When bribery fails as an
+enticement, he threatens to apprise the Psi Corps of her presence on B5.
+Her promise to bury a never-ending nightmare in the psyche of anyone who
+turns her in seems to cool his ardor.
    
+
+
+In an interview with Ambassador Delenn and Lennier, Brother Edward asks
+about the Minbari faith.  In return she asks him what the defining moment of
+Christianity is to him personally.  He replies by telling the story of Jesus
+waiting all night in the garden of Gethsemene for the Roman soldiers to
+seize him.  Though he knew what was going to happen and he could have
+escaped, Jesus chose to stay, to sacrifice himself "to atone for the sins of
+others."
    
+
+	"A very fragile human moment," Brother Edward tells Delenn.  "And I've
+often thought about that night, and I honestly don't know if I would
+have had the courage to have stayed."
    
+
+
+Returning home Downbelow, Brother Edward bumps into an odd Centauri.  A
+moment later the corridor is pierced by a woman's scream of terror and
+pain -- and the hideous whine of an electric saw.  Confronted with the same
+bloody message as before, the monk tries to run away, only to watch his
+panicked steps begin splashing through filthy water.  With accusations and
+foreign sirens ringing in his ears, he collapses nearly on top of the corpse
+of a mutilated woman -- one who has a black rose stuffed in her mouth.
    
+
+Brother Theo finds Brother Edward sitting deeply disturbed in his quarters.
+The older monk realizes the futility of his counsel, even as he asks Brother
+Edward to refrain from digging after the source of these waking nightmares.
+His fears are well founded, for the instant Theo is gone, Edward queries the
+computer about the things he has seen, cross-referenced against criminal
+records.
    
+
+
+Quickly assessing the situation, Theo goes directly to Sheridan to enlist
+his aid in tracking down the information before Edward can.  Sheridan is
+astonished to think that the kind, generous man they are all fond of could
+have been an irredeemable serial murderer.  Garibaldi's search turns up that
+the troubled monk was once Charles Dexter, a.k.a. the Black Rose Killer, but
+not before Brother Edward discovers the same.  Security also finds that
+Brother Edward's visions were not just hallucinations, but planted by
+somebody trying to rattle loose the memories of the past.  This suggests to
+Sheridan that the strange Centauri was a telepath.
    
+
+
+Edward waits for Brother Theo to bid him goodbye.  "I am a murderer," he
+says.  "The sins of my former life must be atoned for."  Theo begs him to
+come back into the fold, "If you ask God to forgive your sins, He knows what
+they are even if you've forgotten.  Leave it in His hands!"  But it is to no
+avail.  Edward goes to await his victims' avenger, who has deliberately
+awakened the evil memories.
    
+
+
+Sheridan and Garibaldi attempt to interrogate the Centauri telepath about
+who hired him.  When he smugly refuses to divulge anything, they toss a bag
+over his head, and usher in Lyta, who easily wrenches the location of the
+avenger from his mind.  
    
+
+Once again they are just a little too late though.  By the time they find
+Brother Edward's battered body strung up spread-eagle on a rack, his life is
+nearly dissipated.  Yet he forgives his tormentor.  Finally, he has found
+the answer to his question.  He did have the courage to wait in the garden of
+Gethsemene.  As Edward draws his last breath, Brother Theo administers the
+final sacrament of Extreme Unction, the remission of sins. 
    
+
+The monk's torturer is easily caught and proudly admits to the crime, and
+two weeks later is sentenced to the death of personality.  In the course of
+a conversation about the meaning of revenge and the difficulty of
+forgiveness, Brother Theo asks the Captain to meet the latest addition to
+his order, who is about to be shipped back to the monastery for training.
+It is the young psychopath, looking like sweet, untrammeled innocence.
+Under Brother Theo's reprimand, Sheridan struggles to overcome the bitter
+taste of forgiveness, and gives the newest monk his blessing. 
    
+
+
+After completing an errand for Kosh, Lyta joins him in his chambers.  As she
+faces him, a stream of energy leaps from her eyes and mouth into the glowing
+orifice of his open encounter suit.  It becomes eerily apparent why she has
+no need of a breather in the methane environment.  Puffing and fluttering
+gently on her neck are a set of gills.
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+
+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+While Garibaldi and Zack Allen are walking down the corridor, Ivanova
+calls Garibaldi, telling him there is a code 7-R, and Garibaldi says he
+will be right there.  Zack asks about the code, which he is unfamiliar
+with, but Garibaldi skirts the issue and leaves.
+
+
    
+
+He arrives at the meeting of the Babylon 5 war council where Delenn is
+talking about her ideas for the necessary gathering of new allies for
+the coming war.  "Many times over the last million years," she
+explains, "the Shadows were fought to a standstill by the First Ones,
+races immeasurably older than our own.  After the last war, a thousand
+years ago, we believe the First Ones went away forever, passing beyond
+the galactic rim where no human or Minbari has ever ventured.  But the
+Vorlons remained.  It is possible that some of the others may still be
+around." She explains that some had gone to rest where they would not
+be bothered, while still others walk among the stars on unknown
+errands.  Marcus warns that the First Ones are very old, and possibly
+very dangerous, but Delenn says that they need all the help they can
+get.  Since they must be found and contacted in person, Delenn has invited
+someone else to help: Draal.  He approves of the idea, warning them
+that, though it may be extremely dangerous, it will definitely be
+"fun."
+
+
    
+Draal explains that Epsilon 3 contains stores of information that may
+be helpful in locating the First Ones, though the information about the
+First Ones suggests no one approach their dwelling places.  Sheridan
+agrees to go down to Epsilon 3, sort through the information, and
+discover how they can best proceed next.
+
+
    
+Zack Allen meets Julie Musante, from the Ministry of Peace, in the
+docking bay.  She explains that she will be on the station for a while,
+and would like her bags taken to appropriate quarters.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar approaches Delenn while she shops at a kiosk, and asks how she
+and Minbar are doing.  He expresses concern at the many closed meetings
+with Captain Sheridan she has been attending lately.  She tries to
+explain it away, but when he asks what she knows about Rangers, she
+claims she knows nothing.  G'Kar explains that his contacts speak of
+both human and Minbari Rangers, and she acknowledges that this does
+seem extremely unlikely.  She leaves, but G'Kar promises to figure out
+this puzzle.
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan arrives in his office, where Musante is waiting for him.  She
+explains that she was assigned as a political officer for Babylon 5,
+since some of Sheridan's recent actions haven't been very politically
+astute, and that her position is to help Sheridan make decisions that
+reflect more favorably on the Earth government.  Sheridan says that
+she isn't required on a military outpost, but Musante says that the
+station must answer to the demands of the Earth government.  Sheridan
+refuses to share his authority with her, but she insists her job is
+merely to advise, and that the final decision has already been made.
+She sets up a dinner date with him to learn more about the station and
+recent events, and he tells her that, though he has a previous
+engagement, he will attend.  He calls Ivanova at C&C and tells her that
+she will have to go to Epsilon 3 in his place.
+
+
    
+Zack shows Musante to her quarters, and she explains that it will be
+his job to tell her everything she needs to know that Sheridan deigns
+not to tell her.  Since he is a member of the Night Watch, he has
+priorities as well that must be fulfilled.
+
+
    
+When Ivanova arrives on Epsilon 3, Draal is at first angered by the
+surprise, but she manages to convince him that surprises can be good
+things.  He laughs, deciding he likes her, and ushers her further into
+the complex.
+
+
    
+
+At dinner with Musante, Sheridan tries to convince her that the
+Centauri will continue to move in on the League of Non-Aligned Worlds,
+but Musante insists that Earth would never align with a hostile
+government.  She tells Sheridan he should find ways to express these
+concerns without causing problems on Earth.  She tells him that Earth
+has managed to solve most of its problems, since all of the trouble on
+Earth with poverty, the homeless, criminals, and prejudice are caused
+by those who refuse to work and those who are mentally unstable.  She
+explains that, sometimes, the only way to deal with problems is to
+redefine them.  Sheridan accuses her of ignoring the problems, but she
+says it isn't necessary to point out society's flaws to their leaders,
+and that anyone that does so is a troublemaker and unpatriotic.  She
+says that these are examples of the things she wants to help Sheridan
+with, and that she only wants to help Earth and protect Babylon 5.  She
+says that she doesn't want to see him hurt and that she could come to
+like him...  quite a lot.
    
+
+
    
+
+Draal and Ivanova approach the matrix, where Draal's physical body
+rests within.  The image of Draal vanishes, and he removes his body
+from the matrix.  Ivanova puts hers in.  He tells her to relax and open
+her mind.  "But whatever you do, do not stray from the Path."
+
+
    
+Ivanova finds herself travelling through the depths of space.  "I can't
+breathe."
+
+
    
+"It's all right," Draal tells her.  "Try to calm your mind.  Focus.
+All life forms are connected.  Look for the Path.  Look for the Path."
+
    
+
+
    
+
+"I see it," she says as a strange ribbon of blue begins to form before
+her eyes.
+
+
    
+"It is the power that binds us, one to another, across the darkness of
+space.  Focus on the First Ones, on the most ancient of ancients.  Let
+the Path take you to them."
+
+
    
+As Draal speaks, the Path becomes more and more solid and visible, and
+Ivanova begins her journey upon it.  After a few moments, she arrives
+at a familiar planet.  "I know this place... I've seen it on the star
+charts.  Sigma 957.  They were here.  I can feel their footprints in
+the sand.  Hear their words... whispered on the wind."  She travels
+around the planet, seeing it from all sides, and it seems to change,
+some of it nearly vanishing into surrounding space, while other, more
+mysterious forms come to its surface.  "It's beautiful.  They're coming
+back again... soon.  I can... Draal? Draal, something's wrong.  Draal,
+I'm not alone."  She looks away from the planet.  It sees me.  It knows
+I'm here.  It... It's pulling me in.  Can't stop it."  In the fabric of
+space, four points of light, which look very much like eyes, begin to
+form and approach her.
+
+
    
+"It is the enemy," Draal warns.  Pull away!  Go back to the Path!"
+
+
    
+"I can't.  It... It knows I'm here.  It knows my name!"
+
+
    
+"Break off!  I can't pull you off without killing you.  Pull away!
+Don't look at it!"  Ivanova succeeds in looking away just as the
+fingers of light are about to reach her, while still others appear, as
+if they were reinforcements.
+
+
    
+"That's it," Draal tells her as the image ends.  "Come back now..."
+
+
    
+"Wait... there's something else," Ivanova says as she finds herself in
+a new new place, orbiting Jupiter, over a year ago.  "That's EarthForce
+1 before it exploded!  I can warn them!  I can save the President!"
+
+
    
+"No, it's too late.  You're seeing the shadow of things long gone."
+
+
    
+
+The image freezes, and a new one appears, drenched in static.  It is
+the form of Vice-President Clark, sitting at a desk.  "I have wanted
+Santiago dead for so long," he says.  "I wasn't sure we could really
+pull it off.  You're sure it's done?"
+
+
    
+Another voice, a deep male voice, that of Morden, responds.
+"EarthForce 1 will never return from Io.  The power is now yours,
+Clark.  Mr.... President."
+
+
    
+This image vanishes in a sea of static, and Ivanova once again sees
+herself above Jupiter watching EarthForce 1 explode.  She turns her
+head away, and the image ends.  Draal helps her out of the machine.
+
+
    
+"I do not understand!  A normal human mind should not have been able to
+do that!"
+
+
    
+"I saw it... I saw it all," she tells him.  "The image I saw... the
+message.  Can you record it?"
+
+
    
+"Yes, but how..."
+
+
    
+"Do it, please.  It's the proof we've needed that President Santiago
+was assassinated, that Clark was behind everything.  We've got it.
+We've got it."
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan takes Musante into his quarters, where he fixes her a drink.
+While he is busy, she takes the opportunity to undress, and comes over
+to him.  He tries to refuse her advances, but changes his mind and
+lunges into a deep kiss with her when an image of Ivanova appears.  She
+soon vanishes when she sees what she interrupted, and Sheridan breaks
+out of the embrace.  He quickly enters another room, where Ivanova is
+waiting.  She tells him that she knows where the First Ones are, but
+they will have to hurry.  He says he is occupied, but tells her to
+contact Garibaldi.  She begins to tell him about Clark's message, but
+doesn't have time.  Musante calls out to him, and Ivanova knows she has
+to leave.  "Good luck, Captain.  I think you're about to go where
+everyone has gone before."  She vanishes just as Musante enters.  Musante
+is quite perplexed when he hurries out again.
+
+
    
+G'Kar approaches Garibaldi, asking where Ivanova is, and Garibaldi tells
+him that she was called away on urgent business.  G'Kar prods Garibaldi
+further, but he won't say anything, which incenses G'Kar.  He asks
+Garibaldi if what the Centauri have done has removed from him the
+respect he has earned, since he can't get a straight answer from
+anyone.  G'Kar says that, though the two of them had never been
+friends, they had also never been strangers.  Garibaldi says that he
+doesn't know anything that could help out him or the Narns.  G'Kar
+tells him that perhaps he can help Garibaldi instead, and rushes off.
+
+
    
+Zack approaches Musante, who is eating her breakfast.  He asks how her
+meeting with Sheridan went.  "When it comes to your union situation
+here," she tells Zack, "he must be a very good negotiator.  I've never
+seen anyone come up with so many creative ways of saying 'no' to a
+simple proposition."  Zack says that he prefers saying yes, but doesn't
+get much further.  She tells him that she has called a meeting to go
+over political protocol, and that she expects him to be there.  He
+leaves, but Garibaldi, sitting nearby, has seen the entire exchange.
+
+
    
+Ivanova arrives on the bridge of the White Star, expecting to see
+Lennier, but finding Marcus instead.  He explains that he speaks
+Minbari, and she tells him to set course for Sigma 957.
+
+
    
+
+Musante addresses the members of the Night Watch, telling them that,
+from this point on, it is no longer appropriate for EarthForce
+personnel to publically criticize the government or its decisions, and
+that Night Watch investigations have been expanded to include past
+associations.  Several members of the Night Watch, including Zack, seem
+distressed by this, but she explains that, in the future, certain
+individuals in the government will be expelled under charges of
+sedition, spying for alien governments, and immoral conduct.  "With our
+basic freedoms at stake, no response can be too extreme."  She says
+that the "abridgements" of traditional rights are only temporary and that
+everyone will have to do their part to keep Earth "safe and
+ideologically pure."
+
+
    
+
+The White Star arrives at Sigma 957, finding nothing.  Marcus tells Ivanova
+that there is nothing to do but wait, and that she should take time out
+for herself occasionally.  Ivanova gets angry at him talking about her
+personal life, but is interrupted with a sensor beep.  The space near
+Sigma 957 fills with a web of energy, from the center of which
+springs an enormous black vessel, with many strangely-shaped
+protusions, and covered in dancing lights of all colors.  As the ship
+approaches, the White Star's energy begins to drain, and as they move
+away, a small stream of energy extends toward them.  On the bridge, an
+image of one of the First Ones appears, and Ivanova tells it of their
+situation.  Though it registers no comprehension of what she is saying,
+when she mentions that they have sided with the Vorlons, the figure is
+not happy.  She asks for their help fighting the Shadows, but the image
+vanishes as the First Ones consider their decision.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Garibaldi watch the recording of Clark's transmission with
+Morden.  Sheridan is excited that they finally have the proof they
+need, but Garibaldi asks what they can do with it, without raising too
+many questions.  Sheridan says he will send it to General Hague, and
+with built-in security measures assuring the recording's validity, the
+evidence will finally put them where they need to be.
+
+
    
+
+The waiting continues, and eventually the First Ones reach their
+verdict: "Zog."  When the ship begins to move away, Ivanvoa and Marcus
+interpret it to mean no.  Ivanova insists that she will not let them
+leave until they agree to help, and a sarcastic comment from Marcus
+gives her an idea.  She opens a comm channel and tells the First Ones
+that the Vorlons said that they wouldn't be up for a fight, and that they are
+not needed to help.  "Come to think of it, we've got the Vorlons.  We
+really don't need much more help, do we?"  As she continues to praise
+the Vorlons, the First Ones become more and more angry.  She promises
+to move away and let them know when the fighting is over.  The First
+Ones seem to get more and more angry, but eventually the previous image
+of the First Ones reappears.  "When it is time, come to this place.
+Call our name.  We will be here."  The ship vanishes, leaving the
+White Star alone.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and the rest of his security team watch an ISN broadcast
+about the release of evidence linking Clark to Santiago's death; the
+Senate is opening investigations.  Garibaldi tells the team to try to keep
+everything under control, and says that Musante has been recalled to Earth.
+Zack especially is unable to grasp the idea of an assassination, but
+Garibaldi is in no mood to hear it, since he knows that Zack told her
+more than he should.  He says that, after what happened earlier, it was
+a long time before he could trust anyone.  Zack says that Garibaldi
+doesn't trust him, since code 7-R doesn't exist.  Zack asks him what is
+really going on.  "Night Watch says the only people who have to worry
+are the ones with something to hide," Zack says.  Garibaldi asks
+him if he has a charge to make, but Zack says he doesn't, and that he's
+walking a tightrope, and that he doesn't know what to do.  Zack
+leaves, telling Garibaldi not to talk to him for the rest of the day.
+
+
    
+Ivanova reports the events of the mission to Sheridan, who tells her
+that they will need all the First Ones they can find.  She asks about
+the situation with President Clark, and Sheridan tells her that
+everything is a mess, but the truth has been released.
+
+
    
+Zack escorts Musante to the docking bay.  She tells him that she
+doesn't expect to be gone very long and that this situation is exactly
+what she hoped to avoid.  Zack asks her about code 7-R, but she tells
+him she never heard of it.  She hears the boarding call for her ship,
+and says she needs to go, promising that they will find who is
+responsible and punish them.
+
+
    
+
+Late at night, Garibaldi is asleep when he is awakened by his door
+chime.  He groggily turns the lights up low, gets up, and answers the
+door, to find G'Kar there.  "I told you I could help," he says,
+thrusting a large tome into Garibaldi's hands.  "The Book of G'Quan.
+Read it.  We'll talk afterward."
+
+
    
+"I... I don't read Narn," Garibaldi protests.
+
+
    
+"Learn!"  G'kar says as he leaves hastily.
+
+
    
+"He hates me," Garibaldi says to himself as he makes his way back to
+bed.  "They all hate me.  That's why they're doing this.  To make...
+me... crazy." He flops onto his bed, issuing one last command before he
+goes to sleep.  "Lights."
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan approaches a store owner who is having an argument with a
+member of the Night Watch.  The member of Night Watch says that the
+store owner, who has been hanging signs expressing his negative
+feelings about President Clark, is committing acts of sedition.
+Sheridan tries to calm him down, and says that the shopkeeper has a right to his
+opinion.  He warns the Night Watch officer that, if such harassment happens
+again, the responsible party will be disciplined.
+
+
    
+Ivanova arrives in Garibaldi's office to receive a message from the
+PsiCop Bester, who will be arriving on Babylon 5 in seven hours.  He
+claims that there is an individual on board who may be a danger to the
+station, Earth, and the PsiCorps.  Garibaldi tells her that he thinks
+this visit, like Bester's others, is merely a ploy to check up on them.  It
+turns out that Bester's concerns may be justified, for a crazed man,
+shouting, "The mountain is falling on me," is attacking people elsewhere on
+the station.
+
+
    
+Sheridan warns the other members of the Babylon 5 war council that
+Bester will soon be on the station.  He tells them that, with the
+current state of the station and everything that has been going on,
+they can't afford to be scanned by Bester, who might not obey PsiCorps
+regulations.  Garibaldi suggests killing him if he learns too much, but
+Sheridan won't hear of it.  Delenn tells everyone that, although risky,
+there may be an alternative to violence.
+
+
    
+
+Vir arrives off a transport to meet Londo in the docking bay.  After
+exchanging a few pleasantries, Londo asks Vir to tell him everything
+about his trip.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin, in MedLab, is treating the man who had the crazed fits
+earlier when a nurse comes in with one of his victims, who nearly died
+in avalanche several months earlier.  Since the crazed man had been
+shouting about a mountain falling on him, Dr. Franklin asks him to be
+tested for traces of Dust.
+
+
    
+When Bester's transport arrives at the station, Ivanova orders everyone
+off the command deck so that she can perform a maintenance routine, but
+she has other ideas in mind.  "They don't know you, your kind, the way
+I do," she says to herself.  "They don't understand, they think it's
+some kind of a joke.  But nothing works with you people.  Nothing but
+force.  Computer, activate forward defense grid.  We can't risk
+throwing it all away, not because of you.  I've been saying it for
+weeks now... The defense grid's been acting funny.  Defense grid,
+prepare to fire.  Fire!"
+
+
    
+"Belay that order," shouts Sheridan, who entered unbeknownst to Ivanova.
+He manages to convince her that this would be throwing away her career,
+and that she would become exactly what she hates most.  He
+deactivates the defense grid and tells the computer to begin docking
+manuevers.
+
+
    
+
+After his ship docks, Bester comes aboard the station, and is taken to
+Sheridan's office, where Sheridan and the others are waiting, each with
+a Minbari standing by them.  Sheridan introduces them as Minbari
+telepaths, who he has brought to level the playing field.  He tells
+Bester that he doesn't trust him, and blames him for what happened with
+Talia Winters.  Bester tries to bait Garibaldi on that topic, but isn't
+successful.  Ivanova explains
+that, while a human telepath couldn't block a PsiCop's scan, a group of
+Minbari telepaths can.  Franklin gives him the choice of either
+taking the sleeper drugs to suppress his telepathic abilities, or to
+put up with the Minbari telepaths.  Bester chooses to submit to an
+injection of sleepers.
    
+
+
    
+
+Londo, Vir, Delenn, Lennier, and the Drazi ambassador and his aide are
+meeting together to try to solve the dispute between the Centauri and
+the Drazi.  Londo explains that the Centauri Republic wants a buffer
+zone of seven planets, which is five more than he originally wanted.
+This angers the Drazi ambassador, but Londo is unwilling to say
+anymore, and tells the Drazi ambassador that, if he isn't careful, what
+happened to the Narn homeworld might happen to the Drazi homeworld as
+well.  Londo and the Drazi leave, leaving Vir alone with Delenn and
+Lennier.  He thanks them for supporting his visit to Minbar, and
+suggests that Londo might do well to visit as well.  Delenn and Lennier
+are unsure that that would help, but Vir insists that he knows there is
+more to Londo than meets the eye.
+
+
    
+Bester explains to the command staff that he has come aboard the
+station to find one of the main distributors of Dust, a drug which
+allows the user to activate his or her latent telepathic gene, allowing
+them to invade others' minds, living their life for several hours.  It
+is highly addictive, and more is required each time to achieve the
+affect.  When a telepath is read by someone using Dust, he almost never
+recovers.  Bester explains that he believes that the seller wants to
+sell the Dust to alien governments to use as a weapon, and that that is
+what the Corps is worried about.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar tells Lindstrom, the Dust dealer, that their agreement called for
+no selling of Dust while he was delivering it to G'Kar.  G'Kar promises
+to pay him, when he learns that it works as advertised.  Lindstrom
+presents G'Kar with a small packet of Dust, which G'Kar explains he wants
+to use as a weapon.  Lindstrom tells him that the drug was designed for
+human telepaths, and might not work on the Narn, whose telepaths and
+their families had been exterminated many generations earlier.  G'Kar
+tells Lindstrom they will continue business after the Dust has been
+tested, but Lindstrom warns him that it 
+could be dangerous.  G'Kar doesn't care, and sends him on his way.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Bester are walking together through a crowded area.  Bester
+explains that he wishes to protect Earth just as Garibaldi wishes to
+protect Babylon 5.  Bester says it is his job to protect the human race
+from threats that only the Corps can stop.  He says they may be the only
+chance that the human race has for survival.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar sits crumpled on the floor of his quarters, the empty Dust packet
+sitting nearby.  He croaks out the word "Mollari," and leaves his
+quarters.  He sees and hears the world around him differently while he
+is under the effects of the drug, picking up the stray thoughts of
+those that walk by him, and he is scarcely able to control their effect
+on him.  But, he does manage to make his way through the station
+slowly, toward his destination.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Bester are interrogating one of the more powerful members
+of Babylon 5's underground about what he knows about the Dust dealer.
+When the man, Ashi, claims he doesn't know anything, Bester says that
+he's lying, explaining that strong emotions cause him to blurt out
+things like that sometimes, though the information can't be used officially.
+Ashi explains that he was approached by a man with numerous crates of Dust,
+but that he wouldn't help handle them.  He tells Garibaldi that the man has
+quarters in Red Sector, that he is using the assumed name Morgenstern,
+and that he has a shipment coming in this afternoon.  Garibaldi sends
+the man away with two other security officers, and then asks Bester how
+he was able to read the man's thoughts.  Bester explains that his
+uniform gives him a power over others -- whether or not he can read their
+thoughts, they believe he can.  Garibaldi accuses him of using it
+merely for intimidation, but Bester is quick to point out to Garibaldi
+that his uniform, too, can be used for that purpose.
+
+
    
+Londo tells Vir that the report he is planning to send to the Centarum
+is not appropriate, and that it demonstrates great political naivete.
+Vir tries to explain his point of view, but Londo will not listen to
+anything he has to say, only allowing Vir to leave in his explanation
+of Minbari spirituality.  Londo's door chimes, and Vir goes to
+answer it, but is accosted and rendered unconcious by G'Kar, who then
+enters Londo's quarters, a look of fire in his eyes.
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi and Bester hide behind a large crate in a storage room,
+hoping that they will be able to catch the dealer and the evidence all
+at the same time, according to due process, which Garibaldi accuses
+Bester of ignoring all too frequently.  Several men enter the room, and
+begin their dealings for the Dust.  Garibaldi speaks into his link
+quickly, and a shrill siren fills the room, dropping all of the men to
+their knees, while Garibaldi confiscates the Dust.  Several other
+security officers enter and cart off the men involved in the deal.
+
+
    
+Londo, bleeding and unable to move, finds G'Kar standing over him, and
+tries to make an offer to him.  G'Kar, still under the effects of the
+Dust, takes a trip into the depths of Londo's mind...
+
+
    
+...He finds himself seeing Londo being assigned to Babylon 5, and
+learns that Londo
+was appointed to his position of Ambassador only because there was no
+one else who wanted it.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar takes great pleasure, while inside Londo's head, in tormenting him
+about this fact.  Londo begs G'Kar to leave his mind, but G'Kar refuses,
+demanding that Londo show him all of the secrets he has been holding
+in.  He delves further into Londo's mind...
+
+
    
+...This time seeing the meeting Londo had with Morden in the garden
+just before President Santiago's death.
+
+
    
+G'Kar reacts very strongly to this, finally learning that it was
+Londo who was behind the plight of the Narn.  G'Kar demands to know who he
+was working with, but Londo refuses to tell him.  Infuriated, G'Kar rips the
+information he wants from his mind.  The resulting montage of images is
+so strong that it thrusts him out of Londo's mind, and into his own...
+
    
+
+
    
+
+...G'Kar finds himself back on the Narn homeworld, many years earlier,
+witnessing the death of his father.  His father asks him to honor his name
+right before he dies.  The image ends, and G'Kar hears a voice.  He turns
+around...
+
+
    
+...To find an old Narn standing before him.  The old Narn tells G'Kar
+that both the
+Narn and the Centauri are a dying people, and that they cannot simply
+fight forever, until both races have been exterminated.  Once that
+happens, there can be no winners or losers.  G'Kar says that he made a
+promise to his father to honor his father's name, but the old Narn asks
+him to reexamine how he should go about that.  He tells G'Kar that, if
+they are a dying race, they should die with honor, and no longer devote
+their life to fighting and hatred.  "We are fighting to save one
+another.  And some of us must be sacrificed," he tells G'Kar, "if all
+are to be saved.  Because if we fail in this, then none of us will be
+saved, and the Narn will be only a memory."  The old Narn vanishes, but
+G'Kar is not alone for long...
+
+
    
+...A strange voice fills his thoughts.  "You have the opportunity, here
+and now, to choose.
+To become something greater and nobler and more difficult than you have
+been before.  The universe does not offer such chances often, G'Kar."
+
+
    
+"Why now?"  G'Kar asks.  "Why not earlier?  All this time... Where have
+you been?"
+
+
    
+"I have always been here," the voice replies.  G'Kar finally sees its
+source as the sound of flapping wings fills his mind.  G'Kar spins
+around to see the white, glowing figure of G'Lan rise up and fly into the
+distance.
+
+
    
+Once G'Lan has vanished, G'Kar can only sit and sob, with the
+unconcious Londo nearby.  Neither of them notice another visitor, Kosh,
+who soon takes his leave.
+
+
    
+
+While Vir visits Londo, who is just regaining conciousness in MedLab,
+G'Kar faces the ombuds who is presiding over the hearing where he is being
+tried for his crimes.  After G'Kar pleads guilty, Sheridan tries to
+convince the ombuds that G'Kar's actions were caused by the Dust, and
+therefore, not his fault.  She disagrees, saying that the fact that he went
+to Londo's quarters, constitutes premeditation.  She sentences him to a
+term of no less than 60 days in the station's prison facilities.
+Garibaldi approaches G'Kar and offers him the Book of G'Quan, which
+G'Kar had loaned him, but G'Kar asks him to keep it, since he himself
+is now "somewhat closer to the source."
+
+
    
+After being released from MedLab, Londo and Vir speak of the last few
+days' events, but Vir explains that he must leave that night.  Londo
+tells him that he should never allow the Centauri government to make a
+joke of him or his work.  Vir promises that he won't.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi escorts Bester to the docking bay, and though Bester has enjoyed
+working with Garibaldi, the feeling isn't mutual.  When another PsiCop
+arrives for Bester, Garibaldi makes a hasty exit.  As they walk away,
+Bester says that he knew the original purpose of Dust, to create
+telepaths from those without latent skill, would never work, but that
+at least he has retrieved it; it's back among humans, where it belongs.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar sits alone in his prison cell, quietly thinking, and remembering
+the words he heard the old Narn speak to him, while under the effect of
+the Dust.  "We are fighting to save one another.  And some of us must
+be sacrificed, if all are to be saved."
+
    
+
+
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+While a man and a woman meet a docking ship, Sheridan, Ivanova,
+Garibaldi, and Franklin are celebrating in Earheart's with many other
+officers Corwin's promotion from lieutenant J.G. to full lieutenant.
+Garibaldi asks why Marcus wasn't invited, but Ivanova explains that,
+since Earheart's is for Earth Alliance personnel only, it wasn't
+appropriate for him to be invited.  Sheridan agrees with her, saying
+it's probably best if he keeps a low profile.
+
+
    
+Things are not quite as celebratory, however, in Downbelow, where a
+lurker is screaming in pain while a strange small creature, resembling
+a scorpion, burrows itself into his back while the man and the woman
+who met the incoming ship earlier stand over him, watching
+expectantly.  They go over to him after it has integrated itself into
+him, but are dismayed because their plan didn't work.  Security is on
+its way, so they quickly take their leave.
+
+
    
+In C&C, Sheridan speaks with Ivanova privately about Corwin, and
+whether or not he should be indoctrinated into their group working
+against the Earth government.  He asks her to meet with Corwin to
+determine whether or not he would be a good choice.
+
+
    
+
+Marcus runs into a friend of his, Duncan, who works in a bazaar.  They
+speak for a few moments, and though Marcus tries to convince the sickly
+Duncan to see a physician, he refuses.  Marcus promises to see him
+again soon.
+
+
    
+During Dr. Franklin's medical staff meeting, one of the other doctors
+reports the unexplainable death of a man the previous night.
+Franklin, wanting to determine the cause, asks that the body be brought to
+MedLab 1.
    
+
+
    
+
+Marcus is meeting with some of his informants, one of whom tells him
+that the Shadows are beginning to gather around sector 800, on the
+border of Centauri space, and that a package Marcus ordered will arrive
+within a week.  Marcus tells him to learn whatever he can about the
+Shadow buildup.  Marcus speaks with someone else who tells him
+that one of his primary liaisons is no longer interested in working
+with him.  Marcus goes to pay the man a visit.
    
+
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin begins his analysis of the dead body, and while he finds
+evidence of drugs, he can't find any other possible cause of death.
+The computer, however, completes its scan, and finds one neural
+anomaly.  Franklin asks to see it, and the computer displays it: it is
+the creature that entered the man earlier, and it is wrapped around his
+spinal column.  Franklin prepares to open up the patient.
+
+
    
+Marcus finds his contact, Samuel, who seems to be in fine health, but
+has no further interest in working with Marcus, or explaining why he no
+longer wishes to do so.  Marcus is quite suspicious about this, but
+leaves anyway.
+
+
    
+While Franklin completes the autopsy, finding a small, worm-like
+creature in the dead man, the man and the woman seen earlier, with
+Samuel, stand over the body of Duncan as yet another creature bores its
+way into his back.
+
+
    
+
+Franklin finishes studying the biomass, discovering that it is 100%
+genetically neutral, meaning it can exist in any life form.  He begins
+working to discover if it came from the station itself, or if it was
+brought there by someone else.
+
+
    
+Marcus arrives back at the bazaar, trying to find Duncan, and is quite
+perplexed when he is unable to do so.  He speeks to another merchant,
+who says that she saw Duncan earlier, but hasn't in a while.
+
+
    
+Alone in C&C, Ivanova tells Corwin that, since he has been promoted, it
+might be a good idea for them to talk and get to know each other
+better.  Though somewhat apprehensive, Corwin agrees, suggesting they
+meet in the mess hall, but Ivanova suggests a more private venue: her
+quarters.  This startles him further, but he nonetheless agrees.
+
+
    
+
+Marcus tries to explain to Garibaldi that the recent string of
+disappearances might be a sign of a problem, but since no crime has
+been committed, Garibaldi says there's nothing he can do.  Marcus gets
+angry at Garibaldi, claiming that he should look beyond protocol and
+see what might be a serious problem, but this only angers Garibaldi
+further.  Garibaldi tells him that, if they are acting strangely, they
+should speak to a doctor, but it isn't his jurisdiction.  So, Marcus
+speaks to Dr. Franklin who, at first agitated, eventually agrees to go
+with him to investigate the problem.
+
+
    
+Corwin approaches a flower vendor, and tries to explain his situation,
+with some difficulty, since he isn't sure himself what the situation
+is.  Coming to the conclusion that he has a date with someone
+aggressive, the flower vendor gives him a large bouquet of synthetic
+roses, saying that no woman is ever offended by roses, except by their
+absence.  Corwin agrees, and pays 40 credits for them.
+
+
    
+Franklin and Marcus go to Duncan's quarters, but despite their
+incessant paging, he doesn't answer.  Franklin reluctantly uses his
+medical override to open the door, and Marcus rushes in, finding
+something troubling inside.  Franklin joins him, where they see that a
+strange substance has eaten through one of the walls.  Marcus goes
+through the hole it created, and Franklin follows.  It leads out into a
+hall, where there is another man on the ground, with another creature
+absorbing into his back.  Franklin rushes to help him, but is stopped
+and held at gunpoint by a group of those previously affected.
+
+
    
+
+Franklin and Marcus, in a makeshift prison cell, talk about the
+situation, while Franklin explains the parasitic being he examined.  He
+warns that they could take over the whole station, but Marcus doesn't
+understand why the creatures would take over the lurkers 
+rather than the crew.  Franklin tries to get some of the
+others to help the fallen man, but they refuse to do anything.  He
+tries to explain that the creatures are controlling them, but they say
+nothing.  Franklin asks if they can understand him, and one of them
+explains that the man will stay there until they are finished, saying
+that Franklin's safety may be in jeopardy should he try to interfere.
+Franklin backs further into the cell, telling Marcus that they need to
+escape, which might be difficult, since two of their three captors have
+firearms.  Marcus says that all they need to do is to get one of them
+to leave, which will even up the odds.  Franklin doesn't understand
+this, but knows that, since Marcus told Garibaldi of their plan, he
+will be there soon.  It turns out, however, that Marcus did in fact not
+inform him.  They are on their own.
    
+
+
    
+
+Corwin arrives in Ivanova's quarters, bearing the bouquet of roses.
+It's quickly clear she doesn't consider the meeting a date;
+desperate to not look foolish he claims to have found the flowers lying
+outside.  She says that it is silly to spend money on high-priced
+synthetics, but that she finds it romantic, and confides in him that
+she has a weakness for roses.  She thanks him for keeping them out of
+someone else's hands, but definitely wants to find out who brought them
+to her.
+
+
    
+Duncan arrives at Franklin and Marcus's prison, and tries to explain
+his situation, and how he was helped.  He says that he was Duncan, but
+is now part of another species, the Vindrizi, and warns Marcus that he
+will hurt Marcus if he interferes.  The part of him that was
+Duncan doesn't want that to happen.  Duncan invites them to view the
+process, but all Franklin understands is that the Vindrizi seem to kill
+everyone they inhabit.  Duncan tells him that only certain humans are
+suitable for a merger, and that the Vindrizi want only to save lives,
+and that there is no other way.
+
+
    
+Ivanova gives Corwin a cup of real coffee, which she grows in the
+hydroponic gardens, counter to regulations.  She explains that sometimes
+you have to bend the rules to get what you want, and Corwin agrees
+saying that, if it doesn't hurt anyone, or is good for Earth, he has no
+complaints.  She asks him what he does if his orders conflict with what
+is good for Earth.  Corwin tells her that everything will fall apart if
+the chain of command isn't obeyed.  He says that, if he saw someone
+trying to gather officers to act against EarthDome, he would report
+them, and asks if there is anyone she wants him to watch.  She says the
+question is merely hypothetical, asked only to learn where everyone
+stands.  She thanks him for coming, says good night to him, and he
+leaves.
+
+
    
+
+Still in their prison, Marcus asks Franklin about Ivanova, and if he
+has done something to offend her.  Franklin assures him that it just
+takes her time to get to know someone, and that she hasn't adjusted to
+him yet.  Marcus says that he is looking forward to finding out more
+about her.  Franklin finds it funny that they are talking about this
+in their situation.  As Franklin begins to
+convince Marcus that he isn't her type, several of the Vindrizi-inhabited
+lurkers arrive and take Franklin away, saying that one of them is ill,
+and that they need his medical expertise.  They take him to a room
+where a lurker is on the table, dying.  Franklin tries to convince them
+that the only way to save him is to remove the Vindrizi from him, but
+they will not accept no for an answer saying that, should he not help,
+he will be directly responsible for the man's death.
+
+
    
+Marcus, alone in his prison, notices that the odds are now two
+against one.  With the odds even as he sees it, he convinces one of the
+guards that a small device sitting on the table is actually a vital
+medical device that Franklin needs.  Marcus instructs him on the use
+the device, which turns out to be his retracting pole; the guard knocks
+himself out with it.
+Marcus is able to defeat the other guard easily, and escapes his
+cell.  He finds Franklin's hand link, and tries to use it, but the
+computer won't let him, since he isn't Franklin.  He grabs his pole
+and runs off, while Ivanova, who detected the attempted use of
+Franklin's link, sends security to brown 84 to find the culprit.
+
+
    
+Marcus easily defeats a guard patrolling the hallway.
+He grabs the guard's weapon, and quickly finds Franklin.
+He grabs Franklin away from the Vindrizi.
+The Vindrizi try to convince Franklin to continue helping the lurker, but
+Marcus decides to try to talk to them in order to get away safely.
+When he tries to threaten the Vindrizi, he is interrupted by Duncan,
+who begs him not to do what he's doing.  Marcus asks what sort of a
+life Duncan will have if he is forced to remain merged with a creature.
+Duncan explains that he and the others weren't taken over, but
+volunteered.
+
+
    
+While Garibaldi and other security officers mobilize to search the
+sector, Duncan explains that the Vindrizi were created over a hundred
+thousand years ago to be living records of history, bearing evidence of
+planets, cultures, and civilizations that will exist long after the
+other races have died and all other knowledge has been destroyed or
+forgotten.  The only way the Vindrizi can survive is to take
+over the bodies of other races.  They choose those near death, so that
+they may have new life and a purpose, which they may not have had
+before.  Marcus says that he doesn't trust the Duncan he sees now -- only
+the one he knew.  As if by request, the Vindrizi inside Duncan thrusts
+its way out of him and scurries away.  Duncan explains that his life,
+before the Vindrizi, was destined to be completed in Downbelow, but,
+when merged, he saw and knew things that he had never dreamed of before.
+After the explanation, Franklin agrees to help the Vindrizi, but only if he can
+be assured that he can approve all volunteers, and that they all agree
+to it beforehand.  The Vindrizi agree, and Franklin calls Garibaldi,
+informing him of his location, and ordering a medical team.  Marcus
+tries to apologize to Duncan, but it does no good.  Duncan is sad at
+all he has lost, but apparently bears no ill will.
+
+
    
+Ivanova approaches Sheridan in C&C.  Sheridan indicates toward Corwin,
+without saying a word, as if asking what her analysis of his potential
+was.  She shakes her head, and they both look away sadly.
+
+
    
+
+Marcus catches up with Duncan in the docking bay, just as he is about
+to leave.  Marcus tries to convince him not to, but Duncan insists he
+must.  In the time while he was inhabited by the Vindrizi, he learned
+that he was special, and he wants to go out and find things that might
+make him feel that way again.  Marcus again apologizes, but Duncan says
+that he realizes he did what he did only because he cared, and tells
+Marcus that he realizes that maybe everyone should become special
+before it's too late.  Duncan tells Marcus that maybe, when he finds
+what he's looking for, he'll return.  Duncan boards his ship,
+leaving Marcus alone.
+
+
    
+Back in Earheart's, Franklin explains that so far, everything the
+Vindrizi told him is the truth.  Garibaldi asks what Franklin thinks of
+Marcus; Franklin says Marcus did a good job,
+and tells Ivanova that Marcus might appreciate a second chance with
+her.  "That's it," she says to herself.  "He must have sent them!"  She
+quickly excuses herself and rushes out.
+
+
    
+Bearing the bouquet of synthetic roses, she marches forcefully through
+the station, finally arriving at a table where Marcus is eating.  She
+thrusts the roses down on the table in front of him, haltingly ordering
+him to "Keep 'em," before marching away again.
+
+
    
+"Thank you," he calls after her.  "I will!"  He picks up the bouquet
+admiringly.  "Well, I guess there's hope for us after all!"
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is griping about having to eat the same breakfast every day for
+three years when an attractive covered plate arrives for Ivanova with a
+little note attached.  To everyone's astonishment it turns out to be fresh
+eggs and bacon which Marcus has miraculously managed to smuggle aboard as a
+surprise thank you gift.  As he and Sheridan drool, Susan swears to get even
+for this when she can find Marcus.
+
+
    
+
+At the moment however, Marcus is trying very hard not to be found, or
+to be beaten up.  He is busily fending off five or six men attacking
+him and a woman in DownBelow.  He succeeds, but just barely and the woman is
+knocked out.
+
+
    
+The daily routine continues but in the background ISN reports new
+evidence regarding President Clark and the assassination of his predecessor
+("Hunter, Prey,")
+and that a newly discovered alien race is a threat to
+planetary security
+("Matters of Honor.")
+Marcus' charge appears to be safe
+in Medlab, but Marcus warns Dr. Franklin that she is the target of assassins.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi checks up on G'Kar in his cell
+("Dust to Dust,")
+and finds him
+in fine spirits. The former ambassador is using his incarceration to reflect
+and write about the recent experiences of the Narn so that past mistakes might
+be corrected.  He is pleased to hear that Garibaldi has begun to read The
+Book of G'Quan and says he will let Garibaldi read his book when it is done.
+The meeting is cut short when Garibaldi is called away to a War Council
+where his "package" has arrived.
    
+
+
    
+
+The package turns out to be the woman Marcus has been protecting, Dr.
+Mary Kirkish of Interplanetary Expeditions (whose slogan is "Exploring
+the past to create a better future.")  She tells the Council that she had
+been working at a Syria Planum site on Mars seven years ago where her team had
+discovered an alien ship like the one shown recently on ISN.  They dug most
+of it up and then were ordered to leave.  From the secondary base camp they
+watched unmarked shuttles fly to the site.
    
+
+
    
+
+Then one night another alien
+ship flew to the site and finished digging up the buried ship, then descended
+into the dig site, from which a nerve-wrenching screech was soon heard.  Both
+the ships rose into the air and
+flew away.  Since then, one by one, the other workers at the site have
+died or disappeared.  It turns out that Garibaldi also saw this alien ship
+when he was a shuttle pilot on Mars.  He also found a Psi Corps badge at the
+site.  Kirkish continues, saying that another such ship has been discovered
+in the crust of Ganymede.  This time EarthGov wants to try to keep the ship,
+possibly
+to use it to control Earth.  They must not have a chance to keep it, Kirkish
+warns.  Her story told, Lennier ushers her to a Minbari ship that will
+bear her to safety.
+
+
    
+Franklin asks, "If Earth and the Psi Corps really are working with the
+Shadows, this is too big.  How can we fight something like that?"  Obviously
+shaken, Sheridan dismisses the Council, but asks Delenn to stay.
+
+
    
+Zack is sitting in Garibaldi's office when the B5 Nightwatch liaison
+comes in to remind him of the meeting tomorrow.  Zack is uneasy with the
+man's gung-ho attitude and isn't encouraged when he mentions that watching
+unsuspecting people on security cameras makes him feel like God.  
+
+
    
+
+Standing deep in contemplation on an empty observation deck, Sheridan
+removes the Earth Alliance insignia
+from his lapel.  He goes with Delenn to inform the
+others of his decision.  They are aghast when he tells them that he plans to
+take the White Star to Ganymede to knock out the Shadow vessel before
+President Clark can gain control of it.  What if he is attacked by Earth
+ships?  Will he fire on them?  What if he is captured?
+
+
    
+He tells them he will not be captured and charges them to cover for him
+while he is gone for a minimum of 4 days.  He also arranges for a simulation
+of his own death if he should not be able to return.
    
+
+
    
+
+The Nightwatch liaison is happy to tell the meeting that their efforts
+to expose disloyalty on B5 and on Earth have been a terrific success, but
+that Earth has been sold out by traitors throughout EarthGov, Earth
+Force, and the media, as part of an alien-instigated conspiracy to weaken
+and overthrow the government.  Thus, Nightwatch has been given greater
+powers to investigate anyone who might be suspicious.  One officer speaks
+up, "In that case, does anyone know where the Captain is?"
+
+
    
+He is falling asleep in his command chair halfway to Jupiter.  Lennier
+convinces him to retire to the sleeping quarters where he finds Delenn.
+Utterly exhausted, he begins to talk about missing home and his father.
+More than anything else right now, he says, he misses the sound of rain because
+it can always put him to sleep.  So to his great relief, with a phrase Delenn
+summons the patter of rain on the roof.
    
+
+
    
+
+Marcus is briefing Ivanova in Sheridan's office about a force building
+up on the border of Centauri space when she erupts at him.  She claims she
+doesn't understand how to relate to him, and she tells Marcus she holds him
+personally responsible for the Captain's "suicide mission" because, "Damn it!
+I don't have anyone else to blame!"
+
+
    
+Jumping out of hyperspace, the White Star picks up transmissions from the
+Ganymede site.
+
+
    
+"Subject is approaching target.  Repeat.  Subject is approaching target." 
+
+
    
+Delenn explains that the Shadow ships need a sentient being to merge with
+them before they can become fully functional, and this must be happening
+right now.  If a subject isn't prepared for the event the resulting ship
+will be murderously insane.  The crew listen and watch in horror as the
+Shadow ship comes alive and begins attacking the facilities around it.
+
+
    
+
+Knowing that any Earth cruiser wouldn't stand a chance against it
+Sheridan quickly rides in to attack the Shadow vessel.  Disoriented though it
+is, nevertheless the alien ship is still capable of destroying them.  They
+damage it insignificantly but anger it enough to chase them into the
+atmosphere of Jupiter.  The Shadow ship fires but only manages to ignite the
+hydrogen atmosphere.  Both ships fly deeper and deeper into the gas giant
+until the White Star's hull begins to buckle under the pressure.  At the last
+moment, Sheridan orders the White Star to pull out.  The Shadow is unable to
+stop falling and implodes as the White Star soars towards space.  
+
+
    
+Just as they begin to congratulate themselves the White Star is struck
+again.  This time the enemy is the Agamemnon, the Captain's old ship,
+attacking and ordering them to surrender or be destroyed.  Sheridan won't
+fire on the Agamemnon and can't surrender.  As he sits in his chair indecisive,
+Delenn suggests opening a jump point while still inside Jupiter's atmosphere.
+By opening it just at the edge of space the explosive effects of the
+hydrogen are minimized and they are able to scuttle to safety.
+
+
    
+ISN reports that an unidentified alien vessel has attacked and destroyed an
+outpost on Ganymede before being destroyed in Jupiter by the Agamemnon.  In
+response to heightened concerns about planetary security the president is said
+to be considering a new plan to increase security. 
+
+
    
+As Garibaldi says, they got away with it, but only for now.  The Nightwatch
+liaison has noticed that the Captain was missing for four days.  He
+deduces that Garibaldi must be covering for Sheridan and suggests that Zack
+use his relation with the Chief to find out what's going on.  Zack
+vehemently refuses saying he won't betray a friendship.  "If he could trust
+me he would have brought me in this thing weeks ago," he mutters, giving
+away the fact that he knows something fishy is going on.  The Nightwatch
+man angrily tells Zack he has to decide between friendship and his job.
+
+
    
+
+Marcus dares to breach Ivanova's spare time in order to show her a chart
+he has drawn up to explain his position on B5 and the hierarchy within the
+station.  As they share a laugh at his whimsy, Sheridan pages Ivanova to
+turn on ISN immediately. Citing threats to planetary security, President
+Clark has decreed Earth to be under martial law.
+
    
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+Londo insists on giving Vir unwelcome advice on how to phrase his
+intelligence report regarding Minbar.  Just as Vir finally loses his
+temper, Londo receives a call from Centauri Prime telling him that Lady
+Morella, the late Emperor Turhan's third wife, will be arriving soon.
+Delighted, Londo exclaims that everything must go smoothly for this
+important visit.  As he goes to prepare he finds his exit blocked by a
+corridor full of people in a panic because the Earth Alliance has just
+declared martial law.
+
+
    
+The latest word for Sheridan and Ivanova from Earth is that President
+Clark has just dissolved the Senate and the Elite Guard is moving in on
+defiant members in their chambers.  Joint Chief of Staff General Hague
+is missing, but he left a message for Sheridan: "Everything's gone to
+hell, John.  You're on your own."  They head to command and control to
+try to steady the crew, ordering them to stay at their posts and keep a
+squadron of fighters on patrol at all times.  Garibaldi catches Sheridan
+and Ivanova a
+moment later in the hall and relays that an alert has been posted for
+General Hague, who is trying to organize a counter strike.  Hague is
+outnumbered, and the conspirators realize that if the general is
+captured, they will be arrested next. If he comes toward B5 they can
+help him, but in the meantime, they and everyone else will keep
+watching ISN.
+
+
    
+
+Zack's viewing is interrupted by the Nightwatch liaison telling him to
+come to a critical meeting in a couple of hours--and to bring extra
+caps for his PPG just in case.
+
+
    
+G'Kar's singing is interrupted by Garibaldi setting him free from
+prison.  He is quite pleased and obliquely promises some assistance.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Londo curses the crisis in Docking as he explains how much effort it
+took to arrange Lady Morella's visit.  Her importance is due as much to
+her status as the ex-consort as because she is a prophetess, and Londo
+hopes for some much needed advice.
+
+
    
+The four senior officers receive a briefing from General Smits
+informing them that the Political Office has assigned all off-world
+security responsibility to Nightwatch personnel, and over Sheridan's
+protests orders them to obey the chain of command.  This is the same
+order that the Nightwatch liaison is relaying to security members in
+their meeting.  It is now their responsibility to root out the traitors
+who have sold out Earth throughout the station.
+
+
    
+Returning to his quarters, G'Kar is astonished to find that Ta'lon has
+been guarding the door throughout his incarceration.
+
+
    
+One by one, the security personnel approach the liaison and Zack to
+decide whether to accept the Nightwatch armband or quit duty and hand
+in their weapon and ID.  Garibaldi knows what's going on and is
+infuriated by it.  It is a matter of personal honor to him that the
+people he has carefully gathered and nurtured are not sold down the
+river by what he considers the squabbles of Earth politicians.  Even
+though Sheridan begs him to reconsider, Garibaldi storms down to
+security to confront the Nightwatch armed with only the force of his
+character and his fierce sense of personal loyalty.
+
+
    
+
+As Londo attends Lady Morella, she speaks about the late emperor's
+efforts to keep the present madness at bay and then asks why Londo really
+asked her to come to the station.  With rare candor Londo replies that
+he needs a prophecy to discover whether in the great future he
+envisions for himself, he has any hope of redemption.  She agrees to
+give him a reading before she leaves.
    
+
+
    
+
+Zack is unable to get the furious Chief to wear an armband or stop him
+from crashing the Nightwatch enrollment procedures.  Although they are
+shamed, not a single Nightwatch guard wavers.  Just as the Captain
+predicted, Garibaldi is ousted and Zack is placed in command of
+security.
    
+
+
    
+
+Alternately musing and inspired, G'Kar tries to explain his revelation
+to Ta'lon.  In order to save themselves the Narn must be willing to
+give up pride and vengeance, be willing to die by the millions for
+others and for the Universe itself.  The humans are the key, he says,
+and a key that they must turn to find salvation for all.
+
+
    
+The Captain shows Commander Ivanova the official order of martial law
+on B5 which he must impose, but he refuses her offer of assistance in
+order to shield her from association with this despicable command.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Nightwatch officers move through the Zocalo, breaking up groups of
+tense humans clustered around the news, while Londo tries to present
+the atmosphere in a brighter mood for his tour with Lady Morella.  She
+is not taken in by the Ambassador, but is almost swept up in a riot
+that erupts between civilians cheering word of General Hague's escape
+and the Nightwatch.  All monitors switch to Sheridan reading the
+declaration of martial law as pandemonium reigns the marketplace.
+
+
    
+Franklin finds Sheridan filled with revulsion for the entire situation,
+and the Nightwatch in particular.  Suggesting caution and faith in
+Hague, Franklin reminds the Captain that he can't disobey the chain of
+command.  This echo of General Smits prompts Sheridan to realize that
+there was a hidden message in the General's briefing.
+
+
    
+Resplendent in full battle garb, G'Kar stalks into C and C to whisper
+in Ivanova's ear that he has had an idea.
+
+
    
+A stressed and weary Zack comes home to find his living room staked out
+by Garibaldi, Ivanova and G'Kar, with Sheridan ordering him inside from
+the corridor behind.
+
+
    
+Lady Morella is disturbed when an incidental touch passes her
+Londo's vision of himself on the Centauri throne.
+
+
    
+When Zack discloses to the Nightwatch liaison that the Captain intends
+to replace the Nightwatch security personnel with a shipload of Narn
+arriving soon in Bay 9, the man glows with excitement at the prospect
+of catching them and arresting the entire command staff for sedition.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar asks a packed meeting of Narn for their assistance, while
+Sheridan broods in the darkness of his quarters.  When the hour
+arrives, the four senior officers stride towards a momentous encounter
+and the end of their careers as they know them, and the Nightwatch gear
+up to make a stand at Bay 9.  When they are all in place, Zack speaks,
+"Now!" into his link and dives out as the bay doors fall.  Sheridan
+addresses the trapped officers.  He explains that any order by the
+Political Office to Earth Force personnel is an illegal order, and thus
+they are under arrest for conspiracy to mutiny until the order is
+confirmed through the proper military hierarchy in a few hours or
+days.  In the meantime, the security lack will be made up by G'Kar's
+Narn on the station.
    
+
+
    
+
+Lady Morella gives Londo his reading, but as prophecy tends to be, it
+is obscure and not what he wants to hear.  She tells him he will have
+three opportunities to sidestep the fiery future awaiting him at the
+end of his journey, and has already missed two others.  He must save
+the eye that cannot see.  He must not kill the one who is already dead.
+And if all else fails, he must surrender himself to his greatest fear,
+knowing that it will destroy him.  In addition she tells him that he
+will be emperor someday.  As an aside she informs Vir that he will be
+emperor also, which amuses him enormously-until he realizes that she
+isn't joking. "One of you will become emperor after the other is dead."
+
+
    
+In single file and under the watchful eyes of Narn and loyal security
+guards, the Nightwatch are permitted to surrender their weapons and IDs
+and submit to house arrest.
+
+
    
+Sheridan expresses his gratitude to G'Kar but is disturbed and
+suspicious when the former ambassador demands in return to be admitted
+into the secret alliance he knows Sheridan has been gathering.
+
+
    
+Seated on far sides of their chamber, Londo and Vir eye each other
+edgily while the Lady Morella's parting line hangs in the long silences
+between them.
+
+
    
+"I never thought it would end like this," Ivanova remarks to the
+Captain as they gaze out his office window at the station core.
+General Hague is likely to be captured soon, and the other defectors
+have already been shot down.  They understand that they are next on the
+list.
+
+
    
+"Me either," he replies.
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+In customs, Londo waits impatiently, complaining bitterly about the
+inefficiency of the Narn security personnel and the stupidity of the
+fighting between Earthers.  Meanwhile that fighting continues as
+General Hague's destroyer, the EAS Alexander, is under attack by another
+Earth Alliance warship, the EAS Clarkstown.  When there seems to be no
+other choice, the Alexander destroys her pursuer and jumps toward
+Babylon 5.  As soon as news of this impending arrival reaches the
+station's officers, they realize their dilemma.  The Alexander is being
+hunted down on charges of treason, but General Hague has been their
+strongest ally in the fight against the growing darkness at home.  In
+the background, ISN reports that Mars has refused to implement martial
+law in defiance of President Clark's orders.  Trying to protect the
+crew from the consequences of his action, Sheridan announces in C & C
+that the arriving Alexander will be given humanitarian assistance, but
+he has Garibaldi cut all transmissions from the station just in
+case some of his crew want to report her arrival.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Delenn has received chilling news as well.  A Minbari Ranger traveling
+among the nonaligned worlds has discovered that the various races have
+all been goaded by the Shadows into fighting their neighbors, first for
+defense and then for conquest.  The races believe that alliance with the
+Shadows is the only way to be safe from Centauri conquest.  The Grey
+Council's only reaction is to comment that "The problems of others are
+not ours."
+
    
+
+
    
+
+The commanding officer of the Alexander, Major Ryan, arrives on B5 bearing bad
+tidings.  General Hague was killed during their last fight, the
+attempted coup against Clark is only having marginal success, ISN is on
+the verge of being shut down, and the majority of Earth Force is either
+loyal to Clark or intimidated by him.  As the crew discusses his report,
+the news comes that Earth Gov has begun bombing civilian targets on Mars.
+
+
    
+Delenn leaves to find the Grey Council just as the EAS Churchill
+arrives with her captain demanding an immediate meeting with Sheridan.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Gunfire punctuates the scene of terrified anchors at ISN reporting that
+Orion and Proxima 3 colonies have declared independence in protest over
+the bombing of Mars.  Apparently ISN has been forced to conceal
+information about activities in Earth Gov for the past year, but before
+they can spill the story their final broadcast is cut off abruptly
+amid falling debris.  The Churchill's captain comes aboard to inform
+Sheridan that transmissions were intercepted ordering elite Earth Gov
+forces to Babylon 5 to both capture the Alexander, and take control of
+the station, arresting the command staff and placing the station under the
+direct authority of President Clark and the Nightwatch.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+There is no more room to maneuver.  Sheridan puts the question to his
+officers: Fight or Surrender?  If they fight and lose, more than a
+quarter of a million lives might be at stake, and they will be
+executed.  If they surrender, they will be court martialed at the
+least.  Their decision is unanimous.  It is time to make their stand
+now against Earth and the darkness.  They spring into last minute
+preparations.  Fighters are scrambled, Medlab is cleared, and ground
+troops are geared up.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+An acolyte attempting to bar Delenn from the Grey Council chambers is
+withered by the force of her purpose.  Her words are even more powerful
+before the Council as she accuses them of abandoning the very prophecy
+they were created to meet, to stand against the Shadows "between
+the candle and the star, between the darkness and the light."  Berating
+them for pride and presumption she breaks the leader's staff of office
+before breaking the Council itself by calling on the Worker and
+Religious castes to abandon the Warrior caste's indifference and follow
+her into immediate action.
+
+
    
+Sheridan takes a moment in the midst of the crisis to call home for
+what might be the last time.  His father urges him not to worry about
+his parents, and to remember the first lesson he ever taught him.  Never start
+a fight, but always finish it.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Ivanova configures Draal's holographic system so the that captain can
+transmit a speech throughout B5.  He announces that warships are
+enroute to seize the station and that in response Babylon 5 is seceding
+from the Earth Alliance until President Clark is removed from office.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Knowing that one of the officers must be personally present to lead the
+Star Fury squadrons into battle, Sheridan grants Commander Ivanova
+permission to drop just in time to meet four heavy warships and
+assembled fighters jumping out of hyperspace.  His final effort to talk
+the approaching captain out of a fight is ignored, and full scale
+battle erupts.  Joined by Star Furies from the Alexander and the
+Churchill, the station's squadrons are mostly successful in defending
+the station.  Nevertheless, a breeching pod is able to penetrate their
+defenses.  It latches on to the station's hull, bores a hole, and
+troops begin to jump through, where they are quickly engaged in bloody,
+close quarters resistance from Garibaldi leading Narn and human
+security personnel.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+The Churchill puts up an excellent fight, until with fire on all decks,
+she sacrifices herself by ramming an enemy destroyer.  Distracted by the
+sight, Ivanova reacts too slowly to a collision warning and is knocked
+spinning by another Fury.  Sheridan immediately orders her to eject,
+which she does, an instant before her fighter slams against the hull of
+a cruiser.  The Alexander and the station are able to destroy the
+other attacking warships, but suffer such heavy damage in the
+meantime that Lt. Corwin informs the captain that they could not have
+lasted much longer.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Relief is short lived.  Three more destroyers arrive through the
+jump gate and order Sheridan to surrender.  Before he has a chance to
+consider, four more jump points form.  Instead of Earth Force ships
+however, they expel Delenn commanding the White Star and three Minbari
+war cruisers.  She orders the attacking Earth Forces to withdraw.  When
+they refuse, she replies coldly, "Only one human captain has ever
+survived battle with the Minbari fleet.  He is behind me.  You are in
+front of me.  If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
+
    
+
+
    
+
+They beat a hasty retreat.  But they leave a bloody wake of dead and
+dying both on the station and littered through space where the Minbari
+take up sentry duty.  Sheridan accepts responsibility for some of the
+Churchill's lost Star Furies.  Although he is proud of his crew, his
+faith in Earth Force is shattered, and he vows not to wear his uniform
+again until this civil war is over.  To the Alexander, he extends a
+standing offer of assistance, before she departs in search of other
+allies.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+In Docking, the known Nightwatch are being deported along with
+prisoners from the breeching pod, when Delenn comes aboard.  John
+greets her with gratitude, awe, respect and love.  Although less
+personal, most of the station feels the same way about him-as an
+enormous crowd expresses enthusiastically in the Zocolo.  Even so, the
+respite is uneasy, and surely temporary.
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Ivanova, in C&C, is joined by Sheridan.  She explains to him that they
+have succeeded in ridding the station of all the members of the
+Nightwatch they know about, and that Garibaldi is trying to track down
+the ones they might not know about.  Garibaldi arrives, his arm in a sling,
+and explains that he fractured it during the recent attack on the
+station.  He explains that most of the people on the station are
+upset about the communications channels being shut down, but Sheridan
+and Ivanova know they can't be reinstated until Earth can be prevented
+from using them to retake the station.  Garibaldi asks how long
+Sheridan plans to be out of his uniform, and Sheridan explains that he won't
+put it back on until the situation is resolved.  He leaves to
+make the rounds, which both Garibaldi and Ivanova are unsure about.
+Sheridan insists he can take care of himself and leaves.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Delenn is addressing some of the Minbari from the ships outside Babylon
+5, telling them that she was asked by Sheridan to thank them for
+defending the station.  They leave, and Lennier tells her that the
+captain of the Minbari fleet wants to come aboard for a tour, which she
+agrees to.  Delenn asks Lennier what he thinks of the situation, but he
+does not respond, instead saying that "what is, is" and that the
+prophecy, which stated that the Minbari would unite with the other half
+of their soul has come true.  Delenn says that the prophecies may be
+misleading and that, should the other parts come true, there is no guarantee
+that any of them will survive.
+
+
    
+As Sheridan makes his rounds in the Zocalo, a gunman waits, enclosed in
+shadows high above, targeting him with his weapon.  Just as he is about
+to fire, he is pulled away by Boggs, a former member of Garibaldi's
+security staff, telling him that he was told to wait.  The gunman
+insists that he had a good shot, but Boggs is less sure, saying
+instead that, should Sheridan fall, others would rise to take his place
+and that, sooner or later, they will get their "pound of flesh."
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lennier approach Marcus as he returns from a voyage.  Delenn
+tells Marcus that she has called for the Nafak'cha, the rebirth
+ceremony, which commemorates a great change that is coming, or one that
+has already arrived.  Marcus feels that the time may be inappropriate,
+given that everyone will be embroiled in ceremonies of their own for a
+while.
+
+
    
+One such ceremony is taking place where the members of EarthForce
+commit the bodies of their comrades, fallen in battle against Earth, to
+the depths of space, led by Sheridan, wearing his uniform one final
+time.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lord Refa arrives at a table in the Zocalo where Londo is sitting.
+Refa is unhappy at being dragged to Babylon 5 instead of Londo going to
+him.  Londo tells Refa that he has been studying the reports from the
+frontlines, and expresses dismay at the fact that the Centauri are
+fighting a war on so many fronts.  Refa claims the Centauri can
+handle it, and that their resources are greater than Londo thinks.
+Londo, however, knows about his alliance with Morden and the Shadows,
+and urges Refa to do as he did and break off his contact with them.
+Londo tries to convince Refa that, by fighting wars on so many smaller
+fronts, should the Shadows decide to conquer the Centauri, there will
+not be much of a fight.  Refa laughs at him, saying that Morden and his
+associates are the greatest power he knows, and that they are the key
+to his ascent to the throne.  Londo tells him that Refa will do as
+he says because he has poisoned Refa's drink.  The poison works in two
+parts, and should Refa not do as Londo asks, the second part of the
+poison will be introduced to Refa as well.  Londo orders Refa to
+bolster the lines of defense around Centauri Prime, cease attacking on
+the other fronts, and break off contact with Morden, unless he wants to
+receive the other part of the poison.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi finishes accessing the command codes, and he, Sheridan, and
+Ivanova follow through the procedures necessary to change the command
+level passwords, which requires shutting down the security system and
+restarting it.  Delenn arrives, and has Sheridan go with her.  She asks
+him and the other senior officers to take part in the rebirth ceremony,
+along with other ambassadors, G'Kar, and most importantly to her,
+Londo, whom she feels is in the greatest need of rebirth.  She explains
+that they all need to put their pain behind them so they can prepare
+for the greater struggles ahead.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Boggs explains to a few others that he has received
+orders from the Nightwatch office to no longer worry about killing
+Sheridan, but rather taking care of Ambassador Delenn.  Once she is
+done with, the support of the Minbari will vanish, allowing Earth to
+retake Babylon 5.  Though the gunman is worried, Boggs reassures him
+that Sheridan can be blamed no matter what.  The gunman is all too glad
+to be back killing Minbari, as he used to do so, after extreme torture,
+during the Earth-Minbari war.  They begin preparing the plan against
+Delenn.
+
+
    
+Delenn, in disguise, arrives at a bar Marcus frequents in Downbelow.
+She asks him why he isn't preparing for the ceremony, but he tells her
+that he has decided against participating.  She doesn't understand his
+reluctance, but their conversation is cut short
+when someone he has been waiting for comes in.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi turns off the computer system and restarts it.  When it
+comes back on-line, the codes have been changed, but something new has
+happened as well: the computer has taken on an attitude of its own, and
+is less than inclined to follow Garibaldi's orders, which is due to a
+faulty artificial intelligence program, originally planned to be
+integrated into the station, which accidentally came on-line.  As the
+computer taunts him and Ivanova, they plan to get rid of it yet again.
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lennier approach Londo about taking place in the rebirth
+ceremony, but he is less than inclined to do what is necessary, which
+involves giving away something that once held great importance to him,
+and telling someone something he had never told anyone else.  Delenn
+explains that she feels he needs to make up for the past and prepare
+for the future, but Londo claims he is already doing that, and has no
+interest in the ceremony.  He storms off.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Their meeting with G'Kar goes equally badly; he claims that he is
+far too busy with all of his new responsibilities to attend.  Marcus
+appears and comments on how everyone else is as disinterested in the
+idea as he is.  Lennier reminds Delenn that she was to meet the Fleet
+Captain, and she goes to the docking bay, with Marcus in tow.  On the
+way, they stop for a few moments, and she asks why he doesn't want to
+perform the ceremony.  He tells her he has nothing left to give up for it,
+and that, because he didn't listen to his brother when he was first
+warned about the Shadows, he has already lost everything he cared about.  He
+joined the Rangers to help fill the gap in himself created by the
+Shadows.  He tells her that he has nothing left to give up, but Delenn
+says that is exactly what he must sacrifice--his grief, loss, and
+painful memories.  He must forgive himself for being alive.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Marcus quickly breaks off to tell security about Fleet Captain Lenann coming on
+board, and Delenn goes to meet the newcomer.  As he arrives, however, she,
+Lenann, and one of his bodyguards are assaulted and kidnapped by the
+scheming members of the Nightwatch.
+
+
    
+As Garibaldi puts up with the neverending ramblings of the computer,
+Ivanova calls him to report the kidnapping.  Delenn asks her captors to
+let her tend to the bodyguard's injuries, incurred in the gunfire.  Boggs
+reappears and checks on the status of another member of the Nightwatch,
+who is busy scrambling some circuits.
+
+
    
+While Sheridan talks to Marcus, who blames himself for Delenn's
+kidnapping, Corwin reports that a call about the kidnapping is coming
+in.  Sheridan has it traced, and it goes through.  It is Boggs who
+explains his demands to have the Minbari cruisers leave in six hours,
+or all the hostages will be killed.  They have scrambled the Babcom
+lines so the call can't be traced, and are monitoring all security
+channels.  He warns them not to do anything stupid, or he will have no
+qualms about using violence, which he demonstrates by having the bodyguard
+killed, despite Delenn's screams of protestation.
+Marcus runs off to try to track Boggs down himself.  Sheridan orders
+Garibaldi to find out all he can about Boggs' contacts, and anything
+else they may be able to use to find them.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Marcus arrives in Downbelow, and sits down for a poker game with a
+group of men he had previously had an agreement with to leave alone, a
+deal which he has chosen to break in order to obtain information.
+None of them are willing to help, though, and he promises that, if none
+of them do, he will take them all down, followed by everyone else in
+the bar.  The game players rise to meet the challenge, and appear to
+overshadow Marcus quite severely.
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lenann speak to each other in Minbari about a
+possible escape method, but the gunman understands their language,
+which he picked up during the war, and thwarts the plan by tightening their
+loosening ropes.  He tells them that neither of them will survive the
+ordeal, but Delenn stuns him by telling him that she feels sorry for
+him, something he doesn't understand.  She tells him that he is an
+unfortunate casualty of the war, and though the Earth and the Minbari
+have managed to come together, he has not, and he is left all alone.
+He starts to fire on her, but Lenann jumps up from his chair,
+diverting the weapon, which severely injures him.  Boggs appears and
+stops the gunman from going any further.
+
+
    
+Marcus, meanwhile, has kept his word, having dispatched of
+everyone in the bar except two of the poker players, who he soon
+takes care of.  As he surveys the damage, realizing there is no one
+left awake to give him information, Lennier arrives and tells Marcus
+that he has come to discuss the rebirth ceremony, asking him again to
+come.  Marcus doesn't understand why he's talking about that, and
+Lennier explains that it was Delenn's last request, and that, if he
+doesn't continue the preparations,
+there is nothing else to do.  Lennier turns away, and Marcus
+grabs him on the arm, something which infuriates Lennier.  Lennier
+rounds back on Marcus, explaining that he would like to tear apart the
+station looking for Delenn, but can't.  As his part of the rebirth
+ceremony, he explains why he must do what she asks: he loves her.
+
+
    
+Lennier explains that his love for her is not romantic love, but more
+higher and more noble, a "pure, perfect love," that he knows can never
+truly be returned, since she is fated for another.  He has made a vow
+never to leave her side, a vow Marcus recognizes as dangerous.  At that
+point, the last gambler Marcus downed awakes, and begins to tell
+Marcus, under threat of more pain, what he wants to know.
+
+
    
+Ivanova explains that, though they still can't trace the call, they
+did find a background sound which Garibaldi is able to identify as the
+cooling system which feeds the fusion reactor in Grey sector.  Sheridan
+knows that isn't enough, but Marcus arrives with another piece of the
+puzzle: the man he talked to overheard a contact in Security talk about
+delivering
+some equipment for call scrambling to level 14.  They scan Grey 14 and
+find that it has been closed off -- supposedly under Garibaldi's orders, orders
+he never gave.  They begin preparing their attack, which, Sheridan
+explains, begins with a surrender.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As the Nightwatch members prepare to kill Delenn and Lenann,
+the contact Marcus told about calls Boggs and reports that the
+Minbari ships are leaving.  Boggs tells his contact to send a
+narrow-beam transmission to Earth.  After the conversation ends, a loud
+sound is heard, which Boggs rushes out to investigate.  Lots of people
+are running by, and one explains that a leak in the coolant system is
+forcing evacuation of the sector.  As the Nightwatch members try to
+escape with Delenn and Lenann, they are led into an ambush led by
+Sheridan and Garibaldi.  Boggs is shot down, and the remaining
+captors are pinned down, but when Sheridan makes a run
+to save Delenn and Lenann, the gunman, only injured by a PPG shot, throws a
+knife in
+Delenn's back and runs.  Sheridan gives chase, eventually backing the gunman
+into a corner.  Sheridan's rage takes over and, without a weapon,
+he beats the gunman senseless.
+
+
    
+Lennier tells Ivanova and Sheridan that Delenn will be okay, since the
+knife missed her vital organs.  Sheridan wants to continue with the
+rebirth ceremony, but Lennier says that, since the ceremony must be
+held within a certain amount of time after preparations begin, she will
+not be able to conduct the ceremony.  Garibaldi, meanwhile, is still
+being taunted by the artificial intelligence.  While he is in the
+elevator, he is finally pushed too far, and shoots out the speaker.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lennier, at Delenn's side, is delighted to see that Sheridan has
+arrived.  Lennier leaves, leaving Sheridan to tell Delenn that they
+have decided to bring the rebirth ceremony to her.  He has chosen to
+give up his uniform, and confides in her that he cares about her a
+great deal, and that he was willing to kill the gunman with his bare
+hands to save her.  After he has finished, he leaves, and Garibaldi
+comes in, carrying his uniform.  He tells her that he is constantly
+afraid what will happen if he ever completely lets go.  Ivanova is
+next, and, after putting her uniform on the growing pile, admits to
+Delenn that she believes she loved Talia.  Franklin and his
+uniform are last, and he tells her, "I think I have a problem."  After
+he is done, and they are all about to leave, Lennier approaches them
+and tells them that, as part of the ceremony, Delenn made them
+something, which is waiting in their quarters.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+C&C is overcome with a quiet hush as Sheridan, Ivanova, Garibaldi, and
+Franklin appear, resplendent in Delenn's gifts: striking new black and
+grey uniforms.  "What's the matter," Sheridan tells the shocked
+officers, "Haven't you ever seen someone who's been reborn before?  The
+crisis, for now, is over.  Tell the ships... We're open for business."
+
+
    
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+Although the staff of Command and Control have survived attacks by
+raiders, saboteurs, Centauri and their own fleet, they are staggered by
+the sight of their very own Commander Ivanova-in the flesh, and nothing
+else.  She, however, is the soul of decorum, at least until she looks
+down.  Her horrified scream wakes her bolt upright.  "God I hate dreams
+like that!"
+
+
    
+Vir is enjoying a little dream of his own, stroking the imperial
+trappings as he waits in the throne room for a meeting with a royal
+councilor.  The minister congratulates him on his excellent reports
+from Minbar, while chiding him for relying on Ambassador Molari's
+misleading advice in creating them.  He then shares a delightful little
+joke.  "What's more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns?
+One angry Narn with a key!"  Vir hurries back to his quarters where he
+steps into a room full of angry Narns.
+
+
    
+Susan shares some of her nightmares with the Captain at breakfast,
+stopping short of describing this morning's.  He suggests that her
+subconscious is lagging behind her intellect in coming to terms with
+the whopping changes in her status and prospects.  But not to worry, it
+will all pass.  Besides, it could be worse, she could be dreaming she
+was showing up to work naked, he teases her innocently.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Alone in his rooms, Londo is planning a vicious sneak attack.  He
+lashes out again and again, but alas, too short, too slow.  Finally,
+the kitchenette in disarray, he vanquishes his insect tormentor, and
+lofts its wrecked little body high in the air on the end of a noble
+ceremonial sword.  Before his instant of triumph dissolves into
+dismay at the realization that one bug indicates more, he is
+interrupted by the arrival of a ravishing young Centauri lady.
+
+
    
+Sheridan flirts with Delenn in the corridor, inviting her to dinner
+that night in the lull before another crisis flattens them all.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo barely manages to keep his puckishness in check as he greets Vir
+with casual inquiries about the court.  Then he launches the surprise.
+The lovely damsel is Vir's arranged bride, Lyndisty.  Vir isn't
+sure what to make of it.  The whole arranged-marriage business is as
+daunting as her stunning figure.  She however seems certain that her
+destiny lies with him.
+
+
    
+Zack apprises Ivanova of an increase in the number of Narns passing
+through the station with false documentation supplied by Vir.  When
+questioned by her later, Vir stammers that it's for the Narns' own
+protection, that he's helping them by moving as many as he can to camps
+on Centauri Prime, where conditions are much better than on the wrecked
+Narn homeworld.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+John's excuses are flying just as fast when he presents his attempt at
+flarn to Delenn.  She forges though the meal stoically with subterfuge
+and salt.  Just as she gamely fills her plate, John dashes off to
+respond to an emergency report of an assault in progress near Londo's
+quarters, where an angry Narn is on a shankar rampage after Vir and
+his wife.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ivanova calls Vir in again to find out why a Narn has declared this
+blood oath against him, and to warn him of a second Narn out for
+vengeance on the station.  Vir claims to be completely in the dark
+about that, among other things.  Ivanova assures him that she is no one
+to be giving advice on matters of sexual intimacy but he insists that
+he knows no other women to ask.  She uncomfortably counsels enthusiasm,
+to Vir's enlightenment.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+It is advice that two others scarcely need as their passion for one
+another is quite overpowering.  Susan only makes her day even more
+awkward by interrupting them in a clinch in John's room.  But she must
+summon the Captain to Londo's quarters immediately.  According to
+records from the Centauri government, Vir's refugees are all dead.
+Londo swells with pride for his protege
+until Vir bursts out with the truth that the Narn have all been saved,
+smuggled off Centauri Prime through Babylon 5 and other places,
+and the records falsified so no Centauri will come after them.
+
+
    
+In a day full of surprises, it is his bride who gives Vir the greatest
+of them all when she presents him with the second Narn bound and gagged
+on his chamber floor and ready for him to dispatch.  She giggles at his
+discomfort, explaining that when she lived on Narn after the war she
+grew used to killing them.  He grows more aghast at her callous attitude.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Mollari declares that Vir's embassy on Minbar has been terminated, and
+all records of his actions have been expunged.  But what truly cuts Vir
+to the quick is Mollari's disappointment in him personally, and the fact
+that Lyndisty is being sent back to Centauri Prime, where her family
+will reevaluate the planned union.
+
+
    
+Sheridan becomes somewhat testy to find Ivanova using his office in C &
+C.  But she claims to have found a purpose now, namely, using Vir's false
+authorization to continue the work of whisking a few Narn to safety.
+
+
    
+Vir sees Lyndisty to her ship.  Each thinks the other is sick, but believes
+such odd notions about the Narn will pass with time.  Vir kisses Lyndisty
+goodbye, and they both vow to stay true to each other.
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+The Commander and Captain are relieved to see the first Earth transport
+arrive since their secession from the Earth Alliance, as they need the
+trade to pay the station's operating costs.  However, their defense
+needs are still uncertain since the Minbari war cruisers can't be
+expected to hang around outside forever.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The scarcity of trade isn't bad news for everybody.  The postal worker
+gouging Garibaldi one hundred credits for his last care package from
+Earth, is positively loving the power it gives him to set his own
+rates.  In fact, the man treats Garibaldi's refusal to pay as
+dismissively as the dangerous glint in his eyes.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile on the transport, one of the passengers tosses in his bunk
+with nightmares.  He stumbles down a narrow corridor between doors that
+refuse to stay shut, terrified by the sights beyond them.  He runs, and
+finds a shining sword standing at the end, awaiting his grasp.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin is impressed to find that Marcus has diagnosed and perhaps
+saved the lives of some sick lurkers, both because of Marcus's
+perceptiveness and his concern.  When he questions further about
+Rangers, he learns that the brooch they wear is a symbol of Minbari and
+human souls melding into one.  But what really intrigues the doctor is
+that in their training Rangers learn "about terror--how to use it, and
+how to face it."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Their conversation takes them past customs just as the restless dreamer
+sets off a dozen alarms by striding through the security gates wielding
+a broadsword and naming himself Arthur, King of the Britons.  Marcus is
+able to fast talk him into medlab where Franklin questions him about
+his identity.  "Arthur" replies that his last memory is of dying on the
+battlefield of Camlan, all his mighty knights dead around him, and that
+before he could rest he needed his brother Bedevere to give Excalibur
+back to the Lady of the Lake.  His return now to Babylon 5, he claims,
+signifies that he must be most needed here and now.
+
+
    
+When Marcus mentions Arthur in the war council, Sheridan is not
+impressed, but the doctor seems almost eager to believe that the
+Vorlons might have been responsible for preserving and restoring
+another legend, even though the practical part of him discards the
+notion.  He can't investigate for psychological trauma however
+because the man has escaped medlab.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+In DownBelow Arthur finds a distraught old woman, weeping because she
+has been preyed upon by ruffians, and he swears to help her.  He finds,
+challenges and vanquishes a small group of villains, only to be
+outnumbered again by their friends.  However, a champion emerges from
+the shadows in the form of G'Kar, who has been conducting business of
+his own DownBelow, and together they set things right.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi isn't too keen on the idea of a crazy knight roaming the
+station with a big sword, and tells his security to find Arthur.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sitting over a couple flagons of ale, G'Kar is still pumped with
+enthusiasm over their victory.  He grows even more impressed as Arthur
+tells him of chivalry and the purpose of the Round Table, and he
+subsides in awe when Arthur dubs him Sir G'Kar, the Red Knight.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi, on the other hand, is suffering from a lack of sufficient
+awe--for the Post Office.  He breaks into the package storage room only
+to find the postal worker ready and waiting to turn him away.
+
+
    
+Arthur is lost again on the field of Camlan, telling G'Kar about the
+misunderstanding that had started the battle in which his knights met
+their deaths, but visions of Minbari vessels destroying Star Furies are
+dancing in his head.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan addresses ambassadors from the League of Nonaligned Worlds,
+petitioning them to join an alliance to defend the station in return
+for being able to use the station for trade, travel and even peace
+negotiations among themselves.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Marcus is able to convince Arthur to return to medlab, but promptly
+regrets it when he learns that Franklin has discovered the dreamer's
+true identity, and intends to tell him.  When Marcus argues let the man
+believe he is King of the Britons, Franklin contests that the truth
+will help the man heal.  So Franklin tells "Arthur" that he is David
+McIntyre, and was Gunnery Sergeant on the EAS Prometheus which opened
+fire on Minbari vessels in a first contact situation and thus sparked
+the Earth-Minbari war.  The memories flood back into him.  In his
+fertile imagination they mix with a vision of himself trying to give
+back Excalibur but being struck down from behind by a black knight, and
+this knocks him into a state of catatonic shock.
+
+
    
+The Captain is delighted to hear that enough of the League worlds are
+signing on to the mutual defense treaty to keep the station in
+business, but nobody's happy about what happened to "Arthur."  Franklin
+is the most upset, berating himself for trying to fix everything
+again.  With Marcus however he finally figures out what McIntyre came
+to the station to do:  to give up the King's responsibility, the King's
+pain, the King's sword, to the Lady of the Lake.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+It is Delenn who is called upon to take up Excalibur, and thus relieve
+the poor man's guilt for the war and its hundreds of thousands of
+deaths.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi pays in full for his package, but springs a little surprise
+of his own on the post office.  Rent for the space the office uses is
+due...and it costs one hundred and one credits.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+His spirit transparently lighter, McIntyre leaves the station bound for
+Narn, where G'Kar thinks he would make an excellent organizer of the
+resistance movement.  Watching him depart, Marcus suggests that
+Sheridan is forming a new Round Table with himself as Arthur, Kosh as
+Merlin, Franklin as Percival, Marcus as Galahad, and Ivanova as Gawain.
+Mordred is obvious, Marcus says, but who is Morgana Le Fey?
+
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+A hopeful crowd has gathered in the Zocalo, eager to see the first ISN
+broadcast since transmissions broke off violently after the imposition
+of martial law a few weeks earlier.  However, even Ivanova is
+disheartened by the anchor's bold-faced lie that the final broadcast
+had been made by alien-backed saboteurs attempting to overthrow Earth
+Gov.
+
+
    
+Captain Sheridan is busy checking out one of the new fighters from the
+Churchill when a distress call is logged.  It is from a lone black Star
+Fury, painted with an enormous Omega, and bearing the station's
+favorite Psi Cop, Mr. Bester.  Keeping carefully out of telepathic
+scanning range the Captain asks Bester why he shouldn't just kill him
+on the spot.  Curiousity? Bester suggests.  When there's no reply he
+prompts impatiently, "Captain?" but finds the response: "I'm thinking
+it over," rather unsettling.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+A frustrated G'Kar catches Ivanova in a corridor.  He has fulfilled his
+part of the bargain he made with Sheridan by having his Narns assist
+with station security and even defense, and he demands that he now be
+allowed to join the alliance Sheridan and the rest have formed.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Stepping onboard the station, Bester is amused to find himself greeted
+by a team of armed guards.  Meanwhile the command staff watch him
+suspiciously on a closed circuit TV and debate whether to drug him up,
+lock him up or give him a chance to explain.  Privately, Sheridan
+manages to convince a reluctant Ivanova to be the first to meet him
+since her latent ability will allow her to detect a scan.  She greets
+the Psi Cop in his cell with icy demeanor.  Bester's idle needling
+about her hatred for the Corps brings her to flash point faster than he
+could have estimated, and earns him a resounding slap when he mentions
+her mother.
+
+
    
+But it brings him to his point.  "The enemy of my enemy is my friend,"
+he remarks.  He has found out about the Shadows and their influence
+over President Clark and the Psi Corps, and he doesn't like it.  They
+interfere with his plans for a future when humans are ruled by
+telepaths.  He has come to Babylon 5 to find someone who hates Shadows
+as much as he, because he thinks he knows a way to damage them.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan and Delenn discuss G'Kar's demand.  They both realize that
+bringing G'Kar into their circle means they must own up to the fact
+that they knew that he was right about the ancient enemy's return and
+let his world be conquered by this enemy and the Centauri rather than
+reveal their knowledge.  Over Sheridan's objections the Minbari
+Ambassador insists that it is her responsibility to tell G'Kar the
+truth now since it was she who insisted that the secret be kept.
+
+
    
+Bester tells the gathered officers that a ship bearing weapons
+components for the Shadows is en route to the Rim and needs to be
+seized.  He explains that he can pinpoint the ship's location in
+hyperspace by homing in on the thought waves of the occupants.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Try not to drool on the controls," Sheridan mutters as Bester admires
+the White Star's bridge.  The instant the Captain leaves his seat,
+Bester hops on, only to be booted out an instant later and ignored by
+Lennier when he tries to give an order.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Her head bowed, Delenn admits to the Grey Council's knowledge of the
+Shadows and their alliance with the Centauri.  If they had spoken out,
+she explains, the Shadows would have acted openly and would have
+annihilated the Narns rather than simply allowing the Centauri to seize
+their homeworld.  Instead of millions dying, billions would have died --
+whole planets, she gasps, horrified.
+
+
    
+"If I had learned this as my world was being bombed by the Centauri, I
+would have killed you instantly," G'Kar hisses.  "You understand that,
+do you not?"  Then he repeats the line from his Vorlon-inspired vision,
+"'Some must be sacrificed if all are to be saved.'...Now I understand
+that is as much about how we got here, as where we are going.  I think
+that one sentence is the greatest burden I have ever known."  He admits
+that if it were not for the Grey Council's inaction, his people would
+be a dead race.
+
+
    
+As tears slide down her face Delenn says, "You have come a long way,
+G'Kar.  Further than I could have guessed," and she welcomes him into
+the War Council, only hoping that he can forgive her someday.
+
+
    
+"Perhaps, but not today," he utters.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The White Star knocks out the last of the Shadow fighters protecting
+the transport and grabs it as an enormous Shadow ship looms out of
+hyperspace. Lennier announces its presence, but the ship breaks off,
+and Bester has a strange look on his face.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The transport is carrying a cargo of human telepaths in cryogenic
+suspension.  The pilots are an unknown alien species who have committed
+suicide rather than be captured.  When Sheridan demands to know why
+Bester didn't tell them about the cargo, Bester admits that he knew
+Babylon 5 probably wouldn't expend any effort to save telepaths.
+
+
    
+When Franklin unfreezes one, he notices that she seems to have cyberweb
+implants.  He takes her ID bracelet to Bester, who condescendingly
+begins to explain that she is a "blip" who refused to join the Psi
+Corps.  Suddenly his face grows numb.  He must see her immediately.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+She has other plans, however.  By the time Garibaldi, Franklin and
+Bester arrive at medlab, she has wrapped herself into an intricate
+cocoon of wiring and is interfacing with the station electronics.  She
+wants to be free of the pain she's in, but the commands in her head
+which tell her to attack the Psi Corps, are too powerful.  As the
+doctor knocks her out, she asks Bester, "Al, what have they done to
+me?"  and sends him images of her ordeal: alien brain surgery and
+Shadow vessels.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+She knows him because she is the love of Bester's life, and carrying
+their child.  The Shadows were intending to plug these telepaths into
+their newborn ships.  If Bester hated the Shadows before, now he wants to
+destroy them.  For saving her life, he pledges his support to B5's
+war before leaving the station.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The recent events have reminded Garibaldi of something.  Turning to the
+Book of G'Quan, he finds it, and calls an immediate meeting of the War
+Council in their new command center.  It appears that all of the Narn
+telepaths were killed by the Shadows a thousand years ago, because the
+Shadows using the planet as a base in their last war feared them.  The
+Council members instantly realize that this might be why the Shadow
+ship didn't attack the White Star with Bester aboard, because maybe
+telepaths constitute a threat, and are therefore perhaps a weapon against
+the Shadows.  It's just in time, Ivanova reports, because the Shadows have
+just begun attacking Rim worlds openly.
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+"August 3, 2260.  Personal diary.  Ten days ago, for the first time,
+the Shadows began attacking openly."  As Ivanova records her diary
+entry, the Shadows attack Brakiri space.
+"So far, they've been hitting targets close
+to the Rim--the minor powers, a few in the League of Non-Aligned
+worlds.  The attacks seem totally random, almost senseless.  If we
+thought it was nuts around here before, this has only made things
+worse." Morden waits in line in the arrivals area.
+"We've had to hire more security
+personnel to keep things calm, make sure the wrong type of people don't
+get on board.  But without our resources back home for background
+checks, we have to assume there will be lapses."  Morden passes
+effortlessly through security.  "Everyone's been handling the stress
+pretty well, but sooner or later, something's got to give somewhere."
+Dr. Franklin, alone in a room, injects himself with stims, knocking
+over a lamp in the process.  "Nobody's seen Kosh in almost a week.
+When the Vorlon goes to ground, I worry."  Kosh waits in
+his quarters.  "What's going through his... its mind, I can't even
+guess.  And Londo... Londo is Londo.  You never know which way he'll
+jump next..." Londo is making preparations with Vir for the largest
+suite on Babylon 5 to be filled with flowers and reserved for Adira,
+who is returning to the station.  "So far, we've got everything more or
+less under control, as long as nothing else goes wrong."  Morden enters
+his quarters, and at his side appears a group of Shadows.
+
+
    
+The Brakiri ambassador tells Sheridan and Ivanova that they cannot
+fight the Shadows themselves, and asks for help.  Sheridan says that he
+can't help, since they no longer have Earth's support.  Sheridan
+explains that the Brakiri were wrong to have trusted the Shadows, but the
+ambassador says he felt they were working for, instead of against, the
+Brakiri.  Sheridan tells the Brakiri ambassador that he asked the Gaim
+ambassador to help the Brakiri, since the worlds near Gaim space
+would only help if they were involved.  The Gaim ambassador refuses,
+saying that, if they join in the fight, the Shadows will notice them
+and come after them.  Sheridan tries to convince the Gaim ambassador
+that the Shadows will come after them soon, but the only way the Gaim
+ambassador will be swayed is if Sheridan can prove that he has power
+equal to that of the Shadows.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+It is another hectic time in MedLab where Dr. Franklin and another
+doctor, Dr. Hobbs, argue about a patient's condition as he lies
+in the isolab, victim of a respiratory failure.  As they are about to
+help him, Garibaldi brings in another patient in desperate need of help
+of his own.  The techs in the isolab report that Dr. Franklin's
+treatment didn't work, yet Franklin insists that they didn't follow his
+orders correctly.  Dr. Hobbs tries to convince him that he may be
+endangering the patient's life, but her badgering and Garibaldi's
+persistence get on his nerves, causing Franklin to shout at everyone.
+The new treatment works on the respiratory patient, and Franklin
+mumbles out apologies.
+
+
    
+Londo is by himself, recalling the time he spent with Adira a couple of
+years earlier, and the happiness that she brought him.  His memories
+are interrupted by Vir, who has prepared the suite at Londo's behest.
+Londo tells Vir he will be right there, and departs to inspect it.
+
+
    
+As Londo is on his way, however, the corridor suddenly glows with a red
+light, and his path is blocked by Morden, who tells Londo that they
+have something to settle.  Morden tells Londo that he is disappointed
+in him, that Lord Refa will no longer respond to Morden's calls,
+and that the Centauri have pulled back their border campaigns.
+Morden asks about the deal they made, and insists that the Centauri
+government must continue their campaign.  Londo believes Morden has no
+interest in the Centauri Republic, and only wants to use them as a
+distraction.  Morden threatens Londo, saying that his associates may
+turn their eye to the Centauri if Londo stands in the way.  "Then we
+will pluck it out," says Londo.  He
+pushes past Morden and makes his way down the
+corridor.  A Shadow appears and speaks with Morden.  Morden insists
+that they need Londo alive, and that he will find other ways to get what
+they want.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi arrives at Franklin's quarters.  Franklin
+is getting ready to put in more overtime in MedLab.  He says he
+can handle it, but Garibaldi doesn't agree.  Franklin insists that his outburst
+was a one-time thing, but Garibaldi knows it isn't.
+He tells Franklin that, if he is
+still having problems with the stims, he can help, but Franklin will
+not even tolerate the suggestion that he might have a problem.  Though Garibaldi
+tries to help further, Franklin will not listen.  Garibaldi tells Franklin
+that he will leave him alone, but wants him to remember that he gave
+him a chance, and went to him first.  Garibaldi leaves.
+
+
    
+Delenn enters the war room to find Sheridan sitting at the table,
+poring over reports of Shadow attacks.  Sheridan says he can't
+understand the methods the Shadows are using.  Delenn tells him that
+their tactics are the ones they used a thousand years previous to keep
+the major powers at bay.  Sheridan says that their only hope is to
+organize all the other races into one force, something that has never
+been done before, and might not even be possible, since they all have
+their rivalries and agendas, which seem incompatible.  Sheridan tells
+Delenn that they can't score one victory against the Shadow ships, and that,
+if they could, it might convince the others to join in the fight.
+Delenn says that that is exactly what they should do, and Sheridan asks
+how they do that.  "I'm sure you'll think of something," she says, and
+leaves.
+
+
    
+"Every day, people around here start talking more and more like Kosh,"
+he says to himself, smiling.  Soon, the smile vanishes, and he begins
+formulating an idea.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi searches through the Zocalo until he finds Dr. Hobbs sitting
+by herself, filling out forms.  Garibaldi tells Hobbs that she was
+right, and that Franklin gave the wrong information to the techs.
+Garibaldi tells her that he knows everyone in MedLab needs to have
+blood samples taken regularly and tested, but Dr. Hobbs tells him that
+the only one with the access needed to see the results is Dr.
+Franklin.  Garibaldi asks her to 
+pull Franklin's files, but she refuses to do so, though she will tell him
+where the information is.  She tells him that she doesn't want to see
+Franklin hurt.  Garibaldi agrees, and hopes it isn't too late.  He gets up
+and leaves, but Dr. Franklin has witnessed their transaction.
+
+
    
+Vir is speaking with a vendor in the Zocalo about the various effects
+needed to complete the welcome for Adira.  After he concludes the
+business, he starts off, but sees that Morden is nearby.  Trying to
+avoid him, he heads off in another direction, only to run into Morden
+in a corridor outside.  Morden asks how he can help, but Vir refuses
+the offer, hurrying away instead.  Morden returns to the Zocalo, and
+speaks to the vendor, who he convinces to talk about what Vir ordered.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi makes his way into Franklin's office, and begins using the
+computer, but refrains at the last moment from opening the file.
+Franklin sees him, but Garibaldi aborts at the last minute.  Garibaldi
+tells Franklin that if, on some level, Franklin doesn't know the truth,
+Garibaldi can't help him.
+Franklin admits that he ran a test on himself to prove that Garibaldi
+was wrong, but found enough stims in his blood stream to prove that he
+was, indeed, addicted to them.  He tells Garibaldi how easy it was for
+him to lose track, but he knows the numbers don't lie.  Franklin
+asks Garibaldi what he intends to do about it.  Garibaldi leaves it up to
+Franklin, who then quietly leaves MedLab.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Kosh walk together down a corridor, with Sheridan
+explaining his plan.  "Nobody wants to fight a war unless they know
+there's at least a chance of winning.  You can give them that hope.  As
+one of the older races, your technology has to be at least as good as
+the Shadows'.  Now, if we can convince your government to send out an
+expedition to engage one or two of their ships..."
+
+
    
+"No," Kosh replies.
+
+
    
+"All right, I know you can't take the entire Shadow fleet by
+yourselves, but if you could beat them at just one fight, it could be
+the break we'd need to get everyone organized.  Then we'd have a real
+chance.  You could do it, couldn't you?"
+
+
    
+"Perhaps, but there are still few of us.  It is not our time.  It is
+yours.  We are not prepared yet."  Kosh then begins to move down the
+corridor, away from Sheridan.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+This incenses Sheridan.  "Don't turn your back on me!
+Don't you even try to walk away from me!  Just who the hell do you
+think you are?!  Oh wait, I know what you think you are, what you want
+us to believe.  But I don't buy it.  For three years now, you've been
+pulling everyone's strings, getting us to do all the work and you
+haven't done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic!  Well, it's
+about time you started pulling your own weight around here!"  Kosh
+turns around toward Sheridan, his eyepiece opening and closing slowly,
+almost menacingly.
+
+
    
+In C&C, a tech reports to Ivanova that there is an energy surge showing
+up on the sensors.  Ivanova asks where it is, but the tech can't
+tell--it is a non-localized phenomenon.
+
+
    
+"I hear you've got a saying," Sheridan continues, "'Understanding is a
+three-edged sword.'  Well, we've got a saying, too, 'Put your money
+where your mouth is!'"
+
+
    
+"Impudent," Kosh says righteously, before turning away again.
+
+
    
+"Yeah?  Well maybe that's the only way to get through to you.  You said
+you wanted to teach me to fight legends.  Well you're a legend, too,
+and I am not going away until you agree!"
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Incorrect," Kosh intones.  His eyepiece glows brightly, and a force
+throws Sheridan against the wall.  "Leave now!" he orders.
+
+
    
+"No!"
+
+
    
+"Disobedient!"
+
+
    
+"Up yours!"  Sheridan is thrown against the wall by another blast from
+Kosh, which gives Sheridan a cut on his face.
+
+
    
+"So, the real Kosh shows his colors at last, huh?  You angry now?
+Angry enough to kill me?  Because that's the only way I'm leaving.
+Unless your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do
+something, I've got nothing to lose!  God, my own government wants to
+kill me, and if we lose this war, I'm just as dead!  Our only chance is
+to get the other races on board for this fight and right now you're the
+key to doing that."
+
+
    
+"It is not yet time," Kosh tells him.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is even more upset now.  "And who decides that time?  You?
+You put me in this position.  You asked me to fight this damn war!
+Well, it's about time you let me fight it my way!"  Kosh tries to get
+away again, but Sheridan won't let him go.  "How many people have
+already died fighting this war of yours, huh?  How many more will die
+before you come down off that mountain and get involved?  Ships,
+colonies, whole worlds are being destroyed out there, and you do
+nothing!  How many more?  How many more, Kosh?  How many more dead
+before you're satisfied?  Huh?"
+
+
    
+Kosh hits Sheridan with a very powerful force that throws Sheridan
+against the wall, but this time he does not let go.  "Go ahead,"
+Sheridan invites.  "Maybe one more death will help balance out the
+books.  Go on.  Get it over with.  Save us both the trouble later."
+Kosh does not agree, and instead lets Sheridan go.
+
+
    
+"I will do as you ask," Kosh says, and begins walking away.  After a
+few steps, he turns back to Sheridan.  "But there is a price to pay.  I
+will not be there to help you when you go to Z'ha'dum."
+
+
    
+"You already said if I go to Z'ha'dum, I'll die."
+
+
    
+"Yes, now."
+
+
    
+"All right.  If that's the trade-off.  If you want to withhold your
+help when the time comes, that's fine.  I'll go it alone."
+
+
    
+"You do not understand," Kosh tells him.  "But you will."  Kosh turns
+away from Sheridan and silently heads down the corridor.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ivanova reports to Sheridan that the Shadows have been attacking the
+Brakiri again as Delenn leads the ambassadors from the group of
+potential allies into the war room.  As the Shadows attack the Brakiri,
+a new jump point opens, through which pass many Vorlon ships, which
+begin attacking the Shadow vessels, destroying several.  Though the
+Vorlons are not immune to the attacks of the Shadows, they emerge with
+far fewer casualties as the battle rages on.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo and Vir are awaiting Adira's arrival in the cargo bay, yet after
+the last passenger has left the ship, Adira still is nowhere to be
+found.  A group of medical officers appear from the ship with a
+body on a stretcher.  It's Adira.  Dr. Hobbs, leading
+the team, doesn't know how she died, but Londo suspects he knows--he
+remembers a recent conversation with Lord Refa, on the topic of poison.
+Londo instructs Dr. Hobbs to inspect her for poison, and as the body is
+carried away, Londo begins crying.
+
+
    
+The battle concluded, the victorious Vorlon ships enter their jump
+point and return from whence they came.  Meanwhile, Morden receives
+word from one of his contacts, and seems troubled by what he hears.
+
+
    
+Ivanova informs Sheridan that the news of the victory has spread and
+that every ambassador aboard the station is ready to sign on.  Sheridan
+wants to go to Kosh and thank him, but Ivanova convinces him to go to
+bed instead, and thank him the next day.  However, someone does go to
+visit Kosh without delay--Morden, who brings his Shadow associates with
+him.
+
+
    
+As Sheridan sleeps, he dreams of his father.  "John... Johnny..."
+
+
    
+"Dad?"  Sheridan says, turning around.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"I don't have much time, son," his father tells him as a great struggle
+begins in Kosh's quarters.  "I want you to know, you were right.  I
+didn't want to admit that.  Just pride, I guess.  You get--at my age,
+you get kind of set in your ways.  But it had to be done.  Don't blame
+yourself for what happened later."  The struggle in Kosh's quarters
+continues as Morden watches on emotionlessly.  Sheridan's father
+stumbles, apparently very weak.
+
+
    
+"Dad, are you... Are you all right?"
+
+
    
+"It's too late for me.  I'm sorry for what I did before.  I knew what
+was ahead.  I guess...  I guess I was afraid.  When you've lived as
+long as I have, you... you kind of get used to it.  I wish I
+could have done more for you.  There's so much I should have said...
+And now it's too late.  You're right.  It's time you begin this war
+your way."  He wrenches in pain again.  "I've got to go now, John."
+
+
    
+"No, no... don't... Don't leave," Sheridan pleads.
+
+
    
+"It's all right, son.  See... As long as you're here, I'll always
+be here."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As the skirmish in Kosh's quarters ends, a pulse of white energy flashes
+along the station's axis.  Sheridan awakes, screaming Kosh's
+name.  Morden leaves the quarters of the Vorlon quietly, leaving
+nothing behind but the charred, twisted remains of Ambassador Kosh's
+encounter suit.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi explains that, although he searched the quarters with great
+care, they found no sign of forced entry, and no sign of a body.
+Garibaldi suggests Kosh might not be dead, but Sheridan and Delenn know
+better.  She says that the Vorlons asked that no one be told of Kosh's
+death, since such news could destroy the newly-formed alliance.  Since
+Kosh is often not seen for weeks, it will give them time to send a
+replacement.  Sheridan says that Kosh knew what lay ahead, hence the
+warning he gave.  Sheridan feels guilty, believing earlier that Kosh's
+warning about Z'ha'dum was punishment, rather than what it was--fear.
+Delenn says that Kosh's
+encounter suit, and all his other personal effects should be placed in his
+ship.
+
+
    
+Londo tells Morden that Adira's death was caused by poison, and he
+suspects Morden knows the cause.  Morden tells him that the last he
+heard from Lord Refa, he was very upset with Londo, which would be
+understandable given the fact that Londo poisoned him.  Morden says
+that Refa said something about "evening the score," but couldn't find
+out more because Refa stopped talking to him after that.  Morden offers
+that he could have stopped him, had he known about it earlier, but he
+expresses his most sincere apologies.  Londo picks up a piece of
+jewelry, which he gave to Adira, and muses about it sentimentally.
+Londo laments that all those die around him, except those who most
+deserve it.  "That is about to change," Londo tells him.  "You said
+that you would go away for as long as I wanted.  I no longer want
+that.  All I want now... is revenge.  They took from me... the one
+thing that I have ever truly loved.  And you will help me, Mr. Morden,
+to strike them down.  Give me this...  and the safety of my people, and
+let the rest of the galaxy burn.  I don't care any more.  Will you help
+me, Mr. Morden?"
+
+
    
+"Of course, Ambassador," Morden says, his face displaying concern.  "As
+ever, I am always in your service."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan arrives in Medlab to meet with Franklin.  Franklin says
+that he feels he hasn't been doing a good job lately, and that he
+he can't see anything else in the mirror but his job.  He says he
+hasn't lived very much in a long time.  He admits to Sheridan that
+he has been taking too many stims, hiding from the truth
+about himself.  He says that he no longer has the luxury to hide from his
+own problems, and that he needs to stop lying to himself before someone
+else pays the price.  He informs Sheridan that he is resigning as Chief
+of Staff of the MedLab facility.  Sheridan tries to stop him, but
+Franklin won't hear of it.  The two shake hands,
+and Franklin leaves quietly, leaving Sheridan alone.
+
+
    
+"And then what?" Garibaldi asks.
+
+
    
+"And then," Delenn explains, "once Kosh's belongings are loaded into
+his ship, it will activate itself.  The ship was made for him.  It was
+a part of him.  In a curious way, it is alive.  It cannot live without
+him."  Kosh's ship leaves the station and begins flying away.
+The ship slowly makes its way toward a nearby star, which quickly
+envelops it.  "So it will grieve, as we do, in its own way," Delenn
+concludes.  "And perform its last duty, in memory of Kosh."
+
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+In a large building on Minbar, a Minbari, Rathenn, holding a large box,
+chases after a robed figure.  He tells the figure, who he calls
+Entil'za, that the ancient books told the Minbari to enter the sanctuary and
+open the box, which has remained sealed for over 900 years.  The robed
+figure opens the box to see an envelope inside, with the words "Jeffrey
+David Sinclair" written on it.  The figure removes his hood to reveal
+he is indeed Ambassador Sinclair.  "How did he know that you would be
+here?" Rathenn asks. "How did he know your name?"
+
+
    
+Back on Babylon 5, C&C detects a distress call coming from sector 14,
+which surprises Ivanova since it has been quarantined for nearly 3
+years after Babylon 4 disappeared there.  Lt. Corwin plays
+the message, and it is Ivanova's own voice, which a computer voice
+scan confirms.  "They're coming through," Ivanova's voice cries out
+desperately, "repeat, they're coming through.  This is Earth Alliance
+Station Babylon 5.  They're all over the place!  They're killing us.
+Can anyone hear me?  They're killing us!"
+
+
    
+
    
+
+On Minbar, Sinclair sits by himself, contemplating what he has read.
+Rathenn returns, saying that Sinclair's ship has been prepared.
+Rathenn offers to listen to whatever Sinclair might have to say, but
+Sinclair says the message was meant for him alone.  He tells Rathenn to
+have the others continue the work in his absence, and that he
+appreciates Rathenn's trusting him when he first arrived -- something no
+one else did.  Rathenn merely says that it is because of Delenn, and
+that he has done nothing extraordinary.  Sinclair tells him that his
+help has been invaluable, and that the Rangers will finish the work
+ahead.  He walks away, and Rathenn knows he will not see Sinclair again.  A
+Vorlon comes up behind him and offers, "He is the closed circle.  He is
+returning to the beginning."  Rathenn asks what the Vorlon means, but
+it walks away instead of responding.
+
+
    
+Ivanova plays back the distress signal for Sheridan and Garibaldi, but
+denies ever having sent the message.  Garibaldi corrects her, saying
+that she hasn't yet, but since it comes from sector 14 -- a place where
+time doesn't work right -- anything is possible.  Garibaldi relates to
+the others that, when he visited Babylon 4 two years earlier, he had a
+flash-forward in which he experienced the fall of Babylon 5, which
+could very well be the same thing to which this message refers.
+Garibaldi tells Sheridan he wants to check it out, and Sheridan agrees.
+
+
    
+Zack Allen is having quite a time trying to process the identicards of
+those in the station's docking bay, but while he is processing them, he
+comes across a very interesting one -- that of Ambassador Sinclair.
+Zack welcomes Sinclair back to the station, and asks him if he plans to be
+staying long.  Sinclair says that is a more interesting question than
+Zack probably knows, and disappears into the crowd.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+While Garibaldi begins the long trip to sector 14, Lennier enters
+Delenn's quarters.  She asks him if "he" is here, and Lennier tells her
+yes.  Lighting, a candle, she recites, "We are Grey.  We stand between
+the candle and the star."  She tells Lennier that "he" is her friend.
+Lennier tells her that he knows, but that "it must be done, or the
+dream will die, and countless others will die with it."  She says she
+wishes she had more time, but that time is all they have.  They both
+walk away, leaving a letter, hand-addressed to Delenn, behind.
+
+
    
+Marcus and Sheridan are in the war room talking when Delenn arrives,
+telling them that they must both accompany her to the White Star, with
+Ivanova, and one other.  The other is Sinclair, who enters the war
+room.  He tells Sheridan that he appreciates
+the work he has done looking after the station.  Garibaldi calls
+in, reporting that the temporal rift in sector 14 is twice as large as
+it was before, and that it is being created by a tachyon beam emanating
+from Epsilon 3.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+On Epsilon 3, Zathras and another caretaker watch what is happening
+to the Great Machine, which Zathras describes as "not good."  The other
+caretaker suggests they tell Draal, but Zathras knows that it is taking
+all of Draal's power to control the machine.  Zahtras knows
+what he must do, and he will do it, or else there might be great
+death.
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks Delenn why they are going to the White Star instead of to
+Epsilon 3, but Delenn simply insists that they must go to sector 14.
+Sheridan doesn't understand, but Delenn promises to explain everything
+when the time is right.  Meanwhile, Garibaldi finally arrives at sector
+14, and performs a scan on the temporal rift formed there.
+
+
    
+Two ships depart from Babylon 5, carrying those going to the White
+Star.  Sheridan tells Sinclair that he was very surprised to see him in
+the war room, but Sinclair says that he was just as surprised to be
+there.  Sheridan mentions that Sinclair's timing seems to be more than
+a coincidence, to which Sinclair replies that there are no
+coincidences.  Marcus tells Sheridan to quit while he's ahead, since
+Sinclair has a reputation, back on Minbar, for seldom giving straight
+answers to questions.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi, after increasing power to the scanners, picks up the distress
+message from Ivanova, which he records.  Ivanova reports that the
+captain is dead, and their defenses are down.  She says that the
+enemy is boarding from all over, and that Garibaldi is rigging the
+fusion reactors.  She switches to external cameras, and the enemies
+attacking the station are indeed Shadows.  It is not long before they
+deliver their final blow, and Ivanova's message is terminated.
+
+
    
+Everyone arrives in a conference room in the White Star.  Delenn asks
+Sheridan if he trusts her, and he admits that he would trust her with
+his life.  She invites them all to sit down.  She begins by telling
+them that she was aware of the transmissions from Epsilon 3 several
+hours before they left, the same time that other information came into
+her possession.  "As you know," she explains, "our last great war
+against the Shadows was a thousand years ago.  With the help of the
+Vorlons and a few others, we were able to defeat them, driving them
+from their homeworld, Z'ha'dum.  But... there is something you do not
+know.  What you are about to see has never been shown to anyone outside
+the Grey Council."
+
+
    
+She touches a small device, and on the wall behind her, an image
+appears showing a great space station, with many ships around it,
+fighting.  "This is one of the few surviving records from that war.
+Toward the end, the tide of battle had turned against us.  Our greatest
+starbase, the center of our efforts in the war, had been destroyed by
+the Shadows.  Without a long-range base of operations from which to
+launch our forces, we were doomed to lose the war.  Then, as if in
+answer to our prayers, a replacement arrived."  She touches the device
+again, and something very familiar appears on the screen.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Babylon 4!" Sheridan says in amazement.
+
+
    
+"Oh my God," Ivanova says.  "We always knew that Babylon 4 had been
+taken to somewhere in time, but we assumed it was into the future."
+
+
    
+"No," Delenn says, "it was taken into the distant past, where it helped
+us defeat the Shadows.  Without Babylon 4, we would have lost the war,
+or it would have ended in a stalemate."
+
+
    
+"So you're saying the Minbari... that you stole Babylon 4...?" Sheridan
+says.
+
+
    
+"Not quite," Delenn tells them.  "Before coming to you, I received two
+additional records from Draal.  Remember, the Great Machine on Epsilon
+3 has been there for over 500 years.  During that time, it recorded
+much of what happened in this area of space."  She changes the image to
+Babylon 4 again.  "After Babylon 4 vanished six years ago, it
+reappeared again, two years ago.  Ambassador Sinclair and Mr. Garibaldi
+traveled there at great personal risk to help evacuate her crew before
+it vanished again."
+
+
    
+"It was a close call," Sinclair tells them, "we almost didn't get out.
+We never did find out who was behind it."
+
+
    
+"And that is about to change," Delenn replies, changing the image
+again.  "This was recorded shortly before the station first disappeared
+six years ago.  As Babylon 4 neared completion, the allies of the
+Shadows recognized it for what it was, and sent these ships to destroy
+it.  Striking without warning, they would have succeeded in their
+attack, but something stopped them."  A ship appears on the screen,
+firing at the Shadow fighters.
+
+
    
+"The White Star?"  Sheridan asks.
+
+
    
+"Delenn, are you saying we stole Babylon 4?" Marcus asks.
+
+
    
+"But that was years ago!" Ivanova says.
+
+
    
+"Yes!" Delenn says.  "And that is exactly where we must go.  At this
+moment, the Great Machine is using all its power to enlarge the
+temporal rift in sector 14.  We will use it to go back six years into
+the past.  Once there, we must prevent the destruction of Babylon 4,
+and take the station with us through time.  Because, if we fail to save
+Babylon 4, Babylon 5 will also be destroyed."
+
+
    
+Sheridan can't believe that he is responsible for the disappearance of
+Babylon 4, but Delenn says that it has already happened, and all they
+must do is establish the past.  No one knew where the replacement station had
+come from until she came to Babylon 5, and she was afraid to say
+anything, for fear of changing the future.  Marcus says he isn't sure
+how moving Babylon 4 through time will save Babylon 5.  Delenn answers
+that, without Babylon 4, the Shadows would come out of the last war much
+too strong -- something with which Sinclair agrees.  Sheridan asks where
+the information came from, but Sinclair just says a reliable source.
+Marcus says that, if Sinclair believes it, he believes it.  Delenn says
+that, if they do not proceed, in the next major attack by the Shadows,
+Babylon 5 will be destroyed.  Sheridan calls Garibaldi, who says that
+he has been recording everything he can, and that the time stamp on the
+distress messages is eight days in the future.  Based on this, Sheridan
+reluctantly agrees to go along with the plan.  He calls Garibaldi and
+says they will investigate further, and that he should return to
+Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lennier appears on the screen, and tells them that they are being
+followed by something he believes comes from Epsilon 3.  Delenn
+explains that only the Great Machine can control such an unstable time
+field, and that the ship that is following them will assist them in
+helping control the time field.  The ship docks, and Delenn, Sheridan,
+and Sinclair go to meet it.  Delenn explains that a homing device must
+be placed in Babylon 4's central power core so that the Great Machine
+will find a clearly defined target, and that Draal has sent one of his
+aides to assist.  That aide turns out to be Zathras, who clumsily
+crashes into another Minbari.  As Zathras approaches and tries to
+introduce himself, Sinclair
+remembers having met him before.  Zathras is confused, but
+Sinclair explains it is in his own past.  He warns Zathras not to say
+anything to him that might change the past.  Zathras is very confused,
+but agrees.  Zathras tells both Sinclair and Sheridan that he is
+honored to meet them, but for different reasons.  Sheridan asks what
+the reasons are, but Zathras will not say, since Draal advised him not
+to mention that, as well as other things, which he doesn't
+remember.  Delenn arrives and tells them that Zathras' equipment is
+being unloaded, and that they are ready to proceed.  Delenn leads
+Zathras away, leaving Sinclair and Sheridan alone.  Sinclair tells
+Sheridan he needs a favor.
+
+
    
+As the White Star meets Garibaldi's Starfury, Sheridan tells Garibaldi
+it is important to go back to Babylon 5, even though Garibaldi very
+much wants to go with them back to Babylon 4.  Garibaldi doesn't
+understand, but complies.  After Garibaldi has gone, Sheridan asks
+Sinclair if he didn't want to talk to Garibaldi himself, and Sinclair
+tells him he did.  He walks away to a viewscreen, where he watches Garibaldi's
+ship fly off.  He remembers the flashforward he experienced on Babylon
+4, as well as the destruction of Babylon 5 he saw a couple years
+earlier in Ladira's vision.  He promises himself that he won't let it happen.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The White Star arrives in sector 14, and Zathras hands out small
+devices to everyone, saying that without them, they may become unstuck
+in time.  These devices, time stabilizers, will protect them and keep
+them from drifting.  After everyone has put on their time stabilizers, the
+White Star moves into the temporal rift.
+
+
    
+As the White Star makes its journey into the past, Garibaldi arrives
+back at the station, where he meets Zack, who tells him that Sinclair
+was there.  Garibaldi is shocked, unable to believe Sinclair would
+leave without saying anything.
+
+
    
+The White Star emerges from the temporal rift, and before long,
+detects the ships sent to destroy Babylon 4, which are escorting
+very powerful fusion bomb.  The White Star moves to intercept the
+ships.  The ships fire on the White Star, but there is neglible damage
+due to, Lennier explains, the ability the ship has to learn from
+previous encounters.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi arrives in his quarters to find a message from Ambassador
+Sinclair, but it requires a password.
+It isn't long, though, until Garibaldi is able to guess the
+password, "Hello, old friend."  The message from Sinclair apologizes
+for not saying goodbye.  Sinclair says that, if he had met with
+Garibaldi, neither of them would be returning from Babylon 4, and that
+Sinclair had to do whatever he could to protect his friend.
+
+
    
+Though the weapons are outside optimum firing range, Ivanova is
+able to fire at the ships manually, destroying the fusion bomb.  A huge
+blast is created, and the White Star is caught in it.
+Sheridan's time stablizer is hit by a blast of
+energy, and he vanishes.  Zathras runs up to the damaged stabilizer,
+and explains that Sheridan has become unstuck in time, and could be in
+either the past or the future.  Though everyone is very concerned and
+wants to find Sheridan, Sinclair knows that the mission is what is
+truly important, and if they wait too long, they may lose their one
+chance to move in under Babylon 4's damaged scanners.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is thrown down onto the floor and kicked.  He is picked up by
+several guards, who say that he is awake again.  Sheridan looks at the
+figure on the throne, and recognizes it as Londo, who looks quite a bit
+older than Sheridan is used to him.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The White Star moves to grapple onto a stable area of Babylon 4.
+Delenn has been deeply disturbed by Sheridan's disappearance.  Sinclair
+insists that he will be all right, and, to her stunned surprise, tells
+her in Minbari that he
+knows what is coming.  He asks if she is all right, and she says she
+isn't.  She says she is sorry, but he doesn't want her to be.  Sinclair
+tells her that he never knew before now where he belonged in life, but
+that now, his path is clear.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan asks Londo why he is there, and Londo tells him that he is
+finally going to put Sheridan out of Londo's own misery, finally
+punishing him for his crimes of neglect and convenience.  Londo tells
+him that, during the war, he drove away the Shadows, but that the
+Shadows' servants came to Centauri Prime, and Sheridan allowed it to
+happen.  Sheridan is taken to a window, where he looks out upon the
+burning, smoking city around him.  "There's the legacy of your war,"
+Londo tells him.
+
+
    
+The White Star connects to Babylon 4, and the crew exits the ship.
+Though the configuration of the station is different, Ivanova believes
+she can find her way around.  Ivanova needs to secure the primary
+corridors while they place the homing device, and Marcus goes off with
+her to help.  Sinclair asks Zathras if he will be able to unload and
+prepare the equipment by himself, and Zathras indicates he can.
+
+
    
+"Ready?"  Sinclair asks Delenn.
+
+
    
+"Why do your people always ask if someone is ready before you're going
+to do something massively unwise?" she asks him.
+
+
    
+Smiling, he answers her.  "Tradition."  The two of them move off down
+the corridor, to set the plan into motion.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@wsu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan is brought around to face Londo, and Sheridan insists that
+what he sees on Centauri Prime couldn't happen.  He demands to know
+what year it is, and Londo tells him it is the last year, day, and hour
+of Sheridan's life -- seventeen years after he began the war against the
+Shadows.  Londo tells the guards that he is tired, and wants Sheridan
+taken back to his cell.  Londo promises Sheridan he will meet whatever
+God he worships when next they meet, and Sheridan is taken away.
+
+
    
+On Babylon 4, Major Krantz arrives on C&C to find that there is still
+another hour or hour and a half until the sensors are back online
+following the explosion.  He says that he wants search teams increased
+so that they are prepared in case anyone tries to breach the hull.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ivanova and Marcus are searching through the station for an access
+panel, and though Ivanova thinks it will take a bit of luck to find
+one, Marcus insists he doesn't believe in it.  Ivanova, however,
+keeps walking and doesn't notice that Marcus has disappeared until she
+is trapped in the corridor between two security guards.  Marcus,
+however, drops down on them from above, and they are able to easily
+dispatch the guards.  After Marcus accidentally dislodges the cover
+from an access panel with his staff, Ivanova is able to get right to
+work.
+
+
    
+Even though Sheridan is alone in his cell back on Centauri Prime,
+without his time stabilizer, he is still unstuck in time, and reappears
+briefly upon Babylon 4, noticed only by Zathras, as he reaches, in pain,
+for a time stabilizer.  Meanwhile, Sinclair and Delenn prepare to set
+up their equipment, but the room in question is currently occupied by a
+group of officers.  Delenn is then overtaken by a strange feeling, which she
+describes as someone walking over her grave.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan reappears back in the future just in time to have a
+visitor -- an older Delenn.  He asks why she is there, and she insists that
+she didn't tell them anything, and that there is nothing they can do to
+her.  She was allowed one last moment with him, and she tells him that she
+isn't afraid, that their son is safe.  She tells him that she loves him,
+and kisses him.
+
+
    
+Ivanova finishes her tampering, and the computer announces a hull
+breach in the area.  The pressure doors fall down behind the evacuating
+crewmembers, leaving Sinclair,
+Ivanova, Delenn, and Marcus to do what they need to until the station
+personnel manage to burn through the door.
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells Delenn in the future that he isn't really there, and
+that he isn't supposed to be -- he tells her that the last thing he
+remembers was his time stabilizer being hit.  She believes him, and
+remembers that he had told her, a long time ago, that he had seen this
+moment in their future.  She tells him that there is much pain and
+grief ahead of him, and that she sees in his eyes an innocence he lost
+long ago.  Delenn tells
+him that the war against the darkness can never truly be won, but that
+they've created something that will endure for a thousand years, that they
+succeeded at everything they set out to do, but at a terrible price.
+Sheridan asks if there is anything he can do, but Delenn knows the only
+way to change this future is to surrender to the Shadows -- a price too
+high to pay.  The guards arrive again, and it is time for them to
+leave.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan and Delenn are once again brought before Londo, who has
+apparently been drinking quite a bit.  Londo says he has to drink,
+since it is the only way they can be alone -- he has no desire to wake
+"it" -- his keeper.  It doesn't care why he does what he does, as long as
+he does it, and as long as Sheridan ends up dead.  Londo sits forward,
+painfully, showing the keeper attached to his neck.  The alcohol is the
+only way Londo can control himself for any period of time, though he
+has very little time left.  Londo tells them that his world and all he
+hoped for is gone.  He tells them that they are his last chance for the
+Centauri, and his own redemption.  He tells them he has a ship hidden
+behind the palace, but that, in exchange for their lives, they must help to
+free the Centauri.  Londo tells them to leave quickly, since his keeper
+is beginning to wake.  They leave the throne room quickly, and are taken
+away by a guard.  After they have gone, another visitor comes to
+Londo -- G'Kar, whom Londo refers to as "old friend."  Londo says they
+have no hope if the keeper wakes up and sees what he has done.  They
+have unfinished business, and Londo wants it to end before the keeper
+stops him.  He says he is as tired of his life as G'Kar is, and G'Kar
+knows what to do.  He places his hands around Londo's throat, but after
+G'Kar begins to choke Londo, the keeper wakes up, and Londo puts his
+hands around G'Kar's neck as well.
+
+
    
+As Sheridan and Delenn move toward the ship, Sheridan lurches suddenly,
+and knows he's being pulled back again.  But, before he goes, Delenn
+gives him words to take with him back to the past.  "Treasure the
+moments you have.  Savor them for as long as you can, for they will
+never come back again.  John, listen to me.  Do not go to Z'ha'dum.  Do
+you understand?  Do not go to Z'ha'dum!"  Upon hearing these last
+words, he falls to the floor, and is pulled away in time.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+In the throne room, both Londo and G'Kar lie on the floor, dead.
+Another figure, however, arrives and picks up the imperial medallion Londo wore
+around his neck.  It is Vir.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+While the others move to set up the equipment, Zathras tells them that
+he believes that the power supply in a spare blue space suit may be
+able to make the time stabilizer work long enough for Sheridan to be
+rescued.  Though Marcus isn't convinced that Sheridan will reappear in
+the suit, Zathras' plan succeeds, and that is indeed where he
+reappears.  Sheridan comments, however, that he feels like he could
+drift away again at any moment.  Marcus tells Sheridan that they have
+secured a path to the central power core, and Sheridan plans to go with
+Sinclair, until Delenn arrives, glad to see that Sheridan has
+returned.  He doesn't, however, tell her what he learned in the
+future.
+
+
    
+Sinclair and Sheridan are nearly done placing the homing device in the
+power core, while Ivanova reports to them that she has rigged the
+scanners to make it look like the station is about to explode.  C&C
+discovers this, but Major Krantz insists that they increase the output
+to the power core, despite its not having been tested.  The sudden
+increase throws Sinclair and Sheridan away from the station just as the
+surge of tachyon particles increases, and Babylon 4 begins its journey
+through time.
+
+
    
+Zathras understands the problem, but insists it isn't his fault.  He is
+able to stop the station's movement through time, but not before
+Sheridan becomes unstuck in time yet
+again.  Zathras tells them that the time device placed in the core
+activated prematurely, sending them four years into the future, to when
+Babylon 4 reappeared before.  Zathras says they can't do anything else
+until they adjust the time system.  Ivanova tries to contact Sheridan,
+but Sinclair reports that he has gone again, and that they have a
+slight problem.
+
+
    
+On C&C, the first officer convinces Major Krantz that, despite all
+their work, it is necessary to evacuate to protect the lives of those
+on the station.  Krantz reluctantly agrees and orders a distress signal
+to be sent out.  Just as they are sending it, though, another increase
+of tachyon particles hits the station, and Delenn...
+
+
    
+
    
+
+...is standing against a wall in Sheridan's quarters, watching him sleep
+peacefully.
+She walks over to a nearby table, and picks up a snow globe, which she
+turns over, and admires.  Without warning, the door to the quarters
+opens, and a woman's voice says, "Hello."  Delenn, in shock, drops the
+snow globe, which shatters at her feet...
+
+
    
+...just as she finds herself again aboard Babylon 4.  Zathras explains
+what she experienced
+was a timeflash, where one sees oneself forward or backward in time,
+due to the instability of the system.  Sinclair arrives, but he isn't
+quite the Sinclair they knew -- he now appears much older.  He explains
+that, when he and Garibaldi went to Babylon 4 previously, they were
+exposed to the time field without any protection.  He didn't want
+Garibaldi along because he knew that Garibaldi, too, would have
+something similar happen to him if they should be exposed to it again.
+Sinclair says they need to finish their job, and that they need to get
+Sheridan back.  Zathras says he can fix the time stabilizer, but needs
+equipment.  Ivanova and Zathras leave to try to find the equipment
+elsewhere on the station.  Sinclair says he is going back to the core
+to readjust the equipment, and tells Marcus and the rest to stay with
+the White Star and monitor the readings.
+
+
    
+While Zathras searches through some equipment to find the tools he
+needs to repair the the time stabilizer, Lennier reports to Sinclair
+that seven ships are approaching the station -- one of which contains
+Garibaldi and another Sinclair.  Zathras finally finds what he needs to
+repair the time stabilizer, and finishes just as he is discovered by
+several security guards who level their PPGs at him.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zathras tries to explain to the security guards that he means no harm
+as he takes them away, and Ivanova sees this and reports back to the
+White Star.  Marcus tells her that it will take them another two hours
+to finish the repairs, but Ivanova knows they don't have that much
+time.  She says she will find a way to get to C&C to adjust the power
+there.
+
+
    
+While Major Krantz brings the other Sinclair and Garibaldi onto the
+station, explaining to them what happened aboard the station before it
+was brought forward in time, Delenn arrives back in the station from
+the White Star and sees Sheridan, still in his space suit, reappear.
+
+
    
+Krantz introduces the other Sinclair and Garibaldi to Zathras, who
+looks up at Sinclair, and says, "Not the One."  This confuses Sinclair,
+but Zathras won't say anything else to him, and claims merely that he
+does what he is told.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Everyone on C&C evacuates, leaving Ivanova free
+to sneak in and begin readjusting the power to the fusion reactors.
+
+
    
+Zathras tells Sinclair and Garibaldi that they need Babylon 4 for a
+great war, as a place to gather to fight and organize, to help save the
+galaxy "on the side of Light." Zathras explains further, saying that,
+without the station, it is the end of everything.  "The One leads us.
+The One tells us to go, we go."
+
+
    
+Two security guards arrive in the corridor to find a figure in a blue
+space suit, appearing and disappearing.  The guards run and tell Major
+Krantz, and everyone leaves the room where Zathras was being
+questioned, including Zathras.  They find the figure in the space suit,
+which Zathras identifies as being the One.  The figure in the space
+suit apparently is having difficulty standing, and Sinclair begins
+approaching it.
+
+
    
+Ivanova finishes what she is doing, and warns Sinclair, who has
+finished readjusting the homing device in the core, to back off, as it
+will soon become operational.
+
+
    
+The other Sinclair approaches the blue-suited figure and touches its
+outstretched hand, but is thrown back by a large blast.  In the
+resulting commotion, Zathras runs to the figure and gives it the
+repaired time stabilizer, warning the figure to take it and leave
+quickly.  The figure vanishes.
+
+
    
+Ivanova activates the station, and it begins moving.  Zathras warns the
+others to leave quickly, or else be trapped there forever.  As Sinclair
+moves away from the power core, Marcus discovers Sheridan, once again
+on Babylon 4, with a new time stabilizer.  Sheridan says that someone
+must have put it on him and switched places.  This confuses Marcus, who
+doesn't know who has been running around Babylon 4 in the blue suit.
+
+
    
+The other Sinclair and Garibaldi, while trying to escape with Zathras,
+lose him as he becomes trapped under a fallen pipe.  Though Sinclair
+tries to save Zathras, Zathras insists that he leave, telling him that
+he has a destiny.  Sinclair, though clearly confused, does as he is
+told, leaving Zathras behind.
+
+
    
+As the ships carrying the Babylon 4 crew and the other Sinclair and
+Garibaldi leave the station, Sinclair, just leaving the station's core,
+stands on the outside of the station and activates his communicator, to
+try to deliver one last message.  "Babylon 4 to Garibaldi, Babylon 4 to
+shuttle one.  Garibaldi, do you read me?  Watch your back, Michael.
+Watch your back."  But the target is outside of communication range.
+Sinclair moves toward the airlock, just as Babylon 4 begins to vanish
+one final time.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zathras, still trapped under the pipe, is approached by the figure in
+the blue space suit.  He looks up, and smiles.  "Zathras knew... you
+would not leave him.  Zathras trusts... the One."  The figure removes
+its helmet; it's Delenn.  The station vanishes again.
+
+
    
+Sinclair, inside the airlock, removes the headpiece from his own space
+suit.  "I tried," he says.  "I tried to warn them.  But it all
+happened... just the way I remember it."
+
+
    
+"I know," Delenn tells him.  "It's time.  We have to go.  They're
+waiting for us." Delenn, and a morose Sinclair, leave to join the
+others.
+
+
    
+Sinclair and Delenn arrive on C&C, and Ivanova says that the
+time-shifting controls can now be controlled from C&C.  Sinclair
+says he will set them off by himself and then return to the White Star,
+but Marcus doesn't believe it.  He knows that the system isn't
+fully automatic, and that someone has to ride Babylon 4 back into the
+past.  Though he offers to do so, Sinclair won't allow it.  "I'll
+take it back because I've always taken it, and I always will.  It's
+already happened."
+
+
    
+"You don't know that," Ivanova protests.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Yes I do," Sinclair tells her.  "You asked what brought me here.
+Before I left Minbar, I was given a letter... from nine hundred years
+ago."  He hands the letter to Sheridan.
+
+
    
+"Whose handwriting is this?" he asks.
+
+
    
+"Mine," Sinclair explains.  "I wrote this from the past... nine hundred
+years ago.  I went.  It's as simple as that."
+
+
    
+"He's telling the truth," Delenn says.  "I received one as well."
+
+
    
+"No," Ivanova insists, "I can't accept this."
+
+
    
+"If I go back to our time, the aging effect will probably kill me.
+Isn't it better to choose life?"
+
+
    
+"Damn it, Jeff, I..."
+
+
    
+"Susan, it's all right.  My whole life has been leading to this,"
+Sinclair tells her.  He asks her and Marcus to leave them for a
+moment, so they can discuss something alone.  After they have gone,
+Sinclair asks Zathras why he pointed to Delenn when he said he followed
+the One.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zathras explains that he is the oldest living caretaker of the Great
+Machine, and knows things about it that even Draal doesn't.  He tells
+them that he knows all three of them.  "All Minbari belief is around
+three.  Three castes -- worker, warrior, religious.  Three languages.
+Light, Dark, and Grey.  The Nine of the Grey Council -- three times
+three.  All is three... As you are three.  As you are one... As you are
+the One."  He turns to Sinclair.  "You are the One Who Was."  He turns
+to Delenn.  "You are the One Who Is."  He indicates Sheridan.  "You are
+the One Who Will Be."  He again refers to them in turn.  "You are the
+beginning of the story, and the middle of the story, and the end of the
+story that creates the next great story.  In your heart, you know what
+Zathras says is true.  Go now.  Zathras' place is with the One Who
+Was.  We have...  a destiny."  Sheridan and Delenn both say their
+silent goodbyes to Sinclair, and return to the White Star.
+
+
    
+Sheridan sits down in the captain's chair, and though it is clear that
+everyone will miss Sinclair, Sheridan says they need to leave and
+respect Sinclair's wishes.  They break the docking seal, set the engines to
+maximum, and head back home.
+
+
    
+The White Star emerges from the temporal rift, which closes behind
+it, Sheridan assumes, to make sure no one else is trapped there.
+"That door is closed forever," Delenn tells him.  "And it is not the
+only one.  Lennier told you that a thousand years ago, human and
+Minbari souls began to merge -- Minbari souls were being born in human
+bodies.  Something happened that opened that door between us.  My
+change was, in part, to even the scales and restore balance between our
+races, using a device my people discovered a thousand years ago.  You
+see... if my people had found Babylon 4 with a human aboard, they would
+never have accepted it."
+
+
    
+Marcus instantly knows what this means.  "Dear God... 'A Minbari not
+born of Minbari.'"
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As Babylon 4 continues its journey through time, Sinclair places
+a Triluminary in the top of a machine -- the same one
+Delenn used to begin her change.  The machine glows a bright light, and
+a new chrysalis begins to form, as Sinclair remembers his year
+aboard Babylon 5, and how his whole life had, indeed, led up to where
+he is now.  As time passes, he finds himself inside the chrysalis,
+beginning a change of his own.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+Londo is outraged that Babylon 5 has accepted the sole surviving
+Narn heavy cruiser, the G'Tok, into the station's mutual protection
+alliance.  Garibaldi is unimpressed.
+
+
    
+A visibly upset Lyta Alexander visits Medlab searching for answers
+about the death of Kosh but none are available.
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi steps into C & C just as a red Vorlon personal transport
+jumps in.  He enigmatically warns Ivanova against paging the Captain
+immediately.  When Ivanova bites, he mentions that Sheridan has taken a
+walk...outside.  As Ivanova peers aghast out the window, the Vorlon
+ship pauses to write a greeting on its hull to the spacewalking
+captain.
+
+
    
+G'Kar treats a very appreciative Na'Kal to dinner in his quarters.
+The conversation quickly sobers when Na'Kal reports that aside from the
+G'Tok only about ten Narn vessels survived the war.  He is further
+disappointed when G'Kar says they cannot retaliate against the
+Centauri, but must defend Babylon 5 instead.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Waiting for the new ambassador to arrive, Ivanova tells Sheridan
+that Garibaldi has gone to find Dr. Franklin, who has avoided his
+quarters for several days.  Sheridan is still astonished by Franklin's
+revelation about his stim addiction.  It is a day for surprises.  The
+new ambassador is considerably darker than the old Kosh.  They agree to
+refer to him as Kosh in public in order not to endanger the fragile new
+alliance.  But when Sheridan asks what he should call him in private
+the Vorlon says, "Kosh."
+
+
    
+"We are all Kosh," he adds without elaboration.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi tracks Stephen down in the Zocalo.  When Michael
+questions him about his recent wanderings, Stephen explains that he is
+engaged in a "walkabout."  It is the Australian aborigine rite of soul
+searching, and he hopes to find himself somewhere if he walks far
+enough.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The new Kosh examines his predecessor's quarters,  Staring at a wall,
+he perceives an afterimage, apparently of some Shadows and a human.
+
+
    
+Lyta isn't sure what she is looking for, but upon nearing the new
+ambassador's quarters she finds a very angry Vorlon.  He tries to
+throttle a piece of the old Kosh out of her but she insists that Kosh
+wasn't with her at all when she left the last time.  Her profuse
+apologies seem to satisfy him marginally and she is permitted to stay.
+
+
    
+Later in Sheridan's office she almost admits that the new Kosh is
+blaming her for the old ambassador's death.  She drifts into her own
+regrets as Sheridan muses about the Vorlons.  "Is there a problem?"
+Kosh's old voice asks.  Lyta jolts alert.
+
+
    
+"I said, 'Is there a problem?'" Sheridan repeats.
+
+
    
+Lyta quickly replies, "No."  Before she can leave the Captain has a
+request for her.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Franklin finds a nightclub where a beautiful woman is singing a
+love song.  "I understand you completely, it's over for you," she
+croons as he stares at her smitten and begins to unwind.
+
+
    
+Sheridan explains his proposition to engage a Shadow vessel with a
+telepath aboard the White Star in order to test the theory that they
+are vulnerable to telepathic jamming.  When he asks for volunteers the
+aliens present are remarkably quiet with the exception of G'Kar,
+who offers the G'Tok, and Delenn.  Sheridan refuses to take Minbari
+telepaths along as backup, but the council overrules him unanimously.
+
+
    
+To Stephen's delight, the singer, Cailyn, joins him while the club
+closes up around them.
+
+
    
+Na'Kal refuses G'Kar's request to support the White Star, claiming
+that Sheridan is on a fool's mission.  The White Star leaves anyway
+with only a single Minbari war cruiser as escort.  They will jump out
+of hyperspace as soon as a Shadow attack is reported and attempt to
+engage the enemy alone.
+
+
    
+Holding her cut glass tumbler at eye level Cailyn peers at
+Franklin.  She believes that if she catches the refracted image just
+right she can see someone's soul.  But all she sees of him is pieces.
+
+
    
+G'Kar is awakened by a furious Garibaldi hurling back the book of
+G'Quon.  When the Narn protests his impotence in the face of Na'Kal's
+refusal, Garibaldi reminds him that human pilots protected the G'Tok
+during the last days of the war not because they wanted to and not
+because they weren't afraid of dying, but because their commander had
+the moral authority to order them to do it.  As the leader of the Narn
+in exile it is G'Kar's responsibility to lead, not Na'Kal's, Garibaldi
+hisses, and then storms out.
+
+
    
+Franklin strokes Cailyn's shoulder in bed and tries to offer his
+assistance.  When she asks for a prescription painkiller Metazine to
+help her sleep, he grows very upset and tells her she should drink less
+instead.  She is annoyed at his rebuke and reminds him that he offered
+to help.  He just refuses crossly and turns away.
+
+
    
+Waiting on the White Star, Sheridan tries to comfort Lyta.  She
+asks him about Kosh's death, and is intrigued when he tells her how
+Kosh had touched his mind on that and another occasion.  Just then a
+Shadow attack is located.  They jump in leaving the Minbari ship poised
+in hyperspace behind them.
+
+
    
+Lyta prods the Shadow and collapses when it retaliates.  As the
+Shadow ship homes in on the White Star Sheridan shakes Lyta.  In a
+flash the telepath sees Kosh's death.  Her fury steadies her and she
+halts the Shadow ship in space.  While it's paralyzed, Sheridan orders
+Lennier to pour all power into the forward batteries, even to the
+extent of taking the jump engines off line.  The Shadow is destroyed.
+
+
    
+Cailyn filches Stephen's identicard while he lies sleeping and
+leaves the room.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lyta announces that the Shadow got off a distress call before they
+destroyed it.  The jump engines still need ten minutes to recuperate
+when four more Shadow ships arrive.  The White Star flees as the
+Minbari cruiser jumps in, but there are only three telepaths on board
+and Lyta is exhausted.  Evasive action isn't enough and soon the Shadow
+locks on.  In the instant before they are destroyed a jump point opens
+for the G'Tok and other alien ships coming to the rescue.  They destroy
+the attacking Shadow and the remaining three enemies flee.
+
+
    
+Sheridan cackles with glee and rushes to the window.  "And so it
+begins," the old Kosh says to Lyta.
+
+
    
+Franklin wakes up and finds Cailyn lying on the floor with his card
+and a vial of Metazine.  He rushes her to Medlab only to discover that
+she is suffering from terminal neural paralysis.  Instead of the
+overdose he assumed, she had collapsed from excruciating pain.  She has
+only six months to live.  She begs him not to send her away, explaining
+that singing in DownBelow makes her last days worthwhile because she
+gives the people there hope.
+
+
    
+After docking Lyta rushes to tell the new ambassador that a piece
+of Kosh Naranek may still be alive in someone else.
+
+
    
+Stephen enjoys one last song by Cailyn, then resumes walking.
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+
    
+B5 is openly recruiting telepaths, but it is slow going.  Sheridan recalls
+Franklin's underground network for helping telepaths escape Psi 
+Corps, and Ivanova goes looking for the doctor, who is still on Walkabout.
    
+
+A maintenance worker is checking a power failure in Grey 16 and links with
+Central to inform them he can't find the cause of the malfunction. As 
+soon as he finishes communication, something pulls him down the shaft he
+was working in, and he vanishes, screaming. 
    
+
+
+
+On Minbar, Rathenn tells Delenn of his last moments with Ranger One, and how
+his loss is being felt by everyone. Lennier arrives with a box containing 
+Sinclair's personnal belongings - surprisingly few, which leads Rathenn to
+comment he lived his life as only passing by, not wanting to carry any 
+burden. Delenn assures Rathenn she will send the box to Sinclair's family 
+and prepares to leave. Before that, however, Rathenn tells her that Ranger
+One's position must be taken without delay, and he thinks Delenn would be perfect for the job. She objects, but
+Rathenn is adamant.
    
+
+Garibaldi is cleaning an antique Smith & Wesson .38 that was his 
+Grandmother's when she was on an Earth police force when Zack arrives with the 
+report of the disappearance of the maintenance worker in Grey
+sector. Garibaldi decides to investigate himself.
    
+
+Ivanova finds Franklin in Downbelow,
+starting to suffer from Stim withdrawal. She asks him for
+data on the telepaths.  He says that he wiped it from the main computer, 
+but he has a backup on his personal system.  He trades the data in return
+for being left alone, "no matter what."
    
+
+Garibaldi and a tech supervisor visit the site of the tech's disappearance, 
+but find nothing. They argue about the number of Grey levels, which are mostly 
+industrial areas.  He says 30, but she says 29 -- a mix-up on the 
+blueprints that was never picked up due to the speed of the construction 
+of the station.
    
+
+
     
+Sheridan congratulates Delenn and tells her she is the perfect choice for
+Ranger One. She points out that while she may be the logical choice,
+she's not necessarily the popular 
+choice. She decides to have her initiation ceremony on Babylon 5. 
+Sheridan is worried about how public such an event would be, given
+that the Rangers have been a secret organization up to now. That is about
+to change, Delenn assures him.
    
+
+After he leaves, she is 
+confronted by Neroon, who says he underestimated her: he didn't think she had such 
+ambition: Calling the Rangers together after 1000 years of silence, and 
+having the Religious Caste building Warships without the knowledge or
+consent of the Warrior Caste. Valen's law, he says, 
+was quite clear: 
+"Three Castes, Worker, Religious, Warrior. They build, you pray. WE fight!"
+Delenn points out that he broke that law when the Warrior Caste assumed 
+a majority voice in the Grey 
+Council.
    
+
+Neroon demands that she
+renounce the leadership of the Rangers, and accuses her of creating
+a vaccum of power on Minbar so that she could occupy it. A religious
+zealot, guided by prophecy, taking command of a military structure.
+He tells her he is sworn to stop her - no
+matter the means. Lennier arrives and Delenn is distracted by seconds -
+time enough for Neroon to vanish.
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi takes the elevator down through each Grey level, counting the time taken 
+between floors.  Between 16 and 17 the gap is twice as long, so he takes 
+the elevator back up and stops it between floors.  Opening the doors, he 
+finds a previously unknown level, strangely designed and strewn with garbage.
+He is then shot with a tranquilizer dart by a ventriloquist's dummy.
    
+
    
+
+Lennier is outraged that Neroon, a former Grey Council member, would threaten
+Delenn with death. After all, no Minbari has killed another Minbari in over a thousand years. Lennier wants Delenn to 
+tell the captain about this, but Delenn refuses, and makes Lennier promise not to tell Sheridan. They leave to prepare the ceremony. 
    
+
+Garibaldi comes to and is confronted by a ragtag group of people, led
+by a man named Jeremiah. The group believes that the universe 
+is sentient and is striving for perfection. It hasn't got it right yet.
+After the next big bang, they say,
+everything will be perfect.
    
+
+Lennier arrives at Marcus' quarters and tells him
+he has come to break a promise, by not breaking a promise. He promised 
+Delenn he would not tell Sheridan a thing. He cannot tell anyone in the chain of
+command, because Sheridan would find out, but by telling Marcus, who is outside the chain of command, he will not have broken his promise.
    
+
+Lennier informs
+Marcus of Neroon's intentions. Lennier can't stop Neroon without causing
+a civil war between the Castes, but Marcus, a non-Minbari, could. He would only need to delay
+Neroon -- once the cerimony is done, it cannot be undone. Marcus, without 
+hesitation, agrees, but Lennier informs him that Neroon is one of the 
+greatest warriors of the Minbari, specially trained in killing humans, 
+and very good at what he does. Marcus only asks Lennier to inform him of 
+Neroon's whereabouts, as soon as he discovers them.
    
+
+
+Jeremiah explains to Garibaldi that the universe is alive,
+and each individual
+is a part of the greater whole. The universe is trying to understand
+itself -- something, he says, that the Minbari understand perfectly.
+Garibaldi, however, is only really concerned about 
+escaping. That proves difficult, however - all pressure doors are locked and
+the tube sabotaged. 
    
+
+
+Preparations are being made for the leadership ceremony. Rangers
+arrive by the dozens on the station. Sheridan and 
+Delenn talk about her past.  After her birth, Delenn's mother entered a 
+religious order, the Sisters of Valeria,
+has seen her only twice since. Delenn's father passed 
+beyond the veil 10 years before.  The war 
+between the Minbari and Humans broke his heart.
    
+
+
    
+Neroon and Marcus meet in a corridor.  Neroon tells Marcus to step aside,
+that Neroon's argument is with Delenn. Then it is also with me,
+Marcus says. Marcus invokes a Minbari fight-to-the-death ritual. 
+They go at each other with Minbari 
+staffs.
    
+
+
+In Grey 17, Jeremiah - while Garibaldi checks every corner for an exit - 
+muses on how a new Big Bang will occur, this time conciously directed, 
+each part of the whole concious of its larger role, and solving "a serious
+design flaw": that the Universe kills everything it creates. Simulating pain
+due to the dart, Garibaldi manages to get rid of one of the guards,
+and then hits another one,  "persuading" Jeremiah
+to show him the exit.
    
+
+
+The Ceremony is in progress, with Delenn being offered
+Ranger One's vest and with virtually everyone present, except Marcus, whose
+absence is noted by Sheridan and Ivanova.
    
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi and Jeremiah find the worker's bloodied vest, and Michael asks 
+him if they killed him. Jeremiah says no.
+However, in search for perfection, the cultists have imported a Zarg,
+one of the most perfect forms in the Universe, moved by instinct only.
+"You have a Zarg here? Are you nuts? They're the most dangerous aliens
+in the sector!" A noise approaches them...
    
+
+
+Marcus is losing badly.  Neroon says that he cannot back away from 
+Denn-Shar, but Marcus, as a human, can. Marcus refuses. Neroon asks him
+why. For Delenn, Marcus replies:
+We live for the One and we would die for the One.
    
+
+
+Garibaldi, using a steam tube, manges to scare the Zarg a first time,
+but he knows that is only temporary. He them discovers the bullets
+of his Smith & Wesson in his back pocket.
    
+
+
+The ceremony is almost complete when Neroon walks in, carrying a bloody 
+staff which he throws as Delenn's feet.  There is blood now between
+the Humans and the Warrior Caste, he says. He does not believe that
+they would die for him, but they would die for Delenn.
    
+
+Lennier finds Marcus and gets him to Medlab, where he will recover.
    
+
+
+Jeremiah can't understand why Garibaldi is fighting, since the death at the
+hands of the Zarg is a perfect death. Garibaldi points out that
+Jeremiah isn't out there with the Zarg either. Jeremiah hesitates, 
+and concludes he is not yet perfect enough.
+Garibaldi, using a local heat souce, detonates the bullets inside the tube and 
+they hit the Zarg, killing it. They run.
+
    
+
+Neroon arrives and orders Delenn and Lennier out of the room so he can 
+speak to Marcus, one worrior to another. Neroon says that the death that took
+place in their battle was his own. Marcus was willing to die for 
+someone of another race, when Neroon was going to kill one of his 
+own kind.  He muttered something about Marcus being more Minbari than 
+himself. 
    
+
+As he turns to leave Marcus gasps: "Next time you want a revelation, 
+could you possibly find a way that's not quite so uncomfortable?" Neroon laughs.
    
+
+Garibaldi meets Sheridan at his office and tells him, "You wouldn't believe
+the day I had." Sheridan won't have any of it, though: where the hell was he 
+while Marcus was being beaten up, someone was trying to kill Delenn and someone
+was invading the ceremony? Garibaldi starts telling him about the missing 
+Grey level, the cult, the quest for perfection, the killer predator...
    
+
+"Am I going too fast for you?" he asks.
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+Z Minus 14 Days
+
+
    
+The station is a flurry of activity as war preparations continue.  Since
+they can jam the Shadows, telepaths of many races are being recruited and
+assigned to Army of Light patrol ships.  G'Kar insists that each telepath should
+be given a Narn bodyguard. 
+
+
    
+Londo thinks G'Kar has been permitted to escape Centauri wrath for too long,
+however.  Vir is appalled that Londo could care about petty revenge when the
+entire galaxy is suffused with war. 
+
+
    
+
+Appreciating Brother Theo for the stability his monks have offered in the
+chaos, Ivanova joins him in Docking to greet some religious "colleagues."
+Personal and professional rivalry aside, Brother Theo seems genuinely
+pleased to meet the Baptist minister, rabbi, Buddhist monk and Islamic
+cleric who have arrived.
+
+
    
+Looking weary and haggard, Captain Sheridan is lost so deep in contemplation
+that he is oblivious to Delenn's teasing. Nothing about the Shadows'
+strategy makes any sense.  The timing and location of the attacks seem
+random and illogical, but the individual engagements are tactically very
+logical.  The Captain isn't eating properly, hasn't slept well since Kosh's
+death, and is suffering from nightmares.  So Delenn bullies him into meeting
+the new arrivals for dinner that night. 
+
+
    
+Another arrival has the Centauri flustered - or at least Vir.  Nothing seems
+to faze Londo any more, not even Lord Refa and Minister Virini.  Londo
+outlines his plan to ensnare G'Kar by having Vir pass on the tale that
+G'Kar's former assistant Na'Toth is imprisoned on the Narn homeworld. G'Kar
+will then rush back to Narn to rescue her and be taken captive by Londo's
+agents.  Vir refuses until Londo threatens to humiliate and destroy Vir's
+family in retribution.
+
+
    
+As smarmy as ever, Lord Refa presents his case to the Minister of why his
+house should achieve ascendancy over that of Mollari.  The ambassador has
+spent too much time among aliens, he claims, and is no longer loyal.  The
+Minister wants the rivalry between the two houses ended and is apparently on
+the station to determine which of the two deserve his support.
+
+
    
+Cringing pathetically, Vir takes his mission to G'Kar, while Londo informs
+the Minister that the division between the two houses will be ended soon
+through his relieving the Empire of an ongoing embarrassment.  Vir can't
+contain his anger when he realizes that Londo intends to kill G'Kar in order
+to curry royal favor.  His outrage does not go unnoticed by Refa's spies.
+Vir is captured and interrogated by Lord Refa himself.  When he tries to
+hold out, a telepath easily rips Londo's plan from his mind.
+
+
    
+At dinner it is revealed that the religious leaders are part of an organized
+resistance and intelligence gathering movement on Earth, and come bearing
+information for B5.  Before leaving, Reverend Dexter says that he wants to
+hold a religious gathering on the station.  The Captain agrees over Brother
+Theo's humorous objections.
+
+
    
+Reverend Dexter finds Sheridan still working late in his office, and asks
+him who he shares his heavy responsibility with.  Sheridan grows irritated
+with the minister's presumption, especially with the implication that
+Sheridan is not being a good officer and the suggestion that he should share
+his burden with the woman who loves him.
+
+
    
+Z Minus 13 Days
+
+
    
+Peering into the cold, wind-wracked desolation of the former Narn capital,
+G'Kar gathers his forces for a mission into the secret caverns below the
+city.  The ruins above are being rebuilt and redecorated to look like the
+Centauri Imperial Palace.  Refa has just arrived and requests a security
+detail from Lord Drego to assist him in capturing G'Kar.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Musing in the war room, Delenn and Sheridan realize that the Shadows are
+corralling refugees into zones where they can be annihilated with ease.
+This war is "as much about terror as territory," he argues.  A strike
+against defenseless refugees would have a great demoralizing effect on the
+Alliance.  "It's what I'd do," he crows.
+
+
    
+"What?" Delenn gasps. 
+
+
    
+When he tries to explain that they need to think like the enemy, she grabs
+him by the arm and drags him out of the war room telling him he seriously
+needs a break.
+
+
    
+G'Kar and his Narns proceed underground.  Refa and his guards pick up the
+trail and follow him into an ambush.  Refa gloats, "You have taken your last
+steps as a free Narn!"
+
+
    
+Back on the station, Reverend Dexter begins his sermon.  The enemy is not
+just something different.  "We are all alien to one another," he argues.
+"The enemy is fear.  The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells
+you that we must hate that which is different."
+
    
+
+
    
+
+As the service continues, a far eerier ritual begins deep under the surface
+of Narn.  Refa orders his guards to attack G'Kar.  His face shows the first
+signs of fear when they fail to move.  Then G'Kar brings out a holo
+projector with a recording of Londo telling his nemesis his fate.  In return
+for Mollari freeing 2000 incarcerated Narns, G'Kar has captured Refa, the
+Centauri who is personally responsible for the planetary bombardment of Narn
+and the deaths of 5 or 6 million Narns.
+
+
    
+Holding aloft a data crystal, G'Kar admonishes his Narns only to leave this
+on the body and keep the face and head intact for identification later.
+
+
    
+"No hiding place!" the gospel singer begins in the B5 chapel.  As the
+congregation joins in joyously, Refa scrambles down a corridor into the arms
+of waiting Narns.  "There's no hiding place down here!."  He runs terrified
+back the way he came.  "You know the sinner's gonna be runnin' at the
+knowledge of their fate!"  Refa barrels into a crowd of eager Narns.
+"They'll be runnin' trying to find a hiding place when it comes their time
+to die!"  Even the Minbari begin to catch the spirit and try to sing along.
+"No hiding place!"  Refa's crest drowns under a sea of spotted heads, and
+he is brutally attacked by the Narn as G'Kar watches, then leaves.
+
+
    
+Mollari gives the data crystal found on Lord Refa's body to Minister Virini,
+and explains how Refa had betrayed the Centauri to the Narn and G'Kar to the
+Centauri. The minister seems surprised that Londo asks for nothing in return
+for exposing this plot.  Vir is furious again however, this time for being
+set up and lied to.  Londo says he knew that Refa had a telepath with him,
+so of course he had to tell Vir what he wanted Refa to believe.  But Vir is
+not placated.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Delenn has a final surprise for the Captain.  In the long period of
+preparation before the war, the Minbari have completed an entire fleet of
+White Star class ships.
+
+
    
+Z Minus 10 Days.
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (n9641343@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Z Minus 7 Days
+
+
    
+Delenn appeals to the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to assist the Army
+of Light in the war against the Shadows.  The League, however, is not
+inclined to join them, without knowing what they are getting into.
+Lennier urges them to trust Delenn, but they aren't sure, and even
+though Delenn believes many of her previous actions should have earned
+their trust, none of them are sure they want to weaken their own
+defenses.  Delenn promises that she will work to keep the other ships
+as safe as possible, using as many ships as she can spare.  She reminds
+them that their time is short.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, addressing the War Council, explains that he believes the
+Shadows are trying to lure everyone into one place, sector 83, in order
+to attack them all at once.  One ship, the White Star, will be sent there
+to inform the fleet when the Shadows arrive.  Sheridan orders Ivanova
+and Marcus not to engage the Shadows without further orders.
+He warns them both that, even if everything goes as planned,
+they can hope for little more than a fifty percent chance of success.
+
+
    
+Delenn returns to the council chamber to find the entire League of
+Non-Aligned worlds gone, except for the Drazi ambassador.  He explains that
+the others went to speak with their governments, and that the other
+ambassadors have agreed to commit their ships.  He hopes she's right about her
+plan, as it will cost them all greatly otherwise.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and Marcus prepare to leave in the White Star, and the only
+further advice Sheridan has for them is an old Egyptian blessing.  As
+the White Star begins the journey to sector 83, Marcus asks Ivanova
+what the captain meant by the blessing.  "May God stand between you and
+harm in all the empty places you must walk," explains Ivanova.
+
+
    
+As Garibaldi walks down the corridor, he is met up by Zack on his way
+to lunch.  Garibaldi doesn't care to join him, since he is still more
+than a little concerned about Dr. Franklin, who is still on Walkabout.
+Zack doubts Franklin's choice, and Garibaldi agrees that it may be an
+immature course.  Zack tries to convince Garibaldi that he did
+everything he could to help, but Garibaldi is not so sure;
+perhaps he tried to help Franklin in the wrong way.  Even though he
+knows it's too late to help further, he hopes Dr. Franklin will
+find what he's looking for--himself.
+
+
    
+
+
+In a crowded marketplace in Downbelow, a family of visitors to Babylon
+5 tentatively makes their way, the mother not able to understand its
+appeal.  She insists she heard the sqalid conditions are due to
+Babylon 5's secession from
+Earth, though her husband disagrees.  While they argue, their daughter
+loses her ball, which is caught by Dr. Franklin, lurking amongst the
+crowd.  Though all he does is return it to her and try to make her
+smile, the mother is vary wary and pulls her away.
+
+
    
+Z Minus 6 Days
+
+
    
+Ivanova enters the White Star's sleeping chambers and awakens Marcus,
+who is quick to run a check on the weapon systems.  Ivanova observes
+that Marcus is fluent in Minbari, and Marcus explains that part of his
+training as a Ranger was to learn to be able to speak and think in a
+Minbari tongue, and that, to the Minbari, it is as important as
+fighting prowess.  He offers to teach Ivanova, who politely refuses.
+Though she does relent a little, she is intrigued by some words he
+speeks to her: "You're the most beautiful woman I've ever met," though
+she can't understand the Minbari tongue he speaks them in.  He tells
+her it is a greeting that means, "My words are inadequate to the burden
+of my heart."  She finds the saying unusual, but is anxious to get to
+bed, though sleeping on the diagonal bed proves less than easy for
+her.  Marcus pesters her a little more but eventually leaves,
+leaving Ivanova to attempt to rest.  However, she has very little
+success.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in his quarters charging up his PPG when Delenn enters with
+a progress report on the fleet.  She explains that, as difficult as
+forming the fleet was, keeping it at full strength will be even harder.
+Sheridan tells Delenn he wishes she would stay behind
+during the battle, what with everyone else being tied up, but she
+insists it is important for her to go and that, when she returns, they
+will spend the night together.  Delenn explains to Sheridan, who
+misinterprets her remark, that "when Minbari become close as we have
+become close, it is tradition that they spend three nights together.
+The male sleeps, the female watches."  This confuses Sheridan until
+Delenn explains that Minbari believe one's true face is only revealed
+during their sleep, when they have no need to put on a different one
+for the people they meet during the day.  If the female likes what she
+sees, the ritual continues.  Delenn insists to Sheridan that she
+already does, and he needn't worry about the lofty consequences, should
+that not happen.  "History awaits," she tells him as she leaves.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+As Franklin is exploring some of the dark environs of Downbelow, he
+witnesses two thugs savagely beating up on a man.  Franklin tries to
+come to the man's assistance, but a vicious battle between Franklin and
+the assailants ensues, leaving Franklin bleeding profusely.  The man he
+tried to save was dealing drugs and refuses to help for fear of being
+caught.  Some time later, Franklin is still alone, despite his
+frantic shouting and attempts making progress out of the secluded
+alcove in which he's trapped.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Ivanova discovers the solution to sleeping on the White Star -- removing
+the pillows from each of the beds, and making a bed from them -- just as
+Marcus calls her to tell her that she's needed on the bridge.  When she
+arrives, he shows her that a small ship, made of the same material as
+Shadow vessels, has appeared.  It seems to be some sort of a scout
+ship, but the White Star has little time to spare -- they can't move
+without their energy signature being picked up, and since the planet
+they are hiding behind is about to come out of eclipse, they are going
+to be seen very soon.  The sun appears, and the White Star is revealed
+to the scout ship.  It sees them and begins to send out a warning
+signal, but Ivanova orders Marcus to jam it before it can warn the
+Shadows.
+
+
    
+Delenn, Sheridan, and Lennier, aboard the command ship of the fleet,
+prepare for the battle.  The telepaths are safe, and the other White
+Star ships are on their way.  Delenn is very worried about Ivanova, but
+Sheridan insists she will be fine.  Delenn leads Sheridan to the place
+where he will lead the battle--a chamber much like that in which the
+Grey Council met.  Delenn tells him that he will be able to keep track
+of the battle.  Sheridan doesn't understand how, but Delenn promises
+him he will when the time comes.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Franklin, still bleeding and weaker than before, continues to cry
+out for help, but to no avail.  He mutters to himself about how stupid what
+he's done is, and another voice from nearby agrees with him.  He looks
+up to see a healthy, clean-cut version of himself standing nearby, agreeing.
+"You said you had
+to keep walking until you met yourself.  Well, here I am.  So, if we're
+gonna talk, let's talk.  Only, I don't think you have enough time."
+
+
    
+The Shadow scout ship fires upon the White Star, but does no damage.
+Ivanova is determined to prevent the Shadow vessel from getting out of
+jamming range, and she prepares to fire.  She returns fire on the
+vessel, and does some damage, but angers it greatly -- the ship
+moves to ram them, delivering a glancing blow that takes the White
+Star's jump engines offline.
+Marcus detects an energy surge several
+thousand kilometers away, and he puts it up on the view screen.  Dozens
+of full-sized Shadow vessels begin appearing.  Without the jump
+engines on-line, the White Star is in trouble.  They know that they have no
+chance of escape, so they signal their fleet.
+
+
    
+As the Minbari fleet moves to assist the White Star, and the Shadow
+vessels continue to move closer, Dr. Franklin continues his
+conversation with himself, who tells him that he has spent his whole
+life running away from his father, his future, his life, and his work.
+The other Franklin is upset at the wounded Franklin, who, when he
+finally had everything he needed including a good job and people that
+cared about him, just gave it up and ran away.  He is also less than
+happy that Franklin won't stop dying long enough to answer his
+charges.  He tells Franklin he doesn't care if he dies, as the two of
+them parted ways a long time ago.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+As the White Star's jump engines begin to come back on-line, Marcus
+determines that a Shadow vessel has detected the White Star, and is
+moving to intercept.  As it comes closer, a jump point opens, and
+numerous ships emerge -- including the White Star fleet, Minbari heavy cruisers,
+and the ships of the League of Non-Aligned worlds.  As Sheridan watches
+in the command room of the lead Minbari ship, a circular viewscreen
+descends around him and Delenn, and he dispenses his orders to the
+fleet.  The battle begins.
+
+
    
+"Blood pressure's dropping fast," Franklin says, taunting his wounded
+alter ego.  He asks Franklin what he has to live for, and what he could
+possibly want, since he threw it all away the first time.  Franklin
+insists he wants to do it all over again, and begins to regain his
+determination.  He begins to move, and pull himself up the ladder that
+leads out of his prison.  With his healthy self taunting him all the way,
+and despite his
+wounded condition, Franklin is eventually able to get out.  With great
+difficulty, he makes his way through the station, until he finally
+arrives in a Downbelow market area, where he is dragged away by security
+personnel.
+
+
    
+The battle rages on, with all of the ships, Shadow and non-Shadow
+alike, taking heavy damage.  However, despite the Shadows'
+superior numbers, Sheridan's battle expertise and the large number of
+telepaths at his disposal manage to help keep the Shadow ships at bay,
+if only a little.  The battle comes to its conclusion, and despite
+heavy losses on all sides, the Shadows, realizing what they are up
+against, eventually retreat, leaving a massive graveyard of ships
+behind.  As they stand amidst the remains of their fleet, Sheridan and
+Delenn embrace, knowing they have, for now at least, triumphed.
+
+
    
+Franklin, on a gurney, is taken back to Medlab as the remants of the
+fleet and the numerous casualties therefrom are returned to the
+station.  Garibaldi asks Sheridan, once he is back in the docking bay,
+how the battle went, to which Sheridan replies that it went okay, but
+not great.  Two of their ships were destroyed for every one of the
+Shadow ships that were taken out, and Marcus reminds them that this time
+they had the advantage -- they knew where the Shadows were going to strike.
+Next time they won't be so lucky.  But Ivanova is still
+impressed -- they were able to unite with the League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+"So here's the big question," Garibaldi says.  "Now that we've shown
+them we can hurt them, how long until they come knocking at our front
+door?"
+
+
    
+"That's what worries me," Sheridan says as he and Delenn leave.
+
+
    
+Z Minus 4 Days
+
+
    
+Garibaldi goes to visit Franklin, being treated for his wounds in
+Medlab.  Franklin finally regains consciousness, and Garibaldi tells
+him that he is disappointed -- he lost 30 credits in a bet because of
+it.  Franklin, though still in great pain, is willing to admit that he
+found what he needed -- a short, sharp kick to the head, which Garibaldi
+says he would have been only too happy to provide.  Franklin also says
+that, when he found himself, he didn't like the person he met too
+much.  Garibaldi gets ready to leave, but reminds Franklin before he
+goes never to do something like this again -- he can't afford to lose
+another 30 credits.
+
+
    
+In Hyperspace, a Shadow vessel is travelling, but it stops for a
+moment, and something emerges from it -- a ship.  It flies off quickly in
+an opposite direction from the Shadow vessel.
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells everyone that, though they did everything they could,
+they took a big loss, and that it is only a matter of time until the
+Shadows come looking for them.  Sheridan wants to know how and when,
+but Delenn suggests that they may be reluctant to do so, and with the
+weapon on Epsilon 3 at their disposal, they may be foolish to try.
+Ivanova doesn't understand why, when the Shadows could have attacked at
+any time during the past year, they waited so long to attack now?  As
+Sheridan ponders this, he remembers part of his dream from long
+ago -- something he's been doing ever since Kosh died.
+
+
    
+Ivanova, with a large raven on her shoulder, asks Sheridan, "Do you
+know who I am?"
+
+
    
+Sheridan explains that, not too long after he had the dream, Ivanova revealed
+that she
+was a latent telepath, and that she said she sometimes didn't know who
+she was.  Ivanova doesn't know how Kosh knew that, but that the image
+does fit.  He explains further that the dream showed him wearing the
+uniform of a PsiCop, and Ivanova realizes that that foreshadowed their
+siding with Bester.  Sheridan further explains he had an image of
+Garibaldi, with a dove on his shoulder.
+
+
    
+"The man in between is searching for you."
+
+
    
+Ivanova surmises that that could refer to Sinclair, but Sheridan is unsure,
+feeling that there must be another explanation.  He moves on to the
+next part of his dream -- Ivanova, dressed in a black veil.
+
+
    
+"You are the hand."
+
+
    
+Ivanova doesn't understand why she would say anything that sounded so
+strange, but Delenn explains that Sheridan has two hands, both equal,
+but opposite, and that it is possible that is the "man in between" to
+which Sheridan's dream was referring -- Sheridan's equal and opposite.
+The final part of Sheridan's dream -- his looking up and seeing himself --
+seems to support that theory as well.  Sheridan orders that all of
+Babylon 5's squadrons be on flybys, since sooner or later, trouble will
+find them.  And he expects it to be sooner.
+
+
    
+Before long, Franklin is back up and around, advising those beneath him
+in Medlab.  Though he is confined to a wheelchair, he can still do what
+he does best: give orders.  Sheridan comes into Medlab and tells
+Franklin that his job is waiting for him, should he still want it.
+Franklin doesn't have to hesitate very long before saying yes.
+Sheridan asks him if he is sure, but Franklin knows he is.  Franklin
+tells Sheridan that he used the stims to do more, when what he needed
+was to do better, and he knows that he ran away when he quit to avoid
+being fired.  He explains that he has, for his entire life, looked at
+himself in terms of what he wasn't, but never what he was, and that he
+missed a lot of important things because of it.  He knows he can't go
+back and undo his past mistakes, but can appreciate what he has now,
+and he can define himself by what he is and not what he isn't.
+Sheridan asks what that is.  "I'm alive," Franklin tells him.
+"Everything else is negotiable."  Sheridan's commlink beeps, and he
+answers it.  It is an officer telling Sheridan that Delenn is awaiting
+him.  Sheridan leaves, and as he goes, Franklin continues his advising.
+
+
    
+Later that evening, as another visitor arrives on the station, Sheridan
+is in his quarters, asleep, while Delenn watches him silently.
+Ivanova, however, is having trouble sleeping.  Zack interrupts her,
+telling her there is someone new onboard the station, that he considers
+very important, and that concerns the captain.  As Sheridan sleeps,
+Delenn gets up from his beside and moves out to the front room, where
+she finds a snow globe.  She picks it up, turns it over, and watches
+the falling flakes silently.  The door to Sheridan's quarters burst
+open, and a shadow appears in the doorway.  What she sees is enough to
+cause her to lose her hold on the snow globe, which falls to the ground
+and shatters.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+"Hello," the figure, a woman, says as she appears in the doorway.  "You
+must be Delenn.  I'm Anna Sheridan.  John's wife."
+
+
    
+Z Minus 2 Days
+
+
    
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+"Humans have a phrase," Delenn narrates, as we see a recap of events
+leading up to the present, while she watches over Sheridan as he
+sleeps.  "'What is past is prologue.' Minbari also have a phrase.
+'What is past is also sometimes future.'"
+
+
    
+The door to Sheridan's room bursts open, and he emerges, mouth agape,
+staring at Anna.  He can't believe what he is seeing, and asks her what
+she's doing there.  She asks him if that's the best she can do, but,
+indicating Delenn, says she can understand under the circumstances.
+Delenn rushes out, and Sheridan tries to stop her, but Anna lets her
+leave.  He tells Anna that he thought she was dead, and she expresses
+surprise that Delenn didn't tell him.  She says she's sorry she couldn't
+tell him herself, and that she had to leave him alone for so long with
+no word.  But that's behind them now, and they're together again.  He
+pulls away, and she tells him she understands his doubts, based on what
+Delenn told him.  She tells him she will take any tests and answer any
+questions to prove she is his wife.  She says she's here to explain
+everything to him to help him understand what it's really all about.  She
+says all he needs to do is come with her.
+
+
    
+"Where?" Sheridan asks.
+
+
    
+"Where else?"  Anna replies.  "To Z'ha'dum."
+
+
    
+As G'Kar and Ivanova walk through a storage bay, G'Kar explains that
+the devices around them were delivered by the Gaim ambassador, and that
+each of the weapons can deliver a blast of between five and six hundred
+megatons, and they are very difficult to detect.  Ivanova plans to use
+them as mines to destroy Shadow vessels when they come out of
+hyperspace.
+
+
    
+Sheridan watches in MedLab as a group of medical personnel examine
+Anna.  Dr. Franklin emerges and tells Sheridan that Anna is human, and
+that all of her old medical records match up perfectly: It is his
+wife.  Sheridan protests that she died at Z'ha'dum, and Franklin asks
+why he isn't glad she's back.  Sheridan explains that he had to move
+beyond her death, and now, with Delenn, things are even more
+complicated.  He asks Franklin if there is anything else, and Franklin
+mentions that he found some epidermal scarring above the nape of her
+neck, and that he doesn't yet know what caused it.  Franklin promises
+to run some tests, and Sheridan tells him that he has to know whether
+or not it's really Anna.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, in his office, demands to know from Delenn if it really is
+Anna.  Delenn says she doesn't know, but Sheridan doesn't accept that
+answer--the pictures she and Kosh showed him led him to believe she was
+dead, but he wants to know why they did that if they didn't know for
+sure.  Delenn said she was sure Anna would not serve the Shadows, but
+she admits she might have been wrong.  Sheridan is adamant in believing
+Anna would never go along, and Delenn says she has no other
+explanation, but Sheridan can't accept that.  He demands to know why
+she didn't tell him if there was even the slightest chance she was
+still alive.  She says, that if she had, he would have gone to Z'ha'dum
+after her, and they couldn't allow that.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"You and Kosh... You couldn't allow it," Sheridan says.  "I trusted
+you, Delenn, I cared for you.  I let myself start to love you.  Do you
+know what that means?  Do you know how hard that was for me?  All along
+a little part of me was still in love with Anna, even though she was
+gone--I had to fight that part off.  Everytime I thought about you...
+about holding you, about building a life for the two of us..."
+
+
    
+"John, you must believe me, I didn't know she was alive.  We assumed
+that she had died with the rest of the crew of the Icarus, that only
+Morden had survived."
+
+
    
+"And had you known, would you have told me?"
+
+
    
+"That would depend.  It would depend on what she had become.  Z'ha'dum
+is the homeworld of the Shadows.  No one leaves there the same as they
+arrived."
+
+
    
+"You... you would have denied me the right to make that choice.  How
+can you say that and expect me to ever trust you again?"  He starts to
+walk out, but Delenn stops him.
+
+
    
+"John, I do love you.  If you believe nothing else I ever say,
+please... please believe that." Sheridan, without responding, walks out
+of the office.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo and Vir are in the Zocalo, and Vir asks Londo why he has been
+drinking so much since a diplomatic pouch arrived.  Londo explains
+that he has been promoted, to the position of advisor to the emperor in
+matters of planetary security.  Vir thinks that's great news, and
+doesn't know why Londo is upset.  Londo tells him that it's because it
+didn't come twenty years ago, when he could appreciate it, but now,
+since they are afraid of him, they want to put a leash on him so they
+know what he's doing at all times.  He knows that, if they see him
+doing anything suspicious, he will soon be killed.  A man, who
+identifies himself only as "a friend" approaches the table.  He says he
+was sent by their "mutual associates" and tells Londo to
+leave the station at once.  Londo says he doesn't want to, and the man
+says that, if he won't go, he won't be responsible, but that Londo must
+leave quickly if he values his life.  Londo and Vir know that it was
+more than likely a friend of Morden's, and Londo doesn't like the sound
+of the warning at all.
+
+
    
+As Dr. Franklin looks over the medical records, searching for an
+explanation for the epidermal scarring, Anna tells Sheridan, in his
+quarters, that she has never been examined in such deatil--by anyone
+other than him.  She tells him that the medical reports have confirmed
+that she is Anna, but Sheridan doesn't understand what she has been
+doing on Z'ha'dum for so long, and why she picked now to come back.
+She can't tell him that, but says that he needs to come back with her,
+and that they are eager to meet him.  Sheridan asks what will happen if
+he doesn't go, and Anna says she will leave without him, and he'll
+never know the truth.  She promises no threats and no
+ultimatums--merely an opportunity to hear their side of the story.
+Sheridan asks why she wants to go back, and Anna tells him it's her home
+now, and she's doing important work, and that he'll understand when he
+goes there.  Sheridan still refuses until he gets some answers--he
+wants to know what happened to the Icarus and its crew when they landed
+there.  Anna asks him if, when she tells him, he promises to go back
+with her.  Sheridan agrees.
+
+
    
+"Interplanetary Expeditions said that one of their probes out on the
+Rim had found the ruins of an ancient civilization," begins Anna.  "Dr.
+Chang was putting together a follow-up expedition and he wanted me on
+his team.  It was the find of a lifetime.  What he didn't tell me, or
+most of the crew, was where he really got the information.
+
+
    
+"A few years earlier, IPX had found an alien ship buried beneath the
+surface of Mars.  It was unlike anything they had ever seen before.  As
+soon as it was exposed to daylight, an automatic beacon on board sent
+out a coded message.  They knew whoever the ship belonged to would be
+coming in fast to pick it up, so they moved quickly.  They analyzed the
+ship, took pieces of it for study later, and planted a homing device
+inside.  Three days later another ship turned up and was digging it out
+of the ground.  When it left, IPX was able to track it through
+hyperspace to a world out on the Rim."
+
+
    
+"Z'ha'dum," Sheridan realizes.
+
+
    
+"We didn't have a name for it at the time," Anna continues.  "And Chang
+was under strict orders from EarthForce New Technologies Division to
+keep this top secret.  As soon as we landed, we picked up an energy
+source.  We were told to check it out.  And that's where we found
+them."
+
+
    
+"The Shadows."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Anna tells him that that is not a descriptive name, nor their true
+name, which is very long and nearly unpronouncable.  She says they were
+quite approachable, but Sheridan tells her to tell that to the rest of
+the crew.  Anna says that there was an accident, the crew was killed,
+and the comm system was destroyed.  They had no way to contact anyone
+else.  She says that, since the Shadows had just come out of
+hibernation, they made a deal with the crew: If the humans would stay silent,
+the Shadows would let them study their technology, which would solve nearly
+all of Earth's problems and let them leap forward 10,000 years.  Anna
+says she didn't want Sheridan to think she was dead, but that he knows
+he always said his first duty was to Earth.  In addition, time doesn't
+work quite the same on Z'ha'dum as it does everywhere else.  She tells
+him that, now that she's back, she'll take him to Z'ha'dum, so the
+Shadows can tell him what it's really all about.  She says that Delenn,
+Kosh, and the others have misled him, and it's time to learn the
+truth.  He agrees and embraces her, but while he does so, his gaze falls
+on Franklin's medical report on a table across the room.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi enters Sheridan's office and asks if there's anything he can
+do to help.  Sheridan tells him that, since the Minbari crew of the
+White Star has never been logged into the security net, he wants
+Garibaldi to begin that right away.  The White Star can orbit the
+station on autopilot.  Garibaldi reluctantly agrees.  Sheridan says
+he also as a few other things for him to do, and hands him a list.
+Garibaldi agrees to do it, but is more than surprised by what he sees.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, in his quarters, prepares for his trip to Z'ha'dum, by making
+sure he is armed with a PPG at his side.  He pulls another one out from
+a drawer and looks at it critically in the mirror.  As he gazes into
+its surface, he realizes he is not alone.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die," says the old Kosh, whose image is also
+in the mirror.  But when Sheridan turns around, there is no one else
+there.  Sheridan turns back around, and looks at himself in the mirror
+for a moment, before walking to his comm screen.  He tells the computer
+he wants to record a time-delayed message for Delenn.
+
+
    
+Aboard the White Star, Anna asks if Sheridan is sure he can run the
+ship by himself.  Sheridan thinks he probably can, as the design is
+pretty intuitive, and Anna assures him he is guaranteed safe passage.
+"Next stop," Sheridan says, "Z'ha'dum."
+
+
    
+On the journey through hyperspace, Anna examines the White Star, and
+says she wishes they could have taken a different ship.  As it is based
+partly on Vorlon technology, it could be dangerous; the Shadows
+believe they will die if anything even remotely Vorlon were to touch
+the surface of Z'ha'dum.  Sheridan says he won't take any chances, and they'll
+take the shuttle down to the surface.
+
+
    
+
+Back on Babylon 5, Franklin catches up with Ivanova as she walks down
+the corridor.  Franklin asks why Sheridan left, and tells her that he
+knows Sheridan read the report he gave him.  Ivanova doesn't know what
+he's talking about, and Franklin tells her it's about Anna.
+
+
    
+The shuttle lands on the surface of the planet, and Sheridan and Anna,
+wearing oxygen masks, make their way through the harsh atmosphere to
+the entrance of the structure.  The air inside is breathable, and Anna
+explains, for security reasons, the structure was moved underground
+many centuries ago.  They are about to go further, but Anna takes
+Sheridan's PPG before she will let him go further.  She explains this
+part of the complex was designed specifically for them.  She takes him
+down a corridor, and to a door.  She knocks, and a voice inside tells
+her to enter.  She does so, and inside are two humans.  One is an older
+gentleman, and the other is a very familiar face: Morden.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan asks the older man who he is.  The man insists
+it isn't important, but Sheridan demands to know.  "Who decides that the
+work day is from 9 to 5 instead of 11 to 4?  Who decides that the
+hemlines will be below the knee this year, and short again next year?
+Who draws up the borders, controls the currency, handles all the
+decisions that happen transparently around us?"  Sheridan admits he
+doesn't know.  "Ah," says the old man.  "I'm with them.  Same group,
+different department.  Think of me as a sort of middleman.  And the
+name is Justin."
+
+
    
+Delenn receives a time-delayed message from Sheridan.  "Delenn,"
+the message says, "by the time you get this message, I will be at
+Z'ha'dum... with Anna.  I can pretty much guess your reaction when you
+hear this, but I think it's the only way.  When you and I were in the
+time rift with Babylon 4, for a moment, I jumped forward in time.  We'd
+won the war, but Centauri Prime had been devastated.  You said that
+this future couldn't be changed.  You also told me, 'Do not go to
+Z'ha'dum.  Do you understand?  Do not go to Z'ha'dum!' I began to
+wonder... What if that future happened because I listened to your
+warning and didn't go to Z'ha'dum?  What if... what if I could prevent
+the fall of Centauri Prime and end the Shadow War by going there?  What
+I want... is to stay alive, to be with you.  But you were right
+before.  This is about more than what I want.  So I'm going, even
+though I know it's almost certainly a trap."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"You see, John," Justin explains, as he pours tea, "back, a million
+years ago, there were forces prowling around the galaxy beyond anything
+that we could understand.  And, like anything else, most of them
+outgrew this little corner of the universe, and headed off toward
+greener pastures.  Now, two of them stayed behind, shepherds, you might
+call them.  They wanted to look after the younger races, bring them
+around, help them evolve into something better."
+
+
    
+"One of these was the Vorlons," Morden tells Sheridan.  "The other was
+what you call the Shadows."
+
+
    
+"The Vorlons are like your parents, I suppose," Justin continues.
+"They want you to play nice, clean your room, do it by the rules.  I
+guess you could call them lords of order."
+
+
    
+"The others," Anna says, "the ones who live here, believe that strength
+only comes from conflict.  They want to release our potential, not
+bottle it up."
+
+
    
+"It's really simple," Justin explains.  "You bring two sides together,
+they fight, a lot of them die.  But those who survive are stronger,
+smarter, and better."
+
+
    
+"It's like knocking over an anthill," Morden says.  "Every new
+generation gets stronger.  The anthill gets redesigned, made better."
+
+
    
+"So that's what the Shadows do," Sheridan says.  "Come out every few
+thousand years, and kick over all the anthills, start wars, destroy
+entire races."
+
+
    
+"A few get lost along the way, yes," Justin admits, "and that's
+unfortunate.  I don't think it was ever easy, but you can't let that
+get in the way of the dream."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+On Babylon 5, Corwin reports to Ivanova that he is picking up a
+disturbance coming from all around them.  Many Shadow ships are
+appearing outside, encircling the entire station.  Ivanova orders a red
+alert, and all the fighters are scrambled.  None of the Shadow vessels
+are attacking, but Ivanova still orders the fighters to launch, but not to
+approach until she authorizes it.
+
+
    
+"Think about it, Captain," Morden says.  "Look at the long history of
+human struggle.  Six thousand years of recorded wars, bloodshed,
+atrocities beyond all description.  But look at what came out of all of
+that!  We've gone to the stars, split the atom, written sonnets... We
+never would have come this far, if we hadn't been at each others'
+throats evolving our way up, inch by inch."
+
+
    
+"It was supposed to be an equal balance between our side and the
+Vorlons," Anna says.  "But the Vorlons decided that their way was the
+right way.  They enlisted the support of the other worlds, like the
+Minbari.  They even started interfering with the development of younger
+races."
+
+
    
+"When you look at a Vorlon," Morden says, "you see what they want you
+to see.  They've manipulated us so we respond favorably to them.
+They've even at a genetic level, taking humans and adjusting them.  Why
+do you think certifiable telepaths came out of nowhere a hundred years
+ago?"
+
+
    
+"They created telepaths on a hundred worlds to use as cannon fodder for
+the next war," Justin explains.  "But fortunately, our friends got
+there first and with the help of the Psi Corps, made sure that they came
+out on our side.  John, they think that the human race shows great
+potential.  When all this is over, we can be riding high, the first to
+rebuild, making things our own way.  But the only thing that's standing
+in our way now is you.  So, we can either work together now, or we can
+remove your support mechanism."
+
+
    
+The fighters begin to mobilize around the Shadow vessels, and Garibaldi
+is among them.  Ivanova tries to get through to Draal, but
+communications are being jammed.  Ivanova knows the ships' appearance
+has something to do
+with Sheridan, but has no idea what it is, or why they are waiting.
+
+
    
+"Everything depends on getting the other races to fight each other,"
+Anna says, "to create conflict in order to promote growth and
+evolution.  By getting them to cooperate, you are working against that
+goal."
+
+
    
+"Whenever this starts," Morden says, "there's always someone who tries
+to organize the other races.  You've done it.  That's a commendable
+achievement, but as far as our goals are concerned, unproductive."
+
+
    
+"So why don't you just kill me?" Sheridan asks.
+
+
    
+"It doesn't work," Justin says.  "Somebody'd just come around and
+replace you.  That's always been the trouble with creating martyrs.  We
+brought you here hoping you'd understand us, work with us, not against
+us.  You're important.  You're what they call a nexus.  You turn one
+way, and the whole world has a tendency to go the same way.  Let go of
+those other races.  You can't hold them together.  Evolution will be
+served one way or another.  You can work with us, or..."
+
+
    
+"Or you'll do to me what you did to Anna," Sheridan says.
+
+
    
+Justin, Anna, and Morden all look at each other.  "I don't know what
+you're..." Anna begins.
+
+
    
+"The memories are there, the voice is there, the DNA is there... But
+the personality, the look in her eyes... The woman I loved, the woman I
+married isn't there.  She would never go along with this."
+
+
    
+"You're right," Justin tells him.  "Just so.  You see, when she came
+here five years ago, she was given a choice.  The same choice that
+we're giving you.  She made the mistake of choosing badly."  As Justin
+is talking, Sheridan's hand creeps down toward his leg.
+
+
    
+"You stuck her in one of those ships, didn't you?" Sheridan asks.  He
+uncovers a PPG strapped to his leg, beneath their field of view.
+
+
    
+"How did you know?" Morden asks.
+
+
    
+"A few months ago," Sheridan tells them, "we intercepted a ship full of
+people who were going to be merged with the Shadow vessels.  They had
+implants in the brain stem, right back here.  The scars in the back of
+her head are in exactly the same place."
+
+
    
+"Our associates needed fresh bodies for the central processing units in
+their ships," Justin explains.  "But we pulled her out as soon as we
+found out who she was and who you are.  But once you've been inside of
+one of those ships for a while, you're never... quite whole...  again.
+But you do as you're told!"  Behind Sheridan a door opens, and a
+Shadow begins entering the room, and Sheridan sees it out of the corner
+of his eye.  "And so will you!"  As soon as Justin finishes, Sheridan
+jumps up and begins firing the PPG at the Shadow.
+
+
    
+G'Kar runs into C&C.  Ivanova asks if they can get the bombs outside,
+but G'Kar says it would be too dangerous -- the blasts would take out
+Babylon 5 as well.  Ivanova is willing to risk it, and asks how many
+they have.  G'Kar explains that's why he's there -- two of the devices
+are gone.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+A bleeding Sheridan makes his way through a rocky corridor, and
+eventually comes to a balcony overlooking a Shadow city.  Directly
+beneath him is an enormous black abyss, and above him, a glittering
+ceiling, seperating this place from the outside atmosphere.  Sheridan
+types in some commands on his commlink, and the White Star begins to
+come alive.  Inside, a voice from the bombs says, "Thermal fusion system
+armed for detonation," and the White Star begins moving toward the planet.
+
+
    
+"John," Anna says, as she arrives.  "There's nowhere to run.  Come back
+inside.  We can work this out."  As the White Star hurtles toward the
+surface, Anna continues.  "I know this isn't the Anna that you knew.
+What I am is what was made in her.  A new personality.  She can never
+come back.  But I can love you as well as she did."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Finally," Sheridan's message concludes, "I heard what you said when I left.
+I want you to know, I love you Delenn.  Goodbye."  Delenn touches the
+screen, and as the message ends, she collapses against the wall,
+crying.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan looks through the semi-transparent ceiling, and sees the White
+Star on its way.  He looks down into the abyss, and hears a familiar
+voice--that of Kosh in his mind.  "Jump... Jump now!" the voice urges.
+As Anna and a group of Shadows begin to move closer, Sheridan climbs
+over the edge of the balcony and leaps into the abyss below.  Anna
+watches, stunned, but has little time to contemplate what's happening.
+The White Star crashes through the ceiling, and she lets out a blood
+curdling scream as a white light floods the balcony.    The White Star
+impacts in an enormous exlosion.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The Shadow vessels, without warning, all vanish immediately, and while
+Garibaldi watches, a shadow comes over his viewport.  No one on C&C
+understands the sudden departure, unless it is because they are no longer a
+threat, as G'Kar suggests.  Ivanova believes she knows why, though.  "He's
+gone."
+
+
    
+As Delenn and Lennier pray over candles, we hear G'Kar's voice.  "It
+was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly
+and unexpectedly.  All around us, it was as if the universe were
+holding its breath.  Waiting...  All of life can be broken down into
+moments of transition or moments of revelation.  This had the feeling
+of both..."
+
+
    
+Corwin reports to Ivanova that there has been no further word on the
+Captain, but that they can't communicate with the White Star--he thinks
+it's been destroyed.  In addition, one of the fighters sent out
+didn't return.  Ivanova asks who the pilot was, and Corwin tells her,
+"Mr. Garibaldi."
+
+
    
+G'Kar continues speaking.  "G'Quon wrote, 'There is a greater darkness
+than the one we fight.  It is the darkness of the soul that has lost
+its way.  The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it
+is against chaos and despair.  Greater than the death of flesh is the
+death of hope, the death of dreams.  Against this peril we can never
+surrender.  The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of
+transition, to be born in moments of revelation.  No one knows the
+shape of that future or where it will take us.  We know only that it is
+always born in pain.'"
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+A week has passed since Captain Sheridan's ill-fated mission to Z'ha'dum and
+Garibaldi's disappearance.  No one on Babylon 5 is taking this turn of
+events harder than Commander Ivanova, who stalks the station lost in another
+world and spends sleepless nights regretting the circumstances that have
+brought her to command.  Meanwhile, Londo has returned to Centauri Prime at
+the request of Emperor Cartagia, Delenn fasts in prayer, and G'Kar
+transcribes it all with his hard won equanimity.
+
+
    
+Ivanova's progress in the art of diplomacy vanishes as she tries to browbeat
+the remaining League worlds into an attack on Z'ha'dum in the Shadows' hour
+of weakness, or at the very least, to convince them not to abandon the
+defense of Babylon 5.  The Gaim representative is most succinct in stating
+that the War Council members only "wish to find your captain," who must
+certainly be dead.  They perceive this alliance to be useful in fighting a
+war for survival, not victory, which makes a mission against Z'ha'dum simply
+suicide.  The meeting breaks up bitterly.  In her anger with the selfish
+League worlds, Delenn has not ignored the fact that again the new Kosh has
+not deigned to attend, and she vows to find out why.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+With great excitement, the Emperor's Minister leads Londo to a private royal
+audience.  They find the Emperor a vapid young man preening at himself in a
+mirror, proud of his ability to set trends in the court, and amused to be
+able to toy with the powerful head of House Mollari.  He orders Londo to
+"handle the arrangements" (without explaining the purpose) and mentions a
+mysterious personage who has specifically requested Londo's expertise on
+Centauri Prime.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+In Londo's absence, Vir is receiving the Ambassador's intelligence reports,
+one of which he passes on to Ivanova.  To her distress it is a description
+of Sheridan's actions on Z'ha'dum and his final, presumably fatal, plunge.
+"With any luck we won't see Mr. Morden's face around here any more," Vir
+laughs, trying to cheer her up.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo doesn't have that kind of luck, however.  He returns to his chambers to
+find the horribly disfigured form of his enemy waiting.  Morden somehow escaped
+death from the White Star's bombs, but at a high cost.  Londo asks about
+Sheridan.  "Which one?" Morden responds.  As Londo watches and listens with
+growing revulsion, Morden explains that the Shadows are moving some of their
+forces off Z'ha'dum in case their enemies decide to attack.  They did it
+before, a thousand years ago, planting their ships like seeds all around
+the galaxy.  Now they've convinced Cartagia to let them set up a base on
+Centauri Prime.  Londo refuses to assist the Shadows, but Mr. Morden
+just laughs, "You're afraid of what someone else might do in your place."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lyta and the Vorlon meet Delenn in the garden.  Speaking for her master,
+Lyta expresses impatience and closedness.  The Vorlon refuses to assist in
+keeping the Alliance together, in sharing his intentions, or in mounting an
+investigative mission to Z'ha'dum.  Sheridan's life or death is
+"irrelevant.  He has opened an unexpected door.  We do now what must be done
+now.  His purpose has been fulfilled."  As Kosh leaves, Lyta apologizes and
+follows.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack finds an intruder in the Chief's quarters.  His quick hopes are dashed
+when it turns out to be G'Kar paying his respects to Garibaldi's spirit
+(including "household god" Daffy Duck.)  Recalling Garibaldi's acceptance
+and support of his own spiritual transformation, G'Kar vows to repay the
+debt by finding the Chief and bringing him home.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The Minister eagerly beckons Londo out to the royal Sand Garden.  To the
+Ambassador's  horror he recognizes a scene from his worst nightmare.
+Hundreds of Shadow ships are passing overhead.  Inside, the
+Emperor is beside himself with glee.  When Mollari attempts to pull him away
+from the window, he instantly finds a guard's knife at his throat.  "What
+did they give you?" Londo demands.  If the Shadows hide behind the Centauri,
+"when the war comes here, our people will die first!"  Such a sacrifice is
+perfectly acceptable to the Emperor, for the Shadows have promised to give
+him godhead.
+
+
    
+Londo stumbles from the throne room in horror.  "He is insane!" he utters to
+the Minister.  With great trepidation, the Minister warns him about the ones
+who have said this in the past, and how their severed heads now grace the
+Emperor's private chambers where he talks to them late at night.
+
+
    
+A long stream of energy pours out of Lyta Alexander into the Vorlon's
+encounter suit.  It is clearly not the joyful burden it used to be,
+and Lyta looks weary and haggard.  She mentions that it feels
+"darker" to carry the new ambassador, and asks if anything is wrong.  The
+Vorlon only dismisses her and orders her not to interfere with his plans.
+
+
    
+Late that night, Mollari wakes Vir up to demand his immediate presence on
+Centauri Prime.  He is not the only restless man in the palace that night.
+The Emperor is paying a visit to his heads to tell them about the day's success.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+On the station, a refreshed looking Lyta goes to Ivanova's quarters with a
+proposition.  She finds the commander brooding over her vodka.  Ivanova
+explains the meaning of the "hour of the wolf."  It's that 3-4 o'clock in
+the morning time when fears and regrets and worries seize your mind so you
+can't sleep.  It's where Ivanova has been living for the past seven days.
+Lyta brings her a new hope, or at least a plan for action.  If they take the
+new White Star to Z'ha'dum, Ivanova can scan for Sheridan's signal while
+Lyta blocks the Shadows and scans for the piece of Kosh still alive in him.
+Ivanova is only too happy to try, but knows there will be no rescue mission
+for them if they fail.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+With Delenn and Lennier aboard they hop out of hyperspace near Z'ha'dum.  As
+soon as she begins blocking, Lyta's eyes turn oil black, not a hint of white
+left.  Ivanova sends a message to Sheridan's link, Lyta searches for Kosh,
+and Delenn uses Lyta's scan to project a call to John.  The captain does not
+respond, but something else does.  The Eye which had almost trapped Ivanova
+when she used Draal's machine
+("Voices of Authority")
+appears and mesmerizes
+them all.  Ivanova orders the ship down to the planet, but the White Star
+flips around instead and jumps into hyperspace.  Lennier had set a failsafe
+to escape in case he was unable to hit a trigger once every two minutes.
+They snap out of it, but they are all deeply moved.  The Eye spoke to them
+in the voices of their fathers.
+
+
    
+Their mission failed.  They cannot reach Sheridan.  But deep inside
+Z'ha'dum, a shapeless form shuffles down a tunnel.  A gold command bar drops
+to the dust.
+
+
    
+As soon as Vir arrives, Londo tells him about the Emperor's madness, and the
+intrigues of court.  "And yet, in all of this, you have somehow managed to
+walk through the corridors of power and not be touched.  I can only assume
+you have not been paying attention!"  Mollari continues, "I need a friend,
+Vir, and I need a patriot.  You are both.  Will you help me?"  Agreeing, Vir
+beams beatifically -- until Mollari informs him that they must now assassinate
+Emperor Cartagia.
+
+
    
+Commander Ivanova makes a personal log.  Biting back her tears she admits
+that the captain is dead and now she must continue his work.  She still needs
+some help, but she knows where to find it.
+
+
    
+Deep within Z'ha'dum, John Sheridan shivers in front of a tiny fire.  A
+tall, bearded figure approaches.  He only answers John's questions with
+questions.  Nevertheless, he seems pleased and intrigued by what he has found.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+"Personal Log, January 8, 2261, Doctor Stephen Franklin reporting.
+It's been fourteen days since Captain Sheridan was presumed killed on
+Z'ha'dum--nine days since Mr. Garibaldi disappeared on patrol outside
+the station.  MedLab's quiet these days.  The League of Non-Aligned
+Worlds has broken up and everyone's going back to their homeworlds to
+prepare for the next stage of war.  We know the enemy's gonna strike
+back.  Rumor has it that this time's gonna be the last time.  This
+time, they're gonna end it.  All we can do now is wait for the other
+shoe to drop, or try and find something useful to do before the end.
+And right now, short of hand-holding or a sympathetic ear, I can't
+think of one damn thing..."
+
+
    
+Lennier enters MedLab as Franklin is recording and tells him that he is
+committing a breach of protocol, but that there is a problem with
+Delenn.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan is floating deep in blackness, facing a creature glowing with
+an inner light--its two tentacles hold him firm, and a voice resonates
+two questions "Who are you?" and "What do you want?" over and over
+again.  Sheridan wakes up, and the figure standing over him asks him
+what he was dreaming about.  The man already knows he's thinking about
+escape, and tells Sheridan he should give up the attempt.  The man
+knows Sheridan still wants to know his name; he says it's
+Lorien, and asks a series of questions, eventually ending
+in the conundrum of which came first--the word that created the
+universe, or the thought behind it?  Lorien knows Sheridan is still
+involved in the question he wants to ask--Who are you?  Sheridan is
+surprised Lorien knows the significance of that question, and Lorien tells
+him the point of the question is that there is never a good answer.  He
+tells Sheridan further that the question of what Sheridan is is
+easy--he's dead.  Sheridan doesn't believe him, but can find no
+proof, even in the form of a pulse, that he is actually alive.
+
+
    
+Sheridan refuses to believe that he's dead, and insists it's a trick.
+Lorien asks him what the last thing he remembers is.  Sheridan only
+remembers falling, seemingly forever.  Lorien tells him that nothing
+goes on forever, and that everyone hits bottom sooner or later.  Lorien
+asks Sheridan if he hit the bottom of the abyss, but Sheridan doesn't
+know.  Either Sheridan did, and he is dead, or he didn't, and is still
+falling.  Lorien also suggests he could be in-between, and Sheridan
+asks what he could be in between.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Between moments," Lorien tells him.  "When we are born, we are
+allocated a finite number of seconds.  Each tick of the clock slices
+off a piece of us.  Tick.  A possibility for joy is gone.  Tock.  A
+careless word ends one path, opens another.  Tick, tock.  Tick, tock.
+Always running out of time.  Yours is almost used up.  You're between
+seconds--lost in the infinite possibilities between tick and tock.
+Tick.  You're alive.  Tock....  Well, it was a good life, but a short
+one.  Tick, tock.  Tick, tock.  Tick..."
+
+
    
+Sheridan grabs Lorien and demands to know what's going on, if he's
+behind it all.  "Who are you?" he asks, and remembers part of his
+dream.
+
+
    
+"You're closer now, aren't you?  Yes, I see you are.  But closer to
+tick or closer to tock?  I don't know.  Only time will tell.  And here,
+between the moments, we have all the time in the world..."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+G'Kar walks into a tavern filled with people and the strains of loud
+futuristic rock music.  He steps over to a table and speaks to a man,
+telling him he heard he could find information about a piece of
+Starfury the man sold to a trader elsewhere.  The man says it was
+salvage, and therefore legal, but G'Kar wants to know where it came
+from, since it belongs to the Starfury Garibaldi was in when he
+disappeared.  The man doesn't want to talk, but G'Kar demands to know
+how he knew where to find it.  When things begin to turn violent, the
+bartender intervenes, and tries to kick G'Kar out, something G'Kar
+doesn't like.  Before the bartender can do anything else, a man nearby
+raises up his hood, revealing himself as Marcus, and a short fight
+ensues, during which both he and G'Kar escape.  The bartender sends two
+Centauri guards after them, while he speaks to another one about
+another matter.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The chime on Delenn's quarters rings several times before she answers
+it and Dr.  Franklin steps in.  She asks if there is a problem, and he
+asks her if she is having a problem, since she hasn't had anything to
+eat or drink in a week, which, although commonplace for normal Minbari,
+may not be healthy for her.  Delenn says that justice is served by her fast,
+and everything that has happened has been her fault, and she tells
+Franklin she is very upset that she broke the bond and the trust
+between she and Sheridan.  She admits that she loved him and wanted to
+protect him, but thinks she should have trusted him more than she did.
+She tells Franklin that her fast will continue, and that should
+Sheridan be dead, her soul will join his, and she will see him again,
+in "the place where no shadows fall."  Franklin leaves her alone with
+her grief.
+
+
    
+Marcus comes in from the outside, and reports to G'Kar that the
+Centauri guards are still chasing them.  G'Kar doesn't know why, and
+Marcus explains that he is worried for exactly that reason.  G'Kar says
+he thinks Marcus worries too much, but wants to know why he's there.
+Marcus says he came to look after him in case he got into trouble.
+G'Kar tells Marcus that he is planning to go back later and find out
+more about Garibaldi's Starfury, but Marcus offers to do it instead,
+since the guards are all too eager to find G'Kar.  Marcus asks G'Kar
+why he is risking so much for Garibaldi, and G'Kar tells him that he is
+doing it because Garibaldi was his friend, and he never had a friend
+who wasn't a Narn.  Marcus says he's doing it because he never had a
+friend who was a Narn--when he had them at all.  G'Kar picks up Marcus'
+pike and looks at it, accidentally extending it while doing so.  G'Kar
+says he likes the weapon very much.
+
+
    
+The Centauri guards are with the bartender, looking through several
+photos of Narns that may have been involved in the altercation in the
+bar, and he eventually finds a photo of G'Kar and is able to identify
+him.  The guards tell him there is a reward on G'Kar--dead or alive.
+Meanwhile, the man from the bar awakens--due to Marcus dripping water
+in his face.  Marcus threatens him, and demands to know where he got
+the piece of the Starfury.
+
+
    
+Delenn arrives in Captain Sheridan's quarters, where Franklin is going
+through Sheridan's personal effects on Ivanova's orders.  While
+looking through Sheridan's files, he found something he felt Delenn
+should see.  He hands her a data crystal which she plays as soon as
+Franklin leaves.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Personal log," says Sheridan on the screen, "May 14, 2260.  We
+actually had a quiet day today--it's hard to believe with so much going
+on lately.  Now that we've broken away from Earth, everything has hit
+the fan.  It's not what I wanted.  Frankly, it scares the hell out of
+me, but it had to be done.  The job now is to turn this around and make
+it into something positive.  My dad always told me that's the only way
+you deal with pain.  You don't surrender, you don't fight it--you turn
+it into something positive.  He used to say, 'If you're falling off a
+cliff, you may as well try to fly.  You've got nothing to lose.'  And
+in a way, I feel the same way about Delenn.  During the war, I fought
+Minbari, I killed Minbari, saw many of my friends die at Minbari
+hands.  Here I am, in love with one of them.  For a long time, I
+thought about not saying anything, but...  The moment my heart crossed
+that line, there wasn't much I could do but see it through.  Yeah, I've
+fallen off one hell of a cliff, but when I look in her eyes, I let
+myself think, maybe I really can fly."
+
+
    
+Marcus explains to G'Kar that the man got the location of the Starfury
+from Interplanetary Expeditions, and that person would get one tenth of
+the purchase price.  G'Kar says he plans to go to the place where the
+ship was found to search out for more information.  G'Kar says that
+Marcus should go back to Babylon 5 and search for the person from
+Interplanetary Expeditions, and that Marcus should leave before he gets
+offended.  G'Kar says he needs Babylon 5's resources more than he needs
+Marcus' help.  Marcus leaves as G'Kar lays down to sleep.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+G'Kar awakens to the sound of footsteps, and sees shadows outside.  As
+they come closer, he grips his firearm tightly, but when they enter the
+room, even though he gets off a few shots, he is taken down and knocked
+unconscious.
+
+
    
+Delenn and Lennier stand before the gathering of Rangers, and Delenn
+tells them that, even though most of their work has, until this time,
+gone unnoticed, they must strike a blow that will serve as an example
+to all the others.  Lennier explains to them that the League of
+Non-Aligned Worlds has dissolved, and that they must find those who
+still believe in their cause.  He says they need a single rallying cry,
+and Delenn wants it to be the Rangers.  She says their plan is to wait
+seven days, for any other ships, and then attack Z'ha'dum.  They have a
+small chance of success, but they must try anyway.  She tells the
+Rangers that, with this attack, she is offering them the same chance to
+fly that she heard in Sheridan's log.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+There is a knocking at Londo's door, and after taking up a weapon in
+case of danger, he answers the door to find the Emperor's advisor,
+who says the Emperor wants Londo to come immediately.  Londo
+changes out of his night clothes and goes to the Emperor's throne
+room.  Though Emperor Cartagia is initially upset at the delay, he
+tells Londo that he wishes to present him with a gift.  Londo attempts
+to refuse, but Cartagia won't let him, and knows it's something Londo
+has been waiting for for a long time.  Cartagia activates a signal, and
+two Centauri guards enter flanking G'Kar, who is wearing a yoke.  Cartagia
+says G'Kar is there for their amusement and that, should the amusement
+cease, G'Kar will die.  Londo, not knowing what to say, decides only to
+thank Cartagia for the gift.  Cartagia asks G'Kar if he has anything to
+say, and G'Kar asks him only if he knows where Garibaldi is.  "Who?"
+asks Cartagia.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is, in fact, in a solidly built, round room, as if an
+observation room, with no windows and a well-sealed door.  Garibaldi
+pounds against it, but to no avail.  A voice coming from unseen
+speakers tells him to refrain, as he might hurt himself.  Garibaldi
+asks why they can't allow that, and the voice says merely that they
+have their orders.  Garibaldi asks who the orders came from, but the voice
+won't tell him.  The voice wants only to know what happened after he
+left Babylon 5, and Garibaldi insists he doesn't remember, but the
+voice says his vital signs indicate he isn't being honest.  This
+outrages Garibaldi, but the voice only wants to hear the truth.  It
+asks him time and again what happens, but Garibaldi insists he doesn't
+remember.  Garibaldi loses control and begins smashing everything in
+sight, including his chair and the lights in the room.  His rampage is
+soon stopped, however, when a gas pours from vents in the floor,
+knocking him unconscious.  The door to the room opens and someone
+wearing a gas mask--atop their PsiCorps uniform-- steps into the room.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo enters G'Kar's cell, where the Narn is sitting in the corner.  Londo
+says it was foolish for G'Kar to leave Babylon 5, and that he was
+followed as soon as he left.  Londo tells G'Kar that, if he wanted to
+die, he could have attended to it, but that, on Centauri Prime, he will
+be afforded no such courtesy, and he will be tortured by
+Cartagia--treated as a toy.  G'Kar will suffer for days, weeks, or
+months, but when they are done, G'Kar will die a very time-consuming
+and painful death, each of his organs being removed one at a time.
+G'Kar asks if the idea pleases Londo, and Londo admits that it doesn't,
+and that it never would have.  Londo says he would not wish G'Kar's
+fate on anyone.  Londo tells G'Kar that Cartagia is a monster, and that
+he must be removed.  G'Kar may be the means by which it can
+be accomplished, but he will suffer greatly--something Londo
+can't prevent.  Londo tells G'Kar he must endure until the time is
+right, at which point Londo will act.  Londo asks if G'Kar will help,
+but he doesn't answer.  Londo begins to leave, and G'Kar tells him the
+price for his assistance--he will help remove Cartagia only if Londo
+will free Narn.  Londo promises this to G'Kar, and then leaves the
+room, casting a bright light onto G'Kar as he exits.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, still trekking through the tunnels in Z'ha'dum, finds the
+fire he set when he first woke up.  He realizes he has come full
+circle, and Lorien says everyone does eventually.  Sheridan knows there
+must be some way out, but Lorien says that the only way out is to
+surrender to Tock.  Sheridan says he can't die, since he must aid the
+Army of Light in the war, to prevent billions of deaths.
+
+
    
+"It's a terrible thing when your children fight," Lorien tells him.  "I
+warned the others, but they didn't listen.  They never listen."
+
+
    
+"Your... children?" Sheridan asks.
+
+
    
+"Metaphorically speaking.  Those who came after me.  Children.  Younger
+siblings."
+
+
    
+"How long have you been here?"
+
+
    
+"A long time.  So long... I was old when the molecules of your world
+joined and called themselves land and sea and fish and man."
+
+
    
+"You're one of the First Ones."
+
+
    
+"No, not one of the First Ones.  I am The First One."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan knows Lorien knows a way out of Z'ha'dum, but wants to know
+why he has stayed for so long.  Lorien says he's waiting for someone,
+and that Sheridan is the first to make it as far as he has.  Sheridan
+asks if the Shadows know, and Lorien says they do-- that's why they come
+back to Z'ha'dum.  They believe they're showing respect, but they
+don't understand.  "They used to," Lorien says, "but that was a long
+time ago.  A million years."  Sheridan says Lorien doesn't look as old
+as he is, and Lorien says he doesn't at the moment.  Sheridan finally
+realizes his dream was of Lorien.
+
+
    
+"Did you know you have a Vorlon inside you?" Lorien asks.  "Well, a
+piece of one."
+
+
    
+"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die," Sheridan remembers Kosh saying.
+"Jump... Jump now..."
+
+
    
+"Kosh..." Sheridan realizes.
+
+
    
+"Is that its name?  I think I met it once, long ago."
+
+
    
+"He told me to jump.  Did he know..."
+
+
    
+"That I was here?  Almost certainly."
+
+
    
+"How..."
+
+
    
+"They can break off pieces of their conciousness and put it into other
+organisms.  It allows them to travel hidden through the galaxy, using
+others as their eyes and ears.  Kosh is in you, and he's part of the
+problem.  You're the other part.  You're both still clinging to life,
+both afraid to let go.  You must lay down the burden of life, both of
+you, and surrender yourself to Tock."
+
+
    
+"No, I can't," Sheridan says.  "The others need me..."
+
+
    
+"You can't turn away from death simply because you're afraid of what
+might happen without you.  That's not enough.  You're not embracing
+life, you're fleeing death.  So you're caught in-between, unable to go
+forward or backward.  Your friends need what you can be when you are no
+longer afraid--when you know who you are, and why you are, and what you
+want.  When you are no longer looking for reasons to live, but can
+simply be."
+
+
    
+"I can't... I don't know how to do that."
+
+
    
+"Then I cannot help you, and you will be caught forever in-between.
+You must let go.  Surrender yourself to death.  The death of flesh.
+The death of fear.  Step into the abyss... and let go."
+
+
    
+"It's getting darker," Sheridan says, and the light around him starts
+to vanish.
+
+
    
+"I know.  You're close, friend.  Very close.  It's easy to find
+something worth dying for.  Do you have anything worth living for?"
+
+
    
+"I can't see you anymore..."
+
+
    
+"As it should be."
+
+
    
+"What if I fall?  How will I know if you'll catch me?"
+
+
    
+"I caught you before."
+
+
    
+"What if I die?"
+
+
    
+"I cannot create life, but I can breathe on the remaining embers.  It
+may not work."
+
+
    
+"But I can hope..."
+
+
    
+As the world around him disappears completely, the words of Lorien
+continue to echo.  "Hope is all we have."
+
+
    
+Sheridan then begins to reexperience his emergence onto the balcony
+above the abyss, and his leap into it, as Lorien's voice echoes, asking
+him again, "Do you have anything worth living for?"
+
+
    
+While he falls, he remembers the voice of someone, a long time ago, on
+the original White Star.  "Sleep now.  I will watch, and catch you if
+you should fall."
+
+
    
+Lorien stands over the body of Sheridan, outstretched at the bottom of
+the abyss, after Sheridan delivers his answer, in the form of a single
+word.
+
+
    
+"Delenn!"
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+Ivanova requests a favor from Delenn.  She wants to borrow a White Star
+ship to go in search of First Ones like the ones found at Sigma 957
+("Voices of Authority")
+who might assist them in their desperate mission next week against Z'ha'dum.  
+
+
    
+Vir and Londo hear a party in the throne room.  Draped in chains and garbed
+in a punishing jester's costume which is thrusting spikes into his head and
+body, G'Kar silently suffers the merry abuse of Cartagia's courtiers.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and Marcus are having no success in their search, which is no
+wonder considering that they are relying on wild stories that travelers
+have told of godlike beings or ancient civilizations.  So far, they all
+lead only to dead ends.  
+
+
    
+Zack has located the transport which is supposed to have found Garibaldi's
+Starfury, and he takes a wing out to investigate.
+
+
    
+Alone with Londo in the imperial pleasure gardens, Vir finally erupts in
+outrage against G'Kar's humiliation and agony and Londo's seeming
+unconcern.  Once again Londo counsels biding their time.  The entire
+business of plotting against the Emperor is too disturbing for poor Vir.
+That is, until the Emperor chances upon them, waving bloody hands and
+complaining strenuously at G'Kar's refusal to scream under torture.
+Without a bit more action, Cartagia regrets that he will just have to kill
+the Narn.  It's really no fun any other way.  After Cartagia departs, Vir
+decides regicide isn't so objectionable after all.
+
+
    
+Delenn pays a visit to Lyta Alexander.  There is nothing in the telepath's
+quarters but a mattress and the standard communications console.  A bit
+embarrassed, Lyta explains that the new Vorlon ambassador has required her
+to remove everything else because they are distractions, and since he can
+force her to obey, she has.  Delenn wants Lyta to find out why the Vorlons
+are not assisting in the mission against Z'ha'dum.  Lyta replies that the
+Vorlons appear to have plans of their own and they don't seem to be
+interested in what happens to others any more.  Although terrified of the
+ambassador, Lyta vows to try to help Delenn.
+
+
    
+Zack and his team find the transport they are looking for and order it to
+surrender.  When it maintains radio silence they fire to disable it.  It
+ejects a life pod and explodes.  Inside the pod is Garibaldi, meshed down
+to a table, unconscious, and wearing a week-old beard.  A computer voice
+says, "Activating program," and Garibaldi awakens for a moment.  Zack rushes
+him to the station, where Dr. Franklin is disappointed that Zack can't tell
+him anything about who was holding Garibaldi; but the prognosis is good and
+Garibaldi is expected to recover.
+
+
    
+The Vorlon streams out of Lyta to her great discomfort.  She angrily shouts
+that she deserves some respect for her sacrifices to the Vorlons, and some
+answers.  "Respect?  From whom?"  the Ambassador replies.  As she
+dejectedly turns to go she decides to chance it and mentally probes the
+Vorlon.  He slaps her across the room with a blast of energy.  Then,
+leaning forward, he says chillingly, "You would know my thoughts?  Would
+you?"  The disk on the head of his suit dilates and her screams begin.
+
+
    
+"A little scream.  Is that so much to ask for?"  Londo begs.  If G'Kar will
+just put aside his pride and give the emperor the reaction he craves, he
+can live to fulfill his bargain with Mollari.  G'Kar refuses, arguing that
+he would no longer be a Narn if he gave in, and that of course Londo can't
+possibly understand.  
+
+
    
+"Yes I do," Londo retorts savagely, as he leaves G'Kar's cell.  "Yes I do!"
+
+
    
+Ivanova broods in the captains chair.  With a couple of hours to kill,
+Marcus asks her about her plans if they live through this war.  She wants
+to return home, travel some, pay her respects to her dead father, but
+there's no one special waiting.  Marcus has someone special, he says, but
+she doesn't know it yet.  He's never actually had relations with a woman,
+it turns out.  
+
+
    
+"I thought First Ones were rare," Ivanova mutters.
+
+
    
+Just then, the ship's controls pick up some odd signals which appear to
+indicate a pocket in hyperspace hidden by a distortion field.  They switch
+course to investigate.  As they enter the pocket, they can see from the
+forward windows a vast fleet including some absolutely enormous ships.  The
+smaller vessels shooting around the edges reveal that this is a Vorlon
+fleet on the move.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi comes to in Medlab.  He tells Zack that he's having bad dreams,
+but doesn't elaborate on the visions of Shadow ships and incarceration that
+are hounding him.  He seems surprised that two weeks have passed since
+Sheridan left for Z'ha'dum, but not very surprised that Sheridan died there.
+
+
    
+An enormous bird-shaped ship travels though hyperspace on an unknown
+trajectory.
+
+
    
+Delenn thanks the Brakiri ambassador for bringing information regarding
+what the other races are planning.  Those who oppose the decision to attack
+Z'ha'dum intend to hold a rally in the Zocalo to gather support for
+stopping the assault.  Delenn insists that the Shadows will attack in any
+case so it's better to strike now when they are weak.  As he departs, the
+Ambassador asks if she knows anything about the large vessel that seems to
+be approaching Babylon 5.  She does not.
+
+
    
+Vir and Londo are roused in the middle of the night and led by a taciturn
+guard to a secret alcove.  Vir is terrified.  And well he should be, for
+they are guests in Cartagia's personal torture chamber.  They are not the
+entertainment however... G'Kar is.  The Emperor has decreed that there and
+now, G'Kar will either cry out under the stroke of the electro-whip, or die
+on the 40th beat.  G'Kar suffers mightily, as Londo surreptitiously mouths
+"scream" at him.  At the 39th stroke, the Narn finally gives a mighty wail
+and sinks to the floor.
+
+
    
+Jumping into B5 space, Ivanova orders an immediate meeting with Lyta
+Alexander and a thorough scan of sector 70x10x53.
+
+
    
+Lennier sees an unusual level of activity in the Zocalo and notifies Delenn.
+
+
    
+The huge birdlike ship exits the jump gate and initiates docking procedures
+without the station's approval.  Ivanova orders a security red alert.
+Garibaldi struggles off his bed to go investigate.  
+
+
    
+From a catwalk above the Zocolo, the Drazi leader begins to stir up the
+crowd with anti-Minbari rhetoric.
+
+
    
+Zack isn't happy to see the Chief out of Medlab but can't stop to send him
+back.  Security forces square off against the personnel transport as it
+approaches the floor of the docking bay.  Two forms are visible inside.
+But when the door opens, all Garibaldi can say is, "Well, I'll be damned."
+
+
    
+The crowd in the Zocalo begins to grow more rowdy as the Drazi continues.
+He claims that they will all be destroyed if anyone attacks Z'ha'dum, just
+as Sheridan was.  To the astonishment of them all, the dead man himself
+steps up onto their platform.
+
+
    
+"Captain.  We're sorry.  We thought you were dead."
+
+
    
+"I was.  I'm better now," Sheridan says ironically, sharing a look with
+Lorien standing in the shadows.
+
+
    
+The Captain begins to address the crowd.  No more hesitation.  They must
+now assemble the greatest fleet in the history of the galaxy.  The only man
+to have survived Z'ha'dum calls on them and their governments to end this
+war once and forever, not just until next time.  The crowd cheers their
+support.
+
+
    
+Delenn rushes to his side, and as they embrace, John promises never to
+leave her again.
+
+
    
+Ivanova finds Lyta collapsed in her quarters.  "You know, don't you," Lyta
+says.  "It's started."
+
+
    
+The war council gathers in Sheridan's office for a briefing.  He explains
+what he has learned about the Vorlon and Shadow objectives, and how the
+balance between them has been lost.  "Something, Mr. Garibaldi?" Sheridan
+snaps at the Chief who is glaring at Lorien suspiciously.  
+
+
    
+"I just want to know who our new best friend is," Garibaldi growls.  He
+isn't satisfied with just a name, or Sheridan's assurances, or the rest of
+the secrecy surrounding the Captain's return.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and Marcus enter with Lyta.  The joy of reunion is quickly
+overshadowed by the report of the vast Vorlon fleet followed by the
+telepath's news.  To everyone's horror it appears that that fleet has just
+destroyed an inhabited planet because it had harbored a Shadow force.  The
+Vorlons have decided that it's time to destroy everything that has been
+touched by the Shadows.  Now the Army of Light must stop both the Shadows
+and the Vorlons if anyone hopes to survive this struggle.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, the Vorlon planet-killer ship cruises towards its next target.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (n9641343@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Please Stand By
    
+Incoming Transmission
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The face of Commander Ivanova appears on the screen.  "We're
+pre-empting your normal BabCom service to bring you another update on
+the continuing crisis.  Two more deep-range planetary colonies have
+been eliminated by Vorlon forces."  The image changes to that of the
+Vorlon fleet.  "This footage was taken as the Vorlon fleet closed in on
+Ventari III.  The ship eclipsing the local star is presumed to be their
+main weapon, the planet-killer.
+Below is a list of nearby colonies and League worlds which
+are accepting refugees from Ventari III.  We will continue to update
+this list as the situation changes.  If you are from the Ventari
+system, you are asked not to return until authorized.  The local
+jumpgate has been destroyed, and hyperspace traffic is creating a
+hazard at the jump intersection.  Contact your ambassadors for
+information on family members who may have escaped before the colony
+was destroyed.  We're taking in refugees and escaping ships as fast as
+we can, but our resources are almost maxed out.  We will repeat this
+bulletin every twenty standard minutes until we receive new
+information.  Once again, please remain calm.  Right now, our greatest
+enemy is fear."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As the transmission breaks off, a woman tries to make her way through
+the overcrowded docking bay, but is knocked down.  She begs someone to
+help, but no one will even stop to look at her until someone reaches
+his hand out toward her and helps her stand.  It is Sheridan, with
+Lorien close behind.  Sheridan leads her to Zack, who is standing
+nearby.  Sheridan and Lorien move away.  The woman asks Zack if it is
+true that Sheridan came back from the dead, and Zack responds that he
+isn't sure, but takes her off to contact her husband.
+
+
    
+"You heard?"  Lorien asks, as he and Sheridan walk through the station.
+
+
    
+"I heard," Sheridan responds.
+
+
    
+"They need to believe."
+
+
    
+"Not in me."
+
+
    
+"You can't save them all."
+
+
    
+"I can try."
+
+
    
+"You'll fail."
+
+
    
+"We'll see."
+
+
    
+As Sheridan and Lorien walk away, the face of Ivanova, on a nearby
+monitor, once again asks for everyone to remain calm.  "Right now, our
+greatest enemy is fear." However, the Vorlon fleet, undaunted,
+continues on its way.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is in his office, looking through securecam stills of the
+docking bay.  Zack comes in, and asks Garibaldi how he is.  Garibaldi
+says he's fine, but he'll be better once he gets back to work.  Zack
+notices what Garibaldi is doing, and asks him why, since Franklin
+wanted him to take it easy.  Garibaldi says if he doesn't do something,
+he'll go crazy.  He explains that he is worried about Lorien--wherever
+Sheridan is, Lorien is.  Zack says that it is probably because Lorien
+saved Sheridan's life.  Zack
+doesn't pretend to understand it, but is glad Sheridan made it back
+alive.  He asks Garibaldi if he's sure he's okay, which annoys
+Garibaldi.  Garibaldi asks Zack if he thinks he's lying about not
+remembering what happened after his disappearance, and Zack insists
+that nobody thinks Garibaldi is lying.
+Garibaldi, however, is still upset that he's being kept at arm's length
+while Sheridan, who went through similar circumstances, is welcomed
+back.  Zack tells Garibaldi that
+Franklin wants to do one more examination, but after that, he'll
+be back on the job.  Zack begins to leave, but as he goes, Garibaldi
+tells him that he feels Captain Sheridan is avoiding him, even though
+they were on good terms when Garibaldi left.  Zack says he doesn't know
+why, but is sure Sheridan has his reasons.  Garibaldi, taking this in, turns
+back to the securecam still of Lorien.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo enters the garden to find Emperor Cartagia waiting.  He is
+staring up at the sky, and asks Londo what he sees.  Londo replies that
+he only sees the stars, but a familiar voice from behind tells him he
+isn't looking hard enough.  It is Morden, who tells Londo the Vorlons
+are out there, and attacking the worlds which have been subjected to
+Shadow influence.  Londo asks Cartagia if it's true, since he's heard
+nothing about it, and Cartagia confirms that it is.  When Morden tells
+Londo that, during the last war, they put ships on planets so that
+their fleet could never be entirely destroyed, Londo asks Morden if the
+ships will be leaving.  Morden says they won't, since he doesn't feel
+that the Vorlons have the will to destroy a world as big as Centauri
+Prime.  Londo tells Cartagia the ships must leave, but both he and
+Morden agree they won't.  Morden says that, if the Vorlons meet up with
+a Centauri fleet, and can see they are willing to oppose them, they
+will ignore Centauri Prime and move on.  Morden then bids Londo goodnight,
+and vanishes back the way he came.  Londo is outraged that
+Cartagia would send Centauri ships to defend the Shadows, but Cartagia
+says he has no intention of doing that.
+
+
    
+Londo and Cartagia walk back into the palace, and Londo tells Cartagia
+he is relieved that Cartagia won't send the Centauri ships.  Cartagia
+says he reached Londo's conclusion as well, and that, when he realized
+that, he learned that he liked Londo very much, since they think the
+same way.  Because of this, Cartagia tells him, he shows Londo
+something very few others have seen--his "shadow cabinet," his
+collection of heads.  He says he was discussing the situation with them
+earlier, and that one of them, a previous minister, got the idea to not
+send out the Centauri ships.  Londo asks Cartagia if that means
+Cartagia will ask the Shadows to leave, but no--Cartagia wants the
+Vorlons to come so that the planet can become an inauguration pyre to
+commemmorate Cartagia's ascension into godhood.  Cartagia reasons that,
+when he becomes a god, his subjects will not be able to live without him,
+therefore, if he takes them all with him, no one will be sad when he
+dies.  "Don't send the ships," Cartagia tells Londo.  "Let them come!
+Let it all end in fire!"
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Franklin continues to examine Garibaldi in MedLab, one test of which
+includes an examination of the back of Garibaldi's head to see if there
+is any evidence of his being put in a Shadow ship.  Franklin tells
+Garibaldi he's clean, but wonders what Garibaldi thinks happened.
+Garibaldi says he thinks he was caught in the backwash when the
+Shadows left the station's area.  Franklin says that Garibaldi is now
+clear to go back to work, but a memory stirs in Garibaldi's head, which
+stops him for a moment.  He agrees, and leaves.  Sheridan enters, and
+asks Franklin if there are any results on his tests, and he and
+Franklin both go off, as Ivanova appears again on the BabCom screen...
+
+
    
+"This is a Command and Control update.  The safe haven for refugees on
+Tizino Prime is no longer responding.  We believe they may have fallen
+to the Vorlon advance, but we can't be sure for another--I guess--ten,
+twelve hours?  Before they attack, the Vorlons blanket all frequencies
+so no reports can get out.  There have been some changes to the list of
+refugee stations.  We'll have that information for you shortly--we've
+lost three of them.  All the governments in sector 57 have declared a
+state of interplanetary emergency..." Reports coming in from survivors
+indicate mass destruction on a planetary scale.  We continue to need
+medical ships, transports, anything that can fly.  We're in special
+need of atmosphere-capable shuttles to evacuate survivors from the
+ground.  We'll rebroadcast this message in twenty standard minutes."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As the message ends, Delenn enters Sheridan's office where he has been
+watching.  Sheridan says that there's something in Ivanova's voice
+that he hasn't heard in the ten years he's known her--fear.  Ivanova is
+afraid of what's happening.  Sheridan tells Delenn it's the first time
+he's seen her alone since he got back.  Delenn says that's it been so
+busy that it's understandable, but that she felt it was her fault that
+he went to Z'ha'dum.  She tells him she feared that, even if he
+came back, he would not forgive her, and she would lose him again.
+Sheridan tries to tell her she did what she thought was right, but
+Delenn knows it was no excuse.  She tells him she's sorry, but Sheridan
+tells her that it was she that saved him when he fell at Z'ha'dum--it
+was the memory of her that kept him going, and that she gave him the
+reason he needed to come back.  "Could I love that much and not
+forgive?" he asks her.  They embrace.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+In the war room, Ivanova tells Zack, Franklin, and Garibaldi that the
+station is up to its ears in ships of all kinds.  Franklin
+understands, since MedLab is the same way.  Garibaldi tells them,
+however, that they are going to have a much bigger problem on their
+hands soon when all the survivors come to Babylon 5 looking for
+someone--anyone--of their own races that survived the Vorlon onslaught.
+Garibaldi knows there isn't a thing that can be done to stop it, and
+the problem will get worse since they are already well over capacity.
+Franklin suggests that they
+shuttle as many people as they can to Epsilon III to keep the
+population in check and when Sheridan comes into the room, he agrees.
+Sheridan sits down and says they have an important problem-- Kosh.  As
+long as he's there, they can't make a move without him knowing about
+it.  Sheridan says that they don't know how telepathic the Vorlons are,
+and Sheridan has kept Garibaldi out of the loop so that, in
+case Kosh can read from a distance, he won't learn of their plans.
+Sheridan tells Garibaldi he wants the Vorlon gone.  He wants to give
+Kosh what he expects, so that they can do what they have to do.
+Sheridan wants Garibaldi to take only a few people, and Garibaldi says
+Kosh will wipe up the floor with them, a fact which Sheridan
+understands only too well.  Garibaldi leaves to go assemble the team,
+and Zack gets up to follow soon after.  Lyta and Lorien come into the
+room and say that their part of the plan is ready.  Lorien tells
+everyone that the Shadows could kill Kosh because they were both First Ones,
+but that, when a Vorlon is enraged, its power is beyond human
+comprehension.  Franklin asks what the plan is, and Sheridan tells them
+all that as long as Kosh remains, billions of lives are at stake.  "So
+we're going to take out the Vorlon... any way we can."
+
+
    
+"This is Command and Control," Ivanova says on BabCom.  "We have
+another update on the Vorlon attack fleet.  The Dura VII outpost has
+fallen.  I Repeat, Dura VII has fallen.  All medical ships in the area
+are being asked to help with the evacuation..."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi and his security team, wearing their oxygen masks, approach
+Kosh's quarters, and ask to come in, but there is no response.
+Garibaldi overrides the controls, and they all go in.  Garibaldi tells
+Kosh that the Captain told them to ask Kosh to leave.  Kosh doesn't
+respond.  Garibaldi says that the request is now an order, and that
+they will escort Kosh to his ship.  The Vorlon has but one reply,
+"No."  One of the officers tries to approach Kosh with his PPG, but a
+blast from the Vorlon sends him against the wall.  The others fire at
+the encounter suit, to no avail.  Kosh, fighting back, creates a
+high-pitched noise which, after a few moments, shatters the glass on
+the front of the teams' oxygen masks.  They run out of his quarters and
+the alien sector, choking and gasping for air.  They know they didn't
+do any good, but they sent the message that they are willing to fight
+back.  Garibaldi hopes it's enough, and hopes that Sheridan knows what
+he's doing.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in his quarters when he is informed that Londo is sending
+him a message.  Londo asks Sheridan if the rumor about the Vorlons is
+true, and Sheridan confirms that it is.  Londo asks how far the Vorlons
+are from Centauri Prime, since that information is not widely
+distributed on the planet.  Sheridan tells Londo it will be about a
+week before they arrive.  Londo asks if Sheridan is doing anything
+about it, and Sheridan says that, though they won't have anything in
+place for a while, they are doing their best, but there are no
+guarantees.  Londo wishes Sheridan good luck and signs off.
+
+
    
+Lyta enters Kosh's quarters.  "I heard what happened," she tells him.
+"I came to warn you.  Sheridan and the others are going to move against
+you."
+
+
    
+"It is done," Kosh replies.  "They are irrelevant."
+
+
    
+"I know, I know they can't harm you, but I was thinking, it can't hurt
+to have all the information you can about what's going on.  To protect
+yourself and the cause."
+
+
    
+"How?"
+
+
    
+"I told you, I wasn't here when Ambassador Kosh died... I didn't have
+any of his essence with me.  I thought he was gone.  But, for a while, I
+suspected that someone else here had a piece of him.  I think I know
+who it is, but I can't draw Kosh out of him... he won't let me."
+
+
    
+"A human?"
+
+
    
+"Yes."
+
+
    
+"Imprisons one of us?"
+
+
    
+"Yes."
+
+
    
+"Intolerable!"
+
+
    
+"If there is still a piece of him there, you can draw it out of him.
+Use what it knows and take it back to Vorlon when this is all over.  I
+cared about Kosh... I'd like to know he finally made it home."
+
+
    
+"Show me."
+
+
    
+"The guards..."
+
+
    
+"They will not threaten us again.  Show me!"
+
+
    
+Lyta and Kosh leave the quarters, and make their way through the alien
+sector to the main part of the station.  Lyta leads him down a
+corridor.  "It's this way," she tells the Vorlon.  "We have to hurry...
+I think he might leave soon."
+
+
    
+"Your thoughts are troubled," Kosh says, stopping.
+
+
    
+"I'm worried about Kosh, that's all.  After everything we've been
+through, I'd hate to lose the last of him now, and..."
+
+
    
+"What are you hiding?"
+
+
    
+"Nothing."
+
+
    
+"Open your thoughts to me!"
+
+
    
+"We don't have time for this..."
+
+
    
+"Open..."  The eyepeiece on Kosh's encounter suit opens wide for a
+moment, but it is too late... The plan has already begun.  Sheridan,
+who was hiding nearby, yells at Lyta to get out of the way, which she
+does.
+
+
    
+Kosh, in the middle of the corridor, is suddenly bombarded with blasts
+of electricity from several junction boxes, which hit the encounter
+suit directly.  From other hiding places in the room, many more
+security guards appear, each firing their PPG rifles directly at the
+encounter suit.  Delenn appears while this is going on, and watches in
+stunned silence.  The current continues unabated, the security officers
+keep firing at the encounter suit for nearly a minute.  There is a
+small explosion as the headpiece of Kosh's encounter suit shatters, and
+a flurry of light emerges from within.  Kosh emerges from the encounter
+suit, but he appears this time as an enormous, glowing, tentacled being
+which begins flying around the room, attacking everything it can, and
+firing energy bolts of its own.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As the Vorlon goes on its rampage, one of the security officers near
+Delenn falls, and she attempts to bring him to safety.  The current,
+which exhausted itself shortly after Kosh was released, is no longer
+effective, and Sheridan calls Ivanova for more, which she tries to give
+him.  While she does so, she receives a message from someone in the
+docking bay saying that the Vorlon's ship is going crazy, trying to
+break away from the station.  She orders the ship to be cleared to
+leave before it tears apart the station.  Meanwhile, the Vorlon sets
+its sights on Delenn as she tries to drag the security officer away
+from its wrath.  Sheridan sees this and jumps between them, but is
+snared by a tentacle.  The Vorlon
+ship clears the station, but Sheridan is caught.
+
+
    
+Lorien, who has been observing,
+nods to Sheridan.  "Now."  Sheridan manages to turn
+around and face the Vorlon, and as he does so, an enormous golden
+shape, bearing much resemblance to the other one, emerges from
+Sheridan's chest, and locks onto the other one.  The two forms begin
+fighting each other.  Delenn understands what has happened.
+
+
    
+"It's Kosh... Kosh was inside him."
+
+
    
+"Yes," Lorien tells her.  "The last of Kosh.  And some of him, and some
+of me."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The two Vorlons, still fighting, flow through the ceiling of the
+section and move through the rest of the station, eventually emerging
+and coalescing onto the Vorlon ship, which is making its way away
+from the station.  As the two forms encompass the ship, it explodes as
+well.  Then, all is quiet.
+
+
    
+Delenn runs over to Sheridan, who lies crumpled on the floor.  Lorien
+tells her that his life force must be replenished, and places his hand
+on Sheridan's chest.  Lorien's hand glows, and Delenn asks if that is
+how he brought him back at Z'ha'dum.  Lorien tells her that he gives of
+himself to replenish Sheridan, for a little while.  Delenn asks how long,
+but all Lorien tells her is, "Long enough."  Sheridan regains
+conciousness, and Delenn holds him closely.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo waits nervously in Emperor Cartagia's throne room.  When Cartagia
+arrives, annoyed at being summoned on such short notice, Londo tells
+Cartagia that, while he thinks that the emperor's coming godhood is a
+momentous event, he thinks that others should see his greatness.
+Cartagia asks why they should care what others think, and Londo
+explains that, after the fall of Centauri Prime, there will be no one
+left to sing Cartagia's praises.  Once the Centauri are gone, there
+will be no one left to remember him.  Londo says what he has in mind is
+that, if G'Kar's trial and
+execution were conducted on Narn instead, the whole planet would be
+able to see Cartagia's greatness.  Londo convinces Cartagia that, if he
+does this, his name will be remembered long after the fall of Centauri
+Prime.  Though Cartagia is worried about the barbarism of the Narns,
+Londo convinces him that gods should not be afraid.  Cartagia agrees
+with Londo's plan, and sets it in motion.  Londo tells Cartagia that
+he will go with him in order to personally end G'Kar's life.
+
+
    
+Dozens of warships crowd around Babylon 5--Ivanova explains to Garibaldi
+that Sheridan wants the biggest fleet in history to end the war.
+Garibaldi asks what will happen if they win, since there is nowhere else
+for them to go.  And, if they lose, that's the end.  "God, I thought I
+was depressing," Ivanova says as she leaves C&C, allowing Garibaldi to
+ponder this on his own.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Delenn enters Sheridan's quarters to find him there with Lorien.
+Sheridan says he has something to tell her that he feels she has a
+right to know.  Lorien explains that, when Sheridan was dying on
+Z'ha'dum, he did what he could to help.  He cannot prevent death, but
+can extend and enhance life.  Sheridan tells
+Delenn that Franklin's tests revealed an energy inside him, repairing
+and sustaining him.  Lorien tells Delenn he did the best he could, but
+that he could only give Sheridan back a portion of his life--twenty
+years, barring further injury or illness.  Sheridan tries to convince
+her that, though he'll only be living until his early 60s, it's a
+decent life-span, but Delenn is taken aback, upset since she believed
+she would have a much longer period to spend with him.  Lorien says
+that, after twenty years, one day, Sheridan "will simply... stop."
+Sheridan asks Lorien to give them a moment together, which he does.
+Sheridan tells Delenn it's all right, and that he knew what he was
+getting into--his shortened life is the price he had to pay.  Delenn,
+however, isn't so sure--she feels like she is still losing him before
+she should.  Sheridan tries to convince her that it's a long
+time--twenty more years than he would have had otherwise.  He pulls a
+small box out from a hiding place and hands it to her--he says he got
+it in the Zocalo, and though it isn't what he had in mind, it's merely
+a temporary engagement ring.  She clearly doesn't understand, and he
+explains that the ring is given to a loved one as a down-payment for
+another ring--the ring exchanged during a wedding ceremony.  Sheridan
+tells her he wanted her to have it so that she would know that,
+whatever time he has left, he wants to spend with her.  They kiss.
+
+
    
+Londo arrives to find Cartagia and two guards looking after G'Kar.
+Londo tells Cartagia that their people on Narn are ready for their
+trip.  Cartagia pulls Londo aside and tells him that he doesn't like
+the way G'Kar is looking at him.  He asks Londo for advice, but
+Londo says that he is sure Cartagia will make an appropriate decision.
+Londo leaves hurriedly, and Cartagia continues to ponder the problem.
+
+
    
+"No, I don't care at all for the way he looks at me," Cartagia says to
+himself.  He reaches his decision.  "Pluck out his eye!"
+
+
    
+"Which one?" asks one of the guards.
+
+
    
+"I don't know," Cartagia replies.  "It doesn't matter!"  He moves his
+finger back and forth, trying to choose between the eyes, and he
+settles on G'Kar's left eye.  "That one," Cartagia says, and he leaves,
+smiling.  The two guards inside move closer to G'Kar, and as one of them
+draws a knife, the cell door slams shut.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+The station spins amidst a growing cloud of warships and tension as the
+coalition prepares to defend itself against the Vorlons and Shadows.
+Ivanova finds the Captain brooding in C&C.  It seems that the Shadows have
+finally reacted to the Vorlon "planet killer" attacks against worlds where
+they have influence with an equally destructive offensive against Vorlon
+supporters.  They watch with horror as a report shows an evil cloud
+suffusing a world, rippling the surface and killing all sentient life on it.  
+
+
    
+"Giants in the playground," Sheridan remarks with disgust.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+On Narn, Londo has convened a secret meeting of Centauri leaders.  In no
+uncertain terms he and Vir explain that if Emperor Cartagia is not killed
+today and the Shadows driven off homeworld, Centauri Prime will be
+destroyed by the Vorlons.  
+
+
    
+Ivanova tracks down the Captain again in his office.  She tells Sheridan he
+must be proud.  Even if they die in the coming battle, it will be at the
+head of what must be the greatest fleet the galaxy has ever seen.  When he
+tells her that he needs her to track down the remaining First Ones for him
+and this will prevent her from accompanying the fleet, she grows angry.  
+
+
    
+When she was a child, her mother told her to wait at the neighbor's house
+one day.  She waited and waited and her mother never came.  It was the day
+her mother killed herself.  Ivanova refuses to be left behind again.  She makes
+Sheridan promise, as one soldier to another, not to protect her, but to let
+her be there when the final battle comes.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The throne room rings with laughter as a jester entertains the court.
+Emperor Cartagia enthusiastically explains his latest idea to Mollari.
+When he attains godhood, Londo shall be his high priest.  They will go back
+to watch the Vorlons destroy Centauri Prime as soon as G'Kar is executed.
+The emperor turns to find himself the object of the jester's mimicry.  The
+room stills and the courtiers quake until Cartagia laughs, and everyone
+laughs with relief.  Londo leaves to "check on some arrangements."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+He is shocked to see the "arrangements" sitting in a dark cell, drawn,
+bloodied, with only a single eye.  But "an empty eye can see through to an
+empty heart," G'Kar says.  Londo tells G'Kar that his chains have been
+weakened enough that he can break them at the moment before his execution
+to create a diversion the Centauri can use to kill the emperor. "Your
+heart is empty, Mollari.  Did you know that?"  Londo's sympathy dries up at
+that remark and he leaves the Narn with the injunction not to touch the
+emperor's person.  "Leave him to us."
+
+
    
+Mollari returns to the throne room in time to see a body dragged from the
+room and a jester's cap on the floor.  "Humor is such a subjective thing,"
+Cartagia comments.
+
+
    
+Later that night Vir appears bearing a secret package.  He is surprised
+no one followed him.  "Everyone knows that you are incapable of doing
+anything really dangerous or subversive," Mollari smiles.  The package
+turns out to be anything but innocuous however.  It is a needlelike dagger
+with a button on the handle that when plunged deep into the breast of the
+victim will release a toxin that can kill a Centauri "almost
+instantaneously."  They joke around about whether that might be long enough
+for the emperor to say "Londo killed Aaaaagh!"
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As G'Kar is paraded through the corridors as a lesson to the Narn, Cartagia
+idly mentions that he had G'Kar's chains replaced because they looked weak.
+ The emperor passes judgment, death by vivisection, and asks for the Narn's
+plea.  G'Kar only grabs his chains.  With a mighty pull he breaks them and
+attacks the emperor's guards.  Londo hurries Cartagia into an antechamber
+behind the throne.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Nervously fumbling for his dagger and peering around for guards, Londo
+distractedly tells the enraged emperor to be quiet.  Cartagia turns on him
+instead, punching Mollari in the face and knocking the weapon out of his
+hand before getting him in a headlock.  "You will burn with the rest of
+Centauri," he says, then turns away to find a dagger in his chest, in the
+hands of a horrified Vir.
+
+
    
+Within the hour Londo announces Cartagia's death to the court.  In the same
+moment he declares that this is a sign that they must leave Narn forever.
+They must also return to Centauri Prime immediately to remove the Shadow
+presence there.  Since there is no clear line of succession, he is named
+Prime Minister by a member of the Centaurum to lead until a new emperor can
+be chosen.
+
+
    
+Back on Babylon 5, Lennier hurries into the war room with an intelligence
+report.  It shows that the Shadows, like the Vorlons, are destroying planets
+hit-and-run style.  He is interrupted by an incoming report from a White
+Star scout, whose probes are able to show how the Shadows operate.  They
+surround the victim planet with a cloud of black missiles.  These missiles
+assault the planet en masse, burrowing through the crust to the planet's
+molten core where they detonate together.  The resultant tectonic upheaval
+effectively destroys all life on the planet within hours.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is upset.  "We are outclassed, boys and girls."
+
+
    
+But Lennier knows where the Vorlons might be heading next, Coriana 6, a
+planet with over 6 billion people on it.  They convene the League worlds to
+discuss their next strategy.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The Centauri must leave Narn immediately but Vir is no where to be found.
+Londo's impatience with his assistant turns into distaste when he finds Vir
+thoroughly drunk.  But he softens in the face of Vir's anguish.  No matter
+how good the cause, Vir has just killed someone in cold blood.  Londo tells
+him what he did was necessary, that he may have saved their people.  "But
+you still have your heart.  And your heart is a good one.  You would not be
+in such great pain otherwise."  Their conversation is interrupted by
+the fireworks of celebrating Narns.  Londo may regret the loss of his own
+heart, he says as he leaves Vir, but in keeping his promise to G'Kar, at
+least he retains his honor.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The League representatives are appalled by their first vision of the Shadow
+planet killing cloud.  In this mood of despair Sheridan announces they will
+stand against the Vorlons at Coriana 6.  In addition, it's time the
+Shadows and Vorlons fought each other directly instead of attacking through
+the destruction of innocent worlds.  The Shadows will have to be tricked
+into joining them however.  While the League watches, Sheridan calls up the
+White Star scout ship again and instructs her captain to attack a Shadow
+base near one of their main staging areas.  The Shadow response will be
+instant--and deadly.  Sheridan asks this crew to leak news of  a
+nonexistant coalition base near Coriana 6 to the Shadows, and to die in
+apparent defense of this false intelligence.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The Narn throne room is the scene of revelry once again, this time as the
+Narn tear it to pieces.  G'Kar is outraged when he sees this, and even more
+infuriated when the Narns try to make him their new leader to strike back
+against the Centauri once and for all.  He will lead only as a member of
+the Kha'Ri, not as a dictator.  Angry at being told off, one Narn asks
+him, while we've been down here suffering under Centauri rule, "What have
+you endured?"  G'Kar's answer begins in rage and ends in ineffable mirth.
+
+
    
+The scout ship's final message is received at the station.  The Shadows
+have taken the bait.  And so the greatest fleet anyone has ever known sets
+off for Coriana 6.
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    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (n9641343@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+"Commander's Personal Log.  We're still searching for First Ones to use
+in our war with the Vorlons and the Shadows.  There's less than
+twenty-four hours left before everything hits the fan.  We can't afford
+to waste any more time.  We have to get back to Babylon 5 and catch up
+with the fleet."
+
+
    
+Ivanova tells Lorien that they need to move on--the five First Ones
+they have found are enough, and she doesn't believe there are any
+others.  Lorien disagrees, saying that they need to have all six, and
+that all they have to do is wait for a response to their signal.
+Ivanova says she'll give him ten more minutes, but then they'll have to
+go back.  She says she hopes Sheridan's plan of attacking Vorlon
+targets to force out their troops is working.  Lorien admits it is an
+interesting tactic--possibly futile, but very human.  Suddenly, a large
+ship appears outside, one Lorien apparently recognizes.  He tells
+Ivanova that this race is nearly as old as the Vorlons, and hasn't
+spoken to any outside their race for centuries.  Ivanova asks if
+they'll remember him, but he knows they will.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Delenn, in command of the White Star fleet, manage to
+destroy a Vorlon observation post without too much trouble, and head
+off to the rendevous point.  After they enter hyperspace, Sheridan
+looks at the fleet he has assembled--thousands of ships, dozens of
+races, working together for the first time.  "We've put together a hell
+of a team, Delenn," he tells her.  "You should be proud.  Win or lose,
+we'll go down fighting.  Pour it on, Mr. Lennier.  Take us into the
+fire."
+
+
    
+As the fleet travels to Coriana 6, Lyta tells Marcus that she heard the
+Vorlons are planning to move against Centauri Prime about the same time
+they will arrive at Coriana, and she wonders why the fleet isn't making
+its stand there.  Marcus explains that Coriana was the logical choice
+for the fleet to defend, since its population is twice as large.
+Marcus hopes, though, that they pulled enough of the Vorlon ships away
+to give the Centauri enough time to remove all Shadow influence.
+
+
    
+Londo and Vir make their way to the throne room, followed by the
+Regent, who begs for further instructions.  Londo tells him that, with
+the Vorlons less than 12 hours away, he wants the Shadows off the
+planet.  He tells the Regent to bring the ministers of War,
+Intelligence, Transportation, and Security, and to clear the palace of
+everyone who worked for Emperor Cartagia.  The Regent leaves to follow
+Londo's orders, and after he's gone, Londo tells Vir that they have
+very little time left, but that they need to find Morden to tell him
+the news.
+
+
    
+Delenn arrives on the bridge of the fleet's flagship, where Sheridan is
+waiting, and tells him that Ivanova and Lorien have found all the
+remaining First Ones.  She tries to convince Sheridan that Ivanova's
+ship won't help turn the tide of battle, but Sheridan explains that he
+promised Ivanova she would be there at the end, no matter what.  He
+tells Delenn to radio Ivanova to arrive at the rendezvous point as
+quickly as possible.
+
+
    
+Ivanova, after arriving back on the station, is preparing to leave for
+the battle when Lorien comes in.  He says that he was told she was
+ready to leave, but she isn't quite--she says he seems quite impatient
+for an immortal.  He explains that he isn't immortal, and could die if
+he fell ill or was injured.  He was the first of the First Ones and the
+last of his race.  Ivanova doesn't believe he can be as old as he
+claims, since no one could discover the technology necessary to develop
+an immortality serum in one lifetime.  Lorien explains, however, that
+all of his kind were born naturally immortal.  Ivanova can't accept
+this; she is positive that everything dies.  Lorien explains that
+things are that way--now--but they weren't always.  The generations of
+beings that followed his own were mortal, and could eventually die, but
+those of his time were immortal.  He explains that his race discovered
+the Vorlons and Shadows as infant races and guided them, and the other
+First Ones, along the evolutionary path.  Most of the others eventually
+died or passed beyond the Rim to what lay beyond.  He explains that to
+live forever means to give up everything else--love, companionship,
+friendship--since those will come and go.  Only races with a much
+shorter life span can truly appreciate these things and experience them
+for all they are worth.  "You should embrace that remarkable illusion,"
+he tells her.  "It may be the greatest gift your race has ever
+received."
+
+
    
+As the Vorlon fleet makes its way through hyperspace, the minister of
+Intelligence arrives in Londo's quarters and asks to speak with him.
+The minister tells him that the death of Lady Adira was preceded by
+rumors that Londo had attempted to poison Lord Refa, and the minister
+was asked, by Cartagia, to look into the matter.  The minister
+discovered these two matters were connected, and continued his
+investigation even after Refa's death.  The report he presented to
+Cartagia was to be kept secret until after Cartagia's death.  Londo
+says that Refa was responsible for her death: the liner Adira was on
+when she died came from Centauri Prime, and the poison that killed her
+was of Centauri origin.  The minister explains that it was not Refa who
+ordered Adira's murder, but Morden.  He says he suspects Morden wanted
+to secure his position by making it appear as if Refa had killed
+Adira.  Londo dismisses the minister.  Londo, alone, finally realizing
+what he has done, loses control and starts tearing the room apart in
+rage.  Crying, finally understanding how Morden manipulated him, he
+falls to the floor in tears.
+
+
    
+Ivanova and Lorien are trying to get the rendezvous as fast as they
+can.  Lorien tells her to be patient--patience and logic will win the
+war, not weapons and firepower.  He says that Sheridan knows this, but
+he doesn't know if Sheridan knows he knows it.
+
+
    
+Sheridan looks out the window of the flagship, commenting that the
+fleet, while not bad, is still not big enough to win.  Marcus asks why
+they are there, and Sheridan says, "Hoping the truth will set us
+free... Before it kills us."  He asks if the nuclear weapons are ready,
+and Marcus says they are camouflaged by asteroids.  Sheridan tells Lyta
+to keep her mind open, and be ready for anything from the Shadows or
+the Vorlons.  They need her--she is their only advantage.
+
+
    
+Two guards bring Morden into the throne room, where Londo is waiting.
+Morden demands to know what is going on, and Londo tells him about the
+Vorlon fleet that is now headed to Centauri Prime.  Londo tells him
+that, now that Cartagia is dead, he wants the Shadow fleet removed from
+the island of Selini.  Morden declines, believing that the Vorlons
+would never attack a world with 3 billion people.  Londo realizes that
+Morden and the Shadows are afraid.  He says he must make sure that he
+and Morden may speak privately.  Two of Londo's guards fire their
+weapons to the left and right of Morden, killing two Shadows, who
+flicker into sight only briefly as they die.  Morden tells Londo he's
+insane, and Londo admits that--today--that's true.  He gives Morden one
+more chance to move the ships, but Morden refuses again.  Londo says
+that while the ships are impressive flying, at the moment, they are on
+the ground.  Morden notes that they can sense an approaching ship miles
+away, so Londo doesn't have much choice.  "What are you going to do,
+Mollari?  Blow up the island?"
+
+
    
+"Actually," Londo says, producing a small device from his pocket, "now
+that you mention it..." As the island explodes, Morden reels as if in
+pain.  Londo tells him that most of the Centauri were evacuated from
+Selini during the night, but that some stayed to maintain the
+illusion.  Londo orders Morden to be imprisoned, and the guards drag
+him away.  But, as he goes, Morden promises that, even if the Shadows
+lose, their allies will make sure Centauri Prime pays for destroying
+the Shadow fleet.
+
+
    
+Ivanova meets up with the rest of the fleet and tells Sheridan that
+Lorien wants to come over to Sheridan's ship right away.  Almost as
+soon as Sheridan approves, though, Lyta realizes that both of the
+fleets have just arrived in the Coriana system.  As soon as they
+appear, they begin moving toward each other.  To get their attention,
+Sheridan detonates some of the nuclear devices, which do damage to both
+sides.  This substantially angers both the Vorlons and the Shadows, and
+the battle begins.
+
+
    
+Sheridan opens up communication with the Vorlon fleet, and implores
+them to not destroy Coriana 6--its residents were forced by the Shadows
+to allow a fleet to be based on their world, and don't deserve to be
+destroyed for that reason.  The Vorlons, however, don't respond, and
+Lennier suggests they might not even be listening.  Delenn asks Lyta to
+send the Vorlons a telepathic signal to get their attention.
+
+
    
+As the battle rages on, Vir arrives in the throne room, where Londo is
+waiting.  Londo tells him that, despite the Vorlon fleet on its way to
+Centauri Prime, they are no longer a threat, as he has removed the last
+Shadow influence from the planet.  Londo tells Vir to go into the
+garden, where "a gift" is waiting.  Vir does so.  The gift is Morden's
+head on a pike.  Recalling the promise he made long ago, Vir looks into
+Morden's eyes and waves.
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks Lyta if she's had any luck, but she hasn't been able to
+open communication.  Lennier informs Sheridan that the Vorlon
+planetkiller is almost in range of Coriana 6.  Delenn is reluctant to
+call in the First Ones so soon, but Sheridan is not willing to let the
+planet die.  Sheridan orders Lennier to send the signal.  Lennier does,
+and the First Ones' ships instantly appear.  Wasting no time, they
+concentrate their fire on the Vorlon planetkiller, which is destroyed
+easily.  They turn their fire on the other Vorlon ships and on the
+Shadows.
+
+
    
+Londo arrives in the Garden and joyfully explains to Vir that he has
+sent a message to the Vorlons informing them that all Shadow influence
+has been removed from Centauri Prime.  Londo is sure they will turn
+back, but Vir does not share his enthusiasm.  Vir tells Londo that he's
+wrong, that there is still one thing left that has been touched by the
+Shadows.  He points to the sky, where the sun is being eclipsed by
+another Vorlon planetkiller.  Londo realizes that they have come for
+him, and since he sent the message, they knew exactly where he can be
+found.
+
+
    
+The Vorlons still refuse to communicate with Sheridan and his army, but
+Lennier does detect that they are sending a message to their other
+ships, for reinforcements.
+
+
    
+Londo pleads with Vir to kill him so that Centauri Prime will be safe,
+but Vir refuses.  Londo's pleas are interrupted by the planetkiller
+moving away to join the Vorlon fleet at Coriana.
+
+
    
+Lorien arrives on the bridge of the flagship of Sheridan's fleet.
+Delenn begs him to talk to the Vorlons and the Shadows.  She is
+interrupted, however, by the voice of Lyta, now distant and ghostly.
+"There is nothing to tell," she says as she turns around, her eyes
+glowing bright blue.  "You thought we could not touch you," she tells
+him.  "You were wrong."  She focuses on him and Sheridan is paralyzed
+in an energy field.  Delenn moves to help him, but is warned by Lorien
+not to do so, as it will kill him instead.  "And you they have left..."
+Lyta says, her eyes now glazed over with black, "...for us."  She
+glares at Delenn, who is paralyzed as well.
+
+
    
+Lennier runs to help Delenn, but Lorien warns him that, should he
+interfere, they will lose the one chance they have to end the war.
+Lorien explains that Sheridan hoped both sides could be provoked into
+doing this.  Lorien says that Sheridan wants everyone to know the
+truth, what they may be asked to die for.  Lorien puts one hand in the
+air next to Delenn and Sheridan, and Lennier and everyone else can see
+what Sheridan and Delenn see...
+
+
    
+Sheridan is wandering around in darkness, shouting, "Where are you?
+Show yourselves!"
+
+
    
+Suddenly, a large block of ice is highlighted, with a woman frozen
+inside, a glowing amulet around her neck.  Without moving her mouth,
+she speaks to him.  "We are here.  We do not understand you.  We have
+wished only the best for you.  We only want to help you."
+
+
    
+"You're destroying whole worlds!"
+
+
    
+"The others are a disease.  You have given us the opportunity to
+eliminate it.  We are grateful.  Why do you oppose us?"
+
+
    
+"Because I don't like being used... or lied to."
+
+
    
+"We have not lied.  Our goal is the same as yours--to destroy the
+darkness."
+
+
    
+Sheridan asks why, in that case, they haven't struck at the Shadows
+directly, since they had the technology to destroy Z'ha'dum all along.
+The response he receives is, "You do not understand." But Sheridan does
+understand, and he says that's what has the Vorlons worried.  "The Vorlons
+have a saying: understanding is a three-edged sword.  Your side, their
+side, and the truth." Sheridan believes the truth is that the younger races
+no longer need either race to guide them.
+
+
    
+Delenn, too, stands in the darkness, when Ivanova's voice begins
+speaking.  Ivanova appears and walks toward her.  "The Vorlons stand
+for Order above anything else.  No passion, no dreams...  just
+discipline.  Obedience.  They're frozen in place, an evolutionary dead
+end!  Why side with the old?  Embrace the new.  Growth through pain and
+struggle, conflict and war.  You of all people should understand this."
+
+
    
+"Your race came out of the last war stronger, better." Franklin says,
+appearing from the darkness as Ivanova vanishes.  "How much better, how
+much stronger will they be after this war?  You will rise from the
+ashes with a strength and power beyond your imagination!"
+
+
    
+"Until you do it to us again!"  Delenn tells him.
+
+
    
+"It is the cycle," Lennier explains to her.  "It is the force of
+history itself.  You cannot win against that.  We have embraced it.
+We've helped it along, by creating conflict.  Weak races die.  Strong
+races are made even stronger.  Evolution must be served.  There is no
+other way."
+
+
    
+"No, that's what you want us to believe," Delenn says.
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells the Vorlon figure that he knows why they are doing it
+the way they are--they don't want to destroy the Shadows, they just
+want to destroy their message, their way of doing things, so everyone
+will have to follow the Vorlons.  Delenn knows the Shadows feel the
+same way, wanting to leave the Vorlons alive so they can see the
+Shadows were right.  "It's about ideology," Delenn says.
+
+
    
+"Of course," Marcus says to her.  "What isn't?  Order versus Chaos.
+Choose one."
+
+
    
+But Delenn says they shouldn't have to choose, because they aren't
+given all the choices available.  They are only given two.  The battle
+between the Vorlons and the Shadows is no longer about guiding or
+helping the younger races, it's just about whether the Vorlon or Shadow
+philosophy is the correct one.  Sheridan knows this, too, saying they
+are acting like arguing parents, manipulating their children, getting
+them to take sides.  "But what if the right choice is not to choose at
+all," he asks.
+
+
    
+"What if we reject the idea that we must decide which of you is
+right?"  Delenn asks.  "What if we simply walk away?"
+
+
    
+"You cannot do that," says another Delenn, coming of the shadows and
+facing the first.
+
+
    
+"Then the war will never end!"
+
+
    
+"That is correct."
+
+
    
+"Then there is no hope."
+
+
    
+"There is only Chaos and evolution."
+
+
    
+"There is only Order and obedience," the figure in the ice says.  "You
+will do as you are told."
+
+
    
+"You will fight because we tell you to fight," the other Delenn says.
+
+
    
+"You will die for us when we tell you to die for us," the woman in the
+ice says, "because the others know no other way."
+
+
    
+"That's where you're wrong," Sheridan tells her.
+
+
    
+A stray asteroid hits the flagship, and Lorien stumbles, accidentally
+touching Delenn.
+
+
    
+"You've let them see," the other Delenn says.  "You've let them
+know..."
+
+
    
+But she cannot finish.  Lorien removes both Delenn and Sheridan from
+their paralyzed state, and that world shatters around them.  The image,
+and the illusion, is broken, but it is too late--the Shadow
+planetkiller has engulfed the fleet.  Ivanova calls to confirm that she
+saw what Sheridan and Delenn saw, but the cloud is making the ships so
+cold, it is affecting the engines and preventing them from escaping.
+The temperature is dropping so low, it will kill them all in ten
+minutes.  Sheridan can't believe the Vorlons and the Shadows would let
+the younger races die instead of ending their war, but Lorien knows
+they aren't finished yet.  Two figures appear on the bridge--one Shadow
+and one Vorlon.  Lorien explains they are giving Sheridan a second
+chance to change his mind and ask forgiveness, to choose.  Lorien says
+that Sheridan's next words will decide the outcome.
+
+
    
+"The Vorlons ask only one question, over and over," Sheridan tells the
+two figures.  'Who are you?'"  He turns to the Shadow.  "You... for
+you, the question is, 'What do you want?'  I have never heard you
+answer that question.  Who are you?  What do you want?"
+
+
    
+"You don't know, do you?" asks Delenn.  "You've been fighting each
+other so long, you've forgotten.  You've lost your way.  So how can you
+guide us?  How can we learn who we are and what we want if you don't
+even know it any more?"
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells them that, no matter who wins, in a thousand years, the
+battle will start again.  They are all a part of the cycle, but
+Sheridan doesn't want to be a part of it.  The younger races have
+learned to stand on their own, and are prepared to make the mistakes
+they will make as they find their own way.  Delenn tells the Vorlon and
+the Shadow that their secret is out, and asks them what they plan to do
+next.
+
+
    
+"You do not speak for the rest," the Vorlon figure intones.
+
+
    
+"They will not follow you if you are dead," says the Shadow figure.
+
+
    
+Lennier detects a missile from the Shadow planetkiller being launched
+at the flagship.  With only ten seconds until impact, one of the Drazi
+cruisers moves in front of the ship, and is destroyed by the missile's
+impact.  The other ships in the fleet follow suit, and another missile
+strikes a Minbari ship, which moves in front just in time.
+
+
    
+Delenn tells the figures that the other races as well have begun to
+reject them, and demands to know how they can have a war with no one to
+fight it.  Sheridan tells them they refuse to take sides in the war,
+and refuse to let either race turn them against one another--they will
+find their own way.
+
+
    
+"You can kill us one by one," Delenn continues, "and those who follow
+us, and those who follow them, on and on, every race, every planet.
+Until there's no one left to kill.  You will have failed as guardians.
+And you will be alone."
+
+
    
+"It's over because we've decided it's over," Sheridan says angrily.
+"Now get the hell out of our galaxy!  Both of you!"
+
+
    
+When neither the Vorlon nor the Shadow move, Lorien steps in.  "As I
+taught you and stepped aside, now you must do the same.  Our age is
+past.  This... belongs to the younger races now.  They have learned to
+stand on their own.  They have learned... to understand.  Time to let
+them go."
+
+
    
+"Will you... come... with us?" asks the Shadow figure meekly.
+
+
    
+"I have been here since the beginning.  I will not leave you now.  I
+will go with you beyond the Rim, and we will see again all those who
+went ahead of us, all those who we have missed for so long."
+
+
    
+"Then... we will not be alone?" asks the Vorlon figure.
+
+
    
+"No," Lorien tells them.  "Never alone."
+
+
    
+The two figures vanish, and the Vorlon and Shadow fleets quickly leave
+the system.  As the power returns to the White Star flagship, the other
+First Ones leave as well, all at the same time, leaving only Lorien
+behind.  "I waited a long time for someone to find me," he says.  "Now,
+like the others, I find I hate to leave.  But none of us can stay
+behind this time.  That was why it was necessary to find all the
+remaining First Ones.  This... is yours now.  And you have an
+obligation... to do as we have done.  To teach the races that will
+follow you and, when your time comes, as ours has, to step aside and
+allow them to grow into their own destiny.  If your races survive, if
+you do not kill yourselves, I look forward to the day when your people
+join us beyond the Rim."  Lorien begins dissolving, changing into a
+tiny ball of light.  "We will wait for you..." And then he too is
+gone.
+
+
    
+Londo tells Vir that he can't quite accept that the war is over, that
+he doesn't know what to feel.  Vir says that, given all they
+accomplished, happy would be appropriate.  Londo says that, every time
+he has felt happy, something bad has happened to him.  Vir says that he
+thinks Londo should enjoy one single night of happiness while he can
+get it.  Vir is planning to return to Babylon 5, but Londo needs to
+stay behind for a while and tidy up political matters, perhaps
+returning to Babylon 5 himself, away from whatever repurcussions he may
+have to face.  Vir leaves, and Londo begins to enjoy his evening.
+
+
    
+The fleet comes through the Babylon 5 jumpgate, and as the flagship
+approaches Babylon 5, Delenn and Sheridan sit, looking out a window as
+the station grows nearer.  He tells her the younger races have entered
+a third age.  First, they were too primitive to make their own
+decisions.  Then, they were helped along by the Vorlons and the
+Shadows.  Now, finally, they stand on their own.  Sheridan says that
+Lorien was right, that it is a great responsibility.  Delenn says that
+the galaxy seems smaller with the First Ones gone.
+
+
    
+"Feels like the magic's gone," Sheridan comments.
+
+
    
+"No," Delenn tells him.  "Not gone.  Now we make our own magic.  Now we
+create our own legends.  Now we build the future.  Now we stop..."
+
+
    
+"...being afraid of shadows," Sheridan finishes.  Delenn smiles, and
+the two of them hold each other, looking out the window at Babylon 5,
+and the future they must begin to build.
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+A Starfury formation spins past the observation deck amidst fireworks and
+plumes of colored trails, while in the Zocolo a wild party is raging to
+mark the end of the Shadow War.  Sheridan and Delenn observe the celebrations
+proudly, disregarding the uncertain future for the moment.
+
+
    
+Trouble is brewing for them at home, though.  President Clark sees the
+station as a clear and present danger to him now that the Shadows are gone
+and orders all his executive forces into action to take them out.  The
+first salvo is a propaganda offensive counducted with assistance from the
+Psi Corps, and the station's favorite Psi Cop, Alfred Bester.  If Clark can
+turn public opinion against Babylon 5, he might be able to win where a
+direct assault would fail.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+On Centauri Prime, Mollari is preparing to return to his ambassadorial
+duties.  The palace is not such a safe place for him after the death of the
+Emperor.  As he departs, Londo bestows upon the fluttering Minister a
+delightful piece of news;  the Centaurum has decided to name him Regent
+until a new Emperor can be selected.  
+
+
    
+While examining G'Kar, Franklin observes that he can probably fix the Narn
+up with a human prosthetic eye.  When he asks why G'Kar didn't stay on Narn
+to lead his people, G'Kar replies that power corrupts.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Shaving himself quietly, Garibaldi draws a grim face in the steamy window.
+The com panel reports an incoming message.  It is untraceable and
+encrypted.  It displays as a rippling pattern of light, no audio.  Garibaldi
+watches the entire message, then deletes it.
+
+
    
+He meets Ivanova, Franklin and Sheridan in the captain's office and
+announces his resignation.  They try to argue him out of it, but he is
+steadfast.  Their future in Earth Force is over; their chances for going
+home are negligible; and if they weren't fighting the Shadows for the right
+to choose their own destinies then what were they fighting for?
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack is training a mixed team of humans and Narn in Customs.  Just when he
+tells them to flag anything unusual, he is astonished to see a remarkably
+buoyant Londo Mollari come strolling through the gate.  Zack remarks to the
+trainees, "You never know who's going to walk in the--"
+
+
    
+"Door," Mr. Bester supplies, as he strides through under guard en route to
+his usual quarters in the brig.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi opens his door to find the one-eyed Narn standing silently on his
+threshold.  He thanks G'Kar for going to look for him when he was lost and
+as G'Kar stalks into the room he backs up stuttering apologies that G'Kar
+was captured and tortured because of him.  G'Kar simply picks him up and
+sings, "Welcome home, Mr. Garibaldi!"  He isn't angry at all, because going
+in search of Garibaldi put him in the position to strike the deal with
+Londo that freed his people.
+
+
    
+When Sheridan tells him, Zack also thinks Garibaldi's action is pretty
+strange.  The discussion is broken up by an ISN news that all travel
+between Earth and B5 is prohibited.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack finds Lyta surrounded by new purchases in her room.  When he asks her
+to come to the conference room to help them defend against Mr. Bester, she
+grows angry.  People use her, but no one is nice to her.  A bit bashfully,
+Zack explains that because of her association with the Vorlons and their
+current reputation, most people are leery of her.  She is relieved to hear
+the truth.  Taking another look, Zack offers to come over with pizza later
+to help her set up her room.
+
+
    
+Londo's joyful bargaining in the Zocolo is quelled when he sees G'Kar.  He
+stifles his first intention of sidling away and approaches instead.  G'Kar
+tells him plainly that Londo no longer exists in his universe.  "Pray that
+we never notice one another again."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Bester isn't happy seeing Lyta in the conference room and scoffs at her
+abilities but the Captain isn't concerned, so Bester gets down to business.
+ He explains Clark's intentions towards the station and mentions a specific
+plan.  Before giving the details, Bester demands a price.  He wants to be
+taken to Z'ha'dum to look for abandoned technology that might help him heal
+his lover.  She is still in cryogenic suspension while Dr. Franklin
+investigates the Shadow-made wetware in her head.  When Bester attempts to
+scan the command staff he is blocked, and when he attempts to scan Lyta she
+mentally slaps him hard enough to jolt his head back. Sheridan agrees to
+Bester's proposition.  Bester describes Clark's plan.  A patrol of Star
+Furies blockading the last jump gate to B5 will be attacked by a wing of
+Black Omegas, elite pilots under the command of Psi Corps, and the wreckage
+will be seeded with "evidence" that the attack came from the station.
+
+
    
+As Sheridan's White Star leaves for Z'ha'dum, Ivanova takes Alpha squadron
+to defend the station's blockaders.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack visits the Chief to get the station security codes, and to tell him
+he's making a mistake to quit.  Garibaldi seems to satisfy Zack with a
+philosophical answer about mistakes and second chances, reminding him that
+the second chance he gave Zack by hiring him hadn't been a mistake.
+
+
    
+Delenn and John share a rare quiet moment.  When he complains that they
+never get a break she tells him he wouldn't have it any other way.
+
+
    
+Ivanova's wing jumps out of hyperspace in time to save the patrol from the
+Omegas which have just launched their attack.  When the patrol leader is
+confused, she tells him, "Reports of our disloyalty have been greatly
+exaggerated."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lyta appears to be concentrating when Bester comes upon her on the bridge.
+He wants to know how she can block him.  She is obligated to tell the
+Corps, he says.  Her refusal is met by a threat to reveal something she
+wants kept secret.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Bester is unimpressed by his first sight of Z'ha'dum.  Sensors indicate
+that an evacuation of the planet is underway.  The evacuees, allies
+of the Shadows, are just leaving the local jump gate, and the planet
+appears to be completely dead.  Sheridan orders an immediate about face.
+His instinct is correct as a moment later the planet explodes.  No one can
+rob the Shadows' grave now.  Bester is enraged but Lyta surreptitiously grins.
+
+
    
+The room where the cyrogenically suspended telepaths are kept is like a
+morgue.  Bester shares a moment with the frozen body of his lover.  He
+tells her door about sending his best pilots to their deaths for her.
+Sheridan and the others might all be laughing at his failure now, but he'd
+do it again in a second for her.  Besides, he's got a surprise for them
+that will hurt them more than they can possibly imagine.
+
+
    
+Lyta is visited by the Captain, who begins speculating about how a powerful
+telepath in the amplified medium of hyperspace might have triggered the
+evacuation and destruction of Z'ha'dum without Bester being any the wiser.
+She explains that someone might want to hurt Bester
+the way he has hurt so many other people, and that the technology on Z'ha'dum
+should not fall into anyone's hands.  Once her explanation is out he allows
+his carefully contained fury to show.  No matter how much he might agree
+with her reasoning, he says that if in the future "a command level decision
+were made without consulting me, I would turn you over to the Psi Corps and
+let them turn you inside out.  Am I perfectly, crystal clear."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Yes sir," she replies.  Before her dressing down has a chance to sink in,
+a completely different visitor arrives bearing pizza.
+
+
    
+Ivanova mentions that news of the attempted ambush has filtered back
+through Earth Force and only served to raise people's opinions of Babylon
+5.  Sheridan is disturbed, though.  He has been thinking about where the
+allies of the Shadows might have gone.  Ivanova assures him it's nothing to
+worry about.
+
+
    
+On Centauri Prime, the new Regent is worrying.  Having nightmares, or so he
+thinks.  Until he staggers out of bed to the mirror.  He pulls away his
+nightgown and is horrified to find an evil grey Keeper snuggled up to his neck.
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (n9641343@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan is sitting alone at the conference table in the War Room when
+Ivanova comes in.  Sheridan tells her it's strange to have the place so
+empty, and though Ivanova insists the war is over, Sheridan isn't so
+sure that it is, with all the trouble back on Earth.  The quarantine
+has pretty much shut down Babylon 5, but Sheridan is sure they will
+find a way back from this setback as well.  Ivanova asks him why he's
+worried, and though Sheridan insists he isn't, she knows better.
+Sheridan explains that he hasn't spoken to his father much since they
+broke away from Earth, and that his last letter mentioned strangers
+hanging around town, asking questions about his family.  Sheridan told
+his parents to get out while they could, but he hasn't gotten any word
+since the embargo.  Ivanova says that, being a former diplomat, his father
+couldn't just disappear, but Sheridan is still worried.  He asks if
+everything else is okay, and Ivanova tells him that, despite a few
+problems in customs since Zack took over for Garibaldi, they haven't
+had a major incident.
+
+
    
+Zack enters the docking bay to find an incident in progress--a minor
+fight, which one of the security guards says was started when several
+new arrivals to the station wouldn't allow their cargo to be inspected.
+They couldn't detect anything from the scans, so Zack moves to open
+a crate, but the owner insists it's private property.  Zack orders the
+man to move, but he doesn't.  As a last recourse, Zack fires his PPG at
+the crates, which angers the man even further.  Zack moves to the
+crates, but before he can open one, it opens itself, and a small
+levitating device floats out.  Zack recognizes the device.
+"It's a camera."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"That's right," the man tells him as the camera films Zack and the
+other security officers with their weapons drawn.  "A camera.  It goes
+with the territory.  I'm a reporter and this is my crew.  And you just
+made the evening news."
+
+
    
+Franklin meets up with Sheridan and tells him that he pulled some
+of his doctors off duty in two other MedLabs to help move the
+cryogenically frozen telepaths in some of the freezing units, which are
+malfunctioning due to overuse, to other working units.  Sheridan tells
+him to do what he has to, but wishes he didn't have to keep the telepaths
+frozen.  Franklin is worried, though, that they could prove dangerous
+to themselves or others with the leftover Shadow technology still in
+their heads.  Sheridan agrees and knows that even though the Shadows
+are gone, they will need to deal with what they left behind for a long
+time.  Sheridan's commlink beeps, and a voice informs Sheridan of
+someone's arrival.  Sheridan tells him he's on his way.  "I thought we
+saw the worst of it with the Shadows, the Vorlons, the war..." Sheridan
+tells Franklin.  "But there's something far worse than the Shadows:
+reporters."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan arrives in his office, and the reporter is only too happy to
+see him.  He introduces himself as Dan Randall from ISN, and is quite
+upset since Ivanova threatened to throw him out an airlock unless he
+provided a full manifest of his equipment.  Randall says they changed
+the manifest so they would be allowed on the station.  Sheridan insists
+they would have let them on, but not their equipment since ISN is only
+a source of propaganda for President Clark, and Randall would never do
+an objective story.  Randall insists that there is no such thing as a
+completely objective journalist, but that he, and others still on ISN,
+want to try to slip the truth through in small pieces, the best they
+can do under the circumstances.  Randall asks
+Sheridan to work with him so that Sheridan's point of view will be
+represented and that, otherwise, there's no guarantee.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is in Downbelow, speaking with someone about retrieving a
+priceless family artifact, which Garibaldi recognizes as a Drazi
+religious statue the man is using to hide stolen valuables in.  He
+makes a deal for its retrieval and a percentage of what's inside.
+Lennier appears and asks Garibaldi why he resigned.  Garibaldi says
+he's done his duty, and served his time, and just wants some time to
+make his own life.  Lennier tells him that, for the Minbari, it is an
+honor serve one's people, but Garibaldi has had quite enough honor for
+the time being.  He asks about Delenn, whom Lennier says is doing well,
+but Garibaldi quickly changes the subject when Lennier starts
+mentioning Sheridan.  It's too late, though.  "Speak the Devil's name,"
+Garibaldi says, "and he shall appear."  Sheridan introduces Randall to
+Lennier, whom he wants to escort Randall around the station so that he
+can be assured of getting the most unbiased opinion possible.  Lennier
+starts Randall on his tour, and while no words are exchanged between
+Sheridan and Garibaldi, there is clearly tension in the glances the two
+exchange.  Garibaldi picks up the photograph of the Drazi statue,
+and remembers...
+
+
    
+He is alone in his prison cell, sitting in a chair, while a ghostly
+voice repeats over and over, "You work for no one but us.  You work for
+no one but us."  Garibaldi's memory fades and he gets up from his table
+and leaves.
+
+
    
+Randall, Lennier, and the news crew are in one of the lifts.  Randall asks
+Lennier about the ship he noticed
+being repaired outside Babylon 5 when he arrived.  Lennier explains
+that those ships, belonging to the League of Non-Aligned of Worlds,
+were damaged during the war, and are being repaired so they will be
+able to get back home safely.  Lennier says that the station charges only for
+the material needed for the repairs, which Randall finds very
+generous.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+After making sure the cameras are recording, Randall asks Lennier where
+they are.  Lennier explains they are in Downbelow, where those who come
+to Babylon 5 and can't afford to live on the station stay.  Lennier
+says that Sheridan is trying to put a stop to the exploitation the
+Lurkers often face by instituting work programs.  Just then, Franklin
+and several other medical officers run by, carrying someone who just
+had a heart attack.  Franklin explains this, and accepts Randall's
+offer to speak with him later.  Just as Franklin is about to leave, he
+receives a call on his commlink from someone in MedLab, saying the cryo
+units are ready for restart.  Franklin says he'll be right there, and
+though he tries to keep the conversation discreet, the camera, still
+recording, catches it all on tape.
+
+
    
+Lennier leads the reporters through a corridor, where Sheridan and
+Londo are in the midst of a heated discussion, with Londo complaining
+about the lack of heat in his quarters.  The camera captures all of
+this as well.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan and Delenn are sitting together in his office while a young
+woman finishes applying makeup to Delenn's face.  Randall is
+interviewing them, and begins by asking them if it was ever their
+intention to break away from Earth.  Sheridan insists it wasn't--he seceded
+to protest bombing of civilian targets, and they will rejoin once
+President Clark is out of office.  Randall asks if Sheridan still
+believes Clark was responsible for President Santiago's death, and
+Sheridan says that he does, that Clark doesn't let anyhting stand in
+his way.  Randall asks Delenn how she feels about all this, and she
+says that she is used to it--this sort of thing happens everywhere.
+Randall comments on how close Sheridan and Delenn have become, and
+asks if it is true that they might marry eventually, which Sheridan
+won't comment on.  Randall says that there must be other forces pulling
+against them, but Delenn says that, despite all that, the heart does
+not recognize boundaries on a map, hatred, or wars.  She says if others
+don't understand that, she will make them understand.  Randall asks if they are
+concerned about the repurcussions, but Sheridan says there is no force
+in the galaxy that can stop all they have accomplished.
+
+
    
+Randall arrives at Garibaldi's table in Downbelow, and tells him that
+they are getting ready to leave.  He asks Garibaldi if he would like to
+talk about his resignation, but Garibaldi is less than enthused to do
+so.  Randall appeals to him, saying that he is the only command staff
+member who was with Babylon 5 from the start.  He promises to
+allow Garibaldi to say whatever he likes.  Garibaldi remains silent for
+a moment, as he decides what he wants to do.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ivanova is in Sheridan's office with a tray of food when Sheridan comes
+in with a tray of his own.  Planning to eat while they watch the ISN
+broadcast, Ivanova asks if Sheridan is worried, since there will no
+doubt be some bias on the broadcast.  Sheridan says that they did the
+best they could, and that they wanted to get it out into the open as
+soon as possible, and since they managed to avoid major crises and
+chose their words very carefully, he feels there is very little ISN can
+do to them.  Delenn arrives, and Sheridan turns on his
+monitor.
+
+
    
+"This is an Interstellar Network News special report.  Reporting live
+from the ISN headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, your host, Alison
+Higgins."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Higgins begins by explaining that, two weeks earlier, they sent Dan
+Randall to Babylon 5 to do a report, which will be shown later in the
+broadcast.  She runs through the daily headlines: President Clark
+announced that his troops have reclaimed 75% of the Mars Colony which
+broke away 259 days earlier, and the day has been declared a holiday.  Hearings
+also began on anti-Earth activity with testimony given by members of
+the entertainment industry.  Lee Parks, a Tri-Vid writer and producer,
+testified, admitting that he used his Tri-Vids to spread anti-Earth
+messages to outside forces to use against Earth.  He also names three
+others who helped him--Tri-Vid writer Carleton Jerrico, and actors Beth
+Trumbo and Adrian Mostel.  Higgins says Parks was sent to a mental
+hospital where he will receive treatment to one day be reaccepted into
+society.
+
+
    
+After a brief interlude with a segment of "This Year in History," the
+Babylon 5 story begins...
+
+
    
+"Good evening, I'm Dan Randall.  When we first approached the Ministry
+of Information with the idea of travelling to Babylon 5 for this story,
+they advised against.  They believed it would put the safety of myself
+and my news crew in jeopardy.  But the first rule of journalism is,
+'You go where the story is.'  Still, nothing could have prepared us for
+what we found."
+
+
    
+Randall explains that, outside Babylon 5, everything seems to be
+normal, but inside, most human residents are living in filthy and
+dangerous areas of the station, while the best quarters in the station
+are reserved for aliens and those running the station with taxes
+collected from its inhabitants.  Randall finds it ironic that the
+Minbari were appointed the keepers of these humans, and runs a clip without
+audio showing Lennier
+leading him through Downbelow.  He explains how any attempt at protest
+by these humans is put down, with the humans sedated, as is
+demonstrated by one of them, on a gurney, being escorted away by
+several medical personnel, including the Chief of MedLab.
+
+
    
+Randall explains that, as they toured Babylon 5, they learned the alien
+races were in control.  Showing film of Captain Sheridan and Ambassador
+Mollari, he asks why Sheridan, a decorated war hero, would tolerate
+this from others.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Randall explains that, to answer these questions, they talked to
+experts.  He introduces Dr. William Indiri, Dean of Psychiatry at
+Harvard Medical School, and an expert on xenopsychology and Minbari War
+Syndrome.  Indiri explains that many Earth-Minbari War Veterans suffer
+from an inferiority complex, feeling that other races are better than
+humans.  Indiri explains that, during the war, under that
+administration, the Minbari were a vastly superior force, which could
+lead those who fought against them to consider them morally superior.
+Randall asks if the disease could
+cause someone to turn against their own race, and Indiri agrees that it
+is possible, since most people in such a situation could feel that an
+advanced species is closer to God than they are, eventually forcing
+them to turn against everything they believe in.
+
+
    
+"The second rule of journalism is," Randall explains, "'No one does
+anything without a reason.'  They may not admit it, even to themselves,
+but the reason is there.  To understand what's been happening on
+Babylon 5 since their break from Earth, you first have to understand
+why." He plays the segment
+of video taken in Downbelow when Franklin responded to a colleague's
+call about cryo units.  "A small piece of conversation, overheard by
+chance.  We'll find out what those few words really mean when we come
+back."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+After a commercial break, the broadcast resumes, with Randall calling
+attention to one of the ships docked outside Babylon 5 upon his
+arrival.  He explains that the warship is one of a fleet used by
+Sheridan and Delenn in their recent military campaign, being fixed at
+the taxpayers' expense.  Randall explains that new weapons were added
+to Babylon 5's defense system just prior to their secession from Earth,
+and were used against Earth during the war.  Randall shows this as
+another piece of the puzzle, but wants to find the answer to it all.
+
+
    
+The video taken of Delenn and Sheridan in Sheridan's office is shown.
+On the tape, we hear Randall's voice ask Delenn of possible
+repurcussions.  "It will be a struggle," she tells him.
+
+
    
+"A struggle against Earth?" Randall asks her.
+
+
    
+"Of course.  If they don't understand," she says, "we will make them
+understand."
+
+
    
+"Anything that gets in the way disappears," Sheridan interjects.
+
+
    
+"There's a lot of people back home who might be concerned about what
+you're saying.  It sounds as if you're putting the mingling of Human
+and Minbari above the safety of your own world."
+
+
    
+"There's no force in the galaxy that can stop what we've done here
+together," Sheridan responds.  "Nothing will be able to stop us."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The tape ends, and Randall says that, if it sounds troubling, there is
+good reason.  He says that he managed to speak with Garibaldi, the
+former security chief who explained it.  More video airs, and Garibaldi
+explains that he feels Sheridan is suffering from a "God complex" and
+is acting like he's the Second Coming, as if he knows what's good for
+everyone else.  Garibaldi says he thinks he's gone over the top.
+Garibaldi is sure he'll get in trouble for saying this, but says
+someone had to say it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Randall continues by saying that, using information obtained aboard
+Babylon 5, they were able to slip into a restricted area.  The video
+airs, with Randall, on the tape, explaining what he's seeing:  A large
+number of cryogenic freezing units in use.  Babylon 5 should only be
+operating four or five at a time, and in a limited capacity.  None of
+the names on the units match those in the station's logs.  He wants to
+know where the people came from, and why they are there.
+
+
    
+Randall explains that this is their Rosetta Stone.  The humans
+come from Downbelow, captured and sedated by Franklin's staff.
+Meanwhile, alien ships are being built and repaired outside the station.
+Randall says that you never build a fleet
+unless you're prepared to use it, and he and others at ISN believe they
+know why.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+After another commercial break, the broadcast resumes, and Randall
+introduces one last interview, which is significant for all that is
+denied in it.  The video shows Franklin, in MedLab, explaining his
+job.  Randall asks how long patients stay on the station, and Franklin says
+they don't stay long, since Medlab aren't equipped to handle long-term
+stays.  Randall asks if he ever uses cryogenic freezers, and Franklin
+says he does it very rarely, and that they aren't using any at all at
+the moment.
+
+
    
+"Rule number three," Randall says, as the camera returns to the ISN
+news desk.  "People only lie when they have something to hide.  We know
+there are humans in cryo on Babylon 5.  We saw them, as did you.  So what
+are they hiding?"  Prodded by Randall, Dr. Indiri speculates that Sheridan's
+Minbari War syndrome is causing him to want to change humans to be more
+like Minbari.
+
+
    
+Randall explains that, with all they've shown, the truth is
+self-evident, once you find they key.  The key, he feels, is Delenn,
+around whom all of what they uncovered revolves.  Randall suggests that
+the Minbari surrendered at the Battle of the Line so they could destroy
+humanity from within instead.  Though he says the idea of mixing human
+and Minbari DNA may sound absurd, it has already happened, with Delenn,
+when she became half-human.  Randall concludes that it must be
+Sheridan's plan to show others how good it can be to be half alien and,
+should they disagree, or not want to go along with the experiments, he
+will use the alien fleet he is assembling against them, to "make them
+understand."  Randall says that the fault is not Sheridan's, since Earthforce
+should have discovered his disease earlier and tried to cure it.  This
+problem was only made worse by his Minbari War Syndrome, coupled with
+the loss of his family's home in a fire the week before resulting in
+his father's disappearance, and the pressures of command.
+
+
    
+"Our job," Randall concludes, "is to report the news.  Not to make it,
+or guide it.  But from this reporter's perspective, the situation on
+Babylon 5 is deteriorating quickly, and must be dealt with.  The
+quarantine order will help prevent more humans from falling prey to
+this genetics program, but it's only a short-term solution.  As for
+Sheridan, he does not deserve our scorn, our anger, or our contempt.
+He is a war veteran, and that should at least earn him our sympathy.
+We here at ISN hope he receives the best care possible so he can
+someday come back to us.  This is Dan Randall at ISN.  Goodnight."
+
+
    
+The broadcast ends.  Ivanova, directly in front of the monitor, with a
+great amount of anger on her face, can do nothing but storm out of the
+room.  Delenn, initially seated, goes to Sheridan who stands, silently,
+facing the wall.  He will not speak to her, and he will not turn to
+look at her.  She goes after Ivanova.  After a moment, Sheridan turns
+the monitor off.
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+A very aggrieved Zack is being subjected to a Minbari fitting of his
+new uniform.  His mocking of the ceremonial piping and general Minbari
+fashion sense earns him a pointed reminder about looking gift horses in
+the mouth.  Zack admits to Lennier that he's really upset about taking
+the Chief's rightful place.  He insists that it's temporary though.
+
+
    
+Greeting a Minbari delegation at the gate, Delenn requests one more day
+to spend with Sheridan.  She promises to tell him where she is going,
+but not why.  She is quite unsettled when the lead delegate suggests
+that it would be more honest to tell the Captain that if the
+Dreaming does not go well, she will not be permitted to return
+to him.
+
+
    
+Wearing her green Drazi leader's sash, Ivanova makes her way to a Drazi
+religious party.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin is fitting G'Kar with a new prosthetic eye.  G'Kar's
+initial outrage when he realizes it's not his natural color dissipates
+quickly when Franklin mentions that it will keep sending signals even
+when it is removed from the socket.  G'Kar
+instantly pops it out and waves at himself at arm's length.
+
+
    
+On his way to Delenn's quarters, Sheridan passes a lift just as a
+battered, bedraggled Commander Ivanova emerges supporting herself on a
+cane.  "Don't - Even - Ask," she utters and hobbles painfully away.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan shakes his head, and enters Delenn's room.  She greets him
+wearing a sleek and revealing gown.  He is pleased but baffled.  She
+reminds him of the Minbari custom of women watching men sleep for three
+nights to determine their true nature, and requests that this be their
+third night because tomorrow she must leave.  He is happy to agree, but
+it's clear from her indisposure that she isn't telling him everything.
+
+
    
+He has to leave it unquestioned though and head off to a meeting with
+Franklin and Marcus.  Fed up with President Clark's lies about the
+station, Sheridan has decided to send them on a mission to Mars to begin
+their retaliation.  Franklin offers to ask a few questions about the
+Captain's missing father while they're there, but the Captain
+declines.  It would only endanger the resistance.
+
+
    
+Delenn caresses John's sleeping face in farewell and departs.  She
+fails to notice Lennier waiting for her in the corridor.  "I have
+pledged myself to your side,"  he reminds her.  She cannot leave him
+behind.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+And so Delenn returns to Minbar where she is brought before her clan.
+The clan leader, Callenn, disapproves of her liaison with Sheridan.
+Taking an offworlder as mate has been forbidden since Minbari first
+contacted other races.  He claims that he seeks to only understand her
+decision, not judge it hastily, and thus she must submit to the
+Dreaming to discover the reasons for her actions and agree to
+obey her clan's ruling on the subject.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lennier volunteers as her second, to protect her in the
+Dreaming.  They both take deep draughts from a ceremonial
+chalice, then enter through a guarded door into a room filled with
+mist.  Lennier recognizes from her actions that this is not the first
+time Delenn has been in the Dreaming.  Once as an acolyte she was
+second to Dukhat.  She begins to relive that time when she attended the
+greatest of the Minbari and was terrified.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"There's nothing to fear in the Dreaming.  Only that which we
+take with us," he told her.
+
+
    
+Suddenly she was on a ship being attacked.  Dukhat, dead in her arms.
+She screamed and screams, then and now.
+
+
    
+Her eyes black with horror, Delenn is comforted by Lennier.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+She plunges back into the past again.  Delenn was curtly summoned by
+Dukhat as he strode swiftly past her down a corridor.  Glancing
+nervously at her fellow acolytes she followed him humbly into the Grey
+Council Chambers.  As he stalked around the circle, he began to tell
+her how the Grey Council had decided not to make contact with a
+recently discovered species known as "Humans."  He called them silly
+cowards, drew her into the middle of their circle and asked her what
+she would do.  After stammering a little she replied, these humans are
+a mystery presented by the Universe as a gift.
+
+
    
+Dukhat crowed with delight.  This foolish young acolyte, he chided the
+Council, carries the attribute of simple curiosity which you have
+lost.
+
+
    
+Since he had thus alienated her from every member of the Council, Dukhat
+took charge over Delenn's education.  He instructed her to look him in
+the eyes.  "I cannot have an aide who will not look up," he said.  "You
+will be forever running into things."
+
+
    
+Presiding over the Council years later, Dukhat watched Delenn become a
+member.  As she uttered the sacred oath and held her hand up to the
+triluminary, it suddenly glowed blue.  The other Council members were
+visibly surprised and disturbed.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Later in her quarters, Dukhat congratulated Delenn again and began to
+answer her question about the triluminary.  It was brought by Valen,
+and one story was that Valen was from far in the future.  He had just
+started explaining why he selected Delenn as his protégé
+long ago when they were interrupted by a chiming.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+From the Council chambers they noticed a fleet of unknown ships
+approaching.  Delenn recognized them as humans.  Suddenly they noticed
+with horror that circling the scene was a group of Soul Hunter ships.  Dukhat
+ordered the gun ports closed on their ship, but the Earth ships opened
+fire and in the battle Dukhat was struck down.  With the Council divided
+between taking revenge or taking stock, it was Delenn who cast the
+determining vote to pursue the humans without mercy.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The war became a holy war, relentless and
+all-consuming.  Even though she regretted her moment of rage soon, it
+was too late.
+
+
    
+Lennier tells Delenn that her relationship with Sheridan shows that she
+is still seeking absolution for her guilt in the death of so many
+humans.  She asks him crossly, whether he truly believes that.  No, but
+this is what the clan will say when we tell them what the
+Dreaming has shown, he replies.  Callenn summons them forth
+telling them to rest until the morrow, when they will tell what they
+have seen and a judgment will be reached.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Delenn is distraught.  Trying to sleep, she watches Dukhat die in her
+arms again and again, and for the first time notices his lips move, but
+she can't make out what he is saying.  She decides to go back into the
+Dreaming again.  The clan leader tries to prevent her, but it's
+too late.  She and Lennier have already imbibed the potion.  Handing
+him the vessel she demands that he follow her in this time, so he can
+understand.  Callenn is apprehensive, but she comforts him with Dukhat's
+own words to her long ago.  "There is nothing to fear in the
+Dreaming.  Only that which we bring with us."
+
+
    
+The Earth ships were attacking.  Pandemonium and destruction in the
+corridors, and Dukhat was lying in her arms.
+
+
    
+"Listen!"  Delenn commands Callenn and Lennier.
+
+
    
+Blood dripping from his mouth, Dukhat struggled to say, "There was a
+purpose in my selection of you.  Your heritage.  You are a child of
+Valen."
+
+
    
+Hours later, Lennier appears with an ancient scroll he has sneaked from
+the Council archives which Delenn says proves her case.  Lennier is
+still confused, though.  Delenn explains that since Valen was really
+Jeffrey Sinclair, human and Minbari DNA have already merged.  She
+herself is one of his descendants, which explains why the triluminary
+glowed for her.  There is no purity in the Minbari race that can be
+saved by her casting aside her alliance with Sheridan, she argues.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Callenn begs her not to make this public, because it will disturb the
+society deeply, and suggests a compromise.  He will tell the clan that
+she is fulfilling an ancient custom from the warring days of Minbar
+when the victor would offer a daughter as a bride to the loser, as a
+symbol of life.
+
+
    
+Sheridan greets Delenn as she docks.  She tells him nothing except that
+everything is fine now, and inquires after Marcus and Franklin.
+
+
    
+A transport lumbers along through natural space.  Locked away deep in
+its belly, a singing Marcus is methodically driving Franklin insane.
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan is in his office when Ivanova arrives.  He tells her that he
+has been looking over his records and isn't sure how they will survive when
+they begin running out of supplies, since even the black market is
+unreliable.  Ivanova tells him she will take care of the situation
+for him, then says she is relieving him of command, since
+he has taken no personal time in the previous nine months.  He attempts
+to argue with her, but she won't hear it, nor will she hear his
+attempts at retaining command.  Resigned, he leaves her alone with her
+work.
+
+
    
+Franklin and Marcus, on the transport to Mars, are trying to pass the
+time by playing I Spy which, since there are very few things of note in
+the cargo hold, isn't going very well.  Marcus disappears and reappears
+a few moments later, carrying a man in a neck-lock.  "It would appear
+we have a spy on our hands, Stephen."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Franklin wants to know where the man came from, and he tells him and
+Marcus that he got in through an access panel, which Marcus knew to
+locked.  The man says the Captain of the ship is his brother, and that
+he helped him get through.  Franklin wants to know why the Captain
+didn't tell them, but the man says the Captain must have forgotten-- he
+gets forgotten a lot.  When Marcus releases him, the man introduces
+himself as John Demeter, commonly called Captain Jack.  Marcus and
+Franklin won't tell him who they are, but tell him that if he goes too
+far into their section of the cargo bay, he'll pay the price.  Captain
+Jack says he won't push himself on them, and says that he was going to
+offer to share his dinner with them, but Marcus won't have it-- they
+have their own dinner: meal bars.  Captain Jack, however, has something
+much more appetizing: Insta-Eats.  Franklin is attracted to the smell
+of meat and potatoes coming from the small packet, but Marcus keeps him
+from partaking, reminding him that they are to speak with no one other
+than their contact.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in his office/quarters trying to enjoy his vacation, but
+finds it difficult since every channel and station coming onto Babylon
+5 has been blocked due to jamming, except ISN.  Sheridan reluctantly
+listens to it, only to find a replay of Garibaldi's interview with Dan
+Randall.  After rewatching it, Sheridan turns it off.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan approahces Garibaldi in Downbelow, and tries to talk to him
+about the interview.  Garibaldi no longer works for Sheridan, though,
+so he isn't willing to talk-- he thinks Sheridan is upset because he's
+challenging the Captain's authority.  Sheridan considers it undermining
+instead, but Garibaldi insists he is entitled to his opinion, and
+thought free speech was something Sheridan was fighting for.  Sheridan
+wants to know where Garibaldi's anger is coming from-- he thought they were
+friends, but Garibaldi tells him, "Yeah, well, maybe we both
+thought wrong."  Sheridan doesn't want Garibaldi to give Clark's
+propaganda weight, and tells Garibaldi he's hurting the station and the
+cause when he speaks out.  Garibaldi starts to leave to meet with a
+client, and tells Sheridan to go back to playing God.  Sheridan follows
+and reminds Garibaldi that his former job gives him credibility, which he is
+using to undermine Sheridan's effort, and that, if Garibaldi doesn't stop,
+he will make things very difficult for Garibaldi.  Sheridan tells
+Garibaldi to make a legitimate complaint if he has one, but, if it's a
+personal attack, to stop.  Garibaldi says he didn't make it
+personal-- it was Sheridan who did so, as the focal point of a cult of
+personality.  The people are following Sheridan, not the cause.
+Garibaldi feels Sheridan is starting to buy into his own publicity, and
+Garibaldi says it's time someone started poking holes in that.
+Sheridan tells Garibaldi that he doesn't want Garibaldi misusing his
+authority, and hurting everyone else just to get at him.  He storms
+away, leaving Garibaldi behind.  Among the many people in Downbelow who
+witnessed this heated exchange, there is one particular group of three
+men, near the back of the crowd, who seem particularly interested.
+
+
    
+Franklin and Marcus are eating their meal bars, while Captain Jack
+continues to enjoy his own fine cuisine, which Franklin is not too
+happy about.  Marcus reminds him that they aren't supposed to talk with
+anyone until they hear their contact's passphrase, which Captain Jack
+begins speaking to himself.  Captain Jack explains that he wanted to
+check them out first, and then offers them some of his food.  He hands
+Marcus and Franklin their new identicards, and explains that, since
+they get very few passengers, their access to the transit bureau is
+limited to what they could steal--in this case, Jim Fennermen and
+Daniel Lane, on their way to Mars--for their honeymoon.  Neither Marcus
+nor Franklin is thrilled by this, but they resolve to make the best of
+it as the transport approaches Mars.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is approached in the corridor by the three men who watched
+his exchange in Downblow.  One of them, the older of the three, tells
+him they wanted to talk to him about his "former friend, Captain
+Sheridan." The man explains that there are other people who share
+Garibaldi's feelings about Sheridan, who aren't thrilled with Sheridan
+turning against Earth.  The man says he wanted to see what else they
+had in common.  He explains that he has extensive information on
+Garibaldi, and wants to know if his objections are only half-hearted.
+Garibaldi tells him he can wonder whatever he wants, and begins to walk
+away, but the man stops him, saying that someone can become a threat to
+a cause he believes in when other things, his ego or sense of destiny,
+for instance, get in the way.  If this applies to Sheridan, he asks
+Garibaldi if he would feel obligated to intervene.  Garibaldi says he
+won't sell Sheridan out, but the man asks if Garibaldi really can just
+stand by and watch the cause die, if he could have done something to
+stop it.  Without answering, Garibaldi walks away.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+While riding in a transport tube, Captain Jack explains that they
+have been hearing some interesting stories about Babylon 5 on Mars
+recently--such as the Babylon 5 crew using aliens to take everything
+over, or that they had written off Mars entirely.  Marcus assures him
+that Captain Sheridan hadn't had time to deal with it while dealing
+with the Shadow War--something Captain Jack knew nothing about.  They
+don't get much information on Mars, he explains, but Marcus is not
+thrilled about having fought in a war about which the very people they
+wanted to help knew nothing.  Captain Jack doesn't even know who won
+the war.  Marcus jokes that the worst part of it all is being married to
+Franklin, are married, and though Franklin objects, he is subjected to several
+more well-spirited jabs as the transport tube pulls into the station.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ivanova is in Sheridan's office, talking to four smugglers, each of
+whom had, at one time or another, been caught on Babylon 5.  She says
+they were doing their job, and that, with the new conflict with Earth,
+they hardly seen any of them anymore.  One of the smugglers explains
+it's becuase the penalties have become so much stiffer now--they are in
+serious trouble with the EarthAlliance, and no one is buying new
+weapons.  Ivanova informs them that, in such a case, they should start
+thinking about the future.  She wants them to help bring in needed
+supplies--food, medicines, spare parts--to Babylon 5.  The smugglers
+protest--there is no profit in bringing in those things.  Ivanova tells
+them, that, as long as they work for Babylon 5, they will get all
+the equipment, repairs, and service they require to stay in
+operation, but, if they don't, they might fall victim to unfortunate
+accidents.  They will all still make a profit, but, beyond that,
+Babylon 5 will be willing to overlook their crimes against EarthGov,
+since everyone is entitled to a fresh start.  She asks them, with all
+they'll gain, what more they could ask for.  One of them, as he leaves,
+asks her, "You seeing anybody, Ivanova?"
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Franklin, Marcus, and Captain Jack are making their ways through some
+underground tunnels, to find the leaders of the Resistance.  After a
+short walk, they get where they are going, but find a welcome they
+didn't expect--three armed men with weapons aimed right at them.  The
+leader tells tell them get up against the wall, but Franklin wants to
+know what's going on--he thought they were expected.  The leader
+explains that they're expecting lots of people.  He thanks Captain Jack
+for bringing Franklin and Marcus to them.  One of the men searches
+Marcus and finds his Minbari pike.  Marcus tries to explain that he's a
+Ranger, which doesn't mean anything to the leader.  The three men with
+guns and Captain Jack lead Franklin and Marcus away.  Franklin demands
+to talk to someone in charge, and the leader says he's Number 2.
+Marcus asks to speak to Number One, but the leader tells them they have
+word that a hit squad was coming into kill the leader of the Mars
+Resistance, from one of the outer sectors, and he has no reason to
+believe Franklin and Marcus aren't that hit squad.  The leader says he
+only trusts the people he knows, and since he doesn't know Marcus and
+Franklin, and they weren't specifically cleared through by Babylon 5,
+he wants to test them first.  He wants their identicards so they can
+check Marcus and Franklin's story.  If they are who they say they are,
+they will talk.  If not, they will be leaving "feet first." Marcus and
+Franklin surrender their identicards, which Number Two takes.  Captain
+Jack asks to pay his regards to Number One, but Number Two wants him to
+stay behind to comfort them, and to take blood samples so they can
+match it against their DNA samples.  Captain Jack and the two gunmen
+stand behind to watch over Franklin and Marcus.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Delenn enters the garden to find Sheridan there, obviously distracted.
+He explains that he's mad at himself over the way his talk with
+Garibaldi turned out.  He says Garibaldi is like a complete stranger,
+and that he feels like he's better at fighting wars than
+relationships.  Sheridan says he wishes he could find a way to turn
+things around, but Delenn explains that Garibaldi has to find his own
+way, as does Sheridan--their paths may simply not cross anymore.  "It
+is the way of things."  Sheridan tells her it doesn't make it any
+easier, but he asks her what she wanted.  Delenn tells him that Ivanova
+told her that he had some time off, and she begins to tell him of
+another ritual they must perform in their relationship.  He tells her
+he's almost "ritualed out" and asks how many more there are.  She says
+there are as many as 50 more, and explains that this one--the
+shan'fall--is about preparation and mutal understanding.  She tells him
+that they will spend the night together, discovering each other's
+centers of pleasure, though it is done respectfully, with prayer and
+meditation, since they should know all about each other if they are to
+continue with their relationship.  She tells him to meet her in her
+quarters, and leaves.  Sheridan is obviously quite taken with the
+idea.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As Marcus and Franklin wait for word from Number Two, Captain Jack
+tries to apologize to Franklin for what happened, but Franklin isn't
+interested in listening.  Cpatain Jack pulls a picture out of his
+pocket and shows it to Franklin--it's his daughter, who just turned
+eighteen.  He hasn't talked to her in a while, but thinks about her all
+the time, and is doing what he's doing to help her.  Franklin notices
+her address on the back, which Captain Jack claims he wrote down so he
+couldn't forget it.  Marcus asks Captain Jack if he's ever met Number
+One, and Captain Jack says he's met her many times, and that they're
+very close--Captain Jack says he wanted to bring her back something,
+but couldn't find anything.  They are interrupted by Number Two who has
+done his check--and the numbers and DNA don't match.  He wants to know
+where their contacts are, and then threatens to kill them both.  He is
+stopped, though, by a woman who comes in from the corridor, telling
+Number Two to wait a little longer.  She explains she wanted to see
+them for herself, and she wants to know what they're up to.  Franklin
+and Marcus notice something on Captain Jack's back, and fight away
+their guards as Captain Jack attempts to fire on the woman, Number
+One.  Franklin tackles her to the ground, moving her out of the line of
+fire just as Captain Jack fires.  Marcus fires himself, and hits the
+creature on Captain Jack's back.  The dead creature is still there, but
+Captain Jack is nowhere to be found.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As Franklin studies the creature, Number Two comes in, explaining that
+he found their real identicards--Captain Jack must have replaced them
+with the fake ones.  Franklin might have an explanation--Captain Jack
+might not have had a choice.  The creature was controlling Captain Jack
+by overriding neural impulses.  It was controlling him the whole time,
+but Franklin realizes that Captain Jack had been giving him hints, such
+as the photograph with his daughter's address, so that they knew where
+to find her if he didn't survive.  One of the scouts comes back--they
+didn't find Captain Jack, but they did find out he broke into a weapons
+case and stole a thermal grenade.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+In the transport tube, Captain Jack's communicator beeps.  He answers
+it, and Number One tells him that what happened wasn't his fault.  She
+wants him to come back, but he won't do it.  He tells her they found
+him in the middle of the night and attached that thing to him.  He
+tried to warn them, but the creature wouldn't let him.  She tells him
+that they killed it, but Jack knows you can't kill it all--it always
+grows back.  Number One tries to convince him not to do anything
+stupid.  Captain Jack tells her he always wondered whether or not the
+transport tubes on Mars could withstand anything, and just as the
+creature begins to regrow, Captain Jack pushes a button on the grenade,
+and the transport car explodes, taking Captain Jack with it, not
+destroying the tube in the process.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is just finishing up with a client when Sheridan returns.
+Sheridan says he wants to apologize for what happened, and asks if they
+could try again.  As he is speaking, though, a Brakiri woman comes up to
+him and recognizes him as the one who went to Z'ha'dum, died, and
+returned with the knowledge of good and evil.  Sheridan tries to stop
+her, but she insists on a blessing, which Sheridan doesn't want to
+provide.  Garibaldi grabs her away from him.  "Come on!  He's not the
+Pope!  He doesn't look anything like her," Garibaldi tells her.
+Sheridan asks Garibaldi to leave her alone, and Garibaldi asks Sheridan
+if it's because he likes what she's saying.  Sheridan insists it's
+because Garibaldi is hurting her, but Garibaldi won't let go.  Sheridan
+forces Garibaldi to let go of her, but for his attempt receives a punch
+directly to the jaw, courtesy of Garibaldi.  Security comes to the
+rescue, but Sheridan won't let them do anything.  He tells Garibaldi
+that, because of all they've been through, he gets one punch for free,
+but, should Garibaldi try it again, Sheridan will fight back.  Sheridan
+turns and walks away, as does Garibaldi soon after.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan goes to Delenn's quarters, still rubbing his jaw, and rings
+the bell.  Delenn lets him in, but when he enters, he is surprised to
+find Delenn isn't alone--Lennier and several other religious caste
+Minbari are there with him.  She explains that they are there for the
+ritual--they will pray and meditate, but wait outside her bedroom, to
+make sure that things don't go too far.  Sheridan whispers to her that
+he can't do it, but she tells him that it is important to her that he
+do it properly.  The engagement means a lot to him, and the Minbari
+ceremonies mean a lot to her.  Delenn leads Sheridan into her bedroom
+and closes the door.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, apparently just after having woken up, enters an elevator to
+find Lennier there.  Sheridan doesn't say anything, but he doesn't need
+to.  Lennier, apparently somewhat distrought, turns to him and has only
+one thing to say.  "Whoo-hoo?"
+
+
    
+Number One tells Franklin and Marcus that the other leaders of the
+Resistance are on their way, but it will take a couple of days.  Marcus
+isn't too happy about this, but Number One is willing to put them up in
+a hotel where she has some control.  She asks them to go out to dinner
+with her, but Marcus declines, allowing Franklin to go alone with her.
+Before they leave, Marcus asks her where they are staying.  She tells
+him it's the Red Planet Hotel, and mentions that, for some reason, they
+were given the honeymoon suite.  "Right.  Fine," Marcus says as they
+leave.  "I'll remind you of this when we decide on custody of the
+children."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is sitting alone when he is approached by Wade and his
+cohorts.  Wade tells Garibaldi that he heard about the fight with
+Sheridan.  "I, uh...  I think he's lost it," Garibaldi tells them.
+"He's starting to believe the things everybody's been saying about him,
+and buying into this hero worship stuff.  It's become about him.  Not
+what we've been saying, not what we've been fighting for.  And if he
+could see straight, he'd agree with me, but uh...  In the end...  We're
+going to lose everything we've been working for because of one man."
+
+
    
+"That's what happens," Wade tells him.  "That's exactly what happens
+when one man begins to matter more than the cause.  Are you with us?"
+
+
    
+"I won't hurt him," Garibaldi insists.
+
+
    
+"No one's asking you to," Wade says.  "You give him to us when we tell
+you to.  We'll see to it that he gets the help that he needs.  Are you
+with us?"
+
+
    
+Garibaldi does have to think for a moment, but does come to a
+decision.  "I'm with you."
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+Commander Ivanova finds the Captain scowling at another ISN broadcast
+"reporting on" the mistreatment of humans aboard Babylon 5.  From the
+tone they figure it is only a matter of time before Earth attacks the
+station again, but this time as part of a "rescue mission."   Just then
+a more welcome message is logged from Franklin on Mars.
+
+
    
+The meeting with the leaders of the resistance is ready to begin as
+soon as everyone arrives.  Franklin and Marcus' mission to Mars is well-timed.
+Number One of the Mars Resistance estimates that Earth Force
+will have captured and subdued all of Mars within a few months.  But
+she warns that some of her allies are more dangerous than she is.  No
+sooner are the words spoken than Marcus rushes in exclaiming that their
+hotel has just been bombed and 10 civilians killed.  Number One departs
+in a fury.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+These are not the only unprovoked attacks baffling the Army of Light.
+A visiting Minbari, Forell, tells
+Delenn of raiders destroying transports and ships along the
+borders of various peoples dependent on the Minbari for their
+protection.  Even more disturbing is the news that the warrior caste
+refuses to protect these allies now that the Grey Council has been
+broken.
+
+
    
+Delenn finds Sheridan in C&C and explains that she needs to take a
+flight of White Stars out to determine who is attacking their allies.
+He balks at her personal involvement until she reminds him not to
+forget who she was, and who she is and what she can do.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Number One angrily accosts Philippe, an Earth resistance leader, for
+bombing the hotel without her authorization.  What he does on Earth is
+his business.  What he does on Mars is her responsibility, and she will
+gut him if he forgets that again.
+
+
    
+ISN is still replaying the story of Sheridan suffering from Minbari War
+Syndrome, when a new idea strikes the Captain.  He can't wait for
+morning, and instead runs off to roust Ivanova from her bed and drag
+her into the War Room.  "I've been here before," she reminds him,
+bleary eyed and unkempt.  So he begins to explain.
+
+
    
+"You have a face people trust,"  he says.  When she was giving status
+reports during the war, she provided everyone with solid,
+reliable information.  Now it's time to do it again, he says, but on a larger
+scale.  This time, the War Room will become the Voice of the
+Resistance, broadcasting live to ships, to colonies, and to Earth,
+competing directly with ISN for ownership of the truth.
+
+
    
+As he exits with brisk enthusiasm, he tells her to go back to bed,
+leaving her muttering more empty threats against his safety.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The White Stars speed through hyperspace.  Delenn asks Forell
+how bad things are back home.  The Grey Council held their society
+together.  Now the castes are at odds again.  He tells her how the
+warrior caste forced all members of the religious caste out of a
+certain city in the midst of polar wastelands.  Most of them died of
+exposure and starvation.  His family was among them.  Although the
+warrior caste stopped short of actually killing Minbari with their own
+hands, there are few who wouldn't call them murderers for this action.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+With the resistance leaders all assembled, Franklin begins his appeal.
+Sheridan is offering an alliance.  He will support their cause actively
+if they will fight with him to overturn President Clark.  If they will
+carry out any order coming from Babylon 5 no matter how strange, then
+when it is all done, he promises that Mars will have its freedom.  But,
+Franklin adds angrily, this means no more terrorist attacks against
+civilians.
+
+
    
+The White Stars pop out of hyperspace and find a distress signal being
+send out by a dying Pak'ma'ra.  They reach the site only to find a
+fleet of unknown ships.  Delenn is ready for first contact this time
+and opens a channel.  When ships identify themselves as Drakh, Lennier
+is alarmed to discover that they speak Minbari.  This could only occur
+if this were not true first contact.
+
+
    
+It is instantly apparent who has talked to the Drakh before when Forell
+pulls a weapon on Delenn and tells her that he has brought her here to
+listen to their message.
+
+
    
+Number One grants the B5 duo her grudging approval, before catching
+Franklin out as a liar.  There is no way Sheridan could have sent the
+message to stop terrorist bombing because news of these attacks isn't
+getting off of Mars.  Sheepishly Franklin admits that he just threw
+that in to help her.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As soon as she leaves, Marcus starts pestering the Doctor about his new
+love.  Franklin denies it until she walks back in and invites him to
+dinner.  (Marcus she assigns to guard duty.)  "Touch passion, Stephen,"
+Marcus advises.  "Don't walk away when it calls you by name."
+
+
    
+The White Stars follow the Drakh to their mother ship and Delenn allows
+an emissary on board.  Dark and deadly, the Drakh hisses, shudders and
+trembles its way to the bridge.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Forell explains that the religious caste needs allies in order to
+defend themselves against the warrior caste.  In exchange for some
+deserted worlds along their border, these Drakh will help the religious
+caste in the looming civil war.  The Drakh want peace, he argues.  They
+only want a home.
+
+
    
+"Because they have just lost their home," Lennier finishes, mouthing
+"Z'ha'dum" to Delenn.
+
+
    
+Forell admits that he couldn't have hurt Delenn, but he needed to show
+her that here they had a way to be the "salvation of their people."
+
+
    
+Delenn tells the creature that she will return in a week with an
+answer.  "You will not regret this, Delenn," Forell says.  The Drakh
+stops and hisses with recognition, "Delenn!" before departing.
+
+
    
+She realizes her mortal danger at that instant.  Now that these Drakh
+know her, she tells Forell, they will take revenge for her part in the Shadow
+war.  The White Star fleet is surrounded and stationary.  There is no time to
+escape by jump point or by fleeing.  So instead, she orders Lennier to fly
+straight at the mother ship, "skin dancing" along its hull until they have
+built up enough speed to escape through jump points.  In the process, White
+Star 16 is destroyed.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Forell has been struck by a falling beam and is fatally wounded.  With his
+final words he begs Delenn's forgiveness.  "No.  I am sorry, Forell.  I
+should never have been away this long," she utters as his body is
+carried away.
+
+
    
+Safe in hyperspace, Lennier begins to set a course for Babylon 5, but
+now with blood in her eye Delenn overrides him and orders the White
+Stars to attack.  The angry, attacking White Stars make short work of
+most of the Drakh fighters, and as the mother ship races for the local
+jump gate, Delenn's flagship beats her there and fires through her hull
+from stem to stern.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Upon her return Delenn finds Sheridan in the revamped War Room.
+Apparently there have been more sightings of the Drakh in other areas.
+But that isn't the only bad news she brings him.  "The caste system is
+falling apart," she says.  She must go to try and save her people from
+the ravages of civil war, and attempt to rebuild the Grey Council.
+Sheridan is unhappy to hear these words.  But she comforts him, arguing
+that humans form communities which are more powerful than the
+individuals were before.  This is humanity's strength, and also what makes
+them dangerous.  Since his return from Z'ha'dum, the Captain has been
+trying to pretend that he hasn't changed.  But he has.  And now in
+order to fight the battles ahead and rebuild what has been destroyed he
+needs to be dangerous.  With her gone, she knows that he will be able
+to do that.
+
+
    
+Far away on Mars, a lonely Ranger sits on guard duty, listening
+to a woman's voice gasping Stephen's name.
+
+
    
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is in his "office" in helping a man reunite with his lost
+wife/daughter--an act observed by Wade.  He leaves and goes out into
+the hallway, where he meets with another man.  Wade tells the man that
+it's about time Garibaldi got his first assignment, which will be a
+chance to see how sincere he really is in helping them.  Wade wants to
+know how he handles himself in a crunch, and if he gets himself killed,
+they will know they have the wrong guy.  "At this point," Wade tells
+the other gentleman, "Mr.  Garibaldi is eminently expendable."
+
+
    
+Zack enters Sheridan's office to find the Captain staring, silently, at
+a painting hanging on his wall.  Sheridan explains that he has been
+doing some thinking, and that there are some unpleasant things he needs
+to take care of, which he can do now that Delenn is gone.  He tells
+Zack that, when Garibaldi resigned as Chief of Security, he didn't turn
+in his link, identicard, or PPG.  Zack tells Sheridan that he doesn't
+think Garibaldi would take it very well, and that it doesn't make sense
+that Garibaldi is acting the way he is.  Sheridan says that he wants
+this taken care of that same day.  Zack agrees, but wants to know why
+Sheridan is in such a hurry.  "I don't like the company he's been
+keeping," the Captain replies.  Zack leaves.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin enters the war room, which is being reconfigured as a
+broadcast newsroom.  He sees Ivanova, who is helping to set things up
+for the first broadcast.  Franklin tells her that his business on Mars
+is concluded, and the rest of the resistance is on the station.  He
+asks how she is doing, and she says that everything is ready to go,
+except that they don't have enough power to send the broadcast
+everywhere it needs to go.  She says that she has been trying to find a
+solution for days, but hasn't had any success.  Franklin suggests she
+try Epsilon III--there must be a source of power down there, since they
+were able to evacuate refugees there during the Shadow War with no
+trouble.  Ivanova tells Franklin it's the logical choice, and that
+"anybody could see that in about two seconds."  Franklin tells her
+that, of course, he never would have thought of it, and that it is a
+great idea.  Without discussing the matter further, Ivanova leaves to
+catch a shuttle to Epsilon III.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack arrives at Garibaldi's office, and asks him how he is.  Garibaldi
+says that he's doing fine, and that he likes working in this kind of an
+environment--you get to see and know the people you help.  Garibaldi
+asks Zack how he is, but his response is less than enthusiastic.  Zack
+reluctantly tells Garibaldi that he needs his link, indenticard, and
+his weapon.  Garibaldi doesn't mind getting rid of the indenticard and
+the link, but doesn't want to get rid of the gun.  Zack presses him and
+Garibaldi does give us weapon and starts to walk away, but Zack asks
+him for the backup he knows he carries as well, which Garibaldi
+unwillingly surrenders.  Zack asks Garibaldi what he should have done,
+and Garibaldi says he should have said no--that way, it wouldn't have
+had to come from Zack.  Without saying another word, Garibaldi turns
+and walks away.
+
+
    
+As Ivanova's shuttle leaves Babylon 5, Garibaldi is in his quarters,
+dressing, and watching an old Daffy Duck cartoon, in which Daffy is
+continually tormented by an unseen assailant, who is controlling his
+every move and the world around him.  As the assailant is revealed to
+be Bugs Bunny, Garibaldi's door chimes and Wade enters.  Wade tells
+Garibaldi that he has a job for him.  He says he wants to hire
+Garibaldi as a bodyguard and expedite something secret.  Wade explains
+that his contact has to perform important business on Babylon 5, which
+might involve security--all Garibaldi has to do is to keep the contact
+out of security's way while they are on board.  Wade asks him if going
+against his own security force will be a problem, and Garibaldi tells
+him that--if he had asked that question the day before--he would have,
+but now he doesn't.  Garibaldi agrees to the job.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ivanova's shuttle lands on Epsilon III, and she begins searching the
+corridors.  She notices a being walking through the corridor and tells
+him she needs to see Draal.  When she finally sees who it is, it's a
+familiar face--that of Zathras.  She asks why he's there, and Zathras
+explains that he works there.  She says that Zathras was left 1000
+years in the past, but Zathras insists they had never met before.
+Zathras laughs and explains that Ivanova didn't meet Zathras, but
+rather Zathras.  This confuses Ivanova greatly, but Zathras explains
+that there are ten members in their family, each one named Zathras, but
+each one pronounced differently.  Ivanova tells Zathras that she needs
+power to help the broadcast, and, though he laments the fact people
+always come to him for help, which he always provides, he does agree to
+help her.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi and Wade are walking through the corridors, finding the back
+way through the station to get to the docking area where they will meet
+the contact without security interfering.  Wade explains that their
+contact decided to send his wife in his place so that she can prepare
+to take things over later.  They find who they are looking for, and
+Garibaldi recognizes her instantly--it's Lise.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Later, Garibaldi and Lise are alone in her quarters.  He wants to know
+what happened in the meantime, and why she lost her first husband, and
+found another one.  Lise explains that Franz was having an affair, and
+that he used the court system, which favors Earth-born people above
+those born on Mars, to file for divorce first.  He got their daughter
+and remarried, and plans never to tell the child who her real mother
+is.  Garibaldi is angry that she forgot all about him in her distress,
+but Lise insists she didn't forget--she knew he was happy here and
+didn't want to change that.  Garibaldi tells her that she was his life
+at one point, but she says they're different people now.  She explains
+that, six months earlier, she met Bill, and they got married.
+Garibaldi realizes she must mean William Edgars, one of the richest men
+on Earth.  She insists that she didn't marry him because of his money,
+but Garibaldi no longer wants to talk about it.  He says that he will,
+from that point on, only treat her as he would any client, and after
+she goes back to Mars, he is going to forget any of this happened, and
+now, he doesn't need to drink to do just that.  Lise tells him that
+she's glad, but they are interrupted by Wade, telling them their
+shuttle is ready.  The three of them leave.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo is in Sheridan's office talking to him when G'Kar arrives.
+Neither ambassador is happy to see the other, but Sheridan says he
+needs them both there.  Sheridan explains that commercial transports
+are being raided along the worlds in the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
+Because of this, smaller worlds and empires are trying to rise to
+prominence, which is causing quite a few problems.  In addition, there
+is the added problem of the Drakh, who are now on the loose with Shadow
+technology.  Sheridan says that the Rangers no longer need to look out
+for the Shadows' return, but that he wants to use them to monitor the
+borders of the League borders, maintain the peace, and protect
+civilians.  G'Kar feels that this could be seen as an act of
+aggression, but Sheridan says they will only go where they are invited,
+in exchange for technical support and the authority to carry out
+whatever they start.  Londo agrees with G'Kar--this is not a good
+idea.  Sheridan tells them that, if Londo and G'Kar both agree on this,
+that might help show the League worlds that this is something
+important.  Londo is afraid it might be interpreted as a sign of
+weakness, but Sheridan says it should be interpreted as their trying to
+build something--to work together for a common goal.  Londo says it
+isn't fair, and Sheridan agrees, and asks Londo if he wants to blood of
+the dead on his hands.  He asks G'Kar as well, but neither responds.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack enters his office and asks the computer for a status report.  The
+computer reads off a list of fairly mundane things, except for one
+unauthorized entry, where 72 passengers disembarked a ship, but only 71
+went through security.  Only one access was recorded to the customs
+bay--Security Chief Michael Garibaldi.  Zack asks if more than one
+security identicard is registered to him, and the computer answers this
+affirmative.  Zack orders the computer to cancel all identicards and
+security clearances belong to Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi, Wade, and Lise are waiting for their contact in Down Below.
+He eventually arrives, and hands over a secure cube--extremely
+difficult to open--containing a small vial.  Garibaldi asks what it is,
+and though Wade initially resists, Lise explains that her husband has
+discovered there might be a genetic danger to some telepaths, and that
+this might be the cure to stop it.  Wade explains that, in order to
+keep a panic from ensuing, they want to keep it quiet, since no one
+would believe that the disease can only be spread to telepaths.  There
+are plenty of people who would want to have it for themselves, and they
+have invested far too much time and money to let it fall into the wrong
+hands.  Garibaldi, looking around, finds that a group of people have
+noticed them.  He tells the contact, Wade, and Lise that they all need
+to get out, but it's too late--they have been noticed.  A firefight
+ensues, and the four of them run off, but are closely pursued.  They
+are shot at from the front, and the contact is killed.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi ushers them into another room, and then bars the door.  They
+try to exit out the back way, but Garibaldi's identicard no longer
+works.  Their assailants try to bash in the door, but Garibaldi
+discovers another way out--he piles several crates on top of each other
+and then takes everyone through a panel in the ceiling, just as the
+assailants manage to break down the door.  In the vents, Garibaldi
+tells Lise and Wade to go ahead without him, while he lies in wait for
+the others.  They discover the hole in the ceiling, but when one of
+them comes through, he simply looks at Garibaldi for a few moments, but
+doesn't fire.  He then vanishes down the grate.  Garibaldi realizes the
+implications and chases after Wade and Lise.  He catches up with them,
+and manages to pull them away just as PPG fire erupts through the floor
+of the vent.  The fire eventually stops, and Garibaldi tells them that
+they need to go to Docking Bay 3--and to not stop thinking about it the
+entire time.  They get where they are going, but it's not Docking Bay
+3, just a corridor.  Garibaldi explains that they must be using
+telepaths to track their movements.  A security officer passes, and
+Garibaldi tells him that the shooters from Brown sector will be in Bay
+3, and to meet him there.  Garibaldi tells Wade and Lise to pick up a
+fake identicard and to get on the next transport out of there, while he
+goes to Bay 3.  Lise doesn't want to leave him, but Garibaldi says she
+has to, and has Wade take her off.  Garibaldi then runs off.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+It is dark in the abandoned Docking Bay 3, and the men who chased after
+Garibaldi, Lise, and Wade are there.  Before long, Zack and his
+security team arrive.  Zack demands to know who they are what they are
+doing, but only one of them has a reponse: "To the future."  They both
+bite down on something, and fall to the floor.  Zack calls MedLab, and
+tells them to get there quickly, but as he is doing so, Garibaldi
+arrives in the bay as well.
+
+
    
+Ivanova returns from Epsilon III to find Franklin waiting for her.  He
+asks how it went, and she explains that she thinks she has the
+interface figured out.  She wants to tell the Captain, but Franklin
+says he doesn't think it would be a good time at the moment--Sheridan
+is in a bad mood right now.  As they leave, they pass Lise, who did
+arrive safely.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan has both Zack and Garibaldi in his office, and demands to know
+what the deaths that occurred were about.  Garibaldi says he doesn't
+know who they were, but that they just came at them, and killed the man
+who was supposed to meet with a client of his.  Garibaldi tells
+Sheridan he can believe him or not, but either way, he won't say
+anything else.  Sheridan tells Garibaldi that he jeopardized the
+station, but Garibaldi says that Sheridan nearly got him killed, and
+that it all could have been handled quietly had his identicard and gun
+not been taken.  He didn't break any laws, though--Sheridan points out
+that he trespassed, violated security, and used an unauthorized
+identicard, but Garibaldi invites Sheridan to fine him, but that
+otherwise, he has nothing.  Garibaldi starts to leave, but Sheridan
+tells him that Garibaldi is operating there because Sheridan is
+allowing him to, but should anything like that happen again, Sheridan
+will shut him down right away.  Garibaldi doesn't say anything as he
+walks out.  Garibaldi arrives back in his quarters, to find that he has
+a message waiting.  He asks who it's from, and the computer replies
+that it's from Lise Hampton.  Garibaldi tells the computer to delete
+the message, and then he goes to bed.
+
+
    
+Later, Garibaldi receives a transmission from William Edgars himself.
+Edgars tells him that Lise has arrived home safe, and that he heard
+about what Garibaldi did and how, and that he is appreciative for what
+he did.  Edgars says that his organization could use Garibaldi, and
+that he would like to hire Garibaldi on retainer, though he would have
+to come to Mars, but it would definitely be worth his while.  Edgars
+thinks there wouldn't be much problem getting him past the quarantine,
+and Edgars is sure he can work things out if Garibaldi is interested.
+"Yeah," Garibaldi says.  "I'm interested."
+
+
    
+There is a brief flash of static, and then a test pattern appears on
+the screen, followed by Ivanova's face, in the war room.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"This is Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5, and this is the first
+official broadcast of the new Voice of the Resistance.  We're sending
+this signal out to every ship that wants to hear the truth, to our
+fallen comrades and freedom fighters on Mars and Proxima III, and to
+Earth, which, despite what you may have heard, is still our home, and
+still the one dream that we're as loyal to now as we ever have been.
+Over the last three years, ever since President Clark took over, after
+arranging the assassination of President Santiago, you have been
+hearing nothing but misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies.
+Now, we're going to tell you the truth.  And we're going to keep
+telling it until they shut us down, or until President Clark steps down
+and returns Earth to the hands of its people.  You can kill us.  You
+can bomb our colonies, destroy our ships, murder innocent civilians.
+But you cannot kill the truth.  And the truth is back in business."
+
+
    
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+The command staff arrives for breakfast to find Sheridan leaned up against
+the wall carrying on a conversation with himself.  Their attempts to engage
+him don't get through, but his occasional outbursts of laughter disturb
+their conversation.  Trying to form the non-aligned worlds into a union
+again is a daunting task, they agree, but one that must be done.
+
+
    
+With an exultant shout, the Captain stands up and comes over to their
+table.  "There has got to be an easier way to do this!" he enthuses, with
+his characteristic "I've got an idea" gleam in his eye.  He orders Marcus
+to take three White Stars to a sector of Centauri border space and wait
+there for orders.
+
+
    
+As he leaves in a hurry, Ivanova gets up and sniffs his empty coffee mug.
+"Just checking..." she remarks only half in jest.  Franklin laughs that
+this is after Delenn has only been gone three days.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+There is no laughter for Delenn, however.  Lennier reports fighting in the
+capital, the opening salvo of civil war.  In the next days she passes
+time in a chamber watching scenes of the capital city in all its
+splendor, and she weeps to think of it in flames.  "Did I do this, when I
+broke the Grey Council?" she asks.  Valen predicted that she would, but
+since he was Sinclair, he could not have known what would pass after the
+breaking.  There is no prophecy to steer her course now.  
+
+
    
+What she does know is that the fighting must be stopped immediately, or
+they will all face a millenium of war.  And so she goes to rendezvous with
+the leaders of the religious caste.  She has also invited her old enemy
+Neroon of the warrior caste to meet her there.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Mollari is baffled that the Captain is asking him to deny that
+the White Stars are patrolling the borders of Centauri space, especially
+since their presence there was for the sole purpose of inspiring the League
+worlds to allow White Stars on their own borders.  As Londo launches into a
+tirade about human psychology, Sheridan reaches out comfortingly and
+smiling broadly says, "Trust me."
+
+
    
+Delenn strides purposefully on board the waiting Minbari war cruiser into
+palpable tension, as she finds  Neroon and a small party of warriors lined
+up opposite a welcoming party from the religious caste.  Apparently
+Neroon's presence aboard the religious caste vessel has been met with a
+hostility just shy of violence.  Delenn states that he is under her
+personal protection and demands to speak with him at once.  She stares his
+adjutants down until they make way for her passage.
+
+
    
+Lennier turns toward the religious caste leaders, and as he passes by they
+hiss their anger at the honor with which she treats Neroon.  Loyal as
+ever, Lennier simply states that they must wait for Delenn to speak for
+herself.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Alone with Neroon at last, Delenn asks for his help.  When he reminds her
+that the last time they met he intended to kill her to keep her from taking
+control of the Rangers, she states that despite their differences he has
+always acted honorably and to serve their people.  She explains that
+neither the warrior caste nor the religious caste can win the war because
+it will unbalance their society.  
+
+
    
+With a fragile trust they sit to discuss.  He argues that their "world gone
+mad" cannot be stopped easily, but she has a plan.  Even though it will expose
+them both to the mistrust of their respective castes, he offers her his
+temporary support.  Meanwhile, panicked civilians flee through the burning
+capital.
+
+
    
+The Drazi Ambassador pounces on Sheridan in the Zocalo to ask about the
+White Stars which have been sighted on the borders of Centauri space.  At
+first amiably and then curtly the Captain refuses to comment, leaving the
+Drazi more frustrated than ever.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+After standing by waiting with his three White Stars for the Captain's
+orders, Marcus is not pleased to hear that he's gone all that way to
+destroy asteroids.
+
+
    
+"I see," he says, mystified.  "Shoot a bunch of rocks, and then leave."
+
+
    
+Sheridan appears almost annoyed at being questioned, and tells Marcus to
+follow orders.  Ivanova tries to question him too, but he blithely agrees
+that it was an unusual command and departs to find Franklin.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The Drazi Ambassador calls upon Londo for an explanation as well, but only
+meets with a categorical denial and a heap of insults thrown in for good
+measure.  He is now deeply worried and quickly huddles with the other
+League ambassadors in the corridor.  At that moment Franklin finds them and
+asks them each to ask their governments to send extra blood supplies for
+their species, just in case of an attack.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The religious leaders are also busy trying to figure out what Delenn is up
+to.  She must intend to surrender, some say.  One of them even eavesdropped
+on her conversation with Neroon enough to hear her say that the religious
+caste should not win the war.  Another argues that killing someone so
+revered would split their caste deeply.  So the first replies that they
+must martyr themselves and the entire ship to prevent her from reaching
+homeworld.  They place a small time-release cask of toxic material in an
+air duct and prepare their hearts for death, unaware that Lennier has
+observed their scheming.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The Voice of the Resistance is about to begin broadcasting when Sheridan
+casually steps into the War Room.  Just as casually he asks Ivanova to
+report that nothing happened today in sector 83x9x12.  It won't be a lie,
+he argues, because it's true.  Keeping bewilderment just barely at bay, the
+Commander goes on the air the next moment with this announcement, and
+advises everyone to please remain calm.  This message and the intelligence
+that three White Stars engaged an apparently invisible enemy in an asteroid
+field drives the perturbed League ambassadors deeper into the arms of
+paranoia.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Standing in contemplation in the cruiser's battle command center, Neroon is
+suddenly attacked by one of his retainers.  Delenn is furious.  After
+Neroon is taken away for care and the attacker thrown in the brig, she asks
+the religious leaders to watch over him because his caste believes he will
+surrender to her, and thus will do anything to stop him.  The religious
+caste members exchange a
+quick look, and one asks if they really don't intend to surrender.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Don't be foolish," she retorts, and explains again that neither side can
+surrender to the other or there will be chaos.  She shakes her head in
+dismay at the warrior caste who are so full of extremism that they would
+attack one of their own.  Her compatriots' remorse only grows as she says
+gratefully, "But you.  You are the steady rock beneath my feet."  They
+realize that it is now too late to prevent their own pointless suicide.  
+
+
    
+But they did not count on Lennier, who is able to reach the cask in time to
+shut off the valve just as the poison begins to escape.  "Have we fallen so
+far that we cannot even trust ourselves?" he asks them as he collapses from
+the effects of the fumes.
+
+
    
+Neroon reports that Lennier is being tended by his personal physician, but until
+he recovers there is no explanation for how he was exposed to the toxin.
+When pressed, Delenn admits how deeply she cares for Lennier, that she is
+training him the way she was trained by Dukhat, and that she utterly relies
+on him.
+
+
    
+Neroon tells Delenn that if their people are ever to understand why she
+treated him with honor, it will be because she taught them, and ruefully
+admits that he is finally coming to see why Dukhat chose her to succeed
+him. "I do not know what lies ahead, Delenn.  But I do know that it is
+right that we are here."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The League ambassadors call a hasty council meeting.  When Sheridan
+arrives, they present him with their demands.  He must supply them with the
+same defense he is providing the Centauri.  He balks, but they insist.  He
+is only able to obtain the concession that they will give his ships the
+authority to intercept ships on their borders, and they will support his
+fleet in the event of a greater danger.  Then they dismiss him.  He is only
+able to contain his glee until he reaches the first lift.  
+
+
    
+Lennier regains consciousness only to tell Delenn that he smelled a leaking
+valve, but he denies the suggestion of warrior caste sabotage.  As soon as
+she leaves, the religious leaders cluster around to ask him why he didn't
+tell her the truth.  He explains that she lives in a world where everyone
+is better than they really are.  When they thank him, he replies angrily,
+"I did it for her; I did not do it for you."  Her faith in their goodness
+was more valuable to him than her knowledge of their weakness.  And so they
+depart, deeply chastened.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The Voice of the Resistance announces the League's new border patrol
+initiative, and asks for news of the events on Minbar.  Meanwhile, Neroon
+leaves the war cruiser stealthily.  In his first message to his caste
+leader he announces with satisfaction that he possesses the religious
+caste's plans and victory is at hand.
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is asleep in his quarters when he receives a call from
+William Edgars.  Edgars tells Garibaldi he has a new assignment: to
+make sure a new delivery coming through Babylon 5 gets through customs
+without incident and makes its way safely to Io.  Edgars explains that
+he doesn't trust the government, the couriers, or his competitors to
+leave the packages--containing compounds for his pharmaceutical
+research department--alone.  Garibaldi tells Edgars he will do the job,
+but asks when Edgars might want him to come to Mars.  "In the fullness
+of time, Mr. Garibaldi," Edgars replies before signing off.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is in his quarters, unable to sleep.  He calls C&C, asking if
+they have been able to contact Delenn on Minbar.  They haven't, due to
+fighting in the capital city.  Sheridan hasn't heard anything from her
+since she left, but asks to be informed if they learn anything new.  He
+resumes trying to sleep.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+On Minbar, the capital city is in flames and most of the buildings are
+in ruins.  Delenn arrives in the hallway of one of the buildings, where
+Lennier is treating some of the many wounded.  Lennier tells her that
+they have received word from the leader of the Warrior Caste.  "His
+forces have surrounded the city.  He says, if we don't surrender by
+tomorrow, for the good of our people, he will end the war by destroying
+the city and everyone in it."
+
+
    
+Lyta is in the Zocalo with a woman who wants to hire her for freelance
+telepathy work.  Though all of Lyta's qualifications are in order, the
+woman will not hire her when she learns that she is no longer
+affiliated with Psi Corps.  Lyta protests, but the woman will not change
+her mind--her company needs to be protected from possible lawsuits and
+other problems.  She says that, until Lyta rejoins Psi Corps, there is
+nothing she can do.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Neroon arrives on one of the Warrior Caste ships and meets with the
+Caste's leader, Shakiri.  Shakiri says that the actions of the Religious
+Caste--in trying to get Neroon to turn against the Warrior Caste--prove
+they are unfit to lead the Minbari.  Neroon asks what the cost of the
+war will be.  Shakiri tells him that the cities can be rebuilt, and
+that the Minbari who die in the city will be reborn into the next
+generation, but that those deaths will prevent a greater loss of life
+in the future.  Shakiri says that war should be only be entered into for
+practical gains, and that the sooner the Religious Caste learns
+that--due to their actions in the Earth-Minbari war--the better.  He
+thinks that, when Delenn sees the rest of her caste dying, she will
+surrender in order to end the loss of life.  Neroon asks if it is wrong
+to value life in that manner, but Shakiri says that life and death
+are only two consequences, both equal, and that Warriors look upon
+death as a release of obligation.  Shakiri tells Neroon to go rest.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack is in the docking bay, trying to organize things, when he notices
+Garibaldi, off discreetly in the corner, dealing with another
+gentleman.  He starts to investigate, but is interrupted by another
+security officer, asking what he should do about a new
+arrival--Bester.  Zack asks why Bester is coming to the station this
+time. Bester insists he has not come to the station for any
+business with the Command Staff, but is there for personal reasons.  He
+promises he will stay out of trouble, and though Zack tries to protest, Bester
+points out it is a free port, and that he has a right to be there.
+Zack tells Bester he has to check with the captain, and Bester promises
+to wait.  Zack goes to do so, but on the way, investigates
+the corner where, a few moments earlier, he saw Garibaldi and the
+strange man, who are now gone.  Zack runs after him and tries to find
+out where the package went, but Garibaldi insists he knows nothing
+about it.  Zack asks if Garibaldi is working for William Edgars, bringing
+packages through illegally, but Garibaldi won't confirm or deny it.  Zack asks
+why Edgars, an extremely wealthy and reclusive industrialist, would want to
+work with Garibaldi, which Garibaldi finds offensive--he is honest, and minding
+his own business.  Zack asks how honest Garibaldi's work is, but
+Garibaldi finds it just as honest as breaking away from Earth, taking
+over military equipment, and starting their own independent state.
+Garibaldi tells Zack not to bother him, and leaves.
+
+
    
+Delenn is waiting for Lennier in one of the rooms in the capital
+building.  When he arrives, Delenn tells him they have reached a
+decision, and she wants him to relay a message to the Warrior
+Caste--the Religious Caste is prepared to surrender, when and where the
+Warrior Caste wishes them to do so.
+
+
    
+"...And news has reached us that a squadron of Starfury pilots, sent to
+conduct raids against Proxima 3 in hopes of forcing them to accept
+President Clark's martial law decree, have defected, joining the
+Proxima resistance.  This makes the fourth major defection in the last
+two weeks.  Refugees from sectors 400 through 600 are being taken in by
+the medical colonies at Beta Iridani and the MacArthur midrange
+colony..."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lyta is interrupted watching the Voice of the Resistance in the Zocalo
+when Bester arrives.  She is not very happy to see him, and tells him
+to say what he has to say and leave.  Bester tells her he knows she is
+looking for work, since the corporations she wanted to work for called
+Psi Corps to check on her.  Lyta tries to deny what he's saying, but he
+knows better--the command staff is getting along fine, but since Lyta
+has no support mechanism, her life of being a freelance freedom fighter
+isn't paying well enough for her to subsist much longer.  Bester says
+he wants to make a deal with her--he will add her name to a list of
+deep undercover agents, allowing her to work and make a living.  She
+will have to wear the symbol, the gloves, and give ten percent of her
+fees to the corps, and, after she dies, she will have to give her body
+to Bester.  He knows that the Vorlons altered it, and that he feels
+that what they have done for her could be done for many more telepaths
+later, allowing them to be more than what they are.  He shows her a
+contract, which he explains will be null and void if she doesn't die
+from natural causes, since Sheridan would never turn her body over
+otherwise.  Lyta, however, is not impressed, and turns down his offer.
+She walks away, but is noticed by Garibaldi on her way out.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Neroon tells Shakiri that the Religious Caste has agreed to
+surrender.  In order to prove that the Warrior Caste intends
+to lead differently than the Grey Council, Neroon suggests that Shakiri
+accept the surrender on the planet, in the Temple
+of Varenni, where disputes were settled before Valen, and where new
+leaders were selected in times of war.  In addition, the temple will distribute
+a record of the surrender throughout Minbar.  Shakiri agrees.  Neroon has one
+question: he wants to know what will happen to Delenn after the
+surrender.  Shakiri says that, in order to prevent her working
+against them in the future, they will make sure the ship on which she
+travels to Babylon 5 after the surrender never reaches its
+destination.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lyta is making dinner in her quarters when Zack arrives.  He tells her
+that Station Resources wants her to move to smaller quarters.  Lyta is
+very upset, but Zack explains that, with the Vorlon government gone,
+she no longer has any source of income, and needs to leave.
+She is very upset, but says she will try to find some way of working it
+out.  Zack is about ready to leave when he tells her that he needs to
+hire her for a job--he wants her to scan Garibaldi without his
+permission.  Lyta is unwilling to do that, even for Zack.  She might
+consider it if it were someone else, but the two of them go back a long
+way.  No matter how much she needs the money, she isn't
+willing to violate everything she's been taught.  Zack apologizes and
+leaves.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is at his table, just finishing up with someone who wants
+Garibaldi to find his dog and cat, who are attempting to take over the
+galaxy.  Lyta arrives and tells him that she needs a job, and
+that, because of her breaking with the Psi Corps, she can't get work
+with anyone she trusts.  Garibaldi explains to her that he doesn't use
+telepaths, and doesn't trust them, but notes that, should he hire her,
+he can also annoy Bester.  He asks how wide her range is, and she
+explains that it is much further than official records indicate.  Garibaldi
+says that he needs someone who can watch out for him in his dealings
+with Edgars.  Garibaldi agrees to give her a portion of his own salary,
+but is interrupted when Bester arrives.  They exchange a few words, but
+Bester claims that Garibaldi is no longer worth his attention, and
+begins walking away.  As he walks by, Lyta tells Garibaldi that Bester
+scanned him.  This outrages Garibaldi who chases after him and backs
+him against a wall.  He demands to know why Bester scanned him, but his
+anger is noticed by some security guards, who restrain him and drag him
+away.  As Lyta chases after him, Bester finds that Zack, too, saw the
+whole thing.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Delenn, Lennier, and some other members of the Religious Caste, are
+walking toward the temple.  Lennier laments that they are surrendering,
+but Delenn says that the day is not yet over.  She gives him a small
+tube, and says all the instructions are inside.  They enter the
+temple.  The rite of surrender begins, and Shakiri tells
+Delenn that this day is the beginning of a new age for their people,
+and that the hostilities can finally stop.  She says that she speaks
+for the Religious Caste, and that they surrender.  This overjoys
+Shakiri, who starts talking about rebuilding their cities and the
+Grey Council.  Delenn, however, is not finished.  She says that the
+Religious Caste does not give up their sovereign right to form a new
+government.  She says that Dukhat found no dishonor in surrender, and
+the she recognizes the superior forces of the Warrior Caste, that the
+Religious Caste helped to arm and train.  Though the Warrior Caste may
+be stronger, they aren't necessarily wiser.  She says that she doesn't
+want to throw away all they have done for the past thousand years, and
+that the Temple of Varenni was used to bring the reality of war to its
+leaders, and not just those who fight and die on the front lines.  She
+makes a gesture, and a hole in the ceiling opens, casting a bright
+white light into the circle on the floor.  She explains that, if they
+are ignoring the wisdom of Valen, they must completely return to the
+ways of the Ancients.  The leader of each of the warring castes would
+step into the circle on the floor, and the Starfire Wheel would open,
+and its fire begin to destroy the leaders.  Those who were afraid would
+send others to enter the fire, or escape, and whoever reamined in
+the fire to sacrifice their life would be representative of the true
+Caste that should lead the Minbari people.  Shakiri vehemently objects,
+but Delenn insists it's tradition, and that she is willing to endure
+the Starfire Wheel for the good of the Minbari people.  If the Warrior
+Caste will not do likewise, they don't deserve to lead.  She steps into
+the circle of light on the floor.  "Valen said, 'Will you follow me
+into fire?'" she says.  "Will you?"
+
+
    
+Lennier protests, but Delenn will not move, and instead begs Lennier to
+carry out her instructions should she die.  Shakiri doesn't move, so
+Delenn asks if he concedes leadership, if it is too easy to send others
+to die for him, but that he isn't willing to die for his Caste.  The
+Starfire Wheel opens further, and the light around Delenn grows
+stronger.  Shakiri insists that the entire thing is madness and
+refuses, but Neroon points out that Shakiri said that a Warrior does
+not fear death, and asks why he is afraid.  Shakiri asks if he speaks
+for the Religious Caste, but Neroon says he speaks for their people,
+and wants to know who he speaks for, and what he is willing to do--the
+other Minbari people, all watching, want to know as well.  Shakiri
+steps forward and enters the light, as the Starfire wheel opens
+further.  Shakiri tries to convince Delenn to walk out with him, but
+she refuses--he insists there are other ways, but Delenn says he should
+have thought of that before he tore the Minbari people apart.  Shakiri
+jumps from the light, but Delenn does not leave, as Neroon tells
+Lennier she promised to do.  Lennier says she is making a point, for
+all Minbari.  The Starfire Wheel opens further, nearly all the way, and
+Delenn is no longer able to withstand its force.
+
+
    
+"No!" cries Neroon as he runs forth.  He forces himself into the light,
+picks up Delenn, and hands her through the light to Lennier.  Standing
+in the flame, he cries out, "I was born Warrior Caste, but I see now...
+The calling of my heart... is Religious!  The war is over!  Listen to
+her!  Listen!"  The Starfire Wheel opens completely, and the light
+utterly engulfs him.  In mere seconds, he is gone, and only the smoking
+circle, where he once stood, remains.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is again asleep in his quarters when another message from
+Edgars wakes him up.  Though he is very upset, he manages to contain
+his anger long enough to listen to Edgars.  He has found out that
+Garibaldi has hired Lyta, and doesn't want her to work for Garibaldi if
+Garibaldi is working for him.  Garibaldi asks why Edgars wants to help
+telepaths, but not to employ them.  Edgars says he doesn't trust telepaths.
+He says that, if Garibaldi wants to keep his job, Lyta must not work for him.
+
+
    
+Bester is in the Zocalo watching Lyta and Garibaldi have a heated
+discussion.  Lyta becomes very angry and storms away from the table, as
+Bester simply sits and smiles.  "Personal log: Bester, Al.  August 3rd,
+2261.  By provoking Mr. Garibaldi, I have put him even further at odds
+with his former associates, and further on the path I need him to
+folow.  What I came here to get, I got--even her."  We now see Lyta
+inside her quarters, wearing long black gloves, and the PsiCorps symbol
+on her chest.  Bester's contract is lying nearby, as she sadly looks at
+what she has once again become in the mirror.  "Guess you could call it
+a bank shot," Bester continues.  "Yes...  I've had a nice day."
+
+
    
+On the Grey Council ship, Lennier tries to convince Delenn that she
+should wait before doing what she is planning, but she won't postpone
+it a moment longer.  Lennier says that, when she enters the Council
+Chamber, what transpires will be broadcast all over Minbar.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+She enters the chamber where the nine circles of light surround one in
+the middle.  None of them are occupied.  She steps into the center
+light, and proclaims that she is about to restore the Grey Council.
+She calls forth the members of the new Grey Council--two Religious, and
+two Warrior.  There are still five spaces vacant, but the
+tradition must be broken-- there can no longer be three of each Caste.
+She calls forth five other Minbari, all from the Worker Caste.  She
+explains that, when the Religious Caste and the Warrior Caste fight,
+the Workers are caught in the middle--they build the ships for fighting
+and the temples for praying, and they look to the other Castes to guide
+their hands.  The Workers want to do only what is best, and, from
+now on, the Religious and Warrior Castes will be in the service of the
+people, not the other way around.  She steps from the center circle of
+light, and explains that it is reserved in memory of Neroon, until the time
+it will be filled by the one who is to come.  She advises the
+Council to judge wisely and well, as the leader of the Minbari,
+then leaves so that the Council may begin.
+
+
    
+Ivanova comes into Sheridan's quarters, in a fury.  She holds up a data
+crystal and explains that it was taken by a transport bringing relief
+supplies to Proxima 3.  The crystal contains footage of an Earth Force
+destroyer decimating a convoy of unarmed transports.  She says that the
+transports indentified themselves as only carrying wounded refugees, over
+10,000 civilians in all.  She says she's going to put the
+video on Voice of the Resistance as soon as she calms down.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, likewise, is outraged.  "This madness has gone on long
+enough.  I don't care if we're not ready, I don't care if we're
+outnumbered or outgunned, I don't care what ISN says about us.  This
+stops, and it stops now!  Now, if earth wants to declare war on us,
+then it is time that we took the war to Clark.  You tell the others...
+Starting right now, we fight back and we fight back hard!"
+
+
    
+"I thought you were looking for some other way than firing at our own
+ships," Ivanova asks.  "They were following orders."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Any crew that executes an order like that is guilty of war crimes, and
+they deserve whatever they get," Sheridan continues.  "No, we're riding
+in, Susan.  Anybody who wants to defect and join us, fine.  If they get
+in our way, we will knock them down.  If they kill one of our ships,
+we'll kill three of theirs.  And we keep going.  We never slow down,
+and we won't stop...  We're going after the colonies, then Mars... and
+then Earth.  And God help anybody who gets in our way."
+
+
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    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+Once again the station mobilizes for war.  The murder of 10,000 refugees
+fleeing Proxima 3 has forced Sheridan to decide that it's time to retaliate
+against Clark.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan calls a full Council meeting first thing in the morning.  In return
+for the safety his White Star patrols have brought to uneasy borders, he
+declares all League World military treaties with Earth null and void.  As
+Starfuries run drills outside, Ivanova requests that each government
+contribute a military vessel to the defense of the station.  Other than
+that, they must take no part in the war.
+
+
    
+"We're going to take back our home.  Or die trying," Captain Sheridan
+concludes.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Marcus races through the station to the War Room with a data crystal that
+holds intelligence detailing the Earth Force blockade of Proxima 3.  Of six
+destroyers, two were responsible for shooting down the transport.  
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, even though Franklin admits little progress on freeing the
+Shadow-implanted telepaths, Sheridan demands that he get them mobile as
+quickly as possible for an imminent mission.
+
+
    
+To Ivanova he explains his plan for attacking Proxima 3.  By offering the
+combatants a chance to surrender or defect, he will attempt to minimize the
+Earth Force losses; nevertheless he will destroy any ship that fights back.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Vir is roused from a nightmare by Garibaldi at the door.  When Garibaldi
+asks for Londo, Vir lets it slip out that the Ambassador has gone to speak
+with G'Kar, then divulges the plan to attack Earth.  Vir is surprised that
+Garibaldi is disgusted with Sheridan's move.  Even though he doesn't always
+agree with Londo, Vir says he continues to follow, because sometimes Londo's
+right.  
+
+
    
+Close quarters maneuvers continue outside under Lt. Corwin's supervision.
+Ivanova orders the fighters to only accept commands that are encrypted with
+the code of the day.  Corwin remarks that they should trust no one.  
+
+
    
+"No," Ivanova remarks acerbically.  "Trust Ivanova.  Trust yourself.
+Anybody else?  Shoot 'em."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The destroyer Starfuries patrolling hyperspace near the Proxima 3 jump gate
+are oblivious to the fleet of White Stars gathering in the murky redness
+there.  Marcus learns that the resistance on the planet's surface is being
+demolished by Clark's ground forces.
+
+
    
+G'Kar's writing is interrupted by Mollari's entrance.  They take a couple of
+shots across each other 's bows until Mollari admits that he didn't come to
+fight but to talk.  The past years have been very hard on both of them.
+G'Kar snorts in derision, but Mollari continues humbly, thanking G'Kar for
+his actions and endurance that set both of their worlds free, telling G'Kar
+that he has come to respect him deeply.
+
+
    
+G'Kar scorns both the thanks and the respect.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Mollari forges ahead angrily.  He is a patriot, he shouts, and yet, through
+ill judgment he himself became his own enemy.  So can he possibly
+"understand who the enemy is?"  Perhaps not.  But he can understand
+friendship, and the humans of Babylon 5 have been friends.  Thus he has
+convinced his government to put their full support behind Sheridan, and
+requests that G'Kar do the same.  Pouring out two drinks, he proposes a
+toast "to the humans, and to the bridge that they created between us, in the
+hope for a better future, for both our worlds."
+
+
    
+As Mollari waits with glass raised, G'Kar pours his drink back in the
+bottle.  With heavy disappointment, Mollari departs.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan and Ivanova have the difficult task of prepping the Starfury crews
+for battle.  They are told to defend themselves with deadly fire and come
+home alive, yet show mercy to any non-combatant.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan departs for the front leaving Ivanova to command the station.  His
+flagship White Star 2 sports newly painted Army of Light logos on the wings.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The commander of the fleet blockading Proxima 3 orders two destroyers to
+attack the White Stars that jump out of hyperspace on the opposite side of
+the planet.  When he recognizes the ships as Sheridan's he orders his
+destroyers to attack.  Macdougan, the captain of the Vesta, engages John in
+a conversation about the legality of Clark's orders.  When Macdougan refuses
+to enter the fray, fleet commander Hall grants a field promotion to
+Macdougan's second, a rank he enjoys for about 60 seconds until the Vesta's
+crew ends it.
+
+
    
+The Pollux is destroyed, two vessels stand down, and another withdraws.
+Fearing a tribunal more than death, Captain Hall orders his crew to continue
+the fight until his own second relieves him of command and surrenders.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan calls the captains of the surviving destroyers together and offers
+them the choice of going home or joining up.  When they object to his
+methods he argues that they swore to protect Earth, that they work for all
+humans, not for Clark in particular.  In the final analysis one ship
+withdraws, one joins the defense of Proxima 3, and two join Sheridan.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As he drinks alone again in morose contemplation, Londo notices a shot
+raised to the lips of another nearby.  Sternly G'Kar orders Londo to issue
+the joint statement of their worlds' support of Sheridan.  He refuses to
+sign it on the same page though.  G'Kar departs just as rapidly leaving the
+Ambassador choked with emotion.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+As the Voice of Resistance announces the victory and encourages other Earth
+Force vessels to defect, Garibaldi leaves the station for Mars vowing never
+to return.
+
    
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+"This is Commander Susan Ivanova brining you the Voice of the
+Resistance.  The liberation fleet continues to retake territory held in
+violation of the Earth Alliance constitution.  More ships on the other
+side continue to defect carrying stories of atrocities carried out
+under the direct orders of President Clark.  In addition to the
+liberation of Proxima III, the colony at Beta Durani and the mid-range
+military base have also been freed.  The long march toward Earth
+continues."
+
+
    
+"Personal Log, Michael Garibaldi.  It's started.  They're really doing
+it.  This is what I was afraid would happen.  But it's been coming for
+a long time--ever since Sheridan got back.  Before he went to Z'ha'dum,
+he never would have gone up against his own--our own-- government like
+this.  I don't know--maybe he thinks he's Alexander the Great.  And
+maybe he thinks he's John the Baptist.  And maybe he wants to take over
+the whole operation for himself."  The transport tubes on Mars appear.
+"That's the part that worries me.  That's the part that made me come
+back here.  Mars...  I can't believe I'm back on Mars.  Three times
+before, this place almost killed me.  I swore I'd never give it another
+chance to finish the job.  Humans got no business being here.  No
+business at all."
+
+
    
+
+Wade, who is sitting across from Garibaldi, tells him that they are
+almost there, and that he needs to put on a blindfold to meet with
+William Edgars.  Garibaldi is reluctant at first, and Wade understand
+that Garibaldi doesn't like to give up control, but if Garibaldi
+doesn't play along, he will have to leave.  Wade says that Edgars has
+gone through a lot of trouble to get Garibaldi to Mars, and that the
+average guy would be grateful.  Garibaldi says he isn't the average
+guy, and Wade notes that he wouldn't be there if he were, since Edgars
+doesn't like average guys.  Wade again tells Garibaldi to put on the
+blindfold, but says he doesn't need to worry--they are going to Edgars'
+private dock, so no one will think it strange.  Wade informs Garibaldi
+that, in olden days, the rising of Mars always precipitated climactic
+events.  "It was a bad sign.  Now, there are two million people living
+here," he says.
+
+
    
+"It still is a bad sign," says Garibaldi, now wearing the blindfold.
+
+
    
+"Mars," Garibaldi says, continuing his log.  "Can't believe I'm back on
+Mars.  I've got to be out of my mind."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Dr. Franklin is in MedLab running experiments on the Shadow-implanted
+telepaths when Zack arrives.  Franklin explains his troubles to
+Zack--nothing he has tried to remove the implants has worked, and
+pressure from Sheridan to do it hasn't made things any easier,
+especially since he doesn't know what the rush is.  Dr. Franklin leaves
+for a moment, and Lyta, whom Zack had been looking for, enters MedLab.
+He tells her he needs her to scan the victim of a mugging to confirm
+the assailant's identity.  She agrees to do so, and Zack leaves.  She
+goes over to look at one of the telepaths lying on the examination
+table in the isolation lab, and the telepath's eyes open suddenly.
+Franklin sees what's going on--the telepath sitting up, touching Lyta's
+hand through the window of the lab, and calls out to her, causing her
+to lose her concentration.  The telepath returns to his comatose
+state.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi arrives at William Edgar's compound, only to run into Lise.
+She tells him it wasn't a good time for him to come, and that things
+are too busy, but Edgars insists it is alright that Garibaldi is
+there.  Lise leaves to go assist the cook with dinner, and Edgars and
+Garibaldi begin talking.  Edgars asks Garibaldi why he insisted on
+coming now, and Garibaldi explains that he was tired of not seeing
+Edgars' face, wanted to know what he was helping Edgars do, and to stop
+Sheridan if at all possible.  Edgars insists he is just a businessman,
+but Garibaldi knows better, since Edgars has some strong political
+connections.  Garibaldi tells Edgars that he doesn't trust Clark, and
+Edgars agrees, though he shouldn't be stopped by a military action, but
+from inside the system.  Garibaldi admits that he feels Sheridan wants
+to take over himself, but, while he can't let Sheridan do that, he
+can't turn him over to Clark either.  Garibaldi wants Edgars to speak
+on Sheridan's behalf, which would increase his political power, and
+possibly even put him in the Presidency himself.  Edgars finds
+Garibaldi's words intriguing, but informs him he won't do anything
+further until he knows he can trust Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Wade shows Garibaldi the room he will be staying, and then leaves him
+for the night.  The room is on the small side, containing little more
+than a bed and a few light fixtures.  Garibaldi settles in for the
+night.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Franklin chases after Lyta, who insists she's late for an appointment.
+She apologizes for messing up his experiment, but he says that he's
+glad she did what she did--it's the only reaction he had managed to
+achieved.  He asks her how she did it, and she tells him that she
+looked at him, and heard a sound--the sound a Shadow vessel makes--in
+her head, acted instinctively to make it go away, and he woke up.
+Franklin asks her to come back after her other job, and convinces her
+to try to help him.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is asleep in his room when the door bursts open and several
+figures in mask rush in.  They grab him and force him out of the room,
+and into another chamber, where only one figure, a woman, sits at a
+table.  The voice of Edgars, coming from unseen speakers, assures him
+he is in no danger.  Edgars explains that the woman is a telepath, and
+she will only inform him if he is telling the truth when he answers
+Edgars' questions.
+
+
    
+Edgars begins by asking Garibaldi what he thinks about telepaths, and
+Garibaldi responds that he doesn't trust them--he doesn't like someone
+being able to get inside his head, or being able to tell if he's lying
+if he doesn't know when they are, or to be able to conduct business
+with no records.  He says the tension between telepaths and mundanes
+will turn ugly someday, but hopes he won't be alive to see it.  Edgars
+asks if this means he feels they are a menace to society, and Garibaldi
+answers, "The biggest one we've got."
+
+
    
+Edgars asks Garibaldi if he was sincere when he said he wanted to
+locate and secure someone, and Garibaldi answers yes to both
+questions.  The telepath turns and nods.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Edgars asks Garibaldi why the reason given for his employment--to keep
+in-development pharmaceuticals safe from competitors isn't enough.
+Garibaldi explains that Edgars could pay off anyone to keep the secret,
+but that he feels he's being used as a scapegoat in case they catch him
+in the act.  Edgars asks Garibaldi if he's assuming he's lying.
+Garibaldi says everyone lies, and though it's a sad view of the
+universe, it's the only one he has.
+
+
    
+Edgars asks Garibaldi if he can remember anything about his
+disappearance from Babylon 5 earlier that year.  Garibaldi says he
+can't remember anything.  The telepath turns again, and nods.
+
+
    
+Edgars tells Garibaldi that he is finished, and can go.  As he walks
+toward the door, however, Edgars asks one more question: Is Garibaldi
+still in love with Lise?  Garibaldi answers no, Edgars thanks him, and
+lets him return to his room.  The telepath turns and shakes her head.
+Edgars thanks the telepath and tells her that Wade will see to her
+payment.
+
+
    
+Edgars enters his own room, to find Lise waiting up.  She asks him how
+it went, and he tells her it went fine, but he also tells her that she
+was never mentioned.  He says he thinks Garibaldi put it all behind
+him, and that he thinks Garibaldi would be a fine addition.  He tells
+Lise not to worry, and that everything will be just fine.
+
+
    
+As the telepath gathers her coat and prepares to leave, Wade appears in
+the doorway.  As she turns to face him, he pulls a PPG and fires
+several shots directly at her.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+In MedLab, Lyta and Franklin are standing over the same telepath from
+before.  He tells her to do what she did the last time, only slower--he
+wants to learn to stimulate the same brainwaves artificially, but they
+can worry about getting the implants out later.  Franklin is ready, and
+begins the computer recording.  Lyta concentrates on the telepath, and
+one of the monitor displays of the telepath changes.  Franklin surmises
+that the Shadow implants speed up brain functions--useful for running a
+Shadow vessel--and that that causes trouble when there is nothing
+around to control.  The telepath's eyes open, and he sits up suddenly,
+remembering his implant procedure.  He grabs Franklin by the throat and
+asks if the machines are gone.  Franklin tells him they are, but the
+telepath is still not calmed.  "What am I?  Why am I?" asks the
+telepath, as he throws Franklin to the floor.  The telepath turns to
+Lyta.  "I can't live like this," and picks up a medical device and
+holds it to his own throat.  Lyta stops him from going any further,
+apologizes to him, and then puts him back to sleep.  Franklin is able
+to take over from there, but Lyta, disturbed and shaken, just turns and
+leaves MedLab.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi arrives in Edgars' office the next morning, and asks to be
+told the whole story about his involvement with Edgars, since he
+apparently passed the test.  Edgars begins by telling him that, in a
+world run by telepaths, mundanes would be severely limited in what they
+could pursue, and how they could behave--a world with no privacy.  It's
+a world neither Edgars nor Garibaldi want to live in.  Garibaldi feels
+that, despite certain members of the PsiCorps feeling they should be in
+control, telepaths don't have enough power to take over.  Edgars says
+they don't, yet, but they are beginning to fight their own battle of
+secrets and intimidation.  He points out that, without the PsiCorps
+badge, no one can really tell a telepath from a normal human, and that
+they can inspire fear whether they show their true colors or not.
+Edgars explains to Garibaldi that Clark has power given him by the
+voters who were afraid of aliens and wanted to do something about it.
+Clark has begun to pass that power on to the PsiCorps.  He wants
+complete and total loyalty, and he can only prove loyalty with the use
+of telepaths.  When President Santiago objected to this, Clark
+eliminated him, with outside help, including the help of aliens, who
+promised him all the power he could want.  The aliens were interested
+in the PsiCorps, which became Clark's "insurance policy" against them,
+and he used them to gain more power still.  He created the Nightwatch
+and selected his own people to fill important positions, with telepaths
+watching over everything.  Edgars is sure that, no matter what happens
+to Clark, the PsiCorps will not want to give up its newfound power.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi asks what Sheridan has to do with this, and Edgars explains
+that, should Sheridan go too far, Clark will remove the last
+restrictions from the PsiCorps, giving them all the power they need,
+turning it into a military and police force under his direct control,
+which Garibaldi recognizes as thought police.  When that happens,
+Edgars believes, they will never let go of their power.  Edgars tells
+Garibaldi that Clark is not really in charge--that his own
+megacorporation, as well as the others on Earth, have really been
+running things behind the scenes for years.  Now that the PsiCorps
+threatens their bussinesses, they have to take action.  Edgars wants
+Sheridan out of the way so that they have enough time to perfect their
+solution, and to keep him from putting too much power in the PsiCorps
+too soon.  Garibaldi asks Edgars how they can stop the PsiCorps when
+Lise interrupts, telling them that breakfast is ready.  Edgars asks
+Garibaldi if he'd like to join them, but Garibaldi declines, instead
+saying that he has some thinking to do.  Edgars starts to leave, but
+Garibaldi stops him and asks him if the story he was just told was
+really the truth.  Edgars tells him it's as close to the truth as
+he--or anyone else--will ever get, but that it should be enough for
+Garibaldi to decide if he wants to continue working with Edgars.
+Edgars tells Garibaldi he hopes that he will, and then leaves for
+breakfast.
+
+
    
+As the fleet continues on its way, Sheridan is talking to Ivanova, who
+is still on Babylon 5.  She tells him that they have turned two more
+Earth Alliance ships over to the Resistance, a fact which pleases and
+worries Sheridan--he always becomes suspicious when things start going
+too well.  He asks her about Delenn, and Ivanova tells him that she is
+done with her work on Minbar, and will be back on Babylon 5 soon.
+There is nothing else that she has to report, but he tells her that he
+wants to talk to Dr. Franklin.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ivanova calls down to Medlab and tells him that Sheridan wants to talk
+to him.  Franklin explains that he thinks he found a way to neutralize
+the implants.  Sheridan asks Franklin how long it will take him to get
+the telepaths up and running, but Franklin refuses to do anything more
+until Sherdian tells him exactly what he wants to do with the
+telepaths.  Franklin gets rid of everyone else in MedLab, and Sheridan
+begins explaining his plan.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Franklin leaves Medlab, visibly shaken.  While standing in the
+corridor, Lyta arrives.  She asks him if he's alright, and he says he
+isn't.  He says that, when Sheridan came back from Z'ha'dum, he never
+understood why everyone thought he was acting so different.  But, he
+explains that the Sheridan he knew never would have asked him to do
+what this Sheridan just did.  Franklin admits that it is the only way,
+but really wishes he were wrong about it.  He asks Lyta if she is
+available for a long-term job.  She is, and he tells her to start
+packing--they leave for Mars in a few days.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is sitting on his bed when there's a knock on the door.  It's
+Lise, who has brought him his dinner.  As she is about to leave, he
+says he doesn't know what she sees in Edgars, besides his money.  He
+asks her what Edgars has that he doesn't.  She insists it's not the
+money, and that he's a good man, and that she does love him.  She is,
+however, very concerned about Garibaldi, and doesn't want anything to
+happen to him, or to Edgars.  Garibaldi tells her that she should have
+tried to get things back the way they were, but that wasn't enough for
+her--she didn't want to hold up the relationship herself.  She wanted
+him to care about something else, other than his job, and that he never
+said that he loved her until she said it to him.  She starts to leave
+again, but can't force herself through the door.  In a broken voice,
+she explains that, after Franz left her, Garibaldi was too far away,
+and that she needed someone in her life to be there for her, and that
+Edgars was that person.  She asks him if he would have left and gone to
+her when she needed him, and he says he doesn't know.  Crying, she says
+that she is too old for that, and that Bill does care for her and he
+does love her.  Garibaldi apologizes for what happened, and tells her
+that he did he did love her.  She says she's sorry, too, tells him to
+eat his dinner, and then leaves him alone.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Edgars is standing over three beds when Wade comes in.  Edgars tells
+him that they are at a critical stage, and can't afford any mistakes.
+Edgars sits down next to one of the beds, which contains a man with
+white skin and lesions all over his face.  He reaches under the plastic
+covering the man's face, and touches his skin.  Wade says Edgars
+shouldn't touch him, but Edgars says the man can use some compassion,
+and that he can't be infected anyway.  Wade asks how long he's been off
+the drug, and Edgars says five days--the drug is working faster than
+before.  The man moans, and Edgars tells him that, though it's part of
+the process, it will be over soon.  He gets up and tells Wade to put
+the man down.  He knows the drug works, but doesn't want to add to the
+pain in the universe unless it's absolutely necessary.  He leaves Wade
+alone in the room with the three people.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi arrives in Edgars' office, and tells him that he's been
+thinking about a lot of things.  Garibaldi says that he has made his
+decision--he is in all the way.  Edgars is pleased, but Garibaldi wants
+to know the rest of the story.  That's not good enough for Edgars,
+though--he wants Garibaldi to prove himself.  The way to do that is to
+give him Sheridan.  If he does that, Edgars will tell him the rest.
+Edgars wants Clark to feel secure in his position, and with Sheridan,
+that will give Edgars the time he needs to do what he must.  Garibaldi
+doesn't want Clark to get Sheridan, since he is sure he'll kill him.
+Edgars knows that Clark is an amateur, and will go through the motions,
+but won't kill him, at least right away.  Edgars says that they need to
+take Sheridan out of the picture, and that it is time to do so.
+Garibaldi tells Edgars that the easiest way to get to Sheridan is
+through his father.  Edgars says that Earth was torn apart looking for
+him, but no one knows how to find him.  Garibaldi, however, does--he
+knows Sheridan's father has a rare blood disease which requires the use
+of a certain Centauri drug, which is rare and expensive, and easy to
+track.  Edgars says that they still need someone to set Sheridan up,
+and Garibaldi volunteers.  Edgars tells Garibaldi that he's doing the
+right thing, and hopes he understands it.
+
+
    
+"Mars.  Three times before, this place almost killed me.  And now...
+I've finally finished the job.  I can't feel anything anymore.  I don't
+know what I care about anymore.  Except Lise.  I screwed up both our
+lives pretty good.  Now I get to make up for it, assuming any of us can
+ever make up for anything we've done in the past.  Maybe we can't.
+Maybe we just have to live with it, and get on with it, and do what we
+have to--never what we want to.  It has to be done.  I hope he can see
+that someday..."
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+As Sheridan's forces approach Earth, the fighting grows more fierce.
+Outgunned and unable to flee, Clark's remaining ships still refuse to
+surrender.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Dr. Franklin and Lyta find themselves on Mars again with
+their disturbing cargo.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi matter of factly informs Edgars that John Sheridan's trap has
+been baited with his father.  Pleased, Edgars again promises Garibaldi
+the elusive reward of the whole truth.  "I think the last guy got
+thirty pieces of silver for the same job," Garibaldi remarks with
+distaste as he leaves.
+
+
    
+Sheridan orders the opposing vessels to stand down again.  One captain
+finally breaks silence saying that Sheridan is only going to execute
+them if they surrender.    Sheridan's new ally Macdougan convinces the
+young captain that its safe to stand down just as a new ship jumps into
+the melee.  To Sheridan's relief it's his old ship, the Agamemnon, come
+to join his fleet.
+
+
    
+Number One is livid to discover that Franklin has brought a teep into
+her facility without even thinking of consulting her.  The dozens of
+frozen telepaths he brings are equally unwelcome.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and the Agamemnon's crew share a fond reunion when he goes on
+board.  He's still there when Garibaldi's transmission catches up with
+him.  Garibaldi explains that Clark's people have captured Sheridan's dad,
+and says he has a rescue plan which requires Sheridan's presence.  Against
+everyone's advice Sheridan decides to go to Mars alone, and the
+Agamemnon agrees to transport him there.
+
+
    
+The hostility towards Lyta is not limited to Number One.  Franklin is
+baffled, until Lyta explains the Bloodhound program.  Anyone suspected
+of being in the Resistance is simply picked up and scanned.  No due
+process.  Quietly Lyta begins to explain the other things Psi Cops have
+done.  One serial killer of telepaths now lives in an institution,
+screaming all the time at the "things [we] planted in his mind."  When
+that happened she left Psi Cops for Commercial work, but from then she
+became afraid of what telepaths could do.  "Someday there's going to be
+a war between telepaths and mundanes, Stephen," she predicts direly.
+
+
    
+Ivanova leaves the station to take command of the fleet in Sheridan's
+absence, and Delenn agrees to keep watch over B5 until she returns.
+
+
    
+John pilots a fighter down to the surface of Mars.  Garibaldi is
+waiting in a smoky bar.  As soon as the Captain sits, Garibaldi slaps a
+tranquilizer patch on his hand.  Furiously Sheridan stands and attempts
+to escape, but like a lion brought down by jackals, the men who have
+come for him are too many and too strong.  Garibaldi just sits in his
+place and watches impassively as his former friend and CO gets beaten
+to a pulp.
+
+
    
+ISN's gloating begins immediately.  Ivanova and Marcus watch in stunned
+silence.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi returns to his boss, furiously demanding to be finally told
+the truth.  Edgars and Wade reveal that they have genetically
+engineered a virus that attacks only telepaths.  They have also
+developed an "antidote" that needs to be administered to infected
+telepaths every two weeks.  Turning telepaths into a virtual slave race
+is the only way they see to counter the threat of the "death of human
+liberty and human thought."  As a side-effect, by removing Clark's
+power base in the Psi Corps, they will be free to overturn his
+government easily.  Garibaldi affirms that he is still on board and
+Edgars informs him that now that Clark is distracted by the capture of
+Sheridan, he can begin the process of releasing the virus.
+
+
    
+"The telepath prob--" he utters and stops.  Hearing the holocaustic
+parallel in his own words, he continues in a broken voice, "The
+telepath problem...will finally be over."
+
+
    
+Unbeknownst to them all, a horrified Lise has heard everything from her
+hiding place behind a column.
+
+
    
+When they have left the room Garibaldi sits quietly and pops a cap off
+his tooth revealing a miniscule transmitter.  Lise finds him later
+waiting stony faced in a tube.  She begs him to help stop her husband.
+With eerily muted urgency Garibaldi only tells her to go home.
+
+
    
+Moments later a new passenger joins him and the car leaves the
+station.  Without hesitation, Bester jumps straight into Garibaldi's
+mind and extracts Edgars' nefarious plan.  Even the imperturbable Psi
+Cop is stunned by the extent of this "final solution."   Having
+finished what he came for, Bester muses about what to do with Garibaldi
+next.  "I can feel you, you know...the real you, beating at the inside
+of your skull, screaming to get out."  Should he let Garibaldi
+free?  Should he keep him penned up forever?  He explains to Garbaldi
+what happened when he was captured by the Shadows.
+
+
    
+Bester got control of Garibaldi during the Shadows' attempt to
+"adjust" him and managed to handle the procedure on his own terms.
+That way he could thwart his enemies the Shadows (the virus of Edgars'
+was surely Shadow technology after all), take revenge on the officers
+of Babylon 5, and use Garibaldi as a weapon against his other enemies,
+all in one move.  Accentuating his naturally rebellious and
+suspicious instincts turned Garibaldi into the perfect tool for digging to
+the bottom of anti-telepath conspiracies.  The odd messages Garibaldi
+received from time to time tuned his conditioning until his real
+personality was completely buried under the new one.
+
+
    
+And now Bester wonders what to do.  Toying for an instant with a gun in
+Garibaldi's face, Bester comments that now that Garibaldi's friends know
+he betrayed Sheridan, he "can't go home again."  Deciding to let the
+real Garibaldi free, Bester exits the car and the train leaves the
+station.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi sits impassively on the bench.  A flash of reality slams his
+mind.  He shakes his head.  Then another.  And then again.  He screams
+in rage and whacks his head into the wall of the train.
+
+
    
+When Marcus informs Ivanova that Garibaldi has attempted to contact
+them, she orders that if he shows up on the station he be shot on
+sight.  In the interim, with Sheridan captured and the fleet in limbo,
+she vows to finish the job her Captain began.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi frantically searches Edgars' home for Lise but only finds
+Edgars dead, the virus removed and Wade mortally injured on the floor.
+Wade manages to whisper that Lise hadn't been there when they were
+attacked.
+
+
    
+The ISN anchor reports the assassination of William Edgars apparently
+by Free Mars terrorists.  She also proudly congratulates former Chief
+Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi for rescuing the renegade Earth Force
+Captain John Sheridan.  While Sheridan continues to be pummeled by his
+captors, she reports that now that he has been freed of alien
+influences, Sheridan is expressing regret for his actions against his
+home world.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+In the dark of an empty room, Sheridan is lying on the floor, asleep,
+voices floating through his dreams, reminding him of how he got there.
+Sheridan is rousted from his sleep when the single door to the room
+flies open, and from the light outside steps a man with a briefcase.
+He studies Sheridan as several of his associates bring in and set up a
+chair and a desk.  "Do you have any allergies or illnesses I should be
+aware of?  Are you currently taking any medication?  Have you had any
+trouble with your heart?"  Sheridan doesn't respond.  "When I ask a
+question, you will respond at once.  You will not hesitate, you will
+not consider, you will not lie.  Cooperation will be rewarded,
+resistance will be punished.  Do you understand?"
+
+
    
+Sheridan doesn't
+respond, but gets up and moves toward the man.  When he gets fairly
+close, a device around Sheridan's neck causes him great pain, and he
+crumples to the floor.  The man explains they are Narn paingivers,
+purchased during the war.  The man explains that there is no reason to
+harm him, since he is not the enemy--he has no personal stake in what
+goes on.  He is there only to do his job.  He further explains that,
+though he has no desire to inflict pain, he will do so if it is
+required.  He is not there to negotiate or assist him, but is there to
+ensure Sheridan's cooperation, and will use whatever means he feels are
+appropriate.  He asks Sheridan if he understands, but Sheridan doesn't
+respond.  The man pushes a button on his table, the door opens again,
+and two guards come in, force Sheridan into the chair, and shackle him
+down.  The man asks Sheridan again if he understands, and Sheridan
+nods.  "Do you any allergies or ilnesses I should be aware of?  Are you
+currently taking any medication?  Have you had any problems with your
+heart?"
+
+
    
+"No," Sheridan answers.
+
+
    
+"Good," the man replies.  "Then we can begin."
+
+
    
+Sheridan is sitting in the chair, a bright light shining on his face,
+when the Interrogator returns, this time, with the outside shrouded in
+darkness.  "Good morning," he tells Sheridan, but Sheridan believes
+that, since it is dark outside, it can't be morning, as it was before.
+The Interrogator walks to the door and demonstrates that it is he who
+controls the lighting, not the time of day.  The Interrogator opens his
+briefcase and begins removing his effects when he appears to have
+forgotten something, and retrieves his glasses from the outside.  He
+pushes a button on the table, causing Sheridan great pain.  "Never
+contradict me," he says.  The Interrogator begins looking over
+Sheridan's file, when he looks at his watch.  He opens a small package
+in front of him, and removes a sandwich, which he begins to eat.  As he
+eats, the Interrogator explains that he finds it interesting that
+Sheridan had never previously shown interest in politics, and Sheridan
+agrees--the Interrogator explains that, in that case, it is unlikely he
+would try to overthrow his own government without outside influence.
+Sheridan insists it's not true, but the Interrogator doesn't believe
+him, and asks if he is that far removed from other people.  He says he
+will write that down as Sheridan's "first fabrication."
+
+
    
+The Interrogator asks Sheridan if he would like some of his sandwich;
+since they haven't fed Sheridan, and it is lunchtime, he would probably
+like some.  Sheridan says that, a few moments ago, the Interrogator
+said it was morning, but the Interrogator insists that you can't have
+cornbeef sandwiches for breakfast.  Sheridan concedes that it must be
+lunchtime somewhere, and takes the sandwich.  The Interrogator promises
+Sheridan that the sandwich will not kill him, and Sheridan begins
+consuming the sandwich.  The Interrogator explains that this proves
+that everything is a matter of perspective, the truth is fluid and
+subjective.  "Out there, it doesn't matter what time it is.  In here,
+it's lunchtime if you and I decide that it is.  The truth is sometimes
+is what you believe it to be and sometimes what you decide it to be.
+My task... is to make you... decide to believe...  differently.  And
+when that happens, the world will remake itself before your very eyes."
+Sheridan insists it's not true, but, the Interrogator disagrees,
+explaining how the truth changed for Sheridan whenever there was a new
+enemy for him to fight.  Sheridan denies this, but the Interrogator
+knows that a solider must accept what is ordered to believe, unless he
+is rejecting everything he claimed to stand for.
+
+
    
+Sheridan finishes the
+sandwich, and begins commenting on it, but the Interrogator claims he's
+being evasive.  Sheridan says it's better than being dishonest.  The
+Interrogator points out that, while Sheridan has changed the truth to
+suit himself, he has never lied to Sheridan.  The Interrogator says
+that it's for supper, and he begins to pack up his things.  As he does,
+he explains that, if you eat a little poison every day, you will
+gradually become used to it.  The contents of the sandwich won't kill
+Sheridan, but the toxins will have their desired effects in a few
+minutes.  "I'll be back when they've had a chance to clean up the
+place," the Interrogator tells him as he leaves.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is lying on the floor when the Interrogator returns, the next
+"morning." The Interrogator asks how is feeling, but Sheridan is too
+sick to respond.  The Interrogator apologizes for poisoning him, but it
+is part of the process.  "We have to break you physically before we can
+get to your mind."  The Interrogator explains that the room is
+monitored throughout the day, and if Sheridan won't cooperate, he
+cannot be held responsible for what might happen.  If Sheridan
+cooperates, the Interrogator promises, they will let him go.  He
+removes a small flask and pours a drink for Sheridan, to help him out
+of his dehydration.  Sheridan is apprehensive, but the Interrogator
+insists the drink is safe, and that, as Sheridan's only ally, he will
+tell him only the absolute truth.  Sheridan begins to drink the
+liquid.
+
+
    
+The Interrogator explains that he needs to correct some
+ommissions in Sheridan's files, and begins asking if Susan Ivanova is
+still his second in command.  They just want to confirm her name for
+the records, but Sheridan won't tell him, because the Interrogator
+wants it.  The Interrogator insists he doesn't care, but his superiors
+want complete information.  He asks Sheridan to sit in the chair, now
+that his strength has returned, which he does.  As he sits, though, he
+finds himself automatically shackled in again.  The Interrogator
+explains it's for Sheridan's own good.  "Oh, by the way, I should
+mention your father...  He sends his regards."  The Interrogator says
+he's being held at another facility, and that he is alive and well.  He
+suggests that Sheridan should thank him, which Sheridan does.  He
+explains that he believes Sheridan's father will only be held as long
+as Sheridan is, but that they won't let him go if Sheridan continues to
+resist.  The Interrogator asks if Sheridan has been interrogated
+before, but Sheridan says he would be surprised.  The Interrogator
+finds this odd, as he seems to have forgotten the rules.  He holds up a
+piece of paper.  "This is your confession.  It goes on at some length.
+So, uh, allow me to summarize.  You plead guilty to charges of treason,
+mutiny, conspiracy to commit mutiny, sedition, terrorism..."
+
+
    
+"That's a lie!" Sheridan insists.
+
+
    
+"...conspiracy to overthrow the government, illegal seizure of Earth
+property, assault on fellow officers, sabotage..."
+
+
    
+"Now just a minute!"
+
+
    
+"...willful destruction of public property, disobeying direct orders of
+superior officers, and the murder of 547 officers and crew onboard the
+E.A.S. Roanoke!"
+
+
    
+"I won't sign it!"
+
+
    
+"You will sign it!  You will sign it and you will read it aloud in full
+view of the public so they'll know we haven't forged your image or your
+signature.  You will name your accomplices.  You will apologize to the
+families and friends of those who have died fighting you.  And in the
+end, you will beg for mercy on the grounds that you're under the
+influence of aliens who are trying subvert the government and undermine
+the authority of the President."
+
+
    
+"I demand to see an attorney!  I demand the presence of a full military
+tribunal.  You have no right..."
+
+
    
+"No, YOU have no rights!  There's no courtroom here, Captain, no
+tribunals, no attorneys, no justice, no mercy, no fairness, no hope, no
+last-minute escape.  You will walk through that door when you confess
+and not one second before!"  With that, the Interrogator leaves the
+room.
+
+
    
+The door flings open and the Interrogator returns.  "Good morning."
+After a few moments, two guards bring in a Drazi and strap him to the
+Interrogator's chair.  The guards leave the three of them alone.  The
+Interrogator places a recording device in front of the Drazi, and asks
+the Drazi to repeat what he previously told another interrogator.  "I
+was one of those who was reponsible for manipulating Captain Sheridan
+into turning against his own government." Sheridan begs him not to
+continue, but the Drazi keeps talking.  "I confess to taking part in
+the conspiracy to overturn your government."  Sheridan tells the Drazi
+he's giving them exactly what they want, and the Interrogator
+agrees--when he's finished, they will let him go.  The Drazi
+continues.  "Those who worked with me in this conspiracy were Commander
+Susan Ivanova, Minbari Ambassador Delenn, Senator Ross Fowler..."  The
+Interrogator explains that, while the Senator isn't involved, he has
+become a source of annoyance for the President.  "I can personally
+verify all of the charges against him.  However, Captain Sheridan was
+not responsible for his actions.  He was not, uh, mentally
+competent..."
+
+
    
+Sheridan tries to convince the Drazi that however much
+they tortued him, he doesn't have to let them win, and begs him again
+not to confess.  The Interrogator says he's Sheridan's alibi--the one
+chance he has of avoiding the death penalty, but Sheridan thinks that
+the Drazi are strong, and he shouldn't let them win.  The Drazi insists
+there is nothing he can do, but Sheridan says that, if he resists, he
+will eventually win.  The Drazi says he is afraid, and never has been
+before, but Sheridan pleads with the Drazi not to give them what they
+want.  The Drazi looks at Sheridan for a few moments, and then tells
+the Interrogator he will not cooperate any further.  Sheridan smiles
+smugly at the Interrogator.
+
+
    
+"Are you sure?  You understand that this is your last chance?"
+
+
    
+"What are you doing," Sheridan asks.
+
+
    
+"Do you understand that this is your very... last... chance?"
+
+
    
+"Yes," the Drazi replies.
+
+
    
+The Interrogator touches a key on the table, and four guards enter with
+a gurney, which they strap the Drazi to.  Sheridan protests, but they
+will not let him go.  "Room 17," the Interrogator tells them as they
+wheel the Drazi out.  The Interrogator returns to the subject of
+Ivanova, and will not tell Sheridan what they will do with the Drazi,
+despite Sheridan's demands that he do so.  The Interrogator explains
+that, while the Drazi was expendable, Sheridan is not--his superiors
+want Sheridan honestly and sincerely broken if someone scans him.  The
+apology must be sincere, and that would save them all time and
+trouble.  As he is speaking, there is a scream in the background, and
+the lights of the room dim for a moment.  The Interrogator begins
+packing up his things, and touches a button on the table.  A recording
+of his own voice begins playing.  "You will cooperate with the State
+for the good of the State and your own survival.  You will confess to
+the crimes of which you have been accused.  You will be released and
+returned to society a productive citizen if you cooperate.  Resistance
+will be punished, cooperation will be rewarded."  The Interrogator
+leaves for the "night," but his voice remains behind.  "You will
+cooperate with the State for the good of the State and your own
+survival.  You will confess to the crimes of which you have been
+accused.  You will be released and returned to society a productive
+citizen if you cooperate..."
+
+
    
+The light of "day" streams in as the Interrogator returns.  "...You
+will confess to the crimes of which you have been accused.  You will be
+released and returned to society a productive citizen if you
+cooperate.  Resistance will be punished, cooperation will be
+rewarded."  The Interrogator shuts off the recording, and bids Sheridan
+"good morning."  He tells Sheridan that, unless he starts cooperating,
+he won't be receiving any more of the intervenous nutrition he had been
+receiving since being taken off solid foods.  The Interrogator puts
+Sheridan's "confession" down in front of him, telling him that that,
+and a few recorded words, are all that prevent him from leaving the
+cell.  The Interrogator asks Sheridan if he wants to leave, if he wants
+to be free, and Sheridan admits he does.  All he has to do is sign the
+confession.  The Interrogator says they don't want him dead, but rather
+as a symbol.  They will not kill him, though, at least not right
+away--they will wait until Sheridan has been forgotten.  But, until
+that time, Sheridan will have his freedom--they will encourage him to
+travel, to spread the message that "you cannot beat the system."  "Sign
+and speak," the Interrogator says, "and you can leave here."  As
+Sheridan looks at the Interrogator, he sees Delenn standing behind
+him.  He smiles at her, as the Interrogator releases his arms from the
+shackles.  Sheridan looks at Delenn for the answer, but she says
+nothing to him--she then vanishes as quickly as she appeared.  Sheridan
+stares at the confession for a few moments, then spits on it.  He turns
+to the Interrogator and utters his response.
+
+
    
+"No."
+
+
    
+"I...  I really wish you hadn't done that, Captain.  I really...
+sincerely wish...  you hadn't done that."  The Interrogator picks up
+the confession and his briefcase, but cannot find words.  "I... I... I
+have no control over what will happen next," he explains to Sheridan.
+"It's out of my hands."  He walks out of the room, the door slamming
+shut behind him.
+
+
    
+The Interrogator bursts in and wakes Sheridan up.  He tells Sheridan
+that they are doing this to him because he is a war hero, and he was
+made such in the public eye.  People know him and recognize him, but
+when war heroes start believing certain things, the public listens,
+which threatens their credibility.  And Sheridan's credibility needs to
+go--he says that the best way out for everyone is for Sheridan to
+confess and lay the blame on the alien governments.  Whether it is
+really true or not, they can make the public believe it.  They will let
+him live.  But, it isn't the only way--they can forge Sheridan's image
+and his voice, after he has died.  There will always be doubt that way,
+but the Interrogator explains that it is now an acceptable option.  "I
+can save your life," the Interrogator says.  "Right now.  If you'll let
+me."
+
+
    
+Sheridan explains that he has considered the Interrogator's words, that
+you can't fight the system, but, if the truth is fluid and subjective,
+maybe you can, as long as one person refuses to break, or bow down.
+
+
    
+"But, can you win?" asks the Interrogator.
+
+
    
+"Every time I say no," responds Sheridan.
+
+
    
+The Interrogator moves away, back to his table.  "Captain John
+Sheridan, will you, or will you not, sign a confession and endorse it
+before a public hearing?"
+
+
    
+"No."
+
+
    
+The Interrogator hits a key on the table, and four guards enter with a
+gurney, which they force Sheridan onto.  He struggles, but can't
+escape.  "You understand that this is your last chance?" the
+Interrogator asks as he bends over him.  "Do you understand this is
+your very last chance?" Sheridan doesn't respond.  "Room seventeen,"
+the Interrogator tells him.  The gurney is wheeled down the hall.
+
+
    
+As Sheridan moves down the hall, a priest following him, reading him
+his Last Rites, he looks toward his goal--the door at the end of the
+hallway, through which light is streaming.  In the middle of the light,
+Delenn is standing.  Sheridan is wheeled closer, and closer...
+
+
    
+The gurney is placed in one half of the room, the other half obscured
+in shadows.  Sheridan is unstrapped, and the guards leave.  Sheridan
+sits up weakly, and looks into the other half of the room, where a
+figure in a black mask, black robe, and black gloves is standing before
+a large device, covered in a black cloth.  The figure adjusts his glove
+and walks out.  Sheridan is alone for a brief moment when four guards
+enter the room and remove him from the gurney.  One of the guards
+removes the the cloth from the device in the corner, revealing it to
+be... a chair.  An interrogation chair much like the one in the room he
+was in a few moments ago.  He is forced into the chair and shackled
+down.  The guards move the gurney closer to Sheridan, adjust it in a
+few ways, and it becomes a table exactly like the one in the other
+interrogation room.  The guards leave the room, with only Sheridan and
+the shadowy figure remaining behind.
+
+
    
+Someone else comes in the room.  "Good morning," the man says, placing
+his briefcase on the table.  "Now, before we begin your interrogation,
+I'll need some information." Sheridan turns his gaze to the figure
+standing behind the new interrogator.  "Do you have any allergies or
+illnesses that I should know about?  Are you currently taking any
+medication?"  The figure in black steps forward and removes his hood,
+revealing the Drazi that Sheridan had met in the other cell.  "Any
+trouble with your heart?"  The Drazi bows his head, but Sheridan is too
+stunned to respond to the interrogator's questions.  "You will answer
+my questions when they are asked.  Resistance will be punished,
+cooperation will be rewarded.  Do you have any illnesses or allergies
+that I should know about?  Are you currently taking any medication?
+Have you had any trouble with your heart?"  Sheridan doesn't respond,
+but lowers his head and continues to listen.  "You will answer my
+questions when they are asked.  Resistance will be punished,
+cooperation will be rewarded.  Do you have any allergies or illnesses
+that I should know about?  Are you currently taking any medication?
+Have you had any trouble with your heart?  You will answer my questions
+when they are asked.  Resistance will be punished.  Cooperation will be
+rewarded."
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+Seated at a small, bare table in the Captain's quarters, Franklin asks
+Sheridan how he managed to escape.  Who were his contacts in the
+Resistance?   Sheridan peers at him suspiciously.  It isn't Franklin.  It's
+an interrogator and they are still in Sheridan's cell.  Drugged and weary,
+Sheridan's mind keeps shifting the location and persons from the station to
+prison.  The brainwashing hasn't succeeded though.  The Captain hasn't been
+convinced that he is under the control of aliens.
+
+
    
+In a busy shipping station on Mars, Garibaldi meets up with his
+contact.  Apparently the Resistance doesn't believe that Sheridan's
+kidnapping wasn't Garibaldi's fault.  Several men leap out of the shadows and
+beat him senseless.  At their headquarters, Number One offers Franklin a gun and
+the chance for revenge.  "Steven?" Garibaldi shouts when Franklin refuses.
+Instead Franklin rips the hood off Garibaldi's head and angrily demands an
+explanation.  
+
+
    
+Garibaldi stammers out how he was used by Bester, but only Lyta seems
+willing to believe it.  Garibaldi tells them that he knows where Sheridan
+is being held, and they can get him out.  But it's the same story he used
+to lure Sheridan in the first place.  Garibaldi pleads, "You can't let
+Bester screw up my entire life and not give me the chance to fix it.  I
+can't go out this way!"  Franklin is disgusted.  Seeing Lyta, Garibaldi
+begs her to scan him.  She replies that no one trusts telepaths here.
+Franklin wants to try it, but Number One angrily decides just to shoot
+Garibaldi.
+Franklin grabs her gun as it goes off, and Lyta snatches a rifle, spraying
+the ceiling with fire.  In the uneasy pause, Franklin covers Number One
+with the rifle while Lyta goes to work on Garibaldi's head.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+She immediately finds Psi Cop blocks.  Her eyes go full black as she pushes
+harder until she finds the memories Bester concealed.  When she announces
+this, Number One scoffs.  Furious, Lyta whips around, fixes Number One with
+her eerie eyes, and convinces her with a rapid braindump of Garibaldi's
+hellish experience.    
+
+
    
+The White Star fleet engages and disables another two destroyers.  Ivanova
+orders the backup units to proceed with the evacuation while the main fleet
+heads for the next target.  When Marcus questions whether they are advancing
+too slowly, she insists that this is the one chance these crews will receive
+justice for their actions, and besides, defectors will be needed when they
+hit Earth.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi shows Number One where Sheridan is being held.  She says that her
+people can get them inside, but they're on their own after that.
+
+
    
+On B5, a rather worried Lennier finds Delenn and informs her that Mollari
+has called a full Council meeting without informing the Minbari.  The
+Centauri is just calling for a vote on an intolerable situation, when
+Delenn arrives.  It's unanimous, and with a representative from Minbar
+present, it's even legitimate.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"The humans have become the glue which holds us together," G'Kar explains
+when Delenn objects.  The Council feels it is their responsibility to do
+everything in their power to prevent Earth from turning in upon itself, as
+well as to repay the debt they owe Sheridan for his defense of their
+planets during the Shadow War.
+
+
    
+In Delenn's stunned silence, G'Kar, Londo and Vir explain that they have
+resolved to unite their forces to aid Ivanova's fleet, but they didn't want
+to tell her until it was fait acompli, lest people say it was based on
+personal interests.  
+
+
    
+The Resistance fighter leads Garibaldi, Franklin and Lyta through old
+access tunnels to the location where Sheridan is being held, but refuses to
+accompany them further.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Marcus brings the duty officer from one of the disabled ships on the bridge
+with the claim that he has critical intelligence.  Apparently some of the
+"allies" they've picked up along the way are not real defectors.  Ivanova's
+intention to rendezvous near Mars for the final assault on Earth, has been
+passed back to Clark, who has arranged to ambush them with a fleet of new
+advanced-technology destroyers.  Ivanova and Marcus realize that their
+standard Earth Force allies would be annihilated by an advanced destroyer
+fleet.  There's no time to change the rendezvous, so Ivanova decides that
+the White Stars must try to take out the force alone.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi and Franklin jump a patrol in the tunnels.  They win, but
+Garbaldi takes a knife in the back.  Franklin stitches the wound crudely,
+but can't convince Garibaldi to stay behind.
+
+
    
+Captain James of the Agamemnon tries in vain to argue Ivanova out of her
+decision.  As soon as they set off, Marcus tries to convince Ivanova to get
+some rest.  He only succeeds by threatening to harry her until she gives
+in.  She agrees as long as he wakes her later and sleeps as well.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Wearing their old Earth Force uniforms, Garibaldi and crew stroll up to the
+prison guard booth.  The guard recognizes Garibaldi and commends him for
+turning Sheridan in.  He accepts Garibaldi's story about being there to
+interrogate the prisoner and lets them pass.
+
+
    
+The two cell guards stop them.  Garibaldi casually mentions the lock "code"
+and Lyta grabs it from a guard's mind  before attacking the second guard
+with the thought of pain. Garibaldi takes out the other one, but blood is
+now showing through his uniform.  They hurry into the cell and Franklin
+sets to work trying to revive Sheridan.  Through his drugged fog,  Sheridan
+mumbles, "Michael!  I was going to kick your butt for ... something.  But I
+don't remember."  
+
+
    
+Before waking Ivanova, Marcus looks at her soulfully and utters, "You'll
+never know."  She curses when he tells her they're almost at the target and
+he didn't sleep.  Before rushing to the bridge, Susan reminds him of the
+Minbari phrase he told her was a "greeting" the last time they were here.
+"You are the most beautiful woman I have ever known."  She knows what it
+means now and thanks him.
+
+
    
+Trying to get past the guard post with Sheridan, the guards notice the
+blood on Garibaldi's back, and demand that the rescuers step away from the
+prisoner.  They quickly shoot all the guards.  Clumsily, Sheridan picks a
+gun off the floor and unloads it into one of the guards, shooting until the
+man is pulp.  He looks at Garibaldi with very cognizant fury and insists
+he's fine.
+
+
    
+The White Star fleet emerges at the rendezvous point.  A dozen jump points
+open on all sides and discharge a stream of destroyers.  Ivanova is
+horrified when she sees them.  Black skins and barbs on semi-organic hulls
+prove them to be based on Shadow technology.  The force commands her to
+surrender, and when she refuses, demands to know who she is.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+"Who am I?" she asks.  "I am Susan Ivanova.  Commander.  Daughter of Andre
+and Sophie Ivanov.  I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is
+going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart.  I am
+death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see.
+God sent me."  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+With these words she opens fire and leads the fleet into the toughest
+battle they've faced yet.  One by one White Stars drop, but they manage to
+outmaneuver and outgun the enemy until every one is destroyed.  With her
+navigational controls damaged, White Star 2 is unable to avoid a huge mass
+of debris hurtling towards the ship.  In the aftermath of the crash,
+Marcus picks himself up from the wreckage filling the bridge.  He finds
+Ivanova's limp body and carries it away.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Stumbling through the wide corridors of a Minbari cruiser, Sheridan
+suddenly stops and stares at the sight of Delenn.  They embrace and he
+promises to talk about what happened to him later, but now he has to see
+Ivanova, who is being tended by Minbari doctors and Marcus.  Her head is
+bolted into a vice-like stabilizer, her face is a mass of cotusions, and
+she is rarely conscious.  She rouses when John comes and begs him to tell
+her the truth.  Is she going to live?  Painfully, he tells her, no.  She
+only has about a week.  And so she makes one final request.  
+
+
    
+Sheridan steps onto the bridge of the Agamemnon.  With the permission of
+her Captain, he announces that a friend has asked him to lead the final battle
+from here.  At this, the multi-planet force sets out.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+The alliance fleet is in hyperspace. Aboard a Minbari heavy cruiser,
+Marcus keeps watch over Ivanova. Delenn walks in, and tells him the
+transport to take Ivanova back to Babylon 5 has arrived. Marcus argues
+that she would want to be at the battle, and since she is dying there
+is nothing else to do for her. Delenn disagrees: they can make Ivanova
+comfortable in her last hours, and see to her needs, but not in the
+fleet. Marcus holds Ivanova's hand in his, and leaves without a
+word. Delenn also leaves, as two Minbari prepare to take Ivanova away.
+
+
    
+At the Mars Resistance HQ, final preparations are underway. Number One
+arrives with an Earth Force officer, who will help smuggle the frozen
+telepaths onto the destroyers orbiting Mars. It will be tricky, but
+she'll try to make it work. Meanwhile, Garibaldi leads a small team scouting a
+supply base on the surface. They are two hours away. They begin to
+approach as shuttles leave the base to supply dozens of Earth Alliance
+Destroyers.
+
+
    
+At a bunker on the perimeter of the base, an Earth Force officer asks
+for a status report. With Sheridan's imminent attack, they expect the
+Mars Resistance to take advantage of the confusion and attack. As the
+officer attempts to contact another station, an NCO pulls out a
+breather mask. The officer is getting no reponse. "What is wrong with
+Bravo?" he asks. The NCO puts the breather mask on, pulls out a gun, and
+answers: "Same thing that is wrong here." At that moment, the door to
+the bunker opens; with the atmosphere thinning, the attacking forces
+easily overpower the Earth Force personnel. The attacking forces
+include Number One, Garibaldi, Franklin and Lyta. The NCO indicates
+there was no opportunity to warn the base: the Resistance now controls
+the perimeter. Franklin puts a device on Lyta's head and starts
+working on it.
+
+
    
+Aboard the Agamemnon, Sheridan gives the attack fleet their final
+instructions. In order to attack Earth, they must take out the bases
+on Mars first; otherwise, they would expose their flank and end up
+fighting on two fronts. The Earth Destroyers and White Stars will lead
+the assault, and the League ships are to provide support and establish
+a perimeter, but they are not to engage unless fired upon first.
+
+
    
+Aboard the Apollo, leading the Earth Force destroyer group, General
+Lefcourt is in command. He has been called to replace the Apollo's
+captain because Lefcourt is a soldier of the old school: he does not
+take arms against his own government, no matter how justified he may
+feel. And because he taught Sheridan at the Academy, and knows how
+Sheridan thinks. Now he has to kill him, and everyone around
+him. "It's a terrible day," he tells the Captain. "I wish to hell I had
+never lived to see it."
+
+
    
+Lefcourt is informed the hyperspace probes have picked up
+something, but decides to wait in normal space for Sheridan. No
+engagement in hyperspace has ever been anything but a disaster for
+both sides, and Sheridan will come out sooner or later.
+
+
    
+On the Mars surface, Franklin finishes adjusting the implants on
+Lyta's head. She has to go outside to make contact; it will be really
+difficult because of the distance, she says. She leaves the bunker,
+and Garibaldi sends a final message to the fleet. Everything is ready.
+
+
    
+Aboard a White Star, Marcus seems thoughtful. "You are thinking about
+Ivanova again." says Lennier. Marcus is indeed thinking about her, and
+how she is probably better off on Babylon 5, where there may be
+something they can do for her. Lennier advises him not to get his
+hopes up, but Marcus ignores him. Marcus has called Dr. Hobbs on
+Babylon 5. In all this time, he reasons, they must have come up with
+something to deal with near death conditions. "No." replies
+Lennier. "There is nothing usable on Babylon 5." Marcus asks
+what he means, but before Lennier can clarify, Garibaldi's message
+comes through.
+
+
    
+In the bunker, Garibaldi tells everyone to get ready. He's given the
+fleet information accurate to within a few feet, which will enable the
+White Stars to jump from hyperspace inside the atmosphere. A White
+Star jumps in and starts attacking the base, helped by the Resistance
+which is using the perimeter weapons.
+
+
    
+Gen. Lefcourt is informed that the Resistance has attacked four bases
+on Mars, and Sheridan's fleet is attacking a fifth. But Lefcourt does
+not want to be planetbound, unable to maneuver in the gravity well,
+and orders the fleet to stay in formation. He is curious,
+though. Sheridan wouldn't go on the offensive without an ace in the
+hole. What is it?
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Lyta starts contacting the frozen telepaths, now aboard the
+Earth destroyers. As Franklin explains, they are aboard 30 of the
+destroyers. They will awaken, merge with the computer systems and
+render the destroyers useless. They are being used as weapons, he
+admits, but they are weapons. He cannot remove the implants
+without the resources of Earth; if the Alliance doesn't win, the
+telepaths are dead anyway. And each destroyer has 1000 people on
+board. If they do not have to destroy the ships, they are risking
+thirty lives to save thirty thousand.
+
+
    
+Aboard the destroyers, the telepaths awake slowly, as Lyta
+concentrates.
+
+
    
+Sheridan's fleet jumps into normal space close to Mars, as Lefcourt
+expected. But before he can give any orders, the Apollo's systems
+begin to fail. Almost all of the destroyers report similar
+problems. In fact, all but 10 of the destroyers are out of
+commission. Sheridan orders a White Star squadron to open fire on
+them, targetting engines and weapons. Disable them, don't destroy
+them, he instructs. The squadron quickly accomplishes this.
+
+
    
+Aboard the Apollo, a security detail finds the shadow-modified
+telepath and opens fire. Meanwhile, Sheridan is ready to
+proceed. Human and Minbari forces are to jump to Earth, while the
+rest of the League ships stay behind to keep an eye on the disabled
+destroyers. Marcus rejoins the fleet, but leaves Lennier in command as
+he goes to his quarters. He orders a search of Babylon 5 records
+relating to death, terminal illness, and extreme measures.
+
    
+
+Marcus soon receives the results, and finds a reference to the alien
+healing device ("The Quality of
+Mercy.") He orders a shuttle to be made ready.
+
+
    
+Aboard the Apollo, they have figured out the problem and eliminated
+the telepath, but most systems are still down; they have no engines,
+and no communications with the other ships, so they cannot let them
+know what they found out. Gen. Lefcourt angrily orders engineering to
+get the ship under control ASAP.
+
+
    
+Lennier arrives at Delenn's ship. He has been tricked by Marcus into
+leaving Marcus' White Star. Marcus breaks formation and leaves. Delenn
+contacts Sheridan to let him know. They figure he is on route to
+Babylon 5, but they cannot contact the station: as soon as they got
+inside Mars orbit they hit the jammers. They are too close to turn
+back, and there is nothing to do but continue ahead.
+
+
    
+The fleet jumps to normal space, and Sheridan talks to the people of
+Earth. He encourages those in the government who were afraid to speak
+up to help place President Clark under arrest, to disband Nightwatch,
+and to return the government to the hands of the people.
+As he does so, Clark writes in his office, the planetary
+defense grid comes online, and a group of armed security officers
+escort a woman down a hallway.
+
+
    
+Sheridan continues: "This is not the voice of treason. These are
+your sons, your daughters, whose loyalties have never wavered; whose
+belief in this Alliance has forced us to take extraordinary means. For
+justice, for peace, for the future... we have come home."
+
+
    
+President Clark hears people outside his office, and he types a final
+command for the defense grid. He takes a gun, and shoots himself in
+the head. The woman and the security detail break into the office to
+find Clark dead and a note on his desk. The note contains the
+phrase "The ascension of the ordinary man" over and over, with certain
+letters circled. The letters spell out "Scorched Earth."
+
+
    
+As the fleet continues its attack on the defense platforms, the woman,
+who is Senator Crosby, contacts Sheridan and tells him of the death of
+Clark and his message. He has ordered the defense grid to fire on
+Earth, and they cannot override the command. In ten minutes, it will
+fire and level 40% of the surface.
+
+
    
+"Delenn, we need you," says Sheridan. "We are there," she replies. The
+combined human and Minbari forces attack the defense platforms,
+destroying them one by one as Minbari and human pilots give their
+lives in the process.
+
+
    
+The Agamemnon is hit several times by missiles, as the race to destroy
+the platforms continues. The Agamemnon is hit again, and is now heavily
+damaged and unable to fire. The nearest platform is about to fire, and
+no other ship is in range. Sheridan gives the order to ram the
+platform in a suicide run.
+
+
    
+But before they can hit the platform, the Apollo comes out of
+hyperspace. "We have monitored the situation. Hold on to your hats,"
+says Gen. Lefcourt as he fires and destroys the last platform. The
+Agamemnon emerges from the fireball, still in one piece.
+
+
    
+"You'll have to stand before a board of inquiry on this one, Sheridan,"
+says Lefcourt. "Still, welcome home, John. Welcome home."
+
+
    
+After the battle, Sheridan is wanted in EarthDome. Franklin is heading
+to Babylon 5, hoping to stop Marcus, and Delenn has some business to
+attend to.
+
+
    
+In an ISN special report, the reporter last seen on the air when ISN
+was taken over by forces loyal to Pres. Clark
+("Severed Dreams") is overcome with
+emotion as she welcomes back their viewers and reports on the events
+of the past hours, alluding as well to her imprisonment and those of
+other colleagues.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile Franklin continues to try to contact Babylon 5. He reviews
+the logs that Marcus downloaded, in which Franklin mentions the alien
+healing device and indicates that to save someone from fatal illness,
+the other person connected to the machine must die.
+
+
    
+Aboard Babylon 5, in MedLab, a guard lies unconscious on the floor. Marcus
+has connected himself and Ivanova to the healing device. As he loses
+consciousness next to her, Marcus whispers: "I love you."
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+An ISN Special Report.
+
+
      
+
+
      
+
+
    • 
+President Clark commited suicide
+last night.  Cameras show the Executive Office, a sheet thrown over a body
+in a chair with the sign, "Traitor to Earth!" taped to the chest.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Meanwhile, Sheridan has surrendered to Earth officials and awaits their
+decision on whether to charge him with a crime.  Despite his current
+popularity, he still must justify his actions.  There is a shot of Sheridan
+seated in a conference room filled with milling Earth Force personnel.
+
+
      
+
      
+
+
    • 
+Acting President Susanna Luchenko, of the Russian Consortium, announced
+that the legal system will prosecute those who committed crimes during
+Clark's term, and urged people not to take justice into their own hands.
+
+
      
+
    • 
+ISN sends its prayers to Susan Ivanova, critically wounded on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+Franklin is oblivious to the thrill of captaining a White Star, wishing
+only that the journey to B5 were already over, and afraid what
+he'll find when he catches up with Marcus.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+But it's already too late.  Two medics enter the infirmary and discover
+Marcus' still form slumped over Ivanova's braced and bandaged body, both of
+them plugged into the alien healing/execution device.  When Franklin
+arrives, he is immediately escorted to Ivanova, the medic explaining on the
+way that Ivanova seems to be "cured" but Marcus was dead when they found
+him.  
+
+
    
+Ivanova is anything but happy to be alive though.  She is curled up in a
+medical gown on the floor next to a window where a sheet-covered body can
+be seen inside.  She hears someone approach and shouts at him to go away.
+
+
    
+"Susan, it's me," Franklin says quietly, and sits down next to her.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Rocking herself and weeping, Susan rails at Marcus for doing this, for
+hacking through codes to find out about the device, for breaking all the
+rules, and for never asking for anything.  For sacrificing himself for her,
+for taking himself from her, and for taking away the chance that she could
+love him back.  When she was resigning herself to her death she heard
+someone say, "I love you," and wondered, "Is that God?"  Instead of
+drifting away however, she was dragged back into her body, and then
+realized that Marcus was dying beside her, even as her life began to beat
+more strongly.  Incapacitated, she couldn't do a thing to prevent it.
+
+
    
+After so many bad relationships, she was afraid of loving and being hurt
+again, but she should have done it anyway, or at least "boffed him once."
+When Stephen remarks that "that's one way to deal with unrequited love," she
+replies, "All love is unrequited, Stephen.  All of it," and buries her head
+in his shoulder.
+
+
    
+Striding impatiently in a docking bay, G'Kar chides Londo for being late.
+
+
    
+"You're early," Londo returns.
+
+
    
+When G'Kar objects that he is "never premature," Londo retaliates, "That's
+not what I hear," allowing however that two minutes may well be prodigious
+for a Narn.  At this moment, Vir hustles up nervously with something urgent
+and secret to tell the Ambassador.  Londo magnanimously offers to give
+G'Kar pointers on his problem, and as G'Kar strides off in a huff, Londo
+comments that they are "developing a strange relationship.  At times I find
+I rather enjoy it."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+It appears that the Regent is ill and not expected to live much longer.
+The Centauri government has requested Londo to return home to lead them.
+When Mollari's expression remains annoyed, Vir explains, "You're going to
+be Emperor, Londo!  Isn't that wonderful?"  Vir has no way of knowing that
+Londo has dreaded this day more than anticipated it.
+
+
    
+Awaiting his fate in Earth Dome, Sheridan has an unwelcome visitor.  Bester
+begins by denying everything about using Garibaldi, William Edgars and a
+telepath virus, but admits that the wise course of action would be to
+destroy such a virus while keeping the antidote--just in case.  Of course,
+he gloats, for a mental scan confirming Garibaldi's story to be valid in
+court, the telepath would have to be a member of Psi Corps.  
+
+
    
+Sheridan smiles and replies, "You really think you've got it all covered,
+don't you."
+
+
    
+Bester can't contain his real reason for coming any longer.  He wants to
+know whether his lover, Carolyn, was one of the telepaths used to disable
+the destroyers in the final battle at Mars.  If she was, Bester threatens,
+Sheridan won't leave the room alive.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The captain scoffs, "Death.  Been there, done that."  Using the telepaths
+as weapons was the hardest decision he ever made, he claims.  Only thirty,
+single telepaths without families were chosen out of a hundred.  Making the
+Psi Cop agonize just a little bit longer, because Carolyn was single and
+had no family, Sheridan shouts, "I know what it's like to lose someone,
+just to find her and lose her again," and he wouldn't even wish it on
+Bester.  Carolyn is still on the station and can be transferred to Earth as
+soon as it's safe.
+
+
    
+Bester's bluster drops and he sits weakly.  "Thank you," he says.
+
+
    
+Sheridan's disgust doesn't waver.  He continues that he knows that with
+Clark out of power, Bester will have to regroup, but he won't stop trying
+to take over the government.  But Sheridan will be watching.  And when
+Bester starts a war between the telepaths and the normals someday, he'll
+lose.  
+
+
    
+Stung, Bester replies, "We'll see."
+
+
    
+Before he leaves, Sheridan reminds him not to rest too easy because
+Garibaldi will be coming after him.  Bester dismisses this, but Sheridan
+assures him that whatever Garibaldi does, "it will be creative, colorful,
+and extremely unpleasant."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi smashes a fat little man's face into a wall.  "Where is she?" he
+asks, meaning Lise.  The man denies all knowledge.  Garibaldi flings him
+into another wall and explains the situation more clearly.
+
+
    
+Londo and G'Kar find Delenn musing silently.  She congratulates Londo on
+his promotion and he barks, "You've heard that already?"  
+
+
    
+"There is little that does not reach me these days."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Before the representatives from the non-aligned worlds arrive, she wants
+them to read a proposal, because their support will be critical.  After a
+glance, G'Kar asks if she is sure she wants to do this.  Londo reads it and
+begins laughing.  Nonplussed, Delenn says it isn't funny.  Londo chortles
+that being in the "presence of living history...makes you giddy."  When the
+others arrive, he tells them that he hopes they "have all brought a change
+of underwear.  You will need it after you read this."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Sheridan's patience with being cooped up is exhausted about the same time
+it is decided what to do with him.  President Luchenko explains that the
+debate was between whether to give him the Medal of Honor or shoot him, or
+both.  She criticizes his "inconvenient" military action and political
+naivete, but offers that in exchange for amnesty for his crew and allies,
+he must resign from Earth Force.  If he refuses, he will be court
+martialed.  Sheridan asks for the amnesty in writing and agrees to resign.
+
+
    
+A man enters a warehouse on Mars.  A big guy asks him, "How much do they
+want for her alive?"  They jump at a knock at the door.  There's a colorful
+package outside.  They open it; it explodes and Rangers drop down from the
+rafters as Garibaldi and more Rangers break in the door.  Running through
+building, Garibaldi calls, "Lise!" until there is a muffled reply from
+behind a door.  He breaks her out and they fall into each other's arms.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Approaching Earth, Delenn is in a reverie because the Council has approved
+her proposal.  "They will talk about this day for a hundred years."
+Lennier says he wishes Marcus were here, and then asks with emotion in his
+voice if Delenn heard Ivanova's comment about love being unrequited.
+Delenn looks deeply at Lennier, touches his face and tells him, "She's
+wrong, of course."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+ISN carries the news conference live.  The President graciously introduces
+Sheridan and declares that all sides in the recent war fought for Earth.
+Explaining it as a conflict between love of Earth and love of duty,
+Sheridan announces his resignation in the hopes that the wounds can heal
+quickly.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Then G'Kar rises to announce that the League of Nonaligned Worlds is now
+dissolved, and there is a new Alliance instead.  Delenn in turn explains
+that Earth is being offered a chance to join in an economic and political
+pact.  She describes the common authority that all members have agreed to
+recognize.  The mission of the Rangers, she explains, is to protect borders
+but not participate in wars, to create the peace, but not enforce it.   As
+she speaks, the room shakes as dozens of White Stars jump into the sky
+above.  From now on, all member races may contribute to the Ranger ranks,
+she adds.
+
+
    
+In a private meeting, President Luchenko asks for something more concrete
+than "peace" to convince realists to enter the pact.  Delenn casually
+offers artificial gravity.  Luchenko takes the bait and asks who will be in
+authority over the new alliance.  Delenn explains that they have a board,
+indicating herself, Londo and G'Kar, but they also have an elected
+President as well.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+The President has his feet on the table when an Earth Force General bursts
+in demanding to know where the letter of amnesty is.  Copies have already
+been given to the reporters, Sheridan replies smugly.  As they leave the
+room, Delenn appears at the end of the corridor with someone to see him.
+It's his father, free and healthy.  They embrace and then Sheridan Sr.
+reaches out to Delenn, delighted to welcome her into the family.
+
+
    
+ISN reports that Earth has agreed to enter the Interstellar Alliance.  At
+the press gathering, President Sheridan states that as part of the
+agreement all member states must recognize the sovereign rights of colony
+worlds, and thus, Mars will be granted independence.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Watching this in bed, Garibaldi and Lise try to put off figuring out what
+they are going to do next, but marriage seems to be in the plans.
+
+
    
+Ivanova has been promoted to Captain and has accepted command of a new
+Warlock class warship for a yearlong shake-down cruise, ISN continues.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Delenn were married in a private ceremony on board White
+Star 2 while heading back to Babylon 5, the report concludes.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo shuts the news off.  As G'Kar picks rice off his jacket and pops it
+in his mouth, Londo tells him to cut it out.  If it were any good would
+they be throwing it at people?  He muses that he'd sure like to see the
+newlyweds now.  G'Kar looks distracted, and peering at him Londo demands to
+know where his artificial eye is.   It's sitting innocuously on a table,
+aimed at the honeymoon bed.
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Matthew Murray (mmurray@cc.wwu.edu)
    
+
+
    
+President Sheridan and Delenn's shuttle is just returning to Babylon 5
+after their honeymoon, and they are welcomed aboard by a party in the
+docking bay, something Garibaldi knew Sheridan would want to avoid.
+Sheridan promises to pay him back, but thanks the crowd, and takes
+Delenn off into an adjoining hallway.  Londo appears with G'Kar and
+asks why there is a party for human weddings, instead of the Centauri
+method of celebrating with a somber ceremony--he insists it is a bad
+sign for the future.  Franklin and Garibaldi have no interest in
+discussing this with him.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Delenn consult with each other about the attention--Delenn
+wishes people wouldn't give the two of them all the credit for what all of
+them did
+collectively, but Sheridan insists that, in a hundred years, no one
+will know the difference-- probably no one will even remember them.
+Delenn agrees, and they move down the hallway, joined by Franklin,
+Garibaldi, Londo, and G'Kar.
+
+
    
+"And here's our first shot of the First Couple of the Interstellar
+Alliance, President John Sheridan and Delenn, live on ISN," an
+announcer's voice explains.  "Their triumphant return to Babylon 5
+after the liberation of Earth..."  Then, the audio begins to break
+down.  "...generated good...messages from the Senate and the... former
+League of Non-Aligned Worlds..."  The screen erupts into static, and is
+then replaced with a computer display screen.
+
+
    
+"Continuity error caused by high energy," a voice explains.
+"Correcting for error.  Resetting.  Do you wish to continue?"
+
+
    
+Someone selects "Yes."
+
+
    
+"Reloading Sequence: Sheridan and Delenn.  Please select a time period,
+or select Auto Play for chronological display of records."
+
+
    
+"Auto Play" is selected.
+
+
    
+As the records load, the voice continues, "Loading records for period
+covering one year through one thousand years from events shown.  Please
+stand by to receive."
+
+
    
+The voice resumes.  "Accessing records from initial scanning date.
+Standby."
+
+
    
+"ISN Night Side," an announcer says, "a no-holds-barred look at the
+events of today that will shape the world of tomorrow.  And now your
+host, Derek Mitchell."
+
+
    
+Derek Mitchell appears in the ISN studio.  He explains that the
+previous few weeks-- with the end of the civil war and the creation
+of the Interstellar Alliance-- have been quite overwhelming, and that
+the purpose of this broadcast is to reflect on recent events.  The
+broadcast begins with a report from an investigative reporter, who
+describes the important events in Sheridan's life and predicts it'll be a
+struggle to hold together the newborn Interstellar Alliance.
+
+
    
+Mitchell then introduces a panel of experts to discuss the issue, and
+each member of the panel is sharply divided.  Henry Ellis, a political
+speech-writer, feels Sheridan is underqualified to run the Interstellar
+Alliance, and that he has no business being President of anything.  He
+thinks the Alliance is doomed from the beginning.  Senator Elizabeth
+Materie and journalist Leif Tanner disagree--they want Sheridan to be
+given the chance to prove himself.  They don't know if the Alliance
+will work, but they feel he deserves the right to try.  Senator Materie
+accuses Ellis of trying to discredit Sheridan, someone who might
+prevent his party from achieving a majority in the senate.
+
+
    
+Coming up on a commercial break, Mitchell asks them, assuming
+Sheridan can make the Alliance work, if it will make a difference,
+and what the most difficult problem to overcome will be.  Tanner feels
+that Sheridan has already made a difference, and Senator Materie feels
+that it's too early to tell, as the most important developments will
+happen in the next year, with many problems still needing to be
+solved.  However, she feels he can handle it.  Ellis disagrees--he says
+that the only way the Alliance will work is with the use of military
+force, which will cause the Alliance to fall apart.
+
+
    
+"Thank you, thank you very much," Mitchell tells them, as he turns to
+the camera.  "We'll be back in just a moment to consider the political
+implications of this new Interstellar Alliance, and the recent calls
+for the formation of independent political parties on Mars..."  The
+audio and video cuts out, the screen filling with static.
+
+
    
+"Record ends," the computer voice resumes.  "Auto play feature
+engaged.  Loading next sequence.  Date: One hundred years from first
+time period.  Stand by."
+
+
    
+"...with another in our series of educational stellarcasts on the 100th
+anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance.  Taking part in today's
+discussion from Earthdome, historian Dr. Jim Latimere from the
+University of York, Political Science professor Dr. Barbara Tashaki, University
+of Japan at Tokyo, and psychologist Dr. William Exeter from NYU."
+
+
    
+Latimere introduces those watching to the broadcast, and passes along
+the first question to the others: What role did Babylon 5 play in the
+creation of the hundred year peace?  Both doctors agree that it didn't
+play a role at all--Dr. Tashaki explains that individuals cannot effect
+change themselves, they enable others to do the work for them.  Exeter
+feels they didn't do anything, and that the record of their
+accomplishments is overrated.  Tashaki claims the force of history was
+all that saved them, after so many people died during the first year of
+the Alliance's operation.  As she begins to talk about Delenn and Sheridan's
+son, she is interrupted by Latimere.
+
+
    
+His next question for them is where Sheridan and Delenn went wrong.
+Though Latimere tries to defend them, Exeter says that one of their
+problems was the establishment of a telepath colony on Babylon 5.
+Tashaki agrees, saying that she felt it helped bring about the Telepath
+War.  Latimere tries to prevent her from associating events too much,
+but she won't be swayed.  Latimere then shows them a video clip of
+Garibaldi, in a room, surrounded by people, begging them to work with
+him.  They refuse, but are soon confronted with a message from Sheridan
+on a screen nearby refusing to bargain with terrorists for the lives of
+hostages.  Sheridan gives them the choice to surrender or to die, with
+ten minutes to decide.  One of the people raises a gun, and the sound
+of gunfire is heard as Latimere ends the clip.  Exeter
+feels that Sheridan was pathological, and that he was power-hungry,
+never letting anything get in his way.  Tashaki thinks it was, instead,
+a sophisticated PR campaign.
+
+
    
+"And then there's that bit about the way his death was handled," Exter
+says.
+
+
    
+"Exactly," Tashaki agrees.  "Everyone knows Sheridan died on Minbar.
+The cover story they put out was designed to perpetuate the myth of his
+character.  And I guess it worked, 'cause a lot of people still believe
+it, eighty years later."
+
+
    
+Latimere then asks them about Delenn--Exeter feels it's ridiculous to
+believe that Delenn is still alive, living in seclusion, and that the
+Alliance is using that for their own purposes.  Tashaki also agrees,
+wondering why, if the Alliance is truly that strong, they need the lies
+and myths.
+
+
    
+Latimere asks if they feel the Alliance has been a force for good.
+Exter basically thinks so, but also believes that the Alliance's
+original motives may not have been as pure as believed.  Tashaki thinks
+that it is unfair to give Sheridan and Delenn undue credit.  As she is
+about to continue, an alarm sounds, and Latimere informs them that
+there has been a security breach in the building.
+
+
    
+Three Minbari walk in, and the one in the lead is very recognizable.
+It is a much older Delenn.  "John Sheridan was a good, kind, and decent
+man," she says.  Latimere asks her if she came so far to say that, to
+which she responds, "You came just as far to say less."  She tells them
+that they don't truly wish to know anything--they ignore that which
+they truly know because it is inconvenient, and they invent that which
+they do not know.  Delenn insists that Sheridan was a good and kind man
+that cared about Earth, even when everyone turned their backs to him.
+She starts to walk away, but is interrupted by Exeter, mentioning that
+they would expect her to say that.  She tells them good-bye, and looks
+around at their faces, finding nothing to give her reason to stay.  She
+turns and leaves.
+
+
    
+"Record ends," the computer voice intones.  "Auto play feature
+engaged.  Loading next sequence.  Date: Five hundred years from first
+time period.  Stand by."
+
+
    
+In room with a conference table, the rear wall glowing
+blue, a man, Daniel, steps forward from the wall.  He hits a few keys
+on the control he is carrying, and the blue wall changes into a Babylon
+5 background.  He explains, for the benefit of posterity, the "virtual
+environment" is identical to that of Babylon 5 in 2262, and is as
+accurate as possible, given the age of the records available, and the
+destruction of the station 480 years earlier.  He turns to the camera.
+"The purpose of this simulation is to provide reverse-correct infospeak
+as support for current changes in Earth policy.  That is, the new policy
+that the Interstellar Alliance is restrictive, against the best
+interests of Earth.  Intent is to deconstruct historical figures
+revered by Prole Sector, thereby legitimizing current government
+policies."
+
+
    
+He activates the control holograms--one of Sheridan, one of
+Delenn, one of Dr. Franklin, and one of Garibaldi.  He explains that,
+to determine if research has been thorough enough, the holograms will
+be imbued with the psychological makeups of the people in question, and
+will therefore behave "in a fashion consistent with realfact." The
+holograms do believe that they are Babylon 5 in the year 2262, and as
+the next step in the process, Daniel updates the holograms with
+information gathered during the ensuing 500 years they cannot recall.
+Sheridan realizes what Daniel is trying to do--use the vids as
+propaganda (or, as Daniel calls them, "goodfacts") to justify a break
+from the Alliance, because Earth needs room to expand that the Alliance
+doesn't allow them.  Garibaldi realizes they have been recreated to
+provide false records.  The people who created the Alliance are now
+being used to undermine it.  As the memories of the last 500 years
+become loaded into their memories, the holograms realize they are on
+the verge of another civil war, with the Daniel's group wanting to
+invade worlds still loyal to the Alliance--their legacy is a hindrance,
+and they must be deconstructed.
+
+
    
+As the four holograms begin to finally understand what's going on,
+Daniel beings phase 3 of his project--a goodfact scenario.  The area
+around them changes to a corridor in Babylon 5, with Sheridan's
+personality reprogrammed.  He explains to a holographic group of
+aliens-- who surrendered in hopes of finding mercy--that he shows no
+mercy to the weak.  He promises to "blaze a path across the galaxy"
+using their blood.  Sheridan orders his officers to fire at the aliens,
+which they do.  Delenn, Garibaldi, and Franklin begin to formulate a
+plan, but they are stopped by Daniel when he begins a new simulation,
+this time using Franklin, who explains--in a holographic medlab--his
+method of using alien organs in human bodies to create a genetic
+cross-breed for use by the Alliance.
+
+
    
+Daniel pauses the program to make some notes, and Garibaldi begins
+speaking to him.  Daniel has little desire to talk to him and tries to
+deactivate the program, but Garibaldi suggests he not do that--he might
+have some useful information.  After all, Garibaldi claims, he did most of the
+strategic planning during the war, and that kind of information could
+make Daniel look very good to his superiors, but he will need just a
+few questions answered.  Daniel admits that he does know what his
+superiors are planning--they are going to attack the outer colonies,
+and the enemy nations on Earth simultaneously.  He also reveals that,
+to demoralize the enemy, they will attack civilian population centers.
+Daniel asks what Garibaldi would suggest they do.  "I suggest,"
+Garibaldi replies, "that you put your head between your legs and you
+kiss your ass goodbye."
+
+
    
+Daniel attempts to deactivate Garibaldi, but it won't work--while all
+of the new information was being downloaded into the Garibaldi
+hologram, he learned how to use the system to transmit their entire
+conversation to the "enemy" forces.  Garibaldi predicts that, since
+they are more humanitarian, they will probably only target military
+facilities.  Daniel doesn't believe him, but the red alert klaxons
+sounding change his mind, and he still can't deactivate the
+simulation.  Garibaldi asks if, by any chance, they are currently on
+military base, and, without replying, Daniel lets out an urgent scream
+and leaves the room, running through the blue field as quickly as he
+can.  Garibaldi's hologram walks over to his comrades, and says to
+them, "Rest easy friends.  Rest easy," just as the base is engulfed in
+a blinding flash of white light.
+
+
    
+"Record ends," continues the computer voice.  "Auto play feature
+engaged.  Loading next sequence.  Date: One thousand years from first
+time period.  Stand by."
+
+
    
+In an old library or study, with a man, in
+monk's robes, adjusts the camera, amazed the mechanism still works
+after so long.  He says he needs to begin his report, but is
+interrupted by a knock at the door.  He answers it, and admits another,
+younger monk, bearing a large book, into the room.  Brother Michael,
+the younger monk, says he's having a crisis of faith.
+
+
    
+Brother Alwyn asks what the problem is this time, and Michael replies
+that he doesn't know why he's there, or what his purpose is, or to what
+end he is pursuing God's work.  Brother Michael explains that he heard
+a rumor that their request for recognition has been turned down by Rome again,
+and asks if it's true.  Alwyn says they don't understand the wisdom of
+their mission to keep alive knowledge of the past that would otherwise
+have been lost after the Great Burn 500 years earlier.  Alwyn says that
+science isn't Rome's calling, but Michael wants to know how they can be
+sure it is theirs.  Since most of the records were lost during the
+Great Burn, they only have word of mouth to go on.  Alwyn says they
+still have the holy books written after the Great Burn that tell of the
+battles that burned the air and the sea, accounts which can be verified
+by looking outside.
+
+
    
+Michael says it's all too clean and too thought out, and opens the book
+he brought.  He shows a picture of a being named Lorien, the Last of
+the First.  Michael says the others claim he was a fable created to
+match scripture, but that no proof exists.  Alwyn insists there is
+proof, in space--a place they can unfortunately not reach.  Michael
+feels great sorrow at what has happened to Earth, and Alwyn reminds him
+that is why they are there, to preserve the ancient knowledge that
+still does exist.  But Michael needs to know how they will ever create
+the flying machines mentioned in the books, or if they will ever find
+the truth that lies in the stars.  He wants to know about Blessed
+Sheridan, who lived and died, taken "bodily into heaven" and the other
+people mentioned.
+
+
    
+The one element that gives Brother Michael the most pause, however, is
+that of the prophesies of Delenn III, who predicted the An'la'shok--the
+Rangers--would come to Earth in its greatest hour of need and rebuild
+it.  He says they have waited so long, and they have never come, that
+he is beginning to doubt that, as well as all the others.  He is afraid
+that, because of that, his life might prove to have all been a lie.
+Alwyn tells Michael he cannot help him--only his faith can do that.
+Faith and reason must work together to look for the reason to
+continue.  Alwyn tells Michael that if the Rangers did come back, they
+would never know about it.  Their secret would be feared by those who
+blame science for the Great Burn.  Michael asks Alwyn if he believes
+the Rangers are on Earth now, to which Alwyn responds that he believes
+they could be.  That's enough for him, and for faith.  Alwyn believes
+that should be enough for Michael as well.  He closes the book, and
+tells Michael to finish illuminating upon it, that he has come too far
+to lose his faith.  He ushers Michael to the door, but before Michael goes,
+he says that he hopes that, if the truth lies in the stars, he can one
+day walk among them.  Alwyn tells him that he prays his wish will
+someday come true.  After Brother Michael has left, Alwyn turns once
+again to the camera.
+
+
    
+"Alwyn Macomber reporting in.  Nothing of substance to report since my
+last.  We think we may have gathered enough information from the time
+pre-Burn to assemble a working gasoline engine.  Obviously, there is no
+gasoline in this part of the country, therefore, we ask the supply
+department if they could... arrange to have a suitable supply of
+gasoline found in the vicinity near the Abbey in a few days.  Only this
+time, for Valen's sake, please make it look like an old container!  The
+last one could have been produced a hundred years ago!"  He moves to
+his closet and opens the door, and pulls out a black uniform with a
+green pin over the right breast.  "We will rebuild the Earth, though it
+take us another two thousand years.  But this time...  We will build it
+better.  I'm attaching a conversation I just had with Brother Michael,
+who, I still think, would be a worthy recruit, after he's grown a
+little. Give him another twenty years, and he'll be fine.  Alwyn,
+An'la'shok, first sector, end report.  We live for The One, we die for
+The One."
+
+
    
+"Record ends.  Autoplay feature complete," says the voice.
+
+
    
+"Stand by," says a man.
+
+
    
+"System has finished processing and archiving records for period of one
+million years from initial scanning date.  Instructions?"
+
+
    
+"Our job is finished," the man continues.  "Convey records to New
+Earth."
+
+
    
+"Confirmed," the computer voice says.
+
+
    
+"Use enhanced tachyon sequence to ensure arrival in time for the
+celebrations."
+
+
    
+"Confirmed.  Note: Atypical solar emissions increasing in intensity.
+Estimate Sol will hit nova in less than 5 standard hours.  Recommend
+immediate evacuation."
+
+
    
+"Tell the others not to worry," the man tells the computer.  "I
+wouldn't miss this for anything.  Now go on." The computer display
+compacts itself into a small point of light, which then floats off.
+"This is how the world ends," the man says.  "Swallowed in fire, but
+not in darkness.  You will live on, the voice of all our ancestors, the
+voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation.  We
+created the world we think you would have wished for us, and now we
+leave the cradle for the last time."  The man turns and walks away, and
+after a few steps, changes into a ball of brilliant blue-white light.
+The ball of light floats over to the corner, where it merges with a
+tall device standing there.  The device activates, and a small
+unit--closely resembling a head--emerges and the eyes glow.
+
+
    
+A lone green ship begins flying away from a yellow star.  The symbol of
+the Rangers is emblazoned on its side.  As it
+creates and enters a jump point, the star explodes...
+
+
    
+...and becomes the flame of a candle.
+
+
    
+Delenn turns to Sheridan as they lie in bed.  "You should sleep.  We
+both have early meetings."
+
+
    
+"Yeah, I know...  I was just thinking about it all, everything we've
+done...  And what I said earlier...  And I was wondering if they will
+remember us a hundred years from now, or a thousand.  And I figure,
+probably not."
+
+
    
+"But it doesn't matter.  We did what we did because it was right, not
+to be remembered.  And history will attend to itself.  It always
+does."  They kiss each other, and then hug and smile.
+
+
    
+Dedicated to all the people who predicted that the Babylon Project
+would fail in its mission.
+
+
    
+Faith manages.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+The EA Destroyer Acheron jumps into Babylon 5 space bearing Captain
+Lochley, the station's new CO.  With everyone else busy preparing for
+Sheridan's inauguration ceremony, Lt. Corwin is the sole member of her
+welcoming committee.  To his dismay, she seems intent on reforming the
+station immediately.
+
+
    
+In an empty tube station on Mars, a man holding a music box and a PPG has a
+battered Ranger bound to a chair.  "We live for the One, we die for the
+One," the Ranger utters before being shot.  The man hangs a placard around
+the Ranger's neck and walks away.  "Special Delivery For Babylon 5," it
+reads.
+
+
    
+Both up early, the newlyweds are adjusting to their new routine.  Delenn's
+dismay at finding wet socks in the shower is allayed when John explains
+that washing his own socks keeps death at bay.  His old drill sergeant
+always said that the person who has nothing left to do is going to get
+killed.  Only he would live forever, because he always had socks to wash.
+
+
    
+Before leaving for their separate duties they agree to meet at Delenn's
+place tonight.  They will continue alternating quarters until they can
+leave B5 when their permanent headquarters are completed on Minbar.
+
+
    
+Outside the station spins a cargo bubble.  A seated corpse is visible
+inside.
+
+
    
+Greeting Lochley in his office, Sheridan officially acknowledges that the
+Captain is now in command of station operations.  However, as an
+independent state that the Interstellar Alliance intends to purchase from
+Earth, B5 is politically under Pres. Sheridan's jurisdiction.  He explains
+that he specifically requested her to run the station because she is strong
+yet has a history of resolving tricky conflicts without resorting to force.
+ Lochley is pleased, but firm in stating that he'd better let her do her
+job without interference.  Their conversation is cut short when Lochley is
+called away by Lt. Corwin.  The question of which side she fought on in the
+civil war is left open between them.  As she leaves his office, she is
+observed by a tall, blond man waiting in the corridor.
+
+
    
+Zack's job is being interfered with plenty, but only because Garibaldi is
+determined that nothing go wrong with the inauguration.  While discussing
+security procedures, they pass the killer from Mars in the Zocalo.
+
+
    
+Lt. Corwin shows the Captain the corpse and placard, but it means nothing
+to them.  Meanwhile, someone accesses Sheridan's Babcom and leaves him a
+death threat.
+
+
    
+Lochley's working lunch is interrupted by the blond man.  All sounds in the
+restaurant suddenly fade as he walks over, introduces himself as Byron and
+requests her to meet "his people" in Brown 3 in two hours.  The noise
+quickly reestablishes itself and Byron has apparently vanished.
+
+
    
+G'Kar's struggles with his manuscript are interrupted by the President.  In
+recognition of the Narn's eloquence, Sheridan asks him to write the
+inauguration oath and a declaration of principles for the Alliance.  G'Kar
+is overcome with honor and swears himself to the task night and day until
+it is done.
+
+
    
+Dr. Franklin confirms that the Ranger was killed a week ago at close range
+by an expert with a PPG, but was adrift in space only a few hours.
+
+
    
+Captain Lochley finds Byron in Brown 3 with a half a dozen people.  The
+security team she has arranged in ambush quickly frisks and clears them
+all.  Introducing himself as the leader of a much larger community, Byron
+explains that they are rogue telepaths who disavow violence and technology,
+and having no place else to call home, he requests permission for them to
+form a colony on the station.  Byron introduces his wan and raggedy troupe,
+including Simon, a traumatized boy who communicates by transmitting
+visions.  Lochley wants Simon in Medlab and she'll think about the rest.
+
+
    
+The killer stalks the Gaim ambassador to his quarters and murders him there.
+
+
    
+Sheridan returns to his quarters to find two death threats.  Like
+Presidents Lincoln, Roosevelt and Kiyoshi, the message warns, he will pay
+the price for the death and destruction his war cost.
+
+
    
+Upon examination, Franklin finds nothing physically wrong with Simon's
+vocal cords.  Byron confirms that the boy chooses not to speak.  The
+doctor turns away an instant and when he turns back, all the telepaths are
+gone, and the boy is looking down on the lab from a ventilation shaft.
+
+
    
+Among the command staff, IA Council and Garibaldi, only Lochley agrees
+with Sheridan that he should continue the inauguration in the face of the
+threats.  It's important that as President he shouldn't cut himself off
+from the world behind security.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi furiously runs Lochley down in the corridor and tells her that
+they need to protect Sheridan from himself.  She reminds him that he is a
+civilian without authority, and so his words mean nothing to her.
+
+
    
+Attracted by the sound of a music box, Simon crawls to a grate where he can
+spy a man assembling a Gaim encounter suit.  Startled by the man's thoughts
+of himself shooting Sheridan, Simon bangs against the shaft wall.  The man
+shoots the ceiling, grabs his gear and runs off, leaving Simon wounded up
+in the shaft.
+
+
    
+The inauguration ceremonies begin as Garibaldi's investigation homes in on
+the killer.  Major Clemens, a former member of Earth Force, wanted for
+torture on Beta 9 and a trained infiltrator.  Meanwhile the "Gaim Ambassador"
+arrives for the ceremony.
+
+
    
+Bleeding and frantic, Simon manages to get into the gathering to get to
+Franklin. "No!" he shouts, and broadcasts the killer's intended
+assassination to everyone in the room.
+
+
    
+The killer strikes, but misses the President before escaping.  Sheridan
+insists on going ahead with the ceremony, even as Simon dies on the floor.
+The killer is able to get to a Starfury however, and launches as G'Kar
+begins to read the Oath of Office.  Garibaldi figures out the man's intent
+and launches just behind him.  At the moment of Sheridan's oath, a Star
+Fury looms outside the Observation Deck.  Ordering everyone else out of the
+room, the killer bids Sheridan farewell.  Before he can fire, Garibaldi
+sneaks up behind him and grapples the back of his fighter, releasing him
+into fire from the station's defense system.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Delenn hold each other in relief.  To their surprise G'Kar is
+still on the deck.  "You want to be President?" G'Kar demands.
+
+
    
+"Yes," Sheridan replies.
+
+
    
+"Put your hand on the book and say 'I do.'"
+
+
    
+"I do."
+
+
    
+"Fine.  Done.  Let's eat."  G'Kar says and strides away.
+
+
    
+The President receives Byron in his office.  Lochley has refused the
+telepaths' request, but Sheridan declares it his jurisdiction and grants
+them rights to start a colony. Franklin is a little perplexed, but Sheridan
+argues that when the telepath war begins, it would do them some good to
+have some telepathic allies on board.
+
+
    
+The Captain is busy decorating her own office when Garibaldi stops by.  He
+introduces himself to her as the new head of covert intelligence for the
+IA, and warns her to expect him at meetings.  He has a bit more snooping to
+do.  It turns out that she once served with the attempted assassin.
+Garibaldi finds this curious and then asks which side she was on in the
+recent war.
+
+
    
+The side of Earth, is all she'll say.
+
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Delenn are sleeping in her quarters when she is awakened
+by a call. The caller, Ruell, has received a message, ostensibly from
+Delenn, indicating that Lennier will return to Minbar
+permanently. Ruell is calling to arrange for a replacement, or as many
+replacements as Delenn may desire. But this is the first Delenn has heard
+about it.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Londo, Vir and Zack Allan are in Impound Area 31. Londo is
+protesting the impounding of his very fine brevare; Babylon 5 has had
+a problem with infestations recently, and Zack's orders are that all
+foods are to be impounded for three days. Londo grows ever more
+annoyed and abusive, and Vir takes Zack aside to talk to him. Londo
+seizes the opportunity to open a bottle and take a drink. A few
+seconds later, he drops the bottle and falls convulsing on the floor.
+Londo is taken to Medlab, where Dr. Franklin takes over.
+
+
    
+Lennier enters Delenn's quarters and begins discussing her schedule for
+the day. But Delenn tells him of Ruell's call and asks for an
+explanation. Lennier, who was planning on telling her later that day,
+is surprised that Ruell moved so fast. He awkwardly explains he does
+not feel needed anymore, now that Sheridan has become Delenn's "other
+half." He feels in the way and uncomfortable, but he does not blame
+either Delenn or Sheridan.
+
+
    
+"I know why," whispers Delenn, which only makes the surprised Lennier
+even more uncomfortable. He assures her he will keep his vow of being
+ever at her side should she need him, but he has decided to join the
+Rangers and has been accepted. Despite the dangers involved in being a
+Ranger, he will leave the following morning. Ever since Marcus' death,
+explains Lennier, he has felt a loss of a part of himself, a part he
+hopes to find again this way. He also hopes to earn Delenn's
+respect. "You always had my respect," says Delenn. "Yes, in most
+ways," replies Lennier. "But I only wish to add a few more, to become
+more of what you may want me to be; more of what you may find... My
+decision is made," he concludes. He promises to visit between training
+cycles, but he assures Delenn that this is the calling of his heart
+and he must follow it.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi finds Vir in the Zocalo, and explains that Londo was not
+poisoned. He has suffered a serious heart attack to the left heart. As
+Franklin explains to Sheridan in MedLab, because of Centauri
+physiology, there isn't much he can do to help Londo. Londo's diet and
+stress have seriously affected his health, and he is not responding
+well to therapy. Centauri Prime is sending an artificial heart system,
+but it will take at least three days to get to Babylon 5. The best
+Franklin can promise is to keep Londo alive 24 hours on life support.
+
+
    
+Late in the evening, Delenn is standing watch over the unconscious
+Londo. Sheridan joins her, and they agree that, despite everything,
+they will miss Londo if he dies. Sheridan also brings up Lennier's
+recent decision, and Delenn confirms Sheridan's fear that Sheridan is
+at least part of the reason Lennier has decided to leave.
+
+
    
+Before they leave, Sheridan explains that if Londo makes it through
+the night, he has a chance. But at this point it is no longer up to
+medical science or Dr. Franklin. Londo himself must fight to make it
+through. "Good luck, Mollari. Good luck," says Delenn softly, and they
+both leave MedLab.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Londo is dreaming. He is somewhere in Down Below, and he
+hears Delenn's disembodied voice wishing him luck. He wanders a bit
+looking for her, and eventually enters a dark room, where a figure is
+veiled and shrouded in black. It is Delenn, who invites him to
+sit. She tells Londo that he is dying. "I know," he replies.
+
+
    
+"Do you want to live?" asks Delenn. "What difference does it make?"
+replies Londo. Besides, he says, it is better to die this way than
+at G'Kar's hands, which he has dreamt for twenty years
+now. Perhaps he should die now, to spite fate if nothing else.
+
+
    
+"Do you want to live?" asks Delenn again. "What difference does it
+make?" replies Londo yet again. Nobody in Centauri Prime cares one way
+or another. Delenn lifts her veil, revealing her face, and asks yet
+again. "Do you want to live?" Londo does not respond, and Delenn tells
+him she is not allowed to ask again. "Yes. Yes, I want to live,"
+whispers Londo.
+
+
    
+But that isn't enough, says Delenn. A word is also required, she adds,
+but she will not explain what she means. "I do not understand,"
+says Londo to himself. "Yes you do," replies the disembodied voice of
+Delenn. Londo finds himself alone in darkness, and as he turns and
+walks into it, the silhouette of G'Kar appears next to him.
+
+
    
+Vir is sitting at the bar in the Zocalo, nursing a drink, when he is
+joined by Lennier. They start to talk, each having heard about the
+situation the other is going through. Eventually, they stand up to
+leave. Vir promises to catch up with Lennier on the latter's next
+visit, and says goodbye using the traditional Minbari farewell. But
+overcome, he then hugs the clearly uncomfortable Lennier before they
+each go their separate ways.
+
+
    
+In his dream, Londo is walking towards the bar in the Zocalo. The
+Zocalo is empty, as is the bar and all the bottles in it. But
+suddenly, Sheridan is sitting next to him. Londo asks him if one ever
+gets used to being dead, and Sheridan replies that he was only dead
+long enough to know he didn't like it. As they walk away from the bar,
+Sheridan asks Londo about the latter's prophetic dream of his own
+death. Londo tells him he has always felt Sheridan would be there, but
+has never been able to understand that part. Finally, Londo tells
+Sheridan he does not want to die. "Then turn around," answers
+Sheridan. Londo is startled, but doesn't turn. "Turn around," repeats
+Sheridan, more sternly. "I cannot! Don't you understand?" whispers
+Londo, who can sense that standing behind him is G'Kar. "Then you'll
+die," says Sheridan simply, and turns into a ball of light and
+disappears.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Londo's body continues to deteriorate. In a desperate bid
+to keep him alive, Franklin injects a drug directly into the left
+heart, causing Londo to clutch at his chest in agony inside his
+dream. Franklin stabilizes Londo, but the latter's body is under too
+much strain and will not be able to take this much longer. With only a
+few hours left until morning, Franklin decides to stay at Londo's
+bedside should anything occur. "A deathwatch?" asks Vir, who has just
+walked into MedLab. "Maybe," answers Franklin. "We'll just have to
+wait and see."
+
+
    
+Londo is lying on the floor in the darkness of his dream. "I don't
+want to die," he pleads sobbing. "Please, Great Maker, I don't want to
+die! Not like this, please!"
+
+
    
+"You are afraid," says Vir inside the dream. "Yes," answers
+Londo. "Then don't die," replies Vir, echoing his words at Londo's
+bedside. Londo doesn't think he has a choice, but in the dream Vir
+disagrees. There is a choice to make, but it must be made quickly.
+
+
    
+"What is wrong with me?" asks Londo. "Your heart can no longer bear
+the weight of your conscience," replies Vir. Londo claims there is
+nothing wrong with his conscience, but refuses to turn around at Vir's
+urging, again sensing G'Kar behind him. He invokes the prophetic dream
+of his death as proof that he will survive this, but Vir
+disagrees. "Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn't, it
+becomes a metaphor," says Vir, adding, "You are out of time,
+Londo. Turn around!" "I can't. I don't know what he wants of me!"
+complains Londo. "Yes you do!" replies Vir. Londo answers that perhaps
+his death would be for the best, but Vir disagrees. "No, not for the
+best. Because I will miss you." "And I suppose," replies Londo,
+touched by Vir's sentiment, "that I will miss you." Londo turns and
+walks into the darkness.
+
+
    
+His body goes into shock, as Franklin calls for a trauma team. G'Kar
+enters MedLab silently, and watches as Londo starts convulsing. "Now,
+Mollari," says G'Kar in Londo's dream. "Now we end this."
+
+
    
+Then G'Kar and Londo are in the Throne Room of the Imperial Palace in
+Centauri Prime, where Londo claims he does not want the throne. G'Kar
+tells him it is because he knows he does not deserve it. He reminds
+Londo that he stayed silent and said nothing when the Centauri used
+asteroids and mass drivers on the Narn homeworld ("The Long, Twilight Struggle.") Then they
+find themselves in Emperor Cartagia's Shadow Cabinet room, where G'Kar
+was whipped ("The Summoning.") G'Kar
+reminds him of the torture he endured at Cartagia's orders, and again
+accuses Londo of saying nothing while he witnessed it. "It would not
+have mattered!" counters Londo. "It wouldn't have changed anything,
+it wouldn't have stopped."  "You are wrong, Mollari," says
+G'Kar. "Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total stranger
+or your worst enemy, you were a witness! It doesn't matter if they
+stopped, it doesn't matter if they listened. You had an obligation to
+speak out!" "I couldn't!" "And that is why," concludes G'Kar, "you
+don't deserve to be Emperor."
+
+
    
+Londo clutches at his left heart, and G'Kar tells him he is only
+moments away from dying.  "There must be something I can do," pleads
+Londo. "Only one word was required of you the first time we stood
+here, and only one word is required now," replies G'Kar. Londo reaches
+out to grab at G'Kar, but finds himself chained to a column, dressed
+in rags. G'Kar, sitting in Cartagia's place, demands a word, a single
+word, as Londo is whipped with the electro-whip. At the same time,
+Franklin is delivering electric shocks to Londo's body, trying to get his
+hearts beating again. At the 39th stroke of the whip, Londo screams in
+his dream, and his hearts begin to beat weakly but steadily.
+
+
    
+Londo, again standing in the darkness, pleads for his life,
+sobbing. G'Kar, towering above him, explains that Londo is not sorry
+for what he did, but only for getting caught, for almost destroying
+his homeworld. Despite his denials at these accusations, Londo does
+not say the word; he has never apologized for anything in his
+life. "It's your life, Mollari," says G'Kar. "Make of it what you
+will." He leaves Londo, now crying openly, alone.
+
+
    
+"I'm sorry!" yells Londo finally, as his condition stabilizes and his
+left heart begins to operate normally. Londo wakes up and sees G'Kar
+standing silently close to his bed. With growing strength, he says:
+"Sorry... Sorry... I'm sorry, G'Kar... I'm sorry." G'Kar is deeply affected
+and walks out of MedLab, leaving the flabbergasted Vir behind. Londo
+falls back asleep.
+
+
    
+Londo, much recovered, is complaining to Vir about the food in Medlab, and how
+he will not be able to cut down on the stress, either on Babylon 5 or on
+Centauri Prime, should he return. "The Universe is an evil place,"
+says Londo. "But at least it has a sense of humor."
+
+
    
+In Docking Bay 4, Lennier waits for his transport to come. Just as
+Rangers walk in and go into formation, Delenn enters and complains
+that Lennier didn't even say goodbye. "No, never goodbye," replies
+Lennier. "I'm yours forever, Delenn, heart, body and soul. I will see
+you again in a little while, and with luck, I will perhaps be a better
+person." "That is not possible, Lennier," says Delenn, "but you are
+welcome to try. Be well, my good and dear friend." "And you," replies
+Lennier, then joins the Rangers and leaves. Sheridan enters the bay
+and silently embraces Delenn, as they walk back to the station.
+
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+The scene in the Council Chambers is chaotic and the nascent Interstellar
+Alliance appears on the verge of cribdeath.  Member species are demanding
+the promised technological advances while refusing to sign the Declaration
+of Principles on the grounds that it is an attempt to legislate morality
+and thereby violates the very spirit of the Alliance.  The Drazi Ambassador
+is loudly in the forefront as usual, claiming that his species has never
+conquered another, making the Declaration both irrelevant and insulting to
+them.
+
+
    
+The President is taking a breather on the Observation Deck when he is
+joined by the head of Covert Intelligence. Garibaldi agrees with Londo that
+the Declaration should be dropped and a show of force would be more
+effective persuasion instead, but Sheridan insists that without the
+Declaration, the Alliance is meaningless.
+
+
    
+At dusk on a beautiful verdant planet, a community of aliens huddles in
+shelters under an aerial bombardment.  A Ranger appears at the door and is
+ushered to their leader.  The hope that the Alliance might save them from
+their attackers illuminates their faces.
+
+
    
+While G'Kar struggles to write a more interspecially palatable Declaration,
+Sheridan, Delenn and Londo scheme of ways to convince more worlds to become
+members.  Garibaldi proposes an idea that he has been brooding on for quite
+awhile.  In order to be on an equal footing with other intelligence
+operations, he suggests that the Alliance use telepaths in addition to
+Rangers for intelligence gathering.  The new telepath colony has offered to
+work for their lodgings, and this would be a good way for them to do it.
+
+
    
+Once Sheridan grants him permission to discuss this with the telepaths,
+Garibaldi sets off immediately.  He finds Byron hanging out with his
+overtly hostile coven in DownBelow.  Without listening to a word, Byron
+abruptly refuses Garibaldi's mission.  Mocking Garibaldi's attempts at
+manipulation and his tendency to rehearse his conversations, Byron describes
+how difficult it is for a telepath to avoid overhearing the thoughts of
+others.
+
+
    
+A battered White Star flies sideways through the jump gate.  The Ranger on
+board is rushed to Medlab, but the prognosis is bad.  Delenn decides to
+bring in Lyta to discover his message before it's too late. Lyta sees the
+embattled Enphili through the Ranger's eyes.  Even though it may kill them,
+the Enphili have finally refused to pay tribute to the raiders who
+periodically hound them.  If the Alliance will save them within the next
+twelve days they will join the Alliance and freely give their planet's
+resources to the cause.  Otherwise they are prepared to perish.
+
+
    
+"I'm dying, aren't I," the Ranger suddenly asks Lyta.  He appears to be
+standing across the bed from her.  His final anguished thought is that she
+not let the Enphili die because of his failure.  Then a white tunnel of
+light appears and draws him in, leaving Lyta gravely disturbed.
+
+
    
+When Delenn tells Sheridan about the Enphili decision, he grumbles that
+Garibaldi is right again. it's time for a show of force.  She suggests that
+instead of a token force, they should send every White Star they have to
+the planet so that the message is clear to anyone paying attention.  And
+perhaps as a result, they won't have to fight at all.  "Terror is also a
+form of communication," she quotes Dukhat.  Since the Enphili planet is on
+the edge of Drazi space, Sheridan informs the Drazi ambassador
+of their intent and invites the Drazi to participate.  The Ambassador
+immediately rushes off on a furtive mission as soon as the meeting is
+finished.  Byron happens to be lurking pensively in the corridor.
+
+
    
+Lyta is sitting bleakly over an untouched plate of food when Garibaldi
+bustles up and offers her a job.  When she sarcastically thanks him for his
+polite concern, he apologizes.  Before he can get going on his intention,
+she tells him what it's like being inside the mind of a person when they
+die.  A piece of yourself follows them into death, she says.  Permanently.
+When you look into the eyes of a telepath who's done this too many times,
+"there's nothing there anymore," she nearly sobs.  Psi Corps rumor is that
+Bester has tasted this too often, and at least once, too deeply.  In a
+manner both forlorn and bitter, Lyta asks what Garibaldi wants her to do
+now.
+
+
    
+He tells her about his object in approaching the telepath colony. "Did they
+tell you they were tired of working for mundanes?" she asks. "Did they tell
+you do go to hell?"  When he confirms both, she says that there isn't a
+problem then, and stalks off.
+
+
    
+Michael never gives up easily though.  He chases after her and asks it as a
+personal favor to him, to Sheridan and to Delenn.  Lyta is affronted,
+but he continues saying that even if he thinks Sheridan and Delenn are too
+pie-in-the-sky idealistic, he's still going to do everything he can to help
+them succeed, including this.  He promises this is the last request of Lyta
+he'll make--until the next time, and she reluctantly agrees to help.
+
+
    
+In a dark, empty council chamber, G'Kar stands, gathers his paper wearily,
+and walks away.
+
+
    
+Unable to sleep, Sheridan hears the door chime.  The latest Declaration of
+Principles is lying on the floor outside.  Delenn rouses and asks him to
+read it.
+
+
    
+"The Universe speaks in many languages but only one voice...," he begins.
+G'Kar striding down the corridor takes up the speech.  "...It is the
+language of the heart."  A fleet of White Stars speeds through hyperspace.
+"The language of the soul."  The Enphili shiver in their shelters.  "It is
+the voice of our ancestors speaking through us.  And the voice of our
+inheiritors waiting to be born..."  Dr. Franklin is writing a letter to the
+parents of the Ranger telling them who he died for.  "...No matter the
+cost..."
+
+
    
+"We agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule...We are
+one."
+
+
    
+When Lyta finds Byron, he reproaches her for blocking him out.  But she's
+in no mood to let down her guard.  When she brings up Garibaldi's request,
+Byron berates her for running other people's errands.  "Sit!" he orders,
+and then kicks away the chair as she approaches.  When she angrily starts
+to walk away he asks if she doesn't deserve to be asked and understood
+rather than commanded and used by inferior humans.  "What a piece of work
+is man," Byron recites from Hamlet, "...the paragon of animals."  Worse
+than animals, he argues, which is why he has established this place for
+telepaths to make a new, better way.  He agrees for her sake to help
+Garibaldi and passes on what he learned from the Drazi Ambassador in the
+hall.  The Drazi intend to ambush the White Star fleet.
+
+
    
+Apparently the Drazi are behind the raiders attacking the Enphili, but not
+directly involved, Lyta reports.  Sheridan is incensed at the Drazi
+hypocrisy and orders the White Star fleet to head directly to Enphilia as
+quickly as possible.  He sternly thanks Lyta for her help and departs.
+
+
    
+Once the White Stars have wiped out the raiders, Sheridan calls a council
+meeting where he describes the situation.  The Drazi Ambassador is upset
+when he discovers that his government's ships are flying toward certain
+annihilation.  As he stammers that he needs to contact his government, the
+advisory council confronts him with the truth about Drazi exploitation of
+the Enphili.  As the Ambassador runs to stop his fleet, Sheridan gives each
+Ambassador a Declaration of Principles which he now has the moral authority
+to demand that they sign.  Lyta is outside, and seeing the Alliance leaders
+all proudly grinning at their success reminds Lyta once again that she is
+an outsider.
+
+
    
+Afterwards Sheridan reflects that telepaths saved the day twice.  His
+musings are interrupted by G'Kar bustling in to grab all the Declarations
+and insist that they be signed again.  When Sheridan objects, G'Kar
+replies, "but it's better now" and runs off.  To Sheridan and Delenn's
+amazement G'Kar is right.  Returning to the telepath question, Sheridan
+expresses his concern that it will be difficult to make use of the
+telepaths wisely and yet ethically.
+
+
    
+Lyta finds herself drawn back to Byron, anxious to hear more of his ideas
+and plans for the future.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+In hyperspace, a probe is destroyed by passing fighters. Shortly
+thereafter, Capt. Lochley is awakened by a call from Lt. Corwin,
+telling her of the probe's destruction. "Is it them?" she asks, but
+the probe was destroyed too quickly to give much information. She gets up and
+goes to C&C.
+
+
    
+When she gets there she informs the command crew that this is probably
+the scouting party they've been warned about. A large hostile force is
+looking for likely invasion prospects, and Lochley expects them to
+attack Babylon 5. She hopes to convince them that the station is more
+trouble than is worth, to save themselves from a difficult battle
+later on.
+
+
    
+She orders that a lifepod be made ready for Sheridan and Delenn.
+Although Corwin assures her neither one will agree to leave the
+station, she vows to knock them unconscious herself if necessary to
+get them into the pod. Finally, she orders a stand-by Red Alert.
+
+
    
+In Blue Sector, Bo and Mack, two maintenance workers, hear about the
+Alert as they finish working on the tubes behind a wall. Later, as Bo
+sweeps the floor with a piece of equipment and Mack works on a
+computer terminal, they overhear Lochley and Sheridan as they walk by
+arguing. Lochley wants Sheridan and Delenn in the lifepod, or at the
+very least to know where they are at all times. With all the
+White Stars away, this will give her one less thing to worry about, and
+allow her to do her job of protecting the station. At first Sheridan
+will have none of it, but finally agrees to do what he can after
+grudgingly admitting he would be doing the same thing in Lochley's
+position.
+
+
    
+As they both leave on a lift, Mack and Bo comment on their approval of
+Sheridan's hands-on approach to everything. They like the fact that he
+is always down in the trenches, with everyone else. He is a good man,
+they both agree.
+
+
    
+Later, their lunch is interrupted by a full blown Red Alert, as the
+scoutships activate the Jumpgate, and Mack and Bo are called for some
+service calls. Mack goes to C&C, and Bo goes to MedLab.
+
+
    
+In MedLab, Franklin is organizing his team to deal with the wounded,
+and asks Bo to look at the console on the IsoLab. It is only giving
+them access to standard atmospheres, and he needs to be able to ask
+for anything on the fly, in case they need some strange atmosphere to
+treat the invaders. As Bo works on the console, he asks Franklin why
+he bothers getting ready to heal the invaders, rather than just
+letting them die. By way of explanation, Franklin relates that his
+father once got caught in the middle of a civil war of mid-range
+colonies. The Ares, on which he was XO, crashed, and two months
+later, when the Earth forces retook the base, his father and two other
+injured soldiers were found alive. The Doctor at the base had taken
+care of them despite the objections from his CO, because he believed
+life was sacred. It was then, Franklin says, that he decided to become
+a doctor, and it is why he will try to save anyone, regardless of
+sides.
+
+
    
+"So... what happened to the doctor that helped your dad?" asks
+Bo. "Shot and killed by his own men," replies Franklin quietly. "They
+said he was a traitor." Bo then finishes the work on the IsoLab console.
+
+
    
+In C&C, the secondary targetting console is on the blink, and Mack
+gets to work on it as the crew prepares for the three scoutships, which
+come in firing. Starfuries and the defense grid get two of the scouts,
+but in the meantime the aliens scan the station and try to access the
+codes for the defense grid. As the third scoutship is about to escape,
+Mack gets the secondaries back on line, which destroy the last alien
+ship. Lochley is relieved, and goes to talk to Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Mack joins Bo, who is now working on a deck in Blue Sector. Mack says
+he likes the new captain and is glad she's on their side. Bo replies
+that the rumors are she fought on the side of President Clark during
+the Civil War, but Mack dismisses his concerns. Many people were on
+the other side, he says, and one shouldn't listen to rumors
+anyway. As Bo finishes the work, they are called to fix a problem in
+Brown sector. They get in the lift, and are later joined by Lochley
+and Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Lochley and Garibaldi are arguing. Lochley is demanding to know why
+Garibaldi didn't tell her the aliens could download the tactical
+codes, but Garibaldi claims he is innocent. The Gaim didn't say
+anything, and he didn't think to ask. Lochley angrily tells him that
+it is his job to think of quesitons like that, and demands he go back
+to the Gaim and ask all the questions he didn't think of in the first
+place. With the assault fleet on its way, she wants a fighting chance
+of surviving the next 12 hours. Lochley and Garibaldi get off, and
+Mack and Bo go on their way.
+
+
    
+After Mack and Bo finish fixing the problem in Brown sector, they are
+ordered to the Sanctuary to prepare it for a religious ceremony, as
+Lochley announces over the monitors that the first wing of the attack
+is coming through the jump gate.
+
+
    
+From the sanctuary, Bo and Mack can see the firefight and explosions
+outside the station: a red explosion for human pilots blowing up,
+green for the invaders. Eventually, a lone White Star arrives and joins
+the fight, and Mack and Bo note a breaching pod closing in on the
+station. All personnel are ordered to the shelters. The station is
+being boarded.
+
+
    
+Bo and Mack are on their way to the shelter, but the lift shorts out
+and stops. When they force the doors open, they find
+themselves in the middle of a firefight in Brown sector between the
+invading aliens and Zack's security forces. Zack orders them out and
+covers them, and they stumble into Byron's telepaths.
+
+
    
+Byron assures them they are safe, and advises them to stay until
+the fight is done. Mack and Bo eventually figure out these people are
+the recently arrived telepaths, and when the fight dies down they get
+up to leave. Bo expresses his desire to be out in space fighting
+alongside the starfury pilots, and Byron uses his telepathic ability
+to make him believe he is, for a few seconds. Bo silently thanks him
+as they leave.
+
+
    
+In the shelter, they overhear Londo and G'Kar. Londo is complaining
+about the situation, but G'Kar is quite calm. G'Kar practically grew
+up in shelters such as this, escaping from Centauri bombardment of the
+Narn cities, so he feels quite at home. Londo complains that the
+White Stars aren't there to protect them, and G'Kar reminds him they
+are coming back from guarding the Imphili homeworld ("The Paragon of Animals"). They both
+leave to "see how things are out there," as the second wave of
+invaders comes through.
+
+
    
+One of the invading ships is damaged and crashes onto the station,
+making a sizeable hole in the hull. As maintenance bots put out the
+resulting fires on the outside, all maintenance personnel are called
+to Red One to deal with the fires on the deck burning through the
+hull.
+
+
    
+As Mack and Bo are going there, they pass Sheridan and
+Delenn. Sheridan insists Delenn should get on the lifepod, but she
+refuses. Sheridan enlists Bo and Mack to escort her to the
+pod. "Look," says Sheridan to Delenn, "with luck the rest of the White Stars
+will get here on time and we won't even need the pods." "But what if
+we do?" asks Delenn. "What if the station falls?" "Then, as you said
+to me once," replies Sheridan, "I'll see you again in a place where no
+shadows fall" ("Confessions and
+Lamentations"). They kiss and Sheridan leaves Delenn in Mack and
+Bo's care.
+
+
    
+Before they get to the pods, however, Delenn asks them their
+names. Delenn also asks what would happen to a lifepod if, shortly
+after launch, the equipment were accidentally smashed from the
+inside. Mack and Bo agree it would either crash on Epislon 3, or
+explode. Delenn then makes it plain that if she is put in a lifepod
+and forced to watch the station fall, her pod would suffer such an
+accident. "The President is right, ma'am," argues Bo. "It's not safe
+here for either one of you." "I know," replies Delenn. "But it is home
+for both of us." Mack and Bo let her depart, and she smiles at them
+before leaving.
+
+
    
+The station shudders and Mack looks through a porthole
+and yells in triumph. "The cavalry is here!" he says. The White Stars
+have arrived at last.
+
+
    
+With help from the White Stars, the fighting is soon over, and Mack and
+Bo get back to work. The shelter is a mess, and according to Bo there
+is a lot of work to do: a damaged hull to repair, garbage to be picked
+up, debris to be cleaned up from space surrounding the station,
+and airlocks to fix in Brown Level. "Typical," complains Mack. "They
+call all the shots, they get all the glory, we clean up the mess."
+
+
    
+Then they see dozens of bodies lying still on the deck, draped in
+sheets. Dr. Franklin is going over them one by one, closing their
+eyes, making notes, and finally pulling the sheet over their
+heads. "Well," says Bo somberly, "maybe not all the mess."
+
+
    
+As the cleanup continues, Mack and Bo are working on C&C and
+overhear Corwin reporting to Lochley that not a single alien made it
+back to report on Babylon 5. Lochley is pleased, and does not expect
+them to try again.
+
+
    
+"Captain, ehr... Captain Lochley!" yells Mack suddenly. The Command
+Deck falls into an expecting silence, as Mack continues lamely. "Well,
+Captain, ah, I know you're new here and all and, ah, I just wanted to
+say, you're okay in my book, ma'am." "Thank you," says Lochley
+sincerely, smiling widely. Mack goes back to work.
+
+
    
+Later that day, Mack and Bo are on their way to lunch when they pass
+Sheridan and Delenn, walking hand in hand, in a corridor. "Hello Mack,
+Bo," she greets them by name as they walk by.
+
+
    
+"Bo?" "Yeah?" "She remembered my name." "Our names." "I think
+I'm in love..." "She's married!" "We'll work something out."
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+As Master Turval's voice drones, a class of Ranger recruits meditate, or
+at least attempt to.  One young Minbari, fresh from the warrior caste, is too
+busy daydreaming about dying gloriously, while another religious caste
+recruit can't stop smiling as he listens to conversations around him.
+Another old Ranger enters to inform the teacher that Delenn has asked them
+to come to Babylon 5.  When Turval selects the two restless recruits to
+accompany him as an escort, the happy one exclaims, "Babylon 5, the home of
+peace."
+
+
    
+A very unpeaceful man has made his new home on Babylon 5, however.  In order
+to emphasize that there's a new law in Downbelow, he orders a debtor
+executed.
+
+
    
+The four Rangers, two old (Durhan and Turval) and two young (Rastenn and
+Tannier) are honored to be greeted by Entil'zha personally at the docking
+bay.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi invites Zack to join him for breakfast.  When Captain Lochley
+enters he waves her over too.  To Zack's discomfort, Michael suggests that
+Lochley was on the "other side" during the war.  This immediately heats her
+up, but she tries to sidestep it.  Calling her on her avoidance, Michael
+says loudly, "I want to know, just for me, who's side were you on."  The
+commons goes silent.
+
+
    
+She finally declares that she did not take up arms against her own
+government. She is a soldier who only knows three words, she says angrily,
+"Loyalty, Duty, Honor."  She gets up and as she strides out there is
+scattered clapping from station personnel in the room.
+
+
    
+She is still steamed up when she gets to the lift.  Sheridan is there and
+she comments acerbically that she has just had a frank discussion with
+Garibaldi. Sheridan grins wryly and says, "He doesn't trust you."
+Neither Sheridan nor Lochley is
+having second thoughts about her assignment, though, and Sheridan advises that
+Garibaldi will come around when he's ready.  She grumbles about meeting "a
+second man as strong-willed, stubborn and annoying" as she is.
+
+
    
+Zack is shown the dead man's body on the deck.  As this is the third such
+execution in two weeks, he tries to convince someone in the crowd of
+gawkers to help his investigation by warning that it might be them next.
+
+
    
+The gangster, Trace, is watching the crowd too.  He doesn't like Zack's
+perceptiveness and orders him "taken out."  A little later he is visited by
+another gangster who's been around for some time and warns against gaining
+too high a profile, but Trace thinks he can just keep killing security
+chiefs until he gets one who he can get along with.
+
+
    
+In their report to Delenn, Durhan and Turval mention that they have
+no idea what to do with a Pak'ma'ra who has joined the Rangers.  It's
+stupid, lazy, greedy and a carrion eater, Durhan complains.  Delenn points
+out that Pak'ma'ra are found everywhere, but they are shunned everywhere too,
+so they would make ideal couriers.  In a subsequent private conversation
+Turval commiserates with Delenn over the death of Marcus and warns her
+that Lennier is pushing himself too hard in training.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi wraps up interviewing the two telepaths assigned to assist with
+intelligence gathering for the Alliance, then asks Zack to pull the
+Captain's personnel file.  Zack objects strongly while Garibaldi argues that
+his suspicions are just common sense.  Then Zack is called away on a tip
+about the murders.
+
+
    
+The two young Rangers stroll nervously through Downbelow.  They pass Trace
+who is giving the young woman who sent the tip to Zack a voucher for a
+ticket back to Earth.  When she protests the plan to kill Zack, a man grabs
+her.  Her scream reaches the Rangers and they have a quick debate over
+whether to assist her.  Tannier, the happy religious caste one goes to her
+aid, while Rastenn holds back.  Tannier saves the woman but is overpowered
+and beaten to a pulp by Trace's men.
+
+
    
+Delenn and the other Rangers watch Tannier in Medlab.  As long as Franklin
+can get him standing, they'll take care of the rest, Durhan says.  It's
+time for Mora'Dum.  Franklin is shocked when Delenn tells him that
+this is a Ranger training exercise called the "application of terror."
+
+
    
+Delenn meets with Lochley about the matter.  When Lochley suggests that
+letting the Rangers deal with this would amount to vigilantism, Delenn
+reminds the Captain sternly that all members of the Alliance have
+recognized the Rangers' autonomy.  Lochley is annoyed that she has been
+overridden by both Delenn and the President, and comments, "that's not like
+him."  She brushes aside Delenn's query about this and argues that the
+Rangers shouldn't be used for revenge.  It's not about revenge, Delenn
+replies.  It's about terror.
+
+
    
+Turval finds Rastenn at Tannier's bedside.  Rastenn admits that he
+abandoned Tannier because he was afraid of dying pointlessly.  Turval leads
+him to see that we imbue our lives and deaths with meaning ourselves.  That
+by living each moment like it was the last, and acting with the correct
+motives we can never die pointlessly, because "death will have meaning if
+it comes when you are in fullest pursuit of your heart."
+
+
    
+Delenn explains to Lochley that the terror that must be conquered is
+Tannier's, lest it cripple him from within.  As soon as Tannier can stand he
+will be sent back Downbelow to find the man who hurt him and confront him
+alone.  Zack is ordered to have the sector where the attack took place
+cleared of all security personnel.
+
+
    
+To Trace, the removal of security seems like a victory -- until the
+power goes out.  In the dim glow of the emergency backup lights, Trace's
+men begin to drop one by one to a terrifying dance of Rangers in the dark.
+Running frantically to escape, Trace is finally corralled by a ring of
+Rangers and faced off against Tannier.  He is given a fighting staff and
+assured that if he can defeat Tannier he will be free to leave the circle.
+Turval narrates the fight, managing to turn Trace's failure with both staff
+and fists into a lesson to the others on the nature of a bully: quick to
+tell others to do what he's afraid of himself.
+
+
    
+As they leave the station, Turval asks Delenn to come back to Minbar soon.
+Delenn explains that her work is still on the station for now.
+
+
    
+Watching this farewell on a station securecam, Garibaldi comments
+admiringly to Zack that when the Minbari start something they don't stop
+until they finish it.  Snooping at Zack's desk, Garibaldi thinks he spies
+the Captain's file, causing Zack to shout at him to give it a rest.
+
+
    
+As they prepare for bed Delenn asks John about Lochley's chance phrase. A
+guilty look creeps onto his face.  Later, as they lie in bed rigidly, John
+swears that he was waiting for the right opportunity to explain.  "Ten
+seconds after you thought of it would have been good," remarks Delenn dryly.
+
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+
+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+Lochley is walking down a corridor when she is joined by
+Delenn. Delenn tells her that she has spoken to Sheridan and is now
+aware of the full reason Sheridan chose Lochley to command Babylon
+5. Delenn also wants to tell the Captain that she approves of the
+decision. Lochley is glad to hear it, but asks Delenn to keep quiet
+about it; others may not be so understanding. But unbeknownst to
+either of them, Garibaldi has overheard the conversation.
+
+
    
+
+Meanwhile, Londo is in the observation deck, looking at a recently
+arrived Centauri liner. Zack comes in to inform him of its arrival: it
+is to take Londo to Centauri Prime. Londo explains that with the
+Regent's health failing, Londo must spend as much time as possible at
+his side. And once the Regent dies, the Centarum will make him
+Emperor, and he will never again be able to come to Babylon 5, save
+for the occasional state visit. He is not happy about this prospect,
+much to his surprise.
+
+
    
+
+In the docking bay, a transport malfunctions and smashes against the
+pressure doors and explodes. The explosion closes down the docking bay
+for 11 hours. This does not stop a Psi Corps shuttle, which is in a
+priority mission and is allowed to dock through the emergency air
+doors.
+
+
    
+
+In MedLab, Lyta is ransacking through some containers when she is
+surprised by Dr. Franklin. She is taking medicines and vitamins to the
+telepaths downbelow; not because they asked her, she explains, but out
+of her own initiative. Franklin says they should come themselves, but
+Lyta explains that some have been subjected to medical experiments by
+the Psi Corps and do not trust doctors. Franklin lets her take what she
+needs. "Next time you need something, just ask!" he tells her as she
+leaves. Later, when Lyta is giving the supplies to Byron, they all
+sense the arrival of the Psi Cops: Bloodhound units led by Bester.
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is hanging out in Zack's office when a security guard comes
+in to inform Zack of Bester's arrival. Garibaldi rushes out and runs
+to Lochley's office, where he finds Bester and the Captain chatting
+over a cup of coffee. When he tries to get at Bester, Lochley stops
+him, first interposing herself, then slugging him, and finally having
+Garibaldi taken to the brig; Bester watches bemused.
+
+
    
+
+In MedLab, Delenn and G'Kar ask Franklin to put together the
+definitive work on cross-species infections. The field is still in its
+infancy, but it is very important to the Alliance and its goal of
+interspecies relations. He is to go to member worlds, who are
+obligated under the terms of the Alliance to share medical data, and
+do first hand research. Although it means spending less time in MedLab
+and delegating some responsibility, Franklin is delighted and agrees.
+
+
    
+
+Lochley arrives at Sheridan's office. Sheridan heard about the
+incident with Garibaldi and he reminds Lochley that Bester
+reprogrammed Garibaldi and almost got him and Sheridan killed ("The Face of the Enemy"). Lochley is well
+aware of this, having read the reports from both sides, but explains
+that the telepaths are wanted by the Psi Corps on numerous
+charges. Since the Interstellar Alliance grants sovereignty to member
+worlds, and the Psi Corps is part of the Earth Government, they have a
+right to take the telepaths under custody. Since Bester has not broken
+any rules, she must oblige him. If Bester breaks the rules, she
+promises, she will throw him out; but until then, she has to deal with
+it her own way. Sheridan reluctantly backs down, but orders Lochley to
+find a way to prevent the telepaths from being taken away, without
+compromising the policies of the Alliance.
+
+
    
+
+The Centauri liner cannot wait for the repairs to the docking bay to
+be completed, and gets ready to depart without Londo. When they set
+their navigational beacon to Centauri Prime, the liner
+explodes. Later, Zack explains to Lochley that they found traces of
+explosives in the debris. The liner was sabotaged and set to explode
+when it returned to Centauri Prime; all the evidence points to an
+attempt to assassinate Londo. He then gives his security reports to
+Lochley, who discovers that Garibaldi accessed her classified
+personnel file; she angrily goes to see Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+
+Meanwhile, Bester and the Bloodhound teeps are walking through Brown
+sector when they are met by Lyta. She is jamming them, and uses her
+Vorlon-augmented powers to stop them. Rather than force the issue now,
+Bester retreats; he will come back later with a dozen security guards,
+too much for Lyta to handle by herself. And if the rogue telepaths
+scatter, she won't be able to shield them from the Bloodhounds. Lyta
+goes back to Byron and advises him to scatter and hide.
+
+
    
+
+Lochley enters the brig and confronts Garibaldi. She wants to know why
+he has been riding her so hard. "I don't know you," he answers, "so I
+don't trust you." "The world is full of people you don't know!" she
+counters, to which he replies, "I worry about that all the time." He wants to
+know why she
+was so friendly with Bester, and why she was chosen to command Babylon
+5. The first question she answers readily: she was once stationed at
+an Earth Force Base where a rogue telepath killed some of her people;
+Bester tracked him down and saved two others. Although she neither
+likes him nor trusts him, he has played by the rules with her and she
+is obligated to reciprocate.
+
+
    
+
+The second question is more difficult, and she asks Garibaldi to keep
+it between them. Sheridan wanted a symbol, someone who was on the
+other side during the Civil War; but also someone he could trust,
+someone who wouldn't stab him in the back. Someone who would argue
+with him, but back him up when he was right.
+Lochley was the perfect choice: She and Sheridan were married for
+three months after Officer Training School. The marriage fell apart
+because they both wanted to be in control all the time. Although it
+was over a long time ago, they trust each other.
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is highly amused at the situation, and figures he can go
+now; but Lochley won't let him go until Bester leaves. "It's not that
+I don't trust you," she explains, "but I don't... trust you." She then
+receives a call from Zack: Bester got EarthDome to request security
+guards to help him track the rogue telepaths, and they can't refuse
+him. Lochley leaves, with Garibaldi still in the brig.
+
+
    
+
+Security guards and Bloodhound teeps run down Byron's telepaths one by
+one. Finally, Byron realizes all is lost, and lets himself be
+found. He hopes Lyta will carry on his dream for telepaths. Byron is
+taken and beaten by the Bloodhounds.
+
+
    
+
+At the staff meeting, Corwin informs Lochley that the docking bay is
+clear; Zack says Bester will be done rounding up the telepaths within
+a day at most, and that he has not broken any regulations. Lochley has no
+reason to stop Bester, or to prevent him from taking the
+telepaths. When the meeting adjourns, Franklin approaches her to let
+her know of Delenn's offer. Since it means he will be taking time off
+MedLab, he wanted to let Lochley know. Lochley is happy for him and
+assures him it won't be a problem, but she is struck by the idea of
+cross-species infections. She asks Franklin to give her everything in
+writing within half an hour.
+
+
    
+
+Delenn and G'Kar are talking in Delenn's quarters. G'Kar had expressed
+a desire to do even more for the Alliance. Delenn is worried about
+losing the Centauri from the Alliance, so she needs to make sure
+nothing happens to Londo. She suggests that G'Kar should go as his
+bodyguard. At first, G'Kar is horrified at the idea; but Delenn points
+out first, how strong a symbol of the ideals of the Alliance this
+would be, and second, that it would mean G'Kar would be at the Royal
+Court in Centauri Prime and in all important occasions, guarding
+Londo. It is this last argument that wins G'Kar over: "A Narn in the
+Centauri Royal Court?" he laughs. "I accept, if only to see their
+faces!"
+
+
    
+
+When Bester is preparing to leave with his prisoners, Lochley comes in
+and informs him there is a problem: according to Earth Alliance
+regulations, since the telepaths have been traveling so much in alien
+space, they must be put under quarantine for sixty days, to make sure
+they are not carrying any unidentified viruses. Those are the
+rules. Bester can't take Byron's people... yet. Although annoyed,
+Bester realizes there is little to be done, and he hopes his cooperation
+will cement a good working relationship with Lochley. He does,
+however, extract a promise from Lochley that the telepaths are to stay
+on Babylon 5 until he comes back for them. Bester issues a warning:
+"Just keep an eye on them, Captain. Don't trust them for a second,
+because sooner or later they will turn on you." He addresses Byron.
+"You know all about that, don't you, Byron?"  With that, he leaves.
+
+
    
+
+Lochley then lets Byron and his people out of custody; however, they
+are not to leave Babylon 5, and she has only postponed the
+showdown. Byron thanks her nonetheless.
+
+
    
+
+As Londo is leaving for Centauri Prime, he is joined by Delenn who
+informs him of the arrangements she has made for his security. Londo is
+not pleased, but agrees. He is then joined by G'Kar, and the two leave
+for the transport, bickering about who will get the aisle seat on the
+flight.
+
+
    
+
+Corwin joins Lochley as she is finishing dinner. He wants to
+congratulate her on her handling of the telepath situation. She is
+worried, though; "I get this nagging suspicion that maybe Bester was
+right, this thing will blow up in our face. It worries me," she
+confides. "I also have this nagging feeling that I'm forgetting
+something..." After Corwin leaves, she realizes what she has
+forgotten: she calls security to tell them to let Garibaldi, who can
+be heard yelling in the background, out of the brig.
+
+
    
+
+The telepaths are singing together in a candlelit room. When Lyta
+comes in, she takes off the Psi Corps shield, and Byron joins her
+smiling and welcomes her to the middle of the singing group.
+
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+Franklin is approaching his new job of developing complete medical profiles
+of all the Alliance member races with his usual enthusiasm.  He convinces
+the Pak'ma'ra he is examining today to drink a barium solution so that he
+can track its upper digestive tract, and gets treated to an impressive
+demonstration of projectile vomiting an instant later.
+
+
    
+Three rogue telepaths arrive on the station without money or papers.  Zack
+is reluctant to let them in, but Byron and Lyta are there to force the
+issue. Zack accedes, but asks Lyta if he can talk to her alone.
+
+
    
+In the transport tube, Peter, one of the new arrivals, demonstrates how
+much stronger his telekinesis ability has become by lofting a steel ball.
+
+
    
+Zack demands to know why Lyta is hanging out with "those people" and orders
+her to stop seeing Byron.  Lyta responds that Byron is trying to create a
+better world and accuses Zack of jealousy.  Without letting him interrupt
+she tells him that she has been used by everyone, risked her life for
+everyone and received nothing in return, even from him.  Finally someone
+cares about her and others like her.  She would follow Byron gladly into
+hell, she says and asks Zack what he could possibly say to change that.  He
+is speechless and she leaves.
+
+
    
+Byron is leading the new telepaths through DownBelow towards their quarters
+when their way is blocked by a surly lurker and his mates.  To the man's
+surprise, three times Byron asks him to hit him.  After this Byron asks if
+the third strike was any better than the first or second, or if he expects
+anything more satisfying from the fourth, fifth or sixth. He leans forward
+and tells the man quietly that no amount of hitting others will satisfy or
+solve his anger, then walks on by leaving the man stupefied.  When his
+mates ask what Byron said, the man angrily calls it a teep trick.
+
+
    
+Doctor Franklin formally requests a complete medical and genetic history
+from the Hyach ambassador.  She replies that for the first time, the
+Elders of their geritocracy have decided to make this available to an
+outsider.  Her young assistant, Kirin, demands to know if Franklin would
+die to protect the confidentiality of the information they will provide
+him.  He explains the security precautions he is taking with the files.
+She asks him even more fiercely if he would put his life ahead of theirs,
+and he snaps "You aren't asking anything that I haven't already considered,
+and the answer is yes, I would die before I allow my work to be used in
+biogenetic warfare." Kirin's concerns are quelled for the moment.
+
+
    
+When the doctor leaves however, Kirin says this is a mistake.  "What if he
+finds out?"  The Ambassador counsels acceptance of the will of her elders.
+Kirin says that if he betrays them, then she'll kill him.
+
+
    
+Lyta gets angry when she sees the state Byron's in.  Ignoring his hint to
+be left alone, she begins washing his wounds, and demands to know why he
+didn't fight back.  He explains that violence is not their way.  Violence
+is the way of the mundanes and the Psi Corps, and it always fails.  If they
+wish to form a system that can last, it must be built on nonviolence.  Lyta
+begins sputtering, don't bullies make him want to strike back?  Byron
+begins to laugh, and calls her a BCMFO (brightly colored fast moving
+object) a comet who blazes into every room she enters.  "There's so much
+more to you than meets the eye," he marvels.  "If you only knew," she
+replies dryly.  She kisses him tenderly, and bashfully moves to leave.  He
+asks her why she never stays the night and when she explains that she
+doesn't feel like part of the group yet, he takes her out of his room and
+asks the others what they feel about Lyta being one of them.  The
+other telepaths surround and embrace her.
+
+
    
+Kirin delivers the final data crystals Franklin requested.  He asks her why
+the records only date back 800 years when the Hyach civilization has been
+around for 7000.  She tells him to make do.  Her attitude only exacerbates
+his feeling that the Hyach are hiding something, and his formidable
+curiosity is roused.
+
+
    
+Peter gets separated from his fellows in DownBelow.  Suddenly he is set
+upon by the men who hassled them earlier.  When he uses his talent to fight
+back they beat him senseless.  He is rushed to Medlab where Byron makes a
+special appeal to Dr. Franklin to save him.  As Byron looks at Peter's
+broken body, the rest of his people watch through his eyes.  When they set
+out to punish the perpetrators, Byron rushes off to stop them.  He finds
+them in a corridor torturing one of the bullies with a vision of
+immolation.  He calms them down and steps over to the man who has passed
+out from shock, just as Zack comes along and arrests him.
+
+
    
+Franklin's search for ancient Hyach records is fruitless so he initiates a
+search for Hyach in other species' records.
+
+
    
+Byron frantically tries to get released from his cell.  He can feel his
+people assaulting Peter's attacker somewhere.
+
+
    
+Franklin is roused from his observation of Peter by a return on his search.
+A Drazi pilot reports a rare sighting of a Hyach-doh coming into their camp
+and begging for transportation, but says in accordance with his contract he
+refused, and reported the Hyach-doh for "collection."  Intrigued, Franklin
+starts a search for references to Hyach-doh.
+
+
    
+The results are stunning.  Walking slowly back to his quarters, Franklin
+keeps reading the material he has uncovered.  Kirin is waiting for him and
+orders him at gunpoint into a deserted storage room.  He shows her what
+he's found.  The Hyach-doh were a species that developed through parallel
+evolution alongside and cross-fertile with the Hyach.  The Hyach Ambassador
+enters and confirms that about a millenium ago the Hyach began a
+religious-based program of exterminating the Hyach-doh,  Now the Hyach are
+regretting their "success" as their birthrate has been dropping ever since.
+ Something in the Hyach-doh DNA was necessary for the Hyach race to survive.
+
+
    
+The ambassador asks Franklin to help them find what it is that they are
+missing.  He refuses.  Even though did not kill the Hyach-doh themselves,
+their complicity in the cover-up makes them accomplices, he says.  Besides,
+it would take far greater resources than he has to find the answer.  If
+they want help, they must reveal their past.  The Ambassador orders Kirin
+to free Franklin.  Now that one outsider has discovered the truth, the
+Elders are prepared to acknowledge it more widely.  The ambassador asks
+Franklin's forgiveness, but he replies, only the Hyach-doh can give that,
+and they're all dead.
+
+
    
+As Zack releases Byron he asks about the murder.  Byron asks, how should he
+know, he's been locked up all day, but if he'd been allowed out the man
+might not be dead.
+
+
    
+Byron steps dejectedly over sleeping bodies to his curtained corner with
+Lyta in tow.  He is depressed and ashamed that his people won't follow his
+creed.  Lyta offers him to take comfort in her for awhile.  She nervously
+explains that she hasn't been with anyone since she was altered by the
+Vorlons and warns him that he might get burned.  "Then let it burn." he
+says.  As they make love he begins to see her memories of her time with the
+Vorlons.  Her rescue, her carrying duties, her punishment by Kosh II, her
+ability to feel the Shadows, and then her alteration.  She envisions
+floating in a tank.  
+
+
    
+Byron is horrified to see Lyta's eyes go full black.  The other telepaths
+in the room wake up to the intensity of Byron's thoughts.
+
+
    
+Floating Lyta sees another tank nearby. It contains a nonhuman fetus.
+
+
    
+The telepaths are weeping.
+
+
    
+There are more tanks with fetuses, and many, many more tanks with adult
+forms floating in them.
+
+
    
+Byron embraces Lyta tightly as the telepaths stand in a circle outside his
+curtains watching them.
+
+
    
+Afterwards Byron questions her about what she has revealed.  The Vorlons
+were responsible for creating telepaths as foot soldiers in the war with the
+Shadows.  Now that the Vorlons are gone there is no one to give an
+accounting for this genetic violation of the human species.  So since they
+were created to save everyone else, Byron argues, everyone else owes them a
+homeland.  If the Alliance refuses to grant them this, "Then we'll make
+sure they have no other choice," Byron says ominously.  
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+
+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+In the customs area, a man carrying a large bag has nothing to declare
+except his genius. Inside the bag, a small man holds up a small
+device, which also declares nothing but Rebo's genius. Rebo and Zooty have
+arrived on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
+Lochley, Sheridan and Garibaldi are on their way to meet the comedy
+duo. Lochley mentions that the Brakiri have asked to buy a part of
+Babylon 5 for a night, for religious reasons.
+
+
    
+
+Outside his quarters, Londo is accosted by a Brakiri salesman, who is
+offering a skull-shaped candy. On recognizing Londo as the Centauri
+Emperor-to-be, he offers the candy as a gift, and asks Londo whom he
+would like to meet from among the dead. "The first Emperor," replies
+Londo as he accepts the candy. He asks the salesman what sort of
+festival this is. "Tonight is the Day of the Dead," the Brakiri
+replies. "Tonight the dead return."
+
+
    
+
+Delenn is alone in her quarters when Lennier arrives, dressed in a
+Ranger uniform. He is between training cycles, and having read once
+about the Brakiri Day of the Dead, which occurs only once every 200
+years, he decided to visit. Since Babylon 5 is easier to get to than
+Brakir, he came to the station.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan is hosting a cocktail party for Rebo and Zooty, and confers
+upon them the Freedom of Babylon 5. Rebo gives a speech, interspersed
+with physical comedy. Most in attendance find it hilarious, but
+Lochley is not amused. She leaves for an appointment with the Brakiri
+ambassador. G'Kar overhears about the appointment and looks worried.
+
+
    
+
+In Lochley's office, the Brakiri ambassador explains to the Captain
+that they must own part of the station by nightfall, so it will be
+part of Brakir for the celebration. He assures Lochley it will be
+returned in the morning. Lochley explains the usual operations of
+Babylon 5 do not allow this, but she is ready to make an
+exception. Before the transaction is over, G'Kar bursts into the
+office and warns Lochley that selling the station would be foolish and
+dangerous. But Lochley reminds him that according to the declaration
+of principles of the Alliance, religious beliefs are sacrosanct. Over
+G'Kar's objections, the transaction is completed.
+
+
    
+
+Later, the Brakiri ambassador explains to Garibaldi that part of the
+station is now part of Brakir. Garibaldi's quarters are on the Brakiri
+side, and he goes in just as the Day of the Dead begins.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan arrives to his quarters with Rebo and Zooty for
+dinner. Delenn welcomes them, and Zooty's machine says something in
+Minbari: a pun, to which Delenn reacts by laughing heartily. Rebo
+explains they have studied Minbari and Narn humor, among other
+forms. When Delenn escorts Zooty to the table, Sheridan mentions to
+Rebo that he was hoping to talk to Zooty without the machine. Rebo
+explains that Zooty never breaks character. After ten years, Rebo has
+only heard Zooty say one word without the machine: "Why?" He doesn't
+undertand it either.
+
+
    
+
+In her quarters, Lochley is reading some reports when night falls. The
+area of the station purchased by the Brakiri is surrounded by a
+shimmering energy field; at the same time, Lennier sits down to
+meditate in his quarters, and Londo drinks some Brevare.
+
+
    
+
+In C&C, Corwin is trying to emulate one of Rebo and Zooty's hat
+tricks, when G'Kar enters, dressed for bed. His quarters are on the
+Brakiri zone, so he would like to sleep in C&C for the night. Corwin
+lets him.
+
+
    
+
+In Lochley's quarters, the power suddenly goes out, replaced by
+emergency lights. Lochley is unable to contact anyone on the link.
+
+
    
+
+Londo is in his quarters, talking to a portrait of the first Emperor,
+but the portrait is silent. His lights go out as well, and behind him
+a figure materializes: Adira Tyree ("Born
+to the Purple"). Londo is overjoyed. He tells her he is to become
+Emperor, but would give it all away just to have Adira by his
+side. She embraces him and they they kiss.
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi is asleep in his bed, but the shower turns itself on. He
+pulls a PPG from under the pillow and orders whoever is there to come
+out. A woman's voice answers and then steps out: Dodger, the gropo ("GROPOS"). Garibaldi is utterly confused;
+without lowering the gun, he wonders if it is a clone, a robot, or
+maybe the latest from Bester's bag of tricks. She assures him it is
+nobody's trick. "Happy Day of the Dead," she says with a smile.
+
+
    
+
+In her quarters, Lochley is trying to communicate with the rest of the
+station, which the link claims is out of range. A small blond teenager
+materializes coughing, and says "Lizzie? Is that you?" Lochley is
+overcome and stands staring dumbly at the girl. "Zoe?" gulps Lochely,
+forcing back tears.
+
+
    
+
+Lochley and Zoe sit on the bed and talk, both of them crying. They
+were runaways together, and did drugs. It's been 20 years since Zoe's
+death. Zoe asks Lochley what happened after her death. Lochley found
+Zoe's body, dead from a drug overdose.  She got scared, called her parents,
+and her father arrived
+ten hours later. She later enrolled in OTC. Lochley asks Zoe something
+she's always wondered: "Did you do it on purpose?" but Zoe claims she
+doesn't remember.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan and Delenn's quarters are outside the Brakiri zone. Dinner is
+almost over when Sheridan gets a call from Corwin, to tell him that a
+piece of the station is missing: the part sold to the
+Brakiri. Sheridan walks over to investigate and finds the shimmering
+wall. He throws a fire extinguisher at the wall, but it bounces
+back. He goes to C&C to talk to Corwin.
+
+
    
+
+Garibaldi finally puts the PPG back under the pillow. Although still
+perplexed, he is taking it all in stride now. Garibaldi and Dodger
+start to talk.
+
+
    
+
+Lennier is meditating when a voice says: "Good evening, Ranger
+Lennier." It is Morden, although Lennier cannot place him
+immediately. He eventually does, however: "You worked for the
+Shadows," accuses Lennier. "I did lots of things, yes," replies
+Morden. "Looking back on it, though," he continues, "I just tried to
+make people happy. Anyway, it is all ancient history now, and I paid
+for all my crimes, huh?" he concludes with a smile.
+
+
    
+
+Lennier asks him why he came, and Morden replies that he is dead,
+and thus it is his job. Then Morden asks Lennier why he came back.  "I
+came for wisdom," answers Lennier. "You don't come to the Dead for wisdom,
+Lennier," replies Morden. He says his head is still rotting outside the
+Centauri Royal Palace, but Lennier insists he wants wisdom.
+
+
    
+
+"Wisdom?" muses Morden. "Let's see: Delenn does not love you as you
+love her, and she never will." "I know that," replies Lennier. "No,
+you don't," counters Morden.  "Not in your heart." Lennier tells Morden
+to go away, but he does not; now that Morden has been raised, Lennier must
+listen. Lennier tries to leave, only to find the shimmering
+wall outside. He starts to run, but soon collapses.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan enters C&C to find G'Kar asleep on the deck. Sheridan asks
+Corwin to contact the Brakiri homeworld.
+
+
    
+
+Morden tosses Lennier back into his quarters. He explains that the
+other side of the corridor is 200 million light years away; no way to
+get there by foot. Morden continues to talk, and tells Lennier that he
+is destined to betray the Rangers; Lennier does not believe
+him. Morden then implies Lennier will die soon, and Lennier angrily
+denies him again; finally, Lennier settles down to meditate, saying
+"Our talk is done." "Your loss," sighs Morden, as he sits down to read
+the newspaper.
+
+
    
+
+In Lochley's quarters, Lochley is again trying to contact the rest of
+the station. Zoe points out that they are now in part of the Brakiri
+homeworld, and although Lochley doesn't believe it, she manages to
+contact Garibaldi, who is talking to Dodger. Lochley orders Garibaldi to
+hack into Stellar Com and route a call to C&C.
+
+
    
+
+In Londo's quarters, Adira and Londo are in bed. Lochley appears on
+the screen and says normality will be restored soon. "She is right,"
+says Adira ruefully. "And when this night is done, so am I. And you
+will go on to become Emperor Mollari." "I don't want to become
+Emperor," replies Londo. "I want to stay here, with you." "Londo, I'm
+a dream," says Adira. "In the morning I'll be gone, and you will rule
+40 billion Centauri. But not one of them will ever know you the way I
+know you." She settles down on Londo's chest as they both smile
+contentedly.
+
+
    
+
+In his quarters, Garibaldi is hacking the communications system, much
+to Dodger's frustration; Garibaldi succeeds, and lets Lochley know
+before settling down to talk to Dodger for the remaining hours of the
+Day of the Dead.
+
+
    
+
+In Sheridan's quarters, Rebo is expressing to Delenn his admiration
+for how calm and collected Delenn and Sheridan are in the face of this
+emergency. He confides to Delenn that they both admire the two of them
+a lot, and in fact that Rebo and Zooty plan to give up show business
+for politics. Sheridan comes back, and Delenn tells him of Rebo and
+Zooty's decision. Sheridan tries to talk them out of it, but Rebo says
+that no one takes comedians seriously, and they want to be taken
+seriously. Besides, he says, the real comedy all happens in the Senate.
+
+
    
+
+Lochley's call comes in then, and she tells Sheridan everything is
+fine, and will probably go back to normal in the morning. This is also
+what the people in Brakir told Sheridan.
+
+
    
+
+Morning finds Lennier meditating and Morden reading the paper; shortly
+thereafter, Morden disappears. Dodger and Garibaldi are talking and
+laughing together. Dodger senses that her time is up, and sobers
+up. She kisses Garibaldi on the forehead, stands up and disappears.
+
+
    
+
+Zoe finishes telling Lochley a message she was given for
+Sheridan. Before leaving, she finally tells Lochley that she does
+remember her own death, and she did it on purpose because she couldn't
+stand her life any more. She disappears, and normality returns.
+
+
    
+
+Later that morning, Sheridan and Lochley are talking. Lochley refuses
+to give details of her experience, saying that it was intensely
+personal; the same thing everyone else has told Sheridan. No one
+really knows what happened, though. She does give Sheridan the message
+she got for him. It is from Kosh: "When the long night comes, return
+to the end of the beginning."
+
+
    
+
+Lochley leaves and is later joined by G'Kar. Lochley expects him to
+say I told you so, but instead he points out he was wrong; the people
+who were in the Brakiri territory seem more at peace with
+themselves. G'Kar wonders what he would have seen had he been there.
+
+
    
+
+Then they see Londo, Rebo and Zooty walk by, followed by
+reporters. Londo is quite amused, and promises never to miss their
+show from now on. He also asks them to perform at his inauguration.
+
+
    
+
+Before he leaves, Zooty calls the just arrived Sheridan aside, and
+whispers something in his ear, pointing at his device: "Because it
+tells me to."
+
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+Whoever has been attacking Alliance cargo transports possesses daunting
+resources. The strikes have been carried out against far flung shipping
+lines with military precision and overwhelming force while leaving no
+survivors and no incriminating wreckage and--unlike raiders--taking no
+cargo. The Alliance leadership has 24 hours before it must inform the
+member worlds of these findings. Sheridan orders the Rangers to patrol the
+major routes, but without knowing the purpose of the attacks, he can guess
+the disruption this is going to cause in the Alliance as the member races
+all blame each other.
+
+
    
+Minister Vitelli professes joy at Prime Minister Mollari's homecoming,
+but in reality can't keep his eyes off the fearsome Narn at Mollari's side.
+The court is even more unnerved when Mollari announces that G'Kar is his
+bodyguard. 
+
+
    
+Byron calls his telepaths together for a meeting and announces Lyta's
+revelation about how the Vorlons created telepaths in order to use them as
+weapons in the Shadow War. Since their purpose was to serve the others,
+they deserve recompense in the form of a homeworld, he concludes, and
+that's what he intends to demand from the Alliance.
+
+
    
+Londo receives an old friend, Lord Jano, and their conversation quickly
+turns to the Regent. He has been in seclusion for months, although he is
+occasionally found doddering around the palace at night talking to himself
+and always seeming to be on the verge of warning people about something
+that he forgets before he can divulge. Londo is surprised to hear that the
+Regent is usually drunk at these times since the Regent had always flouted
+convention by his sobriety. 
+
+
    
+Jano is worried by other oddities. Recently the Regent has made many
+innocuous-seeming matters top secret, such as fleet status and production
+figures for raw materials. 
+
+
    
+When Lord Jano returns to his rooms he finds the Regent sitting there in
+the dark. The Regent reminisces about Jano's boyhood and then fondly says,
+"If it were my decision, I would never let anyone hurt you." Jano smiles
+condescendingly as the Regent says woefully, "But it's not my decision, you
+see." A look of horror crosses Jano's face before he is flung across the
+room. 
+
+
    
+As the Alliance ambassadors depart the council for their quarters and
+offices, each one of them is tailed closely by a telepath. Then Byron goes
+to visit Garibaldi. 
+
+
    
+The next day in court, Lord Vitelli informs Londo that the Regent is not
+well enough to meet with him. Londo then sends Vitelli to investigate Lord
+Jano's absence before being confronted by Lord Vole who criticizes Londo
+for bringing G'Kar. To prove the Narn's barbarian nature, Lord Vole
+introduces the guard who electrowhipped G'Kar for Cartagia's pleasure.
+Handing G'Kar the whip, Vole grants him permission to do as he likes to the
+guard. A flash of anger flares in G'Kar's eyes, but Cartagia is dead and
+the guard was not responsible. Dropping the whip at Lord Vole's feet G'Kar
+reminds him that more pain is caused by the mouth than by the hand or the
+heart. 
+
+
    
+Lord Vitelli rushes Londo to Lord Jano's chamber where Jano's body hangs
+by the neck. Both Londo and G'Kar are certain that it was not suicide.
+
+
    
+Byron asks Garibaldi's permission to address the full Alliance Council, but
+declines to explain why, so Garibaldi refuses. Byron plucks the shipping
+reports from Garibaldi's mind and says that his information about the
+crisis effects all the member worlds and therefore should be delivered to
+them all at once lest they doubt its accuracy. 
+
+
    
+Byron gets his chance, and as Lyta hands out reports detailing how the
+Vorlons created telepaths, he explains his real purpose in coming before
+the Council. Angry at being deceived, Sheridan calls Byron out of order,
+causing Byron to play his trump card. He announces that the telepaths who
+have been trailing the ambassadors have discovered all of their secrets,
+and if his demands are not met, he will reveal everything that has been
+discovered. 
+
+
    
+Sheridan's fury is nothing next to Garibaldi's. Only Delenn is open minded
+enough to wonder if the telepaths haven't been abused and mistreated enough
+to deserve what they are asking for and points out the similarities between
+the telepaths' case and the one which caused Sheridan to launch a civil war.
+
+
    
+Lord Vitelli invites the Prime Minister to a meeting with the Regent. As
+Londo and G'Kar tread uneasily through the midnight corridors, they hear
+footsteps and the snick of a sword being bared. G'Kar turns to grapple with
+two assassins and a dropgate falls, separating him from Mollari. 
+
+
    
+Lord Vole is waiting in the next room. He throws a dagger which halts
+inches from Mollari's breast and hovers an instant before flying back and
+sinking into his own heart. Too stunned to react, Londo peers around and
+sees an alien in the shadows with great glowing red eyes. The dropgate
+rises again just as G'Kar squeezes the life out of the second Centauri
+assassin. Leaving the bodies littering the floor they hurry back to their
+chambers.
+
+
    
+One of the telepaths has broken Byron's orders to stay put by venturing out
+to find supplies. He is set upon by Drazi. When the others feel it, some
+can't help but rush to defend him. Byron is distraught. He knows that the
+violence is ruining their chances of success. 
+
+
    
+Sheridan's exhaustion is palpable as he sits in the empty council room.
+Zack enters on behalf of Captain Lochley to request Sheridan's permission
+to arrest the telepaths. Although he is half inclined to agree with Delenn,
+Sheridan feels that he can't do anything for the telepaths until they are
+in custody, and so he removes his protection of them.
+
+
    
+Byron knows the attack will begin soon. When he announces that they will
+close off the access points and remain peacefully under siege until they
+are too weak to prevent their own arrest, there is a rebellion by some of
+the others who find this approach too passive. They would rather fight with
+the secrets and weapons they have stolen. "Is there not one of you who
+understands?" Byron shouts in exasperation, and vows to stay despite what
+any of his followers do.
+
+
    
+Lord Vitelli professes his gladness that Mollari has survived and stammers
+his innocence in the attack. Londo sees a hand beckoning from behind a
+drape and follows to find the Regent giggling madly in the throne room. He
+tells Mollari that he's glad they got there in time to save him, although it
+wasn't really him who saved Mollari, it was them. They are Cartagia's
+legacy, he continues, and they like Mollari. When Molari asks who "they"
+are, the Regent shushes him worriedly. "You will be Emperor soon," he says.
+When Mollari agrees, a terribly mournful look transfixes the Regent's face.
+"I'm so sorry." 
+
+
    
+They have a message for Mollari, he continues. He must stop making inquiries
+about supplies and ships. "You will understand it all soon," the Regent says.
+
+
    
+When Mollari says he wants to understand it now, the Regent exclaims "No! No
+you don't! If you have ever believed me before, Londo, believe me now. You
+still have time. Enjoy it! Run in the sunlight! Eat! Laugh!" Suddenly
+spooked he whispers, "Like a fool. You have so little time." Another
+mercurial change descends upon him and he violently shoos Londo from the
+room promising him one more conversation before the end. 
+
+
    
+Londo leaves more bewildered than he arrived. The poor Regent turns to face
+a bug-eyed monster and is instantly punished for his loose tongue. His
+protests are ignored as his keeper strangles him.
+
+
    
+Sleepless, Londo tells G'Kar that they must leave as soon as possible.  The
+palace frightens him, and he wonders aloud "what could they be doing with
+our ships." 
+
+
    
+Somewhere in space an unarmed transport is destroyed by a Centauri battleship.
+
+
    
+Zack's voice on the PA interrupts a tender moment between Lyta and Byron.
+He orders them to remove the barriers they have erected and surrender, and
+begs Lyta to come out. Lyta won't leave, but Byron tells her that he will
+ask her later to leave him and makes her promise to do it.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Byron's telepaths are dug in in Brown Sector, and threatening a hunger
+strike until their demands for a homeworld are met ("In the Kingdom of the Blind"). Sheridan cannot
+intervene, since his hands are full with the attacks on the Alliance
+ships, and the alien ambassadors blaming each other. So Lochley sends
+a message to Bester, asking for help.
+
+
    
+
+The telepaths are using telepathic suggestions to slow down security,
+which is trying to burn through to where the telepaths are. When
+Lochley comes down to investigate, Zack tells her about the air
+ducts. They are too small and fragile to send a security team, but one
+person could make it through. Lochley wants to go in: a telepathic
+suggestion from Byron.
+
+
    
+
+Meanwhile, on Centauri Prime, G'Kar is eating some fresh spoo and
+Londo is reading some reports. The reports indicate a 15% increase in
+production of war materials, which doesn't make sense for peace time,
+and is in fact contrary to standard Centauri procedure. G'Kar is
+unconcerned, and offers Londo some of the spoo. But Londo refuses,
+saying that only a Narn can tolerate fresh spoo. G'Kar is suddenly
+interested: the spoo was going to the south wing of the palace, and
+was not meant for him. Who was it meant for? Londo reveals that there
+are some cells in that area of the palace, and G'Kar demands to be
+taken there.
+
+
    
+
+In a dark cell, they find a Narn chained to the wall: G'Kar's aide,
+Na'Toth. At first, Na'Toth thinks G'Kar is also a prisoner, but G'Kar
+explains that the war is over. Na'Toth then recounts her experiences:
+she was on the Narn Homeworld when the Centauri bombed it with
+asteroids ("The Long, Twilight
+Struggle", "And the Rock Cried Out, No
+Hiding Place"). She was later taken captive by the Centauri and
+taken to the Royal Palace as entertainment, a task for which she
+proved unsuitable. As punishment, Cartagia ordered her put in the cell
+two years ago.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar demands to know why she is still a prisoner. "I have no idea,"
+replies Londo; "she was probably just forgotten." Having received a
+royal order that was never countermanded, the guards have kept her
+prisoner there. And Londo, even though he is the Prime Minister,
+cannot order her release: that would be countermanding a royal order,
+which is treason and punishable by death. Only the Regent can order
+her released, and they cannot count on his help. Londo cannot do
+anything until he is Emperor. But G'Kar points out Na'Toth may not
+survive that long. "There is nothing I can do," says Londo. "There
+is something you can do," says G'Kar angrily; "you will find
+it, and you will do it! One way or another, we are leaving here with
+Na'Toth."
+
+
    
+
+
+On Babylon 5, Lochley gets ready to go in through the air
+ducts.
+
+
    
+
+In Sheridan's office, Garibaldi explains that in his opinion, the
+problem is not Byron, but rather the telepaths that got out before
+Byron sealed himself in. He is worried about sabotage. Garibaldi also
+has another piece of information: the Drazi found debris from a
+Brakiri ship where the latest attack on their ships occured. They plan
+to introduce it as evidence on the next council meeting.
+
+
    
+
+
+Lochley finally makes it through to where the telepaths are, and is
+taken to see Byron. Lochley explains that everyone in the Alliance was
+tense because of the attacks on their ships, and wanted someone to
+lash at; Byron's threats gave them a target. "Any chance you may have
+had of getting a homeworld for your people," Lochley adds, "is pretty
+much shot to hell." She tells him that they have to give up and give
+up now, otherwise people are going to die when they come to
+them. Byron regrets the deaths that are coming, but again refuses to
+leave.
+
+
    
+
+As a final plea, Lochley asks him for help in identifying the
+telepaths who are outside and are a threat. But despite Byron's
+disagreements with them, he will not turn them in. "We don't betray
+our own kind," Byron explains.
+
+
    
+
+Lochley offers to take anyone out with her, but no one wants to
+leave. Lochley is now confused. "Why did you let me come here?" she
+asks Byron, and adds "Why did you agree to see me?"
+
+
    
+
+"To say goodbye," answers Byron. He adds "While you have not gone out
+of your way to be kind to us, you have been fair, and that requires
+comment. Especially since I have a feeling this will be the last time
+we will see one another." He shakes Lochley's hand, and Lochley turns
+around and leaves the way she came.
+
+
    
+
+Londo is in his quarters when G'Kar comes in. G'Kar has arranged for a
+Narn ship to meet them halfway to Babylon 5 to take Na'Toth home to
+Narn. Despite this arrangements, Londo still does not know how they
+will get her out of the palace. A Centauri woman enters to inform him
+that a cruiser bound for Babylon 5 will depart that night. Londo is
+struck by an idea, and asks the woman for a loan of her clothes, a
+request with which she complies.
+
+
    
+
+
+In a closed session of the Interstellar Alliance Council, the Drazi
+ambassador accuses the Brakiri of working with the telepaths and
+attacking their ships. The Brakiri are outraged and deny the
+charge. The Drazi have dispatched warships to their border with the
+Brakiri: for every Drazi ship destroyed, the Drazi will destroy a
+Brakiri ship.
+
+
    
+
+The Gaim ambassador also has an announcement, however. The Gaim have
+found debris as well, but it is from Drazi ships, not Brakiri. The
+Brakiri now accuse the Drazi of orchestrating it all.
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan disagrees. He points out that it must be a trick by someone
+else. Furthermore, Garibaldi has analyzed the
+debris and concluded the pieces were not shot off, but rather were cut
+off and left behind. "They planted them," says Sheridan, "where they
+knew you would find them, hoping for exactly this reaction." But
+Sheridan still doesn't know who is behind it all. He asks the
+ambassadors to work together to find out, or at least to give Sheridan
+more time to figure out who is behind the attacks.
+
+
    
+
+But the Drazi are through waiting: "Any ship that crosses into Drazi
+space without proper authorization," warns the Drazi Ambassador, "will
+not survive the mistake!" He leaves the meeting, and the other
+ambassadors follow him.
+
+
    
+
+
+In Centauri Prime, Londo enters Na'Toth's cell. After ascertaining she
+is the only prisoner left, he orders the guard never to come back and
+not to let anyone else go there. He implies Na'Toth will be dead soon,
+and as a final order, tells the guard to wait three days and then wall
+up the hallway. The guard obeys and leaves.
+
+
    
+
+"Have you come to kill me, Mollari?" asks Na'Toth in a weary
+voice. "No," replies Londo. "I will kill you," says Na'Toth, softly,
+"at the very first opportunity." "Yes," replies Londo, "I suspect
+you'll have to get in line for that honor." He unchains her as G'Kar
+comes in with the clothes Londo borrowed.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
+Londo's plan is simple: with Na'Toth dressed and veiled as a Centauri
+woman, they will simply walk to their ship. The Royal Court has been
+trained to turn a blind eye to inappropriate behavior, so Londo walks
+hand in hand with Na'Toth, pretending to be drunk and being quite loud
+in his promises of future delights and adventures. As he predicted,
+everyone they meet turns away and pretends not to notice, and they
+make their ship safely.
+
+
    
+
+On Babylon 5, Bester arrives. "I told you they were trouble," he
+reminds the Captain smugly, "but you wouldn't listen. That's all
+right, I'm used to it. I'm here now. It's all going to be just fine."
+
+
    
+
+The telepaths who left Byron have found out that Bester is back, and
+realize the Bloodhounds cannot be far behind. Since they cannot count
+on help from Lochley, and they will not let themselves be taken back
+to the Psi Corps, they decide to fight back. They attack some security
+guards, and telepathically get the code for the weapons locker from
+one of them.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
+Bester arrives with Lochley to where security is still trying to cut
+through, and helps block the telepaths inside, thus allowing the
+welder to cut through the doors without being slowed down. Lochley
+promises Bester that if he can get the telepaths out safely, he may
+take custody of them.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
+Just before they cut through, the armed telepaths open fire and kill
+the welder and a security guard before withdrawing.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
+Inside, Byron is distraught at the knowledge that his people are
+killing in his name. "I've got to stop it," Byron tells Lyta. "There's
+nothing you can do," she replies. "Yes," counter Byron, "yes there
+is."
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
+Sheridan and Delenn invite the Drazi, Gaim and Brakiri ambassadors to
+a private meeting. They tell the Drazi that White Stars are now
+watching their ships massed on the border, and will intervene if they
+attack any Brakiri ships. According to the terms of the Alliance, no
+member race may attack any other member race. The same threat of
+retaliation applies to the Gaim and the Brakiri. The three Ambassadors
+are outraged, and consider this an attack on the sovereign rights. But
+they cannot stand up to the White Stars. Sheridan asks for more time
+to gather evidence, and the three reluctantly agree.
+
+
    
+
+"We will wait for a little while," the Drazi Ambassador says, and then
+he warns: "But we will not forget this. You threatened to use force
+against us when all we wanted was to protect ourselves. Every great
+fall begins with a single mistake. This was yours."
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
+En route to Babylon 5, Na'Toth is taken to a Narn transport. It will
+be difficult for her to heal, especially her spirit, but G'Kar is
+confident she will make a full recovery, given time.  Londo admits to
+G'Kar that saving was Na'Toth was a very exhilarating experience for
+him, and he enjoyed it immensely.
+
+
    
+
+And on Babylon 5, Bester welcomes some of his associates to the
+station: the Bloodhounds have arrived, and the storm is about to
+begin.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+
+As soon as the transport of Psi Cops arrives, Bester debriefs them on their
+mission to root out and capture Byron's telepaths.  He explains that the
+telepaths who have left Byron are more dangerous than the others holed up
+in Brown sector.  Meanwhile, somewhere in the station, one of his
+bloodhound Psi Cops is led by a telepath into an ambush.  Bester gives the
+Psi Cops their assignments and orders them to resolve the situation by the
+next day.  
+
+
    
+Lochley enters to catch the end of his speech.  She accuses him of enjoying
+the hunt, and he replies that if they weren't protecting normals from rogue
+telepaths, another worse method of controlling telepaths would be employed.
+ He adds that his mission is to help rogue telepaths understand they are
+all on the same side.  The transport tube doors open to reveal the body of
+the ambushed bloodhound nailed to the wall under the words "Free Byron!" 
+
+
    
+Byron contacts President Sheridan.  He can convince his followers to back
+off if the Psi Cops leave the station.  Sheridan is trying to negotiate
+when Bester walks in and sneers that Byron never keeps his promises.  "It's
+over," he says.  
+
+
    
+"No, there are other ways," Byron replies and breaks off.  He brushes off
+Lyta's question about what Bester meant.  
+
+
    
+Bester ignores Sheridan's anger and delivers a progress report.  Once he's
+gone Sheridan wonders to Lochley why Garibaldi hasn't been heard from.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Bester is greeted in his quarters by Garibaldi and a charged ppg.
+Garibaldi demands that Bester dictate a full confession to the Babcom unit.
+ Bester casually admits everything but declines to record it.  Garibaldi
+threatens again with utter sincerity.  Bester tells him to go ahead and
+shoot.  Garibaldi's face shows a struggle, but he just stands there with
+his gun.  Bester nonchalantly walks past him and sits down.  "On a scale of
+one to ten," he questions, "How stupid do you think I am, anyway?"  He
+procedes to explain that he has installed an "asimov" in Garibaldi's mind.
+Garibaldi cannot harm Bester, nor through inaction allow him to come to
+harm.  The block is in his neural system so that he can want to kill Bester
+and experience his rage, but he is "blocked at the point of action." Bester
+mocks Garibaldi's futility some more and then leaves.  Garibaldi raises his
+ppg again at Bester's retreating back, then destroys the Babcom unit in
+frustration.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Byron complains again to Lyta how he had hoped that his followers could be
+nobler and less violent than they are.  She changes the subject to why
+Bester hates him.  Byron admits that he used to be Bester's Psi Cop
+protege, until one day they intercepted a transport smuggling rogues.  Once
+the rogues were captured, Bester ordered the squadron to destroy the
+transport.  "They're just mundanes," he reasoned.  Byron did as he was
+told, but ran away once he returned to Earth and vowed to find a better way
+for telepaths to live.  
+
+
    
+The telepaths outside the Byron's stronghold are in a losing firefight.
+One of them thinks of a place they can get hostages.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi asks Dr.  Franklin if there is any medical way to break a
+telepathic neural block.  Before Franklin can answer the telepaths rush in
+shooting or subduing everyone in Medlab.  Moments later on Babcom, the
+telepaths threaten to kill their hostages, starting with Garibaldi, unless
+they get safe passage and a homeworld.  Byron watches this broadcast and
+begs Lyta to find him a way to Medlab so he can stop the killing.  
+
+
    
+The telepaths lift the teek Peter from his sickbed to help them guard an
+access route.  Franklin tries to intervene for his patient and almost gets
+killed.  
+
+
    
+Zack leads a sally against Peter's position, but is confused into
+retreating when confronted by a barrage of bedpans.  
+
+
    
+Bester gloats to the President about his error in trusting rogue telepaths.
+Even though Garibaldi's life is in danger, Bester still has jurisdiction
+over the handling of the crisis, so there's nothing Lochley or Sheridan can
+do, short of negotiating with terrorists.  
+
+
    
+Lyta and Byron walk around their sealed-in domain.  She pauses at every air
+shaft and sends her mind down each one, searching for a free path out.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi's time is almost up.  Bloodied and frightened, he and Franklin
+eye the terrorists.  Byron and Lyta appear at Peter's checkpoint.
+Garibaldi starts trying to talk the terrorists into working with him, but
+no one responds.  Just then Sheridan's face comes on the console.  He
+declares that they will not negotiate for the lives of hostages.  There is
+the sound of a ppg charging and the telepaths point their guns at Garibaldi
+who makes a last ditch effort to stop them.  A ppg is fired, and the lead
+terrorist drops.  Byron has shot him.  
+
+
    
+Sheridan paces agitatedly.  He tells Lochley he's probably condemned his
+friend to death.  Byron pages them from Medlab.  He offers to surrender
+with everyone responsible for committing crimes, if in exchange he is
+allowed to gather all his people together and speak with them, and then the
+innocent ones are allowed to leave the station peacefully.  Lochley agrees.  
+
+
    
+Bester is pissed.  Lochley tells him that he no longer has jurisdiction.
+If he wants Byron, he needs to go through channels back on Earth.  Just
+then Zack comes in with the identicards and signed confessions of telepaths
+who committed violence.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+While the telepaths quietly commune, Bester approaches their sealed off
+entrances and puts out a mental call to Byron.  He offers Byron forgiveness
+in exchange for coming back to the family, but Byron refuses.  
+
+
    
+Bester gathers his bloodhounds for a final attempt to grab Byron at
+docking.  As the violent telepaths begin to surrender to Lochley and armed
+guards, Bester rushes up and demands the prisoners.  One of the telepaths
+panics and fires at Bester.  In the ensuing fight, telepaths and guards are
+shot and a fuel conduit is ruptured.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Byron and Lochley shout a ceasefire.  Byron picks up a ppg and looks at the
+chemicals pouring out on the floor.  Byron demands that Lyta leave him now,
+and thereby save his soul by saving the other telepaths who will be leaving
+the station soon.  She must be strong for him, he says.  She walks away,
+and as the remaining surrendering telepaths draw close, he charges the ppg
+and aims at the fuel.  Sheridan grabs Lyta and everyone runs out before
+Byron and his telepaths explode.  
+
+
    
+Watching the grisly cleanup, Sheridan asks Bester if he's satisfied now.
+Bester seems lost.  He never believed Byron hated him and the Corps so
+much.  Franklin finds Sheridan and asks where Garibaldi is.  He's worried
+because Garibaldi appeared so distraught and beaten earlier.  
+
+
    
+The remaining telepaths file off station under Bester's futile eye.  Lyta
+rushes up, calling "Wait!"  One-by-one, she touches each of the telepaths
+and gives them individual contact information for finding safe houses and
+rescuers set up for them wherever they go.  It is Byron's last gift to them
+to keep them free.  "Remember Byron," she tells each.  
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi enters his quarters with a bottle of liquor.  He pours it in a
+tumbler, hesitates a moment and drains it.  
+
+
    
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan is signing copies of a treaty, getting ready for a meeting of
+the Interstellar Alliance. He arrives late in the council chamber,
+but his apology dies on his lips; only Delenn is present. The other
+ambassadors voted to boycott the council until the Alliance can
+guarantee the safety of their shipping lines, or at least find out who
+is responsible for the attacks ("In the
+Kingdom of the Blind", "A Tragedy of
+Telepaths"). They need a break, and they need it soon.
+
+
    
+
+Meanwhile, a break is in the making. A human transport, protected by
+Drazi fighters, is under attack. A single human manages to slip out in
+a lifepod as the attacking forces destroy the convoy.
+
+
    
+
+Later, G'Kar and Londo arrive back from Centauri Prime. Narns are
+looking at G'Kar, and bowing before him, which puzzles G'Kar. Londo
+takes the opportunity to tease him about it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+In his quarters, Garibaldi has overslept and missed a meeting with
+Zack. The bottle he drank the night before "Phoenix Rising") lies empty next to his
+bed.
+
+
    
+
+Half an hour later, he joins Sheridan, Delenn, Franklin and Zack for a
+meeting. The Rangers have found the debris from the last attack and
+know a lifepod is missing. This could mean a potential witness, and a
+way to head off the crisis building up in the Alliance.
+
+
    
+
+Unfortunately, since it was a human transport in Drazi space, it is
+likely that they were smugglers, contracted by the Drazi
+Government. The Alliance members use this sort of arrangement to
+bypass Alliance regulations on dangerous substances and equipment. If
+so, the Drazi Government is unlikely to help them.
+
+
    
+
+Fortunately, however, Garibaldi has an old friend from his days on the
+mining colony on Europa ("Survivors"),
+who now works as a security consultant on the Drazi homeworld. He can
+help them locate the pilot and get him out. Sheridan wants the pilot
+to testify before the council as soon as possible. He asks Franklin to
+go with Garibaldi and help him out, but Garibaldi objects. He claims
+his contact will not trust Franklin, and the mission may be
+dangerous. Despite his misgivings about sending Garibaldi by himself,
+Sheridan agrees.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+A large number of Narns seem to be camped out near G'Kar's quarters,
+and murmur in awe as he walks by. Outside his door is Ta'lon ("All Alone in the Night", "A Day in the Strife"). G'Kar greets him
+warmly, but when he walks into his quarters, he discovers that the
+book he has been writing is missing. According to Ta'lon, the Kha'ri
+was worried that G'Kar had been taken prisoner and was to be executed
+in Centauri Prime. Afraid that if something happened to him, the "Book
+of G'Kar" might never see the light of day, Ta'lon helped "liberate
+it", and took it back to Narn. There, copies were made, and
+eventually it was published. In only a month, over half a million
+copies have been made. It has achieved great popularity, and the Book
+of G'Kar is on its way to outselling the Book of G'Quan.
+
+
    
+
+"Congratulations, Citizen G'Kar," quips Ta'lon. "You are now a
+religious icon."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+On his way out, Garibaldi is stopped by Franklin. Franklin is afraid
+there may be something wrong between them on a personal level, a
+feeling he got because of Garibaldi's refusal to take him along on the
+mission. Garibaldi assures him it is nothing personal, but rather he
+is worried the mission will be very dangerous and Franklin will be
+unable to help. Franklin is not completely convinced, but has no
+arguments to give. Before Garibaldi leaves, Franklin says: "If you
+ever got a problem, anything at all you want to talk about... you know
+where to find me."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Garibaldi arrives at the Drazi Homeworld and is promptly contacted by
+his friend, Tafiq Azir. Tafiq knows the pilot is hiding, and why: the
+pilot's employers are not happy he lost the ship, and the Drazi agents
+that awaited the cargo want to take their losses out on him. They
+would all rather he was dead, including the Government, who would have
+to explain its involvement with smuggling. The pilot, in short, wants
+to get off planet. Tafiq has made arrangements: the pilot will signal
+Garibaldi's balcony from a near-by park, and Tafiq will arrange for a
+shuttle. A knock on the door announces the arrival of room service:
+Tafiq has ordered a bottle of some alcoholic drink. At first,
+Garibaldi refuses the drink, but he quickly changes his mind and
+starts drinking.
+
+
    
+
+As night falls, Garibaldi is asleep on his chair, drunk. Tafiq leaves
+to finalize the arrangements, but he is assaulted in the hallway
+outside the room, and shot in the chest. Garibaldi, however, is too
+far gone to hear it.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Some time later, Garibaldi awakes. As he stands on the balcony, he
+notices the signal from the pilot flashing. Garibaldi runs out, but he
+comes upon a Drazi going through Tafiq's clothing. In the ensuing
+fistfight, the Drazi is tossed out the balcony, but a large flying
+vehicle flashes a spotlight on Garibaldi. Garibaldi runs to Tafiq, but
+it is too late to save him. With his dying breath, Tafiq tells
+Garibaldi to go and save the pilot. In the park, three robed figures,
+their heads obscured by hoods, are beating a man. Garibaldi tries to
+intervene, but they are too much for him, and he gets a beating
+instead. As the Drazi authorities approach, the hooded figures
+leave. Before the Drazi arrive, Garibaldi confirms that the pilot is
+dead, and he escapes through the narrow streets of the Drazi capital.
+
+
    
+
+In Sheridan's office, Delenn receives an emergency transmission from
+Garibaldi. The mission has failed catastrophically, and everyone is
+after him. She arranges for a White Star to pick him up and take him
+back to Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
+Outside G'Kar's quarters, Narns are waiting, reading the Book of
+G'Kar. Ta'lon knocks on the door, only to receive a curt "Go away!"
+from G'Kar. But after he identifies himself, G'Kar lets him, and only
+him, inside.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar doesn't want to be a leader, religious or secular. He is
+overwhelmed by the attention. "I have nothing to teach them," he tells
+Ta'lon.  But Ta'lon disagrees. For a hundred years, the Narns have
+only taught each other to hate and to fight. But in this New Age, the
+Narn need new lessons.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+"I have not personally read your book," Ta'lon admits, "but I have
+seen the light of understanding come into their eyes. It is not about
+teaching, it is about unlearning hate and fear."
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar does not want to lead others, afraid they may be forced
+to pay the price of his mistakes. What if he leads them the wrong way,
+teaches them the wrong lesson? Even worse, what if they come, not
+because of the lesson but because of the teacher? G'Kar fears his own
+shadow may become larger than his the message.
+
+
    
+
+"If that happens," answers Ta'lon, "I give you my word that I will
+personally kill you." Not much comfort, perhaps, but the only comfort
+Ta'lon, as a warrior, is capable of giving. Mollified, G'Kar comes
+out, faces his admirers, and invites them in.
+
+
    
+
+In Sheridan's office, Delenn, Sheridan, Garibaldi and G'Kar are going
+over Garibaldi's mission. The only thing Garibaldi has is a button
+from one of the cloaked figures; he also knows, from the way they felt
+when he hit them, that they were not Drazi. Garibaldi figures the ones
+behind the attacks are the ones who killed the pilot. The fact that
+they knew about him indicates that there is a leak somewhere.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Londo arrives late to the meeting and notices the button Garibaldi
+found. It is, he says, the button of a uniform of the Palace Guard;
+they are not found anywhere else. The others are taken aback by the
+revelation, and quickly move on to the next topic. After Londo leaves,
+however, they stay and talk. They agree the Centauri are almost
+certainly behind the attacks, but that Londo probably does not know
+about them. On the other hand, it was probably through him that those
+responsible found out about Garibaldi's mission.
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar advises that Londo be told nothing.  If Londo is told about
+their findings, he will be outraged and try to trace the attacks to
+their source. And shortly thereafter, he will be killed. He recounts
+the assassination attempt on Londo in Centauri Prime ("In the Kingdom of the Blind"), and
+explains that two factions are at work in the Centauri Royal
+Court. Londo is alive because one of the factions wants him alive, and
+if he starts to ask the wrong questions he will become a liability and
+be killed. Until they find out which faction is behind it, Londo must
+be kept out of the loop. The rest agree.
+
+
    
+
+Delenn is puzzled, however. There is no reason for the Centauri to do
+this: they need the Alliance as much as everyone else. "There is
+something here we are missing," she muses out loud.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Franklin later goes to see Sheridan. Dr. Benjamin Kyle ("The Gathering") will retire as head of
+Xenobiological Research in Earthdome at the end of the year, and has
+asked Franklin to take over for him. After careful thought, Franklin
+has decided to accept. He points out this will even help in putting
+the information on cross-species infection together for the Alliance
+("Strange Relations"). It also means,
+however, that he has to leave Babylon 5 by the end of the
+year. Sheridan is not happy on a personal level, since he values both
+Franklin's work and his friendship. But he agrees it is a great promotion and
+great opportunity.
+
+
    
+
+Franklin promises to tell everyone himself, especially Garibaldi. He
+goes to put a call to the latter right away, but Garibaldi doesn't
+hear the incoming message. He is passed out on his bed, an empty
+bottle of whiskey on his night stand.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Katrina Glerum (kat@midwinter.com)
    
+
+
    
+Bester enters his superior's office.  He is introduced to two young Psi
+Cop recruits, Lauren and Chen, who he will be expected to take under his
+wing for a few weeks.  The recruits are nervous being anywhere near their
+great hero, Bester.
+
+
    
+A young man sits at a cluttered desk in a small room at the Psi Corps. He
+is arguing with himself, saying, "It's my mind, not yours."
+He sees an advertising brochure for Babylon 5, grabs it, and leaves the
+room.  There is a bloody corpse on the floor.
+
+
    
+Bester takes his charges into a Psi Cop scanning-countering training
+session.  Two people are seated at a table sparring with each other. From
+the outside, they seem to be in a staring contest, but the mental image of
+them shows a complex attack and defense exercise going on.  Bester
+says that field agents must be able to withstand this for an hour.
+Telepathic strength is not enough to be a Psi Cop, he explains, it also
+requires intense training, and a dedication to caring for rogue telepaths
+as if they are family members gone astray. Blips are happier when they are
+brought back home, he tells them and ushers them into a room where they can
+watch a propaganda film about this.  The film is interrupted when a woman
+comes in and whispers something to Bester.
+
+
    
+They go to the murder scene where Bester is informed that he must track
+down the victim's roommate and presumed murderer.
+
+
    
+Later that evening, Bester is visited in his apartment by Lauren.  She
+wants to talk about the murder.  Bester explains that a dead mundane
+means nothing, but a telepath is rare and special, and so it is never easy
+when one dies.  She worshipfully asks him about his history, and he tells
+her about being an orphan raised by the Corps, and his loveless marriage.
+When he suggests that she go home. she offers to stay, and he kindly ushers
+her to the door saying he appreciates it, but his heart is taken.
+
+
    
+After she leaves his superior arrives to inform him that the suspect has
+booked passage to Babylon 5.  Bester grimaces.
+
+
    
+In the briefing the next day, the superior explains their mission. Since
+the suspect, Harris, is a P10, there is no way a mundane security force
+could catch him.  And as Bester points out, this is an internal Psi Corps
+matter anyway.  They don't want mundanes turning their eye on the Corps for
+any reason.  Privately the superior tells Bester that the suspect is a
+trained "mind-shredder" who could even destroy him.
+
+
    
+Later in his quarters, Bester prepares himself before departure by
+envisioning an interview with Harris, using his own image in a mirror.
+"Why did you do it?" he asks.  Harris's image responds, "Because I could,"
+and taunts him by saying, "You'll never understand what [went wrong]."
+
+
    
+In the Babylon 5 casino, Harris sits down to a blackjack table and
+innocently asks the dealer to explain the rules.  
+
+
    
+Bester, Chen and Lauren depart from the Psi Corps mothership in a shuttle.
+Bester explains that just like all the other ships, the mothership never
+leaves hyperspace, lest outsiders discover the extent of the Psi Corps'
+resources.
+
+
    
+After cleaning up in the blackjack game, Harris laughs and leaves the
+casino under the watchful scrutiny of a shady-looking man.
+
+
    
+The Psi Corps trio arrives in Customs and are greeted by Zack.  Bester
+suffers Zack's sarcasm for a moment, and then explains his mission and
+sends a dirty joke to Lauren who giggles, leaving Zack wondering what they
+know about him.  
+
+
    
+One of the losers in blackjack confronts Harris in a corridor and demands
+his money back.  After getting knocked to the ground, a change comes over
+Harris, and he shouts "You shouldn't get him upset!"  The loser begins to
+scream.  His eyes turn bloody and he collapses.  
+
+
    
+Bester determines Harris's room from a Drazi lowlife.  He goes to get B5
+security and leaves Chen and Lauren to watch the room.  He tells them
+explicitly not to approach the suspect.  
+
+
    
+Chen of course immediately decides to enter and attempt an arrest.  He
+scares himself silly by stumbling over a corpse with his first step.
+
+
    
+The corpse turns out to be that of a 5-day-dead gambler.  Zack tells the
+Psi Cops that the man's identicard has been used in the casino several
+times since his death.  The loser's corpse has just shown up in medlab,
+and Zack implies strongly that Bester has had something to do with the
+deaths.  
+
+
    
+When Franklin describes the way the man's brain cells exploded, with the
+worshipful recruits in tow, Bester explains with extreme condescension that
+the suspect couldn't have been the perpetrator since P10s can't do that kind
+of damage.  Franklin bristles at the telepaths' mockery.
+
+
    
+Bester is deeply worried now.  He sends Lauren off to get more evidence
+from the investigators back at Psi Corps HQ, and sends Chen to Downbelow to
+find more gambling dens.  Bester goes to check customs, in case Harris
+has booked passage elsewhere.  
+
+
    
+Chen discovers Harris, and places a call to Bester.  As he does, he is
+stabbed to death by the man who has been shadowing Harris.
+
+
    
+Chen's killer has partnered up with Harris, taking ten percent of Harris's
+winnings for the service.  They only need one more session to have enough
+for Harris to get away.  Harris claims that he doesn't even know why he's
+running away.
+
+
    
+Lauren's work has turned up a recording of Harris's last training session.
+The session ends abruptly when Harris jumps in pain or anger and then
+shouts when his roommate apologizes, "He said let it go!"
+
+
    
+Bester realizes that Harris is a multiple personality.  The deadly
+personality must be a P12 who killed the roommate in order to avoid
+detection, since, as Lauren says in a happily brainwashed manner, "Unstable
+telepaths are put away for the good of everyone."
+
+
    
+As Harris and his new pal amble towards their next gambling session, they
+are ambushed by security.  Bester begs Harris to trust him, saying that
+they will take him back.  Both men are overwhelmed and Bester is shot in
+the shoulder.
+
+
    
+Franklin tells Bester he shouldn't leave before he has healed.  Bester
+scoffs and the doctor's concern and Franklin says that he treats all his
+patients equally, "Even the annoying self righteous arrogant ones with
+self-important delusions of godhood."  Bester smirks, hops off the table
+and collapses.  When Franklin quickly catches him, Bester remarks that if
+Franklin had thought about it he would have let him fall.  Franklin
+contends that he wouldn't and authorizes a scan if Bester wants to see the
+truth.
+
+
    
+Just then Lauren comes up announcing that Zack is releasing both prisoners
+to their care so they can depart immediately.
+
+
    
+Back in their shuttle in hyperspace, Lauren offers Bester a back rub when
+they get home and then tells him what a hero he is to her because he never
+gives up fighting for their people.  Then she begs Bester to allow her to
+deal with the mundane captive on board.  He grants permission and within a
+few minutes the man is spaced.  
+
+
    
+Bester asks if it's her first and she swallows and says yes.  Then she
+beams proudly when he comments that she "might just be Psi Corps material
+after all."
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+In the middle of the night, Delenn lies in bed, awake. She receives a
+muted signal, stands up, and leaves. Half asleep, Sheridan asks her
+where she is going. She claims she only wants to get some documents
+from her quarters; reassured, Sheridan falls back to sleep.
+
+
    
+
+
+But Delenn is not going to her quarters. Instead, she goes to a bar in
+Downbelow. She is accosted by a human, who hits on her. First she asks
+him to leave politely. When he refuses, she breaks one of his
+fingers. When he goes after her again, he is stopped by a hooded
+Ranger, who beats him unconscious. The Ranger is Lennier.
+
+
    
+
+Lennier joins Delenn in a deserted corridor. He has a fresh scar on
+his cheek, given to him by a Drazi during hand-to-hand combat
+training. She explains that they have compelling reasons to believe
+the Centauri are behind the attacks on the Alliance shipping lines ("The Ragged Edge"), but no evidence. She
+will assign him to a White Star on a training mission near Centauri
+space. She hopes his experience with the Centauri, unmatched by anyone
+else within the Rangers thanks to his tenure as her aide, will help
+him find the solid evidence they need.
+
+
    
+
+Lennier asks why the secrecy. Delenn explains that they need to keep
+the information away from the other worlds until they have evidence,
+and more importantly, she does not want Sheridan to know. If Sheridan
+finds out, he will try to stop Lennier, to protect him and to protect
+Delenn from hurt, should anything happen to Lennier. So she wants
+nobody, especially Sheridan, to know. Not even the captain of the ship
+he is assigned to knows his true mission.
+
+
    
+
+Before he leaves, Lennier tells Delenn about Morden's visit during the
+"Day of the Dead", and his
+prophecy that Lennier would, one day, betray the Rangers.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Londo, meanwhile, is in his quarters when Vir arrives, loaded with
+supplies. While Londo was away, Vir was eating out, so there is
+nothing fresh. Londo chastises him: someone in Vir's position should
+not eat like that. Vir asks what he means, but before Londo can
+explain, an alarm goes off on his desk: a listening device was hidden
+in one of the bags of groceries Vir just bought from
+a Drazi merchant. Londo makes some disparaging remarks about Drazi in
+general and the Drazi Ambassador's wife in particular, loud and clear
+in front of the microphone, before he destroys the device.
+
+
    
+
+Then he continues: although he thinks Vir is not quite ready yet,
+Londo has decided that Vir will be the Centauri Ambassador to Babylon
+5 once Londo becomes Emperor.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Lennier arrives on board White Star 27, which has unofficially been
+christened the Maria by her Captain, Enrique Montoya. The
+Captain is impressed with Lennier's experience, but warns that since
+Lennier is officially a trainee, he will be treated the same as the
+others. When Lennier asks about the name, Montoya replies that the
+ship needed a proper name, so he named it after his sister. "And where
+is your sister?" asks Lennier. "With God," replies Montoya,
+curtly. Lennier tells Findell, a fellow trainee, that he has asked an
+indiscreet question. But Findell reassures him: "The Captain does not
+believe in indiscreet questions. He believes the only way to get
+pertinent information is by asking impertinent questions." "Then,"
+says Lennier with a faint smile, "I believe I may have finally found a
+home."
+
+
    
+
+G'Kar enters Sheridan's office, where Sheridan, Delenn, and the Drazi
+ambassador wait. The Drazi informs them of new attacks on Drazi ships,
+and tells Sheridan he believes the Council knows who is behind the
+attacks. Sheridan says they have nothing but leads, and Delenn asks
+the Drazi to have some patience. The Drazi Ambassador promises they
+will be patient, because she requests it. However, he strongly
+implies he knows that Centauri are behind the attacks, and thinks
+Sheridan and the others are just covering up because they need the
+Centauri for the alliance. Londo comes in then, and after inquiring
+about the health of the Drazi Ambassador's wife, tells them about the
+bug he found in his quarters. He is also perplexed at not being
+invited to this meeting, but leaves. The Drazi soon follows. G'Kar
+also leaves: Dr. Franklin has informed him that he has finally
+obtained a Narn artificial eye for G'Kar, and G'Kar is eager to have
+it fitted in.
+
+
    
+
+Aboard the Maria, Findell tells Lennier the Captain wants both
+of them to scout the area after the ship comes out of hyperspace. But
+he didn't ask them to look for anything in particular. Findell points
+out that Montoya often leaves out important information, a habit he
+finds frustrating. But Lennier says Montoya is trying to teach them
+the human way of doing things, and to have them react with initiative
+to new situations, a new concept for the rigid and tradition-bound
+Minbari. Lennier offers to help Findell adjust, but Findell haughtily
+denies he needs any help.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Franklin fits G'Kar with the Narn eye, and G'Kar is overjoyed. During
+the procedure, Franklin mentions he has been reading G'Kar's book, and
+would like to sit in on his weekly talks on the Book of G'Kar. G'Kar
+agrees.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+The Maria drops into normal space, and Lennier and Findell
+launch soon after. Lennier notes an anomaly: although their systems
+checked fine before launching, they now only have one hour's supply of
+air. But before they can contact the ship, the Maria jumps out,
+leaving them behind. Lennier suggest staying put, and going into a
+meditation trance to conserve air. Findell is clearly agitated, and
+doesn't know if he can enter the trance. But he agrees to
+try. However, an hour later Findell has almost exhausted his air
+supply. Desperate, he starts flying away looking for some air. Just
+then, the Maria jumps back in: it was all a training
+exercise. As Captain Montoya explains in the debriefing, it is
+possible that they may be left behind during a mission, since the ship
+and the mission it is carrying out is more important than any
+individual. He also praises Lennier's analysis and actions.
+
+
    
+
+In the Zocalo, Vir confronts the Drazi vendor and demands an
+explanation for the bugging. But the Drazi laughs at him: "We all know
+you, Vir Cotto. We know what you are. You are weak! You are foolish!
+And now you will go away or I will swat you!" He shoves Vir, who
+silently turns away and retreats.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+But Vir is not done. He goes to Londo's quarters and takes a sword off
+the wall. Londo, intrigued, follows him out. Vir returns to the
+Zocalo, and while yelling he smashes the Drazi's fruit stand. The
+Drazi trembles and drops to the ground, imploring. Vir puts the tip of
+the sword to the Drazi's neck, and challenges him: "Now... want to
+finish our little conversation, spoo for brains?" "It.. it was a
+misunderstanding!" stammers the Drazi; "It was a terribel mistake!"
+Londo is watching from a distance, smiling. Vir gets restrained by a
+couple of security guards, and Zack Allen arrives: "What happened to
+Vir?" he asks Londo. "I promoted him," replies a satisfied
+Londo. "Now, now he is ready to be the Ambassador for the
+Centauri."
+
+
    
+
+Aboard the Maria, Captain Montoya describes the next training
+mission to Lennier, Findell, and two other cadets. They will engage in
+an Easter Egg Hunt: in a dangerous asteroid field, Montoya has hidden
+39 short range homing devices. Each ranger should destroy at least
+ten. This means someone will fail, of course, and Findell is convinced
+the Captain means him. Lennier asks Findell why he joined the Rangers,
+and Findell explains he lost two members of his family, both Rangers,
+during the Shadow War; it has fallen on him to carry on their
+work. Lennier points out that his purpose may be flawed, and if so he
+shouldn't be a Ranger.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+In the field, Lennier is off to an early lead, and Findell is dead
+last. Findell cuts his communications to the Maria, and heads
+toward a large asteroid. Lennier follows him, and through a private
+channel confronts Findell. Findell knows he will fail, and cannot bear
+the shame of failure. Lennier targets Findell's engines, and then rams
+the ship to knock him off collision course; the maneuver almost
+destroys Lennier's own ship.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+Back on board the Maria, Montoya is furious. He demands an
+explanation, and Lennier claims his computer malfunctioned and fired
+on Findell before he could override it. He also claims it was
+Findell's maneuver that knocked him off course and prevented him from
+crashing on the asteroid. Montoya fails Lennier on the exercise, but
+gives Findell a neutral grade. Finally, he has chosen a new assignment
+for Findell: Findell will return to Minbar, and join the recruitment
+office. There, he will ask each candidate why they want to join the
+Rangers. And if their purpose is not clear, if they are joining for
+the wrong reasons, Findell will not let them through. It is a very
+important, and honorable, task, Montoya says. One Findell is uniquely
+qualified for. Glad of having an honorable way out, Findell thanks the
+Captain and leaves.
+
+
    
+
+Captain Montoya then tells Lennier, off the record, that Lennier did a
+good job. "And I know," adds Montoya. "And you should learn a very
+important lesson: Never, ever assume that no one can listen in on a
+private channel."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
+At the end of the day, Zack is recounting the incident with Vir to
+Franklin, Delenn, and Sheridan over dinner. Since nobody got hurt, and
+the Drazi didn't want to admit to bugging Londo's quarters, he didn't
+press charges. So Zack just took Vir aside and talked to him. On more
+sober matters, Sheridan points out that they have a month at most
+before the other worlds lose their patience and start attacking on
+their own: they need some proof, and they need it soon.
+
+
    
+
+There is an empty chair at the table: Delenn sent a note inviting
+Garibaldi, but he hasn't shown up. In Garibaldi's quarters, the
+message board is flashing, unattended. Garibaldi is on the floor,
+singing and drinking...
+
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+
    
+Garibaldi enters the Zocalo, which lies in ruins, fires and dead
+bodies everywhere. Garibaldi himself looks bloody and beaten. Among
+the dead is Sheridan, shot through the head. Next to him, a sign in
+blood reads, "You failed me." Zack Allan is also dead, next to another
+message in blood: "Where were you?"
+
+
    
+Franklin is still alive, barely. "We needed you..." he gasps, before
+being shot. Laughter echoes through the Zocalo. Another Garibaldi,
+carrying a big gun, steps out from among the debris and claims
+responsibility. The beaten Garibaldi backs away, and something creeps
+out of a bar and starts engulfing him...
+
+
    
+...and Garibaldi wakes with a start. It was a dream. Sitting on his
+bed is Lyta, her eyes glowing. She explains she has decided to stop
+hiding what the Vorlons did to her, and she is testing her limits. But
+Garibaldi shouldn't have woken up. "This is just a dream," she tells
+him, and Garibaldi wakes up again. There is no one in the room.
+
+
    
+Then the door opens, and Lise Hampton comes in. She's come to see
+Garibaldi, since he had promised he would stay on Babylon 5 only for a
+short while (a promise he has not kept), and she misses him.
+
+
    
+Delenn is picking up some papers from Sheridan's office when a call
+from Lennier comes in. Since Sheridan isn't around, she takes it
+there. Lennier reports three more attacks on Alliance ships, and no
+witnesses or evidence. However, twenty minutes before each attack,
+they intercepted coded Centauri signals. Given enough time, he will
+be able to decode them.
+
+
    
+Lennier also asks if Sheridan knows about his mission. Delenn says he
+does not, but just then Sheridan starts to walk in; he stops outside,
+and overhears the final exchanges between Lennier and Delenn. Sheridan
+now knows where Lennier is and what he is doing.
+
+
    
+Elsewhere, Lyta is trying to make a deal with a human
+businessman. Lyta wants a deep-range explorer ship, capable of
+holding two hundred telepaths. They will explore unknown planets for
+the man's company, using telepathy to help in cases of first contact
+and to make things far more efficient. In exchange, if they find a
+suitable, uninhabited planet, they get to form a colony.
+
+
    
+The businessman is not interested, though. Working with rogue
+telepaths would invalidate their insurance, and violate their contract
+with the Psi Corps. They cannot afford either one. In his opinion,
+neither can any other company. The resources needed would be too
+great. Lyta thinks about it briefly after he leaves, and gets an idea:
+she schedules an appointment with G'Kar for later that day.
+
+
    
+Vir is going over the day's business with Londo. The Royal Court
+wants the schedule of transports from Alliance worlds to Centauri
+Prime. A most unusual request, according to Londo, since the Royal
+Court has never before shown interest in this sort of thing. To
+Londo's surprise, this is in fact the only business for the day. An
+appointment with the Drazi Minister of Finance, and a photo
+opportunity with the Gaim Ambassador have both been cancelled. Vir
+thinks it has to do with the boycott of Alliance business ("The Ragged Edge"), but Londo points
+out that these sorts of contacts must be maintained, regardless of the
+situation with the Alliance. Londo is perplexed.
+
+
    
+Lise starts to make some coffee, and discovers a bottle under the
+sink. She angrily confronts Garibaldi. She's seen
+what alcohol has done to Garibaldi before, ruining his life at least
+twice. Garibaldi admits to some drinking, but claims he has it under
+control. She demands Garibaldi not drink while she's there, if he
+really has it under control. It won't make her happy, but it is a
+start. Garibaldi agrees, and pours the contents of the bottle down the
+drain.
+
+
    
+In hyperspace, aboard the Maria, Lennier is working on decoding
+the Centauri transmissions, when Montoya comes in to ask him about his
+progress. Lennier says all he has been able to decode are three words:
+"do not reply." He believes they are being sent to a staging base. If
+so, the base must have a tachyon stream to help transmissions, and if
+they can locate it at the moment of another transmission, they can
+follow it to the base. Montoya then receives a message from Babylon 5:
+Lennier's theory will stay a theory. The Maria has been
+recalled immediately, by order of Sheridan himself.
+
+
    
+On Babylon 5, Delenn is asking Sheridan why the recall. He explains he
+found out about the covert mission, and since it was being done
+without his knowledge, he has cancelled it. It was inappropriate,
+Sheridan claims, to assign Lennier there without telling him. Delenn
+agrees, but also says it was inappropriate for Sheridan not to assign
+Lennier there in the first place. Although he was the best qualified for
+such a mission, Sheridan was trying to protect Delenn by keeping
+Lennier safe.
+
+
    
+Sheridan finally admits that his was the case, just when he gets a
+message from the Maria: Lennier has taken a one man fighter and
+left the ship. They cannot find him.
+
+
    
+Lennier is in hyperspace, following the tachyon beam as he had
+planned. The possible location for the base, though, is too far for
+his air supply to last. So he enters a meditation trance to conserve
+as much of his oxygen as he can ("Meditations on the Abyss").
+
+
    
+Lyta arrives for her appointment with G'Kar. She recalls the offer
+G'Kar made when she came on board ("The
+Gathering"), when he offered to buy access to her DNA. She wants
+to take him up on it now. G'Kar acknowledges the Narn would like to
+reacquire telepaths, and her DNA would be a great help. Lyta offers
+him access to the DNA sequence of as many telepaths as they want, in
+exchange for certain considerations: a lot of money, deposited to an
+account on Mars; at least five deep-range starships, capable of
+holding a hundred telepaths each; and absolute secrecy. G'Kar
+expresses concerns that the last point may violate their obligations
+as members of the Alliance, but Lyta points out this is an internal
+matter for the Narn Government, and thus not subject to Alliance
+jurisdiction. She leaves to let him think about it.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi and Lise arrive at the Fresh Air Cafe for dinner. Lise says
+she really is looking forward to Garibaldi's return to Mars: she needs
+him to help her deal with Edgars Industries. There is much she doesn't
+understand about the business, and much that frightens her. She asks what
+Sheridan's reaction was when Garibaldi told him he was leaving, but
+his evasions show he hasn't told Sheridan yet. The Maitre D' arrives and
+asks if they want anything to drink. Garibaldi orders coffee. When it
+arrives, Garibaldi claims it is the worst coffee he has ever had,
+stands up, cup in hand, and heads to the kitchen to complain. But once
+out of sight, he takes out a small vial from his jacket and pours
+some alcohol into the coffee before heading in again.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Delenn receive a report on the search for
+Lennier. Although three more White Stars have joined the search, they
+have found no trace of him. Sheridan orders them to continue. Montoya
+points out that the air in the fighter will be running out any time
+now, even if Lennier went into meditation to lower his consumption of
+oxygen.
+
+
    
+Indeed, the air in Lennier's fighter is almost gone. Fortunately, a
+Centauri ship overtakes him, following the tachyon relay. Lennier
+engages full stealth, and attaches the fighter to the warship, drawing
+air from it. Then, the warship jumps into normal space, and Lennier's
+perseverance is rewarded: they have arrived at the Centauri staging
+base.
+
+
    
+In bed, Sheridan is apologizing to Delenn for his earlier behavior,
+and acknowledges she was right to send Lennier on that mission. He is
+also trying to convince her it was not her fault that he is missing,
+probably dead. But Delenn will not accept Lennier's death until she
+has seen a body.
+
+
    
+In the morning, Londo receives an urgent message from Centauri
+Prime. A Minister says that they have information that Sheridan and
+the others want to blame the Centauri for the attacks, and are even
+ready to fabricate evidence if that is what is needed. Londo claims
+Sheridan would not do that. But the Minister points out that the Narn
+have access to many ships and weapons that were left behind when the
+Centauri left Narn; and even though G'Kar would not fabricate
+evidence, other Narn consider him too close to the Centauri and might go
+ahead without his knowledge. "You must do everything you can to stop
+them from blaming our people for these attacks," the Minister tells
+Londo. "If they attempt to move against us, we will fight back." It
+could cause a war.
+
+
    
+Lyta arrives at G'Kar's quarters to hear his answer. G'Kar has
+contacted his government, and they agree to Lyta's terms. They do have
+one more stipulation, however: they want Lyta and her fellow telepaths
+to "listen in" to the other ambassadors from time to time, and report
+to Narn. Lyta thinks about it briefly, but declines. Although she has
+discovered she can do many things she couldn't do before, she cannot
+do this. She still has a shred of decency left. The deal is off. She
+turns to leave.
+
+
    
+G'Kar stops her before she exits. There is no such condition: he
+wanted to see how far she was willing to go. Had she agreed, G'Kar
+would have known that he couldn't trust her, and there would be no
+deal. Now, they can go ahead. She'll have her money, the ships, and
+support from the Narn.
+
+
    
+Lennier's fighter is still attached to the Centauri ship, which is
+again in hyperspace, part of an attack group. Lennier starts recording
+when they jump back into normal space. There, they attack a convoy
+without warning, destroying it completely despite offers to
+surrender. When the Centauri depart, Lennier stays behind, floating
+among the debris. Once they leave, he sends out a distress call, and
+prays for the dead.
+
+
    
+On Babylon 5, Sheridan receives the good news. The Maria has
+rescued Lennier and is heading back to Babylon 5. And he has the proof
+they need. Sheridan tells Delenn, and she is overcome with
+emotion. She leaves, and in the corridor outside she leans against a
+wall, crying and laughing. Londo happens to walk by, and asks if she
+is all right. She turns, and silently goes over and embraces him.
+
+
    
+"What? What is this for?" Londo asks, confused. "I have never done
+that, in all the time you and I have been here," Delenn replies. "And
+I think, very soon, we will never have another chance." She walks away
+slowly, leaving Londo just as confused as before.
+
+
    
+Later, Delenn and Sheridan welcome Lennier back. Lennier gives
+Sheridan the recordings he made, and goes off to rest. "We have worked
+months to get this information," Sheridan says, "and now that I have
+it, a part of me wants to throw it through an airlock. I was hoping we
+were wrong, Delenn." "So was I," replies Delenn. But now they know the
+truth, and they have an obligation to follow through. They will have a
+closed meeting tomorrow to review the evidence. Garibaldi comes in
+then, since Sheridan was looking for him. Sheridan says wants to meet with
+Garibaldi, Franklin, and G'Kar as soon as possible.
+
+
    
+Franklin is with Londo, discussing the plans for a biological data
+base for the Alliance ("Strange
+Relations"), when Vir
+interrupts. He tells Londo that a meeting is in the works for
+tomorrow, a sure indication they have evidence to present regarding
+the attacks. However, everyone is invited except Londo. "I don't like
+this," says Londo. "I don't like this at all. This is going to be
+bad."
+
+
    
+Lise is preparing dinner, and Garibaldi comes in. He wants her out and
+back to Mars as soon as possible. Because, barring a miracle, they
+will soon be at war with the Centauri.
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+
+Before dawn, Sheridan awakes and find Delenn missing; she is in the
+living room, staring silently at a candle. Sheridan asks her to come
+in and sleep, as she will need all her strength in the morning. But
+she does not answer. The morning finds her still in front of the
+candle.
+
+
    
+
+"There comes a moment in everyone's life," Sheridan tells the Alliance
+Council, "when you have to do something you would rather not do. When
+you know something you would rather not know. This is one such
+moment." Having promised to come forward with any conclusive evidence
+he finds, Sheridan is now ready to reveal to the Council the evidence
+that indicates the Centauri Republic is behind the attacks on Alliance
+shipping lines.
+
+
    
+
+The Council meeting is closed; everyone is there, except for Londo and
+Vir. They were not invited, and when Londo tries to go in, he is
+stopped by Zack and armed security guards.
+
+
    
+
+On his way to testify before the Council, Dr. Franklin drops off his
+evidence in Londo's quarters. Autopsies of bodies killed in the
+attacks reveal that the frequency and type of energy weapon used in
+the attacks are consistent with Centauri-manufactured weapons. Then
+comes Garibaldi, who also stops by Londo's quarters. Garibaldi
+confirms that the weapons were used in typical Centauri fashion. He
+also shows the button that he tore from one of his attackers in the
+Drazi homeworld ("The Ragged
+Edge"), a button that Londo has identified as part of the uniform
+of the Palace Guards in the Centauri Royal Court. He also explains
+that only one Centauri vessel has been attacked in the last three
+months: an old ship, scheduled to be scrapped for parts, and that
+apparently carried no cargo or crew.
+
+
    
+
+Finally, G'Kar stops by Londo's quarters. Londo asks if he is there do
+drop off his evidence, what he saw and heard on Centauri Prime while
+pretending to be Londo's bodyguard ("A Tragedy of Telepaths").
+
+
    
+
+"I was not pretending," G'Kar answers. "I went to Centauri Prime as
+your guest, your protector. Perhaps even as your conscience. But not
+as anyone's eyes and ears. So, no, I will not be testifying before the
+council." He mentions Londo's concerns over the
+increased war production, and the secrecy surrounding ship
+movements. G'Kar believes Londo knew something was happening,
+but that he did not know what until now.
+
+
    
+
+"Don't tell me what you think I know!" Londo snaps back. "Still, I
+suspect I should thank you for respecting my privacy." So, why is
+G'Kar there? To let Londo know the Council is ready to see him.
+
+
    
+
+At the Council, Londo denounces the evidence as inconclusive and
+circumstancial. The Centauri have sold weapons to many other worlds,
+including many Alliance members. He also points out that many weapons
+and ships were left behind on Narn. Perhaps the Narn are trying to
+throw blame on the Centauri?
+
+
    
+
+But Sheridan has one more piece of evidence left: the recording
+Lennier made of the secret Centauri staging area and the attack he
+witnessed ("Darkness Ascending"). The
+alien ambassadors are outraged, and Londo is clearly shocked. He
+withdraws to consult with his government. Sheridan has a message for
+the Centauri: because of its actions, the Centauri Republic will now
+stand alone. The Alliance will blockade Centauri space until the
+Centauri Government acknowledges and apologizes for the attacks, and
+reparations are provided.
+
+
    
+
+Hours later, Londo finally hears back from the Royal Court: the Regent
+has pronounced the evidence a fraud. The Minister offers two
+explanations: one, that the material is a deliberate fraud. But Londo
+dismisses this; if Lennier says he saw the attack, then he saw it,
+exactly as he described. This leaves option number two, says the
+Minister: that the incident was staged for Lennier's benefit, probably
+by the Narn. Londo and Vir are both very doubtful of this
+explanation. But the Regent has drafted a response to the Alliance:
+
+
    
+
+"Item one," Londo tells the council, "the Centauri Republic
+categorically denies any involvement with these attacks. We are the
+victims, victims of an elaborate hoax. We will identify those
+responsible when more information is at hand. Item two: the Centauri
+Republic will not be threatened or intimidated by anyone, including
+those we might once have considered friends. As a result, effective
+immediately, we are withdrawing from the Alliance." 
+
+
    
+
+Finally, the Centuari do not recognize the legality of the
+blockade. Warships will accompany all Centauri transports, and anyone
+firing on the transports will be considered to be committing an act of
+war.
+
+
    
+
+Londo will leave for Centauri Prime immediately, despite Sheridan's
+warning that he will not be allowed back on board Babylon 5 until the
+situation is resolved, if ever. Vir tries to stop Londo, but Londo
+wants to get to the bottom of this, find those who are truly
+responsible. He figures the Council will back down when the truth
+comes out, even apologize. Vir is to stay behind, a link to the
+Alliance.
+
+
    
+
+Delenn goes to G'Kar's quarters at his request. G'Kar will again
+accompany Londo to Centauri Prime as his bodyguard, to protect him
+from those within his government who have kept this information from
+him. G'Kar figures Londo will find out who is behind it, and stop the
+attacks, of which Londo would never approve. Londo is, by G'Kar's
+estimation, their last chance to stop the war, and so he must be
+protected. Finally, G'Kar has written some
+new chapters for his book, trying to correct some of the things he
+wrote at the beginning, when he was an angrier person. If things go
+badly, he wants Delenn to make sure these chapters reach Narn.
+
+
    
+
+"G'Kar, have I ever told you that you are one of the finest writers
+that I have ever met?" asks Delenn, "And that it has been an honor to
+work besides you in the Alliance?" "Not in words," he answers. "But
+the thing about losing one eye is that it makes you look deeply into
+the eyes of another. I found in yours all the things I will ever need
+in this life, or in any other."
+
+
    
+
+Sheridan has been trying to reach Garibaldi for about an hour without
+success. He asks Zack to find Michael and have him meet Sheridan,
+urgently. Garibaldi has passed out in his quarters. Although he tries to
+hide his drunkenness when he finally opens the door, Zack easily finds him
+out. At first, Garibaldi lashes out at Zack, but Zack doesn't back down.
+If this goes on, Garibaldi will hurt himself, and take many people with
+him on the way down. Zack is his friend, and doesn't want Garibaldi to
+throw it all away, after so much hard work. But he doesn't know if he will
+turn him in. Garibaldi asks for some time to work a few things out, and
+Zack agrees... for now. 
+
+
    
+
+In hyperspace, a lone White Star keeps tabs on a Centauri armed convoy.
+Sheridan explains it to Garibaldi: the Centauri have made good on their
+threat, and all transports are traveling under escort. On the Alliance
+side, the alien worlds have stationed warships at their jumpgates. A
+confrontation is inevitable, since the Centauri are unlikely to hesitate
+to open fire on them. What Sheridan proposes is to use the White Star
+fleet as a buffer between the two sides. Some ships are following the
+Centauri, and will radio in when the Centauri are about to jump. Garibaldi will
+coordinate the information, and arrange to have as many White Stars as
+possible waiting when the Centauri jump into normal space, stationed
+between the opposing forces. He hopes even the Centauri will back down
+from firing on the White Stars. It is an important and difficult
+assignment, and it may be the only way to prevent an all-out war. "You can
+rely on me," Garibaldi promises. "I'll get it done." 
+
+
    
+
+On Centauri Prime, the Palace is heavily guarded and many ships fly
+overheard. The Minister keeps Londo away from the Regent, and later
+prevents Vir from Contacting Londo. The Centauri Government is
+preparing for war, and is isolating itself from Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
+In his quarters, Garibaldi has again passed out, and misses an
+incoming report. The Centauri are confronted by several Drazi ships
+when they jump in, and the only White Star in the vicinity is the one
+that was following the convoy. It is not enough: a firefight soon
+starts.
+
+
    
+
+Vir is moved to different quarters to protect him from the other
+aliens, almost too late. He and Franklin have to fight off some
+Brakiri, who want to take out their anger on Vir.
+
+
    
+
+In the Council Chambers, Garibaldi claims they just missed the convoy; in
+an operation this complicated, it was bound to happen. Then, the alien
+ambassadors break in, demanding action. Where is the support Sheridan
+promised? Why are the White Stars not attacking the Centauri? In the
+ensuing yelling match, Sheridan finally loses his patience:
+
+
    
+
+"We gave you a promise, and we are bound by that promise," he yells
+angrily. "And damn you for asking for it! And damn me for agreeing to
+it! And damn us all to hell, because that is exactly where we are
+going! We talked about peace. You didn't want peace! We talked about
+cooperation. You didn't want cooperation! You want war! Is that it?
+You want a war? Well, you have a war!"
+
+
    
+
+In the middle of the night, Londo is awakened by the Minister, who is
+followed by armed guards. The Alliance has issued a formal declaration
+of war; all communication with Babylon 5 has been severed for security
+reasons. And since G'Kar is still on the Advisory Board of the
+Alliance, he is to be arrested. Londo tries to stop it, but it is an
+order from the Regent. It must be obeyed on pain of death. Although
+G'Kar is willing to endure the Centauri cells once more, Londo will
+have none of it. G'Kar is his guest: where Londo goes, G'Kar goes, and
+where G'Kar goes, Londo goes.
+
+
    
+
+"Don't worry," Londo tells G'Kar. "Even one as arrogant as this one
+would not take it upon himself to imprison his own Prime Minister."
+
+
    
+
+Later, as the cell door closes on both Londo and G'Kar, Londo turns to
+G'Kar: "Shut up."
+
+
    
+
+On Babylon 5, Sheridan joins Delenn in prayer...
+
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+
    
+Near a Drazi colony on the border of Drazi space, the Centauri and
+Drazi fight one another.
+
+
    
+
+Lochley's personal journal: "The Centauri War continues to spiral
+out of control. The threat of retaliation has already reached Babylon
+5. Over half a dozen Centauri have been murdered in just the last
+three days. In an attempt to reduce the number of casualties, I've
+doubled security on every level. It hasn't helped."
+
+
    
+Sheridan stops by Lochley's quarters late at night. He wants to tell
+her about the latest information. According to reliable, but still
+unconfirmed reports, the Centauri are targeting enemy
+jumpgates. Lochley is aghast. This is a violation of every rule of
+civilized warfare. And if the hyperspace beacon system fails, it will
+hurt the Centauri as much as anyone else. It makes no sense.
+
+
    
+Sheridan agrees. This means, he says, that the Centauri are out of
+control, and may even strike at Babylon 5 itself. Moreover, he has
+just authorized the White Star fleet to fire on any Centauri vessel
+engaged in hostilities against Alliance ships. Babylon 5 is no longer
+neutral in this conflict.
+
+
    
+Over breakfast, Sheridan is trying to ask Delenn for something he
+doesn't really want to ask. Since the Alliance has been using White
+Stars against pretty much every size of ship.  Since the Shadow War,
+through the battle for Earth, and now the Centauri War, they've lost a
+lot of them. Sooner or later they will run out of ships. They need
+more ships, and they need bigger ships as well.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Delenn agrees in principle, but thinks it will not be easy to
+arrange. The Grey Council authorized the construction of the White
+Star ships for use in the Shadow War. To develop similar
+vessels, but of entirely new classes, would imply an enormous
+expense. But Sheridan points out that the expense can be spread around
+now. He has suggested to President Luchenko of the Earth Alliance a
+joint Earth-Minbari project. Minbar will provide the specs and
+material for a destroyer class ship, and Earth will handle the
+construction and expenses. Since they will also benefit from the
+technology involved, Luchenko is willing to go ahead... if the Minbari
+agree to it first. So Sheridan needs Delenn to contact the Grey
+Council and propose it.
+
+
    
+The problem is that she needs to do it in person. The project must be
+kept secret until the first prototypes start rolling out of the
+assembly lines. And the hyperspace routes from Babylon 5 to Minbar are
+no longer safe, with the war going on. Nonetheless, Delenn agrees to
+do it. After all, it is impossible to live without risks.
+
+
    
+Franklin and Lyta arrive at Vir's temporary quarters. He has been
+moved to help protect him, and he has asked both of them to come
+because he needs their help. The biggest losses the Centauri have had
+have been against the Drazi. According to the Declaration of
+Principles of the Alliance, opposing sides should exchange bodies of
+those killed, returning them to their own people. The Centauri have
+been honoring this, but the Drazi have refused to return any bodies of
+Centauri dead. Vir thinks something is going on.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Vir wants Franklin to put pressure on the Drazi, as head Medical
+Officer of the Alliance, and Lyta to tell if they are hiding
+something. Franklin can also tell if the bodies were killed in space
+or elsewhere, find out if there is a reason they refuse to return them
+in the first place. Franklin points out he would have to go to the
+Drazi homeworld, but Vir has made all the arrangements for
+this. Franklin agrees, provided Sheridan approves.
+
+
    
+But Lyta will not do it for free. Her fee will be five hundred
+thousand credits, to be deposited in an account to help rogue
+telepaths escape the Psi Corps. Vir is taken aback, as it is more than
+he can afford. And Londo is, as Vir puts it, "otherwise engaged."
+
+
     In fact, Londo is in a cell with G'Kar ("And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder"). G'Kar
+tries to get him to leave, but Londo will not. For one, it is a
+question of principle: he said he would go wherever G'Kar
+did. Besides, he figures he can be of more help in there. The people
+will be outraged when they find out he is being held in prison without
+being charged, and the popular outcry will force the Centarum to take
+a stand. They may even have to issue a cease fire over the Regent's
+objections. He'll wait until morning. It has been three days since he
+has been in the cell, more than enough time for the people to get
+organized.
+
+
    
+G'Kar and Londo start getting ready to go to sleep when a bright
+light flashes; they both fall to the ground unconscious, and robed
+figures grab Londo and drag him out of the cell, leaving G'Kar behind.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+The figures are aliens. Londo is put on a table, taken through dark
+corridors to a dark room, where he is examined. A device is stuck
+through his throat, and the aliens continue their preparations. When
+they are done, Londo awakes briefly, and sees the aliens over
+him. "Who are you?" he asks, "What do you want with me?" Another
+shadowy alien comes by ("In the
+Kingdom of the Blind") "Yes," the
+new arrival whispers. "He will be sufficient." A mask descends on
+Londo's face, as his vision blurs. Then, he awakes with a start.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+It is morning. He is back in the cell with G'Kar. It appears it was
+only a nightmare. Londo says he has to get out. He has the feeling
+something is terribly wrong, and he needs to be out to deal with
+it. But he needs to save face. G'Kar obliges, by vomiting, creating a
+horrible smell. Londo is "rescued" by a guard, who gags and coughs at
+the stench.
+
+
    
+On Babylon 5, Sheridan, Garibaldi, and Lochley arrive for a meeting
+with the Narn, Brakiri, and Drazi generals. According to them, with
+the help of the White Stars, they are holding their own against the
+Centauri. But the Narns have taken heavy losses on their already
+depleted forces. Lochley suggests they consolidate their defenses: the
+Drazi could send some ships to help the Narns, and so on. But the
+Brakiri ships will not take orders from Drazi, according to the
+Brakiri general. And the Drazi, claims the Narn, will not take orders
+from them. The Drazi general, on the other hand, claims they can win
+by themselves and do not need help from others. Clearly, no
+cooperation is possible.
+
+
    
+Sheridan also wants to get a sense for the Centauri
+strategy. According to Garibaldi, the Centauri fleet has divided in
+two; one wing is defending their bases, and the other wing is
+attacking others, with little to no exchange between the two
+wings. Which, according to the Narn, is atypical of
+Centauri tactics. Furthermore, no overall strategy is apparent. Very strange
+indeed.
+
+
    
+Lochley is called to C&C. After she leaves, the Narn suggest pooling
+their forces and launching an offensive. The Drazi agrees; they want
+to hit Centauri Prime. But Sheridan will not allow it, as it would
+mean hitting civilians. The Brakiri points out that such
+considerations have not stopped the Centauri. Nonetheless, Sheridan
+does not yield, and he forbids any attacks on civilians.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+In C&C, Corwin explains that a lone Centauri cruiser is approaching
+through hyperspace. Their weapons are off, but the jump engine shows
+unusual readings, and there are no life signs. Lochley realizes the ship
+is going to blow the jumpgate, and orders Alpha Squadron to destroy
+the cruiser. They manage it, barely, although the explosion causes
+some minor damage to the gate. It was far too close.
+
+
    
+Now alone, the Drazi and Narn generals take the near miss as an
+indication that the humans cannot fight this war properly. The Drazi
+suggests they join forces and attack Centauri Prime. The Narn general
+agrees. On this, at least, they can work together.
+
+
    
+Sheridan contacts Delenn and Lennier, who are already en route to
+Minbar. The gate at Babylon 5 will be out for a couple of days. Delenn
+is relieved everyone on the station is fine. She is two days away from
+Minbar, and has already scheduled a meeting with the Grey Council.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+On Centauri Prime, Londo is talking with several ministers, trying to
+muster support to move against the Regent. But the Defense Minister
+disagrees. According to him, Centauri ships have been engaged only in
+defensive actions. The rest is propaganda. The other ministers
+agree. The Ministry of Defense will not back Londo in a move against
+the Regent.
+
+
    
+On Babylon 5, Garibaldi runs to Sheridan's quarters. He just found out
+that thirty percent of the Narn and Drazi fleets have disappeared.
+Garibaldi thinks they are on their way to Centauri Prime, but there is
+no time to get proof. Sheridan needs to get between them and the
+planet, or several million civilians will die.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+On the Drazi Homeworld, Franklin and Lyta meet with a Drazi
+doctor. The doctor claims they have not returned Centauri bodies
+because they have none; the dead were in such disarray in space that
+it was impossible to put them together. But Lyta knows he is lying,
+and accuses him of it. Then, two Drazi climb down onto the balcony and
+start firing. Franklin gets one of them with a PPG, and Lyta stands up
+and uses her mind to force the second Drazi to shoot himself in the
+head. The Drazi doctor is horrified and tries to leave, but is stopped
+by Franklin. Lyta scans him, and then yells "Take me there! Now!"
+Franklin and Lyta lead the Drazi out at gun point.
+
+
    
+On Babylon 5, Sheridan has assembled a White Star strike team, and
+they head out to Centauri Prime. Elsewhere in hyperspace, Delenn's
+ship detects four Centauri warships. Too many to fight. And before
+they can notify Babylon 5, the Centauri fire and damage the White
+Star. The ship starts spinning out of control, and fires break out
+inside.
+
+
    
+On the Drazi Homeworld, Franklin and Lyta arrive at a research
+facility, and discover why they were almost killed: the Centauri ships
+had no crew, only some black pods attached to the controls. Lyta
+recognizes them, just as more shots are fired at them from inside the
+facility. Lyta grabs a pod, and they both run out.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+On Centauri Prime, Londo enters his quarters and finds the Regent
+there. The Regent rambles a bit, and later acknowledges that he gave
+the attack orders, "after a fashion." He also says his time is almost
+over; he will die soon, and he is glad of it.
+
+
    
+In hyperspace, Sheridan receives Franklin's report. Lyta explains that
+the pods are leftover Shadow technology. The Vorlons left the
+information behind in her. The pods are organic devices, used to
+control ships from a distance. This is why the Centauri military
+leaders did not know about the attacks, and why the defensive and
+offensive wings of the fleet did not mix. All attacking ships are
+being controlled through the pods. Sheridan wonders how the Centauri
+got their hands on them, but Franklin points out many Shadow servants
+were left behind when Z'ha'dum exploded ("Epiphanies"). It is possible one of
+these races sold them to the Centauri. Or, as Lyta points out, a third
+party may be using them to frame the Centauri. The Drazi kept the pods
+secret so they wouldn't have to turn them over to the Alliance, and
+because they have always competed with the Centauri for trade; a war
+is in their best interest.
+
+
    
+Sheridan realizes now why they couldn't figure out the Centauri
+strategy: there was none. The objective was to turn everyone against
+the Centauri so they would attack them.
+
+
    
+Delenn's ship is adrift in hyperspace, half destroyed. Delenn and
+Lennier are still alive, the only ones left on the bridge. The jump
+engines are off line, and most of the crew is dead. The few other
+survivors are trapped in lower decks, unable to get through the
+debris. They have enough fuel left in the thrusters to keep from
+drifting too far off the beacon for now ("A
+Distant Star"). Lennier can't even tell if the distress signal is
+working, and his leg is broken. "This is bad, then," says
+Delenn. "Very bad," confirms Lennier.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+In his cell on Centauri Prime, G'Kar writes as the Narn and Drazi
+fleets approach. Elsewhere in the Royal Palace, Londo and the Regent
+are still talking. Londo asks the Regent to recall the ships, make
+peace. "There will be peace," says the Regent. "But it will not
+last. It never does. They said so. They also said I would be dead by
+morning, and that tomorrow you would be Emperor." Londo wants to know
+who they are, but the Regent does not answer. Instead, he
+continues: "They asked me to send away all the ships guarding Centauri
+Prime on a false emergency, and turn off the planetary defense
+network." The Regent did so, just before coming to see Londo. "No!"
+Londo says horrified, and runs out to a courtyard. In the sky, he can
+see jump points opening in outer space.
+
+
    
+High above Centauri Prime, the jump points open and Drazi and Narn
+ships jump back into normal space. They open fire...
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+
    
+The Narn and Drazi fleets bombard the defenseless Centauri Prime from
+space, hitting even the Royal Palace. The ceiling in G'Kar's cell
+partly collapses over him just before Londo arrives. Londo helps him
+stand up, and takes him elsewhere in the Palace.
+
+
    
+As the capital burns, G'Kar is left alone in a room, somewhat worse for
+wear,
+while Londo goes looking for the Regent. In hyperspace, Sheridan races
+to Centauri Prime. He is informed that the Narn and Drazi have begun
+the bombardment, and that Delenn's White Star has been missing for
+almost 12 hours ("Movements of Fire
+and Shadow").
+
+
    
+The bombardment moves away from the capital, and Londo finds the
+Regent. He discovers who the mysterious "they" the Regent has been
+obeying are: the alien from his 'dream' ("Movements of Fire and Shadow").
+
    
+
+The alien is a Drakh ("Lines of
+Communication"). The Drakh are looking for a home, now that
+Z'ha'dum has been destroyed. They remembered Centauri Prime, and they
+remembered Londo. They remembered him blowing up the island with the
+Shadow vessels ("Into the
+Fire"). Centauri Prime is the perfect place for their work. They
+have isolated the Centauri from the rest of the Alliance.
+
    
+
+"You are now what we need you to be," explains the Drakh. "A beaten,
+resentful people, who will have to rebuild. Who will have to rely on
+our good graces. Who can be used, and... guided, as we wish to guide
+you. Perfect ground for us to do our work. Quietly."
+
    
+
+The Drakh claims to have planted many fusion bombs around the main continent,
+just as Londo did on the island. Unless Londo cooperates, as the Regent
+did before him, he will detonate the bombs and kill millions of Centauri.
+
    
+
+The Regent outlines what the Drakh have in mind:
+he will die to give Londo the perfect alibi. Londo can claim
+the Regent was mad, and ordered the attack on the Alliance without
+knowledge or approval from the Centarum. Then Londo can call an end to
+the war, once he becomes Emperor. He will have no choice but to obey
+the Drakh then, the Regent explains, as he reveals the Keeper on his
+neck. The Keeper will control him when its interests are at stake, but
+mostly will leave him to be himself. Once the Keeper is removed from
+the Regent, the Regent will die. 
+
    
+
+The Keeper disentangles itself, and the Regent collapses.
+
    
+
+Sheridan's White Star squadron finally arrives at Centauri Prime, and
+he orders the Narn and Drazi to cease fire. They agree... provided he
+supports them in the oncoming fight against the returning Centauri
+ships. When the ships get back, says a Narn commander, they will attack
+all Alliance ships,
+regardless of whether the attack was authorized or not. Sheridan can
+either join them and live, or hold back and be destroyed.
+
+
    
+Sheridan
+tries to contact Centauri Prime, and orders all ships near Delenn's last
+known location to look for her.
+
    
+
+Adrift in hyperspace, Delenn's battered ship tries to stay close to
+the beacon. But the navigational thrusters will be out of fuel soon,
+and then they will drift away and be caught in the currents of
+hyperspace. They will never be found then. 
+
    
+
+On Centauri Prime, Londo returns to see G'Kar, who is feeling
+better. "I would be dead, if not for you," says G'Kar. "You risked
+your life to save mine." "Yes," replies Londo. "You would have done
+the same." "Yes," quips G'Kar, "but I am a better person." Londo
+fights back a laugh. He promised he would get G'Kar out of that cell,
+and he keeps his promises. But G'Kar cannot remain his bodyguard. It
+is no longer appropriate, since Londo will become Emperor. But before
+then he wanted to say goodbye to G'Kar.
+
    
+
+"In the months and the years to come," hints Londo, "you may hear many
+strange things about me, my behavior. Well, they say the position
+changes you. And I just wanted to..." "I understand," interrupts
+G'Kar.  Londo isn't so sure.
+
    
+
+As Londo turns to leave, G'Kar adds: "Mollari. Understand that I can
+never forgive your people for what you did to my world. My people can
+never forgive your people. But I can forgive you." They clasp hands
+awkwardly, and Londo leaves in silence.
+
    
+
+He returns to the throne room, where the Drakh implants him with a
+Keeper.
+
    
+
+Shortly thereafter, the returning Centauri ships receive coded
+transmissions and halt: Londo has issued the surrender order.
+He contacts Sheridan.  Londo accepts the explanation that the Narn and
+Drazi attack was unsanctioned, since he finds himself in a similar
+position. He blames the Regent for the attacks. Sheridan is
+relieved, and asks to see Londo personally.  Although the risk is great,
+with the Centauri people so angry at the Alliance, Londo agrees when
+he finds out about Delenn's ship missing.
+
    
+
+When the transmission ends, Londo turns to the Drakh and asks what
+happened to Delenn. The Drakh explains without words, and Londo asks
+and begs him not to kill her.
+
    
+
+Once Sheridan arrives, Londo is standoffish, but agrees to help... in
+exchange for a future favor. He reacts angrily when reminded that
+Delenn is his friend too, and blames the Alliance for what
+happened. Sheridan tries to smooth things over and offers to help, but
+Lonod refuses. The Centauri will have nothing more to do with the
+Alliance. "If I give you back Delenn's life, it will be an act of
+charity, nothing more." Annoyed, Sheridan demands reparations for the
+war. Part of those reparations will be information about
+the shadow pods that were used to control the Centauri ships ("Movements of Fire and
+Shadow"). Londo claims the pods were bought on the black market,
+and he is well aware of them.
+
    
+
+In hyperspace, Delenn's ship finally runs out of fuel. In a last
+desperate attempt, they fire the weapons, hoping it will attract the
+ships that must be looking for them by now. Unfortunately, it attracts
+several Centauri warships.
+
    
+
+The warships lock on and begin to approach. Lennier and Delenn realize
+they are about to die. "Delenn, I love you," Lennier says, just before
+he expects the warships to fire. "I know," replies Delenn. But the
+shot never comes. Instead, tractor beams are fired, and their ship is
+towed.
+
    
+
+Delenn pretends she did not hear what Lennier said, and Lennier
+pretends he didn't say anything. "Nothing happened," says Delenn,
+"except that for a moment I found myself feeling extremely
+complimented, and deeply honored, by your presence, and by your
+friendship."
+
    
+
+The next day, Vir arrives on the Royal Palace, and bursts in on
+Londo. "Never burst in on me without knocking!" says Londo, who was
+about to take off his jacket. Londo mentions the surrender terms: the
+reparations will severely cripple the economy, and there will be
+nothing left to rebuild with.
+
    
+
+Outside, Sheridan, Delenn, and G'Kar still hipe they can help out, and
+plan to attend Londo's inaguration. But outside, a projection of
+Londo, now in full imperial garb, addresses the citizens of the
+Republic. He blames the Alliance for the attacks, and for the severe
+strain the reparations will put on the economy. But he promises to
+rebuild their cities and to reclaim their place in the Galaxy. The
+Centauri will not be broken, he promises.
+
+
    
+"This punishment is unfair," he says. "A violation of our sovereign
+rights. But we will bear this burden. We are no longer part of the
+Alliance. We are alone. We fought alone, and we will rebuild alone."
+In the shadows, the Drakh nods approvingly.
+
    
+
+Vir joins Delenn, Sheridan, and G'Kar, as surprised and confused as
+they are over Londo's speech. Londo then arrives, and advises them all
+not to attend the inaguration. He also officially appoints Vir as
+ambassador to Babylon 5. Reluctantly everyone agrees to leave. Delenn
+thanks Londo on Lennier's behalf, for saving their lives. "I
+fear," she adds, "I can no longer see the road you are on,
+Londo. There is only darkness around you. I can only pray that in
+time, you may find your way out of it."
+
    
+
+G'Kar respectfully salutes Londo, and the four of them of leave. Londo
+walks among fallen statutes and debris to the Centaurum, to be
+officially named Emperor of the Centauri Republic.
+
    
+
+Back on Babylon 5, Sheridan, Delenn, Garibaldi, Franklin, and Lyta are
+going over the latest on the shadow pods. Sheridan points out that
+they cannot follow up on the matter: whether or not Londo's claim that the
+pods were obtained in the black market is true, the investigation is now dead
+ended.
+
    
+
+Franklin says that the pods are what scares him most: having Shadow
+technology loose among those who cannot understand it but are willing
+to use it.  He likens it to the nuclear bomb, a remnant of the old Soviet
+Union, that devastated San Diego. Weapon technologies left
+over from great wars are dangerous, he says. "Weapons like us," points
+out Lyta, referring to telepaths.
+
    
+
+Garibaldi wonders if any useful technology has been left behind on the
+Vorlon homeworld, technology they can use. But Delenn points out that
+dozens of ships have already been sent there, and were destroyed by
+the automatic defense systems before they even got close.
+
    
+
+"The Vorlon homeworld is off limits until we're ready," says
+Lyta. "Until we've earned the right to go there, a million years from
+now." She doesn't know how she knows, but she does.
+
+
    
+Zack arrives and lets Sheridan know the fighting on the station is
+almost over. He wonders why everyone looks so worried, though.
+
    
+
+"We won the war," says Delenn by way of explanation, "but what did we
+lose?"
+
    
+
+In the Centauri royal palace, Londo sits on the imperial throne, alone and
+in silence.
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+
    
+G'Kar arrives back on Babylon 5 and is greeted by Capt. Lochley before
+he goes through customs. She tells him that that "a few" people are
+waiting for him. G'Kar is relieved to know the cult that has been
+growing around him has cooled down. Lochley laughs to herself as she
+escorts him out, where he finds many Narn blocking his way, holding
+signs, little statuettes of him, and photographs. They start chanting
+his name when they see him. As he starts to speak, they fall silently
+to one knee, awaiting his wisdom.
+
    
+
+In his quarters, Garibaldi is nursing a drink. A call from Franklin
+comes in. Garibaldi is late for a meeting of the Advisory Board. He
+thought it was scheduled for four, but it is really about to
+start. Garibaldi rushes in to find everyone there. He starts giving
+his report, hesitant, confusing 'minbari' with 'centauri' and
+acting flustered. He is interrupted by Sheridan: "Mr. Garibaldi, you are
+drunk." He dismisses everyone except Garibaldi, and goes to talk
+to Delenn outside.
+
    
+
+Delenn calms him down. Sheridan comes back in, and asks Garibaldi when
+he started drinking again. A couple of months ago, says
+Garibaldi. Sheridan suspected as much, but didn't know for sure until
+now. He isn't angry anymore, after talking to Delenn, but he is
+disappointed. Not on Garibaldi for failing, but on himself for failing
+to notice that something was amiss, and because Garibaldi didn't trust
+him enough to come for help. He doesn't want to fire Garibaldi, but
+cannot let his behavior go either. He suspends Garibaldi until the
+latter works out his problems. "That could take a very long time,"
+says Garibaldi. "It will take what it takes," Sheridan replies. When
+he works it out, Sheridan and the rest will be there for him.
+
    
+
+Franklin makes his way to G'Kar's quarters, weaving his way through
+many Narn holding statuettes of G'Kar. Once inside, G'Kar explains
+that more and more of his people arrive every hour. Franklin explains
+that he is there with a message from the Kha'ri, who have been trying
+to contact G'Kar. Narn is up in arms. Half the Kha'ri wants G'Kar to
+come back and take charge. But G'Kar turned down leadership before ("The Long Night"), and will not take
+it now. That brings Franklin to what the other half wants: they want
+him to go back long enough to give them his blessings and let them
+rule in his name.
+
    
+
+G'Kar's popularity has grown. Many believe it was his presence on
+Centauri Prime that allowed them to attack without retribution, and
+they consider his survival another miracle. "And," Franklin continues,
+"you don't want power. And people love giving power to those they
+believe don't want it."
+
    
+
+According to Lochley, more ships arrive by the hour, full of pilgrims
+intent on learning from G'Kar. If he stays they will flood the
+station. "And if I go home," he adds, "they will make me
+into... this!" he says pointing disgustedly at a statuette of
+himself. He has little to no options.
+
    
+
+Zack arrives in Lochley's office. A transmission from Earth Security
+HQ is standing by: dozens of terrorist attacks on Psi Corps property
+have been perpetrated over the last month. At each scene, the legend
+"Remember Byron" ("Phoenix Rising")
+has been found spraypainted on the walls. And they have tracked the
+money used to buy the equipment used by the terrorists, who are
+described as extremely well-armed amateurs, to Babylon 5;
+specifically, to Lyta Alexander. Lochley and Zack are ordered to
+detain Lyta for questioning, arrest her if necessary, and ship her to
+Earth.
+
    
+
+Lochley stops by to talk to Garibaldi and check on him. She offers to
+help, claiming she understands. Garibaldi is angry and lashes out at
+her, disbelieving her claim of understanding. Lochley expands: her
+father was an alcoholic, angry at himself for giving up painting in
+order to join the military as was expected of him. Garibaldi is still
+angry, and when he fails to kick her out of his quarters, he storms
+out himself. But Lochley won't leave him until he is done. She follows
+him into a lift and stops it, to finish her story. She tells him how
+she herself become a drug and alcohol addict ("Day of the Dead"), ran away, and
+became that which she hated most, until someone close to her
+died. After that, she tried to get better, but every day is a
+struggle. "Maybe that's why we didn't get along from day one," she
+says. "Maybe we recognized too much of ourselves in the other person."
+
    
+
+Shortly thereafter, Zack and Lochley are ready to take Lyta, who is in
+the Zocalo negotiating with someone, apparently unworried. A full
+squad approaches, and she is told she doesn't have a choice but to
+come with them. She replies, "Are you sure about that?" and starts
+tapping at the table. All the customers around her also start tapping,
+the same rhythm as she taps.
+
    
+
+"I'm tired of being pushed around, Captain," Lyta says. "I do not
+choose to be arrested." Patrons start converging on Lochley's squad. "Lyta,
+don't force us to..." starts the Captain. "To what?" Lyta interrupts. Now
+even the security squad is frozen in place. "You cannot harm me," Lyta
+says. "You cannot stop one who has been touched by Vorlons."
+
    
+
+But then a PPG warms up, and is put to her temple. It's Sheridan: "You
+are not the only one that's been touched by the Vorlons. Let them
+go. Let them go or I will blow the back of your skull off!" Lyta
+releases everyone, and is handcuffed. "You can't be everywhere,
+Mr. President," Lyta says defiantly. "Good point," says Lochley, and
+slugs Lyta, knocking her unconscious. Lyta is dragged to level one
+lockup.
+
    
+
+Later, Garibaldi finds Lochley. He's been trying to find her to
+apologize for his earlier behavior, and has found out about
+Lyta. Lochley has something to show him, though: Lise Hampton arriving
+on Babylon 5. Lochley sent a message in his name, asking for her
+help, so Lise came. Garibaldi and Lise embrace, and Lochley leaves.
+
    
+
+Franklin arrives in Sheridan's office. Sheridan is monitoring Lyta,
+who has been placed isolated from other humans, and with the system on
+full automatic. Just then, Delenn enters, swearing and pacing
+furiously. The Narn government will boycott all shipments to and from
+Babylon 5 until G'Kar returns. They believe he is staying there out of
+a sense of obligation, and that if he is told to go home, he will. But
+before she can continue, she faints.
+
    
+
+Garibaldi tells Lise his full story in his quarters. Lise reminds him
+that he was going to leave at the end of the year anyway. Garibaldi
+wants to sober up, but doesn't know how long it will take; and he
+doesn't want to go back to her until he can get everything right, give
+her a normal life. But Lise suggests that he come back to Mars anyway,
+pointing out that nobody ever gets everything right, and that there is
+no such thing as a normal life. And she needs him, to help run Edgars
+Industries among other things. And she still wants to marry him, more
+than anything. Garibaldi agrees to go back, but he is suddenly struck
+by an idea. He gets up to leave: "I am going to kill two teeps with
+one stone," he says.
+
    
+
+In MedLab, Franklin tells Sheridan that Delenn is now stable, but only
+time will tell if her system can adjust to the change and stress: she
+is pregnant. Sheridan is surprised, as he didn't know for sure whether
+or not she could get pregnant. The pregnancy is putting a lot of strain
+on her system, and since it is a unique situation, Franklin doesn't
+know if she can carry the baby to full term and survive, although he
+figures the odds are good. Sheridan hopes she can, but if he has to
+choose between the baby and his wife, he will choose Delenn.
+
    
+
+In the brig, Garibaldi comes to see Lyta with a proposal. Lyta
+disables the monitoring equipment with a thought, and hears him
+out. In exchange for having her remove the neural block against
+harming Bester ("Phoenix
+Rising"), he will use Edgars Industries' influence with EarthGov
+to have the charges against her dropped, although Lyta will probably have to
+leave Babylon 5. But it isn't enough of an inducement for Lyta, so she has a
+counter-proposal...  
    
+
+G'Kar is outside of Lochley's office, and overhears her talking with
+Garibaldi. Garibaldi blames the mess with Lyta and her telepaths on
+the Narns paying Lyta for telepath DNA ("Darkness Ascending"). But as Lochley
+points out, even if this is so they can't do anything about it: Narn
+internal affairs are outside of Alliance jurisdiction. Garibaldi says
+that Lyta has agreed to transfer all the money from the secret account
+she has it in now, to a fund to be used to help telepaths, no more
+terrorism. The accounts will be kept, and books made available for
+review by anyone at any time. Garibaldi will pick an administrator for
+the fund, and will use Edgars Industries to have a Senator (who
+receives substantial campaign contributions from the company)
+intercede on Lyta's behalf and have the charges dropped.
+
    
+
+But Lochley doesn't want Lyta free to wander around the station; she
+considers her too powerful, too dangerous, and unstable. G'Kar
+interrupts then, coming in, and offers a solution: he will not return
+to Narn, since then they will turn him into what they expect of
+him. And he cannot stay. Both he and Lyta are in the same
+position: unable to go home, unable to stay. So G'Kar intends to go
+"out there," visit places all around the Galaxy in a quest to learn
+and understand more, that his knowledge may one day help his
+people. He will return when he can find a way to destroy the icon he
+has become, without having to destroy his message as well. And he
+could use a traveling companion: Lyta.
+
    
+
+"I have learned a great deal about healing wounds and curing anger,"
+G'Kar explains. "Perhaps, in my own way, I can help her deal with her
+own anger, as I dealt with mine." He will leave as soon as his affairs
+are in order, perhaps never to return, whether Lyta goes with him or
+not.
+
    
+
+Back in his quarters, Garibaldi tells Lise that Lochley agreed to the
+proposal. He then points out that everyone is either leaving, or has
+left already: Londo to Centauri Prime, Lyta and G'Kar will leave
+together. Franklin will go to Earth at the end of the year, and
+Sheridan and Delenn will go to Minbar when the headquarters for the
+Alliance are finished. And Garibaldi will leave soon as well. It isn't
+going to be the same place again. But Lise is happy that Garibaldi
+has taken the first step in getting his life back together. "You made a
+good deal," she tells him, and goes off to bed.
+
    
+
+"I made a good deal," repeats Garibaldi to himself, as he recalls the
+details of the arrangement:
+
    
+
+Lyta realizes she doesn't have the background to keep the money secret,
+but Garibaldi does. He can use Edgars Industries as cover, to
+launder the money, and for contacts and resources to do the work
+secretly. She wants two accounts: the public one Garibaldi told
+Lochley about, and a secret one to continue the attacks on the Psi
+Corps. The latter will have most of the money, and Garibaldi is to use
+it to hurt the Corps and help telepaths. "You can't hurt Bester
+directly because of the block," Lyta adds. "But you can help me bring
+down everything he cares about." He can help destroy the Psi
+Corps. But she will not remove the neural block, not yet
+anyway. That's her bargaining chip. She will check back in two years,
+and if Garibaldi has created a force she can use, she'll remove the
+block. Not before. "Then you can deal with Bester," she says, "and
+I'll deal with the Corps."
+
    
+
+"Aren't you taking an awful chance?" Garibaldi asks. "I could just
+take the money and run." "I don't believe you would do that," answers
+Lyta. "If I thought otherwise, I would kill you where you stand."
+Garibaldi has one more demand, however. He wants to know what's going
+on with her, what the Vorlons did. The way she figures it, the Vorlons
+created her as a superweapon, a telepathic equivalent of a
+thermonuclear bomb, a doomsday device, to use against the Shadows when
+all other weapons failed or ran out. A very serious prospect.
+
    
+
+In her quarters, Sheridan and Delenn are in bed. But Sheridan can't
+help staring at her. "One would think," she jokes, "that you've never
+seen a pregnant half-human, half-Minbari before." They laugh, and
+Sheridan asks her why she wasn't sleeping either. She says she misses
+Londo; they haven't heard from him since they left Centauri
+Prime. Sheridan blames it on Londo's ascension to the throne, pointing
+out that it will require a big adjustment on Londo's part.
+
    
+
+"Hell, he's probably still celebrating his coronation," Sheridan
+adds. "Partying all night." "I hope so," answers Delenn.
+
    
+
+In the Centauri Royal Palace, Londo sits on the imperial throne, alone
+and in silence.
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+
    
+Number One, formerly of the Mars Resistance ("Racing Mars") is trying to enter
+Babylon 5, but the computer does not recognize her passport. When Zack
+arrives, she explains her name is Tessa Halloran, a member of the
+Mars Provisional Government; under the terms of the new treaty ("Rising Star"), Mars is authorized
+to issue its own passports and money, but Earth is dragging their feet
+in terms of updating they systems, in an effort to harass them;
+forcing Mars citizens to use Earth documents. But Number One will not
+put up with the blackmail. Fortunately, Franklin happens by and
+vouches for her to Zack, so she is allowed in.
+
+
    
+Number One is looking for Garibaldi. Garibaldi is in his quarters with
+Lise. He is vomiting, going through detox, when Franklin and Number
+One arrive, just in time to hear more retching. Number One explains
+that in the next few days, someone will try to kill Garibaldi and
+Lise.
+
+
    
+Once Mars declared independence, the corporations with ties to Earth
+ran for cover; they had been exploiting and strip mining Mars, so they
+were scared. The Provisional Government went for their records, and
+offered immunity to those who would help. They now have sources inside
+all major corporations still on Mars; among them, Edgars Industries,
+which Lise now owns. The company ran several black projects for
+Clarke, but Lise didn't know about them.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi puts it all together now: someone is afraid she'll find out
+something she shouldn't, so they want her out of the way. Number One
+confirms it, and adds that since Garibaldi can help her, they want him
+out too. She doesn't know who is behind it, or who will do the
+killing, but she does know it will happen before Lise and Garibaldi
+leave for Mars. Franklin is surprised to hear Garibaldi is leaving,
+but happy for him that he is getting together with Lise.
+
+
    
+G'Kar is on his way to see Lyta; armed security protects him, and
+keeps his admiring Narn at bay, including one holding a stattuette of
+G'Kar, who yells more insistently than the rest. G'Kar enters the cell
+alone. Lyta has been told about G'Kar's offer; it makes sense, she
+admits, but isn't too happy. She also suspects G'Kar has an ulterior
+motive: he wants to keep his access to telepath DNA. G'Kar is saddened
+by her attitude: "That's why you think I'm doing this? Just that, my
+own personal interest?" "Well, yeah," replies Lyta. G'Kar looks
+pityingly at her, and says: "Then my decision was even more correct
+than I imagined." He will make sure all the arrangements are made for
+her.
+
+
    
+Franklin and Zack brief Sheridan on the situation, and Sheridan tells
+Garibaldi their plan: Garibaldi and Lise will stay out of sight and
+under guard. Then, an elaborate going away ceremony will be staged for
+G'Kar, Garibaldi, and Lise. Since this will be his only shot, the
+assassin will have to act then. Zack will have the place crawling with
+security, and will take the assassin down when he moves. Garibaldi is
+somewhat surprised to find out this is Zack's idea. "You taught him
+well," says Sheridan.
+
+
    
+Sheridan now also knows Garibaldi is leaving for Mars. Garibaldi
+explains he and Lise are getting married, and he knows he is not
+getting his job as Head of Intelligence back. Sheridan does not
+contradict him, but congratulates him on the wedding.
+
+
    
+A lone security guard is joined on a lift by a man. The man
+efficiently and silently stabs him, and takes his link, replacing it
+with another one. The body is found later, and the switch goes
+unnoticed. Zack doesn't understand why the security guard was killed, but he
+knows it was a professional. In his quarters, the assassin tries to modify the
+link to gain access to security channels. After some work, he
+succeeds.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is seeing Number One, who reports Earth still treats Mars as
+a colony, making everything go through Earth. Also, dissention among the
+Resistance is coming to the surface. As Sheridan poins out,
+independence wars are often followed by civil wars. Number One agrees,
+and thinks Earth is increasing the pressure on the Provisional
+Government to cause a civil war; then they can come back and rescue
+everyone, and take over for the "general good." As far as she can
+tell, her best options are to expand her contacts. Sheridan
+offers to set up a diplomatic office on Minbar and an account outside
+of Earth jurisdiction. Number One is very happy to hear it and is very
+thankful. In exchange, Sheridan wants her to stick around a bit. He
+would rather not say why, but he has just had an idea he wants to kick
+around for a while. Number One, intrigued, agrees.
+
+
    
+The preparations for G'Kar's going-away are under way in the
+Zocalo. G'Kar observes from a distance, and sighs sadly. Suddenly, behind
+him stands the Narn who was trying to talk to him earlier. He has heard
+G'Kar is leaving. He claims G'Kar has an obligation to either stay and
+teach, or go to Narn and lead. G'Kar tries to explain that his only
+obligation is to his own principles, but the Narn isn't listening. He
+spent all his money to come to Babylon 5. "We put you in this position,
+G'Kar," the Narn says. "Our reverence is our gift to you. And you are
+responsible to us. You owe us. Without us... you are nothing." "Then I
+am nothing," says G'Kar, and tries to leave. The Narn doesn't let him
+go, and shows him the statuette which he has made and is selling, his
+way to honor G'Kar. G'Kar takes the stattuette he is holding, and
+snaps it in half. "Go home," he tells him, and leaves.
+
+
    
+"Don't; don't tell me to go home," the Narn pleads to no
+effect. "Don't turn your back on me, G'Kar!"
+
+
    
+Zack arrives in MedLab to take the guard's personal effects home. He
+discovers that the link has some sort of adhesive on the back.  This is
+very unusual; links are matched to their owners, and adhere using a
+special molecular binding material, tailor made to them. He now has a
+lead: the guard was killed for his link, which means it was the professional
+assassin after Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+In his quarters, the assassin prepares to leave for G'Kar's going away
+bash, now under way. The Zocalo is full of Narn, and a few others,
+cheering G'Kar. The assassin blends in as G'Kar, Lise, Garibaldi, and
+Sheridan make their way to the podium.
+
+
    
+Sheridan announces that Garibaldi is leaving, as is G'Kar. He praises
+both for their work on Babylon 5, and expresses his admiration for
+G'Kar. G'Kar stands up to speak. Zack orders a piercing noise to be sent to the
+assassin's link. The assassin lurches in pain,
+betraying himself, and is quickly taken down by security. The threat
+to Lise and Garibaldi is over.
+
+
    
+But not the threat to G'Kar. The disgruntled stattuette maker steps
+forward, a PPG in his hand. "You are not worthy of us!" he yells and
+prepares to fire. Zack notices, and pushes G'Kar out of the way... and
+the shot hits Lise in the shoulder instead. She falls unconscious.
+
+
    
+In MedLab, Franklin works on her wound, as Garibaldi looks on. G'Kar
+arrives to inquire on Lise's condition, but Garibaldi says they won't
+know anything for a while. Franklin comes out and says they've done
+everything they can for Lise; the rest is up to her.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi leaves and runs into Zack, who wants to talk to him about
+pressing charges on the Narn. But Garibaldi wants five minutes with
+the assassin. Zack tells him he can't do that, but Garibaldi
+insists. Either Zack lets him in, or he will have to shoot Garibaldi
+to stop him. Garibaldi takes the assassin to Lyta, so she can find
+out who hired him. Lyta doesn't want to help, but Garibaldi makes it a
+deal-breaker: either she does, or his whole deal with her ("Wheel of Fire") is off.
+
+
    
+Lyta begins scanning. The assassin is well trained, and blocks her
+for a while, but is no match for her enhanced powers. She slips in
+and knocks him out so he won't remember anything. She also gets the
+information. He was hired by the Board of Directors of Edgars
+Industries. Not one of the directors, but the entire board. They
+promised to back each other up if things went badly. And there is no
+proof, so Garibaldi can't do anything about it. At least not legally.
+
+
    
+In his quarters, G'Kar is packing when Sheridan arrives. Sheridan was
+hoping G'Kar would stay until Delenn returned from Minbar, but the
+events of the last hours have convinced G'Kar that he must leave as
+soon as possible, or put everyone at risk. G'Kar has purchased a long
+range survey ship, and is ready to leave.
+
+
    
+"I've always had the greatest respect for you," says Sheridan. "I'll
+miss you."
+
+
    
+"Unnecessary," answers G'Kar. "You see, I believe that when we leave
+a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere
+in the station, when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you
+will hear the echoes of all our conversations. Every thought and word
+we've exchanged. Long after we're gone, our voices will linger in
+these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that
+the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that
+is staying."
+
+
    
+After Sheridan leaves, G'Kar dictates a message for later delivery.
+
+
    
+In MedLab, Garibaldi has fallen asleep by Lise's side by the time she
+wakes up. Garibaldi is relieved: according to Franklin, if she woke up
+she would be all right. And Garibaldi has a surprise: a minister
+waiting outside. He wants to get married as soon as possible, before
+the Universe throws anything else at them. Lise happily agrees.
+
+
    
+In the embarkation bay, G'Kar is looking over his ship when Lyta
+arrives, escorted and handcuffed. He asks that the handcuffs be
+removed, but Lyta easily takes them off herself; she only kept them on
+because it made everyone feel safe. The guards leave them alone. On
+the way to the ship, she looks around, but nobody is there to see her off. As
+they approach the ship, Zack steps from behind some crates and watches
+her leave.
+
+
    
+On Mars, the Board of Edgars Industries has convened, and receives a
+call from Garibaldi. The Board claims their investigation has
+established that the head of security hired the assassin, and later
+committed suicide, leaving a note taking all responsibility. Nothing
+else can be proven.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi, however, has information about the members of the board:
+adultery, children out of wedlock, even some questionable "accidents"
+that caused deaths. And he is fully ready to use this information. How
+did he get it? Although not the Head of Intelligence anymore, he knows
+who the new person on the job is, and introduces her: Number One.
+
+
    
+According to her information, the Board is actually responsible for
+many of the problems Mars has been facing since independence. If she
+makes half of that information public, they will be skinned alive by
+the mobs.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi asks her to leave the room, and continues to talk to the
+board. He wants all of them to resign. And he will deposit a
+substantial sum of money in the bank. If anything should happen to him
+or Lise, anything at all, it will be paid out to certain individuals
+who will take out every former member of the board. Enough money, in
+fact, to have every bounty hunter in the system after them. The former
+members of the Board have little choice.
+
+
    
+Franklin and Number One are having a drink. She figures her new
+position will let her help Mars even more than when she was there. She
+certainly didn't expect the new job when she got to Babylon 5, but is
+happy with it. Since Franklin is leaving for Earth, their relationship
+("Lines of Communication")
+wouldn't work out anyway. They can, however, "celebrate" one more time
+before he goes back on duty.
+
+
    
+Delenn arrives back from Minbar, and is greeted by Sheridan. The
+Alliance Headquarters are almost ready, a week more at the most, and
+they can move in any time. They run into Garibaldi and Lise, who are
+about to leave for Mars. They say goodbye, and Garibaldi, the last of
+the original command crew, leaves.
+
+
    
+"Of all the recent partings, I think this will be the hardest," Delenn
+tells Sheridan; "You think he'll be all right?" "Yeah, oh yeah,"
+answers Sheridan. "But you're right. The place won't be the same
+without him."
+
+
    
+"We're next, you know," says Delenn. "It occurs to me I have never
+walked the length of this place end to end." "It's five miles long,"
+says Sheridan. "I know," she replies. "Coming?"
+
+
    
+He smiles, takes her hand, and they start walking.
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+
    
+Sheridan is pacing in Command and Control, and finds Lochley; neither
+of them could sleep. Sheridan is about ready to leave. He asks that no
+ceremonies or speeches be made when he leaves. He wants to leave
+quietly. Lochley agrees. Sheridan also thanks her for having
+taken the job. Knowing Babylon 5 is in good hands makes the leaving
+easier.
+
+
    
+Ta'Lon is trying to find G'Kar, and runs into Vir. Vir explains G'Kar
+has left, and does not plan to return; nobody knows where he
+went. Ta'Lon inquires whether a message was left for him: G'Kar sent
+for him on Narn, after all. But Vir doesn't know. After he leaves,
+Ta'Lon breaks into G'Kar's quarters, and his voice activates the
+recording G'Kar made for him ("Objects in Motion").
+
+
    
+G'Kar couldn't wait for him to get there. The reason he called him is
+that he wants Ta'Lon to represent Narn in his place. Anticipating
+Ta'Lon's question, he explains he offered him the job for several
+reasons. Narn needs to get things done, and G'Kar is a distraction to
+this. They need someone who is warrior and priest in equal measures to
+speak for them, but G'Kar has become much more priest than warrior;
+perhaps Ta'lon, more warrior than priest, can do better. Certainly he
+can do as well as G'Kar did at the beginning, and can help rebuild and
+strengthen the ties with the Alliance.
+
+
    
+A copy of the message will be sent to Sheridan and the others. "Serve
+our people reasonably, fairly, and with honor," G'Kar says. "The rest
+will attend to itself."
+
+
    
+Elsewhere on Babylon 5, Franklin is also choosing his replacement to
+head MedLab: Dr. Hobbes ("Interludes
+and Examinations"). Although not the most knowledgable in certain
+areas, she is the one with the most experience and is not too
+specialized, a must for Chief of Staff in a place like Babylon
+5. She happily accepts, and asks when Franklin will leave. Tonight, he
+says. Even Delenn's pregnancy is out of his hands; her doctors on
+Minbar will take care of her now. Sheridan walks by, and Franklin gets
+up, ready to say goodbye to him as well.
+
+
    
+Delenn is almost done packing when Lennier arrives as a
+surprise. There was a break in training for personal time, and he took
+it to come here, despite the fact that his training is reaching a
+critical point now.
+
+
    
+Number One is conducting a briefing with Sheridan, Lochley and
+Zack. Nothing major, only minor altercations between Drazi and
+Brakiri. All in all, everything is quiet, and Sheridan can leave for
+Minbar whenver he wants. Number One leaves, and Sheridan expresses his
+satisfaction at her perfomance. Lochley agrees, but wonders why she is
+staying on Babylon 5 rather than joining him on Minbar. Sheridan
+explains that Babylon 5 is still a hotbed of information: she'll have
+more resources on the station than on Minbar, so it makes sense for
+her to stay.
+
+
    
+On Mars, Garibaldi is meeting with disgruntled middle managers. He has
+called the most vocal troublemakers to meet with him: those who
+complain when they don't like something, have a bad attitude, thinking
+they can do everything better than their superiors. But not to fire
+them: he wants them to be the new Board of Directors of Edgars
+Industries. Part of the job will be to tell him when he screws up and
+stand their ground. If they are right, they get a bonus; otherwise, "I
+will eat you for lunch," says Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+Unfortunately for Sheridan and Delenn's plans to leave quietly, the
+news of their imminent departure has been leaked to the media. When
+Lennier arrives to let them know everything is ready, they leave but
+run into a crowd, led by Lochley. So Delenn says a few words:
+
+
    
+"One of the most difficult words for me [to learn] was 'goodbye.'
+There is no corresponding word for 'goodbye' in Minbari. All of our
+partings contain within them the possibility of meeting again, in
+other places, in other times, in other lives. So you will excuse me if
+I do not say goodbye. Our souls are a part of this place, our hopes
+the foundation of our future, and we will pass this way again."
+
+
    
+The crowd slowly parts as they make their way to their shuttle. In the
+shuttle bay, they meet Zack, the only one of the old gang still on
+board. "I'll probably still be here when they turn off the lights,"
+jokes Zack as he says goodbye to them.
+
+
    
+The White Star that will take them to Minbar has no captain, though:
+Lennier has arranged for him to remain on Babylon 5, so Sheridan and
+Delenn can command the ship for the trip to Minbar. After one final
+pass by the observation dome, where Number One, Lochley, Corwin,
+Ta'Lon, Zack, and Dr. Hobbes are watching them leave, the White Star
+heads for the jumpgate, as Sheridan and Delenn finally leave Babylon
+5.
+
+
    
+On board, Sheridan is restless and goes for a walk. He runs into a
+ranger, who has found a leak in the weapon coolant system. The
+dangerous gas is forcing an evacuation of that part of the ship, and
+pressure doors seal off the area just as Sheridan attempts to carry
+the ranger to safety. On the other side of the door is Lennier, and
+Sheridan yells at him to hit the access panel so he can leave. But
+Lennier hesitates, looks around, and seeing nobody else, runs away,
+leaving an astounded Sheridan behind.
+
+
    
+A few seconds later, Lennier says to himself, "I can't," and rushes
+back. But Sheridan has managed to use the Ranger's fighting pike to
+break the door, and is dragging him out. By the time Lennier arrives,
+many more are already there. Delenn arrives and asks what
+happened. Ashamed, he runs away, takes a one man fighter, and leaves
+the ship. When Delenn tries to call him, he cuts off the
+communication.
+
+
    
+Later, Delenn has his quarters in the training facility searched.
+Apparently, his diary betrays strong feelings for her,
+stronger than she throught he had. Lennier considers Sheridan and
+Delenn's union a mistake, but there is no indication he meant any
+harm. What happened, then? "There are moments," explains Delenn, "when
+we all become someone else. Something other than what we are. It takes
+only a moment. But we spend the rest of our lives looking back at that
+moment in shame. For one instant, out of a lifetime of service, he
+became his own worst instincts."
+
+
    
+Although Lennier was on his way back, no one knows if it was to
+correct his mistake, or make sure Sheridan was dead. However, Sheridan
+will not let anyone know about it. "What happened with Lennier," he
+says," is staying on this ship." There will be a price to pay, however.
+
+
    
+The ship arrives on Minbar, and is greeted by fireworks. Sheridan and
+Delenn walk into the Alliance HQ, and Sheridan is distracted by the
+view. Delenn walks ahead, and eventually Sheridan is lifted from his
+reverie by a familiar voice: "Still walking with your head in the
+clouds, eh Sheridan?" Emperor Londo Mollari is standing behind
+him. "On a joyous day like this," Londo continues, "how could I not be
+here?"
+
+
    
+Later, Sheridan, Delenn, and Londo sit down for dinner. Delenn is
+surprised Londo is so friendly, given what he said at the last meeting
+("The Fall of Centauri Prime"). Londo
+claims he was only playing to the audience, getting them fired up for
+the rebuilding. When he heard Delenn was pregnant and going back to
+Minbar, he couldn't fail to come and give his personal good wishes. He
+would raise a toast, but no alcohol is apparent. Sheridan explains he
+decided to leave it all behind, since it is such a danger to Minbari
+("The Quality of Mercy"). Londo
+becomes more insistent, and Delenn senses something strange; for a
+second, she can see the ghostly shape of Londo's keeper on his
+shoulder, but the impression soon vanishes.
+
+
    
+Londo has also brought a gift for Delenn's child. An urn, which in
+Centauri tradition is given to the heir to the throne when he or she
+comes of age. Londo has no heirs, and expects the office of Emperor to
+be removed once he dies. He insists that they take it, however. A Minbari
+whispers something to Delenn, who excuses herself. Sheridan then
+accepts the urn, which according to Londo should be given to his child
+when he or she turns 16. Sheridan notes the bottom is sealed, and
+Londo says he is told it contains water from the river which flowed in
+front of the first Imperial Palace, two thousand years ago.
+
+
    
+In her quarters, Delenn receives a transmission from Lennier. Delenn
+asks him to come back, but he refuses. "I only wanted to to call you
+and tell you," he explains, "that I am so sorry for what happened. I
+never meant him any harm. I never intended for this to happen. It just
+happened. And, I cannot even ask you to forgive me, because I know I
+will never forgive myself. I only wanted to tell you one last time I'm
+sorry... and that I am going away. I must consider who and what I
+am. I need to be somewhere else until I can find a way to redeem
+myself in your eyes, however long that may take."
+
+
    
+She begs him not to go, but he assures her they will meet again, and he
+will earn her forgiveness then. Until then, he wants her to be happy
+for her sake and Sheridan's. With that, he cuts the transmission and
+is gone.
+
+
    
+Londo has to leave as well. But before then, there is something he
+wants Delenn and Sheridan to know and remember in the years to come:
+"I want you to know that you are my friends... That you'll always be
+my friends, no matter what happens. And I want you to know that this
+day, with you, means more to me than you will ever know." He is
+escorted to the Imperial Liner, where the Drakh whispers to him: "You
+have done well. As a reward you may have an hour free from us." A
+servant gives Londo a glass to drink. "Now what?" Londo asks
+tiredly. "Now we wait the passage of years," the Drakh replies. Inside
+the urn, a Keeper lies, sleeping and waiting.
+
+
    
+In the middle of the night, Sheridan gets up and goes to another
+room to make a recording; a message to his unborn child. The child
+will come of age at 21, but if Lorien's prediction holds ("Falling Toward Apotheosis")
+Sheridan has at most 19 years left. So he wants to leave something
+behind for that day, some of what he has learned.
+
+
    
+"Delenn is the greatest ally you will have. Her depths of courage and
+compassion are unmatched in my experience. Look to her for wisdom and
+fire in equal measure. And if you ever have doubt, talk to her. She
+will never judge you, she will only love you." He also shares more
+advice on life, and finally adds:
+
+
    
+"Fight for what you believe in. Which brings me to the first piece of
+advice my dad ever gave me, and now I'm giving to you: Never..."
+
+
    
+"Never start a fight," Delenn interrupts, finishing for him. "But
+always finish it."
+
+
    
+"Always finish it," echoes Sheridan. He turns off the recorder. "Did I
+tell you today how much I love you?" he asks Delenn. "Yes," she
+answers with a smile. "But you may continue to repeat it for as long
+as you like." "Oh, I plan to. Every day that I can."
+
+
    
+They embrace, and go back to bed together.
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+Garibaldi: "The Interstellar Alliance, based on the homeworld of
+the Minbari Federation, was founded in the Earth year 2261, shortly
+after the end of the Shadow War, twenty years ago. Twenty years of
+history. Those of us who have survived have seen it all. And those of
+us who understand, have been waiting, and dreading, the arrival of
+this day..."
+
+
    
+Sheridan is dreaming: he dreams about Lorien reviving him on Z'ha'dum
+("Whatever Happened to
+Mr. Garibaldi?"); and Lorien explaining that he will live for at
+most twenty years after his fall in Z'ha'dum ("Falling Toward Apotheosis"). He
+wakes with a start, and begins to get up. Delenn wakes up and asks him
+where he is going, and he replies he only wants to get some air.
+
+
    
+He dresses in the robes of Ranger One, and walks to a balcony, to
+await the comng of the day. Delenn joins him; she didn't go back to
+sleep, and wanted to see what Sheridan was up to. They sit together,
+and Sheridan explains he wanted to see the sun come up; he has never
+done it since he got to Minbar, and wants to carry the picture
+of it in his head.
+
+
    
+"You had the dream again," says Delenn, more observation than
+question. It is the third night in a row, and both of them know what
+it means. It's been twenty years since Sheridan died on Z'ha'dum, and
+he is almost out of time. "Do you want me to send the messages?"
+Delenn asks. "Yes. Send them," he replies. The sun starts coming up,
+and they both watch the sunrise, embracing in silence.
+
+
    
+On Earth, General Susan Ivanova's secretary is letting her know her
+schedule: nothing important, really... Ivanova is clearly tired of the
+whole thing. "I feel like an old war horse," she says, "trotted out
+after a parade so all the kids can point at it."
+
+
     
+Suddenly, a Ranger bursts into the office. A security guard is thrown
+to the floor, and the captain of the guard follows apologizing for the
+intrusion. The Ranger insisted, but the captain didn't think it appropriate
+(even though Ivanova had given orders that any Ranger was to be shown
+in immediately). "I have a message", the Ranger says simply as way of
+explanation. "Who from?" asks Ivanova, and he replies: "I think you
+know." He hands her the message. She reads it silently, and then
+orders a shuttle readied so she can go to Minbar. She'll leave within
+the next fifteen minutes.
+
+
    
+In Centauri Prime, a Ranger is escorted into Emperor Vir Cotto's
+bedroom, where he is "entertaining" two ladies. Vir's mood sobers when
+he sees the Ranger, and takes the message. He orders all his
+appointments cancelled for the next few days. He doesn't need to read
+the note; he already knows what it says.
+
+
    
+On Mars, Garibaldi reads a newspaper, when Stephen Franklin comes in
+with Garibaldi's daughter. They've just been playing tennis. Garibaldi
+is still married to Lise and running Edgars Industries. Lise is out
+shopping, and Garibaldi promises his daughter he'll come out to play
+her soon. She leaves, and Garibaldi asks Franklin when he is due back
+on Earth. By tomorrow, says Franklin; as head of Xeno-Biological
+research, he has a lot of work that needs to be done.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi's daughter silently escorts a Ranger in. The Ranger gives
+Garibaldi a card, which he opens and reads. "Is that what I think it
+is?" asks Franklin. "Yeah," Garibaldi replies, "Sheridan's dying. He
+wants us to come to Minbar for one last get-together before... well,
+before." Franklin's office can wait; he'll book a flight out. Should
+he book one for Garibaldi as well, he asks? "John and I may have had our
+differences in the past," Garibaldi says, "but he is a good man, and
+he is my friend." He is indeed going.
+
+
    
+In Tuzanor, on Minbar, Sheridan again watches the sunrise.
+
+
    
+Later, Franklin is checking Sheridan over. He never really understood
+what Lorien did, or how he kept Sheridan alive. He can't really tell
+much, but his best guess is that Sheridan has 4 or 5 days left, a week
+at most. Delenn comes in as Franklin heads out. But Sheridan doesn't
+want to talk about it: he wants laughts, a celebration, not a wake.
+
+
    
+At dinner, Garibaldi is telling a story involving a Pak'ma'ra, a dead
+cat, and a data crystal; Franklin, Delenn, and Sheridan are laughing,
+while Vir listens intently. Ivanova sits silently, absorbed in her own
+thoughts.
+
+
    
+When the story is over, Vir recalls another incident. Once, on Babylon
+5, he and Londo happened to hear a group of Pak'ma'ra singing; a very
+rare occassion, done for religious reasons but a couple of times a
+year. It was, Vir says, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard,
+full of sadness, and hope, wonder, and a terrible sense of loss. Even
+Londo was moved, a year running down his face at the sound. "When it
+was over," Vir continues, "Londo turned to me and said 'There are
+forty-nine gods in our pantheon, Vir; to tell you the truth I never
+believed in any of them. But if only one of them exists, then God
+sings with that voice.' It's funny. After everything we have been
+through, all he did... I miss him."
+
+
    
+Sheridan proposes a toast: "To absent friends, in memory still
+bright."
+
+
    
+They raise their glasses. Garibaldi: "G'Kar." 
+
+
    
+Vir: "Londo." 
+
+
    
+Delenn: "Lennier." 
+
+
    
+Franklin: "Ma..." but Ivanova interrupts: "Marcus."
+
+
    
+Later that night, Vir is fast asleep on the balcony, as Franklin,
+Sheridan, and Garibaldi talk. Ivanova looks at them, still silent, and
+moves away. Delenn follows her, and asks if she is all right. But
+Ivanova claims she is. Ivanova asks Delenn how she handles it;
+Delenn has had twenty years to prepare. As much as anybody can be
+ready, she is ready. "But I'm going to miss him terribly, Susan."
+
+
    
+"So will I," Ivanova says. "I've buried so many friends, Delenn. I'm
+beginning to resent it, and I don't want to. It seems like, some days,
+there's no one left to play with. There's no joy any more."
+
+
    
+Ivanova tries to change the subject, asks where David is. Sheridan and
+Delenn's son is away on a Ranger training mission, and they made it
+clear when he joined that he would not receive special
+treatment. Besides, Sheridan wanted to see his old friends, and wants
+David to remember his father the way he was.
+
+
    
+There is something else Delenn wants to talk with Ivanova about. When
+Sheridan refused to accept re-election as the President of the
+Interstellar Alliance two years ago, Delenn was elected. Unable to
+devote her attention to the Rangers, she passed the mantle of Ranger
+One to Sheridan. When he leaves, she will have to choose a new leader
+for the Rangers, and she would like a human to maintain the sense of
+balance she and Sheridan have achieved. In fact, she would like
+Ivanova to take the job. Delenn knows Ivanova is not happy with her
+responsibilities at home, and here there will be no politics or
+bureaucracy in her way. She can create something new, answering only
+to Delenn. Ivanova thanks Delenn for the offer, but she'll have to
+think about it for a while. She thanks Delenn for everything, and goes
+off to bed.
+
+
    
+Sheridan joins Delenn, who tells him the others are putting Vir to
+bed. They head to bed themselves, but Sheridan is not
+sleepy. Tomorrow, he says, is Sunday. As a kid, his father used to
+take them out for a drive every Sunday. And he is going to go for a
+drive tomorrow. He'll go early, before the others are up. They've had
+their time together, said what they wanted to say. And Sheridan wants
+to feel space again, for he belongs in space. 
+
+
    
+Besides, he adds, the Alliance, Sheridan and Delenn... it has all become
+half legend, half mythology. If it ends on Minbar, prosaically... But
+if it ends in space, he can add to the mythology, make it easier for
+Delenn to hang on to everyone after he's gone. There will be more
+legend to remember.
+
+
    
+In the morning, Sheridan dresses in his old Army of Light uniform, and
+prepares to leave before sunrise. Delenn, dressed up in white, greets
+him in the corridor. After all, it's Sunday, and one dresses up on
+Sundays. It's a perfect day for a drive. But if he really wants to go,
+he must leave now; the others will awake soon.
+
+
    
+"Good night, my love," Sheridan tells her as they embrace for the last
+time, "the brightest star in my sky." "Good night," answers Delenn, a
+tear running down her cheek. "You were my sky, and my sun, and my
+moon." Tears in his eyes, Sheridan lets go, and slowly leaves, not
+looking back.
+
+
    
+Sheridan makes his way to Babylon 5 on a ship by himself. The place
+seems empty, a single bored guard at the entrance. The commander
+rushes in, apologizing for being elsewhere, unaware Sheridan was
+coming. "I was just in the neighborhood and thought I'd stop by," says
+Sheridan, and asks where everyone is.
+
+
    
+Well, the commander explains, nobody really goes there anyomore. The
+station has been superseded by the Alliance, has become
+redundant. Only the shutdown crew and a few others are still on
+board. Babylon 5 was returned to Earth a few years ago, but budgetary
+concerns will force it to close; they are getting ready to shut it
+down, and they'll have to scuttle her then, to prevent the station from
+becoming a hazard to navigation.
+
+
    
+"Looks like we are still tied together," Sheridan tells the station,
+"even now." He goes for a quick look around, showing signs of
+fatigue. In an empty Zocalo, he finds Zack Allan, back in EarthForce
+security uniform, and limping.
+
+
    
+Zack went back to Earth for a while, but got bored and came back;
+which explains why Sheridan's message didn't find him on Earth. Zack
+wanted to be on the station till they turned the lights off. He asks if
+Sheridan is staying for the decommissioning ceremony, but Sheridan
+simply says he can't stay, not even to grab a quick bite with Zack; he
+doesn't have time.
+
+
    
+"I just wanted to come and have one last look around," Sheridan
+explains. He is on his way to the Coriana system, where they won the
+Shadow War ("Into the Fire").
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives at Corianna six, his life running out. Delenn, alone
+in bed back on Minbar, starts crying, as his ship floats, hanging in
+space. Sheridan turns all the systems off, and looks at the stars as
+he starts to fade out.
+
+
    
+A bright light brings him back to consciousness, as Lorien's voice
+rings our, asking the questions that defined the sides in the Shadow
+War:
+
+
    
+"Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here?"
+
+
    
+And suddenly, Lorien is besides him, and continues: "Where are you
+going?"
+
+
+
    
+Did you think we had forgotten you?" he adds with a faint
+smile. "We have been waiting for you." "Beyond the rim," Sheridan
+finishes for him, and Lorien nods.
+
+
    
+"Can I come back?" Sheridan asks. "No," replies Lorien. "This journey
+is ended. Another begins. Time to rest now." Sheridan smiles, and
+light engulfes the inside of the ship. "Well, look at that," Sheridan
+says, looking into the light. "The sun's coming up." The light fades
+out, leaving the ship dark.
+
+
    
+ Ivanova: "An expedition to Coriana space found Sheridan's ship a
+few days later, but they never found him. All the airlocks were
+sealed, but there was no trace of him inside. Some of the Minbari
+believe he'll come back some day, but I never saw him again in my
+lifetime."
+
+
    
+Ivanova joins Vir, Zack, Garibaldi, Delenn, and Franklin at the
+decommissioning ceremony of Babylon 5. They leave the station in a
+shuttle, passing between two rows of ships from all the races. The
+lights in the station are turned off, and it stops spinning. As the
+ships depart, the station is blown up, level by level, section by
+section.
+
+
    
+"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There
+would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us. It
+taught us that we had to create the future, or others will do it for
+us.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi returns to his wife and family on Mars.
+
+
     "It showed us that we have to care for each other, because if
+we don't, who will?
+
+
    
+Franklin returns to his job on Earth, helping heal both aliens and
+humans.
+
+
    "And that strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely of
+places.
+
+
    Zack goes to Centauri Prime and works for Emperor Vir Cotto.
+
+
    "Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope that there can always
+be new beginnings, even for people like us.
+
+
    Ivanova accepts the position of leader of the Rangers.
+
+
    "As for Delenn, every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn
+got up before dawn and watched the sun come up..."
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@math.berkeley.edu)
    
+
+
    
+In the year 2278, a boy and a girl are playing in the Centauri
+Royal Palace, and come upon an open window. Through it, they can see
+the city burning outside. Their nurse finds them and warns that they
+should not be playing there and should not look outside. All the
+windows in the palace except for this one are covered up, and this one
+is for the Emperor. As they are about to leave, they are interrupted
+by Emperor Londo Mollari.
+
+
    
+"It's all right," he says. "It's been a long time since I've heard
+the sound of laughter in this room." The Emperor asks them to come
+closer, and the boy identifies himself as Luc Jaddo
+("Knives") and
+his sister Lyssa.
+
+
    
+Londo offers Luc the opportunity to give one order. "Make it a good
+one," he says. As the boy thinks, Londo prompts him again: "What do
+you want?" "Tell me a story!" Luc replies -- a better answer to that
+question, Londo reflects, than his own.
+
+
    
+"A story about great deeds," Londo eventually begins. "About
+armies of light and soldiers of darkness. About the places where they
+lived, and fought, and loved, and died. About great empires, and
+terrible mistakes. A true story. You see, I was there, at the dawn of
+the Third Age...
+
+
    
+In the year 2243, in Earth Dome, a young Londo Mollari, liasion to the
+Centauri delegation, arrives at General Lefcourt's
+("Endgame")
+office, where the general and a presidential aide are
+waiting. Following Earth's victory in the Dilgar war
+("Deathwalker"),
+the Earth government has been extending their sphere of influence,
+making deals and treaties with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds. Some aliens
+have been receptive, some hostile, and some are a mystery. Among the
+latter are the Minbari. The General has asked Londo to his office to
+see if he has any information about the Minbari. Londo says the
+Centauri have had some dealings with them in the past, but nothing
+recently. The aide explains that Earth is preparing to send an
+expedition to Minbari space, to see if they pose a threat to Earth's
+expansion, and they need all the information they can get.
+
+
    
+Londo advises them to send only one ship. He explains that the Minbari
+are one of the oldest space faring races, and even at the height of
+Centauri expansion they never dared oppose them. The Minbari won't bother
+Earth if they are left alone, he says. But the aide and the General
+are not listening, and are confident that Earth can handle whatever
+comes its way. Londo promises to give them the information they
+requested, but nothing more. "I only hope," says Londo, "that in your
+stumbling around you do not wake the dragon."
+
+
    
+Meanwhile on the Minbari homeworld, Lenonn, leader of the
+Anla'shok (the Rangers) is meeting with Callier, a warrior caste
+member. Lenonn has requested more support and men for the
+Anla'shok, who are not well regarded by the warriors. The
+prophecies of Valen indicate that this is the time when the
+Anla'shok will be needed most, but the warrior caste elders
+have denied his request. Lenonn demands to see the Grey Council and
+make his case personally, as is his right. Callier warns that going
+over the heads of the caste elders will offend them, but Lenonn does
+not care.
+
+
    
+That night, Lenonn is awakened by silent attendants who escort him
+before Dukhat, leader of the Minbari,  and the Grey Council. Lenonn
+recalls Valen's prophecy that the Shadows would return in a thousand
+years, a time almost upon them now, and says the Rangers are not
+ready; they are few, most of them old and tired, mocked by some even
+in the Grey Council, and by the Warrior caste who consider them an
+embarrassment, who do not believe in the prophecy of Valen.
+
+
    
+Dukhat replies that the prophecy also says the Anla'shok will
+arise, so why not wait until there is proof? Besides, prophecy only
+concerns the religious caste; what does Lenonn have for the Workers
+and the Warriors? "All I can say is that I believe," replies
+Lenonn. "What more is there to say?" The rangers need money,
+resources, and people; and Lenonn also suggests contacting the
+Vorlons.
+
+
    
+Coplann, a member of the Grey Council and the Warrior caste scoffs at
+the idea. In the last hundred years no ship sent to contact the
+Vorlons has returned. "Let them appear," says Coplann, "to give us
+something to believe in." He takes their absence as further proof that
+no danger exists.
+
+
    
+Delenn, not yet officially a member of the Council but in attendance
+nonetheless, suggests instead an expedition to Z'ha'dum, homeworld of
+the Shadows, to verify whether the Shadows have returned. Coplann
+argues that such an expedition would cause panic if it were generally
+known, and Dukhat agrees with him. Therefore, Dukhat announces, the
+Grey Council itself will go to see the truth of the prophecy,
+travelling in secret and via an indirect route. The Council is
+dismissed, and Dukhat returns to his sanctum to meditate. In his
+sanctum, and clearly known to him, are two Vorlons in their encounter suits.
+
+
    
+On Earth, Lt. Cmdr. John Sheridan arrives at Gen. Lefcourt's
+office. Gen. Lefcourt offers Sheridan the first officer position
+aboard the Prometheus, which is leading the expedition to the border
+of Minbari space. Sheridan feels an obligation to Captain Sterns, his
+current captain aboard the Lexington, and he does not feel
+comfortable leaving the ship, or joining Capt. Jankowski aboard the
+Prometheus. Capt. Jankowski is considered a loose cannon by people who
+have served under him, and he doesn't handle first contact situations
+"as well as others." Although Jankowski was completely cleared of
+responsibility for something called "the Omega incident," Sheridan
+would rather avoid the situation. Gen. Lefcourt considers this a bad
+move for Sheridan, but if Sheridan wants to shoot his own career in
+the foot, that is his problem. Sheridan is dismissed.
+
+
    
+Aboard the Grey Council ship, just prior to the ceremony to officially
+make her a member of the Council, Delenn notices secret supplies
+arriving. She discovers they are brought every week on Dukhat's
+personal orders, and have to do with life support and alternate
+atmospheres. Dukhat overhears her investigations and reminds her of
+the coming ceremony. Delenn confides to him her suspicions, that the
+supplies have to do with Vorlons who may be among them secretely,
+obviously known to Dukhat, but Dukhat neither confirms nor denies
+this. However, he tells her "If you ever have doubt about your
+actions, all you need do is look upon the face of a Vorlon. Once you
+see that all doubt is erased forever." (See Dr. Kyle's comments in
+"The Gathering";
+also
+"Chrysalis.")
+
+
    
+The Prometheus arrives at the given coordinates as the ceremony to
+induct Delenn is taking place. The Prometheus picks up the silhouette
+of the Grey Council cruiser. They were not expecting any ships in this
+area, and Capt. Jankowski does not understand her presence. "Unless
+they are waiting for us," he muses out loud. He does not want to jump
+back out unless thay are detected, however, to avoid putting the jump
+engines under strain, and thinking about the likely medals he will
+receive for bringing information on the Minbari warships back with
+him.
+
+
    
+The first officer reminds the Captain that their orders are to avoid a
+first contact situation, but Capt. Jankowski ignores him and orders
+his ships to approach. Their scanners are having a hard time locking on,
+and they cannot pick up anything more than a silhouette, so
+Capt. Jankowski orders them to get even closer, trying to obtain as much
+information as they can before being detected. Over the objections of
+this first officer, he adds, "We handled the Dilgar, we can handle a
+few stray ships."
+
+
    
+Aboard the Minbari ship, they have picked up the echo of the Earth
+ships. To confirm whether it is aliens, a member of the Grey Council
+has ordered the scanners on maximum but does not think they should
+bother Dukhat until they have more information.
+
+
    
+The powerful scanners are so strong that they interfere with the Earth
+ship's jump engines, so the Prometheus cannot jump
+out. Capt. Jankowski gets more and more agitated, conjecturing that
+this is being done deliberately. He calls a Red Alert, and tries
+telling the Minbari that they mean no harm.
+
+
    
+Dukhat is informed of the ships, and that they are talking but cannot
+be understood. The Grey Council member who ordered the scan says they
+are approaching with gunports open, as per Warrior caste custom: a
+sign of respect. Capt. Jankowski misinterprets the gesture and unable
+to tell whether the Minbari have locked their weapons on them because
+of the interference from the scanners, he grows ever more agitated and
+finally orders the ships to open fire. They manage to damage the Grey
+Council ship, mortally injuring Dukhat and shutting down the
+scanners. As Dukhat dies in Delenn's arms, the Prometheus and her
+escort turn around and flee.
+
+
    
+A Council member approaches Delenn as she holds the dead body of
+Dukhat. The Council is divided: should they follow the humans to their
+base and take revenge, or wait and try to understand what happened?
+Delenn's vote will break the tie. Delenn, distraught over the death of
+the Minbari leader and mad with grief, votes for revenge: "They struck
+without provocation... there was no reason... Animals! Brutal... They
+deserve no mercy... Strike them down! Follow them to their bases and
+kill all of them! All of them! No mercy!"
+
+
    
+"With the death of their leader Dukhat," continues Londo, "the
+Minbari went mad. They swore revenge, and began a holy war which could
+only end with the complete extermination of Mankind..."
+
+
    
+Gen. Lefcourt and Gen. Fontaine host a massive briefing for Earth
+Force personnel, where they shows images of dozens of Minbari heavy
+cruisers destroying an orbitting station and Earth cruisers. The
+Minbari are attacking and destroying everything, even ships which are
+not capable of fighting any more. They are not responding to
+communications, and ignoring offers of surrender. Since the first
+engagement, Earth Force has not won a single battle, as the Minbari
+ships are immensely superior and Earth Force cannot even break the
+Minbari stealth technology. The briefing is to make sure everyone
+understands, and relays to their ships, two things. One, that Earth
+Force needs a victory, any victory, to boost morale. "And two,"
+concludes Gen. Lefcourt, "that unless we find a way to defeat the
+Minbari, the human race ends with the current generation."
+
+
    
+At the briefing are Sheridan and Capt. Sterns of the
+Lexington. Although the Lexington is an old ship that was not expected
+to see action again, it is being made ready. Also there is Ganya
+Ivanov, a fighter pilot who is visited by his younger sister
+Susan. Susan promises to join Earth Force when she turns eighteen in a
+few months, despite her father's likely objections, and she gives
+Ganya one of her earrings "for luck."
+
+
    
+In Geneva, Londo is talking again to the presidential aide. Earth
+knows the Centauri will not intervene militarily, but they would like
+strategic and tactical support from them. And, as Londo points out,
+weapons. Centauri are more advanced, and the weapons may give Earth a
+fighting chance. But although Earth offers to pay any price, the
+Centauri are worried about possible retaliation by the Minbari should
+they find out, and consider the humans a dying race anyway because of
+the war. Centauri Prime will not help.
+
+
    
+The aide returns to his office, where G'Kar of the Narn regime
+waits. G'Kar predicted the Centauri would react this way, but the Narn
+are willing to help. When the Narn drove the Centauri away from their
+home, they seized many weapons they have since learned how to
+replicate. They will sell them to Earth, but for a high price. Asked
+if he is worried about Minbari retaliation, he reasons that if the
+Minbari capture any weapons, they will blame the Centauri, which is an
+excellent outcome for the Narn. The aide agrees to the terms, having
+little choice.
+
+
    
+The massive Minbari fleet continues its advance. But Delenn has lost
+her taste for the war. "Dukhat would have never approved of this
+slaughter," she argues to another member of the Council. Lenonn agrees
+with her, accusing the Warriors of being afraid of losing against
+stronger opponents, the Shadows, and therefore embracing genocidal war
+against the humans, who have no chance of victory.
+
+
    
+Later, when Delenn and Lenonn are alone, Lenonn informs her that he
+has recreated Dukhat's sanctum in this new ship. Only the two of them
+have access to it for now, and he advises her to go there very soon.
+
+
    
+When Delenn goes, she finds two Vorlons in their encounter
+suits. One of them identifies himself as Kosh, and shows Delenn a
+projection made by Dukhat before his death. The Vorlons have told
+Dukhat that the Minbari will need allies in the coming war, and
+have specifically mentioned the humans. Dukhat hopes that the person
+hearing the message will help bring them to the war against the
+Shadows on the Minbari side. Kosh further tells Delenn that the humans
+"are the key." Lenonn emerges from the shadows in the sanctum and says
+the war against the humans must be stopped.
+
+
    
+Back on Earth, Dr. Stephen Franklin, recently re-enlisted, is
+confronted by Gen. Fontaine. Franklin spent some time hitchhicking
+through space, exchanging medical service for free passage. During
+this time, he came into contact with some Minbari who had been
+seriously injured. He was unable to save them, but performed autopsies
+and took detailed medical notes. He has not provided Earth Force with
+these notes, since he knows they will be used by the BioGenetic
+Division to attempt to create a biogenic weapon to wipe out the
+Minbari. As a doctor, he cannot allow that. Under the Military Code of
+Justice, the General cannot order him to turn in the notes, but
+Gen. Fontaine does not care. He has Franklin arrested and his office
+and home searched. He will be held under arrest until he turns in the
+notes the General "requested." "And God help you, son," Gen. Fontaine
+tells Franklin. "From now on, the blood of every soldier who dies in
+this war is on your hands."
+
+
    
+In space, the Lexington and her group have been under hit and run
+attacks for the past few days. They are all tired and under
+pressure. They pick up a lone Minbari short range transport and follow
+it to an asteroid belt, where the transport engines apparently fail,
+leaving the transport adrift. Sheridan realizes it is a trap, but
+before the group can break formation a Minbari heavy cruiser jumps in
+the middle of the group. The hyperspace distortion and the cuirser
+make quick work of the group, destroying most of the ships in a matter
+of seconds. The Lexington is hit and loses engines and
+weapons. Capt. Sterns' chair is hit by flying debris, crushing him to
+death. The Lexington is left adrift in the asteroid belt, the Minbari
+thinking it dead already.
+
+
     In Delenn's quarters, Lenonn and Delenn are trying to figure out
+what to do. Until now, the Minbari have only hit outer colonies,
+sparsely populated, but soon they will start approaching the inner
+colonies closer to Earth. Every day they delay will make stopping the
+war that much harder. Delenn suggests opening negotiations with the
+humans, but no member of the Grey Council can go by himself; and the
+humans will probably think it is a trap anyway. But, she suggests,
+Lenonn is respected, and has a history of service and unchallenged
+loyalty, making him a perfect choice. The Minbari know of the deal
+between humans and Narns, and Delenn suggests using the Narn as
+intermediaries to arrange a meeting in neutral territory. Despite the
+dangers, Lenonn agrees, happy to be able to serve his people
+again. With luck, a meeting can take place in three or four weeks.
+
+
    
+Adrift on the Lexington, Sheridan comes up with a desperate plan. He
+orders three tactical nukes put on asteroids as mines. When they are
+ready, he sends a distress signal. The Minbari cruiser intercepts the
+transmission and turns back to destroy the Lexington. Before they can
+fire, Sheridan detonates the nukes, destroying the cruiser.
+
+
    
+The cruiser turns out to be the Black Star, the Minbari flagship. Upon
+the Lexington's return to Earth, the news of the destruction, the only
+victory Earth Force has managed so far, is the morale boost
+Gen. Lefcourt was hoping for.
+
+
    
+Gen. Lefcourt congratulates Sheridan. "You were right to stay where
+you are," the General says. "Thank you for arguing with me." While the
+Lexington is undergoing repairs, Gen. Lefcourt sends Sheridan to the
+rendezvous with the Minbari, now arranged through the Narn. It is to
+take place in an abandonded Earth listening post in the Epsilon system,
+and G'Kar will go as
+a mediator and translator if needed. Dr. Franklin, who has agreed to
+help as his only way out of the stockade, will also go to verify that
+the other party are indeed Minbari. If it is safe and the Minbari are
+serious, negotiators will follow, to surrender if necessary.
+
+
     "We all have our orders..." muses Londo. "My orders were to
+prevent the Narns from using the war to establish closer ties with the
+humans. We learned of their mission, and we assumed it was an arms
+shipment. We didn't know. We couldn't know that it was an attempt to
+end the war. And so, I gave the order to intercept it."
+
+
     A Narn heavy cruiser delivers G'Kar, Sheridan and Franklin to the
+listening post on the surface of a desolate planet, where they meet
+Lenonn. Lenonn knew Sheridan was coming, and knows what he did to the
+Black Star. He also knows, he says, that it was necessary. "I also
+know many of my people will not forget," adds Lenonn. "I speak for
+them. We must find a way to resolve this, so that many more of your
+people not get killed. We..." but before he can finish, G'Kar is
+contacted by his ship; someone is coming through the jumpgate. Before
+the ship can say anything more, they are destroyed. A Centauri cruiser
+has opened fire on them, and then fires several missiles at the
+surface. In the explosion, Lenonn is mortally wounded. Before he dies,
+he explains that his people will blames his death on Sheridan, so he
+tells Sheridan what to tell them.
+
+
     "They never knew who had attacked them," explains Londo. "Each
+side assumed it was a renegade arm of their own government. But it was
+us, and it was my order that destroyed their last chance for
+peace..."
+
+
     The Minbari soon arrive to find Lenonn dead. Sheridan, Franklin
+and G'Kar are brought before a hooded Delenn. G'Kar is to be sent away
+and the two humans questioned prior to their execution. But before
+they are taken away, Sheridan starts yelling. "I have a message! I
+know what is in Dukhat's sacred place!" When asked by Delenn what is
+there, he replies "Insil'zha". Delenn realizes they are not to
+blame for Lenonn's death and orders them released. Although stunned,
+the Minbari obey her. When Franklin asks G'Kar what the word means,
+G'Kar replies "The future."
+
+
     "With their one chance for peace ruined, and Lenonn dead, the
+war escalated..." Londo pauses in his story and looks out the
+window. He explains he had all windows blocked, afraid that if he saw
+the burning city unprepared he would break down and cry. "But there is
+hope," he says. "But it will be hard. It will be so very hard..."
+
+
     Londo returns to his seat and continues the story. "Where was
+I?  Yes, the war. The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. But
+where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back
+with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch
+of space. In my life I have never seen anything like it. They would
+weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved
+ones... and they would throw themselves, without any fear or
+hesitation, on the very face of Death itself, never surrendering. No
+one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be
+moved to tears by their courage, their stubborn nobility. When they
+ran out of ships, they used guns. When they ran out of guns, they used
+knives, and sticks, and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope
+that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw
+in their eyes, at the end.
+
+
     "They did this for two years. They never ran out of
+courage, but in the end, they ran out of time..."
+
+
     On Earth, the Earth Alliance President addresses the military
+forces that are left, and tells them of the fall of Proxima and Beta
+Durani. Earth has also lost contact with Io, and they believe the
+Minbari will bypass Mars and strike Earth directly at any
+moment. Despite broadcasting a surrender and a plea for mercy, the
+Minbari have not responded. To buy more time for the evacuation of
+Earth, every ship capable of fighting is being asked to join the final
+defense of Earth. "We will not lie to you," the President says in
+broken tones. "We do not believe that survival is a possibility. We
+believe that everyone who joins this battle will never come home. But
+for every ten minutes we can delay the military advance, several
+hundred more civilians may have a chance to escape to neutral
+territory. Though Earth may fall, the human race must have a chance to
+continue elsewhere. No greater sacrifice has ever been asked of a
+people, but I ask you now, to step forward one last time, one last
+battle to hold the line against the night. May God go with you all."
+
+
    
+Hundreds of ships of all sizes hold position around Earth as the
+Minbari approach in hyperspace. The Grey Council assembles to oversee
+the end of the campaign. On her way to the Council, Delenn stops at
+Dukhat's sanctum and talks to the Vorlons. She says she has failed,
+and the war has taken a life of its own, despite the fact that even
+the Warrior caste has lost its taste for it. She believes that even
+now they would agree to stop if there were a reason to do so, but
+there is none. Running out of time, unsure of what to do, she begs the
+Vorlons to tell her what to do. But they remain silent. As she is
+about to leave, Kosh says "The truth points to itself." Delenn doesn't
+understand, but Kosh tells her to leave before it is too late.
+
+
     Alpha group, led by Jeffrey Sinclair, is first to encounter the
+enemy, a scouting party. "Hold the line," orders Sinclair. "No one
+gets through, no matter what."
+
+
     The Grey Council oversees as hundreds of Minbari ships jump into
+normal space and start firing. They quickly destroy all of Alpha group
+except for Sinclair himself. Without any weapons left, his ship about
+to explode, he turns on a cruiser intent on ramming it. The Cruiser is
+the Grey Council ship.
+
+
     Delenn suggests they capture a human to interrogate him about the
+defenses on Earth. When asked to choose a pilot, she recalls Kosh's
+words and chooses Sinclair's ship. The cruiser uses an energy beam to
+stop and tractor in Sinclair's ship, as the battle continues around
+him. Coplann, a Grey Council member of the Warrior caste, leaves to
+conduct the interrogation. Later, Delenn, unable to watch more death, leaves
+the room, and is intercepted by a troubled Coplann. They were using the
+triluminary to probe Sinclair's mind, and something happened. Coplann
+thinks Delenn and the rest of the Council should see this immediately.
+
+
    
+The triluminary glows when close to the beaten Sinclair, an
+indication that he has a Minbari soul. Moreover, as Delenn points out,
+it is not any Minbari soul, but the sould of Valen himself. Coplann
+cannot believe it, but the trilumniary is the holiest Minbari relic
+and cannot be questioned. Delenn reasons that Valen was reborn as a
+human, a sign that humanity is important to the coming Shadow
+War. Since Minbari do not kill Minbari, "we cannot kill them,"
+concludes Delenn. "In the name of Valen, and he who is Valen's shadow
+in this life, we cannot kill them."
+
+
    
+The ships are to be ordered to stop immediately. As Coplann leaves to
+see to it, another Council member points out that the rest of the
+Minbari people are not ready to know this, it would cause panic. It is
+suggested that Sinclair's mind be wiped of this memory, to ensure
+secrecy, and that a close watch is to be kept on him to make sure he
+does not remember. "Leave that to me," says Delenn. "We will keep him
+close to us, one way or another."
+
+
    
+"For the next ten years," continues Londo, "one question would
+obsess a hundred worlds: Why did the Minbari surrender at the Battle
+of the Line, on the very eve of victory? The answer to that question
+would change the Galaxy forever..." concludes Londo, as he finishes
+his tale.
+
    
+
+ Londo orders the children out, as he has things to do. Before
+they leave, Luc asks about Sheridan and Delenn and the end of the
+story. Londo tells them that Sheridan became president of a great
+Alliance, Delenn ever at his side. "The story..." Londo says, "is not
+over yet. The story is never over." "Did they live happily ever
+after?" asks Lyssa, the first words she has spoken out loud in the
+presence of the Emperor.
+
+
    
+"That remains to be seen..." replies Londo, and the children
+leave. Londo orders several bottles of alcohol and asks that "the
+prisoners" be brought to him in an hour. When the guard leaves to
+execute the order, Londo turns on a projector, where she sees Delenn
+and Sheridan in a cell in Centauri Prime
+("War Without End, Part Two.")
+Londo takes his cup, and in a mock toast to the
+screen, he says "To the future, my old friends," as he settles back on
+his throne to drink.
+
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+
    
+"It was the middle of the Earth year 2260," recalls Sheridan. "The
+Year Between Wars, and the beginning of a new age. The Shadow War was
+over, but there was still a darkness waiting for us back
+home. President Santiago had been assassinated, and his successor,
+president Clark, was turning Earth into a prison camp. We'd broken
+away from Earth, and in retaliation they had quarantined us, trying to
+strangle our supply lines. We were desperate, and we couldn't afford
+to lose even a single supply ship. In the midst of all of this, we
+made contact with Thirdspace, and we almost didn't survive it... I
+only hope we never come across it again. Because the next time, no one
+is going to survive it."
+
+
    
+A supply ship is under attack by raiders, and the raiders are under
+attack by Starfuries, led by Ivanova. Ivanova tells the raider leader
+that their forces are too evenly matched, and it will be at best a
+stalemate. But the ship carries Quantium 40, too rich a prize for the
+raiders to ignore. So they call in their heavy cruiser, which
+functions as their base. And then, Ivanova springs her mouse trap:
+Sheridan, in command of several White Star ships, arrives and takes
+care of the cruiser. Hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned, the
+raiders surrender. Sheridan takes the prisoners to a Drazi freeport,
+and Ivanova takes the wing of Starfuries back to B5. She'll spread the
+news; hopefully, if raiders believe any shipment could be a trap, they
+will think twice before attacking.
+
    
+
+Back on B5, Lyta Alexander is mediating a private dispute, but she
+keeps getting flashes of a ship or artifact in hyperspace. It
+discomforts her greatly, and quickly excuses herself. Meanwhile, in
+hyperspace, Ivanova's wing detects something lost there,
+adrift. They make a lifeline of Starfuries to reach it before it drifts away
+and is lost ("A Distant Star").
+It is a huge construct, of unknown origin. Ivanova requests Babylon 5
+send White Stars and all available starfuries to tow the enormous find
+back to the station.
+
    
+
+As the artifact passes through the gate, Lyta has a vision: the Zocalo
+in ruins, bodies everywhere, herself hurt and bleeding, and a strange
+shadow stalking her...
+
    
+
+Later, Vir talks with Sheridan and Delenn. Londo is away on Centauri
+Prime, and the League has asked him to talk on their behalf. The
+League want access to the artifact, and the possible advanced
+technologies it represents. But Sheridan is wary of having everyone
+poking at the artifact, pulling in all directions at once. He promises
+they will share anything they find with the League. Vir does not think
+the League will be satisfied with promises, but agrees to relay
+Sheridan's answer to them.
+
    
+
+But as Delenn points out, Babylon 5 is not equipped to handle
+research of such proportions. "So it will take us a little longer,"
+answers Sheridan possessively.
+
    
+
+A maintenance bot is sent to take a surface sample from the artifact,
+but its energy is drained, and strange markings of some kind shine
+briefly on the artifact's surface. And in her quarters, Lyta is
+furiously scribbling on the walls "There is danger. Remember." over and
+over again...
+
    
+
+Soon after, a ship from InterPlanetary Expeditions (IPX) arrives and
+requests a meeting with Sheridan. The leader of the expedition is
+Dr. Elizabeth Trent. Despite the Earth embargo on B5, IPX would like
+access to the artifact. Because of its line of work, IPX maintains
+contacts with other worlds and outside of Earth-controlled space, and
+Earthgov turns a blind eye towards them for business' sake. Dr. Trent
+points out that B5 is not set up to investigate the find, and it
+could even be dangerous to be poking around blindly. Sheridan agrees
+to given them access, provided IPX meets some conditions: they are to
+keep him and the station informed at all times, and give them full
+access to their finds; he also wants first shot at any new
+technologies found; and anything that could be used by Earth against
+the other races will not leave B5; Sheridan is willing to destroy the
+artifact if necessary to prevent such information from
+leaving. Finally, since IPX can come and go as they please, they will
+bring needed supplies and foodstuffs to the station. "If you're
+going to work here," explains Sheridan, "you are going to have to
+bring lunch. I just want to make sure you bring enough for everybody."
+
    
+
+Dr. Trent wants to think about it, but just then Ivanova links in:
+their tests suggest the artifact is at least a million years old. This
+is more than enough for Trent, who agrees to the deal Sheridan
+proposed.
+
    
+
+In her quarters, Lyta is dreaming of the artifact. In her dream, it is
+covered in some sort of writing. She wakes up and leaves. As she is
+going up on a lift, she is joined by Zack. She, however, is still lost
+in her visions, mouthing the words "there is danger, remember" over
+and over. The lift stops suddenly: the station has been
+experiencing power fluctuations for the past couple of hours. Zack,
+meanwhile, uses the pause to ask Lyta out; he is taken aback by her
+silence and detachment, thinking it is rejection. He eventually backs
+off, and requests that the whole conversation be forgotten.
+
    
+
+Later, as more work continues around the artifact, dozens of maintbots
+accelerate towards it on a collision course. They are destroyed by
+starfuries before they impact, and when security breaks into
+Maintenance, they find Lyta standing over the unconscious bodies of
+the personnel. "We have to stop it, we have to stop it," she says, and
+falls to the ground unconscious. Later, she tells Dr. Franklin she
+cannot remember anything since the previous evening. Although
+Dr. Trent wants her in custody, Sheridan refuses. He will treat this
+as an isolated incident.
+
    
+
+The preparations around the artifact are complete, and the IPX team
+begins deep magnetic scans on the artifact. They figure it is not a
+ship, but rather some sort of mechanism. Dr. Trent even has some ideas
+about what it is...
+
    
+
+In the Zocalo, a man starts dreaming of a city in space, with a spire
+in the middle, and dark tentacles reaching for him. He awakes
+screaming. All over the station, similar events are occurring: fights
+are breaking out, people are locking themselves up in their rooms,
+screaming...
+
    
+
+In Downbelow, Deuce ("Grail") is
+looking up; he is seeing the same city, and mutters to himself "It is
+beautiful." Ivanova also dreams of the city, and even sees Vir
+there. A dark tentacle reaches over from behind her, and she wakes up
+screaming.
+
    
+
+In the morning, Bill Marishi, the second in command of the IPX group,
+is working over breakfast. Suddenly, he is surrounded by silent people
+who are staring at him intently. Among them is Deuce, who tells him
+IPX isn't moving fast enough. "You have to move faster," he tells
+Marishi. "You have to make it work."
+
    
+
+Despite her progress, Dr. Trent has not shared her findings with
+Sheridan, and he is getting suspicious. Although he is not a
+xenoarchaelogist, from his years with Anna he knows they should be
+further along than Dr. Trent is letting on. But Dr. Trent claims the
+situation is unique and calls for slow progress. Sheridan then notices
+some of her notes, and recognizes that the writing on the surface of
+the artifact is Vorlon. Dr. Trent should know that, and moreover
+should have shared the information. Sheridan gives her 48 hours to get
+a report to him, otherwise he'll pull the plug.
+
    
+
+Faced with the deadline, Trent tries to push up the schedule. She
+wants to crack the artifact's technology before anyone else takes it
+away from her. But Marishi disagrees, and since he is second in
+command his agreement is needed. So she reveals what she knows: the
+way Dr. Trent figures it, the artifact will open a gateway to another
+space, different from both normal and hyper; she calls it
+"thirdspace." As far as she can tell, it operates under a whole
+different set of rules: a ship traveling through thirdspace would be
+able to travel almost instantanously between points that would take
+days or weeks through hyperspace; the technological, and more
+importantly the military, potential is enormous. Although cautious,
+Marishi agrees to go ahead and try to turn the artifact on, and open a
+gateway to thirdspace.
+
    
+
+In a lift, Ivanova meets Vir. Since it is considered good luck among
+Centauri, Vir mentions he saw her in his dreams last night. Soon,
+Ivanova realizes it was the same dream she had, and that this is
+connected to the strange happenings all around the station, and to the
+artifact itself. She rushes to tell Sheridan about it.
+
    
+
+But Trent has put her plans in action. The work crew plugs in a power
+cell to the artifact, which springs to life.
+
    
+
+People start converging on the observation dome, the Zocalo, and the
+cobra bays, entranced by the artifact. Some are trying to stop the
+starfuries from launching. When Zack tries to clear them out, fights
+erupt. The artifact is now draining power from the whole station. Zack
+links in to Sheridan: fights are breaking out everywhere, and people
+seem to be under some kind of telepathic influence or trance; he won't
+fire on them, which makes things that much harder. Some starfuries
+launch and start firing at the artifact from a distance, but the
+artifact seems to be protected by an energy shield now. Slowly, the
+artifact begins to open...
+
    
+
+Sheridan goes to see Lyta, and is met by Delenn. They find Lyta
+taken over by a presence, an "echo of what was." The presence explains
+what the artifact is: thousands of years ago, the Vorlons, believing
+themselves to be just short of godhood, constructed the artifact as a
+gate to heaven. In their arrogance they didn't stop to consider the
+consequences and dangers. On the other side, they found a powerful
+race bent on the destruction of all other life in that universe. With
+the gate open, they came into our universe to do the same. Strong
+telepaths, they even managed to take over some Vorlons. The Vorlons
+managed to fight them back and close the gate, but before the artifact
+could be destroyed, those who had been taken over flung it into
+hyperspace. Now the door is opening again, and the artifact must be
+destroyed. For the aliens to come through, the door must be open on
+both sides, so this will suffice. The presence imparts to Sheridan the
+knowledge needed to destroy the artifact.
+
    
+
+Outside, the gate is opening and small ships are coming through. They
+easily take care of the few starfuries that have launched...
+
    
+
+Inside, Sheridan is ready to go ahead. Delenn will get some Minbari
+heavy cruisers, and Sheridan has a mission of his own. Ivanova goes to
+see Trent, and finds Bill Marishi dead, shot from the back: Dr. Trent
+has been taken over as well. Before she can strike again,
+Ivanova disarms her and knocks her unconscious. She then
+leaves to lead the arriving White Stars, as more alien fighters come
+through the gate.
+
    
+
+The alien fighters are very powerful and tough, and even the White
+Stars and the Minbari cruisers are having trouble holding their
+own. Meanwhile, Sheridan goes to the armory and takes a tactical nuke,
+before going out on a powered spacesuit. The defending fleet
+concentrates its fire on the front of the artifact, opening up a hole
+in the defensive shield on the back. Sheridan slips through it to the
+inside of the artifact.
+
    
+
+As the fights rage on outside and inside the station, Sheridan places
+the tactical nuke in the center of the artifact. He arms it, and on
+his way out he finds his way blocked by creatures which look like
+those in Ivanova's and Lyta's visions. He manages to escape them
+barely, as a giant alien ship starts coming through the gate. Before
+it can emerge, however, the bomb goes off, destroying the artifact and
+the alien ship.
+
    
+
+The combined defenders slowly and painfully destroy the remaining
+alien fighters, as the people inside Babylon 5 slowly awaken from their
+telepathic takeover. The station, and the universe, have survived.
+
    
+
+Later, Dr. Trent is apologizing for her behavior, not all of which
+was telepathically induced. She acknowledges she was wrong and will
+take a leave of absence to take stock of her life. "I didn't like the
+part of me that thing brought out," she tells Sheridan. She also gives
+him all the information she found about the artifact. It may prove
+useful, some day.
+
    
+
+"I was sure she didn't give me all the information," remembers
+Sheridan. "She just wanted out of there. And if a little lie got her
+out the door, that was fine with her. Fine with both of us,
+really. Because as Mr. Garibaldi has been known to say from time to
+time, `we all lie.' When the dust settled and people wanted
+explanations, we gave them one. We said that the device was a weapon,
+a mouse trap, which was true. We told them that it used a telepathic
+trigger and caused an outbreak of fighting, and we told them that it
+was finally destroyed. It's all true.
+
    
+
+"And of course, it's all a lie. Because there are times we don't need
+the whole truth. The Vorlons made an error thousands of years ago, and
+we paid the price for it today. Why encourage any one else to do the
+same? No, we have more than enough troubles of our own, we don't need
+to inherit anyone else's mistakes. We got through it alive, and
+everyone's okay, and that's the important thing. And this isn't the
+kind of problem that's likely to ever happen again."
    
+
+In the Observation Deck, Lyta is staring sadly at the stars, saying to
+herself: "One mistake. One mistake out of so many, so many others..."
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+
    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+
    
+On a desolate planet, amidst old ruins, a group of human
+archaeologists work carefully in a deep tunnel. The leader,
+Dr. Bryson, is sure they are about to get to "the main vault,"
+although according to another archaeologist, he has been saying that
+for two days. But soon Dr. Bryson finds a metal disc on the
+wall; on one side is the symbol for death, and on the other side the
+symbol for eternal life. The wall is broken down, and they find
+themselves in a large gallery full of small, glowing globes, thousands
+of them. But as they enter, a beacon is activated outside.
+
+
    
+According to Bryson, the globes hold personalities, souls. He believes
+they will lead him to the secret of immortality. As Bryson's hand
+nears a globe, whispers are heard throughout the room. The whispers
+die away when he withdraws his hand.
+
+
    
+Just then, they hear a ship flying outside. The second in command,
+Klaus, orders everyone out. "If whoever built this place has come
+back," he says, "they might let us leave alive if we touch nothing."
+Klaus and the others leave, but Bryson takes some sort of device, and
+a globe which is larger than the rest. Then he follows the others, and
+arrives at the entrance to the tunnel just in time to see the others
+running towards their ship. But they don't make it: a craft fires on
+them and they are caught in an explosion. Bryson hides inside the
+tunnel, avoiding detection. As he hugs the globe he has taken, he
+seems to hear something. "Hmmm? No, don't... don't worry," he tells
+the globe. "We'll find a way. I'll never let you go. Never." Outside,
+the alien ship is gone, and Bryson makes his way back to his ship.
+
+
    
+A few days later, Lt. Corwin runs into a relaxed Capt. Lochley in the
+Zocalo on Babylon 5. Lochley notes that things have been quiet since
+Sheridan and Garibaldi left the station for Minbar and Mars,
+respectively ("Objects at Rest",
+"Objects in Motion"). No big
+crises. She likens it to the "Pauli effect," named after Wolfgang
+Pauli, a 20th century physicist whose mere presence in the lab would,
+according to folklore, ruin experiments, and make equipment malfunction or
+even blow up. "So now there is the Sheridan/Garibaldi effect," she
+jokes as she buys a glass vase. She misses Sheridan on a personal
+level, but the problems also seem to be gone. The station is quiet,
+pleasant, almost manageable.
+
+
    
+Lt. Corwin was looking for Lochley, though, to tell her Garibaldi has
+just come on board. Just then, a fistfight erupts behind
+them. "Suddenly," says Lochley, "I have this great blinding pain
+behind my left eye..."
+
+
    
+An unassuming man makes his way to Brown Sector, and knocks a
+prearranged rhythm on a door. The door slides open, and he steps into a
+room adorned with neon lights reading "Virtual Excitment" and
+"Pleasure for men and women."
+
+
    
+"Is she ready?" he asks the owner. It is a holobrothel. The image of
+a scantily clad woman appears, taken from a photograph he
+supplied. The proprietor asks him if he knows how to use the VR suits,
+offering assistance, but the customer assures him he can figure it
+out. He goes into a room, following the hologram. A few seconds later,
+the lights dim briefly and a yell of pain is heard. "I said he didn't
+know how to use it," the proprietor says angrily. "Idiot. If he shorts
+that thing out, I'm going to charge him double."
+
+
    
+Mr. Garibaldi is in Lochley's office, explaining why he is there. Ever
+since taking over Edgars Industries ("Objects in Motion") he has been
+tracking down black projects the company ran under Clark's
+administration. Programs Edgars never told anyone about. He keeps the
+good ones, and closes the not so good ones.  He is on the station
+because it was a convenient place to meet the man in charge of one
+such project; he'll leave once the meeting is dones. Lochley is called
+on the link: Mr. Garibaldi's appointment has arrived. "You told him to
+meet you here?" Lochely asks, clearly annoyed. Garibaldi figured it
+would be a good place in case they missed each other. Before the man
+comes in, though, Lochley asks, "Still sober?" "As a judge," Garibaldi
+answers. "I'm glad," says Lochley sincerely.
+
+
    
+The man comes in: Dr. Robert Bryson. Dr. Bryson and Garibaldi leave to
+talk. In Dr. Bryson's quarters, the globe he found on the planet
+glows.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi wants to know what the project Bryson is working on is. He's
+received over 2 million credits a year, but the project is only
+identified in the records as "L.E." Bryson explains it might refer to
+his pet name for the project: "Life Eternal." Bryson wants to discover
+the secret to immortality. Bryson points out humans can live to 110,
+115 years, but other, more advanced races, can live for double, triple
+that; some sustain life one way or another for thousands of years, and
+others have eliminated death entirely.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is not convinced. Even assuming immortality exists, it would
+probably be available only to the very rich. Dr. Bryson agrees; in
+fact, the probable profit is what made William Edgars invest in the
+project in the first place. And after three years, Bryson believes a
+recent discovery may unlock the secret to eternal life. But he doesn't
+want to share more until he is more certain.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi is not impressed, and is unwilling to grant even the few
+days Brson wants to finish his preliminary analysis. He insists that
+Bryson turn over the notes from his last three years of work, in the
+morning at the latest, so Garibaldi can decide whether to continue
+funding. Bryson has no choice: he promises the notes will be ready in
+the morning.
+
+
    
+Lochley is working in her office when Corwin escorts a man inside. He
+is Mr. Clute, the customer from the holobrothel. Mr. Clute wants to
+complain about the equipment there, claiming it was dangerously
+faulty. Lochley doesn't understand: as far as she is aware, there are
+no holobrothels on Babylon 5. But Mr. Clute claims the business is
+sanctioned by Babylon 5. Lochley asks Corwin to have Mr. Clute give a
+full report to security, and then let Zack take care of the problem.
+
+
    
+In his quarters, Dr. Bryson has rigged an interface with the station's
+power lines, which he uses to activate the device he took from the
+gallery. The device seems to act as a viewer or communicator, allowing
+him to peer inside the globe. There he sees a face, but it appears the
+face does not hear or see him. Bryson records in his log, "I've made
+contact."
+
+
    
+In Brown 11, Zack Allan reaches the holobrothel. The door opens after
+he knocks the required rhythm. He asks to see the owner, who arrives
+and identifies himself as Jacob Mayhew. Zack tells him to pack up and
+leave the station as soon as possible, but Mayhew refuses: he has a
+six month lease, paid for in advance, and an entertainment license. The
+license does not exclude holobrothels specifically, and according to
+Mayhew may be interpreted as covering them. The permit allows him to
+run an entertainment business, after all. And it is all illusions:
+holograms and sensual telemetry body suits. "You can do anything you
+want to anybody you want. You just bring me a picture, I'll supply the
+fantasy," he offers Zack. But Zack clearly is not interested. Mayhew
+refuses again to leave, and is willing to go to court over it. "You
+got it," says Zack. "Meanwhile, I suggest you tell these other folk
+here about how this equipment of yours is dangerous and faulty. Hell,
+I'm suprised nobody has been electrocuted by now." Zack leaves, and
+Mayhew tells his secretary to call 'Riley.'
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Bryson continues his experiments using more power to try to
+communicate better. And he succeeds: a tendril of light connects the
+globe and the device, and a shape forms, hanging in mid-air. Bryson
+finally manages to communicate, and asks the figure its name. But the
+figure doesn't seem to understand, and screams in agony. "What's
+wrong?" Bryson asks.
+
+
    
+"They came for us," the figure says. "They took us away. They had no
+right. Let me go back to sleep. Let me die." "Then you're not dead!"
+says Bryson, elated and curious. "You don't understand," the figure
+continues. "Leave us alone..." "Don't understand... what?" asks
+Bryson. "Leave us alone!" yells the figure before exploding into tiny
+shards of light, which then coalesce back to the tendril of light and
+return to the globe.
+
+
    
+"Must write this down," Bryson mutters to himself. But he is too
+tired, and soon falls asleep. His pen knocks the globe into the
+device, and a surge travels from the globe all the way to Babylon 5's
+power grid.
+
+
    
+Zack is patrolling in Blue Sector when he hears whimpering and
+crying. A woman draped in dark veils sits on some stairs crying for
+her children. When Zack flashes his flashlight in her direction, he can
+see through her as if she were a projection. "Where are my children?"
+continues the figure, and then jumps straight through Zack before
+disappearing.
+
+
    
+In the morning, while Lochley is having breakfast, she is approached
+by a man who identifies himself as James Riley. He is Mayhew's
+attorney, and has a restraining order. He also serves Lochley, who is
+bein sued (as is Babylon 5 as a corporation) for harassment, violation
+to Mayhew's rights, obstruction of trade, and slander. The last refers
+to Zack's parting comments about the equipment. Lochley thinks it is
+some kind of joke, but Riley points out that the fines, for which
+Lochley would be liable, could amount to millions of credits. "See you
+in court," he adds cheerfully on his way out of the Zocalo.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi arrives in Bryson's quarters, and finds him very
+excited. Bryson has clearly not slept much. The room is a mess. When
+Garibaldi asks for the notes, Bryson tells him he has burned them:
+they've become irrelevant in light of his new find. He doesn't even
+need the money anymore. "I have everything that I need," says
+Bryons. "I just need to go deeper, look more deeply, listen to them
+more closely." Bryson then kicks Garibaldi out.
+
+
    
+Zack is astounded when he hears that Mayhew is suing them. He can't
+win, after all. But Lochley points out that the objective is really
+intimidation, harassment, and perhaps a settlement. In any case, they
+can certainly tie things up until the lease expires. They need to be
+more discreet dealing with Mayhew. But Zack is very unhappy. He even
+claims Mayhew sent a hologram to try to scare him. He recounts his
+experience with the crying woman. But Lochley points out the amount of
+energy needed to do that is too big. Mayhew can only create holograms
+within the confines of his establishment.
+
+
    
+Just then, Garibaldi comes in. He's done, and will be leaving as soon
+as he can. They are interrupted by the Captain's link: something
+unusual is coming through the jumpgate. She turns on the screen to
+see it, and Garibaldi recognizes the ship: a Soul Hunter ship ("Soul Hunter"). The globe in
+Bryson's office shines more brightly; he approaches it, and listens to
+sounds only he can hear. "They're here," Bryson mutters, and packs the
+globe away.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Garibaldi is telling Lochley what he knows: Soul Hunters
+show up when someone is about to die. Lochley asks him to help out
+with the Soul Hunters, since he has had some dealings with them
+before. Lochely, Garibaldi, and Zack arrive at the docking bay, with
+an armed security detail, just as the Soul Hunter emerges from his
+ship.
+
+
    
+"Who are you here for?" asks Garibaldi. "Not you," answers the Soul
+Hunter. "None of you, not today. Something was stolen from us. Taken
+here." When asked how he knows, the Soul Hunter says the thief's
+companions told him; he then produces a small shining globe. The
+lights dim, and inside the globe they can see faces screaming in
+agony. "How do we know?" answers the Soul Hunter. "We know." The
+lights go back up. He even knows the name of the thief: Bryson.
+
+
    
+"What did he take?" asks Garibaldi. "More than you can possibly
+imagine," replies the Soul Hunter. The globe contains the entire
+civilization from Ralga, an advanced race that chose not to fare among
+the stars. They were all going to die, so the order of Soul Hunters
+arrived to save the entire world. It was one of three times the Soul
+Hunters captured an entire planet at the moment of death. Then the
+vessel was put in a whisper gallery, where Bryson found it.
+
+
    
+Lochley agrees with the Soul Hunter that the globe should be returned,
+but Zack isn't so sure. Who gave the Hunters permission? Were the
+peole of Ralga consulted, and did they choose to be locked up forever?
+The Soul Hunter points out the alternative is death, and "nothing is
+beyond" death, according to their beliefs.
+
+
    
+Bryson's quarters are searched, but he is gone. The Soul Hunter says
+that the longer you have the vessel, the more you can hear the voices
+of the souls inside. The vessel should be returned: only the Soul
+Hunters can attend to it safely. When Lochley asks him what he means,
+the Soul Hunter replies: "There is strength enough in one mind, one
+soul, to change the universe. Can you imagine how much strength there
+is in one billion souls, all focused on escape?" "Or worse," Lochley
+points out. "Revenge." Given someone they can influence and enough time,
+the souls could do anything.
+
+
    
+Somewhere on the station, the souls speak to Bryson. "Yes, I
+understand," Bryson tells the globe. "I won't let them have
+you. No matter what. Better to destroy the station, embrace the
+darkness, than go back there."
+
+
    
+Lochley orders a full search of the entire station, and wants to hear
+reports on anything strange. Meanwhile, Bryson again powers up the
+device and touches it to the soul vessel, allowing more souls to
+travel through the power grid. Two of them make their way to the
+holobrothel, where they inhabit the holograms of two of Mayhew's
+'creations,' and start kissing. Another makes it to a Babcom screen,
+and then appears carrying a long blade, with which he attacks someone.
+
+
    
+Lochley enters her quarters and finds the Soul Hunter inside; he made
+the guards 'sleep' and came inside because his spirit wanted him to be
+there. He is curious: Soul Hunters have little to do with others. When
+Lochley asks, he describes what they do with the souls. They are
+placed in great halls, where they can talk to one another or to the
+Soul Hunters, but can do nothing else. Lochley says that sounds like hell to
+her, but the Soul Hunter insists she does not understand: her desires
+and needs are a product of her flesh, not her soul.
+
+
    
+Their conversation is interrupted as the lights dim inside. Some
+souls have been following the sound of the Hunter's voice, and are
+pushing against the walls. A power surge forms on a console. The Soul
+Hunter tells Lochley to leave, but as she is doing so, she sees the
+souls about to strike the Hunter from behind. He pushes him out of the
+way, and is hit in the chest instead, thrown to the far wall. She
+slowly slips to the ground and falls unconscious.
+
+
    
+She is taken to MedLab, where her heart stops. She can then feel
+herself outside her body, plummeting down through the decks, and then
+keeps falling. Finally she arrives in a place she does not know:
+Ralga, inside the soul vessel.
+
+
    
+There she is met by what appears to be Dr. Franklin. But that's only
+because that is who she wants it to be. According to Franklin, inside
+the globe one sees only the familiar. He is really a Ralgan. He
+explains she got caught in a power struggle. The "Mad Ones" were
+trying to kill the Soul Hunter, but the rest managed to change the
+surge so it wouldn't kill her; instead, it stopped her heart for a
+second, so they could bring her in to talk. He continues to explain:
+the "Mad Ones" are those driven insane by the 10000 years of
+captivity, and there are more of them every year.
+
+
    
+Lochley wonders why they don't just get Bryson to destroy the globe so
+they can die, but Franklin explain they were not dying in the first
+place. They were about to undergo an evolutionary change, leave their
+bodies behind, become energy, when the Soul Hunters came and
+imprisoned them. The Soul Hunters made a mistake, and he hopes Lochley
+can make them understand that. But she is leaving the vessel already,
+as her heart begin to beat again.
+
+
    
+Outside the station, dozens more Soul Hunter ships are arriving.
+
+
    
+The Soul Hunter comes to see Lochley and to thank her for saving him:
+she is the first one ever to save a Soul Hunter; in so doing, she has
+helped change his view of others, and for that he wants to thank
+her. He also tells her the other Soul Hunters have arrived, impatient
+with his lack of progress. Unless the soul vessel is returned soon,
+they will come aboard and attend to it themselves. Their ships can
+burn through the hull if necessary. He will speak on behalf of Babylon
+5, but he also warns Lochley they are less patient with other races
+than he is. "Our order is disciplined and directed. We do not make
+mistakes."
+
+
    
+"Yes, you do," replies Lochley, getting up. She tells him she was
+taken inside the vessel, but the doesn't believe her at first: it's
+impossible. She describes the planet, and he is less sure, but still
+cannot understand: ordinarily, souls shouldn't be that strong
+yet. Lochley points out they aren't ordinary souls, and explains the
+Ralgans were evolving into beings of pure energy, not dying;
+but the Soul Hunters came and imprisoned them. They made
+a mistake, trapped living souls in their prime. The Soul Hunter cannot
+believe it, but must. He wants to know what to do. For now, Lochley
+asks him to help keep the others out, buy her more time. He agrees to
+try, and leaves. She follows him out, still in pain and groggy. She
+makes her way to Brown 11, where Zack has concentrated his
+investigation. While en route, she is told the Soul Hunters are
+holding position, and that some atypical readings from the reactor
+have been detected.
+
+
    
+Zack and Garibaldi find the man who was attacked by the ghost with the
+blade.  He is dead, but not from any injuries: he was literally scared
+to death.
+
+
    
+Mayhew makes his way to Zack, complaining all the way. He accuses Zack
+of harassment, and of interfering with his programs. Then he notices
+the dead body. "You mean this isn't a routine just to get rid of us?"
+he asks, and takes them to the holobrothel, where hundreds of luminous
+shapes are moving around, leaving the room. Zack thinks it makes
+sense: they are trying to get into bodies, even if they are only
+projections. According to Mayhew, they have access to all his
+files. Just then, a projection of Lochley, scantily clad, walks by the
+doorway.
+
+
    
+The real Lochley arrives and is extremely angered by the image. But
+she has better things to do. She points out the souls must be pumping
+in a lot of energy in order to be taking the images out of the
+brothel. Then, humanoid shapes move past the Lochley image, and the
+latter joins them. In a large bay, the holographic Lochley joins
+hundreds of glowing humanoids, and addresses them:
+
+
    
+"For 10000 years we have been prisoners. For ten thousand years we
+have had one need, one dream, one ambition. To strike back at those who
+imprisoned us. Though we will enter the great dark with them, the
+sacrifice is a worthy one. To end our suffering and our pain. To end
+it all... We are on the path. Now all we have to do is wait here, and
+let our vengeance come to us."
+
+
    
+The lights dim for a second, but the holograms do not. Lochley
+realizes this, and is suddenly very worried. She leaves to 'test a
+theory.' She joins the now still images, but they don't react. "I was
+right," she says to herself. They are meant as a distraction: nobody
+is really there. But before continuing, she wants to get rid of the
+holograms anyway: the Mad Ones could use them to see and hear. So over
+Mayhew's vocal protests, she throws a thermal grenade into the
+holobrothel, blowing up the holographic projectors.
+
+
    
+Lochley points out they must have access to the enhanced fusion reactor in
+Babylon 5. They will probably blow up the station, so they can destroy
+the Soul Hunters outside, even if it means dying themselves.
+
+
    
+Indeed, the reactor will go critical in 15 minutes, and Bryson has
+locked up the controls. But now they know where he is. Zack goes to
+gather a strike team, and Garibaldi and Lochley make their own way
+there.
+
+
    
+On the way, they find the Soul Hunter. Unfortunately, the other Soul
+Hunters did not believe him. Since he is only 4000 years old, they
+think he is too naive. The others think it is all an elaborate ruse to
+keep the soul vessel. After all, if the story about the souls were
+true, a routine investigation would have detected it. But since the
+order couldn't have made a mistake in the first place, such an
+investigation was never made. If the vessel is not returned within 20
+minutes, the Soul Hunters will attack the station.
+
+
    
+Bryson is sitting alone, surrounded by a shimmering column of energy,
+the vessel floating just above his hands. He seems oblivious to
+everything. The assault team gathers around him, as Garibaldi tries to
+talk to Bryson. But he cannot get through, and the souls attack him
+instead. The assault team fires, but the PPG charges can't get through
+the column of energy.
+
+
    
+The Soul Hunter blames his order, their arrogance, for the current
+crisis. He now sees their many mistakes: storing the souls in dark
+places where they would go mad; taking them in the first place was a
+mistake. "We actually thought we were doing them a service, an honor,"
+says the Soul Hunter. "Can you imagine... Instead, we were monsters,
+a terror worse than death."
+
+
    
+In time, he is sure, the others would understand... and he gets an
+idea. He goes towards Bryson, and says: "Listen to me, please. What we
+did to you was wrong. I see that now... And there may be a way to
+correct our mistake. But this destruction is not it. We can return you
+to our world and find a way to release you from your bondage. At
+first, for brief times of course, as you have achieved here through
+the holograms. And then, later, we can invite others to come and allow
+you to express yourselves through them. Allow you to... see an open
+sky again, allow you to feel the ground under your feet again. Until
+that day when we will release you permanently. I know that my order
+will set this mistake right, once they undertand that they have made a
+mistake. Once we make them understand."
+
+
    
+Until then, the Soul Hunter offers himself as a symbol of his
+sincerity. If the souls take him inside the globe, it will prove they
+are really highly developed living souls, cut off at the wrong
+time. And once he is inside, they will know he is telling the
+truth. "Let my soul be a bridge between us, and let my soul be doorway
+to hope."
+
+
    
+He touches the column of energy, and is engulfed in light. The light
+then retreats into the globe, and the Soul Hunter's body slumps to the
+grond, dead. The column disappears, the globe falls back to Bryson's
+hands, and Bryson collapses.
+
+
    
+A lone Soul Hunter arrives later to claim the vessel. Lochley tells
+him: "I never knew the name of the other one from your order who came
+here. He never told me. I don't even know if you have names. All I
+know is that he gave his promise and his life to protect you and this
+place, and the billion minds trapped inside this thing. Make sure that
+the promises he made on your behalf are kept, or I promise you, the
+Hunters will become the hunted. I will do whatever it takes to make
+sure his sacrifice was not in vain."
+
+
    
+The Soul Hunter nods and takes the globe. Inside, the first Soul
+Hunter sees Lochley walking towards him, saying "The mind sees what it
+needs to see. The soul sees what the soul sees." The Soul Hunter
+smiles, content.
+
+
    
+Outside, the Soul Hunters leave, the crisis safely over. Garibaldi is
+also leaving soon; but unfortunately for Lochley, he has plans to come
+back in a month. As he leaves the office, a vase falls to the ground
+and shatters, another manifestation of the Garibaldi-effect.
+
+
    
+Riley comes in.  Since Lochley blew up his client's establishment,
+they will press criminal charges as well. But, according to Lochley,
+the lease specifies that there is no liability for damages due to
+military action. In fact, she already has the depositions of all
+security personnel involved, supporting her conduct and
+decision. Also, since the establishment is gone, the other charges are
+moot. If they contest this, she will sue them for unauthorized use of
+her image in the holobrothel, a case they will surely lose. They will
+get nothing. Riley is nonplussed, but leaves empty handed. Another
+crisis is over as well.
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 can get back to normal... for now.
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    Synopsis by Arturo Magidin (magidin@matem.unam.mx)
    
+
+ISN News Broadcast:
+
    
+"Meanwhile, on Earth and Minbar preparations continue for next month's
+celebration marking the fifth anniversary of the Interstellar
+Alliance. Aside from one brief conflict with the Centauri Republic
+early in its first year, ISA President John Sheridan has delivered on
+his promise to maintain peace among all its member worlds. Although
+ISA Vice-President Delenn continues to make appearances during these
+preparations, Sheridan himself has not been seen for several
+days. Speculations on his absence range from the flu to a good will
+mission to Narn.
+
+
    
+"In other news, ground was broken today in Earthdome for a monument
+dedicated to the many who died in the recent telepath crisis,
+including..."
+
+
+
    
+Sheridan has not been seen because he has joined Garibaldi on a secret
+trip to oversee the final stages of the construction of the prototypes
+for the destroyer class White Star ships ("Movement of Fire and Shadow"). Garibaldi
+is taking a bit of time away from managing Edgars Industries on Mars
+("Objects in Motion") at Sheridan's
+request.
+
+
    
+The head of the construction project, Drake, is being too
+cautious for Garibaldi's taste. But Sheridan points out that reverse
+engineering Vorlon and Minbari technology to fit human technology is
+uncharted waters, and caution is necessary. The construction is top
+secret, not the least because the other races are likely to object to
+Earth, Minbar, and Sheridan being the sole beneficiaries of the
+project. Sheridan is sure no one can follow them to the construction site,
+as they are aboard a
+White Star, the fastest known ship. But he is wrong. A small probe
+follows them into and through hyperspace, projecting the image to a
+small crystal globe.
+
+
    
+The globe is held by a man called Galen. He is interrupted and told he
+must explain his behavior and account for his activities to something
+called "the circle," and everyone involved. Although annoyed, he agrees
+to do so.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Garibaldi arrive at the construction dock. Two prototypes
+are there, the Victory and the Excalibur. Sheridan is
+welcomed by Drake, who gives him the tour. They are still battling some
+minor problems, haven't fully figured out the artificial gravity for
+example. But the ships are mostly ready, and the controls are intuitive and
+easy to master for Earthforce personnel.
+
+
    
+"How does she handle?" asks Sheridan, excited; but they haven't
+actually tested it yet. And when they try, the propulsion system
+fails, despite Drake's assurances that there would be no problems.
+
+
    
+Sheridan is told a message from Delenn has arrived. He takes it by
+himself in the conference room, but the message is all
+garbled. Sheridan is transfixed, seemingly for a few seconds. But
+Garibaldi enters, breaks the spell, and claims Sheridan has been there
+for almost half an hour. Garibaldi suggests he get some rest while
+Drake works out the bugs. Sheridan agrees.
+
+
    
+"Things were so much easier on Babylon 5," muses Garibaldi.
+
+
    
+On Babylon 5, a female alien arrives, and a weapons violation is
+detected. Zack Allan demands she turn over her weapons, and she does
+so silently: about a dozen or more blades and other low-tech
+weapons. Before leaving, she asks where the lost people, the neglected
+and forgotten, go. Zack directs her to Downbelow, Brown sector.
+
+
    
+Aboard the Excalibur, Sheridan dreams. He finds himself on a
+desolate, burning world, ruins aflame all around him. A voice calls
+out to him: Galen. The world is dead, Galen says, murdered. Not an
+attack, but a test. Galen says he is the one who sent the message
+Sheridan received earlier; he needed a connection for the electron
+incantation.
+
+
    
+A ship arrives. Galen claims it is the killers, come back to check on
+their work. He and Sheridan must leave, to ensure his probe goes
+undetected. Before leaving, he shows Sheridan the name of the
+world: Daltron 7.
+
+
    
+Sheridan awakes as the ship begins to move. It is being towed to the
+firing range.
+
+
    
+On Babylon 5, the alien female works her way through Brown sector,
+following hidden signs painted on the walls and ceilings. And she is
+being followed. Finally, she makes her way to an opening in the
+ceiling, where she is hit on the head. She falls unconscious to the
+ground...
+
+
    
+... and dreams. She is on the dead planet Sheridan was on. "No. I
+can't be back," she says to herself. Sheridan suddenly appears, and
+she throws herself at him in rage. But she passes right through the
+image, and as she does, Sheridan changes, becoming a Drakh. The Drakh
+holds in his hand a miniature galaxy. He closes his fist over it, and
+disappears.
+
+
    
+And then Galen appears. "This is not your world, Dureena Nafeel," he
+booms at her. "But it shares the same fate as your world. When the
+time comes to choose your target, be sure to pick the right
+one. Because you will only get one shot." An earthquake hits, and
+Dureena falls; she awakes back on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+She is chained, lying on a small platform, surrounded by many beings,
+both human and alien. She is asked her name, and to show a mark: a
+tattoo bearing the same designs as the markers she followed to get
+there. It marks her as a member of the Thieves' Guild. She is asked
+the name of her teacher, and his teacher before him. She answers, and
+says she has been a thief long enough to be good at it. But
+apparently, she is challenged, not good enough to avoid being followed
+and chained up.
+
+
    
+"What chains?" she asks simply, and the manacles fall in pieces to the
+ground. Dureena attacks the man who followed her, knocking him
+out. She was captured only because she chose to be captured, to meet
+the Guild. The leader of the Guild welcomes her and gives her the
+local rules: no inteference with other members, nothing violent,
+nothing to draw attention to them. They'll protect her and give her a
+place to stay in exchange for ten percent of her take; but if
+captured, she is on her own. The Guild must remain a secret
+organization.
+
+
    
+The leader has one more question: they have never seen an alien like
+her before. She is far from home; why did she come to Babylon 5? "I
+don't know," she replies, and leaves.
+
+
    
+On board the Excalibur, Sheridan is shown the weapons. He is
+not impressed with Level One, though; it isn't much more firepower
+than an average White Star. As destroyers, these ships should pack
+more punch. Garibaldi orders Drake to go to Level Two. But Drake lets
+them know there is a problem. The main guns are based on Vorlon
+design, and were intended for far more advanced ships.
+They use up almost all available power, and should be used only
+as a last resort. Sheridan orders a demonstration anyway.
+
+
    
+Before he can give the order to fire, the view changes: the
+Excalibur is aiming straight at Earth. Sheridan is confused,
+gives orders to stop. Sheridan looks again, but the Earth is
+gone. Sheridan sits back down and orders the main guns to fire. They
+do so with impressive results, but all lights dim inside. According
+the Drake, there's barely enough energy left for life support and
+gravity. After firing, the ship cannot maneuver or fire again for at
+least one minute.
+
+
    
+Sheridan starts to reply, but finds himself elsewhere again. Several
+robed men are around a campfire. "It's a mistake! You shouldn't have
+brought him here!" one of them says. They are chastising Galen for
+breaking the isolation without proof. But Galen claims that they need
+to break it to get the proof. And Sheridan is the only one who can get
+it. The others relent, but warn Galen he will be the first to die if
+their security has been compromised through his actions. They
+disappear, leaving Galen and Sheridan along. Sheridan can now piece
+together the clues: Galen and the others are technomages ("The Geometry of Shadows"). Galen
+explains they are not hurrying to return from hiding. They have,
+however, been watching the Drakh. They think the Drakh are preparing
+to move. Sheridan points out that the Drakh have no homeworld and the Shadows
+are gone; how much power can they possibly have?
+
+
    
+Galen replies that Sheridan himself must find the answer to that
+question, because Galen believes the Drakh will start by
+attacking Earth. Sheridan begins to ask more questions, but Galen has
+said everything he is allowed. Sheridan and his companions must
+discover the rest. However, he is not to tell anyone about what he is
+doing or why. The Drakh have spies everywhere. Before leaving, Galen
+shows Sheridan four faces: a Drazi, a human, Sheridan himself, and an
+alien, a good match for Dureena Nafeel; and an image of Babylon 5 high
+overhead.
+
+
    
+And then, Sheridan finds himself back aboard the Excalibur. Drake is
+explaining that the hull can reflect 80% of any energy weapon. "We
+have to go right now," Sheridan interrupts. Garibaldi wants to know
+where. "It was above the faces," replies Sheridan, "above them
+all. Babylon 5."
+
+
    
+While enroute, he refuses to tell Garibaldi why they are going; and
+he makes a sketch of the three faces he saw in the vision. Garibaldi
+is worried; he offers to stop by Minbar and talk to Delenn, but
+Sheridan insists he is fine. He also asks Garibaldi to find out
+everything he can about Daltron 7. "Never heard of it," says
+Garibaldi. "Me either," replies Sheridan, a response that adds to
+Garibaldi's doubts and misgivings about Sheridan's rationality. On his
+way out, he asks for a connection to Capt. Lochley.
+
+
    
+The Charon, and Earth Alliance destroyer, is in hyperspace
+also on her way to Babylon 5. The first officer is questioning the
+Captain on the new destination. They are disobeying orders and not
+informing Earthdome. "I know what I'm doing," answers Captain
+Anderson enigmatically, and adds to himself: "I hope."
+
+
    
+Lochley welcomes Sheridan aboard. He gives her the drawings, and asks
+her to find out where they are. "Are you sure they are here?" she
+asks. "No," replies Sheridan. "But if they aren't here yet, they soon
+will be... I think." With that, he leaves Lochley and Garibaldi, both
+utterly confused.
+
+
    
+In the Zocalo, Dureena is stealing wallets and money belts when
+security arrives with the drawing. She tries to flee, but is stopped
+and captured. Lochley informs Sheridan. "Who is she?" he asks. Lochley
+doesn't understand; after all, he drew her. Since she was caught with
+stolen wallets, she is being deported. Sheridan asks where she is
+from, and is told she is from Zander Prime. Lochley thought it was a
+dead world, however. It is now, replies Sheridan. It was one of the
+last planets destroyed by the Shadow planetkiller ("The Long Night") during the Shadow War.
+
+
    
+Sheridan then gets a message from Captain Anderson. He doesn't know
+him. "Hello, Mr. President," says Anderson. "By any chance, have you
+been looking for me?" Lochley looks at Sheridan's drawing: Anderson is
+the human drawn there. "So it would appear," replies Sheridan with a
+faint smile.
+
+
    
+They meet in Babylon 5's conference room, and Captain Anderson
+explains the man in his dreams told him to find Sheridan. Dureena is
+then brought in, and when she sees Sheridan, she attacks him like she
+did in her dream.
+
+
    
+Dureena blames Sheridan for the destruction of Zander Prime. For
+attracting the Shadows, and not being there to help despite
+requests. But Sheridan explains they didn't know about the attack
+until it was too late; and even if they had heard, they didn't have
+anything to stand up to the Shadow's planetkiller. He's asked himself
+over and over, since the war, if there was anything he could do to
+save more people. But there wasn't. He also points out it was the
+Drakh and the Shadows who destroyed her planet, and the Drakh are
+still around. She then recalls Sheridan's transformation in her
+dream. Sheridan offers her the chance to strike at them. Dureena
+relents. Perhaps this is what the dream meant.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Garibaldi is in Lochley's office. "You think he's lost it?"
+he asks. Lochley isn't sure. Finding Dureena and Capt. Anderson, dead
+matches for Sheridan's drawing, has given her pause. "All I know is he
+isn't behaving rationally," she adds. "It's almost as if he's acting
+under some sort of outside influence."
+
+
    
+Sheridan is worried the Drazi hasn't arrived yet, but they cannot wait
+any longer. Why us? asks Dureena. Sheridan thinks each of them brings
+something to the mission to increase the odds of success. Captain
+Anderson points out the Charon isn't powerful enough for the
+sort of thing they are contemplating. They need something bigger, and
+nastier. "I think I may just have the thing..." replies Sheridan.
+
+
    
+In the morning, Garibaldi arrives in Lochley's office for a meeting
+with her and Sheridan. But Sheridan isn't there. He skipped out and is
+well on his way to the construction yard. Garibaldi asks for a line to
+Drake, anticipating him.
+
+
    
+But Sheridan is a step ahead. He contacts Drake and tells him there's
+been a breach in security. All messages should now come through a new
+frequency, and no other messages should be replied to or acknowledged.
+Garibaldi won't be able to delay him.
+
+
    
+Sheridan, sitting on the captain's chair, asks Capt. Anderson if he
+really wants to go through with this: going AWOL and risking his
+career. Anderson explains that during the civil war, they had a chance
+to join Sheridan but didn't; and they were wrong not to. Earth is in
+danger now, and this time he intends to be on the winning side. The
+crew feels the same way. "We let you down once," says Anderson. "We
+won't do it again."
+
+
    
+They arrive at the dockyard, and over Drake's objections they
+commandeer the Excalibur and the Victory, leaving him
+behind. Sheridan takes command of the Excalibur, and Anderson
+of the Victory. Dureena joins Sheridan, and they head out to
+Daltron 7.
+
+
    
+Once there, they find the dead world of Sheridan's dream; but Daltron
+7 is supposed to be the next best thing to paradise. A pattern of
+craters seen from orbit is the same as that produced by the Shadow
+planetkiller.
+
+
    
+There are no life forms, but they do pick up a Drazi distress
+signal. When they go down to investigate, they find the Drazi of
+Sheridan's dream dead, a data crystal hidden inside his body.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Capt. Anderson's people have been doing an analysis of the
+planet and records. He asks Sheridan if he is sure this is the work of
+a Shadow planetkiller. Sheridan is. "We have a serious problem then,"
+replies Anderson. "Because if what I'm reading is correct, this just
+happened over a week ago." The Shadows left a planetkiller behind. And
+everytime Sheridan and the Alliance have ran into leftover Shadow
+technology, they've gotten their butts kicked.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi has by now reached the dock, and Drake explains that
+Sheridan stole the prototypes, and seemed crazed. Garibaldi heads out
+to Daltron 7, taking Drake with him.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Capt. Anderson calls his wife and daughter on Earth, to
+reassure her everything is fine and he hasn't deserted, merely been
+"transferred by a  higher force." He also reassures his daughter, who is
+afraid of going to sleep because of nightmares, that he will protect
+her from the monsters.
+
+
    
+Later, Anderson and Sheridan look at the contents of the data crystal
+they found on the Drazi. He too had dreams, which led him to Daltron
+7. There, he saw and recorded the Shadow planetkiller in action. Then
+he followed the deathcloud to where the fleet was
+concentrating. Finally, he returned to Daltron 7 to see if anybody was
+left and to wait for the others, hoping the dark ones would not find
+him first.
+
+
    
+And then, five small ships arrive: Drakh fighters. The Drakh send a
+message, trying to figure out who the two ships are; they don't
+recognize the design. On Dureena's suggestion, they try to bluff their
+way into the Drakh's good graces, pretending to be allies. But the
+Drakh receive an extremely powerful tachyon-enhanced transmission and
+start attacking.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Anderson fight back, destroying several of the fighters. A
+few more try to escape, and head for a strange, black, null-area in
+space. Sheridan orders the main guns to fire, and destroys the
+fighters. But inertia carries him through the null field, unable
+to maneuver for a full minute after firing. On the other side, which
+matches the coordinates the Drazi gave for the Drakh fleet, the Drakh
+wait. As soon as he can, Sheridan turns around and heads out through
+the null field, a few small fighters in pursuit. The rest of the fleet
+is already on its way.
+
+
    
+Sheridan and Anderson move ahead, and jump to hyperspace before the
+Drakh can catch up; the fighters are caught in the collapsing jump
+point and are destroyed. Then, the Victory and Excalibur
+slip past the main fleet in hyperspace, and head for Earth at top
+speed.
+
+
    
+Sheridan calls Lochley. He tells her of the Drakh fleet and the Shadow
+deathcloud. Lochley is skeptical; she thinks Sheridan may have indeed
+flipped. But Sheridan insists, and asks her vehemently for her trust
+and help. Delenn is already scrambling as many Alliance ships as she
+can together. Sheridan wants Lochley to call Earth and tell President
+Luchenko ("Rising Star") to do the
+same. Sheridan isn't much liked or trusted on Earth, so he needs her
+to make the call. Lochley can hardly believe she is doing this, but
+she does as he asks.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Garibaldi is told someone aboard the White Star tapped into
+communications a while ago. Before he can investigate further, they
+receive a call from Sheridan. Sheridan tells Garibaldi about the
+planetkiller. Garibaldi is also skeptical. Sheridan wants to warn him
+the Drakh are onto them, and know about the new ships.
+
+
    
+Garibaldi mentions that he has found out about Dureena's membership in
+the Thieves' Guild. She is  not to be trusted, he says. Maybe it is
+her fault. Sheridan is partly taken aback, but Dureena points out that
+if she is the leak, she is stupid, as she could have gotten killed with
+him.
+
+
    
+"Killed how?" asks Garibaldi, and Sheridan recounts their brief
+encounter with the Drakh, and the tachyon signal they received. The
+signal told the Drakh who they were. Garibaldi makes the connection
+with the anomaly in the communication system of his ship...
+
+
    
+... and hears a PPG powering up next to his head: Drake. Mars born, he
+owes no loyalty to Earth, and the Drakh made him a great offer. He is
+the leak. Garibaldi cuts the communication. Then he points out to
+Drake that if he shoots Garibaldi, the Rangers around him will take
+him down. One of them activates a fighting pike, distracting
+Drake. Garibaldi then quickly disarms him and puts him in a headlock.
+
+
    
+"Now, you are going to tell me everything you know," says
+Garibaldi. Drake, frightened, nods slowly. Garibaldi later contacts
+Sheridan, and confirms everything. The Drakh are headed for Earth,
+want to make a statement to the Alliance by wiping out Earth in a big
+show of force. The only silver lining is that they only have one
+planetkiller. If Sheridan can destroy it, they won't have another one
+to worry about.
+
+
    
+Sheridan arrives in Earth space. Lochley has apparently convinced
+Luchenko, and Earthforce has mobilized its ships. Aboard the Earth
+Destroyer Hermes, General Yuri Mikhailovich Denisov, in command
+of the EarthForce ships, is annoyed and thinks this is all some sort
+of exercise. Sheridan's assurances that this is for real are soon
+confirmed, as the Drakh fleet jumps into normal space.
+
+
    
+Sheridan tells Gen. Denisov to leave the fleet to the defense grid ("Endgame"). He wants the destroyers and
+Alliance heavy ships to form a wedge around the Excalibur and
+the Victory and lead them into the planetkiller itself. "Then
+what?" asks Gen. Denisov. "Then we kill it," replies
+Sheridan. "Somehow."
+
+
    
+The General agrees and leads them in. While enroute, Sheridan uses
+the Excalibur's advanced sensors, more advanced than anything
+they've had previously, to analyze the deathcloud. It has a
+superstructure inside, a lattice of some kind, which is what they must
+destroy.
+
+
    
+Sheridan notices the center of the lattice is bigger and reinforced:
+probably the command center. That's their target.
+
+
    
+"When the time comes to choose your target, be sure to pick the
+right one. Because you will only get one shot." Galen's words echo
+in Dureena's head.
+
+
    
+"No," she tells Sheridan simply. "If you hit that part you'll fail and
+your planet will be destroyed." She explains that a thief learns to
+look where you aren't supposed to look; that the most valuable items
+are never inside the safe, but next to it. Next to the central point
+of the lattice is a joint, seemingly the same as others in the
+structure. "There's nothing special about it," Dureena explains. "Then
+why is it surrounded by short range weapons? Why are they so
+determined to protect it?"
+
+
    
+Capt. Anderson has been monitoring the situation. Enemy ships are
+closing in, and the deathcloud is approaching Earth. They are running
+out of time. They can hit one target but not both. Which one? Sheridan has
+to choose quickly.
+
+
    
+"Hers," Sheridan replies. The Victory and the Excalibur
+accelerate towards the deathcloud.
+
+
    
+But the deathcloud's defenses are formidable, and more Drakh ships
+join the defense as they figure out what is happening. The fire isn't
+getting through to the target. The Victory is hit severely, and
+its main weapons array destroyed. The planetkiller is minutes away
+from Earth.
+
+
    
+"My daughter is out there, Phil," Capt. Anderson tells his first
+officer. "I made a promise to her that I'd protect her from the
+monsters. What kind of father am I if I can't keep my promise?"
+
+
    
+Anderson contacts Sheridan. He suggests that Sheridan fire his main
+gun; although it will probably miss at that range, and leave the
+Excalibur vulnerable for one minute, it will clear away the
+defending ships. The Victory can cover her for a minute and
+get within range. Then the Victory will fire her main guns
+while the Excalibur covers her. It's a long shot, but it is
+their only one. Sheridan agrees and fires.
+
+
    
+The Excalibur misses the joint barely, but destroys the enemy
+ships in the way. Captain Anderson then issues the order: "Ramming
+speed." Sheridan can't do anything, his ship out of power. The
+Victory heads in, taking hit after hit. Despite extensive
+damage, the ship makes it all the way to the joint, and destroys it in
+a fiery crash. But the Victory doesn't survive.
+
+
    
+Anderson's sacrifice isn't in vain. The planetkiller begins to
+collapse. The missiles fire prematurely, hitting the superstructure
+itself. With the Excalibur back on line, Sheridan heads out. He
+escapes as the deathcloud collapses into itself and is destroyed.
+
+
    
+Before they can even take stock, they see the remains of the Drakh
+fleet heading towards Earth. They watch in horrified silence as the
+ships descend into the atmosphere, and start releasing some
+sort of dust. The defense grid hits many of them, but they only fall
+towards the surface, releasing more dust on their way down. 
+
+
    
+Sheridan looks down in silence. "What is it?" asks Dureena, who does
+not understand what is going on. "What happened?"
+
+
    
+Galen is looking over the results of the battle in his crystal globe
+when a voice calls out to him. "The circle requires your presence."
+
+
    
+Sheridan is back on Babylon 5, explaining to Lochley and
+Garibaldi. "So, they finished analysing whatever it was the Drakh
+sprayed into Earth's atmosphere?" asks Lochley.
+
+
    
+"It's a biogenetic plague," replies Sheridan. "Earth has been
+completely quarantined, nobody allowed in or out. The death cloud was
+the only one the Drakh had left, but it wasn't the last weapon in
+their arsenal. From the complexity of its structure, the bioweapons
+division back home thinks the plague was probably engineered by the
+Shadows."
+
+
    
+"How much time do they have?" asks Garibaldi. "Looks like that's the
+only bright spot in this," replies Sheridan. "The Drakh didn't have
+time to finish adjusting it our biology, or they just didn't know
+how. But either way, its going to take time for the plague to adjust
+to a new host. They're saying 5 years. Could be less. But probably
+five years is the best guess for now."
+
+
    
+"And... at the end of five years?" asks Lochley.
+
+
    
+"Every man, woman, and child on Earth will be dead. Unless we can
+find a cure."
+
+
    
+Since the plague is Shadow technology, they won't be able to solve it
+on Earth in five years. "But since this came to us from outside," adds
+Sheridan, "maybe we can find a cure out there." There are other races,
+as old as the Shadows; one of them must have a cure. "We'll find
+them. We have to."
+
+
    
+Sheridan adds: "I've told president Luchenko we'll put all the resources
+of the Alliance and the White Star fleet at their disposal. We'll turn
+the Excalibur into a traveling research vessel, manned by the
+best crew we can find. The Rangers will search every corner of space,
+looking for clues to a cure. Then the Excalibur and her crew
+will go in to follow it up."
+
+
    
+On their way out, Sheridan says, the Drakh hit the construction dock, destroying
+years of work. It will take time to make up for it, and so, for now,
+the Excalibur is the only of one of her kind.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Galen arrives on Babylon 5, and joins Dureena.
+
+
    
+Sheridan finishes: "Those who command the Excalibur will never stop,
+never give up, and never slow down until a cure is found. And we'll
+take any help we can get, wherever and whoever it comes from. Because
+this is a cause that surpasses borders, and differences, and
+distrusts. This is a mission about the survival of Earth itself. What
+we do over the next five years here, at home, and across the darkness
+between the stars, will determine whether an entire world will
+live... or die. It's a fight we can't afford to lose.
+
+
    
+"And we won't. We won't."
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+
    Synopsis by Jon Acheson (jonacheson@fast.net)
    
+
+
    A Ranger ship of a previously unseen Minbari design, the Enfalli, is chasing a group of 6 much smaller raider ships.  Inside the Ranger ship, they are taking heavy damage: engines are down to 20%, and automatic weapons tracking is disabled.  The captain of the ship insists on continuing the pursuit, but they run into a larger group of raider ships that inflicts heavy damage.  The captain is knocked out of action, and the ships' weapons are taken off-line.  The second in command, David Martel, orders the ship to stand down amid protests from his crew: "We live for the one, we die for the one.  But we don't die stupidly."
+
    Note: the ship has a conventional weapons console, not the VR tank the Liandra has.
+
    On Minbar, homeworld of the Minbari Federation and seat of the Interstellar Alliance, in a room similar to the Gray Council's council chambers, a Minbari councilor, Sindell, is viewing images of starfish-shaped ships via a hologram projected all around him.
+
    G'Kar enters, commenting on the ominous appearance of the ships.  But Sindell prefers "unknown."
+
    "We have been a spacefaring race for over a thousand years, yet we know nothing about this race.  It's as if they came out of nowhere."
+
    They discuss the matter, and Sindell asks him to look into the matter, as G'Kar is the most well-traveled person at his level within the Alliance.  Then he excuses himself, as other business has some up.  "One of the Anla'Shok has acted inappropriately and must be punished, perhaps ever expelled."
+
    "What was his crime?" G'Kar asks.
+
    "Staying alive."
+
    Elsewhere on Minbar, the Ranger in question, David Martel is serving a group of other Rangers in a dojo-like environment.  Dulann, a Minbari who also served on the Enfalli enters and kneels next to Martel.  "I have heard that the Council has made its decision about you."
+
    "Yeah?"  Martel responds.  "It's been at least two weeks and I sure as hell haven't heard anything."
+
    "Minbari ears are substantially more sensitive than human ears."
+
    "Well at least ours are bigger and better placed."
+
    "Size is not everything," Dulann notes.
+
    "Yeah, well I've heard that before." Martel responds.
+
    "So I am informed" Dulann says with a smile.
+
    Tannier, the Ranger conducting the pike training calls brusquely for water.  "More quickly this time."  Martel brings him a bowl of water and advises Tannier that he is leaving his right side open.  Tannier responds poorly to criticism, and they get into an argument.  Dulann stops Tannier from taking a swipe at the unarmed Martel with his pike.  Sarah and Malcolm, two other crewmembers of his previous ship begin get involved, but Martel tells them to calm down.  As they walk away, Tannier taunts Martel one last time: "And again he runs from a fight."
+
    Martel stops short, his jaw set.  "And we're not supposed to do that, are we, Tannier?" he says, grabbing a pike.  They fight, and Martel defeats Tannier by exploiting the weakness on his right side he had warned him about. On his way out of the dojo, Martel comments to Dulann "You know, you're right.  This job has completely calmed my mind."
+
    Later, on a balcony outside the training area, overlooking a large landing field, Martel is watching a big ugly ship land.  Sarah walks up and asks, "So what do you think of the Valen?  They say it's faster than anything else in the fleet."
+
    Martel responds "Yeah, sure I suppose.  You know, things in space don't have to be aerodynamic.  You could put a really big engine on a brick, which pretty much looks like what they've done here, and it would be fast…"
+
    Martel is disappointed that he didn't get assigned to command the Valen.  He comments that he joined the Rangers to be part of something bigger than himself.  It had been his dream ever since his parents died.  He had grown up reading mythology, and when he heard about the Rangers, he had wanted to be part of a myth himself.
+
    Martel breaks himself out of his reverie with a start, looking at a new ship on the landing field: "Is that the Liandra?  I can't believe she's still flying."
+
    "Word is, her last crew died on board.  And nobody knows who or what killed them.  They couldn't even find the ship for a week afterwards, she just fell off the charts.  She's been through hell, that's for sure.  Some folks think she's cursed."
+
    "Yeah, I know the feeling," Martel quips.
+
    Martel walks into the Council chamber.  Dulann is there, and he stands with Martel in the central circle.  He informs the council "With great respect for the honored Council, if David Martel is expelled from the Anla'Shok, I will go with him, as will Sarah Cantrell and Malcolm Bridges."
+
    Dulann further remarks, "His concern was for us, not for himself.  I know: I saw it in his soul."
+
    Sindell, the leader of the Council, acknowledges that Dulann is blessed by being sensitive to such things, but Martel's motivation is not under judgement.  He is about to pronounce sentence when G'Kar interrupts.
+
    G'Kar points out that the Ranger oath reads "we live for the one, we die for the one."  He points out that they are overlooking the first half of that sentence, that sometimes it is easier to die and be relieved of an obligation than to keep on living.  He compares Martel with Sheridan, and adds that he has just spoken with Sheridan on a matter relating to their previous conversation.  Sindell announces that the Council will recess to hear this new information.
+
    Later, Martel is back on the balcony, when G'Kar finds him.  G'Kar has convinced them to allow Martel to remain with the Anla'Shok and to give him a ship.  He accomplished this by telling them "four true things."  He refuses to elaborate: "Accept the miracle and move on."
+
    The council has assigned Martel to the Liandra.
+
    Later, Martel is grousing about the woeful state of his new ship.  She's "had the crap kicked out of her at least a dozen times."
+
    The Liandra is about 20 human years old.  "Her lines and colors are representative of the Shunali sense of design," Dulann observes.
+
    While Martel wanders around the bridge, Dulann is working on the lower deck, when suddenly he begins seeing visions of the previous crew, dying.  They suffocated trying to make their way back home after the ship was damaged beyond their capacity to repair it.
+
    Later, Martel is doing pike katas in the dojo when Tannier comes in.  He announces that he has been given command of the Valen, and has asked for the Liandra to be his escort ship.  Because of his history with him, Martel is not able to take this as a compliment.  Tannier is offended and orders him to be ready to depart with his crew in three days.
+
    Martel picks a crew containing a Narn and a Drazi, both because they have been waiting for a ship almost as long as he has, and because they are "intemperate" like him.
+
    On the bridge, the crew take part in the ceremony of the Naming of Names.  Taking hold of a star-shaped emblem, the crew members each recite their name, their place, and their truth:
+
    Sarah Cantrell of Mars.  Weapons and Tactical Combat Specialist.  I live to serve, I serve to live.
+
    Tafeek of Minbar.  Political and First Contact Specialist.  I come to the stars by a difficult road.
+
    Kitaro Sasaki of Earth.  Navigation, Communications and Translations Specialist.  I'm… just really glad to be here, sir.
+
    Firell of Minbar.  Healer.  My heart speaks quietly, and infrequently.
+
    Malcolm Bridges of Beta Colony.  Infiltration and Covert Operations Specialist.  In dreams, I never see my face.
+
    Na'Feel of Narn.  Engines, Environment and Weapons support.  I understand nobody else would have me.
+
    Tirk, Drazi.  I... carry very large things.  I, uh... Tirk, Drazi.
+
    Dulann, of Minbar.  Shok'Nali.  First Officer.  My life for the Shok'na.
+
    David Martel, no place in particular.  Shok'Na.  Captain.  I'm looking for something.
+
    "We are Rangers.  We walk in the dark places no others will enter.  We stand on the bridge, and no one may pass.  We live for the one, we die for the one."
+
    Martel's crew is still scrambling trying to get the ship operational when the time comes to depart, and Na'Feel in particular is somewhat put out, but he tells Tannier that everything is fine.  The ship lifts off, creakily, winning Martel a 30-credit bet from Sarah.  They precede the Valen into the jumpgate.  In hyperspace, the mystery aliens follow them.
+
    In hyperspace, Tannier informs the crew of the Liandra that they have nearly reached their secret destination, which had been kept secret even from the diplomats: Beta Durani 7.
+
    Bridges wonders aloud why they came all this way to have a meeting.  Martel points out that they might have wanted the diplomats to see something they couldn't transport.  Beta Durani 7 is a domed colony of roughly 600 people.  It's an archeological dig.
+
    Immediately after the Liandra and Valen jump to normal space, Sasaki picks up an energy spike and a jump point forming at 6:00.  Three of the alien ships come through the jumpgate and open fire on the Valen.
+
    Martel orders "Evasive maneuvers, prepare to fire."  Sarah jumps into her weapons targeting tank and opens fire on the enemy.
+
    One of the enemy ships gets off a shot at the colony dome, destroying it.  Others fire on the Valen's engines.
+
    On the Valen, Tannier exclaims that it's too late for the Valen to get away.
+
    Martel orders the crew to put the Liandra between the Valen and the enemy.  Sarah damages one of the alien ships, but the other two open up on her and the Liandra takes damage.  On the bridge, Dulann is thrown from his station and injured.
+
    Two of the three remaining enemies leave, leaving one to finish them off.
+
    The Valen is crippled: it's only a matter of time.  Tannier asks if the Liandra can engage the remaining enemy ship.  Martel answers no: their weapons are at 10% and the engines are barely functional.  Tannier has sent the diplomats into the escape pods, and orders Martel to pick them up in the Liandra.
+
    Sarah manages to cripple the remaining enemy ship by firing "straight up her engines."
+
    The Valen rams the enemy ship, absorbing terrible damage.  "We live for the one," Tannier says, "We die for the one."  The Valen and the enemy ship are both destroyed in the collision.
+
    Martel orders Sasaki to recover the escape pods using the engine repair bay "since it has a big enough airlock."
+
    The Liandra's tachyon communications are down, leaving only short-range ship to ship radio, and Sasaki isn't holding out much hope at getting them online again.  The jump engines are offline, and the ship can only maneuver at half speed in normal space.  Worse yet, the enemy is sure to come looking once their ship fails to report in.
+
    Martel orders Tafeek to go with Na'Feel and deal with the hysterical diplomats.  There are no first-class accommodations, only "some long hallways and a number of very nice closets."  The diplomats protest unhappily.
+
    Dulann is badly injured: concussion, injury to internal organs, and internal bleeding.  He needs more extensive care than Firell can provide on the Liandra.  As they talk, Dulann wakes up suddenly.  He has had a dream of the last crew of the ship.  "They are not at peace here, David.  Something here is disturbing them… Something is wrong."
+
    Two enemy ships jump into the system and begin scanning the wreckage.
+
    In Medbay, Dulann sees a vision of one of the last crew, wearing the older B5-style Ranger costume.  The crewman stretches his mouth open grotesquely, and we can hear the unhappy voices of the last crew.  Prominent among them is the phrase "The bastard sold us out!"
+
    "I couldn't get out to where the air was." the specter says grimly, "I never saw his face."
+
    Minister Kafta is insisting that G'Kar tell the captain to drop off the ambassadors on a planet with a breathable atmosphere then go for help.  G'Kar responds that the ship is in no condition to land on a planet: it would be unable to take off again, and the enemy would find them all.  Tirk tells him the captain would like to see him.  G'Kar turns to the ambassadors: "Love to stay. Can't, have to go.  Kiss kiss, love love, bye!"
+
    The Drazi ambassador talks to Tirk.  "That isn't a Drazi name." he points out.
+
    "My mother created it.  It means 'Don't touch me, I'm not having another child after this ever.'"
+
    G'Kar arrives at Martel's quarters.  He asks G'Kar for his input as a former military tactician.  When the enemy jumped out of hyperspace, they targeted the Valen's engines first, then blew up Beta Durani 7, hit their weapons, then hesitated.  This is odd: normally you go for the biggest ship first, and target the weapons systems: they're fairly volatile, whereas engines are heavily shielded to protect the crew from radiation, and thus a target of last resort.  It's almost as if they were trying to capture the diplomats alive and find out how much they know.
+
    "How much they know about what, G'Kar?" Martel asks.  "…If we're going to survive, we need to know what we're up against."
+
    "That's what we were trying to find out ourselves.  Until recently, all we knew was that ships identical to the ones that attacked us have been trying to destabilize the Alliance by attacking its weaker members.  Then we learned that some information that was relevant to this new race had been found at Beta Durani 7... They found a city, eight miles below the surface of the planet, a city billions of year old, older than anything found before.  According to the hieroglyphs, this city was built by an ancient race that drove off the forces of darkness a billion years ago.  They indicate that the enemy was driven from normal space to a place of eternal darkness."
+
    They theorize that this is a parallel dimension.  The translators weren't sure what to believe, then they found a doorway to another place, another space, set into the side of a pyramid.  [Illuminati, anyone?]  They sent a probe through the door, but it came back distorted beyond recognition.  "The hieroglyphs warned of a time when the enemy would return.  We have reason to believe that there is a connection between this and the ships that attacked us."
+
    Exiting his quarters, G'Kar runs into: himself!  It's a sheepish Malcolm Bridges, who was using a "holosuit" [changeling net!] to impersonate G'Kar and put down utter panic among the diplomats.
+
    With the enemy ships out looking for them, and weapons only up to 25%, Martel decides that the ship should hide inside the tail of a nearby comet.  Sarah is dispatched to run weapons in case a big rock comes flying at them, though if she fires, the enemy will probably detect it.
+
    In Medbay, Dulann once again sees the spectral crewman, and rolls himself off his couch to follow him.
+
    The Liandra goes inside the comet tail, but takes too much of a beating from the ice boulders floating around and has to leave again.  Sarah is sorely tempted to fire, but doesn't.
+
    Dulann follows the spectral crew member into a damaged area of the ship.  Collapsing to the deck, he asks "What do you want?"
+
    In Medbay, Martel is talking to Firell.  "Look , I've known Dulann for over three years.  I know he's slightly telepathic, but I just don't buy this whole bit about sensing the dead."
+
    "Minbari are sensitive to such things." Firell points out. "Telepaths, even a minor one like Dulann are more sensitive still. And when one of our kind is close to death, the veil becomes very thin indeed."
+
    Malcolm interrupts: he wonders why the enemy is bothering to chase them: after all the news of the colony will get out fairly quickly regardless, and since the meeting was about the enemy, they will be suspected anyway.  Malcolm wonders if they have something on board that the enemy wants, something they don't know they have.
+
    Dulann has been found, and is holding off the other crewmen with a fire extinguisher.  Martel arrives, and talks to him.  Dulann is hearing the crew in his head, and says that the flight record log was not on the main system.  No one would know to erase it.  Dulann manages to speak the codeword, "Entil'Zha" before collapsing again.
+
    On the bridge, Martel tells the computer to look for the codeword and play the record.  It is the crewman Dulann has seen.  He is running out of air.  He asks them to avenge them.  "The one who survives is the traitor."  Martel surmises that they may have a traitor on board.  One of the ambassadors could have been a mole, signaling the enemy to attack them.
+
    Tirk enters a cargo bay and sees Minister Kafta there.  He informs him that he should not be there, because all the power relays route through the room.  Kafta shoots Tirk with a hideout energy weapon and inserts a card into a piece of equipment.
+
    Sasaki has found a signal that was coming from the Valen when she was attacked.  Just then they pick up the same signal coming from Cargo Bay 4.  Martel, Sarah and Malcolm run to surround him, and Martel gets into a fight with Kafta as Kafta tries to get away in an escape pod.  Martel beats the crap out of him.
+
    Malcolm disconnects the card, but an enemy ship is already rushing towards them.  It is at 10,000 kilometers and closing, just outside maximum effective range for high-energy weapons fire.  The Liandra's weapons are only at 30%, and engines are at 80% of maximum, and the Liandra is 2-3 hours from the jumpgate.  They prepare to run for the jumpgate.  The enemy ship opens fire on them and launches a cluster of mines in their path, which Sarah plows a path through in a wild flurry of shooting.  The enemy ship is continuing to gain on them, though, and their weapons are hitting harder and harder as the range shortens.
+
    Martel orders Malcolm to put the card he discovered into an escape pod, along with a remotely detonated bomb, and eject the pod.  The enemy ship brings the pod inside it, and is blown up by the bomb.
+
    Unfortunately, the last hit overloaded the Liandra's weapons system, and the ship is now completely disarmed until she can be refitted in a naval yard.
+
    Martel questions Kafta and beats some information out of him.  "They do not have a name as you understand the concept.  They are called the Hand.  The hand of God, the hand of death, the hand that reaches forth and blots out whole suns.  They have left a thousand worlds in their wake, blackened cinders that were once thriving planets.  For millions of years they have been outcast, hungrily staring out across the darkness between the stars, searching for a way back.  And now they have found it."
+
    "The ships that are after us, are they the Hand?"
+
    "Those?  Ha.  Those are only toys given to races that serve the Hand, as I serve the Hand.  Together, we will prepare the way for their return."
+
    "And part of their return involves selling out the Alliance, is that it?  Because we could oppose them?"
+
    "If you had seen what I had seen, you would have done the same.  Compared to the Hand, the Shadows who straddled the galaxy on wings of fire during the Shadow War were nothing more than insects."
+
    "If they're so powerful, then why are they interested in you?  You must be small change as far as they're concerned."
+
    "The Hand rewards loyalty.  It is their only virtue.  And, they do not know what I know of their plans, so they cannot allow my return to Minbar, where I might be questioned further.  They are coming, Captain.  You cannot stop them.  You cannot fight them.  You cannot defeat them.  You can only join them, or be ground into dust before them."
+
    Sasaki sights the jumpgate, but it is guarded by the remaining enemy ship.  Martel points out that the enemy might as well sit there, since they know the Liandra can't jump, and there isn't another jump gate for two light-months in any direction.
+
    The enemy orders them to turn over their prisoner or be destroyed.
+
    Martel visits Dulann, who has been told of the ship's situation by her former crew.  Martel confesses that he has used up all his tricks, but Dulann gives him an idea.
+
    They agree to release the prisoner.  The enemy will scan the pod for remote-controlled bombs, and Kafta, and open a comm. channel with Kafta to make sure he is inside.  The Liandra releases the pod, keeping it between themselves and the enemy.  Kafta comes on the comm. channel, and the enemy takes the pod on board.  When they open the pod, we see Kafta, gagged with silver tape on which the word "Boom!" has been written, just before the rising pod canopy pulls the pin on a grenade.
+
    The enemy ship is destroyed.  It is revealed that Malcolm was impersonating Kafta using his holonet, and they kept the pod between them so the enemy wouldn't detect that the transmission was coming from the Liandra.  They tried the same trick twice, figuring it was the last thing the enemy would suspect.
+
    Later, back on Minbar, Martel is congratulated by the Council.  Afterwards, Martel and Sarah talk about Dulann and Tirk's recoveries, and the fact that they are going to be taking the Liandra out again after she is properly refitted.
+
    Afterwards, the Liandra takes G'Kar back to Babylon 5 for a security council meeting.  As he leaves, G'Kar says that they should try to visit B5 if they can.  But he warns them "No one there is exactly what they seem."
diff --git a/synops/245 b/synops/245
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3534b8fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synops/245
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+
    Synopsis by Dan Wood (danwood@pobox.com)
    
+
+
    
+In a futuristic city, a taxi cruiser spirals its way to the top of a very,
+very tall building.  It lands on the 17,000th floor.  Its oviparous
+occupant steps out and enters the office of Dr. I.Q. Hi, Secretary of the
+Stratosphere.
+
+
    
+The duck meets Dr. Hi and the two immediately begin ascending on a small
+platform.  Dr. Hi explains that the reason he has summoned his guest is
+that the world's supply of Alludium Phosdex (the shaving cream atom) is
+"alarmingly low."  It seems that the only remaining source is on Planet X,
+in a region marked "unknown" as Dr. Hi points out on the rather large wall
+map.
+
+
    
+The duck asserts his confidence in retrieving the material, because
+"There's no one knows his way around outer space like.... DUCK DODGERS IN
+THE 24-1/2TH CENTURY!"  Dodgers accidentally falls from the platform,
+plunging several hundred feet, but miraculously survives the accident.
+
+
    
+Dodgers uses an evaporator to get to the airport's launch platform, where
+his ship and his first mate, a pig that Dodgers describes as an "eager
+young space cadet," await.  Dodgers launches the ship, after one false
+start in which he accidentally plunged his vessel into the ground.
+
+
    
+On board, Dodgers explains the navigational techniques he will use to find
+the planet to his number one, who appears to have a better understanding of
+navigational techniques than his superior officer, though his stuttering
+demeanor gets in the way of simple communication.  The pig then suggests an
+alternate method of navigation to Planet X (by following the trail of
+Planet A, Planet B, Planet C, and so on) to Dodgers, who dismisses the idea
+at first, but then claims the idea for his own, much to the chagrin of the
+space cadet.
+
+
    
+After weaving its way past Planets R, S, T, U, V, and W, the ship finally
+lands on Planet X.  The ship is marked by a large "X" shape across its
+surface (presumably a continent) but also bears the "X" mark in several
+monoliths, presumably the markings of a long-dead civilization of millenia
+past.  Immediately upon landing, Dodgers pulls out a flag of the Earth
+Alliance and proclaims "I claim this planet in the name of the Earth!"
+
+
    
+Unfortunately, Dodgers's plans are immediately thwarted when another ship,
+christened the Martian Maggot, lands nearby.  Its occupant scrambles out
+and, within meters of Dodgers, claims the planet in the name of Mars.
+
+
    
+Needless to say, a conflict develops between the two representatives of
+their governments.  Dodgers claims that the planet simply isn't "big enough
+for the two of us."  The Martian responds by pointing a disintegrator
+pistol at Dodgers, who believes he is immune because he is wearing a
+disintegrator-proof vest.  Answering a dare, the Martian fires upon
+Dodgers. Ironically, the vest itself turns out to be
+disintegrator-proof; Dodgers, unfortunately, falls into a crumble on the
+ground.  The vest follows shortly thereafter.
+
+
    
+Fortunately, the space cadet -- and technology -- save the day, thanks to
+an Acme Integrating pistol.  Dodgers, fully reconstituted, continues his
+territorial challenge upon the alien and threatens him with his own brand
+of disintegrating pistol.  Unfortunately, the pistol itself disintegrates
+when he attempts to fire upon his opponent.  The Martian fires upon Dodgers
+several times and misses, subsequently chasing Dodgers into his own ship.
+
+
    
+In an attempt to deceive the martian, the first officer creates a ruse:
+pretend to give the Martian a birthday present, assuming that the
+extraterrestrial will be ignorant of explosives.  The Martian gladly
+accepts the gift, a stick of dynamite with a very short fuse, and is caught
+in the explosion.  Only his helmet saves him from certain death.  The
+alien, visibly shortened by the effects of the blast, limps back to his own
+ship to attend to his injuries.
+
+
    
+Meanwhile, Dodgers is furious at the Martian's resolve.  He sends an
+ultimatum, using an ultimatum dispatcher which behaves much like a gun, but
+delivers a written message: "Surrender, or be blown into 17,670,002
+micro-cells."  The martian responds with an ultimatum answerer, which
+functions much like the dispatcher, only it releases a destructive charge,
+presumably refusing the terms of the ultimatum.
+
+
    
+Not ready to give up, Dodgers decides to conduct espionage upon his
+counterpart by using the "Super Video Detecto Set" installed in his ship.
+The advanced state of technology he uses backfires on him, however, because
+it enables the Martian to fire upon Dodgers via the video screen.
+This is the last straw for the protaganist.
+
+
    
+In a final act of desperation, Dodgers decides to completely annihilate his
+enemy by utilizing his secret weapon, manufactured by the Acme Destructo
+Company.  He launches a line which casts a dangerous net over his
+opponent's ship.  Unknown beknownst to either of the Earth ships occupants,
+the alien launches a similar weapon of his own immediately thereafter.  The
+tension mounts as both aliens prepare to destroy their enemy.  A tremendous
+blast is seen and heard; evidently, both systems were set off at the exact
+moment.
+
+
    
+The effect is nothing short of devastating.  The smoke clears to reveal
+Dodgers and the Martian, face to face, standing on the only remaining chunk
+of Planet X, measuring less than a meter across.  Dodgers reiterates his
+claim that the planet is not big enough for the two of them, and
+unceremoniously pushes the alien over the edge.
+
+
    
+As the camera's aperature narrows, it pans down to reveal Dodger's number
+one, barely hanging on to some root-like material still attached to the
+miniscule remains of the planet.  The martian, precariously hanging onto
+the first mate, looks on as the pig proclaims, with a slight stutter, "Big
+Deal."
diff --git a/synops/footer.py b/synops/footer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c59330e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synops/footer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/python
+
+import sys,string
+sys.path.append('../internal')
+import otros
+
+curep = string.atoi(sys.argv[1][:3])
+
+output = """
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] """
+
+output = output + otros.navbuttons(curep) + """
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
+"""
+
+print output
diff --git a/synops/gen.py b/synops/gen.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ed80660c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synops/gen.py
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import sys,string,time,os
+sys.path.append('../internal')
+import otros
+
+months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
+		'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
+
+for epnum in sys.argv[1:]:
+	curep = string.atoi(epnum[:3])
+
+	pix = open('../internal/epnames', 'r')
+	for i in range(0, curep + 1):
+		epname = pix.readline()[:-1]
+	pix.close()
+	if epname == '':
+		epname = 'XXX'
+
+	cureplong = '%03d' % curep
+
+	which = 'synopsis'
+
+	input = open(epnum, 'r')
+	mtime = time.localtime(os.stat(epnum)[8]);
+	mtime_str = '%s %d, %d' % (months[mtime[1]], mtime[2], mtime[0])
+
+	output = open(epnum + '.html', 'w')
+
+	output.write("""
+
+Synopsis: """ + '"' + epname + '"' + """
+
+
+
+
+
+
+""" + otros.pageheader(curep, which, 1) + """
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+""")
+
+	output.write(otros.mungeimages(input.read(), 1))
+
+	output.write('\n
    \n\n
    ' +
+			otros.pagefooter(curep, 'synopsis') + """
+
+
    
+Last update:
+""" + mtime_str + """
+
+
    
+
+
+""")
+
+	input.close()
+	output.close()
+
+	print epnum
diff --git a/synops/genall.csh b/synops/genall.csh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..99d2d137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synops/genall.csh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+gen.py [012]??
diff --git a/synops/header.py b/synops/header.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..de2848e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synops/header.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/usr/local/bin/python
+
+import sys,string
+sys.path.append('../internal')
+import otros
+
+curep = string.atoi(sys.argv[1])
+
+output = otros.pageheader(curep, 'synopsis')
+
+output = output + """
    +
+
    """
+
+print output
diff --git a/synops/index.html b/synops/index.html
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6c59b43d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synops/index.html
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+
+
+To the episode list
+
+
diff --git a/synops/strip.sh b/synops/strip.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ac20439e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synops/strip.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+for i in [012]*.html; do
+	sed -e '1,/<\/pre>/d' < $i > `basename $i .html`
+
+	echo $i
+done
diff --git a/synops/ungen b/synops/ungen
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..08bbc3d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/synops/ungen
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+sed -e '1,/<\/pre/d' $1.html | sed '/
     $1
diff --git a/toc.html b/toc.html
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..056e4d7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toc.html
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+
+
+Lurker's Guide Index
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+    
+
+
    Index of the Lurker's Guide
    
+
+
    
+Use this handy index page to jump to specific parts of the Guide, or to
+browse, if you're not sure what's where.
+
+
    
+The Lurker's Guide (also available via the station
+icon at the top and bottom of each page)
+
    
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+December 26, 1997
+
+
    
+
+
diff --git a/universe/appearances-1.html b/universe/appearances-1.html
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..4c4c6a08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/universe/appearances-1.html
@@ -0,0 +1,279 @@
+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Appearences (season one)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    
+Contents:
+[Humans] -
+[Aliens] -
+[Airdate Order] -
+[Production Order Chart]
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+
    +Season 1      +--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+-----+----+
+Earth         |Jeffrey | Susan | Michael |Stephen | Talia |  C. |Tech|
+Alliance      |Sinclair|Ivanova|Garibaldi|Franklin|Winters|Sakai| #1 |
+--------------+--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+-----+----+
+Midnight on...|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -  | X  |
+Soul Hunter   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+Born...Purple |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -  | X  |
+Infection     |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+Parliament... |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  X  | X  |
+Mind War      |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  X  | X  |
+The War Prayer|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+And The Sky   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+ Full of Stars|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|-----|----|
+Deathwalker   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -  | X  |
+Believers     |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -  | -  |
+Survivors     |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+By Any Means..|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+Signs and P.. |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+TKO           |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+--------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|-----|----|
+Grail         |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+Eyes          |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+Legacies      |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -  | X  |
+A Voice in...1|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -  | X  |
+A Voice in...2|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+Babylon Squ...|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -  | X  |
+The Quality...|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -  | -  |
+Chrysalis     |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  X  | X  |
+--------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|-----|----|
+Sub-Totals    |   22   |  22   |   22    |   12   |   7   |  3  | 20 |
+--------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|-----|----|
+Season 1      |Jeffrey | Susan | Michael |Stephen | Talia |  C. |Tech|
+Earth         |Sinclair|Ivanova|Garibaldi|Franklin|Winters|Sakai| #1 |
+Alliance      +--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+-----+----+
+
+Season 1      +-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-----+-----+
+Aliens        | Londo |     | Amb. | Kosh  | Vir |       | Na' | n'  |
+              |Mollari|G'Kar|Delenn|Naranek|Cotto|Lennier|Toth |grath|
+--------------+-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-----+-----+
+Midnight on...|   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+Soul Hunter   |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  X  |
+Born...Purple |   X   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  X  |   -   |  -  |  X  |
+Infection     |   -   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+Parliament... |   X   |  X  |  X   |   -   |  X  |   X   |  X  |  X  |
+Mind War      |   -   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+The War Prayer|   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+And the Sky   |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+ Full of Stars|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-----|-----|
+Deathwalker   |   X   |  X  |  -   |   X   |  -  |   X   |  X  |  -  |
+Believers     |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+Survivors     |   X   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  X  |
+By Any Means..|   X   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  X  |  -  |
+Signs and P...|   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+TKO           |   -   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+--------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-----|-----|
+Grail         |   X   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   X   |  -  |  -  |
+Eyes          |   -   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   X   |  -  |  -  |
+Legacies      |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  X  |  -  |
+A Voice in...1|   X   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+A Voice in...2|   X   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+Babylon Squ...|   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |  -  |  -  |
+The Quality...|   X   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   X   |  -  |  -  |
+Chrysalis     |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   X   |  X  |  -  |
+--------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-----|-----|
+Sub-Totals    |  14   | 11  |  13  |   7   |  6  |   6   |  5  |  4  |
+--------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-----|-----|
+Season 1      | Londo |     | Amb. | Kosh  | Vir |       | Na' | n'  |
+Aliens        |Mollari|G'Kar|Delenn|Nanarek|Cotto|Lennier|Toth |grath|
+              +-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-----+-----+
+
+Season 1      +--------------------+--------+-------+-------+------+-----
+Reference     |   Earth Alliance   |Centauri| Narn  |Minbari|Others|Total
+Chart         |JS SI MG SF TW CS T1| LM  VC |G'K N'T| De Le |KN n'g|
+--------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+---+---+---+--+---|-----
+Midnight on...|X  X  X  -  X  -  X | X   X  | X   - | X  -  | X  - | 10
+Soul Hunter   |X  X  X  X  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  X |  7
+Born...Purple |X  X  X  -  X  -  X | X   X  | X   - | -  -  | -  X |  9
+Infection     |X  X  X  X  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  -  | -  - |  5
+Parliament... |X  X  X  -  -  X  X | X   X  | X   X | X  X  | -  X | 12
+Mind War      |X  X  X  -  X  X  X | -   -  | X   - | -  -  | -  - |  7
+The War Prayer|X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   X  | X   - | X  -  | X  - | 10
+And The Sky   |X  X  X  X  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  6
+ Full of Stars|--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|--+---|-----
+Deathwalker   |X  X  X  X  X  -  X | X   -  | X   X | -  X  | X  - | 11
+Believers     |X  X  X  X  -  -  - | X   -  | X   - | X  -  | X  - |  9
+Survivors     |X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   -  | X   - | -  -  | -  X |  7
+By Any Means..|X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   X | -  -  | -  - |  7
+Signs and P...|X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   - | X  -  | X  - |  8
+TKO           |X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  -  | -  - |  4
+--------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|--+---|-----
+Grail         |X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   X  | -   - | X  X  | X  - | 10
+Eyes          |X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  X  | -  - |  5
+Legacies      |X  X  X  X  X  -  X | -   -  | -   X | X  -  | -  - |  8
+A Voice...pt1 |X  X  X  -  X  -  X | X   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  7
+A Voice...pt2 |X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  7
+Babylon Squa..|X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  6
+The Quality...|X  X  X  X  X  -  - | X   -  | -   - | -  X  | -  - |  7
+Chrysalis     |X  X  X  X  -  X  X | X   X  | X   X | X  X  | X  - | 13
+--------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|--+---|-----
+Sub-Totals    |22 22 22 12 7  3  20| 14  6  |11   5 |13  6  | 7  4 | 174
+--------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|------|-----
+Season 1      |   Earth Alliance   |Centauri| Narn  |Minbari|Others|Total
+Reference     |JS SI MG SF TW CS T1| LM  VC |G'K N'T| De Le |KN n'g|
+Chart         +--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+---+---+---+--+---|-----
+
+Sorted by production order
+
+Season 1        +--------------------+--------+-------+-------+------+-----
+Reference       |   Earth Alliance   |Centauri| Narn  |Minbari|Others|Total
+Chart           |JS SI MG SF TW CS T1| LM  VC |G'K N'T| De Le |KN n'g|
+----------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+---+---+---+--+---|-----
+Infection      1|X  X  X  X  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  -  | -  - |  5
+Soul Hunter    2|X  X  X  X  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  X |  7
+Midnight on... 3|X  X  X  -  X  -  X | X   X  | X   - | X  -  | X  - | 10
+Born...Purple  4|X  X  X  -  X  -  X | X   X  | X   - | -  -  | -  X |  9
+Believers      5|X  X  X  X  -  -  - | X   -  | X   - | X  -  | X  - |  9
+And The Sky... 6|X  X  X  X  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  6
+The War Prayer 7|X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   X  | X   - | X  -  | X  - | 10
+Parliament of..8|X  X  X  -  -  X  X | X   X  | X   X | X  X  | -  X | 12
+Grail          9|X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   X  | -   - | X  X  | X  - | 11
+Mind War      10|X  X  X  -  X  X  X | -   -  | X   - | -  -  | -  - |  7
+Survivors     11|X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   -  | X   - | -  -  | -  X |  7
+Chrysalis     12|X  X  X  X  -  X  X | X   X  | X   X | X  X  | X  - | 13
+Deathwalker   13|X  X  X  X  X  -  X | X   -  | X   X | -  X  | X  - | 11
+By Any Means..14|X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   X | -  -  | -  - |  7
+Legacies      15|X  X  X  X  X  -  X | -   -  | -   X | X  -  | -  - |  8
+Signs and P...16|X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   -  | X   - | X  -  | X  - |  8
+The Quality...17|X  X  X  X  X  -  - | X   -  | -   - | -  X  | -  - |  7
+Babylon Squa..18|X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  6
+TKO           19|X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  -  | -  - |  4
+A Voice...pt1 20|X  X  X  -  X  -  X | X   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  7
+A Voice...pt2 21|X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   -  | -   - | X  -  | -  - |  7
+Eyes          22|X  X  X  -  -  -  X | -   -  | -   - | -  X  | -  - |  5
+----------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|--+---|-----
+Sub-Totals      |22 22 22 12 7  3  20| 14  6  |11   5 |13  6  | 7  4 | 174
+----------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+---|---+---|------|-----
+Season 1        |   Earth Alliance   |Centauri| Narn  |Minbari|Others|Total
+Reference       |JS SI MG SF TW CS T1| LM  VC |G'K N'T| De Le |KN n'g|
+Chart           +--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+---+---+---+--+---|-----
+
+JS  Jeffrey Sinclair    SI  Susan Ivanova       MG  Mike Garibaldi
+SF  Stephen Franklin    TW  Talia Winters       CS  Catherine Sakai
+T1  Tech #1
+
+LM  Londo Mollari       VC  Vir Cotto           G'K G'Kar
+N'T Na'Toth             De  Delenn              Le  Lennier
+KN  Kosh Naranek        n'g n'grath
    
+
+Many thanks to...
+
+
    
+
    J. Michael Straczynski (straczynski@genie.geis.com)
    
+for creating Babylon 5;
+
+
    Matthew B. Ryan (matt@uhs.uchicago.edu),
    
+Frank Perricone (perricone@wsyd.com),
    
+Gharlane of Eddore (gharlane@nextnet.ccs.csus.edu),
    
+Steven Grimm
+   (koreth@midwinter.com), and
    
+Timothy W. Lynch (tlynch@cco.caltech.edu)
    
+   for helping to fill in the holes in the list;
+
+
    Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusunkyou.cs.jhu.edu),
    
+Jeff Hildebrand (hildebra@math.wisc.edu),
    
+Shelley Diane Lewallen (sdl5241@tam2000.tamu.edu),
    
+Mark L. Stackpole (ca572@cleveland.freenet.edu), and
    
+Kyle L. Webb (kwebb@carina.unm.edu)
    
+   for finding mispelings, catching misteaks, discovering tyops,
+   and noticing erorrs.
+
+
    This list is Copyright (c) 1994, David Henderson and The Have a Nice
+Day Co.
+
+
    Because not every character is in every episode, this chart was
+devised to show who was in which shows.
+
+
    This list will be posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
+approximately the first of each month, being updated on www.midwinter.com
+at about the same time.  I will try to keep it updated as much as
+possible.  This document was last updated October 29, 1994 and contains
+all information up to and including "Chrysalis".
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+David Henderson
+
+
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+
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+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Appearences (season two)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Humans -
+Aliens -
+Airdate Order
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
    
+
+Most recent changes:  Removed Sheridan and Ivanova from the list, as
+they have been in every episode (and would seem to be for the rest of
+the season), and added Zack Allen and (the new) Tech #1.
+
+
    +Season 2            +--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+
+Humans              |  John  | Susan | Michael |Stephen | Talia |Warren| Lou |
+                    |Sheridan|Ivanova|Garibaldi|Franklin|Winters|Keffer|Welch|
+--------------------+--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+
+Points of Departure |    X   |   X   |    X *  |   X    |   -   |  X   |  -  |
+Revelations         |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  X  |
+The Geometry of Sha.|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  X  |
+A Distant Star      |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  X   |  -  |
+The Long Dark       |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+A Spider in the Web |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   X   |  -   |  -  |
+Soul Mates          |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  X  |
+A Race Throu..Places|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  -  |
+The Coming of Shado.|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+GROPOS              |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  X   |  X  |
+All Alone in...Night|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+Acts of Sacrifice   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+Hunter, Prey        |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+There All Honor Lies|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  X   |  -  |
+And Now for a Word  |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+Knives              |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+In the Sha..Z'ha'dum|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  -  |
+Confessions and Lam |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  X   |  -  |
+Divided Loyalties   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   X   |  -   |  -  |
+The Long Twilight St|    X   |   X   |    X    |   X    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+Comes the Inquisitor|    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  -   |  -  |
+The Fall of Night   |    X   |   X   |    X    |   -    |   -   |  X   |  -  |
+--------------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|------|-----|
+Sub-Totals          |   22   |  22   |   22 *  |   19   |   7   |  6   |  4  |
+--------------------|--------|-------|---------|--------|-------|------|-----|
+Season 2            |  John  | Susan | Michael |Stephen | Talia |Warren| Lou |
+Humans              |Sheridan|Ivanova|Garibaldi|Franklin|Winters|Keffer|Welch|
+                    +--------+-------+---------+--------+-------+------+-----+
+* - Garibaldi was still in a coma, but was shown onscreen.
+
+
+
+Season 2               +-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-------+
+Aliens                 | Londo |     | Amb. | Kosh  | Vir |       |       |
+                       |Mollari|G'Kar|Delenn|Naranek|Cotto|Lennier|Na'Toth|
+-----------------------+-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-------+
+Points of Departure    |   -   |  -  |  X * |   -   |  -  |   X   |   -   |
+Revelations            |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   X   |   X   |
+The Geometry of Shadows|   X   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  X  |   -   |   -   |
+A Distant Star         |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+The Long Dark          |   X   |  X  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+A Spider in the Web    |   -   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+Soul Mates             |   X   |  X  |  X   |   -   |  X  |   X   |   -   |
+A Race Through Dark Pl.|   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+The Coming of Shadows  |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   -   |   -   |
+GROPOS                 |   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+All Alone in the Night |   -   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   X   |   -   |
+Acts of Sacrifice      |   X   |  X  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   -   |   X   |
+Hunter, Prey           |   -   |  -  |  -   |   X   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+There All Honor Lies   |   X   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   X   |   -   |
+And Now for a Word     |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+Knives                 |   X   |  -  |  -   |   -   |  X  |   -   |   -   |
+In the Shadow..Z'Ha'Dum|   -   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   -   |   -   |
+Confessions and Lamenta|   -   |  -  |  X   |   -   |  -  |   X   |   -   |
+Divided Loyalties      |   -   |  -  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+The Long Twilight Strug|   X   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  -  |   -   |   -   |
+Comes the Inquisitor   |   -   |  X  |  X   |   X   |  X  |   X   |   -   |
+The Fall of Night      |   X   |  X  |  X   |   X** |  X  |   X   |   -   |
+-----------------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-------|
+Sub-Totals             |  11   |  9  | 17 * |  11   |  8  |   8   |   2   |
+-----------------------|-------|-----|------|-------|-----|-------|-------|
+Season 2               | Londo |     | Amb. | Kosh  | Vir |       |       |
+Aliens                 |Mollari|G'Kar|Delenn|Nanarek|Cotto|Lennier|Na'Toth|
+                       +-------+-----+------+-------+-----+-------+-------+
+
+ * - Delenn was only shown in a flashback in this episode, but was shown
+ onscreen.
+ ** - Kosh revealed himself in this episode, but did not speak.
+
+
+Season 2          +-----------------------+--------+------+-------+----+-----
+Reference         |         Human         |Centauri| Narn |Minbari|    |Total
+Chart             |JS SI MG SF TW WK ZA LW| LM  VC |GK  NT| De Le |Kosh|
+------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---+---+--+---+---+----|-----
+Points of Dep.   1|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   X | -  |  7
+Revelations      2|X  X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   -  | X  X | X   X | X  | 12
+T.Geometry of S. 3|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  X | X   X  | -  - | -   - | -  |  7
+A Distant Star   4|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   - | -  |  6
+The Long Dark    5|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  - | X   -  | X  - | -   - | -  |  6
+A Spider...Web   6|X  X  X  -  X  -  X  - | -   -  | -  - | -   - | -  |  5
+Soul Mates       8|X  X  X  X  X  -  -  X | X   X  | X  - | X   X | -  | 11
+A Race Through...7|X  X  X  X  X  -  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   - | -  |  6
+The Coming of S. 9|X  X  X  X  -  -  X  - | X   X  | X  - | X   - | X  | 10
+GROPOS          10|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  X | -   -  | -  - | X   - | -  |  7
+All Alone.Night 11|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   X | X  |  7
+Acts..Sacrifice 12|X  X  X  X  -  -  X  - | X   -  | X  X | X   - | -  |  9
+Hunter, Prey    13|X  X  X  X  -  -  X  - | -   -  | -  - | -   - | X  |  6
+There.Honor Lies14|X  X  X  X  -  X  X  - | X   X  | -  - | X   X | X  | 11
+And Now...Word  15|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  - | X   -  | X  - | X   - | X  |  8
+Knives          16|X  X  X  X  -  -  -  - | X   X  | -  - | -   - | -  |  6
+In the..Z'ha'dum17|X  X  X  X  X  -  X  - | -   X  | -  - | X   - | X  |  9
+Confessions and 18|X  X  X  X  -  X  -  - | -   -  | -  - | X   X | -  |  7
+Divided Loyaltie19|X  X  X  X  X  -  X  - | -   -  | -  - | X   - | X  |  7
+The Long Twiligh20|X  X  X  X  -  -  .  - | X   -  | X  - | X   - | X  |  8
+Comes the Inquis21|X  X  X  -  -  -  -  - | -   X  | X  - | X   X | X  |  8
+Fall of Night   22|X  X  X  -  -  X  X  - | X   X  | X  . | X   X | X  | 11
+------------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+--|---+---|----|-----
+Sub-Totals        |22 22 22 19 6  6  8  4 |11   8  | 9  2 |17   8 | 11 | 174
+------------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+--|---+---|----|-----
+Season 2          |         Human         |Centauri| Narn |Minbari|    |Total
+Reference         |JS SI MG SF TW WK ZA LW| LM  VC |GK  NT| De Le |Kosh|
+Chart             +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--|----+---|---+--|---+---|----|-----
+
+
+JS   John Sheridan       SI   Susan Ivanova       MG   Michael Garibaldi
+SF   Stephen Franklin    TW   Talia Winters       WK   Warren Keffer
+Mo   Morden              LW   Lou Welch           ZA   Zack Allen
+
+LM   Londo Mollari       VC   Vir Cotto           GK   G'Kar
+NT   Na'Toth             De   Delenn              Le   Lennier
+Kosh Kosh Naranek
    
+
+Many thanks to...
+
+
    
+
+
    J. Michael Straczynski (straczynski@genie.geis.com),
+for creating Babylon 5;
+
+
    Special Thanks go to Dan Winger (winger@sewp.nasa.gov),
+who supplied a large portion of the data for the first seven episodes.
+
+
    Steven Grimm
+    (koreth@midwinter.com),
+for helping to fill in the holes in the list;
+
+
    Larry W.
+    Virden (lvirden@cas.org) and
+    Steven N. Orso (snorso@facstaff.wisc.edu),
+for finding mispelings, catching misteaks, discovering tyops, and
+    noticing erorrs.
+
+
    This list is Copyright (c) 1994 and 1995, David Henderson and the Have a Nice Day
+Co.
+
+
    Because not every character is in every episode, this chart was devised
+to show who was in which shows.
+
+
    This list will be posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 every so often,
+being updated on www.midwinter.com at about the same time.  I will try to keep
+it updated as much as possible.  This document was last updated August 16, 1995
+and contains all information up to "The Fall of Night."
+
+
    BTW, if you have correction to this list, please E-mail them to me, but please don't
+send me the information for upcoming episodes, as I do not get a chance to
+see the episodes until Sunday night.
+
+
    
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
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+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
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+
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Appearences (season three)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Main Characters -
+Recurring Characters
+
+
    
+
+
    Main Characters
    
+
+Character names are abbreviated to their character's initials.
+
+
    +                       +-----------------+-----------------------+
+     Main Characters   |    --Human--    |     --Non-Humans--    |
+                       |JS SI MG SF ZA MC|Delenn Londo G'Kar Kosh|
+   --------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+------+-----+-----+----+
+   Matters of Honor    | X  X  X  X  -  X|   X     X     X     X | 9
+   Convictions         | X  X  X  X  X  -|   X     X     X     - | 8
+   A Day in the Strife | X  X  X  X  -  -|   X     X     X     - | 7
+   Passing Through G...| X  X  X  X  X  -|   X     X     -     X | 8
+   Voices of Authority | X  X  X  -  X  X|   X     -     X     - | 7
+   Dust to Dust        | X  X  X  X  -  -|   X     X     X     X | 8
+   Exogenesis          | X  X  X  X  -  X|   -     -     -     - | 5
+   Messages from Earth | X  X  X  X  X  X|   X     -     X     - | 8
+   Point of No Return  | X  X  X  X  X  -|   -     X     X     - | 7
+   --------------------+-----------------+-----------------------+
+   Sub-Totals          | 9  9  9  8  5  4|   7     6     7     3 | AVG: 7.44
+   --------------------+-----------------+-----------------------+
+                       |JS SI MG SF ZA MC|Delenn Londo G'Kar Kosh|
+                       |    --Human--    |     --Non-Humans--    |
+                       +-----------------+-----------------------|
+
+   JS  John Sheridan      SI  Susan Ivanova   MG  Michael Garibaldi
+   SF  Stephen Franklin   ZA  Zack Allen      MC  Marcus Cole
+
    
+
+
    Recurring Characters
    
+
+
    +                       +------------------------------------------+
+   Recurring Characters|        Vir   Lyta             Bro. David |
+                       |Lennier Cotto Alexander Morden Theo Corwin|
+   --------------------+-------+-----+---------+------+----+------+
+   Matters of Honor    |   X      -       -        X     -     -  | 2
+   Convictions         |   X      -       -        -     X     -  | 2
+   A Day in the Strife |   -      X       -        -     -     X  | 2
+   Passing Through G...|   X      -       X        -     X     -  | 3
+   Voices of Authority |   -      -       -        X*1   -     -  | 1
+   Dust to Dust        |   X      X       -        X*2   -     -  | 3
+   Exogenesis          |   -      -       -        -     -     X  | 1
+   Messages from Earth |   X      -       -        -     -     -  | 1
+   Point of No Return  |   -      X       -        -     -     X  | 2
+   --------------------+-------+-----+---------+------+----+------+
+   Sub-Totals          |   5      3       1        3     2     3  | AVG: 1.88
+   --------------------+-------+-----+---------+------+----+------+
+                       |        Vir   Lyta             Bro. David |
+                       |Lennier Cotto Alexander Morden Theo Corwin|
+                       +------------------------------------------+
+
    
+
+
    *1 - Morden was heard in this episode, but was not seen and
+did not appear in the credits.
    
+
+
    *2 - Morden was seen in this episode from "Chrysalis", but
+did not appear in the credits.
    
+
+
    Many thanks to...
    
+
+
    
+
+
    For creating Babylon 5:
+
    J. Michael
+    Straczynski (straczynski@genie.geis.com)
+
+
    For creating the Lurker's Guide:
+
    Steven Grimm
+    (koreth@midwinter.com)
+
    
+
+This list is Copyleft 1994--1996, David Henderson and the Have a Nice Day
+Co.  Many rights reserved.
    
+
+Because not every character is in every episode, this chart was devised
+to show who was in which shows.
    
+
+This list will be posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info
+every so often, being updated on www.midwinter.com at about the same
+time.  I will try to keep it updated as much as possible.  This
+document was last updated March 15, 1996, and contains all information
+up to "Point of No Return."  The next scheduled update will be in April
+or May, 1996.
    
+
+Corrections to this list may be sent to davidh@cegt201.bradley.edu,
+but please do not send information for upcoming episodes, as I do not
+get a chance to see the episodes until Sunday night.
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
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+Last update:
+March 19, 1996
+
+
    
+
+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Appearences (season four)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    
+Contents:
+Humans -
+Alien Influences
+
+
    
+
+
    This document was cleared by the Ministry of Public Information.
+People listed under "Renegade" are not to be trusted.  For information
+about the aliens influencing the Renegade Babylon 5 crew, consult your
+local NightWatch office.
    
+
+
    Humans
    
+
+Character names are abbreviated to their character's initials.
+
+
    +                            +--------------------+-----+
+   Season 4 Reference Chart |    --Renegade--    |Loyal|
+   PART I:  HUMANS          |JS SI MG SF MC ZA LA|Mo AB|Totals
+   -------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+------
+   The Hour of the Wolf     |X  X -*1 -  -  X  X |X  - |  5
+   Whatever Happened to MrG?|X  -  X  X  X  -  - |-  - |  4
+   The Summoning            |X  X  X  X  X  X  X |-  - |  7
+   Falling Toward Apotheosis|X  X  X  X  -  X  X |X  - |  6
+   The Long Night           |X  X  X  -  -  -  - |-  - |  3
+   Into the Fire            |X  X  -  X  X  -  X |X  - |  6
+   Epiphanies               |X  X  X  X  -  X  X |-  X |  7
+   The Illusion of Truth    |X  X  X  X  -  X  - |-  - |  5
+   Atonement                |X  X  -  X  X  X  - |-  - |  5
+   -------------------------|--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+------
+   Sub-Totals               |9  8  6  7  4  6  5 |3  1 | 48
+   -------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+------
+   Racing Mars              |x  .  x  x  x  .  . |.  . |
+   Lines of Communication   |.  .  .  x  x  .  . |.  . |
+   Conflicts of Interests   |x  .  x  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   Rumors, Bargains and Lies|x  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   Moments of Transition    |.  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  x |
+   No Surrender, No Retreat |.  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   Exercise of Vital Powers |.  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   The Face of the Enemy    |.  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   Intersections / Real Time|.  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   Between Darkness & Light |.  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   Endgame                  |.  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   Rising Star              |.  .  .  .  .  .  . |.  . |
+   -------------------------+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+------
+   Season 4 Reference Chart |    --Renegade--    |Loyal|
+   PART I:  HUMANS          |JS SI MG SF MC ZA LA|Mo AB|
+                            +--------------------+-----+
+
+   JS John Sheridan     SI Susan Ivanova  MG Michael Garibaldi
+   SF Stephen Franklin  MC Marcus Cole    ZA Zack Allan
+   LA Lyta Alexander    Mo Mr. Morden     AB Alfred Bester
+
    
+
+
    *1 - Garibaldi was seen in the recap of "Z'ha'dum", but
+was not in the episode proper.
    
+
+
    Alien Influences
    
+
+
    +                            +------------+----+-------+----+------+
+   Season 4 Reference Chart |  Centauri  |Narn|Minbari|Kosh|      |
+   PART II:  ALIENS         |LM VC EC Min|G'K |De  Len|1 2 |Lorien|Totals
+   -------------------------+--+--+--+---+----+---+---+----+------+------
+   The Hour of the Wolf     |X  X  X  X  | X  |X   X  |X X |  X   | 10
+   Whatever Happened to MrG?|X  -  X  X  | X  |X   X  |- X |  X   |  8
+   The Summoning            |X  X  X  -  | X  |X   X  |- X |  X   |  8
+   Falling Toward Apotheosis|X  -  X  -  | X  |X   -  |X X |  X   |  7
+   The Long Night           |X  X  X  -  | X  |X   X  |- - |  -   |  6
+   Into the Fire            |X  X  -  X  | -  |X   X  |X - |  X   |  7
+   Epiphanies               |X  -  -  X  | X  |X   -  |- - |  -   |  4
+   The Illusion of Truth    |X  -  -  -  | -  |X   X  |- - |  -   |  3
+   Atonement                |-  -  -  -  | X  |X   X  |- - |  -   |  3
+   -------------------------+--+--+--+---+----+---+---+----+------+------
+   Sub-Totals               |8  4  5  4  | 7  |9   7  |3 4 |  5   | 56
+   -------------------------+--+--+--+---+----+---+---+----+------+------
+   Racing Mars              |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Lines of Communication   |.  .  .  .  | .  |x   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Conflicts of Interests   |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Rumors, Bargains and Lies|.  .  .  .  | .  |x   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Moments of Transition    |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   No Surrender, No Retreat |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Exercise of Vital Powers |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   The Face of the Enemy    |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Intersections / Real Time|.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Between Darkness & Light |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Endgame                  |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   Rising Star              |.  .  .  .  | .  |.   .  | .  |  .   |  .
+   -------------------------+--+--+--+---+----+---+---+----+------+------
+   Season 4 Reference Chart |  Centauri  |Narn|Minbari|Kosh|Lorien|Totals
+   PART II:  ALIENS         |LM VC EC Min|G'K |De  Len|1 2 |      |
+                            +------------+----+-------+----+------+
+
+   LM    Londo Mollari     VC    Vir Cotto     EC    Emp. Cartagia
+   Min   unnamed Minister  G'K   G'Kar         De    Delenn
+   Len   Lennier           Kosh1 Kosh Naranek  Kosh2 Kosh "Vader"
+
    
+
+
    Key:
    
+
    X
    The character was present in the episode.
+
    -
    The character was not present in the episode.
+
    x
    The character is identified to be in the episode
+    (not yet aired).
+
    .
    The character may or may not be in the episode
+    (not yet aired).
+
    
+
+
    Many thanks to...
    
+
+
    
+
+
    For creating Babylon 5:
+
    J. Michael
+    Straczynski (straczynski@genie.geis.com)
+
+
    For creating the Lurker's Guide:
+
    Steven Grimm
+    (koreth@midwinter.com)
+
+
    For helping with the chart for the first 9 episodes:
+
    Dan Winger (winger@sewp.nasa.gov)
+
    
+
+This list is Copyleft 1994--1997, David Henderson and the Have a Nice Day
+Co.  Many rights reserved.
    
+
+Because not every character is in every episode, this chart was devised
+to show who was in which shows.
    
+
+This list will be posted to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info
+every so often, being updated on www.midwinter.com at about the same
+time.  I will try to keep it updated as much as possible.  This
+document was last updated April 26, 1997, and contains all information
+up to "Atonement".  The next scheduled update will be in June, 1997,
+when repeats start.
    
+
+Corrections to this list may be sent to davidh@imsa.edu, but please do not
+send information for upcoming episodes, as I do not get a chance to see
+the episodes until Sunday night.
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+April 26, 1997
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Main Characters (season one)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] ### MAIN CAST ### [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+Despite its fantastic setting, Babylon 5 is at its core a story
+about people, about the choices they make and the consequences of those
+choices.  Babylon 5's characters are as interesting and varied
+as the situations they encounter.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Commander Jeffrey Sinclair
+-
+Michael O'Hare
+
    
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.
+A survivor of the climactic Battle of the Line at the end of the
+Earth-Minbari War, Sinclair sometimes yearns
+for his days as a hotshot fighter pilot, and partially for that reason,
+he's given to taking unnecessary personal risks.  He's uncomfortable in his
+position and in fact isn't entirely sure why he was given command of such a
+major post and made a high-level diplomat; his stiff demeanor is perhaps due
+to a fear that he isn't up to the job he's been given.  Sinclair was born on
+Mars Colony and is 39 years old.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
+-
+Claudia Christian
+
    
+Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations of Babylon 5,
+Ivanova is an ambitious career officer.  She can be quirky or
+pessimistic at times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows
+itself in the rare moments she is able to relax among others. Born in
+St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised abroad on Earth, she has a strong
+dislike for the Psi-Corps, whose legally-mandated drug treatments drove
+her mother to suicide after it was discovered her mother was a latent
+telepath. She is new on the station and often buries herself in her
+work; her friends are few and her family is all but gone.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+-
+Jerry Doyle
+
    
+In charge of security on Babylon 5.  He has a troubled past, bouncing from
+position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism.  He was picked by
+Sinclair for the job; the two worked together in the past.  Sinclair
+knew that Garibaldi would be persistent, not willing to give in to
+political pressures -- in Sinclair's words, "a pain in the ass."  Garibaldi
+is something of a smart-aleck, always ready to crack a joke, but given to
+bouts of self-doubt and introspection when nobody's looking.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Talia Winters
+-
+Andrea Thompson
+
    
+Babylon 5's resident telepath, on her first solo assignment, with level 5 psi
+rating, bound by the rules and regulations of the Psi Corps. She sells her
+telepathic services to businessmen, and occasionally assists Sinclair in
+negotiations. Talia was raised and trained by the Psi Corps, meaning that
+that organization is her family.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Dr. Stephen Franklin
+-
+Richard Biggs
+
    
+Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology,) and
+in charge of Medlab on Babylon 5. His background is mainly in
+experimental medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what it
+should be. His strong sense of personal morality is at times in
+conflict with his duties as the chief medical provider for aliens from
+hundreds of worlds and cultures, some of whom view his obligations
+rather differently. In his middle thirties now, he spent
+years hitchhiking through space, offering his doctoral services in
+exchange for the opportunity to examine new life forms.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Londo Mollari
+-
+Peter Jurasik
+
    
+The representative of the Centauri Republic.  Londo views Babylon 5's
+mission as something of a sham, with limited chance of helping his people
+regain their lost glory and sense of purpose.
+His assignment on Babylon 5 is not considered an important position, in spite
+of the high status that his regalia and high-standing hair would indicate. A
+war hero in his younger days, he has since grown decadent and indulgent.
+Londo can often be found
+in one of the station's bars or casinos, drinking himself to oblivion.
+He has a biting, cynical sense of humor.  Perhaps his only real friend is
+Garibaldi, who understands something of what Londo has been through.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Delenn
+-
+Mira Furlan
+
    
+Represents the Minbari Federation.  Delenn is a member of the highest Minbari
+governmental body, the Grey Council, and why she's masquerading as a lowly
+ambassador is one of the ongoing mysteries of Babylon 5.
+A member of the religious caste, Delenn's belief in fate and destiny is
+often evident.  She is fascinated by humans and tries to learn all about them;
+some say she is suspiciously watchful of Commander Sinclair.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador G'Kar
+-
+Andreas Katsulas
+
    
+The representative of the Narn Regime rose to his position in part thanks to
+his wife's renown as a hero of the revolutionary war against the Centauri,
+but his own ambition and ability are more than equal to the job.
+G'Kar will waste no opportunity to turn a situation to the Narns' advantage,
+even if it means antagonizing everyone else on the station.  He takes pride
+in his position and himself, a pride perhaps bordering on arrogance at times.
+G'Kar would like nothing better than to see the Centauri, and Londo in
+particular, pay dearly for their brutal occupation of Narn. 
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Kosh Naranek
+-
+animatronics
+
    
+Native voice
+designed by Chris Franke.
    
+English translation: Ardwight Chamberlain.
+
    
+Even less is known about Ambassador Kosh than about his race.  He arrived on
+the station in 2257 and was promptly the victim of a complex assassination plot
+involving the Minbari and others.  He is rarely seen in council meetings,
+claiming that "we take no interest in the affairs of others," and Vorlons'
+reasons for coming to Babylon 5 at all are unknown.
+Kosh communicates through a complex sequence of musical tones, translated into
+English by a device on his encounter suit. When he speaks, his words are few
+and sound cryptic, but often have a strange truth to them.
+Kosh's quarters are
+filled with a dense atmosphere of methane and other gases; whether he
+needs it or is using it to make himself less accessible is an open question.
+Even when he's receiving visitors there, Kosh wears his suit.
+
+
    
+
+[More Info]
+Character appearances, season one.
+
+
    
+Next: Supporting Characters
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Main Characters (season two)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] ### MAIN CAST ### [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+Despite its fantastic setting, Babylon 5 is at its core a story
+about people, about the choices they make and the consequences of those
+choices.  Babylon 5's characters are as interesting and varied
+as the situations they encounter.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Captain John Sheridan
+-
+Bruce Boxleitner
+
    
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.
+One of Earth's few war heros, Sheridan scored the only major victory against
+the Minbari during the war, something which has earned him the hatred of the
+Minbari warrior caste.  Generally jovial, occasionally serious, Sheridan was
+hand-picked by the President to replace Sinclair.  Sheridan is still recovering
+from the loss of his wife Anna, who died on an alien archaeological dig.
+Most of his career has been spent aboard starships; he's still in the process
+of getting used to being the head of what is essentially a small city in space.
+Sheridan and Ivanova have served together in the past.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Commander Susan Ivanova
+-
+Claudia Christian
+
    
+Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations of Babylon 5,
+Ivanova is an ambitious career officer.  She can be quirky or
+pessimistic at times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows
+itself in the rare moments she is able to relax among others. Born in
+St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised abroad on Earth, she has a strong
+dislike for the Psi-Corps, whose legally-mandated drug treatments drove
+her mother to suicide after it was discovered her mother was a latent
+telepath.
+Although she has become more comfortable with her job and her role on
+Babylon 5, she has a tendancy to bury herself in her work.  Her promotion
+to Commander has given her new ambassadorial duties, which she finds
+extremely challenging.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+-
+Jerry Doyle
+
    
+In charge of security on Babylon 5.  He has a troubled past, bouncing from
+position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism.  He was picked by
+the station's first commander, Sinclair, who
+knew that Garibaldi would be persistent, not willing to give in to
+political pressures -- in Sinclair's words, "a pain in the ass."  Garibaldi
+is something of a smart-aleck, always ready to crack a joke, but given to
+bouts of self-doubt and introspection when nobody's looking.  His natural
+sense of paranoia wasn't reduced when he was shot in the back by his own
+second-in-command while trying to prevent the assassination of President
+Santiago; he recovered, but is now convinced that something is dreadfully wrong
+at the heart of the Earth Alliance.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Talia Winters
+-
+Andrea Thompson
+
    
+Babylon 5's resident telepath, on her first solo assignment, with level 5 psi
+rating, bound by the rules and regulations of the Psi Corps. She sells her
+telepathic services to businessmen and occasionally assists the station
+personnel.  Talia was raised and trained by the Psi Corps, meaning that
+that organization is her family.  Last year, she was visited by an old teacher
+who had undergone a Psi Corps experiment.  He altered her, giving her
+telekinetic abilities and possibly other powers as well.  He also warned her
+of the changing nature of the Corps; she is now not entirely sure she trusts
+its motives.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Dr. Stephen Franklin
+-
+Richard Biggs
+
    
+Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology,) and
+in charge of Medlab on Babylon 5. His background is mainly in
+experimental medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what it
+should be. His strong sense of personal morality is at times in
+conflict with his duties as the chief medical provider for aliens from
+hundreds of worlds and cultures, some of whom view his obligations
+rather differently. In his middle thirties now, he spent
+years hitchhiking through space, offering his doctoral services in
+exchange for the opportunity to examine new life forms.
+Dr. Franklin is known to operate outside the rules when he feel the issue
+is important.  He runs a free clinic in the Downbelow section for those who
+cannot afford medical care.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Londo Mollari
+-
+Peter Jurasik
+
    
+The representative of the Centauri Republic.  Londo views Babylon 5's
+mission as something of a sham, with limited chance of helping his people
+regain their lost glory and sense of purpose.  He has a biting, cynical
+sense of humor.  Without realizing it at first, Londo has struck a bargain
+with the Shadows, who are working to advance his career and restore the
+Centauri to their past splendor, asking in return only the granting of an
+unspecified "favor" at some point in the future. It is a bargain he is
+already beginning to regret, but the restoration of his people means so
+much to him that he feels it's worth the price.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Delenn
+-
+Mira Furlan
+
    
+Represents the Minbari. A member of the Minbari ruling body,
+the Grey Council, she came to Babylon 5 posing as a simple
+ambassador to study humans after the discovery that some of them carry
+Minbari souls.  She was offered the leadership of the Council but turned
+it down, instead returning to Babylon 5 to play a role in a prophecy
+involving a struggle between darkness and light. Once back, after
+consulting with the Vorlon ambassador, she used a mysterious
+device to transform herself into a bizarre half-Minbari, half-human
+hybrid.  She claims she undertook the change to act as a bridge of
+understanding between humans and Minbari; whether that's the real reason
+or not, only she knows.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador G'Kar
+-
+Andreas Katsulas
+
    
+Represents the Narn Regime.
+Though ambitious and often antagonistic, G'Kar is extremely spiritual, and
+his knowledge of ancient scripture has led him to realize that an ancient
+race has come back to help the Centauri rebuild their empire.  He has even
+survived an attack on the shadows, but none in his own government or the
+Babylon 5 council believe him.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Kosh Naranek
+-
+animatronics
+
    
+Native voice
+designed by Chris Franke.
    
+English translation: Ardwight Chamberlain.
+
    
+After a year and a half on the station, Kosh and his people are still an
+enigma.  With the coming of the Shadows -- Kosh is one of the few who seem
+to know about them -- he has started attending council meetings, though his
+reasons for coming to Babylon 5 are still unknown.
+Kosh communicates through a complex sequence of musical tones, translated into
+English by a device on his encounter suit. When he speaks, his words are few
+and sound cryptic, but often have a strange truth to them.
+Kosh's quarters are
+filled with a dense atmosphere of methane and other gases; whether he
+needs it or is using it to make himself less accessible is an open question.
+Even when he's receiving visitors there, Kosh wears his suit.
+
+
    
+
+[More Info]
+Character appearances, season two.
+
+
    
+Next: Supporting Characters
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 15, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Main Characters (season three)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] ### MAIN CAST ### [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+Despite its fantastic setting, Babylon 5 is at its core a story
+about people, about the choices they make and the consequences of those
+choices.  Babylon 5's characters are as interesting and varied
+as the situations they encounter.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Captain John Sheridan
+-
+Bruce Boxleitner
+
    
+The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.
+One of the few heroes of the Earth-Minbari War, Sheridan scored Earth's only
+major victory of the war, something which has earned him the hatred of the
+Minbari warrior caste, though since his appointment he has generally gotten
+along with the Minbari.  Sheridan leads a cell
+of an anti-Government resistance movement aboard Babylon 5.  When he found
+out that the Shadows were responsible for the loss of his wife Anna, he
+pledged himself to help defeat them.  Along with
+Delenn, Sheridan is in charge of the Rangers on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Commander Susan Ivanova
+-
+Claudia Christian
+
    
+Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations of Babylon 5,
+Ivanova is an ambitious career officer.  She can be quirky or
+pessimistic at times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows
+itself in the rare moments she is able to relax among others. Born in
+St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised abroad on Earth, Ivanova is a latent
+telepath, "not even a P1," but has spent her life hiding her talent from
+Psi Corps after their legally-mandated drug treatments drove her mother
+to suicide.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+-
+Jerry Doyle
+
    
+In charge of security on Babylon 5. Though he has a troubled past, bouncing
+from position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism, he seems to
+have found his home on Babylon 5.  Garibaldi is something of a smart-aleck,
+always ready to crack a joke, but given to bouts of self-doubt and
+introspection when nobody's looking. His natural sense of paranoia wasn't
+reduced when he was shot in the back last year by his own second-in-command
+while he was investigating the death of President Santiago.  He is working
+with Sheridan in the fight against the corruption on Earth.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Dr. Stephen Franklin
+-
+Richard Biggs
+
    
+Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology), and
+in charge of Medlab on Babylon 5. His background is mainly in
+experimental medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what
+it should be. His strong sense of personal morality is at times in
+conflict with his duties as the chief medical provider for aliens from
+hundreds of worlds and cultures, some of whom view his obligations
+rather differently. Dr. Franklin is known to operate outside the rules
+when he feel the issue is important.  He runs a free clinic in the
+Downbelow section for those who cannot afford medical care; he also
+serves on an "underground railroad" for telepaths who do not want to be
+found by the Psi Corps. In his middle thirties now, he spent years
+hitchhiking through space, offering his medical services in exchange
+for the opportunity to examine new life forms.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Delenn
+-
+Mira Furlan
+
    
+Represents the Minbari. Once a member of Minbar's ruling body, the Grey
+Council, she lost her position after her controversial decision, following
+a prophecy, to undergo a transformation that gave her human characteristics.
+Religious, with a strong sense of fate and justice,
+she believes that she is the chosen one, who will lead in the upcoming fight
+against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Londo Mollari
+-
+Peter Jurasik
+
    
+The representative of the Centauri Republic. Once on an inconsequential
+assignment, Londo has become one of his government's most powerful figures
+due to a Faustian bargain struck with new "friends" he knew nothing about,
+a deal that has spun far out of control.  With their help, and the help of
+a few other ambitious Centauri, his government decimated the once
+powerful Narn Regime.  Once jovial and indulgent, Londo is now deadly
+serious as he comes to realize what the consequences of his association
+with the Shadows really are.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+G'Kar
+-
+Andreas Katsulas
+
    
+The ambassador of the Narn Regime when there was a Narn Regime to represent,
+G'Kar is now a fugitive, wanted by the Centauri Republic.  Sheridan granted
+him asylum on Babylon 5, which G'Kar is using as a base of operations from
+which to organize a movement to retake his homeworld from the Centauri.
+With limited resources, his authority challenged by the other Narn, G'Kar's
+position is truly desperate.  Ironically, he was among the first to realize
+that the Shadows were helping the Centauri, but nobody heeded his warnings.
+G'Kar is well-read, deeply spiritual, and extremely intelligent.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Kosh Naranek
+-
+animatronics
+
    
+Native voice
+designed by Chris Franke.
    
+English translation: Ardwight Chamberlain.
+
    
+In order to save Sheridan's Life, Kosh finally has shown himself outside of
+his encounter suit, which he would wear even in his own methane-filled
+quarters when receiving visitors.  Kosh is still very much an enigma;
+to many species, he appears as a holy being of light -- an
+angel, for instance.  Kosh has taken a great interest in Sheridan, and is
+attempting to train him for the upcoming fight against the Shadows.  He
+communicates through a complex sequence of musical tones, translated into
+English by a device on his encounter suit. When he speaks, his words are
+few and sound cryptic, but often have a strange truth to them.
+
+
    
+
+[More Info]
+Character appearances, season three.
+
+
    
+Next: Supporting Characters
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
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+
    
+Last update:
+October 15, 1995
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+Babylon 5 Universe: Main Characters (season four)
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
    
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+
     [Introduction] [Setting] ### MAIN CAST ### [Supporting Cast] [Station]
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+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+Despite its fantastic setting, Babylon 5 is at its core a story
+about people, about the choices they make and the consequences of those
+choices.  Babylon 5's characters are as interesting and varied
+as the situations they encounter.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
+Captain John Sheridan
+-
+Bruce Boxleitner
+
    
+The commander of Babylon 5 and, with Delenn, leader of the Army of Light.
+Formerly an officer of the Earth Alliance military until Babylon 5's secession,
+Sheridan was a hero of the Earth-Minbari War.  He now finds himself at the
+center of a storm that dwarfs anything in his experience.
+A visit to Z'ha'dum, the Shadow homeworld, resulted
+in his death, but he was revived by Lorien, one of the First
+Ones.  His sacrifice resulted in the destruction of the Shadows'
+largest city and halted their advance.  The experience lent him a heroic
+mystique in the eyes of many, a situation which doesn't entirely please him.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Commander Susan Ivanova
+-
+Claudia Christian
+
    
+Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations of Babylon 5,
+Ivanova's responsibilities have only increased since the start of the Shadow
+War.  A capable pilot and tactician, she can frequently be found in command of
+part of the White Star fleet.  Ivanova's natural pessimism, bordering on
+fatalism, would be unbearable if not for her dry sense of humor.  Born in
+St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised abroad on Earth, Ivanova is a latent
+telepath, "not even a P1," and spent her life hiding her talent from
+Psi Corps after their legally-mandated drug treatments drove her mother
+to suicide.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Delenn
+-
+Mira Furlan
+
    
+Officially, Delenn is the Minbari Ambassador, a former member of Minbar's
+ruling body, the Grey Council.  The Shadow War splintered the Council and
+her people; now she leads the Religious and Worker Castes as co-commander
+of the Army of Light.  Delenn's strong sense of destiny, her conviction
+that her role in the war is a matter of fate, led her to undergo a physical
+transformation that gave her human characteristics.  At first, this made her
+an outcast, but as the ancient prophecies started coming true, she found
+her people rallying around her.  Delenn and Sheridan are in love, but their
+relationship is largely on hold thanks to the demands of the war.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
+-
+Jerry Doyle
+
    
+Formerly in charge of security on Babylon 5. Though he has a troubled past,
+bouncing from position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism, he seems
+to have found his home on Babylon 5.  Garibaldi is something of a smart-aleck,
+always ready to crack a joke, but given to bouts of self-doubt and
+introspection when nobody's looking.  While Sheridan was on Z'ha'dum, Garibaldi
+was abducted by the Shadows and brought to a Psi Corps facility; he has no
+idea what was done to him there, and only vaguely remembers the abduction
+itself.  Since his return he has become short-tempered and skeptical of
+Sheridan and his other compatriots.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Dr. Stephen Franklin
+-
+Richard Biggs
+
    
+Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology), and
+in charge of Medlab on Babylon 5. His background is mainly in
+experimental medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what
+it should be. His strong sense of personal morality is at times in
+conflict with his duties as the chief medical provider for aliens from
+hundreds of worlds and cultures, some of whom view his obligations
+rather differently. Dr. Franklin is known to operate outside the rules
+when he feels the issue is important.  He runs a free clinic in the
+Downbelow section for those who cannot afford medical care; he also
+serves on an "underground railroad" for telepaths who do not want to be
+found by the Psi Corps. In his middle thirties now, he spent years
+hitchhiking through space, offering his medical services in exchange
+for the opportunity to examine new life forms.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Londo Mollari
+-
+Peter Jurasik
+
    
+The former Centauri ambassador to Babylon 5, Londo was promoted to chief of
+planetary security and became a member of the Centauri Royal Court.  Londo
+was once a minor figure, a decadent nobleman from an insignificant royal
+house.  But his dealings with the Shadows, dealings whose price he didn't
+understand until too late, propelled him into the corridors of power and
+are likely to make him the next Emperor.  World-weary and horrified by the
+events spinning out of control around him, Londo's sarcastic sense of humor
+has been all but smothered; he finds himself walking on eggshells, choosing
+his words carefully lest they cause even more damage.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+G'Kar
+-
+Andreas Katsulas
+
    
+The ambassador of the Narn Regime when there was a Narn Regime to represent,
+G'Kar is a fugitive, wanted by the Centauri Republic.  Sheridan granted
+him asylum on Babylon 5, which G'Kar is using as a base of operations from
+which to organize a movement to retake his homeworld from the Centauri.
+Thanks to a Vorlon-induced revelation, G'Kar believes that his people
+must serve the role of sacrificial lambs, sacrificing themselves in the
+interest of the greater good.  He is something of a spiritual leader
+among his people; his exile, now well over a year long, has given him a
+compelling serenity and sense of conviction.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Kosh
+-
+animatronics
+
    
+Native voice
+designed by Chris Franke.
    
+English translation: Ardwight Chamberlain.
+
    
+The station's second Vorlon Ambassador after the first was assassinated by
+the Shadows, Kosh is a reclusive, dark personality, who seems to hold the
+other beings on the station in low esteem, if not contempt.  Like all Vorlons,
+in public he wears a bulky encounter suit to hide his true form.  When he
+bothers to speak with others at all, he communicates through a complex sequence
+of musical tones, translated into English by a device on his encounter suit.
+The only person on the station who knows anything about Kosh is his aide
+Lyta Alexander, whose body he occasionally inhabits when he wants to travel
+incognito.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+Character appearances, season four.
+
+
    
+Next: Supporting Characters
+
+
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+
+
    
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+Last update:
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+Overview of the Babylon 5 storyline
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
    Overview of the 5-year plan
    
+
+
    
+	from J. Michael Straczynski, creator, writer and producer
    
+			copyright 1993
     
+
+	There has always been a plan for a series to follow. If anything,
+that was the point of the entire exercise...to tell a story. To create a
+novel for TV that would span five years, for which the pilot is the opening
+chapter. Having now seen, or about to see the foundation for that story,
+and before being asked to lend support to that series, you have a right to
+some sense of what that series would entail, and what you're being asked
+to support. One should never sign a blank check on the bank of one's
+conscience. So here's a preview.
    
+
+	You will find out what happened to Sinclair, for starters, during
+the Earth/Minbari war. For nearly 10 years, Sinclair has worked to convince
+himself that nothing happened to him on the Line other than what seems to
+be the case: that he blacked out for 24 hours. He's just managed to convince
+himself of this. Now, suddenly, someone comes into his life and with seven
+words -- you'll know them when you hear them -- completely unravels the
+self-deception. He knows then that something DID happen to him, that someone
+DID mess with his mind...and he is going to find out who, and why. 
    
+
+	The ramifications of that discovery will have a major influence on
+the series, on his relationships, and the future of not only his character
+but many others. 
    
+
+	You will see what a Vorlon is...and what it represents. And what
+it may have to do with our own saga, and a hidden relationship to some of
+our other characters (watch the reception scene carefully). We'll discover
+that there are MANY players in this game. You'll find out what happened to
+Babylon 4, and it will call into question what is real, what is not, and
+the ending of that episode is one that you have not seen before on
+television. 
    
+
+	We'll find that most every major character is running to, or away
+from something in their hearts, or their pasts, or their careers.
+Garibaldi's checkered past will catch up with him in a way that will
+affect his role and make him a very different character for as much as a
+full season, and have lasting effects thereafter. Lyta will take part in
+a voyage of discovery that will very much change her character. She will
+be caught up in a web of intrigue and forced to betray the very people
+she has come to care for. 
    
+
+	We will see wheels within wheels, discover the secret groups
+behind the Earth and Minbari governments who suspect, with good reason,
+that one of the B5 crew may be a traitor, who sold out Earth during the
+Earth/Minbari war. 
    
+
+	Some of the established empires in the pilot will fall. Some
+will rise unexpectedly. Hopes and fortunes will be alternately made or
+destroyed. At least one major race not yet known even to EXIST will make
+its presence known, but only gradually. Some characters will fall from
+grace. Others will make bargains whose full price they do not understand,
+but will eventually come to realize, and regret. 
    
+
+	At the end of the first season, one character will undergo a
+MAJOR change, which will start the show spinning on a very different
+axis. The first season will have some fairly conventional stories, but
+others will start the show gradually moving toward where I want it to go.
+One has to set these things up gradually. Events in the story -- which is
+very much the story of Jeffrey Sinclair -- will speed up in each subsequent
+season. 
    
+
+	Someone he considers a friend will betray him. Another will prove
+to be the exact opposite of what Sinclair believes to be true. Some will
+live. Some will die. He will be put through a crucible of terrible force,
+that will change him, and alter his destiny in a profound and terrible
+way...if he goes one way, or the other, it will determine not only his own
+fate, but that of millions of others. He will grow, and become stronger,
+better, wiser...or be destroyed by what fate is bringing his way. In sum,
+it is a story of hope against terrible adversity and overwhelming odds.  
    
+
+	Each of our characters will be tempted in a different way to ally
+with a dark force determined to once and for all destroy the peace. Some
+will fall prey to the temptation, others will not, and pay the price for
+their resistance. 
    
+
+	The homeworld of one of our major characters will be decimated.
+War will become inevitable. And when it comes, Babylon 5 will be forever
+changed. 
    
+
+	That, in broad brush strokes, is a little of what I plan to do
+with the series. It is, as stated, a novel for television, with a
+definite beginning, middle and end.
+
+
    Has the show deviated from the original idea?
    
+
+May 10, 1996 response to a viewer question: some of the above seems to
+not apply any more.  Is the series off track?
+
+
    
+It's a fair question.  I'm going to try and deal with it as
+best I can. The problem, first and foremost, is trying to explain the
+craft of writing to someone who isn't a writer.  This isn't intended as
+a slight; if a brain surgeon tried to explain his work to me, I'd be
+about as much in the dark.  I have no idea where music comes from; I
+can sit with Chris Franke for hours, trying to understand that process.
+I never will.  I'm not hardwired that way. I *am* hardwired for
+writing.  So it's not a judgment, just a minor truth.
+
+
    
+The creative process is fluid.  Has to be.  Consider for a
+moment the position in which I find myself.  Let's say I'm writing a
+novel.  I start with a fairly clear notion of where I'm going.  Six
+chapters in, I get a better way of doing something, so I go back and
+revise chapters 1-5, so it now all fits; you never see what went
+before.  Now, compare that to a situation where you're publishing each
+chapter as you go, and you can't go back and change anything. (This is
+pretty much the situation Dickens found himself in, as he published his
+works chapter by chapter; you can never back up, only go forward.)
+
+
    
+At the same time, because we're using actors who have real
+lives of their own, to whom things happen -- broken limbs, health
+problems that may preclude appearing in a given episode, sudden career
+changes, you name it -- you have real-life obstacles constantly in your
+way.
+
+
    
+The closest thing I can compare this to...is if you're on
+stage, in front of a large audience, and you have to do a very
+elaborate dance...and all the while people are throwing bowling balls
+and chainsaws at you.  You either learn how to accommodate all that,
+and keep pretty much on rhythm, or you're dead.
+
+
    
+This show was originally conceived in 1986/87.  About 10 years
+ago. Back then, all TV episodic stuff was done pretty much from one
+person's point of view, your nominal hero.  Yes, you'd occasionally
+dive outside that for a quick scene with other characters, usually to
+set up something, but for the most part, it was about that one person. 
+In MURDER, SHE WROTE, Jessica Fletcher was always at the heart of every
+episode; you had the occasional guest character with whom she'd
+interact, and the recurring supporting cast, but none of them ever
+changed, and none of them ever really took center stage for more than a
+few minutes at a time.  That's how TV has been done up until now.
+
+
    
+Novels, on the other hand, are often omniscient in narrative
+structure, and you blip in and out of multiple points of view.  THE
+STAND, for instance.
+
+
    
+Now, I've done both; I've written novels and I've written TV. 
+When it came time to pull together B5 initially, you go into the "okay,
+who is the TV point of view character" question.  Which was Londo's
+narration, and which was the way I'd learned to write TV all these
+years.  Once the series got going, it quickly became apparent that I'd
+have to learn a whole new way of writing TV that was a lot more like
+what I'd been writing in my novels, which were multi-POV huge stories. 
+It's a kind of writing that's never really been done before for
+American TV; and I had to somewhat invent that style or form of writing
+as I went, in front of millions of viewers.
+
+
    
+You can't prepare for something like this, as much as you try,
+because it's never been done before.
+
+
    
+(On reflection, probably the closest thing to what I've been
+doing here was the miniseries The Winds of War, in terms of the
+multiple viewpoints involved.)
+
+
    
+Also, in the last 10 years, I've become a better writer,
+learned more about my craft, added more tools to my toolbox.  That
+means being able to perceive better ways of doing things now than I
+could've seen before.
+
+
    
+So here we are.  I sit at my word processor with my notes from
+1986, and I see a better way of doing something from those notes...do I
+go with what's there, or do I strike off and do the better approach,
+PROVIDED that it still takes me where I want to go in the arc?  To
+ignore it is to be inflexible.
+
+
    
+I've stayed fluid.  It's the same way I write a novel.  You're
+just seeing the *process* acted out right in front of you, a process
+which normally the public never gets to see.  That, I think, is some
+part of what you're reacting to.
+
+
    
+[Text removed to avoid spoilers -- see the
+original message]
+
+
    
+It's not just a matter of "living in interesting times."  What
+makes a story is *causality*.  A sequence of linked events.  "The king
+died, and then the queen died" is not a story.  "The king died, and
+then the queen died of grief" is a story.  It is an arc, however small.
+
+
    
+Finally, I'd just note the posts -- public and private -- from
+folks who have sat down and watched the *whole show* as a unit, once
+per day, or several per day...and the linked aspect, the real *arc* of
+the show, becomes far more apparent when watched that way right now. 
+It's there.
+
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+Last update:
+May 12, 1996
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+Babylon 5 Universe: Introduction
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+It is the dawn of the third age of mankind, the middle of the twenty-third
+century.  Man is far from alone in the universe.
+
+
    
+A hundred years ago, humanity made contact with its first alien civilization --
+or more to the point, they made contact with us.  Before the arrival of the
+Centauri, we were confined to our own solar system, forced to use slow sleeper
+ships to explore the universe.  The Centauri gave us the stars, offered us
+the use of their "jumpgates" -- portals into hyperspace -- and later, taught
+us to make our own.  In exchange for this and other technologies, they asked
+only for trinkets, novelties to sell back home.
+
+
    
+In the eighty years that followed, humanity flexed its muscles, expanding
+outward at a rapid pace.  When a group of less powerful races was attacked by
+an invading army, Earth came to their aid, cementing its role as a major
+galactic power, if a young, brash one.
+
+
    
+The wave of euphoria came crashing down when humanity made contact with a
+mysterious race called the Minbari.  The
+Earth-Minbari War
+began with a misunderstanding,
+a human captain and a Minbari commander too quick on the trigger.  Thanks to
+bad luck or something darker, our first meeting with the Minbari resulted in
+the death of their supreme religious and political leader.  To the
+Minbari, what followed was a holy war, vengeance for the murder of their
+spiritual leader.  Earth was no match for the technologically superior
+Minbari, and they easily beat us back to our home planet.
+
+
    
+Then, without explanation, as their ships closed in on Earth and wiped out
+our last desperate defenses, the Minbari halted their advance and surrendered.
+Only an elite few knew why.
+
+
    
+The Babylon Project was conceived in the aftermath of the war.  Modeled after
+the United Nations, it would be a meeting place, neutral ground where the
+powers could meet and work out their differences peacefully.
+
+
    
+The first three Babylon stations were sabotaged in mid-construction.  The
+fourth was completed, but just as it was about to go online, it vanished
+without a trace.  The Earth government would have stopped there, but some of
+the alien governments, seeing the value of a meeting ground, offered financial
+assistance for the construction of a fifth station.  Naturally, there were
+strings attached.
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is the story of the last of the Babylon stations,
+the last hope for a galaxy without war.  It begins in the year 2257
+with the opening of the Babylon 5 station.
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+Unlike most television series, Babylon 5 is a single story,
+completely planned out from day one with a beginning, middle, and end.  Each
+episode is enjoyable on its own, but is also a piece of a larger whole, a
+chapter in a five-year-long novel for television.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+About the five-year plan.
+
+
    
+The setting of the show is affected by events in each episode -- the
+status quo isn't neatly restored at the end of the hour.  Characters die,
+are reassigned, or are forever changed by their actions and those of the
+people around them.  Because of that, it's impossible to come up
+with a single introduction to the series and characters that applies to
+all the episodes.
+
+
    
+The rest of the background material in this section of the Lurker's
+Guide is divided into several parts, one for each major phase of the
+series.  Find out which episodes are playing in your area by going to the
+Episodes
+section.  If the Guide can figure
+out which country you're connecting from, it'll show you the schedule for
+your country, if one exists.  Then select the part of the show you're
+watching from the list below, and you'll get more detailed background
+information.  It goes without saying that if you skip ahead, earlier parts
+of the story will be spoiled by the information here.  Be careful!
+
+
    
+In addition to the general background information here, the Episodes section
+also has, for each episode, a summary of the story up to that point.  You
+can use that to catch up on what's happened since the start of the season
+you're watching, and on the details
+of some of the plotlines that pertain to the episode in question.
+
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+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
+
    
+Background for all of season one and the first two episodes of season two.
+You should read this if you're watching season one.
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+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
+
    
+The remainder of season two.  Spoils season one and the first two season-two
+episodes.  Read this if you're watching season two after the first two
+episodes; it doesn't spoil anything after them.
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+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
+
    
+Spoils season two.  Read this if you're watching season three.
+
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+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
    
+Spoils season three and has some spoilers the first three episodes of
+season four.  Read this if you're watching season four.
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+Babylon 5 Universe: Setting (season one)
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     [Introduction] ### SETTING ### [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
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+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
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+It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the
+Earth/Minbari war.  The Babylon Project was a dream given form.  Its
+goal, to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens
+could work out their differences peacefully.  It's a port of call - home
+away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers.
+Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons
+of spinning metal, all alone in the night.  It can be a dangerous place,
+but it's our last best hope for peace.  This is the story of the last of
+the Babylon stations.  The year is 2258.  The name of the place is
+Babylon 5.
+ - Commander Sinclair
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+With the completion of the last of the Babylon stations in 2257, the
+galaxy is enjoying a fragile peace.  Babylon 5 is functioning as planned,
+defusing disputes among the five major governments and acting as a hub
+for interstellar commerce and communication.
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+
+The Earth Alliance, headquartered in Geneva,
+is in charge of the station and the
+surrounding space.  It is led by President Luis Santiago, a forward-looking
+politician who values Earth's participation in Babylon 5 tremendously.
+Of special note is a branch of the Earth government called
+Psi-Corps, responsible for the tracking and training of
+human telepaths.  Pictured here is Jeffrey Sinclair,
+commander of Babylon 5.
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+Earth's former adversary, the Minbari Federation, was the
+major alien contributor to the construction of Babylon 5.  An old, highly 
+spiritual race, Minbari are humanoid with exterior bone crests on their
+heads.  The Minbari are ruled by a body known as the Grey Council,
+three members from each of the three castes of Minbari society.  The reason
+behind the sudden Minbari surrender at the climax of the Earth-Minbari War
+is a closely-guarded secret, but what isn't a secret is that the warrior
+caste was none too pleased about the order; even today, it is a source of
+tension within Minbari society.
    
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+
+The Centauri were the first aliens encountered
+by humanity.  Physically, they look nearly identical to humans,
+and in fact the Centauri initially claimed that Earth was a lost
+colony (a claim they later retracted after humans discovered that
+the similarities weren't so great after all.)  Centauri women are
+bald; men wear their hair in peacock-style fans whose length indicates the
+wearer's social standing.  The Centauri Republic is a fading empire, slowly
+losing control of its member worlds, a decline much like that of the
+British Empire.
    
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+
+Among those formerly under Centauri domination are the Narn,
+a reptilian-looking race who fought off their oppressors in a century-long
+war of attrition.  Now the Narn Regime is building its military up, trying
+to settle the score through an aggressive expansionist policy.  Most Narn
+would like nothing better than to see the Centauri wiped from the face of
+the universe, and from all appearances, they'll shortly be in a position to
+get their wish.
    
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+
+The final major government represented on Babylon 5 is the Vorlon
+Empire.  The Vorlons are shrouded in mystery.  Even though their
+ambassador is on the station, nobody knows what they look like; they dress
+in bulky encounter suits.  Whether the suits are there to keep a noxious
+atmosphere in or prying eyes out is a matter of some debate.  The Vorlons
+are an extremely powerful race; no expedition into their space has been
+heard from again.  They seem to have had dealings with the Minbari in the
+past, though neither the Minbari nor the Vorlons care to discuss the matter.
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+Each of the five races has an ambassador on the Babylon 5 Advisory Council,
+something like the UN Security Council.  In addition, a number of smaller
+governments are members of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds,
+which is also represented on the Council.  This group is generally sympathetic
+to Earth, largely because Earth stepped in to save many of them from invasion
+by a hostile race (now extinct.)
    
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+The peace is most often threatened by aggressive behavior on the part of
+the Narn, or by lingering tensions between Earth and the Minbari warrior
+caste, a sizable fraction of which wouldn't mind a rematch.  And there are
+enduring mysteries to set everyone on edge: the reasons behind the Minbari
+surrender and the sudden disappearance of Babylon 4, the nature and motives
+of the Vorlons, the hint of dark forces moving behind the scenes in the
+Earth government.
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+Next: The Main Cast
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+Babylon 5 Universe: Setting (season two)
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+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
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+
    
+The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  A self-contained
+world five miles long, located in neutral territory.  A place of commerce
+and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens.  A shining
+beacon in space, all alone in the night.
+It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind...the year the Great War
+came upon us all.  This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.
+The year is 2259.  The name of the place is Babylon 5.
+ - Captain Sheridan
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+Babylon 5's mission appears increasingly hopeless.  After nearly two years of
+operation, everything is changing for the worse.  Though Babylon 5's mission
+of peace continues, war appears to be imminent, and
+there is a dangerous new power in the galaxy that few even suspect exists.
+Amid the heightening tensions, the complex relationships among the
+major powers are shifting in unpredictable ways.
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+
+The Earth Alliance is in charge of the station and the
+surrounding space.  Its president was recently killed in an "accidental"
+explosion.  His successor seems to be taking the goverment in a sinister
+direction.  President Clark is connected with the Psi-Corps,
+an organization responsible
+for the tracking and training of human telepaths; increasingly, though, the
+Corps appears to be meddling in Earth politics, pursuing its own agenda.
+Evidence that the last president's death was not an
+accident isn't being taken seriously.  Babylon 5's first commander, Sinclair,
+was abruptly removed from his post and sent to the Minbari homeworld.
+The new commander, Captain Sheridan, has his work cut out for him; keeping the
+peace has never been more difficult.
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+Once an adversary of Earth, the Minbari Federation has
+continued to show interest in and friendship with humanity.  Over the past year,
+a few have discovered why: the Minbari religious caste believes that
+some humans are carrying reincarnated Minbari souls, a discovery they made on
+the brink of victory over Earth eleven years earlier.  The abrupt cessation of
+the Earth-Minbari War was a direct result; Minbari have a strict moral code
+against killing others of their kind.  Minbari are humanoid, bald, with pale
+skin and bone crests on their heads.
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+The Centauri Republic, long considered a fading empire,
+seems to be on the upswing, thanks to a deal that Ambassador Londo Mollari
+struck with a mysterious race he knows next to nothing about.
+Centauri women are
+bald; men wear their hair in peacock-style fans whose length indicates the
+wearer's social standing.  The Republic is rife with political intrigue and
+backstabbing.
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+Among those formerly under Centauri domination are the Narn,
+a reptilian-looking race who fought off their oppressors in a century-long
+war of attrition.  The Narn Regime has been building up its military, and it
+looks like that preparation may pay off, as the Centauri have gotten
+aggressive again and there may be more conflict ahead.  Only Narn Ambassador
+G'Kar believes that somebody else is responsible for the Centauri's military
+flexing and that more races than the Narn are in danger.
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+Even though the Vorlon Empire has had a representative on
+Babylon 5 for a year and a half, almost nothing is known about his race.
+Ambassador Kosh seems to be taking an interest in Captain Sheridan, but
+Kosh's interest in humans is still shrouded in mystery.  The Vorlons are
+an extremely powerful race; no expedition into their space has been
+heard from again.  There seems to be some history between the Vorlons and
+the Minbari, but neither one is willing to say what it is.
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+The Shadows are a strong and dark power who are clearly not
+interested in being discovered.  Only those who pay attention to prophecies
+suspect they may have returned after a centuries-long absence.
+Through their human agent Morden (pictured here) they have offered to help
+Londo restore the Centauri Empire's glory... but clearly that's only one step
+in their larger plans.
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+Much has been resolved since Babylon 5 went online, but many more mysteries
+and problems remain.  Who are the Shadows, and what do they want?
+What is going on back on Earth, where a new administration seems to be playing
+some dangerous games? How will Londo deal with his newfound power as he
+moves aggressively to recapture the Centauri Republic's former glory?
+Babylon 4 reappeared briefly, in the process of being pulled forward in time by
+a future version of Commander Sinclair to act as a base of operations in a
+great war; when will that happen, and how will it end?
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+Babylon 5 Universe: Setting (season three)
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+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
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+
    
+The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.  It failed.
+
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+But, in the Year of the Shadow War, it became something greater:  our last,
+best hope... for victory.  The year is 2260.  The place: Babylon 5.
+ - Commander Ivanova
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+Babylon 5 has failed in its mission.  War has erupted, and is quickly pulling
+all the major races in.
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+The Earth Alliance 
+is in charge of the station and the surrounding space.  The corrupt
+administration of the EA, led by President Clark, has connections to the
+sinister activities of the
+Psi Corps, a government agency that tracks and trains
+human telepaths and increasingly seems to be running the government rather
+than serving it.  An Orwellian agency called Night Watch is
+stifling any signs of dissent, carting people off to be reeducated if they
+don't cooperate.  Earth has taken a questionable stance
+by allying itself with the expansionist Centauri Empire, hoping to save its
+own skin by allowing the Centauri to roll unhindered over the lesser races
+Earth once saved.  Babylon 5's commander, Captain Sheridan (pictured here,)
+along with a small group, is working to covertly wrestle control away from the
+current administration, bolstered by evidence that President Clark was
+directly involved in the assassination of his predecessor.
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+
+The Centauri Republic, only months ago a fading empire,
+is currently on an expansionist path.
+A deal with unknown forces enabled Ambassador Londo Mollari (pictured) to
+regain some of their past glory.  It seems only a matter of time, though,
+before the deal runs its course and the Centauri find out its price.
+In terms of appearance, Centauri appear human at first glance, though that's
+deceptive.  Women shave their heads; men wear their hair in fans, with length
+indicating social standing.  The Centauri Emperor is a puppet, completely under
+the thumb of several royal houses who have risen to ascendancy with Londo's
+help.
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+Once a major power, the Narn Regime has been recently
+conquered in a brutal assault by the Centauri, especially humiliating since
+they were unwilling
+subjects of the Centauri Republic of old.  Former ambassador G'Kar, one of
+the few who knows that the Centauri aren't working alone, leads a
+resistance movement from Babylon 5, but his chances of reclaiming his
+homeworld seem slim.  Narns have a reptilian appearance and are easily
+provoked.  The strict new rules imposed by the Centauri (including
+the death of the killer's family if any Narn kills any Centauri) have forced
+them to move carefully.
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+Once an adversary of Earth, the Minbari Federation has
+continued to show interest and friendship with humanity,
+though how long that will
+remain the case is uncertain.  The balance of power in the Minbari ruling body,
+the Grey Council, has shifted in favor of the warrior caste, many of whom
+are none too happy about the surrender to Earth twelve years earlier.  (Only
+the Council and a few outsiders know that the war was ended when the Council
+discovered that some humans carry Minbari souls.)  The Minbari have been a
+major power for well over a millenium, and were instrumental in the defeat of
+the Shadows when they last rose up a thousand years ago.
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+Very little is known about the Vorlon Empire.  The Vorlons
+are an ancient race, the last remaining member of a group of elder races known
+as the First Ones who ruled the galaxy millions of years ago.  The Vorlons
+have visited the lesser races for eons, possibly manipulating many of them
+for their own purposes.
+The fact that Vorlons appear as holy figures of legend to the few onlookers
+who see them outside their encounter suits -- different figures to different
+observers, no less -- seems to support that.  The Vorlons are
+ancient adversaries of the Shadows, and it's to help wage war against them
+one last time that the Vorlons remained behind when the other First Ones
+went away.  They are able to project images into people's minds, no doubt
+part of the reason for their subjective appearance.
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+The Shadows are a dark power, ancient beyond even the Vorlons.
+They have fought fierce wars against the First Ones across millions of years.
+The last Great War against the Shadows was ten thousand years ago; after that,
+perhaps thinking the Shadows destroyed, most of the First Ones departed.  A
+thousand years ago the Shadows rose again, and were defeated by an alliance
+of the few remaining First Ones and others, including the Minbari.  Now, with
+no First Ones other than the Vorlons to oppose them, their victory seems
+certain; what their ultimate goals are, nobody knows, except perhaps their
+human representative, Morden (pictured.)  The Shadows generally choose to
+make themselves invisible, though some can sense their presence anyway.
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+The Rangers are an underground "army of light" formed to
+gather information and perform covert operations in the war against the
+Shadows.  Organized with the help of Delenn, Sinclair
+(former Babylon 5 commander and current Earth ambassador to Minbar) and
+Sheridan, the Rangers have pledged their lives to fight the coming
+darkness.  Rangers are identified by a pin which depicts elements of human
+and Minbari appearance.
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+
+Babylon 5's original mission of peace may have failed, but it has become
+something greater: a chance for victory.  The alliances formed against the
+Shadows are recent, though, and the players may not be ready to win the war.
+Meanwhile, the Earth goverment back home seems to have its own
+agenda, and will likely not be of any help in the fight against the darkness.
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+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
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+
    
+It was the year of fire...
+the year of destruction...
+the year we took back what was ours.
+It was the year of rebirth...
+the year of great sadness...
+the year of pain...
+and the year of joy.
+It was a new age.
+It was the end of history.
+It was the year everything changed.
+The year is 2261.
+The place: Babylon 5.
+
+- Lennier, Zack, G'Kar, Lyta, Vir, Marcus, Delenn, Londo, Franklin,
+Ivanova, Garibaldi, Sheridan
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+The Shadow War is at a standstill as 2261 begins.  Ancient, implacable
+enemies, held at bay by races long dead or departed, the
+Shadows were
+no more than legends to most of the younger races.
+
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+All that changed in 2260.  The Shadows, awakened years earlier from a
+millenium-long slumber on their ancestral home of Z'ha'dum, gradually made
+their presence known, and their purpose became clear: weeding out the weak and
+defenseless among the younger races to promote rapid evolution.  Moving
+largely behind the scenes, they set the younger races upon one another,
+causing wars and inciting genocide.  The Shadows are the embodiment of
+the question, "What do you want?"  They seek not military victory, but
+philosophical dominance, a universe in which younger races scramble madly
+to attain their goals without regard for the consequences.  Such an
+environment demands chaos, and it's chaos the Shadows have so effectively
+brought upon the major races.
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+When the other First Ones departed for reasons of their own, the
+Vorlons
+were left behind to oppose the Shadow philosophy.  If the Shadows represent
+chaos, the Vorlons are lords of order: they seek the same outcome, the
+advancement of younger races, but on their terms, whether their charges
+like it or not.  The Vorlons prefer to ask the question, "Who are you?"  It
+is a question that leads to introspection and spiritual growth, but not to
+expansion or scientific advancement.
+
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+Unfortunately, the struggle between the two philosophies is played out not
+among the ancients, but among the younger races, unwitting pawns in a game
+few yet realize is being played.
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+The Earth Alliance, headquartered in Geneva, is led
+by President Clark.  Clark came to power with the help of
+the Shadows and the Psi Corps, a Shadow-dominated agency created to control the
+telepathic talents planted furtively in the human gene pool by the Vorlons.
+ISN, a blatant propaganda machine, controls the flow of information to the
+citizenry and the outside world.  Political dissent is stifled
+by an Orwellian agency called the Night Watch.  Passage to and from the
+Earth Alliance is difficult thanks to the imposition of strict martial law,
+ostensibly to protect humans from alien influences that might spark another
+devastating war.  So far, Earth has largely stayed out of the Shadow War;
+Clark's extreme xenophobia hasn't led him to strike out against the
+other races.  Rumors of a resistance movement persist, but so far they're
+nothing more than rumors.
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+
    
+
+Until recently,
+Babylon 5 was an outpost operated by the Earth Allance, built
+with the aid of a few alien governments.  Captain Sheridan declared
+independence in mid-2260 in opposition to Clark's totalitarian policies.
+By continuing its function as a remote outpost used by a multitude of species,
+B5 has been able to maintain its autonomy from Earth, though with autonomy has
+come the isolation of most of B5's crew from their families and friends
+back home.  With the war against the Shadows out in the open, the station has
+served as a base of operations, a gathering point for those who oppose the
+Shadows: the Vorlon-inspired Army of Light.
+
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+
+
    
+
+The Rangers are the core of the Army of Light.  Made up
+primarily of humans and Minbari, the Rangers were formed to gather information
+and perform covert operations to undermine the work of the Shadows.  The
+Army of Light as a whole is composed of the Narn, the Minbari, and various
+minor races,
+all of whom feel that the Shadows must be opposed at any cost.  By
+implication, they side with the Vorlons, and in fact the Vorlons have
+encouraged the Army's formation, contributing tidbits of advanced technology
+toward the construction of the White Star Fleet of warships.
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+An old, highly spiritual race, the Minbari are humanoid with
+exterior bone crests on their heads.  A thousand years ago, the Minbari fought
+the Shadows alongside the Vorlons, and came to trust the Vorlons implicitly.
+Minbari society is divided into three castes: Warrior, Religious, and
+Worker.  After a recent splintering of their political leadership, Minbari
+society is at an impasse.  The Religious and Worker Castes have given their
+support to the Army of Light, but the Warrior Caste, arrogant and
+isolationist, resents such involvement with inferior races.
+
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+Only a few know that Minbar and Earth have linked histories: a human, Sinclair,
+the first commander of Babylon 5, traveled back in time to the previous war
+against the Shadows and delivered a new base of operations, Babylon 4, to the
+Minbari.  Sinclair became a great spiritual leader, the founder of Minbari
+society and a prophet thanks to his knowledge of future events.  Sinclair's
+journey opened a doorway between Minbari and humans, and since the last war
+a thousand years ago, Minbari souls have been slowly reincarnating in human
+bodies.  Upon discovering that, the Religious Caste halted the Earth-Minbari
+War, a decision still resented by the Warrior Caste.
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+The Centauri Republic, until recently a declining empire, has
+allied itself with the Shadows and is enjoying a renaissance of military and
+political might.  The Centauri are even allowing the Shadows to house ships
+and personnel on their homeworld.  The insane Centauri Emperor, Cartagia,
+believes the Shadows will elevate him to godhood if he cooperates with them.
+Instead, the pact is likely to leave Cartagia dead and Centauri Prime in
+ruins.  Centauri are mostly human in appearance; men wear their hair in fans
+whose height indicate social standing, and women have shaved heads.
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+Once a major power, the Narn Regime was one of the victims of
+Centauri expansionism, especially humiliating since they were unwilling subjects
+of the Centauri Republic a hundred years ago.
+Under the leadership of former ambassador G'Kar, now living in
+sanctuary on Babylon 5, the Narn are assisting with Babylon 5 security and
+acting as footsoldiers for the Army of Light.  Narns have a
+reptilian appearance and are easily provoked.
+
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+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] ### STATION ###
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    
+
+[Movie]
+The Babylon 5 Station
+
    
+
+
    Originally written by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5
+is a space station in neutral space more or less central to all
+five of the different alliances, human or alien. To get to one or the
+other, you have to pass through this sector of space. Thus, Babylon 5 has
+been created as a sort of port-of-call for travellers, statesmen,
+emissaries, traders, refugees and other, less savory characters.
+
    
+Five miles long, Babylon 5 is divided into
+separate, discrete sections that rotate at differing speeds to provide
+different gravities to accommodate those who come to the station.
+
    
+As for locations inside B-5...we've designed a number of very different
+looks and locations to give it a non-claustrophobic feel. By virtue of
+being patterned physically after the work of such scientists as Gerard K.
+O'Neill, the absolute center of the elongated station (which revolves to
+provide gravity) is a sort of hollow-world look, with fields and hydroponic
+gardens along the 360-degree circular section (which is about a half-mile,
+or a mile across)...and as you get closer to the absolute center, where a
+transport tube cuts from one end of the station to the other, naturally you
+get less and less gravity until you can literally hang suspended.  This
+area is known as the Garden.
+
    
+The Garden (GIF)
+The Garden at 'night'(GIF)
+
    
+And there are living areas designed to accommodate different environments
+and atmospheres and conditions. The alien sectors are off-limits to humans
+without protection (breathing gear and other measures). Similarly, a heavy
+CO2 breather or methane breather would have to wear an encounter suit to
+travel among the humans on the station. In addition, the B-5 station is
+actually made up of several independent (though connected) sections, each
+revolving at a different speed in order to create alternative areas of
+gravity.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+A map of the station.
+
+
    
+Some sections of the station, called the Downbelow, are inhabited by Babylon
+5's equivalent of the homeless, called Lurkers.  Most of them are people who
+came to the station looking for work; they didn't find any, and can't afford
+passage offstation.  No government is willing to pay to ship them home (and
+in some cases, they wouldn't even be allowed home) so they languish on
+the station.  The Downbelow is a center of criminal activity on B5, though by
+no means is crime confined to that area.
+
    
+Finally, on sets and the "look" of the place...again, there will be a mix.
+Parts of the station are still under construction, and parts are finished.
+Some sections are in daylight, some in night, alternating by level and
+sector. On the very outer ring, the viewports are in panels ON THE FLOOR,
+so you're looking down and out into space, revolving beneath your feet.
+Some places will be beautifully finished and neat, and other areas will be
+very rough and in-the-works.  (Remember, B5 only recently went operational,
+and thus there are still some parts being constructed.)
+
    
+In talking with our production designer, John Iacovelli, the one term he
+kept using, over and over, was "travelogue."  We should get a real sense in
+this show of a world turned inside out...with varying textures, lighting,
+angles, and a mix of looks.  There will not be a  homogeneous
+look to
+this place, if I or Iacovelli have anything to say about it.  You can walk
+from the carefully and neatly appointed Council Chamber room, to the high-
+tech control room, to a section of the station under construction and
+exposing beams and wires, to the dark and noire-looking nightclub, to the
+Garden, to....
+
    
+You get the idea.
+
    
+BTW...the Babylon 5 station isn't just floating there. It's at the L-5
+point in a binary star system between a moon and Epsilon 3, a barren,
+lifeless planet.
+
    
+Well, a theoretically barren and lifeless planet, anyway....
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+NASA's "Orbital Space Settlements" page.
+
+
    
+Next: The Episodes
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: The Station (season two)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] ### STATION ###
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    
+
+[Movie]
+The Babylon 5 Station
+
    
+
+
    Originally written by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5
+is a space station in neutral space more or less central to all
+five of the different alliances, human or alien. To get to one or the
+other, you have to pass through this sector of space. Thus, Babylon 5 has
+been created as a sort of port-of-call for travellers, statesmen,
+emissaries, traders, refugees and other, less savory characters.
+
    
+Five miles long, Babylon 5 is divided into
+separate, discrete sections that rotate at differing speeds to provide
+different gravities to accommodate those who come to the station.
+
+
    
+As for locations inside B-5...we've designed a number of very different
+looks and locations to give it a non-claustrophobic feel. By virtue of
+being patterned physically after the work of such scientists as Gerard K.
+O'Neill, the absolute center of the elongated station (which revolves to
+provide gravity) is a sort of hollow-world look, with fields and hydroponic
+gardens along the 360-degree circular section (which is about a half-mile,
+or a mile across)...and as you get closer to the absolute center, where a
+transport tube cuts from one end of the station to the other, naturally you
+get less and less gravity until you can literally hang suspended.  This
+area is known as the Garden.
+
    
+The Garden (GIF)
+The Garden at 'night'(GIF)
+
    
+And there are living areas designed to accommodate different environments
+and atmospheres and conditions. The alien sectors are off-limits to humans
+without protection (breathing gear and other measures). Similarly, a heavy
+CO2 breather or methane breather would have to wear an encounter suit to
+travel among the humans on the station. In addition, the B-5 station is
+actually made up of several independent (though connected) sections, each
+revolving at a different speed in order to create alternative areas of
+gravity.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+A map of the station.
+
+
    
+Some sections of the station, called the Downbelow, are inhabited by Babylon
+5's equivalent of the homeless, called Lurkers.  Most of them are people who
+came to the station looking for work; they didn't find any, and can't afford
+passage offstation.  No government is willing to pay to ship them home (and
+in some cases, they wouldn't even be allowed home) so they languish on
+the station.  The Downbelow is a center of criminal activity on B5, though by
+no means is crime confined to that area.
+
    
+Finally, on sets and the "look" of the place...again, there will be a mix.
+Parts of the station are still under construction, and parts are finished.
+Some sections are in daylight, some in night, alternating by level and
+sector. On the very outer ring, the viewports are in panels ON THE FLOOR,
+so you're looking down and out into space, revolving beneath your feet.
+Some places will be beautifully finished and neat, and other areas will be
+very rough and in-the-works.  (Remember, B5 only recently went operational,
+and thus there are still some parts being constructed.)
+
    
+In talking with our production designer, John Iacovelli, the one term he
+kept using, over and over, was "travelogue."  We should get a real sense in
+this show of a world turned inside out...with varying textures, lighting,
+angles, and a mix of looks.  There will not be a  homogeneous
+look to
+this place, if I or Iacovelli have anything to say about it.  You can walk
+from the carefully and neatly appointed Council Chamber room, to the high-
+tech control room, to a section of the station under construction and
+exposing beams and wires, to the dark and noire-looking nightclub, to the
+Garden, to....
+
    
+You get the idea.
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is in orbit around the third planet in the Epsilon Eridani star
+system, a world which was until recently believed to be barren, devoid of life.
+In 2258, however, the remains of an ancient civilization were discovered
+buried deep beneath the planet's surface: a massive, planetwide machine of
+awesome offensive power.  It is currently under the control of Delenn's
+mentor, Draal, who took over from the former guardian in
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2."
+Draal placed the planet strictly off limits, claiming that he would appear
+again when the time was right.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+NASA's "Orbital Space Settlements" page.
+
+
    
+Next: The Episodes
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 15, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: The Station (season three)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] ### STATION ###
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    
+
+[Movie]
+The Babylon 5 Station
+
    
+
+
    Originally written by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5
+is a space station in neutral space more or less central to all
+five of the different alliances, human or alien. To get to one or the
+other, you have to pass through this sector of space. Thus, Babylon 5 has
+been created as a sort of port-of-call for travellers, statesmen,
+emissaries, traders, refugees and other, less savory characters.
+
+
    
+Five miles long, Babylon 5 is divided into
+separate, discrete sections that rotate at differing speeds to provide
+different gravities to accommodate those who come to the station.  It
+boasts the latest in defensive weaponry from Earthforce R&D, enough to
+hold off a large Centauri war cruiser -- a capability, unfortunately, which
+has been put to the test.  Of course, even the best weapons Earth has to offer
+would be useless if the Shadows attacked.  Luckily, the station isn't alone.
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is in orbit around the third planet in the Epsilon Eridani star
+system, a world which was until recently believed to be barren, devoid of life.
+In 2258, however, the remains of an ancient civilization were discovered
+buried deep beneath the planet's surface: a massive, planetwide machine of
+awesome offensive power.  It is currently under the control of Delenn's
+mentor, Draal, who took over from the former guardian in
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2."
+Draal has placed the planet's power at the disposal of Captain Sheridan, for
+use in the battle against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+As for locations inside B-5...we've designed a number of very different
+looks and locations to give it a non-claustrophobic feel. By virtue of
+being patterned physically after the work of such scientists as Gerard K.
+O'Neill, the absolute center of the elongated station (which revolves to
+provide gravity) is a sort of hollow-world look, with fields and hydroponic
+gardens along the 360-degree circular section (which is about a half-mile,
+or a mile across)...and as you get closer to the absolute center, where a
+transport tube cuts from one end of the station to the other, naturally you
+get less and less gravity until you can literally hang suspended.  This
+area is known as the Garden.
+
+
    
+The Garden (GIF)
+The Garden at 'night'(GIF)
+
+
    
+And there are living areas designed to accommodate different environments
+and atmospheres and conditions. The alien sectors are off-limits to humans
+without protection (breathing gear and other measures). Similarly, a heavy
+CO2 breather or methane breather would have to wear an encounter suit to
+travel among the humans on the station.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+A map of the station.
+
+
    
+Some sections of the station, called the Downbelow, are inhabited by Babylon
+5's equivalent of the homeless, called Lurkers.  Most of them are people who
+came to the station looking for work; they didn't find any, and can't afford
+passage offstation.  No government is willing to pay to ship them home (and
+in some cases, they wouldn't even be allowed home) so they languish on
+the station.  The Downbelow is a center of criminal activity on B5, though by
+no means is crime confined to that area.
+
+
    
+Finally, on sets and the "look" of the place...again, there will be a mix.
+Parts of the station are still under construction, and parts are finished.
+Some sections are in daylight, some in night, alternating by level and
+sector. On the very outer ring, the viewports are in panels ON THE FLOOR,
+so you're looking down and out into space, revolving beneath your feet.
+Some places will be beautifully finished and neat, and other areas will be
+very rough and in-the-works.  (Remember, B5 only recently went operational,
+and thus there are still some parts being constructed.)
+
+
    
+In talking with our production designer, John Iacovelli, the one term he
+kept using, over and over, was "travelogue."  We should get a real sense in
+this show of a world turned inside out...with varying textures, lighting,
+angles, and a mix of looks.  There will not be a  homogeneous
+look to
+this place, if I or Iacovelli have anything to say about it.  You can walk
+from the carefully and neatly appointed Council Chamber room, to the high-
+tech control room, to a section of the station under construction and
+exposing beams and wires, to the dark and noire-looking nightclub, to the
+Garden, to....
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+NASA's "Orbital Space Settlements" page.
+
+
    
+Next: The Episodes
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 15, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: The Station (season four)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] ### STATION ###
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    
+
+[Movie]
+The Babylon 5 Station
+
    
+
+
    Originally written by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
    
+
+
    
+Babylon 5
+is a space station in neutral space more or less central to all
+five of the different alliances, human or alien. To get to one or the
+other, you have to pass through this sector of space. Thus, Babylon 5 has
+been created as a sort of port-of-call for travellers, statesmen,
+emissaries, traders, refugees and other, less savory characters.
+
+
    
+Five miles long, Babylon 5 is divided into
+separate, discrete sections that rotate at differing speeds to provide
+different gravities to accommodate those who come to the station.  It
+boasts the latest in defensive weaponry from Earthforce R&D, enough to
+hold off a large Centauri war cruiser -- a capability, unfortunately, which
+has been put to the test.  Of course, even the best weapons Earth has to offer
+would be useless if the Shadows attacked.  Luckily, the station isn't alone.
+
+
    
+Babylon 5 is in orbit around the third planet in the Epsilon Eridani star
+system, a world which was until recently believed to be barren, devoid of life.
+In 2258, however, the remains of an ancient civilization were discovered
+buried deep beneath the planet's surface: a massive, planetwide machine with
+awesome offensive power and the ability to bend time.  It is currently under the
+control of Delenn's mentor, Draal, who took over from the former guardian in
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2."
+Draal has placed the planet's power at the disposal of Captain Sheridan, for
+use in the battle against the Shadows.
+
+
    
+As for locations inside B-5...we've designed a number of very different
+looks and locations to give it a non-claustrophobic feel. By virtue of
+being patterned physically after the work of such scientists as Gerard K.
+O'Neill, the absolute center of the elongated station (which revolves to
+provide gravity) is a sort of hollow-world look, with fields and hydroponic
+gardens along the 360-degree circular section (which is about a half-mile,
+or a mile across)...and as you get closer to the absolute center, where a
+transport tube cuts from one end of the station to the other, naturally you
+get less and less gravity until you can literally hang suspended.  This
+area is known as the Garden.
+
+
    
+The Garden (GIF)
+The Garden at 'night'(GIF)
+
+
    
+And there are living areas designed to accommodate different environments
+and atmospheres and conditions. The alien sectors are off-limits to humans
+without protection (breathing gear and other measures). Similarly, a heavy
+CO2 breather or methane breather would have to wear an encounter suit to
+travel among the humans on the station.
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+A map of the station.
+
+
    
+Some sections of the station, called the Downbelow, are inhabited by Babylon
+5's equivalent of the homeless, called Lurkers.  Most of them are people who
+came to the station looking for work; they didn't find any, and can't afford
+passage offstation.  No government is willing to pay to ship them home (and
+in some cases, they wouldn't even be allowed home) so they languish on
+the station.  The Downbelow is a center of criminal activity on B5, though by
+no means is crime confined to that area.
+
+
    
+At the opposite end of the spectrum is C&C, short for Command and Control,
+located at the front of the station near the docking bay.
+Either Sheridan or Ivanova is usually on duty in C&C.  It is the
+equivalent of an airport control tower; ships are directed into and out
+of the docking bay and cargo areas.  The station's defense systems are
+also controlled from C&C.
+
+
    
+When they're not in C&C, the senior officers can often be found in the
+War Room, a recent addition.  Equipped with a large galactic map to track
+the progress of the Shadow War, the War Room is where the Army of Light plots
+its strategy and analyzes enemy movements.
+
+
    
+Parts of the station are still under construction, and parts are finished.
+Some sections are in daylight, some in night, alternating by level and
+sector. On the very outer ring, the viewports are in panels ON THE FLOOR,
+so you're looking down and out into space, revolving beneath your feet.
+Some places are beautifully finished and neat, and other areas are
+very rough and in-the-works.  (Remember, B5 only recently went operational,
+and thus there are still some parts being constructed.)
+
+
    
+In talking with our production designer, John Iacovelli, the one term he
+kept using, over and over, was "travelogue."  We should get a real sense in
+this show of a world turned inside out...with varying textures, lighting,
+angles, and a mix of looks.  There will not be a  homogeneous
+look to
+this place, if I or Iacovelli have anything to say about it.  You can walk
+from the carefully and neatly appointed Council Chamber room, to the high-
+tech control room, to a section of the station under construction and
+exposing beams and wires, to the dark and noire-looking nightclub, to the
+Garden, to....
+
+
    
+[More Info]
+NASA's "Orbital Space Settlements" page.
+
+
    
+Next: The Episodes
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+December 25, 1996
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Station Map
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    A map of Babylon 5
    
+
+
    
+                   /\ /\ /\
+                   || || || /\____________  _______
+         __       _||_||_||//-------------\/--------\_________
+ |\______||______/ || || ||       | |     |  |  \___/   \
+ ||      ||      | ---------------| |     |  |  |___     |
+ ||______||______\________________| |_____|  |  |___\___/
+ |/      ||        || || || \_____|_|/    |__|__/   
+                   || || || 
+                   \/ \/ \/
+
+   ^              ^     ^    ^     ^     ^ ^  ^ ^ ^   ^                      
+   |              |     |    |     |     | |  | | |   |                      
+   |              |     |    |   Green   | |  | | |   Docking bay           
+   |              |     |    |  section  | |  | | Cobra bays                 
+   |              |     |    |           | |  | Med lab/Iso lab           
+   |              |     |    |           | |  Blue section                   
+   |              |     |    |    the    | Red section                       
+   |              |     |    +--Garden---+                                   
+   |              |     Gray section
+   |              Brown section
+   Fusion reactor
+
+
    
+
+
    Description by
+Winchell Chung
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The "front" part of the leading sphere has the bay entry opening
+into the station's axis. It is flanked by two observation domes
+(the two "bridges")
+
+
    • 
+ The Docking bay is a ringlike section around the equator of the 
+leading sphere. Ships enter through the axis of the sphere and
+are "lowered" down into an empty slot in the bay.
+
+
    • 
+ The Cobra bays are on the three struts supporting the leading
+sphere.
+
+
    • 
+ The Med lab is a sphere shaped area snug against Blue Section.
+
+
    • 
+ The other sections are shaped like rings.
+
+
    • 
+ Blue section: Political officialdom.
+
+
    • 
+ Red section: Business. (I hazard a guess that the Zocalo is
+located here, but am uncertain)
+
+
    • 
+ Green section: Ambassadorial accommodations.
+
+
    • 
+ Grey section: Exotic alien environments; industrial areas.
+
+
    • 
+ Brown section: Slums and brothels.
+
+
    • 
+ The Garden is the hollow cylindrical area with hydroponic gardens.
+One often sees this in the open-air luxury restaurants.
+
+
    • 
+ The Core Shuttle runs down the station's axis.
+
    
+
+
    
+Source: Cinefantastique Feb 1993
    
+Original art by Babylon 5 graphic artist Ted Haigh
    
+Ascii art by Richard Meikle
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 12, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Station Map
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    A map of Babylon 5
    
+
+
    
+                   /\ /\ /\
+                   || || || /\____________  _______
+         __       _||_||_||//-------------\/--------\_________
+ |\______||______/ || || ||       | |     |  |  \___/   \
+ ||      ||      | ---------------| |     |  |  |___     |
+ ||______||______\________________| |_____|  |  |___\___/
+ |/      ||        || || || \_____|_|/    |__|__/   
+                   || || || 
+                   \/ \/ \/
+
+   ^              ^     ^    ^     ^     ^ ^  ^ ^ ^   ^                      
+   |              |     |    |     |     | |  | | |   |                      
+   |              |     |    |   Green   | |  | | |   Docking bay           
+   |              |     |    |  section  | |  | | Cobra bays                 
+   |              |     |    |           | |  | Med lab/Iso lab           
+   |              |     |    |           | |  Blue section                   
+   |              |     |    |    the    | Red section                       
+   |              |     |    +--Garden---+                                   
+   |              |     Gray section
+   |              Brown section
+   Fusion reactor
+
+
    
+
+
    Description by
+Winchell Chung
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The "front" part of the leading sphere has the bay entry opening
+into the station's axis. It is flanked by two observation domes
+(the two "bridges")
+
+
    • 
+ The Docking bay is a ringlike section around the equator of the 
+leading sphere. Ships enter through the axis of the sphere and
+are "lowered" down into an empty slot in the bay.
+
+
    • 
+ The Cobra bays are on the three struts supporting the leading
+sphere.
+
+
    • 
+ The Med lab is a sphere shaped area snug against Blue Section.
+
+
    • 
+ The other sections are shaped like rings.
+
+
    • 
+ Blue section: Political officialdom.
+
+
    • 
+ Red section: Business. (I hazard a guess that the Zocalo is
+located here, but am uncertain)
+
+
    • 
+ Green section: Ambassadorial accommodations.
+
+
    • 
+ Grey section: Exotic alien environments; industrial areas.
+
+
    • 
+ Brown section: Slums and brothels.
+
+
    • 
+ The Garden is the hollow cylindrical area with hydroponic gardens.
+One often sees this in the open-air luxury restaurants.
+
+
    • 
+ The Core Shuttle runs down the station's axis.
+
    
+
+
    
+Source: Cinefantastique Feb 1993
    
+Original art by Babylon 5 graphic artist Ted Haigh
    
+Ascii art by Richard Meikle
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 12, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Station Map
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    A map of Babylon 5
    
+
+
    
+                   /\ /\ /\
+                   || || || /\____________  _______
+         __       _||_||_||//-------------\/--------\_________
+ |\______||______/ || || ||       | |     |  |  \___/   \
+ ||      ||      | ---------------| |     |  |  |___     |
+ ||______||______\________________| |_____|  |  |___\___/
+ |/      ||        || || || \_____|_|/    |__|__/   
+                   || || || 
+                   \/ \/ \/
+
+   ^              ^     ^    ^     ^     ^ ^  ^ ^ ^   ^                      
+   |              |     |    |     |     | |  | | |   |                      
+   |              |     |    |   Green   | |  | | |   Docking bay           
+   |              |     |    |  section  | |  | | Cobra bays                 
+   |              |     |    |           | |  | Med lab/Iso lab           
+   |              |     |    |           | |  Blue section                   
+   |              |     |    |    the    | Red section                       
+   |              |     |    +--Garden---+                                   
+   |              |     Gray section
+   |              Brown section
+   Fusion reactor
+
+
    
+
+
    Description by
+Winchell Chung
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The "front" part of the leading sphere has the bay entry opening
+into the station's axis. It is flanked by two observation domes
+(the two "bridges")
+
+
    • 
+ The Docking bay is a ringlike section around the equator of the 
+leading sphere. Ships enter through the axis of the sphere and
+are "lowered" down into an empty slot in the bay.
+
+
    • 
+ The Cobra bays are on the three struts supporting the leading
+sphere.
+
+
    • 
+ The Med lab is a sphere shaped area snug against Blue Section.
+
+
    • 
+ The other sections are shaped like rings.
+
+
    • 
+ Blue section: Political officialdom.
+
+
    • 
+ Red section: Business. (I hazard a guess that the Zocalo is
+located here, but am uncertain)
+
+
    • 
+ Green section: Ambassadorial accommodations.
+
+
    • 
+ Grey section: Exotic alien environments; industrial areas.
+
+
    • 
+ Brown section: Slums and brothels.
+
+
    • 
+ The Garden is the hollow cylindrical area with hydroponic gardens.
+One often sees this in the open-air luxury restaurants.
+
+
    • 
+ The Core Shuttle runs down the station's axis.
+
    
+
+
    
+Source: Cinefantastique Feb 1993
    
+Original art by Babylon 5 graphic artist Ted Haigh
    
+Ascii art by Richard Meikle
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 12, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Station Map
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] [Supporting Cast] [Station]
+    
+
+
    A map of Babylon 5
    
+
+
    
+                   /\ /\ /\
+                   || || || /\____________  _______
+         __       _||_||_||//-------------\/--------\_________
+ |\______||______/ || || ||       | |     |  |  \___/   \
+ ||      ||      | ---------------| |     |  |  |___     |
+ ||______||______\________________| |_____|  |  |___\___/
+ |/      ||        || || || \_____|_|/    |__|__/   
+                   || || || 
+                   \/ \/ \/
+
+   ^              ^     ^    ^     ^     ^ ^  ^ ^ ^   ^                      
+   |              |     |    |     |     | |  | | |   |                      
+   |              |     |    |   Green   | |  | | |   Docking bay           
+   |              |     |    |  section  | |  | | Cobra bays                 
+   |              |     |    |           | |  | Med lab/Iso lab           
+   |              |     |    |           | |  Blue section                   
+   |              |     |    |    the    | Red section                       
+   |              |     |    +--Garden---+                                   
+   |              |     Gray section
+   |              Brown section
+   Fusion reactor
+
+
    
+
+
    Description by
+Winchell Chung
    
+
+
      
+
    • 
+The "front" part of the leading sphere has the bay entry opening
+into the station's axis. It is flanked by two observation domes
+(the two "bridges")
+
+
    • 
+ The Docking bay is a ringlike section around the equator of the 
+leading sphere. Ships enter through the axis of the sphere and
+are "lowered" down into an empty slot in the bay.
+
+
    • 
+ The Cobra bays are on the three struts supporting the leading
+sphere.
+
+
    • 
+ The Med lab is a sphere shaped area snug against Blue Section.
+
+
    • 
+ The other sections are shaped like rings.
+
+
    • 
+ Blue section: Political officialdom.
+
+
    • 
+ Red section: Business. (I hazard a guess that the Zocalo is
+located here, but am uncertain)
+
+
    • 
+ Green section: Ambassadorial accommodations.
+
+
    • 
+ Grey section: Exotic alien environments; industrial areas.
+
+
    • 
+ Brown section: Slums and brothels.
+
+
    • 
+ The Garden is the hollow cylindrical area with hydroponic gardens.
+One often sees this in the open-air luxury restaurants.
+
+
    • 
+ The Core Shuttle runs down the station's axis.
+
    
+
+
    
+Source: Cinefantastique Feb 1993
    
+Original art by Babylon 5 graphic artist Ted Haigh
    
+Ascii art by Richard Meikle
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 12, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Supporting Characters (Season one)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] ### SUPPORTING CAST ### [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    Assistants to the Ambassadors
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Vir Cotto
+-
+Stephen Furst
+
    
+Centauri assistant to Londo.  Timid, unsure of himself, at times he seems
+little more than someone for Londo to throw things at.  First appears in
+"Midnight on the Firing Line."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Na'Toth
+-
+Caitlin Brown
+
    
+A female Narn, assistant to G'Kar.  She is fiercely loyal to G'Kar, even if
+he's not ready to believe it at first.  She prefers the direct approach rather
+than G'Kar's subterfuge and deception.
+First appears in "The
+Parliament of Dreams."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lennier
+-
+Bill Mumy
+
    
+Delenn's aide, fresh out of a monastery on the Minbari homeworld.  He's
+something of an innocent abroad, perhaps the one person on Babylon 5 without
+a hidden agenda or a knife waiting to stab someone in the back.  He reveres
+Delenn; to him she's a holy figure.
+First appears in "The
+Parliament of Dreams."
+
    
+
+
    Other Characters
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Catherine Sakai
+-
+Julia Nickson
+
    
+She works for an Earth company that surveys asteroids and planets for mineral
+exploitation.  Runs the survey ship Skydancer. She and Sinclair have had an
+on-again, off-again romantic relationship over the past decade.
+First appears in "The
+Parliament of Dreams."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+n'grath - animatronics
+
    
+An insect-like alien, a sort of underworld boss, who can arrange or fix
+things for a price.  First appears
+in "Soul Hunter."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Garibaldi's Aide - Macaulay Bruton
+
    
+Garibaldi's assistant, whom Garibaldi has taken under his wing.  Friendly,
+and seems a bit naive.  First appears in
+"Mind War."
+(A second-season episode mentions his name, Jack.)
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Bester
+-
+Walter Koenig
+
    
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  Perhaps in part because of his
+P12 psi rating -- more than twice as high as Talia's -- he seems to have
+risen to a position of some importance in the Corps.  Bester ruthlessly
+pursues his agenda, which most of the time is the same as the Corps'.
+First appears in
+"Mind War."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Senator Hidoshi
+-
+Aki Aleong
+
    
+Apparently a member of the Senate committee overseeing Babylon 5.  Senator
+Hidoshi is often the one to deliver unpleasant government orders to Sinclair,
+though he seems personally to agree with Sinclair much of the time.  First
+appears in
+"Deathwalker."
+
+
    
+
+
    
+The Reference section contains a complete
+cast list
+by character and actor name.
+
+
    
+Next: The Station
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Supporting Characters (Season two)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] ### SUPPORTING CAST ### [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    Assistants to the Ambassadors
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Vir Cotto
+-
+Stephen Furst
+
    
+Centauri assistant to Londo.  Generally timid and unsure of himself, Vir
+occasionally works up the nerve to confront Londo about the dangerous path
+he's following by dealing with Morden.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Na'Toth
+-
+Mary Kay Adams
+
    
+A female Narn, assistant to G'Kar.  She is one of the few who he's told about
+his discovery that a new race (or rather, a very old race) is on the move.
+She is fiercely loyal to G'Kar, even if
+he's not ready to believe it at first.  She prefers the direct approach rather
+than G'Kar's subterfuge and deception.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lennier
+-
+Bill Mumy
+
    
+Delenn's aide, fresh out of a monastery on the Minbari homeworld.  He reveres
+Delenn as an almost holy figure and accepts her transformation without
+question.  Still something of an innocent thanks to his isolated upbringing,
+Lennier is slowly learning the ways of diplomacy.
+
+
    
+
+
    Other Characters
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lt. Warren Keffer
+-
+Robert Russler
+
    
+Head of Zeta Squadron, the newest of Babylon 5's fighter wings.
+Keffer leads many of the excursions away from the station, when
+the presence of a command-level officer isn't required.  Keffer's family
+is back on Earth.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Morden
+-
+Ed Wasser
+
    
+Little is known about the human agent of the Shadows.  He is able to
+communicate with them directly, and is one of the few who know they've been
+on Babylon 5.  Never a major player, he is always ready to talk to Londo
+and pass messages to and from his "associates."  Delenn and G'Kar have met
+him, but only Delenn has any idea who he is.  Morden is meticulously polite,
+but nonetheless is a menacing presence who can casually discuss the deaths
+of tens of thousands of Narn as easily as most people talk about the weather.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+President Morgan Clark - Gary McGurk 
+
    
+When President Santiago was killed in an "accidental" explosion, Clark
+took office and immediately began his own agenda.  He personally
+assigned Sheridan to his position, unaware of Sheridan's interest in
+fighting the mounting corruption in Earth government.  Not much of an
+advocate of Babylon 5's interests.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lyta Alexander
+-
+Patricia Tallman
+
    
+Lyta was Babylon 5's first commercial telepath, rating P5, in her early
+thirties or late twenties.  She was transferred off the station shortly
+after examining Kosh, presumably due to her newfound knowledge of the
+Vorlons.
+
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack Allen
+-
+Jeff Conaway
+
    
+One of Garibaldi's lieutenants, Zack is earnest and trustworthy, if not
+necessarily the brightest person on the station.  After the arrest of
+Garibaldi's old aide for attempted murder (cf.
+"Revelations,")
+Zack has risen to a new level of importance in Garibaldi's staff.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair
+-
+Michael O'Hare
+
    
+The first commander of Babylon 5. Shortly after the death of
+President Santiago, Sinclair was recalled to Earth and assigned
+to a new post, as the first human ambassador to the Minbari
+(cf. comic
+"In Darkness Find Me.")
+He was named commander of
+Babylon 5 at the insistence of the Minbari, who captured him
+during the Battle of the Line and scanned him. Delenn is
+certain Sinclair has an important destiny (cf.
+"Soul Hunter,"
+"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 2.")
+This is borne out by the brief glimpse into the future in
+"Babylon Squared,"
+in which he was the leader of an army of light fighting in a great war.
+
+
    
+See also JMS' announcement of, and some subsequent discussion
+about,
+Michael O'Hare's departure.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Bester
+-
+Walter Koenig
+
    
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  Perhaps in part because of his
+P12 psi rating -- more than twice as high as Talia's -- he seems to have
+risen to a position of some importance in the Corps.  Bester ruthlessly
+pursues his agenda, which most of the time is the same as the Corps'.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lord Refa
+-
+William Forward
+
    
+A ruthless, unprincipled Centauri noble with whom Londo is cooperating in a
+bid for power.  First appears in
+"The Geometry of Shadows."
+
+
    
+
    
+The Reference section contains a complete
+cast list
+by character and actor name.
+
+
    
+Next: The Station
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Supporting Characters (season three)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] ### SUPPORTING CAST ### [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    Assistants to the Ambassadors
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lennier
+-
+Bill Mumy
+
    
+Delenn's aide, recently out of a monastery on the Minbari homeworld.  He reveres
+Delenn as an almost holy figure and accepts her transformation without
+question.  He has pledged his life to her, in fact, and is perfectly willing
+to die by her side.  Still something of an innocent thanks to his isolated
+upbringing, Lennier has learned some of the art of diplomacy during his tenure
+on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Vir Cotto
+-
+Stephen Furst
+
    
+Londo's aide.  Vir feels strongly that the choices Londo has made over
+the past year and a half are taking the Centauri down a self-destructive
+and morally wrong path, and he's getting less and less shy about expressing
+that opinion to Londo.  He feels somewhat powerless in his position, close
+to the major decisions but always on the sidelines.
+
+
    
+
+
    Other Characters
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Marcus Cole
+-
+Jason Carter
+
    
+A Ranger permanently stationed on Babylon 5.  Marcus has taken a liking to
+Commander Ivanova, though she's approaching the relationship with more than
+a little caution.  First appears in
+"Matters of Honor."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Brother Theodore
+-
+Louis Turenne
+
    
+A Dominican monk, visiting the station to study the religious beliefs of
+alien races.  First appears in
+"Convictions."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Morden
+-
+Ed Wasser
+
    
+A member of the same expedition Sheridan's wife was on, Morden was captured
+by the Shadows and works for them.  He is always accompanied by one or two
+of them, though they're invisible to most people.
+Never a major player, he is always ready to talk to Londo
+and pass messages to and from his "associates."  Delenn and G'Kar have met
+him, but only Delenn has any idea who he is.  Morden is meticulously polite,
+but nonetheless is a menacing presence who can casually discuss the deaths
+of tens of thousands of Narn as easily as most people talk about the weather.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack Allen
+-
+Jeff Conaway
+
    
+One of Garibaldi's lieutenants, Zack is earnest and trustworthy, if not
+necessarily the brightest person on the station.  He is a
+member of the Nightwatch, though he's having second thoughts now that he
+sees how it's being used to persecute and harass innocent people.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lyta Alexander
+-
+Patricia Tallman
+
    
+A former Psi Corps telepath -- the first one assigned to the station, in
+fact.  Three years ago she scanned Ambassador Kosh, an experience that left
+her forever altered, though she has told nobody the full extent of it.
+Shortly thereafter she was recalled to Earth for questioning.  Now she's on
+the run from the Corps, even working to expose some of its machinations.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair
+-
+Michael O'Hare
+
    
+The first commander of Babylon 5. Officially, he's on the Minbari homeworld
+as Earth's ambassador, but his main function is as the head of the Rangers.
+Sinclair is of special importance to Delenn, and though she hasn't fully
+explained why, it's likely he carries a Minbari soul of some stature.  A
+glimpse into the future when he was head of Babylon 5 revealed that he will
+be involved in the theft of Babylon 4, and will possibly be witness to the
+eventual destruction of Babylon 5 at Garibaldi's hands.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Bester
+-
+Walter Koenig
+
    
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  Perhaps in part because of his
+P12 psi rating -- more than twice as high as Lyta's -- he seems to have
+risen to a position of some importance in the Corps.  Bester ruthlessly
+pursues his agenda, which most of the time is the same as the Corps'.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lord Refa
+-
+William Forward
+
    
+A ruthless, unprincipled Centauri noble with whom Londo is cooperating in a
+bid for power.  Refa and his cohorts are more or less in charge of the Centauri
+Republic; the Emperor is simply a figurehead who follows their lead.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lt. Corwin
+-
+Joshua Cox
+
    
+Third in command in C&C, after Sheridan and Ivanova.  Corwin is shy but
+well-intentioned, a loyal officer.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+The Reference section contains a complete
+cast list
+by character and actor name.
+
+
    
+Next: The Station
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+March 2, 1996
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+
+Babylon 5 Universe: Supporting Characters (season four)
+
+
+
+
+
    [Home]
+
+
    
+
+
     [Introduction] [Setting] [Main Cast] ### SUPPORTING CAST ### [Station]
+    
+
+
    
+Season 1: "Signs and Portents"
    
+Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
    
+Season 3: "Point of No Return"
    
+Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
+
+
    Assistants to the Ambassadors
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Vir Cotto
+-
+Stephen Furst
+
    
+Londo's aide.  Vir feels strongly that the choices Londo has made over
+the past year and a half are taking the Centauri down a self-destructive
+and morally wrong path, and he's getting less and less shy about expressing
+that opinion to Londo.  He feels somewhat powerless in his position, close
+to the major decisions but always on the sidelines.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lennier
+-
+Bill Mumy
+
    
+Delenn's aide, recently out of a monastery on the Minbari homeworld.  He reveres
+Delenn as an almost holy figure and accepts her transformation without
+question.  He has pledged his life to her, in fact, and is perfectly willing
+to die by her side.  Still something of an innocent thanks to his isolated
+upbringing, Lennier has learned some of the art of diplomacy during his tenure
+on Babylon 5.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lyta Alexander
+-
+Patricia Tallman
+
    
+A former Psi Corps telepath -- the first one assigned to the station, in
+fact.  Three years ago she scanned the Vorlon ambassador, an experience that
+left her forever altered, and eventually led to her role as Ambassador Kosh's
+aide.  Since the death of the original ambassador, Lyta has been less than
+pleased with her job; his successor is clearly less concerned with her
+well-being.  But she believes in the rightness of the Vorlon cause, so she
+continues to serve.
+
+
    
+
+
    Other Characters
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Marcus Cole
+-
+Jason Carter
+
    
+A Ranger permanently stationed on Babylon 5, Marcus is a brave, capable
+warrior whose sarcastic wit belies dogged determination and fierce loyalty.
+Marcus fights for the Army of Light because he has nothing else left; his
+last remaining family was killed in a Shadow attack.  Marcus secretly yearns
+for the affection of Commander Ivanova, but so far she seems uninterested.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Zack Allen
+-
+Jeff Conaway
+
    
+One of Garibaldi's lieutenants, Zack is earnest and trustworthy, if not
+necessarily the brightest person on the station.  During Garibaldi's absence,
+the job of security chief fell to Zack; the authority seemed to give him
+self-confidence, making him more willing to speak his mind.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Brother Theodore
+-
+Louis Turenne
+
    
+A Dominican monk, visiting the station to study the religious beliefs of
+alien races.  First appears in
+"Convictions."
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Morden
+-
+Ed Wasser
+
    
+A member of the same expedition Sheridan's wife was on, Morden was captured
+by the Shadows and works for them.  He is always accompanied by one or two
+of them, though they're invisible to most people.
+Never a major player, he is always ready to talk to Londo
+and pass messages to and from his "associates."  Thanks to Sheridan's
+expedition to Z'ha'dum, Morden is now a hideous, scarred figure, who travels
+in the shadows and hides his face with a hood and cloak.
+
+
    
+
    
+Lorien
+-
+Wayne Alexander
+
    
+The oldest of the surviving First Ones, Lorien lived on Z'ha'dum until
+Sheridan's visit.  Lorien is much more than he seems; he can visit one's
+dreams and transfer pieces of his vast lifeforce into others.  Lorien is
+saddened by the conflict between the Shadows and Vorlons, and is helping
+Sheridan put an end to it.  He has introduced a third question to the
+two asked by the Shadows and Vorlons: "Why are you here?"  It may prove
+to be the question destined to be asked by humanity.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Bester
+-
+Walter Koenig
+
    
+A Psi-Cop, one of an elite unit of the Psi Corps whose function is to track
+down rogue telepaths, among other things.  Perhaps in part because of his
+P12 psi rating -- more than twice as high as Lyta's -- he seems to have
+risen to a position of some importance in the Corps.  Bester opposes the
+Shadow influence on the Corps, and is working behind the scenes to help the
+Army of Light.
+
+
    
+
    
+
+Lt. Corwin
+-
+Joshua Cox
+
    
+Third in command in C&C, after Sheridan and Ivanova.  Corwin is shy but
+well-intentioned, a loyal officer.
+
+
    
+
+
    
+The Reference section contains a complete
+cast list
+by character and actor name.
+
+
    
+Next: The Station
+
+
    +
+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+January 9, 1997
+
+
    
+
+
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+
+Babylon 5 Universe: The Earth-Minbari War
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
    
+
+
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+    
+
+
    The Earth-Minbari War and the Battle of the Line
    
+
    Originally written by J. Michael Straczynski on GEnie
    
+
+
    
+     The Earth/Minbari war began as a misunderstanding.  The first time a
+Terran ship encountered a Minbari starship, they studied each other closely.
+The Minbari ship made a move that they thought would be considered non-
+threatening.  It wasn't.  Even in the present of our story, no one is quite
+sure who fired first.  The Minbari ship was greater in power, but taken by
+surprise, was destroyed, and the Earth ship limped back to base with tales of
+a terrible new enemy.  Minbari ships, arriving to investigate, were
+interpreted to be the first wing of an invasion force by the base commander,
+and ships were launched in response before receiving formal authorization from
+Earth Central.
+
    
+     The war put a great strain on the Minbari, who have always been strongly
+divided between the religious caste, and the military caste, who were now
+forced to work together.  The religious caste were quietly opposed to the war,
+but were generally vague about their reasons when asked.
+
+
    
+The war went badly for Earth, with one loss after another; the Minbari had
+an overwhelming technological advantage.  During the entire course of the war,
+Earth scored only one major victory, when a young officer named
+John Sheridan destroyed the Minbari war cruiser Black Star and
+several accompanying vessels.  It was all downhill from there.
+
+
    
+
    The Battle of the Line
    
+
+     The climax of the war was the Battle of the Line.  Earth had all but lost
+the war.  In a last-ditch attempt to save Homeworld, every available ship left
+in the armada was positioned around Earth itself.  It was, everyone knew, a
+suicide mission.  And that's, indeed, how the Battle of the Line started out
+to be.
+
    
+ The Battle of the Line, from
+"And the Sky Full of Stars".
+
    
+     In the course of that battle, a lone ship -- a one-man fighter with very
+little in the way of armaments -- took several heavy hits.   His instruments
+failing, other ships blowing up all around him, he aimed his ship at the
+nearest Minbari cruiser, deciding to ram it in the hopes of destroying at
+least that one ship.  He kept his ship on course for as long as he could hold
+out.  Then, abruptly, he blacked out.
+
    
+     When he awoke, he was still in his ship.  Drifting.  He fired up the
+engines, ready to continue, only to discover two things: first, that he had
+been out of it for a full 24 hours.
+
    
+     Second...the war was over.
+
    
+
+     And, incredibly, the Minbari had surrendered.  On the very verge of
+success in the war, they had rolled over and sued for peace.  No one in the
+Earth Alliance quite knew why, but they weren't about to debate the issue, and
+accepted minimal compensation for the war.
+
    
+     Now, ten years later, the Earth Alliance is no closer to figuring out why
+the Minbari surrendered.  It is, in fact, one of the great puzzles of that
+era, debated on a hundred different worlds.  Only a few strange clues have
+slipped out.  One is that the military genius who led the Minbari into the war
+committed suicide the day of the surrender, though it is unclear if his death
+took place before or after the surrender.  And the rift between the military
+and religious castes apparently came to some sort of climax, with the
+religious caste taking complete control.   There are rumors of some sort of
+religious vision, of a prophecy of great things, and a prophecy of complete
+doom.  But since almost nothing is known of Minbari religion, what this might
+be, no one knows.
+
    
+
+     At the conclusion of the war, those Terrans who fought in the Battle of
+the Line were proclaimed heroes.  One of these men was Jeffrey
+Sinclair...the pilot who still cannot account for the 24 hours he was out of
+contact with Earth Central.  (cf.
+"And the Sky Full of Stars")
+
    
+     Commander Jeffrey Sinclair has come far in the 10 years since the war.
+He's had some rough times, but overall he's progressed.  And he has at last
+been given a major assignment, perhaps the most important job of his life,
+concomitant with his promotion to Commander.
+
    
+Command of the newly-built Babylon 5 space station.
+
+
+
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+
    
+
+
    
+[Home] [Top] [Comments] 
+
+
+
    
+Last update:
+October 8, 1995
+
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+
+
+
+The Lurker's Guide Wants YOU!
+
+
+
    Help build the Guide!
    
+The Lurker's Guide is looking for a few good men (or women) to
+help keep things current as the show moves into its second season.
+Here's what it needs:
+
+
      
+
    • 
+Guide pages for the second half of year one, and beyond.  Matt Ryan
+is doing the year-one guide pages right now, but won't be able to continue,
+so I need someone to pick up the job.
+
    • 
+Artwork to make things look a little spiffier.
+
    
+
+
    
+Candidates for the guide-page writing job should:
+
      
+
    • 
+Have good writing skills.
+
    • 
+Be willing to commit to putting in
+the necessary time.  Doing a good guide page will often take several hours.
+Ideally you should be able to send in your work within a week or two of an
+episode's airing.
+
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+Be able to pick episodes apart.  Matt Ryan's pages
+("The Gathering"
+through
+"The War Prayer"
+at the moment) are a good example of the level of detail required.
+
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+Stay caught up with the Usenet B5 discussions, which are often a great source
+of material.
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+
+
    
+If you can help out, please
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+
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+
+VQT Ranks B5 #1 in syndication!
+
+
+
+
    B5 Ranked #1 by VQT
    
+
+
    
+From J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5:
+
+
    
+
    
+I'm *very* pleased to announce that the latest survey by Viewers For
+Quality Television (VQT) has selected BABYLON 5 as the #1 ranked
+syndicated drama, and #16 *overall*, putting it ahead of such series as
+MURPHY BROWN, DS9, SEINFELD, DR. QUINN MEDICINE WOMAN and THE SIMPSONS
+in their listings for Highest Quality Shows.
+
+
    
+My thanks and appreciation to all those who took the time to seek out
+VQT's surveys, and continue to do so, in order to bring attention to the
+hard work being done on this show, and it is our hope that we continue to
+merit your attention and support.
+
    
+
+
    
+
    
+
+
    
+VQT is a viewer organization that tries to promote quality television,
+primarily by raising public awareness of low-rated shows they consider
+to be of merit.  (But their member poll isn't limited to low-rated shows,
+of course.)
+More information
+is available, as is another
+survey form.
+
+
    
+One reader says that B5 won its position as a write-in -- that is, it
+wasn't one of the shows already listed on the voting form, but had to be
+written in by the voters.
+
+
    
+If you have more details about the survey or contact info for VQT, please
+send me mail.  (But please
+don't mail me asking for more information; all I know about it is here.)
+
+
    
+To the Lurker's Guide home page
+
+
+
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+If you've visited before, you probably noticed that things look a wee bit
+different now.  The Guide has undergone a near-total overhaul; no page was
+left untouched (unless we've missed something!)
+
+
    
+Why the change?  A few reasons.  First, as the Guide continued to grow, it
+started to burst at the seams in places, and the need for a more
+structured organization (for instance, of the Other Resources section) became
+increasingly apparent.  Though you may have looked at the home page
+and thought, "Aha, they've added a bunch of pictures to slow things down,"
+there's actually a considerable amount of change to the structure of the Guide.
+
+
    
+If you've spent much time in the Guide in the past, you know it's big.  Big
+enough, in fact, that it was often difficult to track down information you
+were looking for.  The new look and feel should make navigating around the
+Guide a lot more straightforward.  You always have a clear view of where you
+are in the Guide, with a consistent set of navigation tools.  It's simple
+to hop from place to place, even to completely different sections.
+
+
    
+And, of course, I'd be lying if I said appearance had nothing to do with the
+change.  We think we've come up with a fairly pleasing look for the Guide,
+functional and appealing without being garish or hogging obnoxious amounts
+of bandwidth.  A bit more on that below.
+
+
    
+Who's "we?"  Primarily, me (Steven Grimm) and
+Dan Wood,
+who contributed
+enormous amounts of time and energy iterating through literally hundreds of
+different design elements, seeing what worked and what didn't.
+Larry Hastings
+also provided some valuable usability feedback early on in the game.
+
+
    
+Christian Mogensen
+put together one of the major features (and perhaps the most useful one) of the
+new Guide: the "Find" function.  If you select the "Find" icon in the title
+bar at the top of every page, or follow the "Find" link on the home page,
+you'll be able to search every JMS message from Usenet and GEnie, as well
+as all the episode synopses and guide pages -- a wonderful tool for folks
+who're trying to figure out where the story's going before it gets there.
+
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+There are still some rough edges, places we haven't fixed up as well as we'd
+like; if you spot any truly embarrassing ones, please
+send me mail.
+The new Guide will continue to evolve over time, just like any other Web
+site.  If you have comments on the new graphics, you can also
+send mail to Dan.
+
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+We hope you'll find the new Guide a worthwhile, interesting, and fun place to
+visit.
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+
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+As a general rule, I've tried to stick to widely-implemented parts of the
+HTML 3.0 draft standard.  The one exception you'll see nearly everywhere
+is that I use the Netscape extension to remove the borders from linked
+inline images.  As soon as HTML 3 stylesheets are common,
+I will of course switch to them to control that aspect of the
+presentation.  I have no desire to make the Guide browser-dependent.
+At the same time, using that extension improves the appearance of pages with
+lots of buttons so much that I thought it was worthwhile.  (For various
+reasons, imagemaps aren't suitable replacements for the rows of buttons. Trust
+me, I considered them.) I've done my best to include meaningful ALT attributes
+everywhere so text-only people can take advantage of the new interface as well.
+
+
    
+Those of you who're on low-speed or high-latency net links may object to the
+use of inline images rather than text.  We've done our best to keep the
+navigational images as small as possible, and to reuse images wherever we
+can so you'll be able to take advantage of caching.  You may find your visit
+speedier if you visit the
+Cache Loader
+page before exploring (you'll also find a link to it toward the bottom of the
+home page.)  In the
+near future, I'll also begin soliciting mirror sites around the world, so
+there'll be a fairly close copy of the Guide no matter where you are.
+
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+If you find the current setup unbearably slow, please let me know.
+Investigating a text-only or minimal-graphics mode is on my to-do list,
+and if there's enough demand I can do it before some other things.  Be sure
+to tell me where you are and what your connection to the net is like; it
+may turn out that your needs will be met by a well-placed mirror site.
+(I can't guarantee you an answer, since I expect I'll be getting a lot of
+mail about this change, but your letter won't go unread.)
+
+
    
+Steven Grimm
    
+October 16, 1995
+
+
    
+To the What's New page
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+What's New at Midwinter
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
    
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+
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+
+
+
+
+
    
+See Also:
+
+Modification Times
+to see which episode guide pages have changed.
+
    
+
+
    
+
+
    
+
    June 1, 2007
+
    
+	Warner Bros.' official B5 site
+	has a trailer for
+	"The Lost Tales"
+	(Flash required; click on "Main Menu" then "The Lost Tales Movie.")
+
+
    
+
    April 24, 2007
+
    
+	"The Lost Tales"
+	is now available for
+	preorder
+	from Amazon.com.
+
+
    
+
    April 23, 2007
+
    
+	"The Lost Tales"
+	will be released on July 31, according to
+	tvshowsondvd.com
+	(which also has a picture of the cover art).
+
+
    
+
    December 2, 2006
+
    
+	Principal photography on the first disc of the new DVD series
+	has finished. There is now a
+	guide page
+	dedicated to it.
+
+
    
+
    July 25, 2006
+
    
+	Season 1
+	is now available for purchase on
+	iTunes.
+
+
    
+
    July 24, 2006
+
    
+	Ain't It Cool News has more
+	details about the announcements at JMS's Comic Con presentation.
+
+
    
+
    July 23, 2006
+
    
+	Lots of JMS news
+	from San Diego Comic Con, including more details on "The Changeling" and
+	news of an anthology of B5 short films to begin shooting later this
+	year.
+
+
    
+
    June 28, 2006
+
    
+	Ain't It Cool News
+	reports
+	that Oscar-winning director Ron Howard ("The Da Vinci Code," "Apollo 13," "A Beautiful Mind") is looking at directing JMS's script "The Changeling."
+
+
    
+
    April 18, 2006
+
    
+	Windows XP users can now
+	watch season one episodes
+	for free online.
+
+
    
+
    March 1, 2006
+
    
+	Jerry Doyle is hosting a
+	radio talk show.
+
+
    
+
    March 1, 2006
+
    
+	Andreas Katsulas' web site
+	has information about memorials.
+
+
    
+
    February 14, 2006
+
    
+	Andreas Katsulas has
+	passed away
+	at age 59. Our sympathies to his family. Information on memorial
+	services will be posted here as it becomes available.
+
+
    
+
    February 6, 2006
+
    
+	B5 writer Marc Scott Zicree is selling
+	an
+	actual G'Kar prosthetic head from the show on eBay.
+
+
    
+
    January 26, 2006
+
    
+	Infuze Magazine
+	has a new
+	interview
+	with JMS.
+
+
    
+
    January 24, 2006
+
    
+	"The Legend of the Rangers"
+	will be released on DVD on March 14. It is now available for
+	preorder.
+
+
    
+
    January 6, 2006
+
    
+	The B5 Scripts site has
+	changed the proof-of-purchase
+	procedure for getting the bonus volume at the end of the series.
+
+
    
+
    November 3, 2005
+
    
+	Here's a
+	message
+	to people who signed up for babylon5scripts.com's alert service --
+	an email snafu might cause alerts to go out to some people who
+	later unsubscribed.
+
+
    
+
    October 30, 2005
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	The babylon5scripts.com site is now
+	online and taking orders for JMS's B5 script books.
+
+
    
+
    September 12, 2005
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	All of JMS's B5 scripts,
+	including some rare drafts never before published, will be available in a
+	series of trade paperbacks later this year. People who buy the whole set
+	will get an additional volume with a ton of bonus material, including the
+	original outline of the five-year arc written before the show went into production.
+	You can sign up for the availability announcement at
+	babylon5scripts.com.
+
+
+
    
+
    April 13, 2005
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	JMS is cleaning house and has started auctioning off some of his
+	rare memorabilia
+	on eBay.
+
+
    
+
    February 25, 2005
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	JMS has confirmed
+	that the deal to produce
+	"The Memory of Shadows"
+	has fallen through.
+
+
    
+
    February 24, 2005
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	Dark Horizons
+	reports that Mira Furlan told a recent convention audience that
+	"The Memory of Shadows"
+	is no longer being made.
+
+
    
+
    February 13, 2005
+
    
+	A Richard Biggs Memorial Show
+	will be held on Saturday, March 19 in N. Hollywood, CA. Most of the B5
+	cast will be in attendance.
+
+
    
+
    February 2, 2005
+
    
+	The
+	Cast
+	page has been updated to note the death of Tim Choate (Zathras) last
+	September.  Since the filmographies on that page were well out of date,
+	they've been replaced with links to IMDB.
+
+
    
+
    January 29, 2005
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	A campaign is underway
+	to ensure that Warner Bros. does not force the original cast members
+	to be replaced in
+	"The Memory of Shadows."
+
+
    
+
    December 8, 2004
+
    
+	Newsflash: 
+	ComingSoon
+	has some information about the story of
+	"The Memory of Shadows."
+
+
    
+
    November 26, 2004
+
    
+	Midwinter's web server is now a
+	BitTorrent
+	seed for the freeware fan-created
+	Babylon 5: "I've Found Her"
+	space combat game. If you're running Windows,
+	Download it
+	and try it out! (And then please leave your BitTorrent client open for
+	a while so others can download it more quickly.)
+
+
    
+
    November 1, 2004
+
    
+	Newsflash: Mira Furlan (Delenn) joins Daniel Dae Kim (Matheson from
+	"Crusade") on the November 17 episode of
+	"Lost."
+
+
    
+
    July 13, 2004
+
    
+	The guide page for
+	"The Memory of Shadows"
+	is updated at long last.
+
+
    
+
    June 2, 2004
+
    
+	A college fund for Richard Biggs' sons has been established. See
+	his official web site
+	for more information.
+
+
    
+
    May 22, 2004
+
    
+	JMS reports
+	that Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen Franklin) has passed away. Our
+	condolences to his family -- he will be missed.
+
+
+
    
+
    May 20, 2004
+
    
+	All five B5 movies are coming on DVD on August 17, according to
+	TVShowsOnDVD.com.
+
+
    
+
    December 1, 2003
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	A new B5
+	project is in the works according to JMS. Also, DVD sets of
+	the B5 TV-movies and "Crusade" are due next year.
+
+
    
+
    September 19, 2003
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	According to TVShowsOnDVD.com,
+	the season four DVD set will ship on January 6, 2004.
+
+
    
+
    May 25, 2003
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	The season-three DVD set is available for
+	preorder
+	from Amazon.com and other retailers.  It ships on August 12, 2003.
+
+
    
+
    January 7, 2003
+
    
+	Newsflash: The Digital Bits
+	reports that the season-2 DVD set will be released on April 29.
+
+
    
+
    October 30, 2002
+
    
+	Newsflash: The Region 2 edition of the
+	season one DVD set
+	is reportedly available now in stores in the UK.  The US release is
+	still scheduled for November 5.
+
+
    
+
    August 14, 2002
+
    
+	Newsflash: Warner Home Video has put up a
+	Web site
+	(Flash required) for the season-one
+	DVD release.
+
+
    
+
    August 2, 2002
+
    
+	Newsflash: The season-one DVD release
+	is now available for
+	preorder
+	from Amazon.com and other retailers.
+
+
    
+
    July 15, 2002
+
    
+	Newsflash: The Digital Bits says
+	the season-one DVD set
+	will be out on November 5.  The box set's cover art is
+	also available there.
+
+
    
+
    June 27, 2002
+
    
+	Newsflash: The season-one DVD release
+	will include audio commentary tracks from JMS on
+	"Signs and Portents"
+	and
+	"Chrysalis"
+	as well as cast and crew interviews.
+
+
    
+
    June 9, 2002
+
    
+	Newsflash: June 9 - 
+	JMS has posted more
+	information
+	on the upcoming B5 DVD release.
+
+
    
+
    February 27, 2002
+
    
+	JMS's new show
+	Jeremiah
+	premieres March 3 on
+	Showtime.
+
+
    
+
    January 25, 2002
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	The Digital Bits
+	reports that the complete first season of B5 will be released on
+	DVD this fall.
+
+
    
+
    January 3, 2002
+
    
+	Newsflash: ConJose,
+	the 2002 WorldCon, will present a special
+	Best Web Site
+	Hugo.  If you're planning to attend or join, remember to nominate
+	your favorite SF sites by March 31 (whether this is one of them or not.)
+	If you're not already eligible, you must join by January 31 to submit
+	nominations.
+
+
+
+
    
+
    December 25, 2001
+
    
+	We're back!  After an extended hiatus, www.midwinter.com is
+	online again.  If you're curious,
+	here's what happened.
+	If you run into any glitches, please
+	let me know.
+
+
+
    
+
    August 3, 2001
+
    
+	Newsflash: Amazon.com is listing a December 4 release date for the DVD
+	of
+	"The Gathering"
+	and
+	"In the Beginning".
+	They are accepting
+	preorders.
+
+
    
+
    June 21, 2001
+
    
+	TV Guide Online has a short
+	article
+	about the new movie. 
+
+
    
+
    June 12, 2001
+
    
+	SCI FI will be airing a promo for the new B5 movie during its
+	rebroadcast of "Dune" tonight through Wednesday night.
+
+
    
+
    April 9, 2001
+
    
+	The Sci-Fi Channel
+	now has a section of its site dedicated to
+	Crusade.
+	If it looks familiar to you, not to worry; I knew about it well
+	in advance and everything is above-board and legit.
+
+
    
+
    March 20, 2001
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	A new B5 TV-movie
+	is in the works and will air on the Sci-Fi Channel later this year.
+	It may lead to a new series.
+
+
    
+
    March 13, 2001
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	The DVD releases of
+	"The Gathering"
+	and
+	"In the Beginning"
+	will be delayed until around August in order to use the updated
+	version of "The Gathering" rather than the original version,
+	according to JMS.
+
+	
    
+	"Crusade" begins on
+	The Sci-Fi Channel
+	on April 9.
+
+
    
+
    January 25, 2001
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	The Digital Bits
+	reports that Warner Bros. plans to release B5 DVDs later this year.
+
+
    
+
    January 21, 2001
+
    
+	Newsflash: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
+	reports
+	that a new B5 movie, as well as "Crusade" reruns, may be on the
+	way from the Sci-Fi Channel.  (Scroll down to the third item in the
+	article.)
+
+
    
+
    December 15, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: JMS has
+	commented
+	on the problems with the Sci-Fi Channel's widescreen broadcasts.
+
+
    
+
    November 30, 2000
+
    
+	Netter Digital Entertainment's equipment (used in B5's production)
+	will be
+	auctioned
+	on December 7.
+
+
    
+
    November 6, 2000
+
    
+	The
+	third book
+	in the Centauri trilogy is out.
+
+	
    
+	Updated the
+	US schedule page
+	with Sci-Fi's planned broadcasts of the five B5 movies.
+
+
    
+
    October 2, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: Sierra is offering fans   
+	free promotional merchandise
+	produced for the cancelled B5 game.  
+
+
    
+
    September 30, 2000
+
    
+	A new page describing
+	JMS's current projects
+	has been added.
+
+
    
+
    September 15, 2000
+
    
+	Reminder: The
+	Sci-Fi Channel's
+	widescreen broadcast of B5 begins September 25.  There are reliable
+	reports that the B5 episode of "Sciography," originally scheduled to
+	air just before B5's premiere, has been delayed.
+
+
    
+
    August 17, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: JMS's "Rising Stars" comic
+	may be coming to a theater near you.
+
+
    
+
    August 12, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: The rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated newsgroup should be
+	back online by the end of next week, according to its moderator.
+
+
    
+
    August 6, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: A new novel by JMS, "Tribulations," is available for free
+	online reading at
+	Bookface.
+	Also at Bookface is an unproduced "Crusade" script by Fiona Avery,
+	featuring the return of a B5 character.
+
+
    
+
    July 27, 2000
+
    
+	New on the
+	Conventions
+	page: Details about the "Crusade for a Cure" convention in September.
+
+
    
+
    July 11, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	The 11th Hour
+	has an
+	interview
+	with Jerry Doyle, in which a possible followup series to B5 is
+	discussed briefly.
+
+	
    
+	Newsflash: Sci-Fi Channel's run of B5
+	will be
+	shown in letterboxed format.
+
+
    
+
    July 7, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: JMS will be chatting live on
+	Yahoo
+	on July 10 at 7PM Eastern (4PM Pacific).
+
+
    
+
    June 13, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: The producers of Sci-Fi Channel's "Sciography" are looking
+	for B5 material: behind-the-scenes photos and video and particularly
+	video of the Wolf 359 conventions.  They'd also like to interview some
+	ardent B5 fans in the Southern California area.  If you can help,
+	send mail to
+	jwwolterman@hotmail.com.
+
+
    
+
    June 6, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: The teleplays for two unproduced "Crusade" episodes, as
+	well as an original JMS short story, are available from
+	Bookface.
+
+
    
+
    May 21, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: Season 5 starts in
+	Sweden
+	on May 28.
+
+
    
+
    May 19, 2000
+
    
+	Correction:
+	TNT
+	will be reshowing all five seasons.
+	The first three episodes of season one will be shown in a
+	three-hour block at 6AM on May 20.  After that, episodes will air
+	Monday-Saturday at 6AM starting May 22.
+
+
    
+
    May 16, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash:
+	The Sci-Fi channel is looking for B5-related material for a new
+	documentary series.
+	Details.
+
+
    
+
    April 4, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: The US
+	Sci-Fi Channel
+	will show all five seasons of B5, plus the movies, starting in September.
+	Details.
+
+
    
+
    March 3, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: Stephen Furst is slated to provide one of the voices in the
+	upcoming "Buzz Lightyear" cartoon.
+	Full story.
+
+
    
+
    January 20, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: Daniel Dae Kim (Lt. Matheson) guest stars on this week's "Star Trek: Voyager."
+
+
    
+
    January 1, 2000
+
    
+	Newsflash: JMS will be appearing on 
+	CBS News Sunday Morning
+	on January 2.  Check your local listings for times.
+
+	
    
+	Happy New Year!  Only 242 shopping years left till the Earth-Minbari
+	War.
+
+
    
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+Network hang information
+
    If pages won't load...
    
+
    
+Almost everyone who has complained of partially-loading pages has reported
+that they're running Trumpet Winsock 2.0 revision B.  I believe the problem
+doesn't occur with more recent versions of Trumpet, so if you're seeing partial
+pages, you should probably upgrade.
+
+
    
+Trumpet Winsock is available from
+ftp.trumpet.com.au.
+As of this writing, the latest version was 2.1F; it's shareware, but version
+2.0E
+is also available and is free.  Either ought to fix the problem.
+
+
    
+If you're seeing partially-loaded pages and you're not running
+Trumpet Winsock, please send me mail
+and tell me which network software you're using, including the version number.
+(I'm not talking about Web browsers here; I want to know what you're using to
+actually send data out over the net.)
+
+
+